Michio Kaku - What is the Far Far Future of Humans in the Universe?

Consider humanity's astounding progress in science during the past three hundred years. Now take a deep breath and project forward three billion years. Assuming humans survive, can we even conceive of what our progeny might be like?
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[@ed8377]

Michio is always very interesting, he theorizes clearly so us non scientists can understand.

[@ariat3381]

@The Truth of the Matter are you a physicist?

[@notexactlyrocketscience]

Horse shit, mate. He’s a physics professor. He’s got his facts straight. He also speculates and says it clearly when he is.

[@vladimir0700]

I think you meant to say we non scientists

[@blitzandchitzgaming2584]

The Truth of the Matter oh really the mr. Engineer if you posses the knowledge to outdo our great lord Michigan Kanu than tell me what is the thermoelectric voltage per second of a Highs Boson fast breeder Fusion Reactor?

[@b.waynepresents2992]

That’s the smoothest term for idiots I’ve ever seen.

[@blindspotspotter.2352]

What a great conversation. Kudos to Michio for his willingness to let his imagination roam and for taking us along on the trip.

[@milvia4852]

Can you imagine having Mr. Kaku as your uncle? Or your dad? I mean, imagine the conversations growing up!!

[@johnjohnson5818]

As a dad, grandpa, & great-grampa, I have tried doing what Dr. Kaku does. The problem for me has always been keeping the listener's attention. Just to listen to and understand what Dr. Kaku and the interviewer are talking about takes a fair amount of education and understanding. Those of you who have watched this video were a bit above the crowd even before watching this video. Congratulations on that.

[@paulkazjack]

@Nemanja ĆIrić oh,why?

[@paulkazjack]

@Nemanja ĆIrić no content.

[@jp99301]

That ending blew my mind. Michio Kaku is awesome.

[@AngelEarth2011]

It's amazing that we're alive today, asking these questions, and able to answer some of them, after 3.5 billion years of evolution and multiple extinction events that could have eradicated all life on Earth. But if thinking on such scales of time, it's also worrying that we only have 1-4 billion years left on Earth, before we're forced to find another habitable planet. We'd better get cracking with the development of warp drives :)

[@Dr_Xyzt]

Damn, that's inspiring. I study solar-thermal derived fuels, that way we don't have to make electric cars. Things like this keep me motivated. You know, it's only cold and dark at night because there's a planet in the way. In space, there's all the sunlight you could ever need.

[@overboysallstarsofficial1001]

Convert what he just said to a movie,1b $ idea

[@purefoldnz3070]

Star Trek the motion picture?

[@gs-nq6mw]

This isn''t new lol,sci-fi writers already know all he said

[@perpetual_bias]

i guess interstellar kind of did that. except only on _interstellar_ distances, instead of interverse

[@MisterMcKinney]

Pfft. I’d rather watch Adam Sandler make fart jokes. Space doesn’t make money.

[@AndrePAuger]

I appreciate Kaku’s use of a hierarchy of civilizations. It is based on a few unspoken assumptions, though. 1. Energy and its use and consumption is the measure of a civilization’s worth. 2. “Nature,” as in independent agency resulting in a living environment, is not addressed except as “natural resources,” for consumption by the civilization. 3. The worth of a civilization is best measured by the measures that have been used for 6,000 years, namely wealth, status, and power. I propose an alternative hierarchy. Level 0: a civilization that treats its natural environment as consumable natural resources. Its model is economic, and it assumes that growth is unlimited and that the value of its society is measured in terms of its wealth, which is equally unlimited. The only ethical responsibility such a civilization has is to its own members, and that remains unequally distributed. Level 1: a civilization which has managed to live in symbiosis with its environment, neither depleting nor enhancing it. Its model is sustainability, growth is moderated by the health of the environment; the value of its society is measured in terms of the well-being of all its members. It accepts an ethical responsibility not only for its own members, and that more equally distributed, but for maintaining a healthy environment. Level 2: a civilization which manages to treat all elements as “subjects” and therefore worthy of being enhanced. Its model is blossoming and fulfillment of all; the value of its society is the degree to which every member, sentient or not, thrives and blossoms. It accepts an ethical responsibility for creating a world experienced not as a collection of objects but a communion of subjects.

