"Don't, don't do that." Thank you so much for that sound advice. I was genuinely thinking of falling into Jupiter/the Sun/a Black Hole/Magnetar, and would have made such a fool of myself if I hadn't watched this video first.
8:08 "There have been theories around creating magnetic fields so strong that they could actually make matter out of light." That's impressive, I can only make light of the matter.
Anyone else soothed into sleep by these videos? The last few days I’ve put this on to binge watch the awesomeness and fell asleep. That’s a compliment to Joe and his amazing explanation of complicated things. It’s so soothing. I struggle to fall asleep so I’m so so thankful, Joe is awesome and I love him and his channel and videos
i just watch these kind of videos to fall asleep mostly because i can get the same amount of entertainment by just listening and am able to have my eyes closed
every time I see the picture of that black hole I'm just like "HOW THE HELL DO PEOPLE NOT THINK THIS ISN'T THE MOST IMPRESSIVE THING THEY'VE EVER SEEN?!" That picture gives me the chills every time
Because I don't think that's a black hole. I don't think a black hole would look like that. I don't think we would even see one if we were looking right at it assuming we're outside of it's gravitational forces.
@@JustinOhio Well, regardless of whether or not that's what you think something is, that doesn't give way to what something actually is. You can look at a cat and call it a dog, you can look at rain and say it's dry. The fact of the matter is, that IS what a black hole looks like, it was simulated(surprisingly) by the team and physicist who did the black hole in Interstellar(check out how they did it, it's awesome btw) and guess what, that blackhole actually looks like the photo... So I dunno man, you're entitled to think what you want, and I am too, and I think that you are, in fact, wrong
@@georgeburchell296 Please to explain how the event horizon of a black hole, well the space immediately outside the event horizon in which light will travel away very slowly, each atom of light closer to the event horizon traveling more slowly and outwardly that is, how that would look? Keep in mind, we only see 2D model representations of black holes. A real black hole would be spherical. No matter what direction you looked at it, you would see the same thing, either a wall of light that never escaped (like a star???) or, maybe nothing at all...But if you spend some time thinking about how light would work traveling outward from a black hole (which are purely only theoretical at this point), it certainly would not look anything like the 2d models you've seen online. You see, regardless of what YOU think, based on what YOU have seen in some simple online 2d models of theoretical black holes, doesn't make it true either. Yay? Spend some time thinking about this, I'm eager to hear what you have to say when some simple logic is applied to this concept.
@@JustinOhio This is the closest thing we will probably ever get to a true picture of a black hole like it or not. So much of what you said is incorrect that it’s upsetting that you would refer to the work of real scientists as “simple models”. Light isn’t matter and thusly isn’t made of atoms or any other fundamental particles btw. I find it funny that you, knowing full well that those scientists are far more knowledgeable and studied on this topic than you, would downplay the work that went into creating the accurate model of a black hole with our current understanding of physics. A healthy amount of skepticism is necessary for science to happen but effectively baseless assumptions like this border on pure nonsense. Something else that bothers me about your comment is about this whole applying some “simple logic” to the topic. Black holes are likely the most extreme objects in the universe and often don’t follow the norms of what we see in the rest of the universe. Just using “simple logic” doesn’t work when the object in question essentially functions by its own set of rules. So how about we stop attempting to downplay what might be the single most incredible picture taken by humanity to date, ok? Mind you this is a targeted comment and I most likely wouldn’t have felt the need to call you out if you didn’t needlessly insult the work of people who actually understand the topic you’re trying to discuss.
*that's why you want to keep your living space clear of tripping hazards...and to avoid the awkward liability of having one of your guests or relatives falling into one ...and the uncomfortable conversations or text messages you might have to send to others*
I'm sure scientist and space agencies would be very interested in how you manage to (almost) stumble into things dozens or even thousands of lightyears away.
My grandma fell onto a pile of pasta and had gnocchi knees for the rest of the day. Except Joe pronounces it with a soft ch, not a hard k, so that kills my awful "joke" if that's the US way to say it - greetings from Europe (UK, specifically, but waving the flag for the Italian pronunciation).
@@davidgould9431 I used to pronounce it ch but my fellow American friend corrected me to k sound and Google confirmed. So no, the ch way isn't American, just the never heard it pronounced correctly way
Wait a minute: If you’re *freefalling* in a gravitational field, you wouldn’t feel any acceleration at all, in fact you’d be *feeling* no acceleration at all. Tidal forces OTOH would be a bitch (to use the technical term ;-)
Indeed. Larry Niven spelled out that problem (even though on a parabolic path) in his short story 'Neutron Star' that kicked off his 'Known Space' Universe. You don't have to approach a black hole to be 'spagettified.' (also a technical term) (Others later pointed out to him, that the currents induced in a object at the speeds at which it would cut across (even a 'normal') neutron star's magnetic field lines at closest approach...would also not be fun. Though essentially the indestructible/perfectly shielding Puppeteer hull material *might* save you from that one. But they don't block gravity, so, they don't block tidal forces.)
@@stardolphin2 Hah, Larry Niven's Known Space stories were where I first learned about tidal forces as something that'd have much more dramatic effects than just sloshing oceans around a little. ("What force could get through a General Products hull?" :-) Interesting about the currents induced by the magnetic fields, that hadn't occurred to me. Bottom line note to future self: Avoid magnetars ;-)
At least we've solved most of the problems associated with falling into the Earth. Though my kids are constantly trying to find new ways to make falling into the Earth hurt...
Reminds me of a line from Half Life 2. "You, on the other hand, will be destroyed in every way it is possible to be destroyed-and even in some which are essentially impossible."
"This whole room is about to be bathed in particles yet to be discovered and named by human science, maybe I will name one of them after you." Gee, thanks Dr. Breen.
There's a great sci-fi novel out there called "Dragon's Egg", and it's about what kind of life would evolve on a neutron star. It's fascinating and a decent read. I recommend it.
@@KingGramJohnson On one hand, a well written book is always fun to read, but on the other hand, the idea of life evolving on a neutron star (or any star for that matter) is so dumb that this book sounds like a ridiculous waste of time.
@@Chris-ki2dx It's a stretch, and suspension of disbelief is needed. However, a lot of the science behind the tiny creatures that live on the star is fascinating.
