Where Did the Big Bang Happen?

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    Where did the Big Bang happen? If the universe is expanding, it seems that it must have come out of somewhere, no? But how can that be if the universe doesn't have a center? I get this question a lot. Also this one: Is the Cosmic Microwave Background a frame of absolut rest, and if so, doesn't this contradict Einstein? At the end of this video, you can outsmart your friends with the answer.
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    0:00 Intro
    0:53 What's the Big Bang?
    2:51 Where did the Big Bang happen?
    6:09 Does the universe have a frame of absolute rest?
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  • @fmdj
    @fmdj 2 роки тому +763

    "We're going towards what's called the great attractor, and no one knows what it is or why we're going there" - this is kinda spooky

    • @poilboiler
      @poilboiler 2 роки тому +108

      The Great Attractor sounds like the plot device in a Star Trek episode.

    • @EK-gr9gd
      @EK-gr9gd 2 роки тому +28

      Why? The only thing which attracts masses are masses. So there must be a large mass out there, large enough to attract the "local group" "Virgo cluster" etc..
      By what evidence the accumulation of mass has been caused we don't know.
      There are just a few possibilities, which are capable to accumulate high densities of mass.

    • @darthex0
      @darthex0 2 роки тому +29

      But where is the great attractor going?....-;,'....

    • @rogerwebb2058
      @rogerwebb2058 2 роки тому +6

      The “Great attractor?” Hmmmm….🤔 It sounds to me like someone is on the verge of a “Eureka” moment!🙂

    • @illogicmath
      @illogicmath 2 роки тому +13

      Perhaps the universe is not 14 billion years old as mainstream scientists think. I see implausible that so much structure could have formed in such short time especially if the outrageous and extravagant Guth's inflation hypothesis is correct

  • @-_Nuke_-
    @-_Nuke_- 2 роки тому +196

    "In the beginning the Universe was created. That made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move"

    • @waynedarronwalls6468
      @waynedarronwalls6468 2 роки тому +24

      Ah yes, another quote goes something like "there are those who say it was a big mistake when man came out the trees, there are others who argue our biggest mistake was crawling out of the water "

    • @georgelionon9050
      @georgelionon9050 2 роки тому +9

      The amount of angry people before was infinitely smaller!

    • @CAThompson
      @CAThompson 2 роки тому +6

      I bet we're heading towards Millliways. I should probably invest that penny now, hey.

    • @CAThompson
      @CAThompson 2 роки тому +8

      I also think that people like Sabine existed in a previous iteration of the Universe, they did their jobs too well and now we're in a more strange, complicated iteration that replaced it.
      Sabine et. al. are bringing about understanding this Universe and it'll also be replaced by something even more inexplicably complicated.

    • @ANunes06
      @ANunes06 2 роки тому +2

      @@waynedarronwalls6468 "We never should've started synthesizing RNA. Waste of energy."

  • @user-wu7ug4ly3v
    @user-wu7ug4ly3v 2 роки тому +24

    I came to see why it took over 10 minutes to say “everywhere” and I was not disappointed. Brilliant as usual.

  • @-1-alex-1-
    @-1-alex-1- 2 роки тому +23

    "You can be at rest with the universe".
    Thank you for this awesome phrase, I'll go meditate.

  • @kacperantoniak7090
    @kacperantoniak7090 2 роки тому +72

    episode about this great attractor would be really entertaining

    • @SabineHossenfelder
      @SabineHossenfelder  2 роки тому +61

      Thanks for the suggestion, I will keep this in mind!

    • @hunterG60k
      @hunterG60k 2 роки тому +6

      @@SabineHossenfelder Yes, I'd love to hear you talk more about it!

    • @Ireniicus
      @Ireniicus 2 роки тому +1

      @@SabineHossenfelder It was a good tease but I think we can assume it's a Superclusters such as the monster that is the Shapely, which the great attractor itself is moving towards. Or it could be a decillion number of Death Stars :). Thanks again for the content.

    • @EK-gr9gd
      @EK-gr9gd 2 роки тому

      Harry Lesch talked about it in an Alpha centauri episode. Only in German

    • @EK-gr9gd
      @EK-gr9gd 2 роки тому +1

      What about the Shapley Supercluster? It has been determined, its much closer and mass richer than the GA.

  • @enkidugilgamesh8141
    @enkidugilgamesh8141 2 роки тому +133

    After having watched several videos, I want to compliment you on being an excellent science communicator! I appreciate how difficult it can be to explain complicated topics to laypersons, and you're doing great! Thanks for sharing your knowledge with me😁

    • @User-xw4dt
      @User-xw4dt 2 роки тому +1

      Liebe auch diesen Kanal 😍

    • @Aufenthalt
      @Aufenthalt 2 роки тому

      She is indeed a very good science communicator and also keep the things on the right size paying attention not to say gobbledygook like "in entanglement particle interaction is faster than light" or "the highs interaction can be seen as a ball moving in water".

    • @SlayerofFiction
      @SlayerofFiction 2 роки тому +1

      Yea, I only graduated high school but I am deeply in dented to people like her, Degrasse Tyson, Hawkings etc who have helped up my science knowledge tremendously. IF we had more teachers like this, especially at the high school level it would take far more people to higher places thus increasing our knowledge overall.

    • @MoonDisast
      @MoonDisast Рік тому

      If a wildman from a time of civilization that dates a few millenia ago can understand what's discussed in a video, then that person is very much a good scientific communicator

  • @russbell6418
    @russbell6418 2 роки тому +37

    I absolutely love Sabine’s explanations. I have a high school education and she makes this stuff plain. I also loved Uncle Kerr’s dismissive remarks, because he opened the door to some even more elementary explanations of the basic understanding of cosmic physics. Thanks, everybody (but especially Sabine, who did the lion’s share of the work).

  • @marklindsey2127
    @marklindsey2127 2 роки тому +1

    Thank you for making several things clear to me for the first time. You usually go over my head very quickly, but I love trying to learn new concepts.

  • @jeremymiller9582
    @jeremymiller9582 2 роки тому +204

    Thank you for pointing out “naive extrapolation;” quite often in videos of this type, speakers treat the concept of the “singularity” Big Bang as if it were written in stone - not that I take issue with that as an assumption given the paucity of data we have regarding the earliest periods of the universe, but I think it’s so important to point out, at least, that it is an assumption.

    • @Swolecows
      @Swolecows 2 роки тому +8

      Kind of a gigantic assumption purely based on math equations which love using infinity, but we have never observed infinity occur anywhere. Black holes are described as infinitely dense while we have now observed many different sizes of black hole which would point to them being very, very dense certainly, but different in size and structure as their spin velocities change as well. Obviously we are missing a big piece and I'm gonna go out on a limb and assume we are missing an even larger piece when it comes to the big bang singularity theory. Personally I think we are misinterpreting red shift over great distances and the significance of the cosmic microwave background. Not a physicist, just a thinker, could be wrong.

    • @gardenhead92
      @gardenhead92 2 роки тому +7

      @@Swolecows How would one observe infinity? We can only make a finite number of observations in finite time

    • @ekszentrik
      @ekszentrik 2 роки тому +6

      It's almost futile to try to dispel the popsci notion that black holes are not actually postulated to be singularities, just an exotic state of matter/energy. Singularities are like trying to divide by 0.

    • @trucid2
      @trucid2 2 роки тому +18

      That's one of my biggest gripes with many mainstream physicists. They talk about speculative things that have not been verified by experiments as if they were fact.

    • @unclekerr4369
      @unclekerr4369 2 роки тому +5

      This is the "12 law of power" which states "use selective honest to disarm your victim". This lady is not a valid thinker, she is honest in one matter to gain your trust and you think her honesty in one matter is a constant when actually it is a variable. Your trust is now a constant when it should be a variable dependent on the independent circumstances. Check every premise and you will soon find her theories and ideas are based on fluff, sophistry, and verbosity.

  • @knarf_on_a_bike
    @knarf_on_a_bike 2 роки тому +165

    Absolutely mind boggling. I simply can't wrap my mind around these concepts. So much fun trying to do so, though!

    • @Sharonmxg
      @Sharonmxg 2 роки тому +15

      I feel you. I can follow along only so far. Usually I cannot keep up. But the more I watch Sabine, the more I realize, when consuming other media, that she has actually taught me some basic principle that I had not previously grasped. She must be a wonderful professor. It IS fun to try to keep up.

    • @knarf_on_a_bike
      @knarf_on_a_bike 2 роки тому +4

      @@Sharonmxg Sabine is a wonderful teacher!

    • @alvick353
      @alvick353 2 роки тому +1

      Ain't that the truth!!

