5 Ancient Predictions That Came True 

Here's a prediction: within three months, Simon will not remember covering anything he presents in this video.

I have said this before. But i watched a PBS documentary on The Ice Man many years ago that stated.."That the same mind that could envision a bronze axe could also create a modern computer board". They were not stupid. They just did not have the technologies available to show that they were as smart as us.

As someone fighting a cold right now, i think it is little demons torturing me

It's stories like these that make me even angrier that people think ancient civilizations couldn't *possibly* build pyramids or giant cities in South America or wherever. There have always been philosophers, scientists, tinkers, and thinkers. We're not special just because we're several millenia beyond them.

The Hindu understanding of germ theory unwittingly contributed to the persecution of the Romani in Europe during the plague. We Romani took the Vedic concept of contamination and how to avoid it with us when we left India. It proved to be very helpful in avoiding becoming ill from the plague. However Europeans looked at the way the Romani avoided getting sick and assumed it was due to a pact with the devil. BTW, India had the concept that time could flow at different rates - one of the major effects of special relativity - around the same time as their concept of germ theory. It's even used as a plot device in ancient texts such as the Mahabharata.

The bluegreen mold that produces penicillin sometimes grows on bread, but more characteristically grows on citrus. The black mold that is the most common on bread does not produce penicillin.

The first one with the Roman emperor could have been that with a prophecy that said he would be emperor the general could have taken tactical risks he normally wouldn’t have and those risks paid off. If you believe you will fail you will fail if you believe you will succeed you succeed far more often

"Like most of history it did not go well for the Jews" I have never heard my people's history so succinctly yet accurately summarized 😂.

"History is full of predictions, much like my face is full of glorious beard. Look at it. Look at the beard. Don't stop. Don't ever stop. This is your life now. Say goodbye to your friends and family, you're a Fact-Boy beard goblin now."

As a father of 4 children all under 10, I can not believe that humans are capable of existing.

0:41 the ascension of Empireor Vespasian 3:07 the atom 5:32 germ theory 8:39 the big bang 10:26 evolution

Thanks Simon. And team.

friday night, drinking balieys irish whiskey cream and enjoying this video.

I love your videos on all your channels. It's nice to watch someone who has like minded thinking. 😊

Regarding Creation Myths in Hinduism, read the Rig Veda Mandala 10, Hymn 129, known as the Creation Hymn or Song. This also states that Creation began in a Flash of heart, no mention of the Hiranyagarbha [Hiran/Hiranya = Golden, Garbha loosely means Knowledge or Knowing of "everything,] or Mundane Egg. The Rig Veda's chapters are called Mandalas, and the Mandalas contain "hymns" which are meant to be sung in specific metres. The Rig Veda itself is far older than 3,000 years being an Oral tradition that was not meant to be altered or edited but memorized perfectly from teacher to student, as changing it was an offense to the Deva and the Supreme Being. Even removing the religious tone from this expectation of perfect memorization, changing any hymn/verse was a signal that the person relating the vedas did not understand them, so changes would be rejected immediately, unless they could be successfully debated with peers; this was vanishingly rare in occurance.

This was such an good video well made an informative and we have so much from the past that is not well understanded and can tell us about the world we live in.

In regards to the "big "crunch" falling out of favor, a paper was published recently talking about how they found evidence that the acceleration of the universe has actually slowed down in recent years (cosmically speaking). Granted it's still accelerating, but at a recently slower rate

3:07 Kanada also predicted the atom about the same time, as well as molecules 10:26: also, the Hindu Dashavataram ( the 10 incarnations of vishnu ) is ordered strikingly similarly to evolutionary paths: Fish -> Reptiles -> Mammals ( a boar ) -> Half-man/Half-beast -> dwarf man -> Man

Nice introduction of informative journy through historical predictions

It’s so interesting how some of the ideas we subscribe to today had the seeds planted hundreds or thousands of years ago. They might not have been 💯 accurate, but it’s fascinating that early people had the concepts to begin with.

I would add Julius Verne predictions. A lot of them.

