The Edge of an Infinite Universe

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  • @ernstkristianstlen4369
    @ernstkristianstlen4369 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1496

    Of all the channels that makes stuff I don't understand, this is my favourite

    • @ikaeksen
      @ikaeksen 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      another good is open your reality channel..and cool worlds channel.

    • @nancyhernandez2271
      @nancyhernandez2271 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I also like star talk with Neil Degrasse Tyson💜

    • @bubblezovlove7213
      @bubblezovlove7213 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Some things are so awesome, you only understand a bit at a time as you go. The nature of understanding changes. You are here, that qualifies you plenty... 🤓🤓🤓

    • @ashutoshmishra2439
      @ashutoshmishra2439 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@nancyhernandez2271 ❤❤❤

    • @jaybyvan
      @jaybyvan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Agreed.

  • @pboytrif1
    @pboytrif1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2284

    I love how much I convince myself I understand this stuff

    • @nosuchthing8
      @nosuchthing8 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      This topic is off the chain

    • @timsullivan4566
      @timsullivan4566 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      I know! I love how I manage to get the wool fully pulled over MY eyes too!
      (although, I confess that the other day, I DID have a bit of an "Oopsy!" issue with with my "Self-image vs Reality" balancing - I foolishly tried to convince someone OTHER THAN myself that I had a reasonable grasp of quantum mechanics, but the wheels started popping off THAT wagon pretty quickly, beginning with when I was interrupted by a correction to my pronunciation of the word physics, itself - apparently "fiss -iggs" is NOT commonly heard - who knew?)

    • @stevesoldwedel
      @stevesoldwedel 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      I just enjoy listening to it, even just as background noise. This stuff is beyond me, although I'd like to understand it.

    • @frankcrawford416
      @frankcrawford416 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I think these are interesting, but kinda of gibberish at this point.

    • @johnknab9600
      @johnknab9600 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yes the earth is flat like your head mate

  • @betterrobots
    @betterrobots 5 ปีที่แล้ว +775

    "And Here's the really crazy thing" - mate, you just had like 8 really crazy things in a row and you're doubling down now?! I literally cant brain any harder.

    • @liquidminds
      @liquidminds 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Our brains are inherently too small for this. We need to break it several times to create the space to fit all that stuff in.
      If you haven't broken your brain once, you haven't even attempted to understand physics.

    • @stapler942
      @stapler942 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      If you've heard 8 really crazy things in a row, why not round it out with breakfast at Milliways?

    • @bruhe8895
      @bruhe8895 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@stapler942 alright, I'll go to the restaurant at the end of the universe

    • @SaltandSnark
      @SaltandSnark 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    • @SaltandSnark
      @SaltandSnark 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Kind of ("space-time") relevant. ^_^

  • @jeremyphelps5140
    @jeremyphelps5140 2 ปีที่แล้ว +112

    I’ll understand this one of these days. I have to rewatch these videos several times before I start to understand what’s being said. The fact that I can even grasp some of these concepts is a credit to you guys at PBS SpaceTime for being such awesome science communicators :)

    • @kingj.master1202
      @kingj.master1202 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      yah i got a bit lost on this caz i thought he was just theorizing on what is beyond the boundary of space but then he gets a bit off topic with holographic principal n i didn't really get the analogy or care to since its not really something that is applicable, so the most i got out of it was pretty much, you can mathematically define an infinite boundary on paper or that the universe might not be truly infinite. n i suppose there is little point wondering whats on the outside of space (if anything at all). kinda hard to get there when we can't even rly go.. anywhere. space is kind of boring to me now. its like just there n doesn't support life for humans becaz it is not for them =p n it is most likely something other than what we think it is.

  • @ModernDayRenaissanceMan
    @ModernDayRenaissanceMan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1905

    This channel is the only one that explains the hardest stuff in a way I can almost understand... if I watch it 74 times.

    • @adeshpoz1167
      @adeshpoz1167 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      74 is a massive understated number, buddy. Or maybe you forgot millions. ;)

    • @Feniso
      @Feniso 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      It took me two years to fully understand Veritasium's video about quantum entanglement. You can see how I actually answered my own comment.

    • @nafrost2787
      @nafrost2787 5 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Sometimes it takes infinitely many times, and then you use the edges of minkovski space to the total understanding.

    • @whig3982
      @whig3982 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Why? These are really basic and there's exactly 0 math
      There's literally nothing hard to understand here it's just remarkable

    • @gordon6029
      @gordon6029 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Chris Heckert
      makes me feel not
      Alone.

  • @namelessnick9791
    @namelessnick9791 5 ปีที่แล้ว +948

    Me before watching a PBS space time video: “Aight lets learn some cool space stuff”
    20min later: “... what just happened??”

    • @ekothesilent9456
      @ekothesilent9456 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @@vv2516 i wouldn't call much of this information "basic"

    • @Kaytee-ct5yz
      @Kaytee-ct5yz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      🎼 I could only write a sentence from everything I learnt 😂😂😂

    • @Kaytee-ct5yz
      @Kaytee-ct5yz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@vv2516 🎼 I wouldn't use the word "Basic"

    • @paulmouatib9999
      @paulmouatib9999 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I have quite a solid scientific background....studied quantum mechnics, physics and math in a very good school... and i was lost after 5min.... what just happened!

    • @LuisSierra42
      @LuisSierra42 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@paulmouatib9999 Minkwsky and ADS space happened bro

  • @thirstfast1025
    @thirstfast1025 5 ปีที่แล้ว +615

    When I die, I hope my afterlife is just this guy explaining everything forever, never saying "but that's for another video", just pouring knowledge into my mind to infinity.....

    • @melanphilia
      @melanphilia 5 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Oh damn... bless you good sir! You just described my perfect afterlife

    • @hermitcard4494
      @hermitcard4494 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      And beyond!

    • @greyraininthemimbrain3581
      @greyraininthemimbrain3581 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I had a dream like that

    • @thirstfast1025
      @thirstfast1025 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@greyraininthemimbrain3581 I'm glad you remember that dream.

    • @jzblue345
      @jzblue345 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Same here it would take an eternity and it's more interesting than the bible

  • @phlosen7854
    @phlosen7854 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1587

    Whenever I feel like a Smartboy, I just come here to calibrate myself back to mediocracy.

    • @ChildOfGorb
      @ChildOfGorb 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Heres another video to help with that th-cam.com/video/OxGsU8oIWjY/w-d-xo.html

    • @srivatsav9817
      @srivatsav9817 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Hope one day this video makes you more smarter

    • @shawnconary6810
      @shawnconary6810 3 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      Man... This is so perfectly phrased lol. Nothing like a solid ton of high-tier knowledge being dropped on your brain to reveal how much you don't know.

    • @ThomasJr
      @ThomasJr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Yes, I agree, this is really really hard to follow, but I suspect he makes sense, whatever theories he's following. Some are easier to follow, but too abstract is a big problem. But I am happy I almost understood some things.

    • @BigSam450
      @BigSam450 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Smartass 😀

  • @timsullivan4566
    @timsullivan4566 5 ปีที่แล้ว +136

    Wow - I actually understood EVERYTHING he said this time!
    ... except for the stuff that came after he said, "In today;s episode..."

