I look forward to reading about her success in 20-30 years. At 65 I doubt I’ll see her get the Nobel for physics as that doesn’t usually happen until much later in a person’s career.
@@savary62 I am English. "Haitch" is not correct. It is mind-bendingly, ear-haemorrhagingly stupid. Almost half as stupid as I am for letting it annoy me so much. In every English dictionary EVER, including British ones such as the OED, it is listed as "Aitch". In NO English dictionary ever will you find "Haitch", because it only exists in the minds of the wilfully unlettered.
@@savary62 And yes, I am aware she is a person with a Ph.D and a career I'd sell a kidney on Ebay to get into, and I am no-one. That doesn't make me any less right; just unpleasant. It's my weakness. Well, one of them.
Dr. Becky is a national (International?) treasure. Making highly complex science accessible and understandable to all in a way that is engaging and fun, all without talking down to the audience. Great work and keep it up :)
The whole world is benefitting from her wonderful ability to talk so plainly about her love. There are many cutting edge physicists but most of them can't teach a college physics class without mumbling and five syllable words. Dr Becky speaks so clearly and articulately and breaks down the jargon into anecdotes of their own that it's easy to forget this is learning.
1) this is the best explanation of dark matter I've ever seen. 2) that wine glass example of weak lensing is *brilliant*. Incredibly simple and easy to understand
I so appreciate you taking the time to digest everything before making a video! Just as DES did all their checks on the data to make sure it’s accurate, you did your homework to give us only the best information!
@@karabomothupi9759 Assuming you're not aware of the "please don't feed the trolls" guideline IRL, the previous correspondent is obviously an instrument of the fallen angle [sic], as even the "documentation" they refer to elsewhere says the planet Earth is a sphere. Also, please ignore the trolls.
@@godsbeautifulflatearth,Is Mars flat? Are any other planets besides Earth flat? Are you claiming that the sun is flat? God is slapping you upside the head,you need to listen.
I’m an upper level undergraduate astrophysics student, and I just want to say...I love the videos you create! They really help me keep up with new developments without having to go through every paper being written.
Loved hearing Dr. Amon speaking about interdisciplinary cooperation in astrophysics. I feel like that’s so important to unlocking the potential of our new detection abilities.
It's going to be difficult to achieve since some of the disciplines tend to regard each other as adversaries rather than contemporaries with both trying to answer the same basic questions, just through different means and methods. Then there are those who guard their work extremely jealously because they are afraid of someone "stealing their idea" and possibly their shot at a Nobel. Sadly, they're not without historical evidence of this happening. It boils down to people need to become willing to set aside their desire for personal aggrandizement in search of a deeper understanding for all humanity. The different fields have so much to offer each other IF they can set aside certain fundamental philosophical differences. Although, in the end, it ALL comes down to mathematics and our understanding of the mathematical correlation of one given thing to another. For instance, how does quantum entanglement REALLY work? We know that it happens and even have direct evidence that it DOES happen... but how and why? There HAS to be a mathematical correlation between the two particles, but what is the relation, how is it formed and why is it formed? Deep questions that I think will need the combined efforts of astrophysicists, quantum mechanics engineers... possibly even string theorists. VERY different disciplines and very different ways of looking at a problem. My thought is that it's basically the old trope about the blind men and the elephant. Each trying to describe the animal based on their own area of observation without being able to combine them and get the whole picture. Once they figure out how to set aside their differences and personal animosity, start trying to see how the data from project A can possibly work together with that of project B and get answers that, while seemingly going against all current models, actually present a much better understanding of the larger questions. For instance where Dr Becky, in a different video, talks about how two neutron stars merged and the resulting explosion turned out to go against every single model of what SHOULD happen based on our current understanding of physics. Talk about turning science on it's head, wow. Turns out that there WAS an answer, it just needs to be looked at from a different perspective than had previously been used. I really hope that they can learn how to "take the best from all sides" and perhaps form an entirely new discipline... which would potentially put us a step or two closer to the ever elusive Grand Unification Theory
So am I. Its a time of excitement for anyone interested in astrophysics and cosmology. You do a great job of translating the big themes into language understandable to us spectators. I really appreciate these interviews too. They highlight the people doing the science. Their excitement is infectious (can one use that word in a positive light? - I hope so!)
thank you so much for putting all you do in layman's terms. you make it so succinct and accurate. truly. we need more educators that are you but we don't.
I'd like to point out to everybody else... putting this in layman's terms... IS NOT EASY.. The editing and the script work that went into this. I appreciate so much. you MUST have done your work and research in order to tell us reptile brains what is really going on. I love your channel so much!
@Train 2noplace All I will say to this is just because we don't know now doesn't mean we'll never know. Remember, only a bit over 100 years ago it was still thought impossible for humans to fly. In that INCREDIBLY short time span we've been to the moon, and are fairly regularly sending remote controlled robots to Mars. Not to mention a long lasting presence in space in the international space station. Who knows what we'll discover in the next 100 or even 1000 years?