Heres a prediction, in 10000 years no one will believe that we believed what we believe today

Hello again, the Crew and Simon. Enjoyable as always. Jus amazing, that You can dig up, all these facts. Keep them coming, we`ll wait. from a Finn in Diaspora

It was not dumb luck on the part of Josef. He knew the Roman leaders, and their children well, and used what we call Wisdom, experiential based insight to make what you consider a prediction of the future, but is a use of abductive logic, which is neither deductive or inductive logic, rather a third type of logic which utilizes insight. It is surprisingly effective. This is also how Leucippus constructed his Atomist view too. He did so by use of a Root Insight, similar to how Tesla came up with Alternating Current or Archimedes came up with his insightful theorems and proofs.

Bizarrely it was just yesterday I was thinking about Josephus' survival before being captured. Since suicide is forbidden, killing your friends on the orders of your commander is far favourable, so Josephus ordered every third man (or was it fifth, I forget exactly) to kill his neighbour. So was Josephus incredibly lucky to be one of the only two survivors? Or was he just very good at maths under pressure?

Good collection .

Just to let you know I really enjoy your presentations. 😀👍

But but but...why would they ever even think of rubbing the moldy bread on a wound? I feel like this is the BIG question.

You should have mentionned Jean Perrin, the French physicist who definitely proved in 1909 that the atom existed. He got a Nobel Prize for that!

While being burned at the stake, the leader of the Knights Templar exclaimed that the Pope and King of France (who unjustly caused his murder) would both die by the end of the year to prove his innocence. They both did.

I have a few things to comment: First, what about writers of "fiction" who have predicted things that have come to pass, such as Jules Verne who wrote of space travel and complex submarines, or the writers of "The Jetsons" who wrote of television-telephones and the like? Next, the first entry discussed in this video about Yosef ben Matityahu caused me to think of a Christian by the name of John who lived during the time of Rome's prosecution of Christians. This Christian man, John, found himself at one point hiding in exile from the Roman authorities. While in his exile and angry at Roman authority, John wrote a manifesto which predicted the end of the world as was known. This reminds me of a man from more recent history named Ted Kaczynski, who also went into hidden exile and wrote an "end of the world" manifesto. Other than the time span between the two men, the biggest differences resulting from their respective manifestos, Ted Kaczynski's led to his capture, thus ending the terror of the labeled "Unabomber," while the Christian John's manifesto was adopted by past Christian authorities into the Bible and labeled "The Book of Revelations." (Hope you comprehend what I'm getting at here.) Finally, the concept of an animal giving birth to a different, or evolutionary evolved animal would answer the question, "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" The answer would have to be, "The egg." As the animal preceding the egg would not have been a chicken, so it would have to be the egg from which the chicken emerged. (Oh, btw, I find it difficult to comprehend how anything could suddenly exist when nothing existed before. 0 x 0 = 0. I hope this whole comment inspires thoughtful contemplation as opposed to aggressive hostility.) 😉😁

"only two things are infinite; the universe and human stupidity. and I'm not certain about the universe." credited to einstein.

I predict that simon will keep saying names and words with wild disregard to how they are pronounced in his next video

We can see galaxies that are farther away than the speed of light would allow due to them having been closer to us when the light left them. For all intents and purposes, the universe may as well be infinite, because the laws of physics as we currently understand them, and the bounds they give, have some pretty hard limits. There are certainly things outside of those limits that we can never know.

0:45 - Chapter 1 - The ascension of emperor vespasian 3:10 - Chapter 2 - The atom 5:35 - Chapter 3 - Germ theory 8:45 - Chapter 4 - The big bang 10:30 - Chapter 5 - Evolution

Dude how many hours do you work a day, y’all have so much content!

Thank you for the warning

The concept of the Hindu story being similar to the big bang is interesting to me. I've noticed each major religion has a common element to it and that is a concept of salvation and history being cyclical. I think there was a saying I heard years ago about all stories having an element of truth, some become myth and other become legends. Yet nonetheless each story has an original concept that gets passed on throughout centuries. Edit: English fail. Edit: I seriously hate it when my typing is inaccurate.

My prediction: in 5000 years' time death and tax are still the two unescapable facts of life

Simon needs to up his jacket game. Early af 😉

Simon, love you man. Respect the beard and keep doing you!

Fact boy, I need more compelling casual criminalist or decoding the unknown!

They have the best people names in ancient history. I love hearing them all because I am weird like that. 🤷🏻‍♀️

It's entertainment; take it for what it's worth. Sheeeeesh!!!

