Fermilab Finds Feeble Fifth Force (Maybe)

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  • @SabineHossenfelder
    @SabineHossenfelder  Рік тому +2

    This video has a quiz that lets you check your new knowledge: quizwithit.com/start_thequiz/1694243838673x106799351856778910

    • @PrivateSi
      @PrivateSi Рік тому

      Hi Sabine, I finally did a few basic sums and found my model adds up pretty well. More than a coincidence?! Only core particle mass is really significant in my 'model' where a Muon is a strongly bonded electron+positron (2 core particles) + non strongly bonded electron.. A Proton is 2 positrons strongly bonded to 1 electron (3 core particles).. a Tau is 2 positrons strongly bonded to 2 electrons (4 core particles) + non strongly bonded electron.. So: Tau Mass (more or less) = Proton Mass + (Proton Mass - Muon Mass), or it should in this model at least... 938+(938-105)=1771... Tau Mass is about 1776 MeV..
      --
      938.27+(938.27-105.66)=1770.88... If you use the mass difference between neutron (proton + electron in this model) and proton (939.56-938.27=1.29) as a guide for what the spare electron does for a muon and tau compared to a proton you could do: 105.66-1.29=104.37 muon 'core mass'... 1776.86-1.29=1775.57 tau core mass... 938.27+(938.27-104.37)=1772.17 predicted tau core mass.. There must be another factor.. Also, I am using the Strong Force differently here. It should be called the 'Heavy Force'!
      --
      When Taus and Muons slow from (near) light speed due to interaction with matter the electrons and positrons annihilate, leaving the spare electron. Also, the mass multiplier mechanism that makes 'heavily bonded' core electrons and positrons so much more massive than when free only kicks in when the tau or muon slows from (near) light speed while a proton's mass is permanent and travels with it.

  • @nmccw3245
    @nmccw3245 Рік тому +1045

    The best takeaway from LK99 is that real science is still working as intended. In this day and age, that is encouraging. 👍🏻

    • @daarom3472
      @daarom3472 Рік тому +51

      of course it is, only a fringe group of "heterodox outsiders" whose business model is to claim there is some kind of crisis is claiming otherwise.

    • @trollking202
      @trollking202 Рік тому +1

      No it’s not working the science doesn’t understand 95% of the university and that’s dark matter and energy Also the universe is now 26.7 billion years so all the books must be crossed out! - the same when the wind blows 😮

    • @sccp1997
      @sccp1997 Рік тому +23

      LK99 have some interesting properties. Science cannot denied such achievement.
      Probably with some tweaks, those properties can be increased.

    • @ravener96
      @ravener96 Рік тому +36

      @sccp1997 it can be denied, since the properties have been recreated a bunch now and appear to be quite benign. What is there to tweak and improve?

    • @sccp1997
      @sccp1997 Рік тому +6

      @@ravener96 some scientist are experimenting different tweaks which they believe can give some superconductivity

  • @patton72010
    @patton72010 Рік тому +421

    "..in which muons go in circles until they decay, which is a good metaphor for life in general."
    I am a fan of Sabine's dry humor. Great observation too.

    • @Suggsonbass
      @Suggsonbass Рік тому +13

      I burst out laughing at that moment

    • @stevena105
      @stevena105 Рік тому +6

      I often wonder if it's her humor, or if it's the writers' humor, and she just reads everything the same.

    • @looks-suspicious
      @looks-suspicious Рік тому +7

      I had a good laugh at "There is no gravity in my room!". Just brilliant.

    • @sakesaurus
      @sakesaurus Рік тому +1

      that's not much of dry humor, the intonation doesn't sound right

    • @connordillivan452
      @connordillivan452 Рік тому +2

      I can never see it coming and that one REALLY got me 😂

  • @RelativelyBest
    @RelativelyBest Рік тому +104

    "Scientist say the sun is brighter than we thought."
    Now I'm just imagining a scientist staring directly at the sun and going: _"Ow, Jesus!_ That's _way_ brighter than I thought it would be!"

    • @benjaminlavigne2272
      @benjaminlavigne2272 Рік тому +2

      "Scientist say the sun is brighter than we thought."
      which they can't say as much for themselves

    • @mark.J6708
      @mark.J6708 Рік тому +2

      Well, he did get a $20 million dollar grant to stare at the sun... sooooo

    • @ElementalAer
      @ElementalAer Рік тому +2

      Basically that, but with a milkion dollar sensor lmao

    • @jasonwiley798
      @jasonwiley798 7 місяців тому

      And go blind to boot.

  • @epelly3
    @epelly3 Рік тому +51

    I've never seen Sabine so happy after answering the telephone

  • @benburch3250
    @benburch3250 Рік тому +9

    Former Fermilabber here. Worked there in the era of the TEVatron and the collider development. Go Fermi!

    • @marcomoreno6748
      @marcomoreno6748 Рік тому +2

      The TEVatron eh? Does it get all the footie games?

    • @benburch3250
      @benburch3250 Рік тому +2

      @@marcomoreno6748Well, it got lots and lots of liquid helium! Which would make a footie ball shatter I'd think.

  • @larrywalsh9939
    @larrywalsh9939 Рік тому +30

    What often amazes me about Sabine is, as a physicist, she makes predictions based on her observations and experimental data, and it's shocking how often her predictions are right. She predicts "...and, of course, the phone will ring." And she's RIGHT. EVERY. GODDAMN. TIME. Quantum physics just blows my mind.

    • @kataseiko
      @kataseiko Рік тому +1

      It's like the thing with your keys. They're always in the place where you look last. Although, I dare you to keep looking just in case that observation might be wrong.

    • @ShinjiKataoka
      @ShinjiKataoka Рік тому +2

      Actually, what I like about that lady Sabine is that she often does talk about subjects that is based on sociology and psychology

  • @gawayne1374
    @gawayne1374 Рік тому +11

    Sabine, the SpaceX test was a success. Everything that happened after liftoff was a bonus. Everything did work out as planned, plus we discovered a few things we need to look at

    • @itemushmush
      @itemushmush Рік тому

      pure copium lol. who on earth would class it as a success when it needed to be BLOWN UP???

