We Are Dead Stars | Michelle Thaller | TEDxBaltimore
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- Опубліковано 31 тра 2024
- While the saying “we are stardust” seems poetic but vague, it is literally true. The atoms of your body were created in the cores of stars billions of years ago. We should use this knowledge to draw closer to each other and share the joy and fear of our brief existence. Recorded at TEDxBaltimore January 2016.
Michelle Thaller PhD is the assistant director for Science Communication at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. She manages the SSC education and public outreach program, writes a monthly science column for the Christian Science Monitor, and has made numerous appearances on television.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
The most important quote I've heard in 71 years: "We are the universe becoming aware of itself."
Since you are in 73 years old . I want to tell you How God created His earth . Take a ball . divide it vertically from the Middle. We will Have upper side and lower side of the ball . The upper side in white. Take it an throw it in Air . It will become scattered stars Magnetically connected to each other . 11 planets , Sun and moon they turn parallelly above the lower side the earth . So that's is in first heaven. There are on the top of it 6 heavens look like one layer of smoke and Gazes in Gold, Copper, Silver color . Now we go to the lower side Earth its huge and has on its side and under it only ICE . No universe, No space ..but satan' s worshippers want to make your brain lost in darkness . Always thinking about things doesn't exist . Your brain will go up and down ..just lost and confused because satan' s Throne is in water on earth .that's why they don't want you to know the truth... Rely to God ask Him guidance . You will know the truth.
She's one of the reasons I am, at age 42, taking maths classes on Udemy to prepare me for a course (degree) in Physics.
All the best 👍
@@hasibabegum5856 thank you. 🙂
Get it
I’ll let her know that! Glad she inspires you :) Keep it up!
All the best brother!
"You are a miracle of cosmic proportions."
Wow! That was really beautiful.
This woman is one incredible composition of star dust!
Indeed.
Literally!
She's so cool! I wish I can have a chat with her over a good cup of coffee
Yes, she is!☺👍
Woitek K - What do you think is wrong with what she’s saying? Hydrogen is a simple atom, it’s what the universe was entirely made up of- hydrogen became stars, stars make more complicated elements, the big ones explode, hit gas clouds and create even crazier stars with even more complicated elements- and all that needed to happen to get us. So what she is saying is that we are literally star dust. It’s beautiful when you think about how amazing it is, and how much bigger it is than you- and yet you and I are all apart of it.
I discovered this lady via her talk on grief earlier today. Now I’m going through all of her UA-cam available talks on science, and I am finding more healing here than I did in 11 years of therapy.
Same! I just saw her Big Think video and I’m obsessed! It’s like my grief journey led me here
Omg same! I found her words are so powerful that I started to look for her other videos 👏
I found Michelle through her appearances on The Universe, years ago, and have always remained a fan
...then I got my internship at NASA, and got to WORK with her 🤩
I've been recording her and her colleagues on How the Universe Works tv series that just started screening this year in NZ. Totally inspired me to get back into science again. At 60 😂
@@Dawn_Aramoana63 that is so in inspiring, I’m very happy for you! A life lived with passion, is a life truly experienced.
It reminds me of a Rumi quote "You are not a drop in the ocean, you are the ocean in a drop." The way she explain her subject is full of emotion and it is amazing!
That was literally one of the most beautiful things I think I've ever heard another human being say. You're not alone Michelle, I wonder daily why we humans aren't all just spreading as much love to each other as possible because we are only here for an insanely short amount of time cosmically speaking. Every time I ever see Michelle Thaller talking about astronomy her passion, joy, and love of our universe and everything in it is always shining brighter than a supernovae. I wish everyone radiated Michelle's love and positive energy, the world would be Utopian then.
I couldn't possibly agree more! I feel the same way.
The earth is not spinning. There is a Firmament above us. There is zero curvature to the Earth. Everything we see up there is "inside" of the Firmament. The Earth is Flat and stayionary.
It's because everyone is too focused on the little stuff of daily life to step back and look at things from a different, larger scale.
"Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself." - Rumi
Our body uses nearly every element in the making of the different molecules.
I didn't know this was Rumi's! 👍👍👍
I love her! I feel the same way. I often get frustrated that society doesn't really appreciate this knowledge and that we don't feel more connected and appreciative of one another. I look up the night sky and feel amazed and terrified at the same time. Knowledge is powerful and frightening.
