For everyone experiencing the existential dread, just remember two things. One, the timelines of when we would get to the point of the heat death of the universe so incredibly massive for us it might as well be infinity. Two, our understanding of the universe is constantly changing! 10 or 20 years from now it may be an entirely different idea of what will happen. Ultimately the dynamics of how the universe plays out are completely out of your control, just live your best life and rest easy knowing that the outcome doesn't matter to you, the entire human race, or even the planet itself.

As a certain book once said "Space is big. Really big" Don't Panic.

As a resident of sector 001 the Terran system I can truly say we have got nothing to worry about for about 5 billion years when the sun starts to die

This IS the time of Enlightment!!!! 💯💯💯💯😘😘😘😍😍 Prime time for living!!!! I just hate we waste this time on fighting each other.

From a somber ending dialog to a cheerful 'Thanks for watching!' had me cracking up! 😂 Brilliant the way you lightened the mood! Cheers! 👍

When I was 3, my preschool teacher, penny, told me that some day the sun is going to burn out and earth probably will not survive. I cried that day because that was my first dose of reality. Also my naturalist “dr” aunt from Hawaii who doesn’t shave her armpits told me I would have a heart attack from eating mustard. These two women have caused me so much stress lol. Now thoughty2 is doing this to me. Come on, man. I’m gonna need more mustard.

Hey man, i have been waychungbyour videos for a while Your jokes are honesty goid and all but your science and overall accuracy as well as finally shutting down the black hole doom theorists is great. You connected all the relivent topics related to the great attractor perfectly. The diphole repelor wasnt necesarry but most videos do close with we dont know and never will. You finally made the one i wanted to see and feel fufiled with. Kudos im subscribed keep it up

Find the beauty in whats here and now. And always remember that you too can go out, look into the night sky and see its beauty. I hope one day we find a solution to light saturation so we all can experience the distance of the void outside. However, more than existential, this should humble us. Love and live through your life to the fullest you can, and regardless if there is an inevitability that ends us in darkness, keep pushing for a better tomorrow. For you, for me, for everyone that comes after, especially for those we've lost. With everything against us, our lives defy the dark, and our insignificance in the grand scheme gives us a blank canvas, to create a picture we can make ourselves, even if we're long forgotten. Be safe out there, be you, don't let the digital connectedness we find here pull us apart elsewhere. Be human. Thank you all for your efforts in your own lives.

"For those of you who are into existential dread" Dont call me out like that, pls

The idea of a super-massive thing bigger than anything we know, and it's attracting our galaxy, but we can't see what it is or know what it is, is SO SCI-FI. What an awesome premise.

Thank you for a well-written, intelligent narration. Rarely do I enjoy UKposts videos like I have enjoyed yours. Good information, not designed for elementary school students, delivered with clarity and humor. Again, thank you!

I started following you n watching your videos few years ago. You are amazing, love what you so. I have alot of admiration for you

That last "thanks for watching" was so sincerely funny like, you enjoyed either consufing people with the video or the fact that people kinda gets freaked out by this and you trolled them LOL. I enjoyed every bit. Thanks mate.

Was just listening and not watching. I couldn’t understand why it was called “greater tractor” until I finally realized he was saying “great attractor”💀

I am loving that you included the Faster Than Light travel sound.

"...it will all fade away to nothing.......Thanks for watching! 😀 " LOL made my day

I love watching your content, and slowly getting through them all. I also don't comment much on them, because frankly...There are surely to many to read. Having said that, this has got to be up there as one of your better ones (and you have aaaaaaaaalot). I have learnt a lot today that I never knew about, like walking 12000 miles in 30 seconds. the way you explain things and simplify it down is amazing, thank you very much :)

when you picture the trampoline example it also kinda explains how things on an elliptical orbit slow down at the far point (furthest from planet) and speed up towards the nearest point (of the planet)... its like your're almost out of the hole and thus out of the gravitational pull, once you travel far away enough...

Great video. Terence McKenna once talked about a prime attractor we were being pulled toward, or the Transcendental Object at the End of Time was another way he put it.

Thanks, you have a very entertaining way of explaining & informing

I see space as a weather system. Regions have high and low pressure with complex fluid movements. What's really hard 4-dimensional thinking is that there is not only localized space-pressure but also time-pressure. A region such as the Great Attractor is not necessarily more dense, but there is more space and time inside it.

