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[Jason] What was the butterfly

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you were telling me
about yesterday, Richard?

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A blue tiger butterfly.

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I see them way out the sea
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And I've known of this for many years.

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I've told other fishermen about them and-

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[Beverly] We all know about blue tigers.

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- We all now because blue
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because they come from the ocean.

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But I kind of think we are
the only ones who know that.

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- [Beverly] Well, all
of our family knows now.

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Oh yes, yes.

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And where they come from?

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[Jason] Storyteller.

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Yes.

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[Jason] Yeah, what can you tell me

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about his stories?

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He seems to be a man of
like a trillion stories.

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Yes, he likes to tell stories.

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[Jason] Are they true?

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Oh, yes, I'm sure they're all true.

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- [Jason] Some say that
fishermen exaggerate things.

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What do you think?

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- Oh, well, all fishermen
would exaggerate, I would say,

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about the size of their
fish and what have you.

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But no, he's pretty, doesn't tell fibs.

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(inhaling)

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(gentle ethereal music)

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(exhaling)

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(inhaling)

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(gentle ethereal music continues)

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Good morning.

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Just in Hawaii on my layover to Australia.

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Taking up some shots
of some old volcanoes.

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Pressure and time.

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That's all it takes.

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My name is Jason Wade Hammonds.

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I'm a former New York Times producer

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turned independent filmmaker.

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And if you'll permit me,

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I'd like to take you on a
little journey around the world

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that may shed new light

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on how the universe may have been created.

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In just 400 years, the realm of physics

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has undergone remarkable transformations,

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reshaping our understanding of the world.

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Now let's get to Australia.

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Get to the heart of our story.

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From a flat earth dogma
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to a multidimensional reality affirmed

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by Einstein's relativity,

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the interplay of ideas
reveals the dynamic nature

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of knowledge and discovery.

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And so we find ourselves at
the precipice of possibility

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on the Sunshine Coast of Eastern Australia

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where I meet Mr. Freeman
for the first time.

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And it didn't take long for
him to start telling stories.

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A fisherman and a physicist.

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Hemingway's "Old Man and the Sea."

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I was telling Jason about Mandy

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winning that big prize
for the biggest bream.

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[Beverly] Oh, what's your word?

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[Richard] Yeah.

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- [Beverly] I thought this
was about your universe.

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- [Richard] It is about
anything you want, I think

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[Jason] It's about...

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It's about people.

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He was telling me how you met,

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and I'd like to hear that story

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from your point of view, actually.

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I met him over the back fence.

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That's true.

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[Jason] What does that mean?

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Well, he lived next door.

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He lived next door.

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- [Jason] And one day
you saw him out there

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and you saw this handsome
guy running around?

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That's right.

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I'm playing the game.

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Yes.

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- Would we better start
again so I can talk?

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[Jason] Sure, let's start again.

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Why don't you introduce yourself then.

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My name is Beverly Freeman,

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married to Richard Freeman.

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[Jason] For how long?

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38 years.

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[Jason] You call those good years?

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There's been some really good years.

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(bright music)

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Yeah, I'm Richard Freeman

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and we are at (indistinct),

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my home near the beach.

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When I started catching spanner crabs,

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nobody was catching spanner crabs here

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and selling for the market.

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I actually made some dillies up

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to catch a feed of blue swimmer crab.

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When I went to pull 'em up,

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and it came up just a
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just hanging off every edge of
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I thought, "Gee, you know,
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for these jolly things."

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So that's how I commenced
spanner crabbing.

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I'll keep going for a
couple more years, I think.

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What are we gonna talk about?

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- [Jason] Well, let's
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How did life...

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In your model, how did life begin?

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- Well, are we talking about
how did the universe begin

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or life itself begin?

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[Jason] Well, if the universe is life,

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how did it begin?

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- My model deals with more how
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I like to think my model,
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which follows the
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A problem for scientists is,

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how did these supermassive black holes

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form at the very
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but the theory has a lot of problems.

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Nothing tells us where
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What caused the Big Bang?

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- Astronomers have made
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using the James Webb Space Telescope.

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It spotted six massive galaxies

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that existed between 500 million

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and 700 million years after the Big Bang.

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Well, that's the problem.

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The James Webb Space Telescope
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All of a sudden we realize

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that we may have to
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about the beginning of the universe.

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Now, it takes many billions
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like the Milky Way galaxy,

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but the James Webb telescope
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that exist half a billion
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that are up to 10 times bigger
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Something is wrong.

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We may have to revise our theory

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of the creation of the universe.

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- All right, so now let's
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to galaxies being born.

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And, oh my gosh, who ordered this?

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We're finding galaxies in the dark ages.

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And I'm told the lead researcher
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he spit out his coffee when he realized

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what kind of data he had on his hands.

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If tomorrow you have a new idea

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about how the universe
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everything we've been talking
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that has been experimentally
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- [Jason] With these new
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scientists now confirm the
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what's being observed by the
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And while that's confounding to many,

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it's a breath of fresh air

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to those who have smelled
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I'm looking at a chart here

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of the mass and energy
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This is a NASA pie chart.

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You can see there,

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over 71% of the mass and
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is in a form of dark energy.

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What is dark energy?

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It's actually a
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to account for galaxies accelerating away.

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Next big slice of the
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And do scientists know
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Probably around the year
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or book I was beginning to write.

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This is my original idea,

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and I'll call this the
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That little symbol,

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that's my whole model.

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That's how simple the basic model is.

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Whether it is dark matter,

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how regular matter was created,

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how the dimensions of space were made,

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the source of gravity
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and it all comes back to
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To understand it, just
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It's amazing.

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(gentle music)

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I'll grab my hat out of the car.

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There's a tree up here,

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it just may have some owls in it.

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Two owls.

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We'll have a look for the owls.

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No owls.

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They could be there,

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I just can't see them.

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(gentle bright music)

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[Jason] At this point in the adventure,

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I'm starting to get a feel
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He reminds me of the wise
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sure in his direction,

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sensible about his footing.

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But what does his character
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to potentially change a
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- The surfers out there all
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Beautiful ocean.

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If I was still working,
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Now I'd be 60 kilometers or so out the sea

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and I would already be pulling my gear.

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- [Jason] How many years
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- Probably obtained my
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around 50 years ago.

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When I was line fishing,

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I spent many night out the sea.

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And I did two, three-day
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If there's a bit of moon up,
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But I got more and more
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Always have been.

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Especially out the sea there alone,

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one thing that kept going
round in my head was gravity.

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I couldn't believe that
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it's all around us,

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but scientists today do not
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And scientists would
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flows into black holes,

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just like water flowing over waterfall.

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And so I kept going back to that thought.

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And this went on for several years.

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And one day I thought,

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"Well, what if there was a
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when there was no
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Absolute nothingness, just
absolute nothingness."

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If you could supply a
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complete nothingness to matter,

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then space would flow into that,

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and that would be the source of gravity.

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They're very clever, these scientists.

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They're the gurus.

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They're just magnificent.

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But the very beginning,
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where that energy came from is unknown.

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I believe that before I died,

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scientists would know these answers.

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But as I grew older,
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It seems the only thing the
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is the universe is expanding.

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- [Jason] And quite frankly,
it can't even do that.

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Scientists have observed
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is accelerating beyond the calculations

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that the standard model can predict.

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Another nail in the
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But perhaps a modern physicist's nightmare

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is another fisherman's dream.

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So I tried to develop my own.

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If I could find a way to put this tiny,

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tiny bit of pure nothingness into matter,

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then that would be the
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I remember when they announced
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that black holes were real.

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These are real things in the universe.

