Dark matter is like the 19th century's "aether" -- an enormously stiff substance which permeated the universe but which didn't interfere with the motions of the planets or the stars or anything else.
@@Dj0rel -- Yup. But science is the unquestionable religion of the modern age. Doubt it -- whether it's global warming or the origin of the Wuhan flu -- and you will be excommunicated.
Others make videos but use Tobit voices. When I listen to you Anton , I can hear and feel your true interest and passion about what you talk about. You should have a TV show
Anton, you are quoting Ben Kenobi on the force: "The force is an energy field created by all living things, it surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together". So Jedi manipulate dark matter :D
@@uoppsdn4869 and I am not a neird, and you are an idiot, because your answer, just because I made a joke about a film related issue that not means I am a neird.
In the process of trying to figure out how to learn how to turn lead into gold, alchemists laid out the foundations of chemistry. ... And we now know how to turn lead into gold.
5:55 ff: "It still is an isotope" - rather say "it still is a radionuclide" since an isotope simply is a particular - _regardless whether stable or not_ - nuclide of a particular element.
My question is then, if the Xenon124 has a half-life of 18 sextillion years, which is much longer than the galaxy has been around, where did that atom of Xenon124 come from, or rather, why did it decay so much faster than we thought it would?
No, they constantly have a tiny chance of decaying. So if you add all those tiny chances up, in a sextillion years, half of that tub of xenon will have decayed. But that tub contains quite a few moles of xenon, and a mole is an even larger number. So I dont think it is completely unexpected given how many atoms of Xe124 are in there.
Unfortunatly, in this video he dropped the ball I'm afraid and explained the half-life concept very wrong. Although the gist of the video is cool and representative, his explanation of half-life and the slip ups he made in regards to that confuses a lot of people in the comment section (especially in relation to the age of the universe).
It would be more mind-blowing if researchers could have detected proton decay. That would mean that all matter, not just Xenon-124, is unstable or "radioactive".
Congrats, to whoever named Wimps! I love it when an acronym-name comes together! Too bad they weren't detected. Dark matter is winning in the hiding game. The resulting "happy accident" was fortuitous, at least. Thanks, Anton! This is fascinating.
I remember the first time I saw the supercooled water turning to ice thing.. I was at an in house poker game. I went to the fridge after getting felted by rivered quad 9's vs my flopped top set of jacks. Went to the fridge to grab a couple waters for me and a friend. Brought the bottles back, and when I dropped them onto the table, they went from crystal clear to foggy ice slush instantly. Was a surreal night overall. Lots of new experiences
It would be so poetic if the answer to dark matter were quantized inertia. Imagine, science coming back around full circle to what is essentially an aether model of space.
I am studying String Theory right now and it does not offer a good explanation of gravity and the graviton so far. I am starting to think that the aether model of space-time MIGHT be the real answer to the question.
It's all inside the black hole. If a photon can't escape the BH how can gravitons escape. If gravitons are needed for gravity then it can't be gravity that is the dominant force to hold it together. The particle that holds the galaxy must be superliminal to escape the BH. The particle that creates the dark force, a 1/r force, is a darkon. Similar to a graviton but faster. The darkons interact with the stars and cause a strong force between the BH and the star. This explains why all stars orbit at about the same speed regardless of radius of orbit.
With a half-life measured in sextillions of years, we may be the first and only civilization in the entire *universe* to have detected a xenon-124 decay.
It would be more accurate to say it's the nearly longest lived "radioactive isotope". All atoms are isotopes. I had to try and explain this to someone that thought isotopes were different elements and it is better to say that a "stranded element" is the average of the different isotopes of that element.
I don't think that's strictly true. From what I understand, all isotopes are atoms, but not all atoms are isotopes. An isotope is defined as an atom which has the same number of protons and electrons as the elemental atom, but a different number of neutrons, resulting in a different atomic mass. For example, the regular carbon atom has a mass of 12.01amu, but one of its isotopes, Carbon14 has an atomic mass of 14.003amu. Edit: At least, I *think* I'm right. It's hard to be sure because all the definitions I can find seem ambiguous at best. I'm happy to be shown I'm wrong if you happen to know better :-)
@@aitchpea6011 if you look at boron you have 20% boron 10 and 80% boron 11. So there is no "regular" boron atom. The two average out to the 10.811 u mass.
One potential use for really sensitive detection technology like this, especially if it can be made smaller and portable? Tricorders. Scan whatever object is in front of you and instantly know its composition, temperature and structure. But that's just a hopeful thought.
Dust in the wind... the cosmic wind. From a religious perspective, Jesus said that the heavens and earth would vanish like a cloud of smoke. /shrug Poets have known for a long time that the things we value in the world are temporary, but maybe not how deep the foundation is. I like what Molyneux said about the nihilism of apparent insignificance in comparison to the universe at large. Well yes, we are very small compared to the planet we live on, the solar system, galaxy and broader universe, and our entire history is less than the blink of an eye on that time scale. But even though you can marvel at huge numbers and incredible amounts of energy being "farted" out in a supernova (lol) ... there is incredible complexity in the human body and other organisms, and we are the culmination of a 13-14 billion year process to make something in this universe that has meaning beyond the basic rules of physics, capable of thought, feeling, loving, purpose. That's pretty significant itself. And depending on what you believe, that doesn't have to end. ;)
We already know that the fundamental laws of the universe will change over time. There will possibly be other forces and no electromagnetism anymore. The particles we have in this universe now will not exist anymore. Instead there will be different things. Things we do not have words for and which we know nothing about. All that exists in this universe is only a special solution to a grander whole. It's that one special case that came to be during the big bang, because of certain conditions, like the amount of energy involved. So actually our world-views wouldn't change at all, if we detected the decay of a proton.
@@P8qzxnxfP85xZ2H3wDRV "We already know that the fundamental laws of the universe will change over time." - We do? Where you getting that from? Not saying you're wrong, but time is already well accounted for in existing theories. Unless you mean the big rip, where dark energy overcomes the bonds between subatomic particles, but that implies a cosmological constant of a certain value that we have not been able to precisely measure, and remains unverified, although signs point to exactly 0.
@@DFPercush i know there is one theory that one quark(i think) isn't at it lowest energy state but at a stable resting state and if it ever got nudged down to a lower energy state it would cause a light speed ripple effect altering physics as we know it as it passed by.
cool. I liked the interesting parts about Xenon and the freezing of the water. Not a lot of people study Xenon, so it makes me wonder about some of the other elements on the periodic table that some people have not studied as much.
Hello wonderful person. Electric plasma in dark mode accounts for the dark matter and energy that cosmologists can’t find. Black holes are probably toroidal plasmoids and the recent “black hole” images seem to confirm that.
Iron 56 is the most stable, and if the proton doesn't decay, then it has a half-life of infinity. But if the proton does decay, it may have a lifetime that can only be expressed as a tower of exponents.
just an idea here: I love your past year science advancement videos. What if at the beginning of the year you would also do a "what's next in science this year" and then follow them up at the end? :) like the planned launches of the missions, some planned experiments, something in progress which is known, some of the biggest mysteries someone maybe could tackle... it is a lot of research, though :D
"In one of the future videos, we'll talk a little bit more about some other *French* theories of Dark Matter." Ah yes, such as the WIMBs, aka Weakly Interacting Massive Baguettes.
