Sir Martin Rees: Earth in its final century?

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  • čas přidán 14. 04. 2008
  • www.ted.com In a taut soliloquy that takes us from the origins of the universe to the last days of a dying sun 6 billion years later, renowned cosmologist Sir Martin Rees explains why the 21st century is a pivotal moment in the history of humanity: the first time in history when we can materially change ourselves and our planet. Stunning imagery of cosmological wonders show us the universe as we know it now. Speaking as "a concerned member of the human race," Rees harkens to the wisdom of Einstein, calling for scientists to act as moral compasses, confronting the coming developments and ensuring our role in "the immense future."
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  • @august1871
    @august1871 Před 2 lety +76

    A story of our demise heading toward us like a freight train, and it starts with a BMW ad.
    Even the apocalypse will be sponsored.

    • @tomcollins5112
      @tomcollins5112 Před 2 lety +1

      Automobiles are incredibly dangerous and polluting things. Like so many other things that are mass produced by humans these days.

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    • @ansongabriel8623
      @ansongabriel8623 Před 2 lety

      @Bronson Fernando instablaster :)

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    • @jamessheridan4306
      @jamessheridan4306 Před 2 lety +1

      I'll wager that on the day our planet is blown to bits there will be seen on the largest bit a McDonald's and it will be open for business.

  • @DrWSDavis-mr8xy
    @DrWSDavis-mr8xy Před 10 lety +86

    Having known Sir Martin for about a decade now, I have never heard (or read) such amazing seriousness. Hi ability to succinctly examine humanity's role in the universe is both honest and pleading; hopeful, yet accepting that humanity's biggest problem is humanity.

    • @kevwhufc8640
      @kevwhufc8640 Před 4 lety +10

      Absolutely true, humanity's biggest problem is humanity.
      If aliens did exist they wouldn't touch us with a bargepole ( or whatever the alien equivalent is)
      We kill each other & are destroying our own planet.

    • @dennisadmiraal3415
      @dennisadmiraal3415 Před 4 lety

      Just look up? these weird }CLOUD FORMATIONS{ NOWADAYS??????

    • @MrAaronvee
      @MrAaronvee Před 4 lety +2

      Does he hold any religious beliefs? If he does, then he is part of the problem. All of the misery in the world is due to gangs who promise eternal life to their members ... and kill those who refuse to join. Ironic, eh?

    • @rebelstarrhaircolor998
      @rebelstarrhaircolor998 Před 4 lety

      @@dennisadmiraal3415 what weird cloud formations? Do u mean chem trails or something else?I'm very curious

    • @robiii3487
      @robiii3487 Před 4 lety +1

      Sounds like a know it all douche to me

  • @Hithere-ek4qt
    @Hithere-ek4qt Před 4 lety +214

    As George Carlin said many years ago -
    The earth isn't going away anytime soon .............. WE ARE

    • @rainsmith6138
      @rainsmith6138 Před 4 lety +19

      It bothers me when people say "save the planet". Earth has been a molten rock, and a frozen ball. Maybe it will one day be a baren wasteland, but it will still be. Shouldn't it be about saving humanity?

    • @dcaotearoa
      @dcaotearoa Před 4 lety +5

      Yep, I dont want all our children to perish but maybe the planet could do with us not being here anymore lol.

    • @PookieMasten
      @PookieMasten Před 4 lety +2

      @@rainsmith6138 yes exactly. This young 16 year old Swedish girl about to sail into some climate change seminar when she should be 'sorting' herself out instead. If everyone focussed on themselves first the planet would be saved as a by product perhaps

    • @rhinegun3482
      @rhinegun3482 Před 4 lety +4

      @@rainsmith6138 why? humanity is a cancer and needs to go away, ASAP!

    • @rainsmith6138
      @rainsmith6138 Před 4 lety +4

      @@rhinegun3482 life will endure, it has done so long before us and it will long after us. Humanity has not been the first thing to lead about a change on this Earth and it won't be the last. We have been given an opportunity for life. With that life we have potential for great progress as well as great destruction. It will be our destination we find though, if we choose that path. If life is just a fluke we have the potential to seed the universe. If life is an inevitability we have little to worry about. I think the human experiment is worth considering, and so does evolution. For now. Maybe our destination is inevitable, everything runs it's course eventually. But just like every lifeform, we'll fight to hold on.

  • @kostailijev7489
    @kostailijev7489 Před 5 lety +29

    Humans are the so-called crowning achievement of Earth's evolution, but they've let me down, often cruelly.

    • @Amethyst_Friend
      @Amethyst_Friend Před rokem

      We are not the endpoint or top of evolution. That is a misconception. Humans are just one branch on the tree of life

    • @Amethyst_Friend
      @Amethyst_Friend Před rokem

      Also: don't blame other people for your unhappiness

  • @geraldmartin8195
    @geraldmartin8195 Před 4 lety +4

    Brilliant ...! One of those TED talks that warrant watching more than once.

  • @jameswaterhouse-brown6646
    @jameswaterhouse-brown6646 Před 2 lety +10

    If this dream ends, there’s a never ending number of other dreams awaiting us.

  • @DavidHolcomb1776
    @DavidHolcomb1776 Před 8 lety +33

    Very enjoyable to watch,everytime I've watched it.He is an amazing man.

    • @AsttoScott
      @AsttoScott Před 4 lety

      I kept looking at his nose and physique. The guy needs to eat a hamburger.

    • @kirstinstrand6292
      @kirstinstrand6292 Před 2 lety

      @@AsttoScott He is serious about his health and heart. No extraneous weights. Skinny Is Best. Sugar is illness.

  • @frankieocco4751
    @frankieocco4751 Před 9 lety +3

    Only seeing this now,thanks for posting.

