Brian Cox - What Was There Before The Big Bang?

[@timothybennett1765]

You can witness exponential inflation right here in the UK. It's pretty scary.

[@jayadams681]

Oooooh aren't you edgy.

[@timothybennett1765]

@@jayadams681 I love you

[@kcrystallz1955]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@marcinha1973]

Sucks to drive to work farther every day.

[@vermasean]

What’s scarier is when I went back to the UK & fish & chips weren’t served in a newspaper 📰 😮🐟 🥔

[@kdh3706]

I like that he starts with "what we think happened". It takes more courage and confidence to admit that you don't know for sure than to insinuate that you do when its impossible to know for sure.

[@OriginalPuro]

Cheat code for life: The more you know, the more you know that you don't know anything. Smart people know they are dumb. Dumb people think they are smart. Now, go win.:)

[@olegeeno6273]

Oh really, insane wisdom

[@Precis000]

I can see this comment directed towards so many science enthusiasts who are interested in science just to prove some other person wrong instead of pure motive of learning more😂😂😂

[@NOTurbuisness-r5q]

He could have just said “we have 0 idea “ would have saved me time from his basic ass ideas

[@bobjames6622]

Quote: "what we think happened" Translation: we ain't got a FCKING clue!

[@george1la]

I am 76 and astronomy has changed so much since then. My dad was one of the original Stony Ridge Observatory members. I went to all the meeting with him over the years while it was being built guided by George Carroll. Since we have had major telescopes in space and especially now our knowledge of reality of what is really going on is incredible and far beyond what was known back then. This certainly made me think again. Thanks. As Steve Morris, of high horsepower engines says, "Danger, Watch this and you might learn something." So glad to learn.

[@nmahangu]

I’m 46 and it’s changed so much ! 😂

[@hammersaw3135]

I believe the more we discover about reality, the more we realize how much more there is discover, and how little we know. For every answer provided by the discovery, has produced more questions, than questions answered.

[@NHPKD]

If we understand what is soul we will understand everything

[@SSjLuigi1]

The pursuit of knowledge is a beautiful thing

[@ARA-cz2ii]

Or we should be "nothing" to know about nothing before the Big Bang!.?

[@bantehayes9973]

Man. This just makes me feel like we're so insignificant. It's depressing that with basically an infinite number of questions, we'll never even come close to scratching the surface. But, it is also fun thinking about it.

[@Frankaupolis]

@bantehayes9973 Infinity gives us a glimpse to God.. So there Is hope, no? =·D No more depressing, no more feeling insignificant. Is that not beautiful or what..? Infinity encompasses Eternity.. (Infinity is when anything goes on forever. Eternity is specifically when time goes on forever.) We can PROVE Eternity by very simple means. Here go-es (hold on to your hat..)(: Not a single thing can arise (or sprout) from ABOLUTE nothingness; The fact we have anything here and now PROVES that there was never a time (even before time began) in which there was NOTHING.. There always has been something. ALWAYS... An Eternal Always.. 8·) Here is what i think about Eternity(/Infinality.. hehe): Something/anything infinite is a "system" that can (and will) never fail. It is flawless.. Infallible... Perfect. Here is what i think about Perfection: it SCREAMS ; SCREAMS ; SCREAMS ; SCREAMS ; SCREAMS GOD! 8·)

[@foley15136]

I can’t help but wondering about further and further back and the question that’s always asked; why is there anything at all? And this question; Is it possible for there to be nothing? Possible for there to be no universes? Also, possible for whatever brought about the universes to not exist. My brain breaks with the infinite regress.

[@stevenalderley9036]

Lawrence Krauss, American Physicist, believes that something can come from nothing. Worth reading some of his thoughts.

[@rjampiolo32]

i stopped trying to think about those things, i just cannot handle it mentally.

[@mohammedakhmed6213]

The problem of infite regress stops and you gain peace when you accept that there must be an uncaused being that causes everything else.

[@21yashthakur]

We have to accept that we will never be able to find the answer about the creator. But we have enough evidence to believe that there is someone outside of all this space and time who created all this. The almighty God.

[@Isclachau]

@@21yashthakur 😂😂Stop smoking the wacky backy. Next you will be saying male = female.

[@boonestead4812]

just the fact that were aware enough to ask these questions is amazing in its self.what a species!!!

[@phildavenport4150]

And somewhere in the galaxy is a species that looks at us and wonders how come we haven't even set foot on one of the other planets nearby.

[@simonilett998]

*we're*

[@boonestead4812]

@@simonilett998 youre one of those eh??

[@simonilett998]

@@boonestead4812 Yes, you're correct. One of the rare few nowadays that is not too lazy or uneducated to use correct spelling, grammar and punctuation.🤣👍

[@jx2_23]

​@@simonilett998 Yeah as if that's gonna get you anywhere in life

[@chas4life]

I am always amazed when I learn of nearly incomprehensible Cosmic events like the start of our universe. It's enough to make me wonder why "intelligent" life that was gifted a planet with all the resources needed for survival could be so petty as to fight amongst ourselves the way we do. What a gift we humans were given so long ago.

[@1gbayfisher]

I agree and yet, so many people just throw their lives away for no reason.... I don't think most people realize how lucky we are

[@1gbayfisher]

It's mind-boggling to say the least, how did the universe even begin? It still had to come from something, and before something was nothing, but before nothing, there's always something

[@jeffforsythe9514]

yes, we lost our moral compass...........falun dafa

[@parvezsohel6ahmed383]

Yes, agreed to the major commentator and those who supported the comment. Many of us don't know how lucky we are to belong to the earth, a tiny little planet with all resources gifted for living a beautiful life as a part of this enormous big cosmos

[@jeffforsythe9514]

@@parvezsohel6ahmed383 All living things go through 5 stages. Birth, growth, stasis, disease and decay and death................................falun dafa

[@Imnotplayinganymore]

There are things the human mind is incapable of comprehending. Infinity is one of those things.

[@LyanderMenander]

God is outside of the universe

[@PaniczJaszczur]

Brian Cox is probably the best in the world in explaining physics to the general audience. I love this guy. If I had children I would force them to watch him at least once a week ;)

[@ingGS]

He’s truly one of the best. I recommend watching Big Think, he has appeared in that channel along with other remarkable science communicators.

[@jeffforsythe9514]

Yes, force them and beat them if they disobey

[@alastairharris1866]

Dick Feynman was the best at this. This isn't to denigrate mr Dare, and we should applaud his efforts to popularise such an important subject.

[@jeffforsythe9514]

I will let you in on something, gravity is not what keeps us here, it is karma................falun dafa

[@alastairharris1866]

@@jeffforsythe9514 surely it is politeness!

[@shankroidbeast4644]

I'm an open thinker, out of the box kind person, and no matter how hard I try to wrap my mind around the sheer numbers of cosmos , space and time, it's impossible. Trillions and trillions of stars, billions of galaxies, billions of light years light years, dark matter, anti-gravity, black holes, etc. It's mind all numbing, but I love it!!

[@johnpurdie3281]

It's all a dream, we and everything around us is just a dream. We are not the dreamers though, we and everything that we think is real are part of the dream, we are the dream. Anything and any possibility can happen in a dream. The big question is who or what is doing the dreaming

[@davidbrayshaw3529]

Mate, I reckon that I've got close to being institutionalised, thinking about this stuff. Well, honestly, it could have been spending 26 years with the same woman, but either way, I am amazed at how I ended up at this point.

[@Dion_Mustard]

INFINITY and INFINITE possibilites.

[@leechap3]

@@johnpurdie3281

[@mizzy6715]

It is god my friend.

[@bst857]

It's really weird sometimes to be sat at my computer, and be immersed in whatever I'm doing, and suddenly remember space is out there. I mean most things in day to day life you could say are fairly mundane, but space is almost cartoonishly wacky in its immensity and mystery, and its right there in the sky. We should all be going around with our eyes out on stalks over how ridiculous it is, but we just kind of get used to it and it only seems amazing every now and then when we actually think about it. Another funny thing is that most animals don't even know about space, like for example dogs, they don't think much beyond the general area that they're in, and they will never look up at the stars and question what's going on up there. It makes me wonder if we do the same, and we just don't realise it - maybe we just cannot get over the human condition enough to truly understand it, maybe there is something, that to some aliens, is obvious, and we just can't see it. I guess it's possible that AI could break through this, and figure things out that we hadn't considered.

