Movie Night With a Physicist | Movie Physics #1
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- Опубликовано: 10 май 2024
- Physics comes up in movies a lot, and as quite a difficult subject it is fun to see how physics is interpreted through the lens of cinema. Sometimes they get it very right and sometimes they get it very wrong!
A friend of mine who is really into movies picked out a bunch of clips for me to interrogate. Some movies I had seen before, and others I hadn't. See how Hollywood does with some hardcore physics!
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Lots of comments about Interstellar: They travel through a wormhole not a black hole. My response: They are the same thing. What!? Yeah. In the model of wormholes that I'm familiar with, the mouth at each end of the wormhole is a black hole. This was why I was using the two terms interchangeably. Here is a nice description: www.sciencenews.org/blog/context/wormhole-black-hole-quantum-entanglement
But perhaps Christopher Nolan was not thinking about a wormhole with black holes at either end, but another kind of 'gentler' wormhole. In that case, yeah it makes sense that you can see a projection of the stars and galaxies from the other side of wormhole on the face of this side. That's cool.
Domain of Science in interstellar they were going through a warm hole, it wasn't until later in the movie that Mathews character went through the black hole.
The actual black hole they show later in the film was 'designed' together with Kip Thorne, and is supposedly somewhat accurate.
I think the stars that you see are gravitational lensing around the black hole outside of the event horizon. Or at least I think that may have been what they were trying for.
Literally what I was just about to ask!
They are not the same thing.
In second point, the stars they see are not reflected but from the other side of the wormhole.
The only reason we still have paper in the future is so astronauts can easily explain wormholes.
You're pointing out obvious known facts here
Or for emergency asswipe
This is the best comment I've seen
Have you heard now we have OLED, Samson can collapse in on itself. Pretty soon we'll have folding displays all over the place.
@Evi1M4chine
Don't mind if I recycle that one.
"Don't put your antimatter in a storage device that's on battery power!" Thumbs up for that one alone. lol
If I remember correctly that was a battery back up since those units were meant for transportation. In which case you would want a battery system since it would be disconnected from permanent power source.
@@spamfilter32 well even a fuel cell bank or a gas bank etc. would be a lot better than only batteries (low energy density)
@@pallingtontheshrike6374 Most likely this is how it would be done in real life. I was only explaining what the movie's explanation for the batteries was. Plus solutions like those would be far too big for a person to transport which the movie needed. Quite frankly, the containment device itself would need to be too big for a person to simply carry around, but the movie needed something handheld for plot purposes.
Batteries also typically have much more predictable power than motors, and don't accidentally fail or switch off. They need backup to keep them charged, and that can be a tricky design problem. I've done it for systems connected to nervous systems, for safe shutoff and startup behavior, and it takes attention.
Is this a reference to that book and/ or movie?
"Several minutes of hypothesizing later" that shot of him right after on the couch staring into space is a MOOD
Why kind of mood?
@@seanmatthewking uhhh the kind of mood where you sit on a couch staring into space
The thing he gets wrong is the implication of black holes sucking everything around them when in fact just like a vacuum is about the proximity of things that results in objects being pulled inwards. If you put a black hole in place of the sun with the same exact mass it won't suddenly consume our solar system, instead it will act exactly as is with the exception of all life on Earth ending.
Respect to the guy, but I can't unsee the "Y" under his nose. ))
And now neither can i haha
Damn you, sirrah! I could have lived a long, happy life but now you have burdened me forever with that image!
Allah curse you
I miss 10 seconds ago when you didn't point that out
oh.....you.....
"Exploding it with a giant nuclear bomb is not the best idea."
But it's the only thing Michael Bay is good at.
cheezemonkeyeater
Step 1 explosions
Step 2 explosions
Step 3 *smiles in Michael Bay*
Lol yep. I was just thinking that.
i thought they were trying to split it or am i thinking of another astroid movie that came out at the same time because there were like 5 and all of them had the same basic concept just minor variations
I think you'd have better luck with rather then blowing the thing apart with a nuke but detonating a nuke near one off to the side to instead alter it's directory, but that would also cause a shit load of nuclear particles to spread about so prolly not the best idea, but better then the movies xD
I want to see the version of Armageddon where they paint it. Michael Bay could still make it exciting with loads of quick cuts and moving camera
I love the look on his face after "Several minutes of Hypothesizing" Lmao
He looked like he had just come out of some deep thought and revelation :P
I feel like that should be a 'epiphany' meme
It looked like he had just gone on a giant rant for 2 hours about the possibility of aliens using the same number system as humans do while baked off of his mind.
BIG THINK
It reminded me of the Nerds' faces when Ogre asked "What if 'C-A-T' really spelled DOG?"
"How will we do it, journey from one side of the universe to the other?"
"Well, our quantum electromagneto-gravitometric neutrino positron quantum-again particulator engine converts space-time into paper. Our ship is then designed in the exact shape of a pen, and we can use the pen-ship to puncture the resultant folded paper in order to travel from one trope to another."
