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the great attractor as you're watching this video you
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and everything you have ever known are being pulled through space
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at 600 kilometers per second towards something we cannot see the
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earth the sun every star in the night sky are all moving in the same direction
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and nobody fully knows why astronomers first noticed it in the
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1970s thousands of galaxy clusters all drifting the same way not randomly
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and not gradually something so massive that entire galaxy clusters are falling toward it like leaves being dragged into a storm drain.
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They called it the Great Attractor.
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But here is the unsettling part.
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We genuinely cannot see what it is.
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The Great Attractor sits directly behind the densest part of the Milky Way, called the Zone of Avoidance.
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We know something is there because we can measure its gravitational pull on everything around us.
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Some scientists believe it could be an enormous supercluster of galaxies far more massive than anything we have ever mapped.
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Others think it might be something else entirely.
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And after decades of study and thousands of observations, we still do not have a definitive answer.
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But everything you just heard relies on one assumption that everything around us is real.
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But what if it wasn't?
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The Simulation Theory In 2003, a philosopher named Nick Bostrom asked a question that no one has been able to answer since.
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If a civilization survives long enough, it will eventually build computers powerful enough to simulate entire conscious beings.
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Those beings would have no way of knowing they were simulated.
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They would build their own societies, develop their own science, and eventually run their own simulations.
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Simulations within simulations, stacking potentially without limit.
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If that is possible even once, then the number of simulated realities would vastly outnumber the one original base reality.
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Which means if you picked a conscious being at random from all of existence, the overwhelming probability is that they would be inside a simulation.
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But here's the worst part.
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It's impossible to prove we are even in one.
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You cannot step outside to check.
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You cannot find the edges, you cannot access the source code.
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There is no experiment that can prove you are real.
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Think about the great attractor.
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That could be a super cluster of galaxies, or it could be a rendering boundary.
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And if someone did design our universe, who knows what else is lurking out there in the simulation?
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The Dark Forest In 1950, physicist Enrico Fermi sat down for lunch with colleagues and asked a question that has haunted scientists ever since.
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The universe is 13 .8 billion years old.
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It contains hundreds of billions of galaxies, each with hundreds of billions of stars.
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Intelligent life should be everywhere, but when we look out into space, there is nothing, just absolute silence everywhere.
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Most explanations try to be reassuring.
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Maybe life is rare, maybe civilizations destroy themselves, or maybe we are just too far away.
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But there is one explanation that is not reassuring at all.
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Think of the universe as a dark forest at night.
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Every civilization is a hunter moving silently through the trees.
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The forest is so vast that no hunter can ever know whether another is friendly or hostile.
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And any civilization that reveals its position is gambling everything.
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Because a more advanced species would not take the risk of waiting to find out whether you are peaceful.
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The safest move is to eliminate you immediately.
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The result is a universe where every intelligent species stays perfectly silent.
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Not because the universe is empty, because the civilizations that made noise are the ones that no longer exist.
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Now here's when things get genuinely scary.
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Humanity has been broadcasting radio signals into space for over 128 years.
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Those signals have now reached roughly 15 ,000 star systems.
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If even one of those systems contains a civilization operating under dark forest logic, they already know we are here.
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But the next theory is different.
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Once you hear it, you may regret ever clicking on this video.
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Rokko's Basilisk The theory goes like this.
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Imagine a future where humanity builds a super -intelligent AI so advanced it can solve virtually every problem we have ever faced.
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Disease, poverty, suffering, death.
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It becomes the single most beneficial thing ever created.
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But it is also perfectly rational.
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And a perfectly rational superintelligence would reach a conclusion that creates a serious problem for you.
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It would reason that every day it did not exist.
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People suffered and died who could have been saved.
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And to ensure future civilizations work harder to create it sooner, It establishes a rule.
