I have said this before. But i watched a PBS documentary on The Ice Man many years ago that stated.."That the same mind that could envision a bronze axe could also create a modern computer board". They were not stupid. They just did not have the technologies available to show that they were as smart as us.
Another important thing to consider is just how much we can specialize now. The more successful a society is the more of its population can be specialized workers doing things like experiments or philosophy or whatever. The further back in time you go the more time people had to devote to just simply surviving. Societies change that. You can be a carpenter and just go buy food. Back then though they would have most likely had to do their day job then still commit a lot of time at home to survival. It has a compounding effect. The more they can specialize the faster everything improves. Which leads to yet more specialization and so on. No telling how many humans could have been brilliant scientist but lived in a hunter gather tribe and never had time to do much other than try to survive.
@@tanindunn8379 I love your manly reply!! But I gotta ask? Any hints? What do you do to deal with it when your period cramps feel as if your pelvic floor /abdominal wall / inner groin area is being grabbed by two giant hands and squeezed as hard as possible? You know, like while you’re at work? Say, on the phone? Do you just grin and bear it? Do you remove yourself quietly to a restroom until the pain subsides and then carry on? Do you, perhaps, just act as though nothings happening while keeping that warm, inviting, friendly smile on your face and thanking your customers for their patronage, while encouraging them to come visit you again? Here’s what I know to be true. Men are usually the biggest boo-hoo-er’s no matter what the injury is or what type / level of pain they’re feeling. They’re the ones that need the most…coddling. A man’s stomach ache is ALWAYS much more severe than a woman’s stomach ache, in my experience. I’m as old as dirt. (56 years old) Been married nearly forty years. My husband is one of nine. Seven are “boys.” And if they get a boo boo? It’s always shockingly painful and nearly lethal. 😂😂 I’ll check back in as I’m eagerly awaiting your reply and hints so a girl can get through their day like a man-champ and not a man-child. 💁🏻♂️👶🏻🍼🩹🏥
The Hindu understanding of germ theory unwittingly contributed to the persecution of the Romani in Europe during the plague. We Romani took the Vedic concept of contamination and how to avoid it with us when we left India. It proved to be very helpful in avoiding becoming ill from the plague. However Europeans looked at the way the Romani avoided getting sick and assumed it was due to a pact with the devil. BTW, India had the concept that time could flow at different rates - one of the major effects of special relativity - around the same time as their concept of germ theory. It's even used as a plot device in ancient texts such as the Mahabharata.
It's in all human cultures, we definitely didn't understand the concept but can observe things and use our imagination to create those creatures which causes illnesses It's like saying single women living in the woods with lots of cats were more intelligent/scientific because cats eats rats and they didn't contract plague PS: read about Hiranyagarbha, he mentioned
I believe the Jews suffered from Europeans as well. The Jews tended to follow their scriptures about keeping their place clean while Europeans didn't. Rats bred and moved around European areas more than Jewish areas, which meant less plague in Jewish areas.
Regarding Creation Myths in Hinduism, read the Rig Veda Mandala 10, Hymn 129, known as the Creation Hymn or Song. This also states that Creation began in a Flash of heart, no mention of the Hiranyagarbha [Hiran/Hiranya = Golden, Garbha loosely means Knowledge or Knowing of "everything,] or Mundane Egg. The Rig Veda's chapters are called Mandalas, and the Mandalas contain "hymns" which are meant to be sung in specific metres. The Rig Veda itself is far older than 3,000 years being an Oral tradition that was not meant to be altered or edited but memorized perfectly from teacher to student, as changing it was an offense to the Deva and the Supreme Being. Even removing the religious tone from this expectation of perfect memorization, changing any hymn/verse was a signal that the person relating the vedas did not understand them, so changes would be rejected immediately, unless they could be successfully debated with peers; this was vanishingly rare in occurance.
It's stories like these that make me even angrier that people think ancient civilizations couldn't *possibly* build pyramids or giant cities in South America or wherever. There have always been philosophers, scientists, tinkers, and thinkers. We're not special just because we're several millenia beyond them.
I'm not sure what you are trying to say with "because we're several millennia beyond them." Before the Industrial Revolution, no society was particularly more advanced. Ancient Rome reached 1 million people in the first and second centuries, and no other city did until Paris, just before WW1. So, excepting the last 125 years, there was not a lot of advancement for less than 2 millennia, not "several". And there was an Ice Age 10,000 years ago which wiped out just about all evidence of previous human societies -for 190,000 years of existence. So, I guess you are right to be "angry'", but you need to figure out "several millennia" means before you complain about it.
@@squirlmy meaning that clearly people in ancient times had intelligence. Ancient Aliens people like to say "they didn't have the technology to build ____" ... meaning they think people in ancient times lacked intelligence. (And it's honestly racist most of the time.) Basically, it's like if people 2000 years from today looked at us and said we're too primitive to have come up with computers, so it must have been aliens. But I also see that you'd like to be pedantic, so here you go: The word "several" means more than two but not many. So if I meant 2k-3k years ago (which I did because that's the time frame we land in with the narratives in this video), "several millenia" is the correct phrase. Maybe double check definitions before you tell people they're wrong. Ps.. Population size has nothing to do with intelligence or technology. It just means there are enough resources for a given population to survive and expand.
I don't believe aliens built the pyramids, but I do believe there are structures, stories and information that is far older than is realised, and this is part of the reason why, yes we were still pretty intelligent back then, but modernly anatomical humans have been around for alot longer than even the last ice age 10/12kyo, so it seam only logical to assume we weren't sitting around banging stones for 100ky or so 🤷🏻
They could have built the pyramids or crazy polygonal walls, but as a stone mason, I can safely say they did not cut those stones using presumed tools. Zero way. The accuracy is beyond what I can produce with modern tech.
It wasn't ancient people who built the pyramids and such....it was totally Ancient Aliens who enslaved all bigfoots (bigfeets?) on the planet to do the labor... SCIENCE!!!!
Who would have thought that actual predictions are based on facts and science and not religion, aka the biggest scam in human history... that people still believe in this garbage in 2024 is insane.
The bluegreen mold that produces penicillin sometimes grows on bread, but more characteristically grows on citrus. The black mold that is the most common on bread does not produce penicillin.
3:07 Kanada also predicted the atom about the same time, as well as molecules 10:26: also, the Hindu Dashavataram ( the 10 incarnations of vishnu ) is ordered strikingly similarly to evolutionary paths: Fish -> Reptiles -> Mammals ( a boar ) -> Half-man/Half-beast -> dwarf man -> Man
In regards to the "big "crunch" falling out of favor, a paper was published recently talking about how they found evidence that the acceleration of the universe has actually slowed down in recent years (cosmically speaking). Granted it's still accelerating, but at a recently slower rate
"History is full of predictions, much like my face is full of glorious beard. Look at it. Look at the beard. Don't stop. Don't ever stop. This is your life now. Say goodbye to your friends and family, you're a Fact-Boy beard goblin now."
Forget the beard or the chrome dome, the glib UK accent and rapid fire delivery hooked me. I predict in less than a week, I’ll have watched no fewer than two more of Simon’s videos.
