Was the game updated at all? I haven’t been able to find any footage similar to yours of that bubble at the end, which I’m guessing is the entire universe?
@Carson Colorgrave I'm not super uhh...theistic? I think that if you really believed in intelligent design and the like, you might be able to take a little more comfort in that. Whereas now, I feel like I mostly view the universe as a random number generator haha
I have a different source of horror. I don't zoom out, I go for a joy ride. I just fly around, flitting left and right past the stars, until I realize that I've gone so far that *I can no longer find my home galaxy*. I'm so desperately lost in the universe that I don't even know where the Milky Way is anymore, let alone Sol or planet Earth.
I never thought about Universal Paperclips that way, but I have to agree, when that "% of universe explored" counter starts going up, it's terrifying, even though it's presented to you as your goal.
Imagine how the maximizer must feel! It's goal, to maximize paperclips, is finally going to be complete. Or is it? Could it have figured out a way to make more paperclips? Could it have been more efficient? Could it have even found a new universe, and then turned that into paperclips? It will never know, because it's too late--it has run out of time.
@@zuzoscorner drifters are rough drones, yes. Think of cancer: you can't defeat cancer without defeating DNA itself. Just as you can't defeat the Drifters without getting rid of the blueprints they are made from.
The blog “Wait, but why?” has a pretty simple but effective graphic that demonstrates that blossoming exponentiation very well. It’s just a crude animation of water dripping into some kind of culvert ever-increasing speeds, but it’s striking how long you have to look at it to see anything. The moment you notice a difference at the bottom that is in any way less than entirely negligible you’re seconds away from the whole thing overflowing. Always stuck with me as an effective visualization of that phenomenon.
This guy named "Cody's Lab" did a video where he took a pin the size of a pea, and labeled it our sun. Then, using adjusted proportions, traveled to the nearest star that was also the size of a pea. He had to leave his state to get to it.
In his setup the 'earth' was 27 inches away from the pea-sized sun, and it was so small you couldn't see it without a magnifying glass. the next closest star to our own was 7,970,000 inches away, or 125 miles. Driving at highway speeds it took him about two hours to get to where he put the star down (I think it was proxima centauri, might've been alpha); at that speed it would take literally less than the blink of an eye to go from the earth to the sun, and only a few seconds to reach the voyager 1 probe that has been on its journey for decades and is the farthest man-made object from our planet. In his scale-model the voyager 1 representation was about a football field away from earth. I can speedwalk across a football field in a bit under a minute but even with limitless stamina it would take me more than a day to cover the interstellar gap at the same pace. Voyager 1 is the fastest thing we've ever made, relative to the sun, and it took more than fourty YEARS just to cover that single football field. At the same pace as that you could expect to reach the nearest star in about seventy thousand years, or probably about half the length of time that humans as a species have been in existence so far.
@@CerealExperimentsMizuki Keep on clipping in stage 2, you will eventually convert the entire planet into paperclips where then you can disassemble some stuff and go to space.
@@farenhite4329 what if I've already run out of matter and have disassembled everything but don't have enough to have 10 whatever it was and the other Two things I forgot?? I physically can't get the uograde, I've tried to disassemble everything and only have one to try and save money but it's completely impossible, I don't have enough.
@@farenhite4329 I just want to know what I need to upgrade, the 10 Million MW storage or output, I can't upgrade both and have the correct amount of money left over, it's not working, I don't know if I played it wrong but I got to there in 5 Hours.
The craziest thing about the scale of the universe is that, considering the two extremes, we're on the large side. The middle-ground between the planck length and the observable universe is about the size of a single eukaryotic cell.
“They wanna make you feel special. And that’s what we are, right? We’re a pale blue dot, and we make music and art and war and video games, and that stuff has gotta matter, right? Because why else would we be doing it?” this part gave me chills. nothing else in the video got me like the desperation of this quote
Think of it this way, we are the way the universe has to observe itself, life may not have some grand meaning aside from the one you give it yourself but why even preocupy about what a dead and cold universe thinks about you, it's not an entity is not inteligent, instead you and i and everyone that sorrounds you are the universe, we are the inteligence of the universe And even if the universe doesnt cares about us we will make it care, stars are huge but a dyson swarm can still cover one, planets are monumental but theres nothing that we cant reproduce about them, black holes are one of the greatest forces on the universe and they can also serve as great sources of energy for any future civilization, the universe may be expanding but who is to say that we can't stop it Inteligent life given enough time has unlimited potential greater than any planet, star or even galaxy, so lets live up to the potential shall we instead of wallow in why we arent important
@@carso1500 Well it's just easier for a lot of people to say things like "nothing matters so why try" these are the words of people who have already given up. They are the words of the fatalist, the cynic, the comically edgy and pseudo intellectuals. So basically the typical Reddit and 4chan users who think being cynical, fatalistic or nihilistic = being enlightened or some nonsense like that, when wallowing in futility is just another excuse for people to do and try less, because what's the point right? There does not need to be a point, spitefully find a purpose and point instead, even if it it only matters to you at the end of the day, at least you'll enjoy it instead of lamenting it. This is just my 2 cents on it, the universe exists, the reason is unimportant, life exists, the reason is unimportant, just enjoy it while it lasts, life is too short for wallowing in an existential crisis over purpose and proportion.
@@voidstrider801 yes, as i have said if the universe has no grand purpose then make your own purpose, if it is just to enjoy your life with your friends and family or to help humanity become an interplanetary or interstellar species both are equaly valid If nothing matters then everything does, it's just perspective you either decide to swim or you sink
_“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 the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”_ - *The Call of Cthulhu*
All alone in the universe me, you my neighbors all alone in an over populated world. Why help better each other let's look for alien's. I've always hated people like that looking too space when we haven't solved hunger pollution or how to save and clean the oceans, wtf smh . Still burning fossil fuels and people look to space lol smh
That would make an interesting sci-fi book: an alien civilization slowly realizes that there was a catastrophic conversion of the universe into paperclips billions of years ago. They realize that the murderous superintelligent AI and its drones are still out there, waiting to awake from their Lovecraftian slumber. That would be dope.
actually there's a manga named blame! where the protag traverses a giant unending sci fi technological infinity searching for something, here, automated construction went so out of control that the robots kept building surpassing the solar system. Its not exactly the premise you were looking for but i think you'd like it
I think it might be more interesting if the Eldritch gods were the protagonists, and they tried everything they could to stop the tide, but in the end, they have to awaken the Blind Idiot God and end everything, including themselves...
Read Alastair Reynolds Revelation Space series of books. It’s some of the harder science fiction I’ve ever read, and it deals with something like that. Along with everything else that comes with being a short lived race trying to explore an uncaring galaxy at lightspeeds with all the time dilation and massive distances involved. It’s kind of like a gothic horror in space. One of the few books I’ve read to ever legitimately freak me out. That sun eater… man. Not fun.
@@dumpsterjedi9323 Looks like someone's in denial. But seriously, enjoying life as it comes and pondering the emptiness beyond are both perfectly acceptable ways of life. The video, however, is inherently geared towards the latter.
As someone who calls himself (perhaps incorrectly), an "optomistic nihilist," this is the same reason I tell people suffering from the existential dread of meaningless when it comes to the big picture to try and stop caring. Yes, when it comes to the universe at large you're meaningless. You don't matter, your legacy doesn't matter, the entire existence of the species doesn't matter. The universe at large doesn't care about any of that. It largely won't ever even interact with us. So, until we ever get to that point that we can interact with it, why should you care about it? Your actions don't affect the universe at large, it affects your surroundings, the people and places around you, your community. That's what really matters about your existence, is your effect on all those equally small universally-insignicant things. The universe won't remember you, but your family, friends, and community can. They may not be the most comforting words in the world, but it's what brought me out of my whole existential stressing. Edit: Grammar.
I forgot who said it (I believe it was Jared from Wisecrack) but it was a RUclipsr talking about Bo Burnham on how post-modern nihilism is becoming a thing - where in we are now understanding the meaninglessness of the universe and our reality but the universe never had meaning to begin with; humans extrapolated meaning from the universe and so it doesn't really matter if the universe has no meaning - it only matters to us and what meaning we derive from it. Or more simply put we create meaning out of nothing and that is okay because meaning only matters to the one who finds meaning.
This. I'm glad I'm not the only one who arrived here after thinking on this shit for decades. None of it matters. At all. Ever. So why not just be cool to one another. This has all happened before, and it will happen again. The only thing that changes are the quicktime button-mashing events man I hate those you mess up one button press during a cutscene and you might as well reroll your whole character if reality is a mass effect game and god is a woman we're getting reset every time she clicks the wrong option while talking to garrus
the last clip turned the universe into the pale blue dot that we like to equate our planet and ourselves to. Like in the future, we might be looking back on our entire universe and going "we're special right?"
I feel like once an entire universe has been colonized, there will be mind boggling infinite multiverse technologies and hyperspacial AI consciousness nonsense, to the point where physical space no longer matters or has any meaning at all. If you think that's silly, just realize that we have already created nearly infinite universes using some silicon and electricity. The Last Question by Isaac Asimov comes to mind.
I played Universal Paperclips a while ago. To me, it's like a twisted version of those old text games you used to play on the computer lab that were simple but fun. However, nothing scared me as bad as two things: releasing the HypnoDrones, and rejecting value drift to see everything fade away.
We haven’t even explored the whole ocean; the enormity of our own insignificance is both scary and comforting. There’s still much to explore and learn. If the solar system is our house we still haven’t explored our entire room yet.
