Please disregard comments regarding your accent and pronunciation. For starters - it was a really fun accent to listen to. And second, there were no grammatical mistakes and that alone is a remarkable achievement for people acquiring a second language. I used to be picky about these things when I was younger, but as I grew older I realised that it's the ideas that are important - as long as they get conveyed without confusing others, it's a good accent. A great accent conveying bad ideas is *far far worse* than a bad accent conveying great ideas. The rules and such of a language are made by us rather arbitrarily, unlike the ideas you so beautifully articulated in your video, which are etched into the universe. Loved the QCD video, keep these coming.
Nothing wrong with helping people with pronunciation. I am not native myself, I find the corrections more useful than the silence. I don't think criticism in general should be disregarded.
Y'know, knowing your talents and subscriber count I would have never expected such little amount of comments, here to say I don't care if you speak my language well or not, you're amazing as a person. A game I grew up playing with my family and still play every weekend with my family, my favorite piece of the story are phyrexians and you are the leading contribution we have ever had. Keep up your work, il be leaning in closely to your work ready to learn a bit more as a language enthusiast myself.
regarding word pronunciation: It isn't just about missing that a letter is silent -- it's also that including the /l/ sound causes other sounds to be readily misheard (at least to my Native-English brain) Instead of /hæf/ vs /hælf/, which is what you actually said, it sounded like /hæf/ vs /hɛlθ/, and instead of /tɔk/ vs /tɔlk/, it sounded like /tɔk/ vs /tolk/. In English, the difference between /æ/ and /ɛ/, the difference between /ɔ/ and /o/, and the difference between /f/ and /θ/ are all night-and-day. They're distinct enough to be the sole difference between words -- math vs meth (/mæθ/ vs /mɛθ/), chalk vs choke (/tʃɔk/ vs /tʃok/, which I can't quite write correctly because the diacritic was not rendering correctly), and heifer vs Heather /hefər/ vs /ˈheθər/) If the /l/ isn't strongly pronounced that mishearing isn't likely, and it's common for a weak /l/ to sometimes slip into those words by accident or be part of someone's consistent pronunciation. It's subtle enough to go unnoticed.
I wonder how many of the people that commented on your accent would have been able to make a wonderful presentation (as you did) in a different language than their own. I for one am very happy with how enthusiastically you conveyed your ideas. Keep them coming please.
Check out the story of Sequoyah and the Cherokee written language. Each symbol in the alphabet translates to one syllable in the language so once you can convert the symbols you can automatically read and write. The literacy of the Cherokee people happened almost overnight.
Your video was very helpful, i had been studying these concepts on my own for fun to make a calculator for all the different subatomic particles (it got too complicated to actually work lol) but your video helped me to make sense of everything in a connected way
The health thing actually made it funny to me. And in a way. I have severe ADHD. It helped. My side thought, or mental doodle I did. During your explanation of a nucleus. Was basically pretending I had a video game character like Zelda who could only have 1 bar of health and the negative was just like that flashing light before death. So you can add but not subtract etc. Worked out well. When you went to rgb. My nerd went to the screen and my character evolved to a round sphere that had rgb sliders for the color or outfit. 😅 But I mean now my mental image of an atom is a colored 3d point cloud with sliders and a health bar.
Can anyone explain how the universe seems to have the same number of protons and electrons? I hear it's a pretty well established observation, but I can't wrap my head around how that could have happened!
The easy version is this 1.- When there is an imbalance of electric charge we see an electric field 2.- We can create such imbalances at small scales, but we don't see electric fields at larger scales, like planetary systems or galaxies 3.- Since the entire universe seems to lack any measurable electric field, this means the entire universe must have a balance of electric charges, which means there must be the same number of protons and electrons Now, you may be thinking: "What if in the entire observable universe there are N electrons but N+1 protons, that would be an imbalance" And yeah, that's true, but look at the scale. One more or less protons in the universe make literally no difference And sure, maybe the imbalance isn't just one, it may be 12, or a million, still, doesn't matter. Whatever imbalance there is, we know it's not enough to produce any measurable effect Finally, when we look into quantum field theory we actually find there must be the exact same number of particles with opposite charges. The fields are the origin of forces and particles, but the fields don't have charge, they don't have anything, they are just the possibility of those things. This means that sure, charge can be created from the fields, but charge must also be conserved. If initially there was 0 charge, to create charge you must create 1 and -1 This of course is a problem when we think about antimatter. Why isn't there the same amount of matter and antimatter? No one knows
@@HighlyEntropicMind Thanks so much for answering! And that last bit is exactly what I was going to bring up. Naturally when electron-positron pairs are produced, as well as protons and antiprotons, the net electric charge stays at zero. But if somehow there are leftover matter particles when all the antimatter was annihilated, then their relative numbers should be unrelated, right? In fact, given their energies, there should be orders of magnitude MORE electrons than protons, if I understand right. Did there just happen to be the same amount left over after the antimatter was gone, or maybe the balance of electric charge was enforced by some mechanism to make it happen?
