Unidentifiable stellar object stumps astrophysicists
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Today we’ll talk about Einstein, who was right again, metals that heal, a new type of stellar object, a quantum drum, how conscious awareness comes about, maybe, a better way to tell apart alien signals from boring human signals, a hot spot on the moon, illegal trade of hazardous chemicals, and of course, the telephone will ring.
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00:00 Intro
00:31 Einstein Was Right, Again
04:34 Metals that Heal
06:11 A New Type of Stellar Object
07:36 A Laser-cooled Quantum Drum
09:30 Fallout from US Nuclear Bomb Tests Spread Farther Than Thought
11:19 How does conscious awareness work?
13:46 Better Filters for Alien Signals
15:35 Hotspot on the Moon
17:32 Illegal trade of hazardous chemicals
18:46 Learn Science on Brilliant
#science #sciencenews - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
I've been re-watching some of Sabine's older videos lately, and I'd like to compliment on her improved English. It's not that her older English ability was bad, but it has improved. She sounds completely comfortable in it today. Congratulations Sabine.
Thanks for the feedback. It's a constant pain 😅
@@SabineHossenfelderI would say the same about German it's too hard for me. I do like their nouns very long.
"General relativity" is a tounge twister. Being German myself I admire how you bravely say it at least 50 times in each video 😂
i just want to LEARN and i love her accent. i need brush up on German. i loved being in Germany and the people and lifestyles are wonderful and how i live my life today.
@@robertkaminski9315 I love her accent too. Probably because it reminds me of my German great grandparents.
In regards to the fallout maps, I was in grade school in the late fifties. During the 57-59 time period, we were asked to donate our ‘baby’ teeth. Cesium looks like Calcium. By collecting the teeth, they were able to conduct a mass autopsy on the first 8-10 years of population. I lived in St. Louis, MO. The Philippe map shows a ‘hot’ spot in southern Illinois and Missouri and western Kentucky. There are several small signals on the east coast. I’m didn’t hear how the authors identified fallout. It’s disjoint areas, which makes me suspicious of the quality of the data. It’s interesting that it took 60 years to report their findings.
If they had found out earlier, goverment had to pay a lot more compensation. Those who lived in 1945 are at least 78 years old now, so many of them have passed away already and remaining ones will do so in a couple of years.
Artifacts of WWII-era radioisotope refining locations Weldon Springs, Missouri (on the Missouri River) and Portsmouth, Ohio (across from Kentucky on the Ohio River), both of which drain into the Mississippi River at or near the hot spot).
@@stevejohnson1685Thank you.
After British atomic tests and fallout across Australian capital cities, Australian school children were given free milk, and bone samples from deceased children were sent to England for testing for caesium. Apparently the cows ate the grass, so giving school kids free milk made sure everybody got the same does, or something.
As conspiracy theorist as it sounds, this actual conspiracy was revealed by a Royal Commision, and is detailed in the non-fiction book 'Maralinga' by journalist Frank Walker.
@@traumflug Trust me, they have found out. And they willfully ignored the results.
I really appreciate your effort to deliver such a great work with high credibility and reliability, Thank you Dr. Sabine!
Doesn't learning and rhetro spect violate introphy
@@osmosisjones4912 No. Local increases are allowed within a closed system.
I enjoyed her use of the final fantasy victory theme
Unfortunately the presentation has become juvenile.
and humorous
Wow almost a million subs. This channel has come a long way.
With all the annoyance & trepidation that Sabine shows each time she answers the telephone, it's surprising that she continues to be so enthusiastic each time she says "and of course the telephone will ring."
@@dr5290 : Or to match her later demeanor during the gag, she could sigh with resignation or grit her teeth when she says "and of course the telephone will ring."
That's just how we answer the phone in Germany
It's that German stoicism. You know it'll hurt, but we are made of stronger stuff, ya?
Sabina exercises a sly, wicked, contrarian sense of humor. "Lord, I pray thee render my critics *ridiculous*."
