It's but for whatever reason for people there is some
incredible motivation to find a divine
Something or another that's there's something greater than this physical being
There's something what do you think that is? Like, what is that compulsion? We we've already served talked a bit about it
I think it goes to the
The hearts of this question of what it means to be human. Mmm. So I
Would say that being human the answer, right?
So the it's not I don't have the answer to the meaning but it an answer would be
We are small
finite
Beings right which are just clusters of atoms as we said before they're very rare
But we understand roughly how they how they came to be and we have a limited amount of time not actually
Unfortunately, but because of the laws of nature that the laws of nature
Forbid us to be immortal. They-they-they
immortality's ruled out by the laws of physics
but also
Actually, what's interesting about if you look at the basic physics of the universe going from the Big Bang to where we are today?
Then the physics is driven by the fact that the universe began in an extremely ordered state
so it was a very highly ordered system and
It is tending towards a more disordered system at the moment and that's called the second law of thermodynamics
And it's that basic common-sense thing that things go to shit
Basically the second law of thermodynamics
What we strongly suspect and and I would say know
is that
In that process of going from order to disorder
complexity
emerges naturally for a brief period of time
so it's a natural part of
the evolution of the universe that you get appeared in time when there's
complexity in the universe so stars and planets and galaxies and life and
Civilizations, but they are they exist because the universe is decaying not in spite of the fact that versus decaying
so our existence in that sort of picture is necessarily finite and necessarily time limited and
It is a remarkable thing that that complexity has got so far
that there are things in the universe that can think and feel and explore it and I think that
Is the answer if you want an answer to the meaning of it all it's that that you are part of the universe
Because of the way the laws of nature work you are allowed to exist
But you're allowed to exist for a temporary for a small amount of time in a possibly infinite universe
one of the biggest
mind-blowing
moments, I think of my limited comprehension of what it means to be a living being was when I found out that
Carbon and all the stuff that makes us has to come out of a dying star
Yeah, like there that alone that there's this very strange cycle of these enormous
fireballs that
Forge the material that makes Brian Cox
Yeah, like what that that one alone that there is some
strange loop of
Biological life that comes from
Stars, which is like the most elemental thing that we can observe
We see these things in this can we see the Sun in the sky? It's this
all-powerful
Ball of fire. Yeah, and that that is where the
Building blocks for a person come from and it's so and they will be from the carbon atoms in our body that you're right
They all got made in stars because there were none of it at the Big Bang
there's only hydrogen and helium tiny bit of lithium to be precise, but nothing else and
So it was all made in stars and it's probably from different styles, you know the atoms in your body
They're not all from one star that cooks it and then died
There'll be a mixture of stuff from many stars in your body
Now and and I agree with you that the what more do you want?
You know when I see people who got I want more than that and whatnot
You know it was there must be more to it
What do you mean the the we have we have we were the ingredients now body
In their hearts of long-dead stars over billions of years and have assembled themselves
spontaneously into
temporary structures that can think and feel and explore and
Then those structures will decay away again at some point and in a very far future. There'll be no structures left
So so there we are we exist in this little window when we can observe this magnificent universe. Why do you want anymore?
well
It's not I think two people. I think a lot of people aren't aware of all the
All the information right? And then I think on top of it for some people it's just
it's so
overwhelming you know, this this concept of
13.8 billion years of
Everything to get to this point that we're at right now
It's so overwhelming that they want to simplify it
you want to put it into some sort of a fable structure something where it's
something that's very
common and similar and familiar
yeah, I I agree and and but I think that's the the
It's the the the journey that we go on the real treasure. I
Think is in that journey of trying to face the incomprehensible. Yes
it's it's in that realization that it's almost it's
It's almost impossible to believe that we exist
That's that's that's a wonderful thing. Yeah, and I think that that's what I think you miss out
I think if you decide to simplify it because you don't want to face that you don't to face the infinity
That's out there in front of us and you don't want to face those stories
As you said that you look at your finger and it's ingredients was cooked in
multiple stars over billions of years that that's a to me a
Joyous and powerful thing to think about. Yes, and I think you're missing out if you don't want to face that