2 Trillion Galaxies? The Mind-Boggling Scale of the Universe Explained
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- Опубліковано 5 бер 2023
- In this mind-bending video, renowned astrophysicist [Brian Cox] delves into the mind-blowing scale of the universe. Did you know that in the piece of the universe we can see, there are over 2 trillion galaxies? And that's just the beginning. Tune in to learn more about the mind-boggling size and scale of the universe, and prepare to have your mind blown!
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And somehow I am stuck on this floating blue rock paying taxes.
Well we gave up space exploration and living among the stars. Instead we have endless wars, everyone on welfare and EBT taking up our resources while we clamor to keep our pathetic country number one as China takes over the leading role. Taxes might be the least of your concern here in the next few years. But I share your sentiment.
Well you either pay youre taxes or go back to the dark ages and trade . Up to you . Take the lesser of two evils .
lol... best response ever!
@@johng.2321 China takes over the leading roles? They are the worlds largest importer of energy and food. Our sanctions would cripple them. Also their economy is based on a globalized world which they need the us to secure for them. On top of it all they’re population is collapsing because of the on child policy. Also because of the one child policy there are way more men than women in China so they can’t fix their population issue. Right NOW is the peak of China it’s all downhill from here for them.
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I believe it is mathematically impossible that we are alone.
We can't be alone. Which begs the question. What is happening out there? There might be a fledge out intergalactic war happening right now between several far more advanced civilization than we are.
I agree. My only wish is to get confirmation in my lifetime.
Actually, considering how many factors are needed to allow for life, many scientists are conceding that there may very well be no other life out there.
@@ariplatt8192 If the universe is all we can NOW see, it is impossible not to be life out there, so just think about it for a second if the universe is infinite!
Since we formed life here on eart, its bigger chance that there are other life out there than not
That is the thing... Nobody can picture this. It is genuinely beyond our capacity to comprehend, and it's very beautiful!
True masterpiece from God.
@@kilotre9842or science
Beautiful, yes! Terrifying? 100%!
I believe it can think and it can read our minds. Try fasting and praying. See what happens. It is lovingly scary.
@@clavo3352 We are all connected and the bigger you zoom out and the smaller you zoom in the more infinitely complex everything becomes. The cosmic web forming like a brain. One question answered a million more in it's place. The more you know the more you don't know. It's beyond human understanding. We are not even specs of specs trying to fathom the infinitely complex great beyond by just looking at the visible 5% of all matter and energy from this tiny spec of a world which has held all of human existence yet we can't see and the other 95% of the Universe completely invisible and we can't even get that 5% right. I can only see God capable of doing such a wonderful yet fragile complexity that gives rise to consciousness. Something humans have almost no understanding of except that it's here simply because we are experiencing consciousness.
Cox is the kind of teacher I would have listened to in school. He’s a gem’
who is he?
They don't call him Lyin Brian for nothing.
@@mysticnomad3577Who calls him that?
@@garrettkelly5568 people that know him personally and others.
@@Archfiend
Professor Brian Cox.
He’s a physicist, a professor/lecturer at universities in the UK, a science communicator, an author, and the host of a number of fantastic BBC science programmes which are well worth a watch.
He’s to physics what David Attenborough is to biology.
Check out Brian Cox on UA-cam; and also in his BBC shows such as ‘The Human Planet’, ‘Wonders Of The Universe’, ‘Wonders Of The Solar System’ and ‘Wonders Of Life’ to name a few.
He also does a podcast called ‘The Infinite Monkey Cage’ that is available on most podcast platforms.
Oh, and he’s also a rock star - he was keyboard player for a UK band in the 90’s called ‘D:Ream’, who had a number one single with the song ‘Things Can Only Get Better’.
He really is a fantastic science communicator; he speaks passionately about his area of expertise, in an entirely accessible and engaging way, whilst also being humble enough to admit to not knowing something - either individually or on behalf of the current scientific understanding of the universe.
If you’re after another short clip to watch, search on UA-cam for ‘Brian Cox bowling ball and feather’ which was filmed for his ‘Human Universe’ TV show.
Brian Cox is the only person who can tell me not to worry about something and I won't worry about it
It actually soothes me that smarter people than me cant comprehend it either. Because sometimes it keeps me up at night
And it all came about from nothing. Amazing.
@@dademags77yeah right. Right?
@@mattc825 EXACTLY!!!!
At that scale, everything we can imagine is out there
A planet made of 🍫?
@@Javaflossa planet made of chocolate colliding with a planet made of milk with an Asian version of you eating it
@@user-qn2tz9qd7t 😂💌
nah doesn't have to be
So you're saying Fat Buu is somewhere out there in the universe?
