Einstein's Biggest Blunder, Explained

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  • @nathanbanks2354
    @nathanbanks2354 5 років тому +5142

    "If you don't want to make silly math mistakes like Einstein" is the best segue ever.

    • @izaakthoms
      @izaakthoms 5 років тому +158

      THATS HOW ITS SPELLED????

    • @AnkitRathi7
      @AnkitRathi7 5 років тому +26

      I typed the same comment then saw this one 🤣🤣

    • @danimations1440
      @danimations1440 5 років тому +4

      rt tr no it’s right

    • @danimations1440
      @danimations1440 5 років тому +10

      Izaak h that’s how it’s spelled

    • @timezone5259
      @timezone5259 5 років тому +6

      @@AnkitRathi7 me too LOL

  • @J.P.Nery.N.
    @J.P.Nery.N. 5 років тому +5858

    Einstein. The man who is right even when he's wrong.

    • @chimponkoman
      @chimponkoman 5 років тому +190

      *when he thinks he's wrong ;)

    • @theaureliasys6362
      @theaureliasys6362 5 років тому +120

      And wrong when he's absolutely sure of being right.

    • @bishu6541
      @bishu6541 5 років тому +66

      Cause wrong and right are relative terms....something maybe wrong for one and it maybe the best thought ever for another.

    • @raymondhu7720
      @raymondhu7720 5 років тому +110

      @@bishu6541 Ha. "Relative terms"

    • @yourhighness7854
      @yourhighness7854 5 років тому +40

      Right and wrong are absolute terms regardless of what Humans think

  • @pepperjacks
    @pepperjacks 5 років тому +2635

    Einstein wrong?
    *Universe changes to match*

  • @ayushshukla1438
    @ayushshukla1438 5 років тому +298

    A bit more on it:
    The constant that Einstein added has had an effect on findings related to dark energy.
    I read it somewhere:
    Einstein's two biggest mistakes were:
    Adding that constant
    Removing that constant

    • @arnoldo8642
      @arnoldo8642 5 років тому +2

      well that wasnt all that helpful if u dont mention how it relates to the findings :p

    • @ayushshukla1438
      @ayushshukla1438 5 років тому

      @@arnoldo8642 Search the same question on quora you may find an answer related to that.

    • @RizkyMaulanaNugraha
      @RizkyMaulanaNugraha 5 років тому +7

      Not dark matter, they already know about dark matter. I think what you mean is dark energy (the factors that makes galaxies repulsive)

    • @danielgutfleisch2431
      @danielgutfleisch2431 5 років тому +1

      Yeah you either use the constant or you use dark energy.
      Fun Fact: since ρ of dark energy is constant and the universe is expanding we have more dark energy than when the universe was smaller.

    • @JasonKerlin
      @JasonKerlin 5 років тому

      @@danielgutfleisch2431 Wow observations only see real "not dark" energy. Of course if the Universe is expanding and becoming less dense there would have to be more dark energy. It is so simple....

  • @sam08g16
    @sam08g16 5 років тому +1326

    Schrodinger's Einstein is wrong and right at the same time

    • @ginnyjollykidd
      @ginnyjollykidd 5 років тому +19

      Schroedinger's cat is everywhere!

    • @pranjalkumar4708
      @pranjalkumar4708 5 років тому +5

      Thats a real good joke 👏👏

    • @ilke3192
      @ilke3192 5 років тому +15

      But we measured him, hence he turns out to be right. Unless...
      ...Unless he was actually wrong, but we changed the result by observing him O.o

    • @christianhoffmann8607
      @christianhoffmann8607 5 років тому

      hahahaha this is brilliant :D

    • @thanosattorneyatlaw4062
      @thanosattorneyatlaw4062 5 років тому +3

      @@ginnyjollykidd and not everywhere at the same time

  • @aryamanmishra154
    @aryamanmishra154 5 років тому +424

    When Universe respects you so much that it changes the whole game just to match your equation.

    • @GauravThakur-hg3ic
      @GauravThakur-hg3ic 3 роки тому +8

      DIRAC SIR!

    • @frankdimeglio8216
      @frankdimeglio8216 3 роки тому +2

      It is absolutely impossible to separate gravity AND ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy.
      By Frank DiMeglio

    • @shivammahajan303
      @shivammahajan303 Рік тому +1

      Damn Einstein pulled an Pandora on everybody (the character can manipulate reality on will).

  • @joshlake3169
    @joshlake3169 5 років тому +590

    Thank you, Henry, this is absolutely perfect for the capstone piece at the end of my cosmology class after students finish their Hubble constant lab. Beautifully explained as always! Your videos make my teaching so much more effective.

    • @russdill
      @russdill 5 років тому +9

      I've had this explained to me so many times wrongly. This video is really refreshing.

    • @steveoh9025
      @steveoh9025 5 років тому +4

      Totally agree. Henry nailed it with this video explanation.

