A Journey to the End of the Universe

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  • @eddiec4536
    @eddiec4536 3 года назад +1087

    I really enjoyed this teaching. At 74 years old I can say I will enjoy every day I have left in this life. Thank you.

    • @Pussmash
      @Pussmash 3 года назад +118

      Reading this made me realize at 24 that I need to enjoy every day as well. I spend too much time being stressed out about this or that, and I just want to relax. Enjoy my time here and move on. Good luck and happy life to you

    • @Brometheus.
      @Brometheus. 3 года назад +23

      @@Pussmash me too man.

    • @thewiskeredcat9157
      @thewiskeredcat9157 3 года назад +17

      Here here. Nice to see your enthusiasm, it really inspires me.

    • @kingpest13
      @kingpest13 3 года назад +8

      You are doing things correctly fellow human.

    • @svenzikobombardo
      @svenzikobombardo 3 года назад +10

      I'm 40, and I am just realizing what this man said compared to my twisted life. We need elder people like you to guide us into the labyrinth pf our existence. Your words are our path. Thanks.

  • @professormoriarty6875
    @professormoriarty6875 3 года назад +1874

    David, you're a poet.
    I have never seen a physicist describe the universe so eloquently and poetically as you do.
    Thank you for these videos.
    Keep them coming.

    • @slcpunk2740
      @slcpunk2740 2 года назад +2

      Roses are red, violets are blue. Space is a thing of beauty of their respective to be able bodied blonde babe and her husband is in my experience with this task to the same time by themselves and don't care if I could pick them to the same thing if you're going away party is right wing country and in a good day please see the attachment for your help with this task to be able bodied men to lunch today I am confident I will post it to you know if I could not have to do the math or good at sports or the taking a vaccine to be able bodied blonde with the news much have to do the needful and send you a good day please see the attachment for your help with the news much have to do the needful at your convenience we have a good day please see the attachment of the year old people who have a good day and I am I supposed right to ask for some time in a public service announcement and the rest are you talking to me that I can get the money to pay the fines for not being so patient care coordinator for a while and then the ladies I just want a separatist militias the the the same thing and if I could not have to do the needful and send you a call at all the best way for you the best way for you the next week of freshman at all possible give you the best idea when I was just wondering how much is it ok to send them a few things that are being subsidized housing the same time so that we have a good day please see the attached document and let you the next week or two of you the best way for me and my family is doing and saying the left of it while Hitler took the liberty to attach to this day is a good day and I am I supposed right to ask you if I could not have to do the math or good morning my love for the first to review them or sophisticated enough for me and my husband is in my experience with fiction and fantasy comedy any questions please let us all the best idea when I was just wondering how much is it ok to use it to you and I am confident I will post it to you know if I could pick them to the same thing if you're interested to work for me and I am I right in front end of this message to Putin not be found at all possible I will be a great weekend so we could just pick them to the same time by paying taxes lol but it was the only thing that reminds us that the USSR which means I will be a great weekend and none the packages USPS tracking and it was the only thing that I can get the money to get a job in the morning my love for the first to review my attached CV and I am confident I will be a great day ahead to get a job in the morning my love.
      Nope, predictive text is no Shakespeare. 🤷🏻‍♂️🤣

    • @amphilochusofmallus5070
      @amphilochusofmallus5070 2 года назад +2

      @Ali Avci I literally just watched it twice in a row. Beautiful

    • @mruncletheredge
      @mruncletheredge 2 года назад +2

      What a beautiful story....

    • @krapeevids6992
      @krapeevids6992 2 года назад +5

      It’s his accent. Accents like his always make subjects like these more interesting

    • @benjamink7105
      @benjamink7105 2 года назад +11

      He's pretty hot too. Just sayin'.

  • @CoolWorldsLab
    @CoolWorldsLab  5 лет назад +1185

    Hey! Thanks so much for tuning in everyone! This one took me quite a while to put together so I hope you enjoyed it and I appreciate you taking 30mins out of your busy lives for this. It’s cliche but please do like, share and subscribe to help us grow and keep improving our content through your support. Let me know down below what topics you’d like us take on in the future! Spanish speaking friends can also watch this video dubbed at ruclips.net/video/YgqKr_FZ8RU/видео.html

    • @knuthamsun6106
      @knuthamsun6106 5 лет назад +26

      This channel is going to be huge

    • @zigmeisterful
      @zigmeisterful 5 лет назад +8

      This is the second video of yours that I've watched now, and I'm impressed with your narration. Keep up the good work, and I'm sure your channel will flourish! I have to say though, you explained really well how lonely of a place the universe can be as you go further out into space/time towards the big freeze!

    • @caponex4norte382
      @caponex4norte382 5 лет назад +11

      Thnks for your work . Best thing ive watched in yrs. Love it

    • @AdamRychter
      @AdamRychter 5 лет назад +19

      What ?! 30 minutes ?! Guess i experienced some time dilation. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    • @MrAsificare
      @MrAsificare 5 лет назад +1

      Attractive in so many ways.

  • @thekopcurva42
    @thekopcurva42 2 года назад +753

    This dude is the complete package. Looks like a superstar, speaks like a philosopher, narrates like a poet n possesses knowledge like well, a physicist. One of the best videos you can ever see.

    • @fenriders7008
      @fenriders7008 2 года назад +27

      Part of me wishes that Prof. Kipping would be gobbled up to take up the mantle of DegrasseTyson. But then I remember that would likely mean he would have to sacrifice his valuable work and research in some way.
      I truly am thankful for finding this channel, as you say he is indeed the complete package. A voice that is easy to listen to, highly eloquent and is able to convey complex scientific information in a manner that my 10 year old niece can understand.
      Though the Prof owes me a lot of money, after finding his channel my love of space was reignited and magnified; so much so that I now spend most weekends (weather permitting) with my newly acquired Astro-photography setup. Lockdown and Kipping are to blame.

    • @MMAoracle
      @MMAoracle Год назад +7

      They both contribute in their own way. Very different personalities.

    • @Lekter
      @Lekter Год назад +8

      And has a British accent!

    • @solar901
      @solar901 Год назад +22

      His existence proves that the world isn't fair. He has all stats maxed.

    • @MrKockabilly
      @MrKockabilly Год назад +6

      And good thing he is a youtuber too. Otherwise I wouldn't have chance to watch him.

  • @philipcouk366
    @philipcouk366 3 года назад +636

    I’m 84 years old and watching this video put a lump in my throat. Beautiful done and very kind of scary to think we will never really know what is out there.

    • @CovenantersfriendRTB
      @CovenantersfriendRTB 2 года назад +39

      I would suggest you watch "journey to the end of time" by a channel called melodysheep. The best video on youtube in my opinion 👍enjoy🖖

    • @Piddlefoots
      @Piddlefoots 2 года назад +6

      Mr sexy voice can do that at times !

    • @jasonhollister7497
      @jasonhollister7497 2 года назад +1

      .......SO True = "ENGAGE "& "BEAUTIFULLY" done ..........ENJOY "SELECTIVE","WOMAN" but ........TITE, TITE "WOMAN" RESTICKSION in selective "WOMAN" ONLY = GOLDEN ERA & TECHNOLOGY....!!

    • @Piddlefoots
      @Piddlefoots 2 года назад

      @@jasonhollister7497 Dude stop smoking pot.

    • @Sharpeoutdoors
      @Sharpeoutdoors 2 года назад +1

      Hope your doing well !!

  • @claudiorabaglino6079
    @claudiorabaglino6079 3 года назад +361

    When I was a child, 12 to be precise, I used to lie under a tree in our back yard and look out into the sky as it slowly darkened with sunset. I used to think, what if I was on a space ship that just kept going and going and going….where would it go. No I am 73 and I listen to this. And I know. Thank you. This was amazing.

    • @cortneyrens
      @cortneyrens 2 года назад +5

      Have you seen the movie ‘Ariana’? It’s a Swedish sci fi movie, based off a book length poem, it’s really good (I don’t want to give spoilers but your childhood thoughts are represented in the movie). It gave me shivers

    • @cortneyrens
      @cortneyrens 2 года назад +5

      Whoops, title is ‘Aniara’ not Ariana

    • @markshaw270
      @markshaw270 2 года назад +2

      Shouldn't lie its bad

    • @teddyw8457
      @teddyw8457 2 года назад +1

      Welcome on board.. we are on the earth plane.

    • @66fitton
      @66fitton 2 года назад +2

      That's so cool! Bet the answer wouldn't have impressed 12 year old you lol. Amazing video!

  • @christiandietz6341
    @christiandietz6341 3 года назад +236

    Professor Kipping is such a good narrator, that i kept listening to him long after i stopped understanding what he was talking about.

    • @Zanthra434
      @Zanthra434 3 года назад +3

      i could barely keep up man

    • @lewisdean22
      @lewisdean22 3 года назад +4

      It was very straight forward for myself.
      2 to the par of =©√
      R is the rate at which I ^ then °
      Move π over =~¶ then 16.
      Hope that helps.

