How can understanding our spectral and spatial biases in measuring the Sun’s diameter enhance the accuracy of spectroscopy for determining the sizes of exoplanets and other stars? 🌟
I think it would be important to understand other stars output and "gravity well" in order to determine if the rock orbiting an interesting star could be gravitationally relevant to our current human physical needs. Or you could have Ronke Olabisi engineer "some of us" to not give a damn and live on the rock and for reasons I don't understand yet...report back on their findings. [I'd just send a robot probe; but what's the fun in that?] I elect trump to be Ronke Olabisi's first victim ha ha. The truth is all reports wouldn't be science but "look where I am!" - End of report
If we don't have an agreed upon objective or subjective definiton, then it's a pointless question. I doubt people would agree to include the range of the sun's gravitational pull in the measurement of it's diameter
Hey a random human here, earth 2024.. I appreciate you both and whoever else might read this comment. Great conversation and I'm glad i could experience it.
I will be passing away in the next few days. I just wanted to say thank you for all the laughs and incredible education about the stars and all that surround them. Thank you so very much.
I have a brother-in-law in the same situation. I can't think of anything comforting to say, except, if N.D.T. and others are correct about mater, specifically atoms, which we are all made of, then what an actor once said when asked what he thought happens to us when we pass away, his answer was ' we go home ' and that makes perfect sense to me. Fare travels.
@@DreadfulDrummer: Yep, he's a professional comedian! Imagine if Carl Sagan had one... Robin Williams or George Carlin perhaps? Not that his series wasn't fun for me as a kid!
The Sun’s immense size is already mind-blowing, but when you think about the countless other stars out there that dwarf it, it’s absolutely insane. It’s no wonder that trying to comprehend objects of this scale feels almost beyond human capacity.
I heard someone say if you scaled the Earth down to the size of a tennis ball. The largest known star (KNOWN star) would be the size of Philidelphia. 😮.
Me too . I’m happy it’s science though . With one sentence Neil became my science teacher for life . He said you don’t have to be an astrophysicist to learn about the universe or a scientist to learn about science. I had a science teacher tell me in 5th grade that my math skills were not good enough to consider perusing a career in science . I’ve always loved it though. I’m a lot more like Chuck . I’m continually amazed and mind blown by the mass amounts of science we do not learn in school. They are a fantastic team and I always feel great after spending an hour watching Star Talk !
I've been watching you 2 for a couple years now & I just wanted to put it out there that I believe your dynamic is exceptional. I love the dichotomy of your views on science, yet the agreed subsistence of it all :) . Thank you both for making science, in general, more approachable for all!
I wouldn't even know what to talk about if I had a chance to meet up with you guys. I love this channel beucause you explain a lot of different topics in an easy and relaxed way
❤ from Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 Being the fans enthused by 'Cosmos' tv series, respect to this wonderful type of explanation with the great sense of humour ! A big thumb up to chuck's amazing support too ! 😄🤙
I love Chuck, he's so clever and witty while remaining humble. I want to see a movie where Chuck is teleported to another timeline and he has to explain Einsteins theories and all of advanced physics to a new civilization. The ultimate test of what he's learned. A better version of idiotocracy
@@northerncricket5199 ur a real joker! Explain advanced physics to new civilization? U really thick very ² highly of humans! IMHO such civilization are light years ahead of us already..
I tried to anticipate what this video was going to be about and got excited about the prospect of the value of Pi being different due to gravitational warping of space and time at the "surface" of the sun. I have no idea if this would even be measurable for the sun but it would have been a cool thing to talk about 🙂
i hope chuck read this , bro you make this show hands down. Dont get me wrong we love neil, but you couldnt have this show be as successful as it is with out chuck!!! KEEP SLAYING DRAGONS !!!!
