How Much Of The Universe Can Humanity Ever See?

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    There’s an absolute limit to our access to the universe beyond our own galaxy. There’s a limit to what we can ever hope to explore or send signals to, and a very different limit to what we can ever hope to witness. Today we’re going to explore the latter. We’re going to figure out the absolute limit of our future view of the universe, and of the universe’s ability to influence us. Next time we’ll turn it around and ask: how much of the external universe can WE potentially influence, and even explore?
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  • @mrfake5251
    @mrfake5251 ปีที่แล้ว +268

    Props to the camera man for going that far just to get the footage.

    • @louly3212
      @louly3212 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Incredible, dedication..

    • @fredricktalbot1945
      @fredricktalbot1945 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hope he got enough per diem.

    • @SamiSyed-br4uk
      @SamiSyed-br4uk ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Outdated joke

    • @mrfake5251
      @mrfake5251 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@SamiSyed-br4uk Can a joke truly be outdated? 🤔

    • @SamiSyed-br4uk
      @SamiSyed-br4uk ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@mrfake5251 its irritating after so much of use

  • @fiskfisk33
    @fiskfisk33 ปีที่แล้ว +261

    Douglas Adams quotes will win my heart every time ❤️

    • @MsZeeZed
      @MsZeeZed ปีที่แล้ว +39

      This quote is subject to a copyright dispute filed from a time machine whose own existence is being debated in the next courtroom.

    • @popevimtoripkeefhappysackXXX
      @popevimtoripkeefhappysackXXX ปีที่แล้ว +13

      NORMAL SERVICE WILL BE RESUMED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE……

    • @KommerJanAllart
      @KommerJanAllart ปีที่แล้ว +20

      I had the 42nd like 😅

    • @jestermoon
      @jestermoon ปีที่แล้ว

      Take A Moment
      Hi there Monkey Man.
      42.
      Get over it
      Stay Safe and
      Stay Free 😅🎉❤

    • @ptousig
      @ptousig ปีที่แล้ว +21

      How many of us continued the quote in our head?
      "I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."

  • @keisimo
    @keisimo ปีที่แล้ว +150

    Kudos for the team involved in doing this animations. They REALLY help understanding these advanced topics

    • @vkvk3525
      @vkvk3525 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Speak for yourself. I don't understand anything after "Space" and "Time"

    • @nortonman5238
      @nortonman5238 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Is it the and part

    • @calvinsantana9576
      @calvinsantana9576 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@vkvk3525😂😅

  • @pete-m86
    @pete-m86 ปีที่แล้ว +215

    This was the BEST explanation of the subject I've ever seen! I understand the principles but had difficulty conceptualizing the 'edges' of the universe. It will take a few rewatches and lots of pausing, but I'm certain I will finally wrap my head around this. Thank you!

    • @paulhopkins8148
      @paulhopkins8148 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Definitely gonna be watched a few more times by me.

    • @augustus4711
      @augustus4711 ปีที่แล้ว

      Kurzgesagt did a video on the topic a year ago. Check it out: th-cam.com/video/uzkD5SeuwzM/w-d-xo.html

    • @DixieLand9
      @DixieLand9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I agree.

    • @fugslayernominee1397
      @fugslayernominee1397 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@paulhopkins8148 yeah I too had to re-watch the episode to properly conceptualize the space-time diagrams and to better understand how those later started to curve.

    • @alfvanbeem
      @alfvanbeem ปีที่แล้ว +3

      and then forgetting it 🙁

  • @SauceGPT
    @SauceGPT ปีที่แล้ว +235

    I love that you're wearing a shirt that says, "Heat Death is Coming" while talking about the expansion of the observable universe.
    We appreciate the little things as well

  • @deathx0r
    @deathx0r ปีที่แล้ว +348

    What a magnificent episode. And that's saying a lot, all of your videos are incredibly good.

    • @m4s0ok4
      @m4s0ok4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Up for this

    • @zes7215
      @zes7215 ปีที่แล้ว

      no such thing as magnifix or lot or etc or not, bix s 1uferiox bloat, doesnt matter, cepuxuax, outx, can outx any nmw s perfx

    • @josvanderspek1403
      @josvanderspek1403 ปีที่แล้ว

      I subscribe to this completely. I wanted to praise it in a comment too, but there is actually nothing to add.

    • @bobzombie2710
      @bobzombie2710 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@zes7215 adverb verb noun adjective, noun verb noun adjective adverb noun adjective!

