Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains Nothing

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  • Опубликовано: 27 апр 2024
  • In this StarTalk video, we’re talking about nothing. Not in the Seinfeldian sense, but in the science sense. What is nothing? Neil explains how our usual definition of something being “nothing” is dictated by our senses.
    What if you wanted to get all the way down to true nothing? Well, even when there’s nothing, there’s air molecules, and a lot of them. So, what happens when you take out the air molecules? Find out just how much air molecules permeate in our environment, in our solar system, in interstellar space, and intergalactic space.
    Then, just when you think you truly have nothing, you’ll hear how quantum physics comes into play. Discover more about virtual particles and why the best “nothing” you could have is filled with virtual particles. All that, plus, we debate if being able to describe something that is nothing makes it something.
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    0:00 - Introduction
    0:30 - How Our Senses Dictate 'Nothing'
    4:38 - The Best Vacuum On Earth
    5:50 - The Emptiest Regions Of Space
    7:30 - The Closest You Can Get To Nothing
    8:36 - The Greatest Nothing
    10:32 - Is Nothing Still Something?
    12:30 - Closing Notes
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Комментарии • 8 тыс.

  • @Anpeo
    @Anpeo 3 месяца назад +76

    Thanks, Neil. I understood nothing.

  • @crazystuff6760
    @crazystuff6760 3 года назад +6015

    Now I understand the quote - *"Nothing is Impossible"* 👍

  • @DJG0k3
    @DJG0k3 Год назад +218

    Neil is the only guy that can talk for 13+ minutes about LITERALLY NOTHING

    • @dervolkstribun6240
      @dervolkstribun6240 5 месяцев назад +8

      ...and during that time talking, he explains everything. This man is a godsend to humanity!

    • @duledule1127
      @duledule1127 4 месяца назад +1

      I CAN TALK ABOUT NOTHING FOR 5 HOURS

    • @billant2
      @billant2 4 месяца назад +5

      During which time we learn a whole lot of nothing.... well maybe smoke a joint. lol

    • @alexcooper2956
      @alexcooper2956 2 месяца назад +1

      You mean nothing that you understand. I can listen to him and understand much of his content

  • @globalvoice...
    @globalvoice... Год назад +121

    No slides, no animations, no special effects... and yet he explains complex concepts so effortlessly! Hat's off to you Neil!!! I wish I had such teachers during my school and college days. Each episode you do is an eye-opener. And Chuck is great too, representing us with our thoughts, queries and amazement! Keep it up guys!

  • @hrod4897
    @hrod4897 3 года назад +3008

    Neil: "What you doing?"
    Me: "Nothing"
    Neil: " Let's talk about that, son."

    • @SierWilliam
      @SierWilliam 3 года назад +138

      Your heart is beating, your blood is flowing, your lungs are expanding and contracting, eyes are blinking, motor controlled muscles not \mussels\ are flexing, brain is constantly thinking and firing through receptors through out the brain, and signaling nerves through out your body. And even if your dead your decaying. So can't be doing nothing. old man typing. LOL

    • @vanajaajith6222
      @vanajaajith6222 3 года назад +9

      @@SierWilliam 😂😂👏👏

    • @mortadahasaad530
      @mortadahasaad530 3 года назад +12

      SierWilliam okay then i was flowing blood through my body, pumping my heart, expanding my lungs and contracting them, thoughts firing in my brain through receptors, muscles contracting, eyes blinking, moms spaghetti.

    • @iancook7782
      @iancook7782 3 года назад

      Had to like you were on 666 likes 😈🙏 😂

    • @derekdowney6362
      @derekdowney6362 3 года назад +2

      So accurate!!

  • @mixedboi
    @mixedboi 3 года назад +1073

    Guy to girl: Hey babe what's wrong?
    Girl: Nothing.
    Run.

    • @squeet6831
      @squeet6831 3 года назад +10

      This comment deserves more likes.

    • @allenjenkins7947
      @allenjenkins7947 3 года назад +3

      @@squeet6831 OK, I'll give it one then.

    • @BakedPhoria
      @BakedPhoria 3 года назад +2

      I read run in the Firefighter Clown voice 😂

    • @brianleslie7388
      @brianleslie7388 3 года назад +22

      To which I would typically reply "Fantastic! I thought owing to your silence and the sour expression you're wearing there might be something irking you. Glad all's well. Later!"
      I'm not married anymore.

    • @dismaldice3045
      @dismaldice3045 3 года назад +5

      *The nothing proceeds to consume everything*

  • @TITOFROG1
    @TITOFROG1 10 месяцев назад +20

    When I was in High School, I wasn't interested in science at all. And now that I am older and retired, I'd like to know more and more about science. I think it is mainly because of Neil who is an excellent teacher and makes the subject very interesting and fascinating. Thanks and kudos. Keep on educating us for it is significant that we understand what goes on around us, the earth, the seasons, the gravity pull, atoms, protons, molecules, et al. Wish you all the best.

  • @AkSamurai69
    @AkSamurai69 6 месяцев назад +13

    I love these two. Neil can blow Chuck's mind, but then Chuck cracks him up

  • @rmlmrnda
    @rmlmrnda 3 года назад +675

    Whitney Houston: “ 🎶 ...I have nothing, nothing, nothing... 🎶”
    Neil: Now hold on for a second there...

    • @racingfuel28
      @racingfuel28 2 года назад +7

      😂😂😂

    • @coachfrankie1112
      @coachfrankie1112 2 года назад +2

      😂😂😂😂

    • @STRAIGHTEDGEJAKE
      @STRAIGHTEDGEJAKE 2 года назад +4

      🎵I have oxygen, nitrogen, C02 if I don’t have you🎶

    • @luckydragon6892
      @luckydragon6892 2 года назад

      Well…….actually😏

    • @Skymannot6939
      @Skymannot6939 2 года назад

      My thanks to you Dr. Tyson, but given all impediments inherent in human nature due to the process of evolution and struggle for survival how can we ever hope to understand an explanation such as that?

