String Theory Explained - What is The True Nature of Reality?
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- Опубліковано 28 кві 2024
- Is String Theory the final solution for all of physic’s questions or an overhyped dead end?
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Love the sound design in this video. Sending some
I'm excellent at Maths but my head just exploded. Can you explain it
little bit more deep in another video. Please
Will you be doing one on loop quantum gravity?
At 2:09 if i heard correctly.....more wavelength means more energy is misleading.... small wavelength means high frequency hence high energy..... should be other way round.
More wavelength is less energy....Thank you
"seeing is touching"
*angry museum noises*
*NO TOUCHING*
thing in museum: waa me got touchy
guards n stuff: *you what*
only look dont touch!
Ha
*angry Emperor Kuzco nosies*
"The more you know, the less you know"
the cheese paradox
it's never enough
As the circle of knowledge grows so too does the circumference of ignorance
When you know more you know more
@@dejosserman care to explain? Never heard of it
In chemistry class, we learned about the history of the various models of the atom. They were all wrong to one extent or another, but they were still useful to think about, and I think worth learning about.
jj thomson was on some mad drugs when he made up the plum pudding model
that's the beauty of science. It never claims to have the answer or solution to anything. Science is just our best explanation of what we observe in the world around us. And when we observe things that don't match with our explanations, then we find a better explanation.
@@andeemengaming5000 he discovered the elctron tho everything has a start
point@@Eternalite
because of him we started thinking in that field@@andeemengaming5000
I cannot express how much I liked the way you presented all of them into a single video! Sounds really simple and understandable
yes it only SOUNDS simple
Yes, the most i like or LOVE of all is how represent us as birds
I love how they show humans as bird
Super simple 😑
Yes. But, how they vibrate and each of those 10 dimensions are defined wasn't explained. Makes me question more and more. Is it really just a working theory or could it potentially be real but we just haven't measured anything into those dimensions to prove anything? Maybe I should learn physics it's way more interesting than what's being taught in high school. I suppose it would take a very long video to explain them all but it is indeed a good introductory video.
i guess kurzgesagt is just trying to make the video as compact and understandable as possible, and explaining further may overwhelm some people. Yes, i do think physics is very interesting, though, i do need to warn you that it only looks cool from the outside, the visualization of concepts and theories. But to actually comprehend the theories itself, you need to do extensive extreme hard works with studies, and have to be proficient in maths & calculus. Keep in mind that, even geniuses like Einstein, bohr, oppenheimer (all of them supposedly have an iq of 170+) are still boggled with some of the general theories of quantum physics...
10,000 B.C.E: *Smashing rocks together*
2020: *Smashing subatomic particles together*
Now imagine trying to play "Rock-Paper-Scissors" in 10,000 B.C.E.
1,2,3-Rock. 1,2,3-Rock. 1,2,3-Rock. 1,2,3-Rock. 1,2,3-Rock. 1,2,3-Rock. 1,2,3-Rock. 1,2,3-Rock. 1,2,3-Rock. 1,2,3-Rock.
We've come a LONG way. :)
Atoms
Somethings never change...
You can get the man out of the cave, but you can't get the cave out of the man.
@@bluemantis1448 thats reminds of jungle book 2 ! If you know the reference i love u!
Is it me or does everybody come back every 6 months when they forget what string theory is
LOL not just you
I just knew Michiko kaku is incharge of that
That's sure as shit why I'm here
👍me too
Count me in
"If the universe is a play, the particles are the actors, the gravity is the stage."
That was epic, quote of the century.
Edit:3 more likes and 500!
Thanks
It’s an okay quote, nothing crazy about it
@@dimaisatree No I am comparing it to the 16th century quote made by Shakespeare.
This quote is a contrasting comparison to 21st century showing that we are at the zenith of technological age.
@@manashsaha2312 it was Newton's quote i think 🤔?
Later, Einstein said that stage was not stable or costant, stage was actually very curvy
No it was Shakespeare in his play As you like it.
The actual quote is quite different you can check it.
