The Arrow of Time - Wonders of the Universe - BBC Two

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    Professor Brian Cox uses the Perito Moreno glacier in Patagonia, Argentina to help explain the Arrow of Time; a concept that tells us why sequences happen in the order they do.
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Комментарии • 343

  • @robertfindley921
    @robertfindley921 2 года назад +47

    Huge fan of Brian Cox. He brings a child-like wonder to his content. I always learn and enjoy.

  • @itsmylife8639
    @itsmylife8639 10 лет назад +201

    Other than Physics there is one more thing that I like about Brian's videos, the beautiful nature that his videos shares. Just amazing.

    • @moxica6478
      @moxica6478 8 лет назад +5

      +Saurabh Banerjee also the musical score they use in his videos compliment the videos well

    • @AjarnSpencer
      @AjarnSpencer 6 лет назад +4

      he is the david attenborough of the 21st century, with the difference that he is qualified in multiple topics from genetics and chemistry to astrophysics, and has done a lot to make new and emerging sciences and the scientific knowledge of the present day, interesting to the younger generation

    • @shack8110
      @shack8110 3 года назад +1

      isn't gravity a law that states ice can not go back up and affix itself again to the glacier?

    • @christosmakariou4574
      @christosmakariou4574 3 года назад +1

      ITWORKS IN REVERSE TIME AS WELL SO THAT'S A NO.

    • @jonathanphillips5514
      @jonathanphillips5514 2 года назад +1

      @@christosmakariou4574 what about entropy?

  • @marykeohane200
    @marykeohane200 5 лет назад +75

    It’s official ... I’m obsessed with this brilliant dude & his soothing voice 🥰

  • @cannedmusic
    @cannedmusic 4 года назад +24

    I love watching Brian's presentations. It's like watching a kid in a candy store gleefully explain to the workers how candy is made, the hardening point of rock candy and the thermal temperature needed to achieve the crystallization of sugar and corn syrup-how, not enough will result in a somewhat mushy substance whereas too high a temperature can lead to burnt flavor or candy that's too brittle and won't harden properly, how it only takes one or two degrees of temperature to differentiate between the two temperatures, sometimes...and then, out of nowhere a team of Ice Warriors pop up from one of the glaciers and take Prof. Cox captive.

  • @Ravakeksis
    @Ravakeksis 3 года назад +61

    Brian: Now thats something you'll never see in reverse
    Christopher Nolan: Challenge accepted!

  • @libville
    @libville 12 лет назад +13

    This guy is fantastic. He makes physics accessible by employing these amazing explanations that use our natural world as a prop, albeit a beautiful one. Hats off to the BBC for supporting these sorts of programs. BTW, is there really any need for anyone to disparage or get competitive with other countries about their documentary content? Really?! There are wonderful documentaries made the world over by people just as dedicated and talented as Brian Cox, so let's enjoy them.

  • @ploptart4649
    @ploptart4649 3 года назад +13

    I'm sure it's very scary to hear in person, but on video the sound of the collapsing is pretty soothing, actually. It's like listening to a thunderstorm.

    • @franciswheatgerm2082
      @franciswheatgerm2082 2 года назад

      He also taked about something else apart from the ice collapses. Glaciars make a very powerful and distinct sound when they move - also because of all the echoes they trigger. The first time i heard it i was all alone in one of the ice tentacles of Vatnajökull, in Iceland.
      For a very long moment i felt like reality had been stolen away from under my feet. The sound was so strange and unconceivable that i had no common reference to explain it. There was no time, no reason, just a mix of fear and irresistible wonder. It's like a crackling howl, like a mixture between a thunderstorm and a whale chant, that can last for many seconds - from my own humble experience, in one segment of a gigantic glaciar.
      Brian heard it, you can see it in his smile :)

  • @johnathanw2565
    @johnathanw2565 2 года назад +1

    Brian Cox is the greatest Teacher, Presenter, Thinker, Soothing voice and friend there is...