Exactly
Is it thorium powered? Cuz that would be cool. Or if it used solar powered roadways.
You just said some stuff
@Eternal Reign
hey now, thorium power has potential... just not in car
You know the saying, if you're scientifically illiterate and you want to create a sci-fi work, just add "quantum" or "generator" to every piece of sci-fi technology you just wrote lmao
Everything I know about physics I learned watching roadrunner cartoons.
Gravity doesn't work until you look down...in some instances. However, if you're Bugs Bunny, you can drink a solution and it will stop "falling hare"!
Nice!
Yeah, that was great.
@@twicebittenthasme5545 , So what the hay is he; a rabbit or a hare??? He can't be a crossbreed because rabbits and hares are incompatible. Fun fact, too many carrots can kill a bunny; same goes for apples. Bugs Bunny is fake news.
Accurate, though!
6:50 When you've just finished a 5 hour Vsauce binge
that might just be the greatest youtube comment and best reaction ever
Devin Host loool appreciate it 😂😂
lmaoYEAH
Spot on comment!
WOW.
Best.Goddamn.Comment.EVER
This comments section is so thirsty for this dude
Knowledge is hot and he's attractive. Perfect storm.
idk if id say attractive but damn i was charmed right away
@@MetalliCxZero there's no right decision when it comes to taste, so eh. Whatever floats your boat, he certainly does mine ;)
And yes, I agree he's charming, too.
rightfully so, eh?
Yeah because he's a smoke show
Nuking an asteroid may not be the best idea, but it's certainly the most American idea 🇺🇸
Breanna Pemberton well you’re not wrong
But itll only work if the asteroid has oil. You know, it would need some good ol freedom.
@@Cheerok Oh my God 😆😆 as a middle eastern, it was one of the best comments I've ever read on RUclips.
😂
most evil country in the history of the world and home of fascism.
why didn't he do deep impact btw? that was the competitor to armageddon and a better movie.
"i love love, it's good" He won everything.
it's better than bad - it's good!
0:04 Physics tends to be quite a difficult subject
20:17 Physics is so basic
Cubi Cardi I thought I was the only one thinking about his thinking.
Well he obviously didn't mean basic as easy. I thought he ment fundumental.
Cubi Cardi
Basic as it can be explained by equations. Complex systems are very difficult or impossible to explain with simple equation, like human psychology.
Physics is both complex and basic at the same time, until you mesure it.
I'm a contrarian, to me physics has a pH of 3.9.
I honestly thought this would be some kind of youtube-bullshit, but I'm actually surprised at how entertaining and somewhat educational too, he pointed out many things I didn't know about, or hadn't thought about that much. I like it c:
Check out "veritasium" and "smarter every day". Very entertaining. Very educational.
@Selim Sultan Akbar There are lots of youtube videos about science that initially seem legit but are bullshit. Although, yes, the "real person reacts" videos are fairly legit (the lawyer guy, the doctor guy, and now the physicist guy)
"Physics tends to be a difficult subject..."
Understatement of the Year
Who doesn't love a hot smart guy talking honestly
With a cool accent! 💕
True Dat!!!
From what I experienced almost everyone :D
@@RebiusLol! I dunno, man... Who said you were hot? ...from your picture, you look pretty generic to me. ;-)
Thank God I can safely assume he can have only one girlfriend.
Also Vega is 25 light years away, not the other side of the galaxy. I did an astrophysics fail! But I didn't know what clips I was going to be shown beforehand so I was winging it. Unfortunately a few little errors crept in which I won't forget in a hurry.
What if you found a way to exponentially slow time down within a space craft while allowing the space craft to continue moving as fast as possible in order to travel through space seemingly far faster than we currently know.
I'm so glad you posted this! It kinda shocked me when you said it and I'm just so glad you realized the "oops"! :-) Decent video btw!
@Beray: You just described relativistic travel. Normal general relativity.
I just saw that part and was about to comment before I saw your comment here lol. I'm like Vega is just a stones throw away cosmically speaking and not across the galaxy. :P Good job realizing the error and owning up to it lol
Omg, please.do a bonus with the core. Please.
6:06 When you change your profession from Paleontologist to rocket scientist because you almost got eaten by a dinosaur 8 times.
John Manalo i mean who could blame him haha
Lol
aaaand it only got worse
John Manalo
Didn't he get raped by demons in that one?
Sorry but I don't understand the reference. Sounds funny. Mind to explain?
I really respect people who manage to have a college degree in Physics. The subject is really tough.
And all theoretical. Meaning fantasy.
@@friedpickles342 🙄 Only in the same way that everything around us and everything that we experience in our everyday lives are...
@@friedpickles342 Theory grows from hypotheses and does not imply fantasy.
If someone were to push you down a flight of stairs, the theory of gravity which maintains it is an effect of differences of mass, would ensure you would reach the other end of the stairs.
