Did The Past Really Happen?

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  • Опубликовано: 5 фев 2015
  • Greece is full of wonderful new things and wonderful old things. But when WE become old things, will our ruins also be tourist attractions?
    *Sources and extra info below!!*
    me on twitter: / tweetsauce
    on instagram: / electricpants
    Humorous/interesting videos about how future archeologists might interpret us:
    VIDEO: “Beatles 3000”: • Beatles 3000
    VIDEO: “Neil deGrasse Tyson On Manhattanhenge”: • Neil deGrasse Tyson On...
    Toto: allanellenberger.com/toto-find...
    “highway” vs “freeway”: sgtalcastro.blogspot.co.uk/201...
    why are old things so often underground?:
    goo.gl/u8SFFw
    www.archaeological.org/educati...
    “Motel of Mysteries” (great book I remember from when I was a kid): www.amazon.co.uk/Motel-Mysteri...
    Last Thursdayism:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omphalos...
    www.last-thursday.org/
    Occam’s Razor: math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics...
    Newton’s Flaming Laser Sword: philosophynow.org/issues/46/N...
    other razors: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razor_(p...)
    Interpreting the past (including us, when we become “the past”):
    www.heritagedaily.com/2014/01/...
    www.usu.edu/markdamen/1320hist...
    bigthink.com/videos/how-will-f...
    www.albany.edu/~scifraud/data/...
    This American Life on people in the future: www.thisamericanlife.org/radio...
    The 15th century wikipedia article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th_cen...
    conservation of energy: www.britannica.com/EBchecked/t...
    history of perpetual motion: www.hp-gramatke.net/perpetuum/...
    Why old computers and consoles turn yellow: www.vintagecomputing.com/index...
    the Second Law of Thermodynamics: hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/...
    Heat Death of the universe: www.physlink.com/Education/Ask...
    Good entropy resources:
    entropysimple.oxy.edu/content.htm
    • Entropy
    physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2...
    www.askamathematician.com/2011...
    www.learner.org/courses/chemis...
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Комментарии • 28 тыс.

  • @splinterun9005
    @splinterun9005 4 года назад +8556

    Michael:*robs a bank*
    Michael in court: “The past didn’t really happen”

    • @richardtan7814
      @richardtan7814 3 года назад +92

      Lmao

    • @nguyenhoanglong420
      @nguyenhoanglong420 3 года назад +38

      Lol 😆!!!

    • @metaversian2685
      @metaversian2685 3 года назад +502

      Hey Vsauce, Micheal here! I just robbed a bank... Or did I? What defines "Robbing"? I took 24 hostages and stole 69 million USD.

    • @Lp.goes.gym.
      @Lp.goes.gym. 3 года назад +19

      That’s so good

    • @xhelixshotx
      @xhelixshotx 3 года назад +23

      I temporarily forgot that I'm in a Vsauce video and thought you were talking about Michael de Santa.

  • @donthaha3965
    @donthaha3965 4 года назад +16240

    “Being lazy will make the universe last more”
    Say no more

  • @adude6568
    @adude6568 Год назад +385

    "Name 10 people from the 15th century"
    John, John, John, John, John, John, John, John, John and of course John

  • @LegoDude3258
    @LegoDude3258 Год назад +2172

    Vsauce: the only RUclips channel that can turn existential dread into fun lil videos.

    • @Max_6200
      @Max_6200 Год назад +26

      Yet these lil videos are still very much capable of putting you in the state of such dread 🤗

    • @googlyman645
      @googlyman645 Год назад +22

      kurzgesagt does it too, with fun little cartoon birds

    • @Servenifer
      @Servenifer Год назад +1

      Yeah fun "lil" very little

    • @kugelblitz-zx9un
      @kugelblitz-zx9un Год назад +3

      Exurb1a

    • @proxlordz
      @proxlordz 10 месяцев назад +2

      Kurzgesagt does it too

  • @elirichey3978
    @elirichey3978 4 года назад +5270

    I love how he throws everything I’ve ever known out the window

    • @eugenio1203
      @eugenio1203 4 года назад +30

      @RünerTheWolf 25 😂😂😂

    • @athena1957
      @athena1957 4 года назад +8

      RünerTheWolf 25 no.

    • @donnakona7615
      @donnakona7615 4 года назад +25

      when he told me to be lazy that was a first

    • @XXStrong1
      @XXStrong1 4 года назад +44

      That’s why I love channels like vsauce.
      It really makes you realize how much you really don’t know and thus makes you that much more eager to learn.

    • @sleepydreamer4175
      @sleepydreamer4175 4 года назад +21

      Did he really?
      *Or did you do it yourself?*

  • @blink5394
    @blink5394 5 лет назад +6351

    Title: "Did the past really happen?"
    Opening: "The dog that played toto in the wizard of oz was credited as toto."

  • @lukefahy3486
    @lukefahy3486 Год назад +883

    5:26 “You’re destined to become what the universe thinks you were” is an underrated statement and actually very philosophical if you think about it.

    • @nbtoutcequejevaisdireestfa5441
      @nbtoutcequejevaisdireestfa5441 Год назад +7

      Its not

    • @jovanobates3835
      @jovanobates3835 Год назад +2

      Indeed.

    • @peasantfarmerr8917
      @peasantfarmerr8917 Год назад +12

      ​@@nbtoutcequejevaisdireestfa5441 you are a part of universe, you definitely decide for yourself

    • @MizterMoonshine
      @MizterMoonshine Год назад +34

      That's not even what he said and completely changes the meaning lol

    • @rumfordc
      @rumfordc Год назад +6

      philosophically illiterate. conflating a representation with what its representing, aka "mistaking the map for the territory."

