And instead of zooming out, if we go the other direction and zoom in, the actual spectrum of size becomes even more mindblowing. From the size of a human, to a human hair, to a human cell, to molecules, to atoms, to electrons and quarks, all the way down to the smallest thing in the universe, the Planck length, at 1.6x10^-35 (that's 16 preceded by 34 zeroes and a decimal point) you'll notice that we humans are relatively actually closer in size to the whole universe itself (@10^26 metres) than we are to the smallest thing in the universe. An electron is 10^-18 metres wide. So from the perspective of an electron, we humans are 100 light years large.

@darrenb7372

2 жыл бұрын

Boggling my mind!!!

@jedaaa

2 жыл бұрын

Except the size of electrons is unknown

@deltablaze77

2 жыл бұрын

@@jedaaa Nothing is known jackass, but things can be significantly more likely than not and their approximation of an electron is inside an extremely small margin. It is asinine to say the exact measurement is unknown.

@dickdeoreo

2 жыл бұрын

They’re just trying to inject themselves into a discussion that they have little offer

@soccerguy2433

2 жыл бұрын

No

It's incredible that some people have figured this out Incredible knowledge and understanding, almost humanly impossible to grasp

@SyedSaifAbbasNaqvi

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks to the Hubble telescope and Hubble himself. Also Cosmic microvave background radiation. Also the Hubble deep field. Also all the astrophysics and astrologist who made it possible. Incredible.

@chamicels

2 жыл бұрын

@@SyedSaifAbbasNaqvi I can't wait for the James Webb pics.

@joellegreig6955

2 жыл бұрын

@@SyedSaifAbbasNaqvi Astrologist? You mean astronomer? Nowhere does astrology fit into the scientific realm of our universe. Astrology is one more of coinky-dink than not.

@sarcap49

2 жыл бұрын

@@chamicels You will be waiting a long time.... No traditional pictures will be coming from that telescope.

@teemack202

5 ай бұрын

so incredible. and that we have just figgured it out after thousands of years of existence and now that we have, the possiblilities are endless while building on that knowlege

Gives me goosebumps thinking about how big the universe really is.

@earlaweese

2 жыл бұрын

*The possibilities are endless... once we figure out a way to travel it. Hopefully, teleportation and telepathy is real.*

@craigfowler7098

2 жыл бұрын

I feel small

Special thanks to the cameraman who travelled all the way to the edge of the universe to show us how big it is

@AyushKumar-pt7bx

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed , Thanks to BBC for this amazing comparison. But Actual Stuff is way more exciting that we thought.

@clipzone6390

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly now we know where our licence fee goes.

@halveliko5731

2 жыл бұрын

This joke is even funnier now after the 5444566754332345th time

@MrGervasius

2 жыл бұрын

Stolen from a similar video.

@ToBeOrNotToBeThatIsTheQuestion

2 жыл бұрын

Please. Enough with this copied and pasted comment. Originality is key.

The fact that we can somehow comprehend this is even more fascinating. We’re less than tiny specks in an endless sea, but at least we have consciousness and can try to understand.

@MsAsim123456

2 жыл бұрын

We are not without purpose.

@bubblehead78

2 жыл бұрын

I am unable to comprehend this.

@jeffreyatlee8785

Жыл бұрын

Speak for yourself. I love this but I cannot even really grasp that all planets in our solar system could fit between us and the moon😮

I love Brian Cox. He seems so gentle, so sincere, and is so passionate about his career. And bless him, he has got a megawatt smile!

@mathsipe

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly

@bobbybingle1662

2 жыл бұрын

Boring, patronising voice but he is great for insomnia.

@rockyhydra713

2 жыл бұрын

​@@bobbybingle1662 Patronising? I think that's Neil deGrasse Tyson you're talking about there 😂

@marspp

2 жыл бұрын

Here’s the thing... science documentaries these days “need” a personality to present them as we seem to have developed a need for style over substance. As if the science on its own weren’t amazing enough... This video is actually a good excerpt: show us / tell us what’s happening. We don’t need to see the presenter looking up in awe at the sky: we can do that ourselves. Many documentaries these days are full of the presenter and not the subject and being told what they’ve already told you. An hour documentary seems to have about 15 mins of content which is a shame.

