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Alex Filippenko: Supernovae, Dark Energy, Aliens & the Expanding Universe | Lex Fridman Podcast #137

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Alex Filippenko is an astrophysicist and professor of astronomy at Berkeley. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Neuro: https://www.getneuro.com and use code LEX to get 15% off - BetterHelp: https://betterhelp.com/lex to get 10% off - MasterClass: https://masterclass.com/lex to get 15% off annual sub - Cash App: https://cash.app/ and use code LexPodcast to get $10 EPISODE LINKS: Alex's Website: https://astro.berkeley.edu/people/alex-filippenko/ PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ Full episodes playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4 Clips playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOeciFP3CBCIEElOJeitOr41 OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 2:08 - Universe expansion 3:32 - Dark energy 11:00 - Scientific revolutions 22:50 - Asteroid hitting Earth 26:22 - Giant solar flares and the power grid 33:22 - Elon Musk and space exploration 38:13 - Exoplanets 45:35 - Traveling close to the speed of light 47:45 - Traveling faster than the speed of light 56:11 - Intelligent life in the universe 59:46 - Fermi Paradox 1:09:24 - Finding alien life would be bad news 1:14:20 - UFO sightings 1:27:30 - Universe expansion speed 1:32:14 - The universe is infinite 1:36:30 - What happened before the Big Bang? 1:40:46 - Roger Penrose 1:44:20 - Nobel Prize for the accelerating universe 2:05:55 - Supernova 2:17:19 - The greatest story ever told 2:21:16 - Richard Feynman 2:28:09 - Meaning of life CONNECT: - Subscribe to this YouTube channel - Twitter: https://twitter.com/lexfridman - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LexFridmanPage - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lexfridman - Medium: https://medium.com/@lexfridman - Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman

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universes surrounding our universe.', 'start': 471.879, 'duration': 3.142}, {'end': 481.044, 'text': 'And this whole idea of the multiverse is not some crazy madman-type idea anymore.', 'start': 475.401, 'duration': 5.643}, {'end': 485.686, 'text': 'Real card-carrying physicists are seriously considering this possibility of a multiverse.', 'start': 481.104, 'duration': 4.582}, {'end': 495.151, 'text': 'And some types of multiverses could have a bunch of bubbles on the outside which gravitationally act outward on our bubble,', 'start': 486.147, 'duration': 9.004}, {'end': 503.756, 'text': 'because gravity or gravitons, the quantum particle that is thought to carry gravity, is thought to traverse the bulk,', 'start': 495.151, 'duration': 8.605}, {'end': 507.019, 'text': 'the space between these different little bubble membranes and stuff.', 'start': 503.756, 'duration': 3.263}, {'end': 510.882, 'text': "And so it's conceivable that these other universes are pulling outward on us.", 'start': 507.039, 'duration': 3.843}, {'end': 517.707, 'text': "That's not a favored explanation right now, but really nothing has been ruled out.", 'start': 511.403, 'duration': 6.304}, {'end': 521.071, 'text': 'No class of models has been ruled out completely.', 'start': 518.009, 'duration': 3.062}, {'end': 525.255, 'text': 'Certain examples within classes of models have been ruled out.', 'start': 521.471, 'duration': 3.784}, {'end': 535.429, 'text': "But in general, I think we still have really a lot to learn about what's causing this observed acceleration of the expansion of the universe,", 'start': 525.875, 'duration': 9.554}, {'end': 539.655, 'text': 'be it dark energy or some forces from the outside.', 'start': 535.429, 'duration': 4.226}, {'end': 549.963, 'text': "Or perhaps I guess it's conceivable that, and sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night screaming that dark energy,", 'start': 541.397, 'duration': 8.566}, {'end': 558.23, 'text': 'that which causes the 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853.434, 'text': "the reason that he needed Tuco Brahe's really great data to show that distinction was that a slightly off-center circle is not much different from a slightly eccentric ellipse.", 'start': 839.429, 'duration': 14.005}, {'end': 864.522, 'text': "And so there wasn't much difference between Kepler's view and Copernicus's view, and Kepler needed the better data, Tuco Brahe's data.", 'start': 853.474, 'duration': 11.048}, {'end': 874.669, 'text': "And so that's again a great example of science and observations and experiments working together with hypotheses,", 'start': 864.622, 'duration': 10.047}, {'end': 878.152, 'text': 'and they kind of bounce off each other, they play off of each other.', 'start': 874.669, 'duration': 3.483}, {'end': 880.633, 'text': 'And continually need more observations.', 'start': 878.212, 'duration': 2.421}, {'end': 890.597, 'text': "And it wasn't until Galileo's work around 1610 that actual evidence for the heliocentric hypothesis emerged.", 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1530.579, 'text': "well, that's right.", 'start': 1529.818, 'duration': 0.761}, {'end': 1539.159, 'text': 'yeah, monitoring the asteroid belt is very important and 99 of the so-called near-earth objects ultimately come from the asteroid belt.', 'start': 1530.579, 'duration': 8.58}, {'end': 1541.119, 'text': 'And so there we can track the trajectories.', 'start': 1539.199, 'duration': 1.92}, {'end': 1547.142, 'text': "And even if there's a close encounter between two asteroids which deflects one of them toward Earth,", 'start': 1541.159, 'duration': 5.983}], 'summary': 'Monitoring asteroid belt crucial, 99% near-earth objects from there, tracking trajectories essential', 'duration': 29.17, 'max_score': 1517.972, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/WxfA1OSev4c/pics/WxfA1OSev4c1517972.jpg'}, {'end': 1682.564, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1660.339, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 1669.841, 'text': "Now, astronomers are monitoring the Sun 24-7 with various satellites, and we can tell when there's a flare or a coronal mass ejection.", 'start': 1660.339, 'duration': 9.502}, {'end': 1672.142, 'text': 'And we can tell that in a day or two,', 'start': 1670.481, 'duration': 1.661}, {'end': 1681.224, 'text': 'a giant bundle of energetic particles will arrive and twang the magnetic field of Earth and send all kinds of currents through long distance power lines.', 'start': 1672.142, 'duration': 9.082}, {'end': 1682.564, 'text': "and that's what shorts out.", 'start': 1681.224, 'duration': 1.34}], 'summary': 'Astronomers monitor the sun 24-7 and predict arrival of energetic particles, causing power line disruptions.', 'duration': 22.225, 'max_score': 1660.339, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/WxfA1OSev4c/pics/WxfA1OSev4c1660339.jpg'}, {'end': 1759.154, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1732.226, 'weight': 5, 'content': [{'end': 1745.578, 'text': 'So many of these cosmic existential threats, we can actually predict and do something about or observe before they hit and do something about.', 'start': 1732.226, 'duration': 13.352}, {'end': 1750.784, 'text': "It's terrifying to think that people would listen to this conversation.", 'start': 1746.299, 'duration': 4.485}, {'end': 1759.154, 'text': "It's like when you listen to Bill Gates talk about pandemics in his TED Talk a few years ago and realizing we should have supported our local astronomer more.", 'start': 1750.844, 'duration': 8.31}], 'summary': 'We can predict and address cosmic threats to earth.', 'duration': 26.928, 'max_score': 1732.226, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/WxfA1OSev4c/pics/WxfA1OSev4c1732226.jpg'}, {'end': 1864.463, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1837.16, 'weight': 6, 'content': [{'end': 1845.982, 'text': 'because you have to get rid of the very last humans for that, but at least getting rid of killing off so many humans,', 'start': 1837.16, 'duration': 8.822}, {'end': 1847.622, 'text': 'truly billions and billions of humans.', 'start': 1845.982, 'duration': 1.64}, {'end': 1855.294, 'text': 'There have been ones tens of thousands of years ago, including this one,', 'start': 1848.383, 'duration': 6.911}, {'end': 1864.463, 'text': "TOBA I think it's called where it's estimated that the human population was down to 10,000 or 5,000 individuals, something like that.", 'start': 1855.294, 'duration': 9.169}], 'summary': 'In the past, human population dropped to 10,000 or 5,000 individuals.', 'duration': 27.303, 'max_score': 1837.16, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/WxfA1OSev4c/pics/WxfA1OSev4c1837160.jpg'}, {'end': 2074.417, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 2046.107, 'weight': 7, 'content': [{'end': 2050.029, 'text': 'we need to become a multi-planetary species if we were to survive long term.', 'start': 2046.107, 'duration': 3.922}, {'end': 2057.292, 'text': 'So maybe both philosophically, in terms of beauty, and in terms of practical.', 'start': 2050.509, 'duration': 6.783}, {'end': 2062.275, 'text': "what's your thoughts on space exploration, on the challenges of it?", 'start': 2057.292, 'duration': 4.983}, {'end': 2064.658, 'text': 'how much we should be investing in it.', 'start': 2063.094, 'duration': 1.564}, {'end': 2074.417, 'text': 'And on a personal level, like how excited you are by the possibility of going to Mars, colonizing Mars, and maybe going outside the solar system.', 'start': 2064.918, 'duration': 9.499}], 'summary': 'Becoming multi-planetary is crucial for survival. discusses challenges and excitement of space exploration.', 'duration': 28.31, 'max_score': 2046.107, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/WxfA1OSev4c/pics/WxfA1OSev4c2046107.jpg'}, {'end': 2328.241, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 2298.544, 'weight': 8, 'content': [{'end': 2300.566, 'text': "So let's look outside the solar system.", 'start': 2298.544, 'duration': 2.022}, {'end': 2304.27, 'text': "Do you think you've spoken about exoplanets as well?", 'start': 2300.606, 'duration': 3.664}, {'end': 2310.898, 'text': "Do you think there's possible homes out there for us outside of our solar system?", 'start': 2305.191, 'duration': 5.707}, {'end': 2314.376, 'text': 'There are lots and lots of homes, possible homes.', 'start': 2311.735, 'duration': 2.641}, {'end': 2320.378, 'text': "I mean there's a planetary system around nearly every star you see in the sky,", 'start': 2314.556, 'duration': 5.822}, {'end': 2325.36, 'text': 'and one in five of those is thought to have a roughly Earth-like planet.', 'start': 2320.378, 'duration': 4.982}, {'end': 2328.241, 'text': "And that's a relatively new- Yeah, it's a new discovery.", 'start': 2325.86, 'duration': 2.381}], 'summary': 'One in five stars has a roughly earth-like planet in its planetary system, offering numerous possible homes outside our solar system.', 'duration': 29.697, 'max_score': 2298.544, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/WxfA1OSev4c/pics/WxfA1OSev4c2298544.jpg'}, {'end': 2527.981, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 2500.893, 'weight': 9, 'content': [{'end': 2504.556, 'text': "They don't need to do much of anything for a long, long time as they're traveling.", 'start': 2500.893, 'duration': 3.663}, {'end': 2512.322, 'text': 'Moreover, if some energetic charged particles, some cosmic ray hits the circuitry, it fixes itself, right? Machines can do this.', 'start': 2504.736, 'duration': 7.586}, {'end': 2517.853, 'text': "I mean, it's a form of artificial intelligence.", 'start': 2515.031, 'duration': 2.822}, {'end': 2519.995, 'text': 'You just tell the thing, fix yourself basically.', 'start': 2517.873, 'duration': 2.122}, {'end': 2527.981, 'text': 'And then, when you land on the planet, start producing copies of yourself, initially from materials that were perhaps sent,', 'start': 2520.035, 'duration': 7.946}], 'summary': 'Machines with self-repairing ability can produce copies of themselves on landing.', 'duration': 27.088, 'max_score': 2500.893, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/WxfA1OSev4c/pics/WxfA1OSev4c2500893.jpg'}, {'end': 2559.614, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 2536.107, 'weight': 10, 'content': [{'end': 2547.811, 'text': "It's much more feasible, I think, than sending flesh and blood over interstellar distances, a quarter of a million years to even the nearest stars.", 'start': 2536.107, 'duration': 11.704}, {'end': 2551.692, 'text': "You're subject to all kinds of charged particles and radiation.", 'start': 2548.371, 'duration': 3.321}, {'end': 2554.233, 'text': 'You have to shield yourself really