[@pandarrhages9211]

❤️

[@kilt81]

I just had my mind blown...such a fascinating conversation. ❤️

[@qualiacomposite]

I think this man begins every sentence with "When we physicists..."

[@VaidyanathanPurushothaman]

Modern Science is pushing our brains beyond its boundaries. Building its discoveries brick by brick, the spirit of science shows us the direction to develop our skills, intuitive power along with our intellect. The future looks like a whole lot of Universe is for us to explore, experience and enjoy.

[@Blueknight1960]

Seems to me science has done more to help destroy mankind than help it. Humans are a warring species and unless something extremely drastic happens to change the course and thinking of mankind, we are a doomed species.

[@PeeedaPan]

Kaku inspires me

[@bazle64]

@The Truth of the Matter you're the moron

[@momsbasementnerd4ever315]

he inspires me with more questions from answers both mathematically and verbally smh

[@operasinger2126]

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[@artisticwhistleblower1756]

me too!!!🤓

[@eugenes9751]

Keep in mind, if it's possible to travel to other universes, than the Fermi Paradox becomes infinitely more problematic.

[@thestruggler6282]

not exactly as we are just attempting to make our seed travel to a 'new' universe.

[@eugenes9751]

​@@thestruggler6282 Doesn't matter who, if something can travel to the new universe, than every universe would be filled with something. If a single civilization, in an infinite multiverse ever figured out how to cross, then every universe would have been crossed into.

[@lukehodge9026]

Maybe its a solution, perhaps some progenitor species created our universe and seeded a planet with life, but only one planet. Whether because its easier, or to give their descendants a whole universe to expand into.

[@eugenes9751]

@@lukehodge9026 But we know that our planet wasn't here at the universe's creation. And that no life would have survived the big bang. So that would mean that these creators can enter our universe at will. Which seems incredibly unlikely.

[@lukehodge9026]

@@eugenes9751 Maybe, as Michio Kaku suggested, they sent nanites, far more advanced than any technology of ours, to do the job. Maybe they even formed a planet at a certain time or chose such a planet. Whether because they want their descendants' experience to be like theirs (for sentimental reasons or to increase the chances they/we'd be as successful) or because its better to form interstellar civilisation's at a certain time in a universe's development, like perhaps a certain resource is more abundant at a certain time.

[@samets3622]

Good dialog! I like it when Pr. Kaku does not spit the same lyrics repeatedly. Great conversation! Thanx

[@209tapia]

One could only think type 2-4+ type civilizations would have universal knowledge unimaginable to our current perspective and would easily solve “Big Freeze” using higher dimensional physics and applications.

[@nils119]

Dante Tapia so basically "finding new laws of physics/hacks"? Hopefully so. But is there already indicators/evidence that thats even in the realm of possibilities? Dr. Kaku seems like he thought this one (bigfreeze) through, somewhat. Oh well, he DID say sth abt perhaps slowing down the expansion... Heres hoping

[@209tapia]

nils119 its all about perspective. I think to myself. Would humans 1000 or even 100 years ago be able to understand string theory, atom smashers or even instant communication via the internet/smart phones? Maybe maybe not. Imagine what humans will be able to contemplate and discover using exponentially increasing quantum computing/AI in 1000 years. Future generations 1k or 1 million years from now (their present time/perspective) will look at us like babies begging to learn how to crawl. Hence type zero civilization. That’s the point a type zero cannot even contemplate in their wildest ideas what a type 2,3,4+ civilization will have mastered. So much left to discover out their :). But hey I’m just a nursing college student. I don’t even specialize in this area lol

[@momsbasementnerd4ever315]

There are probably beings in a higher dimension smarter then those type 4s

[@clintwolf4495]

Extremely interesting and thought provoking. Thanks,

[@MrVikingsandra]

I can listen to these two for hours

[@sammyndoch235]

Michio kaku made me love science

[@NothingMaster]

Finally, a sheer speculative scenario worth pondering about.