@bobbybingle1662

2 жыл бұрын

@@rockyhydra713 Nope, he sounds like a primary school teacher talking to 7 year olds. I know some adults are a bit dumb but he is taking it too far for genuinely intelligent people. Let's be honest,the type of adults who know nothing about space or the cosmos are unlikely to be watching anway because they will be busy watching reality tv or a soap episode. He should be on children's tv. Get one of the Sky at Night presenters. They won't because the BBC are trying to sell his sickly sweet and slightly effeminate persona.🤢

Doesn't get any better than being explained by Professor Brian Cox, my favorite [particle] physicist. His verve for the "Wonders of" is very contagious. He's the reason why I've always enjoyed learning about the Cosmos, down to the smallest of particles - the neutrino. When he explains in layman's terms, it's easy to wrap my head around what all is behind the building blocks of our universe.

Brian Cox is so easy to listen to, and extremely bright!

I still remember watching this in a planetarium back in the early 80's. It felt like Plato's Cave Allegory to me. The shockwave, metaphysically speaking, was so powerful that I can still feel it today. This is one hell of an eye opening experience.

Brian Cox and Richard Dawkins are my favourite British people. With love from Russia.

This reminds me of a Mandelbrot set... doesn’t matter how far you zoom in or out there is an infinite amount of detail and patterns. If size, distance, speed, time is relative then maybe our entire universe is contained within a single atom in a much larger universe etc etc.

@noonehere0987

2 жыл бұрын

I view that relation a bit differently. If you consider quantum effects / sum over all paths, then you should see something like the parameter space complex fractals in slices over the resulting "multiverse" (so to speak, whatever your interpretation, there is an equivalent "structure" to it). If you look at the Mandelbrot set, you'll see it's self similar, but not identical, there are small variations in the patterns depending on where you zoom in, and then when you do zoom into another mandelbrot set, it's always slightly different. This is analogous to how every branch of possibilities created in the multiverse all differ slightly by the quantum decision that was made. A way to look at it is the multiverse is the Mandelbrot set and our branches are Julia sets. It's not a perfect analogy, but I'd wager it's remarkably close.

Mindblowing video indeed. In a universe so big, it’s hard for me to believe that earth is the only planet that can support life.

@matthewviramontes3131

2 жыл бұрын

Or moon. There's a very strong probability that life exists on Enceladus or Europa, a couple of the moons in our own solar system.

@bobbybingle1662

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe life was a miraculous event that happened once. Call it God or whatever but maybe we are a once only miracle.

@TJSaw

2 жыл бұрын

@@bobbybingle1662 To make that claim, you would need to know with absolute 100% certainty, that none other of the trillions of planets out there in the universe have life. Which you don’t.

@bobbybingle1662

2 жыл бұрын

@@TJSaw "Maybe" is not a claim buddy, it is just a proposal.👍

@vb2388

2 жыл бұрын

Primitive Life in other planets does exist…it would be laughable if it didn’t considering how vast the universe is.. Intelligent life, if present would be rarity imo…perfect conditions and perfect circumstances has led us to evolve on Earth..

It would be incredible to have someone talk like this. You can listen all day long.

There are days I am so very happy BBC airs bits and pieces and more on KZread. This is simply brilliant! Appreciate Brian Cox, too. Thank you... 🌻

Can't wait for the James Webb telescope to come online.

@thetoxicinspector

2 жыл бұрын

🗣

@famalam943

2 жыл бұрын

It’s fake

@notmyname4261

2 жыл бұрын

@@famalam943 Troll off

@display5395

2 жыл бұрын

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@display5395

2 жыл бұрын

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Awesome video! Absolutely inspiring and yet also deeply humbling. Brian Cox presenting this makes it even better!

