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  • @kurzgesagt
    @kurzgesagt  Před 8 měsíci +3910

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  • @arandombeanboyo6609
    @arandombeanboyo6609 Před 8 měsíci +31229

    Kurzgesagt consistently lures me in with an interesting title, perfectly animates a scientific phenomenon, gives me an existential crisis, and then says “lmao jk, it’s probably fine.”

    • @papanebu
      @papanebu Před 8 měsíci +671

      You and I both! and weirdly, I am fine with it and I guess you are too!

    • @Quicky_knight94
      @Quicky_knight94 Před 8 měsíci +413

      fr it be like they are playing with us😭

    • @Demianz
      @Demianz Před 8 měsíci +127

      ​@@papanebume too, EVERYBODY'S FINE! YAY

    • @namasayagiri
      @namasayagiri Před 8 měsíci +192

      I always though giving people existential crisis and then says jk is how daily conversation goes in Germany

    • @sigmata
      @sigmata Před 8 měsíci +142

      Yes, that's how we do. We feel a lot of "Weltschmerz" and dive into a long depressing discussions as to why nothing makes sense, everything is meaningless and the only constants in life are change and entropy ... and then we laugh and drink beer in leather shorts, clapping our legs while dancing towards the everlasting dawn @@namasayagiri

  • @Clockwork_Enby
    @Clockwork_Enby Před 8 měsíci +7559

    I love how a lot of crazy cosmic / philosophical theories boil down to “Infinity is a really, really big number”

    • @Mandate_of_Heaven
      @Mandate_of_Heaven Před 8 měsíci +356

      “hey, vsauce, michael here”

    • @white_145
      @white_145 Před 8 měsíci +250

      "or is it?"

    • @meandyours
      @meandyours Před 8 měsíci +248

      it's not even a number, just really, really big

    • @dinogt8477
      @dinogt8477 Před 8 měsíci +24

      Let go of excess, Let go of weight, Let go of speed, to understand myself.
      It sure took a long time. Trace on. Essence, unravel. Perfected ideals, converge, forging techniques, reaching critical.
      Upon one's arrival, the use of years of devoted studies, Upon one's arrival, the result of countless training.... forging endlessly to create tombs of swords.
      Cutting through bonds, through destiny, through fate... This is my unparalleled Tsumukani Muramasa. Severing karma by one's origin. This is the Yaegaki made by sword of senjii.
      In short... Your karma is exonerated! Take this as your gift to hell! i'll finish the job with this one swing. Take a good look at this. The pulse of my sword is right here!
      Time to set your spirit free. FOr this is my Tsumukani Muramasa.

    • @whatbroicanhave50character35
      @whatbroicanhave50character35 Před 8 měsíci +169

      Infinity isn't a number. It isn't a really big number either. It's...well it's infinite. It's a concept. It's endless, without bound or limit. It transcends numbers entirely. To say it's a big number completely misrepresents the scale of infinity. It's quite literally infinitely larger than that.

  • @eeyorehaferbock7870
    @eeyorehaferbock7870 Před 5 měsíci +239

    For some reason this reminds me of H.P. Lovecraft’s vision of the whole universe being a literal dream of the cosmic entity Azatoth, whose awakening would instantly spell the end of reality as we know it.

    • @desiraejones762
      @desiraejones762 Před 4 měsíci +21

      SOMEBODY WAKE AZATOTH UP RIGHT NEOW 🗣️🗣️🗣️

    • @eeyorehaferbock7870
      @eeyorehaferbock7870 Před 4 měsíci +9

      @@desiraejones762 we’d stop existing apparently, but that… might still be a good idea.

    • @desiraejones762
      @desiraejones762 Před 4 měsíci +14

      @@eeyorehaferbock7870 that’s precisely the point 😏 WAKE HIM UP *bangs frying pans*

    • @eeyorehaferbock7870
      @eeyorehaferbock7870 Před 4 měsíci +1

      @@desiraejones762 nice try. But it will take more than that.

    • @elizathegamer413
      @elizathegamer413 Před 3 měsíci +1

      Also links awakening to a smaller scale

  • @Allurin
    @Allurin Před 4 měsíci +55

    0:45 currently taking a break from writing my college essay supplementals and have been at a standby on what to write for a specific one. This gave me the best essay idea THANK YOU Kurzgesagt😭

  • @The_Qu
    @The_Qu Před 8 měsíci +8062

    Fun fact: if you were a Boltzmann brain, then you are the one who came out with all philosophies, sciences, theories, and literature in the entirety of history

    • @Durmomo0
      @Durmomo0 Před 8 měsíci +1180

      Well I didnt want to brag....

    • @sonkeschmidt2027
      @sonkeschmidt2027 Před 8 měsíci

      Actually it would be the universe who made it all up and you would be made up alongside it ...

    • @Spooglecraft
      @Spooglecraft Před 8 měsíci +885

      at least all the ones you know of. also, if you're a boltzman brain, you are also the one who came up with the idea of a boltzman brain.

    • @youtubisashoe
      @youtubisashoe Před 8 měsíci +34

      @@Spooglecraft nahhh Ludwig was first there

    • @sunkcostfallacy2738
      @sunkcostfallacy2738 Před 8 měsíci +322

      Reminds me of that Obama meme where he's giving himself a metal.

  • @heroclix0rz
    @heroclix0rz Před 8 měsíci +4042

    Two physicists were discussing reality. One said that they were dreaming, the other said he knew they weren't and he could prove it. He proceeded to formulate an airtight proof showing conclusively that the two were definitely not living in a dream. It was such a monumental break through for math and physics that the physicist was awarded the Nobel prize.
    And then he woke up.

    • @infochan6776
      @infochan6776 Před 8 měsíci +175

      Good one.

    • @dracula0
      @dracula0 Před 8 měsíci +71

      I love this

    • @Vexas345
      @Vexas345 Před 8 měsíci +141

      There's no way I'm dreaming right now, my dreams aren't so mid.

    • @willrobbins2550
      @willrobbins2550 Před 8 měsíci +318

      @@Vexas345you’re not dreaming, the universe is. You’re just a mid part of it

    • @Osirisdgambit
      @Osirisdgambit Před 8 měsíci +86

      @@willrobbins2550ouch that must have hurt him😂😂😂😂

  • @moniqueneitzel
    @moniqueneitzel Před 5 měsíci +17

    Ihr macht es mir so einfach mein englisch zu verbessern, durch eure Illustrationen ist es so einfach, dem Inhalt zu folgen, Dankeschön dafür ❤️

    • @yonpimeydessa1882
      @yonpimeydessa1882 Před 3 dny

      Ich kann das lesen!!!!! Mein Deutsch ist sehr schlecht aber ich kann das lesen AAAAAA

  • @UnseenTrailmakers
    @UnseenTrailmakers Před 3 měsíci +7

    SO YOUR SAYING…. IM THE MAIN CHARACTER 🔥🔥🔥

  • @12Sanguine
    @12Sanguine Před 8 měsíci +13443

    Huge compliments to the animation team. What a work of art.

    • @jessejasso884
      @jessejasso884 Před 8 měsíci +38

      Psssssst you got likes

    • @cgcv9995
      @cgcv9995 Před 8 měsíci +88

      compliment? hell nah, then what's with all the human stuff? where are my birds?

    • @starstump
      @starstump Před 8 měsíci +15

      Do not listen to these evil confusing lies. satan is the father of lies. Turn to our Merciful and All-Forgiving Lord (and to whomever accepts Him, Saviour) Jesus Christ, before it’s too late! 🙏🏻✝️❤️🙌🏻🕊

    • @gass_buitar
      @gass_buitar Před 8 měsíci +98

      ​@@starstumpno thank you

    • @TantalumPolytope
      @TantalumPolytope Před 8 měsíci +74

      ​@@starstump Nah I'm good actually. Please leave

  • @TimeBucks
    @TimeBucks Před 8 měsíci +1432

    The trippy nature of existence is awesome!

  • @topolis3583
    @topolis3583 Před 4 měsíci +5

    You guys always have the best most interesting videos! Also thank you so much for todays sponsor I’ve been looking for something like this for so long. I also appreciate that you guys always have sponsors that contribute to the good of the world, that’s no small thing. Thanks!

