TIMELAPSE OF THE FUTURE: A Journey to the End of Time (4K)

melodysheep · 113.3M views · 2019 · 29:21

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Cosmology & astrophysicsDocumentaries & storytellingdocumentary

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN people recommend it as a stunning, mind-bending and existentially humbling view of deep time, and it appears on lists of favorite YouTube videos.

What it is

A 29-minute cinematic timelapse by melodysheep that journeys trillions of years into the future, covering the death of the sun, the end of stars, proton decay, black hole evaporation and the fate of the cosmos.

Recommended by 13 HN commenters across 12 different months, 2019 to 2025.

What Hacker News said

Strong rec sharkweek · 2023-02 · on “How Will the Universe End?”

One of my favorite YouTube videos does a great job with visuals and voiceovers about what will happen over the next trillions x trillions of years: [this video] No idea how accurate it is against anything that might be more theoretically accurate but it’s still a great watch.

Strong rec purgedreality · 2024-10 · on “Ask HN: What's your favorite YouTube video, ever?”

Journey to the End of Time - [this video] Veritasium on Thermite reaction - [LINK] Problems of a Shared Office - [LINK] History of the entire world, I guess - [LINK] Colin Furze Underground Activities - [LINK] Future of Reasoning - [LINK] Sex in Trek - [LINK]

Recommends xz0r · 2019-11 · on “Interstellar space even weirder than expected, NASA probe reveals”

I wonder if there is a documentary with visual explanations. It would be amazing to watch and understand. I recently saw a mind-bending documentary[0] titled "Timelapse of the future", there's a brief mention of Voyager, it shows what happens to the universe in the long run and how it ends. [0] [this video]

Recommends enpap_x · 2020-12 · on “The universe is expanding faster than expected”

This video from melodysheep puts the long, long, long future in perspective for me: [LINK] [this video] -- DESCRIPTION FROM YOUTUBE -- Support my work on Patreon: [LINK] | Get the soundtrack: [LINK] | How's it all gonna end? This experience takes us on a journey to the end of time, trillions of years into the future, to discover what the fate of our planet and our universe may ultimately be. We start in 2019 and travel exponentially through time, witnessing the future of Earth, the death of the sun, the end of all stars, proton decay, zombie galaxies, possible future civilizations, exploding black holes, the effects of dark energy, alternate universes, the final fate of the cosmos - to name a few

Recommends hliyan · 2020-12 · on “Beyond “Fermi’s Paradox”: The Percolation Theory Hypothesis”

When you consider the potential age of the universe [1], we can also argue that the universe is currently in its extreme infancy and we many in fact be one of the very first civilizations to start thinking about other civilizations, and all other "firstborn" civilizations are similarly constrained by technology. [1] [LINK] , more dramatically portrayed in this excellent video: A Journey to the End of Time [2] [2] [this video]

Recommends philjohn · 2021-07 · on “Kepler telescope glimpses population of free-floating planets”

From my understanding the universe is but a toddler - the longest stretch of its life will be AFTER the last stars have died - this video is somewhat existential dread inducing [this video]

Recommends rapnie · 2021-11 · on “Timeline of the Human Condition”

"Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time" is also quite mindblowing and impressive. [this video]

Recommends Isinlor · 2021-12 · on “Ask HN: Long-form info-dense videos on YouTube you would recommend to anyone?”

Everything from 3 blue 1 brown: [LINK] Visualization of Quantum Physics (Quantum Mechanics): [LINK] history of the entire world, i guess: [LINK] TIMELAPSE OF THE FUTURE: A Journey to the End of Time (4K): [this video] Humanity was born way ahead of its time. The reason is grabby aliens. and Grabby aliens: when we'll meet them, how big they are, and other predictions [LINK] [LINK] Everyday Astronaut videos (he has 90 min documentary on Soviet rocket engine): [LINK] Cool Worlds - a lot of 25-35 min very nice astronomy explanations: [LINK] 'A Universe From Nothing' by Lawrence Krauss: [LINK]