OMG no it's not the quote of the century, it is paraphrasing what many others have been saying FOR a century now.
Its fascinating as to how such calculations are even carried out. And to think universe has so much depth which keeps on increasing the more it's explored. I really like how Kurzegesagt takes complex topics and simplifies it; the use of analogies may not be as accurate still make it even easier to understand.
Thank you!
“I like your funny words, Magic man.”
is ur name referring to a mission in hitman BLOOD MONEY????
@@mustafasyed8861 it’s just the name for a group of crows
I love you so much for that comment
Let’s all go swimming in my pool, and by pool, I mean bathtub, and by bathtub i mea-
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Isn’t it crazy how we’re basically just a bunch of particles trying to understand themselves
Emergence, dude. We are MORE than a bunch of particles, the same way an ant nest is more than a bunch of ants.
woow don't fuck me up like that
@@DonVigaDeFierro nn
*Steel Beam* I bet you are a flatearther
Logan Cressy nah, flat earthers wouldnt watch this channel, its above their IQ level
We are the particles that we are learning. We are learning ourselves
So good! I’m not an physic expert, I’m illustrator. But this explanation was so clear, and I barely know a little bit more about this difficult topic. Thanks.
Aliens flying by:
Oh look the humans finally started kindergarten
Hahahha this comment is pure gold
im dead 😭
@@wako6719 rest in peace
@x mam ????
@x mam can't wait for you to get that world record for lowest karma rating!!! Congrats man!
“Seeing is touching”
Primary School Teachers:
*I Would Like To Disagree*
🤣
ARMYY
the excuse of creepy uncles everywhere
Museums: I would disagree
Technically, your eyeballs are touching photons (particles of light) w
Thank you for making such complicated stuff more understandable!
Thank you so much, I have been trying to understand this theory for so long. Your video perfectly explains it!
If string theory is proven one day someone will ask,” what are the strings made of.” Here we go again.
Well I always wonder what are the fields made off in the stantard model...
The question Why is the most grand question of them all. Even if we reach a point where everything can be explained there still the why. We understand for example how gravity works but *why* it exists ? Why is it so difficult to make my point clear from a comment ? *Why*
@@fast.food.ninjalarry954 philosophical questions like "why" have no place in physics
@@fast.food.ninjalarry954 It can never have an objective answer
@@quasi-intellecual3790 how is better
“We thought we reached the end of reality, until we decided to smash them together really hard”
-physics history
How the hell they can do something which might not even be possible for example different dimentions. Answer me physics
By observing these discoveries i think that we should rather marry gravity with the forces and dimensions. But gravity should not work between the disk of black hole it should be a loop of space time under a mysterious force . Plz consider reading it
Hm light our eye absorb it and make it to our brain to what we see maybe the black hole is an eye to that in the other side i absorbing it and like making it the mirror of the Universe?
@@catnpuss8428 very different things , you can't compare black holes to eyes just because they both absorb light (both work differently and have huge gap in properties)
@@catnpuss8428 Black hole absorb the light, and never came out. but eyes instead of absorbing it, we reflect it
"if the universe is a play, particles are the actors, and gravity is the stage", well said👏
Gravity isnt actualy a force thats why it is different to other forces. The only reason we treat it as a force is because its observable effect is simmilar to one. I love your visualisations of such stuff so much, you managed to explain it beeing geometry crystal clear in seconds. Hats off
I’m just impressed and excited that over 16 million people(views) wanted to learn about string theory. Whether you can comprehend it now or not, well done everyone 👏🏻
i think sheldon brought most of them here.
Or maybe they just wanted to see the birds
Or its just a small amount of ppl rewatching it soo many times to actually understand it
@@sharvareedeshpande4309 true. Let’s say it’s only 4 million people that rewatched it 3-4 times each...almost more impressive haha
@@CanWeGetDeep you are right, I was about to write it, I already watched it 4 times
Holy crap, you just explained one of the most complicated subjects out there in 8 minutes like it's nothing. Wow, major props.
