Okay so, these physics are way past my education level haha, but why is nobody talking about how much editing this is? Holy moly, he is singing 50 parts. And the lyrics fit to syllabic perfection? And he can sing every single part, no matter how low or how high? What in the world?! This is seamless. Musical genius, flawless videography, and of course the mind bending physics I will never comprehend. Woah
I feel exactly the same way. Since I'm only 14 the physics are miles away of anything taken through in school. However I hope that someday I'll be able to understand this. Tim Blais is an absolute genius and I'm grateful for having people like him around who make education freely availble and fun.
Change your Views No need to be a jerk. It’s string theory, not classical mechanics. Most people have no reason to ever even hear about it, let alone learn anything in depth about it.
Big LOVE to that❣️ I listen to this song daily, and I call the line just before the puppet, the, "Progress demands that all gods must die", line. It breaks my heart, but my reverence for Science is greater than my love of Einstein. Then...Puppet Einstein...and I'm happy again. Masterfully crafted! (Tip from an older school worder than yourself, Mr Blain, whether you intended what I observed or not...yeah, you did.😉 [maybe you didn't even know it🤯😇])
Saying Einstein's theory of relativity was not complete. Ok guys you may be about to do it - make me dig out my old college textbooks, even from classes I dropped... 😂🎉
1% is a really generous assumption. Only a small group if physicist go into purely theoretical topic like string theory and the fraction of physics PhD's in the world doesn't make up 1% to begin with
I have a PhD in mathematics and am now a full professor of mathematics and I will state two things immediately: 1. I do not understand (but I have heard of) just about everything that makes its way into his lyrics, and 2. I would be rather surprised if 0.1% of 1% of people understand string theory.
To people who are not familiar with ANY of the terms, don't worry. String theory isn't even understood by people who dedicated their entire lives to it
I discovered this song when I was in 10th grade. I was taking physics at the time, sure, but string theory flew so far over my head that I understood a handful of the lines at absolute best - "it's quantum not classical", "Einstein's theory wasn't complete at all", a handful of others. I've listened to it a bunch of times since then and I've discovered a new beauty of the song - every time I came back to it, maybe once a year or a bit more often, I'd understand another line or three. Now I'm a year out of a physics Bachelor's degree, planning on going for a PhD. I've taken general relativity and quantum field theory, but still no string theory. Now I know the significance of "These infinities are real" in the context of the previous verse. But I don't know what T*S3 is. I know what 'complex, Riemannian, symplectic' mean individually, and that when you put them together it's a Kahler manifold, but I couldn't begin to tell you why that's relevant. I can guess what a world sheet is, but not what minimising it means. I understand why modes become particles, but not why Fermi/Bose is related to open/closed. The mathematician Andrew Wiles's quote speaks to me, where he describes mathematics as like "a journey through a dark unexplored mansion - you enter the first room of the mansion and it’s completely dark. You stumble around bumping into the furniture, but gradually you learn where each piece of furniture is. Finally, after six months or so, you find the light switch, you turn it on, and suddenly it’s all illuminated. You can see exactly where you were." I'll get to that light switch, even though it'll have taken 8 or so years to get there.
Holy heckin yes!!!! This is one of the most satisfying comments I've ever read. Congratulations btw. As a biologist, I will bow to a purist when I encounter one 😉
T*S3 if I'm not mistaken is the cotangent bundle of the manifold S^3. I'm not sure how familiar with differential geoemtry you are (I myself am not very familiar with it haha) but a single point on a manifold can have a vector tangent to it, you can think of it as a literal arrow tangent to a surface which is how it's defined extrinsically, it can be defined intrisically without talking about the space the manifold is embedded in but it doesnt matter for our purposes. And a point on the manifold can have so many different tangent vectors, all these tangent vectors form a vector space, which is called the tangent space at a point on the manifold (you can think of a tangent plane at a point on a surface as a visual aid). Every point on the manifold can have this tangent space, so every manifold has this whole host of tangent spaces. S^3 is a manifold, it's just a 3-sphere, (basically the *surface* of a 4 dimensional sphere) and it has a whole host of tangent spaces. a single tangent space at a point p can be written as T_pS^3 Now if you take the disjoint union of every tangent space on a manifold, you get a tangent bundle (which is a special case of a bit more complicated object called a vector bundle :D) and this tangent bundle of S^3 is represented by TS^3 i think you now you might see where we're going with this. Now instead of taking the disjoint union of the tangent spaces themselves if you took the disjoint union of the dual of the tangent spaces you get the cotangent bundle of the manifold which is T*S^3 :)
@@mastershooter64 Oh wow, I didn't know that but that makes sense - thanks! I'm familiar enough with differential geometry to know what a tangent/cotangent bundle are (thanks to a GR prof that found great joy in being mathematically rigorous), and now that you say that I understand a bit more. I guess I was partially thrown off by the notation - 'S subscript n' makes me think of the nth symmetric group rather than the n-sphere, and I haven't taken enough topology to make 'compactified' mentally point me to the latter.
