The history of our world in 18 minutes | David Christian | TED

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    Backed by stunning illustrations, David Christian narrates a complete history of the universe, from the Big Bang to the Internet, in a riveting 18 minutes. This is "Big History": an enlightening, wide-angle look at complexity, life and humanity, set against our slim share of the cosmic timeline.
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  • @historicwine1283
    @historicwine1283 Před 2 lety +387

    Dude was my professor. He change the way I think about human nature and I somehow ended up studying linguistics and computer science as a result. Great teacher.

    • @kenster1682
      @kenster1682 Před 2 lety +19

      Yeah, he was my professor too. He failed me and I was expelled from school. Then I had to work at McDonald's. One day both my arms fell into the fry bin. Now I can even work at McDonald's! I have to type this out with my nose. Thanks professor.

    • @adrianwright8685
      @adrianwright8685 Před rokem +1

      Can't (=cannot)

    • @lorrainecouch348
      @lorrainecouch348 Před rokem

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    • @Yuedian
      @Yuedian Před 11 měsíci

      Diss red😮 green green uxr😂y 😂

    • @rashmirajsonal8971
      @rashmirajsonal8971 Před 11 měsíci +3

      We don't afford these proffesors lecture,,,,, just bcz yutube we can hear it a little... so thank u...

  • @mikell.6064
    @mikell.6064 Před 9 lety +5268

    I looked away for a second and I missed 2 billion years

    • @camusminor
      @camusminor Před 9 lety +13

      Bravo bhaha

    • @okfanriffic3632
      @okfanriffic3632 Před 9 lety +7

      ***** approximately. Error bars would help if you want to be taken seriously.

    • @okfanriffic3632
      @okfanriffic3632 Před 9 lety +3

      ***** approximately. Error bars would help if you want to be taken seriously.

    • @SloveintzWend
      @SloveintzWend Před 9 lety +17

      Mike Llerena Amazing how time flies by

    • @mikell.6064
      @mikell.6064 Před 9 lety +3

      you made a valid point mentioning the proper amount of time

  • @ankushalgudkar1646
    @ankushalgudkar1646 Před rokem +63

    One of the most brilliant talks I have ever experienced, very inspiring. I remember reading these chapters and as a kid, with the DK, Britannica, and so many encyclopedias which visualized science, nature, technology so beautifully. It inspired me to become an engineer and build these great things. Cut to being 26 years also and being very lost. Feels great to just come back to this and again feel uplifted.

  • @juliasullivan6225
    @juliasullivan6225 Před 2 lety +56

    I had the privilege of taking David Christian's class on Big History at Macquarie University in Australia. It is without exception the best class I ever took.

    • @Esico6
      @Esico6 Před 2 lety +1

      Its terrible and science unworthy. He explains things with: ‘because of magic’.

    • @kathrynalbany187
      @kathrynalbany187 Před 2 lety

      Me too!! So good.

    • @exclusiveMusicAlbums
      @exclusiveMusicAlbums Před 2 lety

      I just wonder what specie is going to dominate earth after we destroy ourselves

    • @beshooketh9333
      @beshooketh9333 Před rokem +1

      @@Esico6 why don't you choose to believe in magic?

  • @SuperManning11
    @SuperManning11 Před 3 lety +730

    Now it’s 2020 and it seems very obvious that we have not learned to appreciate just how precarious our existence actually is.

    • @Stevewatson3
      @Stevewatson3 Před 3 lety +7

      Or we have forgotten!

    • @SuperManning11
      @SuperManning11 Před 3 lety +4

      steven oliver That’s probably more accurate

    • @MrLeagna
      @MrLeagna Před 3 lety +5

      Share what we learned that will be the day

    • @alanabush555
      @alanabush555 Před 3 lety +10

      @Douglas Bull >> Einstein's comment. But I prefer another of his: "You cannot solve a problem with the same mind that created it."

    • @kevinforlife8578
      @kevinforlife8578 Před 3 lety +4

      @Douglas Bull It's called a strong delusion and it is described in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2, verse 11. I highly recommend you read the chapter in its entirety. Blessings to you!

  • @williamaeoni7896
    @williamaeoni7896 Před 7 lety +469

    All the chaos and complexity in the universe and now I'm just here eating cookies and watching youtube.
    What a crazy world.

  • @queendeej463
    @queendeej463 Před 2 lety +16

    In the advent of chaos and confusion this world is becoming- here is a great reminder on the importance of sticking to our core. To be human and learning from our history; to be progressive and never stop learning; to collectively learning and inspire other; and not to be very resistant to changes.

  • @WCMOFFICIAL_
    @WCMOFFICIAL_ Před rokem +20

    Wow! This video was AMAZING! Especially considering that it’s 11 years old looking where we are today in “Collective Learning “! It was worth every second!!!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

  • @SDREPINS7
    @SDREPINS7 Před 10 lety +11

    I don't know what is more amazing, learning this or learning how to hold your breath for 17mins from David Blaine..... that could be, in itself reason for its own debate.

