We mentioned that NASA completed the LISA Pathfinder mission - and although NASA did contribute, the European Space Agency (ESA) was actually the main leader behind the project!
I did a project on LISA my senior year and not a single person understood how incredibly impressive it is as a structure and the future implications of its findings. I looked like a very big nerd that day
Muhammad Alfudhail to expand the body of knowledge and to validate existing fundamental understandings of physics. Future applications deriving from said knowledge is impossible to predict, as with most research ever. Edit: I’ll get more specific yet. The laser interferometer experiment acts as a telescope (of sorts) for gravitational waves rather than light. It gives us the ability to see much more than we currently can.
Another large experiment that has differing sizes depending on what you call part of the instrumentation is the IceCube project. It is a neutrino observatory down at the South Pole. The sensing element part of the observatory is roughly a cubic kilometer sized 3D array of detectors deep within the ice (the bottom is about 2.5km below the surface and the top is about 1.5km below the surface). The detectors are looking for Cherenkov Radiation of muons flying through the deep, dark, clear ice. These muons are the result of neutrinos hitting atomic nuclei. So, by one definition, the observatory is 1 cubic kilometer (plus the cabling up the top 1.5km of ice and to the server farm "counting house" on the surface in the middle of the array. But, because the neutrinos of interest are very high energy neutrinos, they are looking for neutrinos coming up through the array. Using the entire Earth as a passive filter to filter out the unwanted (lower energy neutrinos) that are generated by the sun, cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere, background radiation, etc. So if you consider even passive filters as part of your observatory, the size of IceCube is the size of the Earth. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IceCube_Neutrino_Observatory
Personally, I think they can only count the Earth if they constructed the Earth for their experiment. Otherwise, I could claim that my middle school lunar eclipse experiment is the size of Earths orbit, which I think we'd all agree is ridiculous.
I missed the part where he tries and claim the earth as a passive reflector. I count only the 1km cubed region as the actively sensed region. Even at just 1km^3, I think it's still the largest experiment.
I had to go double check that too, was really confused there xD At least they mentioned it, just a shame RUclips doesn't allow annotations in videos anymore...
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LHC still counts as largest single experiment to me. NEPTUNE is just five sites connected with a cable - it easily fades in comparison with things like VLBA or Ice Cube. NIF while exciting is nowhere near the technological extent of the LHC and LISA while it doesn't even exist yet is already comparable with the STEREO mission.
In 2009 I went to an astronomy conference and picked up a poster of the LISA project. After hanging that poster and getting a plant two years later, I decided to name the plant LISA after that project. I have no regrets!
I forget what its called, but there's a company that's also working on nuclear fusion, where they use many of these hydraulic plungers that quickly and simultaneously compress hydrogen atoms into helium. It's so far a very efficient method, relatively speaking.
I love this show so much! But. You need to update yourself on Nuclear fission waste. We actually have ways to use almost all of the nuclear fuel. Liquid Flouride Salt Thorium Reactors. It’s something you guys should look into!
THANK YOU Scishow team for including "american" measurements in parenthesis. Helps me a ton to absorb more of the information and with learning metric. Also... Team Picard, woot woot!
1. Mispronounced the word 'Boson'. 2. Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), IceCube neutrino observatory and a handful of other experiments are also huge. 3. There is much larger experiment called International Pulsar Timing Array (IPTA) that uses pulsars in our galaxy as cosmic clocks to detect nanohertz gravitational waves. But if we include this, we have to include the entire field of astronomy.
As far as I know, the NIF isn't used to study possible future fusion power plants, but rather to study the conditions inside nuclear weapons. I've I'm not mistaken even the most optimistic estimates for the energy output of fusion reactions possible in the NIF are still an order of magnitude lower than the energy used to power it's lasers. To me, the Tokamak and the stellarator designs seem a lot more promising than ICF devices.