    • @utetopia1620
      @utetopia1620 5 років тому +1

      Whenever i see or hear the name Henry, i picture Henry Rollins doing an impression of William Shatner saying Henry's own name...
      ua-cam.com/video/U1R1bNRapcM/v-deo.html

  • @loohpjames
    @loohpjames 5 років тому +1124

    "If you don't want to make silly math mistakes like Einstein"... emm...
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    I probably won't have the chance to even make the mistake...

    • @avi8aviate
      @avi8aviate 5 років тому +8

      Hey, did you know...
      You don't need the periods?

    • @petersuvara
      @petersuvara 5 років тому +1

      Ahhh... blundering Mr E. Proven wrong by Georges Lemaitre, who really was the great mind.

    • @racheline_nya
      @racheline_nya 5 років тому +1

      trust me, you'll find a way

    • @Aspiracy
      @Aspiracy 4 роки тому

      Hey
      You're right

  • @rttr5777
    @rttr5777 5 років тому +247

    "if you dont want to make silly math mistakes like einstien" that went from 0 to completely unrelatable

    • @SteelBlueVision
      @SteelBlueVision 5 років тому +2

      This comment is at 42 upvotes, please do not touch it!

    • @liquidminds
      @liquidminds 5 років тому +4

      I'm pretty sure that I will never achieve the level where I could make math-mistakes "like einstein" ...
      Even if I keep studying maths for the rest of my life, my mistakes will still be a lot worse. xD

    • @kakyoindonut3213
      @kakyoindonut3213 3 роки тому +1

      @@liquidminds how can I achieve a mistake like eintein if I'm not even onto space, I'm a programmer

  • @AstroTibs
    @AstroTibs 5 років тому +31

    Finally, someone correctly pointing out that Einstein did not "accidentally predict" dark energy, and that his error was only incidentally useful.

  • @SadMark011
    @SadMark011 5 років тому +450

    The man so badass that he got the right answer with the wrong assumptions

    • @goldenfloof5469
      @goldenfloof5469 5 років тому +56

      That's like making two mistakes in a formula that cancel each other out.

    • @ekrotte8714
      @ekrotte8714 5 років тому +9

      Seems like me in calculus

    • @renakunisaki
      @renakunisaki 5 років тому +14

      That moment when a bug breaks another bug.

    • @leftaroundabout
      @leftaroundabout 5 років тому +15

      @Melon Collie not really, it's more like providing an over-complicated solution to an homework assignment, more general than the teacher wanted, and getting points deducted for focusing on a different special case from the required one, but then finding out that the general solution _is_ needed in the final exam given by somebody else and your overpreparation ends up playing into your hands.

    • @pleaseenteraname4824
      @pleaseenteraname4824 5 років тому +3

      That's actually normal. A logical consequence "A-->B" is always true if A is false, weather B is true or false. Meaning that if you start from a false premise, you can still end up with a true conclusion

  • @TonyZhang01
    @TonyZhang01 5 років тому +130

    math that I know 0:05
    what i thought math in school is 0:19
    math in school: 1:02

    • @lelouch1722
      @lelouch1722 5 років тому +3

      Tensors are quite complicated ...

    • @limpan9997
      @limpan9997 5 років тому +9

      @lelouch weird flex but ok

    • @skyacaniadev2229
      @skyacaniadev2229 5 років тому

      Lelouch No, that is just the fabric of space-time, of course it is tensor.

  • @carazy123_
    @carazy123_ 5 років тому +196

    You should use Brilliant so that you don’t miscalculate those trivial fundamental equations of the universe and such

    • @ginnyjollykidd
      @ginnyjollykidd 5 років тому +5

      There's only one Fundamental Equation to rule them all in Calculus! BWAHAHAHA

  • @adamkey1934
    @adamkey1934 5 років тому +921

    Einstein's blunder still contributes more to science than the rest of us mere mortals ever will 🤷‍♂️

    • @GoTommyBoy
      @GoTommyBoy 5 років тому +33

      Einstein was a mere mortal too.

    • @JuHoCH
      @JuHoCH 5 років тому +58

      @@GoTommyBoy no

    • @JaytleBee
      @JaytleBee 5 років тому +33

      einstein literally died though

    • @vividandlucid
      @vividandlucid 5 років тому +3

      What a hopeful way to look at oneself's future

    • @flanbenflen9069
      @flanbenflen9069 5 років тому +2

      @@JuHoCH insert surprised Pikachu face

  • @SirBelchaloT
    @SirBelchaloT 5 років тому +27

    Well as someone who’s about to go into their third year of a physics degree, after hearing that the field equations are actually a SYSTEM of TEN, PARTIAL. SECOND ORDER. DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS.
    You know I really just think engineering is more my thing after all

    • @vaevictus4637
      @vaevictus4637 4 роки тому +1

      Just think of it in terms of programming code and it gets a lot more acceptable.