The big rip theory would make a great sci fi plot. We have to get into another universe because ours is ending. But our bodies are not able to exist in their universes physics. So we have to scramble to find a universe that can sustain us. Before the molecules in our universe are no longer held together.
Because of how long it would take for our universe to end, it would be at least billions of years after we figure out how to do that (if it's even possible) that our universe would be destroyed.
The Heechee Saga by Frederik Pohl was written before dark energy was even theorized, so there's no big rip, but the concept of surviving the big crunch does play a role in the story. (No more details to avoid unnecessary spoilers.)
It would need to be ridiculously quickened to become movie script stuff. But Hollywood can do such things. Remember "The day after tomorrow" with frozen New York and temperatures decreasing in days by what they would in years (if not longer) in a real rapid climate change scenario?
In the balloon analogy of space expansion, the Big Rip is the balloon popping... so we need to stop whoever's blowing up the balloon with four dimensional air. Yeah. Definitely. That's what we have to do.
Dr. Becky, thank you so much for making content. Your enthusiasm for space is so incredibly contagious! I just can't help but get excited when I see a new video. Thank you so much for it all!
gotta love the recent emphasis on interviews! I legitimately failed physics 101 in college (I actually tried quite hard, one of the reasons i got a B.S. in a social science), but i can always understand the way you explain things... thanks Dr. Becky (and the outtakes are awesome!)
Thank you for your hard work, and don't be negative about your self for making mistakes, you are human and to be fair you had just been busy "digesting" disseminating information from 30 papers to pass the rounded relevant info onto meer commoners like myself. Thank you once again.
Becky I think your videos are sooo amazing! I am currently studying physics and it is difficult for me to keep up with astro news, but you and your really informative videos make that a lot easier. Thank you so much :)
Man I have such respect for these people. It’s gotta be so annoying to think you made progress just for 1 or 2 values to change and then you must question almost everything about what you thought you know. And they just keep on going.
Thanks Dr. Becky. I try to ignore my notifications for TH-cam but when I see that's one your uploads I watch as soon as I can. I hope that people will learn to love science as much as you. You never disappoint. Please more guests. She was delightful.
I'm gonna share this with my friends who have young daughters interested in science. What an excellent exemplar of two brilliant, passionate communicators sharing their love of deep, deep science - who happen to be women. Great role models!
Just finished my thesis on the effects of dark energy on structure formation, and I’m exited for those results! I love to see experimentalists do their job. Deep dive into the papers asap 😁, thank you very much for the presentation! Greetings from Italy!
Hi Sebastiano, have your results come through yet? I have a question about dark energy, but I can't find a video or forum to answer :( I know that gravity makes things accelerate because the pull in front is stronger than the pull behind. But dark energy is the same strength throughout the universe, isn't it? The push in front is the same as the push from behind, so how can it cause acceleration? BFF if you can help me :)
The Einstein-Hate, so to speak, comes in large part from the fact that while GR explains the really huge things in the universe, only QM really explains the extremely tiny things in the universe. So you have Team Einstein on one side ... Relativity will eventually explain QM ... and you have Team Copenhagen on the other side, hoping that QM will eventually explain relativity. And the more reasonable folks are trying to reconcile them, with ideas like Quantum Gravity. Which, unfortunately, doesn't work. Maybe M-theory will eventually sew it all together. Once we find the other 22 dimensions...
I found your channel after watching your interview on the SPA FB stream today. Wow, loads of brilliant resources to listen to. Wish it had been here when I was taking my BSc in Astronomy! Brilliant channel Becky, thanks, Andrew
I’ll watch the video tonight. Thank you so much for educating us on the latest cosmology/astronomy news. Just finished reading your autographed book. Great job and enjoyed it. Write another one soon but maybe this time something specific and more detailed😊 Thanks again!
Me nerding out about Dr. Becky, nerding out about Dr. Alexandra, nerding out about, the eventual collaboration of all the different fields of study. Loving all these videos!!
I saw the earlier reports of this map. My reaction was 'Nice, so what'. Now I see your enthusiasm and some insight into where this can take us. Now I'm very excited. Thanks for the enlightenment.
Thank you SO MUCH for the incredible summary! I don't know how you were able to read 30 research papers in a week, on top of working and making this video - this is truly impressive. Research papers are _hard_ to read (I guess it's your field, but still).
I love these videos about dark energy. I returned to school to start my degrees in astrophysics and computer science because I want to study dark energy. I actually have a back of the napkin theory about dark energy that I'd love to test mathematically.
I’m also majoring in astrophysics. I’m about a year and half out from finishing my degree. Then hopefully I can get accepted into grad school somewhere. Good luck.