[@leonreynolds77]

That last remark where he said "what if the big bang was man made, an escape hatch..." I've considered that as well. Great video.

[@gsilcoful]

These are really cool talks.

[@mkivy]

I so enjoy ur views and intelligent sight! Thank you 🙏🏻 sir!

[@JamesMyddelton]

Incredible discussion and all makes a lot of sense

[@Eva_xoxo]

what an interesting take this is

[@joenock3466]

absolutely incredible listening to kakus intelligence

[@Oceansideca1987]

So interesting

[@donatelamatija3408]

Fascinating

[@nuhamansour3790]

You two are my favorites.

[@Axis_Of_Evil]

Michio always has a flair for the dramatic...

[@justgivemethetruth]

Sounds like BS to me.

[@Len124]

Yeah, he takes what's not strictly impossible, at least according to what we currently know, and makes the leap to saying it's not only possible, but probable. I like him, but I think he's overly optimistic and a little too fast and loose with physics/science. I don't think it's absolute BS, like justgivemethetruth says, because one can work backwards with a little digging to figure out how he comes to the conclusions he does, but he's prone to exaggeration and oversimplification. I guess his role as a science communicator and popularizer is to get kids and laymen excited about science (which is sorely needed in these days of rampant scientific illiteracy; see: "flat-earthers"), but there's plenty subject matter to do that with that doesn't require quite as much science fiction or sketchy predictions.

[@vladimirstanescu6616]

@@justgivemethetruth Sounds interesting.

[@justgivemethetruth]

@@Len124 It's BS like any advertising ... you're just confused because he is advertising science ... but that doesn't me he is being scientific about it! ;-)

[@momsbasementnerd4ever315]

I think his idea is flawed only because if Life was out there in Space we would have discovered it by now the math says so hard proof with our current technology it also ruled out many catastrophes prevent any civilizations from traveling beyond its solar system thats because time vs a catastrophe meaning meteors space storms supernovas and much more in that time frame where a civilization is up and coming they get wiped out much like the Dinosaurs

[@jrjubach]

This is really wild, man.

[@jamesruscheinski8602]

Technology in solar system, intelligence in galaxy, consciousness in universe

[@szpoti]

0:51, hasn't he confused Type 1 (Planetary) with Type 2 (Stellar)? Should it not be 'consumes all the energy coming from the planet'?

[@Wardoon]

Do they expect a type 3 or 4 civilization would have PHYSICAL body? They may be pure consciousness that can travel through spacetime.

[@randomness8819]

I like to look at my religion to compliment science. For ex Angels are light and the human soul is consciousness. Love ur ques!

[@InnerLuminosity]

Facts

[@utmdj]

I got a question. What’s the life span of a type 3 or type 4 civilization?

[@IJustMadeAComment]

“When we physicists....” said Kaku at the beginning of every dinner party conversation. Do other physicists get upset that he’s speaking for them? Probably.

[@bryanguilford5807]

Actually he is talking about many brilliant physicists that are all pretty much in a consensus with one another.

[@MrMikahT]

Abraham Serafino Reality can be just as strange as fiction

[@TheBestOfSweden]

The fact that we can talk about this.

[@user-ys9to2ie7k]

Universe means everything, all! The very definition of the universe is, everything outside of Earth's atmosphere and including earth and its atmosphere! What is so hard to comprehend about this statement?!

[@Klompe2003]

type V civilization - understands women

[@aishwariyasweety2433]

This how you exclude women from science. Making them look mysterious and alien

[@tylermoore8795]

Type 6 civilization - the incels have been exterminated.

[@LiquidCanine]

😂 this is what a top comment looks like

[@mitseraffej5812]

On achieving this it becomes apparent that it’s all been a waste of effort.

[@tashriquekarriem8865]

But still some women won't be happy lol

[@themonrovian8441]

The only things missing from this conversation are hot college coeds and lots of weed.

[@charlesbrightman4237]

The Monrovian And wine, lots of wine. Edit: and oh yea, music, party music.

[@Dickwooten]

Somehow, I don't think the weed was missing.

