Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains Nothing
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 พ.ค. 2024
- In this StarTalk video, we’re talking about nothing. Not in the Seinfeldian sense, but in the science sense. What is nothing? Neil explains how our usual definition of something being “nothing” is dictated by our senses.
What if you wanted to get all the way down to true nothing? Well, even when there’s nothing, there’s air molecules, and a lot of them. So, what happens when you take out the air molecules? Find out just how much air molecules permeate in our environment, in our solar system, in interstellar space, and intergalactic space.
Then, just when you think you truly have nothing, you’ll hear how quantum physics comes into play. Discover more about virtual particles and why the best “nothing” you could have is filled with virtual particles. All that, plus, we debate if being able to describe something that is nothing makes it something.
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0:00 - Introduction
0:30 - How Our Senses Dictate 'Nothing'
4:38 - The Best Vacuum On Earth
5:50 - The Emptiest Regions Of Space
7:30 - The Closest You Can Get To Nothing
8:36 - The Greatest Nothing
10:32 - Is Nothing Still Something?
12:30 - Closing Notes - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
Thanks, Neil. I understood nothing.
Me too now I understand nothing
LOL
Lol
Lol
Damnn😂
Now I understand the quote - *"Nothing is Impossible"* 👍
It killed me but NOTHING happened
Underrated comment 😂😂
That's deep
Very underrated comment.
The IQ of this comment is "Astronomical" or "A Googleplex"
Neil is the only guy that can talk for 13+ minutes about LITERALLY NOTHING
...and during that time talking, he explains everything. This man is a godsend to humanity!
I CAN TALK ABOUT NOTHING FOR 5 HOURS
During which time we learn a whole lot of nothing.... well maybe smoke a joint. lol
You mean nothing that you understand. I can listen to him and understand much of his content
No slides, no animations, no special effects... and yet he explains complex concepts so effortlessly! Hat's off to you Neil!!! I wish I had such teachers during my school and college days. Each episode you do is an eye-opener. And Chuck is great too, representing us with our thoughts, queries and amazement! Keep it up guys!
Neil: "What you doing?"
Me: "Nothing"
Neil: " Let's talk about that, son."
Your heart is beating, your blood is flowing, your lungs are expanding and contracting, eyes are blinking, motor controlled muscles not \mussels\ are flexing, brain is constantly thinking and firing through receptors through out the brain, and signaling nerves through out your body. And even if your dead your decaying. So can't be doing nothing. old man typing. LOL
@@SierWilliam 😂😂👏👏
SierWilliam okay then i was flowing blood through my body, pumping my heart, expanding my lungs and contracting them, thoughts firing in my brain through receptors, muscles contracting, eyes blinking, moms spaghetti.
Had to like you were on 666 likes 😈🙏 😂
So accurate!!
Whitney Houston: “ 🎶 ...I have nothing, nothing, nothing... 🎶”
Neil: Now hold on for a second there...
😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂
🎵I have oxygen, nitrogen, C02 if I don’t have you🎶
Well…….actually😏
My thanks to you Dr. Tyson, but given all impediments inherent in human nature due to the process of evolution and struggle for survival how can we ever hope to understand an explanation such as that?
When I was in High School, I wasn't interested in science at all. And now that I am older and retired, I'd like to know more and more about science. I think it is mainly because of Neil who is an excellent teacher and makes the subject very interesting and fascinating. Thanks and kudos. Keep on educating us for it is significant that we understand what goes on around us, the earth, the seasons, the gravity pull, atoms, protons, molecules, et al. Wish you all the best.
I love these two. Neil can blow Chuck's mind, but then Chuck cracks him up
Imagine if he had to talk about 'something'. Would take forever.
Nah infinity when he explained it didn't take to long... Lol
well, he technically did talk about something. He described what it means to have nothing, and because nothing is directly proportional to something, we can infer the limits of something.
Luingus lol
That made me laugh. Nice joke.
🤣
Guy to girl: Hey babe what's wrong?
Girl: Nothing.
Run.