My Wife, that I showed the belly grumbling blooper had a conversation about how you are not jaded. People that get a bit older and form a harder opinion. You are going to be sippin your 3 O ' CLOCK tea and doing videos with enthusiam and joyfulness for us the people. in 20 years Do not change please. THANK YOU
My twelve-year-old daughter watches every video you put out you've inspired her and she wants to become an astrophysicist or cosmetologist I believe your videos play a big part in her mindset thank you Doctor we appreciate you and all the work that you do
Another excellent upload Becks. I’ve always been captivated by the pros and cons of how the Universe works so, even though I don’t understand all you put out, I really enjoy listening to you do so. Thank you for another one babe. 😊😊😊
Wow lots of mathematical physics with relevant information via published papers. Thanks Becky. U r something a little more out of the box, when it's come to explaining the highly recommended scientific research, to layman as well as the trained minds.
Just a question that arose for me...In the Observable Universe, do astronomers or astrophysicist know where the milky way lies with in the known Observable Universe? Is there a 3D view of a scale model of the Observable Universe showing the Milky Way's approximate location
Dr. Becky and Dr. Amon look so young. As a house wife and mother of 2, I wish I could have been one of them and still explain try to explain to my husband what I really do at work. He always talks about his job as 'assistant manager' at his father's secondhand car company.
Hello, this is not really relevant to the video but I just say a couple of things. My name is Julia and I am currently thirteen years old. Which I suppose it is bit unnecessary to mention my name or age for this comment. Anyway I want to say is thank you. I was always really interested in space for as long as I can remember. I always look forward to these videos on your lectures and latest space news. Honestly I never knew what to do with my life (carrer wise) until I started watching your videos. Now I know Astrophysicist is my calling. 🙂
Wondered if astrophysicist take account that our Solar System is not static, it is moving through the interstellar space medium. That means the Solar System has it's own orbit to the Milky Way. Thus some objects will appear more distant and some objects will appear closer. This applies to the observable voids. Perhaps from our dynamic perspective the Universe is expanding, when in reality, the Solar System is just moving. No Dark Energy.
Thank you for your videos! you make it much more understandable for us astro-physicists! When I read the news about this discovery, I couldn't wait for your video to explain it!
i like how she seems genuinely interested and excited about it, how the heck do i always end up on these channels from 3d modelling at 7am when i should be sleeping
That was brilliant:) Thanks for starting off with an overview of what we know and what we think we know and what we hope to know. Good interview. I'm so excited!!!
Great interview - can we have more interviews! In a similar field to Dr Amon how about Prof Catherine Heymans, recently appointed Astronomer Royal for Scotland.
Thank you Dr Becky, a real good explanation. Your taking the time to read & reflect made for a really clear and considered presentation. Shame the mainstream media don't follow your excellent example. Keep up the good work!
A lovely exposition of how actual science is done. Methodological adjustment in light ( pun noted) of observation. This smells to me like cosmology going from collecting finches to considering means of biological evolution, or from alchemy to Priestly and Dalton. Keep it up!
Thank you so much for breaking down these topics in such a way as to make them accessible for enthusiasts such as myself, who find these topics so interesting.
That was my thought as well. If the simulation turns up something that doesn't fit with observation, it is more plausible that some technical detail of the simulation is off than that the basic laws are wrong.
I know this is weird, but the way you say "idear" reminds me of my grandmother. She wasn't British, but Southern, but you say it the same exact way. Thanks for bringing back good memories.
If it's more evenly distributed, surely we're looking at a new fundamental force rather than dark matter/energy. Quantised Inertia seems to be a more realistic explanation. All that said, keep doing what you're doing Becky. Love how you popularise astrophysics.
Just a question of terminology: When the main hypothesis is that it is another force of nature, why then does it get called dark energy and not simply dark force? If we're dealing with a force that pushes, then I'm sure there is some energy carried by that force, but why focus on the energy and not the force? Isn't the energy secondary? Given that we're able to give a percentage of the energy budget of the universe that is currently in dark energy, I assume dark energy is in some way commensurable with other forms of energy, and can be measured literally in joules. So it doesn't sound like the choice to call it "dark energy" is entirely hand-wavy.
last I knew we dont know anything about the truth behind dark energy or dark matter beyond our own equations about other things not adding up. For all we know the answer to dark matter is a math mistake and the answer to dark energy is its just diffusion.
Not only do I feel educated more about the universe, I'm happy it's Dr Becky that's the one teaching me, because Einstein was merely a genius, Becky is a genius AND beautiful.
Thats exactly what i thought the moment i saw it! I was like 'Hey, thats a tank!'. I hope they are drawing a tank. I can understand observing hours on end can be quite boring.
Hello, I'm from Vietnam, I'm 23 and soon 24 year old. I have a big love for science just like you. My big dream is solve the dark matter problem and the united theory one day
I am working toward a BA in Math so I can eventually get a PhD in astrophysics. When my parents get mad that I'm on my phone. I'm usually readings thesis papers or dissertations. I love it.
I love your videos, Dr. Becky! It would be wonderful to hear your explanation on the differences, and any commonalities, among….astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology.
Good science communicators are hard to find. If your videos can get even one person interested enough in STEM to pursue it as a career then all the work you put into this channel was worth it.