    • @nikkiofthevalley
      @nikkiofthevalley 3 роки тому +1

      @@vaevictus4637..... I've seen mathematical equations translated into code. It invariably is an absolute mess that somehow maybe works.

  • @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache
    @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache 5 років тому +258

    Wait... I have to rewatch this because I lost him when he said "F = ma"

    • @riccardoorlando2262
      @riccardoorlando2262 5 років тому +31

      I know right? Makes no sense! Force, mass and acceleration tied linearly just like that? And what, do bodies just attract each other instantly? What is this, spooky action at a distance? Also, photons are massless! So they can't have forces applied to them? Or do they receive infinite acceleration? Pah!

    • @flanbenflen9069
      @flanbenflen9069 5 років тому +5

      @@riccardoorlando2262 you better be sarcastic....

    • @vgamerul4617
      @vgamerul4617 5 років тому +14

      @@flanbenflen9069 duh

    • @Abdega
      @Abdega 5 років тому +56

      Full = Metal*Alchemist

    • @hammadibrahim39
      @hammadibrahim39 5 років тому +9

      @@Abdega genius

  • @duchi882
    @duchi882 5 років тому +1588

    *When you realize*
    You are small brain and cannot understand big brain equations

    • @MrDood-le8mn
      @MrDood-le8mn 5 років тому +8

      Anyone know a good explanation of the final equation?

    • @wayfa13
      @wayfa13 5 років тому +59

      Then just keep trying until you do, if you would like to understand them =)
      How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time ;)

    • @WarrMachine
      @WarrMachine 5 років тому +5

      *2k likes inbound*

    • @robertvorster8933
      @robertvorster8933 5 років тому +12

      Head over to brilliant 🤣🤣🤣

    • @wayfa13
      @wayfa13 5 років тому

      @@robertvorster8933 Hahahaha I was about to edit my comment and suggest that xD

  • @reznovvazileski3193
    @reznovvazileski3193 4 роки тому +7

    My QM teacher always told me that getting the right answer only means your mistakes canceled each other out. This would be the perfect example of such an occurrence :')

  • @ManojKumar-xo7on
    @ManojKumar-xo7on 5 років тому +14

    This is the 1st time i've seen a video on youtube on GT actually showing the full set of equations

    • @Examantel
      @Examantel 4 роки тому

      He still had to expand out the Christoffel symbols in terms of the metric tensor, which would've roughly tripled the number of terms.

  • @peolesdru
    @peolesdru 5 років тому +3

    Wow! The cosmological constant is SO much more complicated and interesting than the short-hand version we always get in the scientific press. Thanks!

  • @TaliesinMyrddin
    @TaliesinMyrddin 5 років тому +149

    *Watches video*
    Hehe
    Einstein hair funny

  • @jecabreradc
    @jecabreradc 5 років тому +1

    i hope you never stop making these videos! Thanks!

  • @akash2514
    @akash2514 5 років тому +8

    Always love your representation of Einstein. So minimal, yet succinct.

    • @kiloperson5680
      @kiloperson5680 2 роки тому +1

      Einstein high on Van de graff's combs

  • @euromicelli5970
    @euromicelli5970 5 років тому +2

    Thank you Henry! This might be the most balanced non-physicist explanation of the Lambda term I have ever seen. The simple clarification that the individual symbols are shortcuts to “this” system of differential equations makes all the difference to me. It clarifies that “yes, this equation is complicated, but it’s not witchcraft. Here’s what it actually looks like”. I don’t need to know how to manipulate the equation to be able to recognize what “shape” it actually takes. Even to the high school level person who comes in expecting that each symbol in a physics equation is a scalar, it at least demystifies the usual “this is the term that (hand-wave) represents curvature of space-time” description which is not much better than a magic spell.
    This video goes deeper than the usual layman explanations that try to keep it so simple that they don’t actually explain anything. At the same time, you are not requiring from us a deep understanding of Tensor Calculus; just hoping for a moderate familiarity with college-level mathematics. It’s the right mix for those of us who know what partial differential equations are, even if we don’t remember how to handle them.

  • @BothHands1
    @BothHands1 5 років тому +4

    I love this! I wish Einstein could come back to today, with all the knowledge of the current scientific community, and give another crack at solving this whole thing. He was such a unique individual that only comes around once every few centuries. I wish we could have had him for longer

  • @DarkiCraft2005
    @DarkiCraft2005 4 роки тому +1

    sees simple equation: Hmm interesting
    0:58 Clever shortcut
    1:03 Heart attack
    called 911

  • @skyechen2673
    @skyechen2673 5 років тому +45

    Einstein: "Oops, I made a mistake, I will change my answer"
    Scientists a decade after his death: "Actually your first answer was correct shouldn't have changed it"

  • @kelvinc
    @kelvinc 5 років тому +2

    Thank you for explaining this in detail. There's a weird trope that dark energy somehow vindicates Einstein adding the cosmological constant, which is based on nothing more than arguing two wrongs make a right.

