I wouldn't say "early" either. Game Theory has always been about entertainment over solid theory crafting from the very beginning. It's more about making you think than being accurate. Half the time the majority of the data presented isn't even applicable to the overlying question the video presents, but rather things that are fun to think about in relation to the topic. All that said, it's not so much that Game Theory is a negative thing in and of itself as it is a matter of people taking it way way more seriously than it should be, which can be said of many things people love to hate on around the internet. But I suppose that still does lead to this and MatPat not being an accurate comparison to make, as AJ tends far more towards informing specifically on a chosen topic directly.
6:04 but as we see in Steven universe future coni’s mom uses an x ray on the gems and all you could see was the gem stones and amethyst ate something because… well she’s amethyst and we saw food there floating
Gems are definitely magical. Magic, as far as I understand/believe, is any phenomenon that does not conform to the laws of the universe. An infinite source of energy is a great example of this. It doesn't even matter if that energy is only used to do non-magical stuff, the energy itself is magical. I love Steven Universe for many things, including its basis on scientific ideas, but you can't really say it's entirely scientific until you know how to do it.
Nope. Everything that they do can be defined scientifically, whether through practice, or through theory, and thereby "fits within the laws of the universe". Sorry, but it's the truth.
Half the enjoyment of your videos is your calm personally, I feel. You have also have a really calm voice. I am showering you with praise- because I like your videos and would like more lol!
yo aj! Despite being involved in the fandom since gem glow, and thoroughly examining this show, i still found this video helpful and entertaining. Great work man!
Sooo awesome. It's great hearing (and even seeing!) these thoughts collected into one video. It was really well done. I admit that I wasn't too sure about your avatar being used in videos, mainly because I like seeing your facial expressions when you're talking about these things. However, you're avatar in front of a chalkboard is really growing on me. Helps a lot with explanations AND it's pretty adorable. Can't wait for more 👍
I really like the hard drive analogy. If you smash a hard drive, all of the information on it is essentially lost, too. You might be able to recover fragments of data, but probably not enough to get a whole file, much less get the hard drive working again.
Did anyone notice that when Pearl reformed all the siloetes were pretty much like this, Her Original design before Steven universe even aired, her form when Greg came into the picture of Rose's life, and finally her now current form.
I love the little" you" in this video, its a cute and clever way to provide some visual if you want to avoid using clips from the show. (good luck with that whole potential lawsuit mess btw) Keep up the great vids my dude!
Good theory. I've had this stuff in min since I started watching the show (minus some of the details). I do also appreciate you holding back from portraying speculation and conjecture as fact, as you sometimes tend to.
No I won't. You can watch the show and see that they eat and talk with their mouths, that injuries to certain parts of their bodies cause those parts to function poorly, that they see with their eyes, and cry and drool, etc. etc. I think all of that is evidence enough.
You literally said in the video that the crew have made statements about this. I only ask because my friends and I have been debating whether or not gems have to shapeshift, for example, tear ducts to cry. I wanted to know your reasoning as to why you think those are permanent parts of their holographic anatomy as opposed to things they have to shapeshift, but the way you responded to this is kind of rude :/
Okay. I don't have time to do your research for you, though, when you can just look at the show for the answers, or do a google search, or search Twitter. I'm sorry if that seems rude to you. I will say, though, that nothing that the crew has said will help you with tear ducts, but we know from Blue Diamond that Gems do have them by default.
well any digested food would get purged, pearl probably has it mashed into atomic particles so when she releases it, it comes out like air.... amethyst probably enjoys pooping, garnet would probably reduce it to something like a stone and leaves it under her foot when she can.
You have made good points over all and I agree with you but I like to think that a magical or similar force is what created or jump started gem kind in their beginnings.
eon star I think it has more to do with production, not because the gemstone actually changes size. Take Malachite as an example. Her nose gem should be super small, but it's not, I think this is because such a small, almost invisible nose wouldn't lool as good as a regular sized nose.
V a l e n t i n a IK but it conflicts though. We can tell the gemstone isn't suppose to change size from the actual animation yet it still appears to do so anyways. I'm not sure if that would be considered an animation error tbh.
I just wanna note that when Pearl said Steven's body was organic implying that there's was not, I'm pretty sure she was talking about his body or their physical form. Not necessarily the gemstone itself. She was talking about fusion to which also has to do with the physical forms of gems combining not the actual gemstone.
I haven't seen anyone go into the idea that single gems have more limited personalities where as fusions have much more complex personalities. Single gems seem to have a single motivation. A theme to their personality that every behavior is colored by. Where as fusions have a more human level of self contradiction. Where multiple gems personality traits work with each other to make a much more complex and subtle consciousness.
You should do a video on if gems have ears. I know that in reformed amethyst had one big ear but I think that may of been because she messed up. None of the gems seem to have ears of what we've scene
Great video! I've just had a thought.. as you said it's a liquid that's injected into the ground to create gems.. do you think this has something to do with what Peridot meant by "harvesting" when she saw the bubbled gems in the temple?
I don't see how. Gems, once they emerge, are completely solid, and don't seem like they would liquefy again at anything lower than several thousand degrees. They can't possibly be used in the creation of more Gems.
I know this might be getting ahead of myself but why does holly blue discriminate against quartzes (other than the obvious PD shattered on earth reason) does she not know she is a quartz? Or does the show treat agates like a completely different gem?
It very clearly treats Agates as separate Gems. She has different hair, is taller than other Quartzes, has wider hips and legs, and a radically different gem shape. She also has a different stated purpose than Quartz Gems.
Ace u said why does Holly Blue discriminates quartzes. But NOT ALL quartzes were made on Earth, just a few of them. That's what I meant. She discriminates the Earth quartzes bcuz a quartz made on Earth (Rose Quartz) shattered PD.
Great video! But I been thinking lately on how gems are made in Steven Universe. It seem like it would be too difficult for it to happen naturally. That either they was created differently then presented on the show or created by something else.
