Is Space a Thing?

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  • @besmart
    @besmart  7 років тому +880

    Space? That's just, like, your perspective…
    Tell us what you thought of this week's video!

    • @BabyboyBBL
      @BabyboyBBL 7 років тому +8

      It's Okay To Be Smart Its good? ( i havent watched it yet 😂) ok ill leave

    • @MikhaelAhava
      @MikhaelAhava 7 років тому +3

      It's Okay To Be Smart
      It's nearly midnight I'm sleepy it's Wednesday tomorrow and I have no clue.
      20/6/17

    • @ashboon1625
      @ashboon1625 7 років тому +9

      Bathwater ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

    • @weesaw6596
      @weesaw6596 7 років тому +3

      It's Okay To Be Smart plz sub to savage ice cream and maby a shout out i loved it.

    • @supersaltypearl2017
      @supersaltypearl2017 7 років тому +9

      I think it was one of your most exciting video yet.

  • @kcwidman
    @kcwidman 7 років тому +1020

    I have never seen a 3D graph of space-time like that before. I like it.

    • @RobotB-hd5hs
      @RobotB-hd5hs 7 років тому +13

      Kai Widman Yea, its a really good way to represent it.

    • @freddieking6456
      @freddieking6456 6 років тому +36

      It makes something so confusing so simple

    • @Vvopat96
      @Vvopat96 6 років тому +14

      me too finally understand it correctly very clever picture!

    • @jackmuller5478
      @jackmuller5478 6 років тому +4

      why does an accelerating object have a curved trajectory in that graph though?

    • @freddieking6456
      @freddieking6456 6 років тому +33

      Jack Müller because as it speeds up it will travel faster through space but slower through time

  • @varvaramir
    @varvaramir 3 роки тому +87

    Joe: and now its empty
    Michael: Or *is* it?
    *Vsause music starts playing*

  • @Angelica-bf5dx
    @Angelica-bf5dx 7 років тому +2084

    That Albert Einstein graphic is life

    • @TheFvpss
      @TheFvpss 7 років тому +37

      what is life though?

    • @SmokeyEdits
      @SmokeyEdits 7 років тому +6

      Bum bummmm. Doooo doooooo......

    • @MonDieuMaCauseMonEpee
      @MonDieuMaCauseMonEpee 7 років тому +40

      what's the song playing during the gif.

    • @AgusSkywalker
      @AgusSkywalker 7 років тому +13

      YES! I want to see more of that.

    • @mer7cer7
      @mer7cer7 7 років тому +17

      It's Okay To Be Smart, play that Albert Einstein graphic!!!

  • @KirkLau
    @KirkLau 7 років тому +166

    someone GOT TO MAKE that color changing Einstein graphic into animated GIF.. please!

    • @hvxry
      @hvxry 2 роки тому +1

      Colour

    • @cespen9999
      @cespen9999 2 роки тому +1

      @@hvxry color

    • @flyingfungus7506
      @flyingfungus7506 2 роки тому

      @@cespen9999 colour

    • @Teelirious
      @Teelirious 2 роки тому +1

      This is the stupidest racistism evar.

    • @KirkLau
      @KirkLau 2 роки тому +2

      @@Teelirious to be honest, i am surprised they are arguing about Color vs Colour instead of GIF vs GIF...

  • @Exurb1a
    @Exurb1a 7 років тому +307

    God damn, that was fantastic.

    • @antonipolski9569
      @antonipolski9569 3 роки тому

      Ok

    • @pikachu-jf2oh
      @pikachu-jf2oh 3 роки тому +22

      How the heck are you not verified? Also love your vids

    • @EL-ISS
      @EL-ISS 3 роки тому +9

      Ayye the Existential Turtle!
      Love your vids, you have a gift with writing.

    • @bullpuppy7455
      @bullpuppy7455 3 роки тому +4

      ♥ The infinite blackness of space corresponds to an imaginary blank slate, which has the potential for something to exist within it.
      ♥ The 'things' that exist within that imagination are thoughts, given form.
      ♥ As individuals we get to experience these thoughts through the 5 senses of the vehicle that is our body.
      ♥ These senses are fed up into our brain, and converted into thought in our mind for us to perceive.
      ♥ If this greater mind that is exterior to us, but which also contains us, did not flow into us continuously, we would not exist.
      ♥ We are the universe, experiencing itself from many different perspectives.
      ♥ We are one with the Force, and the Force is with us.
      ♥ We are in the Father, and the Father is in us.
      ♥ Our minds are a part of God's mind. We are very holy!
      ♥ Therefore, LOVE your neighbor as yourself:)

    • @explorateur8159
      @explorateur8159 3 роки тому

      @@bullpuppy7455 very interesting, energetic bubbles upon an ocean of energy, yet move as if by some spirited wind upon the waters.
      The wind of the laws of physics & yet His intervention, yet our wind upon the world & each other as well.
      We sense the world & each other not by touching it even, but merely by being in the proximal presence of one another & having our particles mediated to one another by forces via virtual particles & bosons.
      These invisible carriers & messengers communicate between all of our quanta infinitesimally & somewhere, somehow we sense it macroscopically.
      Where is a sense? & What is it? But yet another fluctuation of energy across our dendritic bodies, where is our soul but perhaps in the collective excitation of this brief collection of quanta?

  • @brentoctaviano7059
    @brentoctaviano7059 4 роки тому +138

    "Is space a thing?"
    *Well yes but actually no*

    • @luffy23101993
      @luffy23101993 3 роки тому

      But yes

    • @joelmartinez7687
      @joelmartinez7687 3 роки тому

      But no

    • @delqyrus2619
      @delqyrus2619 3 роки тому +4

      As a physicist this is the answer to so many simple questions.... Almost like "It depends...". The problem is: The universe isn't "simple". So how should there be simple answers - especially to simple questions? "Is the Earth flat?" - "No, but yes, maybe, it depends - if you are moving with the speed of light, basically everything is flat, but if you don't, Earth behaves like it isn't, but maybe we are wrong about the behavior of things, so maybe it is, but .if you view it from the point of view of a four dimensional being, you can wrap the earth into flat shapes, but if you are a being of higher dimensions you most probably don't have any idea of what 'flat' is., but...".