[@janellehoney-badger6525]

The sad thing is there’s a lot of people who believe they’re here to destroy others, in the insane belief of their superior religion or culture, which tells me they lack the freedom to think, learn, wonder & question with the available knowledge in science & technology. But would they still have those beliefs if astronomy news was an equal part of every culture, like it once was for most? Would todays “woke” activist culture be as focused on being offended by, just about any petty topic, if they looked through a telescope or understood our position in the galaxy & universe? Unfortunately, the more western countries rush to diversify, our empathy is more easily exploited, resulting in less freedom of expression, a fear to question anything, slandering fact as evil, to lower our intelligence for easy compliance. In Australia, our government has failed to explain the fact that Australia Day has nothing, whatsoever, to do with the first arrival, which was April 1770, to explore & mark the transition of Venus in Southern Hemisphere. Jan 26th was chosen as a celebration of the Aussie flag for new & indigenous Aussies, to unite as a new settled country. There was good & bad, as in most beginnings. Life should have a balance to evolve. But there’s no way Australia was going to remain unsettled. Exploration was/is a natural human fact, like unconscious bias is part of every living thing in order to survive & not some problem to be treated. I’m lost & rambling, so on with this epic fails video?😳

[@ceirwan]

I totally agree. I can go a year without ever really looking up at the sky at night, and then all of a sudden I do, and see all the stars and constellations, its breathtaking. Living in a city probably doesn't help.

[@lennybuttz2162]

I can't worry about space when I'm wondering if I'll even have a place to live next month.

[@dollluv]

Earth is friggin amazing. We take it for granted. Life is a gift. Hopefully when we pass from this earthly life onto something else, we will get to understand it all.

[@julius43461]

​@@justinbennitt835 I used to think that, but frankly I wouldn't be shocked if there really is something after death. Not claiming that there is of course. I just consider this existence I am experiencing right now to be so surprising and whacky, that just existing again doesn't seem to be that unlikely to me in comparison. If something showed up once, then surely the chance for reappearance is greater than the first time. Also, I fear existence more than death nowadays, so I am kind of fearful that we can never truly die. Not to mention that AI could figure out a way to revive us, so I am dreading that as well.

[@Nordic_Lite]

So nice to going back cooking dinner after the video. Pasta, chicken, vegetables - I can see them, hold them and count them. What a relief! ))

[@GUITARTIME2024]

Yes but those things are mostly empty space, as are we. 😮

[@Ren-g6q]

.....and you pasta, chicken and vegetables are all derived from that one enormous flash that brought matter into existence. Enjoy! :)

[@kielatkinson2137]

Short easy answer… No one Knows. Done

[@jjhassy]

thx

[@kitharrison8799]

After 40 years so far in this iteration, I will happily take 'We just don't know' all day.

[@JoelDavies-cl6nr]

I like the answer, solves the problem pretty quickly. It reminds me of Schroedinger' cat. 🤣

[@stephenford8748]

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[@lastguy8613]

Tastes like hole

[@lizfuller400]

How can there no end to the universe? It must go on forever up, across and down. But how? Mind,-boggling. Love Professor Brian Cox for making us so interested. In our universe.

[@MrElvis1971]

I think most people (including scientists) dismiss just how mind-boggling an infinite universe is. Especially considering the infinite can never be observed other than within mathematical expressions.

[@TheUkdan02]

There is no up, down or across. There is also no such thing as time. These are all human constructs to enable us to perceive the universe in a way we can understand. If there were no observers in the universe then time and space would not exist as we know it

[@corygriffiths4394]

@@TheUkdan02 that’s exactly what I’ve said about how time only exists to us because it’s just a tool to keep track of what we as humans are doing but time isn’t a real thing.

[@Dalabombana]

@@TheUkdan02 yes. I like the theory of biocentricism, whilst we cannot prove it or indeed any theory, it makes more intuitive sense than the something out of nothing Big Bang.

[@stuartfear2205]

Something that begins to exist cannot be "infinite". By the second law of thermodynamics the universe will lead to heat death and thus cannot be infinite.

[@deborahmenno7652]

For 40 years I've been fascinated by the Universe and the question "how can something have no end?". It hurts your brain when you first start wandering and wondering. Many years ago I bought a book called Strange Stories and Amazing Facts and Chapter 1 is titled The Enigma of Space. It says that the universe having an end or going on forever is equally hard for the human mind to grasp. I was determined to grasp it. I watched your video and, highest regard/no offense but you were supposed to give your theory of what was there before the BB and you didn't. I have a theory of my own and I will also dance around THAT WORD. Something cannot come from nothing or have no end unless there was no beginning for it to have an end. There is only one answer. So unscientific and unsolvable. Thank You Sir.

[@davidtsintsadze]

New trend: Clickbait from scientists repeating same "we don't know" every time.

[@deborahmenno7652]

@@davidtsintsadze No one has proof and never will. There is only logic. Individuals are entitled to their own theories whether it's based on basic reasoning like that of a child (smart little things, aren't they?) or a lifetime's worth of professional research. It's ironic because "that word" that seems impermissible is running out of competitory theory. I live in the US and our country's currency and Motto is In God We Trust. Blind faith brainwashing is an atrocity and studying about our Universe has taught me what religion could not. 🌟🪐🌌✌️🌠🛸😎

[@Puppy_Puppington]

Well. Infinity.. I think I’ve felt it. Eternal. Sadly it’s only a feeling.. but maybe that’s closer to it than we realIo

[@yachayeeeb9423]

The universe is truly ending

[@MohdahadAlikhan]

Then surely, this is the work of god (Allah)

[@JayboTheHood]

People say "it began as smaller than an atom" but there must have been something in which that atom existed. This is what I find troubling. Also when did the universe begin ? When does it end and what's after the end?

[@cocoaandfriends8436]

They’re few scenarios. 1. Big bounce. The tides recede back to a singularity. 2.Proton decay. Everything dissolved. 3.Entropy. The universe keeps expanding and black holes evaporate. The only thing left is photons stuck in a void and nothing changes. Time becomes meaningless because the universe can’t degrade anymore. 4. Big Rip. The universe expanded a little too hard and there’s a tear. The tear is expanding at the speed of light. Eventually destroying the whole universe.

[@superhawk20002]

I am so intrigued by science videos from Brian, Neil, and others that make me wonder even more about this giant floating bubble we get to ride on every day and everything surrounding it... but its like nighttime soft music to my ears and can somehow put me right to sleep. I wake up and rewatch immediately, just to have it happen again. Sometimes it takes me like 5 or 6 times to manage to get thru a whole video. I love and hate it all at the same time.

[@alotafhindi7485]

Lol I’m doing that right now.

[@rockroll7649]

Brain Greene is a great watch

[@jamesvincent414]

Sounds like narcolepsy 😂

[@johnroehsler6440]

Those guys are scientist they’re just talking heads real scientist don’t play on TikTok all day

[@timwatts9371]

@@johnroehsler6440 They’re both real scientists who’ve elected to become science educators. As we live in a age in which the denial of science is rife, their role is actually vital to the continuation of science

[@vickytabcharany6033]

His voice is absolutely perfect for the stories he tells about the universe

[@stephenford8748]

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[@towerofresonance4877]

Brian's energy is great, too!

[@hanzlaziad4024]

What's hos name?

[@Weareallbugs]

His name is Brian Cox​@@hanzlaziad4024

[@colinmacvicar2507]

It’s amazing to think, that the overall structure of the universe that we witnessed today, began in the earliest times of the universe and has yielded beings like ourselves, who can now discover it and ponder about its existence

[@ChiefShaddy]

And it's all a meaningless, pointless theatre, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing... Or so they say.

[@jeffforsythe9514]

We are all spiritual beings, souls, with flesh bodies. We have been given a last chance here on earth to show God who we are before He makes His final judgement. Many have chosen an evil path........................Falun Dafa

[@rachelfox8108]

​​@@jeffforsythe9514 Please stop evangelising for Falun Dafa, also known as Falun Gong. We know what Li Hongzhi says about medicine, women's rights and LGBTQ rights, and we know it tells of a very real man who can "walk through walls and see into the future". Please feel free to enjoy your cult, but pushing other people into it without all the information? That's dangerous and despicable of you.

[@jeffforsythe9514]

No need to ponder any longer, Falun Dafa can answer all your questions.

[@rachelfox8108]

@@jeffforsythe9514 Falun Dafa is a toxic cult that spreads misinformation and meddles in democratic elections of foreign countries. The fact that you refuse to answer to this is a bigger indictment of your cult than any answer you could possibly offer -- not to mention indicative of the fact that you know what it does is wrong.

[@jonnyholmberg]

Thank you very much. You made it happen once again. My head exploded.

[@johnniehh]

This is the stuff that kept me up at night as a young boy. If there was a beginning of the universe then what was before, etc. Good job Brian!

[@gafrancisco]

There were no before .... time in our dimension begin there at that point ... or do you consider that time is forever and has been since ever? ... if an higher dimension, time could be "circular", "someone" in a higher dimension could see the "all" time like we see the "all" in 2 dimensions

[@Chio_OB]

@@gafrancisco forever or for ever, very subjective. To live forever? is that imortality or living from the start of "time" to the end of "time"? And is it subjective? Enquiring minds want to know! And is time not a Human construct to let us move in some way through the universe/existence/reality? It could by cyclic, but I think we have 3D licked, but the fourth? Time? If there was no before when did it start, and if it started what was before?

