Are Axions Dark Matter?

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  • Опубликовано: 8 июн 2024
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    What does the strong nuclear force, the fundamental symmetries of nature, and a laundry detergent have in common? They’re all important parts of the tale of the axion - a tale whose end may take us beyond the standard model and solve one of the most vexing mysteries in astrophysics.
    Hosted by Matt O'Dowd
    Written by Matt O'Dowd & Graeme Gossel
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    The story of the axion is a classic physics tale: intrepid scientists delve deep into trackless mathematics in search of answers to a mystery. And there, against all expectations, they find the hint of a completely new and unexpected denizen of the natural world. In this case the mystery was a subtle inconsistency in the behavior of the fundamental forces. And the unexpected discovery? A brand new particle - the axion - which, while not proven to exist, may explain a much more famous conundrum. The axion may explain dark matter.
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Комментарии • 1,8 тыс.

  • @betacenturion237
    @betacenturion237 3 года назад +175

    Hello PBS Space Time. I'm finishing up my REU with the Axion Dark Matter eXperiment (ADMX) with the University of Washington, and I just wanted to thank you for presenting axion physics in such a clear way. I was aware of the strong CP problem during the whole internship, but since I was focused on studying microwave cavities I never got the chance to learn more about it. This video helped me sound like a boss at the end of my presentation, and of course, the video was awesome regardless of the context it has to me. Just wanted to say thanks for helping me out.

    • @cgraghuyt2085
      @cgraghuyt2085 9 месяцев назад

    • @Swagjay369
      @Swagjay369 8 месяцев назад +2

      Results?

    • @InsertHandleHere968
      @InsertHandleHere968 8 месяцев назад

      Sounds like this is an exciting time to be studying axions right now! Some really interesting stuff coming

  • @keithkeller4546
    @keithkeller4546 4 года назад +1635

    "If you're gonna nerd, why not nerd all the way?" Love it.

    • @UltraBadass
      @UltraBadass 4 года назад +34

      I have the feeling he wanted revenge for.. Something

    • @FLScrabbler
      @FLScrabbler 4 года назад +25

      Verbing weirds language...

    • @azurlake
      @azurlake 4 года назад +4

      Omg... this is just feeding the troll! what have you done!!?

    • @vealck
      @vealck 4 года назад +15

      Well, distinction between apes and monkeys is not present in every language. In polish they both can be called monkey. When talking more precisely, we say something that would translate roughly as 'chief monkey' to denote apes in particular.

    • @djmcbratney
      @djmcbratney 4 года назад +18

      @@vealck Yup. And phylogentically, apes are descendents of monkeys, so there's no way out on that front, either. In fact, some very dedicated traditionalists have occasionally tried to redefine either Old World or New World monkeys as not-monkeys to escape. The idea that we apes are not monkeys is a traditional hypercorrection even in English and based on the whims of nineteenth-century English schoolteachers.

  • @lukesyrios
    @lukesyrios 4 года назад +116

    I remember always thinking the Axion was one of the cooler names of all the theoretical particles. Kind of a let down that its named after detergent. Maybe we can get a Tide Pod particle next

    • @ryanthurman92
      @ryanthurman92 2 года назад +8

      We’d have to find a way to convince children it wasn’t food

    • @AntofFlame1113
      @AntofFlame1113 2 года назад +1

      I was thinking the same thing Luke

    • @Evan.the.Butler
      @Evan.the.Butler Год назад

      Tide Podticle

    • @joshyoung1440
      @joshyoung1440 Год назад +1

      God damn it, I need to stop coming to the comment section before finishing the video. I keep getting spoilers lmfao

    • @joshyoung1440
      @joshyoung1440 Год назад +2

      Anyways, I don't think we'll get a Tide Pod particle, but I do see a chance in someone naming a laundry product Quantum Pods or some such

  • @Blubb5000
    @Blubb5000 4 года назад +270

    I’ve heard some of the words he said before.

    • @philipmumford7871
      @philipmumford7871 4 года назад +10

      I'm with you there. I know it's English but not sure I understood very much of what he was saying!!! Brain feeling a bit small today 🤪

    • @Reignor99
      @Reignor99 4 года назад +19

      It helps to pretend that he's a friend speaking directly to you.
      I pretend that I'm the ruler of earth and he's one of my scientific advisers.
      Once I believe that his words are intended for *me alone,* my brain is tricked into paying more attention/grasping more, as if I were listening to a friend make a high rant. I find myself nodding and understanding more when I pretend this.

    • @keeleehudson
      @keeleehudson 4 года назад +4

      @@Reignor99 That's genius.

    • @TheGauges420
      @TheGauges420 3 года назад +2

      @@Reignor99 16:41 is for you. If you're going to nerd, why not nerd all the way?!

    • @heyquantboy
      @heyquantboy 3 года назад

      I hear the words, but when they're strung together- makes no sense.

  • @sebastianelytron8450
    @sebastianelytron8450 4 года назад +584

    Read the title as "Are Axioms Dark Matter?"
    Based on how much I understood about them in advanced calculus, they might as well be.

    • @yyeeeyyyey8802
      @yyeeeyyyey8802 4 года назад +26

      @@littlecousin5630 Perharps he's refering to the axioms that build the real numbers? The real numbers can either be built from rational numbers (thus being indirectly built from natural numbers) or they can also be defined by axioms themselves.

