Brian Cox debunked the Big Bang! Wait, what?

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    I was rather surprised when I recently learned that the British science communicator and ex-particle physicist Brian Cox supposedly debunked the Big Bang with a creation story, no less than in a BBC documentary. I had a look at the clip and I think I know what happened.
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  • @misterICo
    @misterICo 6 місяців тому +582

    I think one big problem is that too many people are not ok with the concept of: I don't know

    • @mater5930
      @mater5930 5 місяців тому +22

      That's not a problem, that's science.

    • @susand3668
      @susand3668 5 місяців тому +44

      @@mater5930, you are right that "I don't know" is the beginning, middle, and end of science. But what was actually said was "one big problem is that too many people are not ok with the concept." Let's all promote "I don't know" as a valid answer!

    • @mater5930
      @mater5930 5 місяців тому +9

      @@susand3668 I agree

    • @fahrenheit2101
      @fahrenheit2101 5 місяців тому +15

      @@mater5930 You'd think, but many scientists let ego get in the way...

    • @aperinich
      @aperinich 5 місяців тому +10

      More people are content with Big Bang Hypothesis, which is itself a creationist myth and it's defenders still ignore intrinsic redshift, the thermodynamic impossibilities of standard cosmology and the holes all through GR, including its falsifications and better explanatory models put up in its stead. #toobigtofail somehow, even now...

  • @cloud1stclass372
    @cloud1stclass372 6 місяців тому +1100

    TLDR: A scientist said something salacious and the press ran with it like a Christmas ham under their arm. The more I hear about this type of stuff, the more I think that "separation of press and science" is more important than separation of Church and State.

    • @NIL0S
      @NIL0S 6 місяців тому +71

      That's why science communication is a thing. I think it's up to the audience to be skeptical. Good luck with that 😂

    • @fenderlead1
      @fenderlead1 6 місяців тому +22

      Do you think the solution is to eliminate separation of church and press?

    • @ralphacosta4726
      @ralphacosta4726 6 місяців тому

      The "news" is just another unregulated way to make money, so truth and verifiable information are less important than clicks and eyeballs. So, Separation of Press and Reality.

    • @DonVigaDeFierro
      @DonVigaDeFierro 6 місяців тому +80

      I remember when journalism was a respected career. Now it's just glorified blogging.

    • @jabiraidan
      @jabiraidan 6 місяців тому +25

      You change that to politics from science and you have a point. The press is needed to convey information, politics warps it to whatever is the party line.

  • @arthurherring9453
    @arthurherring9453 6 місяців тому +106

    I am always grateful for ANY person who simply attempts an accurate explanation of what evidence shows THEM…instead of trying to be “sensational” or “all-knowing”…

  • @rstross
    @rstross 4 місяці тому +27

    Douglas Adams wrote: "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. Many races believe that it was created by some sort of God, though the Jatravartid people of Viltvodle VI believe that the entire Universe was in fact sneezed out of the nose of a being called the Great Green Arkleseizure."

  • @MarcBehar
    @MarcBehar 6 місяців тому +624

    as someone who just moved to paris, I can confirm "excusez-moi, quel âge a l'univers" is very practical in day to day life

    • @RobWhittlestone
      @RobWhittlestone 6 місяців тому +56

      You can always add "Mon aéroglisseur est rempli d'anguilles" - Trust me, I have a B.A. in Monty Python

    • @adrien5568
      @adrien5568 6 місяців тому +4

      What ?! Ca vient d'où ?

    • @HarryNicNicholas
      @HarryNicNicholas 6 місяців тому +14

      doesn't that translate to "will you sleep with me tonight, under the stars?" or "will you help me move my couch?" i forget.

    • @gbcb8853
      @gbcb8853 6 місяців тому +7

      @@adrien5568Hungarian phrase book sketch peut être?

    • @rnilsson8063
      @rnilsson8063 6 місяців тому +7

      "Excuse me, where is the nearest mail box or toilet?"

  • @raminagrobis6112
    @raminagrobis6112 6 місяців тому +211

    I am a francophone and I perfectly understood what Sabine said in French, so she's a good learner! I wouldn't dream asking her to lose the Teutonic accent. It gives a distinctive twist to her English and we are now used to it, so the same goes with her French. Accents are the last thing one loses when learning a foreign language, if ever.

    • @dojohansen123
      @dojohansen123 6 місяців тому +16

      I think weight is always the last thing one loses, learing a foreign language or otherwise.

    • @deltalima6703
      @deltalima6703 6 місяців тому +5

      Leering is what happens at you if you do lose the weight.

    • @josedelnegro46
      @josedelnegro46 6 місяців тому +3

      I thought she just sounded sexy all the time.
      Here is the question do you think there is as fine a singer in French as Lea is in German?
      I have reason to suspect that no one makes music as well as the Germans do to-day in German.
      À propos
      Traduit de l'anglais-Lea-Marie Becker, connue professionnellement sous le nom de Lea, est une auteure-compositrice-interprète et claviériste allemande. Wikipédia (anglais)
      The reason I note this is for selfish reasons. I love to look at the videos of the musicians in all the nations and language to debate who is the best.
      French music is stellar.
      Sabrine sounds like Lea. Lea is sexy thus Sabrine is sexy also ❤.

    • @JBroMCMXCI
      @JBroMCMXCI 6 місяців тому +3

      @@josedelnegro46 who asked?

    • @josedelnegro46
      @josedelnegro46 6 місяців тому +2

      @@JBroMCMXCI I ask. Have you heard of Lea? Sabrine has music videos. I like them. She sounds like Lea or Lea sounds like her.
      But if you are saying who am I to ask? That has been answered. Yo soy Sancho Panza y Sancho Panza Es una persona ignorante nadie... nada y estúpido.
      Gracias et merci encore

  • @chrisanderson687
    @chrisanderson687 4 місяці тому +89

    I wish there was a lot more "we don't know" out there instead of "here's how it is". Knowing what we don't know, and the curiosity to fill in the gaps, is what drives the best science.

    • @rafaelgonzalez4175
      @rafaelgonzalez4175 2 місяці тому +1

      @@Angelitech Another brainwashed individual. People prefer the truth over anything else. If it excites then also even better.

    • @papaboom
      @papaboom 2 місяці тому

      @@Angelitech “a little to the imagination” - they want to believe they can grow wings and fly at FTL speeds.. but it's not because they're stupid..

    • @mishynaofficial
      @mishynaofficial Місяць тому

      But... but muh granny on a cloud!!! ✋😩🤚

    • @Dareios074
      @Dareios074 Місяць тому

      For some people it‘s hard to accept that they can‘t wrap their head around something they are interested in. That‘s where delusion comes to play

    • @BenCoverston
      @BenCoverston Місяць тому +2

      "We don't know" also leads to the best kinds of spirituality. We need to be comfortable with not knowing, and being comfortable that we might never know.
      That doesn't mean we don't strive to know.

  • @DJWHITE_
    @DJWHITE_ 6 місяців тому +132

    I saw the Daily Express logo and that answered the question for me.

    • @tonib5899
      @tonib5899 5 місяців тому +7

      Yes it really simplified it. A good equation to use is. D.E = a zero point of truth. They are a singularity of pure nonsense.😂😂😂😂

    • @5.1MusicChannel
      @5.1MusicChannel 4 місяці тому

      Brian Cox and the BBC - a scientist that endorses political views and thrives on the air of sensationalist publicity, working for an organisation that I would not trust to inform me of todays date!

