Physicist REACTS to history of the entire world, i guess

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[ale-xsantos]

I dont think he was necessarily going for "God created this" at the start
I mean sure it can be interpreted as that, but it also seemed like a humanization of the non-existing universe coming into being
"I dont wanna be nothing, I wanna change"
It can be the mind of God, it can be a anthropormifized singularity talking to itself, really it's up to you

[hika_ariel]

The sun it's a deadly lazer"
"no it's not"
Me: you ruined a perfect joke that's what you did

[TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

There’s no doubt in my mind that Bill Wurtz makes the most attention grabbing, entertaining and educational videos.

[metalgrimm]

"The sun is a deadly laser"
-Sun Tzu

[guilhermesavoya]

I think he wasn't interpreting the mind of GOd. He was just trying to be funny.

[ElvesofZion]

"Everyone in Australia is descended from British prisoners" Sad aboriginal noises

[artembentsionov]

The main reason people don’t want to believe in climate change is because trying to stop it would require economic and lifestyle changes. And, as Jon Stewart put it, “It was a simple cost-benefit analysis. We enjoyed drinking hot coffee in a cold room in the middle of the summer more than we enjoyed other animals being alive.”

[katrinschirmer]

It's a 20 minutes crash course of history that already took him 11 months to make. i think you can cut him some slack about missing some things. :)

[artembentsionov]

I believe ancient Greeks already knew that the world was round. They even calculated the size pretty closely (they didn’t know it’s not a perfect sphere due to the spin). Columbus mistakenly believed that it was a lot smaller and that Asia stretched a lot farther east

[yangdou]

I think Bill was more trying to make a history-related video since it’s already 20-min long, but thank you for making it even more educational on the science end as well :))

[Drakok]

I think The sun being a deadly lazer is just a reference to the fact that pre-ozone layer the Ultraviolet radiation of the sun was very dangerous. Lol

[Mister_Skar]

Perhaps he should make a video called "The history of the whole of science, I guess"

[adamg]

I feel like you expected an extremely indepth overview of the literal history of the world. It's educational and comedic so he's gonna gloss over stuff. It's a good start off for a lot of people who might be interested.

[CrippledMerc]

Interesting, I’ve never taken the beginning but to be about god. I’ve always taken as the personification of the universe itself. As if it’s thinking to itself as being everything but also being nothing and also just being bored. I think it’s interesting that you interpreted it to be god though.

[jazflanagan]

I have no doubt that Bill missed some periods of space events, but he probably picked some that were important while still being…digestible. In an interview, he said he constantly went back and forth with himself over which things to include and cut out. He had to make jumps in time to compress it all.

[sarveshs]

I Believe you would be have a better time reacting to 'Timelapse of the future: a journey to the end of time' because it deals with much much more physics than this video.

[MultiMoomoo]

Could u imagine how long the video would be if he went into any detail on the entire history of the world. Its a great way to introduce people to history so they can then go and look up the bits they didn't know about and found interesting

[sweetysmart]

I adore that each profession (physicists, historians, biologists, teachers, etc.) appreciates this video in different ways.

[LongandWeirdName]

"He skipped over a bunch if periods."
...
He is making a video that fits everything between the big bang and right now in a time that will not make people quit before finishing it. Of course, he's going to skip over some of the less important things. While the cosmic background stuff may be important to you and other physicists, this isn't a short history of the universe. This is "the entire history of the world, I guess.". The world. Earth. Not the shiny edge of the bubble. A tiny wet spec of dust somewhere inside that bubble.

[a-blivvy-yus]

"You've probably heard about the plastic in the ocean" - and if you haven't... 24 mins later... "And the ocean is full of plastic!"
And I like how you explain what a laser is, and ignore that he actually said "lazer" instead. Totally different (even in America, "ztimulated" is not a word)

Also, I'm not sure if you noticed this, but when the British convicts showed up in Australia, there were already people there. You might want to occasionally remember they (still) exist.