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  • Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
  • It was a crucial paper in the history of cosmology and described events after the Big Bang - yet it's perhaps better known for a bad joke and an author who wrote nothing. Extra footage about the science in this video at • Alpha Beta Gamma (extr...
    With Mike Merrifield and Tony Padilla
    Alpher Bethe Gamow

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  • @piguy314159
    @piguy314159 9 років тому +41

    6:54 He's referring to Jack H. Hetherington and his cat Chester (aka F.D.C. Willard).

  • @ereg1300
    @ereg1300 13 років тому +4

    I like how everything ties together. This whole video's about Elements and where they come from, which I'd almost have expected to appear on Periodic Videos.

  • @dradeel
    @dradeel 13 років тому +3

    Lol, he uses a Go table to present the idea of Alpher? Approved! Approved ten-folds! I should play some Go again. Hmm... and perhaps watch Hikaru no Go again as well. It's been a while... but I digress... :)
    And that last story is hilarious! I love that.

  • @LiiMuRi
    @LiiMuRi 13 років тому +2

    I love the scientist sense of humor when it comes to publishing papers. The story of the "penguin diagrams" is also an interesting one. You can look it up in Wikipedia.

  • @jmitterii2
    @jmitterii2 10 років тому +25

    If I put a cat or whatever down and it got invited to talk. I'd bring it to the talk and put it at the podium. :)

  • @it_is_mika
    @it_is_mika 10 років тому +28

    A go board to represent the universe ... perfect :D

  • @kasper.breistein
    @kasper.breistein 11 років тому +6

    One of the funniest videos I've seen on all of Bradys chnnels. Gave me some good laughs, haha

  • @VeryOxygen
    @VeryOxygen 13 років тому +3

    "You and 2 guys in a room somewhere, and after 4 hours..."

  • @viper100200
    @viper100200 13 років тому +1

    everytime I see a new one of these in my subscriptions it's like seeing an old friend

  • @Truthiness231
    @Truthiness231 11 років тому +2

    The trick to getting info right on Wiki is the same as ANY resource: you MUST check the sources. Done right, Wikipedia's "errors" are not a problem.
    And thanks for the link; found this whole discussion on language you sparked quite interesting ^.^

  • @bruinflight1
    @bruinflight1 10 років тому +30

    I need that cat to come give a talk at my house because my cat is a dumbass.

  • @lekoman
    @lekoman 12 років тому +1

    Here's my question... if the universe is expanding, then we are expanding with it (as parts, ourselves, of the universe). Also expanding must be time, right? Is it possible to say that the arrow of time may well be related to the expansion of the universe? That is, we experience time as moving in one direction (to the future) because the universe (and time with it) are moving in one direction (toward bigger)? One wonders if time accelerates as the universe accelerates.

  • @beeble2003
    @beeble2003 11 років тому +1

    We can't know what happened "before" the big bang or what happens "outside" the universe because the only things we can access are events inside the universe, after the big bang. There might be "before" and "outside" but currently, we don't know anything that could tell us about that.

  • @MaxParadiz
    @MaxParadiz 13 років тому +1

    "Two-, Three-, and Four-Atom Exchange Effects in bcc 3He"
    Authors: J. H. Hetherington and F. D. C. Willard (Felis Domestica Chester Willard)

  • @Pulsar77
    @Pulsar77 13 років тому

    Strange how that editor wanted to change the 'we' into 'I', because in scientific writing that is generally disapproved of. The 'we' in a scientific paper does not only refer to the author(s), but to both the authors and the reader: the author acts as a guide. So the phrase "we will prove" means "you (the reader) and I together will prove it, just follow my lead".

  • @untouchblz
    @untouchblz 13 років тому

    @FrozenAnthems no they are pretzel m&m's, in an obvious limited edition run.

  • @MrKorrazonCold
    @MrKorrazonCold 11 років тому

    "Big bangs 360,24/7 forming the Locational Spherical inward absorption and outward emission of EM-Waves, thats enfolding antimatter input+0/1-output electron wave-front's, creation and annihilation, + and - electric charge and electromagnetic fields.
    The greater the rate of oscillating energy or mass the Planck constant is multiplied by a larger amount, and the greater the contraction of spacetime within that 3-D ref-frame and the equal and opposite inward force called gravity as time unfolds."

  • @anticorncob6
    @anticorncob6 12 років тому

    Good question, I wondered that myself. And btw, humans are not exanding with the universe, the galaxies are simply moving apart. But time exanding with space might be a reason we can remember the past but not the future.