You are so cute, smart and handsome, There's a girl out there that will be very lucky and deserving of you. I remember you said you know your soulmate is out there, and for sure she is! Keep it up, man!! 🙌
Parce su contenido es demasiado valioso, saque versión en español, lo entendí casi todo, pero por la pronunciación y otros detalles me distrae. O ya tiene canal en español y no lo encontré? XD
Please don't include background music; it distracts from what you are saying. You don't need to add such effects because your content and delivery are completely good on their own. Thanks!
Japanese and Chinese are not the best examples for "deep spelling." Most Chinese words are pronounced a single way (and most of the words that are pronounced multiple ways differ only in tone), though the reverse is not true, by the pigeonhole principle. Meanwhile, the two Japanese alphabets are extremely systematic, even more than Spanish or Italian, and only the kanji have variable pronunciations. Something like Arabic, which writes down consonants but does not mark half its vowels, is probably a better example (so if you come across a written word you don't know, you'd just have to guess at where and what the vowels are - I guess it's kind of the opposite of Chinese in that if you heard it you would be able to write it, just not the other way around). That said, people commented on your pronunciation of "half"? I wouldn't notice whether or not you pronounced the L in that - and indeed I didn't notice anything like that in the original video. Incidentally, "talk" and "walk" may or may not be pronounced with an L, but if so, it's an L sound in the back of the throat, not one made with the tip of the tongue. But when you pronounced the words with the front-of-the-mouth L, it sounds normal enough to me that I wouldn't've noticed, either. It'd just be part of your accent, not really a mispronunciation (which is why no one brought it up with you IRL, presumably). Hmm... I know there's math involved in linguistics, though I personally don't know nearly enough linguistics to say exactly where. Someone could make a SoME3 video out of this, I'd bet.
Chinese and Japanese still have deep spellings, and one easy way to see that is simply to ask yourself "How many symbols and rules does a reader need to memorize to read any word in the language?" Even if you don't speak Italian, by memorizing the ~30 symbols of their alphabet and their sounds you can correctly read most italian words However reading correctly a japanese or chinese word requires you to memorize thousands of different symbols. It doesn't help if one symbol always has one sound, because there are thousands more to memorize For that reason Hiragana and Katakana are indeed examples of shallow spellings, even if they have inconsistent rules, because by learning those rules you can correctly read most words written with those systems
@@HighlyEntropicMind Ah I see. I was going by what you said perhaps more informally, "shallow spelling is when if you can read a word then you can pronounce it" - and that's also the part that's relevant here, because you saw the word "half" written out and assumed the L is pronounced and not the other way around - but you did give a slightly more formal definition onscreen saying it's a one-to-one correspondence (i.e. bijection) between graphemes and phonemes, not just in one direction.
@@TheViolaBuddy I like how you put it in terms of maps, it needs to be a one to one correspondence is both directions Using this, we could actually get an objective measure of how deep a spelling is, by counting how many bijections are in the maps in both directions, then dividing over the total size of the maps. This would give us the proportion of symbols a reader needs to memorize, and thus the depth of the spelling
English has “deep spelling”. Cute. Never heard that term before. As a Native American English speaker, I would just say that spelling is so screwed up that even computers get confused.
As a non-native English speaker .... thanks a lot. I enjoyed your video and can understand what you are saying. Benjamin, let's support each other to be better, not be harmful! He is doing his best, and we can completely understand him, so why should we come here and write it's a mess ?!
@@benjaminbeard3736 ow ok then :D Sorry for the misunderstanding. I don't like trolling and try my best to make a better environment, at least under videos that do great things and make me learn lots of new things.
Please disregard comments regarding your accent and pronunciation. For starters - it was a really fun accent to listen to. And second, there were no grammatical mistakes and that alone is a remarkable achievement for people acquiring a second language. I used to be picky about these things when I was younger, but as I grew older I realised that it's the ideas that are important - as long as they get conveyed without confusing others, it's a good accent. A great accent conveying bad ideas is *far far worse* than a bad accent conveying great ideas. The rules and such of a language are made by us rather arbitrarily, unlike the ideas you so beautifully articulated in your video, which are etched into the universe.
Loved the QCD video, keep these coming.
It’s difficult to understand.
Nothing wrong with helping people with pronunciation.
I am not native myself, I find the corrections more useful than the silence.
I don't think criticism in general should be disregarded.
