It just occurred to me that if any filmmaker and/or major media entity ie, Netflix, Hulu, etc , wanted to make an amazing speculative science fiction film or series that likely would be the best and most thought provoking ever, they need to employ Dr. Kipping. This one and the one he did about a fictional first civilization on our galaxy, were beyond amazing. Just masterpieces of sci fi short story telling imo.
Unfortunately most if not all film creators (or maybe those that approve their payment?) never got past the fairytale stage, when it comes to imaginative stories. Either this, or they mimic a real story from our past, transposing it into the future, and tweaking the storyline to their liking. That’s why Avatar is just the American natives struggle against the European colonists, moved to another planet. That’s why Tenet is just the Cold War story moved to another timeline (so to speak) That’s why Dune, for all its marvel, is just a medieval kingdom internal struggle transported into the stars (as is the game of thorns - song of fire and ice story)… And I’m not going to mention Star Wars or Star Trek. All these have in common some struggles of the human beings as it is defined NOW. A struggle against other human beings or against some current human being conditions as they are now. All the stories are about us, and what we can relate to at this point in our history. I would very much like to see some story that tries to imagine a different (more evolved) being and its perceived struggles (that would be a stretch of imagination)…
It's what everyone is mortally afraid of, with good reason: to be stranded alone somewhere, nowhere in the cosmos, with no outside voices, no interaction, or even signs of life or movement.. Forever Cocooned by the Void😮
@@ozymandias1758 Until the next big bang continues the cycle an absolute s)(-#&-ton of time later. And we haven't even talked string theory and multiple universes/multiverse(s). But yeah, spending timeless time alone is brrr.
@@catharinalangle4890a portal to another universe unf isn't available to the narrator, in all the countless eons of his existence he never developed time travel or the ability to portal to any other realm. And he's out of energy, so even if he developed the science to pull it off, he may no longer have the means to do so. He's so heavily invested in his version of existence that he probably would not be open to letting his consciousness dissipate and hoping it coalesces and awakens again after the next big bang, when the universe is recycled and created anew. He's painted himself into a shrinking corner, on a cosmic scale..
@@ozymandias17584:13 the Scene were Mercury looks to be falling into the Sun is from *SUNSHINE* 2007. I highly recommend the film. Truly existential and terrifying scores with utterly transcending soundtracks.
This was incredible. I did not think at the beginning of this that I would be on the verge of tears at the end, but this was so emotional and thought-provoking that I couldn't help it. Another absolutely amazing video.
That's the one exact sell point of our beloved Professor to other Channels out there. I was literally crying at the end of the content on Time-travelling because I kind of hope that video would be mostly of time-travelling paradoxes or conspiracy theories around that like most UA-cam videos. For someone who lost the beloved ones in COVID needs some form of closure to deal with grief even it's something that we can't manipulate or foresee.
As a recovering heroin addict I come to this channel to feel things I otherwise couldn't. Every time I think I've permanently damaged my capacity for emotion, these thought experiments prove otherwise. Extremely insightful and profoundly moving. Ty cool worlds.
you haven’t damaged anything bud…sure, it’s a long trek back to normalcy, but don’t stress yourself out, and don’t let society make you feel like you’re a diminished version of yourself. I hope you have a good one.
You’re clearly stronger than the rest of us. So proud of you for making it this far in your personal battle of a journey. All it takes is time, perhaps a little more than you bargained for, to feel it all again
Best wholesome UA-camr that makes astronomy videos, now, and forever. Nobody tops you bro! I really really love how you use philosophy in your videos and stimulate deep thinking, and do it with a longer pause in between sentences to let people think for themselves too, it's not like those no attention span tiktoks and shorts. I appreciate you a lot.
He is deffinitly one of the best. An acquaintance of the good professor, one Issac Arthur does great wholesome.content in this realm too. But.. it's easier to sleep to David's voice....it's so smooth
@@jaymxuI had the same thing happen to me the other week on a NASA Space Flight video. I didn't even think about it taking the heart away when I was only trying to fix a small grammatical error. 😢
@jaymexxu - Well said!! Totally agree this is a fantastic channel and the delivery is smooth like silk! Absolutely one of my favorites for great content. Have a fabulous day everyone!
That was truly breathtaking. With all of Hollywood pumping out one poorly written remake after another, it's a brilliant physicist who writes the best screenplay of the year!
This is truly sublime. Alan Watts once said if you could dream a million dreams, eventually you would want a suprising adventure and find yourself where you are now. There is a strange comfort in being a memory of the last being in the universe, dreaming for all of humanity. Thank you Dr. Kipping.
It made me want to go open up a vein or two in the bathtub with a straight razer and contemplate the heat death of the Universe as the bathwater slowly cools from hot to tepid and ever more red.
Modern physics strongly supports many other universes beyond our own, so the entire drama depicted on this video is based on the ridiculous idea that human kind wouldn´t discover ways of migrating to other universes EVEN WHEN HAVING TRILLIONS OF TRILLIONS OF YEARS TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO IT
As a possible note of cheer, will say that CW assumes a certain level of shortsightedness and cruelty we don’t have to assume exotic future beings would harbor. The fact that we can predict such things right now leads me to believe that exotic hyperintelligences probably wouldn’t be so taken by surprise by these events, even if such version of the future is less narratively interesting than CW’s.
Nah, a more desirable outcome would be to be able to exist even beyond a heat death of the universe, if heat death is even what's actually going to happen, you'd still have ways, because you could potentially harness virtual particles from the vacuum of space, having essentially an ever lasting stream of matter that could be used to create materials, planets, stars, and energy. For all we know we're already in such a universe, where heat death already occurred and a civilization simply synthesized the universe from virtual particles. This might even explain why some mathematical problems are unsolved, because based on some particle physics results, we would technically expect that space should right now be expanding so fast that even the distance between two people sitting beside each other should be moving the space between them apart at the speed of light. That's how big of discrepancies we have in science. So our entire universe could essentially just be a battery for some greater civilization trying to survive the heat death of the universe. Or it could even be possible that they had more than enough matter coalesced, and had existed for soo long, that the remaining energy was futile to them, so crafted it all into a mini universe to let something else exist with what was left, meaning our universe could be just a tiny fraction of what their original universe was.
Not necessarily, we could discover how to time travel and avoid all these issues, or how to jump to other universes in a multiverse and avoid our own one's demise, or even how to create free-energy devices that generate more than they need to function
same. i also dont feel like i can talk to anyone about these things. none of my friends have this kind of thoughts and interests. when we are looking in the sky on a clear night, i explain the sheer size and time about our universe and all. but they only go "yeah. fascinating. when do we leave?"
This is probably the best science fiction narration I have ever heard from a UA-camr. Our petty human differences are so meaningless in the grand scheme of our entire spec of existence. Where we've been. Where we're going. If we surpass the Great Filter, hopefully humans can achieve bliss in a otherwise bleak future.
I highly recommend the movie SUNSHINE 2007. It's the most existential and visceral film I've seen. Has the most terrifying and beautiful music score In a movie.
You moved me and drove me to tears. I felt my existence, my humanity, my end. Thank you. Truly beautiful and tragic. A masterpiece. Blessings from Sydney Australia.
Thank you for this. While the ending was bleak, I think it is important to understand that no matter how many years you have, the end comes to us all, eventually.
