8:03 - "In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams, "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
Yep and Joes lil cartoon made it look like a member of the 'Me Too' movement! I cant believe 'Hidden' threw his shorts in her face, its disgraceful behaviour!
For me, all of this just underscores one thing we need to keep in mind: We haven't been at this for long at all. After all, it's only been about 100 years since we learned that there were other galaxies, and the energy source that makes the Sun shine. In another 100, our understanding will probably be radically different.
You know you can calculate how loud that "bang" was at the beginning? You can take CMB differences in temperature as density differences (if i remember it correctly) and find wave ferequency. "Bang" is just a sound wave - so you measure the wave and you can compare it to something else. And if my memory serves me good, that "Big Bang" was about 130dB loud;) There is a clip about that on youtube, but i'm too lazy to search for it right now.
@Kevin w My degree is in political science and economics not astrophysics. That being said I think I'm more than qualified to vote, in fact I already have. In the words of Albert Einstein, "if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will go it's whole life thinking its stupid." I can handle geopolitics and using models to predict market trends, but I leave advanced physics to the eggheads.
Yeah, I could spend two days concealing wiring and contacts for alarm systems in homes and all the customer is aware of is the keypad. So, they call up and complain. "I'm not paying"
@@bonniecrickle7499 One of my favorites. I will never forget the sight of those ICBMs arcing around Bender's metal cylindrical abdomen. :-) The world isn't flat, and it isn't round either. IT'S CYLINDRICAL!!! (and it cares about you too - think I'll hug it now) I'LL NUKE ANYONE WHO SAYS OTHERWISE. ;-) ...can't really process the idea of God sounding like George Takai though. :-) Oh well. No show is perfect, I guess it's no weirder than Whoopie Goldberg, George Burns, or Morgan Freeman. :-)
"From something with phisycs we don't understand to something with physics we do understand" is the best description of the big bang that I've heard, 👏👏well done my friend well done
Ive never been convinced we do understand much of anything about the universe. We cant even explain gravity with any accuracy. If we dont know what gravity is and we dont, then anything based off that cant be accurate its all just a best guess. Real answer is we have no idea what the universe even is or where it came from. Closest we reach is being able to identify elements its made of and even that if you look deep is largely speculation. It will be another couple hundred years barring any collapse of humanity before we have the tech to even begin understanding anything.
@@wjerame I'm with you dude. Current teaching is far from reliable. I've been watching Thunderbolt Project for a while. They seem to be closer to true science...
@@Carbon_Based_Life_Form yea thats the effect of it, thats how we try to observe it, but what is it we do not know. Its not a trick, we dont have any idea what it is. Magnets either really, you can write books about what it does and how its useful but its not understood at all how it actually happens. As much as we know, we dont know even more. Thats my point.
@@wjerame no, gravity is the effect. The "force of attraction" we're bound by is that side effect. What it actually is, is the warping of space time itself. That is what "gravity is". It technically isn't really real, so to speak. It's just how we describe the phenomenon we're observing It's as if you crumbled up a piece of paper and the wrinkles is "gravity". The wrinkles don't suddenly become it's own separate thing, it's just bent paper. A side effect caused by something else. You crumbling it up just like mass "crumbles" spacetime, inadvertently causing what we perceive as gravity. Fucking with the fabric of spacetime = gravity. Just like fucking with water = waves. Fucking with air = wind. What are waves? Water movement. What's wind? Air movement. So what's gravity? Spacetime movement. That is also why gravity fucks with time. Mass accelerates due to warping spacetime because it's attracted to where time moves slowest. The movement of time is because mass/energy is moving it along by warping space, which isn't just space but also spacetime That is, what it is.
The belief comes from his poly technique professor calling him a lazy dog. He was great at math but did not see a need for it in theoretical physics until later in life. He originally believed thought visualization was all you needed, it was after his specific theory when a mathematical physicist aided the drafting of the math portion that he found the. Relivence. Source "Albert Einstine, Biographical counting of his life". Key point the friction between him and that professor was the reason he could not get a decent job on his field and wound up as a patent clerk. Which gave him all the time needed to day dream about the nature of light.
To be fair, a majority of our current observations over distances we are capable of observing do support a flat universe. The difference would be if we had evidence of a curved geodesic and still believed the universe was flat. One of the easiest observations that show is the universe is flat is the triangle observation. Essentially, picking 3 points on a curved surface allows us to create a triangle shape with angles greater than 180 degrees. Our current observations in multiple directions show that angles are approximately 180 degrees, indicating a flat space. Furthermore, we very clearly do not know what's the edge of space, scientists are typically clear that space is flat within our observable universe, but beyond that, we really don't know (you know.. Because we can't observe it haha) I know you wrote this is a great joke, but I'm hoping my comment helps those who are interested in learning a small piece of why we believe the universe is flat. There is far more proof and math out there that is certainly beyond me, but the 180 triangle rule is the easiest for me to understand
I was of the understanding space time was curved, and exspanded omnidirectionaly like a ball. Although physical matter resembles something like a web in its expansion
I love PBS space time but I swear I only got the first five percent of every video the rest and am just looking for lingo I already know. I keep watching tho cause I swear I am improving, I swear 😢😢😢
actually I was thinking kitties and puppies and other newborn mammals as appropriate until "normal" function bounces and expands like the baseball or something
"That's like searching for a magnetic monopole in the observable universe." - Ryan Delafosse That is going to be my new way of saying something is hard to find.
@@Krokoklemmee That's my point. But do you really think it would be any easier to find this elusive magnetic monopole if we were to limit our search to JUST the OBSERVABLE universe???
'There are ten million, million, million, million particles, in the universe, that we can observe, Joe Mama got the ugly ones an put them into one nerd.' (please don't hit me Joe)
ruclips.net/video/h__j2aPe63w/видео.html Man don't gets folk to start talking about the Path Track, Space Track, or our universe run across a stars track,.. Ya'know likes everybody should had stay their butts in the first cube to discover the outside exit. 😬 😷
Albert Einstein is credited with saying, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results." So.. I guess he never practised Piano then 😁
@@kindlin I dont follow? Piano PRACTICE is literally doing the EXACT same thing over and over which ultimately results in optimum PLAYING. In practise, this is where tiny discoveries are realized, which come from repetition. 🖐🖐
@@joescott ...oh, thank goodness... ...watched the first 4 seconds and went right to the comments... thought it was gone... would've been the worst thing since morning edition changed their theme...😵
Why didn’t you turn around and gave us a weird look before you start talking? This is highly irregular and stressing me out. Please don’t do that again.
