Antigravity, The Center Of The Universe, And Other Questions | January Lightning Round
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In today’s Lightning Round video, I’m trying out a different format, fielding questions from Patreon supporters on topics such as how anti-gravity vehicles would work, where is the center of the universe, and the ins and outs of intermittent fasting.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - New Year, New Lightning Round Format
2:40 - Two First Names? (Fishtail)
5:12 - Intermittent Fasting (Dona)
9:45 - Antigravity (Sigh)
12:22 - Center of the Universe (Mark)
16:23 - Sponsor - NordVPN
19:08 - SCP Foundation (John) - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
"Congratulations on your thermoregulatory superiority. I'm cold." Brilliant, absolutely brilliant.
A video about the center of the universe would be a great opportunity to talk about the "shape" of space (which has always been an intruiging thing to me). I'd watch it!
Hey Joe, PhD candidate in physics here. About the center of the universe stuff there are some things I need to explain, first we don't know the shape of the universe, based on current models (FLRW stuff for who wants to search) it could be 3 things: A 3d hypersphere with constant positive spatial curvature, a 3d plane with zero curvature and a constant negative curvature (called ADS space), the latter 2 would be infinite and the first, based on observations, should be 150 times bigger than the observable universe (at least), but in all cases we could consider ourselves in the center of the expansion, as well as any other point in the universe (because the big bang ocurred everywhere) so your explanation was right all along!
I like to try to think 2d, if you told a shadow being that everything was on the same plan he would not be able to wrap his head around it because he is on this plan everything else cant be here.
the marksman holes would drive the 2d shadow mad
I feel like you hit the nail on the head with the center of the universe. We're in the middle of our observable universe all the time.
Exactly. The "observable" universe only means what we can observe from our point of view. Our point of view will always be the center of our observable universe.
Now are we at the center of the universe itself? Probably not, but how could we possibly tell when we can only OBSERVE so much?
A thought on the center of the universe question. We are at the center of the observable universe (the part of the universe we can observe) - which has continually grown over time as our capability to see further and back in time has grown. However, that doesn't mean we're in the center of the actual physical universe - and almost certainly are not. Any other alien race would also be at the center of their observable universe, and they may not even see our galaxy at all. Bottom line, there is almost certainly way more to the universe than we're remotely aware of, and where we are in that larger universe - we have no way to know. Mind bending stuff.
Right. A good analogy is swimming somewhere in the ocean with no land in sight. There is no way of knowing, where you are in the ocean, but from your perspective, you are in the middle of the part of the ocean that you can see.
Well said.
Most likely, the universe doesn't even have a center.
Unbounded spaces, like Euclidean 3D space, don't have a center. Compact spaces without boundaries also don't really have a center.
Many of us imagine the Big Bang as a giant ball of expanding matter and energy with a propagating boundary to that explosion, but no one knows whether or not the universe has a boundary.
Yeah i think the Big Bang idea messes with people. Its not (as i understand it) that the universe was a single point that then became infinitely big, but that the universe was still infinitely large, and all the points in it were "on top of" each other. That probably breaks your intuition because we dont deal with infinites in our daily lives
We should just say that "the observable universe" is synonymous with "the universe". Since, for all practical purposes, they are the same... at least for now.
@@zakkus What if there is something bigger than the universe?
What if our universe was just a grain of sand in a desert of many universes, each being reborn and recreated?
Personally, I think the SCP foundation would be better served as a series than a movie. There's just so much good content!
I can see there being a movie adaptation of the "Control" video game, which seems to be based on the SCP foundation setting. It has elements of the setting, but also a cohesive story within it as well.
Evan Royalty's SCP series. Shame he didn't get the funding for his SCP movie. He's doing a Stalker (Chernobyl game) movie short now.
Yes, as an anthology type series.
I, too, think a series would be preferred over a movie. Otherwise, I envision it generating yet another Hollywood mega-franchise cow that gets milked to death with movies of ever plummeting quality.
