What Is Beyond The Edge?

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  • @HistoryoftheUniverse
    @HistoryoftheUniverse  2 роки тому +620

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    • @idahogreen2885
      @idahogreen2885 2 роки тому +34

      Thank you for doing a promotion for something that I personally have been looking for. I'm def gonna get it

    • @scienceandmatter8739
      @scienceandmatter8739 2 роки тому +2

      Masks poisoning Fisch Birds and Ozeans for 300 years per one oneusemask. .....what did you sah about criticsl thinKing? Eyes and skin wounds are entry Points of viruses Not just the mask that rather is a Symbol for obey ....6 year old KID Forced to wear Plastik Mask in First grade where SINGING IS BANNED BECAUSE OF a Virus that 0,9% harm?!?! Hope this Leilas opinion is more educated now....i love this channel here anyway ..... tribvtes from germany

    • @smlanka4u
      @smlanka4u 2 роки тому +19

      Nothingness would expand into infinity. Nothingness (0) doesn't represent a permanent location. Therefore, that could become (+0.0-0.0) x (6 or n). In that case, the size of the universe could become 0 to 0.0. But according to my calculation, the universe converted from 0 to 0.00000 with a mathematical relationship, making the elementary particles, forces, etc. In that case, the size of the universe initial universe was +0.00000-0.00000, and the infinity in the universe was located between +0.00000 and -0.00000. But the universe could continue at the edge (at +0.00000 and -0.00000), making more and more dimensions. The absolute time must continue if there is something (time) even if there is nothing (not even space). And that is why the relative time emerged. Relativeness of the time dimensions is the energy (the universe). The relative time doesn't stop the absolute time in any case. But the relative time can stop relatively. Many directional moments at a moment can make the entire universe while increasing the moments with the expansion of the universe. So the universe is growing making directional moments. Best of luck.

    • @colbysmithingell7699
      @colbysmithingell7699 2 роки тому

      Are 9999999 poop 0++0+00+00

    • @chrisscott9296
      @chrisscott9296 2 роки тому +9

      This is great, but i Believe that the infinite void is only truly converted by something I e actual Materiality existeance levels that encompass all actual consciousness dimensions. The void space to Materiality conversion processes have to interact with ‘pure void’ because in its own eternality it predates in ways even the existence of God and God forms. Thus it can only be re identified to any form by the highest Materiality frequency intensity available creation wide, then void integration with dimensions substance begins, thus ‘the best’ is sent to convert ‘the most difficult’ do you find that this makes ‘ structural sense’?

  • @stella.r2708
    @stella.r2708 2 роки тому +9544

    "Light likes to think it is the fastest thing in the universe. But no matter how fast light travels, the darkness is there waiting for it" - Terry Pratchett

    • @VonLuckow
      @VonLuckow 2 роки тому +293

      2 Corinthians 10:5 - Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

    • @minime1988
      @minime1988 2 роки тому +1058

      @@VonLuckow no

    • @genghischan69
      @genghischan69 2 роки тому +237

      Light doesn't think anything. Weak minded human projections upon physical phenomena.

    • @stella.r2708
      @stella.r2708 2 роки тому +352

      @@genghischan69 not my quote

    • @C.K.MillerPoet_Extraordinaire
      @C.K.MillerPoet_Extraordinaire 2 роки тому +1791

      @@genghischan69 imagine being so dense as to be unable to see value in a metaphor, and yet so egotistical as to call it weak minded.

  • @stevebrindle1724
    @stevebrindle1724 2 роки тому +5955

    Cosmology and Physics are my favourite fields of learning. I am in my late 60s but still full of curiosity and wonder. This channel has long been and still remains one of my favourites. There was no such thing as the internet when I grew up and was in my 30s before I got my first computer and I believe this fact allows me to appreciate the current information age so much more than people who have never known anything else. The fact that a working-class guy like myself has all this knowledge and learning, not to mention art and culture at my fingertips, a mouse click away still excites and amazes me. The nearest thing to today,s communication network was the Starship Enterprise and its gadgets! I never imagined back then that such wonders would become easily available! I remember seeing their communication devices resembling today's mobile phones and laptops and thinking they would remain in the imagination of science fiction writers! How blessed we are!

    • @safeysmith6720
      @safeysmith6720 2 роки тому +243

      I’m 42 and agree with everything you said.

    • @ComaDave
      @ComaDave 2 роки тому +233

      58 and concur completely.
      You can blame my Mother for dragging me along to watch "2001: A Space Odyssey" in 1968, when I was four years old. 💖

    • @rosamwen2267
      @rosamwen2267 2 роки тому +274

      I’ve just woken up and your comment was the first thing I’ve read. What a positive, authentic and wholesome view on life. Thanks for lifting my spirit with your perception as most people gravitate to seeing all the negativity that surrounds us instead, like yourself, highlighting the beauty of things. Have a great weekend!

    • @danielschaeffer1294
      @danielschaeffer1294 2 роки тому +87

      I can remember when the old-fashioned flip phone came along. Everyone who pulled one out in front of his friends felt compelled to say “Beam me up, Scotty. This planet sucks.”

    • @bipolarbear9917
      @bipolarbear9917 2 роки тому +80

      From one Steve also in his late 60s to another, that's exactly how I feel. How things have changed since we were kids. I remember about 20 years ago, I saw the James Cameron documentary called "Aliens of the Deep". It's a fantastic doco. Anyway, JPL- NASA Astrobiologist and Mineralogist Pamela Conrad (now 69 years old) was in a deep submersible submarine testing out a life-detecting laser which would be used on the Mars rovers Spirit, Opportunity, Curiosity and Perseverance. She made a remark that would be lost on most people. She's testing this laser in a submarine at maybe 1000 meters depth, and having a great time and laughing her head off she says "This is way better than the cardboard box". It immediately reminded me when I was a kid and we would play inside refrigerator sized cardboard boxes. With sticks, tape and marker pens we'd make them into submarines, planes, boats, spaceships etc. and we'd have a grand old time playing and using our imagination. It was so much fun. I think that's what she was talking about, and probably blown away that she finally made it into the real thing.
      Kids don't do that today, because now they have computers and a whole range of virtual worlds to get lost in. Sure, they're great, but I still have fond memories of the cardboard box submarines and spaceships. And we had the fantastic experience of watching the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs landing men on the Moon. Wow! Those were the days. I'll bet you're looking forward to our return to the Moon, and like me, enthralled by Spacex, and probably hoping that we live long enough to see humans walking on Mars.
      "May the Force be with you, Steve!" 🚀

  • @BG-Freedom
    @BG-Freedom 2 роки тому +1023

    11 years ago before podcasts were as big as they are now, I was deployed in the mountains of Afghanistan and the only connection to the outside world was what we had saved on hard drives. No phone, no internet, just two way radio and paper mail. I had an hour~ long audio recording ripped from a CD that was all about infinity (which I have unfortunately lost the name to)- this video was the first thing I've heard since then that has combined the human and scientific aspects of this subject in a way that was able to stir up the feelings that my original recording was able to do over a decade ago. Thank you.

    • @calebday6988
      @calebday6988 2 роки тому +17

      hell yeah

    • @jamiebarr3118
      @jamiebarr3118 2 роки тому +20

      did you ever encounter any paranormal situations while deployed in Afghanistan? Did you know anyone at OP rock? Sorry to bother you, just curious.

    • @carrollwilliams8861
      @carrollwilliams8861 2 роки тому +23

      My father served combat in WW2. While in the foxholes, Readers Digest magazines would be passed around to everyone.

    • @ericthiel4053
      @ericthiel4053 2 роки тому +85

      @@jamiebarr3118 I wasn't at nor know anything about OP rock, but I was in Afghanistan from 2010 to 2011 and again in 2013 to 2014 in Kandahar and we actually did have a strange encounter. We were making our way across the open desert in our strykers ( was with 2CR at the time) and we saw a large, glowing "sphere" that had bright orange light emanating from it. It was maybe 30 to 40 feet above the ground and went east to west at a pace I'd estimate to be at about 5 mph. The entire platoon saw it. We radioed it up to x-ray (HQ) and our MI guy put it into the debrief. Apparently the unit that owned the battlespace west of us saw it too and experienced the same thing. Have no clue what the hell it was. Not saying it was a UFO, but it damn sure wasn't anything anyone had ever seen before. There was a weird "statically" feeling in the air as it passed. I'll never forget that night. Very strange.

    • @jamiebarr3118
      @jamiebarr3118 2 роки тому +26

      @@ericthiel4053 Wow! Thank you heaps for sharing, that sounds very interesting and bizarre at the same time. The sensation of static in the air is particularly unusual and I can only imagine what that would feel like.

  • @jaredc3711
    @jaredc3711 11 місяців тому +53

    The universe is so inconceivably vast and humanity so infinitesimal that even if there is a limit to it's size the universe is functionally infinite.

    • @jaimemurphy2208
      @jaimemurphy2208 2 місяці тому +4

      Like your mum

    • @aethrya
      @aethrya 2 місяці тому

      @@jaimemurphy2208my man

    • @GillAgainsIsland12
      @GillAgainsIsland12 Місяць тому

      @@jaimemurphy2208 No, like your idiocy.

    • @robaxl3088
      @robaxl3088 Місяць тому +2

      A limit? There is no end to space …no walls….it just goes on forever

    • @jaimemurphy2208
      @jaimemurphy2208 Місяць тому

      @@robaxl3088 Like your mum

  • @billionabil
    @billionabil Рік тому +483

    No matter what I’m going through or what’s happening in the world, this series brings me peace. Perspective from the “pale blue dot”

    • @thisiswhatilike54
      @thisiswhatilike54 Рік тому +16

      "Sort of makes you feel insignificant."
      "Hmm, yes... Can we have your liver, then?"
      Sorry. Couldn't resist.

    • @emsa5034
      @emsa5034 Рік тому +8

      Im over here crying about the shape of my body and then there’s just the very concept of infinity existing and it just blows all of my insignificant thoughts and insecurities to pieces, but then to bring in the concept of an infinite UNIVERSE and TIME? Like… my mind couldn’t get any more blown. Almost turns that good feeling of insignificance bad.. like damn life really is pointless maybe I should just drink myself to death… and then I snap back to reality lol whatever that is. Our small little human brains just can’t handle not being the center of the universe 😂 but I love the nihilism tho it’s dreadful and fascinating

    • @Mtl-zf9om
      @Mtl-zf9om Рік тому +2

      Insignificant maybe, but mostly modest and humble which apparently is not the case after reading the comments. I was going to add unfairness as the human body is limited, weak, slow and finite to be able to go out for a galactic or universal journey or the fact that even at this level of telescopic technology we couldn't discover an outside earth intelligent life form for an invitation to visit us but then I remember the probability of the existence of life on this planet and I feel lucky and hungry.