  • @Ormek70
    @Ormek70 5 років тому +4

    This video makes me want to be a physicist like Einstein or Friedmann, so that I can find terms to describe the world. Or, a physicist like you, so I can at least actually understand the terms and their implications on the nature of reality. Very cool video!

  • @musik350
    @musik350 5 років тому +195

    Remember: If you don't want to do math mistakes, don't do math

    • @lonestarr1490
      @lonestarr1490 5 років тому +10

      Legit statement. I'm a phd student in maths and can tell you for sure that mistakes are inevitable λ-almost surely.

    • @mariovanderwal1695
      @mariovanderwal1695 5 років тому +11

      Remember: if you don't want to make math mistakes, just add a random constant

    • @GRBtutorials
      @GRBtutorials 5 років тому +2

      TheCheeser And put a cool name to it, such as “cosmological constant”. It’s true, however, that there’s no evidence substantiating that this will cause you to not make math mistakes, even though it’s correlated.

  • @caesarcch3879
    @caesarcch3879 5 років тому +66

    "If you don't wanna make silly math mistakes like *Einstein*"
    Is it just me or is there something wrong with that sentence?

  • @thorntontarr2894
    @thorntontarr2894 5 років тому +1

    Full credit, Henry for showing that the GR equation is actually very complicated; the reason it took Einstein about 10 years with the help of his Maths colleagues to sort out. Finally, your viewers will see this issue.
    Now, how about a video on this issue: Einstein was guided in his GR quest by many issues like conservation of energy which the 'Bianchi Identities' ensure; yet, there is NO conservation of energy at large scales (RE:CMB) only locally as you DO point out in the video. How ironic that this assumption (energy conservation) guided Einstein mathematically yet it doesn't hold except locally like an inertial frame in Special Relativity.

  • @thenotflatearth2714
    @thenotflatearth2714 5 років тому +35

    Time traveler: Dr Einstein your constant appears to be justified in the future
    Einstein: so u came from future
    Time traveler:
    Einstein:
    Einstein: say sike right now

    • @dinamosflams
      @dinamosflams 5 років тому +5

      E: "If so, how can you even be here in the first place?"

    • @thehiddenninja3428
      @thehiddenninja3428 5 років тому +3

      Psych*
      It's short for "I psyched you out!"

    • @TavartDukod
      @TavartDukod 5 років тому +1

      @Ishmam Masud - Cuz I Can hey, particles don't take infinite amount of paths, they don't even have paths. They just have changing wave function. And many worlds interpretation doesn't really have those "many worlds". It's just that quantum mechanics is actually completely deterministic, and we perceive being entangled with some particle as a collapse of wave function.

  • @rajagopalank3446
    @rajagopalank3446 4 роки тому +1

    Excellent briefing! This serves good to anyone needing to prepare a notepad while going to the classroom to lecture on basics for graduate or post graduate students specializing in cosmology.
    A BIG THANKS!

  • @jeanhayoz3543
    @jeanhayoz3543 5 років тому +3

    Hi, love your videos! Can't help but notice a mistake in your geodesic equation at 0:46: it's the second derivative of the mu-th component of the geodesic curve, not the first. Doesn't matter very much I guess in the end, but for the sake of correctness! Please continue with your great videos!

  • @Giacumein
    @Giacumein 5 років тому +1

    I would love to have more video like this one, where you show how physicists came up with solution to theoretical inconsistencies!

  • @ericb.4385
    @ericb.4385 5 років тому +13

    I think you got the geodesic equation at 0:45 wrong ;)

    • @thehiddenninja3428
      @thehiddenninja3428 5 років тому +3

      Oh, wow, how did you spot that?
      I looked it up on wikipedia, and you're right!
      The first term should be a second-degree differential, not a first-degree

    • @ericb.4385
      @ericb.4385 5 років тому +4

      @@thehiddenninja3428 I'm a physicist, one see that quite fast if one know the formula^^

    • @JamesSarantidis
      @JamesSarantidis 5 років тому

      When your Physics professors are like "Your exam just needs fundamental knowledge about the subject. You will not need a cheat sheet. You have 1h and 30'. I started the coundown by accident while on my way. You have 45' left. Good luck."

  • @SamSverko
    @SamSverko 4 роки тому

    This channel is the perfect example of where you can enjoy something you don't understand.
    I try to watch every video here, while only understanding maybe 1% of the content, but still enjoy it!

  • @marcomoriconi7147
    @marcomoriconi7147 5 років тому +3

    On 0:44 it should be the second derivative of \gamma^\mu in relation to s, not first. It's a second order differential equation.

    • @MrNerdpwn
      @MrNerdpwn 5 років тому +2

      Correct! Henry made a slight error there. The first term in the geodesic equation is indeed a second order derivative of coordinates with respect to the affine parameter.

  • @atifyasir
    @atifyasir 3 роки тому +1

    I love how the stickman with 6 strands of hair perfectly resembles Albert Einstein.