    • @gawayne1374
      @gawayne1374 Рік тому +6

      @@itemushmush are you an engineer? Do you understand testing? The test objective was takeoff capability. That was a success. Everything after that was basically free data for flight systems, with the bonus that they got to test the self destruct function too. From a test perspective, it was a fantastic success.

    • @ShotgunAFlyboy
      @ShotgunAFlyboy Рік тому +5

      @@itemushmush Smooth brain take. SpaceX blew up lots of Falcon 9's before they ever put customer payloads on them.

    • @ShotgunAFlyboy
      @ShotgunAFlyboy Рік тому +6

      SpaceX repeatedly stated this in the weeks leading up to the launch. The goal was to test out the ground equipment and prove they could get off the pad.

  • @martinlagrange8821
    @martinlagrange8821 Рік тому +9

    Two interesting things - with regard to space hotels, there was a Hilton Hotel on the space station in '2001 : A Space Odyssey' - Heywood Floyd sits in its 'lobby' on those big red chairs while keeping his mission secret to visiting Russian scientists.
    And Buzz Aldrin did take wine to the moon, in the form of a consecrated vial of communion wine and bread wafer - this is seen in the HBO TV miniseries 'From the Earth to the Moon'.

  • @Thomas-gk42
    @Thomas-gk42 Рік тому +6

    Always when I think, I can't love Sabine more, there pops up a new video, book, song, lecture, debate...what an impressive human being.

  • @robbannstrom
    @robbannstrom Рік тому +1

    At 11:12, the little Albert is shivering in woolly hat and scarf - Love it! 😃

  • @robertmazurowski5974
    @robertmazurowski5974 Рік тому +104

    I remember reading about ISS when I was an 8-year-old child in 2000. I remember how amazing it felt reading about it. It feels sad as I am 31 to hear the station will be decommissioned soon.

    • @Tao_Tology
      @Tao_Tology Рік тому +13

      It is a truly horrific act that such a precious historical artifact will not be preserved and will instead be thrown at the planet to 'hopefully' destroy it.
      Like burning down an ancient library "because it's just so difficult to keep it clean".

    • @Someone-tn8ur
      @Someone-tn8ur Рік тому +16

      @@Tao_Tology How do you propose preserving it?

    • @rizizum
      @rizizum Рік тому +24

      @@Tao_Tology They either have to constantly fuel it or destroy it, just letting it orbit on it's own is dangerous cause it'll eventually fall, and you won't be able to control where

    • @Tao_Tology
      @Tao_Tology Рік тому +10

      @@rizizum Or......Langrange points.
      A literal 'holding space' and the earth has 4 to choose from.
      Really, the destruction of the ISS is a historical and cultural loss.

    • @Tao_Tology
      @Tao_Tology Рік тому +9

      @@Someone-tn8ur Given that it won't be occupied it doesn't need 'human survival' systems on board.
      It is, though, a unique technological achievement and unarguably something that would be valued by future generations (even if the bean counters at NASA can't look beyond it's immediate value).

  • @AICoffeeBreak
    @AICoffeeBreak Рік тому +29

    It's 6‘o clock with the news that actually matter! 😍

  • @MrTomyCJ
    @MrTomyCJ Рік тому +5

    15:00 A little more context would be appreciated here, especially given the amount of misinformation purposefully spread by Elon / Space exploration haters. That was a very experimental test, they knew that a rapid unplanned dissasembly was the most likely scenario, and the design had already advanced past the ship that was used. They were happy the ship even took off. That """failure""" should not be taken as the cause of any delays, if they exist.

  • @milind006
    @milind006 Рік тому +1

    Muons going around rings of magnet until they decay being a metaphor for life on general is an underrated joke! I spat my morning coffee out. I love such kind of deadpan/dark jokes.

  • @samueld92
    @samueld92 Рік тому +165

    Sabine, your channel is awesome! Appreciate the consistent uploads. ❤️

    • @scoopnumrrrratnumoosna7550
      @scoopnumrrrratnumoosna7550 Рік тому +4

      🎉

    • @dr.tonielffaucet5988
      @dr.tonielffaucet5988 Рік тому +1

      @@tomgunton Noice Woyk

    • @axumitedessalegn3549
      @axumitedessalegn3549 Рік тому

      In regard to the moon landing, it's not just SpaceX that is holding them back. SpaceX will probably be ready before anyone else for this mission. They still don't even have a space suit or are close to even finishing a prototype that works. Artemis 3 is not even built and the gateway space station which is required for docking and transferring astronauts is not even built. SpaceX is just a political scapegoat. There is a bigger chance of SpaceX landing people than Nasa themselves. There is a big fear in the space industry. SpaceX is set to dominate even more than it is now and there is nothing anyone is willing to do anything about it because all the other companies have shareholders to satisfy and taking risks is a no no.

  • @numbersix8919
    @numbersix8919 Рік тому +24

    "Going around and around in a circle until it decays." Yes, Sabine's humor is funny.

  • @ysf.3393
    @ysf.3393 Рік тому +9

    Can't wait until you break the 1 million subscriber mark. Your channel is brilliant.

  • @aliservan7188
    @aliservan7188 Рік тому +57

    The news is great, and delivered as only Sabine can with no gibberish, but it's the comedy that keeps me coming back. So many physics jokes... she's catnip for geeks

    • @unduloid
      @unduloid Рік тому +1

      Actually, I find the comedy massively cringe, and I wish she would just stick to presenting the news.

    • @aliservan7188
      @aliservan7188 Рік тому +2

      @@unduloidThe fact it's cringe is why I love it, it's like dad jokes

    • @arlenestanton9955
      @arlenestanton9955 Рік тому +1

      The humor is what a scientist would think was funny, she is a scientist. Some work for me, some don’t.

    • @soicybunny
      @soicybunny Рік тому

      @@unduloid🫠🤣 smoke some tweed

    • @olddecimal2736
      @olddecimal2736 Рік тому +1

      The cringe is the joke. And not meant to be funny.