Brian Cox is a true gem. Not only 1 of the top physicists but an actual Rock Star too
The fact it takes light itself (fastest thing possible in the universe) 100,000 years to cross a galaxy is the craziest thing for me 😐
From our perspective it takes 100 thousand years, for light it takes 0 seconds.
@@Salosowrong. Why do we have light years then bro. It's like 5 trillion miles to travel a light year. That's how long light takes.
@@jasonbridges45I think what the commenter meant is that time is relative. Time goes slower as you go faster (closer to the speed of light). By the time you reach the speed of light, times stops for you.
This means: the light is “born” and reaches its destination INSTANTLY, which explains the commenter above.
If you travel at the speed of light, you wouldn’t experience time
Hence, traveling BACK in time is impossible because you would have to travel faster than light, which is impossible.
I just saw a video saying that our fastest space craft would take some 230 million years to cross our galaxy. It would take the same space craft some 9.5 billion years to cross the largest known galaxy. Just to put into perspective how small our own galaxy is to others.
@@buzza2077 yeah thats massive
Exactly 💯
The size of the universe is actually incomprehensible, no matter how hard you try
Human perceived size of the observable universe would be roughly an ant’s perceived size of the entire Earth.
@@paultvshow not even close
not even close
@@paultvshow Much bigger...
This terrified HP Lovecraft and was a major theme in much of his fiction.
No matter what may be the size of the Universe - Some people think they are the Middle of it..and they never let you forget that.
For all intents and purposes, we are all at the center of the universe, regardless of where you are in it.
@@jeschinstad We were at the centre of the Universe since the beginning of Mankind, then came the Helio-Centric, and now, it seems we have evo-regressed back to the old & middle ages..
@@deepconscious7741: Now we know that every galaxy is equally distanced from all edges of the observable universe. It was the _assumption_ that was wrong. If I guess your name is John and your name happens to be John, it wasn't me being clever, but it also wouldn't mean that your name _isn't_ John because I was just guessing. It wuold be a coincidence.
@@jeschinstad Your assumptions are good/bad as mine Nothing in this universe realm is a co-incidence, nothing. This hydra-quantum mechanics that moves everything is beyond the comprehension of ours. We do not understand it yet and unless we elevate our consciousness to vibrate at a higher level, we may never understand it.
And no, not every galaxy is equidistant from peripheral horizons of the 'observable' universe - that by itself is a limiting definition. They are separated by time, which we equate with distance. Tell you John Doe, we don't understand even 2% of it all, none of us.
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Well they aren't and I'll keep reminding them, lol
I find this very humbling indeed! I think one of the problems people have is that we take ourselves too seriously and think we are far more important than we are! This really puts things into perspective.
Well Cox says we might be the only one and only memory of this universe and I truly believe so. So quite contrarily we might have way underestimated our significance.
WE ARE NOT REALLY ALONE...WE ARE ALONE BECAUSE OF DISTANCE
Me to bro. Me too
Exactly!! Alien civilization community was only possibly in the early universe when things were closer together
We can't reach 96 % of that galaxies cuz they are moving faster than light. So a lot of aliens can be there.
Underrated comment!
Just an empirical affirmation. Distance does not justify other beings ' presence in the universe
I could sit and listen to this man talk about his love for science and space for hours.
Basically Attenborough of Space.
Fantacy can be addictive. 🙄😳🦕🦖🦄💍👑🎩🎓👠🧚♀️🎅💂♂️
Same 😊
Knowledge 🙂.
There seems to be many great astronomers coming up to take Neil’s place. Thank god.
Well the wild on earth is also part of space, because earth is inside the universe..
If a single one of our cells was aware of its existence , our body would seem like an infinite universe to it, what if we are similarly something in an environment that is just one of billions of beings who are in turn existing in their equivalent ‘universe’ . Ok I’m putting down the joint now.
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Don’t put it down!… pass it…. Pls
This idea was actually suggested in the classic comedy movie Animal House, coincidentally when the characters were smoking with their professor. 😆
@@RedZeshinX god , I watched that when I was maybe 14 , perhaps that’s where the seed of the idea was planted in my brain only to surface nearly 40 yrs later 🤣
That is exactly my thoughts years ago and now. I think we probably have it correct ❤ Kevin McGrath
Two trillions galaxies. You can't honestly think there's no other life out there. 😊
2 trillion times 400 billion equals 800,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars in viewable universe, there has to be other life forms out there, to believe we are the only ones is just plain primitive. Now finding them, is almost impossible.