The thing about Albert Einstein's academic career wasn't that he couldn't do parts of his school work. It was that if a class failed to hold his interest, he would get bored and tune out. He felt those classes didn't hold anything useful for him, so he didn't have to bother with them. And, those classes weren't math or science based classes. They were humanities and history courses. I wonder if he was on the ADHD spectrum. Sadly, I understand this completely... to the detriment of my own education. :(
Morty: Why can't we find the engine? Rick: It's not a real train, it's a story device. Literally. A literal literary device Quite literally metaphorically containing us. Morty: A simulation. Rick: Worse. An anthology.
@@pedrosmith4529 Worst? Why didn't you like it? I really thought it was clever or tried to do something quite difficult. Which i Enjoyed. It's kinda out there but great.
When you think of it, the fact that something exists instead of nothing is absolutely incredible. And that is even before realizing the absolute majesty, splendor and beauty of all of existence.
@@aliashqar8353 Either way, that kind of obamanation happens all the time, any time someone writes a horrible book, a universe that should never have existed is created. Same goes with movies or any other media with a story-line. This universe may very well be a very good book. We just haven't gotten to the end yet. (And there is NO restaurant there. :-) ) We could just be in that unpleasant part of the book where, if it was a Tolkien book, we have too many orcs everywhere, but it doesn't stay that way.
Creator of The Amazing Bulk here. Thanks for the unsolicited plug for my film, I never would have thought that a physicist would be a fan. Thank you and have a great day! Lewis Schoenbrun
"Did you get me the brane I wanted?" "Yes, but not the one you wanted." "Then what brane did you get?" "Abby something" (Intentionally using the spelling of brane in reference to what Joe was talking about)
Mel Brookes is one of the greatest Jewish minds to have ever lived, one of the greatest minds in general without the qualifier. No one person has given me more laughs apart from, perhaps, my wife. :-) He'd better not get anywhere close to me or I might end up hugging him in appreciation. :-)
I absolutely love these sorts of videos! Thank you for explaining this in a way that's easily digestible, if not easily understandable. For everyone having trouble understanding it, keep working at it, it'll get better.
@@vishnujchandran7649 Simple: Most youtubers giver preferential access to their videos to Patreons and other supporters. Thus, members of this group (apparently including Joe) upload the video first as a private one so only those who receive the link can see it - neither if you were to look into Joe's channel nor if you searched for the title (even if you knew it in advance) would you see it. This link is sent to all sponsors... some hours latter, the video is remarked as "public" - now it does appear in RUclips's searching lists and everybody can see it
Can we appreciate the amount of work needed to make a video that we can follow without having read anything on Big Bang, math, physics, astronomy, astrophysics, etc,???? Big Kudos!!!!!
Hey Joe! I’ve been watching your videos for about 3 years now. I love your content. Thank you for producing such interesting videos. I’ve learned a lot from you and because of you!
The thing about Einstein failing math was he got an incomplete in a math course due to his parents moving. When he was asked about it later he said he’d already mastered differential calculus at that point and he just proceeded to the next level class.
Also there was some confusion with him getting the grade "6" for algebra in a school in Switzerland. This was the best grade thete, with "1" being the lowest, but the grading is exactly the opposite in Germany.
@@spiritualanarchist8162 that's who I heard it from years ago in one of his lectures. He was defending the concept of a "God" by claiming the scientists and rationalists always need one miracle in their theories and then they can explain the rest. It's an amazing quote, just don't know if it originated from him. But we are on the same wavelength, I thought of this exact quote as I was watching the video. Good call!
@@semajojnab Yes, it's says it all in one sentence. Science can explain 'everything' but not how it started. Be it life or the universe, it always needs one 'miracle' :-)
From what I understand, Albert didn't fail that math test. What happened was they changed how things were graded. If you made a 100 by the old system it now appeared that you made a zero, and if you made a zero it appeared you made a 100.
I've got the answer: the big bang was actually just an advanced energy weapon firing. So our universe is just the projectile and cease to exist when we hit the target. Probably just a soda can 😌
@@Noobscodee a big one, obviously. Just because you cannot explain where the singularity nor the vibrating string packs came from, you cannot explain where the weapon came from. Problem solved. :)
"On the Seventh Day, God rested. But, before that, He squatted down on the side of England, and what came out was Ireland. No offense." -Bill the Butcher
Today is one of my "thick days". Joe lost me within a few minutes so I went and made myself a coffee. When I came back he'd almost finished and I understood it all. Great coffee.
"What orthodoxy teaches about time is that for reasons impossible to conceive, the universe sprang from utter nothingness in a single moment. Notice that this idea is the limit test for credulity. If you can believe this, then you can believe anything… It’s almost as if science said, “Give me one free miracle, and from there the entire thing will proceed with a seamless, causal explanation.” ♣️ Sheldrake, Rupert. The Evolutionary Mind: Conversations on Science
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"Alfred Rupert Sheldrake (born 28 June 1942) is an English author, and researcher in the field of parapsychology, who proposed the concept of morphic resonance, a conjecture which lacks mainstream acceptance and has been characterised as pseudoscience." His view on the Big Bang theory springs from utter lack of understanding of the theory, and of the scientific method.
@ He's a great thinker, and even he agreed that his morphic resonance theory didn't work out, he was still trying to figure out what his observations actually meant but hadn't come up with a working comprehensive theory yet. Your understanding of him comes from a quick google search clearly :P
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@@Chwiirleader My understading of his view on the Big Bang comes from reading it. Never claimed to undersand HIM, thus the quotes, lest I should accuse YOU of appropriating his work as your own. The morphic resonant information field however, as reflected by many scientists in vairous fields, including pshychology, seems to think poorly on the man, and that's hardly my fault.
Saying that something can't come out of nothing assumes there's something in that nothing, that is a natural law of conservation (nothing is created, everything derives from other stuff). But then, the nothingness isn't nothing, it becomes,at least, one law. True nothingness is also void of rules, which in turn allow for things to exist without cause. Therefore there's no miracle, only the understanding of what "nothing" fundamentally means.
