My physics teacher was also weird. He was a scientist and conspiracy theorist. On top of random rants he would show up whenever someone talked about him, like he had microphones all over the school. He also knew how to pick locks really easily like the lockpicking lawyer. I wonder what happened to him.
When you phrase it this way, this story is a pretty good allegory for power dynamics at universities based on my experience in a unionized academic workforce.
@@sollasemusic8322 Or the entire failure that is the current education system in the USA, where a kid will get a "wrong answer" by answering 3x5 instead of 5x3.
One day he got distracted by a rant about bears for some reason, he couldn't remember the name of his favorite TV show as a kid, some at the back of the class pointed out that it was the "Bernstein bears". He misheard and the rest is history.
This is a wild idea for a movie. Some dottering old physics teacher that just pops into existence, wants to do nothing but physics, but if he misses a decimal point the universe could end so you have to constantly keep him from doing physics but its like all he can do. I dont even want an explanation on where he came from or how. I just want a story on how you fix that problem ethically.
Yeah if pulled off right but do YOU really trust Hollywood now? Activists in place of writers, hack brand new fresh from college Directors/old boomers who ain't got it no more now try to spice things up with that "Girl Boss" crap and many pushing "The Message". You'd have race swaps, gender swaps and politics driving the movies for "Good Boy Points". Good luck to you...
Ask him constant questions about physics in quantised environments, like talking about charge of quarks but INSISTING he use the fractional representations only
This is equally funny and horrifying. I had a teacher like this guy. We've ALL had a teacher like this guy. Mine was a microbiology professor. On the final exam, he had a question that said "are red blood cells diploid or haploid?" ....If you're a biologist like me, you just facepalmed. Diploid/haploid refers to the number of chromosomes within the nucleus. Red blood cells don't HAVE a nucleus. I went up to him and asked if it was a trick question, he said no. I told him that RBCs have no nucleus. His response: "......Are you sure?" 🤦🏼♀️
True we've all had weirdos for teachers. Had a Physics teacher who viewed Science™ in an extreme cult-like regard. Especially the wacky theories about black holes and stuff we cannot confirm; all speculation... That was undeniable truth because {St. Scientist So-and-so} said so! -- which defeats the point of scientific truth...? I'd ask him about when Science™ was wrong in whatever the latest discovery/theory it was at the time (mid 2000's, can't remember what it was) and he puts a big grin on and replies "Well. That's just science! 😊" Incredibly close-minded for someone who is supposed to be curious and open. When someone challenges anything outside the box, you're a heretic -- until it turns out we were thinking about it all wrong -- "Oh well! Tee-hee." Ugh. He was such a self-absorbed douchebag about being 'right' all the time that his standards would change just to 'prove' you were wrong even if you did everything right & followed instructions. You could argue with him the grass is green but he'd comeback with saying you never specified if it was Forest Green or Leaf Green. Therefore you are wrong.
If he means the Progenitor Cells than its a Diploid, P.S Proerythrocytes to Normoblasts have a Nuclius which is removed by the Normoblast stage so the RBC can have its Discoid Shape and carry more Hemoglobin
@@davethompson3326RBCs at least in its Progenitor Stages do have a Nucleus at one point they are diploid too like most Cells but as it Matures that Nucleus is Removed, So a normal, non cancerous Mature RBC should never have a Nucleus. P.S its just one of those dumb questions that really should be a bonus but usually the answer is the closest to the Truth but not really the Correct answer.
Wait you're right. He has a set knowdoledge of how the current universe works, so anytime another reality bender alters it, he can "correct" it and basically render the other bender "grounded to reality" for containment Only thing to worry about is when he makes mistakes on his subject, because even just a typo is enough to end the world as we know it
I also thought the same. With proper treatment and actual Laws of Physics training, He could be an observable-universe wide Reality Anchor. No more unreliable SRAs
Thats a common phenomenon, we had a physics teacher who was a physicist not a teacher, so pretty much overqualified. He was brilliant at physics but very bad at teaching. If you didn’t want to do something that day you just had to ask him something about electromagnetic physics or anything related to scuba diving. He would go on to talk the whole lesson about nothing else. He also held his lectures in a calm silent tone just to burst out screaming and smash whatever was near him (full class of boys in puberty so it’s understandable). Then he continued his lecture as if nothing happened
Great one - though obsessive scientist note: the units of acceleration “ms-2” should be read as “metres per second squared” rather than “milliseconds minus 2”.
Just checked the article and it uses "ms^-2" which I think is reasonable to mistake for "milliseconds -2", "ms⁻²" would've been better but honestly I'd just have written it as "m/s²", "ms^-2" feels a bit lazy unless the articles are forced to not use Unicode
@@Imperial_Squid Even Unicode aside, HTML has supported arbitrary superscript formatting basically forever (20+ years), though things like wiki-markup aren't always consistent how/if they expose that support. That said, the negative exponent form doesn't seem all that uncommon in my (admittedly limited) experience? I can definitely can see how it'd throw off someone not accustomed to it though, and I'm pretty sure this isn't the first time this sort of obscure technical notation has tripped Volgun into a misinterpretation.
@@SolarShado yeah the negative exponent form is definitely better in a "this is how a scientific group would write it" frame, I guess it's a small accessibility vs aesthetics decision at the end of the day, both are fine
"This reality bender can end the universe by misplacing a decimal point or forgetting a single symble in an equation....lets experiment with him!" Another brilliant idea from a Foundation researcher.
