The man who discovered the 'abyss of time' - BBC News

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  • In the 1700s, geologist James Hutton discovered a rock formation in Scotland that transformed how we think about time.
    Through studying the rocky headland of Siccar Point, Hutton identified the existence of ‘deep time’ - proving that Earth is millions, not thousands, of years old.
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  • @daveallen5065
    @daveallen5065 ปีที่แล้ว +694

    These two men are IDENTICAL

    • @DouglasLambert
      @DouglasLambert 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

      That's what you get when you live in an island... 😂

    • @ulalaFrugilega
      @ulalaFrugilega 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      Imagine meeting the twin you never knew about in this fashion 😂

    • @muddwhistle7833
      @muddwhistle7833 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +53

      They are cousins if you read their bio

    • @mt.shasta6097
      @mt.shasta6097 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Those 1950s glasses frames make even men and women look alike. Wish we could go back to aviators or rimless glasses. Guess Buddy Holly lives on.

    • @thunkstream
      @thunkstream 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@muddwhistle7833 THANK YOU

  • @FluffyKittenofMordor
    @FluffyKittenofMordor ปีที่แล้ว +1023

    Time is so unfathomably big. To be able to physically touch something that existed when humanity was not even at its infancy is sublime.

    • @admiralbenbow5083
      @admiralbenbow5083 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      What is special about that? We do that practically every day.

    • @rnedlo9909
      @rnedlo9909 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      I live where gray shale is the base. I was working with stone dug up from a hill and moved a block of shale just within my ability to lift. I put it down kind of hard which caused the slat to split. When I picked up the top, on the lower part was a chunk of wood, all turned to carbon, but I could see the grain in the wood. It was windy, so in just a few moments the carbon blew away. For those few moments, I was looking at something hidden for many millions of years.

    • @kpacubo.
      @kpacubo. ปีที่แล้ว +7

      ​@@admiralbenbow5083 Exactly what makes it special!

    • @treborrelluf
      @treborrelluf ปีที่แล้ว +4

      anatomical humans date no more than 200,000 years ago.

    • @felice9907
      @felice9907 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      at least that is what we have learned so far.
      ancient asia knows that time is just a concept, among countless others.
      not to mention that our western "scientific" dating methods are outdated since long ... .

  • @BrokenBellyBeat
    @BrokenBellyBeat ปีที่แล้ว +251

    These two men could be brothers

    • @bettyledesma937
      @bettyledesma937 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ABSOLUTELY....NO.WORDS...🤔

    • @JohnnyAngel8
      @JohnnyAngel8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      They could almost be twins!

    • @jwatson9732
      @jwatson9732 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Didn't they sing that 500 miles song?

    • @YourDadsTopBoyfriend
      @YourDadsTopBoyfriend ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Lovers

    • @causewaykayak
      @causewaykayak 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@YourDadsTopBoyfriend ? maybe, or just sensitive to what they were reporting on ??

  • @scientifico
    @scientifico ปีที่แล้ว +683

    I've been trying to come to terms with big time, the changing of things on geological scales. Its helped me to frame my life, to put myself and my wants and desires, my ideas of legacy and impermanence on a new scale of importance... and ultimately we are all unimportant. This great civilization is a blink, and we are like falling leaves, one shell on the beach. So love when you can, laugh when you can, do what you can... or sit quietly and watch the clouds roll by. All we have is this humble moment.

    • @exmohobobonobo
      @exmohobobonobo ปีที่แล้ว +45

      Beautiful observation. And the video was beautifully done as well. There’s a time to act, to react, but there’s also a time to ponder and reflect.

    • @joanespicha4605
      @joanespicha4605 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Well said. I had been trying to put that idea into words. You far exceeded my attempts.

    • @FacheChanteDeux
      @FacheChanteDeux ปีที่แล้ว +8

      We are a blip.

    • @jeanjaz
      @jeanjaz ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Yes, a human being’s days are like grass, he sprouts like a flower in the countryside - but when the wind sweeps over, it’s gone; and its place knows it no more.
      Tehillim (Psa) 103:15‭-‬16 CJB

    • @annamarielewis7078
      @annamarielewis7078 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I so appreciate this viewpoint. We think we are so important,, but we are just a blip in time.

  • @stevie-ray2020
    @stevie-ray2020 ปีที่แล้ว +239

    Scotland is such an amazing place geologically, with some parts once attached to the rocks east of Manhattan Island, New York!

    • @williammacdiarmid6395
      @williammacdiarmid6395 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Scotland is such a ancient special place . Along with it native people.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✊

    • @Kelmire1
      @Kelmire1 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@williammacdiarmid6395A shame our homeland is flooded with migrants and traitors.

    • @McConnachy
      @McConnachy 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@williammacdiarmid6395we’re still here! Despite the hard history. I was recently visiting on old friend, a MacLeod, in Assynt, an area that was nearly wiped out of people during the clearances. They could make a film about him. The last of the MacLeods.

    • @elementgypsy
      @elementgypsy 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I want to visit one day. I need a companion or a pen pal there to show me around.