  • @starrywizdom
    @starrywizdom ปีที่แล้ว +7

    “Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space...”
    Thanks so much for the *Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy* reference -- there is a tiny corner of my heart that is forever Douglas Adams.

  • @oskarskalski2982
    @oskarskalski2982 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    PBS Space Time is the best! I always struggled to grasp the idea behind diagrams for each of this horizons and hoped that someone will make a video explaining it and there is no surprise that Matt did it. I will still need to watch this episode again to be able to understand it fully but it is great to have this video.

  • @jajssblue
    @jajssblue ปีที่แล้ว +106

    I absolutely love these videos deep diving on conformal mappings! It's such a powerful tool in GR.

    • @jamesdriscoll_tmp1515
      @jamesdriscoll_tmp1515 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You ain't mapping
      It ain't happening

    • @johngagon
      @johngagon ปีที่แล้ว +1

      GR seems to be one of the most reliable theories besides QM and it's CC, one of the few constants we can count on. I wonder if dark energy can be explained by expansion alone or if properties of empty space taken for granted might play a role, for example, space that has never seen certain waves in the layers of std model particles like neutrinos. Don't forget comoving space!

    • @theprogram863
      @theprogram863 ปีที่แล้ว

      I normally keep up, but this one will require multiple re-watches. And for something I thought I already understood! Bravo for helping me see deeper into the subtleties of the idea.
      Though... it's also an illustration of something I heard said, that a professor's job is to make complicated things simple... and simple things complicated. 😜

  • @Dronebotworkshop
    @Dronebotworkshop ปีที่แล้ว +49

    Always a great day when a new Space Time episode is released!

  • @alemorita92
    @alemorita92 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    This is hands-down the best reference I’ve seen to study conformal diagrams in FRW spacetimes. I’ve struggled with them a lot in the past from books and papers; the effort put into this animations has made them my go-to reference right now. Keep up this amazing work!

  • @CapoJachu
    @CapoJachu ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Not only I am impressed by how much new information on a topic I thought I grasped I learned from this episode, the way it was presented was absolutely beautiful. I greatly appreciate the effort spent on making this episode. Give the person responsible for the graphs a raise!

  • @Galadonin
    @Galadonin ปีที่แล้ว +126

    How many time can we rediscover the spacetime diagram ? It'll always blow my mind !
    Quick edit : this is how to science vulgarization works. I'm not a fan of math, never been easy. Yet, from particules interaction, to the physics of black holes, expansion, dark matter/energy, geodesics ... We've learned a lot of complicated ways to represent GR to quantum mechanics, it's awesome ! Thanks Matt and your team

    • @Mishanya442
      @Mishanya442 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      The left path at 5:48 looks suspiciously fast though.

    • @dangerfly
      @dangerfly ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Spacetime is strangely arousing...

    • @ritemolawbks8012
      @ritemolawbks8012 ปีที่แล้ว

      Too bad Hermann Minkowski was long dead before the rest of the world knew how to use it.

    • @erdemmemisyazici3950
      @erdemmemisyazici3950 ปีที่แล้ว

      New tools always gives us a fresh look. Look at how neural networks sped up interpretation of the data we had for decades. That blackhole picture we took came from collaboration between labs around the planet allowing us to use the size of the Earth as an instrument. Quantum physics that led to really high definition T.V.s also lead to us understanding how to communicate better in space, calculate travelling salesman problem much faster, get to look for Higgs and find it and so on. As long as our understanding improves so will our interpretation of current data I suppose. But it is likely that we will find ourselves having to have to recreate rare events closer to home as we slow down in that progress.
      Edited to add:
      I say this because some basic things like the periodic table or the Standard Model really seems to be it for the foreseeable future. There are possible game changers out there but more on the disproving side. A weird one is the Kastler Brossel labs result vs. the Berkeley result for measuring the g-2 factor for ruling out non-observed phenomenon thus far. It's odd when only like 3 people can carry out an experiment and they disagree but certainly interesting to see. Afterall there are candidates for dark matter like the weakly interacting massive particles but none globally accepted.
      It's definitely worth keeping an eye on, though I'm really expecting more from anti-matter experiments.

    • @mvmlego1212
      @mvmlego1212 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Mishanya442 -- Yes. They've made the same mistake in at least one previous video. I thought the visuals were great overall, though.