  • @raiderng
    @raiderng 11 месяцев назад +63

    Imagine at the end of your life, you peacefully pass away and then boom, they take off your vr headset and ask “so how was it”

  • @ToRoVi
    @ToRoVi 6 лет назад +5019

    Me: *exists*
    Vsauce: You are killing our universe

    • @aatzaaa
      @aatzaaa 5 лет назад +11

      Vilho kuis panee

    • @ProMrLecoq01
      @ProMrLecoq01 5 лет назад +7

      Exactly

    • @Tark0wo
      @Tark0wo 5 лет назад +49

      but what created energy? energy wasnt always around, because the universe wasnt always around. so what created energy?

    • @ProMrLecoq01
      @ProMrLecoq01 5 лет назад +23

      Arked Thrive god

    • @diablodevil708
      @diablodevil708 5 лет назад +13

      Arked Thrive the world may never know...

  • @jayeshbisht8999
    @jayeshbisht8999 3 года назад +4804

    "Newton flaming laser sword" and they say phillosphers are boring.

    • @BatCostumeGuy
      @BatCostumeGuy 3 года назад +34

      Lmao

    • @adriatic.vineyards
      @adriatic.vineyards 3 года назад +206

      Who says philosophers are boring? Philosophy is dope

    • @Windja69
      @Windja69 3 года назад +22

      @@adriatic.vineyards yeah I know

    • @markobolo4465
      @markobolo4465 3 года назад +93

      @@BatCostumeGuy or did they? Before last Thursday?

    • @YoshiLikesFate
      @YoshiLikesFate 3 года назад +3

      @@adriatic.vineyards i learned Philosophy in my PreSchool days

  • @harbirsingh7266
    @harbirsingh7266 9 месяцев назад +142

    I don't care if I'm forgotten; Vsauce videos need to be preserved forever.

  • @shreyasjaiswal2196
    @shreyasjaiswal2196 Год назад +47

    Its very amusing to see that what I learned last year in school as laws of thermodynamics , entropy ,enthalpy are bases of many theories and I can actually start to understand the world more efficiently, it gives me motivation to dive even deeper in the depths of physics and chemistry

    • @saltygrama209
      @saltygrama209 7 месяцев назад

      Same and it feels awesome, keep learning!

    • @desiar76
      @desiar76 7 месяцев назад

      i learned this few weeks ago, i didn't expected to use this knowledge outside of school this fast

    • @nut_salad
      @nut_salad 2 месяца назад +1

      The entropic brain

  • @drettlinking
    @drettlinking 5 лет назад +6582

    Me: *Breaths*
    Universe: *what the hell*

  • @dadoncouch732
    @dadoncouch732 3 года назад +3436

    Me: **locks door**
    My brain 2 seconds later: *Did the past really happen?*

    • @dadoncouch732
      @dadoncouch732 3 года назад +25

      @@radhikadesai414 I don't have tik tok

    • @Namerex
      @Namerex 3 года назад

      @@radhikadesai414 noob

    • @dadoncouch732
      @dadoncouch732 3 года назад +52

      @@burgerplanet4490 sorry how this somehow offended you man😔

    • @dadoncouch732
      @dadoncouch732 3 года назад +45

      @@burgerplanet4490 what the acutual Fuck?

    • @chouayangmk
      @chouayangmk 3 года назад +16

      @@burgerplanet4490 I can hear the moaning in that room what you doing with him?

  • @Aphlaa
    @Aphlaa 2 месяца назад +38

    Anyone else watching this in 2025?

    • @Rannument
      @Rannument Месяц назад +5

      not yet

    • @user-oe6ks6lh9k
      @user-oe6ks6lh9k Месяц назад +1

      Bro traveled from the future

    • @Aphlaa
      @Aphlaa Месяц назад

      @@user-oe6ks6lh9k what gave it away?

    • @Josengtt
      @Josengtt 23 дня назад +2

      I'm watching it in 1978 tf are you on?

    • @configuracoes9826
      @configuracoes9826 21 день назад +1

      Almost there

  • @OrionRing
    @OrionRing Год назад +18

    "The dog from the wizard of oz was named Toto"
    5 minutes later
    "Newtons flaming laser sword"

  • @Alexander.0671
    @Alexander.0671 3 года назад +5845

    "I'm not lazy, I'm postponing the end of the universe" should totally be a shirt

    • @pdp6839
      @pdp6839 3 года назад +59

      SO TRUE

    • @DECimotA
      @DECimotA 3 года назад +52

      Yes. I need this.

    • @allaballa1061
      @allaballa1061 3 года назад +69

      It would be a bad shirt though

    • @silic8873
      @silic8873 3 года назад +12

      it would be a little weird, even if I relate to it

    • @bannedaccount3752
      @bannedaccount3752 3 года назад +17

      tacky

  • @alpacawithouthat987
    @alpacawithouthat987 5 лет назад +9633

    Teacher: why didn’t you do your homework?
    Me: I wanted to postpone the inevitable heat death of the universe

  • @randygonzalez6250
    @randygonzalez6250 Год назад +33

    10:59 I used this argument with my boss & I got fired, thanks a lot man!

  • @jeebrew
    @jeebrew 5 месяцев назад +10

    This is one of my favorite vsauce videos. Both scientific and philosophical at the same time as almost every other video of him, but there's something that touches me in a peculiar way...

  • @jchampneys3913
    @jchampneys3913 3 года назад +36587

    One day, Vsauce will be considered an ancient philosopher

  • @rorysnow7937
    @rorysnow7937 8 лет назад +2985

    I'm not lazy. I'm saving the universe

    • @orkodijo
      @orkodijo 8 лет назад +53

      +Rory Snow U ARE A SUPERHERO!!!

    • @SadisticNiles
      @SadisticNiles 8 лет назад +33

      +Rory Snow I will join in you in your adventure of laziness!

    • @pinkpartyhat4188
      @pinkpartyhat4188 8 лет назад +1

      +Peacerino Kripperino THE KRIPPERINOS ARE SPREADING! SOON THEY WILL BE EVERYWHERE!

