Physicist REACTS to history of the entire world, i guess

[@DylanJDance]

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[@kjconstantino2806]

No

[@Sandbeard]

@@kjconstantino2806 ☠️

[@mr46196]

just take the L bro

[@woodywoodman2319]

Bro you need to react to Alan Becker videos... like the Math or Physics at least!

[@ale-xsantos1078]

I dont think he was necessarily going for "God created this" at the start I mean sure it can be interpreted as that, but it also seemed like a humanization of the non-existing universe coming into being "I dont wanna be nothing, I wanna change" It can be the mind of God, it can be a anthropormifized singularity talking to itself, really it's up to you

[@steffurness]

An instinct to move, or be moved?

[@ale-xsantos1078]

@@steffurness I suppose! A yearning

[@Aurumfae]

I feel the same way about it. The complete rejection that certain aspects of our macro/micro universe has no thought or logic is odd to me. But idk, I believe in God and science too…

[@musical_lolu4811]

It's the whole causality problem. We are so used to causality as a universal law, the only way we could deal with the idea of an uncaused cause is to, by and large, ignore it. Even in languages for instance, we've got agent-avoiding strategies like the passive voice and (un)ergative patterning to verbs.

[@FallingGalaxy]

@@Aurumfae The problem is that only one of those two things you believe in have evidence and facts to back them up. The other is purely faith and you can take literally anything on faith, which is why it isn't a strong means to support opinions, thoughts, lifestyles, or much of anything else. (Like may belief systems that include a god tend to have moral codes that don't jive with modern information and reality as we know it so clinging to it by faith means people are left to cherry pick and make shit up as they feel like it and justify it behind 'it's my deeply held personal belief' rather than 'it's unhealthy for society/healthy for society, so this is why I support/reject this/that".)

[@hika_ariel]

The sun it's a deadly lazer" "no it's not" Me: you ruined a perfect joke that's what you did

[@SMHETDovydas]

Yeah, he was just joking around about how much UV light there was before the ozone layer. I noticed that smarter people tend to take things really literally, without trying to understand what it really means from the context given. But i think he might've got it, he just decided to state a fact.

[@hika_ariel]

@@SMHETDovydas I believe he did too, my comment was purely jokingly in tone itself

[@SMHETDovydas]

@@hika_ariel Yeah, I know that it was a joke. I just elaborated a bit on the matter.

[@phantonics]

@@SMHETDovydas in turn doing exactly what he did in the video

[@SMHETDovydas]

@@phantonics Shiiit, have I just unlocked the achievement "smart" XD

[@guilhermesavoya2366]

I think he wasn't interpreting the mind of GOd. He was just trying to be funny.

[@FallingGalaxy]

Agreed. Though it wouldn't matter if he had, since literally anyone who believes in the concept of a god believes that god to be catered to their own beliefs/morals/lifestyles/personal opinions rather than any factual outside being that may not jibe with what they themselves like to think.

[@guilhermesavoya2366]

@@FallingGalaxy That is so true it could be a crime to say out loud lol

[@AlexanderMikhailov629]

@@FallingGalaxy Facts

[@jonathansauceda589]

@@TML0677 fuck is wrong with you?

[@axel-fh1ru]

He is because god isn't real

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

There’s no doubt in my mind that Bill Wurtz makes the most attention grabbing, entertaining and educational videos.

[@styyl8651]

🤔

[@juanhoffmann4096]

WHAT ARE YOU DOING HEERE?!

[@Arachnid-Man]

Hello

[@Vlophbc._]

His video is not even boring, even when you've watched it 69,420 times.

[@garrettp8125]

literally feel this man watches the exact same content as me, see him everywhere in all the fitness channels and anime memes I watch and I just found this channel yesterday, and apparently so has he.

[@metalgrimm]

"The sun is a deadly laser" -Sun Tzu

[@vadercat3790]

"not anymore there's a blanket" -Friedrich Nietzsche

[@Broomful]

Did they actually say these though?

[@suntzu8168]

Yes

[@justinianthegreatandnerd6377]

@@suntzu8168 hi epic quote man

[@candicoated2001]

@@Broomful Yes. -Albert Einstein

[@katrinschirmer8018]

It's a 20 minutes crash course of history that already took him 11 months to make. i think you can cut him some slack about missing some things. :)

[@ElvesofZion]

"Everyone in Australia is descended from British prisoners" Sad aboriginal noises

[@Dan-B]

😬

[@zayneytem]

10:57 he admits he doesn't know much about human history. Quite understandable though. 😂

[@marcos-ll2yr]

@@zayneytem is true 20% of the Australian population are descended from people originally transported as convicts, while around 2 million Britons have transported convict ancestry.

