Half the universe was missing... until now
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ค. 2020
- Half of the ordinary baryonic matter has been tough to find but Fast Radio Bursts made it possible to detect the WHIM. Thanks to Kiwico for sponsoring this video! For 20% off go to kiwico.com/veritasium or use code VERITASIUM at checkout.
Special thanks to Prof. Geraint Lewis ve42.co/gfl
Nature paper: A census of baryons in the Universe from localized fast radio bursts
ve42.co/whim
Research and Writing by Max Levy, Derek Muller and Jonny Hyman
Editing, Animations, Audio Mix & Mastering by Jonny Hyman
Filmed by Raquel Nuno
Thumbnail by Ignat Berbeci
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Now I understand what my dog feels when I talk to him
OMLL this is so true.
@@KhushiSharma-bg5kw xD
True.
dogs can't discriminate sounds in human speech and they still manage to comprehend exactly what's being conveyed within limits. your dog might be brighter than you
@@sidarthur8706 no I think not , I think dogs are pretty stupid between all domestic animals, they are just cute and sweet
Me: "Ma! I can't find the other half of the known universe!"
Ma: "Did you check in the Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium?!"
Me: "Yes ma! 🙄"
Ma: "If I go down there and find the rest of the baryonic matter, I swear! 😡"
Me: 😰😱😭
Me: UH UH... *quickly checks in the Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium* ...nvm mom I found it, uh, under the couch
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Comment Gold
That comment is 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Best comment on the Interwebs this week. : D
1:44 Normal Astronomy: processes take millions of years
Big bang: *Gas gas gas, gotta step on the gas*
There's something incredibly weird talking about 20 minute increments after the Big Bang.... 13 billion years ago.
Big Bang: *"Speed. I am speed."*
Just a personal note: makes me happy to see you & your son in the end. So inspired, so inspriring. Thank you for your patience and passion making all these videos!
Physics: Solves a problem I had no idea existed.
Me: Hell yeah!
me: ok
Regal: ok
Don't get me started on mathematicians!
😂 😂
Is like getting a car repaired but they briefly mention they've lost half of it and found it again somehow.
"first we need to talk about lightning. I promise this is related"
Ah, that second sentence tells me I'm not on Vsauce.
So true
i dont get it
@@Helios_zm Well, watch Vsauce :D
Yeah I get that but Vsauce has the Veritasium with sauce
Same haha
I can't even imagine the amout of effort to summarize this in 14min
I think i would have written a 2 hundred page book and just given up before been able to make such a precise video.
Edit due to the final phrase "we'll have to be content, with being right"
Wow... just chills bro
1:28 I have no history of epilepsy, but that bit was seriously unpleasant to look at. My eyes just started rapidly blinking lol
I literally googled: Can flashing lights cause a seizure with no history of epilepsy.
It didn't do anything to me
@@super_super_super485 Son*
Last time I was this early, half the Universe was still missing.
Right there with you!
last time i was this early, half my repl
did u wake up just now or an all nighter
Don't read my username.
So before endgame huh. I get your reference.
Neat, now in the future i can say, "Back in my day we could only see half the universe!"
Half of the 5% if the universe
Half of the universe that matters. *badum - ts*
Vision Thing .
@@JBdiGriz I suppose this would have to be the biggest pun in the universe. In your victory, the whole universe has groaned in celebration.
@@Rose_Harmonic I am the master of the puniverse! (But it only covers 5 % of all puns.)
I find it amazing that "warm-hot" (100,000K-10,000,000K) refers to the unfathomably hot temperature range between about 180,000°F and 18,000,000°F.
"Ah yes, just a warm intergalactic bath" - the astronomer literally being vaporized
we humans really live in the coldest of temperatures available in the universe. Few people ever think about this
When I heard that, my brain broke. That's hotter than stars!!! 🤯 How!? 🤔 Went to Google... Didn't find much... Something about gravitational energy is all I could find, and it's only speculation from an unreliable source. 🧐
I mean, there is a minimum for temperature just 273.15°C below the freezing point of water (1atm) but no temperature maximum. The hottest temperatures recorded (I think) reach the billions Kelvin 🤔. So yeah, 10'000'000 is just "hot" 😋.