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@@nachoijp I think it's a bit even simpler than that though, the theory of the big bang does not even state that the universe came from nothingness. As Joe very correctly said at one point in this video, it's more or less saying that something we understand (the universe after at least the Planck time) came from something we don't understand (the universe before a certain point at most as young as the Planck time). People complaining that the scientific canon imposes some sort of impossibility on them (violation of conservation laws being the most common) are simply not looking at what the scientific canon says, they're looking at various philosophical (and often very approximate) interpretations of the theory. But indeed you're right that even as a philosophical exercise, and even assuming some of the false narratives proposed, this does not make sense. It's also due to our current better understanding about conservation laws and how they're related to, and can be derived from, symmetries and gauge invariance.
Thank you Joe, you're a life saver. I'm in a process of learning myself and am asking (hopefully) people that know more about this subject than I do some questions. I came across this video yesterday and learned about the Ekpyrotic Universe theory just in time to answer a challenge of producing another model that satisfies the empirical evidence that we observe if not using the Big Bang Theory. You enabled me to continue to bluff that I know more than I should. On that note, would you be up to doing a video about the CCC theory proposed by Sir Penrose?
Yeah. And it seems like basically every theory is going to look so very different from our everyday lives that they will ALL sound crazy. I just sort of get used to them - I never really understand them on a visceral level.
It never was crazy if you think of the mathematical possibilities behind it. If there isn’t a multiverse but there are simulations within the “reality universe”, that’s means you could make more simulations than a single universe within the reality universe, essentially making the probability of existing within one of the simulations to be higher than existing in a real universe. But this is assuming there aren’t infinite other universes outside of our own, because that would then make the probability of reality being real much much more likely.
It’s not crazy, but just meaningless. No way to test and no consequences. Likewise you could possibly be a brain in a tank. There’s nothing about your experience that would change if it was true, as well as nothing in our observations would change if Universe was simulated. So it’s better to just stick with what we can know about our experience and use it.
@@CozymfDQ320 it is definitely possible considering the entire universe functions based on physics based rules derived from math, which even in today’s video games is programmable, and getting better every year. And to prove something like that is basically incomprehensible, It’d be like proving god, unless there’s some hidden message out in the universe in an obvious form.
Most people don't even look at our present theories with respect now. Usually most people are lucky if they can figure out how to sit right way around on a toilet. Think about it...
A trillion year cycle? So, I've got time to refill my coffee... I've said it before and I'll say it again... I'm glad I'm too stupid to be a theoretical physicist...
Am I the only one who understands a bare minimum amount of content that he shares but watches the entire video anyway because the way he presents is too captivating! :P
"I mean after all the earth looks flat from our perspective standing on it, But as most of us know" DEEP BREATHE, while thinking, 'WHY DO I EVEN HAVE TO SAY THIS NEXT PART???' "It's not" Love it. Keep up the great video's Joe.
I live in Bern, Switzerland, where Albert Einstein lived and wrote Special and General Relativity. The confusion surround him failing in maths is because of the different marking systems in Switzerland and Germany. In Switzerland papers are marked from 1 as the worst, up to 6, the best. In Germany 1 is the best grade and 6 is the worst. That's where the misunderstanding originated
One possible reason for the myth of Einstein's bad grades on maths might be because he moved from Germany to Switzerland. Grading is germany is 1-5 where 1 is best and 5 is worst. Switzerland on the other hand uses 6-1 where 6 is best and 1 worst. But that's just a theory ;)
What up, Joe?!?! Been waiting to see you hit that million sub mark for a few years now....might be a nice X-mas treat for ya!!! Congrats, man! Still getting out this reliable, fun, well done work!
In the last century every time scientists theorize: "If K is bigger than X theory A is valid. If it's smaller, theory B is valid. Let's measure K." K=X And you can hear the Universe laughing..... and his booming voice " Back to school kids.... and by the way, check you measurements."
Its not as surprising as it sounds at first glance. Often the things we decide might make interesting "K"s to look at are only interesting due to being seemingly constant. Constants often (but definitely not always) have associations with forces so discovering a new constant is always exciting. Then someone else comes along and finds a way to derive your new "constant" from other parts of the math and suddenly we've got a different kind of excitement -- trying to figure out why something that has no (mathematic) reason to be constant seems to be. And of course the most interesting of _those_ are the ones for which we can't find an answer without invoking the anthropic principle (and/or many worlds.) There's loads of K-type properties out there that we can measure but just aren't that interesting so nobody makes a big deal of them. For example, the speed everything seems to be moving toward the Great Attractor. The fact that a "great attractor" exists is super interesting, and the fact it happens to be hidden behind the Milky Way's galactic bulge (and thus extremely hard to observe) is super frustrating, but nobody suspects the specific speed we're moving toward it is any sort of fundamental value. Nobody worries that we might not be able to derive it from the gravitational force (whether we have enough information to actually do that derivation or whether anyone's bothered to do it I don't actually know, but in principle we should be able to compute it without having to expand our mathematical toolkit or invent new theories.)
Thanks Joe love the show. Is it possible that so many super massive black holes merge that it becomes so powerful that it could over take expansion and that is the beginning singularity state of the universe.
The only part I know of where Einstein "struggled" with math was when he had to formalize relativity and had to ask the help of his teacher Minkowski, one of the greatest mathematicians of his time.
Einstein atruggled with math because he started playing with tensor variables or simply put multidimentional vector quantities, which any 25 year old wouls atruggle with when elaboratating a theory of general and special relativity, duh!
I'd love to see your take on protein folding. Another one of those things I remember from college that they had no conclusive explanation for how our peptide chains fold perfectly into proteins when there are billions of folding possibilities.
"brane" is short for "membrane" as mentioned in "m" or "membrane" theory. Also, weirdly, "spatial" is spelled with a "t" even though "space" uses a "c". English. Weird.
8:03 - "In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."
- Douglas Adams, "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
Yep and Joes lil cartoon made it look like a member of the 'Me Too' movement! I cant believe 'Hidden' threw his shorts in her face, its disgraceful behaviour!
Yeah, it turns out ROI calculations were way off.
So according to this theory the universe should be moving from Big Bang to Gnab Gib to Big Bang and so on...
This is exactly what I thought when I heard him say that haha
LOL 👌
For me, all of this just underscores one thing we need to keep in mind: We haven't been at this for long at all. After all, it's only been about 100 years since we learned that there were other galaxies, and the energy source that makes the Sun shine. In another 100, our understanding will probably be radically different.
We haven’t done much since the early 1900’s
@@dougg1075 you drunk bro? 1905???? Einstein's miracle year?????
Well, IF we survive another 100 years as an espicies...
@@saipreetham3963 : Did he not say "early 1900's"?
and even then no one will know what they're talking about
Thanks a lot Joe!