[@marcos-ll2yr]

he is not wrong, 20% of the Australian population are descended from people originally transported as convicts, while around 2 million Britons have transported convict ancestry.

[@wwoods66]

@@marcos-ll2yr "20% of the Australian population" < "Everyone in Australia".

[@Drako2k0]

I think The sun being a deadly lazer is just a reference to the fact that pre-ozone layer the Ultraviolet radiation of the sun was very dangerous. Lol

[@wwoods66]

Right. Nothing to do with coherent monochromatic EM radiation.

[@Drako2k0]

@@wwoods66 I mean yeah? I don't know what that is. doesn't change the joke though. pre-ozone, sun still dangerous

[@k1productions87]

Yeah, that part frustrated me, the whole time I was grumbling "He didn't mean laser literally" as he kept hanging on that point.

[@artembentsionov]

The main reason people don’t want to believe in climate change is because trying to stop it would require economic and lifestyle changes. And, as Jon Stewart put it, “It was a simple cost-benefit analysis. We enjoyed drinking hot coffee in a cold room in the middle of the summer more than we enjoyed other animals being alive.”

[@GideonGuitar]

The main reason people can't change climate change is because it'd require our politicians to properly allocate resources towards renewable energy and wildlife preservation rather than short-term shareholder/corporate interests.

[@artembentsionov]

@@GideonGuitar and that would require enough people to actually give a crap and do something about it, like stop re-electing corporate sellouts. Voter apathy is one of the key problems

[@artembentsionov]

@Alexi marchenko that wouldn’t do much because most of the impact is from industry, power plants, and vehicles. I’m not saying it’s a bad idea what you suggested, but a few thousand people living off the land wouldn’t make a dent in the environment compared to how much is getting spewed out into the environment by the big boys

[@CChissel]

@@artembentsionov Besides, the entire population living off the land, would deplete a lot of resources for wild animals, and those wild animals themselves being used as resources too. It’s just not viable with the amount of people on Earth. No solution will be simple or easy, but I believe nuclear power and terraforming technology is key.

[@maxwell8758]

If we used nuclear energy we wouldn’t have to give up anything.

[@yangdou6059]

I think Bill was more trying to make a history-related video since it’s already 20-min long, but thank you for making it even more educational on the science end as well :))

[@dionmeijers4417]

yeah, it's hard to fit even more into this video without making it too long to actually watch

[@Mister_Skar]

Perhaps he should make a video called "The history of the whole of science, I guess"

[@matheussanthiago9685]

jesus, that would be glorious

[@artembentsionov]

I believe ancient Greeks already knew that the world was round. They even calculated the size pretty closely (they didn’t know it’s not a perfect sphere due to the spin). Columbus mistakenly believed that it was a lot smaller and that Asia stretched a lot farther east

[@Mercure250]

The guy who calculated it was named Eratosthenes. Basically, the idea was : - Take a city in which no shadow is cast at midday on the summer solstice (the sun is perpendicularly over the city when that happens) - Take another city directly north of that city - In that northern city, plant a gnomon (a stick with a specific length) in the ground, perfectly perpendicular to the ground, and measure its shadow at midday on the summer solstice Using the known length of the gnomon and the length of its shadow, you could determine the angle between the sunrays and the gnomon. Assuming sunrays hitting the northern city and the southern city are parallel, you can draw a line traversing the Earth for those sunrays, and you can draw a line from the northern city to the center of the Earth. You end up with a transversal line cutting through the two parallel lines. If you know your geometry, you know that means that whatever angle you calculated earlier is the same angle between the two cities, looking from the center of the Earth. From there, you just need to know how many times you need to multiply that angle to get a full circle, and you can then take that number and multiply it by the distance between the two cities. All you need is someone measuring that distance, and the rest is math. Eratosthenes didn't actually use just two cities, but he did use that general principle and multiple Egyptian cities to do his calculations. He measured the circumference going through the poles, rather than the equatorial circumference, which is of course different because, as you said, the Earth isn't a perfect sphere. Even taking that into consideration, he was still very slightly off, but the feat is still impressive for the time.

[@laboon344]

@@Mercure250 know*

[@Addy_The_Baddy]

from what I've read there's some doubt on how accurate they were, from what I recall it's because the unit the calculation was in is antiquated, and we don't have an accurate conversion so there's some suspicion of the numbers being fudged a bit to make the Greeks calculations seem more impressively accurate

[@Mercure250]

@@laboon344 Thank you for your insight. It has been eye-opening.

[@laboon344]

@@Mercure250 you're very welcome

[@CrippledMerc]

Interesting, I’ve never taken the beginning but to be about god. I’ve always taken as the personification of the universe itself. As if it’s thinking to itself as being everything but also being nothing and also just being bored. I think it’s interesting that you interpreted it to be god though.