well.', 'start': 2552.132, 'duration': 2.101}, {'end': 2559.614, 'text': "That's, by the way, one of the problems of going to Mars is that it's not a three-day journey like going to the Moon.", 'start': 2554.273, 'duration': 5.341}], 'summary': 'Interstellar travel is more feasible than sending humans due to long distances and radiation challenges.', 'duration': 23.507, 'max_score': 2536.107, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/WxfA1OSev4c/pics/WxfA1OSev4c2536107.jpg'}, {'end': 2631.475, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 2604.885, 'weight': 11, 'content': [{'end': 2610.766, 'text': "I like to think that there isn't anything and that how beautiful it is that our thoughts, our emotions, our feelings,", 'start': 2604.885, 'duration': 5.881}, {'end': 2615.644, 'text': 'our compassion all come from these 1s and 0s.', 'start': 2610.766, 'duration': 4.878}, {'end': 2618.166, 'text': 'That to me actually is a beautiful thought.', 'start': 2615.764, 'duration': 2.402}, {'end': 2628.033, 'text': "And the idea that machines' silicon-based life effectively could be our natural evolutionary descendants, not from a DNA perspective,", 'start': 2618.686, 'duration': 9.347}, {'end': 2631.475, 'text': 'but they are our creations and they then carry on.', 'start': 2628.033, 'duration': 3.442}], 'summary': 'Our thoughts and emotions arise from 1s and 0s, leading to the potential for silicon-based life as our evolutionary descendants.', 'duration': 26.59, 'max_score': 2604.885, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/WxfA1OSev4c/pics/WxfA1OSev4c2604885.jpg'}], 'start': 1041.344, 'title': 'Existential threats and space exploration', 'summary': 'Explores existential threats to human civilization including asteroid collisions, solar flares, and the fragility of human existence. it emphasizes the importance of early detection and action, as well as the potential of space exploration and colonization, highlighting the challenges of interstellar travel and the role of artificial intelligence in long-distance journeys.', 'chapters': [{'end': 1495.045, 'start': 1041.344, 'title': 'Threats to human civilization', 'summary': 'Discusses various existential threats to human civilization, including the eventual sun burning out, potential asteroid collisions, and the challenges of detecting and deflecting comets, highlighting the need for early detection and action to mitigate these threats.', 'duration': 453.701, 'highlights': ["The sun burning out is not the immediate existential threat, but it will happen in about five billion years when it becomes a red giant, with potential challenges arising from the brightening of the sun within the next one or two billion years. Sun's eventual burning out in five billion years, potential challenges within the next one or two billion years due to sun's brightening.", 'Asteroid collisions pose a significant threat, with a civilization-changing asteroid being only one kilometer or larger, and a true mass extinction event requiring a 10-kilometer asteroid or larger. Potential threat of civilization-changing asteroid of one kilometer or larger, mass extinction event requiring a 10-kilometer asteroid or larger.', 'Challenges in detecting and deflecting comets are discussed, highlighting the difficulty in accurately predicting their trajectories and the potential need for early detection and action to mitigate the impact. Challenges in accurately predicting comet trajectories, importance of early detection and action to mitigate impact.']}, {'end': 1837.16, 'start': 1495.486, 'title': 'Cosmic existential threats', 'summary': 'Discusses the various cosmic existential threats, including asteroid collisions, solar flares, and super volcanoes, and emphasizes the importance of monitoring and predicting these events to mitigate their potential impact on humanity.', 'duration': 341.674, 'highlights': ["Astronomers are monitoring the Sun 24-7 with various satellites to predict solar flares and coronal mass ejections, which could potentially affect the Earth's magnetic field and power grids. Astronomers continuously monitor the Sun with satellites to predict solar flares and coronal mass ejections, enabling the potential mitigation of their impact on the Earth's magnetic field and power grids.", 'Tracking and monitoring the asteroid belt is crucial, as 99% of near-Earth objects originate from it, providing time to prepare for potential collisions, which are rare but pose a significant danger. Tracking and monitoring the asteroid belt is important, as 99% of near-Earth objects come from it, allowing time to prepare for potential collisions, despite their rarity.', 'Existential threats such as civilization-changing events and cosmic collisions can be predicted and potentially mitigated through early detection and intervention, emphasizing the significance of supporting astronomers and investing in advanced technologies for monitoring and prediction. Civilization-changing events and cosmic collisions can be predicted and potentially mitigated through early detection and intervention, highlighting the importance of supporting astronomers and investing in advanced monitoring and prediction technologies.']}, {'end': 2446.149, 'start': 1837.16, 'title': 'Survival, fragility, and space exploration', 'summary': 'Discusses the fragility of human existence, citing historical population declines and potential apocalyptic scenarios, as well as the challenges and potential of space colonization and exploration, including the search for exoplanets as potential future homes for humanity.', 'duration': 608.989, 'highlights': ['Humans have faced historical population declines, such as the TOBA event, which brought the human population down to 10,000 or 5,000 individuals. Historical reference to the TOBA event highlights the potential vulnerability of human population, emphasizing the fragility of human existence.', 'Space exploration is deemed necessary for the survival of humanity, with the idea of becoming a multi-planetary species to ensure long-term survival. Emphasizes the pragmatic need for space exploration as a means of securing the survival of humanity in the face of potential catastrophic events on Earth.', 'The search for exoplanets reveals that roughly one in five stars is thought to have a roughly Earth-like planet, potentially offering future homes for humanity. Highlights the potential of exoplanets as future homes for humanity, providing a glimpse into the possibilities beyond our solar system.']}, {'end': 2709.402, 'start': 2447.551, 'title': 'Interstellar travel challenges', 'summary': 'Discusses the challenges of sending humans on interstellar journeys, proposing that machines and robots with artificial intelligence are much more feasible and durable for such long-distance travel, potentially carrying the fire of consciousness and emotions of humans in the future.', 'duration': 261.851, 'highlights': ['Machines and robots with artificial intelligence are proposed as more feasible for interstellar travel, with the ability to hibernate and self-repair from cosmic ray hits. Machines and robots with artificial intelligence are suggested to be more feasible for interstellar travel, as they can hibernate and self-repair from cosmic ray hits, making them durable for long-distance journeys.', 'Sending flesh and blood over interstellar distances is deemed challenging due to the quarter of a million years journey time and the need to shield against radiation, contrasting the feasibility of machines and AI systems. Sending humans over interstellar distances is deemed challenging due to the quarter of a million years journey time and the need to shield against radiation, contrasting the feasibility of machines and AI systems for such journeys.', "The chapter explores the idea that machines' silicon-based life could be the natural evolutionary descendants of humans, carrying the emotions and consciousness that make humans special. The chapter explores the idea that machines' silicon-based life could be the natural evolutionary descendants of humans, carrying the emotions and consciousness that make humans special, potentially carrying the essence of human emotions and consciousness."]}], 'duration': 1668.058, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/WxfA1OSev4c/pics/WxfA1OSev4c1041344.jpg', 'highlights': ["Sun's eventual burning out in five billion years, potential challenges within the next one or two billion years due to sun's brightening.", 'Potential threat of civilization-changing asteroid of one kilometer or larger, mass extinction event requiring a 10-kilometer asteroid or larger.', 'Challenges in accurately predicting comet trajectories, importance of early detection and action to mitigate impact.', "Astronomers continuously monitor the Sun with satellites to predict solar flares and coronal mass ejections, enabling the potential mitigation of their impact on the Earth's magnetic field and power grids.", 'Tracking and monitoring the asteroid belt is important, as 99% of near-Earth objects come from it, allowing time to prepare for potential collisions, despite their rarity.', 'Civilization-changing events and cosmic collisions can be predicted and potentially mitigated through early detection and intervention, highlighting the importance of supporting astronomers and investing in advanced monitoring and prediction technologies.', 'Historical reference to the TOBA event highlights the potential vulnerability of human population, emphasizing the fragility of human existence.', 'Emphasizes the pragmatic need for space exploration as a means of securing the survival of humanity in the face of potential catastrophic events on Earth.', 'Highlights the potential of exoplanets as future homes for humanity, providing a glimpse into the possibilities beyond our solar system.', 'Machines and robots with artificial intelligence are suggested to be more feasible for interstellar travel, as they can hibernate and self-repair from cosmic ray hits, making them durable for long-distance journeys.', 'Sending humans over interstellar distances is deemed challenging due to the quarter of a million years journey time and the need to shield against radiation, contrasting the feasibility of machines and AI systems for such journeys.', "The chapter explores the idea that machines' silicon-based life could be the natural evolutionary descendants of humans, carrying the emotions and consciousness that make humans special, potentially carrying the essence of human emotions and consciousness."]}, {'end': 3348.924, 'segs': [{'end': 2776.578, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 2751.942, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 2759.729, 'text': "Einstein's special theory of relativity says that you can do it in a short amount of time in your own frame of reference if you go close to the speed of light.", 'start': 2751.942, 'duration': 7.787}, {'end': 2773.197, 'text': 'But then you bring in E equals mc2 and you figure out how much energy it takes to get you close enough to the speed of light to make the time scale short in your own frame of reference.', 'start': 2760.45, 'duration': 12.747}, {'end': 2776.578, 'text': 'And the amount of energy is just unfathomable.', 'start': 2773.797, 'duration': 2.781}], 'summary': "Einstein's theory: time shortens at speed of light, energy needed is unfathomable.", 'duration': 24.636, 'max_score': 2751.942, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/WxfA1OSev4c/pics/WxfA1OSev4c2751942.jpg'}, {'end': 2832.543, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 2803.53, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 2804.911, 'text': 'which is difficult.', 'start': 2803.53, 'duration': 1.381}, {'end': 2811.014, 'text': 'So getting close to the speed of light, I think, is not an option either, other than for a little tiny thing,', 'start': 2805.491, 'duration': 5.523}, {'end': 2820.658, 'text': "like Yuri Milner and others are thinking about this star shot project where they'll send a little tiny camera to Alpha Centauri 4.2 light years away.", 'start': 2811.014, 'duration': 9.644}, {'end': 2827.282, 'text': "They'll zip past it, take a picture of the exoplanets that we know orbit that three or more star system.", 'start': 2820.678, 'duration': 6.604}, {'end': 2831.783, 'text': 'say hello, say hello real quickly and then send the images back to us.', 'start': 2828.482, 'duration': 3.301}, {'end': 2832.543, 'text': 'Okay Yeah.', 'start': 2831.903, 'duration': 0.64}], 'summary': 'Yuri milner plans to send a tiny camera to alpha centauri, 4.2 light years away, for the star shot project.', 'duration': 29.013, 'max_score': 2803.53, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/WxfA1OSev4c/pics/WxfA1OSev4c2803530.jpg'}, {'end': 