I'm now confused at a much higher level. 👍
Watch his videos 4 or 5 times & you will find yourself confused at a genius level.
stone mmstones mmmmm
@@shaggystone6397 Why do you assume I didn't get it the first time?
You know you can calculate how loud that "bang" was at the beginning? You can take CMB differences in temperature as density differences (if i remember it correctly) and find wave ferequency. "Bang" is just a sound wave - so you measure the wave and you can compare it to something else. And if my memory serves me good, that "Big Bang" was about 130dB loud;)
There is a clip about that on youtube, but i'm too lazy to search for it right now.
@@ogi22 I'm sure you need some updates!
I like the sigh when he says "Most of us" know that the earth is round.
Hue hue hue we’re so much smarter than dum dummies, time to go blow myself
Right? Obviously it's a triangle.
🤣
@@levilandes1719 I thought it was Ohio
Do flat-earthers believe in global warming? %-)
Feeling stupid is SO much nicer than feeling surrounded by stupid. Thank you Joe
@jody dymun To be with intelligent people is much better than to be with idiot ;-)
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Wobbly headed bob
How i envy those blessed with a stunning ignorance of the truth. *sigh* oh... to be happy! to be an imbecile.
XD
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Does that explain why there exists so many Donny Trump supporters?
@@michaelwiebers9656 Yikes a Biden supporter I'll pray for you.
@Throbelisk Settle down there HAL 9000.
How much of this video I watched: 100%
How much of this video I understood: 7%
@Kevin w girl? are you good?
Shit i didn’t even get half that good job lol
@Kevin w My degree is in political science and economics not astrophysics. That being said I think I'm more than qualified to vote, in fact I already have. In the words of Albert Einstein, "if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will go it's whole life thinking its stupid." I can handle geopolitics and using models to predict market trends, but I leave advanced physics to the eggheads.
@Kevin w even sadder your such a prick
That's nothing! I watched 7% and understood 100%.
"When you do things right people aren't sure you've done anything at all."
-Futurama
Yeah, I could spend two days concealing wiring and contacts for alarm systems in homes and all the customer is aware of is the keypad.
So, they call up and complain. "I'm not paying"
@@davidmacphee3549 Nice. I'll have to remember that one next time I need a surgery. "All the doc did was give me a scar!"
@David Renton That was a particularly wise episode.
That was a deep truth
@@bonniecrickle7499 One of my favorites. I will never forget the sight of those ICBMs arcing around Bender's metal cylindrical abdomen. :-) The world isn't flat, and it isn't round either. IT'S CYLINDRICAL!!! (and it cares about you too - think I'll hug it now) I'LL NUKE ANYONE WHO SAYS OTHERWISE. ;-) ...can't really process the idea of God sounding like George Takai though. :-) Oh well. No show is perfect, I guess it's no weirder than Whoopie Goldberg, George Burns, or Morgan Freeman. :-)
"From something with phisycs we don't understand to something with physics we do understand" is the best description of the big bang that I've heard, 👏👏well done my friend well done
Ive never been convinced we do understand much of anything about the universe. We cant even explain gravity with any accuracy. If we dont know what gravity is and we dont, then anything based off that cant be accurate its all just a best guess. Real answer is we have no idea what the universe even is or where it came from. Closest we reach is being able to identify elements its made of and even that if you look deep is largely speculation. It will be another couple hundred years barring any collapse of humanity before we have the tech to even begin understanding anything.
@@wjerame I'm with you dude. Current teaching is far from reliable. I've been watching Thunderbolt Project for a while. They seem to be closer to true science...
@@wjerame we do know what gravity is. The curvature of spacetime relative to an objects mass.
@@Carbon_Based_Life_Form yea thats the effect of it, thats how we try to observe it, but what is it we do not know. Its not a trick, we dont have any idea what it is. Magnets either really, you can write books about what it does and how its useful but its not understood at all how it actually happens. As much as we know, we dont know even more. Thats my point.
@@wjerame no, gravity is the effect. The "force of attraction" we're bound by is that side effect. What it actually is, is the warping of space time itself. That is what "gravity is". It technically isn't really real, so to speak. It's just how we describe the phenomenon we're observing
It's as if you crumbled up a piece of paper and the wrinkles is "gravity". The wrinkles don't suddenly become it's own separate thing, it's just bent paper. A side effect caused by something else. You crumbling it up just like mass "crumbles" spacetime, inadvertently causing what we perceive as gravity.
Fucking with the fabric of spacetime = gravity. Just like fucking with water = waves. Fucking with air = wind. What are waves? Water movement. What's wind? Air movement. So what's gravity? Spacetime movement.
That is also why gravity fucks with time. Mass accelerates due to warping spacetime because it's attracted to where time moves slowest. The movement of time is because mass/energy is moving it along by warping space, which isn't just space but also spacetime
That is, what it is.
"Einstein was good at math. He was Albert Einstein."
I think a lot of that myth comes from one of Einstein's quotes.
www.brainyquote.com/quotes/albert_einstein_125370
The belief comes from his poly technique professor calling him a lazy dog. He was great at math but did not see a need for it in theoretical physics until later in life. He originally believed thought visualization was all you needed, it was after his specific theory when a mathematical physicist aided the drafting of the math portion that he found the. Relivence.
Source "Albert Einstine, Biographical counting of his life".
Key point the friction between him and that professor was the reason he could not get a decent job on his field and wound up as a patent clerk. Which gave him all the time needed to day dream about the nature of light.
I think he used that intro in a different video before
He was Albert frickin' Einstein....
You could say he was the Albert Einstein of math.
Aliens:. "Oh my God, these hicks are flat universers"
To be fair, a majority of our current observations over distances we are capable of observing do support a flat universe.
The difference would be if we had evidence of a curved geodesic and still believed the universe was flat.
One of the easiest observations that show is the universe is flat is the triangle observation. Essentially, picking 3 points on a curved surface allows us to create a triangle shape with angles greater than 180 degrees. Our current observations in multiple directions show that angles are approximately 180 degrees, indicating a flat space.
Furthermore, we very clearly do not know what's the edge of space, scientists are typically clear that space is flat within our observable universe, but beyond that, we really don't know (you know.. Because we can't observe it haha)
I know you wrote this is a great joke, but I'm hoping my comment helps those who are interested in learning a small piece of why we believe the universe is flat. There is far more proof and math out there that is certainly beyond me, but the 180 triangle rule is the easiest for me to understand
@@cheetah219 It is curved in 4th dimension
@Thomas Chrombly thanks for taking the fun out of the joke
Flat universers:''Hey,these alien hicks believe in God!''