To be fair, they were running these experiments within the simulation they have him stuck in, where only the simulation would be affected by his reality warping.
Plot twist: he DID end the universe. The reality containing the SCP Foundation was so thoroughly destroyed all that's left of it are inter-dimensional echoes manifesting as fiction.
Yeah I messed it up big time. I even knew it was wrong at the time. I just couldn’t find any reference. If only smart people like you guys were on my discord, haha
That is an M (meters) and S (Seconds) together, which multiply, but the S is also being powered by -2, so the equation essentially reads as m/s^2, which is the correct way to measure gravitational acceleration Basically that physics teacher* accidentally missed a comma, so earth gravity was multiplied by 10.
no you did fine the scp changed it twice in the story the equation was already messed up due to reality shifting stuff or something obviously @@TheVolgun
There's a bit in one of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels where someone builds a machine with wheels that have a "pie" of exactly 3. The thing ends up bending spacetime.
"'Subject instructed to divide by zero, super computer ceases operation immediately.' I really dont know what i thought was going to happen." That one got me
1:09 it says "below NEGATIVE 190 °C". I was just listening and I had to pause for a bit and come back to read it and have it played again to make sure... :D
I had to stop the video and laugh at Experiment 5 [divide by zero]. XD Not only the pure curiosity of "Fuck it, lets see what happens," but even the casual acknowledgment of "don't know why I expected something different" just laid me on my ass.
I appreciate the little nod to Professor Chronotis from “Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency” at 7:08; this SCP seems just like the sort of side-character that Douglas Adams would cook up in one of his novels…
I like to imagine he once wrote a CV, thus altering reality to only include those details of himself which were on the CV, erasing most of his history and personality from existence.
Love how he just winged nuclear fusion, honestly he just seems like a pretty swell guy who has no clue how he's doing what he is which are some of my favorite SCPs. Shout out to the plague doctor lmao
What a fascinating SCP: a reality warper whose scientific accomplishments are all achieved by his governance over the universe, and who’s used to experiment with the universe’s limits, yielding censored results. That the part that really captivated me about this story; the idea that something so inexplicable can happen, that the resulting information is deemed unfit for consumption.
This SCP should not be Keter, it should be the esoteric class “Ein Sof” which is French for “esoteric” apparently. This basically means this particular SCP has to be constantly sedated to preserve the fabric of reality. This rare object class was used in Dr. Gray’s SCP-001 proposal which originally was posted on the French branch of the SCP wiki.
Ohhhh the professor missed a decimal, i thought that the professor wrote the units as milliseconds and i was confused why it had that effect. Also, at around 1:10 you forgot to say below *negative* 190 degrees celcius and i had to double take as to why they would keep a supercomputer so hot😂
Actually this made me think of something hilarious. For like an extra special donation or something after you say 'Class dismissed' you could call out someone like "Except for you [Blank]" and maybe just say they know why or something.
Btw ms^-2 isn't read "milisecond minus 2", but it's "meter per second squared" which is the unit for acceleration. Unless the SCP actually meant it as milisecond-2 and which case we're way more screwed
My highschool physics teacher was so bad at her job that the class went from 30 students to like 3 because everybody straight up refused to keep doing the collage phd level physics homework she would give us with no explanation on how to actually do or understand any of it. We called it the hunger games class. There was a running bet to see who the last surviving student would be before they fired her.
That's how those programs are designed though. Not defending it. It's inconceivably stupid really, but welcome to the many core ironies of contemporary doctorate level academics.
Its funny how my first thought upon learning of this scp’s abilities was “oh my god they can test every single scientific theory and prove them beyond a shadow of a doubt” and then the very first thing they do is ask him what would happen if the sun was replaced with a black hole, a hypothetical that’s been performed so many time’s its practically a fact, and it effectively confirms that his hypothetical models are accurate to what would actually happen in the universe. My god i would never stop asking him questions 😂
Seen a few people claim this isn't a Keter class SCP, and I feel it's due to them not realizing what the end means. It's stated that 4769 is remembering past simulations even after he is reset. This means that they can't contain him indefinitely without constantly changing how they reset him, resetting at a minimum, etc. He's not being contained by euclidian means anymore. They're having to think outside normal standards in order to ensure he stays sedated and under control.
This man known as SCP-4769 though highly intelligent is also not mentally stable. A very dangeroues combination with someone who can bend reality as he can. Whoever came up with this story is to be commended. It would make a great Twilight Zone episode.
11:15 small correction, MS^-2 is still meters per second squared, not milliseconds. it can be rewritten as m/s^2. love this scp though, extremely fascinating
That last bit confirms, to me, what I thought would have them terminating this mess in the first place. Can't have him asking the question "what if we're all in a simulation."
This article was actually really well written from a physics perspective, but one small comment is that if you asked a physicist what is a number decided my zero, they will probably just tell you infinity
It's both infinity and minus infinity at the same time because the right hand and left hand limits tend to different values, thus making lim(1/x) when x → 0 undefined.
I understand that, it’s just that most physicist I know would just say that it’s equal to infinity. Yes it’s undefined because it’s both plus or minutes infinity, but a physicist would just say infinity most of the time
I think the author had a slight misunderstanding of chemical bonds, I don't think water molecules would split into composite parts even at near absolute zero. That was my main gripe with it though
As a math teacher I have to say we are to blame for this one. We usually make a big deal of the whole divide by zero error because students really want to for some reason. The only real problem is that It's undefined for euclidean mathematics. If you make a single statement defining it then not even computers have a problem. Like: 1/0 := lim(n->o) 1/n = ♾️ Then no problem.