@@jenniferj5324current protests are not against judaism. they're against the genocide being committed by zionists. be sorry for the innocent lives lost in palestine instead
@jenniferj5324 Walter Guinness Nakba USS Liberty Yigal Amir "Ethiopian women in Israel" "Zelenskyy's Jews indigenous people of Ukraine law" Lebensraum Micah 2:2-5 They do it to themselves. You will understand in time.
The first one with the Roman emperor could have been that with a prophecy that said he would be emperor the general could have taken tactical risks he normally wouldn’t have and those risks paid off. If you believe you will fail you will fail if you believe you will succeed you succeed far more often
0:45 - Chapter 1 - The ascension of emperor vespasian 3:10 - Chapter 2 - The atom 5:35 - Chapter 3 - Germ theory 8:45 - Chapter 4 - The big bang 10:30 - Chapter 5 - Evolution
It was not dumb luck on the part of Josef. He knew the Roman leaders, and their children well, and used what we call Wisdom, experiential based insight to make what you consider a prediction of the future, but is a use of abductive logic, which is neither deductive or inductive logic, rather a third type of logic which utilizes insight. It is surprisingly effective. This is also how Leucippus constructed his Atomist view too. He did so by use of a Root Insight, similar to how Tesla came up with Alternating Current or Archimedes came up with his insightful theorems and proofs.
Bizarrely it was just yesterday I was thinking about Josephus' survival before being captured. Since suicide is forbidden, killing your friends on the orders of your commander is far favourable, so Josephus ordered every third man (or was it fifth, I forget exactly) to kill his neighbour. So was Josephus incredibly lucky to be one of the only two survivors? Or was he just very good at maths under pressure?
@@Richard_the_lionheart75 Jean is French for John, if you thing of the name Jean in English, "Jeanne" is probably the best French translation. This kind of misunderstandings is common : for example, the way you pronounce Germain is almost identical to the French Germaine which is the feminine of the masculine Germain (the last syllable of the latter is pronouced with a sound that doesn't exist in English).
While being burned at the stake, the leader of the Knights Templar exclaimed that the Pope and King of France (who unjustly caused his murder) would both die by the end of the year to prove his innocence. They both did.
I have a few things to comment: First, what about writers of "fiction" who have predicted things that have come to pass, such as Jules Verne who wrote of space travel and complex submarines, or the writers of "The Jetsons" who wrote of television-telephones and the like? Next, the first entry discussed in this video about Yosef ben Matityahu caused me to think of a Christian by the name of John who lived during the time of Rome's prosecution of Christians. This Christian man, John, found himself at one point hiding in exile from the Roman authorities. While in his exile and angry at Roman authority, John wrote a manifesto which predicted the end of the world as was known. This reminds me of a man from more recent history named Ted Kaczynski, who also went into hidden exile and wrote an "end of the world" manifesto. Other than the time span between the two men, the biggest differences resulting from their respective manifestos, Ted Kaczynski's led to his capture, thus ending the terror of the labeled "Unabomber," while the Christian John's manifesto was adopted by past Christian authorities into the Bible and labeled "The Book of Revelations." (Hope you comprehend what I'm getting at here.) Finally, the concept of an animal giving birth to a different, or evolutionary evolved animal would answer the question, "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" The answer would have to be, "The egg." As the animal preceding the egg would not have been a chicken, so it would have to be the egg from which the chicken emerged. (Oh, btw, I find it difficult to comprehend how anything could suddenly exist when nothing existed before. 0 x 0 = 0. I hope this whole comment inspires thoughtful contemplation as opposed to aggressive hostility.) 😉😁
I think the Jetsons got a lot of ideas from Nikola Tesla, who predicted modern telephony and electronics. Jules Verne, that guy might have been original, unless he got it from DaVinci. I guess my point is that intellectuals used to be more of artists than they are now.
There was actually no evidence that John "was angry" at Roman authorities. His writings tend to be all about the love of Jesus. Also, Revelation used imagery bizarre enough that I believe he saw something beyond our comprehension. If he was writing a work predicting the end of the known world it would have been a little ... less ... difficult to understand WTF he was saying.
@@richardthomas5362 fair enough, but I do find it illogical that his bizarre writings which were written while in an exile due to religious persecution, were given the credentials to be included into the Bible as to being the divine plan for the end of the world. A prediction that is still held up as to being "fact" (more or less, depending on who you ask.) I just don't believe it is in humanities best interest to put so much stock into such a questionable source. Please do understand that I do trust the authenticity of Biblical text, but I question the motivations of those who decided what should or should not have been included in the first place as it has become better understood today that there were many nefarious reasons for some things to be included or excluded by the residing authorities/powers of the time. (edit: prosecution to persecution)
It’s so interesting how some of the ideas we subscribe to today had the seeds planted hundreds or thousands of years ago. They might not have been 💯 accurate, but it’s fascinating that early people had the concepts to begin with.
Well, they knew that an infected wound caused almost certain death. So, faced with an infected wound, they did everything possible-they literally had nothing to lose. They tried cauterization, amputation, leeches, maggots. They also tried less extreme methods, such as poultices made of-not just mold-but also mud, ash, lye, plant sap, herbs, honey, urine, poop, ... you name it. Clearly, the patients treated with moldy bread had a higher survival rate than others, thereby reinforcing the practice.
There are other possibilities as well! Bread tends to be absorbent and may, in a pinch, have been used to help stop bloodflow or seepage or as part of a poultice to help close wounds. Bread molds quickly, especially with little to no preservatives, so some of the bread may have been visibly moldy already or grew mold during its use as a poultice material. People notice that moldy bread “works better” and you could start to select for using more moldy bread over time.
The video title clearly says *"Ancient,"* so Verne wouldn't qualify. However, if you're interested, there are plenty of other videos on TH-cam about sci-fi predictions-including Verne's-that came true.
This was such an good video well made an informative and we have so much from the past that is not well understanded and can tell us about the world we live in.
We can see galaxies that are farther away than the speed of light would allow due to them having been closer to us when the light left them. For all intents and purposes, the universe may as well be infinite, because the laws of physics as we currently understand them, and the bounds they give, have some pretty hard limits. There are certainly things outside of those limits that we can never know.
That bit about Anaximander of Miletus is interesting because I had always been confused as to how in the catholic deuterocanonical book The Wisdom of Solomon 19:18-19 it mentions water creatures turning into land creatures and vice versa. This book was written around 200BC at the earliest, so hundreds of years after Anaximander of Miletus lived, but perhaps that's all that remainded of his ideas after the greek-jewish exchange of culture and ideas that took place post Alexander The Great? And if anyone is wondering scholars aren't sure of the intended meaning behind Wisdom 19:18-19 so what's written down in english translations of it are purely literal. Although it's suspected that it was utilizing a common analogy for the time (the context seems to imply an analogy that all things change with time, even things we consider unchangable) that's lost its original meaning.