@@OneBentMonkey What, you don't like disappointment? We don't serve that in our restaurants
Right off the bat before I watch the rest of the video, I have to thank you for giving temperature in both Fahrenheit and Celsius. As a Senior Canadian, We have to understand both. They are so different in feeling.
You are in Texas and have gone through wild temperatures yourself. Zero up here in Toronto is okay.
Zero down there is bad. Real bad.
Yes I want to see that video
salad fingers? 😭😭 what are you doing here 😭
@@mayishmold * _CREAM_
ooooooh flock. did you find your spoons?
The official guy?
I find it bizarre that the phrase “don’t think about salad fingers. Think about [I forgot, probably corn or some other word that starts with a C]” popped into my head less than a week ago and now I see you commenting on a bunch of videos, as well as salad fingers in general.
lol there's 2 things that keep me coming back to your videos mate: 1. the content (science); and 2. the humour. Please don't stop either of them. :)
I died laughing at the start of the video when you told the nordics to please not say anything regarding the temperature. I'm Norwegian and I literally thought "That's not even cold" and felt the urge to comment something straight before you said what you said. It felt like you actually spoke directly to me! Hilarious. You hit the nail
Canadian who felt the same 👋
Tell me about it. It’s been between 2 and 4 degrees celsius here for a couple of days and I haven’t needed to use gloves that much😂
@@thombro705 And Russians.
New England and great lakes area people are the same here in the US
Same, Northern Swede here. I live about an hour south of the Arctic Circle. Anyway, while I do have that same "that's not even cold" reactions, I do appreciate the fact that infrastructure like people's houses are built with the climate of the area in mind. And the houses in the south US would be much less prepared for the cold than us up here where -30 in the winter is considered a bit chilly. And also cold feels different in different areas too. I was down south to visit family over Christmas, and the -10-ish they had down there felt about as cold to me as -25-30 does up here. I think it's got to do with the humidity in the air and stuff.
I have plenty of friends who get called by their last name and their last name isn't even close to a first name for someone else. Being called by your last name is no big deal. There is the question as to whether or not they're mistaking your last name for your first name in your case, but it's not uncommon for people to be called their last names instead of their first, depending on all sorts of factors.
I was going to post a smug comment about the cold as I live in Winnipeg and normally at this point of the year, it’s -30c. But elniño has us at 0c. It’s wonderful and I’m full of joy.
I follow about 30 creators but Joe Scott has probably some of the best stuff out there. The stories are super interesting and Joe has such a great sense of humor. Thank you TH-cam algorithm!!
you should try the why files
@mr.mcgibblets7048 I'm definitely with you on that!!!
The Why Files is just as good as Joe!!!
I second The Why Files ☝️
Speaking of, wasn’t there supposed to be an upload today?
This was a great video! Loved the 'relaxed' feel to it and think Joe's Journey to the West Texas Flesh Pit would be an incredible video. One of my favorite things about your channel is the feeling that you'd be a fun person to have a beer with; and this video highlights that. Keep it going!
I can't believe you're approaching 2 million subscribers, it feels like that 1 million special was last week! 😂 thanks for all you do, and I love this idea! Should get some great research ideas
This was a nice change of pace. It's nice to hear someone say they don't know pr aren't sure. Instead of just making it up. It was a very honest and real video. Plus I like when you ask the audience questions. Yes please find out more about the center of the universe.. 👍👍
The thing to really wrap you head around is that the galaxies are NOT "moving" away faster than light. They aren't moving anywhere. Space itself is expanding. It is (likely) expanding at the same rate everywhere, but when we look a billion light years away, we are looking back in time a billion years and seeing that portion of the universe as it was a billion years ago, not as it is now if we were right there.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding,
In all of the directions it can whiz;
As fast as it can go, the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth;
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth! 😂
Well yes space is expanding but galaxies are moving. Andromeda is gonna run into the milky way.
@@Falcodrin Yes, but galaxies aren't moving faster than the speed of light like he said. It's space that's growing at that pace.
Pretty sure he did say "relatively" somewhere in there. In which case, there are things that can move "relatively" faster than light away from us.
