SCP-2460 │ Dark Satellite │ S̶a̶f̶e̶ Keter │ K Class Scenario SCP
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SCP-2460 │ Dark Satellite │ S̶a̶f̶e̶ Keter │ K Class Scenario SCP
Item #: SCP-2460
Object Class: Safe Keter (See Addendum 2460-B)
Special Containment Procedures: Due to its position and properties, SCP-2460 is not contained at this time. Space agencies are to be informed of SCP-2460's trajectory so that satellites and launches do not collide with SCP-2460. When doing so, SCP-2460 is to be listed as a large piece of space debris. No object is allowed within 50 km of SCP-2460.
00:00 Title screen
00:12 Introduction
00:29 Special Containment Procedures
01:18 Description
02:07 + appearance
02:36 + quantum behavior
03:11 + colocation
04:00 + attractor objects
05:36 Addendum 2460-A [observed collision]
06:19 + quantum spin annihilation
06:53 Addendum 2460-B [close range testing]
07:46 + remaining data
08:31 Addendum 2460-C: Transcript of lecture regarding SCP-2460 on 4/3/2015
09:01 + Begin Log
09:36 + walking through walls
10:12 + lack of EM interaction
10:59 + Why do we see anything?
11:56 + What's the risk from this?
13:13 + as far away from us as possible
13:52 + What is this, and why did it end up here?
14:42 Outro
14:54 Credits & Patrons
16:22 End screen
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It's always a fun time when something is reclassified from Safe to Keter.
also known as a _OK-Class Whew Lad Scenario_
scp foundation: it looks safe
scp: _does something fucky_
scp foundation: *eyes widen*
@@the_honkler778 scp be like ima pull a wacky move
That thing? Yeah dont worry about that thing.
*Something happens*
Oh that's what it does
@@the_honkler778Foundation: lets launch a few D-class into it... Yeah? turned into spaghetti you say? hmmmmmm...
I usually listen while doing something else but I had to double-check I didn't accidentally tuned into a nuclear physics lesson.
you have no power over me, demiurge
"Quantum physics" would be more approriate compared to "nuclear physics" here :D
I had to check google three times to see if some of these words existed 😬
You should check out some nuclear physics lessons tho, theres some good ones by MIT and Stanford profs on youtube here
@@chrstfer2452 I've had enough of it in my own university to understand what was being said, thanks anyway.
I can't help but feel like this one was a budding undergrad astrophysicist nerding out about how absurdly weird our own universe is, and it's awesome for it
Right?! I don't mind that one bit honestly. I'm all for the weird hyper-specific science things getting used for an article.
I absolutely agree, as someone who is a bit of a self taught astrophysicist due to watching many videos from genuinely intelligent people who talk about the subject in great depth.
A lot of this video sounds like whoever wrote this. DEFINITELY did their fair share of research like almost even better than interstellar. Though something that absolutely ripped me out of it being better than interstellar was the comment:
“Being 100,000 times more dense than our sun!” When a cursory google search shows that if our sun was only 10 - 25 more dense than it was at its current size. It would collapse into a black hole.
So while yes an anomaly can be whatever the writer creates. 5$/5 can violate the laws of physics. Though if you’re trying to make a halfway believable “non fiction” or based mostly on “non fiction” story to give your story credit or narrative hook supremely effective. You make it believable, not absolutely immersion breaking quantities
Or you could take the wildcard route of just throwing an absolutely ridiculously number out there to pad the stats like saitama but if you’re going to do that. You have to full send it to have a good narrative hook.
Source: a self taught astrophysicists who sucks at math lol and an English major with a+ in most of my English schooling career lol
This is something I love most about SCP. The entry format gives room for people who would otherwise be non-writers to express their deep understanding of various niches, ideas and concepts, without being restricted to a traditional narrative structure.
This SCP is way more scientific than usual SCPs. Very interesting. That conclusion is terrifying
Yeah it's more Sci-fi than actual sci-fi fantasy.
"More scientific"
What do you think science is? A substance that can be bought and sold, parceled and measured?
There's nothing more or less scientific about this SCP than any other SCP because they're all fantasy- there have been no actual experiments performed on them. Call it "realistic" or "feasible," but don't call it "scientific."
@@rockspoon6528 Does it matter? His point still came across.
Well the theme for the 2000 contest was sci-fi, so it only makes sense most SCP's from Series III would be science focused.
@@rockspoon6528 well aren't you a gramatically pedantic delight
The final lines are what really made this one terrifying
it really is just the perfect sucker punch to turn this article from a bunch of techno-babble into existential dread
It is a creepy answer to the Fermi Paradox
"And when you consider that fully 85% of the mass in the universe is dark matter, we should not ask why we are so unlucky to have a chunk of it orbiting around earth, we should ask why we are so lucky that we haven't hit any of this stuff yet."