I feel like Dr. Hopper, and the Foundation in large, could easily provide 4769 with ample education and training to make him actually do his job correctly instead of doing this absolute gnarly excuse for "experiments", become an active member of the Foundation, like the girl with the camera and the Bus, and probably reclassified as Thaumiel. 4769 could easily become an Observable Universe-wide Reality Anchor, and with it: 1. are able to limit costs of using SRAs (they are known to not be very reliable after all) 2. Assisting on monitoring any reality bending actions
The thing is the guy IS already extremely well educated in his field. There is no level of continuing education that will ever be able to 100% eliminate the potential for plain and simple human error. This guy is literally a single rounding error or typo away from causing a K Class scenario every time he opens his mouth or writes anything down.
@@OverworkedITGuy He doesn't need training in physics... He needs psychological training and education in the concept of "Education" (It's a Thing... Majoring in Education) All that typos, phasing out when spoken with and such? The Foundation can train him to be more focused, and more thorough. Better yet, since the Foundation is already skirting Ethics by literally putting this guy on a Coma and running Computer Simulation on his head, why not just make sure he's loyal to the Foundation?
@@aribantala And again, none of that addresses the primary issue that a single typo or misplaced decimal from the guy makes reality unravel accidentally. THAT is the problem. The issue with 4769 isn't any perceived loyalty to the Foundation or anyone else. And it's not any issues with his teaching methods or non-physics related educational gaps. All it would take is a bad night's sleep or catching the flu, and one moment of brain fuzz while thinking about a physics equation, then BOOM the 3rd dimension no longer exists in our reality. It's why they've got him in the simulation in the first place. So that his whoopsies don't unmake the real universe by accident. The experiments in the simulation did exactly what they were supposed to do, which was determine the extent of his ability and range to alter reality. Once they determined there was virtually no limit to it and that he can alter physics on a galactic to universal scale O5 put an end to the testing. The bottom line, he's entirely too dangerous to just let roam free outside of anything other than "the Matrix". And to be honest, it's a hell of a lot more ethical and humane to have spent the resources and effort to create a Matrix level simulation just for him. Especially when simply keeping him in a dreamless medically induced coma (like has been done with other dangerous SSCPs) is infinitely easier and less prone to mechanical failure.
@@OverworkedITGuy "The Foundation can train him to make no more typos through the simulations" "That doesn't help the typos" 🤨 Okay then, whatever suits you
@@aribantala You cannot train away human error. Even the best writers and spekaers in the world with photographic memory can still misstype on a keyboard or misspeak. And if he does so at the wrong time it´s bye bye universe. Frankly the safest thing they could do would be "terminating" him but they have chosen the most humane option amongst what they have avalible instead.
3:58 Calvin's mom: "I saw your teacher, Miss Wormwood, in the supermarket today. She said to say hi." Calvin: "You saw Miss Wormwood?? She shops at the supermarket??" Calvin's mom: "Well certainly. What did you think?" Calvin: "I dunno... I kinda figured teachers slept in coffins all summer."
I find on interesting that he is a physics teacher, he apparently really just wants to be a physics teacher, Even if that means that he's terrible at it, so every student he's taught doesn't do well in his class apparently.
Are we just gonna ignore the cray-1 supercomputer in the background of the thumbnail? That was the fastest supercomputer of the time beating out the previous competition by an order of magnitude, plus they were based in Chippewa falls Wisconsin not far from my hometown...
Honestly, this Article turned out MUCH better than I thought it would! Usually, writers who venture into such Subjects lack the necessary Scientific Background to pull off their Idea. This was a reasonable attempt at writing such an Article! Not the best, but quite good still.
This was a good one. Firstly thinking its a human with uncontrollable powers to change its surroundings to discovering that it has the ability to change the observable universe and reality itself to whatever it deems to be scientifically correct. If the guy states that the universe is in a state of collapse then the universe begins to collapse 💀
Ah! so that was my professor when I was trying to get my physics degree! that explains why I was great at physics so I decided to study physics then I sucked so bad at physics while studying physics and why I am now great at physics again now that I am studying something else because I had a mental breakdown after feeling like I lost the "Good at physics and math" part of myself :D!
Just a quick note: the units of the gravitational constant are meters per second per second (m/s/s), or meters per second squared, which simplifies to ms^(-2)
I looked forward to seeing this right now !! Let's go YOOOOO!! I never get tired of this ngl,and speaking of bend reality it gets you right somewhere !
Reminds me of a calculus professor who we caught regularly making arithmetic errors in class. Stopped going to that class, and still got a B on the final.
@@TheVolgun I wouldn't worry about it, but the nerds will know off hand that acceleration gets expressed as meters per second per second, aka meters per second squared.
@@TheVolgun it's 8th grade-level stuff, negative exponents are equivalent to the inverse of the base raised to the power of the opposite sign, so s^-2 is equivalent to 1/s^2, so ms^-2 = m * 1/s^2 making it m/s^2 - "meters per second squared"
The only reason not to terminate this one is a far off hipotetical chance of having him overruling some very specific thing in a very specific containment breach or other kind of interaction between the Foundation and a GOI or another anomaly not yet contained.
