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Google overshadowed its achievments by spreading misinformation about its own research!
This week on things that never happened... Google did not prove the existence of the multiverse.
Incredibly, in Google's own reporting they managed to loose all objectivity about their scientific research and allowed the author to include their own views on speculative and philosophical topics.
Two simple lines overshadowed all the great achievements of the Willow chip and send misinformation around the world like Bale fire!
If we can't trust google, who can we trust?
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Hey Nerds! I’m Abi, a physicist in the last year of my PhD at the University of Oxford. My research is related to atomic and laser physics and particle acceleration in plasma. I talk about the science of scifi and explain speculative physics across my social media channels.
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Black Holes: A brief introduction | Event Horizon Month
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Black Holes are some of the biggest and most mysterious objects in space. So what are the main things that make up a black hole? The singularity, the event horizon and the accretion disk. Let's talk about them. We’re on a journey to explore the science in the movie event horizon, you don’t need to watch all the videos to know what’s going on, but if you want to follow the background science in ...
Scientist Reacts to Event Horizon! | Event Horizon Month
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Have you ever seen that famous christmas movie Event Horizon?!? Wait, did I get my months wrong? Oopps. Anyway, welcome to my first ever Reaction Video! I had a lot of fun doing this even if I was completely freaked out most of the time. I think my creep counter is low for the level of trauma this movie brings me. If there's any science topics you want covered during this series let me know. An...
Scientist or Trope? How does pop culture shape how we view scientists in the real world?
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This is something I've been thinking about for a while now. If your only knowledge of scientists is through what you see on the screen, then how do you connect that with the real world? If we as audiences are repeatedly exposed to portrayals of scientists as reckless, morally questionable and out of touch, it can present a skewed idea of real science and contribute to public distrust in the com...
How much of Idiocracy can we see in America today? | Pop Science
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How much of Idiocracy can we see in America today? | Pop Science
What we know so far: Season One Recap | SIlo Month
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What we know so far: Season One Recap | SIlo Month
6 Catastrophic Events That Could Force Humans to Live Underground | Silo Month
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6 Catastrophic Events That Could Force Humans to Live Underground | Silo Month
It's all about Silo this month! November Topic Introduction
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It's all about Silo this month! November Topic Introduction
Is there such a thing as a time particle? | Q&A #gravity
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Is there such a thing as a time particle? | Q&A #gravity
The Deutsch Proposition and the Quantum Time Travel of Avengers Endgame
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The Deutsch Proposition and the Quantum Time Travel of Avengers Endgame
Quantum Time Travel: Speculative ideas in physics that lead to science fiction stories #quantum
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Quantum Time Travel: Speculative ideas in physics that lead to science fiction stories #quantum
What speed does a rocket need to escape the gravity of the Sun? | Nerd Math
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What speed does a rocket need to escape the gravity of the Sun? | Nerd Math
'Hard' vs 'Soft' Scifi? How many science fiction genres are there?
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'Hard' vs 'Soft' Scifi? How many science fiction genres are there?
Is The Hail Mary the fastest ship in the universe? | Gambons Run Episode 5 #andyweir
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Is The Hail Mary the fastest ship in the universe? | Gambons Run Episode 5 #andyweir
Is this the most iconic SciFi movie of all time? | Science Review
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Is this the most iconic SciFi movie of all time? | Science Review
Is The Heart of Gold the fastest ship in the Universe? | Gambons Run Episode 4
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Is The Heart of Gold the fastest ship in the Universe? | Gambons Run Episode 4
Scientist vs Moonfall: Top 5 worst science moments | Bad Science
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Scientist vs Moonfall: Top 5 worst science moments | Bad Science
Is Red Dwarf the fastest ship in the Universe? Definitely not! | Gambons Run Episode 3 #reddwarf
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Is Red Dwarf the fastest ship in the Universe? Definitely not! | Gambons Run Episode 3 #reddwarf
Where do the Aliens from A Quite Place come from? | Scifi Science
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Where do the Aliens from A Quite Place come from? | Scifi Science
Is The Millennium Falcon the fastest ship in the Universe?| Gambons Run Episode 2 #starwars
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Is The Millennium Falcon the fastest ship in the Universe?| Gambons Run Episode 2 #starwars
Cryptoterrestrials and Headline clickbait | Bad Science
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Cryptoterrestrials and Headline clickbait | Bad Science
Is the USS Enterprise: NCC-1701 the fastest ship in the Universe? | Gambons Run Episode 1 #startrek
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Is the USS Enterprise: NCC-1701 the fastest ship in the Universe? | Gambons Run Episode 1 #startrek
Quantum Superposition, Cold Atoms and how CONSTELLATION uses Schrodingers cat | Science Explained
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Quantum Superposition, Cold Atoms and how CONSTELLATION uses Schrodingers cat | Science Explained
How fast does the Hermes need to rotate to have gravity? | Nerd Math
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How fast does the Hermes need to rotate to have gravity? | Nerd Math
The physics of an Aurora | Mini Physics
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The physics of an Aurora | Mini Physics
A trip to Mars with The Martian | Science Explained
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A trip to Mars with The Martian | Science Explained
The physics of hyperspace! Random bonus content for a special day!
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The physics of hyperspace! Random bonus content for a special day!
Does the Death Star have gravity? | Nerd Math
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Does the Death Star have gravity? | Nerd Math
Nuclear Radiation and Suviving the Apocalypse with Fallout | Science Explained
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Nuclear Radiation and Suviving the Apocalypse with Fallout | Science Explained
3 Body Problem: What is a Syzygy and can it actually drag people into the sky? | Mini Science
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3 Body Problem: What is a Syzygy and can it actually drag people into the sky? | Mini Science