  • @enerleaf7178
    @enerleaf7178 Před 4 lety +15

    I appreciate Sir Rees's presentation. It inspires me. Learning to live a grounded life with great curiosity, joy, creativity, self-expression, connection with others and immersed in nature as much as possible, living simply and giving myself adequate self-care.

    • @haidijerlstrom6619
      @haidijerlstrom6619 Před 4 lety +1

      What my empty nesting and divorce in 2014 allowed me in downsizing allowed my life to relish my own life and attention in my belief systems that are at hand in their presence and to get a unlimited amount of attention and loving in a calming and enjoyable manner that is very COLOURFUL and very simple to be PART of if the end comes my carbon footprint will be hobbit sized just me and my colourful cat who I've been able to insight into my super sized life with 1 rule that is silliness COMES FIRST AND TGE MORE RANDOM ACTS OF SILLINESS I CAN INTERACT IN AND MY CAT TOO MEANS THE GREATER THE DAY WE'VE HAD AND WE KNOW OUR SLUMBERS WILL BE PERFECT BY THE TIME WE STOP TICKLING BACK AND FORTH .....AT 61 IM READY FOR WHAT EVER EVENTS AHEAD TURN INTO ADVENTURES

  • @Lettime1
    @Lettime1 Před 13 lety +4

    If you can't appreciate this ,am afraid you do not have a heart and feelings to emulate great work.This is fantastic!!

  • @JFairhart
    @JFairhart Před 4 lety +3

    We obviously don’t know very much about this universe or how it came into being. But I find the enormous size of the only universe we can see to be comforting.

  • @8inchmegohulk307
    @8inchmegohulk307 Před rokem

    This is one of my favourite CZcams videos. When I first saw this years ago, I wrote to Professor Rees and amazingly he replied very kindly.

  • @simoncuming41
    @simoncuming41 Před 9 lety +24

    I really enjoyed that talk, extremely lucid in its content and full of simple logic, no complex equations or rhetoric! Great!

    • @robertrichard6107
      @robertrichard6107 Před 4 lety

      I liked the jest about the American Bible belt, or was that a quip? Of course Albert E. regretted signing those two letters to FDR, and our tax dollars secretly went to building a bigger boom-boom. And the USSR plotted on mostly alone to fight the Hun for us. But wait! We've only blown up a little over 1,000 nuclear weapons, lots of them into our precious atmosphere what did the holy Einstein say about nuclear waste? This is three years before Fukushima I realize but Fukushima is a game changer. What does Mr. Rees have to say about Glowball human self absorption of the nuclear Pandora's box?

    • @shealdedmon7104
      @shealdedmon7104 Před 4 lety

      I have to say your logic is simple and neither you or that speaker are lucid!

  • @hippiedachshunds1632
    @hippiedachshunds1632 Před 10 lety +38

    A real treat to get to hear this lecture!

  • @darwinrisdon7141
    @darwinrisdon7141 Před 4 lety +4

    There is nothing more pleasing to the ear than the voice of reason and intelligence, ...a rare gift to humanity!

  • @thomasfholland
    @thomasfholland Před 4 lety +2

    Is this one of the very first TED talk videos? I’m too lazy to do a search!

  • @Ericwvb2
    @Ericwvb2 Před 4 lety +3

    One thing I found rather odd to hear from an astronomer is that while it's true that in 6 billion years or so, the Sun will expand and collapse, taking the Earth with it, but in just 1 billion years, the Sun's brightness will increase by 10%, which will most likely mean the extinction of complex carbon based life on Earth unless something can be done to shield the planet. Maybe I'm missing something since astronomy was not my main subject in college.

    • @DeepLored
      @DeepLored Před 4 lety

      Neil deGrasse Tyson once said that it is pointless to hire someone as a bed warmer as they would obviously wear pajamas and that would insulate them preventing their body heat from warming your bed. I don't think he knows the difference between an insulator and a perfect insulator but then again I dropped out of high school...

  • @inyourgenes
    @inyourgenes Před 10 lety +7

    "Hello god, are you there still?"
    "No?.....Guess we (some of us!) have moved on from your bronze-aged bullshit"

  • @public.public
    @public.public Před 4 lety +121

    but first a fossil fueled folly advert from BMW

    • @deormanrobey892
      @deormanrobey892 Před 4 lety +2

      Broke My Wallet.

    • @abistonservices9249
      @abistonservices9249 Před 4 lety +3

      You a complete idiot?

    • @klausuhlig7141
      @klausuhlig7141 Před 4 lety +1

      and my bank just notified me they are now called chemical bank of bla bla bla

    • @davidwoodruff1897
      @davidwoodruff1897 Před 4 lety +1

      Comment by Monica: now that was funny! But oil isn’t fossil fuel it is abiotic.

    • @chosen_ones777
      @chosen_ones777 Před 4 lety +1

      @@davidwoodruff1897 Is it not fossil fuel because it origins from fossils?

  • @77goanywhere
    @77goanywhere Před 4 lety +5

    In order for humanity to change from a destructive to a benign influence on the Earth a fundamental shift in consciousness will need to occur. A fundamental change from a fear and lack based consciousness to a love and abundance based consciousness. Fortunately this is what our Creator has planned to occur.

  • @IsaacAsimov1992
    @IsaacAsimov1992 Před 4 lety +11

    People who make disparaging comments about this eminent man's appearance don't belong on here.

    • @lukeharwood2464
      @lukeharwood2464 Před 4 lety +1

      Undergrad worship? or looking for higher marks from your hero?

    • @IsaacAsimov1992
      @IsaacAsimov1992 Před 4 lety +1

      @@lukeharwood2464 What a ridiculous and puerile response. Drongo.

