Name the three figures, living or dead, with whom you would most like to sit down to dinner. Though perhaps a little tired, the challenge still reveals something worth knowing about the respondent’s personality. If I know the personalities of Open Culture readers at all, I’d wager that more than a few of you would choose to set places at the table for Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, and Arthur C. Clarke. Anyone interested in asking the big, existential questions and understanding the science underneath them would have the time of their lives at such a meal, especially if astrophysically inclined. But until a genie grants you this wish, may we offer God, the Universe, and Everything Else?
Presented by Magnus Magnusson, longtime host of the BBC’s Mastermind, this program brings the three together to discuss “the Big Bang theory, God, our existence as well as the possibility of extraterrestrial life.” Hawking, of course, talks through his signature speech synthesizer, and Sagan joins up through a satellite link — beamed through, yes, the very sort of floating miracles of engineering that Clarke wrote about in his novels. With minds like these, you can rest assured that the conversation won’t stray far from what Sagan calls “the fundamental questions,” nor will it come untethered from established human knowledge and float into the realms of wild speculation and wishful thinking. And of course, in such conversations, a sense of humor like Hawking’s — a man who, not expected to reach age thirty, would nevertheless live to see more advancement in human knowledge than anyone else on the broadcast — never goes amiss.
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Colin Marshall hosts and produces Notebook on Cities and Culture and writes essays on literature, film, cities, Asia, and aesthetics. He’s at work on a book about Los Angeles, A Los Angeles Primer. Follow him on Twitter at @colinmarshall.
Interested nd pls update me
Is it possible to have this marvellous interview with
french subtitles ?
I would appreciate so much
Scientist Stephen Hawking clearly said in his research paper about the
religious thought that, there is no limit in the place of this
universe, there is no beginning or end of time and there is nothing
that can be done by the creator. Again he said that when opened full
work of creation, then we are known with God and mankind is share-hold
of that knowledge.
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About god
It’s not easy to talk about god it’s very very complicated question
Because how your experience and other experiences both are different
Human science believes in proof
As you know when innocent human who know the god is destroyed via evil monster greed how you can get proof as it happen in past and as its happen currently
As you have seen
Bible
Quran
Bhagwad geeta
As you have seen
On many Hollywood, Bollywood movie
And great tv shows and awards
God definition change as per the situation
But may be something some kind of things
Is controlling and watching everything’s
Every seconds
May be its god or may be its evil monster
When things are invisible
How you can get the proof
And may be god father question
Why you want to know me
What you will give and do I will give you the same
You grow mango tree I will give you mango
May be god father say for how long I will pay for your sin and mistake which intentionally you are doing
Take care of the godfather beautiful mother earth which is already in many problem
Grow more trees and save fresh food water and daily required things for life
And save the godfather beautiful mother earth and ther natural resources with healthy wealthy limited populations and more equality because resources are limited
On beautiful mother earth
As there is no apple water on desert
The godfather
Noah, Gandhi,the avengers end game, star…?