What if the universe was created just for you? | Assiye Süer | TEDxGöteborg
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- Опубліковано 23 бер 2016
- Süer tells us about her quest of finding life in the universe, about how we originated from the stars and about how unlikely it would be if we were in fact alone. She also turns a curious eye towards the icy moon of Jupiter, suggesting that Enceladus is our best chance of finding life within our own solar system.
Assiye Süer is about to finish her master’s degree in aerospace engineering at Luleå University of Technology.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
Hi folks!
I’m Assiye (also known as Assi) and I’m the talker. After suddenly getting messages from people about the TEDx talk I decided to read your comments. I found that many of you were reacting to the same thing, namely the title. My original title was leaning towards a little more “cynical” direction. I wanted to say that the universe wasn’t created just for you, or us. Like, what if it wasn’t created just for you, but for many other life forms that probably does exist somewhere out there. I wanted to say that we are special (since we're the only life form known in the universe today), but at the same time nothing (because the number of exoplanets found so far is great and it would be silly to assume that we're the ONLY ones in the vast universe). But it had a somewhat negative tone so I couldn't use it...
Regarding the zipper, yes, I know. Nothing to do but to move on (even though I found it really embarrassing from the beginning).
And yes, I do have an accent (English is my fourth language), but hopefully it is understandable. I’m not from India but from Turkey (I’ve heard India before).
The info in the description is also wrong, I know. Can’t do anything about it.
So, that was basically it :) Even though I didn’t want to read the comments from the beginning I gave it a shot, and boy, it
really made it clear how different we all are regarding our opinions and how we share our thoughts (duuuh, it's the internet, obviously expectable hehe). Cheers!
Hi, what is the thing called at 8:33 that you can't pronounce?
A tardigrade :)
Ohhhh thank you for answering so quickly. I was dying to read about it! Also, don't bother with people bitching about your accent, most of them probably speak one language with serious limitations to grammar. (Their/they're, your/you're etc.) Have a great weekend. Also you're hot
Heheh naah, we all know that everyone has their own opinion and that we will never fully agree on a topic or something else. :D
Re: Zipper, you should just own it. It's a bold, cool look. From the title I was worried that this was going to be a pseudo science talk but turned out to be legit, exactly what I wanted to hear!
Kudos to this girl, we as human species need more of this young brilliant brains! I hope she's not discouraged by the trolls and negative comments here. You go girl, you rock!!
eduardo torres betancourt agreed.. but title is misleading for some reason
Everyone gets discouraged by the trolls
We are the universe experiencing itself, miracle wrapped around a miracle . Throw away everything you think you know about yourself and there you are . The awareness begins . It’s you and it always has been. Stillness within . Beautiful talk thank you from infinite space that’s inside us all .
her accent's so soothing, giving me heart palpitations!!
"Palpilations" lmao
Simpin
My heart is very strong. It takes a lot more for me to get palpitations
You should probably get that checked out lol
I loved your enthusiasm for your subject. You are on the right track, keep up the good work !
We have calcium in our bones...
Iron in our veins...
Carbon in our souls and nitrogen in our brains...
93 percent stardust with souls made of flames...
We are all just stars that have people names...
Stars that go to the toilet 😂
Carbon in our souls??
@@meljc2823 According to the smell in my bathroom I think I have turned into a supernova.
@@laaaliiiluuu 😅😂🤣
Very impressive talk. Thanks for sharing your profound insight into things. You're the best!!!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and your enthusiasm with us.
I love your talk
And the way you think
These are the things we need to explore
Every thought provoking
Thank you
Assiye
Assi, you are star! I just stumbled upon your talk while I was looking at some interesting Tedtalks today. I am an astronomy enthusiast and I recently moved into a rural part of the country of my residence to live deep within a fantastic game reserve here in Africa, away from city lights etc. I enjoy nearly daily home visits of neighbourly elephants and other friendly wildlife, but what I treasure more about my bush life is that it affords me a "front role" view of the night sky and, armed with a basic telescope, the feeling of awe you describe can be very overwhelming.
Being so intimately close to nature combined with having an obstructed observation of the universe is such a surreal experience! I have seen visitors cry from the overwhelming emotions from the intimate experience here, as it's not a typical Safari type setup but more designed to let the visitor be at one with the nature, not observing it at a distance. I therefore couldn't find the title of your talk more appropriate--albeit not at the sentence level but necessarily at the semantic level! Due so some intimate encounters I have had with eg the big five, the question of purpose always crosses my mind. I know it's outside the scope of your talk, but it the immersive experience one gets here with nature certainly feeds ones curiosity. BTW you are welcome anytime here to experience it for yourself!
