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- I want to tell you about the universe.

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What it is, how it came to be,

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what its building blocks are.

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I want to tell you how the
future creates the past,

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which then creates the future.

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But first, I want to
tell you about crystals.

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You might be surprised
to know that a crystal

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isn't an expensive piece of glass

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or a chandelier in some fancy dining room.

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The word crystal simply means
a pattern that is periodic.

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Look at this checkerboard pattern.

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See how it continues to spread out

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infinitely in each direction?

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That means it's a periodic pattern.

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So that's a two-dimensional crystal.

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This is another two-dimensional crystal.

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This is another.

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You can also have
three-dimensional crystals.

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By the way, this 3D glass
is called crystal because

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its atoms are actually arranged
in a crystalline pattern.

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So, see how I'm projecting
this three-dimensional crystal

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to a two-dimensional image on the sand?

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See how the 2D projection looks distorted

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because of the angle of the projection?

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That 2D image also has a pattern

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but it isn't periodic
so it's not a crystal.

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But there's a deep connection
between the 2D object

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on the sand and the 3D mother crystal.

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This distorted 2D pattern
is called a quasicrystal.

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A quasicrystal in a certain
dimension, in this case, 2D,

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is a projection of a crystal
in a higher dimension,

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in this case, 3D.

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A group of physicists in
Los Angeles is working

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on a new physics theory where
a particular 8D crystal,

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yep, that's right, an
eight-dimensional crystal,

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is projecting to 4D at
a very particular angle

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which forms a 4D quasicrystal
and from this 4D quasicrystal,

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they derive a 3D quasicrystal,
which they believe

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is the fundamental
substructure of all of reality.

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This 3D quasicrystal has a
fundamental building block,

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a tetrahedron, which
is a three-dimensional

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equilateral triangle.

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The size of each edge on
this shape is the smallest

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possible length that can exist.

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This is called the Planck length.

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It's 10 to the 35 times
smaller than a meter.

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So you know how your TV
screen is broken down

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into building blocks called pixels?

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A pixel is the smallest
possible indivisible unit

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of the 2D screen, so think
of reality as your TV screen

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but in 3D and think of the
tetrahedron as a 3D pixel,

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the smallest possible
indivisible unit of reality.

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The tetrahedra in the
quasicrystal combine with other

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tetrahedra using complex
mathematical rules

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to fill up all of the
space in the universe.

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Each tetrahedron only
has a few specific states

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in which it can exist at any given moment.

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And because of the rules
of how these pixels connect

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to each other, if one tetrahedron
is in a certain state,

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this dictates the states of many other

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tetrahedra throughout all of space.

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But here's the weird thing.

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If a certain tetrahedron can be in any one

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of just a few possible
states in a given moment,

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who or what chooses the state

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it should be in at any given moment?

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Well, for such a choice to be made,

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we need to scientifically,
mathematically, and logically

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bring in a new element into physics.

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And that element is consciousness.

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If you're not a scientist,
you might be surprised

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to learn that nobody actually knows

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the exact value of the speed of light.

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We have a close approximation,
but not the exact value.

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The closest we can get to measuring it

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has to do with the
precision of our machines,

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but no matter how
precise our machines get,

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we will never be able to
measure the exact speed of light

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without a theory that tells
us what it is and why it is,

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and none of the current
physics theories do that.

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- [Woman] Oh look, Professor
Einstein, you look so cute!

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- [Einstein] Do I look pretty here?

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- Yes, yes.
- No wait,

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that's my bad side, what if I go?

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- Yes, that is good.
- What if I stick out

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my tongue like this?

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- Good!
- Uh-oh.

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- Our best physics theories,
Einstein's Theory of Relativity

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and Quantum Mechanics both use

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the speed of light as a starting point.

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In other words, they use
an inexact measurement

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of the speed of light
without explaining why it is,

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what it is, or why the universe even has

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a speed limit in the first place.

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We need a new theory.

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And such a theory is what the
physicists and mathematicians

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of Quantum Gravity Research
in Los Angeles are working on.