    • @Shakads
      @Shakads 8 лет назад +14

      +Rory Snow that's what I keep telling my boss!

    • @Saz730
      @Saz730 8 лет назад +9

      That's a brilliant motto

  • @BartholemewFitzgeraldThe4th
    @BartholemewFitzgeraldThe4th 5 месяцев назад +11

    My brain 2 seconds after I lock a door:

  • @senshi01
    @senshi01 Год назад +8

    That made me think of the universe's entropy. As the entropy must increase, and the galaxies, stars and black holes holds it together, the only way the universe could maintain it is by expanding faster and faster. By expanding, the universe can maintain the expanding overall entropy. Which means that when galaxies, stars and black holes die out, it will inevitably reverse the expansion again in order to maintain entropy.

  • @ytkerfuffles6429
    @ytkerfuffles6429 4 года назад +1764

    0:00: The dog that played toto
    11:55: You can make the universe last longer by being lazy

    • @benhole9716
      @benhole9716 4 года назад +11

      Haha 🤣

    • @stewart32adams
      @stewart32adams 4 года назад +42

      Ngl I thought I was watching 2 videos 🤣🤣🤣

    • @sirderwent6215
      @sirderwent6215 4 года назад +43

      Title: did the past really happen?

    • @anveshkhode3794
      @anveshkhode3794 3 года назад +1

      We've come a long way from Toto 😐

    • @SJ-ci3yp
      @SJ-ci3yp 3 года назад +2

      “everything was created last thursday”

  • @parallell0
    @parallell0 4 года назад +3896

    Everybody Gangster until Newton pulls out his flaming laser sword.

    • @mooplex4466
      @mooplex4466 4 года назад +30

      Lmao

    • @t-rex9809
      @t-rex9809 3 года назад +80

      Sir Isaac Newton! What are you doing?

    • @rhn122
      @rhn122 3 года назад +71

      FOR SCIENCE!

    • @Adam-xf6sq
      @Adam-xf6sq 3 года назад +37

      General Grievous: **happy addition to collection noises**

    • @changeeyecolor3891
      @changeeyecolor3891 3 года назад +2

      👍👍👍👍👍👍

  • @nachosNipples
    @nachosNipples 9 месяцев назад +3

    it kinda freaks me out the the past 'didn't' happen if we lose the evidence or forget

  • @EduardoPedroCarvalho
    @EduardoPedroCarvalho 2 года назад +4

    Rest in peace, Terry (toto).

  • @Vsauce
    @Vsauce  9 лет назад +9997

    "The past is a foreign country and we are only tourists" -- The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

  • @VOLAIRE
    @VOLAIRE 4 года назад +1500

    Not all heroes wear capes
    Some lay around doing nothing

  • @mowvu5380
    @mowvu5380 8 месяцев назад +12

    this really is a fantastic channel. all the years of grinding for him, when yt was the wild west. and he stayed the course even to now.
    i can watch any of these videos and they're relevant.
    michael vsauce is a likeable and trustworthy fellow

  • @frankaragatan
    @frankaragatan 3 месяца назад +151

    Damn 2024, am I the only one?

  • @thefrancix9316
    @thefrancix9316 9 лет назад +3820

    Vsauce the only you tube channel that makes lazyness a way to "save" the universe

    • @Matsie36
      @Matsie36 9 лет назад +51

      No, just prolong its fate, but only by a miniscule amount.

    • @thefrancix9316
      @thefrancix9316 9 лет назад +19

      Matsie36
      well that's why put those airquotes on save xD

    • @Afterword.
      @Afterword. 9 лет назад +111

      Matsie36 Which is saving.
      If I save you from getting drowned in a pool, you're still going to die. I'm just prolonging your fate.

    • @Vishnu_Karthik
      @Vishnu_Karthik 9 лет назад +6

      No matter how lazy you are your body is still working!

    • @5teeleDuke
      @5teeleDuke 9 лет назад +9

      ***** Yes but the ammount of resources you use would be less.

  • @TheAnhedonicOne
    @TheAnhedonicOne 4 года назад +3586

    Vsauce formula:
    _"Hey! Vsauce, Michael here."_
    • Seemingly irrelevant fact / thing
    • Big question
    • Meat of the video
    • Depressing conclusion
    • Uplifting and optimistic take by Michael Stevens
    _"And as always, thanks for watching."_

    • @scooperdooper4097
      @scooperdooper4097 4 года назад +75

      Lethargy u forgot the existential crisis, also, imma do a test real quick. I’m ready to get my bed and I can get my bed and my room and I have to go get ready for my room ready to leave and my bed ready to be home and ready for my room to go to play my bed room bed bed room room and room for a room. If ur wondering I just spammed the middle thing. I just read it, and just, “my bed room bed bed room room and *room for a room* “

    • @UCFc1XDsWoHaZmXom2KVxvuA
      @UCFc1XDsWoHaZmXom2KVxvuA 4 года назад +15

      @@scooperdooper4097 WHAT

    • @scooperdooper4097
      @scooperdooper4097 4 года назад +11

      @@UCFc1XDsWoHaZmXom2KVxvuA after the "test" i just spammed the auto correct middle word (i was on my tablet)

    • @UCFc1XDsWoHaZmXom2KVxvuA
      @UCFc1XDsWoHaZmXom2KVxvuA 4 года назад +7

      @@scooperdooper4097 I got that, but i can't get why you are not booking for the other one is a little more than I can say is that I have to go to the other side of the other one.

    • @QuicksolutionsOnline
      @QuicksolutionsOnline 4 года назад +2

      Stolen

  • @matt.baller
    @matt.baller 8 месяцев назад +4

    First time I’ve seen this channel and I’m already hooked. Great content very well presented!