Yeah, it's a different world, isn't it? Well, not a world, really ... 🤔 But it does put global warming to shame. 🥵
This kinda blows my mind. It takes some genius ingenuity for scientist to do what they've done in every field for specifically the last 20 years. But Astronomy and physics are making ridiculously impressive strides, which only turns into more questions to be asked lol. When will it ever end?
Astronomers: everything except Hydrogen and Helium is a metal
Also Astronomers: 100.000-10.000.000 degrees is "warm-hot"
Warm-hot sounds like a laundry water temperature setting.
@GreenGalaxyYT • 14 years ago in some countries '.' represent ','
I am trying to see the contradiction, as that meme usually highlights. But I'm failing to see it.
Why can't we all just use ,
It’s kelvin
"Regular baryonic matter" that's rich coming from the 5%
underrated comment.
Regular baryonic matter is the caucasian of matter. So everything else is a minority matter obviously. Especially that dark matter squatting outside our gated galaxy.
lolol.
@@lucas-ge4qh 95% = minority. Wut?
Damn this comment is clever
Damn, This video encouraged me to read about the Lyman-alpha series but ended up learning the Bohr model of the atom, the Rydberg formula,the Lyman series, the balmer series and also the Peschen series. I'm currently learning about the Lagrangian of a spinors field which satisfies the Dirac equation. I can finally appreciate the beauty of the Lyman alpha forest. Thanks Veritasium
“We don’t really know what creates [these fast radio bursts]...”
Death Star getting blown up: 🥲
or the halo array 😳
Varitasium "Lets talk about lightening.... i promise its related"
Vsauce: "Ill talk about random stuff.. you find out how its related"
I love both of these guys lol
I like half of these guys. The other V pisses me off.
I used to watch Vsauce, but now they cover only basic highschool math/physics. I'm not learning anything new
Some Vsauce vids are ok tho, like his Mind Field series
@E
"im running away from you at an ever-changing velocity"
@E I'm running away from ok with an ever changing velocity!
Scientists: "We can't find 50% of the matter in space"
Also scientists: "We found the missing 50% of matter. It was in space."
They found it after their mom came over and looked for it.
Prasad Naik obviously it was in space where else would it be idiot
@@ShepDance i umm... think you didnt get the joke... or maybe you did? And thats a sort of like reverse woosh to woosh me who thought you were wooshed?
LMAO!
ShepDance wooooosh
I love the Achievement Unlocked trophy at 1:50
Hahahaha
36 year old me wondering what life would have been like now if I had had Derek & Raquel as parents, making Kiwico sets together and learning about real science from both of my parents. Those boys better not mess this opportunity up!
Aliens: Oh look the humans are conducting their first Baryon Census
Humans: huh... where are... uhh?
Aliens: Wait hold on I gotchu homie *shines laser pen at earth*
Humans: Eyyy less gooo
I was thinking the same thing
Those aliens must have some pretty strong laser pens
Th thirty eight years ago??????
This is the most zoomer thing I have ever seen
@@199NickYT Yeah pretty silly, but only mildly funny.
Derek: "You hear that? It sounds like..."
Me: the Veritasium outro?
Derek: "...sci-fi laser guns"
Me: oh
lool reversed outro*
I was expecting an anime not a youtuber.
That final message is actually so true. When he said that the WHIM added up to the 5% I was genuinely disappointed, because it meant there wasn’t any further chance for any extra matter that might have interesting properties.
That remains to be seen. There is still the matter of that pesky 95% that remains to be explained ;) You might get your weird matter anyways!
@@ngcastronerd4791 Since the stuff of us and stars is only 5% aren't _we_ the weird matter?
Crossing my fingers for infinite reality
This was absolutely my favorite of your videos! So many amazing analysis and thesis connected together with a galactic chance of something not even understood that solved a different problem! Look forward to hearing when scientists find out something so interesting as what causes these bursts of radio waves. Also looking forward to more info on the other 95%!
