The sound the universe makes | Janna Levin

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I want to ask you all to consider for a second
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the very simple fact
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that, by far,
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most of what we know about the universe
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comes to us from light.
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We can stand on the Earth and look up at the night sky
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and see stars with our bare eyes.
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The Sun burns our peripheral vision.
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We see light reflected off the Moon.
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And in the time since Galileo pointed that rudimentary telescope
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at the celestial bodies,
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the known universe has come to us through light,
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across vast eras in cosmic history.
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And with all of our modern telescopes,
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we've been able to collect
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this stunning silent movie of the universe --
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these series of snapshots
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that go all the way back to the Big Bang.
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And yet, the universe is not a silent movie
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because the universe isn't silent.
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I'd like to convince you
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that the universe has a soundtrack
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and that soundtrack is played on space itself,
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because space can wobble like a drum.
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It can ring out a kind of recording
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throughout the universe
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of some of the most dramatic events as they unfold.
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Now we'd like to be able to add
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to a kind of glorious visual composition
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that we have of the universe --
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a sonic composition.
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And while we've never heard the sounds from space,
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we really should, in the next few years,
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start to turn up the volume on what's going on out there.
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So in this ambition
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to capture songs from the universe,
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we turn our focus
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to black holes and the promise they have,
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because black holes can bang on space-time
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like mallets on a drum
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and have a very characteristic song,
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which I'd like to play for you -- some of our predictions
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for what that song will be like.
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Now black holes are dark against a dark sky.
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We can't see them directly.
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They're not brought to us with light, at least not directly.
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We can see them indirectly,
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because black holes wreak havoc on their environment.
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They destroy stars around them.
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They churn up debris in their surroundings.
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But they won't come to us directly through light.
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We might one day see a shadow
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a black hole can cast on a very bright background,
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but we haven't yet.
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And yet black holes may be heard
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even if they're not seen,
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and that's because they bang on space-time like a drum.
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Now we owe the idea that space can ring like a drum
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to Albert Einstein -- to whom we owe so much.
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Einstein realized that if space were empty,
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if the universe were empty,
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it would be like this picture,
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except for maybe without the helpful grid drawn on it.
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But if we were freely falling through the space,
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even without this helpful grid,
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we might be able to paint it ourselves,
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because we would notice that we traveled along straight lines,
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undeflected straight paths
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through the universe.
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Einstein also realized --
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and this is the real meat of the matter --
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that if you put energy or mass in the universe,
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it would curve space,
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and a freely falling object
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would pass by, let's say, the Sun
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and it would be deflected
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along the natural curves in the space.
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It was Einstein's great general theory of relativity.
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Now even light will be bent by those paths.
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And you can be bent so much
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that you're caught in orbit around the Sun,
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as the Earth is, or the Moon around the Earth.
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These are the natural curves in space.
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What Einstein did not realize
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was that, if you took our Sun
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and you crushed it down to six kilometers --
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so you took a million times the mass of the Earth
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and you crushed it to six kilometers across,
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you would make a black hole,
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an object so dense
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that if light veered too close, it would never escape --
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a dark shadow against the universe.
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It wasn't Einstein who realized this,
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it was Karl Schwarzschild
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who was a German Jew in World War I --
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joined the German army already an accomplished scientist,
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working on the Russian front.
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I like to imagine Schwarzschild in the war in the trenches
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calculating ballistic trajectories for cannon fire,
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and then, in between,
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calculating Einstein's equations --
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as you do in the trenches.
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And he was reading Einstein's recently published
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general theory of relativity,
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and he was thrilled by this theory.
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And he quickly surmised
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an exact mathematical solution
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that described something very extraordinary:
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curves so strong
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that space would rain down into them,
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space itself would curve like a waterfall
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flowing down the throat of a hole.
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And even light could not escape this current.
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Light would be dragged down the hole
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as everything else would be,
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and all that would be left would be a shadow.
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Now he wrote to Einstein,
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and he said, "As you will see,
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the war has been kind to me enough.
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Despite the heavy gunfire,
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I've been able to get away from it all
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and walk through the land of your ideas."
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And Einstein was very impressed with his exact solution,
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and I should hope also the dedication of the scientist.
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This is the hardworking scientist under harsh conditions.
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And he took Schwarzschild's idea
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to the Prussian Academy of Sciences the next week.
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But Einstein always thought black holes were a mathematical oddity.
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He did not believe they existed in nature.
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He thought nature would protect us from their formation.
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It was decades
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before the term "black hole" was coined
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and people realized
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that black holes are real astrophysical objects --
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in fact they're the death state
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of very massive stars
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that collapse catastrophically
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at the end of their lifetime.
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Now our Sun will not collapse to a black hole.
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It's actually not massive enough.
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But if we did a little thought experiment --
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as Einstein was very fond of doing --
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we could imagine
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putting the Sun crushed down to six kilometers,
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and putting a tiny little Earth around it in orbit,
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maybe 30 kilometers
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outside of the black-hole sun.
