Everything and Nothing: Part 2, "Nothing" 4k

Jim Al-Kahlili asks one very simple question: What is nothing? His journey ends with profound insights about reality. Everything came from nothing.
This award-winning film takes us on an epic journey to uncover the true size of the smallest particles in nature and the science of empty space, which scientists now believe is teeming with energy and exotic matter. Part science, part philosophy, and part history, this film offers a gripping and spectacular exploration of cutting-edge science with the acclaimed British TV host, Jim Al-Khalili.

[@BrianHalcrow]

As a layman with an interest in the universe this is probably the two best videos i have seen to aid my understanding

[@TheDavidlloydjones]

Neither of these videos is a layman.

[@1984oner]

Same here brotha....

[@gabel5188]

I agree the quantum biology one is really good as well. As all good documentary’s should you feel much brainier at the end of the program that you did at the start lol!

[@quasarsupernova9643]

The kind of dedication and patience required to put this together is truly amazing.

[@uglydoor1]

Incredibly great series I can’t imagine any educational shorts being of any higher quality. This presenter is hugely talented and compelling. I just love it.

[@seekter-kafa]

he is only a small part of a team

[@brucemacmillan9581]

Jim's presentations are always top level stuff. The subject matter is difficult, but he always makes it interesting and easier to understand for us mere mortals who aren't so great at math and physics. Good production values also help a lot.

[@paulmichaelfreedman8334]

Everything said about Dirac's personality points towards a good dash of Autism.

[@josephpk4878]

Love the analogy of Dirac's equation being likened to the "compressed meaning" found in a poem.

[@DonaldTruss]

another excellent description of the universe around us! Thank you Jim!

[@seekter-kafa]

get a room

[@paulmichaelfreedman8334]

I've never seen a documentary about nothing as long as this one.

[@zif-rp9rh]

Incredibly well made, what a journey! The narrative is so clear, so beautiful.

[@AwesomeIam]

Mind boggling truth unearthed by this documentary. Absolutely loved it, was so captivating.

[@I-am-awayTOM]

So good to see the professor again! Even if it is over nothing.

[@larryscott3982]

I’m always disappointed when a vid listed as posted 4 days ago is a vid I’ve seen years ago. How many ads can you have in an hour?

[@ScienceTail]

Absolutely right this gonna look like cheating with viewers

[@festeCanuck]

I wouldn't know...ever heard of KZbin Red?

[@bricesuire5072]

Dude I’ve watched almost everything on this stuff I was bummed too.

[@bricesuire5072]

@@festeCanuckI have it but it doesn’t skip on this. Only music.

[@richardsutton4828]

Same video, different channels, maybe?

[@tincupnickleboythe1st700]

Thank you for making this understandable, im not a math guy at all, but i did understand and could comprehend all of this at a bare bones street level, thank you !!!

[@stratocaster539]

Very profound, incredibly overwhelming, great stuff

[@maryannbroadbridge1119]

Excellent presentation and beautiful graphics. This video is strangely comforting. Thank you!

[@nosequerock1738]

INCREDIBLE - I'm recommending both videos to everyone I know!!!

[@sidensvans67]

Excellent video . Fascinating , Thank you .

[@TheTheurgist]

Again Awesome job folks,, thank you.

[@TheToyBoy]

Just amazing, thank you ❤

[@ndahuraaugustine9339]

I love this so much it almost answers all the questions I always had. Thank you so much

[@pittasso]

Profoundly beautifully explained! Thank you all for this amazing documentary! May the force be with you 🙏

[@rodrigoayarza9397]

What a production! A masterwork from Nic Stacey.

[@buso007nitrox]

This series was amazing! It cleared up some things for me on matter/antimatter and dark energy.

[@lukmanwalujo1962]

Thank you Jim

[@chriscooperman6102]

Very well made docs.pt1 and pt2. Congrats.

[@IhsaanAdams]

This is the best explanation I have ever found on the quantum world. Amazing documentary!

[@dr.satishsharma1362]

Excellent.... thanks 🙏.

[@alessandrorossini8704]

Both parts, 1 and 2, are equally great. 👍🏼👍🏼💪🏼💪🏼

[@kedarnathgantayat7136]

Thanks spacerip.❤

[@jj74qformerlyjailbreak3]

That's cool. I listened to I guess part one Now I get to listen too part too. That earns a sub.