Bottom-up Thought Experiment... Constraints: As few base forces and particles as possible to form a coherent, integrated 3D multi/universe model -- Subspace Charge Field: +ve charge cells (quanta, +1) held together by free-flowing -ve charge. Matter-energy field conserves momentum -- Matter-Energy: Matter is focused energy.. Energy is mobile matter.. Momentum conserves velocity.. Force changes velocity and/or direction.. -- Positron/Up Quark/Graviton (p+): Out of place, free cell warps the field and sends out field cell vibration 'blip' spheres at C + 6 spin loops -- Electron/Down Quark (e-): Hole left behind warps the field and sends out field cell vibration 'blip' spheres of opposite phase at C + 6 spin loops -- Bion/Electron Neutrino/Dark Matter (n+-): Only exactly opposite phase p+ and e- annihilate (ie. pairs created together), else a Bion is formed -- Nucleons: Proton (P) = pep, Neutron (N) = Pe, Beta- = e, Beta+ (B) = p+n = p+pe, Alpha (A) = PNPN = (PeP)(PeP) = (pep)(e)(pep)(pep)(e)(pep) -- Heavier Fermions: Larger holes and chunks of subspace field rapidly disintegrate to p+s, e-s, n+-s and/or annihilate to regular = empty field -- Electrostatic Force: Recoiling blip spheres propagate. Close opposite direction + and - blips form a vibrating AC bond, same sign=phase repel -- Instant-Off Long Force: AC (longitudinally blipping) subspace 'flux tube' as thin as 1 cell wide. Each cell and its -ve charge move in contrary motion -- Spin: e-s and p+s pull in the 12 surrounding cells, or -ve charge that pulls the cells, that then bounce out, forming 6 loops as a torus. Spins up/down -- Strong Force: Spin loops merge and form flowing DC circuits between e-s and p+s -- Mass: Sum of the lengths of all strong force bonds + near electric field. Neutral bion has compact strong force bonds, Protons' are long as 2 p+s repel -- Magnetism: Some spin-aligned atoms' p+s an d e-s' strong bonds join in a shorter straight path. Energy conservation results in external force circuits -- Weak Force: Geometric structural charge balance instability. Possibly statistical hits by bions tipping the balance -- Photon/Light: e- (or p+) moving alternately up and down (AC transmitter / neutral ground state atomic e- moving to a charged higher level and back) -- Double Slit: Laser light / particle centre's preceding, extended subspace distortion diffracts, interferes, forming wave guides observation destroys -- Dark Gravity: p+ traps 1 quantum of -ve charge so void cell size/gap grows (and matter's shrinks?) forming a macro -ve charge gradient -- Bang Expansion: Loss of -ve charge to the multiverse?.. Bang ejector velocity petered out, magnified in time by outward momentum conservation -- Gravity Wave: Longitudinal wave where the entire field in a large region is effected in unison for a duration -- Big Ping: A dark crystal universe collisions's intense gravity wave forms e- & p+ pairs from outside in at C. Many annihilate or form bions -- Big Bang: Ping wave collides centrally? Field blast forms matter and a large hole (then Big/Dark Refill)? Rapid -ve charge loss? Bion crystal explosion? -- Black Hole: Absorbs matter-energy. Bion crystal (with a core returning to empty field)? Large hole in the field traps anything that enters? -- Frame Dragging: Entire sphere of subspace cells rotating around a point in unison -- Time: Cell to cell blips take a constant time. Gravity shrinks cells so light slows but locally measures C as circuits lengthen in space & time, adding mass -- Makes more sense than making up bosons to carry force and mass, quarks that don't solve the anti-matter and dark matter problem, anti-neutrinos, loads of fundamental fields, extra spatial and temporal dimensions etc, that ultimately don't tie relativity and quantum mechanics together properly or well... They should at least be honest and call their 'spatial dimensions' geometric/field dimensions or something.. Magic Space is not my cup of tea.
We never found aether either. Since Newtonian Gravity doesn't work on the micro-cosmic / quantum level, it shouldn't be difficult to grasp the idea that on the macro-cosmic level Newtonian Gravity doesn't work either.
wait, so the detector works by watching Xenon 124 and if a WIMP bumps one it could cause it to decay into Tellurium 124. And they see this happen but conclude it wasn't caused by a WIMP... by how???? I mean that was the point of the detector, so how can they say it wasn't a WIMP that triggered the decay?
I don't understand how the discovery of the decay of Xenon-124 could possibly be "way cooler" than the discovery of dark matter, no matter how rare said decay is..
It was a lucky observation and literally is never likely to be observed again by man. Go from our dawn till now and till our extinction and this is one on the list of truly singular events for a human to have 'seen'. The absolute ultimate random number. It was not said that the event is rare. For it to have been observed is rare. Way more so than waiting to witness a drop of tar fall after years of waiting.
We used to do something similar by putting a uncapped bottle of Coke a Cola in the freeze. After waiting the right amount of time, take the bottle of Cola out, and disturb it (even knock a tiny ice crystal into it) and watch this wave changing the state into a slush.
We propose to build a dark detector for detecting dark matter. By definition, a dark detector is a detector that can not be seen. The costs of building the dark detector will amount to 100 billion dollars. It requires dark blueprints, dark underlying theory, dark construction and dark useage.
Dark matter... are we incorrect sticking to the idea? There is new-ish so called enthropic gravity theory(?) by prof. Erik Verlinde that seems to tick the boxes and at this point was not ruled out through experiments nor confirmed so to speak. I find it pretty decent idea against something catchy called dark matter that slips out... similar to string theory that is slowly getting abandoned by greatest minds out there...
Sticking with, I'd say no, scientists would love to explore any viable theory available. We're looking for a lot of mass though, and something like a WIMP fits with prevailing physics. Who knows though, physics has been turned upside down before, it could happen again. Gravity is quite mysterious to me, the weakest force we know of, yet it reaches vast distances and seems to be capable of turning whole galaxies around one another
@@h0wnr681 Yes you are right, I only meant it as maybe it is a time to reconsider that gravity could work differently that we thought or is even more complicated vide Erik's Verlinde theory. There is not only dark matter we can not find which is a huge issue already but also we know there is a deficiency in baryonic matter itself to what we should see/be able to detwct. This all is suggesting that there is something fundamentally wrong with our models possibly? Do not get me wrong dark matter search is very important but I think it is a time to shift some funds into different directions. Well after all it is just only my humble opinion and anyone dare to disagree.
Agreed. I feel like it will be something simple we overlooked. Watch we discover that our galaxy has a super massive kuiper belt that accounts for the missing mass.
So many theories give dark matter exotic properties... But honestly, "dark matter" just means "unknown matter." It literally could be regular matter that hasn't been found yet.
Bite down hard on a Life Saver Wintergreen in a dark bathroom while looking in the mirror at the 'collision event'. Surprise! Domo Machinato Canine Illuminato :-) (Kilroy was not here)
That tap is creating a resonant frequency so everything can get into synchronize oscillating at the particle level.... synchronized - harmonically balanced at the electron orbital that's why it goes to that state
But isn't there a lot of heat radiation deep down in the Earth? You said it's about a mile down. I have watched some documentaries about other mines that are extremely hot, down that deep.
