Half the universe was missing... until now

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  • Опубликовано: 30 июл 2020
  • Half of the ordinary baryonic matter has been tough to find but Fast Radio Bursts made it possible to detect the WHIM. Thanks to Kiwico for sponsoring this video! For 20% off go to kiwico.com/veritasium or use code VERITASIUM at checkout.
    Special thanks to Prof. Geraint Lewis ve42.co/gfl
    Nature paper: A census of baryons in the Universe from localized fast radio bursts
    ve42.co/whim
    Research and Writing by Max Levy, Derek Muller and Jonny Hyman
    Editing, Animations, Audio Mix & Mastering by Jonny Hyman
    Filmed by Raquel Nuno
    Thumbnail by Ignat Berbeci
    Music from Epidemic Sound epidemicsound.com

Комментарии • 8 тыс.

  • @Sosukz
    @Sosukz 3 года назад +7873

    Now I understand what my dog feels when I talk to him

    • @KhushiSharma-bg5kw
      @KhushiSharma-bg5kw 3 года назад +139

      OMLL this is so true.

    • @Sosukz
      @Sosukz 3 года назад +29

      @@KhushiSharma-bg5kw xD

    • @bobbyashrimp
      @bobbyashrimp 3 года назад +18

      True.

    • @sidarthur8706
      @sidarthur8706 3 года назад +187

      dogs can't discriminate sounds in human speech and they still manage to comprehend exactly what's being conveyed within limits. your dog might be brighter than you

    • @Sosukz
      @Sosukz 3 года назад +121

      @@sidarthur8706 no I think not , I think dogs are pretty stupid between all domestic animals, they are just cute and sweet

  • @137_Diego_
    @137_Diego_ 3 года назад +7138

    Me: "Ma! I can't find the other half of the known universe!"
    Ma: "Did you check in the Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium?!"
    Me: "Yes ma! 🙄"
    Ma: "If I go down there and find the rest of the baryonic matter, I swear! 😡"
    Me: 😰😱😭

    • @z-beeblebrox
      @z-beeblebrox 3 года назад +556

      Me: UH UH... *quickly checks in the Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium* ...nvm mom I found it, uh, under the couch

    • @Naveen-iu7ej
      @Naveen-iu7ej 3 года назад +23

      .

    • @Lyf4rMusic
      @Lyf4rMusic 3 года назад +141

      Comment Gold

    • @kiranrm1935
      @kiranrm1935 3 года назад +85

      That comment is 🔥🔥🔥🔥

    • @HappyFlapps
      @HappyFlapps 3 года назад +60

      Best comment on the Interwebs this week. : D

  • @cascas9656
    @cascas9656 2 года назад +184

    1:44 Normal Astronomy: processes take millions of years
    Big bang: *Gas gas gas, gotta step on the gas*

    • @yikemoo
      @yikemoo 3 месяца назад +10

      There's something incredibly weird talking about 20 minute increments after the Big Bang.... 13 billion years ago.

    • @qtarokujo3694
      @qtarokujo3694 3 месяца назад +3

      Big Bang: *"Speed. I am speed."*

    • @timecubed
      @timecubed 7 часов назад

      There sure was a lot of gas in the big bang

  • @dvs75
    @dvs75 2 года назад +126

    Just a personal note: makes me happy to see you & your son in the end. So inspired, so inspriring. Thank you for your patience and passion making all these videos!

  • @Michael-Hammerschmidt
    @Michael-Hammerschmidt 3 года назад +2851

    Physics: Solves a problem I had no idea existed.
    Me: Hell yeah!

  • @LeoStaley
    @LeoStaley 3 года назад +7814

    "first we need to talk about lightning. I promise this is related"
    Ah, that second sentence tells me I'm not on Vsauce.

  • @FDovigo
    @FDovigo 2 года назад +28

    I can't even imagine the amout of effort to summarize this in 14min
    I think i would have written a 2 hundred page book and just given up before been able to make such a precise video.
    Edit due to the final phrase "we'll have to be content, with being right"
    Wow... just chills bro

  • @cinemaclips4497
    @cinemaclips4497 4 месяца назад +5

    Damn, This video encouraged me to read about the Lyman-alpha series but ended up learning the Bohr model of the atom, the Rydberg formula,the Lyman series, the balmer series and also the Peschen series. I'm currently learning about the Lagrangian of a spinors field which satisfies the Dirac equation. I can finally appreciate the beauty of the Lyman alpha forest. Thanks Veritasium

  • @holyravioli5795
    @holyravioli5795 3 года назад +5295

    Neat, now in the future i can say, "Back in my day we could only see half the universe!"

    • @facundocadaa9020
      @facundocadaa9020 3 года назад +161

      Half of the 5% if the universe

    • @JBdiGriz
      @JBdiGriz 3 года назад +207

      Half of the universe that matters. *badum - ts*

    • @r.f.c.kingdom2822
      @r.f.c.kingdom2822 3 года назад +1

      Vision Thing .

    • @Rose_Harmonic
      @Rose_Harmonic 3 года назад +43

      @@JBdiGriz I suppose this would have to be the biggest pun in the universe. In your victory, the whole universe has groaned in celebration.

    • @JBdiGriz
      @JBdiGriz 3 года назад +15

      @@Rose_Harmonic I am the master of the puniverse! (But it only covers 5 % of all puns.)

  • @ombhatt6626
    @ombhatt6626 3 года назад +3352

    Last time I was this early, half the Universe was still missing.

    • @giustobuffo
      @giustobuffo 3 года назад +8

      Right there with you!

    • @fqidz
      @fqidz 3 года назад +53

      last time i was this early, half my repl

    • @shibuthomas2745
      @shibuthomas2745 3 года назад +1

      did u wake up just now or an all nighter

    • @hydrogenatom4624
      @hydrogenatom4624 3 года назад +11

      Don't read my username.

    • @vaibhavakesarwani1425
      @vaibhavakesarwani1425 3 года назад

      So before endgame huh. I get your reference.

  • @magics902
    @magics902 2 года назад +26

    This was absolutely my favorite of your videos! So many amazing analysis and thesis connected together with a galactic chance of something not even understood that solved a different problem! Look forward to hearing when scientists find out something so interesting as what causes these bursts of radio waves. Also looking forward to more info on the other 95%!

  • @JithinJacob333
    @JithinJacob333 2 года назад +12

    I love the Achievement Unlocked trophy at 1:50
    Hahahaha

  • @nicholasiverson9784
    @nicholasiverson9784 3 года назад +523

    "Regular baryonic matter" that's rich coming from the 5%

    • @tiberium87
      @tiberium87 3 года назад +16

      underrated comment.

