The True Nature of Matter and Mass | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios

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  • Are matter, mass, and time real?
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    We know that mass is energy… but what is energy? And where did matter and time even come from? Matt begins to dive into these intricate topics by first examining what inertial mass is, how it relates to gravitational mass, and what it all means for mass as a fundamental property.
    The Speed of Light is NOT About Light
    • The Speed of Light is ...
    The Real Meaning of E=mc²
    • The Real Meaning of E=mc²
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    • The Higgs Mechanism Ex...
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    Equivalence Principle
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  • @InternetReviewerGuy
    @InternetReviewerGuy 8 ปีที่แล้ว +854

    I don't understand 90% of these videos, but I watch every single one to boost their viewership so that they'll make more programming like this for people who do.

    • @Johnqasgt
      @Johnqasgt 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      InternetReviewerGuy you belong in r/wholesomen

    • @e1123581321345589144
      @e1123581321345589144 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Don't feel bad. I understand about half of the content on average. This one though was quite easy to follow.

    • @mateja176
      @mateja176 5 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      It's a bit like learning German only by listening to people conversing in German. Initially you won't understand a things but given some time you'll pick up on the meaning of certain words and soon enough you'll build your own sentences.

    • @sandyrost8610
      @sandyrost8610 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      InternetReviewerGuy no a little tip if you don't mind if you don't try so hard you understand better I found that psychological trick

    • @mitchneal5981
      @mitchneal5981 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Your sacrifice is making the world a better place.

  • @lnhostetler
    @lnhostetler 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    I am a (first-year) PhD student in theoretical particle physics, and I learned something new watching this video. In fact, I basically had a 'Holy crap it all makes sense now!' moment.
    I am lucky to be learning physics in a time when there is such high quality content as this available at my fingertips.

    • @davidgladden8016
      @davidgladden8016 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      lnhostetler Something that is left out that I’m still struggling with is, why does [Confined Energy] = [Space Curvature] ?
      Is that something that is still not understood?

    • @lnhostetler
      @lnhostetler 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@davidgladden8016 It's been a while since I've watched this video, but it sounds like confined energy is just another name for mass (i.e. the mass-energy equivalence), and from general relativity, we know that mass causes spacetime to curve. Hence, confined energy causes spacetime curvature.

    • @justintodd5145
      @justintodd5145 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Imagine if Einstein had all the tools we have now. We'd be time traveling by now.

  • @hyperelliptik
    @hyperelliptik 2 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    "Mass is an emergent property of the interactions of massless particles", wow. I'm just an amateur physics nerd but everything up to and including that quote was so incredibly well explained and visualized (although I had to watch it at 50% speed to keep up and not lose track because ADHD etc lol). One of the best physics channels on youtube, honestly. This is why I love physics, challenging the very universe itself to find answers to the things we take for granted, asking "but why" to every phenomenon until an answer is found, and there's no way to avoid dipping one's toes into existential philosophy at the same time.

    • @kensanity178
      @kensanity178 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Read Tom Van Flanderns explanation of gravity. (Dark matter, missing planets) It brought a lot of clarity to my cluttered mind about the origins of gravity, and how it creates matter, and explains many things that have been heretofore simply explained wrong.

    • @natashan8327
      @natashan8327 ปีที่แล้ว

      I completely agree…I love this description of physics.
      And ADHD is interesting, for mine I have to watch faster because I keep zoning out if my brain isn’t engaged fully, and my processing of information is super fast

    • @michaelgonzalez9058
      @michaelgonzalez9058 ปีที่แล้ว

      M-1/2Ω- ÷0.9=0

    • @oakhauser
      @oakhauser 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What if matter was only observations of organized energy that we can sense ??

    • @jflopezfernandez
      @jflopezfernandez 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you for your service

  • @ASLUHLUHCE
    @ASLUHLUHCE 4 ปีที่แล้ว +145

    SPOILER ALERT
    Mindblown. Mass and time are emergent properties of massless, timeless particles and fields bumping around, resisting acceleration.

    • @ahmedsaniad2946
      @ahmedsaniad2946 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I k r🙄🙄

    • @stryker1999
      @stryker1999 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      This universe is a puzzle, wrapped in an enigma, covered in Christmas wrappings. What a present. Learning about all this, how a universe made up of bound energy works and acts like a collection of physical objects, is fascinating. But then I have to wonder, why are we so bad about treating each other good? Why is it so easy to hate other people rather than like them?
      Well, that requires some spirit stuff, from philosophy and theology. Science can't even handle a conscience yet. Oh well, now to wonder if the Higgs field is actually a d-brane, or evidence of one...

    • @davidwilliams2722
      @davidwilliams2722 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You should have begun with "Spoiler Alert!"

    • @AngeloXification
      @AngeloXification 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Makes sense.

    • @MARILYNANDERSON88
      @MARILYNANDERSON88 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      To where?, I wonder.

  • @leavy
    @leavy 8 ปีที่แล้ว +214

    This channel is one of the only places I know of where I can visit the comments and not worry about any trolling or saltiness, and actually learn something. Wish I could subscribe more than once!

    • @ImGonnaShout2000
      @ImGonnaShout2000 6 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      leavy Trolls are naturally repelled by intelligent content.