  • @AICoffeeBreak
    @AICoffeeBreak Рік тому +31

    The sun is brighter? Now I finally know why I recently needed darker sunglasses. 😎

    • @Thomas-gk42
      @Thomas-gk42 Рік тому

      Rupert Sheldrake´s prayer? ua-cam.com/video/O8JGlX5eU8g/v-deo.html

  • @AlexTrusk91
    @AlexTrusk91 Рік тому +151

    Just checked, can confirm: The Sun is bright. Now I'm basically blind.

    • @daarom3472
      @daarom3472 Рік тому +5

      it was actually less bright than I initially thought.

    • @kaboom4679
      @kaboom4679 Рік тому +6

      Didn't see that one coming

    • @AndreLeRoux81
      @AndreLeRoux81 Рік тому +4

      Ok, next, can you please check if water is indeed wet?

    • @vyvianalcott1681
      @vyvianalcott1681 Рік тому

      It's raining here, I don't see a sun and frankly I'm skeptical if it even exists. You say you went blind as evidence but any number of things can make you go blind, I'll need something more compelling if you expect me to believe this "giant fireball suspended in the sky" theory

    • @spugelo359
      @spugelo359 Рік тому +3

      @@daarom3472 I looked at it for a while and now it's so dark I can't see it.

  • @Jarlaxleify
    @Jarlaxleify Рік тому +61

    Thank you for all the work you do!

  • @peregrinemccauley5010
    @peregrinemccauley5010 Рік тому +34

    Yes , I always suspected that the Sun was quite clever .

    • @Mr-Corey-June
      @Mr-Corey-June Рік тому

      Oh yeah, then why doesn't it switch it's gender to LED and save energy?
      After all light switch is encouraged by governments these days. 🙃

    • @DreadX10
      @DreadX10 Рік тому +3

      And has a lot of humor because that brightens my day...... ;-)

    • @Thomas-gk42
      @Thomas-gk42 Рік тому +4

      you saw her with Sheldrake on Saturday?

  • @sciencetalks909
    @sciencetalks909 Рік тому +7

    This type of videos in which you explain new findings of science to common folks are absolutely amazing....I don't know of any other such type of source

  • @muffinconsumer4431
    @muffinconsumer4431 Рік тому +12

    This discovery can’t brighten my day any more than these videos do

  • @WatchesTrainsAndRockets
    @WatchesTrainsAndRockets Рік тому +5

    Blaming Starship is just NASA's way of obscuring the fact that they are not ready for a planned Artemis 3 landing date either. I watched this game get played for every big project there for ten years. Everybody is running late but nobody will admit it in the hopes that someone else will have to and become the scapegoat that relieves the pressure on everyone. If the first test flight had gone perfectly, they would have found someone else to blame.

    • @ShotgunAFlyboy
      @ShotgunAFlyboy Рік тому

      We need some forensic accountants to go over the artemis program and some executives need to lose their jobs for letting corruption kneecap our chance at the moon. Scapegoating SpaceX for following SpaceX's typical engineering prototyping strategy is just criminal.

  • @PsRohrbaugh
    @PsRohrbaugh Рік тому

    4:15 I forget the origin of the theory, but I remember speculation that the sun's output of high energy particles has increased significantly. The speculation was that this contributed to global warming - as while our atmosphere and magnetosphere stop these particles from reaching the ground, it does so by absorbing their energy.
    This was not framed in terms of being dismissive of climate change, but rather that reducing carbon dioxide & other greenhouse gas levels is even more important, as previous models took the sun's output to be constant.
    If that's not the case, well, even a tiny increase in solar output can have drastic consequences. That makes our efforts more important than ever.

  • @KaziusAzran
    @KaziusAzran Рік тому +7

    That prototype of Starship was not expected to reach space. The main successful outcome of the test was for Starship to lift off and get away from the launch facility which it did, although not really with expectations. The biggest failure though was the flight termination system took to long to rip open the tanks as they misjudge what it would take to rip those tanks apart. Even now, Elon Musk has stated he thinks the second test flight only has a 50/50 chance to reach orbit. These test flights goals in the early stages test not just the rockets ability to get to orbit but to test things like correlation for data for Max Dynamic Pressure, Aerodynamic Flight (although first starship flew even with outdated flap designs), now Hot Staging, etc. I'm confused how people still don't understand that SpaceX has a different way of testing rockets than other companies even though it has been stated hundreds of times by SpaceX and all of Starbase watcher youtubers that put out better news videos than 99% of the news agencies in the world.
    The delays in the Starship lander are more likely due to environmental agencies pushing back, possible legal battles with jealous competitors, etc. Not due to what the media considers a test flight failure when SpaceX considered it a success for what the test flight was meant to achieve.

    • @ShotgunAFlyboy
      @ShotgunAFlyboy Рік тому +6

      Just like the Falcon 9 prototypes. Falcon 9 now flies 2 - 4 times a week without issue.

  • @erdngtn9942
    @erdngtn9942 2 місяці тому +1

    11:19 so the freeze ray does the same thing a fan would do, not only in theory but also literally. A few degrees cooler in specific objects.

  • @eonasjohn
    @eonasjohn Рік тому +7

    Thank you for the science news.

  • @blinkingmanchannel
    @blinkingmanchannel Рік тому +1

    I probably misunderstood what I was reading, but …if mass gets added only when a certain type of weird particle is added ( I’m feeling dizzy already!) then it occurs to me to ask when/how does time get added? That is, given time seems to be a “plug” in the equation, when you start backing out the speeds of the guys with the flashlights - one on the train and the other standing still, and we’re holding the speed of light constant, …is there a thing that adds time to go with the mass? Light is constant… Photons have no mass but they move and oscillate… Space-time is lumpy… What, then, is giving us this mirage of time? Or maybe I’m asking what gives us this mirage of distance, within which we keep trying to impute a concept of time? What exactly is “time?” Or I guess in the phrase, “spooky action at a distance,” is there a way to treat that distance like constant and plug something else we’ve always assumed was deterministic? Help! I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!
    I absolutely ❤ this channel! I knew you called it right on the LK-99. You have a knack for yes! Removing the gobbledygook! 🎉

  • @Scott-.
    @Scott-. Рік тому +7

    I'm new to this channel! Professor Moriarty (Sixty Symbols, not Sherlock Holmes archnemesis) mentioned Sabine in a recent video and I decided to stop by. I'm glad I've got this great source of science new now. Thanks for your hard work!

