"There's a parallel universe within a bottle of gin, I find, and a very stimulating and exciting one." Gotta give it to James, he has a way with words. :)
I always loved Tom Baker's wild hair and trademark scarf when I watched Dr. Who with my Mom as a kid. The whole concept of that freedom of thinking was a great thing - way better than the sitcom drivel that the major networks are pumping out these days.
3:10 -- Holy shit, that's actually something I've been thinking before as well -- What if 'ghosts' are merely glimpses into parallel dimensions? I mean, I've heard theories about parallel universes being no more than a single molecule away from eachother, so if something somehow manages to slip through...
I think I'd like a drink now. Say, you lot should give James a couple of drinks and just let him go on string of philosophical blithering. Could be interesting!
I appreciate you're understanding that the sum total of all of your experiences and decisions make you, you, and therefore if anything is different it wouldn't be you. Philosophically scientifically deep.
An idea I find interesting is that time travel would create parallel universes: for each time travel there would be one universe where the time traveler arrived and one in which they didn't. So if you went back to your own past, you would create a new timeline for the past you that you met while your own past stays the same. And the more worrying implication (maybe) there would be that when you went back to your own time on your own timeline, that would always branch out too, so there would always be one timeline where you never came back and your friends never see you again. Although you of course never witness that timeline.
Expanding on the thought that ghosts that people see might be from parallel universes. It could be another example of the Sasquatch conundrum that happens very frequently. In complete darkness, our mind can illuminate, trying to make sense of the absolute blackness that stands in front of you. You might see a large figure moving about that could have been a bear, or a deer, or nothing at all. But you take this story and tell your friend Frank "I saw a big black thing in the woods today, it almost looked bipedal." And Frank would reply, "Really? I saw a big black thing the other night. It might have been bipedal, not sure." And so you reply. "Steve said he saw a Sasquatch last month in the woods. Those are kinda bipedal." "Maybe that's what we saw too!" Where I'm going with this tangent is that people may be able to catch a glimpse of one of these parallel universes, but can't fully comprehend what they saw so their mind automatically falls back to the closest thing that they've experienced or read about.
Time only flows forward. What if what we know as "time travel" is really just moving to another universe that happened to begin x amount of years back in time you want to go? Or a universe that just hadn't advances as quickly so it's not the actual past, just a similar one?
I think that the idea of overlapping universes is a great explanation of ghosts. You just need to realize that the flaw is in the interpretation. Whenever someone sees something unfamiliar, they instinctively try to categorize it. Thanks to our wonderful Sci-fi writers, more people are open to interpreting an anomaly as some sort of quantum hiccup, but still I'd say that the majority of humans today would still interpret what they saw as a supernatural manifestation. So what they see is influenced by their state of mind. Such as - 1) What they expect - It's the ghost of someone who died tragically or had unfinished business. 2) What they wish for - It's my dear Grandma, coming back to comfort me. 3) What they fear - Holy $#!t, it's Freddy Kreuger! or the immediate outcome - 4) Bad stuff happening - It's a demon. 5) Good stuff happening - It's an angel. Spirits, Deities, UFOs, they could all just be evidence that the next Universe over is even weirder than we thought.
Who is this interviewer? "Do you remember watching Dr. Who?" One of the first things he said was that he doesn't watch it now but remembers watching it growing up. Listen to your interviewee woman!
it's Doctor Who - the 2nd Doctor signed his name as "Dr. Who" in an episode, and for most of the classic series he was ether credited as "Doctor Who" or "Dr. Who", when the show was brought back in 2005 Christopher Eccleston was constantly credited as "Doctor Who", and Tennant was introduced as "Doctor Who" before he complained and got the producers to change it for no logical reason
It's the Doctor...just...The Doctor. Lol that section of the video is cringey. The show is called Dr. Who, not the character. You do make a good point though.
It`s funny because that ghost hypothesis was a plot point in a recent episode. Anyway 'haunted houses' have been found to have higher concentrations of carbon monoxide and other harmful hallucinogenic and deadly gases, so, yeah. Science yo.
James, time travel is only technically possible to go to the future. This is because, as a craft reaches near the speed of light it slows down the time surrounding the craft (has something to do with E=MC2). It should be possible to head to the future, but the past seems pretty much out of reach, since we can't do something like -300.000km/s. Correct me if I'm wrong, I make music, not science.
