Five Theories About the Universe to Blow Your Mind

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[@lekiscool]

Everything came into existence last Tuesday.

[@anhydrouswater]

Define Tuesday

[@cornishcat11]

@@anhydrouswater nice !

[@strixfiremind]

Perhaps, but was that Tuesday morning, or Tuesday night? Or almost Wednesday?

[@mandalorethethicc]

I thought itbwas last Thursday 🤔

[@pyrhockz]

Thursday! You pagan.

[@AFutureDarkly]

I love that Schrödinger’s Cat gets mentioned just as a guest appears for a split second at 13:35 in the shadows on the bottom left of the frame. The timing is flawless.

[@victortorres4915]

I thought I was the only one that caught that. 😂😂

[@peterridder2116]

Pretty sure this wasn't coincidence, they deliberately made the cat appear at that very moment (probably needed several attempts to work out perfectly)

[@luis-arce]

Most likely, there was a cut in the scene right at that point

[@urbanvampyre2706]

Are we sure the cat wasn’t CG?

[@Karin_Allen]

@@urbanvampyre2706 It looked CG on playback. Anyway, I'm delighted to know I wasn't the only one to notice it.

[@tobytowbs2370]

"Is there a problem with gravity in the future, Marty? Why is everything 'heavy?'" - Doc Brown, 1955.

[@David-wk6md]

As an old man, things that felt like 30 lbs now feel like 50 So I'm thinking yes

[@Thumbs707]

“There’s that word again!”

[@retired-ub9uq]

No one cares

[@svenrio8521]

​@@retired-ub9uqI care nerd.

[@MrWeareone777]

Great Scott

[@stevenkarmazenuk2540]

If I'm some sort of cosmic hallucination at the end of the universe, then it's a baaad trip, man.

[@burnyizland]

That is the same argument I have against people who think the Matrix is real: if someone wanted to keep us docile in an induced hallucination WHY would they make everything suck so much? When we tried putting cows on VR headsets to induce better lactation we didn't show them cattle prods and branding irons, we showed them verdant fields full of clover and sunshine.

[@timg2727]

Our current theory of gravity isn't "wrong" so much as it's incomplete. We can use it to make astonishingly accurate predictions in almost every scenario, but those couple of extremely specific scenarios we can't predict tell us that we're missing something. Einstein and Newton were both correct; they just didn't see the full picture (and we still don't).

[@thisisme2681]

Yes! Be careful saying "wrong" when it is incomplete. You'll encourage the, "gravity isn't real flat Earth" trolls 😂

[@timg2727]

@Gerald H correct, hence my comment that our current theory of gravity is incomplete.

[@willisverynice]

It’s similar to how E=mc^2 is incomplete, it’s not wrong, it’s just only true for stuff not traveling near the speed of light.

[@timg2727]

@@willisverynice e=mc² _is_ true for objects traveling near the speed of light. Where it breaks down is 1) at the subatomic level, and 2) inside a black hole.

[@dewiz9596]

Could Ptolemy have anticipated Copernicus?

[@Zander.and.lightning]

“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.” ― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

[@cp-sh9nj]

That’s just amazing thanks. Mighty fine.

[@n4n1damn]

How profound and how wrong at the same time. Darkness is simply the absence of light, therefore darkness "travels" at the speed of light. As the photon recedes from the source that emitted it, darkness fills the void behind it.

[@Lodrik18]

Dont mix facts and fiction, darkness is immaterial... (can thus can not be).

[@Zander.and.lightning]

@@Lodrik18 It is all fiction. Most of what we know is scientist telling us their version of a believe. Every few years we find out something that doesn't fit the narrative so then a new story is told. They only called it "Dark Matter" because Starwars already coined "The Force"

[@anslogarrick3816]

In this context darkness is size not speed kid

[@thelanavishnuorchestra]

Thank you for getting Schrödinger's cat right. There's far to many science channels mention it without explaining the intent of the thought experiment.

[@deafeningoctopus]

I genuinely didn't know about the hierarchical paradox of the four forces until I watched this. Thanks for teaching me something!

[@falcofurious]

Sounds like a bogus comic hero hero origin story of some kind. Doesn’t make it any less possible.

[@dylanwalter5916]

Your cat walking past the open door as you said "Schrodinger's Cat" was peak synchronicity. Great video as always! edit: "...it was meant to be a ridiculous argument" - Simon

[@margaretlowe5220]

You have great sight! Even knowing when and where, all I saw was a shadow

[@Isaachar72]

@@margaretlowe5220 Maybe you just got the ghost of the dead cat

[@johnicenogle593]

Whistler's Cat just passed through your brane

[@ukxdeadlyzz]

bro thats the fakest ass cat I ever seen

[@jerkfudgewater147]

13:30 where is the cat? 🐈‍⬛

[@Vikingocazar]

Love that we’re sending “we are here!” messages into the depths of a completely unknown universe… good plan!!!