So I have a theory on the expansion of the Universe. the Universe is like an elastic band. before you pick it up it is inert and motion less (Before the Big Bang), when you start to stretch it (The Big Bang), it expands till you are unable to stretch it any further, (the Universe expanding), but if you keep trying to stretch it past this point, one of two things happen, 1. the Elastic Band snaps back (The Big Crunch) 2. it Snaps
I still think the universe could just be in the early stage of expansion. Just like the first fraction of a second of an explosion it’s accelerating. For all we know the deceleration could happen in a few billion years. If it is cyclical I wonder if life in the 2nd half thinks the universe starts at set size and the shrinks?
I always thought that a movie on the life of Josephus should be played by a young Woody Allen. A young nebbish is made general and sees the Romans approach, he tells everyone they have to surrender but they balk at the thought. The Romans gain the advantage, and he then tells the survivors they must surrender, and they threaten to kill him. He says "JK" and comes up with a suicide plan where he is guaranteed to survive. He surrenders to the Romans and says he will convince his fellow Jews that the Romans are good guys. It does not work. He exacts a promise from Titus not to destroy the Temple but it gets destroyed. He retires to Rome to write books on how if Jews listened to him, they would be partners in Empire.
Woody Allen has some humor which was dryer than the wilderness through which Moses led the Jews for 40 years, looking for a land in the middle east which didn't have oil.
I'd say *"Speculations"* is a better term than *"Predictions"* for this. Our ancients knew almost nothing of what we know today through modern science. But they wouldn't-couldn't-admit that they didn't know. Admitting ignorance meant losing power, prestige, position, reputation, royal patronage, followers, income. So they speculated freely. They didn't need to prove anything. They just needed to debate _ad nauseam,_ confusing the hell out of listeners. In fact, they often took deliberately opposing positions, just to keep the debate alive and themselves in the spotlight. So if one chap said _"matter can be subdivided indefinitely,"_ another would say _"at some scale, we cannot subdivide matter any further."_ People would then pick sides depending on which speaker they liked better. An easy recipe to avoid proofs was to conjure up invisible agents as answers for everything-from _"what is matter made of"_ and _"what causes diseases"_ to _"who created the world," "why is my child acting strange"_ and _"what happens when we die."_ Apparently, we still believe in many of those unproved invisible agents.
You did mention the Four Elements of Earth, Wind, Fire and Water and didn't do a refence to the band or Fifth Element movie? What has the TH-cams come too?
Not everyone worships the fifth element movie. It's weird and off putting and I grew up watching it. I even have a crush on Mila Jovovich and I STILL can't stand that one. It's not automatically awesome just because someone calls it a cult movie. Sorry 😐
The Roman architect Vitruvius in his second book on architecture also outlined his theory that humans had descended from animals. In medieval Tibetan it was believed that humans and bears were descended from a common ancestor, replace bears, the concept was a remarkably modern one, replace bear with chimpanzee and you have our current understanding of primate evolution in a nutshell.
I love ancient intellectuals lmao. “Here’s a book about architecture and also my theory suggesting the existence of evolution. It also has a borscht recipe”
That last story is pretty damn wild considering that modern seismologists can't predict earthquakes that far in advance, or at least their ability to is in dispute.
Hello again, the Crew and Simon. Enjoyable as always. Jus amazing, that You can dig up, all these facts. Keep them coming, we`ll wait. from a Finn in Diaspora
for the Vedas, you could say that it all collapses into a black hole, then the black holes become Nairi, until there is a stimulus which causes entropy to violently propagate.
We tend to underestimate our ancestors, their world was harsher and a lot more unforgiving, they had to be sharper and keener than us today to make it through, the fact that they managed to figure that much with far less evidence and tools is some proof of their merits.
the funny thing is that "bad air" in a roundabout way became true. It was found out that still air keeps germs floating about nearby longer than if there was steady airflow and ventilation.
@@tripsaplenty1227 That's correct, but the bad reputation of the bad air theory led experts to dismiss a report that confirmed ventilation was crucial to reduce the chances of infection within buildings.
There is certainly a correlation between bad air and the spread of diseases, but - in case you didn't already know - *_correlation is not causation._* The cause was germs - and they spread through other means as well, not just air. So miasma theory was not only wrong, but also dangerous - because it contributed to the spread of diseases that could have been prevented if germ theory was known.
The Biblical teaching on cleanliness, with the washing that people had to do after touching blood or someone dead should have been instructive. Possibly doctors could have even figured out that diseases were often caused by tiny organisms. The 6th plague: “Take for yourselves handfuls of ashes from a furnace, and let Moses scatter it toward the heavens in the sight of Pharaoh. And it *will become* fine dust in all the land of Egypt, and *it will cause boils* that break out in sores on man and beast throughout all the land of Egypt.” If you ever could see concentrated airborne bacteria or viruses, they would look exactly like fine dust. I'd say that was as good as, or better a prediction (if you can call it that) than the "evolution" one, and far, far better than the miasma mess. Also, in the book of Job, chapter 26, it's written that God, "stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth on nothing." Maybe they thought of north as the "bottom" of the earth like we think of south? Indeed, the earliest *Egyptian* maps show the south as up. And in Isaiah, the earth is noted as circular, probably understood as a sphere.
We really don’t know how old the vedas are. What do I mean ? Also there’s a black hole crunch. What do I mean? Well as enough time goes by and the black holes actually start to eat each other increasing there there gravity and eventually as they come together, faster and faster exerting more and more gravity on space time things will slow and start falling back to the center of gravity and eventually pull everything back into it even swallowing the fabric of the universe. So everything that ever existed will crunch into a singularity and eventually rupture forth,reseeding all of space and time. The funniest or most interesting part of this is that it fits the circular universe described by Hinduism. Also this has real implications for humanity because each time it would become a reboot. And every time a new universe starts it’s probably started over in the exact same nature repeating everything next time exactly like this time..
1) Humanity hasn't changed much in 5000 years - biologically speaking anyhow. 2) There are still experts with impressive track records predicting 4,876 of the last 5 significant world events. Toss enough informed guesses/predictions out there you'll hit the mark on occasion.
Hence my reference username to being a Muon with the atoms and the particles beyond what make sense to most humans... Ahhh, science. :3 Thanks, Simon and team!! :D
I have been waiting forever for this but i was the 4800 like lets go i saw the 7 turn to a 8 WOOO! Simon love your content man keep up the work. and maybe let the editors have some fresh air from time to time 🤣🤣🤣
i have a question, why does the big bang only seem to "bang" in one direction? IE an explosion in a void would expand in all directions? ok the answer is that the pictures we see are just snap shot side views as its all we have so in theory the universe is twice as big? The size of the known universe is vast but finite, based on the limits of what we can observe. This observable universe has a radius of about 46.5 billion light-years. This might sound odd, as the universe is estimated to be 13.8 billion years old, but the expansion of space itself causes the observable region to be larger than that. the "ahhhh" moment.
Krimi is the general word for germs in many Indian languages. Also hiranyagarbha is possibly correct as there is definitely more and more support for multiple big bangs. Folks should take more attention of ancient Indian philosophy. Also I’m sure the vaibhashika theory of atomism predated democritus by…
Penicillin DOES NOT COME FROM BREAD MOLD. The blue/green mold that produces Penicillin SOMETIMES grows on bread, but most typically grows on citrus. The black mold typically on bread has no antibiotic properties.