Thanks for this talk. V informative. I love how your nerves show. Too many super slick talks on here. This one has more natural passion.
Beautiful, intriguing thought.
What a fabulous inspiring talk
Go to a Lady Gaga or Justin Bieber music video and you'll see millions upon millions of views, but go to a video concerning an intelligent topic that expands your mind and challenges you to learn something and I see only 115 views, no comments. It really is a shame, is it not? I once read a quote "When the world looks up to scientists, physicists and teachers the way they do with hollywood actors and pop stars, the world will take its next great step forward." I hope I can live to see that day within my lifetime. 😕
I'm here
The problem is our capitalistic consumerist society. People are conditioned to look up to & idolise "celebrities". The brainwashed masses believe that they too could be the next big celebrity & make tonnes of money. The lady gagas of this world are used as products as well. How much does the average scientist, teacher etc. make compared to these mediocre entertainers? Not much at all. That's a huge problem. Not to mention there are many intelligent people on this planet that lack the resources to become scientists & the next big problem solvers.
+Highway Phantom
The worst part about this sad truth is that, without science we would still be living in caves. All of human wealth is and will be created by science and its results. If we had a larger portion of or even all of humanity collaboratively engaged with scientific or other kinds of creative endeavours, all of humanity would probably become immortal and reach a true utopia within less than a century.
The big question is then, how can we get people on board to empowering their individual selves and humanity when even policy makers are blindfolded when it comes to reality?
+TheSeeker315 I'm filled with the deepest sorrow when I think about this issue. At least you're not alone right.
I know what you mean and I ask myself the same question. That's why I only have scientists as my role models, I don't look up to singers, actors etc. Sure, they are good at what they do and work hard, that's great. But a scientist is something different...
Great talk, I loved it
Amazingly brave. Courage is knowing the danger and feeling the fear but still meeting the challenge head on. You did what few can find the courage to do. You stood up in front of the world and delivered what could eventually be so hard for us humans to contend with, rampant wide skepticism. It’s not so important the message delivered as the courage and bravery to deliver it. I‘m truly inspired. Thank you.
The actual topic was so much better than the click-bait title
Thank you Assiye Suer for the interesting topic.
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Great pleasure to listen this ! Amazing woman !
Someone rightly said "Everyone has it's own Universe and it's own time zone "
yep
Fix your pronouns and it might make more sense.
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very nice contribution !
Thank u that was fantastic.👍👍
This gal is quite awesome , her speech ignited curiosity inside my mini brain
Your brain is smaller than you think. Your soul, smaller yet. Whatever is brain->soul->? ...infinitesimal. However, the ? beyond *that* ...the size of a breadbox.
In regards to your comment about exploring Enceladus, instead of Mars. As a Portuguese, this reminded me of the first maritime explorers (the "astronauts" of ancient times). Everybody was so fixated in finding a sea route to India, that they totally ignored a whole continent! Mars is important and obvious....but why not thinking "out of the box" and open up to other possibilities? It is certainly interesting to see someone with a explorer mindset AND the courage to express her opinion in public - that is different from the mainstream scientific community! THAT was a refreshing part of this presentation. Respect for that!
Great talk. I am a physician by training but astronomy is my passion
Nice! Very interesting talk... Keep it up!
she was about to cry but she held it she is brave
I'm glad at lest someone is thinking about it.
Assiye, tu charla fue maravillosa, me encantó, te deseo muchos éxitos.
Beautiful
Amazing
Interesting presentation
I'm totally agree with her..
Years ago they used to say that water wasn't very abundant in the Universe and this was why Earth was so unusual. We know know that water is very much in abundance throughout the whole of created universe.
O my GOD, I had this same emotion!
Love. Excellent! You are brilliant and I hope you get to travel to space someday!
Superb !
shes amazing foreal
You are amazing. The future perfect.
Well spoken. Universe is consciousness.
hey assi,,, you are in the most productive interesting field of study ,i wish i had your drive and intuition when i was young,,, that moon is a beautiful jewel to say the least,,, it would be earth changing to find life there,, assi life once in galaxy,,,is a miracle,, more than once in a solar system,, would make this solar system almost unique in the statisical universe,,, love your enthusiasm,, dont lose it
What is she talking about. This is my universe, it was created just for me, get your own.
