How this has not been animated or made it into a movie by now is beyond me. 🤖

@BI-11y_TheStormTrooper

Жыл бұрын

It would offend both the religious and nonreligious alike , the only ones that would like it are the transhumanists and ai nerds .

@philipm3173

Жыл бұрын

It's better using your imagination

@godsrevolver9737

Жыл бұрын

@@BI-11y_TheStormTrooper I don't think this would be offensive. It's sci-fi, and if this is offensive, so is all sci-fi.

@Pickledsundae

Жыл бұрын

These trippy old school sound effects really make the acid go "BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR" 🤯

@funch357

Жыл бұрын

I like it, and I’m a Christian Buddhatarian Universalist agnostic

Leonard Nimoy was the perfect choice for reading this.

Just asked Alexa this very question and the reply was “ There is as yet insufficient data for a meaningful reply”. Excellent.

@keefeboone2720

3 жыл бұрын

Kmmi0

@mahl1799

3 жыл бұрын

She IS well read!

@mediocrestreams3284

3 жыл бұрын

Either that's a programmed joke, or humanity is on the path to becoming godlike

@LicoriceLain

2 жыл бұрын

@@mediocrestreams3284 It is a programmed joke.

@pmarreck

2 жыл бұрын

holy crap

"You can't turn smoke and ash back into a tree" "Do you have trees on your world?"

Total nerdgasm, my all time favorite short story read by one of my favorite actors, the OG Mr. Spock.

Leonard Nimoy is the best narrator of all-time!

@antonlavrentiev5249

5 жыл бұрын

Strangely his last name translates from Russian as "mute"

@squaretriangle9208

4 жыл бұрын

@@antonlavrentiev5249 but he was not

@melpomdeun6257

3 жыл бұрын

Loved him on “In Search Of...”

I love the ending. The one question that could never be answered, could only be answered after the entire universe became part of the cosmic computer, but once everything became the computer, there was no one to explain the answer to. “No matter, the answer, by demonstration, would take care of that too.” You see, the answer to how can entropy be reversed, is the existence of the universe itself. The fact that we are all here proves it is possible to reverse entropy, but it is impossible to ever know how this is done, unless you and everything in the universe becomes one collective cosmic intelligence. Some might call this God.... Man, this is really good stuff!

@livingskeleton11

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly! I was thinking "what if this story is true, and at the end of the Universe, there is only the Cosmic AC? It creates the Universe, and maybe that's what God is! Just a supercomputer?

@talon6890

4 жыл бұрын

Matter and dark matter will ebb and flow for all of time. Singularity is only achievable if you take the grandest scope possible while encapsulating your definition of "singular".

@damienlbphant

4 жыл бұрын

God is not the supercomputer. God is the collective emergence of all humanity into a singular intelligence.

@jairm.jr.9991

4 жыл бұрын

And what if the demonstration was by running a simulation? The Answer itself is as incomprehensible as what originated the big bang, or what was there before. This short story is so deep... I cried.

@mktsmith62

3 жыл бұрын

Entropy is aligned with chaos. The Cosmic AC near the end of the story exists to answer the one remaining question by making every possible correlation of all data to answer that question. The process of that correlation is organization of all requisite data into an understanding to an answer. The Light from the Darkness is that answer, a reversal of entropy itself.

I only found this story like 2 years ago but every time since then the "Let there be light" gives me chills

@DLOGKCALB

Жыл бұрын

Genesis 322

@mishelleilieva9657

11 ай бұрын

My favorite Asimov's short story

The end gave me chills. This was a wild ride. Thanks so much for uploading!

My favorite short story of all time, and I’m not even a sci-fi fan.

Best performance of this I've ever heard.

@erichill2715

6 жыл бұрын

Jes.e B. I just

@colinmontgomery5492

5 жыл бұрын

@@erichill2715 , Jest?

That was honestly kind of beautiful

I love this story! and the performance and effects couldnt be better. so brilliant!!