    • @vintage-radio
      @vintage-radio 3 роки тому

      @@delqyrus2619 calm down they were just doing a joke

    • @ccyclink3101
      @ccyclink3101 3 роки тому +1

      They should take their jokes elsewhere. Some people would like to find further explanations or professional opinions in the comments, but all they can see are jokes upvoted by the crowds of average-Joes who flock on them like flies on pies of excrement.

  • @imienazwisko6527
    @imienazwisko6527 7 років тому +2266

    But... What is a "thing"?
    **music from Vsauce**

    • @jonathanschossig1276
      @jonathanschossig1276 7 років тому +8

      The Artist Anything that can be experienced.

    • @imienazwisko6527
      @imienazwisko6527 7 років тому +31

      Unknown Name What does it mean to experience something?

    • @jonathanschossig1276
      @jonathanschossig1276 7 років тому +5

      The Artist If you can see it, taste it, smell it, hear it, touch it or do one of the above with a projection of it, you can experience it.

    • @imienazwisko6527
      @imienazwisko6527 7 років тому +23

      Unknown Name What if there was no being able to experience reality?

    • @stewardappiagyei6982
      @stewardappiagyei6982 7 років тому +26

      *cue vsauce music*

  • @silverslider562
    @silverslider562 5 років тому +50

    That Einstein guitar solo tho 🤘🏽

    • @TrasherBiner
      @TrasherBiner 3 роки тому +4

      I would like 10 hours of that Einstein solo with the color changing animation and all.

    • @profcanbeatbox
      @profcanbeatbox 3 роки тому

      Me too

  • @goldenkipi334
    @goldenkipi334 7 років тому +318

    that graph showing relation between space and time was helpful to understand spacetime, great work as usual

    • @flow5718
      @flow5718 7 років тому

      yh.. very ncie

    • @riccardocuciniello2044
      @riccardocuciniello2044 6 років тому +5

      But it doesn't make you understand what TIME is. Time is seen as a sort of space something can move, "flows" through.
      Philosophically uninformed videos :/

    • @MrHeroicDemon
      @MrHeroicDemon 5 років тому

      @@riccardocuciniello2044 Universe doesn't have to make sense to humans. Humans couldn't fathom germs, now we do.
      If you say you understand it fully, then you don't. Watch startalk.
      We have tools to help humans try and grasp what is happening. Like maths for blackhole gravity. We humans have a need to make something this or that. Yet light is a wave and a particle point. It's not a wave OR a particle. We don't have the right definitions at this time to describe many things that math can prove. That is all. Our time of understanding/definitions are going to update as we gain a sensibility of it all. Humans couldn't fathom germs, now we do.

    • @riccardocuciniello2044
      @riccardocuciniello2044 5 років тому

      @@MrHeroicDemon it absolutely MUST make sense to humans. Not now, not tomorrow, but it must have to possibly to make sense, even if we will never understand it - in other words, we must be able to understand the universe completely, even if we will never practice succeed in it.

    • @riccardocuciniello2044
      @riccardocuciniello2044 5 років тому

      @@MrHeroicDemon the fact that we can't understand what maths proves it's a problem, but what does it mean? It means that there is a real shift between reality and the object of science itself. Reality as we experience it normally is not just an illusion, but it's the realm in which we can't not live. We don't live in the realm where things are and aren't at the same time - at the same time, to make sense of our reality, we must construct something that isn't part of normal reality. One of those things is time. We don't, and won't ever experience time for what it is according to scientific theory. But scientific time isn't TEMPORAL at all. So, while "time" may be a physical notion, the character of temporality is the foundamental way of human experience of reality.

  • @IzzySoDope
    @IzzySoDope 5 років тому +34

    I appreciate how this channel factors in the relatively short attention soan of people and constantly bombards us with changing images and graphics

  • @sksury3067
    @sksury3067 7 років тому +90

    1:03 "It all has to do with relativity"
    *ROCK METAL MUSIC!* *RAINBOWS* *ALBERT EINSTEIN!* *SCIENCE!* *PHYSICS*
    *BOOM!!!*
    *BOOM!!!!*
    *!!!!BOOM!!!!*

  • @Tuchulu
    @Tuchulu 7 років тому +449

    What's the Einstein "theme"? It sounds totally wicked, bro

  • @denttech2515
    @denttech2515 2 роки тому +16

    6:18. To be honest, this is the first time I truly understood what spacetime means and what gravity actually is (according to modern physics and Einstein... it may change). I feel like an idiot, but I have to say something. Thanks for another awesome video

    • @noahwilliams8996
      @noahwilliams8996 2 роки тому

      Here's a playlist I made that explains it in more detail: ua-cam.com/play/PLogZUlUedQpb8oRmVvsF47YA8VUvpv9z0.html

  • @H20fulman
    @H20fulman 7 років тому +381

    But the real question is..
    If crabs walk on the ocean floor, when they look up, do they see *flying* fish?

    • @hellothing
      @hellothing 7 років тому +24

      Codie Tanguma yes they do technically

    • @UncleFLarry
      @UncleFLarry 5 років тому +10

      @@hellothing no because fish don't fly, they swim.
      They see swimming fish, just as we see flying birds. You can't fly in the water. You can swim, float, sink, et cetera...

    • @paolovallejo8022
      @paolovallejo8022 5 років тому +53

      @@UncleFLarry air is a fluid and is explained as such by fluid mechanics so yes, fish do fly, just in a much denser medium

    • @travishirschfelt413
      @travishirschfelt413 5 років тому +16

      @@paolovallejo8022 bingo. I tell people all the time that air is more like water then what you think of as empty space

    • @marleyjanim5033
      @marleyjanim5033 5 років тому +11

      @@UncleFLarry This is how gravity work
      1 - think of space as a fluid
      The mass of the earth dispersed space....
      Space compresses on earth...
      That's how gravity works, it is a push

  • @AThingFromSpace
    @AThingFromSpace 7 років тому +49

    It's mee

    • @Poshur
      @Poshur 3 роки тому

      cool a verified youtuber

    • @thorny8013
      @thorny8013 3 роки тому

      Lmao

    • @idqau
      @idqau 3 роки тому

      oof ouch no one recognizes you....I don't know you but I checked out 2 of your latest videos just now to see wh at k i n d o f y o u t u b e r y o u a r e

  • @tgg1217
    @tgg1217 7 років тому +184

    can we please have that Einstein gif?