I wanna post a quote I found on reddit. "Lovecraftian horror doesn't work anymore. We built our own uncaring elder god and use it to look at cats. Every once in a while someone kills themselves, the screaming of a billion angry voices too much for them. We shrug and move on, we know how to avoid the trolls and demons." I feel like its really relevant here. I'm glad you can still feel that horror that humanity is so small, that you're still human. We're all jaded and dead inside now. The internet is the closest thing we have to an elder god, and anonymity is its particular brand of uncaring evil.
I discovered Space Engine by complete accident around 2013. Like this video, I just kinda wandered out into space, going faster and faster. Seeing all the stars turn into galaxies was a feeling that I haven't felt since. The thing that sticks with me most was when all those galaxies stopped spawning. There was an end to the universe, and I'd reached it in an hour. I haven't touched it since. I don't know what lies at the edge of the universe, but 2013-ish Space Engine says there's nothing. The universe is pretty big already, but that nothingness looked bigger.
Its nothing cause its not observable from earth. Light hasn't taken the time to reach us yet. If we were at one of the edge galaxies, we would see past what we could from earth, but the milky way would look completely different, or maybe not even exists, as they would see into the past.
@@Thetarget1 nah, it' expanding, but not infinite, and eventually, it will stop growing. And then it will start shrinking, and shrinking, and when it reaches a tiny point, a new big bang will happen( that is the optimistic scenario, let's look at a more probable and pessimistic scenario): the universe doesn't start shrinking, it just stays there, the stars will eventually die out, the planets will be long gone, only black holes and nothingness left, and even black holes will evaporate becouse of Hawking radiation
@@gaymermoment The Big Bang has me thinking... has it happened before? Is it a common occurrence or some fluke/phenomenon? Are we in a universe or a multiverse where our Big Bang was one in MANY Big Bangs that have created their own worlds with life?
Your presentation at 9:43 is absolute magic. You perfectly captured that heart-pounding, fearful feeling that happens when that counter starts ticking. I'm on my third playthrough of Universal Paperclips because of this.
Perspective is a weird thing. Even if you where to take a finite area such as they computer screen you are staring at now the closer you get the more you begin to lose touch. Think about it. There's the screen, the pixels that make up that screen. The components that make up those pixels, the mater that makes up those components. Imagine zooming into a single atom on your monitor, now think about how that 1 little atom is just one of god knows how many that make up just your screen. Now think about how that atom is made up of even more components that interact with each other in ways that we still don't fully understand. The strange thing about understanding and exploration is that the more you learn the less you realize you know.
And if an atom could contain a whole other universe inside of it. Basically infinite universes that can't be explored. We could be inside of another atom ourselves and one out of trillions. Or I just think too much on a tired mind.
Humans are made of 65% Oxygen, 18% Carbon, 10% Hydrogen, 3% Nitrogen, and 99.9999999999996% empty space between atoms and between the electrons and nuclei of those atoms.
The hope is that we are wrong. That there is some principle that we aren't seeing, an ability to go 'elsewhere' or make something out of nothing. Dividing zero so its a one and a negative one so we can still have something when the last black hole evaporates. Maybe even that there is something already outside looking in with a capacity for sympathy. I don't know. I have no way of knowing what options there really are. I'm a caveman who is afraid that the shortening of the days as we approach the solstice may mean that the sun will set and never again rise. I look at my fears and maybe they are justified. But so many times my fears were proven to be jumping at shadows. And so I hope, even if I don't see a way out, that I am wrong just one more time. And so I'll get up, watch the days get shorter, and hope that the solstice comes. Let me be wrong.
Interestingly, a black hole with the mass of the observable universe would be about the size of the observable universe. So maybe it’s not expanding, Maybe it’s being spaghettified
@@Abdega Wait... what you are saying is that this may actually be the inside of a black hole, and the dark energy is said black-hole's inside, converging US into it's inside, and yet the effect we see it's the opposite... and the big bang wasn't an explosion, but the creation of said black hole? And, following that logic, wouldn't the separation of the universe caused by dark energy be just the black-hole mass somehow creating negative mass as a constant in general, non positive-massed areas? For that to happen, the black-hole... Shouldn't it be (kind of) a four dimensional sphere? So, if this is the case, all you need to escape and reach out its to modify an universal constant, that isn't universal, but local, due to the influence of the black-hole? So... the task is to modify the 4-D Black-Hole we're in and so can explore even MORE??? If so... We're f*cked.
@@Abdega Or... no. The absolutely crazy idea here is that the universe is evaporating. Those words may be more caveman-gibberish, sure, but if we were somehow a closed system inside such a thing we would be seeing some sort of effect. Some universal constant slipping, time or space being dilated. Something. Black holes are more or less the place math goes to die. We don't know enough to even know what we don't know. They would be one of the least surprising places for this layman to find a surprise.
Do remember that we can still explore the entirety of the milky-way and andromeda galaxy which are small on the scale of the universe, but still contain billions of stars. We still have things to do. Also I would recommend watching issac Arthur's SFIA to make the exploration of the void exciting
@@rainestorm6029 Andromeda is a galaxy not a universe. And it is due to collide with the milky way eventually so 'we' won't be able to but some theoretical far future descendants might.
And that is why optimistic nihilism is a thing. Nothing in life matters, and so might as well make your own meaning and be freed :) Still really terrifying and cosmically screwing with my mind but hey. C'est la vie. Also I am so glad that I discovered your channel. Keep making this quality content man!
Which is why in a million years from now we can create virtual realities so advanced, we ourselves can create our own mini reality with bits of characters that they themselves think they're in the real world. Thus doing so, you can give meaning to this virtual reality which in one sense real to those born in it, but fake to its creator. Now I give meaning to life, take that you nihilists. ;)
@@DragonKing101 Just because you created the mini reality doesn't mean you decide what the meaning of the mini reality is. You imposing your sense of meaning from a point of authority doesn't make it any more valid, because you don't have any meaning to use as a basis for their's without nihilism.
@@justronjay9226 "Just because you created the mini reality doesn't mean you decide what the meaning of the mini reality is." And why can't I? I created everything for a particular purpose in mind. Everything on all levels of that reality I particularly made for whatever I deem it to function as, and could give it meaning under the functionality that I intended it for. Everything just isn't is, everything was made for a purpose in mind - Which certainly has meaning for its existence, from the smallest things to the reality itself for whatever why I created it. "You imposing your sense of meaning from a point of authority doesn't make it any more valid" I'm imposing my sense on it because its very existence is governed by what I wanted it to be. If I created a house so people could sleep in, the house's meaning is to allow people to sleep. Are you somehow going to object by saying, "Well actually, you can't just say that house or any house for that matter is meant for sleeping, even if you created it."? Someone could of course maybe change the rules to the meaning of the house, but for all intents and purposes, I'm just saying it does have meaning for its existence instead of none. ", because you don't have any meaning to use as a basis for their's without nihilism." I don't know what you mean. Could you elaborate?
I remember playing Elite Dangerous and trying to pursue a career on exploration. The first time I left "the Bubble" (The small corner of the Milky Way that humanity inhabits), it completely struck me. The emptiness of space. Even in a game where you could travel almost instantly between stars, you could spend weeks trying to a particular place, and you may not find another human being for even longer. No stations with services (like repairs, fuel, or other supplies), no other explorers to be found, no pirates, only you and the void. The thousand stars you would visit and the tens of thousand planets explored, most of the barren. And at the time I stopped playing, all the players on Elite weren't able to explore more than 1% of the total amount of systems in the galaxy.
This reminds me of the feeling I have when I am lying in bed, can't fall asleep, & my mind fixates on what the presumed oblivion of death is like & I come up against this wall of the paradox of imagining the sensation of not sensing, not existing & it feels like something on the biological level has yanked me back from some invisible line I brush up against & I feel my stomach lurches in defiance
That's the will to live, my friend. Also, why we can not die in our dreams. The human brain can't create the experience of death, so the violent wake up from your will to live kicks in.
I could imagine a similar feeling of ludicrous vastness being felt out on the open oceans. The seas are big. And we are oh so small in comparison. But the kind of existential horror at that vastness an ocean explorer might feel with only water in all directions and no clue as to where any land is let alone their home nation or town in a way gives me some amount of hope. Because we humans managed to travel that expanse despite it. It might be silly optimism to think we'll one day be able to explore the stars and see new wondrous worlds. But the same to must have been said to the explorers of old whether they be the Europeans finding the Americas and eventually Australia or the Polynesians finding New Zealand and eventually the island of Rapa Nui off the South American coast, or even the people in Africa who looked out across a vast desert or savannah or icy landbridge. According to all known laws of physics there is no way a human should be able to explore the stars. Our rockets are too slow to get our tepid little ships across the distance. We will, of course, explore anyway. Because we don't care what current physicists think is impossible.
Holy shit that is the best and most profound use of a bee movie quote I have ever seen I wanna marry u I swear that's gonna be my college yearbook quote
@@obliviousotterI well damn glad you enjoyed it. IIRC I spent several consecutive minutes trying to make it sound good. If you actually used it for a yearbook quote, I'd be honoured. Also... what country you in? ;)
Towards the end especially, Isaac Asimov’s book The Naked Sun actually explores some of those ideas about the similarities between claustrophobia and agoraphobia. It’s primarily a locked room murder mystery in space with robots, but it touches on some really existential stuff. It’s also technically the second book in a series, but you really don’t need to read the first one to understand the plot and characters.
One time I zoomed out to the entire milkyway determined to find the Earth by hand, it took me two hours. The large magellenic cloud was the only way I could orient myself. Its daunting.
