Why Does The Universe Look Like This?

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Researched and Written by Jon Farrow
Narrated and Edited by David Kelly
Laniakea animation by Alperaym

Thank to Pablo Carlos Budassi for his wonderful images of the KBC Void, Shapley Supercluster and Bootes Void.

Stock footage taken from Videoblocks and Artgrid, music from Epidemic Sound, Artlist and Silver Maple. Space imagery also used from NASA and ESO.

Image Credits:

Visualisations of the QCD Vacuum
Derek D Leinweber CSSM University of Adelaide

Observable Universe by Andrew Z Colvin

00:00 Introduction
05:41 Mapping The Cosmos
16:40 Meatball Honeycomb Sponge (Structure of the Universe)
21:55 Cosmic Seeds (Origin of Structure)
39:36 Problems With Copernicus

#cosmicweb

[FlyWithMe_]

Wow, I didn’t know the universe is so big! This must be like thousands of football fields.

[TheRandomne]

Our galaxy is somewhere in the elbow of the Elden Beast, good to know.

[mitekillem]

When a leaf is caught in a river it quickly aligns itself to the plane of the water's surface and then begins traveling along with the swirling and rotating water molecules surrounding it.
Odd how on such a macro scale, things behave with a natural simplicity.

[DemonSliime]

The universe has to be at least 12 tractors.

[kermitefrog]

The map of the Universe reminds me of the mapping of the human brain with its billions of neurons.

[mcrichton]

Ever since I was a kid I’ve gazed into the night skies, and to this day I still get the same feeling I used to as a child - fascination. But as I’ve gotten older, my love and appreciation for the stars has only grown. Even if we truly are so insignificant in the grand scheme of the cosmos, I couldn’t picture a better backdrop to be an observer in.

[universemaps]

This video is wonderful! An honor to have contributed with my voids and supercluster images!

[jdthein]

This series is truly a masterpiece. It should be required viewing for every schoolkid on the planet.

[ryanbaker]

I'll rank this series right up there with my favorite growing up: Carl Sagan's and PBS' "Cosmos". Waiting patiently for my dad to arrive home after work with the latest VHS rental seemed to take forever. And decades later, we have a free series that rivals it in scale, scope, and beauty. Thank you to every single person involved!

[sunkid]

I am a bit relieved that it takes 5 people to put this together, but honestly I thought there would be about 10-15 people working on these. One of the highest quality content on Youtube I have seen, maybe the best. Have a lovely holiday y'all.

[shawnnixon]

I swear. I've always believed that we are just micro organisms inside something's body, just like the ones we have in our body. Looking at this scale it's hard to even say that us humans are even close to the size of an atom of this "body" shown here. Unbelievable

[joshuameadows]

It's absolutely insane to try and imagine the sheer scale of the universe. The milky way alone is so massive, yet it's only 1 of millions if not billions of other galaxies. Then the space between these galaxies is hundreds of times larger than that. So many mysteries

[Stellar-Forge]

I legitimately get excited when I get notified about new episodes from HOTU. Truly top-notch quality production. More people need to know about this channel.

[tortysoft]

I've been thinking about these topics for decades. I chatted to my young son about them. He is about to finish his PhD in Physics. He knows more now than I can list. The best I can hope to do to follow his eight years of in depth study is watch videos like this - or talk to him :-)

[zachattack]

I thought i was looking at elden beast💀

[fotografiaenarrativafotogr]

The best video I've seen on the issue to date. The clarity is impressive, and the visuals are very good.

[NikHem]

What an unbelievable feat. That’s like standing on the bottom of the ocean and being able to map the entire planet geographically

[uss_]

I’m surprised that this is an ongoing series and not just clips of other shows from the past. Glad to see this continuing content.

[BigJMC]

Could we all be just surfing through space in a black hole just to end up being spewed out by a white-hole in another universe?
I mean could the big bang be the result of massive amount of matter being push through an infinitely small space from another universe?

[markodin]

This video is a masterpiece. From the beautiful visuals to your thoughtful text and narration, it all comes together extremely well. It deserves as many views as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Please keep up the good work. I can't wait to see your next episode.