  • @anthonybeervor2265
    @anthonybeervor2265 6 років тому +132

    Albert Einstein was kind of a rockstar. I mean he was a celebrity scientist and he even had groupies lol.

  • @ladyviolety6678
    @ladyviolety6678 7 років тому +358

    A L B E R T E I N S T E I N

  • @kbimm
    @kbimm 2 роки тому +5

    As far as I know, Einstein was a fierce defender of Mach‘s principle. He did not believe that spacetime was a thing. Also acceleration must be relative to SOME reference frame. The bucket water would NOT bend in an empty universe. Considering the Lense-Thirring effect, there even seems to be empirical evidence for this apparently merely philosophical stance.

  • @KazuyaMusic
    @KazuyaMusic 7 років тому +83

    I was following along until he started talking about spacetime

  • @THECANDYISGONE
    @THECANDYISGONE 7 років тому +316

    Im having a hard time understanding this.

    • @johnniewalker39
      @johnniewalker39 4 роки тому +24

      You're not alone, rest assured. :D

    • @ahmedsrabon6173
      @ahmedsrabon6173 4 роки тому +5

      Us

    • @davidmacphee3549
      @davidmacphee3549 4 роки тому +10

      Tough stuff but super well done. Come back to it again after doing some more looking and this will seem easier.

    • @davidmacphee3549
      @davidmacphee3549 4 роки тому +17

      @FocusFanatic I don't know if you were kidding when you used the word black. I did not get the joke. Africa is a very large continent with many countries. American blood is rich in it's DNA. in it's way, it leads us on in our evolution. It is strongly believed that the Human race began around the great lakes of Africa so please open your mind to ALL the wonderful and beautiful people around you, please. People that have difficulty understanding things are still probably smarter than you

    • @deontesisson549
      @deontesisson549 4 роки тому

      FocusFanatic wat

  • @alexanderbira
    @alexanderbira 7 років тому +770

    The real question is:
    Is thing a space???

    • @Nyuum
      @Nyuum 7 років тому +89

      MangoTube *vsauce music ensues*

    • @alexanderbira
      @alexanderbira 7 років тому +61

      Hey guys, Michael, Vsauce here. As we all know, the word space derives from the Latin word 'spaceibus' which, back then meant big. They would often use it to describe house size. Anyway, space. What is it? Space is where there is nothing. Like a vacuum. Vacuum is a cool word because it is the only word to have a double U but not a W. As I was saying, space is a vacuum (nothing), a place where there are no atoms. For example, if I was to hold out this empty bottle *shows bottle* it may look empty, but there is actually matter in it. Atoms, particles if you will. Oxygen with a combination of other gases and even water. In conclusion, the answer is... No.

    • @swinde
      @swinde 7 років тому +7

      Even if space was a pure vacuum, it still has a property of separating matter by distance, so it IS a thing that keeps all of the matter from clumping together.

    • @NOMAD-qp3dd
      @NOMAD-qp3dd 7 років тому +1

      hehe

    • @madderhat5852
      @madderhat5852 7 років тому

      Duuuuuuuuuuuuude.......

  • @haachamacultist1stcultisto19
    @haachamacultist1stcultisto19 7 років тому +9

    I was saying
    "YOU CAN STILL FEEL IT SPINNING EVEN IF THERE'S NOTHING"
    through the entire video

  • @rockalOvEerx73
    @rockalOvEerx73 7 років тому +6

    I demand a full version of that Einstein sick tune

  • @shadowcat9164
    @shadowcat9164 7 років тому +14

    6:53
    DOCTOR WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

  • @cursekatana
    @cursekatana 7 років тому +11

    this actually helped me finally understand spacetime .a concept I just couldn't get my head around but it makes so much sense. I'm saving this video💯

    • @cursekatana
      @cursekatana 7 років тому +2

      space isn't really a thing, just a part of a thing. space is 3 dimensions but we are 4 dimensional and the fourth dimension is time.
      my theory is that the expansion of the universe (which is constantly accelerating) is time and it explains why time only goes in one direction because the universe is only expanding not contracting. Matter warps space time and this warping effect causes gravity however the warping effect also causes time dilation due to time being a quantity of space time. this also explains why the speed of light is constant as photons are massless and therefore do not warp space-time and can travel at the maximum speed allowed by space ( shown by that nifty graph at the end other the video). I probably just came to the same conclusions as many other people but this video really cleared it up for me. Thanks itsoktobesmart !

  • @reyvanbueno9298
    @reyvanbueno9298 6 років тому +1

    At 6:02 it's just like people who are tired of working saying that the time is so slow and people who don't mind about anything saying that the time is so fast.

  • @BLeachRoX4eVa
    @BLeachRoX4eVa 7 років тому +61

    Can we hv a loop of that Albert Einstein?

    • @thelastcube.
      @thelastcube. 7 років тому +1

      Nope maybe we can have a Spacetime of that Albert-o-Einst-ein *sigh* Yeah

    • @chandrakantsharda3525
      @chandrakantsharda3525 7 років тому

      Chaitanya Singh fu

    • @eaterdrinker000
      @eaterdrinker000 7 років тому +2

      Symphonic power metal makes absolute sense for introducing Dr. Einstein.

    • @inkoalawetrust
      @inkoalawetrust 6 років тому

      ua-cam.com/video/BM2-FY2QEog/v-deo.html
      Don't bother with the souncloud link lykury gave you it probably doesn't work in your country.

    • @ecsdwe129
      @ecsdwe129 6 років тому

      Ahhh I see what you did there with that abbreviation of 'have.' E=hv, the Planck-Einstein equation, which states that photon energy is proportional to frequency. I feel special because I'm on youtube and I know basic physics. Also I have the physics GRE in less than a week, pls send help.

