Wisdom for Life | Unveiling the Universe: Is Everything Alive? @wisdom-for-life | Uploaded May 2023 | Updated October 2024, 21 minutes ago.
Is the universe alive and aware?
Have we too narrowly defined what being alive means based due to our human biases?
Take a journey with me as I discuss the movement of the solar system, stars, Milky Way galaxy, and super structures like Laniakea and the cosmic web.
What is the galaxy doing as a whole system? Is it a type of super organism beyond our understanding?
What exactly is life? Have we too narrowly defined it based on our human biases? Why is it so hard to pin down where life starts and stops? Are we all part of the same universal process? All that and more in this video. Thanks for watching!
Credits:
DJ SADHU - youtube.com/watch?v=0jHsq36_NTU
djsadhu.com
Please go check out his music!
Heliosphere - NASA/IBEX/ADLER PLANETARIUM
Heliotail video - NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab/Krystofer Kim
Oort cloud - NASA
LIC cloud - By NASA/Goddard/Adler/U. Chicago/Wesleyan
Scholz's star - NASA/Michael Osadciw/University of Rochester/Illustration-T.Reyes
Scholz's star - José A. Peñas/SINC
Carina Nebula - NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
Local bubble - Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
Black hole video - ESO/MPE - eso.org/public/videos/eso1825e
Fermi bubbles - NASA Goddard
Milky Way artist impression - ESO/NASA/JPL-Caltech/M. Kornmesser/R. Hurt
Galaxy warp - ESA/Stefan Payne-Wardenaar
Orbits of the nearby stars around the galaxy - ESA/Gaia/DPAC
Galaxy diagram - NASA/JPL-Caltech; ESA/ATG medialab
Stellar motion for the next 1.6 million years - ESA - ESA/Gaia/DPAC
Nearby dwarf galaxies - ESA/Gaia/DPAC
https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2022/02/Gaia_reveals_a_new_member_of_the_Milky_Way_family
Milky way galaxy halo - NASA, ESA, and A. Feild [STScI}
Center of galaxy/red giants - NASA, ESA, and T. Brown (STScI), W. Clarkson (University of Michigan-Dearborn), and A. Calamida and K. Sahu (STScI)
Black hole - ESO/MPE - eso.org/public/videos/eso1825e/, CC BY 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=113389275
Galaxy collision - NCSA, NASA, B. Robertson, L. Hernquist
Andromeda collision - NASA; ESA; Z. Levay and R. van der Marel, STScI; T. Hallas; and A. Mellinger
Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy - ESA
Laniakea - Andrew Z. Colvin - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=71065242
Galaxy filaments - Andrew Pontzen and Fabio Governato - Andrew Pontzen and Hiranya Peiris, [ucl.ac.uk/mathematical-physical-sciences/news-events/maps-news-publication/maps1423Illuminating illumination: what lights up the universe?], UCLA press release, 27 August 2014. flickr.com (high resolution version), CC BY 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=34973360
Spinning filaments - A. KHALATYAN/J. FOHLMEISTER/AIP
Slime mold - AlbyDeTweede/iStock/Getty Images
Endospores - By Y tambe (original uploader) - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=49530
Shape of the Milky Way - Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC/Caltech)
Single cell - Haplochromis - selbst fotografiert von Haplochromis, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=522246
Motion of stars around gaalxy - Pearson Education
Cells may be able to see near infrared light - science.org/doi/10.1126/stke.2792005tw138#:~:text=The%20ability%20of%20cells%20to,information%20to%20direct%20their%20movements.
Stars from other galaxies - ESA/Marchetti/NASA/Hubble
Local galaxy group - By Antonio Ciccolella - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=50409931
Virgo super cluster - By Fobos92 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18658647
Laniakea - By Andrew Z. Colvin - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=71065242
Gaia - ESA https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/edr3-startrails
Large scale flows in the Milky Way halo - Illustration Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI). Science Credit: NASA, ESA, and N. Lehner and C. Howk (University of Notre Dame)
Laniakea - Nature Video - nature.com/articles/nature.2014.15819
Galaxy filaments - Andrew Pontzen and Fabio Governato
Galaxy filaments spinning - AIP/ A Khalatyan/ J Fohlmeister
Structure of universe - By NASA, ESA, and E. Hallman (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Millennium Simulation Project - wwwmpa.mpa-garching.mpg.de/galform/virgo/millennium
James Webb - webbtelescope.org/videos
Galaxy Zoom - ESO/spaceengine.org/L.Calçada
Open Space Project
Music:
Fluidscape by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Source: incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100393
Artist: incompetech.com
Is the universe alive and aware?
