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you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. with me is alex fil a painkiller an american astrophysicist in a professor at the university of california at berkeley he was a member of the team that received the twenty eleven nobel prize for discovering the dark energy that is speeding up the passion of the entire universe and he believes that it could have sprung into existence without any divine help whatsoever well now we will have a chance to talk about this more thank you very much for joining me here today it is a pleasure to be here thanks so you maintain you do not need any divine help to explain

how the universe came to be so what is your version well let me start by saying that i'm going to discuss the universe only from the perspective of a scientist from an intellectual perspective i'm not going to be talking about whether there's a spiritual god or a personal god or a purpose to the universe these are questions that science can't address my own belief is that once you have the laws of physics the universe just keeps going on its own and it could even be that the laws of physics are all that you need in order to get the universe to start from the very beginning the big bang what is then the origin of the laws of physics so that's a great question what is the origin of the laws of physics i don't know that's a question science can't answer what if the laws of physics have always existed and they give rise to a universe our universe and perhaps even multiple universes that's

a possibility but it's a possibility that's sort of outside the realm of science because we don't know of any way to experimentally or observationally test whether that's a correct hypothesis so let's start from the very beginning. why did rise to the universe wind was there a big bang so what gave rise to the universe is an interesting question we don't exactly know the answer to that but we have some ideas for example if there was a preexisting universe then what's called quantum fluctuations little bits of energy coming into existence for a very short time and then usually disappearing well those can occasionally give rise to a universe because if a quantum fluctuation lasts for a long time it can grow to a very large size and that can essentially give rise to a universe and that universe might then have quantum fluctuations that produce other universes so that would be a never ending sequence of universes arising as

a result of just fluctuations in energy in existing universes that's one idea or another possibility is that there was some sort of a hyperspace some sort of a mathematical space in which the laws of physics existed and then universes just sort of pop off like little soap bubbles that a child might blow so there might be all these soap bubbles which are like different universes in a much bigger hyperspace within which the laws of physics operate for unknown reasons you see it all starts with a lot of the physics but i can't tell you where they came from what's very beautiful to me is that a very small number of laws can explain the vast complexity around us with the one exception where we still just don't know and that's life and

intelligence ok we just don't know biologists have not advanced far enough to understand exactly how life arose and how an intelligence arises but the mechanical universe is amazingly complex yet explainable with a few simple laws. scientists have just announced the discovery of chutzpah sun what do you think what does it tell us about the origin of the universe the higgs bosun helps complete what's called the standard model of particle physics there's a way we have to try to understand electrons and quarks and neutrinos and other kinds of particles and the higgs bows on was kind of a missing piece of the puzzle which if it were not there would would mean that we'd have to kind of start over but the fact that it appears to have been found completes our picture of the standard model of particle physics that's not to say that we understand everything we don't yet understand how gravity fits in with

particle physics other than the fact that gravity you know pulls particles together and we also don't understand things like dark energy the universe seems to be filled with a dark energy that sticks yeah it's expanding the universe faster and faster i helped discover that and the twenty eleven nobel prize in physics was given to the team leaders last year for that discovery so we don't understand the dark energy there's also something called dark matter it may or may not be some kind of fundamental particles that could be part of the standard model we don't yet understand so the higgs bosun is a very important discovery but it does not solve all questions that remain in physics but it it is but it is a very important discovery in a sense it would have been a more exciting as a scientist if it were not there to me because it would mean that that we're not correct in our view of the universe and the surprises are more fun

than the expected discoveries sort of like we expected to find that the universe is slowing down just like when i toss a water bottle up it slows down due to gravity. of the earth you know pulling it down and eventually it stops and brings it back down well we expected all the galaxies to put be pulling on each other and to be slowing down the expansion of the universe but instead we found that the expansion is speeding up so that that meant that there's something totally brand new that was unanticipated that we don't understand and for a scientist that's more fun than just confirming something that you already thought was there that something that you already thought was true why are there any unanticipated discoveries among scientists i don't think scientists will ever truly understand creation because i don't think we'll know where the laws of physics came

from but given the universe given that universes can arise i think someday meet we may well understand dark energy and dark matter and the other constituents of the universe we only discovered dark energy fourteen years ago the accelerating expansion of the universe so it's no surprise that we don't yet fully understand dark energy dark matter was only conceived a few decades ago so again we don't yet really know what dark matter is but we've not been investigating it for very long i mean in hundreds of years who knows what we will know we might have a full inventory of what's in the universe and how everything behaves so we will know a lot. but we won't quite know why it all happened and why there's something rather than nothing what why are there any mathematical laws