[@oldmech619]

The universe started an infinite long time ago. With an infinite universe we live in, there was and infinite amount of mass At the beginning, *infinite mass = infinite gravity = infinite time. Simple. This statement only answers the question of when all this universe started. Infinity is not just a big number. This does start to explain what caused the inflation 13.8 B yrs ago

[@nelson_rebel3907]

@@gafrancisco If matter came from something then that is what he is refering to. It existed before regular matter did, and no amount of mental gymnastics can get you to remove it. Unfortunately for you

[@bomma2694]

Hehe, with me the question was always: what's after the universe because everything has to have an "end" and then... What's after that, ect, ect. This plagued me my whole childhood and obviously still does 😂👍

[@jeffford181]

How can Brian sleep at night with all this going on in his mind?

[@vtrmcs]

He's content in the knowledge that his mind is expanding alongside the universe.

[@HUYI1]

I sure bloody wouldn't, that's for sure, sometimes I can't even turn my brain off at all, I even have to take sleeping pills to get anywhere

[@TaSwavo]

He doesn't think this - he's thinking of the next paycheck. ALL scientists think of that and he opted to teach less (despite his Prof title) travel and wallow in fame (obviously what he seeked in younger life as a musician). He's smarmy arrogant, De Grass Tyson is aggressive arrogant. Same type. CREDIT - not all they say is crap. But they often hide their (sciences) assumptions as fact.

[@HUYI1]

@@TaSwavo you got to have a healthy skeptical approach when it comes to theories but it's nice to take a staple back and think for yourself about the universe

[@martyheresniak5203]

Really good sex. Puts me to sleep every time.

[@samuelbonacorsi2048]

I’m still having a problem wrapping my mind around the idea the entire universe existed in an infinitely small point that exploded.

[@wethepeople420]

Because it didn’t. This is much less likely than God creating it.

[@HughJassol_]

@@wethepeople420 if something can't' come from nothing, then how did god get here?

[@popcornfilms1]

@@wethepeople420quantify that, oh wait you can’t. Stfu.

[@lindamac3846]

In the beginning there was nothing, then it exploded.

[@juliodelgadillo8510]

@@lindamac3846we know this....but what made it explode 🤔🤔

[@MichaelCisneros-x7z]

Incredible. The universe will continue to expand forever. Mr Universe takes a huge win. Thanks for this great video

[@Ren-g6q]

There's this from the Scientific America website: "Scientists don’t currently know whether that (universal) expansion will continue indefinitely or, if so, whether it will keep accelerating ad infinitum". And there's this from the ancient Vedic texts of India on the origins of all matter: "Curving back within myself I create again and again". -The Bhagavad Gita

[@hillcresthiker]

Maybe im being naive but I think that the human species intellectual capacity likes to deal with beginnings and endings. As far as im concerned, my brain really cannot comprehend it but the universe and existence itself may have simply always existed. There may not have been any beginning nor will there ever be an end. Infinity is itself a scary concept. I believe Brian Cox and Roger Penrose lean towards this concept

[@ParvizAlizadeh]

If you take out the time dimension then beginning and ending way of thinking disappears. But I don’t think human brain can handle that.

[@glenjamindle]

@@ParvizAlizadeh Want to really fry your noodle.....ask yourself where all the matter that makes up everything came from. Did it just appear? How did it get here?

[@arfshesaid4325]

@@glenjamindlehow about WHY did it get here?. this whole thing either has a real meaning or it just is.......

[@universalspirit6528]

I think if I were to meet him I would get along with Mr Brian Cox. He seems a very humble and likeable guy. 🙏🏼

[@lynncarter4964]

Unfortunately he is also a fearful gullible twit. Cvid showed his true Color’s.

[@36karpatoruski]

My cafeteria hot school lunch in 1966 was 35 cents, including a meat, starch, vegetable, and 8 oz. carton of milk. I think we have had inflation since then.

[@angusmafi1597]

I love how he explains it with what we think happened which basically means we guess.

[@theguywithabow]

His guesses are probably better than yours and mine lol

[@reddillon8425]

There is no such thing as a guess in science. Well, there is, in a way, but it's always based on piles upon piles of EVIDENCE. There's ALWAYS a reason we "guess" the things we "guess" and the BEAUTIFUL thing about science is that you are absolutely free to go and google all the reasons we think the way we do, isn't that a wonderful thing? You can find, completely for yourself, all of the evidence for these beliefs.

[@StuartRichardson-vl4ht]

​@reddillon8425 stop talking rubbish

[@SeptemberChild1835]

@@StuartRichardson-vl4ht He is not talking rubbish. Learn the Scientific Method.

[@Hesoshou]

@@theguywithabowno there not lol find god these cosmos to perfect for it to be just a coincidence lol yea right wtf scientists know so little

[@Peter-or8oc]

I love the way he explains things I'm a lay man but every time I listen to Dr Cox I understand what he's explaining .

[@mr.simonphoenix7181]

I also like that he actually presents theory as theory & not fact.

[@abdelmadjidsaadi4071]

Professor is nice to talk about all these theories . At the end of the day you’ll never reach a definite answer . It is mind boggling to try understand the enormity of the universe . I’m an open minded person and the question keep coming up who’s is mighty this mighty force managing the whole thing .

[@damijanxxx7221]

An old man with long white beard

[@oldpossum57]

No force at all. There is no management. Listen more closely: Cox says one of the possibilities is that there is an infinite number of universes. Hence every random possibility is realized.

[@samael6903]

@@damijanxxx7221 that’s weird. Almost done reading the Bible, not once did I hear anything about a man with a beard in the sky 😂

[@byteme9718]

"I’m an open minded person and the question keep coming up who" WHO? You're not open minded at all, you've already made up your mind to go with the lies.

[@doesnotFempute]

​@@byteme9718 your disdain for religion is causing you to miss the point. All this couldn't have come from nothing. It's impossible. The most likely explanation is that someone or something is responsible, beyond our human comprehension. Life gets way easier when we stop pretending to have control over things which are beyond our grasp. You cannot call one theory "lies" while not acknowledging that there is no definitive way to even prove the theories in which you, yourself, believe. We're all just floating and trying to make it make sense. Nobody knows everything.

[@Dyna_Sage]

Brian Cox stresses that, ultimately, we do not know; I respect him for that.

[@FrogRunner4x4]

Told my kid that in 200 years this theory could change substantially and to learn it, but be open to the fact it can change. Our ability to understand space is so young vs. our existence that what we know now can change in the future

[@_scabs6669]

This is such a based comment. We look back on people a thousand years ago and think, "What dumbasses." If there are still people around in another thousand years, they'll look back at us and think, "What dumbasses," too. The question is whether we will be like the shark or the T-Rex.

[@_scabs6669]

There are species on the planet that have been around for millions of years, like sharks and crocodile, virtually unchanged for eons. The crazy thing is that during the time of the dinosaurs, all the mammals that were running around pretty much were scampering creatures the size of rodents. Now all that's left of the dinos is birds. Evolution turned the T Rex into the tiny scampering chickens and crows. That's karma for you. Humanity needs to make sure we go the way of the shark, not the way of the T Rex

[@derekking7319]

@@_scabs6669 most people are sharks anyway!

[@_scabs6669]

@@derekking7319 wrong

[@PandaZZZ4]

Accelerating expansion never really seemed confusing to me. If you have regions of space expanding, creating new regions of space that in turn are expanding, rinse and repeat, you would very quickly (in the scope of the age of the universe) end up with an exponentially compounding expansion rate that, while it’s influence on tangible matter might be minimal, the sheer volume of new space and that space expanding would conceivably push things away faster than the speed of light even though the objects themselves are still only moving through the space ahead of them, not the newly created space compounding behind them. They’re not moving faster than the speed of light, new space is being created in between us and them in all places at all times causing the illusion of faster than light travel

[@jeffforsythe9514]

We are all spiritual beings, souls, with flesh bodies. We have been given a last chance here on earth to show God who we are before He makes His final judgement. Many have chosen an evil path........................Falun Dafa

[@jeffforsythe9514]

@@KeepItReel777 There is such a thing as anti-matter but humans will never be allowed to know it. Why don't you quit asking such profound questions when the big question is, why are you here, do you know why? Falun Dafa can answer that.

