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Magnetars are a type of neutron star with a magnetic field a quadrillion times stronger than the strongest magnets here on Earth. These stellar monsters are mind-blowing in every way and possibly the source of massive gamma ray bursts and fast radio bursts.
So what would happen if you fell into one? Let's find out. :)
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"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
BRO WHAT THE FUCK🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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
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
"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.
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
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
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?😱
"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 :(
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!
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
"...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.
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.
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!)
GNOCCHI?!?!?!?!? AN ITALIAN JUST HAD A HEART ATTACK!
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!
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
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.
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!
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
6:10 "Praise be to his noodley appendages"
“... A little more kick to it.”
Now Magnetar is cemented in my mind to the name of a top shelf tequila.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"falling into Jupiter would be bad, very bad, don't do this!"
thanks mate, i keep it in mind.
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.
This was my first view of your channel and I am HOOKED! Entertaining and intelligent- always a winning combination
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.
"While Jupiter might be the hotshot of the solar system" Oh so my plans of base jumping into the Sun are still good.
I'm impressed you stretched "You would expire" across 20 minutes. It was a good 20 minutes though
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.
''Even physics bro?'' Is my favourite line from now on
This is so exciting! Almost at 1M subs. Im looking forward to seeing how we shall all be celebrating!
Excellent video as always! 😃
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.
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...
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.
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.
Becoming the greatest explosion in human history, crazy hallucinations, and being spaghettified. I guess I know how I want to die now
"As gravity and magnetism fight over who gets to turn into paste first" Amazing. And the plot twist is that acceleration IS who get liquify you.
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.
Wonderfully researched and expertly presented. All your stuff is hyper-interesting.
“We weren’t as clever as we thought we were” is the perfect Epitaph for the entire Human Species.
From the deepest parts of a blacksmiths heart, thank you for pronouncing mjolnir correctly.
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? You would be Torn apart BEFORE you get even NEAR IT!!!
11:02 that knuckle crack disturbed me on an emotional level
5:34 The _Flying Spaghetti Monster_ is totally real because; *Astronomy.* 💉 ✨ 😆👌🏼
Star 1 to Star 2: You just went full Magnetar. Nobody goes full Magnetar
Joe. It would be interesting to have a video about HOW they find out all this cool stuff. Thanks.
What happens when the largest possible Magnetar collides with the smallest possible black hole?
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.
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...
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.
According to some physicists, the magnetic field of a magnetar is so powerful, it is capable of stretching the proton of a hydrogen atom into a cylinder. Imagine that.
Magnetar! I knew I'd heard that word somewhere before:
"I've been drawn into you megnetar pit trap"
- Heart Shaped Box, Nirvana, 1993
And don't forget that when a magnetar burps after dinner, the waves from that belch can travel 50,000 light years from the opposite side of our galaxy, nudge earth into a different orbit, and disturb our moon's as well. Like the magnetar blast of 2004 did.
I absolutely loved how you compared a star's neutron to all marshmallow Lucky Charms! It was the best line ever lolol. Loved it.
Hey Joe, if aliens have the ability to travel to Magnetars, nvm create quakes on them, they already have the ability to see you while you're taking a shower from their home planet, and they probably have known about us for as long as they had telescopes strong enough to help with interstellar travel. Nobody explores a galaxy without looking at it first. :)
12:13 - If you are in freefall, you don't feel the acceleration. In fact, in your reference frame, you aren't accelerating.
Joe, you need to *make a video* about the, _"magnetic field so strong that you can make matter out of light"_ thingie magiggy
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.
"Watch a human get turned into a burnt potato" Vladimir Komarov disapproves of your choice of words.
If Earth gets hit with small gamma ray burst for the end of 2020, that would not be so much of a surprise.
I'm sure there is a song about a rainbow and razor blades that aptly describe the forces you'd experience in the vicinity of a magnetar. Gravity would pull you towards it's center, while magnetism would try and arc you to end of the nearest pole. Caution; some parts of you are more susceptible to magnetism than the other parts.
I just tell myself that the map was made in such a convoluted way that any space faring civilization would think it's just some sort of music producing space junk.
A gamma ray burst would not simply be a threat to a "single planet species", it would be a threat to a "singe solar system species"
If you're not subscribed, for god's sake, do it. This dude deserved to hit a mil ages ago.
I fail to understand the "Lucky Charms all marshmallows" reference, however had you said "Oops All Crunch Berries", I would have made the connection.
How bad? 'Plow into a cop car' bad? Or, "Last night was AMAZING! Wait; why do you have a framed picture of my grandma on your dresser?" bad?
