The beauty of our improbable existence with a NASA expert, physicist & futurist
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- Humanity’s future is bright, according to the ones who study our past.
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"I want to be a good ancestor." I need that quote on a t-shirt. It explains so much about how I view everything.
One reason to be optimistic about the future is because the virtue of human curiosity is becoming more appreciated as a fundamental human value.
is it?
@@johnyman13
From the history I have studied it seems so.
@@mickeybrumfield764 i tend to think our curiosity is narrowing.. yes, more questions, but less diverse
This thinking won’t change anything before capitalism will be abolished somehow. One possible chance is a growing rate of AI in open source way.
@@johnyman13that is a wild statement to me. What makes you say that? I mean no disrespect, I'm genuinely curious to hear as I can't find any way to reach the same conclusion.
This is definitely the best and most meaningful series on YT right now, and this was the best episode yet! Please keep going with this. Thank you
Best series for the public
I see a video with Sean Carrol in my feed; I watch that video. Love this man!
This 🙌💫
Sean Carrol is the best!!!!!
Nice advice 👍
1. Embark on a journey
2. Read a books
3. Talk to people from all walks of life
4. Ask big audacious question, dont settle for lazy answer.
5. Above all make the most of the time you have while your here
And share knowledge
Any video that Sean Carroll appears in is guaranteed to be excellent. I have seen every one of the videos in which he appears and I just can't get enough. One of the best physicist/philosopher of our times
At the age of 10 Sean was thinking about physics and the universe
At the age of 10 I was playing stratomatic baseball with myself imagining the game of baseball being played by primates whose atoms are now scattered as a part of this same universe
One of THE BEST videos I have been presented with on UA-cam. Well done all involved. Good timing in the edits, relatable presenter, enthusiastic guests, good graphics etc.
Sean Carroll is a moron
I like expressions. One of which goes:
"The optimist creates the airplane. The pessimist creates the parachute."
In a manner of speaking, you need both. A sort of balance if you will?!
Both are needed
Not if you don’t build a plane
Technically it’d be an optimist to make and believe one could use an parachute so freely if an airplane goes down. Data shows it’s early possible in an airplane emergency.
What a great show! The guests are some of my favorite people. The host asks the right questions. Keep this going!!! And going
Big kudos to everyone involved in this series. Simply awesome work.
I love Kevin showing his oddities shelf ❤
Very thoughtful and admirable. A fine piece of journalism.
Nina has a pleasant delivery of information, I came to know her on the Science Channel program “How the Universe Works”. Sean now works in my area at Johns Hopkins, which happens to be my healthcare provider. I enjoy listening to his podcast on a variety of subjects and he makes the subject easy to digest.
One of the uplifting and calming videos, I have ever watched
I remember when I was a very little girl, maybe about 6 or 7. I read a book volcanoes, lava and how rocks are formed on earth. I was so facinated by this book, I started to search books about how other planets were likely formed. I still remember like it was yesterday how incredibly amazed I felt by this universe. It's too bad I did not furthur explore with my curious mind and study all that's involved. Now that I'm almost 50, I start to reminisce back and think about what could've been. This world still fascinates me.
And imagine what you can do in the next 10 years
Another home run, BT and Kmele!!
Thank you so much for Big Think and Well. The most valuable content ever on YT❤
My first viewing of this series, and I've subscribed. Kmele Foster really leaves us with a solid foundation and a clear way forward.
As science student this types of video help me to be motivated.thank you so much and loads of love from india ❤
This is one of my favorite Big Thinks so far. Very intellectually invigorating.
Good journalist, asked relevant and meaningful questions.
I just wish I could live more 100 years so I could see where technology will take us in the future.
If we don't make the planet inhabitable for life.
As much as where technology takes us, where do we take the technologies we create? We don’t just ride the wave, we also create it as we choose what to pursue, mindlessly or mindfully. Loved this video.
I wish I could experience the lives of billions of different lifeforms in different places at different times
Terminator
@@crappymealwhat if that’s what we are doing?
