Definitely recommend watching this straight-forward entertaining talk on near future Physics by Nima Arkani-Hamed – Institute for Advanced study. Covering off on things that may be experimentally proven thanks to the L.H.C. (Large Hadron Collider)

The public online lecture is here.

What will the L.H.C. experimentally show us -> A new space/time? Quantum Gravity? A Multi-verse? I am hoping for Multiverses. Telescopes can explore our universe, but we’ll need new multiverse-scopes to look into different universes. Cool.

He briefly mentioned how the Heisenberg uncertainty principle is mis-used in alot of popular new agey books. I have read a few books mentioning how it is possible (thanks to physics) that if you hit your hand against a desk it might one time spontaneously go through it. This lecture mentions the odds actually being about .0000000000000000000000000000001 (10 to the -10 to the 30) for large objects like us. For very small objects like electricity the odds go way up to provide reality stability, transistors, the internet…

Or the question ‘What happened before the Big bang?’. Might be a language trap question, since space/time didn’t exist ‘before’ the big bang, time reference dependant words like ’before’ can’t be used in the question.

Plus he mentions a few times how our language will need to expand/grow to cover off on the new areas being explored. Always a fan of new language human-concept growth. It seems a trend that folks keeping current with esoteric and metphysical teachings also keep current with theoretical physics.

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