After I watched this video, I felt uneasy for a bit. I took some time and I reflected on why that might be. I think I felt that way because this video stirred up thoughts of the need to accept that death is inevitable. And that’s a good thing. It is completely logical to accept this fact, and I do, but on an emotional level sometimes I revert back to rejecting it, and I lose my inner peace about this reality. Thank you for producing content like this that can stir such thoughts and realizations.
I don't agree death is inevitable. We are taught to accept it because we cannot beat it... yet. I believe science will be eventually able to beat it. The civilization described here should have found ways to modify the laws of physics so that the stars don't burn out, or to escape our universe and find others where it would be possible to live for longer time, or create new universes. They had almost a googol years, and that's something. And in this video the humanity kinda reached some point (not very far from where we are now) and then stopped. In my opinion, this is the problem of all science fiction. The science never stops, and it has no limits at all. Our generation will experience death, yes. But I am sure our descendants will find not only the way to make themselves immortal, but to reconstruct our minds from the state of universe they will scan, and this way bring us back to live with them in this future.
This comment is so close to how I feel having just finished watching. I've often considered what being immortal might be like, and always felt it could only only end up in selfishness or absolute destruction. But hey, if nothing else, I will remember this one day when my time comes. In the meantime, let's become a better society for the benefit of all who are here, and all will come. And how better could we honor those who already passed, as well? ❤🌍🌎🌏🌐
You call into question the nature of Self. Self is Awareness. As such, by definition, we can never experience 'death', for the moment Awareness ends, we are not there. Even in simple sleep, are you still there ?
This was depressingly beautiful. First of your video's I've watched, found it in my recommended videos from UA-cams algorithm. I was captured 100% in the story from the get go. Brilliant job on this can't wait to watch more of your content.
I pulled up UA-cam to distract myself for a few minutes.. I didn't expect to end my night crying, shaking quietly into my pillow so I don't wake my wife and have to explain the heat death of the universe to someone who just wants to tend her garden and feed her birds. I have no idea what to do with this, but I'm so grateful that you made it.
This reminds me a lot of Issac Arthur's "civilizations at the end of time" episodes. Really thought provoking material. Very well presented. Thank you.
Wow.. Just wow. I can't express how deep, thoughtful and emotive this story is.. I've never even remotely thought in such vast and timeless terms like this.. Not ever.. It was at the same time tragically sad and joyously triumphant to experience this story of the lifetime of the Universe as experienced by the very.. last.. conscious being... Just wow.. Thank you so much for this deeply moving experience Prof. Kipping.
I haven't either. In no small part because the number of times I've considered what being immortal would be like, I could not see an ending that was not selfish or ultimately destructive. As an optimist myself, this video extends well beyond my own optimism. So maybe I have even more reason for hope. This cannot be the only possible outcome. I'm still not convinced the universe has an age or an edge. If it does, then what lies before/beyond that? How does nothing exist?
How can anything make me this sad. How futile are our quibbles over land, religion, ideology, money... How insignificant are we in this vast universe? Thank you for this thought-provoking tale.
Right now we don’t have access to the galaxy that this story envisions. We have access to this one tiny spec that all the people to ever exist have lived on. Once we can expand past our planet and our solar system then these realities begin to take place and those generations will have the opportunity this video talks about. Until then we suffer under limited resources like this video explains only the reverse of it.
The good thing though is that we could certainly still be wrong about our assumptions about the universe. We live and observe, we aren’t all knowing, and therefore, hope should always be held and not fall to things as frivolous as the slight possibility of us being right about our pessimism. Perhaps there is a afterlife. Perhaps existence outside of this one is only the beginning. We love to assume but we fail to realize just how much possibilities there are, and just how wrong we could be in terms of reality itself. These wars and conflicts, disagreements and arguments, and more. They shape us just as much as peacefulness and unity, love and kindness. If we deprive ourselves of our struggles, then what are we meant for?
We will most likely remain this way even having conquered the stars, which is good, without conflict how boring humanity would become? We were always meant to be a maddening, irrational, species, if there's none to fight we fight ourselves, even to destruction
The best text, interpretation, and content ever seen on the internet. I thank the universe for being able to understand the plot. It's beyond fantastic. I have no words. Just thank you.
I've watched hundreds of all kinds of space/physics related videos on youtube. This is one of the few that had me glued from start to finish. Beautiful.
Read so many comments that people are upset and sad. I seem to be resigned. When people talk about an afterlife being 'forever', I keep thinking how very very very long that is. Like the character, I come to the same conclusion, what is the point of surviving just for the sake of surviving if you lose everything you wanted to preserve? You eventually lose yourself. Excellent video. Will probably watch again. Gives you a perspective you seldom think about. A cheesy saying seems apt, things are precious and beautiful because they _don't_ last.
Low key I was expecting a good ending like this, " The expansion of the universe seem to have also died along with the last few black holes, perhaps they were connected one to another. Yet in our last moments of futile desperation our persistence seems to have paid off, we have longed theorized of how our universe came to existence yet we have never found out the truth. Now of all time I can see an incredibly shiny light far into the distance, a beacon of hope, a different kind of light from that of a dying black hole, perhaps a new universe ?" Amazing video btw. Love it.
As extreme as the scale of this narrative setting is, it's pretty hard sci-fi. A happy ending that required leaps of faith, or largely unfounded speculation, would have been out of place.
I was going to say that perhaps he doesn't exist in a single universe bubble and that some entity/entities from outside of that universe bubble just fish him out. I mean you might not start a new universe with entities already inside it, they might I dunno, get vaporized and such.
Escaping entropy by going into another universe has been proposed by a few scifi races. It's probably the most viable. Wouldn't it suck if they learned that every new spacetime has less energy density than the last and that limits the sort of physics possible in them. Eventually you get to a universe where not even chemistry is possible. Then you really gotta get creative with your energy sources.
Dr. Kipping, I could listen to you for hours. This narrative, these images, your soothing, gentle voice have woven one of the most beautiful, poignant, and poetic programs I have ever witnessed. Thank you so much. 🌹
This was absolutely amazing. I've spent my whole life pondering such things. So much of my thoughts are spent on such mulling that it,at times,has been crippling for me. And it's been extremely rare that I encounter someone to converse with,or share my thoughts with, that it has caused me profound and terrible loneliness all my life. Watching this vid brought tears to my eyes. Not only because it is simply beautiful,but because it made me feel that there are others out there.
Simply a masterpiece. Ive listened to this almost a dozen times now, and the imagery is incredible. Someone would make a fortune adapting your story into a movie or show. Thank you very much Dr. Kipping. :)
A series of books would be wonderful. ....And if Penrose's cyclic universe theory is correct, those who slowed their consciousness down the very most might just possibly persist through the rescaling event to the next Big Bang.
I absolutely love the narrative device you used to write this. It is haunting, sad, terrifying, inspiring and beautiful all at once. You should think about publishing this as a short story/novella. If you do though, don't expand on it too much. It's short form really plays on the idea of it being humanities final throw at/during the heat-death of the universe. Fantastic Work!
@@TheRealSkeletor Because, believe it or not, people still read. There is just something about a civilization running out of energy and telling their story using one of the lowest form of technology available, words on paper (or another material). It is kind of reminiscent (to me) of finding a text/tome/book lost to the ages.