@@rtg_onefourtwoeightfiveseven damn ur lucky lol i hope i get professors who enjoy being more mathematically rigorous than usual. What are you doing your PhD in? also got any advice for me? im about to start my physics undergrad in a few months :D (I eventually wanna get a PhD in theoretical physics!)
@@mastershooter64 For me it's looking like it's going to be astrophysics, probably some sort of combo of theoretical and computational. As for advice, I'd definitely say to talk with your professors/lecturers outside of class (if they have office hours so much the better) - if you have nothing to ask about the course material, ask about what research they're doing or something. Networking is arguably even more important than academic prowess, and even if it's not something that comes naturally to you, it's one of those things that gets easier with practice. I don't know if this will be a thing at the institution you're going to, but if there are ever organised out-of-class sessions where undergrads can ask grad students for help with problem sets or what have you, go to every single one of those. Also, jesus christ dude, not even in undergrad and you're already doing differential geometry? What on Earth are they teaching you in high school?
Summer activities include: watching videos about physics theories that are far beyond your field of understanding morphed into a Queen cover at 2 am who's with me?
Having studied theoretical physics, up to postgraduate masters level (including string theory) and simultaneously being a massive Queen fan, this video remains probably my favourite single video in the entire history of the internet. It's like having my lecture notes sung back to me :) Found it when it first came out in 2013, and still come back to it periodically to listen to it, it's literally impossible for me to get bored listening to it.
Its hard to imagine just how many dimensions this masterpiece kills on!! The superb harmony dimension, the blackboard humor dimension, the insanely great parody dimension, the multi-track, multi-modal synchronous audio-visual editing dimension, the fantastic and non-condescending lyrics dimension, the subtle and diverse cultural referencing dimension, the AWESOME gestalt-ensemble dimension..... I bow down .
Was it the "Baryons, Fermions, and all other states of matter" that inspired the choice of Bohemian Rhapsody? That line was so incredibly perfect in balancing the physics with referencing the original tune that it felt like it couldn't have not been the spark that lit the rest of the creative process.
My kids LOVE this! My 7yo said you keep using big words they don't know. I said they were physics words. Guess what they want to learn now? Thanks for making such a great view into a world that seems nearly incomprehensible to so many of us. They did request that puppet Einstein make some more appearances. :)
Maybe now we're finally reaching the scientific age... "Is no one inspired by our present picture of the universe? This value of science remains unsung by singers, you are reduced to hearing not a song or poem, but an evening lecture about it. This is not yet a scientific age." Richard Feynmann
It's taken years but I discovered what the deep voice says after "manifolds must be Kähler" (4:32) "Complex, Riemannian, sim-plec-tic" It was like finding a nugget of gold buried in my backyard.
It has been like a year since my dad showed me this and I loved in imediantly and I could recite it word for word and whenever bohemian rhapsody comes on in the car I sing this version. I LOVE IT :)
What alchemy is this. The amount of imaginaton that went into this is incredible. And how much dedication it must take to repeat the song for each part, wow! But all that effort pays off exponentially, by sparking the curiosities of young future scientists. Also very entertaining for anyone old enough to know the original song by heart. Loved it.
I'm having goosebumps, dude. Literally. I can't believe I didn't discover him soon. I now feel like I can do anything in this world after seeing this dude. Holy the dedication seems unreal! I am still a freshman at Med school and I wasn't really giving much time in my hobby in music. Now I'm really down for it. I want to be atleast 10% as good as Acapella Science is. Hands down the best channel on TH-cam for me. I hope they upload more.
From one musical scientist to another: dude. You are unbelievably talented. "Molecules and atoms, light and energy, time and space and matter, all from one united theory"
This is absolutely amazing. I'm a scientist, but not a physicist, this is all way above my head. I cannot begin to imagine how much time it must have taken to record and edit!
The whole thing is a spoof an incredibly done step by step spoof ending with proof that all the theories are hokum til we stop claiming otherwise. Fabulous...the more often and more closely you watch it the funnier it gets!..and a remarkable job in every way and segment. The lad can sing!
So, it finally happened. I was singing to the original, sung "landscape" instead of "landslide" and I was genuinely baffled for a couple seconds. You've managed to partially replace the original lyrics in my head through dozens of listens. That's how good this is, and that's considering I don't think I understand 1% of the concepts. Congrats :D
Ohh my god!!!!!! This is absolutely mind-blowing!! One of the most complex songs ever, sung so well.. and the physics!! Well, I'm a little out of league there, but actually breathing heavy. Give these guys a prize.