  • @marcello234
    @marcello234 2 года назад +1301

    "There's not matter, not energy, not even the laws of physics" they're describing my bank balance.

    • @dantrixter
      @dantrixter 2 года назад +14

      Lol and mine

    • @falyoung2784
      @falyoung2784 2 года назад +60

      I wish I could say the same. My bank balance has something...anti-gravity. It currently repels all positive numbers.

    • @PropagandaFacts
      @PropagandaFacts 2 года назад +7

      🤣

    • @johanrunfeldt7174
      @johanrunfeldt7174 2 года назад +5

      You guys should start a club.

    • @JAMR0716
      @JAMR0716 2 года назад +11

      Underrated comment 😂

  • @spacetime6255
    @spacetime6255 11 месяцев назад +17

    Niel is the most entertaining, enthusiastic and intelligent science communicator today. He Never ceases to blow my mind.

  • @TomKaren94
    @TomKaren94 Год назад +6

    In 1967 when I was 10 my grandfather, a small town electrician with no high school diploma in southeast Ohio, spoke philosophically to us kids... "I can understand the concept of everything but I can't understand the concept of nothing." He also said about the universe "I can understand 'will always exist' but I can't understand 'has always existed.'

  • @livgertz205
    @livgertz205 3 года назад +966

    Chuck has my dream job: getting educated in a plethora of interesting fields by actual experts, in a causal setting where you can ask questions , and there’s not even an expectation of being smart: they just ask you to make jokes to appeal to the other average joes. What could be better?

    • @randallf8675
      @randallf8675 3 года назад

      Valentino Balbonis job

    • @rolando2392
      @rolando2392 3 года назад +2

      I will also watch!!

    • @Quintusblake
      @Quintusblake 3 года назад +17

      Being paid to breath would be better.

    • @Dragnoxz
      @Dragnoxz 3 года назад

      liv Gertz that would be epic

    • @pharaoh2537
      @pharaoh2537 3 года назад +51

      But the questions he asks and some of the input.. he's actually smart as well as funny... he's not a scientist but you can tell by his comprehension, when hearing the answer the man has an IQ higher than average......

  • @thealmighty1
    @thealmighty1 3 года назад +547

    Imagine if he had to talk about 'something'. Would take forever.

    • @damianmlamb
      @damianmlamb 3 года назад +7

      Nah infinity when he explained it didn't take to long... Lol

    • @Luingus
      @Luingus 3 года назад +5

      well, he technically did talk about something. He described what it means to have nothing, and because nothing is directly proportional to something, we can infer the limits of something.

    • @imposter-982
      @imposter-982 3 года назад

      Luingus lol

    • @nyxzorander
      @nyxzorander 3 года назад +2

      That made me laugh. Nice joke.

    • @JsscRchlDrsy
      @JsscRchlDrsy 3 года назад

      🤣

  • @jeffreychandler8666
    @jeffreychandler8666 Год назад +8

    It is always fun to listen to Dr. Tyson, discussions, regarding science and nothing. Chuck said it best. Nothing is something!

  • @erivera0270
    @erivera0270 Год назад +6

    I watched it high first and I'm mesmerized. Thanks for what you guys do. Love it.

  • @gabrielfm92
    @gabrielfm92 3 года назад +419

    Mom: "What is this guy talking about?"
    Me: "Nothing."
    Mom: "???"

    • @giov7
      @giov7 3 года назад +5

      SAME

    • @indorilnerevar3161
      @indorilnerevar3161 3 года назад +12

      Its even better in my case because my family doesnt understand english.

    • @johnnyfkingsilverhand7120
      @johnnyfkingsilverhand7120 3 года назад +3

      Well actually.....

    • @8koi245
      @8koi245 3 года назад

      @@indorilnerevar3161 It would be the same in other languages
      in my case would be "nada"

    • @martimking1craft
      @martimking1craft 2 года назад

      @@8koi245 are you portuguese?

  • @himalpandey09
    @himalpandey09 3 года назад +239

    Title: "Tyson explains nothing"
    Video : *13 minutes long*
    Me: hmm, seems legit.

    • @quietrevelry
      @quietrevelry 3 года назад +2

      There's so much Nothing that a 10 minute video is actually 13 minutes.

  • @jayjay9932
    @jayjay9932 Год назад +3

    Believe it or not, having nothing is one of my scariest dreams/ or nightmare. I dreamt about a dark place one day that space is being sucked into a vacuum and the space in a deep darkness, I was losing air and view of an immediate viewable space to a point that I almost not see a space in a complete darkness waking up panicking gasping for air, I was totally scared beyond words. Until now I get uneasy remembering it, what if big bang (as explained by scientists) didn't happen or what if creation as depicted in the Bible didn't occur? This gives me appreciation that I exist and the place that I can see and live in also exist.

  • @shashidharshettar3846
    @shashidharshettar3846 19 дней назад

    @9:27 wow “Laws of Physics in NOTHING” my heart skipped a beat

  • @twonumber22
    @twonumber22 3 года назад +716

    The biggest nothing in the Observable Universe: my bank account.

    • @TNTN1977
      @TNTN1977 3 года назад +12

      Save a minimum of 10%. Never allow yourself to be broke.

    • @BrosCrypto
      @BrosCrypto 3 года назад +1

      L

    • @dript7686
      @dript7686 3 года назад +13

      @@TNTN1977 Are you offering 10% ? In case you were unaware. Supermajority of humans in histoty weren't born with wealth in the function of capitalism, or otherwise.
      Decent advice but stay on the surface level, be skimmed off the top like toxic algae.

    • @alesscav99
      @alesscav99 3 года назад +2

      that is wild, that is sad lol

    • @rolando2392
      @rolando2392 3 года назад +12

      That means you HAVE a bank account. So thats something

  • @LafriteRip
    @LafriteRip 3 года назад +478

    Neil gets an empty box for christmas
    Neil : “ OH BOY !!! “

    • @absurdist5938
      @absurdist5938 3 года назад +14

      He got air as present

    • @takiyalewis6717
      @takiyalewis6717 3 года назад +3

      😅🤣

    • @dawood2u
      @dawood2u 3 года назад +2

      😁

    • @AquaPeet
      @AquaPeet 3 года назад +10

      Then he got excited and sad almost at the same time, because he knew there was an extra virtual particle there as a present but it vanished before he could detect it.

