The Microcosmos Is Made of Star Stuff
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2023
- If you’ve been with us on our journey for a while, you’ve probably heard us say the phrase “we don’t know” a lot. The microcosmos doesn’t guarantee answers, and we’ve often found ourselves looking at some unusual behavior or beautiful form that represents some fascinating, unresolved mystery.
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If possible please try to capture images of opalinids. I have seen them alive twice, but have never seen good video of them. As they rotate the colors that opalinids create from diffraction is unbelievably beautiful. If James can get good video of them it would be the first.
That sounds crazy cool!
The issue with that is I need to cut open some frog intestines since they live inside the intestines of frogs. I checked a dead frog before for that, but it had no opalinids. I don’t know where I can get “fresh” frog bodies, and I definitely don’t want to kill frogs. :(
@@JamsGerms Yeah, We had a colleague on campus who was sacrificing frogs for other reasons so he gave me the intestines of frogs that had only been dead for less than a minute. The opalinids die within a few minutes of their host. I suppose that is what there are so few of us who have seen them, let alone recorded them with video on a decent microscope.
Maybe you can partner with a French restaurant?
Are these the things that infect certain Pill Bug's? Where they turn their exoskeleton opal like, or blueish?
@@benmcreynolds8581 No, they are symbionts of the guts of amphibians. As far as is known they are benign to their hosts.
As somebody that has been working very diligently to upgrade my older Zeiss Axio Imager microscope to record quality video like this, I have to say that I am consistently impressed with James' microscope abilities, and it is so cool to see him get better and better at the little things, like refining the sample prep so that all of the sample is in focus across the field of view, or controlling the illumination to reduce stray light and image sensor noise.
Thank you for producing such amazing content and getting people excited about microscopes, Microcosmos team!
"like refining the sample prep so that all of the sample is in focus across the field of view"
I think that's just the planapo objective doing it's job.
@Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus I'm talking about James Weiss
@@GLITCH_-.-I think they mean the level of water in the sample makes it where none of the microbes are able to be too far out of focus
Thank you so much!
@@joshcoogler9455 ah ok, that makes sense 'xD
When Hank quotes Carl you know it's getting real
The work on this channel gets better with every video. Thanks to James, the production staff and Patreon supporters!
Am I the only one having the strange feeling that this may have inspired the Elden Beast from Elden Ring ?
Naw common way to depict Godlike beings
fun fact: the proposed model of the ENTIRE universe looks like the golden filaments inside the elden beast
There is a lot of mythos that see celestial sources of beings existence. It could've come from anywhere
Marikas teets!
Try fingers but hole
this immediately reminded me of the elden beast, honestly i can’t believe that its so famous they made it in miniature form in real life
Absolutely beautiful footage here! Fantastic work, James!
Loving the vangelis inspired cosmos tune at the beginning.
I loved this production. Thanks for James's polarization explorations and your team's poetic descriptions.
I love this channel sm, thank you for sharing this beautiful content 💜
Beautifully Spoken and Articulated.
This is the best sci pop project that I know of. I’ve been following it since its first episode. Thanks for making this amazing content!! :)
So grateful I had a mother who was a scientist. ❤ awesome video guys.
This channel is criminally under-viewed
2:38; Ciliates, bacteria and a Chironomidae larvae. I loved seeing this!
I was thinking "why don't you mention the massive dead insect?" Or the alga?
@@pattheplanter It wasn't dead actually, it moves back and forth in the original clip. :)
'We don't know' can always be a valid answer. Whether it's a good answer depends on what you follow it with. One good one is 'But I bet we can find out.'
Haa! 5:08
There's a point where the glowing bits make this Pelomyxa look like some kind of alien face with some sort of cowboy hat on, like the character in Odd World: Stranger's Wrath on XBox.
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Please do a video on choanoflagellates! ❤ thank you for everything, masters of microscopes - I’m so grateful to be able to see these things so prettily a-moving 🌱😄
Guanine based purine crystals are also in the iridophores of cuttlefish, acting as a sort of mirror.
Beautiful episode.
I recently purchased a Microcosmos microscope. I am wondering where I can get a polarizer for said microscope. And an ultraviolet filter as well. Thank you so much for such a wonderful channel!!🙏🙏
You can make a polarizer set fairly easy. Get some polarizer material (online) cut a small circle out, make sure it is clean, and put it inbetween the head and body of your microscope. Take another piece, a rectangle with a width wider than your condenser and place it over that. Now, you want to cross them, so rotate the lower one until the right field goes fairly dark.