  • @doubleRprodutions
    @doubleRprodutions ปีที่แล้ว +31

    As you told me to imagine being a photon spat out by a star near the beginning of time, racing towards the Milky Way against expanding spacetime, I could feel myself red shifting across the decelerating horizon. Thank you for that superb imagery!

  • @Samael1113
    @Samael1113 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    This is one of the best episodes, describing the basic concepts and definitions leading to a better understanding of time and expansion and the CMB that I've seen in a while. Good Job.

  • @realzachfluke1
    @realzachfluke1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    This has to be the best-animated video on TH-cam for an educational topic. Coupled with the writing and Matt's ability to present the material, and you've got some of the most beautiful work ever done on this platform, something I do not say lightly.
    Mad props to you guys, and thank you for absolutely everything you do.

  • @EJBert
    @EJBert ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I'll be re-watching this one a few times to understand all of the nuances. Great episode!

  • @williammogey1829
    @williammogey1829 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Great episode! Very well explained, and a spacetime diagram that Georgia O'Keeffe would be proud of. Thank you, Matt.

  • @aaronturkey
    @aaronturkey ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Yes 🙌🏻 for the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy reference!

  • @philipmurphy2
    @philipmurphy2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Being early to a PBS Space Time TH-cam video is great, Quality content is always worth a watch.

  • @IWouldLikeToRemainAnonymous
    @IWouldLikeToRemainAnonymous ปีที่แล้ว +29

    I loved this episode!!! So beautiful and eloquently explained to someone familiar with some of the concepts here (space-time diagram for example) but then going further and expanding on those concepts to explore some of the largest meta-questions in cosmology; How much of the Universe will we ever see? When will the Universe past the Local Group start to recede away? and many other questions on the same topic. So excited to watch the next episode of Space Time!

  • @timothyoswald8618
    @timothyoswald8618 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The whole concept of dark energy "kicking in" always makes my nose twitch. Was it waiting for an invitation?

  • @allanburns1190
    @allanburns1190 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    you do such a good job please never quit making these

  • @the_koschi
    @the_koschi ปีที่แล้ว +8

    At 2:20 there is a typo: I says the CMB was emitted after 380,00 years, instead of 380,000. 🙂

    • @scienceofdeduct
      @scienceofdeduct ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I came to the comments to see if the observant viewers saw the typo, too. I was not disappointed.

  • @Kumquat_Lord
    @Kumquat_Lord ปีที่แล้ว +72

    I still find it rad that we only need around 50 digits of pi to calculate the circumference of the currently observable universe to within the accuracy of a single proton.

    • @DKFX1
      @DKFX1 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Not true. There's a lot of uncertainty in the measurements of the age of the universe and its radius. The hubble constant if famously difficult to pin down.
      EDIT: Misinterpreted the comment. Kumquat is right about his statement.

    • @plat2716
      @plat2716 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@DKFX1 Requiring more certainty in measurements that aren't pi doesn't mean you need more than fifty digits of pi. Do youtube commenters have to hold their breath when they type because they can't do two things at once I wonder?

    • @DKFX1
      @DKFX1 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ​@@plat2716 Nice one.
      I recognize the difference upon considering your classy comment, but digits of pi mean very little theoretically in terms of accuracy measurements if your constants are not equally precise or more so.

    • @plat2716
      @plat2716 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@DKFX1 No problem. Maybe after one more classy comment you'll finally understand what people mean when they say you only need 50 digits of pi for this.
      They're saying IF you had perfect measurements you would only need 50 digits of pi to get that level of accuracy. I shouldn't have to explain this to someone who can write complete sentences but hey I guess my expectations are too high for people who seem otherwise intelligent and articulate.

    • @batman3698
      @batman3698 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@plat2716 The comment can easily be misinterpreted. A more correct way to phrase it according to your interpretation would be "you would need only 50 digits of pi" as opposed to "you only need 50 digits of pi". But one thing that cannot be misinterpreted is your terrible personality and attitude.

  • @Nightscape_
    @Nightscape_ ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I loved that shell analogy and spacetime diagram; it was very intuitive. I am happy I got to live at a time where there are still stars and galaxies in the sky.

  • @ColeCoug
    @ColeCoug ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This video was made for me! I have been drawing these things I called light leaves with the same teardrop shape and then someone pointed me to the Davis and Lineweaver paper and it explained everything but I understand it a lot better after watching this video!