    • @reasonerenlightened2456
      @reasonerenlightened2456 2 роки тому +1

      The Universe is both particle and a Wave.
      Why do we always speak of it as if it is a particle only.

    • @patrickfitzgerald2861
      @patrickfitzgerald2861 2 роки тому

      I'm just grateful that my ignorance of these mind-boggling topics doesn't make it more likely that I'll, say, get in a car accident or catch COVID! 🤞😷

  • @applechocolate4U
    @applechocolate4U 2 роки тому +5

    I want to say that I just found your channel and it's a breath of fresh air. You're videos are excellent

  • @IllIl
    @IllIl 2 роки тому +6

    Hi Sabine. Could you please do a video explaining entropy? I really like how you explain stuff!

  • @Feefa99
    @Feefa99 2 роки тому +61

    The Great Attractor sounds like someone's nickname with overabundance of confidence

    • @curiodyssey3867
      @curiodyssey3867 2 роки тому +5

      Oh, nah ur thinking about the nickname for my pp, the great contractor

    • @firstnamesurname6550
      @firstnamesurname6550 2 роки тому

      the Great Attractor was a nickname giving to a very Fat Dude that we were afraid about adding some grams to his weight because that would tearing down-inside space-time fabrik ... Believe me ( you don't have at all to do it ), Nobody felt attracted to him just some local mass got sucked by inertia ...

    • @CAThompson
      @CAThompson 2 роки тому +2

      @@firstnamesurname6550 That sounds a bit rude.

    • @Feefa99
      @Feefa99 2 роки тому +3

      @@curiodyssey3867 Jeff, King of Amazon, Feudal lord of new age, 200 Billion dollar man and Master of plastic bottles as replacement for WC is that you?

    • @Feefa99
      @Feefa99 2 роки тому +4

      @@firstnamesurname6550 everybody needs some weight to exist otherwise you wouldn't have own atmosphere around yourself.
      That's my last fat joke. Fatshaming is not cool.

  • @hellavadeal
    @hellavadeal 2 роки тому +32

    So, if we could magically go in an instant to a galaxy on the edge of our vision and looked, we would still be in the middle ? Just like we seem to be here? Makes sense in a strange relativistic way.

    • @SabineHossenfelder
      @SabineHossenfelder  2 роки тому +34

      That's what the currently most widely accepted model would predict, yes.

    • @reasonerenlightened2456
      @reasonerenlightened2456 2 роки тому

      If The Universe is a Wave like the electron is then we just observe a small segment of its propagation.

    • @nomizomichani
      @nomizomichani 2 роки тому +3

      The galaxy on the edge of our vision might not exist anymore at the present moment, unless you also go to the past. If you limit your travel velocity to the speed of light, you will never get there because space is expanding faster than speed of light.

    • @nomizomichani
      @nomizomichani 2 роки тому +1

      @@SabineHossenfelder Would CMB look different at that location at the present moment?

    • @catharsis21
      @catharsis21 2 роки тому

      If asked where the center of the Universe is located, logic dictates that it is always in the mind of each observer.

  • @markburns1124
    @markburns1124 2 роки тому +1

    Thank you for demystifying all these topics on your channel. Things make a lot more sense the way you explain them.

  • @derekflegg2510
    @derekflegg2510 2 роки тому +6

    Why does everyone act like the big bang isn't an event still in progress? If the expansion is still accelerating doesn't that indicate we're still in the early stages of the bang?

    • @danielchettiar5670
      @danielchettiar5670 2 роки тому +1

      You're assuming that this process has to stop. Who knows.

    • @hyperduality2838
      @hyperduality2838 2 роки тому

      ATTRACTION is dual to REPULSION, push is dual to pull -- forces are dual.
      If you want attractive forces (gravity) then you are automatically assuming a dual concept.
      Concepts are dual to percepts -- the mind duality of Immanuel Kant.
      Forces are responsible for effects.
      Cause is dual to effect implies correlation of the two (a force).
      Thesis (cause) is dual to anti-thesis (effect) creates the converging thesis or synthesis (forces) -- the time independent Hegelian dialectic.
      The force of gravity (cause) results in apples falling to the ground (effect) and duality is conserved in this process, potential energy is dual to kinetic energy.
      Forces have there origin in the conservation of duality -- generalized duality.
      Monads are units of force -- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz.
      Monads are units of force which are dual -- monads are dual.
      "May the force (duality) be with you" -- Jedi saying.
      "The force (duality) is strong in this one" -- Jedi saying.
      "Always two there are" -- Yoda.
      Absolute truth is dual to relative truth -- Hume's fork.
      Antinomy (duality) is two truths that contradict each other -- Immanuel Kant.

    • @bentonrp
      @bentonrp 2 дні тому +1

      It's not considered an event still in progress because the Big Bang is a term in reference to
      a time when the celestial particles that we know of were so close to each other
      that they interacted in a way that our current knowledge of science cannot explain.
      You are correct that these particles may have interacted in a way (prior to that time) which also simply expanded from a smaller point, but if that were the case, we just don't know how to make our current knowledge of science explain how scientifically.

    • @derekflegg2510
      @derekflegg2510 День тому +1

      @@bentonrp a time when the celestial particles that we know of were so close to each other
      that they interacted in a way that our current knowledge of science cannot explain.
      So, like a singularity..

    • @bentonrp
      @bentonrp День тому +1

      @@derekflegg2510 I would be careful to agree with that. Singularity can be defined as the mass within a black hole. We know how a black hole operates. We're talking about something that we're unclear about the operation of. It could be similar, but it likely isn't.

  • @fatelvis5791
    @fatelvis5791 2 роки тому +33

    As a casual, physics side-liner, Ive been waiting for this kind of explanation for a long time. This was so helpful for me. So Helpful.

    • @hyperduality2838
      @hyperduality2838 2 роки тому

      ATTRACTION is dual to REPULSION, push is dual to pull -- forces are dual.
      If you want attractive forces (gravity) then you are automatically assuming a dual concept.
      Concepts are dual to percepts -- the mind duality of Immanuel Kant.
      Forces are responsible for effects.
      Cause is dual to effect implies correlation of the two (a force).
      Thesis (cause) is dual to anti-thesis (effect) creates the converging thesis or synthesis (forces) -- the time independent Hegelian dialectic.
      The force of gravity (cause) results in apples falling to the ground (effect) and duality is conserved in this process, potential energy is dual to kinetic energy.
      Forces have there origin in the conservation of duality -- generalized duality.
      Monads are units of force -- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz.
      Monads are units of force which are dual -- monads are dual.
      "May the force (duality) be with you" -- Jedi saying.
      "The force (duality) is strong in this one" -- Jedi saying.
      "Always two there are" -- Yoda.
      Absolute truth is dual to relative truth -- Hume's fork.
      Antinomy (duality) is two truths that contradict each other -- Immanuel Kant.

    • @szolanek
      @szolanek 2 роки тому +2

      You waited 13.9 billion years.

  • @autonomouscollective2599
    @autonomouscollective2599 2 роки тому +12

    Asking “Where was the Big Bang?” is similar to asking “What happened before the Big Bang?” It’s something that’s difficult to visualize because we tend visualize everything in time and place. No-time and no-place are hard concepts.

    • @kurtn4819
      @kurtn4819 2 роки тому +2

      If the big-bang were a white hole then time existed before the big bounce. And since the universe is infinite then there is no such thing as no-place.

    • @Aguijon1982
      @Aguijon1982 2 роки тому

      The big bang is the where

    • @sergiodelvalle4903
      @sergiodelvalle4903 Рік тому

      Weak.

  • @das_it_mane
    @das_it_mane 2 роки тому +7

    Can't wait to see what we find out when we finally see beyond the CMB using the gravitional wave background!

    • @feynstein1004
      @feynstein1004 2 роки тому

      Interesting idea. Would that even be possible tho?

  • @dustystageleft64
    @dustystageleft64 2 роки тому +3

    Seriously enjoying your videos Sabine :) Thanks for doing them.

  • @googoogjoobgoogoogjoob
    @googoogjoobgoogoogjoob 2 роки тому +5

    I don't know, whenever I hear the word infinity bandied around, I think maybe nobody really knows what's going on.

  • @rktsigntist
    @rktsigntist 2 роки тому +43

    I can picture the Great Attractor being a restaurant in Doctor Who where all people end up lol. Evil Dalek plot.

    • @vauchomarx6733
      @vauchomarx6733 2 роки тому +12

      Nah, it's the restaurant at the end of the universe.

    • @urielsmachine997
      @urielsmachine997 2 роки тому +2

      @@vauchomarx6733 Yeah, Milliways out past the Magrethea turnoff.

    • @Superdoof30
      @Superdoof30 2 роки тому +1

      Recent research has shown what the 'great attractor' is. It's 'just' another gigantic cluster of galaxies. Can't remember the name they gave it though.