"Whoever built this place left a lot of crap lying around..." Absolutely brilliant. It's almost the sort of thing that the late, very great, Douglas Adams would have had one of his 'Hitch Hiker's Guide The Galaxy' characters say (probably Slartibartfast). Great video. I always thought that the Great Attractor was/is an extra-dimensional child trying to get the last drops of his milkshake out of a glass with a straw. Our Universe being naught but a particle of subatomic size suspended in a child's Nesquick. (#notspon).

I had a dream I could fly at amazing speeds getting out of earth. I went so far I was scared. I didn’t remember how to get back but I found so many different works different colors. Lots of different suns and I could go out for ever. It seemed so real. I was convinced I was there. I came to earth somehow and flew for a bit and next thing you know is I forgot how to fly. It was THE MOST AMAZING dream ever. I hope it happens to me again.

Love this, and love your bits of humor sprinkled thru out!! Thank you!!

The balloon section was really well done. Spouting facts is easy, educating people is skill and a talent. Good job.

That ending. The way he said thanks for watching. I now feel smaller and at the same time feel like it's not to us to fathom the universe. Thanks for listening.

Great idea to reel us in! It turned out not to be just Earth, but 100,000 galaxies. It turned out we already know what it is, a supercluster of galaxies. A place, not an object. We won't actually reach it, and everything will eventually be too far away from us. I wish he told us when that will be.

I'm grateful for your content as it helps me sleep at night when I'm anxious 😅

I showed my mom your videos and now shes a huge fan! We love watching your stuff together ❤

Amazing as always, loved this one. Can't wait until my daughter is old enough to watch these, atm it would just make her head explode. She also had a school project early this year and we listened to a section of your book that I bought (Stick a flag in it) and it realy did help her, so thanks for that.

Sometime ago I was crazy about the great attracktor, searching everything about it in the internet. It took a long time but finally I managed to get the latest knowledge about it then. But if this video had come earlier, it would save me a lot of time lol. But anyway thanks for the awesome video. It ensures now that my efforts was not in vein, earlier I got the correct information from the internet searches.

One of my favourite topics (along with the Galactic Centre) … astrologically speaking. Lightly presented but informative. Thank you.

never thought of myself as an ant on a balloon - well I guess it's better than being a turd in a pipe

Thank you for sharing this! Also, many thanks for the great care, attention, and thought you put into the presentation. It’s really lovely and your voice is the beautiful cherry on top! 🤜🏽🔥

Yes, you are so right. I have studied space. We are moving at those speeds through space. Not so sure we are going to go through a blackhole. I do believe that something is pulling galaxies through space, and I think you are on to something, I didn't consider your theory before, but now I understand, thanks. We are expanding, the universe is a living entity. Great video, I do understand. Some galaxies merge and make a new galaxies, worlds are destroyed and then made whole again. No need to fear this.

Great Post. The Entertainment value is quite invaluable.

"We're heading towards a giant galaxy super cluster! ...syke! We're moving away from it all and eventually we'll be cut off from everything! Thanks for watching!" 😂

That end tagline was the best yet. But I was also laughing out loud the moment you mentioned scientists using staggering creativity, because I already knew what this video was about.

imagine a bubble, containing another smaller bubble with a mixture of volatile elements. elements in the smaller bubble react, bubble explodes sending the reacting elements into the space of the larger bubble. the walls of the larger bubble will warp and expand as all the elements are racing out towards the walls, then back towards the epicenter before finding their own paths. Laniakea Supercluster looks like a bubble universe.

Great ending when the earth blinks out....a pause.....and you pop back in with a big smile. Really....really perfect 🙂 Oh and overall, great content as well!

Always remember "Scientist seems right for the moment but they are always wrong after today as we advanced more and more with technological developments."

I'm reading "Stick a Flag in it," and hearing this voice discussing space time on video, while mentally hearing it discussing the Kings of England during my daily commute, is a delightful brain-twister. I highly recommend the book!

I mean to comment on what you said at the end, wormholes and distorting space-time could allow us to travel as far as we possibly can, no matter the physical distance.

The sheer volume of work and collaboration resulting in our current picture of the universe is astonishing.

Videos like this is making me even more convinced that we are not the only life in the universe. There's just no way there can be this many galaxies without aliens

Thank you! I have just discovered this channel and found it fascinating. I’m going to push the subscribe button 😊 As an elder on this beautiful planet, I know that there is so much to learn and discover and not enough time to do so ❤

Awesome video, Thoughty2! 😊 I also have an intriguing idea of what the Gnostics were really referring to when they mentioned Pleroma, or "The Realm of Light". I believe wholeheartly that in some region of space (some say edge, but whatever) that the singularity that existed before the big bang is still there. It's just traveling there is a bit like traveling through time, but we're literally going back in time just by heading in that direction (which you've already pointed out we will never be able to reach it). The Gnostics were probably referring to this singularity and not an actual 'God' per sé. Their knowledge of this singularity, if it had been directly revealed, might've literally gotten them killed for herasy.

