The Connected Universe | Nassim Haramein | TEDxUCSD

imagine that reality may not be exactly what you think it is maybe the world around you all the atoms you see all the material world and yourself maybe as part of something bigger something different something you don't necessarily experience every moment of your life maybe the vacuum or the space around it is not just empty but full of energy full of information and actually the material world the reality you call real is actually part of this space today I'm going to talk to you about this I'm going to talk to you about how space is actually not empty and that it's full of energy and that the energy in space is not trivial there's a lot of it and we can actually calculate how much energy there is in that space and that reality might actually come out of it that everything we see is actually emerging from that space when I was younger it was really difficult for me I was extremely dyslexic and that's cool I didn't fit in at all so I was feeling very separate very isolated I had a strange name a strange color of skin and so on and it was really hard but when I went in nature I felt that connectivity when I went in nature I felt that communion with nature I felt like when I looked at nature that there was some kind of pattern that connected all the things together like the branches of a tree the root of a tree the flower is their petals and all the different details that you can see on a flower I felt like they must be some fundamental pattern at the root of creation that was present to produce all of this organization and I was determined I was going to find it and so I wanted to feel this unification with the world the unification I felt with nature I felt like we should be able to understand it to express it but when I start to study physics and mathematics and all this stuff I realized that our physics are not unified that we have physics for the big stuff cosmology for like stars and galaxies and all this stuff that describes the gravitational field in a certain way very smoothly and on the other side we have quantum theory that actually describes a very small stuff the molecules and the atoms and the subatomic particles and that describes it as very distinct little quantities of energy very distinct discrete quantities that is not smooth and the two don't agree but we know that the big star is made out of the small stuff so they must be something that connects the two there must be a way to understand the whole thing with one fundamental theory and I start to drill into the physics to try to find it and so I look at galaxies and of course they are made out of stars and and molecules are made out of atoms and so I kept on drilling and sure you know stars and black holes exist in galaxies stellar black holes and so on and supergalactik black hole and at the quantum level there's the nuclei of the atom and subatomic particle and when we drill really down to it we find that all this is bathing at the quantum level into a field that we call the quantum vacuum fluctuation that is an electromagnetic field that's fluctuating extremely intense ly at the very very fine-grain and when I look at black holes I realize that when we solve the equations for black holes they actually are going towards infinity within the center part that's called a singularity and the two looked really similar that is the vacuum energy density at the quantum level goes towards infinity and so is the middle of a black hole and I thought oh maybe that's the connected bling maybe that's how they connect the plunk density the Planck length the Planck length is the smallest oscillation of the electromagnetic field and it's present in both so I thought maybe that's the connecting name how small is that Planck length how small is this electromagnetic fluctuation well let me say that you're made out of a hundred trillion cell ok fifty two hundred trillion cell so that gives you an idea of scales right away right so that's the amount of cells in your body and each one of these cell is made about 100 trillion atoms okay so already it's pretty tiny at the atomic level right and then if I took one of these at home and I made it the Dome of the raw I'm sorry the Dome of the Vatican well the nuclear of that atom the proton in the middle would be the size of the head of a pin okay so that's really teeny if I grew the planck little oscillators so that was the size of a grain of sand then the proton would be the size from our Sun to Alpha Centauri which is about 40 trillion kilometer okay so that's how small the plunk is so of course you're not experiencing it when you're moving around when you're you know even in X you know in laboratory and so on we're not detecting it directly right in fact when we talk about the plunk energy of the plunk we talk about it in terms of vacuum density vacuum fluctuation we call it space so the space that we call space is actually full of this energy and when we actually talk about the stuff in the space the material world the atoms we find that those things are 90 nine point nine nine nine nine nine nine nine percent space themselves so your reality all the chairs you're walking sitting on and you know your body even is made of mostly space and just a little bit of electromagnetic fluctuations that we call the material world in it so maybe it's not the material world that defines the space but the space that defines the material world think about that imagine if you think of how much of these teeny little plunk fit in a centimeter cube of space you're going to get the Planck density so if you calculate that you find that you can put a lot of little planks in there so the result is 10 to the 93 grams per centimeter cube that's a huge number 10 with 93 zeroes it's big to give you an idea if I took all the stars in the universe and I stuck them into a centimeter cube of space the density of that cube would be 10 to the 55 gram I would be 39 orders of magnitude still shy of the vacuum density at the quantum level how incredible is that right and that's the stuff we call space right that we think of it as empty so if that's true I mean it's significant and certainly many of the greatest scientists in history thought it was wheeler a collaborator to Einstein for instance said no point is more central than this that empty space is not empty it's the seat of some of the most violent physics of course you got all that incredible density of energy Einstein said physical objects are not in space but these objects are spatially extended an object being the result of space in this way the concept of empty space loses its meaning so some of the greatest thinkers thought that this discovery of this energy in the vacuum was really significant but in general it was ignored for almost a hundred and some years because the number is so massive guy was intimidating to this to the physics community well is this just a bunch of physicists losing their mind and difficult like getting lost in the equations and all this actually not can we measure this stuff we can the Casimir effect has been demonstrated now we can show that the vacuum density in laboratory is