  • @infavorofdemocracy5770
    @infavorofdemocracy5770 Před 4 lety +17

    His enthusiasm is so inspiring

  • @ananyaimtiazhussain6816
    @ananyaimtiazhussain6816 Před 3 lety +34

    His eyes speak! Such a wonderful presentation!

  • @arnabmallik7978
    @arnabmallik7978 Před 3 lety +55

    Such a powerful oration . 17 minutes of pure genius.

  • @TariqKhan-xt5qs
    @TariqKhan-xt5qs Před 7 lety +297

    This talk was beautiful, it was so informative, so mind blowing. I remember why I loved science and astronomy as a kid. I forgot, i kind of lost my way for a while, but now at 23 i am starting to remember that love of science that i always had.

    • @curious_one1156
      @curious_one1156 Před 7 lety +1

      Do you have great cousins?

    • @marcosbonetti11
      @marcosbonetti11 Před 6 lety +22

      Dear brother, you didn't lose your way :) Since puberty, till our frontal lobe finishes Its development (around your age, more or less), we all face one storm after the other inside our beings. Latch on into your love of science. If you become a scientist, great! If you don't, no problem. Even being a "regular" piece in today's society machine, staying in touch with science has the potential of expanding your consciousness and raising your awareness at a level that your ideas, choices, and behavior change. And this is how the world changes.
      Peace

    • @matthewhorizon6050
      @matthewhorizon6050 Před 5 lety

      Tariq Khan, youre only 23, you havent developed "a way" to lose yet.

    • @theultrawarrior7448
      @theultrawarrior7448 Před 2 lety

      Modern science is just recycled ancient science. Look into to the Sumerians (first civilization), how they explain how they learned science... Ancient Kemet, Holy Scriptures that introduce a lot of scientific facts first.
      Be blessed

    • @priyanshu3182
      @priyanshu3182 Před 2 lety +1

      A good teacher in the early days of a human can make him fall in love with any subject and it stays for the rest of ur life just like u never stop loving ur first girlfriend

  • @snipergrenade
    @snipergrenade Před 9 lety +324

    People fighting over the "creation of the universe", instead of focusing on how fragile we are, the lessons we can learn from big history, and what we should do to overcome the challenges ahead of us as a species.
    What a way to completely miss the point of the presentation.

    • @lindawestbrook2066
      @lindawestbrook2066 Před 8 lety +5

      sniper grenade yes, there are many hardcore nuts in USA.

    • @azazel166
      @azazel166 Před 8 lety +3

      sniper grenade Because people are idiots!

    • @BrandonOsborn404
      @BrandonOsborn404 Před 8 lety +29

      Linda Westbrook In the Middle East. c. 855 CE, caliph al-Mutawakkil slaughtered the Arab intelligencia and, pretty much single-handedly ended the Arabic golden age. Islam has contributed almost nothing to science since that time. All fundamentalist religions are responsible for retarding our development.

    • @imjustrynagetlost
      @imjustrynagetlost Před 8 lety +2

      Scary how minds of beings similar to you and I are being ruled by a tithe of emotions. Big history = big history.

    • @danielvochescu6991
      @danielvochescu6991 Před 7 lety

      Why ?

  • @MilDarkAngel
    @MilDarkAngel Před 3 lety +115

    I used this class for my final exam as an interpreter and I can't believe how deep it touched my soul!! Mindblowing!

    •  Před 2 lety

      Wow! How did it go? I am sincerely asking as a freshman of translation and interpreting studies :D

    • @Esico6
      @Esico6 Před 2 lety +2

      Its terrible and science unworthy. He explains things with: ‘because of magic’.

    • @John-qo9hw
      @John-qo9hw Před rokem +1

      @@Esico6 like religion right?

  • @oggyreidmore
    @oggyreidmore Před 3 lety +124

    I kept waiting for the part with "THE SUN - IS A DEADLY LAZER!"...but it never came :(

    • @richardyoung1398
      @richardyoung1398 Před 3 lety +2

      YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @udoyonb274
      @udoyonb274 Před 3 lety +2

      Give it 5 billion years more

    • @CreeperDude567
      @CreeperDude567 Před 3 lety +2

      Dang mate/bro, you have 69 likes...... be proud of yourself

    • @mariecool6567
      @mariecool6567 Před 3 lety +2

      Lolololollllll

    • @arjrocks
      @arjrocks Před 2 lety +1

      Yoooo is this a reference to that video I can vaguely recall. I gotta go search for that now!

  • @arielvinda6624
    @arielvinda6624 Před 8 lety +7

    You gotta love the subtlety of the camera editing. In the exact moment where he says "which explain why you and I are smaller than..." they select the shot where the people look colossally smaller than the place they are, giving the whole message an impressive weight to the point he is demonstrating... perhaps involuntary, but still beautifull

  • @BenjaminRamage
    @BenjaminRamage Před 10 lety +61

    Fantastic TED talk. I love it. A beautiful ode to complexity.