  • @lulugaj5859
    @lulugaj5859 10 месяцев назад +2

    Newton' s flaming laser sword sounds like a item the final boss of a rpg uses.

  • @Downbubbles2
    @Downbubbles2 3 года назад +12422

    Unironically Michael is the only person that can make me feel good about being lazy.

    • @fog8008
      @fog8008 3 года назад +97

      i wanna be lazy now

    • @L0RDK3Y
      @L0RDK3Y 3 года назад +14

      Benn

    • @zyriuz2
      @zyriuz2 3 года назад +182

      Finally some good arguments to those who complain about my laziness.... Eh I'm not sure they will understand thermodynamics so it's probably useless to try and explain that to them, it would take too much precious energy to do so.

    • @flamingaish
      @flamingaish 3 года назад +4

      Lol

    • @iloveeatingeggstheyaremyfa445
      @iloveeatingeggstheyaremyfa445 2 года назад +24

      Can’t reach for the comment button, will do the reply button instead.

  • @nekocrimmy
    @nekocrimmy 9 лет назад +2646

    I feel like i learn more from VSauce in 11mins then i do from an entire day of school .-.

    • @Chris.Pontius
      @Chris.Pontius 9 лет назад +130

      Try a better school.

    • @nekocrimmy
      @nekocrimmy 9 лет назад +29

      Chris Pontius No shet, have you been to a french school lmao

    • @michaelperez6147
      @michaelperez6147 9 лет назад +11

      WintyVisualz Lol french school's..
      How much philosophy do they teach xd?

    • @angusyoung4418
      @angusyoung4418 9 лет назад +2

      Love your profile pic, MLGjontron cannot be out qwickscopped.

    • @sc18594
      @sc18594 9 лет назад +13

      People speak french in my country, teachers cant even teach french, we had 30 students in support class and 30 other other that couldnt be in that class because it was full. employers are complaining on how kids cant write correctly. The education system is awful.

  • @iamtheinevitable-
    @iamtheinevitable- 4 месяца назад +13

    Bro really makes me question life

  • @Vomitspit_
    @Vomitspit_ 4 месяца назад +2

    I’m not just “chilling” while I watch this video, actually, I am saving the universe little by little

  • @pritpalsingh3609
    @pritpalsingh3609 4 года назад +4206

    Girl: I'm 5 months pregnant and you're the father.
    Me: The world was created last thursday.

    • @ack434
      @ack434 4 года назад +254

      Pritpal Singh But does the baby even exist at all?
      *cue Vsauce music

    • @inciucio
      @inciucio 4 года назад +207

      First, let's define what's a baby.

    • @randzrubiales4273
      @randzrubiales4273 4 года назад +126

      A baby is a human, but smaller.

    • @inciucio
      @inciucio 4 года назад +155

      @@randzrubiales4273 Or is it?

    • @ack434
      @ack434 4 года назад +160

      @@randzrubiales4273 First, let's find out what it means to be human.
      [Explanation]
      In conclusion, snails are the centre of the universe.

  • @nielsdebont8419
    @nielsdebont8419 4 года назад +2102

    “Will aliens understand that animorph was not just fiction”
    Now that is a scary thought

    • @LilHex20
      @LilHex20 4 года назад +89

      Niels De bont especially if they somehow find our internet like RUclips and can’t understand language but see furry videos

    • @RichiPete
      @RichiPete 4 года назад +15

      It's not though, we have such an archive that something like that will never happen.

    • @LilHex20
      @LilHex20 4 года назад +10

      RichiPeteMedia r/wooosh

    • @RichiPete
      @RichiPete 4 года назад +38

      @@LilHex20 lmao, never thought a stupid fuck who thinks r/wooshing people in 2020 would do it to me on a comment that has no fucking application in any sense.

    • @Vk_1111
      @Vk_1111 4 года назад +1

      @@cycbuild nah not happening

  • @TachyBunker
    @TachyBunker 7 месяцев назад +3

    "Relaxing adds time to the universe" is so wild to say

  • @ritikgupta7781
    @ritikgupta7781 15 дней назад

    that concept of universe never forgets the entropy you produce really made me relate it to how people say "You do not get away with anything, you reap what you sow, mostly in this life and the rest in your next lives", kinda what is the basis of Vedic astrology

  • @mhymyk4022
    @mhymyk4022 9 лет назад +2594

    Someone needs to make a T-shirt
    I'm not lazy
    I'm postponing the universe's end

    • @MichaelKingReaper
      @MichaelKingReaper 9 лет назад +22

      YES

    • @bilbo300100
      @bilbo300100 8 лет назад +28

      Ur Afail make it happen mate.I'll be a buyer!

    • @atho4787
      @atho4787 8 лет назад +31

      Ur Afail I knew that just seating around and not doing anything was helping the world.

    • @dystopia5695
      @dystopia5695 8 лет назад +8

      You fuckin you

    • @dystopia5695
      @dystopia5695 8 лет назад +23

      The question is who's gonna DO it? If you know what i mean!

  • @seanwilson5989
    @seanwilson5989 7 лет назад +2240

    *Mom:* Get off your computer, you're being lazy
    *Me:* No, I'm being considerate

    • @nakinajay
      @nakinajay 6 лет назад +24

      *Mom:* Get off your computer, you're being lazy
      *Me:* No, I'm exercising my tennis Elbow!

    • @seanwilson5989
      @seanwilson5989 6 лет назад +5

      bigtutubi it's solar powered

    • @karlmudsam2834
      @karlmudsam2834 6 лет назад +55

      Mom: go outside your lazy
      Me: IM DECREASING ENTROPY IN THE SYSTEM

    • @nakinajay
      @nakinajay 6 лет назад +2

      Karl Müdsam lol 👍

    • @mistakenmeme
      @mistakenmeme 6 лет назад +2

      Mom can't do math.