  • @quahntasy
    @quahntasy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +459

    I am just happy there are people in this world thinking about this stuff and understanding it.
    Actually gives me hope for humanity when this channel's video goes on trending.

    • @americalost5100
      @americalost5100 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Good luck with that. Trump supporters outnumber us all...

    • @VarietyGamerChannel
      @VarietyGamerChannel 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Cry harder snowflake. @@americalost5100

    • @gonzomuse
      @gonzomuse 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@americalost5100 And as if by magic! It's almost like you asked one to pop up and say something stupid, just to make your point. ^^

    • @americalost5100
      @americalost5100 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Hey racists, just wondering; do you think we'll be able to see the wall from space?

    • @UltimateFeudEnterprise
      @UltimateFeudEnterprise 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      America Lost Define racism and then explain how anyone you have replied to in this comment section is racist. I guarantee you won’t be able to.

  • @durstwurst
    @durstwurst 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3428

    So this is how the dog feels when I tell him stories about my life

    • @iamcedricpowell8051
      @iamcedricpowell8051 5 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      LOLLL

    • @altareggo
      @altareggo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      lol good one. I salute you..now sit, roll over and tell me what the top of a house is called (hint: roof, roof!!)

    • @karencarney7595
      @karencarney7595 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I saw a dog food commerical before this video too..is that where u got ur idea for ur comment/joke?

    • @tjsanmo
      @tjsanmo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      LOL, dude. I have the same feeling. Some body tell me what I'm interesting, but I just cannot understand, sooooo sad.

    • @JetskiDex
      @JetskiDex 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      😂😭😅

  • @justmoritz
    @justmoritz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +251

    Somehow this feels like we're cartoon characters slowly catching on to the fact that they are 2D things in a 3D world

    • @russellsimien7936
      @russellsimien7936 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @emmm lol, no we're just 3d physical objects in a physical universe inside of a multidimensional greater multiverse. Not Marvel's interpretation but scientifically and Biblically starting on a sub microscopic lvl and physically to plus macro lvl and spiritually

    • @thegoodmanrot1460
      @thegoodmanrot1460 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@russellsimien7936 Chapter and verse please?

    • @stylusapteryx1490
      @stylusapteryx1490 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@thegoodmanrot1460 It's a fair possible interpretation of biblical sources and scientific data. 1 chronicles 2.6 speaks of heaven and the heaven of heavens (a universe of universes?), which vast as they are, still cannot contain God. That's the macro. Colossians 1.16-17 speaks of God as like the Higgs Boson (see what I did there!?) holding the visible and the invisible together. Hebrews 11.2 is a good one, taking us down to the atomic level: "By faith we understand that the worlds (plural) were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible." More speculatively Ephesians 3:18 possibly references four dimensions, "may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and the length and the depth and height, to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge." In all of these verses, the writers are intelligently and humbly recognizing that there are realities currently beyond our current ability to understand, and yet they are striving to understand them anyway. Faith feeds understanding, and understanding feeds faith.

    • @SPGHTTFRT
      @SPGHTTFRT 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@stylusapteryx1490 I forget where I heard this but I always loved the comparison of biblical descriptions of angels to instances of a higher dimensional object intersecting our 3D space.
      Are you a Christian?

    • @stylusapteryx1490
      @stylusapteryx1490 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@SPGHTTFRT hi. Yes the old 'how many angels can you fit on the head of a pin' question. Yes I am a Christian. So many Bible verses have prefigured our scientific knowledge. "He stretches out the heavens like a cloak" ... Expanding universe. Psalm 8 the fish "pass through the paths of the seas". On the basis of that a man went looking for - and found - the ocean currents. And what about Job. "He binds up the Pleiades and looses the belt of Orion". We now know that from earth's perspective the stars of the pleiades are in fact moving closer together, and the three in orion's belt are moving apart. The supernatural is whatever transcends our current knowledge of nature. Whether as far back in time as the big bang or as small as a quantum theory of gravity, there will always be new levels of understanding to attain to, and, in the hearts of the humble, more wonder and reverence for the First Cause that holds it all together.

  • @alifatemi6511
    @alifatemi6511 5 ปีที่แล้ว +162

    I come here whenever I feel too smug and within 5 minutes I'm as humble as humble pie.That and it's always fun to learn how much you really dont know.

    • @SaltandSnark
      @SaltandSnark 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I know right. I thought the equation was a B.S. cover-derived but time-streams have to work the same way. Had to report F.E. haters. ;/

    • @mr.battle20
      @mr.battle20 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The best part about all this is that it's all guesswork. They "know" about as much as we do concerning the fabric of spacetime and black holes.
      They're just better at guessing about it.

    • @cosmicHalArizona
      @cosmicHalArizona 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You know the def Of humble. Most don't

  • @andrewmitchell9796
    @andrewmitchell9796 5 ปีที่แล้ว +420

    I love how this channel doesn't dumb anything down. I'd rather have to smarten myself up to follow than have it dumbed down for me. That being said, this got very complicated very fast!

    • @Adityarm.08
      @Adityarm.08 3 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      @Damon Sasser most concepts at the advanced level build on top of thousands of foundational ideas. So no, you can be the "ideal" teacher & still require 2+ decades to explain something to a child.

    • @TheButterMinecart1
      @TheButterMinecart1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      I mean, they do simplify things a lot by omitting the gigatons of maths behind all the theories.

    • @botezsimp5808
      @botezsimp5808 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@TheButterMinecart1 It'd be cool if they had a separate math section on their channel explaining the math of all these videos.

    • @frankdimeglio8216
      @frankdimeglio8216 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This channel is political. It is maximum money making agenda "physics". It is dumbed down "physics". It's plainly not honest.
      TRUTH, reality, AND nature/natural experience go hand in hand. They are knowingly lying about physics.
      Here's the proof. Here are the facts.
      THE THEORETICAL, TOP DOWN, CLEAR, SIMPLE, AND BALANCED MATHEMATICAL PROOF OF THE FACT THAT E=MC2 IS F=MA OF NECESSITY:
      Gravity AND ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy are linked AND BALANCED opposites, AS E=MC2 IS F=ma; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity. Gravity IS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy. Very importantly, outer “space” involves full inertia; AND it is fully invisible AND black. NOW, carefully consider what is THE SUN; AS it does (and it must) exist in both time AND SPACE. The stars AND PLANETS are POINTS in the night sky !!!
      E=MC2 is CLEARLY F=ma ON BALANCE. Gravity IS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy. ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity. "Mass"/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. E=MC2 IS F=ma. This NECESSARILY represents, INVOLVES, AND DESCRIBES what is possible/potential AND actual IN BALANCE, AS gravity IS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy !!!!
      Gravity/acceleration involves BALANCED inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE, AS E=MC2 IS F=ma ON BALANCE; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. "Mass"/ENERGY involves BALANCED inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE consistent WITH/AS what is BALANCED electromagnetic/gravitational force/ENERGY, AS E=MC2 IS F=ma; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity !!! It all CLEARLY makes perfect sense. Carefully consider what is THE MAN who IS standing on what is THE EARTH/ground. Touch AND feeling BLEND, AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity; AS E=MC2 IS F=MA ON BALANCE !!! (Energy has/involves GRAVITY, AND ENERGY has/involves inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE.) Objects fall at the SAME RATE (neglecting air resistance, of course), AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity; AS E=MC2 IS F=MA ON BALANCE !!! ACCORDINGLY, the rotation of WHAT IS THE MOON matches it's revolution. The stars AND PLANETS are POINTS in the night sky. The sky is blue, AND THE EARTH is ALSO BLUE !!! Carefully consider what is THE EYE. GREAT. GRAVITATIONAL force/ENERGY IS proportional to (or BALANCED with/as) inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE, AS E=MC2 IS F=ma IN BALANCE; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity. TIME is NECESSARILY possible/potential AND actual IN BALANCE, AS E=MC2 IS F=ma IN BALANCE; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity. Gravity IS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy.
      BALANCE AND completeness go hand in hand. TIME DILATION ULTIMATELY proves ON BALANCE that E=MC2 IS F=ma, AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity. This CLEARLY explains the cosmological redshift AND the "black hole(s)" !!! AGAIN, gravity IS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy. E=MC2 is CLEARLY F=ma IN BALANCE !!!! Think QUANTUM GRAVITY !!! It all CLEARLY makes perfect sense ON BALANCE !!!! Great.
      By Frank DiMeglio