  • @beactivebehappy9894
    @beactivebehappy9894 Před 3 lety +4

    I have been postponing this video since so long and CZcams kept recommending it. And now after 10 minutes of listening to him I think I have heard him in some documentaries as voice over.

  • @preetisharan7699
    @preetisharan7699 Před 3 lety +9

    Absolutely fantastic Ted, could not take myself away from the screen for a sec!

  • @hifabiola
    @hifabiola Před 4 lety +260

    i love how this man loves the story he tells, so passionate!

    • @sabeshkc7452
      @sabeshkc7452 Před 4 lety +2

      He is waste fello

    • @jifa17
      @jifa17 Před 4 lety +1

      You are so pretty, honey.

    • @ninopavkovic9382
      @ninopavkovic9382 Před 3 lety +2

      His speech is just a theory. In fact there are more dimensions. Please read the work of the Noble price winner in physics, Richard Feynman.

    • @AnaArabiSajel
      @AnaArabiSajel Před 3 lety +6

      A lot of theories communicated like if they were absolute truth.

    • @vickybantug6718
      @vickybantug6718 Před 3 lety +5

      So passionately delusional that he believes himself

  • @greglyne5362
    @greglyne5362 Před 5 lety +612

    If you watch this exceptionally insightful ted talk and then read this comment section, you will instantly loose some of your newfound hope in humanity.

  • @chrismanley7491
    @chrismanley7491 Před 3 lety +14

    This is a fantastic video. I was watching some other video and right after it ended this one started and I had no interest in watching to so it was going to be background noise while I played a game on my phone...then slowly my interest started to grow. So glad I decided to watch this because I personally learned a good amount from what David was saying then I started learning more than what he was even talking about. At the end of his speech he said his reasons for being there was to teach the future generations (and I assume generations here now) and I must say, he couldn't have bullseye any harder lol. Amazing job *Clap clap clap*

  • @harrydaplatypus361
    @harrydaplatypus361 Před rokem +1

    This is hands-down admittedly the best TED Talk I've ever seen

  • @leighannexgases5322
    @leighannexgases5322 Před 3 lety +64

    His voice makes even talking about eggs so interesting. Bravo!

    • @killme6929
      @killme6929 Před 3 lety +3

      He never did tell us which came first, the chicken or the egg?

    • @rudistade3331
      @rudistade3331 Před 3 lety +2

      It's his accent, just like David Attenborough's

    • @sara9181
      @sara9181 Před 3 lety

      @@killme6929 eggs 😂😂

  • @jimgreen5995
    @jimgreen5995 Před 5 lety +8

    I just watched this in May of 2019 and I am just blown away by this presentation! Once again, Thank you, TED! And, Dare I forget, Thank you, David Christian...I pray your grandson is well!

    • @eazy-h8138
      @eazy-h8138 Před 5 lety

      same here, and I am blown away that this only has 4.5M views not 4.5B if only the rest of the world would take interest and pride in the history of the universe. I do believe that we will soon push the planet to far to a "threshold" as David said, and it will change its own conditions to make it unlivable for the human race ;(

    • @kenmorris7354
      @kenmorris7354 Před 5 lety

      This Isn’t possible, in you’re very beginning illustration you clearly demonstrated cannot get order out of chaos here it is impossible!

  • @anirprasadd
    @anirprasadd Před 2 lety +2

    EXTRAORDINARY!!
    Perhaps the best Ted talk I've ever seen. Very profound and enlightening

  • @activefitgym1046
    @activefitgym1046 Před 2 lety

    Fantastic! Thank you 🙏 A pleasure to listen to and watch. Well done.

  • @annabenson1963
    @annabenson1963 Před 4 lety +448

    "The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you" - NDT

    • @rwatson2609
      @rwatson2609 Před 4 lety +8

      Actually it is under obligation to do so. The Universe is based on the laws of physics and therefore must follow a line of reasoning that considers all aspects of science. This explanation failed that line of reasoning every time the author claims something happened that can't possibly be reproduced in a lab, which, in all vagueness is most of it.

    • @bobboone9015
      @bobboone9015 Před 4 lety +1

      OneShot AtLyf bless u

    • @reesetorwad8346
      @reesetorwad8346 Před 4 lety +27

      @Ron
      "Actually it is under obligation..."
      No. It's not, and that sentence doesn't even make sense.
      "The Universe is based on the laws of physics..."
      No. It's not. The "laws" you speak of are based on observation of the Universe, it's not the other way around. And they aren't even really laws, they're just finely honed predictions. That CAN fail, and then...get improved.
      To be even more clear, I'm not correcting you because I think you're stupid, it's because you are either deluded by some cult...or dishonest.
      Because there are people who profit from deluding others. Naturally, any scientist would be seen as an "enemy" by such people.

    • @bobboone9015
      @bobboone9015 Před 4 lety +5

      Reese Torwad u right

    • @simonferrier88
      @simonferrier88 Před 4 lety

      Then why did you watch this????

  • @kindgurly1
    @kindgurly1 Před 3 lety +25

    What a brilliant mind! And he's just bursting with passion for his field! So admirable.