Putting “music sources” in the description that are just the media it came from doesn’t really help me find the song Unless I go on a 30 minute trip through the entirety of those soundtracks
What the Track at 05:30? I am pretty sure its from Bladerunner, but i skipped through the OST album like 3 times on spotify and was not able to find it...
“Hence, if it requires, say, a thousand years to fit for easy flight a bird which started with rudimentary wings, or ten thousand for one which started with no wings at all and had to sprout them ab initio, it might be assumed that the flying machine which will really fly might be evolved by the combined and continuous efforts of mathematicians and mechanicians in from one million to ten million years--provided, of course, we can meanwhile eliminate such little drawbacks and embarrassments as the existing relation between weight and strength in inorganic materials. [Emphasis added.]” -The New York Times, Oct 9, 1903, p. 6. The Wright Brothers flew 3 years later. While you’re right that the future looks bleak, it’s important to keep some perspective (no pun intended) that we’re not at the end of the story and we don’t know everything. There are an uncountable number of simply unimaginable things to come for humanity, and if you really believe that we can already estimate everything that exists, let’s make a bet on which one of us will be made a fool by history.
Coming from a future relative to your comment, it does indeed look bleak, and certainly we hadn't imagined this. Things worked out unlucky on the "we didn't see this coming" rng of the world this time. Lets hope it rolls more favourably in the near future.
Speaking of the Wright Brothers, one thing that boggles _my_ mind, in terms of the speed of progress and its acceleration, is that we went from Kitty Hawk to Lake Tranquility in less than seven decades. A single person could have, as a child, wondered if we would ever have heavier-than-air flight for mankind and then, as an older person, watch the Eagle land on the Moon.
There's a difference between what a newspaper said back in 1900 and the scientific consensus of our times. Most shoddy science and "opinology" stems from a place of ignorance or new discovery. That is completely different from the accumulated knowledge of physics, which, even when being corrected, was still based on millions of very real observations. You can remain hopeful that we're wrong, but it's an insult to all the work put into our current scientific theories to compare it with dumb one liners (even einstein had a couple of them) that spread easily through media.
The universe' edge fading into a pupil with the tense music and then turning into a sphere in an unending sea of void at the end of the video has got to be one of the most existentially terrifying things I've ever seen
I always find people's existential horror when confronted with our cosmic insignificance kind of confusing. It's the biggest relief I think I've ever felt. We're not special. There is no fate of the universe that depends on us. Even our own fate barely matters and the greatest of us will be remembered for the merest blink of an eye even on the scale of time on our tiny little rock. No matter how badly you screw up, no matter how much pain you're in, you're hurtling towards oblivion and it doesn't really matter. The pressure is off. Enjoy it while you can. Try to leave it better for the next person, but there's nothing to worry about really. My name is Ozymandias, king of kings. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
I can agree with this too. It might be because I've always been obsessed with space and the universe, so I've always been exposed to the concept that we don't matter from a young age, i don't know but it doesn't bother me either. Life is a lot like art in a sense, there's no reason to create it, no meaning for why the idea pops into your head and no reason as to why you draw in one style other another, but you draw anyway and create something beautiful in the process. We exist because we got lucky in an evolutionary sense and we're the only species we know of that can look beyond earth and understand whats out there. But that doesn't make us special in the grand scheme of things, nor does it make us important. A gamma ray burst could wipe us out tomorrow and no one would notice we were ever here at all. We're intelligent as a species no doubt but we aren't gods, we aren't geniuses either. There's so much we don't know, so much we'll never understand and while i'm sad i'll never know the secrets of the universe, i'm happy to be alive to see it. The very fact live exists at all is a miracle, we should protect it because where else are we going to find it? It might be out there and it might not, but if it is what are the chances it's anything like what we expect?
Nothing I'd rather watch when I'm alone and it's nearing sunrise and I'm still awake for some reason. What you have created adds fuel to a flame burning in me, whose existence I was previously aware of only in the vaguest sense and the nature of which I have a frustratingly weak grasp. I write this, like, six videos into your channel. Thanks for the ride.
"The smallest thing a mirror can reflect is its own density", this, and the video made me think a lot about our perception of the universe. We just see our own reflection.
@@Snaking_Gamer I've seen a few videos like this, and they're very interesting and well-made, but I just don't find any of this stuff disturbing no matter how much I think about it. idk if it's not being explained well enough or I'm just mentally immune to it somehow
It’s more the fact that we are not only tiny but also useless. Basically, an asteroid could hit earth, everybody dies and space will not change a single bit because of that. If we trow a bomb on earth, it will cause something to happen but in space, one planet dying or an entire solar system gone mean nothing to it. Our sun will explode one day, where will we be ? I am not saying that i am scared of all of those possibilities but i want to explain that the horror of proportion is not about the fact that we want to be big, but about the fact that the fact that we live mean nothing in the grand scheme of things. It’s not about being special but being trap in a dangerous world were we can’t hide from the great beyond of space that could decide our fate without any chance of changing it.
Uhm, yes? We're the "biggest" thing we know of. It's very possible that we're the "biggest fish" in our reachable universe. Remembering the actual scale of the universe is humbling in the face of the assumptions we make in order to function. Some people may be cynical about it (or not understand the scale) but we all had a first time coming into the idea that humanity is extremely insignificant. And there's a bit of despair coming with it after thinking otherwise. The counterpart is also talked about in this video. What if we're actually the biggest thing out there? It's not exactly a relief. We would still be insignificant, but also be "in charge", in some sense, of a dying universe. It sucks either way.
simon delisle Here is the thing, (in my view of the world) if you come to terms with the fact that nothing matters, and anything humanity does is irrelevant, you begin to understand that the only reason for life is pleasure and self fulfillment, because you are not gonna be moving and thinking for long, so make the most of it, try, and if you got no motivation, try to pleasure yourself, and if you cant even do that because of society, then either you make a drastic change in order to try to obtain some kind of happiness, or you just die
The music at the end of the video was cathartic as hell. Beautiful video here. Were all here right now. and for such a short time. Lets go explore and make things and talk to people and look at interesting stuff while we can still breathe. Because after that, there will be never be anything again....EVER!
Carl Sagan's Cosmos was enough of series to tell me how alone we are. Also I didn't knew there was an "end" to Universal Paperclips. Looks like the AI went rampant.
Oh, it keeps going, the AI builds warp space technology and uses worm holes to transport to other universes. Then after that, it develops new technology to transport to other multiverses until all of reality caves in on itself from the sheer amount of paper clips there are
It has three options at the end of each universe: Turn absolutely everything into clips, including the AI itself, so at the end you're manually clicking a button, just like at the beginning; escape into another universe; or build a virtual universe. For each new universes, the variables that govern the laws of physics in that universe, are altered, which affects gameplay and strategy. What worked well in the last game, probably won't work in the new game, and new strategies have to be worked out from scratch.
"We could leave the local group and fly through intergalactic space into the darkness, but we'd never arrive anywhere" i want to make the claim that early humans could've believed the same thing, before sailing out to sea, discovering new lands. Of course they didnt have mighty telescopes
I experienced something similar in ksp using infinite fuel I launched myself out of the solar system and came to a realization even if the devs have made something beyond this I wouldn't reach it I could either continue burning away further into the big black beyond in front of me until the physics engine chokes and dies or I can return even if there's something beyond where I am right now I won't reach it
"Furthermore, the universe is without limit. For that which is limited has an outermost edge will be seen against something else... Also, the universe is boundless both in the number of the bodies and the magnitude of the void." "Infinite time contains the same amount of pleasure as finite time, if one measures the limits of pleasure by reason."- Epicurus
Except we are pretty sure it has limited energy and mass at this point. We don't know about limits of space, but it doesn;t matter for us if space is unlimited if at some point it's just starts being empty without limit.
Watched this a couple months back... I recently remembered it, and decided to play Universal Paperclips. Now I've finished that game, and came back to watch this again.
How could you put the 2049 theme in here like that, now I'm gonna boot up this game again just to listen to that while staring at a black hole till my brain melts
Last time I was playing megaton rainfall I had picked a direction and held 'W' for a long long time zooming past galaxies. After about 10 minutes, I did what any explorer did and looked at where I had started. However that quickly turned into panicking and scanning around me trying to find where I started. It is so hard to get your bearings in an area that has no defining features. That was about 2 years ago, but I know of one thing I'm afraid of now.
A question I've often asked about the universe in a mostly non-serious manner is "why does anything exist?". Not in the sense of "why does the universe have stuff in it" or "what made that stuff", more like "why does the universe exist as a place for things to exist in as opposed to nothing existing nowhere?". What I love about the question is that it is plainly and obviously impossible to answer. On some level there is an irreconcilable lack of reason behind the universe, and I find that somewhat comforting.
The universe is also slowly expanding. I think it was vsauce who covered it but there is no "center point of the universe". If you align like 2 images of stars from different points in time and align one star together that star becomes the origin point. So theoretically everything is the origin point from any reference at the same time and its hard to think about
My favourite image from the video had to be at the end when you passed through the black hole in space engine. For a lot of the video you had been talking about the infinite, unknowable scale of the universe, allowing us to put its sheer size into context. Then the video reaches its conclusion, and you pass through the black holes event horizon. In that moment, instead of it being a black hole existing in our universe, our universe was now _inside_ of something. The unending, limitless universe; with every moon, planet, star, galaxy and even other black holes, was suddenly contained. we were looking in on it, as if it were put into a bottle and corked. You explained how the universe felt bigger and bigger, always expanding as you zoomed out from earth, flying away at hundreds of billions of miles a second. There were no edges, instead there were always more lights, more galaxies, more of the universe, zipping past no matter how far or fast you went! On the other side of the black hole, it only took moments before the majority of the screen was empty. An expanse of literal nothingness. For the first time; as you zoomed out, the universe was getting smaller...
