What are gravitational waves? - Amber L. Stuver

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  • Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
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    In September 2015, scientists witnessed something never seen before: two black holes colliding. Both about 30 times as big as our Sun, they had been orbiting each other for millions of years. A fraction of a second before the crash, they sent a vibration across the universe at the speed of light that was picked up by the LIGO detector. So what are these ripples in space? Amber L. Stuver explains.
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Комментарии • 727

  • @Francis-kn7eq
    @Francis-kn7eq 7 лет назад +1392

    The bigger the mass the bigger the depression. I'm living proof of this.

    • @vijeykrishnaa2230
      @vijeykrishnaa2230 6 лет назад +18

      Lemon 😂

    • @jamesthomas7454
      @jamesthomas7454 5 лет назад +8

      ;(

    • @BumanHeing
      @BumanHeing 5 лет назад +20

      But mass and weight are not the same....say you weigh 100Kg(to be precise 100 Newton) your mass is aproximately 10 kg.... ; )

    • @esbastow
      @esbastow 5 лет назад +19

      @@BumanHeing I thought this was a joke about depression.

    • @BumanHeing
      @BumanHeing 5 лет назад +5

      @@esbastow yeah whooosh for me...

  • @aboodyboi
    @aboodyboi 7 лет назад +16

    the sound design in this video gave me eargasms, I recommend wearing a good headset while watching this, such asmr

  • @tronknows4182
    @tronknows4182 7 лет назад +6

    One of the best gravitational wave explanation videos. Thank you.

  • @mosemusica
    @mosemusica 4 года назад

    this animation is incredible

  • @spreadlove8624
    @spreadlove8624 7 лет назад +64

    The animation is so perfect it explained gravitational wave very clearly. And cleared a few things up on what I was unsure about. Thank you 😊😊🌌🌌💖💖

  • @Bula-Boy
    @Bula-Boy 7 лет назад +1

    Thanks ted for one of the simple yet best video out there of gravitational waves.

  • @mudassirraza3625
    @mudassirraza3625 7 лет назад +14

    this video is amazing and really hoping from you to make more videos

  • @AshwaniYadavIIT
    @AshwaniYadavIIT Год назад

    That animation is super awesome

  • @yash1152
    @yash1152 7 лет назад

    I started to get a basic understanding of G-waves. Thanks to Ted-Ed

  • @bunnywashere1977
    @bunnywashere1977 7 лет назад

    I love the animation so much

  • @victorclf
    @victorclf 7 лет назад +8

    cool graphics

  • @radmirasainov8058
    @radmirasainov8058 3 года назад

    Thank you dor your with animation. It looks very pretty and helps in understanding. Please make more videos about space things. Unknown is beautiful!

  • @danielleanderson6371
    @danielleanderson6371 7 лет назад

    Animation was dope.

  • @ishalronv.t9806
    @ishalronv.t9806 6 лет назад

    Thanks for video

  • @zodiacfml
    @zodiacfml 7 лет назад

    I love the animation! They are simple and no other distracting elements but can we abandon calling gravity as a force and probably make a video about it?

  • @michaelccopelandsr7120
    @michaelccopelandsr7120 Год назад

    Are these connected somehow?
    Time is fascinating. I worked the subway stations for nearly 10 years. From one end of the city to the other. Every so often I would notice the city would be saying that, "Today just flew by" or "The day was just dragging along." How can an entire city, with no interaction with each other until they used the subway, complain about the same time paradox unless it was effected by it? Maybe a time distorted bubble the earth passes through in its revolution around the sun. Maybe random waves of time distortion hitting the earth? Maybe they're given off by the sun. Maybe they're from outside our Terran system and reach us in intervals. ???? Ti-i-i-ime, is on my side. Yes, it is!

  • @mtebid5658
    @mtebid5658 6 лет назад

    Teşekküler ted senin sayende biraz olsun kültürleniyoruz 😊😊

  • @theoutcastleaf3410
    @theoutcastleaf3410 7 лет назад

    I really like this style! Please keep it up.

  • @mahmudaakter2285
    @mahmudaakter2285 6 лет назад

    Thanks

  • @thomaswoodworth7644
    @thomaswoodworth7644 3 года назад

    Considering gravity waves discovered by LIGOS has not passed peer review after 5 years. Maybe giving the scienctist involved the Noble Prize in Science may have been jumping the gun.

