The First Billion Years of the Universe - with Emma Chapman

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  • Опубликовано: 17 ноя 2024

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  • @DJay0111
    @DJay0111 3 года назад +76

    Science, and the pursuit of knowledge, keeps me sane, in these turmultuous times, it takes me away from my negative thoughts, and let's the childlike wonder in me out again. I love it.

    • @fatitigilo825
      @fatitigilo825 3 года назад +1

      Science is a delusion and distraction created by very powerful people to hide the Truth from us to keep us obedient sheep that can be controlled and manipulated at will. Trust in God and he will reveal more knowledge and wonder than you can ever find in this lie you've been fed.

    • @LiLi-or2gm
      @LiLi-or2gm 3 года назад +9

      @@fatitigilo825 I hope you recover fully from your delusional state.

    • @bazsnell3178
      @bazsnell3178 3 года назад +12

      @@fatitigilo825 God is a delusion and distraction created by very powerful people to hide the Truth of Science from us to keep us obedient sheep that can be controlled and manipulated at will. Trust in Science and it will reveal more knowledge and wonder that you can ever find in that lie you've been fed.

    • @DJay0111
      @DJay0111 3 года назад +4

      @@fatitigilo825 seriously. Get help

    • @marktime9235
      @marktime9235 3 года назад +3

      What's really scary is that there are millions of Fati's (sic) out there

  • @cliffp.8396
    @cliffp.8396 3 года назад +24

    This was an excellent, easy to understand tutorial. Bravo and very well done.

  • @talkimages
    @talkimages 3 года назад +2

    She is a natural- even though the concepts are familiar, the delivery is so clear. A true bridge builder. I hope she gets her own show with a good audiovisual team.

  • @bulwinkle
    @bulwinkle 3 года назад +6

    It is unfortunate that we use explosion to describe the birth of our Universe as it was not strictly an explosion. An explosion is a rapid oxidisation event and that is not what happened. It is better to refer to the birth of our Universe as a rapid expansion.

  • @laurencekinnersley641
    @laurencekinnersley641 3 года назад +6

    One of the RI's best livestreamed talks - a fantastic communicator and a fascinating subject. Oh, and it made me buy Emma's book.

  • @ptonpc
    @ptonpc 3 года назад +3

    Thank you to all involved for this. *Edit* Just bought Emma's book.

  • @mountainhobo
    @mountainhobo 3 года назад +3

    Great topic and a knowledgeable speaker, but I wish The Royal Institution could afford to send their guests a decent microphone.

    • @TheRoyalInstitution
      @TheRoyalInstitution  3 года назад +7

      We wish so too 😢 We do test our speaker's audio before record it and if absolutely necessary we send out microphones, but as you can imagine, our budgets have been more than decimated by the worldwide pandemic that has hit small independent charities hard. Most of our income in normal times comes from hiring out our building, which hasn't been allowed to happen since March 2020. We do not get any core government support so we rely heavily on keeping people on furlough and hoping our supporters will donate/become members. It is a tough time, and we are sorry that we cannot always bring you the best audio quality.

    • @JohnyG29
      @JohnyG29 3 года назад +4

      What was wrong with her mic? I could hear every word she said.

    • @dreejz
      @dreejz 3 года назад +1

      @@TheRoyalInstitution This made me a Patron! Thank you guys for all this amazing content!

  • @dhavalfuria2743
    @dhavalfuria2743 3 года назад +7

    The link to the Q&A is referring to the previous talk's Q&A

    • @TheRoyalInstitution
      @TheRoyalInstitution  3 года назад +8

      Argh, thank you for letting us know! Fixed now and here - ruclips.net/video/9zxsC68PJUI/видео.html

  • @BenjaminStJohn-en9nv
    @BenjaminStJohn-en9nv 3 года назад +3

    I love your brain! Thank you for pushing the boundaries of our understanding of the universe.