This comment deserves more likes.
@@squeet6831 OK, I'll give it one then.
I read run in the Firefighter Clown voice 😂
To which I would typically reply "Fantastic! I thought owing to your silence and the sour expression you're wearing there might be something irking you. Glad all's well. Later!"
I'm not married anymore.
*The nothing proceeds to consume everything*
In 1967 when I was 10 my grandfather, a small town electrician with no high school diploma in southeast Ohio, spoke philosophically to us kids... "I can understand the concept of everything but I can't understand the concept of nothing." He also said about the universe "I can understand 'will always exist' but I can't understand 'has always existed.'
Niel is the most entertaining, enthusiastic and intelligent science communicator today. He Never ceases to blow my mind.
Chuck has my dream job: getting educated in a plethora of interesting fields by actual experts, in a causal setting where you can ask questions , and there’s not even an expectation of being smart: they just ask you to make jokes to appeal to the other average joes. What could be better?
Valentino Balbonis job
I will also watch!!
Being paid to breath would be better.
liv Gertz that would be epic
But the questions he asks and some of the input.. he's actually smart as well as funny... he's not a scientist but you can tell by his comprehension, when hearing the answer the man has an IQ higher than average......
Mom: "What is this guy talking about?"
Me: "Nothing."
Mom: "???"
SAME
Its even better in my case because my family doesnt understand english.
Well actually.....
@@indorilnerevar3161 It would be the same in other languages
in my case would be "nada"
@@8koi245 are you portuguese?
For those that like this kind of topic, there’s an amazing graphic novel called Logicomix. Even if you don’t like graphic novels, you won’t be able to put this down. The last part of what Neil was talking about is the philosophy of language, which is what Wittgenstein basically said all philosophy boils down to.
And if you read this far, let me digress (not to be confused with deGrasse) a little further. Doesn’t Neil sort of make Wittgenstein’s argument here? In school we used to argue about which science was the science to rule them all. Biologists, chemists, and physicists all had a go to say they were on top, but I always felt it was Philosophy. “Philosophy, that’s not even a science. Are you crazy?” they said. True, Philosophy gets has the rep that it was supplanted by science in the search for truth and supplanted by religion in the search for wisdom. But when you really get down to it, Philosophy has the most grounded appreciation of the boundaries of reality. Every day, physicists discover amazing things about the material universe; yet, when an astrophysicist tries to explain the concept of ’nothing,’ as he strips away everything he can describe he realizes the concept itself starts to make less sense. This is because we do not interface with reality directly, we do so through the senses and, importantly, through language.
Words are tools, so the question is, how good is a word as a tool? As for modern philosophy's relationship to modern science, philosophy tells science which way to go. Science figures out how to go. (which way to go is Broader Survival).
Believe it or not, having nothing is one of my scariest dreams/ or nightmare. I dreamt about a dark place one day that space is being sucked into a vacuum and the space in a deep darkness, I was losing air and view of an immediate viewable space to a point that I almost not see a space in a complete darkness waking up panicking gasping for air, I was totally scared beyond words. Until now I get uneasy remembering it, what if big bang (as explained by scientists) didn't happen or what if creation as depicted in the Bible didn't occur? This gives me appreciation that I exist and the place that I can see and live in also exist.
"There's not matter, not energy, not even the laws of physics" they're describing my bank balance.
Lol and mine
I wish I could say the same. My bank balance has something...anti-gravity. It currently repels all positive numbers.
🤣
You guys should start a club.
Underrated comment 😂
Title: "Tyson explains nothing"
Video : *13 minutes long*
Me: hmm, seems legit.
There's so much Nothing that a 10 minute video is actually 13 minutes.
It is always fun to listen to Dr. Tyson, discussions, regarding science and nothing. Chuck said it best. Nothing is something!
I watched it high first and I'm mesmerized. Thanks for what you guys do. Love it.
When you ask you clearly upset girlfriend, "what's the matter?":
- "Nothing."
that’s a double
"Do whatever you want!"