    • @lucas-ge4qh
      @lucas-ge4qh 3 года назад +24

      Regular baryonic matter is the caucasian of matter. So everything else is a minority matter obviously. Especially that dark matter squatting outside our gated galaxy.

    • @xerotolerant
      @xerotolerant 3 года назад +3

      lolol.

    • @Derzull2468
      @Derzull2468 3 года назад +3

      @@lucas-ge4qh 95% = minority. Wut?

    • @alexharvey7660
      @alexharvey7660 3 года назад +2

      Damn this comment is clever

  • @pvic6959
    @pvic6959 3 года назад +733

    Varitasium "Lets talk about lightening.... i promise its related"
    Vsauce: "Ill talk about random stuff.. you find out how its related"
    I love both of these guys lol

    • @JiveDadson
      @JiveDadson 3 года назад +11

      I like half of these guys. The other V pisses me off.

    • @RADZIO895
      @RADZIO895 3 года назад +16

      I used to watch Vsauce, but now they cover only basic highschool math/physics. I'm not learning anything new

    • @marszpacemusic
      @marszpacemusic 3 года назад +2

      Some Vsauce vids are ok tho, like his Mind Field series

    • @tahabashir3779
      @tahabashir3779 3 года назад +5

      @E
      "im running away from you at an ever-changing velocity"

    • @RussellSubedi
      @RussellSubedi 3 года назад +1

      @E I'm running away from ​ok with an ever changing velocity!

  • @tommeakin1732
    @tommeakin1732 3 года назад +77

    1:28 I have no history of epilepsy, but that bit was seriously unpleasant to look at. My eyes just started rapidly blinking lol

    • @samuelmason8370
      @samuelmason8370 3 года назад +4

      I literally googled: Can flashing lights cause a seizure with no history of epilepsy.

    • @Django0324
      @Django0324 3 года назад +1

      It didn't do anything to me

    • @tommeakin1732
      @tommeakin1732 3 года назад +3

      @@super_super_super485 Son*

  • @catlikethief1718
    @catlikethief1718 2 года назад +28

    This kinda blows my mind. It takes some genius ingenuity for scientist to do what they've done in every field for specifically the last 20 years. But Astronomy and physics are making ridiculously impressive strides, which only turns into more questions to be asked lol. When will it ever end?

  • @cirei4682
    @cirei4682 3 года назад +871

    Derek: "You hear that? It sounds like..."
    Me: the Veritasium outro?
    Derek: "...sci-fi laser guns"
    Me: oh

  • @philipfahy9658
    @philipfahy9658 3 года назад +1077

    The difference between scientists and non-scientists was something I had to learn the hard way coming out of college. I would correct people or provide additional information, thinking that it was interesting and would lead to discussion or a better understanding. Most people just found it as an attack on their understanding or an attempt to correct them to show off. Not really my intent. I generally like it when I'm corrected because it means something I thought I understood could be described better or was misleading.

    • @tucker8071
      @tucker8071 3 года назад +68

      Good for you on liking to be corrected. I only like it sometimes in intellectual discussions, but once you convince me I usually like it.

    • @Newt2799
      @Newt2799 3 года назад +110

      Now if only we could have this same ideology with politicians around the world

    • @TheZenytram
      @TheZenytram 3 года назад +38

      Dont make dumb ppl change your way, we need more ppl like you

    • @mreese8764
      @mreese8764 3 года назад +7

      Scientists with jobs understand that they need to be right to be taken serious by normal people. That's why they chose to be wrong and say they are right. But it's "ok" because science is "always wrong". Halting science as a scientist is totally worth it, you need the job after all.

    • @reNINTENDO
      @reNINTENDO 3 года назад +95

      @@mreese8764 I... what?

  • @wmjwell
    @wmjwell 2 года назад +5

    Fantastic explanation! I enjoy and look forward to your next subject. Wish I had more teachers that would have been this interesting. Thank you for taking the time to make these and please don’t every stop! Regards, Jim

  • @bobogus7559
    @bobogus7559 2 года назад +130

    I find it amazing that "warm-hot" (100,000K-10,000,000K) refers to the unfathomably hot temperature range between about 180,000°F and 18,000,000°F.

    • @TrendyGamer-is2wr
      @TrendyGamer-is2wr Год назад +24

      "Ah yes, just a warm intergalactic bath" - the astronomer literally being vaporized

    • @giteart
      @giteart Год назад +15

      we humans really live in the coldest of temperatures available in the universe. Few people ever think about this

    • @JessicaDianne93
      @JessicaDianne93 Год назад

      When I heard that, my brain broke. That's hotter than stars!!! 🤯 How!? 🤔 Went to Google... Didn't find much... Something about gravitational energy is all I could find, and it's only speculation from an unreliable source. 🧐

    • @louisrobitaille5810
      @louisrobitaille5810 Год назад +8

      I mean, there is a minimum for temperature just 273.15°C below the freezing point of water (1atm) but no temperature maximum. The hottest temperatures recorded (I think) reach the billions Kelvin 🤔. So yeah, 10'000'000 is just "hot" 😋.

    • @farmergiles1065
      @farmergiles1065 11 месяцев назад +3

      Yeah, it's a different world, isn't it? Well, not a world, really ... 🤔 But it does put global warming to shame. 🥵

  • @AlessandroRodriguez
    @AlessandroRodriguez 3 года назад +248

    me: "Half of the Universe is missing"
    my daughter: Did you look under the sofa?

  • @blackpepper2610
    @blackpepper2610 3 года назад +180

    Half of the universe is missing?
    Thanos : sweating profusely

  • @qzbnyv
    @qzbnyv 2 года назад +14

    36 year old me wondering what life would have been like now if I had had Derek & Raquel as parents, making Kiwico sets together and learning about real science from both of my parents. Those boys better not mess this opportunity up!

  • @atharvakodape7494
    @atharvakodape7494 2 года назад +2

    Damnnn! This has to be one of the best videos from Veritasium. It is amazing, gave me a deeper insight into the world... and beyond.

  • @PinguWithAnAxe
    @PinguWithAnAxe 3 года назад +2897

    "A Quasar's luminosity can be thousands of times that of whole galaxies"
    Or to put it another way: About as bright as a 60W bathroom light at 3AM

    • @PyPylia
      @PyPylia 3 года назад +303

      Or discord light theme.

    • @shinkamui
      @shinkamui 3 года назад +97

      @@PyPylia any light theme tbh. Quasars have nothing on them

    • @XSFx5
      @XSFx5 3 года назад +79

      You would NOT want a Quasar in your bathroom, even if it was only a microscopic part of one outputting 60W of power... At least there'd be no germs anywhere, but the lingering ionizing radioactivity would be bad news.