Do not go gentle into that good night, old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Well done Prof. Kipping 🙏🏻
Not gonna lie this reading/story made me come to tears...i can only think of just how ALONE one must feel in that position and yet feel so obligated to continue because one remembers everything your people used to be.
i love these types of Cool World videos! no math, just these fantastic, science-based, imaginative stories that lend so much to the imagination! thank you!
HOLY COW. No idea why UA-cam's algorithm recommended this, but I watched it, and I am now just sitting here in stunned silence. Holy cow. That was amazing.
This is my phobia. I'm not sure if there is a name for such a thing, but this fear of the end of everything... Even if there is an afterlife, there will ultimately be an end. And to live that long you would question why. This is one of the most important videos of my life, as it sums my fear entirely in such a deeper and more profound way than I ever could. This reminds me of the end of the Three Body Problem - an existential dread. It's beautiful.
Imagine getting to the afterlife and proving entropy still matters. That would be depressing. It's hard to imagine wanting to be "the last one" as in this story. I suppose it's a comfort that eventually one might want to simply dissolve away quietly into whatever energy creates the afterlife. If it's possible to have a fulfilling afterlife, maybe you just decide "this is far enough". I could also imagine some people asking just to sleep; not exactly the time dilation in this video, but a reduced state of semi-consciousness until one "feels rested".
An afterlife is by its nature external to this reality, and therefore (likely) unbound by the laws of entropy, etc. So no, not *everything* neccessarily ends.
Entropy does not only mean the end. With enough time, the Universe can be reborn through the nature of the energy inherent to space itself. So, those enduring minds may actually be lucky enough to experience the birth of a new universe.
I think that's the fear.. If there was an afterlife, would you maintain your consciousness, and if the universe ended and was reborn, would you maintain your consciousness. I suppose it doesn't matter what vessel I'm operating, only if I "know" who I am and have memories of life. @@HeruUrAusar
I've just been debating with myself for the past 2 hours about how many lives could I realistically live before getting tired of it all. No matter the answer, it just shows how a single video can bring about such creativity and wonder in one's mind!
That last thought at the very end, that last being, will see the big bang again. Then they will cease. This has been a thought exercise for me for probably 25 years.
Wow just wow. Another amazing video, David. This is by far the best science channel on UA-cam right now. Personally I love when you do the deep, emotive, style ones. The time travel one, for example, I go back to again and again.
This is top 3 youtube channels that i watched daily. The knowledge, the story telling is perfect, it makes me thing about life, humanity, tech, universe all in one.
Bravo, what an amazing story. You brought to voice what i imagined a decade ago. I thought about the heat death of the universe and that a space station from humans is attached to a brown dwarf star, the last of its kind and the last of any stars (to harness its energy, because they should be the only stars left at the end before there is nothingness, i think even black holes are gone befor that). The humans inside live in a virtual reality in an endless sea of storys like you describe. The station is maintained by AI but it hat a malfunction and had to be "touched" by a "natural inteligence". And as a joke one of the humans had to be made real (put in to a flesh body) to deal with it. And the (cruel) joke was that they chose the human shape of our era (because i imagined that in the future they dont look like us anymore and that our bodys are very weak compared to them) and specifically the character of Rodney Mckay of Stargate Atlantis (i mean that i imagined that character in that role and how he runs around in the space station). He experiences a lot of stuff (funny, frigheting etc.) but to make a long story short he would, in his time and in his body, witness, as the only being (because the people in the VR don't have access to external sensors), the big crunch and second big bang.
Thank you for this... I've thought of about the end of ends and wondered. I found this moving. Beautiful. You gave such life and clarity to how things might actually happen. And it was all so real. Not just in a no sci fi kind of way, but the heart, the love, feeling, the loss... I often find the heat death of the universe profoundly sad... all those stars, all those creatures, everything that was bright and inspiring, everything they loved, wanted, feared, remembered, connected... just gone. Empty. Forgotten... at best I can think of it as a sleep. But in reality it's not that. This piece of work brought tears to my eyes and helped me grieve for things to come.
This one brought tears to my eyes.... Beautiful, beautiful video, you guys just don't seem to miss. So few understand how ahead of your time you are, thought process-wise. This video will not always be fiction, and/or is already the reality in which we live, without our population being aware. I think I speak for others here when I say, your presence is so unbelievably appreciated on this platform, there's hardly an appropriate way to phrase it. Your audience loves you. Stay awesome.
Brilliant. Reminded me very much of George Zebrowski's book 'Macrolife', in which mankind survives into the big bang of a new universe, or even Isaac Asimov's 'The Last Question'. Really, very well done. I was spellbound throughout.
Best channel on UA-cam by far! Please continue to mix philosophy and astronomy together. It makes me think about the bigger questions in life instead of just day to day things. Your storytelling techniques is amazing and even I just finish this video I have already restarted it and I’ll probably listen to it 3-4 times more today! 😁
This video is at once sombre and relieving. I’d seen this video pop up every now and then on my feed, but be too scared to click on it. Only now, after watching it, do I feel better somehow now that I’ve watched it. Been extremely anxious these past few days but less so now after watching this.
Yeah, i like this. I've followed you guys for a few years now and this is the first time ive seen this kind of video from you. If it helps in any way, I approve!
Brilliant. Thought provoking. Artful. Another triumph of intellectual and emotional truth borne from the physics of our reality. If they handed out Oscars for UA-cam videos...
Strangely, I had the opposite reaction. The intervening eons between now and then stretch before us like a treasure of unfathomable richness and joy, and I want to participate in it as much as I possibly can. Will it all come to naught? Maybe. Probably. But in a way that's liberating. It lets us focus on the journey, and on bringing as much joy to each other as possible while we share it.
This was absolutely amazing to watch. Ive sat for about 10 minutes going over it all again in my head and im still lost for words. The music, the story, everything had so much depth. This was honestly a pleasure to watch. I would LOVE to see a full movie made by you dude. 👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽
I come back here every so often, when I've had a rough day, and just listen. It makes my problems feel small. Trivial. For most of our lives, we seldom get to think about the big picture instead of the here and now. But when we do it feels as if it brings things into focus. The scale of it all. The unanswered questions. The neverending tick of time. The vague feeling that it all fits together somehow, and that someday it will all make sense. The journey to get there. Will we take the well worn paths or those seldom traveled? If we find the strength to choose the the harder road, will it pay off in the end? I hope so.
This is beautiful. I recently had a similar session with ChatGPT where I played a sci-fi writer in the 21st century, communicating with a digital being billions of years in the future, adrift on a rogue Earth in intergalactic space. The being narrated stories of how Earth got ejected from the Sol system and how the surviving Earthlings persisted through mind uploads. We, the digital beings, lived multiple lifetimes in different simulations, and we discussed concepts like multiple worlds, existing in multiple dimensions, etc. This is just similar to the make-believe chat I had with ChatGPT.
Well, what can you say to that? What an astonishing and beautiful piece of work that has reduced a large hairy bloke to the subjective state of an emotional teenager. 'It's almost as if the building blocks of life themselves have given up on existence' I have never heard such a comment that in one sentence grasps the difficult job of portraying a sense of scale to any description of time or the Universe.. and how bleakly it echoes around the mind. So many fascinating concepts here too from time dilation enabling seemingly instant communication across vast distances to fighting over black holes, smashing stars together to reconciliation of opposing forces due to the realisation that the cold Universe is coming to divide them, forever. I wish everyone on the planet could watch this.. I'm a great believer in perspective and this piece delivers the ultimate point of observation from which one can really assess the current state of the world we live in. Bravo.. and i really do mean BRAVO!