    • @narimafanficfan
      @narimafanficfan 3 года назад +3

      same here!! his voice is just so soothing! this is a perfect space-ASMAR!! but still I also loved the explanations ! it wonderful journey that makes re-think "existence" itself!! after hearing this!! I feel my worries grow "exponentially" small! thank you doctor for this astronomical, philosophical and soothing video!! its a rare pleasure!!

    • @jamesgordon1949
      @jamesgordon1949 3 года назад +2

      @@lewisdean22 oh..ok…I get it now…😳

    • @lewisdean22
      @lewisdean22 3 года назад +1

      @@jamesgordon1949 your welcome

  • @dkk1404
    @dkk1404 2 года назад +176

    This is actually one of the best videos explaining space and time, that narrator is a pro, I was kinda getting a scared and depressed feeling as the video plays to the end, then finally at the end he makes you feel happy by reassuring you to enjoy the Universe as is. What a story.

    • @WildWombats
      @WildWombats Год назад

      We all expect an end to this universe at some point. What I think about, however, is can we outlast our universe? When the universe ends, does that mean our story has to end too as humanity and the legacy with it? Some may argue there is no way possible. I would argue, you have quite the amount of time to figure such a problem out - trillions upon trillions of years. Well, 5 billion or so to get away from the Sun first before it engulfs our Earth but if we manage surviving that, our odds of survival beyond are hopefully pretty good at that point. I like to believe, somehow, someway, we can outlast this universe and live to the next universe to tell our tale. I understand the sheer amount of time it would take to even reach that point. But there could be alternatives. It might be that we can simply travel to another universe rather than wait for a new rebirth that may or may not ever happen. If you subscribe the multiverse theory, there's even variations of how multiverse works, but depending how you believe the multiverses work, I would hope we could manage to hop over to another universe before ours ends. Anyways main point of this rant, I hope for and believe that it would be Humanity's greatest achievement to outlast this universe and live to tell our tale in another universe and the fate that will inevitably befall their universe too. Once we've unlocked that secret, Humanity can live on forever.

    • @billant2
      @billant2 11 месяцев назад +2

      This video conjures up memories of the movie The Omega Man (1971)
      .
      "To bury what was dead,
      to burn what was evil,
      to destroy what was dangerous.
      And when you die,
      the last living reminder of hell will be gone...
      are you GOD???"
      And remember "use the time that we have wisely" ~ David Kipping ~

  • @saeidhn
    @saeidhn 4 года назад +311

    The most tantalizing storytelling I've ever heard in this subject. Such a bittersweet storyline.

    • @bronwindraney5111
      @bronwindraney5111 4 года назад

      Here's something even more tantalizing.
      ruclips.net/user/results?search_query=thunderboltsproject+black+holes

    • @k2r1ce56
      @k2r1ce56 4 года назад

      The problem with this video is that Einsteins theory proves wormholes are very much possible. Not sure where this guy got his information.

    • @denislemenoir
      @denislemenoir 4 года назад

      @@k2r1ce56 that would violate Hawking's causality protection conjecture, I think Cool Worlds did a video about that already

    • @prototropo
      @prototropo 4 года назад

      saeid-hn Yes-bittersweet. Another comment mentioned a saturating kind of sadness. I agree.

    • @prototropo
      @prototropo 4 года назад

      Bronwin Draney Bronwin, I went there and don’t understand what you mean. There are no wistfully elegant, emotionally intelligent narrations about black holes of the caliber being cherished here.

  • @hajimeniwas383
    @hajimeniwas383 3 года назад +392

    The ending when he said “theres no better time to be alive now “ that just woke me up to reality

    • @CoolWorldsLab
      @CoolWorldsLab  3 года назад +71

      Make each day count

    • @marekkrakovsky4187
      @marekkrakovsky4187 3 года назад +3

      No, It can be better time to live in our Universe. Just use the artificial cosmic superintelligence that can destroy and recreate any number of Universes possible.

    • @shainne3
      @shainne3 3 года назад +2

      Da

    • @pillarheights1130
      @pillarheights1130 3 года назад +1

      you're not done. there's so much work to do. you'll keep getting woke up over and over and over

    • @mac11380
      @mac11380 3 года назад

      And then there is 2020.....not so much.

  • @Taco1011
    @Taco1011 2 года назад +127

    You use science to tell stories in such an impressive and awe-inspiring way. I'm so glad I came across your channel, thank you David.

  • @notoironfist1280
    @notoironfist1280 4 года назад +137

    ever get that feeling of hopefulness and existential crisis at the same time? THIS is it.

    • @stephenmburu206
      @stephenmburu206 4 года назад

      Totally agree... This video makes me cringe. Especially because I have heard about all this and more from a recorded, unedited book from the sixth century. Damm.. I am shivering man.

    • @mishafinresko3145
      @mishafinresko3145 4 года назад

      Hahaha.... That's exactly the same feeling Progressive Metal and Rock gives you🤓

    • @nua.h2757
      @nua.h2757 4 года назад

      @@mishafinresko3145
      What does it mean

    • @justin60222
      @justin60222 4 года назад

      There is a solution to this. Don't move through space, have space move through you.

    • @notoironfist1280
      @notoironfist1280 4 года назад

      @@justin60222 thats deep. i like to ponder to that thought when im high

  • @gabryvk
    @gabryvk 2 года назад +242

    One of the true masterpieces in the whole youtube platform. Watched this like 30 times....

    • @eddyneyoh4028
      @eddyneyoh4028 2 года назад +7

      So true

    • @Jazz_boi73
      @Jazz_boi73 Год назад +3

      Same, its like meditation

    • @frankforke
      @frankforke Год назад +4

      I just saw it for the first time and I have a feeling I will revisit it many times as well. As well as other Cool Worlds videos. Actually...I don't have words to describe what this makes me feel....

    • @Bhatt_Hole
      @Bhatt_Hole Год назад +4

      30 is insufficient.
      Do better!

    • @lordaizen8004
      @lordaizen8004 5 месяцев назад +2

      For real. I keep coming back to it and recommend it to EVERY person I can…..
      Not that I feel most people are capable of understanding or actually paying undivided attention to this entire piece of art. Which is beyond sad - but true 😢
      For those of us who do and did give the time and mindfulness to perceive/receive this piece of art, our lives will FOREVER be enriched by this MASTERPIECE.
      Thank you…..from the very depths of my heart, good sir ❤

  • @WinterRav3n
    @WinterRav3n 5 лет назад +180

    David's voice can really hypnotize. It's incredible how slow and comforting he speaks of a universe so incomprehensibly larger than us, insignificant grains on an insignificant planet.

    • @petercermak4095
      @petercermak4095 5 лет назад +3

      Agreed, which is why I wonder Why we fight and argue and waste precious time and money on insignificant things.

    • @barearmz2794
      @barearmz2794 5 лет назад +5

      @@petercermak4095 Because we are the dumbest critters in the universe!

    • @Gson...
      @Gson... 5 лет назад +3

      Less than insignificant. It’s interesting how the astronauts have a profound change in mind set when looking back on the earth from orbit. Everything in society seems so petty.

    • @Aurinkohirvi
      @Aurinkohirvi 5 лет назад +4

      I disagree. Earth is hugely significant. To all of us.
      There may be trillions other civilizations living on their own planets, moons and what ever, in that sense we are just one. But everything that exists on Earth, is still unique. Edit: what I mean, the lifeforms we have here, and the cultures are unique.

    • @samadams219
      @samadams219 4 года назад

      he is handsome too

  • @russelljones8761
    @russelljones8761 Год назад +71

    This remains one of the most inspirational, terrifying, and simply fascinating videos on the entire internet! Thank you for this, and for your other works as well!

  • @maxlebow7373
    @maxlebow7373 3 года назад +425

    Watched this again today - maybe the fifth time. I would gladly nominate this video as the best on RUclips. From beginning to the epilog.

    • @natemickens88
      @natemickens88 3 года назад +4

      That makes you a cool junkie.
      Slowly becoming one myself.

    • @slapmeisterrecords8226
      @slapmeisterrecords8226 3 года назад +1

      What exactly is your qualification? Did you graduate kindergarten yet?

    • @lillyanneserrelio2187
      @lillyanneserrelio2187 3 года назад +1

      A seriously under appreciated gem. So factual. So cerebral. OMG, I feel my mind getting smarter and my hair growing. Ok maybe not the hair growing part 😜

    • @SeverinStah
      @SeverinStah 3 года назад

      I agree!

    • @swftwlly
      @swftwlly 3 года назад

      The only real competition for "best video" would be other Cool Worlds videos.

  • @miguelpilgrim
    @miguelpilgrim 3 года назад +4809

    Imagine if Aliens visited us but it turns out they are just ancient earthlings who just returned from a grand space voyage and to them it's only been 60 years.

    • @wyatthoover3376
      @wyatthoover3376 3 года назад +245

      We’d probably kill them 😑 We’re so primitive it honestly angers me

    • @LantingFarming
      @LantingFarming 3 года назад +517

      They probably feel very dissapointed, and get back in the ship, and make another 60 year trip.