  • @mondeusex893
    @mondeusex893 3 года назад +2

    It all started when I rotated my head. I saw the universe moving. Therefore, I have decided that I am the center of the universe

  • @ankianka
    @ankianka 3 года назад +4

    Thank you for this wonderful lecture Emma Chapman, and as always thank you Royal Institution for having a platform that makes this freely available!
    Emma managed to encapsulate the story of astronomy’s current understanding of the history of the Universe. And how current astronomers utilizes light as a tool in order to understand it’s evolution in a funny and easy way to understand for a layman like myself.
    Hope you all stay safe, and thank you all for bringing light to the topic and our life during these dark times.
    ///Kind Regards, Ankianka.

  • @yordandobrev292
    @yordandobrev292 3 года назад +4

    Dear Emma, I was wandering what exactly make U to believe that all creatures in the Universe have same perception and treatment of time?!...... Anyway, very smooth lecture, 10x a lot!!!

  • @Feenix102
    @Feenix102 Год назад

    I love the idea of you being an astrophysical archaeologist and the way you link things to Egyptology. I also like your look, which is a little unconventional - important because it takes unconventional people to do this work in my opinion. Wonderful talk. :o)

  • @964tractorboy
    @964tractorboy 3 года назад +7

    A very personable lecture, thanks for making such an effort! I may be a bit of a curmudgeon, but I prefer these home lectures to those at the RI. Ok, just me then.

  • @mk1st
    @mk1st 3 года назад +7

    I'd gladly give up my potato chip addiction to pay for amazing science like the JWST.

    • @n1k32h
      @n1k32h 3 года назад

      Your mum

  • @kloakovalimonada
    @kloakovalimonada 3 года назад +2

    Endlessly fascinating

  • @travelinman70
    @travelinman70 3 года назад

    I could listen to her lecture for 3-4 courses.

  • @ankitvision89
    @ankitvision89 3 года назад +2

    After watching Brian Greene lecture I'm fall in love with physics and astrophysics ❤
    Love from india

  • @TheAdwatson
    @TheAdwatson 3 года назад +1

    Never be discouraged from discovering new knowledge in science, just be very careful how you present it to the public. Not all of them are as ignorant of the sciences as you may assume! I thoroughly enjoyed your lecture and have been a fan of the RIGB Christmas Lectures since the 1960s, but as I age I find I get more of a stickler for facts, grammar, spelling and all the things that were drummed into me at school.

  • @stephanieparker1250
    @stephanieparker1250 3 года назад +1

    Fun lecture! I’m totally in love with Emma 🥰🙌🙌

  • @rogerthornton8064
    @rogerthornton8064 3 года назад

    Light cannot lose energy, only our perception changes relative to it's sourse.

    • @whirledpeas3477
      @whirledpeas3477 3 года назад

      False, everything loses energy. It's fundamental.

  • @vikram_bhat
    @vikram_bhat 3 года назад +35

    All those "early" comments are so early, that I needed a 21 cm radiation telescope to see them

  • @SteveSurgenor
    @SteveSurgenor 3 года назад +6

    Totoro!

  • @Shihab1979
    @Shihab1979 3 года назад +2

    WOW Incredible Job . Thanks so much. 🌈🎉

  • @tammysmithwick9245
    @tammysmithwick9245 3 года назад

    Outstanding job

  • @oO-_-_-_-Oo
    @oO-_-_-_-Oo 2 года назад

    shout out to natural selection for getting us all here, have a nice day.

  • @Aanthanur
    @Aanthanur 3 года назад +4

    A guy on Facebook said this is not true, mmmhh, who should I listen to?

    • @heritagekebek3029
      @heritagekebek3029 3 года назад

      Yourself. Are you French? Your avatar talk a lot.

    • @Aanthanur
      @Aanthanur 3 года назад +2

      @@heritagekebek3029 swiss

    • @heritagekebek3029
      @heritagekebek3029 3 года назад

      @@Aanthanur My best cheese!
      Salut chez you!

    • @ptonpc
      @ptonpc 3 года назад +2

      Yep, same as, 'Some random in the internet tells the person who does this thing for a living that she is wrong'. If I was forced to choose, I'd go for the person who knows what they are talking about instead of the random person.