I don't think the gemstone is a brain, actually based on what Peridot said about her plush alien. She said its huge head was "swollen with thoughts," implying that Gems think using their heads, not their gemstones. This would make the gemstone more like a cell nucleus than a brain. There must be some mental processes in the gemstone for Lapis to communicate while in the mirror, and for Gems to retain their memory between regenerations, but it seems like "higher" thought processes are carried out in the holographic body.
nearthe2nd I'm guessing it's just extremely intricate/accurate educated guesses based on what the gem (garnet/sapphire) already knows. Kind of like a super computer using tactics to guess what's going to happen.
Just probability. Assessing everything about people, the surrounding environment and everything else to determine the most probable outcome. The episode with the blizzard spelled it out pretty well. Future vision shows steven doing a thing based on what decisions he'd most likely make, and how connie and greg are most likely to react, then takes it to its most logical conclusion. Steven taking knowledge from each vision changes the outcomes so something different happens every time. Don't you ever find yourself knowing what someone will say or do just because you know them? Or just knowing that putting your hand in fire will burn you, so you'll go to the hospital to get the burn treated, it'll cost lots of money so u won't be able to buy whatever u were planning on getting instead or pay your phone bill or whatever and so on.
I know the future episode of Steven universe is called gem heist. They land in the hangar and garnet they break apart into ruby and sapphire. They pretend to be guards and ruby held Steven to go to the zoo. next they try to make a distraction but it fails. And they put Steven in the zoo. Also blue diamond is coming that's what breaks up the distraction. Also Steven finds his dad. Then it end at a cliff hanger which now I have to wait for the next one😤. One crucial detail I forgot to say is sapphire is supposedly treated like the diamonds.
I do love this analysis, however I don't want to rule out magic completely. In my opinion science doesn't explain Sapphire's future vision, how the Temple (and Rose's Room) is able to create other rooms or other beings/material out of nothing, or how Sardonyx was able to fit into the Temple room, and create an entire studio audience to watch her and Smokey. I like to believe that it's a mix of both science and magic, just with a heavy lean on the science. However, that's just my opinion.
What about what garnet said in adventures into light distortion that amethyst liked being inside her gem, how does garnet know that if she is unaware of anything around her
as my favorite writer and the inventor of satellite, A.C.Clarke stated in his last installment of the space odyssey, an that Stan Lee restate in an episode of avengers with the help of Tony Stark: science if is advanced enough will look like magic to a individual that is not familiarized with it's concepts and even to one that is familiarized at some extent. So yeah gems are magical, magic is only very advanced science
Pretty sure what material the physical gem is made of is irrelevant. when a gem poofs there is a cloud, that is material. Pretty sure the fluid in the injectors is a Non-Newtonian fluid, specifically Nanomachines, and that their gemstones are literally that the substances that the actual gemstone is made of, but rather than storing the data on the gemstone itself, instead the gemstone is a container for said nano-machines. the best analogy is that the gemstones gem material is the gem's SKULL, Not their brain, and inside that gem, on the atomic scale, is a highly advanced network of tubes and wires for nano-machines. Nanites. the body/projections being nanites suspended in an electromagnetic bottle, also called a magnetic mirror. magnetism is part of the electromagnetic spectrum, so is light. all boxes ticked. The nanites get injected into rock, form a gemstone as the "skeleton/skull" and build inside of it a network of small computers that functionally are it's "brain", then seal it up, create more namomachines from surrounding matter, and emerge from the ground. As for the power source, I'mma stick with my comment from the last video and say it's probably a kugelblitz, which is ultimately horrifying to consider, but the only way I know of for them to regenerate.
meh, I have a channel that I almost never upload to, because I can't stay motivated to produce things. It's hard enough trying to write music and make a videogame (that I need to get back to both of those)
can someone explain why holy blue agate does not understand what steven says, like do most gems not understand english and being half gem steven is able to understand gemish
I don't think we can state for a fact that the gem seed is a liquid. That liquid could also be hydraulic in nature or a storage medium for the actual gem seeds. It makes sense, I'm just saying I don't think we can confirm it.
Your theories and explanations are so solid dude :D It just pains me to see the comment section because I KNOW that there will be somebody trying to point out a supposed fallacy in your logic... THAT ISN'T THERE haha. P.S - I would love to hear your thoughts on the Smoke Monster from Together breakfast (if you haven't already talked about it) as it is likely the thing most approaching "magic" I can remember seeing thus far in the show. Cheers
Magic is, I've found, to be empty consciousness. Spell casters have very often been known to call energy from the Earth, celestial bodies, or significant concepts. It is logical for these things to hold an empty conscious residue of sorts because the Earth has plants that don't use their consciousness, celestial bodies are thought about very often and this psychic residue is left on their conceptuality, and other concepts are powerful for the same reason. Not having an owner, these things' consciousness can be controlled by a higher consciousness such as a human. This explains why magic can be found in plants, blood, or spirits. They have empty consciousness to be commanded. Being a consciousness though, they still have a way of behaving, which is why magic is typically cast a certain way. I believe that the reason gems must incubate is because they draw empty consciousness, or magic, from the Earth, the plants, until the gem has enough energy to form. Everything else is still very much true, but the gem is still powered by magic. Of course the gems probably don't see it as such, but it still makes sense to me. The energy from the Earth and plants is magic, after all the gem couldn't absorb their chemical energy in its incubation state because it needs the power it not yet possess to do that. However a gem, having a CPU of sorts, could command the empty consciousness, the magic, of the plants and use it to power itself, without need of an initial power.
I somewhat disagree with that whole digestive track statement, Amethyst, in Fusion cuisine, describes digesting food, and while yes she could have just made a GI track, I believe there is more to it. As we all know amethyst is the gem who shape shifts the most, but have you ever considered why? (You probably have, I just think it makes it sound interesting) I have concluded that since the gem "goo" injected into the ground, is clearly shown to absorb organic macro molecules from the surrounding environment as part of the gem "recipe", meaning that they could also be the power source of gems. So I believe amethyst may be getting the extra energy she uses when shape shifting from processing the same molecules that made her , and could possibly be powering her, which she gets from eating.
