Ed embodies the humble, softly spoken, yet fiercely intellectual scientist, using his imagination to delve into the mystery of how the universe came to be. Putting out those Aristotelian 2.0 vibes.
I can imagine this man as actor playing serial killer talking about all his journey in jail ;) But seriously its pleasure to watch him explaining anything
Hi all - have seen comments for an against the text… I decided to write a little blog about it for those interested in the editing process… Link in the description.
Sixty Symbols I know I'm late on this reply, but my opinion on the the text is it would be perfect without the black background. Just the white text in a transparent layer on top of the video, perhaps smaller and to the side so it doesn't block the subjects face too much. As always thanks for your hard work on the videos!
love the longer format. perhaps there can be a balance struck between the short and long scale videos on this channel. also loved hearing him talk about exactly what he wanted to with minimal interruption, got to see a small window into how the professor's mental gears work. interesting how he said more than once that he continues and persists with this idea because of its "beauty". in a way i suppose artists and scientists aren't so different, they both deal in the constant struggle to convey truths. beauty seems to perhaps be a happy aftereffect. keep 'em coming Brady :)
I agree! And a lot of times the beauty is in the truth itself, as well as the approaches to discovering the truth, interpreting it, and even in simply the process itself. There's beauty as well in how the information is conveyed, represented, taught, talked about, joked about. Science is fundamentally a creative and artistic process, and just like art, science can be easily appreciated by most people if it's packaged the right way. However, just like art, there are also many things that are totally unapproachable except for the initiated. Can a layperson experience the feeling of playing a difficult piece on the guitar? That type of appreciation requires a specific technical ability. Science of course has many facets that are similarly difficult to appreciate.
ed's description at the end about how he would feel if strings didnt exist is just so amazing - we need more people like this. taking chances etc giving things a try. and if everyone took chances, not everyone would be right but its not about individual achievement its about humanity's achievement as a whole. so glad there are people who havent given up on string theory!
I play videos with Proffesor Ed on my phone as I sleep. His voice is like a warm blanket snuggling me to sleep. Plus, I swear I wake up each morning just a little bit smarter.
Ed is such an amazing person. I like his competence, his voice, that he is always smiling in enthusiasm and humility, how he can explain stuff, and that he blushes sometimes (note the red ears towards the end of the video). Such a brilliant and likeable person.
I love whenever professor Copeland talks about what he's passionate or excited about, he gets a huge grin on his face, even if I don't fully comprehend what it is.
Oh Please - more like this! Seriously - far more interesting to hear about the more advanced concepts - most of us are geeks and nerds, so we can follow. Loved the in depth explanation, I definitely see why all the enthusiasm to detect the defects now.
I really enjoyed this format. It's just such a Joy listening to Prof. Copeland. It would be great if there were more videos like this, with the other professors as well.
Nice and smooth explanation Prof. Ed. Mesmerized by your voice and again..again I just want to listen your speech. and thanks to Bro Brady posted this video. from Malaysia.
Ed Copeland is simply amazing. I can listen to him for hours... Great, great video again Brady!! I really appreciate your work and the professors willingness to talk about these subjects in a way that we can grasp the general idea. This is priceless for humanity!
The way Ed talks is extremely soothing and really makes you understand what he's saying or explaining. Some scientists/physicists speak in a rather smug or over confident way that is almost disengaging when they are trying to explain a point. Ed is the complete opposite and I could sit and listen to him explain anything for hours.
Ed seems like an amiable, charming fellow, happey for him winning the prize. Evan if no full comprehension of the advanced physics theories he speaks of, still enjoy the videos he is in.
Hi Brady! I would just like you to know I loved the text questions and here is why: Sometimes, or quite often, it seems like your own volume is somewhat lower than the people you are interviewing. This sometimes makes it difficult to hear exactly what the question was. With text there can be little doubt. Also it's always nice to have a more or less uninterrupted torrent of science from Prof. Copeland.