    • @stuartslaugh2722
      @stuartslaugh2722 Před 4 lety

      @@lukeharwood2464 Asshat

  • @SteveParkinson
    @SteveParkinson Před 4 lety +6

    At 2:50 he says that those stars probably don't have planets, but that was 10 billion light years ago. Today they probably look completely different... it's just that the light hasn't reach us yet... and they are probably so far away that the light from those systems may never reach us because we are travelling away from them... things a certain distance from us are not worth wasting time over, because they will never affect us.. let us work more on what lies a head and how we can prepare for that and make the future better for our planet and all the wonderful life that lives on it... and if we need to get ready to live somewhere else at some time in the future... lets start working towards that now..
    Just a thought...

    • @Likexner
      @Likexner Před 4 lety

      But the light that is just reaching us IS our point of "now", nothing is faster than light

    • @timotb1
      @timotb1 Před 4 lety

      A pretty good summation.

    • @hermanhelmich
      @hermanhelmich Před 4 lety

      Steve Parkinson 🐣

  • @katherinesage
    @katherinesage Před 4 lety +8

    when do these 1000 people show up in Monterey?!? this is brilliant

  • @brucemcbain3150
    @brucemcbain3150 Před 9 lety +16

    Damn that British accent making him sound so clever. Question: How can I think about concepts that he is discussing without my brain exploding? Amazing stuff!

    • @brockfettes8446
      @brockfettes8446 Před 9 lety

      Hofstadter has a nice american accent, try him :)

    • @jackgillies5638
      @jackgillies5638 Před 2 lety

      That's just what clever sounds like. I could show you a ton of British voices that sound absolutely think as planks!

  • @jolorulz
    @jolorulz Před 16 lety +3

    This was a great speech. I wish Carl Sagan could've taken part in such an awe inspiring event.

  • @jeffposey386
    @jeffposey386 Před 4 lety +18

    This rambling video cured my insomnia brilliantly.

  • @ManuTheGreat79
    @ManuTheGreat79 Před 6 lety

    What a joy to listen to Sir Martin Rees. Not only does he say interesting things, he says it in poetry

  • @skaterslife6305
    @skaterslife6305 Před 4 lety +1

    I love the beginning comment? We don’t know what bangs or why it banged ?

  • @ElSmusso
    @ElSmusso Před 11 lety +3

    Sir Martin is a good educator. Loved this talk.

  • @aryanzijlstra6649
    @aryanzijlstra6649 Před 4 lety +6

    I must admit that in my lifetime I've learned and understand (up to some point) from many different scientists about evolution, nuclear fusion (sorry, I was only 14 years old) , the Big Bang (for which I probably know how it started), worm holes, black holes, dark matter, dark energy, and much more.
    In primary school when we where tested (through some form of IQ test) the school told my parents that I must have cheated someway as my results where way beyond the maximum expectation. So I had to redo the test with many teachers watching me as the only student in a room to make sure I did not cheat. As I was never prepared for any form of IQ test, I currently scored a few points lower due to being nervous, however still far beyond what was expected from a "standard student".
    At my current age of 52 I've never heard of Sir Martin Rees. That is up until now, August 2019.
    And I can say: "what a brilliant man!" I want to know more about him, what he does, who he is, what his major is. And so forth.
    Whomever read this far, I encourage to do the same, and discover this , but also many other scientists. It enlightens your brain, your knowledge, your freedom. Don't constrict your brain with suffocation religion.
    Enjoy life. Drink a beer, because in heaven ain't no beer. (Not that I believe in any form of afterlife ;-)

    • @phantomwalker8251
      @phantomwalker8251 Před 4 lety +1

      there was no big bang,its just an easy way out,.the universe has been here forever.we have alien dna,science is a lie.yopur life leaning ,is a lie.the truth is hidden from all of us.the smithsonian,the vatican,all gov,s,all religion,is a lie.you think your smart,but you only know what they want you to know.gold is not precious,its plentyfull,but our forefathers,ask an american indian who,our forefathers were......used it as we do now for protection,curcuits,ect.we mined it for them.all over the world.this is why we think its precious.religion has a lot to explain.smoke & mirrors,half truths,fear of god,.why doers it cost so much for education,it should be every humans right to advance as far as they want,not by money.we are kept slaves.as allways we have been...enki,enlil....as to beer,try sapporo..good drop..japan..

    • @phantomwalker8251
      @phantomwalker8251 Před 4 lety

      oh yeh,i forgot,over 60.ish..sodem & gemmorah,NUKED.& other places..nuke wars in india.recorded,radiation 15 ft under the ground,in jungles.nuked..we now have nuke plants,only for the weapons,not the power.the world had its own free power grid,tesla re discovered it.

    • @aryanzijlstra6649
      @aryanzijlstra6649 Před 4 lety +1

      @@phantomwalker8251 Harry, have you been drinking? Your words make no sense.

    • @bitemethehardest
      @bitemethehardest Před 4 lety +1

      How exactly do you cheat on an IQ test?

    • @aryanzijlstra6649
      @aryanzijlstra6649 Před 4 lety +1

      @@bitemethehardest I didn't. The school lured me into the test without any preparation. On the first results they did believe I cheated, but how could I, I had no idea there would be an IQ test. After a chat with my parents I had to redo the test, me in one classroom with four teachers watching me constantly. That made me a bit nervous, so I scored about 2 points lower. That was when I was 12.
      In those days I stopped asking questions to teachers, as they could not answer my questions, so I resorted to books from a university library and I started to create my own hypnotizes of nuclear physics and quantum mechanics. When I sent a letter to a nuclear fusion laboratory with questions (before the internet started) I was invited by some professor working there to discuss the matter. On arrival He believed it was a joke that a 14 year old kid showed up, but I convinced him in less than two minutes I was serious.
      So; no I did not cheat on my IQ test.