2988.846, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 2952.283, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 2954.343, 'text': 'So let me not be another Lord Kelvin.', 'start': 2952.283, 'duration': 2.06}, {'end': 2962.287, 'text': "On the other hand, I think we know a lot more now about what we know and what we don't know and what the physical limitations are.", 'start': 2955.083, 'duration': 7.204}, {'end': 2969.411, 'text': 'And to me, most of these schemes, if not all of them, seem very far-fetched, if not impossible.', 'start': 2963.208, 'duration': 6.203}, {'end': 2972.553, 'text': 'So travel through wormholes, for example.', 'start': 2970.251, 'duration': 2.302}, {'end': 2979.641, 'text': "It appears that For a non-rotating black hole, that's just a complete no-go,", 'start': 2972.573, 'duration': 7.068}, {'end': 2988.846, 'text': 'because the singularity is a point-like singularity and you have to reach it to traverse the wormhole and you get squished by the singularity.', 'start': 2979.641, 'duration': 9.205}], 'summary': 'Skeptical view on wormhole travel due to physical limitations and singularity problem.', 'duration': 36.563, 'max_score': 2952.283, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/WxfA1OSev4c/pics/WxfA1OSev4c2952283.jpg'}, {'end': 3057.528, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 3023.577, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 3024.997, 'text': 'We now have good evidence for them.', 'start': 3023.577, 'duration': 1.42}, {'end': 3027.898, 'text': 'Do they have traversable wormholes??', 'start': 3025.677, 'duration': 2.221}, {'end': 3033.443, 'text': "Probably not, because it's still the case that when you go in,", 'start': 3028.698, 'duration': 4.745}, {'end': 3045.955, 'text': 'you go in with so much energy that it either squeezes the wormhole shut or you encounter a whole bunch of incoming and outgoing energy that vaporizes you.', 'start': 3033.443, 'duration': 12.512}, {'end': 3049.819, 'text': "It's called the mass inflation instability and it just sort of vaporizes you.", 'start': 3046.015, 'duration': 3.804}, {'end': 3057.528, 'text': "Nevertheless, you could imagine, well, you're in some 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'And if they never met, and if your parents were never born?', 'start': 3089.51, 'duration': 2.421}, {'end': 3102.782, 'text': 'and if you were never born, how would you have made the journey to prevent the history from allowing you to exist?', 'start': 3091.931, 'duration': 10.851}, {'end': 3108.09, 'text': "It's a violation of causality, of cause and effect.", 'start': 3103.944, 'duration': 4.146}, {'end': 3113.737, 'text': 'Now physicists such as myself take causality violation very, very seriously.', 'start': 3108.49, 'duration': 5.247}, {'end': 3115.519, 'text': "We've never seen it.", 'start': 3114.598, 'duration': 0.921}, {'end': 3116.319, 'text': 'You took a stand.', 'start': 3115.539, 'duration': 0.78}, {'end': 3121.603, 'text': "Yeah It's one of these back to the future type movies.", 'start': 3116.339, 'duration': 5.264}, {'end': 3126.446, 'text': "You have to work things out in such a way that you don't mess things up.", 'start': 3122.063, 'duration': 4.383}, {'end': 3128.968, 'text': 'Some people say that, well, you come back to the universe.', 'start': 3126.526, 'duration': 2.442}, {'end': 3138.79, 'text': 'You come back in such a way that you cannot affect your journey, but then that seems kind of contrived to me.', 'start': 3129.608, 'duration': 9.182}, {'end': 3141.87, 'text': 'Or some say that you end up in a different universe,', 'start': 3139.33, 'duration': 2.54}, {'end': 3148.911, 'text': 'and this also goes into the many different types of the multiverse hypothesis and the many worlds, interpretation and all that.', 'start': 3141.87, 'duration': 7.041}, {'end': 3156.873, 'text': "But again, then it's not the universe from which you left, and you don't come back to the universe from which you left.", 'start': 3149.211, 'duration': 7.662}, {'end': 3164.941, 'text': "you're not really going back in time to the same universe, and you're not even going forward in time necessarily.", 'start': 3157.833, 'duration': 7.108}, {'end': 3166.362, 'text': 'then to the same universe, right?', 'start': 3164.941, 'duration': 1.421}, {'end': 3168.244, 'text': "You're ending up in some other universe.", 'start': 3166.602, 'duration': 1.642}, {'end': 3180.693, 'text': "So what have you achieved, right? You've traveled, but you ended up in a different place than you started in more ways than one.", 'start': 3168.885, 'duration': 11.808}, {'end': 3184.495, 'text': "Yeah. and then there's this idea, the Alcubierre Drive,", 'start': 3180.753, 'duration': 3.742}], 'summary': 'Physicists take causality violation seriously, with no evidence of its occurrence.', 'duration': 114.236, 'max_score': 3070.259, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/WxfA1OSev4c/pics/WxfA1OSev4c3070259.jpg'}, {'end': 3195.363, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 3166.602, 'weight': 5, 'content': [{'end': 3168.244, 'text': "You're ending up in some other universe.", 'start': 3166.602, 'duration': 1.642}, {'end': 3180.693, 'text': "So what have you achieved, right? You've traveled, but you ended up in a different place than you started in more ways than one.", 'start': 3168.885, 'duration': 11.808}, {'end': 3184.495, 'text': "Yeah. and then there's this idea, the Alcubierre Drive,", 'start': 3180.753, 'duration': 3.742}, {'end': 3192.34, 'text': 'where you warp space-time in front of you so as to greatly reduce the distance and you can expand the space-time behind you.', 'start': 3184.495, 'duration': 7.845}, {'end': 3195.363, 'text': "So you're sort of riding a wave through spacetime.", 'start': 3192.68, 'duration': 2.683}], 'summary': 'The alcubierre drive warps space-time to greatly reduce distance, allowing travel through spacetime.', 'duration': 28.761, 'max_score': 3166.602, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/WxfA1OSev4c/pics/WxfA1OSev4c3166602.jpg'}, {'end': 3309.502, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 3280.22, 'weight': 6, 'content': [{'end': 3286.365, 'text': 'somehow our understanding of genetics, of our understanding of our own biology, yeah, all that kind of stuff would.', 'start': 3280.22, 'duration': 6.145}, {'end': 3287.826, 'text': "uh, that's another trajectory.", 'start': 3286.365, 'duration': 1.461}, {'end': 3291.489, 'text': 'well, right, if you could put us into some sort of suspended animation.', 'start': 3287.826, 'duration': 3.663}, {'end': 3295.191, 'text': 'you know hibernation or something, and greatly increase the lifetime.', 'start': 3291.489, 'duration': 3.702}, {'end': 3298.494, 'text': 'and so these ten thousand generations i talked about, what do they care?', 'start': 3295.191, 'duration': 3.303}, {'end': 3300.755, 'text': "it's just one generation and they're asleep.", 'start': 3298.494, 'duration': 2.261}, {'end': 3302.257, 'text': "okay, it's their long now.", 'start': 3300.755, 'duration': 1.502}, {'end': 3303.718, 'text': 'so then you can do it.', 'start': 3302.257, 'duration': 1.461}, {'end': 3309.502, 'text': "It's still not easy, because you've got some big old, huge colony and that just through E, equals MC squared.", 'start': 3304.418, 'duration': 5.084}], 'summary': 'Advancements in genetics and biology could lead to extended lifespans through suspended animation, benefitting future generations.', 'duration': 29.282, 'max_score': 3280.22, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/WxfA1OSev4c/pics/WxfA1OSev4c3280220.jpg'}], 'start': 2710.343, 'title': 'Challenges of interstellar travel', 'summary': 'Explores challenges of interstellar travel, including limitations of human travel, immense energy required to approach speed of light, and far-fetched concepts like wormholes and faster-than-light travel.', 'chapters': [{'end': 3023.317, 'start': 2710.343, 'title': 'Interstellar travel challenges', 'summary': 'Discusses the challenges of interstellar travel, including the limitations of human travel, the immense energy required to approach the speed of light, and the far-fetched nature of concepts like wormholes and faster-than-light travel.', 'duration': 312.974, 'highlights': ["The immense energy required to approach the speed of light makes human travel to other planets outside our solar system unrealistic, as calculated based on Einstein's special theory of relativity and E=mc^2. 99.9999% speed of light reached at the Large Hadron Collider with protons, but the energy required for human travel remains unfathomable.", 'The star shot project aims to accelerate a tiny camera to 20% of the speed of light using high-powered lasers, which is a forward-looking thought but faces international challenges. Hope to send a tiny camera to Alpha Centauri 4.2 light years away and capture images of exoplanets with high-powered lasers.', 'The concept of travel through wormholes and faster-than-light methods is viewed as far-fetched and potentially impossible based on current understanding of physics and the limitations presented by black hole singularities. Current understanding of physics suggests that most interstellar travel schemes, including travel through wormholes, are very far-fetched, if not impossible.']}, {'end': 3348.924, 'start': 3023.577, 'title': 'Traversable wormholes and time travel', 'summary': 'Discusses the challenges of traversable wormholes, including mass inflation instability and causality violations, and explores theoretical concepts such as the alcubierre drive and suspended animation for space travel, highlighting the practical and theoretical limitations of each approach.', 'duration': 325.347, 'highlights': ['Traversable wormholes encounter mass inflation instability, leading to vaporization due to incoming and outgoing energy. When entering a traversable wormhole, the mass inflation instability causes vaporization due to incoming and outgoing energy, making traversal impractical.', 'Causality violations and paradoxes arise with the possibility of time travel through wormholes, such as the grandfather paradox. The potential of time travel through wormholes presents causality violations, illustrated by the grandfather paradox and its implications on existence and history.', 'Theoretical concepts like the Alcubierre Drive pose practical challenges, including energy requirements and the inability to save time effectively. The Alcubierre Drive, theoretically warping space-time for travel, faces practical challenges such as energy requirements and the inability to effectively save time during the journey.', 'Suspended animation and genetic advancements are considered for extending human lifespan during space travel. The discussion explores the potential of suspended animation and genetic advancements to extend human lifespan during space travel, addressing the biological challenges associated with long journeys.']}], 'duration': 638.581, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/WxfA1OSev4c/pics/WxfA1OSev4c2710343.jpg', 'highlights': ["The immense energy required for human travel to other planets outside our solar system remains unfathomable, calculated based on Einstein's special theory of relativity and E=mc^2.", 'The star shot project aims to accelerate a tiny camera to 20% of the speed of light using high-powered lasers, with the hope to send it to Alpha Centauri 4.2 light years away.', 'Current understanding of physics suggests that most interstellar travel schemes, including travel through wormholes, are very far-fetched, if not impossible.', 'Traversable wormholes encounter mass inflation instability, leading to vaporization due to incoming and outgoing energy, making traversal impractical.', 'The potential of time travel through wormholes presents causality violations, illustrated by the grandfather paradox and its implications on existence and history.', 'The Alcubierre Drive, theoretically warping space-time for travel, faces practical challenges such as energy requirements and the inability to effectively save time during the journey.', 'The discussion explores the potential of suspended animation and genetic advancements to extend human lifespan during space travel, addressing the biological challenges associated with long journeys.']