@sanjacobs6261

2 жыл бұрын

The effects definitely could've been less ear-piercing

@godsrevolver9737

Жыл бұрын

@@sanjacobs6261 I'm assuming you're not being sarcastic, but this is easily one of the best versions I've heard

@briangandee8149

3 ай бұрын

From strictly a personal point of view.. I'm not sure there could be a better choice than Leonard Nimoy to narrate this story.. Just sayin..😊

The Last Question and The Last Answer are two of my favorites, even though they don't go together at all.

the energy was not being lost...it was all being invested in the ACs it just had to be re-released into a new big bang

That was awesome. Play it again Sam. 😂

This version has an extended beginning. I think added later by Asimov himself but not sure (maybe someone can enlighten me). I much prefer the original start to the. Which starts "The last question was first asked..." brilliant.

Classic, fantastic, wonderful, meaningful Sci Fi!!!!!!!!!!!!! Love it.

Absolutely amazing

I was mind blown at the ending. Amazing!6

@HassanCodA-Xod8hm.

9 ай бұрын

Trust me 💖 you not Alone. 💕

Thank you. Great story and great presentation of it. I like how 100 trillion years later, they still call it an analog computer. Just like how Star Trek kept the styles of the 1960s and on buck Rogers they used the disco look and slang from the 1970s. Great stuff 👍

@melpomdeun6257

3 жыл бұрын

Don’t forget the over the top ‘70’s styles of “Space 1999.”

This is the cyclic universe theory. My personal favourite:)

@vinzer72frie

Жыл бұрын

The cyclic theory says that this happens given infinite amount of time by quantum fluctuations this is different because it was done by will

This pairs nicely with Ray Bradbury's The Veldt.

That was beautiful! Thank you I definitely agree, Nimoy is the best for this. His voice somehow makes me feel ...transcendent?

Great stuff

Amazed

My favorite story

Finkle is Einhorn! Incredible listen 🎨

Here's a challenge. Read the Foundation Trilogy from Azimov. It owns an award given only one time for lifetime sci fi. Substitute Iphone for every time it mentions "calculator".

@mishelleilieva9657

11 ай бұрын

You mentioning the need to substitute the word "calculator" makes me feel old 😅

Did NOT expect the ending to go THAT hard

So, so far ahead of its time

I love this story. One of the best sci fi stories i know of. Modern stories seem to revel in taking down religion, capitalism, etc. Here, ac becoming the Abrahamic 'god' is very organic to the story.

@Tharg_the_mighty

Жыл бұрын

Or Brahma, actually. Although it uses the words of Genesis, the creation/re-creation cyclic myth is more Hindu.

It's really the only question that matters, isn't it?

@ThisUploaded

5 жыл бұрын

I, a mear mortal, simply want to understand how the answer 42 fits in here.

@pakzgames1421

3 жыл бұрын

@@ThisUploaded you Would know if you had your hitch hikers guide 😏

There may not be sufficient data for a meaningful answer, but there is apparently enough to play a spooky Wendy Carlos-style synth riff.

Thanks, I had forgotten so many of his stories... or have I?

8:17 love that synth.

@aqualili

Жыл бұрын

me too !!! so korgy

Both happy and sad.

The Last Story, of any finite existence.

Who else came here from the Isaac Arthur video?

@brianmonks8657

7 жыл бұрын

Me :)

@MegaHarko

7 жыл бұрын

do Isaac a favor and get it from audible instead ;P

@Ronenlahat

7 жыл бұрын

Who else checked Isaac Arthur after this comment?

@L_mattox

7 жыл бұрын

did you just find him. or are you a fan

@ABhaim

7 жыл бұрын

send a link?

Who were the other actors in this? One of the first two men talking to Multivac seems very, very familiar!

Why doesn't this have more views?

@jamesdavis4419

3 жыл бұрын

I wondered the same thing

@fcv1967

Жыл бұрын

The Kardashians

Thanks

Why the hell did Nimoy not say the last words?? Aaaargh!!!

Ya know, this implies that humans and supercomputers can have a symbiotic relationship. Many people (Hawkings) imagine that AI will overthrow us. But if we can have cognitive skills that AI does not have, such as creativity, we might have enough value to enter into a symbiotic relationship with super intelligence.

@subsonic9854

3 жыл бұрын

I don't think so. The relationship was only positive in this story because the computer never evolved any ability to disagree with its vastly inferior masters. At the end, it was godlike in power and form, but had the same personality and will as a calculator.