[@PandaZZZ4]

@@jeffforsythe9514 buddy you sound like a cultist what? Actually don’t answer that i’d rather let you keep rambling to yourself in the corner

[@PandaZZZ4]

@@KeepItReel777 no clue. But an update to my philosophical bs is this; the potential reason galaxies and other balanced orbiting systems don’t seem to expand while empty space does is because gravity wins over the relatively weak expansive force of dark energy/matter

[@rachelfox8108]

​@@jeffforsythe9514 Isn't Falun Dafa connected to the Epoch Media Group, which promoted anti-vaccine misinformation, encouraged conspiracy theories around QAnon (linked to the Jan 6th Insurrection on Capitol Hill in Washinton D.C., and produced pro-Donald Trump advertisements? I do think it's terrible that its followers have been oppressed and persecuted in China, but I don't think that gives it the right to spread dangerous misinformation and meddle in the affairs of other nations.

[@michelvondenhoff9673]

As a kid I read about shadow reality/dimensions in a Dutch magazine called Kijk (Look). If remember correctly it was when collided nothing would exist (matter + anti matter). This was how the big bang was explained in the 1980's.

[@Sanskarpachhai07]

This is really exceptional explanation by Brian Cox. And also the theory about the multiverse is really fascinating. Really loved it.😇💯

[@Garrettdx1988]

I like the fact that we know next to nothing. As a species we have so much to learn and that makes me excited for future generations

[@wreckim]

But we're already way more than 1/2 way through the journey. We don't have much time left. Or maybe we have infinity. I like your optimism.

[@flowerfloc]

future generations? lmao we'll be the last

[@gdevelek]

All those scientists who have dedicated their lives to finding "next to nothing" would be delighted to read your comment....

[@QuinnPrezz]

But I want to know now dammit!

[@jeffforsythe9514]

Speak for yourself. There are many enlightened people on earth.............falun dafa

[@lenoreleitch5297]

I watch these videos hoping that eventually one of them will actually give me “the answer”. The “wonder of space” is that we wonder what the answers are and will likely never know. We may not even be asking the right questions. Fascinating.

[@kingslayer8121]

do we even move or does everything else around us move? I’m starting to believe that I never moved in my life. Even as I walk I’m rly not moving in reality. My body seems to be making some movements and my surroundings move but I never truly move

[@carraw3501]

If could ask questions it would be.. If the universe is always expanding, where are we? When we detect the background radiation reaching us, are we looking forward in the direction of expansion, or behind, towards the origin? Or everywhere in 24 hours as the Earth turns. Which would also relate to the Earths position as it orbits the Sun. Basically, are we able to look forwards and/or backwards.

[@kingslayer8121]

@@carraw3501 great question

[@LouDeeCruz]

Don’t worry about Brian and the Big Bang. They didn’t tell you that the very same Hubble who they say was a big supporter of the Big Bang...wasn’t! Because the record shows that in 1929 Hubble knew “expansion” was not real. Here’s the real story: “Hubble concluded that his observed log N(m) distribution showed a large departure from Euclidean geometry, provided that the effect of redshifts on the apparent magnitudes was calculated as if the redshifts were due to a real expansion. A different correction is required if no motion exists, the redshifts then being due to an unknown cause. Hubble believed that his count data gave a more reasonable result concerning spatial curvature if the redshift correction was made assuming no recession. To the very end of his writings he maintained this position, favouring (or at the very least keeping open) the model where no true expansion exists, and therefore that the redshift "represents a hitherto unrecognized principle of nature". This viewpoint is emphasized (a) in The Realm of the Nebulae, (b) in his reply (Hubble 1937a) to the criticisms of the 1936 papers by Eddington and by McVittie, and (c) in his 1937 Rhodes Lectures published as The Observational Approach to Cosmology (Hubble 1937b). It also persists in his last published scientific paper which is an account of his Darwin Lecture (Hubble 1953).”

[@jengleheimerschmitt7941]

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[@johnatkinson3174]

This is infinitely frightening and awe inspiring all at once.

[@stephenford8748]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/h4ucdGWDeJxkfacsi=kpZ0U2nIF46FbqMg

[@matthewryan2060]

I’m not religious but I do love the first lines in Genesis. Where did it all come from? I find it fascinating that no one actually knows.

[@rumtumbugger]

It appeared from nowhere. It can't have been anything else - irrespective of whether you want to add a deity into the mix or not doesn't really matter. Everything that existed just appeared. How is a completely different question...

[@rdomnaispartan3734]

These types of videos make me start sobbing and I can’t quite explain why

[@86GT11]

Don't cry, dry your eye. I heard it in a song.

[@Toys4Life]

I believe this is one of those things that will NEVER be known - and I don't say Never very often.... This kind of stuff is mind-blowing!!!

[@stevecaldwell8740]

This fits with Roger Penrose’s idea of a cyclical universe, where the universe doesn’t know how big it is once all the matter is gone and time essentially ceases to exist. The idea that it would be expanding exponentially at that point has a nice symmetry with the concepts around the big bang.

[@jeffforsythe9514]

This is the End of Times. All the universes are being rectified to their original semi-divine state.

[@ericlewis2753]

Just to put this theory into its most simplistic terms, a Big Bang occurs, the universe stretches, a Big Bang occurs and so on?

[@jeffforsythe9514]

@@ericlewis2753 We are not here for Big Bangs or small bangs or medium bangs. We are here to seek the Divine and to return home to Heaven. Falun Dafa shows the Way. There are no answers in space, all the answers are inside of us.

[@jeffforsythe9514]

In one particle of sand there are countless universes, can you handle that?.........falun dafa

[@darwinsfish]

@@jeffforsythe9514yawn

[@stuartbroome1258]

We are a minute speck in the Cosmos. We only imagine that we are the only living things in the known universe because we are basically have very simple brains. We cannot understand what a vast place our planet is in. Brian Cox tries to educate us, top man.

[@bw630veisto8]

Brian really knows how to explain these things and with such a smooth voice

[@perks6292]

And always with a smile too!

[@delbomb3131]

I don't know how it would be possible, but I'd love to take his course.

[@threeninetwentyseven]

E

[@Isclachau]

It’s smooth because he likes those magic mushrooms. It’s just nonsense really but most of the public are fascinated by what they or him don’t and will never know.

[@eduardogardin879]

Actually...he explained nothing. Theorizing is not EXPLAINING.

[@10_vittesse]

I have this thought that the universe is always expanding and shrinking and restarting every time. From a singularity to a very big expansion and again shrinking to a singularity that expands again. Edit: since the space and time are relative, if space started contracting (opposite of expansion) time will start going the opposite sens getting us back to origine of the universe again

[@rodnyg7952]

I like when scientists use words like "theoretically", "hypethetically" and "essentially" to add excitement and intrigue to their story telling

[@kalminmequel]

Makes it smell like BS more than anything..

[@rodnyg7952]

@@kalminmequel fine, but humans have always had a way of making things smell like BS whenever they talk profoundly about their views and beliefs regarding anything

[@jeffforsythe9514]

Being truthful is an art.

[@rodnyg7952]

@@jeffforsythe9514 truth is an existential question of perception, not science. The goal of science isn't to find truth. Scientific knowledge is continually evolving. It's endlessly open to question and revision as new ideas and discoveries emerge with evidence. Every established theory today will eventually either adapt or fail to new ones as everything moves forward

[@jeffforsythe9514]

@@rodnyg7952 Truth is a wonderful thing , the religion Taoism is based upon truthfulness. Moves forward, just the opposite is happening. Mankind has cast out the Divine and replaced it with gluttony, that is the truth. And worshipping the rich and famous. We are Divine souls addicted to playing in the mud, sad. So lost....................................Falun Dafa

[@contagiousintelligence5007]

I could listen to Prof Brian Cox for hours!

[@yasminesacristan5855]

You blow my mind. Absolutely gorgeous video. I really appreciate how you explain things. You have a gift. Then there’s just the way you speak and articulate. It’s so pleasant. Thank you for being you.

[@manoo422]

Did he explain anything? Or just cloud the issue with speculative maybes...?

[@28russ]

@@manoo422That's because maybe's are the only answers to these questions unfortunately. If ya can do better than feel free to make a YT vid and explain it to everyone mate🤷‍♂😉

[@santhoshgopinath816]

@@28russ Yes I like what you say. Modern science has evolved much in humbleness after the certitudes of cartesian / newtonian science. Today scientists are frank enough to admit, what they say are claims, maybes. .

[@josephfontinha3845]

God that’s all I need to Say..

[@Pedro-s4k3y]

Thank you for acknowledging nobody knows what is the true beginning.

[@jackwhitbread4583]

I see Professor Cox, I click. Such an intelligent and well spoken human

[@mirekslechta7161]

Mr. Brian Fox could never know for sure , there was any Big bang at all. However, it does not matter to him, when he even wants to tell to everyone what was befor the Big bang.... I have a feeling, it is too much to swallow , or he is doing this to promote his income instead of serious science.

[@cordoroy9515]

Dont buy one of his albums, the music was awful.