@@dajion6 I thought about that also in various ways
True gems! Thank you all, I am inspired!
Loving this whole series!! Great stuff thank you
Very interesting and well done. Thanks, Kmele. Thanks interviewees.
Each and everyone of your guests is truly inspirational. Thank you for bringing this to us. To choose optimism is indeed a moral imperative.
It's funny that Sean said early on that we learned we are not the centre of the universe and the rest of the video explains how meaning is derived in many ways by focusing your own meaning, which in many ways puts you at the centre of the universe.
Great insight! I think that’s where physics and philosophy differ: physics describes the tangible nature of reality, while philosophy offers ways to experience that same physical reality in various ways.
Such a beautiful video and message
Kmele Foster is a great host. Want to see more of his stuff.
I love how this is both interesting and easy to follow.
Life Transmutes Entropy into Extropy. Beautiful.
We appreciate the insights shared in this video. They’re meaningful and profound.
This is such an inspiring video which puts things in perspective and broaden our thoughts.Thank you Big Think for bringing this together.
I’m glad I spent a few of my heartbeats watching this. Great video!
This episode, and these people, are **sssooo** cool!!!! 😁❤️
Thank you for this. I’ve struggled with purpose and meaning over the last couple of years and had to process and work through suicidal thoughts. (To be clear this is not a cry for help or attention) but I do want to thank the team at Big Think for helping to regain my focus, optimism and dedication to life and the self proclaimed purpose. This video like my many of your others, is a life savor when you are in a dark chasm and you have lost your sense of self and purpose. To anyone else out there that can relate, there is meaning and purpose to this life. Just look deep within. And finally, can I recommend reading or listening to the “Desiderata” by Max Ehrmann. And in the words of the famous Monty Python song “Always Look on the bright side of life”
I also feel great optimism from the big picture way that so many people are thinking and discovering. our human society is increasingly more ethical and knowledgeable including in the scientific realm. I hope you never struggle again nor that any of us do so. and my area is mental health. and in addition to thinking so well about your positive contribution remember also: that our brains are cells with genetic strengths and so using biological treatments from neuroscience can make our biology work it's best and relieve suffering so that we can focus even more on our contribution to our greater humanity! if you want see Phillip William Gold md and imagine worlds 100 million light years from here...
Stupendously inspiring! ❤🎉
Very thought-provoking discussions about some pretty mind-blowing concepts.
This was fantastic! Keep up the great work and keep asking the BIG questions. Thanks
Omg, you are a great communicator, you most certainly have done your job, and above all, thank you for, not only for communicating what you have discovered, but for communicating it so understandably well, that even common people like me can actually understand…I mean, really thank you! 😊
This is actually amazing and relaxing..
expressed beautifully about the sidelined imagination in fast forward life. Rational discussions may increase our curiosity to better understand different prospectives of life.
one of the best videos on youtube . this is golden
amazing episode absolutely amazing people
Life is a gift I hold with immeasurable gratitude. I am ready for what comes next, for from the wonder of stardust we all came, and to the wonder of stardust we will all return. Thank you for this journey.
Good to hear some reasons for optimism! Thanks! 🙏
i really like this futurist guy, feels like way too many ppl are worried about problems that dont even really exist or are so abstract that its nearly impossible to find a solution
when you could just do what your capable of, and be a bit more optimistic
Just being born as a human is itself so wonderful but when u think that we are currently in the most comfortable environment with all technological wonders and conveniences which our ancestors never got to enjoy..is just chilling to think about.
Very excellent show especially comments from Sean Carroll
❤❤❤
I like Nina Lanza
Especially from
How the universe works
That guy seems frigging awesome and she is a gem and inspiration!
I absolutely love this video.💪💪
Future is Bright!☀- Thank You World!
Sean Carroll is one of my favorite persons I haven't met 😊
The future is a beautiful thought in the mind of a responsible cosmic citizen ♥️
Greetings from Mars! Great video. Thank you!