@@floridapmi we are yet to discover we are just in beginning of the new era of space travel wait till next generations
@@floridapmiYep. There's a satellite on its way to neptune at 1000 miles per hour. It's going to take 77,000 to get their. It's called Voyager from NASA.
There likely isn't. It's the most unrealistic thing you can possibly think of. Literally zillions to 1 of life intelligent life forming.
@grobocop2213 that's really not open minded...but it's your opinion and I respect that
Perspective has always blown my mind. No matter what you see, its only because of what your looking at. Want to see how vast small is, grab a microscope. Wanna see how incredibly large things can be, grab a telescope. Change the scope, it changes the perspective. Change the time, it changes the perspective. Change your education level, it changes the prespective. Whats wild is I have applied that to everything I have done since I was a child, and it has always been true. Its all about perspective. How is it viewed reveals more about the viewer than the viewed. Even that is just a perspective. Or put simply, the universe is crazy because its big and small at the same time depending on how you look at it.
Very clever comment, you are wise! Life and happiness becomes a lot easier when putting things into different perspectives. Difficult experiences become so much easier to handle and overcome. I have always done this my self. Changing the perspective is very powerful and should be more common practice.
Prof Brian Cox is such an amazing speaker. Down to earth person with nice soothing voice and calm demeanor that makes you want to listen.
Def true
Yes Carl Sagan was similar.
It is always lovely to listen Brian's speech ❤
Down to earth person? This is what happens when you want to see with only one eye not thinking about what you write.
Remainiac Blairite
@@marcopaes5007 this is exactly what you've just done. You contributed absolutely nothing to the conversation.
The human body has 37.2 trillion cells according to National Geographic. Size dimension is relative.
Exactly! And each cell is aware of their own purpose, but isn’t even aware of what they’re a part of (the human body). Incomprehensible
Multiply that by 7billion earth inhabitants
Can... can we be like atoms in a larger body?
@@R3laxMyGuy why do u write such shit. Think like this atom works similar like a solar system, electron rotates around a nucleus. And we are made of atom. How a micro organism would look at us ?
@@R3laxMyGuy . Thanks, you Just gave me one more thing to keep me up at night. I mean I or we could be in it's appendix or worse 😱😭🤯😩😩😩
Makes you wanna live a life that matters beyond this lifetime
Given the scale of the universe, you could be the man who destroys billions of galaxies, but you'd still be as insignificant as a spec of dust in the grand scheme of things.
Yeah. Better watch more UA-cam
The closest words that can give you an idea of how small we are is “nonexistent “
I came back to say this though….. in that same theory I just stated , the sun is also a size of nonexistent proportion. Our brains truly can’t grasp what I’m even trying to say. Infinity’s infinity, is so small to infinity that infinity ALMOST FOESNT EXIST AT ALL, . But in order to be small you must exist. In order to be infinite you must exist in the first place. 1 more remaining factors that the smartest men in the world will overlook but will say the universe is infinite And we know what animals in the ocean are extinct or not. Then will also tell you that we’ve “ONLY EXPLORED 4% OF THE OCEAN” AND IM BEING GENEROUS WITH THE PERCENTILE!” It’s GOD gentlemen. It’s GOD
the Keanu Reeves of Science - you got to love him
What...
Whoa...
😂
Accurate and underrated comment
Then, what does that make Neil?
For perspective: A million seconds is 12 days. A billion seconds is 31 years. A trillion seconds is 31,688 years.
Thanks
Cool
What does that have to do with anything lol
@@aelechkoit provides a point of reference of and scale because most people don’t understand just how big of a difference there is between these numbers
Yet I get in shit for being 1o minutes late for work
I like the fact that nobody can picture it. Just interesting
No body can picture it because it isn’t true.
Imagine it's only you who exists, and you're just manifesting everything
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Well
solipsism with trendy internet words
Boltzman's brain
I don't want to.
"2 possibilities exist: either we're alone in the universe, or we are not. Both are equally terrifying" - Arthur C. Clarke
Edit: To those saying aliens do not exist due to the lack of proof: your logic is similar to saying there are no fish in the sea just because there are none in the cup of water you filled with the ocean. The ratio of the volume of the universe humanity has explored compared to the volume of the observable universe is less than that of the ratio of the dimensions of an atom to the dimensions of our planet
This is bullshit..
We are not alone. This is not even a question
No question, we are NOT alone. Today pretty much a scientific fact. The odds are extremely high.
@@avinashsingla9354 yet there’s 0 proof
Or maybe theres a third. And that's that you are a creature of a creator and this is your home and the sky is just a sky and the stats are just lights in it. The third option is all this shit is bull shit to control you!
@@avinashsingla9354 no, this is bull shit because space is bull shit! How far do you have to go up before mass floats on nothing?