    • @frontsidegrinder6858
      @frontsidegrinder6858 Год назад +1

      love your joke!!

  • @user-ml8ey4up7c
    @user-ml8ey4up7c 10 месяцев назад

    I was hoping to hear about black holes in the discussion. Thanks for the edification.

  • @nilssonbengt7152
    @nilssonbengt7152 Год назад +1

    Wonderfull discussion with a lot of humor and strait thinking
    🎉

  • @Sergio2006A
    @Sergio2006A 3 года назад +558

    When you ask you clearly upset girlfriend, "what's the matter?":
    - "Nothing."

    • @sids7735
      @sids7735 3 года назад +5

      that’s a double

    • @AP-ul4zj
      @AP-ul4zj 3 года назад +12

      "Do whatever you want!"

    • @lxathu
      @lxathu 3 года назад +16

      Now, there are a lot of virtual particles swarming there.

    • @000jorden
      @000jorden 3 года назад

      bwhahaha nice

    • @radthadd
      @radthadd 3 года назад

      Nah you shoukd say: Everything

  • @Hell4Gamers
    @Hell4Gamers 3 года назад +112

    Showed this to my wife, she replied. "I know now what I'm getting you for your birthday."

    • @dragoonTT
      @dragoonTT 3 года назад +15

      This video is describing your ”wife” not birthday present.

    • @TJfromEarth
      @TJfromEarth 3 года назад +5

      r/boomershumor

    • @kenbee1957
      @kenbee1957 3 года назад +2

      You played yourself

    • @goncalobaia1574
      @goncalobaia1574 3 года назад +2

      @@dragoonTT ooff took me a while but got it, that's harsh ma man

    • @piccoloatburgerking
      @piccoloatburgerking 3 года назад

      @@dragoonTT Yo you just killed the man, come on.

  • @SVSP1976
    @SVSP1976 День назад

    I also understood nothing. Beautifully explained. Simple explanation to something that is nothing. Chuck rightly said "sothing". I will say both of you are "soothing" to hear. Well done.

  • @iberianeko
    @iberianeko 2 года назад +448

    Chuck's delivery of that 'oh god...' after Neil mentioned quantum physics is just so perfect 🤣🤣🤣

    • @BIGREDDOG09
      @BIGREDDOG09 2 года назад +5

      yea i just heard it and it's perfectly timed if you understand quantum physics as much is possible to understand it lol

    • @timothyalan34
      @timothyalan34 Год назад +9

      7:56

    • @MrMuz99
      @MrMuz99 Год назад +1

      ​@@timothyalan34 - Nobody asked.

    • @MrRinre
      @MrRinre Год назад +4

      @@MrMuz99 speak for yourself

    • @MrMuz99
      @MrMuz99 Год назад

      @@MrRinre - I usually do, gets messy trying to speak for others.

  • @1SLMusic
    @1SLMusic 3 года назад +258

    I'm watching this. I was supposed to be doing work. Mom walked in and asked "What are you watching?" I replied with "Nothing, Mom." She asked "Lemme see" so I showed her. I didn't lie but now I'm grounded.

    • @samanthanor332
      @samanthanor332 3 года назад +12

      If I found my kids watching star talk, and liked it, I would have done gave them more...... more star talk

    • @jmanj3917
      @jmanj3917 3 года назад +1

      Serves you right, Simon

    • @loboradio555
      @loboradio555 3 года назад

      Bruh that's clsssic haha

    • @marconeyu
      @marconeyu 2 года назад +2

      @@samanthanor332 Heck! I would buy them a gift!

    • @prophecygucci6289
      @prophecygucci6289 2 года назад +1

      @@marconeyu you need co. Ck

  • @Changon
    @Changon 9 месяцев назад +1

    One time I was very high and I thought about this. What if we can go beyond the universe? Beyond everything? What would be there? I kept repeating to myself “even that nothingness is still within a paradigm of something” it’s just wild to think about. There can never be nothing because it will always be within something. There’s so much we don’t understand and I don’t think we ever will.

    • @adamlindfors5082
      @adamlindfors5082 8 месяцев назад

      Firstly, nothingness can't itself have an existence which is a tautological consequence of what existence actually is. You can't use "nothing" and "existence" in the same sentence without contradicting yourself. The relation between existence and the absent of it could be expressed as follow: existence=E, non-existence=E-, nothing=non-existence, existence=everything, E/=E-=> existence is not nothing, E=E=>existence is everything. The potential for everything to exist must be true since if existence didn't cover some parts that could conceivable exist, nothingness or non-existence would therefore exist in some way which cant be true since that would imply that a paradox was realized. One way to imagine this is to imagine the set of reality, that would be the ultimate set containing absolutely everything which would include all sub-sets. But then you might wonder why this ultimate set doesn't contain the set of nothing. This can be explained by imagining the set of nothingness, the absent of existence illustrated as an empty ring containing nothing since the set of nothing consist of nothing inside of it. The area inside of it would be totally empty and blank. Since a set is defined by its elements, the set of nothing is the only set that could never exist. Therefore, it doesn't either exist as a sub-set of the all-encompassing set of reality. Since logic is the means by which existence is realized, defining existence and non-existence firstly requires the explanation for why that logical operation can be made. That is, why logic itself exists. This must be explained trough the means of using some kind of metalogic where you define logic with logic itself. The answer to why logic must exist in this metalogical sense is that analogues to existence, the absent of logic would itself require an attribution that can't be attributed to it without the presence of the attribute. Non-logic is the absence of logic, making a distinction is itself by nature logical and therefore logic must exist as the very nature of its own structure. The relationship between logic and reality could be expressed as simple as: Logic=the structure of that which is true, Existence=that which exists and therefore is also the complete set of truth, Logic=Reality. Since reality is all there is, it defines, configure and processes itself from this primordial state of infinite potential into every logical structure that could possible exist, since remember, logic and its product which is reality requires the mere possibility for anything to exist to actualize since L=E=Everything.