9:40
Aliens: desperately trying to communicate
Humans: oh cool we can use that to measure some baryonic matter thanks
thats wut i was thinking
I've been reading Contact by Carl Sagan, and it's pretty much this happening in the story: scientists detect a magnectic pulse coming from space, turns out it's an alien broadcast system replying to a message earth sent when we first started broadcasting TV on a global scale (spoiler: it's Hitler's speech during the 1936 Summer Olympics).
@@Peronioz There is a movie about it, right?
@@SETHthegodofchaos Yes, "Contact". In it they build a machine that "travels" to those aliens and the protagonist actually talks with those aliens but the government then covers this up.
@@whuzzzup "the government then covers this up" I mean its more complex than that.
"A Quasar's luminosity can be thousands of times that of whole galaxies"
Or to put it another way: About as bright as a 60W bathroom light at 3AM
Or discord light theme.
@@PyPylia any light theme tbh. Quasars have nothing on them
You would NOT want a Quasar in your bathroom, even if it was only a microscopic part of one outputting 60W of power... At least there'd be no germs anywhere, but the lingering ionizing radioactivity would be bad news.
Lucy Keller so? Being a nerd is cool
@@XtraCube so you know what comedy is?
I am a retired National Laboratory Scientist that made inventive contributions to the Radiation Portal Monitors used to check for Special Nuclear Material at USA Border crossings and I developed the ionizing radiation dosimetry used in 95% of hospitals Worldwide. I completed my graduate Physics coursework at Purdue University with a 5 9 / 6.0 (I received one B+ in my Mathematical Physics class ugh! ) In my retirement I now teach all the Science classes at a small Christian high school. I wanted to add my appreciation for Veritasium, this is a wonderfully done Science Gem that I use often in teaching my Physics and Chemistry classes.
Thanks again....
I am a non scientist. But watching this makes me feel clever. Crazy to think there could be double the stars, but that matter is trapped never to be used, between the galaxy's. Mind blowing!!! Top Marks 🤯🤯🤯
Imagine being that 80% matter floating around doing nothing in the universe.
Yeah..imagine...
Do they have to wake up at 5am and work all day? No? Sign me up.
That's DARK.
Lmao yeah cant relate
Even if the matter doesn't do anything, they still do something. Same is for u and me
"Warm-hot" is such a hilariously modest term to refer to millions of Kelvin. Like, "warm-hot" is how I would refer to the temperature of my coffee when it's been in my mug for a couple of minutes and isn't quite "hot" anymore. Physics and astronomy operate on such a fundamentally different scale you can't even wrap your mind around it!
Yeah u literally can’t wrap your mind around it (unlesss)
Well he is referring to it that way because the name actually contains warm-hot and the reason its called warm-hot is that in comparison to other temperatures we know of in the universe are way hotter than millions of kelvin.
It is not in comparison to your coffee for a reason, coffee isn't one of the hottest things in the universe, you may thing warm-hot is similar to how you would describe your coffee but that is because you are comparing it to how you feel it through the nerves in your hands. And to end my rebuttal, I have to say it, physics and astronomy operate on such a fundamentally different scale that you can't even wrap your mind around it! Lol, disappointed in some people, that are so sure they are right that they wont even consider being wrong...think before you speak.
And just for some comparison to help you out, one of the hottest things in the universe i'm talking about is about 4000000000255.372 kelvin, just a tad more than 1 million, in fact, its 4 billion since you wouldn't be able to tell. And things con go much much much hotter. In fact, temperatures can go up to 10 to the 32nd power of kelvin, this is the hottest because in the physics we understand today, once it gets any hotter, conventional physics just doesn’t work. Weird things will occur that don't we dont understand currently. Gravitational force becomes as strong as the three other natural forces (electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces), and they will merge together into one unified force. Understanding how this happens is referred to as the “theory of everything” which is the holy grail of modern theoretical physics…something that we currently don’t understand, as said multiple times before.