My question about these maps of the universe is regarding how movement over time is taken into account. It's like taking a picture of one seat in a stadium now, then the immediately surrounding seats an hour ago and more distant seats increasingly far back. The resulting composite picture wouldn't be a survey of the current population of the stadium.
The Hubble constant is not constant. I think it’s connected to entropy and it varies throughout the universe and time. That is way we cannot confirm the constant because it varies in direction and back in time. We need to view the universe not from our position on the earth but from outside our universe. It’s relative and changes our frame of reference.
yeah that was the best bit - explaining clearly the difference between weak lensing & the arcs + how we're seeing more than can be explained with regular matter alone
So one takeaway is that it's largely on the shoulders of theorists specializing in galaxy formation to provide sharper limits on how to interpret the DES data? I see the opportunity for feedback here too- there are several popular galaxy formation theories that would give different limits; can they be compared with parts of the data set nearer our vantage point to eliminate some of them?
"just a little tweak to general relativity is needed". Little did they know a paradigm shift of magnificent proportions was coming. - this note was brought to you from your future selfs.
My 8 year old daughter wants to be an astrophysicist. And once told me she would solve dark energy one day. And she likes watching to your videos
That's a smart 8-year-old.
I also want your daughter to solve dark energy
I hope that she sticks with it and loves math and coding. Someone needs to do it.
Haha i want to be an astrophysicist and I'm already planning
I look forward to reading about her success in 20-30 years. At 65 I doubt I’ll see her get the Nobel for physics as that doesn’t usually happen until much later in a person’s career.
The way dr.Becky’s eyes just sparkle when she talks about dark matter makes me wanna be an astrophysicist moreeee
Makes me want to BE dark matter lol
She looks like I would look if she pronounced the eighth letter of the alphabet properly.
@@theradgegadgie6352 she says it in English which is correct.
We here in the States use our own pronunciation. Neither is wrong.
@@savary62 I am English. "Haitch" is not correct. It is mind-bendingly, ear-haemorrhagingly stupid. Almost half as stupid as I am for letting it annoy me so much.
In every English dictionary EVER, including British ones such as the OED, it is listed as "Aitch". In NO English dictionary ever will you find "Haitch", because it only exists in the minds of the wilfully unlettered.
@@savary62 And yes, I am aware she is a person with a Ph.D and a career I'd sell a kidney on Ebay to get into, and I am no-one. That doesn't make me any less right; just unpleasant. It's my weakness. Well, one of them.
Dr. Becky is a national (International?) treasure. Making highly complex science accessible and understandable to all in a way that is engaging and fun, all without talking down to the audience. Great work and keep it up :)
Sure, she is an international treasure as the whole world is watching🌠
The whole world is benefitting from her wonderful ability to talk so plainly about her love. There are many cutting edge physicists but most of them can't teach a college physics class without mumbling and five syllable words. Dr Becky speaks so clearly and articulately and breaks down the jargon into anecdotes of their own that it's easy to forget this is learning.
1) this is the best explanation of dark matter I've ever seen.
2) that wine glass example of weak lensing is *brilliant*. Incredibly simple and easy to understand
I love Thursdays, another Dr Becky upload and another full week of thinking about it! keep em coming Becky!!!!
True
I so appreciate you taking the time to digest everything before making a video! Just as DES did all their checks on the data to make sure it’s accurate, you did your homework to give us only the best information!
Your videos just makes me more and more excited to start an Astrophysics degree in 2022.
🥳🥳🥳
God help you come to your senses.
@@godsbeautifulflatearth what do you mean?
@@karabomothupi9759 Assuming you're not aware of the "please don't feed the trolls" guideline IRL, the previous correspondent is obviously an instrument of the fallen angle [sic], as even the "documentation" they refer to elsewhere says the planet Earth is a sphere. Also, please ignore the trolls.
@@godsbeautifulflatearth,Is Mars flat? Are any other planets besides Earth flat? Are you claiming that the sun is flat?
God is slapping you upside the head,you need to listen.
I very much appreciate the extra time it took you to produce this, the added research and effort really shows.
We need more gray matter to fully define black matter. ? ?
I’m an upper level undergraduate astrophysics student, and I just want to say...I love the videos you create! They really help me keep up with new developments without having to go through every paper being written.
Loved hearing Dr. Amon speaking about interdisciplinary cooperation in astrophysics. I feel like that’s so important to unlocking the potential of our new detection abilities.