    • @WildWoodsGirl65
      @WildWoodsGirl65 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​​@@elementgypsy Just stay at a B&B instead of hotel & the people there will tell you all you'd want to know instead of pointing you to tourist traps. There are good ones especially in Drumcondra, Inverness & Skye from which you can see all you'd ever want & those are beautiful areas. Also local pubs aren't like US bars as much as they're almost a community center. They're also where to eat at odd hours bc restaurants may close between mealtimes. You can talk to locals & hear what's most worth visiting. People we met when I was a kid wrote back & forth with Mom all her life based on a weekend stay at several. If you're a good guest, you're treated warmly. Loch Lomond is great, by Drumcondra. Skye is amazing. You'll want a sweater in June in Inverness but can get a beautiful one there. And quite inexpensive rainwear is available compared to the States. But it was mostly fine weather I'm told is common & that's why I mention a cheap but good raincoat. You'll barely need it. But seriously, you don't need to already know someone. You'll meet the people. They'll steer you right. It's good for them too. Visitors return and speak well of their visit that way but the number of genuinely nice people is great anyway, that's how they know to be that way.

  • @Steamforger
    @Steamforger 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +162

    That's the wrong James Hutton at 0:41 - that's another James Hutton who was a minister/bookseller who died in 1795. The National Portrait Gallery you licensed the image from literally has the details in the description.

    • @thunkstream
      @thunkstream 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      Wow, you're right

    • @paulbailey7641
      @paulbailey7641 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      BBC is full of amateurs these days

  • @harrietharlow9929
    @harrietharlow9929 ปีที่แล้ว +151

    I'm a huge James Hutton fan and geology buff so this is very enjoyable. I love his 'no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end'. What a beautiful description of the immensity of time. It's mind-blowing if you think about it for a bit.

    • @Ch0senJuan
      @Ch0senJuan 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      How come when people relate to videos they are urged to make it about themselves.

  • @joe.oneill
    @joe.oneill ปีที่แล้ว +509

    Fascinating how Hutton was able to calculate such a huge difference in the age of the Earth from what was commonly accepted.

    • @cartoonraccoon2078
      @cartoonraccoon2078 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      Also facinating that he wasn't immediatly condemed as a heretic, with the church apologizing three hundred years later...

    • @samuelculper4231
      @samuelculper4231 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      How are our Phils gonna pull it together without Rhys Hoskins?

    • @anthonyfrederick3214
      @anthonyfrederick3214 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      @Lisa Chambers Not a guess. A fact backed up by scientific evidence.

    • @bonysminiatures3123
      @bonysminiatures3123 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      @Lisa Chambers biblical writings are just guess work

    • @noorshaikh5118
      @noorshaikh5118 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      😅😊😅😅

  • @donnadamelio5890
    @donnadamelio5890 ปีที่แล้ว +234

    Loved the photography. Scotland is such a unique country, not just the shoreline but the highlands as well. So much history written in its various layers of rock and sediments over billions of years, it is truly an environment worth exploring.

    • @IgnisInvicta
      @IgnisInvicta 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Defintly. I wish to go there someday.

    • @jacobbrumbaugh6928
      @jacobbrumbaugh6928 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I’d love to move there. Great hunting and fishing. Not many people. Lots of space and little people

    • @donnadamelio5890
      @donnadamelio5890 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Me too. I think the city or town is called Elgin. It is the farthest city at the northern border. I'd love to go there and the Cortney Isles.

    • @martinphilip8998
      @martinphilip8998 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      My sister lives in Inveresk House, Musselburg. All we’ve ever had here in central Illinois were a few periods of glaciation and maybe a few million years as a shallow sea. How dull, by comparison. Lol. Gotta love geology. I once amazed a geologist by telling him what a great fan I was. Scott Elrick and his research partner were the only ones to visit a magnificent chamber in a coal mine about to be flooded. Whole tree trunks in fossil form. My niece, Daisy Chute sings the wealth of Scottish folk songs.

    • @robertthebruce-geniusofban647
      @robertthebruce-geniusofban647 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Indeed!

  • @marthajackson4865
    @marthajackson4865 ปีที่แล้ว +164

    wow he managed to clone himself and talk a lot about rocks all in the same video

    • @katri-annmalina2097
      @katri-annmalina2097 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Exactly my thoughts

    • @mozdickson
      @mozdickson ปีที่แล้ว +4

      bingo!

    • @pixelfrenzy
      @pixelfrenzy ปีที่แล้ว +26

      It is rather confusing when the presenter and the scientist look like twins!

    • @atomictraveller
      @atomictraveller ปีที่แล้ว +1

      just because your mum doesn't go down to the mason hall on the first wednesday of each month.

    • @crystaledwards8854
      @crystaledwards8854 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Where’s Wally x 2! 😊

  • @adhoc9647
    @adhoc9647 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    One can only imagine how Leonardo da Vinci must have felt when he found seashells high up in the Alps . .

    • @brentjamescollins9731
      @brentjamescollins9731 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Could it have been a real worldwide flood that caused them to be deposited there?! Brent Collins.

    • @andrew300169
      @andrew300169 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@brentjamescollins9731Very funny

    • @jono1457-qd9ft
      @jono1457-qd9ft 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      ​@@brentjamescollins9731🤔 It would have to rain for a lot more than forty days and forty nights to make a worldwide flood 2 miles deep.

    • @Spearca
      @Spearca 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@Broskisnowski In real life yes, but not in a Biblical-literalist time frame of creation.