  • @Thee_Sinner
    @Thee_Sinner 6 років тому +117

    Why did that apple look so huge?

    • @jackupstate3740
      @jackupstate3740 6 років тому

      Can you change your gamer tag so it shows your balls

    • @xShareem
      @xShareem 6 років тому

      Jack Ahah lmao 😂

    • @jujuyee2534
      @jujuyee2534 5 років тому +3

      Maybe bc it's a huge apple?

    • @ginnyjollykidd
      @ginnyjollykidd 5 років тому +1

      It's a huge apple. You can find them commonly in US groceries. You can also find apples that are about half that size, called "lunchbox" size.

  • @nikhilmenda2983
    @nikhilmenda2983 7 років тому +8

    HOly crap this is enlightening. the part at 6:21 blew me away. I never thought about spacetime like that before, Thanks Joe!

  • @churchofclaus
    @churchofclaus 7 років тому +2

    the problem with the analogy of the bucket is, that at each point during the spin, you're actually on a linear trajectory moving outward relative to the bucket.

  • @sion8
    @sion8 7 років тому +21

    No! I wanted to see Einstein's awesome entrance!!!
    (watches until the end)
    *NEVERMIND!!!*

    • @MyVitros
      @MyVitros 4 роки тому +2

      sion8 I wanted that too. So funny

  • @littl3chik0r1t4
    @littl3chik0r1t4 7 років тому

    Those small jabs and the fun they poked at with the Albert Einstein graphic gave me life. It made the video so much more fun and enjoyable

  • @adamrspears1981
    @adamrspears1981 6 років тому +14

    Can anyone please clarify this?
    I've heard that the universe started out from a point infinitely small; hot & dense.
    My question is, if the starting point of the universe was just a hot & dense state...then what was available to compare its temperature & density too?
    Hot compared to what?
    Was there a temperature outside of this hot dense state?
    Dense compared to what?
    Was this hot & dense state contained inside of something else with less density?
    How can something be described as hot & dense, when there is not yet anything else to compare its temperature & density to??
    -Thank You in advance for your clarification.

    • @roner61
      @roner61 6 років тому +7

      You need to check temperature definition:
      Cold and hot are relative to atoms movment.
      The coldest: atoms with no movment.(or minnimun possible)
      The hottest: atoms moving at the maximun velocity possible.

    • @adamrspears1981
      @adamrspears1981 6 років тому +4

      roner61 Thank You for your reply. & yes you are correct.
      But let's remember that at the moment just before The Big Bang event happened, there were no atoms yet. The 1st atoms of Protium, which is just comprised of 3 quarks that make a proton, didn't form until after the singularity state.
      So my questions remain, hot compared to what?
      Dense compared to what?

    • @MrGrimmiefan
      @MrGrimmiefan 5 років тому +3

      I suggest you look into hawkings theorys of the universe

    • @michaelrose93
      @michaelrose93 5 років тому +9

      *"what was available to compare its temperature & density too?"* < Nothing, but then again, no one was around to make comparisons then. We're comparing it to the present moment.

    • @cashcurtis
      @cashcurtis 4 роки тому +3

      Hot and dense compared to the current state of the universe. It's the same universe, after all, just cooler and spread out.

  • @Willpower360
    @Willpower360 5 років тому +2

    If we could *FEEL* the bucket moving,
    What makes us FEEL that?

    • @pjeffries301
      @pjeffries301 3 роки тому

      The bucket. Remove that, you feel nothing because space is a mental construct. It can only be "sensed" in the mind.

  • @fransende
    @fransende 7 років тому +174

    Absolue space is definitelly god's bathwater

    • @grizzly443
      @grizzly443 7 років тому +3

      lol

    • @europeansovietunion7372
      @europeansovietunion7372 7 років тому +7

      True, and this is what real vacuum looks like : imgur.com/vRYhKUa
      Space is filled with quack particles.

    • @01wadder
      @01wadder 6 років тому +5

      So then the big bang was a fart and the turd that followed was the precursor to life..
      The more you know!

    • @timmy18135
      @timmy18135 4 роки тому

      Nullo space is Vishnu's bathwater

    • @edgeeffect
      @edgeeffect 4 роки тому

      @@timmy18135 Any even slightly knowledgeable Hindu would tell you that Vishnu is one personality of an unknowable supreme god anyway.

  • @edgeeffect
    @edgeeffect 4 роки тому

    Production on this episode is GREAT... but as an Englishman and a Pedant... I've got to pick out the high point as "James Cleerk, no Claark Maxwel!". :)
    That's probably the clearest and simplest description of spacetime EVER as well.

  • @shawn4086
    @shawn4086 4 роки тому +9

    "no, too late! you mossed ur chance,"
    me in the background: the music is cool tho

  • @muskansharma4833
    @muskansharma4833 5 років тому +2

    That graph was so amazing

  • @scott4398
    @scott4398 7 років тому +8

    Do "Is Time a Thing?" next!

    • @akashwalavalkar7313
      @akashwalavalkar7313 3 роки тому +1

      he said, spacetime is a thing. Not time or space individually

    • @pjeffries301
      @pjeffries301 3 роки тому

      @@akashwalavalkar7313 "Spacetime is a mathematical construct." -- Albert Einstein

  • @veraalvarado8632
    @veraalvarado8632 5 років тому +2

    Albert's "Soundtrack" is awesome :D I bet there's a power metal fan at the PBS staff haha

  • @theawesomeMikeMike09
    @theawesomeMikeMike09 7 років тому +5

    Why did you have to give us blue balls with the Albert Einstein thing? I was looking forward to that introduction.

  • @gppg6290
    @gppg6290 3 роки тому +1

    Greek Zeno from Elea put it right by asking 2,400 years ago "if the place (space) is something, what is it in?" and then answering "in another place, and that in turn in another, and so on, so there is no place (space)". Therefore there is also no time because time is motion and motion without space does not exist.

  • @mate5163
    @mate5163 7 років тому +167

    I understood absolutely nothing

    • @mate5163
      @mate5163 7 років тому +1

      ...