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They call it emergence theory and it will,

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really for the first time ever,

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provide an explanation
for the speed of light

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and the other constants,
such as Planck's constant

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and the fine structure content.

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Basically what is needed
is a theory of everything,

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a theory that explains the very

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fundamental aspects of reality.

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String theory, which once
held a lot of promise

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for possibly being a successful
theory of everything,

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has not made any successful
predictions and regardless

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of predictions, the theory
itself isn't actually a theory

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of everything, it's just
not, because it can't explain

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the speed of light or the other constants.

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Quantum mechanics and general
relativity, on the other hand,

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do make good predictions,
but they don't explain

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the fundamental constants either.

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- [Man] Professor Einstein,
why does the speed of light

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have the exact value that it does?

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- [Einstein] Well, to put
it plainly, well, security!

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- So what clues does nature offer us

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for what a theory of
everything should look like?

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We've identified seven.

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Information, causality
loops, non-determinism,

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consciousness, pixelation, E8
crystal, and the golden ratio.

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A growing number of physicists are saying

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reality is made of information.

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What does that even mean?

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Well, information is meaning
in the form of symbolism.

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A language or code provide this kind

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of information conveying symbolism.

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A very different type of symbol

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is one that represents itself.

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Geometric symbols can do that.

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A cube can represent love,
if we say it does, or it can

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represent, really, with
minimal subjectivity, itself.

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Could there be a language or
code made out of geometry?

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What type of information
would such a language express?

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Quantum physics theory
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indicate that reality
is made of information

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and there is no evidence
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of anything other than information.

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Many physicists agree
with this and many don't.

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But those that don't
agree that reality is made

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of information have no
explanation for what reality is.

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If it's not information. Gentlemen?

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- [Man] Reality is made of information.

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- [Man] Nope.

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- [Man] Yes, it is made of information.

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- No.
- Okay, so what is it

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made of, if not information?

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- Energy.
- Energy is information!

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- That's stupid.
- Energy is the potential

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for a particle to change its position.

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Potential is information,
energy is information!

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- Nope.
- It's information!

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- Mm-mm.
- Then what is it?

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- Not information.
- Then what is it?

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- [Man] Not information!

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- Reality is geometric.

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A geometric language in the
form of geometric symbolism,

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the type of symbols that
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might explain how a geometric reality

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can be made of pure information.

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Information implies meaning,
but what is meaning?

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Meaning is a comparison,
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but we do it so fast, we
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we look at something and
we match it to something

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from our database, we
say, that is a crosswalk,

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that is a building, not a
crosswalk, that is a window,

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not a building, so meaning is
the perception of something

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relative to something
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is subjective and requires choice.

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Can we get some dramatic music here?

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(dramatic music)

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Because meaning is subjective,
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it needs to be perceived or measured

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by some form of consciousness.

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Einstein showed how
the past and the future

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exist simultaneously in
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So all time exists all the time.

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Let me say that again, all
time exists all the time.

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I know that sounds kind
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but we have to kind of
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and accept that mathematically,
and according to the best

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physics formulas we have,
that actually makes sense.

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So, let's visualize the geometric object

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that Einstein spoke about as a block.

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Remember the tetrahedra,
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pixels of reality I told you about?

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Now imagine the entire
universe, everything,

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everywhere, in one frozen moment in time.

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Like a single frame in a
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all of reality everywhere appears

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frozen in this one position.

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Let me give you an analogy.

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In a movie shot on 35 millimeter film,

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there are 24 frames a second.

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There's no actual movement in a movie,

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there is just a sequence of frozen frames.

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Now remember how I told
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of space, which is the
smallest length possible?

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Well there is also a Planck length of time

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and it is much shorter
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In fact, it's 10 to the 44
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Okay, so back to our
frozen frame of reality.

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The entire universe in one
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but instead of a frame in a movie,

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it's a frame in all of reality.

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Now, imagine the next frame.

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Each frame is different
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just like in a movie.

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See how all frames exist in Einstein's

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space-time all at once?

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Okay, now here's where things
get really really weird.

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We assume that the past
influences the future.

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That's how we appear
to experience reality.

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But when you look at this block,

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why would one side be the past
and one side be the future?