I see what you mean
I fucking know, right ?
Indeed
"QK-CLASS QUANTUM DEGENERACY END-OF-THE-WORLD SCENERIO"
The fact that this term even exist in the SCP universe really says a lot.
I mean TBF, many scenarios are mentioned in only one article, and we don't know if they apply elsewhere. I bet Foundation theoretical eschatologists (?) have even thought of possible scenarios that no concrete SCP is threatening as of now.
P.S.: Don't look up "false vacuum decay." Sweet dreams! :^)
@@nibblrrr7124
No reason to worry about Something that you have no Chance of actually witnessing.
In comparison to at least a Third of all scps false vacuum decay May even be preferable
I'm beginning to think that the people who write articles just pick terms that sound about right for the scp universe and what even is good enough gets added as official content.
@@nibblrrr7124 whats so bad about vacoom decay?
@@siduxjxhdgzhdjxhxuuxxyhgg1079 watch Kurzgesagt's video on that
Knowing the effects Dark Matter and how the Earth somehow survived this long reminds me of a Lovecraft quote:
"We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far."
The universe is so hostile to human life, its incredible that we even exist to this day.
I'm probably reading to much into what you said but dark matter doesn't work like this in reality, or if it did everything is already phase shifted
@@randybaumery5090 maybe life on earth is itself an anomaly and we truly are alone in this terrifying universe
We live in the narrow interface between radioactive molten rock and hard vacuum. Safety is not in the cards.
@@DonkeyWork420 or we aren't, either or its pretty damn terrifying.
The fact that it's just a chunk of dark matter is the most horrific thing I've heard in anything in a long while.
What's crazy is how this SCP has the ability to rip apart the earth if it's range of influence increased to what is normal for a density like this.
What?
@@christopheraaron1255 if an object that heavy had a regular gravitationap field, itd already have eaten earth
@@christopheraaron1255 It has a mass comparable to that of a white dwarf, which is usually close to mass of our Sun. So it's range of influence should be around the same as the Sun. Considering the orbit distance of ~400km, Earth would be ground to atoms by the gravitational forces involved at this range.
edit: that's what I get for watching it in the background, durr
I understood it as it having the *density* of a star, not total mass of one. As in, all that matter in one place being equivalent to the same area of the inside of said star, not all of the star.
@@vlfpl The mass is comparable to a asteroid 22 miles across.
I love Keter SCPs that were previously safe, and vice versa, meaning that something had drastically changed in a substantial manner
Yeah it's either something has drastically changed, or the perception of the anomaly has drastically changed. Which is when SCP's are at their best, not just as a scary story but as things beyond our understanding that we are attempting to understand nonetheless.
or it was more understood and it has proven far more dangerous and far more difficult to contain than when it was thought when first discovered
Me to, it always make them even more scary that the foundation was wrong about a scp and it turns out to be more dangerous than previously theorized
Me listening to this and not understanding a word: I like your funny words magic man!!
I take physics and I still don't understand half of what he says
Your comment makes my clode happy and fills my appolity certificate to the point that it is 100% glarded. Mr Rev. Dr. Barosa / Warosa, esq. confirms it.
@@taxidriverxdscp4242 Thats the nature of Qunatum Pyshics
Feels to me like the author went overboard with the jargon.
@@Fanny-Fanny um...is he okay?
This stuff is the best. Some of the best articles are about anomalies in space.
Harbinger. Must. Message. Harbinger. Must.
I mean yeah. Just look at the Lovecraft Mythos
As soon as I read your comment I thought about the Star, the hateful
I agree.
Fr fr💯
So nice that Dr. Millar moved his lectures to a virtual format since the pandemic began. I do have some questions though...
If only human stupidity was anomalous and rare.
@@shaydorahl6740 ?
@@shaydorahl6740 what?
@@shaydorahl6740 schizo?
@@rileygladue3979
How is a dislike towards stupidity Schizophrenic?
Absolutely killing it with these lately, dude. Fantastic narration, perfect atmosphere and great graphics!
He’s on a freaking roll
Agreed! Looking forward to
... on a roll doing what? Reading other people's work and getting paid for it?
Unimpressive. Just like that loser that reads people's bigfoot emails and gets like 10k a month for it. Failed hunting guide turned bullshit profiteer in the most lazy way possible.
Due to the weird stuff that goes on inside a neutron star the idea of a bunch of objects inhabiting the same place might not be far off.
Well, neutron stars are still held up by Pauli exclusion, aren't they? It's just not "standard", *electron* exclusion. And even there it's not that the electrons stop obeying Pauli exclusion, they're just merged with protons, and then the resulting neutrons supply the degeneracy pressure that holds the star, right?