I love this.😍😍😍😍
Thank you.🤝🤝
Enjoy the program immensely
I'm a simple guy. I see Sean Carrol in a video, I watch the video.
Mannn this is top tier content!! 🙌🏽
Love the grand perspectives
Really really good questions and guests holy
I like this one, easy documentary. NICE
Science programs always inspire the best electronic music!
Love this so much! Humans need meaning for life and thats ok. it doesn't mean the universe gave it to you. you decided on it and that's perfectly fine.
Thanks for the wonderful conversations, It's always interesting to me when people can worry about the heat death of the universe billions of years in the future, is it just an aspect of the the fear of death, perhaps the ego death of the universe is intertwined with our own.
We define Humanity everyday. Powerful.
There are 8 billion fire pests on this planet. This is Powerful stupidity.
Why did this make me cry...
Just 3 Billion Heartbeats
The fact that life not only exists but has evolved to build a civilization is the closest thing to a miracle I know. I can't think of a less improbable event than that.
3 billion heart beats - when I heard this it suddenly hit me. Time is relative so our perception of it varies. What if our hearts are internal clocks that measure time for us. I mean if you think about it time flies when we do something exciting (our hearts are racing) and whoever experienced any sort of life threatening situation like a serious car accident or something know that time literally slows down in that moment. Could it be that pace of our hearts dictates our own perception of time?
I often contemplate how our world could be if we as a species were taught to use critical thinking and logical reasoning as our primary tools to comprehend our existence in this enigmatic universe. Watching videos like this gives me a glimmer of hope, and it makes me wonder if we will ever be able to live in a world where such traits are commonplace.
Just close your eyes and imagine 500 years from now...we as a species will get there...all things take time...we cleared the largest hurdle getting to the point whereby we have instant communication between billions...an idea that would have seemed unfathomable 500 years ago...
Religions will all fade away into oblivion where they all belong and we will make incredible progress.
1B+ Primates that pray (talk) to themselves 5 times a day won't waste this precious time and a select few will change our world like James Clerk Maxwell, Issac Newton, Albert, Richard Phillip Feynman...
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4:56
Thank you, thank you! The highest wisdom is useless to anyone but one unless it is SHARED, and sharing the information to benefit the world requires people with good communication skills. Teaching isn't just about being smart, best in the field, highest IQ, etc. It's mainly about how to effectively communicate knowledge to others in interesting and profound ways that change their lives.
Even though I had zero interest in science when I went to high school, I am now very very very interested thanks to communicators like Carl Sagan, NDT, and Brian Cox who make science fascinating and FUN to learn. And this is why I like to watch YT videos. Colleges and universities are expensive as heck - at least in NA - whereas the internet and video stream sites like YT make education and knowledge a much more egalitarian process.
This is true there’s whole Stanford and other collegiate science courses available on UA-cam.
Makes me wish I was still at my university.
Holy Smokes!! The video opens with a person in SAFETY GEAR!!! What a delightful example! Please notice youngsters>>>>
"There's no reason, with all the wealth in the world, to have people suffering." Ending the New Guilded Age is probably the best and most immediate thing we can do that is of any good.
The Dewey, Whaty System? lol (j/k - I grew up in the 1980's so I can still remember having to locate books using that indexing/numbering system - pulling actual index cards out of the drawer lol)
Inspired.
Thanks for that.^
When it comes to optimism, I believe that science isn't infinite, science is finite, there will be a time when we cannot make any more progress, because what we have and can manipulate isn't increasing. I'm not saying that we're there yet, I'm just saying that we'll get there and we might not be able to reach our goal sadly.
To the contrary, as long as there are humans, science will go forward. There will never be a time when we will never want to a better prepared species.
@@tomcooper6108 you're right but science is about matter and energy not about what humans want or feelings 😔.
When you hit the limits you've hit the limits.
