A Journey to the End of the Universe
Could humans ever travel to other galaxies within their lifetime? The immense scale of the Universe seems to prohibit such voyages, after all the nearest galaxy is so far away that it takes light itself - the fastest thing in the Universe - 2.5 million years to complete the trip. Remarkably, there is a trick that might allow humans to accomplish this feat - join us today as we step onboard the constantly accelerating spaceship!
Written and presented by Professor David Kipping.
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Chapters
0:00 - Prologue
2:57 - A Journey to Alpha Centauri
11:27 - Returning from Distant Shores
21:12 - Onward to the End
Further reading and resources:
► Lee, J. & Cleaver, G., 2015, "The Relativistic Blackbody Spectrum in Inertial and Non-Inertial Reference Frames": arxiv.org/abs/1507.06663
► Yurtsever, U. & Wilkinson, S. 2015, "Limits and Signatures of Relativistic Flight": arxiv.org/abs/1503.05845v3
► Margalef-Bentabol, B., Margalef-Bentabol, J., Cepa, J., 2013, "Evolution of the Cosmological Horizons in a Concordance Universe": arxiv.org/abs/1302.1609
► Columbia University Department of Astronomy: www.astro.columbia.edu
► Cool Worlds Lab website: coolworlds.astro.columbia.edu
Music is largely by Chris Zabriskie (chriszabriskie.com/) and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), in order of appearance;
► Cylinder Five (chriszabriskie.com/cylinders/)
► Music from Neptune Flux, "The Oceans Continue to Rise chriszabriskie.com/neptuneflux/
► Music from Neptune Flux, "We Were Never Meant to Live Here" chriszabriskie.com/neptuneflux/
► Cylinder Two (chriszabriskie.com/cylinders/)
► Cylinder Four (chriszabriskie.com/cylinders/)
► Cylinder Eight (chriszabriskie.com/cylinders/)
► "It's Always Darkest Before the Dawn" by Hill, licensed through SoundStripe.com
► Cylinder Two (chriszabriskie.com/cylinders/)
► "It's Always Darkest Before the Dawn" by Hill, licensed through SoundStripe.com
Video materials used:
► Intro/outro video by ESO/Mark Swinbank, Institute for Computational Cosmology, Durham University, "Flying through the MUSE view of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field": www.eso.org/public/usa/videos/eso1738d/
► Voyager 2 footage courtesy NASA JPL: www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/details.php?id=1564
► Nautilus X videos from f r a g o m a t i k: fistart.info/tv/videot/zYTExIFreKWe168.html and fistart.info/tv/videot/lWmq242uYc2cp5Y.html
► Ship passing Moon & Mars taken from "Beer from Mars" by MoonMan Pictures: fistart.info/tv/videot/2oDDm5eLfNefq6c.html
► "A Journey to Alpha Centauri" video by ESO./L. Calçada/Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org): www.eso.org/public/usa/videos/eso1241a/
► Relativistic travel through a lattice by Ute Kraus: www.spacetimetravel.org/bewegung/bewegung.html
► Earth time lapse footage taken onboard the International Space Station by NASA's Earth Science & Remote Sensing Unit
► Fly-through space footage from Space.com: fistart.info/tv/videot/03zQumt-n9SIy9E.html
► "A Flight Through the Universe", by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Miguel Aragon & Alex Szalay (Johns Hopkins), Mark Subbarao (Adler Planetarium): www.sdss3.org/press/dr9.php
► Galaxy spinning animation by spacetelescope.org: fistart.info/tv/videot/u53R2X9qg7xrprM.html
► Expanding universe animation by EposChronicles: fistart.info/tv/videot/lq223IJsqtpq28k.html
Films clips used:
► Agora (2009)
► Star Trek (1966 - 1969)
► Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
► Interstellar (2014)
► The Expanse (2015 - present)
► 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
► The Martian (2015)
► Passengers (2016)
► Alien (1979)
► Flame over India (1959)
► Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
► Prometheus (2012)
► Alien: Covenant (2017)
► Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987 - 1994)
► Planet Earth (2006)
► Elysium (2013)
► Alien: Resurrection (1997)
► Avengers: Endgame (2019)
► What Dreams May Come (1998)
Special thanks to FIstartr Madd End for this fantastic artist's impression of the halo drive: www.bilder-upload.eu/bild-0bab30-1551614591.png.html. Thumbnail image by Hazan: wallhere.com/en/wallpaper/139635.
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How can one travel 100,000 light years in 45-50 years when not ever reaching the speed of light?
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Hypothetical question! What if the universe reversed from outside the observable universe back in on us ? when would we be able to pick it up and how ?
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@Joseph W lmfao your stupid 😂😂
Face it folks, right now we are alone until proven otherwise. Better take care of our home planet.
I thought nothing could move faster than the speed of light, yet space is expanding faster than the speed of light??? Someone please explain to my inept brain how one of these two is not false...
After watching this video, I've lost the urge to travel!
We're interdimensional beings trapped in a third dimensional plane.