    • @XtraCube
      @XtraCube 3 года назад +17

      Lucy Keller so? Being a nerd is cool

    • @channelname4331
      @channelname4331 3 года назад +14

      @@XtraCube so you know what comedy is?

  • @d0718
    @d0718 3 года назад +652

    9:40
    Aliens: desperately trying to communicate
    Humans: oh cool we can use that to measure some baryonic matter thanks

    • @beezmanit2683
      @beezmanit2683 3 года назад +8

      thats wut i was thinking

    • @Peronioz
      @Peronioz 3 года назад +42

      I've been reading Contact by Carl Sagan, and it's pretty much this happening in the story: scientists detect a magnectic pulse coming from space, turns out it's an alien broadcast system replying to a message earth sent when we first started broadcasting TV on a global scale (spoiler: it's Hitler's speech during the 1936 Summer Olympics).

    • @SETHthegodofchaos
      @SETHthegodofchaos 3 года назад +2

      @@Peronioz There is a movie about it, right?

    • @whuzzzup
      @whuzzzup 3 года назад +2

      @@SETHthegodofchaos Yes, "Contact". In it they build a machine that "travels" to those aliens and the protagonist actually talks with those aliens but the government then covers this up.

    • @SETHthegodofchaos
      @SETHthegodofchaos 3 года назад +5

      @@whuzzzup "the government then covers this up" I mean its more complex than that.

  • @Sunny-cx9hs
    @Sunny-cx9hs 3 года назад +8

    I am too much willing to watch videos which is related to science but as i m Indian . I can only understand 50 % of ur language. But still enjoying too much . I love to see ur videos . Coz interest in science.

    • @Sunny-cx9hs
      @Sunny-cx9hs 3 года назад

      @Steven Victor Neiman 😋😍

    • @isblue3189
      @isblue3189 3 года назад

      Pronunciation can be bit tricky if you are not accustomed to hearing it. Have you tried subtitles they seem to work for me. Speaking as a fellow Indian

  • @grassfedbutter
    @grassfedbutter 3 года назад +44

    “We don’t really know what creates [these fast radio bursts]...”
    Death Star getting blown up: 🥲

  • @danielhricmail
    @danielhricmail 3 года назад +312

    6:34 "computer simulations of the entire universe"
    Meanwhile my computer:
    *struggles* *to* *boot* *up*

    • @sp7111
      @sp7111 3 года назад +2

      Daniel lol

    • @Just-View
      @Just-View 3 года назад +10

      Daniel
      Me: My laptop rendering crappy computer simulations of the entire universe.

    • @danielhricmail
      @danielhricmail 3 года назад +2

      @@Just-View yea i wish

    • @dewiz9596
      @dewiz9596 3 года назад +8

      I wrote a clock program in C on my 8088 IBM PC. The computer was not fast enough to draw the digits with each second, so I had to write routines to change a 1 to a 2, 2 to a 3, etc, by era ing and adding digit segments. Changes on the hour, dealing with possibly four digits changing were something to behold. I wrote the program, because on the original Macintosh, there was a clock where one digit morphed into the next. . . something way beyond my capability. But, manipulating x,y coordinates on the screen was instructive, and played a good part in some of my later software efforts.

    • @kmwgaming4526
      @kmwgaming4526 3 года назад +1

      Mine struggles to start

  • @jonas1015119
    @jonas1015119 3 года назад +1785

    Astronomers: everything except Hydrogen and Helium is a metal
    Also Astronomers: 100.000-10.000.000 degrees is "warm-hot"

    • @chrisray1567
      @chrisray1567 3 года назад +255

      Warm-hot sounds like a laundry water temperature setting.

    • @amitshetty6359
      @amitshetty6359 3 года назад +138

      @GreenGalaxyYT • 14 years ago in some countries '.' represent ','

    • @adrianbundy3249
      @adrianbundy3249 3 года назад +41

      I am trying to see the contradiction, as that meme usually highlights. But I'm failing to see it.

    • @udith
      @udith 3 года назад +24

      Why can't we all just use ,

    • @kunalmore5212
      @kunalmore5212 3 года назад +8

      It’s kelvin

  • @derpymule7977
    @derpymule7977 3 года назад +11

    That final message is actually so true. When he said that the WHIM added up to the 5% I was genuinely disappointed, because it meant there wasn’t any further chance for any extra matter that might have interesting properties.

    • @ngcastronerd4791
      @ngcastronerd4791 2 года назад +4

      That remains to be seen. There is still the matter of that pesky 95% that remains to be explained ;) You might get your weird matter anyways!

    • @drinkthestorm275
      @drinkthestorm275 2 года назад +3

      @@ngcastronerd4791 Since the stuff of us and stars is only 5% aren't _we_ the weird matter?

    • @drinkthestorm275
      @drinkthestorm275 2 года назад +1

      Crossing my fingers for infinite reality

  • @kurofune.uragabay
    @kurofune.uragabay 2 года назад

    Best one of your vlogs in a good while. Loved the slightly (deeper? more advanced?) explanation.

  • @kaheichan9
    @kaheichan9 3 года назад +1232

    Imagine being that 80% matter floating around doing nothing in the universe.

    • @wajihbec1087
      @wajihbec1087 3 года назад +105

      Yeah..imagine...

    • @SPQR_14
      @SPQR_14 3 года назад +225

      Do they have to wake up at 5am and work all day? No? Sign me up.

    • @amritpolable
      @amritpolable 3 года назад +82

      That's DARK.

    • @kozara8202
      @kozara8202 3 года назад +16

      Lmao yeah cant relate

    • @mishkatzehra3415
      @mishkatzehra3415 3 года назад +11

      Even if the matter doesn't do anything, they still do something. Same is for u and me

  • @N.I.R.A.T.I.A.S.
    @N.I.R.A.T.I.A.S. 3 года назад +235

    "Half of the universe was missing".
    Devs patched it in the latest upgrade.

    • @400080vikkash
      @400080vikkash 3 года назад +2

      Yeah God

    • @TheChadPad
      @TheChadPad 3 года назад +4

      Took a million years to update

    • @raylaird3478
      @raylaird3478 3 года назад

      @Scumspawn ***** CUT and pasted means you still only have the same amount (half)

  • @georgeflitzer7160
    @georgeflitzer7160 2 года назад

    I loved all of this! Thank you so much.