    • @jimralston4789
      @jimralston4789 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@brentjamescollins9731 Animals can live past 20,000 ft and easily there are tons of species including humans that can live 10-15000 ft.. Imagine the volume of water it would take to flood the earth so that no land animals could survive. There is not enough water in the air for that much rain and it would take years to accummulate even there was. A flood like that would have left inescapable evidence. There would not be a spot on Earth where you wouldn't see the destructive effect of that much water especially since it would have been so recent in geologic time. Yet there is no evidence of of a flood of that scale.

  • @kimberlyperrotis8962
    @kimberlyperrotis8962 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +51

    I fell in love with geology in the first intro course I took to fulfill the general physical science requirement. I immediately switched my academic course to geology and went on to become an environmental geologist. What a wonderful career I had, I am now retired. This career offers the two things all workers most want: autonomy and variety I was never bored once in my career. The salary and benefits are very good, and there is lots of opportunity for travel, too. There is math through calculus, chemistry and physics to get through, but if I can do it, anyone can. I encourage any person who loves the environment and working outdoors to consider it as a career, geologists consistently report the highest job satisfaction over workers of every other career.

    • @jamiebill2664
      @jamiebill2664 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Going to investigate. Thanks Kim

    • @WildWoodsGirl65
      @WildWoodsGirl65 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      This is great! People really don't speak enough of actual job experiences & work environment before youth are choosing a path.

    • @randomcomputer7248
      @randomcomputer7248 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You sucked the tutor off to get your grades !

    • @jamiebill2664
      @jamiebill2664 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @randomcomputer7248 what a 🔔

  • @hellyripphin8357
    @hellyripphin8357 ปีที่แล้ว +105

    What a beautiful piece. Congratulations to the authors/ creators for a wonderfully assembled vignette.

  • @ufosrus
    @ufosrus ปีที่แล้ว +63

    It's been ages since I took college geology courses, so thanks for reminding me about Hutton. Science aside, these two men sure look alike and could pass for siblings. 😊

    • @IWILSONMCF
      @IWILSONMCF ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I’m sure they are they live on an island

    • @WildWoodsGirl65
      @WildWoodsGirl65 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      They're cousins, people keep saying on here.

  • @PotatoSalad614
    @PotatoSalad614 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    Siccar point is the most sacred place in the world for geologists. The Bethlehem and Mecca of Geology

    • @ballsackery
      @ballsackery ปีที่แล้ว

      And yet almost completely void of any crystals or gems apart from the occasional Garnett, its next to the black rocks all along that area

    • @PotatoSalad614
      @PotatoSalad614 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@ballsackery thats not what makes it important

    • @kellydalstok8900
      @kellydalstok8900 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Science doesn’t have holy sites or holy men. Those are for people who believe in fairytales.

    • @sjain8111
      @sjain8111 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@PotatoSalad614 no but interesting anyway

  • @drewcampbell8555
    @drewcampbell8555 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

    Hutton is my favourite scientific figure from history. Thrawn, often unkempt and (some say) quite uncouth, his leap of imagination is simply one of the most staggering insights ever made by a human. And that thrawnness was essential too; essential to stand up to received wisdom in the more learned scientific community and defy the political power of dogmatic religious belief. What a man!

    • @dielaughing73
      @dielaughing73 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I had to look up "thrawn". What a marvellous Scottish word!

    • @MissNArismendezX
      @MissNArismendezX หลายเดือนก่อน

      😂❤

    • @serendipidus8482
      @serendipidus8482 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Never heard the word thrawn before in my life of 44 years! Thank you for a new word. I read many dictionaries too as theyre great books for sitting on the loo ...and never saw thrawn in any of them... nor in any old english books or anywhere. Delighted to find a new one..now need to find out what it means! 😂

    • @serendipidus8482
      @serendipidus8482 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@dielaughing73ah no wonder i never came across it in English dictionaries or books!

  • @markwhite2207
    @markwhite2207 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    Imagine how much Hutton's mind was blown when he realised what he was looking at.🤯

  • @jamiebill2664
    @jamiebill2664 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    What an absolutely beautiful voice on the bonnie lass. Both talking and then when she started singing 🤯🔥🥰

  • @rhmendelson
    @rhmendelson ปีที่แล้ว +22

    This was PHENOMENAL!
    A treat for the eye, and the heart. ❤ Thank you for a lovely production BBC!

  • @odiii1966
    @odiii1966 ปีที่แล้ว +129

    Wow, magnificent! Thank you.
    You kept me scratching my head when mentioning "a sudden surge of sediments about 65 million years ago when the 2 formation rocks met".
    65M years ago - everything is relative in this time scale - coincides with the Chicxulub asteroid which hit the Earth during the Cretaceous-Paleogene era causing the large fauna to disappear and a mega tsunami to reach far away lands. May such an impact have caused the gap (edited, thanks Hugh) in Sicca Point?
    I live in the Mayan Riviera, several miles away from the underwater crater in a region surrounded by sinkholes or cenotes. That makes me often question about the Icaiche formation (today's Yucatan Peninsula), prior and after the impact and how it impacted farther lands.

    • @ufosrus
      @ufosrus ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Besides appreciating your comment, I'd like to say how much I enjoyed the cenotes.

