Extraordinary in terms of narrative clarity, comparisons of extremes of time, stellar size, and distance, and the breathtaking span of our visible universe. If I wasn't before, I am most definitely convinced that uncountable civilizations are out there. Maybe they are watching their own local video provider and also being filled with wonder as we speak.
…and how many civilisations have already come and gone, just like we will…eventually! Just think of all the culture that has come and gone since the Big Bang…how many alien “Mozart’s”, “Elvis’s”, “Beatles’ ”….”Van Gogh’s”, “Picasso’s” and “Justin Beiber’s” will no one ever know existed…..
It is a nice presentation, but we cannot possibly imagine the vast distances in the universe because we have never experienced interstellar travel or even intergalactic travel, theres just nothing like it in our human experience on earth. To be honest the thought of that kind of travel depresses me, anyone who has travelled for days at sea will tell you it can get very depressing seeing nothing for miles in every direction and still there you have the ocean under you. When you are in space theres nothing, absolutely nothing for billions of miles in all directions, think about that.
@@bumblebeme Thats just your opinion. The FACT is we don't know if it is infinite. Also we are talking the size of objects and distance of these objects. So relative to us none of it is the same at all. Im just not sure why you or others decide to state something as fact so confidently when you have no way of knowing.
It hasn't been a week since i heard, that Ton 618 isn't the biggest known Black Hole anymore and you have it in Video already... Your Videos are so well made and deserve more attention.
@@LearningCurveScience WHAT IS GRAVITY IS, ON BALANCE, an INTERACTION that cannot be shielded or blocked. WHAT IS E=MC2 IS dimensionally consistent, AS TIME is NECESSARILY possible/potential AND actual ON/IN BALANCE; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is CLEARLY AND NECESSARILY proven to be gravity (ON/IN BALANCE) !!! BALANCE AND completeness go hand in hand. GREAT !!! WHAT IS GRAVITY IS, ON BALANCE, an INTERACTION that cannot be shielded or blocked. (WHAT IS E=MC2 IS dimensionally consistent.) Consider what is the man (AND THE EYE ON BALANCE) who IS standing on WHAT IS THE EARTH/ground, AS touch AND feeling BLEND; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is CLEARLY AND NECESSARILY proven to be gravity (ON/IN BALANCE); AS TIME is NECESSARILY possible/potential AND actual ON/IN BALANCE !!! BALANCE AND completeness go hand in hand. WHAT IS GRAVITY IS, ON BALANCE, an INTERACTION that cannot be shielded or blocked. WHAT IS E=MC2 IS dimensionally consistent, AS “mass"/ENERGY involves BALANCED inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE consistent WITH/AS what is BALANCED electromagnetic/gravitational force/ENERGY; AS TIME is NECESSARILY possible/potential AND actual ON/IN BALANCE; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is CLEARLY AND NECESSARILY proven to be gravity (ON/IN BALANCE); AS gravity/acceleration involves BALANCED inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE (ON BALANCE). INDEED, GRAVITATIONAL force/ENERGY IS proportional to (or BALANCED with/as) inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is CLEARLY AND NECESSARILY proven to be gravity (ON/IN BALANCE); AS TIME is NECESSARILY possible/potential AND actual ON/IN BALANCE !!! The stars AND PLANETS are POINTS in the night sky. WHAT IS E=MC2 IS dimensionally consistent !!! Accordingly, ON BALANCE, THE PLANETS (including what is THE EARTH) sweep out equal areas in equal times. Consider TIME (AND time dilation) ON BALANCE. WHAT IS E=MC2 is taken directly from F=ma, AS TIME is NECESSARILY possible/potential AND actual ON/IN BALANCE; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is CLEARLY AND NECESSARILY proven to be gravity (ON/IN BALANCE). WHAT IS GRAVITY IS, ON BALANCE, an INTERACTION that cannot be shielded or blocked. WHAT IS E=MC2 IS dimensionally consistent !!! CLEARLY, gravity AND ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy are linked AND BALANCED opposites (ON BALANCE); as the stars AND PLANETS are POINTS in the night sky. Consider TIME (AND time dilation) ON BALANCE. INDEED, TIME is NECESSARILY possible/potential AND actual ON/IN BALANCE; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is CLEARLY AND NECESSARILY proven to be gravity (ON/IN BALANCE) !!! GREAT !!! ACCORDINGLY, ON BALANCE, the rotation of WHAT IS THE MOON matches the revolution. GREAT !!! WHAT IS E=MC2 IS dimensionally consistent. GREAT !!! It is a very great truth that the SELF represents, FORMS, and experiences a COMPREHENSIVE approximation of experience in general by combining conscious and unconscious experience. INDEED, the INTEGRATED EXTENSIVENESS of THOUGHT AND description is improved in the truly superior mind. BALANCE AND completeness go hand in hand. By Frank Martin DiMeglio
This dropped on the same day as the history of the universe, so two great channels dropped at the same time. Thanks for another fantastic upload. I have mentioned your channel on their channel as well as mentioned them on yours. The more views science channels get the more the TH-cam algorithm might recommend them to more and more people.
