Couldn't help but think it's just plain nasty to regard everyone and everything in the physical universe as being in hell (and what, are they evil too? huh? WTF?). You see a young happy couple with their kids smiling and having fun, loving each other and life on a beautiful, sunny day. The H word doesn't pop into your head, unless perhaps you're not quite correct, mentally, and dare I say -- spiritually. A clever man? I guess so but there are plenty of TOEs out there that are equally brilliant; personally I found him to be disrespectful of life not to mention fear-inducing.
If Mr. Cotterell finds the entire concepts/so-called facts he espouses 'exciting', good for him, but I don't recall his explanation of what being with God is supposed to exactly (or even approximately) feel like, how it's experienced (I'm assuming ecstatic...it would need to be at least this for this beautiful, interesting and fascinating world and its myriad of experiences to pale so in comparison). Just what would existence entail for souls in this realm?
...and as regards souls ending up burning in hell in the heat of the sun - what, would they have full, physical bodies with skin and a nervous system to allow them to experience the full horror of this environment. Obviously there will be some approximation he would undoubtedly present, for our consideration, between ourselves and the forms which inhabit this *hot* existence. Just smacks of pure, refined bollocks to me.
His manner seemed slightly manic to me, his vocabulary a little childish in his over-simplification of other physicists work. He was a bit too liberal with the old tar and brush I think; annoying, disrespectful, irritating. I aint' the most eloquent or intelligent of peeps myself but have a pretty good BS detector, if I do say so myself.
But good on him for his passion and devoting his life to researching the nature of existence, it all adds to the variety of this great big world of ours. La la la...