"...like a scientist should -- open to all possibilities" -- so much better than the politicians who say of some fields, "The science is settled! Fork over your tax dollars and don't build that [whatever]!"
Anton's videos are super informative and easy to understand. He is a blessing to those of us who just can't understand all the big talk. He really brings things to our level. Thanks Anton and as always bye bye 😆
some constructive criticism, when you make a cut or edit in the middle of a sentence it's really disorientating. You should try only keeping takes if you complete the sentence or point.
Im working on building some of my first youtube videos, this is actually helpful for me as I was trying to take everything in long segments. I was not sure when it was ok to cut.
Question : is it only by its effect on the galaxy, movement of stars, radial velocity, that we suppose there is dark matter, or are there other indicators ?
Have you or your viewers ever watched suspicious observers. Have you ever heard of electromagnetic universe or plasma universe theories? These theories make more sense than dark matter.
I did. Only problem is they only talk about the visible stuff. Its a theory proposed in the late 60s by a scientist dont remember his name... after countless experiments this theory has been toss aside. So you are like 59 years too late?
It seems to me that if our calculations show us that something we believe we have actually observed has less than a billionth of a percent chance of having occurred in the lifetime of the universe, we have to doubt the validity of the physics theories that produce that result. I'm asking why do we believe that we have now figured out the halflife of xenon 124 rather than that there's something we don't understand about atomic decay?
Radioactive decay is probabilistic. Half-life means it takes on average that long for half of all atoms in a sample to decay but each single atom could decay much sooner or much later. Anton said they had 3 tons of Xe-124 and by my calculations that's 1,46*10^28 atoms. Given a half-life of 1,8*10^22 years you'd get an activity of 1,1 disintegrations per minute. For fun I plugged in the hypothesized half-life for protons into the calculation (1,67*10^34 years) and in a similar setting you'd get, on average, 1 proton decaying every 1,66 million years. Edit: I used the correct isotopic mass for Xe-124 and the R=Lambda*N formula to calculate activity.
To add to nevermind, craig mooring has probably got it the wrong way around. The fact that they observed only one such event would imply that Xenon 124 has a very long half life. I am a noob as well, but I think these decays follow exponential law. So neverminds numbers may be wrong because it he uses a linear relationship but still its the right direction of thinking. Also something is highly improbable does not mean its impossible. So the fact that such a rare event was observed, probably just means that we were extraordinarily lucky to encounter such extra ordinary coincidence. It is still probable that our understanding of atomic decays is not complete, this isolated event is probably not be an indication of that.
@@hybridwafer Of course, it COULD, but what are the chances we would be there to see it? More relevant, I think, is what Harsh Deshmukh is probably implying, namely how many atoms of xenon 124 were in the detection chamber? That is determinable and is probably the basis for the calculation.
You think physicist didn't think of that? If we are not 99% sure that x happened we won't claim x happened. Btw mistakes in measurements are more likely than that our theories are wrong when those theories are used in nuclear energy...
I don't believe it - that they could get a particular isotope SO pure, and get the ambient radiation SO low, as to detect SUCH a long half-life. It appears that they are REALLY measuring their experimental error.
I think you're right. I was wondering that myself. I'd love to know the reasoning behind how they established that target energy, though (so I could pick holes in it...)!
I worked at a sawmill in Northern Michigan for about 14 years. There was no climate control and more holes in the building than walls to accommodate heavy equipment and logs. I've actually had drinks, like Gatorade, do that thing when it gets super cooled and right when I open it or jostle it it freezes right in front of me
Just image if we all greeted each other the way Anton does. It would end war globally. The only thing we'd have to argue about would be how wonderful the person was, lol. "Hello wonderful person." "No, hello you exceptionally more wonderful person than me." "Damn you, you omni-fantastic wonderfully wonderful person." 😂
@@sivvaldimarsdottir5873 Hahaha, too many silly women in my life who are hassling me with their charts and want to tell me about my hidden potentials. I have changed it.
Dont you think their would still be something for them to interact with? it doesn't really sound like something scientists wouldn't of already thought of.
Yeah, my question exactly. How do we know that the detected change was due to simple decay as opposed to change secondary to interaction with dark matter? I.e., given that we don’t know how dark matter might interact with this isotope, what event detected might be interpreted as one resulting from interaction with a quanta of dark matter?
I know this is very strange to bring up, but have you heard of the case of Robert (Bob) Lazar, specifically his description of a gravity wave emission he describes as "Gravity A", he describes "Gravity B" as the gravity all mass has, the same gravity that holds planets in orbit around the sun & us to the earth etc..., he describes "Gravity B" as essentially a gravity that is effectively "the strong nuclear force", & supposedly there is a fission process with a heavy element that produces an emission of this "Gravity A". I know it sounds a bit woo woo, but with the current direction of theoretical physics it seems plausible.
It's hard to put a dollar figure on any one scientific discovery but dark matter discovery is one of the most worthwhile pure scientific endeavors. However, trying to justify the cost of the project by pointing to the accidental nailing down of the half-life of an extremely long lived isotope is not the way to do it or follow-on detectors based on the detectors that have thus far failed to achieve their goals. Seems a bit like a gambler trying to justify his losses by his contributions to the local economy.
if they were looking for dark matter to jostle an isotope into another, how did they rule out that the rare decay they observed was natural and not the trigger they were looking for? or did i miss something like they were looking for one kind of isotope that they think dark matter would create but not the one that results from the slooow decay (though i guess that leads to the question of how they believe and unknown thing will cause one kind of result but not another. maybe because it's supposed to have significant mass so they can have some ideas about its properties?)
Xenon(136) is weird too, undergoing double Beta decay (2 neutrons convert into protons simultaneously with the emission of 2 electrons and 2 anti-neutrinos.) Its half life is more than 10 to the 21st years.
@Raging S Really ? solves the dark matter problem and inflation. Seems with the billions spent on dark energy we are on the wrong path. Love how you say flat earth insult. Plasma theory isn't based on Disney. I am saying Plasma theory may not be so far off. Linear thinking is not working clearly.
@@davidwatson7919 All I hear from your comment is blahblahblah flat earth blahblahblah electrical universe blahblahblah plasma universe blablablabla insert any tinfoil pseudo-science topic blahblah chem trails... The point is: It is ALL based upon straw man arguments. Plasma Universe MIGHT "solve" one or two things (and mind the quotes), but it does not explain 1001 other things which mainstream science does explain and predict.
@@CookieTube Wtf are you reading. Flat earth and plasma universe are not even remotely the same. I am at a loss to what you are reading. Maybe debunked and rightly so however something is missing and billions spent for absolutely nothing. No evidence but the equations .. I think we have it wrong. Judging by the cognitive dissonance in the response. We hopelessly searching in the wrong place. Plasma theory in the whole is crap. However it still had Einstein worried.
This is fascinating. We're almost at the point that I'm even impressed with the discoveries. And I'm happy to see you're wearing tighter tee shirts these days!