[@dylanholman3]

It’s ironic to me that he interpreted it that way when he clearly does not believe in a god. I also have always interpreted it as the universe itself speaking. He’s the first one I’ve seen take it that way.

[@TimoRutanen]

He's just touchy about god subjects. Probably because of the heavy science background.

[@ghrtfhfgdfnfg]

I never once interpreted as him speaking from the perspective of “God” either

[@seokermom]

Yeah I found this weird and low key annoying as fuck

[@testfire3000]

@@teresas8173 I just always took it as as narrator, not a god.

[@adamg4336]

I feel like you expected an extremely indepth overview of the literal history of the world. It's educational and comedic so he's gonna gloss over stuff. It's a good start off for a lot of people who might be interested.

[@jazflanagan8693]

I have no doubt that Bill missed some periods of space events, but he probably picked some that were important while still being…digestible. In an interview, he said he constantly went back and forth with himself over which things to include and cut out. He had to make jumps in time to compress it all.

[@NoName-mi8bm]

Only id1ots can't see this fact. it is impossible to explain or present the history of the entire universe or world in a few minutes of video.

[@MultiMoomoo2]

Could u imagine how long the video would be if he went into any detail on the entire history of the world. Its a great way to introduce people to history so they can then go and look up the bits they didn't know about and found interesting

[@a-blivvy-yus]

"You've probably heard about the plastic in the ocean" - and if you haven't... 24 mins later... "And the ocean is full of plastic!" And I like how you explain what a laser is, and ignore that he actually said "lazer" instead. Totally different (even in America, "ztimulated" is not a word) Also, I'm not sure if you noticed this, but when the British convicts showed up in Australia, there were already people there. You might want to occasionally remember they (still) exist.

[@sweetysmart0505]

I adore that each profession (physicists, historians, biologists, teachers, etc.) appreciates this video in different ways.

[@sarveshs3244]

I Believe you would be have a better time reacting to 'Timelapse of the future: a journey to the end of time' because it deals with much much more physics than this video.

[@Broomful]

Oh I’ve actually watched that video a couple of times now good recommendation.

[@allycard]

you know how long this video would be if he covered every influential human in history?

[@peterhudson23]

Well, if the video was entirely about the history of science then he certainly would have included a lot of what you were frustrated about it missing, but the history of nations seems pretty important to know as well (at least I think so. Being doomed to repeat history of you don't know it, that sort of thing). I will say he was very conflicted over what to include, and in the end he wanted to keep the video down to 20 minutes. The video would probably have been hours long if he included EVERYTHING that seemed significant, and it would have taken many years to make instead of just one.

[@noctislucis9939]

He's not skipping anything, he's talking on the scale of countries and not people. Scientific ideas are too numerous and too individualistic to mention here.

[@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman]

I agree

[@LongandWeirdName]

"He skipped over a bunch if periods." ... He is making a video that fits everything between the big bang and right now in a time that will not make people quit before finishing it. Of course, he's going to skip over some of the less important things. While the cosmic background stuff may be important to you and other physicists, this isn't a short history of the universe. This is "the entire history of the world, I guess.". The world. Earth. Not the shiny edge of the bubble. A tiny wet spec of dust somewhere inside that bubble.

[@johnswenson9140]

to be fair, the video includes jokes about the incest of old European royalty but doesn't mention a single great scientist.

[@krimzonghost1987]

@@johnswenson9140 I feel you. This was definitely Geo-political centric. I'm a little bummed that we didn't see a bit more of science history in it as well, but I still find this video very entertaining.

[@maskajunior9675]

not based

[@LongandWeirdName]

@@krimzonghost1987 Before J. Robert Oppenheimer, there was no scientist important to the history of the world. And even he had only minor importance. Don't be so human-centric.

[@krimzonghost1987]

​@@LongandWeirdName I can't tell if you're just trolling or what, but your comment literally makes zero sense.

[@cocoaicci_]

This entire video reaction kind of feels like when you show a funny meme to your parents and then instead of laughing they begin lecturing you.

[@cocoaicci_]

But he seems like a sweet individual so i forgive :p

[@apenasnanda]

Omg that's it, that's what I was thinking, thank you for commenting it

[@JonInCanada1]

Love the video and not to be rude, but it was rather funny to see your frustration at the video not covering as much science as I think you were hoping for. That said, you're quite right that this would a great video to show students as it would show that science, history and our universe are actually cool and not boring. In the age of the 7 sec Tik-Tok, getting people curious is the best way to open minds, because we are all, in our own way, innately curious about our existence and that of our surroundings. Well done.

