For this month's book recommendation I have "Brief Answers to the Big Questions" - Stephen Hawking's last book. You can read or listen to it's summary for free on Blinkist by activating your free trial at www.blinkist.com/sciencephile
I personally think that the universe's horrors are so abstract and so unfathomable for the human mind, that it is completely natural for us to want to explore it without hesitation or second thoughts
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. - Lovecraft
Mankind was full of hubris, until that fateful day we had to enter into the void where all things are simultaneously welcome and unwelcome. Coming to a theater near you, DEEP PROBE URANUS.
I never even thought about gas giants being pitch black inside. For some reason I always imagined a colorful lit up gassy fog. That hit me hard for absolutely no reason and now I have a sudden fear of gas giants.
I had major melanoheliophobia when I first heard the song “black hole sun” as a kid. It introduced me to the idea of a black hole eating up the earth and I had night terrors about it for a while and often had scary day dreams about it. Eventually the stresses of my teen and adult life took me out of it and now I’m just so nihilistic I don’t worry about mass extinction events in general anymore
I personally don’t worry about mass extinction events in lieu of the dinosaurs’ because the chance of them happening is so much less than the chance you’d get murdered in Singapore (if you’re not aware, the chances are 2 in one million). Now whether or not you’d consider “global warming” a mass extinction event given the rise of CO2 is another thing entirely, although I just think part of it is just Earth recovering from its last ice age, which happened only 10,000 years ago, give or take. Earth works in a timescale that reaches over 10s of millions of years, if not more. Pollution however is an entirely different subject, and I do wish we’d find and convert over to more efficient sources of fuel (both in expenditure and in power).
I mean even then people often overestimate it by running full speed away from them when in reality even fast spiders are still quite slow and don't want to chase you anyways
I dreamt that the sun was swallowed by a black hole in the middle of day, and it was now expanding and covering the sky and was coming for earth. I was holding onto another person as tight as I could, knowing that when the darkness reached us we would be separated forever. Strangely the black hole took my senses from me one at a time, until at last my sight survived, and then that was gone too. And then I was just a bodiless mind.
I also had a kind of nightmare like this, but it involved a microscopic black hole unexplainably forming inside the earth. I remember the ground rumbling and a feeling of increasing weight that started becoming unbearable. I woke up before the actual death in that dream, but I literally clutched onto my bed and had to look outside the window to make sure that shit wasnt really happening. That feeling of hopelessness was absolutely terrifying.
it was something like 5 years, but i still remember until today the way that sun was eatead by the black hole, i was in the middle of the street somewhere i dont know. i remember that people was just doing thing normaly, there was a couple in a near sitting by my side just doing some couple stuffs. and the black hole was coming close and close until it reached me and i felt nothing and then i wake up
I first found out about my fear of blackholes when playing Universe Sandbox in which I was absolutely terrified of zooming in too fast, or even looking at a blackhole lest I be filled with dread or jumpscared. Still though, they are absolutely fascinating and of the many things in this universe; they are among my favourite.
Oh my god i experienced the same, i got jumpscared in that game so many times because of the freaking zoom. The best part is that i bought an oculus rift headset and tried to play it (spoiler: i couldn't)
@@Nabekukka deadass some girl in my class asked why the moon doesn't melt when it touches the sun during an eclipse. We are in high school. Fucking high school.
Black holes used to keep Albert Einstein up at night. He remarked that he sometimes had a hard time believing such object existed (despite his field equations and general relativity). And he would wake up in the middle of the night thinking about them and would not go back to sleep, trying to think up of ways to figure out how the singularity can exist inside a black hole.
I think many people have experienced that. When u have a problem like that, that u can't solve immediately but u know that if u just put in the work, you will eventually solve it, then it's normal to think about it all the time. I am a programmer and it happens quite a lot that I have a big problem that I can't solve within a single work day, then sometimes I wake up at like 2 am because I just dreamt of a solution or major breakthrough/advancement for the problem. I also have a little piece of paper beside my bed, just so that I can take notes when this happens. Sometimes though, it is so exciting to have found a solution, that I just go to work early lol
@@GuRuGeorge03 that's correct. I have had those moments as well. I heard Elon Musk has them frequently (either camps out in the manufacturing line or camps out near the Starbase when he has vexing problems he needs to solve).
Guess I'm the weird one here, because.. I actually like black holes, it's my favourite celestial object. Dark, mysterious, powerful. And quasars... Cosmic crucibles of raw energy, with matter circling around in an accretion disc and being expelled at subluminal speeds as jets of hot plasma. Extremely deadly yet so beautiful... It thrills me to no end, how the darkest known objects can give out the most light, becoming the brightest. Like beacons of the universe.
@@user-sr4lt3ij1j The point of the video is not about literally falling into one, it's about an irrational fear of doing so that people might experience even when out of danger. I didn't see many people liking blackholes for the reasons I mentioned above, hence my assumption it's not a common thing. Maybe I didn't try hard enough, sure. But your thesis is clearly getting in contradiction with... Well, almost the entire comments section of this video.
I love black holes. Ever since I learned of them when I was 3. Once even, I had a dream of somehow owning one as a pet. I was immune to its affects, but I used it to cause mass destruction.
I have this memory that I've repressed most of the context away from, but in probably third grade we had an astronomy presentation in the gym where each grade would go into this big inflatable dome and there was a guy inside who talked about space, but he kept hyping up that we were going to see inside a black hole at the end. Everyone was psyched but I FREAKED out. I knew I wasn't going to be sucked into a black hole, but I thought maybe because there's nothing in a black hole, the dome would deflate and we would all panic and get stuck inside and suffocate. I also just did not want to hear about the existential horror of black holes and have to look at one while stuck inside an inflatable. This guy had me sold that he was going to simulate the experience of being sucked into a black hole. Not something I want to be a part of. I got more and more anxious as the presentation went on, so much so that I started to cry, but it was DARK, and I thought that if I asked to leave I would get yelled at, so I had to cry loud. So the teachers could hear and get me the heck out of there. But that meant that the whole grade got to see me cry like a little bitch because I was afraid to see a picture of a black hole. And thus, my dream of being an astronaut ended, and the seed for my imminent existential crisis was sewn. Fuck black holes.
I don't like to look at the supposed look of black holes, it's something about the endless, deep, round shape, whirlpools give me the same feeling of dread. Like a combination of megalophobia, thalasophobia and fear of the unknown. At the same time, there is the curiosity and endless fascination a black hole has, like the pull of the void to find out what the singularity is.
I know! The scary part is not the whole thought of it being inescapable and offering a horrible death, but the sheer look of the pictures. They are so uncanny and creepy. Space Engine is terrifying, even having you able to escape any time, because just the sight of the black hole is revolting.
Not really black holes since I know how they work too much, but I have a similar feeling about tornadoes. They are really dangerous, but there is something incredible and creepy in how they form, move, change shape, destroy, it's like a godlike creature that wants to bring you in its mouth and then digest you with unparelled strenght. I had a good number of nightmares as a kid about being "chased" by them, and now I find them even more amazing knowing that we actually don't know all things about them yet
Back when I was a kid, I was extremely scared of the black holes from Super Mario Galaxy and I remember a nightmare of having my house be torn apart and eventually being sucked in myself. The fear has now subsided, and I only get slightly unnerved by black holes but I mostly just find them really fascinating. I think the main thing that scared me was how infinite it seemed and how it could easily suck in everything.
Question: since time dialation would be so extreme when entering the black hole, would that mean that the black hole would immediately disintigrate due to hawking radiation?
No , cause you and the black hole are experiencing time with the same rate (very slow time passage) . unlike the outside of the black hole where time passage is normal
Probably not. But, that’s a really cool theory. What if everything that goes into a black hole immediately disintegrates since time dilation is so great from the perspective of what ever is in the centre of the black hole, and that’s why things can be sucked into black holes and never seen again… it’s definitely wrong bc there’s something I’m not considering but that’s a good question anyways…
Wait how strong would the time dilation be if you didn't pass the event horizon, and just got close to it? Could be theoretically travel millions or billions of years in the future?
