"I'm not rude,I'm just old" Thank you for this ,made my day ! Nice teaching of Topological Quantum Computing....we will be building more upon that idea.Sometimes science can jump the void between provable lab results and the intricate ways of nature.When equipment and data can verify a theory it is scientifically accepted .Sometimes a creature,a human is able to grasp concepts and just not be able to communicate,state them in a currently available scientific pattern.They might also not be under the pressures of sponsors,funding to interpret things sterilized. Freedom has brought forth many later proven ideas, pattern even inventions I applaud you at being able to walk the balance beams between many concepts, ballet slippers of politeness??
Dedication to politeness really only benefits people with power. It wasn't a Civil Debate than ended slavery, anf it took riots to help end things like child labor, 12-hour workdays, and some of the most extreme ways that black people have been oppressed. Even the gay rights movement started with a riot. As long as you aren't being intentionally rude or disrespectful to people who are already being systematically oppressed, don't ever let anyone make you feel guilty for being rude
@@justinwatson1510 i guess we can still afford to make some effort to be not rude but to not be toxic/mean. Sometimes being straightforward can be misconstrued as rude. Being rude is only bad if it's toxic and mean.
I just wanted to share that a few channels that I subscribe to I hit the like button the moment the video starts playing. This is one of those channels. I already know it's going to be good without question. Thanks Sabine for your constant clear, detailed and intelligent explanation of current science news!
The findings of that paper don't suggest that trees don't communicate through fungal networks, just that they don't trade resources through them, which isn't something that was near as widely accepted. As the evidence currently stands, trees indeed do likely communicate through fungal networks and the same can be said for intra-fungal communication.
That smoke ring inset video was so fricken cool that I completely missed the fact that the topological computing explanation was unedited gobbledygook! Sneaky Sabine...
I wish I could like a video twice, Sabine. Your news videos are always a highlight to my day, and you just have the best kind of dry humour. Great job as always!
Fantastic video, it amazes me how you can be so fluid, knowledgeable, and witty at the same time! Thank you for your content, this deserves many more views
@@baileescott401 No, it is not bigoted at all, but you are a Radical Gender Ideology militant, so of course you are incapable of understanding simple scientific facts.
@@baileescott401 no, it's a legitimate question from a researcher's perspective, although your phrasing wasn't really accurate to the subject of that video. There was no question about the existence of trans people in general not being a fad, but rather if such a subset exists among the cases of trans adolescents. It was an interesting and beneficial subject to explore. That said, she did a very poor job of it, from what I've been able to gather. Shoddy research overall, which is the only such case I've found in her videos so far. She deserves criticism for this failing, but it's also wrong to label it as intentionally transphobic or dismiss the rest of her body of work over it. People doing so are judging the video, and Sabine's points and shoddy research, through the lens of a culture war she genuinely seems to have no stake in. It strikes me as unhelpful and misguided, and might weaken the more legitimate objections one ought to have to her trans video.
Sabine's overt excitement about advances in topological quantum really gripped me ! Yes, I am being ironig calling her "overt", but I do mean her presentation transported the excitement well.
Excellent video, Sabine! I always look forward to your science updates related to quantum computing. Thank you so much for this awesome weekly update !!!
13:40 The fix is letting kids out of the house, instead of having them confined to a classroom for 6+ hours a day and then several more hours every day at home doing homework. No lens will fix the problem, because it's a developmental issue in the eye caused by insufficient daylight exposure at an early age. Different lens designs may worsen or improve eyesight by weakening or strengthening the muscles in the eye, but that's a purely symptomatic treatment as the underlying structure remains the same.
Thank you for your fantastic science channel Sabine. I am sorry I have to correct you though. Niels henrik Abel was not Danish but Norwegian, born in Nedstrand, not far from Stavanger in Norway in 1802 and dead in Froland also in Norway in 1829.
Wow, thanks, Sabine! This episode must have required lots of practice to get all the pithy scientific names and concepts, etc., right. I appreciate the effort it takes to produce all the content and then present it so well. It was full of tongue twisting sentences and paragraphs this week! For me, many were brain-twisting as well, so I use the closed captions. At 70, I use the cc function for most video anyway. Thanks again for all you do.
Dear Mrs. Hossenfelder I appreciate how your confidence keeps getting stronger with every new episode - along with the aspect of comedy :-) Your little puns make me pause to think and make me smile. Thank you 🙂 BTW, how much use is a spherical mirror, really? Parabolic mirrors do focus rays into a focal point, spherical mirrors don't...
Thanks for the info on Kimberlite Volcanic eruptions. I've been fascinated by them for decades, they are, by far, the most violent Volcanic eruptions that we currently know of. Calderic super Volcanic eruptions may fling a lot of material about, but if that same volume of material was ejected Kimberlite style it would deflect the earth's orbit in a very easily measured way. And, of course, diamonds .
Wow! Sabine you will likely soon hit 1M subscribers. Congratulations to you, success undoubtedly deserved. Thank you for keeping me informed on the latest in science news.
