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  • Опубликовано: 17 июн 2019
  • Thanks to the input of my knowlegeable viewers, I have corrected some factual errors in my previous video. Here is the new, improved, if slightly grittier, version!

Комментарии • 191

  • @WilliamDye-willdye
    @WilliamDye-willdye 5 лет назад +125

    The factual errors in the first draft video were unimportant, but I'm glad to see a revised version, because this type of video is meant to last. Sadly, the RUclips algorithms reward "engagement" (minutes of viewing time) over quality, so I fear that the hard work of creating a thoughtful piece like this will never be properly rewarded. It is, however, deeply appreciated by a few folks like me who had the good fortune of stumbling across it. Thank you.

    • @carletouk
      @carletouk 5 лет назад +7

      Talent and intellect aren’t rewarded adequately unfortunately

    • @tyleroconnellt
      @tyleroconnellt 5 лет назад +4

      I couldn't agree more, keep up the great work Nick!

    • @TheGunmanChannel
      @TheGunmanChannel 5 лет назад +4

      Totally agree man.

    • @rpbajb
      @rpbajb 5 лет назад +2

      Yep.

    • @scottdorfler2551
      @scottdorfler2551 2 года назад +1

      If you released a ten hour video a day I'd either have to quit my job or give up sleeping.

  • @SheevX66XPalpatine
    @SheevX66XPalpatine 5 лет назад +38

    Hey Nick- Not much of a you-tube commenter but i must commend you. This is one of the few small educational/informative channels that i watch. As someone not in the field of hard science, but social, i love your embrace of the human side of science, and your deep understanding (and seemingly love) of the history of science. I hope you know that even though the inter-webs is full of garbage, your effort does not go unappreciated.

    • @JeraldMYates
      @JeraldMYates 3 года назад +4

      You should comment more often .....Lol

  • @icarus313
    @icarus313 4 года назад +14

    You are absolutely among the best of the best of RUclipsrs, ParallaxNick. A rare gem. Humble, sweet, genuine, and dedicated to your craft. Your videos are beautiful and engrossing. They're so simple in a technical sense, but I wouldn't change a thing about them. They expand my mind, make me laugh, and even make me tear up on occasion. It's a true joy to see astronomy and history through your eyes and through your heartfelt story-telling.
    Please keep up the phenomenal work, my friend!

  • @TheExoplanetsChannel
    @TheExoplanetsChannel 5 лет назад +26

    Oh, look, another master piece has been uploaded to RUclips.. thank you!

  • @DomArmstrong
    @DomArmstrong 5 лет назад +14

    I've been watching the BBC's new series "The Planets". Your work consistently exceeds it in quality. Thanks again, ParallaxNick.

  • @HindiFeynman
    @HindiFeynman Год назад +1

    I watched full 43 minutes without getting bored for a single minute. What a gem.

  • @Language_Guru
    @Language_Guru 3 года назад +5

    A---mazing! My hat is off to Archimedes, and to you, Nick, for sharing these mind-expanding facts.

  • @michaeloneill6327
    @michaeloneill6327 4 года назад +1

    Dear parallax nick,
    Thank you so much for your wonderful videos. I found you maybe a year ago snd have now watched them all. I tried to stretch them out so as to prolong my enjoyment of them, i will certainly start listening to them all again. 🌘🌗🌕🌓🌒 thank you

  • @johnmurray4645
    @johnmurray4645 5 лет назад +2

    I have saved these pearls of wisdom for a day like today, so that I can fully appreciate them. Thank you nick for your hard work.

  • @johnfyten3392
    @johnfyten3392 3 года назад +3

    I'm WAY late to these comments, but I'm so glad I somehow found this channel.I learned a LOT. The visuals are excellent. And you're obviously a narrator who is actually passionate and well versed about their subject. Definitely subscribing, and I'll spread the word to the few people I know who love learning about astronomy and physics for sure.

  • @avd-wd9581
    @avd-wd9581 4 года назад +2

    Finding this video made 2020 a myriad times more tolerable.

  • @joethebassplayer
    @joethebassplayer 5 лет назад +7

    Best part of my week... Thank You!