[@JonInCanada1]

@Gumbo Seriously that's what your takeaway was...thanks for proving the point.

[@diamondking169]

@Gumbo 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@송나연-k7q]

no hate but i dont think you understood that the video was not meant to go into detail about every aspect of history up to this point. whenever u kept saying u didnt understand why he didn't elaborate on topics, i just wanted to say he simply did not have time. the point of the video was to give a general overview and mention several topics so that people could identify what they already knew and do further research on ideas that they were either unfamiliar with or were interested in learning more about.

[@marar8045]

There’s no way he could include everything in one video! He did call it history, so of course it’s focused on what’s generally deemed historical facts. He had to focus on something. As it was it took him a year to make this video. It’s not a science video lol

[@azuazudesu]

it is a science video as well as history. it just happen that bill ended up focusing on politics at the end. i'm thinking he just don't want to add more science stuff when he started politics since it might ruin the flow of the video because technology evolution and politics happened simultaneously.

[@kamodius]

After about the seventh time you paused, talked for a minute, unpaused for *three words* and spoke for another minute or two, I wandered off.

[@keikaruizawa3425]

Exactly got frustrated 🥴

[@Omii_3000]

"I think we should stick to the facts" 2:27 then 30 seconds later he calls the universe a "simulation, ones and zeros" 3:00 which is not a fact, just an interpretation of reality XD lol

[@gholwiih]

Rather than pausing to complain, I think it might have been more constructive to pause at the relevant moments to explain to your audience what scientific discoveries were being made at the time, and how they would lead to what the video was talking about. I see it as a missed opportunity to educate your audience further, and add to the viewer's experience.

[@SomeOnlinePerson]

Usually, when I see folks do things like that, they end up talking about a thing that's mentioned within seconds of hitting "play" again.

[@ryanredd4552]

Seriously the guy paused to complain for like a minute for thinking that there was a small possibility that Bill was even hinting at the existence of God

[@Chill_Enigma]

Yeah this dude comes across as a pretentious asshole. The kind of guy to criticize the one thing you did wrong and fails to acknowledge the 10 things you did right.

[@drobichaud1000]

He's just a youtuber. Forget astrophysicist lol.

[@DeathDefiant]

Dude, it's the summary of the ENTIRE WORLD. Of course he'd miss some important things. I'd rather a reaction to what he made rather than a rant on what he missed...

[@poggies7639]

In fairness to him there are a handful of things that he should’ve at least mentioned that he didn’t (I’m generally of the same mind as you but as someone with a degree in history there were 2 or 3 things that I felt definitely should’ve been included)

[@carlivasquez6840]

@@poggies7639 this is possibly the BEST video on the planet explaining the history of the world. It’s extremely well put together and ANYONE can understand it.

[@Dr.HooWho]

@@poggies7639 you do realize It took him 11 months to make it right? He wouldn't have time for those

[@ISavant]

@@poggies7639 ok, you make the video and do it better then. I'll wait.

[@Arcaneblush]

How would that reaction work? Him just sitting and nodding the whole video? He is commending the video a lot, and even said it should be shown in class.

[@michaelbuhl4250]

It sounds like you need to make your own science-centric history of the entire world video.

[@GrifoStelle]

I would get behind that!

[@DavidRomigJr]

Man, you seemed to get flustered that history video had so much history and that a summary was too much far too summarized. :) I get the impression somebody told you this was a science video. I mean, it has some science in it, but that’s not the focus. I’m floored that for a summary of everything in only twenty-ish minutes that it feels so complete. Wurtz did say there were plenty of things he considered but had to cut to keep it short. I think this would be great to show in schools as an introduction to history and then they could expand upon period. Seriously, I sucked at history and I just about have this video memorized word for word. And I loved when I later realized the joke “you can make a religion out of- no don’t” was due to the Cult of Reason being an actual religion that came from that revolution that really should have never existed.

[@Ravenshelter]

I'm so glad I found this video! I love it! I've watched "The History Of The Entire World I Guess" about a dozen times, but it was really insightful to hear your comments and opinions, so thank you!

[@theoneilovemost]

Actually it was Eratosthenes a Greek philosopher in Alexandria sometime around the 300s BCE who discovered the world is round.

[@theoneilovemost]

@@encan8995 I've heard something like that somewhere. To my understanding, the cylinder model was a footnote from an Arab scribe during the Translation Movement.

[@AdamPFarnsworth]

I admit, part of me was really amused by your frustration at all the science being skipped :D But, great reaction video!