[@lynncarter4964]

Oddly he was a total idiot about the cvid and vaxine

[@stephenking4170]

A very likeable man, well educated, and a talented educator, but a fool. "The fool says in his heart there is no God" (Proverbs). If he adopted the same philosophy as the founders of modern science did, he would seriously look at the God hypothesis instead of closing himself from God in the vain imagination that this is good science.

[@nektekket852]

@Stephen King mate, you're just scared of the lights going out... There are no "gods".

[@alastairharris1866]

To my mind the most interesting question. Are we in a universe that will generate life capable of fully understanding all of its secrets? All we can really conclude just now is that we are trying. But what we do know is that solar systems that are capable of supporting life have a finite life, so perhaps our single most important challenge is to work out how to find and move around such systems.

[@hillcresthiker]

Maybe life is only important to those living and perhaps thats not the main purpose of the universe

[@jeffforsythe9514]

Goethe said that it is very rare to find an imagination large enough to accept reality...........................Falun Dafa

[@jeffforsythe9514]

Falun Dafa explains all of life's mysteries.

[@rachelfox8108]

​@@jeffforsythe9514 No, it doesn't. It rejects science, and you know it.

[@jeffforsythe9514]

Everything that is alive has a birth, a growth, a decline and a death. The universe is going through its death, it is not global warming, it is the Apocalypse.......................Falun Dafa

[@DronemanJoeRc]

Its so amazing that all of this in the universe started with something that was smaller than a grain of salt and then it went BOOM and then it expanded into what is growing today. Amazing there are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on the earth. Its so amazing

[@BruceMusto]

Always enjoy Brian's explanations.

[@zachsmith5515]

he explained nothing, just speculated

[@lostintranslation1957]

@@zachsmith5515 That's what I heard. "...We think...".

[@CardinalBiggles01]

@@zachsmith5515 Would that be the "theory" part of "theoretical physics"?

[@PlanetXMysteries-pj9nm]

Thanks for another great video, look forward to many more!

[@fanbutton]

If you love watching augmented reality and a bunch computer generated images, you should really watch stuff like "Interstellar" and the movie "Gravity".

[@365dongle3]

I love the way Brian talks. The way he pronounces the silent G`s - like `going` with a loud `G` at the end. The best popular scientist by a longue chalk!

[@kxmo5086]

the music at 00:51 sent me to heaven.

[@yp77738yp77739]

At least cosmologists now acknowledge that they haven’t got any of the answers other than measuring what we can measure today. It is absolutely the right thing to do to keep looking at both the large and the small, always fascinating and one day it will fall into place, it must be deterministic and therefore will most likely arise from new discoveries in particle physics.

[@Malpheron]

"it must be deterministic " what are you talking about?

[@santhoshgopinath816]

. Another amazing video from an amazing scientist. I read someone say that Brian Cox could be the next Carl Sagan. It is clearly implied here that space and time are emergent properties. Causality does not seem to have been mentioned specifically, but if time and space are emergent, then by inference causality too is an emergent property. Also said, we might never ever know what happened “before” these emerged. But what does “before” actually mean if time started with big bang… I have heard is said - “Truth is that from which all words and languages bounce back in silence!” Thus 3 Questions that science cannot ask, leave alone answer - - What was ‘before’ time - What is ‘outside’ space - Why causality Because science can start after these three are available. (Donald Hoffman - “give us a few miracles and we scientists can prove anything”). So then, what is THAT from which these emerged? What is THAT “Ontological Primitive” ? Then again, 20th century has shown us that what we perceive as the universe is : - - Uncertain - Relative - Incomplete Thus, we have 2 Question that needs to be asked. - What is that from which Time, Space and Causality emerged? - Is there anything which is certain, absolute, complete ? People from a few thousand years ago have speculated much on these questions, and they proposed some amazing questions and claims. Like, - For something to be Real, doesn’t it need to be Certain, Absolute and Complete. - Then can an entity that is Uncertain, Relative, Incomplete be said to be Real. Thus don’t we have to say the Universe is not Real in any Absolute sense. - Then what is Real ? - Time, Space and Causality are emergent entities. Then logically there has to be that something, an ontological primitive from which these emerged. - What is That ? - That is the Real, from which time, space and causality emerged. That is the Ontological Primitive. They call it by a name which means like “Vastness”. - Universe is the consequence of the emergence of Time, Space and Causality. - If the Universe is “not Real”, then how do I experience it? Doesn’t it ‘Appear to me’ ? - Yes, it is an Appearance in the Real, which is here for some time and will dissolve back into the Real. - It is not that “the Appearance is here, and Real is something long ago or in a faraway galaxy”. Appearance is experienced in the same locus as the Real. - Real cannot be experienced as Real, because our sum total of experience is via instruments of experiences like the senses and mind. These instruments are tuned only for use in survival process. Thus as far as experiencing the Real is concerned, the instruments are limited hence defective. - Thus, only Appearance can be experienced via senses and mind. - Appearance is just the experience of the Real when experienced via the defective instruments of senses and mind. - Experience of Appearance itself is the result of the Error from the defects of the experiencing instruments. - If Real can ‘Appear once’, it can Appear infinite number of times and infinite number of places. - But once you say infinite, then ‘number of time’, ‘number of places’ becomes meaningless as you cannot count or locate infinity. Then there is only ‘Infinitude’. - Infinitude implies just One, which cannot be created / grow / change / evolve / deteriorate / destroyed. - Thus, That would be One Without a Second. - How to experience That ? It cannot be experienced by senses or inference. It can be only ‘Realised’ as a fact once the Error is understood as a consequence of defective instruments. If modern scientists agree to look beyond the conventional methods of logical positivism, at other available ideas and claims, it could help a lot for a better understanding of things. Many have done it, but I guess as persons, not as a concerted fomalised effort of the scientific community. IMHO. .

[@lynncarter4964]

Carl Sagan wouldn’t be a gullible idiot like Cox during the plandemic. I wonder if he is apologizing to the “conspiracy theorists” yet. He will probably not mention it.

[@andrewmurray5542]

Look, I had enough trouble getting my head around the video ( which I'm not sure I did!). Don't befuddle me even more 😂

[@westsideisdabest7825]

The universe is too vast for us to comprehend. Try as we might we are so insignificant and there is no way of every establishing where the universe began. There’s a chance it has always existed, but human nature always has to assert a start and an end point, it’s beyond our understanding we can only theorise.

[@11junkyard]

I don't know why people can't accomodate this line of thinking. Everyone buries their heads under the sand and are not open to possibilities of a "before" to the big bang just because they've rote learned some assumptions which can be subject change.

[@shayneedwards8018]

As someone who believes in a Creator, I love this kind of stuff (just how vast everything is). Whether one believes in a Creator or not, it's still a mind-boggling thing to ask when just space came into existence. In other words, science can't explain how space alone existed into eternity back.

[@shayneedwards8018]

@TheEarthStoodStill Huh?

[@KayL_Opmad]

@itsGretaBitches Indeed, the Flying Spaghetti Monster creator is the only logical conclusion to reach from available information!

[@stixoimatizontas]

@@shayneedwards8018 Everything you perceive as the 3D world is the "reflection" of an event of the universe on a distorting "mirror" that your brain and physiology creates. That mirror in mathematics is called Minkowski space and those reflections are called isomorphs. According to relativity, the universe is at least four-dimensional and it cannot be divided in smaller pieces. If you falsely divide it, you get a result that has nothing in common with the original universe. That's why in the observable universe everything seems to be 3D, but as you observe closer and closer to the cosmic horizon the universe becomes 4D and the "traditional" laws of physics stop working. The same thing happens as you try to observe deeper and deeper into what we call matter. In that sense, one could argue that we live in the matrix. We are the distorted reflection of the universe.

[@shayneedwards8018]

@@stixoimatizontas Now that is deep.

[@thomasswanson4965]

Yup that’s pretty intense, great comment.

[@TheScottoline19]

One day I’m hoping one of these KZbin videos will actually answer the question

[@epochalypsemeow5732]

They will when science does…

[@CastleKnight7]

Before the “physical” universe was co-created through the mingling of immortal spiritual beings’ thoughts several quadrillion years ago, there were countless illusory home universes. Our home universes can be glimpsed in dreams. We are not these bodies, we are that which animates them.

[@majortwang2396]

@CastleKnight7 - there you go - we can all invent whatever bollocks we like the sound of, but we need science to provide evidence if we want to know what actually happened.

[@La_Space]

We will never get the answer. We are too insignificant to be capable of knowing. We will spend the rest of our lives asking these same questions sadly. Just my view.

[@majortwang2396]

@Caesar La Rosa - speak for yourself. Fortunately, scientists don't generally have ambitions of ignorance & insignificance .

[@YZ250W1]

I could listen to Brian talk about anything.