That's pretty interesting
@@Quadrohedron I'm not a physicist, but I think that's correct. Neutron stars are held up by neutron degeneracy pressure, which is just a consequence of Pauli exclusion (neutrons are fermions, like electrons). Black holes only emerge when the stellar corpse is so massive that general relativity comes in to mess up spacetime and form an event horizon - no violation of the Pauli exclusion principle needed. (That might happen inside, though we can't tell without a theory of quantum gravity, and it isn't necessary for the formation of the black hole.)
IIRC the Science Asylum video on white dwarf stars, the heavier they are, the smaller they get because they collapse more and more under their own gravity. To avoid violating the Pauli exclusion principle by occupying the same quantum state, the electrons expand in energy/momentum space to compensate being pushed closer in location (i.e. normal) space. That works until they have enough kinetic energy to merge with the protons into neutrons through reverse beta decay - which happens for stellar corpses heavier than the Chandrasekhar limit.
@@Quadrohedron I'm not an astrophysicist, but I do watch a lot of Antron Petrov and Dr. Matt O'Dowd. I'm pretty sure that's how they explain it.
@@nibblrrr7124 love seeing a science asylum reference here. Im not a physicist but i do have some physics training and from what i recall youre spot on.
Damn, that one was scary because it feel so grounded. It doesn't feel like an anomaly like we usually read about that are things that are entirely impossible and clearly don't exist. It feels like something that could be a legit non anomalous physical phenomenon, just how reality actually works, and that's pretty damn scary.
Monsters aren't as scary as the infinite uncaring void that could anihilate you at a moment's notice, without intent, without even noticing your existence. And when you remember that the universe contains countless things that actually exist and are even more destructive than that, it makes you shudder for a moment.
That's why its terrifying, it's cold unphasing neutrality. It's existence isn't inherently malicious, it's just that's it's existence happens to be in opposition to ours by sheer cruel coincidence. It didn't have to be this way but it is and no being had a choice in it.
Can we take a moment to appreciate that Millar sounds American, volgun sounds...irish(?maybe?) And the doctors usually sound british?
Stunning presentation, as always
I believe Volgun is Scottish
@@EvanMe volgun is Irish
average Americans lumping in scots with irish and larping as them
@@han-d youre not wrong.. there's just not a lot of exposure over here. Hard enough trying to follow a conversation between a southerner, a new Yorker and a californian, and they all speak the (mostly) same flavor of english
@@ceasarspartacus as a southerner, I can say this statement is very wrong.
I like how whoever wrote this article actually had knowledge about physics and chemistry.
The author have certainly read a bit of physics books and articles. However, there are number of inconsistencies in the narrative that specialist would not make. The whole Schwarzschild radius only apply to the black holes and SCP-2460 is not a black hole as it have high but finite density so it’s can’t have singularity and thus Schwarzschild radius. Another oddity is placing such mass so close to earth, it would destroy the earth by its gravitational effects and tidal heating without any need to actual collision. Placing the object into solar orbit would make more sense. Few other minor things such as visible light spectroscopy would only suggest that the comet is similar in spectrum to Oort Cloud objects but can’t make it a certainty. It is also unclear how the quantum effects of the matter in SCP-2460 were studied. The only reasonable way would be to shoot small test payloads through SCP-2460 at different velocities and study the changes that occurred in the objects. By the way If the matter trapped in the SCP-2460 can reflect and absorb light beaming high powered laser would allow adding acceleration to objects to push them out of the earth orbit, this approach at least shuld have been considered, maybe not used in concerns of anomalous hydrogen and helium expansion within SCP but discussed never the less. Outside of this quirks it’s a certainty great SCP and even implied solution to Fermi paradox of universe being slowly consumed by dark matter.
@@AntonLennikov yeah, you’re right, but I think those discrepancies were probably necessary to make an interesting SCP
@@86_percent28 Nah, they actually show that whoever wrote this has an incomplete understanding of physics gravity, and orbital mechanics. The author just blends several theoretical concepts together and a few speculations on the dark matter without fully understanding the totality of the effects and consequences. But it is a good concept never the less. I enjoyed it a lot.
@@AntonLennikov Actually, _all_ objects have a Schwarzschild radius. It’s the radius at which an object becomes dense enough to _form_ a singularity. (Mount Everest’s Schwarzschild radius is less than a nanometre, for example. Source: Wikipedia article about Schwarzschild radii.) What you’re thinking of is the _event horizon,_ which, yes, has the same radius as a black hole’s Schwarzschild radius. But it’s not the same concept _or_ property as the Schwarzschild radius of the black hole (or any object).
