I've been a subscriber here for years now and Nick just gets better and better. But one thing that hasn't changed is the fact that Nick is one of the very best storytellers on RUclips period.
One of the most criminally undersubscribed channels on RUclips. Thanks for the video Nick! Of the ~300 channels I'm subscribed to, you're one of a half dozen I have notifications turned on for.
What makes ParallaxNick videos so special? They start with the ancient, poetic narratives, then slowly but surely progress towards the more technical and precise, on a parallel path with the history of knowledge, of mankind. Along the way, Nick takes the time to make us stop and take notice of things that should be obvious, or at least common knowledge, but aren't, such as the progression between the Messier and NGC catalogues. There is nothing else quite like a ParallaxNick narrative in the rest of the internet.
Was away for a while, now need to catch up 🤗........ Addiction is a btch but I'm back baybay ♥️💃🏿.... Nick, you are my safe space and I feel safe now 🤗
This is now my favorite channel on RUclips. I watch A LOT of space youtube but very few convey new (to me) information. You are clear and concise and don't just farm neutron black hole regurgitation. This is the content I crave. Tell me about EVERYTHING! I am here for it!
I always feel like I'm getting a personal gift when a new video comes out. They're not made for me, personally. But the videos are made for people like me, and so they always seem special.
Elemental particles may flow out into the Universe from the death of stars, but these elemental stories flow out into the Universe from the lives of Nick and those upon whose shoulders he stands. Thank you for these gifts.
Nick, when I first discovered your videos they were always recommended to me after midnight and I would find them to be a perfect way to fall asleep. Now, when I see your videos late at night, I can’t watch them anymore 😩 your videos are way too important to me to risk falling asleep halfway :) hope you’re doing better
I am so impressed and grateful for both information presented here and for the eloquence of its sequential logic--neither patronizing nor obtuse. The moving graphic at 17:00 is for me an irresistibly compelling image, simple almost as a recollection of Carly Simon's lyric--"clouds in my coffee"--but also suggestively complex, trance-derived or dream-induced; a digital ghost of astounding beauty--the brand I call "random rationality." Again at 26:45, the animation of that galactic cartoon is riveting--and so helpful for those of us--all of us?--who maybe thought that galaxies rotate as a stiff, unitary monolith comprising stars glued to some assigned track, or imagined a whiplash, or Irish Knot, or Art Nouveau-conjured arabesque. As lovely as those could be, the reality is even more sublime ~ a "standing wave," like so much vivified geometry, can be applied to many imagistic realities of our cosmos, such as parabolic vertices, or didactic graphs in knot theory, or polygonal formulae. Or, of course, the essential frame of reference in hydromechanics. And that, for me, is a fundamental lesson of both Life and Earth sciences: the truth is more fantastic, more thrilling and wondrous than any fiction, however poetically we dream & dress it up, or however childishly we deplore then mess it up.
Nothing like one of Nick's videos to restore ones faith in humanity. In all of You Tube, you are alone in your abillity to educate and inspire in equal mrasure. My future dreams , ( maybe even a nightmare) thank you.
I commented at the Project Universe 1978 youtube episode "the milky way discovered"(this and the second episode about the history is about all that is worth watching of this Astronomy video series. I remember seeing some of these on the local information channel back in the 80s -that and the original Planet Earth video series and "The Mechanical Universe) that they didn't mention that Galileo essentially was the one who revealed the truth of the Milky Way for the first time. Galileo's revealing the Milky Way is a bunch of stars is perhaps his most underrated important thing he did.
Yes, more than any other. Nick has a kind of magic in his voice and a wisdom in his words. I feel I know him somehow and, quantum M. says there is no place where I end and anyone else begins.