This deserved 30 minutes of explanation, minimum. A wonderful yet truly under scaled journey of what the F**k is beyond that, and it is incomprehensible to our daily scale. Well done.
Thank you 🙏 What I love the most about your channel is that there is no annoying background music. You speak fluently and very clear. Please keep up the good work. I have learned a lot from you.
Amazing and very well made! It’s cool that you took the time to go through the metric scale using each power of 10 and didn’t make any very drastic jumps. That’s very much needed to keep things in perspective as you go from something already enormous to something that dwarfs that multiple times!
We got a size lesson and a math lesson in the bargain (look at the power of exponential growth-a mere 10 to the 27th power of meters stretches beyond the observable universe). If I had one criticism of this wonderful journey, I’m wondering how it would have looked if we started at Planck lengths and powered up from there…but then that may have added another 8 hours of video time :)
Thank you very much. Starting at the Planck length would probably made this well over an hour. I have done the Planck length before if you haven't watched that one.
Ive seen probably every space comparison ever made since youtube started. This is by far the best, in depth and entertaining one ive seen, also comparing bodies ive never heard of or seen before. Fantastic job.
Thank you for putting in feet and miles for us in the U.S. It helps, although when we get to light years my feeble brain starts going in circles. Thanks for your very informative videos.
YES! A new Learning Curve vid! This is one of the absolute best channels of this type out there. You have a great talent for explaining sometimes difficult concepts in easy-to-grasp terms, and I can't tell you how many times, after watching one of your videos, I've said to myself, "FINALLY I get that!" (as in, Finally I get what the Planck length is, or Planck time etc.) and all in a friendly, homey, Liverpudlian voice that reassures you that these enormous scientific puzzles will be explained carefully and clearly. Bravo, man. You do fantastic work. I'm so glad I discovered your channel.
I missed the scale where you noted the average distance I always seem to have to park from any given restaurant I need to get to and then all of a sudden you were noting the diameters of red giant stars. The universe is indeed vast. Thanks for another fascinating video!
It's always breaks my brain when I remember that black holes are collapsed stars that are as dense as possible, but the biggest black holes are way bigger than stars.
Technically all black holes are the same size (the singularity is infinitely small), it's just that the event horizon changes gets bigger depending on the mass of the singularity
I am so glad this video didn't dive into the realm of 'if I shrunk the universe down to the size of the earth then the largest star would be the size of a proton" - most youtubers who are making size comparisons that are as equally impossible to fathom as the numbers themselves. Your approach is the best way to try and have the human brain truly understand the enormity of the universe because you just show the actual objects and their comparable sizes in increments that are logically understandable
Big fan of the dune saga, never knew that Canopus was imagined as the star of Arakis. Thank you for putting in the effort for this comparison. A lot of folks really don’t seem to understand how massive the universe seems to be.
How profound! Perhaps there are some world leaders that could benefit from watching your excellent presentation, so as to be humbled in the presence of such scales of magnitude...
Well done man, great take on the 'scale of x to x' video! Also, fantastic first long-man video...your style fits well with longer content, I hope it turns out to be worth it enough to do more longer videos!
Great content thank you. This is the kind of content that should be shown in learning institutions. Honest unbiased reality. Well done to those who created this work of art.
Fantastic, if not a bit too quick to sufficiently take it all in. And equally as fascinating (and humbling) as the size scale of the universe is the time scale of the universe. As more and more evidence pours in, it appears that the universe is older, possibly much older than we thought. Indeed, it just might be timeless, existing in a steady state of creation and destruction. Those massive super clusters could not have organized themselves in a mere 13.8 billion years. Isn't it amazing how the creator organized our universe? - Sorry, just kidding. I just couldn't help myself....
That was a great journey. Thank you. I didn't know that some galaxies could be as large as 1 million light years. Wonder how many stars are in such a thing.
@@kennycube5126 i just wonder where did all this matter come into being and how insignificant everything on Earth or in our life is! This could make some folks a hermit, a Saadhu potentially. :)
@@ranjittyagi9354 I know, I was just teasing😆 But Ranjit, questions are good. Keep asking them. When you have a singularity and inflation happens you get all this matter. Good isn't it? It Includes you & me and everything...