I grew up hearing the word said both ways, never are the stuff at home. Asked many families what it was (‘90-‘05 people weren’t as fancy in my small town or modern) and no one was able to explain it to me until befriending a person with Italian roots. It usually takes me some time before I get the right way to do something that I know nothing about.
As an Italian, I consider notchee the English translation of gnocchi (kinda nnee-ockee). Like brooshettah is English for bruschetta (broo-skeeit-tah) and zook-kee-neeeee is American English for zucchine (zook-keenai)
@@ffrreeddyy123456 gn in gnocchi is an Italian sound without any similar sound in English. Kinda pronounced with your tongue touching the back if your palate. Fun fact, it's also the only spelling in Italian that you cannot immediately recognise reading the letters. In some words it is pronounced g-n as in gnome, and you need to know ancient Greek to guess which words. Double fun fact. In Italian, gnomo (gnome) is pronounced nnioh-moh like gnocchi.
I found this video a few months ago while researching info for a science communications project for a class (yep i did a podcast on magnetars) and have been binging all your videos since then. This is definitely one of my favorites & i love to rewatch it. I thoroughly enjoy your videos and laugh even at the bad puns (what can i say I'm easily amused). Thanks Joe! (And i did get an A on that project, and cited your video so thanks for that too!)
Just need to take more acid dude... "Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather.” Bill Hicks
Honestly, photons interacting with a magnetic field at all doesn't occur, if my understanding about the force carrier particles and their interactions with fields is somewhat sound.
I have a technical question that I've been struggling to find an answer to. If you were somehow able to remove and isolate an Earth mass of magnetar material, would it maintain its density and magnetic properties (can still spin if necessary), or is there a minimum mass for these things and it would just explode?
Why would a magnetar just explode out of nowhere? If neutron stars were unstable, they would not form in the first place. How and why should a neutron star explode? Any object can be compressed into a neutron star in theory.
The Jupiter video has always been a favorite of mine. The “I will remember you” joke has stuck with me and I still laugh about it when I randomly think of it
Never have I heard a better explanation of how stars function and become Black Holes (The whole fusion thing), but you just broke it down super simple and in about 15 seconds. Wow, nicely done!
I've been subscribed for over 4 years now and its been great to watch you mature and really find your style. You are one of the few channels that I look forward to your new videos. Thank you for all your effort, keep up the great work!
12:15 "it would be the acceleration that would kill you first" In free fall you're in an inertial reference frame, so you don't feel any acceleration. If it weren't for the tidal forces, you wouldn't feel anything. In fact, the only reason you feel the acceleration in a racing car for instance, is that the accelerating forces are applied non-uniformly : the back of your seat transmit forces to the posterior side of your body which then squishes the anterior side. In a way, it's similar to a tidal effect : it's all about acceleration differentials, not absolutes.
Hey Scott! Are you sure you "feel" the acceleration while in free fall? Falling into a magnestar is still free fall right? Its like floating, but in a curved spacetime.
Dude with 2 first names, This video was epic. You're like a better mashup of NDT and chuck nice. Not quite halfway through and I sub'd. Keep doing you!
From Wikipedia: "A magnetar's 10^10 tesla field has an energy density of 4.0×10^25 J/m^3, with an E/c^2 mass density more than 10,000 times that of lead... X-ray photons readily split in two or merge. The vacuum itself is polarized, becoming strongly birefringent, like a calcite crystal. Atoms are deformed into long cylinders thinner than the quantum-relativistic de Broglie wavelength of an electron. In a field of about 10^5 teslas atomic orbitals deform into rod shapes. At 10^10 teslas, a hydrogen atom becomes a spindle 200 times narrower than its normal diameter." What even
Do you have a specific question about that, or do just have problems imagining the effects of a magnetic field that strong? I might be able to help, if your "What even" refers to the first option. If it is the second option, I can only recommend learning about physics until your brain is ready to imagine things way beyond the human experience of the world, granted this usually takes some time.
The shape of the orbits deforming like that is one of those things that you don't expect yet is so obvious in hindsight. But at a macro level what does it look like?
Me too, and that get to see everything, from earths beginning to dinosaurs to space and the entire universe with black holes and stars and all. And that get to understand everything and how something came from nothing and what god really is, and what the meaning of everything is
@@idastenlund7041 the curiousity set in our hearts seems to be not just a coincidence. I feel like it’s purposefully made to be fulfilled brother. I feel the same way. I want to be able to see the artwork of the universe which I believe is Gods canvas. And to see the things our temporary limited bodies can witness.
@japanese machine with mint eyes Ify ou are in free fall towards such a body, you don't experience forces, just like astronaughts experience zero gravity, or weightlessness. Joe got that wrong in the video. I'll just assume English isn't your first language.
I’d like to propose Joe Scott’s Law, modelled after Betteridge’s Law of Headlines. If one of Joe’s videos starts with “What would happen if...” the answer is a horrible death.
I remember reading a paper years ago that speculated that the answer to the Fermi paradox and the Drake equation is that the frequency that GRBs happen has slowed over time, and now allows enough time for intelligent life to evolve. In our part of the universe at least. So we're among the first, and the filter is early on in a species evolution but is getting less hazardous.
I like you re show the most of you tube. You combine interesting subjects with nice kind of dry ironic humor :) Go on. Make more. I cant get enough of it 😊
Joe. The image of the SMBH at the centre of M87 was 'taken' using numerous Radio Telescopes set up like an interferometer. The invisible radiowaves were then processed by very powerful computers and algorithms that 'represented' their data as an image expressed in visible wavelengths (colours) of light that we can see. The event horizon and the SMBH towards the centre are not visible and cannot be visualised in any way since nothing escapes from there.
I've always thought of a star as a explosion so massive that its gravity wouldn't let it expand beyond a point that kept it dense enough to keep feeding itself. It's great to know that, like with most things, I'm both right and wrong.
I look at the title: "What Would Happen If You Fell Into A Magnetar?" ... I start laughing: "Well... you would DIE, duuh!" ... then I click on the video and start watching it...
11:29 I think time dilation would work in another direction in this case, similar to falling in a black hole. Seconds of your subjective time will stretch in tens of seconds for an outside observer.
