Holy damn, I can't keep up with all the content when you keep pumping them out so quickly! My brain needs a big cool down period after every video. So much to think about.
Anton, I have to say, I really look forward to your videos. I love your “plain text” approach to demonstrating these exquisitely complex concepts in astrophysics, maths and physics. You do the sciences and the TH-cam viewers a great service.
11:00 "or by buying the wonderful person you can find in the description below" (points at himself). Wow, we can buy you now, Anton? Sweet! Imma buy me one Anton for Chrisrmas.
Thank you Anton! I love your videos and was searching for more information on cosmic strings for a paper I'm writing and was thrilled when I saw that you made one! I'm in a little over my head in this class I'm taking and your videos have been a big help!
When you said Cosmic Strings and Dark Matter may have come together, a light bulb went off in my head. Thank you for all the hard work you do to make these videos. I've learned so much from you. The visuals really help the info stay in my brain.
@@gwentarinokripperinolkjdsf683 It would be extremely easy to pick up on them as you could litteraly hear them. For context, in standard tuning A4 is tuned to exactly 440hz which is almost smack down middle of a standard 88 key piano. Unless they are immeasurably quiet, we could absolutely pick them up with sensitive equipment and a very tight EQ.
@@gwentarinokripperinolkjdsf683 Oh and what he's talking about is a theory that 432Hz is somehow a magical and mystical frequency. The whole thing is a bunch of mental arithmetic that's built up around something called the Schumann resonance (a scientifically proven thing). Adam Neely has a great video about the topic if you're into music theory.
So as the universe expands and cools, it may crack like tectonic plates fault lines. Makes sense. It should still be doing that. Like strings of matter, some kind of 3 dimensions web. It must be so beautiful. Wait so that's the sponge like structure of the universe? Nice
Hey Anton! I've been watching your videos for years now and want to say your videos are on par or better than the PBS Space Time channel IMO. Keep up the great content brother!
You don't have to go that far off track in TNG. The series had the enterprise actually hit a cosmic string in an episode and they felt it as a gravitational disturbance. I don't recall exactly which episode it was though.
@@michaelklos3883 - It was an access point to the Nexus. You have semi-control of reality there. So you can stay in the Nexus and create an ageless paradise for yourself, or you could use it to travel through time, and in so doing, leave the Nexus.
@@brentwilbur It was a good movie. Don't worry, I knew what it was/did. This was for anyone else who may read and could get the answer here. Kirk and Picard in a picture together was fun too... But for the true experience, they should watch....I want to see it again
Haven’t seen it but it sounds like what would happen in gravitational warp drive. 30 years on ship is millions here. “Event horizon” podcast Channel has great vids. Anton even comments regularly.
I've heard of these hypothesized about decades ago but haven't heard a peep about them in all that time till now so I had to watch this as soon as I saw the title.
Why would an object a kilometer long and 1 proton thick, with the mass of Earth, not gravitationally collapse in on its self and become a micro black hole? If it has mass and interacts with gravity, what could possibly stop it from collapsing? If such a thing existed in the early universe, it would have dissipated via Hawking Radiation by now.
@meaturama If that were true, it would be absolutely physics breaking. An object or area of space that has mass and thus produces a gravitational field but does not interact with gravity would allow 1-sided reactions rather than equal-but-opposite and thus "create energy" allowing for perpetual motion machines. Real matter objects falling into orbit around these things could even potentially explain the existence of dark energy since the pair would constantly emit mass-energy. Sounds beyond ridiculous to me, but it would be an unavoidable consequence of the existence Cosmic Strings having 1-way gravitational interactions.
iirc it's not because they have matter, just mass. They're like fossils of the universe when it was at a higher vacuum state, but can't collapse because the universe is trying to collapse it with such force in all directions; being at a higher vacuum state means it has mass!
Damn... Everytime I came this channel Anton present me a different unknown shit about universe. Last time was geodes and now cosmic strings... Absolutely love it!