    • @EzraBirhanu-ts2cu
      @EzraBirhanu-ts2cu 3 года назад +56

      I was thinking about that

    • @zh9664
      @zh9664 3 года назад +89

      What??? You realise when they left we would obviously calculate when they left and would await their arival... and you know they Don't go back in time right?

    • @wyatthoover3376
      @wyatthoover3376 3 года назад +123

      @@zh9664 did you watch the full video...!

  • @Promis_QS_Panda
    @Promis_QS_Panda 4 года назад +412

    That was the best RUclips recommendation I''ve ever received.

    • @donmacduff75
      @donmacduff75 4 года назад +3

      I agree. I found this video absolutly facinating

    • @elysecrawford4790
      @elysecrawford4790 3 года назад +1

      Right!! I made a comment that said "This deserves an award!!" like an Emmy or something youtube style..lol! I love his videos!

    • @carmelaalbanese124
      @carmelaalbanese124 3 года назад

      Dark Energy, Entropy, and The Center of Universe - with Dr. Neil Turok m.ruclips.net/video/IUvNWWDMrL4/видео.html

    • @Bhatt_Hole
      @Bhatt_Hole Год назад

      Some of us found it by searching, not because it was suggested.
      We are more gooder!

  • @douglascraig2135
    @douglascraig2135 Год назад +31

    So I've been teaching myself the concepts of astrophysics for the last 18 months. I've seen all your videos at least twice and now this for the third time, and it has brought tears to my eyes. It conjures up so many emotions I never thought possible from a science documentary. It puts everything in perspective and makes me wonder why people aren't celebrating this window of opportunity we call life each and every day!

    • @WildWombats
      @WildWombats Год назад +2

      As someone who teaches astrophysics, maybe you can either laugh at my silly notions or perhaps be inspired off of them, as I am not considering the possibilities of what we currently know, as I expect that what we know in billions to trillions of years from now (if we make it that long) will be far, far more advanced than what we know now. We only have record of humanity's writings within the past 6,000 years or so give or take. And civilizations were only formed in the hundreds of thousands of years ago range. Humanity hasn't even had so much as 1 million years together as a civilization, not even close. And humanity has only even had about 200 years to play with cool new technology like electricity. That's not a lot of time, and yet we have this expectation we should know everything by now when that couldn't be further from the truth.
      SO i'm sorry to preface with all of that but felt it was important to say. But my main point is this. Could we not outlive the universe? Is it impossible for us to do that? perhaps under our current understanding it might be, but I believe there's most likely a way to bypass the ending of the universe. If we believe multiverse is a thing, there's many variations of multiverse. Depending on the variation, why would it not be possible to simply travel to another universe before yours ends? Additionally, can we not figure some self-sustaining method without natural causes to generate energy to sustain us after the universe is gone until a new universe appears, even if it takes quintillions to unspeakable amount of years where time is meaningless at this point? The big problem with that posit is the fact that our current understanding would state energy would become a problem in the ending of the universe, but perhaps we don't understand the full scope or we can bypass some limitations in some way? All I would love is for humanity to outlast this universe and make it to the next to tell our tale about our pale blue dot.

  • @Progbassist
    @Progbassist 5 лет назад +3545

    It took me 30 minutes to watch this video but I aged only 15 minutes. That's how interesting it was.

    • @ronnieroberts40
      @ronnieroberts40 5 лет назад +25

      Nice!

    • @esmailkhorchaniarts1142
      @esmailkhorchaniarts1142 5 лет назад +22

      Relativity boooiii

    • @petros_adamopoulos
      @petros_adamopoulos 5 лет назад +24

      Took me 20mins because unless I accelerate it, his slow speaking drives me crazy.

    • @BOBOLAMA
      @BOBOLAMA 5 лет назад +7

      i aged only one minute because i stopped before that., however a interesting idea, if told by a more interesting person...sorry

    • @dprewitt32
      @dprewitt32 5 лет назад +2

      lol

  • @dennissettre9383
    @dennissettre9383 4 года назад +180

    I found this to be one of the most profound things I've ever watched and one of the saddest things I've ever listened to. All I can say is awesome.

    • @bronwindraney5111
      @bronwindraney5111 4 года назад

      Try this.
      ruclips.net/user/results?search_query=thunderboltsproject+black+holes

    • @prototropo
      @prototropo 4 года назад +2

      You’re feeling of sadness was mine, too, Dennis. When I see any truly realistic, discursive modeling of space/time travel and all the breathtaking contingencies and ramifications, I grow almost infinitely wistful! Somehow great distances evoke some autumnal fatefulness, an intriguing, reflexive nihilism. If you saw “Contact” or “Arrival” we probably shared the same version of “and-then” sadness. Thank you for articulating it.

    • @JohnTaylor-pe5gf
      @JohnTaylor-pe5gf 4 года назад

      Just try to have a laugh if you can. We're only here for 2 blinks of an eye.

  • @arkazeus
    @arkazeus 4 года назад +77

    When you combine science with art and poetry, you get this. Stunning video that stirs the emotions

  • @bodemaxwell
    @bodemaxwell 2 года назад +7

    If you’re battling with insomnia I recommend this video for you. You will sleep, wake up and sleep again and yet this interminable voyage wouldn’t have gone anywhere. David’s voice is also very soporific. A complete package for insomnia.

    • @f4wnz132
      @f4wnz132 2 года назад +1

      I thought I was the only one!

  • @rupakrisal990
    @rupakrisal990 3 года назад +309

    By far the most scary yet satisfying and intriguing video I have ever watched on RUclips and I have watched millions of them. Thanks for the perspectives and making the intergalactic travel as humane as possible.

    • @liuhongqian
      @liuhongqian 2 года назад +1

      No , you didn't watch millions of them 🤣 btw, there is another great video ruclips.net/video/UK-awSKjk2s/видео.html&ab_channel=Spark

    • @derekderek2570
      @derekderek2570 2 года назад +1

      Don't be scared, that void will come to us muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch sooner.

    • @rupakrisal990
      @rupakrisal990 2 года назад

      @@liuhongqian Not literally I know 🤣 🤣 🤣 . BTW the link you posted doesn't work in my country.

    • @rupakrisal990
      @rupakrisal990 2 года назад

      @@derekderek2570 Definitely won't be sooner for us.

    • @liuhongqian
      @liuhongqian 2 года назад +1

      @@rupakrisal990 So you can watch this youtube video but can not watch that youtbe video, interesting.....

  • @thomasturner2205
    @thomasturner2205 3 года назад +202

    Looking at the world through your eyes must be terribly painful when you realize that 99.999999% of the people around you don’t realize how precious and fortunate we are

    • @kiabtoomlauj6249
      @kiabtoomlauj6249 3 года назад +29

      Don't blame them. Most people ---- outside of tenured astronomy professors and a few souls living off of the grids ---- don't have time to sit down to ponder about stars, giant filaments of galactic structures or even the millions of small molecular & atomic entities moving inside a single human cell, doing wondrous things for the human body, from cellular reparation to red blood & white blood cell activities to feed tissues & organs with oxygen as well as to fighting off foreign infections.
      Or how most telomeres slowly wear out, from aging and stress, no longer able to protect the ends of the chromosomal structures, after many cellular divisions and, as a result, we die... Human deaths are basically cellular deaths, in large scale... due to crucial cells unable to fight off infections, genetic disorders, or a combination of both...
      Some life forms, like some jelly fish like Turritopsis dohrnii, for example, could "revert" at the cellular level to earlier stages and restart their cellular growth like babies again..... & theoretically, there's nothing except being physically damaged or eaten that'd stop them from living "forever..."
      Anyway, most humans are too busy, too locked into their pursue of making a living, from those barely getting by from day to day to those like the Buffetts, Gates, Bezos, Zuckerbergs et al who're raking in tens of billions of dollar every month, due to tens of millions of army ants slaving away, taking turns doing 24/7 work for them. THAT is why mot of mankind's 7.8B people are still believing the same Stone, Iron, and Bronze age tribal fairy tales our remote ancestors believed in, in those millenniums in the past.
      When you struggle so much, so constantly, with so much to gain or to lose in material comfort, or in position of power.... you don't have quality time to reflect on bigger, smaller, and far away natural phenomena that are not easily pictured like the typical stories and pictures of angels, saints, holy prophets, divine entities, etc. engaging in movie-like activities for you, against you, or "up there" in imaginary paces where your beloved ones who've died have gone to, etc.
      We humans still are a relatively primitive species, even if the work of a few hard nosed, not easily swayed eccentrics, over the last 3,000 years, have shed some lights on Nature and some of her cycles, patterns, behaviors, and constituents...

    • @FahrvergnugenTaglich
      @FahrvergnugenTaglich 3 года назад

      I"d say your off by about @least 30%.