Damn, I‘ve learned about the Heisenberg uncertainty principle multiple times now, but I never quite understood why observing a particle affects its behaviour. This vid explained it perfectly!
Jesse
@@irfanhadiisveryhandsome6659 😭
Say my name
@@bossdeji8014
You're:
Heisenberg
Walter White
Walter Hartwell White
Walter H. White
Waltuh
Mr. White
Jesse it’s time to have an existential crisis
This really makes me appreciate how smart some people are. Or that so many people contributed smaller ideas that lead to these crazy hypotheses.
There are no secrets, only human ignorance.
@@ivogarner4146 that's not relevant and it's also not true
@@ivogarner4146 pretty sure every living thing is living in ignorance and that's secret to all
It's truly the only way we will succeed as humans
Other words they BIG BRAIN
I'd like to laud the animator, he/she did a great job here
Easier just to say they
@@DEADMANPLAYS this has nothing to do with that also that's kinda homophobic..... they is a gender neutral word it doesn't mean the person is non binary it just gets rid of confusion about the sex of whoever made the animation.... it's the most harmless thing you could ever do because we don't have any idea.... it's not related to politics or whatever
@@DEADMANPLAYS why do you have such a problem with people supporting it?
Kurzgesagt is an animation studio of a bunch of people :)
@@connorml the voice sounds like a typically British Masculine Voice, I’m 98% it’s a he but they works pretty well
amazing how seamless the transitions in the video are!
This made my brain blow up.
PLEASE MAKE MORE VIDEOS I LOVE THEM
But seriously, I've been searching for a video like this to actually explain string theory to me (who studies biology and has nothing to do with physics :') ) in the easiest way ever
Thank you so much it was incredible❤
this channel has all the stuff u can wonder about xD
You should have started with "It was a warm summer evening in ancient Greece..."
😂😂 Actually, that's not true leonard.
i remember seeing a story that "string theory" got started in a Thai Food place...
where the guy got inspired by his NOODLE SOUP... to think of the "energy particles" as "STRINGS"
i dont know the season, weather or geography of the cafe though!!, might well have been a warm summer in Greece!,
or more like Phuket, Thailand!!!
Why are Sheldon stans so good at these inside jokes ALL THE TIME? 😂😂
Genrole June Caspe but then that wouldn’t make sense
I literally read ( heard) it in Sheldon's voice... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I`ve never felt this stupid
why is this so true
In short: if you can't figure something out, make something up and then tell everyone you're smarter than them.
At least you're here, learning and taking an interest - a large percentage of the world refuse to even do that, because exploration of knowledge threatens their superstitious and antiquated beliefs.
This is like the socratic method. You hear things you don't understand and feel idiotic. But this makes you want to learn
Bro same 😂
thank you i finally understand the "why" of the whole 'collapsing of the wave function when the particle is observed' thing
All of your videos are beyond awesome🙌 thank your entire team for making difficult concepts understandable and science interesting
church: now, gravity, will you marry quantum physics?
gravity: ughh no!
scientists: be a lot cooler if you did
The kids will be Theory of everything
"I mean. Look at her. She'll only have a probabilistic chance of being normal lol."
@@aaronrashid2075 Quantum Physics: *sad uncertainty noises*.
@@Avicerox or uncertainty sad noises
say no to peer pressure
A summary of me watching Kurzgesagt : I really want to be smart, but, really, it's difficult.
It's only knowledge. That's all lol.
@@lukemmurphy795
_Only_ knowledge? Knowledge is the greatest thing we have. Knowledge is why we can make things, how we understand things, how we know how to do things. Without knowledge we are nothing.
Pseudonymous Being Yup, nobody born being a mathematician or physicist
@@pseudonymousbeing987 I'm aware of that but OP was complaining they didn't feel smart.
@@cesargallardo4975 True.
2:25 Jesse, we need to know when and where a particle is going with absolute precision.