Just an anecdote but Oak trees do connect root systems. It's how Oak Wilt is transmitted. The nitidulid beetle is a carrier for Oak Wilt fungus that likes to eat the sap and nutrients from exposed Oak trees that have been pruned at the wrong time of the year when those insects aren't dormant. Pretty much from early Spring to about July in Central Texas, you're not advised to prune your Oak tree, giving it exposed wounds that would could potentially attract the bug that's also a carrier of the oak wilt disease. If one tree gets the disease, it's root systems will easily spread the disease to neighboring Oak trees whose root systems are connected to it. When arborist have to deal with the worst cases of Oak Wilt, they're often times advised to clear not only the infected tree but all oak trees within a 100 foot radius of the nearest infected tree, if only to suppress the potential spread to greater populations of oak trees nearby. This just one example, likely of many that does demonstrate trees do connect with one another which can be beneficial but can also have potentially negative consequences in pathogen spread too. From an evolutionary standpoint, it makes sense to me that trees would cooperate with each other besides nutrient transmission. More trees that are alive, even evergreen ones, that survive also shed leaves and create duff on the forest floor that will later break down into soil. The more trees you have alive doing that, the richer build up of soil over time. Also the more root systems in the soil, the more stable it'll be, making it less prone to erosion, so when the next big gusty thunderstorm comes and flooding begins, those trees collectively are probably more likely to survive than if alone as is their soil structure they grow in. Think like when laying out concrete and you insert rebar to make the concrete less prone to cracking over time. Those connected root systems are like rebar for the soil.
There are thousands of species of plants, some of them don't like each other. Others only communicate under certain specific conditions. And there are a lot of different techniques, some of which no human has ever studied. There are even cases where a single tree sends out runners that pop up new trunks. It looks like a forest but is actually just one tree. Also some species only communicate with fungus, while others only communicate With bees, and only while flowering of course. Certain species of trees remain uncomunicative their entire lives unless they survived A forest fire recently. Some trees use chemical signals, others use electrical fields, while yet others Use shiny waxy leaves to reflect sunlight at each other in complex patterns. Some species can send roots into dead rotten logs and read the life history Of their fallen comrades, by tasting the variations of mineral concentrations Within its ring structures. All of the articles I have read on the subject, vastly oversimplified It. Some species even "taste" pollen from other species and integrate fragments of Genetic code. For instance, some species of Witch grass have picked up Gene fragments from over 100 other species.
A combination of Anthropomorphism and oversimplification? Along the same vein I was thinking it would be awesome to sample a groups DNA as they age to see the changes from interaction with viruses etc.
I've seen where forest biologists used powerful hoses to wash away the soil to expose the root systems of two trees (I believe of the same species, Alder?). The well established mature tree was on a higher, more beneficial tier. The other smaller tree grew a few feet lower in elevation, in a less advantageous position. In analyzing their individual root systems, you could easily trace where a thick root from the mature tree had bumped up against a separate one originating from the lower tree. At the point of contact, you could clearly see how the roots touched, entangled and eventually melded into one another, creating one continuous root. There was a noticeable big knob or bulb that had formed where the roots had actually combined. I didn't know that was possible, but nature knows, and often astounds. I don't think it's a big leap to imagine tree sap being shared/exchanged with the less advantaged tree during a difficult environmental period.. I'd like to think of it as a nutrient rich transfusion line, or like an umbilical cord, but one that formed only after the trees had grown independently. Otherwise, why combine?
@@Rayceemon Combining root networks saves you from having to grow your own, and would significantly expand your resource pool should the other tree die for whatever reason.
I cant believe i didnt find u till a few months ago. U are legit one of the best science channels on the planet hands down and ive loving these news videos u started recently. Keep them UP!!!❤❤
@JohnH1 Microsoft did write and distribute one of the earliest pieces of malware. It was called the 'concept virus' and was sent out to customers and support techs. A lot of miscreants jumped on that bandwagon once Microsoft had demonstrated how easy it was to do.
16:00 if you haven't seen the movie Contact and are interested in this, it's super sci fi and not at all real but Jodie Foster driving around the desert is dope
Didnt expect to hear about myopia management in one of these, they've been about for a couple months (at least with my company) and so far they seem good time will tell!
Imagine going to dinner with Sabine, it would be so interesting, She might get bored but I would love to hear her talk about her life and how she got into physics and what she dreams about and a millions other questions about all sorts of things I'd love to hear her opinion on She reminds me of Richard Feynman, in his love for science and humour and bringing the depths of science to everyday folks
I have read that the very large increase in myopia in Asia is due to so many children now being born in cities and not spending enough time outside looking into the far distance. Especially in countries where there is severe pressure on children to achieve academically. A case of use it or lose it. Perhaps, letting these children play more outside and spend more time in places such as parks might be a better solution to avoid them damaging their vision in the first place. And maybe make better adjusted human beings at the same time.