It is observable and the act of observation doesn't alter the outcome.
Fact, not fantasy.
And not all of physics carries the appellation of "theoretical" despite the tag. In science, a theory is a tested, well-substantiated, unifying explanation for a set of verified, proven factors.
Ideas and questions are hypothetical when we offer unproven explainations for the observed yet unanswered world around us. Many questions, such as the missing parts of Einstein's Theory of Relativity, in particular, his attempt to resolve the Unified Field Theory ( without any possibility of an eigen-effect as advanced by Schroedinger ) are still in the hypothesis stage. These have led to hypotheses such as Quantum Mechanics, String Theory and its various offshoots such as Superstring and M theories.
Einstein disagreed with Quantum Mechanics and had numerous discussions with fellow physicists regarding it viability, especially Bohr who tried convincing Einstein of its potential.
A lot of it is still in the hypothesis realm due lack of observation. Doesn't make it fantasy. Only unproven. js
@Stock Fadi
ouch that hurts, i hurt for you.
@@friedpickles342 Ever heard of experimental physics?
"coy little glances at eachother. Ooh, I know the answer." LMAO
😂😂😂
I want that guy to explain one punch man
Hell yeah, I'd watch that all day.
Or Superman's punch where he vibrates his fist at the speed of light and punches as hard as he can at the speed of light.
@@soulhunter59 xkcd, relativistic baseball, that'll explain the superman punch
Then there’s the total disregard for neuton’s third law whenever a thing is punched mid air and he just remains where he is without sending himself flying backwards
He would love the asteroid scene
The math one got me, usually there's a lot more crying.
I mean, the character is a mathematical genius in the movie so-
I'm a undergrad in Mathematics (senior about to graduate,) and I just watched this scene with my classmates, and it doesn't really mean anything lol. They just wanted the cool "Cancel out the smart looking variables together" scene. Matt Damon just adds a factored polynomial to be able to cancel out like terms with no divisor, no mathematician would go up there just to cancel like terms lol, unless if it was some kind of date and its a romantic move. Basically he just makes it so that the entire polynomial isn't a rational number (a fraction.)
I just realized what I typed probably makes no sense to a non mathematician/engineer/physicist, so my apologies lol. Basically, they created an equation that was really simple, and just needed a small piece added to greatly simplify it. They made Matt Damon add that little piece, and after that they could just cross out everything to show that they're working together really well. Mathematically though, it's an equation that most seniors in high school could solve off of the top of their head.
@@DisDatK9 but why would they add this piece? Do you think they figured this way their function would be more accurately described? Also, when you add a term on one side you should also add it on the other side of the equation, maybe its not done here because that is a function or a set.
I understand the simplification step but WHY would they do it here?
@@nine-vi7rw Bruh, that's not how it goes, In my class, almost everyone has scored 100percent marks always before getting into University(not true mathematicians, way below, but still honor students) but when a question comes up, the conversation goes Something like this,
1:. "Bruh, I think I got a way, let me try this"
2: "Ye ye, u bitch"
1:. "Fuck I'm stuck at this step"
3:. "How do u even know what u did before was right"
1:. "I mean, I can't find any other"
2:. "Are u implying that there is only one way to solve this"
1:. "Nah mate, but it's a good way"
3:. "I found the answer"
1:. "The fuck how did u do it"
2:. "Ye ye motherfucker how did u solve this one equation"
3: "I applied logic"
2:. "Logic my ass, u literally skipped 2 or 3 steps by guessing and logic"
3: "Well I got the answer right"
After some bitching...
2:. "Okk guys enough nonsense let's take this seriously and solve it"
1&3: "Agreed"
3mins later
3:. "Did u know 4 got a gf"
1: "Wtf, dude plz I need to be motivated not depressed".
I love these kinds of things that make PhDs or other very skilled people, into real people instead of the cliche'd mad or snooty or arrogant people they're often portrayed as. He seems like a great and fun guy to hang around with. He also realizes that 99% of his audience aren't physicists and doesn't bombard us with terms and other things we're unlikely to know.
Excellent job doc.
12:01 I would really love to have more people like you helping out screenplay writers. Now *that* would make great movies!
I feel so stupid compared to this man.... here he is, with his big brain full of knowledge, and here I am totally distracted by his good looks and wonderful voice.
Wait'll you get a load of me
...
By all means, his intelligence is what makes his physicality so desirable.
U must be american
@@lukeyoung1550 is there anything else. America or bust!
Brian Grimm who was talking to you
Armageddon 2 will be about professional painters saving the Earth from another asteroid threat.
only juan man can save us all...and it'll be 5 hours, 1 to fly up there and paint it then 4 to watch the paint dry
And teach the painters how to astronaut instead of the other way around
In the year 2378 a large asteroid is detected heading towards Earth. Only one man can save us and thanks to new leaps in cloning it is possible... Bob Ross is that man!