Fr was looking for this comment lmfao
I am not a physics student but this....wow. Just wow. a Marvellous presentation and understanding of string theory. to be honest, the tbbt show got me interested in this. 💙😊
I like how they can explain the latest theory of the universe faster than a UA-cam video about the plot of Evangelion
Well one is more complicated
You can't blame them the show is complicated and hard to explain
@@youssefzakaria2111 WHY AND HOW E=MC2 IS F=MA, AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY:
Time DILATION ULTIMATELY proves ON BALANCE that ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity, as E=mc2 IS F=ma. This NECESSARILY represents, INVOLVES, AND DESCRIBES what is possible/potential AND actual IN BALANCE. Ultimately and truly, TIME is NECESSARILY possible/potential AND actual IN BALANCE; AS E=mc2 IS F=ma; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY.
OVERLAY what is THE EYE in BALANCED RELATION to/WITH what is THE EARTH. Notice the black space of THE EYE. The stars AND PLANETS are POINTS in the night sky. THE DOME of a person's EYE is ALSO VISIBLE. Now, carefully consider what is the semi-spherical, translucent, QUANTUM GRAVITATIONAL, AND BLUE SKY. Great. E=mc2 IS F=ma. It is CLEAR.
Time DILATION ULTIMATELY proves (ON BALANCE) that E=mc2 IS F=ma, AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. Gravity/acceleration involves BALANCED inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE, AS E=mc2 IS F=ma; as ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity. A PHOTON may be placed at the center of what is THE SUN (as A POINT, of course), AS the reduction of SPACE is offset by (or BALANCED with) the speed of light; as E=mc2 IS F=ma; as ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. The stars AND PLANETS are POINTS in the night sky. The EARTH and the Sun constitute and comprise the MIDDLE AND THE FULL DISTANCE in/of SPACE (IN BALANCE) in full and BALANCED compliance and conformity with the CLEAR and universal fact that E=mc2 IS F=ma, AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. Great !!!!!! Hence, it is CLEARLY proven, in fact, that the rotation of WHAT IS THE MOON NECESSARILY matches it's revolution. Great. Obviously, what is THE MOON is subject to and constitutive of both E=mc2 AND F=ma. E=mc2 IS CLEARLY proven to be F=ma. "Mass"/energy involves BALANCED inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE consistent with/as what is BALANCED electromagnetic/gravitational force/ENERGY, AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY; AS E=mc2 IS F=ma. This CLEARLY explains why objects fall at the SAME RATE (neglecting air resistance, of course), AS E=mc2 IS F=ma; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity. Gravity IS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy. THE EARTH is ALSO F=ma AS E=mc2. The Sun is both F=ma AND E=mc2. The BLUE SKY is E=mc2 AND F=ma. What is THE MOON is NECESSARILY F=ma AS E=mc2. THINK. It ALL CLEARLY makes perfect sense. (BALANCE and completeness go hand in hand.) VERY IMPORTANTLY, outer "space" involves full inertia; AND it is fully invisible AND black. Great !!! INSTANTANEITY is thus FUNDAMENTAL to what is the FULL and proper UNDERSTANDING of physics/physical experience, AS E=mc2 IS F=ma; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. The INTEGRATED EXTENSIVENESS of THOUGHT (AND description) is improved in the truly superior mind. (THOUGHTS ARE INVISIBLE.) GREAT.
THE DOME of a person's EYE is ALSO VISIBLE. The balance of being AND EXPERIENCE is essential. The EARTH is ALSO BLUE (as water). Alas, the ULTIMATE unification of physics/physical experience combines, BALANCES, AND INCLUDES opposites; as ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY; AS E=mc2 IS F=ma. Gravity IS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy.
By Frank DiMeglio
@@frankdimeglio8216 how long did that take tf
@@frankdimeglio8216 well im not reading that but i feel like i agree
This animation is eyecandy.
Yes
Yes
No. 😳😳😳
1:29
(They knew what they were doing with that shape)
@@arunkarthikma3121 5:31
2:14 I had heard about quantum stuff changing when you look at it, but it didn’t make sense until now, thank you so much for explaining it so easily :))))
So beautifully written, thank you!