I was of the understanding space time was curved, and exspanded omnidirectionaly like a ball. Although physical matter resembles something like a web in its expansion
Extra dimensions sold separately.
*19 HOURS AGO*
@@sierra3384 nice profile picture
Again. George Carlin?
Sounds like something Electronic Arts would say
Can i buy it?
"universes bubbling up like cosmic champagne" - damn, that's poetic
Fart?
@@azide_rdx7937 Yep much more poetic for me too.
This is multiverse
That's actually how the scientists explain it as but yes it is poetic as well
My universe bubbled out of Diet Coke.
My recent PBS Space Time binge really paid off with this video. I don't understand any of it, but I've got the vocab down.
Don Lincoln and Dr Becky both happen to have touched on inflation recently. Totally unplanned, but nice timing.
I feel ya :D
I love how the two channels cover these topics differently.
I love PBS space time but I swear I only got the first five percent of every video the rest and am just looking for lingo I already know.
I keep watching tho cause I swear I am improving, I swear 😢😢😢
The only phrase you need to remember is "turtles all the way down" (RIP Pratchett you beautiful man you)
Very cool. Very interesting. Now that my brain has broken, I'm going to watch driving fail videos until my noodle cools down and reboots. Thanks Joe!
I literally took a nap before I decided to watch his video. I really needed a Safe Boot.
actually I was thinking kitties and puppies and other newborn mammals as appropriate until "normal" function bounces and expands like the baseball or something
"That's like searching for a magnetic monopole in the observable universe."
- Ryan Delafosse
That is going to be my new way of saying something is hard to find.
people will hate you
This could be a great pick up line.
It's even harder to find in the unobservable universe
@@ewg6200 kinda impossible by definition
@@Krokoklemmee That's my point. But do you really think it would be any easier to find this elusive magnetic monopole if we were to limit our search to JUST the OBSERVABLE universe???
This was a super heady episode. Thank you for being a bridge between the insanely smart eggheads and us scientifically curious mortals
I was more lost in this video than in any other I've ever watched. 🤔
That's string theory for you
i was enjoying all the way up until he said earth was round smh
Lol
@@aliabdullah624 lol
Try:seeing without eyes(Frank Elaridi,Tom Campbell),for some clarity.
1:45 joe's mother, is actually joe mama. Im just saying.
_he he he_
'There are ten million, million, million, million particles, in the universe, that we can observe, Joe Mama got the ugly ones an put them into one nerd.' (please don't hit me Joe)
@@artfact2 excellent ERB ref
@@artfact2 holy CRAP!! Joe is gonna need some ointment for that burn! 🔥
Lol
“BUT MOST OF US KNOOWWW, that it’s not.”😂😂😂 Love this guy
The shade😂😂😂
Just heard it! I scared my kid I laughed so loud.
Dudes fair people, boss
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Man don't gets folk to start talking about the Path Track, Space Track, or our universe run across a stars track,.. Ya'know likes everybody should had stay their butts in the first cube to discover the outside exit. 😬 😷
His name: Turok
My brain: DINOSAUR HUNTER!!!!
I am Turok!
That game was awesome.
@@hoviksmail really was man, needs a DECENT reboot.
"Cerebral Booooore...." 😈
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"He was good at math...... He was Albert Einstein." - Joe sprinkles on the exactly appropriate amount of smugness here. *chef's kiss*
Albert Einstein is credited with saying, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results."
So..
I guess he never practised Piano then 😁
Everyone clearly loved that line. I was the only one noticing a sort of logical fallacy there? Cool.
@@siresquire9439 And he certainly didn't have a dog...
@@siresquire9439
That is expecting, and with hard work, acquiring change and improvement. So....
@@kindlin I dont follow?
Piano PRACTICE is literally doing the EXACT same thing over and over which ultimately results in optimum PLAYING.
In practise, this is where tiny discoveries are realized, which come from repetition. 🖐🖐
I’m so lost throughout this video, but I’m still playing it for the intelligent background noises while I’m doing my makeup.
Something might stick lol
Ditto. Minus the Make-up.
Hol' up. Where the hell is the spin in the chair and little drum sound? Joe? You ok?
WOW. I didn't even realize I did that. I clipped the beginning a little when I exported it. Must have been in a hurry.
@@joescott We love you. But NEVER let it happen again. :-P
@@SamSchott1 Amen...
@@joescott ...oh, thank goodness...
...watched the first 4 seconds and went right to the comments... thought it was gone... would've been the worst thing since morning edition changed their theme...😵
TBH, I kinda liked it w/out....just straight to the goods =]
"and there are some that talk about virtual branes colliding....whatever that means"
LOL!
This is what it’s like when worlds collide!!!! Lol 😂 if you are old enough to get that ... you’re welcome
“Physics we understand” - haha, good one!
A used gun? Haha. That's a good one.
Yeah, more like physics we are intimate with, rather than understand.
Stories we tell...
I think we might be in consciousness.
@@peaceonearth351 I agree
Why didn’t you turn around and gave us a weird look before you start talking? This is highly irregular and stressing me out. Please don’t do that again.
Me too.
Think he was saving it for the brain. lol
I thought there was something odd with this video, but couldn't quite put my finger on it. Thanks.
The dislikes are from people who want to believe that Einstein failed math class.
Or think the Earth is flat.
lmao
He actually did need help on the crazy geometry of General Relativity, but hey, who doesn't?
@@beholder8467 Exactly my thought :))))
patent clerks don't need math, so logically he sucked at math
4:35 Finding a needle in a haystack is actually easy… You just bring a magnet LOL
Not all needles are magnetic.
His shirt symbolizes how we've walked on the moon and are trying to do the same with mars, yet it's so simplistic... I luv it.
That’s the point I believe LOL good observation
Ah nice, I saw it as humans using the moon as a stepping stone, and Mars is next ^_^
...what comes after Mars, I wonder..
@@campbellpaulits probably Venus, Europa, Titan or io.
"as most of us know the earth is not flat"
*takes off aluminum hat*
hold up
Joe has revealed himself as a flat earth denier!!! XD
Aluminum is for noobs,tin foil is what pros use like:JP Spears,Steven Corrbet,Walter Chosudovki,..
16:11
Here, just folded up a new one for ya...