The size is so daunting it actually scares me how small we are in it.
We are a small nothing compared to what must be out there somewhere. A small glimpse in my lifetime would be incredible. 😮
Why would that scare you?
@@kalvinkalvarino9536 the realisation that our whole planet is so small in the vastness of space and that we as humans are literally particles in that has to be scary no?!
@@trentsteele8320 I admire the infinity of the universe..
..but is the size the most important question?
I guess not. In my opinion we should focus the development of life on earth.
If we continue destroying the planet with war and climate desaster our culture will end soon.
I think it is our task to design a sensible world.
But humans are often so egocentric, that they will totally fail.
@pennyburnell6143 Exactly. Even the milky way galaxy is a speck of dust to the visible universe
No one describes space better than this guy!
Harald Lesch
Carl Sagan.
I've always had this thought since school, about if we begin to travel in a certain direction in space, will there be an end to it, or there won't be an end to it?
I believe an explanation to either of these 2 cases is incomprehensible by human standards.
Here is the twist. Universe is rapidly expanding at a rate at which you may never reach its end even though it has one.
@@prasannas6986 Yeah, but , how does it end? I mean is there a wall of something that's the end, or something else?
@@jaikumarjadhav6575 Surely there is no end to space. If you travelled for eternity, you'd most likely end up back where you started.
@@jaikumarjadhav6575there probably is no end to space it’s most likely infinite
@@SamLewis18What does infinity mean?
I think there has to be at least one planet in each galaxy that supports life and potentially advanced life like us
We think there are more than 2 genders. We are NOT advanced life lol
We are still in the monkey stage compared to advanced civilizations that are out there
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 you two make me sure that vegetables evolved and can now use a keyboard 😂😂😂😂😂
@@mikefandango294 With the scale of all the galaxies, what you said might be a reality somewhere.
I think its incredible how much more there is out there. I cant wait until we are advanced enough to explore it.
Never haver
the more he talked, the more the anxiety grew
and thats why the government doesn't tell the public anything.
you got anxious about this...
yeah, i had to stop the video and think about it...
The music was stressing me out.
i got anxious about the expansion of the universe when i was like 25 (17 yrs ago now) but many many many other things does that too and new ones every day lol
@Ts-mf8wx don't think intergalactic think inter solar.
The solar system is our home. We might not be able to touch most of it yet but Neptune, Uranus, saturn, jupiter etc. This is our home, and we're safe here.
We have these beautiful planets protecting us and they're along for the ride
If it helps to know our solar system has orbited the milkyway galaxy about 19 - 20 times and there are some fish species alive today which have completed a full orbit of our galaxy and are still here safe.
Imagine explaining to a cat the purpose of a grocery store, thats how he feels talking to us
I disagree. Brian Cox would never feel that way.
@@castleanthrax1833Yeah that's how Neil feels
@@quetzalcoatlz Maybe he feels that way if he was talking to you. Some of us are his peers.
ok he does that when hes talking to you. but to me hes on an equal level. a scientist brillant though they are are merely people that have traned themselves to remember facts.
I can imagine politicians using that: " There are billions of dollars missing from the budget just for this year. But don't worry about that, because even we don't know where it went."
I don’t mind that it’s inter dimensional travel that gets me, I don’t know where to get on and where to get off 😂, gets me everytime
I can feel every single word he says. Very calm and peaceful voice. The way he explains the infinity of the universe so I can picture what he means.❤❤❤
@@OlavUnngar no he isn't. He's thick as shit
We talk about the universe as if it was a separate entity. Yet, we’re very much part of it.
That's a very overlooked concept.
Same goes with Earth.
We act like we are aliens that arrived on both.
Where not only a part of it…. We are it! We are the universe experiencing itself subjectively, through our minds and through our senses the universe gets to experience itself
Yes we are part of the universe itself, we are carbon lifeforms made of the most abundant elements in the universe. The universe is us and we are the universe.
@@goatspartan665 unless it's all a dream.
@@burnaardnufc3173 😊 I dreamt I was a butterfly dreaming that I was a man! Chinese proverb 😉
It hurts that i can comprehend this beauty. But sometimes cant fathom how my mind feels the way it does. How did we get this way. Its scary to me
Nobody actually picturing it: Yea, I can 🗿
Our spirit is definitely going places when we leave earth
Maybe so... I'm not religious myself. But some how I imagine different dimensions. What happens to the little spark that operates our thoughts and movements...
@@ronaldthwaites177you know, I always believe that this little spark of ours is a part of cosmic energy. Remember that energy can't be created or destroyed - it only transforms into something else. Maybe after we "die" we'll be put into another body (again on Earth, or in different dimensions), or evolves into a higher-intelligent creature w/ no physical body.