That last bit about radio bursts likely coming from the same mechanism that produces x-ray bursts---both radio waves and x-rays are electromagnetic waves, and the universe neither knows nor cares about our arbitrary distinctions between frequencies. Sooo, it makes as much sense to believe that the x-ray bursts were intentional communication as it does to believe the radio waves are intentional communication.
I think the example of someone falling into a magnetar was backwards. To the poor sod falling in, it would be over in a blink of an eye. The observers however would be able to watch the entire gruesome spectacle in slow motion thanks to GR :)
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.
some fo your videos are so good i watch them twice in a roll. u rock joe
Interesting; Pōwehi is supposedly Hawaiian for “embellished dark source of unending creation” in New Zealand Māori it means “night of fear”... I think I like the māori translation better!
There are some major misconceptions in the video so I thought I'd offer some corrections:
1. Light siphoned by magnetic fields - that's not a thing... What is siphoned by the magnetic fields are protons and other particles. These charged particles then heat up as they reach the magnetic poles of the Magnetar. The beams of light are actually beams of particles that glow due to insane heat, producing light. The light itself bends only according to gravity, as usual.
2. Prolonged death due to time dilation - again, not true. Time measured from the observer's rest frame is always shortest (what's called proper time). So, time would actually pass by quickly for the victim that's falling into the Magnetar. It will only be dilated from the perspective of someone watching the poor bastard's fall, so it will only *seem* like slow torture.
3. Neutrino conserving charge - neutrinos are neutral as the name suggests, so can't conserve electric charge. In "electron capture", the charges of the electron and proton cancel out, conserving the charge. The neutrino actually conserves another property called "lepton number" (literally just number of leptons), which relates to "weak hypercharge", not electromagnetic charge.
4. Being ripped apart by acceleration - again, not true. Unless the poor in-falling bastard is thrusting into the Magnetar with a rocket (and if so, why???), he would feel no acceleration at all. That's because everything that's in orbit, even a highly eccentric orbit whose periastron is within a Magnetar, is still in free fall, and thus experiences no acceleration. What causes spaghettification is tidal forces, aka, the difference in gravity that different body-parts would feel.
(5. Not really a correction, but M87*
"Pōwehi" wasn't the only SMBH imaged so far. Our own Sag A* was also imagine at about the same resolution. It's about 1000 times less massive but also about 1000 times closer to us than M87*
, so the imagine is in principle just as good. Unfortunately, Sag A* (unlike M87*) is viewed side on, which means that its accretion disk and the galactic plane obscure most of the black part of the black hole... So the M87* image is more aesthetically pleasing.)
Okay, now that zoom in to M87 Star was awesome
If there's a group of aliens that uses magnetar quakes to send messages, just leave them be lol
"Don't fall into Jupiter" well shit, there go my weekend plans.
Ben Ollinghouse. Great Firefighter 😂😂
Neutron stars really show that nothing should be underestimated
Its never the speed that kills you, its the sudden stop that gets you.
More of this please and Thank you
I work in MRI and I can't sleep, the telsa on magnetar are crazy, but I still want to know how beautiful the image would be..
The knuckle crack.. I immediately paused and came here to cringe, and simultaneously express just how satisfying that was to hear...
I get TMS treatments for depression. It can cause muscle jerks like an EMG but completely non invasive. It can be difficult to hold phone or remote. Just a powerful quick magnetic pulse.
The minimum mass of a black hole is the Planck mass, but those sorts of micro-black holes aren't stellar objects, they're made from, say, particles colliding in the very early universe. The Planck mass is very small, like the mass of a bacterium or something.
That knuckle crack was so satisfying
Joe : notchy (gnocchi)
Italians : nokee ( gnocchi )
I don't know why, but I find neutron stars to be more fascinating than black holes...
Your channel and following it for the last year makes me want go back to school/studying. Thanks 👍
Sorry for being a stickler, but around 10:00 you said the proton-electron has to release a nutrino to conserve charge. Both the neutrino and neutron are electrically neutral, but that's ok because the charge of the reactants cancels out. It has to release a neutrino to conserve lepton number.
OMG, think I'll stay at home, with the windows closed, and the door locked, and the blinds pulled, and under a table. Now that feels better. :-)). Thanks Joe. Covit aint got nuthin.
Magnetars are the craziest things next to black holes. They are basically giant diamonds spinning at 43,000 rpms with a magnetic field one trillion times greater than that of Earth's.
Most fascinating stellar phenomena out there as far as I'm concerned.