    • @killme6929
      @killme6929 Před 3 lety

      God’s foolishness is man’s wisdom

    • @edinfific2576
      @edinfific2576 Před 3 lety +1

      @@killme6929 Only according to "St. Paul" can God ever be "foolish".
      It was his way of defending his nonsensical lies he was spreading about Jesus, and unfortunately he was successful; hundreds of millions have followed HIM rather than Jesus, and believed his blatant lies to be "the holy truth from God".

  • @mralwyngeorge
    @mralwyngeorge Před 3 lety +8

    I am a graduate in Mechanical Engineering. But only now I got a sensible comprehension of what entropy is all about. Entropy always created a huge intellectual barrier during my academic studies.

  • @venicementor2068
    @venicementor2068 Před 3 lety

    PURE GENIUS. THANK YOU ROBERT Q. RILEY (R.I.P.) FOR YOUR BRILLIANT SUGGESTION.

  • @shambles5345
    @shambles5345 Před 7 lety +512

    Get over these petty arguments about who knows best and listen to the LESSONS IN THIS STORY:
    1: Complexity arose from simplicity (You can argue all you want about how you believe this happened)
    2: Complexity is vulnerable in a universe ruled by entropy
    3: We are complex beings in a very complex world and this makes us extremely fragile. If we refuse to acknowledge and respect this vulnerability, complexity will break down.
    4: We must use the powerful tool of collective learning - not to exploit the complexity of our world but to preserve it.

    • @kunkker77
      @kunkker77 Před 7 lety +20

      *launch the nukes*

    • @discflame
      @discflame Před 7 lety +1

      And such is the human way.

    • @DomenicoMigliorini
      @DomenicoMigliorini Před 7 lety +4

      Indeed I'm not sure I'd like to support the next step of acquired complexity in the body of a unified, highly complex collective intelligence where humans are the bricks of it. I rather see such an evolved entity emerging from interconnected pure information elaborators... Humans were fit to create the conditions, now others will take over. A great catastrophe like the Yucatan asteroid may stimulate this process. Obviously as a dinosaur wouldn't love to see itself becoming a bird for the sake of human evolution, we may not desire to see nukes triggering the development of a higher level of complexity.
      But the question is: is that a law inscribed in the physics as the second principle? Is that somehow probable that complexity should arise (with low frequency of course) in the universe ? On Earth this may not happen but can we imagine that this events as infrequent as they are somewhere will necessary occur ?
      Yeah "lunch the bomb, exterminate them all" to favour inscribed evolution... May be!

    • @Dollars77
      @Dollars77 Před 7 lety +10

      Not sure how sincere your reply is, but it comes across as very dower and somewhat defeated. Humans have a great vulnerability but we also have the capacity for miraculous achievements. Science says we are but a step along the journey of evolution, faith says that evolution is worth heading towards.Even though society today seems completely backward, don't blind yourself to the fact that recently more and more people are speaking up and out about how we move forward. Let's save the nukes until that complexity doesn't require use to erased as part of the process.

    • @jaronduke3201
      @jaronduke3201 Před 7 lety +15

      that may be the best reply ive ever read to any video ever

  • @peterweltweit
    @peterweltweit Před 3 lety +100

    Imagine, learning this by heart and making it a street act.

    • @aWomanFreed
      @aWomanFreed Před 3 lety +3

      That's already what it is....an act

    • @GoGo-qo2eq
      @GoGo-qo2eq Před 3 lety

      Seriously.

    • @antonycasanova4067
      @antonycasanova4067 Před 3 lety +1

      So stupid! So dumb! So a BIG lies!

    • @verasimpsons2959
      @verasimpsons2959 Před 3 lety +1

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      11768138.sexygirlsx.ru

    • @andrewnovion5634
      @andrewnovion5634 Před 3 lety +2

      Then you'd be a plagiarizing busker.
      At least you would be helping spread information.
      You could also give credit where credit is due... at the end...?

  • @s.j4606
    @s.j4606 Před 2 lety +1

    So beautiful. Thank you professor 🙏

  • @pankajtiwari1736
    @pankajtiwari1736 Před 2 lety +1

    You are one of the best story teller I have seen in youtube!

  • @momentary_
    @momentary_ Před 9 lety +266

    This comments section though. So many religious people seem to disagree with this guy even though he didn't develop any of the science in this video. He is just sharing established science with us.

    • @momentary_
      @momentary_ Před 9 lety +14

      Arben P. Susaj Nothing in science is proven except for mathematical proofs. Everything else in science is theory.
      Light is a theory. Atoms are theory. Gravity is a theory. Thermodynamics is theory. Everything in science other than math proofs can be proven wrong at any time if the right evidence is found.

    • @gamesbok
      @gamesbok Před 9 lety +17

      sexyloser You seem to have a little confusion about scientific method. Theories are inductive, and can only be provisionally right. See Hume's comments on induction, and the fact that we are unsure about basic assumptions. Falsification, the disproof of theories, is not inductive, it's deductive, and is as sure as mathematics.