Dude it's hollywood. It's going to be a hilarious gang of college students who get jobs as painters to pay their rent, full of jokes and one liners as they train to get launched into space and save the world with their super affordable painting rates and satisfaction guarantee.
I thought it would be professional photographers... there's millions of them around ;) if only they would play nice with each other... but then again they'd probably learn how to save the world on RUclips and then undercut each other, just for the passion ;)
This video was SO MUCH FUN!! Thanks for posting it.
"An asteroid! We have to paint it white!!!" He's hilarious 🤣
That face you made at 6:50 is hilarious. Sheer mind-warping brain-breaking thinking going on there, I can tell. xD
4:06
"I like their hats. It keeps your brain inside when you explode."
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Gravity:
"You have to let me go."
"-or I could do this.." (Yanks on rope, sending him hurtling back toward the spacecraft.)
"Ooh, good one! Thanks!"
Make this a series with more movies. Some suggested movies include: The Martian, Back to the future (& other time travel movies), Edge of Tomorrow, The Expanse (albeit, it is a tv show). One very specific example, I didn't quite understand is the solving of the falling city in Age of Ultron. Internet, continue to add to this list!
...Zoolander, Conan the Barbarian, The Room, Birdemic 2, Pitch Perfect, Big Trouble in Little China, Boogie Nights, Friday the 13th, Backdoor Nympho Nurses, Toy Story....
Continue to add internet.....
CommentCop Badge#666 bahhahahahaha! Birdemic 2!!!😂😂😂😂
Jorie Johnson
Yup. Birdemic 2. Because, as you already know, the details and physics in the original Birdemic is perfect. A masterpiece in the art of film making.
Heh heh heh......
CommentCop Badge#666 ABSOLUTE PERFECTION! I could watch that movie every day the rest of my life and love it every time! With and without the Rifftrax!
Why was Sharknado not mentioned?
0:00 his name is Donut Watermelon?
pretty cool name
Dude I swear this comment had me crying from laughter, thanks man
Me too lmao
Oh my goodness you almost killed.
HAHHAAHHA I cant un-hear it now....
hahaha yeh try to "un-hear" that :D
3:27 wooo boy. that eyebrow raise got me forgetting about the entire video itself
Holy shit. I’ll laughing out loud. That ending cracked me up about the military. “Don’t give me your jibber jabber... is it nuclear or not.” I too hope that the people with their fingers on the button are a bit more pragmatic and even tempered.
This is Hollywood's attitude about the military.
You do know whose finger is on the button right now, don’t you?
@@asterix811
Nope, and neither do you. If you're referring to Trump , you need to calm down on the news as he's probably the least likely president in history to ever even think about actually using nuclear weapons.
@@54356776 Forgive me if this comment was prior to him suggesting that we nuke a hurricane, but... no, he isn't. And, actually, as Commander in Chief over the military, he does have the ability to make a unilateral decision over the use of nuclear weapons, so we do know who has their finger on the button.
Destroys physics to Batman scene:
"Ughhh, that Batman movie is so good"
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
He clearly states he enjoys bad science to a certain extent in film. And to be fair, 1989 Batman is the best.
It's maybe the third best, not counting animated Batman movies.
@Fat Earther Did you forget about Batman Begins and The Dark Knight?
there is a letter "Y" below his nostril.
Can't unsee it now
Why?
And the other nostril?
Red haired Gangstah that’s because he has a lot of Y chromosomes.😃😃😃
Finally God damn it. I thought I was the only one who noticed it
All I heard was "My name is Donut Watermelon and I have a PhD in physics." 😂
Now everytime I listen to his name I can't unhear Donut Watermelon. Damn it
Dominic Walliman*
..That's pronounced "Doe-nay" .. like that actor's last name. heheh.
I enjoyed this video immensely. Thank you for the upload.
10:25 "...That will keep your brain in when you explode..." LOL
He says it so nonchalantly too... just killed me lmao
To be fair, on the previous scene where the guy's head exploded, he said, "I don't think your head would actually explode..."
To be fair, keeping your brain inside your head is rather important. Ask anyone who failed in that regard and then ponder the time it takes for you to (not) get an answer.
Considering that the film was from 1968 I thought it was very good example of foresight to have the women wearing hats to keep their hair in place. I’ve seen plenty of images of female crew with longer hair on the STS and ISS with their hair billowing out in zero-g. Also, about his comment about falling asleep twice during the movie, in 1968 space travel was basically done in capsules and Apollo 8 hadn’t yet orbited the Moon, thus making it a bit more exciting to watch, especially for an 11 year old who was fascinated with space flight.
Yeah 2001 is more of an art installation than a movie. There is a good short movie towards the end that is around 20 minutes long. For years I believed I always slept through the first parts of the movie, but then later I reliased, nope, I was awake, it was just that NOTHING HAPPENED in the two hours of runtime until that point
"physics is so basic..." 20:16
tells the guy with a PHD...