Everything we should review in our daily experience is inventoried here-- personhood, moral choice, selfhood, the powers of language and consciousness, the fragility of volition, incapacities of memory, the meaning of life & experience, the purpose of existence--and of purpose itself. Thank you, Dr. Kipping.
I'm captivated by the cosmic wonders because of this stellar video, narrated by a maestro, weaving profound philosophical reflections on the infinitude of existence itself. Bravo!
This video is truly spectacular. There are now words that would sufficiently describe the wave of emotions that engulfed my being watching this. Thank you, thank you good sir.
Hello Dr! Welcome back! I hope I can speak for all of your loyal subscribers and say that it's difficult to adequately express the depths to which we appreciate ALL of your wonderful content!!
All we can do is recognize that every moment is precious and short. Try to find something to be happy about every day and also try to be a better person today than you were yesterday.
Wow, I had to listen to this twice to really let the implications sink in. What an awe inspiring tale of tragedy. It really makes you think on the age old question "If you could live forever would you?" I would say, because this is a very likely scenario in that event, that I would choose longevity as long as I knew I could turn it all off whenever I chose.
Also, the description about a second in time for the narrator translates to millions (plus) of years made me pause (both the video and to reflect) and really think about how we spend all the seconds in an hour alone. This video is heavy and very thought provoking. I love it.
Beautiful story. This moved me as just as "The Last Question", my previous favorite short. Yours feels so much more tangible and real. I really felt like a part it. At the end though, I still I wonder if the Heisenberg uncertainty principle would allow for a universe to end in such a manner, or if a Poincaré recurrence will occur, and is so, by what mechanism.
My goodness. I need a think. I'm good with passing on whenever my time comes. This was perhaps the most touching and poignant video you've ever made, even if in a very, very isolating and dark sort of way. Very seldom does anything make me feel the way I feel right now and this sure did it. I've had so much on my mind lately and this had my utter, undivided attention from start to finish. Thank you.
Incredible, I don't really know what else to say. Sitting here with tears in my eyes as this only got more and more touching in a truly special way over time. Always found "deep time" incredibly fascinating to think about.
I don't know who you have on your team with making these videos, but you guys are making some of the highest quality space science related work on UA-cam. Unbelievably well done.
I once tried to think about what the last thought in the Universe would be... when the last ancient mind finally uses up the end of all usable energy... what i could think of was "I exist." This was a beautifully written and beautifully performed video.
This was incredible. The most innovative thing Ive seen in years. It does speak to the futility of our lives, and tells us that what we have NOW is what is life.
This was one of the best things I have ever watched. After finishing the video I just sat there for like 5 minutes just taking in everything I just watched and then I had some of the most thought provoking ideas and concepts I have ever had. Watching this gave me a feeling I have never experienced before and I don’t know what it could possibly be. Thank you for this absolute masterpiece and I doubt I will ever experience something like this again
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It just occurred to me that if any filmmaker and/or major media entity ie, Netflix, Hulu, etc , wanted to make an amazing speculative science fiction film or series that likely would be the best and most thought provoking ever, they need to employ Dr. Kipping. This one and the one he did about a fictional first civilization on our galaxy, were beyond amazing. Just masterpieces of sci fi short story telling imo.
Great comment.
Unfortunately most if not all film creators (or maybe those that approve their payment?) never got past the fairytale stage, when it comes to imaginative stories.
Either this, or they mimic a real story from our past, transposing it into the future, and tweaking the storyline to their liking.
That’s why Avatar is just the American natives struggle against the European colonists, moved to another planet.
That’s why Tenet is just the Cold War story moved to another timeline (so to speak)
That’s why Dune, for all its marvel, is just a medieval kingdom internal struggle transported into the stars (as is the game of thorns - song of fire and ice story)…
And I’m not going to mention Star Wars or Star Trek.
All these have in common some struggles of the human beings as it is defined NOW. A struggle against other human beings or against some current human being conditions as they are now.
All the stories are about us, and what we can relate to at this point in our history.
I would very much like to see some story that tries to imagine a different (more evolved) being and its perceived struggles (that would be a stretch of imagination)…
This fits as a Black mirror episode
After this, you may be up for a viewing of the movie Aniara (Scifi 2018). Or you may not. Just decide carefully.
People like him do not need to be "employed" .. the only reason their work is this good is because no corporation was involved.
Absolutely stunning David. Your best yet, which is saying a lot.
Yo l like your videos too.
We love your videos also. I've learned so much.
What a coincidence! I recommend both Cool Worlds and John Michael Godier channels to my wife about 15 minutes ago.
Yes John, love your video on nano civilizations
I just subscribed to cool worlds on the strength of coincidentally seeing JMG complimenting.
This was brilliant.
That last line "A universe just for me, for ALL TIME" for some reason, made me cry.
It's what everyone is mortally afraid of, with good reason: to be stranded alone somewhere, nowhere in the cosmos, with no outside voices, no interaction, or even signs of life or movement.. Forever Cocooned by the Void😮
@@ozymandias1758 Until the next big bang continues the cycle an absolute s)(-#&-ton of time later. And we haven't even talked string theory and multiple universes/multiverse(s). But yeah, spending timeless time alone is brrr.
@@catharinalangle4890a portal to another universe unf isn't available to the narrator, in all the countless eons of his existence he never developed time travel or the ability to portal to any other realm. And he's out of energy, so even if he developed the science to pull it off, he may no longer have the means to do so. He's so heavily invested in his version of existence that he probably would not be open to letting his consciousness dissipate and hoping it coalesces and awakens again after the next big bang, when the universe is recycled and created anew. He's painted himself into a shrinking corner, on a cosmic scale..
He's a bit dramatic, just next door there's a fully functioning very successful restaurant
@@ozymandias17584:13 the Scene were Mercury looks to be falling into the Sun is from *SUNSHINE* 2007. I highly recommend the film. Truly existential and terrifying scores with utterly transcending soundtracks.
This was incredible. I did not think at the beginning of this that I would be on the verge of tears at the end, but this was so emotional and thought-provoking that I couldn't help it. Another absolutely amazing video.
Thank you so much, I put a lot into this one
@@CoolWorldsLab You're changing lives and are a great inspiration.
That's the one exact sell point of our beloved Professor to other Channels out there. I was literally crying at the end of the content on Time-travelling because I kind of hope that video would be mostly of time-travelling paradoxes or conspiracy theories around that like most UA-cam videos. For someone who lost the beloved ones in COVID needs some form of closure to deal with grief even it's something that we can't manipulate or foresee.
@@CoolWorldsLabpossibly one of your best works thanks..
@@CoolWorldsLab I could tell, this is truly special.
As a recovering heroin addict I come to this channel to feel things I otherwise couldn't. Every time I think I've permanently damaged my capacity for emotion, these thought experiments prove otherwise. Extremely insightful and profoundly moving. Ty cool worlds.
you haven’t damaged anything bud…sure, it’s a long trek back to normalcy, but don’t stress yourself out, and don’t let society make you feel like you’re a diminished version of yourself. I hope you have a good one.