    • @ShubhamShubhra
      @ShubhamShubhra 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I think we should not shy away from mathematics and instead delve deep into the ideas about it. I am an Engineer with a fairly good understanding of what he is talking about but, when I don't understand stuff because the maths is being compactified in these videos, I go back to the mathematics and try to see how much of it I can understand on my own.

  • @ZugZugz
    @ZugZugz 5 ปีที่แล้ว +170

    12:50 I thought there was hope of understanding something when I heard 2+1

  • @Tryingtomakeit390
    @Tryingtomakeit390 4 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    This how it used to feel when you came back to school after being sick for a week. 🧐🧐🧐

    • @rianakanthi6752
      @rianakanthi6752 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      😂😂😂

    • @candygarden5029
      @candygarden5029 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      especially with the "as we've discussed in previous videos" like nope sorry i missed that class

  • @mannyverse6158
    @mannyverse6158 5 ปีที่แล้ว +250

    I'm just happy that there are people in the world thinking about this stuff and understanding it

    • @samdell5593
      @samdell5593 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Im not sure about the understanding part... 😂

    • @sebastianelytron8450
      @sebastianelytron8450 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Yeah, feels good to see others succeed in life amirite?

    • @neurofire
      @neurofire 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      #metoo

    • @antiisocial
      @antiisocial 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I am not one of them...my head hurts.

    • @guytheincognito4186
      @guytheincognito4186 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's a great feeling

  • @jonathanmatthews4774
    @jonathanmatthews4774 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    I had a good day at work today. A senior analyst gave me a job well done on a task he assigned to me. I was feeling good. But I didn't want to get too high on my britches, so I made sure to watch the latest PBS SpaceTime and knock me back down to reality. That is. I know nothing.
    I have no idea half of what you said. And the more I watch, the more I realize how much I don't know. And the more I realize how much I don't know, the more I love this channel.
    Yes, today is a good day. Both a compliment at work and a new PBS SpaceTime.
    I am happy.

  • @mayaburroughs1715
    @mayaburroughs1715 5 ปีที่แล้ว +102

    pbs space time giving me another existential crisis. brilliant

  • @19pens
    @19pens 3 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    I love the way Matt O'Dowd so casually speaks of these heavy, complicated concepts. I also love those graphics! I thought for sure he would mention Mandelbrot's fractals when he spoke of tessellation. Then again, I'm no astrophysicist.

  • @jhuger
    @jhuger 5 ปีที่แล้ว +570

    Wouldn't Anti De Sitter space be De Stander space?

    • @caduceus68
      @caduceus68 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      I prefer the "Pringle Universe". Mmmmm....Pringles

    • @sebastianelytron8450
      @sebastianelytron8450 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      How is this not top comment? Give him likes people!

    • @sasshole8121
      @sasshole8121 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      De Dad Joke

    • @aarona6420
      @aarona6420 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Christopher De Walken space

    • @jasonhoffman6642
      @jasonhoffman6642 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah, dad joke if your dad was Kip Thorne...

  • @khodahh
    @khodahh 5 ปีที่แล้ว +158

    Hmmm that Penrose Diagram seems to be a recurring character. Hope to see it in the next season... Lovely personality.

    • @SaltandSnark
      @SaltandSnark 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you. How much mod work do we need here?

    • @sachi20ful
      @sachi20ful 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Very versatile

    • @monkieassasin
      @monkieassasin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I am convinced that Penrose will go down in history as one of, if not the, greatest scientist to have ever lived.

    • @BeckBeckGo
      @BeckBeckGo 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I loved the use of Escher to help solidify this concept.

  • @ruatsangawhite7261
    @ruatsangawhite7261 5 ปีที่แล้ว +881

    Universe is flat
    Flat Earthers: breathing intensifies

    • @PreezyBaby420
      @PreezyBaby420 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ruatsanga white hahaha!

    • @bryanx0317
      @bryanx0317 5 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      I'm holding out for this "saddle universe" theory. It would justify my belief that the Earth, as well as the universe, rides on the back of a giant turtle. ...my only concern is whose ass is on top off us?? 🤯

    • @majamystic256
      @majamystic256 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@bryanx0317 an Otter, why do think they call it Otter Space

    • @deathmetal11111
      @deathmetal11111 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Plot twist: They find out that in the TRUE nature of the universe, the Earth IS flat. We just experience it as a sphere because we're missing like 13 dimensions.

    • @shambosaha9727
      @shambosaha9727 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@deathmetal11111 Weird

  • @DrakiniteOfficial
    @DrakiniteOfficial หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    9:02 So nice of Matt to be so willing to talk about boundaries with us. Good for communication.

  • @danthemansmail
    @danthemansmail 5 ปีที่แล้ว +77

    "And here's the crazy thing....." Dude, my mind was blown way before we ever got to that.

  • @abheekgulati8551
    @abheekgulati8551 5 ปีที่แล้ว +82

    My God, this was one hell of a video. I've never felt so lost while watching a video before!

    • @howardbaxter2514
      @howardbaxter2514 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I haven't felt this lost since my Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces class last semester.

  • @Kj16V
    @Kj16V 5 ปีที่แล้ว +334

    *PBS Space Time:* [Talks unfathomable physics at me]
    *Me:* "Ooh, pretty pictures!"

    • @iamcedricpowell8051
      @iamcedricpowell8051 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      LOLLL

    • @shilohauraable
      @shilohauraable 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @darknez09240
      @darknez09240 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      very true i could not understand most of what he talks

    • @MrLeSa95
      @MrLeSa95 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@darknez09240 he doesn"t really know how to simplify it so most people can understand

    • @christopherbabb7065
      @christopherbabb7065 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@MrLeSa95 he just needs to compactify it it onto a conformal disk so we can get it.