    • @lonestarr1490
      @lonestarr1490 4 года назад +2

      @@yyeeeyyyey8802 Even if you derive the reals from the rationals, you need the cutting axiom of Dedekind to assure completeness of order.

    • @yyeeeyyyey8802
      @yyeeeyyyey8802 4 года назад +4

      @@lonestarr1490 Dedekind cuts are a definition, not an axiom. When you build the real numbers with them you define what is a cut, define the real numbers as the set of all those cuts, and then show that such definition has all the properties of the real numbers. So no axioms are used, since all properties can be proven from the definition.

    • @arislanbekkosnazarov9644
      @arislanbekkosnazarov9644 4 года назад +3

      Man, I was stomped at first. I thought to myself "Do they study theoretical particle that goes by the name Axion in just advanced calculus?". Then I read again, and yep, he was talking about Axioms, not Axions.

    • @nathanlevesque7812
      @nathanlevesque7812 4 года назад +1

      I feel like the comment went over the heads of anyone familiar with advanced calculus.

  • @RiverGriffith2016
    @RiverGriffith2016 4 года назад +692

    I read the title of this at first as "Is Dark Matter Anxious?" and I'm not sure what to do with that question

    • @matthewcaylor342
      @matthewcaylor342 4 года назад +39

      Two questions, what does darkmatter have to be anxious about and is darkmatter sentient?

    • @amafuji
      @amafuji 4 года назад +135

      I would be anxious too if I was hiding and everyone was trying to find me

    • @garanceadrosehn9691
      @garanceadrosehn9691 4 года назад +58

      I first thought the title was "Are Axioms dark matter?", and wondered what that would mean to all of mathematics.

    • @hope_youhaveagoodday
      @hope_youhaveagoodday 4 года назад +16

      Exurb1a will answer the question!

    • @projectmanagement2356
      @projectmanagement2356 4 года назад

      Did they prevent you from streaming nailed it in 4k?

  • @FullModernAlchemist
    @FullModernAlchemist 3 года назад +102

    Matt. You are to physics what Bob Ross is to painting. You make me amazed and profoundly calm at the same time.

    • @elicallaway342
      @elicallaway342 2 года назад +1

      Wasn't Bob a mediocre painter at best, who only had a painting career because of public funding? Oh I do see the correlations to this show.

    • @Ru-mk8lp
      @Ru-mk8lp 2 года назад +5

      @@elicallaway342 why so vicious?

    • @elicallaway342
      @elicallaway342 2 года назад

      @@Ru-mk8lp hardly vicious. Learned to paint watching Ross, when I was 8. Dumbed down science is why America is losing the science race. For instance Elon Musk making NASA look moronic. NASA is ripping off the taxpayers when some dork programmer could do it better

    • @Shadow-In-The-East
      @Shadow-In-The-East 2 года назад +8

      @@elicallaway342 I give you 3/10 trolling, please try harder next time.

    • @mastershooter64
      @mastershooter64 2 года назад +4

      @@elicallaway342 2/10 for trolling, you're not a good troll mate

  • @LukeDupin
    @LukeDupin 3 года назад +12

    It's refreshing to find a channel that's willing to talk about complex subjects without "pulling any punches". No simplified metaphors.

  • @gamerkaue88
    @gamerkaue88 4 года назад +432

    "This particle can explain dark matter"
    Yeah, I've heard this enough times to know where this is going...

    • @schokoladenjunge1
      @schokoladenjunge1 4 года назад +44

      Truly an issue. Dark matter candidates from modifications of theories are a dime a dozen, and same goes for new particles...

    • @schokoladenjunge1
      @schokoladenjunge1 4 года назад +3

      Truly an issue. Dark matter candidates from modifications of theories are a dime a dozen, and same goes for new particles...

    • @niqhtt
      @niqhtt 4 года назад +54

      Eventually it's going to be correct

    • @scipioafricanus2071
      @scipioafricanus2071 4 года назад +31

      Yeah there are too many ifs in this axiom hypothesis. Seems more like researchers are grasping for straws.

    • @Pauly421
      @Pauly421 4 года назад +4

      So true lol. So many clickbait articles too...

  • @lereff1382
    @lereff1382 4 года назад +437

    I get the feeling the editor messed up the framerate of the recordings for this episode...

    • @luwn00bz
      @luwn00bz 4 года назад +62

      Yes, very triggering. You can check "stats for nerds" from the video and see "dropped frames". Which is 0. Which means its not my end :D

    • @koenvandamme6901
      @koenvandamme6901 4 года назад +75

      Axions did it.

    • @yootoob6003
      @yootoob6003 4 года назад +9

      It's a PowerPoint slide

    • @iainballas
      @iainballas 4 года назад +3

      Oh good, not just me.

    • @GanerRL
      @GanerRL 4 года назад +4

      came here to look for this

  • @ThePunkPatriot
    @ThePunkPatriot 4 года назад +22

    This video, my level of understanding kept oscillating between feeling like I am starting to get it, to feeling like you are speaking Klingon.

  • @Southpaw17
    @Southpaw17 4 года назад +44

    "If you're gonna nerd, why not nerd all the way?" is a challenge that I'm sure will never be regretted.

  • @T33K3SS3LCH3N
    @T33K3SS3LCH3N 4 года назад +249

    > "What do you do professionally?"
    "I study laundry detergent."
    > "So you work for a soap company or?..."
    "I'm astrophysicist."