  • @Caio_Myguel
    @Caio_Myguel 7 лет назад

    this is really amazing

  • @anhkhangngoo1568
    @anhkhangngoo1568 5 лет назад

    When a five minutes video better than your physics teacher

  • @MeLLeDD
    @MeLLeDD 7 лет назад

    i was ready for a BOOM!!!

  • @j.k.ravshanovich
    @j.k.ravshanovich 4 года назад +1

    With the help of gravitational waves time travel to forward future could be possible.

  • @rein7127
    @rein7127 4 года назад

    Nice animation

  • @TheMillionDollarDropout
    @TheMillionDollarDropout 7 лет назад

    Some alien/other intelligent lifeform is using a VPN right now to watch this video and as he gets halfway through, he's like "Lel, Noobs."

  • @feynstein1004
    @feynstein1004 7 лет назад +5

    Could anyone link me to a document containing *all* the nuclear fusion reactions? I really need it. Thank you. And yes, I checked on Google and it didn't help much.

    • @josephlau13d77
      @josephlau13d77 4 года назад

      Gravitational waves in linearized gravity can be described as manifestly observable Riemann curvature tensors from Einstein's field equations. The Ricci tensor will vanish while the Riemann tensor can be nonzero as well.

  • @calebross8174
    @calebross8174 7 лет назад

    Hey, I'm a pateron, and was wondering when I get the emails for the coloring books, and the other stuff you offered?

  • @GhostRyder2008
    @GhostRyder2008 7 лет назад

    I think that the shadow bands visible during a total solar eclipse are caused by the moon's gravitational waves :)

  • @sankalpfauzdar1535
    @sankalpfauzdar1535 5 лет назад

    Please make A video to describe that why Light cannot penetrates Walls or opaque object..since light is also a EM wave and other waves like gamma and radio wave can pass through them

  • @MadhuSudhan014
    @MadhuSudhan014 6 лет назад

    If we were to be sufficiently close to an event that causes gravitational waves at an amplitude of say 1 cm, would it destroy us? I visualize these waves travelling through space, as gravitation interacts with matter weakly, would the strain on matter for such a wave be high?

  • @michaelccopelandsr7120
    @michaelccopelandsr7120 Год назад

    My idea so I get to name it! What I mean is, no one has claimed it so I'm officially calling, "dibs." Voyager 1 is now in Milky Way's interstellar time or "Mikey's Time."
    "V-ger's" message has sped up now that it's outside our suns time bubble or, "Terran Time." It will be faster still when "V-ger" sends a message from beyond the Milky Way's time bubble. Then there's Outside the Local Group time bubble. So on and so on until we get outside any influence and into the, "True Interstellar Time Standard." Or, "T.I..." ;-P
    Now that "V-ger" is in interstellar space, it's also in the Milky Way's STANDARD, faster moving, interstellar time or "Mikey's Time." This can be proven by turning off everything except its clock and transmitter. Have "V-ger" read time for as long as possible. They WILL show the flow of time speeds up the further away you get from any celestial bodies. Until you reach the Milky Way's time standard or "Mikey's Time."
    •Our sun's time bubble: "Terran Time" we know and have measured.
    •Milky Way's time bubble or "Mikey's Time." The rate/flow of TIME outside any influence but within the Milky Way: We just got there and are still figuring. Wild guess I'd say time will increase in speed, now and until V-ger is outside the Ort cloud .00007-.0007% faster, maybe. Just for reference.
    •Local Group's time bubble or the rate/flow of time outside of any influence but within the Local Group: Name still open and unknown. Wild guess .08% to a couple seconds faster, maybe. Used just for reference.
    •Outside any influence in the, "True Interstellar Time Standard." (or T.I...) ;-P This name is NOT up for grabs. The rate/flow of time is fastest here. (Time flows fastest here so it's best to use a motor boat and hold tight. Always applies when you're in T.I....) ;-P
    A minute is a minute in all. It's the rate/flow I'm talking about. Heck, rivers of time flowing differently might explain dark energy and dark matter.
    The Milky Way's Interstellar Time Standard will be known as, "Mikey's Time."
    Pass it on, please and thank you

  • @tanvigandhi8752
    @tanvigandhi8752 5 лет назад

    So does that mean whenever different objects collide, they emanate different gravitational waves? How are we able to detect the size and source of the object from a gravitational wave?