  • @TheSquishiRex
    @TheSquishiRex 3 года назад +672

    Neil has the best laugh. So genuine. And it’s about particle physics.

    • @pavankalyan5915
      @pavankalyan5915 3 года назад

      😂why I am laughing

    • @propizza6454
      @propizza6454 3 года назад

      Jahhahahahahhghahahaha LOL ROLPH

    • @rayagoldendropofsun397
      @rayagoldendropofsun397 3 года назад

      He could've easily say something about oxygen and hydrogen gas particles bonding together making water, and falls downward as RAINDROPS, DEBUNKING Gravity .

    • @rayagoldendropofsun397
      @rayagoldendropofsun397 3 года назад

      @Nadaguru 0 It's nothing, do U agree ?

    • @rayagoldendropofsun397
      @rayagoldendropofsun397 3 года назад

      My fault. He's into Space Bending, and GAS BONDING is physical reality science !

  • @hyronvalkinson1749
    @hyronvalkinson1749 3 года назад +331

    "There's snakes in space?!"
    "There's literally everything in space, Morty!!!"

    • @yonderpath
      @yonderpath 3 года назад +5

      Of course, Earth hangs in space.

  • @sr.gaminggaming8742
    @sr.gaminggaming8742 Год назад

    This is my favourite Star Talk Video

  • @FaunsNW
    @FaunsNW Месяц назад +1

    For those that like this kind of topic, there’s an amazing graphic novel called Logicomix. Even if you don’t like graphic novels, you won’t be able to put this down. The last part of what Neil was talking about is the philosophy of language, which is what Wittgenstein basically said all philosophy boils down to.
    And if you read this far, let me digress (not to be confused with deGrasse) a little further. Doesn’t Neil sort of make Wittgenstein’s argument here? In school we used to argue about which science was the science to rule them all. Biologists, chemists, and physicists all had a go to say they were on top, but I always felt it was Philosophy. “Philosophy, that’s not even a science. Are you crazy?” they said. True, Philosophy gets has the rep that it was supplanted by science in the search for truth and supplanted by religion in the search for wisdom. But when you really get down to it, Philosophy has the most grounded appreciation of the boundaries of reality. Every day, physicists discover amazing things about the material universe; yet, when an astrophysicist tries to explain the concept of ’nothing,’ as he strips away everything he can describe he realizes the concept itself starts to make less sense. This is because we do not interface with reality directly, we do so through the senses and, importantly, through language.

  • @racingfuel28
    @racingfuel28 2 года назад +409

    All this man wanted was nothing, and Neil couldn’t even give him that😂😂

    • @GovindSomai
      @GovindSomai 2 года назад +17

      Technically he gave him nothing at the end.

    • @guitarsenpai420
      @guitarsenpai420 2 года назад

      Just one Pepsi

    • @Roach_Dogg_JR
      @Roach_Dogg_JR 2 года назад +2

      @@guitarsenpai420 Lol what a reference

    • @dazronrichard5331
      @dazronrichard5331 2 года назад +13

      By giving him nothing he gave him something.

    • @gnzlsdebra1064
      @gnzlsdebra1064 2 года назад

      He gave him something! It’s called BS. Typical Neil deGrasse Tyson! For real!!
      Neil goes round and round, with a multitude of words, that in the end, all add up to……..Yeah, NOTHING!!

  • @ira-siapremium8061
    @ira-siapremium8061 Год назад +83

    I was so received that I finally knew what nothing was, but then Neil went "BUT I DESCRIBED IT SO NOW ITS A THING" and my soul broke

  • @MonicElle
    @MonicElle 8 месяцев назад +1

    Omg, I love the two of you 😅 You make me smile on a bleak day❤

  • @isidorosisidor6994
    @isidorosisidor6994 Год назад +1

    Sorry of being late, I have two points/questions to make:
    1. before the big bang when all the matter was a tiny ball, wasn't "nothing" around it?
    2. We know now that the universe expands every second, so isn't the area that universe is not there yet "nothing"?
    I really hope one day you read this. Until then thanks for training my brain!

    • @Cal3000
      @Cal3000 2 месяца назад

      The laws of physics still act upon the area outside the expanse. With universal gravitation, there are waves being sent out from particles, but outside of the expanse, there just isn't anything to attract.

  • @deborahbarry9421
    @deborahbarry9421 3 года назад +138

    I wish Neil was my seventh grade science teacher! I might have learned something and been interested in it... at 69 years old I'm glad I finally found a teacher of science I can listen to and I will learn all I have missed. Thanks

    • @MrSirBoastAlot
      @MrSirBoastAlot 2 года назад +6

      Do you laugh when you think of number 69.. internet wants to know

    • @dayanivanov
      @dayanivanov 2 года назад +3

      I have a little of doubt about your age...

    • @markbrisec3972
      @markbrisec3972 2 года назад +1

      As long as these kind of videos have order of magnitude more views than the flat Earth videos, there's hope for humanity. Unfortunately we have entered (mostly here in America) an age of anti science where people are so cynical and have no trust in institutions that even the science and scientists became victims of this crazy movement. These people trust their feelings, their guts, their eyes and their local pastor, more than they trust people who've spent most of their lives learning and explaining how the world works... But in spite of this these people love to use their smartphones, the internet, cars with GPS, etc. And all the stuff I've mentioned is based on science and not on some guy having a feeling about something.. I like my doctor to base his opinion on the scientific facts thank you very much..

    • @irenaveksler1935
      @irenaveksler1935 2 года назад

      Bruh you’re not 69 years old you’re 6.9 years old

    • @irenaveksler1935
      @irenaveksler1935 2 года назад

      @@markbrisec3972 most people in the world don’t believe in flat earth

  • @angelamurphy9472
    @angelamurphy9472 Год назад +413

    If I had a science teacher like Neil, I would have been a scientist! I love this channel! I love learning and I’m in my 60’s!