  • @hlnbee
    @hlnbee Před 4 lety +2

    Thank you, Sir Martin.

    • @timotb1
      @timotb1 Před 4 lety

      I know, he makes so serious it becomes silly.

  • @fab60s64
    @fab60s64 Před 4 lety +1

    cant help but admire these type of people with amazing minds . My school days were spent jumping over the fence and going to the beach .

  • @z4k4z
    @z4k4z Před 11 lety +4

    Sir Martin may have meant to say "years", but it would not be wrong to say "I've been travelling hundreds of miles to get here". I think we can let this pass :)

  • @mentuemhet
    @mentuemhet Před 4 lety +10

    Wow, this was here since 2008. Holy crap.

  • @LivegoodCreator
    @LivegoodCreator Před 4 lety

    Fascinating

  • @hotdog7988
    @hotdog7988 Před 4 lety +32

    We'll all be fine as long as this fella can find his Flux Capacitor.

    • @PeopleHealthTru
      @PeopleHealthTru Před 4 lety +2

      Yes. He looks like an old cartoon character on the Simpsons.

    • @pssst3
      @pssst3 Před 4 lety +2

      @@PeopleHealthTru You look like Sans Serif.

  • @davidowens5898
    @davidowens5898 Před 4 lety +6

    Love the rumpled professorial look. Especially those trouser cuffs. For what its worth: the wild card for humanity has always been, and will always be, the optimism, ingenuity, and courage of the young. Humanity's back is against the wall, once again, and in past crisis', the young have found ways and means to escape calamity. Let us hope, for the sake of our endangered specie, and all earthly life, that they will rise to this challenge as well. It's something to hope for. And hope is about all we got left..........

    • @johnmoates5709
      @johnmoates5709 Před 4 lety

      Have you seen the kids these days? We are so screwed it ain't even funny. And they think it's funny and cute. We're doomed

    • @NondescriptMammal
      @NondescriptMammal Před 3 lety

      The notion that we will always find a way to weasel out of our own collective stupidity, just because we have thus far, is not as sensible as it might seem. It is not unlikely that the scale of the problems we have created for ourselves is insurmountable. Technology and optimism will not always and forever be capable of solving every calamity we create, simply because it has in the past.
      We continually dig deeper and deeper holes for ourselves, always with the trust that our cleverness and resourcefulness will save the day. But at this point technology might not provide us with a ladder big enough to climb out of this abyss, it might just give us nothing but more shovels.
      Never fear though! The Elon Musks of this world will solve it by allowing us to escape to Mars! A world a thousand times more desolate than Earth even if we spend another thousand years destroying our own habitat here!

    • @dicktater2122
      @dicktater2122 Před 2 lety

      @@johnmoates5709 standing on guard for thee

  • @atahulpa3584
    @atahulpa3584 Před 4 lety +42

    Humanities biggest problem is Humanity ... /

    • @public.public
      @public.public Před 4 lety +1

      the middle class is unfortunately for our entire species all too willing to do absolutely anything for any regime as evidenced globally and through all history. And the middle class is administrating our entire species to the ecological abyss.
      There is a common factor there.

    • @anahata77
      @anahata77 Před 4 lety +4

      Humanities biggest problem is Inhumanity.

    • @GEricM
      @GEricM Před 4 lety

      We are the disease and the cure. Unfortunately the cures always seem to lose out to short-sighted greed.

    • @davidm9618
      @davidm9618 Před 4 lety

      WOW, can I put that on a bumper sticker. Then burn my car for making it worthless?

    • @Wildcat5181
      @Wildcat5181 Před 4 lety

      Only those parts of humanity that represent the four references of existence; the super wealthy investors, the productive workers, the perpetually super poor and those captured by dreams in the narrow transition. zones.

  • @rudolfrieder9657
    @rudolfrieder9657 Před 4 lety +2

    Brilliant !!!

  • @Seebergster
    @Seebergster Před 4 lety +39

    He has a great look for Doctor Who

    • @aryanzijlstra6649
      @aryanzijlstra6649 Před 4 lety +1

      I've never heard of Sir Martin Rees until this video, and the capture pics I've seen before I clicked on this video, didn't do him good, I admit. But This "Dochter Who" - as you claim - seems to know much more that you and I (and most probably, many more people) combined together. I think that deserves some kind of respect.

    • @magisterhpp
      @magisterhpp Před 4 lety +2

      Yes, and he does not need much makeup too....

    • @PricelessBinkey1337
      @PricelessBinkey1337 Před 4 lety

      I was gunna say he kinda looks like smithers from the Simpson's

    • @PricelessBinkey1337
      @PricelessBinkey1337 Před 4 lety

      Mr burns**

    • @MrAaronvee
      @MrAaronvee Před 4 lety

      Technically speaking, that 'look' is termed 'vulpine'. Not a good look if one wishes to be believed.

  • @radhakrishna1845
    @radhakrishna1845 Před 4 lety +18

    Sir Martin Rees...
    To explore the outer cosmos.. We need to explore the the inner cosmos....
    Man is a microcosm....
    Who am I..
    I am not the body, I am not the mind... I am not the thought...
    Ancient Indian and Chinese techniques for self exploration..
    Space, time and matter are only derived from our sensory world...
    But the soul is beyond...
    The soul is primordial energy...
    The omnipresent, omnipotent...
    Element.....
    Space and time... Even matter do not exit..
    We all need self exploration
    Best of Luck

    • @chosen_ones777
      @chosen_ones777 Před 4 lety +3

      You're right. Only consiousness is for real.