    • @odiii1966
      @odiii1966 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Merci @@ufosrus So far, my preferred cenotes (I don't know them all yet): Cristalino and Casa Cenote (open cenotes) and Kan Tun Chi (closed cenotes or in a cave).
      And in matters of geological formations Ik Kil is a wonder. I stayed in the water for hours to "read" the strata and differences in the colors and sizes of the boulders. This is the one that triggered my curiosity on Chicxulub event.

    • @lewisyuu
      @lewisyuu ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@odiii1966 if japans 2011 earthquake was able to be measured from the other side of the world. i wouldnt suprise me if the impact of the astroid shifted something elsewhere. you have now peaked my interest...

    • @odiii1966
      @odiii1966 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@lewisyuu Indeed, imagine an 10 to 19km (numbers vary) asteroid hitting the sea with causing the explosion with the power of hundreds of atomic bombs. What would be the amount of debris and the size of the tsunami, etc.

    • @hughwilson6955
      @hughwilson6955 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      These rocks are a fair bit older than Chicxulub, greywacke is silurian (435mya) then old red sandstone is devonian (370mya). It's the gap that is 65 million years. But i'm sure you're right elsewhere.

  • @charelldrivessocal953
    @charelldrivessocal953 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    These two guys look so much alike they could be brothers.

  • @samuelculper4231
    @samuelculper4231 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    She has a great voice

  • @MatthewHarrold
    @MatthewHarrold ปีที่แล้ว +25

    There is a beautiful structure to this 13 minutes of truth ... from observation and hypothesis to science and music/culture, to eventually present/future threats. The BBC is truly a world treasure that needs a modern funding model that doesn't include an antiquated TV tax. Excellent reporting. $0.02

    • @pjmlegrande
      @pjmlegrande ปีที่แล้ว

      It is fascinating to me as well and makes me appreciate the power of human imagination in contemplating and attempting to understand deep time, because it is so foreign to human experience, limited as it is to a very short life span. It is still very difficult for many apparently well educated intelligent people to accept the hypotheses of science that is deep-historical in nature and which depends on an imaginative synthesis of quite disparate collections of evidence. It is a special type of intelligence that is capable of such synthesis and imaginative leaps, I think.

  • @mikekolokowsky
    @mikekolokowsky ปีที่แล้ว +16

    It’s really hard to break out of your own self importance and realize how big time is, how vast space is, then get walloped by the realization that time and space are kind of the same thing. Most people get uncomfortable for a moment before scurrying back to their little burrows of the the all important, everlasting familiar daily routine. I try to keep my mind swimming in the thought of endlessness before the real world comes to drag me back to its trifle.

    • @hitsugatatsuro9978
      @hitsugatatsuro9978 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I wouldn't call it real life at that poiint. Tis an engineered life by humanity. The real world is out there. I wish we could more often see, especially the children.

  • @hodgesgravely3648
    @hodgesgravely3648 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    It’s so humbling to behold long time. I went to Luray Caverns today and walked through a cave huge that formed over millions of years! Helpful perspective to human day to day life

  • @louis-philippearnhem6959
    @louis-philippearnhem6959 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Two planets meet:
    “You’re looking bad earth, what’s up?”
    “I have Homo sapiens!”
    “Had it once, will be over soon!”

    • @DennisMoore664
      @DennisMoore664 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      So...
      Six: "All of this has happened before..."
      Baltar: But the question remains: does all of this have to happen again?
      ...?

  • @LunaSmithArt
    @LunaSmithArt ปีที่แล้ว +29

    An amazing part of History - thank you for the wonderful news of the 'abyss of time'.

  • @SactownOwen
    @SactownOwen ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This moved me in a way that I was not expecting. Beautifully done, all.

  • @janetmcdonald2572
    @janetmcdonald2572 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Beautiful and engaging, perfect editing and story telling. Thank you

  • @RandomnessTube.
    @RandomnessTube. ปีที่แล้ว +20

    It just puts into perspective how short life actually is.

    • @Moodboard39
      @Moodboard39 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      How meaningless it is...

  • @moinuddinkhan593
    @moinuddinkhan593 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Today it seems quite easy, but it's extremely difficult if everybody except you believes in a certain way & you say something opposite to them.

    • @atomictraveller
      @atomictraveller ปีที่แล้ว

      you might think that, but if you live in southern arizona you can just fill your palm. i used to be from wales, i was nice in the seventies. please be imbued with some of the murderous spirit i've learned in arizona and go to the mason lodge in your community. your entire society is rotten with tavistock and personalised heterodyned microwave MK. but you can still punch a mfer in the face. as long as you have IR LEDS on your hat for all the security cams.
      and here's a special word nobody can have: epistemology. it roots science and scientific authority up the shithole.

    • @janegardener1662
      @janegardener1662 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      We have the same problem now but with different subjects.

  • @EduardoOliveira-zx4yj
    @EduardoOliveira-zx4yj ปีที่แล้ว +30

    This highlander is a genius.

    • @memofromessex
      @memofromessex ปีที่แล้ว +16

      He was from Edinburgh, so he was a lowlander

    • @alexandermuller950
      @alexandermuller950 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@memofromessex But how from Edinburgh is lowlander? I'm genuinely confused

    • @briangoodwin6547
      @briangoodwin6547 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@alexandermuller950 It’s a long way from the highlands to Edinborough ,ergo low lander

    • @alexandermuller950
      @alexandermuller950 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@briangoodwin6547 ok thanks for the info mate!