It took me almost more than hour to finish this video coz every 10X happening and I’ve to pause and adjust my mind to think about it and then carry on. One of the finest Video to understand the actual enormous size of the visible universe. And imagine what happens if this visible universe is just a nano fraction of something else. My god my brain is bursting. Kudos to ancient legends who literally figured it out without any tech. Also Thank You for this video, I can now explain it someone else with ease.
Thank you so much. I'm glad you enjoyed the video and appreciate all the people who take the time to leave comments. This was quite an epic video and I learned a lot along the way.
By the end of this I had forgotten about Putin and his war against Ukraine. We are but a tiny budding of consciousness in a miniscule corner of our universe. So tiny that we disappear after the first few orders of distance in this journey, yet still amazing and powerful enough to conceptualise our own existence in this vast context. I love that when astronomers peer beyond the boundaries of the known universe and ask what lies beyond they are perfectly happy to answer "....we don't know" because this means there is more to learn and more to know. Long may we continue to not know and thrill to the challenge of finding out. Thank you for this presentation. Subbed!
Great stuff! The only thing I would really change is the statement about our Sun being an average star. This is actually no longer the case. It seems like it’s actually bigger than average. The average star in the universe are apparently red /brown dwarf sized. Indeed, it seems like our Sun is also little bit special compared to others of similar spectral type (G type). It seems to be quieter and calmer compared to other G type stars.
Fabulous presentation! Loved it. You have done great work with this video. Instant Subscriber! Hope this video goes far and wide and the inspiration of wonder and curiosity is felt by millions. Congrats 🤩
What an absolutely fascinating video, beautifully animated. Delighted to have been suggested your channel by YT, and very pleased to be a new subscriber.
Your description of Sextans A with its triggered super novae is exactly what Larry Niven described as happening at the core of the Milky Way in "Ringworld." I hope we don't have to leave our region of space like the Pierson's Puppeteers before the shock wave reaches us 😁
Someone actually calculated the size of the unobservable universe, from the time of the big bang to the present by the rate of inflation as the universe expands as 150 sextillion lightyears. In prospective, it's like the observable universe (93 billion Lightyears) is the size of an 8oz glass of water, and the unobservable universe is the size of Earth.
When you consider that a quark, the smallest thing we know to exist, is still between 16-17 orders of magnitude larger than the Planck length, the smallest imaginable diistance, there may be much more universe contained within the very small of which we're not aware.
After an explanation of the second black hole - measurement became incomprehensible to me. They are numbers and symbols chiming in my head like an ambient melody. Though I have one question: how long for a human at current rocket propellant technology to travel 1 light year? If I understand that I may get a handle on the rest of this wonderful subject matter. It really is mind blowing. Thank you.👍🏻
"We’ve now set the speed of light so that any revisions of the speed of light wouldn’t change the speed of light itself they’d alter the size of a meter." A metre is defined by the speed of light? Oh my days huh whuuuu o.O 🤯 Love the video! That was a Learning Curve for me ☺
Although 243 Ida looks like a potato, it was not named after the ORE-IDA potato company. In Greek mythology, Ida was a nymph of Crete who raised the god Zeus. 4:13
The "Metric system" is SO much easier to learn while also being much more "Intuitive" compared to other systems. Here in Sweden 1dl=100ml 1 Liter=1000 ml, 1 Meter=100 cm, 1 dm(Deci-meter)= 10 cm, 1 cm= 10 mm, 1 meter= 1000 mm, 1 km= 1000 meters, 1 Mile= 10 kilometers and so on. I can't in my wildest fantasies understand why people would use other units of measurement when we have this simple system. Imagine how much TIME and energy that's wasted because of "strange units" 😄
In fact, no one knows how big the universe truly is, as we can only see a part of it: the observable universe. We have no clue what's behind that, so in fact, everything that we come up with further the observable universe is nothing more than a wild guess.
If you go the other way, from the size of a man down to something at the "Planck Length", it's actually smaller than the universe is large. For example, there are more Planck Time periods in 1 second, then all of the seconds added up to the current age of the universe
@Learning Curve I'm sure. I think it was on Anton's channel where he was talking about the "Planck Epoch", and even though it was an unimaginably short period of time in our universe's history (from a Planck Time until ONE whole second), it's still more than the total of whole seconds our universe has existed. There was also a paper I remember reading where the theory of what a given actual "size" of whatever makes up a black holes mass is if whatever undiscovered particle that makes up a black hole's mass is if those particles are crushed into Planck Length distances apart from eachother, and then further expanded to an idea of the minimum size of the universe if you crushed everything down so that the given distance between one particle vs another was at a Planck Length and as Planck mass. Very interesting concept
14:00 I have heard of another black hole, TON 618, being either being the largest or most massive black hole discovered. How does it compare to phoenix A?