    • @megelizabeth9492
      @megelizabeth9492 2 роки тому +1

      That's probably the most likely answer. We just can't see it is because its obscured by the plane of the Milky Way.

    • @hyperduality2838
      @hyperduality2838 2 роки тому

      ATTRACTION is dual to REPULSION, push is dual to pull -- forces are dual.
      If you want attractive forces (gravity) then you are automatically assuming a dual concept.
      Concepts are dual to percepts -- the mind duality of Immanuel Kant.
      Forces are responsible for effects.
      Cause is dual to effect implies correlation of the two (a force).
      Thesis (cause) is dual to anti-thesis (effect) creates the converging thesis or synthesis (forces) -- the time independent Hegelian dialectic.
      The force of gravity (cause) results in apples falling to the ground (effect) and duality is conserved in this process, potential energy is dual to kinetic energy.
      Forces have there origin in the conservation of duality -- generalized duality.
      Monads are units of force -- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz.
      Monads are units of force which are dual -- monads are dual.
      "May the force (duality) be with you" -- Jedi saying.
      "The force (duality) is strong in this one" -- Jedi saying.
      "Always two there are" -- Yoda.
      Absolute truth is dual to relative truth -- Hume's fork.
      Antinomy (duality) is two truths that contradict each other -- Immanuel Kant.

  • @Bitfire31337
    @Bitfire31337 2 роки тому +1

    9:03 "Please choose a new password. It must have at least 10 digits, it cannot contain your first name, must have letters both capitals and not, at least one number, one special symbol, *and three golden hairs of a mammoth plugged 5 minutes after midnight when the moon is full.*" was probably the best and most hillarious description of password rules I ever heard. 😂

  • @CMVMic
    @CMVMic 2 роки тому +1

    This channel and PBS Space Time are my two favourite physics youtube channels. I swear I love Sabine's sense of humour! Pure gold!

  • @PlayTheMind
    @PlayTheMind 2 роки тому +32

    Yo Sabine, you once again blew my mind with Big Bang = The moment when the density of matter in the Universe goes to infinity everywhere. Thank you thank you thank you

    • @alang.2054
      @alang.2054 2 роки тому +1

      einsteins general relativity doesen't work in big bang moment my friend, that's why we need quantum gravity

    • @BlastinRope
      @BlastinRope 2 роки тому

      In a black hole the matter falling toward the singularity doesnt actually arive at the singularity until all at once some time in the very very far future

    • @fabiopilnik827
      @fabiopilnik827 2 роки тому

      The density of matter tends to infinity with the caveat there is only one place in the universe to be at that moment, so everywhere is a single location.

    • @janbaer3241
      @janbaer3241 2 роки тому +1

      @Hisham Malik Every model has its limits. So far, no one has been able to devise a model that works beyond the limits of general relativity.

    • @ZOGGYDOGGY
      @ZOGGYDOGGY 2 роки тому

      @@BlastinRope and then, boom! The great attractor is reached and it's another blasted big bang.

  • @Sharonmxg
    @Sharonmxg 2 роки тому +5

    Since I found your channel I have been enjoying your videos very much. Love your sense of humor. I have also recently caught myself noticing your wardrobe (very chic), and this morning I watched a video that is several years old. You appear to be ageless. Oh, also, I really like your music videos. I really wish I had a teacher as engaging as yourself when I was younger. I think I appreciate most that you make it clear that a lot of what we "know" based on the maths, we don't really know for sure because we lack direct observation. That admission soothes my nerves when it comes to understanding both the quantum and the cosmos.

  • @Plasmon19
    @Plasmon19 2 роки тому +2

    I studied this for years and you just blew my mind, I understand the Maths but to actually be able to visualize it is utterly fantastic. The universe has always been infinite, the space between everything just grew really fast to the point where things were allowed to happen as they do now. The grapefruit visual helps in that I imagine that as the observable universe with effectively an infinite number of grapefruits next to each other. That was the environment of how the universe was. The environment changed because there was more space for things to move around in. Space lowers the temperature and allows for things we are familiar with to happen.

  • @planckstern2364
    @planckstern2364 2 роки тому

    Thank you for this video, the question with the absolute frame of rest relative to the CMB was one I had for many months now and I couldn't find an answer!

  • @i_am_aladeen
    @i_am_aladeen 2 роки тому +18

    Instead of the "Big Bang", we should call it the "Everywhere Stretch".

    • @CAThompson
      @CAThompson 2 роки тому +2

      Reversing Einstein's equations back to singularity: The Gnab Gib

    • @i_am_aladeen
      @i_am_aladeen 2 роки тому +1

      @@twigsagan3857 "The best explanation we have at the moment, not yet proven wrong."

    • @michaelblacktree
      @michaelblacktree 2 роки тому +1

      The term "Big Bang" was originally meant as an insult. But for some reason, the term stuck.

    • @willcollins9470
      @willcollins9470 2 роки тому

      @@twigsagan3857 we need a word that means "the best we have proven so far" so that is clear that we know no better now as proven, but it is not closed completely.

    • @jonathansturm4163
      @jonathansturm4163 2 роки тому

      @@twigsagan3857 Karl Popper used the term conjecture. Anybody literate in science should understand that theory equals explanation. It’s technically incorrect to talk of scientific theories being proven; scientific theories can only be corroborated or falsified.

  • @smallsim2663
    @smallsim2663 2 роки тому +21

    I love the clear definitions. It makes it really understandable we do not know for sure a lot of things. We just use the best models we have.

    • @marianskodowski8337
      @marianskodowski8337 2 роки тому

      Oh really? Can you imagine absolute Nothing Null Zero? They know nothing about begining or continuity of the Universe. These models are useless.

    • @fermansmith6042
      @fermansmith6042 2 роки тому

      @@marianskodowski8337 You need to talk to George Lionon... George where are you?

    • @krakendragonslayer1909
      @krakendragonslayer1909 2 роки тому

      Yes, this is what we call "German precision"

    • @fermansmith6042
      @fermansmith6042 2 роки тому

      @@krakendragonslayer1909 I used the handle "BEOWULF" many years ago when I worked at a major refinery. COOL !

    • @krakendragonslayer1909
      @krakendragonslayer1909 2 роки тому

      @@marianskodowski8337 no kurwa debil wierzący w duchy...

  • @seth_sesu
    @seth_sesu 2 роки тому +2

    Please do a video on the topology of the universe. Specifically interested in the 3-torus, flat space universe model.

  • @johanjonsson6504
    @johanjonsson6504 2 роки тому

    You have a great voice for explaining things, makes me listen :)

  • @Niohimself
    @Niohimself 2 роки тому +4

    Oh my god. THANK YOU for explaining the co-moving frame. I thought I was going crazy trying to make peace with "physics looks the same for all inertial frames" and "things that are far away can retreat faster than light if the space between it and you expands quickly enough".

    • @danielalexander799
      @danielalexander799 2 роки тому

      The center of the universe is outside of our small portion of the visible universe. If you extrapolate back from the vector of dark flow, it will intersect with the center of the universe. This point is equidistant from all points on the holographic surface of the universe.

  • @jamesklinger1039
    @jamesklinger1039 2 роки тому +3

    I love your videos, i know very little of physics but i love space. You are constantly blowing my mind with what i can follow.

  • @bestdani
    @bestdani 2 роки тому

    I usually try to not think in distances when it comes to expansion of the universe but just try to think about that the duration between interactions of points in the universe increses.

  • @stevefowler2112
    @stevefowler2112 2 роки тому +1

    Theoretical Physics is so interesting, part of me still wishes I would have gone that route, but then I wouldn't have had the very fun and challenging and rewarding career I did as an Engineer. It would be fun to be able to rewind the clock and see what I could have made of my life as a theoretical physicist, but until someone figures out how to deal with the pesky challenges of building a time machine, I guess that isn't in the cards. I am so happy to have found Ms. Hossenfelder's channel, a true treasure chest (a Ph.D. Aerospace/Computer Engineer who spent 36 years at a large American defense contractor.

  • @DenkyManner
    @DenkyManner 2 роки тому +10

    I'm 73% sure it was in West Croydon.

  • @jmchez
    @jmchez 2 роки тому +8

    I had previously learned about center of expansions as the center always being one dimension away.
    For example, a circle is just a one dimensional line curved around so you can only go one way or another in that dimension and always end up where you started but the center of the circle is in a two dimensional plane. For a two dimensional surface that curves on itself, you can move in two dimensions and, again, always end up where you started but the center of the resulting sphere is in the unreachable third dimension. Which, of course, would mean that a three dimensional expanding volume that curves on itself would have its center in the unreachable fourth dimension.