  • @Agent-wj1ft
    @Agent-wj1ft ปีที่แล้ว +18

    "You could imagine the night sky as a set of shells" So the geocentrics and their heavenly spheres weren't entirely wrong, funky! I love when coincidences/connections like this happen

    • @theprogram863
      @theprogram863 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I thought the same thing, with the pinprick stars thought to be windows into Eternity, which in a very loose sense some of them are. Great metaphorical echo!

    • @y11971alex
      @y11971alex ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Geocentrism and heliocentrism describe the relative movement of bodies in the solar system. That is not relevant to the ideation of the night sky as a set of shells, which is relative only to the observer’s position and does not imply any movement.

    • @theprogram863
      @theprogram863 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@y11971alex He's very obviously talking about the imagery, not claiming that it's a literal return to the Ptolemaic system.

    • @Styphon
      @Styphon ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Any point in an infinite plane or sphere is legitimately "the middle" from its perspective. Hence, the Universe actually does revolve around us.

    • @DrWhom
      @DrWhom ปีที่แล้ว

      @@theprogram863 you can never quite tell though

  • @dayngerus
    @dayngerus ปีที่แล้ว +11

    4:15pm release for me! Do this more, please

    • @xl000
      @xl000 ปีที่แล้ว

      Gmt - 8 ?

    • @dc6953
      @dc6953 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same lmao

  • @Hossak
    @Hossak ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space." Great video :)

  • @pinboru_
    @pinboru_ ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I like the background sound/effect/music that comes in when Matt starts the epic explanations.

  • @amirtambe2957
    @amirtambe2957 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Really unique way of representation through layers. 👍

  • @ugonunes1544
    @ugonunes1544 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Idk if it’s my headache, but this is the first video in a while that I struggle to understand the material. That is GREAT NEWS, I love learning new stuff! Great video!!

    • @tensevo
      @tensevo ปีที่แล้ว

      I was literally the opposite, mostly dont get it, but these diagrams, makes it sense.

  • @davidwilkie9551
    @davidwilkie9551 ปีที่แล้ว

    "Seeing is believing", knowing is power, and Virtual Work, being here-now-forever instantaneously.

  • @gborderolle
    @gborderolle ปีที่แล้ว

    Beautiful video Matt; in my opinion one of the best of your great channel. I had to watch it twice.

  • @successmeditations110
    @successmeditations110 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Loved the hitchhiker reference. Well explained as always.

  • @danielm81
    @danielm81 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    What a fantastic mind bending episode! Thank you!

  • @shanezanath2092
    @shanezanath2092 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is one of my favorite episodes.I have never fully understood how we can map the CMB but there are objects whose light has not yet had time to reach us. 🤩 This makes so much sense now. Thanks!

  • @maximilliancunningham6091
    @maximilliancunningham6091 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Simply the best cosmology source on you tube.

  • @jasonfraga7661
    @jasonfraga7661 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I've always been confused about how space time diagrams and light cones worked until now. Phenomenal animation and explanation. 🤓

  • @buddhabunnee
    @buddhabunnee ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Really hard for me to follow and grasp.. but I trust you know what you're talking about Matt! :D I'm glad it makes sense to you lol

  • @mavvi860
    @mavvi860 ปีที่แล้ว

    "the sky will finally be dark."
    chills imagining that. just chills.

  • @ZoltanVaci0
    @ZoltanVaci0 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you for FINALLY providing an explanation of where the CMB comes from and how it relates to the size and geometry of the universe. I have seen the CMB invoked so many times without a real explanation other than "it comes from the big bang"

  • @libertyjones1451
    @libertyjones1451 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    "Where we're going we won't need speed limits" ☺️

  • @jamesbaxterfirst
    @jamesbaxterfirst ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Before watching video: Well I know the observable universe is our hard limit.

    • @oracleofdelphi4533
      @oracleofdelphi4533 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      There are exceptions. We've used gravitational lensing to see beyond the sphere that is the observable.

    • @CeeJMantis
      @CeeJMantis ปีที่แล้ว +6

      ​@@oracleofdelphi4533 I haven't watched the video yet, but I don't know how one could use gravitational lensing to see more distant objects. It should allow people to see distant objects more clearly, but not from farther away than the speed of light would allow. Am I missing something?

    • @kaseyboles30
      @kaseyboles30 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@oracleofdelphi4533 That would actually reduce max range ( light covering a longer distance for not being in a straight line). It does let us see distance objects better in some cases. But C is a hard limit so max distance is limited by time.