    • @Thomas-gk42
      @Thomas-gk42 Рік тому

      welcome in the audience, do you know her music-videos?

  • @blinkingmanchannel
    @blinkingmanchannel Рік тому +1

    A few days ago I posted a question. This question is sort of a follow on... I assume ask my questions are too basic to be real questions, but rather are kind of study notes as I try to work through the subject matter. In that ... light... here's my current progress and my next questions...
    Based on the video linked below, I have this bit -- if observations of electromagnetic energy give us the illusion of spacetime, and entropy is something like the same kind of illusion for quantum mechanics, and electrons have this weird "demon" state (when they aren't turning into anti-electrons?), then don't we need to suppose an on-off switch for "existence" as part of existence? I mean, quantum entanglement only looks like that because during part of the experiment some of the particles were "off" and then came back "on"? The observer would assume "time passed" and "distance was traveled" but really it was just a state change to "off" and then to "on" for existence ...of the entangled ... um... information? If, as in the end of this video, existence is kind of a crunchy quantum sand, then we just need to describe the sand when it's "off" right? It would be fun to make that description consistent with dark matter. Right? So what is that then? What's the current thinking on unobservable states that blink on and off at different readings in spacetime? I'm feeling very dizzy.
    Here's the video I that's got me trying again to form a coherent question about gobbledygook!
    Keep doing your amazing awesome work! My kids and I are enjoying the hell outta this! (Well, I am!)
    ua-cam.com/video/yPVQtvbiS4Y/v-deo.html

    • @SabineHossenfelder
      @SabineHossenfelder  Рік тому +1

      It isn't so much that things come into existence as that energy changes shape, so to speak. One collection of particles can change into another collection of particles, thank to quantum mechanics, provided that all conservation laws are concerned. It doesn't help with dark matter exactly because energy is conserved. You can't just make matter out of nothing.

    • @blinkingmanchannel
      @blinkingmanchannel Рік тому

      @@SabineHossenfelder I forgot about conservation, believe it or not. 🤦‍♂️ But when I was saying "off/on" I meant observable / not observable. I'm feeling like there is a presumption that time is passing built into the explanations of light having a finite speed, stuff we measure using light, and ideas like the expansion of the universe. Obviously this stuff is beyond me, but it's fun to try. But spacetime is one word now. So I'm ...my brain can't hang on long enough to walk this thought all the way through. A singularity requires dividing by zero. Something ain't quite right! Then again, I am just now trying to understand the Higgs field. Also, I keep trying to imagine a "field" as something akin to a sheet of vibrating plastic wrap in space, rather than as "any equation that makes good predictions."
      Keep going! We need you!♥️

  • @lgcisaacb.l.326
    @lgcisaacb.l.326 Рік тому +15

    Two words you never imagined you would hear together: Quantum Enchilada

    • @markiangooley
      @markiangooley Рік тому +1

      Even the odd phrase “manchild enchilada” has -nchil- in each word… those two words don’t even have as much in common

    • @AnnNunnally
      @AnnNunnally Рік тому

      It would go great with a Plasma Shake!

  • @jimmyzhao2673
    @jimmyzhao2673 Рік тому +1

    I would be concerned about the 'Space Wine', after all, there is a saying onboard the ISS "today's coffee is tomorrow's coffee", maybe the same goes for the wine.

  • @howtoappearincompletely9739
    @howtoappearincompletely9739 Рік тому +3

    "Plasmarize" is almost non-existent. "Plasmatize" (with a 't' for the 'r') is about twelve times as common, and is better formed, etymologically speaking.

  • @kjanttigvu6887
    @kjanttigvu6887 Рік тому

    In case nobody has mentioned it, I want you to know I >really< appreciate your sense of humor - not a character trait one typically expects in the serious sciences.

    • @kjanttigvu6887
      @kjanttigvu6887 Рік тому

      @@retiredbore378 I once had a biochemist friend, with whom I sang in church choir and played Pinochle with every week, who was barking mad! (A good sense of humor.) He was a biochemistry professor at the Ohio State University and had a strange connection with some guy he introduced as Basil, who was apparently connected in some way with discovering the steroid involved the birth control pill. (He was a real globetrotter) Dirty jokes abounded! LOL! I lost track of him when I moved away. He's probably dead by now. Someone I treasure having known in this life, no matter how ever so briefly.

  • @julioguardado
    @julioguardado Рік тому +18

    RC delay from interconnects is roughly the same as transistor switching speeds and are a significant drag on chip performance. The focus has been mainly on the C side using low-k dielectrics. A zero resistance interconnect would be a great leap. It would also make you rich. 😊

    • @solconcordia4315
      @solconcordia4315 Рік тому +4

      Only if you work for yourself in an politico-economic system allowing you to retain the fruits of your labor.
      In the West, we generally have patent laws to encourage inventions to be shared with the world while allowing the inventors to have economic gains. It's why almost all modern nice things come from the West.
      Of course, many countries of Asia, Middle East, and Africa flock with Russia for Russia's modern nice things and Red China's complaining of the U. S. A. stopping its rise because it's getting more difficult to stand on its own two feet without copying the West.

    • @thesenamesaretaken
      @thesenamesaretaken Рік тому

      ​@@solconcordia4315does paywalling scientific publications count as an innovation?

  • @okrajoe
    @okrajoe Рік тому +2

    Space wine! What a great era to live!