100x100x100 is indeed 1M but that would be filling a cube not a sphere, since the 100 is "only" at the central axes. and would decrease as one goes to the edges. *pushesnerdglasses*
Yes @@loccc88, the volume of a sphere is 4/3πr^3 or πd^3/6, which is roughly speaking d^3/2. But again he was just talking wrt to powers for understanding
This is what I thought at first, too. However, the Earth is also a sphere (roughly) and if all those Earths were stuck next to each other they would collapse under their gravity into a a sphere and there would be no spaces between them. So to form a sphere the same volume of the Sun would require many more than a million Earths. (The actual volume ratio between the Earth and the Sun is about 1.3 million)
You are absolutely right. I was reading the comments and no one seemed to understand the problem. Chuck made it clear when saying 100 ³ (the word CUBE!) made the wrong assumption to stand up. Too bad NDT didn't see what we did.
@@diegofernandez4789 The only thing wrong with the calculation is not accounting for packing density of spheres, and at best I think that gets you somewhere around 70+% of the filled out volume. This means over 70% of 1.3 million, which is close to 1 million, so the numbers sort of work out anyway. And as others here have pointed out, if you ignore the space between the spheres (squish them together) then it would be 1.3 million.
If you really think about it, the volume of the sun ends where nothing would be impacted anymore by it's gravitational field or it's infrared (heat) rays. So weeelllll behind our solar system. So in a way, we all live in our sun.
This video is another pure gold....in 10 minutes not only did we know about the sun & the earth we also learned far more deeper stuff...the stuff that Neil mentioned about the many faces of truth is actually really really deep although they made light of it in the episode..nature has knack of 'hiding' (as a figure of speech) deep & profound truths in plain sight in seemingly unrelated and/or trivial matters...i think it has something to do with patterns manifesting repeatedly in ever so different ways (many times subtly) in many (completely different) things...one just needs to be curious and attentive to nature & it will teach...if we listen..this is often told like a cliche...but all serious thinker often vouch for it...quite simply because its true.
Ive said it all along, the sheer scale of everything in the universe as compared to us, is mind blowing. We are literal specks in this enormous universe. What we hold dear means absolutely nothing in the grand scheme of things.
I love how mathematicians use the maximum distance possible between two points of a given set as the definition of the *diameter*. Be it a square, a triangle, a random group of disjoint points, you can easily give its (finite) diameter this way! Thus, even is radius is smaller towards the pole, we use the bigger one for diameter 🙂
Isn't the sun considered a sphere and not a cube? 100^3 isn't the right calculation. If that radius is 50 earths, then wouldn't the volume be 524,000 earths?
No the, diameter of the sun is 100x the diameter of the earth, then the radius of the sun is also 100x the radius of the earth. Since both are spheres, the volume of the sun is 100^3 times the volume of the earth. If you can pack 100^3 earths into one sun is another question, since spheres don't pack the entire space it is less than that.
I love how you make something as apparently simple as the size of the Sun an interesting topic of discussion. It was very informative. I'm not sure where to submit a question so I'll put it here in the hope you'll see it. I've seen a lot of articles about the Alcubierre warp drive, how they would work, and etc... what I'd like to know is what would happen if someone accidently came in contact with the warp bubble? Since the warp bubble is distorting space and time, and the individual is in that particular space and time, would nothing occur or would they be spaghettified by the distortion?
This strategy has been a game-changer for me. I followed your advice and got 8 out of 9 - the best result I've had in ages. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience with me
The Indian astronomer and mathematician Aryabhata I (476-500 CE) estimated the Earth's circumference to be 24,835 miles (39,968.058 km) in his book Aryabhatiya. He arrived at this estimate by studying the positions of the sun and moon at different times in the same latitude. Aryabhata's calculation was used for many years without change.
Yes you're right, the sun is white. White light is made up of roygbiv (red orange yellow green blue indigo and violet light). All those light colors combine to make the visible light spectrum, white. What NDT says there is, not only are our eyes biased to just the visible light spectrum and not other spectrums like X-rays or gamma rays or something like the Magentosphere, it's also specifically biased to the just the yellow light part of the visible white light coming from the sun. He says this to remind us of how narrow and limiting our vision is and we should not be using that to determine the edge of the sun as it actually spans welllll beyond what the eye sees!