Thanks indeed! Between your "Food for thought" comment and all this talk of pasta, I am now ravenously hungry and I still have an hour until lunch! .... *Grumbling* Cursed Spaghetti Monster any way , me with no Parmesan cheese!
9:53 - When a proton and an electron fuse (which also needs enough energy to provide the gain of mass), they don't emit a neutrino to equalize the charge, but to preserve the number of leptons.
1:38 " You can see the singularity and the event horizon there in the middle...". What was that joe! No you can't see the singularity. Only the absence of light in the middle shows whereabouts of the event horizon is; that's all we can see. BTW great fan of your work. Salute Bro.
Yes he screwed up. Also note that that dark shadow is exactly 2.5 times the actual event horizon distance since that is the distance at which light can orbit the black hole the light ring the EVT imaged is actually a projection of the photon sphere or photons which had enough energy to bend around the black hole just outside the light orbital distance. This is an important distinction as the black hole shadow is the closest you can see around a black hole in the region far closer to the black hole well within the ISCO(Innermost Stable Circular Orbit) where the accretion disk ends as no matter can orbit. The EVT was and is truly one of the most spectacular accomplishments of all time.
Well peeps, please give this guy some slack. He covers wide and vast range of topics with a great quality. Anyone who is invested in so many fields is bound to make a few little mistakes here and there. It's just being human. I'm really honestly thankful to people like him to give us great insights into important topics.
Thumbs up. + 11:10 the problem is not the high acceleration, magnetar or not, it's still free fall, rather it's that _close_ to the star/magnetar the free fall acceleration of your feet (falling feet first) becomes significantly higher than the free fall acceleration of your head, hence spaghettification, or, in other words, tidal forces pull you apart.
Well that was pretty good.! But you got the process a little wrong plus backwards. The first thing that would happen if you were approaching the magnetic field of a magnetar is as follows. First every electrical impulse in your body would be short-circuited by an EMP strong enough to do that. Which would cause your death. And before ever reaching anywhere near the speed of light. It would rip the iron right out of your body. And so forth and so on with every other material your body is made out of. Because all materials respond to magnetic fields of a high enough intensity or Gaus. And so you would become spaghettifyd. But from the magnetic field not the gravity. If you could somehow make it close enough to the magnetar without being affected by its electromagnetic field. Then you'd be spaghettified by the gravity. But not before becoming spaghettified by the magnetic field. And while you may experienced some hallucinations. You would certainly die first from all the nerves in your body ceasing function at the same time. So you're right that he wouldn't feel anything. When all of this other stuff happens. Because you'd be long dead before then.
I was thinking this. It's not the acceleration that kills you; you wouldn't even feel that. It's the tidal force, IE the difference in force pulling on different parts of your body. For instance, your head may be pulled by 10,000 Gs while your feet are pulled at 10,100. You wouldn't feel the 10,000 Gs at all while in freefall, but you would certainly feel your feet being pulled away at nearly 1,000 ft/s². I haven't done the math, but I imagine you'd have to be well into the magnetic field before that happened.
@@chitlitlah Exactly. The Magnetic field stretches out for light-years. While a gravitational field that's strong for something that small in diameter would be much closer to the pulsar. Which means you would be pulled apart over a very short distance from the magnetar. Assuming the magnetic field didn't get you first. Which it would. Similar to a supermassive black hole. Which have such a long gravitational gradient. You can actually passed the event horizon before you even notice you're in the black hole. Thing is that you would die from heat and radiation present in the Accretion Disc around the black. From light-years away. Our biology is simply not designed to function even a couple of light-years away from such hostile environments.
I have to say, as much as I've heard about being spaghettified by black holes and other superdense objects, it's more interesting and novel to think about being killed by magnetism so great, it may electrocute you by pushing your electrons around in your body. If it doesn't, the magnetic field would get so intense, it would start ionizing your molecules and atoms and it's hard to even say what exactly would kill you: the heat, shutdown of synapses, being ripped apart, etc. Death by magnetism is something you don't hear about often.
@@chitlitlah LOL. That's true. It is a scarcely cover topic.! But Dr. Michio Kaku Did a pretty good. I originally first learned it from him. If you're interested. I'm sure you could just Google "Dr. Michio Kaku Magnetar"
Vic Hayes is considered the father of WiFi, He was one of the first to successfully use a uhf wireless signal for data transference. I would be really interested if you have a source for this. I’m really interested in this subject.
My modle postulates that below the farfalle layer in a neutron star you hit the cream brulee layer, after that you dive into the baklava layer which assimilates you into the pinto bean layer near the core.
An interesting thing about a magnetar is there is a distance you can orbit it (perhaps between 10,000 to 100,000 km) where the diamagnetic force (a weak form of magnetism that has been used to levitate objects and even a frog) equals one gravity. So you could orbit a magetar and feel a force that feels like gravity in a direction away from the magnetar. This orbiting distance would likely be far enough away to prevent you from being killed by gravitational tides, but you might feel them. Of course the orbiting station would need to be well shielded. Also different materials would be affected differently by the magnetic force so various objects could have unexpected weights. Lastly, the iron in your body would be pulled on strongly, which might have health effects.
The smallest black hole is the smallest distance in space time - 1 planck volume. Compress enough mass in to one Planck volume it will become a black hole. It will also explode picoseconds later. So with "the smallest black hole" you need to define what the shortest period it can exist for as well.
How a magnetar generates the extreme magnetic field is that in the process of collspse the surface of it has a very thin layer of atomic iron nuclei that has a spin in phase. Due to the extreme gravity it is what is called a topological superconductor at this point. As it continues to collapse, the flux is pinned within the substrate by anything charged. As the core collapses the neutrons expel the magnetic field that gathers in the surface layers.
BTW, in the movie "Thor", Odin says Mjollnir was "forged from the heart of a dying star", meaning.... it's made of iron, same as someone's cast iron skillet. Nothing mysterious about it.
When neutron stars collapse, some of the protons + and electrons - are under such immense force they actually fuse, cancelling each other out and becoming neutrons
there was a sci fy channel documentarry about a magnetar approaching earth, it was very interesting, it got into radiation, magnetism, gravity, bunkers, social politics, and oneil cylinders.
hey Joe -- i could be wrong here but I don't think acceleration from gravity would kill you no matter how strong the gravity is. Only the sheer force of the gravity would be apparent to you as you get closer toward the center (ie you feel when different parts of your body are accelerated at different rates which is what happens in a car but not when all parts of your body are accelerated evenly e.g. falling in a constant gravitational field.)