Quoth Wikipedia: “Any object whose radius is smaller than its Schwarzschild radius is called a black hole.” Therefore, theoretically, _any_ object can become a black hole if you make it small enough, in terms of volume, whilst maintaining the same mass. Or, by making an object more massive whilst preserving its volume. The second situation is the one which is of primary concern to us in the context of this SCiP, and here’s why:
If SCP-2460 keeps accumulating mass as it has been so far, but does not increase in volume at the same rate (and, uh… it _isn’t,_ because all of the mass it’s capturing is co-locating instead of piling up on itself), then there is every chance it could _turn into_ a black hole. _That’s_ why the Foundation is keeping track of 2460’s Schwarzschild radius, why the special containment procedures include an exclusion zone around 2460, why the procedures require the Foundation to notify all space agencies of 2460’s location ahead of any launches those space agencies plan to conduct, and why it _is_ a relevant property in this document. _They’re trying to keep 2460 from becoming a Dark Matter Black Hole._
Enjoy that moment of Fridge Horror I only just had whilst I was typing this out. 😋
Fermionic, bosonic, colocate, non-euclidean, magnetic moment
I like your funny words, magic man!
Fermionic = normal matter
Bosonic = non-normal, energy enriched matter
Colocating = sharing the exact physical spacial location as something else
Boson: aka the force carriers of the universe
Bosonic: basically the description of that
Bosons can occupy the same space of each other
non-euclidean = our (normal) rules of geometric do not apply. Strictly speaking, that's nothing supernatural. The surface of an orb is non-euclidean.
@@styrax7280 yeah, non-euclidean as a supernatural term stems from HP Lovecraft not having the constitution for math
@@maxwellorryn3380 I see someone watches OSP. It's a good joke, but is different from todays authors slapping quantum infron of everything?
Crazy how Doctor Millar can talk about this kind of Damoclean existential threat in such even tones. I guess one acquires a certain tolerance doing Foundation work.
It’s been a long time since we’ve had a proper scientific anomaly. Something that can be described and partially understood with the scientific method, but not explained. These kinds of SCPs are my favorite because you can tell the author either works in this field or is just very knowledgeable about it. It’s their hobby and they use these SCPs to flex their knowledge of the area to create great fiction.
this feels like a nice counter part to the satellite that they just parked at a lagrange point like a week or two ago where the gravity of the system interacts in such a way that its a stable point and they wont need to worry about adjustments much cause the gravity such as it is anchors it to the that spot in the middle of absolute nowhere orbiting nothing .
The james webb telescope is orbiting the sun and earth technically speaking. That's how lagrange points work.
But it does have to use fuel to keep in a stable orbit, has enough for 20+ years.
@@iCore7Gaming it's still neat that there is nothing at the point itself the only way to know that is the point is with equations I dont think I'd ever have a chance of actually understanding.
@@andoli1646 Thank you for making know that Lagrange points are a thing in real life.
To this day I only knew them as the place were the five Space Colonies were placed in UC Gundam.
@@andoli1646 Its the border between our Minecraft chunks.
Lol but seriously, my physics teacher in HS was motivated by his religious upbringing to quantify god's creation or similar ideals. It was really fascinating watching him go on and on about how beautiful and strangely clock like the universe is, and having intermittent contact with him, he nearly drools over this stuff every now and then. Super great seeing him get excited over this, it's infectious lol.
It's no surprise physicists and astrophysicists are so engaged in their fields. Absolute wonderment.
So to explain some of the science in this, dark matter is a hypothetical form of matter that should in theory exist, because without it, galaxies and other such astronomical phenomena wouldn’t form in the ways we observe them to.
According to theory, two facts about dark matter would have to be true: first is that ALOT of it would have to exist in the universe, many, many thousands of times the amount of “normal” matter. Second is that since there is supposed to be so much of it, combined with the fact we can’t seem to detect any of it, it must be both invisible and phase through any form of matter, emitting only gravity.
The instant he said Swartzchild radius I started laughing, because I knew there was trouble. XD
Dude I swear, this is one of (IF NOT THE BEST) my favorite SCP documentation narration channels! The way its formatted is extremely immersive. I love how it makes you feel like its an actual debrief, and it gives you the full coverage of the SCP topic. Very well done!
It's always interesting when an SCP is almost fully explainable, yet still so dangerous and difficult to deal with.
Holy fucking shit, the reveal at the end of this being a valid candidate for what makes up SPOILER ALERT
*dark matter* , and it being so intricately concordant with our current understanding of quantum physics, it’s just so goddamn good; Best hard Sci-Fi SCP entry
There's several flaws in the article, physics wise. It's a interesting article non the less, with a few tweaks it would become amazing
It's not hard science fiction, it's just very intelligent-sounding pseudoscience. So regular science fiction.