    • @karimchaffai5922
      @karimchaffai5922 4 года назад

      anything with a mass sent gravitational wave but you need something humongeus so we can detect it.
      Once you detect the wave ( any wave really ), you can measure the waveling lenght. And with that you can figure out alot of stuff

  • @rishabhpurohit2663
    @rishabhpurohit2663 6 лет назад

    September 14th is my birthdate Yay! Happy cause I'm into quantum mechanics as well, Thank You TedEd for making this video.

    • @josephlau13d77
      @josephlau13d77 4 года назад

      Gravitational waves in linearized gravity can be described as manifestly observable Riemann curvature tensors from Einstein's field equations. The Ricci tensor will vanish while the Riemann tensor can be nonzero as well. The components of the affine connection (Christoffel coefficients) can be given by partial differentiation. The usual notion of 'gravitational force' disappears in general relativity, replaced instead by the idea that freely falling bodies follow geodesics in spacetime. Given a spacetime metric gab and a set of spacetime coordinates xa, geodesic trajectories are given by the equation as where τ is a proper time as measured by an observer travelling along the geodesic.

    • @rishabhpurohit2663
      @rishabhpurohit2663 4 года назад

      @@josephlau13d77 this was a goldmine of technical terms and concepts for me to learn about and a pleasure to read, thanks so so much

  • @shailendrakumar3664
    @shailendrakumar3664 6 лет назад

    Why gravitational waves always travel at speed of light?and what makes speed of this waves constant?

    • @einsteinvondaniken
      @einsteinvondaniken 5 лет назад +1

      because the speed of light isn't really the speed of light, it's the speed of causality. It's the fastest speed that anything can happen, because it's the speed at which the universe is expanding, which is why it's the speed limit of light, because if light went faster than that, it would exist before the universe existed and if I keep this sentence going I might have a stroke.

  • @hiddenemperor653
    @hiddenemperor653 7 лет назад

    Amasing video, animation and nattative you guys go! However you didn't exolain what spacetime is, I understand it for how Einstein explained it. Just something that I wanted to point out

    • @amberstuver4814
      @amberstuver4814 7 лет назад

      There is already a 3 part TED-Ed series on "The Fundamentals of Space-Time". They are great and you can view them here: ed.ted.com/lessons/the-fundamentals-of-space-time-part-1-andrew-pontzen-and-tom-whyntie

  • @mariop5887
    @mariop5887 6 лет назад +1

    could we difract a gravitational wave?

  • @l.jturner6617
    @l.jturner6617 7 лет назад +2

    TedEd...
    I love you

  • @RB-bx6je
    @RB-bx6je 7 лет назад

    learned more than what i study in college

  • @arpanbansal1800
    @arpanbansal1800 4 года назад

    I have just watched TV show on Ligo and saw the face who give this idea

  • @PersianMapper
    @PersianMapper 7 лет назад

    plz do a video about modern day political groups

  • @kalyanguhoroy514
    @kalyanguhoroy514 6 лет назад

    Can it b possible that gravitational waves are reason behind the expansion of our universe ???

  • @annaelizabeth6195
    @annaelizabeth6195 3 года назад

    WAIT! HOW DOES MASS AFFECT GRAVITY? I mean the more the mass is, the more will be the gravitational energy pulling it downwards...BUT WHY ?...HOW?

  • @seven203
    @seven203 7 лет назад

    Could we have time travel with these gravitation waves ?

  • @nathanbailey7003
    @nathanbailey7003 7 лет назад

    Does this mean that if humanity is ever able to control the output of these gravitational waves and amplify the force, we could engineer anti gravity chambers?

  • @SHPark-gf5sw
    @SHPark-gf5sw 4 года назад

    What will happen to us if we and our planet are hit by large gravitation waves that are generated right before and we can see without any pain?

  • @njack1994
    @njack1994 7 лет назад

    So you are saying reality ripples occasionally but only a little bit? A little disconcerting but thanks for the heads up I guess.

