Jacob Barandes

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hospitable to the way I like to think about things is I actually tend not to like wild speculation.

I tend to get lost very quickly once I feel like I'm in the midst of a lot of wild speculation.

People stacking speculative metaphysical hypotheses on top of each other one after another.

At some point I just sort of lose the thread and I I have difficulty following.

I like to be very careful in my reasoning, especially in circumstances in which we lack data.

And cosmology is a great example of this.

Now we're living in a remarkable era.

We're living in the era of precision cosmology.

The amount of data coming in is profound, and this is

the result of incredibly hard work by human beings painstakingly developing unbelievably brilliant devices.

I mean

І for anyone who doesn't know what's going on.

you know, in cosmology, uh people who are working on observational cosmology

Y you are in for a treat if you just go look at some of the work they're doing, it's incredible.

But for some of these very profound questions, like where the universe

truly came from, whether there was anything before the universe began, where it's headed in sort of the long term.

Now we're in an area where we have to speculate and we have very little data.

At our disposal.

And so this is exactly the kind of circumstance in which I think we have to be extra careful.

And avoid wild speculation and proceed as methodically and rigorously as we can, scrutinizing all of our steps as we go.

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