I like it when you encourage us to be skeptical about results ; it would be all too easy for all of us to be excited then disappointed about this paper, and it's really the mark of a great science communicator when you temper people's expectations instead of riding the hype. Keep being a wonderful person :-)
This is completely unrelated to this video, just to your channel. Thanks for being a reliable source of brainbleach! Whenever I need to get something out of my head, I come here and just listen to you nerding at the Internet to restore my faith in humanity. You are a ray of light in all that stuff that gets dumped on us. Please stay the way you are! You are such a good example 😊
I’ve always found the idea of cosmic strings very interesting from the first time I heard about them. Super small, but so massive that if you get close enough to them, they would flatten you into the thickness of an atom, sorta like a neutron star but in string form.
@rsh4599 Pbs spacetime did a good video on cosmic strings and iirc yes they indeed may likey "tangle" into to closed loops called super strings, no relationship to string theory. And really the "topological defects" as they call it are "cracks" in a sense that, assuming the expanding universe stretched out space therefore cooling it and reducing the ground state of the higgs field across space and assuming space didnt expand and cool perfectly uniform, then the higgs field in the points in space containing the cosmic strings are essentially areas where the higgs field got stuck and prevented from reducing completely to its new ground state along with the rest of space. The cracks formed as ice freezes is very much similar only in the case of the cosmic string, it's an "object" composed purely of the energy of that elevated higgs field. Another way to think about it is like dominos. Imagine a room full of dominos neatly arranged to knock each other over, if they were not arranged just right there can be instances where dominos end up leaning on each other rather than completely knocking over. Now imagine that each of those dominos represent a point in space where the higgs field can take on a value, at the birth of the universe so it's highest energy state meaning the domino is standing up, and each domino falling is like the higgs field reducing to its ground state. Well just like the Dominos can interfere with each other falling over completely, the values of the higgs field at each point in space can also interfere with each other and potentially produce 1 dimensional strings as discussed Crazy stuff!
@rsh4599 But yes still purely speculation so far, potentially just a ghosts in the math we're chasing but it's an intriguing ghost which is why I think people like it. Makes sense! Black holes were though to be another ghost the math but look how that turned out . Always fun to follow this stuff because one day we may have an answer!
@@hughlion1817 If you know... What part of the physics suggest that these "strings" would become dense regions of [dark]matter with high G as opposed to essentially something akin to a tear that exposes a void (a region that lacks space-time, or at least lacks space ) I ask because I would have some expectation that the interaction between space-time (or space) and that void may offer an appearances that may be similar to G but may be something different all together. I did an abstract 4D(+) thought experiment after watching this and and did one way in which I cut a line section through the strands of the 3D grid (the mesh naturally pulls outward leaving a void), and a second where I drew the intersects of the mesh together along the line creating a line of higher density stretching the mesh around the tear together. I have a particular interest at the end of the thought experiment on the effect on "time" especially in relation to the void.
This was the last video of my night and it was perfect. Exciting from start to finish, able to ponder a few exciting what ifs but not so "holy sh** I can't sleep now, must do further TH-cam research!" Well done, and good night.
Hello wonderful Anton, it's me, person. Thank you for these videos. Honestly they're the best way for me to learn news about the cosmos and astrophysics.
Thank you for pointing out the weakness in some papers. I really hope you start focus on this more and more. Because there are so many bad paper out there and sometime it's like acedimea are refusing to call out a white elephant.
When i read the title I immediately thought "what if we could reach an angle to see our selves!" I mean it would answer soo many simple questions and help us better design a galactic map plus get some hints to aim towards in the future.
Evolution of marriage can be like that too. Your spouse can start off much smaller and much hotter and then suddenly become really large and really cold.
This paper certainly does not prove much of anything, but it is an interesting suggestion, and deserves further research. Thank you Anton, for your honest analysis of this paper!
Some people just don't understand time. It "WAS" expanding at the speed of light, way back then, but it is not expanding at SOL now. The atoms and galaxies near us are not expanding at the SOL.
It would be amazing if there was strong evidence for cosmic strings. Plus it would give Tom Kibble the recognition he deserves! (My previous version of the comment said Nobel prize, but apparently they don't award that posthumously, which is stupid in my opinion.)
@@jajssblue While I do agree to some extent, the Nobel Prize creates recognition and slight funding to a skilled researcher. This funding and attention should go to someone who is alive to use that funding to continue their work.