That last story is pretty damn wild considering that modern seismologists can't predict earthquakes that far in advance, or at least their ability to is in dispute.

You did mention the Four Elements of Earth, Wind, Fire and Water and didn't do a refence to the band or Fifth Element movie? What has the RU-vids come too?

I get it why this channel’s been so successful.It’s definitely my favorite of Simons “ boring “channels .

I always thought that a movie on the life of Josephus should be played by a young Woody Allen. A young nebbish is made general and sees the Romans approach, he tells everyone they have to surrender but they balk at the thought. The Romans gain the advantage, and he then tells the survivors they must surrender, and they threaten to kill him. He says "JK" and comes up with a suicide plan where he is guaranteed to survive. He surrenders to the Romans and says he will convince his fellow Jews that the Romans are good guys. It does not work. He exacts a promise from Titus not to destroy the Temple but it gets destroyed. He retires to Rome to write books on how if Jews listened to him, they would be partners in Empire.

Aristotle did not add the fifth element. Ether has been the first of five elements in India since before the Greek's milked their first goat. Aristotle was SCHOLAR and LEARNED about this.

Hiranyagarbha = Hiranya + Garbha = Golden + Womb for anyone wondering

That bit about Anaximander of Miletus is interesting because I had always been confused as to how in the catholic deuterocanonical book The Wisdom of Solomon 19:18-19 it mentions water creatures turning into land creatures and vice versa. This book was written around 200BC at the earliest, so hundreds of years after Anaximander of Miletus lived, but perhaps that's all that remainded of his ideas after the greek-jewish exchange of culture and ideas that took place post Alexander The Great? And if anyone is wondering scholars aren't sure of the intended meaning behind Wisdom 19:18-19 so what's written down in english translations of it are purely literal. Although it's suspected that it was utilizing a common analogy for the time (the context seems to imply an analogy that all things change with time, even things we consider unchangable) that's lost its original meaning.

So I have a theory on the expansion of the Universe. the Universe is like an elastic band. before you pick it up it is inert and motion less (Before the Big Bang), when you start to stretch it (The Big Bang), it expands till you are unable to stretch it any further, (the Universe expanding), but if you keep trying to stretch it past this point, one of two things happen, 1. the Elastic Band snaps back (The Big Crunch) 2. it Snaps

The Roman architect Vitruvius in his second book on architecture also outlined his theory that humans had descended from animals. In medieval Tibetan it was believed that humans and bears were descended from a common ancestor, replace bears, the concept was a remarkably modern one, replace bear with chimpanzee and you have our current understanding of primate evolution in a nutshell.

I still think the universe could just be in the early stage of expansion. Just like the first fraction of a second of an explosion it’s accelerating. For all we know the deceleration could happen in a few billion years. If it is cyclical I wonder if life in the 2nd half thinks the universe starts at set size and the shrinks?

for the Vedas, you could say that it all collapses into a black hole, then the black holes become Nairi, until there is a stimulus which causes entropy to violently propagate.

To think that 1500yrs ago we knew just about half of what we already know… and that it’s only been the last 200yrs where we’ve started to advance again. With the last 20-50yrs being the most successful so far.

We really don’t know how old the vedas are. What do I mean ? Also there’s a black hole crunch. What do I mean? Well as enough time goes by and the black holes actually start to eat each other increasing there there gravity and eventually as they come together, faster and faster exerting more and more gravity on space time things will slow and start falling back to the center of gravity and eventually pull everything back into it even swallowing the fabric of the universe. So everything that ever existed will crunch into a singularity and eventually rupture forth,reseeding all of space and time. The funniest or most interesting part of this is that it fits the circular universe described by Hinduism. Also this has real implications for humanity because each time it would become a reboot. And every time a new universe starts it’s probably started over in the exact same nature repeating everything next time exactly like this time..

Do they believe that I’d sit and seriously watch any of this!? My intuition is greater than they can imagine!

Hence my reference username to being a Muon with the atoms and the particles beyond what make sense to most humans... Ahhh, science. :3 Thanks, Simon and team!! :D

I have been waiting forever for this but i was the 4800 like lets go i saw the 7 turn to a 8 WOOO! Simon love your content man keep up the work. and maybe let the editors have some fresh air from time to time 🤣🤣🤣

The image said “Older than you think”. I thought Simon was going to say that he is older than we all think he is! 😂

that is not really a prediction - rather a conclusion, which logic dictates...