I like the way you communicate with us in a calm quiet way rather than the exaggerated enthusiasm of other astrophysical commentators who talk to us like they are teaching a class of infants...
What I don't quite get is if these cosmic strings are so massive and dense then why do they maintain their elongated shapes? Shouldn't they collapse into spherical shapes or is it their own vibrations that give them enough velocity to prevent that?
What i love the most about those cosmic hypothesis is they're mathematical constructs, this means they might not be real, but somebody will use them to program better video games and simulations. They're probably not a part of real universe, don't exist out there, they are better than that because we make them come true by using creative imagination.
If there is elasticity in cosmic stings then they have a harmonic frequency and the entire fabric is interconnected where stretching and contracting affects other c. strings at long distance. Possibly explaining the current expansion which may lead to a slow down of the expansion and a reversal into a contraction, going back and forth through stretch and pull, expansion and contraction.
@@gravitonthongs1363 Well there are about 1000 explanations for dark matter, and while many have been ruled out, why not add more or bring back old ones which were forgotten?
More questions than answers! A structure as thin as an elementary particle but kilometers in length of extreme density. Could we see or feel one slicing through us, or is it like neutrinos that zip right through us without any effects? 😳
The Enterprise in ST:TNG encountered a cosmic string during an episode, and it's fascinating to see how the TV show got the principle almost perfectly when it comes to considering the nature of those cosmic strings !!
Nice. My thesis talked about soft condensed matter analogues to topological defects that can be used to model early universe phase changes. Some of those pictures at 1:30 I think might be from one of my papers. Of course lots of papers have images those sort of disclinations and defects in soft condensed matter systems like liquid crystals.
I've always been facinated by the fact our entire supercluster is moving toward 'the great attractor' surely whatever it is would have to be unfathomably dense? Cosmic string of epic proportions?
It amazes me that this info is millions or billions of years old. I wonder what's out at this time? Or even if there's still an out there? We're so limited being stuck here on earth. Don't fret grandma, I won't worry about what's in the soup.
I'm probably going to sound stupid but if the only way we can detect cosmic strings is from their gravitational effects is it possible that they could explain dark matter?
Cosmic strings have always been really interesting to me but I guess I always assumed we'd never detect them. I'm really happy to hear I may have been wrong!
Cosmic strings are notably why you observe the galactic rotation discrepancy, and also a major reason for the large-scale structures of the universe. This is topologically related to the central supermassive black holes, as cosmic strings generally position themselves relatively to these supermassive objects (forming both the inner elliptic shapes of galaxies as well as filaments of galaxies, in-between clusters thereof). When they align and entangle between clusters of galaxies it's pretty much like cosmic "rope" so to speak - a bigger object made of thin threads, none of which is as long as the whole. You guys will get there pretty soon, my waybackmachine says 10 years or less. Kind regards, This alien time traveler
Those wave gifs at the start rotate right? They rotate clockwise, close your eyes and now they rotate counterclockwise, see if you can get them to rotate in opposite directions.
So basically, these are kind of cosmic tectonic fault lines in space-time? Could you get caught in a space-time quake? If so, would that harm a person who was too close to the epicenter? The term "cosmic string" gets me thinking... It takes the question of "How long is a piece of string?" to a whole new level! It also has me wondering if the mysterious "great attractor" could be a ball of cosmic string Leo plays with, or maybe it's what Sagittarius' bow string is made of. ;P
Thanks Anton, always enjoy your posts. A learning experience every time. I still cannot help but think that gravity is more related to magnetic fields strengths. I see a hurricane on a satellite pic and it looks like a spiral galaxy. I see a low pressure system and it looks like a transitional galaxy, or more eliptical in nature. No question about the fact that magnetic fields are everywhere. Thanks again.
- Personally,,, I think the computer generated picture of the universe as filaments of galactic clusters stretching like luminous webs across all of space as being bound together by long strands of "cosmic strings" and not "dark matter" as the prevalent curent thinking goes.
so if they found a cosmic string does that mean they are closer to finding a traversable wormhole? since cosmic strings are said to ravel between them?