It always baffles my brain to consider..... The universe COULD be absolutely teeming with intelligent civilizations. There could be, say...1 _billion_ intelligent civilizations. And yet....the universe is SO huge, that we'll never ever meet them, let alone know they even exist. The sheer space between any two "neighboring" stars is just hilarious to contemplate. May as well be infinite.
When my telco employer decided our engineering department was to go metric (1970-ish?), I made the mistake of checking SI for the recommended pronunciation of kilometer, beginning a lifelong unhappiness having to listen to it mis-pronounced. Even Google Maps says it wrong. Wish I hadn't looked it up!
The scale starts to become alien to me when I think about the service life of an average car would barely make it to the Moon. I've often wondered if there isn't another equally massive and complex grouping of celestial objects so far away that the light from it's expansion event hasn't reached us yet. Easier to invent "gods" and pummel an Earth-centric universe into your subject's heads to keep them in line.
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As a wheelchair user, I genuinely, whole-heartedly appreciate your inclusion of me in the explanation of a meter!!
Thank you. I know some wheelchair users so felt it would be good to be as inclusive as possible.
Huhh. aaaaaaaaaawaaaaaaaaaaaa
@@LearningCurveScience people like me are still missing. mine is smaller than 1m . (I don´t walk "normal") Just kidding, it´s fine.
Yeah, it was Clever 🙂
Extraordinary in terms of narrative clarity, comparisons of extremes of time, stellar size, and distance, and the breathtaking span of our visible universe. If I wasn't before, I am most definitely convinced that uncountable civilizations are out there. Maybe they are watching their own local video provider and also being filled with wonder as we speak.
…and how many civilisations have already come and gone, just like we will…eventually! Just think of all the culture that has come and gone since the Big Bang…how many alien “Mozart’s”, “Elvis’s”, “Beatles’ ”….”Van Gogh’s”, “Picasso’s” and “Justin Beiber’s” will no one ever know existed…..
This is a really well-made size comparison, it felt somewhat grounded and imaginable.
Yes! I could actually grasp the ideia of size of the majority of descriptions. School should teach like this.
space and time is infinite means these are all the same size
It is a nice presentation, but we cannot possibly imagine the vast distances in the universe because we have never experienced interstellar travel or even intergalactic travel, theres just nothing like it in our human experience on earth.
To be honest the thought of that kind of travel depresses me, anyone who has travelled for days at sea will tell you it can get very depressing seeing nothing for miles in every direction and still there you have the ocean under you. When you are in space theres nothing, absolutely nothing for billions of miles in all directions, think about that.
@@bumblebeme Thats just your opinion. The FACT is we don't know if it is infinite. Also we are talking the size of objects and distance of these objects. So relative to us none of it is the same at all. Im just not sure why you or others decide to state something as fact so confidently when you have no way of knowing.
@@blakepuhlman6466 mathematics and physics fall apart at the big bang. So take your pick you want physics or big bang can't have both.
It hasn't been a week since i heard, that Ton 618 isn't the biggest known Black Hole anymore and you have it in Video already...
Your Videos are so well made and deserve more attention.
Thank you very much. I try my best.
@@LearningCurveScience and that is appreciated!
i was going to comment that Ton 618 was the biggest kown black hole but i guess we learn things everyday
@@LearningCurveScience WHAT IS GRAVITY IS, ON BALANCE, an INTERACTION that cannot be shielded or blocked. WHAT IS E=MC2 IS dimensionally consistent, AS TIME is NECESSARILY possible/potential AND actual ON/IN BALANCE; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is CLEARLY AND NECESSARILY proven to be gravity (ON/IN BALANCE) !!! BALANCE AND completeness go hand in hand. GREAT !!!
WHAT IS GRAVITY IS, ON BALANCE, an INTERACTION that cannot be shielded or blocked. (WHAT IS E=MC2 IS dimensionally consistent.) Consider what is the man (AND THE EYE ON BALANCE) who IS standing on WHAT IS THE EARTH/ground, AS touch AND feeling BLEND; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is CLEARLY AND NECESSARILY proven to be gravity (ON/IN BALANCE); AS TIME is NECESSARILY possible/potential AND actual ON/IN BALANCE !!! BALANCE AND completeness go hand in hand.
