The Eye Of The Universe And Its Mechanics Explained - Outer Wilds Ending Explained 

Not often I run into someone who knows the true meaning of romantic. glad to have you around bud. thanks for the kind words!

@@TheLoreExplorer Why, thank you. Same thing here.

Hola Vicente! ¿Hablas español? me imagino que sí por tus apellidos, pero bueno, cuéntame, me llamó mucho la atención tu forma de describir lo romántico, ¿Serías tan amable de profundizar en ello? ¡me encantaría entender el verdadero significado del romance yo también! :)

@@DavideTonelli2705 Español No sé si te sirva, pero aquí te dejaré mi forma de entender lo romántico. Creo yo que viene del Romanticismo, un movimiento cultural de hace algunos siglos, para mi, tiene que ver con la dedicación, la emoción y la importancia que se le da a las cosas, por eso, cuando uno se refiere a lo romántico, generalmente se relaciona con el amor, que tiene cualidades diferentes, aún así, no está siempre ligado a eso. Aún creo que me hace falta descubrir más, pero quizás ésto te ayude a ti y a quien lo lea en algo. English I Don't know if this is useful for you, but I'll show you my own understanding of romantic. I think it comes from the cultural movement called Romanticism, a few centuries ago, for me, it have something's to do with dedication, emotion, and the meaning you give to things, that's why often it gets tangled with love, although they have similar things, they are not always the same. I still have a lot to discover and to think about, but I hope that it helps you and anyone who read this.

@@droikidaz Muchas gracias amigo! tener varias perspectivas de un mismo tema te abre muchas puertas, thanks!

Ehh. Idk about that. Everyone who searched for outer Worlds most likely at least saw outer wilds too. I think it's the epic exclusivity. Along with it just being an indie title.

@@Cenodis I mean, you're watching lore explanation videos on youtube, you have no one else to blame but yourself for the story getting spoiled. This game is low-key enough for you to totally avoid spoilers unless you actively search for them dude.

@@Cenodis it was Annapurna who put it on epic and not steam, as they were the publisher. Mobius is not at fault.

@@Cenodis this game is a game meant for you to not search up anything about it before you complete it.

I accidentaly downloaded outer wilds, thinking that it was Outer Worlds, and this was the best mistake of my life

Thats why this game is a masterpiece. The ending only shows you things youve seen before. for the most part. they scare the ever living hell out of you with smoke and a giant hole in the sky. Its amazing!

I feel less terrified, more exhilarated or excited, and... reassured?

It was scary, up until the campfire reappears. Then it gets cozy again.

What scares me is the fact that the ending will be something we have never seen before, or something we simply cannot comprehend with our simple human 3 dimensional mindset. They did a good job by making it weird and alien, especially at the quantum level.

first existential crisis? you get used to it

I never saw them as voices. Though i have put forward the motion that our song is what the next signal will be comprised from!

To add to this, each iteration of the universe will likely have a different perception on sound. The quantum object sound could easily be a relaxing song in a previous universe but suddenly become terrifying and alien to a new universe worth of creatures.

Holy crap, I just sped up the last few minutes of the quantum fluctuations song (uncertainty principle) by 10 times and it's a distorted version of the main theme.

@@CausticFoil you should post a video of it sped up!

@@CausticFoil Does it tho? YOu piqued my interest so I did the same and it sounds nothing alike, not even distorted alike.

I did the probe thing completely of my own accord, and I didn't know until afterward when I looked it up that the ending changed depending on what you had done. I was wowed by the attention to detail

I am so dense. I did the probe thing but didn't realize the thing flying across the screen was my probe.

Did that too. The fact that you can't get it back had me concerned for a bit

Wait a minute. Wouldn't that mean that the eye we meet could be the previous observer that created our universe?

I personally imagined that the eye is the probe that the previous explorer launched. Your probe is the eye for the universe that was created by your observation.

I mean. It is a new big bang. it is a new universe with new rules. taken from all the possibilities of the last universe. But I will say I think everytime we enter the atp its a different one so that may be why i see it like this! Also, thank you!

@@TheLoreExplorer You're welcome man, I always appreciate people putting out there how cool and complex vgames stories can be. Back on topic though, maybe I misunderstood but, isn't the ATP just sending you back in time? I thought it was always the same universe but 22 minutes before, since your memories are being sent to the past according to all the texts in the game.

Heres how i look at it. We know anything that gets sent into the black hole gets sent back in time. the whole universe doesnt go through the black hole. but then youd say well its the same universe just 22 minutes before the tranfer. but then if WE go through the atp, we end up duplicating ourself. In my mind, this means there is already a hearthian 22 minutes in the past, separate from us that usually receives our memories. Mainly i believe this because the inventor of the statues thought we are doing something different then rewriting time(ie sending our memories back, causing all the actions we took to gain the memories to never have happened.) To state it simply, if our memories get sent back, and we get sent back, who or what is receiving our memories at the campfire?

@@TheLoreExplorer But if everything was sent back to a different universe with a different Hearthian, wouldn't that mean that the experiments that led to the Nomai finding out that whatever you send through the hole came out the other side milliseconds earlier wouldn't have worked? I mean you could argue that in many many multiple timelines **not** universes Nomai are doing the same experiment at the same time, but that would mean it would be very unreliable since there are just to many variables to send something as sensitive as data back in time. For example you could have a timeline where instead of sending a packet of data through that said "Hi" they sent out a "Hello". I think it's not necessary for the whole universe to go through the hole to go back in time. That is because, and this is not too far off from actual physics, black holes are known to bend space _time_ so it's not impossible for it to not only send you instantly light years away, and maybe even possibly send you back in time as well, not rewind time mind you, but send an object or thing to a different moment in space/time. If that was the case and like you said The Eye was a black hole it would make sense to send you back to the big bang. A little detail that the more I think about the more it supports that theory instead of the new big bang/new universe one is the fact that if you launch your little scout into the eye you lose connection for ever, and in the after credits "scene" you can see the scout float across the screen. I like to think it was just a little joke from the developer though, lol. I think that the more I think about the more convoluted it gets