  • @dagoninfinite
    @dagoninfinite 2 года назад

    Cmon these contraptions are so complex, this interference theyre detecting theyre producing themseleves

  • @subhadeepchowdhury5244
    @subhadeepchowdhury5244 6 лет назад

    OK that was a good video
    .....

  • @icazevedo
    @icazevedo 7 лет назад +798

    That animation is the greatest on TED-Ed's history. It made me feel the waves and gravity, so sweet.

    • @jessicaruby1753
      @jessicaruby1753 7 лет назад +1

      +

    • @Radtastical
      @Radtastical 4 года назад +3

      Isn't it beautiful?

    • @SHPark-gf5sw
      @SHPark-gf5sw 4 года назад

      It's really neat and helps to easily understand

    • @ParniaSh
      @ParniaSh Год назад +1

      +1 also the sound design is amazing

    • @kulled
      @kulled Год назад

      very kurzgesagt-esque

  • @黑K猫
    @黑K猫 2 года назад +97

    It's insane that Albert Einstein predicted these waves in 1916. Such a genius

    • @naeemtull2026
      @naeemtull2026 Год назад +2

      He just followed the math and observation

    • @besto5486
      @besto5486 Год назад +15

      @@naeemtull2026 what have YOU done with your life? It's honestly pathetic trying to undermine the achievements of someone like Einstein

    • @flamegamer3293
      @flamegamer3293 Год назад +7

      ​@@besto5486who are you to undermine his life? This just seems like a psychological phenomenon of you projecting your uselessness on him. Learn to be respectful to others. Replying to fire with oil is not a good idea.

    • @besto5486
      @besto5486 Год назад +4

      @@flamegamer3293 no. I am respectful of others but i don't give everyone the same level of respect. The guy above is an example. I undermine whomever i want as long as they did something worth me doing that.

    • @Tomonaroll
      @Tomonaroll Год назад +1

      And these ones we first detected were around 100 light years away from the earth at the moment he came up with the theory! 😄

  • @lohithreddy6629
    @lohithreddy6629 7 лет назад +279

    The background sounds and animations are simplistic and awesome

  • @shubhankardasgupta4777
    @shubhankardasgupta4777 5 лет назад +151

    I'm fascinated...
    - Albert Einstein 2019

  • @HealthChronicle
    @HealthChronicle 7 лет назад +282

    This is a Great Video. I love how all ted ed animations are so nicely done - they make sure the message goes across to whoever is watching, no matter the topic. Getting Inspired by Ted ed over the years we also make ANIMATED HEALTH VIDEOS on our channel. Do check it out if you get the time.

    • @scholarships9353
      @scholarships9353 7 лет назад +4

      I love animated videos. Your channel is also decent. though not as cool as Ted ed. Try making the animations more colorful.

    • @dudegols289
      @dudegols289 7 лет назад +9

      Cool Videos . i subscribed. this animation or that. i dont care as long as i get to learn. :D

    • @spreadlove8624
      @spreadlove8624 7 лет назад +3

      Health Chronicle We really should become a Patreon when we are able to 😊😊🌌🌌💖💖

    • @HealthChronicle
      @HealthChronicle 7 лет назад +1

      Thanks for the support. We will get this process started :D

    • @pineapplesoda
      @pineapplesoda 7 лет назад

      The animation on this one is exceptional, even for Ted-Ed!

  • @rebelbeammasterx8472
    @rebelbeammasterx8472 7 лет назад +122

    You mean I can send my mixtape out to the whole universe through gravitional waves?

    • @sendoben8517
      @sendoben8517 5 лет назад +4

      Nope, this is not just like a radio waves, its just a ripple of space-time because something massive is causing this

    • @MrElpajita
      @MrElpajita 5 лет назад +13

      sendo ben
      his Mixtape is massive 💥💥💥

    • @rajeshchandrasekharan3436
      @rajeshchandrasekharan3436 4 года назад +1

      @@sendoben8517 till now l could not understand or imagine the space-time in three dimensions.Can anybody explain?

    • @FootLettuce
      @FootLettuce 4 года назад +6

      @@rajeshchandrasekharan3436 there's no way humans can imagine the true 4d spacetime though. Scientists can only make projection of it onto our world.

