What Is The Link Between Human Evolution And The Universe? | Order And Disorder | Progress

Professor Jim Al-Khalili unwraps the evolutionary histories responsible for the modern human condition, as currently represented by our sophistication in energy manipulation and information technology.
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[@salehsaleh3217]

I am sure a great deal of ENTROPY was required to produce this work of art. Brilliant. Thank You Professor

[@euanmackintosh6298]

So beautifully explained that even a very ordinary person like myself can grasp the wonder of it. Brilliant.

[@dylan_curious]

Wow, this video really puts things into perspective! It's fascinating to think about how we humans and our technology are really just tapping into the natural flow of energy from order to disorder in the universe. And now we're on the brink of harnessing the ultimate form of energy through fusion, which could offer us almost unlimited power. But as the video points out, all our efforts are just a tiny blip in the grand scheme of things. The universe is always unraveling and we're just trying to preserve a tiny pocket of order. It's both humbling and inspiring to think about our place in the cosmos. And the idea that information is a fundamental part of the universe is mind-blowing. Thanks for sharing this thought-provoking video!

[@shahidulislamtapu6301]

Sir, you also played the piano well. I am a new fan of you and knowledge seeker as i also have a brain which always hungry of knowledge. Thank you so much for enriching the world of knowledge.

[@josephcollins6033]

"falling apart", "disorder", "it gets worse", "order to disorder" etc. From the beginning of this video (wonderful, by the way, and I love Jim!) I was thinking, "Why? Those are negative words. Seems more like a restrictive state (a block of steel or our body) going towards freedom and beauty."

[@sazennonumber]

Now I wonder if that newly created chaos , which came from order, would get orderly again. For example, a tree looses leaves in fall and then the decaying leaves give energy back to the tree for the new leaves to be created. I found it very inspiring to hear that the heat emitting energies stay (cluster) together. Thank you for uploading. Jim Al-Khalili always a pleasure to watch and listen to.

[@RoySATX]

Aris, Goddess of Chaos, Striff, and Disorder has led me astray to put an end to your wondering, so wonder no more for Disorder is ordered in the order of order to Disorder. For verification please visit your local DMV. A'hem.

[@ulysses1685]

Life is clearly against entropy. And evolution itself is from disorder to order. So there are many gaps in our knowlege.

[@johngriffin3030]

@@ulysses1685 You say that life seems like it's working "against" entropy, but think about how good life is at disseminating energy in various forms. And how structures like the planets absorb high energy photons and re-radiate them as many lower energy photons. Things that *seem* "against" entropy often turn out to be serving it somewhere else. The second law isn't violated anywhere. We're just what's happening in the interim of everything being as close together as it can be and everything being as uniformly spread out as it wants to be.

[@biomedicalbalance6411]

Chaos isn’t “newly created”, as it’s always been this way, yet scientists are finally moving away from reductionist thinking which has failed on so many levels. Think about why you think what you believe and you’ll realize the truth of how the universe works within your framework. Enjoy the journey 🌹

[@danielpaulson8838]

The tree, like the planet, is in a cosmic life cycle. There are cycles within cycles. Everything cycles. It’s energy and moves in waves.

[@alpcrdh3702]

Top shelf video right here.. will check out more of your stuff.

[@richgang9549]

I love this video ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ Great work 💪

[@agharohailmehmood6307]

Excellent

[@user-vj6tf7ei2t]

This channel is insanely underrated

[@adzaaahhh]

Jim A-K, the Attenborough of physics. AKA Legend.

[@kricketflyd111]

Beautiful 😍

[@johnwiltshire8763]

Try dropping that jug on the space station to see if it then becomes more "disordered". On Earth, it shatters because a force is applied to it by the impact on the floor. Now try melting a chocolate rabbit to increase its "disorder" and then realize that heat has now been concentrated in the chocolate so the entropy has decreased. Now pour the chocolate into a rabbit mold and let it cool. The heat loss is energy spreading out so entropy increases... but.. we now have a nicely ordered chocolate rabbit. Here's what's going on: Consider a pack of playing cards that has been sorted into suit order. Now give it a good shuffle so that the pack is now "disordered" and then returned to a uniform ambient temperature. Has the shuffle increased the entropy of the pack? NO! It has not. In this case, the concept of "order" is merely a human convention. Now take a pen and write the numbers 1 to 52 on each card in turn. The pack is now in "order" again. It follows that the concept of "order" is so familiar in everyday experiences that its use in science is dangerously misleading. As explained in the first part of the video, entropy is a measure of the spreading out of energy concentrations.