These are great strings, big fat tone, lasts for a really good time and doesn't break even with those Albert King's 2 1/2 tones bends (though they're a little bit heavy).
Yes me too. I'm trying to envision this. Are they more like the edges between several contact surfaces though? It is really interesting. Of all theoretical physics phenomena I've read about over the years cosmic strings are one that I know the least about.
Or the other option is that we still don't have a theory of quantized gravity, so treating gravitational waves as background for quantum mechanics is simply incorrect.
@@faaaszoooom6778 Of course its incorrect. Nobody really knows what quantum physics is. All we have are interpretations. The only force no one argues about for sure is Electromagnetism.
@@theelectricorigins846 The electrical universe paradigm has been thoroughly debunked. It has no predictive power, and utterly fails to explain the observations of actual astronomers and astrophysics. Please pack up your pseudoscience and make for the door. This is a science channel; not a place for crackpot denialism.
Could a rope be made with the tensile strength for a space elevator? We're still looking for something that won't break apart at synchronous orbit distances.
Wow! Fantastic! I have a hard time imagining them, though. Would a cosmic string be able to slice through the Earth like dental floss through a hard boiled egg?
I am an old man , bearded , nearly toothless, blind in one eye with no room for prejudices. When I was twenty one years old a coal miner and as fit as a fiddle I knew everything. The universe is a living breathing animal wherein everything down below the molecular level is its flesh bone brain and sinew. We , are but synapses in this giant being but, we have access to the whole picture being as we are . That one time at my pal Nev's flat when we did acid ............ Slightly amusing uh ? Keep it coming pal : )
Did I miss the explanation of what a pulsar is? And what strings are made of? It was thought that dark energy or dark matter holds galaxies together, why would it be strings instead? Interesting stuff!
there must be something there that can be used as a propulsion mean. What we humans cant handle is ...the SPACE itself and TIME ! :))))) We can cheat with robots ;) so here we are : we need propulsion and robots ! our fancy filthy bodies needs SPECIAL care. how special you may wonder ? well is the EXACT / PRECISE measure/amount like EARTH planet is special among the other bodies in the Universe. If only Earth wasnt that special :(
I think that the sci-fi applications of large scale cosmic strings are awesome, but the unfortunate coincidence of naming with something that's at least qualitatively opposite (if mechanically related) - tiny, invisible, undetectable is going to be confusing for (ironically) folks like me, who have a ballpark awareness of String Theory - if not a meaningful understanding.
This was super interesting! Is there any more information on this twin quasar? Why didn't anyone do a follow up on this one? I don't think I've ever seen something like this. I know gravitational lensing but that looks completely different as far as I know.
What are those string supposedly made out of? Are they just matter? If they are cracks in space-time then this suggests that space-time is not just an empty nothingness, but something that has a structure. And this implies that aether theories that tried to model this structure were prematurely discarded.
How would we know if pulsars are more regular than atomic clocks? If you compare a pulsar and an atomic clock, and they're 1 part in a hundred trillion off... how would we know which one was off?
I would imagine size and speed, the size of a pulsar wouldn’t be effected by anything around it , and the atomic clock given any difference in speed ~ bumped /vibrations would be effected - probably.
It's actually not as crazy as it sounds, these things can be generated in quite simple spin ensemble toy models with non-equialubrium statistics. which can also give rise to GR like and gauge theory like dynamics. i suspect they are pretty stable over short time scales, also quite sure it has to do with the "cosmic web" the structure of galaxies axis of rotation and so on. i don't think we'll see short time scale phenomenon actually happens. but who knows.
There is a unique pattern threw out the universe, from string theory to our veins, the leafs or ice, maybe the streams in the clouds and now cosmic strings? So next question, what's after that?
Holy damn, I can't keep up with all the content when you keep pumping them out so quickly! My brain needs a big cool down period after every video. So much to think about.