Shame some humans are brainwashed with different religions!
The religion of scientism, WOW, I thought science was just a body of knowledge/information produced by intelligent beings. Invention without an inventor, masterpiece without a master worker, design without a designer and everything from nothing. No wonder Dr. Steven Weinberg said "The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless." Now I understand why the atheist community has a problem with depression that leads to suicide.
@@rubenmartinez2994 Fortunately the "atheist/suicide" connection is just a myth invented by conservative preachers to scare parents. No need to worry for us.
@@rubenmartinez2994 Fear of depression is a worthy motive for enforced ignorance?
Feel ya bro. Real talk 👁
I learned this fact watching Carl Sagan’s Cosmos original series. It has a very deep meaning. “We are a way for Cosmos to know itself”. Think about it.
“We humans are a way for Cosmos to know itself” is an insight due to John Wheeler.
It's a story that needs to be retold over and over lest the charlatans take over.
I can'NOT wait till Michelle Thaller has a book out. I love the way she sees the universe. She's brilliant and her brilliance resides in her heart as much as her mind. I'm grateful to be one of the brief beings on this planet at the same time as the brief being that is Michelle Thaller because she makes me remember that I'm grateful for being here at this time with all the other living stars I cross paths with in this confounding and beautiful galaxy. Thank you Michelle Thaller!
hopefully she has garnished a bit of JWST time?
Beautiful statement. I could not have said it better. Thank you.
This is absolutely beautiful. I've never understood why people of faith think that atheists must have really dim views about the world. By seeking to understand the reality of the universe, there's beauty and wonder to be found. Being an atheist doesn't make you see the world dully, it opens you up to the amazing, awe-inspiring reality of our world and our place in it.
BIRD Inspiring words. Keep the faith...I mean nonfaith.
BIRD I'm still a believer in our creator but not religious. Your intelligent is why your Athiest. However what she says only strengths my belief because it says in the creation story we are make from stars. People just don't know how to interpret the book correctly. Religion causes war but to break away from that you find truths and sometimes you believe in the creator sometimes not either way it all works itself out in the end. This world is a trully beautiful place.
That's quite questionable because: not all atheists are prone to looking into the nature of things such as the universe, just as you can't say that all believers are permanently bound to their beliefs.
Why are you assuming this presentation had anything whatsoever to do with atheism? You’ve polluted an otherwise beautiful presentation with sophomoric rhetoric. This presentation wasn’t about you or your beliefs, it was about all of us.
ALANSHEARERISGOD Why are you attributing to God what a man in the Bronze Age wrote? Do you think the Proto Hebrew was the only ethnic group committing violence and attributing it to their tribal deity? Get your head out of your rear.
She's one of the reasons I got into astronomy!
You're all into black holes, I guess...
Excellent, encourage kids to do the same...our future depends on it.
oh im sorry
You're so lucky!
Lol.
Mrs. Thaller, you are an exquisite Human. I wish I knew you personally. I literally felt you when you choked up at 12:24 while saying, "I feel like I don't have enough time". I love when I connect with another human like that. It's an absolutely HUGE and thorough connection that lasts for a split second:- )
She's such a great communicator, the way she explains these concepts in a very clear way, I could listen to her for hours!
She speaks very well, very nice, hers sentences are so clear as a light in the dark
A truly spiritual experience to watch. Obviously the majority of the atoms in Michelle are from super novas!
There is absolutely nothing spiritual about this woman.
Lol. Crazy people
Super nova....so good!
Turns my quantum based theories on edge! "(the lilies of the field) ....Solomon in all his glory, was never arrayed such as one of these".....
She can be starstuff!...as are we all.
Not hydrogen in fact nothing. Super Novi only happens with very few giant Stars. And the bigger the brighter the shorter they live. Some even less then 1 million year. So the Earth is about what 5 billion years. Well maybe a little bit.
I had a Super Nova, vroom vroom.
Need more people like her in the world.
Such an inspiring talk. I feel a song coming along 😁😁😁
Want to be one of those. 😊
This women and her ilk are a gift to humanity and a complete joy to listen to. xxx
you are a miracle of cosmic proportions.
teared up.
