Absolutely loved the series! This part 5 though, oooh boy, I love these kinda theoretical ideas/concepts. Again, you do a great job of getting my mind kicking and excited. These definitely give me a dopamine or serotonin boost, or something, I need. Definitely going to pick up Katie Mack's book. The interview was great! Thank You Trace and Katie, great content!
As someone with severe ADD, that bright blue "What If" neon light is a huge distraction. I have to minimize the video window or cover it with another window so I can actually focus on what you're saying instead of on the sign.
my personal motto or cliche "anyone who knows anything has more questions than answers" 15:40 basically the sum total of what i've ever learned "more research is needed"
My oldest self in the block universe reached out to me saying this will had been my all time favorite series on yt. Hence commenting for appreciation and algorithm. Awesome content Trace!
11:55 the thing i dont quite understand about boltzman(?) brain is that a brain requires constant source of energy and is constantly changing; it isnt a static thing that just works
This was the big question I had about Time, and I'm gratified to see my own head-spinning twists and turns in trying to understand it also plague scientists in the same way, and that there are no easy answers. It all comes down to relativity, I guess. We can only measure time against change, and without change, there's essentially no measurable time, even if there may still be time actually continuing on in an essentially invisible state. My theory has always been you can't have a universe without gravity. I think you also can't have a universe without time. Once gravity met time, a universe came into being.
Time didn't exist before the big bang, so there's no sense to ask what happened 'before' the big bang. Time ends when entropy ends, there's no change which is what we determine has time elapse. So if there's no atoms, no decay, nothing, then there's no time.
But there was a "before" the big bang. There was immense heat and energy ergo atoms had to have existed. There's also no way to say the big bang and heat death are singular events. Perhaps they have happened or will happen multiple times. It's as accurate to state an infinite amount of time passed before the big bang, as it is to state that no time passed at all.
@Phizicks: So when the Mrs. asks for something to get done, I can say “Don’t worry, I’ll do it in ‘no time’.” That gives me quite a while to put it off!
@@Toastmaster_5000 doesn't mean it occurs in that space/time, could be a higher dimension of membranes but that's not what people usually mean by what happened before, they usually mean within that space/time.
I was fascinated by the idea of what's beyond the observable universe, because I too am convinced that there is more. As for not being able to know anything about the Unobservable Universe... I'm not sure how accurate that is. Sure we can't DIRECTLY observe it, because it's outside our light cones, but in theory, if we found something right on the edge of the Observable Universe, could we measure it's motion and gravity and use that to make inferences about what might be out there? We'd probably only get a very vague idea about the immediate boundaries, but since everything has it's own light cone, is it not possible to observe objects near the edge of one's light cone, and make inferences about the environment it finds itself in? Or maybe it's expanding away from us at such a rate that we can't see it due to light-shifting anyway... Either way, I think it's likely a misconception to imagine the Universe as a Closed System. I think it's more likely infinite, or has other parallel universes nestled next to it extradimensionally in ways that can affect each other. Perhaps Dark Matter/Energy is the effects of those other Universes rippling our SpaceTime.
I never did and still don't find any answers to the beginning or the end of the universe to be satisfactory. If time effectively stops after the heat death, what was the purpose of anything at all existing? I'm not asking in a human perspective, but rather just in the perspective of the entire universe. There's the saying "it's not the destination that matters, it's the journey along the way". But a journey only matters when it actually has an end. The heat death isn't really an end, it's more like an infinite pause. But suppose the Big Crunch happens: that also makes the entire part of the journey moot, because everything that ever happened was erased from history. And then there's the whole issue with the beginning of time, where somehow, the singularity exists. If nothing came before it and time can't move, how does the big bang ever happen?
I don't know, man. But the idea where the idea of you exist infinitely is beautiful (not horrifying as the speaker says in video), and you are not just popping in and out, you are continuous, as you must have felt there are no gaps in history, so maybe all possible journeys that can be travelled by you will be travelled by you, is being unfolded through you, and you are free to choose whichever one version you want to experience through your actions.