    • @shirleymason7697
      @shirleymason7697 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Sorry. Over the years - many trolls have come in here.

    • @michaelhull1813
      @michaelhull1813 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The only thing I could think to retort is how you're obviously too stupid to understand what a troll does.
      How's that?

    • @Tableteer
      @Tableteer 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      What if there was a show about sodium chloride? Then it would be salty. 😀

    • @snozzmcberry2366
      @snozzmcberry2366 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@shirleymason7697 "Trolling" has lost its meaning with the emergence of the hyper-populated internet brought about by the emergence of smartphone ubiquity in society.
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  • @ComandanteJ
    @ComandanteJ 8 ปีที่แล้ว +359

    I always have to watch SpaceTime vids a couple of times to get everything, but this time i think i will have to watch it even more than two, LOL.

    • @theRealRindberg
      @theRealRindberg 8 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      +ComandanteJ I always have to watch them a couple of times to get some of it... but yes, this was a real mind bender :D

    • @circuitboardsushi
      @circuitboardsushi 8 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      +ComandanteJ Started watching, restarted part of the way through. Did something for awhile. Watched it again. I don't think I'm done watching it yet. PBS Space Time, you are the channel for me. I mean that from the bottom of my screaming brain. :)

    • @BOOGY110011
      @BOOGY110011 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +ComandanteJ I just watch first 3 second and email them about all errors that they made :) Then i go lecture on university of everything where i'm chancellor.

    • @ComandanteJ
      @ComandanteJ 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      adagioforstrings007 Hehe, well, i learned english thanks to videogames, music, and mostly, the internet, so if you keep watching vids you'll develop a very good english level, eventually.

    • @aryanchauhan510
      @aryanchauhan510 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +adagioforstrings007 I learnt english from youtube caption in some channel

  • @Lucky10279
    @Lucky10279 4 ปีที่แล้ว +82

    This is the first time I've started to actually understand where mass comes from and why photons are massless. Thanks for this video!

    • @thegod2291
      @thegod2291 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Well he said he'll describe it later , he didn't explain how any massless particle have frozen clocks

    • @Lucky10279
      @Lucky10279 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@thegod2291 That's a special relativity thing. According to SR, the more an object moves in space, the less it moves in time and vice versa. Since C is the maximum speed possible, the only way for an object to travel at that speed is for it to not travel in time AT ALL. Fermilab's video on why it's impossible to travel at the speed of light does a really good job explaining this in detail.

    • @thegod2291
      @thegod2291 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Lucky10279 No i watched his other video later , thanks man

  • @Fematika
    @Fematika 7 ปีที่แล้ว +340

    I am so glad that this channel exists. I clicked on a flat-earth video, and I just needed some actual science to cool my temper.

    • @lolalucxyz
      @lolalucxyz 7 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      We wouldn't want your higgs field to collapse, right?^^

    • @Fematika
      @Fematika 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Nice.

    • @mrevilducky
      @mrevilducky 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Prepare for TH-cam to suggest tons of Flat Earth related things

    • @bernardodc9631
      @bernardodc9631 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nahh, flat-earth-guys are way more intelligent than these......

    • @altareggo
      @altareggo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@bernardodc9631 zactly. They are all Legends in Their Own Minds....

  • @isaiahbanta193
    @isaiahbanta193 8 ปีที่แล้ว +150

    I cheered when I saw the notification of a new video from SpaceTime!

    • @vaibhavjain3998
      @vaibhavjain3998 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      i too....

    • @ozdergekko
      @ozdergekko 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Isaiah Banta -- this time, i mistook it for a new fraiser cain video... man was i happy to see a space time video :-)
      (which doesn't mean I don't like his videos too, in a strangely autistic way)

    • @MommytardRocks1
      @MommytardRocks1 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Isaiah Banta Got the give the people what they want!

    • @ally6438
      @ally6438 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Isaiah Banta Haha same, I've been checking for a new video for ages

    • @abhinavsaroj9250
      @abhinavsaroj9250 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Isaiah Banta hehe +1

  • @khawajadotd
    @khawajadotd 8 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    now THIS is the type of content I love from this channel! Absolutely mind blowing stuff, guys. Great job!

  • @olbluelips
    @olbluelips 5 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    I think this is one of your best videos I've watched so far. The analogy of the mirrored box is such a beautiful and intuitive way of explaining how mass arises from energy/massless particles.

  • @elck3
    @elck3 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    THIS ONE EPISODE should be given an Emmy. This is a masterpiece.

    • @starfoxpbb
      @starfoxpbb ปีที่แล้ว +1

      But he uses a neutron as an example and calls it a proton...

  • @cobeycobb
    @cobeycobb 8 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    I swear... my mind gets so blown every time I watch one of these. Amazing!

  • @ScienceAsylum
    @ScienceAsylum 8 ปีที่แล้ว +286

    When we talk about physics on this level, the word "mass" isn't really used because it's more of a classical measurement. I mean, it's really "rest energy." That might be where some of the confusion comes from regarding the Higgs field. Anyway, I'm glad you're doing this series of videos. QFT has bothered me for a long time, but I'm realizing now that's only because it wasn't explained to me properly.