There should be a Professor Copeland radio station and website. I could listen to him forever, morning, noon and night. Thank you for the in depth video. I am grateful for your time. I do not understand cosmic superstrings but what I do understand is your dedication, focus and hard work that defines physics to me.
some quality material right there ! things are called with their names and the fact that there are doubts about them and passion about them gives me hope that we eventually figure this out ! It is nice to see scientists like professor Copeland walking us through cosmology and terms ! Just by watching this video one must gain some intelligence , getting to know what is out there is at the very least incredible and interesting !
I love professor Ed Copeland ...this is the best video explaining cosmic strings out there! and it is a mesmerizing watch worth watching a time or two extra, then revisited later.
dear brady, as an aspiring theoretical phys student. i so so so much wish that you can have the chance to interview ed witten!!!!! thanks for this video. its greattttt
5:00 ... so the object has to move to emit gravitational waves? Was just the presence of mass enough to bend space-time? Or are those gravitational waves something different completely?
My respect to the Prof. It takes all my knowledge to keep up with him, and these theories I have never heard of. I am SO looking forward to the other 2 videos. Please more LONG videos (like this one)!!
Love your channel and Professor Copeland's videos. Just started checking them out and am fascinated. Not a science person but these videos help me to understand. Thank you!
Could these cusps (not sure about how to write this..) I mean the ones that beam out gravitational waves be responsible for fast radio bursts, or are these not capable of loosing energy in the electromagnetic spectrum ?
I've gotten to the point where there's too much good TH-cam to watch -- and then I stumble on a video like this. Providing such a long, deep dive for the layman is incredible, Brady and Ed. I think this is some of your best work that I've seen.
I went to Nottingham (Russian Studies.... Oh dear), and I'm now very proud. Numberphile, Computerphile, and Sixty Symbols are all great educational tools for 'interested people' (in the spirit of my favourite place, the British Museum). Well done, and congratulations from one of many alumni. Nice!
After watching this numerous times followed by me crying myself to sleep over my brain's inability to fully understand this concept, I think that I'll be quite ready for one of the next parts now :) Congratulations on winning the medal. :)
Great video. Really appreciate the effort and talent to pull it off. Also just really enjoy this professor - great attitude and ability to explain complex topics. More please!
Love the explanation but the text was distracting. I wouldn't mind if they were animations supporting what the professor was explaining though. In fact animations would supplement the video.
Congratulation on getting the medal. Fantastic video I really appreciate the time and effort that has put in making this. I personally think that the result will end up being negative. However I love the work you are doing and I really do hope I am proven wrong.
Good work on the medal, quite impressive. I myself have been following the progression of string (M) theory for a number of years now, and I am quite impressed with the work that's been done so far. I believe your work should prove quite interesting, and I cant wait until you or others reach some conclusion on the theory,
15:40 'You're just making this stuff up aren't you?' So brilliant, and the way Ed just ignores it is as brilliant. Reminds me of some guy named Ockham who just made up a razor out of thin air. But he never proved that it existed.
Something which I find cool is that maybe in the future Ed Copeland is one of those big shot physicists/mathematicians like Einstein or Pythagoras. And you can look at him explain things about in a simple way on the old ancient youtube library. Exploring these old 1080p videos with these horribly low bitrates and they're not even shot in VR. And you get a sense of how mankind was in certain ways the same despite of how primitive their technology was. The idea is just amusing.
Should be possible to test in the space (with viscose liquids in a kind of zero-gravity pool, for instance) the gravitational "earthquake" effects looking for waves in these liquids or something like that to remove from the equation the tectonics or are we talking of important interactions only with heavier masses (or maybe the liquid would be also disturbed by any other kind of interactions that made it shake)? By the way, congratulations for the video and the well deserved prize!
I would love to sit & talk with him about these subjects. He explains it so I can grasp the ideas. I can't do the maths but the ideas are understandable.
I love scientists who work on less popular, riskier investments. Even if they don't pan out, we get to now know that, thanks to them. Not to mention all the other research and discovery generated by the pursuits. Someone has to do that work, and science as a whole benefits from it. We owe a lot to them.