Y'know, knowing your talents and subscriber count I would have never expected such little amount of comments, here to say I don't care if you speak my language well or not, you're amazing as a person. A game I grew up playing with my family and still play every weekend with my family, my favorite piece of the story are phyrexians and you are the leading contribution we have ever had. Keep up your work, il be leaning in closely to your work ready to learn a bit more as a language enthusiast myself.
Yes, please do a video on the Strong mechanism holding nucleons together
Deep vs Shallow ought to be referred to as phonetic vs symbolic
regarding word pronunciation: It isn't just about missing that a letter is silent -- it's also that including the /l/ sound causes other sounds to be readily misheard (at least to my Native-English brain) Instead of /hæf/ vs /hælf/, which is what you actually said, it sounded like /hæf/ vs /hɛlθ/, and instead of /tɔk/ vs /tɔlk/, it sounded like /tɔk/ vs /tolk/. In English, the difference between /æ/ and /ɛ/, the difference between /ɔ/ and /o/, and the difference between /f/ and /θ/ are all night-and-day. They're distinct enough to be the sole difference between words -- math vs meth (/mæθ/ vs /mɛθ/), chalk vs choke (/tʃɔk/ vs /tʃok/, which I can't quite write correctly because the diacritic was not rendering correctly), and heifer vs Heather /hefər/ vs /ˈheθər/)
If the /l/ isn't strongly pronounced that mishearing isn't likely, and it's common for a weak /l/ to sometimes slip into those words by accident or be part of someone's consistent pronunciation. It's subtle enough to go unnoticed.
Really cool phonetic insights, I had not thought about it this way
I wonder how many of the people that commented on your accent would have been able to make a wonderful presentation (as you did) in a different language than their own. I for one am very happy with how enthusiastically you conveyed your ideas. Keep them coming please.
Check out the story of Sequoyah and the Cherokee written language. Each symbol in the alphabet translates to one syllable in the language so once you can convert the symbols you can automatically read and write. The literacy of the Cherokee people happened almost overnight.
Your video was very helpful, i had been studying these concepts on my own for fun to make a calculator for all the different subatomic particles (it got too complicated to actually work lol) but your video helped me to make sense of everything in a connected way
Your calculator project sounds Interesting. If you get a working prototype let me know
Don't worry about your pronunciations, I was confused momentarily and adapted
I think the silent L has evolved to be that way over time. In some areas you can hear people weakly pronounce the L in walk and talk still.
Isn't it pronounced the same as in 'wall' or 'tall'? I've never heard it any other way...
@@Fungo4 no it is not
Keep up the amazing work :)
The health thing actually made it funny to me. And in a way. I have severe ADHD. It helped. My side thought, or mental doodle I did. During your explanation of a nucleus. Was basically pretending I had a video game character like Zelda who could only have 1 bar of health and the negative was just like that flashing light before death. So you can add but not subtract etc. Worked out well. When you went to rgb. My nerd went to the screen and my character evolved to a round sphere that had rgb sliders for the color or outfit. 😅 But I mean now my mental image of an atom is a colored 3d point cloud with sliders and a health bar.
Honestly the best description of quantum mechanics I’ve ever seen.
Video was excellent, criticisms minor, make more. Your love and expression of beauty you see in the theory was the best thing about it.
Thanks for this video. :)
You are welcome
Can anyone explain how the universe seems to have the same number of protons and electrons? I hear it's a pretty well established observation, but I can't wrap my head around how that could have happened!
The easy version is this
1.- When there is an imbalance of electric charge we see an electric field
2.- We can create such imbalances at small scales, but we don't see electric fields at larger scales, like planetary systems or galaxies
3.- Since the entire universe seems to lack any measurable electric field, this means the entire universe must have a balance of electric charges, which means there must be the same number of protons and electrons
Now, you may be thinking: "What if in the entire observable universe there are N electrons but N+1 protons, that would be an imbalance"
And yeah, that's true, but look at the scale. One more or less protons in the universe make literally no difference
And sure, maybe the imbalance isn't just one, it may be 12, or a million, still, doesn't matter. Whatever imbalance there is, we know it's not enough to produce any measurable effect
Finally, when we look into quantum field theory we actually find there must be the exact same number of particles with opposite charges. The fields are the origin of forces and particles, but the fields don't have charge, they don't have anything, they are just the possibility of those things.
This means that sure, charge can be created from the fields, but charge must also be conserved. If initially there was 0 charge, to create charge you must create 1 and -1
This of course is a problem when we think about antimatter. Why isn't there the same amount of matter and antimatter? No one knows
@@HighlyEntropicMind Thanks so much for answering! And that last bit is exactly what I was going to bring up. Naturally when electron-positron pairs are produced, as well as protons and antiprotons, the net electric charge stays at zero. But if somehow there are leftover matter particles when all the antimatter was annihilated, then their relative numbers should be unrelated, right? In fact, given their energies, there should be orders of magnitude MORE electrons than protons, if I understand right. Did there just happen to be the same amount left over after the antimatter was gone, or maybe the balance of electric charge was enforced by some mechanism to make it happen?