🙏
So I wanna know couple things..did the universe create the first human …? Does the universe have a brain …? Is the universe a creator or created …? Don’t be absurd please..it’s easier to think an intelligent design created all this rather than the universe did by some cosmic explosion. Think logically
@@Vegitobluuuuu Great questions Martino. Notice the speaker is careful not to ask the same thing.
Stunning Speech. I love every word. Thank You Michelle. You bring me joy.
I keep coming back to watch this video from time to time, and every single time I can't help but get emotional. Michelle's passion is inspiring, and I am forever grateful that she has told me this story.
Michelle is one of my favorite outspoken astronomers conveying her discoveries to the layman such as myself.
I love this lady! She's made me interested in the stars, what lies beyond our little planet and our moon. We truly are one with the universe.
What a fabulous video. I have lost my mother and father recently and we will be together again, in a star. So comforting. Thank you.
Sorry for your loss.
Your reunion will be amazing!!!
She is one of those rare people who not only presents science in an exciting and understandable way, she is actually a real scientist actively doing research.
This is the kind of woman who should be on the cover of magazines, instead of empty headed ornaments.
I could not agree more!
What a beautiful, beautiful human being, Michelle is.
As an artist I'll try to express the awe and majesty of science
Though I have huge differences with her on science and especially religion or spirituality, I have always liked Michelle Thaller. I have tons of respect for her. She makes the science of cosmology and astrophysics an enjoyable conversation. A fun experience as well. May God bless her. ☺👍
Still hanging on buddy?
This is one of the greatest speech i have ever heard 👏👏 it's amazing 💖
Astronomy is a humbling experience. 😍🤩
maybe i'm the dream that a star once dreamed of. that is why I should enjoy every minute of my life.
Wow! I could feel the emotion and passion through the video. I just discovered Michelle Thaller while watching "How the Universe Works." The way she communicates is very captivating, and you can tell she is a student of astronomy, and is in love with her passion.
Michelle is a great communicator!
6:41 is crazy how nebulae look JUST like the irises of our eyes.
she is such a great speaker, you can tell she very passionate for her work!
WOW! I have seen Michelle Thaller on Science Channel and encouraged all my nieces to watch her every chance they get. She teaches us so much and with such enthusiasm it is contagious. God Bless her and I hope she lectures for ever. We need Science knowledge now more than ever. Thank You TED and Thank You Michelle. D&M
Wow....Just wow. I let go of organized religion about 4 years ago. None of it ever made sense to me. Always had questions that no one could ever answer definitively. I was always told “just believe. You’ve gotta have faith.”.....SUCH CRUST!
This makes more sense to me than any religious doctrine that has ever existed.
I love her energy and enthusiasm
Sis...this is beautiful! I had the pleasure of being an Admin. for the Astrophycisit at JPL in the early '90s and they change EVERYTHING for me. I now incorporate this information into my life coaching practice and the results have been phenomenal. It is amazing how people change when they REALLY get to know themselves.
That's amazing. Interestingly one aspect of Hinduism deals with this thing. It's called Adwait vedanta or non dualism. It's really great to find a scientific proof to what I already know. Hopefully more and more people will know their true nature. Thank you for this talk.
You made me cry. In awe. Thank you!
she's the type of carbon I could date.
:)
She's the kind of iron I could age with.
She's the kind of science that better science proves wrong.
@@ColeBeeRyan Right. 'Cause we're totally not made of stardust.
@@musicisbrilliant just silly when you actually think about it.
This is the best ted ed talk that I have ever seen. Michelle if there's one person I idolise, it's you. I simply adore you by how much talented you are in simplifying usually complicated things about science. I grew up loving science and the curiosity in me has never petered out. Having a conversation like this among friends is unfortunately usually avoided let alone have friends who share the same curiosity and passion about science. I think if almost everyone in the science community is as good as you in communicating science I think there's really a brilliant future ahead of us. Thank you Michelle for the inspiration ❤️
Wow this was amazing! I saw her on the Sci channel today talking about black holes and i decided to look her up because i could tell she wasn't your ordinary scientist.
'Coincidently' this video was only recently uploaded and it confirmed my thoughts about her and more! She explained this story so well and no words can describe how amazing existence is. Knowledge of the universe continues to change my life, so i know her deeper understanding has profoundly impacted her. Man this life we live..
inkedProdigy
hear hear
hear hear
I could listen to her all day.