[@stephenhill6003]

Maybe there's reason why others our there are keeping quite :-o

[@donHooligan]

@@stephenhill6003 others in the universe have bets running on when we will make ourselves extinct. those idiots still believe in money! they love being slaves! suicidal slaves.

[@vincefelicetta7063]

No doubt. We're here, and we're stupid, and we don't realize that every single time as a species we entered somebody else's area we either threw them out or killed them. I'm sure aliens would be super nice to us though.

[@JEpsteinDidntKillHimself]

Annnnnnnnd A.I. has made it to our universe

[@cristianandrei5462]

I guess if some kind of superweapon that will make it easier to destroy other solar systems is possible and we ourselves are going to achieve this in the near future but we are not there yet, then it makes sense. Even theoretical hints that it will be possible for a more advanced civilization to have such a weapon, will meke it a good idea to go unnoticed. The galaxy is big, it should be full of intelligent civilizations, some number of which are advanced enough to be able to destroy us. If only a few of those we assume that is pure evil or just wants to eliminate competition in it's infancy, we should stay quiet...

[@htmonaro1969]

I liked how when you were touching on Schroedinger's Cat thought experiment, a cat walked across behind you on our left. Very subtle humour. 😂

[@jupiterbloodsaw]

The end left an eerie empty feeling inside me and a buzzing in my brain…

[@SisterMaryElephant]

'Dark Matter' has always reminded me of the 'Ether' that scientists were sure existed for light to move through, although it couldn't be seen or measured in any way.

[@WorksopGimp]

Aether its plasma look up The electric universe sounds crazy at first some will say it is but its very interesting I think its right.

[@scottnolan2833]

Or phlogiston.

[@Krackonis]

Which other sciences which are more concrete use still....

[@johngriffin7806]

@@Krackonis 👍

[@justwannabehappy6735]

@@WorksopGimp EU is pseudo-science

[@faxxy4077]

Very odd fact, but my granddad was the welder who made the satellite dish that exploded in “Contact”

[@rustyshackelford3371]

I enjoyed his work.

[@ShaneLadd-fw4cr]

And Simon Whistler is a stupid genious...he knows nothing but hires intelligent people to write stuff for him to read. Simon knows how to read and project a big brain charisma. Thanks Simon :)

[@9vHeart]

Rule 68 of the internet: There's a conspiracy theory of it.

[@aftersexhighfives]

I feel like you and the writer dudes would be really good at trivial pursuit and jeopardy without trying much. You've narrated videos on literally everything.

[@zenithal666]

Simon admits regularly that, because he's just reading from a script coupled with the thousands of videos he's narrated, he hardly remembers lots of it. I feel the same having watched thousands of hours myself 🤦‍♂️

[@shasmi93]

You high five people after banging……? That’s fucking weird dude. Just give her a mushroom stamp and leave. Don’t be weird.

[@slake9727]

They'd suck at names though.

[@rubiconnn]

I work in IT and I can't even remember how to fix something that I figured out how to fix two weeks ago. Anything at work immediately gets swept into my brain's recycle bin lol.

[@ThatWriterKevin]

I would probably be better at Jeopardy now than before I started writing, but I would still get absolutely crushed by every geography question, even American geography

[@pamelamays4186]

"You're a Boltzmann Brain" sounds like a schoolyard taunt.😝😝😝😝

[@donHooligan]

the bully who later in life took Occam's Razor to Schrodinger's Cat....and got suspended from school.

[@jasonmcmaster5719]

The concept that our dimension is in a membrane and that there is a forth dimension that has the majority of the bulk outside the membrane is insane. So it’s insane in the membrane.

[@dominoespizza1756]

Thank you Simon, I always wanted to question the existence of everything including myself.

[@LightoftheMostHigh]

Bro you looking distinguished as heck right now. Good for you man, I remember when your channel started, and now you’re clearly moving up. 👏 well done Mr Whistler 👏

[@Kreylem1]

Simon I am a physicist and I noticed that you forgot to mention that astrophysicists have alrwady produced a map of the dark matter structure of the universe using gravitational lensing. It looks like an enormous network where most of the galaxies form along the arms and nodes of the network. I would be surprised if this did not come up during your writer's research

[@red2blackprofits]

@S. G. as above so below

[@red2blackprofits]

that's great. Science academia is still closed down to Newtonian Physics in the Cosmos. It doesn't fit. Why not try base 12 mathematics. All stars / systems rotate around the center of the galaxy at the same speed 250 million years no matter how far or close. That doesn't align with Newton so you created dark matter.

[@Kreylem1]

@@red2blackprofits unfortunately there is a history of this especially in physics. This is why it is still theoretical and there are other hypothesese that try to to explain the phenomena. This is just the one that best describes it. We are still kind of stumbling in the dark so to speak for a lot of different things. I have my own theory that looks at things on a more fundamental level

[@theexchipmunk]

That way we also have prooven by now that Dark Matter and Gravity are not intrinsically linked, so the theory of it just being an artifact of Gravity is also out. It`s definitely something on its own, we just don´t know what yet.