    • @MeganVictoriaKearns
      @MeganVictoriaKearns 11 місяців тому +2

      I like any comment that references the beautiful mind of Carl Sagan. ❤

    • @sagebiddi
      @sagebiddi 11 місяців тому

      ​@@emsa5034...if absolute unbridled love can possibly be sent to a complete stranger just be pure will ...even if its a tiny fragment that defies physics and middle fingers logic ....
      Me and my little beastfriend/cat/roommate are both currently trying our damndest. I hope you feel better and realize you are so much more than what YOU think you look like. That's only your opinion and we all know how we can be wrong about stuff even if we have embedded our beliefs in it. Take it from a fellow nihilist

  • @muhammadanwar-bt8hm
    @muhammadanwar-bt8hm 2 роки тому +376

    The beauty of these videos is that even for a second your mind wanders in a different direction you'll lose the grasp of what's going on. That's the kind of attention these videos deserve.

    • @johnathan2023
      @johnathan2023 2 роки тому +18

      I'm so high and tried to watch this please help

    • @amichaeel
      @amichaeel 2 роки тому +7

      This is true for any science.

    • @neilruedlinger4851
      @neilruedlinger4851 2 роки тому +4

      Did your mind wander towards exploring infinity, seeking perfection?

    • @muhammadanwar-bt8hm
      @muhammadanwar-bt8hm 2 роки тому +2

      @@neilruedlinger4851 Perfection, i don't know but one thing that our mind is not able to comprehend this vastness is really scary.

    • @neilruedlinger4851
      @neilruedlinger4851 2 роки тому +9

      @@muhammadanwar-bt8hm I think it's our courage to dare to explore the unknown, motivated by our insatiable curiosity, that need to know what's on the other side of a figurative hill or mountain, that is one of the best human qualities we have.
      When Hubble took that image, surprising me that it wasn't just a black patch of sky but revealing all those very distant galaxies filled my mind with astonished wonder, overcoming my fear.
      For me it's not comprehending the vastness that is scary, it's contemplating the violence of the event horizon of a Black Hole; the maelstrom of the accretion disk is like a seemingly never ending giant tornado or hurricane. Another scary contemplation is the extreme/hard X-ray radiation emanating from neutron stars, that could kill an exposed person in seconds.

  • @SaifUlIslam-di5xv
    @SaifUlIslam-di5xv 2 роки тому +598

    I used to love Cosmology when I was in my school years, but I lost that passion because I didn't find people around me that would love the same, and no one really encouraged it. Thanks to YT and channels such as yours, I feel so excited listening to all of this. Got through the entire video and didn't feel like I've been listening for enough time. Thank you!

    • @seasonedbeefs
      @seasonedbeefs 2 роки тому +3

      Same

    • @prateepdasgupta
      @prateepdasgupta 2 роки тому +18

      Same problem. I can't find someone who has similar interests

    • @someguy-k2h
      @someguy-k2h 2 роки тому +18

      I know that lonely place. We are out here.

    • @thomaskolb8785
      @thomaskolb8785 2 роки тому +5

      So true. When I studied astrophysics, I had nobody in my personal sphere outside the world of the university who I was able to share my passion with.

    • @sebastianwrites
      @sebastianwrites 2 роки тому +9

      You should let 'others' decide what "you" are going to do?

  • @Lukedalf
    @Lukedalf 10 місяців тому +148

    Man tree 3 feels like something we should have been told about in school, that's some crazy ass information

    • @mattnewhouse1781
      @mattnewhouse1781 7 місяців тому +15

      Theres so many things my american education didnt teach. Young's double slit experiment, or any scientist from 20th century, or anything about space other than our planets.

    • @Idontwanttoleavethecongoohnono
      @Idontwanttoleavethecongoohnono 7 місяців тому

      ​@@mattnewhouse1781 I learned about the double slit experiment in middle school? I've known about the plants and how they formed since elementary school? Just because you had a shitty education does not mean the entire US is uneducated.

    • @TheSnoeedog
      @TheSnoeedog 5 місяців тому +6

      If it helps shed some context on the immensity of TREE(3), check out the wikipedia page for Graham's number. For years, Graham's number was the largest number used in a published mathematical proof. Special notation has to be used, just to apply the most naive "understanding/extrapolation" of it (I think it's called Knutt's UPArrow notation)....anyway, if you can wrap your head around how inconceivable Graham's number is, and then accept that it's dwarfed into nothingness by TREE(3) you may like where you're at. The wikipedia page for Graham's number is heady, but at least somewhat understandable....

    • @NativeAmerican458
      @NativeAmerican458 4 місяці тому +3

      You missed that day in math or you didn't take Advanced courses in math

    • @kimbopizzaslice
      @kimbopizzaslice 3 місяці тому +4

      @@NativeAmerican458I was busy talking to girls to care about math sorry bud

  • @carolvega1982
    @carolvega1982 Рік тому +162

    I'm 40 and in my heart, I am still a little kid amazed at every day, in every way, experiencing our beautiful Universe in this short lifespan. I pray that I am worthy of life. It's a gift not to be taken for granted.

    • @andrewcanady6644
      @andrewcanady6644 Рік тому +4

      Well said. Not taking a moment for granted is important. Trying to relax and have peace so that every moment will shine. 🤙🏾

    • @tommytwotoes
      @tommytwotoes Рік тому +10

      Carol my friend. The most valuable lesson i have learned is that happiness neither exist in the future or the past. It is a concept that can only be experiened in the now. Henceforth why happiness is fleeting. So an exercise i try to do is remove all thoughts of the past from my mind and all thoughts of the future. Focus your mind on the now. Examine your surroundings delight in the company of others etc.

    • @cookt8
      @cookt8 Рік тому

      You’re not 40. You are always.
      The you who thinks you are 40 is ego personified.

    • @thomaswonderwood9826
      @thomaswonderwood9826 Рік тому +3

      @@tommytwotoes The One who holds the future in his hands says it will be better than the days we have here, if we believe. He will take away all pain and suffering and that there will be no death in His kingdom. Peace and love forever with no heartbreaks. Sin wont ever enter His kingdom. No abortion, no murder or violence, no war. The future is what we need to live for, everyday. One day at a time, shining His light as we go, but always with the King and his kingdom as a goal. This is just a test to see where your loyalties are. The next life will be better by infinity x infinity.

    • @tommytwotoes
      @tommytwotoes Рік тому +3

      @@thomaswonderwood9826I agree my friend. I was simply explaining that the concept of happiness is temporal and only exist in the now. In the kingdom the happiness will be never ending but will always exist in the now. Amen though brother keep spreading the word

  • @Gainn
    @Gainn 2 роки тому +1265

    Understanding infinity isn't difficult.
    It just takes forever.

    • @infinitesimotel
      @infinitesimotel Рік тому +29

      It wont help me make shit tons of money either.

    • @dezvul4817
      @dezvul4817 Рік тому +16

      Mathematically it also requires that you be able to observe a larger infinity than the infinity you hope to understand, and how do you ever know you are the largest infinity? If your capacity to observe the space of the universe is the speed of light, and the entire universe is infinitely large and is expanding at some constant rate that isn't infinitesimal; then a point in space at some distance away from you (not even infinitely far away from you, at a distance that is calculatable based on the speed of universe expansion) is moving away from you faster than you can ever hope to approach it or even see it. You can thus have an infinite area of space to observe, but can never observe or interact outside of a specific bubble of infinite space.
      There could be an infinite number of these bubbles of infinity within a bigger space, and only an entity larger than the infinity that divides these bubbles could observe both of these bubbles unless they can interact.

    • @Gainn
      @Gainn Рік тому +7

      @@dezvul4817 Observing an infinity requires you to be outside of it. Which would seem counterintuitive at best.

    • @infinitesimotel
      @infinitesimotel Рік тому

      @@dezvul4817 Infinity is a junk concept and unreifiable. To even suggest a "larger infinity" is even worse nonsense and in itself utter bullshit.

    • @thechunkyone7118
      @thechunkyone7118 Рік тому +1

      What about this chatgpt do you think that would be able to solve tree 3

  • @CuzImAzizx
    @CuzImAzizx 2 роки тому +295

    Ah yes, my daily dose of existential dread. Thank you for this incredible content!

    • @shaydorahl6740
      @shaydorahl6740 2 роки тому +16

      The universe is infinite, information has always existed with no beginning and it will always exist without end, information can only be transformed.
      The eternal information of reality/existence is sentient.
      That sentience is God.
      You are made out of God's essence and you currently live in God's infinite being.
      Your life is not meaningless because in an infinite universe in an infinite reality, all things infinitely matter to one who is infinitely empathetic and infinitely good.

    • @10Tabris01
      @10Tabris01 2 роки тому +7

      @@infobeam1902 Easy, Infinity+1, which itself is a different infinity

    • @Pugetwitch
      @Pugetwitch 2 роки тому +7

      I've never understood that concept. Why is it frightening? It's absolutely amazing and fills me with gratitude!

    • @lucofparis4819
      @lucofparis4819 2 роки тому +7

      @@Pugetwitch I think he's being humorous here. I don't think he'd keep coming back if his existential dread was indeed triggered by these videos.

    • @lucofparis4819
      @lucofparis4819 2 роки тому +10

      @@shaydorahl6740 You have provided no ground for speculating that this purported eternal information is sentient, let alone interconnected across these infinities in such a way that it would be meaningful to talk about one infinite God.
      Case in point, this very infinity _denies_ the possible existence of any kind of oneness, let alone a sentient one. It was a mistake to assume that because everything that can happen will happen, it somehow means that everything can happen, period.
      It's entirely possible and plausible that just as there are infinite possibilities in an infinite cosmos, there could also be infinite impossibilities. What then determines this God concept of yours to be either possible or impossible? What hint can you find to make that inference that there is an infinite being, let alone an infinite God?

  • @henrybancroft3316
    @henrybancroft3316 2 роки тому +92

    Imagine... out there in the infinite, there are people who pay for Netflix instead of watching this... unthinkable

    • @jdhi5279
      @jdhi5279 Рік тому +3

      I agree with you mostly. But sometimes netflix has things youtube can't play.