When I was in gradeshool, they told me God created everything, and so I asked where God came from, and nobody could give me a satisfactory answer. So I thought about it, and somehow, an idea popped into my head, that if a bunch of particles were moving around for an unlimited amount of time, they would eventually form into an intelligence, that would become so bored that it would hallucinate the universe and develop multiple personalities. I kind of forgot about that until now.
If the universe is indeed expanding, wouldn't it have been kewl to have been several billion years younger, and have been closer in proximity to other developing intelligent races on planets closer to us?
Oh that would be so cool! There are some theories that describe the reasons we haven’t seen aliens yet is because we are some of the first to be able to evolve. Like, we are in the first wave of sentient life… The universe is still empty, while other forms are evolving. I’m not saying this is a theory that I ascribe to, but it is one!
@@maneeshd3 I'm good with that. as long as they still aren't currently muckin' around with us... I do not want them to do the anal probing... *turns head upward to look at ceiling*
Gotta love these videos so funny with the blue shirt haha interesting topic about time and space me trace is such a nerd reminds me of my mum haha I'm abit of a nerd too though especially with it being about space time lol
If I say you are no more than group of some trillion atoms, would you despair? You likely won't, because it is the effect that matters, it doesn't matter what concept is used to provide continuity to your existence. Similarly, why would it matter if you're Boltzmann brain or not, you cannot distinguish either way, and the idea of you is continuous. I would even say we might as well be continuous over different concepts that can support the implementation of the idea of us, and Boltzmann brain happened to be one of them, where by continuity I mean the sense that you have experienced your past in a continuous manner without any gaps.
or just listen to Katie, because she knows what happens at the end too (well, at least as much as any scientist in her field who just wrote a whole book about exactly that topic does)
Trace, you okay bud? You look worried with your friend's explanation of space and time lol. From what I'm gathering it sounds like it's most likely we're in a big brain floating through a void. I'll chalk this up as "we're living in a simulation". I love this topic!
Eternal recurrence isn't horrifying. It's a thought experiment to live such that if you were to experience eternal recurrence, that you would be satisfied with reliving the same life over and over again, more along the lines of living without regrets.
I wonder if you or Katie ever consider that our entire solar system is in a black hole. Maybe that’s why other galaxies appear to be getting farther apart. Since we don’t know much about black holes and we don’t know much about outer space... and everything else..., do you think that’s possible?
0:36 “…dense, infinite and ultra hot; just like me.” Uh, I don’t know. I can’t comment on the infinite part. And I am not particularly attracted to Trace (though I can believe others might be). But I definitely would not describe him as dense. I’ve worked with some pretty dense people. I know what dense looks like. Edit: I watched all 5 episodes but couldn’t watch anything else because I ran out of time 😉
If I told the you all the big bang wasn't right you wouldn't hear me but I'm telling it's not right because it's a unknown .... Please hear me this once before you judge my words .. Before I begin telling you everything in my part bigger theory you need to know a few things about me .... I've sinned nearly Daly that I hate myself for never overcoming the worldly body that holds me down to this reality .... You can think I'm crazy for anything you want but that doesn't mean I'm not right when I tell you my thoughts .... I believe in the Lord Jesus Christ always but in times I'm ruled by my body that seeks wantings for a lustful thing that overwhelmed my mind .... But now that's clear to you that I don't lie nor do I want to lie to anyone so let me start the words I wanted to tell you .... Scientist and science tells us that the CMB is growing out in speed and is always getting faster but I'm telling you it's not all as one set speed in the reaches of space and everything your seeing is moving together at different times and speeds and the full body of the CMB isn't as one full picture, just like the ocean is wide and flowing.... The flowing space has bubbles that formed liken that of trash on the sea but yet it has bubbles that explode into galaxies and voids that look like fireworks 🎆 this all shows up but their not telling everyone about it.... I can see it in the stars that are like patterns ..... I can't tell you anymore because my brain just shut off on me and my big bang theory isn't the big bang theory , it's a flowing sea of void that gravity in energy from light and mass that work as one layer over the other again and again until it's light forms a endless loop in space and time.... Is there a bottom in the sea of space well maybe the Lord can tell us some day if that's even important to us in the after life we all will see some day ..... Have a wonderful time and I hope some day we all can enjoy a spirit life ..... Peace ✌️
I texted all this before I watched this video pass the minute mark ..... LoL I feel like someone took parts of my comment from the other times I tried to communicate with TH-camrs about all this ..... I'll never know if Google stole any of my opinion on this stuff .... O' well I couldn't use it for anything if I did come up with it by myself ..... But I really feel like tech has their ways to take anyone's time away for claiming others ideas and I'm not saying she took any of my stuff ... I'm not calling her a person that took any of my ideas ...... But may she think about the way I told about space as a bigger size space time wave that can have smaller ripples through them and it's liken a wave down deep in water but it's all space .... Note Also that gravity is layers of mass from locked energy that is also light inside of all mass but know mass isn't formed without energy
Anyone else immediately think of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy when she mentioned a grand piano appearing?