I think it would be interesting if more complicated videos were uploaded, here or on another channel. Things like showing the evidence of experiments and observations instead of explaining it in lamens terms. Even though I'd likely not understand a second of it, it would still be cool learning to appreciate how much work you guys do.
amazing video, glad to see there is people like that out there trying to figure this stuff out. if they dont exist is there research on why they dont exist physics works in a way that if u dont find something that should be there then why isint it there?
Wow superstrings - apparently really interesting objects! Congratulations to Professor Ed Copeland on the medal. It is always a pleasure listen Prof. Copeland at Sixty Symbols!
+bruinflight The recent observation of gravitational waves is probably the most relevant breakthrough since this video was made. We will probably see some news about strings and other "hypothetical" bodies in the next few years from gravitational evidence.
Congratulation Ed! Thank you and Brady both for the videos. I'll have strings in my head for at least the remainder of my week and look forward to the next videos! I'm sure there's a cosmic cat joke to be made here too..
Thank you Professor Copeland! This was one of the most interesting lectures I have heard in quite a while. Interesting topic, and well explained! //Henrik,Sweden,Royal Institute of Technology.
Does the new data from BICEP2 (I'm watching this video a bit after you uploaded it) have any bearing on the search for cosmic superstings? I'm not a phyicist, but I noticed that Professor Copeland mentions at 18:37 that cosmic strings could create B-Mode polarizations, which BICEP2 has just found.
Fabulous talk. If strings can form over distances, then it is worth thinking about the possibility of strings formed between entangled particles as being mechanism of “spooky action at a distance”.
Brady, another great vid - I agree with others here - I like the longer format of the professors talking through the ideas and theories like this video.
Awewsome!!!! the magnificent universe that enfolds us all. Congratulations professor Copeland for your medal and the nice and happy way in which you explained to us such complex concepts in a quite comprehensible way Thanks a lot
one of the reasons i was never friends with physics in school was because of the ammount of "equation memorizing" that it involved... but since i started university (computer engineering) ive been reading up on modern physics without the pressure to "memorize or fail" ive been finding it so mezmerizing and interesting... I could probably watch videos like these for hours on end
thats one thing i find weird: some teachers make you memorize all the equations how i was taught was, you have a very small set of information and you just derive the equations. in gr. 11 we werent given an equation sheet cause you can just reason out all the simple equations (12 and 1st year were a bit harder... i still did it though cause it made my life easier) i literally went through high school up to most of first year without memorizing any equations but now i kind of have to because deriving them again during an exam takes too long, but its still easier to memorize things you understand fundamentally.
Congragulations on the medal. Would you consider making one of these long videos (> 10 min. lets say) once in every few months about the bleeding edge research they are doing ? of course if they are willing/have time to talk about it ?
I did like the text though, because as Brady says, it helps breaking the video into parts like subtitles and make it easier to pay attention to. They are like booster dose that help us raise awareness, which is an inverse function of video time. In long video like these it can 'revive' our focus so that we don't fall into a state of glazing. If the latter happened, we feel really guilty, and have to watch the thing all over again.
Hmmm. Strings. Well just like led string lights that someone would buy for their home and hook up to a controller maybe to visualize with out the movements or rotation. In the energy phases, like the faster lights, would that change the pionts in intersection when instead of crossing you would get welding and a joint formed? Would you have more higher energy events closer to the big bang and more joint welds that radiates thru rotation further from the big bang? So early on would the higher energy events thru cutting and then high energy gravitational waves have a more immidiate effect on expansion and then further away from the big bang there would be less chopping due to shorter lenghts of strings and more shapes of strings, more like spheres rotating and emitting more steady and uniform gravitational waves from the joints, thus being more in balance later on in expansion and providing a part of the reason we don't see the universe speeding up thru expansion?
I love how Professor Ed Copeland explain things.He is calm and radiates positive energy.
and gravitational waves
A gentle soul
Do a two winding with a wider rubber band and see 180° flip.
Ed embodies the humble, softly spoken, yet fiercely intellectual scientist, using his imagination to delve into the mystery of how the universe came to be. Putting out those Aristotelian 2.0 vibes.
instablaster
I love listening to Ed Copeland!
I love the idea that Ed Copeland sometimes gets quite angry.