  • @pretzel_aksmash353
    @pretzel_aksmash353 4 года назад +2

    Very recently stumbled on your channel, easily one of the best space related channels out there. Just got done with the Planet X series and I'm planning on binging the rest, keep up the great work

  • @EdMcStinko
    @EdMcStinko 4 года назад +7

    Archimedes has always been my favorite scientist/polymath. Almost discovered calculus by accident, and he did it the hard way

  • @joeycook6526
    @joeycook6526 3 года назад

    Excellent video, unsurprisingly. Thanks for the hard work. If RUclips wasn’t run by the Galactic Empire from the Star Wars universe, your channel would have millions of subscribers.

  • @nostrum6410
    @nostrum6410 5 лет назад +9

    great video, i hope this helps the algorithm.

  • @camielkotte
    @camielkotte 4 года назад +1

    I just love this channel.
    It puts a human s live and it's meaning in perspective... in my humble experience.

  • @whtbobwntsbobget
    @whtbobwntsbobget 4 года назад

    We love you Nick! Here's to ten million more subscribers!!!

  • @hwplugburz
    @hwplugburz 4 года назад +2

    Wow, what a well written ending👍 , thanks for making this :)

  • @thejudgmentalcat
    @thejudgmentalcat 5 лет назад +9

    Btw, I love this stuff, even though I'm just a humble peon who watches astronomy shows and looks up at the sky with wonder. Most of the math is over my head, but I'd like to think I get an inkling of its vastness.

    • @JeraldMYates
      @JeraldMYates 3 года назад

      This comment made me smile. Thanks Linda

  • @mikelfunderburk5912
    @mikelfunderburk5912 5 лет назад +1

    Thanks for the upload. Needed something to listen to before bed.

  • @briannelyons1421
    @briannelyons1421 4 года назад +1

    Thank you, I enjoy your poetic dissertations! :)

  • @v.k.8153
    @v.k.8153 5 лет назад +5

    If no star is closer than 1 parsec from us, we're gonna have a hard time making the Kessel run from Earth…

    • @thejudgmentalcat
      @thejudgmentalcat 5 лет назад +1

      I knew someone was gonna make that joke.

    • @v.k.8153
      @v.k.8153 5 лет назад

      Linda Ciccoli-I looked for it, but I couldn't find one, so I took matters into my own hands. You're welcome, RUclips!

  • @deusexaethera
    @deusexaethera 5 лет назад +4

    It still amazes me that astronomers knew the diameter of the Earth, Moon, and Sun, their orbital arrangement, and the causes of phenomena like eclipses, thousands of years ago. It would be less amazing if common folk merely a few hundred years ago hadn't still been of the belief that the Earth was flat, the Moon was made of cheese, and eclipses were caused by gods eating each other.

    • @parallaxnick637
      @parallaxnick637  5 лет назад +5

      It's also important to remember one particular invention that the Greeks were completely ignorant of: the idea that all men are created equal. These astronomers were part of a slave-owning, women-enslaving leisure class that were perfectly at home with the idea that the common folk should shut up and till the land while they got on with the eternal verities. Such was the state of the world until very recently, when we decided, through the goodness of our privileged hearts, to extend sufferage, and with it education, to the unwashed.

    • @deusexaethera
      @deusexaethera 5 лет назад +3

      @@parallaxnick637: Sadly, people are not all created equal; five minutes studying medical journals will provide all the proof you need for that. Though I'll admit in our age it's a useful ideal for combating stupid things like racial and ethnic discrimination. But, since people didn't travel much in antiquity, regions of the world were racially and ethnically homogeneous, so the Greeks had no need for the ideal that all people are created equal.

    • @deusexaethera
      @deusexaethera 5 лет назад +2

      Without getting too political, I'll say that I agree with and support the concept of equality of opportunity, but definitely not equality of outcome. The world would be a very dull place if people who excel in the arts were required to donate their skills to helping people like me learn to draw better than stick-figures and lollipop-trees, rather than making great works that I am capable of enjoying but incapable of creating.

    • @Odowasaniceguy
      @Odowasaniceguy 4 года назад +1

      Hey parallax,... Middle class... Middle class was the incredible invention of the athenians, that gave opportunity to thousands for the first time in human history to get educated and follow professions that they liked.
      They were not crazy slavers, it was the way Till Them. They opened the way and Christianity established equality to new heights. French revolution and the abolishment of monarchy lead to today's equality. Not perfect equality, as all man creations.

  • @TheGunmanChannel
    @TheGunmanChannel 5 лет назад +10

    You're such a perfectionist. Keep up the awesome work my man.

