Nothing Ever Stops Existing

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. Writers are like that | Sign up for Nebula and get access to all my exclusive videos: https://go.nebula.tv/jacob-geller

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SPOILERS:
0:00 - Atmospheric Memory (Museum Exhibit)
2:50 - Charles Babbage
9:34 - DEVS
14:25 - Story of Your Life/Arrival
19:18 - Slaughterhouse-Five
24:04 - 1000xResist
30:57 - Real-life physics
32:49 - Geographies of Solitude (Documentary)
34:16 - Conclusion

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Sources:
Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut, 1969
Stories of Your Life and Others,Ted Chiang, 2002
DEVS, Alex Garland, 2020
1000xResist, Sunset Visitor, 2024
Atmospheric Memory, museum exhibit designed by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Ninth Bridgewater Treatise, Charles Babbage, 1837
When We Cease to Understand the World, Benjamín Labatut, 2020
Geographies of Solitude, Jacquelyn Mills, 2023
Arrival, Denis Villeneuve, 2016

Babbage’s Difference Engines- Computer History Museum: https://www.computerhistory.org/babba...
False Dawn: The Babbage Engine- Computer History Museum:    • False Dawn: The Babbage Engine  
Pauline Oliveros Performance from Roulette TV:    • Roulette TV: Pauline Oliveros  

Music Used (chronologically): Lear (Pauline Oliveros), Symphony No. 7 (Beethoven via John Michel, Wikicommons), The Occupants (1000xResist), A Teardrop ~Zip (1000xResist), Water Run (1000xResist), Bells of Laguna Bend (Cyberpunk 2077), That Was Only For You To See (1000xResist), Tear Gas (1000xResist), Hiding (1000xResist), The Nomai (Outer Wilds), Watcher Haunted (1000xResist), Smooth Talking (Nocturnal Spirits), Possible Futures (Citizen Sleeper)

Additional music and sound effects from Epidemic Sound
Additional footage from Getty Images, Storyblocks, and Reuters Archive

Thumbnail and Graphic Design by   / hotcyder  
Description Credit: Toni Morrison, “The Site of Memory”