    • @themoribundapathetic4530
      @themoribundapathetic4530 4 года назад +4

      i w o u ld l o v e t o b e a n a s t r o p h y s i c i s t

    • @billymonday8388
      @billymonday8388 4 года назад +1

      cringe

    • @nrv8013
      @nrv8013 4 года назад +9

      Wilczek is not the best expressing his ideas in words - but his jokes and sense of humor are fenomenal

    • @themoribundapathetic4530
      @themoribundapathetic4530 4 года назад +4

      @@nrv8013 phenomenal like pherones

    • @nrv8013
      @nrv8013 4 года назад

      @@themoribundapathetic4530 that needs a Gerard 't Hooft fifth dimension

  • @qwerty_and_azerty
    @qwerty_and_azerty 4 года назад +88

    “If you’re gonna nerd, why not nerd all the way?” This is the deepest insight any of the infinite version of me have ever gotten from PBS Spacetime video. Nicely done!

    • @TomTom-rh5gk
      @TomTom-rh5gk 4 года назад

      It is a dumb idea. Nerds are people not machines and people will fool you when you lest expect it.

  • @Rasecz
    @Rasecz 4 года назад +15

    I love episodes that explain how modern experiments are pushing the limits of the standard model

  • @pharmdiddy5120
    @pharmdiddy5120 4 года назад +28

    Laundry detergent, dark matter, the biggest mystery in the universe... My missing sock is actually turned into dark matter by laundry detergent! I knew it!

    • @silverblank1139
      @silverblank1139 4 года назад

      You are not funny, fat man

    • @archaurore3323
      @archaurore3323 4 года назад +3

      Maybe it quantum tunnelled out of the washing machine (or drier)?

    • @DavidVonR
      @DavidVonR 3 года назад

      Laundry detergent will take the dark matter off your underpants

  • @MP-wg8pd
    @MP-wg8pd 4 года назад +19

    "Ten to the power of ten to the power of ten to the power..." I feel like I live in Whoville.

  • @ozama630
    @ozama630 4 года назад +113

    Great upload 👍🏾 However, Axion laundry detergent should be the sponsor of this video

    • @garybarbourii8274
      @garybarbourii8274 4 года назад +15

      They could never sponsor dark matter being left behind in your laundry

    • @JohnSmith-un9fy
      @JohnSmith-un9fy 4 года назад +2

      Dark matter always fades my colors.

  • @RME76048
    @RME76048 4 года назад +43

    For a moment I thought it was "axon" and thought, 'then the antiparticle would be a dendrite?'

    • @fghsgh
      @fghsgh 4 года назад +3

      axon -> axion
      dendrite -> dendri-ite (pronounced dendree-ayt)

    • @RJ-rf8fu
      @RJ-rf8fu 2 года назад

      @@fghsgh : ...Making the supersymmetric particles the sdendriite and the... saxion?

  • @timothyswag3594
    @timothyswag3594 4 года назад +140

    "CP Violation"
    Hehe... That's illegal.

    • @avrenna
      @avrenna 4 года назад +40

      This comment right here, officer.

    • @azmanabdula
      @azmanabdula 4 года назад +14

      @@avrenna *Chris hanson*
      Why dont you take a seat

    • @fivish
      @fivish 4 года назад +6

      Report it to the Jadoon!

    • @MrHurricaneFloyd
      @MrHurricaneFloyd 4 года назад +7

      The term "CP" was used in physics long before it was used to describe that particularly rightfully forbidden type of information.

    • @whimsy5623
      @whimsy5623 3 года назад +2

      hehee funne

  • @Gengsta88
    @Gengsta88 4 года назад +21

    can we somehow give this man an oscar or an grammy or an nobel prize or anything like that becouse he clearly deserves it

    • @jimsykes6843
      @jimsykes6843 Год назад +2

      Yeah, what's the physics of getting an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony.... Is that a kind of entanglement?

  • @mainlandempirerecords8724
    @mainlandempirerecords8724 4 года назад +11

    I love this show. I started watching in 2018, and I haven't stopped since. Thank for you incredibly high value content.

  • @jv8462
    @jv8462 4 года назад +54

    "That thing Newton wrote" is a weird way to pronounce "Opticks"

    • @charlieangkor8649
      @charlieangkor8649 4 года назад +3

      i knows some Opticks Tricks. particularly, how to shoot a 10 Mbps full duplex Internet connection over 1.4 km using only a single high output red LED of the type used in car brake lights, in a DIY way, building the machine in a garage by inexperienced people.

    • @davidkeen9016
      @davidkeen9016 3 года назад

      That's how we say it in Australia. You mean, you say something different in your country?

    • @Sci0927
      @Sci0927 3 года назад +1

      do you mean: optics

    • @null-0x
      @null-0x 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@Sci0927 No, Newton's book on Optics is called Optiks

  • @ZeroOskul
    @ZeroOskul 4 года назад +5

    Wow! Big difference.
    You got a fiction editor to revise the flow of this episode!
    You opened in a way that set up the story arc that MUST end with "SpaceTime", and just as I realized that you began a narrative tale.
    Great presentation!
    I am 32 seconds in.

  • @nashs.4206
    @nashs.4206 4 года назад +59

    8:57 you mention here that one of the possible reasons why we can't artificially detect axions is because we can't produce strong enough artificial magnetic fields. However, at 9:37, you mention that CAST uses its own strong magnetic field to convert potentially incoming axions back into photons. How are we sure that the magnetic field that CAST produces is strong enough to convert axions into photons?

