Outlasting the Universe

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Now and again we make a video that's a bit different from our usual stuff and here's one of them. A fictional narrative that weaves in scientific ideas of deep time and how intelligence might persist, challenging us to imagine what infinite life might truly be like. Thanks for watching.
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REFERENCES
► Dyson, F., 1979, "Time without end: Physics and biology in an open universe", Rev. Modern Phys, 51, 447: ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/197...
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0:00 Sid Acharya - Journey
2:49 Sid Acharya - Stories from the Sky
6:11 Falls - Ripley
7:45: Chris Zabriskie - Cylinder Four
9:55 Hill - Echoes of Yesterday (open.spotify.com/track/4AfA4T...)
13:18 Hill - The Now Is Only a Thin Slice of Who I Am (open.spotify.com/track/396DSp...)
19:25: Y - Joachim Heinrich
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@KjCabus 3 ай бұрын

It just occurred to me that if any filmmaker and/or major media entity ie, Netflix, Hulu, etc , wanted to make an amazing speculative science fiction film or series that likely would be the best and most thought provoking ever, they need to employ Dr. Kipping. This one and the one he did about a fictional first civilization on our galaxy, were beyond amazing. Just masterpieces of sci fi short story telling imo.

@perrynnlynch1883 3 ай бұрын

Great comment.

@tiberiupaslaru3830 3 ай бұрын

Unfortunately most if not all film creators (or maybe those that approve their payment?) never got past the fairytale stage, when it comes to imaginative stories. Either this, or they mimic a real story from our past, transposing it into the future, and tweaking the storyline to their liking. That’s why Avatar is just the American natives struggle against the European colonists, moved to another planet. That’s why Tenet is just the Cold War story moved to another timeline (so to speak) That’s why Dune, for all its marvel, is just a medieval kingdom internal struggle transported into the stars (as is the game of thorns - song of fire and ice story)… And I’m not going to mention Star Wars or Star Trek. All these have in common some struggles of the human beings as it is defined NOW. A struggle against other human beings or against some current human being conditions as they are now. All the stories are about us, and what we can relate to at this point in our history. I would very much like to see some story that tries to imagine a different (more evolved) being and its perceived struggles (that would be a stretch of imagination)…

@madara657 3 ай бұрын

This fits as a Black mirror episode

@jaybingham3711 3 ай бұрын

After this, you may be up for a viewing of the movie Aniara (Scifi 2018). Or you may not. Just decide carefully.

@Wtfukker 3 ай бұрын

People like him do not need to be "employed" .. the only reason their work is this good is because no corporation was involved.

@karnasaurav 2 ай бұрын

This was brilliant. That last line "A universe just for me, for ALL TIME" for some reason, made me cry.

@ozymandias1758 2 ай бұрын

It's what everyone is mortally afraid of, with good reason: to be stranded alone somewhere, nowhere in the cosmos, with no outside voices, no interaction, or even signs of life or movement.. Forever Cocooned by the Void😮

@catharinalangle4890 Ай бұрын

@@ozymandias1758 Until the next big bang continues the cycle an absolute s)(-#&-ton of time later. And we haven't even talked string theory and multiple universes/multiverse(s). But yeah, spending timeless time alone is brrr.

@ozymandias1758 Ай бұрын

@@catharinalangle4890a portal to another universe unf isn't available to the narrator, in all the countless eons of his existence he never developed time travel or the ability to portal to any other realm. And he's out of energy, so even if he developed the science to pull it off, he may no longer have the means to do so. He's so heavily invested in his version of existence that he probably would not be open to letting his consciousness dissipate and hoping it coalesces and awakens again after the next big bang, when the universe is recycled and created anew. He's painted himself into a shrinking corner, on a cosmic scale..

@michaelrosenstock9187 17 күн бұрын

He's a bit dramatic, just next door there's a fully functioning very successful restaurant

@NT_1 23 сағат бұрын

@@ozymandias17584:13 the Scene were Mercury looks to be falling into the Sun is from *SUNSHINE* 2007. I highly recommend the film. Truly existential and terrifying scores with utterly transcending soundtracks.

@JohnMichaelGodier 3 ай бұрын

Absolutely stunning David. Your best yet, which is saying a lot.

@garymahony701 2 ай бұрын

Yo l like your videos too.

@friscostreetstories5403 2 ай бұрын

We love your videos also. I've learned so much.

@Mplessor 2 ай бұрын

What a coincidence! I recommend both Cool Worlds and John Michael Godier channels to my wife about 15 minutes ago.

@KarlHessey-db6mf 2 ай бұрын

Yes John, love your video on nano civilizations

@dwrobotics2180 Ай бұрын

I just subscribed to cool worlds on the strength of coincidentally seeing JMG complimenting.

@thebob5240 24 күн бұрын

Not gonna lie this reading/story made me come to tears...i can only think of just how ALONE one must feel in that position and yet feel so obligated to continue because one remembers everything your people used to be.

@andrewaguirre7872 3 ай бұрын

I wanna be around people like this to like to think about the universe.

@gtaledged7670 3 ай бұрын

You definitely found those people

@TheArtofFugue 3 ай бұрын

Welcome! Tho if you want to in person, get a physics degree and pursue higher education

@99Lezard99 3 ай бұрын

same. i also dont feel like i can talk to anyone about these things. none of my friends have this kind of thoughts and interests. when we are looking in the sky on a clear night, i explain the sheer size and time about our universe and all. but they only go "yeah. fascinating. when do we leave?"

@andrewaguirre7872 3 ай бұрын

@@TheArtofFugue I'm smart but i'm not that smart

@andrewaguirre7872 3 ай бұрын

@99Lezard99 ya I feel ya

@DreadPirateRobertz 3 ай бұрын

As a recovering heroin addict I come to this channel to feel things I otherwise couldn't. Every time I think I've permanently damaged my capacity for emotion, these thought experiments prove otherwise. Extremely insightful and profoundly moving. Ty cool worlds.