Nonono, he is right. I don't think he uses "basic" as "simple" here but as "fundamental", basic like the "base" of a building. Something we uphold as a prime directive in science is that the simpler explanation, the one that introduces the fewest assumptions is the correct one, and that it will reveal more fundamental (basic) insights. There are only singular, very rare situations where we have been mislead by this.
To simulate the collision of two galaxies (n-body simulation), we just need 2 or 3 equations, all of them VERY simple: F = m * a. That's one of Newton's Laws, those are VERY basic (in every interpretation of the word).
Yeah, it's like saying "I can determine the amount of love in a person... mathematically". And the only thing you can say in response is "well, there goes the dream."
Are you saying it's acidic?
said*
To your edit: physicists (and mathematics) entering sociology? That sounds a lot like a Hari Seldon-predicted social interaction future in Asimov's Foundation...
I guess detonating a nuclear bomb on or near an asteroid is a valid deflection tactic, but like the rockets or albedo-changing paint would have to be employed while the asteroid is still years away from impact. But the most unrealistic part of that movie (as Affleck himself has pointed out) is that it was ostensibly easier to train oil drillers to be astronauts than vice versa.
I don't know how to do either so I don't know how hard it would have been to train astronauts to drill, but in the movie they have the astronauts do the flying and the drillers do the drilling, each sticking to the thing they've spent years training to do.
The asteroid is the size of Texas. There is literally nothing they can do within a practical amount of time.
No conventional nukes can blow up something that big (and blowing it up is a bad idea to begin with, sometimes). Thrusters won't have enough time to deflect something that large since F = ma, and the m is huge in this case. You can't paint something the size of Texas in a practical amount of time.
The main problem here comes from our ability to detect asteroids. It is limited by distance, so we only have so much time to deflect an asteroid after we detect it.
@@nuknukisdead yeah but the gravitational force F= G m1m2/r^2 is really important here. Asteroid that big would probably be more pulled by Jupiter than the Earth so basically that asteroid would never hit Earth in the first place.
Also we would have to consider the position of mars jupiter saturn uranus and neptune in our calculations because they all have gravitational pull. And then the force that is pulling the asteroid to earth would have to be strong enough to counter the force of every other planets gravitational pull. That's why the bigger the asteroid is, less likely it is for it to hit Earth
"I guess detonating a nuclear bomb on or near an asteroid is a valid deflection tactic" If you blow it up near an asteroid how will the shock waves get to the asteroid ?
@@jozokrstanovic9040 Uhh... if you think gravity is the only that matters, then there is something in the solar system that "pulls" a lot harder than Jupiter does.
Just in case you didn't get it, I'm talking about the Sun.
Also, gravity barely makes a difference for asteroids that are already moving very fast (pretty much all celestial bodies are moving very fast in case you didn't know). Notice that "/r^2" part? That means the magnitude is inversely proportional to the distance squared. The solar system is huge. Distances are very large.
People like you do not stop making these videos they are amazing
I love his description of what figuring out maths is actually like.
You need to react to the Indian movies! You might forget what's physics 😂😂😂
Like the horse sliding under the truck?
well i'm sorry to hear that, Rest in Peace physics
Bollywood, where physics go to die
When they bent a palm tree and like 6 men climbed on it and got catapulted over a castle wall and formed a ball out of shields mid air to break their fall before they landed? Seems legit to me.
Oh who can forget the two Bahubali movies😂
I love the bit in Contact when she first hears the Alien signal. That moment of realisation that she has something - the Eureka moment - is really well portrayed.
Shoot! The part they skipped, the hypothesizing, was the part I was most looking forward to because it started sounding like a typical conversation I would have with my 11 yo son when he is stalling at bedtime. Those moments are so precious. Great video, anyway!
This was the 1st video of yours I've seen, but this is by far the BEST way I've ever learned about physics! Definetly subscribing!
10:21 "I like their hats, those special kinds of hats keep their brains in" PLEASE BECOME A PHYSICIST COMEDIAN 😭😭😭😂 Im crying o
Haha thank you for talking about gravity!!!!! I absolutely love that movie but that particular scene/plot point drove me crazy 😜😂 great video 😄😄😄
I’ve watched these several times and I still laugh out loud when he adds “..like a freight train” it’s just beautifully comical
he has a flux capacitor right below his nose.
I see it!
you can't unsee it once you see.
Evil comment.
More people need to see this comment
Underrated
AHAHAH, PLEASE MAKE A SECOND PART, I BEG YOU
Lol I love this guy ,
Had me cracking up the whole time
thank you for pointing out the gravity tether issue, it immediately bugged me so much when I saw it.
They decided to ignore common physics just to have this moment of tension for the plot...lazy writers...
I thought maybe if he has more mass then he would drag her with him.
I don't know but just throwing it out there.