WHAT IS GRAVITY IS, ON BALANCE, an INTERACTION that cannot be shielded or blocked. WHAT IS E=MC2 IS dimensionally consistent, AS “mass"/ENERGY involves BALANCED inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE consistent WITH/AS what is BALANCED electromagnetic/gravitational force/ENERGY; AS TIME is NECESSARILY possible/potential AND actual ON/IN BALANCE; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is CLEARLY AND NECESSARILY proven to be gravity (ON/IN BALANCE); AS gravity/acceleration involves BALANCED inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE (ON BALANCE). INDEED, GRAVITATIONAL force/ENERGY IS proportional to (or BALANCED with/as) inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is CLEARLY AND NECESSARILY proven to be gravity (ON/IN BALANCE); AS TIME is NECESSARILY possible/potential AND actual ON/IN BALANCE !!! The stars AND PLANETS are POINTS in the night sky. WHAT IS E=MC2 IS dimensionally consistent !!! Accordingly, ON BALANCE, THE PLANETS (including what is THE EARTH) sweep out equal areas in equal times. Consider TIME (AND time dilation) ON BALANCE.
WHAT IS E=MC2 is taken directly from F=ma, AS TIME is NECESSARILY possible/potential AND actual ON/IN BALANCE; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is CLEARLY AND NECESSARILY proven to be gravity (ON/IN BALANCE). WHAT IS GRAVITY IS, ON BALANCE, an INTERACTION that cannot be shielded or blocked. WHAT IS E=MC2 IS dimensionally consistent !!!
CLEARLY, gravity AND ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy are linked AND BALANCED opposites (ON BALANCE); as the stars AND PLANETS are POINTS in the night sky. Consider TIME (AND time dilation) ON BALANCE.
INDEED, TIME is NECESSARILY possible/potential AND actual ON/IN BALANCE; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is CLEARLY AND NECESSARILY proven to be gravity (ON/IN BALANCE) !!! GREAT !!!
ACCORDINGLY, ON BALANCE, the rotation of WHAT IS THE MOON matches the revolution. GREAT !!!
WHAT IS E=MC2 IS dimensionally consistent. GREAT !!!
It is a very great truth that the SELF represents, FORMS, and experiences a COMPREHENSIVE approximation of experience in general by combining conscious and unconscious experience. INDEED, the INTEGRATED EXTENSIVENESS of THOUGHT AND description is improved in the truly superior mind. BALANCE AND completeness go hand in hand.
By Frank Martin DiMeglio
Ton 618 is still the biggest Black hole bro
This dropped on the same day as the history of the universe, so two great channels dropped at the same time. Thanks for another fantastic upload. I have mentioned your channel on their channel as well as mentioned them on yours. The more views science channels get the more the TH-cam algorithm might recommend them to more and more people.
I didn't know that.
This deserved 30 minutes of explanation, minimum. A wonderful yet truly under scaled journey of what the F**k is beyond that, and it is incomprehensible to our daily scale. Well done.
Thank you 🙏
What I love the most about your channel is that there is no annoying background music. You speak fluently and very clear. Please keep up the good work. I have learned a lot from you.
This channel is such a gem! Keep up the awesome work!
Amazing and very well made! It’s cool that you took the time to go through the metric scale using each power of 10 and didn’t make any very drastic jumps. That’s very much needed to keep things in perspective as you go from something already enormous to something that dwarfs that multiple times!
We got a size lesson and a math lesson in the bargain (look at the power of exponential growth-a mere 10 to the 27th power of meters stretches beyond the observable universe). If I had one criticism of this wonderful journey, I’m wondering how it would have looked if we started at Planck lengths and powered up from there…but then that may have added another 8 hours of video time :)
Thank you very much. Starting at the Planck length would probably made this well over an hour. I have done the Planck length before if you haven't watched that one.
@@LearningCurveScience oh i absolutely have seen the Planck length video (multiple times). You’re awesome. Doing what i can to grow your channel
10²⁷.... You don't want me to pass out now, do you? 😆
Wolf 359... as a Star Trek fan, thanks for using it. Some great lore there.
I actually started making a video about the star but never finished it. I must get round to it someday
Ive seen probably every space comparison ever made since youtube started. This is by far the best, in depth and entertaining one ive seen, also comparing bodies ive never heard of or seen before. Fantastic job.
Your channel deserves a lot more subscribers and I am sure it will grow over time - excellent stuff!
Thank you for putting in feet and miles for us in the U.S. It helps, although when we get to light years my feeble brain starts going in circles. Thanks for your very informative videos.
Thank you very much for your support
Great video, lots of information presented very well. Love the longer format too!
YES! A new Learning Curve vid!