    • @my3dviews
      @my3dviews ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@oracleofdelphi4533 It makes objects appear distorted or at a different angle from where they actually are. But it can't make us see beyond the visible universe.

    • @andiralosh2173
      @andiralosh2173 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Y'all are getting into the weeds in terms of optics. Gravitational lensing collects light that would otherwise be too dispersed to see. This really has little to do with observable distance. Rather this is a helpful telescopic lense, thus the lensing part

  • @AricBlunk
    @AricBlunk ปีที่แล้ว

    This video was right on the edge of my event horizon of understanding, and expanded it, thank you.

  • @watsonwrote
    @watsonwrote ปีที่แล้ว +6

    While watching this video, I realized that space and time really are the same thing. When we look into the sky, we are looking into the past just as much, if not more than, we are looking at a far-off object.
    It just never truly occured to me that at night we are looking into the distant past
    I knew the light we were seeing was old but it still felt like I was looking at an object that was far away. But that's actually a weird way to think about light that is depicting phenomena that may not even exist anymore, especially as the space continuously changes.
    I was just so used to "oh, the far off stars! Maybe someday we will explore them, like distant mountains!" But no, they are so unfathomably far away that we cannot experience them as we are now. And it seemed like the past was just a concept, an artifact of memory, and the only thing that really existed was the present.
    But my whole life I could physically look into the past from the light of other stars as soon as my planet shielded the light of the star nearby. Every dozen hours we have the chance to look into far distant times.
    Wild.

  • @NeonVisual
    @NeonVisual ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The visible universe is but one subatomic particle in a giant spacewhale.

    • @Reth_Hard
      @Reth_Hard ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah it is very hard for our brain to process the size of the universe accurately but there's an easy trick you can try if you want.
      Close your eyes and picture in your mind the entire size of your mom, and then double it...
      That's pretty impressive isn't it?

    • @NeonVisual
      @NeonVisual ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Reth_Hard A spacewhale is bigger than any human can comprehend.

  • @arbinoypogi
    @arbinoypogi ปีที่แล้ว

    The animation makes it so much easier to grasp the concepts and ideas! Thank you!!!

  • @Nev.14
    @Nev.14 ปีที่แล้ว

    What an amazing video, the visuals really clarified a lot of things that I was foggy on when it came to this topic, thanks a lot!

  • @peterbakpetersen4942
    @peterbakpetersen4942 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    There is a typo 2:14 where a 0 is missing. It says "380,00 years after the big bang" - it should be "380,000 years".

    • @xl000
      @xl000 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They should re encode the whole video, delete this one and reupload it.

  • @JimGriffOne
    @JimGriffOne ปีที่แล้ว +6

    06:36 - I think you're right when saying DE "took over" at a certain point, billions of years ago. I think it likely started right at the beginning, but its effects only started to 'dominate' later on. If it didn't exist at the beginning, the Universe would've collapsed back in on itself and we wouldn't be here. You can see how the rate of change of the curve starts from right at the beginning - Dark Energy (expansion) must've therefore been having an effect, albeit a weaker effect earlier on.
    My hypothesis is that spacetime (whatever it's made out of) is a substance, and that substance is entering our universe at all locations simultaneously. The more spacetime we have in our universe, the more "space" and "time" there is for new spacetime to enter from outside, so it gradually accelerates in expansion. Probably wrong, though! Just some thoughts about the multidimensional realm in which we exist. I'd love to see someone with expertise to try to figure out my hypothesis on a mathematical level, though. Perhaps someone already has. I mean, every other idea I've had, I've found out some great mind had the idea decades/centuries ago! Ideas are timeless.

    • @frun
      @frun ปีที่แล้ว

      The idea is called Emergent gravity. Spacetime is a condensed matter/many-body system. There are a lot of papers on the subject.

    • @frun
      @frun ปีที่แล้ว

      I could tell you more if you were interested.

  • @krakhedd
    @krakhedd ปีที่แล้ว

    This is an excellent video, absolutely love the topic and presentation! Thank you!

  • @chucktalbott9367
    @chucktalbott9367 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This stuff is great. Can't express how much I love this.