  • @PADARM
    @PADARM 5 років тому +8

    Just imagine having that level of his genius that even when he's wrong, he's right

  • @piotrrywczak
    @piotrrywczak 5 років тому

    5:10 This transition to brilliant’s commercial is so ridiculous it warrants a like on its own XD

  • @sciverzero8197
    @sciverzero8197 5 років тому +3

    speaking of the warping of spacetime and such, this minute sure seemed about six times longer than I've normally observed.

  • @arpanpal7914
    @arpanpal7914 5 років тому

    best channel to understand the complex things.. just love u bro

  • @geniusmp2001
    @geniusmp2001 5 років тому +5

    It's always fun to see the assumptions embedded in our science. I have long thought that it's hilarious that we still call the parameter for the change in the expansion rate of the universe the deceleration parameter, and we make that parameter negative because the universe's expansion is not decelerating.

  • @TheScienceBiome
    @TheScienceBiome 5 років тому +3

    1:00, *damn* that animation was good. I can only hope that I can reach that level one day!

  • @TheScienceBiome
    @TheScienceBiome 5 років тому +3

    I can tell you’ve been inspired by 3Blue1Brown, because you actually took the time to explain the equations behind the models.

    • @JR-iu8yl
      @JR-iu8yl 5 років тому

      I'm subscribed to your channel great content by the way.

    • @TheScienceBiome
      @TheScienceBiome 5 років тому

      @@JR-iu8yl Thanks!

  • @Metagross31
    @Metagross31 5 років тому +1

    1:06 the Capital Gammas (Upside down "L"s) are acutally also shorthands. And so is the index notation. If you write it out all the way it gets extremely messy!

  • @nafrost2787
    @nafrost2787 5 років тому +3

    You know I find something weird on the dark energy quiz on Brilliant's astronomy course.
    They showed in it a diagram thst shows that the measured expansion rate of the universe is getting larger the further you look at the universe as a proof that the expansion rate is accelerating. But that doesn't make any sense.
    Because light travels at a finite speed, when we look back in space, we look back in time, so we measure the expansion rate as it was in the past, and if it was larger in the past, that means it slowed down, to the current expansion rate. Also in the PBS Space and crash course astronomy episodes, they said that the measured expansion rate was smaller, which means it had to speed up to the current one. So I think that the people on Brilliant made a mistake there.

    • @ginnyjollykidd
      @ginnyjollykidd 5 років тому

      No, there is part of the Universe we will never know because the light from celestial objects there will never reach us from their distance, which is increasing with the universal velocity that we are. We can only see what our most sensitive telescopes can see. Light farther away than the 15 or so billion (?) years ago will never reach us because the distance between us and those objects increases constantly. We might never know how big the universe is.

    • @CorwynGC
      @CorwynGC 5 років тому

      ​@@ginnyjollykidd No. Nafrost was right, Expansion rate should be smaller at far distances.

    • @nafrost2787
      @nafrost2787 5 років тому

      Yeah I think you are confusing between expansion rate, and the expansion speed.
      Expansion rate is velocity the galaxy is moving away from us per unit distance, and the expansion speed is just that velocity. Expansion speed between us and a distance galaxy always increases with distance. But expansion rate which takes velocity per unit distance can decrease with distance.

  • @BuleriaChk
    @BuleriaChk Рік тому

    The silliest mistake is the equation of a circle r ^2 = x^2 + y^2 which cannot be derived from r = x ++ y, since r^2 = (x^2 + y^2) + 2xy; the equation of a circle assumes that the product xy does not exist. If one sets p = x + iy, one can get pp* = x^2 + y^2 with one term imaginary, which is wrong since 1^2 1 (Russell's Paradox)
    Not only that, but every number is prime to its own base: 1_n = (n/n) so n(1_n) = n
    R' = T + R R', R, T represent interacting forces)
    (R')^2 = (T + R)^2 = T^2 + R^2 + 2TR
    f := force
    f^2 defined as equal and opposite force; i.e., rest mass at an origin - (R')^2 = rest mass at a single origin (0). The definiton of lengeth requires two origins (x - 0 = x for
    x - x = 0
    Fermat's expression (c^n) x^n + y^n is also true (even for n=2) by binomial expansion so STR "time dilation" equation is also wrong.
    So is trigonometry, geometry, and anything that professes to be a circle.... (wave functions , convolution, etc.)
    Much more to this story, but I don't have the space time to write it here. (Why is the traces of the relativistic EM field tensor 0 (along with two of the Pauli matrices)?
    Only the Shadow knows, but I will reveal enlightenment for a beer and pizza... :)
    "Just because you're schizophrenic doesn't mean the Universe isn't a figment of your imagination...." - Flamenco Chuck
    Sign at LLNL optics lab "Do not gaze into laser with remaining eye."

  • @jakebruce11
    @jakebruce11 5 років тому +13

    Is it really correct to say that he made a technical mistake in setting that differential term to zero? Isn't it more accurate to say he just assumed it was zero?