Well, like you said. its all convoluted. and honestly, whichever theory is right doesnt change what we see in game. Anyway, think about it this way. All the quantum objects exist in all possible states at once. Im suggesting its the same for universes. All connected by the eye and other black holes(these are just the doors i guess). So, when we see a copy come out .00001 seconds before we send it in, its a different timelines quantum possibility coming out before you send yours in. Maybe because time doesnt happen at they eye? So, you cant send in a hi, and get hello out. but if you send in all possibilities(hi, hello, how ya doing, whats up?) you can get anything on the other side. Since anything is possible. Thats what we see with the new universe. Thats why they are different. I mean, we see they(the new and old universe) are different. Our scout can get there because the eye connects all "timelines" or universes. but the scout itself had to be entangled with the eye for that to happen. (ultimately i think the devs added this to show we can affect this other universe)

That’s not what I meant. It is what I say. But just cause it’s hard to deal with a split community. What I’m saying is. It’s a huge coincidence that the eye is found in the exact moment it is. Not loop wise or anything like that. If it were found 1 minute earlier Hal would have connected to it. 2 minutes later and hornfells would have connected with it. But it just so happened to be found at the instant it needed to for the hearthian best equipped to solve the mystery. Any other hearthian and this would likely have stayed a mystery forever.

@@TheLoreExplorer *MAJOR SPOILERS FOR THE PLOT, IF YOU HAVEN'T FINISHED THE GAME, STOP* The Nomai probe was only to be sent once the Ash Twin Project were activated. They failed to power it and died soon after because of the ghost matter, so everything was kept in a standby state. Once the sun went supernova, the Ash Twin Project sent the launch command 22 minutes back in time, activating the probe and starting the time loop. Once active, the probe would be launched in a random direction and try to find the Eye. 22 minutes later, the sun exploded and sent back the data the probe acquired and sent the launch command again. It took the probe 9,318,054 tries to find the Eye, and once found, the ATP sent not only the probe data and the launch command 22 minutes back in time, but also sent the sync command this time, which activated the statues and paired both Gabbro's and the Hatchling's memories to be sent back when the ATP is activated once the sun goes supernova. The Eye itself didn't know when to be found, it was sending data that even the Owlks and Nomai could detect. It couldn't be found "1 minute" or "2 minutes" earlier/later, it was just chance; Outer Wilds is not about the Hatchling being the Chosen One or stuff like that, it's just... chance. That's the beauty of it.

Really? what similarities do you see?

@@TheLoreExplorer he might be thinking of an older version of the spacetime ending, which had dark thorny vines resembling those in the dark bramble coming out of the probe instead of the blue cracks shown in your video.

This just made my day. Thank you very much. And I agree death is a message in the game. But Im glad you didnt call it a theme! That sort of bugs me when people think its the main message.

Maybe yes if an advanced alien does it

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it's perhaps an impossible question to ask. i personally don't believe anything caused from the creation of the universe has the ability/capability to affect it in such an incredible way

@@nedyrb133 Most likely not. For this to be a problem matter would have to be able to go back in time. The current theory is that it's absolutely impossible to move matter backwards through time. We can theorize ways to send information backwards, but that shouldn't cause this kind of paradox.

ah well sorry everyone but i fucked up and we will know in exactly 15 minutes. again, sorry, it was an honest mistake ;_;

I mean , not always. But yes. This video needs a major update.

Maybe I worded it wrong in the video. Cause this point keeps. Coming up. But think about it. 5 seconds earlier and Hal is synced with the statue. 1 minute later and hornfells is synced with the statue. It was found in the 30 second span when only we(the new astronaut of the bunch) was next to the statue. That could just be coincidence. But it seems a but egregious to me if so.

@@TheLoreExplorer Except that can't be right. The reason people get synced with the statues is not due to the Eye. Neither is the probe finding the Eye related to it. All of that is because of the Ash Twin Project. The Nomai planned to use the Sun Station to make the sun go supernova, use the energy to go back in time 22 minutes, during which they send out a probe. Repeat this as many times as you need to find the Eye (9.5 million times apparently), and send to the data back each loop through a mask. They also send back the memory of the those linked to the masks so they could stop the project once the Eye is found, or to stop repeating infinitely if something went wrong. The problem is that the Sun Station was not capable of making the sun go supernova, and soon after the failed test, the ghost matter from the Interloper wiped out all the Nomai in this star system. So the ATP was still primed to go as soon as the sun went supernova. Which it did. At the end of its lifespan. It is not unlikely for one of the characters to coincidentally stand next to a statue during the activation in one of these loops. In fact, as the looping would continue forever, it is all but guarantee if small changes are possible between loops. And if the new universe at the end is a time-reverse of universe before it. And if that new universe is different. Then changes to the time loop must be possible.

@@Drakonflare what do you mean that cant be right? thats exactly how the lore works. You say its not due to the eye. but its when the eye gets found. And it may even be able to decide when to do so. but once the probe finds the eye. it sends back the coordinates and activates the statues. then, the next person to walk by the statue gets synced up. Thats just established fact. From there, we can say without a doubt the eye was found when we were talking to hornfells. Doesnt make much sense that it was found at the beginning of the loop. but thats what events are telling us.

@@TheLoreExplorer But those events are not enacted by the Eye but as a result of the work by the long gone Nomai in conjunction with the Sun dieing, right?

The nomai did all the work. but its debatable whether or not the eye "enacted" the result. To me, the eye seems to be sentient. Even though its likely the last consciousness to entangle with it (like we did)that is the actual sentient being. Not the eye itself. There are way too many coincidences(revolving the eye) in the story for me to believe its all by chance.

Thank you very much!

Sebastian Weber he definitely knows his stuff

Agreed, great video and I am very glad to have the ending explained (or at least a theory of it)

I know how the atp works bud. Whoever was next to any statue would sync up. I think it's even loop wide. I forget if Alex answered that one. But... But I just don't think it's coincidence the new recruit (albeit 1000+ times before synchronization) who just invented a translator capable of solving the puzzle was near the statue. Especially since we are able to literally watch the probe launch, and sync up with the statue within minutes. So idk bud. Just my theory anyway.

@@TheLoreExplorer some things happen for the sake of plot. You can't assume deep meaning in everything.

​@@TheLoreExplorer some things are part of the game design, not logical, (requiring to press A to wake up at the beginning for exemple is only to not waste time, but not logical because how Can you chose when waking up? And why would it trigger the 22mi' counter once you do? Are we the time loop? Another exemple is that shuttle dont freeze on the interloper, although their did.