    • @nafrost2787
      @nafrost2787 4 года назад +25

      Well he said that nature does half of the work, and maybe because we don't need to invest energy in the creation of axions, we can invest more in just the conversion of them back to photons.

    • @Skylancer727
      @Skylancer727 4 года назад +13

      He stated the axion may be in a different mass range than expected. As such, CAST would need to be tuned to find them which is a costly process as you need new wiring and sensors for each mass range. It's the same thing as why LIGO can't detect just any collisions and why we are building bigger interferometers.

    • @garybarbourii8274
      @garybarbourii8274 4 года назад +13

      It seems like the creation side would be easier to tune. We could measure the total energy absorbed by the metal as we tune the magnetic field, looking for a dip in energy representing the conversion of photons to unabsorbed axions.

    • @sc0or
      @sc0or 4 года назад +5

      Gary Barbour II I didn’t hear what must be an energy of photons to convert them into an axion, but heard “a fraction of electron mass”. That could mean that we can observe relic photons passed nearby a magnetar. We know for sure a deviation is about 10^-5K. Any evidence of the conversion must be easily detected.

    • @Carrotsalesman
      @Carrotsalesman 4 года назад +7

      "How are we sure that the magnetic field that CAST produces is strong enough to convert axions into photons?"
      They're not sure.
      They're just trying their best dude.

  • @NewMessage
    @NewMessage 4 года назад +17

    I'm just waiting for them to discover the particle that makes sure all this is so overly complex, that the math seems tediously intractable, and mind bogglingly confusing as a whole for us average people. I hope when they do, they call it the Vogon.

    • @kieranh2005
      @kieranh2005 3 года назад +4

      In triplicate

    • @BaronVonQuiply
      @BaronVonQuiply 3 года назад +7

      It would likely be a weakly interacting, low-mass, neutral particle with an affinity for poetry.

  • @moosemaimer
    @moosemaimer 4 года назад +5

    In classical Latin, C is pronounced as a K. Remember, English is three languages hiding under a trenchcoat pretending to be an adult.

  • @LithicMetals
    @LithicMetals 4 года назад +1

    Well done Matt, very concise... so many great concepts packed into this amazing lecture.

  • @user-pp6wy9tb9j
    @user-pp6wy9tb9j 4 года назад +42

    _"To Always go full N.E.R.D. or to Never go full N.E.R.D.?"_
    _- and other seemingly absolute-therefore-false propositions_
    (according to minds of a finite existential experience that is)

  • @BothHands1
    @BothHands1 4 года назад +18

    while i saw and liked this video four months ago, i was directed here once again by the wonderful person anton petrov, who reported today on a new discovery seeming to give credence to the axion's existence. it use i think a 10,000 ton tank of liquid xenon, and they had far more detections than theorized. there are several other explanations, but the axion seems to be far and above the most likely answer. i would love a followup to this video that includes these new observations. but i'm thinking you'll probably give it a few months for confirmation of the data before making a video. still, can't wait to find out if we've finally found dark matter.

    • @betsapp8501
      @betsapp8501 Год назад +2

      Anton is so wonderful 🥰

  • @Motorfirez
    @Motorfirez 4 года назад +2

    I used to watch these videos and then, frustrated for not being able to understand, go to the pub . Now I 've thought better and I go to the pub BEFORE watching the videos and suddenly they are crystal clear .

  • @RichMitch
    @RichMitch 4 года назад +8

    Back here from Anton Petrov.
    *hello wonderful person*

    • @neropanti9702
      @neropanti9702 4 года назад +1

      Rich Mitch same here, thanks to wonderful person Mr. Petrov.

    • @tiborbogi7457
      @tiborbogi7457 4 года назад +1

      Me too. Now I get deeper explanation, so my un-understandig is way deeper. So I am deeply happier. I became a nerd? :-) ;-o

    • @manjsher3094
      @manjsher3094 3 года назад

      This is not the place for that kind of commentary.

    • @RichMitch
      @RichMitch 3 года назад

      @@manjsher3094 wot

    • @manjsher3094
      @manjsher3094 3 года назад +1

      @@RichMitch Matt O'Dowd channel, let's not let channels cross. May end reality as we know it.

  • @OculusOfficial
    @OculusOfficial 4 года назад +3

    I like that the theory side of these very complex subjects is "easy" to understand and really illustrates reality in a beautiful way, I find the idea of particles being wavelengths in different fields to be really interesting but I could not imagine actually formulating maths to describe these ideas.

  • @synapticimpulse7585
    @synapticimpulse7585 4 года назад +19

    I'm watching this with my cat Lenny right now... and Lenny is like: "Duuuuuude! This is deep!"

  • @sprydog3853
    @sprydog3853 3 года назад +2

    Thank you, thank you, thank you. I love Matt and the factoid that I can feel my mind expand with every episode of Space Time I watch.

  • @mizzshortie907
    @mizzshortie907 3 года назад

    Love just getting home from work and binging this channel

  • @tomkerruish2982
    @tomkerruish2982 4 года назад +16

    15:50 Cube root. Space is three-dimensional.
    15:54 Taking the square (or cube) root of a double exponential doesn't change it much. E.g., the square root of 10^10^120 = 10^(5×10^119) ~ 10^10^119.7, not 10^10^60-ish.

    • @anonanon3066
      @anonanon3066 4 года назад

      Why is this so low?