Who knows, maybe you just got rid of the petty and superficial layers of emotion that stop people from meeting themselves or meeting life fully.
Keep on the road to cleansing buddy, good luck even though you don’t need it king 👍
@@512Squaredno because those emotions allow us to strive for our being, anyways the dude will be fine, he’s got this.
You’re clearly stronger than the rest of us. So proud of you for making it this far in your personal battle of a journey. All it takes is time, perhaps a little more than you bargained for, to feel it all again
This has to be the best hard science fiction story I have EVER witnessed. Thank you, Professor Kipping.
What a wonderful work of art. Beautifully written and narrated. Thank you for this upload!
I'm in love
Me too
Best wholesome UA-camr that makes astronomy videos, now, and forever. Nobody tops you bro! I really really love how you use philosophy in your videos and stimulate deep thinking, and do it with a longer pause in between sentences to let people think for themselves too, it's not like those no attention span tiktoks and shorts. I appreciate you a lot.
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@@CoolWorldsLab Sorry i edited my comment it removed the heart. But thank you for giving one i appreciate it a lot. 👊
He is deffinitly one of the best. An acquaintance of the good professor, one Issac Arthur does great wholesome.content in this realm too. But.. it's easier to sleep to David's voice....it's so smooth
@@jaymxuI had the same thing happen to me the other week on a NASA Space Flight video. I didn't even think about it taking the heart away when I was only trying to fix a small grammatical error. 😢
@jaymexxu - Well said!! Totally agree this is a fantastic channel and the delivery is smooth like silk! Absolutely one of my favorites for great content. Have a fabulous day everyone!
That was truly breathtaking. With all of Hollywood pumping out one poorly written remake after another, it's a brilliant physicist who writes the best screenplay of the year!
This is truly sublime. Alan Watts once said if you could dream a million dreams, eventually you would want a suprising adventure and find yourself where you are now. There is a strange comfort in being a memory of the last being in the universe, dreaming for all of humanity. Thank you Dr. Kipping.
It made me want to go open up a vein or two in the bathtub with a straight razer and contemplate the heat death of the Universe as the bathwater slowly cools from hot to tepid and ever more red.
Begs the question, what could be dreaming of the machine that's dreaming of us?
@@laurencejperrya dream within a dream.
This might be the best sci-fi story I've ever seen. And it's even rooted in true physics as we understand it right now. Amazing and powerful.
You should read some more sci-fi then... May I suggest The Last Question by Asimov? After all, this video is basically a copy of that short story
Modern physics strongly supports many other universes beyond our own, so the entire drama depicted on this video is based on the ridiculous idea that human kind wouldn´t discover ways of migrating to other universes EVEN WHEN HAVING TRILLIONS OF TRILLIONS OF YEARS TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO IT
Deep. Never thought about immortality in that light.
Very Beautiful Story....
@@kaledon6no matter how much time you give a microbe, it will never discover a cure for cancer.
It’s horrifying when you realise this is the single most desirable outcome for humanity’s future
As a possible note of cheer, will say that CW assumes a certain level of shortsightedness and cruelty we don’t have to assume exotic future beings would harbor. The fact that we can predict such things right now leads me to believe that exotic hyperintelligences probably wouldn’t be so taken by surprise by these events, even if such version of the future is less narratively interesting than CW’s.
Nah, a more desirable outcome would be to be able to exist even beyond a heat death of the universe, if heat death is even what's actually going to happen, you'd still have ways, because you could potentially harness virtual particles from the vacuum of space, having essentially an ever lasting stream of matter that could be used to create materials, planets, stars, and energy. For all we know we're already in such a universe, where heat death already occurred and a civilization simply synthesized the universe from virtual particles. This might even explain why some mathematical problems are unsolved, because based on some particle physics results, we would technically expect that space should right now be expanding so fast that even the distance between two people sitting beside each other should be moving the space between them apart at the speed of light. That's how big of discrepancies we have in science. So our entire universe could essentially just be a battery for some greater civilization trying to survive the heat death of the universe. Or it could even be possible that they had more than enough matter coalesced, and had existed for soo long, that the remaining energy was futile to them, so crafted it all into a mini universe to let something else exist with what was left, meaning our universe could be just a tiny fraction of what their original universe was.
In materialist terms, that's true.
Not necessarily, we could discover how to time travel and avoid all these issues, or how to jump to other universes in a multiverse and avoid our own one's demise, or even how to create free-energy devices that generate more than they need to function
@ there’s no such thing as ‘energy free’
I wanna be around people like this to like to think about the universe.
You definitely found those people
Welcome! Tho if you want to in person, get a physics degree and pursue higher education
same. i also dont feel like i can talk to anyone about these things. none of my friends have this kind of thoughts and interests.
when we are looking in the sky on a clear night, i explain the sheer size and time about our universe and all. but they only go "yeah. fascinating. when do we leave?"
@@TheArtofFugue I'm smart but i'm not that smart
@99Lezard99 ya I feel ya
This is probably the best science fiction narration I have ever heard from a UA-camr. Our petty human differences are so meaningless in the grand scheme of our entire spec of existence. Where we've been. Where we're going. If we surpass the Great Filter, hopefully humans can achieve bliss in a otherwise bleak future.
I highly recommend the movie SUNSHINE 2007. It's the most existential and visceral film I've seen. Has the most terrifying and beautiful music score In a movie.
You moved me and drove me to tears. I felt my existence, my humanity, my end. Thank you. Truly beautiful and tragic. A masterpiece. Blessings from Sydney Australia.
Thank you for this. While the ending was bleak, I think it is important to understand that no matter how many years you have, the end comes to us all, eventually.
Don't think it's bleak. Its beautiful that we made it all that way. Better that we witness heat death than it happens without us
There's still one more source of radiation that will never completely run dry - the cosmic event horizon
@@genegray9895which is what ? The Big Bang ?
If you get rid of fear completely, you will see there is great beauty in death and the ending.
“Death comes for us all, Oroku Saki, but something much worse comes for you … for when you die, it will be without honor.”
~ Master Splinter
After I watched this video, I felt uneasy for a bit. I took some time and I reflected on why that might be. I think I felt that way because this video stirred up thoughts of the need to accept that death is inevitable. And that’s a good thing. It is completely logical to accept this fact, and I do, but on an emotional level sometimes I revert back to rejecting it, and I lose my inner peace about this reality. Thank you for producing content like this that can stir such thoughts and realizations.
yeah
I don't agree death is inevitable. We are taught to accept it because we cannot beat it... yet. I believe science will be eventually able to beat it. The civilization described here should have found ways to modify the laws of physics so that the stars don't burn out, or to escape our universe and find others where it would be possible to live for longer time, or create new universes. They had almost a googol years, and that's something. And in this video the humanity kinda reached some point (not very far from where we are now) and then stopped. In my opinion, this is the problem of all science fiction. The science never stops, and it has no limits at all.
Our generation will experience death, yes. But I am sure our descendants will find not only the way to make themselves immortal, but to reconstruct our minds from the state of universe they will scan, and this way bring us back to live with them in this future.
