10 Spooky Scientific Concepts and Discoveries

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  • A special Halloween exploration of ten spooky scientific concepts and discoveries.
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  • @MultiMurmaider
    @MultiMurmaider 6 ปีที่แล้ว +492

    If we are in a simulation, they might shut it down every time they go for coffee, and restart it afterward - we would not know the difference.

    • @Kneedragon1962
      @Kneedragon1962 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I don't seem to be able to get the screensheep to work in mine....
      They seem to be having a protest march, like "Four legs good two legs b - a - a - d..."
      Actually, if your screensheep and your boot-sector viruses voted for Donald Duck, then you have a pretty good simulation....

    • @twirlipofthemists3201
      @twirlipofthemists3201 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      There wouldn't BE a difference.

    • @perfectfae3534
      @perfectfae3534 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      MultiMurmaider That's sooooooooo fucked up!!! Wow. 😂

    • @EvolBob1
      @EvolBob1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Why make a simulation where so few are having mind-blowing sex, where few are not starving, where hardly any are ridiculously rich, and so many so stupid?
      And for those that are: Why all have short lives?

    • @apteryx01
      @apteryx01 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      +MultiMurmaider Interesting idea. What kind of coffee do you think they're getting? I figure it must be pretty fancy if they have to leave the office instead of making it themselves in, say, a Keurig.

  • @Gitarzan66
    @Gitarzan66 5 ปีที่แล้ว +90

    Of course I had to watch this right before bed.

    • @williamfabiano4185
      @williamfabiano4185 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This first one annoys me.
      If the universe wasn’t fine tuned we wouldn’t exist to observe it, so no matter what we will ALWAYS observe a universe suited for life!

    • @julioramirezn
      @julioramirezn 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same here

    • @kamster518
      @kamster518 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@williamfabiano4185 lol, why did you steal this comment bud?

    • @t6amygdala
      @t6amygdala 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Haha it’s 3 am

    • @redstone-kg3ne
      @redstone-kg3ne 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Im about to do this. Is it a bad idea?

  • @neonspartan7407
    @neonspartan7407 5 ปีที่แล้ว +508

    This first one annoys me.
    If the universe wasn’t fine tuned we wouldn’t exist to observe it, so no matter what we will ALWAYS observe a universe suited for life!

    • @serijas737
      @serijas737 5 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Thanks for pointing that out. We act like we could life in universes where nothing can live there to even perceive it. We can only exist in universes where life is able to create intelligent consciousness. If we wouldn't be able to have consciousness, or wouldn't be as intelligent to think and understand as we do now, there would be no mind and no self to observe that universe. We are only able to be conscious in universes where 'we' are allowed and possible to live in. So even if we all vanish, there is a small but very likely chance that we could happen again, anywhere, as long as the conditions are "perfect" as in this universe - because everything else is just too hostile for (intelligent) life to happen at all. Somewhere else it could all be different, but would remain the same, as this are the perfect conditions. I'm surprised someone on the web discovered that, too. Perhaps people are really waking up.

    • @vali69
      @vali69 5 ปีที่แล้ว +83

      I think people should look at this from the other angle... *WE* are fine tuned to the way the universe is... and if the universe was different then other types of life would exist that would be fine tuned for that universe... its kind of an obvious thing when u put it this way... i still wonder if metal based life forms could exist lmfao

    • @UncaAlbyGmail
      @UncaAlbyGmail 5 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @@vali69 They're not saying that Life would be merely "different" with different parameters. The problem apparently is that if certain of the parameters vary, only a little bit, then ALL OF EXISTENCE would not be possible.
      Picture that -- it's not, if things were hotter, we'd evolve to tolerate more heat and still think it was fine-tuned just for us --
      More like -- things -- would -- not -- BE.
      Not, "no life as we know it" -- not, "no life" -- rather, "No Anything"

    • @darkdawnbringer
      @darkdawnbringer 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@UncaAlbyGmail It would be "no anything" that we know of...
      Sure a universe might exist where there is no light, or no radiation, or no matter.
      But in a universe where there is no mater there might still be a whole universe of pure energy, we doint know...
      To say that if certain constants change would make everything stop existing is silly, it would just make things we know of stop existing.
      There could be universes that seem compleetly empty to us, but actualy have invisible forces like gravity flowing around like fish in a sea, there could be things we could not even imagine, let alone say what they need to exist or function...

    • @wulphstein
      @wulphstein 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      This argument is fallacious. Let's start with a fact: were here. Fact 2: zero other universes are proven to exist. Fact 3: God is witnessed when ppl come close to death.

  • @TheEyez187
    @TheEyez187 6 ปีที่แล้ว +221

    Well, I wish the people a few inches from me in the same room, would tidy up a bit!!

    • @artyom9137
      @artyom9137 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      This comment didnt age well

    • @davidwarren2771
      @davidwarren2771 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I hope they arent in the same room as me at all times bc I do and watch some dirty things

    • @Mikey-ym6ok
      @Mikey-ym6ok 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      David Warren David: you’re disgusting
      -top David

    • @waveo1ne716
      @waveo1ne716 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Why would they when you made the mess.