You will not likely get fluorescence capability on a starter microscope, and that is ok. Have a great time!
most magical channel ever
only an honest scientist can say "i dont know", i wish cosmologists were equally as honest.
Wow, those tightly packed, sparkly Paramecium would make a really pretty poster.
Always wish these were like atleast 10 minutes longer.
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Hank, do you have a podcast where you describe what different protists look like? Describe that slime mold like nobody's watching, even though we would be.
Very good
wonderful - thankyou ! i've now watched this already half a dozen times - we are all one within the cosmic-soup (-:
The polarization really highlights the larger cilia on little ciliate hanging around the right side of the screen at 4:45.
i bet hank has a bunch of really cool hoodies
..."molecules that are important to life....even caffeine..."
Starting at 2:56 that big ciliate that’s moving on the right side seems to have a “front” and a “back”. It’s moving in a way where it’s constantly trying to orient itself in a specific direction like looking the way it’s heading. Is that normal? The other creatures later in the video don’t seem to have a specific direction to face when they want to move around…
4:14 I thought I was looking at really low resolution video for a second. The cilia made lines that looked like anti aliasing lines in the polarized light.
As Story Musgrave said: "I am the cosmos, I am part of this process that I am doing. I’m part of it. I’m molecules. My molecules are those molecules. The stars that die, that’s me."
Raman microscopy.... So... A tiny soup?
This is a very nice channel.
Fantastic writing , fantastic music , fantastic videography , fantastic editing and fantastic delivery , as always . Thank you Journey to the Microcosmos team for never failing to add a bit more wonder to the world with each video . 🤍
CRYSTAL ABIOGENSIS, the beginning of life.
I am a big fan of this channel! Keep going!
That giant fly larva kinda did me a jumpscare lol, I was too acclimated to looking at protists
It’s interesting watching little bits inside the paramecia rearrange themselves as their little goo bag bodies slide over each other between the slide and cover glass.
Can you share a list of equipment used for these videos?
Ooooh! I LIKE shiny things!
Beautiful, from image to script. Thank you so much for this!
Like, whoa, man.
It’s quite difficult for most people to say "I don’t know" (though a bit easier to say "we don’t know"). It’s always easier to make up an explanation. Or say a theoretical explanation (a theory) is certain fact. So respect for that. Of course saying "I was wrong" is the number one hardest thing for people to say to others.
So pretty
All your videos are pretty, but this one is especially pretty!
"My god, they're full of stars"
Huh. Just maybe the star stuff is made from me...
The main component of science is questions and answers.
This video is making my cat go crazy
mine too!
Ramen microscopes sound good
Cool.
2:43 CEN turies?
Ain't it all, though.... Ain't it all, in the end.
How beautiful. It is wonderful watching these glowing gems whilst listening to Hanks sooting voice. Thanks
The title of this should have been (we don’t know) lol
I saw these in my paludarium
We are star dust,we are golden
And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden
2:54 what is the orange/brown thing in the top left? At first I thought it was an exuvia, maybe from some minuscule underwater insect, but it also looks like a plant sprout.
Its probably a non biting midge larvae. Look it up if you want you will probably get the best matches.
@@renzbongers337 I appreciate it, thank you!
Maybe they are intermediate metabolic wastes of the microbes
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2:44 - Is that some kind of insect leg or other arthropod part on the upper left there?
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see if you can find someone to use mass spectrometry to decipher the elements the cyrtals are made of. edit: nvm i commented before you got to that.
When i zoom in the video, i could think that i'm looking at hubble images...
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I only just realised it’s been Hank Green narrating all this time…
hey sweet: a baby elden beast episode ^^
I was told knowing the truth drives me crazy, now I see it's true
It's Christmas!
I have unfortunately detected purine crystals before, in between the joints of my foot bones - it is gout, the disease of kings, and extremely painful
Whenever I hear or read the word Sagan I press the like button
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Always awesome🔬🦠💚
This is fantastic! Thank you.
But have you ever seen a DNA molecule, and if so, can you show it to us? I think it's just a hypothetical construct, right?