  • @punditgi
    @punditgi Рік тому +3

    Frau Doktor! Alles Gute! 😊

  • @sapelesteve
    @sapelesteve Рік тому +1

    My new favorite word has got to be "Plasmarize"! Thanks Sabine for another terrific video! 👍💥

  • @Tordogor
    @Tordogor Рік тому +28

    Again!? 😖 In my 45 years of studying Physics I have lost count of how many times a Fifth Force has been announced 🤔

  • @PankajDoharey
    @PankajDoharey Рік тому +12

    LK-99 was short live compared to cold fusion.

  • @AlexTrusk91
    @AlexTrusk91 Рік тому +2

    On one hand it's a pity that international collaboration for space stations degreses. On the other hand, it's nice to see humanity got more sciencey artificial real estate at least in LEO

  • @HoD999x
    @HoD999x Рік тому +17

    If it is really weak, we should call it "attempt" instead of "force"

  • @blinkingmanchannel
    @blinkingmanchannel Рік тому +1

    I’m no physicist, but your videos make me feel like one! Hey might up and down quarks be the equivalent of the peak and the trough of a wave? I’m sure that’s been debated, but I’d love your take on that rabbit hole. I’m trying to think: if the peaks of waves happen to coincide, that’s the kind of thing that would spike up enough energy to make a state change to matter, right? Or mass? And in radio, you have carrier waves that😵‍💫 kinda ride along on the main wave? The weak force strikes me some kind of background noise that, if we had a model, might be just enough “carrier wave” to “pay for” that state change? The gap I have never understood is this: through what medium are all these waves oscillating? I end up thinking of a field as a medium, like a fluid. I assume I’ve lost track of conservation of energy now. But it feels like we need to reframe quantum stuff in terms of turbulence and then speculate about why we can’t detect the medium more easily. If we can’t measure something, but we can see an effect, isn’t that a dead give away that we need to get outside the model we have? I’m trying to imagine Newton seeing a cannon ball and the moon as equivalent, though that violated a lot of contemporary assumptions. Where’s the pervasive medium for all these waves? Can we “see” it at absolute zero or something? What would it look like if the medium was, uh, “dried up” at some spot? Is that the evaporation at the end of a black hole, or max entropy, or like a primitive, “…where’d it go?!” On the other hand, what if there was a tsunami one day? Fluid mechanics gets described by chaos and fractals I guess. Why don’t I see more comparisons to fluids as an analogy for the noise in subatomic physics? We have the wave idea. What happened to the medium? Like why isn’t the transition from “energy“ to mass-bearing particles similar, say, to the disruption of laminar flow at the leading edge of the wing of a supersonic jet? Obviously, whatever that state change is, it can cascade…(fission) …so what’s the “water” doing just before it evaporates? If you go faster than light do you spontaneously become matter? Is gravity the effect of matter trying to “cool off” back to energy? Is that why time is a weird idea? You can only tell time by noticing changes in the height of these waves, or…what? Please discuss…?

    • @SabineHossenfelder
      @SabineHossenfelder  Рік тому

      Well they have different masses, so not sure how that would work.

  • @herculesrockefeller8969
    @herculesrockefeller8969 Рік тому +9

    Starlab room service is going to be really expensive!
    Thank you, Sabine.

  • @rolandrick
    @rolandrick Рік тому

    😂 1:45 “…in which the muons go in circles until they decay, which is a good metaphor for life in general.” - 🤣🤣 The subtle Sabine humour/sarcasm already within the 2nd minute. What a start.

  • @cam0217
    @cam0217 Рік тому +153

    In a world full of stupid things, it's great to have news worth hearing! Thanks Sabine 🙂

    • @stanleykemp3979
      @stanleykemp3979 Рік тому +1

      Spot on!

    • @simonmultiverse6349
      @simonmultiverse6349 Рік тому +2

      If they de-orbit the ISS by 2031, are they going to do it the same way the Chinese do it, i.e. by just letting nature (i.e. gravity) take its course, so that it falls randomly on the part of Planet Earth which happens to be the most unlucky at the time? Perhaps it will fall on Tien An Men Square? The Chinese would like that.

    • @dr.tonielffaucet5988
      @dr.tonielffaucet5988 Рік тому

      Noice Woyk my fwiend. I Am only here to help. Saving the Woyld is My BUSINE$$

    • @veritavitalis
      @veritavitalis Рік тому

      shes lying they have the uft and have had it since SR was devised to hide it look up dynamic theory of the aether

    • @sycodeathman
      @sycodeathman Рік тому

      ​@@simonmultiverse6349they are procuring a propulsion module that will guarantee the ISS deorbits into the Pacific ocean.

  • @ShireIO
    @ShireIO Рік тому +6

    NASA blaming SpaceX for the delays is pretty funny considering there is no sign of Artemis 2 before the end of 2024 (more likely 2025)

    • @Andrew_Fernie
      @Andrew_Fernie Рік тому +3

      and especially when the HSL wat slated for NEXT year. I think NASA doesn't fully appeciate how fast Space-x work.

  • @VAXHeadroom
    @VAXHeadroom Рік тому +14

    Correction: the Starship test flight did not fail to separate. It did not get that far in the timeline and the separation was not attempted before the flight was terminated.

    • @hugegamer5988
      @hugegamer5988 Рік тому +4

      Multiple engine failures among other problems ended it early. It’s most impressive feat was spinning out of control at peak atmospheric drag forces and remaining in one piece.

    • @DraconianEmpath
      @DraconianEmpath Рік тому +3

      Yeah, I was hoping that one would make it a bit further than it did... big rockets are cool. here's hoping the next attempt goes a bit better?

    • @ShotgunAFlyboy
      @ShotgunAFlyboy Рік тому +3

      This was just a test of the ground systems and ability to launch. SpaceX blew up lots of Falcon 9's before ever putting customer payloads onboard.

  • @ewaf88
    @ewaf88 Рік тому +1

    I watch your videos bevause my Dad, who did some work on early radar, and even met Alan Turing, got me interested in science because he used to bring home New Scientist from thePayment office.
    Thanks for your upload

  • @skepticalgenious
    @skepticalgenious Рік тому +12

    I wonder do those gamma rays effect the wine in space?
    Great video Sabine. Nice getting info that's light and humorous. Yet also demystifies some of these ideas that are way out of my scope of knowledge.