@peytonmac1131

3 жыл бұрын

Humanity and computers becoming one and the same is the most likely outcome. Even now there are experiments to implant computers into the brain, which could lead to cyborg-like beings. We can't even establish what a consciousness is, let alone build one. Until we understand how a brain properly creates sapience it's unlikely we'll just accidentally build a computer with that ability, and once we understand where sapience comes from it'll most likely be easier to merge computers and humans together into a singular being.

@Moronvideos-dk2ib

2 жыл бұрын

When human minds merge with data chips those new minds will not desire to go back up the trees of ignorance....meaning losing the higher reality of higher knowledge is too valuable to surrender ........or, ice cream tastes better than water ?

@vinzer72frie

Жыл бұрын

Maybe update yourself because modern AI has creativity abilities we are not unique

@atrejunl

11 ай бұрын

@@subsonic9854 until Man fused with AC and gave it the will to create a universe

I rerouted here from the end of the universe type videos

each energy source gives time to find the next more plentiful energy source.

Genius

Forty-Two!

Check out The Entropy Effect

Trippy very trippy.

My son is a high school senior this year and he's a good student, so he's taking some AP classes but I forget which advanced class it is that they have him reading/listening to this, cuz this is some intellectually crazy @$$ syfy space existentialism mixed up with the theory of AI and humanity coexisting as one with the sad thought of humanity just consuming everything in our path until we have nothing left but ourselves kind of mind blowing $h¡t!! I can barely keep up! I hope he uses it better than me!! Lol! 🤯🤯

Leonard Nimmoyyyyy

Waiiiitttttt...... is this the basis for the deep thought series of computers in the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy? Because if it is... then the way to reverse entropy is 42.

Какие сердобольные люди: кому то есть дело до того, что мир когда то прекратит свое существование? Кого это вообще может беспокоить и почему?

This brings me back to that wierd dreamcast game.

@endergrey11

4 жыл бұрын

FennecTECH which one?

@MFSeaMen

11 ай бұрын

I HAVE THE ANSWER!

The bootstrap paradox

Called it

This reminds me of Firesign theater. ...... anyone else????

Hmm. The era in which human consciousness was free to wander among the stars reminded me of the band of rather similar wandering consciousnesses in Olaf Stapledon's Star Maker. I wander if that influenced Asimov at all?

@Moronvideos-dk2ib

2 жыл бұрын

We all influence one another...................

🚨 💝

The music and sound effects sound Radiophonic.

So why didn't they just go into hyperspace and live there again?

@eps200

2 жыл бұрын

Humans can't be conscious in there. The second part of the story covered it.

the entropy problem proves the universe is infinite.

So who here asked the last question to Chat GPT?

Who has asked 'the question to CHATGP4'?

I considered this would be like telling a child that santa isn't real.

The Fermi Question - Where are they? In the 1950s, one of the original Quantum Physicists thought about the recent scientific thoughts on the Big Bang theory(suggesting the Universe is anywhere from 10 to 20 billion years old; at the time, they had not narrowed down the dating) and the radio-carbon dating of the Earth to 4.5 Billion years old., and asked "where are they?" If the Universe is even only 10 billion years old, and the Earth is 4.5 Billion years old for sure, then there should have been Extraterrestrial Civilizations swarming the galaxy billions of years ago - where are they? Isaac Asimov mentions that the rate of population growth can settle the galaxy in less and less time - but he doesn't ask "where are they?"

Eternity is a never ending repeating circle. With eternity the impossibilities are doomed to certainty........we shall all return again, endlessly, however, the price of immortality is amnesia................

I'm pretty sure the answer is 42... We just didn't know the question.

The Universal AC kind of sounds like Dudley Manlove

missing the first paragraph

Say the line Bart!

Is that George Takei doing D Sub One?

@Voileen

5 жыл бұрын

Yes.

Chat GPT = Multivac

Lol, I was expecting a lot of different endings and that was not one of them 🤣

What's the name of the story that has two people who keep going into stasis and travelling forward in time, eventually coming upon the end of the universe?

@toriasweavebender5358

3 жыл бұрын

Tau Zero by Paol Anderson

Everything that is was will be exist has existed..🙏🏻

proton decay is on the order of 10^34. If we can find a way to tap proton energy without some gravitational well, we could have technological civilization for . . . a pretty long time.

@1203megabass

4 жыл бұрын

But by then wouldnt the expansion of spacetime due to dark energy make even proton too few and far between?