@@joaomaciel1661 yeah, indeed
@@joaomaciel1661
And what are the mistakes ? Are you talking about how, if you take away electron spin, there’s nothing to stop the strong nuclear force from contracting everything into a black hole ? Or the logical implications of a single tweak in a few values of quantum physical equations such as the cancellation of the spins ? Oh ! Did the author(s) forget about the relativistic deformation of the observations of the objects, due to how incredibly dense the object is, and close to its incredible centre of mass we are ? Is it also in the cataclysmic predictions of its fall into & through the Earth ?
@@nicholasleclerc1583 if you can't hit any of the other stuff, there's no reason for the stuff to lump together.
Safe to Keter? Can't wait to hear about this .Wow that was awesome. Wrong John Silver is a person who has studied some Quantum physics.The Volgun your voice acting and modeling is absolutely second to none.
The way everything shifted into place when he revealed the nature of the satellite, it gave me chills. This is really cool
Awesome job as always Dr. Miller. Maybe the new true SCP lord
Thank you the name is DR. MILLAR btw.
He always has been
I like how the Scp itself isn't anomalous, but how it ended up like this is. Very cool spin on your classic Scp.
it is anomalous
the part about dark matter forming a large ball that phases though normal stuff is real,
but the part about normal matter phasing though its self or the complete suppression of the electro magnetic force is anomalous
This was amazing. Nothing like this physics lesson of an SCP to go with my coffee, light snow outside my window, and snoring doggo. Great job all around, TheVolgun and WrongJohnSilver!
If only he pronounced Schwarzschild correctly.
I’m never late to Dr Millers lessons!
Believe me, why would you WANT to miss them?
That desktop name said DR. J MILLAR
Founder: That object is safe right?
Doctor: ....Yes?
*The object was in fact, not safe*
Actually got goosebumps with that conclusion, the realization that Dark Matter in real life COULD be explained with something like this... matter that doesn't interact with light but generates gravitational pull, that's what it is and this interpretation of how that happens is absolutely terrifying!! As someone with an interest in theoretical physics this is easily one of my fave SCPs!
Aw man that last comment about how we should feel lucky have me chills. Nice job, as always
So, since last bit of the SCP implies they know exactly what it is (dark matter), I'm assuming the only reason it isn't "explained" is because it's an imminent threat to the Earth?
They know what it is, but that doesn't make it explained. I think explained, means explained by science, not understanding it. They could know everything about an anomaly, but if it doesn't follow the laws of physics, it's still an anomaly and therefore unexplained with respect to the rest of science.
They know it’s Dark Matter, yes (and they’ve even solved the MaCHOs [Massively Compact Halo Objects] vs WIMPs [Weakly Interacting Massive Particles] debate-the WIMPs won), but it’s still anomalous because 2460 has broken quantum physics a bit. Dark matter shouldn’t be able to co-locate like 2460 can. So it’s not completely explained by consensus science, therefore, cannot be reclassified as Explained.
SCP Foundation: *Safe*
SCP-2460: I'm about to perform what's called a pro Physics move
SCP Foundation: *Keter*
I have just started listening to these and quickly subscribed. Love the page and the stories. I haven't googled this many words I didn't know in one sitting ever.
This is so cool.
Your format of narration as well as the effects you use in conjunction with a persona make your videos the most entertaining SCP videos to watch and listen to.
volgun you're batting a thousand, i can only respect your level of productivity and quality, loving your content
Loved this one, I'm a physics major myself and I found this very interesting. As always love your narration! Keep up the great work! :^)
I am a big fan of this one. All the amount of real world science that actually went into this SCP is amazing. Pauli's Exclusion Principal, Schwarzschild radius, Quantum spin, etc. all this made me feel I'm taking Atomics class again. Honestly one of the best detailed SCPs I've seen. And great narration to go along.
This was definitely written by a first year physics undergrad
Doesn't seem to matter, as the big words Intimidate most people in the comment section.
This was fantastic. VERY much more in line with what I expect SCP entries to be like. Tons of science and analytics but also mind bending spook factor.
Dark satellite, or tungsten rod velocity ejection satellite in real life? 🤔
I really liked this one, and your presentation of it too. Thx Volgun.
I really, really like your channel. I dont know why but I feel like these SCPs are getting better and better :D
Please keep up this amazing work for us to enjoy and thank you very much.
Good afternoon Dr. J Millar. My name is Everyone.
My name is DR. J MILLAR.
Reminds me of the “dark knight” satellite that was debunked but in this its real
Debunked? That's what the Foundation wants you to think.
I remember this i was about to look it up again How was it debunked
@@Jesus_Offical It was just a space blanket (or something like that) lost during a mission. I think "Trey the Explainer" made a pretty solid video about it a few years back.