    • @tomkerruish2982
      @tomkerruish2982 4 года назад +1

      @@anonanon3066 Maybe I posted too long after this video premiered and so not many have seen it. Thanks for the compliment!

    • @trollking202
      @trollking202 2 года назад

      but the spac 6 dimensions if am not mistaken

  • @Bassotronics
    @Bassotronics 4 года назад +4

    I sometimes think that when a photon is produced, it’s non-electromagnetic counterpart the ‘Axion’ also gets produced with it. Massless, undetected but gravitationally inclined due to its mere existence.

    • @adamk.4583
      @adamk.4583 2 года назад

      If it's massless, it can't exert a gravitational force

    • @Bassotronics
      @Bassotronics 2 года назад

      @ *Adam K.*
      Tell that to the photon which in massive amounts turn into a Kugelblitz or however you spell that.

    • @adamk.4583
      @adamk.4583 2 года назад +1

      @@Bassotronics That's when energy is converted into mass via being concentrated enough. It's energy under very specific circumstances. Light on its own has no gravity.

  • @MrV1604
    @MrV1604 4 года назад +1

    I literally had an ad of a washing-up detergent play at the beginning of the video!

  • @grebulocities8225
    @grebulocities8225 4 года назад +1

    I got high and then started watching youtube videos. They recommended me the PBS Space Time guy explaining to me one of the leading theories about dark matter, one that I had tried to understand but never really did.
    You win, RUclips algorithm.

  • @SirAlanClive
    @SirAlanClive 4 года назад +9

    Phew, just in time - thought this was due yesterday? I was going into withdrawal there!

  • @armandsantiago3654
    @armandsantiago3654 4 года назад +14

    I thank God for people that love physics. I most certainly wouldn't be able to dedicate a lifetime to it. Keep on making discoveries.

    • @feynstein1004
      @feynstein1004 4 года назад +3

      That's the benefit of sexual reproduction, my friend. Diversity in a population. It ensures that while everyone is similar enough to be able to reproduce with each other, everyone is still somewhat different from everyone else. And so we have physicists, musicians, bankers and so on. But I guess economic growth has played an equally important role in it too. I mean, if you have to spend most of your time hunting or foraging for food, you're not going to have much time to think about physics. We're really lucky that we don't live in a time like that.

    • @pipari21
      @pipari21 4 года назад +1

      Why would you thank god for the efforts that people are doing? Just thank the people directly.
      Also, which god? One of those paradox gods or the more "sensible" ones from ancient religions like animals or trees?

    • @feynstein1004
      @feynstein1004 4 года назад +2

      @Eero Huhtamo Damn, mate. Don't be that guy. It's just an expression 😂

  • @dr.v645
    @dr.v645 4 года назад

    Wonderfully informative and fantastically interesting. Thank you kindly @PBS Space Time for making this.

  • @pizzamandhx
    @pizzamandhx 4 года назад +1

    I feel like sometimes the " ...spacetime" suffix is forced. Today it was much more elegant. Bravo!

  • @motor-head
    @motor-head 4 года назад +120

    You might want to re-evaluate your relationship with Nord VPN given their recent difficulties and their shady response to those difficulties.

    • @tarekwayne9193
      @tarekwayne9193 4 года назад +19

      In any event I was going to say that no product exists that can totally protect you from prying eyes.
      It's a mathematical impossibility.

    • @motor-head
      @motor-head 4 года назад +68

      @@tarekwayne9193 Nord VPN recently had a massive security breach and then tried to deny it. When that didn't work they downplayed it. When that didn't work they finally admitted what had occurred. Very shady way of handling a security breach. Nobody expects a VPN to totally protect you from everything. What I do expect is for a security related company to handle security breaches openly and honestly which is pretty much the opposite of how Nord VPN handled theirs.

    • @tarekwayne9193
      @tarekwayne9193 4 года назад +1

      @@motor-head I'm sure they'll lose and have lost a lot of business.

    • @punkonthego
      @punkonthego 4 года назад +30

      Motor Head VPNs aren’t even a security tool. Https encryption already protects against middle-men which is what NordVPN claims they protect against. VPNs are only really useful to convince websites you have a different IP address and/or mask your current IP address.
      Edit: They are also useful to mask the name of the website you are going to from the ISP. ie. If you want to access something censored in China or torrent stuff without your ISP’s knowledge.
      Both are fairly niche uses that if you are in either situation, you already know why to use a VPN.

    • @parnikkapore
      @parnikkapore 4 года назад +3

      I only open a tunnel if I'm looking up something really lewd (mostly because of its bundled browser) or want to access something as another country (darn YT country blocks)

  • @emilev2134
    @emilev2134 4 года назад +7

    Thanks for the amazing content! On the Penrose diagram, is the «infinite space» from the right corner different from the one in the left corner since they don't represent directions but rather space in itself? Like the infinite past and infinite future look intuitively different but not the «spaces» corners, are they in fact the same corner? Also, could we be in a black hole right now and what we perceive as time would in fact be that space flowing in the direction of singularity?

  • @tugbatok9008
    @tugbatok9008 Год назад

    this channel makes me wanna cry but also gives me an immense joy at the same time

  • @Vertolot
    @Vertolot 4 года назад +1

    Wow! Even though, the Consiousness influencing QM video is more to my liking, I am glad I did not miss this one. I went in it without a clue what an Axion is, but your explanation with the graphics was top notch. If only i was a kid way back in school, your content is really inspirational.