Birth of the “Anton test“! Forget the cosmic strings! The significance of this video is that here we have the birth of the “Anton test“ that can be used to evaluate the goodness of a paper in astrology. Considering how many papers Anton reads, I have no doubt that this test is going to become, a major signature for quality in research!
had a vivid dream many years ago, quite like this concept. rather than strings though, if viewed through galactic timescales they are more like rivers flowing along the lines space time lines might be a better concept of the idea, as outside those rivers of matter , the void has different properties due to density and matter affecting the space time around the riverbank of these rivers of matter, or as this definition, cosmic strings. which are part of the cosmic web which flows.
Cosmology fans hate Occam's razor. In fact, they work their hypotheses in the most complex way possible. The work of those who set out to verify their theories is a journey through the kingdom of Narnia. What is impressive is that they always achieve the most important thing, money for his lectures that should be called amazing stories.
I guess I don't understan your extreme skepticism here. The duplicated quasar clearly has to be the same object, and there aren't any signs of an Einstein Ring to indicate a spherical deformation of spacetime. Similarly with the two galaxies, the spectrum appears quite similar except for the obvious dip at ~7250 angstroms missing on the right picture. This could easily be explained by an intervening apsorption medium.
A black hole, at least you can orbit it, tell where it is by its accretion disk, optical distortion of distant scenery, and effect on nearby objects. A string could come whooshing by and no one would notice except suddenly done for in the physical realm.
Sounds like whoever did that paper was in a hurry to just get one published ... at least that's my guess. Also Anton, you're a 'wonderful person' too & you totally ROCK! 💫🌃🌏🌌🌠
Always love your videos Anton. I hope you know this community loves what you do. And we especially love that you stick to the studies facts and debated theory. And you don’t go making crazy things up like Destiny or Future Unity does. Those changes are a plague haha
Are you sure it's a galactic mirror and not an alien weapon used to eliminate a whole galaxy by some crazy (to us) manipulation of physics? Not to spoil a popular sci fi book that had some well-researched physics, but there was one scene where a solar system is obliterated by being collapsed into 2 dimensions that'll stay with me for a long time.
So multiple explosions within the main explosion, or like plasma fire cavitaions at a specific frequency. So sigularity explodes but still alot of mass in the area, so the universe colapses, and re blows, over and over in seconds, then the mats are a bit heavier, and then baboom, the universe infinetly expands, and is accelerated by the mutiple waves of high energy, like a surffer.
Counter point: We have looked so hard at the universe that we have reached the limits of procedural generation of our simulation and are seeing assets reused elsewhere.
@@geekswithfeet9137 well, I know Einstein had his doubts about black holes. But isn’t the whole thing just stunning! Man I love astronomy and astrophysics. It keeps me excited about life and living. And we’re here at an amazing time where tech increases fast enough for amazing stories to arrive in Anton’s inbox each morning 😇😊🥰
Is it broken though? If it formed naturally in the universe, can it be considered broken? If it is considered broken, that implies intelligent design. If cosmic strings occur, then they are still within the bounds of physics so it can't be considered broken. It's not a bug, it's a feature. Just because a brown dwarf isn't a star doesn't mean it failed. It's just a brown dwarf.
A JWST run on that sector might reveal something else. from the pixelated images, it seems like both galaxies are not just on collision course, but actually in the middle of it
The big question I have for the researchers is simple, "Why is it such a nice straight line?" I would expect extreme distortion depending on the scales at which the strings might bend. {^_^}
@@axle.australian.patriot yeah we like to think we know what is up there but in reality, we are not even close, every new scientific discovery is just a theory not fact lol
@@nrb5852 Yeah, that applies to just about everything really. But my hypothesis on inverse spheres is based in the theories regarding black holes, space-time and time dilation. There are other components, but it essentially explains black holes, our universe as a black hole as well as what they call the big bang and inflation without the big bang. It also explains what we believe is an accelerating expansion of the universe without the need for spooky dark matter etc. Your mirror/reflecting remark but mostly the mirror remark prompted me to throw it in as in some sense the inverse sphere can be described in some sense as the other side of the mirror although a complete inverse of space time rather than just a light reflection. It is just a thought though, and although I am not an indentured physicist I am creating some computer modeling and math around it to create a representation and test myself :)
19:50 OK, hearing cosmic strings.. Now I am picturing a comic sized stratocaster with the hand of god hovering over it blazing out the sweetest stairway to heaven lead ever lol
If cosmic strings are some sort of crack in the fabric of space-time why is it massive? And if that's really the case that means blackholes are literally a hole in space-time and why are they expanding once they absorb matter? I hope you can do a video in the future explaining this
PBS Spacetime has a good video explanation of it, in short in the very early universe the higgs field was metastable, but shortly the universe cooled enough for it to drop to it ground level, however: 1. It did not drop everywhere at the same time 2. The ground level has "direction" (its complicated) 3. Where it did drop, it would bring down supporunding space down too in the same "direction" Where the wavefronts of these drops collided with different "directions" it causes the field to tie itself up meaning some of the higgs field can't drop down to a ground level. If that collision results in a single point it creates a magnetic monopole, if it creates a 1D line, its a cosmic string and if 2D it creates a domain wall. Overtime these topological defects slowly fade as they vibrate creating gravitational waves that smooth out the defects...
