THE VIDEO SHELF · far future of the universe
TIMELAPSE OF THE FUTURE: A Journey to the End of Time (4K)
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.
Why HN readers recommended it
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.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- melodysheep
- Topic
- far future of the universe
- Format
- documentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 13
- HN mentions in dataset
- 20
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2019–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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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: [VIDEO] No idea how accurate it is against anything that might be more theoretically accurate but it’s still a …
sharkweek on Hacker News · 2023-02
In How Will the Universe End?Journey to the End of Time - [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 - …
purgedreality on Hacker News · 2024-10
In Ask HN: What's your favorite YouTube video, ever?I wonder if there is a documentary with visual explanations. It would be amazing to watch and understand. I recently saw a mind-bending documentary[0] titled "Timelapse of the future", there's a brief mention of Voyager, it shows what happens to the universe in the long …
xz0r on Hacker News · 2019-11
In Interstellar space even weirder than expected, NASA probe reveals
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.