  • @guyincognito1985
    @guyincognito1985 3 ปีที่แล้ว +82

    Him: "Here is an ordinary square" 🔳
    Me: "Woah, woah, slow down, egghead!" 🤓

  • @someguy3766
    @someguy3766 5 ปีที่แล้ว +241

    I'm usually ok at following these videos, but I'm really struggling with this one...

    • @My_NameJeff
      @My_NameJeff 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Ikr..this is too scientific for me to understand

    • @purplemonkeydishwasher9818
      @purplemonkeydishwasher9818 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      I feel like a lot of these are very mathematically heavy and can’t really be understood without digesting the physical math behind them.

    • @EmpireRamzes
      @EmpireRamzes 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      same here, i was hoping i wasn't the only one

    • @SimplifiedFinanceSiFi
      @SimplifiedFinanceSiFi 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      You can summarize the video with "what happens when you warp through space (so infinite speed)"
      1. You end up where you started
      2. You hit a wall
      3. You go on forever
      For 1.) the universe would have to be a big 4d "ball" and we should be able to detect it or its so big that we can't measure precise enough. Its therefore possible
      We always ruled out 2.) because i think that would result in weird stuff and its probably not how expansion works. I wanted to add it though.
      And for 3.) the universe was always infinite. What happend at the big bang was just decreasing density and expansion of a point in an already infinite universe. so what would happen if you go on forever is, at some point you would just stop seeing matter and particles, just empty space.
      And the stuff with the diagrams was just about measuring and mapping and preparation for the video of the holographic principle.
      This video is more philosophical than scientific since it has no real applications. It's still fun and interesting though

    • @jmitterii2
      @jmitterii2 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It's his bouncing around with different space types and transformations... transformations even in linear algebra make me think okay wait, that term does this and that term makes the it go that way... nope... opposite...

  • @IainMcClatchie
    @IainMcClatchie 5 ปีที่แล้ว +217

    WOW! Among other things, hats off to the graphics people who somehow managed to keep up with Matt on this episode.
    That feeling when the roller coaster is about to start down the first slope, and you realize that it's so much taller than you expected...
    I swear if you guys can get me to understand the holographic principle, I'm going to double my contribution.

    • @mjburger7881
      @mjburger7881 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It will take me infinitely long to understand this episode. He lost me approximately 25 times. I wonder the percentage of people who saw this, who are actually able to explain it to a layperson.....

    • @ThePastelAssassin
      @ThePastelAssassin 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Just watch this lecture by Leonard Susskind. Search "Leonard Susskind on The World As Hologram" or click YT link th-cam.com/video/2DIl3Hfh9tY/w-d-xo.html . He was close friends with Richard Feynman and teaches at Stanford. Him and Gerard't Hooft both collaborated together in developing the holographic principle. So it's best to get your layman explanation of it from one of the sources. It's really insightful and easier to follow IMO.

    • @carloguerrero6583
      @carloguerrero6583 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Just replying to be there when it happens. Scroll along.

    • @tacticalnuke3805
      @tacticalnuke3805 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      So, here's basically what i figured from this vid...
      Our flat space-time (the world we live in) is literally just the surface of some higher dimension construct.
      The reason our universe is infinite is because the edge is not on our space, but on a higher dimension.
      The hologram thingy, basically means all of this reality, means we are just shadows from a much, much more complex stuff.
      Edit: After watching the latest video though, I think i have to make some adjustments to my personal "take".
      We aren't just shadows. We're are also casting something of our own on a higher dimension. That's what we call gravity. And that solves the information paradox on black holes too, apparently.
      This getting more confusing for me. My brain is overloaded. Mind=blown.

  • @HQ4575
    @HQ4575 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1071

    this makes me feel like an ape trying to understand the universe
    wait a minute....

    • @soumyabratahazra7723
      @soumyabratahazra7723 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @sharpshooter740
      @sharpshooter740 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Yeah about that...

    • @RealtyWebDesigners
      @RealtyWebDesigners 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      This is way advanced on this topic. Start with 'Black Hole theory' In fact, there's a book that is fascinating and awesome; it gives you an overview of advanced theoretical physics REAL FAST; Gosh I forget it off hand..

    • @RealtyWebDesigners
      @RealtyWebDesigners 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What he's saying 'compactified' is this: Newtonian physics don't totally make sense with new knowledge/data.

    • @RealtyWebDesigners
      @RealtyWebDesigners 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He's also showing how "Unification" is happening in Math and in 'space' (spit; space is a 'placeholder' for "Time, Energy, Mass (information) and Gravity"

  • @Highbudget
    @Highbudget 3 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    I ask myself 'how can the universe be infinite?' and I struggle to grasp it, how can it go on forever and ever? It seems impossible to me and then I ask myself "how could it not be infinite?" and I struggle to grasp that as well, how could the universe just stop? How could there be an ending and then nothing beyond that point? That seems just as impossible as an infinite universe

    • @jacobjones5269
      @jacobjones5269 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      This is why everyone who has ever contemplated infinity has gone mad..

    • @schakiarligonde1736
      @schakiarligonde1736 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      The universe can be finite and have no edge

    • @duetopersonalreasonsaaaaaa
      @duetopersonalreasonsaaaaaa 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The only way I could comprehend a finite universe visually would be if it looped back around to itself, sort of like how planets do. But that might just be because I have no reference for any other object that you could go in one direction 'infinitely' but really is a finite space.

    • @Eagle3302PL
      @Eagle3302PL 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@duetopersonalreasonsaaaaaa Klein bottle, doughnut etc. plenty objects out there that have an infinite path on their surface. Basically any object that has no edge.

    • @canersencag9890
      @canersencag9890 ปีที่แล้ว

      Then guys you have to read pre-socratic philosophy. A specially Anaksimandros.

  • @ricardodelzealandia6290
    @ricardodelzealandia6290 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1280

    When this guy left Australia, the IQ of the country halved.

    • @mmhoss
      @mmhoss 5 ปีที่แล้ว +99

      Australia is in the denominator though so it doubled

    • @ok-kk3ic
      @ok-kk3ic 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The country can’t have an IQ. What?

    • @morgengabe1
      @morgengabe1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@ok-kk3ic Actually it's about 1/ln(2) of the gross domestic intelligence quotient

    • @jonas-ke4qz
      @jonas-ke4qz 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      o k are you joking, or are you just stupid.

    • @jonas-ke4qz
      @jonas-ke4qz 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      herobrine854035 max Australia is dumb except for this guy. you guys lost a war to emu's.

  • @MrOvipare
    @MrOvipare 5 ปีที่แล้ว +152

    I really want to thank you for making this extremely abstract subject very "accessible" and interesting. Also, the recap of Penrose diagram and Hawking Radiation was gold! WELL DONE!

    • @DaDaviesCL
      @DaDaviesCL ปีที่แล้ว

      Ewe we we, is the sound of 2 realities colliding.

  • @KudaFamily
    @KudaFamily 5 ปีที่แล้ว +568

    You lost me at 0:01, I made a full recovery at “shaped like a Pringles chip” and then my brained crashed again.

    • @zaxxx1975
      @zaxxx1975 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      haha you crashed! uh hold on?,,, "what was i watchin?!!"