I am not sure what's the most impressive between... your singing skills, your scientific skills, your science communication skills... all of them are very high and near a 10 out of 10. But to sum it all, I am impressed!
How! Why! How and why am I crying to this 😭????? It's so so so epic. I am humbly thank you sir 🙏🏻. It's just divine. No words. As a musician and a scientist this is just epic.
I love this! I realize that back when I was a student in the early 80s, I would have had a pretty good sense of the meaning, not full understanding but follow the general flow. What I would not have gotten was the link to Queen and Bohemian Rhapsody. I only really started to appreciate the music of my generation in the last ten years or so. In any event, this was masterfully done! Bravo!
This song popped into my head at work today. It's been at least a year since I watched this video. I'm amazed that I knew almost all the words......I lost it somewhere around the manifolds. I think that speaks to the artistry of the poster. "I'm just a World Sheet please minimize me..(etc) " is now so ingrained in my head that I can barely remember the original lyrics.
@@bemusedalligator but who says to believe , as of now it's a theory and as in video also stated maybe just a fantasy , even in String Theory books it's clearly mentioned there is no experimental evidence , it's just a very beautiful explanation which may be is true , no one knows
Awesome how I barely understood what was being talk on the video and yet enjoyed it so much! Seriously, this musical approach somehow made me want to search and study all this weird mambo jambo! :D
The production value on this, combined with the fact you thought to do it and completed the task, has renewed my faith in humanity. No shit. This music vid goes to 11* ∞
as others have said, the musical quality, and the editing and design of this video is absolutely out of this world, never mind the physics. But I think my favorite detail is the different colors of shirts, and especially if the black and white ones formed into a piano keyboard. ^_^
THIS IS PHENOMENAL. YOU'RE BRILLIANT! As a fellow lover of science who is also a singer-songwriter and general musician, I appreciate your niche. This particular presentation is superbly constructed with a superior degree of all around accuracy, such that I was riveted from the first second. I find your substitute lyrics don the original syllabic rhythms and cadences so well that it was a most satisfying listening experience. The fact that you also incorporate relevant and truthful scientific knowledge in an orderly manner into the arrangement is the pinnacle mind-blower that will keep me coming back for more! Quite satisfying indeed...YUM!
That was super impressive. Not only are you an excellent singer, but doing all those different vocal parts must have been a pain, though obviously enjoyable or you wouldn't have done it. Probably the hardest part would have been the editing.
How did this exist for nearly five-and-a-half years without my knowing about it? This is one of the greatest things I've ever seen on TH-cam. It's brilliant on so many levels.
I love this. As a life long science geek (I'm a retired microbiologist and sci-fi fanatic), I think its great that you are using You-tube and Facebook to make REAL science entertaining. (As opposed to all the junk that some sites promote.)
This is absolutely Brilliant.....wherever it is raining....it has to be Freddy Mercury pissin' himself laughing, I am sure he is up there smiling down on this brilliant take of his song. Peace Y
First sentence I was ok with. It's the second that really got me! For reference: "When confined to compact universes which are topologically genus g Riemann surfaces times time, its classical phase space is the cotangent bundle of the moduli space of Riemann surfaces."
+Geoff Cunningham Translation: In a universe shaped like a pretzel, you can predict its shape later if you know the dimensions of the pretzel, and how they are changing, right now.
Read the paper. The author probably wants to examine the work of Kontsevich and his proof of the Witten conjecture as applied to moduli space curves as this seems incomplete.
Puppet Einstein _is_ great and all, but Tim found a much better Einstein (and Newton, which he’d also made a sock puppet of) for his _Wicked_ parody “Defining Gravity” some years after this video.
Physics's my favourite... And this guy made it more interesting!😅 Though I didn't understand most of it... But it is crazily good! Like how can a person be sooooo creative and good!!! Thank you sooooo much! Hope I'll understand this someday🙃
I can't get enough of this as somebody who records and sings and multi tracks another commenter was correct when they were blown away by the fact that nobody is talking about how much work it is to put something like that together. This is one of the most amazing parody type Arrangements I've ever seen using current views of real physics and I am incredibly impressed
Best video ever! How long did this take you? Between writing the song, filming and editing it must have taken forever! Your parodies of classics are the best!
how long did your masters degree take? im a math/phys student at a canadian university and it is incredible to me there is so much math involved in your thesis....moduli spaces, symplectic geometry, kahler geometry, cohomology...these are typically courses taught at grad level in my department, how long did this take you? great song by the way, i listen to it on a regular basis.