    • @MuscarV2
      @MuscarV2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What's with the random and unnecessary comma? It doesn't make any sense there, it's really idiotic.

  • @zeak278
    @zeak278 4 ปีที่แล้ว +155

    To the simulation theory I say this, even if this is all just a simulation created by the (real) humans, that still begs the question, how did their universe come to be??

    • @InnerLuminosity
      @InnerLuminosity 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Simultaneous within simulation

    • @kolecava
      @kolecava 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Maybe the real humans created a simulation which runs MUCH faster to resolve many problems they might be struggling. There might be billions of simulations like us running to solve and issue.
      Let say we get extremely powerful and can create simulations to try and solve an issue for the "real" humans or maybe some aliens have visited Earth, grabbed some biological samples and recreated humans inside their simulation to study us.
      I mean I am just chatting absolute horse shit here.

    • @ButtChugDoug66
      @ButtChugDoug66 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      The universe has no obligation to make sense to anyone

    • @buttbuttwhat1
      @buttbuttwhat1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Turtles all the way down

    • @rypdx
      @rypdx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      God

  • @donaldduck7628
    @donaldduck7628 6 ปีที่แล้ว +911

    Everyone acts like the universe is so finely tuned that we exist, and I find it a backwards view of things. We exist simply because the universe is the way it happens to be. We are finely tuned to exist in this universe, and it would be odd indeed that our evolution under these conditions would or could be anything else. If the universe were any different, then logically we would be concurrently different, or even not exist at all. We have evolved to occupy the niche that exists, and not the other way around.

    • @brothergrimm9656
      @brothergrimm9656 6 ปีที่แล้ว +126

      Precisely! It's like saying that a horse was designed to exact specifications to match the cart it pulls.

    • @Kingfish179
      @Kingfish179 6 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Exactly right.

    • @dbrsd1233
      @dbrsd1233 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Took the words from my mouth!

    • @twirlipofthemists3201
      @twirlipofthemists3201 6 ปีที่แล้ว +108

      No, the idea is that if any of those values was any different, there wouldn't be galaxies, stars, planets, molecules or even atoms. It's not about life per se.

    • @TomekTQ
      @TomekTQ 6 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Jim Fupanda Not per se, no, but the same applies to the galaxies, stars, and planets as well: they're the end result of this particular universe, just like we are

  • @Yes-xn8du
    @Yes-xn8du 3 ปีที่แล้ว +99

    What if “ghost sightings” are actually just different realities accidentally colliding

    • @Leo-ip3yx
      @Leo-ip3yx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      So interstellar the movie

    • @BettaUzeYoNikez
      @BettaUzeYoNikez 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What if ghosts were an advanced ancient AI used for some kind of defense 🤔

    • @LAMPROS311
      @LAMPROS311 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      What if "ghost sightings" is a malware created by a bored teenager who lives in the original universe in order have some fun during summer vacation?

    • @stealtho
      @stealtho 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes

    • @rileyhoffman6629
      @rileyhoffman6629 ปีที่แล้ว

      Something like this may also be responsible for 'ufo's.

  • @Maddog3060
    @Maddog3060 6 ปีที่แล้ว +283

    By far the biggest scientific mystery you didn't mention is where the frak do the missing socks from our laundries go to?

    • @hammerbellsong9745
      @hammerbellsong9745 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      They turn into coat hangers.

    • @RobRidleyLive
      @RobRidleyLive 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Alexei Sayle solved that in the early 1980's, in his seminal work "The Fish People Tapes".

    • @robedin6626
      @robedin6626 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      They mostly get sucked into the trap. Nobody cleans it until it’s utterly clogged.

    • @baruchben-david4196
      @baruchben-david4196 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Yes. This is clearly evidence of alternate Universes, the socks moving between them...

    • @frankschneider6156
      @frankschneider6156 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Maddog3060
      Directly into the super massive black hole at the center of the milky way. What you think it is living off ? Stars ?

  • @HitmanR
    @HitmanR 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    "Cold is the void."
    You've earned my subscription.

  • @sokratesnudelsuppe5937
    @sokratesnudelsuppe5937 6 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    3:55 thanks. Now i can sleep well

    • @nicolasbascunan4013
      @nicolasbascunan4013 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      goosebumps

    • @playbackproductions1
      @playbackproductions1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Think about shining a flashlight across the corner of a room. Looks like it goes in a straight line but it really made a distinct instantaneous 90° turn.

  • @immortalsofar5314
    @immortalsofar5314 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    To my mind, the question of the Anthropic principal was best answered by that group of philosophers known as "The Goons":
    "Eccles, what are you doing in a dustbin?"
    "Well everybody's got to be somewhere!"

  • @Torrriate
    @Torrriate 7 ปีที่แล้ว +230

    The chance that I'd be the offspring of exactly my parents out of all human procreators is almost zero, and yet that's the case. Wow!