  • @AnkushBharti---
    @AnkushBharti--- Před 2 měsíci +3

    Maybe I have a theory
    Lets assume a person named 'john' dies due to a car accident in a universe
    In that universe John's relatives will know that john is no more
    But in the POV of john no accident had occurred and he is still living his normal life with his family
    But for a creature POV who has the power of watcher (A marvel character who watches everything occuring in different universes) know that john has been shifted from one universe to another , where both universe seems similar
    Maybe this thing also occurs when people dies , their memory of dying vanishes and they shifted to another universe
    This idea may seems to be silly but it facinates me in my childhood 😅😅😅

  • @FunnyLarvaFamily-lx8xh
    @FunnyLarvaFamily-lx8xh Před 8 měsíci +2021

    Interesting how you went through this whole thing without using the word entropy, just explaining in a way more people would intuitively understand

    • @ASpaceOstrich
      @ASpaceOstrich Před 8 měsíci +98

      Not using the jargon is a great way to make complex subjects more digestible. If nothing else, people can end up with a wrong definition of what a jargon word actually means and go years without realising because they only ever use the jargon word.

    • @overduetax
      @overduetax Před 8 měsíci +41

      yes! i was thinking entropy the whole time and wondering why

    • @rray5506
      @rray5506 Před 8 měsíci +17

      isnt entropy the same idea of arrow of time? just a more simplified term

    • @user-vs2hp5vt3r
      @user-vs2hp5vt3r Před 8 měsíci

      ​@@rray5506from my understanding, entropy is the tendency for the universe to choose disorderness over order, the arrow of time is a byproduct of entropy as far as I'm concerned

    • @LegendJRG
      @LegendJRG Před 8 měsíci

      Kind of, I mean we and everything else would not exist without entropy to begin with. It is the end of all things but also the beginning.@@rray5506

  • @championmatt
    @championmatt Před 8 měsíci +1628

    The thing is, even if i am the dream of a dead universe, this feels real enough to me. It doesnt matter if it is "real" or not - in the end I believe im here. Whether it be hallucinatory or genuine its still a life that is convincingly real, so live it anyways yk

    • @Cookiekopter
      @Cookiekopter Před 8 měsíci +195

      "If you can't tell the difference then it doesn't matter" - Westworld

    • @Theshortguy09
      @Theshortguy09 Před 8 měsíci

      @@Cookiekopter westworld, havent seen it just did a google

    • @N4giiii
      @N4giiii Před 8 měsíci +61

      At what point is something real anyway? Our life is real to us

    • @rzslo9084
      @rzslo9084 Před 8 měsíci +94

      Theres also nothing you can do about it. In fact this should help overcoming your anxiety if you think about it. Your fears are pointless, just live your life and enjoy.

    • @jonathanz.9675
      @jonathanz.9675 Před 8 měsíci +19

      Theologians and philosophers would say we can be more sure of our realness than the rest of observable reality

  • @battlefeild6106
    @battlefeild6106 Před 5 dny

    "In the end, there won't be anything. There will be nothing. No life, no land, no energy, nothing." this sentence made me send shivers down my spine.

  • @professorcygnus7069
    @professorcygnus7069 Před 3 měsíci +22

    Dear kurzgesagt,
    The pixel art animation is absolutely incredible! The motion pictures , expresses a story aside from the
    There are so many ways to understand life.
    A drop into a glass of water is not the best way to understand life, yet you all have your own way to understand life. I like to see life like a clock of many gears, even the smallest of gears creates the big clock, and without the small things, time would not be. When you express theories or opinion, please make it bold to the public that it is an opinion or a theory, to make sure that people are not confused.
    The efforts have potential, and are appreciated.
    Best regards,
    Kaylan known as Professor Cygnus and Angels

    • @wulfieonline745
      @wulfieonline745 Před 3 měsíci +2

      This is an incredibly important message to talk about how scientific theory is just that, Theory. Passing all theories off as fact has a tendency to backfire drastically to the uninformed

  • @xenocritinpi87
    @xenocritinpi87 Před 7 měsíci +936

    I think what's even more fascinating is the fact that, as we humans gain more and more knowledge... we're only left with exponentially more questions.

    • @matusknurovsky2090
      @matusknurovsky2090 Před 7 měsíci +46

      Riight, and those answers even undermine former answers, and eventually are undermined by future answers... Its all just a game. A game that religions speak about. And from what I can sense, science is also slowly proceeding to the realization, that there is no such think as definitive knowledge. Or more like there is, but at the same time there is not. Everything is just omnipotent chaos. And thats the most funny, and the most dreadful realisatiom there is. xdd
      Philosophy is fun.

    • @HilaryPea
      @HilaryPea Před 7 měsíci +8

      That is the awesome thing about having a spongy knowledge craving brain! I will never run out of ways of learning.

    • @powerinknowledge2392
      @powerinknowledge2392 Před 7 měsíci +6

      We are chasing infinity. We are chasing God, but we will never find him.

    • @leonniar
      @leonniar Před 7 měsíci +3

      exactly, our knowledge is just like the universe. The more it expands, the more questions (space) arise and the longer it goes on even questions form a lot faster (just like the expansion of the universe)

    • @thevegastan
      @thevegastan Před 7 měsíci +10

      It's the Dunning-Kruger Effect - the more you know, the more you know you don't know.

  • @DCPTCON98
    @DCPTCON98 Před 8 měsíci +398

    "Taking science and philosophy seriously can have a positive impact on the world." I couldn't agree more.

    • @Shouryavardhansinghtawar-qv4uk
      @Shouryavardhansinghtawar-qv4uk Před 8 měsíci +4

      WHAT HAPPENS WHEN SOME PEOPLE SEE GODS ALIENS DEMONS DEVIL ANGELS ETC ARE THE HIGHER BEINGS IN UPPER EALEM TRYING TO CONTACT US OR I HAVE APERSONAL THEORY WHEN WE HUMANS SLEEP WE MAY HAVE DIFFERENT TIMELINES AND EXPERIENCED IN OTHER PARALLEL UNIVERSE IN WHICH ARE DREAM SHOW I SAW MY NEIGHOURS DEATH BODY AND HIS FAREWELL IN MY DREAM YESTERDAY BUT IT DOES NOT HAPPENED IN REALITY MAYBE BECAUSE ITS OF SOME OTHER TIMELINE

    • @cherubin7th
      @cherubin7th Před 8 měsíci +3

      Last time people did this we got Social Darwinism and a war from that.

    • @donpollo3154
      @donpollo3154 Před 8 měsíci +2

      @@Shouryavardhansinghtawar-qv4uk yes

    • @user-qq1xj5zk9n
      @user-qq1xj5zk9n Před 8 měsíci +4

      @@Shouryavardhansinghtawar-qv4uk Why caplock's.
      Anyways...uh...
      Nice hypothesis there, dude.
      Unfortunately we'll never really know until the future comes.

    • @RS-ls7mm
      @RS-ls7mm Před 8 měsíci

      Too bad only 5% of the population is intelligent and driven enough to make it meaningful. The rest are content to drink themselves to sleep in front of the TV.

  • @cjbrennan_youtube
    @cjbrennan_youtube Před 5 měsíci +10

    Another great video from Kurzgesagt.
    The reforming blob reminds me of the storm-in-a-junkyard analogy.

  • @Patrick-zr8tv
    @Patrick-zr8tv Před 4 měsíci +4

    I like the idea of the Boltzmann Brain. It simultaneously makes you think that everything is meaningless because you are simply a screenshot of a moment in a life that was constructed at random yet it changes nothing, because you have no clue whether that is true or not, and you can still live your life entirely normal because you have no idea.
    It's like the most fundamental change anyone can realise in their life. Yet it is functionally a non issue. It doesn't change anything about your life, whether it's real or an illusion, so you just keep trotting along like you always have.

  • @NickyG-NZ
    @NickyG-NZ Před 8 měsíci +1161

    I always go through this Rollercoaster of hating the implications of an infinite universe, and feeling incredibly, indeed infinitely, small and insignificant, then feeling immense relief when I realise that that takes a lot of pressure off and I can just carry on enjoying my life without worrying about the potential cosmic implications

    • @bradleytaniguchi1187
      @bradleytaniguchi1187 Před 8 měsíci +40

      I like going in the opposite direction.
      This infinity, this impossibility, this hard to imagine scenario of being an infinitesimal small dot of time and space is all we have of our lives. That said, during that small window, we can appreciate this infinity, this impossibility this infinite spectrum.
      WE control the perception of the universe completely, in that sense we are more than it.

