Five Theories About the Universe to Blow Your Mind

[@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.

[@Thisworldistoobig]

Ba-dum-kssssshhhh.

[@Curious-Mr.-Lee]

Thank you for that. Have a nice day

[@lloydnorval1989]

Fourth wall/dimension break ;)

[@_WortSchmied_]

Loco en el coco.

[@keirthomas3197]

This comment deserves way more likes. You win the interweb today good sir.

[@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.

[@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?

[@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

[@deafeningoctopus]

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

[@andrewnfalco]

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

[@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

[@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

[@ZodiacDating]

@@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...

[@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.

[@BlackandWhitecustoms]

Depends on how that cosmic consciousness views the hallucination. Maybe it's experience that is outside the hallucination that's called your life, is hectic which would make your life a sense of calm serenity

[@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. 😂

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@jupiterbloodsaw]

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

[@kevinbrooks9074]

In the quiet of the night aboard the USS Enterprise, Commander Riker and Captain Picard found themselves in the captain's ready room, enjoying a rare moment of relaxation. The stars outside the window formed a mesmerizing backdrop, a reminder of the vastness of space they explored together. "Jean-Luc, do you ever tire of this endless journey?" Riker asked, his voice soft, almost reflective. Picard looked up from his book, a slight smile playing on his lips. "There are moments, Will, when the solitude of command can weigh heavily. But then, I think of the crew, of the friendships we've forged, and it all seems worthwhile." Riker nodded, understanding the sentiment all too well. "We've been through so much together. It's those bonds that keep us going, I think." The captain set his book aside and leaned back in his chair. "Indeed. It's not just the exploration of the unknown that drives us, but the connections we make along the way." There was a comfortable silence between them, one that spoke of years of mutual respect and camaraderie. Riker walked over to the replicator and ordered two glasses of Saurian brandy, handing one to Picard. "To friendship," Riker toasted, raising his glass. "To friendship," Picard echoed, clinking his glass against Riker's.

[@Leehuss5582]

I miss NextGen...everything at that time felt new exciting challenging but simpler if that made sense.. ✌🤜🏽

[@KingKai133]

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 👏

[@faxxy4077]

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

[@rustyshackelford3371]

I enjoyed his work.

[@dahak972]

I love that movie!

[@onionknight777]

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

[@SteveHatmakerJr]

0:00 - "Exploring a Quirky Mini-Series" 1:01 - "Exploring Reasons Why They Should Have Split" 2:05 - "Understanding the Concept of Higher Bulk" 3:00 - "Proving the Existence of Large Extra Dimensions 3:58 - "Addressing the Issue of Speed in Problem Solving" 4:54 - "Observations and Details You Might Have Missed" 5:51 - "Understanding Einstein's Perception of Attractive Force" 6:53 - "Exploring the Possibility" 7:52 - "Understanding the Horizon Problem in Cosmic Microwave Background" 8:52 - "Explaining the Reasons Behind Brief Occurrences" 9:47 - "133-Year-Old South Resident Thriving" 10:43 - "Receiving the First Transmission: An Overview" 11:35 - "Recreating the Video in Focus" 12:36 - "Understanding the Reasons Behind Rigid and Strict Rules" 13:36 - "Debate on a Century-Old Issue"

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@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...

[@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

[@proflcr8779]

“Of course it is happening inside your Boltzman Brain, Harry, but why on earth should that mean it is not real?”

[@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.

[@kevinbrooks9074]

In the whimsical land of Far Far Away, Shrek and Donkey discovered a connection that transcended friendship. Amidst their adventures, a deeper bond formed, defying societal norms. Their unconventional love story unfolded quietly, a tale of acceptance and understanding. Far from the conventional fairy tales, Shrek and Donkey navigated their feelings in a world that had yet to grasp the diversity of love. In the end, it wasn't the castle or the dragon that defined their happiness, but the genuine connection they found in each other, proving that love knows no boundaries, even in a swampy fairy tale realm.

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@dominoespizza1756]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@lostlogic2840]

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

[@gunkyzip]

Ah, nice someone else noticed

[@MBMb-dl1em]

Yes yes

[@tommydoeschile]

Watching this high will literally change your life

[@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

[@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.

[@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!

[@PlazDreamweaver]

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.

[@alice_agogo]

@@themacocko6311 not on Star Trek 😂

[@PlazDreamweaver]

@@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."

