Michio Kaku: Universes Are Being Created All the Time | AI Podcast Clips
00:00:00.000 | I'm a quantum physicist and we quantum physicists don't believe that the Big Bang happened once.
00:00:07.600 | That would violate the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
00:00:10.880 | And that means that there could be multiple bangs happening all the time.
00:00:15.140 | Even as we speak today, universes are being created.
00:00:19.940 | That fits the data.
00:00:21.600 | The inflationary universe is a quantum theory.
00:00:25.440 | So there's a certain finite probability that universes are being created all the time.
00:00:30.800 | And for me, this is actually rather aesthetically pleasing because, you know, I was raised as
00:00:37.040 | a Presbyterian, but my parents were Buddhists.
00:00:41.720 | And there's two diametrically opposed ideas about the universe.
00:00:46.560 | In Buddhism, there's only nirvana.
00:00:48.760 | There's no beginning, there's no end, there's only timelessness.
00:00:52.440 | But in Christianity, there is the instant when God said, "Let there be light."
00:00:58.160 | In other words, an instant of creation.
00:01:00.840 | So I've had these two mutually exclusive ideas in my head, and I now realize that it's possible
00:01:07.160 | to meld them into a single theory.
00:01:10.720 | Either the universe had a beginning or it didn't, right?
00:01:14.400 | Wrong.
00:01:15.400 | You see, our universe had a beginning.
00:01:18.640 | Our universe had an instant where somebody might have said, "Let there be light."
00:01:23.320 | But there are other bubble universes out there in a bubble bath of universes.
00:01:28.400 | And that means that these universes are expanding into a dimension beyond our three-dimensional
00:01:35.280 | comprehension.
00:01:36.640 | In other words, hyperspace.
00:01:38.500 | In other words, 11-dimensional hyperspace.
00:01:41.840 | So nirvana would be this timeless 11-dimensional hyperspace where big bangs are happening all
00:01:49.160 | the time.
00:01:50.320 | So we can now combine two mutually exclusive theories of creation.
00:01:56.480 | And Stephen Hawking, for example, even in his last book, even said that this is an argument
00:02:02.400 | against the existence of God.
00:02:04.880 | He said there is no God because there was not enough time for God to create the universe
00:02:09.480 | because the big bang happened in an instant of time.
00:02:13.520 | Therefore there was no time available for him to create the universe.
00:02:17.760 | But you see, the multiverse idea means that there was a time before time.
00:02:23.640 | And there are multiple times.
00:02:25.080 | Each bubble has its own time.
00:02:27.560 | And so it means that there could actually be a universe before the beginning of our
00:02:33.520 | universe.
00:02:35.040 | So if you think of a bubble bath, when two bubbles collide, or when two bubbles fission
00:02:40.320 | to create a baby bubble, that's called the big bang.
00:02:44.200 | So the big bang is nothing but the collision of universes or the budding of universes.
00:02:48.600 | Thanks.
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