It's going to be difficult to achieve since some of the disciplines tend to regard each other as adversaries rather than contemporaries with both trying to answer the same basic questions, just through different means and methods. Then there are those who guard their work extremely jealously because they are afraid of someone "stealing their idea" and possibly their shot at a Nobel. Sadly, they're not without historical evidence of this happening. It boils down to people need to become willing to set aside their desire for personal aggrandizement in search of a deeper understanding for all humanity. The different fields have so much to offer each other IF they can set aside certain fundamental philosophical differences. Although, in the end, it ALL comes down to mathematics and our understanding of the mathematical correlation of one given thing to another. For instance, how does quantum entanglement REALLY work? We know that it happens and even have direct evidence that it DOES happen... but how and why? There HAS to be a mathematical correlation between the two particles, but what is the relation, how is it formed and why is it formed? Deep questions that I think will need the combined efforts of astrophysicists, quantum mechanics engineers... possibly even string theorists. VERY different disciplines and very different ways of looking at a problem. My thought is that it's basically the old trope about the blind men and the elephant. Each trying to describe the animal based on their own area of observation without being able to combine them and get the whole picture. Once they figure out how to set aside their differences and personal animosity, start trying to see how the data from project A can possibly work together with that of project B and get answers that, while seemingly going against all current models, actually present a much better understanding of the larger questions. For instance where Dr Becky, in a different video, talks about how two neutron stars merged and the resulting explosion turned out to go against every single model of what SHOULD happen based on our current understanding of physics. Talk about turning science on it's head, wow. Turns out that there WAS an answer, it just needs to be looked at from a different perspective than had previously been used. I really hope that they can learn how to "take the best from all sides" and perhaps form an entirely new discipline... which would potentially put us a step or two closer to the ever elusive Grand Unification Theory
I'm a huge fan of this content
Thanks!
So am I. Its a time of excitement for anyone interested in astrophysics and cosmology. You do a great job of translating the big themes into language understandable to us spectators. I really appreciate these interviews too. They highlight the people doing the science. Their excitement is infectious (can one use that word in a positive light? - I hope so!)
So many great channels that focus on this type of content, awesome stuff
We love your show. Keep up the good work.
This woman is an idiot paid to deceive you, earth is flat.
thank you so much for putting all you do in layman's terms. you make it so succinct and accurate. truly. we need more educators that are you but we don't.
I'd like to point out to everybody else... putting this in layman's terms... IS NOT EASY.. The editing and the script work that went into this. I appreciate so much. you MUST have done your work and research in order to tell us reptile brains what is really going on. I love your channel so much!
Thanks Travis - this one was a bit difficult! Glad to know it’s appreciated
Totally agree. Give us a digested view rather than the newsline. We want what you think. Thank you. You rock.
"Space is hard, words are harder" - you're not wrong Dr B.
That should be Dr. Becky's Tag Line, LMAO.
get a mug made! with a good image :D
Yeah, words are very, uh... you know, just...
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 they are just hard
I have it on a tee in my merch store if you want one 😂 I feel like it's my life motto
Never before have I more wanted a number to be greater than -1 than right now.
Wow hahahhahaha
@Train 2noplace All I will say to this is just because we don't know now doesn't mean we'll never know. Remember, only a bit over 100 years ago it was still thought impossible for humans to fly. In that INCREDIBLY short time span we've been to the moon, and are fairly regularly sending remote controlled robots to Mars. Not to mention a long lasting presence in space in the international space station.
Who knows what we'll discover in the next 100 or even 1000 years?
I am always just blown away to see how far we've come in understanding our universe. Thinking back just a decade or 2 really puts it into perspective.
The big rip theory would make a great sci fi plot. We have to get into another universe because ours is ending. But our bodies are not able to exist in their universes physics. So we have to scramble to find a universe that can sustain us. Before the molecules in our universe are no longer held together.
Because of how long it would take for our universe to end, it would be at least billions of years after we figure out how to do that (if it's even possible) that our universe would be destroyed.
The Heechee Saga by Frederik Pohl was written before dark energy was even theorized, so there's no big rip, but the concept of surviving the big crunch does play a role in the story. (No more details to avoid unnecessary spoilers.)
It would need to be ridiculously quickened to become movie script stuff. But Hollywood can do such things. Remember "The day after tomorrow" with frozen New York and temperatures decreasing in days by what they would in years (if not longer) in a real rapid climate change scenario?
In the balloon analogy of space expansion, the Big Rip is the balloon popping... so we need to stop whoever's blowing up the balloon with four dimensional air. Yeah. Definitely. That's what we have to do.
Sounds more like a horror story 😉
Imagine if this had been done 40 years ago, and all the data had to be transported via 9-track tapes. Three tapes for each image.
Dr. Becky, thank you so much for making content. Your enthusiasm for space is so incredibly contagious! I just can't help but get excited when I see a new video. Thank you so much for it all!
I think you were salivating over the information you were being given. It is good to see the excitement.
I watch a lot of your TH-cam videos and I don't think I've seen you more excited than you were discussing this one. Keep up the good work
Becky was nodding so vigorously during the interview like "I NEED THE KNOWLEDGE"
And I've learnt it makes my editing life easier 😂
Love how it evolved: 19:04 , 19:12 and 19:18 :-)
gotta love the recent emphasis on interviews! I legitimately failed physics 101 in college (I actually tried quite hard, one of the reasons i got a B.S. in a social science), but i can always understand the way you explain things... thanks Dr. Becky (and the outtakes are awesome!)
same why i ended up with a b.s. in psychology [couldn't remember formula]
Thank you for your hard work, and don't be negative about your self for making mistakes, you are human and to be fair you had just been busy "digesting" disseminating information from 30 papers to pass the rounded relevant info onto meer commoners like myself.