    • @nirmalsundhar
      @nirmalsundhar 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Can energy be really be at rest or its held in captivity by other interaction fields...

    • @ScienceAsylum
      @ScienceAsylum 8 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Nirmal sundhar
      It's not energy at rest. It's energy that something like an electron would have even if it was at rest. It's about the matter, not the energy.

    • @stabadab
      @stabadab 8 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Hey there #thescienceasylum! You've got a great channel! Nice seeing you here!

    • @ScienceAsylum
      @ScienceAsylum 8 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      stabadab
      Glad you like it! This is great channel too. I follow it closely, but I don't always comment.

    • @pbsspacetime
      @pbsspacetime  8 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      +The Science Asylum I had the same problem. The "simple" explanations of the Higgs mechanism as giving mass like you give a birthday present seemed to contradict the Einsteinian view of mass. However once you realize that it's just an interaction then it makes sense.

  • @abok1
    @abok1 8 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    These videos have helped me grapple with conceptualizing Physics on a whole different level.

  • @tomc.5704
    @tomc.5704 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Four years later and this still blows my mind

  • @Lolerchop
    @Lolerchop 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This is arguably the best physics channel on TH-cam. I love how the explanations aren't drastically oversimplified. Keep em comin' PBS!

  • @MTR702
    @MTR702 8 ปีที่แล้ว +183

    Always love to see new uploads :) Damn those graphics are sexy...

    • @theRealRindberg
      @theRealRindberg 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +SpacePak by Mike Ridolfi Damn the content is sexy ;)

    • @cloudviews
      @cloudviews 8 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I agree!! Last time I typed sexy here some people came for me jaja one fella accused me of liking our host. Can't a lady love her science & enjoy the sexyness of it all 😁 all kidding aside, I'm here because I live with a 16 yr old science and math maniac-- I thank the universe for PBS Space time every night!

    • @theRealRindberg
      @theRealRindberg 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Claudia Ramos Girl like science... whooohooo!!! grrr... nothing says sexy as a woman that love science... please don't say you like Star Trek! because that would that would blow my... head off!

    • @cloudviews
      @cloudviews 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +theRealRindberg jajaja, Season 1, Episode 4, "naked time" I'm not the ultimate fan, but that episode makes me lol every time. 2016 started the marathon in between work, reading etc “Live long, and prosper.” ✌🏼️

    • @MTR702
      @MTR702 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Claudia Ramos I always go back and forth between Star Wars and Star Trek. But I think we can all agree that the new ST movies have, quite frankly, sucked.

  • @PopeGoliath
    @PopeGoliath 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This is one of my favorite episodes for how mindblowing it is. What a revelation.

  • @biznock09
    @biznock09 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    I just heard people on NPR complaining that public shows like Sesame Street are moving to cable networks and will cut out people who can't afford it. "What are people who rely on free public television supposed to do?" I say, go to youtube. This is by far the best science show broadcast I've seen to date. The questions are enticing, and the explanations speak to many audiences. And, the best of all is that anyone can access it. Thanks Space Time.

  • @xX123Dorian123Xx
    @xX123Dorian123Xx 8 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    This science channel is best of all that i saw, better than kurzgesagt, scishow, minutearth and everything else, the explanations are so straight that even me who is more to biology and IT can understand it clearly. Thanks for it :P

    • @only1kingz
      @only1kingz 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +HomelessGaming YUP! agreed. I think I like this even more than VSauce, and that's saying a lot

    • @GREENSP0RE
      @GREENSP0RE 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Those are all great channels, but this is great physics at a high level, which is so much rarer.

    • @kcircuit8684
      @kcircuit8684 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +HomelessGaming You are wrong

    • @150YK
      @150YK 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      i like this channel, but i do suggest u check out the organic chemistry tutor

  • @GamerForLifeDrakunia
    @GamerForLifeDrakunia 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I've been a school teacher for 5 years and I can say: bloody hell you are good!

  • @guidosalescalvano9862
    @guidosalescalvano9862 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This is so by far the best video on physics I've seen so far...

  • @nahuelaraujo6914
    @nahuelaraujo6914 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    By now I've watched a ton of your vids, and I don't mean that I've never been mind blowed before with them, but this one left me 100% speechless.
    Love Physics, love PBS.

  • @garethdean6382
    @garethdean6382 8 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    There have been points in my life where I have seen something that opens up an area of knowledge to me or changes my view of the universe. This is now one of them.

  • @roderickwassenaar6744
    @roderickwassenaar6744 8 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    At 5:01 shouldnt the quark composition of a proton be 2 ups and 1 down?

    • @SokarEntertainment
      @SokarEntertainment 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      +Roderick Wassenaar Yes indeed, what they showed was a neutron, which given the talk about protons was a bit off :)

    • @TehPwnerer
      @TehPwnerer 8 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      +Roderick Wassenaar It absolutely is. The good thing is that in this conversation it doesn't matter; pun intended.

  • @APOSTR
    @APOSTR 4 ปีที่แล้ว +108

    I'm a lawyer and addicted to this videos. And asking question: "What I'm doing with my life?".