Two years; most of the first year was learning QFT and string theory (which uses a lot of these concepts) and banging my head against some holographic entropy stuff that didn't go anywhere. The second year was focusing on this problem. The review papers I reference in the thesis were incredibly helpful, and I also had an excellent supervisor guiding me toward what I needed to know.
I think I read somewhere that he has, and sent Tim felicitations. And he's one of the few who could actually have a chance at fully understanding this - the music and the physics.
Okay so, these physics are way past my education level haha, but why is nobody talking about how much editing this is? Holy moly, he is singing 50 parts. And the lyrics fit to syllabic perfection? And he can sing every single part, no matter how low or how high? What in the world?! This is seamless. Musical genius, flawless videography, and of course the mind bending physics I will never comprehend. Woah
I feel exactly the same way.
Since I'm only 14 the physics are miles away of anything taken through in school.
However I hope that someday I'll be able to understand this.
Tim Blais is an absolute genius and I'm grateful for having people like him around who make education freely availble and fun.
Well, I am amazed by your stupidity
Change your Views No need to be a jerk. It’s string theory, not classical mechanics. Most people have no reason to ever even hear about it, let alone learn anything in depth about it.
Yes he's amazing. Wow.
Liz Harrison I don't mean to make fun of you but I am 10 and I understand most of this.
"This can't possibly get any nerdier"
-Suddenly Einstein sockpuppet
lol.... NAILED it!!
Big LOVE to that❣️
I listen to this song daily, and I call the line just before the puppet, the, "Progress demands that all gods must die", line. It breaks my heart, but my reverence for Science is greater than my love of Einstein. Then...Puppet Einstein...and I'm happy again.
Masterfully crafted!
(Tip from an older school worder than yourself, Mr Blain, whether you intended what I observed or not...yeah, you did.😉 [maybe you didn't even know it🤯😇])
Saying Einstein's theory of relativity was not complete. Ok guys you may be about to do it - make me dig out my old college textbooks, even from classes I dropped... 😂🎉
This thing deserves AT LEAST 11 dimensions, it's THAT epic.
"My theory goes to eleven" :)
ZDoggMD, you and Acapellascience should collaborate on something!! That would be mind-blowing!
What the hell do you know about it. You're nothing but a stupid doctor.
Off course it does!!!
days and days of editing, jesus
People who are watching this-
90% - music lovers
9% - science lovers
1% - people who understood the whole song.
1% is a really generous assumption. Only a small group if physicist go into purely theoretical topic like string theory and the fraction of physics PhD's in the world doesn't make up 1% to begin with
I have a PhD in mathematics and am now a full professor of mathematics and I will state two things immediately: 1. I do not understand (but I have heard of) just about everything that makes its way into his lyrics, and 2. I would be rather surprised if 0.1% of 1% of people understand string theory.
Me among both 9%strong science lover...and 1%
Make that ~0.01%
Part of 1 and 2 and hoping to become part of 3 in college. Currently am a junior in highschool in ap calc bc and ap physics c so I’m not even close
To people who are not familiar with ANY of the terms, don't worry. String theory isn't even understood by people who dedicated their entire lives to it
@@malawigw (it's a meme)
@@malawigw he means its not completely understood
Pretty sure Witten understands it as much as anyone can.
A classic joke
Oh wait, it’s not classic at all
Yeah, for real. Most of his videos, I know what's going on. This one, I was 100% lost.
I discovered this song when I was in 10th grade. I was taking physics at the time, sure, but string theory flew so far over my head that I understood a handful of the lines at absolute best - "it's quantum not classical", "Einstein's theory wasn't complete at all", a handful of others.
I've listened to it a bunch of times since then and I've discovered a new beauty of the song - every time I came back to it, maybe once a year or a bit more often, I'd understand another line or three.
Now I'm a year out of a physics Bachelor's degree, planning on going for a PhD. I've taken general relativity and quantum field theory, but still no string theory.
Now I know the significance of "These infinities are real" in the context of the previous verse. But I don't know what T*S3 is. I know what 'complex, Riemannian, symplectic' mean individually, and that when you put them together it's a Kahler manifold, but I couldn't begin to tell you why that's relevant. I can guess what a world sheet is, but not what minimising it means. I understand why modes become particles, but not why Fermi/Bose is related to open/closed.
The mathematician Andrew Wiles's quote speaks to me, where he describes mathematics as like "a journey through a dark unexplored mansion - you enter the first room of the mansion and it’s completely dark. You stumble around bumping into the furniture, but gradually you learn where each piece of furniture is. Finally, after six months or so, you find the light switch, you turn it on, and suddenly it’s all illuminated. You can see exactly where you were."
I'll get to that light switch, even though it'll have taken 8 or so years to get there.
Holy heckin yes!!!! This is one of the most satisfying comments I've ever read.