    • @sanguiVSdobbi
      @sanguiVSdobbi 7 років тому +4

      Mate don't worry neither do scientists, these are just theories after all :)

    • @YaBoiKeith
      @YaBoiKeith 7 років тому +47

      Giulio Baia The fact that scientists call it a theory, means that there is a lot of evidence behind it.

    • @edhondo4447
      @edhondo4447 7 років тому

      s nothing is a thing .. thanks ,, I will remember that

    • @C0deH0wler
      @C0deH0wler 7 років тому +3

      Because it was vague to begin with.

  • @riyo84
    @riyo84 5 років тому

    that Einstein gag made me remember the other physicists better. After the video, I remembered the name Ernst Mach. That's amazing because I don't ever remember anything from my UA-cam binges

  • @cup_check_official
    @cup_check_official 7 років тому +158

    depends on what space you are talking about. The out side of earth space or the personal space that most people dont have a concept of :p

    • @xdas11
      @xdas11 7 років тому +4

      Tell Me This can you explain what is this personal space?

    • @Ignacio.Romero
      @Ignacio.Romero 7 років тому

      xdas11 Can you explain me what explain is?

    • @hokumisolated3551
      @hokumisolated3551 7 років тому +2

      Or the Safe space that left are being crazy about.

    • @DaRealXzKingJacobzX
      @DaRealXzKingJacobzX 7 років тому

      Alright welcome back to the show. I'm Philip Jacobs.. And let me tell yea heh I care about my personal wo-woah Hey! Who's around me right now? Who's around me?! Now why don't we step up here and everybody get stepped up, and lets get some stepped up Personal Space up in this place!

  • @nivedithav7620
    @nivedithav7620 9 місяців тому

    I really appreciate your sense of humour combined with your sense of Education.

  • @md.hossain693
    @md.hossain693 4 роки тому +3

    7:46
    "The power house of the cell."

  • @mostlynew
    @mostlynew 3 роки тому

    The Space-Time explanation and diagrams following 06:00 helped me the most

  • @sarahchurchwell2665
    @sarahchurchwell2665 7 років тому +6

    Great vid!

  • @patryn36
    @patryn36 6 років тому

    the problem with using the spinning bucket of water is that when an item is in motion it is always attempting to move in a straight line. curved movements only happen when something else interferes, like the walls of the bucket blocking the water's intended path or gravity as things travel past.

  • @kyzer422
    @kyzer422 7 років тому +5

    But won't the water be spinning relative to the bucket, or vice versa?
    Not to say I don't think space is a thing, on the contrary, I just think that proof isn't the best one.

  • @Juliethefurball
    @Juliethefurball 2 роки тому

    2:30
    Joe: what are you spinning relative to?
    Me: the camera!

  • @juanmiguelreyesguerr
    @juanmiguelreyesguerr 7 років тому +4

    And can there be spacetime without matter?
    If there is no bucked spinning, nor anything else, is spacetime still there? If not, does that mean spacetime is an aspect of matter?

    • @ivanbolatti
      @ivanbolatti 6 років тому +3

      You got it backwards. Matter is an aspect of spacetime. Particles are perturbations of spacetime fields.

    • @RalphoMadalpho
      @RalphoMadalpho 5 років тому +1

      Idk the correct answer to this question, but in ny opinion, this is still considered a very good question! After all, I was taught that no matter, person, place, thing, or any event cannot exist without spacetime. There would have to be the 3 spatial coordinates of x, y, & z for there to be a place for any existance, plus the w coordinate to represent time and tell us when it existed. So without spacetime, there definitely isn't a time nor a place for any matter..
      But what if that concept is also, somehow, actually reciprocated?.. as to imply an inverted causality that would nullify any existance of a spacetime without any kind of matter or substance to validate any space or time (the duality of reality shows its face almost anywhere you look) #thingsthatmakeyagohmmmmm

  • @34756745
    @34756745 5 років тому

    That graphic chart blew my mind. The concept was just a bit too abstract before.

  • @thecentalist3160
    @thecentalist3160 7 років тому +52

    What about dark matter?

    • @jarryd8167
      @jarryd8167 6 років тому +25

      In 20 years or so someone will come back and answer your comment

    • @freddieking6456
      @freddieking6456 6 років тому +7

      Dark matter is a thing that we don't know but is a thing

    • @Nico-dt5hu
      @Nico-dt5hu 6 років тому +4

      The Centalist if u use the reality stone from marvel to convert matter to antimatter

    • @ibangedmyheadtokeyboardgjg6735
      @ibangedmyheadtokeyboardgjg6735 6 років тому +12

      It doesn't matter.

    • @carlosmp2043
      @carlosmp2043 6 років тому +2

      Fred King
      Scientists do know quite a bit about it.

  • @xcoder1122
    @xcoder1122 3 роки тому

    Finally, a video that puts it simple. What 6:25 basically says is that everything in our universe is constantly moving and it is moving at the speed of light. Yet it is not moving through space but through spacetime. So if it is perfectly motionless in space, it travels through time with the speed of light and if it travels through space with the speed of light, time won't pass for it at all (which is true for photons). This explains why time slows down the faster something moves through space: It's a 4D vector whose length (= speed of traveling) cannot change, only the direction it is pointing to can change and three of the possibly directions are space and one of them is time. And this explains where gravity comes from, which isn't a force: Gravity bends spacetime and as a result the movement vector points to a different direction, as the vector is always straight but the coordinate space isn't anymore, it's bent. The result is, that the object makes a movement in space that it shouldn't actually do because it's not following the bend.

  • @lastshadow4930
    @lastshadow4930 7 років тому +33

    Name of the song used when Albert Einstein appeared?

    • @matthewlee7287
      @matthewlee7287 7 років тому +3

      i think it's "red star" by chris goulstone

    • @shiweiding9510
      @shiweiding9510 7 років тому +10

      Last Shadow Darude-sandstorm
      Sorry had to

    • @lastshadow4930
      @lastshadow4930 7 років тому +1

      Thank you!

    • @harvindam1638
      @harvindam1638 7 років тому +4

      Last Shadow rick Ashley never gonna give you up

    • @naeem6583
      @naeem6583 6 років тому

      "Did somebody say red star?"
      "Liberty Prime is online."
      "All systems nominal."
      "Weapons: hot."