None of those are bigger than the LHC. The parts in two are just far apart. And the lasers, are in no measure bigger. By your measure of experiment size Voyager 1 is the biggest experiment.
So, only considering experiments we've built ? If not then there are those handily placed galaxies where we make use of their gravitational lensing to better see things behind them. That ratchets up the size of the experiment to several billion light years ;) .
Great Video Hank! A small correction about LISA, the proposal which has passed review and which will hopefully be constructed plans to use 2.5 Million kilometer arms. The longer arms can increase sensitivity and also lets us dig into lower frequency GW which will contain signatures of a lot of interesting astrophysics. www.elisascience.org/?q=news/top-news/lisa-mission-passes-review-successfully-and-begins-next-stage-development For additional reference, note the 8th paragraph of executive summary of the LISA Proposal www.elisascience.org/files/publications/LISA_L3_20170120.pdf
LIGO project operates 3 gravitational-wave detectors of which 2 are being upgraded to an advanced config in US and 3rd is being built in India under LIGO-India project.
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What about the mirrors and lasers they use to measure the distance between the Earth and the Moon? That's a pretty big experiment with equipment that is never closer than 356,500 km.
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Hank! Why would you start a science video with a divisive claim like, "Picard was a better starship captain that Kirk!?!?" Kinda hard to absorb the science when I'm still bouncing around the room yelling, "Oh no, he DIDN'T!" ;)
I'm an old-school guy, born the same year that ST premiered, 1966. Kirk was my captain from infancy through "The Motion Picture;" which was, of course, the BIGGEST thing goin' in the universe as far as I was concerned at that time. The Eighth of December, 1979. Me, thirteen years old and my math teacher, Mrs. Rinck, just happened to also be a Trekkie... Together, we went through months of agonizing pain in anticipation! My 13yo world seemed to have come together in Mrs. R's classroom. ~~~ Star Trek ~~~ School ~~~ Star Trek ~~~ Algebra/Mrs. R ~~~ Star Trek ~~~ ;) I am Kirk. That's just how it is.
Sisko? I'd give you an argument for Janeway, but no way Sisko. Besides, Kirk's in-your-face, rough and tumble style captaining beats anybody anytime. Lol
amazedsatsuma, you mean the captain who destroyed a planets biotope because he was angry at an deserter and planted false evidence to start a war? Skeith S, you mean the captain who trapped her ship in the delta quadrant for no reason?
Each captain has their strengths and weaknesses. Picard is best for diplomacy, but not always the best war time captain. Janeway is the toughest of all, although not the best tactician.
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Just to clarify, NIF has never really been about fusion energy research, it has always been a weapons program that markets itself as energy to get good press :D Nothing NIF does will directly help fusion research, only indirectly...which is nice I guess, but it is a bit different than the marketing
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NIF is nice, but there are a lot of fusion reactor experiments going on. Many of them already more successful at actually generating plasma in a fusion state. JET, ITER, HIDRA, to name but a few.
ITER? JET is already much bigger than NIF! The toroidal coils alone weigh over 250 tonnes (not the puny 120 tonnes of NIF glass), not to mention the poloidal coils, or just the vacuum vessel (which is 100 tonnes, _without_ the equipment inside, 175 tonnes with it). I really like SciShow, but it's just sad how much of an "America First" channel it is.
@666Tomato666 Neptune is Canadian and LISA and Lisa Pathfinder is by the ESA, or in other words: European*. Not exactly 'America First.' *: They did say Lisa was a NASA project, but they have corrected that statement saying that they misspoke. NASA contributed, but is not the leader in this project.