Congratulations btw. As a biologist, I will bow to a purist when I encounter one 😉
T*S3 if I'm not mistaken is the cotangent bundle of the manifold S^3.
I'm not sure how familiar with differential geoemtry you are (I myself am not very familiar with it haha) but a single point on a manifold can have a vector tangent to it, you can think of it as a literal arrow tangent to a surface which is how it's defined extrinsically, it can be defined intrisically without talking about the space the manifold is embedded in but it doesnt matter for our purposes.
And a point on the manifold can have so many different tangent vectors, all these tangent vectors form a vector space, which is called the tangent space at a point on the manifold (you can think of a tangent plane at a point on a surface as a visual aid). Every point on the manifold can have this tangent space, so every manifold has this whole host of tangent spaces. S^3 is a manifold, it's just a 3-sphere, (basically the *surface* of a 4 dimensional sphere) and it has a whole host of tangent spaces. a single tangent space at a point p can be written as T_pS^3
Now if you take the disjoint union of every tangent space on a manifold, you get a tangent bundle (which is a special case of a bit more complicated object called a vector bundle :D) and this tangent bundle of S^3 is represented by TS^3 i think you now you might see where we're going with this.
Now instead of taking the disjoint union of the tangent spaces themselves if you took the disjoint union of the dual of the tangent spaces you get the cotangent bundle of the manifold which is T*S^3 :)
@@mastershooter64 Oh wow, I didn't know that but that makes sense - thanks! I'm familiar enough with differential geometry to know what a tangent/cotangent bundle are (thanks to a GR prof that found great joy in being mathematically rigorous), and now that you say that I understand a bit more.
I guess I was partially thrown off by the notation - 'S subscript n' makes me think of the nth symmetric group rather than the n-sphere, and I haven't taken enough topology to make 'compactified' mentally point me to the latter.
@@rtg_onefourtwoeightfiveseven damn ur lucky lol i hope i get professors who enjoy being more mathematically rigorous than usual. What are you doing your PhD in? also got any advice for me? im about to start my physics undergrad in a few months :D (I eventually wanna get a PhD in theoretical physics!)
@@mastershooter64 For me it's looking like it's going to be astrophysics, probably some sort of combo of theoretical and computational.
As for advice, I'd definitely say to talk with your professors/lecturers outside of class (if they have office hours so much the better) - if you have nothing to ask about the course material, ask about what research they're doing or something. Networking is arguably even more important than academic prowess, and even if it's not something that comes naturally to you, it's one of those things that gets easier with practice.
I don't know if this will be a thing at the institution you're going to, but if there are ever organised out-of-class sessions where undergrads can ask grad students for help with problem sets or what have you, go to every single one of those.
Also, jesus christ dude, not even in undergrad and you're already doing differential geometry? What on Earth are they teaching you in high school?
*at a restaurant*
*waiter walks up*
"What would you have, sir?"
"I'd like some quantum soup, thanks."
With noodles.
@@duprie37 i think you meant magnetic lines noodle
@@duprie37 strings
i don't know why but this made me wheeze
Waiter:"Hello, what would you want after your soup?"
Me:"Some nuclear pasta please!"😂😂😂
Friend: what music do you listen to?
Me: its complicated.
love it
Summer activities include: watching videos about physics theories that are far beyond your field of understanding morphed into a Queen cover at 2 am who's with me?
emily kt why is this true
Checking in to the club
Quantum field of understanding
literally me rn it's 2:18
Yes Im watching this at 2am too somehow
Man, most of us can't understand a damn thing, and yet it was AWESOME! Wonderful!
Read Brian Greene's The Elegant Universe. It helps so much.
+Creek Nation Well said, Creek Nation, well said!
I'm 14 and I actually got some of it even though this is some extremely advanced stuff
+Bryan Seare why should I care about what you say?
+Barbed Two you sound very smart.
Having studied theoretical physics, up to postgraduate masters level (including string theory) and simultaneously being a massive Queen fan, this video remains probably my favourite single video in the entire history of the internet. It's like having my lecture notes sung back to me :) Found it when it first came out in 2013, and still come back to it periodically to listen to it, it's literally impossible for me to get bored listening to it.
rock on dude
9 years later, still PURE GENIUS!
That was so fake. Einstein was clearly lip-syncing.
To be clear, puppet Einstein is doing the famous guitar solo :). So he string-lip-synced. :)
We should at least be thankful that they had video footage of Einstein and could lip-sync the music to that
@@stardustpan havete gogh wale bak inta the archives, ye ken?