Now, there are a lot of virtual particles swarming there.
bwhahaha nice
Nah you shoukd say: Everything
Showed this to my wife, she replied. "I know now what I'm getting you for your birthday."
This video is describing your ”wife” not birthday present.
r/boomershumor
You played yourself
@@dragoonTT ooff took me a while but got it, that's harsh ma man
@@dragoonTT Yo you just killed the man, come on.
I was hoping to hear about black holes in the discussion. Thanks for the edification.
Niel i have question regarding time
Say u were in intergalactic space and in the empty space would u still count time as though it was a small unit i.e using sec, hrs n mins or would u use a different scale
_ what im trying to get at is there a different time scale n would u say that time increases ( 1 sec )the more space increases
Neil gets an empty box for christmas
Neil : “ OH BOY !!! “
He got air as present
😅🤣
😁
Then he got excited and sad almost at the same time, because he knew there was an extra virtual particle there as a present but it vanished before he could detect it.
love your joke!!
I'm watching this. I was supposed to be doing work. Mom walked in and asked "What are you watching?" I replied with "Nothing, Mom." She asked "Lemme see" so I showed her. I didn't lie but now I'm grounded.
If I found my kids watching star talk, and liked it, I would have done gave them more...... more star talk
Serves you right, Simon
Bruh that's clsssic haha
@@samanthanor332 Heck! I would buy them a gift!
@@marconeyu you need co. Ck
Just getting into your show I’m so glad you make science funny!! Sad you didn’t make it to the solar eclipse event in Dallas
Wonderfull discussion with a lot of humor and strait thinking
🎉
The biggest nothing in the Observable Universe: my bank account.
Save a minimum of 10%. Never allow yourself to be broke.
L
@@TNTN1977 Are you offering 10% ? In case you were unaware. Supermajority of humans in histoty weren't born with wealth in the function of capitalism, or otherwise.
Decent advice but stay on the surface level, be skimmed off the top like toxic algae.
that is wild, that is sad lol
That means you HAVE a bank account. So thats something
"There's snakes in space?!"
"There's literally everything in space, Morty!!!"
Of course, Earth hangs in space.
A good example of how limiting language can be. What trying to explain can only be experienced. Namaste🙏🏾
thanks for the gift idea!! a very well thought gift
Chuck's delivery of that 'oh god...' after Neil mentioned quantum physics is just so perfect 🤣🤣🤣
yea i just heard it and it's perfectly timed if you understand quantum physics as much is possible to understand it lol
7:56
@@timothyalan34 - Nobody asked.
@@MrMuz99 speak for yourself
@@MrRinre - I usually do, gets messy trying to speak for others.
I was so received that I finally knew what nothing was, but then Neil went "BUT I DESCRIBED IT SO NOW ITS A THING" and my soul broke
This is my favourite Star Talk Video
Sorry of being late, I have two points/questions to make:
1. before the big bang when all the matter was a tiny ball, wasn't "nothing" around it?
2. We know now that the universe expands every second, so isn't the area that universe is not there yet "nothing"?
I really hope one day you read this. Until then thanks for training my brain!
The laws of physics still act upon the area outside the expanse. With universal gravitation, there are waves being sent out from particles, but outside of the expanse, there just isn't anything to attract.
I wish Neil was my seventh grade science teacher! I might have learned something and been interested in it... at 69 years old I'm glad I finally found a teacher of science I can listen to and I will learn all I have missed. Thanks
Do you laugh when you think of number 69.. internet wants to know
I have a little of doubt about your age...
As long as these kind of videos have order of magnitude more views than the flat Earth videos, there's hope for humanity. Unfortunately we have entered (mostly here in America) an age of anti science where people are so cynical and have no trust in institutions that even the science and scientists became victims of this crazy movement. These people trust their feelings, their guts, their eyes and their local pastor, more than they trust people who've spent most of their lives learning and explaining how the world works... But in spite of this these people love to use their smartphones, the internet, cars with GPS, etc. And all the stuff I've mentioned is based on science and not on some guy having a feeling about something.. I like my doctor to base his opinion on the scientific facts thank you very much..