​@@TheLoreExplorer thanks for the content bro ❤️‍🔥

You promise the universe you will create a copy of yourself. If you don't then your copy will not be able to exist when a copy does. So if it can't exist but does then spacetime breaks because nothing can exist without the possibility

No. This is very similar to my theory! I dont see many problems. The only one I see is the fact some quantum objects remain. So if it was observing everything constantly idk why some quantum things still pop up. I tried to frame it as the eye is being portrayed in a literal sense. If its in all possible orbits, its likely around other suns as well(maybe?). So it could observe everything at once. I even believe thats what governs the "spacetime breaking" ending. The eye is whats policing that in my eyes! I do like the idea that the ancient glade is what quantum existence would be without a single set of rules dictated by as quantum observer. Then once we arrive, we observe the entire thing, all the possibilities. Which roles the dice and gives us our new rules. Ive kind of had this sort of thought. but never was able to put it to words. Would you mind if I made a theory video on it? idk if I will but I really want to now lol.

I definitely wouldn’t mind that at all! About the remaining quantum objects, I’m not quite sure about them. An important factor is quantum entanglement. Maybe the eye has the ability to purposely entangle itself with objects, like the quantum moon, and the rocks and areas around them are just an unintended side effect. The objects surrounding the rocks would be entangled with the rocks, and so, by proxy, be entangled with the eye. Not a perfect theory, but it could work.

Actually, now it makes sense why the quantum objects only do happen when they objects in the vicinity of a piece of the quantum planet. Those pieces cant contain their quantum "every statyness?" Though, I need to work out how black holes work into this. They seem to be inherently quantum by nature.

Are black holes quantum? I thought they were mostly separate in their mechanics, with the eye being pretty much a quantum black hole. I could be wrong though.

They seem to do similar things. Two things existing at two different places at once.

outer wilds eye of the universe is like gaster from Undertale you can quess a lot but you will never find a solid evidence how right your theory is

You're welcome bud. The game deserves the attention!

Try to leave that space time where you found it. I'm still using it!

It was added in a recent update. if you go to the atp during the supernova, the black hole there activates. if youre close you get devoured at the same time time gets sent back the 22 minutes. The result is you waking up as normal. yet when you went through the black hole a copy came out of the white hole 22 minutes before that action. which happens to be the second you wake up.

@@TheLoreExplorer Yeah which and if you dont complete the 22 mins loop by jumping through again you die And reality dies

@@seantaggart7382 well yes. I thought the video made that clear lol.

@@TheLoreExplorer yeah

A small correction/clarification: I think when you step into the ATP black hole, nobody dies. What has happened is that you are sent back 22 minutes, and the memories stored in the Nomai statue are also sent back 22 minutes and overlaid into the mind of the you that is sleeping by the campfire in the past. The first time you do it, nobody dies. On subsequent loops, the you that went 22 minutes into the past and is standing in the ATP dies when the nova breaks down the ATP. It's interesting that white-hole you doesn't have the option of refraining from breaking spacetime by jumping in the black hole; I assume that's a limitation to avoid the annoyance of dealing with infinite recursion on a fun Easter egg. ;)

The only reason i dont think it happens before we observe the eye is the quantum nature of it. The stuff doesnt shoot out of the white hole until we observe the black hole. If it was a normal black hole then yes, the jump would happen before our universe, in a separate universe. but the result is basically the same, except our universe doesnt exist simultaneously in the instantaneous bang rather than the . Self is an interesting topic. if he is actually YOU from a past loop, then some weird things MAY happen if self dies. Not that we know for sure, but selfs decisions could alter ours since hes "from a past loop". but to note, once we take the atp core, there is no more memory transfers. So im a bit confused at that last bit.

Tbh I think youre being a bit unfair. This theory has some things that are wrong. And definitely needs an update. But to say I need to go relearn the lore is sort of strange. First - Yes , the eye didnt stop calling out. The dlc makes this clear. But without that clarification its a perfectly reasonable thing to focus on. Second - As for the timing the eye was found. I didnt mean loop wise. Youre right that it wouldnt make adifference whter it was loop 9000 like orignally planned. Or 9 million. I meant time wise. The eye was found as we have our chat about the launch codes with hornfells. If the eye were found even 1 minute before hand or 1 minute afterwards , then we wouldnt be the one connected to the statue. Hal is next to the statue before us. And Hal and hornfells are next to it after us. The eye sort of had to be found the exact minute it was. Otherwise someone not equipped to be in the loop would be the one who walked past the statue when it activates , dooming the universe. With the first point deemed wrong by the dlc this seems less important to focus on. But its still one heck of a coincidence that the eye was found the exact minute it needed to be for us to be in the loop as a new astronaut literally inspired to explore space by the eye. Third - Personally I still believe this to be a quantum black hole. It literally has the exact same mechanics as a black hole in the game. And in real life science there is no difference between a white hole and the big bang sans size. Its a culmination of all the mechanics we see in the base game. So the connections all seem to fit and make sense to me.

Thanks Hassan. You the champ!

My suggestion is mainly pointing out that we were right next to the statue as it activated. A minute before it'd be Hal synced up. A minute after it's likely hornfells. And neither of them could solve the mystery. I doubt that's a coincidence. But who knows.

@@TheLoreExplorer There's an easier explanation: The ATP activates when the sun goes nova, supplying enough power. 22 minutes before this, the ATP receives a signal from itsself that triggers the pre-activation sequence: Fire the probe, collect observation, store results for transmission on next loop. The statues remain inactive. Some thousands of iterations later, the probe finally finds the Eye. The result is transmitted back to the ATP, which then activates as normal when power is available. The next loop, the ATP receives a different pre-activation data transmission: One that includes the Eye coordinates. This causes it to activate the statues. These statues then pair up with the next person to be in their proximity. By simple luck, two of them happen to have people visit them within the next 22 minutes, triggering their link. Note that the link can be formed *during* the loop: When the player character gets 'reset' they go back a full 22 minutes, not to the point at which they encountered the statue. Now we are in the game-loop: The Eye is located, but the ATP continues in the search-sequence regardless until the actions of the player eventually break it, either by destroying the universe or removing a vital component. I would imagine that the ATP also sends a shutdown command to the Sun Station at this point. Though the game doesn't allow it, from a purely speculative perspective there would be nothing to stop the player character from grabbing another Hearthian, transporting them to one of the remaining functional but inactive statues (There's one on the sun station and one in the ATP) and linking them in as well.