    • @mikel4879
      @mikel4879 2 роки тому

      There are no "two dimensions" in space. If the third real spatial dimension is zero then the so-called 2 dimensions in the real space are also zero.
      It is one thing to just imagine that something non-existent might exist, and a different thing of what exactly and real exists in the material reality of the real Universe.

    • @projectmalus
      @projectmalus 2 роки тому

      Perhaps broken symmetry of a singularity comes as an expansion contraction leaving a shell circle event horizon. A drop in dimension, and again if time is used in small line segments, introducing linear motion as quantum fluctuations and breaking the circle. Oddly enough, the drop going from 1D to 2D and 3D, not the other way around. The singularity still there untouched.

    • @bigfletch8
      @bigfletch8 2 роки тому

      @@mikel4879 Until you realize that we each live in an I -Magi -Nation in this UniverseCity.

    • @cefarix
      @cefarix 2 роки тому

      This analogy only works if the expanding surface has positive curvature (it loops back around to meet itself - and hence is finite). A flat surface or one with negative curvature goes on forever. The analogy I like to use for a flat surface (which seems to be the case for the spacetime we live in) is to imagine a flat plane with grid lines drawn on it. The plane is, by definition, flat and goes on forever in all directions. There is no single point that is the center of the plane. Now, to visualize expansion on this plane, simply imagine the spacing between grid lines to double every second. If you look at the plane at different points, it will look exactly the same. The expansion will always look like it's happening from the center point - even if you move your view to a different center point. And, crucially, we can note that this central point is just the center of our viewing of the plane, and the point does not lie in a third dimension outside of the plane. In fact, there is no need for an extra dimension outside the plane in this analogy to view the expansion.

    • @jmchez
      @jmchez 2 роки тому

      @@cefarix I think that our Universe is just so large that it looks flat up to the MWBR just like our Earth looks flat up to the Horizon because we are so small compared to the surface we are on. If the multiverse theory is correct you can have the multiverse be infinite but the individual universes in it have to be finite.
      And, Yes, I know that Cantor proved that some infinities are contained within others but, to me, that's just math not physics.

  • @onehitpick9758
    @onehitpick9758 2 роки тому

    You got me with "but if the big bang did happen". I have been thinking about Penrose's epochs, and something the is a bit more recursive, looking to some like a "big bang" from any given point in space, but also in time.

  • @eltonparks659
    @eltonparks659 2 роки тому +1

    Not as lost as I thought I was on relativity; with someone who can explain it so well it falls into place easier. And the great attractor gives me chills at every mention.

    • @hyperduality2838
      @hyperduality2838 2 роки тому

      ATTRACTION is dual to REPULSION, push is dual to pull -- forces are dual.
      If you want attractive forces (gravity) then you are automatically assuming a dual concept.
      Concepts are dual to percepts -- the mind duality of Immanuel Kant.
      Forces are responsible for effects.
      Cause is dual to effect implies correlation of the two (a force).
      Thesis (cause) is dual to anti-thesis (effect) creates the converging thesis or synthesis (forces) -- the time independent Hegelian dialectic.
      The force of gravity (cause) results in apples falling to the ground (effect) and duality is conserved in this process, potential energy is dual to kinetic energy.
      Forces have there origin in the conservation of duality -- generalized duality.
      Monads are units of force -- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz.
      Monads are units of force which are dual -- monads are dual.
      "May the force (duality) be with you" -- Jedi saying.
      "The force (duality) is strong in this one" -- Jedi saying.
      "Always two there are" -- Yoda.
      Absolute truth is dual to relative truth -- Hume's fork.
      Antinomy (duality) is two truths that contradict each other -- Immanuel Kant.

  • @radupopescu9977
    @radupopescu9977 2 роки тому +90

    I see a lot of "common sense" in what you said, and less speculations that in other's presentations, and for that reason, I really enjoy your videos. Like!

    • @unclekerr4369
      @unclekerr4369 2 роки тому

      Maybe less speculations but massive ones. Because "no science ever defends it's first principles" everything is a speculation.

    • @radupopescu9977
      @radupopescu9977 2 роки тому +1

      @@unclekerr4369 If you really dig in the science subject, you may find many inconsistencies.
      Scientific and proved are other things that are not the same thing.
      Math, one of the ... robust system we are aware of has also inconsistencies. Godel proved that (in a math way!) through those 2 incompleteness theorems...., which roughly says - any logical system (including math) is at least incomplete or at least wrong.... But, it might be both.
      I remind you that for a thing to be scientific there must be fulfilled 3 conditions at once:
      - to predict something
      - to test it in at least 2 different ways, in a reasonable time
      - repeating tests, yields the same results.
      There are a lot of things presented to be scientific but they are not.
      Note: for a thing to be true it's not necessary to be scientific.
      I give you an e.g.:
      My birth is a unique event, but it's not scientific because, it can't be repeated. Nevertheless it is a true event.

    • @unclekerr4369
      @unclekerr4369 2 роки тому

      @@radupopescu9977 Science is becoming a fantasy.

    • @radupopescu9977
      @radupopescu9977 2 роки тому

      @@unclekerr4369 It's case by case.

    • @unclekerr4369
      @unclekerr4369 2 роки тому

      @@radupopescu9977 It must be but it seldom is which is why I say it's a religion.

  • @ostihpem
    @ostihpem 2 роки тому +14

    So do I get that right: in the standard theory the universe was still infinitely large when the Big Bang happened and only if we look at our observable (finite) part of the universe it was an infinitesimal tiny space-time-dot? I had no idea that the universe is assumed infinitely big in Einstein‘s theory since that causes some weird paradoxes (Olbers).

    • @ilkov
      @ilkov 2 роки тому +7

      There is no answer, at least not in science. Whatever is outside of the skin of the grapefruit never entered in contact with what we can see and will never be, so there no way it affected our observable universe and no way to infer what is there, so we can do any assumption we want.
      Even if what is outside affected some other point nearer than us to the border of the observable universe, this happened at a time that still makes impossible for us to observe it.

    • @alphagt62
      @alphagt62 2 роки тому

      @@ilkov yes!

    • @Teth47
      @Teth47 2 роки тому +1

      The universe isn't the stuff in it, it's the place the stuff happens in. The place was always there, expanding, and infinitely large, the stuff is being carried with it and used to be closer together to a degree we cannot model for reasons we do not know. If I understand it right.

    • @LcdDrmr
      @LcdDrmr 2 роки тому

      What is infinitely large is the third dimension. This is why she mentioned that a one-dimensional line is made up of an infinite number of zero-dimensional points. Every dimension is infinite, even if from the "outside" it would appear to have a border, because it is always made up of an infinite number of points, lines and/or planes. Space can expand forever in an infinite dimension, even though it may occupy the entirety of the dimension. That seems to be a paradox, but, oddly enough, it is only a mental paradox, and not a physical one. The Universe has no edge, anymore than the Earth does, and everyone on Earth finds themselves at the center of this "plane".

    • @williamburts5495
      @williamburts5495 2 роки тому +1

      The nature of theories is that they are always changing.

  • @sergeantcrow
    @sergeantcrow 2 роки тому

    That's a fascinating aspect I never heard of before... Our motion through the 'rest frame' of the Universe.. and 630 km/s.

  • @dreamlover7681
    @dreamlover7681 2 роки тому +2

    Her videos are incredibly informative and just perfectly done.

  • @ANunes06
    @ANunes06 2 роки тому +26

    "A long time ago, actually never (and also now), nothing is nowhere. When? Never. Makes sense, right? Like I said, it didn't happen. Nothing was never anywhere. That's why it's been everywhere. It's been so everywhere, you don't even need a where. You don't even need a when. That's how *every* it gets." *edit* - Bill Wurtz, The History of the Entire World, I Guess.

    • @lt8833
      @lt8833 2 роки тому

      😏

    • @SaeedNeamati
      @SaeedNeamati 2 роки тому

      history of everything

    • @lt8833
      @lt8833 2 роки тому

      I wonder if Sabine had seen it

    • @ANunes06
      @ANunes06 2 роки тому

      @@SaeedNeamati Should've sourced it, like a good science doing person. First thing that came to mind. Thanks fam. Fixed in OP.

    • @bigfletch8
      @bigfletch8 2 роки тому

      Welcome to the UniverseCity wher we become conscious of the I-Magi-Nation.

  • @zathrasyes1287
    @zathrasyes1287 2 роки тому +4

    Great explanation! That seems to be the upper limit of what our understanding of the universe can accomplish.

  • @utubesgreat4me
    @utubesgreat4me 2 дні тому

    I’ve wondered for a while now if what is called ‘the big bang’ could be more accurately described as ‘the big shift in scale’. My conjecture is that the universe is more like a fractal where there is no scale ground zero.