The sun is white till it reaches earths atmosphere, the gases, carbon dioxide and oxygen make the light to humans on earth appear yellow. If you were in space, above earths atmosphere you would see white. Our atmosphere filters out all the other colors. This is why cars use yellow lights for fog lights, yellow light can "punch" through the fog. Also the same reason the sky is blue and not black.
Your point is because you see the sun thats why its real? Poor quote and poorer logic 🤣 God is everywhere, same are particles, we don’t see but they do exist
You think you're something, standing there with your worries and woes? The sun, that cosmic furnace, has been burning for billions of years, dwarfing our petty concerns. ❤
This entire theory also applies to other aspects of the Universe. "Don't declare this to be the diameter of the sun if it's only based on what your eyes see". We shouldn't declare something to be fact until all other aspects have been exhausted to determine the limits of whatever we're talking about. I'm speaking of closing the door on elements of a spiritual life (not religious life) if we haven't experienced all facets of what is!
Hey,You are the only astrophysicist i can reach out to.i found you on youtube and really like your videos.so i have a theory which i hope interests you.(dont mind the spelling or vocabulary mistakes,english is my second language) Introduction:we know general relativity is a theory explained by the great scientist Einstein. in it, Gravity isn't a force but the curvature of an invisible fabric named space-time. my theory shares the basic concepts of general relativity and also extension of a small part of general relativity. The theory & The connection between general relativity & my theory: so, my theory says that Time is a fabric that moves through another dimension and is another layer that is on top of space-time. when there is a other layer with a lot of mass like a Blackhole (or) neutron star the spacetime gets curved and is also pulling the time fabric causing it to stretch. The time fabric is like a fabric in real life at small masses it doesn't stretch as much & only curves, but when there is a big mass it stretches. The fabric closer to the mass will be more stretched.The fabric directly under a blackhole is so streached that it breaks. you might be thinking why is the part under the blackhole the only part that breaks & the part under a giant star doesn't, blackholes are just mass stuffed into single small part. you might be thinking, what does that have to do with this, we learned that Preassure = force -------- Area Smaller the area more the area more the preassure.So while inside a blackhole timestops. Conclusion:my theory is just a theoretical continuation of einstiens theory. In his theory he says Gravity disturbas time, but in my theory is an explaination of time dialation & what happens to time that causes time dialation. Bonus facts:Gravity & time are connected in another dimension. (Gravity means curvature of spacetime), when there is a small dip in spacetime there is only a slight strech of fabric of time,when there is a big dip there is a big streach in fabric of time. I am a 14 year old kid and dont have enough knowledge to prove my theory is real.i hope this intrested you.😅
How can understanding our spectral and spatial biases in measuring the Sun’s diameter enhance the accuracy of spectroscopy for determining the sizes of exoplanets and other stars? 🌟
I think it would be important to understand other stars output and "gravity well" in order to determine if the rock orbiting an interesting star could be gravitationally relevant to our current human physical needs. Or you could have Ronke Olabisi engineer "some of us" to not give a damn and live on the rock and for reasons I don't understand yet...report back on their findings. [I'd just send a robot probe; but what's the fun in that?] I elect trump to be Ronke Olabisi's first victim ha ha. The truth is all reports wouldn't be science but "look where I am!" - End of report
©️🛜Another fun fact….”[SUN] is an acronym for SATURN 🪐 URANUS & NEPTUNE. In that order! The word NEWS is an acronym for NORTH EAST WEST SOUTH 10:26 ©️
If we don't have an agreed upon objective or subjective definiton, then it's a pointless question. I doubt people would agree to include the range of the sun's gravitational pull in the measurement of it's diameter
Hey a random human here, earth 2024..
I appreciate you both and whoever else might read this comment. Great conversation and I'm glad i could experience it.
I was thinking the same thing@@TheKos2Kos
Why is DeGrasse's reflex so fast? He is the only one who has stepped into a Black hole and quickly stepped out!