You are so cute, smart and handsome, There's a girl out there that will be very lucky and deserving of you. I remember you said you know your soulmate is out there, and for sure she is! Keep it up, man!! 🙌
Everyone talks about how toxic the internet can be, but somehow I just keep finding nice people like you
@@HighlyEntropicMind I'm so happy to hear, I think good people attract good things! 😊 The internet can be very toxic, for sure..
Parce su contenido es demasiado valioso, saque versión en español, lo entendí casi todo, pero por la pronunciación y otros detalles me distrae. O ya tiene canal en español y no lo encontré? XD
Si consigo que una universidad latinoamericana financie estos videos, podría garantizar versiones en español
Can you make a video about penguin diagrams? They seem to have an interesting history, and no one has made a video on them yet.
good idea, I'll keep it in mind
omg please yes make more videos about the strong force. and balls to anyone who complains about your pronunciation-your English is excellent.
Please don't include background music; it distracts from what you are saying. You don't need to add such effects because your content and delivery are completely good on their own. Thanks!
I pronounce "half" as "harf" and I think this is normal.
You are very smart, don't worry about your pronunciation too much
Japanese and Chinese are not the best examples for "deep spelling." Most Chinese words are pronounced a single way (and most of the words that are pronounced multiple ways differ only in tone), though the reverse is not true, by the pigeonhole principle. Meanwhile, the two Japanese alphabets are extremely systematic, even more than Spanish or Italian, and only the kanji have variable pronunciations. Something like Arabic, which writes down consonants but does not mark half its vowels, is probably a better example (so if you come across a written word you don't know, you'd just have to guess at where and what the vowels are - I guess it's kind of the opposite of Chinese in that if you heard it you would be able to write it, just not the other way around).
That said, people commented on your pronunciation of "half"? I wouldn't notice whether or not you pronounced the L in that - and indeed I didn't notice anything like that in the original video. Incidentally, "talk" and "walk" may or may not be pronounced with an L, but if so, it's an L sound in the back of the throat, not one made with the tip of the tongue. But when you pronounced the words with the front-of-the-mouth L, it sounds normal enough to me that I wouldn't've noticed, either. It'd just be part of your accent, not really a mispronunciation (which is why no one brought it up with you IRL, presumably).
Hmm... I know there's math involved in linguistics, though I personally don't know nearly enough linguistics to say exactly where. Someone could make a SoME3 video out of this, I'd bet.
Chinese and Japanese still have deep spellings, and one easy way to see that is simply to ask yourself "How many symbols and rules does a reader need to memorize to read any word in the language?"
Even if you don't speak Italian, by memorizing the ~30 symbols of their alphabet and their sounds you can correctly read most italian words
However reading correctly a japanese or chinese word requires you to memorize thousands of different symbols. It doesn't help if one symbol always has one sound, because there are thousands more to memorize
For that reason Hiragana and Katakana are indeed examples of shallow spellings, even if they have inconsistent rules, because by learning those rules you can correctly read most words written with those systems
@@HighlyEntropicMind Ah I see. I was going by what you said perhaps more informally, "shallow spelling is when if you can read a word then you can pronounce it" - and that's also the part that's relevant here, because you saw the word "half" written out and assumed the L is pronounced and not the other way around - but you did give a slightly more formal definition onscreen saying it's a one-to-one correspondence (i.e. bijection) between graphemes and phonemes, not just in one direction.
@@TheViolaBuddy I like how you put it in terms of maps, it needs to be a one to one correspondence is both directions
Using this, we could actually get an objective measure of how deep a spelling is, by counting how many bijections are in the maps in both directions, then dividing over the total size of the maps. This would give us the proportion of symbols a reader needs to memorize, and thus the depth of the spelling
English has “deep spelling”. Cute. Never heard that term before. As a Native American English speaker, I would just say that spelling is so screwed up that even computers get confused.
We should better call it "stupid spelling"
As a native English speaker... sorry. It's a mess.
All languages are messy, they are just messy in different ways
As a non-native English speaker .... thanks a lot. I enjoyed your video and can understand what you are saying.
Benjamin, let's support each other to be better, not be harmful! He is doing his best, and we can completely understand him, so why should we come here and write it's a mess ?!
@@amirmsv7110 that's not at all what I meant. I meant the English language is a mess. I guess I should have been a bit more specific.🙂
@@benjaminbeard3736 ow ok then :D Sorry for the misunderstanding. I don't like trolling and try my best to make a better environment, at least under videos that do great things and make me learn lots of new things.