  • @landlighterfirestar5550
    @landlighterfirestar5550 10 месяцев назад +1

    "Relaxing adds time to the universes life"
    That is strangely comforting and validating

  • @maxh4694
    @maxh4694 11 месяцев назад +1

    Bro this is what keeps me up at night

  • @micahphilson
    @micahphilson 6 лет назад +5695

    "Toto's remains have been lost."
    "Greece is pretty ancient. How will future archaeologists react to today's ruins?'
    "Is the past even a real thing?"
    Every episode of Vsauce is like a drug-induced existential crisis.

    • @user-fq3co7jb9v
      @user-fq3co7jb9v 6 лет назад +13

      Micah Philson tru

    • @julianbasse
      @julianbasse 6 лет назад +45

      God, im really glad i wasnt the only one thinking that

    • @pavia1960
      @pavia1960 6 лет назад +109

      TOto wasn't found because he was busy blessing the rains in africa

    • @successorofpgg1709
      @successorofpgg1709 5 лет назад +44

      𝓦𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝔂𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓯𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓮𝓻𝓼?

    • @lvbboi9
      @lvbboi9 5 лет назад +1

      Same

  • @amundkringensamuelsen647
    @amundkringensamuelsen647 9 лет назад +1682

    "Newton's flaming laser sword"
    That is the coolest philosophical thing I have ever heard.

    • @michaelgriggs7839
      @michaelgriggs7839 9 лет назад +28

      It is very cool actually

    • @SenpaiTorpidDOW
      @SenpaiTorpidDOW 9 лет назад +38

      illyounotme Yeah. It suggests:
      Let's just get rid of all of mathematics, logic, computer science's basis, theoretical physics, legal studies, social studies, economics, sociology, language studies, and half of philosophy.
      In fact. One could even argue the hard sciences wouldn't make any sense if it was true. Since the hard sciences necessarily require us to come to an agreement on specific unfalsifiable debates before we start them. Who decided that unfalsifiable claims are not worthy of debate and on what basis? Who decided that scientific method X is superior to scientific method Y and why? Is this falsifiable empirically? No. It's a value judgment.

    • @XdmsT
      @XdmsT 9 лет назад +11

      Ryan Hutton scientists probably laugh their ass of if they hear you talk.

    • @toasty4000000
      @toasty4000000 9 лет назад +2

      Thats because it was named by a philosopher who was also a mathematician

    • @SenpaiTorpidDOW
      @SenpaiTorpidDOW 9 лет назад +5

      XdmsT Why would they do that?

  • @lilypads3033
    @lilypads3033 Год назад +1

    Sloths basically won the MVP of preserving this universe along with other cold blooded creatures

  • @comco6190
    @comco6190 5 лет назад +2000

    Last video i watched: "You live in the past"
    This video: "Did the past really happen?"
    Next recommended video: "IS ANYTHING REAL?"
    *existential crisis intensifies*

    • @cyb3rnub184
      @cyb3rnub184 5 лет назад +30

      Next video after that one: "AM I BEING PAID YET?"

    • @yakirnaim3900
      @yakirnaim3900 5 лет назад +15

      It's clues to let you know you are going crazy

    • @fillip13
      @fillip13 5 лет назад +18

      Is this real life? Or is it just fantasy?

    • @Randomcitizen820
      @Randomcitizen820 5 лет назад +12

      Nothing really matters.

    • @TheDeathdragon401
      @TheDeathdragon401 5 лет назад +8

      Next Video: “Spooky Coincedences”

  • @mrfilmmaker3237
    @mrfilmmaker3237 7 лет назад +2185

    ME:Do you want something to eat?
    Michael:But what exactly *IS* "something"
    ME:I mean *something* that you like or something you had eaten in the *past* ...
    Michael: *Did the past really happen???*
    *(weird music starts at the background..)*

    • @pettalk8302
      @pettalk8302 7 лет назад +7

      WRACKER 123 ROFL

    • @alexg6910
      @alexg6910 7 лет назад +17

      WRACKER 123 that's exactly how I feel everytime I watch one Vsauce video

    • @billanderson5580
      @billanderson5580 7 лет назад +8

      Alex G But what is a feeling?

    • @alexg6910
      @alexg6910 7 лет назад +3

      Bill Anderson Bruhhhhhhhh

    • @kenm3ng121
      @kenm3ng121 6 лет назад +7

      No one can escape curiosty in my BGM.

  • @animepabu5526
    @animepabu5526 9 месяцев назад +1

    dang all his videos are actually very interesting.. if only this kind of stuff was taught in school this way. Because the way he explains actually makes sense

  • @the_natural_philosopher
    @the_natural_philosopher Год назад +3

    Your presentation is really on point!!

  • @Ghostkiller231
    @Ghostkiller231 3 года назад +5524

    This guy is basically us at night when we can’t sleep, we just question everything

  • @Dachi40
    @Dachi40 7 лет назад +1408

    Newton's flaming laser sword, that is just, I have no more words.

    • @smitty2085
      @smitty2085 7 лет назад +76

      I wonder how much damage it deals

    • @scorchedcore4357
      @scorchedcore4357 7 лет назад +38

      about 9000

    • @Dachi40
      @Dachi40 7 лет назад +8

      scorched core 9000 damage in minecraft damage, Pokémon damage, call of duty damage, or any kind of damage? Because in some games 9000 damage isn't that much.

    • @wei446
      @wei446 7 лет назад +26

      its an ultra rare drop, and can one hit kill everything lol

    • @Dachi40
      @Dachi40 7 лет назад

      BBGaming&Tutorials ok,makes sense

  • @Theverylostsocks
    @Theverylostsocks 9 месяцев назад +16

    Vsauce always manages to take my existential thoughts and turn them into answers

  • @happyelephant5384
    @happyelephant5384 Год назад +1

    Wow, i came up with this problem on my own some time ago and didn't expect somebody to have unswer

  • @chris-hayes
    @chris-hayes 5 лет назад +1402

    Now if scientists used more names like "Newton's Flaming Laser Sword", I would do so much better in school

    • @drettlinking
      @drettlinking 5 лет назад +33

      Facts

    • @dr.redstone7980
      @dr.redstone7980 5 лет назад +3

      Me too lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😅😄😁🙂

    • @brooksman10
      @brooksman10 5 лет назад +26

      Newton's Flaming Laser Sword is used in philosophy, not science.