    • @religionishipocrisy
      @religionishipocrisy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      You are not alone. I have a degree in Electrical Engineering that I was never able to fully utilize and I ask myself that very same question.

    • @AnotherAgnostic
      @AnotherAgnostic 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Lawyers ruin lives.

    • @enveetee8246
      @enveetee8246 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Also a lawyer, also wonder what on earth I have done with myself and why do I have a philosophy degree

    • @humberto5889
      @humberto5889 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You're Learning

    • @bernzie001
      @bernzie001 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I find it hard to believe you are a lawyer and started a sentence with “And.”

  • @jaimetorres950
    @jaimetorres950 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I cannot thank you enough. The box metaphor is perfect. The veil was lifted. I really should donate.

  • @mrwho995
    @mrwho995 8 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Brilliant video. I've never heard mass explained like this before.

  • @RallyCarDelta
    @RallyCarDelta 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This is by far my favorite channel on youtube. I can't thank the folks who put this together enough. I love how science is being used to understand the very nature of our reality. The only question I can really think of at this time is how does the measuring of our reality (collapse of the waveform) effect this conversation? Assuming most, if not all of this, would be observed reality but how does the schrodinger's cat "principle" play into all this?

  • @stefanblue660
    @stefanblue660 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The best explanation I heard so far about this topic !

  • @neventomicic330
    @neventomicic330 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I really like your videos! As astronomer (PhD), these videos really helps me to visualize and simplify physics and it helps.
    Thanks!

  • @dsinghr
    @dsinghr 8 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    dude your videos are mind boggling.. amazing work.. kudos !

  • @Psylent
    @Psylent 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    +PBS Space Time is the best science show in the English language. I would know, I've watch every space and particle physics documentary I can find on youtube, netflix, amazon video, history channel, and national geographic.

  • @ilkoderez601
    @ilkoderez601 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I frantically had to find this video again; I forgot it was a PBS Space Time segment. This video is truly well done! Incredible. It should get an award.

  • @JosephMarzbani
    @JosephMarzbani 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This was the best I could find on TH-cam. Thank you Dr. Mat

  • @girlflash
    @girlflash 8 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    As someone who programs games trying to wrap their head around this stuff, it sounds just like how I'd handle a huge simulation with a lot of interacting components. If I have a simulation with a bunch of particles interacting, it runs slower when there are more interactions to resolve. Though in reality it seems the temporal effects are localised in a way you wouldn't get in a computer simulation. It's almost like mass, gravity, time - they are all just reality lag?

    • @gibbyace5077
      @gibbyace5077 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      ;)

    • @MaestroRigale
      @MaestroRigale 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I've heard something like this before. When combined with the holographic principle, it's no wonder some believe our universe is a simulation.

    • @garethdean6382
      @garethdean6382 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      +Sophie Houlden But you can stuff an awesome amount of photons into a laser beam and there's no mass effect or time slowing.
      But best stop poking around now, if you crash the universe God will be very upset.

    • @garethdean6382
      @garethdean6382 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Sophie Houlden But you can stuff an awesome amount of photons into a laser beam and there's no mass effect or time slowing.
      But best stop poking around now, if you crash the universe God will be very upset.

    • @snake698
      @snake698 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Sophie Houlden LOL

  • @ChrisProuse
    @ChrisProuse 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Geezles, I love this channel soo0000oo much - keep up the great work! :)

  • @michael3263
    @michael3263 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    This episode is SO much better than the other one associated with it on the Mass playlist. This was presented so well and was so easy to understand that watching that other video isn't even necessary. This narrator is SO MUCH BETTER than the previous guy they had, and the content of this channel has improved markedly since that other guy left. Well done.

  • @kaloyanmanev
    @kaloyanmanev 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    That's not the usual video on TH-cam... Great job! Really answered a lot of questions that no one could so far... And the best part is that now I have new questions, just amazing.

  • @thebluefarmer6406
    @thebluefarmer6406 8 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I learn more from these videos then I did in any physics class.

  • @AngeloXification
    @AngeloXification 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    "I've been saying this forever" - the universe

  • @ngodwi
    @ngodwi 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow, that was THE most informative clip I've watched in years. Several key concepts finally clicked into place.

  • @Pegasys22
    @Pegasys22 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    So happy to hear these questions being answered, and with excellent clarity. I've posed some of them to myself many times and had insufficient smarts to answer myself of find an answer. Thanks!!

  • @Melange2
    @Melange2 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    If 99% of the mass of a proton comes from quarks and gluons, what contribute to the remaining mass?
    And do quarks and gluons have their mass "generated" by other energies?

    • @anonymous-zg7wh
      @anonymous-zg7wh 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      apparently it is just energy inside atoms
      again idk but thats what i heard from i thin this or anouther channel

    • @baiwuli6781
      @baiwuli6781 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      The remaining 1% of the mass comes from quarks. A proton has mass mainly because of quark-gluon interactions (strong interaction). Quark itself has mass because of quark-higgs boson interactions.

    • @BH-px5wd
      @BH-px5wd 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      The other 1% of mass is acquired through interactions of the quarks with the higgs field. This channel did another video explaining the higgs field which is quite useful.