,Dear Nick Thank You. Like so many people, Im so sorry i cant pay you. Your channel should have 1.9 million subcribers..OK. But i just love your work so much, REALLY....... YOUR AMAZING LOVE JEREMY XXXXXXXXX
I love your more history based video. Knowing how knowledge is discovered really help to understand the knowledge. Hope your keeping well Nic. Ad astra
that's very curious it's the first time I've heard about the warping of the disc of the Milky Way as you said like a record that's been turned up on one side and turn down on the other. I'm still very curious about what causes the standing waves that produce the high pressure areas where the gas forms new stars and thus the spiral arms. and she did not mention it in this video but how the speed of the Stars goes up the further away from the center of the Galaxy but then it starts to reduce after reaching a maximum. obviously these things are connected somehow. and it's the first time as well that I've heard about older stars being at an offset angle from the galactic plane and moving in a more elliptical orbit. it is amazing how as we continue to get better and better observations we continue to show so many past concepts to be incorrect. makes me wonder which of our currently held concepts will be shown incorrect later on when we get even more accurate and complete information
Just imagine Earth was located in one of the streams orbiting around the galaxy, tens of thousands of light years from it's main disc. We would see the milky way as a vast and bright star spot, from above or underneath it, visible only from one of the Earth halfs. Legends would be different, stories told would be different and probably the other half wouldn't believe in them until they saw such view with their own eyes. We would be different cause being in such a stream, would mean that a huge amounts of radiation would blast our planet through bilions of years. Still, it is interesting to imagine that view. I am very afraid that along with more and more light pollution, we will lose the sight on night sky and then lose interest in space.
I mean, the radiation is kinda a deal breaker.... 🙂 I don't think we're going to lose interest in space; we may not be able to stargaze by stepping outside anymore, but we all have personal TVs now.
Red-Blue relative-timing holographic nodal-vibrational differentiates have a self-defining categorization of universal coherence-cohesion objectives. The concept of Eternity-now time-timing positioning of reciprocation-recirculation resonance bonding of e-Pi-i Superposition-point Entanglement Fusion-Fission Function fields, well it's a trick of the imagination to see the modulation pulse-evolution differentiates mechanism of log-antilog Conformal Field Condensation Correspondence quantization cause-effect floating in No-thing of time-timing Relativity, but it's still fun to imagine. More satisfying Sciencing perhaps.
27:21 the warp of the MilkyWayGalaxy? my speculation: it is the effect of Precession, the inner part precesses faster than the outer rim, very very slowly, over 10 billion years, the warp builds up. The causing force is the gravitational field of the Local Group, maybe even the Great Attractor?
You pronounced Emu correctly! Didn't the Ancient Egyptians consider The Milky Way the celestial counterpart of the Nile River? And the three big pyramids were a representation of the stars in Orion's Belt?
Hello ParallaxNick! I have always enjoyed your videos. I was wondering if you have given any thought to experimenting with background music again? I am a big fan of John Michael Godiers channels, as well as PBS Spacetime, and find the background music really enhances my experience with both shows. Just curious, and you can disregard my question if so needed :-D . Thank you for your hard work with these videos, I really appreciate them!
11:35 I remember in an ancient work of Christian apologetics in a tract against the Greek pantheon of the apologist pointing out how the Sun shared many seeming properties with stars and that philosophers of the day disputed if it was one. I do not remember who or the name of the work unfortunately. Does anyone know what work it might be?
Incredibly, PNick tells us that without his Patreon supporters, this mighty work could not go on, but then declines to give us a link to his Patreon account! Why, oh why?
Exploded? Not really then. The confluence of Astronomical scoping, lensing observable objectives in sync-duration with Newtonian Fluxion-Integral Calculus differentiates is much simpler to see as holographic stacks of EM Spectrum frequency-amplitudes.., which takes nothing away from the Spectacle and genuine advantages of measuring categorization of WYSIWYG.
yes. the earth is warming compared to the little ice age or 'snowball earth", and earth has also warmed previously and experienced de-glaciation. Data can be manipulated to prove whatever point you are trying to prove.
There is no doubt the change is normal way of things with Earth. Currently problem is with the pace of those changes, not that they are happening. Climate change in known prehistory and current one has common causes that we have already identified but in the past changes took way way longer than we observe now. Meaning, we did warm Earth in 150-200 years as much as it took in the past about few milion years and this is very bad. Cause DNA is not used to such rapid changes, meaning we will have mass extinction cause warming will not end in 2100 but will continue on for thousands of years. Not even glaciation will stop it or reverse, in fact there might not be the next glaciation that would have come, had we not interfered with atmospheric gases.