of physics rather than just nothing at all i don't know that will ever understand that scientists are only well aware of four percent of the universe that is we understand pretty well the nature of four percent of the universe the stuff that is made of atoms ninety six percent of the percent of the universe is made out of dark matter and dark energy and although we know that they are present we don't know what their detailed properties are or why they are there or what exactly is going on so in the past couple of decades there's been a true revolution in our understanding of the universe what we used to think of as being everything. is actually only four percent of the pie if you think of a pile with slices four percent consists of the normal stuff of which we are

made but this is fascinating it's fantastic that's right yeah and so you can see that our our view of the universe as scientists changes and that's the strength of science scientists are not afraid to say that they used to be ron their view of nature was incomplete we love finding new things and coming up with what we think is a more complete description of nature that's the fun of it we don't take anything as an article of faith other than perhaps the existence of the laws of physics but everything else we try to understand from those laws of physics and with time we're coming to a better understanding of the laws themselves for example i said that there are four fundamental forces. but in fact in high energy colliders like the large hadron

collider they're smashing particles together so much with such great force they found that the electromagnetic force what holds adams together is very similar to and in fact the same thing as what's called the weak nuclear force which is a very strange force having to do with neutrons they behave the same way when particles have very high energies so in a sense there's only three fundamental forces and there's a suspicion that the electro weak force and the strong nuclear force which is what keeps protons and neutrons together in a nucleus they might become the same force at even higher energies leaving a grand unified force and gravity and then in the theories of everything string theory as one attempts to do this they are trying to unify this grand unified force with gravity meaning that fundamentally there might be just one concept

one force and these four forces we see in today's low energy world are simply different manifestations of one fundamental concept. that's the goal of string theory is to figure out in its most basic way how the universe works. in russia. which brightened a few. songs from finest impressions. starts on t.v. dot com. top stories this hour r.t.

syria's commercial capital aleppo was turned into the country's fiercest battleground as government forces try to reclaim the city from the rebels russia has accused insurgents and their western patrons of leaving damascus no choice but to fight on. as the breathtaking in the big games opening ceremony kicked off with an incredible spectacle starring the likes of paul mccartney david beckham and even the queen british police spoil the show for a group of cycling activists telling them to get on their bike. and saudi arabia police attacked demonstrators with clubs and live rounds as pro reform protests spread from bahrain and the united arab emirates it's the latest outburst of violence in the country's east and region where clashes have occurred throughout the past year. i'll be back with the news team with more news for you in fifteen minutes from now in the meantime unions next with the sport.

good to have you with us this is sports of a twenty four hour r.t. and these are some of the stories. where all the first gold medals are walnut the thirtieth olympiad following a sensational opening ceremony in london. top of the pile winning russian football champions need maintain the one hundred percent start the season with victory over struggling. the side bar and under occur olenka is truly trying to be n.b.a. this law school star signing a two year twenty million dollars deal with the innocent victims. but first the wait is finally over the twenty twelve olympic games now in full swing after a spectacular opening ceremony in london richard port fleet watched it all for us.

the seven year wait is finally over for london as two thousand and twelve olympic games are officially underway believe it almost or hear about the beijing olympics four years ago and what an opening ceremony that they were able to put on it that could never be repeated again in history how the london perhaps might exceeded that opening ceremony and all things must go to director danny boyle who put on the maps a fantastic show showing history and culture of a great britain has given to the world over the last few centuries always a lympics have been really long awaited by the british public health it became known seven years ago had won the right to hold the limpid games this is the biggest sporting event ever been hosting the countries and the largest since from one hundred sixty six world cup but of course all the attention when i return to be athletes for over two hundred nations competing at these games including a russian delegation on the four hundred and it was

a scary special moment for maria sharapova or she may be one of the world's most famous women most decorated athletes but obviously she's probably never had an experience as great as face to lead her country out the lympics she's had a fantastic year completing a grand slam before grand slams by winning of the french open early it is here but what is nothing to it would be for her if she could claim olympic gold which would be perhaps one of the greatest achievements of her career. china became the first nation to strike gold in london a yeast filling the opposition in the women's ten metre rifle event while our compartment you done battle plenty of glee then for ye the twenty three year old living up to her favorite status by seeing off to thoughts in the a speech in gold medalists check katherina emmons among others paul and sylvia. until each shot but lost momentum and had to settle for silver so team china run away a medal table toppers at beijing two thousand and eight getting off to