    • @heritagekebek3029
      @heritagekebek3029 3 года назад +1

      If you talk french well, the astrophysician
      Hubert Reeves may help. He's one of the best.
      "We are stardust"

  • @cidfacetious3722
    @cidfacetious3722 2 года назад

    ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!! All the endless history of the universe from the singularity to expansion the pairing of atoms created molecules to dust to stars then planets and it all lead to the Kardashians. It’s just incredible to ponder 🤔

  • @billvalz3697
    @billvalz3697 3 года назад +2

    So if it takes 2.5 million years to see the nearest galaxy then how are we able to see it? and so much of futher galaxy’s?

    • @AxMi-24
      @AxMi-24 3 года назад +6

      We see it as it was 2.5M years ago. Looking further out is essentially looking back in time.

    • @Great.Milenko
      @Great.Milenko 3 года назад +4

      its the light from 2.5 million years ago reaching you, this is why theres a limit to the "observable universe" which is light that has takes more than 13.8 billion years to reach us. (the age of our universe)

    • @ptonpc
      @ptonpc 3 года назад

      She explained that it takes time for light to travel. As she demonstrated with the ''Waving at your friend on the moon / mars / sun' etc. The light we see is the light that has travelled from the object. So if something-is 2.5 million light years away, it has taken 2.5 million years for light to have come from it to reach our sensors.

    • @billvalz3697
      @billvalz3697 3 года назад

      @@ptonpc sorry but I just can’t believe this

    • @titannb9027
      @titannb9027 3 года назад +2

      Bill Jhn who forced you to believe ? Ignore the video and go on to some other video since you are already an astrophysics expert thanks to your belief which is above the knowledge of all the astrophysicists...

  • @FenrirTheDog1
    @FenrirTheDog1 3 года назад

    Really bloody interesting. I did have to leave about 10mins in though to work out how long it will take for Andromeda and the Milky Way to collide.
    Honestly, at 1 point I thought it would be here by the time I got the answer.
    About 5 billion years if you're interested, Google says about 4.5, which in hindsight may have been a better move to check there 1st.
    Edit: I should have waited 25 mins.

  • @totalfreedom45
    @totalfreedom45 3 года назад +3

    Without science there’s no future; without science there’s only darkness, ignorance, superstition, and conspiracy theories. Much, much more funding needs to go to science. Thank you, Emma Chapman! You have a cool sense of humor.
    💕 ☮ 🌎 🌌

    • @bulwinkle
      @bulwinkle 3 года назад +2

      Without science we'd still be hunter gatherers leading a short dangerous life.

    • @totalfreedom45
      @totalfreedom45 3 года назад

      @@bulwinkle Attaboy!

    • @bulwinkle
      @bulwinkle 3 года назад +2

      @Roger Loquitur I never was, but the first humans were. Science is literally knowledge and a method of getting and understanding that knowledge.

  • @yearzeroism
    @yearzeroism 3 года назад +1

    Great video!

  • @edgeeffect
    @edgeeffect 2 года назад

    The RI really should be able to do better than a cheap webcam over Zoom. Sound quality apalling... learn to do better!

  • @bluntedvegas702
    @bluntedvegas702 3 года назад +4

    I wonder why didn't a blackhole form at the beginning of everything..or how the singularity with all that mass in a small area...how did it not form a black hole...or maybe it did form a black hole and we are on the inside of a blackhole or on the event horrizon and we are being projected holographically as 3 dimensional beings when in fact we live on the 2 dimensional membrane inside a blackhole or on its edge

    • @clutchblunts6920
      @clutchblunts6920 3 года назад +1

      Nice

    • @johnnyfarina9883
      @johnnyfarina9883 3 года назад

      Leonard Susskind would interest you.

    • @lubricatedgoat
      @lubricatedgoat 3 года назад +1

      The only explanation I've seen to this same question that's always bothered me is that space was inflating so rapidly that gravity lost most of the battle. Perhaps there were some areas of matter dense enough to form small black holes (very small) but we've yet to detect them. It'll be an interesting next hundred years as much more of the universe's secrets are unlocked.

    • @bluntedvegas702
      @bluntedvegas702 3 года назад

      @Roger Loquitur you've toyed with an idea of a meaningful thought ,but failed in its execution.

  • @realcatfilms
    @realcatfilms 3 года назад

    Your past is my present. My present is your future.