Imagine I am traveling eastbound at 65 mph and a cop approaches me westbound at 65 miles mph. If the cop pointed a speed gun at my vehicle(without compensation) the speed gun would indicate our relative velocity at 130 mph.
However a stationary speed gun would indicate our true velocity at 65 mph.
So if we are moving away from the center of the universe in one direction at 93,000.25 miles per second and another star system was moving on the same plane, directly away from us at 93,000.75 miles per second, our relative speed would be 186,001miles per second. As the speed of light(C) is 186,000 miles per second(in a vacuum) that star system would be outside of our visible universe. We would be moving away from the light's source faster than the light could travel, even though our true velocity was just over half of C
As a result we could not observe or measure anything about that star system, it is impossible to test whether time dilation would occur. However, since we were only traveling over C in relation to each other, one would think the dilation would be cancelled out.
I have now overstressed my brain and need to let it rest for a minute or two, lol.
Re: antigravity/turbulence: We'd still experience turbulence, but not as extreme. Gusts of wind would still hit the antigravitycraft, but since it's not being lifted by that air, it wouldn't cause the drops and twists like it does on the wings of an airplane. Kind of like how you feel an occasional gust of air when you're driving your car, but if you stick your hand out the window like you're on a family road trip, you'd feel the effects of wind and changing hand angles very intensely.
Yeah, an aircraft that uses antigravity wouldn't have wings, so there would be significantly less surface area for turbulent air to act on.
Let's say, just for speculation, that our antigravity craft had a physical way to let the air move around it without actually acting much on it. We could make the edges really thin, but we have to be in it so there would have to be a point where we would have to fit, making that part thicker. What if our antigravity ship was round, that would help, and if it was thin on the edges then the wind wouldn't cause it to be so unstable, but it would have to be thicker in the middle, maybe kind of like a frisbee, or a brake rotor but with a smooth ramp up instead of a 90 degree angle for wind purposes. Kind of like a disk of some sor... Oh, wait, that sounds familiar, damn...
I may be missing an important element but I think that an antigravity vessel would be effectively weightless and would respond more strongly to turbulence of the same strength as before. Would the vessel have inertia? Arrgghhh, a brain twister for sure.
@desertdenizen6428 I think you are right to think about inertia: turbulence is caused by disturbances in the air flow through which the aircraft passes through, which is independent of the aircraft's energy (potential or kinetic), but the inertia dampens the change in direction and transitions it to elastic oscillation then a new steady state (rectilinear movement).
To me, antigravity being only the cancelation of the downward vector of acceleration toward a barycenter of masses, it would not change anything: turbulences would still happen.
But it was interesting to see Scott (Joe)'s 😉 hypothesis that antigravity would let us move around matter, like if we were in the vaccum of space, with vernier engines, because then maybe the effect of the air around would be indeed not as a force (lift, drag, etc.) but simply homogeneous pressure on the vessel, like if it appeared at time t in coordinates x,y,z and then at t+dt at position x+dx,y+dy,z+dz without any transition or kinetic vector, therefore without any disturbances in the flow because there was no flow since we are not "moving" through air but appearing statically at different positions in space over time... 😵💫 but maybe I misinterpreted what Joe was saying.
Great fun 👍
@@desertdenizen6428I suppose it depends upon the exact mechanism in which the craft produces locomotion ie antigravity effect. Suppose it simply creates a field around itself the blocks the ability of gravitrons (or whatever quantum phenomena responsible for the reaction between massive objects) to travel outside the field, similar to how a black hole with light. (this is the most plausible scenario)
The object would still have mass, avoiding all those interesting conundrums you mentioned. And turbulence would still occur, albeit to a smaller degree as there would be less aerodynamic dependency due to lift not being acquired in that manner (surface area/mass/Cd etc.)