The idea of magic is just our way of coping with what we don't understand..... But that sucks I wanna wave around my hands shooting fireballs and play with voodoo like in books and movies :(
#Unrelated comment: what i corruptsion's origional purpus was to erase the data in gems but because PD was shattered/not part of the final corruptsion of all gems on earth, it only corrupted the data "tour the fabric of the mind"
you know what this made me think about the idea that a society can get so advance they evolve pass the for a phsyical body lol i think i saw it in another cartoon too
Consider: the combination of data from greg's dna and rose's gem to make steven. since rose was the one who MADE steven, wouldnt it make more sense for steven's body to be a projection, like a gem's body, simulating a human body? i think someone as tactically inclined as rose would know that for the same result, that would be way easier than making an actual flesh body, and consider that while gems dont have the necessary components to make a baby (read: the ability to generate flesh stuff) they CAN make more light than their frame, ie: like stretching. It would be tiring to her, but it makes more sense for rose to have simulated being pregnant for her own experience, and then to have overwritten her gem data with steven's
I read a theory that said that pink diamond and rose switched bodies using the body switch power....a basis for this is that rose has too many abilities...I guess compared to other gems she has a few too many abilities.
Starfire Are you say Rose has Pink's abilities? That's not how the body switch power works. When Steven used it he lost all his gem strength until returning to his own body. Why would she switch anyway?
Phesheya Bhembe yeah a lot of it doesn't make much sense but I still wonder why rose has so many more abilities than other gems. from what I've seen most gems have one main but rose had at least 5
what about the gems being designed to conquer space peridot said it herself "We're gems, we're a spacefaring race DESIGNED to conquer other worlds." in scientific terms this makes then a tye of von Neumann probe, perhaps gone rogue at this point. I'd really like to see you bring this up in a future theory.
The only criticism I have is the redundant statement "light particles pretending to have mass." Now, I'm not going to start the discussion about whether light has mass or not. BUT, the whole light particle/wave differentiation is based on light acting like it has mass. Energy des not have mass, this is a fact, you can't weigh heatwaves. Heat waves are energy, and it doesn't have particles, there is no Heaton. So the act of light being a particle is light acting as if it had mass.
ShaggyRedHead actually according to relativity a hot object (e.g a hot cup of coffee) has more inertial mass and weighs more than a cold object (e.g if the coffee cools down) with the same intrinsic mass. Light particles are massless on their own but if you trap light in a box of mirrors the box will gave more mass than before. it's the interaction between particles that gives them mass. even quarks and leptons are massless without the higgs field. Even then, most of the mass of an atom/proton/neutron doesn't come from the higgs but from the strong force binding energy. So pure energy, even just potential energy (like being on a mountain vs on the ground) does have mass. It's weird and counterintuitive, but it's true.
jamesusespivot Ah, but therein lies the question! See, if I remember my physics correctly (it's been awhile) it's called inertial mass because of vibration, the hot coffee has more inertial mass because the atoms are accelerating faster than the atoms of the cool coffee. It's the reason when you catch a ball, it feels heavier right before it stops moving, one of the off-shoots to one of Newtons laws (can't ever remember the numbers) "motion tends to stay in motion, rest tends to stay at rest" Yada yada. But that brings up a question: Is there an equal and opposite reaction when light hits something? Yes, but an energetic reaction, not a mass one. The answer then would be heat, the box gains inertial mass because light causes heat, which cause the atoms of the box to vibrate faster. My statement still stands though, the phrase "light particle pretending to have mass." Is a redundancy.
Why do gems have internal organs at all? What's the point of, for example, making an entire digestive system when they have a lifetime of energy already built in?
Phesheya Bhembe They don't have internal organs. They are one solid mass. However, they can shapeshift relevant organ systems when needed - for example, Rose shapeshifted a female reproductive system to have sex with Greg (sorry to be so crude but it's true) and give birth to Steven, and Amethyst almost constantly has a digestive system just to handle the sheer volumes of food she eats.
So within your theory, it's entirely possible that humans will ultimately adapt to the same physiology of gems: *We upload our minds to AI *For some reason (there are plenty of good ones) we opt to store our consciousness on independent chips instead of in a cloud *Holographic manipulation of light becomes the preferred method of generating objects, but it's too fragile for objects such as chips containing everything a person is, so instead the AI is stored in the crystalline structures of hard gemstones *Because of a failure to sufficiently in a timely fashion dismantle (person reading this hits mute button until I'm done with my Marxist jargon... hits fast forward... hits fast forward again) the process of reproduction becomes controlled by the Burg- large entities as opposed to individuals, and so society begins structuring itself more similarly to hives. Hey... Does anyone else think it's weird that the gems could take literally any form, but even homeworld defaults to humanoid? Hey, wasn't it established early on that Homeworld did have access to time travel at at least one point in their history? What if...
I enjoyed your theory ur video and all ur videos they make me think and I love to think but I cant accept the gems as ai or machines at all because of the one thing they have that makes the show great there emotions
We know that they will live forever if not shattered, so they must have access to some form of perpetual energy. Unless you have some idea of how they could take in more without any ability to metabolize food, and considering that enough Gems operate in deep space that they can't be solar-powered.
AJ Universe I was thinking that they where technically limited, but it lasts so long that they tend to be destroyed before they run out of power, probably eons. I mean, the kindergarten turns externally placed life to dust AFTER it has been rendered inactive, so that’s some pretty powerful energy harvesting.
@@michaelfixedsys7463 The kindergartens harvest minerals from the soil, not energy. Things can't grow there anymore because there are no minerals for plants to feed on. After all, plants get their energy from the sun, not the earth. If Gems are limited in their lifespan that contradicts details that we have gotten straight from multiple reliable characters who claim their lifespans to be infinite. I don't see any reason to assume that all of those characters were lying.