"Hello, Wonderful Person...." I'm going to explain some very complicated science to you in a really understandable, approachable way...Thank you. Brilliant content. Every video is interesting and informative.
Like Mick M said, if it would, they obviously would have taken that into account. However, I'd like to think that earth's magnetic field is exactly something they need/use to shield of certain particles. Remember that Earth's magnetic field protects us from a whole lot of radiation forms. I don't think they would be able to do such an experiment in space, without the added protection of the magnetic field. Is also the reason why they do it underground, to further shield the detection tank from radiation which does come through the athmosphere.
Not only is the universe stranger than you imagine, its stranger than you Can imagine. And just when you think, you're getting a handle on it....turns out you're wrong.
OK: Can you maybe look into a theory I have? I will state my thoughts simply, but realize I have gaps that may make some of my statements sound ridiculous; but who better to ask a question than someone willing to look dumb... Dark Matter is simply explained: 1. It is large clumps of neutrons spread around the universe in' clumps' large enough to have gravity sufficient to keep them together; but 2. Separated enough from other large amounts of normal matter that they are not 'contaminated' by protons/electrons to any great degree over any large number of billions of years 3. I theorize that these clumps formed as a result of maybe in the big bang very large amounts of matter getting push in streams to a fraction of light speed by maybe supernovae(?) in essentially the same direction. 4. While protons and electrons were much more greatly attracted to eachother by virtue of their positive and negative aspects of the electromnmagnetic force, hence in effect filtering themselves out of the fractional lightspeed stream of matter... 5. The neutrons continued relatively unaffected in relatively straight and kind of parallel'ish lines... 6. Because VERY VERY fast moving particles are in effect more massive; their gravitational force attraction was enough to slowly cause the fractional lighhtspeed neutron streams to begin 'clumping together ' by force of gravity... 7. I don't know where the weak nuclear force might play into this; but it seems to me that if this were true there would have to have been very early "neutron star' kind of almost black holes forming in the early universe, like in the first billion of so years... I guess that is it... Please let me know what you think?
If dark matter clumps together like matter does, then it should be possible to travel to where a large clump (or dark matter planet) exists, measure it's gravity close to its perimeter (near its "surface"), then travel to its center of mass where it's gravitational effects should be zero because you're "inside" of it. It would be weird to know that you're in the center of a dark matter planet, yet you feel like you're just in empty space.
Holy crap. If there is a dark matter planet, and it somehow developed life, can you imagine what that life would be like? Would we even be able to detect them or them us?
You should write annual summary book about yhe most amazing findings. Like a journal. I will buy every year 🙇🏻♂️
That would be amazing!
You're emoji is so white it looks like a snowman.
Well he does summary videos that are usually 3 hours long
I would pay for this
@@ericr154 useless comment
"What did your detector detect?"
"We detected a detector!"
I used the Detector to Detect the Detector
Detector detecting itself? That's a form of consciousness.
The detection singularity is a few iterations away!
Loop detection the detector to detect the detector then detects the original detector lol
this thread ruined the word "detect" for me
Dark matter is like the 19th century's "aether" -- an enormously stiff substance which permeated the universe but which didn't interfere with the motions of the planets or the stars or anything else.
100%
came to say this
And it was also used to explain stuff that the scientists had no idea how to explain at the time.
@@Dj0rel -- Yup. But science is the unquestionable religion of the modern age. Doubt it -- whether it's global warming or the origin of the Wuhan flu -- and you will be excommunicated.
@@kevinbyrne4538 Science is questionable by definition.
Others make videos but use Tobit voices. When I listen to you Anton , I can hear and feel your true interest and passion about what you talk about. You should have a TV show
Anton, you are quoting Ben Kenobi on the force: "The force is an energy field created by all living things, it surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together". So Jedi manipulate dark matter :D
Surely you mean the sith, since is called dark matter... ;-)
I don’t speak nerd 😒
@@uoppsdn4869 and I am not a neird, and you are an idiot, because your answer, just because I made a joke about a film related issue that not means I am a neird.
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No.1 r/woooosh
No.2 i was joking with you
No.1 *nerd not neird
@@uoppsdn4869 whoosh
Hello wonderful Anton, this is person ^_^
Funny everytim
I'm going to murder the next person i see postying that.
Carlos Ramirez dammit!
nunya bisnass hello wonderful Anton, this is person ;-}
@Carlos Ramirez you are not afraid of death
me: Marco!...
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TheDeadMeme27 I have the flu and you made me laugh. Bonus points for you in heaven
BRILLIANT
In the process of trying to figure out how to learn how to turn lead into gold, alchemists laid out the foundations of chemistry.
... And we now know how to turn lead into gold.
I won't be around to see the results of many of our current questions in science but that's why I watch videos like yours, Anton. So thanks.
Your intro always makes me smile :)
You're the best Anton.. Love the videos
Your correct use of grammar makes me smile.
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I’m glad he got ‘your’ and ‘you’re’ correct!
@@Bassotronics we should make a RUclips video about him. Maybe some celebrities and the Queen as testimonials and advocates for this unique feat.
Doomerang
Indeed! It needs to be recognized as a unique endeavor.
The best Anton, by far.
5:55 ff: "It still is an isotope" - rather say "it still is a radionuclide" since an isotope simply is a particular - _regardless whether stable or not_ - nuclide of a particular element.
My question is then, if the Xenon124 has a half-life of 18 sextillion years, which is much longer than the galaxy has been around, where did that atom of Xenon124 come from, or rather, why did it decay so much faster than we thought it would?
No, they constantly have a tiny chance of decaying. So if you add all those tiny chances up, in a sextillion years, half of that tub of xenon will have decayed. But that tub contains quite a few moles of xenon, and a mole is an even larger number. So I dont think it is completely unexpected given how many atoms of Xe124 are in there.
A very difficult concept to explain - well done. Your enthusiasm for the topics makes these my favourite vids on here.
Unfortunatly, in this video he dropped the ball I'm afraid and explained the half-life concept very wrong.
Although the gist of the video is cool and representative, his explanation of half-life and the slip ups he made in regards to that confuses a lot of people in the comment section (especially in relation to the age of the universe).
Just want to say that it is very much appreciated all the work you have done to reduce the occurrences of "actually" in your speech. Thank you.
It would be more mind-blowing if researchers could have detected proton decay. That would mean that all matter, not just Xenon-124, is unstable or "radioactive".
@Enclave Soldier Even then however the existence of Hawking Radiation points to being able to create.
Congrats, to whoever named Wimps! I love it when an acronym-name comes together! Too bad they weren't detected. Dark matter is winning in the hiding game. The resulting "happy accident" was fortuitous, at least. Thanks, Anton! This is fascinating.
So Dark Matter surrounds us, and binds us, and holds the galaxy together. Dark Matter is the Force! OH WHAT? It's May the 4th, let me have this!
I never connected those two! Yeah it does sound like the force haha.
@@1024det lol
Ummm it has to do with gravity 100% and probably Plank's constant idk
Yes, have it.
@@mitaskeledzija6269 yeah, you don't know.