@thetheoreticaltheologian2458

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely humbling in deed. For the heavens declare the glory of God Almighty! God who is infinite in glory created the heavens and the earth to display how great God is and to humble us in His presence and understand that in our sinful rebellious state that all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God Almighty. No one is good before God by our own attempt at self righteousness. If He counted our sins, who could stand? Our “good” deeds, are like filthy rags. However, God so loves us that the Father sent the Son Jesus Christ to come to earth to live out the perfect righteous obedient life and that since He was sinless He is worthy to be called the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. For who ever believes/loves/faith/trusts in Christ Jesus for salvation that He died and rose from the dead to defeat death and sin for us who believes so that we can be made new, righteous having no sin in us because of Christ Jesus we can then approach the holy throne of God Almighty created of the universe in righteousness and enter into the eternal Kingdom of God Almighty. For God demonstrated His own love for us, in that while we were still yet sinners, Christ died for us! In Him we have eternal life! I pray you humble yourself to God in Christ Jesus who is the Lord and Savior of the world!

@sideboob6851

2 жыл бұрын

@@thetheoreticaltheologian2458 Nice story. Now prove the existence of this god.

wow...his voice along with the video made all this into a hypnotic session!

Mind-blowing distance. Nature at its best.

It's videos like this that make YT worthwhile , and after watching this I feel as if I have to lay down as my mind is blown .

This was just ultra- cool! I especially liked when he said about our Earth "what a jewel!"

Isn’t it crazy we exist inside of the universe. It seems like it’s “out there” and we are here away from it but we are literally in it.

@PhaRoaH87

2 жыл бұрын

Ughh 😬. Bringing the word Literally into talk about the universe is awful 😂 Have some respect you damn earthling child :)

@First.Last.99

2 жыл бұрын

and there is nothing under us, its universe, space... just scared a bit of something big hitting us at the same time with billion other galaxies.

@jeannieramberg4566

Жыл бұрын

Just a tiny speck of dust floating unsuspended in a the blackness of space. Really makes you think. We are space creatures living in outer space.

That sure is a nice picnic. Great scenery.

When I was about fifteen, a good few years ago, my younger sister burst into tears trying to comprehend our discussion on "how far, how many?" It does stretch the ability of our minds, even with the gentle narration of Professor Brian Cox.

@lovelikewoe17

2 жыл бұрын

You guys are experiencing Existential Crisis. Just dont mind your curiosity and live your life.

Absolutely beautiful! Extremely well done!

I usually think about this concept every night and realize that the human brain really doesn't know how to comprehend big numbers. The universe is massive.

My intellect blowed away after 10 secs. Such an Insane scale.

So well done. I truly love this Thanks for putting this together 🙏

when the galaxies started looking like stars, my jaw dropped, and then it was open until the end.

Joe rogan’s podcast brought me here. He once asked Brian to describe how big is the universe with 2 trillion galaxies, n now by this video at least I can sort of visualise it even though it’s still hard to perceive . Thank you mr Brian. We need more of this kind of video n explanation

the human mind cannot grasp the definition of infinity

@K1lostream

2 жыл бұрын

The human mind *created* the definition of infinity..... Perhaps you meant the human mind cannot grasp infinity?

@checkmate79

2 жыл бұрын

I disagree at least when it comes to space. Think about it. It is easier to imagine an infinite amount of space than an area of space that is finite. As big as the universe is if it was finite then it could be measured. Then the question becomes why isn't it larger. An infinite amount of space makes more sense. Ironically it is hard for me to grasp an infinite amount of matter such as stars in an infinite universe.

@HunterPeale

2 жыл бұрын

@@checkmate79 yes....it absolutely cannot be quantified, therefore we can only think of it in the abstract because it's not actually within our realm of experience.....until we croak, which i did 9 years ago. still extremely annoyed at being revived.

@HunterPeale

2 жыл бұрын

@@K1lostream perhaps i should have said concept rather than definition. or better yet, infinity cannot be reified by, or within the human mind. during the 20+minutes when i didn't breathe and the subsequent weeks in a coma i came up with a few odd thoughts.....like time does not exist.