@@Ziggy_Stark. She's attached to a spaceship.
@@fenz1 Ohhhh thanks mate
This guy's adorable. I want to keep him in my pocket.
That's a new one.
@@ajoajoajoaj Well, it's a song text already at the very least.
180 cm deep pocket ~!
Speaking of improbable physics....
I think I’d keep him in my bed ngl
This video was great but I couldn't help but look at the 'Y' formed between his facial hair and nose
Willimations now I can't unsee it
This!!!
Lmao, I thought the same thing. I've never seen that before. At first I thought maybe it was intentional, but my theory is that's just the way his facial hair grows.
I know, right!? I thought I was the only one!
Dammit... Now I can't pay attention to what he's saying.
Ohhhh neutrinos. They were mentioned in stargate sg1. O’Neil referred to them as Nintendo’s passing through him 🤣
He makes physics less scary and more interesting. I enjoy the movie reviews the most, keep it coming! Very charming and humble as well
You're funny, and charming, and explain things well without being too "brainy" about it, but also without "dumbing it down" too much. Very approachable. Lovely to see. Subbed!
LOL I totally forgot about the 'power of love' bit from Interstellar. Such a sick film but....really? Finding a specific time in the whole universe's history with love? Criiiinge
The same thing happens in a wrinkle in time
Maybe I'm just a sappy hopeless romantic, but I thought that was a very sweet touch. In all the infinite coldness of the Universe, and through all the adversity, it's his love for family that pulls through in the end. A very human "coming home" story in a hard sci-fi setting, and I appreciated it.
Reminded me of the ending to the happening. "holy shit, what is this mysterious force that's making people kill themselves, must be pure evil!!!", "nope, plants hate us cuz global warming so they're killing us"
@@johndriscoll9362 I know what you're saying but I still disagree that it's brilliant writing. It just feels like a cop out imo. Sorry
Btw I love the film overall, and I understand the general coming home aspect that theyre driving for, its just that one moment within the whole film that I dont personally vibe with. No one can be right here, it's completely subjective
Dara O'Briein does a great bit on "the neutrinos have mutated!" thing
Finally someone who had the same reaction to Interstellar I had... thank you for this video, it was super interesting to follow, love your channel!
11:53 The same can be said about hacking computers in movies
Oh yes! Why are hackers always typing essays? Don't they have a mouse? Don't they believe in having literally any of their code written before they start trying to breach security? And clearly the top guys never make typos at 600 words per minute. Anything that the directors/editors think the public won't notice if they fudge. Computers, engines, firearms, medicine, physics, history etc. The list just goes on and on. Unlike Dominic here it totally puts me off a movie when say a 250cc two stroke motorcycle makes an engine sound like a DOHC 4 cylinder superbike or bullets get stopped by cars or GMC vans chase and catch up to ... well anything. It's like the film producers are just shitting on their audience for me.
The same can be said about anything if it's your profession and has been featured in some movies.
Password: Swordfish.
Best visual effects for creating a virus.
Most terrible "hacking" movie: The Net
Ross Donaghy oh man I can so relate, especially on the motorcycle part. Reminds me of American Pie Reunion, where Finch arrives on a Ducati Hypermotard, and they edited in the sound of a generic 1000cc inline4 engine. Cringed so hard :(
Are there more episodes like this ? I found it extremely entertaining
Star trek red matter was bought at space Cosco
I've just watched several of these types of videos and this guy is the best one. More of this guy. You feel like you are sitting in the room with him.
Imagining Armageddon with a crew of painters and a trip to lowe's to pick the right shade of white is the best idea I've heard all day.
Most of the movie being spent on the debate of whether it's easier to teach a team of astronauts how to paint or to teach a team of painter how to be astronauts.
I'm just imagining a disagreement over the colors.
"No, no, no! We need eggshell white, not rustic ivory!"
Please, please, please do more of these reaction videos to movies! Very enjoyable to watch.
I accidentally stumbled across your account and instantly subscribed! Having a real physics is in the RUclips battle of flatters will be Epic!
hilarious! love movie night with you!
The Big Bang that created our universe happened because an ancient alien being named Xorlaqk had a little too much Q⊙uiorian rum to drink and tripped and fell into the Red Matter container on his ship.
No, because Adam and Eve had a big bang, if you know what I mean ;)
Lol is that form The hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy
WRONG!!! Creation began when the Great Green Arkleseizure sneezed everything into existence. REPENT! For the coming of the great white handkerchief is nigh!
@@TheTonyMcD I know that's true because I read it in a book (an olde data storage device), heard it on the radio, saw it on TV and read it on the internet.
What that folding paper wormhole example gets wrong:
Space is continuous. It is deformable, but not tearable.
A more accurate example would be:
Take a rubber sheet. Draw two dots on it.
Now pinch between those dots and twist. This is a more accurate example of the maths behind wormholes.
You will notice that to bring the dots closer together, you need to twist a LOT and pinch closer to one dot than the other.