    • @vakusdrake3224
      @vakusdrake3224 6 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      Funny enough this is the sort of thing that's impressive to oneself, but to no-one else. Sort of like how it isn't surprising that _somebody_ won the lottery, however it is if its you.

    • @DoggoWillink
      @DoggoWillink 6 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Same is true when walking through the woods and seeing a leaf fall in a particular spot. That, when looking at it in hindsight through a probabilistic lens, is utterly improbable. It is, really, astronomically improbable, especially if you begin adding in all of the other “probabilities” involved on larger scales.

    • @SuperYtc1
      @SuperYtc1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      RobSchneiderIsAStapler Yet it’s balanced by the number of possible places it could fall, so you have to multiply this number by it, making it come to probability 100%.

    • @donaldduck7628
      @donaldduck7628 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The odds that you are your mothers child is by definition unity. It could not be any other statistical probability. If you are seeking some random chance, then you are rolling dice with your father. Neither you or he has any other probability than some sub unity probability.

    • @thomasmitchell2605
      @thomasmitchell2605 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Torrriate yeah I've won the cosmic lotto a million times over to even exist yet I couldn't win one more time to have been born rich lol

  • @p.bamygdala2139
    @p.bamygdala2139 6 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Wow! Having fun going through old episodes. So many new topics in this one. Lots of homework and reading for me! I hope you’ll do more videos about the great void, and any news, theories or developments. Thanks!

  • @ThomasTrue
    @ThomasTrue 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Apparently the Bootes Void is so empty that it doesn't even have a Starbucks.

    • @zama422
      @zama422 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      ....yet

    • @bmoneybby
      @bmoneybby 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      There is a McDonald's though. Thank God

    • @tysonwastaken
      @tysonwastaken ปีที่แล้ว

      theres 52 subways dont worry

  • @Flannelsurfer
    @Flannelsurfer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The wooly mammoth was not made extinct by humans. There are endless fields of flash-frozen mammoths in Siberia, look it up.

    • @flyingintervation4188
      @flyingintervation4188 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Flannel Surfer How does flash freeze even work

    • @kenw9681
      @kenw9681 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      There is a theory about what caused this flash-freeze, although I can't recall the source that I saw it in. Maybe it's somewhere on the internet now. It says that at the time that this freeze allegedly occurred, a large comet allegedly struck the earth, or exploded just above it, somewhere in its northern latitudes. This theory says that for a very brief period of time afterward, the comet (and its tail?) forced aside the atmosphere around it and during that time, the super cold vacuum of nearby outer space replaced it, all of the way to the ground under it. This is what allegedly caused the flash-freezing deaths of large numbers of wooly mammoths.

    • @topopops
      @topopops 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Daniel Rojo like a flash freezer..

    • @michaelmoore7975
      @michaelmoore7975 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Gordon Ramsey's gonna be pissed.

  • @richardaitkenhead
    @richardaitkenhead 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    5 years later, the quality of content has grown so exponentially, that this video shows its age.
    Still excellent content especially compared to other creators.

  • @jons5478
    @jons5478 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Love your channel, watched a couple videos and now I'm hooked! Subbed for sure

  • @wes1
    @wes1 7 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Easily one of the scariest videos I've seen in a while. 😓 Good job.

  • @paulh7589
    @paulh7589 5 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    This presentation seems to forget the size of our own galaxy let alone the spaces between the billions of galaxies that have been seen from the Hubble telescope. Our own galaxy is ten thousand by one hundred thousand light years. Our nearest galaxy, Andromeda, is roughly 2.5 million light years away. The Hubble has seen galaxies up to almost 14 billion light years away. I doubt there is more than one universe. It is fun to think about though isn't it?
    If light is indeed the maximum speed limit (186,200 miles per second) just imagine a light year. It is staggering. It's good for us humans to ponder things like this. It makes us smarter and more humble. I look up at the night sky and am filled with wonder and awe. I see tides, weather, and foliage change constantly and consider myself lucky to witness the beauty of it all. I am 54 years old but still have the curiosity of a child.

    • @draektears2794
      @draektears2794 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Paul H thanks for this comment, clears the mind a bit

    • @UmbraHand
      @UmbraHand 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      D z Speed of magnetism you mean? It goes at the speed of C, light

  • @bernardlemay8563
    @bernardlemay8563 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I've been watching your videos on and off for weeks now and I have to say... your voice is so soothing. I will definitely check out your books. Thanks for the great content.

  • @SprachlosGaming
    @SprachlosGaming 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love your style of narration and your voice itself! subbed :D

  • @digitaltitan1430
    @digitaltitan1430 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great channel man, tons of great content. Currently binge watching IT ALL 😆🙂

  • @mr.eastcoastgrow6132
    @mr.eastcoastgrow6132 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    This guy makes the best videos. His voice and way he says things is on point. Keep me coming. I’ve watched everyone of your videos 10+ times.

  • @anttikar79
    @anttikar79 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I like your down-to-earth approach. You're a rad man, thanks and a big thumbs-up for your videos

  • @yamum7839
    @yamum7839 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I love your videos they are so interesting and informative please keep making them!