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And it would be self-illuminated,
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because now the Sun's gone, we have no other source of light --
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so let's make our little Earth self-illuminated.
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And you would realize you could put the Earth in a happy orbit
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even 30 km
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outside of this crushed black hole.
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This crushed black hole
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actually would fit inside Manhattan, more or less.
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It might spill off into the Hudson a little bit
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before it destroyed the Earth.
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But basically that's what we're talking about.
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We're talking about an object that you could crush down
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to half the square area of Manhattan.
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So we move this Earth very close --
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30 kilometers outside --
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and we notice it's perfectly fine orbiting around the black hole.
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There's a sort of myth
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that black holes devour everything in the universe,
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but you actually have to get very close to fall in.
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But what's very impressive is that, from our vantage point,
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we can always see the Earth.
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It cannot hide behind the black hole.
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The light from the Earth, some of it falls in,
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but some of it gets lensed around and brought back to us.
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So you can't hide anything behind a black hole.
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If this were Battlestar Galactica
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and you're fighting the Cylons,
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don't hide behind the black hole.
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They can see you.
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Now, our Sun will not collapse to a black hole --
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it's not massive enough --
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but there are tens of thousands of black holes in our galaxy.
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And if one were to eclipse the Milky Way,
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this is what it would look like.
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We would see a shadow of that black hole
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against the hundred billion stars
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in the Milky Way Galaxy and its luminous dust lanes.
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And if we were to fall towards this black hole,
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we would see all of that light lensed around it,
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and we could even start to cross into that shadow
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and really not notice that anything dramatic had happened.
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It would be bad if we tried to fire our rockets and get out of there
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because we couldn't,
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anymore than light can escape.
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But even though the black hole is dark from the outside,
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it's not dark on the inside,
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because all of the light from the galaxy can fall in behind us.
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And even though, due to a relativistic effect known as time dilation,
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our clocks would seem to slow down
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relative to galactic time,
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it would look as though the evolution of the galaxy
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had been sped up and shot at us,
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right before we were crushed to death by the black hole.
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It would be like a near-death experience
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where you see the light at the end of the tunnel,
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but it's a total death experience.
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(Laughter)
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And there's no way of telling anybody
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about the light at the end of the tunnel.
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Now we've never seen a shadow like this of a black hole,
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but black holes can be heard,
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even if they're not seen.
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Imagine now taking an astrophysically realistic situation --
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imagine two black holes that have lived a long life together.
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Maybe they started as stars
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and collapsed to two black holes --
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each one 10 times the mass of the Sun.
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So now we're going to crush them down to 60 kilometers across.
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They can be spinning
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hundreds of times a second.
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At the end of their lives,
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they're going around each other very near the speed of light.
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So they're crossing thousands of kilometers
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in a fraction of a second,
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and as they do so, they not only curve space,
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but they leave behind in their wake
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a ringing of space,
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an actual wave on space-time.
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Space squeezes and stretches
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as it emanates out from these black holes
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banging on the universe.
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And they travel out into the cosmos
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at the speed of light.
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This computer simulation
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is due to a relativity group at NASA Goddard.
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It took almost 30 years for anyone in the world to crack this problem.
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This was one of the groups.
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It shows two black holes in orbit around each other,
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again, with these helpfully painted curves.
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And if you can see -- it's kind of faint --
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but if you can see the red waves emanating out,
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those are the gravitational waves.
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They're literally the sounds of space ringing,
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and they will travel out from these black holes at the speed of light
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as they ring down and coalesce
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to one spinning, quiet black hole
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at the end of the day.
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If you were standing near enough,
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your ear would resonate
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with the squeezing and stretching of space.
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You would literally hear the sound.
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Now of course, your head would be squeezed and stretched unhelpfully,
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so you might have trouble understanding what's going on.
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But I'd like to play for you
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the sound that we predict.
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This is from my group --
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a slightly less glamorous computer modeling.
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Imagine a lighter black hole
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falling into a very heavy black hole.
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The sound you're hearing
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is the light black hole banging on space
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each time it gets close.
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If it gets far away, it's a little too quiet.
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But it comes in like a mallet,
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and it literally cracks space,
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wobbling it like a drum.
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And we can predict what the sound will be.
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We know that, as it falls in,
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it gets faster and it gets louder.
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And eventually,
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we're going to hear the little guy just fall into the bigger guy.
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(Thumping)
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Then it's gone.
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Now I've never heard it that loud -- it's actually more dramatic.
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At home it sounds kind of anticlimactic.
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It's sort of like ding, ding, ding.
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This is another sound from my group.
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No, I'm not showing you any images,
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because black holes don't leave behind
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helpful trails of ink,
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and space is not painted,
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showing you the curves.
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But if you were to float by in space on a space holiday
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and you heard this,
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you want to get moving.