11:33 It does seem like the inconsistencies is getting worse. One of the things we could ponder is whether in that time the gravitational constant was ever so slightly different, making the critical mass for forming supernova different. The only other option is that there was a pull from other masses in the universe that change the way material aggregated into stars and shifted the balance of where masses of binaries would go. Its possible that dark matter was more concentrated in galaxies at that time and the dark matter was influencing/redirecting matter. One thing that we may not be considereing in the early universe is that the lack of non-volatiles in protoplanetary disk meant that more matter would accrete in stars and less matter in planets, causing planets to have less of a tug and larger gas giants more likely form farther away. Indeed even relatively small amounts of mineral surrounded by gassy outer layers coukd see those layers blown of once the star reached peak intensity, leaving essentially a large asreoid behind. This model would favor the outward motion of gas and the formation of more jupiter like planets farther from its star.
It's Hubble-Lemaître law, hence Hubble-Lemaître constant. Lemaître was the first to derive it (and publish it). Hubble made it more precise courtesy of better data.
As someone with lifelong severe myopia, I am convinced that staring at unmoving objects - like screens - is the source of myopia. Start setting up environments where your babies and children have to track moving objects - like rolling a ball to them when they are young and playing catch or ping pong or the like as they develop. Can't hurt and I believe it will help a lot!
You summarize everything I want to know cleanly concisely and as quickly as possible. _ with the right amount of humor. I'm so happy I found your Channel!
Sabine - could you talk about the future of quantum computing when we run out of helium? Are there other ways to achieve low noise quantum computing without supercooling with liqHe?
5:42, diamonds. Dissolve aluminum carbide in molten LiH with about 5 ppm boron. Electrolyze to grow diamond as with methane-hydrogen-argon plasma (and a trace of methanol to erode non-diamond carbon), but at 500× the density at the electrode double-layer. UV illumination to confirm. Imagine a square meter of electrode (both sides!) in a slit pot - a tonne/day of product. (Safety footnotes omitted).
It's certainly more interesting for finding nickel and rare earths - to my knowledge, attempts to lab grow those haven't seen much success. Diamonds? Yeah, we can make shiny coal. Forever is pretty short when you set it on fire.
I've found trees of the same species physically attached by their roots. One little stump, under a driveway for nearly 20 years, was being kept alive by the fusion of its roots to neighboring trees. I've seen this with wild black cherries, sassafras, maples, and several species of oaks.
Some species of trees make new shoots for the roots. So they clone them-self. So it's not two trees that have fused there roots. It's one tree that have created more stems. Plants in general don't have any clear individuals so it's hard to say what is a tree or plant and count them.
The only thing about mother trees I can say is that one tree can provide shade for soil to retain moisture as well as some limited protection from wind.
It was Henrietta Swan Leavitt's idea to use the Cepheids as standard candles. Hubble said many times that she deserved the Nobel Prize for her research.
For the record: Niels Henrik Abel was Norwegian -- not Danish (or Swedish for that matter). It is somewhat depressing to see such a mistake one week ahead of the 2023 Abel Price award ceremony (in Oslo).
@@Thomas-gk42 This is wrong. He was born in the kingdom of "Denmark and Norway", but he was only 12 years old when that union was dissolved. To my knowledge, he had no connection to Denmark whatsoever.
I just realized that making this claim on the national day of Norway was perhaps meant as a joke -- or maybe a way to "increase engagement". Oh well...
@@ivarru haha, no, random. I'm just a historical interested german, who is obviously not informed good enough about scandinavian history, to make claims about it in TH-cam comments. All the best 😂
Hey is there such a thing as a flexible diamond? I worked at a casting company and they used diamond embedded sanding devices to remove casting irregularities and connection tabs. They were dangerous to handle; the sanding materials and the castings. So my brain just pictured a tube of some material with embedded diamond dust of various sizes. And then naturally, my next thought was, "is it possible to make a flexible diamond?". It doesn't seem possible without "phase shifting" the materials to liquid or gas or gel. Anyway that answers itself really - but still. My brain suggests there is a way to hold diamonds in a state like carbon fiber where a thin mesh mixed with another material should allow it to be "flexible" enough to use for surfaces, without the cost of real diamonds. Imagine not needing gold or stainless steel for space travel. Imagine a space ship with very tough and forgiving skin. More down to earth; imagine housing with paper thin walls but sound, quake, water and fire proof. Imagine transportation where the entire vehicle is reflective and transparent. Or windows or submarines for deep sea research. It would probably be too heavy for general flight but we have other materials for that. Sorry for the rabbit hole.
Could the anomalies in brightness of far away stars (and therefore the proposed expansion rate) be due to curvature of the universe? If the universe is positively curved, then far away stars would have higher brightness than we would expect from their distance to the Earth.
The Sequoia and giant Redwoods in California can reach amazing heights, but not on their own. They tie their roots together to withstand the winds and don't have that kind of strength on their own.