  • @RainerSchrom
    @RainerSchrom 2 года назад

    Very good lecture!
    I only disagree with his dismissal of Popper.
    If simplicity alone is the test for the right scientific answer, then "God is the creator of everything" would be a very simple theory. The problem is only that it is not falsifiABLE, meaning it cannot be tested. One could just as well say that everything invisible is blue in nature. So it is very important that any scientific theory is falsifiable, at least in principle.

  • @MichaelClark-uw7ex
    @MichaelClark-uw7ex 3 года назад

    There were no metals in the early universe.
    A lot of stars had to live and die before there was even enough concentration of heavier elements to form rocky planets.

  • @zapfanzapfan
    @zapfanzapfan 3 года назад +19

    Hydrogen, helium and metals... lazy astronomers version of the periodic table :-)

    • @MichaelClark-uw7ex
      @MichaelClark-uw7ex 3 года назад +3

      Technically, everything heavier than Helium is a metal.
      Astrophysicists, chemists and geologists agree

    • @zapfanzapfan
      @zapfanzapfan 3 года назад +8

      @@MichaelClark-uw7ex I'm a chemist and I disagree... however I can accept hydrogen as a metal, given enough pressure.

    • @Stevros999
      @Stevros999 3 года назад

      @@zapfanzapfan name one thing that is heavier than helium that isn't metal ?

    • @briourbi1058
      @briourbi1058 3 года назад +2

      @@Stevros999 Noble gasses?

    • @zapfanzapfan
      @zapfanzapfan 3 года назад +3

      @@Stevros999 Nitrogen, oxygen, neon... but, given enough pressure, like 1 million atm, oxygen gets metallic properties.

  • @laurendoe168
    @laurendoe168 3 года назад +1

    The phrase "optical light" is redundant - light is that portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible. Granted, many refer to ultraviolet light and infrared light... but this is inaccurate. If you can't see it, it's not light.

    • @Ometecuhtli
      @Ometecuhtli 3 года назад

      I assumed optical to be visible light, of course that is from a human's perspective, there are other wavelengths that we cannot perceive but they're still referred as light.

  • @railgap
    @railgap 3 года назад +2

    @1:37 THE LARCH

    • @AlanCanon2222
      @AlanCanon2222 3 года назад

      How did you learn to recognize trees from quite a long way away?

  • @gkewley42
    @gkewley42 3 года назад

    I hope this is for children.

  • @sambo7734
    @sambo7734 3 года назад +1

    amazing stuff :)

  • @ApraNGI
    @ApraNGI 3 года назад +3

    Oh look! 3 comentaries

  • @miaa7887
    @miaa7887 3 года назад

    Are we talking about inside or outside the human body ? ... M

  • @thebluesclues2012
    @thebluesclues2012 3 года назад

    Brilliant, excellent :)

  • @wdavis7655
    @wdavis7655 2 года назад

    The full moon will visually fit in a .25” hole held approximately 21” from the eye. The Hubble Deepfield is approx 1/10th of that .25” dia circle. Which is smaller than a grain of rice, depending on the variety of rice do course. A good bit smaller than my fingernail. 🤓

  • @solomonlalani
    @solomonlalani 3 года назад +1

    Good one; a bit elementary for the first 15 mins or so. But one thing is certain: if you eat a lot of junk, you die early, just like those massive early stars :)

  • @marizanejoubert
    @marizanejoubert 3 года назад +2

    First until refreshed. Physics lit af🔥

  • @denniscowdrick1255
    @denniscowdrick1255 2 года назад

    Suppose a light wave is coming toward us from many Billions of miles away. Just what do you suppose is in that path length? The energy of a light wave is usually given by E= hf where E is the energy, h is Planks constant , and f is the waves frequency. Suppose some small particle is in the path and scatters or absorbs some of the energy E so it is no longer in the path to the observer. We know h cannot change on the right side of the equation. But the E on the left side must be reduced. Therefore the frequency term f must be reduced. Looks like (we) now interpret this as a Doppler shift! REALLY? Why is it not just a result of conservation of energy? We used to ask “why is the sky DARK at night” since (with no path loss and an infinite Universe) every resolvable spot in the sky should have a star in it. As I remember, the computed brightness was not trivial. Our sky is not very dark. Spectral lines appear ‘red’ shifted…OR perhaps the light energy E has been reduced resulting in an apparent reduction in frequency!
    Of additional concern is just how can we view Stars or Galaxies Billions of miles away? Even a tiny particle or gas density might easily obliterate any Billions of miles away light source. I have seen claims we can view all the way to the imagined “Big Bang” - a term of derision by many astronomers back in the 40s and 50s.