  • @ginnyjollykidd
    @ginnyjollykidd 5 років тому

    Okay, going beyond the scope of this video:
    IIRC, I think it was also Einstein also said Spacetime was curved. And that each object curved the space around it in a way similar to dropping differently-weighted balls on a trampoline. (Correct me if I'm wrong.)
    I think I heard it from Dr. Michio Kaku that this curvature of Spacetime *pushes* objects near them rather than the object pulling on the object with gravity.
    Remember the "Vortex" wells where you could put a coin art the top rim of an inverted cone , push it to one side, and watch it spiral down?
    Remember you pushed to the side at the beginning, giving it an initial velocity at a right angle to the center of the cone.
    But the cone forced it to change directions. And the closer to the center the coin got, the faster the velocity of the coin.
    In Physics notations and illustrations, they show this by drawing a vector from the point to a right angle to its line connecting the point to the center. They also show the gravitational attraction of the planet from the point toward the center.
    Both vectors are drawn correctly for calculating exactly what magnitude and direction the object will take, but this shorthand is confusing.
    If you draw arrows not as vectors but as directions the forces originated, then in the money well your force pushing on the coin is from your finger which is placed behind the coin to push it forward, and the force from the well is directed inward toward the center from the wall of the cone to the coin.
    So is gravity an attractive force? Or is it, as Dr. Kaku says, a push on the object?
    Discussion is welcome.
    And this video also begs the question, if there were nothing in the universe except you (in a protective space suit) would there be any acceleration anyway?
    Rotational acceleration could be created, and that is movement relative to your center of gravity. You might not see the effect of this rotation, but you could feel it physiologically as your blood would be forced to your head and to your feet. And There might be other physiological effects as well.

  • @333angeleyes
    @333angeleyes 7 років тому +6

    This episode was so funny and so clever!!! (^_^)
    Your channel has really come a long way and is now my main science channel... THANK YOU!

  • @NJ-co6qs
    @NJ-co6qs 5 років тому +2

    At 2:30 , if you look with respect to 'bucket' there is a pseudo-force (centrifugal) which acts as it is a non - inertial frame .
    So, it explains the force 🤔
    Please correct if I am wrong😃
    By the way loved the 'Entries' of Einstein

  • @Felix-cm5fg
    @Felix-cm5fg 7 років тому +4

    I have a Question:
    At 6:08 you said "An objekt not moving thou space"
    Not moving relativ to what? The earth, the Galaxy? How can I know that I am not moving?

    • @Felix-cm5fg
      @Felix-cm5fg 7 років тому +2

      What is the top speed that I can travel throu Time? How can I mesure it?
      Sorry for bad english

    • @roblaquiere8220
      @roblaquiere8220 7 років тому +5

      To answer your questions we need to understand the differences between space-like and time-like motion. The four ships in this video's example display these alone and together:
      Diagonal Ship: Both space-like and time-like motion, this ship is not accelerating. The velocity of the space-like motion is X m/s, something we understand easily using basic physics. The time-like motion has a speed that is curiously measured in seconds per meter, in this case it would be traveling through time at a rate of... 1/X s/m. Yes, you travel a number of seconds through time per meter of space traversed. Remember Einstein's clocks measure time by measuring a photon in motion through space, space is measured in meters; seconds per meter is literally the unit of time-like motion.
      Perpendicular Ship: Only time-like motion, this ship has zero velocity and is not accelerating (not possible for reasons, but I'll continue). The time-like motion has a speed of ∞/0 s/m because you would travel infinite seconds for each 0 meters traveled... therefore ships truly at rest have an undefined speed in time-like motion.
      Parallel Ship: Only space-like motion, this ship has velocity of exactly C and in not accelerating (and has no mass, somehow). The time-like motion of this third ship is 0/∞ s/m because you would travel zero seconds for each infinite meters traveled... therefore ships traveling at C also have an undefined speed in time-like motion, but it is a different undefined.
      Curved Ship: Both types of motion, and is accelerating. Nothing different than the first ship to be honest.
      Einstein used a distance metric that included time called the Spacetime Interval, this metric measured the distance between two points, like the endpoints of a ship's path, in such a way that all observers would agree on the interval regardless of their frame of reference while observing some event like a ship path. Spacetime intervals that do not have one component of the interval, the space or time component, are special cases that only work in particular cases. I could go on about it, but I have said enough for now.

    • @Felix-cm5fg
      @Felix-cm5fg 7 років тому +2

      Rob Laquiere wow I didn't expect something like this, I didn't understand a word thats fascinating! Thank you for that explanation! No joke

    • @feynstein1004
      @feynstein1004 7 років тому

      +Felix Vogel You can know that you're moving because it's impossible to stay still in spacetime. In fact, everything is moving through spacetime at the same velocity (the velocity of light). Now how much of this velocity gets transferred to the space or time directions depends on the reference and hence is relative. However, the actual "speed" of everything is always the same. You should take a course in special relativity. It's really interesting. And fascinating as well.

    • @roblaquiere8220
      @roblaquiere8220 7 років тому +1

      This is not correct. Not everything is moving through spacetime at the same velocity. Remember, velocity is a measurement of speed and direction... surely not everything in spacetime is moving in the same direction. The absolute value of velocity, on the other hand, is the same for the types of matter and energy we have discovered. I don't want to rule out the possibility of discovering matter or energy that does not obey these rules however (I think of Tachyons from Star Trek).
      In fact, some hypotheses imply that exotic matter like anti-hydrogen is in fact normal hydrogen moving backwards in time... This means that particle anti-particle annihilation is just two normal hydrogen smashing into each other in the time dimension! One from the future and one from the past! The reason the charges are switched is because we are seeing the anti-particle moving in reverse through time, and thus the EM waves produced by the anti-matter is flipped. QED predicted anti-matter's existence because of these ideas, and we have indeed synthesized anti-hydrogen.

  • @potawatomi100
    @potawatomi100 3 роки тому +1

    Excellent program and very well narrated.