@spacejamzyt6461 maybe they’re swirling around in dark matter. Look the point I was trying to make is space is unimaginable and somehow our energy can’t just die to nothing we could be higher beings spiritually and hopefully
@@Justanothertiredsoulall this nonsense just to escape death. I’d much rather be dead and be done with it all than keep living forever
Everything we know , we were taught by other ignorant human beings .... that includes our sky wizards and space 😅😂😅😂😅
This guys voice is so relaxing and enjoyable
He could surely convince you of any lie.
Real life Harrison Wells
There are objects and beings right in front of your face at this exact moment, but you cant see them, because they exist in a dimension higher than our own. A 4th or even 6th dimension. If you tried to leave our dimension, and attempted to break through to the 4th dimension, theres a few things you have to contend with. The amount of spatial pressure, is so immense, thst the craft youre in would be instantaneously crushed. Besides spatial pressure, you have to deal with flash freezing. Its my belief, that UFOs are designed and made, to withstand the boundaries of dimensions. Mind blown.
way back in the early seventies my father described it as such. that the whole universe as we can imagine is actually like a germ under someones fingernail by comparrison of whats out there.
Brilliant man. He’s blows your mind then puts you at ease. 👏🏼
Based on this, there's no way we are the only bacteria to infest a planet.
This is the mentality that degrades human life and makes mankind out to be a scourge on the Earth. People use this mentality to justify murder and genocide.
@Pseudo-Psellos and how EXACTLY did you reach that conclusion?
@Pseudo-Psellos Yes the odds of intelligent life is extraordinarily rare but if the universe is infinite or astronomically larger than we think that odds become irrelevant, if the universe is infinite there could literally be an exact copy of you out there somewhere
@Pseudo-Psellos Yes true I'm of course not too knowledgeable on this particular subject, but there are already things that exist in our universe that defy the laws of physics and yet they exist nonetheless, the universe itself shouldn't really exist but yet it does
@Pseudo-Psellos so in my humble opinion I feel that at this rate almost anything is possible
One fact that intrigues me is that what we see now, happened millions of years ago. For instance if a telescope takes a photo of a star 65 million light year away that "now" or that moment is the "then" when dinossaurs roamed the Earth.
The way Brian Explained I could listen to him for hours
On that scale, the level of narcissism it takes to smugly sit back and laugh and say we are all alone is astonishing.
I was literally about to make that point haha, but it's more like ignorance than narcissism.
what bothers me about science sometimes is that if our universe is literally infinite, how can life be finite. that makes zero sense.
We really think we’re that special haha
It's called "duper's delight".
You just haven’t thought about it enough. We went from not knowing what planets are to landing on the moon in 500 years. The universal timescale is over 13 billion years, by even random chance there would have to be a civilization out there that’s had a million years or more of technology. Which means if universal travel is possible we would have already encountered an advanced civilization or two. At this point there are two possibilities that exist… either there is no intelligent alien life, or faster than light travel is in fact impossible and all interaction must only exist locally.
There’s no way to comprehend something that is infinite. We are so insignificant, it’s incomprehensible.
How does that make us insignificant? Is significance measured by size? If that's the case, then you were already insignificant even if it was only the solar system.
@@Al-ji4gdNot only are we insignificant by size in the universe, but it’s probable that we are also insignificant in how developed we are as a civilization. Consider the progress we’ve made in the last 100 years; in the entire 13.8 billion years of the universe’s existence, there’s a high chance that there are multiple other civilizations that have / are currently existing, thousands possibly millions of years ahead of us, that we aren’t aware of. Just like how an ant colony isn’t aware of their insignificance compared to the humans that walk above them.
@@liftmaaayn Like I said, how is significance correlated to size? I would like to know. Why isn't it correlated to intelligence? Or morality? Or temporality? Or consciousness? Do we need to be infinitely large to be significant?
I'd also like to know where you got the idea that there's ''a high chance that there are multiple other civilisations out there''. I'm not aware of any. There might well be no other civilisations out there right now. The chances of life arising might be minute, so much so that we could be the only life that has ever existed. Like you say, the universe is only 14 billion or so years old, that's still relatively young, even when discussing the the era where stars can burn, which is like 100 trillion years or something.
I don't remember any ants going to space or inventing the television.