Regardless of the shape of the curvature of space/time, instead of being smooth, could it have an intrinsic texture, not created by the presence of mass? If so, then in the early stages of the universe, these undulations would create areas where mass would concentrate, eventually forming galaxies, and other areas where it would be dispersed. For example: Our galaxy may have formed around one such dimple on the space/time surface. Assuming this texturing is fixed on the space/time surface, then it's still present, providing a gravity-like effect that allows outer stars to rotate around the galaxy faster than the mass of the galaxy accounts for. This provides an alternative to the presence of dark matter to explain this. Thank you for your time.
The complex organization and assumption of universal cooperation by fungus implied by the mother tree theory always struck me as silly for two reasons: Firstly, given the amount of harmful or parasitic fungus competing for space with other fungus, not all fungi would be on board with this system and only a very closely co-evolved tree/fungus pair even might develop this level of symbiosis, likely by the the fungus killing the roots of any other species of plant that got close to it, but perhaps by each filling a role for the other. The world's biggest lichen. Secondly; complex emergent systems can exist, and I'd expect a grown tree to shed excess nitrogen to the fringes of it's root system while sucking up every bit close because it's important for new growth and the tree wants it's children to grow - but not too close - but that's not an interconnected network. That's trees caring about the success of their offspring and a system that would ONLY help their offspring being too complex and costly to evolve in a thing with literally no brain. It's cool, but it's no "wood wide web" - hippies always say they love the forest, but they never seem to realize that a real forest is filled with things trying to kill each other for survival. That extends to plants and fungus as well, just a bit slower.
I think you have the most interesting approach to reporting on science on the web. Many thanks for that. Recently Cosmologists have come up with (yet) another "Big Bang" theory which includes a sudden 'great expansion'. Tell me, what happens to Time when you 'expand' it?
Thanks!
"I'm not rude,I'm just old"
Thank you for this ,made my day !
Nice teaching of Topological Quantum Computing....we will be building more upon that idea.Sometimes science can jump the void between provable lab results and the intricate ways of nature.When equipment and data can verify a theory it is scientifically accepted .Sometimes a creature,a human is able to grasp concepts and just not be able to communicate,state them in a currently available scientific pattern.They might also not be under the pressures of sponsors,funding to interpret things sterilized.
Freedom has brought forth many later proven ideas, pattern even inventions I applaud you at being able to walk the balance beams between many concepts, ballet slippers of politeness??
Dedication to politeness really only benefits people with power. It wasn't a Civil Debate than ended slavery, anf it took riots to help end things like child labor, 12-hour workdays, and some of the most extreme ways that black people have been oppressed. Even the gay rights movement started with a riot. As long as you aren't being intentionally rude or disrespectful to people who are already being systematically oppressed, don't ever let anyone make you feel guilty for being rude
“I’m not rude, I am just rich enough I don’t have placate to irrational stupidity” - could/should be a possible retort.
We feel called out.
@@justinwatson1510 i guess we can still afford to make some effort to be not rude but to not be toxic/mean. Sometimes being straightforward can be misconstrued as rude. Being rude is only bad if it's toxic and mean.
I am so happy that I can watch Sabina’s videos, truly happy
I just wanted to share that a few channels that I subscribe to I hit the like button the moment the video starts playing. This is one of those channels. I already know it's going to be good without question. Thanks Sabine for your constant clear, detailed and intelligent explanation of current science news!
Ditto.
Ja, danke sehr; sie haben mir auch sehr geholfen (aber ich will lieber noch in der Mathematik verloren bleiben ❤)
I agree 👍
I used to agree with you, until she questioned the legitimacy of Trans people's existence
She's actually reliably incorrect when she speaks out of her field
The findings of that paper don't suggest that trees don't communicate through fungal networks, just that they don't trade resources through them, which isn't something that was near as widely accepted. As the evidence currently stands, trees indeed do likely communicate through fungal networks and the same can be said for intra-fungal communication.
I love these news videos - and i always love the phonecalls.
That smoke ring inset video was so fricken cool that I completely missed the fact that the topological computing explanation was unedited gobbledygook! Sneaky Sabine...
The top science information channel on TH-cam, and possibly anywhere!
Thank you, Sabine!
Well, thanks for the tip with Anton Petrov and most of all: the OP is right in my opinion. Thank you, Sabine!
I wish I could like a video twice, Sabine.
Your news videos are always a highlight to my day, and you just have the best kind of dry humour. Great job as always!
Sabine's hair is different every week. Does it accord with Zipf's Law? Chaos? Or is it random? I don't know what I'm talking about.
It’s in a state of super position that collapses in to a different hair style ever week.
I've tried spraying it, but that only made it worse 😅
I'm going with chaos theory. 😛
@@SabineHossenfelder Your ditzy little blonde friend had the right idea, you oughta bring her back.
Wonderful hair 😅
I'm 79 and I use whatever I can to understand the modern world, thanks for helping.