You ever see him in his prime? Dude was jacked
Yep
Real athlete
He was a rower and wrestler in college. He was also a Latin ballroom dancer (seriously). Man was athletic.
Yep. A quick mind and athletic training. His fake outs help his follow through.
Sorry to be pedantic, but it is not a reflex. It is a conscious, deliberate action.
I will be passing away in the next few days. I just wanted to say thank you for all the laughs and incredible education about the stars and all that surround them. Thank you so very much.
I have a brother-in-law in the same situation. I can't think of anything comforting to say, except, if N.D.T. and others are correct about mater, specifically atoms, which we are all made of, then what an actor once said when asked what he thought happens to us when we pass away, his answer was ' we go home ' and that makes perfect sense to me. Fare travels.
Sorry to hear about that. I only have some months ahead for myself.
You have been heard. May you have peace of mind.
We hear you and I know we’ll see each other someday in the future. Remember the face on the right and sleep well, my friend.
I'm about 18 months away. See you on the other side my friend
“That’d be my uncle Darryl” 😂
Neil was not expecting an actual answer
So quick too 😁 Chuck's just _on it_
@@DreadfulDrummer Still not as quick as Neil's reflexes though!
I just has surgery and and laughing hurts. Dang uncle Darryl😂😂😂
@@DreadfulDrummer: Yep, he's a professional comedian! Imagine if Carl Sagan had one... Robin Williams or George Carlin perhaps? Not that his series wasn't fun for me as a kid!
@@leonmarkrodziewicz279 Rumor is Chuck never not play one single sport his entire life even as a kid
The Sun’s immense size is already mind-blowing, but when you think about the countless other stars out there that dwarf it, it’s absolutely insane. It’s no wonder that trying to comprehend objects of this scale feels almost beyond human capacity.
Yep lol that’s how felt trying to fathom the scale of the other stars
I heard someone say if you scaled the Earth down to the size of a tennis ball. The largest known star (KNOWN star) would be the size of Philidelphia. 😮.
I thought this was going to turn into a yo mama joke hahaha
🤯🤯
@@hlonisoulo3033 mind blowing too that we still haven't found another planet exactly like the earth.
7:45 Slight of hand is what Niel used. He moves his right hand right before reaching with his left
What do you mean? I don't understand
I could listen to these two gentlemen talk about anything. The chemistry is amazing.
Me too . I’m happy it’s science though . With one sentence Neil became my science teacher for life . He said you don’t have to be an astrophysicist to learn about the universe or a scientist to learn about science. I had a science teacher tell me in 5th grade that my math skills were not good enough to consider perusing a career in science . I’ve always loved it though. I’m a lot more like Chuck . I’m continually amazed and mind blown by the mass amounts of science we do not learn in school. They are a fantastic team and I always feel great after spending an hour watching Star Talk !
I hope this partnership lasts for a very long time. They make educational topics so entertaining.
Naturally
Huh? One is about as dumb as a box of rocks, and the other is a political activist masquerading under the guise of an astrophysicist.
"This sounds boring." was a great line.
Chuck n Neil interaction is why I watch this lol.
I hit the thumbs up right then and there.
Under promise, over deliver!
I couldn't think of a better layman co-host than Chuck.
Literally nothing sounds boring when Neil is talking
It was hilarious when Neal snatched the ball out of Chuck's hand. 😂
With his left hand too.
The Master’s advantage was that his student had recently blazed like the Sun. 😉 ☀️
It was a pebble
@@NaineshGamingGGit was a silly putty container. (I think)
He used the distraction technique, smart guy 😮
I've been watching you 2 for a couple years now & I just wanted to put it out there that I believe your dynamic is exceptional. I love the dichotomy of your views on science, yet the agreed subsistence of it all :) . Thank you both for making science, in general, more approachable for all!
Listening to these 2 is absolute entertainment. Perfect amount of education and comedy 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
We need an explainer of Neil's reflexes
Hack tua!
No wonder he was a champion wrestler.
he has very long arms and large hands too which hinders speed
Martial Arts.