@@Monkey_D_Luffy56 they formed in the VERY early universe, and as the universe got larger, so the strings got longer, as topological defects don't really care about the scale of said topology... One of the neat things we could learn from finding enough cosmic strings is that we could estimate how far apart the nucleation sites (where the higgs energy initially drops to it ground energy level) were initially. If there was a lot of nucleation sites they would be closer together and thus produce shorter, but more strings (granted we are talking short for the early universe, with the expansion of the universe, these things would still dwarf most celestial bodies...).
Its a shimmer effect more like a mirage with small sheets of dust and gas suspended between pressure gradients hyper speed travel would shred all delicate instruments on the exterior thats with oumuamua was so smooth in shape alot of radiation blasting over eons since the big bang potentially or atleast the formation of the milky way
I mean, in the start it seems that these strings would rarely be or stay straight, which would be needed for the even mirror lensing. So, I think that theory has issues. second, with that much gravity, I see a black hole intersecting one to easy of a thing. That could be an explanation for the larger black holes tho, and where the strings went.
I still dont understand cosmic strings? Wouldint they be several thousand, if not millions of parsecs long? Like a crack on an ice shelf spanning the universal plane. So we would see a "mirroring" effect, in a line.
Cuz the string would've to be precisely parallel to the camera sensor (perpendicular to the observers sightline) at every point along its length to be lensing over a large distance. I think we can only see small parts of the strings that happen to be parallel to the telescope camera sensor. Makes sense? If we wanted to test this we could send a probe an insane distance away to look at the same potential string from a different angle.
@@gnidarap it does not make sense... Since cosmic strings are meant to be an actual gradient between two space-time "planes", wouldn't they be seen, basically from any angle in the universe, since the expansion phases created these strings? It would almost appear like an onion separating various space-time regions.
@@markopecinovic4475 but we're not seeing the string here, just (potentially)the effect of gravitational lensing. And it's completely impossible to think of a lense that will work from all angles. Lenses have focal points, even the conventional gravitational lenses are not visible if you're not here. About the onion thing and your explanation - you must know a lot of stuff I don't know about cosmic strings, so I'm gonna go read up and thanks for your input bless u stay curious 🙏
@@gnidarap Barely know anything about cosmic strings, but a little science... The idea of "Space-Time Gradients" forming as the universe cooled, is the concept that baffles me. Sorry to bother ya, and thank you for your time.
Looked similar but a different phenomenon. In Next Generation episode Disaster, the Enterprise hits a quantum filament, also different but described as very massive and thousands of kilometers long, but only millimeters thick.
The image at 2:39 shows two views of, Insuppose, a galaxy, and one is reflected. But a cosmic srring shouldnt reflect the thing that you see teicr, right? What is the correct expectation? I suppose I should read the paper. Maybe it isn't a simple story where the string bisects the gap between the two galaxy images. Edit: In the conclusion, the paper hypothesizes that "the string is strongly inclined to the line of sight and, possibly, bent in the image plane". They talk about having to do general relativity computations to get it to match.
If they're enormous, massive, and "everywhere" shouldn't there be some that captured gas or stellar objects in their gravitational pull? We spot blackholes by their bright accretion disks, but it seems like that's not possible for cosmic strings and I'm not smart enough to intuit the reason why.
Why do you use the analogy of listening for gravitational waves? Is it just because the technology is in its infancy and we can't generate an images with gravitational waves yet?
Think of a singularity stretched out thousands to millions of light years. It's not so much a collapse of a gravitationally bound object than it is of spacetime folding and twisting in on itself.
Ok so a black hole is a ton of mass at a point... A 0d object. A string is essentially a 1d version of a black hole. The math behind them makes black holes look easy. They're pretty much impossible to exist without negative mass also existing. Proving that strings exist would demonstrate that physics allows time travel and warp drives since strings would allow both.
I dont understand why someone would make such a bogus claim in this day and age. Information flows so freely and rapidly, there's no such thing as "fifteen minutes of fame" anymore. The only thing such ridiculous claims accomplish is wasting peoples time with debunking it.
This sounds like a break in space time. And is it expanding? Also could this be a 2 dimensional area projected onto our 4 dimensional space, expanding or contracting space time error. Also if this thing is real, imagine what we could learn from the effects, if only we could get closer.