NEVER change the narrator for your videos! :)
They literally just described the the string theory. I'm pretty sure they know what a narrator is.
@@vallaby2042 INTELLIGENCE 1000
@@vallaby2042 You Sir, are a very smart men.
heena. do you think they don't know what a NARRATOR is?
@@joepat1279 @vallaby Y'all make sense :)
2:49 “we did what humans do”
*shows duck writing
It didn't erase properly !!🤣🤣
Well, if it walks like a duck...
*its a bird you uncultured swine*
@@helloboi6351 hmmm
Let it be. *something that legit cannot fly*
Very impressed with this video. I have always been interested in astronomy and physics. It was things like this that drove me to enter those professions. Thank you for feeding my insatiable curiosity about the universe and the wonders that we discove
Wow, you just explained the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle in a way that makes intuitive way, I never understood why we couldn’t know where electrons in an atom were without losing other characteristics.
This mans voice is so calming it’s crazy. He could literally tell me any story and I’d be amazed
Actually, it’s so calming that I watch it in English just because I prefer the voice in English. I’m Spanish speaker and, honestly, I hate the Spanish dubbing.
I always watch these when I’m bed, I honestly drift off like a baby. Not because it’s boring but just so soothing. Heck even sleep relaxing music can’t relax me anywhere near as these 🤣
His voice is AI :)))
@@marlene2562 Would pay top £££ to have his voice for Seri
Gay
Kurzgesagt: "seeing is touching".
Me : profusely pouring sanitizer into my eyes.
that's gotta hurt
Aaww yes its gonna hurt better use shampoo!
Just use chilli sauce
No! This isn’t how you are supposed to play the game!
*What did you look at?*
I’d like to say, thank you I’m only on 8th grade and I’m trying to get ahead a bit in science and this helps a lot!
@Kurzgesagt I don't comment on your videos enough, but your channel has been a significant influence in my life. I'm very grateful for everything the team does
“It’s so important it has its own name”
Me, who also has a name: :)
You are LITERALLY the center of the universe. Go. Go now and look up where the center of the universe is.
@@thebatman6201 it's non existent?
@@thebatman6201 every place is the center of the universe, bit weird but it is.
Wholesome :)
But yeah you're literally the center of the universe.
Sorry to tell you but it’s not your own name. There are probably a lot of people called like you
For those of you still confused, here is an elementary breakdown of String Theory and what was said in the video. It’s a little lengthy but I guarantee you’ll be able to understand it (Or at least I hope)
Once upon a time we thought the smallest, most fundamental thing that makes up everything, was the atom. We now know that you can get smaller (and more fundamental if you will) than that.
It turns out that the atom is made up of 3 particles: Proton, Neutron, and the electron. For awhile, we thought that was as small as you could go. But we now know that the Proton and Neutron are made up of smaller particles called Quarks (we’re pretty sure that the electron is fundamental and nothing makes up the Electron other than energy…
So now we ask ourselves, what is more fundamental than a Quark? What is smaller? In other words, what makes a Quark? Is it another particle that’s even smaller? We don’t know. This is where String Theory comes in.
String Theory suggests that it does get smaller. The tiniest, most fundamental building blocks of matter and the universe are tiny strings. Little filaments of energy that vibrate and dance around (as seen at 5:01). And every fundamental sub atomic particle in the universe was made by these vibrating strings. If a string vibrates this way, then an electron is made. If it vibrates another way, then a Quark is made. If it vibrates in another way, then a neutrino pops out… so on and so on
It also turns out that the math behind String Theory tells us that our Universe has 10 dimensions instead of just the 4 that we know. 9 spatial dimensions and 1 temporal dimension (AKA time). When these strings vibrate, they aren’t just vibrating in our 3 dimensions (up/down, left/right, forward/backward). Instead they are vibrating in 9 different dimensions. I dare not try to explain this further
SIDE NOTE: There seems to be confusion as to whether String Theory suggests that there are 10 or 11 dimensions. It depends on if you are talking about “classic” String Theory or a similar version of String Theory called “M-Theory” One of them typically states 10, the other 11. It also depends on the source you look at. Some sources use those two theories interchangeably. It’s all kinda confusing
To also add one more thing that is very important….