@@cybermang878 thank you
What I find most fascinating
about this one is how objects
introduced to the anomaly
"stay together". What I mean by
that is things like the spaceship
and the foundation probe stay
in "one piece" instead of all
the nuts and bolts phasing
through each other like the
fuel phased through the hull
when the agent tried to escape
the pull. This leads me to think
that the anomaly affects objects
in order of higher to lower
density. Meaning it started with
the metals and affected the
fluid at the end of the process.
The graphics look so good, you are doing magnificent work with these
When graduate students write scp fiction
This is the sort of stuff that makes me wonder what actually qualifies for SCP status. I mean, there's nothing _paranormal_ about dark matter - it's been an establish theory since the 19th century and we've spent decades trying to prove that the damn stuff actually exists. If a huge chunk of it showed up near Earth, why not make it public knowledge? Sure, it would cause a bit of panic, but it would also make it easier to gather the resources required to do something about it. Nobody would want that thing to hit the Earth, after all.
It's not like the purpose of the Foundation is to hide the existence if anything that might make the public upset, even if it's explainable by mainstream science. The Foundation seeks to preserve normalcy as defined by accepted scientific principles, hence their concern is specifically stuff that defy our perception of reality. They want to hide the fact that our understanding of what is possible is very flimsy and ambiguous, and that it could all collapse at any moment because an anomaly got out of hand. However, SCP-2460 isn't an _anomaly,_ strictly speaking. It's completely explainable.
This is as if aliens suddenly showed up: It would be a pivotal moment in human history, sure, but one we've sort of been expecting and even searched for. It''s not going to throw our understanding of existence itself into question.
I think the SCP isn't Dark Matter itself, but what it's doing.
It's turning Fermionic matter into something else.
SCPs don't have to be _paranormal_ to be SCPs. Just unexplained or unknown.
The Foundation doesn't concern itself with _paranormal_ activity. It contains the _anomalous._ Paranormal suggests something parallel to the normal, something 'different'. Anomalous is something Normal-but-wrong.
For example plenty of SCP's exist that indicate a multiverse is very, very real and there are at _least_ dozens of other universes and realities, all paranormal because they're all running differently, 'adjacent' to our normal. The Foundation doesn't contain or even bother keeping records on most of them. It _does_ however, contain and classify the otherwise normal reality overrun with a sapient human-parasitic hive-mind, the reality that's one stray bird away from bringing Death with an immediate and capital D to the entire universe, and the universe somehow connected to ours by a pinhole wormhole firing a constant ever increasing laserbeam through at us.
Because they're all anomalous. They're all normal(alternate universes)-but-wrong.
Dark matter in this case is normal-but-wrong. Our state of normal is fermionic matter, and dark matter just _ends_ that for unknown and uncontrollable reasons. It's an anomaly we don't understand.
holy shit it just hit me the foundation are the ones that don't give up in Lovecraft's world
@@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim But by that reasoning, shouldn't the Foundation have suppressed every new scientific mystery since their founding? Everything is unexplained until someone, you know, explains it.
Did you know we calculated how many neutrinos are generated by the sun, but when we measured them we could only find a third of that amount? Nobody could explain why, it didn't seem to make any sense. It took thirty years to figure out a theory for how this was possible and almost another twenty to prove it in practice.
Sometimes science just runs into stuff that doesn't seem to make any sense, but that's a good thing because it means we may have something new to discover.
We don't even know for sure if dark matter even exists, just that it seems like it should, and we sure as heck don't know _what_ it actually is. So, who knows what it might be capable of?
@@RelativelyBest Sometimes SCPs get explained, that's a known thing. When they're explained, they're removed from the list.
There's a massive difference between discovering how to launch a rocket and finding out Dark Matter can break the fundamental laws of physics.
@thevolgun I love all of the SCP Vids from A-Z/1-♾
Keep it up.
Just wanted to say how much I love your content, keep it up
I knew those lessons in Quantum mechanics would come in handy. 😃
I really appreciate that it's comes down to dark matter.
What a brilliant, clever, and terrifying idea-This is definitely my favorite in a while. I love it when the writer knows their science, it grounds it all so much more and makes it feel much more immediate, real, and closer to home. Nice bit of foreshadowing building in its description, too-The minute it mentions the difference between bosons and fermions I knew we were in for a treat, and as soon as it came out that the thing only weakly interacts with matter or radiation but is totally present with gravity, I was like "ohhhhh noooooooo..."
You are hands down the most bestest scp informer. Thank you for risking your life to relay this information. Best scp channel on the market
FYI Its spelled "Millar". See the nameplate on the desk
Finally! someone finds out.
God, stuff like this really does put the fear of the unknown into you, huh?
A great take on an all time classic! Choosing the "Young & Eager British Scientist" Voice from the Volgun's Repertoire was spot on! The quiet, unsettling unease & nervousness expressed in this Researcher's voice lets us know from the start that something is very deeply wrong, something of such magnitude and implication that it requires a full explanation to slowly unravel the horror that's awaiting all of us...