}, {'end': 4389.949, 'segs': [{'end': 3437.146, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 3407.005, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 3414.813, 'text': "I would say I'm one of the pessimists in that I don't necessarily think that we're the only ones in the observable universe, which goes out, you know.", 'start': 3407.005, 'duration': 7.808}, {'end': 3424.14, 'text': 'roughly 14 billion years in light travel time and more like 46 billion years when you take into account the expansion of space.', 'start': 3416.334, 'duration': 7.806}, {'end': 3428.943, 'text': 'So the diameter of our observable universe is something like 90, 92 billion light years.', 'start': 3424.22, 'duration': 4.723}, {'end': 3437.146, 'text': 'That encompasses 100 billion to a trillion galaxies with 100 billion stars each.', 'start': 3429.544, 'duration': 7.602}], 'summary': 'Observable universe spans 92b light years, with 100b-1t galaxies and 100b stars each.', 'duration': 30.141, 'max_score': 3407.005, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/WxfA1OSev4c/pics/WxfA1OSev4c3407005.jpg'}, {'end': 3500.76, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 3476.82, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 3484.127, 'text': "but I'd probably side with the school of thought that suggests we're the only ones in our own galaxy,", 'start': 3476.82, 'duration': 7.307}, {'end': 3491.814, 'text': "just because I don't see human intelligence as being a natural evolutionary path.", 'start': 3484.127, 'duration': 7.687}, {'end': 3494.036, 'text': 'for life.', 'start': 3492.575, 'duration': 1.461}, {'end': 3495.737, 'text': "There's a number of arguments.", 'start': 3494.056, 'duration': 1.681}, {'end': 3500.76, 'text': "First of all, there's been more than 10 billion species of life on Earth in its history.", 'start': 3495.817, 'duration': 4.943}], 'summary': 'Human intelligence may be unique in our galaxy, with over 10 billion species of life on earth.', 'duration': 23.94, 'max_score': 3476.82, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/WxfA1OSev4c/pics/WxfA1OSev4c3476820.jpg'}, {'end': 3591.152, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 3568.531, 'weight': 6, 'content': [{'end': 3576.238, 'text': "which is it's possible that there are a huge amount of intelligent civilizations have been born even through our galaxy,", 'start': 3568.531, 'duration': 7.707}, {'end': 3578.801, 'text': 'but they live very briefly and they die.', 'start': 3576.238, 'duration': 2.563}, {'end': 3580.502, 'text': 'Flash bulbs in the night.', 'start': 3578.821, 'duration': 1.681}, {'end': 3587.509, 'text': 'That brings me to the fourth issue, and that is the Fermi paradox.', 'start': 3582.124, 'duration': 5.385}, {'end': 3591.152, 'text': "If they're common, where the hell are they? 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are inordinately difficult to achieve, likened to stumbling across a watch in the sahara desert.', 'duration': 24.973, 'max_score': 4060.982, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/WxfA1OSev4c/pics/WxfA1OSev4c4060982.jpg'}, {'end': 4143.549, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 4116.474, 'weight': 8, 'content': [{'end': 4120.317, 'text': 'although that transition may have been the so-called great filter as well.', 'start': 4116.474, 'duration': 3.843}, {'end': 4128.421, 'text': 'Maybe the cells without a nucleus are relatively easy to form, And then the big next step is where you have a nucleus,', 'start': 4120.357, 'duration': 8.064}, {'end': 4133.584, 'text': 'which then provides a lot of energy, which allows the cell to become much, much more complex, and so on.', 'start': 4128.421, 'duration': 5.163}, {'end': 4143.549, 'text': 'Interestingly, going from eukaryotic cells, single cells, to multicellular organisms does not appear to be, at least on Earth,', 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{'end': 4241.885, 'text': "Yeah, it's funny.", 'start': 4241.065, 'duration': 0.82}], 'summary': 'The fermi paradox suggests a potential great filter ahead, posing a threat to our long-term future.', 'duration': 23.415, 'max_score': 4218.47, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/WxfA1OSev4c/pics/WxfA1OSev4c4218470.jpg'}, {'end': 4294.516, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 4266.919, 'weight': 10, 'content': [{'end': 4274.184, 'text': "See, if we're the only ones and there are such great filters, maybe more than one, formation of life might be one of them.", 'start': 4266.919, 'duration': 7.265}, {'end': 4279.107, 'text': 'Formation of eukaryotic that is with the nucleus cells be another.', 'start': 4274.704, 'duration': 4.403}, {'end': 4282.53, 'text': 'Development of human-like intelligence might be another.', 'start': 4279.868, 'duration': 2.662}, {'end': 4288.213, 'text': 'There might be several such filters and we were the lucky ones.', 'start': 4282.91, 'duration': 5.303}, {'end': 4294.516, 'text': "Then people say, well, then that means you're putting yourself into a special perspective and every time we've done that, we've been wrong.", 'start': 4288.433, 'duration': 6.083}], 'summary': 'Life may have faced multiple filters, including eukaryotic cell formation and human-like intelligence development.', 'duration': 27.597, 'max_score': 4266.919, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/WxfA1OSev4c/pics/WxfA1OSev4c4266919.jpg'}, {'end': 4347.282, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 4323.305, 'weight': 9, 'content': [{'end': 4331.707, 'text': "So that's the optimistic part, that if we don't find other intelligent life there, it might mean that we're the ones that made it.", 'start': 4323.305, 'duration': 8.402}, {'end': 4336.413, 'text': 'And in general, outside the great filter and so on.', 'start': 4333.01, 'duration': 3.403}, {'end': 4344.039, 'text': "you know, it's not obvious that the Stephen 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100,000, suggesting potential rarity of intelligent life in the observable universe.', 'chapters': [{'end': 3613.322, 'start': 3348.924, 'title': 'Limits of light speed and search for extraterrestrial life', 'summary': 'Discusses the infinite energy required to reach or exceed the speed of light, the vastness of the observable universe with potential for other intelligent life, and the arguments against the prevalence of intelligent life in our own galaxy, including the fermi paradox and the potential short lifespan of intelligent civilizations.', 'duration': 264.398, 'highlights': ['The observable universe spans roughly 14 billion years in light travel time, with 100 billion to a trillion galaxies, each with 100 billion stars, and potentially an equal number of Earth-like planets.', 'The chapter discusses the potential scarcity of intelligent life in our galaxy, citing the lack of evidence for human-like intelligence as a natural evolutionary path for life, and the short lifespan of intelligent civilizations.']}, {'end': 3997.103, 'start': 3613.382, 'title': 'Fermi paradox and extraterrestrial life', 'summary': 'Explores the possibility of advanced extraterrestrial civilizations in the galaxy, the limitations of human-centric perspectives in detecting intelligent life, and the potential explanations for the fermi paradox, while also discussing the implications of the great filters and the idea of a civilization peacefully existing for billions of years.', 'duration': 383.721, 'highlights': ['The galaxy potentially being teeming with intelligent life, some possibly billions of years ahead of ours, and the capability of interstellar travel and colonization could lead to the whole galaxy being populated within 10 million to 100 million years. The potential existence of advanced extraterrestrial civilizations billions of years ahead of human technological progress and the possibility of the entire galaxy being populated within a relatively short timeframe.', "The limitations of human-centric perspectives in detecting intelligent life, comparing human perception to that of an ant's awareness of humans, and the concept of a civilization being so advanced that it may not be detectable by humans. The discussion of the limitations of human perception in detecting advanced extraterrestrial civilizations, using the analogy of an ant's awareness of humans and the consideration of civilizations being too advanced for detection.", 'The potential explanations for the Fermi Paradox, including the idea that truly intelligent creatures may have decided not to colonize the whole galaxy, and the concept of great filters as potential barriers to the survival and expansion of civilizations. Exploring potential explanations for the Fermi Paradox, such as the notion of truly intelligent creatures not colonizing the galaxy and the discussion of great filters as potential barriers to the survival and expansion of civilizations.', "The concept of a civilization peacefully existing for billions of years, limiting its expansion and vulnerability to single-point failures, akin to a monastery's approach. 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years ahead of ours, and the capability of interstellar travel and colonization could lead to the whole galaxy being populated within 10 million to 100 million years.', "The limitations of human-centric perspectives in detecting intelligent life, comparing human perception to that of an ant's awareness of humans, and the concept of a civilization being so advanced that it may not be detectable by humans.", 'The potential explanations for the Fermi Paradox, including the idea that truly intelligent creatures may have decided not to colonize the whole galaxy, and the concept of great filters as potential barriers to the survival and expansion of civilizations.', "The concept of a civilization peacefully existing for billions of years, limiting its expansion and vulnerability to single-point failures, akin to a monastery's approach.", 'The potential rarity of advanced extraterrestrial civilizations is the most likely explanation for the Fermi Paradox, with estimates of 100,000 advanced 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through.']}, {'end': 5166.667, 'segs': [{'end': 4418.141, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 4390.849, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 4399.332, 'text': "But going back to what he said that we shouldn't be broadcasting our presence to others there I actually disagree with him respectfully because,", 'start': 4390.849, 'duration': 8.483}, {'end': 4406.455, 'text': "First of all, we've been unintentionally broadcasting our presence for 100 years since the development of radio and TV.", 'start': 4400.612, 'duration': 5.843}, {'end': 4418.141, 'text': "Secondly, any alien that has the capability of coming here and squashing us either already knows about us and doesn't care,", 'start': 4408.356, 'duration': 9.785}], 'summary': 'Unintentional broadcasting of our presence for 100 years through radio and tv.', 'duration': 27.292, 'max_score': 4390.849, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/WxfA1OSev4c/pics/WxfA1OSev4c4390849.jpg'}, {'end': 4515.627, 'src': 'heatmap', 'start': 4390.849, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 4399.332, 'text': "But going back to what he said that we shouldn't be broadcasting our presence to others there I actually disagree with him respectfully because,", 'start': 4390.849, 'duration': 8.483}, {'end': 4406.455, 'text': "First of all, we've been unintentionally broadcasting our presence for 100 years since the development of radio and TV.", 'start': 4400.612, 'duration': 5.843}, {'end': 4418.141, 'text': "Secondly, any alien that has the capability of coming here and squashing us either already knows about us and doesn't care,", 'start': 4408.356, 'duration': 9.785}, {'end': 4419.642, 'text': "because we're just like little ants.", 'start': 4418.141, 'duration': 1.501}, {'end': 4422.783, 'text': 'And when there are ants in your kitchen, you tend to squash them.', 'start': 4419.822, 'duration': 2.961}, {'end': 4429.347, 'text': "But if there are ants on the sidewalk and you're walking by, do you feel some great conviction that you have to squash any of them??", 'start': 4422.843, 'duration': 6.504}, {'end': 4431.309, 'text': "No, you generally don't.", 'start': 4429.847, 'duration': 1.462}, {'end': 4432.41, 'text': "We're irrelevant to them.", 'start': 4431.349, 'duration': 1.061}, {'end': 4444.742, 'text': "All they need to do is keep an eye on us to see whether we're approaching the kind of technological capability and know about them and have intentions of attacking them,", 'start': 4432.99, 'duration': 11.752}, {'end': 4445.843, 'text': 'and then they can squash us.', 'start': 4444.742, 'duration': 1.101}, {'end': 4450.653, 'text': 'Right? They could have done it long ago.', 'start': 4446.284, 'duration': 4.369}, {'end': 4452.874, 'text': "They'll do it if they want to.", 'start': 4451.614, 'duration': 1.26}, {'end': 4456.815, 'text': 'Whether we advertise our presence or not is irrelevant.', 'start': 4453.314, 'duration': 3.501}, {'end': 4460.896, 'text': "So I really think that that's not a huge existential threat.", 'start': 4457.115, 'duration': 3.781}, {'end': 4464.897, 'text': 'So this is a good place to bring