AJ Universe I’m not a chemist, but can’t a large number of elements be used to generate electricity? Even if they’re in relatively small amounts in earth soil, they completely remove everything from the soil. And Gems are a limited system, sentient but limited. At some point a large number might as well be referred to as effectively infinite. I’m suggesting that they’re ABSURDLY efficient batteries btw, something humans would never be able to create alone. Plants don’t turn to dust normally, they just die. Also, Matter is another form of energy...you said this in your “Steven breathing in space” theory. Perhaps in the SU Universe, “philosophers stones” are real, and sentient. The liquid coagulates minerals into an unfinished computer, pressure crystallises it, and it uses reserve energy from pressurisation and the juice itself to turn small amounts of the minerals into energy through alchemical fission, which fuels more Mineral collecting, gem-side. Eventually after it has collected enough energy (usually over a few centuries) a Fully developed gem emerges, really to kick names and take ass.
@@michaelfixedsys7463 Yeah, but not in great enough quantities to do what Gems do. And you don't find them in soil generally speaking. You mean Gems? Yeah, they do. But there is no "energy" in the soil, except maybe ambient heat from the sun. I don't know what you mean by a "limited system". Do you mean that Gems are a closed system? Because they aren't. They release energy. And no, a value cannot approach infinite. A value is either infinite or it isn't. It doesn't matter how efficient something is. A battery without perpetual energy cannot be infinite. They do if they are structurally unsound, i.e. they didn't have enough minerals to build themselves properly. Matter can be converted to energy, but that also requires huge amounts of energy to do. I'm not sure what philosopher's stones have to do with that, though, since alchemy isn't real, and Gems aren't magic. No. The liquid coagulate draws minerals from the soil which is uses to solidify into a crystalline form. There is no nebulous supply of generic energy in the earth that can be absorbed, unless, again, you mean ambient heat, but that is negligible. The earth gets all of its energy from the sun. Our ecosystem is an open, solar-powered system. Plants and animals are simply able to convert that energy into a chemical form, that they are able to process, through photosynthesis and digestion respectively. Gems aren't exposed to the sun when they are forming and they have no way to metabolize energy into a chemical form. Their energy must come from somewhere else.
magic IS science, actually. and it's not JUST science, because science isn't "just"/disenchanting. magic is just what we use to describe something we've conceptualized (sometimes even performed) that hasn't been explained scientifically or confirmed to work in practice, but could *plausibly* work if we were to advance enough in our knowledge of how the universe works. just wanted to nitpick that bit, cuz I'm tired of all these science nerds completely dismissing magic as if it's nonsensical and holding science above it as if science couldn't just as well be considered magic.
the gems repeatedly describe what their existence is as magic in canon--maybe the crystal gems in specific just have a sort of medieval perception of what they are, like how people thought medicine was magic just because they didn't understand it.
this was a good video but I don't think you added much to it that wasn't already canon or stated in guide to the crystal gems. it all already seemed pretty apparent, not much speculation or interesting ideas brought to the table here AJ. no hate, just my opinion
I seriously was hoping for
-rocks
-SENTIENT rocks
-POLYMORPHIC SENTIENT rocks
These videos are part of the reasons why you're such an awesome TH-camr! (You're like the Mat Pat of Steven Universe!)
Would it be werd to unsubscribe just to be the 1,000,000th subscriber?
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Really?
I wouldn't say "early" either. Game Theory has always been about entertainment over solid theory crafting from the very beginning. It's more about making you think than being accurate. Half the time the majority of the data presented isn't even applicable to the overlying question the video presents, but rather things that are fun to think about in relation to the topic.
All that said, it's not so much that Game Theory is a negative thing in and of itself as it is a matter of people taking it way way more seriously than it should be, which can be said of many things people love to hate on around the internet.
But I suppose that still does lead to this and MatPat not being an accurate comparison to make, as AJ tends far more towards informing specifically on a chosen topic directly.
Shalakor
Sounds pretty explain to me.
6:04 but as we see in Steven universe future coni’s mom uses an x ray on the gems and all you could see was the gem stones and amethyst ate something because… well she’s amethyst and we saw food there floating
Gems are definitely magical. Magic, as far as I understand/believe, is any phenomenon that does not conform to the laws of the universe. An infinite source of energy is a great example of this. It doesn't even matter if that energy is only used to do non-magical stuff, the energy itself is magical. I love Steven Universe for many things, including its basis on scientific ideas, but you can't really say it's entirely scientific until you know how to do it.
Nope. Everything that they do can be defined scientifically, whether through practice, or through theory, and thereby "fits within the laws of the universe". Sorry, but it's the truth.
AJ Universe Is a gem's energy really infinite? If so How is that scientifically possible even in theory?
+ Phesheya Bhembe I made an entire video about it. I linked to it at the end of this video.
Theory: Gems are hyper evolved Von Neumann probes originally built by a long lost & forgotten civilization
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You should watch more of my videos
I've seen 'em all already ;)
I think this vid is more on the Gem's nature, as opposed to their origin. Plus my comment was kind of a joke.
16THHHHHH last time I was this early America was lead by a sane person.
who was the first gem
😂😂💀
Nettle nah, I was this early when Hitler reigned. ;P
hey pls dont criminalize mentally ill ppl by implying trump is insane thanks
yuzumido omg that's the best thing I've heard all day XD ;^;
Half the enjoyment of your videos is your calm personally, I feel. You have also have a really calm voice. I am showering you with praise- because I like your videos and would like more lol!
If we could only know what they really are
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the lore details were so on point, the visuals and pacing were so pleasing, and I learned something new about science! thanks again, AJ.
honestly you are so great with your theories and explanations your the only Steven U youtuber that I can stand
Love the new design very refreshing and the chalkboard w/ effects was very nice. Would love to see more videos in this format
yo aj! Despite being involved in the fandom since gem glow, and thoroughly examining this show, i still found this video helpful and entertaining. Great work man!
Sooo awesome. It's great hearing (and even seeing!) these thoughts collected into one video. It was really well done. I admit that I wasn't too sure about your avatar being used in videos, mainly because I like seeing your facial expressions when you're talking about these things. However, you're avatar in front of a chalkboard is really growing on me. Helps a lot with explanations AND it's pretty adorable.
Can't wait for more 👍
I'm glad to see you doing another SU video ! I've missed you doing them
this analysis was really good. awesome job AJ Universe!!!!!!
I really like the hard drive analogy. If you smash a hard drive, all of the information on it is essentially lost, too. You might be able to recover fragments of data, but probably not enough to get a whole file, much less get the hard drive working again.