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Why go left to right
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Why can't the future influence the past?

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Take away the names past and future

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if that helps you think of this concept.

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So what if the past influences
the future and the future

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influences the past in
an endless feedback loop?

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So then the question is,
which part of the past

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is influencing which part of
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and the answer is all
time is affecting all time

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all the time.
- Oy vey, I need a drink.

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- Is this even possible?

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Can me 20 years from now influence me now

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just as I influence her?

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So can me five minutes from now
influence me 10 minutes ago,

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just as me 10 minutes ago
influences me as a baby,

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just as me as a baby
influences me on my deathbed?

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This is too weird to even grasp.

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But everything we know
says this is the way it is.

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Am I stoned?

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Okay, so if every moment is
co-creating every other moment,

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both forward and backward in
time, then reality would be

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this massive neural network
spanning space and time.

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This type of network would
have one even way stranger

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quality than anything
we've talked about so far,

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it would be its own creator.

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But the fact that all
time exists all the time

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does not mean that the
future is written in stone

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and we're some kind of programmed
animation or something.

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(cheerful music)

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That's what they used to believe, though.

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Years ago, it was popular to believe

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in the somewhat bummer
idea of reality being

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a deterministic program
playing itself out.

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The famous double slit
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Look it up if you've never
heard of it, it's wild

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and is one of the cornerstones
of modern physics.

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But for now, take my word for
it, it ruled out determinism

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and ushered in a new
era of non-determinism,

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or basically, free will.

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So how does free will work?

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One of the most surprising
discoveries of quantum physics

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is that reality only
exists when it is observed,

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that literally particles do not exist

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until they are observed.

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Famous physicist John Wheeler,
he's the guy who came up

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with the term black
hole, says that reality

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is made of information, which
is created by observation.

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The observation must be made, he says,

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by something conscious.

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And Nobel prize winner Frank Wilczek said

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that quantum theory is
contentious and obscure,

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and that it will remain that
way until someone constructs,

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within the formalism of
quantum mechanics, an observer,

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a model entity whose states correspond

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to a recognizable caricature
of conscious awareness.

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An entity, an observer, so
Frank Wilczek is basically

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talking about an entity, not
necessarily a human being

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or an animal that is capable of generating

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information by observing and measuring.

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But what would that conscious entity be?

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Well we definitely know
that consciousness exists

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in the universe, I mean, at
least in us humans, right?

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I mean, I'm conscious, you're
conscious, he's conscious,

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I think.
- I'm conscious!

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(cheering)

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- Consciousness relates deeply to physics

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in ways not yet fully understood.

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In fact, consciousness is
kind of like one of the least

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understood things in all of science.

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Nobody knows exactly what it is.

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Weird, right?

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So if reality is pure
information, if everything,

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energy, matter, thought,
if it's all information,

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then it becomes clear
that reality deeply ties

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into consciousness in some
way, as if the fundamental

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stuff of reality is somehow consciousness.

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Did consciousness and
information somehow emerge

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in a causality feedback loop?

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German physicist Werner
Heisenberg developed the first

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equations of quantum mechanics using

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a type of math called matrix theory.

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He deduced that space
and time were pixelated

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into indivisible three-dimensional
Planck-length units

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just like the two-dimensional pixels

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on your computer screen.
- It's good to be made of pixels.

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The mathematics indicated this.
- Mathematics!

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I love mathematics!

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- Your pizza, professor!
- And pizza,

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oh, I love pizza,
especially pixelated pizza.

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- [Marion] And interestingly,
there was no solid

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experimental evidence for smooth,

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in other words, not pixelated, space-time.

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- [Werner] Mm, pizza.

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(crowd shouting) We are NOT PIXELATED!!!

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- [Einstein] We are not pixelated!

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- Yes, you are, morons.
- Your mother is pixelated!

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- Space is smooth.
- There's no evidence of that,

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and the mathematics show it is pixelated,

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so it must be pixelated.
- Well that's interesting,

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bullshit.
- It must be pixelated!

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- [Einstein] Bullshit,
bullshit, bullshit, bullshit!