  • @PvPigCreations
    @PvPigCreations 8 ปีที่แล้ว +111

    If everything creates gravity (that slows down time) and the early universe was smaller so things were closer together to create bigger gravitational fields, were the clocks of the early universe running slower? And if so, how was it possible for the universe to expand so quicly or even bank in the first place?

    • @pbsspacetime
      @pbsspacetime  8 ปีที่แล้ว +163

      +PvPig Creations The universe was very dense at early stages, however it was also very, very smooth, which means the gravitational force produced by all of that matter pulled in all directions equally. There was very little net gravitational pull in any one direction, and so spacetime was flat, not curved. Without a strong gravitational field, clocks ran at a normal rate.

    • @Tethloach1
      @Tethloach1 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +PBS Space Time Ensemble ( ensemble studios)also the name of the company that made my favourite video game. halo wars.

    • @marceloslacerda
      @marceloslacerda 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      +PvPig Creations I think I had a very similar question earlier today. Here is a nice answer I was able to find:
      medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/ask-ethan-50-why-didnt-the-universe-become-a-black-hole-f4da68466e21

    • @bbbl67
      @bbbl67 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      +PvPig Creations There are some theories that suggest that we are actually living inside a black hole, and that all of the black holes that have appeared inside our universe are actually themselves their own container universes.

    • @yukeluo469
      @yukeluo469 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +Nishant Tatar Mass gives time, if Dark Matter is real but alternative matter, then it must interfere with time.

  • @marcuspradas1037
    @marcuspradas1037 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Finally I think I understand mass. Great, excellent video. Thanks and congrats!!!!

  • @jacoboneill2494
    @jacoboneill2494 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is one of the best explanations of mass I've ever heard!

  • @hoopdesign
    @hoopdesign ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I think everyone watching these videos believes there is someone else watching that fully understands what’s going on.

  • @BreauxSegreto
    @BreauxSegreto 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Dr. Matt- thank you for everything you and your associates do for us always wanting more answers of science. I’m a doctor of pharmacy that ponders about all fields of science, especially astrophysics. I’ve been educated through physics that gravity is simply associated with ones mass ie: earth, and the closer one is to that mass, the greater the Fg. Is it fair to say that gravity is actually the sum of quantum (elections, protons) and sub-quantum (quarks, leptons, gluons,etc) masses? Thank you for your time. Dr. Ken

  • @richthenative
    @richthenative 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    A most EXCELLENT tutorial, and in just 10:47. PBS Space Time, you do a wonderful job and service. The Q&A was also excellent.....THANKS

  • @kristenchou
    @kristenchou 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    I go through each of these videos at least 2-3 times. They really changed everything I learnt about physics in high school...

  • @IvanTravels
    @IvanTravels 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love how he says quarks. Sounds like Quaks

  • @religionishipocrisy
    @religionishipocrisy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This is probably my favorite video of PBS Space Time.. I just found it in 2020. After 4 years of Electric Engineering, physics and mathematics, I'm shocked and pleasantly surprised to learn that mass is an emergent property. Great stuff! I love this channel!

  • @spikedesignworks
    @spikedesignworks 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    This series is fantastic! Way to go PBS!!

  • @vaedkamat484
    @vaedkamat484 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dude. This has to be the best video you've made so far. I am only 40% of the way in and I am learning so much.

  • @PauLtus_B
    @PauLtus_B 8 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I'm keeping a pause from studying from applied physics to watch this.
    ...

    • @Bml_l
      @Bml_l 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      +PauLtus B I think you mean you decided to accelerate your studying

    • @jeremyj.5687
      @jeremyj.5687 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +PauLtus B Time well spent, I´d say. Even though it´s challenging, I think it still counts as recreational time that gives you fresh energy for the things you *have* to learn.

  • @victorcercasin
    @victorcercasin 8 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    But look. In the box of photons, the acceleration you exert in the box transfers energy to the photons in the form of acceleration. But how can you transfer extra speed for photons which are massless, and thus, already in the speed of causality??

    • @cpgvonc7568
      @cpgvonc7568 8 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      +Victor Hugo
      From an onlookers perspective, I believe that the extra energy would be seen as shorter wavelengths of the photons.

    • @Bowser1111
      @Bowser1111 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Came to ask the exact same question. So the answer seems to be that the "pushing" end of the box is "imparting momentum to the photons" (as stated in the video) which increases their wavelength and in effect pushes them to a higher energy state, even though their velocity never changes? Can an equivalent statement be made about the far end of the box having an opposite effect somehow?

    • @michaelsommers2356
      @michaelsommers2356 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +Andrew Plummer _'... "imparting momentum to the photons"... which increases their wavelength ...'_
      Decreases their wavelength. The energy of a photon is proportional to the frequency, or proportional to the reciprocal of the wavelength.

    • @allocater2
      @allocater2 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      +Michael Sommers If the expansion of the universe red-shifts all the photons, does it reduce their energy? Where does that energy go? Is it Dark Energy?

    • @only1kingz
      @only1kingz 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +Victor Hugo I think he said the box transfers momentum. maybe a transfer of momentum is different from that of speed.

  • @Daniel-rk2qz
    @Daniel-rk2qz 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love these shows. They aren't scared to break into some equations and explain them a bit. Thank you!