Another great video! I love your sense of humour too!
Fantastic video, it amazes me how you can be so fluid, knowledgeable, and witty at the same time! Thank you for your content, this deserves many more views
The phone calls from the kid and ChatGPT made me laugh out loud! Your delivery is just so perfect for this kind of humor.
"Who taught you to laugh‽" has to be the most menacing joke today!
It always feels good watching your Videos, Thank you very much for your great work!
I used to agree, until she made a video asking if Trans people's existence is a fad among teenagers. Isn't that a bit bigoted?
@@baileescott401 No, it is not bigoted at all, but you are a Radical Gender Ideology militant, so of course you are incapable of understanding simple scientific facts.
@@baileescott401 it's a disease
@Pero Ren chino maybe it's neither bigoted nor a disease?
@@baileescott401 no, it's a legitimate question from a researcher's perspective, although your phrasing wasn't really accurate to the subject of that video. There was no question about the existence of trans people in general not being a fad, but rather if such a subset exists among the cases of trans adolescents. It was an interesting and beneficial subject to explore.
That said, she did a very poor job of it, from what I've been able to gather. Shoddy research overall, which is the only such case I've found in her videos so far. She deserves criticism for this failing, but it's also wrong to label it as intentionally transphobic or dismiss the rest of her body of work over it. People doing so are judging the video, and Sabine's points and shoddy research, through the lens of a culture war she genuinely seems to have no stake in. It strikes me as unhelpful and misguided, and might weaken the more legitimate objections one ought to have to her trans video.
It's impressive she knows exactly the right time to record for the phone to ring during the taping
I am impressed that you could say all that with a straight face.
Fascinating material! Thanks for bringing it to us, Sabine.
Once again, it has been a great week for the news. Thank you, Sabine.
Sabine's overt excitement about advances in topological quantum really gripped me ! Yes, I am being ironig calling her "overt", but I do mean her presentation transported the excitement well.
Excellent video, Sabine! I always look forward to your science updates related to quantum computing. Thank you so much for this awesome weekly update !!!
Thanks!
13:40 The fix is letting kids out of the house, instead of having them confined to a classroom for 6+ hours a day and then several more hours every day at home doing homework.
No lens will fix the problem, because it's a developmental issue in the eye caused by insufficient daylight exposure at an early age.
Different lens designs may worsen or improve eyesight by weakening or strengthening the muscles in the eye, but that's a purely symptomatic treatment as the underlying structure remains the same.
I really like the week news format.
Thank you for your fantastic science channel Sabine. I am sorry I have to correct you though. Niels henrik Abel was not Danish but Norwegian, born in Nedstrand, not far from Stavanger in Norway in 1802 and dead in Froland also in Norway in 1829.
These are so good Sabine, absolutely love it!
Awesome show, Sabine!!!
Wow, thanks, Sabine! This episode must have required lots of practice to get all the pithy scientific names and concepts, etc., right. I appreciate the effort it takes to produce all the content and then present it so well. It was full of tongue twisting sentences and paragraphs this week! For me, many were brain-twisting as well, so I use the closed captions. At 70, I use the cc function for most video anyway. Thanks again for all you do.
i just frigging adore you! Thank you for existing!
Dear Mrs. Hossenfelder I appreciate how your confidence keeps getting stronger with every new episode - along with the aspect of comedy :-) Your little puns make me pause to think and make me smile. Thank you 🙂
BTW, how much use is a spherical mirror, really? Parabolic mirrors do focus rays into a focal point, spherical mirrors don't...
I guess that they will add a correcting lens. An antispherical abberation lens. Hang on.... they already did that for Hubble.
The imagination and creativity of the human mind never ceases to amaze me. Thank you Sabine for bringing these instances to my attention.
From 1:14 to 1:20 I don't think I heard a word you said because of the amazing smoke ring effect on the screen!
The wood wide web.. I actually laughed out loud. Genius.
That ChatGPT bit had me cracking up; thanks!
😂 I love the sound of laughing
Thanks for the info on Kimberlite Volcanic eruptions. I've been fascinated by them for decades, they are, by far, the most violent Volcanic eruptions that we currently know of. Calderic super Volcanic eruptions may fling a lot of material about, but if that same volume of material was ejected Kimberlite style it would deflect the earth's orbit in a very easily measured way. And, of course, diamonds .
Wow! Sabine you will likely soon hit 1M subscribers. Congratulations to you, success undoubtedly deserved. Thank you for keeping me informed on the latest in science news.