@comtruise402 3 ай бұрын

you haven’t damaged anything bud…sure, it’s a long trek back to normalcy, but don’t stress yourself out, and don’t let society make you feel like you’re a diminished version of yourself. I hope you have a good one.

@512Squared 3 ай бұрын

Who knows, maybe you just got rid of the petty and superficial layers of emotion that stop people from meeting themselves or meeting life fully.

@DoktrDub 3 ай бұрын

Keep on the road to cleansing buddy, good luck even though you don’t need it king 👍

@DoktrDub 3 ай бұрын

@@512Squaredno because those emotions allow us to strive for our being, anyways the dude will be fine, he’s got this.

@Mc.Knight 3 ай бұрын

You’re clearly stronger than the rest of us. So proud of you for making it this far in your personal battle of a journey. All it takes is time, perhaps a little more than you bargained for, to feel it all again

@paulbryant7075 3 ай бұрын

I pulled up KZfaq to distract myself for a few minutes.. I didn't expect to end my night crying, shaking quietly into my pillow so I don't wake my wife and have to explain the heat death of the universe to someone who just wants to tend her garden and feed her birds. I have no idea what to do with this, but I'm so grateful that you made it.

@GreenKC 2 ай бұрын

Morbidly enlightening to know all we will ever do is meaningless in the end.

@richbattaglia5350 2 ай бұрын

Your wife knows what’s best in life. I’d rather garden.

@richbattaglia5350 2 ай бұрын

Your wife knows what’s best in life. I’d rather garden.

@iamisran 2 ай бұрын

Ignorance is truly bliss. Knowledge is a gift and a curse. Beautifully said my stranger friend.

@benjalucian1515 2 ай бұрын

@@GreenKC All more reason to make every day count for us.

@neldanie 3 ай бұрын

How can anything make me this sad. How futile are our quibbles over land, religion, ideology, money... How insignificant are we in this vast universe? Thank you for this thought-provoking tale.

@bkbland1626 3 ай бұрын

I like to say we are the Alabama of the Galaxy.

@prestonclabaugh9177 3 ай бұрын

Right now we don’t have access to the galaxy that this story envisions. We have access to this one tiny spec that all the people to ever exist have lived on. Once we can expand past our planet and our solar system then these realities begin to take place and those generations will have the opportunity this video talks about. Until then we suffer under limited resources like this video explains only the reverse of it.

@literallya442ndclonetroope5 3 ай бұрын

⁠The good thing though is that we could certainly still be wrong about our assumptions about the universe. We live and observe, we aren’t all knowing, and therefore, hope should always be held and not fall to things as frivolous as the slight possibility of us being right about our pessimism. Perhaps there is a afterlife. Perhaps existence outside of this one is only the beginning. We love to assume but we fail to realize just how much possibilities there are, and just how wrong we could be in terms of reality itself. These wars and conflicts, disagreements and arguments, and more. They shape us just as much as peacefulness and unity, love and kindness. If we deprive ourselves of our struggles, then what are we meant for?

@michael-ny3wk 3 ай бұрын

Right? I cried so hard I felt like vomiting. 10/10 story!

@ChadoDragonslayer 3 ай бұрын

We will most likely remain this way even having conquered the stars, which is good, without conflict how boring humanity would become? We were always meant to be a maddening, irrational, species, if there's none to fight we fight ourselves, even to destruction

@ahoney17 3 ай бұрын

This was incredible. I did not think at the beginning of this that I would be on the verge of tears at the end, but this was so emotional and thought-provoking that I couldn't help it. Another absolutely amazing video.

@CoolWorldsLab 3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much, I put a lot into this one

@Voidy123 3 ай бұрын

@@CoolWorldsLab You're changing lives and are a great inspiration.

@MERCY0588 3 ай бұрын

That's the one exact sell point of our beloved Professor to other Channels out there. I was literally crying at the end of the content on Time-travelling because I kind of hope that video would be mostly of time-travelling paradoxes or conspiracy theories around that like most KZfaq videos. For someone who lost the beloved ones in COVID needs some form of closure to deal with grief even it's something that we can't manipulate or foresee.

@carlknibbs2849 3 ай бұрын

@@CoolWorldsLabpossibly one of your best works thanks..

@guyinaroom7771 3 ай бұрын

@@CoolWorldsLab I could tell, this is truly special.

@jaymexxu 3 ай бұрын

Best wholesome KZfaqr that makes astronomy videos, now, and forever. Nobody tops you bro! I really really love how you use philosophy in your videos and stimulate deep thinking, and do it with a longer pause in between sentences to let people think for themselves too, it's not like those no attention span tiktoks and shorts. I appreciate you a lot.

@CoolWorldsLab 3 ай бұрын

👊

@jaymexxu 3 ай бұрын

@@CoolWorldsLab Sorry i edited my comment it removed the heart. But thank you for giving one i appreciate it a lot. 👊

@Celestial_Reach 3 ай бұрын

He is deffinitly one of the best. An acquaintance of the good professor, one Issac Arthur does great wholesome.content in this realm too. But.. it's easier to sleep to David's voice....it's so smooth

@dr4d1s 3 ай бұрын

@@jaymexxuI had the same thing happen to me the other week on a NASA Space Flight video. I didn't even think about it taking the heart away when I was only trying to fix a small grammatical error. 😢

@dancingwiththedogsdj 3 ай бұрын

@jaymexxu - Well said!! Totally agree this is a fantastic channel and the delivery is smooth like silk! Absolutely one of my favorites for great content. Have a fabulous day everyone!

@jamesmartin9401 3 ай бұрын

I am stunned. I say this with no intent at hyperbole. This may be the best science fiction story ever, in my opinion.

@sloppyoppie 3 ай бұрын

Sim, you mean.

@flossordie2256 3 ай бұрын

Check out the Infinite timeline. Whole book series based on this premise.