  • @usama57926
    @usama57926 3 года назад

    28:49 I don't think at that time the universe was black instead it was white just like fog in winter.

  • @johncurtis920
    @johncurtis920 3 года назад

    It seems the first stars were, for lack of a better way of describing them, matter/element creation machines.
    By this I mean matter other than hydrogen and helium, which at their birthing was all there was to build upon. Those two elements were the baseline "LEGOS" by which everything else emerged from the furnaces of those first stars. The first stars were complex element creation machines.
    Think of it in terms of gardening. They infused, sprinkled really, the Universe with metals and "higher order" elements. And so the garden was "watered and seeded," from which it commenced to evolve and grow as all gardens are wont to do. From simple beginnings complexity emerges.
    And so it has been doing ever since. Growing and evolving as the first sprinklers gradually shut down for being unnecessary because conception had occurred.. New sprinklers sprang into being watering with ever higher order elements and metals. Fertilizers, if you will.
    In the arc of life the Universe is now a gangly, pimply faced, teen-ager. Out of it all has come at least one self-comprehending consciousness that we know of, us. Life has emerged out of that garden of continually evolving complexity. I daresay it will be very interesting to see where it all goes from here.
    John~
    American Net'Zen

  • @DaDyne
    @DaDyne 3 года назад

    If a car travels exactly south, that’s proof that it must have been at the north pole.

  • @BRATVA_SUMO
    @BRATVA_SUMO 3 года назад +6

    Every one is first untill they refresh 👇

  • @samuelfine9140
    @samuelfine9140 3 года назад +1

    I really wish you could at least send them better audio video equipment, why release something of voip quality when it's not even live in the first place?

    • @TheRoyalInstitution
      @TheRoyalInstitution  3 года назад +4

      It is live! You can attend the upcoming events here - www.rigb.org/whats-on
      In terms of sending people audio-equipment, we do when we can but unfortunately the worldwide pandemic has hit small independent charities quite hard. Most of our income in normal times comes from renting out our building, which hasn't been allowed to happen since March 2020. We do not get any core government support so we rely heavily on keeping people on furlough and hoping our supporters will donate/become members. It is a tough time, and we are sorry that we cannot always bring you the best audio quality.

  • @TheAdwatson
    @TheAdwatson 3 года назад

    "Supernovae" is the plural of "supernova", which is what you should be referring to.

  • @TheAdwatson
    @TheAdwatson 3 года назад

    If there is so much radiation at 2 metres wavelength, why is the 2 metre amateur band so dead? I haven't heard anything on it for a few years! 73s ZL1CO.

  • @cognitivedissident9825
    @cognitivedissident9825 3 года назад +1

    Different types of light? You mean different wavelengths of the same energetic particle called a photon. It's the same stuff

  • @denniscowdrick1255
    @denniscowdrick1255 2 года назад

    I always have trouble with the ‘Universe starting from “nothing “ idea’. Something has to be forever OR THERE REALLY WOULD BE N O T H I N G. Let’s get rid of the something from nothing idea and just admit that the Universe is what always exists. By any reasonable rules of language, NOTHING CAN COME F R O M NOTHING!
    Looks to me like all this “beginning of the Universe FROM nothing” business is just a way to provide employment for desperate scientists.

  • @illygah
    @illygah 3 года назад +1

    dont use action movies to illustrate nature. Hollywood and Nature have little regard for one another. You just made me sad.

  • @jacoblongwell6419
    @jacoblongwell6419 3 года назад +3

    The speed of light is boring its the way light jiggles that makes it so interesting.

    • @fatitigilo825
      @fatitigilo825 3 года назад +1

      If you think thát's interesting, wait until it starts twerking.