Bruh you’re not 69 years old you’re 6.9 years old
@@markbrisec3972 most people in the world don’t believe in flat earth
Neil has the best laugh. So genuine. And it’s about particle physics.
😂why I am laughing
Jahhahahahahhghahahaha LOL ROLPH
He could've easily say something about oxygen and hydrogen gas particles bonding together making water, and falls downward as RAINDROPS, DEBUNKING Gravity .
@Nadaguru 0 It's nothing, do U agree ?
My fault. He's into Space Bending, and GAS BONDING is physical reality science !
Neil's been describing the inside of my head:
Empty & nothing
@11:40 “Philosophy” that’s great
All this man wanted was nothing, and Neil couldn’t even give him that😂😂
Technically he gave him nothing at the end.
Just one Pepsi
@@guitarsenpai420 Lol what a reference
By giving him nothing he gave him something.
He gave him something! It’s called BS. Typical Neil deGrasse Tyson! For real!!
Neil goes round and round, with a multitude of words, that in the end, all add up to……..Yeah, NOTHING!!
"What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind!"
-Homer Simpson
Lol
Dude I know some people hate scientist & they just "happen to have family who are straight {N WORD}" some of you know what I mean, how can I make them better? Because the dude that investigated French fries fuel died alone, same as testla & the way they parish worries me
Dude I know some people hate scientist & they just "happen to have family who are straight {N WORD}" some of you know what I mean, how can I make them better? Because the dude that investigated French fries fuel died alone, same as testla & the way they parish worries me
Alan watts said it before homer simpson. I imagine someone before him as well...
That's the spirit !
0f n0thing-ness.
One time I was very high and I thought about this. What if we can go beyond the universe? Beyond everything? What would be there? I kept repeating to myself “even that nothingness is still within a paradigm of something” it’s just wild to think about. There can never be nothing because it will always be within something. There’s so much we don’t understand and I don’t think we ever will.
Firstly, nothingness can't itself have an existence which is a tautological consequence of what existence actually is. You can't use "nothing" and "existence" in the same sentence without contradicting yourself. The relation between existence and the absent of it could be expressed as follow: existence=E, non-existence=E-, nothing=non-existence, existence=everything, E/=E-=> existence is not nothing, E=E=>existence is everything. The potential for everything to exist must be true since if existence didn't cover some parts that could conceivable exist, nothingness or non-existence would therefore exist in some way which cant be true since that would imply that a paradox was realized. One way to imagine this is to imagine the set of reality, that would be the ultimate set containing absolutely everything which would include all sub-sets. But then you might wonder why this ultimate set doesn't contain the set of nothing. This can be explained by imagining the set of nothingness, the absent of existence illustrated as an empty ring containing nothing since the set of nothing consist of nothing inside of it. The area inside of it would be totally empty and blank. Since a set is defined by its elements, the set of nothing is the only set that could never exist. Therefore, it doesn't either exist as a sub-set of the all-encompassing set of reality. Since logic is the means by which existence is realized, defining existence and non-existence firstly requires the explanation for why that logical operation can be made. That is, why logic itself exists. This must be explained trough the means of using some kind of metalogic where you define logic with logic itself. The answer to why logic must exist in this metalogical sense is that analogues to existence, the absent of logic would itself require an attribution that can't be attributed to it without the presence of the attribute. Non-logic is the absence of logic, making a distinction is itself by nature logical and therefore logic must exist as the very nature of its own structure. The relationship between logic and reality could be expressed as simple as: Logic=the structure of that which is true, Existence=that which exists and therefore is also the complete set of truth, Logic=Reality. Since reality is all there is, it defines, configure and processes itself from this primordial state of infinite potential into every logical structure that could possible exist, since remember, logic and its product which is reality requires the mere possibility for anything to exist to actualize since L=E=Everything.
“The nothing that is something which is nothing” is the perfect conclusion, good for Chuck!