[@Rjtaylor12]

Don't like creators that don't reply to smart, intelligent comments.

[@wsiak340]

I've been starting to think that universes multiply like how cells go through mitosis. This would also be supported by the membrane theory and also the multiverse theory. It can help provide an explanation to how the big bang happened as well.

[@kingferret53]

Is that not basically the multi-universe theory?

[@jackryan4313]

Taking that further, if each universe is a cell, does that mean they all come together to make up a singular being? If so, did we just discover god?😂

[@HotBoii91]

Mind fuck: we are ACTUALLY inside of a cell

[@kingferret53]

@@brandondenny226 you're going to have to clarify

[@nickytheanimal2413]

It’s like a big split instead of big bang

[@a_diamond]

Also.. the Boltzmann brain at the heat death of the universe definitely explains why I feel so bloody cold all the time xD

[@SilverSerenity520]

“I think we've underestimated the life on this planet. The people have so much courage. Here they are hurling through space on a molten rock at 67,000 miles an hour and the only thing that keeps them from flying out of their shoes is their misplaced faith in gravity.” - Dick Solomon, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Season 1: Brains and Eggs

[@onionknight777]

Not sure I followed all of that but this was a fantastic video. More mind provoking stuff always appreciated

[@Lopfff]

“Even those who agree with the [Boltzmann Brain] probabilities don’t believe that’s the reality in which we’re living” is cold comfort, given that: if I’m a Boltzmann Brain, those people, their assurances, and even the “we” in the clause “in which we’re living”…none of them really exist

[@lostlogic2840]

I thought the cat was real at first🤣 well played... Well played

[@gunkyzip]

Ah, nice someone else noticed

[@MBMb-dl1em]

Yes yes

[@SLorraineE]

I love the high end critic look. Simon could totally be judging an art show or giving out restaurant star ratings

[@Falconlibrary]

He needs a wine sponsor to complete the motif

[@josemv25]

One theory that I always found interesting was the one in which we're all living inside of marbles attached to the collars of cats

[@Kutanamar]

"One theory that I always found interesting was the one in which we're all living inside of marbles attached to the collars of cats" To that, one could ask: "Then what is the cat standing on." To which, I would reply: "Another cat, because it's cats all the way down."

[@howarddooleyjr19]

@@Kutanamar Is that Zelazny? Or Star Trek? Or maybe Men in Black??

[@Silverfirefly1]

@@howarddooleyjr19 The original post is Men in Black and the first respondent seems to be a fan of the Discworld.

[@beckybequette8212]

Had this exact thought. Alongside the fact that our universe, in fact, exists in a luggage locker of an entirely different and bigger universe (at least, I think it's a luggage locker)

[@fuckcensorship69]

​@@howarddooleyjr19 native Americans believed we were living on a turtles back and that turtle was on another turtle...and it is turtles all the way down

[@tysonator111]

That was either great editting or perfect timing by the cat who walked in the background at the end when Simon mentioned Schrodinger's cat

[@theexchipmunk]

One crazy theory I read about is that gravity does not exist in the first place. Or, more accurate, it does, but its only a side effect of time and mass interacting. The metaphor would be a boat on a river. The river flows in one direction and the boat drifts along. The closer you get to the river bank, the slower the water flows. Now, once you get close enougth, the water on one side flows noticibly faster than on the side towards the river bank, and that exerts a force onto the boat pushing it towards the river bank. In this metaphor time would be the flowing river, an large object with mass would be the river bank and the boat a smaller one. The idea is that the faster flow of time is exerting a force towards a mass rich object, the small difference of, for example your feet and your heads time speed, being what actually causes what we observe as gravity. So, the theory states , its not gravity that pushes you down, its time.

[@EverythingCameFromNothing]

I believe you’re right 😊

[@swagbrew]

It's literally called Relativity. The Einstein thing.

[@m2heavyindustries378]

There's literally nothing crazy about anything you've just said

[@DGraze]

i get what you mean, if it's time than why the apple didn't fall upward ? there is absolutely some kind of force that makes the apple go downward. and time are not force. what is time anyway.

[@theexchipmunk]

@@DGraze You are correct that time is not a force. It is an dimension. But that does not mean an interaction does not cause an effect we might percive as a force. In this theory, its basically the three spacial dimensions being warped by an interaction with the time dimension, and not mass directly warping the three spatial dimensions. Whats nice about this theory is that it makes the existence of the so far unprofen and higly theoretical graviton unnessesary. To make it very rougth, if you take a bucket with water and spin it around the water wont fall out, like there is gravity. But its not, there is no force. Its just inertia and the change in direction creating the illusion of a force.