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  • @Stuff_And_Things
    @Stuff_And_Things 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    I was amazed when I saw the image of a black hole taken by the ETH years after this movie, at how accurately the movie got it. And of course, the trick to flying is to throw yourself at the Earth and miss. ;)

  • @Stuff_And_Things
    @Stuff_And_Things 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Now I want to watch your video on Moonfall but you haven't created one. Create a video on Moonfall. ;)

    • @popculturescientist
      @popculturescientist 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      I do. It's in the bag science playlist

    • @Stuff_And_Things
      @Stuff_And_Things 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @@popculturescientist Thanks.

  • @Fearrange
    @Fearrange 7 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Yah, really don’t like that when business and marketing are involved, corporation goes far beyond including a buzzword. Would like to see a video to learn about some methods that can potentially prove the existence of the multiverse.

  • @typicalvegantrucker
    @typicalvegantrucker 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Thank you! I love that I understood this entire video! 😃

  • @Farmfield
    @Farmfield 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    This idea isn't Google's, it was actually Geordi Rise, one of the founders of D-Wave that used to "explain" quantum computing as being performed in multiple universes, so yeah, I'm almost certain it came from that. And it was simply used to create buzz - stupid PR hype doesn't say anything about their beliefs, just how that they are good at PR, seeing everyone is talking about this. 😆

    • @popculturescientist
      @popculturescientist 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      I explain in the video that Hugh Everett III first proposed many worlds and it was David Deutsch who first suggested the connection between quantum computation across many worlds.

    • @Farmfield
      @Farmfield 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @popculturescientist Ah, ok, I missed that. I only heard it from Giordie Rose, but it was an obvious buzz thing, his whole talk was like that. And we're talking about when D-Wave presented their first quantum computer, so maybe 15 years ago...

  • @duanejones3396
    @duanejones3396 15 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    It can though

    • @popculturescientist
      @popculturescientist 15 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Can you explain the Physics of how?

  • @VenusAviv
    @VenusAviv 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    So they’re super confident about speculation?

    • @VenusAviv
      @VenusAviv 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Thank you for explaining this, it’s nice to know someone we can trust has our back.

    • @popculturescientist
      @popculturescientist 15 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Thank you!!

  • @hussainibrhim1325
    @hussainibrhim1325 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    The level at which the quantum chip Willow will reduce errors will be exponential . I was personally excited and shocked to hear willow chips announcement. Btw great video learned alot .

  • @hussainibrhim1325
    @hussainibrhim1325 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Wow .

  • @MrOcelot375
    @MrOcelot375 วันที่ผ่านมา

    don’t mean to be that guy but Corus’c’ant has a silent C. great video though!