_this should keep out the pesky sciencey stuff_ 😁
The thing about Albert Einstein's academic career wasn't that he couldn't do parts of his school work. It was that if a class failed to hold his interest, he would get bored and tune out. He felt those classes didn't hold anything useful for him, so he didn't have to bother with them. And, those classes weren't math or science based classes. They were humanities and history courses.
I wonder if he was on the ADHD spectrum. Sadly, I understand this completely... to the detriment of my own education. :(
Story of my life... Heavily ADD btw lol. My report card would have 3 As and 3 Fs lol
Same here
Oh k
That's why I sniff glue before and after classes as it helps clear my memory of anything useless, and it's great at clearing my nose out
Actually Einstein wasn't *that* good at math. He had to get help from other people to work out the math for his theories.
I just spent an hour and a half explaining a 19 minute video to some friends
Morty: Why can't we find the engine?
Rick: It's not a real train, it's a story device. Literally. A literal literary device Quite literally metaphorically containing us.
Morty: A simulation.
Rick: Worse. An anthology.
I just understood what was said in the episode after I read your comment. Thank you 🔥
Worst episode ever.
@@pedrosmith4529 Worst? Why didn't you like it? I really thought it was clever or tried to do something quite difficult. Which i Enjoyed. It's kinda out there but great.
If you understood what he’s saying
You would also realise that’s completely unrelated to this hahah you just look stupid to anyone smarter than you
@@DheerajBhaskar no you didn’t bro lol
"From something with physics that we understand into something with physics that we do not."
That's still physics we dont understand in a way.
For the last time, Joe, I'm not charmed by your quarks.
I looked up and down, the top comment was strangely charming but yours was at the bottom rung.
Oh God, stop.
in fact, I'm a little down.
LOL
✌🍁
When you think of it, the fact that something exists instead of nothing is absolutely incredible. And that is even before realizing the absolute majesty, splendor and beauty of all of existence.
Pauses at "as most of us know"
Flat earthers : We have made our mark comrades.
lol.
Lmao
@WHY YOU ARE AN IDIOT stuart chase actually said that, not albert einstein
I went straight to the comments after O heard that line🤣
@@scottsommers2453 HEY ME TOO just now!
Joe "The creation of the universe was incredibly inappropriate" Scott lol
More like a Douglas Adams quote... I highly recommend reading "The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy"
@@aliashqar8353 Either way, that kind of obamanation happens all the time, any time someone writes a horrible book, a universe that should never have existed is created. Same goes with movies or any other media with a story-line. This universe may very well be a very good book. We just haven't gotten to the end yet. (And there is NO restaurant there. :-) ) We could just be in that unpleasant part of the book where, if it was a Tolkien book, we have too many orcs everywhere, but it doesn't stay that way.
"Most of us know, (Earth is not flat)" Don't be afraid, none of the flatties watch this channel.
that sounds like something a flat erath SPY would say!
What!? The Earth isn't flat? Why doesn't anybody tell me these things?
Flearthers do watch this channel, but only to downvote videos. Joke's on them though because it still counts as a view
Don't flat shame.
Oh, we *absolutely* flat shame here.
You mentioned Ekpyrotic in passing years ago and I loved it cause it made a lot of sense to me. Cool to see you revisiting it.
“Insert yo mama joke here”
Or economics joke?
Yo mama so big, the government bailed her out?
Are you from Sudamerica? 🤔
Nah. Economics jokes rarely pay off.
@David Renton No, that's for all the shady business by licentious businessmen.
@@br6768 Ain't called too big to fail for nothing.
Creator of The Amazing Bulk here. Thanks for the unsolicited plug for my film, I never would have thought that a physicist would be a fan. Thank you and have a great day! Lewis Schoenbrun
explain the ending of the movie. - thanks!
This video game me the biggest sense of existential dread I've ever had. Hats off. Really fine work.
this just makes me feel,....THAT feeling....incomprehensible
16:18 "turtles all the way down"
Epic Discworld reference
Who got it from William James.
@@derreckwalls7508 Who got it from... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Turtle
Talk 16min straight about things io barely can imagine and the show me a picture of Great-A-Tuin. You just earned a subscribtion...
"Did you get me the brane I wanted?"
"Yes, but not the one you wanted."
"Then what brane did you get?"
"Abby something"
(Intentionally using the spelling of brane in reference to what Joe was talking about)
“Abby...Normal.”
Thanks, Eye-gore.
I'm watching this movie right now.
You brought me an abnormal brain for a 7-foot body?!!!!
Mel Brookes is one of the greatest Jewish minds to have ever lived, one of the greatest minds in general without the qualifier. No one person has given me more laughs apart from, perhaps, my wife. :-) He'd better not get anywhere close to me or I might end up hugging him in appreciation. :-)
This is one of your best videos ever Joe. Thank you.
I absolutely love these sorts of videos! Thank you for explaining this in a way that's easily digestible, if not easily understandable.
For everyone having trouble understanding it, keep working at it, it'll get better.
It's definitely a video some of us will have to watch a few times to really absorb it. Glad it's here to absorb, though!
Thank you for the encouragement!
Joe Scott is da man.
Bro, how did you comment 20 hours ago??, the video was uploaded 1 hour ago.
@@vishnujchandran7649 Aliens.
@@vishnujchandran7649 Simple: Most youtubers giver preferential access to their videos to Patreons and other supporters. Thus, members of this group (apparently including Joe) upload the video first as a private one so only those who receive the link can see it - neither if you were to look into Joe's channel nor if you searched for the title (even if you knew it in advance) would you see it. This link is sent to all sponsors... some hours latter, the video is remarked as "public" - now it does appear in RUclips's searching lists and everybody can see it
@@vishnujchandran7649 simple, he time-travelled.
“Simpler, but with some quarks", puns intensifies... 😜
Can we appreciate the amount of work needed to make a video that we can follow without having read anything on Big Bang, math, physics, astronomy, astrophysics, etc,???? Big Kudos!!!!!
This crosses my mind often with these videos.
The Cave Painting titled "Joe's Yearbook Photo". Hahahah!
After the “insert yo mama joke here” comment 1:40 The rest was just background noise to my laughter.
Yes, I had to rewind 😳
"42" makes just as much sense as the other theories;)
Heyy, thfoty two here
With such videos about speculatory theories I appreciate Joe's specific remarks about testability.
Hey Joe! I’ve been watching your videos for about 3 years now. I love your content. Thank you for producing such interesting videos. I’ve learned a lot from you and because of you!
The thing about Einstein failing math was he got an incomplete in a math course due to his parents moving. When he was asked about it later he said he’d already mastered differential calculus at that point and he just proceeded to the next level class.