    • @abrammartin-ru9ib
      @abrammartin-ru9ib Před 8 měsíci +13

      Dude infinite universe would be wilf because that means every thought/scenario that you’ve had is true/has happened somewhere way far off

    • @mr.upcycle9589
      @mr.upcycle9589 Před 8 měsíci +8

      Well you are at the center of that infinite universe. So don't feel so insignificant.
      For those who may not understand my comment. It is indisputable, per each individual they are the center of their own perspective from which they percieve everything. Thus the true center of their universe, with no possible way to percieve otherwise.

    • @rickwilliams967
      @rickwilliams967 Před 8 měsíci

      No worries, you (along with the entire planet and it's components and life forms) don't really matter that much.

    • @Swaxol
      @Swaxol Před 8 měsíci

      huh

  • @zletroscreations1234
    @zletroscreations1234 Před 8 měsíci +916

    I love how this is both a science and philosophy channel. The combination of fact and theory here is incredible.

    • @TerryDax
      @TerryDax Před 8 měsíci +37

      This video is just religion with math. A loot of the thought experiment is just questions and opinions on the afterlife. Infinitely respawning as different things due to probabilities is just reincarnation with silly math. That's why no one should worry too much - it's the science version of religious faith exercises; What would happen if the ultimate evil tempted the ultimate good, for example.

    • @grapeshott
      @grapeshott Před 8 měsíci +3

      I couldn't understand really anything though. It would be helpful if someone explains me simply in brief.

    • @metalcake2288
      @metalcake2288 Před 8 měsíci +8

      In brief, you would understand even less.@@grapeshott

    • @MarkSeymourSinged
      @MarkSeymourSinged Před 8 měsíci +11

      @@grapeshott One of the key themes throughout this video, but which wasn't mentioned by name, is the philosophical theory of Indirect Realism, as the name suggests, it's a view of reality where we can only see/engage with the real world (base reality) indirectly- a way of understanding this for example is by looking at your computer screen, you engage with the computer screen with your senses (you watched the video, you read this comment etc.) but you can't see the internal mechanisms of your computer screen, you can't see past the screen to the wires inside, in this example the base reality is the wires inside the computer screen that give rise to/project the screen you're reading. They did it nice visually where the person is looking at his picnic and then colour is added, the base reality is grey and then the indirect experience of that base reality is the colours added on top.
      I hope that was clear and concise enough. Bertrand Russell is a key figure for Indirect Realism and is worth checking out, if you have questions regarding anything else in the video let me know

    • @Va1demar
      @Va1demar Před 8 měsíci +2

      @@MarkSeymourSinged considering probability as something already real is a fantasy and reasoning about it is nothing more than a daydreaming

  • @joesaade
    @joesaade Před 3 měsíci +1

    Your animation is perfectly motioned and the physics behind it makes it even more interesting. Just here sitting with my existential crisis hahah. Well done!

  • @user-mw1od2qc1o
    @user-mw1od2qc1o Před 3 měsíci

    I’ve thought about stuff like this before. I think it’s great how much detail this goes into, and how it doesn’t just ignore stuff either.

  •  Před 8 měsíci +531

    Now, I'll tell you something, I was expecting this video to be way more existentially dreadful than it turned out to be! This was quite an interesting exercise!

    • @cecilkeith1951
      @cecilkeith1951 Před 8 měsíci +17

      You and I must have watched different videos.

    • @Mandate_of_Heaven
      @Mandate_of_Heaven Před 8 měsíci +9

      I only thought of Azathoth and his apocalyptic sleep patterns

    • @zackdipaolo7858
      @zackdipaolo7858 Před 8 měsíci

      such a wonderful distraction

    • @J_ST
      @J_ST Před 8 měsíci

      I don't want to be a brain
      Said the brain

    • @nataliaborys1554
      @nataliaborys1554 Před 8 měsíci

      ​@@cecilkeith1951 Or they're more used to watching existential videos

  • @masahige2344
    @masahige2344 Před 8 měsíci +423

    As soon as it was mentioned that the ink in the glass could form any shape, I was sure this was going to be a Boltzmann brain video. This is probably the best succinct summary of the concept I've seen.

    • @pamjacobs12
      @pamjacobs12 Před 8 měsíci +1

      I know nothing about science, but the ink in the glass got me confused, and maybe you know the answer. Doesn’t gravity affect the ink in the glass, and isn’t that why the ink spreads downward?? If the same thing was done on a spaceship, would the ink move the same way?

    • @Lollyface100
      @Lollyface100 Před 8 měsíci +7

      @@pamjacobs12 the ink is dissolved in the water, the same way sugar can be dissolved in water making a uniform solution despite being denser than water. so gravity isnt a factor.
      but, even being dissolved like that, given an infinite amount of time, the ink can form a blob.

    • @paradox9551
      @paradox9551 Před 8 měsíci +1

      @@pamjacobs12 In this case the ink naturally floats on top as it's less dense than water. It disperses into the water for complex fluid-mechanic reasons as well as entropy.

    • @spliter88
      @spliter88 Před 8 měsíci +21

      This does make one big mistake in its assumptions tho: The chances that a brain will emerge as part of evolution are much, much, much higher than the chances that a brain will emerge spontaneously out of a random configuration of particles, In our universe we only needed 14 billion years for brains to emerge.
      It also makes the mistake in assuming that a planet or a galaxy is much less likely to form than a brain.
      A planet or galaxy don't need to form in the precise exact manner, meanwhile a brain capable of hallucinating the entire reality does. So while a galaxy may be orders of magnitude bigger and more complex than a particular brain there's simple laws of physics that just require matter to exist in order form a galaxy, meanwhile for a brain everything needs to be in the exact right place and of the exact right type.

    • @beaub152
      @beaub152 Před 8 měsíci +3

      @@spliter88 agreed

  • @phazerave
    @phazerave Před 8 měsíci +816

    Honestly if i were a floating brain and i made all of this up, i think that would be pretty cool. So insanely lucky to have had the opportunity to experience all this.

    • @Sweetyhide
      @Sweetyhide Před 8 měsíci +68

      If I were a floating brain I wish I could have been more imaginative and exciting. This experience is so dull.

    • @newdefsys
      @newdefsys Před 8 měsíci +17

      Until you wake up and realize it was all a dream, and forget all about it within an hour.

    • @Luke_Sandy_High_Ground
      @Luke_Sandy_High_Ground Před 8 měsíci +21

      So the source "my source came to me in a dream" is actually a legit source?

    • @MCart1215
      @MCart1215 Před 8 měsíci +19

      @@Sweetyhide You just need to regain the curiosity your child brain had years ago. Start questioning things around you - existence is absurd and confusing, let that be positive not negative

    • @KeepItGoinBeats
      @KeepItGoinBeats Před 8 měsíci

      Shut up, everything you know, love, care about. All the memories. The love of your parents. Sadness and all that encompasses the human experience would all be an illusion because you in fact have NOTHING else. And you think that would be cool and lucky? Not to mention all the hard work and suffering others have experienced including yourself. All for truly truly nothing.

  • @spearmintroblox
    @spearmintroblox Před 4 měsíci +4

    This video gave me an existential crisis. Good job, Kurzgesagt.

  • @liamthespecial4820
    @liamthespecial4820 Před 5 měsíci +6

    why can't my floating brain imagine me a better life

  • @gumarks_
    @gumarks_ Před 7 měsíci +1957

    -Absolutely excellent animation and visuals.
    -An existential crisis that my brain cannot even comprehend at first.
    -Cute birdies.
    Ah, good old Kurzgesagt. It's been a while since I last visited this channel, and I just got into this absolute existential bomb of a video lmao
    The animation and overall quality of the videos are better and better each time. Just when I think you cannot go any higher, you surprise me yet again. It's crazy. Keep it up, guys!!

    • @user-jy8np7zx3z
      @user-jy8np7zx3z Před 7 měsíci +5

      oh and NEOLIBERAL PERSPECTIVE, not that bad this time tho

    • @The_mrbob
      @The_mrbob Před 6 měsíci +10

      @@user-jy8np7zx3z How is this political? And what is the difference between liberal and neoliberal? What even is the difference between liberals and conservatives? Is that just another name for democrats and republicans, which I also have no idea what makes them different.