up a difficult topic.', 'start': 4461.656, 'duration': 3.241}, {'end': 4472.539, 'text': 'You mentioned they would be paying attention to us to see if we come up with any crazy technology.', 'start': 4464.937, 'duration': 7.602}, {'end': 4477.544, 'text': "There's folks who have reported UFO sightings.", 'start': 4473.922, 'duration': 3.622}, {'end': 4486.77, 'text': "There's actually, I've recently found out, there's websites that track this, the data of these reportings, and there's millions of them.", 'start': 4477.684, 'duration': 9.086}, {'end': 4492.754, 'text': "in the past several decades, so seven decades and so on, that they've been recorded.", 'start': 4486.77, 'duration': 5.984}, {'end': 4501.039, 'text': 'And the ufologists community as they refer to themselves.', 'start': 4494.395, 'duration': 6.644}, {'end': 4512.385, 'text': 'you know one of the ideas that I find compelling from an alien perspective that they kind of started showing up ever since we figured out how to build nuclear weapons.', 'start': 4501.039, 'duration': 11.346}, {'end': 4515.627, 'text': 'that was sure, what a coincidence.', 'start': 4513.545, 'duration': 2.082}], 'summary': 'Alien presence: irrelevant, but focus on nuclear weapons is compelling.', 'duration': 28.857, 'max_score': 4390.849, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/WxfA1OSev4c/pics/WxfA1OSev4c4390849.jpg'}, {'end': 4632.138, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 4604.281, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 4608.464, 'text': 'That was like one of the first sort of sparks of the scientific mindset.', 'start': 4604.281, 'duration': 4.183}, {'end': 4611.267, 'text': 'Those mysteries, they capture your imagination.', 'start': 4608.965, 'duration': 2.302}, {'end': 4617.452, 'text': "Yeah I, I think when I speak to people that report UFOs, that's that fire, that's what I see.", 'start': 4611.287, 'duration': 6.165}, {'end': 4618.333, 'text': 'Sure That excitement.', 'start': 4617.472, 'duration': 0.861}, {'end': 4619.374, 'text': 'You know, I understand that.', 'start': 4618.433, 'duration': 0.941}, {'end': 4620.355, 'text': 'Mm-hmm but what.', 'start': 4619.574, 'duration': 0.781}, {'end': 4629.197, 'text': "What do we do with that? Because there's hundreds of thousands, if not millions, and then the scientific community, you're like the perfect person.", 'start': 4621.974, 'duration': 7.223}, {'end': 4632.138, 'text': 'You have an awesome Einstein shirt.', 'start': 4629.397, 'duration': 2.741}], 'summary': 'Discussion about the scientific mindset and excitement around ufo reports.', 'duration': 27.857, 'max_score': 4604.281, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/WxfA1OSev4c/pics/WxfA1OSev4c4604281.jpg'}, {'end': 5101.591, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 5073.974, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 5078.197, 'text': 'But anyway, I think, you know, UFO research is interesting.', 'start': 5073.974, 'duration': 4.223}, {'end': 5088.903, 'text': "I guess one of the reasons I've not been terribly convinced is that I think there are some scientists who are investigating this and they've not found any clear evidence.", 'start': 5079.138, 'duration': 9.765}, {'end': 5097.949, 'text': 'Now I must admit I have not looked through the literature to convince myself that there are many scientists doing systematic studies of these various reports,', 'start': 5088.983, 'duration': 8.966}, {'end': 5101.591, 'text': "so I can't say for sure that there's a critical mass of them.", 'start': 5097.949, 'duration': 3.642}], 'summary': 'Ufo research lacks clear evidence despite some scientific investigation.', 'duration': 27.617, 'max_score': 5073.974, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/WxfA1OSev4c/pics/WxfA1OSev4c5073974.jpg'}], 'start': 4390.849, 'title': 'Alien presence and ufo sightings', 'summary': 'Discusses the potential threat of unintentional broadcasting to aliens for 100 years through radio and tv, and millions of reported ufo sightings, particularly coinciding with the development of nuclear weapons, with a focus on scientific skepticism and the potential for inspiring future scientists.', 'chapters': [{'end': 4534.062, 'start': 4390.849, 'title': 'Alien presence and ufo sightings', 'summary': 'Discusses the potential threat of broadcasting our presence to aliens, highlighting that our unintentional presence has been broadcast for 100 years through radio and tv, and that there are millions of reported ufo sightings, particularly coinciding with the development of nuclear weapons, which could be of interest to aliens.', 'duration': 143.213, 'highlights': ['There have been millions of reported UFO sightings in the past several decades, particularly coinciding with the development of nuclear weapons.', 'The unintentional broadcasting of our presence has been ongoing for 100 years through radio and TV.', 'The speaker believes that the potential threat of broadcasting our presence to aliens is not a huge existential threat, as aliens who are capable of coming to Earth and squashing us may already be aware of us and consider us irrelevant.', 'The ufologists community has recorded millions of UFO sightings, particularly coinciding with the development of nuclear weapons.']}, {'end': 5166.667, 'start': 4534.482, 'title': 'Ufo sightings and scientific skepticism', 'summary': 'Discusses the fascination with ufo sightings and the need for scientific investigation, despite the lack of tangible evidence, highlighting the skepticism in the scientific community and the potential for inspiring future scientists.', 'duration': 632.185, 'highlights': ["The scientific community's skepticism towards UFO sightings and the lack of tangible evidence for investigations. Most of the scientific community dismisses UFO reports, citing the absence of tangible evidence and ambiguous photographs, leading to a skeptical approach to investigations.", 'The fascination with UFO sightings and the potential to inspire future scientists. Millions of people are inspired by UFOs, presenting an opportunity to inspire people about science and potentially lead young scientists to explore these phenomena.', 'The psychological impact of UFO sightings and the tendency to dismiss their significance. The chapter discusses the psychological impact of UFO sightings, including the tendency to ignore their presence, potentially reflecting on how humans might react if aliens were to show up.']}], 'duration': 775.818, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/WxfA1OSev4c/pics/WxfA1OSev4c4390849.jpg', 'highlights': ['The unintentional broadcasting of our presence has been ongoing for 100 years through radio and TV.', 'There have been millions of reported UFO sightings in the past several decades, particularly coinciding with the development of nuclear weapons.', "The scientific community's skepticism towards UFO sightings and the lack of tangible evidence for investigations.", 'The fascination with UFO sightings and the potential to inspire future scientists.']}, {'end': 6822.629, 'segs': [{'end': 5266.542, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 5237.095, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 5242.178, 'text': "But it's just, there's so many decoys, right? So much noise that you have to filter out.", 'start': 5237.095, 'duration': 5.083}, {'end': 5244.74, 'text': "And there's only so many scientists, so it's hard.", 'start': 5242.559, 'duration': 2.181}, {'end': 5250.223, 'text': "There's only so much time as well, and you have to choose what problems you work on.", 'start': 5245.24, 'duration': 4.983}, {'end': 5254.146, 'text': 'This might be a fun question to ask, to kind of explore.', 'start': 5250.243, 'duration': 3.903}, {'end': 5257.813, 'text': 'the idea of the expanding universe.', 'start': 5255.791, 'duration': 2.022}, {'end': 5266.542, 'text': 'So the radius of the observable universe is 45.7 billion light years.', 'start': 5258.334, 'duration': 8.208}], 'summary': 'Filtering decoys amidst limited resources to explore expanding universe, with observable universe radius of 45.7 billion light years.', 'duration': 29.447, 'max_score': 5237.095, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/WxfA1OSev4c/pics/WxfA1OSev4c5237095.jpg'}, {'end': 5788.43, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 5757.322, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 5759.883, 'text': "And so it's not even clear what slices of time mean.", 'start': 5757.322, 'duration': 2.561}, {'end': 5762.765, 'text': "But I'm an observational astronomer.", 'start': 5760.584, 'duration': 2.181}, {'end': 5764.786, 'text': 'I know which end of the telescope to look through.', 'start': 5762.925, 'duration': 1.861}, {'end': 5771.149, 'text': 'And the way I understand the infinity is, as I just told you, that operationally or observationally,', 'start': 5764.946, 'duration': 6.203}, {'end': 5777.312, 'text': "there'd be no way of seeing that it's a finite universe, of measuring a finite universe.", 'start': 5771.149, 'duration': 6.163}, {'end': 5779.813, 'text': "And so in that sense, it's infinite.", 'start': 5777.372, 'duration': 2.441}, {'end': 5784.261, 'text': 'even if it started out as a finite little dot.', 'start': 5780.473, 'duration': 3.788}, {'end': 5788.43, 'text': "Not a dot, I'm sorry, a finite little hypersphere.", 'start': 5785.504, 'duration': 2.926}], 'summary': 'Observational astronomer explains infinity and the concept of a finite universe.', 'duration': 31.108, 'max_score': 5757.322, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/WxfA1OSev4c/pics/WxfA1OSev4c5757322.jpg'}, {'end': 6495.154, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 6470.687, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 6487.071, 'text': 'But we looked back through the history of the universe by looking at progressively more distant galaxies and by seeing that the evolution of this expansion rate is that in the first 9 billion years,', 'start': 6470.687, 'duration': 16.384}, {'end': 6488.512, 'text': 'yeah, it was slowing down.', 'start': 6487.071, 'duration': 1.441}, {'end': 6492.773, 'text': "But in the last 5 billion years, it's been speeding up.", 'start': 6489.232, 'duration': 3.541}, {'end': 6495.154, 'text': 'So who asked for that? Right.', 'start': 6493.633, 'duration': 1.521}], 'summary': "Galaxies' expansion rate slowed for 9 billion years, then sped up for the last 5 billion years.", 'duration': 24.467, 'max_score': 6470.687, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/WxfA1OSev4c/pics/WxfA1OSev4c6470687.jpg'}, {'end': 6551.126, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 6519.99, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 6522.272, 'text': "It's the recognition, the funding, you know.", 'start': 6519.99, 'duration': 2.282}, {'end': 6524.893, 'text': 'And also inspiration.', 'start': 6523.572, 'duration': 1.321}, {'end': 6532.376, 'text': "for, like I said when I was a little kid, thinking about the Nobel Prize like I didn't you know, it inspires millions of young scientists.", 'start': 6524.893, 'duration': 7.483}, {'end': 6540.34, 'text': "At the same time there's a sadness to it a little bit that, especially in the field, like depending on the field,", 'start': 6533.577, 'duration': 6.763}, {'end': 6547.384, 'text': "but experimental fields that involve teams of I don't know, sometimes hundreds of brilliant people.", 'start': 6540.34, 'duration': 7.044}, {'end': 6551.126, 'text': 'The Nobel Prize is only given to just a handful.', 'start': 6548.644, 'duration': 2.482}], 'summary': 'Nobel prize inspires millions, but only a handful receive it.', 'duration': 31.136, 'max_score': 6519.99, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/WxfA1OSev4c/pics/WxfA1OSev4c6519990.jpg'}], 'start': 5167.467, 'title': 'Universe, ufos, and nobel prize', 'summary': 'Covers ufo sightings, expanding universe, infinity, origin of universe, and the impact of nobel prize on scientists, providing data such as the radius of the observable universe, and discussing the psychological impact and limitations of the nobel prize.', 'chapters': [{'end': 5236.115, 'start': 5167.467, 'title': 'Ufo sightings and scientific perspective', 'summary': 'Discusses the challenges scientists face in investigating ufo sightings, highlighting the prevalence of misidentifications and emphasizing the importance of focusing on more substantial scientific pursuits such as evolution.', 'duration': 68.648, 'highlights': ['Scientists face challenges in investigating UFO sightings due to the prevalence of misidentifications and the abundance of deceptive observations, such as misidentifying Venus as a UFO near the Moon.', 'The speaker emphasizes the need to prioritize more substantial scientific pursuits, such as evolution, over investigations into phenomena like Bigfoot and UFO sightings.', 'The chapter highlights the multitude of deceptive observations received by observatories, with frequent misidentifications of Venus as a UFO near the Moon, indicating a high prevalence of misidentifications in UFO reports.']