@@B00s3 Impossible Drive or something
Absolutely loved the series!
This part 5 though, oooh boy, I love these kinda theoretical ideas/concepts. Again, you do a great job of getting my mind kicking and excited. These definitely give me a dopamine or serotonin boost, or something, I need.
Definitely going to pick up Katie Mack's book. The interview was great!
Thank You Trace and Katie, great content!
IM SO GLAD!!! 😭 🤩
@@TraceDominguez Please do invite her again sometime for a longer podcast type conversation.
loved this series so much!!! totally broke my brain a few times but we love that
As someone with severe ADD, that bright blue "What If" neon light is a huge distraction. I have to minimize the video window or cover it with another window so I can actually focus on what you're saying instead of on the sign.
TH-cam on mobile makes it easier too. Ad/hd here.
my personal motto or cliche "anyone who knows anything has more questions than answers" 15:40 basically the sum total of what i've ever learned "more research is needed"
Saaame
My oldest self in the block universe reached out to me saying this will had been my all time favorite series on yt. Hence commenting for appreciation and algorithm. Awesome content Trace!
11:55 the thing i dont quite understand about boltzman(?) brain is that a brain requires constant source of energy and is constantly changing; it isnt a static thing that just works
so how would a specific combination of atoms coming together create a brain? a brain is a system not an object (like a diamond or something)
I love how you aren't afraid to get into the deep end.
This was the big question I had about Time, and I'm gratified to see my own head-spinning twists and turns in trying to understand it also plague scientists in the same way, and that there are no easy answers. It all comes down to relativity, I guess. We can only measure time against change, and without change, there's essentially no measurable time, even if there may still be time actually continuing on in an essentially invisible state. My theory has always been you can't have a universe without gravity. I think you also can't have a universe without time. Once gravity met time, a universe came into being.
oooh I like that love story!
Time didn't exist before the big bang, so there's no sense to ask what happened 'before' the big bang.
Time ends when entropy ends, there's no change which is what we determine has time elapse. So if there's no atoms, no decay, nothing, then there's no time.
Thank you for restating what we've been talking about in a comment
But there was a "before" the big bang. There was immense heat and energy ergo atoms had to have existed. There's also no way to say the big bang and heat death are singular events. Perhaps they have happened or will happen multiple times. It's as accurate to state an infinite amount of time passed before the big bang, as it is to state that no time passed at all.
@Phizicks: So when the Mrs. asks for something to get done, I can say “Don’t worry, I’ll do it in ‘no time’.” That gives me quite a while to put it off!
But there's still the question of how it all got to be that way in the first place
@@Toastmaster_5000 doesn't mean it occurs in that space/time, could be a higher dimension of membranes but that's not what people usually mean by what happened before, they usually mean within that space/time.
17:10 song name ?
Amazing series, definitely blew my mind! You should turn these into podcasts, I'd listen again for sure!
Cheers from Mexico City!
Podcasts are on the docket!!
@@TraceDominguez Thanks for the reply! such a fan of your work, keep it up man!
Do I recognize Katie’s voice from Waking Life, the movie?
i was spaming "no trace of trace" in every seeker video and now finally i found you. love you broooo
I won’t ask you to update your spam to tell everyone where I am, but THANKS!
@@TraceDominguez hahaha well that would be 09637908634790 comments to be updated.
ON IT!