@FOXISALLJEWISH 3 ай бұрын

I never felt the dread of a universe. Was hard to endure.

@jonp3890 3 ай бұрын

Read ‘The Soul Consortium,’ if you like this one.

@TheKiltedYaksman1 3 ай бұрын

JFC. Here I sit, in a Toyota dealer's service waiting room, trying not to ugly cry. Bleak, provocative, and thoughtful. Well done.

@griffbrown4927 3 ай бұрын

This

@charleswilliams8248 2 ай бұрын

Without Christ there is no eternal life!John 3:16

@beegeman 3 ай бұрын

This might be the best sci-fi story I've ever seen. And it's even rooted in true physics as we understand it right now. Amazing and powerful.

@DeadAndAliveCat 3 ай бұрын

You should read some more sci-fi then... May I suggest The Last Question by Asimov? After all, this video is basically a copy of that short story

@kaledon6 3 ай бұрын

Modern physics strongly supports many other universes beyond our own, so the entire drama depicted on this video is based on the ridiculous idea that human kind wouldn´t discover ways of migrating to other universes EVEN WHEN HAVING TRILLIONS OF TRILLIONS OF YEARS TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO IT

@VictorReynolds 3 ай бұрын

Deep. Never thought about immortality in that light.

@mruncletheredge 3 ай бұрын

Very Beautiful Story....

@fast1nakus 3 ай бұрын

@@kaledon6no matter how much time you give a microbe, it will never discover a cure for cancer.

@igbaccin 3 ай бұрын

What a wonderful work of art. Beautifully written and narrated. Thank you for this upload!

@maartenbots 3 ай бұрын

I'm in love

@misterangel8486 3 ай бұрын

Isaac Asimov would be proud😎👏👏👏 This is so much like his *final question* story yet has its own unique point of view. I have never been so moved by something on KZfaq as watching this. Thank you and big applause 👏👏🌹🌹🌹 Bravo!

@bradthompson5383 Ай бұрын

The allusion to that particular story was insanely obvious to anyone aware of it.

@misterangel8486 Ай бұрын

@@bradthompson5383 as obvious as your trolling? Thanks for your insight.

@mrosskne 20 күн бұрын

@@misterangel8486how was he trolling?

@misterangel8486 20 күн бұрын

@@mrosskne by responding to my comment that was ment as praise for the maker and trying to appropriate his story,my comment and trying to make me look stupid because I quote a well known sci-fi story. My appreciation goes to the maker. Not to trolls just being nasty for nasty sake. Question answered?

@imarchello 8 күн бұрын

@@bradthompson5383 I bet most people have never heard of Isaac Asimov and his "The Last Question" short story, aside from sci-fi nerds. For them the allusion would be obvious, yes, but for all others it would be a new discovery. So it's all relative in the end. What is obvious to you is new and novel to somebody else.

@Sic_n_cyde 3 ай бұрын

This is probably the best science fiction narration I have ever heard from a KZfaqr. Our petty human differences are so meaningless in the grand scheme of our entire spec of existence. Where we've been. Where we're going. If we surpass the Great Filter, hopefully humans can achieve bliss in a otherwise bleak future.

@NT_1 23 сағат бұрын

I highly recommend the movie SUNSHINE 2007. It's the most existential and visceral film I've seen. Has the most terrifying and beautiful music score In a movie.

@ethansinclair1537 3 ай бұрын

This is truly sublime. Alan Watts once said if you could dream a million dreams, eventually you would want a suprising adventure and find yourself where you are now. There is a strange comfort in being a memory of the last being in the universe, dreaming for all of humanity. Thank you Dr. Kipping.

@sasqetshenkley1190 3 ай бұрын

It made me want to go open up a vein or two in the bathtub with a straight razer and contemplate the heat death of the Universe as the bathwater slowly cools from hot to tepid and ever more red.

@laurencejperry 3 ай бұрын

Begs the question, what could be dreaming of the machine that's dreaming of us?

@DrumToTheBassWoop 29 күн бұрын

@@laurencejperrya dream within a dream.

@TheTravis1984 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for this. While the ending was bleak, I think it is important to understand that no matter how many years you have, the end comes to us all, eventually.

@SephTunes 3 ай бұрын

Don't think it's bleak. Its beautiful that we made it all that way. Better that we witness heat death than it happens without us

@genegray9895 3 ай бұрын

There's still one more source of radiation that will never completely run dry - the cosmic event horizon

@MyLifeInVideos 3 ай бұрын

@@genegray9895which is what ? The Big Bang ?

@The_Primary_Axiom 3 ай бұрын

If you get rid of fear completely, you will see there is great beauty in death and the ending.

@Rattus-Norvegicus 3 ай бұрын

“Death comes for us all, Oroku Saki, but something much worse comes for you … for when you die, it will be without honor.” ~ Master Splinter

@OldManThatIsOutOfTouch 3 ай бұрын

This is my phobia. I'm not sure if there is a name for such a thing, but this fear of the end of everything... Even if there is an afterlife, there will ultimately be an end. And to live that long you would question why. This is one of the most important videos of my life, as it sums my fear entirely in such a deeper and more profound way than I ever could. This reminds me of the end of the Three Body Problem - an existential dread. It's beautiful.

@synthetic240 3 ай бұрын

Imagine getting to the afterlife and proving entropy still matters. That would be depressing. It's hard to imagine wanting to be "the last one" as in this story. I suppose it's a comfort that eventually one might want to simply dissolve away quietly into whatever energy creates the afterlife. If it's possible to have a fulfilling afterlife, maybe you just decide "this is far enough". I could also imagine some people asking just to sleep; not exactly the time dilation in this video, but a reduced state of semi-consciousness until one "feels rested".

@bigmeatswangin5837 3 ай бұрын

An afterlife is by its nature external to this reality, and therefore (likely) unbound by the laws of entropy, etc. So no, not *everything* neccessarily ends.