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Sorry for the dumb question, but would the universes time of expanding not being compensated by my relativistic movement, or is the expansion not time dependend but accounts only for distances?
yo. anyone know the movie that was shown with james franco. and also the one with Matthew mcConahay
A story that forces my mind to think THE impossible. But education system sucks, just want me to be an employee, shit teachers.
This is all theory with facts and math as WE know it. Not what it will actually be
Extremely sad to me to think we, us, all the amazingly people who have come and gone, everything, really is for nothing. We are a freak happening and everything just dies in the end...
You have no idea where the end is. Also what about supplies?
You have no idea where the end is.
We need to fundamentally shift our physics model.
Somehow I believe that even when everything has expanded out so much that you will not even detect the cosmic radiation from the space, you will still receive the notice of your vehicle warranty expiring. 🤣 There is no escape from that.. Physics can't explain that anomaly
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That's where my ex-girlfriend sent me, years ago in the middle of winter, imagine, f-o, she said, i am casting you to the Ends of the Universe, aaaaaahhhh!
Once the earths resources have been extracted from the earth, human race will be doomed, and that my fellow earthlings will come.No escape from this reality.We better start living life in peace.
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A journey to the end of the universe lol! Who found the end lol! What a pile of skata!
All good until the old anti-human adage "the planet doing much better after humans disappeared". Humans are part of the ecosystem and at its top, people. Is time to let Greta rest.
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You need to escape hell...
But what if you don’t even make the trip there or you run into something like ufos or you can’t make it back for some other reason .... no mans land
Voyager 1 is the farthest spacecraft
It will be very difficult to reach any galaxies since they are also moving away. And even if the target galaxy is reached, coming back to Earth would be impossible. Pretty much a one way trip.
Got to wonder though;- before the car, man thought you couldn't go faster than a galloping horse as you'd run out of oxygen, then, oh, you can't go faster than sound, ( Yeager smiles and does the finger ), so, perhaps light is the same? We just have to unlearn what we have learned and give it a crack. Burt Munro from Invercargill would try it.
wow, I bet the smoko breaks are epic conversations!
You're my new Allan Watts before sleeping 😴
28:05 Atomic clock: No particles! I can't function by measuring my particle decay ☹️ 28:17 Rolex Watch: Hold my beer 🍺 I'll show you how to measure time... Flywheels and precision gears. Old school till the end of time.
24:12 Excellent. Guess I won't have to burn our colony explorer ships upon reaching the new world / future colony. They can never travel fast enough to overcome galactic expansion in order to return back home 😎
19:49 So that's why the Martians never returned home.... By the time they finished their first near FTL roadtrip, their planet aged millions of years and there was no point to return to their now lifeless rock.
y did u go there ur really a haunted kind never satisified at the cost of our lives sadis
as a phys grad i think people need to realise this... because everyone thinks that the speed of light means you cannot travel great distances within your life time... wrong.... you can due to time dilation :) in fact... you can theoretically travel millions of light years in just a few years or less. !! But i would hope if you ever did do that then within a few centuries you'd be overtaken and met by a few super luminal velocity ships and brought back to earth... rather than finding humanity was gone. strangely though.. this is a general relativistic problem.. and not special,. since its not the velocity difference, but the energy invested or the acceleration that has cause the perm time dilation. This is actually the same as being in a grav field.
Dude! flipping the ship around to slow down and connect back is genius, is it possible????
This video is so interesting finding out how time would change for the crew on board the ship and life on earth .
Excellent job! Thank you!! It was so engaging that it felt like it was only 10 minutes long. It was like I left the earth for 10 minutes to watch this and when I returned 30 minutes had passed on earth!
I got baptised watching the video
This absolutely amazing and makes my mind hurt at the same time
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I figured this video would be boring enough to make me sleep. Now I have existential crisis.
The point you were making about 100 millennials for humans to come back here. So that means another species perhaps completely different than humans that they have inhabited the earth first could be on that very same objective and could have left around 100 millennial's ago and could return it any moment? Where we've actually went through an extinction and have regressed as far as technology according to their society. That could very well possibly be a scenario correct?
Light is not the so called speed limit. Speed limit is only one aspect of what is. Light is not the beginning and the end.
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I don't understand how people could possibly only age 20 years (as an example) in space while the rest of mankind ages centuries. We were all born with the same genetics, and we all go by the same Earth measurements of time. Our bodies age, regardless of travel.
Until you hit a small pebble that explodes the ship
So cool. Jesus loves you btw
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Great work sir
Now you have to modify your video on the theory of not the big bang and an ever expanding universe but with the big bounce theory where our universe accelerates but then slows to a stop to then retracts to a point of another big bang or big bounce as I see it. Now that's one I want to see you elaborate on smart guy. 🤔
68% of space consists of dark energy if we are able to harness that energy to something that can propel us through space at greater speed then intergalactic space travel could one day become a reality.
Watching these videos makes us feel so small and insignificant in the grand scheme of things, Damn!!! To think we may be the only intelligent life in this whole universe.
A brilliant video, but why the assumption of wanting to go back home? Into the void, baby! \m/
Mind blown. Thank you.