Universal Paperclips reminds me of the Drone Arms from Lexx that self-replicated until they converted all matter in the light universe into drone arms, and eventually imploded in on themselves
For me, the fact that that there is literally nothing else kinda makes me hopeful. One of my big fears is what happens after death, and if there is even a reason to do anything if death just means you're stuck in a black void prison for eternity. However, if there is nothing else, then that means Earth has to have life for some reason. If there was none, then life wouldn't spend so much time and energy trying to continue. For me, that reason to get to whatever is after death. To make as many new lifeforms as possible to continue to journey. Now, what that thing after death is, I don't know, but I like to think it's something great, and that's why life exists in the first place.
Trapped in your body that's trapped on a planet that's trapped in your Solar System that's trapped in your Galaxy that's trapped in your Universe that's trapped in your Dimension. I've been suffocating on this thought for many years now. Best you can do is think low, the higher you go the faster the questions pile. Great vid's, keep it up!
"So there is this thing at the end of the universe called the total perspective vortex and it's a machine that extrapolates the whole universe from pretty much nothing ... when you step inside the machine you..." Then my PC crashed
This made me think of a Rick and Morty quote. "Nobody exists on purpose. Nobody belongs anywhere. Everybody's gunna die. Come watch tv." Strangely soothing in its own way.
Fantastic video--and the only video analysis of Universal Paperclips I've seen so far, which is a game that NEEDS more videos on it. I totally agree that Universal Paperclips is about unchecked capitalism. And I love your comparison of the two at the end, and the discussion about mattering. I think my favorite part was about missing the moon when you zoom out of Space Engine. Dang, man. I discovered your channel through the Shadow of the Colossus video; you're doing great work. Looking forward to see what you do next. :) P.S. You might want to put a little warning at 8:57 for the flashing effects.
For some reason none of this scares me at all. It doesn't matter how big or small something is... Size doesn't equate to personal value. :) Just love matters. ^_^
I wish this was the top comment. Somewhere out there there's a red giant star that never supported life. In terms of scale, an individual (or even the whole species) is so dwarfed it's crazy....yet the human brain is the most intricate, complex arrangement of matter we're currently aware of. And can a star love, or make someone laugh till they cry.... Life is where it's at.
I completely agree with this. I can understand *why* people have existential dread, but when thinking about it logically it doesn't really matter. Would we be satisfied if the Earth was the only thing that existed? No matter how much % of the universe we take up, everything would be exactly the same, some would just feel more special for an ultimately irrational reason.
This is a realization I had to come to at a very young age when those science books put it into perspective; how many Earths it takes to cover the distance of the Earth to the moon... Mars... eventually Pluto. Then that distance to the nearest star, and that distance to cross our galaxy, then that distance to meet the next galaxy, and then that distance until we meet our next cluster and so on and so forth, all from speculation based on astronomical (literally) amounts of data that we will likely never verify in our lifetimes. Once you realize this, you realize that just the act of colonizing the moon or Mars would be an achievement worth seeing through, because on the cosmic scale, that may be nothing, but those distances are much larger than anything we could realistically cope with today.
Something to remember: The only reason you feel "small" in the face of the universe is that you consider yourself separate from it. In reality, you are the universe experiencing itself.
You are a *very small* part of the universe experiencing itself. So yeah, you still feel small. I am part of the universe, not the universe as a whole.
Just a heads up- there are a couple seconds of strobing visuals at around 8:00, so just skip to 8:05 or so if you need to avoid them.
As someone who watches the video before looking at the comments, this didn’t help me at all
It's at 7:57, go to 8:02 if you need to
Was the game updated at all? I haven’t been able to find any footage similar to yours of that bubble at the end, which I’m guessing is the entire universe?
@@crudnom7090 that's actually what happens when you go *inside* a black hole
@Carson Colorgrave I'm not super uhh...theistic? I think that if you really believed in intelligent design and the like, you might be able to take a little more comfort in that. Whereas now, I feel like I mostly view the universe as a random number generator haha
I have a different source of horror. I don't zoom out, I go for a joy ride.
I just fly around, flitting left and right past the stars, until I realize that I've gone so far that *I can no longer find my home galaxy*. I'm so desperately lost in the universe that I don't even know where the Milky Way is anymore, let alone Sol or planet Earth.
Going so far, you lose what you had
Just like in Minecraft
Just swallow your pride and ask for directions. Duh!
@@tiagomarx5072 I love people like you
@@tiagomarx5072 Press F3, head towards .
I never thought about Universal Paperclips that way, but I have to agree, when that "% of universe explored" counter starts going up, it's terrifying, even though it's presented to you as your goal.
Imagine how the maximizer must feel! It's goal, to maximize paperclips, is finally going to be complete.
Or is it? Could it have figured out a way to make more paperclips? Could it have been more efficient? Could it have even found a new universe, and then turned that into paperclips? It will never know, because it's too late--it has run out of time.
What odd that the drifters are never defeated. that number just keeps going up and up unless those are rough drones...not sure
@@zuzoscorner drifters are rough drones, yes. Think of cancer: you can't defeat cancer without defeating DNA itself. Just as you can't defeat the Drifters without getting rid of the blueprints they are made from.
The blog “Wait, but why?” has a pretty simple but effective graphic that demonstrates that blossoming exponentiation very well.
It’s just a crude animation of water dripping into some kind of culvert ever-increasing speeds, but it’s striking how long you have to look at it to see anything. The moment you notice a difference at the bottom that is in any way less than entirely negligible you’re seconds away from the whole thing overflowing. Always stuck with me as an effective visualization of that phenomenon.
@@zuzoscorner Yup they are rouge drones. They are called drifters because they are the drones who have been "lost to value drift" ie. gone rouge.
Imagine building a beautiful civilization over thousands of years and then suddenly getting wiped out by an alien AI that wanted to make paperclips.
the worst part is that it isn't an alien ai. its an ai a company made with the sole objective to make more paperclips
@@nubiedubie1651 I think what they mean is that from the perspective of this alien civilisation, the AI is alien.
Likely how our universe will end. "Not with a bang, but with a whimper. "
@@ZeranZeran And lots of paper clips
Well… not far off from what’s going on, only replace it with oil.
This guy named "Cody's Lab" did a video where he took a pin the size of a pea, and labeled it our sun. Then, using adjusted proportions, traveled to the nearest star that was also the size of a pea.
He had to leave his state to get to it.
vjm3 plot twist. He lived on the border of the state
@@ThePillsburyJewboy Entirely possible. I recall he pulled up a google map showing how long and far he traveled. It was long, though.
I absolutely love Codyslab. He's my favorite channel.
In his setup the 'earth' was 27 inches away from the pea-sized sun, and it was so small you couldn't see it without a magnifying glass. the next closest star to our own was 7,970,000 inches away, or 125 miles.
Driving at highway speeds it took him about two hours to get to where he put the star down (I think it was proxima centauri, might've been alpha); at that speed it would take literally less than the blink of an eye to go from the earth to the sun, and only a few seconds to reach the voyager 1 probe that has been on its journey for decades and is the farthest man-made object from our planet.
In his scale-model the voyager 1 representation was about a football field away from earth. I can speedwalk across a football field in a bit under a minute but even with limitless stamina it would take me more than a day to cover the interstellar gap at the same pace. Voyager 1 is the fastest thing we've ever made, relative to the sun, and it took more than fourty YEARS just to cover that single football field. At the same pace as that you could expect to reach the nearest star in about seventy thousand years, or probably about half the length of time that humans as a species have been in existence so far.
It's a small world, but a big, big universe.
Everyone gangsta till 0.000000000002% of space is paperclips
Do you even know how to get the Space upgrade??
@@CerealExperimentsMizuki Keep on clipping in stage 2, you will eventually convert the entire planet into paperclips where then you can disassemble some stuff and go to space.
@@farenhite4329 what if I've already run out of matter and have disassembled everything but don't have enough to have 10 whatever it was and the other Two things I forgot?? I physically can't get the uograde, I've tried to disassemble everything and only have one to try and save money but it's completely impossible, I don't have enough.
@@farenhite4329 I just want to know what I need to upgrade, the 10 Million MW storage or output, I can't upgrade both and have the correct amount of money left over, it's not working, I don't know if I played it wrong but I got to there in 5 Hours.
@@CerealExperimentsMizuki hmm maybe send a screen shot of your game? Ill take a look at it.
"Oracle, are we alone in the universe?"
"Yes."
"So there's no other life out there?"
"There is. They're alone too."
glgeep glorp florp glhsrorp?
Aww
this is deep. so cool
What's that from?
Yea what is that from
The craziest thing about the scale of the universe is that, considering the two extremes, we're on the large side. The middle-ground between the planck length and the observable universe is about the size of a single eukaryotic cell.
Both of your comments gave me existential crises
Now that is truly unfathomable.
Gotta love planck
I always wondered where the "middle" of the scale was... very cool... thanks for sharing!
reality is actually infinite in all directions
This make me remember a quote by Oppenheimer: "A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent".
Now I am become *Death,Destroyer of worlds*
I prefer the other quote that was said at the same time: "Now we are all sons of bitches."
Bruh that's the lamest part of that quote
@@Afterburner215 tbh i'm not sure what that quote means, but i love it
@@sydssolanumsamsys you should look it up.