I've been accidentally "intermittent fasting" for like 30 years.. Found out in late elementary or middle school that breakfast doesn't really agree with me, and I'm usually too busy to ever eat lunch. So from then on (and I'm almost 40) I've really only ever eaten dinners. Occasionally if I'm really physical some morning, I'll eat an energy bar or something for lunch, but that's about the extent of it. Joe is completely correct, after a while, you just don't feel hungry. I never feel hungry until around 6pm, and I usually eat around 7-8pm.. But waking up, the whole morning and well into the evening, I never get the hunger signal or really even think about food. I've just become so used to it that breaking the cycle and eating a lunch tends to actually make me sick anymore.
Meds are a good issue to bring up though, as Dona does, because I've got a couple I'm supposed to take in the morning with food and I don't- I just moved them to evenings around/after dinner if they upset my stomach taking them without food. But just like fasting, ones that would make me nauseous stopped doing that and my body quickly adjusted.
Edit: Oh, and don't use me as a case study, because no, I don't lose weight or anything. I tends to eat large portion dinners so I'm still getting probably 1500cal/day, and I drink teas that aren't 0-cal, so probably another 300cal there starting around 1-2pm and 1k-1.2k dinners, and often a coke with dinner.
I'm still sitting about 180lbs at 5'7", legs are large from 15 years BMX racing in my youth, so still a lot of muscle mass there.. But otherwise avg build.
Saddens me that due to my financial circumstances I will never see my own questions ever even come to light on this channel. I adore Joe and all of the incredible work that he and his team do for the subscribers of his channel. But, unfortunately, it does make me sad that (and this isn’t exclusive to his channel) no matter what…my being thrust into poverty (gotta love that a dance and theatre instructor cannot afford to live outside of the poverty level that I am stuck in at this time) leaves me somewhat invisible to my favorite channels. So, all of you who are financially capable of funding this channel, I do so hope that you are able to continue to ask the questions that are at least interesting to the rest of us! Now, on to the video! Thank you, Joe. And thank you, to those who can ask these interesting questions!!!
Same but he's only one dude and i think he's trying to make what he's worth. These channels are a business in the end. We're just fortunate we get to watch it for free.
Oh wow, a mystery flesh pit would be amazing. Also the video about the center of the universe could be neat, hype to hopefully see both in the future!
As someone who hasn't eaten breakfast, or a traditional lunch( I usually eat lunch at 4pm ), I'm never feeling hungry unless I somehow forget to eat till dinner(8pm). I guess I've been intermittent fasting my whole life😅
I'm pretty much the same. I haven't eaten breakfast regularly for years, and these days I often don't eat lunch until late afternoon. But it's just what feels normal to me. I didn't do it in search of health benefits (and haven't received any that I'm aware of).
i just made a comment like that. lol. I never thought about it. but nice to be validated
Same here. Even when I feel hungry, pushing past it also comes easy to me
I am totally the opposite. need just a little something to eat every few hours or i don't focus so well.
That’s definitely how it feels for the first few days of IF, but if you can persevere through it I find I’m far more focussed than when I eat throughout the day.
I actually ended up doing IF during my med school finals many years ago and it certainly improved my concentration.
this video felt more genuine than usual. I really loved it. I love your channel so much
I like the quality of the videos so far this year. I mean I always enjoy your content but you can tell more energy and thought and feelings are going into the videos. I like it, keep it up Joe and team!
I love this new format! Keep up the good work, Scott!
Temperature is all about what you are used to, so no worries.
Just so you know, the song "Hey Joe" was a cover tune for Jimi Hendrix, it was actually written by a guy named Billy Roberts. Just for your gee wiz file.
RESPECT was written by Otis Redding!
Billy Roberts used to date the folk singer Niela Miller. She had a song called “Baby, Please Don’t Go to Town", which Roberts lifted the chord progression from for “Hey Joe”.
Hey Joe, I really enjoy the more spontaneous lighting round format! This just reminded me that I should probably finally look into supporting you there. Keep up the great work!
Your channel topics and your point of view of things give credence to your soft ball questions i like these and your actually better to me when you know you can deep dive and hold back (only sometimes need those dives) to recognize people think for themselves and differently
I just discovered your channel about a year ago and it is one of my favorites! I enjoy your storytelling, jokes, topic choices and lack of bias (as much as any good human is capable of). You have thoroughly entertained me and occasionally edified me. You do great work!
