The Oldest Thing In The Universe Is Passing Through You Right Now

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]This star should not exist. It is almost as old as the universe [music] itself.

[00:00:04]We call it Methuselah and it broke every rule we thought we knew.

[00:00:09]The universe is 13.8 billion years old.

[00:00:13]Methuselah is 13.7 billion years old.

[00:00:16]100 million years after the Big Bang this star was already burning before our galaxy existed. Before our sun existed.

[00:00:25]Before Earth existed.

[00:00:27]But stars are not the oldest things.

[00:00:29]Deep in space it's structures called cosmic filaments.

[00:00:33]Walls of galaxies stretching across billions of light-years. Built over 13 billion years of gravity pulling matter together. Thread by thread. Slowly.

[00:00:43]Silently.

[00:00:45]Then there is the cosmic microwave background. The oldest light in existence. An echo of the Big Bang itself. Still traveling right now.

[00:00:55]Through you every second. You are being passed through by the oldest thing in the universe. And you never even felt it.