@synthetic240 3 ай бұрын

@@bigmeatswangin5837 Hard to say what's likely though.

@HeruUrAusar 3 ай бұрын

Entropy does not only mean the end. With enough time, the Universe can be reborn through the nature of the energy inherent to space itself. So, those enduring minds may actually be lucky enough to experience the birth of a new universe.

@OldManThatIsOutOfTouch 3 ай бұрын

I think that's the fear.. If there was an afterlife, would you maintain your consciousness, and if the universe ended and was reborn, would you maintain your consciousness. I suppose it doesn't matter what vessel I'm operating, only if I "know" who I am and have memories of life. @@HeruUrAusar

@cannonfish5000 3 ай бұрын

HOLY COW. No idea why KZfaq's algorithm recommended this, but I watched it, and I am now just sitting here in stunned silence. Holy cow. That was amazing.

@ScentlessSun 3 ай бұрын

After I watched this video, I felt uneasy for a bit. I took some time and I reflected on why that might be. I think I felt that way because this video stirred up thoughts of the need to accept that death is inevitable. And that’s a good thing. It is completely logical to accept this fact, and I do, but on an emotional level sometimes I revert back to rejecting it, and I lose my inner peace about this reality. Thank you for producing content like this that can stir such thoughts and realizations.

@LavaCreeperPeople 3 ай бұрын

yeah

@user-or5ke5yn4w 3 ай бұрын

I don't agree death is inevitable. We are taught to accept it because we cannot beat it... yet. I believe science will be eventually able to beat it. The civilization described here should have found ways to modify the laws of physics so that the stars don't burn out, or to escape our universe and find others where it would be possible to live for longer time, or create new universes. They had almost a googol years, and that's something. And in this video the humanity kinda reached some point (not very far from where we are now) and then stopped. In my opinion, this is the problem of all science fiction. The science never stops, and it has no limits at all. Our generation will experience death, yes. But I am sure our descendants will find not only the way to make themselves immortal, but to reconstruct our minds from the state of universe they will scan, and this way bring us back to live with them in this future.

@AwakenedAvocado 3 ай бұрын

Can't die if you're already dead

@aylbdrmadison1051 3 ай бұрын

This comment is so close to how I feel having just finished watching. I've often considered what being immortal might be like, and always felt it could only only end up in selfishness or absolute destruction. But hey, if nothing else, I will remember this one day when my time comes. In the meantime, let's become a better society for the benefit of all who are here, and all will come. And how better could we honor those who already passed, as well? ❤🌍🌎🌏🌐

@SeaJay_Oceans 3 ай бұрын

You call into question the nature of Self. Self is Awareness. As such, by definition, we can never experience 'death', for the moment Awareness ends, we are not there. Even in simple sleep, are you still there ?

@21preend42 3 ай бұрын

Low key I was expecting a good ending like this, " The expansion of the universe seem to have also died along with the last few black holes, perhaps they were connected one to another. Yet in our last moments of futile desperation our persistence seems to have paid off, we have longed theorized of how our universe came to existence yet we have never found out the truth. Now of all time I can see an incredibly shiny light far into the distance, a beacon of hope, a different kind of light from that of a dying black hole, perhaps a new universe ?" Amazing video btw. Love it.

@morbadthworst8148 3 ай бұрын

As extreme as the scale of this narrative setting is, it's pretty hard sci-fi. A happy ending that required leaps of faith, or largely unfounded speculation, would have been out of place.

@KaoticIndustrial 3 ай бұрын

A good ending is egocentric. We want to survive so we always a put a good ending. This is realistic.

@Siferis 3 ай бұрын

I was going to say that perhaps he doesn't exist in a single universe bubble and that some entity/entities from outside of that universe bubble just fish him out. I mean you might not start a new universe with entities already inside it, they might I dunno, get vaporized and such.

@synthetic240 3 ай бұрын

Escaping entropy by going into another universe has been proposed by a few scifi races. It's probably the most viable. Wouldn't it suck if they learned that every new spacetime has less energy density than the last and that limits the sort of physics possible in them. Eventually you get to a universe where not even chemistry is possible. Then you really gotta get creative with your energy sources.

@bmpixy 3 ай бұрын

'And AC said: "LET THERE BE LIGHT!" And there was light--'

@nuvostef 3 ай бұрын

Dr. Kipping, I could listen to you for hours. This narrative, these images, your soothing, gentle voice have woven one of the most beautiful, poignant, and poetic programs I have ever witnessed. Thank you so much. 🌹

@blackfish4147 2 күн бұрын

That was truly breathtaking. With all of Hollywood pumping out one poorly written remake after another, it's a brilliant physicist who writes the best screenplay of the year!

@ralphgriffin2785 3 ай бұрын

Even your worst enemy could be your best friend in a reality where there is simply no one else…love it!

@carmensavu5122 Ай бұрын

Yeah way to keep those standards high.

@Trish.Norman 3 ай бұрын

Wow! This needs to be a screenplay and turned into a full length film.

@records6720 3 ай бұрын

This is a film, a documentary about the 2020's.

@Draezeth Ай бұрын

I don't think this could be portrayed in a better form than a short story.

@Jawuas 3 ай бұрын

I've just been debating with myself for the past 2 hours about how many lives could I realistically live before getting tired of it all. No matter the answer, it just shows how a single video can bring about such creativity and wonder in one's mind!

@nedyalkokarabadzhakov5405 3 ай бұрын

This is top 3 youtube channels that i watched daily. The knowledge, the story telling is perfect, it makes me thing about life, humanity, tech, universe all in one.

@chriskola3822 3 ай бұрын

This reminds me a lot of Issac Arthur's "civilizations at the end of time" episodes. Really thought provoking material. Very well presented. Thank you.