[@ynnjaeeOG]

The singularity theory would require graphs to explain it better but its also not a fact… from what Crash Course said, think about the distance of your thumb and all your fingers. Close your hand, then open. The distance of each finger will expand further away from your thumb or shorter, depending on the which finger you’re finding distance at. & we can now see the “wall of fire” (think of a hot, dense, soup) which is 13.8 Billion light years away (really 40 now because of expansion). That, is the Beginning of the universe. The wall of fire though is too uniform for the Big Bang to have came from a singularity, and had it came from one, we wouldn’t get the same results we have today of the universe. Awesome video !

[@davidbowman1018]

I realise that most of the images and animations accompanying the voiceovers are more cosmetic than informative, but from 4'05 there is a time-chart showing the Big Bang preceding Inflation, while at the same time Cox explains that "it is mainstream" theory that the Big Bang came after Inflation. The same thing happens near the start of the video. Can anyone explain this inconsistency?

[@jwil4905]

I'd have to listen again, but did he not say that the Big Bang came "immediately" after inflation?

[@Milesco]

@ David: Yes, I noticed this, too. What he says about the Big Bang happening _after_ inflation (or, if you like, inflation occurring _before_ the Big Bang) makes no sense and is contrary to everything I've ever heard about the Big Bang theory. It doesn't even make sense. He seems to be saying that inflation occured before the Big Bang and that inflation resulted in the universe being its present size as it is today. Huh??? As I said, that makes absolutely no sense. I simply reject those statements as being incorrect, or at least illogical and contrary to everything that everyone else has ever said on the subject. I gave the video a thumbs-down. 👎

[@wordreet]

In my opinion, when scientists suggest they've realised the extent of the universe, it will, in fact, be at least double what they thought it was, always.

[@brianlaudrupchannel]

Only double?

[@wordreet]

@@brianlaudrupchannel Continuously double!

[@br.m]

They are not smart just evil. God is actually real. Science is not qualified for this topic. This is like getting info about the rainforest from someone confined in the desert who spent their life studying sand. What do you gain from their boastful lies and what is in it for them to lie to you about things they have no clue.

[@HUYI1]

It's like people's minds are expanding at the same time as the universe

[@abcdef-qk6jf]

It's always a factor of three. #1 I know this - it's easy! #2 There's apparently more to it than I knew. #3 It took 3 times longer to get to this level of knowledge. The efforts necessary were 3 times harder than expected, no surprise it was 3 times more costly than expected as well...

[@Patiboke]

Sometimes they demonstrate gravity with a heavy ball, like a bowling ball, on a rubber membrane. Then a lighter ball, like a tennis ball, is placed on the membrane and when looking down from above the balls will behave as if they had gravitational attraction. We've all seen that, right? Now imagine there is a fluid under the membrane, something that cannot change volume. The bowling ball will push the membrane down locally, but further away it will push the membrane up. Maybe dark energy, the accelerating expansion, is caused by a similar mechanism.

[@satanofficial3902]

"Kids, just say no to getting high on gravity. It may seem like fun at first, but eventually gravity will just bring you down." ---Albert Einstein

[@davidhess6593]

Up and down aren't germaine. They're parameters of observation.

[@dennisruga8603]

The universe i think is the greatest mystery of all. It's thrilling to know the truth about the universe.

[@MB777-qr2xv]

He said," It may have...it could have...there might be...perhaps...we just aren't sure...this is very speculative stuff...there are also alternate theories..." In other words, they just don't know what happened billions of years ago, if it (whatever it is) happened billions of years ago.😅

[@robinhodgkinson]

I would so love to see just 100 years into the future and know answers to some of these cosmic questions. Right now the “universe created inside a black hole” hypothesis is fascinating!

[@robinhodgkinson]

@@RobinoftheHodSeriously though, I’m not sure I can take the first reply above too seriously but the universe created inside a black hole hypothesis is taken seriously by many leading cosmologists and is not some fringe bs. You should look into it if you’re interested in the subject. It sounds bizarre and may prove to be false but there is much evidence that supports the idea. What is a fact is that our current understanding of the universe’s origin and creation is flawed. The cosmological constant problem and other anomalies are a thorn in the side of accepted theory and some cosmologists believe hints at a basic misunderstanding of the Big Bang and how it came about. Something doesn’t add up! And it may be we don’t see the big picture yet.

[@zachsmith5515]

so where did the black hole come from?

[@robinhodgkinson]

@@zachsmith5515 Sure - chicken and egg situation. I’m not a cosmologist and don’t pretend to have answers. Just like the present Bing Bang theory that suggests something was created from nothing. We can’t even comprehend that even if it is true.

[@marcocast]

you mean in a 1 million years into the future. in 100 i doubt we will have that answer

[@Lucas-wj8kl]

@@robinhodgkinson Please don't use the "Chicken and Egg" that is really a stupid thought and one that is spread by many. Bacteria to Chicken and Chicken to Egg. The egg shells can only be formed from a gland inside the damn bird.

[@cornwallonline]

Fascinating. I remember reading a book about COBE (1989 to the 90's) some 25 years ago and the struggle to achieve the low temperature (near 0 kelvin) to measure the cosmic background radiation. It was an interesting read as it was quite technical in nature, worth checking out.

[@charlesbrightman4237]

CMBR: (Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation): Consider the following: Per QED (Quantum Electro Dynamics, whereby 'em' interacts with the electrons in atoms and molecules) and QCD (Quantum Chromo Dynamics, whereby 'em' interacts with the nucleus of atoms), matter has to exist for 'em' to be given off by that matter. What matter exists in outer space for that microwave 'em' to be seen by us? And 'if' it were from when matter first came into existence during the fairy tale of the 'singular big bang', that 'em' should be long gone by now and should not even be able to be seen by us.

[@superdinkydoo]

Common sense says if there was a big bang and everything was blown out from it then there must be a massive space left in the universe? Why hasn't that been found?🤔

[@rachelfox8108]

​@@superdinkydoo Who's common sense says this?

[@nyguy5370]

Infinity is really such a hard concept to comnprehend. We are so used to having borders, edges, definitions of position within space.

[@arravYT]

Before the Big bang, there was the philosopher's stone.

[@doubledee9675]

I like your comment in the introduction that the Big Bang and its follow-on milliseconds was standard cosmology "at the moment". All too often, those words are omitted. There could be some amazing discovery this evening that completely changes this. Very, very unlikely of course, but it may.

[@satanofficial3902]

"Moments are momentary because they're momentous with momentum." ---Albert Einstein

[@elongatedmusk3132]

@@satanofficial3902 I don't dig your name but I like the quote you quoted & never heard that before. Thanks for sharing (Einstein seemed like a smart ass too no pun intended I like the ring that sentence has) 😏 have a blessed day

[@daos3300]

@@elongatedmusk3132 it's not actually a quote... and what pun?

[@daos3300]

those words are 'omitted' because it's self evident.

[@doubledee9675]

@@daos3300 Your comment indicates just how necessary those extra words are.

[@roachtoasties]

I'm the wrong person to ask, so I have questions. First, is about time. I'm thinking when did time start and how did we get to this point? Even if we go back trillions of years, there's an infinite number of years before that. We can keep going back in time forever. The same with space. Space is infinite along with time, leaving an infinite number of possibilities. Are there other universes, trillions and trillions of light years beyond ours? Since space is infinite in all directions, logic has it that it contains an infinite amount. All this doesn't answer the question of where did matter come from? There was a big bang, but where did all that matter come from? Previous big bangs or was it just created during the initial inflation? I've been told since grade school that matter cannot be created or destroyed, but somewhere along the line it had to be created. If this wasn't the case, space would just be an infinite vacuum, with not even one atom.

[@1bcordell]

I try and engage people in conversation about this subject and it seems most people don't seem to want to be bothered by it. Why? I have tried to explain a light year and get no interest at all. Now, trying to explain 94 billion light years would really get me some blank stares. This is amazing stuff, and I can never understand why people don't want to know about it.

[@greatcaledonianpenicillin5378]

Because it's all fairytales

[@michelleyoung-callender8649]

its interesting

[@vickialford6071]

Most of those disinterested people aren't capable of handling such ethereal information. I won't claim to understand all of what Brian said, but I am in awe of it and could listen forever.

[@CassielAgrippa]

Great vid! I have questions... We are constrained by certain limitations in our universe, such as the speed of light, at app. 300K km/s. As Brian pointed out, the inflation period lasted a mere fraction of a second, expanding from the size of an atom to the present observable universe. I am pretty sure that would be many times the speed of light... Perhaps that was because the forces in this universe weren't fully installed yet at that point in time? And that leads to more questions, such as why do the forces of nature have the properties/constraints they have, and why/how could they be different in another universe?

[@manoo422]

Inflation ended when the universe was about the size of a grapefruit, it was just very badly explained in the video...

[@davidhess6593]

Superluminal expansion of space/time is allowed.