Could it be possible that our 3 dimensional existence causes an incorrect perception of the expansion of the universe? Perhaps some quantum extra dimensional calculus is involved whereby the expansion, in reality, is really the universe expanding into itself. Since the universe is supposedly infinite, or theoretically, what we might wish to perceive as a one directional expansion, is inherently flawed.
Aristotle did not add the fifth element. Ether has been the first of five elements in India since before the Greek's milked their first goat. Aristotle was SCHOLAR and LEARNED about this.
@@123allecs I appreciate and welcome your invitation. :-) Ayurveda is the more than 5,000 year old "India" science-of-life practiced even today, and dates back to the writings of the Upanishads. This is undisputed fact that you can check. This branch of health science has related the universe to its students in the 5 elements for as long. Aristotle "adapted" [sic] aether into the Greek pantheon of basic elements in the 4th century BCE. I hope that these historical facts help you agree that this knowledge is firmly established in the east before Aristotle's lifetime. Now, there is no proof of what I suggest next, but it is widely accepted that this knowledge very likely came to Aristotle late in life, as his student Alexander The Great conquered modern day Pakistan, and at such a time that he would be respected enough to make such world changing shift in scientific view. I look forward to your reply or further conversation on this.
Every single of these "predictions" were made thousands of years ago in Hindu Scriptures. Simon cited a few of them in this video. The remaining are also from the Vedas. Example, Before any Greek philosopher thought of atoms as the building block of all matter, the Hindu vedas had given in-depth and comprehensive scientific theories on what they referred to as "Anu". Indivisible building blocks of all matter. It's sad that all this knowledge was systematically destroyed by invaders who enslaved and discredited ancient Indian knowledge and teachings.
The very last prediction about the earthquake could have been as simple as catching on to animals' behavior prior to the earthquake happening, and maybe things are a little less complicated. I'm not sure if I have the idea right, but I heard that a lot of times when we are presented with a multitude of possibilities, the simplest one might be the most realistic choice or answer. I'm probably not saying that right, but I hope I got the meaning across 😅
To think that 1500yrs ago we knew just about half of what we already know… and that it’s only been the last 200yrs where we’ve started to advance again. With the last 20-50yrs being the most successful so far.
There may be a logical reason that Anaximander knew an earthquake was about to hit. If he travelled often in the region than he could have already experienced the precursor to an earthquake and know that it was about to snap. Many people have reported nausea during the preshock of an earthquake, and they all say it's a sudden and strange nausea. Just a hunch though. There's no way to know.
I think i read something like this somewhere that some animals can sense subtle vibration and ground electric changes in the enviroment, which can be precursors to earthquakes. Some people might have something like this as well.
@@mrvex6695 exactly what I was saying. There's very little difference between humans and other mammals so what's to say some of us can't feel the preshock. The strongest quake I have felt myself was a 4.6 and I felt a bit nauseous from it. I was about 400km away from the epicenter and it was the strangest feeling I can remember.
One of the Native American tribes (Hopi?) believe that the Universe is cyclic in nature and that we are in the seventh rebirth headed for another destruction. It is a major plot point in the novel Nightwing.
A person can receive information that is otherwise impossible to know. I knew that a vehicle displaying all the signs of making a right turn would drive straight. There was no way I would have guessed; I just knew. I avoided a collision by heeding that thought.
I dont think the universe expanding quicker really speaks against the big crunch theory because thats just as far as we can see and tell we dont know whats beyond that expanse
The problem with disputing the big crunch or the big bounce, is the explaining away the insane amount of superfluids and how they'd react under the pressure.
I have said this before. But i watched a PBS documentary on The Ice Man many years ago that stated.."That the same mind that could envision a bronze axe could also create a modern computer board". They were not stupid. They just did not have the technologies available to show that they were as smart as us.
Historians have never implied they were.
Another important thing to consider is just how much we can specialize now. The more successful a society is the more of its population can be specialized workers doing things like experiments or philosophy or whatever. The further back in time you go the more time people had to devote to just simply surviving. Societies change that. You can be a carpenter and just go buy food. Back then though they would have most likely had to do their day job then still commit a lot of time at home to survival. It has a compounding effect. The more they can specialize the faster everything improves. Which leads to yet more specialization and so on.
No telling how many humans could have been brilliant scientist but lived in a hunter gather tribe and never had time to do much other than try to survive.
Or as dumb lol
They were stupid and smelled.
We can't make pyramids like those in Egypt without heavy equipment and steel tools. They were definitely not dumb.
Here's a prediction: within three months, Simon will not remember covering anything he presents in this video.
That's a bald prediction
That long?! I'll give it a week.
3 weeks tops! Plus we get a 5 minute tangent about how he vaguely remembers this over on brain blaze!
That's okay as long as we remember it.
Three hours because he will have finished two other videos
As someone fighting a cold right now, i think it is little demons torturing me
There are little demons torturing you, but we call them viruses now.
Dude, man up. Fighting a cold...... good God, man, is your period next?
@@tanindunn8379I'm sorry, I'm supposed to be happy with having a hard time breathing? Come here and take my germs and you can happily suffer.
@@tanindunn8379 hey, if you want to enjoy being sick, have at it.
@@tanindunn8379 I love your manly reply!! But I gotta ask? Any hints? What do you do to deal with it when your period cramps feel as if your
pelvic floor /abdominal wall / inner groin area is being grabbed by two giant hands and squeezed as hard as possible? You know, like while you’re at work? Say, on the phone? Do you just grin and bear it? Do you remove yourself quietly to a restroom until the pain subsides and then carry on? Do you, perhaps, just act as though nothings happening while keeping that warm, inviting, friendly smile on your face and thanking your customers for their patronage, while encouraging them to come visit you again?
Here’s what I know to be true. Men are usually the biggest boo-hoo-er’s no matter what the injury is or what type / level of pain they’re feeling. They’re the ones that need the
most…coddling. A man’s stomach ache is ALWAYS much more severe than a woman’s stomach ache, in my experience. I’m as old as dirt. (56 years old) Been married nearly forty years. My husband is one of nine. Seven are “boys.” And if they get a boo boo? It’s always shockingly painful and nearly lethal. 😂😂
I’ll check back in as I’m eagerly awaiting your reply and hints so a girl can get through their day like a
man-champ and not a
man-child. 💁🏻♂️👶🏻🍼🩹🏥
The Hindu understanding of germ theory unwittingly contributed to the persecution of the Romani in Europe during the plague. We Romani took the Vedic concept of contamination and how to avoid it with us when we left India. It proved to be very helpful in avoiding becoming ill from the plague. However Europeans looked at the way the Romani avoided getting sick and assumed it was due to a pact with the devil.
BTW, India had the concept that time could flow at different rates - one of the major effects of special relativity - around the same time as their concept of germ theory. It's even used as a plot device in ancient texts such as the Mahabharata.