[@gabrielwag]

I died a bit everytime he went "here we go" wen bill mentioned something about science/technology and then immediately changes the subject to wars again

[@maxwell8758]

“The food chain is sensitive and very delicate.” Also; “there are 127 species going extinct every day.” 😅 That timing was so good and he didn’t even pick up on it.

[@SomeOnlinePerson]

You'd almost think there was a chain reaction of species dying out because other species in their ecosystem died out and increasingly screwed up the balance.

[@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman]

@@SomeOnlinePerson well, its probably slow

[@Dunkle0steus]

Cave paintings are a lot older than 30,000 years. They've found some in Indonesia that are over 45,000 years. Saying that human brains changed 30,000 years ago is also a dangerous thing to say because many of the world's modern populations had already split long before that. It's believed aboriginal Australians may have arrived as early as 65,000 years ago on the continent. This means you're either saying that all human populations simultaneously and independently experienced a rapid growth in brain function (this would be highly unlikely) or you're implying that certain ethnic groups are inherently mentally inferior, which is explicitly incorrect. In addition, we've recently found cave art that we're nearly positive can only be attributed to Neanderthals which diverged from modern humans at least 400,000 years ago. The art we find in caves is often in areas that are very difficult to reach. Caves in France for example may have art from very different periods, with some areas created more than 10,000 years before others. Clearly even after people started creating cave art, it was not a normal part of their daily lives. My personal belief is that art was a common part of human existence much, much earlier, but it was done on exposed stones or trees which have had no chance of surviving due to weathering processes and rot. Caves don't last forever. Many collapse or are buried, and so we don't have access to most of the caves available to ancient humans around the world, or just haven't properly explored them. We can't conclude that the cave art currently documented is an accurate representation of the art that was created.

[@dotdotdot...176]

Hi, Archaeology student here. The oldest known modern human rock art is now thought to be a painting from Blombos Cave in South Africa, dating to around 73 000 years ago. I understand why you mentioned the Indonesian site, because a lot of online blogs and articles still cite the Sulawesi rock painting of pigs (~43-45kya) as the oldest. This South African site really pushes back the date for the rise of cognitive complexity (ie that "consciousness" you were hinting at, although I agree that animals are conscious and much more archaic human relatives probably were too). Also, I'm not entirely sure what you meant by "modern humans are thought to have been around for a million years" because from what I know the evidence suggests that the earliest Homo sapiens populations probably arose around 350 000 - 250 000 years ago. Homo sapiens was most probably not around yet a million years ago, although our ancestral lineage was (along with other lineages that aren't directly ancestral to us). Those hominin species that were around a million years ago weren't really us, what is referred to as "modern humans" (Homo sapiens that are anatomically the indentical us) though they were "recognisably human" in some ways. They were still a bit different skeletally and morphologically, and were genetically distinct from modern humans. So modern humans (anatomically identical) would have arisen (within our species Homo sapiens), most likely in Africa around 300 000 years ago, maybe up to 350 000 years ago. The fossils and species _before_ then, such as those alive million years ago, are sometimes categorised as "pre-modern humans". Other more archaic species within the Homo genus, for example. Thanks for this video! One of my dreams as a kid was going into astronomy or astrophysics, but the physics part was killer lol (I took physics as a subject right until I finished school). Still very interesting to watch. Thanks for reacting to one of my favourite videos out there! I love natural history, archaeology (obviously lol) and human history, and I still have a great interest in all things stars and space, so this video was a fun watch.

[@clubardi]

Late to the party but he said in a different comment that he shouldn't have used "modern" but rather just humans ie Homo genus

[@ArloMathis]

I think my favorite thing about the original video might be that it loops. The video ends with 'where the hell are we?' and begins with 'we're on a rock, floating in space.'

[@xenotypos]

25:39 Absolutely not, the idea of a spherical earth comes from the Greeks during antiquity, they even calculated its circumference (have you heard of Eratosthenes ?). It will spread to the middle-east, Europe and India, and all will make a lot of estimates about Earth's size. That idea will remain during the entire middle ages. Amongst the major civilizations of Eurasia, only China kept the idea of a (more or less) flat earth, until the 17th century and further contacts with Europeans.

[@freazeezy]

"You are a great, great ape 👍" Me: 😊

[@justirenada327]

Mansa Musa was the wealthiest person in all of human history. Even more rich then the richest people alive today. (Adjusted for inflation)

[@antonhagbox02]

And he was much more generous than them, that's for sure.

[@MegaRazorback]

@@antonhagbox02 His generosity while good actually utterly tanked the gold economies of all the places he visited though (he gave out what at the time was considered pure gold and due to the sheer amount he gave out and the resulting influx the price dropped to the point where it was effectively worthless)

[@ChirumboloFilm]

I’ve seen the history of the world video at least a dozen times and never got the impression he was talking about or as god. I always thought it was the universe contemplating creating itself.

