- [Simon] That's me Simon.
That's Anna.
I was trying to teach
her how to pencil flip,
but she's pretty bad at it though.
- [Substitute Teacher]
We're going off book today.
- [Anna] Substitute teachers
always do the weirdest things.
- [Simon] First she held
up a marble and said...
- It's planet Earth.
The size of a marble
on Simon's desk.
If Earth was a marble,
a few feet away
would be the moon.
(marble bouncing)
The size of a pebble.
(suspenseful music)
- [Substitute Teacher] Down the hall
by the teacher's lounge another marble.
That'd be Mars.
By the Janitors closet,
a grapefruit. Jupiter.
And all the way
to Neptune
- [Simon] Neptune
A mandarin at the edge of town.
- [Hannah] The sun, a beach ball
in the teacher's parking lot.
(violent stabs)
- [Substitute Teacher] If it bursts,
when it bursts...
- [Simon] We wouldn't
notice for eight minutes.
Before our imminent destruction.
- [Substitute Teacher] Yet
the Universe carries on,
one hundred billion suns in our galaxy
billions of billions of
galaxies in the Universe
as it exponentially expands.
(ethereal music)
- [Simon] And then she
says at some point
it's got to stop expanding
and then I got a little
distracted because Emily
was chewing her gum
kind of loudly.
I didn't want Anna to see
me paying to much attention
because Anna is pretty cool
and cute and I didn't want
her to think I was too into science.
But honestly this was
some pretty heavy sh**.
The teacher got a little
quiet and sort of intense.
She said something about max entropy,
complete stillness.
- [Hannah] Complete stillness
and the death of all things
and she called it, um...
- [Simon] Heat death.
- And the end of the Universe.
(eerie music)
- A small fluctuation in entropy
under the perfect circumstances causes
another Big Bang.
- [Hannah] Another big bang.
As if I didn't feel small enough already.
Entire Universes.
- [Substitute Teacher] Entire
Universes appearing
and disappearing just as suddenly
(energetic music)
Everything we'll ever
see or know.
- [Simon] See or know
or feel.
- [Anna] Or love.
- [Anna] Temporary
- [Hannah] Purposeless.
- [Simon] Born out of
coincidence.
- [Hannah] And chaos
- [Simon] Atoms coming together.
- [Hannah] And falling apart.
It's kind of freeing though.
We can do what we want.
- [Simon] Or depressing
If we can't.
- Life itself, an unnoticed accident
A speck. Blown off the marble
before it ever really lands.
(melancholic music)
(wedding bell rings)
(bell rings)
(bell rings)
- [Substitute Teacher]
Have a good weekend.
(Jazz music)