Hinduism has always been intertwined with science and it's magnificent
There is a big difference between a cohesive scientific theory and an observation. Someone has to develop a system out of facts
It's in all human cultures, we definitely didn't understand the concept but can observe things and use our imagination to create those creatures which causes illnesses
It's like saying single women living in the woods with lots of cats were more intelligent/scientific because cats eats rats and they didn't contract plague
PS: read about Hiranyagarbha, he mentioned
I believe the Jews suffered from Europeans as well. The Jews tended to follow their scriptures about keeping their place clean while Europeans didn't. Rats bred and moved around European areas more than Jewish areas, which meant less plague in Jewish areas.
where can i read more on this?
Regarding Creation Myths in Hinduism, read the Rig Veda Mandala 10, Hymn 129, known as the Creation Hymn or Song. This also states that Creation began in a Flash of heart, no mention of the Hiranyagarbha [Hiran/Hiranya = Golden, Garbha loosely means Knowledge or Knowing of "everything,] or Mundane Egg.
The Rig Veda's chapters are called Mandalas, and the Mandalas contain "hymns" which are meant to be sung in specific metres. The Rig Veda itself is far older than 3,000 years being an Oral tradition that was not meant to be altered or edited but memorized perfectly from teacher to student, as changing it was an offense to the Deva and the Supreme Being. Even removing the religious tone from this expectation of perfect memorization, changing any hymn/verse was a signal that the person relating the vedas did not understand them, so changes would be rejected immediately, unless they could be successfully debated with peers; this was vanishingly rare in occurance.
It's stories like these that make me even angrier that people think ancient civilizations couldn't *possibly* build pyramids or giant cities in South America or wherever. There have always been philosophers, scientists, tinkers, and thinkers. We're not special just because we're several millenia beyond them.
I'm not sure what you are trying to say with "because we're several millennia beyond them." Before the Industrial Revolution, no society was particularly more advanced. Ancient Rome reached 1 million people in the first and second centuries, and no other city did until Paris, just before WW1. So, excepting the last 125 years, there was not a lot of advancement for less than 2 millennia, not "several". And there was an Ice Age 10,000 years ago which wiped out just about all evidence of previous human societies -for 190,000 years of existence. So, I guess you are right to be "angry'", but you need to figure out "several millennia" means before you complain about it.
@@squirlmy meaning that clearly people in ancient times had intelligence. Ancient Aliens people like to say "they didn't have the technology to build ____" ... meaning they think people in ancient times lacked intelligence. (And it's honestly racist most of the time.)
Basically, it's like if people 2000 years from today looked at us and said we're too primitive to have come up with computers, so it must have been aliens.
But I also see that you'd like to be pedantic, so here you go: The word "several" means more than two but not many. So if I meant 2k-3k years ago (which I did because that's the time frame we land in with the narratives in this video), "several millenia" is the correct phrase. Maybe double check definitions before you tell people they're wrong.
Ps.. Population size has nothing to do with intelligence or technology. It just means there are enough resources for a given population to survive and expand.
I don't believe aliens built the pyramids, but I do believe there are structures, stories and information that is far older than is realised, and this is part of the reason why, yes we were still pretty intelligent back then, but modernly anatomical humans have been around for alot longer than even the last ice age 10/12kyo, so it seam only logical to assume we weren't sitting around banging stones for 100ky or so 🤷🏻
They could have built the pyramids or crazy polygonal walls, but as a stone mason, I can safely say they did not cut those stones using presumed tools. Zero way. The accuracy is beyond what I can produce with modern tech.
It wasn't ancient people who built the pyramids and such....it was totally Ancient Aliens who enslaved all bigfoots (bigfeets?) on the planet to do the labor... SCIENCE!!!!
0:41 the ascension of Empireor Vespasian
3:07 the atom
5:32 germ theory
8:39 the big bang
10:26 evolution
Who would have thought that actual predictions are based on facts and science and not religion, aka the biggest scam in human history... that people still believe in this garbage in 2024 is insane.
Thank you.
The bluegreen mold that produces penicillin sometimes grows on bread, but more characteristically grows on citrus. The black mold that is the most common on bread does not produce penicillin.
The most effective strain was famously found growing on a cantaloupe.
3:07 Kanada also predicted the atom about the same time, as well as molecules
10:26: also, the Hindu Dashavataram ( the 10 incarnations of vishnu ) is ordered strikingly similarly to evolutionary paths: Fish -> Reptiles -> Mammals ( a boar ) -> Half-man/Half-beast -> dwarf man -> Man
Likely others as well, that we have never heard of.
In regards to the "big "crunch" falling out of favor, a paper was published recently talking about how they found evidence that the acceleration of the universe has actually slowed down in recent years (cosmically speaking). Granted it's still accelerating, but at a recently slower rate
"History is full of predictions, much like my face is full of glorious beard. Look at it. Look at the beard. Don't stop. Don't ever stop. This is your life now. Say goodbye to your friends and family, you're a Fact-Boy beard goblin now."
Simon is my fantasy football lover!
Because he's bald, when I look at him, I see a shaving brush 😁
Now I've told you this, i bet you can't unsee it!
Forget the beard or the chrome dome, the glib UK accent and rapid fire delivery hooked me. I predict in less than a week, I’ll have watched no fewer than two more of Simon’s videos.
We need to make "fact boy beard goblin" known across Simon's limitless channels
@GonzoTehGreat You mean one of those for shaving cream?
"Like most of history it did not go well for the Jews" I have never heard my people's history so succinctly yet accurately summarized 😂.
Most people today don't understand that until ww2 it was a cool and regular thing to pick on the jews. European history has many dots of that.
Sorry about the current college "protests"
@@jenniferj5324current protests are not against judaism. they're against the genocide being committed by zionists. be sorry for the innocent lives lost in palestine instead
@jenniferj5324
Walter Guinness
Nakba
USS Liberty
Yigal Amir
"Ethiopian women in Israel"
"Zelenskyy's Jews indigenous people of Ukraine law"
Lebensraum
Micah 2:2-5
They do it to themselves. You will understand in time.
@eddapultstab2078
I addressed the victimhood fallacy in a reply to another commenter.
Thanks Simon. And team.
The first one with the Roman emperor could have been that with a prophecy that said he would be emperor the general could have taken tactical risks he normally wouldn’t have and those risks paid off.
If you believe you will fail you will fail if you believe you will succeed you succeed far more often
The phrase you're looking for is *_self-fulfilling prophecy._*
As a father of 4 children all under 10, I can not believe that humans are capable of existing.
haha, its really a miracle we are here at all 😂
I cant believe women can survive the birthing process
0:45 - Chapter 1 - The ascension of emperor vespasian
3:10 - Chapter 2 - The atom
5:35 - Chapter 3 - Germ theory
8:45 - Chapter 4 - The big bang
10:30 - Chapter 5 - Evolution
I love your videos on all your channels. It's nice to watch someone who has like minded thinking. 😊
friday night, drinking balieys irish whiskey cream and enjoying this video.