    • @arturama8581
      @arturama8581 4 місяці тому +3

      @@tonib5899 Brian Cox might not even know he works for them 🤣

    • @ryanlee6920
      @ryanlee6920 3 місяці тому +5

      ​@arturama8581 I don't understand why Prof Brian Cox is being cooked for this, the guy just tried to explain complicated science in terms most would understand, when you talk about science on a scale like Cox does then you have to dumb it down, treating this as a negative is in itself negative, science can be scary to new comers and we need people like Cox to be welcoming and make it feel manageable, bringing good science to the forefront is absolutely vital especially when considering increasing budgets for stuff like nasa

    • @DJWHITE_
      @DJWHITE_ 3 місяці тому +5

      @@ryanlee6920 But the Daily Express dumbs it down and warps it to the point where there is very little, if any, fact left. It is an absolutely disgraceful rag.

  • @TheYogaZen
    @TheYogaZen 6 місяців тому +1348

    Sabine will debunk you so hard your high school physics teacher will feel it.

    • @michaelblacktree
      @michaelblacktree 6 місяців тому +24

      LOL 🤣

    • @Phoenix38m
      @Phoenix38m 6 місяців тому +17

      Well played, oh Zen One

    • @ViggoHinrichsen
      @ViggoHinrichsen 6 місяців тому +15

      😂😂😂 Also just the sentence "debunked the Big Bang" 😂

    • @Zulonix
      @Zulonix 6 місяців тому +22

      Sabine is so cool… you will totally enjoy it when she debunks you. 😂

    • @EnthusiasticTent-xt8fh
      @EnthusiasticTent-xt8fh 6 місяців тому +9

      No. Sabine debunked nothing.

  • @deeestuary
    @deeestuary 6 місяців тому +439

    As soon as I saw Daily Express I knew it would be a total lie.

    • @Andrew-Kerr
      @Andrew-Kerr 6 місяців тому +59

      I'm surprised they didn't manage to imply that this meant we were in for a severe cold snap next winter and something something, Princess Diana lol

    • @gazza595
      @gazza595 6 місяців тому

      Precisely, The Daily Express doesn't qualify as a newspaper, it's a propaganda sheet for wing nuts and a scandal rag for idiots.

    • @TheJon2442
      @TheJon2442 6 місяців тому +8

      Don't you mean the guardian.... At least the Express reports the truth occasionally!

    • @jabiraidan
      @jabiraidan 6 місяців тому +1

      @@Andrew-Kerr You make it sound as if he hasn't said such things...I can assure you he has. He'll parrot whatever he's told.

    • @fjmmc9907
      @fjmmc9907 6 місяців тому +39

      @@TheJon2442 really? oh boy! poor you.

  • @kevinhindley4443
    @kevinhindley4443 4 місяці тому +13

    SO GLAD that you did post this brave open, honest video, and NO NO NO, it wasn't too much at all. THANK YOU SO MUCH, Sabine.

    • @iggie1439
      @iggie1439 4 місяці тому

      G-Day Brother.

  • @robertpreisser3547
    @robertpreisser3547 4 місяці тому +7

    I DO think that Brian Cox did say something wrong. He presented an unprovable or disprovable theory in far stronger terms than is warranted. And this is a MAJOR problem in science, and it is often the scientists themselves who are overstating their claims in order to gain attention/funding. This happens all the time in origin of life research, but I see this trend across many fields. It is rarely (if ever) presented to the public as “here’s one possibility of what may have happened, but we just don’t know.” It is presented as “1.3 trillion years ago, X, Y, and Z HAPPENED.”

  • @Reuben-John
    @Reuben-John 6 місяців тому +477

    With that constant smirk on Brian Cox's face its clear he knows exacly what happened at the beginning and he is having fun not letting us in on it.

    • @ulazygit
      @ulazygit 6 місяців тому +32

      His constant smirks … it’s what irks

    • @luciaceba4640
      @luciaceba4640 6 місяців тому +19

      never got that smirk thing, but i have noticed it in members of family ( cousin of my mother and his son), so it seems to be some character/genetic thing that can occur.

    • @TheSprinkler
      @TheSprinkler 6 місяців тому +35

      Just seems to me as if he's passionate about what hes talking about and happy people wanna converse with him about what he loves ​@ulazygit

    • @michaeljsullivan524
      @michaeljsullivan524 6 місяців тому +11

      Yes, God made it. The smirk is revelation of the method, and the joke is on you.

    • @orang1921
      @orang1921 6 місяців тому +10

      @@michaeljsullivan524 God could very well have initiated the big bang

  • @jonathansmith2898
    @jonathansmith2898 6 місяців тому +106

    I love the fact that CERN labeled the tubes. CERN LHC. Just in case you were lost inside that tunnel at least you know that you're at cern in the large hadron collider.

    • @sluggo206
      @sluggo206 6 місяців тому +25

      It's marketing. We saw it, so donors see it, and your aunt watching a news clip on TV sees it.

    • @JonS
      @JonS 6 місяців тому +13

      Maybe it's so when they are being transported on the back on a lorry, people don't assume it's a supergun and start panicking?

    • @werdwerdus
      @werdwerdus 6 місяців тому +5

      it was also very interesting to me that those labels are slightly worn off. like, who is rubbing up against the particle beam tubes so often that the lettering is wearing off? hmmm

    • @jmodified
      @jmodified 6 місяців тому +8

      @@JonS But that's just what someone transporting supergun parts would label them with, isn't it?

    • @MonkeyJedi99
      @MonkeyJedi99 6 місяців тому +5

      "Hello? 999? Yes, I've just woken up in a concrete tunnel next to a very gradually curving pipe, and I also just realized I have no phone signal."

  • @AustinMclEctro
    @AustinMclEctro 6 місяців тому +19

    What an excellent example of a singularity (2:02) that everyone can understand, one of the best I've ever seen I think. Thank you!

  • @AIainMConnachie
    @AIainMConnachie 4 місяці тому +5

    Was it Eddington who said, "Something unknown is doing we don't know what."?

  • @rickseiden1
    @rickseiden1 6 місяців тому +232

    As one of my favorite science communicators, Dr. Becky, says, "Space is hard. Words are harder."

    • @drydessert4198
      @drydessert4198 6 місяців тому +1

      If there is an opposite to eloquence, this statement is a potential demonstration of the concept.

    • @almscurium
      @almscurium 6 місяців тому +16

      @@drydessert4198 considering eloquent means “clearly expressing or indicating something” it seems pretty eloquent to me. Your phrase however was not

    • @drydessert4198
      @drydessert4198 6 місяців тому +1

      @@almscurium "Space is hard. Words are harder." seems eloquent to you? Well, I can take that as an opinion. I think, it is obviously not, not that it was supposed to be. It's part of the joke that it is imprecise language.

    • @fariesz6786
      @fariesz6786 6 місяців тому

      it must have been magnetic fields bc she always says we don't understand magnetic fields.
      also yay Dr. Beck, let me Smethurst ( ")

    • @MaryAnnNytowl
      @MaryAnnNytowl 6 місяців тому

      I'm glad this was said. I was thinking the exact same thing as I listened to this, lol! I'm still gonna have to say it again, if only to give Dr. Becky another shout out! 😂

  • @HarryNicNicholas
    @HarryNicNicholas 6 місяців тому +66

    for the ignorant in comments:
    "In addition to their individual work, Cox and Hossenfelder have also collaborated on a number of projects, such as the book "Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe" and the documentary series "The Universe: A Journey Through Space and Time." These collaborations have helped to bridge the gap between theoretical physics and the general public."

