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Genre: Science & Technology
Date of upload: Apr 20, 2024 ^^
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RYD date created : 2024-05-10T00:36:06.817542Z
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My older brother is a physics professor. When we were growing up, he used to let me look through his telescope (the first time I ever saw Saturn was mind blowing!) while he would explain things about space and the universe using language and concepts that even my brain, with its woefully pitiful lack of mathematical understanding, could comprehend.
Long story short, I love these videos because they remind me so much of those nights during my childhood looking up at the sky with wonder while someone explains the universe to me. Thank you for that.
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Nothing is broken, our math describing what we see as reality is just incomplete. A deeper understanding will come in time. If you think about it, a black hole is the perfect place for our current models to expose their flaws, pointing the way to new knowledge. Its analogous to how Mercury's orbit helped point us towards GR from classical Newtonian physics.
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That clip of Picard at 11:45 had me in tears! Thanks for the best laugh of 2024!
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PS: the notion of an event horizon being a surface which, once crossed, not even light can escape from, has led to the misconception that something could cross that horizon back "outwards" if it went faster than light. However, the event horizon is the area underneath which spacetime is curved in such an eldritch way that this "outwards" doesn't even exist as a valid direction anymore, no matter at which speed one is traveling. It just happens to follow from the laws of general/special relativity that this surface is the same as the collection of points at which there is only one single direction that does not point towards the singularity and to follow that direction, one must travel at light speed (c). (From some models of spacetime, it also follows that anything higher than c is simply not a valid speed: picture an object with no spatial velocity as traveling at c entirely through time- its speed vector points into the time dimention but not into any spatial dimension. Accelerating that object to any observable speed simply makes that vector point partly into spatial dimensions, but its absolute value always stays at c.)
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The way I had black holes explained to me as a child by a physics professor was to imagine a neutron star was reduced in radius to 1/6, to as little as 1/10th of its current diameter. He said that’s where he believes a round black mass (not a hole) resides. He also explained that light can not escape it because light can not exist inside of a black mass (hole), due to the extreme gravitational forces that quite literal rip apart what created the light.
That conversation sparked my curiosity about the universe. This video reminded me of him.
Thanks for that.
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watching videos like these give me so much motivation to keep going in my PhD. i'm doing neuroscience and although it's not physics, i can definitely relate to that feeling of not knowing how to begin understanding the fundamental properties of what we're studying. the brain can sometimes feel like a black hole and i think that's pretty terrifying, but cool at the same time
thanks for the video
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Dr. K it's been a while since I've enjoyed the cool world lab content...just hadn't been showing up in my scrolling :( & sadly until I stumbled across your Lex F conversation I have only seen a video or 2 in over a yr! Sorry mate, it's truly my loss & am glad the universe brought me back to these masterpiece creations. I love the angles and approach you take to providing us with knowledge & somehow still offer an aspect of entertainment. Well balanced, perfectly done, excellent execution. Thank you & all the team for binging us quality. Stay blessed & know that we all appreciate what you folks do to bring us what we crave. I've had great teachers but have learned much more important & relevant info from YouTube, you & the handful of others I trust to tell accurate facts but also the many theories that stimulate our brains, in agreement or skeptical hardly do i ever doubt or totally dismiss what genius scientists believe but even what may not strike me as possible but questioning things alone leads to my own theories but prefer the term hypothesis because what y'all do is the definition of educated guesses at very least. Glad to be back, stay blessed everybody
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Thanks to Storyblocks for sponsoring this video! Download unlimited stock media at one set price with Storyblocks: storyblocks.com/CoolWorlds Let me know your thoughts on this one - what do you think will yield: unitarity, equivalence or locality? Do you have a specific solution you favour?
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