Also there was some confusion with him getting the grade "6" for algebra in a school in Switzerland. This was the best grade thete, with "1" being the lowest, but the grading is exactly the opposite in Germany.
I like the saying: "Give me one miracle, and we explain the rest'.
-Terrence McKenna.
Terrence mckenna
@@semajojnab Is that his saying ? Sounds like him, so you are probably right,
@@spiritualanarchist8162 that's who I heard it from years ago in one of his lectures. He was defending the concept of a "God" by claiming the scientists and rationalists always need one miracle in their theories and then they can explain the rest. It's an amazing quote, just don't know if it originated from him. But we are on the same wavelength, I thought of this exact quote as I was watching the video. Good call!
@@semajojnab Yes, it's says it all in one sentence. Science can explain 'everything' but not how it started. Be it life or the universe, it always needs one 'miracle' :-)
@@Axiomatic75 Sound like him.I'm going to look it up right now..
From what I understand, Albert didn't fail that math test. What happened was they changed how things were graded. If you made a 100 by the old system it now appeared that you made a zero, and if you made a zero it appeared you made a 100.
I really thought there was going to be a pee in the pool metaphor in there with Hidden and Visible. Thanks for rising above my level there.
I've got the answer: the big bang was actually just an advanced energy weapon firing. So our universe is just the projectile and cease to exist when we hit the target. Probably just a soda can 😌
@@Noobscodee Your mind cannot begin to comprehend it :|
@@Noobscodee a big one, obviously.
Just because you cannot explain where the singularity nor the vibrating string packs came from, you cannot explain where the weapon came from.
Problem solved. :)
@@Noobscodee Learn to recognize a joke when you see one.
Hmmmm 🤔 very true! It could be similar to the beam machine used in James Bond's Die Another Day.
@@V.o.i.d.v so reality is just a joke. Got it.
i was sooo angry when i just arrived home. now i'm just happy and confused
You did a really thorough treatment of this subject and I’m very grateful for your effort!
Joe: "It's turtles all the way down"
*Sturgill Simpson has entered the chat*
no
Love that song by Sturgill.
ahem.. Terry Pratchett please
"on the 6th day God created the Irish."
"on the 7th day he was to hung over to do anything else"
"On the Seventh Day, God rested. But, before that, He squatted down on the side of England, and what came out was Ireland. No offense."
-Bill the Butcher
Too, not to.
Now THAT is fact! B'ghora, What a party it was!
I am totally gunna use the phrase "turtles all the way down" at every opportunity henceforth.
Ah, how the understanding of our universe has changed over the years. It never ceases to amaze me.
String theory is dead. All that remains of it are a group of old men wandering around saying, "Wanna see a math trick?"
Today is one of my "thick days". Joe lost me within a few minutes so I went and made myself a coffee. When I came back he'd almost finished and I understood it all. Great coffee.
Second giant leap for mankind.
Right.... Joey is a bit of a clown
Coffee is the answer to many questions ...
5:41 thats Quark from Star Trek Deep Space Nine. I thought I am tripping but when you go through it frame by frame you can spot it
He was the principal on Buffy as well. (I'm rewatching the series right now)
Love the "... turtles all the way down" reference.
Kind of like a black hole, but WAY more ridiculous.
Wonder what that means
And also kind of nothing like a black hole beyond sharing the word "singularity." Physics is great.
9:10 Referenced my favorite movie. Joker in fact says, “Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order and everything becomes chaos”
"What orthodoxy teaches about time is that for reasons impossible to conceive, the universe sprang from utter nothingness in a single moment. Notice that this idea is the limit test for credulity. If you can believe this, then you can believe anything… It’s almost as if science said, “Give me one free miracle, and from there the entire thing will proceed with a seamless, causal explanation.”
♣️ Sheldrake, Rupert. The Evolutionary Mind: Conversations on Science
"Alfred Rupert Sheldrake (born 28 June 1942) is an English author, and researcher in the field of parapsychology, who proposed the concept of morphic resonance, a conjecture which lacks mainstream acceptance and has been characterised as pseudoscience."
His view on the Big Bang theory springs from utter lack of understanding of the theory, and of the scientific method.
@ He's a great thinker, and even he agreed that his morphic resonance theory didn't work out, he was still trying to figure out what his observations actually meant but hadn't come up with a working comprehensive theory yet.
Your understanding of him comes from a quick google search clearly :P
@@Chwiirleader My understading of his view on the Big Bang comes from reading it. Never claimed to undersand HIM, thus the quotes, lest I should accuse YOU of appropriating his work as your own. The morphic resonant information field however, as reflected by many scientists in vairous fields, including pshychology, seems to think poorly on the man, and that's hardly my fault.
Saying that something can't come out of nothing assumes there's something in that nothing, that is a natural law of conservation (nothing is created, everything derives from other stuff). But then, the nothingness isn't nothing, it becomes,at least, one law.
True nothingness is also void of rules, which in turn allow for things to exist without cause. Therefore there's no miracle, only the understanding of what "nothing" fundamentally means.
@@nachoijp I think it's a bit even simpler than that though, the theory of the big bang does not even state that the universe came from nothingness. As Joe very correctly said at one point in this video, it's more or less saying that something we understand (the universe after at least the Planck time) came from something we don't understand (the universe before a certain point at most as young as the Planck time). People complaining that the scientific canon imposes some sort of impossibility on them (violation of conservation laws being the most common) are simply not looking at what the scientific canon says, they're looking at various philosophical (and often very approximate) interpretations of the theory. But indeed you're right that even as a philosophical exercise, and even assuming some of the false narratives proposed, this does not make sense. It's also due to our current better understanding about conservation laws and how they're related to, and can be derived from, symmetries and gauge invariance.
Thank you Joe, you're a life saver. I'm in a process of learning myself and am asking (hopefully) people that know more about this subject than I do some questions. I came across this video yesterday and learned about the Ekpyrotic Universe theory just in time to answer a challenge of producing another model that satisfies the empirical evidence that we observe if not using the Big Bang Theory. You enabled me to continue to bluff that I know more than I should. On that note, would you be up to doing a video about the CCC theory proposed by Sir Penrose?
I'm thinking "simulation theory" doesn't sound nearly as crazy as it used to...
Yeah. And it seems like basically every theory is going to look so very different from our everyday lives that they will ALL sound crazy. I just sort of get used to them - I never really understand them on a visceral level.