[@pikiwiki]

so, where are they

[@Simon-xi8tb]

no, it was complete, because i farted at the end

[@NightBazaar]

@@Simon-xi8tb And by doing so, your fart may have been the beginning of a whole new universe. The Big Bang was just a fart. Just as the fart can expand out offending any nearby noses, it could contain its own spacetime long enough for life and intelligence to emerge and evolve which in turn can also fart to begin another new universe. The Fractal Fart Theory.

[@telegramtrader]

He looks to never admit spirituality as the source... Instead, talk about type 3 and 4 civilisations and bring it to the end of metaphysics (where there are no explanations). Nobody will be able to explain everything looking only at mater, energy, space and time. It's not only a matter of physics. When you start to look at things from a real static source like spirituality without mater, energy, space and time that can be at the tip of a needle or as big as all universes at the same time without specific localisation in space and time you have a starting point of understanding. Though is the only source that allows mater, energy, space and time to exist. There is no deep space telescope able to see far enough to see a prime though. I could stay sit here many hours trying to explain things that are so obvious...to me. But I like Mr.Kaku

[@RMT192]

Wow. That was deep man.

[@WyrdBlogger01]

A type four civilization would be like the "First Born" in the book '3001: The Final Odyssey'.

[@hmmmmm6056]

Life Finds a Way! Undiscovered Physics has rules 2...the big bang theory in the end was interesting!

[@rodneycarpluk8052]

and things like focus on making faster travel to allow for actual space travel are not even a main priority...

[@jmanj3917]

2:40, Ok, this is probably going to seem quite ignorant ... on the surface. But bear with me, Please! Derek from Veritasium has a really interesting video in which he demonstrates how the Equivalence Principle can be used to show that all red- and blueshifting of light across the universe is the same as a "plain old" Doppler effect, which is the same as the other type of wavelength stretching/compressing. (The details are, obviously, eluding me at the present time.) His point was that, mathematically, all three causes of shifting wavelengths result in the exact same effect. SO, How could we possibly KNOW that the universe is expanding -- that spacetime ITSELF is "growing"? In other words: How do we know, when we see all but the closest, gravitationally bound galaxies receding from us, that the source of their respective motions isn't simply the result of the energy from the Big Bang still "projecting" those galaxies THROUGH a spacetime that was already present? I just don't see how we could definitively say that the universe is expanding, when we can't seem to differentiate between the different types of Doppler shifting. 'Lil help, Please?

[@TresPlanet]

We will one day become this advanced... it is our and earth's destiny!

[@ariat3381]

@The Truth of the Matter i think you dont really understand the whole point of this video. Its not supposed to be realistic, its supposed to show the theoretical possibilities.

[@goalhorn2012]

I hope Michio Kaku uses the technology to become immortal. I love this dude!

[@illuzzzzzion]

Wait, is Kaku really fallung prey to observational selection bias? Ofcourse our universe is fine tuned for life. We wouldnt be here otherwise. Its like thinking there is only big fish in the ocean when having one meter eyes in the fishing net.

[@TheHeartphone]

I like to compare this with the Stargate series. We are the offspring of a very old race. The same thought can be found back in the game: No Man's Sky, that introduces the traveller as an old race that built a supercomputer able to create galaxies in which the traveler can live on. As usual science and science fiction are two sides of one medal. What we can dream of we calculate and what we calculate..... some of it becomes true, enough of it to push us forward to the next frontier.....

[@jamesruscheinski8602]

Could the universe and galaxies have been created to make it difficult and impractical for technology to reach beyond star system, for intelligence to investigate beyond galaxy, and for consciousness to look beyond universe? May be part of reason for Fermi paradox, that any civilization would find development beyond star system not worthwhile? In such a case the universe and galaxy may have a great filter built in?

[@daviddesimone5931]

We find ways to survive. That is intelligence. It seems to me so simple. We are taught a negative an a positive. If we didn’t look at them that way then it could be total opportunity!

[@daviddesimone5931]

I feel the nature of life is opportunity and understanding. We learn so we do not make the same mistakes. (Quantum simplicity) That is my thought....