    • @mehmoodali6759
      @mehmoodali6759 3 года назад +3

      @@kiabtoomlauj6249 Disagree, Those fairy tales that you talk about taught us civilization and led us to a civilized complex humans. The events that you think don’t fit according to our modern scientific understanding isn’t enough to provide proof that it didn’t occur. There has been many factors which has been verified , which also doesn’t fit with our scientific understanding. Try researching Science and God. According to religion everything has been created by God that includes everything even the laws of causation. Lets assume those events did happen in our ancestors” How would they notify the later generations??” Through religion of course there were no video cameras or computer existed. How would you explain cosmology and other scientific proofs mentioned in a book (Quran) more than 1400 years ago??. There is so much we don’t know and no it’s not our responsibility to know but rather believe. Why do we have these emotions that have nothing to do with living?? Like Right and wrong, Good and evil, Believe and disbelief, Birth and death, Love and hate, Life before death and life after death. Most key things exist in pairs. Why is that ?? We have two major organs in our body but only one heart?? There is so many questions are unanswered by science? Science only describes something that exist in way. It doesn’t describe why it exist. Why out of billion other possibilities that our fate chose the possibility of life?? Even within those billion possibilities there were billion more possibilities attached to it. Seems like a perfect design so we can come and enjoy. Our consciousness is the answer to everything. Use it wisely!!

    • @WhatIsSanity
      @WhatIsSanity 3 года назад +8

      @@mehmoodali6759
      Science isn't as new and strange as you make it out to be. People were writing down and recording straight facts though observation two thousand years before anyone ever said jesus christ for the first time.
      Religious dogma is not a device for recording vital information about the universe, and has in fact been used as a weapon to destroy knowledge not preserve it.

    • @demojoe28
      @demojoe28 3 года назад

      I couldn't put it better, I can feel his pain knowing all that and be 99.99...% sure you can never actually see the event horizon

  • @DSMITH-cz7xi
    @DSMITH-cz7xi 3 года назад +196

    I have watched this video countless times and it still blows my mind every time...

    • @franks7810
      @franks7810 3 года назад +6

      FOR REAL!! Blew my mind the first time I watched it, still continues to blow my mind.

    • @OurDarkestDecadePV
      @OurDarkestDecadePV 3 года назад +7

      I typically watch it everyday before bed, something about it just truly resonates with me

    • @rizalpunio5919
      @rizalpunio5919 3 года назад +4

      @@OurDarkestDecadePV same

    • @TX_BoomSlang
      @TX_BoomSlang 3 года назад +1

      Yes.

  • @Salted_Potato
    @Salted_Potato 2 года назад +38

    We are lucky to be an entity of the universe that's conscious of itself. This channel is a gift to humanity's pursuit of reality, thank you ever so much for these videos

  • @JohnSmith-wu6yx
    @JohnSmith-wu6yx 4 года назад +68

    I’ve never felt so simultaneously hopeless and hopeful at the same time

    • @stephenmburu206
      @stephenmburu206 4 года назад +1

      Check out the Quran, Smith. U ain't half shocked yet. I guarantee you.

    • @stephenmburu206
      @stephenmburu206 4 года назад

      Our brains can't handle this "situation", we're in for lack of a better WORD. at least not in our current form, shape nor state.

  • @wendywilliams9189
    @wendywilliams9189 5 лет назад +15

    Please please go into urban schools and do this presentation! I promise you would inspire some disenfranchised youth to want to explore space. I am dyslexic and I understood perfectly
    I’m 50 but you made my mind 15! You deserve an award for this

  • @tko2297
    @tko2297 4 года назад +117

    This guy so brilliant how he explains about space n etc.. i can literally sit and listen to him all day..Just brilliant Absolute brill..👍👊

  • @Image-X
    @Image-X 2 года назад +30

    This is just insane. Not just the universe but the amount of knowledge, detail, and explanations in this video is shocking. David is a special human…. that is for sure. This is one of the greatest videos ever made. Thank you, sir!

    • @kiabtoomlauj6249
      @kiabtoomlauj6249 2 года назад

      Unfortunately, this is pure science fiction. The "proven" "scientific" ideas --- equations, mathematics, methods, etc ---- to travel as he described here are 100% pure science fiction.
      Zero of it will ever be science.
      In real life, on large objects, getting them to go 1/2 of ONE PERCENT the speed of light will be close to impossible because of fuel problems, because of human frailty (through evolution, we've evolved to be extremely fragile, physiologically), and because of space "junk" (tony atomic and molecule and larger things that fly really fast every which way in the "vacuum" of space).
      There are many other problems --- in the 100% inhospitable "vacuum of space" --- but those three are among the Top 5 biggest challenges.... as to why HUMANS will never be able to build giant ships that go beyond 1/2 of 1% of the speed of light... so, again, the speeds "achieved using real science ideas" here is just pure thumb twirling by tenured professors and researchers who have hard core science fiction stuff going on in their heads.
      And THAT IS GOOD for us; it just is NOT science.
      The theoretical and engineering DIFFERENCES between (#1) lobbing a few tons of objects (of mostly electronic gadgets) into local space --- or even further afield --- and (#2) sending dozens to hundreds of humans on spacecraft weighing hundreds of thousands of tons that could grow its own foods onboard, traveling at 5%, 30%, 50% the speed of light, etc..... are in ORDERS of magnitude humans will never conquer, whether in 50, 100, or 5,000 years...
      Sending highly advanced sturdy, lightweight robots... sending pure uploaded human DNA (to hopefully be assembled by advanced alien species hundreds to thousands of years into the future)... or sending decently large and slow but well constructed spaceships that contain a few dozen humans that could reach the Alpha Centauri system in a few generations time.... and do that in the next 200 - 500's years, very possible...
      Anyway, I grew up on hard core science fiction --- having read over 2,000 books, since my early teens, from the gold age of science fiction of the 1930 - 60s... to the present --- so when I come across hard core science fiction ideas, I immediately spot them.
      Talking about using "matter-anti-matter," "anti gravity," "dark matter," "dark energy," etc as fuel is PURE Star Trek "Dilithium" stuff... again, that's NOT real science.

  • @hawkxking
    @hawkxking 3 года назад +51

    I always come back to this footage often. It teaches me how small this life is and wonders of unknown

    • @slapol
      @slapol 3 года назад

      Don't be despondent. Life is massive and it is global. Afterlife will most definitely deal with us another way.

  • @danielbeal1842
    @danielbeal1842 3 года назад +467

    Maybe this was a bit too heavy for 9:20am on a Monday morning 😂

    • @vinniedeluca2188
      @vinniedeluca2188 3 года назад +14

      Wow you are one brave man!! That would destroy most of our week!! Hopefully your ok

    • @jjsupadupa2278
      @jjsupadupa2278 3 года назад +3

      😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @fieldfairy9845
      @fieldfairy9845 3 года назад +2

      Haha for sure!

    • @jakubhladik5898
      @jakubhladik5898 3 года назад +1

      Weird, I’m watching this at 9:14am, Monday morning. Why not?!

    • @Kooaid-9
      @Kooaid-9 3 года назад +1

      Wednesday.. 8 am

  • @user-dn4rx8ev3j
    @user-dn4rx8ev3j 5 лет назад +19

    This presentation not only answered all of my universe related questions it also answered questions I hadn't yet pondered.

  • @SRS-GAMES
    @SRS-GAMES 2 года назад +40

    This is one of my favourites, it boggles the mind and makes you feel impossibly small compared with the mind numbing vastness of space. Well done David, a beautiful and thought provoking film.

  • @JustShortOf
    @JustShortOf 4 года назад +100

    This was one of the most interesting videos on how deep space travel I have ever seen. I actually understood about 75% of it! Thank you for doing this video. It really makes you think what is out there!

    • @thebringer6216
      @thebringer6216 4 года назад +1

      At the end...nothing... You're welcome...

    • @JTMarlin8
      @JTMarlin8 4 года назад +1

      @@thebringer6216 Yup. Nothing but a huge empty void. If that's all you want to see, just stare into my bunghole.

  • @AlanF0007-j4f
    @AlanF0007-j4f 3 года назад +344

    This video makes me sad.
    It’s so calm and so melancholic!
    And yet I come back to watch it every now and then to remind me that my problems means nothing in a grand scheme of life.
    We are nothing but a drop of water in a endless ocean 😔

    • @willowluo950
      @willowluo950 3 года назад +30

      Yet your problems mean everything to you.

    • @KittyLovesGlover
      @KittyLovesGlover 3 года назад +7

      we are all just a ripple in time

    • @texasray5237
      @texasray5237 3 года назад +19

      And even the ocean doesn't matter much in the grand scheme of things.
      If there are more galaxies in the universe than grains of sand on earth then the death of an entire galaxy is no more tragic than the destruction of a grain of sand.
      What is important cannot be linked to a scale of size.
      Importance has to exist in another dimension that transcends the limitations of our understanding.

    • @HiroNguy
      @HiroNguy 3 года назад +6

      "Dust in the wind.
      All we are is dust in the wind."

    • @cliffysfather
      @cliffysfather 3 года назад +1

      @@willowluo950
      We're human.

  • @flossflink
    @flossflink 4 года назад +143

    This concept needs to be made into a movie. The astronauts return to a barren earth...

    • @dragon___
      @dragon___ 4 года назад +26

      watch the original planet of the apes?