  • @neverbefore68
    @neverbefore68 Год назад +1

    "For now we have to be content with being right!" Modest and profound. Enjoyed it. This series is also a huge service to humanity

  • @Danilego
    @Danilego 3 года назад +489

    Mom: "You can eat your food already! It's not hot, it's just warm-hot!"
    Food: *is in the 100000 - 10000000 Kelvin range*

  • @TalhaHasanZia
    @TalhaHasanZia 3 года назад +1384

    1 week:
    Vsauce posted
    Veritasium posted
    Kurzgesagt posted

    • @louisuchihatm2556
      @louisuchihatm2556 3 года назад +46

      best week ...lol

    • @jamesleblanc6948
      @jamesleblanc6948 3 года назад +25

      Kurzegast is a hack, much like most sciencey youtubers :/

    • @louisuchihatm2556
      @louisuchihatm2556 3 года назад +11

      @@jamesleblanc6948 lmao, and why is that so

    • @jamesleblanc6948
      @jamesleblanc6948 3 года назад +17

      @@louisuchihatm2556 well mostly it is the way they display the data, where the difference between some is that the hacks make it super flashy or present it from a more "this is" instead of "this appears to be".
      Kugr and antron petrov man, those two really stick out. Close second is the long haired one with the chalkboard styled animations, forgot his name.

    • @TalhaHasanZia
      @TalhaHasanZia 3 года назад +4

      @@jamesleblanc6948 I know, its attractive. But "appears to be" is close to facts than being wrong. Maybe the reality based narration wouldn't be that cheeky

  • @salmonkill7
    @salmonkill7 Год назад +1

    I am a retired National Laboratory Scientist that made inventive contributions to the Radiation Portal Monitors used to check for Special Nuclear Material at USA Border crossings and I developed the ionizing radiation dosimetry used in 95% of hospitals Worldwide. I completed my graduate Physics coursework at Purdue University with a 5 9 / 6.0 (I received one B+ in my Mathematical Physics class ugh! ) In my retirement I now teach all the Science classes at a small Christian high school. I wanted to add my appreciation for Veritasium, this is a wonderfully done Science Gem that I use often in teaching my Physics and Chemistry classes.
    Thanks again....

  • @rogersledz6793
    @rogersledz6793 3 года назад

    Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!

  • @subhamsekharpanda7370
    @subhamsekharpanda7370 3 года назад +1884

    I love how beautifully presented his videos are.

    • @veritasium
      @veritasium  3 года назад +635

      and working on making them more beautiful

    • @NirrumTheMad
      @NirrumTheMad 3 года назад +23

      @@veritasium time powers clearly

    • @bhargav7476
      @bhargav7476 3 года назад +13

      I love how beautiful you are

    • @demoniak95
      @demoniak95 3 года назад +6

      I am so early that even veritasium sticking around to read half of the comments thats not missing

    • @hydrogenatom4624
      @hydrogenatom4624 3 года назад +5

      Don't read my username.

  • @CharliePryor
    @CharliePryor 3 года назад +370

    "I guess for now, we'll have to be content, with being right" - That's a pretty awesome line. :)

    • @somethingeasytoretain1116
      @somethingeasytoretain1116 3 года назад +7

      kind of a flex, dont ya think

    • @tuberroot1112
      @tuberroot1112 3 года назад +5

      Unquestioning acceptance of this kind of cosmic fairy tale let's you be all smug and self congratulatory when talking down to your audience.

    • @sacr3
      @sacr3 3 года назад +2

      That's the problem with science, they still don't have the main answers to a lot of different things like what is dark energy and what is dark matter and what is gravity and why do particles exist as they do and why do they have a wave particle duality and why does the Dual slit experiment give the results that it does shooting one Photon at a time. There's women on this planet with an additional cone cell in their eye and they're able to see an additional color oh, we can't even comprehend any other color than what we see already. If our brains are that restricted, restricted to basically having to experience something before understanding it, then we're not going to have a lot of answers soon
      At this moment in time everything is faith-based, no one knows as to why existence exists and not even scientists do.

    • @flerfbuster7993
      @flerfbuster7993 3 года назад +8

      @@tuberroot1112 This is literally the opposite of unquestioning acceptance.

    • @jtcrook32
      @jtcrook32 3 года назад +9

      @@tuberroot1112 you sound just about as smart as a tuber root. If they had unquestioning acceptance they would have accepted the simulations decades ago as truth. But they questioned it until they confirmed it with hard data.

  • @jimlingmusicchannel
    @jimlingmusicchannel 2 года назад +2

    Really appreciate scientists like you who devote yourselves into these unseen matters that helps us understand more about this amazing universe!!

  • @okiforbreakfast
    @okiforbreakfast Год назад

    Your channel is amazing! Thanks to share all these marvelous things

  • @iscapenak3d739
    @iscapenak3d739 3 года назад +2324

    Scientists: "We can't find 50% of the matter in space"
    Also scientists: "We found the missing 50% of matter. It was in space."

    • @krazyfrog
      @krazyfrog 3 года назад +372

      They found it after their mom came over and looked for it.

    • @ShepDance
      @ShepDance 3 года назад +18

      Prasad Naik obviously it was in space where else would it be idiot

    • @B.B.Woolfe
      @B.B.Woolfe 3 года назад +91

      @@ShepDance i umm... think you didnt get the joke... or maybe you did? And thats a sort of like reverse woosh to woosh me who thought you were wooshed?

    • @WyattCayer
      @WyattCayer 3 года назад +5

      LMAO!

    • @n1k32h
      @n1k32h 3 года назад +3

      ShepDance wooooosh

  • @gbm6882
    @gbm6882 3 года назад +3571

    Aliens: Oh look the humans are conducting their first Baryon Census
    Humans: huh... where are... uhh?
    Aliens: Wait hold on I gotchu homie *shines laser pen at earth*
    Humans: Eyyy less gooo

    • @Custmzir
      @Custmzir 3 года назад +82

      I was thinking the same thing

    • @ZachAttack6089
      @ZachAttack6089 3 года назад +263

      Those aliens must have some pretty strong laser pens

    • @saffroncoasts6950
      @saffroncoasts6950 3 года назад +71

      Th thirty eight years ago??????

    • @199NickYT
      @199NickYT 3 года назад +107

      This is the most zoomer thing I have ever seen

    • @finlandjourney6065
      @finlandjourney6065 3 года назад +33

      @@199NickYT Yeah pretty silly, but only mildly funny.

  • @bilalhamurabi3362
    @bilalhamurabi3362 2 года назад +3

    sometimes I jusr watch your videos to see your furniture and house and get inspiration. the design is really nice.