I figure I should try to comment here before someone replies in a less polite fashion. I believe the original post was intended to be appreciative of a bit of terminology that is humorous when juxtaposed with ordinary human life, not an attack against the temperature classifications employed by astronomers. If someone were to be leveling insults against our dear scientist friends, I'd be right behind you with the proverbial pitchforks and cold, dark torches, but I don't think that response is warranted here. As a side note, 4000000000255.372 is on the order of 10^12, if I have counted correctly, which would place it safely in the trillions. Anyway, I'll stop taking up all of your time. Cheers.
"For now we have to be content with being right!" Modest and profound. Enjoyed it. This series is also a huge service to humanity
Deuterium: "What time is it?"
Helium: "About 20 after..."
Both: _"Let's stop all this fusion around, and take a snapshot !"_
me: "Half of the Universe is missing"
my daughter: Did you look under the sofa?
The difference between scientists and non-scientists was something I had to learn the hard way coming out of college. I would correct people or provide additional information, thinking that it was interesting and would lead to discussion or a better understanding. Most people just found it as an attack on their understanding or an attempt to correct them to show off. Not really my intent. I generally like it when I'm corrected because it means something I thought I understood could be described better or was misleading.
Good for you on liking to be corrected. I only like it sometimes in intellectual discussions, but once you convince me I usually like it.
Now if only we could have this same ideology with politicians around the world
Dont make dumb ppl change your way, we need more ppl like you
Scientists with jobs understand that they need to be right to be taken serious by normal people. That's why they chose to be wrong and say they are right. But it's "ok" because science is "always wrong". Halting science as a scientist is totally worth it, you need the job after all.
@@mreese8764 I... what?
Fantastic explanation! I enjoy and look forward to your next subject. Wish I had more teachers that would have been this interesting. Thank you for taking the time to make these and please don’t every stop! Regards, Jim
One very underrated takeaway from this is that it is often easy to think that all the big discoveries have already been made and now most discovery is of smaller things. A moment's thought about basically anything will reassure you that this is far from true, but it's especially reassuring to note that FRBs, hugely powerful radio source events that happen quite frequently in the universe, have only been known about for a scant 13 years. In the history of science, that's really a blink, and it means that we are still very actively discovering the really big stuff. We are FAR from done. :-)
Half of the universe is missing?
Thanos : sweating profusely
Hahahaha
Got me
"Half of the universe was missing".
Devs patched it in the latest upgrade.
Yeah God
Took a million years to update
@Scumspawn ***** CUT and pasted means you still only have the same amount (half)
When the music starts coming in @9:52 I start getting excited because I know he's about to twine up all the loose threads and deliver a crescendo.
Derek, my dude,
if you write something on the lower right side of the thumbnail
we might not be able to read it
because that's where TH-cam places the video length info.
You've asked us once about ways to improve thumbnails
so I thought you'd want to know that.
In the unlikely case of you reading this, that is. 😅
Thanks for the video!
son why is the internet not working?
- oh sorry mom I'm currently simulating THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE
6:32
Lmao 😂
You know someone will find a way to run it on a calculator
Here before 300 likes
We don't talk about how he's on Mac as well...
I'm just flipping some bits mom!
Mom: "You can eat your food already! It's not hot, it's just warm-hot!"
Food: *is in the 100000 - 10000000 Kelvin range*
Who says warm-hot 😂 i can realate though
nice one
Instantly vaporizes the kitchen.
@@25852Dan instantly vaporizes the Earth
Goldilocks and the three bears ...now shadows
I am too much willing to watch videos which is related to science but as i m Indian . I can only understand 50 % of ur language. But still enjoying too much . I love to see ur videos . Coz interest in science.
@Steven Victor Neiman 😋😍
Pronunciation can be bit tricky if you are not accustomed to hearing it. Have you tried subtitles they seem to work for me. Speaking as a fellow Indian
Damnnn! This has to be one of the best videos from Veritasium. It is amazing, gave me a deeper insight into the world... and beyond.
6:34 "computer simulations of the entire universe"
Meanwhile my computer:
*struggles* *to* *boot* *up*
Daniel lol
Daniel
Me: My laptop rendering crappy computer simulations of the entire universe.