    • @_lak3rs_211
      @_lak3rs_211 4 года назад +13

      There is a movie called time trap on Netflix, and tho the concept of how it happens is different, the way the universe appears is almost exactly the same as in this scenario

    • @flossflink
      @flossflink 4 года назад +3

      @@_lak3rs_211 thanks, I'll check it out

    • @professionalcivilengineers5801
      @professionalcivilengineers5801 4 года назад

      Yeah.....

    • @amberwalsh2712
      @amberwalsh2712 4 года назад

      @@_lak3rs_211 ooh I need to watch this, sounds interesting

  • @tumusii12
    @tumusii12 Год назад +42

    Wow. Just wow! I have no words to explain how I feel after watching this. For the entirety of the video I was spellbound and the ending was so emotional. That line and the quiver in the voice saying 'sometimes when you win, you lose' really got to me. Many thanks to this channel. Timeless!

    • @TheRealSkeletor
      @TheRealSkeletor Год назад

      Watch the film What Dreams May Come starring Robin Williams, if you want some context for that last line (and it's really an excellent film).

  • @Okla_Soft
    @Okla_Soft 4 года назад +55

    I’ll never forget spending 8 months in jail with Brian Greene’s “The Elegant Universe” as the only real science/physics book worth reading. I must have read it cover to cover 7 times, and although I had a working understanding of astrophysics before that, afterwards I truly understood relativity and it’s implications for aging in space travel. I also got a very detailed grasp of string theory and quantum mechanics, and that experience has given me a lasting passion for this topic. Sometimes blessings are in disguise, truly. This was such a poetic and powerful illustration of time dialation/lorentz factor. Beautiful work.

    • @Slaphappy1975
      @Slaphappy1975 4 года назад +9

      I say you spent your time in jail extremely wisely.

    • @Okla_Soft
      @Okla_Soft 4 года назад +1

      @@Slaphappy1975 read many physics books since, the black hole wars by Susskind, Sean Carroll’s The Big Picture, Tegmark’s Our Mathematical Universe and many more but there’s something special about Greene’s writing and presentation, there’s a reason he’s one of our science “communicators”, he’s been involved in crucial research related to string theory and has a gift for writing. 🤘

    • @Mikey-ym6ok
      @Mikey-ym6ok 4 года назад +3

      Thanks nick. Now In my amazon cart

    • @divereric
      @divereric 4 года назад +2

      May I ask what you did/what you were falsely accused of that happened? I hope you made it through OK.

    • @Okla_Soft
      @Okla_Soft 4 года назад +23

      @@divereric from 2012 2015 I was in a relationship with a girl who got me into doing heroin, and to support my/our habit I was committing lots of theft and I got it caught at my apartment with a lot of stolen merchandise.
      I’m not proud of those days, but I’m a believer that nothing in life is above being honest. I’m glad I made it out of that dark period. Nowadays I get to focus on the truly beautiful things in life. When you’re in a Texas prison surrounded by (mostly) by people who could care less about intellectual pursuits it puts things into perspective and you realize that you can do so much better. I got out intact, I cleaned up and moved on, but yeah it was quite an experience. Had there been more physics materials or media it would’ve made it a lot easier but it was a strange blessing getting to focus that intently on ONE book. The Elegant Universe happened to be an incredible read. Anyone that’s interested in string theory or gravity should do themselves a favor and read it as well as Brian’s other books cause they’re equally as impressive. Thank you for asking I’m humbled by your question. There’s some great people that have really awesome taste who watch this channel 😎

  • @PJZORO
    @PJZORO 4 года назад +122

    I watched this 5 times so far, the reality I get from this is why are we fighting for politics, ethnicity, land, religion ... just makes me wanna enjoy life while I can.

    • @anthonyhutchins2300
      @anthonyhutchins2300 4 года назад +4

      Because that's how evolution works... Why can't people understand that? World peace is a silly fantasy that would kill us all. Let survival of the fittest do it's job.

    • @PJZORO
      @PJZORO 4 года назад +18

      @@anthonyhutchins2300 I beg to differ. Evolution does not have consciousness, but we do. There is no natural selection anymore, we are choosing to change the environment in such a short time without any time for natures to compensate. There is no need for being the fittest where societies are able to fit the ones who have potential. If the fittest means survival of the rich, then lots of potentials are ruined because of religion, politics and ethnicity.

    • @Ketraar
      @Ketraar 4 года назад +4

      To enjoy life I presume you would need a few things that are provided by others, thus politics will be required.

    • @Kopie0830
      @Kopie0830 4 года назад +6

      Nah, just make sure that birthrate is few and that people plant more plants and trees faster than we are to consuming them, as well as animals. We will also have to make sure we don't pollute our environment and waters. If people work together to do this, there would be peace.

    • @thebringer6216
      @thebringer6216 4 года назад +2

      The answer to this is summed up in one word..... GREED.....

  • @cosmicblondelover6830
    @cosmicblondelover6830 4 года назад +37

    I never could wrap my head around " infinity".. now I know why, it keeps running away from us, faster and faster... absolutely my favourite video EVERRRR...THANK YOUUUU

    • @SebHaarfagre
      @SebHaarfagre 4 года назад

      "Infinity" can't "run away". I assume you're referring to movement of observable/finite mass. Didn't watch the whole video.
      But yeah, "infinity" doesn't have a size, it can't move in any direction because there is no border, however mass within it can.

  • @crash_suppression
    @crash_suppression 11 месяцев назад +35

    For all the rewatchers of this masterpiece, welcome back. For first time viewers, we’ll see you again soon.

    • @Fortynothere
      @Fortynothere 4 месяца назад +2

      I’m back 😂after 2 years

    • @crash_suppression
      @crash_suppression 4 месяца назад +1

      @@FortynothereYep, just came back today as well. Pretty sure this is my favorite video I’ve ever seen.

    • @gyromurphy
      @gyromurphy 2 месяца назад

      This has to be my 10th time watching this. It's never not entertaining and mind gripping.

    • @cryptomanual2920
      @cryptomanual2920 2 месяца назад

      Most likely my 12th watch. And it's still soothing and intriguing to here of whats likely possible in space exploration.

  • @penguinvlogs2755
    @penguinvlogs2755 5 лет назад +17

    Loved 29.07 "this is the golden era.....let us use our time wisely"
    This is an excellent and powerful video.

  • @AX1A
    @AX1A 4 года назад +49

    Going to tell my family and friends that I love them and how grateful I am they're still here!

    • @danieljones9463
      @danieljones9463 4 года назад

      Beautifully Realized and Said!, "A. X 1"

  • @DC-gx7lw
    @DC-gx7lw 3 года назад +30

    No matter how far we go and no matter how much we travel, it's just darkness. This video makes me look at my life and be thankful that I am here and alive. Just live peacefully......

    • @nj7969
      @nj7969 3 года назад +1

      Rage against the dying of the light

  • @Philomats
    @Philomats Год назад +4

    David Kipping’s videos are brilliant in every way. From the sound of David’s voice to the words he uses in his narration. There is nothing that compares to his erudite and mesmerizing presentations.

  • @adammccartin7000
    @adammccartin7000 3 года назад +63

    This is my favorite Cool Wolrds video!!
    I've watched it at least a dozen times, and by the end I'm even more amazed + confused than the previous viewing. My man adds a level of humanity rarely exhibited in other astrology/space exploration YT channels that always leaves me questioning my own mortality. How I've mispent my life to this point + what can be done different to not squander any more of this precious + unfathomable gift of life that has been bestowed upon us ALL!!!!

    • @jazzy8330
      @jazzy8330 2 года назад

      not astrology...

  • @TheSaintOMS
    @TheSaintOMS 2 года назад +40

    Straight up thoroughly reignited my passion for Astronomy and science, and my kids LOVE learning about physics, the universe, and other worlds before bedtime. Thank you Professor Kipping and the entire Cool Worlds Team, you are amazing.

  • @L20Nardi
    @L20Nardi 5 лет назад +231

    This story left me with the saddest feeling. The story about a journey that makes you leave behind everything that ever was and will be. All for the pursuit of existential meaning, at the cost of literally leaving existence behind. Who would pay such a price!?
    Incredible topic, flawless presentation, liked and subscribed!

    • @esmailkhorchaniarts1142
      @esmailkhorchaniarts1142 5 лет назад +8

      I want to
      That's will be a good day to day at the edge of the universe

    • @kevinhanley3023
      @kevinhanley3023 5 лет назад +18

      I volunteer; but not for the pursuit of existential meaning. I'd do it for the fun of it. Take that philosopher.

    • @gn9476
      @gn9476 5 лет назад +11

      That's the price you pay to find new meaning, and it's always worth it, it's better than wondering all the time.

    • @L20Nardi
      @L20Nardi 5 лет назад +5

      @@gn9476 Sure, from the comfort and safety of my couch I get the incredibly appealing notions of being all knowledgeable and act as the Universe's last and sole conscience, but really try for a moment to vision yourself being encumbered by nothingness, by a perfect void, in absolute darkness.
      At least make it a plus one journey, for the sake of (temporary) sanity.