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So one day floating around
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on the day I was so far out
that you couldn't see land,

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by myself, I started thinking about,

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why would the dimensions of space,

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like with the black
hole, flow in the matter?

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It seemed if you could work that out,

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you would know the source of gravity.

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It wasn't like I so much
wanted to be able to explain

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how the universe began,

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but it annoyed me that I
didn't understand gravity.

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I don't why, but it just annoyed me.

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I thought, "How can it be
something that's so common

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that is all around us,

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and you could start it with any instrument

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you could ever invent
because it's so accessible.

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You don't have to go light
years into space or anything.

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It's just everywhere.

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Absolutely everywhere.

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Einstein's general relative explains

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how gravity is delivered
but with no source.

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So I dug deeper and deeper.

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What if before all the universe began,

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there's a realm of complete nothingness?

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Just a timeless dimensionless nothingness.

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And now I had to figure out

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how to get this tiny bit
of nothingness into matter.

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It seemed like it just,

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something went off in my head.

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It was like, "This is the answer."

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This tiny bit of complete
nothingness can explain gravity.

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Nothing can exist without gravity.

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And so gradually my idea was evolving.

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- [Neil] Science can
describe how gravity works,

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but can they describe why it works?

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So this is the how, why duality here.

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And in science, if we can
describe how something works

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and predict its future behavior,

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we claim to understand it and we move on.

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You can ask deeper question
about, why is there gravity?

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What is the meaning?

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What is the purpose?

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And go ahead,

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but I'm good with what I've done

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and I can land a spacecraft
on Mars inside of a crater

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in a hole in one using my
understanding of gravity,

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so I'm pretty good with it.

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So I'm not distracted

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by the more philosophical side of that,

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why does it work?

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[Jason] He's right.

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We have harnessed the power
of gravity in many ways

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and can land probes and
vehicles on objects in space

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to an intricate level of precision,

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but to those of us who
want to know why it works,

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there's more to the story.

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And Richard's natural model,

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the source of gravity
is turned on its head

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from the typical mass
accretion idea of Galileo.

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In fact, gravity is split into two forces

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called inner and outer.

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The key lies in the tiny
piece of nothingness,

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or the minuscule black hole
if you want to call it that,

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at the center of each atom.

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Space-time flows inward
to this nothingness,

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creating gravity as its source.

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So the flow of water over
the waterfall, if you will,

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shows us why gravity is delivered,

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not only how it can be used.

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This tiny piece of nothingness
gives gravity a source

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and a reason why gravity
exists altogether.

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Einstein's general relativity says mass

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warps the curvature of
space-time and delivers gravity.

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So we begin our universe
in this dimensionless void,

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which for all intents of
purpose, just goes on forever.

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Because there's zero
mass energy in this void,

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it's just nothingness.

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We have to maintain that
sum total zero mass energy

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when building a universe.

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How do you do that?

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Old book, "A Brief History of Time,"

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Stephen Hawking on page, it must be 136,

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he tells how gravity attraction,

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which in my model is this bit here,

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the energy of gravitational attraction

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is considered to be negative energy.

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And positive energy of
all the matter up here

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which sits above the
ground state of space,

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it cancels out the negative energy

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of gravitational attraction.

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Which means once we have
a universe made of matter,

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the sum total of the universe,

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the sum total of its mass and energy,

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because one cancels out
the other, maintains zero.

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So you begin with zero total mass energy.

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And even after you create
all your mass energy,

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the sum total is still zero.

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I read about these quantum fluctuations.

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[Jason] I take a moment here

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to insert some of the findings

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from the scientists at
the University of Konstanz

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because it does provide
the most relevant proof

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of Richard's theory.

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The observation of a
quantum vacuum fluctuation,

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which in Richard's model is the beginning.

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- Gravitational attraction
and the source of mass

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cancels out all the positive
energy of all matter.

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It's a tiny bit of nothingness,

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tiny fluctuating, minuscule
black hole of virtual mass.

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Tiny bit of complete nothingness.

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When the source of gravity

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is that tiny bit of complete nothingness,

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and the universe is growing

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and it is expanding into nothingness.

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[Jason] And so from nothing,

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an orchard beneath the
dark mulch of mystery,

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a dense black seed splits at the sea,

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the uncaused energy begets
the undreamed dream.

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Dormant light stairs with shed slumber.

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A morning stretch, a new dawn,

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first sound wave, ancient yawn.

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Within the changeless topsoil,

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the great tree of light takes root.

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Old growth shadows, newborn fruit.

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Across the cosmos, the enjoyer strides

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to pluck ripe constellations
from their branches.

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(waves crashing)

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Let there be lights.

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Let there be second chances.

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This is a crab dilly.

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To catch spanner crabs,

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you use these flat dillies.

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They lie on the ground flat.

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That's a bait bag.

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The bait goes in there.

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They come outta the
sand, crawl across there.

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And then when they try to bury in here,

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they get their toes caught.

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Their dactyls caught.

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It only catches spanner crab.

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Other crab's legs come down to a point

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so they don't get caught.

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To catch myself a feed of fish,

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I have different rods
and reel combinations.

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And for whining bream.

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And over here, I have my tailor gear

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to catch tailor.

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Homemade spinner.

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I cast out off the headland,

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off the rocks to a little sunken reef

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where there's white water breaking,

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and the fish hang in that white water.

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[Jason] What are you thinking about

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when you're out there fishing?

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Well, when I'm fishing over there,

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I'm mostly facing a nature reserve,

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so it's like I'm in the middle of nowhere.

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And when the fish is not
biting, I look up the stars.

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One of my favorite things to look at,

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I don't know why, but
is finding the center

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of the Milky Way galaxy

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because I know there's a
supermassive black hole there.

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And according to my model,

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that's where matter was created.

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But the beauty of my model,
these gravitational scaffolds

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of the supermassive
black hole at the center

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and outer halo of dark matter,

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they must be created first

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before you can create a galaxy of matter.

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- [Jason] In 2015,
scientists from the Harvard

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Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

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found a mysterious but tight correlation

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between the dark matter halo

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surrounding a galaxy
supermassive black hole

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and its relative mass.

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This is a pivotal proof

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for the linear creation of
dark matter scaffolding,

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black hole formation,

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and then matter created and ejected

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from the poles of the black hole

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to create the entire galaxy over time.

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When it is ejected from those pole areas

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by the magnetic fields,

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the magnetic fields are first closed,

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anti-matter travel in different directions

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inside of these magnetic fields.

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So the newly created protons,
they're trying to escape.

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And the pressure builds up
and builds up and builds up

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until the magnetic fields can't hold.

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And this is all known to happen,

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except that it's not known to happen

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with newly created matter.

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And it needs to be explosively
released with great force

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to escape the massive gravity
of a supermassive black hole.

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[Jason] One additional note

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on matter formation from black holes

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regarding a discovery in 2016

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that identified the
temperature of quasars,

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which are the most powerful
light beams in the universe

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emitted from supermassive black holes,

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temperatures that have measured

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at an astounding 10
trillion degrees Kelvin,

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which is at least 10
times hotter than our sun.

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It was said before that once electrons

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reached a hundred billion degrees,

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they would emit gamma and X-rays

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and immediately begin to cool down.

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But this discovery and
subsequent recent studies

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are showing how the standard model,

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again, cannot predict
the behavior of matter.

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In Richard's model,

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the 10 trillion Kelvin
temperature is actually predicted

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as a requirement for the
release of matter plumes

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from the black hole poles.

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This also confirms the ability
of supermassive black holes

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and supermassive galaxies to form

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in the period known as the dark ages.

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- But they're going to have
to stop discovering things

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so he can finish this book.

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Yeah, the new discoveries align

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exactly with what I theorized.