@@vylbird8014 The statues only work during the one loop in which they activates. At least when I asked Alex Beachum about when theyd pair he only mentioned that loop. Anyway what i was saying is, yeah, our statue was visited by luck and anyone could of sync up. but three hearthians visited it that day. And it just so happened to be the one marked to go to space with a translator capable of solving the mystery that was sync up. Seems like a bit too much of a coincidence to me. Im not sure how your explanation of how the atp works has anything to do with it.

@@TheLoreExplorer My take on the whole 'statue happening to pair with the player character' thing, is that it didn't HAVE to be you.If it were any other hearthian then they'd pair, gather memories, and eventually lead to them visiting the eye of the universe instead. There just wouldn't be much of a game if we weren't the ones allowed to learn and make the changes.

Yes. If it were any other hearthian they would pair with the statue. But call me crazy, but anyone else besides us, hornfells, slate, and gossan couldn't even attempt to go find the eye. They can't fly a space ship. With that in mind, Hal is near the statue right before us. Hornfells goes down after. The statues activated within the 1 minute or so time frame it needed to to scoop us up instead of them. Doesn't seem coincidental to me.

Just because one event triggers the other, does not mean they are the same event. They are literally two separate events...And youre right. I no longer think the eye sort of planned our sync, but the reason I did is the timing and coincidental nature of it. If the eye were found 1 minute prior, according to the rules of the statues, hal would of synced with the statue. 2 minutes later and Hornfells would of been synced with it. But it was found in the exact short window that brought us nearest the statue at the right time. So it seemed either planned, or a really big coincidence that it was us, the one who was tasked with exploring space, that sync with the statue. But I have sort of since realized that yes, the many worlds interpretation is at play here. So we didnt specially get synced with the statue. we just see a universe that we so happened to be in the right spot at the right time, and not the infinite others where the time loop is kept hidden from us. Also, to be clear, i dont think the eye is independently conscious. Only that when we entangle with it, its able to access or use that consciousness its now one with. To hear more about it you can check out my latest video on the channel, regarding the many worlds interpretation.

@@TheLoreExplorer to be fair, i bringed the many word because of your video ^^. (but i didn't take the time to watch it right now) also, some people made me realise i was wrong on my interpretation of when we sync. as you stated, it's when the eyes is found . the game just doesn't bother to be realy coherent about it to give a better experience, from what i understand. (some people pointed that the game give you infinite time before passing a second time past the statue. even if we see the prob launch at the start. making everything confusing if you search to understand the exact order of event) but i'm totaly fine with sacrificing a little coherence for better experience. edit : also, on my run where i rush the giant deep core, i also found they didn't bother to have the same trajectory on this run and on the canon first run. It seem it was due to technical difficulty. (you also can't follow the prob to find the eye é_è) Ps : when i stated one event, it was an abuse of language, i just wanted to say they are two event in a causality relationship. Because i imagined at the time that the statue didn't need to trigger right when the eyes was found, just when it detected somoene passing by after it was found.

I don't really think an expansion makes much sense. I'm sure they will update it to add a bit more. But I wouldn't expect much in that regard. I do see them doing a prequel/sequel. Especially if this theory is true, it creates a perfect canvas for a very similar story. 14.3 billion years later(or previously) we can have new puzzles to find the eye. All based around exploration of the ancient nomai(or some similar species... I'd prefer the Nomai again though). But they'd face slightly different challenges for us to discover. That's what I hope to see anyway.

@@TheLoreExplorer That's a good point! Wow a reshuffled universe, with new gameplay mechanics (still surrounding the theme of Quantum mechanics) would be a heck of a cool way to give new content. In a way, it would still mock the same sentiment No Man's Sky tried with it's universe reshuffling (nothing was noticably different lol)

An instrument for the protagonist. That's the only thing that is missing

@@Delta_2209 omg, damn good point. The player could choose one, and listen to his friends play for inspiriation to make his own tune >< might even be dlc worthy!

@@TheLoreExplorer we have different tribes of nomai.. maybe since this was so warp based the next one will be more focused on angles and changing planetary movement? Something mind boggling

So, to the eye time is irrelevant. So, once we arrive, we/the eye has all the info it needs to make it happen again in an instant. No choices to be made. They just set the next universe upon a path leading to a new being reaching the eye. But keep in mind there are many different universes holding the same thing. Doing the same thing. So, even if one fails, the cycle is still continuing somewhere else. Like, our 14.3 billion year ending without solanum. We dont see any bug creatures. Even if that universe is void of life. The promise cant be fullfilled and spacetime would shatter FOR THAT UNIVERSE. The eye doesnt particularly care. Its outside of spacetime. So its safe.

@@TheLoreExplorer oh yeah, of course. I wasn't thinking about that. That makes about as much sense as this weird time travel stuff can. Thanks!

Im not sure the universe is ended by the eye. It ends naturally. And we make our way to the eye. But i think that phrase is directly connected to the eye. cause when we get there, we literally become the universe, observing itself. but yes. a very astute observation that went past me at first.

@@TheLoreExplorer the way I see it (no pun intended,) it is the Eye **OF THE** Universe. The Universe's Eye. And if it is shaping the next universe, then to some extent it must have a hand in ending it after heat death

Thats interesting. See, I view it as a sort of natural object.(quantum black hole) The object consumes all data, essentially recording it and "seeing it" as it enters the eye. Then, during the very first universe, someone found the quantum black hole and entered it. and they entangled with the eye, their consciousness became entangled as well. so itd be able to do some very basic things. Like call out and communicate with those there.(through the heartian observatory, or whatever theyd project for other species). Though to be fair, I guess i do believe the eye is whats governing the spacetime ending. So, idk. its confusing lol

@@TheLoreExplorer I try to be wary of more literal interpretations like those, personally. After all, I can't quite remember the log and what it was about, but there's one where a Nomai talks about not fearing something anymore because they're not ascribing traits to it anymore. "It just is", as they wrote. And I think by trying to deduce specific intents and goals to broad concepts we may be losing the forest for the trees sometimes!