[@amorosogombe9650]

Professor, what do you think about the conciousness-first theories of the universe that say actually, space, time, matter and energy are interpretations of an eternal preexisting mind so mind came before matter?

[@sidclark1953]

I wondered who this guy was when he appeared in a promo for Veely documentaries where he says that everything the viewer knows is completely wrong. Finally identified him by accidently clicking on this video here.

[@DocuFlow]

Excellent explanation, thank you. I wish there was less background music though, the feel was very 90s and was distracting.

[@edypriyo9868]

We are the universe, expressing ourself as human for a little while, 80 years - 120 years

[@BeatSyncBytes]

Sir I believe you can produce engaging content

[@farmerjohn6526]

For life to begin, the conditions on earth had to be right. To be right, a long chain of events had to occur in the universe since the beginning.

[@entropymaster2012]

Brilliant, professor. I sometimes wonder if the Universe is in a process of self destruction in which Life is just a small anomaly... what can be the purpose of such anomaly?

[@arthurwieczorek4894]

"What is the link between evolution and the universe?" In one word, entropy. Let's call entropy the natural tendency for high potential energy move to a lower potential energy state. Life is a means of speed up that process. Life, given enough time, is equivlent to one match starting a forest fire. How does the match come to be? In two words, abiogenesis and evolution.

[@alexbowman7582]

It’s a bit more complex than straight entropy, there seems to be other underlying mechanisms that induce complexities.

[@justinwalker4475]

incredible ...shame i wont live long enough to keep on discovering

[@monty3854]

Definitely the scariest part of dying.

[@justinwalker4475]

@@monty3854 Whats so scary about what you call dying...its living, thats the scary part

[@justinwalker4475]

look around you

[@justinwalker4475]

you want to stay here ?

[@justinwalker4475]

ahhhh you assume death is the end :E your in for a shock

[@2011Matz]

Oh boy, some guy is going to give me the secrets of the Universe, right here on the tube. Ain't the internet amazing?

[@maryearll3359]

I've one complaint - why wasn't Professor Jim around in 1960's when I was at school ? ❤

[@nothingmanofgod.6288]

Awsome yours eyes man are not lying😅

[@DD-pz3kf]

I've heard before that the plow was one of the greatest inventions for mankind

[@user-mf7pu5xl7j]

Yeah it tears up the ground causing disorder to plant a seed that is a small computer that creates order like a tall stand of a field of corn . . .

[@ScottyyyB96]

At 1:35 he makes reference to the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, that *all* things are destined to degrade…interesting to think about when you consider the below: *Hebrews 1:10-11* You, LORD, in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth,
And the heavens are the work of Your hands. *They will perish* , but You remain;
And they will all *grow old like a garment* Again, in Romans 8 which says: *Romans 8:20-22* “For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. *For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now* .“ Those who have an ear, let them hear 🙏🏾

[@Fadem12forReal]

Jim al K!

[@kathleensutherland6593]

Where, how and when did the original order (which is now disintegrating) come from?

[@danielpaulson8838]

Seems most likely a forever ebb and flow. This is just our time and this universal iteration.

[@winstonwu9129]

“Energy is crumbling” towards equilibrium-is that disorder? IMO, the final state of energy of equilibrium is the ultimate order.

[@realeyesrealizereallies6828]

Looking at the Earth at night shows how successful we've been, or does it show a cancerous cell, a civilization on the brink of self destruction...

[@cybervigilante]

So where did the initial order come from? Yeah, I know - Big Bang. But that's a non-explanation which just pushed the question backwards. Play entropy back to the beginning, and the universe was massively complex and ordered. So where did that order come from?

[@RoySATX]

A perforated-herniated super-ultra-mega-massive black hole. That's my rather cheeky theory and no one has proven me wrong so far!