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So I say to Beverly,

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"Well, the book wasn't nearly finished

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but now they've discovered
this part is true."

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There is now observational evidence

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of this part of my theory,

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and then I feel compelled
to add that real evidence

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to my file before I publish it.

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[Jason] So some of this universe stuff

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may be true, you think?

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- Oh, well, I'm sure he
is got the facts right

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because most people now take
for granted the Big Bang

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without thinking about it.

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That's just the way it is.

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And to try to change
that around is enormous.

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So, I don't know how we'll go,

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but he's dedicated to it.

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- [Jason] So what does the
Big Bang truly signify?

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Scientists proclaim that
all matter and energy

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were born in a single moment
at the dawn of the universe

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some 13.4 billion years ago.

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They claim that everything
we perceived today

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arose from that singular event.

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But there are many
problems with this theory.

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You see, the standard model only accounts

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for about five or 6%
of the known universe.

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Richard's model, however,
revolutionizes this paradigm.

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He proposes that the universe

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did not explode from a single point,

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rather it began gradually,

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sparked by a fluctuation in nothingness.

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This primordial breath
eventually gave rise

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to the fabric of space-time,

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creating a scaffold of dark matter.

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Over eons, the accumulated dark
matter eventually collapses,

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imploding into a supermassive black hole.

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And from its poles,

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matter is expelled through
superheated quasars,

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thus giving birth to matter and galaxies.

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Now you may wonder, "What
does this mean for me?"

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Well, consider the similarities

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between the macrocosm of the universe

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and your personal existence.

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Consider the act of
breathing to sustain life.

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Your diaphragm contracts to draw in air.

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00:28:34,076 --> 00:28:36,243
(inhales)

526
00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:40,170
And when you exhale, it relaxes.

527
00:28:40,170 --> 00:28:42,540
The diaphragm remains unchanged.

528
00:28:42,540 --> 00:28:44,934
It merely fluctuates.

529
00:28:44,934 --> 00:28:47,101
(exhales)

530
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:51,000
At the heart of Richard's model

531
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:53,643
lies a tiny speck of nothingness.

532
00:28:56,130 --> 00:28:57,603
And when it fluctuates,

533
00:29:00,435 --> 00:29:03,090
(inhales)

534
00:29:03,090 --> 00:29:04,143
things come to life.

535
00:29:05,839 --> 00:29:08,006
(exhales)

536
00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:14,970
This is one of my favorite sites.

537
00:29:14,970 --> 00:29:17,221
You can sort of see the wind,

538
00:29:17,221 --> 00:29:20,100
there's kind of a
(indistinct) blow coming.

539
00:29:20,100 --> 00:29:24,240
So if that was early morning

540
00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:29,130
and this blow was gonna
continue and be enforced,

541
00:29:29,130 --> 00:29:30,937
something like that, I'd say,

542
00:29:30,937 --> 00:29:32,997
"Well, I'll go back to bed."

543
00:29:34,950 --> 00:29:36,630
By this time, I woken Beverly up

544
00:29:36,630 --> 00:29:41,604
and I don't think Beverly
would be thrilled at me

545
00:29:41,604 --> 00:29:44,673
not going to work and
going back to bed Instead.

546
00:29:45,510 --> 00:29:48,150
- He'd get up at one o'clock
and he'd get out the back

547
00:29:48,150 --> 00:29:50,940
talking to one of the other fellows.

548
00:29:50,940 --> 00:29:52,470
And they'd say, "Will we go?

549
00:29:52,470 --> 00:29:53,310
Won't we go?

550
00:29:53,310 --> 00:29:54,570
I'll just check the weather."

551
00:29:54,570 --> 00:29:56,760
Well, I'll go and have another look,

552
00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:58,530
and it'd be four o'clock in the morning,

553
00:29:58,530 --> 00:30:00,660
and they'd say, "No, we'll go tomorrow."

554
00:30:00,660 --> 00:30:02,370
And they'd go back to bed.

555
00:30:02,370 --> 00:30:04,653
And there I am wide-eyed and bushy-tailed.

556
00:30:06,690 --> 00:30:09,483
That happened quite a lot towards the end.

557
00:30:11,460 --> 00:30:13,620
- [Jason] Now did you ever worry
about 'em out in the water?

558
00:30:13,620 --> 00:30:16,602
- No, because they're
always fairly close contact

559
00:30:16,602 --> 00:30:19,530
with each other all of the time.

560
00:30:19,530 --> 00:30:23,160
Once the radio stopped,
they got onto their phones

561
00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:24,270
and they pretty much knew

562
00:30:24,270 --> 00:30:26,373
where each other were all the time.

563
00:30:28,788 --> 00:30:30,000
- [Jason] And you don't
recall any instances

564
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:30,990
where you might have...

565
00:30:30,990 --> 00:30:33,450
[Jason] No, he was never in...

566
00:30:33,450 --> 00:30:36,030
A couple of his friends
might have gone overboard,

567
00:30:36,030 --> 00:30:37,740
but he never did.

568
00:30:37,740 --> 00:30:39,693
- You trusted his judgment?
- Yes.

569
00:30:41,820 --> 00:30:43,440
- [Jason] It's dangerous
out there, you know that?

570
00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:44,730
Yes.

571
00:30:44,730 --> 00:30:45,930
- [Richard] Did you ever go
out on the water with him?

572
00:30:45,930 --> 00:30:46,950
[Beverly] No.

573
00:30:46,950 --> 00:30:47,980
[Jason] You've never gone on the boat?

574
00:30:47,980 --> 00:30:49,920
No, I don't like the water.

575
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:51,453
I don't like the waves.

576
00:30:52,350 --> 00:30:55,233
I don't like the up and down of the ocean.

577
00:31:00,030 --> 00:31:02,880
- [Jason] Having sold his
30-foot Shark Cat fishing boat,

578
00:31:03,930 --> 00:31:06,603
Richard was now the owner
of this 16-foot dinghy.

579
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:10,500
We couldn't get out in the big water,

580
00:31:10,500 --> 00:31:11,850
but it was enough to get us

581
00:31:11,850 --> 00:31:13,833
to one of his favorite thinking spots.

582
00:31:18,644 --> 00:31:21,061
(indistinct)

583
00:31:24,138 --> 00:31:27,721
(gentle suspenseful music)

584
00:31:32,981 --> 00:31:34,920
When my daughter Mandy was born,

585
00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:37,381
I decided I wanted to be home at night.

586
00:31:37,381 --> 00:31:40,770
And I changed into
full-time spanner crabbing

587
00:31:40,770 --> 00:31:42,990
because spanner crabbing for me,

588
00:31:42,990 --> 00:31:44,373
they were only day trips.

589
00:31:45,630 --> 00:31:49,203
So then I wasn't staying out
for like three days on end.

590
00:31:51,540 --> 00:31:55,113
Some people seem to make it
at fishing, but many don't.

591
00:31:56,910 --> 00:31:59,297
I've seen so many come and go,

592
00:31:59,297 --> 00:32:01,683
but occasionally, you get that person who,

593
00:32:04,031 --> 00:32:05,883
I don't know, you gotta push.

594
00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:09,990
It's like you've gotta push
past the limit all the time,

595
00:32:09,990 --> 00:32:11,880
push past the limit.

596
00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:16,110
He who goes the furthest and
sticks his neck out the most

597
00:32:16,110 --> 00:32:18,664
is the most likely to secede.

598
00:32:18,664 --> 00:32:21,997
(gentle ethereal music)

599
00:32:27,099 --> 00:32:31,516
There's a belief by old
sailors that these albatross,

600
00:32:33,210 --> 00:32:35,910
particularly the wanderer albatross,

601
00:32:35,910 --> 00:32:38,133
carry the souls of lost sailors.