This is one of the absolute best channels of this type out there. You have a great talent for explaining sometimes difficult concepts in easy-to-grasp terms, and I can't tell you how many times, after watching one of your videos, I've said to myself, "FINALLY I get that!" (as in, Finally I get what the Planck length is, or Planck time etc.) and all in a friendly, homey, Liverpudlian voice that reassures you that these enormous scientific puzzles will be explained carefully and clearly.
Bravo, man. You do fantastic work. I'm so glad I discovered your channel.
Thank you very much. Unfortunately this video took ages to make. I'm glad you enjoy them.
@@LearningCurveScience Worth the wait. And it's beyond mere enjoyment---there's great educational value in what you do. Greatly appreciated.
I missed the scale where you noted the average distance I always seem to have to park from any given restaurant I need to get to and then all of a sudden you were noting the diameters of red giant stars. The universe is indeed vast. Thanks for another fascinating video!
It's always breaks my brain when I remember that black holes are collapsed stars that are as dense as possible, but the biggest black holes are way bigger than stars.
More massive than some galaxies...
Technically all black holes are the same size (the singularity is infinitely small), it's just that the event horizon changes gets bigger depending on the mass of the singularity
I am so glad this video didn't dive into the realm of 'if I shrunk the universe down to the size of the earth then the largest star would be the size of a proton" - most youtubers who are making size comparisons that are as equally impossible to fathom as the numbers themselves. Your approach is the best way to try and have the human brain truly understand the enormity of the universe because you just show the actual objects and their comparable sizes in increments that are logically understandable
Big fan of the dune saga, never knew that Canopus was imagined as the star of Arakis. Thank you for putting in the effort for this comparison. A lot of folks really don’t seem to understand how massive the universe seems to be.
As a massive Dune fan myself I've been wanting to get Canopus into a video for such a long time.
How profound! Perhaps there are some world leaders that could benefit from watching your excellent presentation, so as to be humbled in the presence of such scales of magnitude...
Well done man, great take on the 'scale of x to x' video! Also, fantastic first long-man video...your style fits well with longer content, I hope it turns out to be worth it enough to do more longer videos!
Thanks very much. My next few will be a bit shorter (the long ones take ages to make), but I have a few longer video ideas rattling round my head.
Oh, I love that you gave a wheelchair wheel distance conversion. Well done 🎉🎉❤
Very entertaining and informative! Thank you!! 🎉🎉
0:39 the most threatening way ive been told to bring snacks.
Great video! Can really put things into perspective, even though it's impossible to even imagine the size of the observable universe. Mind blowing.
I gotta say I love these kinds of videos. The way you break it down is so relaxing and entertaining while also thought provoking too! :D
Glad you like them!
Thank you for the extra effort spent converting everything up to the light year for us Yanks. Great video!
Fantastic presentation. Others have already expressed why, so I'll just express my gratitute.
Thank you so much. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Great content thank you. This is the kind of content that should be shown in learning institutions. Honest unbiased reality. Well done to those who created this work of art.
Fantastic, if not a bit too quick to sufficiently take it all in. And equally as fascinating (and humbling) as the size scale of the universe is the time scale of the universe.
As more and more evidence pours in, it appears that the universe is older, possibly much older than we thought. Indeed, it just might be timeless, existing in a steady state of creation and destruction. Those massive super clusters could not have organized themselves in a mere 13.8 billion years.
Isn't it amazing how the creator organized our universe? - Sorry, just kidding. I just couldn't help myself....
Wow, this is underrated video/channel
- Thanks for this,
from Karnataka, India
Wow, I wasn't expecting for an almost 33 minutes long video. Let's watch now, but I have no doubt that it will bring a great content
That was a great journey. Thank you. I didn't know that some galaxies could be as large as 1 million light years. Wonder how many stars are in such a thing.
100,000,000,000. But it's just a guess :)
@@kennycube5126 i just wonder where did all this matter come into being and how insignificant everything on Earth or in our life is! This could make some folks a hermit, a Saadhu potentially. :)
@@ranjittyagi9354 To answer your 4 questions, 1) Here 2) Totally 3) Yes 4) Yes. Remember small is smaller than big is big :)
@@kennycube5126 😆 so all is well except, I just noted I wrote "where" in my question instead of "how"! That was quite embarrassing, lol.
@@ranjittyagi9354 I know, I was just teasing😆 But Ranjit, questions are good. Keep asking them. When you have a singularity and inflation happens you get all this matter. Good isn't it? It Includes you & me and everything...
Found you a few days ago and yes, binge watching and subscribed. Well presented content, please make more :)
It took me almost more than hour to finish this video coz every 10X happening and I’ve to pause and adjust my mind to think about it and then carry on.