It was not dumb luck on the part of Josef. He knew the Roman leaders, and their children well, and used what we call Wisdom, experiential based insight to make what you consider a prediction of the future, but is a use of abductive logic, which is neither deductive or inductive logic, rather a third type of logic which utilizes insight. It is surprisingly effective. This is also how Leucippus constructed his Atomist view too. He did so by use of a Root Insight, similar to how Tesla came up with Alternating Current or Archimedes came up with his insightful theorems and proofs.
Bizarrely it was just yesterday I was thinking about Josephus' survival before being captured.
Since suicide is forbidden, killing your friends on the orders of your commander is far favourable, so Josephus ordered every third man (or was it fifth, I forget exactly) to kill his neighbour. So was Josephus incredibly lucky to be one of the only two survivors? Or was he just very good at maths under pressure?
You should have mentionned Jean Perrin, the French physicist who definitely proved in 1909 that the atom existed. He got a Nobel Prize for that!
@@Richard_the_lionheart75 Jean is French for John, if you thing of the name Jean in English, "Jeanne" is probably the best French translation. This kind of misunderstandings is common : for example, the way you pronounce Germain is almost identical to the French Germaine which is the feminine of the masculine Germain (the last syllable of the latter is pronouced with a sound that doesn't exist in English).
While being burned at the stake, the leader of the Knights Templar exclaimed that the Pope and King of France (who unjustly caused his murder) would both die by the end of the year to prove his innocence. They both did.
I have a few things to comment: First, what about writers of "fiction" who have predicted things that have come to pass, such as Jules Verne who wrote of space travel and complex submarines, or the writers of "The Jetsons" who wrote of television-telephones and the like? Next, the first entry discussed in this video about Yosef ben Matityahu caused me to think of a Christian by the name of John who lived during the time of Rome's prosecution of Christians. This Christian man, John, found himself at one point hiding in exile from the Roman authorities. While in his exile and angry at Roman authority, John wrote a manifesto which predicted the end of the world as was known. This reminds me of a man from more recent history named Ted Kaczynski, who also went into hidden exile and wrote an "end of the world" manifesto. Other than the time span between the two men, the biggest differences resulting from their respective manifestos, Ted Kaczynski's led to his capture, thus ending the terror of the labeled "Unabomber," while the Christian John's manifesto was adopted by past Christian authorities into the Bible and labeled "The Book of Revelations." (Hope you comprehend what I'm getting at here.)
Finally, the concept of an animal giving birth to a different, or evolutionary evolved animal would answer the question, "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" The answer would have to be, "The egg." As the animal preceding the egg would not have been a chicken, so it would have to be the egg from which the chicken emerged.
(Oh, btw, I find it difficult to comprehend how anything could suddenly exist when nothing existed before. 0 x 0 = 0. I hope this whole comment inspires thoughtful contemplation as opposed to aggressive hostility.) 😉😁
I think the Jetsons got a lot of ideas from Nikola Tesla, who predicted modern telephony and electronics. Jules Verne, that guy might have been original, unless he got it from DaVinci. I guess my point is that intellectuals used to be more of artists than they are now.
My eighth grade teacher wasn't happy when I figured out the chicken and the egg thing. I'm not particularly clever, just very logical.
@@bunyipdragon9499 nice.
There was actually no evidence that John "was angry" at Roman authorities. His writings tend to be all about the love of Jesus. Also, Revelation used imagery bizarre enough that I believe he saw something beyond our comprehension. If he was writing a work predicting the end of the known world it would have been a little ... less ... difficult to understand WTF he was saying.
@@richardthomas5362 fair enough, but I do find it illogical that his bizarre writings which were written while in an exile due to religious persecution, were given the credentials to be included into the Bible as to being the divine plan for the end of the world. A prediction that is still held up as to being "fact" (more or less, depending on who you ask.) I just don't believe it is in humanities best interest to put so much stock into such a questionable source. Please do understand that I do trust the authenticity of Biblical text, but I question the motivations of those who decided what should or should not have been included in the first place as it has become better understood today that there were many nefarious reasons for some things to be included or excluded by the residing authorities/powers of the time.
(edit: prosecution to persecution)
It’s so interesting how some of the ideas we subscribe to today had the seeds planted hundreds or thousands of years ago. They might not have been 💯 accurate, but it’s fascinating that early people had the concepts to begin with.
Nice introduction of informative journy through historical predictions
"only two things are infinite; the universe and human stupidity. and I'm not certain about the universe."
credited to einstein.
Yes, that _was_ Einstein. What's your point?
But but but...why would they ever even think of rubbing the moldy bread on a wound? I feel like this is the BIG question.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who got hung up on that!! 😂
Well, they knew that an infected wound caused almost certain death. So, faced with an infected wound, they did everything possible-they literally had nothing to lose. They tried cauterization, amputation, leeches, maggots. They also tried less extreme methods, such as poultices made of-not just mold-but also mud, ash, lye, plant sap, herbs, honey, urine, poop, ... you name it. Clearly, the patients treated with moldy bread had a higher survival rate than others, thereby reinforcing the practice.
@@nHans That does make sense. Thank you for the insight. I had never been presented it that way. I appreciate your perspective.
There are other possibilities as well! Bread tends to be absorbent and may, in a pinch, have been used to help stop bloodflow or seepage or as part of a poultice to help close wounds. Bread molds quickly, especially with little to no preservatives, so some of the bread may have been visibly moldy already or grew mold during its use as a poultice material. People notice that moldy bread “works better” and you could start to select for using more moldy bread over time.
@@VWHybrid you HAVE to be fecking me right....
I would add Julius Verne predictions. A lot of them.
The video title clearly says *"Ancient,"* so Verne wouldn't qualify. However, if you're interested, there are plenty of other videos on TH-cam about sci-fi predictions-including Verne's-that came true.
@@nHans You are right. I forgot about ancient part :).
This was such an good video well made an informative and we have so much from the past that is not well understanded and can tell us about the world we live in.
I get it why this channel’s been so successful.It’s definitely my favorite of Simons “ boring “channels .
My prediction: in 5000 years' time death and tax are still the two unescapable facts of life
And computer crashes
Heres a prediction, in 10000 years no one will believe that we believed what we believe today
Try 100 years
@@serfandterf Heck, maybe 10
@@rodshop5897 I can't believe that some people believe what they believe even today.
Hiranyagarbha = Hiranya + Garbha = Golden + Womb for anyone wondering
Thank you 😊
We can see galaxies that are farther away than the speed of light would allow due to them having been closer to us when the light left them.
For all intents and purposes, the universe may as well be infinite, because the laws of physics as we currently understand them, and the bounds they give, have some pretty hard limits. There are certainly things outside of those limits that we can never know.
That bit about Anaximander of Miletus is interesting because I had always been confused as to how in the catholic deuterocanonical book The Wisdom of Solomon 19:18-19 it mentions water creatures turning into land creatures and vice versa. This book was written around 200BC at the earliest, so hundreds of years after Anaximander of Miletus lived, but perhaps that's all that remainded of his ideas after the greek-jewish exchange of culture and ideas that took place post Alexander The Great?
