Why Does The Universe Look Like This?
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Published 2022-10-27
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Researched and Written by Jon Farrow
Narrated and Edited by David Kelly
Animations by the superb Jero Squartini www.fiverr.com/share/0v7Kjv using Manim - MIT License, (c) 2020-2023 3Blue1Brown LLC
Laniakea animation by Alperaym
Incredible thumbnail art by Ettore Mazza, the GOAT: www.instagram.com/ettore.mazza/?hl=en
Huge thanks to Daniel Pomarède for the use of his images of Laniakea and our local cosmological neighborhood: twitter.com/danielpomarede
Thank to Pablo Carlos Budassi for his wonderful images of the KBC Void, Shapley Supercluster and Bootes Void.
Stock footage taken from Videoblocks and Artgrid, music from Epidemic Sound, Artlist and Silver Maple. Space imagery also used from NASA and ESO.
Image Credits:
Visualisations of the QCD Vacuum
Derek D Leinweber CSSM University of Adelaide
Observable Universe by Andrew Z Colvin
KBC Void, Shapley Supercluster and Bootes Void by Pablo Carlos Budassi, CC BY-SA 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
UK from space European Space Agency, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/igo/deed.en, via Wikimedia Commons
KBC Void, Shapley Supercluster and Bootes Void by Pablo Carlos Budassi, CC BY-SA 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Galactic Filament by Andrew Pontzen and Fabio Governato, CC BY 2.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
SDSS Plates by EdPost, CC BY-SA 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jim Peebles Juan Diego Soler, CC BY 2.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Zeldovich By A. T. Service - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15963198
Martin Rees By Festival della Scienza, CC BY-SA 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18609295
Richard Gott By A. T. Service - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15490353
George Smoot By Nomo michael hoefner www.zwo5.de/ - Own work, CC BY 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7131137
John C Mather By Christopher Michel - John Mather, CC BY 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=39209520
LHC By Maximilien Brice, CERN - CERN Document Server, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=29068932
00:00 Introduction
05:41 Mapping The Cosmos
16:40 Meatball Honeycomb Sponge (Structure of the Universe)
21:55 Cosmic Seeds (Origin of Structure)
39:36 Problems With Copernicus
#cosmicweb
All Comments (21)
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Wow, I didn’t know the universe is so big! This must be like thousands of football fields.
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The map of the Universe reminds me of the mapping of the human brain with its billions of neurons.
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When a leaf is caught in a river it quickly aligns itself to the plane of the water's surface and then begins traveling along with the swirling and rotating water molecules surrounding it. Odd how on such a macro scale, things behave with a natural simplicity.
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Our galaxy is somewhere in the elbow of the Elden Beast, good to know.
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Ever since I was a kid I’ve gazed into the night skies, and to this day I still get the same feeling I used to as a child - fascination. But as I’ve gotten older, my love and appreciation for the stars has only grown. Even if we truly are so insignificant in the grand scheme of the cosmos, I couldn’t picture a better backdrop to be an observer in.
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I'll rank this series right up there with my favorite growing up: Carl Sagan's and PBS' "Cosmos". Waiting patiently for my dad to arrive home after work with the latest VHS rental seemed to take forever. And decades later, we have a free series that rivals it in scale, scope, and beauty. Thank you to every single person involved!
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I swear. I've always believed that we are just micro organisms inside something's body, just like the ones we have in our body. Looking at this scale it's hard to even say that us humans are even close to the size of an atom of this "body" shown here. Unbelievable
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This video is wonderful! An honor to have contributed with my voids and supercluster images!
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I am a bit relieved that it takes 5 people to put this together, but honestly I thought there would be about 10-15 people working on these. One of the highest quality content on Youtube I have seen, maybe the best. Have a lovely holiday y'all.
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What an unbelievable feat. That’s like standing on the bottom of the ocean and being able to map the entire planet geographically
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I thought i was looking at elden beast💀
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The universe has to be at least 12 tractors.
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I legitimately get excited when I get notified about new episodes from HOTU. Truly top-notch quality production. More people need to know about this channel.
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This was so well put together my guy. The production value of this is 10/10. Simply brilliant.
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This series is truly a masterpiece. It should be required viewing for every schoolkid on the planet.
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We are inside the Elden beast
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I've been thinking about these topics for decades. I chatted to my young son about them. He is about to finish his PhD in Physics. He knows more now than I can list. The best I can hope to do to follow his eight years of in depth study is watch videos like this - or talk to him :-)
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This video is a masterpiece. From the beautiful visuals to your thoughtful text and narration, it all comes together extremely well. It deserves as many views as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Please keep up the good work. I can't wait to see your next episode.
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It's absolutely insane to try and imagine the sheer scale of the universe. The milky way alone is so massive, yet it's only 1 of millions if not billions of other galaxies. Then the space between these galaxies is hundreds of times larger than that. So many mysteries
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The best video I've seen on the issue to date. The clarity is impressive, and the visuals are very good.
