Is Anything Possible?
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- What is possible? What is impossible?
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Couple of small notes. I’m making some very speculative assumptions (especially regarding how probability works across an infinite universe). If you’re interested in the subject, refer to the links in the description (Especially max tegmark’s article) and make your own judgement. Also, at 3:12, I’ve mentioned the numbers in light years instead of meters, but at the size of figures we’re talking about here, the distinction between a meter and a light year is irrelevant. The figures are extremely rough estimations as per the original author’s calculations.
Links and References:
plus.maths.org... (Regarding the infinite monkey thought experiment)
web.archive.or... (People who got actual monkeys to type on type writers)
arxiv.org/pdf/0... (The Multiverse Hierarchy. Took a lot of information from this article. Recommend reading if you’re interested in the Multiverse)
www.imdb.com/ti... (Documentary regarding infinity)
phys.org/news/2... (Another opinion on infinite copies. Do you even have infinite copies in an infinite universe?)
curious.astro.c... (Another opinion on the subject of infinite copies)
arxiv.org/abs/a... (Long-term fate and evolution of the universe)
en.wikipedia.o... (Future of an expanding universe)
www.space.com/1...
(Rate of star formation)
map.gsfc.nasa.g... (Shape and size of the universe)
en.wikipedia.o... (Infinite Sets)
en.wikipedia.o... (Georg Cantor)
en.wikipedia.o... (Many worlds interpretation)
• Video (Lecture regarding the relationship between the many worlds interpretation and probability)
en.wikipedia.o... (Law of truly large numbers)
en.wikipedia.o... (Probability interpretations)
www.askamathema... (In an infinite universe, does every possible thing happen?)
www.askamathema... (Can things still happen after heat death? Is it even possible that the universe would correct its self-back into a previous state?)
en.wikipedia.o... (String Theory - A candidate for the theory of everything -Are strings the fundamental property of everything?)
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What do you guys think? What is possible? What is impossible?
+Sharkee why is it not possible for you to upload videos more frequently?
hi sharkee :)
+Mohd Malik well there is a universe in which he uploads one video every day... lets find it!!!
+Sharkee I'm going to put it to you this way. We're going to find the universe where they've finally calculated the last place of pi. And we're all going to move there so we can finally move on from that one. I don't know if it's possible, but damn it we have to try!
I think that events with 0 probability can happen, if we consider an infinitely amount of time
because 0*infinity is not 0 sometimes.
you're like the Indian vsauce
+flame _ He is from Bahrain...
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Can a universe where nothing is possible be possible?
And think. If there is a universe where nothing is possible..then would there not also be one where..everything is possible?
Herobryan Gaming possibly
if everything is possible then there can be a universe where nothing is possible not only in that universe but also on all the other parallel universes of that universe, which would include our universe,
Of course if everything is possible there could be a universe where everything is possible not only in that universe but also all the parallel universes of that universe, which would also include our universe.
and of course if everything is possible, "if" would have no meaning as everything would be both possible, impossible, only possible, and only impossible simultaneously and also not simultaneously. And also "if" would have some meaning and full meaning. And of course none of this could happen and also happen simultaneously and also not simultaneously or not at all or everything at all or both or neither and both and neither and so on and so forth and only once and infinite times and both.
Maybe we should figure out what determines possible and not possible? Just because we can think of it or imagine it doesn't mean it is per our thinking, does it? Maybe there is reason and meaning behind some of these things.
I don't know how is possible that you don't have a zillion views. Your videos are AWESOME man!
If anything is possible, then it is possible that something is impossible, and if something is impossible, then not everything is possible.
And maybe that "something is impossible" may be part of the "anything is possible." And yet you can have that thing that is impossible as part of a reality, and then have that same thing to be possible in another reality.
The answer is no because 'anything' does not just refer to physical things or events, it can also label human concepts such as 'Impossibility', which creates a paradox because if everything is possible then impossibility is impossible.
If everything is possible, then isn't impossibility a potential possibility?
Daniel Rose That's basically what I said
Daniel Rose I'd say yes
Subskewed but then it's impossible for something to not be possible and impossible at the same time?