  • @vitalalive69
    @vitalalive69 5 лет назад +6

    What he is telling is actually what we all know and 0have known for a long time now, nothing new to anyone. But the way he gets the message over is simply brilliant and epic.

  • @Primaate
    @Primaate 7 лет назад +9

    The definition of Genius - to solve and reveal the complex, simply. Well done BBC and BC.

  • @debbietimm9397
    @debbietimm9397 3 года назад +6

    I could listen to his voice explaining the Wonders of
    The Universe for eternity 😀 So relaxing!

  • @moxica6478
    @moxica6478 8 лет назад +14

    Such a great series this and the wonders of the Solar system. I don't know what I like more, the cinematography, the music or the way he makes everything understandable.

  • @nicholasmrobinson
    @nicholasmrobinson 7 лет назад +114

    "...we all age..." - do we Brian? I know I do.

  • @sinprelic
    @sinprelic 10 лет назад +17

    this video is about the second law of thermodynamics.
    too bad BBC only uploads these snippets!

  • @saadsalman1650
    @saadsalman1650 3 года назад +5

    How is it that I have been watching Brian Cox since I was a kid and now I am a grown man and he hasn't aged a day?

  • @alexanderhopkins2807
    @alexanderhopkins2807 3 года назад +3

    I went to see that glacier on a warmer sunny day. A fabulous spectacle. 🤓

  • @AnikHalder
    @AnikHalder 11 лет назад +5

    From what I could make out,
    Arrow of Time = Second law of Thermodynamics in terms of entropy(disorder).
    In other words,
    Universe likes disorder and time moves in direction of entropy increase.
    Prof. Brian...Hats off to you as always.

    • @RtB68
      @RtB68 3 года назад

      Remember, disorder is a human definition...I'm sure the universe thinks it's quite ordered, thank-you very much.

    • @naomisbrainjunk578
      @naomisbrainjunk578 Год назад

      @@RtB68I’ve heard it described as energy becoming more spread out, like through friction or low energy heat radiation :0

  • @ezequiels3293
    @ezequiels3293 3 года назад +2

    I live close to that park, one of the purest airs i ever breathe for sure.

  • @LizardYup
    @LizardYup 12 лет назад +12

    Sweet! I love everything about the universe, so beautiful. :)
    And Brian Cox, you're a legend ;)

  • @kalidouba7706
    @kalidouba7706 Год назад

    I really like your videos, they are great and simple.
    I only pick the ones where you are casual.

  • @arnobghosh265
    @arnobghosh265 6 лет назад

    I really really loved this tv show. These gave me a dream of becoming a scientists. Thanks to BBC and Brain Cox.
    Hope in this year i mean 2018, there will be another tv show like this.......

  • @toonu
    @toonu 13 лет назад +8

    "glacialy slow" is the new description I will be using for my workmates.

  • @protic4
    @protic4 3 года назад +1

    Add to bucket list: see glacier.

  • @PatRedstone
    @PatRedstone 12 лет назад +5

    Love the BBC - thanks for posting this.

  • @vigneshrb1626
    @vigneshrb1626 2 года назад +1

    Brian Cox:"There's nothing in the laws of physics that prevents the ice from jumping from Lake and gluing back to its original place"
    Chris Nolan: that's great!!

  • @thealmightytiddles5427
    @thealmightytiddles5427 6 лет назад +2

    Beautifully poetic in a way isn't it?

  • @arboldechorizos
    @arboldechorizos 8 лет назад +2

    Hey, is there any chance to get this fragment subtitled in spanish??? it would be great to have this amazing quality content available for the understanding of a wider audience. I can help if given the opportunity!