[@chriscross6045]

I gotta ask, did you do more than one take of the "Schrodinger's Cat" segment just get your cat in frame or did you just get lucky? Either way, brilliant.

[@tj71520]

The cat planned it all along

[@alpiasker]

It's not a real cat, its vfx

[@tj71520]

@@alpiasker yes but a mysterious cat could still be the mastermind behind it all...

[@j.d.4697]

The Boltzmann Brain theory is a true mind-blower.

[@dipnip7021]

What if an immortal being with a human like body/brain was lost in space floating for eons, and their only form of entertainment is to imagine a world in their head? And over time they became so good at locking themselves in said imagination that it became like a new life? That life being what we experience when "living". This is an odd idea I have has floating around in my mind for a while and hearing that last theory reminded me of it 😅

[@booziebadazz1692]

Sittin on the toilet

[@LillithDeSire]

Ah, yes, the "Kars Hypothesis".

[@numbdigger9552]

@@LillithDeSire Where'd you pull that name out of? Ur a**???

[@EnigmaticMindLLC]

You're my kind of people. 😍🫂

[@Hurricayne92]

13:30 There is no way its a coincidence that a cat walks in the background as soon as Simon mentions Schrodinger's cat 😅 edit: on rewatch its actually clearly an animation haha

[@SilntObsvr]

My refutation of the Boltzmann Brain hypothesis would have been that if I were a brain and all of this life and world were in my imagination, I wouldn't possibly imagine a life as hard and cruel as the real world -- but then I realized that if I am a Boltzmann Brain, I may only exist for a fraction of a second (because honestly, how long could a brain survive in a heat death of the universe environment?), and in that time I was formed with all of these memories intact; I'm only *remembering* the horrible tricks the universe has played on me and everyone else. Of all the untestable hypotheses, I dislike this one the most.

[@jamescheddar4896]

Azathoth is a Boltzmann Brain

[@Its__Good]

There's an anthropic principle though that there could be an vast number of Boltzmann Brains that have false memories of wonderful universes, however, the fact that you imagine the harsh one is simply because you are a 'harsh' Boltzmann Brain.

[@alexbuhnevicifd.salberg8258]

Very clearly written and interesting as hell, even without your epic tangents! I have a questiom to Simon or whomever. Are the scrips uploaded somewhere? I would read this one a few times over 🤘🏻

[@cathallynch8269]

You can get a transcript below the description

[@animatinglinc]

This is so well written, and explained. thank you, bookmark for multiple re-listens

[@surferdude4487]

My Boltzman brain keeps on generating more and more Simon Whistler videos as it descends into madness from complete isolation.

[@roboticgamer8990]

fortunately you being a boltzman brain is very unlikely simply because your perceived surrounding would be vastly more likely to be less complex. the most likely explanation of our surrounding is that they actually exist. the only thing debatable is what is the ultimate medium we are all in.

[@surferdude4487]

@@roboticgamer8990 My Boltzman brain perceives exactly as much detail as I can imagine. Therefore the universe is only as complex as I am able to perceive. This includes other people commenting to challenge my perception. :D

[@numbdigger9552]

@@surferdude4487 Also notice how the moment you turn your attention away from a detail it ceases to exist. On top of that, if you ever find something too precise, your boltzmann brain will simply block it out and convince itself nothing is wrong.

[@jeremiahlarkins618]

One crazy theory; we are the imagination of ourselves and nothing truly exists.

[@theexchipmunk]

Thats more an biology thing, and is maybe not all that wrong. There is some scary implications that conciousness is just our brains are just imagining ourselfs after the fact to justify why it did something for a smooth operation.

[@Demoncradle]

Contact is one of my favorite books. Was not expecting it to get mentioned

[@stevenkrasner5532]

The 1932 Olympic Games TV signal was a closed circuit broadcast and thus the power used was quite low. So low that it was not powerful enough to be seen on the moon let alone light years away.

[@chimeron260]

As far as light once being faster, I feel like in the given example of the big bangs rapid expansion of the universe, would it not be better to say that the light itself wasn’t any faster, just the space itself becoming larger. Like in the warp drives of Scifi that warp space around the ship, it’s usually suggested the ship isn’t moving at all.

[@johnharrison5656]

You just described inflation theory, which is a whole different problem. One of the reasons some argue that the speed of light may have been different, is because some aspects of the universe appear to be younger then what cosmology says, and that would affect carbon dating, the age of the universe, etc… One of the problems with inflation is where did the universe get the energy for the rapid expansion, and/or where did that energy go. Both, inflation and the speed of light bring with them more questions than they do answers, which makes the whole of cosmological theory look like a worn patchwork quilt. At this point, nothing makes any sense!

[@rus19297]

@@johnharrison5656 For that matter, neither does quantum physics. We still haven’t decided if light is a beam or a particle or something else entirely. It seems to have a mind of its own. I would expect nothing less from the entire universe.