"They did say Lisa was a NASA project" and I said that they had very US-centric selection of the experiments, it means how they *selected* it, not how it turned out to be, and at selection stage they thought it was US project fair point on Neptune being Canadian, though it is not even 100 km away from continental US... and just north of the much longer (as in, deeper into the sea) OOI Cabled Array it was a really weird selection
I would be surprised if they didnt know LISA was a ESA project, but sometimes errors in scripts happen. In the early days of SciShow they actually got a lot more factually wrong. Not scripting mistakes, but the hard numbers. But they have gotten on top of that after many complaints. So really I wouldn't be too concerned with the NASA ESA thing. And about NEPTUNE, its kind of hard for something Canadian to not be close to the USA. I believe 90% of Canadians live within 100 miles of the border. And maybe another point to be made, what if they went for the more well known projects, like JET, LHC, VLA or ISS? Most everybody who watches this wouldn't be too interested. So maybe they went for the more obscure scientific experiments. I do recall hearing about NEPTUNE, but never really knew about it. The other two I knew about, but I can name 4 people in my household who don't (and I live with 4 others). So maybe they chose the ones they did for reasons of engagement and not because of a bias. And it should be pointed out that the USA has done lots of large scale experiments. Just check out Earthscope which, I believe, is the largest experiment ever done. That was all in the USA. This country was for a long time (and some may be able to argue still is) a leader in scientific research.
I don't know what about the internet? Signals essentially circle our planet an incredible number of times it could (over time) be the largest experiment we've ever done. Because the internet is an ongoing social networking platform and information sharing "web" 1.6 million km is doable
Why aren't we being told of the underseas volcanic activity and associated earthquakes off the Oregon coast when pumice is washing ashore? Why no seismograph readings shown past the shore online when the plate fault goes there?
That off-handed reference to the Higgs-Boson at the beginning made me do some searching. I could have sworn that if they'd found it, it would have been a big news story and I'd have heard about it, but apparently not. They did find it, and this was the first I am hearing of it. I am now concerned about the quality of my news sources...
Could we use the N. I. F. 2 help supplement are helium shortage do you think? I've heard from several different sources that we are starting to run out of helium that is harvestable on Earth. If we can start using hydrogen together perhaps we can figure out a way to turn into helium?
If communication between things is counted as "structure" (LISA, I'm pointing at you), then you could say that Voyager 1 & 2 and the Earth combines as a structure.
i have a question, if black holes or singularities stop logic time and space from working, how come they can move through space? why doesnt the area they pass through just remain a torn piece of space where nothing makes sense, like a rip through paper? how does the space that occupied the singularity perviously go back to how it was before?
The experiment known as "Macky" is the biggest experiment known to date. The things that the experiment wants to know is every personal detail of Macky. But, unfortunately, the data is private and would never be shown. EDIT:Only one person is allowed to see the info.. That person is... Macky
I have a question about energy ; What happened to cold-fusion and those free-energy prototypes ? ... Would this topic be interesting enough for your team to tackle ?
We mentioned that NASA completed the LISA Pathfinder mission - and although NASA did contribute, the European Space Agency (ESA) was actually the main leader behind the project!
I'm sure they're used to it.
Go check out PBS Space Time. They have a video on that.
Now you guys MUST talk about ESA and say it right, like in Lisa
xspager ESA (ē - əss - ā) (eee - ess - ey)
Nice haircut
I did a project on LISA my senior year and not a single person understood how incredibly impressive it is as a structure and the future implications of its findings.
I looked like a very big nerd that day
James Burgess Nerd good for you 👏
Welcome to the pain of being the smartest person in the room.
But why you need to study the gravitational waves?
Muhammad Alfudhail to expand the body of knowledge and to validate existing fundamental understandings of physics. Future applications deriving from said knowledge is impossible to predict, as with most research ever.
Edit: I’ll get more specific yet. The laser interferometer experiment acts as a telescope (of sorts) for gravitational waves rather than light. It gives us the ability to see much more than we currently can.
James Burgess I did this project in the 3rd grade, and everyone understood me.
Man these scientists and their acronyms.
Or SATA for short
Ekrema Ziaullah 😂🤣
Scientists and their acronyms nowadays SATAN Problem?
