If the Universe Came From Nothing, Where Did Nothing Come From?

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[@PursuitofWonder]

Thank you all for watching. Check out more of my short stories here: www.amazon.com/dp/B095L8LP33

[@Squirrel-zq6oe]

Thank you 💚

[@dorothysatterfield3699]

Pursuit of Wonder, has it not occurred to you that there's a real disconnect between your content and your sponsor? Financial investing. Really? Are you Pursuit of Wonder or are you Pursuit of Cash?

[@kelsey_roy]

@@dorothysatterfield3699 I like money. Who doesn't like money?

[@killgriffinnow]

I HAD THIS EXACT SAME IDEA A FEW MONTHS AGO WHEN I WAS THINKING ABOUT THE FINE TUNING ARGUMENT!

[@tonipittoni5527]

Yeah but what for 😅😅😅

[@Ray-of-Hope720]

To think, we spend so much of our time fighting and destroying each other on one little tiny planet against the backdrop of something ridiculously enormous.

[@honkahonkanoise]

i think about this all the time

[@Nimbus...]

Listen Carl Sagan's Monologue " A Pale Blue dot " he has beautifully summarized the thing you're trying to imply.

[@lync254]

I wonder if humanity will ever takes the next step and starts to work together

[@honkahonkanoise]

@@Nimbus... thank you dude, it’s been a thought that’s lingered with me for a while and i don’t really know how to flesh it out so i’ll check that out

[@Grapefruit5000]

Yea exactly and yet these politicians think they and the economy are the most important things in the universe.

[@UebelstGutenZeug]

That's the curse of humanity, endlessly seeking for answers but every bit of them brings up new questions, it's an endless cycle.

[@windows10acc]

قال تعالى:(إنَّ فِي خَلْقِ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَاخْتِلَافِ اللَّيْلِ وَالنَّهَارِ وَالْفُلْكِ الَّتِي تَجْرِي فِي الْبَحْرِ بِمَا يَنفَعُ النَّاسَ وَمَا أَنزَلَ اللَّـهُ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ مِن مَّاءٍ فَأَحْيَا بِهِ الْأَرْضَ بَعْدَ مَوْتِهَا وَبَثَّ فِيهَا مِن كُلِّ دَابَّةٍ وَتَصْرِيفِ الرِّيَاحِ وَالسَّحَابِ الْمُسَخَّرِ بَيْنَ السَّمَاءِ وَالْأَرْضِ لَآيَاتٍ لِّقَوْمٍ يَعْقِلُونَ).سورة البقرة، آية: 164 ( كَانَتَا رَتْقًا فَفَتَقْنَاهُمَا وَجَعَلْنَا مِنَ الْمَاءِ كُلَّ شَيْءٍ حَيٍّ أَفَلَا يُؤْمِنُونَ). السورة: الأنبياء، آية: (30).

[@CrabbinFever]

All you need to know is that everything is pre-ordained. Nothing is random. In fact, randomness is simply a lack of knowledge and understanding. Take roulette, If one had the capabilities to quickly calculate the velocity of the ball, the humidity, the sweat on the croupiers' hands, every single tiny variable, that individual would accurately determine where the ball would land 100% of the time.

[@seifnaiad1728]

Won't be endless when humans become wise enough to never have children again. the curse will end.

[@user-kk9bd9yj6w]

It's not a circle, it's just a straight path.

[@cthulhu4411]

A decent into madness

[@bvrdy]

I’ve always enjoyed the idea that consciousness is simply a means by which the universe can experience itself

[@untalentedwebdev]

Same

[@sarutosaruto2616]

You can call one God, and one His creation, now the question is which is which, or if there is any difference between them at all, maybe… all is one.

[@govidon]

@@sarutosaruto2616 there is a concept in some religions that the creator and the creation cannot be seperated

[@thejeffrey7199]

​@@sarutosaruto2616I love you

[@sarutosaruto2616]

@@govidon all semantical differences, nothing more

[@samuhnella]

“The gods abandoned us a long time ago” is such an eerie sentence.

[@groovechampion1462]

Planet got destroyed, went down the toilet.

[@rezanoori1365]

Thanks! Another existential crisis was exactly something I needed before going to bed :)

[@IAmJustAPers0n11]

Same buddy

[@ItzSlashyyy]

Im watching this shit will bring very ill and my brain is basically dying

[@tamarapopovic9532]

Lmao, same here

[@muneebahmad7729]

Average Iranian after leaving their country 😜

[@wonderingtraveller4786]

Lol

[@GetBusyDrift]

i vividly remember being about 7-8 years old and thinking: if the universe is expanding, what is beyond that edge where it hasn’t expanded to? it’s just a big void forever? explains my anxiety as an adult 😂

[@Fushiro0]

Fr, the outer space is too complicated for us (humans).

[@attilakonkoly4329]

You must have been born on September!

