Were We Created By a Type V Civilization?

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00:00At first, Type 3 was the highest possible level on the famed Kardashev Scale, but since

00:06the days of its inception, the scale has been added too, and most now accept that Type 5

00:12is the true upper limit.

00:14A civilization at this level has full mastery over the total mystery and enigma of the multiverse.

00:21Their power is so vast and extreme, that according to some interpretations, it may even be they

00:28who made us, the Type 5s who created humankind.

00:36As arguably the most famous theorized model for advanced civilization there is, the Kardashev

00:41Scale needs little introduction.

00:43But we're going to zoom through the basics to recap, just in case.

00:47First proposed by the Soviet astrophysicist Nikolai Kardashev in the 1960s, it means to

00:52measure the advancement of civilizations based on the amount of energy they could theoretically

00:57harness.

00:58The original Kardashev Scale had three levels, or types.

01:01A Type 1 civilization can harness all the energy of its home planet.

01:05For Type 2, it's all the energy of its home star system.

01:09And for Type 3, it's all the energy of its home galaxy.

01:13Later versions of the scale, however, added a Type 4, which is all the energy of the universe,

01:17and also a Type 5… which is what we're most interested in today.

01:22Accepting that a Type 5 civilization could exist requires many moves away from the more

01:27conventional ways of understanding reality.

01:29That's because a Type 5 can harness all the energy from multiple universes.

01:34In other words, it holds all the energy of the multiverse.

01:38Briefly put, the multiverse is the idea that this universe isn't the only universe in

01:43existence.

01:44It may well be crammed full of planets and stars and galaxies and everything we've

01:48ever known… but the general multiverse theory says that there are many more just like it.

01:54And a Type 5 on the Kardashev Scale is a civilization so advanced that it exists on

01:59a high enough plane to see and access all of it.

02:02In our minds, a Type 5 is akin to a god.

02:06It's all-seeing and all-powerful.

02:08And while there are some theories that the Kardashev Scale could be extended further

02:12still to Type 6 and beyond, for this video, we're imagining there's nothing else above

02:185.

02:19You've reached that point, and you truly have completed the game of not just life,

02:23but reality.

02:24What would a Type 5's existence mean for us, though?

02:28Humans are usually calculated as having reached just 0.7 on the Kardashev Scale to get to

02:33this point.

02:34We haven't even fully mastered our own planet yet, and according to some more cynical worldviews,

02:40we might never get past Kardashev Type 1.

02:43Type 5 will always be almost incomprehensibly far away from us, then.

02:48So much so that some theories suggest that we could be under its control.

02:54The shape and form of a Type 5 is something that no one can really agree upon.

02:58In that way, it's again like how we tend to picture gods.

03:02In most basic pop culture depictions, gods are shown as though they exist above the clouds,

03:08taking up a position that mere human eyes can never get to see.

03:12And from there, they're able to pull the strings of life on Earth.

03:16But it's also often said that God is all around us, or inside us.

03:20There's a metaphysical quality to God, as though divine entities exist outside of the

03:25conventional laws of physics, time, and matter.

03:29Again, a similar description could be given to a Type 5 being.

03:34They don't so much have to obey the laws of physics or nature, they are the laws of

03:39physics and nature.

03:40We can quite confidently say, then, that if a Type 5 does exist, then humans will likely

03:46never recognise it for what it is.

03:49The distance between us and the top of the Kardashev Scale is just too vast.

03:54But if we look hard enough, might we find hints to its existence?

03:58In some ways, this is what we're trying to do whenever we search for alien life.

04:02So far, across all of human history, there's no record of any life other than the life

04:07on this planet.

04:08But were we to finally discover an extraterrestrial presence somewhere, then we'd know that

04:13our way isn't the only way.

04:15We'd know that other civilizations and other civilization types were, without a doubt,

04:20possible.

04:21It's why, should we ever find one alien world, many scientists predict that we would

04:25more quickly find a second, a third, and more.

04:28Our understanding, at least, of our place in the universe will have moved up a level,

04:32which would force our technological development to catch up, to push us into the higher brackets

04:37of the Kardashev Scale.

04:39Then the thinking would be, if we can get to Type One or Type Two, then why not Types

04:43Three, Four, or even Five?

04:46The fabled fifth level would seem to us much less of a, well, fable.

04:50Instead, it would feel like a goal waiting to be achieved.

04:53Sure, it could take us literally billions of years to get there, and we might need to

04:58change our physical being in the meantime… but we'd more firmly believe that it was

05:02possible.

05:04But for now, we still haven't discovered alien life, nor any civilizations that are

05:08more or even less advanced than our own.

05:11So, where else could we go hunting for glimpses of a Type Five truth?

05:16We could try searching for the equivalent of the miracles that feature so prominently

05:20in some religions… or we could await with faith the arrival of some sort of Type Five

05:25disciple or prophet onto Earth itself.

05:28A Type Five being would absolutely be capable of travelling anywhere within the multiverse…

05:33and wherever it was, it would always hold the total knowledge of the multiverse within

05:38itself.

05:39If, for some reason, it chose to manifest all of that into human form, then we'd have

05:43our prophet.

05:44Whether or not the rest of humankind would believe someone who claims to have come from

05:48a Type Five world, though, is an altogether different matter.

05:52Failing that, miracle-like events could be our only real sign that our Type Five overlords

05:57were watching.

05:58But even then, would we, humans, really know or understand when a miracle was happening?

06:04Say a Type Five power generously redirected an asteroid on the outskirts of Andromeda

06:09so that it was no longer in line to strike us… we'd never realise that the momentous

06:14event had never taken place.

06:16Equally, were a Type Five to have stepped in behind the scenes at the time of the Big

06:20Bang to ensure that conditions were just right for, say, oxygen on Earth… then we'd simply

06:25never know that that had ever happened.

06:28These things would all be taking place many planes of reality above our own, and would

06:33therefore fail to register down here on our lonely planet.

06:37But finally, if our continued existence really was reliant on the far-off actions of a higher

06:42power, then what if those actions were to grind to a halt?

06:46What if the miracles stopped?

06:48Perhaps the scariest part of imagining a Kardashev Type Five is the realisation of just how insignificant

06:54Earth and human beings probably are to it.

06:57Consider that there could be trillions of planets in our universe, and that this universe

07:01would be one of many under its power… then why would it pay particularly close attention

07:06to us at all?

07:08Why should we ever hope to find proof of a Type Five's existence when we amount to

07:12just a single grain of sand along the endless beach of its own reality?

07:18If we are the creation of a Type Five civilisation, then our insignificance could ultimately be

07:23twofold.

07:25That creator will have created so much before and since us that they may never look in our

07:30direction again.

07:32In their minds, our planet is buried beneath billions of others, kept in a universe amongst

07:37millions more, and irretrievable unless there was ever a particular reason to dig it back

07:42out again.

07:43Second, while we generally consider life on Earth to be special, given that it's the

07:48only life we ourselves know about… that more than likely wouldn't be the case at

07:52Type Five.

07:54And the 300,000 years or so of the modern human could feasibly amount to a footnote

07:59on a footnote, in their own records… unless, of course, the opposite is true, and life

08:05is so rare and unique that our universe, holding our planet, is actually treasured by Type

08:11Five.

08:12It's certainly a more optimistic view to take… perhaps what's really happening

08:16is they peer down upon us.

08:18They see us chiselling out our unlikely existence within an infinite multiverse, and they're

08:24filled with hope.

08:25Hope that one day, we might learn enough to join them at the top table of reality.

08:31If and when that day comes, remember that you heard it here first.

08:35What do you think?

08:36Is there anything we missed?

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