  • @NelsonReyesJr
    @NelsonReyesJr 4 года назад

    Brilliant! Its amazing that when we look up we are looking at unique points in to our position in the Universe. The Universe does not look exactly the same anywhere else. Even a person standing one meter away, looking up at the the same point of light in the sky is seeing that point at a different time (although miniscule, or at about 3 nanoseconds per meter). No one can ever see the Universe, unaided and wirhout photography, exactly as you are seeing it right now. What an amazing Universe; and you do a remarkable job explaining it.

  • @miked9126
    @miked9126 5 лет назад +3

    Good work Nick! Not everyone can talk about science and make it cool. Keep it up!

  • @Gribbo9999
    @Gribbo9999 3 года назад

    Thank you Mr Parallax. The depth and breadth of your video content can only be measured in googols of parsecs. Your content and humour are without parallel except in other repeating Milky Ways where parallel lines meet.

  • @alexshafer5593
    @alexshafer5593 4 года назад +1

    Congratulations, Nick. This is a remarkable piece of work. Thank you.

  • @brucehayman4206
    @brucehayman4206 4 года назад +1

    hey Nick, I watch everything I can find about astronomy. You have become one of my favorite content creators. I don't know how you make money doing this, but I hope you continue to put out these great videos!

  • @rufsis
    @rufsis 3 года назад

    Hey,
    altough you're not the biggest channel on RUclips yet, I just wanted to repeat what many others here are saying - really love your videos. High quality stuff!

  • @michael3263
    @michael3263 5 лет назад

    Hell yes! Another PN video! My evening just got a lot better. 😊

  • @glennfrazier4873
    @glennfrazier4873 3 года назад +1

    See you say light speed is the speed nothing can exceed, but changing the spin of one entangled particle will instantly change the the spin of its other entangled particle on the other side of the universe. Which means something is crossing that void waaaaaaay faster than light photons.

  • @FrankieWOW
    @FrankieWOW 4 года назад

    Thank you for teaching me about parsecs. I watch plenty of science and space documentaries and never knew !

  • @thetruth45678
    @thetruth45678 4 года назад +2

    I hearby name 10^186 one Nicktillion.

  • @johng.9626
    @johng.9626 3 года назад

    Captivating! Truly Infinite Inspiration!

  • @billhart3728
    @billhart3728 4 года назад

    Well done Nick. Dropping a comment from a real person to stimulate RUclips robots.

  • @carterh2699
    @carterh2699 3 года назад

    I found you a couple weeks ago. Wish I did years ago, I’m here to stay with you through MM years to come

  • @JeraldMYates
    @JeraldMYates 3 года назад

    Yes Sir, and Thankyou.
    P.S. talking Max Planck reminds me of Dan Winter. ✌❤🖤

  • @docgreybeard7057
    @docgreybeard7057 5 лет назад

    Another high quality and very entertaining video thanks for all your hard work. Hope you are rewarded with many new subs.

  • @geraldashton8589
    @geraldashton8589 3 года назад

    I enjoy things that are boggling. That was a great boggle. 👍

  • @adrianoaxel1196
    @adrianoaxel1196 4 года назад

    This is the second of your videos I'm watching.... congratulations for the very interesting and deep work instead of just making a fast video speaking anything... It is nice to see that you did research, looked for interesting images, looked for details beyound the "common places"....

  • @CelticSaint
    @CelticSaint 5 лет назад

    I am officially addicted to your videos!!

  • @newmzy0
    @newmzy0 4 года назад

    WTF? You have blown my mind... again. Thank you for another great video.

  • @kevinrbarker
    @kevinrbarker 3 года назад

    Brilliant! Awe inspiring....

  • @rpkamins
    @rpkamins 4 года назад +3

    Hope this helps the algorithm find you.

  • @littlemanoo
    @littlemanoo 4 года назад

    I love that you figured out the levers size to move the Earth and how long it would take

  • @mrm5823
    @mrm5823 4 года назад

    Truly this is, Total Perspective Vortex, stuff.

  • @deusexaethera
    @deusexaethera 3 года назад +1

    With all this talk of stadia and googols, I'm trying to figure out if this topic was somehow the inspiration for Google Stadia.

  • @kalhorious1935
    @kalhorious1935 3 года назад

    Work of art.