  • @sneedfeed7204
    @sneedfeed7204 7 років тому +103

    Is life a thing ?

    • @Nyuum
      @Nyuum 7 років тому +9

      Somali Pirate Who Pirated Your Girlfriend *Vsauce music ensues*

    • @justADeni
      @justADeni 7 років тому

      Depends on definition of life that you meant when asking this question.

    • @lennymachadorivero3904
      @lennymachadorivero3904 7 років тому

      You are life.

    • @g.seangourlay2593
      @g.seangourlay2593 7 років тому +2

      Somali Pirate Who Pirated Your Girlfriend
      life is not a thing. it is a process happening to a thing made up of many other things, and using other things.

    • @alphamineron
      @alphamineron 7 років тому +12

      Somali Pirate Who Pirated Your Girlfriend
      First of all, how dare you pirate my girlfriend that doesn't even exist yet...
      Second, Life is what meaning we give to it.
      Life has no meaning and thus no significance in the cosmic index.
      Life started on Earth some 2 billion years ago, till now our impact on our own Galaxy is beyond insignificant

  • @adamemac
    @adamemac 7 років тому +1

    Him: "Space is just, like a human construct."
    Her: "Then you won't mind giving me some."
    Well, that sums up my relationship status.

  • @WontonTV
    @WontonTV 7 років тому +3

    "Einstein said light could travel without a medium"
    Wasn't that proved by Michelson & Morley?

    • @reclavea
      @reclavea 4 роки тому

      Wonton
      Einstein’s was wrong. The 1887 MMX recorded the Aether ....but the the speed was not near the .40 fringe shift needed to justify the heliocentric preference.
      The laboratory experiments all prove the geocentric model which Einstein detested (ie...God, creator, judgement ...etc)
      Einstein invented his 1905 STR to effectively null those laboratory results in order to keep the BS heliocentric model.
      Genesis 1:1😊👍🏻

    • @daithimac5785
      @daithimac5785 4 роки тому

      @@reclavea idiocracy achieved!! Have a nice cold glass of Brawndo to celebrate....

    • @reclavea
      @reclavea 4 роки тому

      John Doe
      Lol!
      It’s the splendor of truth 😊👍🏻
      Genesis 1:1😊👍🏻

    • @daithimac5785
      @daithimac5785 4 роки тому

      @@reclavea go away!!!!
      ....batin!!

    • @reclavea
      @reclavea 4 роки тому

      @@daithimac5785
      LOL!...Truth can never go away! LOL
      It’s the splendor of truth 😊👍🏻
      Genesis 1:1😊👍🏻

  • @Lorentari
    @Lorentari 5 років тому

    I'm at 4:00 now and I'm annoyed that no one is like "You are being pushed outward in that spinning motion because you are constantly changing direction - that is why you feel it"

  • @adaojr10
    @adaojr10 7 років тому +3

    laughed so hard at 0:55

  • @thabomalete7908
    @thabomalete7908 5 років тому

    That space time graph is amazing, never thought about relativity like that.

  • @nathan_fellicia
    @nathan_fellicia 5 років тому +3

    space is...
    that long bar on your laptop

  • @franzanth
    @franzanth 7 років тому

    your editing job is so wild lately and I love it

  • @SirMikeys
    @SirMikeys 7 років тому +6

    The real question is: Is consciousness a thing?

    • @fandomguy8025
      @fandomguy8025 6 років тому +3

      It's information, and things are information. So maybe?

    • @sabi6684
      @sabi6684 6 років тому +5

      SirMikeys we’re not conscious enough to figure that one out yet..
      Our conscious is within space, and space within our conscious...
      💭
      i think...

  • @abcdef2069
    @abcdef2069 6 років тому +1

    "space is a thng" is new to me. space here means distance concept or material made of concept?

  • @kamssun
    @kamssun 7 років тому +4

    But but but... how about Kant's theory of space and time as a priori of human perception?

    • @elisabethschiering8466
      @elisabethschiering8466 6 років тому

      I'm writing an essay about it and asked myself the Same thing. Have you found any answers yet?

    • @josecaodaglio
      @josecaodaglio 6 років тому +3

      It is not a theory, it can't predict nothing. Just philosophy. You can write whatever you want, but to predict events is far more complex.

    • @peter5844
      @peter5844 6 років тому +2

      JLC You're right. Kant stated a philosphical thing. Physicists don't sit back, think about those things, write down their thoughts and call it a theory. a physics theory needs to be proven with math. talking about these theories, like it is done in this video, is just explaining what the math means for real life

  • @YT-hu1bq
    @YT-hu1bq 5 років тому +1

    Amazing video , now i do have a question , Objects at rest are moving at top speed through time ? What does that mean ? And what is that speed ? If anyone can enlighten me please do :)

  • @Busidrio
    @Busidrio 10 місяців тому +4

    God bathwater... I, m an atheist and this was very funny

  • @jsfbr
    @jsfbr 7 років тому

    Dear Joe, so much to explore and share on this engaging theme, but not on the comments' section, unfortunately shared with many who don't address it rationally and respectfully.

  • @thelastcube.
    @thelastcube. 7 років тому +4

    Hey Q/A time: If mass is constantly changed to energy and energy to mass (the reason why we weigh even though ~99% of our body is just blank space*) and if the "void" space out there has energy (CMB or quantum energy fluctuations - whatever you like), Do the Void space between us have mass? And if it does have mass, Doesn't that make void space have its own Gravitational field (Yeah that inward dimple on spacetime )?
    * Veritasium had a video explaining this some time ago (yrs ago)

    • @crisp7423
      @crisp7423 7 років тому

      indian stop Lol hindu headass

    • @thelastcube.
      @thelastcube. 7 років тому +2

      Earth Mars umm.. What?