    • @Legalmind2
      @Legalmind2 5 років тому +3

      If you have no reason to set it to zero and it doesn't prohibit you from solving the equations to let it remain non zero then yes, I would consider it a mistake.

    • @jakebruce11
      @jakebruce11 5 років тому +2

      @@Legalmind2 Well certainly it turned out to be wrong. But calling that a technical mistake is to equate it with e.g. a mathematical error in a derivation. That seems a bit uncharitable.

    • @Legalmind2
      @Legalmind2 5 років тому +2

      @@jakebruce11 I'd agree that the comparison is definitely unfair, but nonetheless if I did that myself I would consider it a mistake.

  • @omsingharjit
    @omsingharjit 5 років тому

    1:13 plz make video on it , why mercury orbital motion is different and why , and how explained it but Newtown didn't

  • @D_Winds
    @D_Winds 5 років тому +15

    Is this the equivalent of doing the work wrong but getting the answer right, or vice versa?

    • @SinHurr
      @SinHurr 5 років тому

      Yes

    • @mikki7522
      @mikki7522 5 років тому

      Kind of like doing the work wrong and getting the right answer in the end, as he assumed that the universe is static.

  • @TheNewImpulse
    @TheNewImpulse 5 років тому

    Wow this one's very well explained, perfect animations !!

  • @randomjin9392
    @randomjin9392 5 років тому +214

    So... Einstein's equations don't conform to the Universe. The Universe conforms to them.

  • @johannesh7610
    @johannesh7610 5 років тому

    Thaks for expanding the compactified formula. It is rare that this is done, and without it, one can't understand what it actually means

    • @lagrangiankid378
      @lagrangiankid378 5 років тому

      If you really want to know what it means, you have to study a lot of differential geometry and tensor calculus

  • @T33K3SS3LCH3N
    @T33K3SS3LCH3N 5 років тому +4

    I'm gonna trust Einstein on this. If he says there is nothing in the universe, then I don't exist.

  • @NoahHornberger
    @NoahHornberger 5 років тому

    really like the content here but the audio is very 'crispy' on the top of the spectrum, almost hurting my ears on headphones. A slow rolloff eq to taper off the upper frequencies would help balance it out just a bit. There is also a de-esser that could help if used in moderation

  • @jeiaz
    @jeiaz 5 років тому +155

    And the cosmological constant actually describes dark energy, innit?

  • @enderwiggins8248
    @enderwiggins8248 5 років тому +1

    How do you learn so much physics that you can synthesize a video like this?

  • @swapless
    @swapless 5 років тому +45

    That one dislike is from Einstein himself.

    • @wayfa13
      @wayfa13 5 років тому +2

      LOL

    • @Mernom
      @Mernom 5 років тому +6

      I'd think that he's like the vid, as it spreads good knowledge.

    • @swapless
      @swapless 5 років тому

      @@Mernom yeah, that is true.

    • @shubhankardasgupta4777
      @shubhankardasgupta4777 5 років тому +4

      NOPE

  • @saifel-dinmandour8670
    @saifel-dinmandour8670 5 років тому +1

    Brilliant, I am currently reading Einstein's biography by Walter Isaacson and I am now exactly at that point where he adds the cosmological constant to match with the conventional wisdom at the time of a static universe.
    Very well explained, I enjoyed the video

  • @mohamedmoatyhassan5125
    @mohamedmoatyhassan5125 5 років тому +7

    Einstein: ops I made a mistake
    Universe: quick! We must obey the laws of einstein

  • @DrRiq
    @DrRiq 5 років тому +1

    This was beautifully explained!

  • @israellai
    @israellai 5 років тому +15

    is this good old minutephysics

  • @gurneetsingh7952
    @gurneetsingh7952 4 роки тому

    Einstein: Oops, made a mistake, maybe I should change my answer
    THE UNIVERSE: No need, I can change myself

  • @ridwansetiadi8393
    @ridwansetiadi8393 5 років тому +32

    Einstein: "So I was right ?"
    MinutePhysics: "Yes, but actually no."

    • @TheR971
      @TheR971 5 років тому +7

      But actually yes.

  • @ehxtrem5226
    @ehxtrem5226 5 років тому +1

    4:52 If its rate of expansion is accelerating, is it possible that it expends at the speed of light by now? And wouldn’t it be so large that the density would be roughly 0?

    • @pedrocleezz4315
      @pedrocleezz4315 5 років тому

      In fact, the expansion of the universe is bigger than the speed of light, so in fact, the farthest galaxies that can be seen currently, in the future we wont be able to see them as they photons will never come here (sorry, my enlgish isnt really good)

    • @ehxtrem5226
      @ehxtrem5226 5 років тому

      Okey I understand but its still kinda weird that galaxies could be form where things are expanding faster than light. Unless its the space itself that is expanding and not the matter

    • @pedrocleezz4315
      @pedrocleezz4315 5 років тому

      @@ehxtrem5226 Yes, its the space who expands

  • @ommahajan1
    @ommahajan1 5 років тому +5

    I like the way he draws Einstein.