It is hysterical that the vast majority of this guy's problems would be solved, and he would be far easier to contain, if he were more competent at his professed job.
In fact, if he was more competent, he would actually be useful for containing other reality benders as he can anchor the laws of physics to what his knowdoledge about it is, preventing others from altering it And thus would be thaumiel instead of keter
I had a physics teacher back in highschool that had a personal beef with the element Francium. This dude hated it with comical levels of passion. It's so unstable it almost immediately disappears, it only ever shows up from radioactive decay in miniscule quantities, he had a whole laundry list of reasons it was a "stupid element." I hope that guy's doing well, he made it fun to learn.
Sounds like the inspiration of this story is a narccisstic teacher who could never be wrong even when proven so time and time again, looking at you Mr Davidson
That's one way to earn a PHD. Even when you are wrong, just bend reality until you are right.
Your not wrong but wtf
So instead of doctoring, manipulating or cheating you just confuse a lot of people.
Podcasters have been doing that for years now.
@@CheezMonsterCrazybending reality to earn a phd?
@@CheezMonsterCrazylmao that's also what my ex did😂
My physics teacher was also weird. He was a scientist and conspiracy theorist. On top of random rants he would show up whenever someone talked about him, like he had microphones all over the school. He also knew how to pick locks really easily like the lockpicking lawyer. I wonder what happened to him.
Bro had an SCP for a teacher
Bro, that's an SCP agent under cover.
He’s in Foundation custody
He sounded like a cool ass dude what was his name
He's under containment
A professor who is always catastrophically CORRECT, but not always RIGHT.
When you phrase it this way, this story is a pretty good allegory for power dynamics at universities based on my experience in a unionized academic workforce.
@@sollasemusic8322 Or the entire failure that is the current education system in the USA, where a kid will get a "wrong answer" by answering 3x5 instead of 5x3.
@@MauricioOsuna-et8et “show your work”
@@MauricioOsuna-et8et wah wah wah, US education bad, wah wah wah; perhaps attempt conjuring an original thought for once in your life
@@orang1921as an American i agree our education system sucks ass across the board
Pretty fun idea: what’s commonly known as the Mandela Effect mostly stems from this dude’s typos.
One day he got distracted by a rant about bears for some reason, he couldn't remember the name of his favorite TV show as a kid, some at the back of the class pointed out that it was the "Bernstein bears". He misheard and the rest is history.
@@jwalster9412til my last breath, gun to my head, it will always be Berenstein to me
@@jwalster9412He'd also be responsible for Curious George's missing tail...
@@brianknapp6215 oh no
this was my first thought. tell him to bring back the damn cornucopia
This doesn't even have to have any supernatural effects to be terrifying. Just being a Physics Teacher is enough.
A normal physics teacher is just a person who teaches physics.
A reality bender is an anomaly that SCP must deal with.
@@Gfish17 It was a joke.
I love how it's a universal experience that all physic teachers are terrifying
I love how it's a universal experience that all physics teachers are terrifying
Im glad you guys enjoyed the SCP! (Im the author and based this on my actual highschool physics teacher)
Very much so! Any sequels? I'd love to read!
Definitely one of the more interesting SCPs in my opinion. Well done!
dumb teachers will do that to ya.
nice story.
Great job! I hope you are able to continue writing stories! 👏🏾
Fantastic!
This is a wild idea for a movie. Some dottering old physics teacher that just pops into existence, wants to do nothing but physics, but if he misses a decimal point the universe could end so you have to constantly keep him from doing physics but its like all he can do. I dont even want an explanation on where he came from or how. I just want a story on how you fix that problem ethically.
Yeah if pulled off right but do YOU really trust Hollywood now? Activists in place of writers, hack brand new fresh from college Directors/old boomers who ain't got it no more now try to spice things up with that "Girl Boss" crap and many pushing "The Message". You'd have race swaps, gender swaps and politics driving the movies for "Good Boy Points". Good luck to you...
Ask him constant questions about physics in quantised environments, like talking about charge of quarks but INSISTING he use the fractional representations only
@@SirPlotsalot but he can still make mistakes. Right? Either way, still cool.
You hit him with a rock very hard.
Where we're going we don't need ethics! -SCP foundation
This is equally funny and horrifying. I had a teacher like this guy. We've ALL had a teacher like this guy. Mine was a microbiology professor. On the final exam, he had a question that said "are red blood cells diploid or haploid?"
....If you're a biologist like me, you just facepalmed. Diploid/haploid refers to the number of chromosomes within the nucleus. Red blood cells don't HAVE a nucleus. I went up to him and asked if it was a trick question, he said no. I told him that RBCs have no nucleus. His response:
"......Are you sure?"
🤦🏼♀️
Well, they did, until you stuck your nose in! 🔴🙀🙀🙀
True we've all had weirdos for teachers.
Had a Physics teacher who viewed Science™ in an extreme cult-like regard. Especially the wacky theories about black holes and stuff we cannot confirm; all speculation... That was undeniable truth because {St. Scientist So-and-so} said so! -- which defeats the point of scientific truth...? I'd ask him about when Science™ was wrong in whatever the latest discovery/theory it was at the time (mid 2000's, can't remember what it was) and he puts a big grin on and replies "Well. That's just science! 😊"
Incredibly close-minded for someone who is supposed to be curious and open. When someone challenges anything outside the box, you're a heretic -- until it turns out we were thinking about it all wrong -- "Oh well! Tee-hee." Ugh. He was such a self-absorbed douchebag about being 'right' all the time that his standards would change just to 'prove' you were wrong even if you did everything right & followed instructions.