  • @justanotherhappyhumanist8832
    @justanotherhappyhumanist8832 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I didn’t know you were an author! I’m definitely going to look out for your book. You certainly have the knowledge needed to be a great science fiction writer!

  • @1stToBeHuman
    @1stToBeHuman 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is your best vid in my opinion. Fascinating and covers a vast amount of topics

  • @rollinwithunclepete824
    @rollinwithunclepete824 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Well, I think I'm going to have nightmares for a couple of weeks after watching this video... Thanks for posting JMG!

  • @manoffayth
    @manoffayth 6 ปีที่แล้ว +82

    all these people mad about when he says "fine tuned" make me laugh. He's paraphrasing someone else's theory. He's not necessarily making the statement himself. Also, look up a video about protocells. The physics of the universe allows life to happen. He's not saying the universe is "fine tuned" for people aka human beings. I read Locutus D'Borg's comment and I felt the onset of what I thought was an aneurysm.

    • @luciferangelica
      @luciferangelica 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      nice. locutus d'borg's work is really hard to find in this era

    • @ChrisWoj
      @ChrisWoj 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      manoffayth a poster seeking acknowledgment by responding to the user who has the most comments, silly.

    • @maixck
      @maixck 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Number 10 is, in my opinion, a wrong and flawed assumption, it is using statistics to claim a result "was" unlikely to happen, this absolutely breaks the purpose of statistics. Let's do an experiment, flip a coin 1000 times, write each time the result. After 1000 flips you would have a very specific order of heads and tail that is VERY unlikely to have happened, most likely if you do this experiment your whole life you will never do the same first sequence again. Is this fine tuning? no, it is most definitely not, because one had to happen and one did. It is the same for us, for we to be able to question our existence we had to happen, so the probability is 100%, it is not very small. This is a basic misunderstanding of proper statistics.

    • @musaran2
      @musaran2 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The point of "fine tuned" is that if any of the fundamentals were the tiniest bit different then (with our admittedly very limited understanding) the universe would most likely be a dull uniform soup of only a few basic particles.
      No atoms, no chemicals, no planets, no galaxies, no nothing.

    • @Archetype77
      @Archetype77 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Sounds like you got a bit triggered, everyone criticising the point is correct, the universe is not perfectly tuned for anything, it is what it is, if it was any different you have no idea what could form and what could then adapt to those rules.

  • @forbesferrari1157
    @forbesferrari1157 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I love this channel man

  • @glass4breakfast
    @glass4breakfast 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hey, just subscribed!!! I had this video saved to a playlist of weird achieve stuff n quantum physics videos I've been watching for fun n for research on some short stories I'm working on, and i finally watched it today! Wow...this was great, n your a writer as well. So yeah, definitely subscribed. Can't wait to check out more videos by u.

  • @goscience1718
    @goscience1718 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sometimes I come back to rewatch your older videos, they're so goood

  • @geoffreystuttle8080
    @geoffreystuttle8080 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Out of all the millions of sperm, I was the fastest! Clearly I was meant for bigger things than this.

    • @Infamous41
      @Infamous41 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      God has a plan just for you and me !!

    • @afikanto4126
      @afikanto4126 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Infamous41 and other lies we tell ourselves.

    • @marcoroberts9462
      @marcoroberts9462 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The other sperm: “hey wouldn’t it be funny if we let that guy at the back win”

    • @sierra1513
      @sierra1513 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I kinda hate when people anthropomorphize sperm like this

    • @BIack_Puma
      @BIack_Puma 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@afikanto4126 see? No attention at all. No need to be edgy

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    @troruaz 7 ปีที่แล้ว +120

    dude, i'm geeked when one of your vids shows up in my feed! this one was awesome!

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    @alastairbrewster4274 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Loving your channel , great depth and content to your videos.

  • @usmale4915
    @usmale4915 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Very informative, interesting and entertaining. You have an outstanding channel, your narration is perfect plus you have pics/drawings etc. which really hold my attention! Thank you very much for the upload.
    I'll have to watch this again this Halloween (2021)!

  • @danboyle116
    @danboyle116 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thanks. I've been having a good deal of trouble sleeping lately.

  • @tomf3150
    @tomf3150 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    "There more things in the multiverse, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your cosmology."

    • @GeneralZap
      @GeneralZap 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fun game, hilarious "race."

  • @swift-o
    @swift-o 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    The most intelligent channel on this subject I've seen so far, SUBSCRIBED!

  • @BeeBumper
    @BeeBumper 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Well sir I officially have become slightly addicted to your vids. Fascinating always, great delivery, sometimes the images don't feel right, but they look cool, and as I said you clinch it with your delivery. I look forward to exploring content further, and perhaps picking up one of your books any suggestions anyone for a first timer reading his stuff? LOL the problem I have with the simulation theory is it's hard to imagine a simulation where we make some of the choices we make, and emotions seem counter to a simulated environment.