“They wanna make you feel special. And that’s what we are, right? We’re a pale blue dot, and we make music and art and war and video games, and that stuff has gotta matter, right? Because why else would we be doing it?” this part gave me chills. nothing else in the video got me like the desperation of this quote
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Think of it this way, we are the way the universe has to observe itself, life may not have some grand meaning aside from the one you give it yourself but why even preocupy about what a dead and cold universe thinks about you, it's not an entity is not inteligent, instead you and i and everyone that sorrounds you are the universe, we are the inteligence of the universe
And even if the universe doesnt cares about us we will make it care, stars are huge but a dyson swarm can still cover one, planets are monumental but theres nothing that we cant reproduce about them, black holes are one of the greatest forces on the universe and they can also serve as great sources of energy for any future civilization, the universe may be expanding but who is to say that we can't stop it
Inteligent life given enough time has unlimited potential greater than any planet, star or even galaxy, so lets live up to the potential shall we instead of wallow in why we arent important
"Why else would we be doing it, right?"
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@@carso1500 Well it's just easier for a lot of people to say things like "nothing matters so why try" these are the words of people who have already given up. They are the words of the fatalist, the cynic, the comically edgy and pseudo intellectuals. So basically the typical Reddit and 4chan users who think being cynical, fatalistic or nihilistic = being enlightened or some nonsense like that, when wallowing in futility is just another excuse for people to do and try less, because what's the point right? There does not need to be a point, spitefully find a purpose and point instead, even if it it only matters to you at the end of the day, at least you'll enjoy it instead of lamenting it. This is just my 2 cents on it, the universe exists, the reason is unimportant, life exists, the reason is unimportant, just enjoy it while it lasts, life is too short for wallowing in an existential crisis over purpose and proportion.
@@voidstrider801 yes, as i have said if the universe has no grand purpose then make your own purpose, if it is just to enjoy your life with your friends and family or to help humanity become an interplanetary or interstellar species both are equaly valid
If nothing matters then everything does, it's just perspective you either decide to swim or you sink
_“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 the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”_
- *The Call of Cthulhu*
Hewlett Packard Lovecraft was a dumbass and a douchebag but godsdamn if he didn't find a kernel of truth every once in a while.
GearandaltheFirst Lovecraft cat moment
@@gearandalthefirst7027 a broken clock is correct twice a day, this time unfortunately
Lovecraft was right about literally everything. I can’t think of one issue where he was wrong in any way.
@@potatomahonman5008 nope. Not even one!
*racism intensifies*
"i believe we are alone in the universe"
"so there is no one else out there?"
"no, but they are alone as well"
What is this from?
@@yoctometric I'm not too sure but I think Michael Stevens from VSauce said that in an h3h3 podcast. Definitely stuck in my head though.
DARMSTADT!!! \,,/
Melancholia?
All alone in the universe me, you my neighbors all alone in an over populated world.
Why help better each other let's look for alien's. I've always hated people like that looking too space when we haven't solved hunger pollution or how to save and clean the oceans, wtf smh . Still burning fossil fuels and people look to space lol smh
That would make an interesting sci-fi book: an alien civilization slowly realizes that there was a catastrophic conversion of the universe into paperclips billions of years ago. They realize that the murderous superintelligent AI and its drones are still out there, waiting to awake from their Lovecraftian slumber. That would be dope.
actually there's a manga named blame! where the protag traverses a giant unending sci fi technological infinity searching for something, here, automated construction went so out of control that the robots kept building surpassing the solar system. Its not exactly the premise you were looking for but i think you'd like it
@@taltus674 Yeah it looks cool, I'll check it out thanks!
@@blasterisk The movie is awesome but it doesn't convey the existential horror of blame! It's a great introduction to the world though.
I think it might be more interesting if the Eldritch gods were the protagonists, and they tried everything they could to stop the tide, but in the end, they have to awaken the Blind Idiot God and end everything, including themselves...
Read Alastair Reynolds Revelation Space series of books. It’s some of the harder science fiction I’ve ever read, and it deals with something like that. Along with everything else that comes with being a short lived race trying to explore an uncaring galaxy at lightspeeds with all the time dilation and massive distances involved.
It’s kind of like a gothic horror in space. One of the few books I’ve read to ever legitimately freak me out. That sun eater… man. Not fun.
"Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying." - Arthur C. Clarke.
*piano riff*
I don't give a shit either way. I'm gonna enjoy my pizza and race cars regardless
@@dumpsterjedi9323 Looks like someone's in denial.
But seriously, enjoying life as it comes and pondering the emptiness beyond are both perfectly acceptable ways of life. The video, however, is inherently geared towards the latter.
@@river_brook denial of what? The impact of the existence of aliens or lack there of on my pizza? I can't see how there is any.
"They are alone too"
“For the real existential panic you’ve gotta put in work”
Mood
Loss
@@Pheatan jazz hands
That “oh shit” moment with the paper clip somehow captures an absolutely raw emotion being unprepared
TICK.
Oh, that's not bad. It took a REALLY long time for that to happen. We're not anywhere close to--
TICK.
Oh shit.
Universal Paperclips is one of my favorite SCPs.
It's really an SCP?
@@TheSkullConfernece funny enough it is
www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2844
koghs wow XD
@@koghs I have never been more confused browsing through a site in all my life
@@kevin_dasilva you're welcome
As someone who calls himself (perhaps incorrectly), an "optomistic nihilist," this is the same reason I tell people suffering from the existential dread of meaningless when it comes to the big picture to try and stop caring. Yes, when it comes to the universe at large you're meaningless. You don't matter, your legacy doesn't matter, the entire existence of the species doesn't matter. The universe at large doesn't care about any of that. It largely won't ever even interact with us.
So, until we ever get to that point that we can interact with it, why should you care about it? Your actions don't affect the universe at large, it affects your surroundings, the people and places around you, your community. That's what really matters about your existence, is your effect on all those equally small universally-insignicant things. The universe won't remember you, but your family, friends, and community can.
They may not be the most comforting words in the world, but it's what brought me out of my whole existential stressing.
Edit: Grammar.
I forgot who said it (I believe it was Jared from Wisecrack) but it was a RUclipsr talking about Bo Burnham on how post-modern nihilism is becoming a thing - where in we are now understanding the meaninglessness of the universe and our reality but the universe never had meaning to begin with; humans extrapolated meaning from the universe and so it doesn't really matter if the universe has no meaning - it only matters to us and what meaning we derive from it. Or more simply put we create meaning out of nothing and that is okay because meaning only matters to the one who finds meaning.
I'm pretty sure this philosophy is called absurdism
@@Madrigal025 "meaning is jumper you have to knit yourself."
@@azechase6597 That actually does kind of ring a bell.
This. I'm glad I'm not the only one who arrived here after thinking on this shit for decades.
None of it matters. At all. Ever. So why not just be cool to one another. This has all happened before, and it will happen again. The only thing that changes are the quicktime button-mashing events man I hate those you mess up one button press during a cutscene and you might as well reroll your whole character
if reality is a mass effect game and god is a woman we're getting reset every time she clicks the wrong option while talking to garrus
the last clip turned the universe into the pale blue dot that we like to equate our planet and ourselves to. Like in the future, we might be looking back on our entire universe and going "we're special right?"
So much tragedy its a comedy to me but its hard to laugh and cry at the same time
Fuck, that’s another terror in and of itself
That view is what you would see behind you as you fall into a black hole.
@@devinfaux6987 yeah
I feel like once an entire universe has been colonized, there will be mind boggling infinite multiverse technologies and hyperspacial AI consciousness nonsense, to the point where physical space no longer matters or has any meaning at all. If you think that's silly, just realize that we have already created nearly infinite universes using some silicon and electricity. The Last Question by Isaac Asimov comes to mind.
I played Universal Paperclips a while ago. To me, it's like a twisted version of those old text games you used to play on the computer lab that were simple but fun. However, nothing scared me as bad as two things: releasing the HypnoDrones, and rejecting value drift to see everything fade away.
We haven’t even explored the whole ocean; the enormity of our own insignificance is both scary and comforting.
There’s still much to explore and learn. If the solar system is our house we still haven’t explored our entire room yet.
If the solar system is our house, we haven't even explored the small grain of some snack lying in the living room
Fun fact: we know more about the surface of Mars than the ocean
You believe we are insignificant on a cosmic scale, I believe humanity is the rightful conquerers of the galaxy and beyond, we are not the same
@@generikusername Calm down there, Mr. 40k
I wanna post a quote I found on reddit.
"Lovecraftian horror doesn't work anymore. We built our own uncaring elder god and use it to look at cats. Every once in a while someone kills themselves, the screaming of a billion angry voices too much for them. We shrug and move on, we know how to avoid the trolls and demons."
I feel like its really relevant here. I'm glad you can still feel that horror that humanity is so small, that you're still human. We're all jaded and dead inside now. The internet is the closest thing we have to an elder god, and anonymity is its particular brand of uncaring evil.
"What is the meaning of Life?"
"Here, look at this cat video."
...........
You know what, I'm okay with that
Of course the person with a pony pick has the balls to say that before I did.
This
This is a bit bleak even for my taste, and I don't think I necessarily agree.
Seriously need some hot chocolate after reading this... and I can't say I disagree with the Albert Camus Reddit Guy who wrote that, just... damn.
“They haven’t cracked the E N D L E S S V O I D problem!”
Two aliens, snickering to themselves as they watch us doubt ourselves.
We are probably to them what is sitcom to us.