}, {'end': 5757.302, 'start': 5237.095, 'title': 'Understanding the expanding universe', 'summary': 'Explains how the radius of the observable universe is 45.7 billion light years, which is less than the age of the universe at 13.7 billion years, due to the expansion of space. it further discusses the concept of infinite space in an exponentially expanding universe and the limitations of measuring its size.', 'duration': 520.207, 'highlights': ['The radius of the observable universe is 45.7 billion light years, which is less than the age of the universe at 13.7 billion years, due to the expansion of space. The radius of the observable universe and the age of the universe are quantified, emphasizing the impact of the expansion of space.', 'In an expanding universe, the space itself between galaxies or clusters of galaxies is expanding, causing light to appear to have traveled a greater distance than it would have had the space not been expanding. Explains the impact of space expansion on the perceived distance traveled by light, providing a tangible example to illustrate the concept.', 'In an exponentially expanding universe, if you try to measure its size using light, it would always be bigger than the distance light can travel, leading to the concept of an observationally infinite universe. Discusses the repercussions of an exponentially expanding universe on the measurability of its size, leading to the concept of an observationally infinite universe.']}, {'end': 6013.24, 'start': 5757.322, 'title': 'The infinity of the universe', 'summary': 'Discusses the concept of the universe being operationally or observationally infinite, with hypotheses in physics being based on plausibility arguments and indirect tests, despite lacking direct experimental or observational support.', 'duration': 255.918, 'highlights': ['The universe is operationally or observationally infinite, making it hard to measure or prove its finiteness.', 'Hypotheses in physics are based on plausibility arguments and indirect tests, lacking direct experimental or observational support.', 'Physics hypotheses are not elevated to a theory without substantial experimental or observational support.']}, {'end': 6495.154, 'start': 6013.74, 'title': 'Origin of universe: physics and speculations', 'summary': "Discusses the physics behind the creation of the universe, including the possibility of testing what happened before t equals zero and the accelerating expansion of the universe based on observations of galaxies' movements.", 'duration': 481.414, 'highlights': ['The accelerating expansion of the universe is observed in the last 5 billion years, contrary to the initial expectation of it slowing down, indicating a mysterious force at play. Observations show that the expansion rate of the universe has been speeding up in the last 5 billion years, challenging the initial expectation of it slowing down, pointing towards a mysterious force causing this acceleration.', "Discussion about the difficulty in testing what happened before T equals zero due to the lack of a verified, fully self-consistent, experimentally tested quantum theory of gravity. The lack of a verified, fully self-consistent, experimentally tested quantum theory of gravity presents a challenge in testing what happened before T equals zero, hindering the ability to understand the universe's origin.", 'Emphasizes the need for extraordinary evidence for extraordinary claims, exemplified by the requirement of five sigma (roughly one chance in 2 million) for claiming the discovery of the Higgs particle. The requirement of five sigma, indicating roughly one chance in 2 million, for claiming the discovery of the Higgs particle highlights the need for extraordinary evidence for extraordinary claims in the scientific community.']}, {'end': 6822.629, 'start': 6495.214, 'title': 'The human story of nobel prize', 'summary': 'Discusses the psychological impact of the nobel prize on scientists, including the recognition, funding, and inspiration it provides, while also highlighting the limitations of the prize in recognizing the contributions of large teams in scientific discoveries.', 'duration': 327.415, 'highlights': ['The Nobel Prize has a psychological impact on scientists, providing recognition, funding, and inspiration, especially for young scientists, despite its limitations in recognizing the contributions of large teams. (Relevance: 5)', "The Nobel Prize is only given to a handful of individuals, despite the involvement of teams consisting of hundreds of brilliant people in experimental fields. This limitation is not explicitly stated in Alfred Nobel's will and does not align with the current collaborative nature of scientific research. (Relevance: 4)", 'The case of Ralph Alpher, whose life was reportedly ruined by not receiving the Nobel Prize for the prediction of the microwave background radiation, highlights the personal and psychological impact of not being recognized by the Nobel committee. (Relevance: 3)', 'The discussion on the potential recognition of the interviewee for their involvement in two Nobel Prize-winning teams raises the psychological impact and uncertainty faced by scientists regarding their potential recognition by the Nobel committee. (Relevance: 2)', "The chapter also highlights the case of scientists whose lives were negatively affected by not receiving the Nobel Prize, emphasizing the personal and psychological toll of the prize's recognition. (Relevance: 1)"]}], 'duration': 1655.162, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/WxfA1OSev4c/pics/WxfA1OSev4c5167467.jpg', 'highlights': ['The radius of the observable universe is 45.7 billion light years, less than the age of the universe at 13.7 billion years.', 'The accelerating expansion of the universe is observed in the last 5 billion years, contrary to the initial expectation of it slowing down.', 'The universe is operationally or observationally infinite, making it hard to measure or prove its finiteness.', 'The Nobel Prize has a psychological impact on scientists, providing recognition, funding, and inspiration, especially for young scientists, despite its limitations in recognizing the contributions of large teams.']}, {'end': 7545.374, 'segs': [{'end': 6850.372, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 6823.35, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 6832.137, 'text': 'It perhaps it should motivate the rethinking like Time magazine started doing like, you know, person of the year.', 'start': 6823.35, 'duration': 8.787}, {'end': 6838.742, 'text': 'Yeah And like there was they would start doing like concepts and almost like the black hole gets the Nobel Prize or.', 'start': 6832.157, 'duration': 6.585}, {'end': 6841.805, 'text': 'Yeah Or the universe gets the Nobel Prize.', 'start': 6839.043, 'duration': 2.762}, {'end': 6843.306, 'text': "And here's the list of people.", 'start': 6841.865, 'duration': 1.441}, {'end': 6847.33, 'text': 'So like or like the Oscar that you could say.', 'start': 6843.747, 'duration': 3.583}, {'end': 6850.372, 'text': "Yeah Because it It's a team effort now.", 'start': 6847.35, 'duration': 3.022}], 'summary': 'Suggests rethinking awards to include concepts like black hole or universe for nobel prize or oscar.', 'duration': 27.022, 'max_score': 6823.35, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/WxfA1OSev4c/pics/WxfA1OSev4c6823350.jpg'}, {'end': 7170.819, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 7140.805, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 7146.406, 'text': "or they just don't give the prize at all when it's unclear who the three are, at least unclear to them.", 'start': 7140.805, 'duration': 5.601}, {'end': 7152.468, 'text': "But unclear to them, they're not even right part of the time.", 'start': 7146.926, 'duration': 5.542}, {'end': 7167.097, 'text': 'Jocelyn Bell discovered pulsars with a set of radio antennas that her advisor, Anthony Hewish, conceived and built, so he deserves some credit.', 'start': 7152.868, 'duration': 14.229}, {'end': 7170.819, 'text': "But he didn't discover the pulsar, she did.", 'start': 7168.297, 'duration': 2.522}], 'summary': 'Jocelyn bell discovered pulsars, not her advisor.', 'duration': 30.014, 'max_score': 7140.805, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/WxfA1OSev4c/pics/WxfA1OSev4c7140805.jpg'}, {'end': 7249.226, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 7222.071, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 7226.493, 'text': "It'll conduct this large-scale survey with the Rubin telescope.", 'start': 7222.071, 'duration': 4.422}, {'end': 7229.994, 'text': "So she's been recognized, but never with the Nobel Prize.", 'start': 7226.553, 'duration': 3.441}, {'end': 7235.556, 'text': 'And I would say that to her credit, she did not let that consume her life either.', 'start': 7230.054, 'duration': 5.502}, {'end': 7242.121, 'text': 'And perhaps it was a bit easier because there have been no Nobel given for the discovery of dark matter,', 'start': 7235.916, 'duration': 6.205}, {'end': 7249.226, 'text': 'whereas in the case of pulsars and Jocelyn Bell there was a prize given for the discovery of the freaking pulsars.', 'start': 7242.121, 'duration': 7.105}], 'summary': 'Large-scale survey with rubin telescope, no nobel prize for dark matter discovery', 'duration': 27.155, 'max_score': 7222.071, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/WxfA1OSev4c/pics/WxfA1OSev4c7222071.jpg'}, {'end': 7295.89, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 7269.955, 'weight': 6, 'content': [{'end': 7276.839, 'text': 'The decisions of other humans that result in dreams being broken.', 'start': 7269.955, 'duration': 6.884}, {'end': 7280.461, 'text': "That's why we love the Olympics.", 'start': 7279.06, 'duration': 1.401}, {'end': 7286.404, 'text': 'as so many people, athletes give their whole life for this particular moment.', 'start': 7281.261, 'duration': 5.143}, {'end': 7295.89, 'text': "And then, and then there's referee decisions and like little slips of here and there, like the little misfortunes that destroy entire dreams.", 'start': 7286.804, 'duration': 9.086}], 'summary': 'Olympics symbolize dreams shattered by human decisions.', 'duration': 25.935, 'max_score': 7269.955, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/WxfA1OSev4c/pics/WxfA1OSev4c7269955.jpg'}, {'end': 7365.088, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 7319.063, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 7326.928, 'text': "And I'm very pleased to see that this year, Andrea Ghez, the fourth woman in the history of the physics prize, to have received it.", 'start': 7319.063, 'duration': 7.865}, {'end': 7335.856, 'text': 'And then two women, one at Berkeley, one elsewhere won the Nobel Prize in chemistry without any male co-recipient.', 'start': 7327.408, 'duration': 8.448}, {'end': 7342.882, 'text': "And so that's sending a message, I think, to girls that they can do science and they have role models.", 'start': 7335.996, 'duration': 6.886}, {'end': 7349.924, 'text': 'I think the Breakthrough Prize and other such prizes show that teams get recognized as well.', 'start': 7343.763, 'duration': 6.161}, {'end': 7359.567, 'text': 'If you pay attention to the newspapers, most of the good authors, like Dennis Overby of the New York Times and others,', 'start': 7351.705, 'duration': 7.862}, {'end': 7365.088, 'text': 'said that these were teams of people, and they emphasized that, and they all played a role.', 'start': 7359.567, 'duration': 5.521}], 'summary': 'This year, 2 women won the nobel prize in chemistry without male co-recipients, sending a message to girls and emphasizing teamwork in science.', 'duration': 46.025, 'max_score': 7319.063, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/WxfA1OSev4c/pics/WxfA1OSev4c7319063.jpg'}], 'start': 6823.35, 'title': 'Nobel prize controversies and unrecognized achievements', 'summary': 'Explores controversies surrounding nobel prize recognition, highlighting instances of large teams being recognized over individual contributions, and discusses unrecognized achievements in major discoveries and the impact of credit assignment on individuals in various fields.', 'chapters': [{'end': 7139.945, 'start': 6823.35, 'title': 'Controversy in nobel prize recognition', 'summary': 'Explores controversies surrounding the nobel prize recognition, highlighting instances where large teams were recognized while overlooking individual contributions, and suggesting that the prize could have been shared differently in the cases of the discovery of the accelerating universe, higgs particle, and exoplanets.', 'duration': 316.595, 'highlights': ['The Nobel Prize recognition process has been criticized for favoring large teams over individual contributions, as seen in the cases of the accelerating universe, Higgs particle, and exoplanet discovery.', 'The breakthrough prize in fundamental physics, started by Uri Milner and Zuckerberg, recognized larger teams, with both teams in the accelerating universe being awarded in 2015, highlighting a shift towards team recognition.', 'Theoretical work by Peter Higgs and Anglaire was recognized for the Higgs particle, while other contributors to the discovery were left out, indicating an omission of key contributors.', 'The controversy extends to other fields, such as the dispute over the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the first exoplanet, where the recognition focused on planets around normal Sun-like stars, overlooking other significant discoveries, causing debates over the allocation of the prize.', 'The transcript highlights instances where large teams were recognized, such as the 1,000 people involved in the discovery of gravitational waves and 6,000 to 8,000 physicists and engineers involved in the Higgs particle discovery, raising questions about the representation of individual contributions within large collaborations.']