    • @user-jy8np7zx3z
      @user-jy8np7zx3z Před 6 měsíci +1

      @@The_mrbob well, liberals of the past are neolibs now. I mean, this is kinda getting old
      Libs differ from conservatives? I mean, those are different dimensions - so folks can be both libs and conservatives(like in most of US)

    • @neighbourhoodSpiderman2923
      @neighbourhoodSpiderman2923 Před 6 měsíci +4

      Now i dont know if you are real and i have really no way of knowing either

    • @gumarks_
      @gumarks_ Před 6 měsíci +2

      @@neighbourhoodSpiderman2923 same for me lmao

  • @kimt4087
    @kimt4087 Před 2 dny

    Some nights, I have dreams within dreams. Everything is so real. I can read and tell time and find my way around every "reality" I'm in atm. Its weird. ❤

  • @saxophonemaster203
    @saxophonemaster203 Před 5 měsíci +4

    Love these videos, and now I'm encoured to take up a career in science!

  • @mighul
    @mighul Před 8 měsíci +1204

    How far this channel has come, I don't think we'll ever get tired or bored of you guys. With all the other things in life, you guys make the world a better place to live in.

    • @sebastianmunoz7058
      @sebastianmunoz7058 Před 8 měsíci +7

      Melodysheep

    • @sebastianmunoz7058
      @sebastianmunoz7058 Před 8 měsíci +4

      Melodysheep hermoso

    • @marioluigi9599
      @marioluigi9599 Před 8 měsíci

      Yes they've certainly come far. I've never heard this amount of nonesense in in a video. What a total waste of time. These atheists need a hobby.

    • @SilverSpoon_
      @SilverSpoon_ Před 8 měsíci

      «How far this channel has come»
      it's gone from butchered science down to new age religion bullshit.

    • @tudoralexandruienulescu2214
      @tudoralexandruienulescu2214 Před 8 měsíci +5

      because they have bilionaire sponsors. That's why.

  • @Checkmate_Edits
    @Checkmate_Edits Před 8 měsíci +607

    As long as Kurzgesagt keeps these iconic animations and transitions consistent throughout the whole video I'm happy to watch at the cost of an existential crisis 😂

    • @xanboyyy
      @xanboyyy Před 8 měsíci +6

      Brilliant move... eh I mean comment

    • @eamonndalton
      @eamonndalton Před 8 měsíci +14

      nah, easy fix - don't have an existential crisis. What got me through mine was the realisation if that nothing matters, then why does it matter that nothing does? Just gives you the freedom to live how you want, without infringing on the happiness of other people. If you've learned of a philosophy that scares you, like this one, just remember; it doesn't change anything, because it always was. It's nothing to be afraid of. Live life good my g. (I know you were kidding, man, but I just wanted to share that :) )

    • @Checkmate_Edits
      @Checkmate_Edits Před 8 měsíci +1

      @@eamonndalton i like to think of it the same way, and live while im there lol

    • @RyuuOujiXS
      @RyuuOujiXS Před 8 měsíci

      Don't worry, about a quarter of all their videos is complete bullshit.

    • @watcher805
      @watcher805 Před 8 měsíci

      Then your thirst for knowledge is not genuine

  • @martintoth2155
    @martintoth2155 Před 5 měsíci +2

    That was interesting
    Perfect animations.
    If I need a title to speak about with my friends, I just watch one of your videos. Prefect 👌

  • @user-gl4nf6if1q
    @user-gl4nf6if1q Před 2 měsíci +1

    partly lost my sanity but very cool keep up the work kurzgesagt team

  • @Jeracraft
    @Jeracraft Před 8 měsíci +295

    This is my brain going on a rampage at 5am when I'm trying to sleep😭

    • @HypnosisBear
      @HypnosisBear Před 8 měsíci +5

      Can relate buddy! 🤣 You and me are alike!

    • @ActuallyFunnerL
      @ActuallyFunnerL Před 8 měsíci +3

      ​@@ALFAkroketeveryone likes kurzgesagt

    • @jotasietesiete4397
      @jotasietesiete4397 Před 8 měsíci +3

      Jeracraft what the hell are you doing going to sleep at 5am

    • @NALTOHQ
      @NALTOHQ Před 8 měsíci +2

      @@ActuallyFunnerLNot everyone, but a lot of people do.

    • @vkobevk
      @vkobevk Před 8 měsíci +1

      yeah he loved to watch futurama brain episode 😂

  • @ACarSlipsOverTheOreo
    @ACarSlipsOverTheOreo Před 6 měsíci +601

    I like how they act so calm and subtle with saying it it’s like “oh hey there :) you are dead and we did the math :D!”

    • @inquarantine7441
      @inquarantine7441 Před 5 měsíci +1

      they??? he

    • @allstar4065
      @allstar4065 Před 4 měsíci +11

      @@inquarantine7441kurzgesagt is ran by many people? Also they is an appropriate general pronoun

    • @Nico-qs5dy
      @Nico-qs5dy Před 4 měsíci +1

      @@allstar4065What do you mean „they is an appropriate general pronoun“?

    • @ohgeezrick2019
      @ohgeezrick2019 Před 3 měsíci +3

      @@Nico-qs5dy
      They is a good way to describe someone or a group of someones as it’s singular, plural, and androgynous

    • @Nico-qs5dy
      @Nico-qs5dy Před 3 měsíci +2

      @@ohgeezrick2019 „a group of someone’s“ 😂

  • @reggiewhite6431
    @reggiewhite6431 Před měsícem +1

    Being called a floating brain is a completely new type of humor I’ve never experienced before😂. I will now refer to this as cosmic humor 😂😂

  • @haroothy
    @haroothy Před 7 dny

    Thank you for the great animations !
    It is funny how talking about existence while topping it with some physics is acceptable, when it is just a matter of speculations and fiction, but when someone brings faith it is considered " Scientifically illogical ", as if science had anything to do with philosophy.

  • @goatsplitter
    @goatsplitter Před 7 měsíci +382

    As a random floating monkey-typed brain in space, I approve of this concept.

    • @MarioFRC32
      @MarioFRC32 Před 7 měsíci +6

      I knew you'd eventually type this

    • @goofysh4
      @goofysh4 Před 7 měsíci

      same

    • @Frytoons
      @Frytoons Před 7 měsíci

      aren't we all just monkeys in space typing things

  • @baelavay
    @baelavay Před 8 měsíci +123

    Never before heard of the Universe getting repopulated with particles after Entropy. That’s a much brighter future than absolute cold darkness 🥲

    • @VikingTeddy
      @VikingTeddy Před 8 měsíci +27

      It stands to reason that you can't actually die.
      Since you don't experience anything once you've died, a near infinite amount of time will pass. Time in which everything tgat can happen, will happen.
      One of those happenings will be you. So from your perspective, you just experienced passing away and immediately waking up.

    • @Chazcam_Gaming
      @Chazcam_Gaming Před 8 měsíci +9

      @@VikingTeddy I dont image randomly teleporting around near instantly in a cold, empty universe for all of eternity to be very fun

    • @Isabelle-ox7go
      @Isabelle-ox7go Před 8 měsíci +2

      ​@@Chazcam_Gamingoh but it is!

    • @erikdurjak467
      @erikdurjak467 Před 8 měsíci +3

      @@VikingTeddy I was thinking the same for a long time. But now I dont believe that the person who wakes up after you die, will be "you".
      I´d like to compare a human being to a computer (or AI). If you destroy one computer and then build another, 100% indentical to the first one, it would be still a different computer.
      Or you could imagine that you are a newborn baby. You die and after your dead, a 100% identical baby will be born. Will it be you? I dont think so. If you think that it is still you, then we have the following paradox: You are a newborn baby. The futuristic machine will create your 100% identical copy. Do you have now the same consciousness in both bodies? Are both babys "you" at the same time?
      We still dont fully understand the consciousness.
      I was lately having the following thought experiment: A baby is bornt. The baby is blind, deaf, cannot feel pain, cannot feel anything, it does not interact with the world at all. But otherwise its brain function "normally". Does this baby has a consciouness? It has literally no thoughts, no language, no feeling.

    • @AhmedAli-kt1ez
      @AhmedAli-kt1ez Před 8 měsíci +1

      @@erikdurjak467
      In the case of the two identical copies one of those copies will have to be you. You will know it and you will know which one because you will experience conciousness in that body.
      What he’s trying to argue is that by definiton conciousness cannot be interrupted or can not not exist. So you will always exist in what form? Well just look around and find out.
      You know your conciousness can experience lapses (knocked out, sleeping) and yet you wake up and it’s still you, you make new memories and it’s still you, your personality changes and it’s still you.