Data projection. Some call it the holographic universe. It could be static data like an old fashion computer game, or interactive data like a modern computer game, So is the game creators making up the game play, or are the AI characters (objects) creating the game play as they go. All interesting questions :)
"Cosmic strings" are simply a part of the entire Cosmic Web which is governed by electromagnetic forces and motions. How difficult can it be to recognize logically?
No, it doesn't. The simplest explanation begets religion, solipsism, and all that cr*p. But not atoms, quarks, and all that stuff that is actually quite complex.
@@paulnelson2003 The observable universe is much larger than that due to inflation. This plus the rest of the universe might be infinite if a cosmic string is infinite and exists.
@@archlittle6067 The big bang theory states that the universe, at one point, was not just finite but quite small. To be infinite size now, it would have to have been growing at infinite speed at some point.
@@tsm688 Not my idea Read Michio Kaku's Beyond Einstein. There was a preexisting 10 dimensional universe. The inner 7 dimensions collapsed inward in a big crunch, breaking apart the symmetrically joined strings which caused the event we call "The Big Bang". Our 4 dimensional universe started out much bigger than a "singularity" (which is a physical impossibility here and in black holes. You are an idiot if you think you can divide by zero). Proper theory eliminates the need for an inflationary period which science couldn't explain anyway. Occam's Razor favors Michio Kaku, not mathematicians who divide by zero, and so do I. And yes, sarcasm aside, Kaku does deserve a Nobel Prize.🏆
I like it when you encourage us to be skeptical about results ; it would be all too easy for all of us to be excited then disappointed about this paper, and it's really the mark of a great science communicator when you temper people's expectations instead of riding the hype. Keep being a wonderful person :-)
Exactly haha. A true science commentator. 😊
You know what ? Listen yours shorts clips help me to forget Worlds problems....
But you get cosmological problems instead!
Who will pay for the weapons against russia?
The people. It's okay. Just a heads up 😅
@@Jump-n-smashfar worse!
Please never drop out completely because it's up to us to fix this mess.
I was just thinking the same thing.
This is completely unrelated to this video, just to your channel.
Thanks for being a reliable source of brainbleach! Whenever I need to get something out of my head, I come here and just listen to you nerding at the Internet to restore my faith in humanity. You are a ray of light in all that stuff that gets dumped on us. Please stay the way you are! You are such a good example 😊
Thank you Anton for our daily dose of cool space videos.
I’ve always found the idea of cosmic strings very interesting from the first time I heard about them. Super small, but so massive that if you get close enough to them, they would flatten you into the thickness of an atom, sorta like a neutron star but in string form.
@rsh4599 Cosmic knots? Like the universes version of dreadlocks lol
@rsh4599 I think it's not a structure per-se. It's a deformation in the fabric of the universe.
@rsh4599
Pbs spacetime did a good video on cosmic strings and iirc yes they indeed may likey "tangle" into to closed loops called super strings, no relationship to string theory.
And really the "topological defects" as they call it are "cracks" in a sense that, assuming the expanding universe stretched out space therefore cooling it and reducing the ground state of the higgs field across space and assuming space didnt expand and cool perfectly uniform, then the higgs field in the points in space containing the cosmic strings are essentially areas where the higgs field got stuck and prevented from reducing completely to its new ground state along with the rest of space.
The cracks formed as ice freezes is very much similar only in the case of the cosmic string, it's an "object" composed purely of the energy of that elevated higgs field.
Another way to think about it is like dominos. Imagine a room full of dominos neatly arranged to knock each other over, if they were not arranged just right there can be instances where dominos end up leaning on each other rather than completely knocking over. Now imagine that each of those dominos represent a point in space where the higgs field can take on a value, at the birth of the universe so it's highest energy state meaning the domino is standing up, and each domino falling is like the higgs field reducing to its ground state.
Well just like the Dominos can interfere with each other falling over completely, the values of the higgs field at each point in space can also interfere with each other and potentially produce 1 dimensional strings as discussed
Crazy stuff!
@rsh4599
But yes still purely speculation so far, potentially just a ghosts in the math we're chasing but it's an intriguing ghost which is why I think people like it. Makes sense! Black holes were though to be another ghost the math but look how that turned out .
Always fun to follow this stuff because one day we may have an answer!
@@hughlion1817 If you know... What part of the physics suggest that these "strings" would become dense regions of [dark]matter with high G as opposed to essentially something akin to a tear that exposes a void (a region that lacks space-time, or at least lacks space )
I ask because I would have some expectation that the interaction between space-time (or space) and that void may offer an appearances that may be similar to G but may be something different all together.