    • @momentary_
      @momentary_ Před 9 lety +4

      gamesbok Yes, we can and have proven things to be wrong in science. We can never prove what is right in science, unless it is a mathematical proof.

    • @FilmBuffBros
      @FilmBuffBros Před 9 lety +4

      sexyloser Young theories, contentious amongst the scientific community and academia, are "established science" ?...
      It's funny how some people crave certainty about concepts beyond their understanding.
      PS: I'm not religious at all, but I disagree with you. #DFTBA

    • @momentary_
      @momentary_ Před 9 lety +9

      Alex Delarge Being established science does not mean it is certain. It means it is the best supported theory that we currently have.
      Like I said, nothing is certain in science except math and what has been proven wrong.

  • @chandanaliyanapatabendy6562

    This presentation opened me up to a whole new world of big history ... thank you TedTalk and CZcams

  • @kajesimpson126
    @kajesimpson126 Před 2 lety +2

    Can we talk about the fact that his PowerPoint was a threshold in human complexity. Brilliant!

  • @peterf90
    @peterf90 Před 2 lety +55

    Great talk. I always have a hard time remembering the time frames of the various epochs but I always like the three billion or so one where all life is single celled, it seems really cool that it took that long to form multicellular organisms and then in just a short eight hundred million years here we are.

  • @Tom_Mroz
    @Tom_Mroz Před 4 lety +136

    Video first published in April 2011, I watched in November 2019.
    Case in point about collective knowledge.

    • @rehustler
      @rehustler Před 3 lety +9

      Watching it again in 2020. This video will be relevant until our eventual extinction because time.

    • @lfidarraga
      @lfidarraga Před 3 lety +3

      @@rehustler actually. People might laugh at this video in 100 years or less

    • @ichangedmyself4362
      @ichangedmyself4362 Před 3 lety +2

      I just watched in 2020, got halfway thru and wondered how I can get that time back. What a waste of time and space. Hey, that's funny!

    • @courtjester1135
      @courtjester1135 Před 3 lety +1

      @@lfidarraga Yup, case in point: Could the Big Bang Be Wrong?
      www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/could-the-big-bang-be-wrong

    • @killme6929
      @killme6929 Před 3 lety +2

      The world didn’t believe the world was round until Christopher Columbus yet the Bible stated that fact thousands of years before Columbus was born. Case in point about collective knowledge.

  • @austink641
    @austink641 Před 4 lety +57

    I haven’t heard this concept described as “big history,” but it’s an appropriate name.
    What has always amazed me about “big history” is how such a chaotic processes developed such complex wonders as life and the human brain, and inspired those curious creatures to not only ask “how,” but “why.”

    • @classicrocklover5615
      @classicrocklover5615 Před 4 lety +7

      And that it all supposedly happened, perfectly, by chance. That Life was not intentional, but rather a cosmic fluke...

    • @aWomanFreed
      @aWomanFreed Před 3 lety +9

      @@classicrocklover5615 exactly. Love how he flies right past the most important point......that all this unbelievable complexity came from nothing at all.....and how many of the ppl watching are so enamored by his presentation they don't even notice he's completely full of bs

    • @bobs182
      @bobs182 Před 3 lety +4

      @@classicrocklover5615 The universe is neither perfect nor by pure chance. Randomness requires determinism as they are 2 sides of the same coin. If you think your mind/thinking is separate from your brain, you may think that action in the world is separate from its' object.

    • @shobhamohan5614
      @shobhamohan5614 Před 2 lety +3

      Read Bible, you'll understand everything.
      Jesus is Coming Soon

    • @erickenriquez8039
      @erickenriquez8039 Před 2 lety

      I encourage you to look at conway’s game of life and consider these questions!

  • @engrowaisafraz4807
    @engrowaisafraz4807 Před 2 lety

    Every single comment is applauding Mr Christian. is it that flawless?

  • @stevemcelmury4618
    @stevemcelmury4618 Před 2 lety +24

    This man is a guru, and a heckuva great teacher! I'm uplifted & inspired... thanks, TED. 😃

  • @jdthein
    @jdthein Před 3 lety +103

    An eloquent, informed and masterful presentation. The visual aids were right on point, as was Mr. Christian's narrative. I especially like the inclusion of his Grandson Daniel's example at the ending. One of the strongest TED presentations I've seen.

    • @Esico6
      @Esico6 Před 2 lety +1

      Its terrible and science unworthy. He explains things with: ‘because of magic’.

    • @alexr1587
      @alexr1587 Před 2 lety

      Is he crazy or what??? No, I mean he IS a deranged lunatic. Read the Bible, stupid. Go to YOUR roots, David, go to your surname heritage.

    • @BillMorganChannel
      @BillMorganChannel Před 2 lety

      This man has more faith than any Christian I have met.

  • @monicaaiken9746
    @monicaaiken9746 Před 3 lety +16

    I like that: “complexity means vulnerability and fragility”. I’d very much like to hear the rest of this, at some point! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @adamnasser8707
    @adamnasser8707 Před 2 lety +5

    A marvellous presentation!! One of the best Ted Talks ever. Bravo!!