"As a child I used to consider such unknowns (referring to the eye)sinister. Now, though, I understand they bear no ill will. The universe is, and we are. I am ready" But Im not sure what you mean by literal interpretations though. Yours seems to be the most literal interpretation. Its called the eye and it is the eye. Im just trying to explain what I see using logic and the preestablished rules of the universe.

I agree with just about everything here except one. I think it'd be more accurate to say the whole universe is one quantum possibility. Rather than saying it's quantum and in Flux. We can see the observation rules are sort of on a smaller scale than universal. Check out my "cause of quantum uncertainty' video if you're interested in the theory.

No, thank you Bryle. Glad you enjoyed it! Hope you find my other videos interesting as well!

I agree with just about everything you said. When we reach it doesnt matter. It can show us the end of the universe right at the start, since it exists outside of time(or acts like it). The eye is very likely some unexplained natural phenomenon. But Im not sure how knowledge would make you a god. it cant do anything it wants. it doesnt pick and choose time and events, or even what the next universe would be. I think when we get there, and entangle with it, our consciousness also entangles with it. Allowing it to show itself when needed, cause essentially, thats all it can, and needs to do to ensure the cycle continues. But you are free to interpret it however you choose. after all this is just a theory.

@@TheLoreExplorer Well, if it's omniscient and concocted a several hundred thousand year long scheme, that's pretty God-like. I suppose I just mean that I don't believe the eye decides anything at all, or knows anything. It just is. Good video, by the way, lol.

i dont really think its omniscient. It does hold all the quantum possibilities, but it cant use that information. So in that sense it sort of is. But it didnt concoct anything. really I just think the eye can uses our consciousness, and that just so happens to hold what it needs. but thanks for the kind words bud.

Ill do to answer what I think youre asking. Im having a hard time fully understanding it. But, heat death still occurs. It couldve taken a billion more years. But when we reach the eye we are outside of time. So it can show us and take us to any point in time. So, from our perspective, we skip all of that. The quantum rules of observation also dont ensure things will exist. but it makes it possible. we can see this in the end slide. If w dont meet solanum, she doesnt come to the eye with us around the campfire. If that happens. we dont see the bug species on the end slide. Not sure why or what difference solanum makes. but i think the message is clear.

I enjoyed reading that. Thanks.

There is large angler fish fossil on ember twin though

Not really. It only changes "the eye used our memories to know when to call out" to "the eye calls out near the end of the universe on its own". The rest pretty much stays the same as far as I can remember. But I could be forgetting something. The vids pretty old.

I named my cat after solanum. Maybe its because i dont enunciate or talk the clearest, but i assure you im not calling her solamun.

I think I mention this in my first eye theory. Its a nice thought that kind of makes sense.

theres the problem. you think its related only to the moon. the quantum stuff is all throughout the universe. its only macro(more than just atoms) in our solar system. The reason for this is the eye is in every one of the cyclical universes simultaneously.(in all possible states at once. this extends to not only all orbits in our universe, but all universes as well. since time is weird at the eye) I also dont see the correlation between the cracks and the pattern inside the eyes smoke.

This was before. Not too much changes though. Just the “why did it stop calling”

Yeah, This video was made a few years before the dlc. Most of it holds up imo though. Still think its a black hole that requires observation and so it calls out. I dont think its entirely conscious anymore. But the majority of this video stays the same in my eyes. It does need redone though

Thats almost what I said in my previous eye theory. Although, I think we would be the signal for the bug species. (Next observing species)And the previous "observer" would be the signal we follow. And to touch on your other comment. The fact the universes have slightly different features and properties is what leads me to believe its not the same observer everytime.

@@TheLoreExplorer I'm glad you got on game like you do because I think it's one of the most immersive video games I've ever played and probably one whith one of the best (and holy cow original) stories in about a decade of gaming, it inspires me to use the unity engine and I hope to see more like it

@@TheLoreExplorer and also did u make a video of y the nomai teleported the vessel to the dark bramble or are u able to explain in the comments?

@@garoldthegreat1897 its never really explained. The best guess imo is how Bramble duplicates signals. They simply picked up and followed the duplicated signal, transferred through bramble. So, when they jumped to the signals source...

maybe a seed landed on the Quantummoon and so the signal got doubled but a good theory so or so Edit: not a seed but maybe the Quantummoon was self the signal and they crashed into it and made it take another location because the moon does vanish if you try to enter it without taking a picture before entering and your own ship stays on the place where it was first in physical room if you change the location with the Quantummoon that is why it can't be a seed of dark bramble

Thats what the ships rumor mode is for. It sort of shows you how things are linked together and retells you the clues youve found

It really is a cool concept. And if you think about it the "big crunch" likely would of had sort of similar results. As in it would of created a new big bang and created a new universe. at least in theory.

But I believe that is simply a limitation of the videogame. What should actually happen is that no explorer should come out of the white hole if we manage to turn off the black hole before it gets inside. If time travel was somehow possible in real life the same would happen as well. But since it's a videogame and there's no actual time traveling then it simply has to act as if it did get in, and then if it actually didn't then they just put a cool death scene and a game over screen.

You are right about the first bit. We don't actually die when going through the atp. We end up inside the ash twin projects, 22 minutes earlier. But, from the perspective of the character we control, we get the same experience as dying, or activating the atp by avoiding death. Now the spacetime ending you conclude to be due to cause and effect doesn't seem to fit to me. Cause and effect is violated every time you use a black hole warp core. Regardless of time differential, cause and effect isn't being respected. This is what leads me to that conclusion. The scout coming out of the white hole couldn't be caused by the scout entering the black hole, since the scout coming out of the white hole happened first. We also can't really rely on characters in universe (such as self) to explain things to us, as the first thing they usually say is "I have no idea what's happening here. But maybe it's this". Now I could be wrong, but it seems likely there is a multiverse, and self or us just can't see it cause we are within one universe. Cause and effect, and the explorers paradox should both dissappear in this case, and what we see should make sense. We jump in the black hole in a separate universe, sending self(actually us who jumped into a black hole already) to our(actually another universes hearthian reicieving our mories via statue) universe. Cause and effect is maintained due to self actually maintaining their own path and cause in space. And spacetime would be destroyed due to the spacetimes future being altered too much. It's all confusing either way, so sorry if the wording I chose caused more of it. Usually I have to convince people we don't die. And self isn't just some magic black hole duplicate. So just casually saying that 1 minute in a video would lose most viewers.

by the way brittle hollow is the best planet imho

In my opinion, that's one of the most difficult places to reach in the solar system, second only to the high-energy lab on Ember Twin

Yes. Itd technically be the same 14.3 billion years. but its sort of interesting. if time is relative. and they all have different possibilities, is it really the same 14.3 billion years? In other words, it was sent back 14.3 billion years, but I still view them as different times. Since the eye lived through it all mostly. Time would still seem to pass for it. idk. its sort of philosophical.