[@charlesmartin1121]

"Emptiness is what makes up almost the entire Universe." One of the most profound and unsettling facts in science.

[@joestitz239]

But it's this emptiness that allows balance. One going around one !

[@James-ll3jb]

Why? God needs alot of elbow room.

[@tricotdiko1435]

@@James-ll3jbRight? They don’t call him the “god of the gaps”for nothing!😅

[@James-ll3jb]

@@tricotdiko1435 "Five Quantum Phenomena Supporting God's Existence" kzbin.info/www/bejne/rqq0iGmAnMRpsJI "More Quantum Evidence" kzbin.info/www/bejne/jWe6h2yAja2KqKM kzbin.info/www/bejne/emGtfpaaeZJjiKc "An Investigation into Alleged Scientific Evidence for Design" kzbin.info/www/bejne/eWa9Z5uVh7ubf9k "Cancelled Science: Some Evidence Atheists Don't Want You To See": kzbin.info/www/bejne/inKXgqiqq92Lbpo "Return of the God Hypothesis kzbin.info/www/bejne/sJCbgYOFYsh0oqM "By Design" kzbin.info/www/bejne/qInIqZSMqNubea8 "Choosing between Science and God is Advocacy for a False Dichotomy" kzbin.info/www/bejne/gqrXanh5op2Jb8k What is the best evidence/argument for intelligent design? Modern scientific insight has revealed startling evidence for intelligent design from various disciplines, from biology to astronomy, from physics to cosmology. The purpose of this article is to summarize some of the major arguments. What is the best evidence/argument for intelligent design? - From Biology In recent years, William Dembski has pioneered a methodology which has become known as the “explanatory filter,” a means by which design can be inferred from the phenomena of nature in particular living organisms. The filter consists of a sequence of three yes/no questions that guide the decision process of determining whether a given phenomenon can be attributed to an intelligent causal agency. Based upon this filter, if an event, system or object is the product of intelligence, then it will: 1. Be contingent 2. Be complex 3. Display an independently specified pattern Thus, in order to be confident that a given phenomenon is the product of intelligent design, it cannot be a regularity that necessarily stems from the laws of nature, nor can it be the result of chance. According to Dembski, the explanatory filter highlights the most important quality of intelligently designed systems, namely, specified complexity. In other words, complexity alone is not enough to indicate the work of an intelligent agent; it must also conform to an independently specified pattern. Among the most compelling evidence for design in the realm of biology is the discovery of the digital information inherent in living cells. As it turns out, biological information comprises a complex, non-repeating sequence which is highly specified relative to the functional or communication requirements that they perform. Such similarity explains, in part, Dawkins’ observation that, “The machine code of the genes is uncannily computer-like.” What are we to make of this similarity between informational software-the undisputed product of conscious intelligence-and the informational sequences found in DNA and other important biomolecules? What is the best evidence/argument for intelligent design? - From Physics In physics, the concept of cosmic fine tuning gives further support to the design inference. The concept of cosmic fine tuning relates to a unique property of our universe whereby the physical constants and laws are observed to be balanced on a “razor’s edge” for permitting the emergence of complex life. The degree to which the constants of physics must match precise criteria is such that a number of agnostic scientists have concluded that, indeed, there is some sort of transcendent purpose behind the cosmic arena. British astrophysicist Fred Hoyle wrote, “A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a super intellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature. The numbers one calculates from the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyond question.” One example of fine tuning is the rate at which the universe expands. This value must be delicately balanced to a precision of one part in 1055. If the universe expanded too quickly, matter would expand too quickly for the formation of stars, planets, and galaxies. If the universe expanded too slowly, the universe would quickly collapse before the formation of stars. Besides that, the ratio of the electromagnetic force to gravity must be finely balanced to a degree of one part in 1040. If this value were to be increased slightly, all stars would be at least 40% more massive than our sun. This would mean that stellar burning would be too brief and too uneven to support complex life. If this value were to be decreased slightly, all stars would be at least 20% less massive than the sun. This would render them incapable of producing heavy elements necessary to sustain life. What is the best evidence/argument for intelligent design? - From Cosmology With modern discoveries in the field of cosmology, the concept of a definitive beginning of the cosmos has been demonstrated almost beyond question. The Kalam argument states that: 1. Everything which begins to exist has a cause apart from itself 2. The universe began to exist 3. Therefore, the universe has a cause apart from itself Today we have abundant data that the universe had a beginning. Given the Law of Causality, there must be an uncaused first cause existing outside of space and time. This first cause, being uncaused, must be eternal. Observations of the nature of the effect lead to the conclusion that the first cause must be intelligent and powerful enough to bring space, matter and even time itself into being. What is the best evidence/argument for intelligent design? - Conclusion This article is but a brief overview of some of the key elements involved in the design inference. The purpose is to demonstrate the wide body of support for intelligent design from a large range of disciplines, including biology, physics and cosmology. FOR FURTHER STUDY Darwin’s Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design by Stephen Meyer.