@@Just-View yea i wish
I wrote a clock program in C on my 8088 IBM PC. The computer was not fast enough to draw the digits with each second, so I had to write routines to change a 1 to a 2, 2 to a 3, etc, by era ing and adding digit segments. Changes on the hour, dealing with possibly four digits changing were something to behold. I wrote the program, because on the original Macintosh, there was a clock where one digit morphed into the next. . . something way beyond my capability. But, manipulating x,y coordinates on the screen was instructive, and played a good part in some of my later software efforts.
Mine struggles to start
1 week:
Vsauce posted
Veritasium posted
Kurzgesagt posted
best week ...lol
Kurzegast is a hack, much like most sciencey youtubers :/
@@jamesleblanc6948 lmao, and why is that so
@@louisuchihatm2556 well mostly it is the way they display the data, where the difference between some is that the hacks make it super flashy or present it from a more "this is" instead of "this appears to be".
Kugr and antron petrov man, those two really stick out. Close second is the long haired one with the chalkboard styled animations, forgot his name.
@@jamesleblanc6948 I know, its attractive. But "appears to be" is close to facts than being wrong. Maybe the reality based narration wouldn't be that cheeky
I loved all of this! Thank you so much.
Really appreciate scientists like you who devote yourselves into these unseen matters that helps us understand more about this amazing universe!!
I love how beautifully presented his videos are.
and working on making them more beautiful
@@veritasium time powers clearly
I love how beautiful you are
I am so early that even veritasium sticking around to read half of the comments thats not missing
Don't read my username.
I love how guys in the 50's making sci fi B movies knew what space sounds like :D.
well they did use actual recordings from cosmic interference to inspire them
*insert the Matrix argument*
Star Storm Life is a joke
it's all bologna. Theres no atmosphere to propagate sound waves.
@@codyparrish6674 so where does a radio get its sound from?
sometimes I jusr watch your videos to see your furniture and house and get inspiration. the design is really nice.
The best part of the video is
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The difference between scientist and non-scientist is non scientists strive to be right, they like things to be the way they expect them. But scientists on the other hand, They want things to work not the way the expect them to be. Because that is the way they got new clues and evolve knowledge.
‘
Half the Universe missing
Thanos - This does put a smile on my face
Haha!
But it's only 2.5%
Best comment !!
@@plusxz821 *Observable universe
Original
"I guess for now, we'll have to be content, with being right" - That's a pretty awesome line. :)
kind of a flex, dont ya think
Unquestioning acceptance of this kind of cosmic fairy tale let's you be all smug and self congratulatory when talking down to your audience.
That's the problem with science, they still don't have the main answers to a lot of different things like what is dark energy and what is dark matter and what is gravity and why do particles exist as they do and why do they have a wave particle duality and why does the Dual slit experiment give the results that it does shooting one Photon at a time. There's women on this planet with an additional cone cell in their eye and they're able to see an additional color oh, we can't even comprehend any other color than what we see already. If our brains are that restricted, restricted to basically having to experience something before understanding it, then we're not going to have a lot of answers soon
At this moment in time everything is faith-based, no one knows as to why existence exists and not even scientists do.
@@tuberroot1112 This is literally the opposite of unquestioning acceptance.
@@tuberroot1112 you sound just about as smart as a tuber root. If they had unquestioning acceptance they would have accepted the simulations decades ago as truth. But they questioned it until they confirmed it with hard data.
Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!
Best one of your vlogs in a good while. Loved the slightly (deeper? more advanced?) explanation.
Carl: "Kev check out this whistling noise we detected on the radio! Sounds like lasers, it could be Aliens!"
Kevin: "Don't be dumb Carl, it's obviously the sound of low frequency lightning from the other side of the Earth that has been guided back to us by the Earth's magnetic field."
Carl: "ok, makes sense I guess... I'll go ahead and publish that in our paper then."
Aliens: "lol"
any scientist know laser don't make sound
Fathin Luqman Tantowi Its a joke
TheOPWarrior208 he too made a joke.
Haha hilarious!!! Made me laugh dude thanks! Have an awesome day!
@@FathinLuqmanTantowi Lasers are light / electromagnetic radiation and it's frequency can be turned into audible sound.