602
00:32:41,010 --> 00:32:44,353
And I was fishing crabbing

603
00:32:44,353 --> 00:32:47,670
like 20 miles east of Mooloolooba one day

604
00:32:47,670 --> 00:32:50,940
and I see this boat
working to the north of me.

605
00:32:50,940 --> 00:32:52,863
Couldn't quite make out who it was.

606
00:32:53,820 --> 00:32:55,890
Early afternoon, the boat disappeared

607
00:32:55,890 --> 00:32:57,737
and I thought, "Oh, he is gone home."

608
00:32:59,670 --> 00:33:04,670
But I found out later it was
a fellow spanner crabber,

609
00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:11,617
and his boat went home without him.

610
00:33:14,700 --> 00:33:16,233
And they never found him.

611
00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:24,000
Anyway, the weather turned bad,

612
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,235
and a couple of weeks later,

613
00:33:26,235 --> 00:33:29,787
I tried to had put that out of my mind,

614
00:33:30,627 --> 00:33:33,270
but I thought I'd just
carry on to the north

615
00:33:33,270 --> 00:33:35,850
where I finished off the last trip,

616
00:33:35,850 --> 00:33:37,200
kind of thing you often do.

617
00:33:38,100 --> 00:33:39,870
So I went out there,

618
00:33:39,870 --> 00:33:42,063
and there was a fair
bit of swell that day.

619
00:33:44,010 --> 00:33:45,965
These wandering albatross,

620
00:33:45,965 --> 00:33:49,650
I might only see one
every two, three years.

621
00:33:49,650 --> 00:33:51,866
I've only seen a few of them.

622
00:33:51,866 --> 00:33:53,940
There are other types of albatross,

623
00:33:53,940 --> 00:33:57,363
but the wanderer up here in
this area is really rare.

624
00:33:58,590 --> 00:34:02,550
Anyway, on this very next
trip out after losing Gordon,

625
00:34:02,550 --> 00:34:04,500
and you think about you've lost a mate.

626
00:34:05,595 --> 00:34:06,428
And I looked down the south

627
00:34:06,428 --> 00:34:08,313
and I could see this albatross coming.

628
00:34:09,900 --> 00:34:11,403
Never flapped a wing.

629
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:14,980
Because they're so big,
you can see them way away.

630
00:34:15,842 --> 00:34:17,963
And you could see him
sort of looking at me.

631
00:34:19,889 --> 00:34:23,010
And then he wheeled around
back to the southeast,

632
00:34:23,010 --> 00:34:27,333
back towards the direction
of the great Southern Ocean.

633
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:30,663
And it was like, he said,

634
00:34:31,957 --> 00:34:34,020
"Do not worry Richard.

635
00:34:34,020 --> 00:34:35,067
I've got your mate."

636
00:34:38,413 --> 00:34:41,073
I still don't believe
it, but I'll feel it.

637
00:34:45,030 --> 00:34:46,830
Why that bird showed up on that day.

638
00:34:50,670 --> 00:34:52,113
He showed up right on cue.

639
00:34:55,650 --> 00:34:57,720
[Jason] What made you think

640
00:34:57,720 --> 00:35:01,830
that the creation was brought
about not by Big Bang?

641
00:35:01,830 --> 00:35:04,890
Because the Big Bang

642
00:35:04,890 --> 00:35:08,472
has so many things that can't explain.

643
00:35:08,472 --> 00:35:12,539
Okay, an Australian
physicist, Paul Davies,

644
00:35:12,539 --> 00:35:15,600
he's done research in light of quasars.

645
00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:19,980
So time went a lot faster back then,

646
00:35:19,980 --> 00:35:23,670
and now they measure
the age of the universe

647
00:35:23,670 --> 00:35:25,803
in today's a lot slower time.

648
00:35:27,060 --> 00:35:31,830
So if you wanna accept
the laws of physics,

649
00:35:31,830 --> 00:35:34,830
the theories and numerous,

650
00:35:34,830 --> 00:35:37,800
and now very clever experiments,

651
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:39,750
there could never have been a Big Bang.

652
00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:43,590
[Jason] It was fun to see Richard

653
00:35:43,590 --> 00:35:45,693
get into conversations with the public.

654
00:35:46,590 --> 00:35:49,263
It seemed everywhere we
went, he knew somebody,

655
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:53,043
and would always wind up
talking about physics.

656
00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:56,793
And people were interested, genuinely.

657
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:01,590
He reminded me of a sidewalk preacher

658
00:36:01,590 --> 00:36:05,433
that didn't know a stranger
and carried the gospel truth.

659
00:36:08,940 --> 00:36:10,530
Back in the harbor,

660
00:36:10,530 --> 00:36:13,050
we met up with an old
fishing buddy of Richard's

661
00:36:13,050 --> 00:36:17,234
to deliver his daily haul
of spanner crabs to market.

662
00:36:17,234 --> 00:36:19,020
I wanted to see that process

663
00:36:19,020 --> 00:36:21,243
to understand his daily life routine.

664
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:25,923
Being on a boat with Richard
struck me rather ironically,

665
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:27,963
posing the question.

666
00:36:28,830 --> 00:36:30,480
- They're all alive.
- Yeah?

667
00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:31,313
[Jason] How does a man

668
00:36:31,313 --> 00:36:34,320
who doesn't even have a college education

669
00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:38,520
and who basically lived on
the tide for over 40 years,

670
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:41,910
no gravity, a little more than most?

671
00:36:41,910 --> 00:36:42,760
You miss fishing?

672
00:36:45,270 --> 00:36:47,957
No. (chuckles)

673
00:36:47,957 --> 00:36:48,790
No.

674
00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:51,210
There's things I miss.

675
00:36:51,210 --> 00:36:52,113
I miss Dolly.

676
00:36:59,490 --> 00:37:01,413
I guess you miss the money a bit too.

677
00:37:05,567 --> 00:37:09,030
(gentle music)

678
00:37:09,030 --> 00:37:11,280
Well, I haven't been
here for over two years

679
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:12,810
and done this little bit.

680
00:37:12,810 --> 00:37:16,822
So being here and helping
Peter unload is like,

681
00:37:16,822 --> 00:37:18,663
yeah, I do miss it.

682
00:37:21,043 --> 00:37:22,953
I call Dolly my pet dolphin.

683
00:37:23,910 --> 00:37:25,770
And I name her Dolly.

684
00:37:25,770 --> 00:37:27,780
Other fishermen have seen her around

685
00:37:27,780 --> 00:37:30,063
and we all call her Dolly now.

686
00:37:31,530 --> 00:37:35,253
And hopefully she's still
out there going strong.

687
00:37:36,540 --> 00:37:40,600
One time she had a baby and
she brought her baby to me

688
00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:46,351
and she pushed the baby
between me and the boat.

689
00:37:46,351 --> 00:37:49,246
So she pushed the baby dolphin towards me

690
00:37:49,246 --> 00:37:51,483
just to show off her baby.

691
00:37:53,580 --> 00:37:56,163
And I thought that was very special.

692
00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:58,590
If she was about

693
00:37:58,590 --> 00:38:01,996
and a big snapper will
suddenly fell off my hook

694
00:38:01,996 --> 00:38:04,200
and float it away in the current,

695
00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:07,631
she would go down and bring it back to me.

696
00:38:07,631 --> 00:38:10,083
It might be nearly a hundred yards away.

697
00:38:11,670 --> 00:38:14,190
She doesn't carry it in her mouth.

698
00:38:14,190 --> 00:38:16,080
She would push it on the forehead,

699
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:19,470
on the forehead, all
the way back to the boat

700
00:38:19,470 --> 00:38:20,793
and give me the fish back.