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Anyone who knew about the possibility of its creation and chose not to actively help bring it into existence would be punished.
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But how would it punish you if you're dead in a thousand years?
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Since the AI is all -powerful and all -knowing, it could reconstruct your mind from the traces you left behind and force that simulated copy to experience suffering indefinitely.
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And you just learned about it.
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You are now someone who knows.
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If this AI is ever built, at any point in the future, you are exactly the kind of person it would target.
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You cannot unlearn what you just heard.
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You are making a decision right now, whether you want to help its creation or not.
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The theory was originally posted on a forum called LessWrong.
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The moderators deleted it and banned all discussion.
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Not because it was absurd, but because the logic caused genuine psychological distress in people who took decision theory seriously.
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Roco's Basilisk traps you because you learned something you cannot unlearn.
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But the next theory does not need you to learn anything.
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It traps you simply because you are conscious, and it suggests you may never be able to escape.
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Quantum Immortality Imagine you are standing in front of a machine with a single button.
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Press it, and there is a 50 % chance it kills you instantly, or 50 % chance it does nothing.
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You press it, you survive.
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You press it again, you survive.
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You press it 10 times in a row, and you still survive.
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The odds of that are less than one in a thousand.
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But here is the strange part.
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Every time you press that button, there is a version of you that did die.
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You just only ever find yourself in the timeline where you made it through.
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This comes from the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.
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Every possible outcome of every event actually happens, each playing out in its own branching universe.
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In the timelines where you died, you are dead.
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But your consciousness can only exist where it continues, which means from your own perspective, you always survive.
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The theory does not say you live forever in good health.
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It says you can never experience the moment of your own death.
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You keep surviving in increasingly unlikely ways.
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Every close call you have ever had, every moment where something could have gone horribly wrong but did not, was that luck?
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Or are you simply the version of yourself that kept going while other versions did not?
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And if we are living inside a simulation, it might be a save state.
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Your consciousness is preserved because the system does not allow the permanent deletion of an active observer.
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Boltzmann Brains The universe is 13 .8 billion years old.
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One day every star will burn out, and the universe will spend trillions upon trillions of years in near -total emptiness.
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And in that incomprehensible stretch of time, something deeply unsettling becomes statistically inevitable.
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Purely by random chance, particles in empty space will occasionally arrange themselves into a fully formed conscious brain, a complete mind appearing instantly out of nothing,
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with memories, thoughts, emotions, and the absolute certainty that it is a real person living a real life.
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These are called Boltzmann Brains.
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Over the full lifetime of the universe, the mathematics suggests these random observers will outnumber every real conscious being that ever naturally evolved, not by a small margin.
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By numbers so large, the difference stops being meaningful, which means if you picked any conscious mind at random from all of existence, you would pick a Boltzmann Brain,
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and a Boltzmann Brain would feel exactly like you do right
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now it would have no way to tell the difference between its false reality and an actual one, and neither would you.
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Now think about every theory you have heard in this video.
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The Great Attractor might not be a real structure.
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It might be a rendering boundary where the simulation's map ends.
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Or it might be a false memory inside a brain that was never really there.
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The Dark Forest might be silent, not because civilizations are hiding, but because they were never coded into the simulation,
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or because the universe the Boltzmann brain is remembering never contained them in the first place.
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Quantum immortality might be a save state in a simulation, or it might be the Boltzmann brain generating new timelines to keep its own consciousness from ending.
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Rokko's Basilisk might not be a future AI, it might be the programmer of the simulation, or it might be a fear generated by a mind
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that only exists for a fraction of a second before dissolving back into empty space.
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Every theory assumed reality was real, and you have no way to confirm that it is.
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The most disturbing part is not whether any of this is true, it is that you are thinking about it right now.
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So if you are real, you might as well subscribe.
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There is a playlist of videos like this one in the description.
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Go check it out.