[@TonyStone3000]

@Marshall Rifqi There's no such thing as outer space. There is no such thing as millions of light years away.

[@fartmaster6977]

​@@TonyStone3000and there is no war in ba sing se

[@cool78666]

It’s a paradox

[@yum8666]

I HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT THIS BEFORE! we are just the universe reflecting on itself over and over again in a circle

[@SCIENTIST-X]

The same thing with me .

[@nityanandbiswal4093]

So kinda like a yuga?

[@yum8666]

@nityanandbiswal4093 yes. Hinduism is onto something. I also think we probably reincarnate until we live as everything

[@Blasphemousa]

Yeah, some Dark Souls shit kinda

[@yum8666]

@@nityanandbiswal4093 yeah. I also think we probably reincarnate over and over until we live as everything. So the Hindus were on to something

[@Gagan1237]

But still we are stuck on the question that 'from where did the matter came for the first time ?'

[@Ylaid]

Or to make the question more basic: "why do things *exist* in the first place?" Why there are always something that exist in the first place? Is there really a beginning to all things? If not, then how that makes any sense? Or is it that it doesn't supposed to make any sense at all, at least maybe not for us humans? Because it just SO HARD to understand the laws in the first place? It just doesn't make sense that it makes you want to believe in an entity who's just an illogical answer to the question about the absurdity of the universe, because nothing makes sense to us. Human's strength comes from the collective knowledge and effort which builds up through the whole history of our life on this planet, and maybe there will be a time where we will break the cycle of finding answers along with new questions, maybe it will satisfy us, maybe not. Maybe it will just make us more terrified against the universe, or maybe it will make us feel content, maybe nothing. Its the mystery of the universe, where there are certain things and rules as if its a game... But there is no one to tell you what to do with your whole life, its all yours to give meaning to it.

[@Ylaid]

I also like that the universe itself is telling you that "there is no such thing as impossible"

[@abhisheklama1393]

@@Ylaidthe why doesn’t matter. It’s just random chance. There is no “greater meaning” to existence. It’s just something that is. And this is because it resulted from absolute probability. Nothing more, nothing less.

[@TheMijoAaron]

@@abhisheklama1393so why does probability exist? Why do the rules n laws n cause n effect even exist in the first place? What’s computing all this in the first place? What is it? How did it get there? Why does there exist the capacity for the universe to form based on chance? Based on numbers? Where did this capacity of existence come from? And fucking why?

[@abhisheklama1393]

@@TheMijoAaron it exists because it just does, there’s no why. It was random. Just a fluke. And nothing more. Nothing is computing any of anything. It’s just happening the way it is. It’s a system that spawned randomly with its laws because it just did. Everything is happening because it is. No reason, no greater purpose. Just sheer randomness.

[@Zurround]

It takes real skill to make a story that is amazing and mind boggling and fascinating but also at the same time TOTALLY SAD AND DEPRESSING. I read a comic strip joke in FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE some years ago where a little girl said "I did not know that there could be such a thing as a sad miracle".

[@iwannabeadored69420]

IDTS Maybe, you could to it better!

[@jack-9108]

Why do you find it sad?

[@MadGeorgeProductions]

He's ripping off The Last Question by Isaac Asimov. Read it, I think it's free online.

[@itskeagan3004]

It’s only sad if you don’t find the meaning behind it all. I found God through extensive research and study, I hope you do the same :)

[@casualcookin3893]

Why is it sad,go eat ice cream for example it will make you happy,cant eat icecream if nothing existed

[@Bassotronics]

I look into the mirror at my own face. I begin to cry… I say to myself “I will miss you for I will never be able to see you ever again nor I will remember this life I’m currently living. May your soul and consciousness be happy for all eternity. You will always be loved”.

[@us249]

even bassotronics is fascinated

[@Razorcarl]

deep

[@sugardady1019]

Atheists are wilding ngl.

[@koli4213]

@@sugardady1019cause life is weird as fuck

[@AlexHerrera-wk6lq]

Cheers, I'll drink to that.

[@HonestJunkie]

Thanks for making this, I really enjoyed it ... even as an underlying unease began to rise up within. The music was unsettling and awesome at the same time.

[@shanemahabirsingh7215]

Consciousness is an observant force within a finite universe. When you play a simulation the hardware is not changed but the software feeds you a series of data based on the choices you make which creates the illusion of interaction.

[@amritprajapati6075]

The universe seems to have a way of holding a mirror up to our attempts to find its defining features. Look at black holes, the edge of the universe, quantum uncertainty, even consciousness. We just can't get solutions in a familiar framework. It's so mysterious!

[@razefug3606]

Its as if there’s something out there? God

[@Enigma765.]

@Raze Fug No one can prove the existence of supernatural Entity/God.

[@Grapefruit5000]

Just the fact that we can even experience any of this is a marvel of it's own.