  • @axle.australian.patriot
    @axle.australian.patriot Рік тому

    Question: If the milky way (includes us) is traveling at 630km/s relative to the CMB, how much slower is time for us than the CMB? (aka time stops at 299,792.458km/s)
    >
    Put another way, if our galaxy continues to accelerate, at what point does time slow so much (for us) that our movement through the universe will appear to be an infinite journey? (or is it like the photon and our journey is over (from our perspective) without even knowing we have moved such a long way through space?)
    >
    We can further reduce the speed of time if we include the net mass of the galaxy. Sorry if my question is not well put.

  • @jonathonjubb6626
    @jonathonjubb6626 2 роки тому +5

    Lots of lovely information, I'll have to watch this again!
    We are moving towards the Great Attractor because we have to be going somewhere...

    • @hyperduality2838
      @hyperduality2838 2 роки тому

      ATTRACTION is dual to REPULSION, push is dual to pull -- forces are dual.
      If you want attractive forces (gravity) then you are automatically assuming a dual concept.
      Concepts are dual to percepts -- the mind duality of Immanuel Kant.
      Forces are responsible for effects.
      Cause is dual to effect implies correlation of the two (a force).
      Thesis (cause) is dual to anti-thesis (effect) creates the converging thesis or synthesis (forces) -- the time independent Hegelian dialectic.
      The force of gravity (cause) results in apples falling to the ground (effect) and duality is conserved in this process, potential energy is dual to kinetic energy.
      Forces have there origin in the conservation of duality -- generalized duality.
      Monads are units of force -- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz.
      Monads are units of force which are dual -- monads are dual.
      "May the force (duality) be with you" -- Jedi saying.
      "The force (duality) is strong in this one" -- Jedi saying.
      "Always two there are" -- Yoda.
      Absolute truth is dual to relative truth -- Hume's fork.
      Antinomy (duality) is two truths that contradict each other -- Immanuel Kant.

  • @julsius
    @julsius 2 роки тому +13

    Terence McKenna called it "The Great Attractor At The End of Time". which is very dramatic.

    • @georgelionon9050
      @georgelionon9050 2 роки тому +3

      So the Great Attractor = the Restaurant? (at the end of the universe)

    • @megelizabeth9492
      @megelizabeth9492 2 роки тому

      It's most likely just another large cluster of galaxies, and we can't see it due to the plain of the milky way getting in the way.

    • @georgelionon9050
      @georgelionon9050 2 роки тому

      @@megelizabeth9492 plane.

    • @hyperduality2838
      @hyperduality2838 2 роки тому

      ATTRACTION is dual to REPULSION, push is dual to pull -- forces are dual.
      If you want attractive forces (gravity) then you are automatically assuming a dual concept.
      Concepts are dual to percepts -- the mind duality of Immanuel Kant.
      Forces are responsible for effects.
      Cause is dual to effect implies correlation of the two (a force).
      Thesis (cause) is dual to anti-thesis (effect) creates the converging thesis or synthesis (forces) -- the time independent Hegelian dialectic.
      The force of gravity (cause) results in apples falling to the ground (effect) and duality is conserved in this process, potential energy is dual to kinetic energy.
      Forces have there origin in the conservation of duality -- generalized duality.
      Monads are units of force -- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz.
      Monads are units of force which are dual -- monads are dual.
      "May the force (duality) be with you" -- Jedi saying.
      "The force (duality) is strong in this one" -- Jedi saying.
      "Always two there are" -- Yoda.
      Absolute truth is dual to relative truth -- Hume's fork.
      Antinomy (duality) is two truths that contradict each other -- Immanuel Kant.

  • @ArisAlamanos
    @ArisAlamanos 2 роки тому +1

    I was expecting coordinates or an address or something... 😀 Seriously now, great video (as usual) Sabine!

  • @JulianMakes
    @JulianMakes 2 роки тому +1

    Wow, super clear explanations Sabine thank you.

  • @monsieurmitosis
    @monsieurmitosis 2 роки тому +4

    Sabine has undiscovered dramatic and cinematic talent.

  • @kirktown2046
    @kirktown2046 2 роки тому +10

    Really starting to enjoy a weekly sobering science session with Sabine, thank you for being part of the public discourse!

  • @albyboy4278
    @albyboy4278 2 роки тому +1

    I'm going to download this video to keep as a document for my ignorant professors that I have, just to clarify their ideas quite a bit 😄
    Thanks Sabine for the beautiful explanation 😁

  • @vadymkvasha4556
    @vadymkvasha4556 Рік тому +1

    Sabine, I've heard and read a lot about the size of the universe but you are the first who mentioned that that refers only to a visible part. That explains a lot of interpretations of the calculations! Thank you! But come on, why such a small but valuable clarification does not exist in all the descriptions?)

    • @manog8713
      @manog8713 Рік тому

      I have the same question. I am not sure this is true though, otherwise how could no one else mention it but Sabine? Another posiibility is, as we've seen in last few decades, all initial simplisctic assumptions about the Bing Bang theiry seems to be fading away and it soem more scientists like Sabine speak their mind a little more freely, and I mean outside the box.. There are many more questiones begging answers than any one ever answred by this theory. One more fundamental questions I have always thought no one mentionening is how much can the universe possibly be squeezed?

  • @andreac5152
    @andreac5152 2 роки тому +3

    Thank you Sabine, I still had a couple misconception about the universe, now it makes more sense and is more mind blowing at the same time. I will spread this knowledge.

    • @Ithirahad
      @Ithirahad 2 роки тому +1

      It's not mind blowing, it's just mind expanding! :D

    • @hyperduality2838
      @hyperduality2838 2 роки тому

      ATTRACTION is dual to REPULSION, push is dual to pull -- forces are dual.
      If you want attractive forces (gravity) then you are automatically assuming a dual concept.
      Concepts are dual to percepts -- the mind duality of Immanuel Kant.
      Forces are responsible for effects.
      Cause is dual to effect implies correlation of the two (a force).
      Thesis (cause) is dual to anti-thesis (effect) creates the converging thesis or synthesis (forces) -- the time independent Hegelian dialectic.
      The force of gravity (cause) results in apples falling to the ground (effect) and duality is conserved in this process, potential energy is dual to kinetic energy.
      Forces have there origin in the conservation of duality -- generalized duality.
      Monads are units of force -- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz.
      Monads are units of force which are dual -- monads are dual.
      "May the force (duality) be with you" -- Jedi saying.
      "The force (duality) is strong in this one" -- Jedi saying.
      "Always two there are" -- Yoda.
      Absolute truth is dual to relative truth -- Hume's fork.
      Antinomy (duality) is two truths that contradict each other -- Immanuel Kant.

  • @nziom
    @nziom 2 роки тому +5

    Amazing video as always now am more curious about the great attractor

    • @jaredsmith112
      @jaredsmith112 2 роки тому

      Space is expanding faster than we’re falling towards the attractor so we’ll never get there

  • @ShaunPrince
    @ShaunPrince Рік тому

    Lol, Sabine @9:06 - it is unfortunate that we need these reminders, thank-you.

  • @MaryAnnNytowl
    @MaryAnnNytowl 2 роки тому

    I LOVE what you do, Sabine! You are such a great science communicator, and so clear and concise with your explanations. You should be proud of what you do!
    I do miss your music videos on this channel, but I've subscribed to the other channel, too! I love your 🎶 🎵 🎶 🎵 🎶 music! ❤❤ 🎶 🎵 🎶 🎵 🎶 ❤❤ Please keep making those videos, as well!

    • @fermansmith6042
      @fermansmith6042 2 роки тому

      Looks like you got out of that corner where you were all alone ! :-)

  • @StephenGoodfellow
    @StephenGoodfellow 2 роки тому +37

    "Give us one free miracle and we’ll explain the rest."
    ~ Terence McKenna
    Can't wait to see some Webb Space Telescope results!

    • @EnglishmanB3
      @EnglishmanB3 2 роки тому +3

      "All of modern science was created at the behest of an Angelic entity, the heads at MiT are not talking about that I can assure you." ~T

    • @RWin-fp5jn
      @RWin-fp5jn 2 роки тому +3

      Interesting how Sabine reframes the sentence ' I don't know;' to 'nobody knows'. If all self declared experts would do this then we all know nothing. But then again, that may actually be the case and even the goal of academia, since we made no progress for 40 years...,

    • @EnglishmanB3
      @EnglishmanB3 2 роки тому +1

      @@RWin-fp5jn She's in no position to claim "nobody knows", quite right.
      Those who require a reason for everything subvert reason. 🤓

    • @StephenGoodfellow
      @StephenGoodfellow 2 роки тому +5

      @@EnglishmanB3 When the Hubble telescope and other devices played their powers of magnification on the supposedly youngest of galaxies a mere 500 million years from the Red Shift limit, they found themselves looking at 2nd generation - carbon content stars - in these galaxies.
      Well folks, that's a far cry from a realm that was predicted to merely consist of primordial beginning-of-the-Big-Bang subatomic primordial ooze.
      When the Webb Telescope takes a gander with its magnification 20 times more powerful than the Hubble, there's going to be some serious reevaluation...Or will the Big Bangers merely move the goalposts further into the Red Limit?