    • @flumenparagliding7293
      @flumenparagliding7293 10 місяців тому

      Is it hard to belive when you see the society... 😢

    • @bradypeck6540
      @bradypeck6540 10 місяців тому +1

      Facts! 💯 that’s ok though it’s their journey 😀🙏

    • @notaspeck6104
      @notaspeck6104 7 місяців тому +5

      Or you could watch both?

    • @187bronco
      @187bronco 4 місяці тому

      😂… That’s because Netflix is more believable

  • @InceptDev001
    @InceptDev001 Рік тому +633

    Tree 3 sounds like an existential terror I'm not supposed to know about.

    • @LostTemplate
      @LostTemplate 11 місяців тому +22

      they see you now 👁️

    • @satohime
      @satohime 11 місяців тому +48

      wait until you hear about tree 4

    • @LiberPater777
      @LiberPater777 11 місяців тому +21

      ​@@satohime Pfft. Childs play.
      Tree ♾️ is the real game.

    • @ba780YT
      @ba780YT 11 місяців тому +13

      Just like Half Life 3

    • @YoutubeAccount-u9z
      @YoutubeAccount-u9z 11 місяців тому

      @@ba780YTboring lol read a book

  • @singularity___
    @singularity___ 2 роки тому +386

    I found this channel right after the second video was uploaded, and it has been beautiful to see the extent to which it has grown. I struggle to think of another channel more deserving. Thank you for bringing us free, documentary-quality content, and thank you for helping to keep my love for science alive.

    • @harryhutcherson7177
      @harryhutcherson7177 2 роки тому +6

      I agree, a wonderful channel here. I would also suggest a channel called SEA. He does astronomy/physics videos as well as other interesting and strange topics.

    • @RickStormT
      @RickStormT 2 роки тому +6

      Check the channels tab, they have channels with other topics. History of the earth, history time, voices of the past - all the same high quality approach.
      As other commenter mentioned SEA is also great space content.

    • @chrisj3059
      @chrisj3059 2 роки тому

      second this praising, the way this fellow human creates content is so enjoyable. Thank you so much!

    • @aeriagloris4211
      @aeriagloris4211 2 роки тому +2

      Check out Anton Petrov on UA-cam

    • @shaydorahl6740
      @shaydorahl6740 2 роки тому +1

      The universe is infinite, information has always existed with no beginning and it will always exist without end, information can only be transformed.
      The eternal information of reality/existence is sentient.
      That sentience is God.
      You are made out of God's essence and you currently live in God's infinite being.
      Your life is not meaningless because in an infinite universe in an infinite reality, all things infinitely matter to one who is infinitely empathetic and infinitely good.

  • @xzysyndrome
    @xzysyndrome 5 місяців тому +129

    I was sitting in my garden one evening. I noticed an ant walking along oblivious to the sentient being watching her. I lowered my hand and let her crawl onto my finger. As she weaved around my fingers with no discernible concern...I thought about her observable universe. I smiled ever so slightly before lowering my hand to allow her to scurry off. She will live and die...her entire observable Universe in my backyard...oblivious of her abduction, unaware of the stars, ignorant of the cell phone in my pocket...that the hand that just held her is typing this very comment...in a language she will never know...to communicate via light, to a species she cannot fathom. Humans are spectacular...but ultimately ants in the backyard of their Observable Universe.

    • @TheBigMclargehuge
      @TheBigMclargehuge 5 місяців тому

      Well this sounds compelling I'm totally going to click read more just kidding fuck you

    • @DJTechno94
      @DJTechno94 4 місяці тому +11

      I am just waiting to get smacked by some higher being, and I would be too stupid to grasp it even if I registered it coming

    • @latenightorgandonor
      @latenightorgandonor 4 місяці тому

      Wow what you high on
      Gimme that shit

    • @paulmarc-aurele5508
      @paulmarc-aurele5508 4 місяці тому +4

      Nice illustration, 60 years ago I asked my Physics teacher this question, if you could shoot an arrow at the speed of light and it never slowed it should keep going straight forever. I couldn’t accept that the universe could end with nothing beyond, neither could I accept a beginning with nothing existing before. Now accepting this is easy for me, understanding it is no more in my grasp than the ant in your backyard.

    • @xzysyndrome
      @xzysyndrome 4 місяці тому +6

      @@paulmarc-aurele5508 My Dad told me about being in Physics class back in the 60's and how he wrote a paper about the Universe being like a single bubble in a sink full of bubbles....and how his teacher laughed and said "That's great....prove it with Math" My Dad has since passed....and I wish he could see the "Multi-verse" theories that are gaining traction.

  • @Rude_And_Tattooed
    @Rude_And_Tattooed Рік тому +250

    I studied Mandelbrot's work for years in graduate school. His ideas are what drove me to study mathematics. It's always fascinated me, however, how so many brilliant minds helped shape mathematics so many years ago, without access to the technology we have today.

    • @SOLIDSNAKE.
      @SOLIDSNAKE. Рік тому +11

      True genetic freaks! Absolute genius's! Their potential with today's tech would be insane! I always use the analogy, imagine if Stanley Kubrick would do with today's tech when he was starting as young man

    • @gerardjones7881
      @gerardjones7881 Рік тому +14

      Technology stops you from thinking.

    • @Clarkillustrations
      @Clarkillustrations Рік тому +4

      I used to watch the Mandlebrot Set with a similar infinite fractal audio at the same time, and it was like being on hallucinogenic drugs while being entirely sober.

    • @erics.4113
      @erics.4113 Рік тому +6

      Without the technological distractions I would have done stuff too

    • @Rude_And_Tattooed
      @Rude_And_Tattooed Рік тому +6

      @@erics.4113 Most of us would have 😂

  • @VictorChalker
    @VictorChalker Рік тому +369

    What an absolutely brilliant explanation of the possibilities of the existence of anything our minds can (or cannot) imagine.

    • @rayconnor
      @rayconnor Рік тому +6

      After seeing the bustling life at the bottom of the Mariana Trench ( thought I was looking at the marijuana trench, since I’d sparked one up! ), I came to believe Life can, and does, exist everywhere in some form…..! And I believe even Atoms and Strings think!

    • @WyattScott
      @WyattScott Рік тому

      Agree, herpes must think at some level because it’s a mutherpucking brilliant little piece of shite the way that it invades and eludes the immune system, and then there is cancer.

    • @JagadguruSvamiVegananda
      @JagadguruSvamiVegananda Рік тому

      Brilliant and lacklustre are RELATIVE. 😉
      Incidentally, Slave, are you VEGAN? 🌱

    • @yoshimitsu8643
      @yoshimitsu8643 Рік тому +2

      This channel does it to you

    • @blob5907
      @blob5907 Рік тому

      I can imagine it.

  • @gaiasgift
    @gaiasgift 2 роки тому +132

    This blew my mind. What an amazing explanation of what is and could be... according to us. Absolutely beautifully written and presented. Well done.

    • @Radrook353
      @Radrook353 27 днів тому

      Science fiction writers also create beautifully-expressed universal concepts.

  • @JIBos
    @JIBos Рік тому +12

    Absolutely fascinating.
    Never boring.

    • @Zeng-rv9mv
      @Zeng-rv9mv 11 місяців тому

      It's the other way around.

  • @Rafaga777
    @Rafaga777 2 роки тому +68

    Absolutely mind boggling channel. Every episode is a masterpiece of writing and narration. Thanks a lot for this fantastic video.

    • @fluentpiffle
      @fluentpiffle 2 роки тому +2

      And most minds would rather be boggled than clarified..

    • @bradley4385
      @bradley4385 2 роки тому +1

      I pass a lot of gas.... Maybe that's why I'm such a jackass??

    • @BirdOfHermes83
      @BirdOfHermes83 2 роки тому

      @@bradley4385 Yes.

    • @Radrook353
      @Radrook353 27 днів тому

      True! Such magnificently expressed ruminations can indeed mesmerize.

  • @Quklasa
    @Quklasa 2 роки тому +146

    Oddly, I never get a sense of existential dread from videos like this, instead they are strangely freeing. I feel happier after watching them, knowing there is so much to learn, so much more than I can in this life, but an immense universe (or multiverse!) full of mysteries to attempt to understand.

    • @richarddaddio360
      @richarddaddio360 2 роки тому +5

      Agreed. That symbol systems may have limits or may be wrong should not really be a surprise anyway. If that happens it will mean more things to learn and many more mysteries to explore.

    • @godamid4889
      @godamid4889 2 роки тому +11

      I am the same. It's like people's struggle with the no information theorem and free will. An infinite universe makes every decision we make arbitrary, but damn it's good to be able to experience the ride.

    • @orbismworldbuilding8428
      @orbismworldbuilding8428 2 роки тому +16

      At the other side of an existential crisis is a sort of bliss. Thinking of things like this and even stuff like lack of free will or nihilism actually give me a real sense of higher purpose. I’m aware not everyone is like this

    • @tbfromsd
      @tbfromsd 2 роки тому +12

      Imagine the boredom of a type 3 civilization slowly waiting for heat death with all the answers. I much rather be an idiot in the pursuit of less ignorance.

    • @JF-yo7vu
      @JF-yo7vu 2 роки тому +3

      You get that feeling when you think about it long enough

  • @rudystarberg5137
    @rudystarberg5137 Рік тому +355

    It's not a horror, it's fascinating and amazing, soothing and wonderful to mentally explore, especially while in a dreamy state, as are your UA-cam videos. The more, the better, your videos are of the absolute best.

    • @agua246
      @agua246 Рік тому +11

      Yeah Science is supposed to be beautiful and brings new hope. The unknown has always been there and we have faced it whether it was good, bad or both. Many UA-cam videos like these try to poke at your vulnerability and anxiety so you can keep binging these videos.

    • @MrEMT4466
      @MrEMT4466 Рік тому +3

      AGREE

    • @bigmedicine2283
      @bigmedicine2283 Рік тому +19

      It is a horror.
      That you think it's not betrays your shallowness.
      But take heart: That very shallowness probably will protect you from going insane.

    • @agua246
      @agua246 Рік тому +3

      @@bigmedicine2283 No we know that the cosmos can be a scary place but not all of it but aren't all new places that haven't been explored been deemed to be "no man's land". We keep moving towards the unknown because we have nothing better to do. Is it stupid? Yes but we keep doing it because we as humans are that stubborn and stupid. We learn and overcome in the face of the unknown because if we didn't we would suffer a worse death of never having to explore.

    • @bigmedicine2283
      @bigmedicine2283 Рік тому +5

      @@agua246 I can't believe I find myself agreeing with you. Mostly anyway. However ... .I'm talking about INFINITY. Infinity has driven a few brilliant scientists irretrievably mad. Literally. We're talking straight jackets and padded cells.
      Infinity is APPALLING.