Another large experiment that has differing sizes depending on what you call part of the instrumentation is the IceCube project. It is a neutrino observatory down at the South Pole. The sensing element part of the observatory is roughly a cubic kilometer sized 3D array of detectors deep within the ice (the bottom is about 2.5km below the surface and the top is about 1.5km below the surface). The detectors are looking for Cherenkov Radiation of muons flying through the deep, dark, clear ice. These muons are the result of neutrinos hitting atomic nuclei. So, by one definition, the observatory is 1 cubic kilometer (plus the cabling up the top 1.5km of ice and to the server farm "counting house" on the surface in the middle of the array. But, because the neutrinos of interest are very high energy neutrinos, they are looking for neutrinos coming up through the array. Using the entire Earth as a passive filter to filter out the unwanted (lower energy neutrinos) that are generated by the sun, cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere, background radiation, etc. So if you consider even passive filters as part of your observatory, the size of IceCube is the size of the Earth. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IceCube_Neutrino_Observatory
That's awesome. IMO if it relies on the Earth for filtering, Earth should count towards it's size.
I thought they were going to bring that up, too. It could easily win the volume measurement.
Personally, I think they can only count the Earth if they constructed the Earth for their experiment. Otherwise, I could claim that my middle school lunar eclipse experiment is the size of Earths orbit, which I think we'd all agree is ridiculous.
I missed the part where he tries and claim the earth as a passive reflector. I count only the 1km cubed region as the actively sensed region. Even at just 1km^3, I think it's still the largest experiment.
Well LHC Is over 27km in diameter and runs under two coutries. So yea, they can be compared i think so :)
Then there's the Earth. A giant computer to calculate the meaning of life, the universe and everything.
And the mice were pissed when the Vogons destroyed their experiment.
Just a shame they built it where they were going to build a bypass... Rather poor planning if you ask me.
6*9=42
Pipe2DevNull good point bro
We're not doing that experiment though, we're just part of it.
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LISA Pathfinder was an ESA mission, not NASA.
I had to go double check that too, was really confused there xD
At least they mentioned it, just a shame RUclips doesn't allow annotations in videos anymore...
Azivegu I noticed it right away, I’m well acquainted with LPF. But I knew sci-show and co. Would rectify somehow!
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but what about iter surely thats bigger than the national ignition facility
is that a... skink/iguana pin...?
"Picard was a better captain than kirk." THANK YOU
YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA!!
It's only gtavity waves that are between us!
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Sidenote: General Fusion in Canada has working prototypes of fusion reactors. You guys should check it out!
LHC still counts as largest single experiment to me. NEPTUNE is just five sites connected with a cable - it easily fades in comparison with things like VLBA or Ice Cube. NIF while exciting is nowhere near the technological extent of the LHC and LISA while it doesn't even exist yet is already comparable with the STEREO mission.
NIF is small compared to JET, and JET is tiny compared to ITER
but neither IceCube nor JET are in continental US, so I guess "they don't count" :(
That does seem to be the way with a lot of Americans. If it's not in the good old US of A, it doesn't exist.
Also, LHC produces so much data they need 100gb/s fiber connection to offload it real time on 7 euro servers.
I still can't wrap my mind around the scale of LISA. If they pull this off, I will be mighty impressed.
In 2009 I went to an astronomy conference and picked up a poster of the LISA project. After hanging that poster and getting a plant two years later, I decided to name the plant LISA after that project. I have no regrets!
NIF's main goal isn't civilian power research, but instead to perform research into pure fusion weapons.
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LISA Pathfinder was, and LISA is a European Space Agency mission, not NASA.
Mark Holm Started as NASA and the ESA. Now it's only the ESA.
Amen. 'Cause NASA (read: the US gov't) is stupid.
Duncan W NASA didn't have the funding because the govt won't give it to them
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nasa inspires itself from lisa
I forget what its called, but there's a company that's also working on nuclear fusion, where they use many of these hydraulic plungers that quickly and simultaneously compress hydrogen atoms into helium. It's so far a very efficient method, relatively speaking.