[@manotanota6027]

Sorry but please please please 🙏, believe me, the Earth is flat and there is no space. It is the truth and there is no such thing as the Big Bang. Please, Naza. It is time to tell the truth. There is no need now to hide it.There is no such thing as a universe or multiple universes. I search how the rocket always goes up. It explodes when it reaches the end of the sky and falls into the sea.

[@TheAsdffaaa]

300 kilo-kilometers?

[@sixstarhorizon295]

You can only travel at 300k km/s through space. Space itself can expand at any speed as it doesnt transmit information

[@workinprogress9613]

Every possible combination...exists. That's great. So if every possible universe imaginable exists, then imagine a universe where there are no other universes. That's the one we live in.

[@hammloc]

The universes dont need to necessarily exist "Within" another, the simple fact that OUR universe exists, is proof that Universes can and do exist, so infinite universes can also exist.

[@workinprogress9613]

@@hammloc That's great. So if infinite universes exists, then at least one of them is a universe where there are no other universes. That's the one we live in.

[@drsatan7554]

@@workinprogress9613 the conditions of a universe can't affect other universes

[@workinprogress9613]

@@drsatan7554 So then you're talking about the supernatural; which, in the end, means you're really just trying to call God by some other name.

[@drsatan7554]

@@workinprogress9613 how did you get that from what I said exactly?

[@mariannerosenstrom627]

Finally even a Professor explains what I asked at school at age 14, was considered an idiot. I am 63 now.

[@ggates2500]

I LOVE knowing that there are things we will absolutely never know. Of course I'd love to know them all but this is even better.

[@jeffforsythe9514]

WE can know ever thing. We are all spiritual beings, souls, with flesh bodies. We have been given a last chance here on earth to show God who we are before He makes His final judgement. Many have chosen an evil path........................Falun Dafa.

[@adamwood46]

​@jeffforsythe9514 it is easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.

[@jeffforsythe9514]

@@adamwood46 I do not care about fooling anyone, I only care about trying to let people know that they are spiritual beings who should be trying to find their Way back home to Heaven.......................Falun Dafa

[@adamwood46]

@@jeffforsythe9514 you have completely misinterpreted my statement. Try again.

[@jeffforsythe9514]

@@adamwood46 why

[@Upadastra]

The transformation from "nothing, nowhere, never" into " something, somewhere, ever"

[@loopmantra8314]

No such thing as "nothing" though. Despite it being a logical and verbal phallacy - i.e. if you can describe it with any of the parameters (height, width, depth,) since it occupies a certain space, it's not "nothing" anymore. Even the ancient Greeks knew it. Nothing can't be defined in any way possible, once you start describing it, you're describing something that has certain parameters, whatever those are. So, despite that - it has been proven (and people won Nobel's for it) that there's no such thing as "nothing" in the Universe. If you take the empty space, billions of light years away from any other object, get rid of all the dust and radiation particles, and all of the atoms, photons and such - it's still something: boiling soup of quantum fluctuations, subatomic particles popping in and out of existence, and most importantly it can be weighed, and it has a certain energy. No such thing as "nothing"

[@CastleKnight7]

Where is everything? In your mind. Know thyself and you can return home.

[@ivornworrell]

What Was There Before The Big Bang? The simple answer is: God

[@davideowatching]

@@loopmantra8314 To my mind, the only thing that can existe as nothing, is space itself. And here, I mean technical space, as complete vacuum, because I know that in reality, space is filled up with particles. But the thing is, even if real space as vacuum doesnt exist, if we take a bottle of water, when it's empty, it contains a certain volume of space, and once it's filled up with water, there is no more space left. So, in this analogy, while space is gone, its notion is still present, otherwise, the water wouldn't have had the room in the bottle to occupy the exact same volume as the space did. So, space doesn't exist only because objects are occupying it, not because of actual impossibility. Now, I don't know whether there is such a thing as complete empty space somewhere, maybe outside of the universe if it's not infinite, or maybe between other universes in the case of multiverse. However, according to the Big Bang theory, before the birth of the universe, there was no space, which means the universe is expanding into nothingness. And since this "nothing" doesn't provide any resistance to the expansion of the universe and isn't made up of actual space that contains subatomic particles, then this "nothing" must just be real empty space. In that case, something, aka such space, can exist without having any parameter. So, only space can possibly be an exception and exist as "nothing", and provide a container for other things to exist within itsef. And each of these things must have parameters like height, width and depth in order to be physically described.

[@km1985]

@@ivornworrellwho created god? If you think god was created out of nothing or was always there then the same rules can apply to the universe

[@karenmandeville7116]

the big bang could be simply a stage in a never ending cycle of universe after universe.

[@SpyroTek]

Yep, though that just raises further questions. As does every answer and theory.

[@cPIP36]

Maybe...but there would have to have been a 'first big bang' wouldn't there? How/why did this happen? Where did the energy come from? Did there exist other dimensions before the physical spatial dimensions? Was the first big bang 'God' clicking his fingers from the 7th dimension? Why something instead of nothing? Why don't we ever see baby pigeons?

[@georgesos]

Roger Penrose has put forward such a theory,the Cyclical universe. And he laughs when he hears the "multiverses" idiocy.

[@ryanjoseph9335]

It still would create another question, where did all the universes come from. It's just mind boggling.

[@kidwave1]

The Big Bang THEORY is the most ridiculous thing ever conceived!

[@TshepiDibakwane]

I have always been troubled by fine tuning, but now you got me thinking

[@geoffduke1763]

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded. But the James Webb telescope has found six massive galaxies beyond ours which upends the bang theory or at least pushes it back way beyond the point at which we thought it happened. These galaxies were found at a point in time when the universe only 3% of its current age and are far larger and mature compared to what they were expecting to find which would have been baby galaxies. Further spectrum tests are being done to confirm these findings.

[@jeffforsythe9514]

Quit making things up and learn the truth.........................Falun Dafa

[@eliaspap8708]

If there was nothing in the beginning than how could an explosion happen? Or (Big Bang)Who put the ingredients together for the explosion 🤔😄 seriously! Who comes up with this nonsense. It makes more sense to even believe in an eternal God then that silly theory.

[@loveme-c2m]

We're did space come from ???????

[@fmlpa]

Yeah I know wht you mean. I was going to ask if there was just a void (space) where did that "MATTER" that they initially mentioned at beginning come from?

[@puneetgrvr]

@jackbrown4130 I'm 47 .. Severe suicidal so called spiritual depression fr 34 years.. I tried practiced all philosophies religions everything... Nothing helped... Then it dawned on me matter and energy always co exist never separately... Whn we die tht means even the last of the so called energy collapses... Does not go anywhere... Ciz body n energy r not separate... N then decomposition happens coz body has no internal energy to fight external energies operating to decompose.,. My take it we are just a physical body n i repeat cells are energy can't be separated... No soul... So just one life... I may be wrong but this is wat my 34 years of idiotic mental gymnastics told me.. I still take medication fr bi polar... Think about it

[@M.Đ-z4u]

nobody knows

[@sabrepulse817]

From nowhere and everywhere at the same time

[@M.Đ-z4u]

@jackbrown4130 nothingness doesn't exist

[@Mrcloc]

My theory is that everything exists because we observe it; things only exist after they're observed, so perhaps everything is in a quantum state before being observed.

[@buildindian8169]

If a tree falls in a forest and there is no one there to hear, does it make a sound?

[@majinvegeta9280]

@@buildindian8169 yes it does cause there is air for sound to travel on regardless if anyone is around

[@buildindian8169]

@@majinvegeta9280 how will we know

[@eduardogardin879]

The maybe Theory?

[@dreadandmimi]

I always go deep down the rabbit hole whenever thinking or talking about the cosmos. And no matter how deep I dive it seems as if no science could explain infinity. Where did it all come from? How could something come from nothing?

[@itapinfomaps6233]

Excellent questions. Romans 1:19-20: Because what may be known about God is clearly evident among them, for God made it clear to them. 20 For his invisible qualities are clearly seen from the world’s creation onward, because they are perceived by the things made, even his eternal power and Godship, so that they are inexcusable.

[@bridles100]

Insane, brain melting video. Loved it! But i dont know what hurt my brain more, trying to understand it all or working out whether or not this is ObsidianAnt narrating it.

[@PianoManPaul]

I'd love to sit here and explain to everyone, what happened before the Big Bang but sadly, there's no time.

[@mirekslechta7161]

Mr. Brian Fox could never know for sure , there was any Big bang at all. However, it does not matter to him, when he even wants to tell to everyone what was befor the Big bang.... I have a feeling, it is too much to swallow , or he is doing this to promote his income instead of serious science.

[@reddillon8425]

amazing

[@PeterFraser-hp3rs]

The only thing more perplexing than this question is the possibility that we might someday be able to answer it.