One of the finest Video to understand the actual enormous size of the visible universe.
And imagine what happens if this visible universe is just a nano fraction of something else. My god my brain is bursting.
Kudos to ancient legends who literally figured it out without any tech.
Also Thank You for this video, I can now explain it someone else with ease.
Thank you so much. I'm glad you enjoyed the video and appreciate all the people who take the time to leave comments. This was quite an epic video and I learned a lot along the way.
I love the little sound bits you added during the sports comparisons.
By the end of this I had forgotten about Putin and his war against Ukraine. We are but a tiny budding of consciousness in a miniscule corner of our universe. So tiny that we disappear after the first few orders of distance in this journey, yet still amazing and powerful enough to conceptualise our own existence in this vast context. I love that when astronomers peer beyond the boundaries of the known universe and ask what lies beyond they are perfectly happy to answer "....we don't know" because this means there is more to learn and more to know. Long may we continue to not know and thrill to the challenge of finding out. Thank you for this presentation. Subbed!
Thank you and I'm glad you enjoyed it.
I just thought of a fun “short” you could do. Listing how many of various objects it takes to reach the moon from the earth. It would be super fun! 🎉
That's a really cool idea, thank you
Fascinating.... Thank You!
Great stuff! The only thing I would really change is the statement about our Sun being an average star. This is actually no longer the case. It seems like it’s actually bigger than average. The average star in the universe are apparently red /brown dwarf sized. Indeed, it seems like our Sun is also little bit special compared to others of similar spectral type (G type). It seems to be quieter and calmer compared to other G type stars.
Yes I think what would have been more accurate in hindsight is that it is an average sized star. Not very big and not very small.
Ohhh bring snacks. I’m new to this channel but I like what I hear …. Lemme get some snacks….
Fabulous presentation! Loved it. You have done great work with this video. Instant Subscriber! Hope this video goes far and wide and the inspiration of wonder and curiosity is felt by millions. Congrats 🤩
Thank you so much! My favorite moments when you put big stars inside our solar system
Which is precisely where they DON'T belong.
I wish that someone would turn something like this into VR game where you could change your size
Excellent video, will be showing it to my kids over the net couple of days. Many thanks.
Thank you, I hope they enjoy it.
What an absolutely fascinating video, beautifully animated. Delighted to have been suggested your channel by YT, and very pleased to be a new subscriber.
Thank you very much and welcome aboard
what a beautifully made video, thank you very much for your effort!
Thank you very much!
My mind is happily BLOWN!
Your description of Sextans A with its triggered super novae is exactly what Larry Niven described as happening at the core of the Milky Way in "Ringworld." I hope we don't have to leave our region of space like the Pierson's Puppeteers before the shock wave reaches us 😁
Well done. Clearly a lot of work.
Someone actually calculated the size of the unobservable universe, from the time of the big bang to the present by the rate of inflation as the universe expands as 150 sextillion lightyears. In prospective, it's like the observable universe (93 billion Lightyears) is the size of an 8oz glass of water, and the unobservable universe is the size of Earth.
I love watching shit like this, extremely humbling.
Great research and presentation, but the ANIMATION ART richly deserves to be recognized.
Thank you very much, I appreciate that.
Thank you again for these well presented videos, always a pleasure
Many thanks for your continued support
I am so glad you stopped playing music in the background of your videos
Thanks for using Imperial measurements too.
This is really cool 😎 just how incredibly big the universe is!!!!! 😮
What a well made video, the graphics are amazing
Thank you I'm glad you like them. They did take a while to get right.
When you consider that a quark, the smallest thing we know to exist, is still between 16-17 orders of magnitude larger than the Planck length, the smallest imaginable diistance, there may be much more universe contained within the very small of which we're not aware.
great work... my mind is scrambled now
After an explanation of the second black hole - measurement became incomprehensible to me. They are numbers and symbols chiming in my head like an ambient melody. Though I have one question: how long for a human at current rocket propellant technology to travel 1 light year? If I understand that I may get a handle on the rest of this wonderful subject matter. It really is mind blowing. Thank you.👍🏻
"We’ve now set the speed of light so that any revisions of the speed of light wouldn’t change the speed of light itself they’d alter the size of a meter." A metre is defined by the speed of light? Oh my days huh whuuuu o.O 🤯
Love the video! That was a Learning Curve for me ☺
Thank you very much
Thank you for this video. It is seriously well made and i cant wait for tonight to fall asleep to it
Crazy place this universe
The Universe is over twice as small as it is large.
absolutely love the channel!