This must be the universe talking to me through you Joe! I literally just got done with my antigravity device today. Haven’t tested it yet but it’s complete
Magnetic repulsion doesn't count 😂
This is the best video I’ve seen by you so far!!! Thank you so much of doing what you do. I’m so bored most of the time so this keeps my brain quiet
Really love this format! Would love to see more videos like this
We are at the center of our own observable universe because it's sort of like standing in the middle of a field you can see so far in any direction although you know it goes on farther so from any one point you're observable universe is what you can see
And the universe is WAY bigger than the Observable Universe. They know that since looking out to the edge of the observable universe in different directions, there is no sign of starting to look like someplace else. Another way of saying it is the curvature is very close to zero. Due to uncertainty, it might not be exactly zero and therefore would curve around and could be closed (if positive curvature).
That brings up another thing. We don't know that the universe was a singularity. What we know is the observable universe was a (near) singularity - meaning everything we can see was packed into an ultra-dense tiny volume. What we know is going back in time, the density increases. If the universe is infinite, it was higher density everywhere, but still infinite.
I'm from Sweden, I have been out playing in the snow in minus 30c, Now I live in southern China in a city that rarely goes below 10c. Somehow it's still colder here, especially indoors so I completely understand your hoodie and weather complaints
sounds good very refreshing seeing you offscript and very happy u are exploring new ideas for your channel. Much love 👋
I do love this format. Feels more intimate. Can't wait to see the next vid.
I'm from the 80s early 90s. I WAS PROMISED hoverboards and flying vehicles by now!!!
They are available for purchase they just aren't very good and very expensive
2 minutes in, and I love it already. I think this is one of your best new ideas ever
Maybe it's just me but doesn't "Your best *_NEW_* and ideas *_EVER_* " kind of cancel each other out? lol
Sounds a lot like 'This Is One Of Joes Ideas Of All Time' to me 😂
Great video format and relaxed style is so - relaxing - to watch 👍🏼 A vote to keep it 😁
Thank you for all the great content, Scott
42 Degrees latitude here. I made snow angles, naked in my yard, at -1F and the deer in my yard applauded. I looked like a steam engine going back to my house with how much heat was coming off my body. Went back into the house, where the thermostat is set to 45.
42° snow angles huh?
And the OP did it all while naked 🤣Not sure if the deer applauded the "angles" or were laughing and jeering at the oddity that is the OP's naked body @@TimeFiction
Hey, Canadian here!
-6.7c to someone living in Texas must be frigid!!!! My part of Canada averages -15ish in the winter, but where I went for grad school regularly hits -55, it was like stepping into a frozen hell.
We all get climatized to where we live, sorry other people from up north are a jerk about it.
Yeah, I worked the drilling rigs in NWT. Had a slogan; who’d have ever thought, hell would be so damn cold.🥶
@@hardcoreherbivore4730 Exactly! I was born in Kamloops BC and live there now, but I have also lived in the Yukon, Northern Alberta, and Saskatoon. Been cold as hell in all of them! And at very different temperatures. I will admit after a few years of the extreme cold though, the first few back with "regular" cold do seem pretty nice!
Thanks for you great work Scott!
Thank you for providing the video! I hope it warms up for you
I really liked this freeform video type though. I'd love to see a center of the universe video!
I don't know if Joe will see this, I almost joined the patreon just to comment on discord.
Love seeing Joe enjoys SCP. And I would say an SCP Movie would totally succeed and I can prove it; "Annihilation" and "CONTROL".
Annihilation is the movie, nothing to do with SCP, but it literally reads like an SCP entry, complete with "Exploration Logs" of military and science personnel venturing into the unknown, and a "Foundation researching the anomalous" and an "Anomalous entity affecting reality and people/creatures in unique ways". Even the Bear from it, is quite literally "SCP 939 Many Voices". Both inspired by Eldritch horror of course.
