Movies that Show the True Size of the Universe 

This is why more space stories should stay in a single solar system, im surprised there is no terminology for “solar system” like “global” or “galactic”

The physics of large bodies of resting water never display anything other than a perfect level. Since 70% of the earth is covered in a substance known to lack the curvature required by the proportions of a geometric spheroid with a circumference of 24000 miles, it stands to reason that the mathematical extrapolation of all known “space” is fundamentally wrong due to the fact that earth is the baseline foundation of all subsequent measurements.

On facing the end of everything with grace; "Girls Last Tour" On what space means to humanity; "The Expanse" On the cosmic ultimates; "The last legends of Earth" ..... in novel form only at this time, and it is THE novel that I recommend with them most enthusiasm.

I clicked the link but don’t see any lifetime offer. Is it too late already?

@@jeffus Hey! The offer is valid until the end of the month, if you click on 'get started' the option for lifetime should pop up :)

I wondered where that one person who liked Ad Astra was.

Ad Astra makes me so mad every time I see it. It had SO MUCH potential and they just phoned in the most half-baked and boring script imaginable....

@@davidbecquer3624 I know, the entire thing was a head scratcher of choices. A bunch of wasted cast members, going from a snail pace to the moon action that made zero sense then back to snail pacing. I am not a fan of Tommy Lee Jones either, but if you are gonna put him in an important role, it shouldn't look like he showed up for one afternoon of shooting.

@davidbecquer3624 oh man I couldn't disagree more. I was so moved by As Astra. I thought it was incredible. The only part that felt REALLY bad was the weird monkey attack in space

​@StewartFletcher same I watched it in theaters turned my brain off a little bit and just enjoyed where it was going, made me feel emotions I enjoyed it even if I know many people didn't

...especially when they locked in a perfectly fine abstracted concept of how "light speed" works in their universe.

it's because it's Star Wars, basically Harry Potter in space, so nobody cares. If they did that in Star Trek then I'd be slightly annoyed, but in Star Wars it doesn't matter.

​@@daniel4647cough.. spore drive... cough... red angle suit.. lol

I guess because Star Wars is classic hero's journey fantasy where a "chosen one" magically is able to defy the rules of the worldbuilding

Star wars isn't science fiction; it's science fantasy.

Gravity is pretty good as well, although its scale is smaller than interstellar

And yet, interstellar has some of the greatest problems with not dealing with scale of any science fiction movie ever. They're using goddamn chemical rockets smaller than a house to move around in an environment with velocities measured in fractions of the speed of light and distances measured in billions of kilometers. At those energy and spatial scales those artifacts might as well be inert plastic toys. It doesn't make any damn sense

Narratively sure, but even Interstellar doesn't really show the scale of the universe that well.

@@wajahatrashid8424 no way you think this after seeing the Endurance look like a spec next to Saturn. Or seeing them go through the wormhole. Or when they pull off the maneuver on Gargantua.

Interstellar and Sunshine.

in another life, i was a Fremen of Sietch Tabr.

Dune quickly became one of my favorite films

With time, you'll understand how shitty this movie is.

A masterpiece

i remember that scene. It was amazing to say the least

Sunshine is a masterpiece. Many people did not get it and stil do not get it. This same scene die catch me off guard to. What I felt was mesmerized.

Sunshine is a movie best watched alone in the cinema.

*thus, not hence

I lovedthe idea that Mormons would be the first ones to risk a generation ship to go to Tau Ceti. In the later books, one of the author's background in biology marks it as one of the most realistic staples of sci-fi. Fantastic, if not the best scifi series to date.

Expanse was so good. I really gotta read the books.

It's rated under?? How?

Yup!

Such a great movie.

It was great until the slasher third act.

Very much agreed!

Hadn''t heard of it, but thanks to this video I'm going to go watch it :D

@@Corrupt_be awesome! It requires some patience and willingness to follow where the director leads, but if you do, he REALLY takes you places.

@@Corrupt_be Same here.

Sunshine is so underrated as a great story that never quite got picked up as a gripping sci fi space story. I felt the same way, small and humbled.

Our one true God, with capital g.

I really enjoyed the film, but "nuking the sun to give it a kick-start" is a bit daft🙂

Same here. The whole movie was such a captivating experience that I would like to watch it again in cinemas.

Bro. Intersteller is much dafter to be honest. Sunshine still seems pretty grounded as to every other sci fi I have seen. Apart from 2001 a space odyssey. @@mattvjmeasures

You've described what makes Oppenheimer so great. Not just threat of the bomb, but the entire Cold War is given a face, and the stakes that are so high.