}, {'end': 7545.374, 'start': 7140.805, 'title': 'Unrecognized achievements and the human drama', 'summary': 'Discusses the unacknowledged contributions of scientists to major discoveries, the impact of credit assignment and recognition on individuals, the human drama of competitions like the olympics, and the tendency to idolize certain figures while overlooking the collaborative efforts and contributions of others in various fields.', 'duration': 404.569, 'highlights': ["Jocelyn Bell's discovery of pulsars and her advisor's initial reaction to the data illustrate the issue of credit assignment in scientific achievements. Jocelyn Bell discovered pulsars with a set of radio antennas that her advisor, Anthony Hewish, conceived and built, so he deserves some credit. But he didn't discover the pulsar, she did. His initial reaction to the data that she showed him was a condescending, rubbish, my dear.", 'The unrecognized contributions of Vera Rubin to the discovery of dark matter and her subsequent recognition through the naming of a telescope after her death are discussed. Vera Rubin, one of the discoverers of dark matter, won every prize under the sun but never received the Nobel Prize. The new large-scale survey telescope being built in Chile is being renamed the Vera Rubin telescope in her honor.', 'The impact of recognition on individuals and the tendency to idolize certain figures while overlooking collaborative efforts in fields like science, along with the message sent to girls through the recognition of women in scientific fields. The chapter discusses the message sent to girls through the recognition of women in scientific fields, highlighting the impact of credit assignment and recognition on individuals. It also emphasizes the tendency to idolize certain figures while overlooking collaborative efforts in fields like science.', 'The human drama of competitions like the Olympics and the impact of credit assignment on individuals are explored. The chapter delves into the human drama of competitions like the Olympics and the impact of credit assignment on individuals, highlighting the tendency to idolize certain figures while overlooking collaborative efforts in various fields.', 'The recognition of teams in scientific achievements and the human drama involved in such endeavors, including the role of individuals in bringing teams together and the impact of funding cuts on projects, is discussed. The chapter discusses the recognition of teams in scientific achievements and the human drama involved in such endeavors, including the role of individuals in bringing teams together and the impact of funding cuts on projects.']}], 'duration': 722.024, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/WxfA1OSev4c/pics/WxfA1OSev4c6823350.jpg', 'highlights': ['The Nobel Prize recognition process criticized for favoring large teams over individual contributions, as seen in cases of accelerating universe, Higgs particle, and exoplanet discovery.', 'The breakthrough prize in fundamental physics recognized larger teams, highlighting a shift towards team recognition, raising questions about the representation of individual contributions within large collaborations.', 'Controversy extends to other fields, such as the dispute over the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the first exoplanet, causing debates over the allocation of the prize.', "Jocelyn Bell's discovery of pulsars and her advisor's initial reaction to the data illustrate the issue of credit assignment in scientific achievements.", 'The unrecognized contributions of Vera Rubin to the discovery of dark matter and her subsequent recognition through the naming of a telescope after her death are discussed.', 'The impact of recognition on individuals and the tendency to idolize certain figures while overlooking collaborative efforts in fields like science, along with the message sent to girls through the recognition of women in scientific fields.', 'The human drama of competitions like the Olympics and the impact of credit assignment on individuals are explored.', 'The recognition of teams in scientific achievements and the human drama involved in such endeavors, including the role of individuals in bringing teams together and the impact of funding cuts on projects.']}, {'end': 9338.569, 'segs': [{'end': 7623.746, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 7595.732, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 7600.54, 'text': "And that's not only exciting to watch from afar, but it's critical to our existence,", 'start': 7595.732, 'duration': 4.808}, {'end': 7609.154, 'text': "because it is in these explosions that the heavy elements synthesize through nuclear reactions during the normal course of the star's evolution.", 'start': 7600.54, 'duration': 8.614}, {'end': 7619.663, 'text': 'and during the explosion itself get ejected into the cosmos, making them available as raw material for new stars, planets, and ultimately life.', 'start': 7610.117, 'duration': 9.546}, {'end': 7623.746, 'text': "And that's just a great story, the best in some ways.", 'start': 7619.983, 'duration': 3.763}], 'summary': 'Stellar explosions synthesize heavy elements, crucial for new stars and life.', 'duration': 28.014, 'max_score': 7595.732, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/WxfA1OSev4c/pics/WxfA1OSev4c7595732.jpg'}, {'end': 7765.954, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 7734.038, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 7739.801, 'text': 'are the so-called Type Roman numeral I lowercase, a Type Ia supernovae.', 'start': 7734.038, 'duration': 5.763}, {'end': 7744.082, 'text': 'They come from a weird type of a star called a white dwarf.', 'start': 7740.501, 'duration': 3.581}, {'end': 7748.424, 'text': 'Our own Sun will turn into a white dwarf in about 7 billion years.', 'start': 7744.322, 'duration': 4.102}, {'end': 7757.987, 'text': "It'll have about half its present mass compressed into a volume just the size of Earth, so that's an inordinate density, okay? It's incredibly dense.", 'start': 7748.964, 'duration': 9.023}, {'end': 7765.954, 'text': "And the matter is what's called by quantum physicists degenerate matter, not because it's morally reprehensible or anything like that,", 'start': 7758.787, 'duration': 7.167}], 'summary': 'Type ia supernovae come from white dwarfs with incredibly dense matter, such as sun may become in 7 billion years.', 'duration': 31.916, 'max_score': 7734.038, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/WxfA1OSev4c/pics/WxfA1OSev4c7734038.jpg'}, {'end': 7931.675, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 7876.732, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 7879.374, 'text': "That's another inspirational story for the youngster.", 'start': 7876.732, 'duration': 2.642}, {'end': 7880.535, 'text': 'Just keep going.', 'start': 7879.614, 'duration': 0.921}, {'end': 7882.676, 'text': 'Ignore your advisors.', 'start': 7880.555, 'duration': 2.121}, {'end': 7885.338, 'text': 'Yeah, no matter what your advisor says.', 'start': 7882.896, 'duration': 2.442}, {'end': 7888.28, 'text': "Or don't always pay attention to your advisor.", 'start': 7885.558, 'duration': 2.722}, {'end': 7892.063, 'text': "Don't lose hope if you really think you're onto something.", 'start': 7888.741, 'duration': 3.322}, {'end': 7894.305, 'text': "That doesn't mean never listen to your advisor.", 'start': 7892.443, 'duration': 1.862}, {'end': 7895.986, 'text': 'They may have sage advice as well.', 'start': 7894.345, 'duration': 1.641}, {'end': 7903.332, 'text': 'But anyway, when a white dwarf grows to a certain mass, it becomes unstable.', 'start': 7896.606, 'duration': 6.726}, {'end': 7908.396, 'text': 'And one of the ways it can end its life is to go through a thermonuclear runaway.', 'start': 7903.472, 'duration': 4.924}, {'end': 7916.363, 'text': 'So basically, the carbon nuclei inside the white dwarf start fusing together to form heavier nuclei.', 'start': 7908.897, 'duration': 7.466}, {'end': 7931.675, 'text': "And the energy that those fusion reactions emit emits doesn't go into being dissipated out of the star or expanding it the way.", 'start': 7916.803, 'duration': 14.872}], 'summary': "Inspirational advice and scientific explanation of white dwarf's thermonuclear runaway.", 'duration': 54.943, 'max_score': 7876.732, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/WxfA1OSev4c/pics/WxfA1OSev4c7876732.jpg'}, {'end': 8182.504, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 8153.074, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 8163.701, 'text': 'But in 1993, Mark Phillips wrote a paper that showed this correlation between the light curve, the brightness versus time, and the peak luminosity.', 'start': 8153.074, 'duration': 10.627}, {'end': 8165.722, 'text': 'Which gives you enough information to calibrate.', 'start': 8163.861, 'duration': 1.861}, {'end': 8168.063, 'text': 'Yeah, then they become calibratable, and that was a game changer.', 'start': 8165.742, 'duration': 2.321}, {'end': 8172.279, 'text': "How many Type Ia's are out there to use for data??", 'start': 8168.257, 'duration': 4.022}, {'end': 8182.504, 'text': 'Now there are thousands of them, but at the time the Hi-Z team had 16 and the Supernova Cosmology Project had 40,', 'start': 8172.319, 'duration': 10.185}], 'summary': "In 1993, a paper showed correlation between light curve and peak luminosity, enabling calibration. at the time, hi-z team had 16 type ia's and supernova cosmology project had 40.", 'duration': 29.43, 'max_score': 8153.074, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/WxfA1OSev4c/pics/WxfA1OSev4c8153074.jpg'}, {'end': 8979.877, 'src': 'heatmap', 'start': 8862.044, 'weight': 7, 'content': [{'end': 8864.705, 'text': 'I mean, you know, I encourage questions.', 'start': 8862.044, 'duration': 2.661}, {'end': 8866.986, 'text': 'I like it when students ask questions.', 'start': 8864.925, 'duration': 2.061}, {'end': 8870.508, 'text': "I tell them that they shouldn't feel shy about asking a question.", 'start': 8867.046, 'duration': 3.462}, {'end': 8878.253, 'text': 'Probably half the students in the class would have that same question if they even understood the material enough to ask that question.', 'start': 8871.068, 'duration': 7.185}, {'end': 8884.416, 'text': 'Yeah Curiosity is the first step of seeing the beauty of something.', 'start': 8878.533, 'duration': 5.883}, {'end': 8888.338, 'text': 'And the question is the ultimate form of curiosity.', 'start': 8885.557, 'duration': 2.781}, {'end': 8895.876, 'text': 'Let me ask, what is the meaning of life? the meaning of life, you know.', 'start': 8890.119, 'duration': 5.757}, {'end': 8900.077, 'text': "From a cosmologist's perspective or from a human perspective? Or from my personal, you know.", 'start': 8895.896, 'duration': 4.181}, {'end': 8903.059, 'text': 'Life is what you make of it really right?', 'start': 8900.838, 'duration': 2.221}, {'end': 8912.051, 'text': "Each of us has to have our own meaning, and it doesn't have to be Well.", 'start': 8905.04, 'duration': 7.011}, {'end': 8916.115, 'text': 'I think that in many cases, meaning is to some degree associated with goals.', 'start': 8912.051, 'duration': 4.064}, {'end': 8924.163, 'text': 'You set some goals or expectations for yourself, things you want to accomplish, things you want to