Thank you once again.
Love that Trinidad accent, was so used to hearing it in my house growing up. A cracking interview too !
Amon is Trini?
Ah, I was wondering what that accent was. Interesting, seems like there's a lot of Indian influence, which makes sense.
Yep, she's from Trinidad & Tobago, did her PhD in Scotland and now works in the US!
The video chat is really wholesome. Just two nerds geeking out over astrophysics. Both of you seem very excited to chat about it!
Becky I think your videos are sooo amazing! I am currently studying physics and it is difficult for me to keep up with astro news, but you and your really informative videos make that a lot easier. Thank you so much :)
Man I have such respect for these people. It’s gotta be so annoying to think you made progress just for 1 or 2 values to change and then you must question almost everything about what you thought you know. And they just keep on going.
I cannot tell you how excited this got me!!!!!
SUDERAMMMM SUDERAMMM ... Shakthi Degi Kali Maaaaaaa
@@Khannea hahah! delighted
Thanks Dr. Becky. I try to ignore my notifications for TH-cam but when I see that's one your uploads I watch as soon as I can. I hope that people will learn to love science as much as you. You never disappoint. Please more guests. She was delightful.
I'm gonna share this with my friends who have young daughters interested in science. What an excellent exemplar of two brilliant, passionate communicators sharing their love of deep, deep science - who happen to be women. Great role models!
Just finished my thesis on the effects of dark energy on structure formation, and I’m exited for those results! I love to see experimentalists do their job. Deep dive into the papers asap 😁, thank you very much for the presentation! Greetings from Italy!
Hi Sebastiano, have your results come through yet?
I have a question about dark energy, but I can't find a video or forum to answer :(
I know that gravity makes things accelerate because the pull in front is stronger than the pull behind.
But dark energy is the same strength throughout the universe, isn't it? The push in front is the same as the push from behind, so how can it cause acceleration?
BFF if you can help me :)
* Literally anything new happens in physics *
Headlines: *NEW STUDY SHOWS EINSTEIN MAY HAVE BEEN WRONG*
😂
One boy was constantly wrong. This boy was Albert Einstein
The Einstein-Hate, so to speak, comes in large part from the fact that while GR explains the really huge things in the universe, only QM really explains the extremely tiny things in the universe. So you have Team Einstein on one side ... Relativity will eventually explain QM ... and you have Team Copenhagen on the other side, hoping that QM will eventually explain relativity. And the more reasonable folks are trying to reconcile them, with ideas like Quantum Gravity. Which, unfortunately, doesn't work. Maybe M-theory will eventually sew it all together. Once we find the other 22 dimensions...
@Mary Terwiliger so mainstream media both nazi and anti nazi?
@Mary Terwiliger jesus christ
I found your channel after watching your interview on the SPA FB stream today. Wow, loads of brilliant resources to listen to. Wish it had been here when I was taking my BSc in Astronomy! Brilliant channel Becky, thanks, Andrew
I’ll watch the video tonight. Thank you so much for educating us on the latest cosmology/astronomy news. Just finished reading your autographed book. Great job and enjoyed it. Write another one soon but maybe this time something specific and more detailed😊 Thanks again!
Wow video!!!!.........
Me nerding out about Dr. Becky, nerding out about Dr. Alexandra, nerding out about, the eventual collaboration of all the different fields of study. Loving all these videos!!
Really good concise coverage of such a big subject! Very excited to see where our knowledge is in another decade or so!
I found your channel yesterday and have been eating, working, sleeping, and just living with your videos in the background. 🙃
This video was really an answer to all my questions...I love watching your videos cause it doesn't make me refer to other material to understand them😀
I saw the earlier reports of this map. My reaction was 'Nice, so what'. Now I see your enthusiasm and some insight into where this can take us. Now I'm very excited. Thanks for the enlightenment.
Great video! Just finished my undergrad and missing physics already, so I needed this. Thanks!
yeeeeaaaaaaa, your enthusiasm for this subject mirrors my own. I don't see enough of it on youtube!
you’re my biggest inspiration love youu❤️
Thank you SO MUCH for the incredible summary! I don't know how you were able to read 30 research papers in a week, on top of working and making this video - this is truly impressive. Research papers are _hard_ to read (I guess it's your field, but still).
I love these videos about dark energy. I returned to school to start my degrees in astrophysics and computer science because I want to study dark energy. I actually have a back of the napkin theory about dark energy that I'd love to test mathematically.
It's not "God farted" is it? because that's my idea. IT'S MINE.
Seriously though, good luck. We need more scientists
because of the space spiders
I’m also majoring in astrophysics. I’m about a year and half out from finishing my degree. Then hopefully I can get accepted into grad school somewhere. Good luck.
@@alwaysdisputin9930 Haha, I thought of it first, back off :D
Great work Dr. B, and to all the DES teams!