@@Puddlewiggle Aye, I pick up whatyer puttin down but I'm only gointa know the dialect when I gota study there :)
😄😄😄😄😄
Its hard to imagine just how many dimensions this masterpiece kills on!! The superb harmony dimension, the blackboard humor dimension, the insanely great parody dimension, the multi-track, multi-modal synchronous audio-visual editing dimension, the fantastic and non-condescending lyrics dimension, the subtle and diverse cultural referencing dimension, the AWESOME gestalt-ensemble dimension..... I bow down .
Was it the "Baryons, Fermions, and all other states of matter" that inspired the choice of Bohemian Rhapsody? That line was so incredibly perfect in balancing the physics with referencing the original tune that it felt like it couldn't have not been the spark that lit the rest of the creative process.
Also "poor boy"/"pure void", also featured it "Whole New Worlds".
I thought the same thing
The amount of skill, work, and genius required to make this video is astonishing!!!! 😯
My kids LOVE this! My 7yo said you keep using big words they don't know. I said they were physics words. Guess what they want to learn now? Thanks for making such a great view into a world that seems nearly incomprehensible to so many of us. They did request that puppet Einstein make some more appearances. :)
🎉❤
Maybe now we're finally reaching the scientific age...
"Is no one inspired by our present picture of the universe? This value of science remains unsung by singers, you are reduced to hearing not a song or poem, but an evening lecture about it. This is not yet a scientific age." Richard Feynmann
It's taken years but I discovered what the deep voice says after "manifolds must be Kähler" (4:32)
"Complex, Riemannian, sim-plec-tic"
It was like finding a nugget of gold buried in my backyard.
Perfect! Nice discovery.
oh my god, thank you, I had been wondering and was desperately hoping that someone in the comments knew!
Ahaha that's brilliant!
It has been like a year since my dad showed me this and I loved in imediantly and I could recite it word for word and whenever bohemian rhapsody comes on in the car I sing this version. I LOVE IT :)
Most underrated channel I've seen in my entire life
What alchemy is this. The amount of imaginaton that went into this is incredible. And how much dedication it must take to repeat the song for each part, wow! But all that effort pays off exponentially, by sparking the curiosities of young future scientists. Also very entertaining for anyone old enough to know the original song by heart. Loved it.
I'm having goosebumps, dude. Literally. I can't believe I didn't discover him soon. I now feel like I can do anything in this world after seeing this dude. Holy the dedication seems unreal! I am still a freshman at Med school and I wasn't really giving much time in my hobby in music. Now I'm really down for it. I want to be atleast 10% as good as Acapella Science is.
Hands down the best channel on TH-cam for me. I hope they upload more.
From one musical scientist to another: dude. You are unbelievably talented.
"Molecules and atoms, light and energy, time and space and matter, all from one united theory"
This is, hands down, the best Bohemian Rhapsody spin-off EVER.
This is absolutely amazing.
I'm a scientist, but not a physicist, this is all way above my head.
I cannot begin to imagine how much time it must have taken to record and edit!
My life is forever changed. How does this not have 10^9 views??
I think this is, without a doubt, the best video on the internet.
That's a combination of talent, knowledge and humor. I'm addicted.
That was completely fantastic. Being new to editing, I see how much time, dedication and focus that took. Bravo.
Infinity out of 10
The whole thing is a spoof an incredibly done step by step spoof ending with proof that all the theories are hokum til we stop claiming otherwise. Fabulous...the more often and more closely you watch it the funnier it gets!..and a remarkable job in every way and segment. The lad can sing!
So, it finally happened. I was singing to the original, sung "landscape" instead of "landslide" and I was genuinely baffled for a couple seconds. You've managed to partially replace the original lyrics in my head through dozens of listens. That's how good this is, and that's considering I don't think I understand 1% of the concepts. Congrats :D
Ohh my god!!!!!! This is absolutely mind-blowing!! One of the most complex songs ever, sung so well.. and the physics!! Well, I'm a little out of league there, but actually breathing heavy. Give these guys a prize.
guys im still crying at this beauty
Same man... 2 years later
Never gets old
Legends says he is still crying after 6 years
My teacher showed us this video in 7th grade science class. Glad I still remember this masterpiece
This will never get old
Well, the string theory, which traded infinities for massive numbers of dimensions, somewhat became history through the last years.
"All from one united Theory" - This made me cry snd I don't know why.
It's so beautifully sung.
I am not sure what's the most impressive between... your singing skills, your scientific skills, your science communication skills... all of them are very high and near a 10 out of 10. But to sum it all, I am impressed!
This guy is a pure genius! Clever as hell and superbly executed.🎉
How! Why! How and why am I crying to this 😭????? It's so so so epic. I am humbly thank you sir 🙏🏻. It's just divine. No words. As a musician and a scientist this is just epic.
"You can do what you want with my music, but don't make me boring."
I think Freddie would have approved this.
I love this!