Love your work bud, keep up the good work, Crisper Cas9?

i've been avoiding watching thoughty2 vids for over 2 years now, this was so i can have an absolute unit of a playlist to watch, and i can't wait y'all are hostile asf, calm down 💀

I absolutely love your channel...I mean I really really enjoy your style and the way in which you inform and educate... It's direct and to the point, with just the right amount of humor and sarcasm... And you can tell the topics of your show actually interest and intrigue you...(me too) Im sure you will probably never read this comment...but if by chance you do... I would just like to say thank you and please don't change a thing about the way you do what your doing... You should be super impressed with yourself...I am...I very rarely take the time to comment on any of the hundreds of things I see on UKposts... Only when I think they are worthy of my time and opinion... Which you and your channel are...✌️ ....Theory...

I'm sending you a huge smile... ON YOUR FACE Your videos are better than the rest, you don't play with fascinating sensation just to attract more attention, you provide simplified information that is accurate enough for ordinary people to get a large picture. And you do it with style.

Your channel was ond of the best I've ever found!

Every time I hear the name The Great Attractor, I just want to sing "Oh yes, I'm The Great Attractor" (to the tune of The Great Pretender).

I've been following from the begining. Love watching your channel grow and impressed with your video editing these days!

The Great Attractor is a gravitational locus at the heart of a vast cosmic structure that all surrounding galaxies, including the Milky Way, are falling towards. It is not a single entity but rather a place, located within the Laniakea Supercluster, which is a massive cluster of galaxies. The Great Attractor is characterized by its strong gravitational pull that affects around 100,000 galaxies over a region spanning more than 500 million light-years. It contains mass equivalent to 10 quadrillion Suns, making it a significant point of interest in understanding the large-scale structure of the universe and the movement of galaxies within it.

People don't seem to get this, but the cumulative mass of everything is pulling everything else in, the larger and closer it is the more it is drawn to that specific thing. Darkmatter is not some mysterious exotic matter. It is the unsee matter scattered throughout empty space. There is an estimated 0.8 atoms per cubic meter in space. There is a LOT of empty space and all those atoms quickly add up to a lot of mass. Each one exerting it own tiny pull on everything else in the universe.

This is probably one of the best videos I've seen about universe! Hadn't heard about great attractor before. Thank you for making it simple enough - super interesting!

It feels like a festival to me whenever my man uploads a video about space

I've been watching your stuff for quite a few years now. Thanks 42!

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That's why I love this channel! Variety of facts, stories and subjects and all interesting. If Thoughty2 would become teacher, his classes would take place in emptied Amazon warehouse as there is no classrooms big enough...

One of your best videos and that's saying something because they are always excellent! I really enjoyed this. I love how you make everything simple to understand, your humour is always spot on, and I always feel I've learned something by the end. Oh, and did I say I love your cartoons too? My favourite person on You Tube by far....keep it up!

Sometbing with such an absurdly large mass could probably prevent light that would normally radiate from escaping, it might look like a bunch of galaxies but as objects reach a black hole it appears to slow down from the outside, how do we know thats not happening with the great attractor? Attractors could pull on each other until all mass is in one location then another big bang could happen all for the cycle to repeat itself just like how a heart beats

Thank you Arran, Great research! Believe we need such expansive propositions from time to time to constrain any inflated ego feelings we may harbour as to our individual importance😀g

How could anyone not love this channel? 🙏

Thanks! You`re always sharing amazing stuff!

I'm glad you mentioned the better help right now it created anxiety and me right now and now my mind is racing with it but I'm able to handle that now but I'm going to try and contact them and hopefully can get in touch with someone that is listening this time and see There can be something wrong with that or if it already has because I was just grateful to have it with me and the situation I was going through with it but who knows if someone else could be affected that way because it was getting very very dangerous for me and them and they had no idea or if they did they didn't care I don't know if it was automated like my friend said it was probably a automated system that was sent in the reminder for the journal every month but someone that is not thinking rationally and is having a mental situation going on and not seeing it that way and taking matters into their own hands and taking out workers that they have nothing to do with it that's that's a problem I'm sorry to talk about this on here I'm sure that's not what this is for but just hearing that surprisingly just all of it back in me just now and the anxiety but like I said I'm OK now and it's OK but I'm very surprised at this moment hearing those wordssorry for the I'll leave it at that and hopefully never do it again to ruin this that is very interesting thank you sorry

How do we even know this attractor is even real. It would take thousands of years to even be able to get something close to see that far. Science can’t even get us past this galaxy

You've done a bang-up job of surmising The Great Attractor, but more importantly you are the first person I've seen that explains what we now know. Until now I've always thought it was a mystery, but of course I am lazy and am referring to the many video's I've seen on the topic without any actual research. You've filled in the blanks. Thank you for this video!

