Kepler: The Man Who Dreamed The Universe (part 1)

[@parallaxnick637]

29:49 As someone pointed out, that is in fact a major second, not a major third. This is particularly embarrassing for me because I'm supposed to have perfect interval recognition.

[@kkupsky6321]

Just this once. You get a pass. Keep practicing and don’t do it again please

[@malcolmhardwick4258]

Nice to know you are still a human !

[@theGoogol]

This "Perfect interval recognition" intrigues me. I'm somewhat hoping it's not sarcastic.

[@parallaxnick637]

It's not. Or at least it wasn't until I flubbed it on record.

[@kkupsky6321]

@@parallaxnick637 dude never pay* mind to haters. I think I watched this at least 4 times then subjected the wife too. I cannot wait for part two* it’s like tile in and eru haha. The music of the comps. Never stop doin this content mate. It’s so great.

[@jeffreyschweitzer8289]

Still the most criminally undersubscribed channel on KZbin

[@MrandMrsGaSp]

Completely agree, been linking videos nearly every time one hits..

[@residentenigma7141]

Here here !

[@lazaruslong697]

Yeah, I can't understand how i only got him recommended by YT few days ago. Instasubbed and binged almost the entire channel since. The combination of impeccable science and captivating narration is really on another level here.

[@MrandMrsGaSp]

@@lazaruslong697 his narration is next level! I don't have issues following or understanding, and the sceneries and pictures he paints with the words are amazing

[@residentenigma7141]

@@lazaruslong697 Welcome home, brother.

[@mikedrop4421]

Oh boy, after the last 6 or 7 videos were all shorts I've had to recalibrate my expectations for when I see Nick upload. I just expect a short but sometimes, once in a while, he'll drop a signature long form video and boy does it get me excited.

[@nicosmind3]

And this is part 1!! There's more long video/s to come :)

[@Amadeu.Macedo]

Ditto!

[@Amadeu.Macedo]

@@nicosmind3 - Indeed, I can scarcely wait...

[@philsurtees]

You should get out more.

[@Ripthatshitsfr]

Fa

[@ophiuchus203]

The nuance I savored: it was never apparent to me that astronomers of the time weren't trying to figure out natural laws; that they were working on a basic assumption that the motion of heavenly bodies was something more like a supernatural signature, a flourish of divine design meant to be seen by man and by its absurdity call out to be decoded. The idea of natural laws was just not on the table; not a real concern. The implicit message I savored: you've often commented on how religion and science have not been at odds in the way the popular notion thinks of it. This biography through the lens of the history of astronomy is a really strong and concrete example of what you're driving at with that statement. As always, I enjoyed this immensely :)

[@OMADRevolution]

This was excellent. Superb. Perfectly narrated and supremely executed!

[@GizmoFromPizmo]

The acapella chorus made me exclaim, "Oh my GOD!!!" So beautiful!

[@lolvetoed6210]

Phenomenal work Nick… you are among a small group of creators in this field that do the subject justice. I especially appreciate your skillful writing with its infusion of historical context. Thank you - and well done sir.

[@gaylord4851]

I could not agree more nick is a master when putting his videos Together and then narrating brilliant absolutely brilliant 🤩

[@MortimerSugarloaf]

I just took a really stressful stats test, and a new PNick video is exactly the thing I needed to wind down. It's even about my favorite character in science history. You came through for me, man. I appreciate it.

[@mikedrop4421]

Isn't there just something about his writing and delivery that sucks you into the story and takes you through time but can also relax and calm you to the point of falling asleep? Happens to me all the time. If I'm not standing up I'll doze off lol

[@theGoogol]

@@mikedrop4421 : I swear, this man could make good money as narrator for science books.

[@hypervious8878]

Replace "stats test" with "x", and a legion of seekers is echoing back your every sentiment.

[@keirangrant1607]

Your videos are always educational, interesting, and a little funny. I cannot imagine having 13 kids and watching 9 of them die before adulthood. The past was the worst. Dude survived being premature, having smallpox, an absentee dad, bad eyesight, and religious persecution, and still did more with his life than what some of us would do in 5 lives.

[@bcddd214]

MORE! FEED US MORE! Excellent job Nick. You're a gift.

[@K1lostream]

Subscribed: Ages ago. Liked: When clicking video. Commented: Just now! I already knew a little about Tycho and Kepler, but this brought it alive! Love it, love it, love it!

[@agluebottle]

This video has kept me company the last few nights during my infant son's 2AM feedings. Another banger, Nick.

[@residentenigma7141]

G'day...6mins in, and I'm blown away by the production, editing and recount. Greetings.

[@residentenigma7141]

I don't think we've seen anywhere near the best of this mans work.