I would love these videos BUT YOU HAVE TO SORT YOUR SOUND OUT AFTER ALL THESE YEARS. Come on, you have to hear how bad the sound is? That 'noise gate' sound editing, cutting to silence between sentences, sounds bad and doesn't hide how terrible the quality is... The horrible noise floor on the recording leaves me pulling my hair out. There are simple ways to sort this out. Even the cheapest cell phone has less background hiss and higher recording quality. It's criminal to put all the effort into wonderful videos like this then almost completely ignore the sound. What is going on? These videos, in content, ARE world class. The narration and your voice are truly epic and 'up there' with any of the great science or natural world science educators. The sound is the only issue that needs to be addressed.
I've been trying to improve my sound for years. If you feel you could offer adice, please let me know because no matter what I do I keep getting comments like this.
@@parallaxnick637 Firstly, your videos are some of the best damn videos on RUclips anywhere, and I mean it. Your work, your voice, your way of explaining and science educating is second to none. I watch FAR TOO MANY videos on the topics you cover, and beyond doubt, you should definitely have your own TV series. As to your sound issues, what is your recording setup? There seems to be a super high noise floor on your recordings, also some weird analogue type circuit hum and/or an earth hum. Maybe there's some earth problem where you record, or maybe an electricity substation nearby. Are you using the same audio interface for your recordings, year on year, and it has a fault; or is it your software and some bitrate conversion, driver or dithering issue? It's solvable but what is your setup, in detail? Even with the noise that's present, there is software that could address the problem given a bit of 'atmos' to work out your base level. Failing that, a couple hundred dollars will buy you an audio interface and mic with enough clarity to authentically and transparently represent your voice. If you get time make a short video running us through your audio and video setup, including all software or hardware. Somewhere you have an issue, but it is solvable.
I've been a subscriber here for years now and Nick just gets better and better.
But one thing that hasn't changed is the fact that Nick is one of the very best storytellers on RUclips period.
Been here for years too. Completely agree with what you said. I watch/listen to a lot of YT vids, and PN easily makes it into my top five channels. 🥰
Just found the channel this week and I already agree with you 💯. 👍
He writes great scripts and has a very soothing style. I watch his videos more than once, and some I've watched loads ☺️😊
One of the most criminally undersubscribed channels on RUclips. Thanks for the video Nick! Of the ~300 channels I'm subscribed to, you're one of a half dozen I have notifications turned on for.
What makes ParallaxNick videos so special?
They start with the ancient, poetic narratives, then slowly but surely progress towards the more technical and precise, on a parallel path with the history of knowledge, of mankind.
Along the way, Nick takes the time to make us stop and take notice of things that should be obvious, or at least common knowledge, but aren't, such as the progression between the Messier and NGC catalogues.
There is nothing else quite like a ParallaxNick narrative in the rest of the internet.
Today is a good day after all.
Honey, wake up, Parallax Nick uploaded a video.
Exactly
Been a rough day...Thanks for a wonderful video
Fantastic as always Nick. Thank you!
A perfect start to a weekend! Thanks, nick
Thanks Nick, amazing video. See you again sometime in the universe ✨.
The first channel I got a patreon subscription for. Best Space channel by far
thank you!
Really great job on this one. Compelling and tightly written.
Yep. This is a particularly good one.
Thank you; your signature style is always a joy.
Was away for a while, now need to catch up 🤗........ Addiction is a btch but I'm back baybay ♥️💃🏿.... Nick, you are my safe space and I feel safe now 🤗
Here with you, bro 👊
Good job beating it. I know a lot of people who haven't
I'm all tingly inside. Today suddenly turned good. Thank you for all your videos!
This is now my favorite channel on RUclips. I watch A LOT of space youtube but very few convey new (to me) information. You are clear and concise and don't just farm neutron black hole regurgitation. This is the content I crave. Tell me about EVERYTHING! I am here for it!