I was fascinated by the idea of what's beyond the observable universe, because I too am convinced that there is more. As for not being able to know anything about the Unobservable Universe... I'm not sure how accurate that is. Sure we can't DIRECTLY observe it, because it's outside our light cones, but in theory, if we found something right on the edge of the Observable Universe, could we measure it's motion and gravity and use that to make inferences about what might be out there? We'd probably only get a very vague idea about the immediate boundaries, but since everything has it's own light cone, is it not possible to observe objects near the edge of one's light cone, and make inferences about the environment it finds itself in? Or maybe it's expanding away from us at such a rate that we can't see it due to light-shifting anyway...
Either way, I think it's likely a misconception to imagine the Universe as a Closed System. I think it's more likely infinite, or has other parallel universes nestled next to it extradimensionally in ways that can affect each other. Perhaps Dark Matter/Energy is the effects of those other Universes rippling our SpaceTime.
I never did and still don't find any answers to the beginning or the end of the universe to be satisfactory.
If time effectively stops after the heat death, what was the purpose of anything at all existing? I'm not asking in a human perspective, but rather just in the perspective of the entire universe.
There's the saying "it's not the destination that matters, it's the journey along the way". But a journey only matters when it actually has an end. The heat death isn't really an end, it's more like an infinite pause.
But suppose the Big Crunch happens: that also makes the entire part of the journey moot, because everything that ever happened was erased from history.
And then there's the whole issue with the beginning of time, where somehow, the singularity exists. If nothing came before it and time can't move, how does the big bang ever happen?
I don't know, man. But the idea where the idea of you exist infinitely is beautiful (not horrifying as the speaker says in video), and you are not just popping in and out, you are continuous, as you must have felt there are no gaps in history, so maybe all possible journeys that can be travelled by you will be travelled by you, is being unfolded through you, and you are free to choose whichever one version you want to experience through your actions.
When I was in gradeshool, they told me God created everything, and so I asked where God came from, and nobody could give me a satisfactory answer. So I thought about it, and somehow, an idea popped into my head, that if a bunch of particles were moving around for an unlimited amount of time, they would eventually form into an intelligence, that would become so bored that it would hallucinate the universe and develop multiple personalities. I kind of forgot about that until now.
Welcome to theoretical physics!
@@B00s3 Yes, when they pictured the floating brain in the video, I immediately thought of Ego too.
If the universe is indeed expanding, wouldn't it have been kewl to have been several billion years younger, and have been closer in proximity to other developing intelligent races on planets closer to us?
Oh that would be so cool! There are some theories that describe the reasons we haven’t seen aliens yet is because we are some of the first to be able to evolve. Like, we are in the first wave of sentient life… The universe is still empty, while other forms are evolving. I’m not saying this is a theory that I ascribe to, but it is one!
@@TraceDominguez Me neither... I kinda hope there are better and more intelligent beings than are here at home! LOL
@@maneeshd3 I'm good with that. as long as they still aren't currently muckin' around with us... I do not want them to do the anal probing... *turns head upward to look at ceiling*
Your videos are fantastic. 😁👍👍
Oooooo... did you just propose to your beau, Trace at 20:00 mark? :D
I did that at the end of 2019! There’s a video on the channel about it ;)))) it’s cuuuute
@@TraceDominguez oh dayumm... I missed that!
Gotta love these videos so funny with the blue shirt haha interesting topic about time and space me trace is such a nerd reminds me of my mum haha I'm abit of a nerd too though especially with it being about space time lol
Glad you enjoyed! I couldn't NOT do the blue shirt gag after she mentioned that haha
If I say you are no more than group of some trillion atoms, would you despair? You likely won't, because it is the effect that matters, it doesn't matter what concept is used to provide continuity to your existence.
Similarly, why would it matter if you're Boltzmann brain or not, you cannot distinguish either way, and the idea of you is continuous. I would even say we might as well be continuous over different concepts that can support the implementation of the idea of us, and Boltzmann brain happened to be one of them, where by continuity I mean the sense that you have experienced your past in a continuous manner without any gaps.
For Gallifrey! For VICTORY! FOR THE END... OF TIME... ITSELF!
