I saw this video up and just had to register to vote it up. Prof. Krauss was by far and above the best professor I had at Case, and listening him talk with Prof. Dawkins (a sort-of personal hero of mine) made my night!

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This post rules! I'm laughin'-out-loud lovin' it.

Watching this it just struck me how wonderful it really is that these kinds of posts keep popping up in the top 15, showing the relatively high level of consciousness and curiosity for the universe that we inhabit amongst sifters. Truly a brotherhood to be proud of and inspired by. Awe is me, I have found it.

This is a great video(s). I approve. Go with FSM.

Edit: They say that Evolution does not require Atheism and that is certainly true, but if you understand evolution that often begets Atheism (like reason).

"The Stork Theory" of reproduction. LOL great idea.

I think this would also be *religion.

Invocations (religion) cannot be called by GreatBird because GreatBird is not privileged - sorry.

doh! wrong thread, nm

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They added subtitles to the questions that were inaudible, I've updated the playlist now, thanks for the reminder.

only problem with this is that i can't upvote it once for each of the 12 parts...

great sift!

That was really great and an example of exactly the kind of stuff I look forward to finding when I monitor the 'sift. Thanks.

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Between parts 2 and 3 when Krauss is talking about the double slit experiment... I can't help thinking that the conclusion that he presents as "ridiculous" is just that. I mean, I'm sure someone somewhere has thought of this already but if when you're watching the particles, they behave as expected and they don't behave as expected when you're not watching them, I would think that the most logical conclusion is that whatever physical matter is involved with the act of observing ultimately causes the electrons to act predictably but no more than that.

I don't see how anyone can go from "Electrons act funny sometimes" to "alternate realities are plausible" in the same breath and take themselves seriously.

Not that I'm criticizing Krauss at all, I love the guy and I understand that he's just talking about some of the thoughts that some people have come up with. I just don't agree that the conclusion is at all reasonable or should even be considered.

I would however like to know how exactly they are observing the electrons, by what method and if there are multiple methods of electron observance, AND if all of the multiple electron observance methods have had the same results for the same test. I'd also like to know what is happening to the electrons when they're not being observed. We know the result when they're not being observed, but what about before the result.

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