  • @elliebrown181
    @elliebrown181 2 года назад

    Amazing photography

  • @helipeek2736
    @helipeek2736 3 года назад +2

    “1000km that way is the Antarctic and today it feels like June in Wythenshawe”

  • @Lecky2000
    @Lecky2000 6 лет назад +2

    Time exists because of a singularity that occurred billions of years ago (the big bang). Before that, our entire universe was smaller than a pin prick but contained all of space, time and matter. It is the most highly ordered state known to science (or you could say it had the lowest entropy ever known).
    Then something happened inside our tiny, highly ordered universe that gave particles mass. We don't yet know exactly why it happened yet (possibly due to a very slight imbalace/spin in the universe's highly ordered particles interacting with the Higgs field) but we do know that it gave birth to both time and space, releasing incomprehensible amounts of energy in the process.
    The energy, motion, time and space created all move from a highly ordered state to a lower ordered state and eventually all energy space and time will dissipate from the unvierse. Entropy calculates that this is the most overwhelmingly probable outcome.
    At that point, all possible past present and futures will coexist simultaneously and time will have no meaning.
    So it's true to say that entropy and therfore time do exist but the past, present and future are just explanations of how we humans perceive the universal forces that change matter to a less ordered state.
    Its just dumb humans... observing entropy... relative to us.

  • @jakemorrison8507
    @jakemorrison8507 5 лет назад +1

    Can anyone point me to the video where Brian Cox references somewhere in spacetime is 'your first Christmas with your grandparents' long shot, but if anyone has a vague idea of what I'm talking about let me know please

  • @gustavoritterstein4644
    @gustavoritterstein4644 3 года назад

    Simple, yet very profound

  • @ausria9swan
    @ausria9swan 12 лет назад +1

    So true.

  • @Muradsahar
    @Muradsahar 2 года назад +1

    Reminds me 2011, early teenage years.

  • @ivanpostnikov5517
    @ivanpostnikov5517 3 года назад

    that's my favorite science series for sure

  • @craigrobinson8160
    @craigrobinson8160 Год назад

    I think I would enjoy him telling me off lol , Could listen to him all day..

  • @TheMightsparrow
    @TheMightsparrow 3 года назад +1

    Things can only get better ✨

  • @patrickmayer9566
    @patrickmayer9566 3 года назад

    ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,....... . . . Always watching here ! ......from land o' lakes,wi........DooooooooooD ! .....the best!

  • @S2Cents
    @S2Cents 12 лет назад +1

    Brian Cox is living up to the legacy of public science teacher of the great Carl Sagan I think.

  • @RobinOfTheWest
    @RobinOfTheWest 12 лет назад +1

    Entropy prevents water from jumping back up and reforming into the glacier. Things always move towards a lower energy state.

  • @alistairhales9179
    @alistairhales9179 6 лет назад +6

    This separation between Past, Present and Future is only an illusion - Albert Einstein

    • @pseudonymousbeing987
      @pseudonymousbeing987 5 лет назад +1

      Only a stubbornly persistent illusion* is the correct, full quote.

    • @kephalopod3054
      @kephalopod3054 4 года назад

      The present is the most phenomenal illusion.

    • @dennisgalvin2521
      @dennisgalvin2521 3 года назад

      "It's just the present we're in that's always changing that seems to make time appear'

  • @Kenneth_James
    @Kenneth_James 5 лет назад

    As far as I'm concerned, no other man should be allowed to talk about science and the universe. Only Professor Cox.

  • @jakemiller7682
    @jakemiller7682 Год назад

    everyone in awe at this guy - the way he talks and makes amazing videos - oooh aaah - unfortunately they fail to see - he's wrong

  • @musicshanky
    @musicshanky 13 лет назад +1

    amazing is the word!!!

  • @wkb9683
    @wkb9683 6 лет назад +3

    Things can only get better 💓

    • @manibharathy1994
      @manibharathy1994 6 лет назад

      Things can get only worse. Thats what he is saying

    • @OutlawXplosive
      @OutlawXplosive 3 года назад

      This didn't age well my friend xd

  • @davidwinfield4948
    @davidwinfield4948 3 года назад

    Iv got a Question.....? But in a Multyverse Could there be not only the posabilty but the Probability of A universe running Backwards ✨.?....?

  • @typim
    @typim 3 года назад

    wow, those are deep thoughts! appreciate it!