I did an abstract 4D(+) thought experiment after watching this and and did one way in which I cut a line section through the strands of the 3D grid (the mesh naturally pulls outward leaving a void), and a second where I drew the intersects of the mesh together along the line creating a line of higher density stretching the mesh around the tear together.
I have a particular interest at the end of the thought experiment on the effect on "time" especially in relation to the void.
This was the last video of my night and it was perfect. Exciting from start to finish, able to ponder a few exciting what ifs but not so "holy sh** I can't sleep now, must do further TH-cam research!" Well done, and good night.
Hello wonderful Anton, it's me, person. Thank you for these videos. Honestly they're the best way for me to learn news about the cosmos and astrophysics.
Thank you for pointing out the weakness in some papers. I really hope you start focus on this more and more. Because there are so many bad paper out there and sometime it's like acedimea are refusing to call out a white elephant.
Thanks, Anton. You’re a wonderful person. Thank you very much!
When i read the title I immediately thought "what if we could reach an angle to see our selves!" I mean it would answer soo many simple questions and help us better design a galactic map plus get some hints to aim towards in the future.
always wondered if the universe is flat or like some weird shape
Evolution of marriage can be like that too. Your spouse can start off much smaller and much hotter and then suddenly become really large and really cold.
Our relyble scientific papers analizer!! 🙌🤝 thanks You Anton.
Thanks for adding timestamps 👌🏻
Fascinating stuff indeed!
This paper certainly does not prove much of anything, but it is an interesting suggestion, and deserves further research.
Thank you Anton, for your honest analysis of this paper!
The paper is a scientific version of a clickbait.
Space is a mirror. Space is the ultimate mirror. When we look into space we see ourselves magnified, minimized, as we were, as we will be....
Some people just don't understand time. It "WAS" expanding at the speed of light, way back then, but it is not expanding at SOL now. The atoms and galaxies near us are not expanding at the SOL.
It would be amazing if there was strong evidence for cosmic strings. Plus it would give Tom Kibble the recognition he deserves! (My previous version of the comment said Nobel prize, but apparently they don't award that posthumously, which is stupid in my opinion.)
Lol... I had to look up Valdemort's other name, just to be sure... 😂🤣
The Nobel prize is not awarded posthumously...
@@brucelaunius9047 Oh darn. I didn't realize that. There are so many boneheaded restrictions on the Noble prize.
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"Tom Marvolo Riddle" (and I didn't have to look it up)
@@jajssblue While I do agree to some extent, the Nobel Prize creates recognition and slight funding to a skilled researcher. This funding and attention should go to someone who is alive to use that funding to continue their work.
Excellent video, Anton. Thank you very much.
"Cosmic String Creating a Galactic Mirror" That's a new sentence for me.
How to book JWST observation time: "according to my study, this could possibly be God's butt cheeks, but further observation is required."
Birth of the “Anton test“! Forget the cosmic strings! The significance of this video is that here we have the birth of the “Anton test“ that can be used to evaluate the goodness of a paper in astrology. Considering how many papers Anton reads, I have no doubt that this test is going to become, a major signature for quality in research!
An intriguing thesis that may prove worthy of further study. I suppose we'll just have to wait and see.
had a vivid dream many years ago, quite like this concept. rather than strings though, if viewed through galactic timescales they are more like rivers flowing along the lines
space time lines might be a better concept of the idea, as outside those rivers of matter , the void has different properties due to density and matter affecting the space time around the riverbank of these rivers of matter, or as this definition, cosmic strings.
which are part of the cosmic web which flows.
We are at the crazy speculation phase in the death of string theory.
Cosmology fans hate Occam's razor. In fact, they work their hypotheses in the most complex way possible. The work of those who set out to verify their theories is a journey through the kingdom of Narnia. What is impressive is that they always achieve the most important thing, money for his lectures that should be called amazing stories.
Keep it up Anton, your videos are always a delightful insight. 😁
Always interesting information, thanks 😊
I guess I don't understan your extreme skepticism here. The duplicated quasar clearly has to be the same object, and there aren't any signs of an Einstein Ring to indicate a spherical deformation of spacetime. Similarly with the two galaxies, the spectrum appears quite similar except for the obvious dip at ~7250 angstroms missing on the right picture. This could easily be explained by an intervening apsorption medium.
Thanks Anton❤
So is this like the primordial bits that became the “cosmic web”? Like denser, more solid spacetime, like cosmic scar tissue?
Thank you 👍
interesting idea, I love how intrigued I am by this theory.
That's even scarier than black holes
A black hole, at least you can orbit it, tell where it is by its accretion disk, optical distortion of distant scenery, and effect on nearby objects. A string could come whooshing by and no one would notice except suddenly done for in the physical realm.