Something impossible is very possible from impossibility's perspective and something possible would be impossible... they are just equal but opposite in nature
Its like "0" is infinity from infinity's perspective. From wherever you look at it there is always the same distance between them, theyre just in opposite ends.
Love it when you tackle the big questions!
Yet another flawless video by Sharkee!
And in the end it all made sense...and you had to build up to it to make it so...GENIUS!
You deserve more subscribers. Thanks for consistently producing great content
+Leroy Clunne-Kiely same thought here.
he deserves more than that .
do your part i, have done, i have told it to everyone i know.
I absolutely love to think about stuff on these grand scales and your videos both satiate my desire for knowledge and increase it xD I just can't seem to get enough.
Yay! More stuff to add to think about during an existential crisis haha.
This is a good video though, it gives good insight on the way we can think about this...Which is good, I do like thinking "everything is possible", because when you play with infinity, it is.
Even if there was a 0% chance of something happening, there's a 1/inf chance (basically 0) of that "impossible" thing that can happen, and in an infinite universe with infinite time, it has to happen.
You without a doubt have the best science videos on youtube. You blow Vsauce, Thoughty2 and many other shows out of the water.
I'm surprised you have so few subscribers! You're great!
There are two categories of events with probability equal to zero, the "impossible" events and the "improbable" events. My opinion is that the video answers the question "Are improbable events possible?".
Nevertheless, very good video...!
+aristosssky , very good point !!
I am the first person to step foot on this video! YES! My LIFE IS COMPLETE!
Nope
+Andy Peraino You're the first to step foot on this video in this universe.
+bbbeto02 This video could also have been made somewhere else in this universe and you were the one who saw it first.
+Andy Peraino Sorry to break your dreams, but you probably just happened to stumble upon a common bug where RUclips will show no comments unless the page is refreshed...
+Andy Peraino
I just placed my phone with this video running onto the ground, and stepped on it. Your argument is invalid.
Great video: no music, no cuts, lengthy video, general topic, few mistakes(I haven't seen any yet). I wish there were more videos like this. I understand the white background is supposed to be professional, but you could even record yourself in a regular place such as a classroom, a park, etc. Thanks
this channel should have like 10 million subscribers
So glad I found your channel ! Absolutely great stuff! Bravo
i actually got a notification for Sharkee! love this channel
Guys! Sharkee has a facebook and a twitter page! Go there and give him some recognition!
Your video is getting longer and deeper, also getting more interesting overtime.
But something wrong with the audio? Sounds a little bit reverb.
Imagine being the Sharkee who talks about this coin toss, and the moment he starts filming he is never able to make it land on one side again; and suddenly he realises that the multiverse theory is entirely true and he is on that branch being described
Really solid videos mate, hope you get a ton of subs so you can build even better quality videos, keep it up
Keep it up Sharkee, this stuff is good :)
I love these videos so much!
Thanks for this one!
What a thinker!
so how many times in how many universes have I watched this now? wow! awesome video keep it up Sharkee
Best youtube channel. EVER.
Well, in this part of the universe at least.
I'm not entirely sure why i watch complicated things around midnight without caffeine.
I watch this type of shit every night til I fall asleep lol
This is really good before sleep, really puts me in that sleepy mood...
I love your videos. Well-explained and researched!
There is a universe where Sharkee says that nothing is possible and everyone believes him. However, in this universe I agree with Sharkee. Keep up the good work. Thanks for the videos.
Everything is possible in an infinite universe, but not everything possible is guaranteed to happen.
I'm glad you addressed the infinite monkey experiment. If there was a keyboard that types by itself and the keystrokes are random, eventually you will get every single letter combination possible. But monkeys don't type at random, so they will never compete any Shakespeare or even any Dr. Suess. You'd be lucky to get a few real words outside of it, and, us and so on.
Why is this not more popular?
Sharkee is way under rated. Good video as always.
I'm glad to have subscribed to you. Your videos really causes epiphanies in the best possible way.
I love your videos. They always leave me deep in thought hours after viewing. To answer your question, yes; I believe anything and everything is possible.
I lost my shit at... "And then, there's the multiverse." 🤯
This was a great video to just stick my phone in my pocket and just listen to.