a great start. while that was also a delight for russia on day one. surprise winner in the men's minus sixty kilogram judo event beating japan. with us are perfect short for any of you to do a start there on the first russian olympian to ever reach the podium and not wait calgary on the first nomination to win it since nineteen eighty. while the other two gold on offer on suffering was won by sara and as is all of brazil in the women's minus forty eight kilogram calibrate other goals earned in the first half of the day came from two thoughts in the olympic champion south korean jian jungle in the men's ten meter a pistol on from kazakhstan cyclist alex been a career all through blitzed his way to the top of the podium in the men's cycling road race. high hopes for team russia meanwhile in the artistic gymnastics discipline which got on the way in london also today before the games we caught up

with double olympic champion in the discipline. to discover her memories of sydney two thousand on her expectations for russia this time. you know i don't remember having any emotions you know my first olympics getting ready for it was so tough and serious that it took all of my mental and emotional strength is that the realisation the type become a limb pick champion and all the emotions came about two weeks after i called back by that time i'd had time to recover and it dawned on me the hour was when the olympic gold it was my dream come true. goes nuts in the launch but. didn't really feel it was my first olympics my first time in the olympic village the first time i saw famous athletes all around the ones i don't you seen on t.v.

before i remember seeing triple olympic champion alexander caramel in walk right past me and i was so impressed like wow and it felt like a festival all the time despite the tight competition schedule but a little bit on the graphics and the. i've heard many times that i was called the bride of sydney but i don't know why maybe it was because i was wearing a white leotard and won my two gold medals in it it was my lucky leotard also it could be because it was my lympics debut and it was successful right away. because the coaching is my main occupation since i finished competing i coach kids in the beginner's great piece just started doing gymnastics it's a very. jing an interesting job and i hope all become good at it i also judge international competitions and i'm very nervous when i have to do this the first

time i was a judge was at the european data lympics festival and i was almost frantic probably even more than the participants themselves it's not an easy thing to do you have to learn how to do it and get used to doing it for the red sports in the making. i. mean abuse of god which is not right to make any predictions of his actions is a really high the situation for the men is more difficult as they have more competition where is the go to have every chance of winning the result must be very good only cure for example most of the night and that is already a come a low would definitely find it out for the all around gold and look of the so-called record. football where the russian premier league has reached its second game week champions eight making it two wins from two with victory over they already under pressure dino moscow the needs alex project called doing brilliantly in the film

a box to open the scoring just ten minutes in the russian national team striker i dislike you twenty twelve campaign behind him with three goals in to play make matches not dominate goal christian to help set up a shot off for the first goal then decided to get on the scoreboard himself the seal the deal in the seventy first minute bigger than me so putting fifty two in for beautifully the twenty five year old to the rest till the final storm not even the dog bites able to hold his innate juggernaut this season as you will see in just a moment. i felt title hopeful cesspit moscow however suffered a shock defeat on the day the army men going down three one to a team who finished in the relegation group last season i'm car burmistrov opening proceedings just half a dozen minutes in before the city home to equalise for cisco. thirteen minutes to the alexy read. the former russian international race.

the two second half sendings off for the visitors would then further deepen the car run on the server. you have on the other side from the capital lockable t.v. had better luck on the day the real women at beating. off shoot will sit pretty alongside sinitta at the top. toss the ball over a russian star under a car lanka has decided to return stateside this ask a moscow player agreeing a deal with n.b.a. i fit minnesota the thirty one year old had spent a decade with the just before heading to the russian capital in december last year during the n.b.a. lockout this six month spell with the army men guided them to the your league final on was also mean league m.v.p. the small forward now signing on with the timberwolves for two years and a deal worth twenty million dollars minnesota already stumped up current his russian teammate alexy shade earlier in. motor sport or lewis hamilton is

in prime position to add a third grand prix title on sunday that to thaw a champion gentleman needing the field to secure his first pole since march off the hungering the twenty seven year old in no mood to drive for the front seat switching to the la times. biggest one claiming the best spot on the grid by four tenths of a second. to time the fending champion sebastian vettel to ensure he'll start from second place jenson button kimmie reichman oval you are on the. top. american football worked starting to gain steam in the big apple last season's most talked about n.f.l. player tim tivo making his training camp for the new york jets completing a few. very impressive throws in the process the twenty four year old renowned as much for a strong christian faith as

a sub par throwing mechanics making plenty of progress in the lottery department tivo completing four out of five passes and team drills with the backup players mark sanchez is entrenched as the starting signal caller but coach rex ryan has plenty of plans for his first tile second string. you can see what he looks like two hundred fifty pounds go ahead and try to blast him if you want to because he's going to hit you back promise you that and. you know where he not just going to catch things over there he is a football player but i think when people you want to think twice before you send a ball out to rush because this guy can fake it he can throw it he can run inside run outside do a lot of different things. whether it's next. well

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