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- [Marion] On the other
hand, most scientists agree

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that a length can be no
shorter than Planck length,

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which suggests reality is pixelated.

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- [Einstein] There is no length shorter

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than the Planck length.
- That means reality

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is pixelated.
- I'm not pixelated,

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I'm not!
- Dude,

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you're kind of being a little
like one of those people

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who deny evolution
because they can't handle

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the fact their ancestors were monkeys.

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Are you a monkey, huh,
are you a little monkey?

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- We believe that until
a quantum gravity theory

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of pixelated space-time is discovered,

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the issue will remain
confusing for everyone.

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What type of geometric code would describe

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a pixelated reality?

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80 years of smashing
particles together in particle

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accelerators such as the
famous large Hadron collider

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in Geneva have given us a strange clue,

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that all the fundamental
particles and forces

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convert into one another,
like they literally transform

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from one to the other
according to a process

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called gauge symmetry transformation,

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and all of these conversions
correspond to a shape,

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and not just any shape, an
eight-dimensional shape.

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Now this shape forms a crystal.

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Now remember crystals
are periodic patterns

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of a certain shape, like that checkerboard

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is a 2D crystal made up of squares,

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so this crystal is of a
particular eight-dimensional shape

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and this crystal is
known as the E8 Lattice.

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(jazzy music)

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To generate that 3D quasicrystal,

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the substructure at the
pixelated fabric of reality,

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we project this 8D crystal to 4D.

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And then we convert that to 3D.

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Now, just like the basic cell
shape of the 3D cubic lattice

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is the cube, the cell
shape of the E8 lattice

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is an 8D shape with 240 vertices.

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We call it the gosset polytope.

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When the gosset polytope
is projected to 4D,

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it becomes two identical
shapes of different sizes.

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The ratio of their sizes
is a unique number, 0.618,

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also known as the golden ratio.

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(explosion)

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The golden ratio may be the
fundamental constant of nature.

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It is a ratio that is
fundamental to circumscribed

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equilateral triangles and
it's weirdly ubiquitous

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in the universe, appearing everywhere

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from the quantum to celestial scales.

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Ever so interestingly, it
appears in black holes.

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- [Einstein] I don't want
to fly into a black hole!

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I wish I never theorized your existence!

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(burps)

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- Okay, let's get serious for a second.

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Here are three quick facts
for you science heads.

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The golden ratio is the precise
point where a black hole's

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modified specific heat changes
from positive to negative

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and it is part of the equation

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for the lower bound on black hole entropy.

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The golden ratio even relates
the loop quantum gravity

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parameter to black hole entropy.

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Why does this support the
claim that the golden ratio

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is the fundamental constant of nature?

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Because a theory of everything must unite

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general relativity with quantum
mechanics and a black hole

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is where these two theories
converge at their limits.

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Okay, so bear with me through
some really weird math

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right now and I'll reward
you with some amazing footage

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of John Malkovich getting
a pie in the face.

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There's a type of mathematics
called matrix mathematics.

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No, not that type of matrix.

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(upbeat music)

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Matrix math is the type of math

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that quantum physics uses in its formulas.

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Without getting too technical,

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this is an example of a matrix.

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A matrix is just a group of numbers

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that are arranged in columns in rows.

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And there's a certain
amount of combinations

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for these numbers inside the matrix,

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like if a matrix has
four numbers inside it,

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there are 24 different
possible combinations

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for those four numbers.

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Quantum mechanics uses
matrices that are binary,

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so they only contain various
combinations of two numbers.

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Each of these combinations
of numbers has a value.

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It's called an eigenvalue.

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Some eigenvalues are called trivial.

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These are values like one, two, and zero.

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And some are called non-trivial,

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and those are all sorts of
more complex-looking numbers,

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so here's the interesting part.

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Where's that interesting part?

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Oh yes, here, the highest
probability non-trivial

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eigenvalues that show up
in binary matrices are,

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ready for this?

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The golden ratio and minus
one over the golden ratio.

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So we now see a deep
link between black holes

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and quantum mechanics
because the golden ratio

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appears deeply in both black hole physics

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and in quantum mechanics.