[@kurtklingbeil6900]

Isn't that just a better of projection and mistaken interpretation related to scale jumping ? People relying on their perceptions of their 5 primary senses resulted in stuff like The Bible and FlatEarthers. Unable to accept the limitations of their observations and the apparent surprises and contradictions, elaborate mythological storylines were created. Eventually, bit by bit, clever people made observations and derived interpretations therefrom which varied from the conventional habituated storylines. The *surprise and shock" of each new and increasingly subtle and precise observation was tightly linked to the clinging to the old.

[@justdev8965]

This takes the 'I'm not a mistake" phrase to a whole new level

[@juanjasso6431]

Nice presentation... still no answer by Science to knowledge about life.

[@BrunoRegno]

Sir... I have to stand up and effusively applaud your analogy used to explain Heisenberg's uncertainty principle... The way you used total file size to explain quantization impact on acuity is simply smart. Kudos!

[@thilinagayashan7307]

this is a perfect documentary

[@brightphoebus]

He has an excellent voice for presentation. : ) He's engrossing.

[@user-ir7qm8ep6w]

Thank you!

[@Bruk55sem]

I want to remember i heard this documentary when i reappeared in another time and another place... I loved from the moment it started to the moment it ends. And i want you to write me a love letter for my crush because she has been quantum physics until this day and you would have explained it how much i loved her and run in to me...

[@jjakubo]

Love these

[@moksamol]

Great content!

[@Thecsyu]

Thanks to nothing we are able to witness these 2 exceptional episodes!

[@audioartisan]

It seems that what we term 'emptiness' is just what nature terms potential .

[@whirledpeas3477]

Now I know everything about nothing.

[@morgunstyles7253]

I know nothing about everything

[@TwinPhoenix666]

Having watched both parts of this documentary in immediate succession, I can confidently confirm both of these statements. I'm doing so, I, too, know EVERYTHING and NOTHING.

[@yhamid110]

You know nothing if you claim you know everything 😂

[@iiiiiiiiijj]

There is nothing to know about nothing because it doesn't exist , only the word ! . .

[@roydoncrerar2852]

Thank you for this insightful look into reality. It seems the more I try to understand the less I actally know. At the same time, the more I try to know the less I understand. It's all very confusing yet utterly facinating. 😮😂

[@sreejithomkaram]

Thank you

[@acable0351]

Well done

[@pietdewit351]

As Nikola Tesla said: 'ether exists!'. It is in fact the so-called 'vacuum'. From there matter is created. Compare ether with 'water' and matter with 'ice', and you get the idea.

[@chriscooperman6102]

Heisenburg blows my mind!!

[@javierrosero7098]

Extraordinario!

[@leokovacic707]

What a beautiful series

[@lisamuir4261]

This was spooky but awesome, 😊

[@spamviking8591]

Correct me if I am mistaken, but is not Michelson and Morley’s experiment a 19th century version of LIGO rather than the LHC?

[@slimal1]

Just saw this is my recommended. Looks like an interesting topic. However, upon checking the list of videos I need to ask: how are you able to produce so many videos each day?

[@stefanblue660]

Great Dokumentation! But, to explain it more detailed, cosmic Inflation should be mentioned, not easy to explain, but overwhelming, it explains how it came to the big bang!