  • @xyzxyzxyz123abc
    @xyzxyzxyz123abc ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I've always struggled to visualize how the light from the CMB reaches us, this is an amazing video. Thank you for making these

    • @panner11
      @panner11 ปีที่แล้ว

      My thoughts exactly. Tbh, they didn't explain very much how exactly we are able to see it. But the video gave enough visualization tools to work it out ourselves intuitively. Especially the non-conformal chart showing how in the early universe, the things beyond the hubble horizon, has space expanding much faster than the speed of light despite the small size of the universe, then slowing down, and speeding up. It really made it click why we can see the cmb 14 billion light years in every direction. And yet, at the time the cmb occupied a small space(relative to the current hubble horizon).

  • @robadkerson
    @robadkerson ปีที่แล้ว +23

    If light is quantized, why doesn't it begin to stutter as it reaches the edge of where we can see it?

    • @somanayr
      @somanayr ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Light is quantized at a given wavelength, so if you stretch out the waves the quanta becomes smaller

    • @XtreeM_FaiL
      @XtreeM_FaiL ปีที่แล้ว +3

      What edge? There is no edge from the light's perspective.

    • @chrisparis3808
      @chrisparis3808 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Redshifting is based on the wave-like tendencies of light, and so while the total energy of light will be the same, the energy will be spread across a larger time, appearing as a lower frequency/higher wavelength or redder.

    • @mikereherman5554
      @mikereherman5554 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Light took speech lessons as not to stutter

    • @juliavixen176
      @juliavixen176 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The interaction of light with fermions is quantized... photons are a useful mathematical abstraction for calculating the interaction, but photons are not actually a "thing" that exists. It's just a way to talk about a very small part of the continuous electromagnetic field.

  • @stampedetrail2003
    @stampedetrail2003 ปีที่แล้ว

    I don't think I've ever actually heard a clear description of the particle horizon until now. Awesome!

  • @spooky-action
    @spooky-action 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wow, those bloopers were so funny and personalizing. WE need to do that!! Great work. Keep it going!

  • @oO0catty0Oo
    @oO0catty0Oo ปีที่แล้ว +4

    You might think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.

  • @moonshoes11
    @moonshoes11 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Did anyone catch a view of the planets last night?

    • @Tigtone_85
      @Tigtone_85 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It was too cloudy in my area😞

  • @shuaige3360
    @shuaige3360 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks! Interesting as alway.
    Looking forward the futures episodes.

  • @pablog80
    @pablog80 ปีที่แล้ว

    Outstanding job, as usual. Many thanks

  • @anthonynarozniak9725
    @anthonynarozniak9725 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I'm kind of curious to know if it would be possible for the CMB to fit in with with one of the latest theories that our universe is in a black hole...

    • @stampedetrail2003
      @stampedetrail2003 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      By definition, the universe is, as long as it meets or exceeds critical density. It'd be a time-like black hole.

  • @joetache4
    @joetache4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    10:50 An analogy I thought of is that of an ant standing on infinitely stretchy rubber band. The ant starts at one end which is racing away at 100 miles an hour. As the ant walks to other side, though, the ratio of rubber band in front compared to behind is always decreasing (even though the length of the rubber band keeps increasing, and increasing much faster than the ant can walk). But because this ratio will eventually go to zero, that means the ant must eventually reach the other side.

  • @user-fc8xw4fi5v
    @user-fc8xw4fi5v ปีที่แล้ว

    7:40 the spacetime diagram that accounts for the expansion of space is SO COOL

  • @X2trust
    @X2trust ปีที่แล้ว

    This is really well put together.

  • @enverse244
    @enverse244 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    🎉 yay science

  • @gamechep
    @gamechep ปีที่แล้ว +3

    So jealous of the people who can comprehend all or most of the intricacies involved in this episode.

    • @michaelsommers2356
      @michaelsommers2356 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You can too, if you put in the work.

    • @monoptique621
      @monoptique621 ปีที่แล้ว

      It is not necessary. The understanding of things will change again in future centuries. 😉

    • @michaelsommers2356
      @michaelsommers2356 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@monoptique621 Sure, if you remain ignorant now, you won't have to update your knowledge in the future.

    • @monoptique621
      @monoptique621 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@michaelsommers2356 Yes. The difficulty lies in the fact of not having a global view of the entire "sky of the galaxies". In my cosmological model, the "sky of the galaxies" would be in rotary motion within the thickness of a titanic hollow sphere. The apparent inflation would be a temporary dilation.

    • @michaelsommers2356
      @michaelsommers2356 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@monoptique621 Hahahahahaha!