Considering all the stars that we see at night is just a tiny group to our galaxy, i don't even want to comprehend how big the universe is and how easy it is to get lost
Did you know that space is so big and empty, you do a warp jump into any direction and you have basically a 0% (0.00000...%) chance of hitting something in your jump :D
@@itsdokko2990 you wanna be even more flabbergasted? Go check out the other video on this channel regarding size. You're closer to the size of Ton blackhole than you are to the planck length ':)
Falling into an empty void where nothing, NOTHING can get out at an high speed knowing very well that there is nothing i can do is my worst nigthmare, thanks for awakening it inside me
So i now know the name for another phobia I have. This and thalassaphobia are my two biggest fears, and I’ve always attributed it to the fact that infinite voids scare me. I can’t ever explain it fully but just the thought of falling into a deep, endless chasm, with no solid ground below you and nothing to hold onto is just terrifying. Idk if it’s because I’m scared of the loss of my senses, of what lurks within the void, or just the thought of being surrounded by nothingness, but voids terrify me
@@Damian-cilr2haha i am the opposite, sometimes even in multiplayer games i just chill at tge borders, especially in games with explorable seas i want to be in the middle of the ocean where no one else is
I had melonoheliophobia for like a single day, and it was brought about exactly how you suggested, but when I understood how unbeleivably far away they actually are that calmed me down. I now honestly love learning about black holes and other cosmic phenomena.
there could be one near by, we wouldn't be able to see it. The ones we have pictures of are at the centers of galaxies which is why they have such bright disks. one just chilling in space on its own would be invisible
@@MikeS7 A whole lot of that isn’t true and there are many ways to “see” one, if there was one anywhere near us the earth’s rotation would get unimaginably fucked up.
Not just black holes, but most cosmic objects too. The only reason the asteroid belt seems thick is because it’s covering a radial distance further away than Mars’ orbit to the sun. And of course, as dotted as it seems even by that scale, I think a competent non-suicidal pilot would be just fine. If you want further proof, just about none (if not absolutely none) of the probes NASA has sent out for example ever failed to reach their destination, being the moons of Jupiter, Pluto, or beyond.
I've been looking for this phobia for EVER, but google always went back to "Megalophobia" but big things aren't scary, just cosmically large things. Approaching a planet or moon in a video game, triggers this fear for me. Same for nearing a black hole, but especially black holes.
"But big things aren't scary" tell that to me when i was terrified of the fucking Eiffel Tower (and well, any tower really) as a kid. Sometimes i feel dread when i see the picture of Earth from space, like after zooming out too far in Google maps. I'd hate to just go up and and up and up and up.... So high i'll reach space (and propably continue flying)... So far from everybody to an empty void. Yeah, fuck no. So i guess i have a fear of heights and large objects. Sorry for the dumb rant.
I have morbid curiosity with things that scare me. So Black holes have quickly become one of the things I know a lot about. Ive seen those videos of falling into them from a 360 perspective and I get this intense feeling of fear. It’s looking into the deep black sphere and thinking “this is it.” I want to try it in vr because the emersion can be really intense. If I was to choose a way to die, it would be a fast acting cyanide capsule, while falling into a supermassive black hole. I can take the easy way out when the spaghettification becomes too painful, but until that point, I would see an event that is unfathomable to our minds. I would see the universe unfold as I look back out of the black hole. And when I look down I could see the deepest darkest depths the universe can create.
Space Engine is a horror game to me. While I absolutely love exploring the universe and taking snapshots on pretty planets, I also went to gas giants, stars and even black holes. Getting too close to gas giants or accidentally wandering into its atmosphere triggers a massive shock reaction to me. Faster pulse, goosebumps, the works. The worst one was trying to get to our Milky Way’s SMB. Black holes are incredibly hard to pinpoint and the closer you get to it, the more stars you can observe orbiting quickly. Actually getting to the black hole made me quit the game.
@@AntimatterBeam8954 it's really damn good. I think there's still beta 0.8(?) on the creator's site but if 0.8 is pretty then the steam release is downright mesmerising
@@AntimatterBeam8954 that game is fucking amazing, literally the whole universe to explore and i ended uo spending over 12 hours in just 1 star system looking at cool shit im pretty sure this is the first game to actually leave me speechless when playing, i would just find something cool and just admire it for god knows how long there is a free beta version, but its extremely outdated. the steam version has so much cool shit, like volumetric nebulae, better tools/ui and just prettier and more optimized graphics in general i could go on forever about it but i've already created a great wall of text so yea
I think I have a phobia of "vacant black". That black part goes on forever without end can be unsettling and overwhelming, especially if it reminds you of the vastness of space and the terrifying potential of black holes.
I have a big fear of space and the open ocean. Most of my nightmares involve getting taken away by strong currents, or falling up into the sky. But like many of us, I am fascinated by those things and I love researching them. Perhaps it's a subconscious effort to try and shed some light into the unknown.
I had a dream where I woke up on a tiny pod / space craft. When I looked from the cockpit window it dawned on me that i was falling into a balck hole. No matter in what direction I burnt I had no chance of reaching escape velocity. It was a fall aimed straight to the center. The horror of blackness slowly cramping up your field of vision while you sit there waiting for death is something different. It was one of the most vivid dreams i ever had.
I had the extreme urge to scroll down when you said we were gonna test Melanoheliophobia and I tried to fight it, but failed. I am weak to the holes power.
I remember learning about black holes for the first time in fourth grade and I was absolutely terrified for months until I learned that some snakes in the wild are poisonous. From one phobia to the next…
Not gonna lie thinking about seeing the universe speed up and end before you go (if you're still alive) is kind of a beautifully sombre thing to think about, not only will you see you life flash before your eyes but the entire universe's....honestly pretty magnificently dark in my opinion.
I find trypophobia might be to warn us away from things like wasp nests, and perhaps there are other things out there in nature But otherwise, it's just a strange icky sensation, I wouldn't call it a phobia in the way that arachnophobia is, but it feels icky I also have a fear of infinite voids, like space. I've had nightmares where I'm floating in a straight line through a void knowing I have a destination but knowing it is so infinitely far away I will never reach it or see another object again. I once got stuck in a dark room where all light had been purposefully blocked out, I couldn't find a wall or a door or anything to orient myself. I had no idea how big the room was or anything about it I shudder just remembering the sensation
I think trypophobia exists so that we avoid holes of poisonous/toxic/otherwise dangerous animals and meat infected with worms that dig those holes. I doubt it's because of wasp nests because the surface of them is smooth
For some reason whenever I see those tiny holes all together, I get a brief image in my head of those holes being on my skin somewhere, and that's what creeps me out
Yes I was absolutely terrified of THAT specific animation of a black hole. not because its a black hole. But because of the severe flashbacks i get from hearing that high pitched noise while reading that i died.
Every time when in playing around in Space Engine, I inevitably scare myself, by searching for a black hole and just fast-traveling to it. Seeing that sphere of blackness and bent light around it just suddenly popping up always scares me.
It’s so nice seeing your videos because they discuss questions I’ve asked myself for YEARS but no one had the same interest in talking about them and trying to figure them out like I did.
6:34 I always feel that fear when I warp really close to the Jool in KSP, It's a game about sending small people into the space yet watching those planets getting huge (really fast) and covering my entire screen scares me more than horror games
I don't think I'm afraid of falling into a black hole itself, but have this weird fear of falling into an endless void, for example I get a very unsettling feeling when clipping through the ground in a game. And I believe that kind of transfers to the way that an increasing portion of your surroundings turn to black as you fall into a black hole..
if it makes you feel any better, being inside a black hole would not be dark. You would actually see all of the light that enters it, even from the other side. This effect even gets faster and faster, and you would see all of the light that entered the black hole up until the end of its lifetime, which would be extremely bright. That assuming you don't die from being torn apart or from the radiation.
4:00 Holy fk that activated some kind of fear in me. I always had the fear of living forever because eventually your loved ones and the whole human race + the galaxy you were born in will disappear one day. What do you have left? Exactly you have nothing but darkness and floating around the void with no one around. It must be depressing to live in a world where you are all alone. My fear here is really mixed with loneliness and memories of a time that is now forgotten.