    • @carultch
      @carultch 2 роки тому

      Is e^x expanding with the universe?

  • @Shenzao
    @Shenzao 7 років тому +1

    I also use a Go board for demonstrations.

  • @MarkArandjus
    @MarkArandjus 13 років тому

    I actually heard that cat's lecture. He had some revolutionary ideas like m=eow.

  • @AlexPinkney
    @AlexPinkney 13 років тому

    There was a paper called "A New Data Encoding Scheme" by Andrew B. Cheese and Julian P. Onions (popularly known as 'Cheese and Onions') which was published by Nottingham's Computer Science department on 1st April 1988.
    It was published in the European Unix User Group Newsletter, and subsequently republished in the Australian Unix User Group Newsletter, who presumably failed to notice the joke. If you actually READ the paper, it's pretty obvious!
    cs.nott.ac.uk/ ~azp/cheese-onions.pdf

  • @FrozenAnthems
    @FrozenAnthems 13 років тому +1

    I love the go board and the awesome explaination :)

  • @kinofrohan
    @kinofrohan 13 років тому

    Do an episode Serre's theorem on Proj, mostly on the subcategory of grade modules and their finite length and its relation to noncommutative projective geometry

  • @nellux
    @nellux 13 років тому

    I go to a modest university and the thesis defence hearings I have witnessed had more like 5-6 professors. Not 2.
    So for example, considering a thesis on organic chemistry, there would be 5 chemists and 1 biochemist, and about half the professors would have to work at another university.

  • @stuntyannick2
    @stuntyannick2 12 років тому

    @MultiPaulinator He's called Alpher. The letter and particle are called Alpha.

  • @leeterthanyou
    @leeterthanyou 2 роки тому

    1:09 if there are seven protons per neutron, the board is a slight bit off on the density. There are four neutrons, which should equate to 36 protons - of which the board has 26.

    • @leeterthanyou
      @leeterthanyou 2 роки тому

      That is to say - it would not be inaccurate to suggest the board has on average 7 protons per neutron, as 6.5 is close enough to round up(TM).

  • @stardude692001
    @stardude692001 12 років тому

    It's amazing stars have been burning for billions of years and have yet to make a significant change in the universes composition.

  • @deadeaded
    @deadeaded 13 років тому

    Reminds me of Zoe the cat, whose owner managed to procure her several advanced degrees and who is now a psychotherapist. In fact, there's a whole list of animals with diplomas on wikipedia.

  • @L00NGB00W
    @L00NGB00W 13 років тому

    Meuon: The smallest particle a cat can knock off the kitchen table.

  • @stardude692001
    @stardude692001 12 років тому

    @PedroBremberger
    my guess it has to do with the ratio of, the probability an electron and a proton collide and form a neutron, to the half-life of the neutron. or more accurately how many collisions could have happened in the 2 minutes and some seconds since these particles formed.

  • @MultiPaulinator
    @MultiPaulinator 12 років тому

    @stuntyannick2 I'm very aware of that. I was giving them a hard time about their English accents and returned that by referring to my being an American as a 'disability'.

  • @DigitizedSelf
    @DigitizedSelf 12 років тому

    @Mallaclllypse Well, yeah, figured as much - the question was more if we, from the contents of the video, should have been able to predict that it was 1/4 and 3/4 (if he hadn't mentioned it)

  • @ramansb1213
    @ramansb1213 11 років тому

    my favorite prof

  • @MultiPaulinator
    @MultiPaulinator 12 років тому

    Forgive me if I misunderstood. I've got two disabilities. I'm blind and I'm American. This Alpha guy seems very smart and I just found out about the Greek letter alpher.
    Okay, I'm not really blind, but I wasn't lying about the American part.

  • @imalwayswatchingu00
    @imalwayswatchingu00 13 років тому

    My physics teacher said - once we all ace grade 12 physics, we can all go out and get physics tattoos!

  • @MzAlyCat
    @MzAlyCat 13 років тому

    I've seen the dark matter video and I remember you mentioning dark energy was going to be covered to when is the energy video coming out or have I overlooked it ?

  • @jgordon707
    @jgordon707 13 років тому

    At :43 he added a modifier that "he believed that the universe started with a big bang". Is he saying he disagrees?