I thought the title would lead to a deeper story (I'm not saying your universe isn't deep ;) ). We all look at the world with our own eyes. Because of our many problems and desires, we forget that fact. But sometimes, when we think of it, we think that the whole world is made for us. And that everyone is experiencing the same thing.
Good for you. Best of luck in your career.
I think beyond a certain distance, we won't hear anything even if there is life out there.
The further you look the further back in time you're looking also.
So you could be looking back too far in time, to a time when any Alien life has yet to create technology.
If you were there though, now, they may have, of course, be very advanced but as nothing can travel faster than light then we wouldn't know until some time in the distant future.
So, that means we should look at a shorter distance that makes sense on a time scale.
This in its self also creates a problem as there may be no other life within that short distance but still doesn't mean there isn't other life out there.
Time is a tricky thing, more so when we have such great distances to think about.
So finding the right approach isn't an easy one.
Great talk.
I hope we find life within my lifetime, that would be amazing.
I, just as the speaker has, have seen a galaxy through a telescope and although not to a level she herself has seen, still an amazing feeling and as she mentioned, one that i will never forget!
Well said sister! Also if you think that the universe is constantly expanding then we should also assume that the number of galaxies is very likely to be INFINITE!
My inner child experienced vertigo and awe as she spoke about this exploration of the Saturn moon......
Interesting talk! I thought the title was interesting too and actually believe this as a matter of faith:
"O SON OF BOUNTY! Out of the wastes of nothingness, with the clay of My command I made thee to appear, and have ordained for thy training every atom in existence and the essence of all created things."
She is so beautiful !!
stimulating thoughts, I hope the universe is full of life
Jody Maley it's isnt
...It probably is as the ideal conditions will exist on hundreds of thousand of locations throughout the galaxay, let alone the universe. But not likely that it is more than bacteria and simple cells. I think the conditions that drive evolutionary pressures to produce a creature like humans will be so rare we may be unique and alone. If the conditions could produce even two species like us our counterparts may be on the other side of the universe and we'll never know.
The reason why Mars is so important is that its the closest planet to Earth and having a human presence there will greatly increase mankind's chances of successfully exploring the solar system and eventually become an interstellar space-faring civilization. Boom.
"A game specifically designed for each participant." The Game (1997)
Loved your idea about going under water to look for life on that moon. It makes more sense than going to Mars again and coming back empty handed.
😂 yes
Video titled wrongly. And secondly mars is much much much easier to travel and colonise THAN jupiter’s moons(thats why we are SOO intrested in it).
I think u r right all the stars out there there must be life somewhere out there n not just micro organisim
It is for everyone
You are gorgeous Assiye!
Wonderful talk by a very talented and intelligent young woman... and very pretty too. The trolls can only wish to attend a TEDx talk, much less give one. Well done!
More of a summary of current stuff in astrophysics but Turkish and Swedish makes an interesting combination for accent- haven't heard it before.
Best point was why the fascination with Mars? It might be relatively close and have lot of 20th century fiction written about it but the moons are much better candidates for scientific exploration on several levels which I wish she had gone into a bit more details about.
Hey, I don't know if you still read the comments, but I have five (yes, 5!) daughters. I can not wait to show them this video tomorrow! I hope it inspires at least one of them. I too was also worried it was going to be about pseudoscience......but no, great talk!
I am more than happy to set off for alfa centaruri today!!!
I remember the first time I saw Saturn through a telescope. I was just a teenager. Our telescope was a home-made six-inch reflector. Cobbled together from spare parts around our farm. Pretty funny. The counter weight was the rim of a spare tire, and the small viewfinder was a gunsight from a rifle. But I'll never forget that night. I didn't even know what I was seeing. I pointed the telescope at a bright light in the night sky. I saw that it was oblong, an oval. I looked at it for several nights, wondering what it was. Then I realized it was Saturn. Nothing compares to that first moment when you first look through a telescope and see the moon, or the satellites of Jupiter, or Saturn. You can look up pictures on the internet, but nothing compares to seeing it yourself. Huddling in the snow, looking through a telescope made of old car parts and a rifle scope. It was amazing.
Think of how everything around us, came from the same source and has existed for as long as us.
Bravo! You gave me a new slant on your countrymen. Go for it!
Then I expect that in next version it gets more exciting stuff to me.
I like the way she speaks english ...
David Mortimer yeah it’s very nice and listenable
Her accent is cute!, her fly was down lol, she said afterwards she was embarrassed poor girl.