He made chuck watch his right hand when he snatched it with his left hand … simple mis direction
Chuck's getting smarter & smarter!! He could easily teach a science class!!
Most comedians are highly intelligent. I believe he's a lot smarter than he leads on.
@@CMeri-sl6bt wouldn't doubt that a bit.. wish i rephrased the remark.. felt off thinking of it doing an errand
@touncy1533 there's always a margin to learn more. You were spot on, actually!
I can remember the days when he was trying to pass himself off as "uneducated," but that doesn't last long when you hang out with someone like Neil!
Hmmm... yeah, well... a kids class. But a science class nonetheless !
Well, the top of the corona is where the lime is presented before you push it into the bottle.
Nice one😂
🍺
You're supposed to leave it on the top, it's for keeping flies away... but I usually push it in too
@@DreadfulDrummer The lime makes the beer sweeter (oh what a tangent)🤣
@@Tree-thingz 😄 I gots a craving now 🍋🟩🍻
Just the fact that the sun is so far away but easilyvisible says alot 😮
Not really cause its big
The heat is intense
@@PR-WAY Well yes it says a lot about how big it is..
@@TheDarkBlob not really everything is small an everything is big if you ask me
I wouldn't even know what to talk about if I had a chance to meet up with you guys. I love this channel beucause you explain a lot of different topics in an easy and relaxed way
6:28 The Last Black Samurai
Neil for Assassins Creed Shadows 🤣 Not even the Japanese would be offended by that
"Afro-Samurai" ...awesome character. (Manga, anime, video games)
Everything we do will always be qualified by the word black.
@@rickbrees3297 Honestly it's a cool thing to add to anything.
Credit to the editor who put that Japanese sound track. This is the first time I've seen them do anything like that.
Great to see Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson going philosophical in a scientific kind of way
❤ from Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 Being the fans enthused by 'Cosmos' tv series, respect to this wonderful type of explanation with the great sense of humour ! A big thumb up to chuck's amazing support too ! 😄🤙
One of the smartest people alive, but still laughing at a fart joke😂
1:11 “the Earth is slightly FLATTER” NDG just gave Flat Earthers a lot of ammo now 🤦🏻♂️
I love Chuck, he's so clever and witty while remaining humble. I want to see a movie where Chuck is teleported to another timeline and he has to explain Einsteins theories and all of advanced physics to a new civilization. The ultimate test of what he's learned. A better version of idiotocracy
I would watch that movie.
The word new is very interesting!
Excellent idea but not better just different than Idiocracy.
@@northerncricket5199 ur a real joker! Explain advanced physics to new civilization? U really thick very ² highly of humans! IMHO such civilization are light years ahead of us already..
I tried to anticipate what this video was going to be about and got excited about the prospect of the value of Pi being different due to gravitational warping of space and time at the "surface" of the sun. I have no idea if this would even be measurable for the sun but it would have been a cool thing to talk about 🙂
Cracking up at Neil continuously snatching the ball out of Chuck’s hand😂😂
lol the vibe at the opening. the best science education duo
i hope chuck read this , bro you make this show hands down. Dont get me wrong we love neil, but you couldnt have this show be as successful as it is with out chuck!!! KEEP SLAYING DRAGONS !!!!
"Okay... this sounds boring " 😂
What a great line 😂
All those years of wrestling made Dr. Tyson quick!😅
"wrestling concepts..." 👍🏼👍🏼
And rowing
Huge hands.
quick and smart. mis-directed with the right hand, then he pounced!
Can we get behind the scenes like bloopers or something like that
Thankyou
You all are awesome.
6:56 Neil just hit the blunt with me. 🌲🍁🔥
😂
The NGT Confucius was brilliant!
NDT Confucius for the win
100x100x100 is indeed 1M but that would be filling a cube not a sphere, since the 100 is "only" at the central axes. and would decrease as one goes to the edges. *pushesnerdglasses*
Thank you, glad I wasn't the only one
That's what I thought. But I think he simplified it for our understanding.
