Absolutely great up until 5:01. His understanding of space time is good, and it is explained very clearly.
It's actually very neat theorizing up until 8:00, but then I start to lose him.
"But how can there be anything more than infinity? The answer is..there can be completely different infinities created through initial conditions different from ours."
His explanation is sound, but his use of 'infinity' reveals a misunderstanding. If there are other "endings" potentiated by different beginnings, then they would necessarily be included in "infinity." Furthermore, an infinite line in a lower plane appears as an infinite line in a higher plane. An infinite line in 2D becomes an infinite plane in 3D, but it is still infinite.
Beyond that, his explanations start to become total hyperbole.
And MSD: I'd be with you on the "sound engineer turned scientist to sell a book," were it not for his many disclaimers on the website from which this video originates:
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Preamble
Although I am 100 per cent committed to the ideas I have created for this project, and the way that it uses current mainstream thinking about the nature of our reality as its jumping off point, I feel it is important to note that the "framework for discussion" that I advance on this website and in the book "Imagining the Tenth Dimension" is not what you would currently be taught in a university physics class. Anyone wanting to know more about the currently established thinking behind physics and cosmology should refer to such excellent books as "Programming the Universe" by Seth Lloyd, "Parallel Worlds" by Michio Kaku, "The Fabric of the Cosmos" by Brian Greene, or "Warped Passages" by Lisa Randall. Other books that strongly connect to the ideas around this project are "I Am a Strange Loop" by Douglas Hofstadter, "This is Your Brain on Music" by Daniel J. Levitin, "Linked" by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, "Quantum Enigma" by Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner, and "Everything Forever" by Gevin Giorbran.
I invite you to think of this as a creative exploration that for some people will have a strong and thought-provoking connection to their impression of how the world, the universe, and our conscious perception of reality really works. If you go to tenthdimension.com/forum (or click on "The Forum" from the menu at the left), you will have an opportunity to discuss and debate the cloud of concepts that surround this project.
Rob Bryanton
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