  • @darrenmitchell2830
    @darrenmitchell2830 10 месяцев назад +3

    I am a non scientist. But watching this makes me feel clever. Crazy to think there could be double the stars, but that matter is trapped never to be used, between the galaxy's. Mind blowing!!! Top Marks 🤯🤯🤯

  • @andershusmo5235
    @andershusmo5235 3 года назад +383

    "Warm-hot" is such a hilariously modest term to refer to millions of Kelvin. Like, "warm-hot" is how I would refer to the temperature of my coffee when it's been in my mug for a couple of minutes and isn't quite "hot" anymore. Physics and astronomy operate on such a fundamentally different scale you can't even wrap your mind around it!

    • @CRAZY_DI_DRAGON
      @CRAZY_DI_DRAGON 3 года назад +3

      Yeah u literally can’t wrap your mind around it (unlesss)

    • @jc-bo5nf
      @jc-bo5nf 3 года назад +1

      Well he is referring to it that way because the name actually contains warm-hot and the reason its called warm-hot is that in comparison to other temperatures we know of in the universe are way hotter than millions of kelvin.

    • @jc-bo5nf
      @jc-bo5nf 3 года назад +1

      It is not in comparison to your coffee for a reason, coffee isn't one of the hottest things in the universe, you may thing warm-hot is similar to how you would describe your coffee but that is because you are comparing it to how you feel it through the nerves in your hands. And to end my rebuttal, I have to say it, physics and astronomy operate on such a fundamentally different scale that you can't even wrap your mind around it! Lol, disappointed in some people, that are so sure they are right that they wont even consider being wrong...think before you speak.

    • @jc-bo5nf
      @jc-bo5nf 3 года назад +1

      And just for some comparison to help you out, one of the hottest things in the universe i'm talking about is about 4000000000255.372 kelvin, just a tad more than 1 million, in fact, its 4 billion since you wouldn't be able to tell. And things con go much much much hotter. In fact, temperatures can go up to 10 to the 32nd power of kelvin, this is the hottest because in the physics we understand today, once it gets any hotter, conventional physics just doesn’t work. Weird things will occur that don't we dont understand currently. Gravitational force becomes as strong as the three other natural forces (electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces), and they will merge together into one unified force. Understanding how this happens is referred to as the “theory of everything” which is the holy grail of modern theoretical physics…something that we currently don’t understand, as said multiple times before.

    • @davidwallace8289
      @davidwallace8289 3 года назад +20

      I figure I should try to comment here before someone replies in a less polite fashion. I believe the original post was intended to be appreciative of a bit of terminology that is humorous when juxtaposed with ordinary human life, not an attack against the temperature classifications employed by astronomers. If someone were to be leveling insults against our dear scientist friends, I'd be right behind you with the proverbial pitchforks and cold, dark torches, but I don't think that response is warranted here. As a side note, 4000000000255.372 is on the order of 10^12, if I have counted correctly, which would place it safely in the trillions. Anyway, I'll stop taking up all of your time. Cheers.

  • @d0mi3000
    @d0mi3000 3 года назад +292

    "wait, half the universe was missing?"
    "always has been"

  • @tanishqbharud9181
    @tanishqbharud9181 Год назад +1

    I have been watching you since the 2020 lockdown and I really liked the way you explain things . I think you should create more on quantum mechanics .love you Bro.❣

  • @nikirick
    @nikirick 7 месяцев назад +1

    This was wonderful. Thank you.

  • @maxxol4954
    @maxxol4954 3 года назад +1727

    son why is the internet not working?
    - oh sorry mom I'm currently simulating THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE
    6:32

    • @rekashades9819
      @rekashades9819 3 года назад +18

      Lmao 😂

    • @weptcat304
      @weptcat304 3 года назад +112

      You know someone will find a way to run it on a calculator

    • @sydgyx
      @sydgyx 3 года назад +4

      Here before 300 likes

    • @AliKhan.1247
      @AliKhan.1247 3 года назад +9

      We don't talk about how he's on Mac as well...

    • @gilian2587
      @gilian2587 3 года назад +9

      I'm just flipping some bits mom!

  • @theknightofdoom260
    @theknightofdoom260 3 года назад +348

    I love how guys in the 50's making sci fi B movies knew what space sounds like :D.

    • @dimitar4y
      @dimitar4y 3 года назад +36

      well they did use actual recordings from cosmic interference to inspire them

    • @noximustheomnipotent
      @noximustheomnipotent 3 года назад +10

      *insert the Matrix argument*

    • @rsfakqj10rsf-33
      @rsfakqj10rsf-33 3 года назад

      Star Storm Life is a joke

    • @codyparrish6674
      @codyparrish6674 3 года назад +1

      it's all bologna. Theres no atmosphere to propagate sound waves.

    • @xponen
      @xponen 3 года назад +1

      @@codyparrish6674 so where does a radio get its sound from?

  • @Daysed.and.Konfuzed
    @Daysed.and.Konfuzed 2 года назад +4

    Derek, my dude,
    if you write something on the lower right side of the thumbnail
    we might not be able to read it
    because that's where RUclips places the video length info.
    You've asked us once about ways to improve thumbnails
    so I thought you'd want to know that.
    In the unlikely case of you reading this, that is. 😅
    Thanks for the video!

  • @ALBINO1D
    @ALBINO1D 2 года назад +2

    When the music starts coming in @9:52 I start getting excited because I know he's about to twine up all the loose threads and deliver a crescendo.

  • @tonybambino1445
    @tonybambino1445 3 года назад +439

    Oh, I didn't notice until now, that explains a lot.

    • @clang1463
      @clang1463 3 года назад +14

      @@hydrogenatom4624 Come on dude it's 2020, no one's gonna fall for that shizz

    • @hydrogenatom4624
      @hydrogenatom4624 3 года назад +10

      @@clang1463 Approximately 17,000 have already fallen for it.

    • @aliasd5423
      @aliasd5423 3 года назад +11

      @@hydrogenatom4624 Cease your haunting of this comment section. Begone demon.

    • @EXOPLANETnews
      @EXOPLANETnews 3 года назад +1

      ruclips.net/video/CHh4vOkJ38k/видео.html
      Support me guys for more sci-fi videos

    • @drabberfrog
      @drabberfrog 3 года назад

      @@clang1463 what did that person do?

  • @giapchin
    @giapchin 3 года назад +354

    What a humble yet powerful message at the end: Don't be afraid to be wrong.

    • @awemowe2830
      @awemowe2830 3 года назад +3

      @Ramtin Kolahchi You had a bad math teacher. :D

    • @popeopera
      @popeopera 3 года назад +1

      @Giap Chin Indeed...Since reality is entirely Subjective after all.

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 года назад

      Because if you find out you're wrong, then people will give you credit for discovering something.