    • @daydays12
      @daydays12 4 місяці тому +1

      mmmmm???.........wonderful???

    • @AstroGremlinAmerican
      @AstroGremlinAmerican 20 днів тому

      I prefer bridging the gap between empirical physics and the general public.

  • @LeTtRrZ
    @LeTtRrZ 4 місяці тому +22

    Express and Dailymail should always be ignored.

    • @fred_2021
      @fred_2021 2 місяці тому

      At least it's easier to steer clear of those known sources of misinformation than it is to negotiate a narrow path of factuality through the vast jungle of nonsensical www 'science'.

    • @anthonygordon9483
      @anthonygordon9483 2 місяці тому +1

      I already knew she ran across a B.S. article when saw the title in the video. My question is why is she reading this garbage.

  • @H0n3yMonstah
    @H0n3yMonstah 6 місяців тому +13

    Ah, The Daily Express. That bastion of truth, accuracy and integrity.

    • @methylene5
      @methylene5 4 місяці тому

      True, but I'd extend that same sentiment to all mainstream media outlets as well. Even the so-called science mags are often full of it.

    • @H0n3yMonstah
      @H0n3yMonstah 4 місяці тому +1

      @@methylene5 whilst I agree, some publications are worse than others.

    • @fred_2021
      @fred_2021 2 місяці тому

      The Daily Express used to be broadsheet. Doubtless it went tabloid to acquire an appropriate readership.

    • @fred_2021
      @fred_2021 2 місяці тому +1

      info: The Daily Express was broadsheet until 1977. Doubtless it went tabloid to attract a more lucrative readership that preferred glib and emotive sensationalism over detailed factuality.

  • @lisacook8235
    @lisacook8235 6 місяців тому +27

    "The smart thing to do would be to just leave it at that. But that's no fun". Well said.

  • @jamesgrover2005
    @jamesgrover2005 6 місяців тому +139

    The Daily Express ~ "A right riveting read!"
    Read ~ "a load of Bollox"

    • @ozymandiasultor9480
      @ozymandiasultor9480 6 місяців тому +6

      a load of Botox...

    • @cpuuk
      @cpuuk 6 місяців тому +9

      The only place to find the Daily Express is in the bathroom, just in case you run out of loo roll.

    • @johannuys7914
      @johannuys7914 6 місяців тому

      The British press is a dumpster fire lately. Mind you, the rest of the MSM is not much better either.

    • @TheOneAndOnlySame
      @TheOneAndOnlySame 6 місяців тому +3

      What do you expect from a guy named Cox?

    • @midbc1midbc199
      @midbc1midbc199 6 місяців тому +7

      All those Rupert Murdoch's newspapers are great for a ton of things.......use it balled up under kindling to get the fire lit then keep feeding the fire with more of his newspapers

  • @calistafischer3578
    @calistafischer3578 4 місяці тому +5

    Catholic priest and theoretical physicist George Lemaitre is the father of the big bang theory and for this concept he let himself guide by the Genesis: Let there be light and there was light. For him the suddenness of the light‘s existence was equal to the suddenness of matter coming into existence.

  • @seymourlj
    @seymourlj 5 місяців тому +14

    THIS IS ONE EXTREMELY INTELLIGENT WOMAN,,,,KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK SABINE !!!!!

  • @bazooie
    @bazooie 6 місяців тому +106

    "infinitely lame" had me replaying that 5 times. you're hilarious, Sabine!

    • @rudybuck4780
      @rudybuck4780 6 місяців тому +8

      infinitely hilarious

    • @jongeduard
      @jongeduard 6 місяців тому +4

      I am not a mathematician, but the idea of infinity as well as proportions or types of it, such as half infinity, is all considered kind of a real thing. Even though that's all basically still just infinity.
      First of all you need to fully accept that we humans have no perception of it, and that it's fully natural to emotionally dismiss it.
      The start to see that this way of thinking opens lots of possibilities in science, and especially with physics and time.
      Also think a second about how time can become infinitely slow around black holes, while it still is there.
      There is also something with singularities if I am right. They do not actually exist at our point in time, but the idea is that they exist infinitely far in the future for related reasons, if they actually even do.

  • @howtoappearincompletely9739
    @howtoappearincompletely9739 6 місяців тому +50

    Hearing you speak plausible French is honestly the best endorsement of a sponsor you've ever made.

  • @windfoil1000
    @windfoil1000 17 днів тому +1

    Thanks Sabine. I've been trying to nail this down for quite a while without any success. The story keeps changing over time and with different people explaining. It's nice to know that it's not me.

  • @davidtatro7457
    @davidtatro7457 6 місяців тому +264

    I think Brian Cox is a very pleasant science communicator to listen to and is generally good at communicating complex ideas simply. He may occasionally be just a bit loose with language, but not to any ridiculous extent. However, he seems to be one of those physicists whose words often get twisted into outrageous headlines by the media and by tabloid science youtube channels. I honestly don't envy him that.

    • @pobinr
      @pobinr 6 місяців тому

      Brian Cox was a Blairite & is a remainiac globalist who believe in nationstate democracy. In other words he doesn't believe in democracy.

    • @deltalima6703
      @deltalima6703 6 місяців тому +21

      Its not a twist. Brian Cox really does use the term "big bang" in an odd way, but, since scientists dont use it at all, nobody has held his feet to the fire over it until now. Sabine is ruthless. Thats why we love her.
      😳🔥❤️

    • @davidtatro7457
      @davidtatro7457 6 місяців тому +44

      @@deltalima6703 For sure, but she's not really being ruthless to Dr. Cox here. She's being much more ruthless to the "science media" that is grossly misquoting him here. She didn't really disagree with anything that Cox actually said.

    • @SpeckleKen
      @SpeckleKen 6 місяців тому

      @@deltalima6703 Scientists don't use the term Big Bang?
      Try an academic search engine: you will find the phrase in the titles alone of more than a million published papers. BTW Brian Cox is professor of particle physics at one of the World's most prestigious [physics] universities. It seems scientists use the term.

    • @jeschinstad
      @jeschinstad 6 місяців тому +4

      @@deltalima6703: Cox is referring to the observable big bang rather than hypothetical big bang. I don't see what's so odd about that.

  • @OneCatShortOfCrazy
    @OneCatShortOfCrazy 6 місяців тому +28

    Thinking about the universe hurts my brain and my soul. It's so infinitely beautiful and sad at the same time. The endless mysteries and the fact that we'll never ever scratch the surface of understanding and knowing it.

    • @sinjinadams2862
      @sinjinadams2862 6 місяців тому +5

      It doesn't seem fair does it. Not knowing and then you die! Damn the Cosmos! 😊

    • @jeschinstad
      @jeschinstad 6 місяців тому +1

      It will probably be dead simple once we understand it. It wouldn't surprise me if you could easily explain how the universe works to a five year old if you just knew how it worked.

    • @iidoyila_live_
      @iidoyila_live_ 6 місяців тому +3

      your whole universe is the one you see, little piece of the cosmos! a universe to yourself!!