[@johnharrison5656]

@@rus19297 Lol The Wave Function 😂

[@kevinstoneburner8775]

Pretty sure they've proven the big bang didn't happen

[@tpjmadrigal12]

Light can be sped up. If light travels directly toward a large mass, the space bends toward the mass, drawing it closer, faster. It BENDS it toward the mass. Just like light can be bent around a large mass.

[@SilverDreamweaver]

I remember back in HS, I decided to do my final physics project (it was like a mini-thesis -- preppy school tbh) on dark matter. Well... I had to quickly change topics because there was and still is very, very, very little known on the topic. I chose anti-matter and had fun studying that.

[@themacocko6311]

I thought there was very little known about anti-matter too.

[@miaya3898]

@@themacocko6311 not on Star Trek 😂

[@SilverDreamweaver]

@@themacocko6311 There is, but there was more than enough for a research project. And even more info on it today. As for dark matter, the deal was "We know it exists, but that's it."

[@SilverDreamweaver]

@@themacocko6311 I also covered theoretical application of anti-matter, which there were many thanks to the US military 😂 they'd weaponize a strand of hair if they could.

[@paryanindoeur]

My theory: there are actually FIVE Simon Whistlers, which is how he manages so many YT channels

[@donHooligan]

he's a high dollar AI robot

[@joshuapartridge5092]

i love how as soon as you mention Schrödinger's cat a cat starts walking across the dark bottom left corner of the background

[@DJWHITE_]

Simon needs a box of Cadbury’s Milk Tray on the shelf behind him if he’s gonna dress like that! 😅

[@WilliamHostman]

Our best antennae are barely able to pick up the voyagers at 22.5 W, +48dB from voyager's antenna, and 120 AU. It's estimated the signal will drop below background noise by 200 AU (but the power to transmit is likely to be gone before then).. We don't need to worry - 1) we reuse almost all communications frequencies - even back in the 1930's - within 60° of latitude and/or longitude. The signals are going to be out of phase, resulting in a lot of noise. 2) even a 50 MW broadcast is losing a lot. Our biggest radio signal ran about that strong. Due to lack of collimation, it's only going to get picked up by a +70dB Deep Space Network at sqrt(1.3e5) × the ranage, or about 82000 AU... a light year is 63241.1 AU... not even enough to get to the nearest star system. 3) even given all that, there is the formatting issue. Our video encoding for broadcast is pretty messy. So, if they detect and record is, they're unlikely to be able to make sense of it. And that is due to the way we included sound and video. If they guess wrong, it's just noise. (after all, each watt is roughly 1e40 photons ± a factor of 1000... past a certain distance, there just aren't enough photons to carry signal.)

[@gavinbar1988]

13:32 "like Schrodinger's cat" - Cat walks by in the background.

[@tommydoeschile]

Watching this high will literally change your life

[@jonasfermefors]

The was the best explanation for cosmic expansion that I've heard. Somehow most scientists tend to fumble when explaining it (trying to insert caveats and addendums).

[@ThatWriterKevin]

Thanks! 💕 And scientists don't have word counts to adhere to. But more importantly, something I learned as a Magic: the Gathering judge was to explain things simply. For example, you lose the game if you need to draw a card but have none left in your deck to draw. There are a lot of UNLESS comments that can follow, but going into that doesn't help them understand, it just confuses the main concept.

[@davidhoward4715]

Scientists have to insert caveats and addendums. Certainty belongs in religion.

[@jonasfermefors]

@@davidhoward4715 Agreed. Which is why it's often good with science communicators who can simplify so that people with less scientific backgrounds can still follow - even if they sometimes dumb it down so much that it technically isn't correct. Here I feel that they managed to both keep it correct and simple. I admire that.

[@stephenmorton8017]

Caveats and Addendums would be a great first album title for The Boltzmann's Brains.

[@jonasfermefors]

@@stephenmorton8017 Yes!

[@stuarttaoro6553]

I always had a headcannon that the universe isn't like a wide open field but like a crumpled piece of paper where dark matter is just other parts of the universe (planets, blackholes, etc.) impacting local space .

[@treborkroy5280]

It's shaped like a 🍩

[@alerijillo]

Simon takes me back to 2017 - 2019 to a happier time

[@Itchyknee88]

If the internet has taught me anything, it’s that there will always be somebody who will argue that Hitler “wasn’t a bad dude” 😅

[@batboy-xf3ki]

Awe Simon, you are awesome, your writers are amazing. Give them a day out of the basement.

[@lethalwolf7455]

If you view gravity as a repulsive force emitted from empty space due to its non-affinity for matter the planets, solar systems, galaxies, and the universe would behave as they are observed to do. This would also explain the impossibility of detecting the ‘graviton’ as well as the exponential expansion of the universe.

[@Captainjon0107]

I love how a cat walks across in the lower left background at 13:34 as he is mentioning Schrodinger's cat...