    • @agoogleuser3853
      @agoogleuser3853 3 года назад

      1 It'll be confused with noise coming from other objects
      2 it gets exponentially smaller the farther it gets
      Although, technically, its always there, so, yes

  • @hermaeusmora1827
    @hermaeusmora1827 5 лет назад +161

    Q. What are gravitational waves?
    A. "Fluctuations in the gravity coming from the universe are called gravitational waves." (1:33)

    • @thecreator4541
      @thecreator4541 4 года назад +1

      Full marks to you

    • @josephlau13d77
      @josephlau13d77 4 года назад +1

      Disturbances in the curvature of spacetime generated by accelerating masses, such as from pulsars. Even quantum fluctuations can affect the interferometer's detection of these gravitational waves. First discovered in Einstein's general relativity paper. Gravitational waves can be described as manifestly observable Riemann curvature tensors.

    • @hermaeusmora1827
      @hermaeusmora1827 4 года назад +3

      @@josephlau13d77 Damn, now I need to get a physics degree and come back to read your comment xD

    • @rickring1396
      @rickring1396 4 года назад +2

      Same: 2:10 - 2:19
      “When the mass making the depression moves, this sends out ripples in space-time. These are gravitational waves”.

    • @ff_r.t_gaming4822
      @ff_r.t_gaming4822 4 года назад

      Mass

  • @vijaykumarreddyalavala3713
    @vijaykumarreddyalavala3713 7 лет назад +98

    Watch with headphones. What an experience........wow just wow

  • @daiduongdaviddinh140
    @daiduongdaviddinh140 4 года назад +50

    When tree falls in a forest and nobody there to hear it, does it make a sound?
    LIGO: Yes

    • @tuckertechnolord6126
      @tuckertechnolord6126 4 года назад +2

      That riddle is very outdated with our current understanding of sounds. Of course it produces sound waves.

    • @prwtarxikos
      @prwtarxikos 3 года назад +1

      The question is whether it exists where there is nobody to observe it.

    • @delanmorstik7619
      @delanmorstik7619 3 года назад

      @@tuckertechnolord6126 In fact it has never been more up to date.. something that both hanned and did not, rings any bells?

  • @opinionofmine3238
    @opinionofmine3238 7 лет назад +23

    I gotta say, props to the scientists that came up with the gravitational wave detection method. It's not scientifically speaking foul-proof, as a number of less extraordinaire factors could still be a cause of it, but the method for measuring these waves did surprise me given it's precision compared to some other grandiose experiments conducted in the field of physics nowadays. Great job to the ted-ed animators and script-writers too, as this was a brilliantly informative video.

  • @vemugantitharani6323
    @vemugantitharani6323 7 лет назад +29

    Thanks for making the complex concepts very simple to understand . Simply phenomenal ted.

  • @BambinaSaldana
    @BambinaSaldana 3 года назад +4

    Q: Why was the fabric of space-time sad?
    A: Because it had a gravitational *depression* !

  • @dsxd
    @dsxd 7 лет назад +31

    A great video on such a tricky topic. Easy and understandable.❤👌

    • @josephlau13d77
      @josephlau13d77 4 года назад +1

      Gravitational waves in linearized gravity can be described as manifestly observable Riemann curvature tensors from Einstein's field equations. The Ricci tensor will vanish while the Riemann tensor can be nonzero as well.

  • @kasimirb5155
    @kasimirb5155 5 лет назад +1

    If gravitational waves are produced by the movement of planets and stars, then there must be a constant noise in space. How could you discern the specific sources?

    • @TheAstrospace2
      @TheAstrospace2 5 лет назад +2

      Gravitational waves are super super weak. The movement of the sun or the moon does cause ripples but too low for our detection. Veritasium has a video explaining any speculation you have of LIGO and how it detects gravitational waves

    • @rsa4510
      @rsa4510 5 лет назад

      Your question has already been answered, but I just wanted to say that it was a very good question; just the type of question that you should be asking :)

  • @digitronicle4477
    @digitronicle4477 7 лет назад +8

    this video is both visually and audio balanced perfectly to explain the topic. It delivers knowledge with impact.

  • @spongebobsquarepants5795
    @spongebobsquarepants5795 6 лет назад +5

    1:07 when people see you with an iPhone X

  • @antoniofigueroa887
    @antoniofigueroa887 Год назад +2

    LASER = Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
    LIGO = LASER Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory
    So LIGO = Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory?