  • @Chai39739
    @Chai39739 Рік тому +12

    Nothing compares to this channel and i mean none, no channels no TV shows, nothing. I adore the way he explains everything without staying to long explainations or briefs, he keeps it simple and with a phased calm voice to the end. ❤

  • @korgscrew2000
    @korgscrew2000 Рік тому +117

    For me, it’s trying to imagine something that never ends. Everything we know of has an end. End of a road, end of a track, end of life. If there’s a wall, there must be something behind it. If the universe never ends, where is it contained? Just thinking what the universe is just gives me a panic attack 😂

    • @robfalgiano
      @robfalgiano Рік тому +17

      I do think one can go mad trying to fully comprehend infinity, if that’s even possible, which I doubt. This is the reason I had to give up chess. Once I got decent at it all I could see where seemingly more possibilities but a slowing of actual action. To be a grandmaster might well be accepting a life of madness in which all that really matters is chess. Is such a life worthwhile?

    • @wesleyfilms
      @wesleyfilms Рік тому +8

      Ends really are just a human construct.

    • @davsamp7301
      @davsamp7301 Рік тому +3

      We must Take caution to not Impose Things from one category on another one.
      To see what i mean, consider this seemingly simple Question, of which i think, that it resembles the Question about the universe.
      The Question is: If anything in Time has a beginning and end, when did time itself began and when will it end?
      For you must See, that all Relation is relative to a underlying Thing. It seems to be needed, that a Last one must be there, for Else it would go into Infinity. But maybe this is the only possible conclusion. That the ultimate is Infinite and thereby nothing in Relation to it and anything.
      In talking about time, it would amount to the Thing called 'now'.
      Maybe this is, what is meant, when it says 'to know, that you dont know.' For it is possible to know, that the ultimate cannot be known, Just by understanding the simultanious necessity and Impossibility of it. It cannot be spoken of this.
      To understand this might be wisdom. To Not do so, maybe the path to insanity.

    • @thecook8964
      @thecook8964 11 місяців тому +2

      Depends on your definition of a "worthwhile" life. Why does a life have to be "worthwhile," as I think you define it? Many more questions arise at your assertions.

    • @davsamp7301
      @davsamp7301 11 місяців тому +2

      @@thecook8964 please ask me all Questions you have, for that nothing May be Hidden for both of us. I think i tried to mean with worthwhile, that a Life in delusion and Error would lead to Failure in being Happy. As Happiness will be the ultimate Purpouse, the Failure at attaining it would Render such a Life probably Not worthwile, concerning also its Future, If nothing Changes about this circumatance. You can think of it more easily by Just recognising the logical structure. Anything worthwile must be desireable. But all that is ultimatey Desired is happiness. Therefore, all Action and pursuit of happiness, that fails do to delusion and Error, cant be called worthwile, for this is never desired, but rather despised.
      I therefore did Not want to speak of my opinion or anything, but rather clarify the necessity of Things.

  • @Kerrtheinfluencer
    @Kerrtheinfluencer 2 роки тому +39

    I dont know how I survived without this channel… I’m very happy it was created, it’s taking my mind to a different place and I’m having an awakening

    • @tanksnap9265
      @tanksnap9265 2 роки тому +6

      I'm absolutely the same. I've been allover YT for years and bounced from creator to creator (for astronomy/physics) and finally found a home.
      I'm not the smartest guy but this channel allows me to think in ways I never thought I could.

    • @freshtoast3879
      @freshtoast3879 2 роки тому +4

      @@tanksnap9265 There are more amongst us, Friend. I wish you well.

    • @Kerrtheinfluencer
      @Kerrtheinfluencer 2 роки тому +2

      @@tanksnap9265 same here and with every new video it’s like an explosion of knowledge about myself and this world that we are occupying… I am happy to know that I am not alone

    • @Kerrtheinfluencer
      @Kerrtheinfluencer 2 роки тому

      @@freshtoast3879 yes there are… wishing you the best aswell

    • @NicholasSaliva
      @NicholasSaliva 2 роки тому +1

      Same. I'm glad to have been born in such a complex and beautiful universe. I don't really understand what's going on, but more or less it's pretty rad.

  • @danieldeneve5724
    @danieldeneve5724 2 роки тому +233

    Some of the best writing and visualizations out there to create truly unique and thought-provoking documentary content on youtube. This channel and 'Voices of the Past' punch way above their weight and are worthy of much more recognition. Narration-wise, we have the next David Attenborough

    • @Flyingmsdaisy
      @Flyingmsdaisy 2 роки тому +8

      Best by far but in an infinite universe there must be better… Igh

    • @godamid4889
      @godamid4889 2 роки тому +2

      @@Flyingmsdaisy true, but lucky we find ourselves with a very good one, none the less.

    • @thomasrobinette3227
      @thomasrobinette3227 2 роки тому +1

      I don't understand the trees and branches and seeds. In the demonstration he has 6 branches coming off of one seed. Why couldn't they do 4 branches off of 1 seed for "tree 2"?

    • @BorisJensen
      @BorisJensen 2 роки тому

      It's a combination of factors. In the list of trees, the n'th tree cannot have more than 1 node. So the first tree can have only 1 node. That means that if any tree after that first tree has a node with the same colour as the first tree (green), then it contains the first tree as a subtree, and would therefore be illegal. So any trees after the first must be another colour. And since we are talking about Tree(2), then we only have 2 colours, so all subsequent trees must be the same colour (red). Since the second tree can have maximum of 2 nodes, we have a choice of having either 1 or 2 red nodes in that tree. If we choose 1 ree node, then every tree after that would be illegal, because it would either contain the first tree or the second tree as a subtree. If we choose 2 trees, them they must be connected, and so any subsequent trees that contain 2 connected red nodes would be illegal. So the only legal 3rd tree would be a single red node, and after that all trees are illegal. So Tree(2) is 3, since it is the length of the largest series of trees of 2 colours that follow those rules. If you had a tree that branched out into many branches, it would either have too many nodes for its place in the list, or contain a previous tree as a subtree.

    • @BorisJensen
      @BorisJensen 2 роки тому +1

      Sorry for the typos, I wrote it on a mobile phone in a train, I hope it still makes sense. Just substitute red for ree, and nodes for trees in the right places :)

  • @juliotrujillo883
    @juliotrujillo883 Рік тому +30

    One of my earliest memories is arriving logically at the frontier with the infinite. I was playing in the living room of my childhood home one summer afternoon and I remember having just watched some astronomy documentary on TV with my dad the night before. I was constructing a model of the universe based on what I had seen, starting with my local position on a planet orbiting a sun, sun orbiting a galaxy, and then as they say, the galaxies disperse and the universes expands. I arrived at some primitive notion of a ball getting bigger but understood that the universe seemed to be all there could be, and that for there to be a boundary, you needed a contrasting 'not-being' that defines the boundary to 'being', and the inevitable "What Is Beyond The Edge?(!)". I was scrambling to imagine a boundary to 'not-being' beyond the on to 'being' in order to 'capture' totality, but boom... It was a peak experience, I felt hyper perceptive and suddenly aware of the truly mysterious state that I found myself in as a human child. I often say it felt like all of my guts where falling out of my, kind of like looking up at an impossibly large object, or down from a height, like tingly gonads and butterflies in my belly. A defining moment for sure.
    Anyway, I just wanted to share this article I found a while ago, it's from 1990, fully sourced with notes etc. Basically, it gives a really strong argument for the Big Bang hypothesis being based on a misinterpretation due to fundamental assumptions that have been experimentally and observationally disproven.
    Given the alarming rates of megalomania and utterly petty and vicious personal attacks these neurotics rail against each other just for having differing opinions! Really, I think academia, specifically the physical sciences, are totally ridden with this. Additionally, when you understand how one culture's breakthroughs can become the foundational assumptions of subsequent cultures, and how early Greek thought undermines all of western intellectual pursuit, I reckon they probably just inherited that queasiness about something that can't be contained within the rational or imaginative faculties. I guess it sucks to know you can never know....

    • @botezsimp5808
      @botezsimp5808 11 місяців тому +2

      It's unfortunate that the science field is so bloated with egos that don't want to be wrong.

    • @christiangonzalez6945
      @christiangonzalez6945 11 місяців тому +4

      This phenomenon has many names thay i dont remember.
      It has a name in psycology.
      And other in phylosophy.
      The phylosophy one perfectly descrives the sense of "being nothing" not in the sense of not actually being nothing but of realizing how small you are.

    • @arvalb0
      @arvalb0 6 місяців тому

      The big ban is reassuring because it defies very horrible things, probably it replaced some other higgs field and replaced it with the stable one we live in, otherwise if it didn’t ehm, nice knowing you because we might already be gone according to the new science.
      Seriously tho, we might never know or we might find something we don’t want (as we kinda have if you know what I’m talking about, but for all it is the Big Bang theory is the best and most “proven” theory we have,) the only problem is it doesn’t account for smaller things then mass

  • @titancloud
    @titancloud 2 роки тому +814

    As my six year old daughter once said, “if you count to infinity, it’s gonna take forever.”

  • @TimZoet
    @TimZoet 2 роки тому +150

    This information makes me understand Lovecraft's stories. Where information at a certain amount drives us to a point where we have to choose between insight that brings madness/suicide or flee back to the safety of the darkness of ignorance

    • @chickenbroski99
      @chickenbroski99 2 роки тому +13

      Salvia trips on 20x+ extracts are quite a consistently frightening and similar read. I had the opportunity to go on one of those trips once and I believe that we maybe are meant to be ignorant as humans of some aspects of how things work. The inner working of reality may present to us as dark, insane and frightening.

    • @timq6224
      @timq6224 2 роки тому +3

      too many people these days are in flight mode...

    • @andrewcoleofficial
      @andrewcoleofficial 2 роки тому

      @@chickenbroski99 Dude that is so fascinating. Wow. I've ready innumerable reports on erowid of salvia and it is utterly terrifying at times. I completely agree. I think salvia opens up the human mind to things it's not meant to see, not because it's bad, but because our brains would go mad from trying to comprehend it. It's software for a supercomputer that you're trying to run on a raspberry pi. Like God didn't design humans to see such things because he knew human consciousness can't handle it.