***** It makes perfect sense.. a time machine can't travel to a time frame before its own creation. This also seems to help prevent some paradoxes. A tidy solution, i think.
Fredde1Widde Once we control them, yes we might be able to go back in time, but the lack of "future" human beings today seems to suggest we failed to do so.
***** i was careful not to say all paradoxes, And how can i travel back to a point before he invented the 'teleporter' to kill him? He'd of had to made it before i could travel to that point in time... This gives you a defined starting point in time, So there never would be a grandfather paradox. because it can never effect its own past.
+BismillahYes I've never been a fan either, but if the BBC hired James to do a season or two, I'd certainly give it a try. Same for Rowan Atkinson (brilliant in that Dr spoof a few years back). I'd thought about Clarkson as the Dr, but it would end quickly, he'd yell "More POWER!!" and his sidekick would say "but Doctor, we're going to fly right into the Sun", to which Dr Clarkson would say in his growly tone; "Yeeeesss"
I was wondering when you sleep the dreams you have are they real in another Univers? Are they you leaving you're state of mind to another you in another place?
Forrest Gump1992 I have a similar thought: What if your mind or consciousness actually travels when you sleep to a version of you in a parallel world with minimal differences to your original one and the one you were in previously? That's why when you wake you find yourself mistaken on certain details because you remember stuff from another parallel universe but which is different in your current one? (Note: Don't take this seriously; I don't. ;-) It's just a weird, funny thought I had before when I realized I remembered something wrongly.)
I can't see why anything would happen different given that everything up until that split second everything was identical, why and how could something different happen? Cause and effect can only really create the one effect... which may of course avalanche into lots of things. But each part of the avalanche was caused by the bit before it. So, being the careful person I am, I fail to get hit by a bus, why the hell would the other one in the other universe get hit by a bus? PS I'm a Whovian, but not the romantic side of it, so I don't care much for the Tennant Who. But Matt Smith has been fine.
Well, in the case of an infinite number of parallel universes, can there be a universe in which parallel universes CAN'T exist? Of course, then there would be a paradox as far as all the other universes would be concerned.
How are you filming this episode, while Clarkson says both of you were in Turkey 2 days ago .. and leaving for secret location, are you or are you not filming Top Gear Christmas special ?
Nimiety327 Considering he's not a "Whovian", and not really part of the current fandom at all and was much more of a Classic Who lover where in the casting he was called "Dr Who" despite him really being "The Doctor", he should be forgiven for being wrong about something he doesn't much care for.
the trouble with the infinite universe thing meaning we'll have a world identical to ours, infinite means that it goes on forever not that it is all encompassing, i.e. an infinite series of prime numbers would never reach the number 3 no matter how far you went.
TheFounderUtopia the sequence of number 2's is just an example. what I mean is that though it's possible for there to be worlds identical to ours it is in no way a definate
May is Huge. Sadly 99% of the audience is incapable of digesting that level of intellectual perception, therefore the mass culture of the single use society is as it is. And If you think "idiocracy" is a comedy , you are in this 99%.
Well according to the idea of parallel universes then they are but so is Star wars, Star trek, zombie movies, and a universe where North Korea rules everything ;)
I know these questions are on the spot but was there any need for the whole patronising 'Doctor Who isn't real' thing? We know they're actors, James. First time I've been annoyed by anything he has said.
"When you say i've met Dr. Who, that's a bit like saying I've met Superman"... Except Dr. Who is the name of the show and not the name of the character. So when you say "i've met dr who" your saying you met a TV show. (But this is nit-picking)
James, maby you have answared this already, in that case i appologise for asking again.. I was a little set back when you admit to believe in spirit of dead people doing stuff in real life. Do you believe in the supernatural?
"There's a parallel universe in a bottle of gin"
Perhaps the greatest quote ever.
James, I wanna sit at the bar and have a few beers with you. Just talk about what have you.
Mr James May aka the destroyer of all childhood fantasies.
And muse of adult fantasies.
"There's a parallel universe within a bottle of gin, I find, and a very stimulating and exciting one."