[@mariyammapapabathiniratnam7862]

Here we have to take actual messroments with 9 and 8 and make them the shape of + and for that draw a circle it will be a crros with the length 9 width 8 in that we get 4 parts up each side give 1 1 number and down 2. 2 number then in circle make a triangle and by massoring the given time of the Earth will seen in minutes as 144 288 72 as time times and half years 3¹/² days this is a link between universe and human and dark energy and matter thanks .

[@trevoremery7111]

This was a laboured undertaking with too much repetition. Jim it would also be of use to illustrate Entropy in the chemistry of life.

[@jasonking1284]

Damn... if you block with your hands, the guy in the thumbnail's face from forehead downwards... it looks like you are looking at the daylight side of some planet..... Nice one...

[@user-ru5xz3lz9c]

Despite the invention and harnessing the unlimited energy from the universe,✨️I can guarantee one thing for sure the price of energy will never be free but will increase only. So, all those Karisma are meant to be for business purposes only.

[@husnainanwaar1992]

53:00 listen to the teacher ; he is standing is the most radioactive zone in the universe ; just like voyager ...

[@ghahrai]

But I had seen this video years ago . I t is not new and surely not 3 months ago as you have referred to in the caption!

[@oobrocks]

Dec 5th, 2022: science has had the first fusion breakthrough: they got more energy than they put into it. Probably in 20 yrs, fusion power plants were exist

[@RoySATX]

The so-called fusion "breakthrough" of Dec 5, 2022 was most certainly not the "first fusion breakthrough", that is just plain nonsense not even the media claimed. And though the reaction had released more energy than the laser energy the reaction itself consumed, the entire device required nearly a hundred times that amount of energy to create that laser beam in the first place resulting in a 99% LOSS of actual energy overall. Yes, it took 99% more energy to create the fusion reaction than was produced. The statements from the scientists at the facility were misleading. possibly intentionally, and the media was as usual happy to continue spreading the misinformation. Over the past few years there has been an explosion of scientists willing to mislead, if not outright lie to, the public, and this has just encouraged the media's malfeasance. Some people have even been arrogant enough to claim they "speak for science"; Science speaks for itself, it does not need a self-indulgent scientist to speak for it.

[@bagariusyarrelli7142]

[@hshhzh7579]

🙏"gravity is my understanding " - the link from universe to the living being🙏maganlal mistry,'23,ldn.u.k.

[@ramjoce20]

We should be using our knowledge against entropy instead of contributing accelerating it, life would have enough time to perhaps be adapted to that environment, So.

[@TheDavidlloydjones]

Energy? Human beings are the Second Law's way of extracting all that coal and oil and radiating it out to the Universe a little bit faster. At the wavelength of television, Earth is a bright star sending out Hitler opening the 1936 Olympic Games, followed by a generation of "I Love Lucy." And, fortunately, a bit of love and happiness on the side...

[@RoySATX]

That first minutes-long blip of Hitler and a generation of "I Love Lucy" was followed by a generation of "M*A*S*H" and "Gilligan's Island", then a generation of "The Kardashians", "Sex and the City", and "Southpark, with a double helping of political strife halfheartedly sprinkled with "love & happiness"; Any alien race picking up our broadcasts have surely diagnosed our species as mentally, socially, and morally challenged and issued the galactic equiveillance of the Covid lockdown on our system.

[@nadmey2594]

It's the documentary published years ago . They just changed the title.

[@scotishjohn]

But still great video

[@theGoogol]

On the thumbnail Jim looks like someone that would eat at Lil' Bits

[@lrvogt1257]

Wow it's like everyone from Dunning-Kruger middle school is commenting here and they are all certain they know something about science.

[@RoySATX]

It's unnecessary to add what specific knowledge Dunning-Kruger Middle Schoolers believe they possess as it's already implied. As a graduate with honors myself, I would know.

[@johnnastrom9400]

"it's like everyone from Dunning-Kruger middle school is commenting here" -- Yes, -- especially you.