  • @8nansky528
    @8nansky528 3 года назад +2

    I ADORE READING

  • @Ken7663
    @Ken7663 6 лет назад

    I remember once seeing a documentary where an arrow in flight was used to illustrate the forward movement of time. Any responses ?

  • @srinivasagan
    @srinivasagan 10 лет назад

    Change is permanent and irreversible. How true and universal!

  • @sundareshvenugopal6575
    @sundareshvenugopal6575 3 года назад

    If there was no change in state would there be time ? If there was no activity at all but perfect endless stillness, would there be time, or the passage of time ? Are all these changes caused and brought about by time ?

  • @chrisgriffiths2533
    @chrisgriffiths2533 5 лет назад

    Amazing Glacier.

  • @MohammedAhmed-yo8pe
    @MohammedAhmed-yo8pe 3 года назад

    After Sir David Attenborough Brian Cox defo has the best narration voice.

  • @TheInfinityGhost
    @TheInfinityGhost 11 лет назад +2

    Anyway - America isn't too bad with it's own shows about nature and the universe, but I do agree that there should definitely be more consistent programming, not just one show about the universe and then 10 showings of "Ice-Road Truckers"

  • @inox1ck
    @inox1ck 7 лет назад

    I think, we don't see things in reverse because of the laws of physics not because time goes in one direction. At some point some things may appear as happening in reverse but the same rules hold as before.
    The world is a made of fields that propagate like waves and interfere or interact and emerge or collapse.

  • @Andyachinhead
    @Andyachinhead 5 месяцев назад

    2:44 Hell yeah!

  • @davidbobbiejohnson6214
    @davidbobbiejohnson6214 3 года назад +1

    Fascinating my name is Bobby Johnson

  • @virginiaconnor8350
    @virginiaconnor8350 2 года назад

    "The Vulcan Directorate has determined that there's no such thing as time travel " Sub-Cdr. T'Pol

  • @TransoceanicOutreach
    @TransoceanicOutreach Год назад +1

    4:20 is where he actually starts talking about it. Brian really knows how to waffle.
    EDIT: oh wait a minute, he doesn't actually explain anything at all, he just says we can only travel forwards in time without explaining why. WELL THANKS A LOT FOR THAT BRI, YOU REALLY HELPED ME OUT WITH THAT ONE.

    • @alanhunt3772
      @alanhunt3772 Год назад

      It’s called storytelling and thinking critically for yourself.

    • @Alex-mj5dv
      @Alex-mj5dv Год назад

      It’s a science / entertainment programme for prime time BBC.. it’s not in depth lecturing. It’s a layman’s explanation of difficult to grasp concepts, delivered in an easy accessible way. Which Brian is great at. Same with Attenborough - he’s not going into DNA sequencing on Planet Earth

  • @vargasbasti
    @vargasbasti 3 года назад

    Though Perito Moreno is an Argentine glaciar, Northen and Southern ice fields are Chilean

  • @johnniemjamaica3089
    @johnniemjamaica3089 10 лет назад

    very nice my friend I like it

  • @Robert399
    @Robert399 5 лет назад +3

    3:47 This confused me a bit. Sure, there's no law in physics saying "water molecules can't move away from the centre of the Earth" but they can't just spontaneously do that because they'd be moving from a low energy state to a high energy state; it would require a source of energy to make that happen. I know that's kind of his point but it's just a weird way of expressing it. He makes it sound like "ice doesn't fly because entropy"... well no, ice doesn't fly because gravity.

    • @Wolves2314
      @Wolves2314 3 года назад

      Well you can't really put the ice back into the position it was in before. I think he meant that also, not just to "make ice fly" but to actually undo it

  • @dylan110896
    @dylan110896 12 лет назад

    Do you have the science channel?

  • @scurrie42
    @scurrie42 12 лет назад

    Superb...