Thank you to all.
I'll be patreoning you soon.
Just found you and plan to binge. Dig this!!
My Wife, that I showed the belly grumbling blooper had a conversation about how you are not jaded. People that get a bit older and form a harder opinion. You are going to be sippin your 3 O ' CLOCK tea and doing videos with enthusiam and joyfulness for us the people. in 20 years
Do not change please.
THANK YOU
If the universe is expanding fast enough, eventually everything will be torn apart by the expansion, including starts, planets, molecules, and atoms.
"Space is big really big, you think it's a long way down to the post office...." #dontpanic
My twelve-year-old daughter watches every video you put out you've inspired her and she wants to become an astrophysicist or cosmetologist I believe your videos play a big part in her mindset thank you Doctor we appreciate you and all the work that you do
Didn't see this in the comments yet...
"69% Dark Energy"
"Nice"
The universe definitely has a sense of humor.
My thoughts exactly seems fitting for our time period
Super nice:)
I was looking away from the screen at 16:09.
dark energy / universe expansion is probably just Photon Decay
Another excellent upload Becks. I’ve always been captivated by the pros and cons of how the Universe works so, even though I don’t understand all you put out, I really enjoy listening to you do so. Thank you for another one babe. 😊😊😊
Wow lots of mathematical physics with relevant information via published papers. Thanks Becky. U r something a little more out of the box, when it's come to explaining the highly recommended scientific research, to layman as well as the trained minds.
I'm still puzzled by the TV remote, so this is way above my head... but still absolutely fascinating!
Great to see Cosmologist who looks like she's on a rollercoaster, when parsing new data. (And this is indeed exciting👍).
Just a question that arose for me...In the Observable Universe, do astronomers or astrophysicist know where the milky way lies with in the known Observable Universe? Is there a 3D view of a scale model of the Observable Universe showing the Milky Way's approximate location
We also think Christmas comes early when we watch your videos thanks Dr Becky
Dr. Becky and Dr. Amon look so young. As a house wife and mother of 2, I wish I could have been one of them and still explain try to explain to my husband what I really do at work. He always talks about his job as 'assistant manager' at his father's secondhand car company.
“Space is hard, words are harder.” I feel this too.
Hello, this is not really relevant to the video but I just say a couple of things. My name is Julia and I am currently thirteen years old. Which I suppose it is bit unnecessary to mention my name or age for this comment. Anyway I want to say is thank you. I was always really interested in space for as long as I can remember. I always look forward to these videos on your lectures and latest space news. Honestly I never knew what to do with my life (carrer wise) until I started watching your videos. Now I know Astrophysicist is my calling. 🙂
Do it.
I believe in you! I wish you a wonderful career with many interesting discoveries ahead! 😄
Do it ! Maybe some day you will tell us how to travel to other stars. I admire you !
Make history!
Wondered if astrophysicist take account that our Solar System is not static, it is moving through the interstellar space medium. That means the Solar System has it's own orbit to the Milky Way. Thus some objects will appear more distant and some objects will appear closer. This applies to the observable voids. Perhaps from our dynamic perspective the Universe is expanding, when in reality, the Solar System is just moving. No Dark Energy.
0:51 "We'll get to what actually is dark energy later on in the video"
Every Astrophysicist on Earth has entered the chat.
dark energy / universe expansion is probably just Photon Decay
Thank you for your videos! you make it much more understandable for us astro-physicists! When I read the news about this discovery, I couldn't wait for your video to explain it!
Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!
i like how she seems genuinely interested and excited about it, how the heck do i always end up on these channels from 3d modelling at 7am when i should be sleeping
BBC: 1 Astronomy programme a month hiding somewhere in the schedules.
Dr Becky: Two TH-cam uploads a week 284 thousand subs
That was brilliant:) Thanks for starting off with an overview of what we know and what we think we know and what we hope to know. Good interview. I'm so excited!!!
Great interview - can we have more interviews! In a similar field to Dr Amon how about Prof Catherine Heymans, recently appointed Astronomer Royal for Scotland.
Thank you Dr Becky, a real good explanation. Your taking the time to read & reflect made for a really clear and considered presentation. Shame the mainstream media don't follow your excellent example.
Keep up the good work!
Can't believe you got to this before Anton. He's normally on the ball.
A lovely exposition of how actual science is done. Methodological adjustment in light ( pun noted) of observation. This smells to me like cosmology going from collecting finches to considering means of biological evolution, or from alchemy to Priestly and Dalton. Keep it up!
The «Dark energy» is called that way precisely because we don't know what is causing the Universal expansion to accelerate.
Thank you so much for breaking down these topics in such a way as to make them accessible for enthusiasts such as myself, who find these topics so interesting.
Was waiting for this!
"Wait... I haven't commented on this yet." -Me, just now.
I've really waited for this type of content to be broken down like this. These papers just warp my brain too much when I read it myself 😶
Before doubting GR, I would DOUBT any-and-all simulations of universe formation. Simulations are fraught with assumptions and even errors.