    • @comfortablymoist902
      @comfortablymoist902 5 лет назад +36

      brooksman10 ok thx for your contribution

    • @silverhawking
      @silverhawking 5 лет назад

      Right? Maybe I should redirect my teachers here.

  • @thatdudetom6227
    @thatdudetom6227 5 лет назад +1177

    You vs the guy she tells you not to worry about
    Occums razor
    Newton’s flaming laser sword

    • @thetoad.1251
      @thetoad.1251 4 года назад +2

      Best comment I've ever seen on a youtube video

    • @fvafj8395
      @fvafj8395 4 года назад +3

      Idk man if your sword is burning there may be a problem

    • @kit_nine
      @kit_nine 4 года назад +1

      Well, Fire Aspect is only a bad enchant because if you hit your opponent and then they hit you back then your attack just *BACKFIRED* HAHAHAHAHA

  • @JasonsFilmsYT
    @JasonsFilmsYT 10 месяцев назад +3

    Vsauce will one day be among the ranks of Aristotle and Socrates.

  • @heyhelloitsjayden
    @heyhelloitsjayden Год назад +5

    me three seconds after locking my front door:

  • @darkvoid1751
    @darkvoid1751 5 лет назад +827

    Future People: That Vsuace guy died a long time ago
    Vsauce: or did I ??????????

  • @vap0rw1se
    @vap0rw1se 5 лет назад +2316

    Vsauce: Did the past really happen?
    Vsauce, a few minutes later: Newton's Flaming Laser Sword

    • @--TOM--
      @--TOM-- 4 года назад +54

      yes
      but was the laser sword invented last thursday?

    • @m.jailam8861
      @m.jailam8861 4 года назад +8

      up next: Alessandro Volta's Oscillating Frozen Lightsaber

    • @BF1_enthusiast
      @BF1_enthusiast 4 года назад

      @@m.jailam8861lmao😂

    • @kiranthakur8793
      @kiranthakur8793 4 года назад

      A few more minutes later-ended up at googol years later😂

    • @ard-janvanetten1331
      @ard-janvanetten1331 4 года назад +1

      @@--TOM-- no

  • @lao-ce8982
    @lao-ce8982 Год назад

    Unarguably the best channel on RUclips. Wish he was still uploading.

  • @CiRdy34
    @CiRdy34 10 месяцев назад +1

    It’s fun to watch Michael’s videos and compare what he’s talking about in the beginning to what he’s talking about at the end.

  • @valentinrisatti6405
    @valentinrisatti6405 5 лет назад +739

    Q: "Is the past even a real thing?"
    A: "Relaxing adds time to the universe's life."

    • @7mbmasihbelajar
      @7mbmasihbelajar 5 лет назад +6

      Lol way too far

    • @vaughnparry1760
      @vaughnparry1760 5 лет назад +2

      Relaxing has nothing to do with "time" it is an emotional reaction. UNIVERSE exists regardless what humans do. Times not relevant to universe existence is.

    • @RazorM97
      @RazorM97 5 лет назад

      super funny

    • @AgeofJP
      @AgeofJP 5 лет назад

      @@vaughnparry1760 haven't you watched the video? It is relevant, 100% in fact...the universe will still exist after the "heat death" in 10^100 years and at that stage time becomes irrelevant because literally nothing's going to happen after that, but that's not the point here. It's about the *time* until that event, and Michael (as he always does) explained pretty clear and undeniably why relaxing *does* prolong that event. And if you're talking about emotions being irrelevant in that regard, think again...you consume energy by thinking aswell. Relaxing literally saves up energy consumption compared to feeling angered for example the same way he described in the video only even less than compared to actively moving your body.
      In my whole life until now I sure as hell saved the universe a nanosecond or two compared to the hypothetical me that would've been more active.
      Now if you had said it's irrelevant to think about it since there is no "if" and thus comparing your past and future life with a hypothetical other life doesn't change anything because you have lived and will live only one way which is already set in stone because of the nonexistence of coincidence in our universe...well *then* you'd have a point there, but as it stands you seem to highly underestimate the impact (or relevance) everything has/had/will have on everything else just because it's too tiny of a relevance for you to imagine. But please try to, because it's fascinating as fuck to find these things out. And also don't try to disprove scientific theories with semantics...you'll only sound smart and give fuel to ignorance to spread more ignorance.
      If I misunderstood your point, just say so...I'm not 100% sure since it's not my first language and well you didn't exactly phrase an explicit thought

    • @tjdiddy
      @tjdiddy 5 лет назад +1

      Yes, but no. But really yes.

  • @epicgamernik76
    @epicgamernik76 3 года назад +4339

    Michael: being lazy can make the universe last longer
    Me running around at 3 am: I AM THE GOD OF CHAOS

  • @arttuluomanen171
    @arttuluomanen171 15 дней назад

    Remember seeing this video when it was very new, like under week old. Time really flies by. So cool, but very scary.

  • @apix417
    @apix417 Год назад +1

    I always learn something really good and interesting when I watch Vsauce

  • @ohno4458
    @ohno4458 5 лет назад +955

    *NEWTONS FLAMING LASER SWORD*

    • @kylebrofloski6315
      @kylebrofloski6315 5 лет назад +31

      ITS GONNA KILL US ALL

    • @snowandlightsmusic
      @snowandlightsmusic 5 лет назад +68

      Was a weird name to give his penis but hey.... Who am i to judge, must've burned pretty bad when he pee'd!