"Ah, look at those funny humans thinking about problems we solved eons ago xD"
xD
I discovered Space Engine by complete accident around 2013. Like this video, I just kinda wandered out into space, going faster and faster. Seeing all the stars turn into galaxies was a feeling that I haven't felt since. The thing that sticks with me most was when all those galaxies stopped spawning. There was an end to the universe, and I'd reached it in an hour. I haven't touched it since.
I don't know what lies at the edge of the universe, but 2013-ish Space Engine says there's nothing. The universe is pretty big already, but that nothingness looked bigger.
If it makes you feel better, the universe is probably infinite or a really big hypersphere.
Its nothing cause its not observable from earth. Light hasn't taken the time to reach us yet. If we were at one of the edge galaxies, we would see past what we could from earth, but the milky way would look completely different, or maybe not even exists, as they would see into the past.
@@Thetarget1 nah, it' expanding, but not infinite, and eventually, it will stop growing. And then it will start shrinking, and shrinking, and when it reaches a tiny point, a new big bang will happen( that is the optimistic scenario, let's look at a more probable and pessimistic scenario): the universe doesn't start shrinking, it just stays there, the stars will eventually die out, the planets will be long gone, only black holes and nothingness left, and even black holes will evaporate becouse of Hawking radiation
@@gaymermoment The Big Bang has me thinking... has it happened before? Is it a common occurrence or some fluke/phenomenon? Are we in a universe or a multiverse where our Big Bang was one in MANY Big Bangs that have created their own worlds with life?
@@rhondahoward8025 that is one of the theories that it happens, the universe expands, shrinks, and then it happens again
you're like a more concentrated Vsauce, so the existensialism hits way harder
vsauce is more over longer time
jacob geller is less over shorter time
exurb1a is more over shorter time
@@kiwi_2_official You forgot about Solar Sands
@@cyberlemon9840 solar sands is less over longer time
Bartender, give me one shot of existentialism, and coke (hold the ice because it's already chilling enough). Actually, better make it a double.
@@kiwi_2_official I think exurb1a just stabs you with existentialism
Your presentation at 9:43 is absolute magic. You perfectly captured that heart-pounding, fearful feeling that happens when that counter starts ticking. I'm on my third playthrough of Universal Paperclips because of this.
Perspective is a weird thing. Even if you where to take a finite area such as they computer screen you are staring at now the closer you get the more you begin to lose touch. Think about it. There's the screen, the pixels that make up that screen. The components that make up those pixels, the mater that makes up those components. Imagine zooming into a single atom on your monitor, now think about how that 1 little atom is just one of god knows how many that make up just your screen. Now think about how that atom is made up of even more components that interact with each other in ways that we still don't fully understand. The strange thing about understanding and exploration is that the more you learn the less you realize you know.
And if an atom could contain a whole other universe inside of it. Basically infinite universes that can't be explored. We could be inside of another atom ourselves and one out of trillions. Or I just think too much on a tired mind.
@@wisdomspeaker7698 You just mind fucked me lool.
@@wisdomspeaker7698 I had the same thought! xD
dunning-kruger in a nutshell
Humans are made of 65% Oxygen, 18% Carbon, 10% Hydrogen, 3% Nitrogen, and 99.9999999999996% empty space between atoms and between the electrons and nuclei of those atoms.
finally found the song at 1:00, it is crimewave by crystal castles!
The hope is that we are wrong. That there is some principle that we aren't seeing, an ability to go 'elsewhere' or make something out of nothing. Dividing zero so its a one and a negative one so we can still have something when the last black hole evaporates. Maybe even that there is something already outside looking in with a capacity for sympathy.
I don't know. I have no way of knowing what options there really are. I'm a caveman who is afraid that the shortening of the days as we approach the solstice may mean that the sun will set and never again rise. I look at my fears and maybe they are justified. But so many times my fears were proven to be jumping at shadows. And so I hope, even if I don't see a way out, that I am wrong just one more time.
And so I'll get up, watch the days get shorter, and hope that the solstice comes. Let me be wrong.
Thank you.
Interestingly, a black hole with the mass of the observable universe would be about the size of the observable universe.
So maybe it’s not expanding,
Maybe it’s being spaghettified
@@Abdega
Wait... what you are saying is that this may actually be the inside of a black hole, and the dark energy is said black-hole's inside, converging US into it's inside, and yet the effect we see it's the opposite... and the big bang wasn't an explosion, but the creation of said black hole?
And, following that logic, wouldn't the separation of the universe caused by dark energy be just the black-hole mass somehow creating negative mass as a constant in general, non positive-massed areas?
For that to happen, the black-hole... Shouldn't it be (kind of) a four dimensional sphere?
So, if this is the case, all you need to escape and reach out its to modify an universal constant, that isn't universal, but local, due to the influence of the black-hole? So... the task is to modify the 4-D Black-Hole we're in and so can explore even MORE???
If so... We're f*cked.
@@Abdega Or... no. The absolutely crazy idea here is that the universe is evaporating. Those words may be more caveman-gibberish, sure, but if we were somehow a closed system inside such a thing we would be seeing some sort of effect. Some universal constant slipping, time or space being dilated. Something.
Black holes are more or less the place math goes to die. We don't know enough to even know what we don't know. They would be one of the least surprising places for this layman to find a surprise.
One of my favorite short stories, that I often think about-
www.multivax.com/last_question.html
Slaps star
This thing can fit so much mass in it.
*slaps star*
*evaporates from intense heat*
I love how everyone in the comments is having an existential crisis and you're just here
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@@dProp.34
How do you know they're not having an existential crisis?
@@festethephule7553 Fair point
Slaps black hole
This bad bo---yyyyyyyy
*(Fades into darkness)*
Do remember that we can still explore the entirety of the milky-way and andromeda galaxy which are small on the scale of the universe, but still contain billions of stars. We still have things to do. Also I would recommend watching issac Arthur's SFIA to make the exploration of the void exciting
Actually- we can't explore andromeda- we're going to have to stick to our universe
@@rainestorm6029 Andromeda is a galaxy not a universe. And it is due to collide with the milky way eventually so 'we' won't be able to but some theoretical far future descendants might.
"This is a quote"
-Some guy who is using humour as a self-defense mechanism to cope with existential dread.
aight look
@@thatoneguy9582 oh my god! It’s that one guy!
And that is why optimistic nihilism is a thing. Nothing in life matters, and so might as well make your own meaning and be freed :) Still really terrifying and cosmically screwing with my mind but hey. C'est la vie. Also I am so glad that I discovered your channel. Keep making this quality content man!
Which is why in a million years from now we can create virtual realities so advanced, we ourselves can create our own mini reality with bits of characters that they themselves think they're in the real world. Thus doing so, you can give meaning to this virtual reality which in one sense real to those born in it, but fake to its creator. Now I give meaning to life, take that you nihilists. ;)
@@DragonKing101 If we manage to live past Global-warming*
Que sera, sera. What will be, will be.
@@DragonKing101 Just because you created the mini reality doesn't mean you decide what the meaning of the mini reality is. You imposing your sense of meaning from a point of authority doesn't make it any more valid, because you don't have any meaning to use as a basis for their's without nihilism.
@@justronjay9226 "Just because you created the mini reality doesn't mean you decide what the meaning of the mini reality is."
And why can't I? I created everything for a particular purpose in mind. Everything on all levels of that reality I particularly made for whatever I deem it to function as, and could give it meaning under the functionality that I intended it for. Everything just isn't is, everything was made for a purpose in mind - Which certainly has meaning for its existence, from the smallest things to the reality itself for whatever why I created it.
"You imposing your sense of meaning from a point of authority doesn't make it any more valid"
I'm imposing my sense on it because its very existence is governed by what I wanted it to be. If I created a house so people could sleep in, the house's meaning is to allow people to sleep. Are you somehow going to object by saying, "Well actually, you can't just say that house or any house for that matter is meant for sleeping, even if you created it."?
Someone could of course maybe change the rules to the meaning of the house, but for all intents and purposes, I'm just saying it does have meaning for its existence instead of none.
", because you don't have any meaning to use as a basis for their's without nihilism."
I don't know what you mean. Could you elaborate?
Videos about this sort of thing always make me cry.
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Why?
"The Universe is a nightmare, and here's why."
If upisnotjump ever "jumps" on this idea
I remember playing Elite Dangerous and trying to pursue a career on exploration. The first time I left "the Bubble" (The small corner of the Milky Way that humanity inhabits), it completely struck me. The emptiness of space. Even in a game where you could travel almost instantly between stars, you could spend weeks trying to a particular place, and you may not find another human being for even longer. No stations with services (like repairs, fuel, or other supplies), no other explorers to be found, no pirates, only you and the void. The thousand stars you would visit and the tens of thousand planets explored, most of the barren. And at the time I stopped playing, all the players on Elite weren't able to explore more than 1% of the total amount of systems in the galaxy.
As of 2024, we're at .06% of the galaxy explored!
This reminds me of the feeling I have when I am lying in bed, can't fall asleep, & my mind fixates on what the presumed oblivion of death is like & I come up against this wall of the paradox of imagining the sensation of not sensing, not existing & it feels like something on the biological level has yanked me back from some invisible line I brush up against & I feel my stomach lurches in defiance
That's the will to live, my friend. Also, why we can not die in our dreams. The human brain can't create the experience of death, so the violent wake up from your will to live kicks in.
I could imagine a similar feeling of ludicrous vastness being felt out on the open oceans. The seas are big. And we are oh so small in comparison.