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Okay, good job bearing with
me, so here's your reward.

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John Malkovich getting a pie in the face.

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- No, I won't, no no,
But... I'm not John Malkovich.

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- Pie!

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The golden ratio appears
to startling accuracies

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in many other ways throughout the universe

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in scales both large and small.

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It is so prevalent that its existence

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simply cannot be looked
at as coincidental.

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In the past, the appearance of this ratio

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has usually been ignored by scientists

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because they had no way to
explain it, so interest in it

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was considered the stuff
of amateur scientists.

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But now, for the first time,
a rigorous quantum gravity

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theory is being developed which predicts

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the golden ratio's existence
literally everywhere.

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So what would a theory
of everything look like

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that answers these seven
clues we just presented?

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Information, causality
loops, non-determinism,

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consciousness, pixelation, E8
crystal, and the golden ratio.

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(KLEE) So we think reality is a
mosaic-like code or language

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at the smallest scale of reality possible

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which is called the Planck length.

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Particle accelerator data
tells us that all particles

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and forces relate to
one another according to

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a higher-dimensional crystal
called the E8 lattice.

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But reality appears to be
3D, so we project a slice

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of this E8 crystal down to 3D,

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which produces a
quasicrystal code or language

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and that allows these
geometric symbols to build up

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to the ordinary world of particles

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and forces that we see around us.

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Now this geometric language has rules

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but it also has syntactical
freedom like any language

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and that requires some notion of a chooser

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to choose the free steps in the language.

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Now, the notion of randomness
doesn't work so well

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when it comes to codes because
meaning starts to break down.

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Besides, there's no decent
experimental evidence

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for randomness in nature
in the first place.

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A universal collective
consciousness is one answer,

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but that sounds new age and religious.

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Nowadays, a good number of physicists

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discuss the idea that our
whole universe is actually

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a code-based simulation in
some fantastically powerful

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quantum computer in another universe.

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Now, if true, then by the same logic,

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that other universe,
where the computer running

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the simulation of our universe
is would also supposedly

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be a simulation in another universe,

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so the idea is a little shaky
but it's being discussed

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seriously by a lot of credible people.

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But it turns out that a
universal collective-like

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consciousness of some sort
may be physically inevitable.

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Now we don't need to
anthropomorphize this idea

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or make it religious or spiritual.

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To follow why, let us start with the idea

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of the collective behavior
of cells in your body,

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each a single-sized
microbe living its life.

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A long time ago, only
this sort of cellular

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life form existed here on earth.

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These little guys were not
too smart, but they did choose

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what direction to swim
and could chase nutrients,

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reproduce, and run from dangerous things.

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They made choices with
their very simple systems

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of environmental awareness
and desire to survive.

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Then they self-organized into
colonies that were smarter

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as a group and had more environmental

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awareness than the individuals.

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Eventually, animals
such as humans emerged.

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Sophisticated forms of
awareness and consciousness

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now float on an ocean of
37 trillion living cells,

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self-organized as a human being.

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It is specifically the laws of physics

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that caused electrons and
quarks to self-organize

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into 81 stable atoms and from there,

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into human consciousness, and
physics places no upper limit

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on the amount of energy and matter

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that can self-organize
into conscious systems.

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- Physics allows the
possibility of all the energy

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in the universe to eventually convert

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into a single conscious system
that is itself a network

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of other conscious systems, a massive,

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technologically-based
collective consciousness.

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Given enough time,
anything that can happen

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will eventually happen.

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By this axiom, this system
of universal consciousness

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has already emerged
somewhere in the frames

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of space-time ahead of us.

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Because it is possible, it is inevitable.

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In fact, according to the
evidence of retro-causality

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time loops, that inevitable
future is co-creating us

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right now, just as we are co-creating it.

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When humanity discovers
the theory of everything,

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it will usher in a new age of prosperity.

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For example, clean, cheap energy leading

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to the eventual elimination of poverty.

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As a nonprofit, Quantum Gravity Research

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relies on crowdfunding to
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Even a $5 donation is meaningful

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and moves this mission forward.

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