[@Crescent_Audio]

I love ParrallaxNick’s narration style and voice. Super-underrated channel

[@davidhenneberg2661]

Most excellent video! Hope you're doing well my friend

[@mr51406]

Beautiful! I really admire your research for your signature fun iconography too. Thanks again and again and I’m very much looking forward to part 2. 🌻🤩

[@greenbasterd9425]

Parallax is bax! Love your very informative videos. Always have them on late at night when the stars are out and I need to simmer down from stressful days.

[@mosesgunn6937]

This channel is a treasure.

[@josephsmith688]

Didn't know i lived only one hour away from Keplers place of birth and also Tübingen^^ Nick proves again why he's the best KZbin has to offer!

[@SumBrennus]

Stay for the credits. The music selection is outstanding.

[@portugalforme1198]

What KZbin (should be) all about, quality informative content. Thanks Nick

[@andrewcockburn3227]

Wow!! Great new intro! Thanks for making great videos, Nick!

[@jonathanrobinson8816]

How selfish that I’m now going to have to cancel my evening plans

[@manofcultura]

Good for you! I have an unavoidable appointment exactly at the premier time. Sadface

[@jonathanrobinson8816]

@@manofcultura sad times. But then, it will still be on here for later for repeated reconsumption

[@BridgeStamford]

Goodness me

[@johneagle4384]

Thank you. After Newton, Kepler is my favorite scientist. It is so nice to see a longer video about him. He deserves it.

[@honeyj8256]

Hello nick ! Can’t wait.

[@Norr42]

I love that this is one of the only channels on KZbin that doesn't have loud obnoxious commercials every 3 minutes,I love to listen to this as I go to sle....OH ... SCRATCH THAT enjoy your money

[@Norr42]

Guess I'll go back to Roman history and the revolutions podcast by Mike Duncan. I love his integrity

[@parallaxnick637]

@@Norr42 Dude, I'm not making money off this. KZbin forces it regardless

[@Norr42]

You know what, I apologize your content is top notch and you don't deserve the negativity. I thought the adds and number of adds were up to the creator, I may be wrong. It still screws up a good thing but Ill go back and rewatch proxima b(among others)when I'm using you to drift off

[@rossmcleod7983]

Extraordinary stuff Nick, thankyou and I look forward to part two.

[@amciuam157]

Almost an hour long, awesome. Elite Dangerous exploration and Nick's videos are a great setup.

[@ChristopherWhimpey]

Oh yeah its time. Thank you so much for the upload. I always love these.

[@TagmakersCoUk]

I've just discovered this remarkable documentary and as it's nearly 1AM will have to watch part two tomorrow. Superbly done, and clearly the result of many hundreds of hours of research, scripting and production. Thank you for doing this - it is enormously enriching and should be prescribed to all students of science and mathematics.

[@ksun-sun]

this was thoroughly enjoyable and interesting. love the long form videos, please give us more of these!

[@hypervious8878]

Second! Kindly Nick, do not fear losing your audience to the long, elusive stories behind the things humanity has sought. To these segue-cascades we bring surf boards!

[@olegyamleq7796]

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!! A new ParallaxNick to fall asleep to tonight (and finish up tomorrow over breakfast)!!!!!!!! Thanks ParallaxNick!!!!!!

[@cb3083]

New nick video makes my day! Thank you

[@FoxtrotYouniform]

I dont know why you've chosen to make this, but I am so extremely here for it

[@wobh688]

Wow! Thank you so much!

[@carlconstantdeflon2373]

Another amazing documentary. Thank you for all you do Nick!

[@mik310s]

Fantastic documentary pal, probably the best I have seen covering Kepler.

[@mcknottee]

Outstanding! 🤩

[@ismaelarroyo4979]

Love the long videos thank you for the awesome content

[@JD-mn8cx]

Intro was sweet. Thanks for the upload Nick

[@MsGubins]

I wasn't aware of your work. I decided to view this on impulse and I'm glad I did. I look forward to seeing the rest.

[@C0C0cooky]

Great work Nick, thanks for another quality video that entertains while it teaches.

[@cooldigirl26]

I don't have anything other than THANK YOU To say. All your videos are just tooo beautiful. There is astronomy, science, history all in one place Thank you for giving us this video.

[@MrMarkmeadowland]

One of the best ones. Thanks!

[@Ravnkel25]

Thank you for this video. It was perfect for my commute to and from work today. Looking forward for part 2

[@sirbeardcat]

sooo pumped

[@mietje22]

You are my favorite content producer, thank you.

[@martinstekovic3125]

Detailed stories in history on the astronomy's greatest discoveries is something that I didn't know I was interested in until I started watching the videos on this channel, but now I'm excited for every next video. Thank you Nick for creating this video and I think you are really doing a noble service to the history of science by making these educational videos.