@ENLIGHTENED ONE eat poop
Just inject some freon, it'll work just like disinfectant injections against CoViD-19, only against heat and cold🙄
Word ! : )
He aggregates all those science papers and makes videos of the most interesting before anyone has had the chance.
@ENLIGHTENED ONE lol
Now we just need to find the cosmic kitten chasing it...
Haha you hero
This comment better be over 1k likes next time i come through!
Gold
Bruh ! Haha
We should start the search around the cat’s eye nebula
Anton, I have to say, I really look forward to your videos. I love your “plain text” approach to demonstrating these exquisitely complex concepts in astrophysics, maths and physics. You do the sciences and the TH-cam viewers a great service.
Learning new things on this channel......that's why I've watched your channel for the last few years.
Keep up the great work Anton.
11:00 "or by buying the wonderful person you can find in the description below" (points at himself).
Wow, we can buy you now, Anton? Sweet! Imma buy me one Anton for Chrisrmas.
Be sure to get the latest model.
The old model came with a low quality mustache.
@@stopandlisten6070 Of course! The old model is discontinued anyway.
Anton keeps putting out quality content.
Glad he can focus on that now that he has a home again.
Me sitting here eating nachos: "yep....makes sense, just as I've theorized for years"
Man so underrated comment wtd
-playing video games at 3 am- I started to write a paper on it but I got bored
When Anton says “see you tomorrow” it just makes me excited for the future 😃
Thank you Anton! I love your videos and was searching for more information on cosmic strings for a paper I'm writing and was thrilled when I saw that you made one! I'm in a little over my head in this class I'm taking and your videos have been a big help!
Thanks ! You are excellent at what you do ! I watch your videos because i actually learn something !
Anton as always giving us the best astronomy news! Love your videos man!
Anton...Great Stuff, I really appreciate your work.
When you said Cosmic Strings and Dark Matter may have come together, a light bulb went off in my head. Thank you for all the hard work you do to make these videos. I've learned so much from you. The visuals really help the info stay in my brain.
Your videos only get better and better. Thanks for the hard work, sir.
That smile at the end never gets old
Is it an American smile?
@@nassera I don’t get it
Priceless ya...
I love your channel and i think youre great! Thank you so much for making these beautiful illuminating videos.
Hey Anton, glad to see you shrink your size in the frame so we see more of the content! Great that you took feedback so quickly! love your videos!
What key are they in?
EDIT: Sounds like they would be in the key of G, for Gravity.
@ENLIGHTENED ONE wouldn't it be easy to detect strings at 432 HZ? shouldn't we be talking like. less than 1 HZ
@@gwentarinokripperinolkjdsf683 maybe not. But... Probably.
@@gwentarinokripperinolkjdsf683 It would be extremely easy to pick up on them as you could litteraly hear them. For context, in standard tuning A4 is tuned to exactly 440hz which is almost smack down middle of a standard 88 key piano. Unless they are immeasurably quiet, we could absolutely pick them up with sensitive equipment and a very tight EQ.
There IS no gravity, the Earth SUCKS!
That and Black Holes SWALLOW!
@@gwentarinokripperinolkjdsf683 Oh and what he's talking about is a theory that 432Hz is somehow a magical and mystical frequency. The whole thing is a bunch of mental arithmetic that's built up around something called the Schumann resonance (a scientifically proven thing). Adam Neely has a great video about the topic if you're into music theory.
So as the universe expands and cools, it may crack like tectonic plates fault lines.
Makes sense.
It should still be doing that.
Like strings of matter, some kind of 3 dimensions web. It must be so beautiful.
Wait so that's the sponge like structure of the universe?
Nice
Hey Anton! I've been watching your videos for years now and want to say your videos are on par or better than the PBS Space Time channel IMO. Keep up the great content brother!
An extremely interesting video Anton thanks a lot, hope you do follow ups.