Have we too narrowly defined what being alive means based due to our human biases?
Take a journey with me as I discuss the movement of the solar system, stars, Milky Way galaxy, and super structures like Laniakea and the cosmic web.
What is the galaxy doing as a whole system? Is it a type of super organism beyond our understanding?
What exactly is life? Have we too narrowly defined it based on our human biases? Why is it so hard to pin down where life starts and stops? Are we all part of the same universal process? All that and more in this video. Thanks for watching!
Credits:
DJ SADHU - youtube.com/watch?v=0jHsq36_NTU
djsadhu.com
Please go check out his music!
Heliosphere - NASA/IBEX/ADLER PLANETARIUM
Heliotail video - NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab/Krystofer Kim
Oort cloud - NASA
LIC cloud - By NASA/Goddard/Adler/U. Chicago/Wesleyan
Scholz's star - NASA/Michael Osadciw/University of Rochester/Illustration-T.Reyes
Scholz's star - José A. Peñas/SINC
Carina Nebula - NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
Local bubble - Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
Black hole video - ESO/MPE - eso.org/public/videos/eso1825e
Fermi bubbles - NASA Goddard
Milky Way artist impression - ESO/NASA/JPL-Caltech/M. Kornmesser/R. Hurt
Galaxy warp - ESA/Stefan Payne-Wardenaar
Orbits of the nearby stars around the galaxy - ESA/Gaia/DPAC
Galaxy diagram - NASA/JPL-Caltech; ESA/ATG medialab
Stellar motion for the next 1.6 million years - ESA - ESA/Gaia/DPAC
Nearby dwarf galaxies - ESA/Gaia/DPAC
https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2022/02/Gaia_reveals_a_new_member_of_the_Milky_Way_family
Milky way galaxy halo - NASA, ESA, and A. Feild [STScI}
Center of galaxy/red giants - NASA, ESA, and T. Brown (STScI), W. Clarkson (University of Michigan-Dearborn), and A. Calamida and K. Sahu (STScI)
Black hole - ESO/MPE - eso.org/public/videos/eso1825e/, CC BY 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=113389275
Galaxy collision - NCSA, NASA, B. Robertson, L. Hernquist
Andromeda collision - NASA; ESA; Z. Levay and R. van der Marel, STScI; T. Hallas; and A. Mellinger
Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy - ESA
Laniakea - Andrew Z. Colvin - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=71065242
Galaxy filaments - Andrew Pontzen and Fabio Governato - Andrew Pontzen and Hiranya Peiris, [ucl.ac.uk/mathematical-physical-sciences/news-events/maps-news-publication/maps1423Illuminating illumination: what lights up the universe?], UCLA press release, 27 August 2014. flickr.com (high resolution version), CC BY 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=34973360
Spinning filaments - A. KHALATYAN/J. FOHLMEISTER/AIP
Slime mold - AlbyDeTweede/iStock/Getty Images
Endospores - By Y tambe (original uploader) - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=49530
Shape of the Milky Way - Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC/Caltech)
Single cell - Haplochromis - selbst fotografiert von Haplochromis, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=522246
Motion of stars around gaalxy - Pearson Education
Cells may be able to see near infrared light - science.org/doi/10.1126/stke.2792005tw138#:~:text=The%20ability%20of%20cells%20to,information%20to%20direct%20their%20movements.
Stars from other galaxies - ESA/Marchetti/NASA/Hubble
Local galaxy group - By Antonio Ciccolella - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=50409931
Virgo super cluster - By Fobos92 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18658647
Laniakea - By Andrew Z. Colvin - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=71065242
Gaia - ESA https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/edr3-startrails
Large scale flows in the Milky Way halo - Illustration Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI). Science Credit: NASA, ESA, and N. Lehner and C. Howk (University of Notre Dame)
Laniakea - Nature Video - nature.com/articles/nature.2014.15819
Galaxy filaments - Andrew Pontzen and Fabio Governato
Galaxy filaments spinning - AIP/ A Khalatyan/ J Fohlmeister
Structure of universe - By NASA, ESA, and E. Hallman (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Millennium Simulation Project - wwwmpa.mpa-garching.mpg.de/galform/virgo/millennium
James Webb - webbtelescope.org/videos
Galaxy Zoom - ESO/spaceengine.org/L.Calçada
Open Space Project
Music:
Fluidscape by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Source: incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100393
Artist: incompetech.com