@aristideau5072 3 ай бұрын

If you like those kind of stories then Tau Zero has a more upbeat (but very unlikely) ending

@deanlawson6880 3 ай бұрын

Wow.. Just wow. I can't express how deep, thoughtful and emotive this story is.. I've never even remotely thought in such vast and timeless terms like this.. Not ever.. It was at the same time tragically sad and joyously triumphant to experience this story of the lifetime of the Universe as experienced by the very.. last.. conscious being... Just wow.. Thank you so much for this deeply moving experience Prof. Kipping.

@hadhad69 3 ай бұрын

The entire premise of this video is a blatant rip off of Issac Asimov's classic short story "The Last Question"

@aylbdrmadison1051 3 ай бұрын

I haven't either. In no small part because the number of times I've considered what being immortal would be like, I could not see an ending that was not selfish or ultimately destructive. As an optimist myself, this video extends well beyond my own optimism. So maybe I have even more reason for hope. This cannot be the only possible outcome. I'm still not convinced the universe has an age or an edge. If it does, then what lies before/beyond that? How does nothing exist?

@aylbdrmadison1051 3 ай бұрын

@@hadhad69 : I never read that one. Thanks for mentioning it.😊 Edit: And super cool, I just found a version with Leonard Nimoy narrating. 🥰

@donaldcollins6687 3 ай бұрын

Even more amazing the second time

@TPRZX 3 ай бұрын

Wow this was amazing! Great job

@hannes5437 Ай бұрын

This has given me more existential dread, than anything else ever has or could.

@Syn4kh Ай бұрын

This should get an Oscar for a short film

@JohnSmith-sh1sy 3 ай бұрын

I've watched hundreds of all kinds of space/physics related videos on youtube. This is one of the few that had me glued from start to finish. Beautiful.

@mattymmmm2362 3 ай бұрын

This was fantastic, I think we would all love more like this. It reminds me of Issac Asimov’s The Last Question.

@perrynnlynch1883 3 ай бұрын

Great comment.

@Spacecazeka 3 ай бұрын

i was expecting a "and then there was light" at the end

@averyspencer4483 2 ай бұрын

That last thought at the very end, that last being, will see the big bang again. Then they will cease. This has been a thought exercise for me for probably 25 years.

@redriver6541 3 ай бұрын

I don't know who you have on your team with making these videos, but you guys are making some of the highest quality space science related work on KZfaq. Unbelievably well done.

@giancarlopellizzari4022 3 ай бұрын

The best text, interpretation, and content ever seen on the internet. I thank the universe for being able to understand the plot. It's beyond fantastic. I have no words. Just thank you.

@podunkest 3 ай бұрын

That's about all I could muster as well. This one hit me too, friend.

@dr4d1s 3 ай бұрын

I absolutely love the narrative device you used to write this. It is haunting, sad, terrifying, inspiring and beautiful all at once. You should think about publishing this as a short story/novella. If you do though, don't expand on it too much. It's short form really plays on the idea of it being humanities final throw at/during the heat-death of the universe. Fantastic Work!

@TheRealSkeletor 3 ай бұрын

It's already published to KZfaq. Why does it need to be in any other format?

@dr4d1s 3 ай бұрын

@@TheRealSkeletor Because, believe it or not, people still read. There is just something about a civilization running out of energy and telling their story using one of the lowest form of technology available, words on paper (or another material). It is kind of reminiscent (to me) of finding a text/tome/book lost to the ages.

@timbruten1375 3 ай бұрын

This was absolutely amazing to watch. Ive sat for about 10 minutes going over it all again in my head and im still lost for words. The music, the story, everything had so much depth. This was honestly a pleasure to watch. I would LOVE to see a full movie made by you dude. 👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽

@shemjaza 3 ай бұрын

I once tried to think about what the last thought in the Universe would be... when the last ancient mind finally uses up the end of all usable energy... what i could think of was "I exist." This was a beautifully written and beautifully performed video.

@duke68318 3 ай бұрын

Do not go gentle into that good night, old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Well done Prof. Kipping 🙏🏻

@doomguy2809 3 ай бұрын

i love these types of Cool World videos! no math, just these fantastic, science-based, imaginative stories that lend so much to the imagination! thank you!

@benjalucian1515 2 ай бұрын

Read so many comments that people are upset and sad. I seem to be resigned. When people talk about an afterlife being 'forever', I keep thinking how very very very long that is. Like the character, I come to the same conclusion, what is the point of surviving just for the sake of surviving if you lose everything you wanted to preserve? You eventually lose yourself. Excellent video. Will probably watch again. Gives you a perspective you seldom think about. A cheesy saying seems apt, things are precious and beautiful because they _don't_ last.

@spectrumdrakari5300 3 ай бұрын

I.........I have no words. This simple video.......but the message......I doubt even God could comprehend. Update: after pondering the video over and over again, it made me realize, or perhaps, remembered something; "something isn't beautiful because it lasts", Vision to Ultron. All good things come to an end. It's inevitable. There is no escape. It is our fate. But then I asked myself, what is the point of anything then? What is the point of anything if it will all simply vanish one day? But then I realized something. That our existence is our own. This is our life. We are the ones to choose how we live. Though in the end, it may not mean anything, at least it meant something to you. You are your own person, and you exist and live for your sake. No one else's. And once I realized that, I felt a burden lift off of me. So much fear, anger, anxiety, stress, and depression.... simply eased up a bit. I now desire as many people as possible to watch this video, and learn to live the life they want for themselves.

@daemonthorn5888 3 ай бұрын

This was absolutely amazing. I've spent my whole life pondering such things. So much of my thoughts are spent on such mulling that it,at times,has been crippling for me. And it's been extremely rare that I encounter someone to converse with,or share my thoughts with, that it has caused me profound and terrible loneliness all my life. Watching this vid brought tears to my eyes. Not only because it is simply beautiful,but because it made me feel that there are others out there.

@aerbil3136 Ай бұрын

Research Islam. It is an answer.