@@TheLoreExplorer that makes sense! Loving the rest of your videos!

@@jaked3328 Thanks bud. Im glad you enjoyed it!

I feel like a lot of people don’t put it together. A quantum black hole. By nature. Can’t be observed. So it’s physical appearance wouldn’t make it look like a black hole. The effects on its surroundings does imo. And the pattern around the eye seems to have energy bursting through it. Yes. These could be design choices. They could also have meaning. Like mostly everything else in the game. The only thing about this video I don’t stand behind anymore is the idea the eye set this all in motion. Or had a plan and what not. The rest I’m 100% behind. The eye doesn’t just look or effect things like a black hole. It acts like it is a quantum black hole. We enter and observe it. Making some of the possibilities it’s gathered certain. This makes the black hole certain. Which would automatically make a white hole that sends things back in time. This creates the Big Bang and the new universe. Our memories effect the outcome of this universe. But that’s cause we entangled and became one with it. And this is all needed for the cyclical universe to continue. What’s also needed is for the observer to meet another species. Otherwise the next universe seems empty. And someone couldn’t make it to the eye to observe it again. None of this is really using the design of any of the art work for a basis. It’s based on how the eye seems to function with the combined mechanics of the three or four crazy phenomenons in the game. Time travel.(14.3 billion years later)Quantum entanglement.(we entangle with the eye allowing it communicate with us using our memories) Black and white holes. (The eye itself and the Big Bang, which is mathematically identical to a white hole.)And the quantum nature of possibilities. (The smoke above the campfire. Solanum quite literally tells us these are infinite possibilities waiting to observed. And once observed. Some will become certain). The eye is also setup and shown to collect and record possibilities. It all just fits to me.

@@TheLoreExplorer oh ok I agree then but how is the Big Bang mathematically identical to a white hole?

I won’t lie. Idk exactly. I just listen to a lot of scientists speak about their field. The Big Bang was a large explosion that violently expelled everything inside of it equally. A white hole would be a large explosion expelling everything inside of it equally. So it makes sense to me the same math would be used to work on them.

Im not sure exactly what I say in the video. But dont you think it sending its signal out is "calling out". Especially after what we see the owl people receive after they reach it? It was literally trying to get a species to visit it and warn them.

@@TheLoreExplorer that's a good interpretation! however, i figure the only way it would be calling out as if it were conscious would be because it stopped calling out - like it decided to stop calling. but given that the signal was jammed instead, then perhaps the planet just lets out a signal all the time?

Personally, I think the eye lets out a signal "when it needs to". Essentially when the universe is going to end (relatively comparative to space time) soon. I dont think the eye "knows" when to do it. Or it calls out purposefully. I just think the eyes been through all of this before and apparently its doing something right! My main theory as to how the eye "knows" to call out is actually us. When we entangle with the eye, we become one with it. Having experienced the universe, we know when the eye needs to call out. And since the eye exists outside of time it could call out into the past. But I suppose the dlc did poke a hole in that part, since it called to the owlks even if we never met them in the future.

I think only the part of the Eye intentionally cutting off its signal is wrong, the rest is a pretty solid theory. What are the chances for _three_ spacefaring civilizations meeting in the same solar system, one of which had advanced cloaking technology, the other _spacetime bending_ technology, and the last one the guts to actually figure out and seek the Eye? In fact, what are the chances the original Nomai would've heard the brief interruption of the signal blocker and even _cared to go_ instead of just chalking it up to "well, that was an interesting oddity, maybe the instruments are on the fritz, let's move on, people." As mentioned in the video, is not that the object has an original inherent sentience of its own, but rather, is an amalgamation of _infinite_ previous consciousness that give it omniscience. And said amalgamation of consciousness _needs_ the input of one current inhabitant of the actual reality in order to forge the next, kinda like a staircase, with the previous step holding you to take the next, and so on. Freaking game messing with my existential crisis, lolz. _Gotta love it._

absolutely. or just the signal that calls the next universes species to find it.

@@TheLoreExplorer that actually makes a lot of sense i just finished this game and wow its good

Absolutely!

I think spacetime would end for that universe. but in my opinion the multiverse theory is at play here as well. so for the eye it wouldnt be too much of a big deal.

oh. i didnt read this right. i guess if the whole infinite possibilities/universes thig got thrown out the window then yeah. spacetime would just end. and itd likely be the eye forver alone.

@@TheLoreExplorer It's all good dude, but yeah, it's a tad interesting to think about tbh, wonder what the Eye would do then outside of just float alone for possibly ever

I explain it better in my "are we the same hearthian video" So, 10 seconds earlier and hal is sync up with the statue. a minute later and hornfells is connected to the statue. The eye activated the statues, or reveled itself, at just the exact moment it needed to. It didnt activate the 9 million time loop. that was the nomai. it activated OUR loop. At the exact second it needed to.

@@TheLoreExplorer The problem with that is that the same 22 minutes looped 9,318,053 times without us before we were even made aware of it so I don't think that's fully the case. Perhaps the Eye decided it didn't want time to be stuck on a 22 minute loop for all eternity and decided to reveal itself.

@@TheZombiesAreComing the atp is set up to find the eye, then activate the statues and make the nomai aware. the eye doesnt want anything. But when we entangle with it, since it exists out of time, we are able to tell it when to show itself to make this future happen. the eye exists outside of time and doesnt really experience these loops.

​@@TheLoreExplorer That still does nothing for your theory. Time had already looped 9,318,053 times before you was paired with a statue, 9,318,053 times that you died but will never remember 9,318,053 times that the probe either failed to find the eye or the eye hid from the probe. That said saying the eye chose to reveal itself seems kind of foolish. If that's the case, why no reveal itself in an earlier loop? Even the very first loop would have everything the same as the 9,318,053 loop [except the probe launch direction] and it's a good thing you don't remember all those loops else the Hearthian character would end up like Nagato of Haruhi who had to endure 15,532 24 hour time loops and had a mental breakdown as she remembered every last one.