  • @IAmGeeSnap
    @IAmGeeSnap วันที่ผ่านมา

    oo thought you'd show the work lol nicely described

  • @DdiiaabbllooBlanco
    @DdiiaabbllooBlanco วันที่ผ่านมา

    In Star Wars the lower the number on hyperdrive. The faster it goes. So a .5 is much faster than a 2 for example.

  • @glengjea7426
    @glengjea7426 วันที่ผ่านมา

    🙂

  • @ResurgentLight777
    @ResurgentLight777 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Fake news goblin.

    • @popculturescientist
      @popculturescientist 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      It's ok that you don't understand it.

    • @ResurgentLight777
      @ResurgentLight777 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @popculturescientist Oh, I understand it plenty. It's actually quite easy to understand when you don't stand under the dogmatic cult indoctrination of a "science" that intentionally holds humanity back in order to perpetuate a Truman show slave world where it costs money to live. But anyways, you want proof... look at a thunderstorm. You do know lightning is electricity right? Please explain where that electricity comes from? Can you also please explain the phenomenon of ball lighting? Oh, and what exactly is plasma?

    • @popculturescientist
      @popculturescientist วันที่ผ่านมา

      Lightening is plasma. Plasma is a gas where the electrons are not bonded to the protons so they move around each other very fast. The motion created electric and magnetic fields but as there are equal electrons to protons in a plasma al it's a net neutral charge.

    • @ResurgentLight777
      @ResurgentLight777 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @popculturescientist haha okay, but the fact is you can go watch a demonstration of a thunderstorm generator working on a gas powered generator. Maybe you could go do that and explain how it works since you're the expert. Please and thank you

  • @DanDroidx
    @DanDroidx 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    "She'll make point five past lightspeed." This is the only canonical comment about the Millennium Falcon's speed. Everything else is from the books, which Lucas said were never canon even before Disney bought Star Wars.

  • @Cuppies9
    @Cuppies9 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    You call that a equation? That's the Whole Tutorial on how to noclip on walls made from numbers

  • @UnclejohnnyNYC
    @UnclejohnnyNYC 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thank you. Trying to stay nerdy :)

  • @sassysteveartist
    @sassysteveartist 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Love this film so much, for the sheer creep factor, the exquisite visual ethos and the committed acting which sells the story all the way to the end!

  • @sassysteveartist
    @sassysteveartist 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Hilarious reaction vid! And one of the most spine-chilling Cosmic Horror films of all time - great choice!

  • @glengjea7426
    @glengjea7426 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    👏👏👏👏👏

  • @emilianoborselli9787
    @emilianoborselli9787 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    So basically white holes are like vegan lasagna 😂😂😂

    • @digitalvei
      @digitalvei 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Dude...

  • @ProfessorFiore
    @ProfessorFiore 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The best explanation I’ve heard yet

  • @ResonantRuse
    @ResonantRuse 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The energy value is not zero. If it were, we would not detect fluctuations. We don't know the value, but we know it isn't zero. Howard is a moron, but ZPE is real.

    • @popculturescientist
      @popculturescientist 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I said that we don't know what the energy value is and it might be zero. The assumption you're making is that a fluctuation means a positive value. But as they flucutate in and out of existence the question is if the total value averages out to zero as the vacuum is in a state of equilibrium. I never at any point said that ZPE isn't real, I am merely pointing out that it is not in anyway a free energy source.

    • @ResonantRuse
      @ResonantRuse 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @popculturescientist fair. Have you read "The Field" by Lynne McTaggart by chance?

  • @robpembridge3057
    @robpembridge3057 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Definitely do more sci-fi film reaction videos .

  • @louminarty
    @louminarty 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Red dwarf: a white hole?

  • @vibhishan790
    @vibhishan790 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thnks for such type of wonderful explanation

  • @modifiedjaymill
    @modifiedjaymill 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    So the proof we seen if the small box powering multiple things was a scam. I guess the guy faked his death like all the others too.

  • @dazzling2012
    @dazzling2012 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Haven't seen you for ages! Welcome back!

  • @Rhadagar
    @Rhadagar 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thanks for this.

  • @hussainibrhim1325
    @hussainibrhim1325 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Why did you changed the name of the channel ?.Pop culture scientist was a cool name. As a viewer I have the right to ask this question .

    • @popculturescientist
      @popculturescientist 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I didn't change the name. The channel and handle is all still Pop Culture Scientist. But i'm displaying my name so that people know who I am.