  • @Jesse-cw5pv
    @Jesse-cw5pv 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I'm not too sure the universe is fine tuned for life considering more than 99.99%+ of the universe is very hostile to life. It's pretty amazing we are here at all tho

    • @maruchannuudle657
      @maruchannuudle657 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Jesse fine tuned maybe like turning the knob on a radio dial for a specific frequency

  • @TehUltimateSnake
    @TehUltimateSnake 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    *clicks video*
    *pause*
    *hits blunt*
    *play*

  • @deltabravolima1514
    @deltabravolima1514 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I've learned so much from this channel!! Something my local high school couldn't accomplish lol

  • @glennratcliffe9179
    @glennratcliffe9179 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Another great video John. Makes me wonder if you've done a video on E8 Theory yet?

  • @DAYBROK3
    @DAYBROK3 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    If this is simulation I want my money back!

  • @The-Man-On-The-Mountain
    @The-Man-On-The-Mountain 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    If this is a simulation, that would explain the green octahedron over my head.

  • @arandomsupra
    @arandomsupra 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    4:02 Me watching this in my room at 2:28am:
    **laughs nervously**

  • @papaspoon1550
    @papaspoon1550 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    So glad that yt understand its spooky season and a 3 year old video specifically mentions spooky time.
    Perfection

    • @JohnMichaelGodier
      @JohnMichaelGodier  3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Working on a new one for Halloween in a few days.

  • @andysshanghailife6595
    @andysshanghailife6595 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Did you really just say “potential possibility”?

    • @WoodysAR
      @WoodysAR 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Did you really just question the possibility of potential? ;)

    • @jackryan6584
      @jackryan6584 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Get em!

  • @vulcanus9384
    @vulcanus9384 7 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    Awesome video.
    Still praying some advanced life form would come visit us and explain all this shit to us (In simple English) 😭🙏

    • @JohnMichaelGodier
      @JohnMichaelGodier  7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Thanks! Maybe they will show up some day.

    • @burbanpoison2494
      @burbanpoison2494 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      have faith. they will come some day. and when they do, they will come to serve man in all things, will nothing ulterior in their motives.

    • @charlesdog9795
      @charlesdog9795 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      'explain all this shit to us (In simple English)' my money is on it will be laid out clearly in a pattern of smells

    • @mjt1517
      @mjt1517 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Max, why on Earth would they "serve man"?

    • @RupertFear
      @RupertFear 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Whilst they are here maybe could could have a word with our lunatic leader

  • @sillypinkewe
    @sillypinkewe 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for your hard work making great videos!

  • @KayesHaze
    @KayesHaze 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Even just your tone of voice is unbiased. Its impressive!

  • @locutusdborg126
    @locutusdborg126 7 ปีที่แล้ว +319

    Sorry, but the universe is not fine tuned for us, we have been fine tuned by natural selection to fit the universe.

    • @roidroid
      @roidroid 6 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      +Locutus D'Borg Indeed. To quote Douglas Adams:
      Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, "This is an interesting world I find myself in - an interesting hole I find myself in - fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, may have been made to have me in it!" This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, it's still frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for. We all know that at some point in the future the Universe will come to an end and at some other point, considerably in advance from that but still not immediately pressing, the sun will explode. We feel there's plenty of time to worry about that, but on the other hand that's a very dangerous thing to say.

    • @TRIassicFORCE151
      @TRIassicFORCE151 6 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Thats what happens when you only watch the first few mins of a video lol

    • @rameyzamora1018
      @rameyzamora1018 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Absolutely agree. We are simply what has developed because of the conditions in this universe. other universes? Other life forms.

    • @burbanpoison2494
      @burbanpoison2494 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +Scott Johnstone ...and so you deduce that it must be a nice neat simulation, which must be organized by someone competent, even if it's in another universe, which is not at all like appealing to an afterlife to explain away injustice, because this is science and not religion!
      it couldn't be that there's something incorrect about the math or how we apply it!
      it's much more fun if it's proof that God is real and he's playing you as a video game!

    • @burbanpoison2494
      @burbanpoison2494 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +roidroid "the moment he disappears catches him by surprise" so he feels surprised about having disappeared, after he has disappeared?

  • @siglan6148
    @siglan6148 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    If we're considering simulation theory then we should probably at least be entertaining intelligent design. Though I guess they're kind of one in the same from a secular scientific standpoint.

    • @Xpwnxage
      @Xpwnxage 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah what is it with this simulation bs, it's so baseless.

    • @N0TYALC
      @N0TYALC 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Simulation theory is literally religion for people who hate and mock religion.

  • @akumasama3437
    @akumasama3437 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    man ever since i started watching his videos ive be having existential crisis🤦🏽‍♂️ love the vids doe!

  • @carbsncaffeine9254
    @carbsncaffeine9254 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is the most underrated channel on youtube

  • @Leo-pt9ei
    @Leo-pt9ei 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    if we're in a simulation then what created base reality?

    • @jimthompson4132
      @jimthompson4132 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Reality exists only in the mind.

    • @Thiago1337
      @Thiago1337 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Inception

    • @ThePurplenurple91
      @ThePurplenurple91 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      If we were in a simulation, when we create one when would they realize? And if we are I’m certain who ever is creating ours is in one created by something else etc. never ending?!