And if anyone is wondering scholars aren't sure of the intended meaning behind Wisdom 19:18-19 so what's written down in english translations of it are purely literal. Although it's suspected that it was utilizing a common analogy for the time (the context seems to imply an analogy that all things change with time, even things we consider unchangable) that's lost its original meaning.
It's entertainment; take it for what it's worth. Sheeeeesh!!!
I predict that simon will keep saying names and words with wild disregard to how they are pronounced in his next video
Dude how many hours do you work a day, y’all have so much content!
So I have a theory on the expansion of the Universe.
the Universe is like an elastic band. before you pick it up it is inert and motion less (Before the Big Bang), when you start to stretch it (The Big Bang), it expands till you are unable to stretch it any further, (the Universe expanding), but if you keep trying to stretch it past this point, one of two things happen,
1. the Elastic Band snaps back (The Big Crunch)
2. it Snaps
Just to let you know I really enjoy your presentations. 😀👍
I still think the universe could just be in the early stage of expansion. Just like the first fraction of a second of an explosion it’s accelerating. For all we know the deceleration could happen in a few billion years. If it is cyclical I wonder if life in the 2nd half thinks the universe starts at set size and the shrinks?
Interesting thoughts 🤔 I like it
I always thought that a movie on the life of Josephus should be played by a young Woody Allen. A young nebbish is made general and sees the Romans approach, he tells everyone they have to surrender but they balk at the thought. The Romans gain the advantage, and he then tells the survivors they must surrender, and they threaten to kill him. He says "JK" and comes up with a suicide plan where he is guaranteed to survive. He surrenders to the Romans and says he will convince his fellow Jews that the Romans are good guys. It does not work. He exacts a promise from Titus not to destroy the Temple but it gets destroyed. He retires to Rome to write books on how if Jews listened to him, they would be partners in Empire.
Hahahaha, and I would go watch that movie.
Woody Allen has some humor which was dryer than the wilderness through which Moses led the Jews for 40 years, looking for a land in the middle east which didn't have oil.
Simon needs to up his jacket game. Early af 😉
Interesting!
I'd say *"Speculations"* is a better term than *"Predictions"* for this. Our ancients knew almost nothing of what we know today through modern science. But they wouldn't-couldn't-admit that they didn't know. Admitting ignorance meant losing power, prestige, position, reputation, royal patronage, followers, income. So they speculated freely. They didn't need to prove anything. They just needed to debate _ad nauseam,_ confusing the hell out of listeners. In fact, they often took deliberately opposing positions, just to keep the debate alive and themselves in the spotlight. So if one chap said _"matter can be subdivided indefinitely,"_ another would say _"at some scale, we cannot subdivide matter any further."_ People would then pick sides depending on which speaker they liked better.
An easy recipe to avoid proofs was to conjure up invisible agents as answers for everything-from _"what is matter made of"_ and _"what causes diseases"_ to _"who created the world," "why is my child acting strange"_ and _"what happens when we die."_ Apparently, we still believe in many of those unproved invisible agents.
True enough!
You did mention the Four Elements of Earth, Wind, Fire and Water and didn't do a refence to the band or Fifth Element movie? What has the TH-cams come too?
Not everyone worships the fifth element movie. It's weird and off putting and I grew up watching it. I even have a crush on Mila Jovovich and I STILL can't stand that one. It's not automatically awesome just because someone calls it a cult movie. Sorry 😐
The Roman architect Vitruvius in his second book on architecture also outlined his theory that humans had descended from animals. In medieval Tibetan it was believed that humans and bears were descended from a common ancestor, replace bears, the concept was a remarkably modern one, replace bear with chimpanzee and you have our current understanding of primate evolution in a nutshell.
Humans and bears do have a common ancestor. Go back far enough and humans and insects do too.
The mushroom is closer related to us than plants 😮.
I love ancient intellectuals lmao. “Here’s a book about architecture and also my theory suggesting the existence of evolution. It also has a borscht recipe”
Replace bear with bigfoot and ;)
That last story is pretty damn wild considering that modern seismologists can't predict earthquakes that far in advance, or at least their ability to is in dispute.
I 👍 the background music
Hello again, the Crew and Simon.
Enjoyable as always. Jus amazing, that You can dig up, all these facts.
Keep them coming, we`ll wait.
from a Finn in Diaspora
Jeez, close the close door!
- Why do you show old church slavonic (which is about 1000 AD) script upside down at 12:42?
- It's all Greek to me
for the Vedas, you could say that it all collapses into a black hole, then the black holes become Nairi, until there is a stimulus which causes entropy to violently propagate.
Thank you for the warning
We tend to underestimate our ancestors, their world was harsher and a lot more unforgiving, they had to be sharper and keener than us today to make it through, the fact that they managed to figure that much with far less evidence and tools is some proof of their merits.
Simon, love you man. Respect the beard and keep doing you!
What do you mean we will never know how the universe ends? There is a highly successful restaurant there. It ends in a gnab gib.
The image said “Older than you think”. I thought Simon was going to say that he is older than we all think he is! 😂
the funny thing is that "bad air" in a roundabout way became true. It was found out that still air keeps germs floating about nearby longer than if there was steady airflow and ventilation.
The air is fine, it's the microbes that are bad. The theory was completely wrong.
@@tripsaplenty1227 That's correct, but the bad reputation of the bad air theory led experts to dismiss a report that confirmed ventilation was crucial to reduce the chances of infection within buildings.
@@Appletank8
yeah, people accidentally stumble into the right course of action sometimes.
There is certainly a correlation between bad air and the spread of diseases, but - in case you didn't already know - *_correlation is not causation._* The cause was germs - and they spread through other means as well, not just air. So miasma theory was not only wrong, but also dangerous - because it contributed to the spread of diseases that could have been prevented if germ theory was known.
The Biblical teaching on cleanliness, with the washing that people had to do after touching blood or someone dead should have been instructive. Possibly doctors could have even figured out that diseases were often caused by tiny organisms. The 6th plague: “Take for yourselves handfuls of ashes from a furnace, and let Moses scatter it toward the heavens in the sight of Pharaoh. And it *will become* fine dust in all the land of Egypt, and *it will cause boils* that break out in sores on man and beast throughout all the land of Egypt.” If you ever could see concentrated airborne bacteria or viruses, they would look exactly like fine dust. I'd say that was as good as, or better a prediction (if you can call it that) than the "evolution" one, and far, far better than the miasma mess.
Also, in the book of Job, chapter 26, it's written that God, "stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth on nothing." Maybe they thought of north as the "bottom" of the earth like we think of south? Indeed, the earliest *Egyptian* maps show the south as up. And in Isaiah, the earth is noted as circular, probably understood as a sphere.
We really don’t know how old the vedas are. What do I mean ? Also there’s a black hole crunch. What do I mean? Well as enough time goes by and the black holes actually start to eat each other increasing there there gravity and eventually as they come together, faster and faster exerting more and more gravity on space time things will slow and start falling back to the center of gravity and eventually pull everything back into it even swallowing the fabric of the universe. So everything that ever existed will crunch into a singularity and eventually rupture forth,reseeding all of space and time.