    • @EnglishmanB3
      @EnglishmanB3 2 роки тому

      @@StephenGoodfellow A native American tribesman while high on some hallucinogen mapped out a certain part of the galaxy before any telescope was able to stretch that far because "he'd been there"... 20 years later (ish) ... the telescope folk found it, precisely.

  • @davecool42
    @davecool42 2 роки тому +4

    Sound effects budget must have gone up.

  • @rodrigosilvanader
    @rodrigosilvanader Рік тому

    Awesome content. BTW I've just happened to listen to this video over mixing monitors and suggest a DE-ESSER to avoid sibilance :)

  • @romeojulya8270
    @romeojulya8270 2 роки тому

    Hi Sabine could you make a video about fields? Like the higgs field. How they work and what rules they follow?

  • @simesaid
    @simesaid 2 роки тому +21

    Never have so many of my preconceived notions of physics been destroyed in so few minutes...
    To you with failing minds we throw, Sabine!

    • @georgelionon9050
      @georgelionon9050 2 роки тому +6

      Honestly I've seen even physits doing this (IMO) error all the time saying "the universe" when they actually mean "the observable universe".

    • @fermansmith6042
      @fermansmith6042 2 роки тому

      @@georgelionon9050 George as smart as you appear to be, it seems English may not be your first language. Saw you spell a word docents for dozens ... and now Physits for Physicists... or is it just laziness or sloppiness? Or is it you simply do not spell very well. In either case, do not sweat it. Throughout history there have been very successful, wealthy , influential people who were poor spellers.

  • @CAThompson
    @CAThompson 2 роки тому +15

    A Great Attractor that we don't know what it is or why we're going there. A bit like life, really. : )
    Also, Popular Scientific Confusions is the name of my electro-clash noise album.

    • @hyperduality2838
      @hyperduality2838 2 роки тому

      ATTRACTION is dual to REPULSION, push is dual to pull -- forces are dual.
      If you want attractive forces (gravity) then you are automatically assuming a dual concept.
      Concepts are dual to percepts -- the mind duality of Immanuel Kant.
      Forces are responsible for effects.
      Cause is dual to effect implies correlation of the two (a force).
      Thesis (cause) is dual to anti-thesis (effect) creates the converging thesis or synthesis (forces) -- the time independent Hegelian dialectic.
      The force of gravity (cause) results in apples falling to the ground (effect) and duality is conserved in this process, potential energy is dual to kinetic energy.
      Forces have there origin in the conservation of duality -- generalized duality.
      Monads are units of force -- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz.
      Monads are units of force which are dual -- monads are dual.
      "May the force (duality) be with you" -- Jedi saying.
      "The force (duality) is strong in this one" -- Jedi saying.
      "Always two there are" -- Yoda.
      Absolute truth is dual to relative truth -- Hume's fork.
      Antinomy (duality) is two truths that contradict each other -- Immanuel Kant.

  • @aiaramchek2077
    @aiaramchek2077 2 роки тому

    A cake with raisins that is being baked is a good analogy for the expanding 3D space (better than the band with buttons).

  • @Ithirahad
    @Ithirahad 2 роки тому +1

    It's not that difficult to visualize in a way that is more approximately correct than an explosion... just fade from white to fluffy gas clouds spreading out and then an expanding universe with coalescing stars and galaxies, rather than having a camera sit in space watching a point go boom. I think the most important part to drive home for the average viewer is that the Big Bang is the density of the universe abruptly dropping from (near?) infinity, not exploding outwards into somewhere that was already there.

  • @alfrede.newman1838
    @alfrede.newman1838 2 роки тому +3

    We know the BB happened at Warner Brothers Studios in Burbank, California, USA between September 24, 2007 - May 16, 2019 😃
    Sorry, I couldn't resist a comment. Seriously, as always another great video. Many thanks, Sabine.

  • @vladsnape6408
    @vladsnape6408 2 роки тому +5

    8:47 ".. that's about a million miles per hour" - it is nice how you look after your viewers in Liberia and Myanmar.
    Edit: and the US

    • @deltalima6703
      @deltalima6703 2 роки тому

      I wonder what that is in units the other 7.5 billion people use.

  • @iamchillydogg
    @iamchillydogg 2 роки тому +1

    Listening to how we're hurtling through space at incredible velocity while I'm laying here on my couch kinda freaks me out.

  • @BlackHoleForge
    @BlackHoleForge 2 роки тому +1

    I am looking forward to another intriguing video.

  • @SteveHamiltonMusic
    @SteveHamiltonMusic 2 роки тому +9

    Narcissists will be reassured to know that from our own perspective, we are always the centre of the universe.

    • @fannyalbi9040
      @fannyalbi9040 2 роки тому +1

      no surprise, when science is hijack by religious “scientists”, always find easy way to make conclusions. And the most celebrity scientists just regurgitate it in the media

  • @furiusstiles3214
    @furiusstiles3214 2 роки тому +9

    “It is infinitely large now and has always been infinitely large.” Biblical flashbacks

    • @WhiteChocolate74
      @WhiteChocolate74 2 роки тому

      In the Biblical narrative the universe had a beginning, so it wasn't always large

    • @thomasreedy4751
      @thomasreedy4751 2 роки тому +2

      I the biblical creation something was created “god” before creation. And somehow no one cares to postulate “god’s” creation except those who realize god was created by humans.

    • @RCAvhstape
      @RCAvhstape 2 роки тому

      @@thomasreedy4751 "God" refers to the beings who run the Universe Simulation Software.

    • @kurtn4819
      @kurtn4819 2 роки тому

      @Sandra G What?

  • @AdrianColley
    @AdrianColley 2 роки тому +1

    8:25 There's an absolute rest-frame and we can measure our speed relative to it! If you said such a thing on April 1st, I wouldn't have believed you. This is really engaging educational material. Thank you!

    • @georgelionon9050
      @georgelionon9050 2 роки тому +1

      It isn't a "rest-frame", but it's funny that after all there is a reference frame.

    • @fermansmith6042
      @fermansmith6042 2 роки тому +1

      @@georgelionon9050 George are you SABINE in disguise or just her sorta "Unofficial Lil' Helper! :-)

    • @AdrianColley
      @AdrianColley 2 роки тому +1

      @@georgelionon9050 What's the difference between a rest frame and a reference frame? I thought they were synonyms for the "inertial reference frame" concept that special relativity textbooks frequently refer to.

    • @Littleprinceleon
      @Littleprinceleon 2 роки тому

      @@AdrianColley I think he's just amused by the word "rest" describing an expanding universe, where everything has relative velocities...

  • @TheGreatFilterPodcast
    @TheGreatFilterPodcast 2 роки тому +1

    Very clearly explained - thank you. I was unaware that the all-too-common grapefruit (or, as you said, whatever fruit just happened to be used as an example) example was in sole reference to the observable universe and not the entire universe.
    That is utterly bonkers.

  • @weylguy
    @weylguy 2 роки тому +4

    Sabine got her hair done! Brilliant and beautiful as well.

  • @dartplayer170
    @dartplayer170 2 роки тому +4

    When we go back in time we are also going into a higher gravitational field since the density of matter is increasing. So why is gravitational time dilation never included in to the calculation of the age of the universe?