  • @LolUGotBusted
    @LolUGotBusted 3 года назад

    You got me with that ending ngl

  • @whtbobwntsbobget
    @whtbobwntsbobget 4 года назад

    41:42 idk why but I laughed so hard when you said "what was he hoping to count with that number

  • @kirkjones9639
    @kirkjones9639 4 года назад

    After all of that most wonderful upload, I find that the biggest number I could come with was Fucking Big to the 10th to the 13th, after that my mind melted down, when I realized that it resolved to the whole number of 1.
    I shall now take my Whiskey to my corner and cry. ;-)

  • @darknutgaming5510
    @darknutgaming5510 5 лет назад +4

    Hope you’re feeling better, buddy!

  • @joethebassplayer
    @joethebassplayer 3 года назад

    This should have 10,000 likes!!!

  • @richardsmith788
    @richardsmith788 3 года назад

    Nicky's scared of Nick's prog....GULP

  • @kidmohair8151
    @kidmohair8151 4 года назад

    I'm sure this has been thought before...
    the inclusion of the fractal images set me off on a voyage,
    an attempt to get to a point where the fractal nature,
    on a large in the universal sense,
    of the universe resolves and becomes visible, resolvable

  • @davidhenneberg2661
    @davidhenneberg2661 5 лет назад +1

    My back is sore but for as a good reprieve to see another video from you
    Puts me in a better mood

  • @jimjackson4256
    @jimjackson4256 3 года назад

    I didn’t know that about a parsec.Gotta give you a like for that.

  • @RydarkVoyager
    @RydarkVoyager 2 года назад

    It is unfortunate that I cannot exceed "1" the number of times I can smash the like button. For a company that named itself after a large number, that demonstrates a lack of imagination.

  • @aapex1
    @aapex1 3 года назад

    VERY well done!

  • @ballenmarie2
    @ballenmarie2 4 года назад

    amazing - mindblowing - extraordinary - ausgezeichnet

  • @steves8482
    @steves8482 5 лет назад +4

    Job done - mind blown! Don't know if you're familiar with the "scienciest' program on UK TV - BBC's Horizon? It could well take a leaf out of your book - Horizon's physics/space content has become horribly dumbed down in the past few years, full of swirly lights, moody shots and tortured analogies instead of intelligent commentary, facts and relevant visuals - you should speak to the BBC about a job... Thanks again for sharing your absorbing and fascinating work.

  • @nickush7512
    @nickush7512 3 года назад

    Blinding Dude, thanks.

  • @sketcharmslong6289
    @sketcharmslong6289 3 года назад

    Thanks to John M. G for sending me to watch this video. Truly brilliant

  • @MAD-SKILLZ
    @MAD-SKILLZ 5 лет назад +2

    And here I thought I was going to bed... Ha!

  • @MikeOSheaGodsDrummer
    @MikeOSheaGodsDrummer 4 года назад

    Thank you for the nourishing brain food.

  • @twogungunnar9456
    @twogungunnar9456 5 лет назад

    Wow. Top quality work. Subscribed.

  • @haroldburrows4770
    @haroldburrows4770 3 года назад

    Not bad Nick, not bad

  •  4 года назад

    so there actually is an explanation of how big space is, better than the one in hhgg:
    “Space,” it says, “is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space...”

  • @fubaralakbar6800
    @fubaralakbar6800 3 года назад

    This guy's style reminds of Carl Sagan

  • @RemusKingOfRome
    @RemusKingOfRome 5 лет назад

    Excellent, thank you

  • @dickJohnsonpeter
    @dickJohnsonpeter 3 года назад

    I like the LotR reference.

  • @johnny5stars
    @johnny5stars 5 лет назад

    It's Einstein's universe. We're just living in it...

  • @SyriusStarMultimedia
    @SyriusStarMultimedia 4 года назад

    If the sun was a pixel. What are humans?

  • @MoiraeAtrpos
    @MoiraeAtrpos 3 года назад

    Thank you !

  • @TonyLambregts
    @TonyLambregts 5 лет назад +5

    Thank you for your videos.

  • @kayceega404
    @kayceega404 5 лет назад

    Brilliant stuff.

  • @richarddeese1991
    @richarddeese1991 5 лет назад

    Nothing less than brilliant. This should be shown in school. Inspiring. Thank you. tavi.

  • @theforlanjoker4457
    @theforlanjoker4457 3 года назад

    Your best video

  • @Nehmo
    @Nehmo 4 года назад

    18:48 Where is that Archimedes Screw pictured? Apparently, it's a high volume low-pressure pump to put water up for the amusement ride.