[@collinsiemaszko7007]

@@razefug3606 That's a lazy excuse for being a theist IMO

[@collinbollinger3821]

@@razefug3606 Just because you don't understand why humans are the way we are today does not prove the existence of a God. Neither does our ability to comprehend the universe like you said. I think evolution works in mysterious ways and we can't always say exactly how everything happened. Just like the video said, I think we evolved to have basic consciousness long ago and it has gotten stronger.

[@ItsJCrew]

What an amazing thought experiment. This story reminds me a lot of the egg theory where the perceived goal of consciousness is also to mature. Thank you for constantly bringing us amazing stories and life lessons. I have learned so much from this channel and it has helped tremendously with my fear of death, fear of making mistakes, and so much more.

[@Hora_de_Peluches]

any video or essay abut that theory? Sound interesting

[@tymofiivasylenko8451]

@@Hora_de_Peluches Kurzgesagt «The egg»

[@VeganSemihCyprus33]

The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 💖💖

[@TotalPhilosophyTP]

@@VeganSemihCyprus33 This one is amazing too!

[@lissymaggie]

honestly my favourite video from kurzgezat in a nutshell is the egg theory! It’s so wholesome and makes me feel really comfortable when life’s being all scary These two and exurb1a are some of my favourite KZbinrs!

[@nuclearpillow1677]

i often come to this video for comfort when something happens, thank you for everything you’ve done for me

[@geneobrien8907]

"... happiness and pleasures leave as fast as they come, they never last or change anything. I have lost all naivety required for hope in the fleeting pleasures of more or new" At 72, this is a perfect description of how I feel!

[@richardbaker-qu6xy]

Read God's word and you will have an unending sense of real Happiness and a newfound deep peace :)

[@jasonsavard2819]

@@richardbaker-qu6xy I dont need lies to keep me happy

[@angelrey-martinez7946]

@@lyneyslittlelocket.mp3you haven’t lived enough

[@Nauft]

@@lyneyslittlelocket.mp3it’s sad that you could just call something a lie without having read it

[@user-fs1lc2cj5s]

@@Nauftwell I mean it’s a fairytale. some good lessons in it, for sure. some complete bullshit too. Read Spinoza instead.

[@rajveerkanojiya2985]

this channel is hands down the best space, science, astronomy, psychology and reality channel ever on KZbin

[@pandapanda5738]

This is phenomenal

[@Themanofpopculture]

Dont forget philosophical

[@kelsey_roy]

He made subtle references to Albert Camus.

[@dwarkeshwardutt3929]

Check out Like Stories of Old

[@boredofhumaans1418]

Check out exurb1a. I believe that Pursuit of wonder is the second best channel on KZbin in the topics you've said

[@marcgauthier2368]

This is probably my favorite youtube videos of all time. Thanks so much!

[@godzsoldier7796]

That feeling in my stomach scares me yet the thought of a higher being gives me peace i hope n i tell myself to carrry that peace until the end don’t be scared

[@alidabirnia2882]

What are you scared of? Would you wish to live forever? Why? What are you clinging to? What is the root of your fear behind its various expressions?

[@enricooliveri3061]

At the end, you just realize that it's still a loop that never breaks. Now I'm thinking, what if there was another universe similar to ours before this? What if we are another universe that was created after the death of a previous one?

[@imranharith8936]

See animal kingdom. We focus on human so much.

[@moumenwalid1110]

There was never a previous universe all there was out there was our creator

[@user-ejxomyq]

didn't god say he creates heaven every 7 years? basically once the 7 years are up a new universe is created.

[@reaperbhai5028]

@@moumenwalid1110 wow you really got proof to say that 🙄

[@nisbiyyah]

There is always the same problem in the end. If our universe comes from an old universe and this last one also comes from an even older universe, there are only two choices: either we lock ourselves in an absurd loop (we were created by creators who were created by creators, and so on) or we admit that it is necessary to have a first cause to all this!

[@Aceinine]

Multiple philosophers have postulated that man's eternal search for purpose is a fallacy in itself. A futile attempt to make sense of the seemingly endless chaos in the universe by feeble minds that are incapable of comprehending the nature of reality or making peace with the meaninglessness of existence, perhaps in a desperate bid to cling to a semblance of determinism in a boundless ocean of eternal randomness. I'd love to hear your thoughts on how this idea goes beyond the concept of existentialism. Also, Great video as always :)

[@XxJONNYKILLAxX]

I agree

[@Ana-jf1ch]

Camus likes this post.

[@orangeroad_]

You should always take philosophy with a pinch of salt

[@XxJONNYKILLAxX]

@@orangeroad_ why?

[@cookedsociety2666]

God is real, don’t argue too much, it’s easy to see.

[@Avi_2816]

Truly captivating video and storytelling. You have a new subscriber

[@mider-spanman5577]

I just turned 24 this month and I find that as I get older, I'll become more fascinated and yet, dreadful of the prospect of death. Not only my death, but especially those of the people I truly hold dear and care about the most in this life. I got into a minor car accident last night while at work in the company car and it really opened my eyes. I hope I continue on the path of living life to the fullest and that this isn't just a one-off. I really just want to live my life in the best manner possible and make everybody's life around me as good as can be.