[@brandonfrancey5592]

So at 22:08 the video mentions Japan and then has an intermission. That is the exact point that you pause this video and you watch Bill's video on the history of Japan.

[@nlsantiesteban]

You ever met someone who gets frustrated with a funny joke because it wasn’t told right but everyone laughs anyway? Yeah

[@nayoti5567]

I really liked Physics growing up, then I realized it was all math, and I liked the philosophical questions physics tries to answer.

[@rollomaughfling380]

I think I'd lay off the coffee, and the subsequent constant rattling over a *Big History* video that happens to cover some physics theories, while missing not only the point, but plenty of great history jokes, whinging about how they didn't cover everything in your speciality. This informative comedy video took almost a year to make, to cover 13.8 billion Earth-centric years, and clocks in at just under 20 minutes-how long would the running time have been, if you and every other weenie out there had their say? It would have never got completed. Just appreciate it for what it is: a funny, informative comedy bit meant to spark peoples' imaginations about history.

[@denvergray8943]

It's definitely a "structural" history, in that the primary focus is on the creation and fall of societies, their locations, and major events connecting them, with scientific and cultural events for commentary where there's time. It would definitely be cool to have versions of this specifically for cultural and scientific histories.

[@Dan-B]

Modern Human have not been around for a million years XD The oldest fossils of our species are from around 315,000 years ago, the oldest “Modern human” is from around 210,000 years

[@DylanJDance]

Yes, you are quite correct. I shouldn't have used the term "modern." What I simply meant is that humans have been evolving for millions of years with the genus "Homo" emerging in the last few million years - "humans." Relatively modern ;)

[@magnagamer8256]

@@DylanJDance ynow what’s stupid the human body is great it just hasn’t figured out we’re not cavemen anymore

[@lostwizard]

It's already been mentioned a few times in the comments, I'm sure. But there's no possible way he could have mentioned everything you think is important (which might be the same as what others thing is important). If he had, the video would have been hours long, and he'd still be making it (this video took a year). This is very high level overview, in which even important details have to be left out.

[@stratejic1020]

One thing I don't like about "scientists" is that they basically tell anybody who has a different opinion on how it may have happened that they're immediately wrong and that they have to "face the facts" like they know that 100% what they know about everything is true. Yet a good portion of science is simply brought upon by speculation.

[@SparkimusPrime]

I mean, it’s well-researched and tested “speculation”. Science is usually pretty honest about what we don’t know for sure. Every discovery, from failure or success, leads us to more knowledge and more questions. Some things are known/understood to a greater degree than others. The great thing about science and (most) scientists, is that when presented new credible information they’re able to shift their understanding. Most everything we know can only be known to a certain degree, and is highly dependent on technology. Religion is based in absolutes, science is based in questioning. Which is one reason they clash so much.

[@DoomSkullYT]

that is probably my favourite video on youtube, love that you reacted to it. I think the idea of the video was to show important events that can be understood by most people, without diving too deeply into a specific topic (other than history of course), so most science from all areas of study was skipped in the video. Also may I recommend a couple of youtube channels I absolutely love to watch called The Entire History of the Universe, and The Entire History of the Earth. They're part of a larger history channel network, but they make incredible documentary style videos, 12/10 would recommend

[@demonik2108]

No cap, you didn't make this boring at all. Loved the insight on everything. Hell yes

[@plexus]

How long does it take for a million seconds to go by?... A million seconds. I’m a genius.

[@hiddenInsight486]

My impression is this video is the 10,000' overview of history, it brings up a lot of points that hopefully peak your interest and you further research them indepth

[@Torrriate]

Advice: Chill the hell out, dude - in your self-centered, restless mind. Work on expanding the latter! Srsly, bro. You're quite young in your defense though.

[@gjagielom2]

i believe he is speaking as the universe at a point before it existed, not a magical sky daddy or anything like that. this video is very based in fact but condensed as much as possible to be accessible to an audience that likely doesn’t have as much background information as you do but that is why i seeing people more learned than me react to it. i want to know more but my ADD makes it very difficult to devote myself to actually learning it myself. so thank you for this and i want to see more from you and anyone who is as educated as you. it helps keep my brain from being bored.

[@malainadani]

he kept questioning why he didn't say certain things but if he said some things, the video would be 4 hours long at most. he made a decision to include somethings but exclude others

[@loganxtryma6119]

this video is basically what teachers would do in class if they played the original video

[@christinaify]

Some very brave soul... Australian Customs: Do you have a criminal record? Person who will not be getting into Australia: No, is that still required?