I remember the first time I saw the supercooled water turning to ice thing.. I was at an in house poker game. I went to the fridge after getting felted by rivered quad 9's vs my flopped top set of jacks.
Went to the fridge to grab a couple waters for me and a friend. Brought the bottles back, and when I dropped them onto the table, they went from crystal clear to foggy ice slush instantly.
Was a surreal night overall. Lots of new experiences
It would be so poetic if the answer to dark matter were quantized inertia. Imagine, science coming back around full circle to what is essentially an aether model of space.
I am studying String Theory right now and it does not offer a good explanation of gravity and the graviton so far. I am starting to think that the aether model of space-time MIGHT be the real answer to the question.
It will... or holographic field theory or whatever it's called. Totally seems like it's going to though
It's all inside the black hole. If a photon can't escape the BH how can gravitons escape. If gravitons are needed for gravity then it can't be gravity that is the dominant force to hold it together. The particle that holds the galaxy must be superliminal to escape the BH. The particle that creates the dark force, a 1/r force, is a darkon. Similar to a graviton but faster. The darkons interact with the stars and cause a strong force between the BH and the star. This explains why all stars orbit at about the same speed regardless of radius of orbit.
Sometimes I put vodka in the freezer until its -5°F, then chug it. Now that's a super cooled liquid!!
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With a half-life measured in sextillions of years, we may be the first and only civilization in the entire *universe* to have detected a xenon-124 decay.
It would be more accurate to say it's the nearly longest lived "radioactive isotope". All atoms are isotopes. I had to try and explain this to someone that thought isotopes were different elements and it is better to say that a "stranded element" is the average of the different isotopes of that element.
I don't think that's strictly true. From what I understand, all isotopes are atoms, but not all atoms are isotopes. An isotope is defined as an atom which has the same number of protons and electrons as the elemental atom, but a different number of neutrons, resulting in a different atomic mass. For example, the regular carbon atom has a mass of 12.01amu, but one of its isotopes, Carbon14 has an atomic mass of 14.003amu.
Edit: At least, I *think* I'm right. It's hard to be sure because all the definitions I can find seem ambiguous at best. I'm happy to be shown I'm wrong if you happen to know better :-)
@@aitchpea6011 if you look at boron you have 20% boron 10 and 80% boron 11. So there is no "regular" boron atom. The two average out to the 10.811 u mass.
One potential use for really sensitive detection technology like this, especially if it can be made smaller and portable? Tricorders. Scan whatever object is in front of you and instantly know its composition, temperature and structure. But that's just a hopeful thought.
This is unexpected...but imagine if we were to detect a proton decay? How would that change one's outlook on their own existence?
Dust in the wind... the cosmic wind. From a religious perspective, Jesus said that the heavens and earth would vanish like a cloud of smoke. /shrug Poets have known for a long time that the things we value in the world are temporary, but maybe not how deep the foundation is. I like what Molyneux said about the nihilism of apparent insignificance in comparison to the universe at large. Well yes, we are very small compared to the planet we live on, the solar system, galaxy and broader universe, and our entire history is less than the blink of an eye on that time scale. But even though you can marvel at huge numbers and incredible amounts of energy being "farted" out in a supernova (lol) ... there is incredible complexity in the human body and other organisms, and we are the culmination of a 13-14 billion year process to make something in this universe that has meaning beyond the basic rules of physics, capable of thought, feeling, loving, purpose. That's pretty significant itself. And depending on what you believe, that doesn't have to end. ;)
We would probably check the experiment for flaws
We already know that the fundamental laws of the universe will change over time. There will possibly be other forces and no electromagnetism anymore. The particles we have in this universe now will not exist anymore. Instead there will be different things. Things we do not have words for and which we know nothing about. All that exists in this universe is only a special solution to a grander whole. It's that one special case that came to be during the big bang, because of certain conditions, like the amount of energy involved.
So actually our world-views wouldn't change at all, if we detected the decay of a proton.
@@P8qzxnxfP85xZ2H3wDRV "We already know that the fundamental laws of the universe will change over time." - We do? Where you getting that from? Not saying you're wrong, but time is already well accounted for in existing theories. Unless you mean the big rip, where dark energy overcomes the bonds between subatomic particles, but that implies a cosmological constant of a certain value that we have not been able to precisely measure, and remains unverified, although signs point to exactly 0.
@@DFPercush i know there is one theory that one quark(i think) isn't at it lowest energy state but at a stable resting state and if it ever got nudged down to a lower energy state it would cause a light speed ripple effect altering physics as we know it as it passed by.
cool. I liked the interesting parts about Xenon and the freezing of the water. Not a lot of people study Xenon, so it makes me wonder about some of the other elements on the periodic table that some people have not studied as much.
They wanted to find dark matter but they found doesn’t matter, which seems to be a very insignificant particle
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Exotic matter?
Nice joke by the way haha
Super glue is a good example of something invented for a purpose and now has more uses than a person could count.
Hello wonderful person. Electric plasma in dark mode accounts for the dark matter and energy that cosmologists can’t find. Black holes are probably toroidal plasmoids and the recent “black hole” images seem to confirm that.
Another electric universe theory quack spouting off bs. You guys should team up with the quantized inertia guys & flat earthers and have a conference.
7:20 It's great that they made it work off a shaver socket, I bet It will come in handy if you want to take one on holiday with you !
Hello wonderful Anton! This is Wimp!
Bassotronics, don't you mean Simp?
Thanks Anton for your great channel and keeping me updated on the latest sciences.
5:14 double-"in other words"-achievement unlocked xD.
I really appreciate all your videos Anton. You do a superb job of explaining the science. Thank you!
The perfection of the acronym proves their existence.
“I have an acronym therefore I exist.” Wish I knew the Latin for “I have an acronym.”
Should we start to stare iron next?
Iron-54 has a theoretical half-life of more than 3.1x10^22 years.
Iron 56 is the most stable, and if the proton doesn't decay, then it has a half-life of infinity. But if the proton does decay, it may have a lifetime that can only be expressed as a tower of exponents.
@@medexamtoolscom wats mozst unstable atom irilon
just an idea here: I love your past year science advancement videos. What if at the beginning of the year you would also do a "what's next in science this year" and then follow them up at the end? :) like the planned launches of the missions, some planned experiments, something in progress which is known, some of the biggest mysteries someone maybe could tackle... it is a lot of research, though :D
"In one of the future videos, we'll talk a little bit more about some other *French* theories of Dark Matter."
Ah yes, such as the WIMBs, aka Weakly Interacting Massive Baguettes.
Goes well with DBCCs; Dark Bleu Cheese Clusters.
Fringe
Bottom-up Thought Experiment... Constraints: As few base forces and particles as possible to form a coherent, integrated 3D multi/universe model
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Subspace Charge Field: +ve charge cells (quanta, +1) held together by free-flowing -ve charge. Matter-energy field conserves momentum
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Matter-Energy: Matter is focused energy.. Energy is mobile matter.. Momentum conserves velocity.. Force changes velocity and/or direction..