Google it. Much like DNA coding an atoms they can be seen. They use magnets to pull apart separate genes for example, as one more common method of paternity or suspect DNA. There's even a short in RUclips zooming in on a human tooth all the way down to the row if atoms. But before that magnification it shows how teeth are very rigid mountain surfaced looking at a certain magnification level. Explains how gunk sticks to what our tongue takes as a smooth surface. Fun fact things that feel smooth to our tongue like ice cream have molecules smaller then our tongue nerves. So if if smaller it falls between an around them rather then the nerves feeling around a larger molecule.
I spend alotve time on random science from various places 😆
@@Will-dn9dq I check out the debates on just how deep our technology can take us. I'm with the skeptics. The burden of proof is on the claimants.
Prove that we can see a DNA molecule, let alone it's GCAT genes.
Hank, I would love to see what drinking water looks like after its had one sip taken, and then left to sit for a day, three days, and a week. My kid refuses to believe that microorganisms from her mouth or just floating around her bedroom, will infest a cup of water sitting for days. I have a microscope, but its not nearly as good as yours. Thanks.
The challenge with this is that although microorganisms from her mouth will go into the water, even after letting the water sit for weeks, is that they will be at such low concentrations relative to the amount of water present. Since it is just water without any significant amount of food for the microorganisms to reproduce from, it would be very difficult to find microorganisms, and they would be almost indistinguishable which of the microbes came from her mouth and which were just floating around in the air. The only food that would be in the water for the microbes to reproduce from is the small amount of organic matter that came from her mouth or the organic dust in the air.
@@micro_safari wonderful answer, thank you!
Here's an interesting thought, time shouldn't move forward for a photon. The photons from the big bang that make up the cosmic microwave background radiation are the exact same age right now as they were when the universe was created. Every photon is literally frozen in time. If you think about it, time slows down the faster you travel. So once you get to the speed of light, time stops. Hence time (from a photon's point of view) can't move forward.
Wait... 100,000 µm are only 10 cm. That line is too long, isn't it?
Even if it is the extra small, the chest width is 19 inches or 48 cm. That line is over ⅓ of the chest width so over 16cm.
Beautiful video as ever.
I am fairly certain that Carl Sagan was being literal when he talked about us being star stuff.
esse "dublador" só pode ser do google ou alguma IA pq putz.
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more info on the chemistry and physics of the biology please mmm yummy yummy information me likey some data.
"We don't know"
The biggest failure of our society,occupieng time and creating gaps in understanding so much from the understandable plateau ...
Could be so easily filled up by the billions of Us who waiste so much from our lifes by bed practice and wrong enviroment of action,We fool our selves in wasting much of our lifes in wrong practices most of them derminated by non challenge ,or excesive challenge, in fields that didn't provide enough data to stimulate curiosity and push Us toward research and improvement ..
Guanine crystals in many fish scales make highly efficient mirrors.
If we lived on an electron that was part of a dog..... what would the dog look like to us from that perspective??
I enjoy seeing the fascinating micro world that our God has made!
Beautiful segment! We learn much about the macro-cosmos by manipulating and filtering different frequencies of both visible light and other energies. Why not the micro-cosmos, too!
i am ..a symbiotic system of micro biology......i truly do not understand'' humans'' i am a system in the universe which is a system composed of systems......i truly dont understand the ones that call themselves humans....i am a symbiotic system of micro biology..........much love...
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Start putting this stuff in HDR, and people will surely cry themselves to death after laying their eyes upon it, coz it'll pop so much.
More videos please, 🙋
So do such crystals also exist in the cells of macro biota?
Many fish scales contain guanine crystals which are responsible for their bright, mirror-like silvery sheen. Our bones and teeth are crystalline. The pain of gout is caused by the accumulation of urate crystals.
The scientists at the Gravitational Wave Observatory are now (about 2019) claiming that more or most of our atoms came from colliding black holes and less from supernova.
Not from colliding black holes but colliding neutron stars which creates a rather easy fusion environment. Actually I learned about this after making this episode, but I think the idea is still not absolutely clear.
-James
@@JamsGerms Thank you for this correction. My memory is not perfect. I attended a lecture a few years by one of the leading scientists of the Observatory.
You are correct that that conclusion has not been confirmed nor extensively studied. And I am not current in that field of study.
Tasty Raman
The universe is outside us and the universe is inside us. One wonders if the Quantum universe isn't just a plot device device for some Marvel movie.
Turraza la voz en español. Recomiendo cambiarla parece voz de infomercial o cualquier cosa
Ok I changed it to English and now the video is watchable
Jehovah gives answers......!!! Creation..
You give up too easily.
sack your script writer for this episode
Scott doesn't know...