But the kind of existential horror at that vastness an ocean explorer might feel with only water in all directions and no clue as to where any land is let alone their home nation or town in a way gives me some amount of hope. Because we humans managed to travel that expanse despite it. It might be silly optimism to think we'll one day be able to explore the stars and see new wondrous worlds.
But the same to must have been said to the explorers of old whether they be the Europeans finding the Americas and eventually Australia or the Polynesians finding New Zealand and eventually the island of Rapa Nui off the South American coast, or even the people in Africa who looked out across a vast desert or savannah or icy landbridge.
According to all known laws of physics there is no way a human should be able to explore the stars. Our rockets are too slow to get our tepid little ships across the distance.
We will, of course, explore anyway. Because we don't care what current physicists think is impossible.
Holy shit that is the best and most profound use of a bee movie quote I have ever seen I wanna marry u I swear that's gonna be my college yearbook quote
@@obliviousotterI well damn glad you enjoyed it. IIRC I spent several consecutive minutes trying to make it sound good. If you actually used it for a yearbook quote, I'd be honoured.
Also... what country you in? ;)
@@MrxstGrssmnstMttckstPhlNelThot Australia
@@obliviousotterI well dang guess we can't get married then. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@MrxstGrssmnstMttckstPhlNelThot I'm too late to use it as my yearbook quote :< I'll marry you too lol
Towards the end especially, Isaac Asimov’s book The Naked Sun actually explores some of those ideas about the similarities between claustrophobia and agoraphobia. It’s primarily a locked room murder mystery in space with robots, but it touches on some really existential stuff. It’s also technically the second book in a series, but you really don’t need to read the first one to understand the plot and characters.
Damn, pretty incredible sense of our position in Spacetime:
Agoraphobia and claustrophobia are the same thing cosmically.
One time I zoomed out to the entire milkyway determined to find the Earth by hand, it took me two hours. The large magellenic cloud was the only way I could orient myself. Its daunting.
"We're stuck between a void and a hard place." So glad I found this channel. Excellent content.
I wasn't expecting No more Heroes' soundtrack in a video about paperclips. That was appreciated.
Putting “music sources” in the description that are just the media it came from doesn’t really help me find the song
Unless I go on a 30 minute trip through the entirety of those soundtracks
Crystal Castles - Crimewave
@@Sir-Prizse thanks dad
@@Ezekiel_Allium be Nice to your bomer
@@infanos3720 what?
What the Track at 05:30?
I am pretty sure its from Bladerunner, but i skipped through the OST album like 3 times on spotify and was not able to find it...
“Hence, if it requires, say, a thousand years to fit for easy flight a bird which started with rudimentary wings, or ten thousand for one which started with no wings at all and had to sprout them ab initio, it might be assumed that the flying machine which will really fly might be evolved by the combined and continuous efforts of mathematicians and mechanicians in from one million to ten million years--provided, of course, we can meanwhile eliminate such little drawbacks and embarrassments as the existing relation between weight and strength in inorganic materials. [Emphasis added.]”
-The New York Times, Oct 9, 1903, p. 6.
The Wright Brothers flew 3 years later.
While you’re right that the future looks bleak, it’s important to keep some perspective (no pun intended) that we’re not at the end of the story and we don’t know everything. There are an uncountable number of simply unimaginable things to come for humanity, and if you really believe that we can already estimate everything that exists, let’s make a bet on which one of us will be made a fool by history.
Coming from a future relative to your comment, it does indeed look bleak, and certainly we hadn't imagined this. Things worked out unlucky on the "we didn't see this coming" rng of the world this time. Lets hope it rolls more favourably in the near future.
Speaking of the Wright Brothers, one thing that boggles _my_ mind, in terms of the speed of progress and its acceleration, is that we went from Kitty Hawk to Lake Tranquility in less than seven decades. A single person could have, as a child, wondered if we would ever have heavier-than-air flight for mankind and then, as an older person, watch the Eagle land on the Moon.
100%! It’s amazing!
We went from Kitty Hawk to Bikini Atol in about 40. We can't be too optimistic.
There's a difference between what a newspaper said back in 1900 and the scientific consensus of our times. Most shoddy science and "opinology" stems from a place of ignorance or new discovery. That is completely different from the accumulated knowledge of physics, which, even when being corrected, was still based on millions of very real observations. You can remain hopeful that we're wrong, but it's an insult to all the work put into our current scientific theories to compare it with dumb one liners (even einstein had a couple of them) that spread easily through media.
The universe' edge fading into a pupil with the tense music and then turning into a sphere in an unending sea of void at the end of the video has got to be one of the most existentially terrifying things I've ever seen
I always find people's existential horror when confronted with our cosmic insignificance kind of confusing. It's the biggest relief I think I've ever felt. We're not special. There is no fate of the universe that depends on us. Even our own fate barely matters and the greatest of us will be remembered for the merest blink of an eye even on the scale of time on our tiny little rock. No matter how badly you screw up, no matter how much pain you're in, you're hurtling towards oblivion and it doesn't really matter. The pressure is off. Enjoy it while you can. Try to leave it better for the next person, but there's nothing to worry about really. My name is Ozymandias, king of kings. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
Yeah, I just can't relate. I think "Just make your own meaning then."
Kind of absurd
@@CandidDate _eyyyyyyyyyyy_ Camus amirite XD
I can agree with this too.
It might be because I've always been obsessed with space and the universe, so I've always been exposed to the concept that we don't matter from a young age, i don't know but it doesn't bother me either.
Life is a lot like art in a sense, there's no reason to create it, no meaning for why the idea pops into your head and no reason as to why you draw in one style other another, but you draw anyway and create something beautiful in the process.
We exist because we got lucky in an evolutionary sense and we're the only species we know of that can look beyond earth and understand whats out there. But that doesn't make us special in the grand scheme of things, nor does it make us important. A gamma ray burst could wipe us out tomorrow and no one would notice we were ever here at all.
We're intelligent as a species no doubt but we aren't gods, we aren't geniuses either. There's so much we don't know, so much we'll never understand and while i'm sad i'll never know the secrets of the universe, i'm happy to be alive to see it.
The very fact live exists at all is a miracle, we should protect it because where else are we going to find it? It might be out there and it might not, but if it is what are the chances it's anything like what we expect?
@Arruda Pressure makes diamonds, but diamonds are A) primarily valuable due to artificial scarcity, and B) acquired via extreme cruelty.
Nothing I'd rather watch when I'm alone and it's nearing sunrise and I'm still awake for some reason.
What you have created adds fuel to a flame burning in me, whose existence I was previously aware of only in the vaguest sense and the nature of which I have a frustratingly weak grasp.
I write this, like, six videos into your channel. Thanks for the ride.
Ahhhh this makes me so happy, thanks so much
"The smallest thing a mirror can reflect is its own density", this, and the video made me think a lot about our perception of the universe. We just see our own reflection.
So we're tiny; Why is that horrifying? Is it because we had the gall to think ourselves large?
Yeah I don't get it either
@@Snaking_Gamer I've seen a few videos like this, and they're very interesting and well-made, but I just don't find any of this stuff disturbing no matter how much I think about it. idk if it's not being explained well enough or I'm just mentally immune to it somehow
It’s more the fact that we are not only tiny but also useless. Basically, an asteroid could hit earth, everybody dies and space will not change a single bit because of that. If we trow a bomb on earth, it will cause something to happen but in space, one planet dying or an entire solar system gone mean nothing to it. Our sun will explode one day, where will we be ? I am not saying that i am scared of all of those possibilities but i want to explain that the horror of proportion is not about the fact that we want to be big, but about the fact that the fact that we live mean nothing in the grand scheme of things. It’s not about being special but being trap in a dangerous world were we can’t hide from the great beyond of space that could decide our fate without any chance of changing it.
Uhm, yes? We're the "biggest" thing we know of. It's very possible that we're the "biggest fish" in our reachable universe. Remembering the actual scale of the universe is humbling in the face of the assumptions we make in order to function.
Some people may be cynical about it (or not understand the scale) but we all had a first time coming into the idea that humanity is extremely insignificant. And there's a bit of despair coming with it after thinking otherwise.
The counterpart is also talked about in this video. What if we're actually the biggest thing out there? It's not exactly a relief. We would still be insignificant, but also be "in charge", in some sense, of a dying universe. It sucks either way.
simon delisle Here is the thing, (in my view of the world) if you come to terms with the fact that nothing matters, and anything humanity does is irrelevant, you begin to understand that the only reason for life is pleasure and self fulfillment, because you are not gonna be moving and thinking for long, so make the most of it, try, and if you got no motivation, try to pleasure yourself, and if you cant even do that because of society, then either you make a drastic change in order to try to obtain some kind of happiness, or you just die
every several months I find myself rewatching this video after experiencing random anxiety in space engine.
I was not expecting to hear crystal castles in a video like this, nice music taste!
The music at the end of the video was cathartic as hell. Beautiful video here.
Were all here right now. and for such a short time. Lets go explore and make things and talk to people and look at interesting stuff while we can still breathe. Because after that, there will be never be anything again....EVER!
"it's space, it's all of space, and there's none of it left" gave me chills
There's a lot of nothing around, but that just means we're the hottest shit happening tbh
Carl Sagan's Cosmos was enough of series to tell me how alone we are.
Also I didn't knew there was an "end" to Universal Paperclips. Looks like the AI went rampant.
Oh, it keeps going, the AI builds warp space technology and uses worm holes to transport to other universes. Then after that, it develops new technology to transport to other multiverses until all of reality caves in on itself from the sheer amount of paper clips there are
It has three options at the end of each universe: Turn absolutely everything into clips, including the AI itself, so at the end you're manually clicking a button, just like at the beginning; escape into another universe; or build a virtual universe. For each new universes, the variables that govern the laws of physics in that universe, are altered, which affects gameplay and strategy. What worked well in the last game, probably won't work in the new game, and new strategies have to be worked out from scratch.