    • @badrunnaimal-faraby309
      @badrunnaimal-faraby309 3 года назад

      ...so long as you have someone to correct you, or it's about something not immediately consequential. Being wrong can cost lives and is a rationally justified fear.

    • @jessleyva8167
      @jessleyva8167 3 года назад

      Ramtin Kolahchi probably was pppppp

  • @quecisneros
    @quecisneros 3 года назад

    Thank you!
    Wonderful explanation.

  • @martinsapsitis4292
    @martinsapsitis4292 3 года назад

    Mr Sensational, thanks very much, I'm 60 he's 5, we love your sharing of knowledge.
    If you need a place to stay in Tas it's here.

  • @mikeylagarcia1176
    @mikeylagarcia1176 3 года назад +363

    I think it's interesting how the research went from "that's some weird really short waves coming from somewhere far away" to "we found the missing half of the universe"
    (╭ರ_•́)

    • @jaredgoodwin7741
      @jaredgoodwin7741 3 года назад +25

      That's something that I loved about my astronomy class, how you could take information about one thing and use it to make inferences about another. Like using how red a galaxy is to determine the age of the universe.

    • @nenmaster5218
      @nenmaster5218 2 года назад +4

      @@jaredgoodwin7741 Call me random,
      but i just want to do my fellow Science-Lovers a Favor,
      so excuse the Randomness but here you go,
      have some warm Recommendations, cause the Learning never Ends!
      -Legal Eagle.
      -It’s ok to be smart.
      -Oversimplified!
      -Professor Dave Explains.
      -Practical Engineering
      -Michio Kaku.
      -Kosmo.
      -Cinema Therapy.

    • @daftwulli6145
      @daftwulli6145 2 года назад +1

      yea I mean if it was missing, why did we not put it on a milk carton or something ? If you can find something as small as a misisng kid that way, it should be easy to find the rest of the universe.

    • @you2tooyou2too
      @you2tooyou2too 2 года назад

      He actually showed that we found a missing 2.5% of the universe (half of the missing known-unknown Baryons). The other 95% of the universe (already euphemistically labeled "Dark energy & matter") is still missing! So, buck up! Plenty more opportunities to be WRONG!

  • @EmuSFeArg
    @EmuSFeArg 3 года назад +276

    From every RUclips science divulgators I find you the best, the one who most engages me in the story, the background, the implications. Your teaching talent is unique.

    • @briansammond7801
      @briansammond7801 3 года назад +11

      He did his PhD on teaching science, particularly using video to teach science. He has some videos on that, and a TED Talk.

    • @majtask5585
      @majtask5585 3 года назад +1

      * regurgitator

    • @glypheye
      @glypheye 3 года назад +4

      Hands up if it’s the first time you heard the word “divulgator”! Thought lost, it’s back from the vast reaches of WHIM background
      ;) :D. You’re prestidigitous erudition impresses

    • @Astro_Rohan
      @Astro_Rohan 3 года назад +7

      I would recommend you to try 3Blue1Brown for mathematics. Beautiful visualization and explaining of a topic holistically. It's a hidden gem.

    • @EmuSFeArg
      @EmuSFeArg 3 года назад +1

      @@glypheye It is a pretty common word in Spanish, that's why I used it, I'm no erudite XD, thanks by the way!

  • @NightRunner417
    @NightRunner417 2 года назад +4

    One very underrated takeaway from this is that it is often easy to think that all the big discoveries have already been made and now most discovery is of smaller things. A moment's thought about basically anything will reassure you that this is far from true, but it's especially reassuring to note that FRBs, hugely powerful radio source events that happen quite frequently in the universe, have only been known about for a scant 13 years. In the history of science, that's really a blink, and it means that we are still very actively discovering the really big stuff. We are FAR from done. :-)

  • @Nunya111
    @Nunya111 3 года назад +15

    I just started my first college chemistry class, and it is so cool watching all the basic concepts developed into these awesome discoveries while I’m just learning about their most basic meanings!

  • @comicslovers975
    @comicslovers975 3 года назад +452

    Half the Universe missing
    Thanos - This does put a smile on my face

  • @ericsu0630
    @ericsu0630 3 года назад +796

    Carl: "Kev check out this whistling noise we detected on the radio! Sounds like lasers, it could be Aliens!"
    Kevin: "Don't be dumb Carl, it's obviously the sound of low frequency lightning from the other side of the Earth that has been guided back to us by the Earth's magnetic field."
    Carl: "ok, makes sense I guess... I'll go ahead and publish that in our paper then."
    Aliens: "lol"

    • @FathinLuqmanTantowi
      @FathinLuqmanTantowi 3 года назад +35

      any scientist know laser don't make sound

    • @Jamiscus
      @Jamiscus 3 года назад +21

      Fathin Luqman Tantowi Its a joke

    • @shaheerziya2631
      @shaheerziya2631 3 года назад +30

      TheOPWarrior208 he too made a joke.

    • @fordfinfan
      @fordfinfan 3 года назад +6

      Haha hilarious!!! Made me laugh dude thanks! Have an awesome day!

    • @peikkojumala
      @peikkojumala 3 года назад +1

      @@FathinLuqmanTantowi Lasers are light / electromagnetic radiation and it's frequency can be turned into audible sound.

  • @SuperWhygee
    @SuperWhygee 2 года назад +2

    Damn man, all these videos you make that are such high quality and spectacular content...

  • @johnmcclain3887
    @johnmcclain3887 2 года назад

    I've watched you since the "great carnivorous clown con" began, and you are into the truth. Your statement, "scientists would rather be wrong" is dead on target. I've been an amateur scientist all my life, and this is something I've followed with great interest, since my teens, and the "realization" most of the universe wasn't at all visible, and not understanding at all, in the late sixties. The large hadron collider has also been a great piece of research work, showing so much more we didn't know we didn't know. Thanks again.

  • @aaronwtr1150
    @aaronwtr1150 3 года назад +305

    Me: *going to bed*
    Veritasium: Half of the universe has been missing?!

    •  3 года назад +2

      Me too

    • @Shaded
      @Shaded 3 года назад +2

      Same

    • @dickmcwienersonIII
      @dickmcwienersonIII 3 года назад +1

      No it's not bedtime yet.

    • @notacleverman9438
      @notacleverman9438 3 года назад +6

      Astronaut with gun: Always has been.

    •  3 года назад +4

      Aaron Wtr in Europe it is.

  • @hynjus001
    @hynjus001 3 года назад +386

    Me: He's gone fairly grey since his first video
    ***looks in mirror***
    Me: I've gone fairly grey since his first video.