    • @mr.meowmeow9720
      @mr.meowmeow9720 5 лет назад +15

      Level 100000000 weapon.

    • @trystynshamblin3191
      @trystynshamblin3191 5 лет назад +3

      Let me have one BTW I'm not GAY

    • @channelofrandom7731
      @channelofrandom7731 5 лет назад +2

      Us wow that’s cool it was Ewoks
      Future how haven’t I heard of the ancient Ewoks George lucas was smart

  • @MikeyATF
    @MikeyATF 9 лет назад +6192

    I'd explain to people why i'm so lazy but its too much effort.

    • @vizthex
      @vizthex 9 лет назад +32

      XD

    • @ProgrammedPersona
      @ProgrammedPersona 9 лет назад +147

      I'd make a comment that states something about how lazy I am in a funny manner, but that would be too much effort...

    • @vizthex
      @vizthex 9 лет назад +8

      Programmed Persona
      XD

    • @MikeyATF
      @MikeyATF 9 лет назад +47

      Programmed Persona we are screwed.... well at least we are doing something right by saving the universe!!!!

    • @latrellfrasier
      @latrellfrasier 9 лет назад +3

      XD

  • @octobsession3061
    @octobsession3061 2 года назад +1

    He said Newton's Flaming Laser Sword with straight face like it's a genuine thing just cracks me up

  • @zimamproductions326
    @zimamproductions326 11 месяцев назад +1

    Michael will be remembered for hundreds of year.

  • @Bruh-zw1le
    @Bruh-zw1le 3 года назад +5482

    In another sense, how do you know that the memories of dreams you had as a child, weren’t just memories of dreams you had last night?

    • @Mo_Real_Official
      @Mo_Real_Official 3 года назад +375

      What if am I a child

    • @notmrsunday7888
      @notmrsunday7888 3 года назад +287

      Lol when something happens it feels like its happened before that because it just happened but actually it just happened and not before that

    • @Bruh-zw1le
      @Bruh-zw1le 3 года назад +44

      @@notmrsunday7888 exactly

    • @ricardozuniga9664
      @ricardozuniga9664 3 года назад +22

      You have memories of your childhood dreams?

    • @Bruh-zw1le
      @Bruh-zw1le 3 года назад +68

      @@ricardozuniga9664 yes, memories of since I was around 3

  • @winter_silhouette
    @winter_silhouette 3 года назад +1041

    Q : What is your contribution towards society?
    A : I postponed the inevitable heat death of the universe.

  • @orangemanbad
    @orangemanbad 10 месяцев назад

    This is a topic in my head a lot. Oddly. New subscriber.

  • @kissingthings2265
    @kissingthings2265 Год назад +1

    I keep coming back every few years

  • @juantsu2000
    @juantsu2000 6 лет назад +663

    You were all amazed by Ockham's razor.........but none of you expected:
    NEWTON'S FLAMING LASER SWORD!!!!!!!!

    • @rebeccaliebregts
      @rebeccaliebregts 5 лет назад +8

      I thought you were gonna go for the Spanish Inquisition.

    • @salvadoreleone4570
      @salvadoreleone4570 5 лет назад +3

      these would make some perfect RPG easter egg weapons

    • @NaughtySamurai
      @NaughtySamurai 5 лет назад +3

      I literally read this comment when he mentioned it on the video.
      Another video for vsauce

    • @aaronjoshuaaguanta6556
      @aaronjoshuaaguanta6556 5 лет назад

      Lmao yeah its much stronger than thanos gloves

  • @signin1907
    @signin1907 4 года назад +1444

    Thief: **steals**
    Police: you are under arrest
    Theif: did the past really happen??

    • @nickxenix
      @nickxenix 4 года назад +47

      Police: We got security cameras.
      Thief: Well, *S**t.*

    • @inthepasttwix5648
      @inthepasttwix5648 4 года назад +2

      We like fortnite

    • @Darklight7171
      @Darklight7171 4 года назад +8

      Who is this theif guy

    • @PharyChoeu
      @PharyChoeu 4 года назад

      It's i before e except after c.

    • @ChaosBW
      @ChaosBW 4 года назад +10

      @@nickxenix with the advancements in deep fake technology can photo or video evidence still be considered as evidence?
      *Vsauce music plays*

  • @Eddo15878
    @Eddo15878 5 месяцев назад +1

    The beginning was ironically a classic sauce transition

  • @Clodd1
    @Clodd1 Год назад +2

    No matter how far humanity go, they will know almost everything about us, because we can’t “ungoogle” us.

  • @DylanDr1pDr0pWilhelmi
    @DylanDr1pDr0pWilhelmi 9 лет назад +811

    I'm not lazy, I'm saving the universe

    • @ButlerSelion
      @ButlerSelion 9 лет назад +122

      Put that on a t-shirt

    • @elvisitor
      @elvisitor 9 лет назад +38

      Maria Sayco to much energy will be used... go sleep!

    • @arekpostolski8495
      @arekpostolski8495 9 лет назад

      Tell it to my wife... :)

    • @MrLemonsChannel
      @MrLemonsChannel 9 лет назад +1

      Arek Postolski OH NO! WE ARE WASTING ENERGY BY TYPING THIS STUFFS. HOWS ABOUT WE ALL DIE TO CONSERVE THE UNIVERSE! or not. Won't happen in my life time

    • @vizthex
      @vizthex 9 лет назад

      XD

  • @PrecureFights
    @PrecureFights 4 года назад +1654

    Him: "Everything was created last thursday"
    This video: "posted 5 years ago"

    • @jadenfraney2110
      @jadenfraney2110 3 года назад +261

      Or was it?

    • @hamidrana085
      @hamidrana085 3 года назад +159

      5 years was created last Thursday, or was it??