    • @r.bevantrembly3687
      @r.bevantrembly3687 Před 4 lety +1

      Radha Krishna I AM my body,
      I AM my mind,
      I AM my thoughts,
      I AM alive in time and space,
      A spiritual being having a material experience,
      That’s why I’m here and now!

    • @JoJo279
      @JoJo279 Před 4 lety

    • @wittohasago
      @wittohasago Před 4 lety

      Ur not wrong..history according to the Queen...here is the truth, czcams.com/video/25N-J2hp1ik/video.html

    • @078moredetails
      @078moredetails Před 4 lety

      Wow you said that very nicely...couldnt agree more and I wish I practiced that more ...I need more self discovery

  • @TheHelghast1138
    @TheHelghast1138 Před 6 lety +5

    "... Except in the American Bible belt..." Ha! That part had me rolling! Good show sir! Great lecture!

    • @theworthyman3708
      @theworthyman3708 Před 5 lety

      CurbsideUnderwood
      What a threatening story follow it at your own peril

  • @petermanski9684
    @petermanski9684 Před 4 lety +2

    Best speach I heard in my life.

  • @vladimirkrisnov4322
    @vladimirkrisnov4322 Před 4 lety

    Brilliant. The help is here.

  • @YnseSchaap
    @YnseSchaap Před 4 lety +6

    The greatest beatnik cosmologist (although he aged a bit)

  • @elizabethtaylor9321
    @elizabethtaylor9321 Před 4 lety +7

    Jeezz I’m glad I came here, I never knew all this before and I’m still none the wiser ?

  • @MO800
    @MO800 Před 4 lety

    Respect man.. empressive.

  • @Iheartdgd
    @Iheartdgd Před 5 lety

    Wow , that picture of titan was incredible

  • @jokkey05
    @jokkey05 Před 4 lety +6

    I know that when I die, the universe ceases to exist.

    • @mynxl
      @mynxl Před 4 lety

      Agree. In our lives alone does nature live.

  • @erikjamison5284
    @erikjamison5284 Před 4 lety +4

    Sir Martin Rees, 2008. He saw it all so to speak, commercial/related brain implants now just on the horizon. Who knows what new worlds of changes that will introduce.

    • @yadigjamesgang-xs7jj
      @yadigjamesgang-xs7jj Před 4 lety

      The Chinese have already been CRISPERing Human and Primate DNA trying to turn back the Clock.

  • @simpleravenraven6358
    @simpleravenraven6358 Před 4 lety

    very good.

  • @subramaniamchandrasekar1397

    Good story teller.

  • @sngscratcher
    @sngscratcher Před 10 lety +41

    Misleading title.

    • @aleksandar0777
      @aleksandar0777 Před 10 lety +1

      Agreed.

    • @rupertmurdoch4657
      @rupertmurdoch4657 Před 10 lety +1

      I guess that makes three of us. I was expecting.... more than a few sentences on the subject matter related through the title.

    • @imemyself2820
      @imemyself2820 Před 6 lety +1

      misleading name for a bot "openminded skeptic" (sKeptic spelled wrong)

    • @shiitakestick
      @shiitakestick Před 4 lety

      iMeMySelf - no , both c & k are correct.

    • @robertrichard6107
      @robertrichard6107 Před 4 lety

      We're suppose to conclude we'll be evolving into large grasshopper morphs to survive the toxic sludge of the industrial/nuclear relativity revolution.

  • @peredavison8987
    @peredavison8987 Před 4 lety +7

    Excellent presentation . Brilliant man and a fine speaker.

  • @samuraisteve2775
    @samuraisteve2775 Před 4 lety +2

    My question: is the temperature of our sun stable, or do suns increase or decrease in intensity through their life...which makes sense.
    Could this be responsible for part of our own climate change?

    • @Ratigan2
      @Ratigan2 Před 4 lety

      Depends on what time scale you look at it. But If the time you're interested in is in the thousands or millions, than yes, the Sun's temperature has been increasing and will continue to do so. However, the most reputable and valid studies show that the sun is not contributing to climate change in any significant way.

  • @TheGateKeeper001
    @TheGateKeeper001 Před 4 lety +1

    How do you tell from here what is taking place so far away?

  • @jacopman
    @jacopman Před 11 lety +4

    Sir Martin Rees is the man.............his insight is great and humorous at the same time...........

  • @JamesdeChrist
    @JamesdeChrist Před 4 lety +9

    Well trained and intelligent scientists are crippled by the false reality within which they live.

  • @lindataylor6831
    @lindataylor6831 Před 4 lety

    Great lecture.

  • @TyStyckify
    @TyStyckify Před 4 lety

    Wisdom personified.

  • @paul1234364
    @paul1234364 Před 4 lety +11

    I have noticed that old people tend to believe in catastrophic events

    • @MkBl-ll5zp
      @MkBl-ll5zp Před 4 lety

      Paul Gerek / You think so, genius? And I believe that all young punks are marxists since you all worship demoncrats and liberals

    • @paul1234364
      @paul1234364 Před 4 lety +1

      @ferkemall Valid point of course but not to forget, and I am 72 , that our knowledge becomes obsolete instantly. The old and wise seems almost sarcastic now.

    • @paul1234364
      @paul1234364 Před 4 lety

      @@MkBl-ll5zp I am delighted to find the angry anti-liberal like myself. I normally reply in such style to them. The point of curiosity is though why I - person who left USSR in 1975 and have personal disgust with anything 'commie' would be calle the one???

    • @AlloAlloVeraLynn
      @AlloAlloVeraLynn Před 4 lety

      Some have lived through catastrophic events. However, a discussion that begins with Darwin and the big bang and those faked airbrush NASA pictures is kind of heading in the wrong direction

    • @drlouiscardinal752
      @drlouiscardinal752 Před 4 lety

      Old men know more.......