    • @andrewcoleofficial
      @andrewcoleofficial 2 роки тому +11

      @@chickenbroski99 Wow, I just read a salvia report again, 90x extract. If anyone's out there reading this and wants to do salvia, do DMT instead. There's less of a chance of DMT seriously effing you up in my opinion. This last guy I read about was practically never the same again after his trip, and it seriously messed up his mind and life. Read some bad trip reports of whatever you might want to try to prepare for the worst, never only read the good reports. After reading them seriously ask yourself if the risks to your mental health are worth it to you.

    • @goremedios2450
      @goremedios2450 2 роки тому +8

      @@andrewcoleofficial a close friend of mine did salvia while drinking and ended up choking on his vomit. He was comatose for two days and has never been the same since. Having done salvia myself, I can only imagine the terror he must’ve went through. I would never recommend it to anyone.

  • @janosm5252
    @janosm5252 2 роки тому +46

    This channel is one of the best. Extremely detailed information about the latest findings of science. No nonsense, the presentation flows flawlessly!

    • @imaseeker100
      @imaseeker100 2 роки тому

      except for the silly music

    • @Persephone218
      @Persephone218 4 місяці тому

      No no it’s not. It’s complete nonsense. Please just study from an actual physics book instead of this pop science garbage. This AI voice crap just takes real scientific facts, and then starts concluding stuff that cannot possibly be inferred from the data.

  • @vane909090
    @vane909090 11 місяців тому +82

    Imagine being so immersed in mathematics that the concept of infinity causes a mental breakdown.

    • @OkiWolfGaming
      @OkiWolfGaming 10 місяців тому +2

      XD

    • @roberts8524
      @roberts8524 8 місяців тому +1

      That's crazy!

    • @ChevisPreston
      @ChevisPreston 8 місяців тому +2

      Not only that, the concept of an irrational number that you couldn’t even express as a fraction of two rational numbers

    • @stevew278
      @stevew278 8 місяців тому +2

      Why would I want to imagine that? I have a mental breakdown if I accidentally spill my coffee on the floor

    • @notaspeck6104
      @notaspeck6104 7 місяців тому

      … yeah I’ll leave the wonders of the universe alone. I have a breakdown when I dent my phone…

  • @sampek
    @sampek 2 роки тому +4

    Thanks, incredible content. Brings me back to my younger days before my job when I was curious kid.

  • @俺は誰でもない
    @俺は誰でもない Рік тому +768

    "scientists say TREE(3) is the largest number man has ever imagined"
    TREE(4): allow me to introduce myself

    • @alejrandom6592
      @alejrandom6592 Рік тому +51

      Hello cringe

    • @chrisPain07
      @chrisPain07 Рік тому +5

      Lol

    • @Vahapetautus
      @Vahapetautus Рік тому +28

      TREE(3)s worst nightmare is TR
      EE(3(TREE(3))

    • @defaultyanny861
      @defaultyanny861 Рік тому +13

      ⁠​⁠@@Vahapetautuswhat about TREE(3(TREE(3(TREE(3))))

    • @duckjunkey
      @duckjunkey Рік тому +20

      an infinite number of TREE(3) existing in an infinite number of times

  • @SpankyK
    @SpankyK 2 роки тому +10

    I am so stoked to watch. I want to listen at work but the visuals can't be missed. My wife and young adult kids are going to love this as well.
    Thanks!

  • @BartleyTroyan
    @BartleyTroyan Рік тому +4

    Nice work... Ending with "Turtles all the way down." was a great touch also.

  • @Snikeros
    @Snikeros Рік тому +68

    I personally find comfort in infinity because it makes death and monotony seem temporary on an infinite time frame. In a way it also offers us true freedom because we're not bound by a general greater meaning, we make something of everything given by the universe ourselves.

    • @BASSER81
      @BASSER81 Рік тому +5

      I’ve been watching a lot of near death experience videos and many account that our brains here on this physical existence are limiters. The brain acts to restrict us in the greater knowledge. If we had the ability understand beyond this we probably wouldn’t bother living.

    • @Ecstacy333
      @Ecstacy333 Рік тому +1

      @@BASSER81 we can break past that with introspection and meditation, were all one. Everything is one but not in the way of a hivemind, in the way of infinite proximity and knowlege. There is so much out there that well never understand because its a part of us, if youre looking for something similar to a bear death experiences disjointed astral beauty alot of people compare it to a dmt trip. Dmt is also a natural neurotransmitter producednin low amounts in out brains

    • @leona_in_the_gravesyard
      @leona_in_the_gravesyard 7 місяців тому

      Underrated comment.

    • @Radrook353
      @Radrook353 27 днів тому

      Before we were born, billions of years had elapsed. Yet we are totally unaware of it. Had we not been born, such a total unawareness of existence would have continued forever.

  • @Thedoctorr5
    @Thedoctorr5 2 роки тому +9

    Your videos are incredible. The way you weave in the stories of those people involved in each discovery. The music. Even your voice and intonation. Chef's kiss.

  • @ChadBishopSr
    @ChadBishopSr Рік тому +90

    I have always struggled to explain Aleph numbers and infinities to friends without set theory. Thank you for this video, you do the very thing in the second section of this video that I've wanted the ability to do for many years.

    • @jamesbryant9703
      @jamesbryant9703 Рік тому

      666⁶666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666⁶6⁶eat shit bark at the moon. 6 times 6666666

    • @raymondrocco8607
      @raymondrocco8607 Рік тому +1

      are some things impossible to put a number on it

    • @KhasiXChakuin
      @KhasiXChakuin Рік тому +2

      LoL why TF you want to explain this infinite theory to your friends? 😆

  • @nrich99999
    @nrich99999 5 місяців тому +2

    Even trying to conceptualise or reconcile infinity is mind bogglingly difficult.
    I found it helpful to forget number, size or counting of any kind and simply visualise it and its concept both philosophically and logically.
    Gotta say though, it's taken over 40 years of thinking about it to come up with a personal visualisation that I feel satisfied with. 👍
    It's been worth it though! 😊♾️

  • @gatsbysgarage8389
    @gatsbysgarage8389 Рік тому +300

    The Boltzmann Brain concept is something I used to think about when I would try and grapple with concepts like life after death or death being the end of existence, and still remains probably my greatest fear

    • @prosimulate
      @prosimulate Рік тому +85

      When you’re awake time is linear. When you’re asleep time is non-linear and bi-directional.
      When you’re unconscious you have no way of knowing how much time has passed when you awaken (after surgery / general anaesthetic).
      I think the Universe replays itself, the craziest thing is we can never prove that, and no matter how unlikely it is everything runs the same way, we end up on Earth again…It’s like nature has found a solution to a problem it set itself the only variables are what we do with our lives and next time, and the time after that etc…
      Take it easy bud👍

    • @kas90500
      @kas90500 Рік тому +42

      The Boltzmann Brain concept, is most horrifying thing I have ever heard or read about. The amount of anxiety that idea gives me it is unbelievable. Every time I hear that or read that, my anxiety and existential crisis goes through this roof. Even before I had ever heard about this Boltzmann Brain thing, I had fear that what if I am really the only living thing and everything else is just my minds imagination. So when I heard about Boltzmann Brain, you can imagine what that did to me.

    • @thomaswonderwood9826
      @thomaswonderwood9826 Рік тому

      @@kas90500 Its Easter time..Believe in the ressurection! He died for you and rose again. Come to Jesus and find clarity and peace, not confusion and anxiety. Believe and you will see..it never works the other way around. Have you ever asked yourself why people are so sure about Jesus and there faith can't be shaken. Its because they believed by faith and took a leap. Once you have an encounter with God you will be changed forever and you will know everything is real and the Bible is true. What do you have to lose except for a life of anxiousness and stress..He is coming, come in when you can...

    • @sharkodile22
      @sharkodile22 Рік тому +69

      To look at it from an optimistic point of view, does the concept of "death" even really exist in an infinite universe? If by sheer statistical eventuality did particles contrive a human brain with a specific set of memories and perspective, then within infinite space-time, it _must_ do it again, in the exact same manner. Your heart can stop beating, your neurons can stop firing, but "you," quite literally, _will_ live again.
      ... Scratch the optimistic part. I'm feeling dizzy.

    • @scoobydoo2587
      @scoobydoo2587 Рік тому +31

      @@sharkodile22 This thought is especially interesting to me because it makes another question arise: In an infinite universe, *you* will exist anytime anywhere. The *you* you are now might die this moment but an infinite amount of the exact same versions of you would still be around somewhere else so what is it really that makes you different from them (if there even is a difference) and what makes *you* really you?

  • @cerealvapist333
    @cerealvapist333 2 роки тому +173

    This was amazing. If you enjoy concepts like this, I would recommend reading the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books. The entire series plays with ideas like this, and is written in a very fun and original way. Douglas Adams himself would almost certainly approve of this video.

    • @leightnite3056
      @leightnite3056 2 роки тому +7

      Fo sho! Also, thanks for all the fish!

    • @cerealvapist333
      @cerealvapist333 2 роки тому +3

      @@leightnite3056 No problem, but I'd prefer to eat at The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. They say it's Mostly Harmless but I'd say it's more impressive than Life, The Universe, and Everything. 42!!!!

    • @pauljaru2698
      @pauljaru2698 2 роки тому +6

      Does anyone know where the front office is? I need to speak to a manager.

    • @cerealvapist333
      @cerealvapist333 2 роки тому +4

      @@pauljaru2698 he's on a intergalactic tour at the moment

    • @joegibbskins
      @joegibbskins 2 роки тому +2

      The ideas are more interesting than Adam’s subpar attempts at humor though

  • @rolodexter
    @rolodexter Рік тому +46

    I think it's especially amazing for people who grew up without the internet. We had to rely on books, encyclopedias, and other physical resources to learn about the world. Now, we have access to all of that information and more, just a few keystrokes away. It's truly a privilege to live in this time.
    I'm also a big fan of cosmology and physics. I think it's fascinating to try to understand the universe and how it works. The fact that we can even begin to understand something as vast and complex as the universe is a testament to the power of human ingenuity.
    I'm so glad that you're a fan of my channel. I hope that I can continue to provide you with interesting and informative content about cosmology and physics.

    • @HeroCook
      @HeroCook Рік тому +3

      Now everything is available on single click but people don’t have time or motivation to explore these things. So in old age they were reading books but at that time they really had good motivation and everything was on their fingertips.

    • @iggle6448
      @iggle6448 Рік тому

      🤣Those were the days, my friend....I did a whole thesis involving consciousness, quantum physics and psychology BTI - before the internet! My brain resorted to dreaming about it all. That was phenomenally useful. I just went with it! Question is, would I have learnt so much if I'd had access to the almighty plethora of junk science that floats around the interwebs now?! Would I have had any such revelatory dreams...?