  • @hallugi
    @hallugi 11 років тому

    You're welcome my friend i want to thank you also for your link i didn't knew that English had so many words with German French and Latin root.I knew only about Greek cause its my native language and i realised it when i was taking English lessons.

  • @huntingvuk
    @huntingvuk 13 років тому

    you guys are so cool with these great vids, THANKS!

  • @lekoman
    @lekoman 12 років тому

    @IBITZEE Why is time being created at the big bang a bad idea? Not knowing what happened before the big bang, or what the universe is expanding into (these might, it turns out, be totally meaningless questions) does not mean that there was no big bang.

  • @Icemanactual
    @Icemanactual 12 років тому

    Thank you for pointing that out! I did not realize that myself. :)

  • @Vonzi0000
    @Vonzi0000 13 років тому

    I am wondering if the physicists at Nottingham acctually play Go.

  • @irwinb
    @irwinb 13 років тому

    Is there a video that talks about why matter can have both wave/particle like properties?

  • @SillyEddyPhotography
    @SillyEddyPhotography 12 років тому

    It wasn't Schrodinger's Cat, was it? Simultaneously a master of quantum phenomena and theoretical particle physics... Whilst also just being a cat.

  • @t90ad
    @t90ad 13 років тому

    The cat's lecture...."Can i haz cheezburger??!11!!!1!!"

  • @snowballeffect7812
    @snowballeffect7812 11 років тому

    I remember one talk. It was all good until he got up to the parts with projected slides and he had to use a laser pointer. it went downhill fast from there.

  • @Desmaad
    @Desmaad 13 років тому

    Note, Gamov wrote the Mr. Tompkins stories.

  • @xytronite
    @xytronite 12 років тому

    Really craving a packet of minstrels now...

  • @wowggscrub
    @wowggscrub 13 років тому

    so in the very begining when the conditions were to hot it was all plasma?

  • @wolfy9005
    @wolfy9005 12 років тому

    It could be argued that the atoms in his parents excrement(and theirs before them) have made their way into his brain.

  • @ludikalo
    @ludikalo 13 років тому

    That must of been Schrödinger cat.

  • @Jack__________
    @Jack__________ 3 роки тому

    What if that theory never took off without the name? At least, not yet. Different time lines.

  • @MoGaDeX
    @MoGaDeX 13 років тому

    @Pada007gangster Universe expands => Energy dissipates.

  • @Draxis32
    @Draxis32 13 років тому

    @Neutrinoghost If the cat belong to Schrödinger the cat might be dead so watch out.

  • @MrTranceNinja
    @MrTranceNinja 13 років тому

    1:47 - What do you mean by 'evaporated'?

  • @lunafoxfire
    @lunafoxfire 12 років тому

    Ralph Alpher is a funny enough name by itself.
    Alfalfa... Hehehe.

  • @tycho_m
    @tycho_m 13 років тому

    0:40 INCEPTION

  • @froobreht
    @froobreht 13 років тому

    7:1, 28:4. in a Go board. quadratic? what happened within the physics or the science community on January 7th, July 1st, and April 28th? j/k

  • @aman57
    @aman57 13 років тому

    @BruckThatsMe Yes

  • @ruster1971
    @ruster1971 12 років тому

    A Hot Big Bang you say? Sounds quite fascinating ;)

  • @TheFaustianMan
    @TheFaustianMan 13 років тому

    You know, I am disappointed in these vids. Still no neutron radiation. However, they are informative and the presenter's take their time to make a vid. So still thumbs up!

  • @youngblackethiopian
    @youngblackethiopian 13 років тому

    Was that a Go board used in the example?

  • @MrTranceNinja
    @MrTranceNinja 13 років тому

    @puncheex Ah, I suppose that's right...sorry, the wording was a little loose for me. :P

  • @Matt77125
    @Matt77125 11 років тому

    So that cat is basically a holder of a PhD in physics

  • @Eliphas_Leary
    @Eliphas_Leary 13 років тому

    I'd like to hear that cat's lecture...

  • @DigitizedSelf
    @DigitizedSelf 12 років тому

    Might be because I'm tired but are we supposed to get why it's 1/4 and 3/4 of helium and hydrogen respectively?

  • @Goproflying
    @Goproflying 13 років тому

    Did the cat actually belong to him or Schrödinger?

  • @untouchblz
    @untouchblz 13 років тому

    where did u get those neutron proton m&m's?

  • @markvanderklok3415
    @markvanderklok3415 11 років тому

    physicsworld at 25, puzzle 3 brought me here!