I love this show so much!
But. You need to update yourself on Nuclear fission waste. We actually have ways to use almost all of the nuclear fuel. Liquid Flouride Salt Thorium Reactors. It’s something you guys should look into!
THANK YOU Scishow team for including "american" measurements in parenthesis. Helps me a ton to absorb more of the information and with learning metric.
Also... Team Picard, woot woot!
I love this video! Please make more about ongoing experiments!
thank you SO MUCH for that webcam link... i love this kind of thing :)
1. Mispronounced the word 'Boson'.
2. Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), IceCube neutrino observatory and a handful of other experiments are also huge.
3. There is much larger experiment called International Pulsar Timing Array (IPTA) that uses pulsars in our galaxy as cosmic clocks to detect nanohertz gravitational waves. But if we include this, we have to include the entire field of astronomy.
As far as I know, the NIF isn't used to study possible future fusion power plants, but rather to study the conditions inside nuclear weapons. I've I'm not mistaken even the most optimistic estimates for the energy output of fusion reactions possible in the NIF are still an order of magnitude lower than the energy used to power it's lasers. To me, the Tokamak and the stellarator designs seem a lot more promising than ICF devices.
None of those are bigger than the LHC. The parts in two are just far apart. And the lasers, are in no measure bigger. By your measure of experiment size Voyager 1 is the biggest experiment.
And by that measure, the Hubble ultra deep space photo is the by far the biggest.
So, only considering experiments we've built ? If not then there are those handily placed galaxies where we make use of their gravitational lensing to better see things behind them. That ratchets up the size of the experiment to several billion light years ;) .
Great video!
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Great Video Hank! A small correction about LISA, the proposal which has passed review and which will hopefully be constructed plans to use 2.5 Million kilometer arms. The longer arms can increase sensitivity and also lets us dig into lower frequency GW which will contain signatures of a lot of interesting astrophysics.
www.elisascience.org/?q=news/top-news/lisa-mission-passes-review-successfully-and-begins-next-stage-development
For additional reference, note the 8th paragraph of executive summary of the LISA Proposal
www.elisascience.org/files/publications/LISA_L3_20170120.pdf
Wow I didn't know that. Thanks Sci show.
Nice. You mentioned my home town. :) I'm currently in Livermore and I've visited NIF. I'd recommend it to anyone (if they're still doing tours)!
LIGO project operates 3 gravitational-wave detectors of which 2 are being upgraded to an advanced config in US and 3rd is being built in India under LIGO-India project.
Do a video about The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, pls? Love the show. Thank You.
You might want to know that the scenes in the warp drive room from the star trek enterprise was filmed in the Ignition room of the NIF as well
My boi Piccard getting the recognition he deserves.
Got to admit, the concept and title of the National Ignition Facility is kinda badass.
Nice new graphics on the right ocasions!
I know it's a list about the biggest experiments, but what about tokamaks! They are way closer to fusion than the NIF
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What about the mirrors and lasers they use to measure the distance between the Earth and the Moon? That's a pretty big experiment with equipment that is never closer than 356,500 km.
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Amen brother, amen
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Really, it's my name.
Hank! Why would you start a science video with a divisive claim like, "Picard was a better starship captain that Kirk!?!?" Kinda hard to absorb the science when I'm still bouncing around the room yelling, "Oh no, he DIDN'T!" ;)
This is a science show, there's no harm in stating facts.
Yes he did. That is fact.
ROFL
I'm an old-school guy, born the same year that ST premiered, 1966. Kirk was my captain from infancy through "The Motion Picture;" which was, of course, the BIGGEST thing goin' in the universe as far as I was concerned at that time. The Eighth of December, 1979. Me, thirteen years old and my math teacher, Mrs. Rinck, just happened to also be a Trekkie... Together, we went through months of agonizing pain in anticipation!