Yes @@loccc88, the volume of a sphere is 4/3πr^3 or πd^3/6, which is roughly speaking d^3/2. But again he was just talking wrt to powers for understanding
Number of Earths in one Sun:
V_sun/V_earth=((4pi/3)*R_sun^3/(4pi/3)*R_earth^3)=(R_sun/R_earth)^3=~100^3
All is good...
@@loccc88that's taking simplification too far.....he could have easily explained how to calculate the volume of a sphere
2:03
The perfect close up shot...
Good one...
First time coming across this channel and you really blew my mind away 😮
7:25 i love this channel 😂
The 100x100x100 is a cube and the Sun is not a cube but was interesting to hear. I'd assume you didn't want to do sphere in a sphere calculation
Imagine the earth-size spheres are semisolid/squishy as you pour them into a sun-sized spherical container. You'll find the 100^3 ratio still stands.
You don't need to. The proportion of void/sphere in each little cube is the same as in a cube 100 time larger.
This is what I thought at first, too. However, the Earth is also a sphere (roughly) and if all those Earths were stuck next to each other they would collapse under their gravity into a a sphere and there would be no spaces between them. So to form a sphere the same volume of the Sun would require many more than a million Earths. (The actual volume ratio between the Earth and the Sun is about 1.3 million)
You are absolutely right. I was reading the comments and no one seemed to understand the problem. Chuck made it clear when saying 100 ³ (the word CUBE!) made the wrong assumption to stand up. Too bad NDT didn't see what we did.
@@diegofernandez4789 The only thing wrong with the calculation is not accounting for packing density of spheres, and at best I think that gets you somewhere around 70+% of the filled out volume. This means over 70% of 1.3 million, which is close to 1 million, so the numbers sort of work out anyway. And as others here have pointed out, if you ignore the space between the spheres (squish them together) then it would be 1.3 million.
"The Photosphere is what you can call the Visible Edge of the Sun!" I understand that perfectly! Thank you, Neil!
If you really think about it, the volume of the sun ends where nothing would be impacted anymore by it's gravitational field or it's infrared (heat) rays.
So weeelllll behind our solar system. So in a way, we all live in our sun.
Now I want Neil to do a reaction time test on humanbenchmark
Neal speaks … I learn. Love the energy and humor of both these guys.
This video is another pure gold....in 10 minutes not only did we know about the sun & the earth we also learned far more deeper stuff...the stuff that Neil mentioned about the many faces of truth is actually really really deep although they made light of it in the episode..nature has knack of 'hiding' (as a figure of speech) deep & profound truths in plain sight in seemingly unrelated and/or trivial matters...i think it has something to do with patterns manifesting repeatedly in ever so different ways (many times subtly) in many (completely different) things...one just needs to be curious and attentive to nature & it will teach...if we listen..this is often told like a cliche...but all serious thinker often vouch for it...quite simply because its true.
"That's a 100 times 100 times 100." "Give me what that number is." "A hundred cubed." 🤣
buts that's the volume of a cube with a side of 100xEarth's, not a sphere, right?? They answered the wrong question, no?
There are 1000000 EarthCubes in a SunCube so there are 1000000 EarthSpheres in a SunSphere.
I came back here looking for this comment. The volume of a sphere is 4/3 pi R squared.
Dr. Tyson has so much knowledge that its sheer mass bends space time around him thereby giving him uncannily fast reflexes
he was below average high level scientists/academic/physicist so he went into fun facts for public consumption.
@@u235u235u235 and you are?
Thoughtful, thank you.
Good catch! To be fair though, Neil acknowledged that he was doing some rounding earlier on to make the numbers "come out fun".
just finished watching this one. one of the most profound episodes to me.
My favourite Sun fact: The Sun is 99.86% of everything in the solar system.
My favorite videos are just the two of them. I love Chuck. Lol
That will be my uncle Jimmy 2:51 🚀
Jimmy? You sure about that?
Ive said it all along, the sheer scale of everything in the universe as compared to us, is mind blowing. We are literal specks in this enormous universe. What we hold dear means absolutely nothing in the grand scheme of things.