You greatly underestimate the human spirit to come up with solutions to problems that don’t exist😂
@@ikemiracle4841science is much more than energy and matter too. Engineering, health, extraterrestrial sciences which will never end as we can just explore and study further and further away places with technological progress, climate sciences sciences of the ocean which we have plenty more to study etc etc. all it takes is one new astronomical discovery and science can continue indefinitely. Your suggesting we will run out of things to inquire and prop when we have an effectively nearly infinite universe at our doorstep. You’re buying your own bill crap way too much.
If we assume the universe has already existed and will always (For example: if the universe recycles itself forever) over an incomprehensible amount of time, maybe the improbable things happen many times. Maybe time is what distances us from the alternative universes.
Conformal cyclic cosmology
-- The conversation is inspirational. I would like to share my observation: I think/my theory is that everything is movement/vibration etc.. the dark matter is just not omit light and we could not detect it because everything what currently is -come from the much smaller vibrating /dark stuff -dark matter the our body/building any other material atoms and particle = The world is measurable because we are that stuff. We made before the big bang- or I would call the smaller stuff 'clumped' together to bigger stuff like : electron, quarks etc., Everywhere in the same time: that created a current size(!) / vibration level and that/ we are that stuff atoms/ electrons/ molecules . then biological= more complex RNA DNA..then biological elements /cells...life.. this is just natural progress of nature.
You are so correct about we create. We need to continue on a progressive course to ,make life life better for people and animals. We have to care.
The infinite consists of an endless array of finite possibilities, vastly increasing the likelihood of similar existences to our own.
Earth is a precious place in the Universe... we need to learn to care its better
Earth like planets might be abundantly common. precious to those that exist here but not even a thought to anyone elsewhere perhaps
@@crappymeal really? where? what distance from us?
@@urzsulaz2604 "might" - me
Everything comes to an end, it's natural, making peace with that
Life is the meaning. It was never a question, just a mistranslation in the fundamental statement.
It is sheer magic that life exists on Earth and intellogent life like apes, dolphines, whales, elephants.... social animals.
The evolution of our solar system and sun is unique just like each persons fingerprint.
Life is universally present, either becoming or evolving. Live is not an accident of nature but rather, an inevitable consequence of nature's path. When we really understand it, we will discover this simple truth.
Keeep going please❤
🌬💞Interconnectedness
Given enough time, any event will eventually become highly probable. What is comforting about it all: the vastness of everything is inaccessible to direct human experience. Only the small window during which the human brain exists, can be perceived, after which we become again unconscious, only to experience consciousness anew in an alternate universe. Consciousness may be viewed as small intervals of time accessible to our perception (x-axis), separated by vast stretches of imaginary time (y-axis), which are irrelevant to our subjective experience.
1:25 “harnessing our curiosity” seems counterproductive to me… I’ll postulate that curiosity, imagination, speculation, and discovery are best left unbridled…
can you theoretically extract energy from the expansion of the universe and use it as a source of useful energy, or treat it as an energy sink to maximize the extraction of energy ?
Okay, so how does that red toy that he rotated in his hand work? Does anyone know what it is called?
I struggle with 'optimism' for the future.
I accept that a study of history shows a recent trend towards greater living standards, freedoms and so forth; I'm wary of pointing at societies like that of 70s Afghanistan etc. I think I'm wary because it's tempting to associate our undeniable progress with science and technology with 'progress' within a given society. We all know how rapidly human societies can evolve - or devolve - when forces conspire to bring about political, religious or other factors. Before we can blink, small numbers of us can have outsized effects; ripping freedoms from millions in the stroke of a pen.
13:13 I see being humane as a potential cause of our modern human evolution. Some need arose for our offspring to no longer be independent and to have total need of a caregiver. Each of us today is alive because someone chose to be humane & obligated to our growing until we can care for ourselves. The increases in the species towards being more responsible for our humanity is why we are as extraordinary as we are imo. The future will only bring more to the table.
Wonderful questions... Maybe the answers don't matter too much...
I once after marine dream put out.
Thought I could spend my days discussion
In of. “What it is” and next to bedure
i wouldn't be opposed to include another host instead!
the more you learn, the more existential crises to deal with