The eye wouldnt care which loop it was found in. It exists outside of time. And it didnt make the loop. It has no control over the loop or the loop. Nor which way the probe fires. So, why didnt it reveal itself in an earlier loop? Well, it didnt control the loop and had no reason to. The probe didnt find it until loop 9 million and something and that was natural. But during the loop the eye was found, it was found at the exact right time. Again, 10 seconds earlier and hal was connected to the statue. 1 minute after and hornfells was connected to statue. You can call it cosmic coincidence, but I think thats meaningful in some way. I think the eye existing outside of time and our consciousness entangling with it has something to do with it. And to be clear, there is nothing that can prove my theory. Im not trying to convince you or anything. Just explaining my thoughts and what I think.

So for the statue, yes its set to sync when the statue finds the eye. but the chances that happens the first day we start our journey? again innumerably low. As for the location of the eye. If its consciousness knows where its quantum possibility needs to be, it could show up and stay there. since its in all the positions at once. Hope this makes sense. edit*probe not statue

@@TheLoreExplorer | You wouldn't know this is the first day. The supernova happened 9000 times, you already launched 9000 times but had no recollection of it because time was rewinded. Your story starts on the first day the probe found the eye, since you would keep walking past the statue over and over until the day of detection would actually happen. Also, the probe could be like how you kept the quantum moon in place, except it held a form of abstraction of the image that was saved between cycles (Since Nomai could clearly transmit data through the loops)

Even if we launched 1000 times before the loops first launch and got reset. It'd still be right when we get the launch codes to begin our journey being the second the eye is found. Any earlier and Hal would sync with it. Any later we'd of missed it. The coordinates in space shouldn't count as being consciously observed.(collapsing it to one location) Even the image the probe takes shouldn't do anything without it being looked at now that I think about it. But I could be reading it wrong.

@@TheLoreExplorer The picture is just one form of indirect observation. Another idea, think about it this way. An object can be in any of three rooms, and then without actually going in, you are told which room it is. When you enter the room, you would naturally expect the object to be there? (Your awareness of its location collapses the possibility) About the statue thing, yeah honestly I think you are correct. Even if it was only us walking through the hallway in those 22 minutes, why would it not trigger the first time you went through.

I mean that makes sense sure. but it isnt what we see in game. or else once we visit the quantum moon tracker. itd stay in the location it showed us, as wed expect it to be there. yet by the time we get back to our ship, its already changed locations. Other than that though, does the logic of the video make sense to you?

The only thing the dlc changes in the theory is the eye knowing when to call out. The rest still works perfectly.

@@TheLoreExplorer I say this becasue around minute 6 you said the Eye knew when to appeared and to hide or show on the Nomai probe, but in fact we then learn the if the Prisoner would never unhide the signal, the Universe itself would have died and there wouldn't be any more reality to talk about of. It's such an intrincated story full of theories even after finishing the game many times you still have lots of questions that drives you to keep searching and searching, it really wakes up our scientific spirit of persuing the truth. After all... WHAT is the Eye? Is it God or something made up by him? Is it just part of the Universe itself? Some sort of self-preservating device that at some point will reveal so someone interacts with it and the new Big Bang becomes possible? This game is mind blowing

I know bud. That’s what “the eye calling out” means. At the time no one new about the signals and how they worked. I figured it called out to get discovered by the nomai at the right time. And their probe at a certain time in the loop. But now we know it doesn’t. The prisoner releases it. And the probe just finds it. The rest of the theory holds up.

Yeah. This wording was horrid and way before I fully understood how the probe found the eye. And now we know for a fact it called out way before we ever couldve told it to(regardless if we meet them it calls to the owlks). And its not able to call out now at all. But even so, the eye did reveal itself to(or got found by) the probe at exactly the right time we(our entire universe) needed it to. Not loop wise. But time wise. This could be coincidence of the probe finding the eye in the exact right moment. And from what we see now this seems most likely coincidence. But what I was meaning to point out is how the statues work and activate. If the eye were found 1 minute before it was then hal would connect with the statue since they were near to it. And if it were found 1 minute after it were, then hornfells would be connected for the same reasons. The eye was found at the exact right moment within the loop for us to walk past the statue first while it was active. And keep in mind this theory was made when the number of loops was 9000 something and not 9 million something. So it felt like it being found so early, and at the exact right moment, was more than a coincidence. I still have a hard time saying the moment the statues activate was purely coincidence. But I have different viewpoints now and it likely was. This video needs remade. Oddly enough the quantum black hole and most mechanics stay the same in my theory. Just the evidence has evolved and is different.

Snuggle near the atps open core when the supernova happens! Be sure to head back to the atp during the next loop for a nice surprise.

@@TheLoreExplorer that was absolutely amazing. I thank you.

You're very welcome!

I'm guessing you mean the statues eye and not The eye. But yes. The atps goal was to find the eye. Once it finally achieved that goal the statues activate, and the statue opens its eyes for us. The statues are set up to activate one the eye is found. Then once it does it wait until someone gets near the statue. Then it opens its eyes.

@@TheLoreExplorer Thanks man!