  • @auroravuitton90
    @auroravuitton90 5 років тому +1

    One quarter worth of cosmology course in 6 mins, well done

  • @ImtheEntity
    @ImtheEntity 5 років тому +4

    Wouldn't it be fascinating to see Einstein's reaction to this video if he could watch it right now?

    • @luispereira2354
      @luispereira2354 5 років тому +4

      Yes let's build a time machine and bring him to our time, show him the internet and he will get porn addicted instead of beein genius 😂😂

  • @witsemxx7837
    @witsemxx7837 5 років тому

    Great video man! really like them.

  • @ilayws4448
    @ilayws4448 5 років тому +4

    His biggest mistake was thinking he was mistaken.

  • @x2f01mick
    @x2f01mick 5 років тому

    Thanks for drawing my portrait @ 0:58

  • @cipherxen2
    @cipherxen2 5 років тому +46

    So he's in superposition of being right and wrong.

    • @SinHurr
      @SinHurr 5 років тому +3

      No, he was right, just not yet.

    • @gustavoshigueo
      @gustavoshigueo 4 роки тому

      Yes, it depends on the time you open the box... wait longer and the probability of him being right increases

  • @Sivah_Akash
    @Sivah_Akash 5 років тому

    3:53, if deceleration is proportional to density, as the density decreases the deceleration rate also decreases. So the speed/velocity will reduce continuously but at a slower rate with time. So wouldn't that mean that the velocity never reaches zero in a finite time? And hence there is no chance for contraction.

  • @Laff700
    @Laff700 5 років тому +9

    There are other possibilities if you consider cases where the universe has regions of negative energy density.

    • @Excludos
      @Excludos 5 років тому

      If I'm understanding this right, that's in all likelihood what the constant represents. Right now it's just there because we know we're missing something, but not sure exactly what. Dark/negative energy is a pretty reasonable hypothesis for it.

    • @Laff700
      @Laff700 5 років тому

      @@Excludos Dark energy is thought to have a positive energy density though.

  • @markplain2555
    @markplain2555 5 років тому

    what an amazing sound as all this goes "swoosh" over my head.

  • @pen_l
    @pen_l 5 років тому +25

    So I still don’t know anything

    • @pendalink
      @pendalink 5 років тому +6

      That's the best thing to know

  • @tanaymody3390
    @tanaymody3390 5 років тому +2

    Please can you make a video explaining what exactly is TIME

  • @Hecatonicosachoron
    @Hecatonicosachoron 5 років тому +10

    When Einstein is right, he produces new and exciting physical models.
    When Einstein is wrong, his error produces new branches of physics.
    Really Einstein’s mistakes are as insightful as his theories that are correct...

  • @HarshSharma-jd4cc
    @HarshSharma-jd4cc 5 років тому +1

    It took me a minute to understand this !
    Wow simple video

  • @maitland1007
    @maitland1007 5 років тому +5

    You said Einstein made a silly math mistake. Didn't he just lack the evidence that the universe was expanding? Adding a constant term seems like the smart thing to do to me... like you said, its value could always be set to zero.

    • @lowlize
      @lowlize 5 років тому

      No, the math mistake is the one written on the whiteboard.

    • @maitland1007
      @maitland1007 5 років тому

      @@lowlize That's not a math mistake, that's a physics assumption that he made (density doesn't change with time) because he didn't have any evidence to the contrary.

    • @lowlize
      @lowlize 5 років тому

      @@maitland1007 It is a mistake, as that is not the correct expression, which is instead showed later including the factor sqrt(g).

    • @jonpeterson1468
      @jonpeterson1468 5 років тому

      That’s way it appears to me, a false assumption due to insufficient data

  • @SMunro
    @SMunro 5 років тому

    If there is a limit to the speed of light, as I approach LS the lower frequency light of my visible bandwidth shifts up and I am now looking at what was lower frequency light. And at a certain point the bandwidth that can shift upward drops off because there is insufficient bandwith without crossing into negative frequency light beyond zero.
    So as I hit zero bandwith available at light speed I reach a harmonic node in light. If there is a harmonic node, then there is a deeper universe where the speed of light still isnt reached. And there should also be a harmonic node upward where the standing wave is shorter.
    What if all the harmonic nodes of light are all the same node?

  • @viniciusceccon7755
    @viniciusceccon7755 5 років тому +9

    When you’re a genius and your biggest mistake was to think you’ve made a mistake

    • @Mernom
      @Mernom 5 років тому

      Nope. It's to think that you can't make mistakes.