    • @johnnysmith863
      @johnnysmith863 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      There can be only one!

  • @ushalexa
    @ushalexa ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Kudos to the cinematographer!

    • @joshadams8761
      @joshadams8761 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      The audio is also great!

  • @segurosincero4057
    @segurosincero4057 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    What a lovely voice she has.

  • @supersucks
    @supersucks ปีที่แล้ว +5

    this is beautiful it made me cry 🤍

  • @generalhades4518
    @generalhades4518 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    i stood on the unconformitty on the isle of arran where he first validated his presumptions. was crazy to be standing at the starting point of modern geology

  • @hugodesrosiers-plaisance3156
    @hugodesrosiers-plaisance3156 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    That place looks like a piece of primeval asteroid-landscape that somehow managed to stick around well beyond its supposed timeframe and just happened to poke through our world's fabric.

  • @tspmcfarlane
    @tspmcfarlane ปีที่แล้ว +2

    A beautiful piece. Well done to all involved.

  • @petersmith1190
    @petersmith1190 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    such a lovely report, well put together

  • @kozykat6092
    @kozykat6092 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I really appreciate the reflective nature of this video and her poetry. Science and art are meant to intertwine like this. Gorgeous video

  • @kerbal666
    @kerbal666 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Not to take away how interesting how these chaps are but they are definitely related

  • @rkh7904
    @rkh7904 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Quite a fascinating and interesting history and geology lesson. Plus exquisite the exquisite landscape too. And the piece de resistance of course was the music and the voice of that young woman .

  • @Dishfire101
    @Dishfire101 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    what a great Scotsman was Hutton.

  • @PoshLifeforME
    @PoshLifeforME ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I found this not only interesting but quite calming.

  • @yan.weather
    @yan.weather ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Loved this. Humbling... earth's sophistication is beyond human comprehension. Fills me with curiosity and wonderment.

  • @arilehman1442
    @arilehman1442 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    BRAVO!!! Brilliant production insightful and delightful THANK YOU Cheers

  • @ef5686
    @ef5686 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    exceptional report. genius in its ability to give it philosophical depth, rooted in science, culturally inspiring and sadly humancentric.

  • @heatrayzvideo3007
    @heatrayzvideo3007 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    It's cool that the proclaimers are now doing science.
    Jokes aside it was genuinely fascinating.

    • @kellydalstok8900
      @kellydalstok8900 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      They had to walk a long way to get there.

    • @wazz1154
      @wazz1154 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@kellydalstok8900500 actually, lol!

    • @CL-vz6ch
      @CL-vz6ch 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      They look nothing like the Proclaimers

    • @WildWoodsGirl65
      @WildWoodsGirl65 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      So you're really saying you've only ever heard of one Scottish thing & associate all else with it? Spare us. And yourself. Js

    • @hmu05366
      @hmu05366 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@WildWoodsGirl65classic English humour isn’t it. Dreadful patter

  • @seahorse5689
    @seahorse5689 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Fascinating and what a gorgeous place!

    • @kw8757
      @kw8757 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah, the view of the cement works was especially moving, and the nuclear power plant...wow...blew me away.

  • @whitneymacdonald4396
    @whitneymacdonald4396 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This short film is such a lovely convergence of wonder, awe, history, art, science, philosophy and spirt. Well done!!

  • @rhonaforbes7039
    @rhonaforbes7039 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Such a fantastic video. I’ve been to the place. It’s incredible ⭐️

  • @ibeetellingya5683
    @ibeetellingya5683 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    What a fascinating and charming piece!

  • @zoofeather
    @zoofeather ปีที่แล้ว +7

    James Hutton father of geology

  • @curtisdaniel9294
    @curtisdaniel9294 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Fascinating science history lesson. We have several unconformities where I live here in Colorado. Even took my students to study them, mentioning Hutton in the process. Thanks for a great lesson in geology! ❤🎉

  • @Beerbatter1962
    @Beerbatter1962 ปีที่แล้ว

    I was completely immersed in this entire video. The way it's presented is soothing.

  • @pegasus5287
    @pegasus5287 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I am not sure why, but I get tickled when I hear "firth of forth". I would love to visit Scotland one day, it looks so beautiful.

    • @krashd
      @krashd ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Oddly enough we don't do that for any of our other rivers, you never hear firth of Tay or firth of Clyde, etc

    • @Remnants100
      @Remnants100 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@krashd- perhaps "Firth" was almost lost forever in an Unconformity.

    • @hmu05366
      @hmu05366 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@krashdyes you do. There are both firth of clyde and firth of tay lol. It’s basically just like the Scots equivalent of the Norwegian fjord.

    • @hmu05366
      @hmu05366 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Remnants100nope! Not lost at all, still very much in use

  • @trekkingalbertosaur8870
    @trekkingalbertosaur8870 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    You should have defined the 3 types of Hutton's unconformities and then show this as the 'angular type unconformity'... also you should state clearly the tectonic uplift and compression (orogen) caused the deformation and erosion of Hutton's unconformity, and loss of 60Ma of Geological record:
    (1) 435Ma Silurian deep marine deposits laid down in the Iapetus Ocean --> (2) these sediments were then folded, uplifted, and rotated as the ancient Iapetus Ocean was destroyed during the Caledonian Orogeny (mountain building collision) where North America + Scotland (aka Laurentia) collided with Western Europe/England (Avalonia/Baltica) --> (3) Later during an extension phase following this Iapetus Suture, the Hutton's angular unconformity was capped by 375Ma Upper Devonian age desert deposits of the Old Red Sandstone rift basins. Lastly, (4) the entire section was tilted again and re-eroded, forming what we see today...