Watched 3 minutes, needed a short nap... 3 more minutes, another nap... Got to the end without going cross eyed, a nice accomplishment.
the video i love the most on this entire website (RUclips.com) amazing to see humour and facts with amazing content!
I thought the sentence "Anything is possible" would rather be used in when people talk about their dreams.. how some came from nothing, but through hard work still made it.
I always feel so much smarter after watching your videos. You are the best!
Mind-blowing video! I didn't know the difference between the two multiple universe theories, thanks for explaining.
Aren't these assumptions more some sort of logic conclusions not necessarily possible? I strongly believe they are, I mean to begin with, infinite is something that we just cannot even fathom, we cannot see it nor even imagine it, so it just some sort of abstract weird concept which allows us to think all kind of seemingly weird stuff that seems to make according to our logical way of thinking in this supposed existent infinite, which is something that doesn't even seem strange, but that is because it is logical, not because it is actually "real" (maybe) What I'm trying to say is that logic is a tool we use to try to makes sense out of the things there are, logic is a set os rules that helps us thinking straight, but we fail to acknowledge our ignorance of wether these these rules actually apply to the universe, we tend to believe they do, just because they always seem to do so (because we arrange logic to make it make sense so that we can agree upon statements and shit) but there's a limit to what logic actually let's us know or suppose. We must trace a line in some point where we have to recognize that logic, science, assumptions and all of these tools are useless for us to realize anything and I reckon that probabilities in an infinite place is beyond that line, (not to say infinite at all). Wittgenstein warned us about this, in his Tractatus logico-philocophicus he did let us know how pointless it is for us to talk about "untalkable" abstract things that are not possible for us to grasp by means of language, he thought that ethics, esthetics, the mystical, god and religion are things unreachable for language, (not to say unreachable for thinking, for us humans) and I believe that infinite must be there along with those things too. And don't get me wrong, all of this sounds mindblowingly awesome, but when you think about its actual realness, you begin to realize how it is only made out of pure unprovable statements that we want to believe are like that.
Rarity Sparkle
You are applying the concept of "real" to only a physical world with physical properties, saying that if its not physical then it is not real.
But take math for example... (not applied math which actually represents something in the physical world) but abstract math... you can still prove abstract mathematical theories to be TRUE... you can prove concepts to have a certain structure and a certain dynamic (mathematically speaking)
So you may say ok if an abstract world were to exist (to be "real") at least we know how it will behave.... but it already behaves that way whether you think its real or not.... because it is real... not in a physical sense but in many other ways things can be so real and can be proven to be true.
There are truths in the universe that transcend the physical world and lack physical properties but they are still truths and you can not prove them by means of observation and experimentation... thats when logic, phylosophy and other types of science come to our aid.
Im just saying... we cant ignore those truths just because we cant physically percieve them. Just be glad our minds can.
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Rarity, wow, reading what you wrote, i felt i was reading something i'd write myself on this subject. Amazing! You make sense to me, my friend.
Sharkees videos are my favourite of everything on RUclips
Great analogy, very interesting case. Good job
I know it may not sounds scientific but, Sharkee is wearing the same black shirt because it is creates a white glow around him on the white background after about 30 seconds you start to stare him and listen to his voice.
For me it is a bit hypnotizing specially when he talks about multiverses which I quite like.
Everything is possible if you have enough time given.
This channel deserve more subs
dude, your videos are amazing !
Excellent video, Sharkee!
If everything is possible, then the possibility that not everything is possible is one of the possibilities and therefore not everything is possible.
I don't know but that could be one of the impossibilities.
I have gotten this kind of perspective with a lot of things these days. Many times when I think about probabilities it seems to me that, certain things happening are just bound to happen faster and so more often, while others don't happen so fast - although everything might be infinite, not everything will be infinite at the same speed.
So asking these Questions doesn't really make sense to me to be honest. I think that things are bound to happen because of the things surrounding conditions.
..... Okay I would like to explain what I think but I can't
There are still some boundaries. We have many different stars with different shapes and sizes, but there will never be a triangular star for example.