[@johnchedsey1306]

I'm a firm believer in the Douglas Adams theory that the second we figure out the universe, it'll be immediately replaced by something even far more inexplicable.

[@EricMeyerweb]

And that this has already happened a number of times.

[@tj71520]

As long as the dolphins stick around then Im not worried then the universe can Change all it wants

[@donHooligan]

money spenders kill those who figure it out. "participate or die" "we need you poor and struggling so we don't have to work."

[@donHooligan]

@@tj71520 ....but if the mice just up and disappear, we're good and fkd.

[@Toxic8arbarian]

My brain hurts or maybe that’s just a planted memory of my brain hurting from the planted memory of watching this video

[@reggiep75]

I'm glad I'm not the only one whose brain hurts.

[@blueckaym]

Regarding the variable speed of light ... what about the speed of causality? As I understand speed of light (in a vacuum) just happily coincides with the speed of causality, but to claim that lightspeed could have been higher means that speed of causality must have been higher too (or it would lead to a ton of paradoxes). However even if light could somehow change phase I don't see what could happen to affect the speed of causality.

[@garrysanderson5793]

Bro your eyebrows playing peekaboo behind those glasses rim. Im so high i had to rewatch the video cuz of that 😂😂😅

[@YusufGinnah]

_The Whistler-Verse_ continues to expand with just a single superhero carrying it all... At this point, Simon would make even Kal-El feel inadequate... 😎👍🏼

[@paulceglinski7172]

Oh, I can see it coming. It's gonna be one of them allegedly, supposedly, reportedly episodes. Cheers.

[@OsightblinderO]

Crazy, it's almost like the video is about theories.

[@jackturner214]

At some point, most higher order physics is indistinguishable to the layman from theology in its content; the only difference is you have Hawkins considering entropy in a black hole and not Aquinas wondering how many angels dance on the head of a pin.

[@carlludwig8774]

I‘d say modern physics feels like a psychedelic trip.

[@howarddooleyjr19]

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” - Arthur C. Clarke's Third Law

[@jackturner214]

@@howarddooleyjr19 I had Clarke's Third Law in mind when formulated this notion. I'm glad to see someone caught it.

[@bobbyagee3796]

The human brain doesn't contain thought. It is just a more sensitive receiver transmitter. Thought, analytics, innovation and the ability to record, theorize and share these intangible materials is the true mystery.

[@ThomasMHead]

Finally *the* explanation. Simon is the Boltzmann Brain. All of these channels, all of these videos, all of this information, all of us supposedly real people watching it: it's all going on in Simon's brain, as there is nothing remaining of whatever actually existed before. Keep on talking to yourself, Simon's brain! You are the universe!

[@thomasschon]

When I was doing Ayahuasca at a Peruvian ceremony in the Amazon jungle, I was shown behind the veil, and what I realized made me want to throw up, and it took months before my mind would let me access what I learned that time again. There was nothing, and I'm not real, and nothing has actually ever happened. The now, future, and past were only parts of the illusion that made me believe that I was real and something that was separate from nothingness. I had never heard of the Boltzmann brain theory before, but I think it has an affinity for the deepest level of "truth" that I was shown.

[@numbdigger9552]

The real problem with "nothingness" is that it's probably the one theory that simply can't be true. There are VERY few things we can truly "know". There is a famous saying: "I think, therefore I am", and I am certain that the fact that I have thoughts means that SOMETHING exists. It doesn't really mean that I exist or that the world exists or anything else, but it does mean that at least something exists because those thoughts themselves are "something", and those thoughts certainly do "exist" in a way.

[@ledizzy2634]

Jesus christ, just found this dude and his videos across all channels are so bloody good.

[@RendMaim]

From the thumbnail it looks like one of the theories is that Hitler is the Kwisatz Haderach.

[@littleblackcat2273]

Love the editing at 13:31 ! Awesome guys, just awesome!

[@bawrukid8734]

ok i wasnt the only one that caught that lol

[@littleblackcat2273]

@@bawrukid8734 I remember seeing a kid in a chess tournament a few years ago with a t-shirt message: "Wanted, dead or alive, Schrödinger's cat". I thought it was brilliant!

[@bnaivar]

I've always wondered if Gravity was a side effect of mixing the other fundemental forces. Which is why it exists, but is weaker than the other forces.

[@WorksopGimp]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5y6mnWujM6Yh7c&ab_channel=ThunderboltsProject You could find this interesting

[@stevek4070]

I don't know why I found that cat to be incredibly creepy when it walked by. I think that we will eventually be able to peer into extra dimensions and even alternate realities if we can maintain our scientific advancements and not destroy ourselves or succumb to our own arrogance/ignorance. The technology just doesn't exist yet but some day it will and people will take it as a norm to see what we can't see now.

[@Karin_Allen]

That was Schrodinger's cat! I wondered if anyone else noticed it. 😆

[@hawkman35244]

..and that cat just happened to walk by when Simon was talking about Schodiggers cat?