Everything Ends!!! ... "thanks for watching" hahahahaha, love it!

An interesting recent study (sorry i forgot where i heard it) actually suggests that the cosmic expension actually is finite. If they are correct, we could technically arrive at the center of the great attractor

"For those of you who are into existential dread" Your time is too short and irrelevant at the these space-time scales. It's a miracle we exist so enjoy this gift and don't throw it away. It's literally one chance in the whole existence of the universe. You won the lottery. Spend your time wisely.

COSMIC FORCES BE LIKE: I CAN SWALLOW A, BOTTLE OF ALCOHOL, AND FEEL LIKE GODZILLA

This was marvelous. Your explanations reveal you to be a gifted teacher (that is, if you are, in fact, the writer). And, I LOVED the humor..

You answered my long asked question, thanks from Nigeria

I often wondered if the Hubble expansion and constant could be explained by the whole of our local space accelerating towards a massive black hole. Objects further away would appear to move away from us faster than those closer to us.

The fact at the end there is really depressing. Anything we learn, and anything anyone anywhere learns, at any time, will eventually not matter at all. It will all just be lost in time, no good to anyone. And even if this time is incomprehensively far into the future, it still makes me feel like _"What's the point then? Of anything."_ Give up now, or later, it doesn't matter.

More astronomy videos please! You do a great job of making it easily understandable.

I found out about the incoming Nibiru planetary system 11 years ago and have thousands of videos saved on my what's really happening playlist. Part one was started 11 years ago and part two are the most recent videos

Glad you brought up the expansion theory. A lot of people didn't believe me in 2005.

Also interesting is that the Great Attractor is pulled by the Shapely Attractor which in turn is pulled by the Vela supercluster.

Dude just dropped a sick space video in the coldest way possible 🙌🏻

Well this put me through the 'ol Total Perspective Vortex.

I love this channel you rock bro keep them coming

Hope he doesn’t change the title this time😂😂😂 “The Real Cosmic Force Is Trying To Swallow Earth”

That is, if you believe in the standard universal model based on light speed which not a constant and yes the galaxy will reach the great attractor though it is just producing new galaxies and the universe is layered not expanding, it's a neuro network in another life form, in my opinion.

I am a firm believer that when you smush two points together like folding a piece of paper together you no longer need to move faster than the speed of light you are just at the other location and I suspect this is how we're going to solve the faster than light issue.

I've actually no idea how long I've been watching thoughty2's content for but I can promise you that every single episode that I have watched is well worth watching and this one is another brilliant one, his content can be watched by friends and family alike, you never have to be worried about the viewers age and you never feel like you're being spoken to like you're the village idiot nor do you have to watch out for inappropriate content.....Not a bloody Daddy Pig in sight! 😊

Going to watch this tomorrow, but i'm curious to see how often the title and image will change.

However if the great attractor increases in volume to the point which this volume increase out paces its velocity from the effect of universal expansion entropy then locally we may be pulled to towards it.

Trying to get to the Great Attractor is basically line trying to go up on a fast escalator that's going down. You'll never get to the top.

Perhaps planet Earth will resign from life due to the evil of fraudsters who despise the principle of reap what you sow.

That super cluster looks like a nerve cluster. The universe is a brain, and everything we know as reality are simply thoughts, ideas, dreams, and nightmares... What a crazy thought.

That was very interesting thank you thoughty 2 I’ve been a huge fan of witty yet cunning and very informative videos since 2020 it’s not often you get factual videos with that splash of witticism present for me to keep my ADHD brain invested I truly appreciate your content

The Earth is hurtling towards something strange, and we have the CGI pictures to prove it.

The "Zone of Avoidance" was at the back of the class for me where a girl named Michelle flashed her knickers and simultaneously became the "Big Attractor". The universe suddenly became a lot smaller.

This stuff really bends your whole mind and existance literally

11:15 That scale feels quite off; the Virgo Supercluster is an entire fifth of the width of Laniakea at ~110 million light years wide, hence having nearly half of the galaxies as it

amazing 1!!! i love how he explains !!

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