  • @legoharper1528
    @legoharper1528 Před 3 měsíci

    Hi this was super fun to learn about !! My little sister really enjoyed this video and learning science through your channel!!!!!! She said she loved this video and that she will subscribe! Thanks!

  • @Ten8sious
    @Ten8sious Před 5 měsíci +2

    My brain has popped up in a dead universe waiting in line at the DMV.

  • @khaotik.weirdo
    @khaotik.weirdo Před 7 měsíci +1383

    I'm barely 0:12 into the video and I'm amazed how far Kurzgesagt has gone in terms of animation. The character's expressions at the beginning are just NEAT. You guys are really an inspiration.

    • @confuciuslola
      @confuciuslola Před 7 měsíci +11

      ah it's amazing what a few million in billionaire money can buy!

    • @admiralensin.
      @admiralensin. Před 7 měsíci

      ​@@confuciuslolaCZcams channels don't make that much money

    • @flipside9608
      @flipside9608 Před 7 měsíci +47

      ​@@confuciuslolalmao what? Kurzgesagt has a net worth of 6.69mil dollars. That's not the same of dispensable capital, so no they do not spend a couple million for a video, and I doubt they drop that much for the entirety of their video catalogue in a year.

    • @-_-5808
      @-_-5808 Před 7 měsíci +2

      Hey look it's PewDiePie in your timestamp!

    • @SinderCrimsonShade
      @SinderCrimsonShade Před 7 měsíci +8

      ​@@confuciuslolaI can animate like this on my shitty laptop and have ai narrate up to this standard with eleven labs. meat canyon does animations all the time completely by himself and so many others you just have to understand the process.

  • @743757
    @743757 Před 8 měsíci +52

    4:44 Here it is, Kuzgesagt mentioned Eminem, CZcams is completed now

    • @ArcticYT1945
      @ArcticYT1945 Před 8 měsíci +4

      Funny I was just going to play some Eminem it’s true that anything and happen anywhere all at once

    • @_redniel_
      @_redniel_ Před 8 měsíci +3

      ​@@ArcticYT1945yeah like one time i said in a roblox game "lucky clover" when they got lucky at something and they said "HOW DID YOU KNOW I WAS LISTENIG TO CLOVER" I don't remember how it actually went though this is kinda accurate to what happened

  • @r.y.z.
    @r.y.z. Před 5 měsíci +2

    We wouldn't be able to tell when time flows backwards. And we wouldn't know it did when it goes forward again.

  • @Sonicgott
    @Sonicgott Před 5 měsíci +3

    Infinity is a concept, not a number.
    Therefore in a finite universe, anything that doesn’t obey our laws of physics is merely a concept, not a reality.

  • @YouTube
    @YouTube Před 8 měsíci +258

    so I just may or may not be real? thats chill, im fine...

  • @JaredJeyaretnam
    @JaredJeyaretnam Před 8 měsíci +164

    0:55 So I’m a physics PhD student…and I’ve actually studied a phenomenon in quantum mechanics which is pretty much exactly the equivalent of a drop of dye coming back together after spreading out into water! It’s called quantum scarring, you get some weird situations where if you set the initial conditions for your experiment just right, the system will keep returning to that same initial state (but if you set it up any other way, it just rapidly decays to thermal equilibrium like you’d expect). Not exactly related to the video but I think it’s pretty cool!

    • @santosdr2
      @santosdr2 Před 8 měsíci +3

      think of thought as an observer and all of NOW happening concurrently, then use quantum mechanics to explain intuition.
      Using the bodies cells to communicate a potential outcome through vibrational signals and other means of communication.
      using "spooky action at a distance" theoretically our cells can be in constant communication with potential futures. We need only hone our intuitive functions to grasp what is being communicate when we have those moments of intuitive.
      So learning the language of your body could help someone navigate their current present much more fluidly.

    • @Rasyidi7
      @Rasyidi7 Před 8 měsíci +7

      I read this as “So im a ADHD student..”

    • @solar0wind
      @solar0wind Před 8 měsíci

      Is this related to time crystals?

    • @otaku-chan4888
      @otaku-chan4888 Před 8 měsíci

      @@santosdr2 cells don't communicate via 'vibrations'. Don't bring in pseudoscience like 'cells could communicate with potential futures if you tried hard enough' into an actual thought experiment.
      The best way to navigate the current present is to be practical about it and live in the present, not by grasping at straws of seeing futures. That's not what people of science live by.

    • @josepedrogaleanogomez4870
      @josepedrogaleanogomez4870 Před 8 měsíci

      That's really cool. Was it, like, a simulation, something like that?

  • @TomNixon-fk8tn
    @TomNixon-fk8tn Před 3 měsíci +1

    Thank you, for giving me an existential crisis that made realise to make the most of life while you can.

  • @luminxscent5235
    @luminxscent5235 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Istg just yesterday i felt like the things i see doesn't seem real and asked myself "what if I'm actually in a dream or a virtual reality"
    And then this video got recommended to me...

  • @CoffeeSubset
    @CoffeeSubset Před 8 měsíci +23

    8:12
    so, even if you believe you are a floating brain, you'd have to admit that you have no good reason to believe that you are actually a floating brain.
    -Kurzgesagt, September 12, 2023.

  • @richtigmann1
    @richtigmann1 Před 8 měsíci +49

    Fun fact, this is an idea called the Boltzmann brain, that was thought up when the idea of thermodynamics were still being invented, and physicists began realizing that everything is random chance

    • @Liliputian07
      @Liliputian07 Před 8 měsíci +4

      it's also dumb and wrong, but why interrupt the entertainment right
      edit: they said that in the video nvm

  • @dmtdreamz7706
    @dmtdreamz7706 Před 3 měsíci +1

    They looked forward to that 1+1=💀 with joy, but without haste, not pining for it, but seeming to have a foretaste of it in their hearts, of which they talked to one another. But when they looked at me with their sweet eyes full of love, when I felt that in their presence my heart, too, became as innocent and just as theirs, the feeling of the fullness of life took my breath away, and I worshipped them in silence. Their children were the children of all, for they all made up one family.

  • @ChaosDeere007
    @ChaosDeere007 Před 7 dny

    I come here to feel even more worthless than I already seem to be as a regular worker. This makes me realize so much things, mostly that I don't mater. i love it here no body tells me they care about me.

  • @cosmic_horizon
    @cosmic_horizon Před 7 měsíci +682

    The concept of the Boltzmann brain theory and the idea that our reality might be just a fleeting thought in the vastness of the cosmos is both fascinating and somewhat unsettling. It's incredible how these videos manage to introduce concepts that I've never even thought about before in such a clear and engaging way.
    And of course, a huge shoutout to Steve Taylor for his amazing voice-overs. His narration always adds depth and gravitas to the content.
    Overall, this video left me with a profound sense of wonder and a lot to think about. Kurzgesagt continues to expand my horizons with their thoughtful and beautiful work. Can't wait to see what they explore next

    • @Bunster
      @Bunster Před 6 měsíci +4

      silence brain

    • @MnMEminem
      @MnMEminem Před 5 měsíci

      Boltzmann brain theory is when scientists start doing too much drugs

  • @charliesalazar3119
    @charliesalazar3119 Před 7 měsíci +25

    I'll have whatever Kurzgesagt is smoking

    • @mozart5726
      @mozart5726 Před 6 měsíci +2

      Same bruv

    • @the_akshay_p
      @the_akshay_p Před 6 měsíci +1

      He is smoking to enter the new hallucinationary universe.

  • @spearman4712
    @spearman4712 Před 5 měsíci

    I've watched this several times now and I just now noticed the hotdog-hands reference in the "with funny glitches" part of the pop-up universe (5:15) 😂❤

  • @sunnyh5611
    @sunnyh5611 Před 2 měsíci

    Kurzgesagt always attracts people with catchy titles, but when I actually watch them, it's full of science I can't understand yet and will not for a long time

  • @dr.whippersnatch7200
    @dr.whippersnatch7200 Před 8 měsíci +40

    Reminds me of a quote from Brennan Lee Mulligan
    "In the same way that your heart feels and your mind thinks, you are the instrument by which the universe cares."

    • @rackyphyr
      @rackyphyr Před 8 měsíci +1

      Well he was a philosophy major, wasn't he?