Would’ve looked odd to me
I can imagine this man as actor playing serial killer talking about all his journey in jail ;) But seriously its pleasure to watch him explaining anything
I get the impression that if you were to genuinely disrespect him, he would destroy you.
Hes a passionate man
I get so excited when science videos are tens of minutes long. More of these the merrier :o.
Professor Ed is my favourite by far!
Hi all - have seen comments for an against the text… I decided to write a little blog about it for those interested in the editing process… Link in the description.
Sixty Symbols I know I'm late on this reply, but my opinion on the the text is it would be perfect without the black background. Just the white text in a transparent layer on top of the video, perhaps smaller and to the side so it doesn't block the subjects face too much. As always thanks for your hard work on the videos!
'FLOP AROUND'
THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH FOR THESE VIDEOS. I HAVWE LEARNED MORE ABOUT SCIENCE/PHYSICS AND OUR UNIVERSE FROM THESE VIDS THAN IN 16 SOME YRS IN SCHOOL
@Nonprophet, that wouldn't help point 2 very much. I prefer the black background
would it be possible that cosmic strings are flows of neutrinos or something
love the longer format. perhaps there can be a balance struck between the short and long scale videos on this channel.
also loved hearing him talk about exactly what he wanted to with minimal interruption, got to see a small window into how the professor's mental gears work.
interesting how he said more than once that he continues and persists with this idea because of its "beauty". in a way i suppose artists and scientists aren't so different, they both deal in the constant struggle to convey truths. beauty seems to perhaps be a happy aftereffect.
keep 'em coming Brady :)
I agree! And a lot of times the beauty is in the truth itself, as well as the approaches to discovering the truth, interpreting it, and even in simply the process itself. There's beauty as well in how the information is conveyed, represented, taught, talked about, joked about. Science is fundamentally a creative and artistic process, and just like art, science can be easily appreciated by most people if it's packaged the right way.
However, just like art, there are also many things that are totally unapproachable except for the initiated. Can a layperson experience the feeling of playing a difficult piece on the guitar? That type of appreciation requires a specific technical ability. Science of course has many facets that are similarly difficult to appreciate.
Speaking of beauty, have you heard of Perfect Fourths tuning? You may find it interesting.
ed's description at the end about how he would feel if strings didnt exist is just so amazing - we need more people like this. taking chances etc giving things a try. and if everyone took chances, not everyone would be right but its not about individual achievement its about humanity's achievement as a whole. so glad there are people who havent given up on string theory!
Congratulations on the medal as well!
I play videos with Proffesor Ed on my phone as I sleep. His voice is like a warm blanket snuggling me to sleep. Plus, I swear I wake up each morning just a little bit smarter.
I do the exact same thing
@@RedXFitness there's dozens of us!
Ed is such an amazing person. I like his competence, his voice, that he is always smiling in enthusiasm and humility, how he can explain stuff, and that he blushes sometimes (note the red ears towards the end of the video). Such a brilliant and likeable person.
No matter what the results are, the observations made while trying to understand this can be important for other theories.
I had to pause Brady just to say, this video's on screen text is fantastic. You are the best!
Loved the longer video format, more like this would be great!
University of Nottingham must be a great place to work! Every single person there seems so pleasant, genuine and knowledgeable.
I know it is not for everyone, but I love the longer videos that allow Dr. Copeland to go into slightly more detail on the subject. Keep them coming!
I love whenever professor Copeland talks about what he's passionate or excited about, he gets a huge grin on his face, even if I don't fully comprehend what it is.
Oh Please - more like this! Seriously - far more interesting to hear about the more advanced concepts - most of us are geeks and nerds, so we can follow. Loved the in depth explanation, I definitely see why all the enthusiasm to detect the defects now.
Prof. Copeland is such a joy to listen to. All of his videos exude a passion for physics that is genuinely contagious.
I really enjoyed this format. It's just such a Joy listening to Prof. Copeland. It would be great if there were more videos like this, with the other professors as well.
Would love a follow up on these videos with Ed!
Nice and smooth explanation Prof. Ed. Mesmerized by your voice and again..again I just want to listen your speech.
and thanks to Bro Brady posted this video.
from Malaysia.