@@uncleal : I appreciate her sense of humor too. What's your point? It's not her humor that I critiqued.
The way I heard it, scientists in the northeastern United States were concerned about widespread fallout from open-air nuclear tests.
They took detailed air samples and actually discovered airborne plutonium that could have only come from the nuclear tests in the southwestern United States. Their work helped get the first nuclear test band treaty passed, which mandated that all nuclear tests had to be conducted underground.
But they also found surprisingly large amounts of lead in the air. This eventually led to the end of the use of leaded gasoline.
As someone around back then (1970s), the use of leaded gasoline in motor vehicles in the USA was only discontinued because it it damaged catalytic converters which became mandatory in 1975 to control CO and HC emissions. Leaded remained available at gas stations for older cars through the 1980s.
Had it not been incompatible with catalytic converters, leaded gasoline would have continued to be used until January 1,1996 when it was banned by a specific new EPA rule under the Clean Air Act. But probably the only reason that the EPA was able to pass that new regulation was becasue leaded gasoline had become pretty much unavailable in gas stations becasue few pre-1975 cars were still around.
Of course, in today's political milieau , new regulations like this would be nearly impossible.
We still use leaded fuel in avgas 100LL, used in General Aviation. As a result, homes and schools near airports have exceptionally high levels of lead compared to other areas around cities.
@@franklittle8124this isnt remotely true.
There's a cool story of how Kodak accidentally detected nuclear fallout hundreds of kilometers away from secret testing sites, because radiation damaged their sensitive XRay films. Cool, but also creepy!!
hundreds could be a problem thousands it could be trace not worth worrying about levels lower than a X ray exam.
@@milferdjones2573 Maybe,but the X ray exam lasts 1-2 seconds of exposure,not an entire life. Secondly,you don't eat or drink the Xray machine either.
The best science news channel by far! Thanks Sabine!
The Final Fantasy VII Victory Fanfare soundbite has cemented me as a loyal fan of Sabine for life.
Whether it is Sabine herself or a paid editor it don't matter. Loyalty comes in strange ways.
rechecked the fanfare -- well ok its the same as for FFX so i really know it by heart -- and still i dont see how u hear THAT in hear news alert ...
@@eyeofthasky lol. Well the clip I felt that I heard was the original 1997 FFVII Victory Fanfare. I could be wrong. But very similar.
I'm a lifetime FF player and I literally have played them all. With only not finishing FFXI and not finishing FFXIV. I'm actually right near the end of FFXVI as I make this comment and I suspect I will finish it within a few more hours.
It is by far the darkest FF title besides perhaps Stranger of Paradise but I'd still say some elements of XVI make it a darker title. In fact I would say it's easily one of the darkest rpgs ever. It's blown my mind and really has surprised me more than a few times.
Anyways ya, as a lifer to FF it's hard for me to not notice a connection to any of the games. The only game or series I actually like more is the Xeno series with Xenosaga being my favorite, than Xenogears. After that it's a cross between FFVI and FFVII. And now it's probably going to be FFXVI for number 5.
@@truecrescent00013 Which is the best Final Fantasy.
@@LionKimbro lol Are you asking for my opinion or telling me that FFVII is the best? It's always been hard for me to decide for a few reasons.
FFIV was my first FF I ever played. I was actually really young and hated it the first time. Couldn't stand all the reading and I felt like there was no action. Than randomly, and I mean completely randomly one day I thought about and I felt like giving it another go. So I rented it and started liking it.
Than I saw previews for FFVII probably a year before the Playstation was even released and loved what I saw. So I had my parents buy a Final Fantasy game for me for the snes. I couldn't remember if it was FF2 or FF3 (IV or VI) I thought it was 3 so I wanted to finish it. My parents bought it and I was so confused. But I fell in love with it pretty quick even tho it took me a couple hours into the game to get over my madness of getting the wrong one.