  • @anthonylosego
    @anthonylosego Рік тому

    9:00 yeah! The snowball Earth is finally starting! I was seriously worrying about it for a while now and I can finally relax now that it's starting.

  • @DrVictorVasconcelos
    @DrVictorVasconcelos Рік тому +3

    As a German, you were very well-positioned to make a Gamma Ray joke.

  • @mikecu2249
    @mikecu2249 Рік тому +1

    13:49 This animation where the moon goes aroung the earth, in the WRONG direction and also SPINING is infuriating! whaaaaaaaaa, Dr.Hossenfelder, how could you pick it.

  • @R2debo_
    @R2debo_ Рік тому +48

    Fun fact:
    Because there are A LOT of dwarf stars,our sun is actually bigger than 60% of stars

    • @stapleman007
      @stapleman007 Рік тому +5

      Nah, the dorf stars think they are normal, they just consider the sun as a giant.

    • @andrewfarrar741
      @andrewfarrar741 Рік тому

      And words are a scam because language is a hoax? 🫴✨🪄

    • @Mr.Anders0n_
      @Mr.Anders0n_ Рік тому +4

      The Sun insists that size isn't everything, but his ego thanks you.

    • @andrewfarrar741
      @andrewfarrar741 Рік тому +1

      @@Mr.Anders0n_ It is 👉🧠 what is on the inside 🧠👈 that 🧮 counts 🧮

    • @marcomoreno6748
      @marcomoreno6748 Рік тому

      ​@@andrewfarrar741So your comment is a hoax.
      This statement is a lie.

  • @sidetrack218
    @sidetrack218 Рік тому +2

    Muons going around in a circle until they decay... a good metaphor for life... damn, that was a killer line

  • @chester-chickfunt900
    @chester-chickfunt900 Рік тому +6

    This is a wonderful channel. Sabine does an excellent job. Thanks

  • @loganwilcox4037
    @loganwilcox4037 Рік тому +1

    Great video & great title. I always appreciate awesome alliteration!

  • @casnimot
    @casnimot Рік тому +6

    In fact, every goal SpaceX had for the "4/20" launch was met or exceeded. The wish, to actually achieve orbit, was just that. The requirement, to gather useful design and performance data while developing/refining flight procedures for such a bird, was not only met.
    In the time since the OLM has been re-designed, re-built, radically enhanced and tested. Staging has been re-designed and a test article "can-crush" tested. Some hot-stage article will soon be installed on a modified B9 (it looks like). And as Musk said, a couple more meters of det-cord is all the self-destruct needs.
    NASA never has and never will move like that. Politics don't permit it.

    • @ShotgunAFlyboy
      @ShotgunAFlyboy Рік тому +1

      JUST like they did when prototyping the Falcon 9. Falcon 9 now reliably launches twice a week from Florida and once a week from VA or CA.

    • @casnimot
      @casnimot Рік тому +1

      @@ShotgunAFlyboy Exactly. If the politically-motivated haters can be kept at bay, Starship will be operational next year and will fly just like Falcon 9.
      I mean, look how much when wrong on 4/20, and it still ascended. That stainless bird could just be a beast.

  • @LiveFreeOrDieDH
    @LiveFreeOrDieDH Рік тому

    Between his costume change for the freeze ray segment and calling up Sabine to talk wine, Albert is the real star of this week's episode.

  • @oopskapootz7276
    @oopskapootz7276 Рік тому +6

    15:02 the spaceX insisted that the goal for that starship test was to simply pass the launch towers. It met that goal, no? How come that starship test is related to a delay for Artemis?

    • @R0nBurgundy
      @R0nBurgundy Рік тому +4

      Its definatly not causing a delay yet and the test is not a cause for concern. I suspect Starship will be ready for 2025 but Artemis won't. But there is a lot still to do for starship to be ready. They will have to land on the moon at least once before NASA will certfy it for people. That means they will need to make a new or servearl new launch towers as they can't launch from Boca as there launch licence prevents them. They also still need to do in space refuling, somthing that has never been done before. Dear moon will happen first for sure. I hopeing for late 2025 but wont be suprised if that slips a couple years who knows!

    • @oopskapootz7276
      @oopskapootz7276 Рік тому +5

      ⁠@@R0nBurgundythat is very reasonable but I think the video was (unintentionally, I’m sure) misleading in directly pinning the delay of Artemis to Starship’s integrated test, see 14:45. It is also factually incorrect in saying the test did not work out as planned.
      As a proud patreon and long-time viewer, this is a bit disappointing.

    • @ShotgunAFlyboy
      @ShotgunAFlyboy Рік тому +1

      Seems like politicians are trying to throw SpaceX under the bus to cover for corruption in some of the other vendors that fell behind on Artemis. We all saw how many times A1 had to scrub. It got pathetic watching several Falcon 9's and a Falcon Heavy launch in the time that A1 kept scrubbing and scrubbing and scrubbing.

  • @vinylcabasse
    @vinylcabasse Рік тому

    i'm in my late 30s. one of my favorite shows as a kid in the early 90s was "beyond 2000" on the discovery channel here in the states. (RIP "discovery" channel and the "learning" channel) your YT comes as close as any to sharing the same spirit as that show - showing and telling about what's to come.

  • @theastuteangler
    @theastuteangler Рік тому +7

    The sun is exactly as bright as I always thought it was.
    Now excuse me, my optometrist is calling.