My 13yo world seemed to have come together in Mrs. R's classroom.
~~~ Star Trek ~~~ School ~~~ Star Trek ~~~ Algebra/Mrs. R ~~~ Star Trek ~~~
;)
I am Kirk.
That's just how it is.
@@Walter.Kolczynski Exactly. That's what makes it so weird that he'd begin with such an outlandish claim.
Hank, you always turn my brain upside down and inside out!
Dude, those live feeds need Flash player? Also, hell yeah, Team Picard, baby!
0:31 funny Higgs Boson! XD hahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PIcard? Kirk? Bah give me Sisko any day of the week:P
Sisko? I'd give you an argument for Janeway, but no way Sisko. Besides, Kirk's in-your-face, rough and tumble style captaining beats anybody anytime. Lol
amazedsatsuma, you mean the captain who destroyed a planets biotope because he was angry at an deserter and planted false evidence to start a war?
Skeith S, you mean the captain who trapped her ship in the delta quadrant for no reason?
Each captain has their strengths and weaknesses. Picard is best for diplomacy, but not always the best war time captain. Janeway is the toughest of all, although not the best tactician.
Mal Reynolds. Mike drop.
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First time I've heard my hometown be mentioned in a sci show video.
It would be cool to see how these experiments effects is today
LISA is three machines working together though. In my opinion, for something to be counted as one machine, everything has to be physically connected.
Just to clarify, NIF has never really been about fusion energy research, it has always been a weapons program that markets itself as energy to get good press :D
Nothing NIF does will directly help fusion research, only indirectly...which is nice I guess, but it is a bit different than the marketing
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Hank is the best
I love Hank.
You had my like at Picard.
3:47 "bump"
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Lockheed Colorado facility has the largest vibration machines anywhere. Cover story was to replicate takeoff of rockets. Real deal is vibration engines, top secret stuff they hide.
NIF is nice, but there are a lot of fusion reactor experiments going on. Many of them already more successful at actually generating plasma in a fusion state. JET, ITER, HIDRA, to name but a few.
How is measuring a thousandth of a proton even possible. Lol that in its self seems like a task
You have to squint. :)
That is why it is difficult. Veritaserium visited LIGO ruclips.net/video/iphcyNWFD10/видео.html
"NEPTUNE", people sure do everything in their power to make their acronyms spell something specific.
easier to remember ;-)
Do a video on whether it's the size of the ship or the motion of the ocean that counts
2:32 aww hell no I saw Cloverfield Paradox.
Hank been lookin’ like a snack since the new year started, why Is that sci show? 😏
what about ITER?
ITER? JET is already much bigger than NIF! The toroidal coils alone weigh over 250 tonnes (not the puny 120 tonnes of NIF glass), not to mention the poloidal coils, or just the vacuum vessel (which is 100 tonnes, _without_ the equipment inside, 175 tonnes with it).
I really like SciShow, but it's just sad how much of an "America First" channel it is.
@666Tomato666 Neptune is Canadian and LISA and Lisa Pathfinder is by the ESA, or in other words: European*. Not exactly 'America First.'
*: They did say Lisa was a NASA project, but they have corrected that statement saying that they misspoke. NASA contributed, but is not the leader in this project.
"They did say Lisa was a NASA project"
and I said that they had very US-centric selection of the experiments, it means how they *selected* it, not how it turned out to be, and at selection stage they thought it was US project
fair point on Neptune being Canadian, though it is not even 100 km away from continental US... and just north of the much longer (as in, deeper into the sea) OOI Cabled Array
it was a really weird selection
I would be surprised if they didnt know LISA was a ESA project, but sometimes errors in scripts happen. In the early days of SciShow they actually got a lot more factually wrong. Not scripting mistakes, but the hard numbers. But they have gotten on top of that after many complaints. So really I wouldn't be too concerned with the NASA ESA thing.