[@whitneytravels]

We’re both the same age. My life truly transformed and my mindset when I became homeless just last year at 23, I have overcome it and I’m still working harder and harder each day. When we love ourselves we can show up and give love to others as well. Keep being a shining light on this earth.

[@whitneytravels]

Proud of you Span Man

[@bagofish8511]

This made me feel as if other people are really in there

[@taelicious6162]

@@whitneytravels Best of luck man. I hope situation gets better for you soon.

[@mider-spanman5577]

@@whitneytravels I am happy for you and to hear about your progress in life. That's all we can do is move forward and hopefully not take any steps back. I hope your journey continues to go smoothly! 💪🏿💪🏿

[@123leojc]

Travelling in a car with my partner, I said to her that the problem of our current digitally influenced and distracted society is that there is very little to die for, because if there was then we would really start to live. What cause are you willing to truly live for and ultimately to die for? What aspect of your deep humanity is in slumber? Don't you realise that there is a sleeping giant inside, just waiting on your command to rise and release the binds from the conscious perils of non-conviction, non-responsibility, non-belief and lack of trust? - Awaken him!! Find your first principles, be kind to yourself and to all, reveal your integrity, show your conviction, prove your values by what you do and not what you say, deliver compassion for your fellow men, unite all with a deeply rooted love. Breed common sense, tolerance and strength of character and remember to have fun and enjoy the journey - above all, I'd like you to understand that this is a message for me. I sincerely hope I listen and that I have the strength of heart to take action and lead the way. The freedom to choose is ultimately a constrained choice, but nonetheless courage must be the foundation on which I stand. As for everyone else, well, I hope that one day, some time soon, you will take a moment and see, feel or listen to something that connects you, that binds you to this beautiful, wonderful planet full of amazing people. That's all I have to say.

[@user-wr9vl3xr9x]

Well said🙌

[@jamesbarratt4193]

Very similar thought processes to Marcus Aurelius' meditations if you've read those.

[@Alex-hb1yf]

great stuff Leo like seriously good. That can literally be a pursuit of wonder episode .

[@yorgouh3296]

Waw. Thank you internet stranger.

[@sarahkalonji2744]

I do this everyday just the sake of this humanity this universe this world my God my heaven all of you I am a brother send sisters you should come with me the door is open for you

[@Hritik9000]

Bro this made me cry what a video ❤️

[@babysmurf3160]

This video is deep bro, glad I hit the bong beforehand😂😂

[@fiftysecwithoutza]

This dude found the answer to the universe

[@itsactuallysanama]

aahh, my daily dose of existential crisis

[@netosampaio8548]

Some people just won't stop posting this existential crisis crap.

[@orangeroad_]

@@netosampaio8548 haha exactly it's a trend

[@TJfromEarth]

dude come up with an original comment. this stupid shit is lazily posted every single time

[@Dontkysbro]

This was the point of everything I’ve been through, to be right here, right now, writing this. Thank you for this, I acknowledge and receive the love put into this, and the chaos that made it possible. You’ve inspired more than you could ever know.

[@VeganSemihCyprus33]

The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 💖💖

[@skyluke9476]

Are you goose or bear?

[@sivashankari2501]

Thanks for uploading such informative video 😮

[@user-gs3id1vr6t]

Oh god finally someone popped this question !!!!!! The question that really breaks my mind just thinking for a second even

[@future_beat]

This is the best explanation I’ve seen so far for the meaning/purpose of life, consciousness and the universe.

[@gizmorazaar]

I've made three rules for myself regarding meaning: 1) Just because the answer isn't so easy to find, that doesn't mean we can't ever find one. 2) Just because we haven't found an answer yet, that doesn't mean we never will. 3) Just because we aren't certain of our own answer, that doesn't mean we can't ever be.

[@zIVeNomIx]

Those are three rules lol

[@gizmorazaar]

@@zIVeNomIx Oh jeez you're right, lemme fix the typo

[@doganalpkoroglu]

What is the difference between the first and the second rule? And how can you be 100% certain of an answer? Science is literally based on accepting that your current answer to a question might be wrong and it can always be replaced by a better one.

[@orangeroad_]

@@doganalpkoroglu Here is it, science can definitely answer a lot of natural questions based on the methodology of causality, but, it doesn't answer metaphysical questions, questions that are beyond nature, for example the fundamental nature of things. Why is a circle a circle? What is the fundamental nature of shapes? Of colors? Why are things the way they are to the most fundamental part. I guess, those questions cannot be answerable..