It never was crazy if you think of the mathematical possibilities behind it. If there isn’t a multiverse but there are simulations within the “reality universe”, that’s means you could make more simulations than a single universe within the reality universe, essentially making the probability of existing within one of the simulations to be higher than existing in a real universe. But this is assuming there aren’t infinite other universes outside of our own, because that would then make the probability of reality being real much much more likely.
@@NDwhITeBoYZ but is something like that logically possible?
Also how do we prove the simulation theory?
It’s not crazy, but just meaningless. No way to test and no consequences. Likewise you could possibly be a brain in a tank. There’s nothing about your experience that would change if it was true, as well as nothing in our observations would change if Universe was simulated. So it’s better to just stick with what we can know about our experience and use it.
@@CozymfDQ320 it is definitely possible considering the entire universe functions based on physics based rules derived from math, which even in today’s video games is programmable, and getting better every year. And to prove something like that is basically incomprehensible, It’d be like proving god, unless there’s some hidden message out in the universe in an obvious form.
I tried telling my bank manager that moving the decimal point to the right a few times worked mathematically. He didn't get it either.
If you could just find me those 17,850 votes, we be good, right?
Thanks Joe, I get it now. 👍
Exactly! Me, as well! ✌
😂
... I'm gonna need to replay this...a few more times...
We know so much yet so little. We'll probably look back at our current theories with a respectfull laugth in the future.
Most people don't even look at our present theories with respect now. Usually most people are lucky if they can figure out how to sit right way around on a toilet. Think about it...
Yeah hot take, stop the presses- you think we’re gonna get SMARTER as time passes? What’re you, some kind of lunatic?
“Its all waves man!”
drink some orange juice you'll be fine
A trillion year cycle? So, I've got time to refill my coffee...
I've said it before and I'll say it again... I'm glad I'm too stupid to be a theoretical physicist...
Sometimes I Understand Quantum physics.
Other times it fades in and out..
Am I the only one who understands a bare minimum amount of content that he shares but watches the entire video anyway because the way he presents is too captivating! :P
Is this an affirmation? xd
Yes you are the only one.
@@MrDino1953 I too understand the video but it's not a new topic for me.
"I mean after all the earth looks flat from our perspective standing on it, But as most of us know"
DEEP BREATHE, while thinking, 'WHY DO I EVEN HAVE TO SAY THIS NEXT PART???'
"It's not"
Love it. Keep up the great video's Joe.
I'm giggling over the idea that of all those difficult words and names, the one you mispronounced was Alan Guth's. It rhymes with tooth.
Ikr!
then it would be Gooth, you stoopid
15:41
Your use of the word UnEarthed was a brilliant slip in. Something tells me it maybe wasn't intentional but the irony in that is hysterical.
I live in Bern, Switzerland, where Albert Einstein lived and wrote Special and General Relativity. The confusion surround him failing in maths is because of the different marking systems in Switzerland and Germany. In Switzerland papers are marked from 1 as the worst, up to 6, the best. In Germany 1 is the best grade and 6 is the worst. That's where the misunderstanding originated
The big bang was just when the universe started recording.
One possible reason for the myth of Einstein's bad grades on maths might be because he moved from Germany to Switzerland.
Grading is germany is 1-5 where 1 is best and 5 is worst.
Switzerland on the other hand uses 6-1 where 6 is best and 1 worst.
But that's just a theory ;)
a game theory
What up, Joe?!?! Been waiting to see you hit that million sub mark for a few years now....might be a nice X-mas treat for ya!!! Congrats, man! Still getting out this reliable, fun, well done work!
"sea turtles mate" - Jack Sparrow
In the last century every time scientists theorize:
"If K is bigger than X theory A is valid.
If it's smaller, theory B is valid.
Let's measure K."
K=X
And you can hear the Universe laughing..... and his booming voice
" Back to school kids.... and by the way, check you measurements."
X is secretly K with glasses and a big nose.
Its not as surprising as it sounds at first glance. Often the things we decide might make interesting "K"s to look at are only interesting due to being seemingly constant. Constants often (but definitely not always) have associations with forces so discovering a new constant is always exciting.
Then someone else comes along and finds a way to derive your new "constant" from other parts of the math and suddenly we've got a different kind of excitement -- trying to figure out why something that has no (mathematic) reason to be constant seems to be. And of course the most interesting of _those_ are the ones for which we can't find an answer without invoking the anthropic principle (and/or many worlds.)
There's loads of K-type properties out there that we can measure but just aren't that interesting so nobody makes a big deal of them. For example, the speed everything seems to be moving toward the Great Attractor. The fact that a "great attractor" exists is super interesting, and the fact it happens to be hidden behind the Milky Way's galactic bulge (and thus extremely hard to observe) is super frustrating, but nobody suspects the specific speed we're moving toward it is any sort of fundamental value. Nobody worries that we might not be able to derive it from the gravitational force (whether we have enough information to actually do that derivation or whether anyone's bothered to do it I don't actually know, but in principle we should be able to compute it without having to expand our mathematical toolkit or invent new theories.)
@@altrag why does causality propagate at the speed of light? Is causality and light the same thing?
Quarantine's got me going through an inflationary period too
Thanks Joe love the show. Is it possible that so many super massive black holes merge that it becomes so powerful that it could over take expansion and that is the beginning singularity state of the universe.
The only part I know of where Einstein "struggled" with math was when he had to formalize relativity and had to ask the help of his teacher Minkowski, one of the greatest mathematicians of his time.
Einstein struggled with math because he ASSUMED the universe to be static, so the math wasn’t working out.
Einstein atruggled with math because he started playing with tensor variables or simply put multidimentional vector quantities, which any 25 year old wouls atruggle with when elaboratating a theory of general and special relativity, duh!
I'd love to see your take on protein folding. Another one of those things I remember from college that they had no conclusive explanation for how our peptide chains fold perfectly into proteins when there are billions of folding possibilities.
It's the same way an automobile transmission works. Magic 😆
"brane" is short for "membrane" as mentioned in "m" or "membrane" theory.
Also, weirdly, "spatial" is spelled with a "t" even though "space" uses a "c".
English. Weird.
Hi Jeff, "M" Theory is not short for "Membrane" Theory. Edward Witten did not reveal for what the M stood.
@@edwardwood3622 It's obvious. It's what comes after L Theory.
Spatial is from the latin term spatium, meaning space, but not in english
@@franklyanogre00000 LOL! The simplest answer is likely correct.
One thing I've learned over the years is that the amount of questions massively outweigh the amount of answers.