701
00:38:22,290 --> 00:38:24,750
Sometimes I walk in the beach and I say,

702
00:38:24,750 --> 00:38:27,593
at night, and I'm looking at the ocean,

703
00:38:27,593 --> 00:38:29,700
I say, "Hello, Dolly."

704
00:38:29,700 --> 00:38:34,473
And it'd be nice to believe
she knows I'm there.

705
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:38,673
Yeah, there were special
moments out there.

706
00:38:39,870 --> 00:38:43,290
- [Jason] Stories abounded
in Richard's world at sea.

707
00:38:43,290 --> 00:38:44,940
His award-winning photographs

708
00:38:44,940 --> 00:38:47,580
and natural model of the universe,

709
00:38:47,580 --> 00:38:51,033
his reward for hundreds of
thousands of hours on the water.

710
00:38:52,710 --> 00:38:54,337
The ocean is a mystery.

711
00:38:54,337 --> 00:38:57,930
- [Richard] I've never
ever seen it like that.

712
00:38:57,930 --> 00:38:59,760
[Jason] As grand as the cosmos.

713
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:01,140
No water.

714
00:39:01,140 --> 00:39:02,130
All the years I've been here,

715
00:39:02,130 --> 00:39:03,580
I've never seen it like that.

716
00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:06,717
I know what to do, Jason.

717
00:39:13,430 --> 00:39:15,243
We have garlic chicken for bait.

718
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:17,273
Fresh.

719
00:39:19,045 --> 00:39:20,700
If we don't catch anything,

720
00:39:20,700 --> 00:39:22,200
we can go home and cook it up.

721
00:39:25,710 --> 00:39:27,030
Thank you.

722
00:39:27,030 --> 00:39:28,710
- Very good.
- Cheers.

723
00:39:28,710 --> 00:39:30,873
Yeah, long time since I've had a beer.

724
00:39:34,650 --> 00:39:35,880
I dunno what the point is,

725
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:37,950
but I'll tell you the story.

726
00:39:37,950 --> 00:39:40,053
Amazing, but true.

727
00:39:41,130 --> 00:39:41,963
Okay.

728
00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:46,653
I was fishing from 50 fathoms of water,

729
00:39:47,970 --> 00:39:49,513
probably about 24 miles

730
00:39:49,513 --> 00:39:51,837
or something like that off Caloundra.

731
00:39:51,837 --> 00:39:55,863
And I was catching these bar
cod on pretty thick lines.

732
00:39:56,940 --> 00:40:00,153
At this time, I had
one on about 35 pounds.

733
00:40:01,170 --> 00:40:04,057
Anyway, I could see this
white pointer chasing him.

734
00:40:04,057 --> 00:40:06,933
I didn't have time to grab the gas.

735
00:40:07,860 --> 00:40:11,523
I had gloves on so I just lent
down and gild him in my hand.

736
00:40:12,810 --> 00:40:14,700
The same incident I did that,

737
00:40:14,700 --> 00:40:17,703
the shark grabbed the
other half of the fish.

738
00:40:18,690 --> 00:40:21,900
Well, I was not gonna let go.

739
00:40:21,900 --> 00:40:26,430
I wasn't gonna let that shark have my cod.

740
00:40:26,430 --> 00:40:27,330
And you know what?

741
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:30,903
This shark, he wasn't gonna let go either.

742
00:40:31,890 --> 00:40:34,803
Well, he got his half and I got my half.

743
00:40:38,220 --> 00:40:41,253
People seem to like shark's
stories, I don't know why.

744
00:40:43,230 --> 00:40:45,363
But that big white pointer I saw that day,

745
00:40:48,068 --> 00:40:53,068
my mind just wouldn't accept
that a shark could be that big.

746
00:40:56,100 --> 00:40:59,583
And then one day I was
reading about the megalodon,

747
00:41:00,631 --> 00:41:01,964
and I thought to myself,

748
00:41:01,964 --> 00:41:06,450
what I saw that day, I know
it wasn't a real megalodon,

749
00:41:06,450 --> 00:41:08,947
but I saw a megalodon that day.

750
00:41:11,344 --> 00:41:14,677
(gentle ethereal music)

751
00:41:21,006 --> 00:41:23,253
[Jason] No fish, but good fish stories.

752
00:41:31,590 --> 00:41:34,110
Well, this is the end of the road.

753
00:41:43,330 --> 00:41:46,260
Yeah, we haven't really covered time.

754
00:41:46,260 --> 00:41:47,370
What is time?

755
00:41:47,370 --> 00:41:49,487
Now, my model, I refer to time a lot.

756
00:41:49,487 --> 00:41:54,030
I say, because everything's
wrapped in together,

757
00:41:54,030 --> 00:41:56,880
if we talk about gravity,
gravity slows time.

758
00:41:56,880 --> 00:42:01,563
If we talk about velocity,
speed slows time.

759
00:42:03,180 --> 00:42:06,933
Now, in my model, these
tiny gravitational waves,

760
00:42:08,190 --> 00:42:12,030
which are expanding from every atom

761
00:42:12,030 --> 00:42:15,000
or every nucleus of every atom,

762
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:19,050
one wave is one planck length.

763
00:42:19,050 --> 00:42:21,660
Planck length is a distance

764
00:42:21,660 --> 00:42:24,663
which light travels in planck time.

765
00:42:26,580 --> 00:42:31,580
So because a gravitational
wave provides planck length,

766
00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:34,230
the distance across the wave,

767
00:42:34,230 --> 00:42:38,010
and planck time, the passing of the wave,

768
00:42:38,010 --> 00:42:40,938
it allows light to always travel

769
00:42:40,938 --> 00:42:45,390
the distance of planck
length in planck time,

770
00:42:45,390 --> 00:42:48,840
regardless if the gravitational wave

771
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:51,603
is stretched by, say, gravity.

772
00:42:52,860 --> 00:42:55,860
So now we have four dimensions,

773
00:42:55,860 --> 00:42:59,131
length, width, depth
and the passing of time,

774
00:42:59,131 --> 00:43:01,983
all derived from the one dimension.

775
00:43:03,570 --> 00:43:07,683
And they're all entangled
with your own atoms,

776
00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:13,760
so your own dimensional reality
comes from within yourself.

777
00:43:15,030 --> 00:43:18,213
Your own passing of time
comes from within yourself.

778
00:43:19,521 --> 00:43:22,383
That's just what my model says.

779
00:43:27,300 --> 00:43:31,890
- [Jason] Upon fingertips
and tips of tongues,

780
00:43:31,890 --> 00:43:36,063
we climb Jacob's ladder rung by rung.

781
00:43:40,170 --> 00:43:45,170
Across inconceivable spans,
starlights is racing.

782
00:43:46,380 --> 00:43:51,380
Since the dawn across the
void, it has been racing.

783
00:43:51,780 --> 00:43:54,933
Racing to meet the light in you.

784
00:44:00,540 --> 00:44:03,903
Time moves at the speed of bliss.

785
00:44:04,950 --> 00:44:07,233
Count the petals on the lotus flower.

786
00:44:09,120 --> 00:44:13,143
At the speed of bliss, time moves.

787
00:44:20,100 --> 00:44:23,010
Well, it's winter now
and I'm back in New York.

788
00:44:23,010 --> 00:44:24,090
Reaching out to physicists

789
00:44:24,090 --> 00:44:28,655
to try to get them to take
a look at Richard's work.

790
00:44:28,655 --> 00:44:30,273
It's been a real struggle.

791
00:44:32,220 --> 00:44:35,430
First was with my old editor.

792
00:44:35,430 --> 00:44:39,090
Her husband is a theoretical
physicist at Columbia.