Your so awesome.
I couldn't concentrate on the talk as Assiye is so beautiful.
I love her thick European accent. It's beautiful. She should narrate the epilogues, intermission, and prologues of Sci-Fi movies.
I like your comment but describing it as "thick," may not best help bring about the thing you mentioned you desire.
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European?
Fascinating and encourage people to work explore. Yet, much of exploration in and out of our solar system is based on assumptions - despite knowing some facts.
it kinda is, with your past determining the state of the usiverse all the way back to the big bang...
If the universe was just created for me id be the only one to see her fly open but it seems every other guy here can see it as well damit.
My thought exaclty
"What is life? We know the meaning of the word but how are we going to define what it is" ... If it's not defined how do you know the meaning of the word?
See 'Breakfast of Champions', by Kurt Vonnigut
Thanks for the delivery, saliva.... yeesh.
Yes! It was created for me! Really!
No... For me 😅
We are the stars 🌟
Amazing and her fly is down
Omg
@Ti Klim true true
Ok im still not sure after spending the time n really trying to understand how this correlates to the to this universe was created JUST for me , I thought this was going to be a talk about what are PERSEPTION of all this is ....? I do believe in her passion though ...
Finding life.. Following childhood desire.. Awesome.. Good luck in your way :)
But I always wonder why it took so many years for us to say that plants too have life and the only reason that I could come up is we were looking life in a different perspective/description. So the whole idea of life was confined to mobility and features of the things around. Hence Plants, the thing which we see every day in life took years to get "living" status just becoz they lack mobility and features like us :) Then how long it will take for us to identify life far away from us unless we open up ourselves to new dimensions.
The childhood desire is still with be, after all these years. But I wanted to search for life on Mars from the beginning, but then I found Enceladus and now I'm stuck ^_^ My master thesis (working on it now) is about CFD calculations with data from Mars Curiosity lander, so that's linked to my childhood :)
I agree! And the hard part about life is that we only know how it looks like based on what we have seen here. I can't imagine what strange and interesting creatures that exists out there. I hate not knowing it!! It is there, but where is it?
If the universe were created just for me, it would be a lot more limited than it actually is. I wouldn't have dreamed up this video, for example.
I need a universe that wasn't created "for" anybody. I need a universe that was created through emergence.
The Moon and Mars would be used like stepping Stones to the cosmos, and we could have some amazing telescopes on the moon with powerful cameras beaming pictures back to Earth.
ok... so where is the answer to the question in the title?
What if the universe was created just for you?
When will anyone understand that when we look we create? Everything in the universe is completely alive. stop wasting time and space and start making our own world better
@VanillaSwag look as in search for an explanation
@VanillaSwag yes. when you don't look nothing needs to be said. Just the act of trying to explain something is misleading. you can look at it is in everything is divine or everything is unnecessary. It's the same thing. Personally I think it's quite beautiful and find it to be so magical that I can't see how anyone could be more than just a little upset from time to time.. because once they really become conscious they see that they are in control and it's an everyday, every moment thing. Controlling our thoughts is the hardest thing and that's what really misleads everyone
I wish I had better words for you but I'm working on it.
Why would you go to a place you think there is life, without checking from the sky. You are some warrior I'd say.
The description is wrong. Enceladus is a moon of Saturn, not Jupiter.
The habitable zone and life requires liquid water and an atmosphere is our concept. It may differ for different life forms in the atmosphere. They may be drinking plasma and breathing in nitrogen. This concept is only for the life forms we know/are on this planet.
she's beautiful and smart,
Which planet is that ?
It was created just for me
Pipe dream !
Why does the blurb above refer to Enceladus as a moon of Jupiter? Should read Saturn
Brains and beauty. Great combi.
And open zipper. Always a nice touch.
Life is abundant in the universe but not intelligent life which is very rare so I think we are alone.
The biggest mistake of astronomers is that they are searching for a planet like ours. Who says that other life forms needs the same atmospheric conditions like we do?
She said the number of stars in the universe is "ten to the power of 22." She meant "ten to the power of 23." This is 1 followed by 23 zeroes, as shown on her slide.
Great you just finished reading your cards
I'm still waiting for her to tell me something I don't already know 3/4 of the way through
I had always thought that natural selection produced everything, until I saw the Nova video about fractal geometry. So, who "created" Loren Carpenter? Just as people did not see what Benoit Mandelbrot saw, the creators of this video are not seeing WHO created them and everything else in the universe using, among other things, this concept of geometry.