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The one thing about gravitational lensing is it could also be quite deceiving !
Anton,Sabine and Frasier. Real science people.
Frasier? Am I missing out on some greatness?!
Frasier Cain not Crane lol@@barrypickford1443
Wonderful as always Anton. Thank you. 😊👍
Sounds like whoever did that paper was in a hurry to just get one published ... at least that's my guess. Also Anton, you're a 'wonderful person' too & you totally ROCK! 💫🌃🌏🌌🌠
Always love your videos Anton. I hope you know this community loves what you do. And we especially love that you stick to the studies facts and debated theory. And you don’t go making crazy things up like Destiny or Future Unity does. Those changes are a plague haha
Are you sure it's a galactic mirror and not an alien weapon used to eliminate a whole galaxy by some crazy (to us) manipulation of physics?
Not to spoil a popular sci fi book that had some well-researched physics, but there was one scene where a solar system is obliterated by being collapsed into 2 dimensions that'll stay with me for a long time.
So multiple explosions within the main explosion, or like plasma fire cavitaions at a specific frequency. So sigularity explodes but still alot of mass in the area, so the universe colapses, and re blows, over and over in seconds, then the mats are a bit heavier, and then baboom, the universe infinetly expands, and is accelerated by the mutiple waves of high energy, like a surffer.
Thanks Anton!
jeez, what would the mass of those strings have to be? and wouldn't that have to be a mass per unit length? damn, impressive!
Counter point: We have looked so hard at the universe that we have reached the limits of procedural generation of our simulation and are seeing assets reused elsewhere.
I like it. Let’s hope no one reformats the hard-drive 😊
That’s honestly easier to believe than cosmic strings
@@geekswithfeet9137 well, I know Einstein had his doubts about black holes. But isn’t the whole thing just stunning! Man I love astronomy and astrophysics. It keeps me excited about life and living. And we’re here at an amazing time where tech increases fast enough for amazing stories to arrive in Anton’s inbox each morning 😇😊🥰
Oh great. So, we got a broken Universe. That explains so much.
Is it broken though? If it formed naturally in the universe, can it be considered broken? If it is considered broken, that implies intelligent design. If cosmic strings occur, then they are still within the bounds of physics so it can't be considered broken. It's not a bug, it's a feature. Just because a brown dwarf isn't a star doesn't mean it failed. It's just a brown dwarf.
I wonder what the laws of physics are on the inside of the string compared to the outside of it
probably just gravity or another mega low density partical that we can't directly observe
It's certainly interesting, and maybe cautious optimism is appropriate. The physics of this is way over my head , though.
Am I the only one who saw the cosmic string when Anton showed the color images of the galaxies? 😂 It's right there guys, gimme my Nobel 😅
A JWST run on that sector might reveal something else. from the pixelated images, it seems like both galaxies are not just on collision course, but actually in the middle of it
Anton, the images of the purported 'single' galaxy showing up as 2 galaxies, made me think of Lance Armstrong.
Peers into the far distance, claims to see a crack in the cosmos. 😂
so that episode where the Enterprise takes serious damage when running into a cosmic string is actually realistic
cosmic strings are necessary for my pet dark matter theory (or at least rings formed from them that lasted after they decayed) so I'm hopeful
Greetings from the BIG SKY.
I remember a string being possibly discovered back in 1980. But it soon walked back after making the CBS Evening news.
The big question I have for the researchers is simple, "Why is it such a nice straight line?" I would expect extreme distortion depending on the scales at which the strings might bend.
{^_^}
Imagine the universe is tiny and everything is just reflecting 😂😂
I do something like that every time I think about the universe. Like an inverse sphere.
@@axle.australian.patriot yeah we like to think we know what is up there but in reality, we are not even close, every new scientific discovery is just a theory not fact lol
@@nrb5852 Yeah, that applies to just about everything really. But my hypothesis on inverse spheres is based in the theories regarding black holes, space-time and time dilation. There are other components, but it essentially explains black holes, our universe as a black hole as well as what they call the big bang and inflation without the big bang. It also explains what we believe is an accelerating expansion of the universe without the need for spooky dark matter etc.
Your mirror/reflecting remark but mostly the mirror remark prompted me to throw it in as in some sense the inverse sphere can be described in some sense as the other side of the mirror although a complete inverse of space time rather than just a light reflection.
It is just a thought though, and although I am not an indentured physicist I am creating some computer modeling and math around it to create a representation and test myself :)
19:50 OK, hearing cosmic strings.. Now I am picturing a comic sized stratocaster with the hand of god hovering over it blazing out the sweetest stairway to heaven lead ever lol
Wonderful Anton hello.