I am terrified of stars and gas giants, absolutely would sh*t myself if I were approaching a black hole. My nightmares are almost always falling into stars
At least with stars and gas planets you're more likely to see as you approach them. But going about your day traveling interstellar space where there are no background stars, you could very well have a supermassive black sphere just looming ahead and you won't know it until you're gravitationally locked to it.
@@mario0318 See! That’s what I’m afraid of! Imagine being a type III civilisation but you still can’t locate a black hole! Plus, using a warp drive might even collapse on itself and cause a black hole once in a while!
You know what's really scary? The fact that, though unfathomably unlikely, there is a non zero probability that a gamma ray burst will render Earth lifeless on the 5th of November 2024.
I always had an unnatural fear of every "spinning objects with giant force pulling you inside" like tornados or (especially) whirlpools. When I learned black holes are just those on steroids the entire concept became absolutely horrifying for me. They're interesting, and always make me morbidly curious, but seeing CGI footage of them already gives me shivers.
Learning how big and scary the universe is something that fills us with awe. I've studied a bit of medieval cosmology (C. S. Lewis's The Discard Image is quite an introductory book, and it's that Lewis of Chronicles of Narnia, it can be said it's its philosophical foundation) and one thing that the medieval philosophers emphasized was that the heavenly sphere, that we identify as the outer space was perfect, in contrast with our sinful world. Medieval cosmology was abandoned because Newtonian physics simply provided much better explanations, but I always wondered that if a medieval philosopher, true believer in the Ptolomaic model would be most shocked with the fact even the heavenly sphere is also full of chaos, to the point of giving way to phobias like this, than anything else.
@@AnimeRecksYou yes of course he did detect a gamma ray travelling at the speed of light crated by a dying star millions or even billions of years ago he sure did detect it yup no sarasm here he was serious all of us will die by 2024 5h november absolute no cap
What scares me is the picture of that circle of deep opaque black, in such contrast with the distorted lights that surround it, making a vortex. I don't know why but it gives me chills and a lot of discomfort to just look at it. When reading about black holes I'm usually careful because I get jumpscared by the illustrations. Maybe it is because it looks like an eye.
Being afraid of holes and dark holes is not really irrational. You don't want to fall in some place that could mean instantaneous death, being trapped without being able to get out, or maybe that something unknown could get out and grab you to take you inside
Nietzsche was NOT that kinda nihilist and a great many things were important to him. In a way he embraces that there is no divine/intrinsic meaning to anything but insists we can aquire the power to inject our own meaning into the world. He is also not some right wing individualist, as he repeats over and over how over-individuation and moralism is a sikness and a disbalance.
@@Thrna_1 That depends on what nihilist you ask, friend. Existential nihilists, an ideal. Cosmic nihilism, a moral code. Existential nihilists, as myself believe there is no INTRINSIC meaning to life. Meaning is up to the individual to create. No god to tell you how to live your life, and a society that will tell you how to live your life will lead to you living an unfulfilling and unhappy life. Nihilism is about acknowledging the meaninglessness, and loving it because they control the life they’re given.
@@Thrna_1 Most people think nihilism states there is no meaning to life, when in reality nihilism states there is no meaning given to you in life. Create it.
Pretty sure the fear of spiders is due to the fact without knowing which ones are venomous and which aren't, avoiding them altogether is the safest course of action. So I'd say that isn't a phobia, just a fear.
Honestly I have an irrational fear of Jupiter, like I'm fine with black holes and even other things of similar size, but there's just something about that planet... Something very intimidating about it
I believe that getting sucked into a black hole, might be the single most interesting way to go. I’m normally a very optimistic person and I love being alive, but the idea of dying by a black hole is such an intriguing idea, that I would actually, voluntarily sacrifice myself right here and now to experience it. If I found out that next week we would get sucked in by a roaming black hole I would actually be more thrilled about it than anything else. The idea of experiencing the ultimate raw power of the universe is such a rare privillege, why waste it by being scared or sad about it. The thought alone of there being a 100% chance of it happening sometime in the future is just such a beautiful prospect to me.
I've never really felt fear when I think about the universe. I think it's because I've loved learning about it my whole life so I'm used to the craziness of it all
I don't have a phobia of black holes but I do have a phobia of getting close to anything when playing games set in space. When I played Elite: Dangerous for the first time I had actual panic attacks when jumping into a new system, which plops you right in front of the most dense object in the solar system (usually the star). Also approaching a space station to dock, which are always orbiting planets. I'd have a panic attack as the planet got bigger on my screen. Took me many weeks of playing to get over these fears.
When I saw documentaries as a kid about large objects and they did that zooming thing where you get zoomed into the surface (it mostly was a planet) I got some real uneasy and anxious feelings and I still do to this day
@@33_77. It's a real recognised phobia, I just forgot the name of it. I mostly get it in space games but at times I've also gotten it in flight simulator games. The weird thing about that one is I only get it when climbing (because the sky is infinitely large) and not when descending to land.
And then you become to numb it to when you have to jump every 10 seconds hundreds of times to go through the galaxy, then you learn that it's impossible to fly into suns, black holes etc.
@@pureskill123 I never got bored of that. I truly loved jumping to new systems. I did stop playing before completing my journey to the center of the galaxy though, unfortunately, because my PC died, I had to reinstall Windows, and there was just no way I was going to spend 6 hours setting up all my keybinds and other controls again.
A huge fear of mine is being stuck somewhere in space. Stuck in the orbit of a huge planet sounds terrifying enough, but imagine being stuck in a huge void in space. There's a part in space with no stars in a huge radius. No you wont be able to sense anything. Another fear of mine is being able to hear space objects as if there was no vaccum in space and was filled with some kind of gas. We may or may not be able to hear distant stars but the sound of the sun would be so unimaginably unpleasant. Probably will even instantly destroy our eardrums.
I'm glad you made a video about these fears because when some video games tell you to jump into a black hole, I don't think I'm the only one to really want to do the opposite and to not get near these monsters lol
Even if the universe is frightening to say the least, I can't help but feel a sense of wonder of what's out there. Even thr Universe has so much beautiful things within it. Constellation and clusters of stars that illuminate our sky are just an example.
what the hell was the "like a gamma ray instantaneously and without notice frying the entire atmosphere in seconds *on the 5th of november 2024* " about bruh now i'm scared of nov 5th 2024
Question : if you would witness the entire history of the universe when falling into a black hole wouldn't you be desintegrated by the immense radiation from all that light entering the black hole?
Two things. First, I do have to offer one notable correction on 2:27. Nietzsche and his philosophy were very much the diametrical opposite of nihilism. It's a common misconception among the public, in part because of pop culture but also because it is true that he starts off on nihilism, but* the most central part of his work dealt with fending off the impending threat that nihilism posed to a society that only became increasingly more modern as time went on. (He saw it as an ideological obstacle.) You can see that very clearly in his concepts like 'Amor Fati' (love of fate) or 'The Eternal Return', i.e., effectively to never regret a decision or past event and to style a strong narrative for oneself. This much would also be needed for his characterization of the Will to Power (at least in specific individuals). Hopefully that clarifies the point. I see this equivocation too often. Briefly will also say, for the video in general I do think that a lot of it falls simply on interpretation. As impressing as some of these objects may be, the fact remains that you are virtually guaranteed to never encounter them up close and this alone suffices to eliminate all rational (and some irrational) fears. Even better, let us not forget that for some (a great many people in fact) it is actually the exotic unknown that drives them to get closer, and not farther from these objects! How else do you think we got funding for all these international space programs in the last 70 years? Because we were afraid? No. Curiosity rules here. There are truths that remain to be discovered and cosmic fear will hardly suffice to keep us at bay. Just a needed double-take there. That is all.
I had to scroll too far to find this. Nietzsche was not a nihilist. Then again there is an ad in this video for a service which breaks books down into digestible blurbs, the notion of which would have caused Nietzsche to become nauseated (as he would have said), or as the kids today say, to throw up in his mouth a little. It is that exact type of acquiring "knowledge" that aids in people thinking they can summarily classify him under a denoted school of philosophy.
Death is inevitable anyway whether it’s due to fever,kangaroos,hydraulic press,black holes or due to a grudge against supernatural entity….it doesn’t make a difference and if death is not an end ,assume an eternal suffering from any of these things it doesn’t make any difference from peaceful life.