    • @donut5143
      @donut5143 Рік тому +1

      you need to take into consideration before writing a lengthy "comment" such as this that not everyone would agree with you, and that it is an opinion. people like myself don't care that you didn't have access to the internet. we get it, internet wasn't always around, and you're old. learn respect

    • @victorhansson3410
      @victorhansson3410 11 місяців тому

      @@donut5143holy aspie

  • @mikemcaulay9507
    @mikemcaulay9507 4 місяці тому

    Thumbs up on the videos sponsor. I’ve found it really useful and I think it does a great job of just saying, “this is left,” and “this is right,” without weighing in on what is “good.” They do have factuality scores they incorporate from external vendors, but that is for publications as a whole, and not individual news stories. I feel it’s the best solution to those looking to spot and account for agendas and bias, no matter its source.

  • @johannahunderwood4596
    @johannahunderwood4596 Рік тому +65

    Fascinating, well written and narrated. I think that the best scientists are those that have vivid imaginations as well as strong scientific abilities. Curiosity starts with "Why?" and " What if?". I really wish I had been better and more confident in mathematics when I was younger, and would have loved to have taken my interests in the sciences much further, but despite that I always try to learn something new every day. I call it "joining all the dots", because eventually you get to see the bigger picture, how different subjects are interconnected. We are often limited by the biases of the time in which we live, constrained by circumstances beyond our control, but so long as we keep being curious we will get there.

    • @mikepalmer1971
      @mikepalmer1971 Рік тому +5

      But in the modern world if you question the “science” you are called a denier or a racist for some reason.

    • @joer8386
      @joer8386 Рік тому +5

      @@mikepalmer1971 Many scientists who questioned the status quo were sent to the gulag. It seems that we humans will never our lesson.

  • @citizen_grub4171
    @citizen_grub4171 2 роки тому +273

    As it turns out, Infinity is the very essence of Lovecraft's stories - actually capable of driving mad anyone who delves too deep.

    • @Nordlicht05
      @Nordlicht05 2 роки тому +23

      It lies insanity or enlightenment in the comprehension of infinity 😅 maybe only insanity but who knows

    • @gamerfox4835
      @gamerfox4835 2 роки тому +20

      Yet we are the ones who have made this. Something that breaks us trying understand yet it came from a mind sane man. All I can say is
      Do not fear the monster in the book but the author made the monster for that is only a spec of their twisted creations.

    • @zachialadams9279
      @zachialadams9279 2 роки тому +17

      Embrace a little madness, it might just be kinda fun.

    • @xboxuser561
      @xboxuser561 2 роки тому +9

      That makes so much since. If these eldritch beings from before the universe were infinitely large, but capable of appearing to occupy only the space of an oceanside, they would definitely drive anyone who just saw them insane. Like, for a moment just try to visualize something that is infinite in size but inhabiting a finite space. Crazy.

    • @iscariot90
      @iscariot90 2 роки тому +6

      @@zachialadams9279 Well, they say the nerds and the freaks are the best company.

  • @simpsonyellow
    @simpsonyellow 2 роки тому +16

    Far and away my favourite channel on UA-cam. I love receiving notifications for your new vids. Always wonderfully researched, structured and narrated. Thank you for what you do.

  • @robroskey6515
    @robroskey6515 2 місяці тому +1

    This channel blows my mind, especailly when I'm right on the edge of sleep. There's something about that state that opens up a new dimension in my feeble mind that I can't access otherwise.

    • @crandonborth
      @crandonborth 2 місяці тому

      Same… I was just about to fall asleep but I just had this epiphany moment that we must be inside a black hole and now I’m wide awake. 😂

  • @POBox4375
    @POBox4375 2 роки тому +63

    I've just discovered this channel and I wasn't entirely unfamiliar with these concepts but I adored how coherent and comprehensible this video's explanations were. Especially considering the "size" of the topic!

  • @octaviodiaz1469
    @octaviodiaz1469 2 роки тому +74

    Beautifully composed to be understood by non academics. What a marvelous job!

    • @tinybatman9502
      @tinybatman9502 2 роки тому

      Agreed. I'm kinda retarded, and this was generally easy to follow.

  • @vhodges5318
    @vhodges5318 2 роки тому +15

    Literally just finished a documentary on Netflix called "a trip to infinity" and got the notification for this video. Nice.

    • @HistoryoftheUniverse
      @HistoryoftheUniverse  2 роки тому +6

      Haha yeh I saw that came out, good companion piece

    • @vhodges5318
      @vhodges5318 2 роки тому +2

      @@HistoryoftheUniverse this very much feels like a sequel. Cracking content as per 👌🏻

    • @sleepyboi1964
      @sleepyboi1964 2 роки тому +1

      on my way to watch it after this video

  • @jonkauffman9769
    @jonkauffman9769 Рік тому +6

    Near death experiences suggest the possibility of non-material and spiritual worlds opening a whole new fascinating addition to physical infinity.

    • @edgargaebolg9307
      @edgargaebolg9307 6 місяців тому +1

      Nope, it's already been proven that what you experience is just your body desperately producing huge doses of chemicals to relieve your pain

    • @zotiac1231
      @zotiac1231 6 місяців тому

      ​@@edgargaebolg9307 near death experiences aren't always associated with pain.
      Bitter mf.

    • @Jasminesenergy
      @Jasminesenergy 5 місяців тому +1

      Thanks Edgar, but there are people who can describe in great detail what happened while they were completely dead for some time and conversations on multiple accounts. Your brain expelling those chemicals in desperation just doesn't explain those situations where people are able to do that after there is no activity in the brain and coming out of their body. We still don't fully know what happens after.

    • @edgargaebolg9307
      @edgargaebolg9307 5 місяців тому

      @@Jasminesenergy How long have those people been "dead"? Unless it's months or years I don't see your point. That aside, do you also believe the fully detailed reports of people abducted by aliens?

  • @starchiv
    @starchiv Рік тому +31

    I love how you introduced the idea of tribesmen and then moved on to explain some things but later on when you ask a new question you brought the tribesmen back and it made comprehending the next point much easier. Love your story telling.

    • @Trucking4Jesus
      @Trucking4Jesus Рік тому

      Fantastic, Glad you enjoyed it. That'll be $4.99, will that be cash or card?
      😂

  • @osborne9255
    @osborne9255 2 роки тому +116

    This provokes so much thought. Yet, despite always processing such things in the back of my mind, after watching this one I'm reconsidering that life might not be understandable, but can only be experienced (in our own limited way). Some very interesting comments here too, crikey, wish some of these folks were my friends. It would be delightful to speculate with them!

    • @fartnutte1724
      @fartnutte1724 2 роки тому +4

      well i dont like this experience where do i send the complaint cuz i want my money back

    • @siddharthamarendran487
      @siddharthamarendran487 2 роки тому +1

      I actually came to a very same conclusion on a very heavily dosed trip , why are we alive ? - To experience and hence live

    • @beardedbox80
      @beardedbox80 2 роки тому +1

      I have taken acid multiple times and always laughed and had a good time. New years like 5 years ago I was with my 2 best buds and he got some tabs. It wasn't a bad trip but a weird one, it's confusing. I knew I was high but at some point things went to another level. Next thing I know my family and friends were right next to me laughing saying you will know more about this soon. I was only with my cousin and buddy though. They said I was just zoned out staring at the Xmas tree. I swear I went to the bathroom but I could see myself in third person time skipping back to the couch. Seemed so real and weird they way everyone I was seeing was having real conversations to me

    • @helloScuffed
      @helloScuffed 2 роки тому +1

      I would like to emphasize that thanks to the Internet we are able to become friends and speculate to our heart's content

    • @Knokkelman
      @Knokkelman 2 роки тому

      You might want to read (or watch videos) about the concept of "Qualia", so much food for thought and interesting thought experiments.

  • @dudlesstheking
    @dudlesstheking Рік тому +12

    Rate of speech, choice of words and visuals, voice intonation...overall quality of content... perfect! Bravo! BRAVO! B R A V O!

  • @aliasgur3342
    @aliasgur3342 Рік тому +7

    This video feels like it goes on for infinity

  • @metaleggman18
    @metaleggman18 Рік тому +23

    The narrator's explanation of TREE(2) really is proof positive you can't explain something well if you don't understand it yourself. In fact, he doesn't really explain TREE(2), he just provides the answer, which I'm assuming confused anyone actually trying to understand the concept. Check out the video on the subject by Numberphile to get a much better explanation of the TREE function.

    • @Pixietoria
      @Pixietoria 10 місяців тому

      Thanks! Will now go hunt that one out. 👍🏻

    • @Pixietoria
      @Pixietoria 10 місяців тому

      Ah… thanks! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

  • @bokabosiljcic8694
    @bokabosiljcic8694 2 роки тому +14

    Would really like to thank you for your content. This channel is pure gold!

  • @JaYoeNation
    @JaYoeNation 2 роки тому +41

    I first questioned the reality of infinity when I was around 9. Amazement was followed by question and then headaches and nausea. I could not sleep right for a week before I simply had to acknowledge it was beyond my understanding.

    • @chrisk5834
      @chrisk5834 2 роки тому

      Lol

    • @niks660097
      @niks660097 2 роки тому

      you just explained daily life of an astronomer, specially after JWT went live..

    • @mikepalmer1971
      @mikepalmer1971 Рік тому

      What also messes with me is, was there a beginning and if so what was before?

  • @trpimirkarlovic838
    @trpimirkarlovic838 10 місяців тому +10

    3:06 Tree #2 is contained within tree #6 and tree #3 is contained within tree #8.

    • @illarionbykov7401
      @illarionbykov7401 8 місяців тому +1

      Yep. They made many mistakes in those tree diagrams. This channel is very sloppy with details.

    • @RepeatLawrence
      @RepeatLawrence Місяць тому

      @@illarionbykov7401 i think it's funny that people are criticizing a few minutes of information that wasn't explained entirely well instead of focusing on the near hour of very interesting information being given to you.

    • @illarionbykov7401
      @illarionbykov7401 Місяць тому

      @@RepeatLawrence this channel made multiple mistakes in multiple videos. It's been discussed on Reddit. We just pointed out the most obvious mistake. There are others. It's a warning to people that many of the "interesting things" in the video are actually "interesting misinformation"

  • @aaronpotton2641
    @aaronpotton2641 2 роки тому +11

    Every single video that has been made from this channel has been brilliant! There's no other channel on UA-cam that produces videos like the ones here!