  • @RolandTitan
    @RolandTitan 4 года назад +9

    "Why not nerd all the way" i legitimately laughed. Thank youm

  • @TGNXAR
    @TGNXAR 4 года назад +49

    "If you're gonna nerd, nerd all the way."
    Translation: "GET ON MAH LEVEL!"

  • @rowanbirch5391
    @rowanbirch5391 4 года назад +1

    Matt's turning into a legend. Great job again.

  • @richardhall3896
    @richardhall3896 4 года назад

    Great episode! Thanks guys.

  • @geekjokes8458
    @geekjokes8458 4 года назад +18

    I've been thinking about... kind of a similar idea behind the theta field: a bunch of constants dont actually seem to be well, constant - what if they are fields themselves? All of them?

    • @BenoHourglass
      @BenoHourglass 4 года назад +1

      Then the universe as we know it could just fall apart at any time, I guess.

    • @geekjokes8458
      @geekjokes8458 4 года назад +3

      @@BenoHourglass well... it's not a novel idea, vaccum decay is a known possibility (really unlikely but not stupidly so)

    • @grebulocities8225
      @grebulocities8225 4 года назад +1

      What if it's just fields all the way down?

    • @geekjokes8458
      @geekjokes8458 4 года назад

      @@grebulocities8225 what would that even mean?

    • @BenoHourglass
      @BenoHourglass 4 года назад +1

      @@geekjokes8458 It's a take on "It's turtles all the way down".

  • @kamalkhan5305
    @kamalkhan5305 4 года назад +4

    Are Axioms Dark Matter ? Maybe ! I like Matt O'Dowd's presentations.

  • @koshaku
    @koshaku 2 года назад

    Hey! This is the stuff I am researching right now for a Undergrad presentation. I love this stuff so much.

  • @olandyurai5437
    @olandyurai5437 3 года назад

    I am so happy I found this channel! Fairly sure I've watched every video twice and some of them 10x!!! I'm constantly pausing and going on a google wormhole lathered in critical thinking lol it truly gives me so much joy that words fall short!!!! Love that I can still watch PBS just like when I was a kid!!!

  • @glitchp
    @glitchp 4 года назад +5

    I love this show! Thank you!

  • @ajronmejden
    @ajronmejden 4 года назад +9

    Hey there! Amazing show, keep it up, guys.
    I'd want to clarify one thing, though. In Polish, the letter 'W' is read/pronounced just like the letter 'V' in English (there's no 'V' in the Polish language'). So Frank Wilczek's last name should be pronounced just like you'd pronounce the English name 'Vilcheck'.
    Have a great day, science buffs! ;P

    • @Jehannum2000
      @Jehannum2000 4 года назад +1

      Is there an English double-u sound ("wah") in Polish? If so, what letter is it?

    • @ajronmejden
      @ajronmejden 4 года назад +2

      @@Jehannum2000 Actually, there is! And it's a letter which, in turn, doesn't exist in the English alphabet. And it looks like this: ł
      I hope it displays on your screen properly. Sometimes 'exotic' fonts don't. But yeah, when found in a word, this letter is read like the English 'w'. Hope this helps :) Have a great day!

    • @Jehannum2000
      @Jehannum2000 4 года назад +1

      @@ajronmejden It did display correctly. I have seen this letter in Polish text. I never would have guessed it sounded like W!

    • @ajronmejden
      @ajronmejden 4 года назад +1

      @@Jehannum2000 Great, now you know :)

  • @zertilus
    @zertilus 4 года назад +1

    3:36 okay wow, the strong CP problem really sounds like the intersection in which we need to keep a very close eye on. Our error, our missing connection, lies somewhere in the maths which cause this mismatch. I absolutely love it! I almost want to go to college to learn everything about these problems, just so I can help figure it out. It's so exciting and enticing, to see things like this unsolved to this day

  • @MyChillfactor
    @MyChillfactor 4 года назад

    ;Love this channel so much, i am always nerding out on this! :)

  • @Uhlbelk
    @Uhlbelk 4 года назад +24

    The strong CP problem has a completely different meaning on the internet.

    • @ZomB1986
      @ZomB1986 4 года назад +4

      PhpBB's Control Panel is broken again!
      (and I knew a forum where they renamed it "Captain Picard")

    • @robertstevensii4018
      @robertstevensii4018 4 года назад +1

      Epstein something something something

    • @Potoum
      @Potoum 4 года назад +3

      Cheese Pizza problem?

    • @tnspnk3
      @tnspnk3 3 года назад

      Yeah. CP symmetry might be the title of a particular type of fetish video. :)

  • @mozkitolife5437
    @mozkitolife5437 4 года назад +80

    Me: aha, hmm, aha, yep.
    Nope, don't get it.
    Basically watching it to hear him say spacetime at the end.

    • @Carrotsalesman
      @Carrotsalesman 4 года назад +11

      He gets a lot of that comment haha. Maybe just try and break it down for yourself after a few watches if you need. It's especially difficult if you haven't seen the videos he references, but binging them can help get you an overall grasp of the big picture, which in turn will help ya at least follow the concepts he proposes if not the math. He's actually really good at explaining things I reckon. I have a lot of "wow, yeah that's awesome, I get it" moments.

    • @matthewcreaks2147
      @matthewcreaks2147 4 года назад +3

      For me even if I don't understand half of it, I still find it super interesting

    • @willd4686
      @willd4686 4 года назад +3

      It's okay to not get it. I sure don't. I'm a computer programmer and it's taken me years to get to the point where I understand enough of the fields terms that I can learn higher concepts. Just keep trying and you'll slowly gain an understanding. This guy's probably been to school for this stuff. I like to rewatch / relisten to videos and podcasts. Helps me pick up what I may have missed.