    • @omars-qz6rn
      @omars-qz6rn Год назад +26

      there is no age restriction on expanding the brain! I am 20 & love this show. Salute to you OG keep rollin

    • @fredrickstephens5586
      @fredrickstephens5586 Год назад +12

      There’s so much more to learn now than when we were young . I’m 71 and I can’t get enough of this stuff - I mean all things scientific, but most especially science involving the largest and the smallest features of our universe -> such as astronomy, chemistry, physics and the like. Makes me wish I could read faster! The advances lurking just barely around the corner are truly mind-boggling!

    • @cnscm2614
      @cnscm2614 Год назад +1

      You write this comment in every video

    • @patriciaschuster1371
      @patriciaschuster1371 Год назад +3

      72 and still learning. Love this,!

    • @duc2133
      @duc2133 Год назад +2

      @@omars-qz6rn There's a difference between being a hobbyist astronomer/learning the cool concepts, vs doing the work of one.

  • @cathalg312
    @cathalg312 8 месяцев назад

    A good example of how limiting language can be. What trying to explain can only be experienced. Namaste🙏🏾

  • @rakeldanell
    @rakeldanell Месяц назад

    The more I watch these the more amazed I am by creation and it's Source. Just wow... WOW!

  • @Druwoods
    @Druwoods 3 года назад +79

    So the instant you think of it, it becomes an idea, and is immediately something.

    • @kaspartambur
      @kaspartambur 3 года назад +5

      But luckily/unluckily we don't have psychic powers, so when I think of a canoe sized banana into my room, it doesn't appear in the room because I thought of it. Only through using my body along with my mind, will I achieve this important GMO goal!

    • @aidankarmali2888
      @aidankarmali2888 3 года назад

      Yes, but only if you clarify what you mean by something. Not everyone considers immaterial things like thoughts and ideas to be something, but if you do, then sure.

    • @oaksnice
      @oaksnice 3 года назад +4

      It's trivial to describe non-physical/made-up things. That doesn't make them "a thing" but they are non-scientific. And that's the problem with talking about "nothing" in physics, because it's impossible to have a theory without starting from something. And if you define nothing as the absence of that, then the definition of nothing is non-scientific.

    • @g33xzi11a
      @g33xzi11a 3 года назад +2

      You’re confusing philosophical
      nothing with physical nothing.

    • @AbeMangum
      @AbeMangum 3 года назад

      @@aidankarmali2888 an idea is a series of electrical impulses in the brain

  • @kevinoneill8542
    @kevinoneill8542 3 года назад +273

    "What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind!"
    -Homer Simpson

    • @barryyoung6797
      @barryyoung6797 3 года назад +2

      Lol

    • @noeluna7354
      @noeluna7354 3 года назад

      Dude I know some people hate scientist & they just "happen to have family who are straight {N WORD}" some of you know what I mean, how can I make them better? Because the dude that investigated French fries fuel died alone, same as testla & the way they parish worries me

    • @noeluna7354
      @noeluna7354 3 года назад

      Dude I know some people hate scientist & they just "happen to have family who are straight {N WORD}" some of you know what I mean, how can I make them better? Because the dude that investigated French fries fuel died alone, same as testla & the way they parish worries me

    • @alexprieto8277
      @alexprieto8277 3 года назад

      Alan watts said it before homer simpson. I imagine someone before him as well...

    • @Charlesputnam-bn9zy
      @Charlesputnam-bn9zy 3 года назад +1

      That's the spirit !
      0f n0thing-ness.

  • @m.korygreenmun4668
    @m.korygreenmun4668 11 месяцев назад +7

    Never stop sharing the knowledge, the laughs, and the unguided stories.

  • @RedTheMandalorian
    @RedTheMandalorian 7 месяцев назад +1

    Neil's been describing the inside of my head:
    Empty & nothing

  • @johngirolamo8221
    @johngirolamo8221 3 года назад +369

    What a great “educational” comedy team! I love learning and laughing at the same time!

    • @logiclogic6703
      @logiclogic6703 2 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/EhOCUpF5UwY/видео.html

    • @starxsirius1429
      @starxsirius1429 2 года назад +3

      Who doesn't?

    • @MrMuz99
      @MrMuz99 Год назад +1

      The energy/chemistry these guys have is amazing to watch, They're both funny and very smart.

  • @najummushtaq3391
    @najummushtaq3391 3 года назад +226

    “The Three Oddest Words”
    by Wislawa Szymborska
    When I pronounce the word Future,
    the first syllable already belongs to the past.
    When I pronounce the word Silence,
    I destroy it.
    When I pronounce the word Nothing,
    I make something no non-being can hold.

    • @lavandergoth
      @lavandergoth 3 года назад +3

      Wislawa is the best waifu

    • @Sinannuncioshasta--k
      @Sinannuncioshasta--k 3 года назад +2

      So quote-worthy

    • @lavandergoth
      @lavandergoth 3 года назад +1

      @@David-vz4yk I don't watch anime, I just like those terms. Try being a little cooler, would ya?

  • @aanchalnano5933
    @aanchalnano5933 Год назад

    thanks for the gift idea!! a very well thought gift

  • @EvgGaar
    @EvgGaar 6 дней назад

    "Nothing" is the baseline for the selected scope.
    A box of air is "nothing" in a party room, but the same box of air is a.. well, its a "box of air", while in the depths of the ocean, where the same box filled with water is now a box with "nothing".
    "Nothing" is a philosophical construct, not an exact "absence of every possible concept".

  • @sanvegapoet
    @sanvegapoet 3 года назад +255

    "If you want and smoke your marihuana"
    Buddy, how do you think i ended up in this video?

  • @wildhogOW
    @wildhogOW 3 года назад +87

    I clicked expecting Neil to be quiet for +10 minutes.