    • @rickb3584
      @rickb3584 6 місяців тому +2

      Though we may never know the answer at least find joy in the fact that we can ask the question.

    • @tsz5868
      @tsz5868 6 місяців тому +1

      It´s like your nose. It´s a wonderful miracle in your face and youn don´t see it.

  • @Cory-yo1yg
    @Cory-yo1yg 6 місяців тому +7

    There's no explaining the dream while you're still in it, kid.

    • @inkonmyhands
      @inkonmyhands 4 місяці тому

      ?

    • @theodorkollerd2524
      @theodorkollerd2524 4 місяці тому

      Oh, thanks for the reminder. Keep forgetting that

    • @blackskull7777
      @blackskull7777 4 місяці тому

      But often we know we are in a dream

    • @N0_191_
      @N0_191_ 3 місяці тому +1

      Kid? Really? 😮🤦🏻‍♀️

  • @bobbart4198
    @bobbart4198 4 місяці тому +2

    ... At what point did Brian Cox mention the " Creation Story " as an explanation ? ... he used the word " creation ' in a neutral and non religious fashion - no " God " was mentioned. And so far as the idea of NOT KNOWING is concerned, of course we DON'T KNOW ! ...
    Science is the study of unknown things, and an attempt to make sense of them. And this is the BIG difference between Science and Religion : Science DOESN'T know, but TRIES to, Religion Doesn't KNOW either, but tries to PRETEND to ! ...

  • @corcoos
    @corcoos 6 місяців тому +82

    Yes, because "The Express" is a reliable source of information 🙃

    • @abbush2921
      @abbush2921 6 місяців тому

      Super reliable LOL !

    • @cortical1
      @cortical1 6 місяців тому +2

      Right up there with the New York Post and the National Enquirer.

    • @billynomates920
      @billynomates920 6 місяців тому

      especially about the weather/'extreme climate events'
      it's acid rain all over europe today. i just checked

    • @rossmholden
      @rossmholden 6 місяців тому

      How long do you think it'll be before the article "What did Princess Diana think about Eternal Inflation Theory?"

    • @spvillano
      @spvillano 6 місяців тому +1

      Well, not quite as good as Daily Fail...

  • @dermaniac5205
    @dermaniac5205 6 місяців тому +104

    I wasn't a fan of daily short videos at first, but I think you hit a pretty good sweet spot now in terms of length. If the videos are 5-10 minutes long, I don't mind it as much! It was only at first, when they were 2-4 minutes long and 1 minutes was sponsorship, that it was a bit fragmented :-)

  • @celestindupilon2773
    @celestindupilon2773 6 днів тому

    Hearing Sabine speak French with German and English accent at the same time... C'est incroyable. Danke, Frau Hossenfelder, YMMD! Célestin

  • @jazzigreycat
    @jazzigreycat 6 місяців тому +2

    Without my hearing aids, I thought you said "Observations tell us that the universe is pants."

  • @KeithFinnie
    @KeithFinnie 6 місяців тому +124

    Thanks Sabine. You are a treasure of sane, educated, thoughtful information. Coated in tasty humour. ❤

    • @davidbidgood3987
      @davidbidgood3987 6 місяців тому +2

      I would not make such an inappropriate comment, but some would say tastiness in more than just humor.

    • @ricardoorellana3350
      @ricardoorellana3350 6 місяців тому +1

      Time is the strongest force in the uni
      An object at rest will not remain at rest if time is allowed

    • @ricardoorellana3350
      @ricardoorellana3350 6 місяців тому +2

      Life = heat time distance.
      Time is what allows something to come from nothing

    • @ricardoorellana3350
      @ricardoorellana3350 6 місяців тому +1

      String theory for me is life between birth and death hot to cold, cold hot, rich to poor and love to hate. And anything that could fall in between is real too us. And everything else beyond can only be measures

    • @ricardoorellana3350
      @ricardoorellana3350 6 місяців тому +1

      Cool

  • @MrPedalpaddle
    @MrPedalpaddle 6 місяців тому +48

    Thanks for this clarification. Brian Cox is not alone in referring to the Reheating following inflation as a Big Bang; IIRC, Ethan Siegel does, too. It is confusing for those of us more accustomed to thinking of inflation following the Big Bang rather than preceding it.

    • @gregroper9944
      @gregroper9944 6 місяців тому +6

      Ethan Siegel (and others) generally refer to this as the "Hot Big Bang". AFAIK this puts constraints on the initial conditions of the early universe w.r.t. size and temperature to explain the lack of certain artifacts (e.g. magnetic monopoles) that would otherwise have to exist, but for which there is no observational evidence

    • @PMA65537
      @PMA65537 6 місяців тому

      Perhaps he feels lucky.

    • @adrianbruce2963
      @adrianbruce2963 6 місяців тому

      For a communicator like Brian Cox to use the term Big Bang in a way that's different to the way it's used in everyday life, is positively stupid.

  • @gcorriveau6864
    @gcorriveau6864 3 місяці тому +1

    The more we think we know ... the more we realize we don't know and the Answers recede.

  • @jayr526
    @jayr526 5 місяців тому +2

    Having been a teenager in the 60s I have always been in favor of the Big Bong theory.

  • @leematthews6812
    @leematthews6812 6 місяців тому +21

    "According to this theory, out universe is created in a quantum fluctuation in a field called the inflaton." OK, give me a few years to chew that over....

    • @VikingTeddy
      @VikingTeddy 6 місяців тому +2

      "In the beginning there was nothing, then it blew up"

    • @DeadlyKiss000
      @DeadlyKiss000 3 місяці тому

      You ain't supposed to eat the theory! Have a Macdonald's Sir! ❤

  • @Belsnikel
    @Belsnikel 6 місяців тому +66

    that was the best ad incorporated in a video I have ever seen. She actually showed that she's learned some french. awesome

    • @barneyronnie
      @barneyronnie 6 місяців тому +4

      She's also brilliant, so that makes things easier 😊

    • @mgx2077
      @mgx2077 5 місяців тому +2

      Yea her French wasn’t bad, and not to be rude or anything, but her French accent was better than her English accent… in my opinion…

    • @teknopathetik7986
      @teknopathetik7986 4 місяці тому +2

      @@mgx2077 Uh ... her English is completely fluent and intelligible.

    • @crinolynneendymion8755
      @crinolynneendymion8755 3 місяці тому

      I suspect Ms Hossenfelder is fluent in French.

    • @crinolynneendymion8755
      @crinolynneendymion8755 3 місяці тому

      @@mgx2077 "Yea"? what version of English are you using?

  • @happychoices4156
    @happychoices4156 4 місяці тому +1

    Very clear explanation with examples without unnecessary complications, thank you Sabina

  • @AstroGremlinAmerican
    @AstroGremlinAmerican 20 днів тому

    Oh yes, a very useful phrase in French. "Excuse me, what is the age of the Universe?" LOL

  • @BlinkRazor
    @BlinkRazor 6 місяців тому +10

    That was a slam dunk debunk 😂 but seriously, I absolutely love what you do Sabine, I love your no-nonsense style

  • @nomizomichani
    @nomizomichani 6 місяців тому +48

    I am just curious. Other than Big Bang, is there any imaginative hypothesis to explain the redshift of Universe?