  • @zilvoxidgod
    @zilvoxidgod 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Re watching these before later episodes really helps, it makes much more sense the second time!

  • @themasstermwahahahah
    @themasstermwahahahah 8 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Can we get an explanation of how "The Force" works?

    • @garethdean6382
      @garethdean6382 8 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      +omegadan Midichlorians.

    • @stlkngyomom
      @stlkngyomom 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Try:meditation, yoga, tulpa, lung-gom-pa, tummo, science of lucid dreaming, yoga nidra, binaural beats and Tom Campbell Bruce Lipton interview.
      ~Namaste~

    • @OrionPax127
      @OrionPax127 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +stlkngyomom Fuck you and your new age shit.

    • @garethdean6382
      @garethdean6382 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Claudio Ruffo
      Is it new age? I can barely figure out what it says. Perhaps it's some automated spambot?

    • @OrionPax127
      @OrionPax127 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Gareth Dean Yeah. It's new age alright.
      It might be a spambot, mainly because new agers don't care about real science so having one in an actual science channel seems odd.

  • @FacelessOfficial1
    @FacelessOfficial1 8 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    1:39-1:41 "massless box with mirror walls"...I guess from here on it becomes confusing right??

    • @nagilumx6715
      @nagilumx6715 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      We become confused when we don't pay attention.

    • @enviromental2565
      @enviromental2565 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I thought I was paying attention, but right there with you Faceless. How can a box be massless? Without mass how can you have a box?

    • @Vagabond-Cosmique
      @Vagabond-Cosmique 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@enviromental2565 You can't.
      This a thought experiment used to explain a concept. If shouldn't be taken literally.

    • @dougforkes563
      @dougforkes563 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Enviro Mental And how do you ”accelerate” a massless box. Massless objects are constrained to move at a constant velocity - the velocity of light.

    • @FacelessOfficial1
      @FacelessOfficial1 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dougforkes563 but before that... how can a massless box exist? would it be made of some kind of massless matter?

  • @anubhav21dec
    @anubhav21dec 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is the best episode by space-time, period.

  • @wwindsunrain
    @wwindsunrain 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    This video is brilliant. Watched it two nights ago and it made things clear to me that I never understood before. Thanks Matt and crew!

  • @toosas
    @toosas 8 ปีที่แล้ว +120

    was this guy sent in by an alien race to educate us about the principles of the universe?

    • @marsel4812
      @marsel4812 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      We should contact SETI and introduce him to them... the search would be over... :T

    • @QuantumLeaper25
      @QuantumLeaper25 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He's British, so I guess so.

    • @edwardofgreene
      @edwardofgreene 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@QuantumLeaper25 He's Australian.

    • @QuantumLeaper25
      @QuantumLeaper25 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@edwardofgreene My bad. Forgot that. My point still stands.

    • @GEMSofGOD_com
      @GEMSofGOD_com 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes, but the thing is. We are aliens.

  • @BernardoSOUSAstudent
    @BernardoSOUSAstudent 8 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    A compressed spring is heavier than a relaxed one? Is it measurable?

    • @captainmcderp4078
      @captainmcderp4078 8 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Yes it is! But only using mathematics or extremely sensitive equipment. keep in mind that one joule of energy would only weigh 1/300000^2 = 1.11x10^-17 kilograms.

    • @stylesoftware
      @stylesoftware 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Captain thanks for clarifying that, my bs ears were up

    • @BernardoSOUSAstudent
      @BernardoSOUSAstudent 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Captain Mcderp Is my math too bad or it's the same as 1.11x10^-14 grams?

    • @captainmcderp4078
      @captainmcderp4078 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Bernardo SOUSA I made a typo in the comment. The 300000 is supposed to be 300000000

    • @InqWiper
      @InqWiper 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Bernardo SOUSA
      Your math is correct.

  • @HeliosAlonso
    @HeliosAlonso 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow. I revisited this episode after some time (and watching a lot of other episodes, I'm a super fan) and everything made perfect sense! This is amazing!

  • @katyray4362
    @katyray4362 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    2 years of painful wondering answered after I found your channel. kudos! This is the best science channel in here.

  • @JoshuaHillerup
    @JoshuaHillerup 8 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Wouldn't the compressed spring react differently if you pushed it from the side? If so, does that make its mass a vector?

    • @garethdean6382
      @garethdean6382 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Joshua Hillerup A spring acts differently when you press it from the side, but a compressed spring acts differently from an uncompressed one when pushed from the side, again it's harder to make it move. This can be seen if you have a slinky A slinky lying on its side (Uncompressed) can be made to move with the tap of a finger. One standing up (Compressed) will move much less when poked the same amount.

    • @preutzen
      @preutzen 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Joshua Hillerup Yeah, I wonder the same thing. Seems like the spring would have more mass, but only in the direction of compression?

    • @garethdean6382
      @garethdean6382 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Simon Preutz
      Springs aren't perfectly rigid, when you press on a spring from the 'side' it must bend before it moves. To bend requires compression as well.

    • @AlexKnauth
      @AlexKnauth 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Does the compression wave move faster for an already compressed spring? Would that imply a greater force needed for pushing on the side as well as on the end?