12:12 The acceleration wouldn't kill you because you would be in free fall, the difference of acceleration at your head and feet would kill you by pulling you apart. But not the acceleration because free fall
For people who missheard it: The Thors hammer was forged IN the core of the neutron star. Not FROM the core of the neutron stars core. It does not weigh as much as an neutron stars core. Its just very advanced technology. Even Thor himself says it. "You call it magic, where I comefrom its technilogy.
"Don't, don't do that."
Thank you so much for that sound advice. I was genuinely thinking of falling into Jupiter/the Sun/a Black Hole/Magnetar, and would have made such a fool of myself if I hadn't watched this video first.
If I could choose my death, it would definitely be to fall into a Black Hole.
*burnt potato, not fool.
@@InservioLetum Are you calling me a Mr Potato Head?
@@KanedaSyndromenice suffering before you die is the only way to go imo
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8:08 "There have been theories around creating magnetic fields so strong that they could actually make matter out of light."
That's impressive, I can only make light of the matter.
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@@joescott spaghettify me oh great spaghettifier!
He who controls the light matter, controls the universe.
The scariest thing in this video isnt even the giant death magnet, its the noise joes fingers make when they crack at 11:02
Aye that can't be healthy haha
You should hear my ankles when I walk across the room.
@@joescott congrats on 900k btw
Joe Scott, i love your sense of humour haha
Mine do a similiar sound
Anyone else soothed into sleep by these videos? The last few days I’ve put this on to binge watch the awesomeness and fell asleep. That’s a compliment to Joe and his amazing explanation of complicated things. It’s so soothing. I struggle to fall asleep so I’m so so thankful, Joe is awesome and I love him and his channel and videos
I like the Twilight zone.
i just watch these kind of videos to fall asleep mostly because i can get the same amount of entertainment by just listening and am able to have my eyes closed
Yes, one important part is there's no loud sound effects / yelling like on so many other videos I'd like to watch in bed
every time I see the picture of that black hole I'm just like "HOW THE HELL DO PEOPLE NOT THINK THIS ISN'T THE MOST IMPRESSIVE THING THEY'VE EVER SEEN?!" That picture gives me the chills every time
Because I don't think that's a black hole. I don't think a black hole would look like that. I don't think we would even see one if we were looking right at it assuming we're outside of it's gravitational forces.
@@JustinOhio Well, regardless of whether or not that's what you think something is, that doesn't give way to what something actually is. You can look at a cat and call it a dog, you can look at rain and say it's dry. The fact of the matter is, that IS what a black hole looks like, it was simulated(surprisingly) by the team and physicist who did the black hole in Interstellar(check out how they did it, it's awesome btw) and guess what, that blackhole actually looks like the photo... So I dunno man, you're entitled to think what you want, and I am too, and I think that you are, in fact, wrong
@@georgeburchell296 Please to explain how the event horizon of a black hole, well the space immediately outside the event horizon in which light will travel away very slowly, each atom of light closer to the event horizon traveling more slowly and outwardly that is, how that would look? Keep in mind, we only see 2D model representations of black holes. A real black hole would be spherical. No matter what direction you looked at it, you would see the same thing, either a wall of light that never escaped (like a star???) or, maybe nothing at all...But if you spend some time thinking about how light would work traveling outward from a black hole (which are purely only theoretical at this point), it certainly would not look anything like the 2d models you've seen online. You see, regardless of what YOU think, based on what YOU have seen in some simple online 2d models of theoretical black holes, doesn't make it true either. Yay? Spend some time thinking about this, I'm eager to hear what you have to say when some simple logic is applied to this concept.
@@JustinOhio This is the closest thing we will probably ever get to a true picture of a black hole like it or not. So much of what you said is incorrect that it’s upsetting that you would refer to the work of real scientists as “simple models”. Light isn’t matter and thusly isn’t made of atoms or any other fundamental particles btw. I find it funny that you, knowing full well that those scientists are far more knowledgeable and studied on this topic than you, would downplay the work that went into creating the accurate model of a black hole with our current understanding of physics. A healthy amount of skepticism is necessary for science to happen but effectively baseless assumptions like this border on pure nonsense. Something else that bothers me about your comment is about this whole applying some “simple logic” to the topic. Black holes are likely the most extreme objects in the universe and often don’t follow the norms of what we see in the rest of the universe. Just using “simple logic” doesn’t work when the object in question essentially functions by its own set of rules. So how about we stop attempting to downplay what might be the single most incredible picture taken by humanity to date, ok? Mind you this is a targeted comment and I most likely wouldn’t have felt the need to call you out if you didn’t needlessly insult the work of people who actually understand the topic you’re trying to discuss.
@@aarongregory4980 I know more than you think I do. You avoided my question though...maybe you can add some value and answer it?
Lord knows how many times I’ve stumbled and almost fell into a Magnetar. #clumsy
Anirban Chakrabarti A reddit comment? I should check out reddit someday.
*that's why you want to keep your living space clear of tripping hazards...and to avoid the awkward liability of having one of your guests or relatives falling into one ...and the uncomfortable conversations or text messages you might have to send to others*
I'm sure scientist and space agencies would be very interested in how you manage to (almost) stumble into things dozens or even thousands of lightyears away.
Peter Hacke I tend to roam aimlessly.
Man.. Fell into one last week... Mom had to keep me in a jar for a while
My grandma fell to a magnetar. Yep, she pasta away.
*golfclap*
Damn that's good.
@@joescott Yeah, But actually No.
My grandma fell onto a pile of pasta and had gnocchi knees for the rest of the day.
Except Joe pronounces it with a soft ch, not a hard k, so that kills my awful "joke" if that's the US way to say it - greetings from Europe (UK, specifically, but waving the flag for the Italian pronunciation).