  • @Verrisin
    @Verrisin Рік тому +1

    15:00 - inaccurate:
    - the whole development is slower than expected - not just one test showing problems
    - it didn't "fail to separate" - it never reached altitude for separation - that was due to engine failures (some engines failed to begin with, and more likely caused by debris from obliterated concrete under launch pad ; it was so powerful, it compressed the earth, "snapped" the protective heat resistant concrete and shattered the whole thing from the inside (most likely) digging a huge crater)
    - the test itself was not "planned" to reach any point, and apart from that, the vehicle performed "better" than they expected (well, it was a test to find out - they did not know)
    - Also, there were issues with detonating it, as it was sturdier than expected. - (That was probably the biggest "safety issue" - my opinion, as if it veered off course, it would not be destroyed in time. But, it's an easy to solve issue once known.)
    - so, is the situation better or worse? I don't know. I'm just correcting small details in this video. - The overall message is correct: it's taking longer than Elon hoped ... but that's true for most projects and companies; Elon especially has very optimistic expectations...

  • @battistazani8202
    @battistazani8202 Рік тому +3

    Fermilab: "we need to find a way to get more accurate data."
    cern:"we need money for a bigger accelerator"

  • @stuart1030
    @stuart1030 Рік тому +2

    Beauty and science with humour. What an excellent teacher..

  • @earlygenesistherevealedcos1982

    Perhaps this isn't a fifth force, but a detection of what gravity really is. As EM waves pass through sub atomic particles they change their position slightly to maximize attractive force and minimize repulsive force, resulting in a tiny net positive.

  • @dakotafrazier2985
    @dakotafrazier2985 Рік тому +1

    10:31 considering its the airforce i assume they need it to condense propellant for a plane so it takes less space or to cool the surfaces of a really fast aircraft (probably the sr-72 darkstar program which will probably be flying at 8 Mach which would be why it would need cooling, especially if its got the same radar absorbing materials as the b-21)

  • @Chrome166
    @Chrome166 Рік тому +37

    Honestly, Artemis has been going way too smoothly, I'm glad they found some issues before getting to manned missions. The timeline was ambitious to begin with.

    • @raynic1173
      @raynic1173 Рік тому +11

      to smoothly? What planet are you from. Artemus was suppose to launch in 2017? Then 2019 then 2020 then 2021 then 2022. Do you forget the Boeing debacle, of the core stage, ML fiasco and VAB over budget issues, This program has been a mess...

    • @paulpinecone2464
      @paulpinecone2464 Рік тому +2

      Well it is a bit ambitious to slot in a criticality one subsystem that is a lunatic (pun inpunded). Muskus might deliver you a landing craft. He might deliver you a space toboggan. He might discern that Mars is in fact the actual god of war and retask his space division to produce grappling hooks to enable a landing crew to take a celestial body by force. Ok Diana, hunt THIS.

    • @thearpox7873
      @thearpox7873 Рік тому +3

      You are joking, right? SLS has been a mess for many years now.

    • @jmf5246
      @jmf5246 Рік тому

      Artemis is a welfare program for the usual MIC contractors. SLS is a complete waste of money and using solid boosters is dangerous for human launches. Just let SpaceX do it on private sector money!

    • @hammabensaad-cn2eb
      @hammabensaad-cn2eb Рік тому

      A useless project masquerading as science. Its only success is using ressources that should have been used for real science projects

  • @LucretiusDraco
    @LucretiusDraco Рік тому +1

    Does loving this channel make me a nerd? I hope so.

  • @sylvesterfalkeriksen8746
    @sylvesterfalkeriksen8746 Рік тому +3

    Thank you for all your videos:)

  • @stephenkneller6435
    @stephenkneller6435 Рік тому

    One of the major messages from this episode appears to be “more science and less sensationalism”. I completely agree.

  • @Mandragara
    @Mandragara Рік тому +26

    Also worth remembering not to discount a weak force because it's weak. The Weak Force itself essentially does nothing, but it's crucial for how the world works under the right conditions

    • @RFC3514
      @RFC3514 Рік тому +7

      "The Weak force is strong with this one." - Geoff Vader

    • @buddygrimfield7954
      @buddygrimfield7954 Рік тому +1

      It is interesting to see how the elemental factors which interconnect to create their resonance with each other are continuously being discovered and redefined.

    • @YourFurnace
      @YourFurnace Рік тому +5

      @@buddygrimfield7954 Try to see how your statement is so vague as to be almost meaningless. Elementary aspects of physics are not being continuously discovered; it happens fairly suddenly only every so often. The last major theoretical discovery I can think of is the Higgs boson in around 1962. (It can be said to be discovered then, even though it was not observed until around 10 years ago, because it is necessary for the standard model to be considered valid-which it is, even if it is not complete.

    • @buddygrimfield7954
      @buddygrimfield7954 Рік тому +1

      I can see how I could have worded my (uneducated) opinion regarding my interest in how the interconnecting relationship between the known physical forces are continually being redefined a bit better than I did. But it was merely a casual comment. So, if it offended you so badly that you feel the need to "correct" me about it, perhaps you have far bigger issues than my casual comment being "almost meaningless" as you put it.
      Anyway, have a nice day. And I hope that works out for you.

    • @davidladd5597
      @davidladd5597 Рік тому

      Remember that they also used to say that the vermiform appendix was useless.

  • @StopListenThink
    @StopListenThink Рік тому +2

    Thank you 🙏🏻 🙇🏻‍♀️shared

  • @115garyman
    @115garyman Рік тому +3

    'There is no gravity in my room.' I'm still lauging

    • @Thomas-gk42
      @Thomas-gk42 Рік тому +1

      brilliant scientist, great comedian

  • @trumpetpunk42
    @trumpetpunk42 Рік тому

    1:40 "go in circles until they decay, which is a good metaphor for life" daaaamn!😮

  • @Reinturtle
    @Reinturtle Рік тому +3

    I remember see a headline "Sabine Hossenfelder was wrong about LK99". She should have waited a couple days to see the new results (i.e. twitter videos), before making her first video mentioning it! Yeah that aged like fine milk 🤣🤣🤣

  • @lindonwatson5402
    @lindonwatson5402 Рік тому +1

    a highlight of my week, thank you ma'am

  • @meofamily4
    @meofamily4 Рік тому +22

    The Sun is brighter than we thought, by one part in a thousand. That's my takeaway.