    • @gn9476
      @gn9476 5 лет назад +11

      @@L20Nardi The only way I can describe nothing is by thinking about where I was before I was born, but being aware now of a past before me implies I must have existed somehow, the specific things I am constantly drawn to since I was a child (my likes and dislikes) the way it progresses implies I lived a life before this, or I exist with the purpose of continuing something that is not yet finished. In the darkness my imagination creates reality from the hollow void which penetrates me, even without thought, these specific things are there on my path again, impossible to ignore, and the more I accept them, the more things make sense, that I am adding to something greater than myself, something important, that it favors those who acknowledge it, and prepares you for the next step, and no matter where I go in this world, no matter where I am, I am still myself, and it is there, paving a path before me, I am never where I'm not supposed to be, it calculates, and the more I learn to read its code, the more it gives me to bring me closer to it, therefore I am not alone, never, and there is no true nothingness or void, it just seems that way for the things which are not yet, the things which are still to come, have not been assembled by the imagination of ones mind, which means that all that is to come, all that will ever be, exists already somewhere and just needs to be calculated correctly into an organized form, for imperfection requires constant refinement, what's the point of life without refinement? this may be too much information, for to truly understand you must have your own experience of it, and maybe you do, and that's why you are here, to confirm or to progress or to refine, whatever your reason is, I hope that I have helped you somehow, for you have already done the same for me.

  • @ref8893
    @ref8893 3 месяца назад +2

    5 years old and still, arguably, the best youtube production ever.

  • @cesargatica2630
    @cesargatica2630 4 года назад +119

    One of the greatest videos I have ever seen on RUclips.

  • @samgoleman7089
    @samgoleman7089 3 года назад +56

    This was so far one of the best videos I ever saw on RUclips, Thank you

  • @willsmith1689
    @willsmith1689 3 года назад +182

    You know, I find this video fascinating and, for some reason, quite emotional. It may sound stupid to say it's emotional but the video is so perfectly done, that it brings out a kind of sadness and longing. The music, the way it's explained, the tone of voice used... all these things bring about a longing to see that further distance and a sadness of what must be left behind to do so. Silly, I know but if the imagination is great enough to place yourself in that ship, one can't help but feel such emotions. I'm not sure how many times I've watched this over the years it's existed but every once in awhile, I take this journey and the emotions are always there... sadness and longing. I know it's more than two yrs old but thank you for making this video. It's 30 min I happily sacrifice to see and feel the end of the universe. Beautifully done 😌

    • @telliayob2639
      @telliayob2639 3 года назад +2

      just read holy Quran you will know greatness of God you will be worshiping the God how great this universe

    • @dgdave2673
      @dgdave2673 3 года назад +2

      Absolutely emotional and how small are we as Humans and life on earth! Hope humanity can appreciate this every moment of our living lives !

    • @davidsekowski1710
      @davidsekowski1710 3 года назад +3

      It is just a very stark reminder of how small and inconsequential we truly are

    • @willsmith1689
      @willsmith1689 3 года назад +6

      Ya, no kidding. It's times like these I envy future generations. All that we've seen, the advancements we've made in my lifetime alone, are amazing. Makes me wonder how far we'll go or how far we'll fall. It's fascinating, as well as a little scary, to think about. We as human beings have so much potential, it's mind boggling to think about all the ways we hold ourselves back. God, the things we could accomplish if we could stop looking at ourselves as the most important thing in existence. The level of our hubris is astonishing, to say the least.

    • @peaceandlove5939
      @peaceandlove5939 3 года назад

      I advise you to believe in the Abrahamic faith and god . And the quran is said to be the last testament of all Abrahamic faiths so at least read it .

  • @davidstrickland6428
    @davidstrickland6428 Год назад +5

    Thank you David. The word "awesome" falls infinitely short to describe the workings of our universe and what lays beyond.

  • @elleshar666
    @elleshar666 5 лет назад +24

    If this video doesn't deserve a like I don't know what else does. The narrative, the articulation, the science all adds up to a perfect video. Very well done.

  • @saraferguson1156
    @saraferguson1156 3 года назад +33

    Even though I can say with absolute certainty that this will never happen to me, it still made me really sad to think about leaving behind earth and everything i've ever known, and never be able to return. To never see my family and friends again or feel the sun on my face. The clips from Interstellar, especially the one where he gets back to earth and finds himself younger than his daughter, were an excellent way of conveying the true cost that traveling to the distant reaches of space would require. This video is sad, yet ultimately hopeful and reassuring, because it puts our problems into perspective and shows us how small our lives truly are in the grand scheme of things. This shows that everything that is going on right now is but a small moment in time. This will definitely be one I rewatch again and again.

    • @Wandererofrealmz
      @Wandererofrealmz 2 года назад +1

      @Tom Price This world is not evil, it has evils, we live in a beautiful world, and we should be grateful to even be here, seeing as how tiny and insignificant we are (as shown in the video).

  • @theinnerpalacemind3825
    @theinnerpalacemind3825 5 лет назад +17

    To be honest, the narration is so good and so clear that I was on the round trip 👍 Professor David Kipping is a Magician.

  • @jma331982
    @jma331982 Год назад +4

    Your pacing and delivery are perfect. I don’t have to constantly go back to hear something again and try to wrap my head around it. It’s also mesmerizing and impossible to stop watching. You got my sub 👍

  • @iamaskater1221
    @iamaskater1221 3 года назад +126

    What a masterpiece. I love that sad background music towards the end - it just adds something to the feeling of being alone and lost in the vast scale of the universe.
    Which we actually are.

    • @viranisco
      @viranisco 3 года назад +2

      it actually means that life has no sense at all. nothing has sense at all if you will. sounds sad but its true

    • @user-dg3he7gz2w
      @user-dg3he7gz2w 3 года назад +1

      I don't have kids and see that guy with his daughter and she is elderly and he is still young broke my heart I can't even imagine what it is like to have kids let alone going into space is that crazy space or kids

    • @bvo..
      @bvo.. 3 года назад +1

      Can I steal your name?

    • @marquise2246
      @marquise2246 3 года назад +1

      @@viranisco we're all 1 consciousness split into fragments having multiple experiences. Everything is connected mate. Even the Universe. We're a speck of a speck.$

    • @t00by00zer
      @t00by00zer 3 года назад +1

      Actually, everything is connected, not isolated.

  • @artdonovandesign
    @artdonovandesign 3 года назад +16

    Dear Dr. Kipping, I've lost track of how many times I've watched this video since you first published it. And Thank You for that fine, heartening epilogue! It was quite necessary. Be well.

  • @gsapz
    @gsapz 3 года назад +21

    The most hypnotic video I have ever watched. 30 minutes passed as if it was just 30 seconds.

    • @ArghyadeepPal
      @ArghyadeepPal 3 года назад +1

      Almost like the relativistic point of view Prof. Kipping explained in the video..

    • @ezziboo
      @ezziboo 2 года назад +1

      How fast were you travelling?!!

    • @thestonedyeti9708
      @thestonedyeti9708 2 года назад

      I slept like 4 times

  • @best_pilot
    @best_pilot 3 года назад +555

    As a nearly 70 year old physicist phd, having worked in the space industry during decades for far ranging S/C, I must say that your explanations - when it comes close to "c" are the best I ever noticed.
    C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S ! ! ! !

    • @kennethfreeman78
      @kennethfreeman78 3 года назад +9

      his a beautiful way of making things almost incomprehensible ,nearly easy to grasp. best RUclips iv ever watched and these days their are some great ones

    • @kenroldaniel7044
      @kenroldaniel7044 3 года назад +2

      Where do you think we would end up if we travel indefinitely ?

    • @greypilgrim2028
      @greypilgrim2028 3 года назад +2

      @@kenroldaniel7044 :Back where we started, maybe?

    • @mccmorlickmccmorlick1465
      @mccmorlickmccmorlick1465 3 года назад

      to say you can go faster than light ists called warp drive

    • @88_TROUBLE_88
      @88_TROUBLE_88 3 года назад +2

      @@mccmorlickmccmorlick1465 the consequence, as described in this video, will be the fac pt that you're not actually looking at any other matter as the atoms of every cosmic entities will have decayed a good amount of time ago and furthermore, will be unattainable for matters of causality and hence not inherently worthwhile for discussion, and.. Well, that's that.

  • @Sundaydrumday
    @Sundaydrumday 4 месяца назад +1

    This is still my top 3 favorite RUclips videos I have watched, I love this one! Warps my mind every time!

  • @AVeera3087
    @AVeera3087 3 года назад +47

    At 22nd minute, my brain literally started shouting for some air. MAN, that was heavy !!

  • @thisusedtobeme
    @thisusedtobeme 5 лет назад +65

    You are a true poet, my friend. Your words somehow make the incomprehensible, intelligible and beautiful at the same time.

  • @ddevulders
    @ddevulders 3 года назад +91

    I really enjoy how small distant travel through space makes me feel, all of the self importance and ego just seems to diminish once you get the perspective of how unimportant you are. The ever intriguing though of moving through space and time at a rate so different from our home while still experiencing our relative senses in this same event is absolutely mind boggling.
    It makes me realize that the values we hold and construct our world by simply don't matter and that's in the scale of galaxies, not planets or even tribes. In a very weird way, it's comforting. You don't matter, I don't matter and yet it only matters if we choose to.