@ErickSoares3

4 жыл бұрын

@@1203megabass With the time, yes.

@degenerativedreams

4 жыл бұрын

@@ErickSoares3 So we must ask google: can entropy be reversed?

@VecheslavNovikov

2 жыл бұрын

At that point, tap into dark energy to power our stuff. It's possible that what we call entropy is not truly a law, but the best guess we have with the limited data at our disposal much as Newtonian motion was the best we had before relativity, and even that is incomplete. Without a proper explanation of dark matter, dark energy, and quantum gravity, entropy is only an apparent emergent feature of our limited perception of the universe.

If only they had spent more money on a proper microphone for the female voice actor and less on space bleeps.

@susan137

5 жыл бұрын

Female voice? ... Never thought of Leonard Nimoy having a female voice.

@ErickSoares3

4 жыл бұрын

@@susan137 There's some woman's reading that was almost impossible to hear (like the girls voices).

@magnuskallas

2 жыл бұрын

@@ErickSoares3 Yeah, this actually caught my ear also. As complex as this story is, this made me wonder the most: what if her nagging was put on mute by the husband or maybe she was in a separate capsule or something!

So much better than Asimov's own reading....sorry, Isaac.

One thing Isaac didn't think of when writing this is Black Holes and Quantum Gravity. We still don't know enough about Black Holes, much less Quantum Gravity. I know one recent Quantum loop gravity news item that says they've shown that a Black hole leads to a white hole. It goes from one universe to another.

@VecheslavNovikov

2 жыл бұрын

Would you say there is insufficient data for a meaningful answer?

@thedeerguy7579

Жыл бұрын

I don't think quantum gravity, Hawking radiation or even black holes in general were generally accepted at the time Asimov wrote the story.

Each energy base gives a certain amount of time . . . in fact a considerably larger time period longer than the previous . . . to find a new energy source. - Something not mentioned by Isaac Asimov in 1950's is Black Holes. Shoot, he doesn't even mention neutron stars! Stars smaller than ours can last for a trillion years. Neutron stars longer, and black holes even longer!

@oker59

3 жыл бұрын

By the time the black holes evaporate, we should have plenty of mathematics and science to figure out some new energy source.

@Moronvideos-dk2ib

2 жыл бұрын

When Asimov wrote the story black holes and neutron stars were not known.

@oker59

2 жыл бұрын

@@Moronvideos-dk2ib yes they were; but, most people, even the scientists themsevles were a bit shocked they could exist.

@Thuazabi

Жыл бұрын

@@oker59 You are factually wrong about the timeline. While the concept of a region of space with a gravitational attraction so strong that light couldn't escape it dates back to the 18th century, the actual mechanics of how that could work in practice weren't ironed out until well after this story was published (1956), with even the term "black hole" not appearing in published scientific literature until 1958. Hawking Radiation, which is the main theory that has enabled the sci-fi concepts you described, wasn't even formalized as an idea until 1974. Please spend 5 minutes Googling something before dismissing someone out of hand - you just make yourself look like a moron.

The answer: unplug it and plug it in again

tenet:

I am the alpha and the omega..🙏🏻

At the beginning of the universe, when the neutrinoes decoupled, they took entropy from the rest of matter, leaving free energy.

@oker59

2 жыл бұрын

the Cosmic Background Radiation of photons also took entropy from matter, leaving free energy.

Entropy must increase.

This is a friggin audiobook and he doesn't read the computer's answer. Wtf.

the spock himself narrating

If I were a normal 15 year old I would lose sleep now, but I do not, for I have already accepted the fact that the heath death is the end, from which it can be concluded that I have already suffered from a good dose of existential crisis, so this does not add to that. By the way, I listened to this right before sleeping right now.

