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Why does the universe exist? | Jim Holt | TED

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Why does the universe exist?

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Why is there — Okay. Okay. (Laughter)

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This is a cosmic mystery. Be solemn.

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Why is there a world, why are we in it,

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and why is there something rather than nothing at all?

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I mean, this is the super ultimate "why" question?

00:31

So I'm going to talk about the mystery of existence,

00:34

the puzzle of existence,

00:35

where we are now in addressing it,

00:38

and why you should care,

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and I hope you do care.

00:42

The philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer said that

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those who don't wonder about the contingency of their existence,

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of the contingency of the world's existence,

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are mentally deficient.

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That's a little harsh, but still. (Laughter)

00:57

So this has been called the most sublime

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and awesome mystery,

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the deepest and most far-reaching question

01:04

man can pose.

01:05

It's obsessed great thinkers.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein, perhaps the greatest

01:08

philosopher of the 20th century,

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was astonished that there should be a world at all.

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He wrote in his "Tractatus," Proposition 4.66,

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"It is not how things are in the world

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that is the mystical,

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it's that the world exists."

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And if you don't like taking your epigrams

01:26

from a philosopher, try a scientist.

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John Archibald Wheeler, one of the great physicists

01:31

of the 20th century,

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the teacher of Richard Feynman,

01:34

the coiner of the term "black hole,"

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he said, "I want to know

01:40

how come the quantum,

01:41

how come the universe, how come existence?"

01:44

And my friend Martin Amis —

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sorry that I'll be doing a lot of name-dropping in this talk,

01:49

so get used to it —

01:50

my dear friend Martin Amis once said

01:55

that we're about five Einsteins away from answering

01:59

the mystery of where the universe came from.

02:01

And I've no doubt there are five Einsteins

02:03

in the audience tonight.

02:05

Any Einsteins? Show of hands? No? No? No?

02:06

No Einsteins? Okay.

02:08

So this question, why is there something rather than nothing,

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this sublime question, was posed rather late

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in intellectual history.

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It was towards the end of the 17th century,

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the philosopher Leibniz who asked it,

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a very smart guy, Leibniz,

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who invented the calculus

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independently of Isaac Newton, at about the same time,

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but for Leibniz, who asked why is there something rather than nothing,

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this was not a great mystery.

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He either was or pretended to be

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an Orthodox Christian in his metaphysical outlook,

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and he said it's obvious why the world exists:

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because God created it.

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And God created, indeed, out of nothing at all.

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That's how powerful God is.

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He doesn't need any preexisting materials to fashion a world out of.

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He can make it out of sheer nothingness,

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creation ex nihilo.

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And by the way, this is what

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most Americans today believe.

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There is no mystery of existence for them.

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God made it.

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So let's put this in an equation.

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I don't have any slides so I'm going to mime my visuals,

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so use your imaginations.

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So it's God + nothing = the world.

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Okay? Now that's the equation.

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And so maybe you don't believe in God.

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Maybe you're a scientific atheist

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or an unscientific atheist, and you don't believe in God,

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and you're not happy with it.

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By the way, even if we have this equation,

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God + nothing = the world,

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there's already a problem:

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Why does God exist?

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