Nice analysis John, you really did you research, good on you man.
+Clay Matherne John?
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AJ= Awesome John.
But typically people call him AJ.
Did anyone notice that when Pearl reformed all the siloetes were pretty much like this, Her Original design before Steven universe even aired, her form when Greg came into the picture of Rose's life, and finally her now current form.
I love the little" you" in this video, its a cute and clever way to provide some visual if you want to avoid using clips from the show. (good luck with that whole potential lawsuit mess btw) Keep up the great vids my dude!
Good theory. I've had this stuff in min since I started watching the show (minus some of the details).
I do also appreciate you holding back from portraying speculation and conjecture as fact, as you sometimes tend to.
I like refreshing and seeing changes
This was such an amazing video it was very interesting I enjoyed it thoroughly
Can you tell us more about your statement at 5:39? What canonic evidence is there for that and/or what statements have the crew made?
No I won't. You can watch the show and see that they eat and talk with their mouths, that injuries to certain parts of their bodies cause those parts to function poorly, that they see with their eyes, and cry and drool, etc. etc. I think all of that is evidence enough.
You literally said in the video that the crew have made statements about this. I only ask because my friends and I have been debating whether or not gems have to shapeshift, for example, tear ducts to cry. I wanted to know your reasoning as to why you think those are permanent parts of their holographic anatomy as opposed to things they have to shapeshift, but the way you responded to this is kind of rude :/
Okay. I don't have time to do your research for you, though, when you can just look at the show for the answers, or do a google search, or search Twitter. I'm sorry if that seems rude to you.
I will say, though, that nothing that the crew has said will help you with tear ducts, but we know from Blue Diamond that Gems do have them by default.
Ok, well I love your show.
I love this video style!
so when a gem eats food were does that all go i wouldn't think it just disappears
Zachx Whittaker It just passes through the physical body, which happens to not be made of normal matter but still acts as a surface with mass, etc.
Connor Shea so when gems finish eating they leave a chewed-up mess on Steven's floor
Zachx Whittaker I wondered the exact same thing😂
Zachx Whittaker They use the bathroom.
well any digested food would get purged, pearl probably has it mashed into atomic particles so when she releases it, it comes out like air.... amethyst probably enjoys pooping, garnet would probably reduce it to something like a stone and leaves it under her foot when she can.
You have made good points over all and I agree with you but I like to think that a magical or similar force is what created or jump started gem kind in their beginnings.
Can you also explain why a gemstone seems to grow and shrink in fusions or shape shifting although it shouldn't be able to since it's physical
eon star
I think it has more to do with production, not because the gemstone actually changes size. Take Malachite as an example. Her nose gem should be super small, but it's not, I think this is because such a small, almost invisible nose wouldn't lool as good as a regular sized nose.
V a l e n t i n a IK but it conflicts though. We can tell the gemstone isn't suppose to change size from the actual animation yet it still appears to do so anyways. I'm not sure if that would be considered an animation error tbh.
I just wanna note that when Pearl said Steven's body was organic implying that there's was not, I'm pretty sure she was talking about his body or their physical form. Not necessarily the gemstone itself.
She was talking about fusion to which also has to do with the physical forms of gems combining not the actual gemstone.
good stuff, aj
One could say that sapphires are super-computers that can create conclusions from their environment, and that's why their so hard to make.
This is super cool!!! But I wanna know how the first gems came to be & how they figured out how to create more of their kind
I haven't seen anyone go into the idea that single gems have more limited personalities where as fusions have much more complex personalities.
Single gems seem to have a single motivation. A theme to their personality that every behavior is colored by.
Where as fusions have a more human level of self contradiction. Where multiple gems personality traits work with each other to make a much more complex and subtle consciousness.
You should do a video on if gems have ears. I know that in reformed amethyst had one big ear but I think that may of been because she messed up. None of the gems seem to have ears of what we've scene
Love your videos, keep up the great work, hope you dont have any further youtube copyrighy issues :)
I love this man.
Great video! I've just had a thought.. as you said it's a liquid that's injected into the ground to create gems.. do you think this has something to do with what Peridot meant by "harvesting" when she saw the bubbled gems in the temple?
I don't see how. Gems, once they emerge, are completely solid, and don't seem like they would liquefy again at anything lower than several thousand degrees. They can't possibly be used in the creation of more Gems.
I know this might be getting ahead of myself but why does holly blue discriminate against quartzes (other than the obvious PD shattered on earth reason) does she not know she is a quartz? Or does the show treat agates like a completely different gem?
It very clearly treats Agates as separate Gems. She has different hair, is taller than other Quartzes, has wider hips and legs, and a radically different gem shape. She also has a different stated purpose than Quartz Gems.
Lavorne Williams Actually, she discriminates EARTH gems in general.
All EARTH gems are Quartz' gems, what's your point?
Ace u said why does Holly Blue discriminates quartzes. But NOT ALL quartzes were made on Earth, just a few of them. That's what I meant. She discriminates the Earth quartzes bcuz a quartz made on Earth (Rose Quartz) shattered PD.
Ace wooops sorry I thought u were the same person ;-; SORRY
Perhaps gemstones form as a protective cover for the 'AI' of a gem, safeguarding the information on it from external influences.
We've seen a single Gem shattered into pieces. It had the same composition all throughout.
It is a commonly accepted fact that gems are polymorphic sentiant rocks created for the purpose of passing butter
Can you link me to the article/video that shows scientists coaxing light to behave as if it has mass?
Alice In Salt Land
www.iflscience.com/physics/crystallized-light-reveals-potential/
or
m.huffpost.com/us/entry/3998082
Oh this will be good
Great video! But I been thinking lately on how gems are made in Steven Universe. It seem like it would be too difficult for it to happen naturally. That either they was created differently then presented on the show or created by something else.
I don't think the gemstone is a brain, actually based on what Peridot said about her plush alien. She said its huge head was "swollen with thoughts," implying that Gems think using their heads, not their gemstones. This would make the gemstone more like a cell nucleus than a brain. There must be some mental processes in the gemstone for Lapis to communicate while in the mirror, and for Gems to retain their memory between regenerations, but it seems like "higher" thought processes are carried out in the holographic body.