@@davidgould9431 I used to pronounce it ch but my fellow American friend corrected me to k sound and Google confirmed. So no, the ch way isn't American, just the never heard it pronounced correctly way
Wait a minute: If you’re *freefalling* in a gravitational field, you wouldn’t feel any acceleration at all, in fact you’d be *feeling* no acceleration at all. Tidal forces OTOH would be a bitch (to use the technical term ;-)
Indeed. Larry Niven spelled out that problem (even though on a parabolic path) in his short story 'Neutron Star' that kicked off his 'Known Space' Universe. You don't have to approach a black hole to be 'spagettified.' (also a technical term)
(Others later pointed out to him, that the currents induced in a object at the speeds at which it would cut across (even a 'normal') neutron star's magnetic field lines at closest approach...would also not be fun. Though essentially the indestructible/perfectly shielding Puppeteer hull material *might* save you from that one. But they don't block gravity, so, they don't block tidal forces.)
was about to say that about 12:15
wouldnt be a good day but wont feel so many G's it would liquify you imediately
@@stardolphin2 Hah, Larry Niven's Known Space stories were where I first learned about tidal forces as something that'd have much more dramatic effects than just sloshing oceans around a little. ("What force could get through a General Products hull?" :-) Interesting about the currents induced by the magnetic fields, that hadn't occurred to me. Bottom line note to future self: Avoid magnetars ;-)
@@stardolphin2 Thus the mystery that got Beowulf Schaeffer into the whole mess in the first place.
Beat me to it, Dave!
I wish I had teachers like you in school. It wouldn't have taken me so long to get into science. You are an Awesome Teacher!!!
"Black holes, pulsars, quasars, blazars...magnetars..."
Minotaurs?
My thought too. That episodes would be a-maze-ing.
lmao
@@MacroTheMans This comment thread *chef kiss*
Centaurs, even?
@@NilasJunkyard, if you're Dolores Umbridge and/or Hermoine Granger.
Is this a new series?
"What would happen if you
fell into a.."
**spins wheel**
"...burnt potato? Who put that on here?"
Fall into magnetar, bad. Fall into Jupiter, bad. There's just not a lot of stuff it's good to fall into.
At least we've solved most of the problems associated with falling into the Earth. Though my kids are constantly trying to find new ways to make falling into the Earth hurt...
Vat of acid?
Uhh...please!
@@Isambardify a large sum of money
lasagna microwaved for too long is one of the hardest man made substances.
My mom's shortcake pastry. Seriously, dude.
old chewing gum?
Fruitcake regifted several times.
A frozen potato
Reminds me of a line from Half Life 2. "You, on the other hand, will be destroyed in every way it is possible to be destroyed-and even in some which are essentially impossible."
"This whole room is about to be bathed in particles yet to be discovered and named by human science, maybe I will name one of them after you."
Gee, thanks Dr. Breen.
There's a great sci-fi novel out there called "Dragon's Egg", and it's about what kind of life would evolve on a neutron star. It's fascinating and a decent read. I recommend it.
Hi, there are many Dragon's Egg books in print by many authors. Which one do you mean please?
@@joecowan1230 “Dragon’s Egg” by Robert L. Forward. It’s a sci-fi novel published in 1980. I enjoyed it. It was a fun read.
@@KingGramJohnson On one hand, a well written book is always fun to read, but on the other hand, the idea of life evolving on a neutron star (or any star for that matter) is so dumb that this book sounds like a ridiculous waste of time.
@@Chris-ki2dx It's a stretch, and suspension of disbelief is needed. However, a lot of the science behind the tiny creatures that live on the star is fascinating.
@@Chris-ki2dx We'll you could say that about most any sci-fi huh. Maybe it's called science fiction for a reason?😱
Nirvana - Heart Shaped box: I've been drawn into your "magnet tar" pit trap. Kurt Cobain was secretly a physicist comfirmed.
That was the first thing I thought of when he said "magnetar." I was hoping I was the first to catch it. :/
Godly comment G
Joe: pronounces "notchy"
Italians: *cringe*
Nyokee!
I grew up hearing the word said both ways, never are the stuff at home. Asked many families what it was (‘90-‘05 people weren’t as fancy in my small town or modern) and no one was able to explain it to me until befriending a person with Italian roots. It usually takes me some time before I get the right way to do something that I know nothing about.
As an Italian, I consider notchee the English translation of gnocchi (kinda nnee-ockee). Like brooshettah is English for bruschetta (broo-skeeit-tah) and zook-kee-neeeee is American English for zucchine (zook-keenai)
@@ffrreeddyy123456 gn in gnocchi is an Italian sound without any similar sound in English. Kinda pronounced with your tongue touching the back if your palate. Fun fact, it's also the only spelling in Italian that you cannot immediately recognise reading the letters. In some words it is pronounced g-n as in gnome, and you need to know ancient Greek to guess which words. Double fun fact. In Italian, gnomo (gnome) is pronounced nnioh-moh like gnocchi.
@@upsydaysy3042 Worse is that Gnocchi is not pasta at all!
Killed it again Joe,. TH-cam's Executioner 😂😂😂
Agree
Thrasher, Executioners are okay thou....
Thrasher Navy Fleet Issue really the way to go thou...that or just full battlecruiser such as the Hurricane.
Ryan Davis What are you even trying to say?
Most of those are definitely words good job bud
Touched by His Noodly Appendage. R'amen Joe...
I wasn't aware of the link to GRBs & FRBs - me learnin' sumthin' ev'ry day!
I actually thought a megnetar was a pokemon .....I learned differently
Ramen! Praise his noodly appendage!
@@Ruffel24 lol it really does sound like a Pokemon's name.
Where do he come from where did he go... ramen star Joe 🎶
@@ToxicTerrance Thats cause there is a pokemon call magmortar. So it could be one in the future.
I found this video a few months ago while researching info for a science communications project for a class (yep i did a podcast on magnetars) and have been binging all your videos since then. This is definitely one of my favorites & i love to rewatch it. I thoroughly enjoy your videos and laugh even at the bad puns (what can i say I'm easily amused). Thanks Joe!
(And i did get an A on that project, and cited your video so thanks for that too!)
jupiter: im crazy
neutron star: hold my beer if you can
When you mentioned plaid, the whole Spaceballs movie played in my head!
I knew it. I'm surrounded by assholes.
What part is this?
Now.
Now?
Yes, now now.
@@devoncripsy711 It would be very unfortunate if in the future kids are actually named "Asshole" lol
@@Foreign501st I think we're living in that time now.
@@devoncripsy711 I wouldn't doubt it lol
Joe is one of those rare channels where you can like the video before it's started because you know it's going to be a good one!
