Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedLee Cronin: belief
9 Dec 2023 Lex Fridman Podcast #404 – Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe
“The universe is expanding. But the nice thing is I would say, I would look, you see, I think Carl Sagan did the wrong thing.”
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- Speaker
- Lee Cronin
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 9 Dec 2023
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
Transcript context
…But it’s just hard to intuit a world, a universe where there’s nearly infinite complexity objects and they somehow can’t detect each other. The universe is expanding. But the nice thing is I would say, I would look, you see, I think Carl Sagan did the wrong thing. Not the wrong thing. He flicked the Voyager program and the Pale Blue Dot and said, “Look how big the universe is.” I would’ve done it the other way around and said, “Look at the Voyager probe that came from the planet earth that came from LUCA. Look at how big earth is.” Then it produced that.…
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