  • @doodlepadhi9103
    @doodlepadhi9103 3 года назад

    Excellent explanations

  • @peterb9481
    @peterb9481 10 месяцев назад

    Good episode
    Quality answers at the end
    Love it

  • @arkadryan7484
    @arkadryan7484 4 года назад +3

    "That thing Newton wrote" ... I LOVE IT!!!

  • @jessstuart7495
    @jessstuart7495 4 года назад +4

    Could you do a video on quantum spin and relativity, and how spin gives bosons and fermions different properties?

  • @krypton9984
    @krypton9984 4 года назад

    Genius. I pareticularly liked the answers to questions, but the whole thing was just gorgeous.

  • @edmundlee4087
    @edmundlee4087 3 года назад

    Thoroughly impressed with this video, one of the best.

  • @devrim-oguz
    @devrim-oguz 4 года назад +27

    I'm so early that the video is at 15 FPS. Wait a minute...

  • @iainballas
    @iainballas 4 года назад +64

    Next vexing question: Where did every 10th frame quantum-tunnel to?
    Srsly, I think the framerate on this video is a bit janky.

    • @kukulroukul4698
      @kukulroukul4698 4 года назад +1

      no is not

    • @sogerc1
      @sogerc1 4 года назад

      Or maybe your device installed some updates while you watched the video.

    • @tehbonehead
      @tehbonehead 4 года назад

      CP violation causing a quantum tunneling effect. In short, DARK ENERGY.

    • @robbradley1337
      @robbradley1337 4 года назад +5

      Yep. It looks like a slideshow.

    • @ShubhamRaj-mu8ol
      @ShubhamRaj-mu8ol 4 года назад +4

      Maybe, just maybe a very rare quantum phenomenon occurred that converted all the photons from every tenth frame of the video you watched to axions. Probability might be extremely small but still greater than zero😎

  • @AnimeShinigami13
    @AnimeShinigami13 3 года назад +2

    Physicist: I sense a disturbance in the forces!
    Axion: Come to the dark side! of physics!

  • @robnolte2547
    @robnolte2547 4 года назад +2

    I'd be curious to know more about how axions could fit within the framework of what we expect of that as the source of dark matter. Could that help to drive additional experiments to confirm or deny their existence? Great episodes always PBS Space Time team :)

  • @TheVergile
    @TheVergile 4 года назад +6

    science: we found a new particle/force/field/effect/metal genre
    science: is it dark matter??

  • @kylebowles9820
    @kylebowles9820 4 года назад +18

    I kind of want there to be evidence of axions just because the joke behind the name is so funny!
    XD "that thing Newton wrote"

  • @stefanschleps8758
    @stefanschleps8758 3 года назад +1

    PBSSpaceTime always produces an in-depth understanding of the fundamental methods in which our universe functions. But sometimes you hit the nail on the head in such an unerringly correct fashion that the episode sinply outshines other attempts by our peers in the fields of physics. This episode is such a one.Thank you. Bravo. Well done by the crew. Kudos to you
    Just remember, observation causes effect. Getting around that is next to impossible. But embracing it might just lead away from it.
    See you on the flip side.
    All the best.

  • @doldol1
    @doldol1 4 года назад

    Really interesting episode

  • @user-pp6wy9tb9j
    @user-pp6wy9tb9j 4 года назад +30

    InB4 *The Axion Axiom™*

  • @feynstein1004
    @feynstein1004 4 года назад +3

    Wow, so many new particles to discover. We need bigger particle colliders 😂

  • @robertschlesinger1342
    @robertschlesinger1342 3 года назад +1

    Excellent video. Interesting and informative. Max Tegmark has authored some relevant papers.
    And thanks for the reminder to head out to buy some Axion!

  • @RichardASalisbury1
    @RichardASalisbury1 4 года назад

    Matt, you put out the best RUclips videos on cosmology and related topics. I wish you would put out (or I would see) more. On the other hand I've the impression you put out one a week, or one every few weeks, yet I don't seem to come across that many or somehow overlook them. How can I be sure of seeing them all? (Thanks, BTW.)

  • @mysimpletoon
    @mysimpletoon 4 года назад +3

    Can you imagine how amazing it would be if this turns out to be true? If we perfect the technology, we could create axion telecommunications. You could send out a radio signal that gets turned into axions and then have a receiver that turns it back into photons and because axions can pass through everything you would get a zero interference signal.

    • @b43xoit
      @b43xoit 11 месяцев назад

      Hmm. Why not, if the conversion can be mastered. Hand it a modulated stream of photons.

  • @TheAliceQuo
    @TheAliceQuo 4 года назад +9

    "The universe may be truly spatially infinite"
    Even though I already had that idea in my head, hearing the words out loud from someone else really melted my mind.
    There's so many things we will never even begin to understand before the heat death of our own part of the whole universe.
    I mean, we used to think the milky way was the whole universe. And we were calling Andromeda an "island universe"
    What's to make anyone think the universe we observe isn't just one of... Billions? Trillions? Infinite? Universes.
    Guess we will never know 🤷‍♂️
    I havent slept in 27 hours, go easy on me if you reply 😅

    • @_xplora_9374
      @_xplora_9374 4 года назад

      Hey, I believe that ghosts are made from axions. There, that might take any negativity away from u and on to me 👍

    • @_xplora_9374
      @_xplora_9374 4 года назад

      @Zenothys that's quite an interesting theory, especially when considering the level of vibration used. It doesn't quite explain what I have personally experienced, but I'm very open minded in science and anything else for that matter. Hence I'm watching about axions 👍

  • @bonerici
    @bonerici 4 года назад

    Spectacular explanation wow

  • @lartylab3391
    @lartylab3391 3 года назад

    Congrats! This exceptional lecture indicates that you (unlike many others) really understand what you're talking about.