I was immediately reminded of the crazy ribbon from Star Trek: Generations.
Seeing this comment...yep...sounds about like it...remember what it did/was?
You don't have to go that far off track in TNG. The series had the enterprise actually hit a cosmic string in an episode and they felt it as a gravitational disturbance. I don't recall exactly which episode it was though.
@@michaelklos3883 - It was an access point to the Nexus. You have semi-control of reality there. So you can stay in the Nexus and create an ageless paradise for yourself, or you could use it to travel through time, and in so doing, leave the Nexus.
@@brentwilbur It was a good movie. Don't worry, I knew what it was/did. This was for anyone else who may read and could get the answer here. Kirk and Picard in a picture together was fun too...
But for the true experience, they should watch....I want to see it again
Haven’t seen it but it sounds like what would happen in gravitational warp drive. 30 years on ship is millions here. “Event horizon” podcast Channel has great vids. Anton even comments regularly.
I love learning from you!
I just let the ads running instead of skipping them, to support this wonderful person
Ouch self inflicted pain, just leave your pc run in the background when afk
There are far superior ways to support him without having to endure abhorrent yt ads.
He’s French Canadian. Be careful who you support
@@paveldatsyuk7175 i am french canadian, and keep that mind set, you are right.
The kind to help britain conquer it's own.
I didn't say I was watching the ads, just that I had them running
I've heard of these hypothesized about decades ago but haven't heard a peep about them in all that time till now so I had to watch this as soon as I saw the title.
Dude Anton‘s on a roll right now
Hi Anton, I appreciate if you do a presentation about the “Psych” protoplanet I read today that is between Mars and Jupiter. Thanks!
I 2nd
You mean asteroid 16 Psyche? NASA's going to launch a mission to there in 2022. It's a metallic asteroid with a stony surface.
YES! 🧐
Wow, cosmic strings would be an extremely exiting discovery
Why would an object a kilometer long and 1 proton thick, with the mass of Earth, not gravitationally collapse in on its self and become a micro black hole? If it has mass and interacts with gravity, what could possibly stop it from collapsing? If such a thing existed in the early universe, it would have dissipated via Hawking Radiation by now.
@meaturama If that were true, it would be absolutely physics breaking. An object or area of space that has mass and thus produces a gravitational field but does not interact with gravity would allow 1-sided reactions rather than equal-but-opposite and thus "create energy" allowing for perpetual motion machines. Real matter objects falling into orbit around these things could even potentially explain the existence of dark energy since the pair would constantly emit mass-energy.
Sounds beyond ridiculous to me, but it would be an unavoidable consequence of the existence Cosmic Strings having 1-way gravitational interactions.
iirc it's not because they have matter, just mass. They're like fossils of the universe when it was at a higher vacuum state, but can't collapse because the universe is trying to collapse it with such force in all directions; being at a higher vacuum state means it has mass!
Always fascinating to watch your videos, and also you are so passionate about science!
Damn... Everytime I came this channel Anton present me a different unknown shit about universe. Last time was geodes and now cosmic strings... Absolutely love it!
I like the way you communicate with us in a calm quiet way rather than the exaggerated enthusiasm of other astrophysical commentators who talk to us like they are teaching a class of infants...
If a cosmic string has thickness - hence volume, what is it made of? Spacetime? Could I grab it? Would it collide with some objects?
How can ANYONE give this a Vote no? Or thumb down? They must be under Blackmail. Don’t they know Anton is a wonderful person?
What I don't quite get is if these cosmic strings are so massive and dense then why do they maintain their elongated shapes? Shouldn't they collapse into spherical shapes or is it their own vibrations that give them enough velocity to prevent that?
What i love the most about those cosmic hypothesis is they're mathematical constructs, this means they might not be real, but somebody will use them to program better video games and simulations. They're probably not a part of real universe, don't exist out there, they are better than that because we make them come true by using creative imagination.