You could argue with him the grass is green but he'd comeback with saying you never specified if it was Forest Green or Leaf Green. Therefore you are wrong.
red blood cells have a nucleus before they reach the final phase of their life cycle. so its a case of being both wrong and right.
If he means the Progenitor Cells than its a Diploid,
P.S Proerythrocytes to Normoblasts have a Nuclius which is removed by the Normoblast stage so the RBC can have its Discoid Shape and carry more Hemoglobin
@@davethompson3326RBCs at least in its Progenitor Stages do have a Nucleus at one point they are diploid too like most Cells but as it Matures that Nucleus is Removed,
So a normal, non cancerous Mature RBC should never have a Nucleus.
P.S its just one of those dumb questions that really should be a bonus but usually the answer is the closest to the Truth but not really the Correct answer.
I'm not ready for SCP Mr. Frizzle.
😮
Dr. Frizzle, if you please; Mr Frizzle was my father
"Please let this be a normal physics class!"
@@warbossgegguz679With the Fritz??? No way!!!
Ohh mannn….
*que Magic Schoolbus theme as a school bus hits a skyscraper*
@@datwitchyswordfanNow hit the second tower.
I love the mentality of "I'm not wrong. The question was wrong." And then changing all of reality so you're right. I felt that.
"Can you feel the wrong-dongs slapping you in the face, Rogal?" - TTS Emperor.
@@liamhogan4369 "No."
- Rogal "Adorable" Dorn
I feel that, with proper mnestic treatment, he could be promoted to thaumiel, effectively making the laws of physics ironclad to reality benders.
Wait you're right. He has a set knowdoledge of how the current universe works, so anytime another reality bender alters it, he can "correct" it and basically render the other bender "grounded to reality" for containment
Only thing to worry about is when he makes mistakes on his subject, because even just a typo is enough to end the world as we know it
I also thought the same. With proper treatment and actual Laws of Physics training, He could be an observable-universe wide Reality Anchor.
No more unreliable SRAs
Heck, just get him to say that changing the laws of physics through anomalous or unnatural means is impossible. That might take care even of himself!
your assumption that his reality bending will overpower all others is a dangerous one. Mixing anomalys has anomalous results.
such a powerful cosmic force that anytime someone tries to warp reality he hits them with the unstoppable "nuh-uh."
I get the impression that the author wrote this as an inside joke about their really weird physics teacher
the author commented, and yes, he is based on their physics highschool teacher!
Thats a common phenomenon, we had a physics teacher who was a physicist not a teacher, so pretty much overqualified. He was brilliant at physics but very bad at teaching. If you didn’t want to do something that day you just had to ask him something about electromagnetic physics or anything related to scuba diving. He would go on to talk the whole lesson about nothing else. He also held his lectures in a calm silent tone just to burst out screaming and smash whatever was near him (full class of boys in puberty so it’s understandable). Then he continued his lecture as if nothing happened
@@stellyfins that's adorable, I hope they showed him!
Great one - though obsessive scientist note: the units of acceleration “ms-2” should be read as “metres per second squared” rather than “milliseconds minus 2”.
Just checked the article and it uses "ms^-2" which I think is reasonable to mistake for "milliseconds -2", "ms⁻²" would've been better but honestly I'd just have written it as "m/s²", "ms^-2" feels a bit lazy unless the articles are forced to not use Unicode
@@Imperial_Squid Even Unicode aside, HTML has supported arbitrary superscript formatting basically forever (20+ years), though things like wiki-markup aren't always consistent how/if they expose that support.
That said, the negative exponent form doesn't seem all that uncommon in my (admittedly limited) experience? I can definitely can see how it'd throw off someone not accustomed to it though, and I'm pretty sure this isn't the first time this sort of obscure technical notation has tripped Volgun into a misinterpretation.
@@SolarShado yeah the negative exponent form is definitely better in a "this is how a scientific group would write it" frame, I guess it's a small accessibility vs aesthetics decision at the end of the day, both are fine
**ERROR DETECTED**
**RESET PROTOCOL INITIATED**
**SIMULATION RESETTING....
....COMPLETE.
@@blondejohn525 LOL
"This reality bender can end the universe by misplacing a decimal point or forgetting a single symble in an equation....lets experiment with him!"
Another brilliant idea from a Foundation researcher.
To be fair, they were running these experiments within the simulation they have him stuck in, where only the simulation would be affected by his reality warping.
no, it really isn't brilliant
-O5 command
Plot twist: he DID end the universe. The reality containing the SCP Foundation was so thoroughly destroyed all that's left of it are inter-dimensional echoes manifesting as fiction.
symble 😊
Honestly, its not the worst idea they ever had. Which is kinda terrifying when you think about it
One Physics lecturer responded to queries, "You'll put it all together during module 13". Inevitably, there were 12 modules.
10:50 I hate to be "that guy" but gravitational acceleration is "meters per second squared" not "milliseconds minus two".
ya he changed it twice
Yeah I messed it up big time. I even knew it was wrong at the time. I just couldn’t find any reference. If only smart people like you guys were on my discord, haha
That is an M (meters) and S (Seconds) together, which multiply, but the S is also being powered by -2, so the equation essentially reads as m/s^2, which is the correct way to measure gravitational acceleration
Basically that physics teacher* accidentally missed a comma, so earth gravity was multiplied by 10.