I always feel like I'm getting a personal gift when a new video comes out. They're not made for me, personally. But the videos are made for people like me, and so they always seem special.
great video as always! thank you!!
Fantastic overview of not only our galaxy, but the people and technology that brought us to our understanding. Looking forward to the next!
Elemental particles may flow out into the Universe from the death of stars, but these elemental stories flow out into the Universe from the lives of Nick and those upon whose shoulders he stands. Thank you for these gifts.
Brilliant as always.
It's always a good day when Nick posts a new video
Nick, when I first discovered your videos they were always recommended to me after midnight and I would find them to be a perfect way to fall asleep. Now, when I see your videos late at night, I can’t watch them anymore 😩 your videos are way too important to me to risk falling asleep halfway :) hope you’re doing better
I am so impressed and grateful for both information presented here and for the eloquence of its sequential logic--neither patronizing nor obtuse.
The moving graphic at 17:00 is for me an irresistibly compelling image, simple almost as a recollection of Carly Simon's lyric--"clouds in my coffee"--but also suggestively complex, trance-derived or dream-induced; a digital ghost of astounding beauty--the brand I call "random rationality."
Again at 26:45, the animation of that galactic cartoon is riveting--and so helpful for those of us--all of us?--who maybe thought that galaxies rotate as a stiff, unitary monolith comprising stars glued to some assigned track, or imagined a whiplash, or Irish Knot, or Art Nouveau-conjured arabesque. As lovely as those could be, the reality is even more sublime ~ a "standing wave," like so much vivified geometry, can be applied to many imagistic realities of our cosmos, such as parabolic vertices, or didactic graphs in knot theory, or polygonal formulae. Or, of course, the essential frame of reference in hydromechanics. And that, for me, is a fundamental lesson of both Life and Earth sciences: the truth is more fantastic, more thrilling and wondrous than any fiction, however poetically we dream & dress it up, or however childishly we deplore then mess it up.
Nothing like one of Nick's videos to restore ones faith in humanity.
In all of You Tube, you are alone in your abillity to educate and inspire in equal mrasure.
My future dreams , ( maybe even a nightmare) thank you.
Your consistent quality deserves at least 100k more subscribers
I commented at the Project Universe 1978 youtube episode "the milky way discovered"(this and the second episode about the history is about all that is worth watching of this Astronomy video series. I remember seeing some of these on the local information channel back in the 80s -that and the original Planet Earth video series and "The Mechanical Universe) that they didn't mention that Galileo essentially was the one who revealed the truth of the Milky Way for the first time.
Galileo's revealing the Milky Way is a bunch of stars is perhaps his most underrated important thing he did.
Concise, entertaining and Chuck full of nutty knowledge!! Thank you!
Great video 👍
Learned a lot (as usual). Many thanks.
Magnificent as usual. Thank you for this little gem
As stated by several others, I have notifications on for your channel. Pretty sure that's it :) Great video, thank you!
Your content continues to be unmatched by anyone on this platform. Thanks Nick
Yes, more than any other. Nick has a kind of magic in his voice and a wisdom in his words. I feel I know him somehow and, quantum M. says there is no place where I end and anyone else begins.
Bravo Nick Bravo.
Nice work. I was directed here from a comment on a Cool Worlds video published today.
Appreciated the Irish reference of the river Boyne. Slainte, Nick 👌
,Dear Nick Thank You. Like so many people, Im so sorry i cant pay you. Your channel should have 1.9 million subcribers..OK. But i just love your work so much, REALLY....... YOUR AMAZING LOVE JEREMY XXXXXXXXX
Gold, pure gold!! Thx Nick!
Did not know that knowledge of the Virgo cluster was so old, nice.
Great video Nick.
Thank you Nick. I really enjoyed this one.
Great work as always, Nick. :)
Once again! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
I love your more history based video. Knowing how knowledge is discovered really help to understand the knowledge. Hope your keeping well Nic. Ad astra
I just found this channel in my feed. Subbed.