  • @briancrane7634
    @briancrane7634 4 года назад +9

    I need to dig a few tons of salt out of my personal salt-dome deposit to take with these new ideas...

    • @Jossandoval
      @Jossandoval 4 года назад +1

      So, if the Axion actually exist, you would be left... Salty?

  • @earth14rocco36
    @earth14rocco36 4 года назад +6

    Short answer: maybe
    Longer answer: how much infinite time do u have...

  • @georgethompson1460
    @georgethompson1460 3 года назад +1

    Could make for a cloaking device, turn the light you emit or reflect into invisible axions.

  • @Nurr0
    @Nurr0 4 года назад

    I understand less than I'd like of this channel's content, but jeez you do incredible work. I love your work.

  • @nosuchthing8
    @nosuchthing8 4 года назад +3

    Wow, what a trip. Have to review this again. Love the fact that a constant can be transmogrified into a field, and then call into existence a particle because thats how fields and particles work.

  • @whheaattzmayne3183
    @whheaattzmayne3183 4 года назад +15

    When you say "to the power of" more than once for the same number, I feel nauseous.

  • @mad-marc90
    @mad-marc90 4 года назад

    Please update the „Space Time!“ playlist. I need it to sleep. Thx! You are great!

  • @DingBatDaniel
    @DingBatDaniel 4 года назад

    Saying "Principia Mathematica" wrong but nonetheless getting the information across > Saying "That thing Newton wrote". The channel is great because it teaches. Do not stop teaching to please egos.

  • @grinians
    @grinians 4 года назад +6

    I believe that in Latin the letter "c" is always pronounced as the letter "k". So the second way you pronounced it would be the most correct.

    • @seven9399
      @seven9399 4 года назад

      👌🏾

    • @fghsgh
      @fghsgh 4 года назад +3

      In classical Latin, yes, but Newton didn't live in 100 BCE.

  • @fiskfisk33
    @fiskfisk33 4 года назад +47

    ugh NordVPN...

    • @user-gx6sg4tb9s
      @user-gx6sg4tb9s 4 года назад +7

      fiskfisk33 it’s what helps keep the show alive 🤷🏻‍♂️ I like learning. Don’t you?

    • @Balorandy
      @Balorandy 4 года назад +2

      @@user-gx6sg4tb9s they're not a reliable service. they had a data breach recently

    • @TNThot
      @TNThot 4 года назад +4

      @@Balorandy which also proved they dont store data. I would argue it makes them more trustworthy than any other major vpn provider out there.

  • @DiamondTurtleGamer
    @DiamondTurtleGamer 4 года назад

    Good vid PBS

  • @ericgirard1745
    @ericgirard1745 4 года назад

    Good comeback!

  • @nafrost2787
    @nafrost2787 4 года назад +8

    15:50 don't you mean the cubic root because volume is proportional to radius cubed and so radius is proportional to volume to the third root?

    • @tomkerruish2982
      @tomkerruish2982 4 года назад +4

      Exactly. However, it doesn't matter much, as the square root of 10^10^120 is ~10^10^119.7, while its cube root is ~10^10^119.5, not 10^10^60-ish as he said.

    • @RobinDSaunders
      @RobinDSaunders 4 года назад

      Also, all this is assuming that space on large scales is roughly flat. If it has negative curvature the distance can be much lower, although still far outside the accessible part of the universe.

    • @nafrost2787
      @nafrost2787 4 года назад

      Are you talking about non euclidean geometry stuff?
      If not than about what?
      If so than what kind of proportionality is possible in non euclidean geometry?

    • @RobinDSaunders
      @RobinDSaunders 4 года назад +1

      That's right, space in general relativity is curved not flat (non-Euclidean), but on large scales the curvature might average out to produce something that's roughly flat - or it might not. Some previous episodes go into more detail on this.
      If, on large scales, the curvature of space is negative and roughly constant, then on those scales the volume within a given radius is an exponential function of that radius, instead of being radius to the power of dimension as with flat space.
      In principle you could have something in between, such as an effective power law where the power (or "dimension") gradually changes between very different length scales. For example, some approaches to quantum gravity suggest that spacetime could be "2D" on the very smallest scales.

  • @prof2yousmithe444
    @prof2yousmithe444 4 года назад +4

    "If you are going to Nerd, Nerd all the way." :)
    Challenge accepted!

  • @Poultryphile
    @Poultryphile 4 года назад

    Would the duplicate universe have a duplicate Matt presenting another, equally awesome, Spacetime show?

  • @LeonMRr
    @LeonMRr 4 года назад +2

    Matt, at 15:51 I believe you meant that the distance would be the cubic root of 10^10^123 (or 90), which would be 10^(3,33*10^122 (or 89))-ish times the radius of the observable universe, which I believe means Rick has invented just an ultra-overpowered teletransport gun.