This is good. I liked it very much.
Future Vision though? Can that be explained by science?
nearthe2nd I'm guessing it's just extremely intricate/accurate educated guesses based on what the gem (garnet/sapphire) already knows. Kind of like a super computer using tactics to guess what's going to happen.
Someone could definitely explain that better sorry
That was a good explanation, and I appreciate it. But I just don't buy it. Future Vision and few other things just seems too much like magic.
Just probability. Assessing everything about people, the surrounding environment and everything else to determine the most probable outcome. The episode with the blizzard spelled it out pretty well. Future vision shows steven doing a thing based on what decisions he'd most likely make, and how connie and greg are most likely to react, then takes it to its most logical conclusion. Steven taking knowledge from each vision changes the outcomes so something different happens every time. Don't you ever find yourself knowing what someone will say or do just because you know them? Or just knowing that putting your hand in fire will burn you, so you'll go to the hospital to get the burn treated, it'll cost lots of money so u won't be able to buy whatever u were planning on getting instead or pay your phone bill or whatever and so on.
Or you could consider the "what if machine" from futurama. It's the same concept
is there any explanation for the gems weapons? i would think its the same reason as how they make there body....
It is.
I feel like a AJ went to some extensive college that studies science. And this is why he knows all of this.
I'm just a science enthusiast. With access to Google. Who never sleeps.
I know the future episode of Steven universe is called gem heist. They land in the hangar and garnet they break apart into ruby and sapphire. They pretend to be guards and ruby held Steven to go to the zoo. next they try to make a distraction but it fails. And they put Steven in the zoo. Also blue diamond is coming that's what breaks up the distraction. Also Steven finds his dad. Then it end at a cliff hanger which now I have to wait for the next one😤. One crucial detail I forgot to say is sapphire is supposedly treated like the diamonds.
the part about magic is what i've been trying to tell people for ages! I get so annoyed when someone calls a gem's abilities "magic" ugh
I do love this analysis, however I don't want to rule out magic completely. In my opinion science doesn't explain Sapphire's future vision, how the Temple (and Rose's Room) is able to create other rooms or other beings/material out of nothing, or how Sardonyx was able to fit into the Temple room, and create an entire studio audience to watch her and Smokey.
I like to believe that it's a mix of both science and magic, just with a heavy lean on the science. However, that's just my opinion.
how were the Diamonds made? that is if they were the makers of Gem kind
How do we know that liquid isn't just fuel?
I have a theory
Gems are rocks
Mind blown
Awesome video! :)
What about what garnet said in adventures into light distortion that amethyst liked being inside her gem, how does garnet know that if she is unaware of anything around her
+Nikeith Mason She meant that Amethyst liked trailing behind the ship like Pearl said, are you dumb?
MJ Lavoto You don't have to be rude about it.
Amethyst never went inside her gem in Adventures in Light Distortion.
MJ Lavoto since you wanna act like that Steven asked if they lagged behind the ship and garnet confirmed then said amethyst liked it
Nikeith Mason they weren't inside their gems. They were behind the ship, not in or with their gems.
BRILLIANT
as my favorite writer and the inventor of satellite, A.C.Clarke stated in his last installment of the space odyssey, an that Stan Lee restate in an episode of avengers with the help of Tony Stark: science if is advanced enough will look like magic to a individual that is not familiarized with it's concepts and even to one that is familiarized at some extent. So yeah gems are magical, magic is only very advanced science
Pretty sure what material the physical gem is made of is irrelevant. when a gem poofs there is a cloud, that is material. Pretty sure the fluid in the injectors is a Non-Newtonian fluid, specifically Nanomachines, and that their gemstones are literally that the substances that the actual gemstone is made of, but rather than storing the data on the gemstone itself, instead the gemstone is a container for said nano-machines. the best analogy is that the gemstones gem material is the gem's SKULL, Not their brain, and inside that gem, on the atomic scale, is a highly advanced network of tubes and wires for nano-machines. Nanites. the body/projections being nanites suspended in an electromagnetic bottle, also called a magnetic mirror. magnetism is part of the electromagnetic spectrum, so is light. all boxes ticked.
The nanites get injected into rock, form a gemstone as the "skeleton/skull" and build inside of it a network of small computers that functionally are it's "brain", then seal it up, create more namomachines from surrounding matter, and emerge from the ground. As for the power source, I'mma stick with my comment from the last video and say it's probably a kugelblitz, which is ultimately horrifying to consider, but the only way I know of for them to regenerate.
therealquade I love your comment. You should have a TH-cam channel explaining stuff.
meh, I have a channel that I almost never upload to, because I can't stay motivated to produce things. It's hard enough trying to write music and make a videogame (that I need to get back to both of those)
I understand. I really have to reinforce the fact that you did great with that. More people should be like you.
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Why not over 10 ???? You deserve it
Earliest I've been sense the war
can someone explain why holy blue agate does not understand what steven says, like do most gems not understand english and being half gem steven is able to understand gemish
She's a judgmental bitch.
AJ Universe no like she says that they bark, tho she is a bitch
Yeah. She says that she can't understand them because she's too much of a bitch to listen. That's the joke.
AJ Universe mmmmm i just cant believe that but wherever
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It was probably because Steven was saying things like 'dad', which is something that doesn't exist for gems
I don't think we can state for a fact that the gem seed is a liquid. That liquid could also be hydraulic in nature or a storage medium for the actual gem seeds. It makes sense, I'm just saying I don't think we can confirm it.