Can't die if you're already dead
This comment is so close to how I feel having just finished watching. I've often considered what being immortal might be like, and always felt it could only only end up in selfishness or absolute destruction. But hey, if nothing else, I will remember this one day when my time comes. In the meantime, let's become a better society for the benefit of all who are here, and all will come. And how better could we honor those who already passed, as well? ❤🌍🌎🌏🌐
You call into question the nature of Self. Self is Awareness. As such, by definition, we can never experience 'death', for the moment Awareness ends, we are not there. Even in simple sleep, are you still there ?
This was depressingly beautiful. First of your video's I've watched, found it in my recommended videos from UA-cams algorithm. I was captured 100% in the story from the get go. Brilliant job on this can't wait to watch more of your content.
I pulled up UA-cam to distract myself for a few minutes.. I didn't expect to end my night crying, shaking quietly into my pillow so I don't wake my wife and have to explain the heat death of the universe to someone who just wants to tend her garden and feed her birds. I have no idea what to do with this, but I'm so grateful that you made it.
Morbidly enlightening to know all we will ever do is meaningless in the end.
Your wife knows what’s best in life.
I’d rather garden.
Your wife knows what’s best in life.
I’d rather garden.
Ignorance is truly bliss. Knowledge is a gift and a curse. Beautifully said my stranger friend.
@@GreenKC All more reason to make every day count for us.
This reminds me a lot of Issac Arthur's "civilizations at the end of time" episodes. Really thought provoking material. Very well presented.
Thank you.
If you like those kind of stories then Tau Zero has a more upbeat (but very unlikely) ending
almost as they both are based on same books
Honestly, that would be hell, literally. A terrifying glimpse into what would be eternal pain and suffering as everyone's minds slowly crumble.
Wow.. Just wow. I can't express how deep, thoughtful and emotive this story is.. I've never even remotely thought in such vast and timeless terms like this.. Not ever..
It was at the same time tragically sad and joyously triumphant to experience this story of the lifetime of the Universe as experienced by the very.. last.. conscious being... Just wow..
Thank you so much for this deeply moving experience Prof. Kipping.
The entire premise of this video is a blatant rip off of Issac Asimov's classic short story "The Last Question"
I haven't either. In no small part because the number of times I've considered what being immortal would be like, I could not see an ending that was not selfish or ultimately destructive. As an optimist myself, this video extends well beyond my own optimism. So maybe I have even more reason for hope. This cannot be the only possible outcome. I'm still not convinced the universe has an age or an edge. If it does, then what lies before/beyond that? How does nothing exist?
@@hadhad69 : I never read that one. Thanks for mentioning it.😊
Edit: And super cool, I just found a version with Leonard Nimoy narrating. 🥰
Even more amazing the second time
Wow this was amazing! Great job
I am stunned. I say this with no intent at hyperbole. This may be the best science fiction story ever, in my opinion.
Sim, you mean.
Check out the Infinite timeline. Whole book series based on this premise.
Read ‘The Soul Consortium,’ if you like this one.
Absolutely amazing. Outstanding story that had me gripped from the start right up until the end. THE best 19:47 minutes I've had in a long long time.
Even your worst enemy could be your best friend in a reality where there is simply no one else…love it!
Yeah way to keep those standards high.
How can anything make me this sad. How futile are our quibbles over land, religion, ideology, money... How insignificant are we in this vast universe? Thank you for this thought-provoking tale.
I like to say we are the Alabama of the Galaxy.
Right now we don’t have access to the galaxy that this story envisions. We have access to this one tiny spec that all the people to ever exist have lived on. Once we can expand past our planet and our solar system then these realities begin to take place and those generations will have the opportunity this video talks about. Until then we suffer under limited resources like this video explains only the reverse of it.
The good thing though is that we could certainly still be wrong about our assumptions about the universe. We live and observe, we aren’t all knowing, and therefore, hope should always be held and not fall to things as frivolous as the slight possibility of us being right about our pessimism. Perhaps there is a afterlife. Perhaps existence outside of this one is only the beginning. We love to assume but we fail to realize just how much possibilities there are, and just how wrong we could be in terms of reality itself.
These wars and conflicts, disagreements and arguments, and more. They shape us just as much as peacefulness and unity, love and kindness. If we deprive ourselves of our struggles, then what are we meant for?
Right? I cried so hard I felt like vomiting. 10/10 story!
We will most likely remain this way even having conquered the stars, which is good, without conflict how boring humanity would become? We were always meant to be a maddening, irrational, species, if there's none to fight we fight ourselves, even to destruction
I’ve rewatched this over and over. So, so good.
Third round, here...
The best text, interpretation, and content ever seen on the internet. I thank the universe for being able to understand the plot. It's beyond fantastic. I have no words. Just thank you.
That's about all I could muster as well. This one hit me too, friend.
I've watched hundreds of all kinds of space/physics related videos on youtube. This is one of the few that had me glued from start to finish. Beautiful.
Read so many comments that people are upset and sad. I seem to be resigned. When people talk about an afterlife being 'forever', I keep thinking how very very very long that is. Like the character, I come to the same conclusion, what is the point of surviving just for the sake of surviving if you lose everything you wanted to preserve? You eventually lose yourself. Excellent video. Will probably watch again. Gives you a perspective you seldom think about. A cheesy saying seems apt, things are precious and beautiful because they _don't_ last.
JFC. Here I sit, in a Toyota dealer's service waiting room, trying not to ugly cry. Bleak, provocative, and thoughtful. Well done.
This
Without Christ there is no eternal life!John 3:16
Wow! This needs to be a screenplay and turned into a full length film.
This is a film, a documentary about the 2020's.
I don't think this could be portrayed in a better form than a short story.
I was knocked off my feet by a wave of emotions. So moving. So refreshing. Thank you and your beautiful mind.
Low key I was expecting a good ending like this, " The expansion of the universe seem to have also died along with the last few black holes, perhaps they were connected one to another. Yet in our last moments of futile desperation our persistence seems to have paid off, we have longed theorized of how our universe came to existence yet we have never found out the truth. Now of all time I can see an incredibly shiny light far into the distance, a beacon of hope, a different kind of light from that of a dying black hole, perhaps a new universe ?"
Amazing video btw. Love it.
As extreme as the scale of this narrative setting is, it's pretty hard sci-fi. A happy ending that required leaps of faith, or largely unfounded speculation, would have been out of place.
A good ending is egocentric. We want to survive so we always a put a good ending.
This is realistic.
I was going to say that perhaps he doesn't exist in a single universe bubble and that some entity/entities from outside of that universe bubble just fish him out. I mean you might not start a new universe with entities already inside it, they might I dunno, get vaporized and such.
Escaping entropy by going into another universe has been proposed by a few scifi races. It's probably the most viable. Wouldn't it suck if they learned that every new spacetime has less energy density than the last and that limits the sort of physics possible in them. Eventually you get to a universe where not even chemistry is possible. Then you really gotta get creative with your energy sources.
'And AC said: "LET THERE BE LIGHT!"
And there was light--'
Dr. Kipping, I could listen to you for hours. This narrative, these images, your soothing, gentle voice have woven one of the most beautiful, poignant, and poetic programs I have ever witnessed. Thank you so much. 🌹
Honestly one of the scariest things I've come across. Well done, beautiful video and story telling.
This was fantastic, I think we would all love more like this. It reminds me of Issac Asimov’s The Last Question.