  • @4or871
    @4or871 2 роки тому

    I try to combine the cosmological constant and the schrodinger solution on the planck scale.
    I used planck units.
    At the end I went back to SI units to compare with the measured vacuum energy density (0.63 10^-9 J/m^3.)
    Combine:
    1) Einstein, cosmological constant
    2) Schrödinger solution
    3) Planck units
    Result:
    - vacuum catastrophe solved?
    1)Einstein, cosmological constant
    Λ = (8π 𝐺 ƐΛ)/(𝑐^4)
    Planck units:
    G=1
    c=1
    Λ (6.1871424 10^34)^-2 = (8π ƐΛ [planckEnergy/planckVolume]
    1.1056 10^-52 (6.1871424 10^34)^-2 = 8π ƐΛ
    0.001149 10^-120 = ƐΛ
    0.1149 10^-122/ ƐΛ = 1
    2)Schrödinger solution, n=1
    (ℎbar^2 𝑛^2 𝜋^2) / (2𝑚𝐿^2) = E
    Planck units
    hbar=1
    n=1
    m= mplanck =1
    L= Lplanck=1
    0.5 𝜋^2= E
    1= E/0.5 𝜋^2
    3)Einstein, Cosmological Constant = Schrödinger solution
    0.1149 10^-122/ ƐΛ = 1 = E/0.5 𝜋^2
    0.1149 10^-122 0.5 𝜋^2= ƐΛ Eplanck
    Eplanck =1
    0.1149 10^-122 0.5 𝜋^2= ƐΛ
    0.567 10^-122 = ƐΛ [planckEnergy/planckVolume]
    0.567 10^-122 1.9561 10^9 /(1.61625502 10^-35)^3= ƐΛ [J/m^3]
    ƐΛ = 2.627 10^-9 [J/m^3]
    Measured: 0.63 10^-9 [J/m^3]
    I am looking forward to your response.

  • @rekieg9951
    @rekieg9951 5 років тому +5

    Yeahh. At least i was good at high school physicss😍😂😂😂

  • @toranoshiryou
    @toranoshiryou 5 років тому

    Thank you for the video, you took a nice approach at explaining Einsteins error. But there is no need for distracting music, the content is interesting enough without it!

  • @ShadSterling
    @ShadSterling 5 років тому +12

    "So that you don't mess up like Einstein" might be the worst way to advertise anything, ever.

    • @AyanKhan-if3mm
      @AyanKhan-if3mm 5 років тому +2

      3 hours ago?

    • @martinpusar6765
      @martinpusar6765 5 років тому

      @@AyanKhan-if3mm lol

    • @AyanKhan-if3mm
      @AyanKhan-if3mm 5 років тому

      @Iter you decide.

    • @ShadSterling
      @ShadSterling 5 років тому

      I wish I could say that timestamp was an Einsteinian Error, but it's really just a Patreon Perk.
      But really, the ad should be more like "If you want to make your mistakes more like Einstein's mistakes, ..."

  • @ocayaro
    @ocayaro 4 роки тому

    Two other mistakes: 1) in the Weiderman-Franz law relating thermal conductivity and electrical conductivity, where he introduces a factor of two. 2) In thermal oscillations, he assumed that all matter oscillates at one phonon frequency. Debye came and fixed this by assuming a density of oscillatory states.

  • @Nls007
    @Nls007 5 років тому +5

    The only thing Einstein was wrong about was being wrong!

  • @mitchellerblich4044
    @mitchellerblich4044 5 років тому

    Ok,,, FYI, Whether you can have a atomic explosion at close to absolute zero is actually unknown to me, so kelvin 0, was just a lower temp limit. Now if we take two slightly different atomic structure (different isotopes) and run the same restricted atomic calculations, their still is a different summed energy. Same goes for different densities or identical masses with different single, double, and triple bonds. While the difference of summed energy from pico sec to pico sec is small, it is still their. So, his equations just seem to be approximates and ignore secondary differences in the identical masses/gravitational weights.

  • @RemembranceRugGuy
    @RemembranceRugGuy 5 років тому +3

    The most expansive thing in my universe is that I appear to be the most dense thing in it.

  • @robertbenassai3912
    @robertbenassai3912 5 років тому

    Loved how good you explained it

  • @man-with-a-plan
    @man-with-a-plan 5 років тому +14

    *Einstein is right Even when he is wrong*

  • @igorsawicki4905
    @igorsawicki4905 5 років тому

    2:27 I'm not in maths of this level but shouldn't there be p=1 when there is no omega symbol(omega=1)?

  • @rttr5777
    @rttr5777 5 років тому +4

    We should use this video to confuse gaurds in area 51

  • @Nukatha
    @Nukatha 5 років тому

    Alright, where's your Pressure term beginning at 3:37? Why are you already attributing all pressure to a cosmological constant? Similarly, why do you assume the entire universe can be explained with a constant w=0 in your Eq 1?

  • @Spookskiii
    @Spookskiii 5 років тому +5

    Scientists: We think you may actually be wrong on this one.
    Einstein: 𝐧𝐨.

  • @dlaftx
    @dlaftx 5 років тому

    Love your work and having the (your?) cat in the videos is always cool. Cats are cool.