    • @Boogaboioringale
      @Boogaboioringale 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      We did.

  • @randomconsumer4494
    @randomconsumer4494 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    To think that people had any impact on the extinction of the wooly mammoth is ridiculous.

  • @TheYurisam
    @TheYurisam 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I enjoyed this immensely!

  • @omniufo7350
    @omniufo7350 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Your a legend thank you....excitement new is life...may you receive 100k in the next 2 years.

  • @knowledgetracker
    @knowledgetracker 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Of course we're living in a Matrix and the architectural developer is the concept we call God.

    • @ThePurplenurple91
      @ThePurplenurple91 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      knowledgetracker amen

    • @UmbraHand
      @UmbraHand 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sadly such a proponent is non-falsifiable and hence bonkers

    • @michaelmoore7975
      @michaelmoore7975 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      And all that we know, all that is, all that was, from now to all the way back to what we think of as the beginning of everything actually started last Thursday. Sometime around 3:00 pm. Just in time for tea.

  • @johnwells1015
    @johnwells1015 6 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Really wished you hadn’t uttered “ fine tuned for us”

    • @mjt1517
      @mjt1517 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      oh boo hoo
      Really wish complainers like you wouldn't be with the rest of us on the internet, yet here we are.

    • @MattChez
      @MattChez 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He said, totally unaware that he himself was contributing to the thing he claims to dislike.

  • @17irod
    @17irod 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    You have the best voice to fall asleep to! Your videos are great and educational but that voice is so hypnotic that I can’t help but to fall asleep, that’s how you got a sub from me and I mean that in the best way possible, keep on keeping on!!!

    • @JohnMichaelGodier
      @JohnMichaelGodier  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks! Funny tidbit, I actually make myself sleepy when I edit these videos and often have to take a cat nap. But I love that I can help people get a good night's sleep and dream of science.

    • @17irod
      @17irod 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@JohnMichaelGodier I hope you didn’t take that the wrong way, i love watching your videos and learn cool new things from it. Your channel is awesome and so is your voice you speak in a relaxing matter and if it’s late I just can’t help to fall asleep! Thank you for your content and your reply it’s not often someone would reply! I’m sure I speak for more then just myself when I say you have amazing videos!!! Can’t wait to see your next videos! Keep up the great work!!!!

  • @jamessullivan4391
    @jamessullivan4391 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The spookiest thing is that John can walk into any old hardware store at any time and buy an axe.

  • @krookiemonster2673
    @krookiemonster2673 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Thanks for knowing how to read and speak clearly and smoothly.

  • @ryanseitz1970
    @ryanseitz1970 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    You have to look at it the other way around:
    It's not, "Oh the universe is juuuuuuuust right for life! What a coincidence!"
    It's the fact that if it WEREN'T just right for life, we WOULDN'T BE HERE to realize that.
    So the fact that we're here at all means that the universe HAS to be right for life.

    • @alteredbeast7145
      @alteredbeast7145 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @amity 150 martin rees is fascinating

  • @kus0mak
    @kus0mak 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "In keep with the holiday spirit..."
    I got this pop-up on Easter! 😂

  • @0xlemi
    @0xlemi 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    dude, my dryer stopped right at 6:35
    When you said the universe can stop at any moment.
    Had a micro heart attack.

  • @davidsirmons
    @davidsirmons 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Actually, the die-off rate of species per day during the horrifying Permian Extinction was estimated at 9 per day. Currently, we are at 11 species per day. Just to clarify, at the end of the Permian, as much as 95 percent of all life on earth was gone.

    • @namelastname4077
      @namelastname4077 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      also.. we are releasing waaaaaaay more CO2 than those siberian volcanoes did at the end of the permian. only the most hardcore life forms remained

    • @mjt1517
      @mjt1517 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Name Last Name that's bullshit.

    • @willyreeves319
      @willyreeves319 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      we have no idea how many insect species there were then or any other small animal or plant because only a small percent ever left a fossil and only a percent of those survived to today and only a percent of those have been found. there is no credible method for determining how many species existed at any given time - even today we are finding new species at a rate of over 10,000 a year which is more than the supposed extinction rate. how many of those are actually new species having recently evolved and how many have been around for thousands of years and just not cataloged? we are vastly ignorant of the past but saying so doesn't sell books so people claim to have an answer or the answer to questions we probably aren't even asking properly.

    • @sangeetanarendrasingh5416
      @sangeetanarendrasingh5416 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yay

  • @phils4634
    @phils4634 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    The Bootes "supervoid" is interesting for many reasons. I'm not entirely convinced that any Civilisation capable of building a Dyson Swarm would be "wasting" useful heat. Isaac Arthur hinted on the possibility that such energy would be used for useful purposes in his article on Matrioshka Brains - especially since very low-temperature computation is far more energy - efficient that higher-temperature computation. I'd not be at all surprised to hear that any Kardashev II civilisation would radiate microwave energy, not IR, since the IR would be too valuable to waste (and they'd be smart enough to use "cold" computation as their main, bulk information processing resource).