    • @frankdimeglio8216
      @frankdimeglio8216 2 роки тому

      The page Nexus of Physics has now given the following two writings the thumbs up on their page. ALSO consider this: E=mc2 is DIRECTLY and fundamentally derived from F=ma, AS E=mc2 IS F=ma; AS time DILATION proves that electromagnetism/ENERGY IS GRAVITY.
      THE UNIVERSAL AND MATHEMATICAL PROOF THAT ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY:
      Energy has/involves GRAVITY, AND ENERGY has/involves inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE. "Mass"/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. E=mc2 is DIRECTLY and fundamentally derived from F=ma. GRAVITATIONAL force/ENERGY IS proportional to (or BALANCED with/as) inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE, AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. SO, gravity/acceleration involves BALANCED inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE consistent with/as what is BALANCED electromagnetic/gravitational force/ENERGY; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. "Mass"/ENERGY involves BALANCED inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE consistent with/as what is BALANCED electromagnetic/gravitational force/ENERGY, AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. Gravity AND ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY are linked AND BALANCED opposites, AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. THE SUN AND THE EARTH are described and represented by BOTH F=ma AND E=mc2. F=ma AND E=mc2 PROVE that ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY, AS ALL of SPACE is NECESSARILY electromagnetic/gravitational (IN BALANCE). Objects fall at the same rate (neglecting air resistance, of course), AS the SPEED OF LIGHT is RELATIVELY CONSTANT AS WELL. ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. Gravity IS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY. In fact, the rotation of THE MOON MATCHES it's revolution; AS gravity/acceleration involves BALANCED inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. So, THE PLANETS (INCLUDING WHAT IS THE EARTH) are not "falling" in what is "curved SPACE" in RELATION to what is THE SUN. This is nonsense. E=mc2 is DIRECTLY AND FUNDAMENTALLY DERIVED FROM F=ma. This truly explains PERPETUAL MOTION. Very importantly, outer "space" involves full inertia; AND it is fully invisible AND black. The stars AND PLANETS are POINTS in the night sky. A PHOTON may be placed the center of THE SUN (as A POINT, of course), as the reduction of SPACE is offset by (or BALANCED with) the SPEED OF LIGHT; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY.
      By Frank DiMeglio
      EINSTEIN NEVER UNDERSTOOD PHILOSOPHY, MATHEMATICS, AND PHYSICS, AS HE HAS BEEN TOTALLY OUTSMARTED BY SIR FRANK MARTIN DIMEGLIO:
      The balance of being AND EXPERIENCE is ESSENTIAL. BALANCE AND completeness go hand in hand.
      THE SELF represents, FORMS, and experiences a COMPREHENSIVE approximation of experience in general by combining conscious and unconscious experience. MOREOVER, the ability of THOUGHT to DESCRIBE OR RECONFIGURE sensory experience is ULTIMATELY dependent upon the extent to which THOUGHT IS SIMILAR TO sensory experience. THOUGHTS ARE INVISIBLE.
      Dream experience is/involves true/real QUANTUM GRAVITY, AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. MOST IMPORTANTLY, in dreams, BODILY/VISUAL EXPERIENCE is invisible AND VISIBLE IN BALANCE. IMPORTANTLY, dream experience is possible/potential AND actual IN BALANCE. THE EYE is ALSO the body. Dreams improve upon memory AND UNDERSTANDING. Indeed, there is no outsmarting the GENIUS of dreams.
      OVERLAY what is THE EYE in BALANCED RELATION to/with what is THE EARTH. NOW, get a good LOOK at what is the translucent, SEMI-SPHERICAL, QUANTUM GRAVITATIONAL, AND BLUE sky. Excellent. The DOME of a person's EYE is ALSO VISIBLE. THE EARTH IS also BLUE (as water).
      F=ma AND E=mc2 PROVE that, why, and how ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. This NECESSARILY represents, INVOLVES, and describes what is possible/potential AND actual IN BALANCE. SO, it is NECESSARILY a matter of precisely how these equations are understood in a BALANCED, EXTENSIVE, AND INTEGRATED fashion in RELATION to/with WHAT IS THOUGHT. The INTEGRATED EXTENSIVENESS of THOUGHT (AND description) is improved in the truly superior mind. E=mc2 is DIRECTLY and fundamentally derived from F=ma.
      Very importantly, outer "space" involves full inertia; AND it is fully invisible AND black.
      The stars AND PLANETS are POINTS in the night sky. A PHOTON may be placed at the center of THE SUN (as A POINT, of course), as the reduction of SPACE is offset by (or BALANCED with) the SPEED OF LIGHT; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. Get a good LOOK at what is THE EYE. POINTS are points. Gravity IS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY. ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. GRAVITATIONAL force/ENERGY IS proportional to (or BALANCED with/as) inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE, AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. "Mass"/ENERGY involves BALANCED inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE consistent with/as what is BALANCED electromagnetic/gravitational force/ENERGY, AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. Gravity/acceleration involves BALANCED inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE, AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. "Mass"/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. Energy has/involves GRAVITY, AND ENERGY has/involves inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE. F=ma AND E=mc2 PROVE that ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY, AS ALL of SPACE is NECESSARILY electromagnetic/gravitational IN BALANCE; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. GREAT.
      The stars AND PLANETS are POINTS in the night sky. OPEN your EYES. NOW, LOOK at what is the FLAT, SETTING, AND ORANGE SUN (with the SPACE around it THEN going invisible AND VISIBLE IN BALANCE). This ORANGE SUN manifests or forms at what is EYE LEVEL/BODY HEIGHT as well. This ORANGE SUN is manifest ON BALANCE as what is NECESSARILY the BODILY/VISUAL EXPERIENCE of THE EARTH/LAVA. The viscosity of LAVA IS BETWEEN what is manifest as WATER AND THE EARTH/GROUND. ALL of SPACE is NECESSARILY electromagnetic/gravitational IN BALANCE, AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. F=ma AND E=mc2 do provide absolute, BALANCED, THEORETICAL, and CLEAR proof that ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY.
      Gravity/acceleration involves BALANCED inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE, AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. THEREFORE, the rotation of THE MOON MATCHES it's revolution. MOREOVER, a given PLANET (INCLUDING WHAT IS THE EARTH) sweeps out equal areas in equal times; AND this is THEN consistent with/as what is F=ma, E=mc2, AND what is PERPETUAL MOTION; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. It ALL makes perfect sense. BALANCE AND completeness go hand in hand.
      THE PLANETS (INCLUDING WHAT IS THE EARTH) are NOT "falling" in what is "curved SPACE". In fact, this is nonsense. It is PROVEN.
      By Frank DiMeglio

    • @m.c.4674
      @m.c.4674 2 роки тому

      That is like being in the center of the earth , their is no gravity.

    • @honkytonk4465
      @honkytonk4465 2 роки тому +2

      @@frankdimeglio8216 no hobbies?

    • @RedRocket4000
      @RedRocket4000 2 роки тому

      Age of the universe is estimated in several ways by direct observation of the universe and they have to be adjusting for Relativity but that getting into stupid hard math to explain to us lay people.

    • @deltalima6703
      @deltalima6703 2 роки тому

      It seems like a reasonable question, really deserves an answer from sabine herself. The key is that there are no reference frames outside of the universe to compare with.

  • @maschwab63
    @maschwab63 2 роки тому

    The Astronomy Professor at UIS (University of Illinois Springfield) had an interesting idea. He said if the Big Bang produced energy that create matter and a slightly less amount of antimatter and the matching quantities of matter and antimatter recycled back into energy, that would show up. So his idea was the Big Bang created Neutrons that mostly decayed into Protons and Electrons or paired up into H2 / H3 / He3 / He4. Of course if you were going to create Neutrons you would expect an equal number of Anti-Neutrons.
    Of course, if you are going this route, just say once a black hole gets to a certain size, gravity goes away and the trapped neutron star explodes. This implies a universe with many creation points, which we haven't seen an impact on the Microwave Background.

  • @williamhatfield8935
    @williamhatfield8935 2 роки тому

    Current assumptions in Physics
    1. The Universe began
    2. Gravity is an attractive force
    3. The speed of light in a vacuum is constant
    4. The Universe has a measurable size
    Admitting these are only assumptions what would we observe differently if we assume the following
    1a. The Universe has always been there
    2a.There is a force being constantly generated and absorbed pushing things together
    3a. The speed of light varies as the strength of this force
    4a. The Universe is in fact infinite.

  • @chrisd4504
    @chrisd4504 2 роки тому +20

    Hey, Thanks for making these videos, Sabine. I'm a mathematician who left his phd because of health reasons, but I still do math. Videos like yours help me remind me how much I love science.

    • @ThomasJr
      @ThomasJr 2 роки тому

      good point, you can still do math though your phd fell through the cracks

    • @vincemorgan9640
      @vincemorgan9640 2 роки тому

      If you think it's possible to add infinite zeros and have a result that isn't zero you should perhaps not be practicing math without supervision. You cannot possibly have a PHD in math and actually believe you can do any math operation with infinity as a value. Perhaps with your expertise you might give us the answer to infinity multiplied by two? Should be simple for you.

    • @chrisd4504
      @chrisd4504 2 роки тому

      @@vincemorgan9640 LOL.

    • @chrisd4504
      @chrisd4504 2 роки тому

      Before you criticize basic ideas of analysis, learn what they are.

    • @chrisd4504
      @chrisd4504 2 роки тому

      It is beyond my comprehension that people become so invested in the critique of ideas that they do not understand AT ALL

  • @sweetsour6783
    @sweetsour6783 2 роки тому +3

    I had a mind blown moment when you made the distinction about the size of the universe once being a graprefruit but that is only what we can see. So the big bang didn't necessarily come from a point but could have been infinite density in an infinite amount of space... we're only seeing the 13.7 ly radius around us but there is infinite universe beyond that.... did I understand that correctly?