So FFVI was my first one I beat. Than it was IV. Than it was VII. But FFVI holds a certain nostalgia to me and I think it has the best music. It also has 2 of my favorite characters in a FF game. Terra and Locke. Locke has the most heartbreaking and incredible story of any game in my opinion.
But I had some incredible time with FFVII . Plus I was a little older and the music was amazing too. I loved the story tho I didn't even understand completely I still loved it.
It's a mix between VI and VII for me. The VII Remake I love and I love what they are doing with it. Tifa in the Remake has actually became my new favorite FF character. When it's finally complete I might love the Remake more than the original. But it really is hard to choose between VI and VII. If I had to choose tho. I choose VI.
@@truecrescent00013 You have given the correct answer.
Whoever does the sound effects, I love you almost as much as I love Final Fantasy
Thank you for the science news.
I am totally referring to my next disagreement with a loved one as "fatigue cracks" lol.
I pissed myself laughing at 6:37
"Naturally they named it GPM J1839-10 and asked their mum if they could keep it"
😅😂😂
Sitting here, a grown man, seeing your build, hearing your words, and truthfully can't decide if I could beat you in a fight
its a testament to how good you are at the telephone joke that it only now really occurred to me youve been going the same gag for like a year, and its never felt forced
The transitional sound between subjects caught me until I learned that new episodes will be in audio-only for other platforms.
Way to go!
Another good video Sabine, always good to hear you. I love studying astrophysics. Travis X
I appreciate you and the other science educators efforts to help us be informed. Yours I like for the quick and easily digested updates. The phone calls are a great running gag too 😁. Keep up the good work. For unhoused people like myself it is a huge help with keeping informed while having extremely limited resources.
Oh, wow...
Hey, not bagging you, but WORK ON NOT staying homeless.
I have been there.
It is a mistake to just "cruise"...
Don't mind the radiation its not as bad as the lead from the gasoline.
Both , however , are gluten free , so we have that going for us at least .
Is it just me or is there an extraordinary amount of interesting topics this week? I needed this since I just heard the news about what will happen in the Atlantic Ocean by 2025 if things don't improve.
Picking two topics from this week's episode to comment on here, I'll have to leave out the two that work so well as daydream material of my favorite sci-fi novel that's writhing itself in my head- manufacturing space stuff in space using cold welding on the dark side of the moon.
As for "how does consciousness work" (that's funny because it's about knowing something about the thing you know stuff about with) it introduces a new model complimentary of a previous model both of which I previously knew nothing about. Anyway, lots of corollaries there with theoretical linguistics about the origins of language.
Although it was introduced as some sort of MEMS (Microelectromechanical systems) device you might find in a smartphone (which I'm really interested in) the "laser cooled quantum drum" made my day thinking of how lasers could be used to phase oppositionally vibrate materials to make the atoms of those materials become more still thus cooling them. The idea of reducing lasers to microscopic size to cool miniscule pieces of various materials to measure environmental effects is really exciting. Although reducing the size of the laser wouldn't be necessary, it would seem reducing it to be small enough to be directly effected by the temperature of the target material could reduce a lot of the internal circuitry.
Her little word play with ‘masses’ as ‘muscles’ had me dyin ngl
Waiting for your take on superconductor which works in Room temperature and ATP . Thank you..
I love your sarcasm. „and naturally they called it [incomprehensible and random string of numbers and letters] and asked their mom if they could keep it”
Wonderful combination of information and, dare I say it, entertainment. Her Pixie's reference suprised me. I was a drummer in a punk-band in early 90s and our mindset was very a pixyish.
A little bit of a mistake to call them THE Pixies instead of just Pixies, otherwise yes.
Scientists develop better way to find alien communications.
Message received: "Take me to your A.I."
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@SabineHossenfelder, please have a look on the Brazilian research project from Campinas University over the use of Agave to produce alcohol in a semi-desert area in Brazil. The project is in a very advanced stage and has demonstrated cabon negative impact to produce the alcohol, and would not compete in space with food crops as the sugar cane does. The project is called Brave.
color me shocked that fallout from nuclear bombs would travel hundreds of miles
Ya, and all this time I thought the gov was over estimating just to be safe! 😂
@@slo3337 That would work, if they gave a crap, which they do not.