793
00:44:39,090 --> 00:44:43,650
Colleagues with Brian Greene,
the TV scientist, author.

794
00:44:43,650 --> 00:44:45,900
And then we reached out
to Dr. Leitenstorfer,

795
00:44:47,100 --> 00:44:50,460
and he responded very positively at first.

796
00:44:50,460 --> 00:44:51,810
Said that he would do an interview

797
00:44:51,810 --> 00:44:53,979
and sent me his latest paper,

798
00:44:53,979 --> 00:44:56,008
which I could show you here.

799
00:44:56,008 --> 00:44:58,800
And then in my follow-up
email to schedule it,

800
00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:01,947
when I mentioned Richard,
he just ghosted me.

801
00:45:01,947 --> 00:45:02,823
And that was it.

802
00:45:04,230 --> 00:45:07,373
Disappointing. (clears throat)

803
00:45:08,580 --> 00:45:09,413
And...

804
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:16,823
I dunno what to say about that.

805
00:45:18,296 --> 00:45:20,782
(metal tinkling)

806
00:45:20,782 --> 00:45:24,115
(gentle spirited music)

807
00:45:25,590 --> 00:45:28,860
- Here's a question we
should all be asking,

808
00:45:28,860 --> 00:45:30,660
what went wrong,

809
00:45:30,660 --> 00:45:34,380
not just with the pandemic,
but with our civic life?

810
00:45:34,380 --> 00:45:36,840
If everyone has an equal chance,

811
00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:39,693
the winners deserve their winnings.

812
00:45:40,530 --> 00:45:44,670
This is the heart of
the meritocratic ideal.

813
00:45:44,670 --> 00:45:47,700
- So your book, of course,
is "The Tyranny of Merit,"

814
00:45:47,700 --> 00:45:50,910
and it almost sounds a
little bit counterintuitive.

815
00:45:50,910 --> 00:45:54,330
If you're me sitting in, you
know, class-ridden Britain,

816
00:45:54,330 --> 00:45:56,077
you look at the United
States and you think,

817
00:45:56,077 --> 00:45:58,860
"Wow, it's not about class
there, it's about merit.

818
00:45:58,860 --> 00:46:01,051
And if you try hard, you can succeed."

819
00:46:01,051 --> 00:46:05,760
But you are saying that that
now is a false narrative.

820
00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:08,220
So that's one problem,

821
00:46:08,220 --> 00:46:10,410
but there's a deeper problem,

822
00:46:10,410 --> 00:46:13,350
which is the meritocratic ideal,

823
00:46:13,350 --> 00:46:16,110
that if you work hard, you can rise.

824
00:46:16,110 --> 00:46:19,200
You can overcome the
inequality we've experienced

825
00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:23,190
in recent decades through
individual mobility.

826
00:46:23,190 --> 00:46:25,683
That ideal is flawed.

827
00:46:26,937 --> 00:46:28,426
No, no.

828
00:46:28,426 --> 00:46:30,440
I know.

829
00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:31,273
And the kids would love it.

830
00:46:31,273 --> 00:46:33,603
It's just perfect day here
for swimming and everything.

831
00:46:34,680 --> 00:46:37,740
Think outside of the box

832
00:46:37,740 --> 00:46:40,050
because you're not trapped into that.

833
00:46:40,050 --> 00:46:42,273
Can I put it like in an educated box?

834
00:46:45,210 --> 00:46:48,273
One reason I haven't
run to other physicists,

835
00:46:49,355 --> 00:46:53,550
not that I'm a physicist,
but with this model,

836
00:46:53,550 --> 00:46:56,943
because I realized my model was different.

837
00:46:59,093 --> 00:47:02,163
It wasn't different to
their successful theories.

838
00:47:03,450 --> 00:47:05,800
It actually showed how
all those things worked.

839
00:47:06,810 --> 00:47:08,733
But it was different to the ideas.

840
00:47:10,110 --> 00:47:14,073
And my only attempt to talk
to a physicist about it,

841
00:47:15,330 --> 00:47:17,310
one head of that department,

842
00:47:17,310 --> 00:47:21,423
astrophysics at a
university here in Brisbane,

843
00:47:22,770 --> 00:47:24,670
I contacted him on the phone once

844
00:47:26,160 --> 00:47:30,960
and he would not even let
me talk about my model.

845
00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:34,053
Not like one sentence of my idea to him.

846
00:47:36,655 --> 00:47:41,655
And he said, "Richard, go
and learn about physics."

847
00:47:43,110 --> 00:47:45,870
Einstein has a phase on this.

848
00:47:45,870 --> 00:47:50,870
The only thing that inhibits
me is my prescribed education.

849
00:47:54,660 --> 00:47:57,000
- [Beverly] I helped Richard
a lot when he was crabbing.

850
00:47:57,000 --> 00:47:58,290
I used to make his nets,

851
00:47:58,290 --> 00:48:00,540
and another crab's wife and I

852
00:48:00,540 --> 00:48:03,840
used to cart his crabs
to Brisbane, et cetera.

853
00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:06,453
We did a lot of those
things when he was working.

854
00:48:07,860 --> 00:48:09,930
[Jason] You're like the first mate.

855
00:48:09,930 --> 00:48:11,340
Yes.

856
00:48:11,340 --> 00:48:13,260
Well, he says he misses it,

857
00:48:13,260 --> 00:48:15,700
but at the end, he was very tired of it

858
00:48:16,650 --> 00:48:21,150
and wasn't happy with a
lot of things about it.

859
00:48:21,150 --> 00:48:23,580
- Like what?
- Like all the industries,

860
00:48:23,580 --> 00:48:26,490
all the bureaucrats and that takeover,

861
00:48:26,490 --> 00:48:31,170
and make new rules which
makes it very hard for them.

862
00:48:31,170 --> 00:48:32,730
It was also harder for me

863
00:48:32,730 --> 00:48:36,120
because I was just a single operator.

864
00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:38,730
I was competing when
it came to (indistinct)

865
00:48:38,730 --> 00:48:43,230
against big vessels who
had a crew of fishermen.

866
00:48:43,230 --> 00:48:48,030
Unfortunately, people who
diversified in different fisheries

867
00:48:48,030 --> 00:48:51,450
didn't build up the history
in different fisheries

868
00:48:51,450 --> 00:48:53,880
or to maintain a license.

869
00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:56,910
And I don't really
wanna use the word sour,

870
00:48:56,910 --> 00:48:59,790
but it's just the way it was.

871
00:48:59,790 --> 00:49:01,440
I persevered with the spanner crab

872
00:49:01,440 --> 00:49:04,590
and I think, overall,
fishing was good to us

873
00:49:04,590 --> 00:49:07,770
because it supported myself and my family.

874
00:49:07,770 --> 00:49:08,790
And I said to the bloke,

875
00:49:08,790 --> 00:49:10,117
I said, "But mate," I said,

876
00:49:10,117 --> 00:49:12,247
"I'm not gonna be spanner
crabbing all my life."

877
00:49:12,247 --> 00:49:13,230
"There might be a time

878
00:49:13,230 --> 00:49:15,150
when I wanna go sand
crabbing or mud crabbing,

879
00:49:15,150 --> 00:49:16,916
and now look what you..."

880
00:49:16,916 --> 00:49:18,887
60,000 for a license.

881
00:49:18,887 --> 00:49:19,720
I know.

882
00:49:19,720 --> 00:49:20,910
I used to diversify in it all.

883
00:49:20,910 --> 00:49:21,990
You know, I've got enough fish

884
00:49:21,990 --> 00:49:24,000
virtually with a handline
to build my house.

885
00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:25,755
Snapper and pearlies and that.