Thanks Nick
Just magic - I mean of course Just science ! great stuff , thanks Nick
Beautifully done !
Ah nice, finally got around to seeing this
Spectacular as usual Nick
Thank you, my man! Always amazing. I don't know how you do it
Neither do I, sometimes. 🙂
As always, thank you!
Wait, the guy who speculated about Atoms also speculated the milky way being consist of stars? Is this guy a time traveler?
Check out Epicurus' writings; you'd be surprised how many things he got right
that's very curious it's the first time I've heard about the warping of the disc of the Milky Way as you said like a record that's been turned up on one side and turn down on the other. I'm still very curious about what causes the standing waves that produce the high pressure areas where the gas forms new stars and thus the spiral arms. and she did not mention it in this video but how the speed of the Stars goes up the further away from the center of the Galaxy but then it starts to reduce after reaching a maximum. obviously these things are connected somehow. and it's the first time as well that I've heard about older stars being at an offset angle from the galactic plane and moving in a more elliptical orbit. it is amazing how as we continue to get better and better observations we continue to show so many past concepts to be incorrect. makes me wonder which of our currently held concepts will be shown incorrect later on when we get even more accurate and complete information
love your work nick!
What a soothing dude
Dude makes me proud to be a fellow Nick.
Just imagine Earth was located in one of the streams orbiting around the galaxy, tens of thousands of light years from it's main disc. We would see the milky way as a vast and bright star spot, from above or underneath it, visible only from one of the Earth halfs. Legends would be different, stories told would be different and probably the other half wouldn't believe in them until they saw such view with their own eyes. We would be different cause being in such a stream, would mean that a huge amounts of radiation would blast our planet through bilions of years. Still, it is interesting to imagine that view. I am very afraid that along with more and more light pollution, we will lose the sight on night sky and then lose interest in space.
I mean, the radiation is kinda a deal breaker.... 🙂 I don't think we're going to lose interest in space; we may not be able to stargaze by stepping outside anymore, but we all have personal TVs now.
I love you Nick
Red-Blue relative-timing holographic nodal-vibrational differentiates have a self-defining categorization of universal coherence-cohesion objectives.
The concept of Eternity-now time-timing positioning of reciprocation-recirculation resonance bonding of e-Pi-i Superposition-point Entanglement Fusion-Fission Function fields, well it's a trick of the imagination to see the modulation pulse-evolution differentiates mechanism of log-antilog Conformal Field Condensation Correspondence quantization cause-effect floating in No-thing of time-timing Relativity, but it's still fun to imagine. More satisfying Sciencing perhaps.
27:21 the warp of the MilkyWayGalaxy? my speculation: it is the effect of Precession, the inner part precesses faster than the outer rim, very very slowly, over 10 billion years, the warp builds up. The causing force is the gravitational field of the Local Group, maybe even the Great Attractor?
I have seen two total solar eclipses in my life but have yet to view the milky way.
You need to see it, bro
I wonder if i will live to know the answer to the question of what is the nearest earth type planet with complex life of on it. How many lightyears?
I ask myself that question every day :-)
Outstanding video, but I don't think you have to be a beginner to enjoy this. Thanks you for your work.
You pronounced Emu correctly!
Didn't the Ancient Egyptians consider The Milky Way the celestial counterpart of the Nile River?
And the three big pyramids were a representation of the stars in Orion's Belt?
Working on a short video about that
Nick, please tell us the haunting ambient music source 🙏
Drifting at 432 hz by Unicorn Heads
@@parallaxnick637 Thanx!
Hello ParallaxNick! I have always enjoyed your videos. I was wondering if you have given any thought to experimenting with background music again? I am a big fan of John Michael Godiers channels, as well as PBS Spacetime, and find the background music really enhances my experience with both shows. Just curious, and you can disregard my question if so needed :-D . Thank you for your hard work with these videos, I really appreciate them!
Thinking about it, but many have said they prefer my videos without it.