[@TmsTanim]

This video really fills out the gaps from when I wrote an essay on Kepler's life, for science class nearly 30 years ago, by taking notes from Microsoft Encarta! Truly the Wikipedia of its day. Also, since I learned about Tycho Brahe's demise, I've been using euphemisms like "potential Tycho Brahe moment" for when I suddenly realise I've forgotten to take a bathroom break while working. I wasn't entirely sure of his name's pronunciation though (I've heard a few variations from documentaries on youtube alone), so thank you for your research there.

[@DogsaladSalad]

You're one of my favorite creators. Thank you!

[@dustyphillips3166]

Love it. especially the end.

[@paullebel3967]

Hi Nick 👋 from Montreal

[@seabeepirate]

The history of science is so strange. I sometimes wonder what critical role we may currently be playing for the future of humanity.

[@juhamarkkula7004]

Brilliant, I can't wait for the second part 🤩

[@dg6438]

*does happy dance* new nick day! Yay! Thanks Nick. You do such a wonderful job!

[@carterh2699]

Phenomenal work, worth the wait!

[@Smithy1962]

Thanks for bringing all of this into perspective!

[@MrZurbagiu]

wow amazing story! looking forward to the continuation :D

[@zch7491]

The narration is always the best part

[@LuisAldamiz]

Thanks to you, Nick. Kepler's life and discoveries are fascinating. My only qualm was when you somehow put Newton at the end of the discovery cycle and I had been seeing Kepler's discoveries as almost Einsteinian instead, intuiting the mesh of the curved space-time in them. I don't want to dismiss Newton's dated accomplishments but he's only a stepping stone between Kepler and Einstein, just as Kepler is the fulcrum (sorry Tycho) by which the wisdom of the ancients transforms into General Relativity.

[@parallaxnick637]

And Einstein will doubtless be superceded by another titan in the future. It's how science works.

[@LuisAldamiz]

@@parallaxnick637 - Maybe, unless we're already exhausting the possibilities of science/physics and the answer to the quantum vs GR conundrum is in the end based on GR (and not on quantum mechanics as most physicists dream of, NVM that Einstein also semi-founded quantum mechanics). But, regardless, stopping at Newton and putting him at the end of science sounded preposterous to me, as the guy was clearly just a mathematical formalizer of what Kepler outlined and one of several intermediate steps (Maxwell seems even more important than Newton) between Kepler and Einstein. I was all the time "seeing" curved space-time when you described how Kepler perceived the influence of the Sun and when you drew his arches. On the other side I was seeing a cage when you drew his polygons.

[@davidkelley5382]

@@LuisAldamiz it will happen, unless man goes extinct first. Too many holes in physics that astrophysics has lain bare.

[@donquixoteupinhere]

I believe an entirely new approach/theory will come about for physics this century! One which does away with all the assumptions currently made as though those are not a problem. So long as we stick around like another commenter says. There is a good chance that quantum computers will be what fully permits that, but AI is already helping. There was an interesting paper published recently which surprised me because it aligns with what I mention in my first paragraph and that is something I started pondering just a few months ago when I mentioned I understood that the reason why string theory is largely considered a failure among physicists (because it makes so many assumptions) to my friend who studied undergrad physics at Oxford remarked about how many assumptions are such a huge part of higher level study of physics, and so we started talking about some ideas… it almost tempted him to go back to a masters! Understandably physicists learn all of this like it’s gospel and don’t want to be disturbed from the status quo and while particle physics has done a lot, it is clearly not absolutely correct nor sustainable for large bodies of matter. Projected from quantum is where ultimately I think we will find the true beauty and simplicity of what we perceive as incredibly complex events because of our window on it. Anyway, sorry for babbling on but hopefully some of the people who like this channel will find this intriguing. It you’re curious, here’s the paper I refer to: www.nature.com/articles/s43588-022-00281-6

[@LuisAldamiz]

@@donquixoteupinhere - I seriously doubt quantum computers will ever be done: one thing is theorizing and experimenting and a very different thing is actually harnessing "quantumness". To me it is one of the "Emperor's new clothes" by which more or less charlatanish and dishonestish scientists earn a living without actually delivering anything at all, the same happens with fusion reactors, thorium blah-blah, etc. The paper you linked to is pay per view: I can't read it and I'm not going to pay almost 5% of my monthly income for reading some random paper on random physics suggested by some random guy on the Internet. I have to pay the rent, the electricity, food, water, the Internet connection itself, the dentist, the optometrist, possibly buying some clothes or even a new computer, as this one has been "about to blow" since it was gifted to me five years ago (yet it's the best one I have). As for alt theories, I'm all for them if they are good enough but I just come from a YT-suggested video on "pretonic" model and the guy was so arrogant (how can you be so arrogant when all you have is a Power Point presentation?) that he dismissed the Planck constant as "just an arbitrary constant, blah-blah, grunt-grunt", when it is the foundation of quantum mechanics itself. I (and I believe everybody) need something less dedicated to insult established physics and more dedicated to just, humbly and objectively, demonstrate why their "new physics" (or "new look at old physics") is any better.