[@ilyescherguimalih8205]

4) just because you hope an answer might exist, that doesn't mean it does

[@philippesom5066]

I remember thinking as a kid, if nothing existed, what would that look like? Would I even be able to see it, I wouldn’t exist. How could you feel that, there is no feeling, what is that? I thought so deeply into it and tried to imagine what that would be my vision blurred, my body felt like it was a fuzzy I’ve never felt before, everything started to feel light and I was sitting cross legged on my bed…I keeled over slowly and snapped out of it. It was trippy, this happened twice in my life

[@user-rt4fe1pp7r]

my friend energy doesn't die, it is impossible to turn from nothing to something, you are only experienceing a deprivation of senses

[@blueglas7463]

I get this a lot actually.

[@user-rt4fe1pp7r]

yes standing up to fast,, and in general when all the blood rushes to your head and you just forget everything and then rejoin the world its a weird feeling @@blueglas7463

[@SecureHandle]

When I do things like that I also get some fuzzy sensation where my mind blurs and my heart starts beating pasted and stuff

[@philippesom5066]

@@user-rt4fe1pp7r I guess its the mind over body thing, maybe, maybe some inadvertent momentary meditation. It is possible to do sensory deprivation on your bed as a kid by randomly trying to feel nothing? It was a sudden inkling both times and I was a healthy kid.

[@HypeLobbiesHD]

I watch this multiple times a year. By far my favorite video by you.

[@NikaInterstellar]

Dude I am already in a funk at work this week. Decided to listen to science documentaries for mood boost and here what I got 😂

[@yamansrivastava1729]

This video gave me chills ,the words "what's the meaning of it all?" The answer "Purpose survive and mature" To create, to create the universe.

[@wyett123]

Definitely wouldn't say the meaning is "purpose survive and mature". Most of the universe is lifeless and life hasn't even existed here that long in the grand scheme. The universe means something to us. We don't mean a thing to it.

[@kingwillie206]

@@wyett123 - It’s humbling to realize that in the grand scheme of things a person can step on a lump of poo or die and the Cosmos is indifferent.

[@wyett123]

@@kingwillie206 I like how you put stepping on poo and dying together in the same context. Like stepping on poo is just as horrible as dying 😂 Although every time I step in poo...I do wanna die.

[@kingwillie206]

@@wyett123 - It’s the opposite. Stepping on poo is one of most meaningless things a person can do, but you’re right 😂

[@whyamihereonearth]

Or were they created by nothing, or were they the creators [of themselves]? Or did they create the heavens and the earth? Rather, they are not certain. [Al-Tur: 35-36].

[@ttxxxxxxxxxxxxxxt]

thank you! you made my existential csisis disepear!

[@debrisonne]

I AM SO BAKED This is amazing

[@matildabalogun2906]

His voice, his story telling ability, the topics. This channel is amazing. I know I’m selfish when I say I don’t want more people to find out about this but then they have to

[@Zurround]

I watched the whole thing but had I been tired I would have fallen asleep. His voice is like the adult version of a lullaby.

[@matildabalogun2906]

@@Zurround his voice is so comforting 😭😭😭

[@jamezdfit]

This all makes sense. This could literally be how it all happens. But it only creates more questions. why is this even a thing? What’s outside all of it? Or are these questions already answered through us deciding what our lives will be about? It seems kind of like a dream.

[@lovequestart]

When I think about death I believe there are two possibilities. Either we wake up, or we go to sleep forever. Either way, it will feel like it did before we lived the life we have now.

[@JazzD_335]

@@lovequestart When I think about it I just think it is like sleeping, you never can actually experience being asleep so we cannot experience being dead.

[@alistairclark6814]

I started it. Sorry everyone, I think it seemed like a good idea at the time but memory is foggy. It's been so traumatizing I blocked most of it out honestly so I don't have any answers unfortunately. Sorry for the hassle everybody.

[@Darth_Bateman]

"Outside" ? My friend, why are you assuming there is an "Outside" ??? You gotta realize : Concepts don't work that way. Zero is quite literally a null point that is ONLY accessible in a place where there are NO boundaries, i.e. infinity. Infinity is MASSIVE, and Zero is closest to infinity. You're thinking like God made a Goldfish bowl and infinity is the bowl and he's outside infinity. But its just more complicated than that. There is a massive layer that we can't conceptualize yet because with our current math, it is asking us to do the impossible : Reach the end of an endless count size.

[@jaylucas8352]

The universe is dualistic. The spiritual , and the material. They flow together into what we call reality. Even the veil of death cannot separate this truth

[@Icarus-81]

The universe is under no obligation to make sense to us.

[@juliefazlacan3857]

This actually made the most sense!!

[@matthewbarouch]

This might be my favorite video on the channel so far. I was immediately reminded of Isaac Asimov's short story, "The Last Question." It's a brilliant piece of art & philosophy and I recommend it to everybody. I always look forward to a new video from you!