  • @modolief
    @modolief 7 лет назад +12

    Extremely clear and concise explanation, thank you.

  • @taramas5582
    @taramas5582 7 лет назад +39

    This animation was.... Just....Amazing!

  • @rubypareek1019
    @rubypareek1019 7 лет назад +9

    This video is very informative.Thanks for uploading it.☺☺☺☺

  • @georgechivu4226
    @georgechivu4226 7 лет назад +9

    Nice graphics. Minimal but elegant.

  • @ContinualImprovement
    @ContinualImprovement 7 лет назад +388

    Gravitational waves? The things that are caused by Chuck Norris breathing in and out?

    • @JK_JK_JK_JK
      @JK_JK_JK_JK 7 лет назад +12

      😒

    • @HansBuySell
      @HansBuySell 7 лет назад +28

      actually every moving mass creates gravitational waves, so yes you are right ;)

    • @zarifsafwanhoque4127
      @zarifsafwanhoque4127 7 лет назад +9

      TMR Teckk that joke is ancient

    • @imamalam4971
      @imamalam4971 7 лет назад +6

      Zarif Safwan Hoque so are the gravitational waves we detected

    • @zarifsafwanhoque4127
      @zarifsafwanhoque4127 7 лет назад +2

      Momin Alam yeah this merging took place eons ago
      Light is just too slow

  • @ClemensJason
    @ClemensJason 7 лет назад +30

    The visuals are really pleasing the eye!

  • @999titu
    @999titu 2 года назад +1

    But 1 if spacetime fabric is frictionless why would gravitational wave eventually collapse..?
    2 what this waves are made up of.
    3 are they electromagnetic if not how come they travel at the speed of light?

  • @jsturm41808
    @jsturm41808 Год назад +1

    My issue is that all explanations and animations describe this phenomena like a sheet… 2 dimensions. I can’t seem to make the mental leap to picturing how this works in all directions at once. Anyone know of another way to describe this for the less creative thinkers like me?

  • @VK-pk8uz
    @VK-pk8uz 2 года назад +1

    Great vid, great animation, but the framerate of it really snapped me out of it several times. Very shaky.

  • @Forever._.curious..
    @Forever._.curious.. 2 года назад +2

    I lovev gravitational waves , donno why 😗

  • @jerryxue4940
    @jerryxue4940 7 лет назад +42

    Agar.io animation, a perfect example of gravitational waves

    • @pinco_pallo
      @pinco_pallo 7 лет назад

      Jerry Xue Haha! While I was watching that part of the video I immediately thought it, too. 😂🔵🔴⚪️⚫️

  • @minimalisticadvise6732
    @minimalisticadvise6732 7 лет назад +10

    amazing design

  • @leonardospechtmartins4318
    @leonardospechtmartins4318 4 года назад +1

    The scientists used heavy,bulky,expensive materials. Einstein used calculation.

  • @spreadlove8624
    @spreadlove8624 7 лет назад +97

    LIGO actually just rumoured to have detected a collision of neutron stars! It's so exciting and brings tears to my eyes... Space and technologies really fascinate me 😊😊😍😍🌌🌌💖💖

    • @themightychondria
      @themightychondria 7 лет назад +3

      they discussed it on pbs spacetime in the latest video

    • @josephlau13d77
      @josephlau13d77 4 года назад

      Gravitational waves in linearized gravity can be described as manifestly observable Riemann curvature tensors from Einstein's field equations. The Ricci tensor will vanish while the Riemann tensor can be nonzero as well. The components of the affine connection (Christoffel coefficients) can be given by partial differentiation.

  • @nikyates4240
    @nikyates4240 6 лет назад +1

    Does anyone know if we'd feel the effects of a gravitational wave if the gravitational wave stemmed from a much closer source? 2 Neutron stars colliding somewhere close to our galaxy for example ?

    • @Innosos
      @Innosos 6 лет назад

      No, but I'm certain there'll be people claiming to sense something.

  • @durpddurke4633
    @durpddurke4633 7 лет назад +7

    "I'd love to see Einstein's face now"
    Ehhh I don't think looking into the eyes of a dead corpse is good....