    • @marv5078
      @marv5078 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lmao

    • @ive_y
      @ive_y 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Mmmm could do with a pepreeka

    • @rissarose781
      @rissarose781 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lmao

    • @MsMorgasm79
      @MsMorgasm79 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @Bertrand de Born Speaking of clowns...

  • @The_Crazy_Monkey75
    @The_Crazy_Monkey75 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I'm fascinated by space, even though I don't understand 99% of what he's saying and yet I keep on watching it!

  • @gamingpriests
    @gamingpriests 5 ปีที่แล้ว +278

    At one point my mind just wandered off and started thinking about random stuff

    • @juliusnebulus702
      @juliusnebulus702 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      At one point my brain forgot how to understand English

    • @mdu2112
      @mdu2112 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@juliusnebulus702 LMAO

    • @ChantHareKrishnaAndBeHappy
      @ChantHareKrishnaAndBeHappy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      LOL, yall

    • @justmoritz
      @justmoritz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The funny thing is when it tunes back in I am at exactly the same level of comprehension.

    • @opium42069
      @opium42069 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dogs, cars, women

  • @nejaidin
    @nejaidin 4 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    PBS SPACE Time team, I love you guys, You are amazingly awesome. Presenting the New Horizons of Knowledge about Universe in an artistic way with universal harmony, this is what you guys are doing. Ultimate respect from here to you guys.

  • @GamersPlayerUnion
    @GamersPlayerUnion 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    It amazes me how one person can know so much about a subject.

  • @tbxvividos
    @tbxvividos 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    i love your sense of humor and how you interject it periodically throughout these videos in seemingly innocent ways.

  • @joshuacole8284
    @joshuacole8284 5 ปีที่แล้ว +219

    This video turned my brain into a Minkowski space.

    • @limiv5272
      @limiv5272 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Your brain is now infinite?!

    • @harshitrautela6585
      @harshitrautela6585 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@limiv5272 He can now use 100% of his brain.

    • @mmoviefan7
      @mmoviefan7 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      flat

  • @drunkenramble4120
    @drunkenramble4120 5 ปีที่แล้ว +153

    This channel makes "How The Universe Works" look like Barney's Sing-A-Long.

    • @sadkritx6200
      @sadkritx6200 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Nibogen Cupcake I said a bang bang bangity - bang 🎶🎶

  • @kjthompson6513
    @kjthompson6513 5 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    I define a nanosecond as the moment of clarity of understanding after watching an episode.

  • @emyjones2270
    @emyjones2270 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I personally don't understand nothing of this .... but... I sincerely love to listening to this ... and challenge myself to be smarter and to try to be independently thinker ...

    • @morrisdonte7064
      @morrisdonte7064 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hi Emy how are you?

    • @morrisdonte7064
      @morrisdonte7064 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@emyjones2270 good to know. So where do you live and how is the weather conditions over there today?

    • @morrisdonte7064
      @morrisdonte7064 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@emyjones2270 good to know. I live in Austin Texas USA. I am a single parent to my daughter her name is Emmanuella

    • @morrisdonte7064
      @morrisdonte7064 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@emyjones2270 so tell me about your self do you have a kid? What’s your marital status?

    • @artexatrayu8930
      @artexatrayu8930 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@morrisdonte7064 Ironically this video is about something you clearly don't understand. Boundaries dude. Go find a dating app and stay within them.

  • @adamwilson2427
    @adamwilson2427 5 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Even he talks in Layman's terms it still beats me. I have to start right from the beginning. A clear
    genius

    • @ThomasJr
      @ThomasJr 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      He doesn't, he always talks physicist speak, this is a not a channel for laypeople

    • @ThomasJr
      @ThomasJr 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@paressh really, u sure? you don't even know proper grammar in English.

    • @jezer8325
      @jezer8325 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      For sure, he must be really smart to grasp this stuff to the point that he can confidently explain it to a layman. Huge props to the whole team behind this channel on that front. But what really intimidates me though is the whole community of clear geniuses who not only comprehend but even contribute to the field. There are so many ridiculously smart people out there, it's wild.

    • @jezer8325
      @jezer8325 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ThomasJr I'm not too sure about that. Maybe 'laypeople' is a relative term. The way I see it, teaching cosmology to the non-layperson would involve a lot more math and formalism; and I'm sure the team behind this channel would agree that the point of these videos is not to serve as a cosmology course for physics students but to educate a general audience.

    • @ThomasJr
      @ThomasJr 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jezer8325 He's not accessible to laypeople, other channels are much easier to follow. Matt is a CUNY professor, of course he masters these themes, but he's not a good teacher at all for laypeople.

  • @koenvandamme6901
    @koenvandamme6901 5 ปีที่แล้ว +637

    I think I may have watched too much Spacetime. This actually made sense to me.

    • @sebastianelytron8450
      @sebastianelytron8450 5 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      Please write a paper and have it published explaining this simply. You'll make millions.

    • @sebastianelytron8450
      @sebastianelytron8450 5 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      @Joe Chang Proof you understood nothing

    • @septitais
      @septitais 5 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      @Joe Chang What are you smoking man, I want that stuff too

    • @QazRiyami
      @QazRiyami 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Ray
      Pass it on once you’re done smoking it. I want it too

    • @raybod1775
      @raybod1775 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      U know, none of this stuff really means anything to our daily lives. Too much Spacetime might be detrimental to your social life and social skills. Personal experience.

  • @heckyes
    @heckyes 5 ปีที่แล้ว +598

    This channel needs to be renamed to PBS - Existential Crisis Weekly.

    • @cholten99
      @cholten99 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Nah, Kurzgesagt would sue :-)

    • @spenat28
      @spenat28 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Agreed.

    • @adeshpoz1167
      @adeshpoz1167 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Nihilova Holy cows. I missed on that video... now I'm bound to watch it soon!!! 😱😱😱

    • @MoonRegolith
      @MoonRegolith 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I like to personalize the info to deepen the inner crisis. And to force growth. Grab a regular old 3d flashlight, and point it at the wall.
      Slowly move it toward where it meets the other wall (any perpendicular one). Watch as the flat projection of light changes shape as the light moves from one surface to another.
      Try describing to yourself what you're seeing. Everything from the floodlight beam to the changing circular-to-ovoid light geometry on the wall.
      A creature living solely within that circle of light... would never dream of you and your flashlight. Sitting there and slowly moving it across surfaces. You literally change it from being upon two "dimensions" in this simple exercise to being on one common dimension + a new one.
      Geometrically, there are also a few deep mysteries happening with the precise shapes involved. The questions there occur on multiple levels... but, one existential helplessness at a time.
      (treat it like meditation if that helps, doing one careful thought exercise at a time... then adding in each day some of the info you've learned here).
      We're the first generation who stands a chance at understanding this new view of the universe on an intuitive level. Physicists of old would have killed to watch well-produced supercomputer simulations or video descriptions of all the subjects they weren't specialized in.
      In 30 years, when we're on brain-download episode 47,689... You'll finally be ready for that SpaceX journey to Sagitarius A*.
      See you there!

    • @ryanvess6162
      @ryanvess6162 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MoonRegolith does this mean you are a nondissiter-earther?