The thing that does this 'twisting' in reality is a spinning mass. typically a black hole. To create a 'useful' wormhole would mean creating a black hole ~approximately~ near the center point between your origin and your destination and make it REALLY BIG AND REALLY SPINNY.
Think, bigger than the mass of whole galaxies, and spinning with a surface speed close to the speed of light.
not really feasible. Nor as simple as punching a hole through a piece of paper.
Sasha Carter space is less continuous and more evergrowing. There is an edge to the universe but you can’t reach it
Mercutio Escalus actually we dont know if there is an edge to the universe. So your comment is completely ignorant. Also what you're talking about is dependent upon which model you use for your depiction of the universe. The correct answer is we dont know if there is an actual edge but most models we use normally depict there being an edge. Are they correct, we dont know. So far all models that depict an edge normally have major flaws in them and do not match our observation.
Learning Thru The Insanity no need to call me ignorant. As far as we know there is an edge to the universe since it’s expanding. There has to be an edge or end to something for it to expand
You don't need an edge to expand, because all of space is expanding. Think of it like grid lines that are constantly flowing outwards. You don't need an edge, because every square on the grid is getting larger. That's why objects farther away are moving away quicker than objects nearby. All the intervening space is expanding and there is more of it to the farther object.
We don't know if there is an edge, but we assume there is no edge. The closest thing you can get to an edge is the edge of the visible universe (where that location is receding faster than the speed of light, so the light from objects there will never reach us). Not a real edge, but kind of one... *shrugs* At least as far as we'll be concerned on Earth.
I dunno about "tearing" space but as far as we model the universe, black holes "tear" spacetime in the sense that the metric of spacetime blows up at the singularity (i.e. our model of what is happening there mathematically treats it like it's a hole in the universe), so in that sense spacetime can be torn. However wormholes would come about I think it's probably better to visualize them as something like: www.space.com/20881-wormholes.html , which is the most similar looking picture to the models i remember playing around with in school
I love these cause he's working out how these MIGHT work and totally disregards the possibility of it being completely made up.
Keep making these videos, I am sure they can evolve into a successful interest.
If you look closely at the Chris Reeve save, when he catches Lois they continue falling for a bit.
He obviously reversed direction the moment he caught her in order to deal with her momentum.
Like catching an egg?
Yeah I remember a scene from Smallville where Clark (who can't fly yet) jumps over a dam to save someone who was thrown over. Somehow he falls faster than the victim, and then he catches her with his stretched out arms while standing on the ground lol. Ummm if someone fell 200 feet and landed on 2 steel beams, they'd be spaghettified. Clark catching her that way would be the same thing.
@@eternalreign2313 spider-man killed a girlfriend that way
Yes, he reversed direction the same way he flew up to catch her: with magic!
Remember the scene from "The Fifth Element" where Leeloo falls from a height into Corben's cab? That should have been the end of the movie. Why do film makers always think that you don't die from a fall, so long as you don't hit the ground?
No joke, Interstellar is what made me interested in physics and mathematics. Up to that point, I was set on chemistry, but watching that movie blew my mind (regardless of how accurate or inaccurate it is), and it's what caught me onto my first love
Cube the Squid Anne Hathaway? Me too!
Thank you for your take on the water scene / Chaos Theory. I made this exact argument after watching Jurassic Park and had a room full of my friends laughing at me. I always thought I had a point :-)
Everyone is doing these and It’s AWESOME!
Look at the Y underneath his nose. It cannot be unseen.
20:17 "Physics is so basic."
Basic physics is basic. Who, besides flat earthers, doesn't understand that an object in motion will stay in motion unless another force acts on it? It's the higher levels that separates the genius from the smart.
"Who, besides flat earthers, doesn't understand that an object in motion will stay in motion unless another force acts on it?"
just about everyone pre-galileo. most notably aristotle, a known "smart guy"
Doesn't is present tense. 😉
I would like to see him talk about the scifi elements in Mass effect games.
I, too, have fallen asleep on two separate occasions trying to watch 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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Great video! The 'mutating neutrinos' have always been a favourite of mine;)
New-age Mutant Hell Neutrinos!
I thought the science was good right until that moment, all 3 minutes or so of it. Then it took a supersonic dive into the ground.
Funny thing is, I remember that folding paper explanation from A Wrinkle in Time, the book. Except they described it as a piece of string where a worm moves across and a wormhole is when the string folds into a loop so the worm skips across a large portion of space time.
14:30 Thank you! I've been asking this same thing for a decade!
I think my favorite take on the paper trope was in SG-1, when an advanced humanoid alien was trying to explain how he sent the communication and used the paper trope to explain it, and Dr. Jackson said "Wait I know this, you're talking about folding space time." and the alien guy just gave him the kind of smile a parent gives to a young child and just said, "No."