[@Yellow_The_Nerd]

27:02 because if he said how every idea for things came about, then the video would be an hour long :p

[@valashar5313]

Civilizations have known the Earth was round from nearly the beginning. Roughly during the 'dank river valley' portion of the video is when Egyptians (and likely others) even accurately measured the Earth's circumference by measuring the difference between the shadows of two obelisks. Columbus wasn't wondering if the Earth was round, he was using that fact as the entire premise of his voyage. Would've gone fine for him if it wasn't for that pesky big rock he came across. Most of the things he skips (you mention Copernicus) are only as important as they are to us now because of their long term impact. That and they took place in such tiny areas in less than a single human lifespan that when they happened they were entirely negligible to most people at the time. You mention that Australia was only shown for about 1.5 seconds. Folks like Planck would've been on for a single frame. Take how quickly this video blows through WW2. Where in that 10 seconds would you put folks like Turing?

[@CorvidQueen319]

With the purpose of the video, he was focusing mostly on society and the world as a whole, not so much the tech or science aspect of things. He touched on some of it, but his main purpose was to give a main serving of history of human society with the science and tech being as side dishes, of sorts. For a history of science and tech, that would have had to be an entirely separate video or set of videos.

[@OutcastSpartan]

No offence, but of all the scientists and smart people who have reacted to this video, you did the best job of sapping all the fun out of it. Just my critical review.

[@silly_lily6241]

about the cave paintings, i personally believe our ancestors just accidentally (as usual) made a smudge on a wall and then thought to draw, others liked it, so they continued doing it.

[@TheNeonParadox]

You're not making it boring at all. In the first two minutes of this video, there's a lot to elaborate on. I do the same once we hit about 8,000 BCE since now we're in my wheelhouse up until about 1,200 CE (in Europe anyway). That's why it's nice to watch experts in other fields watch it.

[@theblackthorn4605]

"We're gonna skip every important science discovery." My dude says during the part highlighting the Industrial Revolution... But also, history of the entire world, I guess, would be A LOT longer of a video if Bill had included every single civilization/scientific discovery ever made.

[@johncase1353]

Anyone with a tie I respect. It was people with ties that found out I had reversible liver damage do to alcoholism.

[@antondeswardt2027]

Dude, love you explaining all this video. Was one of the best videos out there, and you just made it better.

[@Arbaaltheundefeated]

Nothing like having a scientist just assume I can't even wrap my head around what a billion is or that I'd be able to do simple multiplication in the first five minutes of his video.

[@hainleysimpson1507]

Most people have no interest in the sciences and look down on scientific professions or worse don't give a shit.

[@Kirnockerbam107]

He's literally stating a fact. Our brain does not comprehend large numbers. You can have a relative idea that a billion is a lot but it's not a tangible number like 5.

[@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman]

@@Kirnockerbam107 true, i wonder how aliens would hold up

[@garetjax2768]

"I don't understand why the video didn't show [insert some event here]". You're right, I'm going to start on a more detailed video to help include all of the facts. It should be ready in around 4.5 billion years.

[@craigcole9337]

Because he's saying what happened. Not the ideas behind what happened. We don’t know what da Vinci was thinking…only that he painted and invented.

[@andrewdemarco3512]

As a scientist you would probably really like Kyle Hill's videos. He does a lot fo videos on the science of pop culture like if things in movies are possible and how they would work if they were. He also has videos on real world issues including about nuclear power.

[@dylanholman3]

He’s covering as much of the major events as he can without making a multi-hour documentary. There’s only so much you can fit in a 20 minute video.

[@kirayoshikage1491]

I’ve seen history teachers critiquing this video, and now a physicist critiquing it. Probably going to find a biologist critiquing it next

[@Everie]

Bill: "The sun is a deadly laser" Dylan: "No it's not..." Me: You took everything from me...

[@zimzalabimzed]

12:16 "Jurassic Park was wrong. Life does not find a way. It bloody struggles." Put this on my tombstone 💀

[@brianmurphy4032]

"I apologize for ruining your fav video on the internet" sir you created my fav video. We go to bill wurtz for entertainment, we come here for the science breakdown and the intelligence :)

[@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman]

Brilliant description

[@ThatSaxyNerd]

You are right, this is mostly a geo-political history video. But giving a crash course in history on a youtube video, I feel that is probably the best route. I kinda wish Wurtz would come back for more but this one took him like a year cause he had to start out with researching a lot of new stuff he didnt know about.

[@Crazael]

The ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round and had a pretty good idea how big around it is. IIRC, they were only off by a few percentage points.