  • @chrissandoval9459
    @chrissandoval9459 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Here I was thinking: "the edge of the universe, how mind blowing could that possibly be? Maybe I'll understand this episode". HAHA

  • @kevincleary5982
    @kevincleary5982 5 ปีที่แล้ว +90

    This episode made me feel like an idiot, but at least I laughed my ass off for an hour reading the comments.

    • @noudvangemert297
      @noudvangemert297 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Same here. The comment section of this video is gold, it's also the only thing I understand about this video..

    • @vedantsridhar8378
      @vedantsridhar8378 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I actually enjoy not understanding anything about it. It fascinates me how difficult physics can be and how smart scientists can be.

  • @MrCrownUK
    @MrCrownUK 5 ปีที่แล้ว +146

    "Got it, cool, we're done here..."
    Closes laptop, and goes to sleep feeling rejected.

  • @Fancy_PotHead
    @Fancy_PotHead 5 ปีที่แล้ว +117

    Ads, desitting yes, curves, stuff quantum, yes ofc... Hmmm. *strokes beard with deep thinking look on face*
    Nupe, no idea wut's goin on here

    • @qotda
      @qotda 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      LOL!+!+!!!

    • @gdolphy
      @gdolphy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ads Space. Did he mean TH-cam monetized?

  • @exidy-yt
    @exidy-yt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The mathematics of this are far beyond me, but I am imagining a seriously cool situation I might want to try to write as a science fiction story about how some brilliant insane genius manages to prove that whole conformal minkovsky space as 2 separate but linked dimensions, one looking like that cool pattern the other inverted to show a 'surface' only to find that he, and everyone, exist simultaniously in both dimensions at the same time, but should NEVER become aware of it because of how nightmarishly it would impact the preceptions of each dimension's mirrored being. And now he's aware of it. Fantastic series by the way, glad I found it! totally subbed.

  • @numista
    @numista 5 ปีที่แล้ว +478

    Seem to be a very clever explanation, but my brain couldn't follow...

    • @calvinsylveste8474
      @calvinsylveste8474 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Think of it like a Niagara dolomite brick wall surrounding the entire universe.

    • @rastrisfrustreslosgomez544
      @rastrisfrustreslosgomez544 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Don't feel bad this is not trivial. Basically, physicist realized that you can perfectly describe all the information hold within a blackhole in a 2D array instead of the expected 3D. A black hole basically strips a full spatial dimention out of anything that crosses the horizon and as black holes are the physical boundaries of our universe, physicists theorized that the edge of the universe ALSO should be described as a 2D array with 3Dness behaving more like an illusion, a hologram.

    • @malcolmt7883
      @malcolmt7883 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      The colors were nice though.

    • @ericmacleod1904
      @ericmacleod1904 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Listen, I am very very high right now and this video has put my mind in an indescribable state of confusion and overwhelming wokeness

    • @Va5e1er
      @Va5e1er 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I watch these episodes every time they are released. I get about 50% before my brain says "no your never gonna understand this" and shuts down.

  • @nevermind-he8ni
    @nevermind-he8ni 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1090

    I finally smoked enough weed to understand this.

    • @ryanvess6162
      @ryanvess6162 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      About to undertake that right at this moment

    • @claymaxon
      @claymaxon 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Please share. I don’t think mine is good enough.

    • @Unyielding_Vortx
      @Unyielding_Vortx 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Your a man of culture I see

    • @michaelsmith9556
      @michaelsmith9556 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I’m doing that right now

    • @dmfitzsim
      @dmfitzsim 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      never mind brillian 😂😂😂😂

  • @Kiamoko
    @Kiamoko 5 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    This is on a whole other level than where I'm at. I'll have to revisit when I've gained enough knowledge to understand. Now backtracking...

  • @blackthorne-rose
    @blackthorne-rose 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I haven't had a clue what he's talking about in years but I mb love listening to him anyhow. I suppose it's great that there's a platform for physics geeks to play on... and the rest of us can just feel happy we're being subconsciously trained for future lives as Interstellar travellers! lol...

  • @codysodyssey3818
    @codysodyssey3818 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I haven't watched any PBS Spacetime for a long while and watching this with virtually no context melted my brain

    • @LeptoManiac
      @LeptoManiac ปีที่แล้ว

      This comment MELTED MY FACE 🤘

  • @amisfitpuivk
    @amisfitpuivk 5 ปีที่แล้ว +329

    I have a question.
    what?

    • @MannFace51
      @MannFace51 5 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      Yes

    • @jsmith2121
      @jsmith2121 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Lol!

    • @appleratpipe
      @appleratpipe 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Bullshit is hard to follow

    • @potatonugget5629
      @potatonugget5629 5 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Franz Joseph Did Nothing Wrong It’s not bullshit, you’re just dumb

    • @senond1
      @senond1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      THE BOUNDARY OF A CONFORMALLY-COMPACTIFIED ANTI-DE SITTER SPACE IS ITSELF A CONFORMALLY-COMPACTIFIED MINKOWSKI SPACE WITH ONE FEWER DIMENSION!

  • @dustofyth4433
    @dustofyth4433 5 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Him: (mentions names, whole new nouns, verbs and terms I haven't heard in my life)
    Me: exACTLY

  • @RWonline
    @RWonline 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I am sorry I ever asked "what is the universe expanding in-to." I'll never ask again...I promise.

  • @ianmoffet5080
    @ianmoffet5080 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    The titles always grab me and I always think I can grasp what he’s talking about. I never can.

  • @kevinmawlieh9526
    @kevinmawlieh9526 5 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    If a person could understand this, he should reward himself

    • @mikeconrad1183
      @mikeconrad1183 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ok

    • @ThomasJr
      @ThomasJr 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      this is extremely abstract math. I took a course in college called Topology and it's as abstract as it can get. I nearly failed.

  • @charlierashi100
    @charlierashi100 5 ปีที่แล้ว +380

    He's speaking in English and yet I still didn't understand a word that was being said.

    • @pranayp1950
      @pranayp1950 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yep

    • @aprilgaudette7327
      @aprilgaudette7327 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Deaf people lmao

    • @dermotmcdermott6890
      @dermotmcdermott6890 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Malcolm X claimed to have read the entirety of Webster's Dictionary. A sizeable vocabulary properly exercised in the mind of a loquacious individual tends to ostracize them from the masses.

    • @DrWhom
      @DrWhom 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      don't worry, there are mistakes.

    • @charlierashi100
      @charlierashi100 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Deipatrous, good to know.

  • @Harry351ify
    @Harry351ify 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    *nodding understandingly* hmmm Yes, yes. I have heard some of these words before.

  • @abhishekshah11
    @abhishekshah11 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I love how he said "got it? cool" yeah I totally got that except the compactified minkowski part.

    • @alexandralenzinger8482
      @alexandralenzinger8482 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Abhishek shah it’s like when u ask someone directions then when they’re done u realize u didn’t hear any of it but to save face you just say thanks and walk away hoping you look like u heard them

  • @SunnyApples
    @SunnyApples 5 ปีที่แล้ว +241

    Is there anyone watching this without having any clue what he is talking about?
    I am here because of curiosity and pictures!