[@VeganSemihCyprus33]

The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 💖💖

[@RobertF-zj2rm]

I had the same thought about Asimov. l think it's similar enough that the author would have been well served to clarify that this story was inspired by The Last Question. Although Asimov arguably inspired all science fiction that followed his writing, so it's an understandable omission lol

[@matthewbarouch]

@@RobertF-zj2rm Totally agree! "If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

[@juicyapples]

Beautifully written, animated and narrated, you are a master of storytelling

[@MadGeorgeProductions]

He's a master of ripping off The Last Question by Isaac Asimov.

[@skyluke9476]

Exurb1a did it too.

[@stoikusu5084]

Do not study what you cannot comprehend. This is a craved important message to all of mankind.

[@varindergill5125]

Omg this was so cool! Great video 💯💯

[@z7_gallego]

Maybe I’m crazy but if everything either turns into a black hole or gets sucked into one, then that means at some point, all the black holes would combine into eachother. Black holes have infinite mass, so maybe when they all combine, they just collapse so hard on eachother and into themselves that they create the universe all over again.

[@user-rt4fe1pp7r]

I'm pretty sure that's the theory for our universe

[@OneEyedJack1970]

You're probably not crazy, but your understanding is flawed.

[@Jupiter1423]

Black holes do not have infinite mass they have infintely dense mass. Big difference. Not everything will be sucked into a black hole - this is impossible, and black holes do not last forever, they too have a finite life time.

[@ChrisRubino1587]

​@Jupiter1423 Exactly. People post things without even realizing how stupid their remarks are. Obviously, they have no knowledge of hawking radiation or even the different mass types of black holes. Why would there need to be a category for steller mass black holes or supermassive black holes if they all had infinite mass?

[@SecureHandle]

*Density

[@Jay_56]

I think its insane how existence just somehow keeps existing, I feel like it wouldve been so much simpler if nothing existed at all, but nothing is still something so...

[@SonofAboTanvv]

Bruh😬

[@fiftysecwithoutza]

Yeah… you’re missing the point dude

[@pisky5067]

This is so beautiful!

[@shanehaney2121]

I really enjoyed this! I'm not always a fan of fiction, but this was cool.

[@Alex-hb1yf]

this is the most intelligent , creative , thought provoking , deep thinking , imaginative channel on youtube . I don’t know if Robert writes all the stories but whomever does it’s masterpiece level stuff , every time .

[@abbeyj14]

LITERALLY!!!!

[@tfkdandsvkc]

I agree it' has very deep and meaningful content

[@MadGeorgeProductions]

He's ripping off The Last Question by Isaac Asimov. It's a short story you can find online, one of my favorites.

[@AceOfSpadesX]

The original version of this story is called the Last Question written by Isaac Asimov in 1956. A great story which I think this video doesn't do full justice

[@lynnfisher3037]

If that were true it would been flagged by the Southern Poverty Law Center as inappropriate for humans.

[@bigjoeysfriedeggs6909]

This question has plagued me for the last year. But for the first time, i heard it spoken aloud; “what is this all for?” Before i was worried that i would live my life unhappy as if i had been doing something wrong. But after watching i realized that; while initially viewing the world on this scale can be scary and make you feel insignificant it should be quite the opposite. this universe is vast yet we also see how intricate and tiny things can be and it shows the beauty in everything all around. Just because something is on such a large scale and beyond our comprehension doesn’t make us any less significant. We can still make an impact, no matter how small it may seem now. It’ll just be beyond what we may perceive initially. Mind you at the end of the day this video is still made from human thought backed up by observational evidence, so what i can say is, life is what you make it. Be an explorer and find new things. You will be caught up in things as life goes on but try and revisit this and think. Am i making the decisions I want to make? Whether it be making an impact or doing what you love, because while it may not matter from a universal scale. It can still matter to you.

[@moumenwalid1110]

If at the end of the day the whole universe will end there is no point of making an impact or even living if everything is going to die and comeback to nothingness what is the point?

[@EzraBum]

I love this .

[@ProdbyDnaz]

Thank You 🙏🏽 ❤💯

[@Jashpants]

I would reccomend everything everywhere all at once, it has s similar message

[@JazzD_335]

@@moumenwalid1110 The point is to continue it, instead of being selfish we let others experience life and let them wonder the same thing. It is one of the wonders of the world that will most likely never be figured out. But there is a chance we live in a simulation, so I guess that could be why we are here, but other than that there is no explanation for it.

[@atulkumarjain6911]

I am thinking this thing since childhood, Finally got a new perspective .

[@MicrowavedGoober]

Awesome! Another video to make me rethink what reality is!!!

[@cirqueduawesome6278]

This is a great video for when you’re stressing out about things that are, at the end of the day, inconsequential. It might give you an existential crisis, but it also helps put a lot of things in a clearer perspective.