[@wheelie63]

what EXCELLENT narration. This is the way it should be done. wb

[@gaylord4851]

Thanks Nick I can’t wait to enjoy another wonderful video put together and narrated by you 🙏🏻

[@BridgeStamford]

Oh please

[@gumunduringigumundsson4315]

Agreed 🍓

[@stevepartridge2959]

Excellent video, cant wait for the next one.

[@drecion1]

Dude, I love your videos so much. Keep on going your brilliant!

[@AskAkseli]

This was brilliant Nick! I almost think you should’ve released it on a Sunday so profound was the experience of listening to it.

[@dustyfan]

This was amazing!!!! Kepler is my new fav person fr

[@pedroferreira4134]

As always, perfect!

[@chrimony]

This was great. Ends on a cliffhanger. What was the reaction to Kepler's publication?

[@walter4723]

Nick, your videos are the best!

[@michaelhurley1541]

Nick! Your work reminds me of James Burke's...like Connections or The Day the Universe Changed. I really appreciate you.

[@deusexaethera]

Kepler, my man, you almost invented the TimeCube. So close.

[@stevenkrasner5532]

Very much liked this video. When is part rwo coming out/

[@larsalfredhenrikstahlin8012]

This was so interesting! Thank you for teaching me about Brahe's and Kepler's dynamics

[@duncanbohannon9612]

Hey! Wonderful video as always. Your content is genuinely some of the highest effort and quality I've seen on youtube. I was wondering what two songs you had at 28:27 and 28:38? They were beautiful

[@parallaxnick637]

"O Rubor Sanguinis" by Hidegard von Bingen and "Sicut Cervus" by Palestrina.

[@RP-mm9ie]

. Superb. Perfectly narrated

[@meteor09]

This is wonderful! Thank you very much for all this work!

[@dustyphillips3166]

49:07 It's sometimes better to be lucky than good.

[@burtbackattack]

That was fantastic. Can't wait for part 2!

[@allansroom]

Thank you ParallaxNick! You totally rock! Good Buddy! 💖😊💖

[@oncaphillis]

exquisite as always

[@roberthanson579]

Good doc. I put it on to be "boring" background noise, but I got sucked in. Subscribed. Nice work.

[@scottdorfler2551]

Man I love a historic scientific poetic deep dive!!!

[@theforlanjoker4457]

Perfect

[@TheReaverOfDarkness]

He did not set his eyes on the wall, but beyond it.

[@thejudgmentalcat]

"Necromantic monkeyshines" just how I feel about astrology 👍

[@IndyJoner]

I laughed out loud at that one!

[@rickeyleeba]

Bravo!

[@PeterGordon1]

wonderful work! And then will we see your storytelling applied to Newton, Einstein, Planck, Oppenheimer, Hawking...?

[@superluminalsquirrel9359]

I dream of an Einstein documentary by Nick. I watch everything he does but I would LOVE to hear his spin on Einstein’s life and work.

[@MelvinHNewell]

Thank you for this!

[@louishermann7676]

Excellent video, instant subscribe

[@josephimports]

Fantastic. Thank you.

[@sarcasmo57]

This is very interesting.

[@JA-ce2ez]

Bro thank you, i have a school project on Johannes Kepler.

[@Ccccccccccsssssssssss]

Nice new intro!

[@haramsbae1507]

When can we expect part 2 mate? This is absolutely fantastic

[@parallaxnick637]

I should be writing the script by Sunday.

[@davidhall7275]

So interesting I wonder if you've ever thought to analyse other historic figures. Listening to your descriptions of these mortals makes me feel that I live next door to them and have spent hours talking over a hedge with them.

[@weav8060]

Fabulous, thanks

[@deadgoon2170]

Another worthy addition to the Historia Astronomica Videographia, by the emminent Nixus Parallaxus. Venus to Mars, and back to Earth, keyed in D is sone metal..

[@davelewthwaite]

I accidentally watched this whilst not signed in. Have upvote, And I look forward your series on your series on the algorithmic universe. "Small, thin, swarthy , gossiping and quarrelsome" Huh. I see he also married a American.

[@Laenthal]

And the best part of it? It's only part 1!

[@brianpardo433]

Great video!!!

[@Rico-Suave_]

Greater video, watched all of it 54:46