    • @parallaxnick637
      @parallaxnick637  4 года назад

      Can't trace the exact origin, but it *might* be the Shipwreck Rapids ride at San Diego SeaWorld.

  • @fargh
    @fargh 3 года назад

    Sooo good

  • @fabimre
    @fabimre 5 лет назад +1

    I think you underestimate Archimedes's possibly to measure the relative density of an object precisely. He could have used a balance by which you could even weigh a sandgrain precisely.
    No absolute measurements, only relative ones!

  • @danielflinton
    @danielflinton 5 лет назад +2

    Have you ever thought of getting into audio book narration or voice acting?

  • @lillyclarity9699
    @lillyclarity9699 Год назад

    I, too, yell that "I've found it!" after being nude in the bathtub.
    Not my fault it's miniscule >.>

    • @lillyclarity9699
      @lillyclarity9699 Год назад

      In all seriousness, thank you so much Nick. I broke my spine three weeks ago (never broke a bone before and I break my god damned spine. It's not that great of a story, no ones missing out,- But, still though. (I never finished the comment, damn these pain pills, I meant to say thanks for all the content. Since I've been bedridden, it's been my only entertainment, so, thanks again!)

    • @parallaxnick637
      @parallaxnick637  Год назад

      Very sorry to hear that :(

  • @ianian8022
    @ianian8022 5 лет назад +1

    The video was great but stacking powers like that hurts my head

  • @thejudgmentalcat
    @thejudgmentalcat 5 лет назад

    If the universe is truly infinite (ever expanding), what about that model of the universe that guy made, the blue model that would look cool in an aquarium?

  • @Krovald
    @Krovald 2 года назад

    I love you too

  • @naveedmuhammad6957
    @naveedmuhammad6957 2 года назад

    Hey nick? When is the best astronomical discoveries of 2021 coming out?

  • @ralphclark
    @ralphclark 3 года назад

    Quality!

  • @bookender
    @bookender 3 года назад

    If there is, somewhere out there, an observable universe for every conceivable situation that doesn't violate the laws of physics, does it mean there are more such observable universes for more probable situations, and does it mean there are infinitely many observable universes for each situation? Are there infinitely many mes typing this exact comment, but a smaller infinity of mes typing a less likely comment, and more mes doing something more likely than typing comments on some kind of Internet?
    One of the things that could go differently in observable universes is the development of the laws of physics themselves, so I guess this means that if we are in an infinite universe there are infinitely many observable universes under every set of physical laws that was possible, starting from the big bang, except those sets of laws where the universe would not be infinite, of which there is presumably only one or zero each.

  • @eaudesolero5631
    @eaudesolero5631 3 года назад

    bravo

  • @aaronequinoa77
    @aaronequinoa77 4 месяца назад

    If only they understood the inverse law of light. 20 father 20 times larger square that 20 times father and you get 400. The sun is roughly 400 earth radia from earth.

  • @Kurzula5150
    @Kurzula5150 Год назад

    Aha, the answer is 42. I knew it.

  • @nithienbadal6733
    @nithienbadal6733 5 лет назад

    Dude you are epic

  • @NickoDellic
    @NickoDellic 5 лет назад +2

    181st!

  • @zeropoint7177
    @zeropoint7177 5 лет назад +1

    Very nicely done. You’ve got the sound level right. It’s fine for video. But you need to work on your mixing. When you’re recording different lines at different times, you need to be recording them in an identical way. It will help if you make a little sound-booth for your monologue. Doesn’t have to be big, just some sound-baffles surrounding your mic.
    Great video, btw.

  • @camielkotte
    @camielkotte 4 года назад

    But actually, archimedes was not the first in many things you assign to him. There are many unexplained megalithic structures that indicate previous civilisations with advanced knowledge. To put it in perspective, Greek society is at the base of "western civilisation". Not to neglect the Mayans etc...

  • @Robert-kx8mp
    @Robert-kx8mp 3 года назад

    guess I’ll leave this here, but at around 13:13 wouldn’t the next distance scale beyond megaparsecs be redshift [z], useful for extragalactic observations?
    Edit: see ruclips.net/video/qw90I_u-yRc/видео.html

  • @Cipher71
    @Cipher71 5 лет назад

    Your videos deserve far more than a myriad subscribers. You should have a myriadmyriad at the very *least*.