@@Al-ji4gd size correlates to intelligence in many cases as more primitive civilizations wouldn’t be able to explore space. If it’s the nature of humans to colonize new lands, expanding our resources and control around us, then what’s stopping another intelligent civilization from doing the same? As for life existing elsewhere in our universe, there are ~200 billion galaxies each containing ~100 million stars. In our Milky Way alone, it is estimated that there are billions of planets capable of supporting life. If life on our planet originated via simple organic molecules combining to form more complex organic molecules and eventually single cells, then what’s stopping that same process from happening in another one of the billions of planets (capable of having life) in our galaxy?
@@Al-ji4gd Fermi paradox
The only thing greater than the Universe is God Who created it, and His Love for us.
When I try to process what he says, I almost forget to breathe…. 😂
We are literally the universe experiencing itself.
true
Fact.
it creates also pain. And even people who put pain on other people.
good idea of the universe V1?
understand it deeply and build a better one, please 🥶
People like this gentleman are wonderful. It's hard to find someone to talk to when you're very intelligent.
Pffft. Not intelligent, just has a good memory and can ramble off remembered stuff. Nothing more.
Aab 2 triillion galaxy me peace hoga. 😊😊
I listen to this and my mind goes; "WHAAAAAAA!" And then I flip to A GIF with a Baby Elephant Chasing Birds - on a green field with humans falling about laughing in delight and consider how extra-ordinarily unlikely all this was to have evolved at all on this one Pale Blue Dot, hanging solitary in the vastness of just this One Galaxy, to enable this one magical scene - and THAT simply Blows MY Mind!
My elders say we cannot understand the whole universe because that information would drive us crazy. That's why we call it The Great Mystery.
We're only 3D. People can't even fathom the higher dimensions.
They're right. One night, I tried way too hard thinking about how the scale of the universe correlates with the afterlife and my brain just felt weird. Like, when your computer only has a certain amount of ram, but you run too many programs that the PC just starts to cease function and you'd have to restart. I felt like that, and my restart was sleep, and the next day I completely forgot about those thoughts until I thought about it again and my brain felt like it got jumpscared just because I started to remember those thoughts again. It's weird. There are definitely some information we can't know otherwise it would drive our brain into insanity, like a CPU struggling to keep up with the limited amount of ram.
Can you imagine what would happen to the human race if we actually knew what happened after you die? It would drive everyone insane, and there'd be a mass suicide rate. If there was real physical proof for certain things, life would not function how it can today.
@@francois9747 I think the size of the universe is just a number.
Even this number is too big for us to imagine, we understand the system.
In some way there will be IMHO an end/border where the last rock of matter flies.
We put a sign on it: „now you leave the explored part of the universe - good luck and don‘t forget enough energy drinks!
the really challenge is to think about the meta level.
case A: it doesn‘t exist. At the latest after the end of the sun‘s life humans are history.
maybe there are other life forms which has consciousness, so the universe has fun and is not totally dead..
case B: beyond our experience exists spirit like a creator who can interact to us like religions tell us.
This scenario would be completely unpredictable and is a ‚wonderful‘ way to terrify children and adults.
we will see.. or not.. I don‘t know..
..and yes: it must be weird to think about the purpose of all because we only have the insight of the cosmos.
But is this not excusing? it wasn‘t our decision to exist.
If a am able to create a lifeform - what can I demand? be nice?
of course don‘t kill your contemporaries - but more?
+++here ends this written galaxy +++ 😀
This man could make a shopping list sound fascinating. Just got the gift for engaging an audience.
I gather that statistically speaking, there are so many planets out there, similar to Earth that there are likely to be folks on at least one of them who speak English.
This is NOT A MAN, but a female-to-male gender flipper.
fact: US astronomers engaging in quantitative easing now estimate it is closer to 6.9trillion
.8 only lazy guessers use 9
@@dufus7396 i rounded up because it was .85
We are so insignificant in the end 😅😂😂😂
Isn't it strange that while life on earth is so amazingly diverse, those trillions of galaxies are so similar to one another?
We exist in the dreams of Azathoth. When he wakes, we blink out of existence.
The loons are here 🤪
Actually Zenu has arrived! 🙄
The blind idiot God
When people think about particles bumping into each other… the scale expands to people, planets, galaxies and universes…
Prove it
How could we possibly be the only beings in this incomprehensibly sized Universe?❤
Exactly. There could be Millions or Billions of life forms very similar to us.
@@tonystevenson5125 or completely unlike us.
Time is equally vast. Space time. No reason to think they are around at the same time we are. Anymore than the Classic Mayans exist with us.
@@rayhill5767 Except people do exist where the Mayans used to. There's even advanced civilizations there. 😂
@@lookupverazhou8599 you’re not nearly as clever as you think you are.
