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TIMELAPSE OF THE FUTURE: A Journey to the End of Time (4K)

melodysheep13 HN recommenders · recommended in 12 months, 2019–2025
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documentary · general · evergreen · 2019–2025 on HN

A 29-minute cinematic timelapse by melodysheep that journeys trillions of years into the future, covering the death of the sun, the end of stars, proton decay, black hole evaporation and the fate of the cosmos.

HN people recommend it as a stunning, mind-bending and existentially humbling view of deep time, and it appears on lists of favorite YouTube videos.

12 comments from Hacker News

@purgedreality2024-10 · in “Ask HN: What's your favorite YouTube video, ever?”

Journey to the End of Time - ▶ this video Veritasium on Thermite reaction - link Problems of a Shared Office - link History of the entire world, I guess - link Colin Furze Underground Activities - link Future of Reasoning - link Sex in Trek - link

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@sharkweek2023-02 · in “How Will the Universe End?”

One of my favorite YouTube videos does a great job with visuals and voiceovers about what will happen over the next trillions x trillions of years: ▶ this video No idea how accurate it is against anything that might be more theoretically accurate but it’s still a great watch.

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@jvm___2025-04 · in “How many supernova explode every year?”

▶ this video If you need some existential dread. It's a hypothetical video to portray the rest of the universe, the time speed moving forward doubles every 5 seconds - and it's 29 minutes long...

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@majewsky2024-12 · in “Intel announces retirement of Pat Gelsinger”

> Does 4k matter? The PC I'm typing this on has two 27in 4k screens. I'm sitting so that I look at them from about 75cm away (that's 2.5 feet in weird units). I archive most of my video files in 720p, because I genuinely don't see that big of a difference between even 720p and 1080p. It is definitely visible, but usually, it does not add much to the experience, considering that most videos today are produced to be watchable on smartphones and tablets just as much as cinema screens or huge TVs. I only make an exception here for "cinematic" content that was intended for the very big screen. That does not necessarily mean movies, but also certain YouTube videos, like "Timelapse of the Future": ▶ this video - This one hits differently for me in 4K vs. just 1080p. Having to watch this in just 720p would be tragic, because its cinematography relies on 4K's ability to resolve very fine lines. So why would I make a point to have both my screens be 4K? Because where else do you look at fine lines a lot? You're looking at it right now: Text. For any occupation that requires reading a lot of text (like programming!), 4K absolutely makes a difference. Even if I don't decrease the font size to get more text on screen at once, just having the outlines of the glyphs be sharper reduces eye strain in my experience.

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@adityaathalye2023-06 · in “Eventually everything will evaporate, not only black holes”

This stunning video / visualisation features the evaporation of everything. Ultimately everything cools to absolute zero. Time becomes meaningless. Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time ▶ this video edit: discussed previously here: link

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