  • @mossyfriends1911
    @mossyfriends1911 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    it’s tragic yet strangely beautiful at the same time, that we can never discover everything. There will always be places to see and new things to discover. We will never get to see them all, but we will also never run out of new discoveries. We will always be explorers to the very end.

  • @Dr.RiccoMastermind
    @Dr.RiccoMastermind ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Love it that you also use These cool tranforming graphics on this topic, not seen like this before 😎

  • @raas1337
    @raas1337 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Oh - its gonna be depressing one ;D

    • @magnumxlpi
      @magnumxlpi ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hahah thought the same and the commercial isn't over

    • @hugosmoable
      @hugosmoable ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I love these videos and learning about the universe, but there are times that I'd rather add videos to the watch later list in order to prevent being sad for the rest of the day hahahaha. Sometimes my mind is not up to the task.

  • @ludermathwig7022
    @ludermathwig7022 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    could single quarks exist in an undefined state?

    • @aaronperelmuter8433
      @aaronperelmuter8433 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      How could anything exist in an undefined state? By definition, you’ve not defined if it exists.

    • @zzasdfwas
      @zzasdfwas ปีที่แล้ว

      AFAWK, quarks can't be separated to large distances from each other because the color force increases with distance, so at some distance the binding energy between two distant quarks exceeds the rest energy of two more quarks, so quarks will be created in the vacuum.

    • @ludermathwig7022
      @ludermathwig7022 ปีที่แล้ว

      @zzasdfwas by undefined, I mean a sort of super position. How should we know there arent quarks like that?

    • @ludermathwig7022
      @ludermathwig7022 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Aaron Perelmuter same answer to you 👆

    • @aaronperelmuter8433
      @aaronperelmuter8433 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ludermathwig7022 Well of course there are. Quarks are tiny particles, just like electrons and just like the neutrons and protons they are a part of. Therefore, as all quantum objects can exist in a superposition, the answer is of course. Moreover, a superposition is not an undefined state, it’s a combination of every state possible, we just have no idea which and in what proportions.

  • @KeithCooper-Albuquerque
    @KeithCooper-Albuquerque ปีที่แล้ว

    Great mind-expanding video, Matt!

  • @Joshua-by4qv
    @Joshua-by4qv ปีที่แล้ว

    Great episode as always and just mindboggling. But less mindboggling after I watched it. The spherical shells concept was great at explaining this.

  • @andreylebedenko1260
    @andreylebedenko1260 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    2:10 Does CMB actually travel? Isn't it always... here, since Big Bang happened in all places at once?

    • @Wick9876
      @Wick9876 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's always here since there are always more photons from the big bang that are just now reaching us. Those photons have been traveling.

    • @kaseyboles30
      @kaseyboles30 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, kind of,however the cmb is what it looked like at the time.

    • @consciouscactus
      @consciouscactus ปีที่แล้ว

      From what I understand, it *was* everywhere at once, 13.7 billion years ago. The reason its not always here anymore is because the big bang is not happening anymore. So the CMB 'travels' forward in time. I hope that made any sense.

    • @amateurrandomdude5870
      @amateurrandomdude5870 ปีที่แล้ว

      The CMB appeared much later than the universe

    • @user-sl6gn1ss8p
      @user-sl6gn1ss8p ปีที่แล้ว +1

      if we detect it, then it's here. But the light we detect now was emitted some time ago from somewhere else, and we can reconstruct and project that. Any light which was emitted "from here" "back then" is by now far gone.
      Same as when you look at the moon. The light of the moon is in you eyes as you see it, but you can mentally reconstruct the moon as a far away object which emitted (/reflected) this light

  • @binbots
    @binbots ปีที่แล้ว +7

    General relativity and quantum mechanics will never be combined until we realize that they take place at different moments in time. Because causality has a speed limit (c) every point in space where you observe it from will be the closest to the present moment. When we look out into the universe, we see the past which is made of particles (GR). When we try to look at smaller and smaller sizes and distances, we are actually looking closer and closer to the present moment (QM). The wave property of particles appears when we start looking into the future of that particle. It is a probability wave because the future is probabilistic. Wave function collapse happens when we bring a particle into the present/past. GR is making measurements in the predictable past. QM is trying to make measurements of the probabilistic future.

    • @juliavixen176
      @juliavixen176 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Do you just cut and paste this same comment on every popular science TH-cam video?

    • @binbots
      @binbots ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@juliavixen176 LOL. I knew someone would bust me eventually.