I realize that back when I was a student in the early 80s, I would have had a pretty good sense of the meaning, not full understanding but follow the general flow. What I would not have gotten was the link to Queen and Bohemian Rhapsody. I only really started to appreciate the music of my generation in the last ten years or so.
In any event, this was masterfully done! Bravo!
This song popped into my head at work today. It's been at least a year since I watched this video. I'm amazed that I knew almost all the words......I lost it somewhere around the manifolds. I think that speaks to the artistry of the poster. "I'm just a World Sheet please minimize me..(etc) " is now so ingrained in my head that I can barely remember the original lyrics.
who are the six hundred maggots who unliked it?
WHAT'S NOT TO LIKE?
MAN!
You're awesome!
Gus U String theory.
my thoughts exactly
Clearly they had their phone the wrong way round
they don't believe in string theory presumably.
@@bemusedalligator but who says to believe , as of now it's a theory and as in video also stated maybe just a fantasy , even in String Theory books it's clearly mentioned there is no experimental evidence , it's just a very beautiful explanation which may be is true , no one knows
this may just be the best video ever produced. this goes so far beyond ANY of the silly parodies i have watched. this is a work of art
FYI: In the near future, we will all need to rely on people as talented and as smart as you...
Keep up the great work! Amazing!
Genius.. just Genius..
How did I not know about you till now..?
and yet am weirdly already subscribed..
Holy shit. Coming back to this video like 2 years after. That was when my passion for physics unveiled, this song will forever remain in my mind
I'm now taking physics in college
@@FugieGamers congratulations, guy.
Awesome how I barely understood what was being talk on the video and yet enjoyed it so much! Seriously, this musical approach somehow made me want to search and study all this weird mambo jambo! :D
For 7 years this has been on TH-cam, and only today I see it? What have I been doing?
Somewhere in your wicked miserable past … you must have done something good.
Well, so I didn't really understand 98% of the lyrics but I still love it!
The production value on this, combined with the fact you thought to do it and completed the task, has renewed my faith in humanity. No shit.
This music vid goes to 11* ∞
as others have said, the musical quality, and the editing and design of this video is absolutely out of this world, never mind the physics. But I think my favorite detail is the different colors of shirts, and especially if the black and white ones formed into a piano keyboard. ^_^
THIS IS PHENOMENAL. YOU'RE BRILLIANT!
As a fellow lover of science who is also a singer-songwriter and general musician, I appreciate your niche. This particular presentation is superbly constructed with a superior degree of all around accuracy, such that I was riveted from the first second. I find your substitute lyrics don the original syllabic rhythms and cadences so well that it was a most satisfying listening experience. The fact that you also incorporate relevant and truthful scientific knowledge in an orderly manner into the arrangement is the pinnacle mind-blower that will keep me coming back for more!
Quite satisfying indeed...YUM!
It is 2019 and I am watching it over and over again. You are a legend.
That was super impressive. Not only are you an excellent singer, but doing all those different vocal parts must have been a pain, though obviously enjoyable or you wouldn't have done it. Probably the hardest part would have been the editing.
after all these years, I still listen to this song once in a while.
This right here is why I should have worked harder in my physics degree.
Me too
Nice fusion of Queen with Science and Physics! Well done
Have no idea what any of the lyrics mean, but then again I don't understand half the lyrics from Bohemian Rhapsody anyway.
Great job!
How did this exist for nearly five-and-a-half years without my knowing about it? This is one of the greatest things I've ever seen on TH-cam. It's brilliant on so many levels.
Wow, that was actually rather brilliant and entertaining.
This is amazing - so creative. My students are writing musical research papers and this is on the list of inspirational videos.
It just hit me! The piano voices are in a piano!
I love this. As a life long science geek (I'm a retired microbiologist and sci-fi fanatic), I think its great that you are using You-tube and Facebook to make REAL science entertaining. (As opposed to all the junk that some sites promote.)
Been 3 years since I last watched this. Still as golden as the first time!
This SUCH pure genius!!!! Best of its kind on TH-cam, by a long shot.
I want to pursue a career as a physicist so hopefully I can return to this song in 7 or so years and understand all of it
Do it
How’s it going? :)
@@kittyplayz8399 I’m in my first semester of college as a physics major
@@OnePieceFan4765 Congrats, that’s amazing!
I used to be a popular kid at school, but I really liked talking to nerds. And this man must be the coolest amongst them all.
Same here 😂. No f’s given…I have found my people 🎉
I WILL COME HERE AFTER APPROXIMATELY 8 YEARS AND I WILL SURELY KNOW EVERYTHING TOLD IN THIS VIDEO
Any way you quantize, this is still amazing even years later.
Tim Blais apologizes for taking so long to release the coolest video on TH-cam. Canadians.