Fantastic. Glad I have found your channel.
This is either a denigration of the human spirit or the glory of man. Well done!!
Thank you very much. I like to see it as a testament to the curiosity of the human species
Really enjoyable content, amazing to think how powerful are our telescopes to capture these Images so far away.
10:41 geomety dahs refrence !!!!!!
OMG I've never seen that largest mammal - he looks so cute and happy!!
Very cool! and easy to follow.
And just like that you have a new subscriber, really enjoyed this video mate.
Thank you and welcome aboard!
Very well done sir 👍 I really enjoyed this!
the best videos on astronomy, thank you!
Absolutely brilliant channel
After watching this, I feel a little smaller than before.
It's amazing how, for us, the speed of light is absurdly fast, but for the astronomical scale it is as slow as a slug...
Although 243 Ida looks like a potato, it was not named after the ORE-IDA potato company. In Greek mythology, Ida was a nymph of Crete who raised the god Zeus. 4:13
Earth is alone, just like the other habitable planets. The Universe is too big to travel.
For linear travel yes, but for quantum travel no. Now we just need to figure out how to quantum travel
@@GRosa250 Isn't there an Australian airline by that name?
There's other life (possibly even intelligent) BUT the distance is too much and we'll never get to meet them...
nice
The "Metric system" is SO much easier to learn while also being much more "Intuitive" compared to other systems. Here in Sweden 1dl=100ml 1 Liter=1000 ml, 1 Meter=100 cm, 1 dm(Deci-meter)= 10 cm, 1 cm= 10 mm, 1 meter= 1000 mm, 1 km= 1000 meters, 1 Mile= 10 kilometers and so on. I can't in my wildest fantasies understand why people would use other units of measurement when we have this simple system. Imagine how much TIME and energy that's wasted because of "strange units" 😄
In fact, no one knows how big the universe truly is, as we can only see a part of it: the observable universe. We have no clue what's behind that, so in fact, everything that we come up with further the observable universe is nothing more than a wild guess.
This was brilliant - bravo
Thank you so much
Very bad stuff happened at Wolf 359, if I remember correctly. Very bad stuff.
It’s nice that you dumb it down for regular Americans so they feel included in science.
some of the words you say and how you say them i love
It's hard to figure out which has the bigger implications: that the universe is finite in size, or it is infinite.
I didn't know UY Scuti lost it's title as the biggest known star, apparently I'm a good 3 years behind so thank you Learning Curve for catching me up
The monolith on Methys was a nice touch.
A space oddity.
Thank you Billy!
Its hard to watch as a european seeing this imperial units in background, but u put some quite effort to made this video, so sub goes to ya
Earned a subscriber, great video!
This really makes me want to play Elite again
If you go the other way, from the size of a man down to something at the "Planck Length", it's actually smaller than the universe is large. For example, there are more Planck Time periods in 1 second, then all of the seconds added up to the current age of the universe
Yes it it, sadly, it's also very difficult to model, even using addons
@Learning Curve I'm sure. I think it was on Anton's channel where he was talking about the "Planck Epoch", and even though it was an unimaginably short period of time in our universe's history (from a Planck Time until ONE whole second), it's still more than the total of whole seconds our universe has existed. There was also a paper I remember reading where the theory of what a given actual "size" of whatever makes up a black holes mass is if whatever undiscovered particle that makes up a black hole's mass is if those particles are crushed into Planck Length distances apart from eachother, and then further expanded to an idea of the minimum size of the universe if you crushed everything down so that the given distance between one particle vs another was at a Planck Length and as Planck mass. Very interesting concept
14:00 I have heard of another black hole, TON 618, being either being the largest or most massive black hole discovered. How does it compare to phoenix A?
It always baffles my brain to consider.....
The universe COULD be absolutely teeming with intelligent civilizations. There could be, say...1 _billion_ intelligent civilizations. And yet....the universe is SO huge, that we'll never ever meet them, let alone know they even exist.
The sheer space between any two "neighboring" stars is just hilarious to contemplate. May as well be infinite.
When my telco employer decided our engineering department was to go metric (1970-ish?), I made the mistake of checking SI for the recommended pronunciation of kilometer, beginning a lifelong unhappiness having to listen to it mis-pronounced. Even Google Maps says it wrong. Wish I hadn't looked it up!
The scale starts to become alien to me when I think about the service life of an average car would barely make it to the Moon. I've often wondered if there isn't another equally massive and complex grouping of celestial objects so far away that the light from it's expansion event hasn't reached us yet. Easier to invent "gods" and pummel an Earth-centric universe into your subject's heads to keep them in line.
True!