[@marksaade1187]

what is the name of the interviewer?

[@rodneycarpluk8052]

If faster travel is worked on more, then things like mining, or making a colony on planets or in space stations can be done much faster...so its seems like more work, but it will enable all plans for space to happen much more efficiently...if you ask a customer who want so t buy 10 million dollars of platinum, if they want to wait a year or years after the platinum is mined before they can transport it to earth, or if they want to wait 2months, or even less...they are going to go with 2 months or less...

[@VicInvades]

Sometimes I feel like he just tells exaggerated, exciting stories just to get our attention. A little bit of truth, a little bit of fantasy lol

[@pgbtwoofive3354]

please put this content on bitchute!!!

[@trsdarrin]

There have been times in my life where I have dreamed of an escape hatch from this planet I can totally relate. I really enjoyed this video it kept me captivated and entertain from the beginning to the end.

[@adityaraj8364]

Big bang was a escape boat of dying universe .... This really blew my mind.

[@Saurabh_Tewari007]

Circumference or diameter ? Radius!

[@chema8360]

It sounds like the stoic "logos" in a way... It's the case that things are what they are

[@scellowmcineka4087]

... 8:40 we most likey the offspring from another universe... I guess this explains why we don't know who we are until we become a type 3 or 4.

[@purefoldnz3070]

This is the bootstrap paradox.

[@vinp6093]

TYPE 1 IS THE GENIE OUT THE BOTTLE AND WE HAVE TO DO IT. THERE IS NO ESCAPE FROM TYPE 1 AT THIS TIME. IT IS SIMPLE, IT IS RIGHT IN FRONT OF OUR SENSES.

[@patriciabafalis5870]

Love Kaku!

[@patriciabafalis5870]

B.T. 333 🙃

[@annoyboyPictures]

KAKU means EXCREMENT in our country.

[@Simon-xi8tb]

would smash

[@domcasmurro2417]

Como voce pode perceber varios daqueles incels vao responder ao seu comentario por obvias razoes😂

[@prakashvakil3322]

Aatmiya DIVINITY Be Blessed HARE KRSNA Experiencing amusement hearing this interview 😊😂😊. In this total explaining, space , time, matter, energy, information, generation zero to infinity, CONSCIOUSNESS is accepted as the REAL, permanent , eternal, everlasting, unborn, unchanging , immutable, ephemeral, omnscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, all knowing, all overseeing, all permitting, all merciful, self effulgent, invisible, spiritual, in nature, fundamental entity. Consciousness is smaller than the SMALLEST & BIGGER than the biggest 😊😊. GOD is the manifestation of Unmanifested GOD Particle 😊😊😊😊😊 Very respectfully Loving 😊❤ ING You One and All DIVINE 💞🙏🙏💞🙏🙏💞🙏💞

[@Juanbanogues]

nice house

[@UncleLibra]

To believe or not to believe...

[@AFLoneWolf]

Either interstellar colonization or extinction. Those are our only two options.

[@harichard6366]

The goal of all humanity must be to escape the heat death of the universe!

[@charlesbrightman4237]

With our current civilization, with our current economic system, space travel has gotten more expensive just in my life time. What exactly is space travel going to cost in the next one hundred, one thousand, one million, and according to this video, 3 billion years from now? Economic inflation just might kill us all as nobody will be able to afford the cost of space travel, especially out of this solar system. (Closer To Truth?)

[@chasebrowning605]

Three-body problem by Cixin Liu, anyone?

[@movieswewant]

It could turn out that making universes isn't even all that difficult. Even Kaku's Type 1 or 2 beings could do it. God like entities may not be necessary.

[@bradb17]

perhaps?

[@jasmineluxemburg6200]

Fantasy escapes from death ! Healthy longevity is an achievable aim . New life requires that old life let’s go, makes space for renewal . Leaving a path worthy of following is a life well spent ! Inspiring others is a legacy worth leaving in new hands ! We do not need more planets or super-humans. We need more compassion , more empathy , more generosity more common provision for quality of life.......

[@bonemasterj]

If this is theory is true, we got a lot of work to do to get that next universe started.