    • @Liam-ke2hv
      @Liam-ke2hv Před 8 měsíci +1

      And the ever stable axle around which everything turns

  • @NonaSoft4274
    @NonaSoft4274 Před 5 měsíci +5

    so if 1 + 1 = 💀, is 1 = 🦴?

  • @pirateoz
    @pirateoz Před 8 měsíci +196

    A week without Kurzgesagt is a week without incredible animation and existential dread.

    • @yeetmstr3936
      @yeetmstr3936 Před 8 měsíci

      Tru that

    • @Sumirevins
      @Sumirevins Před 8 měsíci

      There's other guys for existential dread too like SciencephiletheAI, Aperture,etc

    • @Litkeen
      @Litkeen Před 8 měsíci +2

      All this shit and we still going to work and school tomorrow...

  • @breadsticks2140
    @breadsticks2140 Před 3 měsíci

    Hey Kurz-
    The sections on the video timeline seem to be the wrong ones. Awesome video!

  • @beargreen1
    @beargreen1 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Holy crap this sounds like a lot of panic thoughts that haven't been explained so dark

  • @nighthawk0913
    @nighthawk0913 Před 6 měsíci +283

    The boltzmann brain theory is one of my biggest existential nightmares. The moment you started talking about a disembodied brain, I knew exactly what this video was going to be about lol

    • @DanGrant365
      @DanGrant365 Před 4 měsíci +7

      I would love if someone could explain this to me in the most easy to understand terms. I love Kurzgesagt, but this video made no sense to me once we got past the first five minutes, and I'd like to understand the ideas presented here.

    • @nighthawk0913
      @nighthawk0913 Před 4 měsíci +32

      @@DanGrant365 From wikipedia: "The Boltzmann brain thought experiment suggests that it might be more likely for a single brain to spontaneously form in a void, complete with a memory of having existed in our universe, rather than for the entire universe to come about in the manner cosmologists think it actually did."

    • @DanGrant365
      @DanGrant365 Před 4 měsíci +1

      @@nighthawk0913 thanks for responding. I got that general overview, I just couldn't follow along/make sense of the math of it all.

    • @eliasziad7864
      @eliasziad7864 Před 4 měsíci +2

      Lol, it changes nothing though.

    • @ky7299
      @ky7299 Před 3 měsíci +7

      To me it is comforting. It would be nice to actually discover one day that all the horrible things you witnessed in your life didn't actually happen but were a figment of your imagination.

  • @Moon-ep2bb
    @Moon-ep2bb Před 8 měsíci +520

    “Life is a vision, a dream. Nothing exists save empty space and you. And you are but a thought.” -Mark Twain

    • @cinemartin3530
      @cinemartin3530 Před 8 měsíci +4

      This is very on topic

    • @ambluewinner6929
      @ambluewinner6929 Před 7 měsíci

      Whoever says that should go to North Korea, Afganistan or Ukraine to see how much of an illusion life really is. People just say this cuz they are bored

    • @larrym2434
      @larrym2434 Před 7 měsíci +16

      "That last quote was generated by ChatGPT" - Albert Einstein

    • @justinberg3616
      @justinberg3616 Před 7 měsíci

      The world is decending into madness. I guess pretending it's not real is exactly what we need 🤡. Could you be anymore useless?

    • @cagneybillingsley2165
      @cagneybillingsley2165 Před 7 měsíci +2

      i dreamed that a bunch of normies once got upset at kurzgesagt for showing skepticism towards the theory of human induced climate change and the religion-like certainty that came along with such beliefs.

  • @xamol732
    @xamol732 Před 5 měsíci

    everytime i see your videos i know i shouldnt watch them, and everytime i still do, and almost everytime i wish i could just forget i ever did. this is one of those times ad infinitum

  • @red_doggo7219
    @red_doggo7219 Před 2 měsíci +2

    I once had the idea when I was a teenager that if the universe was infinite, it was possible that somewhere out there, it was a social custom for people to have their earlobes stretched out and tied in a bow under their chin.

  • @TheXfelipeex
    @TheXfelipeex Před 8 měsíci +213

    Been thinking about this for a while. That as long as we are conscious, so is the universe. We coexist, and forever will be interlinked. We are understanding not only ourselves, but the universe itself, which also it’s us.

    • @zerepmoto4402
      @zerepmoto4402 Před 8 měsíci +29

      We are the universe experiencing itself. As if the Universe is viewing itself in the third person, it's wild to think about.

    • @Edwxrd69
      @Edwxrd69 Před 8 měsíci +1

      If you strive, inevitably the most subtle will be yours

    • @notrhythm
      @notrhythm Před 8 měsíci +1

      i am the universe???

    • @anybody4802
      @anybody4802 Před 8 měsíci +3

      @@notrhythmwe all are

    • @linnh940
      @linnh940 Před 8 měsíci +3

      @@notrhythmyes you are, you are experiencing being human

  • @zakk143
    @zakk143 Před 7 měsíci +492

    This is why I stick with the old "I'm gonna just do my best to make my little corner of the world a kinder, more loving place". If it's all real, then I hopefully kept that place a little brighter with my time there. If it's all fake, then I still made that place better. If it turns out everything around me is not real, then at least I treated it all with the kindness and respect that reality deserves.
    Or I just concocted this philosophy as a defense mechanism against any existential crisis. Probably the latter, if I'm being honest :P

    • @dandyND
      @dandyND Před 7 měsíci +56

      At the end of the day, it really doesn't matter if our lives are real or not because it is, as of now, the only existence that we know off. So just try to make the most out of it, and if it doesn't work out, it doesn't matter anyway cause it could all just be a dream of the vast cosmo haha. Have a nice day

    • @Nemui-up2wk
      @Nemui-up2wk Před 7 měsíci +2

      This o all of this would be of no "matter" to us, no matter ahat the reality be the Lives we live currently is the ons that's matter inthe end😂

    • @jairastogi4644
      @jairastogi4644 Před 7 měsíci +4

      thats a pretty gay thing to say

    • @gaiaoffline
      @gaiaoffline Před 7 měsíci +10

      Yup, the ol "nothing I can do about it, looks like all I can do is enjoy this existence I seem to have."

    • @machinablade7587
      @machinablade7587 Před 6 měsíci

      @@jairastogi4644?

  • @TheTruePoof
    @TheTruePoof Před 5 měsíci

    I keep getting existential crisis while watching these, WHY DO I KEEP COMING BACK!?

  • @leontheonly101
    @leontheonly101 Před 5 měsíci

    Would be interesting to have a simulation where you can see how with more time the inc would form some kind of shape again. This is such an interesting theory I’m just blown away.

  • @jorrit_trickz
    @jorrit_trickz Před 8 měsíci +403

    The Netflix series Midnight Mass brought up the whole metaphor of life being the universe dreaming of itself so nicely

    • @MrCyfert
      @MrCyfert Před 8 měsíci +24

      do you mean Midnight Gospel?

    • @ekothesilent9456
      @ekothesilent9456 Před 8 měsíci +10

      Mass is gospel In Spanish.

    • @maarx4796
      @maarx4796 Před 8 měsíci +9

      I clicked on this video thinking about the death monologue in that show. One of the best written moments in a show I can remember

    • @bigmeatswangin5837
      @bigmeatswangin5837 Před 8 měsíci +17

      ​@MrCyfert No, Midnight Mass. Its a very good series.

    • @albertwijaya1840
      @albertwijaya1840 Před 8 měsíci +2

      Erin's monologue 😀

  • @abeeralhasan1611
    @abeeralhasan1611 Před 6 měsíci +578

    You never fail to give me several existential crises in the span of 10 minutes ❤️❤️

    • @lululunarcat
      @lululunarcat Před 4 měsíci +8

      how do we get over it?

    • @dylan10011998
      @dylan10011998 Před 3 měsíci

      You should watch Exurb1a for extra existential crisis

    • @Davie03q
      @Davie03q Před 2 měsíci +2

      This are type of questions you ask your self..when youre on someting

    • @stargazer137
      @stargazer137 Před 2 měsíci +2

      @@lululunarcat That's the fun part-*You don't*

    • @michealnyers184
      @michealnyers184 Před 2 měsíci +3

      Just live bro. Accept the things you can't change

  • @joshualittondrummer
    @joshualittondrummer Před 3 měsíci +1

    How is it that these animations look this good? Far and away the best looking animations I’ve ever seen.