  • @Yusuf1187
    @Yusuf1187 7 лет назад +9

    I like Brian Cox, but tbh in these clips I'm watching from this show, he actually explains very little. Sometimes he never explains anything. Like in this one, he just rephrases that time goes in one direction as the explanation for why time travels in one direction. Just saying that events cannot be undone isn't an explanation of why. It's just rephrasing the issue I thought he was going to provide an answer to.
    To anyone who has seen the full show - does he actually explain the answer to these things? O is the whole thing basically kept so simple for the masses that you never feel like you've developed a greater understanding of the issues?

    • @patmercado8145
      @patmercado8145 5 лет назад +1

      It's been a year, maybe you've seen the full episode already. Anyway, I just recently rewatched this and yes he does explain it further by discussing entropy in the next part.

    • @mark-ish
      @mark-ish 5 лет назад

      @@patmercado8145 the (typically) desert scene eh?

    • @patmercado8145
      @patmercado8145 5 лет назад

      @@mark-ish Yes lol. Is it typical? I'm a chem major and that was the first time the desert analogy was presented to me. Profs usually use "your messy room that won't make itself unless you put effort” analogy 😅

  • @2007Jordan1991
    @2007Jordan1991 12 лет назад

    yea thats exactly what i was thinking thats why we have waterfalls not water rises but im sure he has some sort of explanation for it he's the man

  • @redmigold370
    @redmigold370 3 года назад +1

    I'm in love with this person 💞😍😍

  • @AppleAssassin
    @AppleAssassin 13 лет назад +4

    I used to travel in time, but then I took an arrow to the knee

  • @swimon
    @swimon 5 лет назад +1

    There's nothing in the laws of physics which prevents the ice from jumping out of the water and back onto the glacier ? Gravity, maybe?

  • @arpitkulshreshtha3513
    @arpitkulshreshtha3513 5 месяцев назад

    4:27 is where idea of Tenet was born!

  • @mrityunjoysen10
    @mrityunjoysen10 3 года назад

    4:22 Nolan's behind the camera cameo.

  • @TheScottoline19
    @TheScottoline19 11 лет назад +1

    This guy is today's Sagan

  • @arnorrian1
    @arnorrian1 13 лет назад

    Production quality of British documentaries is much better than of American ones.

  • @arnorrian1
    @arnorrian1 13 лет назад

    @callumdoyle2 Not just you, everybody is. They're the global standard of quality

  • @hackajim
    @hackajim 13 лет назад

    in this episode he said order to disorder.... light to dark, the universe will burn out into stale dark... but in the next he marvels at the "endless cycle of life" you cant have it both ways pal.

  • @MaoTseFunkadelic
    @MaoTseFunkadelic 6 лет назад +1

    Attenborough vs Cox? Discuss
    (IMHO Attenborough still rules, but I appreciate the efforts of others like Cox to approximate the combination of great footage, simple explanations of complex dynamics, and emotive music to capture 'drama' in the natural world)

    • @zakveronie105
      @zakveronie105 5 лет назад

      I completely agree with your opinion, he feels like everyone's wise grandfather. Yet if I am to take an unbiased stand, I would have to say IMHO, one cannot compare the 2. Both are wonderful minds teaching us of our incredibly beautiful and intricate, yet mysterious and dangerous world. This type of knowledge and passion cannot be compared, only needed in this day and age.

  • @The11thSon.
    @The11thSon. Месяц назад +1

    He should be Knighted.

  • @arbonne1805
    @arbonne1805 Год назад

    You can throw all the phyisics known to mankind into explaining this arrow of time malarkey, but it doesn't explain the paradox of how Prof Brian Cox fails to age.

  • @llIIIIlllIIIllI
    @llIIIIlllIIIllI 3 года назад

    what is a glassier?

  • @aabmmd
    @aabmmd 11 лет назад

    got a link?

  • @luckyluke013
    @luckyluke013 13 лет назад

    Its the extremely simple and basic stuff that dumbfounds me, like how destruction of an object can be put into entropy and a mathematical equation. I just think of it like its just there or just happens. Never thought why. Its like asking what the definition of "the" or "is" is.