Your theories and explanations are so solid dude :D It just pains me to see the comment section because I KNOW that there will be somebody trying to point out a supposed fallacy in your logic... THAT ISN'T THERE haha. P.S - I would love to hear your thoughts on the Smoke Monster from Together breakfast (if you haven't already talked about it) as it is likely the thing most approaching "magic" I can remember seeing thus far in the show. Cheers
I like the art :)
Magic is, I've found, to be empty consciousness. Spell casters have very often been known to call energy from the Earth, celestial bodies, or significant concepts. It is logical for these things to hold an empty conscious residue of sorts because the Earth has plants that don't use their consciousness, celestial bodies are thought about very often and this psychic residue is left on their conceptuality, and other concepts are powerful for the same reason. Not having an owner, these things' consciousness can be controlled by a higher consciousness such as a human. This explains why magic can be found in plants, blood, or spirits. They have empty consciousness to be commanded. Being a consciousness though, they still have a way of behaving, which is why magic is typically cast a certain way. I believe that the reason gems must incubate is because they draw empty consciousness, or magic, from the Earth, the plants, until the gem has enough energy to form. Everything else is still very much true, but the gem is still powered by magic. Of course the gems probably don't see it as such, but it still makes sense to me. The energy from the Earth and plants is magic, after all the gem couldn't absorb their chemical energy in its incubation state because it needs the power it not yet possess to do that. However a gem, having a CPU of sorts, could command the empty consciousness, the magic, of the plants and use it to power itself, without need of an initial power.
well I'm still curious about the species that created the first gem
I somewhat disagree with that whole digestive track statement, Amethyst, in Fusion cuisine, describes digesting food, and while yes she could have just made a GI track, I believe there is more to it. As we all know amethyst is the gem who shape shifts the most, but have you ever considered why? (You probably have, I just think it makes it sound interesting) I have concluded that since the gem "goo" injected into the ground, is clearly shown to absorb organic macro molecules from the surrounding environment as part of the gem "recipe", meaning that they could also be the power source of gems. So I believe amethyst may be getting the extra energy she uses when shape shifting from processing the same molecules that made her , and could possibly be powering her, which she gets from eating.
Is in science science, the only way to explain things in details, since science is just a study of something
The idea of magic is just our way of coping with what we don't understand.....
But that sucks I wanna wave around my hands shooting fireballs and play with voodoo like in books and movies :(
#Unrelated comment: what i corruptsion's origional purpus was to erase the data in gems but because PD was shattered/not part of the final corruptsion of all gems on earth, it only corrupted the data "tour the fabric of the mind"
wow that's great !
you know what this made me think about the idea that a society can get so advance they evolve pass the for a phsyical body lol i think i saw it in another cartoon too
and im glad youre making steven vids i was scared you'd stop after what happened
did anyone else notice that the injectors look like viruses?
SCIENCE/ alchemy?
Your thumbnail seems to be missing green cinnamon roll gemstone.
OK this is just a question but didn't they tell us that they are beings of light I'm going to say this again it's just a question
Yes.
Consider: the combination of data from greg's dna and rose's gem to make steven. since rose was the one who MADE steven, wouldnt it make more sense for steven's body to be a projection, like a gem's body, simulating a human body? i think someone as tactically inclined as rose would know that for the same result, that would be way easier than making an actual flesh body, and consider that while gems dont have the necessary components to make a baby (read: the ability to generate flesh stuff) they CAN make more light than their frame, ie: like stretching. It would be tiring to her, but it makes more sense for rose to have simulated being pregnant for her own experience, and then to have overwritten her gem data with steven's
It would make more sense, yeah, but the crew has confirmed that it isn't, and the show has confirmed that it isn't.
what is wrong with me
thank you for the video ;-D
What if one day gems are real!
early but not quite first, so close
I read a theory that said that pink diamond and rose switched bodies using the body switch power....a basis for this is that rose has too many abilities...I guess compared to other gems she has a few too many abilities.
Starfire Are you say Rose has Pink's abilities? That's not how the body switch power works. When Steven used it he lost all his gem strength until returning to his own body. Why would she switch anyway?
Phesheya Bhembe yeah a lot of it doesn't make much sense but I still wonder why rose has so many more abilities than other gems. from what I've seen most gems have one main but rose had at least 5
anime fantasy123 I don't remember fire balls, or sand powers.
what about the gems being designed to conquer space
peridot said it herself "We're gems, we're a spacefaring race DESIGNED to conquer other worlds."
in scientific terms this makes then a tye of von Neumann probe, perhaps gone rogue at this point.
I'd really like to see you bring this up in a future theory.
I've already made an entire video about it. th-cam.com/video/ihJillZtbos/w-d-xo.html&
Sorry, I got so excited I must've forgotten about that video. Apologies.
YAY!!
THE GEM HIERARCHY
The only criticism I have is the redundant statement "light particles pretending to have mass." Now, I'm not going to start the discussion about whether light has mass or not. BUT, the whole light particle/wave differentiation is based on light acting like it has mass. Energy des not have mass, this is a fact, you can't weigh heatwaves. Heat waves are energy, and it doesn't have particles, there is no Heaton. So the act of light being a particle is light acting as if it had mass.
ShaggyRedHead actually according to relativity a hot object (e.g a hot cup of coffee) has more inertial mass and weighs more than a cold object (e.g if the coffee cools down) with the same intrinsic mass.
Light particles are massless on their own but if you trap light in a box of mirrors the box will gave more mass than before. it's the interaction between particles that gives them mass.
even quarks and leptons are massless without the higgs field. Even then, most of the mass of an atom/proton/neutron doesn't come from the higgs but from the strong force binding energy.
So pure energy, even just potential energy (like being on a mountain vs on the ground) does have mass. It's weird and counterintuitive, but it's true.
jamesusespivot Ah, but therein lies the question! See, if I remember my physics correctly (it's been awhile) it's called inertial mass because of vibration, the hot coffee has more inertial mass because the atoms are accelerating faster than the atoms of the cool coffee. It's the reason when you catch a ball, it feels heavier right before it stops moving, one of the off-shoots to one of Newtons laws (can't ever remember the numbers) "motion tends to stay in motion, rest tends to stay at rest" Yada yada.
But that brings up a question: Is there an equal and opposite reaction when light hits something? Yes, but an energetic reaction, not a mass one. The answer then would be heat, the box gains inertial mass because light causes heat, which cause the atoms of the box to vibrate faster.
My statement still stands though, the phrase "light particle pretending to have mass." Is a redundancy.