    • @cyansus4227
      @cyansus4227 3 года назад +7

      Old man I feel old too

    • @matthewhubka6350
      @matthewhubka6350 3 года назад +8

      I think you’re just losing color vision

    • @saintmayhem9873
      @saintmayhem9873 3 года назад +1

      Whoa whoa whoa, you're telling me that two whole subsets of matter exist in the same state across any distance? Spooky.

    • @eleonarcrimson858
      @eleonarcrimson858 3 года назад +2

      @@saintmayhem9873 action at distance.

  • @joshmiller1414
    @joshmiller1414 3 года назад +1

    That was really interesting! Thank you!

  • @Haroldus0
    @Haroldus0 2 года назад +1

    Great Job - now I am thinking of the intergalactic baryonic matter as a kind of relatively warm soup, that got spilled everywhere, and the matter clusters, like stars etc are the exception.

  • @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache
    @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache 3 года назад +734

    Veritasium: Half the universe was missing... until now
    Thanos: You're not the only one cursed with knowledge

  • @starblaze5813
    @starblaze5813 3 года назад +358

    Me, listening to the whistler: "it sound like a laser gun."
    Him, 3 seconds later: "It sounds like a sci-fi laser gun, huh?"

    • @prateekpanwar646
      @prateekpanwar646 3 года назад

      @You're fake and gay If ot isn't sarcasm then yeah. Only sci-fiction guns make sounds

    • @JJnejihyuga
      @JJnejihyuga 3 года назад +1

      NOOOOO!!! LASER GUN DONT MAKE SOUNDS
      Brrrrrrrrr. sci-fi laser gun go 08:30

  • @roscothefirst4712
    @roscothefirst4712 2 года назад +2

    Excellent video, as a scientist I totally agree with your summary 👍🚀

  • @jaydipnaskar
    @jaydipnaskar 9 месяцев назад

    When I watch your videos, I just see that How the Education system failed us to think critically. I am a Physics Graduate and we were just taught to fill the Exam paper...I have Learnt much more from Internet and RUclipsr like You.
    Just Fantastic. Thank You for being here.

  • @colinhall9849
    @colinhall9849 3 года назад +385

    One of your best for me, I learned so much: The Lyman - alpha forest, the WHIM, whistlers; well done. More like this please

  • @herculesrockefeller4584
    @herculesrockefeller4584 3 года назад +343

    Magnatar sounds like a badass, villain star.

    • @skurblord3401
      @skurblord3401 3 года назад +10

      Considering one could destroy the galaxy in an instant with one unlucky pass, yah... They are a pretty good villain.

    • @Credence1026
      @Credence1026 3 года назад +11

      @@skurblord3401 I don't know about destroying an entire galaxy

    • @SpookyTanuki92
      @SpookyTanuki92 3 года назад +9

      Destroying a galaxy? No. Our solar system? Yeah, it would

    • @PlanetVyctory
      @PlanetVyctory 3 года назад +3

      Or a kickass band from the 80's, Pat Magnetar.

    • @ashwanthkumar7311
      @ashwanthkumar7311 3 года назад +5

      A Pokemon probably?

  • @halimanasrin6071
    @halimanasrin6071 3 года назад

    Excellent illustration, thank you.

  • @hariomshanti8839
    @hariomshanti8839 2 года назад

    Exceptional presentation containing amazing information! The whole universe as we see it is only one fifth of the 5% of the total mass.. that is 1% of the total... wow!

  • @HolyKoolaid
    @HolyKoolaid 3 года назад +2462

    Scientists are discovering and solving technical problems like this that most of us aren't knowledgeable enough to even know exist.
    Meanwhile: flat-earthers are making a comeback. 🙄

    • @DearHRS
      @DearHRS 3 года назад +116

      I know they are stupid but leave them be
      it is really better for us to not have those guys in these sectors

    • @bman99ss
      @bman99ss 3 года назад +274

      Flat-earthers are making a comeback? That's because half the common sense in the universe is missing . . .

    • @jangunnarrooth
      @jangunnarrooth 3 года назад +38

      I confess I was always fond of the "turtles all the way down" hypothesis.

    • @laserbeamchaser
      @laserbeamchaser 3 года назад +21

      idk i really enjoyed proving the earth is round on my own.
      trust but verify kinda thing and i did learn a lot.

    • @trendymaths2467
      @trendymaths2467 3 года назад +53

      You won’t believe how many flat earthers I’m encountered on just ONE Space Station video. It makes me sad for humanity.

  • @blibby4104
    @blibby4104 3 года назад +1247

    7 years from now this will be in everyone's recommended section.

    • @ShubhThakkar
      @ShubhThakkar 3 года назад +39

      And this comment will have over 300 likes

    • @MMfish_
      @MMfish_ 3 года назад +17

      A whole new generation of young existentially angsty kids 😆

    • @SamiJumppanen
      @SamiJumppanen 3 года назад +4

      LOL!

    • @wisart4627
      @wisart4627 3 года назад +38

      This comment made me think the video was made 7 years ago

    • @rediocre4350
      @rediocre4350 3 года назад +2

      Perhaps. . .

  • @eekee6034
    @eekee6034 2 года назад

    I read about the Lyman-alpha forest years ago, but I didn't get it until now. Excellent explanation!

  • @deenulazarus5454
    @deenulazarus5454 2 года назад

    Awww .. the last part hit home for me.... I was blown away by the entire video but the last did it for at so many levels

  • @glenngriffon8032
    @glenngriffon8032 3 года назад +107

    "Half the universe is missing..."
    "did you check behind the fridge?"

    • @TheReaverOfDarkness
      @TheReaverOfDarkness 3 года назад +5

      Turns out it was all a lot of dihydrogen monoxide located in the sub-refrigerator region.

    • @SpahGaming
      @SpahGaming 3 года назад +2

      idk i think its under the drier

    • @andrewjones6693
      @andrewjones6693 3 года назад +1

      I looked under the sofa cushions - nothing!

    • @sirBrouwer
      @sirBrouwer 3 года назад +1

      have you looked at the lost and found desk?

    • @SpahGaming
      @SpahGaming 3 года назад +1

      @@sirBrouwer i asked but but god said that they already pawend the stuff

  • @chromiyum6849
    @chromiyum6849 3 года назад +341

    Physicists: "we found the answer to the problem that was bugging us for years...."
    Me: "congrats?"
    Physicists: ".......DAMNIT!"