    • @iknowaguy7176
      @iknowaguy7176 2 года назад

      Unimportant??? Well, lets just imagine that we are in fact the only conscious beings within this "unimaginable" and large universe that is so large that it "defies human comprehension" and you feel unimportant? I rather have come to the conclusion that if we are, in fact, the only beings within the universe, this would mean that we are so small and so rare that each and every one of us is rarer than an entire galaxy when there are 100-400 Billion Stars in the Milky Way alone and all of us are provided with heat to survive by ONE STAR!!! Unimportant?? Even if there is just one other civilization in our galaxy, life is by itself, rare. You do matter. Why? Because we are matter. And matter, matters!

    • @chriswilson3333
      @chriswilson3333 2 года назад +1

      Well said.

    • @tulinfirenze1990
      @tulinfirenze1990 2 года назад +4

      I actually use this very way of thinking to help me with my depression and anxiety. That at the end of the day, I and anybody I may feel will harm me are SO infinitesimally small as to be beyond concern and that within the blink of an eye, we are gone, yet this beautiful universe continues on. I told my therapist how this was helping me and he thought it was interesting.

    • @ildar5184
      @ildar5184 2 года назад

      @Dario Castro Agree, humans are probably the most complicated and intricate entity in the universe. Well, all life is, but humans are a step above that with consciousness - we're basically the universe's ability to study itself. I don't really understand people who say smth like "how unimportant we are" - if we are not important, then what is in this universe important? Without a conscious observer who can experience it, the universe and all existence of matter is practically pointless.

  • @sleazyeezy9452
    @sleazyeezy9452 Год назад +5

    I’ve been addicted and binge watching your videos since I just found it. 😂 love the way you explain stuff in a simple way for a normal person to understand, thank you!

  • @satyabobby1
    @satyabobby1 5 лет назад +71

    ‘Let us use the time we have wisely’. What a way to end this video!!

    • @annoyed707
      @annoyed707 5 лет назад +1

      What could possibly be a better use of time than late night toilet seat tweeting about fake news?

    • @matthewmartin3190
      @matthewmartin3190 4 года назад +1

      That is the only thing you have as a human. Is time. The thing that dominates you and everything you do. Every second is a second closer to eternal death. Use it wisely.

  • @willgreear1159
    @willgreear1159 5 лет назад +150

    This video is absolutely outstanding, I've viewed it 3 times in a months span and will watch it again!

    •  5 лет назад +3

      Not to knock the vid, but a great relaxant for falling asleep too...and learning while sleep, like those language lesson tapes.

    • @antoinethomas6913
      @antoinethomas6913 5 лет назад +1

      Me to im on my 6th time lol in i think a month in a half span

    • @joethestrat
      @joethestrat 5 лет назад +1

      I'm guilty of multiple viewings as well lmao
      So cool.

    • @rumyfrogg
      @rumyfrogg 5 лет назад

      I watched it backwards 4 times and now I am 2 years old. I think I crapped my pants.

    • @MrRugbyloosehead
      @MrRugbyloosehead 5 лет назад

      I've watched it and then started dreaming the trip! but in my dream the further I get away from Earth the more she falters ,soon like he said photosynthesis starts to break down? {{{STRANGE DREAMS}}}

  • @KD-oi9sk
    @KD-oi9sk 3 года назад +55

    Its when you hear this stuff you realise we're never going anywhere, we're never finding out whats out there, and we really ought to consider where we are a lot more.

    • @eliyates1691
      @eliyates1691 3 года назад +7

      We’re way more obsessed with what’s out there vs what’s inside.

    • @afigueroa0331
      @afigueroa0331 3 года назад +8

      Bruh we went from monkeys to a advance species with in a couple thousand years in 100k more years imagine where will be.. stop being negative and think bigger...

    • @b0bethey342
      @b0bethey342 3 года назад

      Hey look out is’t Nietzshe’s newest follower

    • @maxoforce2920
      @maxoforce2920 3 года назад +1

      If there were no borders and humanity worked togheter for once we could look further then the moon.. or any other death planet. I canhardly believe that earth is the only planet were living is possible

    • @afigueroa0331
      @afigueroa0331 3 года назад +2

      @robert punu what about that we already went there like the moon for instance or even better yet the rovers on Mars?? Are these fake your saying...

  • @Alcatrazrezz
    @Alcatrazrezz Год назад +1

    4yrs later and almost 200 videos this video still gives me some existential dread. This was the first video I watched on your channel

  • @antionettewardell2151
    @antionettewardell2151 5 лет назад +52

    His voice was captivating and his chosen words were useful to understand such a complex as space travel. This was an excellent video. Thank you for producing it.

  • @faridsa1418
    @faridsa1418 5 лет назад +44

    This was surprisingly emotional. Really felt the onions at the end there.

    • @GnoneckOG
      @GnoneckOG 5 лет назад

      I like onions.

    • @GnoneckOG
      @GnoneckOG 5 лет назад

      @John Jay
      Hrmm, reminds me of my first heroic dose of 13 grams dried psilocybin on an empty stomach in pure darkness... tippy stuff indeed.
      Btw, I like your rabbit hole

    • @GnoneckOG
      @GnoneckOG 5 лет назад

      @John Jay
      LSD had a very synthetic feel with some u desired side effects while coming down. My next endeavor is looking like ayahuasca

  • @longcharbenable
    @longcharbenable 4 года назад +21

    The way he says "you and your crew" is everything

  • @retf054ewte3
    @retf054ewte3 Год назад +2

    speaking in a human manner, with no advertising rush, is delightful.

  • @Ingelo648
    @Ingelo648 4 года назад +72

    Absolutely mind blowing, emotionally moving, inmersive, inspirational and one of the best productions I've the pleasure of finding, totally worth sharing it and revisiting many times.
    You're narration skills are amazing, thanks a lot for all the effort and love you put into this work!

    • @rossreardon4640
      @rossreardon4640 4 года назад +5

      I walked away from this amazing video, surprisingly grasping and understanding what he was explaining. It simply blew me away!!

    • @stephenmburu206
      @stephenmburu206 4 года назад +1

      After relating this video to the Quran's explanation. I just feel like getting on a prolonged sujuud till I exit the land of the living to transit to the next phase.

  • @DreamsAreLies
    @DreamsAreLies 4 года назад +94

    If I could have had this dude as a teacher I would’ve been a theoretical physicist for sure. Maybe even my own Sheldon, too.

    • @antoniolau8762
      @antoniolau8762 4 года назад +5

      That was the best RUclips recommendation I''ve ever received.

    • @savioartwork
      @savioartwork 3 года назад

      Yes true, he is very cute

    • @colinjava8447
      @colinjava8447 3 года назад

      @@savioartwork A little bit gay, but yeah, he's a decent looking guy for a nerd.

    • @mr.makedonija2627
      @mr.makedonija2627 3 года назад

      @@antoniolau8762 ever

  • @vivianleenet
    @vivianleenet 4 года назад +421

    Me before this video: "Oh awesome, a science fiction-y video! Time for some lighthearted space travel fun!"
    Me after this video: *existential crisis*

    • @paolomartini150
      @paolomartini150 4 года назад +8

      Exactly the same here.

    • @cjmacq-vg8um
      @cjmacq-vg8um 4 года назад +6

      you know, existential crises are like traveling to the edge of the universe. they're both best when experienced with a friend.

    • @thehellyousay
      @thehellyousay 4 года назад +2

      It's okay. You'll be fine. Just breathe.

    • @cjmacq-vg8um
      @cjmacq-vg8um 4 года назад +7

      anyone wanna see something really depressing? watch - TIMELAPSE OF THE FUTURE: A Journey to the End of Time at - ruclips.net/video/uD4izuDMUQA/видео.html.
      its both the most depressing and strangely beautiful videos i've ever seen. it will either leave you sad or INSPIRED! it will make you ask - why on earth do humans continue to listen to an elite that's so petty and greedy they want nothing but to divide us, pit us against each other so they maintain their domination over us all.
      there are more important things than MONEY, materialism, power and dominance! why do we continue to allow the elite to create a world that COMPLETELY distracts us from THIS FACT! this world the elite has created corrupts are natural instincts and skews our very view of reality.
      anyway, its a cool flick, check it out.

    • @sherylmac40
      @sherylmac40 4 года назад +2

      Can I ask what a " existential crisis" is about?.... I just love stuff about space. Can you help me with your knowledge please?.

  • @RJTroncoso
    @RJTroncoso Год назад +4

    Weirdly enough… i feel like I was in the spaceship my mind travelled while he tells his story. I started freaking out because I’m conscious enough to realize that’s some scary roller coaster trip to be on.

  • @brettmurphy7588
    @brettmurphy7588 3 года назад +282

    This is so cool but in a terribly depressing way. The things we can never know, its hard to fight the feeling of nihilism when I watch this.