CONTROL is the video game by Remedy, also massively successful, and also not directly adapted from the Foundation but almost word to word inspired by it, even the logs found in the game are written like SCP articles, with "Containment Procedures" and "Object Classes". The entire universe is inspired by it and built like it. And it has direct references as well, such as "Broken God" "Absence of Shark" and "SCP 173/Weeping Angel" The Fridge in the game. Remedy as a whole is very inspired by the same train of thought as Twin Peaks/Stephen/SCP with Alan Wake and CONTROL kind of operating like an interesting "SCP 001 Reality Bender" story.
So much so, I wrote a whole damn essay about it; www.reddit.com/r/SCPDeclassified/comments/r4c3gc/declassifying_alan_wake_and_control_and_the/? .
i love Annihilation, wish there were more movies like this.
Great video as always, Scott!
Love your channel, Scott.
14:55 This I learned from _Physics Girl._ It's totally logical when you think about it, but it still blows my mind every time i do.
How's she doing these days?
@@ctakitimuDestin from Smarter Every Day did an update a bit ago on Diana's channel, the answer is better but not great as of the last update.
😮is she up and running?
Love this! Hey Joe, I'd love to know something if you have space in a future one of these: Will the James Webb telescope be able to photograph the sentinel objects at earths Lagrange point 4? (I'd also love to know more about these objects in general, they seem pretty interesting, especially in terms of future stopping off points for launching craft further into the solar system). Thanks!
(Or if anyone knows if Joe has discussed that topic before, I'd love to know. Thanks)
Hey there.
JW is an infrared telescope, it doesn't take photographs like Hubble.
Also, all of our telescopes on earth and in orbit are designed to view objects lightyears away. All of the lagrange points are too close. It's like holding up a pencil in front of binoculars; it's too close to focus on.
Sentinal objects? Great term, did you come up with it?
Makes me think of The Sentinal by A.C. Clarke, which was on the moon.
@@MrRezRising Lol, no, pretty sure that's what the scientists call them. I think all such objects are named sentinals after the sentinals at Jupiter's Lagrange points which were the first discovered.. Thanks for the info though, very interesting.
I have been a fan of this channel for years now. I only have nice things to say about Joe and the topics he covers are always informative and interesting. I'm extremely happy that the channel is nearing 2 million subscribers and I believe it will exponentially increase with time. Thanks Joe
really love the new format hope to see it more
I think the reason major movie studios haven't dipped into SCP IP is because all the articles are released under Creative Commons. You can make money off your project, but you also have to allow *it* to be used in future projects, so effectively copyright doesn't exist in an ever-monetizing way. I think the concept of the Foundation itself has already inspired pop culture. "The Warehouse" on sci-fi comes to mind. Also, don't forget that Dr. Who's Weeping Angels came out after SCP-187, and they were considered a very novel monster. Who's to say where that inspiration came from?
SCP-173 was what started the entire series and as a result is also one of the most ridiculed for being sloppy and stolen ideas. The original file was just posted on a forum spontaneously, used the weeping angles as the function, and stole images of a Japanese artwork for the photos. I mean it functioning like a weeping angle came out within months of Blink showing up on TV or a year after a short story.
This has been argued about for years what to do about it and around 2018 they openly tried to redesign 173 to distance themselves from this. But the idea of old peanut is just too engrained in the community so people still use the old model all the time. In 2022 they even completely replaced the images on the wiki.
I got curious so I looked into it, and the first Doctor Who episode to contain weeping angels, "Blink", aired June 9th, 2007, whereas they were first added to the SCP Foundation in the form of SCP-137 on June 22nd, 2007. Apparently, this also happened to be the date of the creation of SCPs as a whole, as 137 was the first one.
I know very little about both Doctor Who and SCP, but what I found leads me to believe that the weeping angel came before SCP-137, and someone simply saw the Doctor Who episode, and soon after essentially wrote fanfiction about it and it became an internet culture phenomenon. But weeping angles came first, predating not just SCP-137, but SCP as a whole.