Gotta give it to James, he has a way with words. :)
He was always born to be a poet. If only he was born 100 years earlier.
huh, I've just realized this, James May is indeed a very smart man.
I always loved Tom Baker's wild hair and trademark scarf when I watched Dr. Who with my Mom as a kid. The whole concept of that freedom of thinking was a great thing - way better than the sitcom drivel that the major networks are pumping out these days.
3:10 -- Holy shit, that's actually something I've been thinking before as well -- What if 'ghosts' are merely glimpses into parallel dimensions? I mean, I've heard theories about parallel universes being no more than a single molecule away from eachother, so if something somehow manages to slip through...
Damn this video was deep.
I love these bloody videos.
I think I'd like a drink now.
Say, you lot should give James a couple of drinks and just let him go on string of philosophical blithering. Could be interesting!
Its like being a kid at a wedding
I love James' facial expression at 0.03 so funny.
I appreciate you're understanding that the sum total of all of your experiences and decisions make you, you, and therefore if anything is different it wouldn't be you. Philosophically scientifically deep.
There's an endless number of parallel Mays.
James May would be naming his spanners in the parallel universe
Well James ghosts could be from a universe where everyone is transparent and they occasionally see us as solid people and think we're the ghosts
An idea I find interesting is that time travel would create parallel universes: for each time travel there would be one universe where the time traveler arrived and one in which they didn't. So if you went back to your own past, you would create a new timeline for the past you that you met while your own past stays the same. And the more worrying implication (maybe) there would be that when you went back to your own time on your own timeline, that would always branch out too, so there would always be one timeline where you never came back and your friends never see you again. Although you of course never witness that timeline.
Expanding on the thought that ghosts that people see might be from parallel universes.
It could be another example of the Sasquatch conundrum that happens very frequently.
In complete darkness, our mind can illuminate, trying to make sense of the absolute blackness that stands in front of you. You might see a large figure moving about that could have been a bear, or a deer, or nothing at all. But you take this story and tell your friend Frank "I saw a big black thing in the woods today, it almost looked bipedal."
And Frank would reply, "Really? I saw a big black thing the other night. It might have been bipedal, not sure."
And so you reply. "Steve said he saw a Sasquatch last month in the woods. Those are kinda bipedal."
"Maybe that's what we saw too!"
Where I'm going with this tangent is that people may be able to catch a glimpse of one of these parallel universes, but can't fully comprehend what they saw so their mind automatically falls back to the closest thing that they've experienced or read about.
Drunk you is real you.
"I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night."
Time only flows forward. What if what we know as "time travel" is really just moving to another universe that happened to begin x amount of years back in time you want to go? Or a universe that just hadn't advances as quickly so it's not the actual past, just a similar one?
Why in the world do this vids have so few views?
BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Beautiful Delia Derbyshire.
what is the background music playing can some one tell me plzzz
Are microbes and bacteria aware of our existence? How can we be certain that our universe is not just dirt inside a giant's toenail?
we probably are...
Where do I get my own James May HEAD SQUEEZE t-shirt?
I think that the idea of overlapping universes is a great explanation of ghosts. You just need to realize that the flaw is in the interpretation. Whenever someone sees something unfamiliar, they instinctively try to categorize it. Thanks to our wonderful Sci-fi writers, more people are open to interpreting an anomaly as some sort of quantum hiccup, but still I'd say that the majority of humans today would still interpret what they saw as a supernatural manifestation.
So what they see is influenced by their state of mind. Such as -
1) What they expect - It's the ghost of someone who died tragically or had unfinished business.
2) What they wish for - It's my dear Grandma, coming back to comfort me.
3) What they fear - Holy $#!t, it's Freddy Kreuger!
or the immediate outcome -
4) Bad stuff happening - It's a demon.
5) Good stuff happening - It's an angel.
Spirits, Deities, UFOs, they could all just be evidence that the next Universe over is even weirder than we thought.
Who is this interviewer? "Do you remember watching Dr. Who?" One of the first things he said was that he doesn't watch it now but remembers watching it growing up. Listen to your interviewee woman!
Hmmmmm... James May as the good Doctor... Just a thought.
Nothing will get done
Is there music playing in the background?
Is James wearing a shirt with his own face on it? LOL 😆
In a parallel universe *YOU* wrote this comment!