I think it's interesting how the research went from "that's some weird really short waves coming from somewhere far away" to "we found the missing half of the universe"
(╭ರ_•́)
That's something that I loved about my astronomy class, how you could take information about one thing and use it to make inferences about another. Like using how red a galaxy is to determine the age of the universe.
@@jaredgoodwin7741 Call me random,
but i just want to do my fellow Science-Lovers a Favor,
so excuse the Randomness but here you go,
have some warm Recommendations, cause the Learning never Ends!
-Legal Eagle.
-It’s ok to be smart.
-Oversimplified!
-Professor Dave Explains.
-Practical Engineering
-Michio Kaku.
-Kosmo.
-Cinema Therapy.
yea I mean if it was missing, why did we not put it on a milk carton or something ? If you can find something as small as a misisng kid that way, it should be easy to find the rest of the universe.
He actually showed that we found a missing 2.5% of the universe (half of the missing known-unknown Baryons). The other 95% of the universe (already euphemistically labeled "Dark energy & matter") is still missing! So, buck up! Plenty more opportunities to be WRONG!
Great Job - now I am thinking of the intergalactic baryonic matter as a kind of relatively warm soup, that got spilled everywhere, and the matter clusters, like stars etc are the exception.
Your channel is amazing! Thanks to share all these marvelous things
"wait, half the universe was missing?"
"always has been"
Nope it was me dio
@@fumesolo6709 zitto e guarda il video
And I panic when I lose my keys
@@DaveMcGarry lmao
@@destinolol6983 nAnI?
What a humble yet powerful message at the end: Don't be afraid to be wrong.
@Ramtin Kolahchi You had a bad math teacher. :D
@Giap Chin Indeed...Since reality is entirely Subjective after all.
Because if you find out you're wrong, then people will give you credit for discovering something.
...so long as you have someone to correct you, or it's about something not immediately consequential. Being wrong can cost lives and is a rationally justified fear.
Ramtin Kolahchi probably was pppppp
This was wonderful. Thank you.
I've watched you since the "great carnivorous clown con" began, and you are into the truth. Your statement, "scientists would rather be wrong" is dead on target. I've been an amateur scientist all my life, and this is something I've followed with great interest, since my teens, and the "realization" most of the universe wasn't at all visible, and not understanding at all, in the late sixties. The large hadron collider has also been a great piece of research work, showing so much more we didn't know we didn't know. Thanks again.
Veritasium: Half the universe was missing... until now
Thanos: You're not the only one cursed with knowledge
Sup
Stahp following me u perv
Damn, he is also here
How are you everywhere?
grow a mustache
Me: He's gone fairly grey since his first video
***looks in mirror***
Me: I've gone fairly grey since his first video.
Old man I feel old too
I think you’re just losing color vision
Whoa whoa whoa, you're telling me that two whole subsets of matter exist in the same state across any distance? Spooky.
@@saintmayhem9873 action at distance.
under that line of thinking, Black holes cannot be "swallowing" or "consuming" Matter. If we calculate the 5% of the universe should be baryonic matter, and we can now run calculations that match this, then all of the barionic matter that is drawn into a black hole must be emitted somewhere in the known universe, or we would see that baryonic matter had reduced from 5%.
They say that if a missing person isn't found in the first 48 hours the chances decrease rapidly over time. Amazing they were able to find the other half of the baryons after all that time!
Oh, I didn't notice until now, that explains a lot.
@@hydrogenatom4624 Come on dude it's 2020, no one's gonna fall for that shizz
@@clang1463 Approximately 17,000 have already fallen for it.
@@hydrogenatom4624 Cease your haunting of this comment section. Begone demon.
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Support me guys for more sci-fi videos
@@clang1463 what did that person do?
From every TH-cam science divulgators I find you the best, the one who most engages me in the story, the background, the implications. Your teaching talent is unique.
He did his PhD on teaching science, particularly using video to teach science. He has some videos on that, and a TED Talk.
* regurgitator
Hands up if it’s the first time you heard the word “divulgator”! Thought lost, it’s back from the vast reaches of WHIM background
;) :D. You’re prestidigitous erudition impresses
I would recommend you to try 3Blue1Brown for mathematics. Beautiful visualization and explaining of a topic holistically. It's a hidden gem.