"...magnetic fields so strong that they could actually make matter out of light."
I'm sorry, what now? Gotta do a video on those theories!
Agreed,. Joe needs to make a video about that.
Just need to take more acid dude...
"Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather.”
Bill Hicks
Actually, there is more truth in the above than most would ever realize.
Honestly, photons interacting with a magnetic field at all doesn't occur, if my understanding about the force carrier particles and their interactions with fields is somewhat sound.
The Hardlight structures in Halo
I have a technical question that I've been struggling to find an answer to.
If you were somehow able to remove and isolate an Earth mass of magnetar material, would it maintain its density and magnetic properties (can still spin if necessary), or is there a minimum mass for these things and it would just explode?
The nuclear lasagna might hold up
Why would a magnetar just explode out of nowhere?
If neutron stars were unstable, they would not form in the first place.
How and why should a neutron star explode?
Any object can be compressed into a neutron star in theory.
"Spaghettificate." Awesome word!
"we can't get near a neutron star" Elite Dangerous commanders: Hold my frame shift drive!
Watch out for Thargoids!
I can get near Jimmy if I want!
Technically it's just into the Pulsar's polar beam rather than the Pulsar. The game won't let you get close to a Pulsar :(
The Jupiter video has always been a favorite of mine. The “I will remember you” joke has stuck with me and I still laugh about it when I randomly think of it
What Would Happen If You Fell Into A Magnetar?
A: you'd die
Horribly.
"Short answer: You'd die.
Long answer: It depends."
@@Kremit_the_Forg I watched the video. I don't there is _any_ sense in which it "depends". :-/
@@pulaski1 It was a quote from a Kurzgesagt video.
It doesn't question that you'd die. It's just a matter of 'how' and 'when'.
@@Kremit_the_Forg I shall give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that English isn't your first language.
Never have I heard a better explanation of how stars function and become Black Holes (The whole fusion thing), but you just broke it down super simple and in about 15 seconds. Wow, nicely done!
I've been subscribed for over 4 years now and its been great to watch you mature and really find your style. You are one of the few channels that I look forward to your new videos. Thank you for all your effort, keep up the great work!
12:15 "it would be the acceleration that would kill you first"
In free fall you're in an inertial reference frame, so you don't feel any acceleration. If it weren't for the tidal forces, you wouldn't feel anything.
In fact, the only reason you feel the acceleration in a racing car for instance, is that the accelerating forces are applied non-uniformly : the back of your seat transmit forces to the posterior side of your body which then squishes the anterior side. In a way, it's similar to a tidal effect : it's all about acceleration differentials, not absolutes.
Hey Scott! Are you sure you "feel" the acceleration while in free fall? Falling into a magnestar is still free fall right? Its like floating, but in a curved spacetime.
Yep, you are right. He also got the time dilation backwards.
This was my first view of your channel and I am HOOKED! Entertaining and intelligent- always a winning combination
Thanks for all the informative stuff before the falling part! I’ve seen many videos on neutron stars, but was lots of fun stuff I didn’t know.
Dude with 2 first names, This video was epic. You're like a better mashup of NDT and chuck nice. Not quite halfway through and I sub'd. Keep doing you!
Wow, that's the longest I've ever seen you stay on Tangent Cam.
"Liberace of the cosmos" another golden nugget.
I love The Iron Giant! He is Good.
From Wikipedia:
"A magnetar's 10^10 tesla field has an energy density of 4.0×10^25 J/m^3, with an E/c^2 mass density more than 10,000 times that of lead... X-ray photons readily split in two or merge. The vacuum itself is polarized, becoming strongly birefringent, like a calcite crystal. Atoms are deformed into long cylinders thinner than the quantum-relativistic de Broglie wavelength of an electron. In a field of about 10^5 teslas atomic orbitals deform into rod shapes. At 10^10 teslas, a hydrogen atom becomes a spindle 200 times narrower than its normal diameter."
What even
What even indeed. Physics in those extreme environments is nuts.
Do you have a specific question about that, or do just have problems imagining the effects of a magnetic field that strong? I might be able to help, if your "What even" refers to the first option.
If it is the second option, I can only recommend learning about physics until your brain is ready to imagine things way beyond the human experience of the world, granted this usually takes some time.
The shape of the orbits deforming like that is one of those things that you don't expect yet is so obvious in hindsight. But at a macro level what does it look like?
nerd
actually, nerds
Love your sense of humor, you keep these videos interesting. Well done!
Joe. It would be interesting to have a video about HOW they find out all this cool stuff. Thanks.
When I die I hope God shows me the mysteries of the universe.
You better be in right religion, else when you die, ...
@@scoringdigitsson.5194 I believe the universe in an example of his existential power. I love how beautiful the Universe is and hope to see all of it
Me too, and that get to see everything, from earths beginning to dinosaurs to space and the entire universe with black holes and stars and all. And that get to understand everything and how something came from nothing and what god really is, and what the meaning of everything is
Thor ragnorok willy Wonka chair lol
@@idastenlund7041 the curiousity set in our hearts seems to be not just a coincidence. I feel like it’s purposefully made to be fulfilled brother. I feel the same way. I want to be able to see the artwork of the universe which I believe is Gods canvas. And to see the things our temporary limited bodies can witness.
Free falling bodies experience no acceleration forces, Joe!
@japanese machine with mint eyes Ify ou are in free fall towards such a body, you don't experience forces, just like astronaughts experience zero gravity, or weightlessness. Joe got that wrong in the video. I'll just assume English isn't your first language.
I’d like to propose Joe Scott’s Law, modelled after Betteridge’s Law of Headlines.
If one of Joe’s videos starts with “What would happen if...” the answer is a horrible death.
"What would happen if...you were granted immortality?"
- - -
Immortal at the bottom of a mine cave in: "A horrible undeath"
@@WildBluntHickok that makes sense mathematically. Immortality is impossible even if we were biologically fit to be because probability.
“... A little more kick to it.”
Now Magnetar is cemented in my mind to the name of a top shelf tequila.
I'm impressed you stretched "You would expire" across 20 minutes. It was a good 20 minutes though
I remember reading a paper years ago that speculated that the answer to the Fermi paradox and the Drake equation is that the frequency that GRBs happen has slowed over time, and now allows enough time for intelligent life to evolve. In our part of the universe at least. So we're among the first, and the filter is early on in a species evolution but is getting less hazardous.