@@TheVolgunYou changed the universe. Now everything is falling slow. Dropped a cup a couple hours and it still hasn't hit the ground
no you did fine the scp changed it twice in the story the equation was already messed up due to reality shifting stuff or something obviously @@TheVolgun
When the Sys-Admin gives you Admin privileges without telling you.
rm -rf /
Anyone else get the sense that the Foundation captured an errant or even senile god?
I'm starting to think that the GOC is right. This dude is too dangerous to let live
I wonder how badly things would go if he accidentally assumed pi was 22/7 instead of its real value?
I'm not a physics guy, so I'm not sure what that even means. But anything this guy says could be bad if wrong, sooooooo...., probably pretty bad. XD
Considering how often pi shows up across every aspect of maths, I’d imagine it’d be catastrophic
Geometry failure. Bye-bye Euclidian space
There's a bit in one of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels where someone builds a machine with wheels that have a "pie" of exactly 3. The thing ends up bending spacetime.
"'Subject instructed to divide by zero, super computer ceases operation immediately.' I really dont know what i thought was going to happen." That one got me
1:09 it says "below NEGATIVE 190 °C". I was just listening and I had to pause for a bit and come back to read it and have it played again to make sure... :D
Never has the phrase, "assume no air resistance," filled me with such dread.
same
I had to stop the video and laugh at Experiment 5 [divide by zero]. XD Not only the pure curiosity of "Fuck it, lets see what happens," but even the casual acknowledgment of "don't know why I expected something different" just laid me on my ass.
I appreciate the little nod to Professor Chronotis from “Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency” at 7:08; this SCP seems just like the sort of side-character that Douglas Adams would cook up in one of his novels…
Holy shit you just brought back one hell of a memory
That first incident with the frictionless car, oof
I like to imagine he once wrote a CV, thus altering reality to only include those details of himself which were on the CV, erasing most of his history and personality from existence.
This is a really neat Keter. I like how he’s way more deadly accidentally than any murder monster could ever hope to be.
When the idiot is always right... Truly, a terrifying premise.
Love how he just winged nuclear fusion, honestly he just seems like a pretty swell guy who has no clue how he's doing what he is which are some of my favorite SCPs. Shout out to the plague doctor lmao
What a fascinating SCP: a reality warper whose scientific accomplishments are all achieved by his governance over the universe, and who’s used to experiment with the universe’s limits, yielding censored results. That the part that really captivated me about this story; the idea that something so inexplicable can happen, that the resulting information is deemed unfit for consumption.
This SCP should not be Keter, it should be the esoteric class “Ein Sof” which is French for “esoteric” apparently. This basically means this particular SCP has to be constantly sedated to preserve the fabric of reality. This rare object class was used in Dr. Gray’s SCP-001 proposal which originally was posted on the French branch of the SCP wiki.
Would like to see the longer skips again. Great upload as always big guy.
REALITY BENDER REALITY BENDER REALITY BENDER
GOD I LOVE REALITY BENDING, GIVE ME ALL THE REALITY BENDERS AND MAGICIANS
Use a reality bend scroll.
Testicular torsion.
I love reality benders and the broken god
How Balkan ✨
@@ashutoshsethi6150 🤣
@@raynehebert9265Volgun could nail SCP 3999
I love that they stuck in a "divide by 0" meme. Ain't heard that in years.
MS^-2 is meant to be read as "meter per second squared". funky way of writing that tho. m/s^2 is way more obvious
Ah, I have a soft spot for reality benders who have no idea they're reality benders.
Ohhhh the professor missed a decimal, i thought that the professor wrote the units as milliseconds and i was confused why it had that effect. Also, at around 1:10 you forgot to say below *negative* 190 degrees celcius and i had to double take as to why they would keep a supercomputer so hot😂
Dude... 4769 literally has the power to gaslight the universe into thinking he's right! Lmao
Actually this made me think of something hilarious. For like an extra special donation or something after you say 'Class dismissed' you could call out someone like "Except for you [Blank]" and maybe just say they know why or something.
Btw ms^-2 isn't read "milisecond minus 2", but it's "meter per second squared" which is the unit for acceleration.
Unless the SCP actually meant it as milisecond-2 and which case we're way more screwed
My highschool physics teacher was so bad at her job that the class went from 30 students to like 3 because everybody straight up refused to keep doing the collage phd level physics homework she would give us with no explanation on how to actually do or understand any of it. We called it the hunger games class. There was a running bet to see who the last surviving student would be before they fired her.
That's how those programs are designed though. Not defending it. It's inconceivably stupid really, but welcome to the many core ironies of contemporary doctorate level academics.
i love how all the important data was expunged because the person who wrote the article didn't want to be wrong about the hypothetical results
It felt like Dr Hopper got his testing permission revoked after crashing another supercomputer through division by 0.
That s way too funny. LMAO
"We are all living in a simulation"
Its funny how my first thought upon learning of this scp’s abilities was “oh my god they can test every single scientific theory and prove them beyond a shadow of a doubt” and then the very first thing they do is ask him what would happen if the sun was replaced with a black hole, a hypothetical that’s been performed so many time’s its practically a fact, and it effectively confirms that his hypothetical models are accurate to what would actually happen in the universe. My god i would never stop asking him questions 😂
Seen a few people claim this isn't a Keter class SCP, and I feel it's due to them not realizing what the end means. It's stated that 4769 is remembering past simulations even after he is reset. This means that they can't contain him indefinitely without constantly changing how they reset him, resetting at a minimum, etc. He's not being contained by euclidian means anymore. They're having to think outside normal standards in order to ensure he stays sedated and under control.