@@glypheye It is a pretty common word in Spanish, that's why I used it, I'm no erudite XD, thanks by the way!
Last year, we actually discovered 50% of the baryonic matter in the universe and hardly anyone took notice of it!
To me, this is groundbreaking and very exciting! You can only discover something like this once.
I still remember the excitement I felt when it was first reported that the universe was 13.7 billion years old (13.8 as it turned out).
I think things like the number of stars in the galaxy, the age of the earth, the distance to the sun, but also the density of matter in interstellar space are fundamental in our mental picture of the universe and should be taught in schools.
Isn’t it the first thing a conscious mind asks: “Where am I?”.
I just started my first college chemistry class, and it is so cool watching all the basic concepts developed into these awesome discoveries while I’m just learning about their most basic meanings!
Me: *going to bed*
Veritasium: Half of the universe has been missing?!
Me too
Same
No it's not bedtime yet.
Astronaut with gun: Always has been.
Aaron Wtr in Europe it is.
Me, listening to the whistler: "it sound like a laser gun."
Him, 3 seconds later: "It sounds like a sci-fi laser gun, huh?"
@You're fake and gay If ot isn't sarcasm then yeah. Only sci-fiction guns make sounds
NOOOOO!!! LASER GUN DONT MAKE SOUNDS
Brrrrrrrrr. sci-fi laser gun go 08:30
Awww .. the last part hit home for me.... I was blown away by the entire video but the last did it for at so many levels
Mr Sensational, thanks very much, I'm 60 he's 5, we love your sharing of knowledge.
If you need a place to stay in Tas it's here.
Physicists: "we found the answer to the problem that was bugging us for years...."
Me: "congrats?"
Physicists: ".......DAMNIT!"
Well, Derek is describing a romanticized self flattering science, not actual reality. Physicists love to be right and hate to be wrong but it's true that something that violates known laws is very valuable. But that's a further failing of human science because we have such gems like ball lightning and cosmic jets or the fluctuations in G, a socalled constant but people in science are still people subject to the trappings of psychology and personality flaws so 'science' doesn't look at those issues. They are in denial. Dismayed by the far reaching inconvenience. People are so petty in all walks of life. Human science is very far from the ideal he claims here. Some few are rational. And the more taxing the subject the fewer it is. Let me see a show of hands who can handle the UFO topic for instance. And by UFO I of course mean visiting ET ships. Even though the US navy is essentially admitting regular contact incidents nowadays. So don't give me that crap that 'science' is rational. It's people.
@@DanFrederiksen yeah, no
@@DanFrederiksen Too much coffe, you are too woke
Reminds me of the episode of Futurama where the Professor learns the meaning of the universe or whatever makes up matter at its core or something
I dont get it
Scientists are discovering and solving technical problems like this that most of us aren't knowledgeable enough to even know exist.
Meanwhile: flat-earthers are making a comeback. 🙄
I know they are stupid but leave them be
it is really better for us to not have those guys in these sectors
Flat-earthers are making a comeback? That's because half the common sense in the universe is missing . . .
I confess I was always fond of the "turtles all the way down" hypothesis.
idk i really enjoyed proving the earth is round on my own.
trust but verify kinda thing and i did learn a lot.
You won’t believe how many flat earthers I’m encountered on just ONE Space Station video. It makes me sad for humanity.
I thought you only see half off the matter because you only use one eye when operating a telescope.
Genius!
That was really interesting! Thank you!
Magnatar sounds like a badass, villain star.
Considering one could destroy the galaxy in an instant with one unlucky pass, yah... They are a pretty good villain.
@@skurblord3401 I don't know about destroying an entire galaxy
Destroying a galaxy? No. Our solar system? Yeah, it would
Or a kickass band from the 80's, Pat Magnetar.
A Pokemon probably?
So basically, Veritasium is a huge nerd.
*i like it.*
I don't have any friends because they are ashamed of the videos I upload. Are they really that bad, dear ver
Don't read my username.