Great comment.
i was expecting a "and then there was light" at the end
This was absolutely amazing. I've spent my whole life pondering such things. So much of my thoughts are spent on such mulling that it,at times,has been crippling for me. And it's been extremely rare that I encounter someone to converse with,or share my thoughts with, that it has caused me profound and terrible loneliness all my life. Watching this vid brought tears to my eyes. Not only because it is simply beautiful,but because it made me feel that there are others out there.
Simply a masterpiece. Ive listened to this almost a dozen times now, and the imagery is incredible. Someone would make a fortune adapting your story into a movie or show. Thank you very much Dr. Kipping. :)
A series of books would be wonderful. ....And if Penrose's cyclic universe theory is correct, those who slowed their consciousness down the very most might just possibly persist through the rescaling event to the next Big Bang.
I absolutely love the narrative device you used to write this. It is haunting, sad, terrifying, inspiring and beautiful all at once.
You should think about publishing this as a short story/novella. If you do though, don't expand on it too much. It's short form really plays on the idea of it being humanities final throw at/during the heat-death of the universe. Fantastic Work!
It's already published to UA-cam. Why does it need to be in any other format?
@@TheRealSkeletor Because, believe it or not, people still read. There is just something about a civilization running out of energy and telling their story using one of the lowest form of technology available, words on paper (or another material). It is kind of reminiscent (to me) of finding a text/tome/book lost to the ages.
Do not go gentle into that good night, old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Well done Prof. Kipping 🙏🏻
Not gonna lie this reading/story made me come to tears...i can only think of just how ALONE one must feel in that position and yet feel so obligated to continue because one remembers everything your people used to be.
i love these types of Cool World videos! no math, just these fantastic, science-based, imaginative stories that lend so much to the imagination! thank you!
HOLY COW. No idea why UA-cam's algorithm recommended this, but I watched it, and I am now just sitting here in stunned silence. Holy cow. That was amazing.
This shit is just scary xd idk, why would we live for ever . It seems scary to me. Like just let go
@@SerPapus
...he says, ignoring the wave of suicides mentioned by the narrator.
Moooo 🐄
That was incredible. But, honestly, I thought I was going to watch some physics video and now I’m just sobbing. Holy crap, nice work
This is my phobia. I'm not sure if there is a name for such a thing, but this fear of the end of everything... Even if there is an afterlife, there will ultimately be an end. And to live that long you would question why. This is one of the most important videos of my life, as it sums my fear entirely in such a deeper and more profound way than I ever could. This reminds me of the end of the Three Body Problem - an existential dread. It's beautiful.
Imagine getting to the afterlife and proving entropy still matters. That would be depressing. It's hard to imagine wanting to be "the last one" as in this story. I suppose it's a comfort that eventually one might want to simply dissolve away quietly into whatever energy creates the afterlife. If it's possible to have a fulfilling afterlife, maybe you just decide "this is far enough". I could also imagine some people asking just to sleep; not exactly the time dilation in this video, but a reduced state of semi-consciousness until one "feels rested".
An afterlife is by its nature external to this reality, and therefore (likely) unbound by the laws of entropy, etc. So no, not *everything* neccessarily ends.
@@bigmeatswangin5837 Hard to say what's likely though.
Entropy does not only mean the end. With enough time, the Universe can be reborn through the nature of the energy inherent to space itself. So, those enduring minds may actually be lucky enough to experience the birth of a new universe.
I think that's the fear.. If there was an afterlife, would you maintain your consciousness, and if the universe ended and was reborn, would you maintain your consciousness. I suppose it doesn't matter what vessel I'm operating, only if I "know" who I am and have memories of life. @@HeruUrAusar
I've just been debating with myself for the past 2 hours about how many lives could I realistically live before getting tired of it all. No matter the answer, it just shows how a single video can bring about such creativity and wonder in one's mind!
That last thought at the very end, that last being, will see the big bang again. Then they will cease. This has been a thought exercise for me for probably 25 years.
Wow just wow. Another amazing video, David. This is by far the best science channel on UA-cam right now. Personally I love when you do the deep, emotive, style ones. The time travel one, for example, I go back to again and again.
Well said and great comment.
And check the "how big is our universe " one. Infinite meaning lost loved ones still exist somewhere, always gets me
This is top 3 youtube channels that i watched daily. The knowledge, the story telling is perfect, it makes me thing about life, humanity, tech, universe all in one.
Bravo, what an amazing story. You brought to voice what i imagined a decade ago. I thought about the heat death of the universe and that a space station from humans is attached to a brown dwarf star, the last of its kind and the last of any stars (to harness its energy, because they should be the only stars left at the end before there is nothingness, i think even black holes are gone befor that). The humans inside live in a virtual reality in an endless sea of storys like you describe. The station is maintained by AI but it hat a malfunction and had to be "touched" by a "natural inteligence". And as a joke one of the humans had to be made real (put in to a flesh body) to deal with it. And the (cruel) joke was that they chose the human shape of our era (because i imagined that in the future they dont look like us anymore and that our bodys are very weak compared to them) and specifically the character of Rodney Mckay of Stargate Atlantis (i mean that i imagined that character in that role and how he runs around in the space station). He experiences a lot of stuff (funny, frigheting etc.) but to make a long story short he would, in his time and in his body, witness, as the only being (because the people in the VR don't have access to external sensors), the big crunch and second big bang.
Again, Saturday night just got saved. Thank you David and team
Thank you for this... I've thought of about the end of ends and wondered.
I found this moving. Beautiful. You gave such life and clarity to how things might actually happen. And it was all so real. Not just in a no sci fi kind of way, but the heart, the love, feeling, the loss...
I often find the heat death of the universe profoundly sad... all those stars, all those creatures, everything that was bright and inspiring, everything they loved, wanted, feared, remembered, connected... just gone. Empty. Forgotten... at best I can think of it as a sleep. But in reality it's not that.
This piece of work brought tears to my eyes and helped me grieve for things to come.
This is by far your best video, no doubt. Life is at the same time awe inspiring and insignificant.
This one brought tears to my eyes.... Beautiful, beautiful video, you guys just don't seem to miss.
So few understand how ahead of your time you are, thought process-wise. This video will not always be fiction, and/or is already the reality in which we live, without our population being aware.
I think I speak for others here when I say, your presence is so unbelievably appreciated on this platform, there's hardly an appropriate way to phrase it. Your audience loves you.
Stay awesome.
Brilliant. Reminded me very much of George Zebrowski's book 'Macrolife', in which mankind survives into the big bang of a new universe, or even Isaac Asimov's 'The Last Question'. Really, very well done. I was spellbound throughout.
Best channel on UA-cam by far! Please continue to mix philosophy and astronomy together. It makes me think about the bigger questions in life instead of just day to day things.
Your storytelling techniques is amazing and even I just finish this video I have already restarted it and I’ll probably listen to it 3-4 times more today! 😁
This video is at once sombre and relieving. I’d seen this video pop up every now and then on my feed, but be too scared to click on it. Only now, after watching it, do I feel better somehow now that I’ve watched it. Been extremely anxious these past few days but less so now after watching this.
Cool Worlds, you are one of the most poetic creators I’ve encountered. Somehow, in all misery we as humans meet, you have given me strength. 💫✨❤️
I really appreciate that you made this Prof. Kipping. Hardly have I ever been this fascinated and moved at the same time. Simply incredible.