Personally thinking about that always makes me wonder, that there even is something. Wouldn't it be way more probable that there never ever existed anything? Why is it that there is this paradoxical thing as existance. This is just too mind boggling.
i hit like before i even watched the video because i knew it was going to be incredible. Sharkee rules.
"Uhh Sharkee, what are you smoking and why you never change your shirt?" Haha I love this guy!
I think you are completely wrong on a very important point in this video. Namely, your oft-repeated claim that in an infinite universe, anything with a probability greater than 0 must happen. First off, if it must happen, then the probability is 1. So obviously you must be talking about the probability that something might happen in a specific volume of space. In infinite space, yes, you are guaranteed to get exact copies of any given volume of space. That follows from the Pauli Exclusion Principle. However, as far as I know, there is no guarantee that there is any particular distribution across infinity. It might be that not every configuration of particles exists at all. It might be that a particular configuration of particles is repeated for all infinity with no variation. Is there something I am missing? Where do you get the presumption that the configurations must be evenly distributed, or is that not the presumption underlying your claim?
I was a bit disappointed that you didn't mention The Halting Problem. Or Chaos Theory and its implications. Not everything is possible, and in fact many very simple things that you would think should be possible simply are not. No fiddling of physical constants can make it possible to solve the Halting Problem. While different physical constants might make it possible to predict a double-pendulum system or such, it is probably guaranteed (I don't know... and am now curious) that some other system would become impossible to perfectly predict as consequence. Even in purely deterministic systems, as soon as nonlinear relationships get involved you end up with chaotic behavior (extreme sensitivity to initial conditions) and predicting the systems outstrips the complexity of the systems themselves very quickly.
That's why he kept saying probably, not definitely.
***** That is only true if each coin flip is independent. If the first coin flip determines every other coin flip, there will never be variation.
***** If the coin flips were not independent, yes. That's what being independent means. If you can't establish that there is independence between the events, then you can't assume that repeating the events will result in an equal distribution of outcomes.
***** I did not claim that a coin flip was dependent. I was using your metaphor to explain that you can only assume a 50/50 probability if the events are independent. That is true in absolutely any circumstance. It's reasonable to assume that, in our universe, in most situations, with fair coins, coin flips are independent. When talking about infinite universes, and claiming that every possible outcome must appear, however, it is not reasonable to simply assume that all those possibilities are independent. You have to give some reason why it should be true.
Dustin Rodriguez who defined the size of the repeated parts, no i dont believe in god
have you ever tried Shrooms Sharkee?
Have _you_?
- Roger - Aye
Ramteen If you don't mind telling. How is it like? xD
- Roger - dude, you should try it your self, hard to put in words. But it'll be your most ground breaking experiences of all time, no doubt about that. Peace :)
LSD > Shrooms in my opinion.
I think it's important to remember that infinity is a concept and not a number.
Therefore the number of fundamental particles in the universe is closer to infinity than the number of stars.
Awesome High Quality Content!!! Keep it up Buddy!!!
There are 2 schools of thought about this topic. 1. Given an infinite amount of time anything is possible. 2. If it can happen it will happen. In other words if it is possible it is inevitable. So if those 2 thoughts are correct then God is possible. Also if everything that makes us human including our senses, our emotions and our minds is a product of evolution then is it possible for souls to evolve?
I'm always happy when I see that you've uploaded a new video.
12:20 "now you may be asking, 'sharkee, what are you smoking, and why do you never change your shirt?' "
You should start making content more frequently. Your videos are just as interesting as vsauce's in my opinion. Vsauce does a better job with effects, but the content is still really good and thought provoking. I would love to see this channel get big.
The only reason "paradoxes" like these can exist is because we assume that infinity exists. Infinity is not a real thing and does not exist.
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Good 8^)
We can't prove that though
Infinity is a concept, so it can't be a thing
While I am a devout Christian myself, I am open to the idea of The Multiverse. Because to say God couldn't make more than one would be to say he didn't have ultimate power, whereas to say he had to make more than one would be to say he didn't have perfect judgement. So I cannot make a decision, and it can only make good fiction for now. A few things to clear up as far as the Multiverse idea is concerned though:
1) There would not be any Universe where "The Multiverse doesn't exist". There would be universes where the Multiverse theory was never conceived, or one that could destroy the worlds around it, but never precisely that outcome.