James how can you forget Tom Baker. The best dr their has ever been. Tom Baker IS the dr !
I personally call them Whooverers
Cooking With Cows I have the image of a Dalek as a vacuum cleaner LOL
I thought the description meant the Doctor himself XD.
Hopefully there's no parallel universe where you don't exist James!
It's not DOCTOR WHO, it's THE DOCTOR!!!!
it's Doctor Who - the 2nd Doctor signed his name as "Dr. Who" in an episode, and for most of the classic series he was ether credited as "Doctor Who" or "Dr. Who", when the show was brought back in 2005 Christopher Eccleston was constantly credited as "Doctor Who", and Tennant was introduced as "Doctor Who" before he complained and got the producers to change it for no logical reason
Of course he's met Doctor Who, Top Gear interviewed the 3 most recent as the Star in the Resonably Priced Car.
It's the Doctor...just...The Doctor. Lol that section of the video is cringey. The show is called Dr. Who, not the character. You do make a good point though.
Captain slow is rocking the t shirt
I'm with James regarding the gin and drink ;D
In a parallel Universe, I am a earth bender...
parallel universe in a bottle of gin - LOL
It`s funny because that ghost hypothesis was a plot point in a recent episode.
Anyway 'haunted houses' have been found to have higher concentrations of carbon monoxide and other harmful hallucinogenic and deadly gases, so, yeah.
Science yo.
that made my head hurt
Alas, James May's tragic flaw - not a Whovian. ;)
Quija Board movement is caused by the Ideomotor effect., the same effect we see from water dowsing (divining), ...But not usually from magnets.
James, time travel is only technically possible to go to the future. This is because, as a craft reaches near the speed of light it slows down the time surrounding the craft (has something to do with E=MC2). It should be possible to head to the future, but the past seems pretty much out of reach, since we can't do something like -300.000km/s. Correct me if I'm wrong, I make music, not science.
***** It makes perfect sense.. a time machine can't travel to a time frame before its own creation. This also seems to help prevent some paradoxes. A tidy solution, i think.
What about worm holes?
Fredde1Widde Once we control them, yes we might be able to go back in time, but the lack of "future" human beings today seems to suggest we failed to do so.
***** i was careful not to say all paradoxes, And how can i travel back to a point before he invented the 'teleporter' to kill him? He'd of had to made it before i could travel to that point in time... This gives you a defined starting point in time, So there never would be a grandfather paradox. because it can never effect its own past.
***** Ah we visualized two separate ideas then. I was imagining a single machine, not a pair. One that could interact with its past self.
Did James May go on the show Top Gear?
James I went to that universe in the gin bottle last night and ended up with me getting a plate thrown at my head while I made a dash for the door.
This program was proudly presented by Bombay Sapphire.
James May reminds me of Jon Pertwee.
I don't necessarily agree with Jame's reasons, but I also dislike Dr. Who. It's just too much wacky sci-fi adventures for me.
+joujou264 I like wacky and the idea of sci fi but Dr Who just isn't very interesting. The show is just a little too flat IMO.
+BismillahYes I've never been a fan either, but if the BBC hired James to do a season or two, I'd certainly give it a try. Same for Rowan Atkinson (brilliant in that Dr spoof a few years back).
I'd thought about Clarkson as the Dr, but it would end quickly, he'd yell "More POWER!!" and his sidekick would say "but Doctor, we're going to fly right into the Sun", to which Dr Clarkson would say in his growly tone; "Yeeeesss"
Then you have to think that if you travel back in time and the events of what happened only occur because you went back in time.
For those wanting to know the science behing Quija boards, check out Derren Browns video:
Ouija board revealed! - Derren Brown
Thumbs up for James not being a Whovian if I'm a Whovian...? Oh... Oh no... What do I do?
November 23rd, 1963
I was wondering when you sleep the dreams you have are they real in another Univers? Are they you leaving you're state of mind to another you in another place?
Forrest Gump1992 I have a similar thought:
What if your mind or consciousness actually travels when you sleep to a version of you in a parallel world with minimal differences to your original one and the one you were in previously? That's why when you wake you find yourself mistaken on certain details because you remember stuff from another parallel universe but which is different in your current one?