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Positron/Up Quark/Graviton (p+): Out of place, free cell warps the field and sends out field cell vibration 'blip' spheres at C + 6 spin loops
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Electron/Down Quark (e-): Hole left behind warps the field and sends out field cell vibration 'blip' spheres of opposite phase at C + 6 spin loops
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Bion/Electron Neutrino/Dark Matter (n+-): Only exactly opposite phase p+ and e- annihilate (ie. pairs created together), else a Bion is formed
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Nucleons: Proton (P) = pep, Neutron (N) = Pe, Beta- = e, Beta+ (B) = p+n = p+pe, Alpha (A) = PNPN = (PeP)(PeP) = (pep)(e)(pep)(pep)(e)(pep)
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Heavier Fermions: Larger holes and chunks of subspace field rapidly disintegrate to p+s, e-s, n+-s and/or annihilate to regular = empty field
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Electrostatic Force: Recoiling blip spheres propagate. Close opposite direction + and - blips form a vibrating AC bond, same sign=phase repel
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Instant-Off Long Force: AC (longitudinally blipping) subspace 'flux tube' as thin as 1 cell wide. Each cell and its -ve charge move in contrary motion
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Spin: e-s and p+s pull in the 12 surrounding cells, or -ve charge that pulls the cells, that then bounce out, forming 6 loops as a torus. Spins up/down
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Strong Force: Spin loops merge and form flowing DC circuits between e-s and p+s
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Mass: Sum of the lengths of all strong force bonds + near electric field. Neutral bion has compact strong force bonds, Protons' are long as 2 p+s repel
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Magnetism: Some spin-aligned atoms' p+s an d e-s' strong bonds join in a shorter straight path. Energy conservation results in external force circuits
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Weak Force: Geometric structural charge balance instability. Possibly statistical hits by bions tipping the balance
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Photon/Light: e- (or p+) moving alternately up and down (AC transmitter / neutral ground state atomic e- moving to a charged higher level and back)
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Double Slit: Laser light / particle centre's preceding, extended subspace distortion diffracts, interferes, forming wave guides observation destroys
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Dark Gravity: p+ traps 1 quantum of -ve charge so void cell size/gap grows (and matter's shrinks?) forming a macro -ve charge gradient
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Bang Expansion: Loss of -ve charge to the multiverse?.. Bang ejector velocity petered out, magnified in time by outward momentum conservation
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Gravity Wave: Longitudinal wave where the entire field in a large region is effected in unison for a duration
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Big Ping: A dark crystal universe collisions's intense gravity wave forms e- & p+ pairs from outside in at C. Many annihilate or form bions
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Big Bang: Ping wave collides centrally? Field blast forms matter and a large hole (then Big/Dark Refill)? Rapid -ve charge loss? Bion crystal explosion?
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Black Hole: Absorbs matter-energy. Bion crystal (with a core returning to empty field)? Large hole in the field traps anything that enters?
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Frame Dragging: Entire sphere of subspace cells rotating around a point in unison
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Time: Cell to cell blips take a constant time. Gravity shrinks cells so light slows but locally measures C as circuits lengthen in space & time, adding mass
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Makes more sense than making up bosons to carry force and mass, quarks that don't solve the anti-matter and dark matter problem, anti-neutrinos, loads of fundamental fields, extra spatial and temporal dimensions etc, that ultimately don't tie relativity and quantum mechanics together properly or well... They should at least be honest and call their 'spatial dimensions' geometric/field dimensions or something.. Magic Space is not my cup of tea.
This is gonna be awesome anton!
We never found aether either. Since Newtonian Gravity doesn't work on the micro-cosmic / quantum level, it shouldn't be difficult to grasp the idea that on the macro-cosmic level Newtonian Gravity doesn't work either.
I like saying Aether either. Especially when people look at me like I’m stuttering
I wonder if black hole can feast on dark matter besides ordinary matter too and can dark matter coalles to form black holes?
I'd assume not since a black hole is nothing but ultra dense matter that's fallen into a singularity. So I'd assume they could pass right through.
maby when matter passes the event horizon of a black hole it creates dark matter since it isn't occupying the same space
in the fictional world of theoretical physics and cosmology anything can happen.
Search a video *"Do black holes contain dark matter?"*
@@woowooNeedsFaith , how many snarks can fit in a slivey tove?
I love you and your intro. No you, you’re wonderful Anton
I watch your videos just because of “hello wonderfull person” part :)
wait, so the detector works by watching Xenon 124 and if a WIMP bumps one it could cause it to decay into Tellurium 124. And they see this happen but conclude it wasn't caused by a WIMP... by how???? I mean that was the point of the detector, so how can they say it wasn't a WIMP that triggered the decay?
I don't understand how the discovery of the decay of Xenon-124 could possibly be "way cooler" than the discovery of dark matter, no matter how rare said decay is..
It was a lucky observation and literally is never likely to be observed again by man. Go from our dawn till now and till our extinction and this is one on the list of truly singular events for a human to have 'seen'. The absolute ultimate random number. It was not said that the event is rare. For it to have been observed is rare. Way more so than waiting to witness a drop of tar fall after years of waiting.
We used to do something similar by putting a uncapped bottle of Coke a Cola in the freeze. After waiting the right amount of time, take the bottle of Cola out, and disturb it (even knock a tiny ice crystal into it) and watch this wave changing the state into a slush.
Greetings, Earthlings.
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We propose to build a dark detector for detecting dark matter. By definition, a dark detector is a detector that can not be seen. The costs of building the dark detector will amount to 100 billion dollars. It requires dark blueprints, dark underlying theory, dark construction and dark useage.
How many of your dark neurons are you going to donate to the dark organic neural net AI chip?
Dark matter... are we incorrect sticking to the idea? There is new-ish so called enthropic gravity theory(?) by prof. Erik Verlinde that seems to tick the boxes and at this point was not ruled out through experiments nor confirmed so to speak. I find it pretty decent idea against something catchy called dark matter that slips out... similar to string theory that is slowly getting abandoned by greatest minds out there...
Sticking with, I'd say no, scientists would love to explore any viable theory available. We're looking for a lot of mass though, and something like a WIMP fits with prevailing physics. Who knows though, physics has been turned upside down before, it could happen again. Gravity is quite mysterious to me, the weakest force we know of, yet it reaches vast distances and seems to be capable of turning whole galaxies around one another
@@h0wnr681 Yes you are right, I only meant it as maybe it is a time to reconsider that gravity could work differently that we thought or is even more complicated vide Erik's Verlinde theory.
There is not only dark matter we can not find which is a huge issue already but also we know there is a deficiency in baryonic matter itself to what we should see/be able to detwct. This all is suggesting that there is something fundamentally wrong with our models possibly? Do not get me wrong dark matter search is very important but I think it is a time to shift some funds into different directions. Well after all it is just only my humble opinion and anyone dare to disagree.
>buried in a room 1km underground completely isolated from everything
God, I wish that were me...
Thank you Anton by saying DM is just another theory
Agreed. I feel like it will be something simple we overlooked. Watch we discover that our galaxy has a super massive kuiper belt that accounts for the missing mass.
So many theories give dark matter exotic properties...
But honestly, "dark matter" just means "unknown matter." It literally could be regular matter that hasn't been found yet.
naphackDT, yup, it could also mean we have some missing variable in our equations that we don’t account for in galactic scales.