There's no empirical evidence for the drake equation.
And there's no evidence that the frequency of GRB has slowed.
5:20
-What's made out of carbon and has the same density as diamond?
-Diamond?
-Congratulations! This is a quiz with multiple answers!
where I hail from, that's called a " trick question " ...
But does it also have a diamond crystal structure?
@@johannageisel5390 Don't think so, not at this temperature.
@@johntheux9238 Then it is not diamond.
@@johannageisel5390 Yes, but it's a quiz with multiple answers.
6:10 "Praise be to his noodley appendages"
I like you re show the most of you tube. You combine interesting subjects with nice kind of dry ironic humor :)
Go on. Make more. I cant get enough of it 😊
GNOCCHI?!?!?!?!? AN ITALIAN JUST HAD A HEART ATTACK!
Joe. The image of the SMBH at the centre of M87 was 'taken' using numerous Radio Telescopes set up like an interferometer. The invisible radiowaves were then processed by very powerful computers and algorithms that 'represented' their data as an image expressed in visible wavelengths (colours) of light that we can see. The event horizon and the SMBH towards the centre are not visible and cannot be visualised in any way since nothing escapes from there.
This is so exciting! Almost at 1M subs. Im looking forward to seeing how we shall all be celebrating!
Excellent video as always! 😃
I've always thought of a star as a explosion so massive that its gravity wouldn't let it expand beyond a point that kept it dense enough to keep feeding itself. It's great to know that, like with most things, I'm both right and wrong.
"falling into Jupiter would be bad, very bad, don't do this!"
thanks mate, i keep it in mind.
I look at the title: "What Would Happen If You Fell Into A Magnetar?" ... I start laughing: "Well... you would DIE, duuh!" ... then I click on the video and start watching it...
11:02 that knuckle crack disturbed me on an emotional level
11:29 I think time dilation would work in another direction in this case, similar to falling in a black hole. Seconds of your subjective time will stretch in tens of seconds for an outside observer.
You're right, was looking for someone to comment this. Understanding time dilation backwards is a rather common confusion from what I've noticed.
@@Kyle-xk5ut Same.
''Even physics bro?'' Is my favourite line from now on
"Do you even physics bro", i laughed so hard xD
7:07 I absolutely LOVED the way you put that...
"Good idea?"
I absolutely loved how you compared a star's neutron to all marshmallow Lucky Charms! It was the best line ever lolol. Loved it.
Thank you, Joe, Food for thought 💭 Big thought
Thanks indeed! Between your "Food for thought" comment and all this talk of pasta, I am now ravenously hungry and I still have an hour until lunch! ....
*Grumbling* Cursed Spaghetti Monster any way , me with no Parmesan cheese!
@@MichaelOKC That is what for lunch garlic prawns and pasta, it delish.
You know, last week I almost fell into one of them cheeky little magnetars.
Sillly me.
Wonderfully researched and expertly presented. All your stuff is hyper-interesting.
Your channel and following it for the last year makes me want go back to school/studying. Thanks 👍
9:53 - When a proton and an electron fuse (which also needs enough energy to provide the gain of mass), they don't emit a neutrino to equalize the charge, but to preserve the number of leptons.
"While Jupiter might be the hotshot of the solar system" Oh so my plans of base jumping into the Sun are still good.
Alternative title: how to get shredded with magnetism...
Including photoshopped(?) Overlay of Joe revealing his Adonis-like abs.
1:38 " You can see the singularity and the event horizon there in the middle...".
What was that joe! No you can't see the singularity. Only the absence of light in the middle shows whereabouts of the event horizon is; that's all we can see. BTW great fan of your work. Salute Bro.
Yes he screwed up. Also note that that dark shadow is exactly 2.5 times the actual event horizon distance since that is the distance at which light can orbit the black hole the light ring the EVT imaged is actually a projection of the photon sphere or photons which had enough energy to bend around the black hole just outside the light orbital distance. This is an important distinction as the black hole shadow is the closest you can see around a black hole in the region far closer to the black hole well within the ISCO(Innermost Stable Circular Orbit) where the accretion disk ends as no matter can orbit. The EVT was and is truly one of the most spectacular accomplishments of all time.
Well peeps, please give this guy some slack. He covers wide and vast range of topics with a great quality. Anyone who is invested in so many fields is bound to make a few little mistakes here and there. It's just being human. I'm really honestly thankful to people like him to give us great insights into important topics.
Thumbs up.
+ 11:10 the problem is not the high acceleration, magnetar or not, it's still free fall, rather it's that _close_ to the star/magnetar the free fall acceleration of your feet (falling feet first) becomes significantly higher than the free fall acceleration of your head, hence spaghettification, or, in other words, tidal forces pull you apart.
Joe, your channel doesn't suck. Thanks for that.
My opinion on the topic: wouldn't recommend.
4/10 only one ride per person
Exactly.
I mean jeez, one moment I'm just casually riding my spaceship and bam! All credit-card data lost. What a hassle.
Well that was pretty good.!
But you got the process a little wrong plus backwards.
The first thing that would happen if you were approaching the magnetic field of a magnetar is as follows.
First every electrical impulse in your body would be short-circuited by an EMP strong enough to do that. Which would cause your death.
And before ever reaching anywhere near the speed of light.
It would rip the iron right out of your body.
And so forth and so on with every other material your body is made out of. Because all materials respond to magnetic fields of a high enough intensity or Gaus.
And so you would become spaghettifyd. But from the magnetic field not the gravity.
If you could somehow make it close enough to the magnetar without being affected by its electromagnetic field. Then you'd be spaghettified by the gravity.
But not before becoming spaghettified by the magnetic field.
And while you may experienced some hallucinations. You would certainly die first from all the nerves in your body ceasing function at the same time.
So you're right that he wouldn't feel anything. When all of this other stuff happens. Because you'd be long dead before then.
I was thinking this. It's not the acceleration that kills you; you wouldn't even feel that. It's the tidal force, IE the difference in force pulling on different parts of your body. For instance, your head may be pulled by 10,000 Gs while your feet are pulled at 10,100. You wouldn't feel the 10,000 Gs at all while in freefall, but you would certainly feel your feet being pulled away at nearly 1,000 ft/s². I haven't done the math, but I imagine you'd have to be well into the magnetic field before that happened.