@K1lostream

2 жыл бұрын

TEB#8 Well, I don't pretend to know the answer - but it is certainly possible to have a finite universe that can't be measured. The observable universe can be measured, but the stuff that is further away than light has had time to reach us in can't be. As I understand it, the universe, if indeed it is infinite, would already have been infinite at the point of the big bang starting, and the expansion is just the distances between matter increasing (so the big bang would not be an event in the past, it is still banging!) I am reasonably comfortable with the idea of infinity as a concept, but as an actual property of the universe, either in matter, or space, or both just makes my brain turn somersaults! I have to say I am much more comfortable with finite, but just very, very big! That also leaves room for other universes - I have no particular reason to imagine there are any, but we've been wrong before - we used to think there was only one sun, then it turned out the stars were suns too, and there's loads of them. Then we thought the galaxy was the universe and only realised later that no, some of those nebulae we saw were other galaxies and there were loads of them. Now we think there is only one universe.... we will almost certainly never know the answer but why could there not be loads of those, too? And if there were loads of them are they all infinite? And if they are, what separates them from one another? Arghhh! My poor brain!

Please show this video to all the world politicians who keep fighting all the time. This is how small we are 🤦🏻 Microscopic creatures

Brilliant video. Thank you Brian cox

Brian Cox voice is so soothing 😌

Thank you soo much BBC

Space is phenomenal. The magic is not separate from you.

Space is something that has always blown my mind

@renejean2523

2 жыл бұрын

I can't understand how it wouldn't. But still, I have friends who, unlike you and me, never give it all a moment's thought.

When we are able to one day zoom out far enough, we will find that our universe is just a speck of fluff in the bellybutton of a intergalactic teenager.

Beautiful. Miss my native Sicily...

One word: Mesmerized!

Some soundtrack tipps (all tracks are around 6min 20sec playtime, play music tracks beginning with second 0:30 of this video, you find them here on YT): * Phelian - The Only Thing * Michael Mashkov - Korea (Sam Davies Remix) * Ben Böhmer - Fade To Blue * Lessov - Odyssey (Jelly For The Babies Remix) * Civil Servant - History Deleted inspired by the original "Powers Of Ten" aligned with music track "Microscopic" by Gas (egBWkVfBdCw).

Just goes to show our personal problems are really quite irrelevant in the grand scheme of things!

@daheikkinen

2 жыл бұрын

Jupiter has big problems. Cryin up a storm over there

@Rihtainshtain

2 жыл бұрын

Nonsense

@freeasabird4659

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed, this thought helped me when very depressed. We are just tiny specs of dust, lucky to be aware of our surroundings.

@Redsince66

2 жыл бұрын

In the grand scheme of things no but in the everyday scheme of things yes.

@Oyzatt

2 жыл бұрын

Is also important to point out that we're all stuck on this never ending rotating rock we call our world

That hurt my brain. Incredible!

Loved it! Love the narrator even more

This is one of the best videos I've seen on the topic 👏

Simply mind boggling

Astonishingly we can make a similar journey in, to the quantum universe

Fingers crossed for the launch of James Webb Space Telescope. In a few days, this video would probably become outdated.

@terraneko8999

2 жыл бұрын

its gonna take quite a bit of time for the james webb too unfold and cool down sadly but after that its go time

truly wonderful

Beautiful explanation!

This burns my head out but it's really good

Mesmerizing!!

It really is interesting how much we've been able to learn about the universe. In a way I think that learning has followed the powers of ten model as our technological advances have accelerated, enabling us to 'see' further and further out. And now, with the successful deployment of the new James Webb Space Telescope, our vistas will expand exponentially and hopefully our understanding of the universe along with it.

@roop1801

2 жыл бұрын

Bro, do you beleive in God ( Creator ) ?

It is mesmerizing!

damn impressive

Breathtaking!

The true size of the universe is like a riddle that can never be solved.

@First.Last.99

2 жыл бұрын

we will solve it

Great work

Absolutely mindblowing!

Beautiful speaking voice

excellent presentation..

FWIW, their is no spatial distance to the CMB. CMB emissions are back in time, not far away in space. The light of the CMB is all around you. The stuff at the edge of _observability_ has by now moved well beyond 13.8 billion light years, probably to something around 40 billion light years.. And through looking for other clues in the CMB and applying some physics we can estimate that the stuff of our universe, though outside of our observability, is probably another order of magnitude beyond even that.