    • @saramatthews7159
      @saramatthews7159 3 года назад +11

      In what universe would that ever happen? Lol

    • @thejpx
      @thejpx 3 года назад +6

      That would be something

    • @ZackAngelSmith
      @ZackAngelSmith 3 года назад +5

      @@thejpx yeah, that would still be a youtube video
      Or
      It would still be neil being silent wich is something

    • @bazinga5342
      @bazinga5342 3 года назад +3

      Neil is never quiet

    • @chrisrea6841
      @chrisrea6841 3 года назад

      I expected Chuck to interrupt Neil and say: allow me to start explaining nothing. And then he would remain silent.

  • @raydowning7738
    @raydowning7738 Год назад

    Great discussion with humor. Super!

  • @StoriesFromUncleMurray
    @StoriesFromUncleMurray 10 месяцев назад

    Dis is one of da best deleted scenes from "Idiocracy" EVER!

  • @shadbenjamin
    @shadbenjamin 3 года назад +151

    Me: "What are you doing?"
    Them: "Nothing"
    Me: "That is false"

    • @robmcilheney1657
      @robmcilheney1657 3 года назад +6

      Gotta always be skeptical in the modern world.

    • @cielprofondinfo
      @cielprofondinfo 3 года назад

      That’s what I always answered people (especially my daughter) when they told me they were doing nothing. ;)

  • @kkaagg1000
    @kkaagg1000 3 года назад +197

    So, the moral is that our universe dislikes “nothing” so much that “nothing” cannot exist....

    • @OfTheTribeOfJudah
      @OfTheTribeOfJudah 3 года назад +20

      Which is why the big bang is such a mystery to people who aren't creationist. Kinda supports the fact that something was always since "nothing" cannot be.

    • @mohinderjitaujla6245
      @mohinderjitaujla6245 3 года назад +6

      Ale ssandro ………You have said what ARISTOTLE a Greek Philospher had already said , about 2400 years ago …You are as great .Thanks
      IN HIS own words **Universe does not like VACUUMs**…
      In the Universe of Space - Time , there exist no *Nothingness*…man made or Natural ..
      But Pre - Big Bang Condition is of **Absolute Nothingness**…There existed not even a single material Particle , whatsoever.
      That’s the True Nothing ………JagtarSinghAujla USA

    • @mirabilis
      @mirabilis 3 года назад

      @@OfTheTribeOfJudah matter and virtual particles ain't the same thing, though.

    • @wespicedmemes
      @wespicedmemes 3 года назад +14

      We don’t know enough about our universe to claim that nothing can’t exist. Cuz we literally don’t know what nothing is.

    • @DragonNutz420
      @DragonNutz420 3 года назад +3

      @@OfTheTribeOfJudah Personally, I believe our universe was created from the brief formation of a white hole. This could explain why we haven't found the theoretical "center" of our universe and why everything is rapidly expanding outward. Also, to believe in an all-powerful creator, would still leave you with the same question: if "nothing" cannot be, where did this creator come from?

  • @EM-qx3hx
    @EM-qx3hx 8 месяцев назад

    “The nothing that is something which is nothing” is the perfect conclusion, good for Chuck!

  • @GabiRuta
    @GabiRuta Год назад +1

    Always a great pleasure to hear and see Dr. Tyson. Brilliant mind.

  • @RobCrowley85
    @RobCrowley85 11 месяцев назад +3

    First time seeing this channel. Chuck is absolutely hilarious 😂

  • @piccoloatburgerking
    @piccoloatburgerking 3 года назад +63

    I've never seen anyone talk about nothing for 13 minutes straight and still be this entertaining and insightful. Lol

    • @alejandrotellez2962
      @alejandrotellez2962 3 года назад +2

      Just listen to any philosopher.

    • @scottmcshannon6821
      @scottmcshannon6821 2 года назад

      not even jerry?

    • @adu11
      @adu11 Год назад +1

      You're the first person that I've read in the comments to perfectly pull off the "nothing" double entendre

  • @darthfb
    @darthfb 3 года назад +122

    This is why "the nothing" from The Never Ending Story was so terrifying to me.

    • @dript7686
      @dript7686 3 года назад +4

      Truee.
      Don't forget one cannot have shadow without life.

    • @elijahwallis3252
      @elijahwallis3252 3 года назад +2

      Darth FB because Neil deGrasse Tyson made a 13 minute video on it?

    • @commander_eaa2862
      @commander_eaa2862 3 года назад +4

      People who play Minecraft, and have fallen in the void 420 times: First time?

    • @JDTHEONEANDONLYORIGINAL
      @JDTHEONEANDONLYORIGINAL 3 года назад +1

      Aww I know

    • @Raz.C
      @Raz.C 3 года назад +1

      @@JT_771
      not that it matters, but 'yes.'

  • @omarnassery7280
    @omarnassery7280 12 дней назад

    Love the banter and humor almost as much as the physics of it! Real fun.

  • @tydemeter1
    @tydemeter1 Год назад +3

    You picked the best co host I love watching your videos! I learn and laugh everytime thank you guys

  • @kierananthony25
    @kierananthony25 3 года назад +59

    "You moment you try to describe nothing, you've filled it with something."

    • @robertsharp2633
      @robertsharp2633 3 года назад +1

      Nothing: The absence of something. Checkmate.

  • @doctorfeelok8575
    @doctorfeelok8575 Год назад +25

    When Chuck said "Not with my carrier", I felt that.

  • @mickonosmickorasmus3933
    @mickonosmickorasmus3933 Год назад +1

    His reaction to a mention of quantum physics in a vacuum had me laughing out loud. I hear you mate. Quantum physics is hard

  • @jeganstarkhere
    @jeganstarkhere 9 месяцев назад +2

    This is one of the best videos of all time ❤

  • @lazaruseffect7212
    @lazaruseffect7212 2 года назад +125

    The dynamic of this show is so underrated and overlooked. I absolutely love how these two communicate their different ways of thinking.

    • @avro357
      @avro357 Год назад

      One is teaching, the other is learning...