    • @garethdean6382
      @garethdean6382 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Alex Knauth
      It does. In very compressed materials such as neutronium it nears light speed.

  • @brandonhall6084
    @brandonhall6084 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    If mass is an emergent property of particle interactions with the Higgs field and the "force" we feel when attracted to a massive object like the earth is an illusion, why is gravity considered one of the Four Fundamental Forces of the Universe? Should it not be considered an emergent property rather than a fundamental force?

    • @michaelsommers2356
      @michaelsommers2356 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Brandon Hall
      In a sense it's a holdover from the Olden Days, and in cases where GR is not necessary gravity does act like a force.

    • @muskyelondragon
      @muskyelondragon 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes

    • @nagilumx6715
      @nagilumx6715 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      You might be onto something.
      I like to think of gravitation as the interplay between the masses of particles of mattergy and of spacetime, wherein the mass of each one's particle-set is inversely proportional to that of the other's. Or, think of spacetime's particle-forces upon mattergy's as gravitation and mattergy's upon spacetime's as mass.

  • @treemallow757
    @treemallow757 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This was fantastic, changed my whole perspective!

  • @cehson
    @cehson 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wooow what an AWESOME series ! I learned allot from you guys. Thanks !

  • @MilanDLegendary
    @MilanDLegendary 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    At 5:00 you're describing a proton, yet a picture shows one Up and two Down quarks. Isn't that a neutron? Or was it an editing mistake?

    • @flaviusclaudius7510
      @flaviusclaudius7510 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +MilanDLegendary Editing mistake. Was mean to be two ups.

    • @MilanDLegendary
      @MilanDLegendary 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Natasha Taylor Thanks

    • @lukabc31
      @lukabc31 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      just think of it. why is proton "charged"? answer: because it missed quantum of energy that make it ballanced = neutral..
      what is this quantum of energy, how big it is? answer: it is an electron! when an electron merges with proton it becomes neutral..
      so, if we accept that in the nuclei (proton) ressonate 3 objects (quarks) what is the quantum per each of it that absorbs elecron? it is one third of it right.. then u make these objects ballanced and they stop to radiate waves that intermediate electric atraction.. this split on 2 up and one down = 4/3+(-1/3)=3/3=1 is just another BS to fool us.. how do u immage a 2/3 charge and how do u immagine -1/3 charge? it is such a silly and misleading BS, witout any relation to the reality..

  • @Bigdaddy93413
    @Bigdaddy93413 8 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    If something is massless, will it always travel at the speed of light? Is it possible for something massless to be standing still, or would that require there be no Higgs fields?

    • @allocater2
      @allocater2 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      +BryceBryceBaby A massless photon at the event horizon of a black-hole stands still. But then again, it may actually still travel at the speed of light, but time is just frozen.

    • @MaestroRigale
      @MaestroRigale 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      I've heard of experiments in which light can be slowed down or even stopped due to a medium's refractive index, or something similar. I'm not an expert. Try looking up electromagnetically induced transparency.

    • @garethdean6382
      @garethdean6382 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +BryceBryceBaby Given our current understanding of physics it should be impossible, in the same way it should be impossible to sit still at two different speeds. (A massless particle standing still has no energy and thus doesn't exist.)

    • @garethdean6382
      @garethdean6382 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      +MaestroRigale That's not making massless particles stand still however. Instead it's a complex phenomena where the electromagnetic fields of atoms interfere with those of photons.

    • @frankschneider6156
      @frankschneider6156 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +MaestroRigale
      That's somewhat true and even particles can be faster than light in a medium. This happens eg in nuclear power plants and results in super sonic boom like effect called Cherenkov radiation, but that doesn't mean that the light really moves with a speed slower than c, it just means that the light moves with c, but interacts with the medium (is absorbed, emitted etc.,which makes it seem slower, although the photons still move with c.

  • @DorinCiobanu007
    @DorinCiobanu007 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Mind-blown! Thank you!

  • @akash12jan
    @akash12jan 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    I could absorb only less than 10 percent of the Knowledge this Channel share...but some how I want to watch their every episode.

  • @pravarp
    @pravarp 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    this episode took weeks!

    • @ScienceAsylum
      @ScienceAsylum 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +Pravar Parekh
      They were on vacation :-)

    • @jekoddragon6227
      @jekoddragon6227 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Pravar Parekh hi fellow OP fan

    • @askani21
      @askani21 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Pravar Parekh Damn holidays, delaying our show like this!!! ;)

    • @MaestroRigale
      @MaestroRigale 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      I was eagerly awaiting the appearance of a new video.

    • @frankyjayhay
      @frankyjayhay 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Pravar Parekh I could've delivered the lecture myself but I felt it better for him to get the experience.

  • @tobywheeler2718
    @tobywheeler2718 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    How does the photon box work if light travels still at the speed of light relative to the wall of the box? And also how would the photon exert a pressure on the box without mass?

    • @solapowsj25
      @solapowsj25 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      The photos box is a concept that could be probably created in a lab. Here, any interaction occurs at v~c (close to the speed of light) and the mass encountered is equivalent mass. Gravitational mass is related to bodies with shells like the atom bound by the electron orbital shell and nuclear shell.

