Physicist Lisa Randall talks to Charlie Rose

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Harvard University professor Lisa Randall talks to Charlie Rose about the origins of theories in theoretical physics.

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Uploaded: December 13, 2006 at 10:34 pm
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Length: 00:02:02
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FernandezNorona (October 11, 2008 at 7:32 pm)
she is so hot
TheRiemannIntegral (October 11, 2008 at 4:53 pm)
God is highly improbable, since science states that such a complex intelligence could have come about only through a long process of evolution.

"To ask what happened before the Big Bang is like asking for a point south of the south pole." -- S. Hawking.

Nothing can "exist" before the Big Bang, including the uncreated, highly intelligent creator.

It was a deliberately said, "God doesn't exist (from high improbability)," to be mischievous.
Zeldovich (October 11, 2008 at 5:35 am)
That is a patently unscientific statement.
TheRiemannIntegral (October 11, 2008 at 6:08 am)
An unscientific statement would be the contrary of that! God is a scientific hypothesis which is obsolete. When the LHC is up and running, science will disprove the existence of God. Watch!
Zeldovich (October 11, 2008 at 6:35 am)
There is no such thing as "prove" or "disprove" in science. There are merely competing models. Since the permutation space regarding hypothesized relationships between variables can never be known and the dynamism or metadynamism cannot be assumed, that is a patently unscientific statement. It is scientific to say you've seen no evidence to support a belief in a god. It is unscientific to say there is no god.
TheRiemannIntegral (October 11, 2008 at 4:47 pm)
"There is no such thing as 'prove' or 'disprove' in science."

You will learn more when you go to high school, kid. God, by definition, is an intelligent creator who designed everything in the universe. God is assumed to have no beginning, and existed before the Big Bang.
Any intelligence capable of designing humans should be even more complex and would require the same explanation. Stephen Hawking has proven that space and time before the big bang is zero. God cannot exist.
Zeldovich (October 12, 2008 at 2:17 am)
You are so ignorant that I will end this now by saying that it takes just as much faith to believe in a singularity with mass at infinite density as it does to believe in a god. By the way, your definition of god is very narrow and is, in fact, very judeo-christian-islamo-centric. For hundreds of years there was an assumption that Newton's laws were laws, but Einstein demonstrated that they were merely low energy approximations.
TheRiemannIntegral (October 12, 2008 at 3:34 am)
The last sentence of your message is of no use. The Abrahamic god is a theistic god; I described the deistic god, you pinhead! So you basically got only the "singularity" part right in that long message poisoned with logical fallacies.

Only a complete idiot would believe in the deistic or theistic god, when there is mathematical proof that the singularity exists. You should learn what the word faith means. I don't believe in anything without evidence.

You are a coward. Bye!
Zeldovich (October 12, 2008 at 8:49 am)
I don't believe in god, idiot. And you need to look up the history of the word "deistic." You are so stupid, it hurts to read your posts. Hurts from laughing so hard!!! lmao Nothing's ever "proven" in the scientific sense by mathematics and I refer to Godel about whether math can even ulitmately be internally consistent.
TheRiemannIntegral (October 12, 2008 at 3:45 pm)
The Theory of Everything in Physics is full of mathematics. String theory is full of mathematics. In an sense, only mathematicians can prove anything absolutely(I got that from a theoretical physicist), you homo, 3-inch-penised, mofo, jackass, livin' with his parents!

Mathematical proof is the ultimate proof. You can't prove anything -- anything -- without the touch of mathematics!

Go figure!