[@PlazDreamweaver]

@@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.

[@donniebryson2916]

Your existence and ability to theorize this stuff and share it with everyone online is a miracle period.

[@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!

[@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!

[@DJWHITE_]

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

[@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

[@BoaHebiHimeSama]

Ah, yes, the "Kars Hypothesis".

[@numbdigger9552]

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

[@EnigmaticMindLLC]

You're my kind of people. 😍🫂

[@j.d.4697]

The Boltzmann Brain theory is a true mind-blower.

[@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 🍩

[@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.

[@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

[@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 🤘🏻

[@cathallynch1]

You can get a transcript below the description

[@batboy-xf3ki]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@jackmanley1473]

If the first thing aliens hear when they get near the Earth is the speeches of Adolf Hitler, then the fact we've never been contacted by intelligent life makes a lot of sense.

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@snailblazr]

I like turtles

[@zacherykavonius295]

My hero 😂

[@RBDfYourfeelings]

I like turtle stew 😈

[@entrepreneurs615]

Killing it bro

[@RoelvanDeventer]

I like Leonardo

[@michaelpaulson3805]

You and me both buddy. You and me both

[@Voltron4ev4]

6. We live in a black hole 7. Simulation Theory Really interesting stuff

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@RendMaim]

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

[@alexandercorey850]

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

[@Scott_Buchanan]

Videos like this are a good reminder that we shouldn’t stress over the little things ✌️

[@giancarlocrumps]

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...

[@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.

[@alerijillo]

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

[@Hillbilly001]

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.

[@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.

[@andrewneven7855]

Do more about dimensions and time please?

[@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 :)

[@civwar054]

One of your best videos. 👌

[@malenotyalc]

Fact check: Dark matter doesn't make matter move faster than the speed of light, that is impossible. What it does it stretch or expand space time (which has no mass and that can go faster than the speed of light). So the objects aren't moving faster than the speed of light, however the space between us and said object is expanding/stretching faster than the speed of light. Those objects could be moving toward us spatially in relation to our position, but the space between increases non the less.

[@joegibbskins]

Everyone already knows that. He just misspoke in the video

[@KaiHenningsen]

You seem to conflate dark matter and dark energy. Dark matter is matter we can only see via its gravitational effect. Dark energy is responsible for the expansion of the universe. Despite the similar name, as far as we can tell, they are completely unrelated.

[@captainspaulding5963]

Bold of you to assume that it is impossible to move FTL..... all the space beyond the edge of the observable universe would like to have a word with you.

[@malenotyalc]

@@captainspaulding5963 Those objects aren't moving FTL, the space between us and them is expanding FTL. Space time has no mass and thus can expand FTL. matter cannot.

[@chrisdooley1184]

I always thought that extra dimensions existed (although how many is unknown) simply because black holes exist. The matter sucked in by a singularity has to go somewhere - the laws of physics (thermodynamics?) state you can’t just turn matter into nothing so why not have that energy that was matter travel into another dimension? Perhaps someone better versed in astrophysics can better explain what I mean if I haven’t cocked up my explanation completely 😂 😂

[@steele7609]

The recently viewed a black hole eating a super nova.... It then spat it back out..... Just in smaller pieces

[@JJ33438]

could be that digested matter crushed to impossible small is shot out of the ass end of a black hole into another dimension that becomes another universe! many scientists believe our universe is way too organized to be original....that our universe is made up of re processed matter and that is why its so organized. its why we can have "laws of physics". If it was newly original it should be just general chaos. but the particles behave consistently like they "know" what they are supposed to do.

[@gloom8288]

do a large dose of ketamine my friend. you can see them with your own eyes

[@chrisdooley1184]

@@gloom8288 I’m on ketamine because I’m on hospice actually. I don’t find it very enjoyable actually just annoying because of constant auditory hallucinations. To quite a famous novel, ‘it’s not my bag baby’ lol

[@Its__Good]

Current theory is that the matter is ejected from the black hole as Hawkin radiation.

[@davidfinch7407]

Have you done a video on the dual slit experiment? It pretty much proves that reality doesn't exist (or at least operates in some way we really don't understand.) My mind would be blown if I was real.

[@ThatWriterKevin]

I don't believe Simon's covered it, but I don't really think that's what it's proving either.

[@davidfinch7407]

@@ThatWriterKevin Well, if you can explain what it does prove, there's probably a Nobel prize in it for you.