You can also tell around 11:39 that she's moved so much by the universe, she started to tear a little and her voice trembled. This is a wonderful lecture, and I love the way she is explaining it all. You rule Michelle!!
crocodile tears
This is such an inspiring presentation! Michelle Thaller is an excellent science communicator and we need many more like her!!!
BRILLIANT. Dr. Thaller I so appreciate how you articulate the human emotional connection to what we know about the Universe. Just brilliant.
A beautiful woman talking about the real relation between humans and stars.
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Cole's UA-cam Videos no SheShe
really dude?? leave the sexism to yourself.. no place for that here.
Why is it sexist to think that someone’s beautiful? I find this a a rather sad thought.
smugsjw23 that...isnt sexism. Calling someone beautiful isn't sexism.
So nicely well done. I could feel her emotion as she talk about something so wonderful. Great job Michelle.
She is so good in delivering lecture in simplicity I never miss any episode from Big Think
This lady can talk. You have the art that beautifys anything that comes out of you
What she says is just so amazing.
Michelle Thaller is my favourite astrophysicist of our time. she simplify everything. and every time she speaks. I concentrate 101%. she is an inspiration.
I’m late to this party for sure but thank you so much for this talk Michelle. I often wonder why humans don’t revel in awe of this knowledge as well and why is this not taught as a creation story as it is the only truth, not as a spiritual story in any sense, but as it is- pure unadulterated science. I feel as you do, that humankind should be cherishing our brief existence here on our rock. That we should be united, together conquering all that ails Earth so we can then get on with creating marvelous things so we can learn more about the universe before our time is up...
Thank you again for this beautiful reminder.
why is listening to her so much soothing?
I love her delivery. Very captivating
She is great. Just found several of her youtube pieces this evening and have enjoyed all of them very much. Thank you Michelle.
So beautifully and well told! Thank you so much Michelle.
Sometimes I get tears in my eyes looking up into a starry night sky, tears of joy and humility.
Michelle Thaller....you were chosen by the universe....for mankind...
I was often told in my childhood that when someone dies, they become star. They don't go anywhere, they stay forever. I think in 13 mins, I travelled in those galaxies with you observing closely those fusion reactions and reminding myself how tiny we are as humans and at the same time how powerful we are.
Thank you for this talk!
I'm thinking more & more that quantum mechanics controls ALL of our "Souls" (consciousness).
@@leecowell8165 Whatever controls us is outside as well as inside. We often look outwards to seek answers or explanations but If we try, we can find the same inside.
A pot inside river has the same water inside and the same water outside.
Michelle Thaller did a fantastic job with this talk. She explained such complex scientific phenomenon not only in an easy to understand way for the audience, but also in a beautifully emotional way. This TedxTalk really deserves millions of views in my opinion. Beautifully explained Michelle 👏🏻 cience and the universe are beautiful and complex ❤ 🌌🪐☀️🔭
Absolutely beautifully put Michelle, awesome presentation! Thank-you
I love your passion Michelle! You are a wonderful story teller and I am learning so much because of how well you describe our universe. Thank you 🙏
Very powerful and inspiring . You are not alone. Knowledge is the most powerful weapon and has the ability to amaze or devistate . Every time I look up to the night sky I think we are incredibly lucky to be even a tiny part of this amazing story.
I knew I couldn’t have thought it first. Michelle, you said it. Over eight billion living breathing miracles on one miraculous orb. We’ve no need to search for miracles elsewhere, nor else-when, as it were. -Phill, Las Vegas
I've always loved watching Michelle Thaller on TV science shows but I never thought I'd see a TED talk from her, this has been a great gift
I really enjoy her sharing her passion. Wonderful talk. I always enjoy listening to Michelle Thaller talk.
I just love Michelle Thaller. ♥ Lots of love from South Africa 🇿🇦
I really admire her energy and enthusiasm. Simply adorable.
Dr. Thaller is fantastic. Thanks for this great talk.
i am just in love with her words 💖
Listening to her lecture is much more inspiring than a silly Sunday sermon. It is true that our essence never dies. We just revert back to the baser chemicals we all came from. No need to spend a lifetime on our knees. Than you Ms. Thaller., for you commitment to truth.