[@swig_gigolo]

One of the worst punishments I ever had as a kid was to count to a billion in my room instead I did the math for how long it would take and cried thinking I was grounded forever lol

[@Kuhmuhnistische_Partei]

Yeah, it's really human-centric. But to be fair, even if he had sent a message into space to ask aliens if they want to contribute to his video, they probably wouldn't have answered yet.

[@biganguria]

Switzerland just chilling for 800 years doing nothing

[@JustAnotherVatsal]

Humans are more than 2 million years old. It wouldn't be possible to mention all the important things in even a 5 hour video.

[@Aurumfae]

Exactly lol 😂

[@kaantax8666]

yeah no, anatomically modern humans are like 300-500 thousand years old. and even if it is "only" hundreds of thousands of years, it isn't recorded history, sooo...

[@potitishogun2961997]

"Where is the context..!?" If he gave THAT for every single part of this video, the video would be 10 hours long lmao

[@mitchellmoss]

Dude. The thing to remember is that reaction videos are where we miserable people go to see other people enjoy the things that we enjoy. It's not really so much about wanting to give others a pulpit from which we have to listen to them. I realize that is a pretty sad state of affairs that does not speak well for us as viewers. However, if we had a life we would not be watching reaction videos in the first place.

[@TheMrMeeks]

Not a big fan of him not wanting the beginning to be about speculation when the very backbone of all science is based on speculation… 👁👄👁

[@Tejas_]

25:43 The idea that the earth is round did not originate from the arabs, instead from ancient indians and greeks. Arabs were infamous for taking indian inventions and concepts and spreading them as their own. For example- the hindu numeric system(1, 2, 3...) 26:40 Again, Copernicus wasn't the first one to think the earth might not be the center of the universe, both the Greeks and the Indians knew this.

[@SicMvndvsCreatvsEst8]

And then the indians and greeks ideas were forgotten aboutjust not believed

[@littlemissbookworm5303]

You know you’re a bookworm when you can’t think of the Library of Alexandria without feeling ridiculously sad

[@jairon_2518]

I think this is more of a traditional historical pow. I just wished they taught more science history in school back in the day. When was the Earth first said to be spherical, the general newton gravity laws and the previous orbital principles, even first inventions as the telescope, airplane or computer. Cheers from Spain, great video as usual 👍

[@VoodooGMusic]

I love it when reaction channels pause a video RIGHT at the start like less than 10 seconds in and make an uninformed comment about what the creator is trying to say without even having listened to 0.01% of what they said ESPECIALLY videos with an artistic twist to them. Love that. Speaks volumes.

[@bobd2659]

I've watched a lot of reaction videos to this, since every reactor has a different background and thus has their own factual additions to the original. You however...are the first person to point out 'without buying a boat' is actually a plane! I don't know why, but I think it's funny that people pick apart little things in it, but missed the 'boat sentence' being depicted as a plane. I wonder if it's something like the Gorilla on the basketball court phenomena...

[@SomeOnlinePerson]

I think it's the second time I caught that being pointed out, but it does definitely get missed a lot.

[@samd7476]

He's pointing out pretty obvious things and thinks he's a genius for it.

[@IiIygarden]

i don't think anyone at all missed it, they just chose not to mention it... since it's so obvious and also not important to the topic they want to elaborate lol

[@SapkaliAkif]

You added a lot of value to the video :] It was a great watch!

[@idcgaming518]

28:15 "taxing the hell" ah yes, a tax that's 10x less than that which most brits (who had no more representation than the colonists) were paying (3% vs 30%) and who had less access to certain services (I.e. medical, believe it or not) and less freedoms overall, than the colonists. Totally "taxing the hell" out of the colonists. And the 7 years war? Started in defence of the colonists, because the whole "ohio" spat occurred because the colonists wanted to settle on land owned by the French. Good job America, you screwed over multiple nations who are the reason you exist, before you even existed.

[@stevered9659]

To be fair. There is a lot to cover. The beginning is my favorite part

[@LLMPC]

You should probably react to Time-lapse of the future: a journey to the end of time, it deals much more with physics

[@AlimaeHP]

I know this comment is three years late, and well that is the story of my life. I am honestly surprised by your reaction at the end; especially considering all you did was complain about what he did not add into the video. All I kept thinking was, "If you think you can do better, then do it, and stop complaining about a video that was meant to introduce people to the history of the world." Again, your closing comments were a complete surprise.

[@Kikakowia]

“Why did he skip…” Me every time: “My good sir there’s nO TIME” This 20 minute video already took him basically an entire year and made him outright say “never again.” If he’d tried to include more it probably never would have come out at all. I kind of assume he only made it so people would stop asking for followups to his (fantastic) History of Japan video, and it was always meant to be a history class kind of video, not a science class kind of video. Asking why things weren’t included just feels like looking a gift horse in the mouth. XD