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

"Before I start, I must see my end. Destination known, my mind’s journey now begins. Upon my chariot, heart and soul’s fate revealed. In time, all points converge, hope’s strength re-steeled. But to earn final peace at the universe’s endless refrain, We must see all in nothingness... before we start again." 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ --Diamond Dragons (series)

[@proxorr]

I'm glad that I live in time when people can create such a masterpice and spread it across the internet. Truly great video

[@manojtripathi7879]

Well said

[@damienkilcannonvryce]

It’s a wonderful take on Isaac Asimovs “The Last Question.”👍🏽

[@patrickkparrker413]

Shows how dumb people are now , talking about devolution .

[@enmaibed]

This was beautiful

[@BhimS.GG35657]

I love this. Thank you

[@EyeSea]

So well made! As per usual, cannot wait for the next!

[@peeryoxide6742]

Omg ty, ive always wonered this

[@CooperHerb]

Thank you for demoing our reality headset, hope you enjoyed

[@ThomasAlavanos]

I think this is your best piece of work I've ever watched.

[@JLRRyan]

I spend so much of my life pondering this very question. Thank you for life

[@TheArmanini]

Wonderful video. I need a nap

[@Paracelsus93]

We'll be watching this on our next psychedelic trip with my wife and a best friend.

[@ShisnoGaming]

Good summary, I have basically been through most of these stages of thought when questioning the meaning of it all. The last one caught me a bit off-guard cause I do not see us evolving to such a level. But then again a human mind can't comprehend what is possible(like building a universe) due to all the information and knowledge required and also remembered/stored.

[@TreaJaylen]

We do not own consciousness, it owns us. We are not experiencing consciousness, consciousness is experiencing being human. We are all one and the same. All conscience is the same, just experiencing life in different ways. When we die, it is similar to dying in a video game, you respawn, everything is the same. But you are in a different character, it is reincarnation but the same time it’s not. When we look at eachother we are look at ourselves, with different lives, different experiences, different beliefs and personalities.

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

"Before I start, I must see my end. Destination known, my mind’s journey now begins. Upon my chariot, heart and soul’s fate revealed. In time, all points converge, hope’s strength re-steeled. But to earn final peace at the universe’s endless refrain, We must see all in nothingness... before we start again." 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ --Diamond Dragons (series)

[@GameHub1-]

so a monkey and dog are same because they don't have consciousness?

[@TreaJaylen]

@@GameHub1- what?

[@TreaJaylen]

@@GameHub1- intelligence and consciousness are not the same thing. Both animals can become self aware.

[@harxh_yt]

This idea is similar to "Generic subjective relativity"

[@Psy342]

Last night I had my first pharmahuasca experience (heavy dose) & had complete ego death. What I’ve seen & experienced goes far beyond. I’ve spent an hr trying to articulate the experience but how can u explain a different reality that completely destroys yr reality & replace it with infinite knowledge & spiritual growth. It’s painful for most but very necessary to grow. Psychedelics are an antidote to faith, you don’t need faith to take a psychedelic. What u need is *courage.* More courage u have the more barriers are removed. Seeing is believing & experience is

[@thomaslamberts]

Holy frick, this one blew my mind. Loved every single bit. Thanks again

[@shahrazade26]

This video is absolutely awesome. I have no words to express how much I enjoyed it.

[@patrickkirby7612]

That was really enjoyable. I almost fell asleep . Very cool

[@tysonofficial1958]

Wait, this question used to roll in my mind since kid, and i still do. Looks like iam not the only one. 😅😂

[@pixle3625]

Thank you pursuit of wonder for providing such thought-provoking and entertaining content.

[@VeganSemihCyprus33]

The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 💖💖

[@oneleggeddonkey8616]

Was gonna comment the exact same thing

[@northrising1836]

@@oneleggeddonkey8616 same

[@kill_rozainofficial4966]

Wow, this may be one of your best videos till date. Bravo Also did you change the title of the video? I liked the previous one.

[@yourmum741]

words cannot explain how much I love this video

[@johnfurr6060]

This was awesome!

[@Matthewww.0rg]

Score board Me: 0 Existential crisis attacks: 101

[@rigavaz]

Thank you Robert for doing this for us, humans.

[@OmarAbdulMalikDHEdMPASPACPAPro]

This was wonderful, very thought-provoking and with interesting animation.

[@devinburns2535]

I quite like the idea of life being a series of trials for consciousness to arise, evolve, live selfish lives full of Indulgence of life itself, and then after maturing and nearing the end, requires a conscious decision to not its current universe going, but to sacrifice all that came before for the birth of it again. I don't really like these kinds of videos, but you had some good ideas. Well done

[@jaymoney4262]

Its crazy how i think about theories on my own and open yt and see what i been thinkin and saying for years 🤣🤣🤣🤣 10:10 video was amazing and very interesting thank you.

[@ScalerEdits]

Fr me too

[@mihapetek3418]

The question that gets me every time is: "What happened before big bang, and what is going to happen in infinite amount of time? (after supposed end of time "heat death") What exists outside of our universe?" These questions absolutely scare me.