The more I see it the more amazing I find it. The best of the best.
Not me listening to this over and over for 10 years hoping I’ll eventually understand it without actually learning string theory 😂
Bravo.....excellent work...my hat off to you!!! I see a brilliant future ahead of you!
This is absolutely Brilliant.....wherever it is raining....it has to be Freddy Mercury pissin' himself laughing, I am sure he is up there smiling down on this brilliant take of his song.
Peace Y
Guys, as tempting as it is, don't click on his thesis. You won't make it past the first sentence.
I make it past the acknowledgement
First sentence I was ok with. It's the second that really got me! For reference: "When confined to compact universes which are topologically genus g Riemann surfaces times time, its classical phase space is the cotangent bundle of the moduli space of Riemann surfaces."
+Geoff Cunningham Translation: In a universe shaped like a pretzel, you can predict its shape later if you know the dimensions of the pretzel, and how they are changing, right now.
Pretzels make it much more understandable. Throw in some Nutella and I'm on board.
Read the paper. The author probably wants to examine the work of Kontsevich and his proof of the Witten conjecture as applied to moduli space curves as this seems incomplete.
His voice....his editing skills....his brain...that even thought of such an idea....is all awesome....man this is damn creative
This is brilliant, I love returning to it after learning a bit more physics and understanding more of the references! :D
It’s been some time since I watched this and I enjoy it just as much as I did the first time. It is brilliant!
As a fan of Queen and science, i love this song
Some minutes of truly geek happiness. Thanks a lot!
And who says Science isn't Art?! LOVE THIS CHANNEL
That's it, I'm subscribing.
Hiii
Puppet Einstein is the best part or this video XD
True!! And the highest. Freaks me out seriously!!
@@earlefrost5512 lol you stole my comment
Puppet Einstein _is_ great and all, but Tim found a much better Einstein (and Newton, which he’d also made a sock puppet of) for his _Wicked_ parody “Defining Gravity” some years after this video.
How does this only have 83,000 likes? Amazing at so many levels.
Nice work! Delightfully nerdy and you did a very good job with the lyrics and the video. Wow!! My friend recommended these to me :)
ABSOLUTELY AWESOME ADAPTATION of a Queen classic
thank you
lol
3 years of college level Physics education has not prepared me for this video.
Wonderful.. I got the same shiver at the end that I get from Freddie's version
Physics's my favourite... And this guy made it more interesting!😅
Though I didn't understand most of it... But it is crazily good! Like how can a person be sooooo creative and good!!!
Thank you sooooo much!
Hope I'll understand this someday🙃
Me: no one can sing a cover of Bohemian rhapsody that I would like as much as the original.
AcapellaScience: hold my beer.
I'm never again going to be able to listen to Brian May's famous guitar solo without that Einstein sock puppet popping into my head!
I can't get enough of this as somebody who records and sings and multi tracks another commenter was correct when they were blown away by the fact that nobody is talking about how much work it is to put something like that together. This is one of the most amazing parody type Arrangements I've ever seen using current views of real physics and I am incredibly impressed
Best video ever! How long did this take you? Between writing the song, filming and editing it must have taken forever! Your parodies of classics are the best!
how long did your masters degree take? im a math/phys student at a canadian university and it is incredible to me there is so much math involved in your thesis....moduli spaces, symplectic geometry, kahler geometry, cohomology...these are typically courses taught at grad level in my department, how long did this take you?
great song by the way, i listen to it on a regular basis.
Two years; most of the first year was learning QFT and string theory (which uses a lot of these concepts) and banging my head against some holographic entropy stuff that didn't go anywhere. The second year was focusing on this problem. The review papers I reference in the thesis were incredibly helpful, and I also had an excellent supervisor guiding me toward what I needed to know.
if u are at uoft alot of these courses can be taken in undergrad
I wish I understood what he was singing about.
Four years of studying physics, and I think I get most of the references.
So... I'd say, you have some reading ahead of you.
Same. :(
Probably gravity 🥰thats all we need to understand all else is just music 😅
10 years later, still an absolute educational banger
I wish I could like this video everytime I watched it! It's a fucking masterpiece.
Super cover version of Queen.
P.S. "Hi" in russian is "Privet"
Денис Великанов привет
Wow. This almost makes me want to take several university classes so I can actually understand this. ALMOST.
Good luck with understanding Khaler [sic] Manifolds!!
7 years after, I still love this masterpiece.
Tell me that Brian May has seen this!
Seen this? I wouldn't be surprised if Brian May wrote and produced it!
I think I read somewhere that he has, and sent Tim felicitations. And he's one of the few who could actually have a chance at fully understanding this - the music and the physics.
Brian would understand and enjoy it a lot..... He has a PhD in Astrophysics.....