  • @allensherrill850
    @allensherrill850 Год назад

    What language is he speaking? (Strong accent)

  • @camtiger3691
    @camtiger3691 12 лет назад

    whats PBS?

  • @aluisious
    @aluisious 12 лет назад

    @Graham6762 Frontline and Nova. What are you talking about?

  • @rsvcaptin
    @rsvcaptin 12 лет назад +3

    Me watching these 5 minutes videos ive become cleverer than my teacher

  • @leapsplashafrog
    @leapsplashafrog 13 лет назад

    When he says the universe ends in disorder I think he doesn't mention that another infinitesimal can open up and another cosmos can begin again. Maybe this has already happened before... What if there's no end?

  • @stuartparkinson6061
    @stuartparkinson6061 3 года назад

    Time is responsible for the existence of matter,, one of the major factors is a positive infinite number. Time is a reassertion so a past is known, movement isn’t required.

  • @Bane_Diesel
    @Bane_Diesel 12 лет назад

    Maybe I would watch more TV if we had BBC in HD not just BBC America.... I know, it can take the place of the OWN network. At least they show some material on the Science channel and discovery channel!

  • @aluisious
    @aluisious 12 лет назад

    @daeamarth Part of the whole deal is that the entire universe is aging irreversibly. It's not a continual cycle. Eventually the galaxies will drift apart and no galaxy will be able to see any other galaxy. Stars will generally all become old and cold, with very few new stars born. You could say that even now we are at the stage of the universe where no new galaxies are formed, they only collide to form amalgamations, and one day even that will stop.

  • @AbcDef-el9jl
    @AbcDef-el9jl 21 день назад

    We might be moving backward in time. For us we think we are moving forward in time, maybe the clock of the universe might be going backwards, how do we know it?

  • @stilettosandshades
    @stilettosandshades 13 лет назад

    @jegr38 i just meant that im sure you didn't come back and see the big huge argument that started between cruelty2 and the other person commenting after you left your comment.... But, good definition of trolling :)

  • @JJJJ-gl2uf
    @JJJJ-gl2uf 3 года назад

    Not bad, but the presenter never explained what the arrow of time [there are three of them - thermodynamic, psychological, and cosmological] meant. There's a chapter in Hawking's book "A Brief History of Time" that explains it well. Essentially, things move from an ordered state to a disordered state - AKA entropy.

  • @I_SuperHiro_I
    @I_SuperHiro_I 2 года назад

    Why is it blue?

  • @RelDavi103
    @RelDavi103 12 лет назад

    Awesome

  • @juleshammond5652
    @juleshammond5652 7 лет назад

    The science in this video is also glacially slow. David Attenborough would definitely appreciate this though. I think entropy is the name of the game here. Much as I admire Brian Cox, a concept of 'time's arrow' is misleading and metaphysical at best.

  • @phat1234
    @phat1234 11 лет назад

    change is the only constant in the universe...
    sadly we and things around us must adapt or perish....

    • @Luke-ev7vz
      @Luke-ev7vz 5 лет назад

      There are multiple physics constants...

  • @Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time
    @Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time 13 лет назад

    Neat vid!
    I am an artist trying to promote my theory on the dynamics of light and time.
    This theory is based on two postulates
    1. Is that the quantum wave particle function Ψ represents the forward passage of time ∆E ∆t ≥ h/2π itself
    2. Is that Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle ∆×∆p×≥h/4π that is formed by the w- function is the same uncertainty we have with any future event.
    This process of continuous change we see and feel as the flow of time itself!

  • @GreenAmigos
    @GreenAmigos 13 лет назад

    @VerucaBucket
    Maybe DireTheDecadent is the Host's RUclips username, and your comment about James Blunt really got to him... it would to me!

  • @dsmyify
    @dsmyify 5 лет назад

    The big bang is still happening.

  • @joanmanalang8375
    @joanmanalang8375 5 лет назад

    He kinda look like the Australian stand up comedian James Smith :)