2) The "They should've been here by now" argument cannot be used to disprove The Multiverse. Because for every Universe that has a multiversial experience, there would be a near-exact copy of that Universe where said experience never occurring was the only difference.
3) Technically almost anything would be possible because of Quantum Mechanics. The number of "Quantum Anomalies" would vary from universe to universe. Some universes would never experience anything out of the ordinary, others (like our own) would have those anomalies from time to time, and others would have them so regularly that agencies analogous to Warhouse-13 or the SCP Foundation would be required.
Love your videos.. you deserve way more subs
+Sharkee In a universe where coin never flips over while tossing, I think people will be totally cool with that happening. Imagine, if in our universe, apple never falls down, instead just hangs around in the air after breaking away from the tree. In that event, Sir Newton would have formulated completely different laws. So in such a universe, it will be a law (or atleast a theory) that a coin if tossed will never ever land on head. What do you say?
I think not loving this video is impossible. I loved your point's and your analogy with video games before watching this video game I had a similar theory, based around binary being the fundamental parts of the universe like electrons and nutrons.
on 14:04 what's that red dot on his left shoe
Finally! Another Sharkey video!
lmao what does that have to do with anything , KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK MAN
In this universe, I'm wearing a black shirt just like yours
He deserves an Oscar or something
I always love these kind of videos
That implies that, somewhere in the Universe, there is someone with the capability of destroying the Universe, and the Universe must be being destroyed infinitely many times at this second.
Contradictions like this pose huge problems.
I enjoy sharkee's talks.
As I see it, infinity isn't the number of all posibilities at the same time, because that would be a determinate number, but infinity is always growing. So, I think, infinity is an interval that has no end; atleast in the moment. Infinity could, however, stop being infinity.
For example, if someone starts counting with no apparent end, it would seem that he is counting infinity. But eventually, he randomly stops counting, and the interval would became a finite number.
Therefore, if infinity is something that grows to never stop, it means that there is always something that the infinity doesn't have in itself. So... does that mean that infinity will always be an infinty away of having all posibilities?
Just my toughts, might be wrong :3
And now all I can think of is the infinite improbability drive from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Your answer is true only if we assume there's a fundamental reality beyond and above which there is nothing. But we do not know if this is true or not. On the other hand, in the future we might be able simulate a universe in which something we think of as impossible would become possible (for example we can simulate a universe where magic and wizards exist, and the story of Harry Potter really happened, and we can do the same for any story or world imagined by any author, with or without any slight or big changes dreamed up by fans writing fanfics or not). Thus the answer to whether anything is possible might be answered not by looking above us, at vaster and more fundamental realities, but below us, at simulated realities we might be able to create, and realities that might be simulated within the simulations.
I always think: "What if there is a different universe for every single possibility of literally anything to happen like planets being able to fart, humanity that controls time, starts replaced by giant speaking Coca-Cola cans that yells at planets, atoms having genital organs, black holes that play music, the existence of a galaxy named Hitler Jr. the 3rd, prostitutes made out of golden eggplants, an entire new dimension that has all McDonalds' burgers as planets, the solar system's Sun is dressed as Jessica Rabbit or dogs emitting Wi-Fi signal."
Idk man
Sometimes people call me crazy
I prefer to think I am creative-minded
Stars*
Damnit
I like the thought of Infinity and Paradoxes 🌀
It's like brain twisters haha
lol. "In an infinite universe, there's infinite copies of your self. this is where it gets weird..."
Yeah, that first part isn't odd at all
I like the thing about people discovering their exact copies. I was wandering the likelihood of these individuals being connected through handshakes to each other. In other words, to meet a copy of yourself who has already met another copy of yourselves. That would create cascading chain reactions in your diagram (awesome). One radius extends and connects to the radius of another. Some of those chains could go on for a while.
1:18 Awesome sequence
I love the idea of a world where every coin flip ever made lands on tails. It would never become a tradition in that culture. So in that world... the starting recieving team for football would be determined by which side of the keyboard the monkey shats on first.
This channel is amazing.