@hybrid.but.human.official 3 ай бұрын

This one brought tears to my eyes.... Beautiful, beautiful video, you guys just don't seem to miss. So few understand how ahead of your time you are, thought process-wise. This video will not always be fiction, and/or is already the reality in which we live, without our population being aware. I think I speak for others here when I say, your presence is so unbelievably appreciated on this platform, there's hardly an appropriate way to phrase it. Your audience loves you. Stay awesome.

@takealready 3 ай бұрын

that was beautiful. The editing, the narration, the description. Everything came together to create a masterpiece.

@Carl6801force 10 күн бұрын

I turn 50 in 9 days. Thank you for this, suddenly I don't feel so old. Phenomenal work, btw. Truly, bravo 👏

@georgecrossman4977 3 ай бұрын

Again, Saturday night just got saved. Thank you David and team

@colinadevivero 3 ай бұрын

I think you are the only person alive who could have written and delivered such a beautiful video essay. Well done ❤

@dudebro755 3 ай бұрын

uh not really, much more creative artists and folks out there who produced much more impressive works.

@tomahawk8754 26 күн бұрын

I love this. My only dig would be that in the beginning the narrator states "much of human history is now sadly lost", however a few minutes later says they've lived the lives of almost every human alive digitally.

@garros 3 ай бұрын

I didn't need to be bawling my eyes out today but here we are. Great writing.

@maxkristiansson9845 3 ай бұрын

Cool Worlds, you are one of the most poetic creators I’ve encountered. Somehow, in all misery we as humans meet, you have given me strength. 💫✨❤️

@ThousandDaggers 3 ай бұрын

Not gonna lie I was hoping our protagonist was either going to figure out how to trigger a new big bang. Or, a way to escape to another universe.

@zz-qi8iw 3 ай бұрын

May be, who knows? This is based on our current knowledge . so that is a possibility.

@itsarali 3 ай бұрын

At the end when they said they had their own universe ‘for all time’ that seemed ambiguous. Did the last consciousness actually survive forever? Why did they say ‘all time’ when it’s assumed all particles would decay because of heat death?

@joenetherland712 2 ай бұрын

Honestly one of the scariest things I've come across. Well done, beautiful video and story telling.

@jpmcnown1 3 ай бұрын

Wow, that was incredible. Thanks to everyone that put this together.

@Ken-fh4jc 3 ай бұрын

Wow just wow. Another amazing video, David. This is by far the best science channel on KZfaq right now. Personally I love when you do the deep, emotive, style ones. The time travel one, for example, I go back to again and again.

@perrynnlynch1883 3 ай бұрын

Well said and great comment.

@joshuagharis9017 3 ай бұрын

And check the "how big is our universe " one. Infinite meaning lost loved ones still exist somewhere, always gets me

@desertwind9216 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for this... I've thought of about the end of ends and wondered. I found this moving. Beautiful. You gave such life and clarity to how things might actually happen. And it was all so real. Not just in a no sci fi kind of way, but the heart, the love, feeling, the loss... I often find the heat death of the universe profoundly sad... all those stars, all those creatures, everything that was bright and inspiring, everything they loved, wanted, feared, remembered, connected... just gone. Empty. Forgotten... at best I can think of it as a sleep. But in reality it's not that. This piece of work brought tears to my eyes and helped me grieve for things to come.

@christofferv.junros6170 3 ай бұрын

As a fellow science fiction writer, this story, by Kipping is by far the most thought-provoking concept I've heard of, mastered by an amazing talented storytelling, combining theories and engineering expertise. I'm awestruck!

@BadMonkey2x 3 ай бұрын

You’ve just made KZfaq worthwhile. Thank you.🙏🏻

@RAKKAR7 3 ай бұрын

Hello Dr! Welcome back! I hope I can speak for all of your loyal subscribers and say that it's difficult to adequately express the depths to which we appreciate ALL of your wonderful content!!

@cadosian078 3 ай бұрын

Professor Kipping mentions how the last two could send more information between them as their black holes got smaller but the story, it seems unfinished. As the last consciousness around a shrinking black hole the energy would continue to increase, and for a moment when the black hole is all but completely gone it’s emitting so much energy that perhaps eons of life and lived experiences could be squeezed into that one moment. Like millions of lives flashing before your eyes. It would’ve been the last thing needed to bring tears to my eyes. The final breath of life at the end of eternity would instead be a bang rather than a whimper.

@kathrynhavelka3957 Ай бұрын

Simply a masterpiece. Ive listened to this almost a dozen times now, and the imagery is incredible. Someone would make a fortune adapting your story into a movie or show. Thank you very much Dr. Kipping. :)

@jvhobson 4 күн бұрын

A series of books would be wonderful. ....And if Penrose's cyclic universe theory is correct, those who slowed their consciousness down the very most might just possibly persist through the rescaling event to the next Big Bang.

@rfrois2008 2 ай бұрын

This is certainly on of the best videos you've produced yet, It will be on mind for sometime. Congratulations!!

@sunblood701 3 ай бұрын

Best channel on KZfaq by far! Please continue to mix philosophy and astronomy together. It makes me think about the bigger questions in life instead of just day to day things. Your storytelling techniques is amazing and even I just finish this video I have already restarted it and I’ll probably listen to it 3-4 times more today! 😁

@prototropo 3 ай бұрын

Everything we should review in our daily experience is inventoried here-- personhood, moral choice, selfhood, the powers of language and consciousness, the fragility of volition, incapacities of memory, the meaning of life & experience, the purpose of existence--and of purpose itself. Thank you, Dr. Kipping.

@ChrisPtoes27 3 ай бұрын

This was one of the best things I have ever watched. After finishing the video I just sat there for like 5 minutes just taking in everything I just watched and then I had some of the most thought provoking ideas and concepts I have ever had. Watching this gave me a feeling I have never experienced before and I don’t know what it could possibly be. Thank you for this absolute masterpiece and I doubt I will ever experience something like this again

@mitchellheckethorn6003 Ай бұрын

Honestly, that would be hell, literally. A terrifying glimpse into what would be eternal pain and suffering as everyone's minds slowly crumble.