    • @SabineHossenfelder
      @SabineHossenfelder  6 місяців тому +57

      There's the idea of "tired light" (Google will tell you more)

    • @Francois15031967
      @Francois15031967 6 місяців тому +6

      Yep. Something called "tired photons hypothesis" or something like that.

    • @Unmannedair
      @Unmannedair 6 місяців тому +7

      Tired light is better explained as time dilation.

    • @t16205
      @t16205 6 місяців тому +8

      @@SabineHossenfelder Sabine, i Love your videoes! I have a question for you:
      Is it impossible that the gravity we are affected by from sagitarius, could explain the redshift we are observing from objects outside our galaxy cluster? That everything isnt traveling away from us, but that its an effect of being trapped by our own black hole? Im not a physicist, and I realize Im probably provably wrong, but I would love to hear your perspective on this and why It might be wrong.
      Thanks

    • @donnerschwein
      @donnerschwein 6 місяців тому +2

      @@SabineHossenfelder (we want you to do a video about it)

  • @GOICOBA
    @GOICOBA 5 місяців тому +1

    Those theories always remind me of the stuff I made up as a kid to explain my lego spaceships that I built while watching animated series.
    "This is infinity fast, so everything that goes faster than it uses atomic energy magic to convert infinity into more speed, like it's two times infinity now."

    • @NotSoNormal1987
      @NotSoNormal1987 5 місяців тому

      There are different sized infinities

    • @alexanderlucas2659
      @alexanderlucas2659 4 місяці тому

      ​@@NotSoNormal1987That's true, but not remotely relevant.

  • @miguelbarahona6636
    @miguelbarahona6636 6 місяців тому +3

    Very interesting Sabine. A quick question: As space expands into the universe, could there be galaxies that are so far away from us, so their light would never reach us?

    • @juanausensi499
      @juanausensi499 6 місяців тому +4

      I'n not Sabine, but i can answer that. The answer is yes. There is a limit on how far away we can see, because the speed of expansion becomes faster than the speed of light after a certain point. That's not in contradiction with general relativity because nothing (i.e., matter and energy) is moving faster than the speed of light in their own frames of reference. The set of all things we can see is called the observable universe: it's a sphere of 45.7 billion light-years radius centered on us (of course, if there are alien astronomers in another place of the universe, their observable universe would be also centered on them)

    • @Neburia
      @Neburia 2 місяці тому

      ​@@juanausensi499 that's just the maximum rendering volume of the Universe's engine for a single instance of a game, they'll patch it at some point, at least Will Wright said so... 😂 Jokes a side, such a fascinating concept, thanks for explaining, and yes i think our unjverse its basically Spore's videogame server, every intelligent species is a different run of the game, and no one will convince me otherwise. 😂

  • @Crunch104
    @Crunch104 6 місяців тому +12

    I think you mean hypotheses or speculation and not theory when talking about what happened before the Big Bang. Love your work. Learned so much from you. Thank you!

    • @Tasorius
      @Tasorius 21 день тому

      I wish every idiot in the world would look up the word "theory" and realize that it doesn't only refer to scientific theories, but regular theories that don't even need evidence. A theory is a theory whether there is evidence for it or not.

  • @JoeBlowUK
    @JoeBlowUK 6 місяців тому +67

    I love the way the analogy of the water drop was used, where the drop tapers to infinity, yet the actual source, the tap, is in plain sight. 🤣

    • @deltalima6703
      @deltalima6703 6 місяців тому +5

      I think she said the tube of water doesnt become infinitely thin because quantum mechanics trumps fluid dynamics.

    • @JoeBlowUK
      @JoeBlowUK 6 місяців тому +1

      @@deltalima6703 My point was the source of the water drop... the tap.

    • @stefaandondeyne
      @stefaandondeyne 6 місяців тому +5

      To my understanding the analogy, implies that we are living in a universe that dripped off of something, and we'll never know of what ...

    • @JoeBlowUK
      @JoeBlowUK 6 місяців тому +2

      @@stefaandondeyne Agreed... maybe there was a source, but we can only see as far as the single point where it was launched.

    • @bingusiswatching6335
      @bingusiswatching6335 6 місяців тому +2

      what is this meant to mean, it's an analogy for singularities not the universe. And the tap just moves water from one place to another so what does that imply. huh

  • @tedanderson5528
    @tedanderson5528 3 місяці тому

    Always interesting watching “historical scientists” squirm to maintain their grants discussing events they do not, will not ever know or understand 😂

  • @stever2583
    @stever2583 2 місяці тому

    "He did What?" Best line in quite awhile!

  • @DCGreenZone
    @DCGreenZone 6 місяців тому +15

    The phone should have rung in the first 10 seconds. 😂

    • @annecarter5181
      @annecarter5181 6 місяців тому +3

      Yes!! What has happened to the phone ☎️????!!!!!

    • @DCGreenZone
      @DCGreenZone 6 місяців тому +5

      @@annecarter5181 Should have been, "Hello, yes Brian, yes, yes, yes, yes, uhuh, uhuh" 🤣

    • @guydreamr
      @guydreamr 6 місяців тому +2

      "Hello, this is God I want my universe back."

    • @sluggo206
      @sluggo206 6 місяців тому

      @@annecarter5181 Sabine said it's been hard to integrate phone calls into the daily news format. It rang once when Elon Musk called.

  • @stephenpalfy8226
    @stephenpalfy8226 6 місяців тому +74

    “Well, that’s no fun!” Is the thought before every physics theory.

    • @jamesvandamme7786
      @jamesvandamme7786 6 місяців тому +2

      And every physics test I've taken.

    • @Bob_Adkins
      @Bob_Adkins 6 місяців тому +1

      They have fun at our expense, having to learn it and take tests about it as though it's serious science. When their theories are proven wrong, we don't get a single apology for being jerked around!

    • @xBurzurkurx
      @xBurzurkurx 4 місяці тому +1

      "Well, that's no fun!" Is the thought before every tax season knowing they fund garbage like this instead of things to actually improve conditions for people.

  • @tylerbessette464
    @tylerbessette464 5 місяців тому +1

    No matter what, the beginning of the universe is like pulling a rabbit out of a hat without a rabbit or a hat. That's especially difficult if you don't believe in the magician...

  • @R2BMusicCH
    @R2BMusicCH Місяць тому +1

    The existence of non-existence is a paradox.
    Hence there had to be always "something" existing, in one form or another. The Universe exists because it cannot not exist.
    No "creation" needed.

  • @chrisandrews3275
    @chrisandrews3275 6 місяців тому +2

    Every time a watch one of Sabines videos I struggle to keep up, I'm just an average gut trying to learn something new. So for all of you out there that understand all the information, respect !

    • @N0_191_
      @N0_191_ 3 місяці тому +1

      Above average. You unlike the others, are not trying to glut the chat with your kudos to your own intellect to appear highly intellectual. You are not trying to be something other than a person thirsty for knowledge without the self important desire for likes concerning your own banter. Thus eliminating the interaction banter over speak. You are not complicating what she is trying to make clearer to assimilate for most people. Less is more, always. 🙋🏻‍♀️🇨🇦👍💋

  • @lehilehi8636
    @lehilehi8636 6 місяців тому +32

    "We don't know." So much more satisfying than, "Your question has no meaning," which I have heard supposed experts say.