    • @michelhickey5765
      @michelhickey5765 3 года назад +7

      I don't worry about dieing
      Saying that, don't worry about living, and just live your life, tbh stop watching these types of video, i only use these video's for abstract thinking from the normal boring world
      The end isnt here yet (yet could be long after your lifecycle)

    • @miramuchachito296
      @miramuchachito296 3 года назад +3

      I was thinking the same like being the first and the last person to see all that wonder. I feel sad after this video. It's so hopeless great work one of my favourites video in YT

    • @jamesanthony5681
      @jamesanthony5681 3 года назад +13

      It's anything but depressing to me. There are things we'll never know like intelligent life in other galaxies because the distances are just so great. It will probably take another 10 Einsteins and 10 Dawkins before we fully understand the Big Bang, how something came from nothing, and how life evolved on earth.

    • @jjjjj7463
      @jjjjj7463 3 года назад +17

      @@michael.forkert You have brain worms, my friend.

    • @redsoxers
      @redsoxers 3 года назад +18

      @@michael.forkert You need some serious medical help.

  • @TheJonix46
    @TheJonix46 3 года назад +16

    This is one of the best, if not the best, RUclips videos ever. Simply breathtaking. I watch it every now and then, every since it was released. Thank you, Professor!

  • @exoplanets
    @exoplanets 5 лет назад +1372

    This video is a master piece.

    • @CoolWorldsLab
      @CoolWorldsLab  5 лет назад +79

      Thanks so much, it was a big effort to put this one together!

    • @jetplane5295
      @jetplane5295 5 лет назад +4

      What a load of theoretical nonsense!
      Sorry dude but people are waking up to the fact that the Earth is flat and stationary with space being a lie.
      I guess you can get away with doing this when the majority believe it but your time is almost up!
      People need to be shown so if our solar system is anything to go by when it’s closely looked at then the universe is just a story!
      Everyone needs to look on RUclips for,
      ‘Real stars and planets’
      It will blow your mind I promise!
      It’s video footage from the legendary Nikon P900 high powered zoom camera of the luminaries😍
      Tesla said it was an electric universe and once you see these images you’ll definitely agree.
      Or just type in Mars P 900 and tell me you think fElony Musk could shoot his load to a luminary!

    • @christopherbrooks1402
      @christopherbrooks1402 5 лет назад +21

      @@CoolWorldsLab this is one of the most interesting space videos I've ever seen and believe me I've seen them all! A truly brilliant insight into the realms of cosmic wonder and narrated soo well.. keep em coming 😎

    • @kevinmilam3822
      @kevinmilam3822 5 лет назад +23

      Wordsmith for a year. Iiiiiiiiiiiiidddddddddiiiiiiiiiioooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooottttttttttttt

    • @Electronicmedium1111
      @Electronicmedium1111 5 лет назад +4

      Well said!

  • @frankforke
    @frankforke Год назад +10

    I truly have become to love this channel. Since Cosmos from Carl Sagan I haven't been so inspired by astronomy. This episode is mind boggling. Thank you for this great gift to us!

  • @kennyzraht5804
    @kennyzraht5804 3 года назад +55

    My whole life I was fascinated with the outer space: this ultimate journey, 99% of us will never make.

    • @SunTzuMedia
      @SunTzuMedia 3 года назад +5

      Even more than that! Such a sad, sobering thought

    • @wellofsevenph
      @wellofsevenph 3 года назад +1

      Hey, you'll never know, we're still alive!

    • @turkishwarriormapper7641
      @turkishwarriormapper7641 3 года назад +9

      @MrCheezl420 nice joke

    • @turkishwarriormapper7641
      @turkishwarriormapper7641 3 года назад +10

      @MrCheezl420 lol just shut up,and find more funny jokes from the internet.Thats what yous are best at.

    • @chrismoper8191
      @chrismoper8191 3 года назад +7

      @MrCheezl420 lol I believe the joke is definitely that the earth is flat thinking earth is flat is just not understanding science

  • @AsharpVocalAcademy
    @AsharpVocalAcademy 5 лет назад +83

    Woah that was intense. I’ve never said this about anyone except Attenborough before, but I could listen to you narrate something forever. Maybe even for as long as time itself ;)

  • @FeralMutiny
    @FeralMutiny 4 года назад +33

    There is something so mind-blowing and, at the same time, so heart-achingly sad about time. Thank you for the brief journey!

    • @reticul8r64
      @reticul8r64 4 года назад +1

      And also about how unimaginably incredibly vast the universe is.....maybe because they say that time and space are intimately and permanently connected.

    • @rockmanharbinger3622
      @rockmanharbinger3622 4 года назад +1

      TIME IS BEAUTIFUL..Time is Renewal..Once you master Time you get to 😎ROCKMAN.

  • @TheRobeyRober
    @TheRobeyRober 8 месяцев назад +1

    What an incredible human being you are! Thank you for these amazing videos, please don’t stop making them! I have a 5 year old and a 3 year old, and can’t wait till they’re old enough to watch this with me…

  • @dannyeast1884
    @dannyeast1884 4 года назад +22

    Honestly this is one of the most amazing and thought provoking videos I have seen in a while

  • @TheWye
    @TheWye 5 лет назад +30

    This is an incredibly well-done video. Your narration is also beautifully done. Thank you for the amazing journey.

  • @ira1420
    @ira1420 5 лет назад +24

    Just discovered your channel, immediately subscribed. Usually I'm not into videos that last for more than 15 minutes but BOI, since I started this video I've never thought, not one time, to close the video and go watch another one. I was literally hypnotized. You explain so complicated stuff in such a simple, complete, and fascinating way!!! If eventually you will close this channel, that should be considered a crime against humankind!

  • @bwctubes
    @bwctubes Год назад +1

    Nothing is more humbling, or feels more important and edifying, than astronomy / astrophysics / cosmology. The death of the universe never fails to bring a tear to my eye. I was in tears at the end of this video.

  • @nangephriam1211
    @nangephriam1211 4 года назад +13

    "Let us use the time we have wisely." It is 30 minutes long but I feel it is only 5 minutes. Mesmerizing video. Love every bit of it.

    • @bronwindraney5111
      @bronwindraney5111 4 года назад +1

      This may tickle your fancy. ruclips.net/user/results?search_query=thunderboltsproject+black+holes

  • @PasszivMilliomos
    @PasszivMilliomos 5 лет назад +46

    Wow! Super stunning edits with poetic narration! Best video I have seen in years. Keep up the good work!!

    • @robertkidd3812
      @robertkidd3812 5 лет назад

      Agree. I posted a comment on your comment.

  • @deedarwahab6482
    @deedarwahab6482 5 лет назад +21

    This video is really a masterpiece, I didn’t even feel the time, 30 minutes have passed without even feeling it, thanks for the great video 👏🏻

  • @tonnitoedwards
    @tonnitoedwards 2 месяца назад +2

    The mastery of the presentation is concise...this is the fourth time watching, actually listening..and I was little bit tipsy, shed a tear..not gonna lie...wow it hit different today.

  • @allongreenstein2560
    @allongreenstein2560 4 года назад +106

    Amazingly, each minute was more mind-blowing than the previous minute! Thank you!

    • @adimudiraj
      @adimudiraj 4 года назад

      Bruh

    • @beberivera7011
      @beberivera7011 4 года назад +1

      Exponentially so...😉😁

    • @bronwindraney5111
      @bronwindraney5111 4 года назад

      This may blow your mind. ruclips.net/user/results?search_query=thunderboltsproject+black+holes

    • @bronwindraney5111
      @bronwindraney5111 4 года назад

      It doesn't take much to blow a weak mind.

    • @beberivera7011
      @beberivera7011 4 года назад

      @@bronwindraney5111 that makes me so happy for you! Glad you enjoyed it too😊

  • @rubbersole79
    @rubbersole79 3 года назад +473

    "We are either alone in the universe, or we aren't. Both are equally terrifying." - Arthur C. Clark

    • @vhyles
      @vhyles 3 года назад +13

      So original

    • @nuryuzlucellat
      @nuryuzlucellat 3 года назад +25

      I hate to be that guy but it's Arthur C. Clarke. Just had to correct it out of some overzeaolus respect for him.

    • @rubbersole79
      @rubbersole79 3 года назад +2

      @@nuryuzlucellat I get that...

    • @Superknullisch
      @Superknullisch 3 года назад +4

      As classic, beautiful and concise that quote might look at a quick glans.. I beg you all to differ, upon a closer look..
      Because if the latter would encounter us..
      Before we encounter them..
      It would surely spell our utter and complete demise..
      And if the reverse, would be the case..
      Well.. let me put it this way..
      We haven't exactly been alone for very long now, have we? At the top of the food chain in evolutionary terms, I mean..
      Apparently, we didn't think to highly of the "others"..

    • @TheNecessaryEvil
      @TheNecessaryEvil 3 года назад +6

      Being alone is terrifying. Aliens may or may not be.

  • @justindavis8793
    @justindavis8793 4 года назад +9

    this guy breaks it down better than most I've seen before.
    that universal eye bit is tremendous