'hypothesis'*
Anton going into territory darker than dark matter:
‘Assuming you ARE still alive...’
Wake me up when they find a way to safely contain bulk antimatter. Night 💤
Bite down hard on a Life Saver Wintergreen in a dark bathroom while looking in the mirror at the 'collision event'. Surprise!
Domo Machinato Canine Illuminato :-) (Kilroy was not here)
That tap is creating a resonant frequency so everything can get into synchronize oscillating at the particle level.... synchronized - harmonically balanced at the electron orbital that's why it goes to that state
Awesome video!
But the textures on your head didnt loaded lol
But isn't there a lot of heat radiation deep down in the Earth?
You said it's about a mile down. I have watched some documentaries about other mines that are extremely hot, down that deep.
Thank you. You sound like a scientist should--open to all possibilities and actually fascinated with the uderlying science.
Amen
Aleleeinn Aleleeinn, mybreason for bing interested in the "uderlying science" is that I am a dairy farmer.
@@donfox1036 LOL. I thought you were interested in a whey cooler. Not trying to be personal, but are you a Kurd? I have no beef with your comments.
"...like a scientist should -- open to all possibilities" -- so much better than the politicians who say of some fields, "The science is settled! Fork over your tax dollars and don't build that [whatever]!"
Anton's videos are super informative and easy to understand. He is a blessing to those of us who just can't understand all the big talk. He really brings things to our level. Thanks Anton and as always bye bye 😆
some constructive criticism, when you make a cut or edit in the middle of a sentence it's really disorientating. You should try only keeping takes if you complete the sentence or point.
Im working on building some of my first youtube videos, this is actually helpful for me as I was trying to take everything in long segments. I was not sure when it was ok to cut.
@@1024det The longer the better. Long cuts prove that you know what you're talking about and it feels more like a conversation
Keegan Leahy, thanks ill bear that in mind, if I find it.
Why does this send my comments to the bottom? I am not now nor never have been a bottom feeder, nor are my comments.
Question : is it only by its effect on the galaxy, movement of stars, radial velocity, that we suppose there is dark matter, or are there other indicators ?
Have you or your viewers ever watched suspicious observers. Have you ever heard of electromagnetic universe or plasma universe theories? These theories make more sense than dark matter.
Make more sense than an undiscovered particle? So, like what the higgs boson used to be?
I did. Only problem is they only talk about the visible stuff. Its a theory proposed in the late 60s by a scientist dont remember his name... after countless experiments this theory has been toss aside. So you are like 59 years too late?
Yea that’s pseudoscience and it’s spammed everywhere someone mentions dark matter or gravity. Please GTFO
@@maxsteele3686 its usually spammed by edgy Nikola Tesla worshiping conspiracy theorists too
Not sure if any of this is of any mundane importance. I just really like listening to Anton talk.
It seems to me that if our calculations show us that something we believe we have actually observed has less than a billionth of a percent chance of having occurred in the lifetime of the universe, we have to doubt the validity of the physics theories that produce that result. I'm asking why do we believe that we have now figured out the halflife of xenon 124 rather than that there's something we don't understand about atomic decay?
I had the same question.
Radioactive decay is probabilistic. Half-life means it takes on average that long for half of all atoms in a sample to decay but each single atom could decay much sooner or much later.
Anton said they had 3 tons of Xe-124 and by my calculations that's 1,46*10^28 atoms. Given a half-life of 1,8*10^22 years you'd get an activity of 1,1 disintegrations per minute.
For fun I plugged in the hypothesized half-life for protons into the calculation (1,67*10^34 years) and in a similar setting you'd get, on average, 1 proton decaying every 1,66 million years.
Edit: I used the correct isotopic mass for Xe-124 and the R=Lambda*N formula to calculate activity.
To add to nevermind, craig mooring has probably got it the wrong way around. The fact that they observed only one such event would imply that Xenon 124 has a very long half life. I am a noob as well, but I think these decays follow exponential law. So neverminds numbers may be wrong because it he uses a linear relationship but still its the right direction of thinking. Also something is highly improbable does not mean its impossible. So the fact that such a rare event was observed, probably just means that we were extraordinarily lucky to encounter such extra ordinary coincidence. It is still probable that our understanding of atomic decays is not complete, this isolated event is probably not be an indication of that.
@@hybridwafer Of course, it COULD, but what are the chances we would be there to see it? More relevant, I think, is what Harsh Deshmukh is probably implying, namely how many atoms of xenon 124 were in the detection chamber? That is determinable and is probably the basis for the calculation.
You think physicist didn't think of that? If we are not 99% sure that x happened we won't claim x happened. Btw mistakes in measurements are more likely than that our theories are wrong when those theories are used in nuclear energy...
I used to get little cokes out of a chest cooler in West Texas that would "slush up" when you popped the cap.
PERFECT!
You don't find Dark Matter. Dark Matter finds You.
only in Soviet Russia
"Protected from radiation" - they forgot neutrinos.
I don't believe it - that they could get a particular isotope SO pure, and get the ambient radiation SO low, as to detect SUCH a long half-life. It appears that they are REALLY measuring their experimental error.
How did they rule out dark matter causing the Xe decay? That's what they were expecting to see, right?
My guess is that because energy is quantized and they have a target energy range.
They didn't rule it out, just found a really really really really good way of detecting rates of decay in isotopes
I think you're right. I was wondering that myself. I'd love to know the reasoning behind how they established that target energy, though (so I could pick holes in it...)!
You should start a science/atom show. You explained this so well, better then most teachers I say.
Anton, your midichlorians must be high! Don't fall into Dark Side.
May the Force be with you.
I guess you will have some fun engineering problems dealing with the expansion of supercooled water when it suddenly freezes in a larger tank .
What did the Atom say to dark matter: "YOURE A WIMP!"
So... two particles walk into this bar...
I worked at a sawmill in Northern Michigan for about 14 years. There was no climate control and more holes in the building than walls to accommodate heavy equipment and logs. I've actually had drinks, like Gatorade, do that thing when it gets super cooled and right when I open it or jostle it it freezes right in front of me
Just image if we all greeted each other the way Anton does. It would end war globally. The only thing we'd have to argue about would be how wonderful the person was, lol.
"Hello wonderful person."
"No, hello you exceptionally more wonderful person than me."
"Damn you, you omni-fantastic wonderfully wonderful person." 😂
contrast to the House of Commons: "The right honorable gentleman from Worchestershire, is a dick" lol... but yes common courtesy goes a long way
Anton, you must be the best astrology teachers in the world. You manage to keep me interested even when the subjects are extremely technical.
I think you meant astronomy
please tell me that's a typo
@@sivvaldimarsdottir5873 Hahaha, too many silly women in my life who are hassling me with their charts and want to tell me about my hidden potentials. I have changed it.
What if wimps are made up of 2 up and 2 down quarks, and don’t like to interact with 3 quark protons and neutrons.
Dont you think their would still be something for them to interact with? it doesn't really sound like something scientists wouldn't of already thought of.
By that logic, WIMPS would have fractional charge-2 ups equal +4/3 charge and 2 downs equal -1/3 charge.