    • @Antares2
      @Antares2 6 місяців тому +8

      I am sure that refers to asking "what happened before time?", which has no meaning. It's like asking what is at 91 degrees north. It's beyond the scale, and so the question has no meaning.
      To ask what is outside space-time may be such a question. Saying you don't know is also a good answer, but there are a lot of examples of meaningless questions that include an impossible premise for example.

    • @patriktschersich7502
      @patriktschersich7502 6 місяців тому

      Questions only have no meaning if they are obviously self-answering.

    • @LiveFreeOrDieDH
      @LiveFreeOrDieDH 6 місяців тому +2

      Some questions have inherent assumptions built into them. Examples of such questions that are NOT meaningless include leading and loaded questions. Other times, the bult-in assumption simply makes no sense. "How many angles can fit on the head of a pin?" depends on if an angel occupies a finite amount of physical space and, if so, how large a head of a pin really is in comparison (do we take a statistical average all pins in the world?)
      Just because a question is meaningless doesn't mean it can't have any value. "What is the sound of 1 hand clapping?" is a well known *koan*, used in Zen Buddhism to challenge rational thought.

    • @tvuser9529
      @tvuser9529 6 місяців тому

      @@LiveFreeOrDieDH Single handed clapping is possible, by whipping the four non-thumb fingers around so they slap the palm hard enough to make a sound. It sounds like two-handed clapping done by someone who has only barely learned to do so: weak and irregular. Anyway, I hope this doesn't ruin Zen Buddhism ;)

    • @fahrenheit2101
      @fahrenheit2101 5 місяців тому

      @@Antares2 Well, time's a funny one. Either it's infinite in both directions, or has a "start" or an "end". But for time to "start" is a pretty weird notion. And I don't blame anybody who'd ask what happened before the "start" of time. I mean, "start of time" is circular, as far as I can tell.

  • @alextaws6657
    @alextaws6657 6 місяців тому +12

    "infinitely lame"
    i can't stop laughing!!!

  • @debarghyasarkar4507
    @debarghyasarkar4507 Місяць тому

    "Because the enitre point is it being infinitely lame"...really can't stop laughing

  • @mrcleanisin
    @mrcleanisin 6 місяців тому +1

    I asked GOOGLE's Bard, and here's what it said: The concept of "before" the Big Bang might not even be meaningful in the traditional sense. Time itself is thought to have begun with the Big Bang, so talking about what happened "before" is like trying to describe what's north of the North Pole.
    Our understanding of physics is constantly evolving, and it's possible that new discoveries in the future could shed light on what happened before the Big Bang.
    So, while we may not have a definitive answer to your question yet, the quest to understand the origins of the universe is one of the most fascinating and challenging in all of science. And who knows, maybe someday we will be able to crack this cosmic mystery!

    • @williamhatfield8935
      @williamhatfield8935 Місяць тому

      The simple, and obviously correct, answer is the universe had no beginning.

  • @ColinJonesPonder
    @ColinJonesPonder 6 місяців тому +7

    As soon as I saw that the headline was from The Express I knew where this was going 😉

  • @xnonsuchx
    @xnonsuchx 6 місяців тому +39

    One of my favorite Brian Cox quotes (at least I think it was him) is “Nothing doesn’t like to exist.” (in response to the question of why is there something instead of nothing).

    • @baw5xc333
      @baw5xc333 6 місяців тому +2

      What does a rock dream of?

    • @nickcarroll8565
      @nickcarroll8565 6 місяців тому +4

      If nothing existed, it would in fact be something by virtue of existing.
      You’re welcome for the bit of sophistry.

    • @skipper2285
      @skipper2285 6 місяців тому +1

      "Something" won the coin flip. Metaphysically.

    • @craigstiferbig
      @craigstiferbig 6 місяців тому

      It's the natural curve evolution to shear entropic radiation resonation waves. We know literally everything in the universe has it's paradoxical opposition. The fact that we can make any choice or have distinction between inverse properties.. entropy wants our disorder to permeate and refract into nitrogen jello or plasma without thermodynamics.. but we are here, partially aware of this, evolving everything scope to human existence towards curving our destruction. We are the natural evolution of resonation currents trying to shear the radiation waves they needle cast to phase vibrate through. Just think of the universe as a neutrino ocean and pay attention to fluid mechanics/dynamics.. curvature into spheres is the perfect inverse skirting of resonation pressure attempting to squeeze things into diffraction after loosing their coupling, entanglement, attraction forces/reactions. Because they weave through paradoxical sets in a looped system.. it can only expand to evolve together in Ying yang transference across turbulent exchange into strange attraction. So like the train in the movie "the core" .. no matter how much energy pours in or how much one side jumps to gain relative to the other.. they refraction and bifurcate waves and vertices, Vortex and supernova, fusion and resonation pulsation field coupling to only strengthen eachother. Over a Lorenz strange exchange and paradoxical flips

    • @craigstiferbig
      @craigstiferbig 6 місяців тому

      @skipper2285 naw the opposite. Look up strange attraction and the von Karman Vortex streets. Dynamical systems mean they ebb n flow but any gain diffracts into resonation harmony in Ying yang over paradoxical flip. It's why we are/everything is expanding

  • @christopherbond5130
    @christopherbond5130 4 місяці тому +1

    It's inherent in science to ask "What caused that?', but perhaps somethings were always there and will continue to be forever.

  • @michaelthrone
    @michaelthrone 6 місяців тому +1

    Time for a shout out to the physicist who came up with the Big Bang theory in 1927. The physicist was George LeMaitre, who was a friendly acquaintance of Einstein. Also, the fact that blows many people's minds and irritates them to no end is that LeMaitre was a Catholic priest for most of his adult life until his death in 1966.

    • @moritakaishida7963
      @moritakaishida7963 4 місяці тому

      It's irritating because often devout Catholics are anti science and will constantly push creationism, or they'll still try to incorporate god into the big bang theory when science and religion are incompatible.
      He was an exception

  • @t.c.bramblett617
    @t.c.bramblett617 6 місяців тому +50

    Sabine is the physics teacher I knew I always needed, and now I get to hear her.... truly a remarkable universe

    • @petri2767
      @petri2767 6 місяців тому +5

      She is sliding into hack territory, making videos about subjects she does not know about or twisting things people said.

    • @andreasrumpf9012
      @andreasrumpf9012 6 місяців тому

      @@petri2767 My favorite was how we need to allow Lia Thomas to particpate in women's competitions because people with ambiguous body parts exist. You cannot get more "scientific" than that...

    • @StevXtreme
      @StevXtreme 6 місяців тому

      @@andreasrumpf9012 That's just common sense. She's 100% correct about it, too. Sport has always been about having genetic unfairness lead the way to victory.
      Talking about things that only need a functioning brain doesn't make her a "hack". You're just idiots who had their ideologies touched and are offended about it. Get lost.

    • @tyl3r336
      @tyl3r336 6 місяців тому

      You should flip your profile picture so that you appear sad on the outside, and on the inside, well...

  • @johnintheuk00
    @johnintheuk00 6 місяців тому +5

    If you’re going to Paris, can I suggest you memorise; ‘Excusez-moi, pouvez-vous déplacer votre tracteur’, you may need it!

  • @numbereightyseven
    @numbereightyseven 4 місяці тому +1

    It's ironic that scientists call Christian creationists "clueless".
    Hypocritical, even.