Ha. I remembered how Carter used an apple instead of a piece of paper to explain wormholes to O'Neill. I was going to leave a comment but glad to find someone else was thinking of SG1 too.
I've devised and engineered a rocket propelled by love. Only problem is, I'm having trouble finding enough fuel to use it.
Mr S So, all it needs is.... love?
were wally Doo Doo doo-doo-doo
then, make it powered by hate
+Sid I'll be the fuel.
Damn what a beautiful physicist
Yeah, I am a straight guy and still thought this several times. At one point my brain said "I don't buy the premise of this video. Physicists don't look like that".
Do you people ever go outdoors? Always at least one of these comments, whilst the people look perfectly average
I think the fact that he is smart and articulate makes him more attractive to some people. Plus, I'm guessing you are a straight man, not sure you are qualified to say.
Straight, yes. Yet I've never even thought about making a comment like this on any video with an attractive woman in it
cohletrain Go to any video with a beautiful woman in it, look at the comments. It's normal for both genders.
Recently watched the new Kingsman with my nerdcrew and the scene when they hacked the firewall was...
... painful ...
... for the other cinema visitors because we laughed so loud, that their ears must have been exploded
I like this guy too much. So chill.
FINALLY! I am NOT the only one who fell asleep during 2001: Space Odyssey!
Lol, I willed myself to watch it because I really thought we would see aliens in the end. I had to read the plot of the book to understand what was actually going on.
You are CERTAINLY not the only one. That movie was painful to watch. I never finished watching it nor do I want to. That thing is a snore fest. Though, to be fair it's Kubrick, so, it's to be expected.
It is my favourite movie.
@TheBlackiwid Makes sense but I also think Kubrick was going for a more artful or philosophical approach rather than just showing a story on screen. And I think it was better that way for that movie. The sequel if I remember correctly was more focused on story and I liked it less than the first.
The color scene at the end (you know what I mean if you've seen the movie) takes way to long. If you think the ending of LoTR3 was too long, it doesn't even come close to that scene in 2001 a space odysee. :)
I am unbelievably attracted to this man.
Instinctive wisdom: Smart babies survive to full maturity (and production of their own babies) a little bit more often; go mingle your genes with his, it's a good strategy on the average.
And he is equally attracted to you. Gravity is a force _between_ objects, not from one to another.
You too?!
The last part of the video is golden
Oh my gosh, this is so great.
10:30 Keep in mind this movie was made in 1968. The hats were for their hair because they were at zero G.
Eric Taylor then how can they walk without floating.
Jose: They had sticky shoes. (Can't remember the gimmick. Magnetic or velcro.)
The physics in 2001 was excruciatingly accurate (outside of the Monolith.) When it first played in theatres, they handed out booklets to explain that the "Open the pod-bay doors, Hal" scene where Bowman jumps through vacuum and lives, was actually possible. You don't instantly die, you don't explode, you don't instantly freeze.
Also, in 2001 they only pretended to have "sticky shoes" (It was Velcro by the way)
Actually in reality (this was a movie made in 1968, before anyone even had a chance to try walking in zero G) they float.
It was thought at the time this move was made that people would want to walk in zero G for psychological reasons. But as usually the psychologists were wrong. People want to move in the easiest way possible, and floating is much easier in zero G than walking.
The REAL reason for the hats was so the long hair wouldn't hang down, destroying the illusion.
It was artificial gravity created by a von braun space station. The whole movie plays off of this and it ia a very important part in the movie.
5:26 "Nerd sniped"
I understood that reference.
I didn't, until xkcd.com/356/
"...I have a PhD in physics..." and I should be writing my thesis to get mine, but I'm procrastinating :P
@@jamesmacrae7730 I'm a doctor now :D
@@Forran Congratulations!🎉 Could we know which was the subject you've chosen for your thesis? Which branch did you choose to go for? I'm studying my bachelor's!⚛
@@lesley1831 I chose particle physics, more specifically heavy ions. During my masters I worked on the more theoretical/phenomenological part, and on my PhD I worked with actual Pb-Pb collision data from LHC :D. Heavy ions is the future of particle physics, after all :P
@@Forran Brilliant, brilliant! So fascinating! Congratulations!🎉⚛ Thank you for sharing. Was it difficult to choose a subject? Best regards🌻
@@lesley1831 It took me almost 6 months after I had started my masters to decide on heavy ions. The dilemma I had in my bachelors was whether to study General Relativity or Quantum Mechanics. So at first I thought about studying something related to Quantum Gravity. However, that seemed like a huge bet for me at the time and I gave up on the idea. Heavy ions got me when I read that collisions of Pb-Pb in the LHC were creating this new kind of plasma, which we believe existed in the beginning of the universe. I don't regret my choice, but it'd have also been nice to contribute to quantum computers :D.
I loved this so much!! Everything science in Jurrasic Park is laughable, but it's one of those movies I could watch forever. And you dont get it man...LOVE conquers science! LOVE!!!