@@AxxLAfriku They are very bad.
@@hydrogenatom4624 nice self advertising there
@@junkandgunk This was an entire thread full of self-promotion before you commented.
I read about the Lyman-alpha forest years ago, but I didn't get it until now. Excellent explanation!
This explains the ability to hear lightning. All we need is a way to see thunder.
7 years from now this will be in everyone's recommended section.
And this comment will have over 300 likes
A whole new generation of young existentially angsty kids 😆
LOL!
This comment made me think the video was made 7 years ago
Perhaps. . .
7:40 This is how *Popbob* found and griefed many large bases in *the oldest anarchy server in Minecraft* !!
Damn man, all these videos you make that are such high quality and spectacular content...
Excellent illustration, thank you.
Me: Finally i made a whole day without Anxiety
Veritasium: “Did you know half the universe was missing??”
Imagine how we felt knowing about the missing Baryon problem before it was resolved. :P
Me: Finally lost 10% of the weight.
Veritasium: “Did you know half the universe was missing??”
After I came home, I eventually found the missing half of my universe asleep under my bed.
I need to put some kinda skirting board around that, I guess.
But I only shame myself when I worry.
I totally own the can-opener.
hey I got some news for you buddy, dark matter and dark energy make up 95% of the universe.... and they are missing as well
@@SpencerTwiddy that is what baffles me, how & why the universe can create something that's also nothing
Watching this makes me amazed at how we can observe a simple phenomenon like redshift and somehow apply the knowledge to calculate the missing matter in the universe. Like damn, humans are really smart
A few of them are anyway
@@kozmosis3486 For real. There’s no way I would’ve figured that out.
And then we realise we only know 5% of whats coming ln the test about the universe
When it comes to that humans know what they're doing, but when it comes to things that will cause economy to crash they have no idea what they're doing.
I just realized how gullible and sheeplike humans are. People have a history book, amongst other knowledge this book possesses, that contains information about how the Earth and the universe and life was created. But believe this book is factual is to believe that we have one all powerful God who is our authority, and his rules are what we should be following in order to ultimately receive his grace and blessings and eternal life. It seems to me that the only reason we reject the Lord and his words in the Bible is because we as humans want to be our own God, so as we don't want to follow somebody else's rules but ours. Why would we reject this history book from thousands and thousands of years ago only to believe wholeheartedly that we have as humans figured out everything to do with the creation of the universe and our world just within the past 150 years. Millions of people reject God and his authority because we don't want to listen to anybody else but ourselves
Thank you!
Wonderful explanation.
Recently found this guy love him and his content. Can't get enough. I typically can't stand the typical TH-camr.
One of your best for me, I learned so much: The Lyman - alpha forest, the WHIM, whistlers; well done. More like this please
why did i click on “More”
@@apoorv-vu4pd Because you are a more - on?.... or maybe because it was like, 5 a.m., lol.
I'm so happy to have received sufficient education to be able to understand at least some part of physics.
Most of this video was about chemistry lol
Indian Education System represent
(Not that it's good or anything)
@@amaansiddiqui2376 nope
@@amaansiddiqui2376 nope
@@amaansiddiqui2376 nope
Sometimes I don't even understand the stuff he says, but the way he says it, I love listening to it
I walk away from these videos not with much more than I had to start, but I keep watching them to help myself remember I don't know much.
"Half the universe is missing..."
"did you check behind the fridge?"
Turns out it was all a lot of dihydrogen monoxide located in the sub-refrigerator region.
idk i think its under the drier
I looked under the sofa cushions - nothing!
have you looked at the lost and found desk?
@@sirBrouwer i asked but but god said that they already pawend the stuff
“I promise it’s related” -Vsauce never
haven’t heard that name in years....
But in the end he relates them all...
Neekk0 he published a video a few days ago
Nicholas Patella what a time to be alive
In my chemistry class, we just finished a unit on ground and excited state and it’s cool hearing you talking about that stuff. Idk why, just is.
I have been watching you since the 2020 lockdown and I really liked the way you explain things . I think you should create more on quantum mechanics .love you Bro.❣