    • @N090UGY
      @N090UGY 4 місяці тому

      They are. An absolute joke.

  • @Max-kn9yi
    @Max-kn9yi 3 місяці тому +1

    If speed of light isn't constant in all directions, would that screw up the whole big bang theory?

  • @stevencatone
    @stevencatone 6 місяців тому +63

    Sabine should have Neil degrasse Tyson’s job. He’s so full of himself. Much better communication of science to normal people here.

    • @xraargu6212
      @xraargu6212 4 місяці тому +1

      Yes, please.

    • @arturama8581
      @arturama8581 4 місяці тому +13

      Neil isn't full of himself, he's American, Sabine German. Sabine can explain to reasonably well educated people, while Neil has to TRY to explain it to the rest of humanity. That's why he HAS to (over) simplify it.

    • @user-fo5qx7xb7s
      @user-fo5qx7xb7s 4 місяці тому +1

      Why would anyone want to be a science popularizer? They all get accused of being holier than thou and losing touch with the common person. Makes me sick!!!

    • @stevencatone
      @stevencatone 4 місяці тому +10

      @@arturama8581 I'm American and I disagree. He is full of himself and thinks everyone should be hanging on everything he says...

    • @stevencatone
      @stevencatone 4 місяці тому +6

      @@user-fo5qx7xb7s popularizer.... first of all isn't a word. But I digress. What Neil and Sabine do is communicate technical science shite into normal information that the everyday man can understand. Neil is pompous in his approach at doing this... where as Sabine is a pleasant person to listen to who understands we all dont know what she does and she is able to take things down to a level that normal people understand without making them feel stupid. This is where Neil fails. Dont get me wrong. I was huge Degrasse fan for years til I caught onto his money making scheme hidden behind being a science communicater.

  • @synystera
    @synystera 6 місяців тому +85

    I love Brian Cox, he was amazing in Succession! 😜

    • @Breakfast_of_Champions
      @Breakfast_of_Champions 6 місяців тому +4

      You should see Stella Cox, she has a lot of movies.

    • @ozymandiasultor9480
      @ozymandiasultor9480 6 місяців тому +2

      Sure, but he knows almost nothing about astrophysics...I mean that iteration of Brian Cox, the old dude from Succession.

    • @fredrik241
      @fredrik241 6 місяців тому +1

      Oh, and in Oppenheimer!

    • @synystera
      @synystera 6 місяців тому +1

      @@fredrik241 haven't watched Oppenheimer yet, does he play the bomb?

    • @Steeyuv
      @Steeyuv 6 місяців тому

      @@synystera no, the warheads got together and signed a petition complaining he would make them look small.

  • @dougyoung221
    @dougyoung221 4 місяці тому

    It's really quite simple. The alarm went off and the universe woke up.

  • @Datroflshopper
    @Datroflshopper 10 днів тому

    Hey Sabine, a pro-tip from a British person. If you see a story from the "Daily Express", the story probably doesn't line up with the original source very well

  • @NunyaBidness-zr5mn
    @NunyaBidness-zr5mn 6 місяців тому +5

    My theory: Before the universe, there was Nothing... and then Chuck Norris roundhouse-kicked Nothing in the face and told it to get a job.

  • @MolniyaSokol
    @MolniyaSokol 6 місяців тому +23

    I love how she properly writes sponsors into the video script, almost as rare on UA-cam as her honesty

    • @StevXtreme
      @StevXtreme 6 місяців тому +2

      Absolutely. And I think endorsements like these should be far more expensive for those purchasing the ads because they're just so much more effective.

  • @ZachariahMorningstar
    @ZachariahMorningstar 5 місяців тому

    I literally thought Brian Cox the actor , I am laughing at myself right now.

  • @jeffhays1968
    @jeffhays1968 2 місяці тому +1

    I am one of 'those people' who don't believe in the 'big bang'so much any more. Thinking more of collision of multiple universe bubbles than a singularity.

  • @FrancisFjordCupola
    @FrancisFjordCupola 6 місяців тому +76

    Brian Cox has this air of mysticism that really, really made me appreciate UA-cam and the regular scientists communicating on there.

    • @andybaldman
      @andybaldman 6 місяців тому

      Telling everyone how full of shit he is.

    • @ozymandiasultor9480
      @ozymandiasultor9480 6 місяців тому +7

      An air of mysticism? He looks like the epitome of a nerd... If that is your air, you can find it easily near any university.

    • @vibewithme2318
      @vibewithme2318 6 місяців тому

      Some small energy ya got friend!​@@ozymandiasultor9480

    • @rynegade
      @rynegade 6 місяців тому +17

      @@ozymandiasultor9480 Nah, I agree with Fjord. The problem is these long form documentaries where he has to travel to India and Egypt (using Orientalist type tropes) or South America where he writes in the sand, spending tens of thousands on their production budget, when he could have stood with a blackboard behind him and said more in two minutes than in the entire 45 minute show.

    • @robertgoiser6767
      @robertgoiser6767 6 місяців тому +16

      Oh come on. This reminds me of some historians going on amazon trashing a popular science history book.
      Cox makes these programs for the masses and people like me have learned a great deal from him and enjoyed doing so. If you want more, there's other sources, but for most people Cox will do just fine and it should be shown on TV regularly.

  • @Konrad-z9w
    @Konrad-z9w 6 місяців тому +28

    In one of the Dr Who audio plays the Big Bang was simply a misfire of an alien spaceship firing up its engines creating our universe.

    • @rodgunn2621
      @rodgunn2621 6 місяців тому +1

      Seems more likely than the singularity

    • @BalBurgh
      @BalBurgh 6 місяців тому +1

      Goofy piece of writing, that.

    • @MaryAnnNytowl
      @MaryAnnNytowl 6 місяців тому +2

      ​@@BalBurghit's Doctor Who. That's a requirement, lol! After all, one of the 5th Doctor's stories (the one where Adric died, for Whovian timeline clarity) had a spaceship crash into the Earth, about... 65 or so mya. Not that pesky asteroid that left the big hole in the Yucatan about that time that got such a bad rap. 😂

    • @davebulluk
      @davebulluk 6 місяців тому

      City of Death? Mysterious link with Sabine learning französich, eh?

    • @moritakaishida7963
      @moritakaishida7963 4 місяці тому

      That's really stupid

  • @markhughes2556
    @markhughes2556 Місяць тому

    "We need something to account for Inflation"
    "Dark Time?"
    "No - wait I've got it - the Inflaton!"
    "How do we derive it?"
    "We don't - we just posit it!"
    "Using the, um..."
    "Dark Positon!!"

  • @robertbarnhill488
    @robertbarnhill488 3 місяці тому

    I read a theory once that the entire universe popped into existence like a virtual particle

  • @RandomToon1
    @RandomToon1 6 місяців тому +16

    "Take a super simple example of a singularity". No, I don't think I will. Not with my brain.

    • @tylerdurden3722
      @tylerdurden3722 6 місяців тому +2

      The singularity, is when your equation says you have to divide by zero to get your answer.

  • @Lord.Kiltridge
    @Lord.Kiltridge 6 місяців тому +14

    My dad was a very intelligent fellow. His mind was well beyond his education and he often got a huge amount of disrespect from well educated idiots. (Yes. I'm bitter.)
    One day I told him that I figured out what came in the moments before 'The Big Bang.'
    'The Big Click'

    • @AndrewJonkers
      @AndrewJonkers 6 місяців тому +2

      My best explanation as a teenager right into the birds and bees was "When a mommy universe and a daddy universe really love each other...."