  • @hhwippedcream
    @hhwippedcream ปีที่แล้ว

    Striking portrait. Thank you for creating and sharing.

  • @Astr0b0y8
    @Astr0b0y8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love this. Thanks!

  • @andreassumerauer5028
    @andreassumerauer5028 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    Thank you for this wonderful story about the man who was the first to teach us to recognize the mutability of geological formations that we perceive as so permanent. And who was the first to read them and envision those amazing periods of time over which these formations were shaped.
    I have always been a great admirer of Friedrich Rückert's poem Chidher, which he wrote in the early eighteen hundreds. It has always been a mystery to me from what source Rückert draws the very modern idea of the world changing in geological periods of time, and in his poem he so masterfully places the archetypal figure of the eternally young wanderer Chidher into this steadily reshaping world.
    I am afraid I haven't been able to find an english translation of the poem. So here at least is the German original:
    Chidher
    Chidher, der ewig junge, sprach:
    Ich fuhr an einer Stadt vorbei,
    Ein Mann im Garten Früchte brach;
    Ich fragte, seit wann die Stadt hier sei?
    Er sprach, und pflückte die Früchte fort:
    Die Stadt steht ewig an diesem Ort,
    Und wird so stehen ewig fort.
    Und aber nach fünfhundert Jahren
    Kam ich desselbigen Wegs gefahren.
    Da fand ich keine Spur der Stadt;
    Ein einsamer Schäfer blies die Schalmei,
    Die Herde weidete Laub und Blatt;
    Ich fragte: wie lang ist die Stadt vorbei?
    Er sprach, und blies auf dem Rohre fort:
    Das eine wächst, wenn das andre dorrt;
    Das ist mein ewiger Weideort.
    Und aber nach fünfhundert Jahren
    Kam ich desselbigen Wegs gefahren.
    Da fand ich ein Meer, das Wellen schlug,
    Ein Schiffer warf die Netze frei,
    Und als er ruhte vom schweren Zug,
    Fragt ich, seit wann das Meer hier sei?
    Er sprach, und lachte meinem Wort:
    Solang als schäumen die Wellen dort,
    Fischt man und fischt man in diesem Port.
    Und aber nach fünfhundert Jahren
    Kam ich desselbigen Wegs gefahren.
    Da fand ich einen waldigen Raum,
    Und einen Mann in der Siedelei,
    Er fällte mit der Axt den Baum;
    Ich fragte, wie alt der Wald hier sei?
    Er sprach: der Wald ist ein ewiger Hort;
    Schon ewig wohn ich an diesem Ort,
    Und ewig wachsen die Bäum hier fort.
    Und aber nach fünfhundert Jahren
    Kam ich desselbigen Wegs gefahren.
    Da fand ich eine Stadt, und laut
    Erschallte der Markt vom Volksgeschrei.
    Ich fragte: seit wann ist die Stadt erbaut?
    Wohin ist Wald und Meer und Schalmei?
    Sie schrien, und hörten nicht mein Wort:
    So ging es ewig an diesem Ort,
    Und wird so gehen ewig fort.
    Und aber nach fünfhundert Jahren
    Will ich desselbigen Weges fahren.

    • @beccabbea2511
      @beccabbea2511 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hi, I looked up the poem in German and Google did a fair job of translating it. A cycle of time and life. Thanks.

    • @lynby6231
      @lynby6231 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Listen to “the circle game” by Joni Mitchell if you like that sort of stuff

  • @jaymac7203
    @jaymac7203 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    What stunning scenery 😍 It really is a beautiful place.

  • @feryalaligauhar3905
    @feryalaligauhar3905 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So beautifully told, the story of impermanence amidst reminders of the depth of time. Thank you

  • @aimeetimmins4802
    @aimeetimmins4802 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Beautifully done

  • @einienj3281
    @einienj3281 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Cool, beautiful scenery 😊

  • @homofloridensis
    @homofloridensis ปีที่แล้ว +5

    There’s a hymn, “God Folds the Mountains Out of Rock” by Thomas Troeger, based on Job 28

  • @PapaPapaCharlie
    @PapaPapaCharlie ปีที่แล้ว

    That was an awesome storytelling...great work

  • @LailandiAdventures
    @LailandiAdventures ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Lovely video combining science with art and philosophy. I lived in North Berwick until I was 18 and I had never heard of this, I must go and explore next time I'm over.

  • @ramirosabatini
    @ramirosabatini ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This was remarkable

  • @prototropo
    @prototropo 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Most lyrical, evocative short film . . . works in multiple dimensions very effectively. As inspiration of geology, and meditation of epistemology, and admonition of moral philosophy, all wrapped into an omen of tragedy, like Siccar's Point compressed a story of mystery, and we're drafting our page for the future of history.

    • @peterlauder7821
      @peterlauder7821 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Bohm’s theory is the “unbroken wholeness of the totality of existence as an undivided flowing movement without borders.”