So the instant you think of it, it becomes an idea, and is immediately something.
But luckily/unluckily we don't have psychic powers, so when I think of a canoe sized banana into my room, it doesn't appear in the room because I thought of it. Only through using my body along with my mind, will I achieve this important GMO goal!
Yes, but only if you clarify what you mean by something. Not everyone considers immaterial things like thoughts and ideas to be something, but if you do, then sure.
It's trivial to describe non-physical/made-up things. That doesn't make them "a thing" but they are non-scientific. And that's the problem with talking about "nothing" in physics, because it's impossible to have a theory without starting from something. And if you define nothing as the absence of that, then the definition of nothing is non-scientific.
You’re confusing philosophical
nothing with physical nothing.
@@aidankarmali2888 an idea is a series of electrical impulses in the brain
“The Three Oddest Words”
by Wislawa Szymborska
When I pronounce the word Future,
the first syllable already belongs to the past.
When I pronounce the word Silence,
I destroy it.
When I pronounce the word Nothing,
I make something no non-being can hold.
Wislawa is the best waifu
So quote-worthy
@@David-vz4yk I don't watch anime, I just like those terms. Try being a little cooler, would ya?
I also understood nothing. Beautifully explained. Simple explanation to something that is nothing. Chuck rightly said "sothing". I will say both of you are "soothing" to hear. Well done.
Hey Dr T, are those insect collections on the wall behind you? I grew up doing the same thing for years when I wasn't looking through my telescope at the rest of the universe ;)
If I had a science teacher like Neil, I would have been a scientist! I love this channel! I love learning and I’m in my 60’s!
there is no age restriction on expanding the brain! I am 20 & love this show. Salute to you OG keep rollin
There’s so much more to learn now than when we were young . I’m 71 and I can’t get enough of this stuff - I mean all things scientific, but most especially science involving the largest and the smallest features of our universe -> such as astronomy, chemistry, physics and the like. Makes me wish I could read faster! The advances lurking just barely around the corner are truly mind-boggling!
You write this comment in every video
72 and still learning. Love this,!
@@omars-qz6rn There's a difference between being a hobbyist astronomer/learning the cool concepts, vs doing the work of one.
Neil trying to imagine The Nothing and explain it to us - while i was having a Michael Ende's 'The Neverending Story' flashback..
The Nothing cannot be named, explained, understood or even imagined; therefore, Nothing is the absence of imagination, creativity.
Uhm you just described it tho...
Does it mean that my nothing can be completely different than your nothing?
Contrariwise, Nothing is Everything, all the potentialities, even the unknowables, the undefinables, the undescribables. Infinitely rich and dense.
Nothing does not exist, there's no such thing as nothing, for even describing "nothing" means its something. Therefore it should not exist.
@@clarcktumazar "Nothing" is beyond and above our existence, our reality. It is more real than our Universe. We are after all mere projections in 3D of a 2D reality on the surface of our Universe sphere, on the boundary to Nothing.
Great discussion with humor. Super!
What a great “educational” comedy team! I love learning and laughing at the same time!
th-cam.com/video/EhOCUpF5UwY/w-d-xo.html
Who doesn't?
The energy/chemistry these guys have is amazing to watch, They're both funny and very smart.
I clicked expecting Neil to be quiet for +10 minutes.
In what universe would that ever happen? Lol
That would be something
@@thejpx yeah, that would still be a youtube video
Or
It would still be neil being silent wich is something
Neil is never quiet
I expected Chuck to interrupt Neil and say: allow me to start explaining nothing. And then he would remain silent.
Love the banter and humor almost as much as the physics of it! Real fun.
@9:27 wow “Laws of Physics in NOTHING” my heart skipped a beat
This is why "the nothing" from The Never Ending Story was so terrifying to me.
Truee.
Don't forget one cannot have shadow without life.
Darth FB because Neil deGrasse Tyson made a 13 minute video on it?
People who play Minecraft, and have fallen in the void 420 times: First time?
Aww I know
@@JT_771
not that it matters, but 'yes.'