This is really clever and eerie. I got major respect for the writter.
This man known as SCP-4769 though highly intelligent is also not mentally stable. A very dangeroues combination with someone who can bend reality as he can. Whoever came up with this story is to be commended. It would make a great Twilight Zone episode.
11:15 small correction, MS^-2 is still meters per second squared, not milliseconds. it can be rewritten as m/s^2. love this scp though, extremely fascinating
That last bit confirms, to me, what I thought would have them terminating this mess in the first place. Can't have him asking the question "what if we're all in a simulation."
Thanks for making all these 'educational' videos, they've been great to get friends who like ARGs to look into SCP lore
This article was actually really well written from a physics perspective, but one small comment is that if you asked a physicist what is a number decided my zero, they will probably just tell you infinity
It's both infinity and minus infinity at the same time because the right hand and left hand limits tend to different values, thus making lim(1/x) when x → 0 undefined.
I understand that, it’s just that most physicist I know would just say that it’s equal to infinity. Yes it’s undefined because it’s both plus or minutes infinity, but a physicist would just say infinity most of the time
@@PoseidonSon2002 You are right i was just having an "erm actually" moment lmao. I also usually say that it's infinity for the sake of simplicity
I think the author had a slight misunderstanding of chemical bonds, I don't think water molecules would split into composite parts even at near absolute zero. That was my main gripe with it though
As a math teacher I have to say we are to blame for this one. We usually make a big deal of the whole divide by zero error because students really want to for some reason. The only real problem is that It's undefined for euclidean mathematics. If you make a single statement defining it then not even computers have a problem. Like:
1/0 := lim(n->o) 1/n = ♾️
Then no problem.
Love these smaller SCPs, just interesting chaotic things. Great video
Ah yes, the most horrifying words that can ever be said about an SCP, but especially one of Keter classification:
"He's learning."
I feel like Dr. Hopper, and the Foundation in large, could easily provide 4769 with ample education and training to make him actually do his job correctly instead of doing this absolute gnarly excuse for "experiments", become an active member of the Foundation, like the girl with the camera and the Bus, and probably reclassified as Thaumiel.
4769 could easily become an Observable Universe-wide Reality Anchor, and with it:
1. are able to limit costs of using SRAs (they are known to not be very reliable after all)
2. Assisting on monitoring any reality bending actions
The thing is the guy IS already extremely well educated in his field. There is no level of continuing education that will ever be able to 100% eliminate the potential for plain and simple human error. This guy is literally a single rounding error or typo away from causing a K Class scenario every time he opens his mouth or writes anything down.
@@OverworkedITGuy He doesn't need training in physics... He needs psychological training and education in the concept of "Education" (It's a Thing... Majoring in Education)
All that typos, phasing out when spoken with and such? The Foundation can train him to be more focused, and more thorough.
Better yet, since the Foundation is already skirting Ethics by literally putting this guy on a Coma and running Computer Simulation on his head, why not just make sure he's loyal to the Foundation?
@@aribantala And again, none of that addresses the primary issue that a single typo or misplaced decimal from the guy makes reality unravel accidentally. THAT is the problem. The issue with 4769 isn't any perceived loyalty to the Foundation or anyone else. And it's not any issues with his teaching methods or non-physics related educational gaps. All it would take is a bad night's sleep or catching the flu, and one moment of brain fuzz while thinking about a physics equation, then BOOM the 3rd dimension no longer exists in our reality.
It's why they've got him in the simulation in the first place. So that his whoopsies don't unmake the real universe by accident. The experiments in the simulation did exactly what they were supposed to do, which was determine the extent of his ability and range to alter reality. Once they determined there was virtually no limit to it and that he can alter physics on a galactic to universal scale O5 put an end to the testing.
The bottom line, he's entirely too dangerous to just let roam free outside of anything other than "the Matrix". And to be honest, it's a hell of a lot more ethical and humane to have spent the resources and effort to create a Matrix level simulation just for him. Especially when simply keeping him in a dreamless medically induced coma (like has been done with other dangerous SSCPs) is infinitely easier and less prone to mechanical failure.
@@OverworkedITGuy "The Foundation can train him to make no more typos through the simulations"
"That doesn't help the typos"
🤨 Okay then, whatever suits you
@@aribantala You cannot train away human error. Even the best writers and spekaers in the world with photographic memory can still misstype on a keyboard or misspeak. And if he does so at the wrong time it´s bye bye universe. Frankly the safest thing they could do would be "terminating" him but they have chosen the most humane option amongst what they have avalible instead.
3:58
Calvin's mom: "I saw your teacher, Miss Wormwood, in the supermarket today. She said to say hi."
Calvin: "You saw Miss Wormwood?? She shops at the supermarket??"
Calvin's mom: "Well certainly. What did you think?"
Calvin: "I dunno... I kinda figured teachers slept in coffins all summer."
I find on interesting that he is a physics teacher, he apparently really just wants to be a physics teacher, Even if that means that he's terrible at it, so every student he's taught doesn't do well in his class apparently.