  • @augustobu3no
    @augustobu3no Před 11 měsíci

    Amazing initiative to create such a vital open knowledge source like the Big History Project. Thank you for your contribution to a better world! We need to use todays technology reach to increase the access to information like that, so we can improve our collective learning!

  • @writersblock26
    @writersblock26 Před 8 lety +169

    Thank you for posting this, TED.

    • @GimbalosMorkinar
      @GimbalosMorkinar Před 6 lety +5

      Jonathan Michael
      Thank you. But I did not post this and my name is not Ted.

    • @Rachel1Simoni
      @Rachel1Simoni Před 6 lety +2

      TED stands for Technology Entertainment and Design

    • @stephenvia9911
      @stephenvia9911 Před 6 lety

      Jonathan Michael nm.

    • @DjStarFighter
      @DjStarFighter Před 6 lety

      Jonathan ”Michael

    • @Teresahorner
      @Teresahorner Před 5 lety +1

      Dope Fiend. No its not means hes real and not a fake bot

  • @prakashkishorehazam2702
    @prakashkishorehazam2702 Před 5 lety +9

    Eye opener ... Thank you sir

  • @subramaniampaulraj764
    @subramaniampaulraj764 Před 3 lety +1

    Superb! Very useful information and right advise for future generation

  • @missworldtamil2720
    @missworldtamil2720 Před 3 lety +2

    This is truely an amazing video!! WOW!!

  • @benjamingrant2642
    @benjamingrant2642 Před 5 lety +6

    nicely conceptualized. You've made a wonderful picture in my mind.

  • @ChrisTopheRaz
    @ChrisTopheRaz Před 4 lety +5

    Extraordinary way of building up to a very good point. I hope we can find ourselves continually perpetuating in such a volatile time.

    • @killme6929
      @killme6929 Před 3 lety +1

      What’s truly extraordinary is that nothing created something that is so complex that man can’t replicate it and to top it all off it’s all random, or meaningless.

  • @santubanik633
    @santubanik633 Před rokem +10

    One of the greatest talks I have ever heard, would still have my concentration if it were a bit longer..

  • @Joethebro101
    @Joethebro101 Před měsícem

    What a wonderful video! Thank you!

  • @WillTS2
    @WillTS2 Před 4 lety +166

    “Even crazier space dust”

  • @tgunersel
    @tgunersel Před 6 lety +6

    Thank you so much. Big History is a vital area to increase consciousness for global cooperation.

  • @teresagomesdasilva8163

    best Ted Talk i've seen. Amazing presentation

  • @Haudidau
    @Haudidau Před 2 lety

    Worth watching! Great speech!!

  • @raduantoniu
    @raduantoniu Před 6 lety +492

    This is one of the best TED talks I've seen so far!

    • @omaxman1
      @omaxman1 Před 3 lety +4

      Here is the rebuttal of it, you might enjoy it too
      czcams.com/video/db2DzHLUfwc/video.html

    • @pajeetsingh
      @pajeetsingh Před 3 lety +1

      Are you the guy with fitness channel?

    • @muddypool7537
      @muddypool7537 Před 3 lety +2

      Yet he missed the point that complexity is due to the presence of sentient life. Remove life altogether and there's nothing to resist the influence of the second law of thermodynamics. Trust a scientist to make it more complicated that it really is.

    • @englishlife5838
      @englishlife5838 Před 3 lety +3

      i disagree

    • @mingonmongo1
      @mingonmongo1 Před 3 lety +2

      @@muddypool7537 Then somehow you missed his whole point, which was the emergence of complexity via the appearance of Life and 'transmitted' information, and just how _fragile_ the conditions are for it to exist in the first place.

  • @distrachan2671
    @distrachan2671 Před 3 lety +30

    Love the Goldilocks moment concept. Love the Threshold moment and how we are vulnerable when we are in it concept. So good to be aware of how change happens and what to expect.

  • @habibahmad574
    @habibahmad574 Před 3 lety +3

    "I did not make them witness to the creation of the heavens and the earth or to the creation of themselves, and I would not have taken the misguiders as assistants." 18:51 holy Quran
    "مَا أَشْهَدْتُهُمْ خَلْقَ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَلَا خَلْقَ أَنْفُسِهِمْ وَمَا كُنْتُ مُتَّخِذَ الْمُضِلِّينَ عَضُدًا" صدق الله العظيم

  • @rrichardson5909
    @rrichardson5909 Před 2 lety +1

    Big History. What a wonderful gift,

  • @VictorWLogan
    @VictorWLogan Před 5 lety +6

    Concise and yet excellent talk, Mr. David Christian. I thank you...

    • @alexr1587
      @alexr1587 Před 2 lety

      Is he crazy or what??? No, I mean he IS a deranged lunatic. Read the Bible, stupid. Go to YOUR roots, David, go to your surname heritage.

  • @tobiasschaefer1981
    @tobiasschaefer1981 Před 3 lety +21

    Title of the video should read "How to evade the most crucial questions when explaining the universe and life".