    • @pathickey6874
      @pathickey6874 Год назад

      @@avro357 not always..

    • @hackguitarist
      @hackguitarist Год назад

      Is it? Seems every other comment is talking about the chemistry between these two.

  • @TioAe
    @TioAe 3 года назад +89

    Neil trying to imagine The Nothing and explain it to us - while i was having a Michael Ende's 'The Neverending Story' flashback..
    The Nothing cannot be named, explained, understood or even imagined; therefore, Nothing is the absence of imagination, creativity.

    • @clarcktumazar
      @clarcktumazar 3 года назад +2

      Uhm you just described it tho...

    • @MrRakaukolis
      @MrRakaukolis 3 года назад +3

      Does it mean that my nothing can be completely different than your nothing?

    • @cristianm7097
      @cristianm7097 3 года назад +3

      Contrariwise, Nothing is Everything, all the potentialities, even the unknowables, the undefinables, the undescribables. Infinitely rich and dense.

    • @clarcktumazar
      @clarcktumazar 3 года назад

      Nothing does not exist, there's no such thing as nothing, for even describing "nothing" means its something. Therefore it should not exist.

    • @cristianm7097
      @cristianm7097 3 года назад +1

      @@clarcktumazar "Nothing" is beyond and above our existence, our reality. It is more real than our Universe. We are after all mere projections in 3D of a 2D reality on the surface of our Universe sphere, on the boundary to Nothing.

  • @shashidharshettar3846
    @shashidharshettar3846 19 дней назад

    @11:40 “Philosophy” that’s great

  • @joe-dp3ng
    @joe-dp3ng 11 месяцев назад

    We have to trust that science is right to have our own thoughts to ponder. I'm fairly normal and I'm not perfect nor any human being. Just by throwing that in the mix gives me great concern about when and about what that imperfection is about.

  • @themodernlyceum
    @themodernlyceum 3 года назад +64

    One must even take a “void” out of the picture when contemplating nothing. Because even that is, yes, something.

    • @bigcity2085
      @bigcity2085 3 года назад +2

      But the Void must exist.....some where...it has to. In infinity,and infinity has to exist as well.

  • @jaredpurcell8835
    @jaredpurcell8835 3 года назад +19

    I felt that "not with my carrier" joke, lol.

  • @user-te5ln2cu2f
    @user-te5ln2cu2f Месяц назад

    Niel i have question regarding time
    Say u were in intergalactic space and in the empty space would u still count time as though it was a small unit i.e using sec, hrs n mins or would u use a different scale
    _ what im trying to get at is there a different time scale n would u say that time increases ( 1 sec )the more space increases

  • @divyeshsonawane7521
    @divyeshsonawane7521 11 месяцев назад +1

    7:58 actually had me.

  • @tatianetse
    @tatianetse Год назад +104

    it's three in the morning in Athens & I'm extremely tired but...I've been sitting on my couch for the last two hours, binge watching startalk and i literally can't stop. you're both great. thanks for explaining all these wonderful things.

  • @ZeniferJenZ
    @ZeniferJenZ 3 года назад +172

    They're at it again ✨

  • @pear7777
    @pear7777 9 месяцев назад

    In a few years, a box of fresh air will bet
    the best gift one can get, so that's breath of air.

  • @prajaymaru4390
    @prajaymaru4390 6 месяцев назад

    👍🏻💎Thank you for all the knowledge you both share to the world 🥇💎👍🏻

  • @lukepizza8117
    @lukepizza8117 3 года назад +126

    Me watching this at 2 a.m. while high: "Woah"

  • @jamchiroptera4258
    @jamchiroptera4258 3 года назад +65

    Jeeeez These two smoking a bowl talking about “nothing” would be a whole other show.

    • @jt2097
      @jt2097 3 года назад +1

      They sound to me as though they have already smoked a bowl, or had a couple of whiskys.

    • @AmazingOwnage
      @AmazingOwnage 3 года назад +1

      It would just take longer to arrive to the same point lol
      They would probably lose their train of thought quite often

  • @TomHendricksMusea
    @TomHendricksMusea Год назад

    The PARTICLE TRAIN! Previously I suggested that eternal photons made electron positron pairs,
    (as well as all standard model particles). Here's how.
    Start with a PARTICLE TRAIN, each time you add an electron or positron car to the train, you get a new particle.
    The only rule is the cars have to alternate from electron to positron. Think of a wave with trough always alternating with crest.
    Photons as electron positron pairs could make the main parts of an atom in the brief time after the Big Bang under those extreme and never repeated conditions.
    Charges are the cars on our particle train.
    Positive positron (+),
    Negative electron (-).
    Positron (+)
    Electron (-)
    Photon (+) (-)
    Proton (+) (-) (+) Anti Proton (-) (+) (-)
    Neutron (+) (-) (+) (-) Anti Neutron (-) (+) (-)(+) .
    The PROTONS and NEUTRONS are made from
    ELECTRONS and POSITRONS!
    When this production of particles was over, most anti particles with charge; positrons, and anti protons, didn't exist on their own. They were LOCKED INTO PROTONS OR NEUTRONS. That way conservation of charge was maintained. That also explains the MISSING ANTI MATTER PROBLEM!
    This from Wikipedia article Matter Creation:
    It is possible to create all fundamental particles in the standard model, including quarks, leptons and bosons using photons of varying energies above some minimum threshold, whether directly (by pair production), or by decay of the intermediate particle (such as a W− boson decaying to form an electron and an electron-antineutrino).

  • @cristianmundo
    @cristianmundo 10 месяцев назад

    i love watching star talk blasted

  • @Alex-dk1um
    @Alex-dk1um 3 года назад +129

    I finally have an argument for my wife about how I missed our first anniversary.

    • @KlljyC
      @KlljyC 3 года назад +2

      Let us know how that goes

    • @highandtight5544
      @highandtight5544 3 года назад

      ZINGGGGGGG

    • @craigscott2315
      @craigscott2315 3 года назад +2

      @@highandtight5544 or you could call it a Hawkins moment. i micro black hole manifest in in the brain causing it to malfunction.