If there is elasticity in cosmic stings then they have a harmonic frequency and the entire fabric is interconnected where stretching and contracting affects other
c. strings at long distance. Possibly explaining the current expansion which may lead to a slow down of the expansion and a reversal into a contraction, going
back and forth through stretch and pull, expansion and contraction.
I remember reading about this possibility in Discover magazine many decades ago.
Wait ...you can read!?
Jokes bro. ✌️
Do you think it is a reasonable explanation for DM?
@@gravitonthongs1363 Well there are about 1000 explanations for dark matter, and while many have been ruled out, why not add more or bring back old ones which were forgotten?
More questions than answers! A structure as thin as an elementary particle but kilometers in length of extreme density. Could we see or feel one slicing through us, or is it like neutrinos that zip right through us without any effects? 😳
Next video : "Cosmic Flying Pigs may have been detected"
When a Chinese space ship needs to make some room they have throw out some of the livestock .
😀
That's old news. Pink Floyd discovered them back in the '70s.
@Liam Spires LOL, who's "they"?
or a cosmic horror just shows up in our solar system to scare us to death
The Enterprise in ST:TNG encountered a cosmic string during an episode, and it's fascinating to see how the TV show got the principle almost perfectly when it comes to considering the nature of those cosmic strings !!
Cosmic strings are really old news. But unlike black holes, none have ever been detected.
I can not wait for Anton to reach 1 million subscribers!
"...as usual, more complicated than that..."....LOL . Wonderful understatement.
Another wonderful t-shirt for wonderful Anton! Old analog oscilloscopes do make nice patterns!
I really enjoy your channel, even more so because we have the same first name! Keep it up mate :)
Nice. My thesis talked about soft condensed matter analogues to topological defects that can be used to model early universe phase changes. Some of those pictures at 1:30 I think might be from one of my papers. Of course lots of papers have images those sort of disclinations and defects in soft condensed matter systems like liquid crystals.
I've always been facinated by the fact our entire supercluster is moving toward 'the great attractor' surely whatever it is would have to be unfathomably dense? Cosmic string of epic proportions?
It amazes me that this info is millions or billions of years old. I wonder what's out at this time? Or even if there's still an out there? We're so limited being stuck here on earth. Don't fret grandma, I won't worry about what's in the soup.
Having read the title, first thing that came to my mind was Domain, Neural Physics, The Mantle...
Lets fucking goooo
I think one of the scientists on the 60 Symbols channels studies these. I hope he does a video too! Thanks, Anton!
I'm probably going to sound stupid but if the only way we can detect cosmic strings is from their gravitational effects is it possible that they could explain dark matter?
My brain its about to explode. I need to sit douwn to digest all of this info. Amazing stuff!!
In 90 years “Cosmic String glue” will be sold at every convenient store 🏬
Suuuure. Just besides these cold fusion reactors we invented a few years back. Oh... wait...
Pmsl : )
No Super elastic cosmic super string-tastic from HASBRO-ken of course!
@@patrickrose1221
Postmortem Sperm Retrieval??
Cosmic strings may be an echoing system of/for particles/network/telecommunications...like we use modems or hubs to echo/amplify sound.
Cosmic strings have always been really interesting to me but I guess I always assumed we'd never detect them. I'm really happy to hear I may have been wrong!
I enjoy your shows and objective info.
You’re great! Any insight into the overlapping implications of archeology, geology, and cosmology?
Cosmic strings are notably why you observe the galactic rotation discrepancy, and also a major reason for the large-scale structures of the universe.
This is topologically related to the central supermassive black holes, as cosmic strings generally position themselves relatively to these supermassive objects (forming both the inner elliptic shapes of galaxies as well as filaments of galaxies, in-between clusters thereof). When they align and entangle between clusters of galaxies it's pretty much like cosmic "rope" so to speak - a bigger object made of thin threads, none of which is as long as the whole.
You guys will get there pretty soon, my waybackmachine says 10 years or less.
Kind regards,
This alien time traveler
Excellent explanation. Good metaphor.