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Okay, rather depressing, but maybe we have our alternative universes to pop through to. Or maybe our science is more primitive than we give it credit for, and there are other surprises along the way. Remember, we are only 300 years beyond the industrial revolution, when Newtonians thought we had it all sown up, and then came quantum physics. Socrates said knowledge is only a model, or stepping stones to build more knowledge. What next?
The Boris hyper loop sound like somthing he would get excited about, but only if there was room in the vehicle for the bike! He’s only interested in media headlining projects the bigger the better like the Boris HS2 or a Boris bridge to Ireland, trouble is... he got something minuscule to deal with and he’s not interested on small things.
BULLSHIT
There's a much bigger picture forming than just 'us' ... We basically are a speck in the scheme of things, a mere wisp of breath, a blip, we are only significant in our own world, which itself is but a tiny drop in a incomprehensibly huge ocean... Not only is their life out there, they are so far away they will never know if our existence, and the same will go for them with other life, and so it will go on..... We are but a single heart beat, a faint miniscule blip on a radar....our entire existence is no more than a single beat of a pulse. So live life....stop wasting it. Everything you do, no matter how great here, means zilch in the scheme if things... We are but dust. Right, pizza and a beer, playstation and a bucket of ice cream it is then. :-)
To travel enter parallel universe or dimension our spirit being lives no time no distance. UFOS make right angle turns at 18,000mph. Cont do that in pure matter mode. Quantum physics what is is not, what’s not is always. That’s how we exist😎
Guess AOC really meant 12 million years.... 🤔
According to God's Word, once the program here is complete, what you see right now is all being swapped out. Isaiah 65.17, 2 Peter 3.13 , Rev 21.1 Our future is right here, not out there.
Wow ! So, so cool. 🍃🍂🌈
14:20 "Now this is where things get weird ." Uh , ya think ?
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Use the time that we have wisely...! And that's exactly what you should do too. If you believe in all of this cartoonery & indoctrinated religious cult text books stuff he's talking and showing, you need to wake up! Nothing Banged & Monkey's are always going to be Monkey's, they will never turn into humans no matter how long you keep your eye on them. If you lived an eternal life and 1000 years down the road you walked out into the night and looked up... YOUR STILL GOING TO SEE THE EXACT SAME LIGHTS IN THE EXACT SAME PLACE IN THE SKY AS YOU DID 1000 YEARS AGO. The Creator did that on purpose so we could tell for ourselves that this place and us are Created by an awesome Engineer. ........spaceships lol 😃..
So what’s the point of living thin???
Better pack a lunch
You are easy to listen to. Love your videos.
Poor bastard. So full of it.
He’s an actual scientist that has published multiple scientific papers and has made many discoveries in the field of astrology.
Woah what a great content. MashaAllah. It hit me hard. Great time to live by, great time to ever exist. In golden time of universe
Yeah this is probably the 5th or 6th time I’ve watched this and it always amazes me .. also a perfect story to listen to when going to sleep.. such a calming voice..
Also , he has a brilliant haircut
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one of the best video packed with so much info. Alas the end is scary
Very good presentation. I hope mankind finds a way to break the limits Einstein has revealed.
Why is this not a movie? He should really talk to a writer to get a screenplay going.
I want to go on for such a great journey.
Get a grip your never going out into space. You would never come back because you never left. 🤣🤣
At that point in space/time (point of no return) you might as well have gone the opposite direction and found a black hole to fly into.#deathwish. Let’s just live the life we have on the planet that sustains us😅
This makes my head hurt, made me love our planet more!
I watch this once per month to keep me on the ground!
Thats just like, your opinion man.
Now, we know the universe is expanding, infinitely accelerating, but what if there is a planet directly centered in the universe? Obviously the closer to the center of the universe you are, the slower you’d accelerate, so what’s stopping this?
So basically made up nonsense
He’s an actual scientist that has published multiple scientific papers and has made many discoveries in the field of astrology. Trust me he knows what he’s talking about
We can travel till we drop to our end of our time but our universe to us is infinite has no end
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So it's like this.,first there was nothing and BANG! Now,there's EVERYTHING! YEAH Right..!
Physicality has a big limit which makes it unable to continuously keep up with light. An really now, unless we drastically change diet, or move consciousness to another dimension, time perception won't change on any human beings.
And to think there are more viruses on earth than there are stars in the sky. We are equipped with an immune system ready for battle. God is great.
beautiful pathos Professor David Kipping! worthy of a Kim Stanley Robinson voyage (-: Have you thought of reversing the coin thanks? ie Journey to the centre of the universe ? cheers, Guy
If nothing can go faster than the speed of light, how can the Universe be spreading faster ?
@Cool Worlds so space itself can travel faster than light?
Nothing can travel *through* space faster than light
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This is a scientific demonstration of the old say 'life is a dream'.
Very enjoyable!
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This is the second time I watch this video, the first time I was intrigued by so many concepts so I had to watch it again. And I say wow!!! amazing video. The concepts are wow.
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