  • @robertbeerbohm1800
    @robertbeerbohm1800 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    I did not know of Hutton prior to this video. Am going to learn much more about him, his work, adding to my understanding of the evolution of our (mis)perceptions of evolution. Thank you for this enlightening look-see.

    • @christinamann3640
      @christinamann3640 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      A documentary trilogy is called Men Of Rock, and the first is called Deep Time, and tells this story in depth.

    • @pjmlegrande
      @pjmlegrande ปีที่แล้ว +2

      If you haven’t already, check out Lyell too. He had a big impact on Darwin

    • @allenmcmonagle5544
      @allenmcmonagle5544 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I recommend the book "The Man who found Time" by Jack Repcheck, a great read.

  • @christinecarter6836
    @christinecarter6836 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Karine, what a beautiful song performed in an ethereal way, the poetry you added to the content was perfectly in tune with the vastness portrayed

  • @markkilley2683
    @markkilley2683 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wonderful stuff and location.

  • @jaymac7203
    @jaymac7203 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    There's still people today who think the earth is 6000 years old. Lol

    • @hmu05366
      @hmu05366 หลายเดือนก่อน

      😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @noitalfed
    @noitalfed ปีที่แล้ว

    Loved the illustration around 5:00 in. Very instructive.

  • @paulapridy6804
    @paulapridy6804 ปีที่แล้ว

    And also thank you for the music. And lyrics.

  • @TheOtherGuys2
    @TheOtherGuys2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Fascinating location. I think it's on the West side of Scotland, maybe farther to the North, where there's a similarly angled formation of rock layers dating back to the Carboniferous period. They're one side of what was once a large bowl-shaped valley, which split down the middle when the continents broke apart. The other side of it, as luck would have it, is in Nova Scotia, Canada.
    A couple notes I want to make though: One is that this notion the video is trying to give that a nuclear power plant and a cement factory are as equivalent to the 'deep future' as sedimentary rocks are to the deep past is ridiculous. Sure, nuclear waste is radioactive for a long time, what, 60'000 years? A: That's a pittance compared to the time scale you're looking at in those layers. There was literally a gap of 100 times that long between layers. B: In the course of human development, it is almost inevitable that we'll discover some way to more efficiently deal with radioactivity and mitigate that problem. So much of this lamenting for human activity is incredibly short-sighted and ignorant. C: If the Human race is the result of natural evolution, then Human activity is completely natural. It's natural for termites to build a city by gluing dirt together, it's natural for elephants to push trees over, and everything humans do is a part of nature. Starting fires, smelting steel, refining Plutonium, detonating atomic bombs, paving cities with cement... By definition, unless the reason we're able to do those things is something supernatural, all of that is completely natural.
    The other thing is that the video made a point about how the discovery challenged the Biblical concepts, but it.. really doesn't. Maybe it challenges the understanding of the Biblical account, but that too is kinda short sighted and ignorant. If you're familiar with the Bible's account of creation, and you think that means the Earth is 6000 years old, you're missing a step in the logic. First off, it's probably closer to 8 or 9000 years, because the 6000 year figure is based on tracing the lineage, but there are almost definitely steps missing from that, but that's beside the point. Let me ask this: When God created Adam, was Adam a newborn? Of course not; he'd have died without a mother. He wasn't a child, he wasn't a fertilized egg, he was a man. When God created the whales, the chickens, the bees, the dogs... Were they babies/hatchlings/larvae/puppies? No, again, they wouldn't have been able to survive. They were created in the state of life. When the Andromeda galaxy was created 2.5 million light years away, did the light from it begin travelling to Earth starting then? You can look up in the sky and see it today, so no, its light was also created in action. And so the rocks were created with millions of years of history written in them, in geological layers and Cambrian fossils and dinosaur bones, with eons of erosion and tectonic movement already in their history.
    If God creates a man, you don't look at him and say "That is a baby." If God creates a bird, you don't look at it and say "That is a hatchling." When God creates a fully formed planet covered in life and history, why would you look at it and say it's young?

    • @zuzuspetals9281
      @zuzuspetals9281 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      And reread the first verses of Genesis as it says the world was without form and void. The earth was here a long time before God moved upon it to prepare it for Adam and the animals or “creation “. The millions of years we see in geological history and fossils could well be prior times when the earth was not habitable for mankind.

    • @TheOtherGuys2
      @TheOtherGuys2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ​@@zuzuspetals9281 A neat thing about that. In the Hebrew text, the word translated to 'void' is the same word that's later used to describe the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah after they were annihilated by fire. In Hebrew, the word can have different meanings, it can mean "empty because nothing's been put there yet" or "empty because what used to be there has been removed". (Those aren't exact definitions of course.)

    • @elizabethmarshall2990
      @elizabethmarshall2990 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, very good points

    • @badgerboyboogie
      @badgerboyboogie ปีที่แล้ว +2

      South East. Just south of Edinburgh.😊

    • @JK_Clark
      @JK_Clark ปีที่แล้ว

      Not only will the nuclear waste become inert within thousands and not million of years; I'm sure we'll come up with a way to use or neutralise it within decades or maybe centuries.
      I think the pertinent points about humanity buggering up our planet are a) no other creatures do that and b) we know we're doing it and yet continue.
      You say "the 6000 year figure is based on tracing the lineage" - I'm not at all familiar with the bible, being a lapsed catholic, but are you saying the time span was worked out by the authors' known forefathers? Interesting if so.