I love your voice so Nice 😍😍😍
You look so cute in Steven Universes style
Why do gems have internal organs at all? What's the point of, for example, making an entire digestive system when they have a lifetime of energy already built in?
Phesheya Bhembe
They don't have internal organs. They are one solid mass. However, they can shapeshift relevant organ systems when needed - for example, Rose shapeshifted a female reproductive system to have sex with Greg (sorry to be so crude but it's true) and give birth to Steven, and Amethyst almost constantly has a digestive system just to handle the sheer volumes of food she eats.
Light.
So within your theory, it's entirely possible that humans will ultimately adapt to the same physiology of gems:
*We upload our minds to AI
*For some reason (there are plenty of good ones) we opt to store our consciousness on independent chips instead of in a cloud
*Holographic manipulation of light becomes the preferred method of generating objects, but it's too fragile for objects such as chips containing everything a person is, so instead the AI is stored in the crystalline structures of hard gemstones
*Because of a failure to sufficiently in a timely fashion dismantle (person reading this hits mute button until I'm done with my Marxist jargon... hits fast forward... hits fast forward again) the process of reproduction becomes controlled by the Burg- large entities as opposed to individuals, and so society begins structuring itself more similarly to hives.
Hey...
Does anyone else think it's weird that the gems could take literally any form, but even homeworld defaults to humanoid?
Hey, wasn't it established early on that Homeworld did have access to time travel at at least one point in their history?
What if...
Nice theory😛
I enjoyed your theory ur video and all ur videos they make me think and I love to think but I cant accept the gems as ai or machines at all because of the one thing they have that makes the show great there emotions
I don’t think they’re perpetual energy.
But they’re probably EXTREMELY efficient batteries
We know that they will live forever if not shattered, so they must have access to some form of perpetual energy. Unless you have some idea of how they could take in more without any ability to metabolize food, and considering that enough Gems operate in deep space that they can't be solar-powered.
AJ Universe
I was thinking that they where technically limited, but it lasts so long that they tend to be destroyed before they run out of power, probably eons.
I mean, the kindergarten turns externally placed life to dust AFTER it has been rendered inactive, so that’s some pretty powerful energy harvesting.
@@michaelfixedsys7463 The kindergartens harvest minerals from the soil, not energy. Things can't grow there anymore because there are no minerals for plants to feed on. After all, plants get their energy from the sun, not the earth.
If Gems are limited in their lifespan that contradicts details that we have gotten straight from multiple reliable characters who claim their lifespans to be infinite. I don't see any reason to assume that all of those characters were lying.
AJ Universe
I’m not a chemist, but can’t a large number of elements be used to generate electricity?
Even if they’re in relatively small amounts in earth soil, they completely remove everything from the soil.
And Gems are a limited system, sentient but limited. At some point a large number might as well be referred to as effectively infinite.
I’m suggesting that they’re ABSURDLY efficient batteries btw, something humans would never be able to create alone.
Plants don’t turn to dust normally, they just die.
Also, Matter is another form of energy...you said this in your “Steven breathing in space” theory.
Perhaps in the SU Universe, “philosophers stones” are real, and sentient.
The liquid coagulates minerals into an unfinished computer, pressure crystallises it, and it uses reserve energy from pressurisation and the juice itself to turn small amounts of the minerals into energy through alchemical fission, which fuels more Mineral collecting, gem-side.
Eventually after it has collected enough energy (usually over a few centuries) a Fully developed gem emerges, really to kick names and take ass.
@@michaelfixedsys7463 Yeah, but not in great enough quantities to do what Gems do. And you don't find them in soil generally speaking.
You mean Gems? Yeah, they do. But there is no "energy" in the soil, except maybe ambient heat from the sun.
I don't know what you mean by a "limited system". Do you mean that Gems are a closed system? Because they aren't. They release energy. And no, a value cannot approach infinite. A value is either infinite or it isn't.
It doesn't matter how efficient something is. A battery without perpetual energy cannot be infinite.
They do if they are structurally unsound, i.e. they didn't have enough minerals to build themselves properly.
Matter can be converted to energy, but that also requires huge amounts of energy to do. I'm not sure what philosopher's stones have to do with that, though, since alchemy isn't real, and Gems aren't magic.
No. The liquid coagulate draws minerals from the soil which is uses to solidify into a crystalline form. There is no nebulous supply of generic energy in the earth that can be absorbed, unless, again, you mean ambient heat, but that is negligible.
The earth gets all of its energy from the sun. Our ecosystem is an open, solar-powered system. Plants and animals are simply able to convert that energy into a chemical form, that they are able to process, through photosynthesis and digestion respectively. Gems aren't exposed to the sun when they are forming and they have no way to metabolize energy into a chemical form. Their energy must come from somewhere else.
magic IS science, actually. and it's not JUST science, because science isn't "just"/disenchanting. magic is just what we use to describe something we've conceptualized (sometimes even performed) that hasn't been explained scientifically or confirmed to work in practice, but could *plausibly* work if we were to advance enough in our knowledge of how the universe works. just wanted to nitpick that bit, cuz I'm tired of all these science nerds completely dismissing magic as if it's nonsensical and holding science above it as if science couldn't just as well be considered magic.
Yeah, no it's not. Not in fiction.
the gems repeatedly describe what their existence is as magic in canon--maybe the crystal gems in specific just have a sort of medieval perception of what they are, like how people thought medicine was magic just because they didn't understand it.
that's all I mean; scientific things that aren't understood, are called magic. that's like, the definition of magic.
it makes me think, actually, that the gems don't know where their race originated, and it was some other alien species who created/programmed them.
You should make a video explaining what kind of society Homeworld is, "fascist" "communist" "feudalist" etc.
this was a good video but I don't think you added much to it that wasn't already canon or stated in guide to the crystal gems. it all already seemed pretty apparent, not much speculation or interesting ideas brought to the table here AJ. no hate, just my opinion
onisly i think your good at this but i dont beliv you on the holograms
Pearl herself called their bodies holograms. Multiple times.
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magic is jsut science we can not understand. It has laws and rules we jsut can't comprehend them yet
Jonathan Homer Not in fiction. There are plenty of properties where magic is something completely undefinable.