I always wondered something about that. Let's say that in an infinitely big universe after travelling 10^10^115 light years you find an almost exact copy of our observable universe. But what about all those copies that are not exactly like out universe?
say you have our observable universe right here, and right next to it we have the observable universe of someone esle who lives 186 billion light years away from us. to them their universe would have an almost exact copy of itself at about 10^10^115 light years away. But to us there would be an exact copy of ours at that distance too. This supposes not such a problem because at that aproximate distance there is an absurdly big circumference of space that is at that distance. But what about the observable universe from the border of these two observable universes I mentioned. the exact middle spot between us and that subject I mentioned before. From that spot there is an observable universe that is aproximately the same size as ours, and it should have an almost exact copy at that distance. Let's make this escalate quickly saying you can have a different observable universe from each perspective 1 light year away (for example) and so having billions of observable universes that should have almost exact copies at about 10^10^115 light years away from each one of them. Well now with all this amount of supposed copies that should exist we just have the copies that are almost exact. What about all these observable universes with 10 less stars. And each combination of those left stars. the numbers are so so big and I find that as a paradox cause I picture this map of copies getting denser and denser the further away from us we go yet we are only thinking from our perspective, from every single perspective there is copies of everything everywhere. It's unsettling and interesting, what do you guys think of it?
Like he said, you could find a copy. That does not mean you will find one
Shakespeare would be as sick as a parrot if the monkey came up with a better work after a couple of months.
I could think of causality as a limit to existence of something to be called a thing. It is even pointless to discuss anything beyond that. That said, it becomes harder to think of infinite possibilities, because of cause and effect, certain events depend on one another. In a mathematical sense, you could have many solutions, however, as the universe gets bigger, chances are the solutions aren't infinitely many.
you can say one infinity is more than another but not in the case of particles and stars. particles and stars can be counted using natural numbers therefore they are as many particles as stars assuming an infinite amount.
If there are universes where, despite what probability would suggest, coins never land on their head, maybe that explains the apparent absence of antimatter in our universe. Maybe our universe is just a probability anomaly.
Everything is possible, sure - to some extent, so i feel. But what determines what is possible and not possible? Is it our minds? Because we can think so and imagine it does it make it so? Or are we kidding ourselves not to think that there is probably reason and meaning behind that which exists? Or do we think that things just happen to be by chance, by random?
Only if the outcome of a coin toss was a quantum event would the universe "split" as a result. Furthermore, the universes are already separate but each quantum event gives you information about which universe you are in.
You just blew my mind, I don't even know what to think now, lol.
I am the son of my father, and my father is the son of my grandfather, and so on. And it goes all the way back to the beginning when sexuality first evolved. Always sons. The chain had never been interrupted by daughters. How lucky am I! And if you are a female, you can say the opposite: You are in a astronomically long chain of uninterrupted daughters.
Any given configuration in an infinite set of configurations can happen only once, because chance is in favor by far of any other configuration. Infinity does not repeat itself. Number Pi, for example. There is no real reason why it happens. It is just that there are infinite different ways it can happening. Choices are infinite. Repetition is how pattern is born. We are pattern geared conscious. We won't understand anything without patterns. We don't feel comfortable unless we can count or name. If there are an infinite number of possible universes, then any possible universe occurs just once. There are more probabilities of something else happening.
I think you guys are forgetting lifes ultimate question. "Why doesn't Sharkee change his shirt?" o_O
+SilicalNZ - Maybe he does. Anything's possible. :)
***** how do you know that, the only information we have of him is him in a black shirt, are you a stalker.
I wear a black top every time I comment on a video on this channel. Doesn't everyone do that? Come on people - at least make some kind of effort. :)
Keira Churchill lol, i watch these videos at school so technically I always wear my uniform xD. Unintentional cult following
after 65 years
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Very interesting ideas, you are very clever!
I completely agree for what is worth.
EVERYTHING I can imagine, exist somewhere in the multiverse. So hypothetically we could develop a machine that much like our imagination does, could bring us everywhere instantaneously just by translating our thoughts.
In order for something to exist it has to be subject to the laws that exist to allow its existence thus constraining it to an existence that cannot allow infinite possibilities.