Whatever’s going on and the explanations, the Universe will always be Stringing us along. It’s that fascinating and captivating.....⚛️☮️🌏
If cosmic strings are some sort of crack in the fabric of space-time why is it massive? And if that's really the case that means blackholes are literally a hole in space-time and why are they expanding once they absorb matter? I hope you can do a video in the future explaining this
PBS Spacetime has a good video explanation of it, in short in the very early universe the higgs field was metastable, but shortly the universe cooled enough for it to drop to it ground level, however:
1. It did not drop everywhere at the same time
2. The ground level has "direction" (its complicated)
3. Where it did drop, it would bring down supporunding space down too in the same "direction"
Where the wavefronts of these drops collided with different "directions" it causes the field to tie itself up meaning some of the higgs field can't drop down to a ground level.
If that collision results in a single point it creates a magnetic monopole, if it creates a 1D line, its a cosmic string and if 2D it creates a domain wall.
Overtime these topological defects slowly fade as they vibrate creating gravitational waves that smooth out the defects...
@@dwavenminer thanks but am I missing something? this doesn't explain why they are massive it's just a summary on how cosmic strings form
@@Monkey_D_Luffy56 they formed in the VERY early universe, and as the universe got larger, so the strings got longer, as topological defects don't really care about the scale of said topology...
One of the neat things we could learn from finding enough cosmic strings is that we could estimate how far apart the nucleation sites (where the higgs energy initially drops to it ground energy level) were initially.
If there was a lot of nucleation sites they would be closer together and thus produce shorter, but more strings (granted we are talking short for the early universe, with the expansion of the universe, these things would still dwarf most celestial bodies...).
What was that photo on the right it looks familiar
Wonderful person ❤
Its a shimmer effect more like a mirage with small sheets of dust and gas suspended between pressure gradients hyper speed travel would shred all delicate instruments on the exterior thats with oumuamua was so smooth in shape alot of radiation blasting over eons since the big bang potentially or atleast the formation of the milky way
Then how are not cosmic strings basically the reason the cosmic web exists... it just makes total sense
The people in the comments didn't watch the video to the end lol
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I mean, in the start it seems that these strings would rarely be or stay straight, which would be needed for the even mirror lensing. So, I think that theory has issues. second, with that much gravity, I see a black hole intersecting one to easy of a thing. That could be an explanation for the larger black holes tho, and where the strings went.
If cosmic strings are topological defects in the universe resulting from phase transition, what is the "thing" thats undergoing the transition?
I still dont understand cosmic strings?
Wouldint they be several thousand, if not millions of parsecs long?
Like a crack on an ice shelf spanning the universal plane.
So we would see a "mirroring" effect, in a line.
Cuz the string would've to be precisely parallel to the camera sensor (perpendicular to the observers sightline) at every point along its length to be lensing over a large distance. I think we can only see small parts of the strings that happen to be parallel to the telescope camera sensor.
Makes sense?
If we wanted to test this we could send a probe an insane distance away to look at the same potential string from a different angle.
@@gnidarap it does not make sense...
Since cosmic strings are meant to be an actual gradient between two space-time "planes", wouldn't they be seen, basically from any angle in the universe, since the expansion phases created these strings?
It would almost appear like an onion separating various space-time regions.
@@markopecinovic4475 but we're not seeing the string here, just (potentially)the effect of gravitational lensing.
And it's completely impossible to think of a lense that will work from all angles. Lenses have focal points, even the conventional gravitational lenses are not visible if you're not here.
About the onion thing and your explanation - you must know a lot of stuff I don't know about cosmic strings, so I'm gonna go read up and thanks for your input bless u stay curious 🙏
@@gnidarap Barely know anything about cosmic strings, but a little science...
The idea of "Space-Time Gradients" forming as the universe cooled, is the concept that baffles me.
Sorry to bother ya, and thank you for your time.
Wasn't this in the Star Trek movie where Captain Kirk dies? A Cosmic String called the "Nexus."
Looked similar but a different phenomenon. In Next Generation episode Disaster, the Enterprise hits a quantum filament, also different but described as very massive and thousands of kilometers long, but only millimeters thick.
This is cool.
It truly is kinda funny how many theories have the word "string" in them these days. "oh no no no no, not that string theory, 'this' string theory."
The image at 2:39 shows two views of, Insuppose, a galaxy, and one is reflected. But a cosmic srring shouldnt reflect the thing that you see teicr, right? What is the correct expectation?
I suppose I should read the paper. Maybe it isn't a simple story where the string bisects the gap between the two galaxy images.
Edit: In the conclusion, the paper hypothesizes that "the string is strongly inclined to the line of sight
and, possibly, bent in the image plane". They talk about having to do general relativity computations to get it to match.