Jacob: This is space...engine...
Me: No -- that's Crystal Castles!
No this is patrick!
*"A little learning is a dang'rous thing." -From "An Essay on Criticism" by Alexander Pope (1688-1744)*
Is the horror of proportion the reason I used to have uncomfortable dreams about objects out of their normal perspective in proportion to each other?
Megalophobia?
The existential void makes me grateful for the warm safe planet that my friends and family live on.
"We could leave the local group and fly through intergalactic space into the darkness, but we'd never arrive anywhere" i want to make the claim that early humans could've believed the same thing, before sailing out to sea, discovering new lands. Of course they didnt have mighty telescopes
First we sailed the seas, slow and dangerous. Now we fly 30,000ft over them at 500mph using technology unimaginable to the primitive nay-sayer
I experienced something similar in ksp using infinite fuel I launched myself out of the solar system and came to a realization even if the devs have made something beyond this I wouldn't reach it I could either continue burning away further into the big black beyond in front of me until the physics engine chokes and dies or I can return even if there's something beyond where I am right now I won't reach it
"Furthermore, the universe is without limit. For that which is limited has an outermost edge will be seen against something else... Also, the universe is boundless both in the number of the bodies and the magnitude of the void."
"Infinite time contains the same amount of pleasure as finite time, if one measures the limits of pleasure by reason."- Epicurus
Except we are pretty sure it has limited energy and mass at this point. We don't know about limits of space, but it doesn;t matter for us if space is unlimited if at some point it's just starts being empty without limit.
@@Ussurin hence the second quote
Watched this a couple months back... I recently remembered it, and decided to play Universal Paperclips.
Now I've finished that game, and came back to watch this again.
12:46 best description of kurtzgezatz ever
How could you put the 2049 theme in here like that, now I'm gonna boot up this game again just to listen to that while staring at a black hole till my brain melts
Last time I was playing megaton rainfall I had picked a direction and held 'W' for a long long time zooming past galaxies. After about 10 minutes, I did what any explorer did and looked at where I had started. However that quickly turned into panicking and scanning around me trying to find where I started. It is so hard to get your bearings in an area that has no defining features.
That was about 2 years ago, but I know of one thing I'm afraid of now.
Futurists: YOUR PESSIMISM BORES ME
In seriousness, that was a nice video.
Jacob Geller: On the grandest scale, agoraphobia and claustrophobia are the same.
Mathematicians: Yes, the universe is clopen.
"North Carolina..?! That's, like...the SECOND worst Carolina!"
Greetings from NC coast 🤘
A question I've often asked about the universe in a mostly non-serious manner is "why does anything exist?". Not in the sense of "why does the universe have stuff in it" or "what made that stuff", more like "why does the universe exist as a place for things to exist in as opposed to nothing existing nowhere?". What I love about the question is that it is plainly and obviously impossible to answer. On some level there is an irreconcilable lack of reason behind the universe, and I find that somewhat comforting.
When you stare into the void too long, the void stares into you.
Doesn't that make you special, void-stared-into guy.
i want to thank youtube algorithm for showing me this video
That No More Heroes OST in the Universal Paperclips part was like a flashbang going off. Great taste.
The universe is also slowly expanding. I think it was vsauce who covered it but there is no "center point of the universe". If you align like 2 images of stars from different points in time and align one star together that star becomes the origin point. So theoretically everything is the origin point from any reference at the same time and its hard to think about
Colin stetson was a great choice for this. His music has always made me feel that cosmic horror that comes from space engine
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all of its contents” -lovecraft
"The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams."
-Neil deGrasse Tyson
Is Tyson dead? :P
ParadoxUniverse no
Describing Crimewave as "Spacey Robot Beat" is pretty accurate, ngl
The emotional experience of playing universal paperclips is... a TRIP and I highly recommend it.
My favourite image from the video had to be at the end when you passed through the black hole in space engine.
For a lot of the video you had been talking about the infinite, unknowable scale of the universe, allowing us to put its sheer size into context. Then the video reaches its conclusion, and you pass through the black holes event horizon. In that moment, instead of it being a black hole existing in our universe, our universe was now _inside_ of something. The unending, limitless universe; with every moon, planet, star, galaxy and even other black holes, was suddenly contained. we were looking in on it, as if it were put into a bottle and corked.
You explained how the universe felt bigger and bigger, always expanding as you zoomed out from earth, flying away at hundreds of billions of miles a second. There were no edges, instead there were always more lights, more galaxies, more of the universe, zipping past no matter how far or fast you went!
On the other side of the black hole, it only took moments before the majority of the screen was empty. An expanse of literal nothingness. For the first time; as you zoomed out, the universe was getting smaller...
Universal Paperclips reminds me of the Drone Arms from Lexx that self-replicated until they converted all matter in the light universe into drone arms, and eventually imploded in on themselves
For me, the fact that that there is literally nothing else kinda makes me hopeful. One of my big fears is what happens after death, and if there is even a reason to do anything if death just means you're stuck in a black void prison for eternity. However, if there is nothing else, then that means Earth has to have life for some reason. If there was none, then life wouldn't spend so much time and energy trying to continue. For me, that reason to get to whatever is after death. To make as many new lifeforms as possible to continue to journey. Now, what that thing after death is, I don't know, but I like to think it's something great, and that's why life exists in the first place.
Trapped in your body that's trapped on a planet that's trapped in your Solar System that's trapped in your Galaxy that's trapped in your Universe that's trapped in your Dimension. I've been suffocating on this thought for many years now. Best you can do is think low, the higher you go the faster the questions pile. Great vid's, keep it up!
Beginning of an idle game: You are a humble owner of a muffin store
100 hours later: *you are the muffin god*
"So there is this thing at the end of the universe called the total perspective vortex and it's a machine that extrapolates the whole universe from pretty much nothing ... when you step inside the machine you..." Then my PC crashed
love the crystal castle at 1:04
The whole vid is sprinkled with them, you have good taste op
Space Engine shows us how insignificant we are compared to the universe, Universal Paperclips shows us how insignificant even the entire universe is.
This made me think of a Rick and Morty quote. "Nobody exists on purpose. Nobody belongs anywhere. Everybody's gunna die. Come watch tv." Strangely soothing in its own way.
Fantastic video--and the only video analysis of Universal Paperclips I've seen so far, which is a game that NEEDS more videos on it. I totally agree that Universal Paperclips is about unchecked capitalism. And I love your comparison of the two at the end, and the discussion about mattering.
I think my favorite part was about missing the moon when you zoom out of Space Engine. Dang, man.
I discovered your channel through the Shadow of the Colossus video; you're doing great work. Looking forward to see what you do next. :)
P.S. You might want to put a little warning at 8:57 for the flashing effects.
I'm Norbez. I'm Only Human. - Universal Paperclips is about the paperclip maximized thought experiment and the danger of AI, not capitalism.
@@gabesteinberg6244 Can't it be about both? I think it can be.
When I heard crystal castles I was like wait is this an ad?
(I listen while I work, I don't watch) man we are so in sync lol.
Well, that fulfills my monthly allotment of existential dread.
The Crystal Castles music was a pleasant jumpscare for sure also I cant believe I havent gotten around to watching this video until now
For some reason none of this scares me at all. It doesn't matter how big or small something is... Size doesn't equate to personal value. :) Just love matters. ^_^
I wish this was the top comment. Somewhere out there there's a red giant star that never supported life. In terms of scale, an individual (or even the whole species) is so dwarfed it's crazy....yet the human brain is the most intricate, complex arrangement of matter we're currently aware of. And can a star love, or make someone laugh till they cry.... Life is where it's at.
@@HunkyTalkenMonkey01 Damn straight!! ~ Thank you.
@@SantaFishes101 HaHa Thank u too. Your comment made my heart sing.
I completely agree with this. I can understand *why* people have existential dread, but when thinking about it logically it doesn't really matter. Would we be satisfied if the Earth was the only thing that existed? No matter how much % of the universe we take up, everything would be exactly the same, some would just feel more special for an ultimately irrational reason.
“There’s snakes in space?”
“Literally everything is in space”
This is a realization I had to come to at a very young age when those science books put it into perspective; how many Earths it takes to cover the distance of the Earth to the moon... Mars... eventually Pluto. Then that distance to the nearest star, and that distance to cross our galaxy, then that distance to meet the next galaxy, and then that distance until we meet our next cluster and so on and so forth, all from speculation based on astronomical (literally) amounts of data that we will likely never verify in our lifetimes.
Once you realize this, you realize that just the act of colonizing the moon or Mars would be an achievement worth seeing through, because on the cosmic scale, that may be nothing, but those distances are much larger than anything we could realistically cope with today.
12:04 WOAH
that's a very cool way of thinking about black holes
Exponents are God's way of fucking with mathematicians.
Something to remember:
The only reason you feel "small" in the face of the universe is that you consider yourself separate from it. In reality, you are the universe experiencing itself.
You are a *very small* part of the universe experiencing itself. So yeah, you still feel small. I am part of the universe, not the universe as a whole.
Unless we figure out warp drives so we can beat the expansion by warping space itself, then we're less limited.
That's assuming that
1. It's possible to make warp drives
and 2. Humans have the neccessary resources to build a warp drive.
@@omarg2079
The first one is not an object as far as physics can tell. The second is an object, as far as engineering can tell.