OMG haha you got your heater running? Lol
I love this format, it's a perfect mix between regular channel and the TMI, and if you do more video like this, please do the chair turn intro, I really missed it 😂
and yeah, I'm would love to see the video! more space stuff 😌
Yes! I'd love to see the center of the universe vid! Also, this format was fine. Entertaining.
I asked my teenage son the question, and we got into a discussion about the difference between the "center of the observable universe" (which transposes the meaning of "center" in the question to a point-of-view concern and observable light) vs. the "center of the known / theoretical universe" (which requires a more sophisticated understanding about what astrophysics tells us...which gets "philosophical" (as you put it) very quick.
GOOD VIDEO, SCOTT.
Seeing how well you did with the off the cuff remarks, I'm surprised you don't do this more often. It's got to save you a ton of time and even though it's not as informative as your deeper dive stuff, it's still compelling. At least you could throw it into the mix on a regular basis for some variety for the viewers and a bit of a break for you and your team.
Agreed
Loved this format!
I found this format much more enjoyable. Sadly, I usually skip the Lightning Round episodes but this one kept me tuned in. Yes to a center of the universe video!
Hi Joe! I would love to see you do the Mystery Flesh Pit piece.
As far as the center of the universe, a clarification of the observable and the physical universe needs to be made.
Lastly, for those who like this channel, you might also like "The Why Files". It's not exactly the same, but very similar.
God bless everyone, and have a great weekend!!
Love this. Love you. LOVE LOVE LOVE.
I really enjoyed this. You introduced me to two new sources for fun reads, and I would love to see your visit to the mysterious flesh pit.
We are at the center of the universe, it's mind blowing, but yes
I like you already. You notice the same things I do. I am NOT sure we are at the center of the universe because no one has reached the end with any of our senses, and there's no other way to get info, is there? I mean, light is the fastest there is. But further mind-blowing, we are at just about the middle scale between quantum mechanical scale and Einsteinian astronomical physics. PLUS we are at the median point in the projected lifestpan of the universe. And if you read anything about chaos theory, that is what it comes down to is that the greatest scope for complexity is always at the midpoint in every sense.
NOW THATS A THUMBNAIL! YES! No more AI thumbnails please!
what wrong with AI thumbnails?
love the throwback into. classics are always awesome.
Thanks for the content Joe we appreciate ya 😎👍
A Thursday video is this Christmas?
0:46 LOL no 20° is objectively cold. I say that as a nordic person who lives where temperatures go way below freezing regularly and who personally isn't even too bothered by cold.
We're all used to the climate we live in and I would probably (feel like I would) die if I lived in Texas.
Enjoyed the vid, hope you do more.
Yes definitely would love a video about the age of the universe versus the size question. That one has been messing with my brain for a while now. Also best of luck with the screenplay!
Will work for rent
I'm calling first even though I wasn't. Sue me.
I fw u heavy
Meh I like my own comments sooo
You will be speaking to my lawyers. I don't have any, so just imagine it for me please.
My lawyer will be in touch. If I had one, which I don't. Sue me.
And if I refuse??? What are you gonna do? Sue me?
Great video, Scott!!!
Love the chat about intermittent fasting!!! Super helpful for gut microbiome too, fasting has tons of benefits as well as improved insulin resistance etc. I love the amount of research on it! But there may very well be some downsides too. Important to do what feels right :) (ie. Stress hormones, ketosis can seem to sometimes increase cortisol) but eating carbs and experiencing ketosis in different periods from what I’ve learned can mitigate that.
interesting!
Loved this format. 💙
Would definitely appreciate a video on the center of the universe! My gut instinct is that you nailed it, but would appreciate some good research on it that I can reference to my friends and sound smarter than I am 😂
Also, I definitely like this form of Answers with Joe a lot better. Feels more genuine than scripted content (not to say that I don’t enjoy those videos also!) and seems more fair to the ones asking the questions. Appreciate all that you do for the sci-fi/STEM/oddball community!
Loved the video Scott 💙
@0:45 as someone from Wisconsin - I'm cold too, Joe. I prefer 75-85 F. Also, I love the occasional chair-spin throw back ❤
love your work Scott, really one of the best science channels on yt
Basically on anti-gravity: If we go with the strict "It's just opposing gravity"... it doesn't really have an effect on turbulence. At least not directly.