    • @jacoblongwell6419
      @jacoblongwell6419 3 года назад +1

      @@fatitigilo825 thats going to make QCD more interesting 🤔

    • @davidkincade7161
      @davidkincade7161 3 года назад +1

      And therefore the way everything jiggles... everything in our body is jiggling in endlessly hierarchical symphonies my version of which I just directed to write this decidedly much less worthwhile response with my phone compared to what they did to make it possible. 🤯

  • @SB_3.1415
    @SB_3.1415 3 года назад

    Got that infrared wavelength totally wrong!

  • @manuelcasanova5698
    @manuelcasanova5698 3 года назад +1

    im your 500th like of your lovely pictures there.

  • @StudyWaliClass
    @StudyWaliClass 3 года назад

    mam you re great

  • @AndreasHLux
    @AndreasHLux 3 года назад +1

    Just new because Corona!

  • @sorcerousquigley419
    @sorcerousquigley419 3 года назад +3

    Oop I'm early

  • @sandreid87
    @sandreid87 3 года назад +2

    fun fact: the "4 mins to reach mars, and 4 mins to reach back" is an assumption by einstein back in the day, about the speed of light. it could theoretically be that it takes 8 mins one way, and is then instantanious the other way - we simply dont know :)

    • @helphelpimbeingrepressed9347
      @helphelpimbeingrepressed9347 3 года назад +7

      Erm no, it is based on distance x speed of light.

    • @PartisanGamer
      @PartisanGamer 3 года назад +9

      @@helphelpimbeingrepressed9347 he is just trying to look smart cause he heard that it is impossible to measure the speed of light in one direction. That said, yes it is possible that it comes back instantaneously, yet very much unlikely.

    • @helphelpimbeingrepressed9347
      @helphelpimbeingrepressed9347 3 года назад +2

      @@PartisanGamer Well obviously it needs to reflect off something so we can get a return signal to measure! lol & no I think its safe to say that the photons don't floor it in one direction & then sticks some chill beats on & just enjoy the scenery XD

    • @helphelpimbeingrepressed9347
      @helphelpimbeingrepressed9347 3 года назад

      Forgot my formulas too lol its Distance divided by time = speed

    • @railgap
      @railgap 3 года назад +1

      "fan fact" == "please don't examine what I'm about to say too closely"

  • @horserose17
    @horserose17 3 года назад

    Genesis 1:2

    • @KateeAngel
      @KateeAngel 2 года назад

      Mythology? Noone cares

  • @SlowToe
    @SlowToe 3 года назад

    What if you like death metal?

  • @v.prestorpnrcrtlcrt2096
    @v.prestorpnrcrtlcrt2096 3 года назад

    Um um um um um?

  • @JoannaHammond
    @JoannaHammond 3 года назад +1

    I had to stop watching, this lecture is shockingly dumbed down.

  • @047adenaufal7
    @047adenaufal7 3 года назад +1

    Everybody start says first but am I?

  • @kagannasuhbeyoglu
    @kagannasuhbeyoglu 3 года назад

    👍

  • @Seekthetruth3000
    @Seekthetruth3000 3 года назад

    👌👌👌👌👍👍👍👍👍

  • @harriehausenman8623
    @harriehausenman8623 3 года назад

    Srsly? It's 2021 and this sounds like taken directly from a wax cylinder.
    *And it's not even streaming!*

  • @ToyDirigible
    @ToyDirigible 3 года назад

    I'd rather not have science femsplained to me thank you very much

  • @jaredstark231
    @jaredstark231 3 года назад

    Billions of years....🤣🤣🤣
    Oort cloud....🤣🤣🤣
    Planets spinning backwards...🤣🤣
    Magnetic fields of planets..🤣🤣
    Scientists are funny...🤣🤣

  • @makermarx
    @makermarx 3 года назад

    Woman starts speaking... clicks next.

    • @Stevros999
      @Stevros999 3 года назад +5

      Some guys prefer men I guess

  • @Shakazoolo2
    @Shakazoolo2 3 года назад

    ...can't understand a word she's saying...what language is that...it's a disgrace to trash the English language like that...sounds like a cat getting it's neck twisted off...

    • @KateeAngel
      @KateeAngel 2 года назад

      You mean the British English accent. Yeah, it is terrible, I agree!