Just astonishing!

The space always amaze me🤯🤩

AMAZING!

Mind-boggling.

It's hard getting to point B sometimes but I manage. Earth's dark side looks amazing at night and totally worth the gaze.

Goosebumps

Fantastic !

It blows my mind, and it’s a very fascinating

تبارك الله احسن الخالقين.. بديع السماوات والأرض سبحانه وتعالى وحده لا شريك له له الملك وله الحمد وهو على كل شيء قدير

Awesome video!

Imagining three of our solar systems fitting inside the Schwartzchild Radius of a supermassive black hole is one of the wildest things I’ve heard about in space news recently.

Fascinating!

@guff9567

2 жыл бұрын

There is NOTHING mind-blowing about the size of the universe unless your brain is subnormal.

It is not the eyes that are blind, but the hearts.

Super Informative Video 🥂🍾

What are we, just a dust in the Stars ✨

Beautiful, undeniable evidence of intelligent design

Would be funny if they showed the Tardis flying

Subhanallah walhamdulillah Wala Ilaha illallah Wallahu Akbar

Beautiful

Just wow, how fascinating to discover other life forms more intelligent than our own.

@kiranmishra4546

2 жыл бұрын

If they are intelligent more then first they will take ur ass

@renejean2523

2 жыл бұрын

True. Or to discover that we ARE the most intelligent life.

@charlestownsend9280

2 жыл бұрын

@@renejean2523 I think that is the most horrifying discovery that we could ever make.

@renejean2523

2 жыл бұрын

@@charlestownsend9280 - I'm not sure I'd use the word 'horrifying'. Just plain mind-blowing, perhaps.

@charlestownsend9280

2 жыл бұрын

@@renejean2523 the idea that in an infinitely vast universe the most intelligent thing there is being humans is definitely horrifying, humans aren't even that intelligent, they are literally knowingly causing their own extinction (plus how badly they failed to handle a fairly simple global pandemic, not to mention they also think that drilling on top of a super volcano is a good idea) and that's the height of intelligence in the universe (actually that is also kind of funny). Also the idea that the rest of the universe is just empty, it's kind of horrifying to think that we're it, that intelligent life is just one cosmic accident away from never existing again.

Mindblowing when you try to imagine the limits of the universe and space ...endless and forever and ever!

Of course it's Brian Cox

Love it!

Researchers: spend years to research and wrote papers. Struggled through a peer-review process and got their paper published to the public. Get cited in thousands of other research papers which are also from a peer review process. Random people on internet: *It'S* *fAkE*

@terraneko8999

2 жыл бұрын

or "its god"

Our vast universe....... it goes on till infinity

@First.Last.99

2 жыл бұрын

not our but yeah

I never wanted this video to end. Is it little too much to ask for

I think we're supposed to believe that the universe expands every second, and that the farther from us part of the cosmos is, the faster it is expanding. As the cosmos extends around us clocking up the parsecs it supposedly extends itself faster with the breach of each new parsec. So how do we calculate the extent of the universe?

Amazing

It’s slightly dumbed down for us mere mortals.. and I’m still bamboozled I love it

They also designed some awesome furniture!

Right On

Just want say Thanks 🙏🏻

Yes wow, this is truly amazing! Special thanks to the camera and production crew who traveled out to the edge of the known universe to catch these astonishing shots for us to all see and marvel at!! Heh...

@dritonferizi6120

2 жыл бұрын

👏🏼.....👏🏼.....👏🏼... 😐

Awesome.

Wow! bbc u rock

@guff9567

2 жыл бұрын

There is NOTHING mind-blowing about the size of the universe unless your brain is subnormal.

MAGNIFICENT ❤️ ROCKKKKKKK!!!

The Cosmologists should train all radical or fanatic people, groups, parties, organizations found in different countries, to look at the infinite nature of our universe, beyond their narrow views of life.

Amazing .....

Happy new year everyone 2022 From here on earth