Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

A scientific creation story

  • 29-04-2008 9:03pm
    #1
    Doctor DooM
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,872 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Great little Ted talk bereft of religianity. Carl Sagan gets name checked.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6uKZWnJLCM


    Explains the theory simply and elegantly and really sounds like noel from the Mighty Boosh! :)

    Makes you rather proud of hydrogen and helium. :)


Comments

  • #2
    adamd164
    Closed Accounts Posts: 247 ✭✭adamd164


    Nice, cheers for that. Have been working my way through the TED talks the last while. That's definitely one of the more intriguing.


  • #3
    Doctor DooM
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,872 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    Yeah actually the ted talks are great, I'd also recommend the "top ten ways the world could end" one.


  • #4
    MrPudding
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,788 ✭✭✭MrPudding


    Bah, don't buy it. I reckon the beardy guy did it.

    MrP


  • #5
    Doctor DooM
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,872 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    MrPudding wrote: »
    Bah, don't buy it. I reckon the beardy guy did it.

    MrP

    Ronnie Drew created the universe?! :0


  • #6
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    Nah he's talkin bout this guy!


  • Advertisement
  • #7
    Doctor DooM
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,872 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    DaveMcG wrote: »
    Nah he's talkin bout this guy!

    6th created the universe? :0


  • #8
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    Duhh!!! :P

    Great video btw... Now I can't wait for the machine thing to be turned on in June! :D


  • #9
    Doctor DooM
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,872 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    DaveMcG wrote: »
    Duhh!!! :P

    Great video btw... Now I can't wait for the machine thing to be turned on in June! :D

    There's a small chance they'll create a black hole and destroy everything.


    Only a small chance of it being bigger than a couple molecules wide and all.

    That said, they're hoping to prove string theory in a couple years using it, and the whole ten dimensions- thingy.

    This apparently should in turn lead to a unified field theory.

    Which leaves alot less for religion to explain, if it goes to plan.


  • #10
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    SDooM wrote: »
    Which leaves alot less for religion to explain, if it goes to plan.
    Will the Large Hadron Collider explain "love"??

    I don't THINK so. :pac:


  • #11
    Doctor DooM
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,872 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    Dades wrote: »
    Will the Large Hadron Collider explain "love"??

    I don't THINK so. :pac:

    No, but Strapping Young Lad do that quite nicely: :D

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULSA5wktywI


    "F^%king love is the paradox of needing."


  • Advertisement
  • #12
    Gegerty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 899 ✭✭✭Gegerty


    SDooM wrote: »
    There's a small chance they'll create a black hole and destroy everything.


    Only a small chance of it being bigger than a couple molecules wide and all.

    That said, they're hoping to prove string theory in a couple years using it, and the whole ten dimensions- thingy.

    This apparently should in turn lead to a unified field theory.

    Which leaves alot less for religion to explain, if it goes to plan.

    LOL The religious who won't ignore the evidence will just come up with something like "OK so you have a theory of everything, but who created everything? It must have been God."


  • #13
    Doctor DooM
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,872 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    Gegerty wrote: »
    LOL The religious who won't ignore the evidence will just come up with something like "OK so you have a theory of everything, but who created everything? It must have been God."

    Thats fine, as long as god is a very excitable little string.


  • #14
    adamd164
    Closed Accounts Posts: 247 ✭✭adamd164


    SDooM wrote: »
    Thats fine, as long as god is a very excitable little string.

    That's it; science has been forcing religion to retreat and retreat on so many issues over the past centuries that - although it's not likely to disappear any time soon - it's pathetically impotent when compared to the absolutist, grand, omniscient entity it once was.


  • #15
    Doctor DooM
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,872 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    adamd164 wrote: »
    That's it; science has been forcing religion to retreat and retreat on so many issues over the past centuries that - although it's not likely to disappear any time soon - it's pathetically impotent when compared to the absolutist, grand, omniscient entity it once was.

    Papal infallibility was introduced as a direct retaliation to the failure of power in the physical world. The church tried to assume total dominion over the religious sphere instead.


  • #16
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    Just reading a bit bout the guy who gave the talk

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Cox_%28physicist%29

    He's 40!!! :eek: He looks about 23 at most.

    He plays keyboard and toured with Jimmy Page among others. The band broke up and he then decided to study physics.


  • #17
    Doctor DooM
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,872 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    DaveMcG wrote: »
    Just reading a bit bout the guy who gave the talk

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Cox_%28physicist%29

    He's 40!!! :eek: He looks about 23 at most.

    He plays keyboard and toured with Jimmy Page among others. The band broke up and he then decided to study physics.

    What a mad life! Some man.


Advertisement