[@ohger1]

Not a spiritual person, but the Hindus (?) say something to the effect that after death all will be clear. Maybe the answers are very simple but we are simply not allowed to know the answers on Earth. Crazy? Maybe, but no less nuts than saying the universe came from nothing on its own.

[@jeffforsythe9514]

Go to Minghui and click on How Humankind Came To Be.

[@Sain8music]

We already have answered it thousands of years ago….. GOD.

[@scampbell8136]

@@Sain8music What caused God ? what ever your answer is, why isn't that the answer to what caused the existence of anything.

[@Sain8music]

@@scampbell8136 God exists outside of space and time, eternal being, God is the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

[@someFLman]

In my opinion, universes and their creation are a lot like a human birth. A preexisting universe is the dad, a black hole is the mom, the singularity at the bottom of a black hole is her egg, the matter from the preexisting universe that falls into a black hole and then ultimately into the singularity (egg) is the dad's STUFF, the big bang from the singularity is the birth and the new universe is the baby. The singularity that our universe came from was, in my opinion, a singularity from a black hole in another preexisting universe. It's how universes recycle themselves, just like humans. They die too just like we do, only difference is, their lives are much much longer than ours are obviously.

[@itapinfomaps6233]

Very interesting point of view, but do you have any empirical data to back this up? Here is another possible explanation that may help in answering this question: *Jeremiah 27:5:* ‘It is I who made the earth, mankind, and the beasts that are on the surface of the earth by my great power and by my outstretched arm; and I have given it to whomever I please. *Isaiah 45:12:* I made the earth and created man on it. I stretched out the heavens with my own hands, And I give orders to all their army.” *Isaiah 44:24:* This is what Jehovah says, your Repurchaser, Who formed you since you were in the womb: “I am Jehovah, who made everything. I stretched out the heavens by myself, And I spread out the earth. Who was with me? NWT *Ezekiel 38:23:* And I will certainly magnify myself and sanctify myself and make myself known before the eyes of many nations; and they will have to know that I am Jehovah.’ *Romans 1:19-20:* Because what may be known about God is clearly evident among them, for God made it clear to them. 20 For his invisible qualities are clearly seen from the world’s creation onward, because they are perceived by the things made, even his eternal power and Godship, so that they are inexcusable. *1 John 1:5:* This is the message that we heard from him and are announcing to you: God is light, and there is no darkness at all in him.

[@someFLman]

@@itapinfomaps6233 None whatsoever lol. That was just the first thing that came to mind. My theory could still be true, but with God as the initiator of everything. If existence is infinite, then you would need a whole lot of universes to allow life to continue on, especially if universes have an expiration date.

[@elhartzer1639]

​@@itapinfomaps6233Very ignorant point of view! Do you have any empirical data to back this up?

[@secretamericayoutubechanne2961]

Be sure you take a big giant bong rip 😊 before watching

[@Paradox_World]

Love these videos, keep them up 😁

[@mirekslechta7161]

Mr. Brian Fox could never know for sure , there was any Big bang at all. However, it does not matter to him, when he even wants to tell to everyone what was befor the Big bang.... I have a feeling, it is too much to swallow , or he is doing this to promote his income instead of serious science.

[@paulc1173]

Sooo, I ve never seen this question or answer…. If nothing can travel faster than light, how could the universe explain so quickly (faster than light)?

[@DavidMarshall15]

I was about to ask the same question. Wouldn't it be the observable universe be 47ly's across, as the current location of light seen over 13 billion years ago, is now almost twice as far away due to rapid expansion? At least that's my uneducated way of understanding it.

[@manoo422]

You cant travel THROUGH space faster than light but there is no limit on how fast space can travel.

[@paulc1173]

If space is empty and nothingness…. Then it’s isn’t traveling at all. Are you referring to dark matter, quarks, or something related to quantum physics and string theories?

[@paulc1173]

David are you talking about visible light to the human eye, IR, x-ray, etc?

[@DavidMarshall15]

@@paulc1173 Yes, light observed that has travelled for over 13 billion years from the objects that emitted the light, I hadn't thought of those objects travelling faster than light with the expansion of the universe.

[@Ahmed-g4h2k]

All this proves that there is a creator.

[@elhartzer1639]

Objectively no, but can believe whatever fits you :)

[@spiritualmonkey3858]

There is no beginning, there is no end, there is no time, there is only the present moment 🙏🙏🙏

[@masters8610]

I'm pretty sure yesterday happened LOL

[@mikelheron20]

@@masters8610 the Voice of reason.👏

[@Dion_Mustard]

Spot on. INFINITY is the answer. No beginning, no end. Time doesn't exist. Everything is essentially now. Past Present Future all one together. Consciousness INFINITE. Universe INFINITE. Makes sense when you think about it.

[@touchclarity]

@@Dion_Mustard when did you first think about it? ..

[@Dion_Mustard]

@@touchclarity many years ago.

[@BillPalmer]

How could it be infinite? How could it not be?

[@manoo422]

Its finite, it 'began' 13.7 Billion years ago it cannot be anything else other than finite.

[@childfreesingleandatheist8899]

@mano: Time may very well just be an illusion. There are good videos on that. We use 13.7 billion years as an arbitrary measurement to have a point of reference and a sense of understanding, just like we say 24 hours when the earth makes a complete rotation or 1 year when the earth makes a complete revolution around the sun. So, one can easily argue that the universe has always existed with or without time and that the universe will always exist in an infinite huge state or an infinite (or almost) small state. Kind of crazy.

[@manoo422]

@@childfreesingleandatheist8899 Every event in the universe from a star burning out to a black hole forming kind of prove the passage of time is an integral part of the universe!

[@yitz28]

@@manoo422 that’s only as far back as we can see light is extremely slow on a cosmic scale

[@whitetanooki9384]

The question of what caused all this to happen always gives me immense anxiety and I have to force myself to get over it, cope and move off the topic.. If the big bang caused all this to happen after it started, what was there before the big bang? What caused this to happen and what caused all this to exist... Sometimes I like to imagine that one day we'll be able to understand things in such a deep way that'll answer this question that we can't even comprehend right now. I can't even wrap my brain around what could have caused all this to pop into existence. That's why I could never fully believe in religion. Some dude just popped into existence and created everything... Just thinking about this makes my brain want to shut down

[@brendansherlock6442]

I think I shared the anxiety you felt but I have now replaced that with awe and comfort because now I believe in a benevolent creator. The older I get the more I see free will amongst the forces of good and evil, love and choose wisely, as though your actions matter. I believe the creator or even creators of our universe (perhaps the creators have a creator, we will never know) are benevolent, that everything could cease to exist in a moment however that has not happened. Instead of fear think about love and hope

[@phildavenport4150]

@@brendansherlock6442 Great sense of benevolence. Maybe this creator can explain why it allowed people like Hitler to flourish. I'll NEVER be convinced of the existence of a benevolent anything. The religitards can cling to it if it gives them comfort.

[@mb_a5383]

To put it in it's simplest terms, a big bang requires a big banger.

[@phildavenport4150]

@@mb_a5383 Yes, a REALLY big sausage.

[@mogenvonbogel7342]

God created the universe the Big Bang religion believe that nothing exploded then created everything including the complexities of the human eyeball

[@TalkyMikey]

I feel like when people say "this universe has perfect conditions for us to exist" they take the human centric point of view. When in fact, universe is an independent "being". It wasn't ment for us, we just came along as a byproduct. There could, and maybe there are, other life forms that originated from totally different particles that we are not even aware of yet.

[@dr.s.p.]

I always wondered if there are multiple universes, that would be in different dimensions, would it be possible that some of these parallel universes overlap in some quantum level and if they did; would we perceive that? What if those merging universes, which might be made of different matter, or antimatter in a slightly different time lead to us in our universe to see signs of that other antimatter, or any other universe show itself in a manner we can’t comprehend? It was just a thought.

[@Paradox_World]

Hey😁

[@manotanota6027]

Sorry but please please please 🙏, believe me, the Earth is flat and there is no space. It is the truth and there is no such thing as the Big Bang. Please, Naza. It is time to tell the truth. There is no need now to hide it.There is no such thing as a universe or multiple universes. I search how the rocket always goes up. It explodes when it reaches the end of the sky and falls into the sea.

[@juancruiz007]

❤ 💡🧠 👧🏻 👦🏼 🪄🌎

[@Dion_Mustard]

spot on.

[@TerenceHughes4501]

@Dr. S.P. Is this what scientists do. Spend their time in fantasy land?

[@ElephantWhisperer222]

The objective answer is we don’t actually know. Let’s stop pretending.

[@davidhess6593]

Should we stop speculating too?

[@daos3300]

nobody is pretending.

[@scampbell8136]

That's what Brian Cox said. We dont know we are trying to figure it out.