  • @xqt39a
    @xqt39a Před 4 lety +22

    "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
    Oppenheimer's sentiment after the first nuclear test (ouch).

    • @SoberParty
      @SoberParty Před 4 lety +3

      And the Kali Yuga is ending.

    • @chosen_ones777
      @chosen_ones777 Před 4 lety +1

      @@SoberParty Yes.

    • @davidm9618
      @davidm9618 Před 4 lety +2

      @@SoberParty Mythological horseshit.

    • @atonasr.207
      @atonasr.207 Před 4 lety

      @@SoberParty Yuga and Kali are two opposite notions!

    • @SoberParty
      @SoberParty Před 4 lety +1

      You will have to take that up with those of the East. Please explain that to them I am sure they will apreciate it. Better to remain silent then remove all doubt sir.

  • @pub6023
    @pub6023 Před 4 lety +2

    Serious food for thought, perhaps the planet has been the scene of more remarkable events and advancements only handled better in past slithers of time. If the timeline is only half way and we refrain from fucking our selves and the planet 🌍 we may have a chance yet!

  • @aaronstinson9479
    @aaronstinson9479 Před 4 lety +52

    The earth (a big rock) will be fine.
    The living things that survive & thrive on it may change.

    • @chuckmurphy4948
      @chuckmurphy4948 Před 4 lety +2

      AMEN

    • @Ratigan2
      @Ratigan2 Před 4 lety +1

      @@chuckmurphy4948 lmao

    • @Ratigan2
      @Ratigan2 Před 4 lety +3

      hey, we can make a religion out of this

    • @AsttoScott
      @AsttoScott Před 4 lety +2

      How many rocks have you found in your life time that were liquid filled with a thin outside?

    • @DeepLored
      @DeepLored Před 4 lety

      @@AsttoScott phl.upr.edu/projects/habitable-exoplanets-catalog

  • @VenueVideoUK
    @VenueVideoUK Před 10 lety +52

    TED - The most annoying intro when listening on headphones

    • @TheMaxlizzy
      @TheMaxlizzy Před 4 lety +2

      hi how are you? are you still on YT?

    • @sci-filover7541
      @sci-filover7541 Před 2 lety

      No, it’s good now, your headphones aren’t new as now

  • @TheWinezen
    @TheWinezen Před 4 lety +5

    Quite impressively presented. Understandable to the common person, entertaining and informative.

  • @david8157
    @david8157 Před 4 lety +1

    The parallel realities or dimensions he talks about have been known to exist for millennia - they have usually been called spiritual realms or the astral realms or heavens and hells and so on. For some reason it is taking scientists a long to time to figure out the connection between their physical theories that predict parallel realities and the historical records about the parallel realms in every human culture that has ever existed that we know of.

  • @pattimichellesheaffer103
    @pattimichellesheaffer103 Před 5 lety +1

    What interests me is that it took half the lifespan of our sun just to bring life on earth to the point of "intelligence" and fitful starts to space travel. How can one then so easily and assuredly *assume* that life on earth, or indeed anywhere in our universe, has the time needed to become truly intelligent and spacefaring? And the earth's life is *only* about 1/4 of the *entire* age of our *universe* - so how likely is it actually that significantly more advanced alien life has evolved somewhere within our light cone?

  • @Enko1989
    @Enko1989 Před 4 lety +7

    He looks aerodynamic

    • @toddprifogle7381
      @toddprifogle7381 Před 4 lety +1

      Your comment was 9 months ago. I'm curious. Has your general perspective evolved in any way worth noting ?

    • @Enko1989
      @Enko1989 Před 4 lety

      todd prifogle not really

    • @tuxedo_monkey8805
      @tuxedo_monkey8805 Před 3 lety

      @@toddprifogle7381 i see what your doing.

    • @tuxedo_monkey8805
      @tuxedo_monkey8805 Před 3 lety

      @@toddprifogle7381 trying to ack as a annunaki in disguise as by asking questions that make no sense yet sounding smart. Unless you are annunaki but then why youtube unless you wanna check in. But why? Considering its only 2 years and you could probably time travel.

    • @toddprifogle7381
      @toddprifogle7381 Před 3 lety

      @@tuxedo_monkey8805 Do your parents know you are on the internet again ?

  • @silberlinie
    @silberlinie Před 4 lety +5

    This is what the Indian Vedas have
    always claimed, Martin Rees: that
    there are a countless number of
    universes.
    They are constantly being reborn and
    decaying. And here we speak
    expressly of universes and not of
    galaxies.
    And that this metacycle is a perpetual
    one, say the Vedas, forever.

    • @TasteMyStinkholeAndLikeIt
      @TasteMyStinkholeAndLikeIt Před 4 lety

      There's nothing about ancient peep-holes that gave them some greater insight or intellect than anyone today. They simply engaged in the use of powerful hallucinogenics which have demonstrated can give you NDE type of experiences. There's nothing new here.

    • @TheFossie12
      @TheFossie12 Před 4 lety

      @Heindrich etc - quite correct. Thousands of years of the ancient wisdom and further. Chaldean era and further back in the mists of time when Gods were little more than men and visits from other dimensions to nudge and guide the fledgling human race including warriors 10 ft tall and blacker than ebony...... Madam Blavatsky did a great job of interpreting the Bahagavad Gita. The western and other recent eastern religions tend to ignore what you mention, but the great 4th level eastern teachers of Vedic traditions eg Nisargadartta Maharaj and Ramana Maharshi on occasion did discuss the cyclic coming and going of universes. Modern man his sheer arrogance and the frittering scientific mind is so sure of itself and it’s relentless indoctrination of short term ignorance and dismissal of the ancient wisdom that it’s like observing noisy children in a sandpit building sandcastles. But never mind. Nothing a good visit to an Observatory one fine evening, wouldn’t cure. There’s nothing better for the restoration of wonder. And childlike wonder is a cure in and of itself.. Apols for the ramble but this is one of those days. YT can be a blessing

    • @silberlinie
      @silberlinie Před 4 lety +1

      @@TheFossie12 I read the German translations
      by Armin Risi. He takes the translation of
      the Vedic texts from Sanskrit into English
      by Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada for
      his interpretations. I like your contribution.