    • @hongeeleow7506
      @hongeeleow7506 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Photons are not completely massless. They have zero rest mass (that's why they are never at rest) but they still have relativistic mass equivalent to whatever energy they have divided by their speed squared

    • @frankkolmann4801
      @frankkolmann4801 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I believe you need to view your question in the light of 4D spacetime, wherein everything moves at c in the time dimension, for objects to move in space they need energy applied to them and energy is mass hence you get momentum. There are many consequences, any movement through space slows movement through time, as space movement 'borrows' from time movement.

  • @daleputnam8300
    @daleputnam8300 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for making these videos good sir! I really appreciate and enjoy them.

  • @MelvinPaulbrains
    @MelvinPaulbrains 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Awesome video pal easy to understand even tough things :)

  • @tanayluthra8265
    @tanayluthra8265 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    About the glass box analogy. If the photons are massless, why does the box experience any pressure at all. Pressure in the classical sense is nothing but a manifestation of electromagnetic interactions. Photon has no electromagnetic interactions with the glass box, so what gives rise to this so called pressure.

    • @tzett0011
      @tzett0011 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      thats what i thought as well

    • @tzett0011
      @tzett0011 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      sry i still dont understand it. I would expect something with no mass to have no impact at all

    • @tzett0011
      @tzett0011 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I dont suggest anything. I can tell you only what i think is logical.
      I still dont understand your argument sry. If you have a video or an articel explaining it further i might get it.

    • @saeedbaig4249
      @saeedbaig4249 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      But if momentum=massXvelocity (p=mv), then how do photons have momentum if they're massless?

    • @dutchrjen
      @dutchrjen 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The equation in relativity is:
      E^2 = (m c^2) + (p c)^2
      Let m = 0
      E = p c
      The energy E and the momentum p for anything moving at the speed of light (not just photons) are directly proportional.
      p=mv is a classical equation for momentum and it does not work in Relativity (only for particles moving nowhere near the speed of light and light does not meet this requirement).

  • @purpleboye_
    @purpleboye_ 8 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Here's a better question: What does "real" even mean?

    • @garethdean6382
      @garethdean6382 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Anaru LST Having an existence that is not explained by other real things.

    • @djayjp
      @djayjp 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      +Anaru LST Something that is objectively measurable, independent of one's mere subjective perception of it (and that it exists before it is measured-- realism).

    • @chrisnachos22
      @chrisnachos22 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +djayjp "..it exists before its measured..".. how would you know this?

    • @tedrastlin7972
      @tedrastlin7972 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +. Ckriszeus know what, the measurement or the etymology of the word "real"?

    • @chrisnachos22
      @chrisnachos22 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ted Rastlin for me there cannot be meaningful existence(reality) with out interaction(measurements) so they are not exactly the same but sort of dependent on each other.

  • @simonapalosan3208
    @simonapalosan3208 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Brilliant! I am watching all episodes now and I find them so exhilarating.

  • @philjamieson5572
    @philjamieson5572 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is a joy to watch (and listen to).

  • @survivalizer
    @survivalizer 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This kind of stuff is amazing. You wont find this on Nova.

  • @ChaosChuckler
    @ChaosChuckler 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Every1 : tries to understand him
    Me : 7:00 how is he breathing without a spacesuit?

  • @SomeGuy-ne3yl
    @SomeGuy-ne3yl 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    this was extremely informative. thanks.

  • @JorgeForge
    @JorgeForge 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    It was more entertaining than I expected. i was about to stop the video at "can't travel faster than the speed of light", but then it became interesting. Thumbs up for showing me another way to look at matter/time.

  • @pb4520
    @pb4520 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The whole idea of the World is easy. Anything could happen to you next. When it happens there it is, and there you are.
    It only seems to make sense because you think it does. So therefore you are just like the tiniest or biggest thing - you are there when you are. (nice talking to you i have to sober up goodbye -- i had a nice time) .

  • @anthonymoore7659
    @anthonymoore7659 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    why u so angry

  • @ytbobo31
    @ytbobo31 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    One of the best Space Time episodes.

  • @konradcomrade4845
    @konradcomrade4845 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    very good explanations!

  • @MitroBurner
    @MitroBurner 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Excellent explanation - thanks.

  • @ketisharif
    @ketisharif 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I found this presentation and the artworks/diagrams really fascinating. In movement analysis I've been working with how various combinations of weight-space-time create the 8 Efforts, or 8 main movement qualities. Its amazing how this science video actually helped explain the physics of movement! Thanks - very useful.

  • @IlicSorrentino
    @IlicSorrentino 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is the best channel and host of youtube science!

  • @dmknight08
    @dmknight08 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I saw the massless box analogy at a lecture. Nice to see it being used here as it’s easier to visualize than the concept beneath it.

  • @constpegasus
    @constpegasus 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Excellent presentation.

  • @ronaldderooij1774
    @ronaldderooij1774 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is the best channel of its kind. Finally a non-neurotic presenter!

  • @academicalisthenics
    @academicalisthenics 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    My mind is blown right now!
    Thanks!

  • @bxlawless100
    @bxlawless100 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Best lecture yet. I always had these questions but never knew they had the answers in physics.