Ed Copeland is simply amazing. I can listen to him for hours... Great, great video again Brady!!
I really appreciate your work and the professors willingness to talk about these subjects in a way that we can grasp the general idea. This is priceless for humanity!
diogo canina do you actually learn? So much info.
The way Ed talks is extremely soothing and really makes you understand what he's saying or explaining.
Some scientists/physicists speak in a rather smug or over confident way that is almost disengaging when they are trying to explain a point. Ed is the complete opposite and I could sit and listen to him explain anything for hours.
Ed seems like an amiable, charming fellow, happey for him winning the prize. Evan if no full comprehension of the advanced physics theories he speaks of, still enjoy the videos he is in.
Hi Brady! I would just like you to know I loved the text questions and here is why: Sometimes, or quite often, it seems like your own volume is somewhat lower than the people you are interviewing. This sometimes makes it difficult to hear exactly what the question was. With text there can be little doubt.
Also it's always nice to have a more or less uninterrupted torrent of science from Prof. Copeland.
There should be a Professor Copeland radio station and website. I could listen to him forever, morning, noon and night. Thank you for the in depth video. I am grateful for your time. I do not understand cosmic superstrings but what I do understand is your dedication, focus and hard work that defines physics to me.
The great thing about you guys is-you show the the original papers which helped me cite them in my work.
Professor Copeland is my favorite. He just has a knack of describing things and making them sound interesting. Congrats on the medal!
Loving the HD and the text format!
some quality material right there ! things are called with their names and the fact that there are doubts about them and passion about them gives me hope that we eventually figure this out ! It is nice to see scientists like professor Copeland walking us through cosmology and terms ! Just by watching this video one must gain some intelligence , getting to know what is out there is at the very least incredible and interesting !
I love the length of this episode! I can watch it while I am eating dinner :)
You should do more of those, I like the format. 30 mins is just about right.
I love professor Ed Copeland ...this is the best video explaining cosmic strings out there! and it is a mesmerizing watch worth watching a time or two extra, then revisited later.
Really good to hear Dr Copeland go into some detail. I would love to see more of these deeper expositions on Sixty Symbols
dear brady, as an aspiring theoretical phys student. i so so so much wish that you can have the chance to interview ed witten!!!!! thanks for this video. its greattttt
5:00 ... so the object has to move to emit gravitational waves? Was just the presence of mass enough to bend space-time? Or are those gravitational waves something different completely?
+Kavetrol pressence of mass is enough to bend it, movement (and quite specific movement) is enough for waves
Fantastic clarity of thought and expression!
My respect to the Prof.
It takes all my knowledge to keep up with him, and these theories I have never heard of. I am SO looking forward to the other 2 videos.
Please more LONG videos (like this one)!!
Sir I only wish I could reach even 1% of your accolade! You totally rock! Congratulations!!
The best half an hour ever. Will wait for next series and definitely will see it again. Thnx Brady, massively brilliant job.
Imagine my surprise and delight at seeing such a nice long video after reasonably long break :) Thankyou sixty symbols.
Love your channel and Professor Copeland's videos. Just started checking them out and am fascinated. Not a science person but these videos help me to understand. Thank you!
This one's going to take a couple of views to really sink in.
Congrats to Dr. Copeland for that medal!
Could these cusps (not sure about how to write this..) I mean the ones that beam out gravitational waves be responsible for fast radio bursts, or are these not capable of loosing energy in the electromagnetic spectrum ?
Professor Ed Copeland is my favorite professor on this channel.
So, what happens if a string passes the event horizon of a black hole? Is it like a kid eating spaghetti?
Well it will be much faster maybe :)
The string tension will probably break it.
I do know one interpretation suggests a time machine would be formed.
@Xavier: Which seems like further evidence that such strings don't exist.
Yes but the spaghetti becomes spaghettified.
Everything about this video is genius. Including the fullscreen quotes.
I've gotten to the point where there's too much good TH-cam to watch -- and then I stumble on a video like this.
Providing such a long, deep dive for the layman is incredible, Brady and Ed. I think this is some of your best work that I've seen.