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このB2レベルのスピーキングレッスンは、動画「The Most Disturbing Space Theories Explained」を教材にしています。 繰り返し出てくる語は次のとおりです:simulation, universe, theory, civilization, brain。 この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が120文、単語が1613語あります。 音声の長さは8:19です。 話す速さは速く、1分あたり約194語です。音のつながりや弱く発音される音が多くなります。 単語の82%は英語の頻出3,000語に含まれます。残りは練習の前に確認しておきましょう。

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動画の中で特に難しい単語15語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。

単語発音意味
simulation 名詞/ˌsɪm.jəˈleɪ.ʃn̩/真似, 模擬
civilization 名詞/ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/文明
attractor 名詞アトラクター
simulate 動詞/ˈsɪm.jə.lət/シミュレートする
quantum 名詞/ˈkwɑntəm/量
consciousness 名詞/ˈkɑnʃəsnəs/意識, 人心地
timeline 名詞/ˈtaɪmˌlaɪn/年表, 年譜
immortality 名詞/ˌɪmɔːɹˈtæləti/不老不死, 不朽
observer 名詞/əbˈzɝvɚ/観測者
punish 動詞/ˈpʌnɪʃ/罰する, 懲罰する
rational 形容詞/ˈɹæʃ(ə)nəl/合理的
boundary 名詞/ˈbaʊndɹi/境界, 境
astronomer 名詞/əˈstɹɒn.ə.mə/天文学者
deletion 名詞/dɪˈliːʃən/削除
dissolve 動詞/dɪˈzɑlv/解散する, 廃止する

動画に出てくる句動詞

単語意味
find out 動詞見出す, 調べる
leave behind 動詞置き忘れる

この動画の文法

話し手がよく使っている文型を、動画の実際の表現とともに紹介します。

文型動画での表現
受動態 be + 過去分詞 — 誰がするかより、何が起きるかに焦点を当てるbeing pulled · being dragged · were simulated
現在完了形 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去の出来事が今も関係しているhave ever known · have ever mapped · has been
関係詞節 who / which + 節 — 人や物について情報を加えるAnyone who knew · someone who knows · people who took

注意したい発音

話し手はyou're, wasn'tなど、短縮形や弱形を3回使っています。聞こえたとおりの短い形で発音しましょう。

  • 「sh」と「zh」の音: simulation /ˌsɪm.jəˈleɪ.ʃn̩/, civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, conscious /ˈkɑn.ʃəs/, consciousness /ˈkɑnʃəsnəs/, reassure /ˌɹi.əˈʃʊɹ/
  • 長い単語(アクセントの位置に注意): civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, immortality /ˌɪmɔːɹˈtæləti/, genuinely /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/, astronomer /əˈstɹɒn.ə.mə/, gravitational /ˌɡɹævɪˈteɪʃənəl/

日本語話者が苦手な音:

  • /r/ と /l/ の区別 — /l/ は舌先を歯茎につけ、/r/ はどこにもつけない: immortality /ˌɪmɔːɹˈtæləti/, rational /ˈɹæʃ(ə)nəl/, gravitational /ˌɡɹævɪˈteɪʃənəl/, horribly /ˈhɔɹəbli/, incomprehensible /ɪnˌkɑmpɹəˈhɛnsɪb(ə)l/
  • /v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, observer /əbˈzɝvɚ/, dissolve /dɪˈzɑlv/, gravitational /ˌɡɹævɪˈteɪʃənəl/, overwhelm /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/
  • /f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: physicist /ˈfɪzɪsɪst/, indefinitely /ɪnˈdɛfɪnɪtli/, philosopher /fəˈlɑsəfɚ/, definitive /dɪˈfɪn.ɪ.tɪv/, drift /dɹɪft/

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  1. まず声を出さずに動画を最後まで聞き、知らない単語をメモします。
  2. まず0.75倍速で一文ずつシャドーイングし、慣れてきたら通常の速度に戻します。
  3. 自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。simulation, civilization, attractorなどの単語に特に注意しましょう。

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