[@tj71520]

The experiment proves that entanglement exists and therefore that quantum mechanics and quantum physics exists. Unless I am mistaken

[@ThatWriterKevin]

@@davidfinch7407 I eman, what it proved has already been explained. I imagine there as a Nobel involved, but not sure

[@davidfinch7407]

@@ThatWriterKevin I'm not aware of any explanation for the results (specifically referring to why a series of individual protons fired randomly through two slits would create a wave pattern resulting in an observable interference pattern unless the protons are observed prior to entering either of slits, in which case they revert to acting as if it is an individual protons), but maybe something new has occurred. The comment about the Nobel prize was made by a physicist on a youtube video along the lines of "If you can explain how the proton knows it's being observed and therefore acts differently, there is a Nobel prize waiting for you." The part that blows my mind is that objects without apparent will act differently when observed. Even worse, if you observe the protons after they go through the slit, they still revert to individual action, indicating they can travel back in time and alter their behavior to the point before they entered the slits! These aren't my conclusions, I'm no expert in the field, but it's what the experts are saying. If you haven't looked into this, I invite you to, it's a wild ride.

[@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

[@joshbolton7118]

Anyone know that movie @4:10?

[@nolesy34]

Promethesis

[@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 🤔

[@WingManFang1]

If we are just floating brains of some kind with false memories then the memories are being designed in chronological order meaning they had to happen to someone or something somewhere at some time so we are us…even if we aren’t technically. Kind of weird to think about.

[@numbdigger9552]

You understand it all wrong. The "memories" aren't really a thing. It's all just neural connections and electrical currents in your brain, which means that if that brain was floating in nothingness, then as long as those signals and connections in your brain happen in the same way, you can't tell the difference. The "memories" in this theory aren't really memories in the true sense, because they never happened and thus are not a record of true events. You could call them hallucinations.

[@Wreckz_Tea]

I have like 47 different theories on this topic. All of them make sense(to me) and seem to be the correct theory (to me) and yet they are all entirely different, which makes no sense at all... Just like the universe makes no sense at all. Actually my theories are more about understanding why we are here and what the point is but it kinda goes together with the universe in all it's mystery

[@YusufGinnah]

Do you share any of these on your channel? You've piqued my interest now..

[@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.

[@Demoncradle]

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

[@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

[@ac12484]

Isn't points 1 (extra dimension) and 2 (dark matter) kinda compatible? The matter in our "membrane" could be interacting the the matter in the neighboring "membrane" (invisible to us, but visible to the occupants of that membrane)?

[@magnusdiridian]

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

[@peterhovmand74]

Great show, old chap!

[@thesalvadorian]

Me blurting out when the awkward silence becomes unbearable 3:20

[@animatinglinc]

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

[@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!”

[@blu3622]

The hardest working man on youtube 🏅

[@gavinbar1988]

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

[@9vHeart]

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

[@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.

[@OfficialFire]

this video was hilarious, thoroughly enjoyed watching

[@Captainjon0107]

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

[@Ciarananthonymitchell844]

I SAW THE CAT! BEHIND YOU! LOVE IT!!!

[@scottgodfrey7118]

The one about gravity is interesting. I had a theory that all realities were similar to the chambers of a ship, some submerged and some not, that the gravitational force in our 'chamber' is weak because in another chamber the 'water' would be higher. Theoretically if true there may be realities where gravity is weaker still or so powerful star formation isn't possible. Still, only a theory.

[@donaldoehl7690]

I have the day off today, I think I'll produce a theory about something...

[@tpjmadrigal12]

Sounds like membrane theory

[@lolmanyeah1]

I have a theory that all universes are being milked from the utters of a cosmic cow. Thank you cow daddy

[@JaceDanielFilms]

Thanks for this, now that I know it's all a dream and nothing is real, I'm going to home and cook and eat my husband while singing Christmas songs! Woopwoop doorbell butterball the molecules will rule us all Love Jesus

[@keirthomas3197]

An even more interesting fact that might blow your mind, I have urinated in Every single swimming pool that I have been in. Your welcome internet.

[@johnmckown1267]

11:40 This, decoding a signal, is my biggest complaint with some sci-fi. Scientist get the signal, which they can "decrypt" into audio & visual streams. They can then display the video (is it PAL, Europe, or NTSC, USA?). At the same time they can create an automatic trsnslator into English. I'd believe in the "Babelfish" first.