    • @Mahgosh
      @Mahgosh Před 3 měsíci

      Its prolly because they might paint the separate limbs or the birds or humans and them move them seperately, they might also reuse backgrounds and the animation style is pretty simple actually but its still amazing

  • @dylanmartinez9744
    @dylanmartinez9744 Před 5 měsíci +4

    7:50 Bro just shattered the universe

  • @Kanibulus
    @Kanibulus Před 8 měsíci +158

    It doesn't matter if this is a dream or not, we can't do anything about it so we might as well keep living life the same way we did yesterday.

    • @uzumakisasuke5026
      @uzumakisasuke5026 Před 8 měsíci +5

      Yeah we cannot do anything but just to think and feel different

    • @EstanislaoSantino-xk8uz
      @EstanislaoSantino-xk8uz Před 8 měsíci +2

      ​@@uzumakisasuke5026yep facts, discovered new things, find new place, live in the moment,

    • @luisjunes
      @luisjunes Před 8 měsíci +3

      A beautiful quote from an interesting online sci-fi book : ..."The Universe exists because from my perspective I am observing it, when I observe it, I think about it and when I think about it, it exists. The Universe and I are but one thing, it is a thought of mine, an eternal thought, the fruit of the complexity of my mind and of which I am a prisoner. I am a prisoner locked in an infinite prison, as if it were a dream, an eternal dream that I want to wake up from."...

    • @nikolaisedov2295
      @nikolaisedov2295 Před 8 měsíci

      You might want to look into something like the Gateway Tapes if you feel powerless to do anything 😉

    • @Buddyalways
      @Buddyalways Před 8 měsíci +1

      Every day is a new day

  • @EvilAng3la
    @EvilAng3la Před 8 měsíci +114

    I would really love to see a more in-depth video about the whole "the universe expanding fast enough makes things essentially an inverted black hole where the space fills with particles again" - that's definitely a new interpretation I've seen of dark energy-driven expansion, and I didn't really see anything in the sources that fleshed that out.

    • @mikeunleashed1
      @mikeunleashed1 Před 8 měsíci

      Look up hawking points. Potential proof the universe is cyclic.

    • @Mandate_of_Heaven
      @Mandate_of_Heaven Před 8 měsíci

      black airforce 1

    • @thomascampbell2128
      @thomascampbell2128 Před 8 měsíci +7

      Yeah that felt weird to me. Basically just saying reverse Hawking radiation will fill everything back up?

    • @EMAngel2718
      @EMAngel2718 Před 8 měsíci +6

      The TL;DR is that since space expands exponentially there's a certain distance where additional space fills the gap between you and an object at that distance at the same rate as something moving at the speed of light through space would cross it, resulting in the most positive speed toward you being zero (negative meaning away from you). If you go even further space fills the gap even faster so even a light speed object pointed right at you would be moving away overall, which would make it even further away and escalate the effect.

    • @smhdpt12
      @smhdpt12 Před 8 měsíci

      People are fawning over this video, but the number of assumptions going on here just makes it sound like my buddy on acid. It's all just empty speculation.@@thomascampbell2128

  • @DudeStrong
    @DudeStrong Před 4 měsíci +6

    I dont think anyone else in the world think like me other than you. I thought I was an idiot to keep thinking about all this. But glad to know I am not alone. We are never alone. This is the best channel. You make me so happy.

  • @someone_c4a9b
    @someone_c4a9b Před 4 měsíci

    oh my god thank you so much i was so afraid of the end of the universe but this makes not fear the death of the universe you most likely destroyed my existential crisis. my gratitude is eternal

  • @cocoBeware0
    @cocoBeware0 Před 8 měsíci +582

    My first shrooms trip was exactly this experience. For a solid two hours or so, I imagined that I was a brain floating in the universe, making up all of my experiences to avoid the eternal nothingness of space. Everything I thought existed was just a creation of my mind, and I was slipping out of my reality and into THE reality.
    The only thing that pulled me back was calling my wife and telling myself that even if it's all made up, it's been pretty great. I told myself that my wife was the best thing I ever made up 😂 Overall, a fun trip lol.

    • @stokkie01
      @stokkie01 Před 8 měsíci +40

      Made up he says... perhaps it was just a glimpse into reality.

    • @wtfboom4585
      @wtfboom4585 Před 8 měsíci +34

      I had the same experience but in a very unpleasant way. Individual humans etc being compartmentalised pieces of consciousness as part of the greater whole, to which we will eventually return; the entire physical universe being an imagined set of dimensions, like a playground of sorts created by the parent for its children, so that we can exist in a world which makes some sort of sense and follows logic.
      Leaving it behind removed all logic from my experience, and suddenly the question of "why is there something rather than nothing?" was mine alone to answer.
      Still haven't put together the experience but it's not a state I'm eager to return to, and I hope for all our sakes it's not a true representation of reality. What made the experience enjoyable for you, if I may ask?

    • @ganggang8812
      @ganggang8812 Před 8 měsíci +8

      psychedelics are mid tbh 🥱

    • @Liam-ke2hv
      @Liam-ke2hv Před 8 měsíci +11

      Exactly man. I think all this is something of an illusion we've made for ourselves, you may be right. But it certainly feels real, doesn't it? It's certainly full of wonder and love, to those who can see past all the fear they have created in themselves. We are all the same yet we are all different, slightly varied expressions of the same source. I think it's beautiful and nothing could be better, you just need to understand how to uproot the construct of fear within you that is making it terrifying. "The only thing to fear is fear itself."

    • @yshrj10
      @yshrj10 Před 8 měsíci +3

      Same man same, but I didnt consume any psychedelic. It was just normal w*ed. I cant even explain what other things I felt.

  • @gaiadrazer
    @gaiadrazer Před 8 měsíci +28

    8:33 "So dont worry, you are not a dream of the dead universe."
    Thats what the "government" wants you to think.

  • @Nick_the_Nikolai
    @Nick_the_Nikolai Před 5 měsíci +2

    At this point, I am becoming existential crisis proof, thanks Kurzgesagt!

  • @SamuraiExecutivo
    @SamuraiExecutivo Před měsícem

    And that's the best explanation about boltzman brain that I've ever seen

  • @WorldWeaver
    @WorldWeaver Před 8 měsíci +102

    It's comforting to think that, even when the last black hole has died, stuff might still happen. I don't care if I'm a floating brain. The alternative is that I'm a walking one.

    • @David13ushey
      @David13ushey Před 8 měsíci

      It won't. It's complete garbage. The probability is zero. There won't be enough energy to ever come together to make a thinking brain in space, any more than random fluxuations makes a hard drive with all your data on it.

    • @blizzard1198
      @blizzard1198 Před 8 měsíci +2

      I'd rather be a god like floating brain simulating the whole whole universe within myself.

    • @David13ushey
      @David13ushey Před 8 měsíci

      @@blizzard1198 It doesn't matter what you'd rather. Physics is physics, regardless of what you want.

  • @camtice8952
    @camtice8952 Před 8 měsíci +174

    It makes my heart so happy to see you guys partnering with 80,000 hours. This is how we change the world, we can do so much good.

    • @mississippijohnfahey7175
      @mississippijohnfahey7175 Před 8 měsíci

      They have pictures of culinary staff on their website. You will not be happy if you pursue a career in the culinary industry... the issue with this world isn't a lack of smart capable people with big dreams, it's a system which rewards selfishness and punishes new ideas. You can turn a hundred factory workers into biologists, it doesn't mean they're gonna get funding to research herbal medicines. They'll still be proving prozac's better than St Johns wort until money loses its value and potential to sway people altogether

    • @ambhat3953
      @ambhat3953 Před 7 měsíci

      Care to explain how explaining a concept using videos is scientifically "good" ?

    • @mahdihasan6222
      @mahdihasan6222 Před 7 měsíci +1

      @@ambhat3953 people will stop being ignorant.........Pro....bably

  • @ItsjustLuka
    @ItsjustLuka Před 3 měsíci +3

    I thought this was a shitpost by that one channel

  • @Betavey
    @Betavey Před měsícem

    I remember wondering this as a very small child. One of my earliest memories.

  • @BaddieZaddie
    @BaddieZaddie Před 8 měsíci +681

    I’m glad you guys are spreading existentialism concepts. I think consciousness will soon find its place in science and we need more people investing ideas and practice into consciousness.

    • @liwoszarchaeologist
      @liwoszarchaeologist Před 8 měsíci +10

      we were almost there, but sadly existentialism has lost the zeitgeist in favor or more passing ideas. I hope you are right that interest will return.