Slick Boy D nobody cares
@@AristarchusEsti I do. It's kind of annoying how many people make such an obvious mistake.
W P, what indeed?
Yes we certainly need more experiments to discover more of our universe. Big fan continue the good work.
So... I missed the bit which explained how we know this wasn't the result of WIMP interaction? I guess I'm a whimp :(
Yeah, my question exactly. How do we know that the detected change was due to simple decay as opposed to change secondary to interaction with dark matter? I.e., given that we don’t know how dark matter might interact with this isotope, what event detected might be interpreted as one resulting from interaction with a quanta of dark matter?
I know this is very strange to bring up, but have you heard of the case of Robert (Bob) Lazar, specifically his description of a gravity wave emission he describes as "Gravity A", he describes "Gravity B" as the gravity all mass has, the same gravity that holds planets in orbit around the sun & us to the earth etc..., he describes "Gravity B" as essentially a gravity that is effectively "the strong nuclear force", & supposedly there is a fission process with a heavy element that produces an emission of this "Gravity A". I know it sounds a bit woo woo, but with the current direction of theoretical physics it seems plausible.
It's hard to put a dollar figure on any one scientific discovery but dark matter discovery is one of the most worthwhile pure scientific endeavors. However, trying to justify the cost of the project by pointing to the accidental nailing down of the half-life of an extremely long lived isotope is not the way to do it or follow-on detectors based on the detectors that have thus far failed to achieve their goals. Seems a bit like a gambler trying to justify his losses by his contributions to the local economy.
if they were looking for dark matter to jostle an isotope into another, how did they rule out that the rare decay they observed was natural and not the trigger they were looking for? or did i miss something like they were looking for one kind of isotope that they think dark matter would create but not the one that results from the slooow decay (though i guess that leads to the question of how they believe and unknown thing will cause one kind of result but not another. maybe because it's supposed to have significant mass so they can have some ideas about its properties?)
how do you feel about the aether field theory and the electric universe theory
Xenon(136) is weird too, undergoing double Beta decay (2 neutrons convert into protons simultaneously with the emission of 2 electrons and 2 anti-neutrinos.) Its half life is more than 10 to the 21st years.
So you mean "way colder?" AHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA i have no friends..
Hello you wimp
Can't get friends with jokes like this.
I'll be your friend 🐀
DerzeTT, i have room for you. My only friend resigned last week and intends to find someone more interesting.
DerzeTT you right
Interface with another dimension? We see a interaction that we do not understand. Much more information needed to understand.
They're never gonna find dark matter
Dark matter is a question mark
I'm glad they found something
lol
The more they search and fail with billions looking gives the Plasma Universe theory more cred.
@Raging S Really ? solves the dark matter problem and inflation. Seems with the billions spent on dark energy we are on the wrong path. Love how you say flat earth insult. Plasma theory isn't based on Disney. I am saying Plasma theory may not be so far off. Linear thinking is not working clearly.
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All I hear from your comment is blahblahblah flat earth blahblahblah electrical universe blahblahblah plasma universe blablablabla insert any tinfoil pseudo-science topic blahblah chem trails...
The point is: It is ALL based upon straw man arguments. Plasma Universe MIGHT "solve" one or two things (and mind the quotes), but it does not explain 1001 other things which mainstream science does explain and predict.
@@CookieTube Wtf are you reading. Flat earth and plasma universe are not even remotely the same. I am at a loss to what you are reading. Maybe debunked and rightly so however something is missing and billions spent for absolutely nothing. No evidence but the equations .. I think we have it wrong. Judging by the cognitive dissonance in the response. We hopelessly searching in the wrong place. Plasma theory in the whole is crap. However it still had Einstein worried.
This channel is awesome dude! Subscribed!
Great gawdesses below us, I hope like Hades I'm not alive in 30 years! The world needs room & I'm already too confused to be helpful. :)
The more time elapses without finding it, the more I start looking at Verlinde's emergent gravity as an explanation for Dark Matter.
" Perhaps Non Existence Dark Matter"...👍👍 Well said!!
This is fascinating. We're almost at the point that I'm even impressed with the discoveries. And I'm happy to see you're wearing tighter tee shirts these days!
Ha, I know an element with even longer halflife - Hydrogen!
Not an isotope
Mad e by Valve
@@diggerpete9334 r/woooosh
"Hello, Wonderful Person...." I'm going to explain some very complicated science to you in a really understandable, approachable way...Thank you. Brilliant content. Every video is interesting and informative.
you forget the earth magnetic field may interfere with the test
Somehow I think they will have taken that into account.
Good catch David
Like Mick M said, if it would, they obviously would have taken that into account.
However, I'd like to think that earth's magnetic field is exactly something they need/use to shield of certain particles. Remember that Earth's magnetic field protects us from a whole lot of radiation forms. I don't think they would be able to do such an experiment in space, without the added protection of the magnetic field. Is also the reason why they do it underground, to further shield the detection tank from radiation which does come through the athmosphere.
Not only is the universe stranger than you imagine, its stranger than you Can imagine. And just when you think, you're getting a handle on it....turns out you're wrong.
just cos yr stupid and unimaginative, doesnt mean we all are.
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Thank you for your input. Rest assured I will give it all the consideration it deserves.
That is an amazing feat of the contemporary science. +1 by me
+1 alpha particle decay
no, its a complete and utter accident, the a contamination of an experiment is not an "amazing feat"
OK: Can you maybe look into a theory I have? I will state my thoughts simply, but realize I have gaps that may make some of my statements sound ridiculous; but who better to ask a question than someone willing to look dumb...
Dark Matter is simply explained:
1. It is large clumps of neutrons spread around the universe in' clumps' large enough to have gravity sufficient to keep them together; but
2. Separated enough from other large amounts of normal matter that they are not 'contaminated' by protons/electrons to any great degree over any large number of billions of years
3. I theorize that these clumps formed as a result of maybe in the big bang very large amounts of matter getting push in streams to a fraction of light speed by maybe supernovae(?) in essentially the same direction.
4. While protons and electrons were much more greatly attracted to eachother by virtue of their positive and negative aspects of the electromnmagnetic force, hence in effect filtering themselves out of the fractional lightspeed stream of matter...
5. The neutrons continued relatively unaffected in relatively straight and kind of parallel'ish lines...
6. Because VERY VERY fast moving particles are in effect more massive; their gravitational force attraction was enough to slowly cause the fractional lighhtspeed neutron streams to begin 'clumping together ' by force of gravity...
7. I don't know where the weak nuclear force might play into this; but it seems to me that if this were true there would have to have been very early "neutron star' kind of almost black holes forming in the early universe, like in the first billion of so years...
I guess that is it... Please let me know what you think?
The Electric Universe does not need dark matter!
If dark matter clumps together like matter does, then it should be possible to travel to where a large clump (or dark matter planet) exists, measure it's gravity close to its perimeter (near its "surface"), then travel to its center of mass where it's gravitational effects should be zero because you're "inside" of it. It would be weird to know that you're in the center of a dark matter planet, yet you feel like you're just in empty space.
Holy crap. If there is a dark matter planet, and it somehow developed life, can you imagine what that life would be like? Would we even be able to detect them or them us?