    • @hussainibrhim1325
      @hussainibrhim1325 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @popculturescientist cool😎. Its a great idea .

  • @LutherOwens1983
    @LutherOwens1983 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    A discussion of black holes on my birthday. Yay!!!

  • @hussainibrhim1325
    @hussainibrhim1325 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thanks for explaining accretion disk. Really appreciate it . Hope you recover quickly . Thanks and respect for your dedication towards your work .

  • @glengjea7426
    @glengjea7426 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    🙂

  • @switzerlandful
    @switzerlandful 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    What i dont get is... at one point, the ships portal opens, and Justin gets sucked thru a stargate... but later, the ship makes an actual wormhole in space, which sucks the entire ship through.

    • @popculturescientist
      @popculturescientist 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I believe this is because the magentic rings hold the portal stable, but later they blow up the ship which means the portal is not constrained so it stays open until it collapses.

  • @jeffreymcrae3853
    @jeffreymcrae3853 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I hope you feel better soon 🤔

  • @johnpolack9168
    @johnpolack9168 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Great video! Love this show. Season 2 is shaping up nicely. I bought the first book and am working my way through it in parallel to watching. The setting is great and leaves me with soooo many questions, I love when a piece of fiction has me asking questions. Keep up the great content, cheers!

  • @PsiCorps85
    @PsiCorps85 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    13:33, IDK, it would be interesting if there were like at least 3 sets of 3-space dimensions: ours, Hell's, & Heaven's. Something like that anyways.

  • @PsiCorps85
    @PsiCorps85 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    5:29 "why are there spikes in the wall?!" I figured it was like focusing lines of flux into the core or something along those lines, apart from the spike aesthetic of doom of course.

  • @daniscum1732
    @daniscum1732 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Totally love your ick face, would love your reaction to Martyrs

  • @AlexandruCarjan
    @AlexandruCarjan 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    A variant is someone who diverted from the sacred timeline thus creating a new branch reality, the sacred timeline is supposed to be the only one, so everybody in it is the only one that is supposed to exist, so hence they are not variants. Variants do not exist unless other timelines exist, timelines are not created for variants, variants create new timelines

  • @patrickwheeler5701
    @patrickwheeler5701 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    yeah the whole film falls apart if they listened to ellen ripley and they wasn't hungry for money

  • @swordmonkey6635
    @swordmonkey6635 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Event Horizon is a lowkey prequel to the Warhammer 40K universe. Humans discover The Warp and Chaos shows them some new party tricks.

    • @VespoLiveGaming
      @VespoLiveGaming 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Event Horizon explores the Perils of the Warp.

  • @stevencavanagh7990
    @stevencavanagh7990 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    There is a certain community that refuses to believe Event Horizon is anything but a Warhammer 40,000 pre-curser to that franchise Warp Travel. Despite the Director and everyone else saying it's not, that's just Heresy Talk LOL

  • @justaguyfromeurope
    @justaguyfromeurope 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The fact that the blast didn't obliterate the small child and didn't even knock her hat off, even though it totaled what are heavy duty glass doors and knocked over the people inside the house on that hill (AFAIR), completely took me out of it, to the verge of giving up on the show. I mean... that is of The Acolyte ridiculousness levels.

    • @popculturescientist
      @popculturescientist 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      It's one of the coolest shots in the whole show. plus it's entirely possible that the frequency of the sound wave matched the frequency of the glass in a way that shattered it without harming the child. Just think about opera singers breaking glasses with their voice. The people falling down in the house is more from shock of the sudden sound. The child new the blast wave was coming, that's the whole thumb thing.

    • @justaguyfromeurope
      @justaguyfromeurope 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@popculturescientist If you look up the definition of "COPIUM" on Urban Dictionary, there's a screenshot of your comment there. Admit you missed it or didn't want to openly criticize it for some odd reason, rather than stretching things to a level that makes the Fallout show seem feasible. Neil DeGrasse Tyson on Bill Mahr's show levels of nonsense here. Jesus christ...

  • @vidiveniviciDCLXVI
    @vidiveniviciDCLXVI 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Me my mother and step father went to watch this when it came out, my mum walked out 40 mins into the movie. She just couldn't handle it.