  • @fidziek
    @fidziek Před 4 lety +2

    "worried member of a Human race" to jednak trochę więcej niż po prostu "zaniepokojony człowiek" - choć przyznać trzeba siłę w tej prostocie :-) dziękuję za waszą pracę!

  • @papac6831
    @papac6831 Před 4 lety

    thanks.

  • @JA-kq8ei
    @JA-kq8ei Před 4 lety +13

    When Man Will Become Immortal only then man Can Explore Whole Universe

    • @prettyplayfull
      @prettyplayfull Před 4 lety +3

      What if we are immortal already and our parts wear out.. then we get new ones!

    • @strings-n-keys
      @strings-n-keys Před 4 lety +2

      Our SOULS are immortal.

    • @vazi8627
      @vazi8627 Před 4 lety

      @@strings-n-keys People don't have a soul, like monkeys dogs and cats, an immortal soul means it existed even before birth, a body is meaningless, how do I know a grandfather's soul?

    • @strings-n-keys
      @strings-n-keys Před 4 lety

      @@vazi8627 Yes, that`s exactly what it means.....our souls existed even before birth.

    • @leoxiv1942
      @leoxiv1942 Před 4 lety

      Julia Walker proof

  • @iain5615
    @iain5615 Před 4 lety +3

    I respect him. He clearly stated that 'I am going to speculate from now on'. That is true - the Multiverse for example is just a philosophical idea and not even a scientific hypothesis as there is no test to prove or disprove any attribute of it.

    • @timotb1
      @timotb1 Před 4 lety

      I can tell you sat in on a few lectures with Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.

  • @frbrable
    @frbrable Před rokem

    I didn't quite understand why that patch of galaxies he used as an example wasn't believed to includes stars with _planets_ around them. Was he saying they are significantly younger galaxies than our own?

  • @abistonservices9249
    @abistonservices9249 Před 4 lety +1

    A true talk by an eminent astrologist. Anybody listening to the end may have their eyes opened, others may not understand, others it will be what they already know such as me. The human race in astrological time has been around for 5 minutes, we should be proud of what we have achieved apart from the bad stuff such as war. Anybody who likes to think of travel to the future as Martin Reese say’s would be surprised at what has happened to reshape humans if we have not destroyed ourselves which is also possible. My thought is what would existence be then?

  • @AlmostEthical
    @AlmostEthical Před 10 lety +4

    What a humbling concept - that beings 6 billion years in the future could be as different from us as we are from bacteria. We might even be immaterial by then - maybe digitised wireless personalities. Nothing quite like a cone and a bit of existential speculation.

  • @XHALE303
    @XHALE303 Před 4 lety +4

    Earth doesn't need us to survive & endured much worse then us, we need earth

  • @grawl69
    @grawl69 Před 4 lety

    I am not a British but happy and proud to see such a man to be the UK Royal Astronomer.

  • @loisamyailimvillanueva7331

    where did they get thid guy?

  • @hawkesworth1712
    @hawkesworth1712 Před 4 lety +5

    The thing that's always annoyed me is the penchant of cosmologists and astrophysicists to use the present tense when describing the universe.
    It seems to me that when you're relying on light that's been travelling for billions of years, everything you observe is an ancient historical event.
    For instance, they still talk about galactic collision NCG 2207 as if it's an event that's happening now and will continue to happen for the next few million years. When in fact what the Hubble photographed happened 80 million years ago and the collision was probably over when the dinosaurs still walked this planet.

    • @curtisrenkin9684
      @curtisrenkin9684 Před 4 lety

      They are using the "anthropocentric" principle. Events that happened zillions of years ago light years away don't happen here until "our" time. Kind of like our time zones. Something in NY happens 12 hours "later" in Hong Kong, for example.

    • @hawkesworth1712
      @hawkesworth1712 Před 4 lety +2

      Something that happens in New York happens at exactly the same instant no matter where in the world you are.
      If you watch film of it later you are watching the past and it should be explained as such.
      When they say the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate they are using present tense to describe an event the evidence for which may be hundreds of millions or billions of years out of date.
      In fact the universe could be contracting but humanity will never live to see it.
      Astrophysicists are essentially historians describing the past. None of the objects they observe are actually in the locations they observe them in and many may have creased to exist billions of years ago.

    • @hawkesworth1712
      @hawkesworth1712 Před 4 lety

      @@Domesticated_Ape . If I agreed with you we'd be talking about two different things. An instant in time is the same anywhere in the universe but I think you're talking about how we interact with that instant.

    • @hawkesworth1712
      @hawkesworth1712 Před 4 lety

      No. Your's is a philosophical point - mine deals with reality.
      If you map the universe based on what you can see now, the map would have no basis in reality. Nothing we see in the night sky is where it is when we see it.
      What we're doing is taking a picture of a speeding train and then showing someone the picture two days later and telling them that this is proof the train in that position when it's actually a thousand miles from that position by the time you showed them the picture.
      When people say the universe is expanding and that the expansion is accelerating they are talking about historical data that in some cases is billions of years old.
      In fact we don't know whether the universe is expanding. All we know is that it was.