Love your videos!!
Looked at the thumbnail real quick and thought "that's kind of a strangely shaped Monaco.. But if he's getting into racing too, I'm all for it!"
Great video Anton
Those wave gifs at the start rotate right? They rotate clockwise, close your eyes and now they rotate counterclockwise, see if you can get them to rotate in opposite directions.
It could also be remnants of gravitational radiation from an older "eon", as per Penrose's conformal cyclic cosmology.
So basically, these are kind of cosmic tectonic fault lines in space-time? Could you get caught in a space-time quake? If so, would that harm a person who was too close to the epicenter?
The term "cosmic string" gets me thinking... It takes the question of "How long is a piece of string?" to a whole new level! It also has me wondering if the mysterious "great attractor" could be a ball of cosmic string Leo plays with, or maybe it's what Sagittarius' bow string is made of. ;P
Fractal patterns come to mind. Great video!
Okay but what are the strings made of? Is it matter or some sort of spacetime glitch?
Thanks Anton, always enjoy your posts. A learning experience every time. I still cannot help but think that gravity is more related to magnetic fields strengths. I see a hurricane on a satellite pic and it looks like a spiral galaxy. I see a low pressure system and it looks like a transitional galaxy, or more eliptical in nature. No question about the fact that magnetic fields are everywhere. Thanks again.
What do hurricanes have to do with magnetic fields?
Please answer Mevlinous
@@william41017 answered.
- Personally,,, I think the computer generated picture of the universe as filaments of galactic clusters stretching like luminous webs across all of space as being bound together by long strands of "cosmic strings" and not "dark matter" as the prevalent curent thinking goes.
Can you do a video on how much the rotational speed of a cosmic object potentially can increase the mass and if it can trigger a supernova?
so if they found a cosmic string does that mean they are closer to finding a traversable wormhole? since cosmic strings are said to ravel between them?
These are great strings, big fat tone, lasts for a really good time and doesn't break even with those Albert King's 2 1/2 tones bends (though they're a little bit heavy).
I have always thought that these strings looked more like contact surfaces between soap bubbles.
You've probably nailed it : )
Me too.
Yes me too. I'm trying to envision this. Are they more like the edges between several contact surfaces though?
It is really interesting. Of all theoretical physics phenomena I've read about over the years cosmic strings are one that I know the least about.
Cosmic Strings: exist*
Super Massive Black Holes: Finally, a worthy opponent!
Probably still a yummy snack for a super massive black hole
meme: tired
MMMWWWAAAA : )
Maybe that's why supermassive black holes arise so early
The guitar of the gods
- More like a "harp", me thinks!
Precisely today has appeared this paper.... debunking Gravitational Waves.
"Weak equivalence principle violated in gravitational waves"
That's it. Subatomic particles falling paths do NOT strictly follow their mass (There's EM behind it).
Or the other option is that we still don't have a theory of quantized gravity, so treating gravitational waves as background for quantum mechanics is simply incorrect.
@@faaaszoooom6778 Of course its incorrect. Nobody really knows what quantum physics is. All we have are interpretations. The only force no one argues about for sure is Electromagnetism.
@@faaaszoooom6778 We dont even if gravitation has been always the same, and how to explain what we see in quantum experiments.
@@theelectricorigins846 The electrical universe paradigm has been thoroughly debunked. It has no predictive power, and utterly fails to explain the observations of actual astronomers and astrophysics.
Please pack up your pseudoscience and make for the door. This is a science channel; not a place for crackpot denialism.
Could a rope be made with the tensile strength for a space elevator? We're still looking for something that won't break apart at synchronous orbit distances.
Wow! Fantastic! I have a hard time imagining them, though. Would a cosmic string be able to slice through the Earth like dental floss through a hard boiled egg?
I am an old man , bearded , nearly toothless, blind in one eye with no room for prejudices. When I was twenty one years old a coal miner and as fit as a fiddle I knew everything.