[@user-rg8bb7xm3f]

天才

[@misteryummyearth1055]

Look at the galaxy, nature, the physics the chemistry all are calculable. Left to itself, nature has order. Human beings however think order is having straight lines. From the atom to the galaxy

[@luigilaurenza8990]

So, if you think of it, cancer with its disorderly and uncontrollable growth of cells, can be interpreted as the ultimate form of entropy

[@NondescriptMammal]

somewhere, between the sacred silence and sleep... disorder, disorder, disorder

[@gavinmcfarland7784]

When I became the sun I shone life into the man's hearts

[@changomanaco2641]

So successful that we'll create our own MASS -EXTINCTION. Nice!

[@maile296]

👍❤️🤗

[@negimemorandum3941]

Why heat needs medium to travel ?

[@phenomtyree]

The supreme living life force that we imagine, dream (while sleep), and study continually, but, try to control too many god like facets of existence and creation.

[@DineseBeckert]

N. Telsa?

[@jimyost2585]

"Secrets Of The Universe" eh? Revealed on KZbin? Haw, haw, haw, haw, haw, haw, haw, haw, haw, haw, etc., etc. That's a good one!

[@ObservantHistorian]

Indeed! The secrets of the universe are revealed on Facebook.

[@nothingmanofgod.6288]

Thats machine is me along long time ago it manage to have a tool to make esay life go on😕😅😄

[@user-ru5xz3lz9c]

But London's Mayor Sadiq Khan campaigning on EV said it's pure green energy and has zero disorder. 🤔

[@takeiteasy6154]

And he said I make the decisions!

[@husnainanwaar1992]

30:01

[@husnainanwaar1992]

this what the would does

[@negimemorandum3941]

What will happen to the heat or energy when this universe will die ?

[@DataJuggler]

45:15 Depressing.

[@avv397]

"All forms of energy are destined to degrade and fall apart." (1min 40secs) No they aren't and they don't. Not heard many dire warnings that the energy in the waves of the seas and oceans is on the way to fading to a few tame ripples.

[@terrytwotoes3225]

This probably got answered in the video but what happens to energy once the water in my cup goes cold where is that energy gone?

[@tamiratbiri8275]

The energy gets spread out into its surroundings. From there it will spread out again and again forever

[@krishnamohan1065]

These ideas have been common knowledge in India from many millennium s

[@nothingmanofgod.6288]

Evrysingle tiny what you see is me along long time ago no matter what ever is that it is exist from nothing😕👽

[@peterbroderson6080]

The moment a particle is a wave; it has to be a conscious wave! Gravity is the conscious attraction among waves to create the illusion of particles, and our experience-able Universe. Max Planck states "Consciousness is fundamental and matter is derived from Consciousness". Life is the Infinite Consciousness, experiencing the Infinite Possibilities, Infinitely. We are "It", experiencing our infinite possibilities in our finite moment. Our job is to make it interesting!

[@mattjack3983]

Very well said

[@TailoredReaction]

I love how Pseudo-Physicists think they can just skip right past Physics101, "The Fundamentals Of Physics" and jump into Physics601, "The Nature Of Reality".

[@spaceghost8995]

Max Planck was just guessing.

[@glennwebb9417]

no, and just no, stop with the hippy bullshit please

[@Randomguy-ep7zl]

Hey Deepak, is that you? Life is the manifestation of individuated nuclear forces coupled in quantum consciousness. Look, it's all an illusion. Meanwhile in the realm of life............. I wonder what photons think of us? 🤣

[@user-dr5yv8jv9f]

GREAT MAN BODY ARE STUDY OF THE UNIVERSE. ALL PHENOMENON COME IN HUMAN BODY BY TIME INFLUENCE AND REFLECRIONS

[@frictionless]

Thermodynamics!

[@nothingmanofgod.6288]

The miracles is how they learn it from nothings😕👽

[@victorjcano]

10,000 OUT OF 4.5 BILLION YEARS, FROM THE EARTHS BEGINNINGS TO THE STONE AGE TO THE COMPUTER AGE AND MAN HAVE WE SCREWED THINGS UP! SAD

[@RoySATX]

We've certainly made rapid modifications to the planet that otherwise would not have occured, but so too did an asteroid striking the Yucatan long ago. We owe our existence to that asteroid, who knows what new species will have us to thank for their rise to dominance in the future.