@@slo3337 Lol they covering their dumb asses
dont say this out loud the pronuke lunes will lose their shit
Finally I can buy some CFC for my old leaky refrigerator.
Science news mixed with comedy? I love this channel.
Hello Sabine, thank you so much for these news videos. You have the best science channel on TH-cam!
Sabine, you may not think you're funny but anyone who references the Pixies has a cool sense of humor! Love you ... 🤩
Just discovered Sabine’s videos today and I’ve been binging. Spectacular
Wow, that nuclear bomb test research is so important these days, and the timing is good with the release of the movie „Oppenheimer“. I also appreciate that the government narrative was scientifically questioned. The consciousness research is also very interesting.
there are still pro nuke nuts and pro nuclear weapons nuts who trot out 1940s gov falsehoods about nuclear radiation
So, what did mom say? Can we keep it? 😂
Another video with rich content. Good topics. Thanks for producing this.
Loved the video, Sabine, as always!
I'd love to see a video comparing the different popular scientific theories of consciousness, such as Integrated Information Theory, Global Workspace Theory, Active Inference and the free energy principle, the CEMI (conscious electromagnetic information) theory of McFadden, the Minimal Physicalism theory of Chris Fields.and maybe some others discussed by the neuroscience community.
I believe it was Professor Greene who said, ‘Newton gave us seven significant digits and Einstein gave us seven more.’
Ie?
@@neon_Nomad I don’t speak French.
@@neon_Nomad ber
@@neon_Nomadmm😅
an ancient legend defined the meaning of life as "go forth be fruitful and multiply". probably applies to the secret of eternal life as well
Thank you again for your great work getting us the news and salt. 👍
The reason the washing machine starts working when the repairman is there is because of Quantum Bogon Dynamics.
There are two types of particles for this, Bogons and Cluons. People who are knowledgeable about things are surrounded by a cloud of Cluons. People who aren't are surrounded by Bogons. So the machine gathers a lot of Bogons over time, which cause it to malfunction. Only by introducing a slew of Cluons can this field be overcome. So the presence of an expert negates the Bogon field while they are around.
Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk on QBD.
Real scientists rock Bakelite phones
Thanks Sabine looking forward to this kind regards Paul ☕☕🙏
Can’t prove this. I worked as an environmental lab manager in Ohio. A person who worked for Kodak film company related this info. The outdoor testing of A-bombs…Kodak would be informed of the testing date, even though “secret”. Why? It seems that leaves from corn crops (Indiana) was used as packing material and a batch of Kodak X-ray film was “fogged” when attempted use at medical facilities. The corn leaves had a high radiation count and corrupted the X-ray film made by the company. To prevent corruption due to wind dispersal of radiation from the southwestern USA, Kodak was informed of testing. How true is this? Made sense.
As for the treaty to stop out door nuclear testing, this was to “prevent further escalation” of animosity between USSR and USA. In actuality, it was discovered that these tests were poisoning their citizens…cancer rates were going up all over their countries. Nothing like slapping lipstick on a pig!
8:07 You forgot to mention the main idea behind such an invention. You can tell gravity apart from acceleration with this. As it would be continuously vibrating if you're accelerating continuously. There really is no other way from telling those apart as they behave the same in all reference frames. So to mention a use-case, let's imagine you're in a space pod above our atmosphere, you can't tell by pressure what your altitude is, you can't know your speed and don't feel turbulence. With this tool, you can know whether you're falling to the planet because you'd accelerate according to this thingy (whereas under normal level flight there'd be zero acceleration otherwise it would be a time-crystal per definition).
Really very interesting, thank you again ❤
Sabine - I just wanted to tell you that over the last year or so, you've become my absolute favorite science communicator. I wish I could support you on Patreon or here (or even subscribe to Brilliant) but as I am not able, I just want you to know how much I appreciate what you do.