    • @abz998
      @abz998 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Phil S If you have the technology and a reason to fully encompass a star then it wouldn't be far-fetched to cover it with multiple layers and use use up all the IR energy. Lack of materials won't stop them either.
      However if that was the case we should see a lot more of these voids.

  • @SEGplus
    @SEGplus 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've been caught up with all your videos John.. luv them.. Even if some are old and some new. I still find myself rewatching them.. John can you please do one on the Great Attractor!? Just that alone thou/ specifically that subject

  • @Mexicaweightlifter
    @Mexicaweightlifter 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Awesome videos John we enjoy your content.

  • @greyofpta5305
    @greyofpta5305 6 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Wait...what if the Great Void is the expanding shockwave of a false vacuum phenomena, slowly but surely engulfing the universe?

    • @Up8Y
      @Up8Y 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The only issue with that is the void is completely empty. There's still some in there, just far fewer than usual.

    • @twirlipofthemists3201
      @twirlipofthemists3201 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      We wouldn't see it until it got here. Speed of light. The same way you don't (cannot possibly) see a photon or a laser beam coming toward you until it has already arrived.

    • @Boogaboioringale
      @Boogaboioringale 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      What if the void is just a big bubble in the cosmic web out of many? Do we know how big a void can get? There are plenty of voids, this is just the biggest found so far.

  • @naughtybeast
    @naughtybeast 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    "Consistent with dyson spheres" makes no sense as dyson spheres have never been observed and there is no way to know their properties.

    • @jonstake6744
      @jonstake6744 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Dyson spheres are yet to be created.

    • @latouselatrec
      @latouselatrec 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Speculation

    • @GeneralZap
      @GeneralZap 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That's like saying tanks can't exist because you've only seen horses. You need to learn how to think for yourself...

    • @michaelmoore7975
      @michaelmoore7975 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      A Dyson sphere does not begin as a sphere. First a ringworld is made. When that reaches near full, another ringworld is made, And another and so on until all the rings complete the sphere.

  • @miaouew
    @miaouew 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love your channel.

  • @chromabotia
    @chromabotia 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    A great but dense, in terms of ideas, video. I really enjoy your channel. Lots of good science with lots of intriguing mysteries - a great jumping off point for sci-fi. John, did you ever read the short story by Robert Heinlein. "And He Built a Crooked House". Fun and a good read! Hey, I just noticed you're coming up on 30 k subscribers - congratulations! Seems to me that you're supposed to get a bronze play button from you tube.

    • @tifKh
      @tifKh 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Gully Foyle I’m going to check out that story! Any other suggestions like that?

  • @jashuawalker4419
    @jashuawalker4419 6 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    Dinosaurs arent dead, birds are dinosaurs.

    • @thecrystalcrystals9242
      @thecrystalcrystals9242 6 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Birds descended from dinosaurs, however they are not dinosaurs. Just as humans descended from monkey-like creatures, which in turn came from a shrew-like animal, but humans are not monkeys and monkeys are not shrews.

    • @nmarbletoe8210
      @nmarbletoe8210 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Birds are, were, and forever will be dinosaurs. You don't ever lose your place in the family tree! For example, humans are vertebrates, mammals, and also apes, because those are labels for branches of the tree leading to humanity.

    • @erins6202
      @erins6202 6 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Wrong. Dinosauria is a clade. Anything descended from something in a clade is a member of that clade.

    • @anonb4632
      @anonb4632 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      No, they're not. That's like saying a motorcar is a steam engine - they've moved on.
      You might as well claim we are fish, amphibians or reptiles.

    • @joyempire462
      @joyempire462 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Technically we are fish

  • @johnsailo
    @johnsailo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    It's fine tuned because there is a Creator.

  • @pauliedibbs9028
    @pauliedibbs9028 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Fan Request: More spooky vids, especially for this month!

  • @megaanderson97
    @megaanderson97 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    God damn I love your videos

  • @yanmanman
    @yanmanman 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    a great video to watch for anyone who has gotten bored with the universe - it's a wacky place to live indeed!

  • @alew9684
    @alew9684 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    #10 It also supports an old theory called God. Is simulation more credible?

    • @michaelwier1222
      @michaelwier1222 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      A Lew....I agree. Not an intelligently designed computer simulation. The Universe is real, and intelligently designed.

    • @tylerlautner492
      @tylerlautner492 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes. Try to prove that wrong.

    • @davidhanley248
      @davidhanley248 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Stupid spastic god talk.
      It's 2020 can't belive people still go on about a god.

    • @TheALJMusic
      @TheALJMusic 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      David Hanley someone’s mad lol

    • @LegendofLaw
      @LegendofLaw 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@davidhanley248 I can't believe people still can't spell even with autocorrect in 2020.

  • @computeriphone4654
    @computeriphone4654 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love your channel, i hope one day you make a video about the "Boltzmann Brain", You comes so close sometimes i feel like you will one day. Boltzman also came up with the law of entropy, and has some insane ideas, but i know it falls in the metaphysics area.

