You Are Not Where You Think You Are

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Look around you. Where are you? Where is this place you are occupying? Somewhere in a room, maybe in a city on a continent on a planet orbiting a star in a galaxy among billions. But… where is all of that? While this may feel like a daft question, it turns out that the concept of an absolute position is something humans made up.

In a nutshell, the universe is a big bag of space that has things in it. If someone removed all these things, the stars and planets and black holes and dust, there would just be empty space left. In empty space, the concept of having a position loses all meaning. Empty space is uniform, the same everywhere.

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[defendthehouse]

Maybe the best visualization of this topic ever. Animation team is insane.

[Walliam-hwdp]

Kurzgesagt is honestly one of the precious gems formed on the internet, so much effort put into amazing animation, sounds, research, and much more. Thank you guys for you what do.

[DiegoDerSchatten]

This is how my father explained to me, why time traveling would be by far the most impossible and ressource consuming thing ever to be done by humanity. As you may be able to bend time, but you need to track the exact location of the earth in the universe, from where you want to time travel to.

[wisdom-for-life]

Wow! Someone finally made this visualization (solar system traveling around the Milky Way). This is really amazing. Thank you for making such a beautiful piece of art!

[samuelzachariev]

I love how Kurzgesagt has started finishing their videos with a really positive message that makes you feel better about the 5 minutes of existential horror you’ve just experienced

[faustus]

I just graduated with a degree in physics, and my peers gave me a hard time over liking kurzgesagt. Their perspective was that kurzgesagt oversimplifies problems, and doesn't consider serious questions.

My counter-point was that kurzgesagt does extremely well at the job it tries to do: to make science approachable and fun! I think many scientists get caught up with the details of highly complex scientific questions, and this makes the scientific fields seem unapproachable. In order to keep the scientific fields alive, we desperately need public outreach efforts like kurzgesagt to get people to realize the beauty and fun involved in asking or answering scientific questions!

Thank you for all that you do kurzgesagt, you are an amazing channel, and you have done so much for the advancement of the sciences.

[Deneberus]

7:11 "The jiggle of existence" is my new favorite way to describe anything remotely related to the Earth or the actions of humanity.

[ohkaygoplay]

This ties into the existential crisis I had about feeling trapped behind my eyes and knowing I would never be able to see the world from another point of view, and no one would know what it's like to feel what I feel or hear what I'm thinking, and when my eyes close, that's it. No more world. I won't suddenly switch perspectives from another "universe." It felt very, very isolating. This tied into that, because where I am, no one else will ever be, and vice versa.

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I am in awe of your animations. Brilliantly well done as always Kurzgesagt.

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[리켈Likell]

I love how you guys just straight forward made people have an existential crisis, then try to give somewhat a cure with you guys' optimistic nihilism, and also the choose of words in "cosmic humility". It's quite interesting for me to watch your videos since after bringing this cosmic humility to my mind, and feeling the absolute nihil, i start to realise how short range of time i got in my life, and that i want to use every drop of it in bringing myself further and further away, as far as i can. So, well, thank you for all your awesome videos

[LyricWulf]

3:51 is just about the absolute coolest way I have ever seen Earth's orbit depicted

[Zevbutt]

Comprehending the scale of our entire universe is only slightly more difficult than comprehending how much work Kurzgesagt puts into their videos.

[willh]

I imagine flat-earthers watching this saying "nuh-uh" mouth agape with nothing going on behind their eyes

[helpfulinterdimentionalfor]

I've seen the change in perspective myself.
I'm born and raised in interior Alaska, but the rest of my family lives in the lower 48.
When visiting down in California or Florida, the stars and constellations change position drastically. It's fascinating to look at the stars again and trying to recognize the familiar shapes in different locations.

[aakaashmeher]

"The scale of the universe is brain crushing and trying to keep a track of how everything is oriented or decide where the best up and down is hard. But it doesn't really matter. Because it doesn't change where you are. You're already in the best spot you could possibly be...right here, right now. For all you care nothing can stop you from being right at the center of your own little universe."

What a nice way to put it. Kurzgesagt, you beauty!

[LonelySandwich]

It’s always somewhat surreal to me that we’re simultaneously moving at 1, 000 miles per hour, 486, 000 miles per hour, and 1.3 million miles per hour.

[lesterabastillas]

i can always count on kurzgesagt to flip my perspective and fling me into an existential crises. but thanks to them, ive decided to pursue a career in social service because they helped me realise that im so minuscule, smaller than an atom compared to the incomprehensible size of the universe that what you do doesnt really matter in the grand scheme of things, but if i can make a small difference, help someone make their life better then maybe my life is worth something