TED Talks Discussion Thread

[Frith is Magick 1,471]

Welcome to the Ted Talks Discussion Thread. For those of you who don't know, TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. They are short videos (5-20 minutes) about various interesting topics. Every few days I will post a new video for discussion. How often I post a new video will depend on how the discussion is going.

 

The Rules:

1) Keep discussion civil. I want to spark discussion, which will naturally entail some disagreement. I want the discussions to be more open with different ideas being brought forward and discussed, which is why this is not in the Debate Pit, which tends to be more polar in nature.

 

2) No posting videos for discussion. If there is a video you want discussed, send me a PM and I will add it to a playlist. This is for the sake of organization and flow of discussion. I want there to be time to fully cover a topic before moving on

 

3) Keep the discussion relevant to the most recent video. I will try to allow enough time for everyone to have a good discussion, but it throws off the conversation if you randomly post something from a few videos ago. 

 

3.5) If you're going to comment, watch the video. This probably goes without saying, but it seems silly to discuss a topic if you don't know what the topic is.

 

I will likely keep a list on this post of videos that have already shown, that way we can avoid repeats.

 

Here is the video for the first round of discussion,

 

Well, I must say this video is very intense. I love how life as we know it is such a close call, the dice of the universe aligning as they did. All I can say is that this video merits a full viewing.

 

Further comments to be posted later.

Edited January 27, 2014 by Frith is Magik

[Frith is Magick 1,471]

I don't know about the rest of you, but I found this video amazing to watch. I was a bit of a physics nerd back in high school, so this kind of thing is pretty cool. The very structure of the universe,and the existence of life to ponder these things, is the result of countless rolls of countless dice. The fact that the Higg's boson, such a tiny particle which was only recently confirmed, has just the exact properties to allow everything we know to exist. Are there any believers in multiverse theory out there? Who here thinks it is possible that there were other universes where a tiny difference in a tiny particle could have resulted in...nothing?