    • @nikkorocksalot5254
      @nikkorocksalot5254 Před 3 lety +1

      Depends on what you view as a crucial question
      Can you tell us what it means to you?

    • @bulentcan3533
      @bulentcan3533 Před 3 lety +1

      Well said

    • @craigkrobinson
      @craigkrobinson Před 3 lety

      And.....?

    • @tobiasschafer7132
      @tobiasschafer7132 Před 3 lety +2

      @@nikkorocksalot5254 Well, the one being, to me, if we assume that at the point of Big Bang everything was spread (or condensed) evenly, and entropy works as assumed, why should there develop these clusters of slightly denser concentrations auf helium and hydrogen? Like, if you soluted alt in hot water, you wouldn't expect to see clusters of slightly higher concentrations of salt just randomly, I assume? And secondly, always more curiously to me, is the step from quite complex chemical compounds to hypercomlex chemical compounds that somehow have the ability to reproduce their own design. I mean, just - how? David Christian, in his narrative, puts it like, "Well how do you do this?" or "How do you accomplish that step?", and most interestingly, at 10:20 "Well, it's here that life introduces an entirely new trick" [referring to the spawn of DNA], which is A) like assuming that some entity outside the process oversees the process, and B) that consciousness ("life") exists even before the material that we assume generates consciousness (DNA, or life) existed. Personally, I tend to believe that the step from unconscious matter to "self-conscious" matter, in that it can reproduce and therefore to a minimal extend at least recognize itself or its own structure, is not explicable without any idea of a higher consciousness, or an entity outside the process overseeing, or at least enabling the process. Now, that is my personal assumption, and I am aware that other assumptions are equally valid, but to me at least this is the huge question. Just the how did it go from lifeless to life?

    • @bulentcan3533
      @bulentcan3533 Před 3 lety

      He goes "....and bangggg, we have a Universe!" . That's fine but he should have made it clear that we actually don't know what happened at that point. That's nothing to be embarrassed about . Science is not religion.

  • @veritas88n4
    @veritas88n4 Před 2 lety +16

    This talk is up there with the greats. Timeless. Beautiful.

  • @videorable
    @videorable Před 3 lety +12

    Fantastic! Big history needs to be taught in every shcool, but more importantly in every family. Thank you David Christian!

    • @nelsonwayne6997
      @nelsonwayne6997 Před 2 lety

      Hello Randy 👋👋 How are you doing and how's the weather condition over there ??

    • @alexr1587
      @alexr1587 Před 2 lety +1

      Is he crazy or what??? No, I mean he IS a deranged lunatic. Read the Bible, stupid. Go to YOUR roots, David, go to your surname heritage.

  • @brandonryan9582
    @brandonryan9582 Před 4 lety +460

    The darkest, emptiest place you can think off..
    My ex's soul.

  • @JorgePicco
    @JorgePicco Před 3 lety +6

    Of all the CZcams videos I have ever watched this one really and deeply hits home.

  • @devakumarkathappan5532
    @devakumarkathappan5532 Před 9 měsíci

    Fantastic presentation 🙌🙏

  • @zhouquantui1972
    @zhouquantui1972 Před 3 lety

    Stunning talk!!

  • @ranfaraj4605
    @ranfaraj4605 Před 7 lety +7

    I met him and it was so cool. He truly is a smart man.

  • @raghavendraj3758
    @raghavendraj3758 Před 3 lety +5

    Thank you for given valuable information for us beautiful speech inspiration from your side globally and thank you Sir...

  • @ahmadqadeibalban3776
    @ahmadqadeibalban3776 Před 2 lety

    Brilliant presentation!!!.

  • @arunkul6889
    @arunkul6889 Před rokem

    great ability of speakar to explain in simple way about our history,thanks

  • @markiejuh
    @markiejuh Před 8 lety +34

    6:46 Close your eyes and Severus snape will tell you something.

  • @bubbercakes528
    @bubbercakes528 Před 3 lety +6

    Thank you Mr. Christian. Everyone should see this at least a couple times a year to give us a sense of wonder and belonging. All of us share a history and all of us are family. We all need to learn to work together.

    • @mortensimonsen1645
      @mortensimonsen1645 Před 3 lety

      Should we work together because we're family? How did you infer moral here?

    • @tommym8trix
      @tommym8trix Před rokem +1

      @@mortensimonsen1645 Classic Morten!!

  • @pagusmusic6254
    @pagusmusic6254 Před 3 lety +1

    Beautiful, reading ‘talk like Ted’ and this was recommended in the intro chapter, fantastic speech, in less than 18 mins we learn about billion years of history!

