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Jim Carrey: Have you heard about the new brain theory, the uh...
Conan O'Brien: Who's brain theory is this?
Jim Carrey: It's, it's Stephen Hawking.
Conan O'Brien: Stephen Hawking?
Jim Carrey: Stephen Hawking has been talking about this new brain theory about the universe and, uh, opposed to the big bang theory, and they're they're coming out with some new concepts. It's really exciting.
Conan O'Brien: And you actually read...
Jim Carrey: Erotic, uh, universe. Have you heard about this?
Conan O'Brien: The ip- say it again?
Jim Carrey: Ip- ipker- it's very difficult to say. The ekpyrotic universe.
Conan O'Brien: Wow, that's amazing that you're reading that stuff.
Jim Carrey: Well the model see the model we have now, Conan, is based on the idea that our big bang universe was created from the collision of two three-dimensional worlds moving along a hidden extra dimension, but conceptually, the ekpyrotic model is very different. There is no inflation or rapid change happening at all. The approach to collision takes place very slowly over an exceedingly long period of time. It's quite fascinating that the rapid change and very slow change can produce nearly the same effects. The difference results in one distinctive observational prediction though: The inflationary cosmology predicts a spectrum of gravitational waves that may be detectable in the cosmic microwave background; the ekpyrotic model, however, predicts no gravitational waves effects should be observable in the cosmic microwave background, and I'm just so relieved by this because I've been...
[audience cheers]
Jim Carrey: no, really.
Conan O'Brien: That's incredible, I...
Jim Carrey: I've saw, I've been trying and trying to tell this to people for years really, you know, I've been trying to drill it through their heads, but they don't listen to me, you know. They called me mad! They laughed at me!
[laughs with Conan loudly]
- ConnectionsFeatured in Late Night with Conan O'Brien: 10th Anniversary Special (2003)
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