    • @yash1152
      @yash1152 7 лет назад +1

      Da Dragon Durp LOL

  • @polamambak4021
    @polamambak4021 Год назад +1

    Fluctuations a.k.a something that changes frequently

  • @hymnsoncheung1681
    @hymnsoncheung1681 7 лет назад +14

    the animation are simple, but also marvellous

    • @MegaMGstudios
      @MegaMGstudios 6 лет назад +1

      You could say they're....
      Simply marvelous

  • @oswaldcobblebot
    @oswaldcobblebot 3 года назад

    By simple logic - if these waves distort "spacetime", it should not be possible to detect them with a detector that itself is in the said spacetime. As the detector would be distorted along with it. Tell me if I'm wrong and why. Also, I've always been bugged by how they depict gravity wells with a 2D mesh plane with 3D celestial bodies on it. Shouldn't the spacetime be, like, in 3D? Also, shouldn't there be a medium for the wave to propagate through? So what is that, that waves?

  • @lumi7158
    @lumi7158 2 года назад +1

    pov your thesis paper is due in 3 days but you are clueless about the topic your paper is on

  • @randomgoose3704
    @randomgoose3704 3 года назад +1

    You mean I was compressed and elongated without my notice?

  • @Bejman13
    @Bejman13 5 лет назад +1

    Shoulda mentioned how LIGO was able to detect these gravitational waves 1/1000 the diameter of a proton

  • @dhrubamaitra7545
    @dhrubamaitra7545 4 года назад +1

    How can people believe in God after watching this video?

  • @mansur_ali
    @mansur_ali 7 лет назад +1

    Boy I'd like to study Astrophysics but... Y'know. Reasons...

  • @khodibritton8368
    @khodibritton8368 4 года назад

    Space: [shakes]
    Scientists: *TWOBLACKHOLESCOLLIDEDONEMILLIONYESRSAGOANDWECANFIGUREOUTEVERYTHINGTHEYDEVERABSOREDANDEXACTLYWHATTHEBEINGORBITINGTHOSEOBJECTSCALLEDTHEMAND*

  • @gw2156
    @gw2156 2 года назад +1

    Imagine listening to this video with a subwoofer

  • @brendanforde2631
    @brendanforde2631 7 лет назад +2

    to ce completely honest. this is literally one of the best channels on youtube. vox, physics girl, and veritasium being next

  • @jacoblane4664
    @jacoblane4664 7 лет назад +3

    Congratulations to these physicists on winning the Nobel Prize in physics

  • @AgainstNeWorldOrder
    @AgainstNeWorldOrder Год назад

    Have you heard about the story of the man, the robot, and the factory? There was a very smart man. This man made a robot to serve him and build a small factory as well. The man gave the robot a Manuel on how to run the factory and told him that if he did these instructions right and run this small factory successfully for a short period of time, he would give him a reward. He would let him lives in a place more luxurious, beautiful and bigger than this, and that he does not have to work, but only to enjoy life and that all of his wishes will come true. The robot agreed at first, but as soon as he entered the small factory, he forgot to work and follow the manual. Instead, he began to see the many devices in the factory and did a lot of tests to see how this factory works. Time ran out and this robot did not do any work as ordered by his master. Instead of his master rewarding him, he ordered him to be dismantled and thrown in the scrap shop.

  • @henrydelcastillo389
    @henrydelcastillo389 5 лет назад +1

    If everything has a gravitation pull because of mass........
    I am not mass because I am not attractive

  • @ajayanth9220
    @ajayanth9220 6 лет назад +2

    Loved the question at 1:47 "but what are they ripples on?.."

  • @rajeshkoppa2367
    @rajeshkoppa2367 5 лет назад +2

    Where does it making depression then it's is also a matter..

  • @al1383
    @al1383 5 лет назад +1

    In case it ever happens, can scientists be able to tell if a gravitational wave passes earth and bounces off something and passes earth a second time coming from the opposite direction?

  • @dpsyph3r9d
    @dpsyph3r9d 7 лет назад

    There's this book called the Urantia book that perfectly explains what gravitational waves are with detail. This book was written around 1934 and this recent discovery was in 2015. Our science is catching up to what this book speaks about. And there's more discoveries that the book has predicted. Check it out...
    "THE URANTIA BOOK"
    Peace be upon you.. .