    • @janbaer3241
      @janbaer3241 2 роки тому

      Someone standing on a planet 13.6 billion light years from earth won't see the edge of the universe nearby. That would mean that the earth is the center of the universe. They'd see more universe.

    • @floringabriel176
      @floringabriel176 2 роки тому

      Big Bang was a local event.

  • @JP-gi2pr
    @JP-gi2pr 2 роки тому

    Truly mind blowing stuff. It keeps getting better...endless mysteries.

  • @rabokel
    @rabokel 2 роки тому

    I quite like your funny cover photos. Go Sabine go!

  • @EdPin_
    @EdPin_ 2 роки тому +13

    Richard Feynman's lectures made me feel that I understand something. Sabine Hossenfelder makes me feel this way too.
    Of course, it doesn't mean that I understand anything, but if I want to spend some time trying, here I have a good place to spend it :)
    From what I understand so far the Great Attractor is a tabletop in the kitchen of "God", and we are creatures living on the spec of dust under his fingernail. It's reaching for a bread :p

    • @Hykoo79
      @Hykoo79 2 роки тому +1

      I hear you.

  • @RaniaFarislovesRoubi
    @RaniaFarislovesRoubi 2 роки тому +3

    I love you Sabine. Please release Schrodinger Cat & Catching light without talking

    • @SabineHossenfelder
      @SabineHossenfelder  2 роки тому +4

      Thanks for the suggestion. I'll try to make that happen.

    • @fermansmith6042
      @fermansmith6042 2 роки тому

      @@SabineHossenfelder While you are about all of that release "I CAN'T FORGET " to the wind and watch it float slowly away!

  • @TakaluKevin
    @TakaluKevin 24 дні тому

    "I am in everything and everything is in me" . This describes the big bang perfectly. This was how Lord Krishna described his true self, in Bhagavad Gita. It was written about 4-5K years back.

  • @justingreen8572
    @justingreen8572 2 роки тому +1

    This is why you'll never find the center, because people refuse to think more deeply about things. How do you find the center of a sphere in motion? How do you find the center of an explosion in a jet stream? You find the speed of the wind, the direction of the wind, and the rate of the expansion of the explosion. All those things are quite possible with modern technology. If we did try to find a supposed center and it was severely off centered, we'd know a great deal more about just how big the universe actually is. Especially if the relative center is out of our cosmic horizon. Or imagine if we find some galaxies are centered around one core, and others around different cores. This would bring up the possibility of multiple big bangs that collide over cosmic distances.
    Another reason this question is relative is that if you look at the CMB, there appears to be a cold and hot side. The hot side is simply us moving away from the center and the cold is us moving away from the other side of the sphere as it would be traveling longer distances to get to us.

  • @skunkworksalpha7868
    @skunkworksalpha7868 2 роки тому +6

    Impressed Sabine qualified the speculation of the "big bang" in that the math worked backwards results in a certain condition, that in all intents and purposes is just a guess with the math we have available do describe the observed conditions. Math works perfectly in certain areas within certain conditions. 10 cows minus 1 cow equals 9 cows. 10-1=9. This equations works everyday all day, every time all the time. It however tells us nothing about the cow, i.e., there is no such thing a a negative cow. The negative 1 we invented to describe this specific condition perfectly predicts what happens when a cow is sold, or dies or walks off, and expounding on that simple precept we have developed mathematics which describes and predict future or past conditions, but the cow doesn't care.

  • @Inpreesme
    @Inpreesme 2 роки тому +3

    Thank you

  • @bysantin
    @bysantin 2 роки тому

    Can we use the Co-Moving Frame in the discussion regarding who is moving and who is standing still, like in the Twin Paradox?

  • @CandidDate
    @CandidDate 2 роки тому

    To quote Eric, thinking about of a speed of light voyage is really, really, really, really, really ... fun.

  • @RSTI191
    @RSTI191 2 роки тому +4

    What is crazier than trying to comprehend this video is this very smart person has but 365K subscribers and someone like a Kardashian has about 3 million followers on Instagram.
    Humans, still so primitive.

    • @patinho5589
      @patinho5589 2 роки тому

      And 100k people in concentration camps in bother Korea being tortured while we write and watch. That will help complete the picture of human civilisation as a whole on this planet.

    • @RSTI191
      @RSTI191 2 роки тому

      @@patinho5589
      100K?

  • @starhealer3635
    @starhealer3635 2 роки тому +4

    Perfect timing before my walk!

    • @DoctaOsiris
      @DoctaOsiris 2 роки тому +1

      What's this "walk" you speak of? 😲
      Is that an "outside" thing? 😲
      I don't do outside, too scary 😱

    • @firstnamesurname6550
      @firstnamesurname6550 2 роки тому +1

      @@DoctaOsiris Do You know why that is so scary ??

    • @CAThompson
      @CAThompson 2 роки тому

      @@firstnamesurname6550 I'm not sure but there's an awful great mess of it out there.

    • @firstnamesurname6550
      @firstnamesurname6550 2 роки тому +1

      @@CAThompson the thing was ... that the first time that I went for a walk outside ... It was terrifying to watch 'my' body from 'out there ... and the face just makes me return inside-in as inside-in I could ... In the 'inside' place where I can not even watch my self again ... the only stuff that could scare me are the mirrors ... but at least, I will not see my face from all the possible 'out there to in there' perspectives ... Sometimes, just a single time out there is enough to never return to it ...

    • @CAThompson
      @CAThompson 2 роки тому

      @@firstnamesurname6550 I'm sure your face isn't that scary, even though looking at all of 'out there to inside-in' does sound rather off-putting.

  • @SciHeartJourney
    @SciHeartJourney 2 роки тому +2

    Thank you for these awesome videos that expand our knowledge.
    I'm curious as to how they calculated 380,000 years as the time between the Big Bang and the formation of the first atoms, allowing light to travel freely and creating the CMB that can still be seen today.
    How do we know that time itself didn't flow at a different rate in the high energy of our early universe? 🤔

    • @albertowachsman7878
      @albertowachsman7878 2 роки тому +1

      I think she said that this calculation is based on the unproven assumption that the laws of physics that we know were the same. In other words, nobody knows if that number is correct or not.

    • @SciHeartJourney
      @SciHeartJourney 2 роки тому

      @@albertowachsman7878 You would also imagine that in the early universe the first particles were traveling at near relativitisic speeds, so time would not move along at the pace we observe today.

  • @Ai-he1dp
    @Ai-he1dp 2 роки тому

    A lovely representation of how little we know about the universe, and what beautiful words we make up to express our ignorance...so it would seem we still got a long long way to go!

  • @frankcoleman1682
    @frankcoleman1682 2 роки тому +8

    "We're moving towards the 'Great Attractor', and nobody has any idea what that is..."
    I'm about to invent the best Your Mom joke known to humanity

    • @hyperduality2838
      @hyperduality2838 2 роки тому

      ATTRACTION is dual to REPULSION, push is dual to pull -- forces are dual.
      If you want attractive forces (gravity) then you are automatically assuming a dual concept.
      Concepts are dual to percepts -- the mind duality of Immanuel Kant.
      Forces are responsible for effects.
      Cause is dual to effect implies correlation of the two (a force).
      Thesis (cause) is dual to anti-thesis (effect) creates the converging thesis or synthesis (forces) -- the time independent Hegelian dialectic.
      The force of gravity (cause) results in apples falling to the ground (effect) and duality is conserved in this process, potential energy is dual to kinetic energy.
      Forces have there origin in the conservation of duality -- generalized duality.
      Monads are units of force -- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz.
      Monads are units of force which are dual -- monads are dual.
      "May the force (duality) be with you" -- Jedi saying.
      "The force (duality) is strong in this one" -- Jedi saying.
      "Always two there are" -- Yoda.
      Absolute truth is dual to relative truth -- Hume's fork.
      Antinomy (duality) is two truths that contradict each other -- Immanuel Kant.

  • @jaydurych
    @jaydurych 2 роки тому +3

    I actually know where “the Big Bang” happened, but as a gentleman, I can disclose neither a name nor an address. 😉 But seriously, very interesting video.

  • @AllesKiten
    @AllesKiten 2 роки тому

    I am the big attractor! ... also finished AES in Schwalbach and continued up to PhD investigating in the field of Langmuir Blodget Layers.

  • @rwgoodship3653
    @rwgoodship3653 2 роки тому

    Love watching your videos, Sabine. Cheers from Canada 👍😎🏹🇨🇦