(Note: Don't take this seriously; I don't. ;-) It's just a weird, funny thought I had before when I realized I remembered something wrongly.)
I can't see why anything would happen different given that everything up until that split second everything was identical, why and how could something different happen? Cause and effect can only really create the one effect... which may of course avalanche into lots of things. But each part of the avalanche was caused by the bit before it. So, being the careful person I am, I fail to get hit by a bus, why the hell would the other one in the other universe get hit by a bus?
PS I'm a Whovian, but not the romantic side of it, so I don't care much for the Tennant Who. But Matt Smith has been fine.
this is great!! Gin :)
All the possibilities of a same event IS the universe...
a parallel universe: where the idea of a parallel universe doesn't exist?
Well, in the case of an infinite number of parallel universes, can there be a universe in which parallel universes CAN'T exist? Of course, then there would be a paradox as far as all the other universes would be concerned.
I want the shirt
How are you filming this episode, while Clarkson says both of you were in Turkey 2 days ago .. and leaving for secret location, are you or are you not filming Top Gear Christmas special ?
Ever heard about the concept of filming multiple videos at once for a later release ?
Nimiety327 Considering he's not a "Whovian", and not really part of the current fandom at all and was much more of a Classic Who lover where in the casting he was called "Dr Who" despite him really being "The Doctor", he should be forgiven for being wrong about something he doesn't much care for.
lol yeah i know.. i was teasing a bit. Like he was teasing about the Doctor not being a real person.
what is that red thing when you like a video?
... blimey ... some comments read like an essay ... why do humans consume salt?
Because it's in our food.
I do find James May fascinating but saying both Superman and Doctor Who isn't real hurt me a little bit. Talk about peeing on your childhood dreams.
Whooligans isn't a bad name...
The girl asking the questions fancies James a bit.
Discuss.
Don't all girls? And probably a lot of guys?
Alex McKibben I suppose so.
Doctor who is not a person. He is called the doctor
the trouble with the infinite universe thing meaning we'll have a world identical to ours, infinite means that it goes on forever not that it is all encompassing, i.e. an infinite series of prime numbers would never reach the number 3 no matter how far you went.
technically we would have infinite worlds identical to ours.
TheFounderUtopia the sequence of number 2's is just an example. what I mean is that though it's possible for there to be worlds identical to ours it is in no way a definate
1; 3
ProfAwesomeO But isn't that why it's called "infinite possibilities"? :)
The parallel universe theory is that all possible outcomes, have come true.
May is Huge. Sadly 99% of the audience is incapable of digesting that level of intellectual perception, therefore the mass culture of the single use society is as it is. And If you think "idiocracy" is a comedy , you are in this 99%.
The other parallel state
Why is so common for people in your generation to eat coal? My uncle did it too.
Why james may why no jeremy Clarkson
because Clarkson is "shtupid" XD
+doctor who 2015 Because Jezza's idea of a 'scientific instrument' is a hammer ;-)
Turn left.
Lies, the Doctor is real!
:'(
Well according to the idea of parallel universes then they are but so is Star wars, Star trek, zombie movies, and a universe where North Korea rules everything ;)
Trbrandt Oh and just about everything else you can imagine
Trbrandt and a universe where James May simultaneously was the Doctor, and is oppressing an entire asian peninsular nation.
Ghosts are real James. Haven't you read Harry Potter?
Harry Potter isn't real.
Is James May an alcoholic ?
TOM BAKER, SCARF
Whoover! Ha.
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I know these questions are on the spot but was there any need for the whole patronising 'Doctor Who isn't real' thing? We know they're actors, James. First time I've been annoyed by anything he has said.
I was about to make the same comment. That was entirely unnecessary and came across as incredibly condescending.
"When you say i've met Dr. Who, that's a bit like saying I've met Superman"...
Except Dr. Who is the name of the show and not the name of the character. So when you say "i've met dr who" your saying you met a TV show. (But this is nit-picking)
I found it to be a perfectly valid point to make.
Calm down there, Whovian. He was just making fun of the fact that the assistant(?) said doctors, and not actors.
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James, maby you have answared this already, in that case i appologise for asking again.. I was a little set back when you admit to believe in spirit of dead people doing stuff in real life.
Do you believe in the supernatural?
I hate doctor who!
But Clarkson funny