  • @InfiniteRadius
    @InfiniteRadius Рік тому +36

    The fact that 'Something' ' exists rather than 'Nothing', means there cannot be a boundary of 'Nothing'. Hence time and space are infinite. Everything exists and all at once and infinitely.

    • @piterpraker3399
      @piterpraker3399 Рік тому +2

      Indeed, it seems to me that if absolute nothing were to exist beside something, then it would contradict itself faster than both existence or nonexistence.
      The universe operates on the principle of non-contradiction, which is the reason for "reason", study, rationality, and intelligence itself.
      In the same vein, will is required to create will, and intelligence is required to create intelligence.
      As it would be ridiculous to claim that order is an extension of chaos, as chaos itself cannot fundamentally exist - except as a limitation of the observer.
      It's inconvenient for many, but that we exist at all is an irrefutable argument for intelligent design.

    • @REDPUMPERNICKEL
      @REDPUMPERNICKEL 8 місяців тому +3

      From the beginning of my becoming conscious
      every one of my thoughts has been about something.
      Thus when I try to imagine absolute nothing
      I find I can do it only when I am not conscious.
      Curiously, when my self is not conscious,
      it seems to my self that my self is non existent.
      The seeming is not over the duration of my non existence, of course,
      for then there is only absolute nothing,
      but only when my self is conscious, existent and
      reflecting on the experiential gap in my memory and
      the contrast between the state of the world before and after.
      I think the fact that
      my self exists only when my self is conscious and
      my self is conscious only when my self exists,
      renders the phrase 'conscious self' something like redundant.
      ('Self conscious' on the other hand,
      is simply my self being conscious of my self's existence,
      my self as just another thing of which my self can be conscious).
      When I try to imagine the infinite I fail and
      I think this is because no matter how much I imagine
      there is an infinite amount remaining to be included
      (and my thinking is a process}.

    • @scottrackley4457
      @scottrackley4457 6 місяців тому +1

      You exist for such a brief period of time, claiming you know something about this place is bravado.

    • @captaincat1743
      @captaincat1743 5 місяців тому

      The edge of the universe, if we can call it an edge, is the boundary where reality ends.

    • @Enaccul
      @Enaccul 5 місяців тому

      ​@piterpraker3399 Have you not heard of emergent properties before? Something can gain new properties that its constituent parts did not have. "Wetness" is an emergent propert for example. Intelligence and will are just emergent properties of the brain which is made of matter.
      If you needed will or intelligence to come from previous will or intelligence you'd have an infinite regress, or you'd have to draw an arbitrary line at "god", without even proving that as a possibility in the first place.
      Intelligent design is not a coherent theory that matches reality, it's trying to fit reality to match religion. It's the opposite of science where you start with a conclusion and to find evidence to support it.
      So again, have you not heard of emergent properties?
      And, before positing religion or supernatural things as explanations, remember that that doesn't answer anything as none of that has been proven before. It's offering a solution to a problem when the solution itself is a problem.

  • @audiotron1003
    @audiotron1003 Рік тому +146

    I love this kind of video, it's calming, fascating and ignites my 56 year old imagination. Also at the same time makes me feel pointless in my efforts, small in my importance and also reminds me that I am nothing more than energy and atoms I'm therefore part of the infinite existence of everything.

    • @phoenixjim0527
      @phoenixjim0527 Рік тому +8

      Same thought. First had it while young.
      Time is infinite in both directions.
      Space is infinite in all directions.
      We are absolutely nothing and everything is pointless.

    • @Thornbloom
      @Thornbloom Рік тому +2

      The Total Perspective Vortex.

    • @audiotron1003
      @audiotron1003 Рік тому +3

      @Chris Anderson thank you Chris I'm a bit of a philosopher but not negative in my realisation of who I am. 😁 I sometimes like to be reminded of my place in the existence of,... Well everything. Stops me getting too self important.

    • @omarosama155
      @omarosama155 Рік тому +4

      @@phoenixjim0527 infinty does not exist. If it does that means everything is possible right? Then there should be someone capable of destroying all existence no matter how absurd it is it is less than infinity but we do exist so its impossible that means there’s a limit on what could happen. Or maybe you cant destroy infinity with a smaller one? I dont even know what am saying at this point am just going to sleep now lmao

    • @manoelandreisfernandes8747
      @manoelandreisfernandes8747 Рік тому

      But there you are significant enough to write this. The more I understand the vastness of the universe and infinity I stopped feeling small but also important. Probably many like us exists but not in our life time. So I’m out universe as vast as it is we’re unique.

  • @t9t967
    @t9t967 Рік тому +4

    This video made me think and feel new things.

  • @Sanquinity
    @Sanquinity 2 роки тому +12

    Still amazed at the quality of these videos every time a new one releases. So glad this channel exists, to scratch that space documentary itch that was left unscratched when discovery decided to become a reality show tv channel.

  • @timbuckley321
    @timbuckley321 Рік тому +200

    You took a lot of nearly incomprehensible theories I've been trying to wrap my head around for years, and just fit it into my head like so much well behaved luggage lol. This video blew my mind so many times in an hour I had to change my hat afterword.

    • @topspot4834
      @topspot4834 Рік тому +1

      It's fascinating, but creates just as many questions as answers.

    • @nnaheim.
      @nnaheim. Рік тому +1

      What sort of hat did you choose?

    • @timbuckley321
      @timbuckley321 Рік тому +6

      @@nnaheim. It was a sumbraro/top hat hybrid actually so that folks would know that I was classy, but still down for a good time ya know.

    • @nnaheim.
      @nnaheim. Рік тому +3

      @@timbuckley321 Interesting combo, classy yet practical for the outdoor event.

    • @charlessoukup1111
      @charlessoukup1111 Рік тому +2

      I can deal with it goes on forever, no end. I get fuzzy with there was no beginning.

  • @enorazza
    @enorazza 2 роки тому +53

    I am watching a lot of your videos and this one really shines on the most difficult topic. Very well done, from the difficult explanations of different sizes of infinities, which is already a hard thing to understand, to the philosophical ending, which is impossible to understand for us limited humans. Thank you so much.

  • @RisitasKEKW
    @RisitasKEKW Рік тому +11

    Everybody’s a gangsta until TREE(3) shows up

  • @Hatecrewdethrol
    @Hatecrewdethrol Рік тому +44

    I remember one of my calculus professors summed up the different sizes of infinity by saying something like 'countable numbers infinity is infinite in one direction since you start at 1 and keep going up, infinity between 0 and 1 is infinite in both directions since you would put an infinite number of zeroes after the decimal before you even start counting'

    • @jok2000
      @jok2000 Рік тому +4

      I find I don't need to believe this.

    • @dontalkt2meboutheroes
      @dontalkt2meboutheroes Рік тому +3

      Like, infinity is the start of something without end, if you can get past the endless nothings

    • @mina86
      @mina86 Рік тому +2

      This is rather misleading analogy. Rational numbers are `infinite in both directionsʼ and yet they are countable.

    • @Hatecrewdethrol
      @Hatecrewdethrol Рік тому +2

      @@mina86 "countable" is literally one of the adjectives used to describe the types of infinity. You're just showing you never did advanced math classes

    • @mina86
      @mina86 Рік тому +1

      @@Hatecrewdethrol, yes. and rational numbers are countable. You’re just showing you’re just desperately trying to sound smart.

  • @granthudson5447
    @granthudson5447 2 роки тому +11

    I understand what Mr Padilla meant about his quote.
    Only so much a human mind can take, I work hard, but even harder.
    I was a bookkeeper full time and went to college full time. Looking after Fishermans finances. Juggling with family.
    dreaming about numbers surrounded by numbers, haunted about numbers. I got so overwhelmed man my mind imploded, re-wired I went crazy.

    • @DavidvdGulik
      @DavidvdGulik 2 роки тому

      Yeah mr padilla wasn't speaking metaphorically. If you would hold that amount of information in a space the size of a brain, it would literally physically implode into a black hole

  • @N0tsaved
    @N0tsaved 2 роки тому +108

    Leila is an incredibly talented writer and David an equally talented deliverer of her thoughts.

  • @g2squared
    @g2squared Рік тому +4

    Truly Exceptional❕

  • @ptancredi25
    @ptancredi25 2 роки тому +6

    Bro these videos are insane. Everyone gets better and better . I’m in Awe of these and how incredibly well they are made ! Keep them coming!!!!!

  • @BENCMEN
    @BENCMEN 2 роки тому +12

    Discovering this channel feels like winning the lottery. Thank you very much for this. Great content, beautiful visualisations and absolutely amazing voice!

  • @mirnasale7263
    @mirnasale7263 2 роки тому +5

    Woooohoooo!!! Kelly brothers are in overdrive, better cancel ALL my weekend plans!
    Thank you so much for keeping our brains in good shape and hearts in right place❤❤❤❤❤

  • @Titus873
    @Titus873 2 роки тому +17

    Genious. The music, soundtracks, voice and narrative are just amazing. I am a physicist and what amazes me more of this fantastic channel is the Production and Direction of the whole video. Big comgrats, such videos like this make science a pleasure.

  • @543BeeBop
    @543BeeBop 2 роки тому +4

    Thank you! I've been waiting, and while waiting, have watched every other of your great videos at least five times. This channel is, by far, the best of the internet!

  • @ezza88ster
    @ezza88ster 2 роки тому +35

    Nicely mind-bending mix of concepts and graphics. Felt like I'd had a puff at times! Beautifully done. Feel like I need to watch some sci-fi now! Also, as an aside, the Boltzman Brain conclusions are remarkably close to Hindu Advaita Vedanta philosophy.

  • @Gentile_Lives_Matter
    @Gentile_Lives_Matter 9 місяців тому +1

    I love this channel ❤️ 💕 ♥️
    Thank you,friend

  • @joz6683
    @joz6683 2 роки тому +6

    Torn between watching now before tea,(the meal) and waiting for bedtime. This is the best type of dilemma. Thanks in advance for another great video.

  • @xanatos819
    @xanatos819 2 роки тому +33

    I'm happy to have found your channel! Science is my primary interest and the majority or my time online is ticked away watching cosmology and physics documentaries.
    As you can imagine, I'm starting to run out of documentaries I haven't already seen! So your channel is a godsend

  • @Redbaron_sites
    @Redbaron_sites Рік тому +22

    Leila has written a beautifully provoking journey into the unknowns , adding details which allow even my untrained mind to glimpse some of the maddening warps cosmological mathematicians must wrestle with ❤.