And about NEPTUNE, its kind of hard for something Canadian to not be close to the USA. I believe 90% of Canadians live within 100 miles of the border.
And maybe another point to be made, what if they went for the more well known projects, like JET, LHC, VLA or ISS? Most everybody who watches this wouldn't be too interested. So maybe they went for the more obscure scientific experiments. I do recall hearing about NEPTUNE, but never really knew about it. The other two I knew about, but I can name 4 people in my household who don't (and I live with 4 others).
So maybe they chose the ones they did for reasons of engagement and not because of a bias.
And it should be pointed out that the USA has done lots of large scale experiments. Just check out Earthscope which, I believe, is the largest experiment ever done. That was all in the USA. This country was for a long time (and some may be able to argue still is) a leader in scientific research.
I think with big they mean volume or surface wise.
I don't know what about the internet? Signals essentially circle our planet an incredible number of times it could (over time) be the largest experiment we've ever done. Because the internet is an ongoing social networking platform and information sharing "web" 1.6 million km is doable
Why aren't we being told of the underseas volcanic activity and associated earthquakes off the Oregon coast when pumice is washing ashore? Why no seismograph readings shown past the shore online when the plate fault goes there?
Wow. A Scishow post that is actually less than 100 comments. Amazements.
I thought you'd put ITER in this set, on a side note any updates about the progress of ITER?
Yes I want to watch underwater livestreams, gosh.
That off-handed reference to the Higgs-Boson at the beginning made me do some searching. I could have sworn that if they'd found it, it would have been a big news story and I'd have heard about it, but apparently not. They did find it, and this was the first I am hearing of it. I am now concerned about the quality of my news sources...
Not only did they find it, they've already awarded Nobel Prizes for it's discovery.
Great video, I didn't know that any of those 3 experiments exist.
Don't worry Hank, I'm on #teampicard with you.
Could we use the N. I. F. 2 help supplement are helium shortage do you think? I've heard from several different sources that we are starting to run out of helium that is harvestable on Earth. If we can start using hydrogen together perhaps we can figure out a way to turn into helium?
How did he know that watching live mass crab migrations is my favorite thing to do in my free time?
If communication between things is counted as "structure" (LISA, I'm pointing at you), then you could say that Voyager 1 & 2 and the Earth combines as a structure.
i have a question, if black holes or singularities stop logic time and space from working, how come they can move through space? why doesnt the area they pass through just remain a torn piece of space where nothing makes sense, like a rip through paper? how does the space that occupied the singularity perviously go back to how it was before?
Special mention the SKA and IceCube 🔬
The experiment known as "Macky" is the biggest experiment known to date.
The things that the experiment wants to know is every personal detail of Macky.
But, unfortunately, the data is private and would never be shown.
EDIT:Only one person is allowed to see the info..
That person is...
Macky
if fusion is going to be mentioned i think ITER should be here instead of NIF, its way bigger and more likely to be successful
Super important question: Is that lapel pin a Galapagos iguana, and where can I get one?
What’s the name of the blazer/suit jacket you’re wearing and where can I buy it?
Why not adding a fourth station, forming thetraedar, to be able to get gravitation waves in 3D?
5 mil subs but you can't consistently pull 150k views. What a world.
Nothing gets me going quite like the words "laser amplifiers"
LISA does not exist yet, but what about Event Horizon Telescope? That is a biggest size, like Earth size experiment that is running right now.
Lol Wally the underwater fart smeller "detects methane"
It's the remix to ignition Hot and fresh out the kitchen Mama rolling that body got every man in here wishing
2134: on the centenary anniversary of LISA launching, humanity starts construction of its first Dyson Sphere
I have a question about energy ; What happened to cold-fusion and those free-energy prototypes ? ... Would this topic be interesting enough for your team to tackle ?
Looks like it's time to tease my friend LISA again...
"Hey Lisa! They made a mini-you."
People need to just accept that Picard is superior to Kirk!