Thanks
Ahhhhhhhhhhh! ❤
Love it
11:35 I remember in an ancient work of Christian apologetics in a tract against the Greek pantheon of the apologist pointing out how the Sun shared many seeming properties with stars and that philosophers of the day disputed if it was one. I do not remember who or the name of the work unfortunately.
Does anyone know what work it might be?
Yay!
Woah wait, nick has patreon now and has been uploading regularly!!
that was great
🌀
👍⭐️
🍻
Twinkle Twinkle...
Welcome home everyone
'Waffle on for fifty years' Before i can get to think aloud that thats a very Irish thing to say, you mention an Irish woman 😅
Incredibly, PNick tells us that without his Patreon supporters, this mighty work could not go on, but then declines to give us a link to his Patreon account! Why, oh why?
I do have a link! It's on the mainpage. But I suppose I should include another one...
Exploded? Not really then.
The confluence of Astronomical scoping, lensing observable objectives in sync-duration with Newtonian Fluxion-Integral Calculus differentiates is much simpler to see as holographic stacks of EM Spectrum frequency-amplitudes.., which takes nothing away from the Spectacle and genuine advantages of measuring categorization of WYSIWYG.
yes. the earth is warming compared to the little ice age or 'snowball earth", and earth has also warmed previously and experienced de-glaciation. Data can be manipulated to prove whatever point you are trying to prove.
honestly climate change news has driven me away from many previously trusted sources of information.
There is no doubt the change is normal way of things with Earth. Currently problem is with the pace of those changes, not that they are happening. Climate change in known prehistory and current one has common causes that we have already identified but in the past changes took way way longer than we observe now. Meaning, we did warm Earth in 150-200 years as much as it took in the past about few milion years and this is very bad. Cause DNA is not used to such rapid changes, meaning we will have mass extinction cause warming will not end in 2100 but will continue on for thousands of years. Not even glaciation will stop it or reverse, in fact there might not be the next glaciation that would have come, had we not interfered with atmospheric gases.
Ugh, the dreaded RUclips infobox got tacked onto this due to the fact that you said the words "Climate Change."
Because he says the words “global warming” once, this video has a climate change disclaimer....
You'd think it would at least be "Milky Way"...
Red sky at night, forest’s alight.
Drowned sheep in the morning, global warming.
I would love these videos BUT
YOU HAVE TO SORT YOUR SOUND OUT AFTER ALL THESE YEARS.
Come on, you have to hear how bad the sound is?
That 'noise gate' sound editing, cutting to silence between sentences, sounds bad and doesn't hide how terrible the quality is...
The horrible noise floor on the recording leaves me pulling my hair out.
There are simple ways to sort this out.
Even the cheapest cell phone has less background hiss and higher recording quality.
It's criminal to put all the effort into wonderful videos like this then almost completely ignore the sound.
What is going on?
These videos, in content, ARE world class. The narration and your voice are truly epic and 'up there' with any of the great science or natural world science educators.
The sound is the only issue that needs to be addressed.
I've been trying to improve my sound for years. If you feel you could offer adice, please let me know because no matter what I do I keep getting comments like this.
@@parallaxnick637 Firstly, your videos are some of the best damn videos on RUclips anywhere, and I mean it.
Your work, your voice, your way of explaining and science educating is second to none.
I watch FAR TOO MANY videos on the topics you cover, and beyond doubt, you should definitely have your own TV series.
As to your sound issues, what is your recording setup?
There seems to be a super high noise floor on your recordings, also some weird analogue type circuit hum and/or an earth hum.
Maybe there's some earth problem where you record, or maybe an electricity substation nearby.
Are you using the same audio interface for your recordings, year on year, and it has a fault; or is it your software and some bitrate conversion, driver or dithering issue?
It's solvable but what is your setup, in detail?
Even with the noise that's present, there is software that could address the problem given a bit of 'atmos' to work out your base level.
Failing that, a couple hundred dollars will buy you an audio interface and mic with enough clarity to authentically and transparently represent your voice.
If you get time make a short video running us through your audio and video setup, including all software or hardware.
Somewhere you have an issue, but it is solvable.
sent my 'feedback' to yt re the UN climate tag, what idiocy🤣