[@jameslyon723]

Good job. 🙂

[@thunkjunk]

"NOTHING" is not a difficult concept. It does not exist. Space is not NOTHING. Neither is EMPTINESS.

[@MrBesmir7]

indeed; space is sth that gravity disform that and when gravity pay too much with space create BLACK HOLES

[@dominicsamf2895]

Shouldn’t it take 0 seconds to travel through nothing? Surely space is something. I just don’t understand lol

[@kurtklingbeil6900]

Artifacts of scale- and perception-jumping... Take the cat out of the box - now it's empty. Look more carefully - cat hair and dander... Remove those Now it's empty. Look more carefully and use sensitive instruments - there are gases... Evacuate them NOW there is nothing. and on it goes .. Are EM fields, cosmic rays, quantum fluctuations non-nothing ? Depends purely on the scale of sensitivity / perfection / esoterica one chooses to fetishize

[@jclow9601]

Human brain can't conceive Nothing, as as soon as you think of nothing it still becomes something.......st*ner view

[@1Sparrow1]

​@@dominicsamf2895You are correct, but you have to travel at the speed of light. A photon does not experience time or distance.

[@Number6_]

Nothing is impossible the optimist said. He was right. Once you point at nothing. It becomes something to see.

[@DihelsonMendonca]

Why these documentaries are around several years on different channels ? It seems they keep removing and re-uploading them. 😮😮😮

[@carlovincetti4538]

This made much more sense:)

[@BiswajitBhattacharjee-up8vv]

Incredible. Random fluctuations to universe of known and unknown. Recent reports from universe we are seeing background of our universe could be a vast universe.. My Recent quest also lead me toward the space -time beyond Sir Dirac but not strings. But it is not yet clear in this video what these limiting activity to restrict , what it is now. Inside a leaving . CLOCKS ⏰️ For biology.

[@waryinzero]

“Nothing” would mean no dimensions, no quarks, no time, no space. “Nothing” cannot be visually or physically perceived by our brains.

[@croozerdog]

i love how there's like 100 people with different definitions of nothing thinking they're smarter than youtube science communicator man

[@pedrozarate9658]

Hi, I have a question on that mirror experiment Has any one tried to put a measuring device (an observer) just to see if the atoms will act different? Maybe they'll slow down?

[@TaherRasulOnline]

Thanks

[@baranyiproduction]

What a teacher, narrator and production! Huge stuff to understand the universe! Thank you!

[@user-se3bw8ku8i]

nothing is one of our many concepts about everything. its either there is something or there is nothing. and that nothing only refers to what our minds can gauge, no more no less

[@user-ky5dy5hl4d]

We can ask the question: where does this quantum fluctuation get energy from? If an anti-particle appears in physical vacuum and then it disappears into vacuum, therefore the must exist some energy that allows for that and it cannot be the energy of vacuum but of some kind of negative energy existing in the non-vacuum entity. Also, E=mc^2 is not Einstein's. It belongs to Olinto de Pretto who published it in 1903.

[@rezadaneshi]

Visualizing an infinity- if I travelled at light speed towards any galaxy 10 billion light years away, it will still eventually fall out of my visual horizon and if I lived forever, I'll be further away from it then, than I'm right now due to expansion. Visualizing Singularity, nothing is Forever in time dilation

[@_quandary_]

If you traveled at light speed, time stops for you, so you would effectively live forever. It takes light time to travel, but for the photon, the travel time was instantaneous

[@rezadaneshi]

@@_quandary_ correct. Photons don't experience time so photon is never aware of its location or existence. Time doesn't stop and traveler gets to go everywhere and do everything. Time traveler will be near frozen in spacetime and trillions of billions of years will pass in mare seconds for the traveler and universe ends in a whimper from time travelers point of view.

[@kevinsayes]

Good analogy on infinity, but I think it still draws out, and leaves unanswered, the actual conundrum. In your analogy, the universe could still have an edge but be functionally infinite because the rate of expansion vs. c at any given distant points. But if we could pause expansion (not that we could, but since it seems the rate has fluctuated over time, and it seems to have a starting point, I think it’s “okay” to manipulate this variable and what’s left over would still represent reality. Because again, it seems it’s changed within that reality before), would the universe be actually spatially infinite? I feel like where on the surface of a sphere, something akin to that, so functionally infinite to us, but not actually infinite. But that’s just my coin flip; I don’t think we’ll ever know. Interesting example.