I know what happens before and I know what will happen in The End
Kneel before me if you want to know the answers you seek
or just listen to Katie, because she knows what happens at the end too (well, at least as much as any scientist in her field who just wrote a whole book about exactly that topic does)
@@TraceDominguez who reads in 2020....it's all about the audiobooks now
Do I understand time better? in a way, yes I do, but in another way my confusion is SO MUCH WORSE THAN BEFORE!
THATS EXACTLY RIGHT
Trace, you okay bud? You look worried with your friend's explanation of space and time lol.
From what I'm gathering it sounds like it's most likely we're in a big brain floating through a void. I'll chalk this up as "we're living in a simulation". I love this topic!
SO COOL RIGHT?!
Eternal recurrence isn't horrifying. It's a thought experiment to live such that if you were to experience eternal recurrence, that you would be satisfied with reliving the same life over and over again, more along the lines of living without regrets.
I wonder if you or Katie ever consider that our entire solar system is in a black hole. Maybe that’s why other galaxies appear to be getting farther apart. Since we don’t know much about black holes and we don’t know much about outer space... and everything else..., do you think that’s possible?
I have an existential crisis every time I watch one of Trace's vids :/
i have one every time i make one of these vids
0:36 “…dense, infinite and ultra hot; just like me.” Uh, I don’t know. I can’t comment on the infinite part. And I am not particularly attracted to Trace (though I can believe others might be). But I definitely would not describe him as dense. I’ve worked with some pretty dense people. I know what dense looks like.
Edit: I watched all 5 episodes but couldn’t watch anything else because I ran out of time 😉
@Tracy you are turning more red every episode. Use natural colors.
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Ooo
Mmmooo
David Roddini 🤣🤣🤣
I'm not first but I'm taking it because no one said it.
FIRST! 😂
Welcome!
@@TraceDominguez been with you since D news bro. Keep em comin 💪🏾💪🏾💞
There a best way to suggest topics?
If I told the you all the big bang wasn't right you wouldn't hear me but I'm telling it's not right because it's a unknown .... Please hear me this once before you judge my words ..
Before I begin telling you everything in my part bigger theory you need to know a few things about me ....
I've sinned nearly Daly that I hate myself for never overcoming the worldly body that holds me down to this reality ....
You can think I'm crazy for anything you want but that doesn't mean I'm not right when I tell you my thoughts .... I believe in the Lord Jesus Christ always but in times I'm ruled by my body that seeks wantings for a lustful thing that overwhelmed my mind ....
But now that's clear to you that I don't lie nor do I want to lie to anyone so let me start the words I wanted to tell you .... Scientist and science tells us that the CMB is growing out in speed and is always getting faster but I'm telling you it's not all as one set speed in the reaches of space and everything your seeing is moving together at different times and speeds and the full body of the CMB isn't as one full picture, just like the ocean is wide and flowing....
The flowing space has bubbles that formed liken that of trash on the sea but yet it has bubbles that explode into galaxies and voids that look like fireworks 🎆 this all shows up but their not telling everyone about it.... I can see it in the stars that are like patterns ..... I can't tell you anymore because my brain just shut off on me and my big bang theory isn't the big bang theory , it's a flowing sea of void that gravity in energy from light and mass that work as one layer over the other again and again until it's light forms a endless loop in space and time.... Is there a bottom in the sea of space well maybe the Lord can tell us some day if that's even important to us in the after life we all will see some day ..... Have a wonderful time and I hope some day we all can enjoy a spirit life ..... Peace ✌️
I texted all this before I watched this video pass the minute mark ..... LoL I feel like someone took parts of my comment from the other times I tried to communicate with TH-camrs about all this ..... I'll never know if Google stole any of my opinion on this stuff .... O' well I couldn't use it for anything if I did come up with it by myself ..... But I really feel like tech has their ways to take anyone's time away for claiming others ideas and I'm not saying she took any of my stuff ... I'm not calling her a person that took any of my ideas ...... But may she think about the way I told about space as a bigger size space time wave that can have smaller ripples through them and it's liken a wave down deep in water but it's all space ....
Note Also that gravity is layers of mass from locked energy that is also light inside of all mass but know mass isn't formed without energy