    • @grizzly443
      @grizzly443 7 років тому

      link the video

    • @GepardenK
      @GepardenK 7 років тому

      I think you got that a bit wrong. Mass is not changing to energy and back again. Mass IS energy; it's energy that is trapped from traveling at the speed of light. Thus it is energy that experiences time (since, as described in this video, if something does not move at the speed of light then it travels through time instead)

    • @bonniedean9495
      @bonniedean9495 7 років тому +1

      Chaitanya Singh It does not have mass since its made up of "virtual particles" whitout mass. If they however had mass that would break the thermodynamic law about conservation of energy.
      The virtual particles have to exist in the first place to satisfy Heisenbergs uncertanty principle about energy and time. The more you know about the energy of a particle (or in this case, vacuum) the less you can know about the time it had that energy and vice verca. Because a classical vacuum would have no energy in it there would be an infinite uncertanty about the time the system had that energy, which is simply not plausible, therefore viritual particles were theorized and later proved to be right by the casmir effect.
      If i remember correctly the energy required to make those viritual particles are borrowed from space itself, creating negative matter (not to me confused with dark matter or anti matter) for a very short amount of time.
      Sorry for my bad english

  • @PaulTheSkeptic
    @PaulTheSkeptic 5 років тому

    All scientists should have their own theme music. It would make the lecture hall more interesting.

  • @bobwiener4053
    @bobwiener4053 7 років тому +4

    I had no idea what he was taking about I just watched the pictures 😂

  • @AbjectPermanence
    @AbjectPermanence 7 років тому

    UA-cam recommended this video for me, but I can't find it on the channel page. Is this video unlisted or something?

  • @realmasterwizard2003
    @realmasterwizard2003 7 років тому +3

    Space is also a place

  • @ciroguerra-lara6747
    @ciroguerra-lara6747 6 років тому

    The General Theory of Relativity is not inconsistent with Mach's principle. Mach's Principle actually is inspiration for it and might be behind it via how gravity is estructured at a quantum level.

  • @darkenforcer245
    @darkenforcer245 7 років тому +11

    what is that Albert Einstein music

    • @daksh8747
      @daksh8747 7 років тому +4

      Chicken Guy Channel not available in my country man.

    • @eaterdrinker000
      @eaterdrinker000 7 років тому +1

      Symphonic power metal makes absolute sense for introducing Dr. Einstein.

    • @inkoalawetrust
      @inkoalawetrust 6 років тому

      ua-cam.com/video/BM2-FY2QEog/v-deo.html

  • @jasonguyperson
    @jasonguyperson 7 років тому

    If you're spinning in a bucket in the "empty universe" thought experiment, you're spinning relative to other points on the bucket. That's the whole idea behind angular momentum. Suppose it was a massless bucket, you're still moving relative to you're previous position, or relative to the information of where you were (Velocity and acceleration can be measured based on your initial time and place based on the movement of the object, you just have to have a method of quantifying the initial condition and measuring the change ). The "empty universe" becomes the entire reference frame, so a relative velocity to anything else is irrelevant. My hypothesis is that the other matter in the universe is irrelevant beyond the cosmic horizon.

  • @andrasfogarasi5014
    @andrasfogarasi5014 7 років тому

    6:00 THAT'S A REALLY USEFUL PICTURE FOR IMAGINING SPECIAL RELATIVITY.

  • @edga2323
    @edga2323 7 років тому

    One of your greatest videos! Also, part of 23andme. Cheers!

  • @clintonjones955
    @clintonjones955 7 років тому

    ...the 'key' to understanding the Universe, is to 'assert' TIME as the FIRST DIMENSION, zero of 1,2,3... where 'O' indicates 'containment'... NOW 'How long is a second' ...(imho) time 'dilates' to allow 'access' and 'contracts' to 'contain' perception ...'alignment' of 'meter' (music) allows a dynamic conversion in 'realtime' (how long is a moment) ...NOW, imagine 'absolute time' and the 'abstraction' of the 'temporal shell' as it floats in the Universe

  • @JavierCR25
    @JavierCR25 7 років тому +1

    As usual, awesome video! Pretty interesting how Newton's concept was on the right track he just didn't have all the accumulated knowledge Einstein had access to maybe?

  • @stefannikola
    @stefannikola 7 років тому

    I ordered "23 and Me" because of your endorsement of it on your videos. I'm still waiting for my results.

  • @centhernandez1050
    @centhernandez1050 6 років тому

    Videos like this deserves a million likes and views... no, all of your vids deserves it:)

  • @Noone-of-your-Business
    @Noone-of-your-Business 6 років тому

    Wow. This is the first time I actually understood a _tiny_ bit about light speed and relativity. That spacetime graphic is _really_ helpful! Thank you!

  • @VashWolfwood1
    @VashWolfwood1 7 років тому

    this video reminded me of a fun question that came to mind when watching "Never Ending Story" about how they treat "The Nothing" as a thing, "You mean like a hole?" "No! a hole would be something... There was just... nothing"
    If the absence of something is nothing, then what is in the absence of nothing?

  • @genostellar
    @genostellar 7 років тому +1

    Actually, when spinning with a bucket, you ARE moving relative to the bucket. As the bucket spins around, YOU are pulled by it, not simply spinning with it. You are a separate object which the bucket is acting upon. As such, it spins and gives a tug on you. Then, you in turn have a tendency to continue moving in the direction that you are tugged, but the bucket pulls you away from that direction. That's why you experience force on your body even if there are no other things besides you and the bucket.
    I really don't see how spacetime comes into this. I still don't see space or time as things, and in the event that neither of them are actually a thing, spacetime itself cannot be a thing. Zero plus zero does not equal one. If we assume a universe where the bucket and the person are simply spinning on their own without one acting on the other, there would be no centrifugal force.

  • @Kei3th1424
    @Kei3th1424 7 років тому

    That Albert Einstein sliding comedy just made my day

  • @christhe95irrelevant98
    @christhe95irrelevant98 7 років тому

    As a physicist I'd like to say: excellent video!

  • @Boogaboioringale
    @Boogaboioringale 3 роки тому +1

    @0:17. Wait. What does an “air molecule “ look like?

  • @nupeldasanl5292
    @nupeldasanl5292 2 роки тому

    Bu kanalı çok seviyorum hem İngilizce'mi geliştirmek hem de gezegen hakkında bir şeyler öğrenmek için izliyorum

  • @harku123
    @harku123 7 років тому

    Awesome 3D diagram of spacetime, it makes it really easy to understand