Brian, I wish you had been one of my teachers in the university. I hope science teachers are showing your videos to their students ❤
"Don't get worried about that ......." 😂😂😂😂😂
Pink Floyd’s lead singer sure is smart jeez 😮
Random, but it's always nice to pay a compliment
Playing Devils advocate? You know she was one half of Shakespeare's Sister...
And has spiffy lipstick.
It was D Ream
Just imagine our universe is actually sub atomic to something really unimaginably gigantic and so on and so on
I think that is the case. The universe is an infinite fractal. There could be a universe inside the smallest atom inside your body.
No not in the human or heavy quantum fields and quantity. But in an emptiness of the souls in extremely thin and sub atomic particles, you will not just only knows but travels through the infinite universe in a split of a second! The entire universe is woven and travelling from one point to another is like pulling a piece of paper from either ends! Infinity is our ultimate goal and knowledge to be satisfied! Continue to makes quantum leaps! Your soul is your life and it never dies!
I love this bloke! I could listen to him speak indefinitely
I love him and his surname
I love to think about the size of the universe. It hurts my small human mind, but I enjoy it. I also love to think about how there's definitely another complex lifeforms thinking about if we exist.
I have been obsessively watching videos on astrophysics and have realized it’s not just space that is unimaginably vast-but also time. We are a blip in cosmic time as much as we are blip in cosmic space. So wondrous! We are made of the stuff of stars! We are a small part of the universe experiencing itself as a very tiny part of the whole. ❤🎉
@@Staceypotterphotography whats cosmic Time? Isn't it just time?
The size of the universe doesn't bother me. Getting smashed to bits by the Taurid Swarm absolutely terrifies me though.
Finally someone with a sense of perspective and priorities.👍
taurid?
I love the fact that he said we don’t know . To know that you don’t is the drive to do know.
The most good _teacher_ that the most logic and very clear in science NOT TALKING EVERYTHING ABOUT ASSUMING or IF...
I think the uniformity and smoothness of the universe after this long is by far the most mind boggling thing I've ever heard.
I agree.. the things that have happened and continue to happen to allow our existence is just totally insane
Everytime i try to imagine how big the universe is, i get just a tiny bit anxious
Think of something tiny. Then think of something really big.
It's a bit like that.
@@upturnedblousecollar5811 Not really, because the something 'really big' will be the size of an electron compared to another something 'really big' and so on and so on. There just is no limit and there are dimensions that we can't perceive.
@@jdnm797 You took my comment seriously. I mean, you actually took my comment seriously lol. Enjoy UA-cam.
In my mind growing up, I tried to imagine space & where did it end, because everything has a start & a end, but my mind couldn’t fathom space not ending, because if it did end , what was beyond & so on, now we live in an age where I can sit at home watching space programs & videos about the vastness of space in all its greatness, seeing farther into it than ever before, yet my mind still wants to say space must end.
The scientist reframes from saying it is infinite but offers that it could be. It is mind blowing.
Our Galaxy is so organized that even as an atheist, it was hard to believe that there was no super mind or super power behind all this. I could never look at a Ferrari and say: "This just happened by chance". A mosquito is more complex than a Ferrari. Only life generates life. No matter what you call him, there's a God. Otherwise you can believe that a Ferrari is the consequence of random things.
What came to my tiny brain was if earth was a swirling redhot ball of dust and gas and cooled off and became a big rock then bombardment wind ran etc. Broke that rock down into rock dust then how is it that sentient being resolved from these floor sweepings of rock dust.
My man aged 2 trillion years in about 10 years.....respectfully speaking, just havent seen him in a while, im sure im a specimen of perfection 😂😂
He still looks young
This man explains it in a way common ppl can understand!!!! Genius
its crazy to think we are alone out here we are in the milkyway galaxy and we go around just one of the trillions of stars within that galaxy. with 2 trillions galaxy's its got to be impossible for us to be the only ones out here
The numbers are in favor of other life similar to ours out there. Sad that we will never get to see them.
@@monty4336 which may be a good thing?
@@teodelfuego Possibly but we will never know.
@@monty4336 i agree, unless some other species discovers something that shatters our most basic assumptions about faster than the speed of light travel, which is highly doubtful.
@@monty4336 Never is a bit shortsighted. The JWST might reveal signs on an exoplanet, and we’re basically just starting out. +100,000 years at current advancement, if we’re not destroyed by idiots like Putin and Xi, we’ll be across the galaxy.
Never knew Johnny Rzeznik knew so much about the universe.
The one fact that blows my mind about the universe is, how incredible BORING voice Brian Cox has!
I can be so overwhelming but at the same time, so exciting love the video
Nothing like moments when you think about the size of the universe. Gets u stuck in that feeling that u can’t explain. And nobody can picture it
If I was able to see the entire universe and comprehend it in one day and in return give up the rest of my life I would.