That was my thought as well. If the simulation turns up something that doesn't fit with observation, it is more plausible that some technical detail of the simulation is off than that the basic laws are wrong.
Its so amasing that you give us professional rewiev on latest news in astronomy. ❤ You
I know this is weird, but the way you say "idear" reminds me of my grandmother. She wasn't British, but Southern, but you say it the same exact way. Thanks for bringing back good memories.
If it's more evenly distributed, surely we're looking at a new fundamental force rather than dark matter/energy. Quantised Inertia seems to be a more realistic explanation. All that said, keep doing what you're doing Becky. Love how you popularise astrophysics.
The universe is expanding. I am part of the universe. Thus, that is why I am also expanding and need larger pants routinely.
Lol
Ok, lets go with that.😏
Great curiosity. Lol😄😄
The universe is not expanding, it never has, and it never will.
@@godsbeautifulflatearth Then why are distant galaxies speeding away from us?
I just imagine physicist in a couple of hundred years looking back at our ideas and saying "How did they not get this? SMH."
Dark energy will be 21th century version of aether.
They will still be coming up with nonsense to justify their research grants.
Just a question of terminology: When the main hypothesis is that it is another force of nature, why then does it get called dark energy and not simply dark force? If we're dealing with a force that pushes, then I'm sure there is some energy carried by that force, but why focus on the energy and not the force? Isn't the energy secondary?
Given that we're able to give a percentage of the energy budget of the universe that is currently in dark energy, I assume dark energy is in some way commensurable with other forms of energy, and can be measured literally in joules. So it doesn't sound like the choice to call it "dark energy" is entirely hand-wavy.
last I knew we dont know anything about the truth behind dark energy or dark matter beyond our own equations about other things not adding up. For all we know the answer to dark matter is a math mistake and the answer to dark energy is its just diffusion.
Maybe because that would be confusing if a new mysterious force is discovered.
@@TheFinagle Diffusion that has an effect on places further away than can be reached by the speed of light is kind of its own thing.
Not only do I feel educated more about the universe, I'm happy it's Dr Becky that's the one teaching me, because Einstein was merely a genius, Becky is a genius AND beautiful.
1:29 soo... are they intentionally drawing a tank in the sky with the observations or is that just an inside joke...
Thats exactly what i thought the moment i saw it! I was like 'Hey, thats a tank!'.
I hope they are drawing a tank. I can understand observing hours on end can be quite boring.
@Jack BURDETT God of tanks? The constelation of the tank? :P I think we need a tank bible.
star wars duh
Hello, I'm from Vietnam, I'm 23 and soon 24 year old. I have a big love for science just like you. My big dream is solve the dark matter problem and the united theory one day
As an Astrophysics PhD student who finds reading papers extremely difficult and pain staking, THANKYOU FOR THIS SUMMARY
I am working toward a BA in Math so I can eventually get a PhD in astrophysics. When my parents get mad that I'm on my phone. I'm usually readings thesis papers or dissertations. I love it.
im learning Astronomy for the summer as credits for University, this is a VERY timely video for this week's content!!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH! ❤️
The conversation with Dr. Amon raises an important question: when do we get to see you play your ukulele?
I love your videos, Dr. Becky! It would be wonderful to hear your explanation on the differences, and any commonalities, among….astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology.
Brilliant presentation!
Good science communicators are hard to find. If your videos can get even one person interested enough in STEM to pursue it as a career then all the work you put into this channel was worth it.
Cosmic Shear sounds like a new line from Victoria's Secret
That would be Cosmic _Sheer_
My question about these maps of the universe is regarding how movement over time is taken into account. It's like taking a picture of one seat in a stadium now, then the immediately surrounding seats an hour ago and more distant seats increasingly far back. The resulting composite picture wouldn't be a survey of the current population of the stadium.
That was a lot to take in, in such a short time.
The Hubble constant is not constant. I think it’s connected to entropy and it varies throughout the universe and time. That is way we cannot confirm the constant because it varies in direction and back in time.
We need to view the universe not from our position on the earth but from outside our universe. It’s relative and changes our frame of reference.
That wine glass trick was really clever.
yeah that was the best bit - explaining clearly the difference between weak lensing & the arcs + how we're seeing more than can be explained with regular matter alone
So one takeaway is that it's largely on the shoulders of theorists specializing in galaxy formation to provide sharper limits on how to interpret the DES data?
I see the opportunity for feedback here too- there are several popular galaxy formation theories that would give different limits; can they be compared with parts of the data set nearer our vantage point to eliminate some of them?
"just a little tweak to general relativity is needed". Little did they know a paradigm shift of magnificent proportions was coming. - this note was brought to you from your future selfs.
Thank you for doing a highlight from only half of the data they’ve released. 👏🏻
Exciting times indeed!
Looking forward to the full interview. 👍🏻
"The best theory we have right now is Einstein's theory of General Relativity!!!", nice to here this.