    • @chicojcf
      @chicojcf Рік тому

      Any estimations (yet) of changes in absolute magnitude?

    • @meofamily4
      @meofamily4 Рік тому

      @@chicojcf Please take a look at the graph Sabine provides, with its scale of energy to the left. It's a logarithmic scale. The intensity of radiation in the gamma-ray spectrum is at least three orders of magnitude less than the intensity in the visible.

    • @landsgevaer
      @landsgevaer Рік тому

      @@dr5290 You are mixing up the concepts of power and energy.
      My body heat has enough power to evaporate the Earth. If you could somehow collect it over zillions of years.

    • @landsgevaer
      @landsgevaer Рік тому

      @@dr5290 No, your statement was just objectively nonsensical.

    • @landsgevaer
      @landsgevaer Рік тому

      @@dr5290 Jeez, your statement is objectively nonsense: solar power is in Watt, and energy required to evaporate the earth is in Joules. It is like saying your weight is eighty metres.
      Stubbornly sticking to it doesn't resolve that.

  • @inthefade
    @inthefade Рік тому +1

    I'm so glad I didn't have a single ounce of hype over LK99. Maybe it is sad that I'm jaded, but at least I'm not naive.

  • @MCsCreations
    @MCsCreations Рік тому +4

    Very interesting stuff indeed! Thanks, Sabine! 😊
    About red and green lights, they use the same current in LEDs... At the point where you can have one LED with both colors, depending how you connect them to a power source.
    Anyway, stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

    • @dr.tonielffaucet5988
      @dr.tonielffaucet5988 Рік тому +1

      Safety is my BUSINE$$

    • @MCsCreations
      @MCsCreations Рік тому +1

      @@dr.tonielffaucet5988 WTH I have to do with it? I'm not even from the US! 😳

  • @RobinMoreOrLess
    @RobinMoreOrLess Рік тому +2

    Some of these concepts are out of my wheelhouse, so it's good to learn more about them ❤
    ... Is the moon supposed to be spinning at timestamp 13:40 ? I'd always thought the moon was tidal locked. This animation had me stop to rewind

  • @ian_b5518
    @ian_b5518 Рік тому +5

    So the cold blob is nothing to do with all that ice cold water melting off Greenland and dumping in the ocean? (Loved the Muon analogy to life)

    • @renocicchi7346
      @renocicchi7346 Рік тому

      It looks like not all of the water around Greenland is getting cooler, only the portion below, so i don’t think that would be the best explanation. The coldest spot also appears to be quite far away from Greenland on a global scale, and incredibly massive. We would also expect to see cooling around the other melting glaciers around the Earth, so this blob seems to be a far greater cooling effect then just cold water being introduced to the oceans

  • @tomkerruish2982
    @tomkerruish2982 Рік тому +2

    Time to dredge up a joke from the eighties:
    "Yes, they've found a fifth force. However, they've also found a sixth force which exactly cancels it out."

  • @RichMitch
    @RichMitch Рік тому +10

    I dont feel too bright when i watch these videos

    • @CAThompson
      @CAThompson Рік тому +1

      That's okay, there's a few of us that feel like that. We come away with more cool facts though.

    • @mrN3w7
      @mrN3w7 Рік тому +2

      Time to recharge those batteries...

    • @Unidentifying
      @Unidentifying Рік тому +2

      I think half because: the methods that most of this research employ is often new and unique. It can require some extra watching even for a scientist. The other half because Sabine goes through it quite quickly and lets not forget this basis of science that we keep building up, is built on many hundreds of years of intensive research. You basically get only some flavors even with a scientific study.

  • @azmard4865
    @azmard4865 Рік тому +1

    Welp, 1 more video before sleep, it's 12:45 a.m here in Malaysia ^^

  • @NoetherPoint
    @NoetherPoint Рік тому +3

    Your sense of humor is so German. I love it! 😂

  • @BMWHP2
    @BMWHP2 Рік тому +1

    My favorite channel by far. Thanks Sabine.

  • @JCPJCPJCP
    @JCPJCPJCP Рік тому +5

    Women with superior intelligence are wonderful.

  • @R1D9M8B4
    @R1D9M8B4 Рік тому +2

    This is the type of news I like. Thank you!

  • @foolishus
    @foolishus Рік тому +13

    love your content, keep it up

  • @markedis5902
    @markedis5902 Рік тому +2

    Amazing how many people dissed Sabine for saying that LK99 was probably like the other room temperature superconductors, fake. Time for them to fess up and apologise!
    Do I see a flying pig

  • @srobertweiser
    @srobertweiser Рік тому +6

    I'm glad Brookhaven found my muon g -2s and their deviations from those predicted by the standard model. I've been going up the GD walls looking for those things, now I remember leaving them there. They can keep all five of my Sigmas, I've hated the Greek letter ever since my Ma bought me that Huffy Sigma for my 11th birthday back in '85 and all the kids in the neighborhood relentlessly tormented me because of those stupid discs over the spokes.

  • @Anonymous-ic3db
    @Anonymous-ic3db Рік тому

    9:32 *best Mr. Freeze voice* "Alright everybody, chill!"

  • @connecticutaggie
    @connecticutaggie Рік тому +3

    Saying that the first Starship "did not go as planned" is a bit misleading. Yes, the Starship did not make it to orbit but that was not the primary goal of the mission. The main goal of the launch was to gather data and not blow up on the pad. It did do that. Also the mission disposed of some materials they no longer need to store and it also "helped" with the pad excavation work SpaceX had planned. Come to think of it, maybe based on this new technique, Elon should add Raptor engines to the front of his tunnel boring machine.

  • @gmeast
    @gmeast Рік тому

    I love your subtle (technical) humor. I wonder how many 'get' it. Great channel!

  • @apieceofcheese5827
    @apieceofcheese5827 Рік тому +3

    9:23 You're mistaken, the cold blob is clearly intelligent lol

  • @mckayschrage1089
    @mckayschrage1089 11 місяців тому

    I have to say, "the telephone will ring" was exciting to hear. Thanks for making science fun!