really there that the that plates can be pushed together by using the vacuum and in fact we are now able with the dynamical Casimir effect to extract photons directly out of the vacuum we are able to extract energy directly out of what we thought of as empty so it's really really there so I start to use this and this took me like 25 years or 30 years so it took a little while but I started and and I can't believe how simple the solution is but I start to realize what if I could just um take this plunk energy and describe cosmological objects with it so I took a black hole cygnus x-1 is a well known black hole and I tiled the whole surface with plunks this is called a holographic principle in physics and accepted concept in current physics but the difference is that I thought what about the volume what about how much information because you can think of the little plunks as little bits of information how much information is inside that volume and I counted how many plunks are inside that volume there's a lot of them 10 to the 18 118 it's a big number all right and then I made a ratio surface to volume ratio between the two to express the energy of the system and the result was the exact mass of the black hole the exact gravitation of that black hole it was the exact same solution that I could get from Einstein fill equation describing gravity but I was doing it with little plunk fluctuation of the quantum world all of a sudden had quantum gravity I had the quantum world expressing gravitation at the cosmological level and the equation was beautiful and elegant was very simple and so I thought oh well can I apply that to the atomic structure can I apply that to the nuclear of an atom so I took a proton and I started to count how many of these little plants are inside the volume of that proton and I found that it was the exact mass of the universe that is there's enough information terms of plunk inside a teeny proton for all the other protons to be expressed in one of them a truly holographic world in which the proton is entangled with all the other protons the whole thing is talking and we know in laboratories that particles can be entangled that you can move this particle over here and it changes a particle on the other side of the universe so it wasn't that outrageous to think and so I was like blown away think about this think about all the protons that makes up your body you know some of the Masters said that look within and you will have all the information maybe they meant it right and so in any case I took this solution and I did the same thing I did a surface to volume ratio of the little proton and sure enough the solution the result was exactly the mass the proton are very very very close to the master proton that we measure in laboratory I was with in point zero zero one two but I thought why isn't it not exactly I mean it was - ah it was already remarkable like I was using numbers like the mass of the universe that was outputting a number for a teeny proton at 10 to the minus 24 grams but I was doing exact where for black holes it was exact and then I realized that the rate the radius of a proton is not so well measured the masses measured but not the radius and so I flip the equations around and I was able to make a prediction of the radius of the proton and so I published this in a paper in 2012 and a few months later in 2013 an experiment an accelerator in Switzerland was able to measure the radius of the proton more precisely than ever before and the result was now within point zero zero zero three six of my predicted value I was so close in fact my predicted value is inside the margin of error of the experiment of a one standard deviation from the experiment so actually my theoretical value might be exact and the experiment is actually getting close to it but this but the standard model is off by 4% and although the 4% might not sound like much it creates a lot of problem in quantum theory and so that's why you've seen like maybe the the magazine covers you know talking about the proton teeny particle big problem the humble proton is nothing like we expected no kidding if I'm correct it's like completely different right and you know the problem with the proton could scientists been seeing signs of a whole new realm of physics maybe and these physics may have to do with this vacuum energy that produces our reality I mean it's really remarkable and so you know this leads to really incredible technological developments it's not just a whole bunch of theory if we understand that gravity is actually emerging from that field at the foundation of quantum theory we can start using electromagnetic field to like interact with that energy for instance this technology that just came out a few years ago actually it's been there for 10 years but finally NASA Anala did an analysis a few a few months ago on it and show that the this drive is actually not exposing anything it's just balancing electromagnetic fields in a conic can and it's producing trust it's pushing literally against the vacuum structure we have experiments in Finland's where the we're able to get gravitational pulse to occur gravitational beam to occur so that we can beam a gravitational wave across a kilometer point to of distance and calculate how fast it propagates and it propagates a sixty-four times the speed of light okay this is the kind of stuff that's emerging the physics of our world is changing and we are starting to be able to understand gravity has a whole new level imagine how much change has happened in our society over the years as a result of us mastering the electromagnetic field right we got electricity and we've ran our whole civilization out of that now imagine that all of a sudden we understand gravity at its most fundamental level and master the use of it the control of it all of a sudden our civilization changes fundamentally it changes at the very very profound level we'll be able to go to space or cessation we'll be able to get off the surface of our planet we'll be able to be space bound I have colonies have access to almost an infinite amount of resources everything is going to change dramatically if we understand gravity at that level and we start to understand how to control it so that we can transcend the limitation of our civilization today and actually resolve some of the largest ecological problems that we face imagine if we could extract just a few billions of a percent of the energy that's there we could run our civilization for thousands and thousands of years so thank you very much for your attention you

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Length: 18min 4sec (1084 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 24 2016

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[u/AceCubensis]

This video should be the leading entry video to this subreddit rather than the current one

Currently it's 3rd on the list, but this has almost the same information yet it's far less cringy

[u/weareonewithall]

I adore him. His theory is so beautiful..I know in my soul he's right. Such a beautiful man

[u/Cdubscdubs]

This is fantastic.... I love Nassim Haramein