I went to Nottingham (Russian Studies.... Oh dear), and I'm now very proud. Numberphile, Computerphile, and Sixty Symbols are all great educational tools for 'interested people' (in the spirit of my favourite place, the British Museum). Well done, and congratulations from one of many alumni. Nice!
After watching this numerous times followed by me crying myself to sleep over my brain's inability to fully understand this concept, I think that I'll be quite ready for one of the next parts now :)
Congratulations on winning the medal. :)
This interview was great. I look forward to the next two.
what is the man holding in the selfie at 0:14 seconds. Serious question . very intrigued, please respond
What a fantastic video, this is the kind of physics that really gets me all fired up, wow !
he needs to be in a podcast, his talks are mesmerising
One of the best sixty symbols videos so far and it reminds me of Stephen Baxter's novel "Ring"
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Great video. Really appreciate the effort and talent to pull it off. Also just really enjoy this professor - great attitude and ability to explain complex topics. More please!
Fantastic video Brady! keep em long, this is packed with some great stuff
Love the explanation but the text was distracting. I wouldn't mind if they were animations supporting what the professor was explaining though. In fact animations would supplement the video.
Congratulation on getting the medal. Fantastic video I really appreciate the time and effort that has put in making this. I personally think that the result will end up being negative. However I love the work you are doing and I really do hope I am proven wrong.
Good work on the medal, quite impressive. I myself have been following the progression of string (M) theory for a number of years now, and I am quite impressed with the work that's been done so far. I believe your work should prove quite interesting, and I cant wait until you or others reach some conclusion on the theory,
Channels like these are really great. Very grateful to be a subscriber. :)
15:40 'You're just making this stuff up aren't you?' So brilliant, and the way Ed just ignores it is as brilliant.
Reminds me of some guy named Ockham who just made up a razor out of thin air. But he never proved that it existed.
Awesome. Thanks for the long video.
What he explains seems so out of reality to me that it almost feels like I'm watching a drug addict going into a mad hysteria or something.. xD
Super stoked for the Professor!!! Congratulations to him for the award. I love these long ideas!!!
A half hour Sixty Symbols video... Christmas has come early!
Something which I find cool is that maybe in the future Ed Copeland is one of those big shot physicists/mathematicians like Einstein or Pythagoras. And you can look at him explain things about in a simple way on the old ancient youtube library. Exploring these old 1080p videos with these horribly low bitrates and they're not even shot in VR.
And you get a sense of how mankind was in certain ways the same despite of how primitive their technology was.
The idea is just amusing.
His explanation is fabulous. Enjoyed it.
At 4:57, "the strings radiate gravitational waves". If so, with the enormous mass of these strings, shouldn't LIGO detect them?
Should be possible to test in the space (with viscose liquids in a kind of zero-gravity pool, for instance) the gravitational "earthquake" effects looking for waves in these liquids or something like that to remove from the equation the tectonics or are we talking of important interactions only with heavier masses (or maybe the liquid would be also disturbed by any other kind of interactions that made it shake)?
By the way, congratulations for the video and the well deserved prize!
Is it possible that the FRB's we've discovered, could be coming from the string loop the prof talked about? around 16:00
At 28:07, Professor Copeland talks about his 'first work', I can't catch the name since he says it so fast. Can anyone tell me what he said?
I would love to sit & talk with him about these subjects. He explains it so I can grasp the ideas. I can't do the maths but the ideas are understandable.
I love scientists who work on less popular, riskier investments. Even if they don't pan out, we get to now know that, thanks to them. Not to mention all the other research and discovery generated by the pursuits. Someone has to do that work, and science as a whole benefits from it. We owe a lot to them.
And I just gotta say to Ed, it is awesome you taking up for Tom Kibble! ESPECIALLY since Tom came up with the Higgs mechanism.
I think it would be interesting if more complicated videos were uploaded, here or on another channel. Things like showing the evidence of experiments and observations instead of explaining it in lamens terms. Even though I'd likely not understand a second of it, it would still be cool learning to appreciate how much work you guys do.
amazing video, glad to see there is people like that out there trying to figure this stuff out. if they dont exist is there research on why they dont exist physics works in a way that if u dont find something that should be there then why isint it there?