Again, the voice acting adds so much to this article and, combined with a creepy background ambiance music & a minimalist visual support (it's so much better this way, as it allows for the real magic of the SCP Universe to shine through: the text breeding amazing, impossible horrors and wonders in our imagination.), it brings the original Article's content to a whole new level, giving it life, depth and dimension! Truly a Master Storyteller's work, as always!
Text breeding? That sounds like a whole as SCP in itself!
It’s an absolute joy when you find SCPs like this written by someone who knows their shit and did a lot of research. They add so many cool touches
This video and the last about the cognitohazardous entity passing through our reality have genuinely been my favorite SCP entries of all time so far, and that isn't just because I'm a massive nerd :P
You're doing great man, thank you for the videos
Yep my brain is not big enough for this one
Excellent job author
This was just an awesome anomaly that was dis cussed today. I particularly liked it's description. Thank you. Have a great day 🌟🌌
When you need a PHD in astrophysics to understand a scp..lol
Ok, who showed the theoretical physicist the SCP wiki?
So its not an anomaly, just dark matter?
The love how he goes through the levels of depth into the individual SCP and how he goes thru every security clearance while narrating it all clearly and calmly keep it up
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Oh, I recognize this one! Glad to see you cover this one.
That shit looks like it belongs from Star Wars💀
I love these videos! It was interesting that a male voice was used for Dr. Cordelia Argent who is female.
I'm guessing that was a convenience thing. I would have preferred a woman to play Cordelia but of course Volgun is clearly producing these videos on a very limited budget, so I can understand why certain changes have to be made.
Awesome as always thank you
Thank you PBS Space Time, for allowing me to understand the description of this SCP
I love this Scp because it's about a real life conspiracy theory and I love it
For real ? not that it would surprise me but..
@@polyarthus4282 Look up the Black Knight satellite conspiracy
@@thomashayhurst6547 Not sure how many parallels the article has with the conspiracy theory, but the picture seems to the same 1998 NASA photo of space debris that is commonly associated with it.
Anyway, didn't know about the Black Knight thing... silly humans and their imaginations - I mean, fellow humans. :^)
@@thomashayhurst6547 ohh I know this one !
I thought there was a conspiracy about dark matter or something.
Let's just be thankful that clown milk has never interacted with this SCP. I can't think of anything more dangerous than bosonic matter transforming into the hitherto unobserved bozonic form of matter. Were that to happen we would truly be doomed...
What a way to end the lecture. Clear, concise, and effective.
I always enjoy when SCP articles decide to get technical and go into some real scientific ideas.
I love scp articles that don't redact anything, just pure existentialism
My immediate thought “wait, if that touches the earth, won’t everything become intangible and we’ll all starve to death when we can’t hold food? Or suffocate when we can’t interact with oxygen?”
But no, they made it much more horrifying for the whole earth
Oh, it gets worse. The Foundation isn’t monitoring its Schwarzschild radius for nothing; this thing could turn into a _black fucking hole_ with the same anomalous properties as the original mass of dark matter if it keeps accumulating mass the way it is.
Sleep well!
Thing is, this SCP could serve as a means of neutralizing SCP 2399 by slingshotting it into the Destroyer, however measures would need to be taken to ensure it doesn’t fall into Jupiter itself.
I’ve honestly never heard anyone better covering anomalies and I don’t think I ever will. That being said, I’d love it if you did a video on SCP-2935 “O, Death.” I’d also be surprised if anyone disagreed with that sentiment since I’ve heard so many perspectives on it but after you did SCP-3935, it only proved to me, no one does these videos better than you do.
If an object "hits" the anomaly, wouldn't conservation of momentum still apply? That is, any object that gets captured by SCP-2460 would still have its momentum added to the total (seemingly through gravitational force?) and the anomaly's trajectory would be diverted by a corresponding amount.
So couldn't you just "slam" objects into it at high velocity to add momentum and eventually kick it out of orbit or, at the very least, sustain its orbit?
If this has a schwarzchild radius, it probably means that nothing can escape its gravitational well. Conservation of momentum still holds true- but no one knows where that object hits when it gets "sucked" in
@@ethhics IDK what that bit was going for. The Schwarzschild radius of a 10^13kg object should be around 10^-14m = 10fm = 0.00001nm. That's a bit bigger than a proton. If the matter isn't compressed into a sphere smaller than that, no event horizon exists. (In fact, inside a classical massive object, the gravitational pull cancels out near the center.)
And it can't really be black-hole-like - we do see objects poking out of the boundary of the big 50m×30m×15m asteroid in it, and sometimes even up to 105m from the center.
Finally, the containment procedures mention that the Schwarzschild radius is to be "remeasured", while Addendum 2460-B says "recalculated" - is it supposed to be something they can observe directly, or is it an idle calculation for funsies that isn't relevant to anything?