  • @arwah97
    @arwah97 ปีที่แล้ว

    Matt always finds a creative & unique phrase to end each video with “Space Time” ☺️👍

  • @DavidKennyNZL
    @DavidKennyNZL ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I like to think I know something about the universe. I like it more when Space Time proves me wrong, and I have to watch again to try figure it all out. Definatly something new and mind bending.

  • @georgeburdell517
    @georgeburdell517 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanx to Dr. Dowd for these videos... I know they are difficult to put together but they are excellent!

  • @AdityaTayade
    @AdityaTayade ปีที่แล้ว +1

    magnificent explainer! eagerly awaiting the next episode

  • @anderspaulsson
    @anderspaulsson ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Topics like this are so interesting.

  • @wesleyhatfield1955
    @wesleyhatfield1955 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    All i can say is 'ouch!" That hurt. Cudos that I understood about %70 of that. Well done.

  • @scotthammond3230
    @scotthammond3230 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks, Ive been waiting for this. It made sense that the cmb was both super far away yet fairly close depending on how you look at it.

  • @dmk351
    @dmk351 ปีที่แล้ว

    thank you so much, i've been thinking about exactly this for years and you answered all my questions :)

  • @Antilenin111
    @Antilenin111 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for making me relax and find ideas. You are rock stars 🤘

  • @m4s0ok4
    @m4s0ok4 ปีที่แล้ว

    One of the most interesting video you did! Really loved it

  • @TheMrGoncharov
    @TheMrGoncharov ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great video, thanks!

  • @funnyman4744
    @funnyman4744 ปีที่แล้ว

    Finally, it's the best PBS Spacetime episode of all time. You've really outdone yourself this time!

  • @cameronhunt5967
    @cameronhunt5967 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I’m reminded of a well written video about the simultaneous agoraphobia of just how kind bogglingly big the universe is and the claustrophobia of not being able to explore all of it and being trapped by the speed of light.
    It also talked about the paper clip maximizer game.

    • @leftward_hoe
      @leftward_hoe ปีที่แล้ว

      link?

    • @DrWhom
      @DrWhom ปีที่แล้ว

      but if you find _that_ claustrophobic, the fact that you will be dead in what cosmologically amounts to no time at all, must be paralysing!

  • @curtissharpe7084
    @curtissharpe7084 ปีที่แล้ว

    A very good reference right at the start.
    So long, and thanks for all the vids. This is only a reference in return.

  • @stevenschilizzi4104
    @stevenschilizzi4104 ปีที่แล้ว

    Matt, your episodes are always… brilliant! And I always come away from them, or out of them, feeling smarter, a good-feeling illusion! But this time, this once, I must say I lost my footing! My head went spinning and I went reeling. Boy, I’ll need to read up on the (new to me) concepts you introduce here, and then re-watch and re-re-watch this video until the moving coordinates and shifting and stretching spacetime eventually sink into my kilogram and a half of wet slushy mush that neuroscientists call the brain. You’re right: I had never seen those diagrams before. They’re fascinating. Thanks again for all the effort you put in making these videos a piece of art. Have you thought of getting GPT4 etc. to help you with them? 😉

  • @timhansen5162
    @timhansen5162 ปีที่แล้ว

    Loved This Video! Can’t wait for the next one on this topic

  • @dillonfrylinck639
    @dillonfrylinck639 ปีที่แล้ว

    My favourite yet!
    Can’t wait for the next!!!

  • @mormsbie2227
    @mormsbie2227 ปีที่แล้ว

    incredible work, truly.

  • @jasonlewis1746
    @jasonlewis1746 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm sorry I didn't mean to interrupt your super physicist video. It hurt my brain. I was just looking for a clowder video. 😂
    Btw, Awesome video. I'm sure I will understand the universe before all the galaxies go cold.

  • @werner134897
    @werner134897 ปีที่แล้ว

    This seems to be the clearest explanation I've ever seen. Would have liked a summary at the end of the sizes of all horizons defined, though.

  • @MonkeysEmperor
    @MonkeysEmperor ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing episode, it is as much beautiful as it is soul-crushing x-x

  • @nealdaniel8800
    @nealdaniel8800 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for this. I had been thinking about it. The transforming diagrams were incredible.

  • @nillchen
    @nillchen ปีที่แล้ว

    Great episode, thank you!!

  • @vaderjo
    @vaderjo ปีที่แล้ว

    This is in the top 3 of the best PBS Space Time Episodes!