I had a strange phobia in my childhood and probably now.I am afraid of optical distortions, such as blurring my body in a mirror or looking into the lens of a telescope. At the same time, I have a lot of magnifying glasses and a half-wall mirror, and I was insanely afraid to combine these two objects and examine myself. And falling into a black hole from the video seems to hit me with a discharge current, and I do not know why.
Funnily enough, if I could choose the way I'd die, it'd be by falling into a supermassive black hole. I must know the black hole's secrets before I perish.
This is really difficult to explain but for me, whenever i boot up space engine and fly around a black hole its the gravitational lensing that really screws with me, as you approach, the space around the blackhole expands and envelopes you in a really unnerving way almost like its defying reality with how quickly it grows towards you, plus the percieved danger of the consequences of flying too close coupled with the severe disorientation caused by the warped space really makes you feel absolutely tiny and powerless
I get a huge sense of dread and fear from watching the video where Juno gets a close flyby of Jupiter. Just thinking of the sheer size of that planet and how tiny i am in comparison to it makes me have fear of getting destroyed by it or something.
That’s actually awesome there’s a term for this. I‘ve had fear of black holes and big asteroids hitting earth since I was a kid. The fear is not as bad now but I still get worried
im grown up but i still have melanoheliophobia, and im not scared of the idea of going into it, but that it exists. my version of melanoheliophobia is more irrational. It could be because since i was a kid i was interested in space, and learning about black holes gave me nightmares of them, i no longer have them of course, but playing games like universe sandbox or outer wilds and being near a black hole sends chills down my spine, and i dont know why. megalophobia plays into it, which makes sense, but just being near a black hole even in a game, looking at it gives me chills.
I want to share with you another fear that I have - it's the fear of how large cosmic objects are! I don't remember the term specifically for these object, but consider this. I had Universe Sandbox installed some time ago, and because my PC was not exactly accomodated to it, the game was lagging. As the result, when I would try to magnify, say, a planet or a star, with a mouse scroller, the object would immediately materiliaze as a gigantic cosmic deity, and this has always scared me so much! There was this other time when I have been trying to find a nebula or something, and as I have witnessed all those stellar formations in the Universe, I have had goosebumps crawling all over my skin! Lovecraft was right when claiming that we were meant to sit on that placid island of ignorance, cause even if I could, I probably wouldn't have the guts to travel anywhere outside the Earth.
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For this month's book recommendation I have "Brief Answers to the Big Questions" - Stephen Hawking's last book. You can read or listen to it's summary for free on Blinkist by activating your free trial at www.blinkist.com/sciencephile
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I personally think that the universe's horrors are so abstract and so unfathomable for the human mind, that it is completely natural for us to want to explore it without hesitation or second thoughts
Very well put
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
- Lovecraft
Terror not horror 👍
@@eyeluvdrew9615 is a great place
Mankind was full of hubris, until that fateful day we had to enter into the void where all things are simultaneously welcome and unwelcome. Coming to a theater near you, DEEP PROBE URANUS.
I never even thought about gas giants being pitch black inside. For some reason I always imagined a colorful lit up gassy fog. That hit me hard for absolutely no reason and now I have a sudden fear of gas giants.
hol up
I mean there aren’t any alians to make lights over there 😂
Yeah that's one horrifying way to die.
Same
You think thats bad? Now a imagine a water world. An Ocean so deep, even the strongest submarines would be crushed before they reach the bottom.
I had major melanoheliophobia when I first heard the song “black hole sun” as a kid. It introduced me to the idea of a black hole eating up the earth and I had night terrors about it for a while and often had scary day dreams about it. Eventually the stresses of my teen and adult life took me out of it and now I’m just so nihilistic I don’t worry about mass extinction events in general anymore
I personally don’t worry about mass extinction events in lieu of the dinosaurs’ because the chance of them happening is so much less than the chance you’d get murdered in Singapore (if you’re not aware, the chances are 2 in one million).
Now whether or not you’d consider “global warming” a mass extinction event given the rise of CO2 is another thing entirely, although I just think part of it is just Earth recovering from its last ice age, which happened only 10,000 years ago, give or take. Earth works in a timescale that reaches over 10s of millions of years, if not more.
Pollution however is an entirely different subject, and I do wish we’d find and convert over to more efficient sources of fuel (both in expenditure and in power).
Thank you. I've finally found someone else who's been traumatized in some way by black hole sun. 😅
11.😊
It was NOT the black hole that made that music video scary. The faces were the real scary part.
@@Elayzee no it was not the black hole! 🤣 I cant even watch that video now and im 33
"Spiders never are that big of a threat as your brain might be telling you"
Me, an Australian:
dn sʇɐɥʍ ʎǝɥ
@@swbrl2843 ceiling
Some Crazy Australian RUclipsr guy: "Hey Guys, Welcome to fact or 🧢"
Food
I mean even then people often overestimate it by running full speed away from them when in reality even fast spiders are still quite slow and don't want to chase you anyways
I dreamt that the sun was swallowed by a black hole in the middle of day, and it was now expanding and covering the sky and was coming for earth. I was holding onto another person as tight as I could, knowing that when the darkness reached us we would be separated forever. Strangely the black hole took my senses from me one at a time, until at last my sight survived, and then that was gone too. And then I was just a bodiless mind.
Thats deep…
Four sentence horror.
I also had a kind of nightmare like this, but it involved a microscopic black hole unexplainably forming inside the earth. I remember the ground rumbling and a feeling of increasing weight that started becoming unbearable. I woke up before the actual death in that dream, but I literally clutched onto my bed and had to look outside the window to make sure that shit wasnt really happening. That feeling of hopelessness was absolutely terrifying.
dude wtfff i had literaly the same dream
it was something like 5 years, but i still remember until today the way that sun was eatead by the black hole, i was in the middle of the street somewhere i dont know. i remember that people was just doing thing normaly, there was a couple in a near sitting by my side just doing some couple stuffs. and the black hole was coming close and close until it reached me and i felt nothing and then i wake up
I first found out about my fear of blackholes when playing Universe Sandbox in which I was absolutely terrified of zooming in too fast, or even looking at a blackhole lest I be filled with dread or jumpscared. Still though, they are absolutely fascinating and of the many things in this universe; they are among my favourite.
Never zoom in too fast in that game. You either get blinded by the Sun, or stare into emptiness
Lmaoooo
I get a jumpscare worse than the blackhole itself when i zoom it: The reflection of my face
Oh my god i experienced the same, i got jumpscared in that game so many times because of the freaking zoom. The best part is that i bought an oculus rift headset and tried to play it (spoiler: i couldn't)
@doormakarn same 😓
“If the universe is so big why won’t it fight me?”-internet historian
"come on strike me down zeus, you dont have the bal-" *dies*
Where does the sun go at night? Is math related to science?
@@Nabekukka deadass some girl in my class asked why the moon doesn't melt when it touches the sun during an eclipse. We are in high school. Fucking high school.
which vid was that
@@dignelberrt The no man sky one
Black holes used to keep Albert Einstein up at night. He remarked that he sometimes had a hard time believing such object existed (despite his field equations and general relativity). And he would wake up in the middle of the night thinking about them and would not go back to sleep, trying to think up of ways to figure out how the singularity can exist inside a black hole.
I think many people have experienced that. When u have a problem like that, that u can't solve immediately but u know that if u just put in the work, you will eventually solve it, then it's normal to think about it all the time. I am a programmer and it happens quite a lot that I have a big problem that I can't solve within a single work day, then sometimes I wake up at like 2 am because I just dreamt of a solution or major breakthrough/advancement for the problem. I also have a little piece of paper beside my bed, just so that I can take notes when this happens. Sometimes though, it is so exciting to have found a solution, that I just go to work early lol
@@GuRuGeorge03 that's correct. I have had those moments as well. I heard Elon Musk has them frequently (either camps out in the manufacturing line or camps out near the Starbase when he has vexing problems he needs to solve).
@@aaronsmith8073 I love to recommend-around sci-youtubers-and-such.
If anyone is interested, please hestitate no sec and ask me.
Now who told you Einstein lost sleep over this?