I dont understand nothing
So, you understand something.
Yes
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Imagine nearly nothing and keep subtacting
@@yamayam1389
Ooooooo
Oooo
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Omg, I love the two of you 😅 You make me smile on a bleak day❤
Never stop sharing the knowledge, the laughs, and the unguided stories.
So, the moral is that our universe dislikes “nothing” so much that “nothing” cannot exist....
Which is why the big bang is such a mystery to people who aren't creationist. Kinda supports the fact that something was always since "nothing" cannot be.
Ale ssandro ………You have said what ARISTOTLE a Greek Philospher had already said , about 2400 years ago …You are as great .Thanks
IN HIS own words **Universe does not like VACUUMs**…
In the Universe of Space - Time , there exist no *Nothingness*…man made or Natural ..
But Pre - Big Bang Condition is of **Absolute Nothingness**…There existed not even a single material Particle , whatsoever.
That’s the True Nothing ………JagtarSinghAujla USA
@@OfTheTribeOfJudah matter and virtual particles ain't the same thing, though.
We don’t know enough about our universe to claim that nothing can’t exist. Cuz we literally don’t know what nothing is.
@@OfTheTribeOfJudah Personally, I believe our universe was created from the brief formation of a white hole. This could explain why we haven't found the theoretical "center" of our universe and why everything is rapidly expanding outward. Also, to believe in an all-powerful creator, would still leave you with the same question: if "nothing" cannot be, where did this creator come from?
One must even take a “void” out of the picture when contemplating nothing. Because even that is, yes, something.
But the Void must exist.....some where...it has to. In infinity,and infinity has to exist as well.
The more I watch these the more amazed I am by creation and it's Source. Just wow... WOW!
I've never seen anyone talk about nothing for 13 minutes straight and still be this entertaining and insightful. Lol
Just listen to any philosopher.
not even jerry?
You're the first person that I've read in the comments to perfectly pull off the "nothing" double entendre
When Chuck said "Not with my carrier", I felt that.
career*
Hahaha the title got me, you funny guy Mr Tyson 😂
The PARTICLE TRAIN! Previously I suggested that eternal photons made electron positron pairs,
(as well as all standard model particles). Here's how.
Start with a PARTICLE TRAIN, each time you add an electron or positron car to the train, you get a new particle.
The only rule is the cars have to alternate from electron to positron. Think of a wave with trough always alternating with crest.
Photons as electron positron pairs could make the main parts of an atom in the brief time after the Big Bang under those extreme and never repeated conditions.
Charges are the cars on our particle train.
Positive positron (+),
Negative electron (-).
Positron (+)
Electron (-)
Photon (+) (-)
Proton (+) (-) (+) Anti Proton (-) (+) (-)
Neutron (+) (-) (+) (-) Anti Neutron (-) (+) (-)(+) .
The PROTONS and NEUTRONS are made from
ELECTRONS and POSITRONS!
When this production of particles was over, most anti particles with charge; positrons, and anti protons, didn't exist on their own. They were LOCKED INTO PROTONS OR NEUTRONS. That way conservation of charge was maintained. That also explains the MISSING ANTI MATTER PROBLEM!
This from Wikipedia article Matter Creation:
It is possible to create all fundamental particles in the standard model, including quarks, leptons and bosons using photons of varying energies above some minimum threshold, whether directly (by pair production), or by decay of the intermediate particle (such as a W− boson decaying to form an electron and an electron-antineutrino).
The dynamic of this show is so underrated and overlooked. I absolutely love how these two communicate their different ways of thinking.
One is teaching, the other is learning...
@@avro357 not always..
Is it? Seems every other comment is talking about the chemistry between these two.
You can travel through a whole lot of nothing without noticing. 😆
i've found the youtube comments section are a whole lot of nothing, hope you're doing well cody, my brain after this video on the otherhand is kinda nothing
top comment by cody and only 8 likes
Sounds like jc penny
Now that I think about it, from what you just said, travel and talking become one, my wife talks for hours (traveling through space/time) and say absolutely "nothing".