[@peterwilliamson2965]

When I first heard humans will go extinct someday, I was very sceptical and somewhat horrified. However, I think it’s more likely we will evolve into something else, even if human civilization is destroyed by nuclear war or human-caused environmental disasters. Whether or not humans will be able to create another civilization after that is an open question, but current knowledge and technologies could be lost.

[@salmanCCIE]

Kaku ended up saying that the fine tuning of the universe for life might be because of intelligent designer"s", not an atheistic viewpoint.

[@bluedwarf8858]

So if these type 3 or 4 species can open a small door to another universe, then they should have the technology to have nano bots, so send these through the hole and get them to build a transporter on the other side, then these type 3 or 4 species and transport through the hole, because it's only energy it would go through the small hole......just an alternative idea.

[@rodneycarpluk8052]

The ship luanches are planned to increase massively, the satellites deployed are planned to increase massively, the clean up of space debris, has very few plans...with these plans, and how bad the situation is already, its not really going to have a good outcome...

[@jamesruscheinski8602]

Type 3 civilization - Star Wars; type 2 civilization - Star Trek; type 1 civilization - 2112; type 0 civilization - UN

[@rodneycarpluk8052]

So everything with current space plans is very wrong...

[@geraldvaughn8403]

Some people say if it is physically possible then it will be invented one day.

[@johnnowakowski4062]

Close but not quite...

[@bryanfury7887]

I think we will end up as the observers from Fringe

[@odellcrittenden5521]

This is probably correct

[@franciscoherrerabueno4168]

A life after death if a Type III or IV civilization cloned us all according to Michio Kaku with our DNA, same body, personality, memory and memories, in the end it will be us, and the exact copy will feel the same as us alive now, resurrected, rather recreated, an exact replica of the indistinguishable original. I hope to be recreated at 20 years old. A remote hope.

[@MisterMcKinney]

What if we’re the child universe of a type 3 civilization

[@steve-o6413]

⛅Hi Sunshine, while Kaku is one of my favorite Scientist I'm not sure about the baby bubble theory. I'll bet there is already a fail safe system in place if there is a multi verse. I'll put my money on Black Holes getting so Big that they regurgitate and spitting out a new Universe or another Big Bang that's my theory and I'm sticking to it. May peace an prosperity be with you always. C-ya😎Bye! "✌💖🤗~🌞🌎⚬" ...

[@tfsheahan2265]

So, what if a civilization is so advanced that it can time travel, induce hallucinatory realities in other beings, etc?. None of this I, II, III and IV, would have any advantages.

[@markdobrovolskyi]

This sounds a lot like the simulation hypothesis except instead of a computer simulation we have predecessors making "baby universes". Not sure how much I buy either of them (especially because you have similar but unique versions of them). Cool idea though.

[@sparrowhawk3894]

I'm considering humanity's astounding progress where today college students inability to distinguish between Male and Female, Life from Non life, etc...I question humanity's future if any.

[@Jupitersuniverse888]

It's already been done

[@schuey999]

Dear Host, That's a nice jacket.. does it come in your size?

[@adamsenel8265]

Joe rogan get this man onnnnnn!!!!

[@christiangarciajr4833]

I'm no physicist what he's talking about time traveling paradox

[@tr9809]

This typology is purely speculative, it can’t be called science because it doesn’t adhere to the scientific method.

[@thestruggler6282]

yes but sometimes at the boundary of science, or in fact the universe, you know not the question let alone any answers...

[@rodneycarpluk8052]

Well with current plans, none existent...

[@kyjo72682]

Based on the doomsday argument it is unlikely (under 5%) we will ever survive next 10-15k years depending on population dynamics. Most likely the last human will be born around 700 years from now.

[@joegeorge8153]

WOW way out sci fi or is it?

[@timcleary8608]

I worked on an animated short film, created by a good friend of mine, that is somewhat related to what Michio Kaku is talking about. It's a touching and humorous look at the creation of our solar system. It's called "The Looking Planet". Check it out here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d2mvg6t_drOth9U

[@jimmyjennings4089]

clearly Si Fi conjecture.