  • @OysterBarron
    @OysterBarron 13 років тому

    salmon are fished in japan. 1000's of these fish swam into an american harbour days before the earthquake tradedgy and died through getting trapped! coincidence i think not!

  • @mbfanz
    @mbfanz 13 років тому

    Love the cat part...lol

  • @DKmetallic
    @DKmetallic 13 років тому

    the laugh at the end ^^

  • @davidisawesome222
    @davidisawesome222 12 років тому

    time was no there already when the big bang happened. time was in fact created at the moment of the big bang. think about this: all the matter in the universe was condensed into an infinitely small and dense point. so much mass in such a small space would have the characteristics of a black hole. time does not exist inside a black hole, so time was non existant before the big bang happened.

  • @bluebychoice
    @bluebychoice 13 років тому

    Too bad the paper wasn't published a century earlier or it could have been Alpher Bethe Gamow Dalton.

  • @hallugi
    @hallugi 11 років тому

    Yes actually English language is influenced a lot by Greek there are many words that have Greek root

  • @cristianfcao
    @cristianfcao 13 років тому

    Great video guys!

  • @Kannanvathani
    @Kannanvathani 8 років тому

    You are like Professor Stephen.W.H

  • @subajk
    @subajk 13 років тому

    love your vids, keep em coming

  • @FrederikFalk21
    @FrederikFalk21 11 років тому

    The holographic principle attempts to answer what's on the outside of our universe if you're interested in knowing more on the subject :-)

  • @tcrusader
    @tcrusader 13 років тому

    looks like GO

  • @Desmaad
    @Desmaad 13 років тому

    Goban, zing!

  • @andrewlankford9634
    @andrewlankford9634 6 років тому

    Sounds like something I would do if only I knew how to do it.

  • @VideoJargon
    @VideoJargon 13 років тому

    I wonder if the cat's alive and/or dead

  • @bigboam
    @bigboam 12 років тому

    What did Paris Hilton say about the Big Bang?
    "That's SO hot......."

  • @xcheesyxbaconx
    @xcheesyxbaconx 13 років тому

    Seems like lots of famous astronomers came from Cornell University.

  • @MrPustachio
    @MrPustachio 11 років тому +2

    Wait..what? What's he talking about at the end?

  • @jeebersjumpincryst
    @jeebersjumpincryst 13 років тому

    lol - the royal 'we'.... him and his cat ;)

  • @MrOldprof
    @MrOldprof 13 років тому

    @GalacticMuppet
    Neither will I forget how to pronounce Bethe now that you've told me. Of course you probably mispronounce my name "Bowley" in a way I that I would object to. Lots of my students do.

  • @skots
    @skots 13 років тому

    a go board !

  • @Lavabug
    @Lavabug 13 років тому

    The cat story is hilarious, what scientist was this?

  • @kipshiux333
    @kipshiux333 13 років тому

    Does the professor play GO?

  • @subh1
    @subh1 13 років тому

    @Lavabug Google "coauthor cat" and see the first result.

  • @2naruto1
    @2naruto1 13 років тому

    i like the go bord

  • @beeble2003
    @beeble2003 11 років тому

    No, he didn't explain why it's 1/4 and 3/4. It'll be something to do with the relative energies of those configurations.

    • @robinswamidasan
      @robinswamidasan 5 років тому

      @ 1:03 "... 7 protons to each neutron ...". Taking the lowest numbers required for a whole number of atoms: 14 protons, 2 neutrons --> 1 He atom ( 2p + 2n ~= 4p by weight) + 12 H atoms (1p each). Hence, by weight, Total = 16p, H = 12p, He = 4p ==> 75% H and 25% He.

    • @timewalker6654
      @timewalker6654 5 років тому

      @@robinswamidasan why is lithium amount not same as predicted

  • @tko863
    @tko863 13 років тому

    So how did Alpher know that 7 protons existed for every 1 neutron?

  • @montee827
    @montee827 13 років тому

    @tmafkap meow that I'd like to hear.

  • @FrozenAnthems
    @FrozenAnthems 13 років тому

    @untouchblz These are go stones

  • @particlephysicssolut
    @particlephysicssolut 13 років тому

    Love your videos.

  • @stuntyannick2
    @stuntyannick2 12 років тому

    @MultiPaulinator Oh ok haha

  • @adamthecg
    @adamthecg 13 років тому

    great vid! you guys are the best!