    • @Zelinkondorf
      @Zelinkondorf 3 года назад +67

      Maybe next year when you fall asleep on a thursday it will be rewritten to say 6 years ago 😎

    • @PrecureFights
      @PrecureFights 3 года назад +19

      @@Zelinkondorf damnnn, making me think

    • @Adam-xf6sq
      @Adam-xf6sq 3 года назад +20

      How many other lies have I been told by the council

  • @WyoTeacherDude
    @WyoTeacherDude Месяц назад

    Brilliant! And I clicked the Like thumb with as little energy as possible.

  • @jepeO7
    @jepeO7 Год назад +3

    bro my i have watched your videos for like 4 hours now and my brain hurts so bad

  • @cobletful
    @cobletful 9 лет назад +1422

    Maybe I'm wrong, but I assumed that future civilizations wouldn't really need to do any guessing. We keep rather decent records of basically all the important stuff we know, I'd imagine that would be far more clear and detailed than ancient wall paintings. Just something to consider.

    • @justwitti
      @justwitti 9 лет назад +224

      The Romans did that too. Turns out we only have their important books and some ruins today, which does tell us pretty much but not all about them.

    • @Noschool100
      @Noschool100 9 лет назад +109

      justwitti unless our civilization collapses like the Roman's society did and we enter a world wide dark age it is likely the records we have will remain.

    • @cobletful
      @cobletful 9 лет назад +41

      ***** There's no way we could collapse like the Romans. I'm not sure if you're American, but just because America every gets nuked or whatever, there will still be plenty of records as to what our time was like for other countries. However, we aren't really any less likely to die from, say, an asteroid than the Romans (also we could probably prepare for it better)

    • @cobletful
      @cobletful 9 лет назад +5

      ***** Haha, ALL data? Geeze

    • @TheSloth375
      @TheSloth375 9 лет назад +5

      Cough cough aztecs. Do you keep record of your bags of beans?

  • @MicahSMoore
    @MicahSMoore 9 лет назад +1125

    Dear Justin Bieber haters
    Please respect him..
    I owe my life to Justin.
    Last August 16, 2014 i was in coma for 4 months due to terrible car accident.
    One day my nurse turned the radio to Justin's song,
    So i got up..
    And i turned off the radio.. .

    • @TMME360
      @TMME360 9 лет назад +131

      The originality is simply mind boggling ...

    • @MicahSMoore
      @MicahSMoore 9 лет назад +35

      True story TMME360

    • @joelmcgannon7211
      @joelmcgannon7211 9 лет назад +2

      No nigga

    • @Finity1990
      @Finity1990 9 лет назад +12

      What is a "nigga"?

    • @melgacorrea
      @melgacorrea 9 лет назад +29

      Finity1990 did you really ask that?

  • @Gameplayer555
    @Gameplayer555 Год назад +1

    This is why I never promise things. I could be possible that they won't happen or didn't happened.

  • @OreoSmithOfficial
    @OreoSmithOfficial Год назад +2

    “Stop laying around and go clean your room”
    “But mom, I’m saving the universe.”

  • @mmymmy315
    @mmymmy315 4 года назад +1938

    Parents: Why are you so lazy??
    Me: *shut up I'm saving the universe*

    • @crotchsplotch
      @crotchsplotch 4 года назад +26

      Its disrespectful to talk to your parents like that.

    • @TengkuAmier
      @TengkuAmier 4 года назад +82

      @@crotchsplotch its a joke

    • @mmymmy315
      @mmymmy315 4 года назад +36

      The Last Bueno Yes, but it's a joke. I don't think anyone would seriously speak to their parents in this manner.

    • @crotchsplotch
      @crotchsplotch 4 года назад +13

      @@mmymmy315 I know I was joking.

    • @dontjudgemebymyname6620
      @dontjudgemebymyname6620 4 года назад +29

      @@crotchsplotch Your comments don't seem like a joke to me 😞

  • @15gallonsofsoup61
    @15gallonsofsoup61 5 лет назад +1735

    (Watches a vsauce video)
    *You know, im something of scientist myself*

  • @manumasajnik
    @manumasajnik Год назад +2

    interesting thought: the future will have the aesthetic we predict it will have because the designers of it already have that idea in mind.

  • @keekeekakakookoo
    @keekeekakakookoo 8 дней назад

    thanks i’ll always be chill

  • @thisisarjunbutwhythehellar6188
    @thisisarjunbutwhythehellar6188 5 лет назад +829

    " I took a selfie in...Delphi"
    "HOW WILL WE BE REMEMEBERED???"

  • @billdosk
    @billdosk 5 лет назад +2543

    Me :hey man can i borrow your money
    Friends : sure
    Friend: ey man remember the money you borrowed from me yesterday ?
    Me : *DID THE PAST REALLY HAPPEN*

  • @Avedis-G
    @Avedis-G 2 года назад

    I’ve been thinking about when “they” find “us” in 1000 years since I was a kid. Love this!

  • @kaushikmohanta8526
    @kaushikmohanta8526 Год назад +4

    Sometimes vsauce seems like the only one making sense in this world. This is one of those times for me

  • @TheRonnoc182
    @TheRonnoc182 7 лет назад +716

    Beginning of video-Did the past really happen
    End of video- Laziness saves the world

    • @jjj-eq7gv
      @jjj-eq7gv 7 лет назад +2

      TheRonnoc182 ikr

    • @veronicaproctor184
      @veronicaproctor184 7 лет назад +15

      beginning of the video - terry's death !! how dare you invalidate toto's contribution to the eventual heat death of the universe

    • @jacobmosier3816
      @jacobmosier3816 7 лет назад +3

      universe*

    • @Vjkeys
      @Vjkeys 6 лет назад +2

      lol wys he changed the topic quick

    • @InvaderJamz
      @InvaderJamz 6 лет назад +3

      TheRonnoc182 I find it annoying when he does that.