[@peterhughes7445]

I did!! What puuurfect timing!!@@Karin_Allen

[@BORNdischarged]

Is anyone else reminded of the episode of Futurama with the giant brains when he went over the Boltzmann Brain theory? “I’m a gigantic brain!”

[@OrdinaryDude]

Weird observation... The word "and" is one of the most common words in the English language. However Simon rarely uses it.

[@YusufGinnah]

*_"And...??"_* 🤷🏻‍♂️ 🤦🏻‍♂️😆🤣 Sorry, it was just too tempting to pass up...

[@reggienotorious6824]

Just be glad he doesn’t overuse “like”

[@YusufGinnah]

@@reggienotorious6824 Now that you mention it, Yup! Absolutely!

[@slake9727]

He favours the semi-colon.

[@jrmckim]

More like the writers never use it

[@korygrey6170]

My theory- There are as many simons as there are Kruegers

[@davidlarsen3054]

No he is a nsa deep fake to test the population iq

[@georgerevell5643]

Simon here is so good with science, Im a multi degree science grad and he's always on the money, I learn more myself!

[@cbnewham535]

He just reads a script written for him by others. 🙄

[@BigDaddyDelliott]

I swear the best science videos come from bald guys with beards and glasses.

[@wendyrichards7458]

We still don't know if Schrodinger's cat was alive or dead while it was in the box ,but we know it's ghost is haunting Simon's office ,it's nice that he has some company .Personally I'm quite content with the idea that I'm a disembodied "Brain" full of false memories ,it explains why reality sometimes seems questionable .

[@Karin_Allen]

I'm glad to know I wasn't the only one who noticed that Simon had rescued Schrodinger's poor cat. 😁

[@MrJgracias]

The open door creating a cross is so subtle.

[@3SIXTYPROD]

We can only comprehend what our senses let us

[@martinschulz9381]

Gravity always amazes me. The simple fact that is a powerful force that is completely invisible.

[@WorksopGimp]

What like a magnet 🤔

[@joshuagrisi2571]

Or nuclear power

[@joriankell1983]

So... The other forces are not invisible?

[@martinschulz9381]

@@joriankell1983 None so powerful and amazing like gravity. It extends millions of light years, it governs the motions of the universe, holds the galaxies together, so powerful that it can actually bend light.

[@joriankell1983]

@@martinschulz9381 except it doesn't hold galaxies together. I've seen the math, it doesn't work.

[@simquicky3448]

Trying to comprehend some of the theories in this really puts into perspective how much of a dumbarse I am compared to these scientists and academics.

[@MrAlexLaver]

This guy would be the perfect voice for The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy 😮

[@ro7517]

My favorite part of this video is when he mentioned Schrodinger's cat followed closely by his cat walking by in the background.

[@kerbal666]

I'm still at a loss to why gravity is so weak when black holes are so immensely strong

[@sandybarnes887]

Black holes only have strong gravity near them

[@kerbal666]

@@sandybarnes887 What does that even mean??

[@sandybarnes887]

@@kerbal666 if the sun turned into a black hole our orbit around it wouldn't change

[@kerbal666]

@@sandybarnes887 yeah I know that that's not my question the question is of all the forces why is it so weak when apparently black holes are so strong can you not see the paradox I'm addressing here?

[@numbdigger9552]

@@kerbal666 There is simply a LOT of gravity in a black hole. The gravitational force of a kilogram of mass is incredibly tiny. However, there are so many kilograms of mass in a black hole that it all adds up.

[@snailblazr]

I like turtles

[@zacherykavonius295]

My hero 😂

[@brieflycake]

"Ask not can my country do for me, but rather what can i do for my country". Great words, great words. Sorry, its just everyone is posting quotes and I dont want to feel left out

[@Salt_Master_Queue]

Look in the bottom left of frame at 13:32 when Simon mentions Schroeder's Cat. It totally freaked me out when I saw it.

[@jonathanpinkerton4064]

Combining two of these theories together we might be able to assume that if gravity can "escape" whatever universe it came from, then dark matter could be the affects of gravity from other universes affecting ours and vice versa. It would explain why it's completely undetectable and why gravity is so weak.

[@jackryan4313]

Soooooo...the multiverse is correct?

[@jonathanpinkerton4064]

​@@brandondenny226 How? By that logic then dark matter/energy don't exist at all and these unexplainable events are actually made up by scientists and not actually happening. Our planet and even our solar system are so small in the universe that the affects of dark matter and dark energy are not even be detectable. It's only on the massive scale of galaxies that we begin to see this stuff occurring. I never said planet's don't have gravity lol. I'm just speculating that each body in the universe could possibly "leak" small amounts of their gravity between universes at random moments in time. Kind of like how particles can randomly pass through a barrier (quantum tunneling).