    • @sergioortiz8219
      @sergioortiz8219 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Matt may be great at teaching physics to graduate-level students, but he really is not a good science communicator. Every now and then I'll watch one of these videos to see if he's changed his style, but it seems he's stuck in his ways

    • @arthurmario5996
      @arthurmario5996 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      I don't have much trouble; it's very strange until I accept that my present view of the universe is very limited.
      Then I can begin to understand.

    • @mikemondano3624
      @mikemondano3624 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      It's like what John von Neumann said about mathematics. Nobody understands it; we just get used to it.

    • @alexanderokak5112
      @alexanderokak5112 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Sergio Ortiz I get where youre coming from, I am 3 years away from Uni too and do not understand many of the things he says, but I think that he is an excellent teacher and all I’m lacking is a bit more knowledge of physics to fully appreciate his videos. He does a good job at explaining it though, but remember that he cant spend all day trying to Kurzgesagt his videos because it would be too annoying for advanced viewers. Imagine if your maths teacher explained addition every time before teaching you maths? It would be a bit tedious.

    • @xxDPKINGxx
      @xxDPKINGxx 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      This one got too complex for me, usually I can understand after thinking for a while, but not with this one.

  • @ddmarsh21
    @ddmarsh21 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Every math major remembers the first time they learned about the Poincaré disk model for hyperbolic geometry-it’s just so beautiful.

  • @ForestWoodworks
    @ForestWoodworks ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I cannot believe Dr Matt convinced me to sit through this whole video. This isn't another, "I feel less smart after watching this," or a "I did my smart for the day" comment. I just happen to like his shirt. Is that merch I can buy?

  • @TheRealColt45
    @TheRealColt45 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    This is my new favorite channel. With every passing day and every episode, I realize more and more how puny my brain is.

  • @adantigus
    @adantigus 5 ปีที่แล้ว +559

    "This all got going in the early 60s when physicists discovered LSD."

    • @SpiritualFox
      @SpiritualFox 5 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      adantigus So he shrunk 3D space to 2D space using technobabble and optical illusions just so he could add time as the third dimension, bringing us right back to 3D space. Psilocybin trip confirmed.

    • @bassangler73
      @bassangler73 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Lol...true open thinking achieved with LSD, but I think THC has the same effect

    • @poshmark9807
      @poshmark9807 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      it's so great!

    • @etralin3dream983
      @etralin3dream983 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      1P LSD

    • @ErinRaciell
      @ErinRaciell 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      bassangler73 THC would NEVER have the same effect as LSD. It doesn’t even compare to the slightest. Let’s not confuse things

  • @JakeBiddlecome
    @JakeBiddlecome 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This is my favorite channel of which I understand absolutely nothing. It's like eavesdropping on people speaking Yiddish. You're intrigued for reasons passing understanding. I watch every upload.

  • @nahreallytho6583
    @nahreallytho6583 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Coming back to this after watching every episode in the series and i still feel like im kidding myself

  • @jogandsp
    @jogandsp 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    I love these videos so much. On the other hand, they give me crushing feelings of mortality and insignificance. The questions we dont know the answer to kill me.

    • @jf3130
      @jf3130 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Try learning commas

    • @jogandsp
      @jogandsp 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@jf3130 my punctuation was correct. It seems you're the one who needs to brush up on their grammar rules.

    • @kurage_medusa
      @kurage_medusa 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I'm amazed that we've learned enough to even be able to ask these questions

    • @RossShaw
      @RossShaw 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You sound like a true scientist. That's called the drive to discover!

  • @allstarlord9110
    @allstarlord9110 4 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    I'm awful at even basic math i don't know why I'm watching this

    • @mrfluffers5927
      @mrfluffers5927 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      We want answers. Can't understand the answers though but we want them

  • @marv5078
    @marv5078 5 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    Me: Okay, my mind will probably be blown half way through this video.
    Matt: the boundary of the universe may be more real then the universe it contains.
    Me: ...

    • @maarifawalcott5145
      @maarifawalcott5145 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Marvin Werner, exactly, what the hell does that mean?!

    • @jv-lk7bc
      @jv-lk7bc 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      partly it means English is a poor way to convey this kind of theory. I suspect "more real" is what we could call a gross approximation. ;)

    • @SaltandSnark
      @SaltandSnark 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Uh, Marv. Yo, sound cloud, move over.

  • @maryannryan9423
    @maryannryan9423 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I understand almost none of this but I love this channel and it is very helpful when I watch Jeopardy!.

  • @exoplanets
    @exoplanets 5 ปีที่แล้ว +109

    The concept of infinity blows my mind.

    • @ayylmaoh6280
      @ayylmaoh6280 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      The Exoplanets Channel
      You wanna know how long forever feels? Close your eyes and count to 1

    • @ikennamadueke9131
      @ikennamadueke9131 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The Exoplanets Channel cuz its bullocks

    • @rumfordc
      @rumfordc 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@ikennamadueke9131 lol what?? calculus is bullocks?!

    • @michaelbuckers
      @michaelbuckers 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Very large numbers are more mindblowing than infinity. Try imagining Graham's number.

    • @rumfordc
      @rumfordc 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ikennamadueke9131 i think i get what you mean to say: there are lots of models and theories that will both be bullocks and mention/use infinity, but that doesn't mean "infinity is bullocks", the number zero is infinitely lacking, to say infinity is bullocks is to say zero is bullocks

  • @jpmendozajp
    @jpmendozajp 4 ปีที่แล้ว +81

    I’ll play this video to my date, and pretend to understand.

  • @PatricioHondagneuRoig
    @PatricioHondagneuRoig 5 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    Maldacena is such an underrated person in his own country.

    • @dahemper
      @dahemper 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Cmon man, everybody knows macarena! Aight!

    • @Abyss-Will
      @Abyss-Will 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      as an Argentinian Ive never heard of him

    • @Bronze_Age_Sea_Person
      @Bronze_Age_Sea_Person 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It's kinda like César Lattes in Brazil,the discoverer of pi meson.I mean,there's a "curriculum" where we can access all scientific papers published by brazilians which has his name,but outside the scientific community,no one knows him.
      Although people know our most famous astronaut,Marcos Pontes,he's now the minister of science and technology.

    • @travispepe553
      @travispepe553 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Playlost and drinking mate

    • @iamcedricpowell8051
      @iamcedricpowell8051 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh he's just reading off a prompter . lolll

  • @sharplessguy
    @sharplessguy 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Usually this type of science documentary/show leaves a lot to be desired. This particular one is pretty good. I've been studying quantum physics for a while now and I was surprised at the host/narrator's ability to simplify/teach complex concepts

    • @YogiMcCaw
      @YogiMcCaw 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I can't do the math, but i watch a lot of this stuff on TH-cam, and you are right, Matt here is killin' it compared to the others. I have even watched a number of Leonard Susskind's lectures, and while they are the real thing, they are much harder to follow if you don't have the scientific background. I have watched vids of Juan Maldecena too, and it really brings home the point that being a science communicator is a different skillset than just being able to do the science. People like Matt here have a very special talent..

  • @annakeye
    @annakeye 5 ปีที่แล้ว +160

    *_Conformal compactification of hyperbolic space_* is not a phrase one often hears in polite society. Now that I can apply it to something, i.e. *Circle Limit IV* , I will drop it into the conversation at the next dinner party I get invited too. Not that I get a lot of invitations to such events. That may (or may not) have something to do with my chosen topics of conversation, but I can't be certain.