886
00:49:25,755 --> 00:49:26,727
- Yeah.
- Yeah, yeah.

887
00:49:26,727 --> 00:49:28,380
And heaps of mackerel.

888
00:49:28,380 --> 00:49:31,217
And they took all that
because I didn't have history

889
00:49:31,217 --> 00:49:32,807
- in the right years.
- Yeah, exactly.

890
00:49:32,807 --> 00:49:34,170
- Right?
- History in the right years.

891
00:49:34,170 --> 00:49:36,420
Because we had a smaller catch history,

892
00:49:36,420 --> 00:49:38,220
- we were out.
- Yeah.

893
00:49:38,220 --> 00:49:39,600
Not much hope for the young ones

894
00:49:39,600 --> 00:49:41,517
that want to get into it, is there?

895
00:49:41,517 --> 00:49:43,025
[Richard] No, no, no.

896
00:49:43,025 --> 00:49:44,730
- Young people (indistinct).
- No, no.

897
00:49:44,730 --> 00:49:46,170
Anyway.

898
00:49:46,170 --> 00:49:47,080
I'll get off my soapbox.

899
00:49:47,080 --> 00:49:48,510
[Fisherman] Yeah, yeah.

900
00:49:48,510 --> 00:49:49,800
I'm gonna get these fish (indistinct).

901
00:49:49,800 --> 00:49:50,633
[Richard] All right.

902
00:49:50,633 --> 00:49:51,466
Take care.

903
00:49:53,010 --> 00:49:54,420
See you later.

904
00:49:54,420 --> 00:49:55,950
[Jason] I couldn't help but feel kinship

905
00:49:55,950 --> 00:49:57,903
with Richard and his fishermen friends.

906
00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:00,000
In my own surroundings,

907
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:02,190
the small businesses
have mostly succumbeded

908
00:50:02,190 --> 00:50:05,233
to the voracious jaws
of corporate America.

909
00:50:05,233 --> 00:50:06,810
(indistinct)

910
00:50:06,810 --> 00:50:09,690
Ideally we'd have ocean water, but...

911
00:50:09,690 --> 00:50:12,270
- [Jason] This phenomenon
extends globally.

912
00:50:12,270 --> 00:50:14,520
- I can't be bothered
walking down and getting it

913
00:50:14,520 --> 00:50:17,160
- [Jason] Where power
converges at the apex,

914
00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:20,890
leaving many bereft of even
the most basic opportunities.

915
00:50:20,890 --> 00:50:23,160
The only thing that's still alive

916
00:50:23,160 --> 00:50:24,570
and nice and fresh.

917
00:50:24,570 --> 00:50:27,547
- [Jason] My grandmother's
words still echo.

918
00:50:27,547 --> 00:50:30,120
"We all have our wagons to pull, Jason."

919
00:50:30,120 --> 00:50:31,624
Fell off.

920
00:50:31,624 --> 00:50:34,563
In this moment, I'll break
this seal on the back.

921
00:50:36,060 --> 00:50:36,893
Crab's dead.

922
00:50:41,860 --> 00:50:43,863
Okay, now in the pot.

923
00:50:49,200 --> 00:50:51,093
I boiled them for 18 minutes.

924
00:50:52,470 --> 00:50:53,303
Cooling.

925
00:50:55,620 --> 00:50:57,123
[Jason] Damn good crabs.

926
00:50:58,230 --> 00:50:59,733
I'd never had any so fresh.

927
00:51:01,253 --> 00:51:03,150
I know everyone has a hard time

928
00:51:03,150 --> 00:51:05,220
with this dimensionless space,

929
00:51:05,220 --> 00:51:09,150
but when you realize that
Einstein's predicting the same

930
00:51:09,150 --> 00:51:10,830
at the speed of light,

931
00:51:10,830 --> 00:51:13,107
it's like, "Well,
there's something to it."

932
00:51:13,950 --> 00:51:16,980
Every place is in the same place.

933
00:51:16,980 --> 00:51:18,180
There are no dimensions

934
00:51:18,180 --> 00:51:21,243
because these particles are
not entangled with dimensions.

935
00:51:22,170 --> 00:51:25,450
Now, this seems so weirded and impossible

936
00:51:26,400 --> 00:51:30,120
because we only know
a dimensional reality.

937
00:51:30,120 --> 00:51:34,410
Oh, Jason, sometimes I think
I'm probably just crazy.

938
00:51:34,410 --> 00:51:35,490
It's relativity wrong?

939
00:51:35,490 --> 00:51:36,323
Of course not.

940
00:51:36,323 --> 00:51:37,156
It's brilliant.

941
00:51:37,156 --> 00:51:38,250
Is (indistinct) theory wrong?

942
00:51:38,250 --> 00:51:39,083
Of course not.

943
00:51:39,083 --> 00:51:40,110
It's brilliant.

944
00:51:40,110 --> 00:51:42,270
But no one's been able
to put them together

945
00:51:42,270 --> 00:51:43,713
and understand them both.

946
00:51:44,910 --> 00:51:47,370
Well, when you realize these particles,

947
00:51:47,370 --> 00:51:51,933
quantum particles reside within
this dimensionless space,

948
00:51:52,800 --> 00:51:54,273
everything comes together.

949
00:51:56,040 --> 00:51:58,140
[Jason] In 2007, I came across a book

950
00:51:58,140 --> 00:52:01,050
called "The Dancing Wu Li Masters."

951
00:52:01,050 --> 00:52:02,520
Funny title.

952
00:52:02,520 --> 00:52:06,630
In it, Gary Zukav, a
Vietnam-vet-turned-author,

953
00:52:06,630 --> 00:52:10,140
laid out the intersection
of modern physics

954
00:52:10,140 --> 00:52:13,620
and ancient religious ideas of creation.

955
00:52:13,620 --> 00:52:15,294
Over a decade later,

956
00:52:15,294 --> 00:52:20,097
am I seeing the reality of
his forecast come to light?

957
00:52:20,097 --> 00:52:25,097
Is nothingness, or as
the mystics would say,

958
00:52:27,066 --> 00:52:32,066
is emptiness the doorway to creation?

959
00:52:35,130 --> 00:52:36,333
Oh, potential.

960
00:52:37,470 --> 00:52:39,903
Oh, distilled infinite.

961
00:52:40,900 --> 00:52:45,900
When given the choice to
weaponize or to wonder,

962
00:52:46,890 --> 00:52:48,483
I choose wonder.

963
00:52:49,953 --> 00:52:53,043
Come, unhinge a little.

964
00:52:53,970 --> 00:52:55,923
This is our lock.

965
00:52:57,210 --> 00:53:02,163
Spin with me on the rotor
of this great gyroscope.

966
00:53:05,280 --> 00:53:06,303
We are verdant.

967
00:53:07,260 --> 00:53:11,013
We are that which flares up, and fades.

968
00:53:12,810 --> 00:53:15,868
Oh, what our feet touch.

969
00:53:15,868 --> 00:53:20,490
Pumice and ash and silt and sand.

970
00:53:20,490 --> 00:53:23,610
And beneath all this, the roots,

971
00:53:23,610 --> 00:53:25,830
the roots are reaching.

972
00:53:25,830 --> 00:53:28,563
Reaching for what we cannot know.

973
00:53:30,420 --> 00:53:33,123
In the dark, they're reaching.

974
00:53:35,550 --> 00:53:37,300
So we start with absolute nothing.

975
00:53:37,300 --> 00:53:40,833
I mean, absolute nothing,
not even space-time.

976
00:53:41,760 --> 00:53:46,323
And we evolve of by, first,
creating dark matter.

977
00:53:47,400 --> 00:53:50,190
And then the tiny gravitational waves

978
00:53:50,190 --> 00:53:52,258
expanding from dark matter,

979
00:53:52,258 --> 00:53:54,213
if you wish to call it that.