I would give up my life for free
@@suslord9646 😢
@@suslord9646 why dont you end it then?
@@suslord9646 name and pfp checks out
I know what you mean. 😁 i investigated as well when participants were wanted by the Nasa to go to mars, as in for ever. I was too late (imagine that, so many volunteers) and too old. But i am quitte sure i would have done it. You had to say goodbye to everyone and prepare for a bizarre rest of your life.
There’s an old story that goes something like this:
Man: “Buddha, what’s the difference between living the exact same life over and over again for eternity without knowing, and living one single life then turning into nothingness?”
The Buddha responds: “There is no difference.”
...yeah, I also once heard some mad Guru proclaim; "True enlightenment lies in the perfection of nothingness" 🤪🤪🤪
@@manuwilson4695 yeah , religion sure is a load of tosh ...
@@manuwilson4695 five minute hypothesis.
@@iwannaseenow1 What's NOTHINGNESS???!...😱...🤷♂️
@@manuwilson4695 The Universe IS the perfection of nothingness. . . created by an intelligent being some call Science, others call God.
I don’t even care that the Universe can be infinite, or that there can be Multiverse, what blows my mind is that anything exists at all in the first place.
My favorite part of learning science is assessing how it limits human minds while also expanding them.
It's a complete duality that has pushed humans to be completely diffrent from anything that's ever been on earth. Yet that means all the good and bad.
It's an amazing tool, but I'm having fun trying to use it as one. Not as a belief system. And I feel the world need that relationship between science and spirituality right now.
That haircut is a perfectly preserved specimen from the 1970s
Had it in gradeshool. Mom said. Lol Comb over, Sagan had one too. Still it was a step up from bowl cut. When in H.S. started parting in middle. Long. Ponytail. Now I just shave it. Not much you can do with hair without looking ridiculous.
The human mind cannot possibly fathom that 😅
I have no problem with it
Universe is everything seen and unseen. Mind boggling indeed
If I ever had the chance to hold a dinner party with 4 people of my choosing. Brian is my first pick for sure! 😊
Here’s a fact about the universe: you want to look within in order to travel beyond
That is the quote I needed to read before going to bed quietly
That's just a little too convenient.
In what way is it a little too convenient? And so what if it is?
@@idonotlikethismusic That everything is discoverable/there's a solution for everything. Sorry if I offended you.
@@lookupverazhou8599 No, you didn't offend me. I was simply curious what you meant.
Absolutely mind blowing with the universe continuing to expand forever we will never know what is out there.😳
forever does not exist
Forever is the only thing that actually exists. No thing ever turns to nothing, and from nothing no thing is ever created. Both are illogical possibilities, or logical impossibilities. The universe is a perennial process of production and destruction, in which its parts are perpetually rearranged without ever disappearing.
@@cosmodradek Nice one :)
I bet it expands and contracts like AC current.
So the Big Bang would be a peak of it.
And it is going to take so much time for us to see the end of the expansion phase that we'll be extinct anyway.
But it can't expand forever. Would be too definitive.
@@cosmodradek i just took a poop
🤔 that Jupiter once Farted
🪐💨
This Man has a great mind and fantastic sense of humour. Totally Love Brian Cox.
The biggest question is not how but why was the universe created.
There may not be a ‘why’. It just is
I don’t know what the creator intended. But I am sure of one thing…it does NOT have a human penis, therefore is not a god, and certainly did not father a child
what if our universe is just an "atom" in another bigger universe
@@bladerj 😅
To remind you that we’d never be alone again ❤
I serve the One that created all of it .
Then provide evidence that proves your belief he created all of it to be true.
Sure you do. Pay your ten percent this week!
@@camerondavis8356 🤓🤓
The arrogance of little humans thinking they know who or what created everything. And they base their 'knowledge' on the words of other insignificant, little humans.
Respect the power and then you will be humble of your place în this vastness.
Maybe nobody can picture it, but I believe I got a sense of it when I had fever dreams as a young child, where I found myself adrift in space with an indescribably huge distance to cover. Overwhelming doesn't get close to describing how it felt.
@encore : this reminds me to a similar nightmare as a child.
Slowly moving through a silent space (without a ship).
It was a feeling of absolutely loneliness and helplessness.
I do not remember more details but I‘m glad that this dream didn‘t escort the rest of my life..
Is there any chance one which is tax free?
Cox: it's almost impossible to imagine ☺🙂🙃
I love this guy.
who is he?
. His name is Brian Cox. He's a professor of particle physicis.
Wanna fight for him? He's mine :)