[@thomascollins1884]

Well you can't actually experience an infinite amount of time. It would never arrive

[@sionalunevans]

apparently it stretches out faster than light, never to repeat. fade to nothing!

[@crazyprayingmantis5596]

Were you scared before you were born?

[@MjLiyo18]

Throughout history we needed to believe in personal reasons to keep us going. But now, we need to keep going for reasons that are not personal. This hit me different 🤯🤯🤯🙌🙌🙌♥️♥️♥️

[@coyleigh]

I.hate the way you people butcher the English langauge. Nobody wants to hear ebonics.

[@WillockGames]

​@@OnceTheyNamedMeiWasntyou must be a depressive person

[@OnceTheyNamedMeiWasnt]

@@WillockGames depressive doesn't do it justice

[@misc7]

I’m in love with this channel. 🙃🙃

[@angrymicrowave]

I’ve always wondered this. Hopefully this video explains at least a little bit! my brain hurts

[@Trusamurai]

Perfect timing to watch this during a fresh break up a few hours ago with the Mrs to help me sleep tonight 💀👍🏼

[@dena_9518]

This is a masterpiece it touched my soul. it explained my vision on the existence

[@grencart]

This pretty much relates to or answers my own question that I have posed many times to others and one that I have thought for many years i.e. Even if there is a point, what's the point? The infinite circular relationship with time and space seems to underpin that there is a point to it all...but at the same time there is no point. Incredible, mind-bending stuff that we simply cannot comprehend.

[@muggyG]

Masterpiece, bravo

[@2msvalkyrie529]

" Suddenly Life emerged ".....Gee.! Thanks for explaining it in such depth !

[@MrQuality]

My ego death was exactly this and I had never even watched a video to hear about this, it all just came naturally as if the higher beings were there with me telling me. I am you, you are me, we all are every person on earth simultaneously just experiencing each other at different points in time in our own consciousness, to come together as one giant consciousness, we have lived these lives over and over and over, the Big Bang is the beginning of the one main consciousness as it explodes figuring it all out, making the stars, planets, black holes, asteroids, etc and the Big Bang will happen again forever and ever and ever and at no point will there ever be absolutely nothing, we are our own creators, we are the stars, plants, black holes, every tiny particle that makes up the universe, is us, right as we die we are already being reborn into the next life, forever and ever until we come back together as one to create the universe again, and we aren't the only universe, there must be billions and trillions and gazillions and infinite amounts of universes, there in no logical way cannot just be an end once you reach the edge of the universe, maybe the universes are spread very far apart but no way is this the only universe to exist.

[@husg13]

same. im intelligent but uneducated. i want to learn, but my adhd makes me hate school. I've tried the meds. i become addicted to them. I'm a 40 year old male. I have no family anymore. I have nothing. Its like my brain is too smart for my body. I'm struggling with addiction. I'm trying to find help but nobody seems to be able to relate to me. I'm becoming obsessed with death.

[@nihiqallam5616]

Yo I have the same though I grown up with Christian family but never believed the existence of christ because it never make sense to me.

[@athenaatwar475]

@@husg13 I relate somewhat and empathize with what you’re going through! You have some very real challenges of addiction and unhappiness, but there are ways those things can get improved and easier over time. I wish the best for you and hope your pain eases soon 🙏 help is out there man

[@dvandeun]

@@husg13 bless you. obsessed with death is just the other spectrum of obsessed with life, don't travel to the point of no return as you never know for how long you have to wait to find (or learn from) your purpose in this life. those are just words, more important are those short moments of realization. don't drown in your own mud, try to shake some of it off of you.

[@Crummynoodles179]

@@nihiqallam5616 I understand what you mean but the whole idea of god isn’t stupid considering how little we know

[@misterluley4010]

Wow, amazing 👏

[@kdubeightyseven]

Mind blown. You gave me answers to my biggest questions.

[@HassanElkersh]

are you sure, who drive all this changes, random!؟

[@zenmkultra]

@@HassanElkersh Allah

[@brianpeterson1962]

@@HassanElkersh nothing drives random that why its called random

[@JeuneF]

It’s just an illusion, it only raises other questions and your personal awareness

[@valxiore1877]

"living is creating, everyday is a new universe, every choice is not yours but one of millions that have and will ever exist"

[@0GreenBerry]

I've been thinking about this all my life

[@AntonGermanReal]

Perfect thing to watch at 4 am

[@Smartion]

Wow… love this ❤️… thank you 🙏🏼

[@arealhumanbeing4651]

This was a hell of journey...This channel leaves us with a sense of wonder I would see...

[@Squirrel-zq6oe]

For real

[@arealhumanbeing4651]

@@Squirrel-zq6oe I hope it never stops...

[@shaunphillips6160]

This is amazing!! This right here is the fact of our existence..as cold and as plain as it should be..every conscious entity knows this to be true in there soul but it is that disturbing and daunting rhay we do anything to distract ourselvew from remembering the truth.