We'd have to totally redesign airplanes actually, due to lift being created by wings no longer being needed. We might end up with vehicles closer to classical rockets, which try to just wedge through the air. This would definitely create less turbulence compared to having giant drag-inducing wings that interact with the atmosphere.
(This does assume that you would actually need to be in the atmosphere at all - which is entirely speculative, as to be expected.)
I think its good that you’re trying new things! good!!
Love that a guy with a channel with 2 mil subs in straight up giving 0 fugs shooting in pajama pants. Love it man. Keep up the great content sir. Look forward to your videos every week.
It's a cool format. Personally I kinda like it more than the previous lightning round videos. Not that those were bad but usually I was left wishing for more content on certain lightning round topics (akin to a full length video). So the way of tackling it here, without any prior research fits better for answering multiple questions in one video. And with the option to create a full length video later on that is even better :)
I think interspersing this style of content with your regular, cool stuff is a great idea! ❤😊❤😊❤
Turbulence: 1) I love the idea of just getting above the atmosphere, specifically because there'd be no air drag and the atmosphere is pretty much gone only about 60 miles (100km) up.
But 2) turbulence in an airplane is (I think) mostly caused by the lift of the wings crossing into more/less dense pockets of air. If we had anti-gravity then presumably we could create thrust with the same mechanism and make our vehicle as streamlined as possible so that flying through the air would cost as little energy as possible (we try to do that now, but need lift to fly). So with no lift we would cross into these air pockets of more/less density without the air density mattering nearly as much, so I think the turbulence the people in the vehicle would experience would be drastically reduced, maybe so much that it would effectively be eliminated.
That's it, I'm doing it! I'm making a functional, light-weight levitator based principles similar to the Dale Drive ... It _might_ work :) I've had the idea for 30 years - long before I even knew about the Dale device. Thanks for mentioning it.
OMG the same “where are you going with that gun in your hand?” thing happened to me at college too! Even more embarrassing by that time I had Heard the Jimi Hendrix song… 4:35
This is a great idea for how to do these videos. I think the videos will be good, and it will help cultivate more patrons. People are gonna start asking questions meant to stump Scott and be so well thought out that they end up being a video topic
I loved this video format, and I'd like to see that video
In center of universe and making sense of it through the expansion we observer:
1: Open Microsoft Paint
2: Place a bunch of dots on it
3: Copy that same image to have second such "dotty" image
4: Enlarge the second picture by 5%
5: Place it on top of the original - pick one dot (think of it as our Earth or Sun or whatever) and align the enlarged picture's dot with that one
6: Observe, how everything else is suddenly "moving away" from the picked dot
You can do that with every dot by just shifting the second image over the first one. ;)
Yes! So glad someone mentioned it. This is the best demonstration of how observations made anywhere appear to be at the centre of the universe. It kinda surprises me it's not used all the time by people explaining the concept; it certainly made several dollars worth of pennies drop for me.
Great show! Would like to see a couple harder questions for you to take on for the next one. Also would love to see a deeper dive on why I’m the center of my universe.
Omg I remember commenting about mystery flesh pit and you mentioned it that's so exciting!! Looking forward to that content if it ends up happening :)
Hey, I really enjoyed today's video.
14:42 This is one of the best visual representations I have seen, on YT, of this concept. Very intuitive; Almost certainly helpful to those who might still require a bit more clarification. The other really good graphic is the one of the two sets of dots, effectively the same dots, but they're separated over time...with the dots separating from each other when the two dots are placed on top of each other...
Yeah, i botched the description...lol...
I think you know which graphic i mean, though
Love those kind of videos!
Hey Scott! The universe and furthest galaxy concept keeps me up at night.
Yes, I would like to see a deeper dive into this center of the universe topic. I found the aspect of it being only our observable part of it all a good point to make.
Yes. I like this format. Especially if that means that you put out more videos 😉
Mr Scott J, I really love the content!
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