    • @hawkesworth1712
      @hawkesworth1712 Před 4 lety

      The example I gave was of NCG 2207. It's said to be 80 million light years away.
      Hubble took a picture of the two galaxies colliding and astronomers said that the collision would be going on for about 3 million more years, which is not true because the light we are seeing is 80 million years old. So the collision was over when the dinosaurs still roamed our planet.
      Even when we look at the other side of our own galaxy we are looking at a picture of how it was 100,000 years ago.
      Einsteins relativity isn't relevant. We supposedly know how far away something is so we know how long light took to get here so what we're looking at is an historical event.
      I fail to see how astrophysicists can say the universe is expanding at an accelerated rate when the data they are using can be billions of years out of date. Plus the fact that two galaxies can collide means the expansion isn't uniform because one galaxy must have been travelling faster than the other in order for them to catch up to each other.

  • @perhapsyes2493
    @perhapsyes2493 Před 4 lety +10

    In 2008 this was a question. In Mid 2019 ... this is a serious worry.

    • @timotb1
      @timotb1 Před 4 lety

      I'm going to ride off into the sunset....I don't know about you.

  • @d1want34
    @d1want34 Před 4 lety +1

    this video is in 2005, but the quality is like it was in 1970

  • @tijntrix
    @tijntrix Před 4 lety +1

    there is a unified theorie ... from nassim haramein... he combinded sciene and spirirtuality togetter.

  • @handonmgt
    @handonmgt Před 4 lety +6

    Earth will be fine. Humanity will face possible consequences.

    • @TheUntubed
      @TheUntubed Před 4 lety

      bruce bromberg Mother Earth will fix what we have walked in an trashed. Yes, we will be going out with the trash in many areas. Disaster, Famine, lack of water. So, let’s hope there is a rapture and skip the destruction.

  • @tripzville7569
    @tripzville7569 Před 4 lety +8

    If you only new the magnificence of the 3,6 and 9 then you would have a key to the universe [Nikola Tesla]

  • @haydenwayne3710
    @haydenwayne3710 Před 2 lety

    Man!!!! Lights are on and somebody is definitely home! What a mind and still unencumbered.

  • @bahacelik9740
    @bahacelik9740 Před 2 lety +1

    second part starts from 8:15

  • @JC_dk
    @JC_dk Před 4 lety +29

    Hey it's Montgomery Burns from The Simpsons

    • @winnifredforbes8712
      @winnifredforbes8712 Před 4 lety +2

      Jens Christian Kaltoft Thanks! Couldn't think where I had seen him!

    • @gregkientop559
      @gregkientop559 Před 4 lety

      Only if you are the Police Chief Wiggins and only report what you think you saw. Listen to his words...

    • @bobgillis1137
      @bobgillis1137 Před 4 lety +1

      Excellent...Smithers

    • @joegodfree2524
      @joegodfree2524 Před 4 lety

      Doh! Homer is notthat bwhat u really think . Is that the only critique, u have for this eminently far superior being. ?... yes, I I imagine it is and all u will ever havenij your cell
      .l.llesss brain. I actually feel sorry 4 u..

    • @recoveryministriesdiosef3434
      @recoveryministriesdiosef3434 Před 4 lety

      Jens Christian Kaltoft LOL he is stuck in one place .

  • @davidcoomber4050
    @davidcoomber4050 Před 4 lety +3

    Bet it's not, the safe bet for quantum reality is that everything is the creation of our own perception and that by ignoring probability you find a universe of unpredictability and that being so, any conclusion is the right one or the wrong one it makes no difference because with multidimensional reality suggests it's right somewhere at sometime

    • @DeepLored
      @DeepLored Před 4 lety

      True that! I always say... "If or not Everett's many worlds persist they exist if only in the mind in that they can be quantified"
      It's rather exciting to me because I'm under the impression that quantum computers (should we ever get those working right) maybe able to take that understanding and some starting data {like the collective knowledge of mankind, thank you internet} to begin charting it's position in the potentials of time. At least it should be able to find what questions need asked and answered to fill in the data necessary to make that calculation with a known margin of error...

  • @jasonfirewalker3595
    @jasonfirewalker3595 Před 2 lety +1

    A singularity by it's nature causes temporal distortion. The accumulated mass of all singularities creates an Einstein-Rosen bridge with the output at the big bang. More of a hydra than an oroboros.

  • @alanhall2795
    @alanhall2795 Před 2 lety

    love the JAWS intro music

  • @killytoo
    @killytoo Před 4 lety +3

    At last one guy saying the red spheres are a universe next to ours

  • @futurfry
    @futurfry Před 10 lety +5

    Holy shit. this finally helped me understand the multiverse theory

  • @fidziek
    @fidziek Před 4 lety +2

    13:25 - unless some other forces keeps us, Earthlings, in their hugging grip...

  • @howlinninja1726
    @howlinninja1726 Před 4 lety

    240p quality? seriously?

  • @thewrongperson676
    @thewrongperson676 Před 10 lety +4

    If you believe that house flies could evolve into Tyrannosaurus Rex, you have absolutely no grasp of the evolution theory and should make an attempt to research the matter before dismissing it.

  • @domsau2
    @domsau2 Před 6 lety +3

    3:06 trad fr : silicium, pas silicone.

  • @matvimat
    @matvimat Před 4 lety +1

    Father Dinosaur to his children - "Look kids, those are human fossils. They were searching for multiverses and multi-dimensions. They got kicked out of this 3 dimensional space. They are now in 11th dimension, pondering over who they are? Are they mind? Are they body? Are they soul?"

  • @phigupot8976
    @phigupot8976 Před 4 lety

    nice art work - where can i submit mine?

    • @timotb1
      @timotb1 Před 4 lety

      I really like your logo art work.....I think I will take it. I name "cube-swastika in three"