[@user-ew6kc4vj6c]

I had to do a speech to pass my school certificate, and when I was asked what I was going to do it about I chose to do it on nothing. It took a while for my teacher to realize that I meant I was doing it about nothing and not just doing nothing, she was like 😮. But yeah I concluded that nothing is a real paradox. In being nothing it becomes something, that is it becomes the thing that doesn't exist -nothing. The only place nothing could exist is nowhere, because if you for example removed everything from within a jar you would have a vacuum and not nothing. So yeah I agree, it's really hard to define and it's a real paradox.

[@sandeepmanari9037]

I have several questions regarding quantum fluctuations, matter and antimatter. Firstly, in the scenario where a quantum fluctuation occurs at a black hole's event horizon, trapping antimatter inside while regular matter escapes, what are the potential consequences? Would the annihilation of trapped antimatter inside the black hole lead to a creation of energy and possibly affect the black hole's properties? Additionally, considering the escape of matter from a black hole and its conversion into energy, does this process challenge the conservation of mass? Lastly, how do these interactions align with the law of conservation of energy-momentum and our understanding of black hole dynamics and cosmic evolution? I'm curious to understand these phenomena within the framework of modern physics and cosmology.

[@hustlinc3540]

We can't percieve and comprehend nothing because we as humans tend to give everything meaning.

[@azlanameer4912]

Ancient mystics were true when cried WE ARE NOTHING.😢

[@larryfulkerson4505]

All this time I thought that Dirac was a theoretical scientist but I've just now discovered he was a real live person after all.

[@rickylion2891]

It seems to me, in my simple understanding, if a vacuum has all the activity you explained in a way I could finally understand, ,the vacuum of space would contain these activities-matter/antimatter combinations and separations as they exist in an observed vacuum here. You demonstrated the peak of energy created or displayed between M/Am. Would these not be occurring in space also? Would this not account for the dark energy from which we do not know the origin? It seems these recombinations would also not interact with matter because of their exclusivity or be traceable as there is no residual.

[@miguelsuarez8010]

We and everything around us are popping in and out of existence all the time. The average between something and nothing goes in favor of something, by a minimal fraction.

[@larsmichael7162]

where is that bridge located?

[@jordanjackman1537]

There IS. Have hope.

[@rodmarker2071]

maybe it's not space that is expanding, but that the 'outside' of our space is shrinking. That would exolain the acceration, as the more it shrinks the less it is and the more our 'space' is needed tp replace it. take a sphere of 1 cm radius and then 1 of an exponetially growing radius, the circumfernce starts to streatch at an ever incraeasing speed just to stand still

[@EliasAbiy-nw2nw]

Just wow 😮

[@joancampos8608]

This is the best science documentary ive seen. I can easily understand it. As if im genius. Hahaha

[@world_still_spins]

The way oversimplified verson: Vacuum sucked so hard that matter got pulled into existing from nothing, but the matter was like 'there's nothing here, I'm going back. Peace.' Some stayed though.

[@kurtklingbeil6900]

An artifact of perception and scale. There exists a strong thread of insistence that everything exists and occurs at all scales... Which simply us not true. Consider the two-slit experiment ... Has it ever been successfully conducted at large scales? i.e. a human running toward two human-scale slits (or the American version - a car driving at two car- scale slits. Consider quantum effects ... To build quantum computers , the extremely rarefied exotic esoteric conditions for quantum states to occur must be carefully created and suitable interfaces provided to achieve the programming and data exchange. The. Presumption that "quantum is everywhere always" by the meatsuits is just silly. Meanwhile the existential predicaments and MetaCrisis perpetrated by centuries of colonialism and willful deliberate hyper-consumptive hyper-emissive eco-cidal psychosociopathic dominator cult-ure gets actively ignored and denied - often with fraudulent esoteric rationalizations

[@Wolf-Spirit_Alpha-Sigma]

So you've re-uploaded a BBC doc, but why does it have such low-fi audio?