  • @quickquiz4217
    @quickquiz4217 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video John!

  • @10duders
    @10duders 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Raised by atheists who are solid parents and sometime after highschool I really became solid agnostic. Recently I’ve been wondering if there is more to science than we could ever know, and maybe some god is real

    • @taylorbridges5648
      @taylorbridges5648 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I have tried EVERY philosophy and I am ALWAYS circles back around to a Higher Power who created us, only way I can explain it. I choose to accept Jesus Christ and His finished work on the Cross.....it all adds up after you have went thru life questioning it and trying other beliefs....

  • @jordanbailey4081
    @jordanbailey4081 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love your top tens and your books and you have a voice as good as Morgan freeman just a white version

  • @clintwolf1557
    @clintwolf1557 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very interesting video! These are all great mysteries. Of all, the most confusing is the one about dropping to a lower energy state and why that would cause the universe to no longer exist. Also, they are all intriguing, of course, but I think the most is the idea of a simulation. If some extremely advanced entity was using this program, and decided to “throw a wrench into the works” periodically, it would explain a lot about our current world situation and past situations.

  • @realzachfluke1
    @realzachfluke1 ปีที่แล้ว

    I finally picked up a copy of The Salvagers, and I'm super excited to get into it!!!

  • @ximowilson
    @ximowilson 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    To answer the first one, just think of a puddle saying "look how well i fit this hole, it's amazing, almost as if it was DESIGNED for me!

    • @WormholeDreams
      @WormholeDreams 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Joaquin Wilson the same mud could fit in a different shaped hole

  • @celestium77
    @celestium77 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Dont forget the univers is perfect created...

  • @robertschlesinger1342
    @robertschlesinger1342 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very interesting collection of theories on the edge, but still a possibility.

  • @tarrenwade84
    @tarrenwade84 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is your best video

  • @minimanadam
    @minimanadam 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The great void ? I seen it plenty , it was between my ex's legs

  • @jayrich6532
    @jayrich6532 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    We are the probes sent here. Ha, yeah..maybe that simple. Does a computer really know when it is uploading & downloading information? So how would we really know, but then again, some people do feel like they are uploading & downloading information. Idk

    • @elias-to9ti
      @elias-to9ti 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Jay Rich the fact that you think that proves we arent

    • @sierra1513
      @sierra1513 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      yeah like, the simulation could just be simulating the results

  • @hardatk27
    @hardatk27 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The universe is not fine-tuned just for us. Meteors, tsunamis, hurricanes, random lightning bolts, sharks, the void of space. All things that will kill you.

  • @ayushkatheria8232
    @ayushkatheria8232 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    What an amazing video Mr Godier. Cheers! Happy Halloween and happy Diwali from India.

    • @JohnMichaelGodier
      @JohnMichaelGodier  7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks again Ayush! Cheers and happy Diwali!

  • @Scorch428
    @Scorch428 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    What if when we die...say you point a gun at your head...our consciouness instantaneously transfers to an alternate reality where the gun misfires? Everything else is the same except for the misfire, while in your previous reality, you actually die. Scary thought that we can never die....

    • @brandoncarels6472
      @brandoncarels6472 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Scorch428 what about old age?

    • @tmanmatt213
      @tmanmatt213 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I’ve thought about this before. Very strange idea. I wouldn’t recommend you try it out however!!

    • @daviddean707
      @daviddean707 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not strange then, but suppressed so you can function socially.

    • @sierra1513
      @sierra1513 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thats called quantum immortality, I find it to be a few interesting hypothesis though not one i'm exactly willing to test myself

  • @zolo5317
    @zolo5317 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I was just thinking, if a universe is all the matter and space there exists, how can there be multiple universe?

    • @EastwardTraveller
      @EastwardTraveller 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      That's where the term multiverse comes in. And you could call that the universe if you wanted. Then again if you wanted an appropriate term that properly encompassed the sum of all reality in space, time, dimensions, iterations etc. etc. you might call that the Absolute.

    • @christianbuczko1481
      @christianbuczko1481 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      A universe is a closed gravity well, a blackhole. Infinite on the inside, but finite outside.

    • @davidsirmons
      @davidsirmons 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Where there is more evidence of the tooth fairy being real that for parallel universes being real, there is a ton of likelihood that separate 'bubble' universes exist, all different ages and sizes.

    • @Stevesrssrssrs
      @Stevesrssrssrs 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Because each universe would be different in some way. Every decision you make, in another universe you made the opposite decision. In some universes, millions actually, you're a clown made of candy!!! The number of different universes could be infinite, and that's what Einstein believed!!

    • @youngandsuccessful22
      @youngandsuccessful22 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Christian Buczko wow interesting never looked at it that way

  • @VanIsleNuckFan
    @VanIsleNuckFan 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is a great channel, keep it up! =)
    EDIT: I am also currently nibbling, lol

  • @randywatsonii3173
    @randywatsonii3173 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    The images are so cool!