I love how mathematicians use the maximum distance possible between two points of a given set as the definition of the *diameter*. Be it a square, a triangle, a random group of disjoint points, you can easily give its (finite) diameter this way! Thus, even is radius is smaller towards the pole, we use the bigger one for diameter 🙂
This is insane 😮 it's like calculating the diameter of the earth with the atmosphere 🤷🏽 you can't
2:27 .. Man I was hoping so bad that Chuck said "fire🔥" ..... 😂😂🤦🏾♂️
Isn't the sun considered a sphere and not a cube? 100^3 isn't the right calculation. If that radius is 50 earths, then wouldn't the volume be 524,000 earths?
No the, diameter of the sun is 100x the diameter of the earth, then the radius of the sun is also 100x the radius of the earth. Since both are spheres, the volume of the sun is 100^3 times the volume of the earth. If you can pack 100^3 earths into one sun is another question, since spheres don't pack the entire space it is less than that.
I love how you make something as apparently simple as the size of the Sun an interesting topic of discussion. It was very informative.
I'm not sure where to submit a question so I'll put it here in the hope you'll see it.
I've seen a lot of articles about the Alcubierre warp drive, how they would work, and etc... what I'd like to know is what would happen if someone accidently came in contact with the warp bubble? Since the warp bubble is distorting space and time, and the individual is in that particular space and time, would nothing occur or would they be spaghettified by the distortion?
This is gold: the info on the sun, Uncle Daryl, NDT’s super fast reflexes.
10/10.
10:04 i love when he makes that face lol
6:55 - We get to watch NDT audition for the role of The Wako Kid. Only thing missing is the "...but I shoot with this hand".
"I always love to keep my audience riveted!" 😆🤣😆🤣
Gotta love how even an astrophysicist can still appreciate a good fart joke
0:52 the audio is correct, but the animation is misleading: it’s not the diameter of the earth that’s ~40,000km, it’s the circumference.
It's always a treat to sit and listen to you two!
Similar to looking through a screen in a window, if you move left to right, up and down, you can see better than just trying to look out.
Love Neil’s splainers
🤣🤣 THIS AINT BORING CHUCK 🤣🤣🤣
This new editing style is awesome!
This strategy has been a game-changer for me. I followed your advice and got 8 out of 9 - the best result I've had in ages. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience with me
Gotta agree with Chuck there, the speed of Neil's reflexes, is absolutely the big take-away from this episode
Hello there.
what about the heliosphere?
I clicked on this video, then open another window to start my work while I listened to this one, but that Dr. Evil laugh brought me back.
You two are amazing together. Funny and Informative... Thank you
The Indian astronomer and mathematician Aryabhata I (476-500 CE) estimated the Earth's circumference to be 24,835 miles (39,968.058 km) in his book Aryabhatiya. He arrived at this estimate by studying the positions of the sun and moon at different times in the same latitude. Aryabhata's calculation was used for many years without change.
5:35 Neil says ‘specifically yellow light’, but I thought he always argued the sun is white?? Can someone explain
I think he's saying our bias for its diameter is 'visible light specifically yellow light'
Yes you're right, the sun is white. White light is made up of roygbiv (red orange yellow green blue indigo and violet light). All those light colors combine to make the visible light spectrum, white.
What NDT says there is, not only are our eyes biased to just the visible light spectrum and not other spectrums like X-rays or gamma rays or something like the Magentosphere, it's also specifically biased to the just the yellow light part of the visible white light coming from the sun.
He says this to remind us of how narrow and limiting our vision is and we should not be using that to determine the edge of the sun as it actually spans welllll beyond what the eye sees!
He is talking about how we see it
The sun is white till it reaches earths atmosphere, the gases, carbon dioxide and oxygen make the light to humans on earth appear yellow. If you were in space, above earths atmosphere you would see white. Our atmosphere filters out all the other colors. This is why cars use yellow lights for fog lights, yellow light can "punch" through the fog. Also the same reason the sky is blue and not black.
7:39 That's a funny interaction.