    • @jovetj
      @jovetj 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I think suddenly just blurting out, *_“Wow. That really brings a whole new meaning to the term 'animal lover.'”_* when someone new walks into the room you're talking to others in is much more fun.

    • @j.ianlindsay9322
      @j.ianlindsay9322 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I think you and I would be our own subunit at that dinner party.

    • @mjburger7881
      @mjburger7881 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I would rather hear people talk about physics than celebrities.

    • @ArturitoBurrito
      @ArturitoBurrito 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You should host your own dinner party :)

    • @meredithspear1559
      @meredithspear1559 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ann
      akeye

  • @cloudviews
    @cloudviews 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I listened to this before bed time. I’m back this morning to really listen... I’ll be back I’m sure of it 🤣

  • @Bipolarvideos
    @Bipolarvideos 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    My brain just melted

  • @wildbob8650
    @wildbob8650 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    THIS RIGHT HERE is what I've been waiting for. It puts it all together beautifully!

  • @richarddaigle8777
    @richarddaigle8777 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    This is,......a surprisingly good explanation. I mean, its something so complexe even the smartest people havent figured it out. Im impressed PBS, whoever is behind this is doing excellent work.

  • @shairozsohail1059
    @shairozsohail1059 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    "Start with a graph of space and time - a spacetime diagram" ... Ok I'm following

    • @SaltandSnark
      @SaltandSnark 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @ 16:57 So, we need 5+1(*but it's a convenient break of one supposition FROM another FOR basic geometry. To say "quantum-fluctuation"?) -edit- All THIS math from the 90's though. Sushi-hysteria-derangement-neurosis'-syndrome. ^_^

  • @Skippy0330
    @Skippy0330 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    It's great to see something intelligent and education on trending.

  • @CosmicBarrilet
    @CosmicBarrilet 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    As Argentinian, I've seen dozens of videos of Juan Maldacena, even L. Susskind or Joe Polchinsky without catching it, I`m only accountant with poor background in Mathematics and Geometry. This video, helps me a lot for example with the explanations of Mikonski, De Sitter and Anti-De Sitter spaces and so on....gonna watch it a couple of times more. Thank you.!

  • @Mize
    @Mize 5 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    Before this I felt smart but now I feel dunb he is so smart

    • @chickenfriedbobcat6090
      @chickenfriedbobcat6090 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He is reading from a script and repeating other people's thoughts. I should introduce you to my parrot, you'd think he was brilliant.

    • @aryankaushik9346
      @aryankaushik9346 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@chickenfriedbobcat6090 Yes I'm sure a respected astrophysicist with a phd who literally wrote the script for this video is not smart and is just repeating words. I love how you're spouting out sarcatic nonsense when you have no idea what you're talking about. I'd love to hear the jealous remarks your parrot has learned :)

    • @Mize
      @Mize 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Well he least needed some knowledge to even read from a script like that he should be some what smart in a way.

    • @chickenfriedbobcat6090
      @chickenfriedbobcat6090 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@aryankaushik9346
      Have you ever heard of a paradigm shift? More than likely in the near or distant future scientists will laugh at his explanation of the universe. We can't even make our theoretical models work. Yet here is someone who parrots thoughts someone else created and you think he's brilliant. It's like saying my phone is smart because it can repeat verbatim what someone else says.
      Do you think ANYONE comprehends our reality? Why don't many quantum effects manifest in our macro reality?
      Explain the double slit experiment.
      Explain the random number generator.
      Explain why our universe is expanding faster then it should according to our models.
      Until someone comes up with a GUT that works I will hesitate to call anyone "brilliant".
      If you want to worship at the alter of a personality cult then be my guest.

    • @TheOneWhoMightBe
      @TheOneWhoMightBe 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      The more of these I watch, the dumber I feel.

  • @kobiromano6115
    @kobiromano6115 5 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    18:02 "There will be some minutes to hours of bad times, as our molecules start to betray us... To make MATTERS worse, the Earth will be falling apart"
    Such a splendid opportunity missed. You could have said "To make MATTER worse".

    • @QixTheDS
      @QixTheDS 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Left on third base holding a catcher's mitt you must be fun at parties

  • @ASLUHLUHC3
    @ASLUHLUHC3 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    After spending a week watching other relevant videos on your channel, I finally think I understand this!

    • @zacharyryan484
      @zacharyryan484 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Really???? How???😅😅😅

    • @videoqualia
      @videoqualia 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      a playlist please.

    • @kosatochca
      @kosatochca 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@videoqualia It's too hard because many videos promise to delve deep into one topic but then actually you need to know some background and later an unexpected math comes out. These videos are the definition of anti-clickbait. Clicking on one of them you'd never know what to expect.
      Maybe look for Penrose diagram, Matt loves them to illustrate almost any infinite math. This diagram is a recurrent character

  • @Empinada
    @Empinada 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I've never considered myself stupid before, but I keep having to pause to think things over to understand them, and the second I hit play again and he moves on to something new I lose every bit of understanding I had before. I feel like a dog with my head tilted to the side in confusion.

  • @PierreH1968
    @PierreH1968 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    I popped more neurons in 20 minutes than while I was writing my master's thesis.... I will watch it over again for sanity....or giggles

  • @SmukKully
    @SmukKully 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Hurt my brain and didn’t get 99% of it but still kept me watchin to the end! 👍

  • @lucasberard
    @lucasberard 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Sweet Christmas. I can't even. Like being continuously hit in the face with 20 pool noodles of science. Love the show (piff)!

  • @simeonparvanov6852
    @simeonparvanov6852 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why no ads for such a good production? You should apply them , dude, we respect you, so respect yourself!

  • @carstenbohme8813
    @carstenbohme8813 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    I litteraly just listened to Mindscape Episode 28 where Roger Penrose talkes about this topic and thought "Ok, we need a Space Time Episode about this as well". Back on the TH-cam starting page: "PBS Space Time uploaded a new video 58 minutes ago". This is just spooky (action at a distance).

  • @megumin6456
    @megumin6456 5 ปีที่แล้ว +112

    12:19
    Got it? Yes.
    Cool, we're done here.
    Umm, I'll just wait.

    • @Bobby-fj8mk
      @Bobby-fj8mk 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I don't understand it.
      I am not alone.

    • @my3dviews
      @my3dviews 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Bobby-fj8mk In China, they learn this in kindergarten. 😁

    • @Bobby-fj8mk
      @Bobby-fj8mk 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@my3dviews Yeah right.

    • @jackyli7910
      @jackyli7910 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      My3dviews what how do you know?

    • @Bobby-fj8mk
      @Bobby-fj8mk 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jackyli7910 anyone who says they understand this is
      talking through a hole in their arse.

  • @CrispierJmoney1
    @CrispierJmoney1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    And somewhere in that ADS universe Goku is training to fight the ginyu force in planet namek

  • @RockMonkeyLV
    @RockMonkeyLV 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I don't know why I subscribe to this channel. I can only watch the first 2 mins of every video before my brain takes a crap.