The universe is a living breathing animal wherein everything down below the molecular level is its flesh bone brain and sinew.
We , are but synapses in this giant being but, we have access to the whole picture being as we are . That one time at my pal Nev's flat when we did acid ............
Slightly amusing uh ?
Keep it coming pal : )
I like Anton, but his commenters are weird af.
@@paultheaudaciousbradford6772 don't forget you're a ' wonderful person ' : )
Weird af...
...not that there’s anything wrong with that!
These strings sound terrifying. Too thin to be seen and would slice right through you without any resistance at all.
Did I miss the explanation of what a pulsar is? And what strings are made of? It was thought that dark energy or dark matter holds galaxies together, why would it be strings instead? Interesting stuff!
Dark matter holds galaxies together , while dark energy pushes different galaxies apart (away from each other)
It's somewhat worrysome, although not entirely unexpected, to know that we can now buy your wonderful person. It's 2020, after all...
Does anyone else get anxious and nervous just knowing all the dangers out in the cosmos.
I get nervous about the ones I don't know about.
Anton, you are great!
I learned a lot from your videos. thx :)
What if we find a way to use these strings for propulsion.
Like a sort of maglev train that zips along them at mind bending speeds.
there must be something there that can be used as a propulsion mean. What we humans cant handle is ...the SPACE itself and TIME ! :))))) We can cheat with robots ;) so here we are : we need propulsion and robots ! our fancy filthy bodies needs SPECIAL care. how special you may wonder ? well is the EXACT / PRECISE measure/amount like EARTH planet is special among the other bodies in the Universe. If only Earth wasnt that special :(
I think that the sci-fi applications of large scale cosmic strings are awesome, but the unfortunate coincidence of naming with something that's at least qualitatively opposite (if mechanically related) - tiny, invisible, undetectable is going to be confusing for (ironically) folks like me, who have a ballpark awareness of String Theory - if not a meaningful understanding.
Feels like a career defining moment on the horizon
Remember reading about cosmic strings 20 years ago in a book called "how to build a time machine" by Paul davies.
2020 is on a roll with all these discoveries.
This was super interesting! Is there any more information on this twin quasar? Why didn't anyone do a follow up on this one? I don't think I've ever seen something like this. I know gravitational lensing but that looks completely different as far as I know.
How can it be possible to be so dense? Should it not collapse in the direction of the lenght? Or is gravitation 2dimensional in that case?
What are those string supposedly made out of? Are they just matter? If they are cracks in space-time then this suggests that space-time is not just an empty nothingness, but something that has a structure. And this implies that aether theories that tried to model this structure were prematurely discarded.
How would we know if pulsars are more regular than atomic clocks?
If you compare a pulsar and an atomic clock, and they're 1 part in a hundred trillion off... how would we know which one was off?
it depends where everything is time is different every where.
I would imagine size and speed, the size of a pulsar wouldn’t be effected by anything around it , and the atomic clock given any difference in speed ~ bumped /vibrations would be effected - probably.
Because you can compare multiple atomic clocks and multiple pulsars.
Seeing where there's more variability
It's actually not as crazy as it sounds, these things can be generated in quite simple spin ensemble toy models with non-equialubrium statistics. which can also give rise to GR like and gauge theory like dynamics. i suspect they are pretty stable over short time scales, also quite sure it has to do with the "cosmic web" the structure of galaxies axis of rotation and so on. i don't think we'll see short time scale phenomenon actually happens. but who knows.
video is better than the name would suggest.
Wait why would these super dense strings not collapse into a black hole?
Great content!
There is a unique pattern threw out the universe, from string theory to our veins, the leafs or ice, maybe the streams in the clouds and now cosmic strings? So next question, what's after that?
4:36 - No! Not the frequency of detection! It has to do with the strain sensitivity in [a specific] FREQUENCY RANGE!
If cosmic strings has mass and energy does that mean they could also collapse into black holes if large clumps of it gets entwined together?