The Inexplicable Cosmic Coincidence That Suggests the Universe Was Designed | Part 1

Some of these videos I understand pretty well. Some of them are so far above my head. This ones above my head but Mr. Narrator has the most soothing, comforting voice. You can hear his smile. These ones, that I don’t quite understand, I still like to listen as I relax in bed. It’s like the comfort of a loving parent telling me a bedtime story…or at least how I imagine that might be.

I think the simplest answer is that it happened this way and we are here to speculate about it because if it didn't happen that way we wouldn't be here to speculate about it. All the times where it wasn't perfectly balanced and there was no life to speculate and the infinite time passed until one day someone was there to speculate about it again. Whether it be through multiverse theory and that there are infinite universes with different parameters and we just got lucky to be ones that exist in a Universe with this perfect balance, or if the Universe is somehow cyclical and restarts after a period of time resulting in different physics or different densities of matter, anti-matter, energy, and dark energy until one millennia comes along where once again there's a perfect balance of everything that supports life again which can contemplate existence. However, if this is the first time the Universe ever spontaneously started, and there has never been and will never be another Universe, and there has never and will never be a multiverse, then I struggle to even comprehend the unbelievable, totally unrealistic, improbable luck that it would take for the Universe to... Happen at all, let alone structure itself naturally in such a way as to be perfectly tuned for a Universe that can support life and then evolve to a point that can speculate about the nature of reality. I of course would love it if we could discern the truth, but I think that there's likely a lot of things about existence that we'll never be able to solve and understand - cursed to speculate forever.

I'd like to offer a comparison to demonstrate how I think about both dark matter and dark energy: Several centuries ago, all observed phenomena in the universe and the then current understanding of physics seemed to indicate that there had to be some sort of "medium" filling empty space in order for light to be able to travel through it. Thus, scientists theorized what became known as the "luminiferous ether". As time went on, the results of ever more sophisticated measurements were not only unable to detect any trace of the luminiferous ether, but forced scientists to attribute ever more arbitrary and paradoxic properties to the ether so that it still fit into the framework of their understanding of the laws of physics. It required a whole new sort of physics to understand that they had misunderstood the properties of light in the first place and that no luminiferous ether had ever been necessary to explain anything. Today, all observed phenomena in the universe and the understanding of physics that we have seem to indicate that there have to be some sort of forces that act in a way to distort gravity. Some seem to increase it, some seem to work in the opposite direction. Thus, scientists theorized both dark matter and dark energy, to explain those forces. As time went on, the results of ever more sophisticated measurements were not only unable to detect any source of the either force, but forced scientists to attribute ever more arbitrary and paradoxic properties to dark energy and dark matter, so that they still fit into the framework of our understanding of the laws of physics and the observable effects in the universe. I am of the opinion that it will require a similar shift in our understanding of gravity to make us realize eventually that no mysterious extra forces have ever been necessary to explain anything. It's just that we have misunderstood (or not yet fully understood in the first place) the true nature of gravity. I'm very excited to be alive right now because I hope to witness this coming paradigm shift of physics in my lifetime!

The Anthropic principle. We exist in a universe where we CAN exist. If it were a universe, no matter the 'likelihood' of whatever conditions, that precluded life, there would obviously be no one to ponder the 'WHY' and 'HOW' of that universe... Edited version: This comment has elicited more responses than most of my others COMBINED. It has been critically commented on from both the scientific and religious minded. I didn't invent the principle. It is not faith based. Dr. Steven Hawkings wrote about it in some of his books. If people wish to argue with him, be my guest. It is simple and logical... and unprovable. It is like saying a dictionary can't exist unless language does too. We exist, the Universe does too...

Always a good day when astrum drops a video

I watch this channel every single day, mostly because it helps my anxiety so much- & tbh I never get sick of it!! Thanks for being such a a significant part of my day.

Brilliant video man! Keep it up!

The fact that we're lucky that our universe exists is "lucky" from just our viewpoint. Who's to say that there haven't been innumerable universes before us that weren't so "lucky" or universes that also got "lucky" and had beings who were capable of conscious thought processes, that we just don't know about? Also, the information that we're able to process are limited. We're limited by our dimension, physical capabilities and our consciousness. There could very well have been other universes in the past or the future, or in any stream of time that we don't comprehend due to our limitations, that processed information differently because they had a different kind of "consciousness". That different kind of consciousness could process information better or worse than we can, could feel things differently with different senses that we don't possess or understand, and could therefore know and understand either more or less than we do. Imho the idea that we're "lucky" is a very anthropocentric and limited way of thinking, in a way. It would probably be more accurate to say that we could be one of the lucky ones who had this particular universe evolved, and then we got to possess a kind of consciousness that allowed us to be able to process information

Perhaps what happened is a bunch of universes created in succession that all failed (eventually imploding) until one, ours, that by chance happened to have certain parameters just right for galaxies to form and life to eventually appear. But of course, our universe might very well be just another iteration in this process and we haven't yet realized it...

It’s also pretty clear from the “crisis in cosmology” that our measurements of the expansion of the Universe are flawed. I wouldn’t be surprised if eventually the theory of dark energy is overturned.

I think douglas adams puddle analogy explain it best. I think it couldn't have been in another way than what it is.

I love your videos, I always learn something new!

I always knew the universe was expanding but this video has truly explained why to me. This was extremely interesting and I enjoyed your video Astrum. 🔥🤙

The odds of us being in a universe that supports our form of life are exactly 100%. If you have more universes in your data sample, you can possibly reduce that.

Cant wait for Part 2!!!

I love how accessible the insightful, interesting scientific comments are on YouTube, I definitely don't need to dig miles of clowns to find one

Thank you for your content, Astrum! 🖤💜💙🖤

Thanks for another banger alex ❤

This channel has risen really quickly to the top must-views for me!

What I really like is that it seems there's no end to our quest, There will always be something to challenge us and it seems science, with all its power, can´t answer everything. Wouldn´t be annoying to think there is nothing left to discover? Even if our assumptions are wrong, let them be. In time we may be able to correct them. What an adventure!