281 042 years have passed since the extinction event that killed off the Nomad clan. Hearthians have evolved to become bipedal land dwelling creatures who can no longer breathe underwater. You, the new astronaut, wake up on the day of your first expedition into space. Slate tells you to get the launch codes from Hornfels. You walk over to the observatory, more than likely chatting with your fellow Hearthians. You greet Hal at the entrance to the museum and they tell you about the Nomai statue that was recently found. After examining the exhibits, you head up to Hornfels, maybe even reading the couple of notes he's jotted down regarding the observations made about the galaxies far out. They then ask you about what your plan is and you respond accordingly. Once they give the launch codes you head back down to the launch tower. You walk past the statue. And then you die. Whether it was an accidental trip you had along the path, crashing your ship into a planet head-on instantly, screaming to death being eaten by an anglerfish, accidentally getting crushed by the elevator when you think it's a good idea to fly back down to the village, crushed by falling sand, crushed by rising sand even, the unfortunate supernova that gets you even when you were careful not to die prematurely or the many number of ways you can die on the multiple planets (how is there not a dumb ways to die parody of Outer Wilds yet?!?!?), within the 22 minutes of you waking up, you most certainly die. And the loop is born. The musty old ATP finally receives the power it's been waiting for from the supernova and creates a black hole leading to the same place but at a different time, sending the signal through it to the equally ancient OPC to fire Probe 1 in a random direction at the start of the 1st loop. What else happens in the 1st loop? You, the new astronaut, wake up on the day of your first expedition into space, noticing that the Nomai satellite orbiting Giant's Deep has exploded right in front of your eyes. Slate tells you to get the launch codes from Hornfels. You walk over to the observatory, more than likely chatting with your fellow Hearthians. You greet Hal at the entrance to the museum and they tell you about the Nomai statue that was recently found. After examining the exhibits, you head up to Hornfels, maybe even reading the couple of notes he's jotted down regarding the observations made about the galaxies far out. They then ask you about what your plan is and you respond accordingly, with the chance that noticing the OPC's destruction has piqued your interest as well. Once they give the launch codes you head back down to the launch tower. You still walk past the statue. And then you die. Because the Eye hasn't been found by the 1st probe yet for you to get paired with, you still arent aware of the loop. And you die again in the exact same circumstance on the 2nd loop and every loop after. Until the 9318054th loop begins. You, the new astronaut, wake up on the day of your first expedition into space, noticing that the Nomai satellite orbiting Giant's Deep has exploded right in front of your eyes. Slate tells you to get the launch codes from Hornfels. You walk over to the observatory, more than likely chatting with your fellow Hearthians. You greet Hal at the entrance to the museum and they tell you about the Nomai statue that was recently found. After examining the exhibits, you head up to Hornfels, maybe even reading the couple of notes he's jotted down regarding the observations made about the galaxies far out. They then ask you about what your plan is and you respond accordingly, with the chance that noticing the OPC's destruction has piqued your interest as well. Once they give the launch codes you head back down to the launch tower. And as you walk past the statue, which is now activated due to the success of the ATP, it turns towards you and records your memories from the start of the loop and onwards, successfully pairing with you. Which is exactly how the game begins. The first time you play, you and Gabbro have no time loop awareness at first but then due to the paths you both had taken in previous loops that brought you close to the statues, you two managed to get recruited by the ATP. Hal and Hornfels weren't because the Eye was found in that time frame you were given the launch codes from Hornfels, where Hal by that point had left the observatory and Hornfels was obviously on the top floor with you. And once the statue pairs, it doesn't pair again with anyone else, which is why both either Hal and Hornfels who can be found at the statue in the next loop doesn't kick you out of the ATP and pair themself with the statue. However, a cool thing is that with the other 5 statues that haven't been paired with (1 in the Statue Workshop, 1 in the Black Hole Forge, 2 in the Sun Station and another in the ATP), you could techincally bring Riebeck, Chert, Feldspar, Esker and Hornfels onboard the ATP. And Chert can finally get what you mean about the time loop you can tell them about right before the supernova

Yep! Thats my guess. but with one caveat. its not the hatching. itd be the bug people from the end slide that is the next species to find the eye. but i imagine its the hatchling version of the bug people. And as a bonus, Maybe, the signal they will hear when looking for the eye will the song we brought there. the song our friends play around the campfire. but thats just wishful thinking. Thanks for the kind words bud.

I mean, that sort of happens. except a single supernova isnt enough to power it. thats what i think the eye is. a quantum black hole. and after we enter the smoke at the ancient glade we are meant with a brilliant light. I think thats a quantum white hole. So technically, we did create spacetime.

Sadly. Personally I haven't been able to find any games that give off the same feeling. A lot of people say subnautica, what remains of Edith finch, and the return of obra dinn. But to me outer wilds feels entirely unique. I'm always on the lookout for more games to cover though!

in every other regard it acts like the atp. so in my eyes Two things were different. This one is quantum foam. (the grey smoke surrounding the eye) The foam smoke ball we see above the fire at the end is holding quantum possibilities for the next universe. we view them to make them collapse. So, the foam is the possibilities(or at least what holds them). which we see the eye suck in.(not the lines) the only ingredient left in my eyes is power. and that gets shot down at us too when going to the eye. the quantum storm we witness while on the eyes planet. so reason tells me its sucking in that power too. And thats likely whats lighting up those lines. whatever they happen to be.

​@@TheLoreExplorer I understand your reasoning but: 1. The next universe is shaped by the eye's observer and the friendships he made along the way, also, if the eye was collecting possibilities from the current universe, wouldn't those possibilities be possibilities of the current universe. also, it makes more sense that all the possibilities are not the possibilities the eye had collected but literally every single possible state. 2. isn't the eye slowly losing power, you wouldn't expect that to happen if the eye was sucking power. 3. that's not a lot of evidence to support your theory.

Listen. I'm just trying to explain a mystery in the game. 1.yes. We entangle with the eye and that sways the outcome of the next universe. And yes. It is every possible outcome. And how do you think the eye knows every possible outcome? Also, I don't know why you think it's losing power.

In other words. It's built to be a mystery. All the hints and pieces are there to figure it out. But it's never explicitly stated anywhere. And can't possibly be tested. So I don't know how you'd suggest I get evidence for it.

@@TheLoreExplorer 1. didn't you say in one of your theories that the eye is losing power. 2. even if it isn't, that still doesn't mean it's sucking energy. 3. the eye doesn't need to know every outcome, there are other ways to explain why the ball has all possible outcomes: a. the ball has every possible outcome because anyone could observe it and choose its outcome, so the possibilities come not from the ball itself, but from the fact that any entity can observe the ball and thus every possibility that an entity in the universe can fathom is a possibility of the ball. b. maybe the ball doesn't hold all possibilities, and the collapsing of the possibilities that solanum mentions is not actual quantum superposition collapse but all the universes that could have resulted through different means being resolved to one. 4. let's assume the eye does know every outcome, why would the knowledge come from the foam, the eye created the foam, meaning that if the foam holds all possibilities, the eye should know them.

Ahh. Yes. A lot of this was my initial theory(unreleased). Alas,The travelers arent really there with you at the ancient glade. They come along as our consciousness which is now entangled with the eye. Though I do believe the signal the next observer will hear is our song. but the previous observer wasnt us(imo). The next observer would be the bug species we see in the end slide.