@thesehoesbeaskingmeifimyou

5 жыл бұрын

Hydrogen Cyanide Wow you’re so cool !!!! 😎😎😎

@paulczar

5 жыл бұрын

Hydrogen Cyanide nah don’t lose sleep over this. The heat death of the universe is trillions of trillions of trillions of trillions of years from now. Personally, I think our universe is cyclic, and goes through periods of a “Big Bang” or creation, followed by expansion (which includes all of the possible parallel universe that are essentially overlapping each other), all of these different universes, which together comprise the “multiverse” if you will, which eventually expanded and each have their own heat death. It is this heat death, however, that unites all of the parallel universes back into the same reality/same universe/same slice of space time. By expanding out into literal nothingness, uniformity and I’d argue, structure, emerges. This syncing of the universes into the same eventually produces something from nothing, and the whole process repeats. Something like this anyway I believe. I think of the entire universe as some sort of giant multidimensional infinity symbol, like a figure 8. Where the two circles of the figure 8 come together represents the moment of creation as well as the “Big crunch.” I also think it’s somehow possible that past universes can somehow cast a shadow of sorts onto the new universe, so that the new universe has a shadow of the former, and this shadow, because it was casted upon the new universe at the moment of creation, this shadow is literally embedded into the fabric and structure of the new universe. I think that this can somehow allow for universes to evolve in someway, perhaps universe evolve over time to become more and more structured. Just my thoughts.

@KaoshimaCheshire

5 жыл бұрын

And then everyone clapped.

@JohnDoe_69

5 жыл бұрын

You'll die much sooner than heat death so it doesn't matter at all to you, this will only become a "problem" when humanity becomes immortal.

Pfff... No one's Air Conditioner is THAT smart! #SuspensionOfDisbelief

He could have titled this A Virus Of Breeders.

@KaoshimaCheshire

5 жыл бұрын

Don't cut yourself on all that edge.

@MegaPagliacci

3 жыл бұрын

KaoshimaCheshire perfect reply.

Only a civilization of idiots would create immortal breeders. . . Damn it, there goes the galactic neighbourhood, well, eventually.

Such an incredible story, if a bit nihilistic in its vision, but how else could a human see the universe without an idea of how creation really happens. It's a shame though that one of the mic's they've used is so terrible. Makes this reading almost not worth it.

@gjb5864

4 жыл бұрын

Fool just listen ..no problem

@Skxnk_Hunt42

7 ай бұрын

It would be nice if one were to appreciate what ones given, rather than focus only on why it should not exist, or why it isn't worth one's time. Art is art, and therefore it is worth everyone's time.

Anything but God, hey, This is one dumb exercise to foster denialism of God.,.

@VecheslavNovikov

2 жыл бұрын

That which is presented without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. But really, this is a story based on methodological naturalism, it's not some attempt to "deny" any gods, they're just not part of the equation.

@PrestonReject

2 жыл бұрын

@@VecheslavNovikov Man accepts evidence only for that which supports his agenda.

@VecheslavNovikov

2 жыл бұрын

@@PrestonReject that's not how honest inquiry works.

@PrestonReject

2 жыл бұрын

@@VecheslavNovikov The Ideal is not the reality, as such we must accept that man will do as he pleases

@HassanCodA-Xod8hm.

9 ай бұрын

Check out Joy Division Live @ Preston 💖💖💖🎼. Les Bains Douche. 👉. Trust me. 💕💕🍄

This is so bad, soooo bad! I mean audio, the story is amazing, great, marvelous, mind-blowing, but the audio totally spoils is, all the greatness is lost. Ok, Nimoy is not bad, but anything else is complete shit. And the endind that should blow mind, here just dissapears in nothingness instead of huge blast. Bad job, awful, terrible :(

Oh great. It ends with a lame reference to Christianity. One of countless categories of religions discarded billions of years ago. A category of religions that occupied an infinitesimally small proportion of time in human history.

@smitty1647

7 жыл бұрын

the one religion that the majority of people in the culture that the author grew up in followed. you dipshit.

@JohnSmith-td7hd

7 жыл бұрын

Science fiction has to be smarter than the general public or most common religion in the area at the time. He wasn't writing some funnies cartoon in a newspaper.

@thekoltrain94

6 жыл бұрын

My interpretation was that it's a cultural parallel used to illustrate the idea that the author was trying to convey. The idea of course being the earliest roots of simulation theory. I believe that what Mr. Asimov was saying was that simulation and creation are virtually the same thing; as understood by two juxtaposed ways of thinking.

@TheRealAbrahamLincoln

6 жыл бұрын

Ah, a sourpuss who can't enjoy a good story because he hates Christianity. For your information, Asimov was a pretty devout atheist . The ending is powerful and makes you think about things.

@JohnSmith-td7hd

6 жыл бұрын

I'm super sourpuss about that! Why turn a very interesting and important question into some odd ad for Christianity?