@rygio4071 3 ай бұрын

This is beautiful. I recently had a similar session with ChatGPT where I played a sci-fi writer in the 21st century, communicating with a digital being billions of years in the future, adrift on a rogue Earth in intergalactic space. The being narrated stories of how Earth got ejected from the Sol system and how the surviving Earthlings persisted through mind uploads. We, the digital beings, lived multiple lifetimes in different simulations, and we discussed concepts like multiple worlds, existing in multiple dimensions, etc. This is just similar to the make-believe chat I had with ChatGPT.

@vincenthaddad 3 ай бұрын

That was so beautiful and heart breaking. This is one of the greatest pieces of art I have ever experienced.

@perrynnlynch1883 3 ай бұрын

Top comment.

@drean_3k 2 ай бұрын

bro makes the best sleep videos in existence, put this on once for knowledge, put this on twice at bedtime so you can fade into deep sleep at minute 15

@JustinMcGee-be8fu 28 күн бұрын

Love concepts like this, mainly because it speaks to the only ultimate truth that we know with 100% certainty. Everything ends, even the universe itself. We try to fight it as best we can but we know that all we're doing is prolonging that end. Its both beautiful and terrifying. Death claims everything. For me personally when I think about my own mortality and what that means, it can be pretty scary, but I remember what someone else once asked me. What was it like before you were born? The answer is of course.. nothing. So as it is with death, you will never experience death. You will experience dying, but not death. Nobody knows what death is like because there is no way to see the information. Death is very much like the event horizon of a black hole. You can see it, you can approach it.. but once you cross it... there is nothing and no way to perceive the experiences, thus there are no experiences. It is just nothing. That can be comforting in a way. There are just some gaps that exist that our understanding cannot cross. Its impossible to cross that gap. It represents the ultimate unknown, we fill that unknown with religion often times but the reality is that once you reach that gap, you will become one with the nothing. The fact that all things, everything in existence will reach that point in time that in the end we will all just be nothing. That is a comfort, at least to me. That leaves only two possible answers. Either there is something after that gap, or there really is just nothing and its impossible to know until it happens. 50% chance. I think the primary point this video is trying to make is that its senseless to fight it. To live your life the best that you can but at some point it needs to end otherwise what is the point of continuing on just for the sake of continuing? Fun and scary mental exercise for sure. Go hug your kids, your dog, go outside and look up at the stars while you can, because one day that is no longer going to be an option.

@InfinityAndParadox 3 ай бұрын

I'm captivated by the cosmic wonders because of this stellar video, narrated by a maestro, weaving profound philosophical reflections on the infinitude of existence itself. Bravo!

@goober685 3 ай бұрын

Immortality doesn't seem so great now. Beautifully done.

@Datan0de 3 ай бұрын

Strangely, I had the opposite reaction. The intervening eons between now and then stretch before us like a treasure of unfathomable richness and joy, and I want to participate in it as much as I possibly can. Will it all come to naught? Maybe. Probably. But in a way that's liberating. It lets us focus on the journey, and on bringing as much joy to each other as possible while we share it.

@ProbsNotNova 3 ай бұрын

Second watch through, it's just so captivating. It deserves an entire animated/filmed production paired with the narration. Incorporating what it already does but also better visualization of what is dictated. Possibly expanded on. But even as is is phenomenal. Made into a full substantial but not large budget production, this would stand above Interstellar by leagues.

@INFILTR8US 3 ай бұрын

This reminds me of a short story I read in the Oxford Book of Science Fiction about a test pilot who accidentally launches countless millions of years into the future where mankind is dead but their machines toil away endlessly as they have been programmed. They are kind and brilliant but also pitiful in their inability to die, splitting atoms to "prolongue existence at any cost". Great video!

@ricardioscarbonara102 3 ай бұрын

Yeah, i like this. I've followed you guys for a few years now and this is the first time ive seen this kind of video from you. If it helps in any way, I approve!

@SarahLowrey 2 ай бұрын

This was incredible. The most innovative thing Ive seen in years. It does speak to the futility of our lives, and tells us that what we have NOW is what is life.

@Adammrtl27 2 ай бұрын

This is existential dreed to a new level.... I passed this onto my wife and she said "thanks for cursing me with this!" There really is no hope of living forever. It could never happen. Forever has an expiration date...

@kirk1147 3 ай бұрын

Brilliant. Thought provoking. Artful. Another triumph of intellectual and emotional truth borne from the physics of our reality. If they handed out Oscars for KZfaq videos...

@podunkest 3 ай бұрын

My goodness. I need a think. I'm good with passing on whenever my time comes. This was perhaps the most touching and poignant video you've ever made, even if in a very, very isolating and dark sort of way. Very seldom does anything make me feel the way I feel right now and this sure did it. I've had so much on my mind lately and this had my utter, undivided attention from start to finish. Thank you.

@starclone4 3 ай бұрын

This really opened my eyes.... The beauty of the universe, and our relationship, with it !!!!! Thank you... 😊

@chadhaley331 27 күн бұрын

Words don't do how amazing this was. This is IMMEDIATELY something I wish I could experience for the first over and over again. Bravo and well done. The concept, the execution all of it was simply wonderful. Thank you for this.

@MontyCWLiu 3 ай бұрын

I really appreciate that you made this Prof. Kipping. Hardly have I ever been this fascinated and moved at the same time. Simply incredible.

@chesterdays2299 3 ай бұрын

This is simply breathtaking. What an outstanding piece of writing and production. I did not expect to begin this Sunday gazing into infinity, and now it's late afternoon, my whole day has been haunted by this narrative. And will be for time to come. This channel has a habit of doing this. I half expected the ending to be the beginning of a new universe, suffused with the consciousness of the previous one, but the bleakness of the actual ending seemed so final, and unresolvable. I know many folk have said this is the stuff of truly memorable movies, and I agree. The reality is that so much I have watched of late is completely forgettable, whereas this will stay with me for years. Thank you.