    • @karlmiller5009
      @karlmiller5009 Před 8 měsíci +14

      Yes. This entire video is essential hinting at infinite consciousness and the true nature of ourselves. The funny part is calling infinite consciousness a “dead universe.” It made me giggle. Infinite consciousness is the source of all life despite entropy because it tuned all the constants of nature for life. This universe and all its contents to include our bodies is the “dreamed reality” of the infinite consciousness that we all are.

    • @randywa
      @randywa Před 8 měsíci +2

      I think it already has. I think a lot of neuroscience and a bit of psychology is basically a description of and a search for how certain physical phenomena relate to consciousness

    • @micheleblatzheim2097
      @micheleblatzheim2097 Před 8 měsíci +6

      If you like critical theory you should check out Karen Barad! She's essentially a feminist philosopher with a PhD in physics focusing on the history and philosophy of quantum theories. She combines Bohr's work and contemporary critical theory in really interesting ways to talk about consciousness as fundamentally relational, really interesting stuff!

    • @bringbackdislikes4997
      @bringbackdislikes4997 Před 8 měsíci +1

      @@liwoszarchaeologistCorrect me if I’m wrong, but I thought zeitgeist is not something that is lost, but something that evolves over time

  • @wernhervonbraun3723
    @wernhervonbraun3723 Před 8 měsíci +10

    "according to science" *proceeds to explain non-scientifically*

    • @JtRiddell
      @JtRiddell Před měsícem

      Exactly!
      "One hundred sextillion= picture a one with one hundred sextillion zeros after it."
      How, if there's six zeros with a million, nine with a billion, and twelve with a trillion?

  • @burlarajesh
    @burlarajesh Před 18 dny

    Your video has got me thinking, I'm interested!🤔

  • @yourock3794
    @yourock3794 Před 5 měsíci +1

    My theory is that the universe will, at one point between now and virtually forever from now, begin retracting at the same speed it's currently expanding until it condenses to a point of infinite mass/energy, creating another big bang. Some sort of quantum stuff in that ohase will break apart all of the created elements and we'll start back up with hydrogen, etc.

  • @sethapex9670
    @sethapex9670 Před 8 měsíci +232

    The concept of the inverted black hole, where the event horizon is outside and it generates Hawking radiation inward is kind of fascinating. I don't think I've heard it before. But what kind of singularity would be beyond that horizon? I suppose it would be a singularity of time rather than space, a frozen eternal moment.

    • @Cripplified
      @Cripplified Před 8 měsíci +21

      In other words the answer would be "yes"
      No time, no change, no space nothing. And that nothing is turning into everything without the act having occurred in that frozen nothingness of everything.
      We'll never be able to fully know the answer of what reality is, or more importantly in this instance: For reality to be explained, we would have to explain the absence of reality that is required for reality to exist.

    • @mnarath8376
      @mnarath8376 Před 8 měsíci +1

      i once tried to apply the formular to calculate the temperature of hawking radiation onto the particle horizons diameter and i think i got to around 2 K ( dunno been a while and i am too lazy to redo it 😂) but it was fascinating seeing that you get the same outcome (lowest possible temperature due to heisenberg uncertainty) just by looking at it from another angle or i am just completly missremembering the result 😂

    • @mnarath8376
      @mnarath8376 Před 8 měsíci

      also since the wavelength of hawking radiation depends on the radius of the blackhole i guess it has a wavelength of the whole visible universe

    • @archithrough
      @archithrough Před 8 měsíci

      It's a canon event bro

    • @mnarath8376
      @mnarath8376 Před 8 měsíci +3

      the horizon described here is not a that theoretical concept trough its called the particle horizon basically the furtherst point light can reach us due to expansion of the universe the hard part here is that while you can tread it as the event horizon of a black hole from our perspective its not like there is really a event horizon at that edge its just that space expanding over its whole volume adds up to the same effect

  • @sharvalaswale
    @sharvalaswale Před 8 měsíci +351

    I have been following this channel since it got it's golden button. And heck yeah it has improved on their animation to unimaginable levels. Today watching this video, I felt goosebumps with every animation masterpiece which passed by. Keep up the good work bro❤❤❤

    • @gamecokben
      @gamecokben Před 8 měsíci +4

      Its*

    • @luisjunes
      @luisjunes Před 8 měsíci +5

      A beautiful quote from an interesting online sci-fi book : ..."The Universe exists because from my perspective I am observing it, when I observe it, I think about it and when I think about it, it exists. The Universe and I are but one thing, it is a thought of mine, an eternal thought, the fruit of the complexity of my mind and of which I am a prisoner. I am a prisoner locked in an infinite prison, as if it were a dream, an eternal dream that I want to wake up from."...

    • @v1kt0u5
      @v1kt0u5 Před 8 měsíci +2

      5:13 LOVED the reference to the movie "Everything Everywhere All at Once" ❤ Great job! 😎

    • @user-ii7xc1ry3x
      @user-ii7xc1ry3x Před 8 měsíci +1

      Been watching them since week 1, and still amazed at their work quality.

  • @86wieku
    @86wieku Před 3 měsíci

    listening to this is almost like listening to the narrator of the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, awesome

  • @aFTPgamer
    @aFTPgamer Před 3 měsíci

    The big probably at the end just makes me have ten existential crysis in the day

  • @blackberryxo
    @blackberryxo Před 8 měsíci +447

    I love the fact that this video helps me look less crazy because I really think about stuff every single day of my life like I know there is WAY more out there than what we know lol 😂 it just has to be.

    • @bigmamisvea3318
      @bigmamisvea3318 Před 8 měsíci +37

      Of course there is, every single theory on existence and the universe I've ever read or watched always brings me back to two solutions. Either we are just incredibly small pawns in a huge, possibly infinite game that do not matter at all, or the Boltzmann theory. That there is just one single being, or maybe not even that, that dreames this reality up and it all doesn't even quite exist in the first place.
      Then I always get led to a single question, but what comes after that? There always seems like there has to be something more, something to complete it, but then again, it can't ever be complete. If it could, nothingness would be possible. But how? I think most of us don't want to accept that ''nothing'' is possible, so we keep looking for something else. What is outside our universe? Another universe. What is outside of that? Another,...Well after the last universe if that even exists, what comes? Someone or something that dreamt this all up or created it. And where is he? In an even bigger universe...
      Well I probably talked about that longer than I have to to make it plausible but you get what I mean!

    • @samaief6837
      @samaief6837 Před 8 měsíci

      what do you know ?

    • @andinda7915
      @andinda7915 Před 8 měsíci +1

      I encourage you to read the book of Luke I believe you will find answers there.

    • @lelouchvibrittania1170
      @lelouchvibrittania1170 Před 7 měsíci +2

      ​@@andinda7915Luke who? Full name please.

    • @andinda7915
      @andinda7915 Před 7 měsíci +1

      @lelouchvibrittania1170 I mean the book of Luke in the Bible. I am not saying this in a provocative manner, but that's what I know helped answer a lot of my questions.
      If you do get a chance, kindly do so, tell me what you think.

  • @EtanChamare
    @EtanChamare Před 8 měsíci +57

    What's fascinating is that under this same theory you could argue that right now you aren't a floating brain, but at any moment you could die. Once you die any amount of time could pass before a floating brain forms with the exact memories of you. Your life would continue, but in one of these dream worlds. This would patch the issue with the dream universe being based on our observation of this real universe since this universe actually does exist in this case, but it's still subject to the limitations of our understanding of how this universe actually works.

    • @thatdelta
      @thatdelta Před 8 měsíci +3

      Pretty cool if you think about it and there is a minute chance that someone on this planet has the same brain configuration and memories as someone who lived long before

    • @zackdipaolo7858
      @zackdipaolo7858 Před 8 měsíci +1

      my argument is if anything is possible at any time then why does the word 'never' exist?

    • @yvaskhmir
      @yvaskhmir Před 8 měsíci +2

      @@thatdelta That's strictly not a possibilty. It WOULD be, if the external variables, such as technological and societal development, weren't factors, but they are, plus there were many slight genetical differences humans experienced due to small-scale evolution.
      In a vacuum, it could be possible, just not in the current reality.

    • @harticus300
      @harticus300 Před 8 měsíci

      ​@@zackdipaolo7858great argument, you said so much here.

    • @zackdipaolo7858
      @zackdipaolo7858 Před 8 měsíci

      @@andresan2023 fair enough thats a good way to look at it....or is it? Lol