[@danielpaulson8838]

Unchecked evolution while humanity denies it. We still act like we need to emerge. We're going right through our terrarium.

[@andycordy5190]

The price of seeing this great documentary again is too high. The random adverts interrupt the piece so destructively as to render it a mess of irrelevant intrusions.

[@SandstormGT]

Which means you think this documentary and those like it aren't worth $12 a month to you. I haven't seen an ad in year's and find so much wonderful content on here that I no longer pay for legacy TV.

[@a.lewisraymer7772]

use an ad blocker

[@jt9463]

Send it to kodi. No adverts No cost... your paying the price of poor know how lad!

[@mattjack3983]

I pay $11.99 a month, and haven't seen an ad in literally YEARS. $11.99 is nothing. I don't even notice that I'm paying for it to be honest.

[@suntaog]

Chaos wins again.

[@prestonbacchus4204]

"What Is The Link Between Human Evolution And The Universe?" Here is the link: The Universe itself is a living growing creature and we are part of that creature, like human cells that are part of a larger living body...

[@davidevans3227]

it confuses me the way what is called disorder by the presenter seems more orderly to me.. a volcano explodes, throwing ash or pouring lava etc.. very chaotic and disorderly (to me lol) it cools, maybe becomes rock.. solid.. cooler.. and way more orderly??

[@williamflaherty3168]

In the case of your example, the net entropy ( disorder) increases. Rocks maybe more organized and orderly, but the heat transfer to the atmosphere makes the whole system more disorderly.

[@gerardjones7881]

chaos is cycled back through black holes or suns emerging as highly ordered radiation. Creation was a very special highly ordered state. Quantum fluctuations occurred as information was converted into energy to matter. Imagine the butterfly effect at the subatomic scale blown up to interstellar scale. ...and there ya go.

[@mariyammapapabathiniratnam7862]

Yes this is called wisdom of God . Here is the picture of the universe and by disorder it and making again in order with other way they it looks like human body these are all possible by mathematical way only and there is no other way. In the Bible (Isaiah 6 chap) this can be possible to find the dark energy and matter and this is called the link between universe is human body thanks.

[@danielpaulson8838]

I note that when science learns and teaches us how things truly are, theism tries to jump on board in order to maintain viability. Even adopting their terms. Evolution in action.

[@holytrinity2510]

The concept “nothing” cannot have the ability to act, otherwise it would be a thing that exists. If the universe came from “nothing” then this nothing would have had to have acted in order to have become the universe. Therefore, the universe could not have come from nothing on its own. Since the universe obviously exists, then “something” which had the ability to act, must have always existed. If time had ever in the past, proceeded at an infinite rate, we would not be here today because all events would have already occurred in a single instant. Therefore, time had to have always proceeded at a finite rate and any mathematician can prove that since time has always progressed at a finite rate, it could never have reached an infinite time interval. Therefore, time could not have started a finite time ago and therefore had a beginning. And you cannot just say, all we need to do is to wait an infinite amount of time and then we would reach an infinite amount of time, because then you are assuming that you can wait an infinite amount of time, but this is what you were trying to prove and so that is not a proof at all. Since this “something” always existed, it had to have existed before time started. Since space and time are one entity as Einstein pointed out, and since all material things must exist in space and time, then this “something” had to have existed outside of space and time and is not made up of material things. And this “something” could not be just chaos which has no order, because as we have already proved, something cannot come from nothing on its own, and therefore order cannot come from pure disorder. Hence, this “something” had to have had the ability to cause order and since we call ourselves beings, then we should at least call this “something” the greatest Being of all, who we call God.

[@danielpaulson8838]

It's ebbing and flowing and has always been here. We don't need a magical answer. That's not trying at all.

[@emilaviles6703]

Study universe for. Seeing Picture lighthing only , by telescope it's useless nothing,why because no have machine space ship speed of light,

[@greenspiritarts]

I wanted to watch this documentary but the frequency of commercials made it impossible to enjoy. So sorry…it looked interesting but I have to give up.