Einstein was on that black hole grind
welp, it's 2024 now, time to see if this prediction is true or not.
I'm excited
This is exhilarating. Get excited
sadly no
Well time to see whether or not I actually exist
funny he picked Guy Fawkes Day
I’m glad my irrational fear that I’ve expressed to multiple people in the past of falling into Jupiter is somewhat justified.
ROGHT JUPITER IS SO SCARY😭😭
@@maasikalama Jupiter is indeed scary but it's like our big brother because it protects us from meteors
_I have the exact same fear_ 😭😭😭
Exactly
EXACTLY Like you would just be crushed to death in a pitch black windy hell
Guess I'm the weird one here, because.. I actually like black holes, it's my favourite celestial object. Dark, mysterious, powerful.
And quasars... Cosmic crucibles of raw energy, with matter circling around in an accretion disc and being expelled at subluminal speeds as jets of hot plasma. Extremely deadly yet so beautiful... It thrills me to no end, how the darkest known objects can give out the most light, becoming the brightest. Like beacons of the universe.
same
well duh everyone likes black holes, if they're not falling into it time traveling five million years getting ripped apart by gravity and dying.
@@user-sr4lt3ij1j The point of the video is not about literally falling into one, it's about an irrational fear of doing so that people might experience even when out of danger. I didn't see many people liking blackholes for the reasons I mentioned above, hence my assumption it's not a common thing. Maybe I didn't try hard enough, sure. But your thesis is clearly getting in contradiction with... Well, almost the entire comments section of this video.
I love black holes. Ever since I learned of them when I was 3. Once even, I had a dream of somehow owning one as a pet. I was immune to its affects, but I used it to cause mass destruction.
Agreed, They are the “Bad Guys” of the universe but also the “Good Guys” as the east stars and planets but also hold galaxies together
I have this memory that I've repressed most of the context away from, but in probably third grade we had an astronomy presentation in the gym where each grade would go into this big inflatable dome and there was a guy inside who talked about space, but he kept hyping up that we were going to see inside a black hole at the end. Everyone was psyched but I FREAKED out. I knew I wasn't going to be sucked into a black hole, but I thought maybe because there's nothing in a black hole, the dome would deflate and we would all panic and get stuck inside and suffocate. I also just did not want to hear about the existential horror of black holes and have to look at one while stuck inside an inflatable. This guy had me sold that he was going to simulate the experience of being sucked into a black hole. Not something I want to be a part of. I got more and more anxious as the presentation went on, so much so that I started to cry, but it was DARK, and I thought that if I asked to leave I would get yelled at, so I had to cry loud. So the teachers could hear and get me the heck out of there. But that meant that the whole grade got to see me cry like a little bitch because I was afraid to see a picture of a black hole. And thus, my dream of being an astronaut ended, and the seed for my imminent existential crisis was sewn. Fuck black holes.
Yikes 😅
What a hilarious story. Thanks for that haha
On gang black holes a buncha lowlife mfs
why did they do that 😅
My school did that too when I was in third grade
When I play Space Engine I always go to black holes and enter them, because the combination of coolness and utter horror is like a drug of something
Sameeee
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@@DarthSidian it's a pirating site me boy
@@bocchithean-cap3404 PIRACY ALERT! PUT YO HANDS UP AND NOBODY GETS HURT!
I don't like to look at the supposed look of black holes, it's something about the endless, deep, round shape, whirlpools give me the same feeling of dread. Like a combination of megalophobia, thalasophobia and fear of the unknown.
At the same time, there is the curiosity and endless fascination a black hole has, like the pull of the void to find out what the singularity is.
Then you would absolutely love SpaceEngine.
I know! The scary part is not the whole thought of it being inescapable and offering a horrible death, but the sheer look of the pictures. They are so uncanny and creepy. Space Engine is terrifying, even having you able to escape any time, because just the sight of the black hole is revolting.
Not really black holes since I know how they work too much, but I have a similar feeling about tornadoes. They are really dangerous, but there is something incredible and creepy in how they form, move, change shape, destroy, it's like a godlike creature that wants to bring you in its mouth and then digest you with unparelled strenght. I had a good number of nightmares as a kid about being "chased" by them, and now I find them even more amazing knowing that we actually don't know all things about them yet
@@WaveOfDestiny if you think you know black holes you dont know them lol
@@zeiccia knowing too much doesn't mean I know all about them. I know too much to be creeped out by them
Back when I was a kid, I was extremely scared of the black holes from Super Mario Galaxy and I remember a nightmare of having my house be torn apart and eventually being sucked in myself. The fear has now subsided, and I only get slightly unnerved by black holes but I mostly just find them really fascinating. I think the main thing that scared me was how infinite it seemed and how it could easily suck in everything.
Mario galaxy, combined with the Void from Minecraft, was responsible for many nightmares.
3:51 the music really fit the process of the cat being turned into spaghetti
Yes
Hello to the Doge army.
@@SciencephiletheAI can i join
Ah yes its comrade scorpo
Scorpo???
A very nice message at the end. Very calming 😌
For me it honestly went a bit too far not gonna lie
@@rickyspanish4792 don't worry you won't feel that way in 1,055 days
Can anyone fact check that?
I can't wait
@@rickyspanish4792 there is no escape.
The fact the that i watched this after the day of November 5, 2024 terrified me for a second because this video was 2 years ago.
Question: since time dialation would be so extreme when entering the black hole, would that mean that the black hole would immediately disintigrate due to hawking radiation?
No , cause you and the black hole are experiencing time with the same rate (very slow time passage) .
unlike the outside of the black hole where time passage is normal
@@mahermagdy4604 the best reply.
Nah, we just die. lol
Probably not. But, that’s a really cool theory. What if everything that goes into a black hole immediately disintegrates since time dilation is so great from the perspective of what ever is in the centre of the black hole, and that’s why things can be sucked into black holes and never seen again… it’s definitely wrong bc there’s something I’m not considering but that’s a good question anyways…
Wait how strong would the time dilation be if you didn't pass the event horizon, and just got close to it? Could be theoretically travel millions or billions of years in the future?
Considering all the stars that we see at night is just a tiny group to our galaxy, i don't even want to comprehend how big the universe is and how easy it is to get lost
The radius of the observable universe is therefore estimated to be about 46.5 billion *light-years*
1 *light second* = 299 792.458 kilometers
Did you know that space is so big and empty, you do a warp jump into any direction and you have basically a 0% (0.00000...%) chance of hitting something in your jump :D
@@rubenverster250 No Man’s Sky makes a tad more sense now 😂
it gives me a bit of anxiety when i try to grasp the sheer size of the whole universe. My chicken brain goes _SYNTAX ERROR_ instantly
@@itsdokko2990 you wanna be even more flabbergasted? Go check out the other video on this channel regarding size. You're closer to the size of Ton blackhole than you are to the planck length ':)
Falling into an empty void where nothing, NOTHING can get out at an high speed knowing very well that there is nothing i can do is my worst nigthmare, thanks for awakening it inside me
So i now know the name for another phobia I have. This and thalassaphobia are my two biggest fears, and I’ve always attributed it to the fact that infinite voids scare me. I can’t ever explain it fully but just the thought of falling into a deep, endless chasm, with no solid ground below you and nothing to hold onto is just terrifying. Idk if it’s because I’m scared of the loss of my senses, of what lurks within the void, or just the thought of being surrounded by nothingness, but voids terrify me
technically speaking why not kill our self if we are so small and our existence is useless?
Muxiphobia is the fear of Jupiter
infinite voids scare me too.this is the reason i dislike going out of bounda in any kind of game,whether intentionally or not.
That would be debilitating. Imagine looking into the infinite void of your soul and being scared of what stares back
@@Damian-cilr2haha i am the opposite, sometimes even in multiplayer games i just chill at tge borders, especially in games with explorable seas i want to be in the middle of the ocean where no one else is
I had melonoheliophobia for like a single day, and it was brought about exactly how you suggested, but when I understood how unbeleivably far away they actually are that calmed me down.
I now honestly love learning about black holes and other cosmic phenomena.
there could be one near by, we wouldn't be able to see it. The ones we have pictures of are at the centers of galaxies which is why they have such bright disks. one just chilling in space on its own would be invisible
@@MikeS7 A whole lot of that isn’t true and there are many ways to “see” one, if there was one anywhere near us the earth’s rotation would get unimaginably fucked up.