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(Laughter)
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Want to get away from the sound.
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Both black holes are moving.
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Both black holes are getting closer together.
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In this case, they're both wobbling quite a lot.
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And then they're going to merge.
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(Thumping)
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Now it's gone.
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Now that chirp is very characteristic of black holes merging --
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that it chirps up at the end.
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Now that's our prediction
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for what we'll see.
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Luckily we're at this safe distance in Long Beach, California.
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And surely, somewhere in the universe
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two black holes have merged.
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And surely, the space around us
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is ringing
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after traveling maybe a million light years, or a million years,
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at the speed of light to get to us.
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But the sound is too quiet for any of us to ever hear.
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There are very industrious experiments being built on Earth --
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one called LIGO --
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which will detect deviations
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in the squeezing and stretching of space
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at less than the fraction of a nucleus of an atom
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over four kilometers.
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It's a remarkably ambitious experiment,
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and it's going to be at advanced sensitivity
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within the next few years -- to pick this up.
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There's also a mission proposed for space,
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which hopefully will launch in the next ten years,
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called LISA.
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And LISA will be able to see super-massive black holes --
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black holes millions or billions of times
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the mass of the Sun.
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In this Hubble image, we see two galaxies.
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They look like they're frozen in some embrace.
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And each one probably harbors
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a super-massive black hole at its core.
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But they're not frozen;
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they're actually merging.
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These two black holes are colliding,
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and they will merge over a billion-year time scale.
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It's beyond our human perception
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to pick up a song of that duration.
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But LISA could see the final stages
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of two super-massive black holes
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earlier in the universe's history,
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the last 15 minutes before they fall together.
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And it's not just black holes,
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but it's also any big disturbance in the universe --
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and the biggest of them all is the Big Bang.
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When that expression was coined, it was derisive --
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like, "Oh, who would believe in a Big Bang?"
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But now it actually might be more technically accurate
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because it might bang.
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It might make a sound.
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This animation from my friends at Proton Studios
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shows looking at the Big Bang from the outside.
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We don't ever want to do that actually. We want to be inside the universe
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because there's no such thing as standing outside the universe.
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So imagine you're inside the Big Bang.
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It's everywhere, it's all around you,
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and the space is wobbling chaotically.
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Fourteen billion years pass
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and this song is still ringing all around us.
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Galaxies form,
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and generations of stars form in those galaxies,
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and around one star,
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at least one star,
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is a habitable planet.
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And here we are frantically building these experiments,
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doing these calculations, writing these computer codes.
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Imagine a billion years ago,
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two black holes collided.
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That song has been ringing through space
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for all that time.
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We weren't even here.
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It gets closer and closer --
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40,000 years ago, we're still doing cave paintings.
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It's like hurry, build your instruments.
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It's getting closer and closer, and in 20 ...
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whatever year it will be
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when our detectors are finally at advanced sensitivity --
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we'll build them, we'll turn on the machines
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and, bang, we'll catch it -- the first song from space.
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If it was the Big Bang we were going to pick up,
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it would sound like this.
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(Static) It's a terrible sound.
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It's literally the definition of noise.
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It's white noise; it's such a chaotic ringing.
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But it's around us everywhere, presumably,
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if it hasn't been wiped out
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by some other process in the universe.
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And if we pick it up, it will be music to our ears
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because it will be the quiet echo
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of that moment of our creation,
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of our observable universe.
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So within the next few years,
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we'll be able to turn up the soundtrack a little bit,
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render the universe in audio.
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But if we detect those earliest moments,
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it'll bring us that much closer
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to an understanding of the Big Bang,
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which brings us that much closer
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to asking some of the hardest, most elusive, questions.
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If we run the movie of our universe backwards,
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we know that there was a Big Bang in our past,
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and we might even hear the cacophonous sound of it,
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but was our Big Bang the only Big Bang?
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I mean we have to ask, has it happened before?
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Will it happen again?
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I mean, in the spirit of rising to TED's challenge
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to reignite wonder,
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we can ask questions, at least for this last minute,
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that honestly might evade us forever.
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But we have to ask:
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Is it possible that our universe
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is just a plume off of some greater history?
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Or, is it possible that we're just a branch off of a multiverse --
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each branch with its own Big Bang in its past --
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maybe some of them with black holes playing drums,
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maybe some without --
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maybe some with sentient life, and maybe some without --
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not in our past, not in our future,
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but somehow fundamentally connected to us?
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So we have to wonder, if there is a multiverse,
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in some other patch of that multiverse,
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are there creatures?
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Here's my multiverse creatures.
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Are there other creatures in the multiverse,
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wondering about us
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and wondering about their own origins?
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And if they are,
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I can imagine them as we are,
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calculating, writing computer code,
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building instruments,
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trying to detect that faintest sound
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of their origins
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and wondering who else is out there.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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(Applause)
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