Are we just gonna ignore the cray-1 supercomputer in the background of the thumbnail? That was the fastest supercomputer of the time beating out the previous competition by an order of magnitude, plus they were based in Chippewa falls Wisconsin not far from my hometown...
This would turn my Civil Engineering classes into a nightmare if my professors could do anything similar.
Honestly, this Article turned out MUCH better than I thought it would! Usually, writers who venture into such Subjects lack the necessary Scientific Background to pull off their Idea.
This was a reasonable attempt at writing such an Article! Not the best, but quite good still.
This was a good one. Firstly thinking its a human with uncontrollable powers to change its surroundings to discovering that it has the ability to change the observable universe and reality itself to whatever it deems to be scientifically correct. If the guy states that the universe is in a state of collapse then the universe begins to collapse 💀
reminds me of when my physics teacher swapped sine and cosine and the math suddenly implied that gravity should be parallel to the ground
Imagine he dabbles in astrophysics and missed a decimal point...Or almost worse, misremembers a number and doesn't double-check.
Loved this one and your delivery of the text!! Was enthralled the whole watch through.
This is honestly how I feel in physics when my teacher pulls some crazy algebra then puts already small numbers into scientific notation.
Ah! so that was my professor when I was trying to get my physics degree! that explains why I was great at physics so I decided to study physics then I sucked so bad at physics while studying physics and why I am now great at physics again now that I am studying something else because I had a mental breakdown after feeling like I lost the "Good at physics and math" part of myself :D!
Just a quick note: the units of the gravitational constant are meters per second per second (m/s/s), or meters per second squared, which simplifies to ms^(-2)
I looked forward to seeing this right now !! Let's go YOOOOO!! I never get tired of this ngl,and speaking of bend reality it gets you right somewhere !
"Area of effect: Observable universe"
Fucking hell dude, okay
I can’t express how happy I get seeing a new upload. I’ve listened to all of your uploads more than twice. I quite enjoy them.
Reminds me of a calculus professor who we caught regularly making arithmetic errors in class. Stopped going to that class, and still got a B on the final.
"milliseconds minus 2" it hurts
I was looking for this comment
listening to you read 98.0ms^-2 as "98 milliseconds -2" hurts my ears
Understandable. I googled it but couldn’t find any help in saying it.
@@TheVolgun I wouldn't worry about it, but the nerds will know off hand that acceleration gets expressed as meters per second per second, aka meters per second squared.
@@TheVolgun it's 8th grade-level stuff, negative exponents are equivalent to the inverse of the base raised to the power of the opposite sign, so s^-2 is equivalent to 1/s^2, so ms^-2 = m * 1/s^2 making it m/s^2 - "meters per second squared"
@@CordialBuffoon isn't it like 8th grade-level stuff or sth
@@random6033 If you live in a rich school district sure, where I live many kids graduate without literacy let alone numeracy
A physics teacher that bends reality anytime he teaches people
Loved the overt dig at sustainable nuclear fusion.
Your accent. Glorious.
Bro love.
I couldn't Irish the same.
College and Uni experience suggests there are many of these SCPs in similar roles.
This was 200% written by someone mocking their physics teacher to share with their class.
I picture this SCP as an alternate universe version of Raj Koothrappali from the Big Bang Theory
The only reason not to terminate this one is a far off hipotetical chance of having him overruling some very specific thing in a very specific containment breach or other kind of interaction between the Foundation and a GOI or another anomaly not yet contained.
I love this site. Nothing better when heading to bed than a good soothing Volgun Playlist.
16:15 im bot exactly sure what they expected to happen here.. it not like you can just create a new math.
It is hysterical that the vast majority of this guy's problems would be solved, and he would be far easier to contain, if he were more competent at his professed job.
In fact, if he was more competent, he would actually be useful for containing other reality benders as he can anchor the laws of physics to what his knowdoledge about it is, preventing others from altering it
And thus would be thaumiel instead of keter
All the students who got amnestics definitely failed physics
10:44 it's not 98.0 milliseconds -2. It's 98.0 m/s (meters per second) ^ -2 (to the power of minus two)
I just love that the doctor was like for shits and giggles divide by 0 juudt to see what happens
You know him not noticing or being able to understand that he changed something could be his mind trying to protect itself.
I am a physics teacher. I couldn't click on this fast enough 😅
After listening, yes... This is accurate
Haven't been this early in a long time
You think they'd know better than to fuck with the laws of physics
Also damn "He's Learning" sounded so ominous
That simulation won't hold for long at this rate.
I had a physics teacher back in highschool that had a personal beef with the element Francium. This dude hated it with comical levels of passion. It's so unstable it almost immediately disappears, it only ever shows up from radioactive decay in miniscule quantities, he had a whole laundry list of reasons it was a "stupid element." I hope that guy's doing well, he made it fun to learn.
What the hell was their plan if the test didn't end in the simulation but also affected the real world?
He kinda sounds like a Dr. Wondertainment creation for children's education lol
reality benders my beloved... they're always funny. Great work as always!
Let's go!!! New extra credits anyone? (Loved this episode, thank you ❤)
Bruh of course SCP 4769’s initial error was ignoring friction on a road with cars. Just lets hope no one tells him about spherical cows
Sounds like the inspiration of this story is a narccisstic teacher who could never be wrong even when proven so time and time again, looking at you Mr Davidson
“No i did not spell that wrong, the dictionary did, let me fix that, ah yes, now im right” 😂😂
imagine accidentally obliterating the universe because you made a typo