The funniest or most interesting part of this is that it fits the circular universe described by Hinduism. Also this has real implications for humanity because each time it would become a reboot. And every time a new universe starts it’s probably started over in the exact same nature repeating everything next time exactly like this time..
Where is my boy Nostradamus?!
3:50 bros mom is definitely his aunt as well 😂
Good collection .
1) Humanity hasn't changed much in 5000 years - biologically speaking anyhow.
2) There are still experts with impressive track records predicting 4,876 of the last 5 significant world events. Toss enough informed guesses/predictions out there you'll hit the mark on occasion.
Hence my reference username to being a Muon with the atoms and the particles beyond what make sense to most humans... Ahhh, science. :3 Thanks, Simon and team!! :D
I have been waiting forever for this but i was the 4800 like lets go i saw the 7 turn to a 8 WOOO! Simon love your content man keep up the work. and maybe let the editors have some fresh air from time to time 🤣🤣🤣
That dog in the beginning of the video is *chef's kiss*
i have a question, why does the big bang only seem to "bang" in one direction? IE an explosion in a void would expand in all directions? ok the answer is that the pictures we see are just snap shot side views as its all we have so in theory the universe is twice as big? The size of the known universe is vast but finite, based on the limits of what we can observe. This observable universe has a radius of about 46.5 billion light-years. This might sound odd, as the universe is estimated to be 13.8 billion years old, but the expansion of space itself causes the observable region to be larger than that. the "ahhhh" moment.
Krimi is the general word for germs in many Indian languages. Also hiranyagarbha is possibly correct as there is definitely more and more support for multiple big bangs. Folks should take more attention of ancient Indian philosophy. Also I’m sure the vaibhashika theory of atomism predated democritus by…
Penicillin DOES NOT COME FROM BREAD MOLD. The blue/green mold that produces Penicillin SOMETIMES grows on bread, but most typically grows on citrus. The black mold typically on bread has no antibiotic properties.
It could be affected by the type/ingredients of the bread
Could it be possible that our 3 dimensional existence causes an incorrect perception of the expansion of the universe? Perhaps some quantum extra dimensional calculus is involved whereby the expansion, in reality, is really the universe expanding into itself. Since the universe is supposedly infinite, or theoretically, what we might wish to perceive as a one directional expansion, is inherently flawed.
How did the Greeks knew about atoms? Honest question
Aristotle did not add the fifth element. Ether has been the first of five elements in India since before the Greek's milked their first goat. Aristotle was SCHOLAR and LEARNED about this.
You'll have to provide some proof for that. After a quick search I could only find it mentioned starting with the ancient Greeks.
@@123allecs I appreciate and welcome your invitation. :-) Ayurveda is the more than 5,000 year old "India" science-of-life practiced even today, and dates back to the writings of the Upanishads. This is undisputed fact that you can check. This branch of health science has related the universe to its students in the 5 elements for as long. Aristotle "adapted" [sic] aether into the Greek pantheon of basic elements in the 4th century BCE. I hope that these historical facts help you agree that this knowledge is firmly established in the east before Aristotle's lifetime. Now, there is no proof of what I suggest next, but it is widely accepted that this knowledge very likely came to Aristotle late in life, as his student Alexander The Great conquered modern day Pakistan, and at such a time that he would be respected enough to make such world changing shift in scientific view. I look forward to your reply or further conversation on this.
Do they believe that I’d sit and seriously watch any of this!? My intuition is greater than they can imagine!
You sat and commented on this, though...
Not one person with a lot of predictions getting one right, but one person out of a lot of people getting one right.
Every single of these "predictions" were made thousands of years ago in Hindu Scriptures. Simon cited a few of them in this video. The remaining are also from the Vedas.
Example, Before any Greek philosopher thought of atoms as the building block of all matter, the Hindu vedas had given in-depth and comprehensive scientific theories on what they referred to as "Anu". Indivisible building blocks of all matter. It's sad that all this knowledge was systematically destroyed by invaders who enslaved and discredited ancient Indian knowledge and teachings.
And who exactly were the twitwaffles who burned all of Anaximander's writings?
Fact boy, I need more compelling casual criminalist or decoding the unknown!
Hello? Peter? Is it you I'm looking for?
The very last prediction about the earthquake could have been as simple as catching on to animals' behavior prior to the earthquake happening, and maybe things are a little less complicated. I'm not sure if I have the idea right, but I heard that a lot of times when we are presented with a multitude of possibilities, the simplest one might be the most realistic choice or answer. I'm probably not saying that right, but I hope I got the meaning across 😅
Thanks for the name check 😂
please bring back the brainfood podcast 💙
Are you related to the artist of Whistler's Mother (McNeill)?
To think that 1500yrs ago we knew just about half of what we already know… and that it’s only been the last 200yrs where we’ve started to advance again. With the last 20-50yrs being the most successful so far.
Go back in time 100 years and that same statement would be true!
They have the best people names in ancient history. I love hearing them all because I am weird like that. 🤷🏻♀️
There may be a logical reason that Anaximander knew an earthquake was about to hit. If he travelled often in the region than he could have already experienced the precursor to an earthquake and know that it was about to snap.
Many people have reported nausea during the preshock of an earthquake, and they all say it's a sudden and strange nausea.
Just a hunch though. There's no way to know.
I think i read something like this somewhere that some animals can sense subtle vibration and ground electric changes in the enviroment, which can be precursors to earthquakes. Some people might have something like this as well.
@@mrvex6695 exactly what I was saying. There's very little difference between humans and other mammals so what's to say some of us can't feel the preshock. The strongest quake I have felt myself was a 4.6 and I felt a bit nauseous from it. I was about 400km away from the epicenter and it was the strangest feeling I can remember.
3:51 Hindus were talking about atoms and subatomic particles well before the Greeks.
One of the Native American tribes (Hopi?) believe that the Universe is cyclic in nature and that we are in the seventh rebirth headed for another destruction. It is a major plot point in the novel Nightwing.
A person can receive information that is otherwise impossible to know. I knew that a vehicle displaying all the signs of making a right turn would drive straight. There was no way I would have guessed; I just knew. I avoided a collision by heeding that thought.
GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!!
like a day ago, i had a thought about "what if simon covered ancient predictions" and i was gonna suggest it lol
that is not really a prediction - rather a conclusion, which logic dictates...
Guys you need the turn the volume up on your videos. This is really quiet.
I dont think the universe expanding quicker really speaks against the big crunch theory because thats just as far as we can see and tell we dont know whats beyond that expanse
Simon when I die will you read my eulogy?
Yes
@@ANNOYMOUS908 sweet
Why did the 1st century Roman prediction (Vespasian) show 16th century armies?
Hey Simon, your door is open. Just a heads-up, that's all.
0:20 One person making a million predictions is equivalent to a million people each making one prediction.
The problem with disputing the big crunch or the big bounce, is the explaining away the insane amount of superfluids and how they'd react under the pressure.
Make video on Indian USBRL Railway project in Himalayas linking KASHMIR to JAMMU and rest of INDIA by train
Hail Simon!