Just an anecdote but Oak trees do connect root systems. It's how Oak Wilt is transmitted. The nitidulid beetle is a carrier for Oak Wilt fungus that likes to eat the sap and nutrients from exposed Oak trees that have been pruned at the wrong time of the year when those insects aren't dormant. Pretty much from early Spring to about July in Central Texas, you're not advised to prune your Oak tree, giving it exposed wounds that would could potentially attract the bug that's also a carrier of the oak wilt disease. If one tree gets the disease, it's root systems will easily spread the disease to neighboring Oak trees whose root systems are connected to it. When arborist have to deal with the worst cases of Oak Wilt, they're often times advised to clear not only the infected tree but all oak trees within a 100 foot radius of the nearest infected tree, if only to suppress the potential spread to greater populations of oak trees nearby. This just one example, likely of many that does demonstrate trees do connect with one another which can be beneficial but can also have potentially negative consequences in pathogen spread too. From an evolutionary standpoint, it makes sense to me that trees would cooperate with each other besides nutrient transmission. More trees that are alive, even evergreen ones, that survive also shed leaves and create duff on the forest floor that will later break down into soil. The more trees you have alive doing that, the richer build up of soil over time. Also the more root systems in the soil, the more stable it'll be, making it less prone to erosion, so when the next big gusty thunderstorm comes and flooding begins, those trees collectively are probably more likely to survive than if alone as is their soil structure they grow in. Think like when laying out concrete and you insert rebar to make the concrete less prone to cracking over time. Those connected root systems are like rebar for the soil.
Her chat with chatGPT made my day 😀
There are thousands of species of plants, some of them don't like each other.
Others only communicate under certain specific conditions.
And there are a lot of different techniques, some of which no human has ever studied.
There are even cases where a single tree sends out runners that pop up new trunks.
It looks like a forest but is actually just one tree.
Also some species only communicate with fungus, while others only communicate
With bees, and only while flowering of course.
Certain species of trees remain uncomunicative their entire lives unless they survived
A forest fire recently.
Some trees use chemical signals, others use electrical fields, while yet others
Use shiny waxy leaves to reflect sunlight at each other in complex patterns.
Some species can send roots into dead rotten logs and read the life history
Of their fallen comrades, by tasting the variations of mineral concentrations
Within its ring structures. All of the articles I have read on
the subject, vastly oversimplified It.
Some species even "taste" pollen from other species and integrate fragments of
Genetic code. For instance, some species of Witch grass have picked up
Gene fragments from over 100 other species.
They use sound too. Its incredibly complicated, even more so than you mentioned, and the research has barely scratched the surface.
A combination of Anthropomorphism and oversimplification? Along the same vein I was thinking it would be awesome to sample a groups DNA as they age to see the changes from interaction with viruses etc.
@@deltalima6703 So you can't say there is no sound if no one is there to hear it?
I've seen where forest biologists used powerful hoses to wash away the soil
to expose
the root systems of two trees (I believe of the same species, Alder?).
The well established mature tree was on a higher, more beneficial tier. The other smaller tree
grew a few feet lower in elevation, in a less advantageous position.
In analyzing their individual root systems, you could easily trace where a thick root from
the mature tree had bumped up against a separate one originating from the lower tree.
At the point of contact, you could clearly see how the roots touched, entangled and
eventually melded into one another, creating one continuous root. There was a noticeable
big knob or bulb that had formed where the roots had actually combined.
I didn't know that was possible, but nature knows, and often astounds.
I don't think it's a big leap to imagine tree sap being shared/exchanged with the less
advantaged tree during a difficult environmental period.. I'd like to think of it
as a nutrient rich transfusion line, or like an umbilical cord, but one that formed
only after the trees had grown independently. Otherwise, why combine?
@@Rayceemon Combining root networks saves you from having to grow your own, and would significantly expand your resource pool should the other tree die for whatever reason.
I cant believe i didnt find u till a few months ago.
U are legit one of the best science channels on the planet hands down and ive loving these news videos u started recently.
Keep them UP!!!❤❤
Love your channel Sabine. I’m allergic to math, but in love with science, and you bring it together beautifully. Love your wicked sense of humor.
Thanks a bunch, Sabine! 😊
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
But without youtube I would never have met you Sabine. Love you.
Only if you have their seed phrase.
hahaha
Phormerly Chucks
"It's working...just not at Microsoft"
Pretty much sums up Microsoft as a company.
I thought it summed up Bill Gates genitalia, as a man. 'Micro-soft', and not working.
Microsoft has performed its job with perfection. What do you think its job is?
@JohnH1 Microsoft did write and distribute one of the earliest pieces of malware. It was called the 'concept virus' and was sent out to customers and support techs. A lot of miscreants jumped on that bandwagon once Microsoft had demonstrated how easy it was to do.
finally my major in underwater basketweaving is coming into use.
16:00 if you haven't seen the movie Contact and are interested in this, it's super sci fi and not at all real but Jodie Foster driving around the desert is dope
Didnt expect to hear about myopia management in one of these, they've been about for a couple months (at least with my company) and so far they seem good time will tell!
Imagine going to dinner with Sabine, it would be so interesting,
She might get bored but I would love to hear her talk about her life and how she got into physics and what she dreams about and a millions other questions about all sorts of things I'd love to hear her opinion on
She reminds me of Richard Feynman, in his love for science and humour and bringing the depths of science to everyday folks
😂 love the phone calls ❤❤❤ ❤
Smart, informative, and fun. Already loving this channel. Thank you for sharing!
thx for the info and nice way to bring it!!