[@spocktiberius2456]

We live in a reality of opposites. For every concept their is an opposing concept. A concept and it’s opposite exist simultaneously on a shared plane. For example the concept of up exists simultaneously with the concept of down on the plane of direction. Therefore, the state of “something” cannot exist without its opposite state of “nothing”. The problem with “nothing” is how to measure it with tools made of “something”.

[@zack_120]

1:18- That is what makes me wonder how red shift is possible in a vacuum where no force, no grab, no nothing to act on the lights to stretch it 😇😱

[@kipponi]

Great would have Dirac said👍🤔.

[@Curious112233]

Great video, But one obvious question seems ignored, if quantum fluctuations return their energy to the vacuum almost instantly, then how did a universe which sprung from a quantum fluctuation manage to exist for 14 billion years?

[@user-do1qn4pj4w]

90210 Is that the only configuration did l answer my own question or does indeed math go farther

[@tiochips]

So temperature is mesured how fast atoms are vibrating, so how to mesure temp in vacuum?

[@sirbarringtonwomblembe4098]

The measuring device is made of atoms which respond to the ambient temp? Plus radiation travels through a vacuum.

[@andylane3739]

im drunk n stoned n tripping on this dudes lecture

[@dmisso42]

The more that scientists discover, the more insignificant I feel

[@a.nunnikrishnan5492]

Pls note that far far before Aristotle the concepts of origin of the universe from space and time as the conceivable source were existing. Human knowledge is not limited to Western understanding. To get a glimpse of the ancient wisdom in this respect in the language of modern science- relativity and quantum mechanics- in simple mathematics coupled with intuition refer the book : SPACETIME AND THAT BEYOND By Unnikrishnan.

[@Yureka-ox5jn]

After big bang, is the mass of universe is constant or has changed?

[@freeforester1717]

Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle is analogous to Vogt’s theory of how matter comes into being. See Diehold Foundation, series 1, part 3

[@billandpech]

The explanations in these 2 videos leave me unfulfilled. It's like asking "where did the computer come from" and being told the computer store and then asking "where did the computer store come from" and being told "it always was"..

[@lrvogt1257]

At the fundamental level some things are just brute facts. That's not to say we know what those are yet.

[@CandidDate]

Picture a pump with pressurized air molecules bouncing around. What are the molecules and how do they have freedom to move? Well, they are little balls of energy that are free to move in the aether. Certainly, if they are to move at all, they must have room to move? Therefore, every molecule is surrounded by aether. The aether moves with matter. Michaelson-Morley disproved!

[@ZZZz-vf7vp]

Consciousness

[@WJ1043]

When antimatter and matter annihilated each other in the early universe, maybe some antimatter could have been displaced in multi-dimensional space so that it only interacts gravitationally with ordinary matter. If so, it would have the characteristics of dark matter.

[@osvaldoramirezcastillo]

this is some deep shit, love it!

[@mannequinskywalker]

Great production! But what is shown at 22:52-22:56?!?! Something bleeding? Creepy-looking! 😮

[@snehit6398]

What a coincidence @39:19 Diracs equation has the symbol of Shiva's Trident. Hi, im from India, we instantly connect with The Shiva Tatva (element), when we talk about nothingness. Everything that exists in the universe, is manifested from that nothingness, and everything will go back into that nothingness. And it's a cycle that never ends. Om Namah Shivaya 🙏🔱

[@phenome-gnome]

Well made documentary. Unfortunately it failed to question the nature of space itself.

[@brucemacmillan9581]

That may be the subject of another presentation.

[@Pegasus4213]

There is one thing I question with this presentation. That Michelson only looked for a static Aether - but not the existence of a localised one around this planet. Wouldn't that be different?

[@kurtklingbeil6900]

You mean localized like the "atmosphere" ? and then what - a Gaia-centric ether? and then what happens at the boundary? a variable-intensity ether which fades out gradually?

[@Pegasus4213]

@@kurtklingbeil6900 Yes! As an innate aspect of the atmosphere and the point is that Micholson didn't test for that as far as I understand it. It might be that habitable planets have a particular atmosphere that aids life.

[@DutchRichard66]

"Empty Space" is not "nothing". Although empty, Space(Time) is something. It's an expanse; how tiny that may be.