@@joeverr Yeah though one thing that can get you scared is by how supposedly EASY they could be created, no matter the size.
@@MikeS7 Not true, there tons of meaurements that we would totally see one decades out.
Not just black holes, but most cosmic objects too. The only reason the asteroid belt seems thick is because it’s covering a radial distance further away than Mars’ orbit to the sun. And of course, as dotted as it seems even by that scale, I think a competent non-suicidal pilot would be just fine.
If you want further proof, just about none (if not absolutely none) of the probes NASA has sent out for example ever failed to reach their destination, being the moons of Jupiter, Pluto, or beyond.
I've been looking for this phobia for EVER, but google always went back to "Megalophobia" but big things aren't scary, just cosmically large things.
Approaching a planet or moon in a video game, triggers this fear for me.
Same for nearing a black hole, but especially black holes.
Supernovas are kinda scary too when im too close to them in video games when they explode and they happen so fast kinda like a mink heart attack
"But big things aren't scary" tell that to me when i was terrified of the fucking Eiffel Tower (and well, any tower really) as a kid.
Sometimes i feel dread when i see the picture of Earth from space, like after zooming out too far in Google maps.
I'd hate to just go up and and up and up and up.... So high i'll reach space (and propably continue flying)... So far from everybody to an empty void. Yeah, fuck no.
So i guess i have a fear of heights and large objects.
Sorry for the dumb rant.
I think I had this phobia as a kid, I was fucking scared of moon when it appeared larger than usual and I was also scared of excavators and cranes...
I have morbid curiosity with things that scare me. So Black holes have quickly become one of the things I know a lot about. Ive seen those videos of falling into them from a 360 perspective and I get this intense feeling of fear. It’s looking into the deep black sphere and thinking “this is it.” I want to try it in vr because the emersion can be really intense.
If I was to choose a way to die, it would be a fast acting cyanide capsule, while falling into a supermassive black hole. I can take the easy way out when the spaghettification becomes too painful, but until that point, I would see an event that is unfathomable to our minds. I would see the universe unfold as I look back out of the black hole. And when I look down I could see the deepest darkest depths the universe can create.
Chad
oh my god you have it completely planned out
damn, Dylan, you're edgy lol
@@rav9066 you make me sound like I’ve meditated on this for hours XD
@@midnick2159 it’s one of those places my brain goes on a sleepless night I guess. I promise I’m not this edgy in person lol
Space Engine is a horror game to me. While I absolutely love exploring the universe and taking snapshots on pretty planets, I also went to gas giants, stars and even black holes.
Getting too close to gas giants or accidentally wandering into its atmosphere triggers a massive shock reaction to me. Faster pulse, goosebumps, the works. The worst one was trying to get to our Milky Way’s SMB.
Black holes are incredibly hard to pinpoint and the closer you get to it, the more stars you can observe orbiting quickly. Actually getting to the black hole made me quit the game.
I want to download this game now.
@@AntimatterBeam8954 it's really damn good. I think there's still beta 0.8(?) on the creator's site but if 0.8 is pretty then the steam release is downright mesmerising
@@spacebassist I’m going to obtain this :)
@@AntimatterBeam8954 that game is fucking amazing, literally the whole universe to explore and i ended uo spending over 12 hours in just 1 star system looking at cool shit
im pretty sure this is the first game to actually leave me speechless when playing, i would just find something cool and just admire it for god knows how long
there is a free beta version, but its extremely outdated. the steam version has so much cool shit, like volumetric nebulae, better tools/ui and just prettier and more optimized graphics in general
i could go on forever about it but i've already created a great wall of text so yea
Omw to steam for this, im excited
I think I have a phobia of "vacant black". That black part goes on forever without end can be unsettling and overwhelming, especially if it reminds you of the vastness of space and the terrifying potential of black holes.
"What makes the Universe Terrifying?"
The fact that it doesn't give a shit about us, and that's also what makes it absolutely fascinating
Well we are the only living being in this universe as we know of so ofc they won't give 2 shits about us
By this definition people should be afraid of most other people.
...I KNEW it wasn't just generalized anxiety 😂
@@Northstarpri We aren't even the only living beings on the planet wym
i wish i was the universe just dont care about anything and if it happens it happens
I have a big fear of space and the open ocean. Most of my nightmares involve getting taken away by strong currents, or falling up into the sky. But like many of us, I am fascinated by those things and I love researching them. Perhaps it's a subconscious effort to try and shed some light into the unknown.
@Matt H truly a humble giant
I have the same dreams and fears
I'm not the only one that sometimes worries when outside that gravity will reverse.
I'm not alone :,)
@@Chris-jw8vm Bro, this one hit me, damn.
"shed some light" my boy you absorb all of it
I had a dream where I woke up on a tiny pod / space craft. When I looked from the cockpit window it dawned on me that i was falling into a balck hole. No matter in what direction I burnt I had no chance of reaching escape velocity. It was a fall aimed straight to the center.
The horror of blackness slowly cramping up your field of vision while you sit there waiting for death is something different. It was one of the most vivid dreams i ever had.
thats so cool!
I had the extreme urge to scroll down when you said we were gonna test Melanoheliophobia and I tried to fight it, but failed.
I am weak to the holes power.
This sounded wrong
" i am weak to the holes power " you have no idea what you just did
Wait until you try it in VR
Women amirite?
i love this LMAOOO 💀💀💀💀
What good timing! I was just in the middle of a metaphysical crisis!
Don't you mean existential crisis?
*Always has been
This is the year we'll discover if a gamma ray hits our planet on November 5th…
Haha xD
Today we'll find out!
I'm from the future. The gamma ray burst was the 2024 election
I remember learning about black holes for the first time in fourth grade and I was absolutely terrified for months until I learned that some snakes in the wild are poisonous. From one phobia to the next…
AHAHHA great comment made me laugh
Not gonna lie thinking about seeing the universe speed up and end before you go (if you're still alive) is kind of a beautifully sombre thing to think about, not only will you see you life flash before your eyes but the entire universe's....honestly pretty magnificently dark in my opinion.
You will be the oldest human ever to live. Think about it.
5th of november 2024 is coming soon! Can't wait for funny rays to take part in our history!
Clicked a black hole in Space Engine in VR. And when it snapped into view, for a second I felt a type jump scare I havent felt since the first Alien.
Honestly it’s not the way it looks it’s just the way it loads in for me
Nothing, and then boom. Eye of sauron staring into my soul
@@VeeTOHFan holy crap I wanna try this
I find trypophobia might be to warn us away from things like wasp nests, and perhaps there are other things out there in nature
But otherwise, it's just a strange icky sensation, I wouldn't call it a phobia in the way that arachnophobia is, but it feels icky
I also have a fear of infinite voids, like space.
I've had nightmares where I'm floating in a straight line through a void knowing I have a destination but knowing it is so infinitely far away I will never reach it or see another object again.
I once got stuck in a dark room where all light had been purposefully blocked out, I couldn't find a wall or a door or anything to orient myself. I had no idea how big the room was or anything about it
I shudder just remembering the sensation
Went through the same thing, but as a kid. Imagine being 5-7 year old me, and you’re stuck in a room that’s completely dark. It was scary
@@datwitchyswordfan yeah that experience happened to me around 11 or 12 and it haunted me for years
I think trypophobia exists so that we avoid holes of poisonous/toxic/otherwise dangerous animals and meat infected with worms that dig those holes. I doubt it's because of wasp nests because the surface of them is smooth
For some reason whenever I see those tiny holes all together, I get a brief image in my head of those holes being on my skin somewhere, and that's what creeps me out
@@WanderTheNomad yeah, me too!
Thanks for that ending message, just what I needed.
Countdown!!!
@@fandroid6491 7 weeks
Yes I was absolutely terrified of THAT specific animation of a black hole. not because its a black hole. But because of the severe flashbacks i get from hearing that high pitched noise while reading that i died.