@Dubanx Yes, I think you're right in principle (e.g. gravitational slingshot maneuvers also exchange momentum between large & small objects via gravity). Though, it might be infeasible since you don't want high velocity projectiles that bounce back and forth (orbit) far out, now with their quantum spin erased and "infecting" anything they touch in turn.
(If we're nitpicking, that would have already happened with most kind of space debris colliding with it - unless the "105m" is some kind of anomalous limit due to it being a "strange attractor" (But what about the dark particles further out that hit the Foundation probe?)).
Anyway, you need to accelerate 10^13kg, and if you have to limit speed, you need _even more mass_ to get momentum. Maybe it could work to sustain its orbit, but not accelerate it to escape velocity? Plus, adding more mass to the anomaly might not be such a good idea.
Also, IDK what's harder to conceal: firing rockets/rail guns at it constantly, or bringing in a huge asteroid from elsewhere to tractor the anomaly?
i was thinking the same thing.
Please pronounce "kg/m^3" (or any other units with a fraction) as "kilogram per meter cubed" rather than "kilogram meters cubed". The latter is a totally different unit that doesnt represent a density.
"Hey can we chuck 682 at thi-"
"No, bad Junior Researcher, bad, don't make the Lizard stronger!"
A 682 with the phasing ability of Kitty Pride: NOT A GOOD IDEA!
This is definitely one of my new favorites.
Now I know some rocket launches with secret US (or maybe Chinese, Russian) military payloads were actually Foundation installations 🤔
Btw, am I the only one who created an SCP lore for themselves, where the Foundation has anomalies but no general advanced technologies and is pretty close in development to top militaries?
No general advanced technology? Like fusion reactors or Scranton reality anchors, just plain old fission and warding charms?
Just FYI for those that are interested, dark energy makes up roughly 68% of the known universe, dark matter roughly 27%, and the rest is the observable known universe. Also gravitation is the weakest fundamental force in the known universe. If I remember correctly i could be wrong but, we have only observed like barley 2% of the known observable universe so far. So wild and cool. Another wild thing is that the universe is not only expanding but is also collapsing in on itself if I remember right. Something about the closer you go to where the big bang happened the collapse is occurring due to the energy of the bang basically ending, and the farther from the bang is where the expanse is happening due to the bangs energy. A theory is that our universe is eventually going to "die" because all the stars will be dead, but then due to the density of all the sub atomic particles it will let off a new big bang thus creating a whole new universe and the cycle repeats. I think this also ties into the multiverse theory and how the infinite multiverse may be linked or at least a small part of how. Anyway sorry for long post my inner nerd/geek got excited.
I'm just glad I haven't seen any flerfers or thunderdolts expounding on how gravity doesn't exist.
2% is a surprising amount, ether the universe is really small, or us humans just get to board and (literally) state off into space for a long time.
cool
This one was really excellent. Love these types!
Not going to go into details bc I don’t want to spoil it for anyone but anything that’s “outer space” & could be a real possibility are the most interesting ones!
This is the best purely physics based SCP I've heard of. I found it absolutely fascinating and entertaining. I'm glad the report was made by The Volgun.
Honestly one of the worsts SCPs out there, it reads as if someone from r/iamverysmart learned about a bunch of physics terms and decided to make an awful fanfiction with awful math trying to explain something we know about but still don't have an answer to in a condescending way...
So many words to say so little, useless information people filter out because they don't understand them AND they don't contribute much to the SCP itself, some of the author's other SCPs also read like this, incredibly lame.
Would you enjoy this SCP if it was stripped down to "there's a cloud of ghost space debris orbiting Earth and it can transform other matter into ghost matter, thus it threatens us a lot and there's only a little we could do, also it kinda answers one of the greatest questions of modern science"? I know I would. So maybe it's not really that bad, having at least an interesting idea?
Also, I personally did not find the tone condescending at all.
This SCP is awesome what are you on about?
@@Quadrohedron I hope the irony is not lost on you
That describes 99% of SCP entries in one way or another. This is far from the worst of them.
@@ScionCrush To be honest, it... Is?.. Care to elaborate, please? I'm genuinely uncertain of what you're hinting towards, sorry.
Amazing read my man, crazy to think how close to reality this one really could be.
My brain hurts.... I felt like i was back at university for a moment. Well done!
Nice now I can listen to you while going to sleep!
I need some more long ones! I adore them. Use them to fall asleep all the time 😃
I don’t always have time to watch but I always open the notification and give the videos a like
I'm here every Sunday night before bed. This and The Exploring Series
really good scp this - sort of like a science fan-fic: "Earth X Dark Matter"
oh yeah and phenomenal content as always Volgun, best in the business :)