@Datan0de 3 ай бұрын

As a fan of Isaac Arthur, I've thought about this scenario before, and while the unraveling of the universe isn't a happy thing, the unimaginably vast and potentially unimaginable joyous stretch of time between now and then makes this all seem like a paradoxically positive thought experiment to me I just came across this video today, a day when I'm feeling particularly thoughtful and hopeful about the future and deep time. My wife and i are assigned up for cryonics, as are several of our friends, and today my brother just got his cryonics tags. Longshot or not, it's my hope that we (and you, whoever you are reading this) will get to experience the deep future and everything it brings together.

@ShawnRoggow 3 ай бұрын

This is better than all the movies I've seen in years.

@christinebernchat7125 3 ай бұрын

I was in deep and blown away by the three minute mark … and then the story just kept getting better and better. Simply brilliant.

@davidtatro7457 3 ай бұрын

This is both beautiful and depressing. I really cannot understand why anyone would want to live eternally.

@ximalas 3 ай бұрын

If only to witness as much as possible of the universe we live in.

@Norsilca 3 ай бұрын

Because the alternative is even more terrifying

@JB52520 3 ай бұрын

As I get older, I'm starting to wonder the same thing. If not for the terror of death, my life would be more bearable, but then I'd probably self terminate in peace, knowing that life goes on and is better for others. The problem is that I'm capable of so little. Learning is difficult; fatigue is constant. Seen from a perspective with less ego, this human is not useful while others are. This one suffers while many do not. There will be no value in its memories to others, so their loss will be unimportant. If this one did not exist, the average happiness, creativity, and productivity of humanity would be slightly higher, and resource consumption would be slightly lower. However, if there was more time, I'd put more effort into doing things instead of giving up. With less suffering, it would take less effort and be more inspiring. If I wasn't as limited, there would be so much to learn and experience. And if I could be creative, as well as upgrading my capacity over time, I'd want to create worlds and learn everything. That would take a lot of time.

@jameswilkes451 3 ай бұрын

@@JB52520 Look up the guy who lived in the Iron Lung and witness how a person with one of the most limiting existences imaginable can still achieve something of worth!

@rickd650 Ай бұрын

Well that wasn't at all depressing. That's not a criticism; it was brilliantly put together and I couldn't put it down.

@michaelsnyder6922 2 ай бұрын

I hope I’m not the only person watching this for whom the bleaker it got the better they felt. I’d feel happier watching the universe end than living in it now. This is also one the best things I’ve watched in forever. Just brilliant in every respect.

@A_Stereotypical_Guy 3 ай бұрын

Wow, I had to listen to this twice to really let the implications sink in. What an awe inspiring tale of tragedy. It really makes you think on the age old question "If you could live forever would you?" I would say, because this is a very likely scenario in that event, that I would choose longevity as long as I knew I could turn it all off whenever I chose.

@perrynnlynch1883 3 ай бұрын

Well said. Good comment.

@The_Primary_Axiom 3 ай бұрын

As sad as the ending is, am I crazy for thinking the ending of all life will be actually beautiful? I wish these videos were hours long. So meditative, relaxing and informative.

@A-Milkdromeda-Laniakea-Hominid 3 ай бұрын

Omg I get the opposite reaction. So much pain, so much futility, the truth that life is enduring futility, that we are nothing more than emergent consciousnesses along for the ride of our subconscious prime directive to mate and pass on our genetic code. All else is secondary. Happiness is tertiary. And what grand tales we tell ourselves, what gods we create to delude ourselves that we are special! That we are more than our chimpanzee cousins, more than our dolphin relatives, more than our cats and dogs, or an oyster, or a mayfly. In our highly developed brains we will build this civilization that conquers death - but it leaves out, quite conspicuously, where new life comes from in the digital realm. Once a mind is uploaded, is semen and ova harvested from the bodies on-ice, or is the whole messy ordeal also digitized. Genetic code from each parent brought together in the matrix. Or, are there no offspring... whoever is born during the time of stars gets uploaded. No more actual birth-days, only days. Death is a necessary evil. An evil that we don't need to love, but do need to experience. Life came into being by fighting death. It's two sides of the coin. Sigh.

@AzerPaul 3 ай бұрын

Three times now I've listened to this. So good the way he brings it home, as when the remaining beings share old memories of sweetness. So poignant. But what really got me was the idea of time dilation where an experienced second might be a billion years for the outside worlds!! And that goes on for quintillions of experienced years! Oh man.

@The..Dark..Knight 2 ай бұрын

I come back here every so often, when I've had a rough day, and just listen. It makes my problems feel small. Trivial. For most of our lives, we seldom get to think about the big picture instead of the here and now. But when we do it feels as if it brings things into focus. The scale of it all. The unanswered questions. The neverending tick of time. The vague feeling that it all fits together somehow, and that someday it will all make sense. The journey to get there. Will we take the well worn paths or those seldom traveled? If we find the strength to choose the the harder road, will it pay off in the end? I hope so.

@Mc.Knight 3 ай бұрын

Such a wonderful story. The weight of these themes is still felt even after the end. Your content has only gotten more addictive over the years.

@kenn743 3 ай бұрын

“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of star stuff”. thank you for very interesting video

@deaks25 3 ай бұрын

This randomly came up on my feed. I listened, reached the end of the video and subscribed without a second thought. Incredible piece of story telling.

@alilseman2979 29 күн бұрын

That was incredible. But, honestly, I thought I was going to watch some physics video and now I’m just sobbing. Holy crap, nice work

@Hot_Hard_Cowboy 3 ай бұрын

holy shit.. I'm crying... amazing dude... absolutely excellent and highest quality writing and storytelling to be found on the internet.. I am actually blown away, totally gobsmacked... you deserve awards for this. Literal MASTERPIECE!!