Heyyyy cody
i love watching star talk blasted
Dis is one of da best deleted scenes from "Idiocracy" EVER!
"If you want and smoke your marihuana"
Buddy, how do you think i ended up in this video?
XD
Yup
It’s like he knew...
Having a smoke whilst watching hahaha
hahaha xactly !!!
Jeeeez These two smoking a bowl talking about “nothing” would be a whole other show.
They sound to me as though they have already smoked a bowl, or had a couple of whiskys.
It would just take longer to arrive to the same point lol
They would probably lose their train of thought quite often
We have to trust that science is right to have our own thoughts to ponder. I'm fairly normal and I'm not perfect nor any human being. Just by throwing that in the mix gives me great concern about when and about what that imperfection is about.
First time seeing this channel. Chuck is absolutely hilarious 😂
"You moment you try to describe nothing, you've filled it with something."
Nothing: The absence of something. Checkmate.
*:Neil when he opens an empty box:* THeRe IS OnlY sOmE OxyGeN MoLEcuLeS In HeRe
No you gotta go the full scope. What did he say - Nitrogen, Co2 etc. - probably should pull up somekind of instrument/s to measure the presumably empty box. :D
Can Nothing or No-Thing be something but we don't know what it is?
Is Being and Non-Being the same thing and if is not the same thing then, can you obtain Being from Non-Being?
If you can't have something from No-Thing then Creation out of Ex Nihilo is not true, because Ex Nihilo and Nothing is the same thing?
This is the closest I've come to actually understanding what they mean when they say that there is nothing beyond the edges of space/before the big bang.
In our brain, maybe. We do not know anything about what lies behind our horizons. There may be an infinite amount of pasts, and futures may keep popping up in an infinite eternity... We'll never know... we even can't imagine such reality. In our mind there has to be a start and finish... a cause, a future, timeline, bend by gravity maybe, but lineair. We'll never know how matter became existence. As Kant wrote in our past: faith starts where science stops... So we created a creator... constructed intellectually The Bang. In reality that construction lies beyond our observational capacities. Was there intelligence before it mattered? Energy of some kind? What created cause? Where did that come from? I rest my case.
it's three in the morning in Athens & I'm extremely tired but...I've been sitting on my couch for the last two hours, binge watching startalk and i literally can't stop. you're both great. thanks for explaining all these wonderful things.
Athens Georgia?
Athens Ohio? 🤪
Nope! Athens, Greece
Are you wearing sunglasses?
Litterly knowledge freinds
I felt that "not with my carrier" joke, lol.
Void is likely the best description. Another thought, if light is this empty nothing, isn't there matter @ E=MC squared?
His reaction to a mention of quantum physics in a vacuum had me laughing out loud. I hear you mate. Quantum physics is hard
I've always heard the saying "nothing is impossible" when I was a child. When I grew up, I realized that not everything is possible. However, the concept of nothing, is impossible.
Excellent point 👍
So is everythin impossible too?
@@lukyril exactly
But for there to be a name for it means it’s something
@@lukyril No, everything is all that exists. Everything already 'is'. It can never be 'is-not'. Which brings us back to "nothing" cannot exist.
Neil is a really cool scientist. Thank you for explaining really complicated stuff so easily for everyone to understand.
For me, it's that these always something new. Even on things I know a fair bit about there's always something fresh on every topic
Thank you Neil & chuck
I just saw this. My thought: "Whoopee! Mad scientists!" I'm subscribing!
This is one of the best videos of all time ❤
I like how he went super meta at the end there because once he described the nothing that doesn't have matter or the laws of physics or time I was thinking to myself "But then you've still got something because you know what that nothing is and can describe why it's nothing. If it can be identified then it's not nothing anymore". You really did an amazing job this time. ❤️
and once you reach this level you can even continue on for infinity since every conceptualization based around subtracting the previous conceptualizations creates a new defined concept that needs to be subtracted from itself. Taking the though experiment to it's limit leaves you with two opposite perpetual infinities: that which is infinitely 'more' nothing than itself, and that which is infinitely not nothing, ie: everything.