  • @WickedSativa869
    @WickedSativa869 5 місяців тому

    If I won a contest and I could choose which physicist to sit down and talk to, It would be Sabine.

  • @johnnyragadoo2414
    @johnnyragadoo2414 4 місяці тому +1

    Off-topic, but hopefully appropriate. This channel is awesome!

    • @N0_191_
      @N0_191_ 3 місяці тому

      Not off topic actually direct hit.😊👍🙋🏻‍♀️🇨🇦

  • @RSLT
    @RSLT 6 місяців тому +5

    Well, part of the problem is that 'Big Bang' is a terrible name. At best, it was a super tiny event and there was no 'bang' because there is no air in space. Also, the theory doesn’t adequately explain certain aspects. Why 'Big'? How did the 'Bang' happen? It's like naming a theory 'apple theorem' and then discussing orange juice. Moreover, what kind of theory requires adding 95% of unknown substances to make it work? That's a 20-fold error. It's akin to a child claiming to have two PHDs after the first year of school (the additional 19 being 'dark education'). So, rightfully, people question if the theory's name is wrong, what else could be? If you need to add (fake it to make it ) 95% material to fit observations, it's not science; it's prophecy.That's exactly it. This is precisely why a Priest read the Bible and formulated the Big Bang theory. Just like other observations, such as everything appearing to orbit around us, leading to the belief that we are at the center of the universe.. It's astonishing that people still refer to observations as facts, much like those who claim the Earth is flat because, based on limited observations, the horizon appears flat. The Big Bang theorists are, at best, like divorce scientists who conclude the main reason for divorce is marriage based on observations alone. Without mathematics, it's not science; it's philosophical speculation. Mathematics clearly shows that 5 does not equal 100, and it's time to abandon such religious-like beliefs and seek better theories.

    • @user-semenar
      @user-semenar Місяць тому

      The problem is, we don't really have any data on the time around the supposed 'Big Bang'. It's like an impenetrable wall for our observations, because the Universe was really different back then. So, any hypotheses are just that - hypotheses.

  • @SaintBenard
    @SaintBenard 6 місяців тому +6

    Love the new Q & A Graphic.. May I suggest one of the stills they use of you in the graphic be you holding your head in a hand or both, showing frustration.. 🎉❤
    Love love love love love

  • @cjgibbsey
    @cjgibbsey 4 місяці тому

    "its not a very popular idea probaly because the entire point is that its infinitely lame" got a good chuckle from me

  • @Aceofhearts529
    @Aceofhearts529 6 місяців тому

    The worlds becoming obsessed with 'click baiting' for varying reasons and it unfortunately doesn't preclude well known scientists and/or commentators.

  • @eonasjohn
    @eonasjohn 6 місяців тому +15

    Thank you for the video.

  • @aquariumlife2929
    @aquariumlife2929 6 місяців тому +4

    Translation : all the time and money and work spent and we still know sh*t

  • @assassinwolvesfilms3851
    @assassinwolvesfilms3851 Місяць тому

    He didn't debunk it, he only presented different ideas currently explored.

  • @the_koschi
    @the_koschi 6 місяців тому

    PhD Student in Cosmology/Astroparticle Physics here. To my understanding the whole cosmology community understands the "Big Bang Theory" to be the theory about how a very hot and dense state of the very early universe leads to the universe in which we live today. The earliest time "after the singularity" we have any clear knowledge about is at around 3 minutes when the first nuclei were formed (theoretical calculations agree with the observed abundances). This is colloquially known as "Big Band Nucleosynthesis"... note that this is not referring to any singularity, and still contains the words "Big Bang".
    We have no clear evidence what happened before Big Bang Nucleosynthesis, everything is extrapolation from what we know from particle physics and some speculation... Therefore, if inflation would be a correct theory, reheating would indeed initiate the Big Bang, and I would not know any cosmologist heavily arguing against that terminology. Everyone seems to believe that the initial "singularity" cannot be physical, so there is no reason to refer only to this unphysical instance as the Big Bang... it is more about what follows.

  • @martaaldama6419
    @martaaldama6419 6 місяців тому +42

    Thank you. I’m not scientific, but I enjoy listening to you.

    • @DeclanMBrennan
      @DeclanMBrennan 6 місяців тому +9

      I think "Scientific" is a direction - not a state of being.

    • @fredrik241
      @fredrik241 6 місяців тому +5

      Don't forget we are all made of stars! :)

    • @godassasin8097
      @godassasin8097 6 місяців тому +3

      no, i am scientific and i know what he's talking about ​@@DeclanMBrennan

    • @HarryNicNicholas
      @HarryNicNicholas 6 місяців тому +4

      sorry to say but if you boil a kettle at all you're a scientist. cooking is science and i don't mean domestic science i mean actual science, you conduct an experiment and if you're lucky you get dinner out of it. you are an artist too, if you can make a mark you're an artist - don't ever exclude yourself from the human race. we are all journalists too - check out the first amendment.

    • @HarryNicNicholas
      @HarryNicNicholas 6 місяців тому +1

      @@DeclanMBrennan boiling a kettle is literally doing science. it just takes longer with a bunsen burner.

  • @peterjhillier7659
    @peterjhillier7659 6 місяців тому +4

    Anything in the Daily Express should be regarded with deep suspicion, or dismissed immediately.

  • @MrSpuzzz
    @MrSpuzzz 4 місяці тому

    What’s with the red landline next to Einstein? Good to see the commercial at the end….you know someone has made it as a youtuber when they start inserting ads

  • @robertcutts7264
    @robertcutts7264 5 місяців тому +1

    Hey Sabine, that part you said about singularity arises because we assume space to be smooth and not discrete??? Yeah... that's kinda what Stephen Wolfram has illustrated for us quite elegantly with his method of quantizing space using hypergraphs. He's onto something that turn-of-the-century physicists all assumed to be true (but didn't have the tools to probe).

  • @xGaLoSx
    @xGaLoSx 6 місяців тому +5

    of all the theories for what happened before the big bang, eternal inflation is the most pleasing to my brain. Would be interesting to know if it could ever be verified through observation?

    • @raybar1915
      @raybar1915 6 місяців тому +1

      I believe there is a certain type of polarization in the CMB, B mode that if detected would make inflation more likely and rule out alternative theories such as the cyclic models.

    • @brothermine2292
      @brothermine2292 6 місяців тому +2

      Eternal Inflation is eternal into the future, but presumably finite into the past. That's why Sabine said the Eternal Inflation multiverse had a beginning at a finite time in the past.

  • @guydreamr
    @guydreamr 6 місяців тому +4

    Of course there was a "before" before the big bang, another one in fact, even larger. The Rolling Stones said so with their "Bigger Bang" album, and everyone knows those guys predate the universe by far.

  • @wetwingnut
    @wetwingnut 4 місяці тому +1

    I spent many years of my young life passionately studying mathematical physics at university. I considered it as THE best way to understand the universe.
    Now I just find what it produces embarrassing...

  • @TevoRobots-drSky
    @TevoRobots-drSky 4 місяці тому

    If Einstein gave this nonsensical formula you just showed than I'm a Chinese Pope 😂