Wow superstrings - apparently really interesting objects! Congratulations to Professor Ed Copeland on the medal. It is always a pleasure listen Prof. Copeland at Sixty Symbols!
Is there any follow on? This is nearly 2 years old at this point...
+bruinflight The recent observation of gravitational waves is probably the most relevant breakthrough since this video was made. We will probably see some news about strings and other "hypothetical" bodies in the next few years from gravitational evidence.
Congratulation Ed! Thank you and Brady both for the videos. I'll have strings in my head for at least the remainder of my week and look forward to the next videos! I'm sure there's a cosmic cat joke to be made here too..
Thank you Professor Copeland! This was one of the most interesting lectures I have heard in quite a while. Interesting topic, and well explained! //Henrik,Sweden,Royal Institute of Technology.
Great video.
Accompanied with full-screen text saying "GREAT VIDEO.".
as usual great video. very much looking forward to the other two
Does the new data from BICEP2 (I'm watching this video a bit after you uploaded it) have any bearing on the search for cosmic superstings? I'm not a phyicist, but I noticed that Professor Copeland mentions at 18:37 that cosmic strings could create B-Mode polarizations, which BICEP2 has just found.
Fabulous talk. If strings can form over distances, then it is worth thinking about the possibility of strings formed between entangled particles as being mechanism of “spooky action at a distance”.
What a neat idea to ponder. Thank you for this gem.
Brady, another great vid - I agree with others here - I like the longer format of the professors talking through the ideas and theories like this video.
great video...can strings stretch to dominate like dark energy?
Awewsome!!!! the magnificent universe that enfolds us all. Congratulations professor Copeland for your medal and the nice and happy way in which you explained to us such complex concepts in a quite comprehensible way
Thanks a lot
I would love to see some animations of strings to go along with this talk.
Or it would be great if actually had a string or shoelace in his hand.
one of the reasons i was never friends with physics in school was because of the ammount of "equation memorizing" that it involved... but since i started university (computer engineering) ive been reading up on modern physics without the pressure to "memorize or fail" ive been finding it so mezmerizing and interesting... I could probably watch videos like these for hours on end
thats one thing i find weird: some teachers make you memorize all the equations
how i was taught was, you have a very small set of information and you just derive the equations. in gr. 11 we werent given an equation sheet cause you can just reason out all the simple equations (12 and 1st year were a bit harder... i still did it though cause it made my life easier)
i literally went through high school up to most of first year without memorizing any equations
but now i kind of have to because deriving them again during an exam takes too long, but its still easier to memorize things you understand fundamentally.
One of the densest and most infuriatingly confusing videos on youtube, and I love it!! so much to learn... thanks for posting this brady!!
Congragulations on the medal.
Would you consider making one of these long videos (> 10 min. lets say) once in every few months about the bleeding edge research they are doing ? of course if they are willing/have time to talk about it ?
I did like the text though, because as Brady says, it helps breaking the video into parts like subtitles and make it easier to pay attention to. They are like booster dose that help us raise awareness, which is an inverse function of video time. In long video like these it can 'revive' our focus so that we don't fall into a state of glazing. If the latter happened, we feel really guilty, and have to watch the thing all over again.
FLOP AROUND! best battle cry, ever. Love the captions. Congrats Professor Copeland.
Hmmm. Strings. Well just like led string lights that someone would buy for their home and hook up to a controller maybe to visualize with out the movements or rotation. In the energy phases, like the faster lights, would that change the pionts in intersection when instead of crossing you would get welding and a joint formed? Would you have more higher energy events closer to the big bang and more joint welds that radiates thru rotation further from the big bang? So early on would the higher energy events thru cutting and then high energy gravitational waves have a more immidiate effect on expansion and then further away from the big bang there would be less chopping due to shorter lenghts of strings and more shapes of strings, more like spheres rotating and emitting more steady and uniform gravitational waves from the joints, thus being more in balance later on in expansion and providing a part of the reason we don't see the universe speeding up thru expansion?
loved this type of video, looking forward to the others!
is there any chance you could do a video opticilazing the effects ?