Civilizations At The Beginning Of Time (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Isaac Arthur

Science, Futurism, Sci Fi, Future, Scifi, Technology, Space, Engineering

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🗓️ 7 January 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Our Universe is billions of years older than our planet, and we often contemplate alien civilizations that might have arisen early than us in our galaxy, but just how early could life have arisen? Start listening with a 30-day Audible trial and your first audiobook is free. Visit http://www.audible.com/isaac or text "isaac" to 500-500. Watch the video version: https://youtu.be/OytOJdGsrA0 Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1583992725237264/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/IsaacArthur/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Isaac_A_Arthur on Twitter and RT our future content. SFIA Discord Server: https://discord.gg/53GAShE Credits: Civilizations at the Beginning of Time Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur Episode 272; January 7, 2021 Produced, Written, and Narrated by Isaac Arthur Editors: Jason Burbank Jerry Guern https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxgArWbEhZg Keith Blockus Cover Art: Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier Graphics: Jeremy Jozwik https://www.artstation.com/zeuxis_of_losdiajana Music by Stellardrone: https://stellardrone.bandcamp.com/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hello, SFIA audio listeners.
0:02.5	In this month's Nebula exclusive, big alien theory,
0:05.2	we're asking the reason alien civilizations might be rare is because most aliens are huge.
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0:20.0	This episode is sponsored by Audubal.
0:23.5	With each new year, we celebrate the forward march of time, and for some civilizations,
0:29.0	that march may already have been a very long one. So today's episode makes the start of our
0:34.2	seventh season here on Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur,
0:37.7	and I am your aforementioned host, Isaac Arthur. Way back in our second season, when we first
0:42.9	started doing weekly episodes, we had an episode called Civilizations at the End of Time,
0:47.5	Black Hole Farming, which was long our most popular episode until being passed by its sequel, Iron
0:53.0	Stars. The End of Time series is one
0:55.7	a most popular series on the show and looks at how civilization can survive the death of worlds
1:00.5	and stars, the encroach of entropy, and last till time ends, or at least has no meaning.
1:06.8	This is an important concept of which our current understanding in cosmology leaves a lot to be desired.
1:12.6	There is no end of time per se, just a point where things have run down so much, you couldn't
1:17.6	even find the energy or raw materials to build a clock or calendar, let alone supporting
1:22.6	one who would have a use for such a thing, and that series looked at ways to push that back
1:26.6	and keep civilization going far longer than we'd expect.
1:30.1	The beginning of time is quite a different story, as we currently assume it has a definitive
1:34.2	time equals zero at the Big Bang.
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