Did he like Sunshine, too?

Yes!@@nuntana2

Thank you. I though I was the only one who thought that way. I haven't seen a better sci fi cinematic experience than sunhine. It is so emotional on every level and helps us actually understand that we cannot grasp at all what scale at universe level really is.

Beautifully put and 100% agree. I often find myself deep in thought and moved profoundly by these fantastic videos. Outstanding.

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You have to read the books. My god youre missing out on so much depth.

It's underrated.

just the fact that communication between mars and earth is on a 20+ minute delay and earth to jupiter communications has a 45 minute delay alone really sells the idea that space is utterly massive

@@M-elephant7777 Yeah, and that's not even that bad. It's like the average time it takes a millennial like me to respond to your messages lol. I love Isaac Arthur's RU-vid channel and my understanding from his videos is that if an alien species has the means to discover us, send probes to our solar system, decipher our language and contact us, then they will have more historians studying earth and our civilization than we have historians, period. Take that for scale, this blew my mind.

@@Gandalf-The-Green I'm a millenial too, don't worry haha

Are you in acedemia, or spent a long time in school? Because I don't get how that would be impressive. I believe there's also more Chinese studying English than there are English speakers in the US. Is that also impressive?

If I remember correctly, that scene was scrutinized because of the Rosinante being like half the size of the moons but with all the science in the show most ppl including the OP saw it more as a nitpick than a problem

On a related topic, I recently calculated the average brightness of the sky if each of our planets had an atmosphere comparable to Earth - it's actually insane how bright the sun is, *Pluto* would get roughly ten times the light Earth does from a full moon, if it had an atmosphere to scatter it.

I once dreamt about space, one and only dream in which I could, to some extent, control the narrative, and the space in it was so vast, the distances between where the two last people, sister and her brother in cryo, buried in some asteroid, and the stars she went to was almost like in another dimension, that's how far it was, and an overwhelming dread took over me when I "realized" the scale of it all... How the story went was so exotic, something out of this world. It's, now when I think about it, comparable to our forever lost childhoods, which whatever we do, will never reach for it again. Those memories are still in my brain, but every cell, even the one holding said memories, has since changed many times over, almost as if we're not even the same people we were before, when everything was simple, easy and most importantly, carefree. We will never get back those feelings. We surely never again will be carefree, because we saw the devil. Growing up we learned not everyone is a good person, nothing is simple, and the world, time and again, throw at us different kinds of evil. One of them, perhaps the most evil of all, human beings. They can destroy your life in mere seconds, taking away everything away from you, your dignity, possessions, your mental health, self-esteem, ultimately your life, either by self-hatred or by their hands. We are the biggest enemies of ourselves, cause we can very vividly recall the worst memories, that can haunt us forever. We can relive the past through memories, but unfortunately we tend to focus on the bad things. I cannot remember the last time I was happy, like truly happy, but can easily recall everything bad. In that sense, we stay connected to the long gone past, yet it is unreachable at the same time. And so it is, my childhood feels like a completely different life, someone else's even, like in some sort of another dimension, that I have no access to. I wish I could so so much. A time, where people actually met. A time without the biggest threat to human kind - social media, which feeds us with death, fear and nihilism. That nothing really matters, what I do or do not do, it will fade away along with the greatest minds of the past, present and future. Sometimes I ask myself, what is the difference between living in a forest and human settlements. There is almost none, no matter how great tech we achieve, the former at least gives me some peace. We didn't evolve to live in concrete jungles, depression by far proves it, which unfortunately I am a victim of too. Depression really changes perspective on alot of things. For one, you are the center of the galaxy, everything revolves around you, your pain, eternal suffering, losing people you thought were your friends. It hurt at first. Now I am bothered when someone calls and wants to hang out, because I cannot exit like in games when I'm bored. So, I live on this tiny, lonely speck of dust, alone by myself and wish to leave the Matrix, wake up from this nightmare, this simulation created to torment me and test my limit till I give up. When I sleep, sometimes there are no dreams, there's just the void, in which I don't feel anything, and it suits me. I'm sure everyone experienced it, you go to sleep, some time passes, you wake up and that's it. That's how I think about death. Will it matter at all, in the grand scheme of things? Not at all. We are here just for few seconds, and by the time double the amount of that will pass, some new specie will become sentient, only to discover our bones and nothing besides that, just another primitive beings, because our buildings and especially electronics, will long since disappear, as will they, and those after them until the Sun cooks our planet, long before it swallows it, leaving no trace of this conversation, us, Earth.