980
00:53:55,350 --> 00:53:57,330
They expand throughout space

981
00:53:57,330 --> 00:54:00,840
and crisscross from trillions
and trillions of (indistinct)

982
00:54:00,840 --> 00:54:04,293
toward the fabric of
dimensional space and time.

983
00:54:05,550 --> 00:54:08,610
And then we create
supermassive black holes

984
00:54:08,610 --> 00:54:10,590
from all of this dark matter

985
00:54:10,590 --> 00:54:13,890
which sets up the
gravitational scaffolding

986
00:54:13,890 --> 00:54:17,073
for the evolution of
galaxies, like our Milky Way.

987
00:54:17,940 --> 00:54:19,140
There doesn't have to be only

988
00:54:19,140 --> 00:54:22,350
a once only creation of matter.

989
00:54:22,350 --> 00:54:24,483
You can continue to create matter.

990
00:54:26,280 --> 00:54:31,280
And you can sort of
see this with my model.

991
00:54:31,500 --> 00:54:34,620
Providing there is a supply of dark matter

992
00:54:34,620 --> 00:54:36,990
around the supermassive black hole,

993
00:54:36,990 --> 00:54:39,780
you can continue to create matter

994
00:54:39,780 --> 00:54:41,820
because you're continually maintaining

995
00:54:41,820 --> 00:54:45,633
the total sum zero mass energy universe.

996
00:54:47,637 --> 00:54:49,804
(inhales)

997
00:54:52,977 --> 00:54:55,144
(exhales)

998
00:54:57,600 --> 00:54:59,940
[Jason] In 1916, Einstein unveiled

999
00:54:59,940 --> 00:55:02,850
his groundbreaking theory
of general relativity,

1000
00:55:02,850 --> 00:55:06,120
which faced skeptical
peer reviews for years.

1001
00:55:06,120 --> 00:55:07,410
But in 1919,

1002
00:55:07,410 --> 00:55:10,230
Sir Arthur Eddington
orchestrated expeditions

1003
00:55:10,230 --> 00:55:12,720
to Africa and Brazil simultaneously

1004
00:55:12,720 --> 00:55:14,646
to capture photographs of planetary orbits

1005
00:55:14,646 --> 00:55:17,220
during a solar eclipse.

1006
00:55:17,220 --> 00:55:21,210
Eddington's observations
confirmed gravitational lensing,

1007
00:55:21,210 --> 00:55:24,843
thereby proving Einstein's
theory and changing history.

1008
00:55:26,070 --> 00:55:29,700
100 years later, my big aha moment

1009
00:55:29,700 --> 00:55:33,000
came after filming
"Wrapped!" in early 2022

1010
00:55:33,000 --> 00:55:35,730
when news of the James
Webb Telescope discovery

1011
00:55:35,730 --> 00:55:39,390
of six supermassive galaxies
in the dark ages happened.

1012
00:55:39,390 --> 00:55:40,650
Aha.

1013
00:55:40,650 --> 00:55:43,863
The hair on my spine
literally stood straight up.

1014
00:55:44,880 --> 00:55:47,790
I'm not a physicist and
it's not my place to say

1015
00:55:47,790 --> 00:55:49,890
whether Richard's model is right or wrong.

1016
00:55:51,270 --> 00:55:52,530
The real paradigm shift

1017
00:55:52,530 --> 00:55:55,923
is that we are the source
of our own gravity.

1018
00:55:57,720 --> 00:56:02,460
Our own time and reality
emanates from inside of us.

1019
00:56:02,460 --> 00:56:05,523
And his model, a tiny bit of nothingness,

1020
00:56:07,140 --> 00:56:10,023
that source of gravity
inside of each one of us,

1021
00:56:12,930 --> 00:56:15,963
that makes us unique.

1022
00:56:19,315 --> 00:56:21,482
(inhales)

1023
00:56:24,008 --> 00:56:26,175
(exhales)

1024
00:56:32,310 --> 00:56:33,410
A beautiful morning.

1025
00:56:35,850 --> 00:56:37,323
The three planets up there,

1026
00:56:40,410 --> 00:56:44,313
the highest one in the sky is Saturn.

1027
00:56:47,580 --> 00:56:51,663
The middle, bright Venus, morning star.

1028
00:56:52,620 --> 00:56:53,823
The planet Venus.

1029
00:56:55,140 --> 00:56:58,503
And the bottom, I believe
that could be Mars.

1030
00:57:01,170 --> 00:57:02,003
Beautiful.

1031
00:57:05,697 --> 00:57:08,377
I just saw a blue tiger fly pass.

1032
00:57:10,770 --> 00:57:12,363
A blue tiger butterfly.

1033
00:57:14,850 --> 00:57:17,567
Actually, he was flying the wrong way.

1034
00:57:17,567 --> 00:57:19,203
It was very strange.

1035
00:57:20,430 --> 00:57:24,273
But I see these blue tigers
when I'm miles out the sea,

1036
00:57:25,470 --> 00:57:27,057
30 miles out the sea.

1037
00:57:27,057 --> 00:57:29,610
And about this time of year,

1038
00:57:29,610 --> 00:57:31,350
I come across the ocean.

1039
00:57:31,350 --> 00:57:33,485
I followed them in my boat.

1040
00:57:33,485 --> 00:57:37,470
And as soon as they hit
the beach, they fly north.

1041
00:57:37,470 --> 00:57:39,480
They all fly north

1042
00:57:39,480 --> 00:57:44,220
and it's like a blue
tiger butterfly highway.

1043
00:57:44,220 --> 00:57:45,330
They all go north.

1044
00:57:45,330 --> 00:57:47,133
They know where they're going.

1045
00:57:49,650 --> 00:57:51,293
One of those mysteries, I guess.

1046
00:57:54,503 --> 00:57:57,920
(gentle ethereal music)

1047
00:57:59,010 --> 00:58:01,470
- [Jason] Reflecting
on my time with Richard

1048
00:58:01,470 --> 00:58:03,663
certainly been an enlightening experience.

1049
00:58:04,830 --> 00:58:06,270
I don't know if I've realized more

1050
00:58:06,270 --> 00:58:09,802
through his natural model of the universe

1051
00:58:09,802 --> 00:58:12,153
or through his fish stories.

1052
00:58:14,430 --> 00:58:17,280
- [Richard] If I was out to
sea fishing now and crabbing,

1053
00:58:18,480 --> 00:58:21,873
sun's nearly two fingers
above the horizon,

1054
00:58:23,066 --> 00:58:28,066
time to start the motors
and pull up my first line.

1055
00:58:32,820 --> 00:58:35,910
- [Jason] Regardless of
your scientific perspective

1056
00:58:35,910 --> 00:58:38,163
on Richard's natural model,

1057
00:58:39,630 --> 00:58:42,843
by now, a few things have
become abundantly clear.

1058
00:58:46,230 --> 00:58:48,700
Mr. Freeman has lived a life of purpose

1059
00:58:49,830 --> 00:58:51,693
with the tenacity of a great white,

1060
00:58:53,160 --> 00:58:54,603
the mind of an owl,

1061
00:58:56,520 --> 00:58:58,623
the wings of an albatross,

1062
00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:03,573
and a heart as big as the whales.

1063
00:59:09,540 --> 00:59:11,970
- [Richard] My model
doesn't write new physics.

1064
00:59:11,970 --> 00:59:15,210
It uses the predictions
of existing physics,

1065
00:59:15,210 --> 00:59:19,383
the observations in
results of experiments.

1066
00:59:21,468 --> 00:59:24,801
(gentle ethereal music)