Also - I can't find your podcast on Google podcasts. Can you provide a link?
I identify it as a Stellar Object. What more do you want from me Sabine? You already took my heart.
Rather than "how conscious awareness comes about" I think a better description of the work is "where activity associated with consciousness is located in the brain", the study says nothing about how the phoneme of consciousness comes to be.
I so wish you was my science teacher in school as i loved science but didn't have the motivation and a great teacher like you . Please dont ever change Sabine because you are a the rock star of science and physics, witty and a amazing brain with the ability to put it in a enjoyable layman's terms for ppl like me RESPECT.
Appreciate the podcast option 🙌
One of the most valuable content creators on YT, hands down! Looking forward to any new video from you!
Thank you so much for your great content! Will you be talking about the new LK-99 superconductor in a future video or will you wait for the dust to settle down?
+1000 awesome points for dropping a Pixies reference @Sabine.
They should study senior software engineers while they are debugging something. I recorded a video of myself and I could slightly hear my breathing. I noticed my breathing got pretty heavy, just from thinking deeply, when I got to a very cognitively demanding part. It would probably light up pretty brightly in an EEG, if my brain needed that much more oxygen.
Chomsky talked about a functional MRI (?) experiment where, IIRC, someone reading grammatically normal nonsense sentences used a very different part of their brain than for a non-grammatical sentence that could be understood as something meaningful. I wonder which kind of coding problems tickle different areas in a similar way.
i think that just comes from being severely overweight
@@Blox117 That wouldn't explain the change in pattern in the same person.
@@Llortnerof there is no change in pattern
@@Blox117 I'm not overweight though. I do pullups regularly, and walk over 16,000 steps a day (hours). My rest heart rate is excellent, usually below 60 bpm. On days off I often walk about 4.5 hours, about 25000 steps. I am completely healthy, don't smoke, and I don't take any medications.
Have literally just been on a boat tour of Loch Ness today and learned how cores taken from the sediment at the bottom of the Loch , 220m down, are radioactive from Chernobyl, and then deeper, radioactive again from US atomic tests during the 1950's 😮😮😮
Sabine. I am working on a theory. Geodesic of spacetime is really just a consequence of mass energy interaction, they pull on each others creating a field, this field will have high force points and low force point, the geodesic is simply the areas of least pull, or where a test mass exhert least energy per unit length. This is similar to underwater current and how the current is not a thing in itself.
Furthermore I propose time is not a thing either but a consequence of mass energy relativist motion. I been developing a model to rederive physic’s using a unit clock and map motion to it, an abstraction of time and you turn motion into 3d objects you can analyse.
About time there is no such thing no past no future. Imagine a jar of marbles, you build a pyramid and then tair it down and build another structure. Now is the pyramid now in some other dimension? No it’s in the jar it’s been disassembled and repurposed. I see it as like a rainbow it’s not a thing in itself but emergent from property of light.
I have allot of ideas so everyday I self study so that I one day can write papers and discuss my ideas and test them
I appreciate as always the news updates. Not sure what I think about the bumper music between segments.
The music is useful to separate the topics for audio listeners, it was mentioned in another post here.
",,, and of course telephone will ring" you are so hilarious, its a joy to watch your videos
On the phone she says 'hello' like an Aussie: 'Helloiioo'.
Despite healing, I think we can all agree that crack is bad.
YOU USED THE FINAL FANTASY VICTORY FANFARE I LOVE YOU SO MUCH
Thank you for your efforts to reach out with these heavy knowledge .
We wait every week till Wednesday night for a new vision and update.
Science for Dr. Sabina
Thanks for the nostalgia kick from ファンファーレ (Fanfare) at 0:41-0:43. 🙂
But which fanfare was it? Maybe from 7 since it is the most popular?
I'm commenting early for the algorithm. Great episode as always!
love your channel, thank you for your work!