This is beautiful; I absolutely love it!
Yeah, i like this. I've followed you guys for a few years now and this is the first time ive seen this kind of video from you. If it helps in any way, I approve!
Brilliant. Thought provoking. Artful. Another triumph of intellectual and emotional truth borne from the physics of our reality. If they handed out Oscars for UA-cam videos...
This has given me more existential dread, than anything else ever has or could.
Immortality doesn't seem so great now. Beautifully done.
Strangely, I had the opposite reaction. The intervening eons between now and then stretch before us like a treasure of unfathomable richness and joy, and I want to participate in it as much as I possibly can.
Will it all come to naught? Maybe. Probably. But in a way that's liberating. It lets us focus on the journey, and on bringing as much joy to each other as possible while we share it.
This was absolutely amazing to watch. Ive sat for about 10 minutes going over it all again in my head and im still lost for words. The music, the story, everything had so much depth. This was honestly a pleasure to watch. I would LOVE to see a full movie made by you dude. 👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽
I come back here every so often, when I've had a rough day, and just listen. It makes my problems feel small. Trivial. For most of our lives, we seldom get to think about the big picture instead of the here and now. But when we do it feels as if it brings things into focus. The scale of it all. The unanswered questions. The neverending tick of time. The vague feeling that it all fits together somehow, and that someday it will all make sense. The journey to get there. Will we take the well worn paths or those seldom traveled? If we find the strength to choose the the harder road, will it pay off in the end? I hope so.
That was so beautiful and heart breaking. This is one of the greatest pieces of art I have ever experienced.
Top comment.
This is beautiful. I recently had a similar session with ChatGPT where I played a sci-fi writer in the 21st century, communicating with a digital being billions of years in the future, adrift on a rogue Earth in intergalactic space. The being narrated stories of how Earth got ejected from the Sol system and how the surviving Earthlings persisted through mind uploads. We, the digital beings, lived multiple lifetimes in different simulations, and we discussed concepts like multiple worlds, existing in multiple dimensions, etc. This is just similar to the make-believe chat I had with ChatGPT.
Well, what can you say to that?
What an astonishing and beautiful piece of work that has reduced a large hairy bloke to the subjective state of an emotional teenager.
'It's almost as if the building blocks of life themselves have given up on existence' I have never heard such a comment that in one sentence grasps the difficult job of portraying a sense of scale to any description of time or the Universe.. and how bleakly it echoes around the mind.
So many fascinating concepts here too from time dilation enabling seemingly instant communication across vast distances to fighting over black holes, smashing stars together to reconciliation of opposing forces due to the realisation that the cold Universe is coming to divide them, forever.
I wish everyone on the planet could watch this.. I'm a great believer in perspective and this piece delivers the ultimate point of observation from which one can really assess the current state of the world we live in.
Bravo.. and i really do mean BRAVO!
More like this please. That was just stunning to listen to, and deeply thought provoking
Everything we should review in our daily experience is inventoried here-- personhood, moral choice, selfhood, the powers of language and consciousness, the fragility of volition, incapacities of memory, the meaning of life & experience, the purpose of existence--and of purpose itself. Thank you, Dr. Kipping.
Omg! I was about to dismiss this out of hand. Omg, that was an amazing journey I just took. Holy cow! That was really beautiful, thank you!
I'm captivated by the cosmic wonders because of this stellar video, narrated by a maestro, weaving profound philosophical reflections on the infinitude of existence itself. Bravo!
This video is truly spectacular. There are now words that would sufficiently describe the wave of emotions that engulfed my being watching this. Thank you, thank you good sir.
Absolutely outstanding….Writing was amazing. Wow great job
Hello Dr! Welcome back! I hope I can speak for all of your loyal subscribers and say that it's difficult to adequately express the depths to which we appreciate ALL of your wonderful content!!
Such a wonderful story. The weight of these themes is still felt even after the end. Your content has only gotten more addictive over the years.
All we can do is recognize that every moment is precious and short.
Try to find something to be happy about every day and also try to be a better person today than you were yesterday.
Wow, I had to listen to this twice to really let the implications sink in. What an awe inspiring tale of tragedy. It really makes you think on the age old question "If you could live forever would you?"
I would say, because this is a very likely scenario in that event, that I would choose longevity as long as I knew I could turn it all off whenever I chose.
Well said. Good comment.
Also, the description about a second in time for the narrator translates to millions (plus) of years made me pause (both the video and to reflect) and really think about how we spend all the seconds in an hour alone. This video is heavy and very thought provoking. I love it.
I was in deep and blown away by the three minute mark … and then the story just kept getting better and better.
Simply brilliant.
Beautiful story. This moved me as just as "The Last Question", my previous favorite short.
Yours feels so much more tangible and real. I really felt like a part it.
At the end though, I still I wonder if the Heisenberg uncertainty principle would allow for a universe to end in such a manner, or if a Poincaré recurrence will occur, and is so, by what mechanism.
Let there be light.
This was so sad story it made me cry . Masterpiece movie!
My goodness. I need a think. I'm good with passing on whenever my time comes. This was perhaps the most touching and poignant video you've ever made, even if in a very, very isolating and dark sort of way. Very seldom does anything make me feel the way I feel right now and this sure did it. I've had so much on my mind lately and this had my utter, undivided attention from start to finish.
Thank you.
Incredible, I don't really know what else to say. Sitting here with tears in my eyes as this only got more and more touching in a truly special way over time. Always found "deep time" incredibly fascinating to think about.
This was truly otherworldly. I wish I could verbalize how deeply this impacted me, but I am at a loss for where to begin. Thank you for creating this.
I get it completely.
I am profoundly affected in a way I can't quite describe with words,sir.
Thank you
Absolutely wonderfully written,narrated, and illustrated.
You simply must leave a space after a comma.
I didn't need to be bawling my eyes out today but here we are. Great writing.
This is the 1st time I've watched your channel & this is amazing
I don't know who you have on your team with making these videos, but you guys are making some of the highest quality space science related work on UA-cam. Unbelievably well done.
I once tried to think about what the last thought in the Universe would be... when the last ancient mind finally uses up the end of all usable energy... what i could think of was "I exist."
This was a beautifully written and beautifully performed video.
Wow... Please make more of things like this. Beautiful...
I think you are the only person alive who could have written and delivered such a beautiful video essay. Well done ❤
uh not really, much more creative artists and folks out there who produced much more impressive works.
This really opened my eyes.... The beauty of the universe, and our relationship, with it !!!!! Thank you... 😊
This was incredible. The most innovative thing Ive seen in years. It does speak to the futility of our lives, and tells us that what we have NOW is what is life.
This was one of the best things I have ever watched. After finishing the video I just sat there for like 5 minutes just taking in everything I just watched and then I had some of the most thought provoking ideas and concepts I have ever had. Watching this gave me a feeling I have never experienced before and I don’t know what it could possibly be. Thank you for this absolute masterpiece and I doubt I will ever experience something like this again
Wow, that was incredible. Thanks to everyone that put this together.
So entertaining. This needs to be a TV series soon!
That was purely sublime, I had goosebumps throughout. Thank you for the gift of something truly beautiful.
Well said and great comment.