Glad to have seen Michelle again, its been a few years since she had well deserved popularity.
She has infectious scientific clarity and a pleasing way with her.
"So forget Jesus. The stars died for you." ~Lawrence Krauss
I LOve this quote! thanks for posting
The stars created Jesus...
How emotional, the atheistic Faith by Lawrence Krauss the Sage of nothing ; in the beginning was the particle, which emanated from the nothingness, and time ensued with the particle and after 13 billion years its multiplication became manifest and through its self-organizational powers and without purpose or intent it fashioned itself into Solar System's, planets and galaxies and ultimately the living cell, in particular the nucleated living cell. The Cell endowed with capabilities of billon chemical operations per second, and then multicellular organism with trillion of cells highly coordinated interactions which ultimately became conscious, behold the power of the God Particle. Praise be the God of Nothing. The atheist are mystics of nothing.
He sure is preoccupied with Jesus
Son of Thunder Maybe, concern is more like it!
One of the best I ever heard, that makes sense, thank you.
How beautiful how moving how poignant how can this talk not be shared by all of us....thank you
I've figured out that she is the best explainers of all. And her voice is mesmerizing.
It's accurately meant to be.
Thank you . I try to explain this yo my sister who thinks I'm craz .glad someone else besides me is saying this too ! .
I have always been in this universe and always will be , be it different types of life forms and or matter.
I have always been here
I have always looked out from behind these eyes
It feels like more than a lifetime
Feels like more than a lifetime-David Gilmour-
She is a fantastic, brilliant, educator and physicist. Love whrn she's speaking.
Wow. I could listen to her explanations of the cosmos all day. It's poetry
She is a wonderful public speaker. Someone get her into every classroom in America and abroad.
amazing video, thanks Ted x team ,its truly an amazing channel which explains the facts better
A brilliant presentation. Thank you.
The truth is far more beautiful than myths of some god like king that demands us to bow before him.
One of the best talk that I know of. Very passionate and elegant talk. Thanks!
I absolutely adore Michelle Thaller... she´s amazing.. a true inspiration.. :))
Remarkable woman!!
Michelle you are the Biggest Star in my Universe.
In all honesty she keeps showing up in my feed as I keep clicking and is the most genuine and one of the smartest people out there.
I love how its all a Story...
Yes, make believe stories are enjoyed by those that are dumbed down, drugged up, poisoned and programmed with lies and lunacy across the full spectrum of deception.
What does that mean soulful
@Ominous Cloud To be smug is to be proud of one's accomplishments and achievements - to study Chemistry and Physics for decades, and to expose the deception imposed upon the common people - including the lies and lunacy of the theories taught to the unintelligent fake science gods, I am deeply satisfied and fulfilled. Thank you for letting us know you take pride in copying quotes from others and presenting them as your own.
Brava!
"We are stardust, we are golden,
"We are billion year-old carbon,
"And we've got to get ourselves back to The Garden."
- Joni Mitchell, _Woodstock,_ 1969-70
Recorded by her, and also by Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young
I believe that heavy-element nucleosynthesis in SN's was already known at that time, and that those lines were an informed composition.
Anyone know whether those two things are true?
Fred
It was likely known intuitively not necessarily a peer reviewed fact. In my physics program the entire focus was QM as relevant to semiconductor theory and computerized data aquisition for experiments
She truly is a joy to listen to! I really enjoy learning about our universe the way she teaches it. She makes it more interesting and you can tell she really loves what she is teaching
I love her passion and enthusiasm ,I watched Cosmos with Carl Sagan years ago and inspired me to learn more. Our search for intelligent life out there has come up empty. In a sense that has left a gaping hole in us and we have turned inward. The Hadron collider is where a lot of research is focus these days and unfortunately we are in danger of destroying our own place in this vast universe because there is no Planet B. We must and hopefully will find a way to solve our way out of this situation and when we do we will reach out for the Stars once again with passion and enthusiasm and wonder
I'm in love with this lady. She opened her heart! And this story is so beatiful it makes my heart warm.
this blew my mind! So beautiful, poetic and inspiring...
Totally and utterly brilliant and life changing and needs to be shared at every opportunity 💕
Professor Thaller : You are more beautiful than any galaxy in the universe !!