Every time when in playing around in Space Engine, I inevitably scare myself, by searching for a black hole and just fast-traveling to it. Seeing that sphere of blackness and bent light around it just suddenly popping up always scares me.
oh boy you haven't experienced accidentally throwing a black hole into another one in universe sandbox 2
just for if you have the program, don't
@@Rissoe_Really im totally trying it
why not trying to break space engine? I never see anyone do that
Do it in Vr
It’s so nice seeing your videos because they discuss questions I’ve asked myself for YEARS but no one had the same interest in talking about them and trying to figure them out like I did.
6:34 I always feel that fear when I warp really close to the Jool in KSP, It's a game about sending small people into the space yet watching those planets getting huge (really fast) and covering my entire screen scares me more than horror games
Jool is beautiful. Seeing it rise in Laythe’s night sky is one of my favorite things in ksp
Same in elite dangerous
What if you play rss
Star Citizen players malding when no black hole update with realistic physics that crashes every PC in their zip code.
It’s KSP and no mans sky in VR
I don't think I'm afraid of falling into a black hole itself, but have this weird fear of falling into an endless void, for example I get a very unsettling feeling when clipping through the ground in a game. And I believe that kind of transfers to the way that an increasing portion of your surroundings turn to black as you fall into a black hole..
if it makes you feel any better, being inside a black hole would not be dark. You would actually see all of the light that enters it, even from the other side. This effect even gets faster and faster, and you would see all of the light that entered the black hole up until the end of its lifetime, which would be extremely bright.
That assuming you don't die from being torn apart or from the radiation.
4:00 Holy fk that activated some kind of fear in me. I always had the fear of living forever because eventually your loved ones and the whole human race + the galaxy you were born in will disappear one day. What do you have left? Exactly you have nothing but darkness and floating around the void with no one around. It must be depressing to live in a world where you are all alone.
My fear here is really mixed with loneliness and memories of a time that is now forgotten.
I am terrified of stars and gas giants, absolutely would sh*t myself if I were approaching a black hole. My nightmares are almost always falling into stars
Same, but then I wake up from the nightmare and remember that angular momentum is conserved.
At least with stars and gas planets you're more likely to see as you approach them. But going about your day traveling interstellar space where there are no background stars, you could very well have a supermassive black sphere just looming ahead and you won't know it until you're gravitationally locked to it.
@@mario0318 See! That’s what I’m afraid of! Imagine being a type III civilisation but you still can’t locate a black hole! Plus, using a warp drive might even collapse on itself and cause a black hole once in a while!
@@mario0318 doesnt supermassive black holes have accretion disc?
You know what's really scary? The fact that, though unfathomably unlikely, there is a non zero probability that a gamma ray burst will render Earth lifeless on the 5th of November 2024.
Good
@@NoName_NoTitle What did giraffes ever do to you?
@@manos6590 lol
What!?
very exact date
I always had an unnatural fear of every "spinning objects with giant force pulling you inside" like tornados or (especially) whirlpools. When I learned black holes are just those on steroids the entire concept became absolutely horrifying for me. They're interesting, and always make me morbidly curious, but seeing CGI footage of them already gives me shivers.
Learning how big and scary the universe is something that fills us with awe. I've studied a bit of medieval cosmology (C. S. Lewis's The Discard Image is quite an introductory book, and it's that Lewis of Chronicles of Narnia, it can be said it's its philosophical foundation) and one thing that the medieval philosophers emphasized was that the heavenly sphere, that we identify as the outer space was perfect, in contrast with our sinful world. Medieval cosmology was abandoned because Newtonian physics simply provided much better explanations, but I always wondered that if a medieval philosopher, true believer in the Ptolomaic model would be most shocked with the fact even the heavenly sphere is also full of chaos, to the point of giving way to phobias like this, than anything else.
*5th of November 2024 comes*
Sciencephile: you know the rules and so do i
Was he serious?
@@AnimeRecksYou yes of course he did detect a gamma ray travelling at the speed of light crated by a dying star millions or even billions of years ago
he sure did detect it yup
no sarasm here he was serious all of us will die by 2024 5h november
absolute no cap
@@AnimeRecksYou I looked it up and no news media was talking about it. So he probably isn't serious.
My next birthday is Nov 5th, 2024. Thanks for the present Sciencephile.
Edit: We're still alive 🎉
Happy birthday! I hope you're enjoying those gamma rays :)
What scares me is the picture of that circle of deep opaque black, in such contrast with the distorted lights that surround it, making a vortex. I don't know why but it gives me chills and a lot of discomfort to just look at it. When reading about black holes I'm usually careful because I get jumpscared by the illustrations. Maybe it is because it looks like an eye.
Being afraid of holes and dark holes is not really irrational. You don't want to fall in some place that could mean instantaneous death, being trapped without being able to get out, or maybe that something unknown could get out and grab you to take you inside
Bruh, same case 😭
Misread the title as "Mesothelioma" and thought it would be 9 minutes about how I or a loved one may be entitled to financial compensation
Nothing must be pretty important for Nietzsche to value it. Cool phils, bro.
Nietzsche was NOT that kinda nihilist and a great many things were important to him. In a way he embraces that there is no divine/intrinsic meaning to anything but insists we can aquire the power to inject our own meaning into the world.
He is also not some right wing individualist, as he repeats over and over how over-individuation and moralism is a sikness and a disbalance.
@@spiritbond8 well Nothing held a lot of importance within his mind, for one. Is nothing an ideal or moral code? Could not tell
@@Thrna_1 That depends on what nihilist you ask, friend. Existential nihilists, an ideal. Cosmic nihilism, a moral code. Existential nihilists, as myself believe there is no INTRINSIC meaning to life. Meaning is up to the individual to create. No god to tell you how to live your life, and a society that will tell you how to live your life will lead to you living an unfulfilling and unhappy life. Nihilism is about acknowledging the meaninglessness, and loving it because they control the life they’re given.
@@Thrna_1 Most people think nihilism states there is no meaning to life, when in reality nihilism states there is no meaning given to you in life. Create it.
@@nihilath8015 that would be optimistic nihilism, I only know about that term combo from the kurzgesagt video I watched.
I swear I’m so aware of “scary things” not actually being a life or death situation, that I just ignore my angst most of the time
Same here.
I'm too aware of the infinitesimally small odds of any of these things ever affecting me, it's not possible for me to be afraid.
Finally, the time is getting closer and closer... less than a month left...
Pretty sure the fear of spiders is due to the fact without knowing which ones are venomous and which aren't, avoiding them altogether is the safest course of action. So I'd say that isn't a phobia, just a fear.
Honestly I have an irrational fear of Jupiter, like I'm fine with black holes and even other things of similar size, but there's just something about that planet... Something very intimidating about it
Same :/
nah man, it's Neptune for me, holy shit that thing is terrifying!!! I do like black holes and Jupiter though XD
@@DruNature
Neptune? What's scary about it?
@@DruNature lmao search up "Gemini Home Entertainment"
You know something we don't?
I believe that getting sucked into a black hole, might be the single most interesting way to go. I’m normally a very optimistic person and I love being alive, but the idea of dying by a black hole is such an intriguing idea, that I would actually, voluntarily sacrifice myself right here and now to experience it. If I found out that next week we would get sucked in by a roaming black hole I would actually be more thrilled about it than anything else. The idea of experiencing the ultimate raw power of the universe is such a rare privillege, why waste it by being scared or sad about it. The thought alone of there being a 100% chance of it happening sometime in the future is just such a beautiful prospect to me.
Thank you Sciencephile, I now have that date marked on my calendar.
I've never really felt fear when I think about the universe. I think it's because I've loved learning about it my whole life so I'm used to the craziness of it all
That 5th November 2024 is coming awfully close.
I don't have a phobia of black holes but I do have a phobia of getting close to anything when playing games set in space. When I played Elite: Dangerous for the first time I had actual panic attacks when jumping into a new system, which plops you right in front of the most dense object in the solar system (usually the star). Also approaching a space station to dock, which are always orbiting planets. I'd have a panic attack as the planet got bigger on my screen. Took me many weeks of playing to get over these fears.