[@GoalieNinja03]

@@brandondenny226possibly leading to the idea that planetary “gravity” (or mass attraction) is a completely separate force

[@equious8413]

Would be interesting to find that dark matter was the gravitational fingerprints of the influence other membrane universes have on us. You can imagine the position of mass in a higher dimensional space resulting in the gravitational influence being offset in a lower dimension. Maybe this would accelerate things like the rotational speed of galaxies 🤔

[@JollyPirateAhoy]

While everyone is busy watching Simon talk, I've been going nuts over the open door.

[@charlesstewart8683]

Good point. This could have implications for phenomena like the strength of gravity across different distances or the behavior of gravitational waves.

[@wombleofwimbledon5442]

Buckminster Fuller has some really good takes on this. Also, he maintained that there were 4 spatial dimensions, because tetrahedra. We just like squares, so it makes it more difficult.

[@m2heavyindustries378]

What the hell are you on about lol

[@WorksopGimp]

More like donuts, they link better seen a documentary on it seemed they were onto something

[@zxmax5466]

But all this is simply what’s perceivable what about all the Imperceivable

[@wombleofwimbledon5442]

@@m2heavyindustries378 His book Synergetics really explores this, but a quicker take is in Cosmography. Also, Critical Path is pretty darn good as well.

[@toweypat]

"Because tetrahedra" what?

[@theexchipmunk]

One add on to the Dark Matter part. We know by now that Dark Matter is not just an artifact of gravity, but its own tangible (wel not really, its by definition intangible but you get what I mean) thing. We can tell due to observation of galaxys and galaxy clusters that in coliding ripped the Dark Matter from the others, and also that Galaxys with very little to basically no Dark Matter exist. So gravity and Dark Matter are not intrinsically linked.

[@john-paulsilke893]

I’m familiar with this, however how many Sigma is this information? Because anything less then six sigma isn’t rigorous enough to be considered “fact”. That’s an accuracy of 99.99996%. Most astro physics is somewhere between 80%-90% once we pass out of parallax at a 1/4 arc second.

[@RichardBarclay]

Combine dark matter with string theory, maybe dark matter is matter in the bulk?

[@WorksopGimp]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5y6mnWujM6Yh7c&ab_channel=ThunderboltsProject

[@theexchipmunk]

@@john-paulsilke893 I don´t know how many sigma, but the fact that its seperate is indisputable. To put it simple, we have pictures of it. We know galaxis without dark matter exist, so dark matter cannot be an artifact of gravity, as every galaxy would have to have dark matter for that to be the case. But galaxys like DF2 throw a wrench in that because they don`t. To put it simple, we can be sure because we have pics of it, so it happened.

[@cp-sh9nj]

@@theexchipmunk don’t force your phone to misspell separate lol

[@magnusdiridian]

Aliens: How many planets are in your system? Adolf Hitler: NEIN!!

[@giancarlocrumps7564]

I've come to realize we could be wrong about.. EVERYTHING!!

[@donHooligan]

you think it's okay to eat food without composting. ...on a finite planet. currently experiencing "climate change" ...after about 10K years of living this way (using standardized currency) believing that food costs money. believing that anything costs money...

[@freedomfirst5557]

People ask the wrong questions....like, why are we here? That speaks more to the ego of humanity than anything else. Why is a blade of glass here? Why does it exist? Why is there an amoeba or a virus, or a shark? Things exist and that is all that matters, I don't think that in the grand scheme of the universe we matter any more than a blade of grass.

[@shasmi93]

You obviously didn’t read the Bible and initiate with your nearest cult… don’t you know religions say we are made in the image of God and super important……….

[@numbdigger9552]

Okay but hear me out: why does ANYTHING exist? Like seriously, why is there something instead of nothing? Actually, what even IS something? What does existing really mean? What is nothing? Why are the laws of physics the way they are and what upholds them? Why are there any laws at all? Why does time exist? Ofcourse, it might be that all of these "why" questions are stupid anyway, and that is the wrong thing to ask in the first place, as "reality" (whatever that even means) doesn't really bend to our monkey-brain conceptions of logic and reasoning, and thus "why" might be a truly unanswerable question.

[@ROMAQHICKS]

I like that Sideprojects has taken a little flavour of Decoding the Unknown with the subtitle "but this shit could actually be real". Quantum theory is one of my favourite topics to read about as a layperson. It is so bizarre in so many ways. It might not be complete and still could be incorrect but given our understanding of the universe, the maths work out. There is no describable mechanic that allows for conscience to continue after death, or for angels or ghosts except magic. Winning the quantum lottery and suddenly passing through a solid wall, possible. Even the craziest of theories like string theory has a potential mechanism and maths to describe reality.

[@recommens-comedy-central9761]

I Read somewhere that consciousness like Einstein e=mc2 suggests it cannot be created nor distroid mealy a change in state.

[@alexandercorey850]

Every time Simon starts a new channel, a big bang happens in a new universe