I have read that the very large increase in myopia in Asia is due to so many children now being born in cities and not spending enough time outside looking into the far distance. Especially in countries where there is severe pressure on children to achieve academically.
A case of use it or lose it.
Perhaps, letting these children play more outside and spend more time in places such as parks might be a better solution to avoid them damaging their vision in the first place. And maybe make better adjusted human beings at the same time.
11:33 It does seem like the inconsistencies is getting worse.
One of the things we could ponder is whether in that time the gravitational constant was ever so slightly different, making the critical mass for forming supernova different. The only other option is that there was a pull from other masses in the universe that change the way material aggregated into stars and shifted the balance of where masses of binaries would go. Its possible that dark matter was more concentrated in galaxies at that time and the dark matter was influencing/redirecting matter.
One thing that we may not be considereing in the early universe is that the lack of non-volatiles in protoplanetary disk meant that more matter would accrete in stars and less matter in planets, causing planets to have less of a tug and larger gas giants more likely form farther away. Indeed even relatively small amounts of mineral surrounded by gassy outer layers coukd see those layers blown of once the star reached peak intensity, leaving essentially a large asreoid behind.
This model would favor the outward motion of gas and the formation of more jupiter like planets farther from its star.
"It uses gravitational lensing, but not in the way you're used to it".
(Blush.) Why thank you. I don't think I've ever been so over-estimated.
It's Hubble-Lemaître law, hence Hubble-Lemaître constant. Lemaître was the first to derive it (and publish it). Hubble made it more precise courtesy of better data.
Aliens have such a long lifespan that communications are sent only once a year - which saves on power & gossip
As someone with lifelong severe myopia, I am convinced that staring at unmoving objects - like screens - is the source of myopia. Start setting up environments where your babies and children have to track moving objects - like rolling a ball to them when they are young and playing catch or ping pong or the like as they develop. Can't hurt and I believe it will help a lot!
If nothing else it will help develop their hand eye coordination.
"You taught you to laugh??" - I chuckled, then got scared
lol
You summarize everything I want to know cleanly concisely and as quickly as possible. _ with the right amount of humor. I'm so happy I found your Channel!
I feel like there was a missed opportunity when the fluidic space came up for some kind of joke involving the Borg and Species 8472.
As always, it is soothing to know that expansion with age is a universal phenomenon. Makes me feel better my personal expansion measurements.
Thank you for your work.
Do you have any video about solid state batteries? 😅 greetings
Thanks Sabine for another eloquently and amusingly presented install of current science news
Absolutely fascinating thank you 😊 ❤
3:30 Omg, TH-cams video compression hates leaves in the wind!
Sabine - could you talk about the future of quantum computing when we run out of helium? Are there other ways to achieve low noise quantum computing without supercooling with liqHe?
13:00 I'm old enough to admit i had to watch this twice
5:42, diamonds. Dissolve aluminum carbide in molten LiH with about 5 ppm boron. Electrolyze to grow diamond as with methane-hydrogen-argon plasma (and a trace of methanol to erode non-diamond carbon), but at 500× the density at the electrode double-layer. UV illumination to confirm. Imagine a square meter of electrode (both sides!) in a slit pot - a tonne/day of product. (Safety footnotes omitted).
It's certainly more interesting for finding nickel and rare earths - to my knowledge, attempts to lab grow those haven't seen much success. Diamonds? Yeah, we can make shiny coal. Forever is pretty short when you set it on fire.
Hi Sabine! Hope you're having a good day!
I've found trees of the same species physically attached by their roots. One little stump, under a driveway for nearly 20 years, was being kept alive by the fusion of its roots to neighboring trees.
I've seen this with wild black cherries, sassafras, maples, and several species of oaks.
Some species of trees make new shoots for the roots. So they clone them-self. So it's not two trees that have fused there roots. It's one tree that have created more stems. Plants in general don't have any clear individuals so it's hard to say what is a tree or plant and count them.
I can’t believe Boromir got a ring named after him.
The only thing about mother trees I can say is that one tree can provide shade for soil to retain moisture as well as some limited protection from wind.
8:51 why not?
I will never see a smoke ring the same way again.
Love the old-fashioned phone!
It was Henrietta Swan Leavitt's idea to use the Cepheids as standard candles. Hubble said many times that she deserved the Nobel Prize for her research.
Yes right, others harvested the honor. I like to quote Dr. Sabine: "If you want to be a girl, join the physics club"
@ 8:30 just a correction-- the quantum image is on the right and the classical image is on the left
Thank you Sabine.
I am a dyslexic agnostic insomniac who lies awake at night wondering if there is a Dog.
For the record: Niels Henrik Abel was Norwegian -- not Danish (or Swedish for that matter). It is somewhat depressing to see such a mistake one week ahead of the 2023 Abel Price award ceremony (in Oslo).