When I saw documentaries as a kid about large objects and they did that zooming thing where you get zoomed into the surface (it mostly was a planet) I got some real uneasy and anxious feelings and I still do to this day
@@33_77. It's a real recognised phobia, I just forgot the name of it. I mostly get it in space games but at times I've also gotten it in flight simulator games. The weird thing about that one is I only get it when climbing (because the sky is infinitely large) and not when descending to land.
@@Aethelhald that sounds interesting. Large objects that suddenly appear in front of you are terrifying
And then you become to numb it to when you have to jump every 10 seconds hundreds of times to go through the galaxy, then you learn that it's impossible to fly into suns, black holes etc.
@@pureskill123 I never got bored of that. I truly loved jumping to new systems. I did stop playing before completing my journey to the center of the galaxy though, unfortunately, because my PC died, I had to reinstall Windows, and there was just no way I was going to spend 6 hours setting up all my keybinds and other controls again.
8:43 HOLD UP WHAT THE
The fact that an AI said that is even more concerning. (I know it’s not a real AI)
today
A huge fear of mine is being stuck somewhere in space. Stuck in the orbit of a huge planet sounds terrifying enough, but imagine being stuck in a huge void in space. There's a part in space with no stars in a huge radius. No you wont be able to sense anything. Another fear of mine is being able to hear space objects as if there was no vaccum in space and was filled with some kind of gas. We may or may not be able to hear distant stars but the sound of the sun would be so unimaginably unpleasant. Probably will even instantly destroy our eardrums.
I'm glad you made a video about these fears because when some video games tell you to jump into a black hole, I don't think I'm the only one to really want to do the opposite and to not get near these monsters lol
Even if the universe is frightening to say the least, I can't help but feel a sense of wonder of what's out there. Even thr Universe has so much beautiful things within it. Constellation and clusters of stars that illuminate our sky are just an example.
what the hell was the "like a gamma ray instantaneously and without notice frying the entire atmosphere in seconds *on the 5th of november 2024* " about bruh now i'm scared of nov 5th 2024
Question : if you would witness the entire history of the universe when falling into a black hole wouldn't you be desintegrated by the immense radiation from all that light entering the black hole?
that kinda makes sense.
You'd be disintegrated before you even reach the event horizon what are you talking about?
@@Skips10 that is what they're talking about: one more way that they would kill you before you even reached the event horizon.
1:17 - Re: Trypophobia - It looks like a horrible plague lesion. It's more disgust than fear, I'd say.
I have a small fear of distances. Dreaming of being far away from earth scares me.
november 5th, 2024
that must be one epic guy fawkes night
Two things. First, I do have to offer one notable correction on 2:27. Nietzsche and his philosophy were very much the diametrical opposite of nihilism. It's a common misconception among the public, in part because of pop culture but also because it is true that he starts off on nihilism, but* the most central part of his work dealt with fending off the impending threat that nihilism posed to a society that only became increasingly more modern as time went on. (He saw it as an ideological obstacle.) You can see that very clearly in his concepts like 'Amor Fati' (love of fate) or 'The Eternal Return', i.e., effectively to never regret a decision or past event and to style a strong narrative for oneself. This much would also be needed for his characterization of the Will to Power (at least in specific individuals). Hopefully that clarifies the point. I see this equivocation too often.
Briefly will also say, for the video in general I do think that a lot of it falls simply on interpretation. As impressing as some of these objects may be, the fact remains that you are virtually guaranteed to never encounter them up close and this alone suffices to eliminate all rational (and some irrational) fears. Even better, let us not forget that for some (a great many people in fact) it is actually the exotic unknown that drives them to get closer, and not farther from these objects! How else do you think we got funding for all these international space programs in the last 70 years? Because we were afraid? No. Curiosity rules here. There are truths that remain to be discovered and cosmic fear will hardly suffice to keep us at bay. Just a needed double-take there. That is all.
I had to scroll too far to find this. Nietzsche was not a nihilist. Then again there is an ad in this video for a service which breaks books down into digestible blurbs, the notion of which would have caused Nietzsche to become nauseated (as he would have said), or as the kids today say, to throw up in his mouth a little. It is that exact type of acquiring "knowledge" that aids in people thinking they can summarily classify him under a denoted school of philosophy.
Death is inevitable anyway whether it’s due to fever,kangaroos,hydraulic press,black holes or due to a grudge against supernatural entity….it doesn’t make a difference and if death is not an end ,assume an eternal suffering from any of these things it doesn’t make any difference from peaceful life.
Not surprised that I have this phobia
I had a strange phobia in my childhood and probably now.I am afraid of optical distortions, such as blurring my body in a mirror or looking into the lens of a telescope. At the same time, I have a lot of magnifying glasses and a half-wall mirror, and I was insanely afraid to combine these two objects and examine myself. And falling into a black hole from the video seems to hit me with a discharge current, and I do not know why.
I can tell you that I HATE having two mirrors facing each other
Funnily enough, if I could choose the way I'd die, it'd be by falling into a supermassive black hole. I must know the black hole's secrets before I perish.
3:17 yea black holes and and death screen really gave me radhan flashbacks
The universe is both amazing and terrifying at the same time. There's a lot of stuff we still don't know about and probably will never find out.
I love to recommend-around sci-youtubers-and-such.
If anyone is interested, please hestitate no sec and ask me.
This is really difficult to explain but for me, whenever i boot up space engine and fly around a black hole its the gravitational lensing that really screws with me, as you approach, the space around the blackhole expands and envelopes you in a really unnerving way almost like its defying reality with how quickly it grows towards you, plus the percieved danger of the consequences of flying too close coupled with the severe disorientation caused by the warped space really makes you feel absolutely tiny and powerless
5 of November 2024, 360 days to go
I get a huge sense of dread and fear from watching the video where Juno gets a close flyby of Jupiter. Just thinking of the sheer size of that planet and how tiny i am in comparison to it makes me have fear of getting destroyed by it or something.
the sound of black holes and the scale gets me
Still waiting for the 5th of November 2024
This is pretty cool stuff. I've never thought of Phobias like this🙂
That’s actually awesome there’s a term for this. I‘ve had fear of black holes and big asteroids hitting earth since I was a kid. The fear is not as bad now but I still get worried
Nawww the asteroid thing is so real tho. Like it truly could happen at any time 😭
bruh we truly live in a universe
Facts
I got nautious and paniced right away at the test. I can now confirm I am 100% afraid of black holes
You 100% can't spell worth a sh*t too.
I entered searching for context, I came out questioning the reality
0:42 Wouldn't the brain need to question itself because it's the only one doing the thinking here?
I think I broke a cosmic 4th wall.
Noice.
You did
Its a joke of brain telling the nerves what to do
The ending of this video hits so differently now. As an American I can confirm that a cosmic disaster zapping our country to dust would be a mercy 😓
5th of November 2024?
“I’m Still Standing”
5:52 BIGGER THAN A STEGOSAURUS?!?
My birthday is on November 5th so I guess I’m gonna have a blast this year
literally
im grown up but i still have melanoheliophobia, and im not scared of the idea of going into it, but that it exists. my version of melanoheliophobia is more irrational. It could be because since i was a kid i was interested in space, and learning about black holes gave me nightmares of them, i no longer have them of course, but playing games like universe sandbox or outer wilds and being near a black hole sends chills down my spine, and i dont know why. megalophobia plays into it, which makes sense, but just being near a black hole even in a game, looking at it gives me chills.
I have SEVERE megalophobia and I had to scroll down when you showed big things in this video lol
wait what? the 5th of November in 2024..? that's this year......
Dude is he living in future??
I have a strange facination with things that normally scare other people.
Except heights. I hate heights.
I want to share with you another fear that I have - it's the fear of how large cosmic objects are! I don't remember the term specifically for these object, but consider this. I had Universe Sandbox installed some time ago, and because my PC was not exactly accomodated to it, the game was lagging. As the result, when I would try to magnify, say, a planet or a star, with a mouse scroller, the object would immediately materiliaze as a gigantic cosmic deity, and this has always scared me so much!
There was this other time when I have been trying to find a nebula or something, and as I have witnessed all those stellar formations in the Universe, I have had goosebumps crawling all over my skin!
Lovecraft was right when claiming that we were meant to sit on that placid island of ignorance, cause even if I could, I probably wouldn't have the guts to travel anywhere outside the Earth.