  • @SuziSellsSound
    @SuziSellsSound 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Even rocks melt in the sun. I keep replaying her singing that part of Robert Burns - Love Is Like A Red Rose!! So beautiful. Science + Art belong together.

  • @1amybean
    @1amybean 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fascinating-thank you!

  • @matthewthomas0330
    @matthewthomas0330 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    ...incredible

  • @alistairwilliams9885
    @alistairwilliams9885 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It all returns back to the earth... ✨ Nice👍

  • @syzygy808
    @syzygy808 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great work. ❤

  • @sdmbusiness
    @sdmbusiness ปีที่แล้ว

    Excellent production.

  • @saladboss649
    @saladboss649 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    these two guys look so alike!

  • @OursForTheMaking
    @OursForTheMaking ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Fascinating how this one observation transformed our understanding of time and upended the prevailing wisdom of a six-thousand year-old Earth, replacing it in the blink of an eye to one that must be millions (and later found to be billions) of years old. Great video and a superb book, The Long View, from Richard Fisher.

    • @phillydisco
      @phillydisco ปีที่แล้ว +5

      6000 years may not be that strange, if it was the last time the earth suffered a huge cataclysm that wiped out much of life on earth. It's almost like earth was reset.

    • @trebleboost7
      @trebleboost7 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@phillydisco Indeed - this does not logically discount the Biblical text although I would like to see the original language to confrim the translation but the text states the earth was 'without form and void' which curiously seems to fit in my opinion and explains a lot of the geological timeframe.

    • @mikered1974
      @mikered1974 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@trebleboost7more likely Biblical text are Exageration of Climatic Disaster in the Past like : Noah Flood which according to Archelogical Discovery there is indeed widespread Flooding in Ancient South Mesopotamia ie: Modern Southern Iraq that Force Ancient Mesopotamian People 's to migrate Northward & to Levant which is very similar to Biblical Story of Noah Flood , Babylon Fall & Abraham Migration to Canaan.

    • @sonofculloden2
      @sonofculloden2 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Who believes the earth is only 6000 years old 😂

  • @purplejellygem
    @purplejellygem หลายเดือนก่อน

    What the video failed to capture is that while Siccar Point is a fascinating place, on a sunny day it's also stunningly beautiful.

  • @coppermoon4747
    @coppermoon4747 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Beautiful!

  • @janoginski5557
    @janoginski5557 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    A very Old Story, no pun intended. Nevertheless it’s an amazing history.

  • @augusthavince8909
    @augusthavince8909 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This stuff can a person feel small sometimes.

  • @marciocoelho2481
    @marciocoelho2481 ปีที่แล้ว

    This was really well done.

  • @S-T-E-V-E
    @S-T-E-V-E 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The Geology of the Coastline from Edinburgh To Berwick is absolutely stunning!

  • @sarojinichaudhury179
    @sarojinichaudhury179 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Was much afraid of the formations ( could not even try to understand the hand made pictures)-however , beautiful yellow wild flowers could be seen towards the bottom - would like to see them in person -(liked the tune sung by a lady .Scotland is a matter of study for at least three lifetimes - this is what can be learnt from this video ).

    • @sarojinichaudhury179
      @sarojinichaudhury179 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Seek The Truth Thank you. The word conncted with every religious community is 'Faith' . I have seen many people with absolute Faith . If I can earn absolute faith in my 'Religion', I will need nothing ; but 'Faith' does not depend upon practice -it should come naturally - ”i.e., one is to be born faithful -not made .

    • @kellydalstok8900
      @kellydalstok8900 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@sarojinichaudhury179believing things there is zero evidence for on faith means you’re willfully ignorant and this is not a virtue. Thinking everything is especially created for you is narcissistic. The universe doesn’t care about you, and if you can’t give your own life meaning that’s sad.

    • @sarojinichaudhury179
      @sarojinichaudhury179 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@kellydalstok8900 I almost forgot this great video -and yes , you are right - the universe does not care about me - and yes , the universe does not care about even our galaxy - all things are relative -are'nt they ? However , about that -'narcissism ' I do not know -(but you have observed well - no one cares about what I think - why should they ? We should come out from our personal cocoons - I also know it -but as u know ,we cannot change ourselves - and thak u for your realistic observation and attitude - I also do not know how clear I am ).

  • @hellokittykitty737
    @hellokittykitty737 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    these guys can pass as twins

  • @Trylobyte
    @Trylobyte 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    marvellous and very moving for all aware human beings

  • @laurab3199
    @laurab3199 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ❤❤❤❤❤ Thank you for a memory jolt!

  • @AbeNomiks
    @AbeNomiks ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This rocks

  • @jasonparrish8670
    @jasonparrish8670 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Excellent integration of Karine Polwart into the news piece, thank you!

  • @alasdairmacmillan5359
    @alasdairmacmillan5359 ปีที่แล้ว

    Extraordinary

  • @lilithowl
    @lilithowl 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What a beautiful video! It randomly came up as a suggestion, and I'm glad I watched it. Fascinating snd strangely moving.

  • @Elsieoneal
    @Elsieoneal ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is so interesting but all I can think is these two blokes look like twins!

  • @Airith0
    @Airith0 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Calm down BBC, I don't need to tear up watching a geology video 🤣