Astrum gives Jon McColgan's universe-spanning hypothesis a hearing

Alex's brother supplies the idea behind a new exploration of time, light and cosmic expansion.

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Have We Finally Found a New Theory of Everything?

Everything is on the table. Astrum's only new upload, "Have We Finally Found a New Theory of Everything?", takes a family connection into unusually expansive territory: creator Alex McColgan introduces his brother Jon's hypothesis about how space and time work.

The description asks whether that framework could account for time dilation, redshift, dark energy and an expanding universe. The chapter list keeps widening the inquiry, moving from four-dimensional spacetime and the speed of light to antimatter, time travel and free will. Jon also receives the writing credit. This is a proposed explanation being explored, not an announcement that physics has been solved. The video is sponsored.

It has drawn roughly 624,000 views and is comfortably the channel's busiest upload right now. In the comments, the grand scope meets a very practical question: what predictions would distinguish this hypothesis from existing models? Alongside that are jokes about needing everything to explain a theory of everything, and readers admitting that the closing explanation hasn't quite made it all click yet.

Across Astrum, daily views are well above their usual level, although the subscriber total held steady over the week. AstroKobi and Dr Ben Miles are also seeing elevated daily viewing, while Technology Connections is nearer its ordinary rhythm.

Astrum's other active draws keep the focus on places rather than an all-encompassing framework. "What Is It Like on the Surface of a Black Hole Planet?" explores how planets might form around supermassive black holes, while "The Surprising Danger of Building a Human Colony on the Moon" moves from habitat construction to radiation and lava tubes. Even beside a theory of everything, there is room for the question of where to live.

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The videos drawing views on Astrum right now

What Is It Like on the Surface of a Black Hole Planet?1,283,420 views The Surprising Danger of Building a Human Colony on the Moon1,927,841 views

The numbers

Here is Astrum's week in views and subscribers.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

Dr Ben Miles

10,206,096

KLT

8,607,697

CrunchLabs

6,610,628

AstroKobi

4,153,313

Astrum

2,985,004

Hank Green

1,312,275

PBS Eons

1,267,844

Technology Connections

1,238,614

subscribers

2,890,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

631,794,193

views per day

868,887

typical day: 539,628

first-day views of each video posted this week

Have We Finally Found a New Theory of E…

355,512

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Technology Connections

3,220,000

PBS Eons

3,220,000

AstroKobi

3,200,000

Hank Green

3,190,000

CrunchLabs

3,170,000

Astrum

2,890,000

Branch Education

2,770,000

KLT

2,740,000

Dr Ben Miles

2,620,000

As of October 17, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.