Loved the Chinese master teaching is student portion of this video!!
A great team and an amazing teacher are laughing a lot while mastering the philosophy! I adore you both just too much.
Bishop to native….” If it wasn’t for me, you’d still be worshipping the sun “ Native to Bishop …”Dude…the Sun is real!”
Your point is because you see the sun thats why its real? Poor quote and poorer logic 🤣
God is everywhere, same are particles, we don’t see but they do exist
Oh no not you again!
Dr. Tyson's fast reflexes perhaps bear a testimony to his younger days as a wrestler.
Chuck Nice . . . Grasshopper🦗
Hm, he always struck me as a whiskey and soda drinker.
This was one of my favorite podcasts!
Neal's reflexes are superhuman. Holy cow. ..
You think you're something, standing there with your worries and woes? The sun, that cosmic furnace, has been burning for billions of years, dwarfing our petty concerns. ❤
"We're not that special" ~ Lord Nice, 2024, My friends and I
07:30 - You are not ready my son
*my sun
That was an amazing quote!! Loved it. Great explainer! Blows my mind thinking about our visible light bias in measurement.
fantastic episode! knowledge, wisdom, fun, entertainment... thank you! cheers from swizerland
This entire theory also applies to other aspects of the Universe. "Don't declare this to be the diameter of the sun if it's only based on what your eyes see". We shouldn't declare something to be fact until all other aspects have been exhausted to determine the limits of whatever we're talking about. I'm speaking of closing the door on elements of a spiritual life (not religious life) if we haven't experienced all facets of what is!
Deep...
Theories are backed up by empirical evidence that can be researched. There's no empirical evidence of a spiritual life.
Happy to see Chuck in all your videos!
7:18 Dr. Tyson's incred reflexes
Thank you! This was a fascinating talk, as usual. 🙂
Neil and Chuck are a great duo ❤️
You guys are amazing!
Thanks for what you are doing 🎉
Chuck cracks me up him talking with Neil is always entertaining
Chuck. Your "Uncle" comment should be awarded a price. Perfectly executed. Well done!
Hey,You are the only astrophysicist i can reach out to.i found you on youtube and really like your videos.so i have a theory which i hope interests you.(dont mind the spelling or vocabulary mistakes,english is my second language)
Introduction:we know general relativity is a theory explained by the great scientist Einstein. in it, Gravity isn't a force but the curvature of an invisible fabric named space-time. my theory shares the basic concepts of general relativity and also extension of a small part of general relativity.
The theory & The connection between general relativity & my theory: so, my theory says that Time is a fabric that moves through another dimension and is another layer that is on top of space-time. when there is a other layer with a lot of mass like a Blackhole (or) neutron star the spacetime gets curved and is also pulling the time fabric causing it to stretch. The time fabric is like a fabric in real life at small masses it doesn't stretch as much & only curves, but when there is a big mass it stretches. The fabric closer to the mass will be more stretched.The fabric directly under a blackhole is so streached that it breaks. you might be thinking why is the part under the blackhole the only part that breaks & the part under a giant star doesn't, blackholes are just mass stuffed into single small part. you might be thinking, what does that have to do with this, we learned that Preassure = force
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Area
Smaller the area more the area more the preassure.So while inside a blackhole timestops.
Conclusion:my theory is just a theoretical continuation of einstiens theory. In his theory he says Gravity disturbas time, but in my theory is an explaination of time dialation & what happens to time that causes time dialation.
Bonus facts:Gravity & time are connected in another dimension. (Gravity means curvature of spacetime), when there is a small dip in spacetime there is only a slight strech of fabric of time,when there is a big dip there is a big streach in fabric of time.
I am a 14 year old kid and dont have enough knowledge to prove my theory is real.i hope this intrested you.😅
Thanks guys. Learned alot🙏🏻
That was a super fun episode. Had me in awe and laughing all at the same time.
Love to watch the explainers love you guys both
I`ve been reading Neil`s books since I was a kid in the 1980`s.
These two are pure joy together 😂
Chuckie and Neil are the best!