    • @DanFrederiksen
      @DanFrederiksen 3 года назад +8

      Well, Derek is describing a romanticized self flattering science, not actual reality. Physicists love to be right and hate to be wrong but it's true that something that violates known laws is very valuable. But that's a further failing of human science because we have such gems like ball lightning and cosmic jets or the fluctuations in G, a socalled constant but people in science are still people subject to the trappings of psychology and personality flaws so 'science' doesn't look at those issues. They are in denial. Dismayed by the far reaching inconvenience. People are so petty in all walks of life. Human science is very far from the ideal he claims here. Some few are rational. And the more taxing the subject the fewer it is. Let me see a show of hands who can handle the UFO topic for instance. And by UFO I of course mean visiting ET ships. Even though the US navy is essentially admitting regular contact incidents nowadays. So don't give me that crap that 'science' is rational. It's people.

    • @ashishsharma-og4nl
      @ashishsharma-og4nl 3 года назад +21

      @@DanFrederiksen yeah, no

    • @NabekenProG87
      @NabekenProG87 3 года назад +9

      @@DanFrederiksen Too much coffe, you are too woke

    • @WARSinRIOTS
      @WARSinRIOTS 3 года назад +1

      Reminds me of the episode of Futurama where the Professor learns the meaning of the universe or whatever makes up matter at its core or something

    • @jmgamer9267
      @jmgamer9267 3 года назад +1

      I dont get it

  • @JoakimKanon
    @JoakimKanon 3 года назад +5

    I thought you only see half off the matter because you only use one eye when operating a telescope.

  • @lacc01
    @lacc01 Год назад

    Great video, i learned a lot, thanks!

  • @hyperboletas
    @hyperboletas 3 года назад +122

    I hope they didn't just come up with that acronym on a whim

    • @notimportant8736
      @notimportant8736 3 года назад

      Drole Wilma, very drole. But I thought same.

    • @samsunguser3148
      @samsunguser3148 3 года назад +4

      I'm sending a Gamma Ray Burst on your way, stay there aight

  • @AlecInstant
    @AlecInstant 3 года назад +217

    “I promise it’s related” -Vsauce never

    • @neekk040
      @neekk040 3 года назад +5

      haven’t heard that name in years....

    • @sprut3311
      @sprut3311 3 года назад +2

      But in the end he relates them all...

    • @nicholaspatella
      @nicholaspatella 3 года назад +2

      Neekk0 he published a video a few days ago

    • @neekk040
      @neekk040 3 года назад

      Nicholas Patella what a time to be alive

  • @shereifhawary
    @shereifhawary 2 года назад +2

    The best part of the video is

    The difference between scientist and non-scientist is non scientists strive to be right, they like things to be the way they expect them. But scientists on the other hand, They want things to work not the way the expect them to be. Because that is the way they got new clues and evolve knowledge.

  • @sirtrendalot
    @sirtrendalot 3 года назад

    Very good video! I love learning about space everyday lets me know that theres something bigger and more crazy out there everyday

  • @putumban7738
    @putumban7738 3 года назад +23

    7:40 This is how *Popbob* found and griefed many large bases in *the oldest anarchy server in Minecraft* !!

  • @huonsmith
    @huonsmith 3 года назад +332

    Watching this makes me amazed at how we can observe a simple phenomenon like redshift and somehow apply the knowledge to calculate the missing matter in the universe. Like damn, humans are really smart

    • @kozmosis3486
      @kozmosis3486 2 года назад +43

      A few of them are anyway

    • @RyanWilliams222
      @RyanWilliams222 2 года назад +23

      @@kozmosis3486 For real. There’s no way I would’ve figured that out.

    • @7aygames35
      @7aygames35 2 года назад +12

      And then we realise we only know 5% of whats coming ln the test about the universe

    • @flameofthephoenix8395
      @flameofthephoenix8395 2 года назад +2

      When it comes to that humans know what they're doing, but when it comes to things that will cause economy to crash they have no idea what they're doing.

    • @jonathanmancill5845
      @jonathanmancill5845 2 года назад

      I just realized how gullible and sheeplike humans are. People have a history book, amongst other knowledge this book possesses, that contains information about how the Earth and the universe and life was created. But believe this book is factual is to believe that we have one all powerful God who is our authority, and his rules are what we should be following in order to ultimately receive his grace and blessings and eternal life. It seems to me that the only reason we reject the Lord and his words in the Bible is because we as humans want to be our own God, so as we don't want to follow somebody else's rules but ours. Why would we reject this history book from thousands and thousands of years ago only to believe wholeheartedly that we have as humans figured out everything to do with the creation of the universe and our world just within the past 150 years. Millions of people reject God and his authority because we don't want to listen to anybody else but ourselves

  • @bellhopwalrus2517
    @bellhopwalrus2517 3 года назад +13

    Deuterium: "What time is it?"
    Helium: "About 20 after..."
    Both: _"Let's stop all this fusion around, and take a snapshot !"_

  • @manwithaporpoiseYTsucksD
    @manwithaporpoiseYTsucksD 2 года назад +1

    Recently found this guy love him and his content. Can't get enough. I typically can't stand the typical RUclipsr.

  • @sgtjonmcc
    @sgtjonmcc 3 года назад +253

    Wow amazing, when you mentioned that lightning emits broad spectrum radio waves I had a flashback of when I was a kid tuning an old transistor radio to a frequency with just static. There happened to be a thunderstorm at that time and I could hear the pulses of radio emission from the lightning.

    • @NotSomeJustinWithoutAMoustache
      @NotSomeJustinWithoutAMoustache 2 года назад +9

      It just so happened that there were also thunderstorms on the other side of the planet a while back who had just finished the magnetosphere trip

    • @kozmosis3486
      @kozmosis3486 2 года назад +12

      @@NotSomeJustinWithoutAMoustache I think I read somewhere that in any given second there are thousands of lightning strikes occurring across the Earth. Or maybe its thousands per hour I can't remember exactly. Point is lightning is basically always striking the Earth somewhere. Or I guess travelling from the Earth to a cloud? Ok never mind I know nothing once again lol.

    • @niks660097
      @niks660097 Год назад +1

      @@kozmosis3486 short wave "sw" on consumer radios is still filled with random stuff including lighting strikes and CMB noise..

  • @andrewmetasov
    @andrewmetasov 3 года назад +43

    The fact that something "simple" as lightning(relative to space) can help in finding half of the universe... so cool

  • @makemoneynow5061
    @makemoneynow5061 3 года назад

    Reliable and humurous, the kind of resource I'm looking for!

  • @PeterMisovicProfile
    @PeterMisovicProfile 2 года назад

    I'm totally blasted and fascinated of our knowledge how we can interpret things from universe. The knowledge leading us to not misinterpret the universe data. Fascinating! Thanks for your videos.

    • @PeterMisovicProfile
      @PeterMisovicProfile 2 года назад

      @Veritasium what if things like at 11:34 lead to something like kind of big-bang?