@@chitlitlah Exactly. The Magnetic field stretches out for light-years. While a gravitational field that's strong for something that small in diameter would be much closer to the pulsar. Which means you would be pulled apart over a very short distance from the magnetar. Assuming the magnetic field didn't get you first. Which it would.
Similar to a supermassive black hole. Which have such a long gravitational gradient. You can actually passed the event horizon before you even notice you're in the black hole.
Thing is that you would die from heat and radiation present in the Accretion Disc around the black. From light-years away.
Our biology is simply not designed to function even a couple of light-years away from such hostile environments.
I have to say, as much as I've heard about being spaghettified by black holes and other superdense objects, it's more interesting and novel to think about being killed by magnetism so great, it may electrocute you by pushing your electrons around in your body. If it doesn't, the magnetic field would get so intense, it would start ionizing your molecules and atoms and it's hard to even say what exactly would kill you: the heat, shutdown of synapses, being ripped apart, etc. Death by magnetism is something you don't hear about often.
@@chitlitlah LOL. That's true. It is a scarcely cover topic.!
But Dr. Michio Kaku Did a pretty good. I originally first learned it from him.
If you're interested. I'm sure you could just Google "Dr. Michio Kaku Magnetar"
@@I86282 I know him. I may have to check that out.
I can play "Stairway To Heaven" on my magnetar.
No but "Highway to Hell" works pretty good.
This is the video that has actually sent me to Brilliant- I teach a space class (9x/week) and that space one you mentioned at the end sounds awesome!
"as gravity and magnetism fight over who gets to turn you into paste first."
LOL! Stellar.
Fun fact: a scientist was searching for tiny micro black holes, and he invented the protocol for what we commonly call today WIFI!
Vic Hayes is considered the father of WiFi, He was one of the first to successfully use a uhf wireless signal for data transference. I would be really interested if you have a source for this. I’m really interested in this subject.
@@cristallewis7802 th-cam.com/video/McbsxihcQS0/w-d-xo.html
@@cristallewis7802 Bonus fact : He's Indonesian
Fall into a magnetar? When would I possibly...
Well, it IS still 2020.
Go ahead Joe, let’s hear it.
5:34 The _Flying Spaghetti Monster_ is totally real because; *Astronomy.* 💉 ✨ 😆👌🏼
Joe, you need to *make a video* about the, _"magnetic field so strong that you can make matter out of light"_ thingie magiggy
From the deepest parts of a blacksmiths heart, thank you for pronouncing mjolnir correctly.
Space sounds so wonderful scary n strange. Can't wait till humans get our shit together so we can go there. 🛸🛸🛸 #JakeHunter88
Unfortunately you'd be waiting along time.
Technically speaking we've always been there. We're on Earth and Earth is floating through the cold vacuum of space...
My modle postulates that below the farfalle layer in a neutron star you hit the cream brulee layer, after that you dive into the baklava layer which assimilates you into the pinto bean layer near the core.
I chat with the t-shirt designer couple years ago on Imgur. That design was my favorite!
An interesting thing about a magnetar is there is a distance you can orbit it (perhaps between 10,000 to 100,000 km) where the diamagnetic force (a weak form of magnetism that has been used to levitate objects and even a frog) equals one gravity. So you could orbit a magetar and feel a force that feels like gravity in a direction away from the magnetar. This orbiting distance would likely be far enough away to prevent you from being killed by gravitational tides, but you might feel them. Of course the orbiting station would need to be well shielded. Also different materials would be affected differently by the magnetic force so various objects could have unexpected weights. Lastly, the iron in your body would be pulled on strongly, which might have health effects.
A magnetar sounds like a goddamn *pokemon*
Brilliant use of Giorgio Tsoukalos' pic at 14:31 👏 That dude looks like an alien most of the time with that crazy hairstyle
some fo your videos are so good i watch them twice in a roll. u rock joe
The smallest black hole is the smallest distance in space time - 1 planck volume. Compress enough mass in to one Planck volume it will become a black hole. It will also explode picoseconds later. So with "the smallest black hole" you need to define what the shortest period it can exist for as well.
Just what I need at 2:00am to distract me from my anxiety. Subscribed.
Joe is that cool dad that everyone wants, but no one deserves.
How a magnetar generates the extreme magnetic field is that in the process of collspse the surface of it has a very thin layer of atomic iron nuclei that has a spin in phase. Due to the extreme gravity it is what is called a topological superconductor at this point. As it continues to collapse, the flux is pinned within the substrate by anything charged. As the core collapses the neutrons expel the magnetic field that gathers in the surface layers.
BTW, in the movie "Thor", Odin says Mjollnir was "forged from the heart of a dying star", meaning.... it's made of iron, same as someone's cast iron skillet. Nothing mysterious about it.
When neutron stars collapse, some of the protons + and electrons - are under such immense force they actually fuse, cancelling each other out and becoming neutrons
there was a sci fy channel documentarry about a magnetar approaching earth, it was very interesting, it got into radiation, magnetism, gravity, bunkers, social politics, and oneil cylinders.
12:13 - If you are in freefall, you don't feel the acceleration. In fact, in your reference frame, you aren't accelerating.
hey Joe -- i could be wrong here but I don't think acceleration from gravity would kill you no matter how strong the gravity is. Only the sheer force of the gravity would be apparent to you as you get closer toward the center (ie you feel when different parts of your body are accelerated at different rates which is what happens in a car but not when all parts of your body are accelerated evenly e.g. falling in a constant gravitational field.)
Dude you rock. I wish I never gave up my dreams when I listen to you.
12:12 The acceleration wouldn't kill you because you would be in free fall, the difference of acceleration at your head and feet would kill you by pulling you apart. But not the acceleration because free fall
FALL into a MAGNETAR? You would be Torn apart BEFORE you get even NEAR IT!!!
For people who missheard it:
The Thors hammer was forged IN the core of the neutron star. Not FROM the core of the neutron stars core. It does not weigh as much as an neutron stars core.
Its just very advanced technology. Even Thor himself says it. "You call it magic, where I comefrom its technilogy.