    • @atashgallagher5139
      @atashgallagher5139 Рік тому

      The warp is always maddening, always plotting, the chaos of it corrupting and twisting.
      For the god emperor it must be cleansed.
      WH40K reference lol

  • @deslacooda
    @deslacooda 9 місяців тому +2

    1:17 I will need a few go-arounds, possibly even a few look-sees to wrap me noggin around this.

  • @navret1707
    @navret1707 2 роки тому +8

    I look forward to new lessons. Yes, lessons. Many times, this video being one such time, I come away from them with a headache. At my age, mid-70’s, exercising my mind trying to get my brain around your work is worth all the time, and aspirins, that that takes. Thank you for all your efforts. Please do not stop. I’ll let you know when I have learned everything there is to learn.

    • @davidlowen7802
      @davidlowen7802 2 роки тому +1

      My friend, you will not live long enough for that; however I salute your optimism. I am 80 plus, and each day brings me closer to the brink of oblivion or eternal life, albeit, as a speck of stardust.

  • @clydecox2108
    @clydecox2108 Рік тому +47

    I used to think about this subject a lot when I was a child and by the time I turned eight my father cautioned me that many people throughout history had gone stark raving mad overthinking this very subject.

    • @AveryFelts
      @AveryFelts Рік тому +19

      I've overthought about religion, the universe, and anything life related since 2019. People who go mad from what they learn are people who can't handle what they discover. Personally I've found that learning as much as i have has helped me realize how poorly our society has been constructed, how we do nothing to fix it. Helped me to realize that God , and my spirit, were nothing I thought they were. At the end of the day, when you die, at the very least you won't be you. You wont care because you're not in your body with the name you were given anymore. None of that matters. And most people don't wanna hear that.

    • @neonlovegalaxy
      @neonlovegalaxy Рік тому +16

      @@AveryFelts In contrast, I find the idea of that absolutely liberating. I'm starving for something more to existence than just...*this.* I enjoy my time here as much as I can, but my mind swims with possibilities in an abstract ocean and I crave, more than any physical sensation, whatever is waiting beyond that final door of death. It might be nothing, and if it is then it won't matter. But on the chance that it's not just nothing, my God...I want to know. I'll get there eventually, either through old age or something else that steals this life away from me, but I'm not afraid to meet it. I want to find out what's waiting for us all.

    • @anttam117
      @anttam117 Рік тому +2

      Just because some folks didn’t have the mental fortitude to look at these issues doesn’t mean that you will go raving mad. If you study the lives of these people, many, if not all of them, were basket cases to begin with.
      I just love it when some young guy reads the likes of Lovecraft or other unstable incels and somehow think that their take on reality is a fact and how to react to it is the way to go.

    • @clydecox2108
      @clydecox2108 Рік тому

      I really appreciate you guys and the opinions you share. Expanding my consciousness has been a continuous journey. Just sayin

    • @robfalgiano
      @robfalgiano Рік тому +3

      It’s a fair warning from your dad. Humans struggle to comprehend how infinity might be possible because human life is finite. But perhaps if we have immortal souls that transcend death we will eventually understand this from another perspective. Or simply learn to live with contradiction.

  • @swingymcswing
    @swingymcswing 2 роки тому +18

    I really enjoyed this as I've been interested in space, physics, and math since I was a kid. When I first realized that some of those points of light were not single stars, but other galaxies, I had my Wow moment. As Spock would say, "Fascinating'

  • @darthbaker1114
    @darthbaker1114 Рік тому +3

    Absolutely fascinating and explained brilliantly!

  • @nik-btd
    @nik-btd 2 роки тому +12

    Yet another amazing contribution to What We Know, encapsulating hard-to-grasp contents with state-of-the-art visuals and helping humans to understand what's the world they are living in. One of the best channels talking about astrophysics science out there. Congratulation and many hoorays for everything you do. You're good guys and didn't forget the face of your fathers.

    • @rickusmaximus2435
      @rickusmaximus2435 2 роки тому +2

      Astrophysics =sci-fi

    • @nik-btd
      @nik-btd 2 роки тому

      @@rickusmaximus2435 I'd say Good Sci-Fi = Astrophysics :)

    • @DerekDavis213
      @DerekDavis213 2 роки тому

      @@rickusmaximus2435 Agreed. Astrophysics = highly speculative *fantasy* , presented by PhD scientists who cannot be challenged by the public at large.

  • @SystemsAllGo
    @SystemsAllGo 2 роки тому +12

    Thanks for making your content. I am extremely gratefull to have such beautifully written and thought provoking videos on UA-cam.

  • @jcs56
    @jcs56 2 роки тому +6

    Leila Battison, well done. Love your work.

  • @steverobertson1729
    @steverobertson1729 6 місяців тому +1

    Here's my take on this topic. Theres basically two possible scenarios when it comes to the universe. One, there IS an end somewhere, where there is no more matter at all, no stars, no planets, NOTHING, not even atoms, just an expanse of pure nothingness. OR two, there ISNT an end to the universe, it just somehow goes on for infinity. Either scenario is incredibly mindblowing.

  • @jankoncsol6457
    @jankoncsol6457 Рік тому +12

    This f***ing video expanded my mind to an infinitely bewildered and frightened state. So, thanks for that. ;)

  • @ADgamingHD
    @ADgamingHD 2 роки тому +12

    Hotu and coolworlds are the best science channels on all of UA-cam. I have only just discovered this channel but I have started binge watching. Haha. I love any and all things physics, astrophysics and quantum physics. Keep the amazing videos coming and thank you!

  • @ground_news
    @ground_news 2 роки тому +37

    It was great working with you HOTU! The concept of infinity such an interesting topic - it's easy to grasp the concept yet impossible to visualize (i.e. I understand the logic that a circle is a shape with an infinite amount of sides but cannot for the life of me visualize it).
    Either way, the lesson I take from the concept of infinity is that humans are just a small part of a larger world that we'll never fully understand nor have power over. But what each of as DO have power over is the ability to treat one other with kindness and empathy.

    • @zimbabwe_twinnedwithanfield
      @zimbabwe_twinnedwithanfield 2 роки тому +1

      could it be possible that , because you discard GOD out of all your equations is the reason why all these crazy ideas give you headache. i mean the idea that because the universe is large then anything that can happen will happen, is a bit like legalised insanity. (quantum mechanics) cough cough lol
      Romans chapter 1 verse 22 : professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.

    • @mattsmith5421
      @mattsmith5421 2 роки тому

      @@zimbabwe_twinnedwithanfield because God isn't real that's why. And if there is any god at all it's the Hindu god because that was the first created religion long before Christianity or Islam so why would their god wait for so long before letting it be known that he exists and how crazy is it that Hinduism predicted theres a god when it wasn't their god. And why would anyone worship someone who creates parasites whose sole purpose is to burrow into innocent newborn babies eyes and cause them excruciating pain and turn them blind preventing them from learning about and accepting God?

    • @mr.wendigo-official
      @mr.wendigo-official 2 роки тому +4

      @@zimbabwe_twinnedwithanfield nature exists outside of gods. No one rules the universe, it rules us. Talking about a “god” is just as pointless as picturing infinity.

    • @zimbabwe_twinnedwithanfield
      @zimbabwe_twinnedwithanfield 2 роки тому +2

      @@mr.wendigo-official fair enough, however have you not heard that time space and matter had a begining, and logic dictates that they can not create themselves as this breaks every fundamental law of science. so the next best logical answer is that someone who is not constrained by time space and matter was able to create these fundamental properties? the differene between god and infinity is that there is overwhelming evidence for a creator.

    • @tommymarco
      @tommymarco 2 роки тому +2

      @@zimbabwe_twinnedwithanfield forget about the westerner pal, most of them have lost faith in God or are not being taught this anymore. they are like lost children now

  • @brendandunne4401
    @brendandunne4401 6 місяців тому +1

    Just watched this for the third time. Leila is your best writer!

  • @SchoonieRapper
    @SchoonieRapper 2 роки тому +6

    "Everything that has happened, is happening or will happen has already happened" food for thought

  • @CartoonHero1986
    @CartoonHero1986 2 роки тому +12

    I truly LOVE the paradox of Infinity as a mathematical and tangible term/object. It's about the closest thing to seriously debating theology I will ever get since there is no way to talk about infinity in depth and not start touching on the realms of what seems like magic or spiritualism to the human brain; that is how complex the concept really is. I also love illustrating how number sets are all equal when viewed as infinite, and how infinity by nature is both static and dynamic in its term depending on how you use it when treating it like an object.

  • @1acecad
    @1acecad 2 роки тому +6

    When I see the title "the horrors of infinite cosmos", I am surprised how different people's feelings may be. It is rather the opposite namely the possibility of a finite universe that invoke feelings of discomfort in me. Knowing that there is no end to space and no end to time would be the most comforting feeling for me.

    • @Chireiya
      @Chireiya 2 роки тому +5

      I had the same feeling. An infinite universe seems easier to imagine than whatever could lay beyond. That's the essence of cosmic horror, I think.

    • @ericpreston8877
      @ericpreston8877 2 роки тому +1

      No end to space means no end to life. You will eventually experience everything you possibly could.

    • @WhiteWolfiee
      @WhiteWolfiee Рік тому +1

      You should even with a finite universe feel glad that you exist and might exist again and again if the universe dies out and then explodes with a new big bang over and over again. This life might be just 1 in an infinite amount that are all infinitely different. The universes size could be finite but still repeat. We are all one at the end of the day, everyone a part of the universe

  • @Pk_Rain
    @Pk_Rain 7 місяців тому +1

    It’s enough to drive a person mad but the comfort is all around us. We are here and that is enough regardless of anything else.

  • @devinstewart-mayert4806
    @devinstewart-mayert4806 Рік тому +10

    I go to bed with anxiety almost every night with some kind of existential dread. This video helped tonight. If there are an infinite number of possibilities, and matter cannot be created or destroyed, it gives me hope that this isn't my only life.
    Thank you. 🙏

    • @naomisherred166
      @naomisherred166 Рік тому +1

      I'm with you on this...😢

    • @idripzy2989
      @idripzy2989 Рік тому

      Dude same here I can’t find answers nothing will convince me I’ve never seen a god or anything special people claim to see or get healed by. I’ve seen death nothing special just scary because when you die your just non existent like u were before billions of years I don’t mean to scare u but I’ve been asking so many people if their scared to die and they laugh at me and look at me like I’m some bitch because I’m the only one that values my life. Hopefully there’s something out there for us brother i would rather live forever then never stay strong!❤️