What do you mean we will never know how the universe ends? There is a highly successful restaurant there. It ends in a gnab gib.

Not one person with a lot of predictions getting one right, but one person out of a lot of people getting one right.

Given time anything can and probably will happen. If someone talks enough shit and makes enough predictions they will eventually get lucky

Simon when I die will you read my eulogy?

We tend to underestimate our ancestors, their world was harsher and a lot more unforgiving, they had to be sharper and keener than us today to make it through, the fact that they managed to figure that much with far less evidence and tools is some proof of their merits.

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And who exactly were the twitwaffles who burned all of Anaximander's writings?

Jeez, close the close door!

How did the Greeks knew about atoms? Honest question

the funny thing is that "bad air" in a roundabout way became true. It was found out that still air keeps germs floating about nearby longer than if there was steady airflow and ventilation.

I 👍 the background music

Are you related to the artist of Whistler's Mother (McNeill)?

Could it be possible that our 3 dimensional existence causes an incorrect perception of the expansion of the universe? Perhaps some quantum extra dimensional calculus is involved whereby the expansion, in reality, is really the universe expanding into itself. Since the universe is supposedly infinite, or theoretically, what we might wish to perceive as a one directional expansion, is inherently flawed.

That dog in the beginning of the video is *chef's kiss*

The very last prediction about the earthquake could have been as simple as catching on to animals' behavior prior to the earthquake happening, and maybe things are a little less complicated. I'm not sure if I have the idea right, but I heard that a lot of times when we are presented with a multitude of possibilities, the simplest one might be the most realistic choice or answer. I'm probably not saying that right, but I hope I got the meaning across 😅

A person can receive information that is otherwise impossible to know. I knew that a vehicle displaying all the signs of making a right turn would drive straight. There was no way I would have guessed; I just knew. I avoided a collision by heeding that thought.

Why use artwork depicting men in suits of armor when talking about ancient Romans?

Interesting!

- Why do you show old church slavonic (which is about 1000 AD) script upside down at 12:42? - It's all Greek to me

Kicked out of 200 gyms but it's the gym owners fault every time

Krimi is the general word for germs in many Indian languages. Also hiranyagarbha is possibly correct as there is definitely more and more support for multiple big bangs. Folks should take more attention of ancient Indian philosophy. Also I’m sure the vaibhashika theory of atomism predated democritus by…

Make video on Indian USBRL Railway project in Himalayas linking KASHMIR to JAMMU and rest of INDIA by train

the big freeze is another space expansion thing...I think.

GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!! like a day ago, i had a thought about "what if simon covered ancient predictions" and i was gonna suggest it lol

I've always thought Josephus was a Roman mole from the start. His account of his capture is the only one we have and it's pretty convenient he was still alive to surrender. I have no evidence but that's definitely an ancient story that seems untrue.

The problem with disputing the big crunch or the big bounce, is the explaining away the insane amount of superfluids and how they'd react under the pressure.

Rabbi Nachmanides also posited a big band style origin roughly 1000 years ago.

Thanks for the name check 😂

10:33 Looks like the Dos Equis guy. The most interesting man in the world.

Well the atomist guy was both right and wrong. The basic idea is right, but atom CAN be broken up into smaller particles. But yeah, eventually there comes a point when that stops being possible, when you've broken the atom up into particles that can't themselves be broken up.

Guys you need the turn the volume up on your videos. This is really quiet.

Hail Simon!

How about opening Timurs tomb? 🤔

please bring back the brainfood podcast 💙

Why did the 1st century Roman prediction (Vespasian) show 16th century armies?

One day in the great planet of the United States of mars, people will be able to throw their trash into a cabinet and that cabinet will tell you what other trash it needs in order to build certain items for that cabinet to spit out. “Trash cabinet”: please see your current list of items I can make with the current materials…

Theres actually some new evidence that seems to suggest the expansion of the universe may change over time in such a way that it might could weaken or slow. If this turns out to be true after more study and evidence, then a natural possibility is that the expansion could slow enough that gravity could theortically cause a big crunch. Its nowhere near sigma 5 but its a possibility again. Lol

0:20 One person making a million predictions is equivalent to a million people each making one prediction.