Dude could read a chicken soup recipe and I’d get choked up

Yup good movie. The only issue I had was they ignored the gravity problem.

Such an incredible movie.

Interesting opinion, and one I think probably resonates with many people who have dealt with mathematical infinities. However, to push back on this a little, I found the opposite sensation you had in terms of infinity becoming comprehensible and reasonable. When I first began seriously working infinity in a real analysis course, I had the same sensation. It becomes second nature in some sense, working with mathematical infinity via limits, series and sequences becomes mechanical and the philosophical side gives way to the mathematical reasoning and conclusions you arrive at. Even the harmonic series, a famous example of a non-convergent series that at first, intuition suggests it must converge. When you see the proof as to why it doesn't converge, you feel assured and return to that comforting feeling that you understand, in some mechanical and mathematical sense, that you get infinity. It wasn't until a grad course I took in Measure Theory that I felt some discomfort with the concept of infinity. Cantor's theorem based on taking power sets to show there exists an infinite number of infinites, and more profoundly still that infinities differ in some notation of size dents that feeling of comprehension you once felt. In coming into contact with the rigour at the foundation of ZF set theory, things like the Axiom of Choice wreak havoc on your mind and impress upon you the bizarre shit that arises when you consider the infinite. I think infinity is something Math has been forced to impose a great deal of structure on such that it can be tamed and utilised as a tool, but justifying these structures becomes a philosophical debate. In summary, I came out of that course feeling like understanding, and specifically, working with mathematical infinity is entirely different to comprehending the essence and grandeur of infinity itself.

Hey! Wow what a coincidence! I happen to be re-reading that wonderful series literally right now! Even though I'm an avid reader, I nominally have a rule to never repeat books, but for several reasons I agree that this series is well worth re-reading. This video is focused on scale in size/distance, while The Book of the New Sun tries to convey inconceivable amounts of *time*. (To those unitiated with it, it is set unknown millions of years in the future when the sun is dying and civilization has flourished and collapsed and forgotten countless times. For instance, the sand in beaches and deserts are rumored to be ground up plastic from previous epochs. But the few remaining people have practically no knowledge of those lost eras. I could go on, I hope I convinced some of you to check them out.) Have you read the follow-up Urth of the New Sun? (I find that to be underrated. I enjoyed it just as much.) The sequel series, Long Sun and especially Short Sun are also excellent. (However, admittedly I do not understand the Short Sun series half as much as I'd like to.) Well cheers brother! You have great taste! I'm going to go back to the book! PS- DEFINITELY Watch Sunshine! Normally I hesitate over-selling a movie (which tends to lead to disappointment) But It is one of my absolute favorite movies, as a Gene Wolfe fan I guarantee you will love it.

I'm also rereading the first two books (which are now in one "Shadow and Claw") the next ones will be new to me. A small correction, the sand is from glass, as in glass-covered skyscrapers turned to sand. Another great notion is humans giving up their organic bodies to travel through space, then returning to "Urth", wanting to feel the motions they had previously sacrificed. It's about vast stretches of time, but also cycles. No matter how vast, they still are returning to their beginning.

Oops, another correction, in the first books, its only a few thousand years (5?), the sun's death is greatly rushed, possibly by a small black hole in it's interior. I understand that ventually the books discuss millions of years, and Several goes back to the ancient Incas. But the Sun's death is not the predicted one in millions of years.

@@squirlmy hey thanks for the corrections. (I admit I feel like an idiot reading these books, missing what should be obvious.) That makes sense, as in a couple billions of years the sun is supposed to bloat to the size of a red giant swallowing Mercury, Venus, and possibly earth. Plus prior to that the sun will get *hotter*, not colder as alluded to in the books. (I recall a later scene from a previous reading which alludes to another ice age.) (Btw-The scenario you suggest is again the plot of Sunshine - a "qball" makes the sun die prematurely.) Still the concept is the same with forgotten past civilizations and technologies being "indistinguishable from magic."

That was Sagan's own voice. Why are you asking him to repeat what he's literally already done? And how would "updated" music or video improve upon it?

I need to rewatch The Tree of Life

Actually, there was some discussion of this on a science podcast, and it was generally decided that the average biological cel is about medium in size. But then, that's the thing. Though the planck is not infinitely small, and the largest "thing" in the universe is not infinitely large, the two are as close to infinity as a finite thing can be. And you could arguably put a lot of things right dead center of two infinities. More importantly, there's a poetic truth to this notion. We are more or less in the middle, giving us the best vantage possible for experiencing the universe. And yet, our vantage is so utterly limited.

It's a good life.

Me too, often.