Which to me makes sense since it's basically a description of the 'purest' quantum state and the 'most mixed' quantum state
'Q: What gets bigger the more you take away from it?'
'A: A hole'
Me watching this at 2 a.m. while high: "Woah"
You gonna get so many thumbs up from stoners :3
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7:58 actually had me.
“Nothing is easy, though times get you worrying, my friend, it’s okay” - Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) 😎🎸
As I'm watching this, I'm thinking about a Star Talk - Mind Field Cross-Over...
Michael Stevens & Neil de Grasse Tyson... That would be perfect...
*... Or wouldn't be?*
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And as always.. keep looking up
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Ygritte- "You know nothing, Jon snow"
Jon after watching this video- 😏
Ygritte understood that in the absence of virtual particles, there was something there and Jon knew it.
nothingness doesn't exist. therefore when Ygritte says that Jon knows nothing, she meant that what Jon knows doesn't exist. therefore Jon doesn't know anything 😏 back to square one.
@@GrammeStudio the value of nothing exists tho just like how we know life is around us but we dont value it so we say it is not there.
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So basically, the moment nothing exists, it's not nothing anymore
no because when nothing exists there wont even be any people to describe or measure it
I love to hear Neil explain things, I wish I could playfully and respectfully talk with him as the student who doesn’t know enough to not to ask the or state the wrong observations or questions.
For instance, just because you can’t see it and measure or record it, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
I’m the student that doesn’t know enough about science or physics, etc. To be convinced that consciousness is not the by product of things no matter how far down the scale you find a way to see or detect the earliest manifestations of energy, preforms of matter and matter.
But rather consciousness creates everything we attribute to the known and unknown universe and multiverses from the smallest to the largest, and from here through out all eternities.
ONESELF
BY PHILLIP HOLLOWAY Sr.
Before there was anything or any place, before there was anywhere, any time or any space,
There was One Self, this was and is the Self Being of what we now call God.
There was no over there, or over here, there was no this or that...nor was there any light or white, darkness or black.
But there was One Self...there was no far or near...there was no anger or fear...
There was no high or low, there was no where to stay and no where to go...
But this I do know, there was One Self...Before there was anything else.
This is just a few lines from the longer version of this poem I wrote decades ago…
But it expresses my observation of All that Is from the depths of me that science alone will never be able to explain to its satisfaction.
The One Self I’m referring to here includes all the perspectives of self from All that Is. This most definitely includes you and me, I fully believe and except that we are as eternal and infinite as the universe and multiverses are. Not as humans, but as conscious co-creators knowing ourselves as one and many with no true point of separation only the perceptions of it.
They're at it again ✨
At what
Lovin' every minute of it !!
Talking about nothing
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I'm pretty sure they are making fun of me.
12:10 Fun fact, in Hungarian 'nothing' is 'semmi' [ ˈʃɛmːi]. However, there is also a thing called 'semmi sem' [ ˈʃɛmːi ˈʃɛm], meaning 'not even nothing', or 'nothing else/either/neither'.
You picked the best co host I love watching your videos! I learn and laugh everytime thank you guys
My smile watching this video kept going wider and wider as it went. (I did have some weed just before, but still, this was awesome ! )
I love the chemistry between Neil and Chuck.
It always makes me think of that scene in the office when Michael talks about how Dwight captivated the audience and Michael goes "Well, I captivated the guy who captivated a thousand guys"
Chuck was once thought to be a D-list comedian, and he routinely cracks up one of the smartest living human beings on the planet.
Humor is something.....Something good.🌠
Hahaha I love that scene too hehe great reference 👌😅
don't you mean the physics?
These videos are almost exactly the same conversations I had with my friends when I was in my twenties. We were nerds, sure, but we were also soooooooooo high.
Probably more intelligent that anything Neil da wind bag says.
Maan, same here... twenties, with my friend, gettin high and talking about this stuff.
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