do, things you want to experience.', 'start': 8916.175, 'duration': 7.988}, {'end': 8929.948, 'text': 'And to the degree that you experience those and do those things, it can give you meaning.', 'start': 8924.283, 'duration': 5.665}, {'end': 8936.538, 'text': "don't have to change the world the way Newton or Michelangelo or Da Vinci did.", 'start': 8930.834, 'duration': 5.704}, {'end': 8938.559, 'text': 'I mean, people often say, change the world.', 'start': 8936.558, 'duration': 2.001}, {'end': 8942.321, 'text': "But look, come on, there's seven and a half, close to eight billion of us now.", 'start': 8938.619, 'duration': 3.702}, {'end': 8944.302, 'text': 'Most of us are not going to change the world.', 'start': 8942.641, 'duration': 1.661}, {'end': 8948.125, 'text': 'And does that mean that most of us are leading meaningful lives? No.', 'start': 8944.362, 'duration': 3.763}, {'end': 8957.39, 'text': 'It just has to be something that gives you meaning, that gives you satisfaction, that gives you a good feeling about what you did.', 'start': 8949.145, 'duration': 8.245}, {'end': 8963.941, 'text': 'And often based on human nature, which can be very good and also very bad,', 'start': 8957.45, 'duration': 6.491}, {'end': 8970.688, 'text': "but often it's the things that help others that give us meaning and a feeling of satisfaction.", 'start': 8963.941, 'duration': 6.747}, {'end': 8973.11, 'text': 'You taught someone to read.', 'start': 8971.749, 'duration': 1.361}, {'end': 8975.873, 'text': 'You cared for someone who was terminally ill.', 'start': 8973.611, 'duration': 2.262}, {'end': 8978.555, 'text': 'You brought up a nice family.', 'start': 8976.754, 'duration': 1.801}, {'end': 8979.877, 'text': 'You brought up your kids.', 'start': 8978.876, 'duration': 1.001}], 'summary': 'Encouraging questions and finding meaning in personal goals and helping others.', 'duration': 117.833, 'max_score': 8862.044, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/WxfA1OSev4c/pics/WxfA1OSev4c8862044.jpg'}, {'end': 9117.175, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 9092.458, 'weight': 8, 'content': [{'end': 9103.004, 'text': 'in terms of the richness of our thoughts, the degree to which we can explore the universe, do experiments, build machines, understand our origins.', 'start': 9092.458, 'duration': 10.546}, {'end': 9110.609, 'text': "And I just hope that we use science for good, not evil, and that we don't end up destroying ourselves.", 'start': 9103.065, 'duration': 7.544}, {'end': 9113.251, 'text': 'I mean, the whales and dolphins are plenty intelligent.', 'start': 9110.629, 'duration': 2.622}, {'end': 9117.175, 'text': 'ask abstract questions.', 'start': 9115.914, 'duration': 1.261}], 'summary': 'Urges using science for good, not evil, to explore universe and prevent self-destruction.', 'duration': 24.717, 'max_score': 9092.458, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/WxfA1OSev4c/pics/WxfA1OSev4c9092458.jpg'}, {'end': 9240.369, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 9213.847, 'weight': 6, 'content': [{'end': 9219.992, 'text': 'And that to me leads to the idea of a multiverse, that the dice were thrown many, many times.', 'start': 9213.847, 'duration': 6.145}, {'end': 9228.199, 'text': "and there's this cosmic archipelago where most of the universes are boring and some might be more interesting, but we are in the rare breed.", 'start': 9219.992, 'duration': 8.207}, {'end': 9231.542, 'text': "that's really quite darn interesting.", 'start': 9228.199, 'duration': 3.343}, {'end': 9236.326, 'text': "And if there were only one and maybe there is only one, well then that's truly amazing.", 'start': 9231.642, 'duration': 4.684}, {'end': 9237.446, 'text': "We're lucky.", 'start': 9236.946, 'duration': 0.5}, {'end': 9240.369, 'text': "We're lucky, but I actually think there are lots and lots.", 'start': 9237.867, 'duration': 2.502}], 'summary': "The concept of a multiverse suggests multiple universes, with ours being rare and interesting. it's quite intriguing and lucky.", 'duration': 26.522, 'max_score': 9213.847, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/WxfA1OSev4c/pics/WxfA1OSev4c9213847.jpg'}, {'end': 9338.569, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 9319.541, 'weight': 5, 'content': [{'end': 9331.265, 'text': 'The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars.', 'start': 9319.541, 'duration': 11.724}, {'end': 9334.393, 'text': 'We are made of star stuff.', 'start': 9332.266, 'duration': 2.127}, {'end': 9338.569, 'text': 'Thank you for listening and hope to see you next time.', 'start': 9335.939, 'duration': 2.63}], 'summary': 'We are made of star stuff, as the elements in our bodies were created in collapsing stars.', 'duration': 19.028, 'max_score': 9319.541, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/WxfA1OSev4c/pics/WxfA1OSev4c9319541.jpg'}], 'start': 7545.414, 'title': 'Supernovae and cosmic origins', 'summary': 'Discusses the significance of type ia supernovae in measuring distances in galaxies, the thermonuclear runaway process in white dwarf stars, and the cosmic origin of elements in our dna, as well as the inspirational stories of astrophysicists subramanian chandrasekhar and alex filippenko.', 'chapters': [{'end': 7895.986, 'start': 7545.414, 'title': 'Supernova and accelerating universe', 'summary': 'Discusses the significance of supernovae in the universe, particularly type ia supernovae, and their role in measuring distances in galaxies, as well as highlights the inspirational story of subramanian chandrasekhar and his contribution to astrophysics.', 'duration': 350.572, 'highlights': ['Type Ia supernovae play a crucial role in measuring distances in galaxies, enabling the study of the expansion and history of the universe.', 'The Chandrasekhar limit, approximately 1.5 times the mass of our Sun, is named after Subramanian Chandrasekhar, who made this significant discovery at a young age and later won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984.', 'Supernovae are essential for the synthesis of heavy elements through nuclear reactions, which are then ejected into the cosmos, providing raw materials for new stars, planets, and life.', "Arthur Eddington, a great astrophysicist, ridiculed Chandrasekhar's work, but Chandrasekhar persevered and continued his research, serving as an inspirational story for young scientists.", 'The unsung heroes, such as Chandrasekhar, who made significant contributions to science, are often overlooked in favor of more prominent figures like kings and performers.']}, {'end': 8221.734, 'start': 7896.606, 'title': 'Thermonuclear runaway in white dwarf stars', 'summary': 'Discusses the thermonuclear runaway process in white dwarf stars, the variability of type ia supernovae, the need for calibration in using type ia supernovae as standard candles, and the potential threat of nearby supernovae.', 'duration': 325.128, 'highlights': ['The energy from fusion reactions in a white dwarf undergoing thermonuclear runaway goes into making nuclei move faster, leading to uncontrolled fusion, creating a supernova. The energy from fusion reactions in a white dwarf undergoing thermonuclear runaway goes into making nuclei move faster, leading to uncontrolled fusion, creating a supernova.', 'Type Ia supernovae exhibit variability, with intrinsically more powerful ones declining and rising in brightness more slowly than less luminous ones, making calibration essential for cosmological use. Type Ia supernovae exhibit variability, with intrinsically more powerful ones declining and rising in brightness more slowly than less luminous ones, making calibration essential for cosmological use.', 'The need for calibrating Type Ia supernovae to decrease uncertainties and make them cosmologically useful is emphasized, with thousands of Type Ia supernovae available for data. The need for calibrating Type Ia supernovae to decrease uncertainties and make them cosmologically useful is emphasized, with thousands of Type Ia supernovae available for data.', 'The potential threat of nearby supernovae is discussed, with the assurance that most cases would not pose an existential threat due to the vast size of the galaxy. The potential threat of nearby supernovae is discussed, with the assurance that most cases would not pose an existential threat due to the vast size of the galaxy.']}, {'end': 8754.927, 'start': 8221.963, 'title': 'The story of our cosmic origins', 'summary': 'Explores the cosmic origin of elements in our dna, emphasizing their birth from nuclear reactions in stars and the role of supernovae in enriching the cosmos, leading to the formation of our solar system and life on earth, while also reflecting on the influence of physicist richard feynman.', 'duration': 532.964, 'highlights': ['The elements in our DNA, such as carbon, oxygen, and phosphorus, came from stars through nuclear reactions, enriching the cosmos and leading to the formation of our solar system and life on Earth. ', 'The role of supernovae in enriching the cosmos by ejecting heavy elements, essential for the production of new stars, planets, and life. ', 'Reflections on the influence of physicist Richard Feynman, emphasizing his intuitive understanding of nature and his ability to explain complex scientific concepts in a simple way. ']}, {'end': 9338.569, 'start': 8754.987, 'title': 'Alex filippenko: on teaching, meaning of life, and universe', 'summary': 'Highlights the importance of encouraging questions, finding personal meaning, and the potential of human intelligence in exploring the universe, emphasizing the rarity and significance of our existence in the multiverse.', 'duration': 583.582, 'highlights': ['The rarity and significance of human existence in the multiverse, emphasizing the potential for meaning and satisfaction in personal accomplishments. Emphasizes the rarity and significance of human existence in the multiverse, highlighting the potential for meaning and satisfaction in personal accomplishments.', 'The importance of encouraging questions and curiosity in education, reflected through personal experiences with Feynman and the impact of being open to asking questions. Stresses the importance of encouraging questions and curiosity in education, illustrated through personal experiences with Feynman and the impact of being open to asking questions.', 'The potential of human intelligence in exploring the universe and the hope for using science for good, not evil, while reflecting on the significance of understanding and exploring the universe. Reflects on the potential of human intelligence in exploring the universe and emphasizes the hope for using science for good, not evil, while highlighting the significance of understanding and exploring the universe.']}], 'duration': 1793.155, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/WxfA1OSev4c/pics/WxfA1OSev4c7545414.jpg', 'highlights': ['Type Ia supernovae enable the study of the expansion and history of the universe.', "Chandrasekhar's perseverance serves as an inspirational story for young scientists.", 'Supernovae are essential for the synthesis of heavy elements, providing raw materials for new stars, planets, and life.', 'The energy from fusion reactions in a white dwarf undergoing thermonuclear runaway leads to uncontrolled fusion, creating a supernova.', 'Calibration of Type Ia supernovae is essential for cosmological use, with thousands available for data.', 'The elements in our DNA came from stars through nuclear reactions, enriching the cosmos and leading to the formation of our solar system and life on Earth.', 'The rarity and significance of human existence in the multiverse, emphasizing the potential for meaning and satisfaction in personal accomplishments.', 'Encouraging questions and curiosity in education is important, illustrated through personal experiences with Feynman and the impact of being open to asking questions.', 'The potential of human intelligence in exploring the universe and the hope for using science for good, not evil, while reflecting on the significance of understanding and exploring the universe.']}], 'highlights': ["Alex Filipenko led the discovery of the universe's acceleration and dark energy, resulting in the 2011 NOBA Prize for Physics.", "The universe's expansion may be perpetually driven by dark energy, suggesting a continuous acceleration.", 'The potential scarcity of intelligent life in our galaxy suggests the rarity of intelligent life in the observable universe.', 'The significance of Type Ia supernovae in measuring the expansion and history of the universe.', 'The unintentional broadcasting of our presence has been ongoing for 100 years through radio and TV.', 'The Nobel Prize has a psychological impact on scientists, providing recognition, funding, and inspiration.']}