  • @peterj.fallon4327
    @peterj.fallon4327 Před 6 měsíci

    The best teachers aren’t necessarily the smartest-it’s the ones best able to distill the information to those who are less knowledgeable in a way they can understand.
    They are gems of society

  • @adiconstantin4598
    @adiconstantin4598 Před 3 lety +6

    I love this expose, with many thanks!
    Little after 13:15, he could just mention (as means of enhancing the spread of knowledge and information), these:
    - the writing, with alphabets,
    - philosophy,
    - (then the cursive handwriting invented by Charlesmagne emperor),
    - then the books printing, invented by Guttenberg,
    - before computers and the net

  • @maryjski
    @maryjski Před 3 lety +5

    Carl Sagan said all of this in 1980. Cosmos: A Personal Journey is the best television that our collective learning has produced. Sagan even made an apple pie to discuss the subatomic principles of chemistry, you need mushy eggs to do that...

  • @GanpatiRam
    @GanpatiRam Před rokem

    Thank you so much sir David😊❤

  • @shivanshudubey5469
    @shivanshudubey5469 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Simply great.

  • @krowwweee2918
    @krowwweee2918 Před 8 lety +5

    This is gold. Humanity needs to unite. Learn to share resources and stop this idiocy with "money" and unreasonable consumption. All that energy stored in fat of over-consumption of resources and flaw is in the current system of resource distribution among global population.

    • @kentreborn2027
      @kentreborn2027 Před 8 lety +1

      +Krowwweee Tell that to all the hot headed country leaders... sigh, sometimes I just wish I could just choke half of them...

    • @alicjagryzbowski964
      @alicjagryzbowski964 Před 8 lety

      +Krowwweee Our evolution is not about competition, it is about connection, we are stuck in the 19th century.

  • @engineergaming5989
    @engineergaming5989 Před 4 lety +535

    Hi you're on a rock floating in space

  • @alanfite333
    @alanfite333 Před 3 měsíci

    I am very impressive with David Christian's lecture. It is eye-opening.

  • @richardjohnholden5104
    @richardjohnholden5104 Před 2 lety

    Excellent narration

  • @artconnolly9519
    @artconnolly9519 Před 7 lety +141

    This was a pleasure to watch. Great talk

    • @presa609
      @presa609 Před 6 lety

      In Spanish there is a slang term roughly pronounced "tokayo" it means person of the same name. I got to meet my tokayo at the end of the video. Cool.

    • @threellyai6893
      @threellyai6893 Před 5 lety

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  • @TrondArneAusdal
    @TrondArneAusdal Před 5 lety +5

    Man! Interesting! I really learned something! Really interesting "story", presented in an easy to understand way

  • @andreruegg9490
    @andreruegg9490 Před 2 lety

    Wow, that was powerful. Awesome.

  • @tanjirshuvo4059
    @tanjirshuvo4059 Před rokem

    Love This Guy.
    An Amazing explanation.✨💟

  • @danconser6709
    @danconser6709 Před 5 lety +4

    such great complexity creation takes ENERGY & LOTS OF IT!!!

  • @TheJesterCW
    @TheJesterCW Před 5 lety +5

    This is my favorite TED talk. I can't stop watching a guy talk about all the things in the universe that had to go right, in order for me to be here and watch this video, and type this comment.

  • @cindyhalpern3187
    @cindyhalpern3187 Před 11 měsíci

    Such comprehensive information.

  • @lordsiomai
    @lordsiomai Před 7 měsíci

    This is the first time I've seen the history of the universe from the lenses of entropy and ever-increasing complexity. It really re-contenxualized things

  • @morrisonpaul2355
    @morrisonpaul2355 Před 6 lety +9

    Absolutely awesome presentation. Hopefully you can get your point across sooner than later. Thank you kindly.

    • @carguychad
      @carguychad Před 5 lety

      the only real explanation of creation is in the bible.

  • @amartayagupta9970
    @amartayagupta9970 Před 7 lety +95

    ONE OF THE BEST TED TALKS EVER. COMPLETELY MIND BLOWING AND PROFOUNDLY TRUE

    • @WiseadviceRo
      @WiseadviceRo Před 7 lety +4

      From te pic and the CAPS LOCK ON I can see that you really want to get noticed.. here you go, I have noticed you. I like how you wrote "profoundly true" :) now I believe him!

    • @kzmOP
      @kzmOP Před 7 lety +3

      From the Prof. name and hint of sarcasm in your lines with the sublime tone of pride , So here you go, i have noticed your admiration in a cocky way too. :)

    • @commonnons3ns316
      @commonnons3ns316 Před 6 lety +1

      Amartaya Gupta Profoundly "possible". We can't know the truth but, we can hypothesize. This is a very compelling story that may be 100% correct. Evolution makes way more sense than creationism. The reason creationism is a valid concept, to some people, is because, we can't 100% prove our past.

    • @wuderkinder8034
      @wuderkinder8034 Před 6 lety +1

      It is on believable how much stupidity is being communicated nowadays. With a simple Bam the guy creates out of nothing everything. Even a two-year-old child knows that this is nonsense.

  • @jorgeluisvaldivieso3302
    @jorgeluisvaldivieso3302 Před 11 měsíci

    Excelente talk. The perfection of the complexity that made us what we are. I would’ve given him one more minute so he could’ve started a minute before “nothing”

  • @joydeepmohanto780
    @joydeepmohanto780 Před rokem

    Amazing, fantastic Ted talk.