Great idea for science news!!! Thank you
I just love the way sabine says "EINSTEIN"
Excellent show as always 👏 👍 👌
what my week revolves around: Sabine uploads!
I really enjoy your content, thank you Sabine.
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Surprising the fallout went against the prevailing winds/jet stream and out to NorCal
I'm amazed you haven't included the room-temperature superconductor news out of South Korea!
Awesome video, as always
This is wildly disconnected to the actual content of the video, but I am deeply amused by the addition of the intro music in-between segments. At 2x speed (my usual watching habit), it's like a harmless miniature jumpscare and I can't help but smile at it!
Finally! Podcasts 🎉
You are wonderful. Thank you for your posts
Really interested in Sabine's take on the superconductor news this week.
Sabine, could you talk about Japan's release of nuclear wastewater and whether it is safe or not?
Sabine is really cranking out the content lately
They told her to stop working on the gravity generator, so she’s got time on her hands.
highly doubt that she writes all those scripts herself.
And the jokes
Im either getting older, or Sabine is getting funnier
Or both?
*and ;)
Both are true
Hey Sabine, did you make the theme music for the show yourself? Love the show!!
she had me at "...asked their mum if they could keep it"...
I love your sense of humor. You don't have to be Dave Chappelle to crack a joke and your dead pan delivery is quite welcome.
I have a question for a physicist, perhaps Sabine, in combination with a geologist and/or paleontologist. If the earth was formed four billion years ago with a certain amount of radioactive elements, and these elements decay naturally over time resulting in lead, how radioactive was the earth when life forms started to emerge? And did it affect the evolution of life on earth? And what accounts for the remaining elements which have not decayed away? The earth would have to have been much more radioactive in the past to still have the quantity of uranium we currently see. Maybe a topic for a research paper that I would like to read.
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Crack superposition... Also uncertainty principle of consciousness (for now)
7:30 - it's like moving into a new place & finding a set of car-keys after your vehicle was just totalled. You've got 2 different sets of car keys, but you're not really sure what to do with them... yet.
You crack me up Sabine! Thanks for another great video
14:33 Interstellar MEDIUM? What about the Interstellar SMALL, LARGE and EXTRA-LARGE?
Amazing as always
I do wonder if we will ever find a way to measure the dryness of Sabine's humour. I propose use the Hossenfelder Unit if we ever do.
Love this!!!
I love your dry sense of humor !!!
where are the TimeStamps ? :) , thanks for the great educational content as always
Accomplished meditators have been talking about the fact there is something like a spotlight and something like a floodlight operating in parallel in our minds for centuries.
6:11 - A leak from alien communications or wireless energy transfer, obviously 😀
Well that explains a lot
Both theories of consciousness that Sabine mentions are limited to the individual brain. Larry Abbott, a physicist-turned-neuroscientist at New York's Columbia University, says “I think we could understand what every neuron in the brain is doing and we still won’t have an understanding of something like consciousness”. This article on the science site ResearchGate - eVTS (elliptical Vector-Tensor-Scalar) Geometry And Consciousness - suggests that consciousness, being an immaterial thing, will not be explained with particles and neurons and neurotransmitters. It will be unveiled through mathematics and reference to Artificial Intelligence.
We are taught that the graviton (the carrier of gravitation) is unrelated to the Higgs boson. According to the vector-tensor-scalar geometry presented here, the particles are indeed related: as are the gravitational field and the allegedly unrelated Higgs field. This idea of the consciousness in our brains being an excitation of the universal field agrees with mathematical physicist Roger Penrose and anesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff that consciousness involves quantum behaviour.
If every particle in the brain emerges from interaction of photons and gravitons, is it possible that this could liberate the human brain from being a Higgs-PARTICLE-like point in space-time constantly? Could consciousness also be capable of a Higgs-FIELD-like existence in which that consciousness expands throughout space-time to the same extent as the gravitational and electromagnetic fields whose excitations are gravitons and photons? In other words: the consciousness might be infinite.
certainly
That victory jingle from FF7 made my day :D