No clickbait, just facts and truths...
TY Anton for tying strings together for us. 🪢
I would guess that the probability of a string of that length vibrating is much larger than it not vibrating.
The strings are actually cracks formed by the Pandorica opening... ;]
If they're enormous, massive, and "everywhere" shouldn't there be some that captured gas or stellar objects in their gravitational pull? We spot blackholes by their bright accretion disks, but it seems like that's not possible for cosmic strings and I'm not smart enough to intuit the reason why.
Its a wonderful ripple in space time.
Why do you use the analogy of listening for gravitational waves? Is it just because the technology is in its infancy and we can't generate an images with gravitational waves yet?
I thought the name for cosmic strings was "Domain walls"?
Same class of phenomena, different topology.
Why would a cosmic string have mass? What would it be made of?
Cosmoplasm
Think of a singularity stretched out thousands to millions of light years. It's not so much a collapse of a gravitationally bound object than it is of spacetime folding and twisting in on itself.
@@doubanjiang_*Astroplasma
@@therealfluxgateI wonder what effect the presence of such a phennomina would have on local conditions.
Ok so a black hole is a ton of mass at a point... A 0d object.
A string is essentially a 1d version of a black hole.
The math behind them makes black holes look easy. They're pretty much impossible to exist without negative mass also existing. Proving that strings exist would demonstrate that physics allows time travel and warp drives since strings would allow both.
god damn, isn't this something Ed Witten speculated about possibly existing?
I dont understand why someone would make such a bogus claim in this day and age. Information flows so freely and rapidly, there's no such thing as "fifteen minutes of fame" anymore. The only thing such ridiculous claims accomplish is wasting peoples time with debunking it.
See: Ziggy's Epic Scifi
For a 30min comedy about a sentient cosmic string that visits Earth.
I can't believe it's actually on-topic!
Does Anton edit his videos?
Universe is getting wrinkles! =)
This sounds like a break in space time. And is it expanding? Also could this be a 2 dimensional area projected onto our 4 dimensional space, expanding or contracting space time error.
Also if this thing is real, imagine what we could learn from the effects, if only we could get closer.
Might cosmic strings have any relation to the cosmic web / filament structure we see throughout the universe as a whole?
all knotted up 😁
Why would a crack in the inflated universe have high energy? To what force is it attributed to? Gravitational?
Anyone else see the Creators face in the CMB!!!
Holy shit! We’re totally in a simulation. Ugh.
Just a hunch! Loook!!
ion see it
Data projection. Some call it the holographic universe. It could be static data like an old fashion computer game, or interactive data like a modern computer game, So is the game creators making up the game play, or are the AI characters (objects) creating the game play as they go.
All interesting questions :)
"Cosmic strings" are simply a part of the entire Cosmic Web which is governed by electromagnetic forces and motions.
How difficult can it be to recognize logically?
So it looks like the scientists here dealt with the classic problem of information bias. Happens to all of us.
I wont be able to sleep without anton tbh
It's 2023 you can have Moby Dick read to you in his voice.
K.I.S.S. Keep it simple ...... That old axiom applies to physics as well. Thx Anton. Good assessment of a very weak proof.
No, it doesn't. The simplest explanation begets religion, solipsism, and all that cr*p. But not atoms, quarks, and all that stuff that is actually quite complex.
Cosmic strings may be infinitely long. If these turn out to be cosmic strings, would that imply that the universe is infinitely large?
The universe is not infinite. The observable part is 13.8 billion light years.
@@paulnelson2003the observable universe is not the whole universe.
@@paulnelson2003 The observable universe is much larger than that due to inflation. This plus the rest of the universe might be infinite if a cosmic string is infinite and exists.
maybe infinite in the 3D plane?
@@archlittle6067 The big bang theory states that the universe, at one point, was not just finite but quite small. To be infinite size now, it would have to have been growing at infinite speed at some point.
There was no inflationary period because our universe didn't start from a singularity, which doesn't exist.
With respect, Anton
wow, that was easy. give this man a nobel
@@tsm688
Not my idea
Read Michio Kaku's Beyond Einstein.
There was a preexisting 10 dimensional universe.
The inner 7 dimensions collapsed inward in a big crunch, breaking apart the symmetrically joined strings which caused the event we call "The Big Bang".
Our 4 dimensional universe started out much bigger than a "singularity" (which is a physical impossibility here and in black holes. You are an idiot if you think you can divide by zero).
Proper theory eliminates the need for an inflationary period which science couldn't explain anyway.
Occam's Razor favors Michio Kaku, not mathematicians who divide by zero, and so do I.
And yes, sarcasm aside, Kaku does deserve a Nobel Prize.🏆