    • @gzzzboi7368
      @gzzzboi7368 3 года назад

      I feel bad for u for having a wife.

  • @nizamieminov3648
    @nizamieminov3648 Год назад +110

    Neil is a really cool scientist. Thank you for explaining really complicated stuff so easily for everyone to understand.

    • @katieheys3007
      @katieheys3007 10 месяцев назад

      For me, it's that these always something new. Even on things I know a fair bit about there's always something fresh on every topic

    • @dbapto6994
      @dbapto6994 Месяц назад

      Thank you Neil & chuck

  • @katherinekarrington696
    @katherinekarrington696 10 месяцев назад

    This is my go-to guy now; I always quote him as I have been enlightened on how the Universe works; and want to pass this information on to others. He makes me laugh; I love his sense of humor.

  • @Mindpro2
    @Mindpro2 6 месяцев назад

    I love to hear Neil explain things, I wish I could playfully and respectfully talk with him as the student who doesn’t know enough to not to ask the or state the wrong observations or questions.
    For instance, just because you can’t see it and measure or record it, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
    I’m the student that doesn’t know enough about science or physics, etc. To be convinced that consciousness is not the by product of things no matter how far down the scale you find a way to see or detect the earliest manifestations of energy, preforms of matter and matter.
    But rather consciousness creates everything we attribute to the known and unknown universe and multiverses from the smallest to the largest, and from here through out all eternities.
    ONESELF
    BY PHILLIP HOLLOWAY Sr.
    Before there was anything or any place, before there was anywhere, any time or any space,
    There was One Self, this was and is the Self Being of what we now call God.
    There was no over there, or over here, there was no this or that...nor was there any light or white, darkness or black.
    But there was One Self...there was no far or near...there was no anger or fear...
    There was no high or low, there was no where to stay and no where to go...
    But this I do know, there was One Self...Before there was anything else.
    This is just a few lines from the longer version of this poem I wrote decades ago…
    But it expresses my observation of All that Is from the depths of me that science alone will never be able to explain to its satisfaction.
    The One Self I’m referring to here includes all the perspectives of self from All that Is. This most definitely includes you and me, I fully believe and except that we are as eternal and infinite as the universe and multiverses are. Not as humans, but as conscious co-creators knowing ourselves as one and many with no true point of separation only the perceptions of it.

  • @Wonka2208
    @Wonka2208 3 года назад +105

    *:Neil when he opens an empty box:* THeRe IS OnlY sOmE OxyGeN MoLEcuLeS In HeRe

    • @kaspartambur
      @kaspartambur 3 года назад +2

      No you gotta go the full scope. What did he say - Nitrogen, Co2 etc. - probably should pull up somekind of instrument/s to measure the presumably empty box. :D

  • @greyprox4677
    @greyprox4677 3 года назад +93

    As I'm watching this, I'm thinking about a Star Talk - Mind Field Cross-Over...
    Michael Stevens & Neil de Grasse Tyson... That would be perfect...

  • @michaelhendrickson9809
    @michaelhendrickson9809 Год назад

    I just saw this. My thought: "Whoopee! Mad scientists!" I'm subscribing!

  • @user-yu9lr7wb6z
    @user-yu9lr7wb6z 7 месяцев назад

    Hey Dr T, are those insect collections on the wall behind you? I grew up doing the same thing for years when I wasn't looking through my telescope at the rest of the universe ;)

  • @floki5605
    @floki5605 3 года назад +156

    Ygritte- "You know nothing, Jon snow"
    Jon after watching this video- 😏

    • @IEnumerable
      @IEnumerable 3 года назад +3

      Ygritte understood that in the absence of virtual particles, there was something there and Jon knew it.

    • @GrammeStudio
      @GrammeStudio 2 года назад +2

      nothingness doesn't exist. therefore when Ygritte says that Jon knows nothing, she meant that what Jon knows doesn't exist. therefore Jon doesn't know anything 😏 back to square one.

    • @CruiserDynasty
      @CruiserDynasty 2 года назад

      @@GrammeStudio the value of nothing exists tho just like how we know life is around us but we dont value it so we say it is not there.

    • @ronsonesteban8632
      @ronsonesteban8632 2 года назад

      Weak

  • @dead_sync3680
    @dead_sync3680 3 года назад +128

    Question: What is nothing?
    Answer: it isn't

    • @Kilmoran
      @Kilmoran 3 года назад +1

      Or is it?

    • @Gaetafix
      @Gaetafix 3 года назад

      *mind blown* see as humans we are so use to everything being "something" even the basic terms we use are incorrect when attempting to discuss nothing

  • @Uploading_stuff
    @Uploading_stuff Месяц назад

    This man deserves everyone's subscription

  • @MrStarlightt
    @MrStarlightt 5 месяцев назад

    this feels like hanging out with a smart friends with physics as intrest, wish i had those

  • @ThanosBackAtIt
    @ThanosBackAtIt 3 года назад +157

    Nobody: nothing
    Neil: Let's talk about that

  • @THINK86200
    @THINK86200 3 года назад +85

    I learned "nothing" from this video, thx!

  • @shway313
    @shway313 6 месяцев назад

    Your videos are satisfying, because every other scientists I observed so far seems to me so dumb, which they are not! but they make me feel they are so dumb. You teach stuff so simple, I love it! Thankyou

  • @merveilmeok2416
    @merveilmeok2416 Год назад +7

    Neil Tyson takes the time to explains all those things to normal person like me.
    We should have more like him. I am afraid if he retired, we would lose a lot of knowledge to the public.

  • @megiski3116
    @megiski3116 3 года назад +12

    12:10 Fun fact, in Hungarian 'nothing' is 'semmi' [ ˈʃɛmːi]. However, there is also a thing called 'semmi sem' [ ˈʃɛmːi ˈʃɛm], meaning 'not even nothing', or 'nothing else/either/neither'.