Not exactly, Norway was part of the Danish kingdom that time
@@Thomas-gk42 This is wrong. He was born in the kingdom of "Denmark and Norway", but he was only 12 years old when that union was dissolved. To my knowledge, he had no connection to Denmark whatsoever.
@@ivarru ok, I'm a bit smarter now 🙂but I would be happy to see overcome that nationality stuff
I just realized that making this claim on the national day of Norway was perhaps meant as a joke -- or maybe a way to "increase engagement". Oh well...
@@ivarru haha, no, random. I'm just a historical interested german, who is obviously not informed good enough about scandinavian history, to make claims about it in TH-cam comments. All the best 😂
I love this woman. Imagine living with someone that intelligent!
It would be nice to live with someone with mutual logical dishwashing machine stacking standards.
"just not at microsoft" isnt that of a plot twist but it always delightful
Hey is there such a thing as a flexible diamond? I worked at a casting company and they used diamond embedded sanding devices to remove casting irregularities and connection tabs. They were dangerous to handle; the sanding materials and the castings. So my brain just pictured a tube of some material with embedded diamond dust of various sizes. And then naturally, my next thought was, "is it possible to make a flexible diamond?". It doesn't seem possible without "phase shifting" the materials to liquid or gas or gel. Anyway that answers itself really - but still. My brain suggests there is a way to hold diamonds in a state like carbon fiber where a thin mesh mixed with another material should allow it to be "flexible" enough to use for surfaces, without the cost of real diamonds. Imagine not needing gold or stainless steel for space travel. Imagine a space ship with very tough and forgiving skin. More down to earth; imagine housing with paper thin walls but sound, quake, water and fire proof. Imagine transportation where the entire vehicle is reflective and transparent. Or windows or submarines for deep sea research. It would probably be too heavy for general flight but we have other materials for that.
Sorry for the rabbit hole.
I can't believe she always knows the telephone will ring.
Retrocausality
Superdeterminism
You are just awesome Sabine. I ❤ your INTELLECT, your WIT, your KNOWLEDGE, and your TRUTH. An incredible gift to us. Thank you.
The second phone call had me laughing out loud
Could the anomalies in brightness of far away stars (and therefore the proposed expansion rate) be due to curvature of the universe? If the universe is positively curved, then far away stars would have higher brightness than we would expect from their distance to the Earth.
“Old dogs”😂👍……Dry as a bone and hilarious.🕊🌹🕊
The mother tree takes me back to the OTHER avatar (the last airbender), the eposode in the swamp.
I feel entangled with the opening tune. It haunts me throughout the week.
that "j" in Majorana should be pronounced as the "y" in "yes", not as the "j" in "jeans". That j is a semivowel in Italian. Great video, as usual!
The Sequoia and giant Redwoods in California can reach amazing heights, but not on their own. They tie their roots together to withstand the winds and don't have that kind of strength on their own.
I love the telephone that is there ❤ always a wonderful show Sabine
I wish my brain was more like yours.
Thank you for helping keep me informed!
Regardless of the shape of the curvature of space/time, instead of being smooth,
could it have an intrinsic texture, not created by the presence of mass? If so, then
in the early stages of the universe, these undulations would create areas where
mass would concentrate, eventually forming galaxies, and other areas where it
would be dispersed. For example: Our galaxy may have formed around one such
dimple on the space/time surface. Assuming this texturing is fixed on the
space/time surface, then it's still present, providing a gravity-like effect that allows
outer stars to rotate around the galaxy faster than the mass of the galaxy accounts
for. This provides an alternative to the presence of dark matter to explain this.
Thank you for your time.
The complex organization and assumption of universal cooperation by fungus implied by the mother tree theory always struck me as silly for two reasons:
Firstly, given the amount of harmful or parasitic fungus competing for space with other fungus, not all fungi would be on board with this system and only a very closely co-evolved tree/fungus pair even might develop this level of symbiosis, likely by the the fungus killing the roots of any other species of plant that got close to it, but perhaps by each filling a role for the other. The world's biggest lichen.
Secondly; complex emergent systems can exist, and I'd expect a grown tree to shed excess nitrogen to the fringes of it's root system while sucking up every bit close because it's important for new growth and the tree wants it's children to grow - but not too close - but that's not an interconnected network. That's trees caring about the success of their offspring and a system that would ONLY help their offspring being too complex and costly to evolve in a thing with literally no brain.
It's cool, but it's no "wood wide web" - hippies always say they love the forest, but they never seem to realize that a real forest is filled with things trying to kill each other for survival. That extends to plants and fungus as well, just a bit slower.
I think you have the most interesting approach to reporting on science on the web. Many thanks for that.
Recently Cosmologists have come up with (yet) another "Big Bang" theory which includes a sudden 'great expansion'. Tell me, what happens to Time when you 'expand' it?
If the tree network has problems, do they contact ITree support?