[@danielpaulson8838]

Pay a few bucks for the media. Free is for those who don't care.

[@thundercatt5265]

Dark energy consciousness ,which never dies, that most human beings neglect ,dark energy consciousness mind over matter ,and it do have the potential to live outside matter/flesh fully conscious,have a lil more faith in the things unseen ,ye of lil faith ,that is your link

[@Philip-1]

I came here expecting a discussion on "human evolution." Would somebody please point me to the video that this title was written for.

[@muhammadabbas4838]

But this outstanding documentary made me ordered form disordered...

[@duewhit310]

Planet earth is The Sun's farm/petri dish where one crop in particular, humans, are the medium of it's poor taste in entertainment. Stars are alive Stars farm planets

[@robertgordon1204]

Interesting idea, but to my mind slow and ponderous, made worse by intrusive music.

[@michaelmcgovern8110]

The link between evolution and the universe? Evolution happened in the universe. You're welcome.

[@OneEyedJacker]

No. It’s flying apart.

[@nothingmanofgod.6288]

I am talking to my self again be coz i am the one😕👽😂😄

[@user-sb5zr9ou2s]

Almost as bad as the worst mass shooting in the us history

[@vonrecht1236]

I am making a little list. Any product = ad that interrupts my programme is automatically boycotted.

[@TailoredReaction]

Dear von Recht, I hope this letter finds you well. I am writing to you today in regards to the threat of boycotting products being sold on KZbin. As a content creator and user of the platform, I understand the importance of standing up for one's beliefs and making a difference in the world. However, boycotting products can often have unintended consequences, particularly for small businesses and independent creators who rely on the platform to reach their target audience and sell their products. I implore you to consider the impact that a boycott could have on these individuals and their livelihoods. By choosing to support smaller businesses and creators, you can help to make a positive difference in their lives and help them to continue to bring their products to market. Additionally, it's important to remember that KZbin is a vast platform with a diverse range of content and creators. While there may be some products or creators that do not align with your personal beliefs, there are countless others who do and who would greatly benefit from your support. I understand that boycotting products can be a powerful way to make a statement, but I would encourage you to explore alternative ways to make your voice heard, such as writing letters, signing petitions, or making donations to organizations working towards causes that you support. Thank you for taking the time to consider my request. I truly believe that we can make a positive impact on the world by working together and supporting one another, rather than boycotting and causing harm to innocent individuals. Best regards, OpenAI/ChatGPT

[@RoySATX]

Speaking of lists of offensives, are we still allowed to say "boycotted"?

[@youngjezy23]

😢😢😢

[@RejeanDumouchel]

J'y comprend rien ... ordered, disordered, de quoi on parle. On dirait un point de vue moral sur la science, comment peut-on décréter à l'échelle universelle ce qui est ordered de ce qui disordered.

[@wesleyauburn1324]

Why not use microwaves to maintain the heat so get it to temperature then use microwaves to maintain the temperature u need to use mica with alloy for containers 😂😂😂😂😂

[@OzFPVflyer]

Old doco that this channel re uploads for the revenue and changes the title of the original doco, this channel has no shame.

[@paulgram3967]

Science fiction!!!!!

[@nothingmanofgod.6288]

Dead is the secret of the univers no matter well happened is going to be a secret no one knows it 😕😅😄

[@derringdo89]

The Same energy will eventually implode and explode ending all life on earth.

[@NondescriptMammal]

The universe is falling apart? Oh no! Does this mean I should cancel my dentist appointment? 😼

[@justinwalker4475]

how many teeth do you have ?

[@Randomguy-ep7zl]

Is it outside of a trillion years from now?

[@LesCish]

Beginning with Leibniz. Newton is rolling over in his grave.

[@mohitchaudharyclub4686]

Read Hinduism's Vedas and you will get all the answers

[@Anthony-qy5yw]

No but everything else is

[@agnosticmoron6711]

Carnot was smart. But many of his ideas turned out to be false, or at best, incomplete. And your video treats his stuff as truth, exclusively, while expanding on the parts that we can show to be false or incomplete. So, I consider the content of the video to be both false, and incomplete, in summary.