The thing scientists are most interested about concerning String Theory is less of anything I mentioned above but instead something called “Quantum Gravity”
Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity is extremely accurate and has been one of the most useful tools for understanding the universe around us. But it only answers problems for all the large scale things in the universe: Gravity, Black Holes, Time, Light etc…
The other side of the coin is Quantum Mechanics. Which deals with all of the smallest things in the universe: Atoms, subatomic particles, a whole bunch of other behaviors and phenomena at very tiny scales, etc…
Relativity and Quantum Mechanics are the two most accurate and all-encompassing branches of science known to Man. However, they don’t work together. Quantum Mechanics doesn’t work with large scale stuff and Relativity doesn’t work at Quantum levels. So you might think that one of them obviously has to be wrong then. But they aren’t. Again, there is no problem scientists have ever thrown at these two fields that doesn’t get solved, except when you try to marry the two together. Bringing the two together successfully is something called “Quantum Gravity”. If we can figure out Quantum Gravity, that will probably be the biggest discovery ever made in history. At least one of them. It would help us solve everything (loosely speaking). There is nothing more mouth-watering to scientists than Quantum Gravity.
It just so happens that if String Theory is true and we can figure it out, it would solve for this Quantum Gravity problem. That’s mostly why String Theory is so enticing to scientists. More so than the other cool stuff I mentioned a bit earlier. It would win whoever figured it out a lifetime of Nobel Prizes! (I’m being a bit dramatic of course, but you get the idea! lol)
Keep in mind, when ST was first proposed, scientists were watering at the mouth. But even to this day there is no real proof/evidence that these Strings exist. And because of that, ST is kinda becoming a joke. Day by day, ST is taken less seriously than before and a lot of physicists (like Brian Green) essentially get told to move on and forget it (roughly speaking). Other than some fancy mathematics, there hasn’t really been anything to show us that it is real
EDIT: I keep adding on to this. Hopefully this is the last addition. String Theory is also known as “The Theory of Everything” for obvious reasons. Also, earlier I mentioned that Quarks are the smallest particles that we know of. But I kinda made it sound like there was only one type of Quark. Let me clarify and mention that there are 6 types of Quarks that exist in the universe: Up, Down, Top, Bottom, Strange, and Charm Quarks
Protons are made out of two types: 2x Up Quarks and 1x Down Quark
Neutrons are the opposite: 2x Down Quarks and 1x Up Quark
EDIT AGAIN: Earlier I said that the electron is essentially just made up of energy. To clarify, more accurately speaking, it’s a negative electrical charge that exists as a cloud of probability in certain orbitals around the nucleus. Ya it’s kinda confusing. The Bohr model of the electron was that the electron was a point particle that orbited the nucleus in discreet orbital shells. This is the classical simplified model that we’ve all learned in school. Quantum mechanics gave us a more accurate understanding that tells us that model is inaccurate and it instead works the confusing way I explained a few sentences ago. The point is that no one has ever seen an electron and we are pretty sure nothing smaller makes up one
EDIT AGAIN: There’s a few other juicy answers I gave down in the replies when someone asked me a follow up question… if you’re interested
NOTE: If you need clarification on what I meant by….
“However, they don’t work together. Quantum Mechanics doesn’t work with large scale stuff and Relativity doesn’t work at Quantum levels…”
Feel free to ask and I’ll be sure to elaborate!
This is very interesting, thank you!
Thank You
tysm this was the best explanation ever
@@tumipopoola1213 Glad I could help!
Dude, thank you for this!! I didn’t get the video but I understood this. :D
Wonderful video with wonderful graphics and humor , thanks for posting and simplifying a complicated but fascinating matter...
New discoveries, observations, and theories can make such a difference. The symmetron theory for instance may imply these other dimensions exist (along with dark matter/energy) and we simply lack the means or scale to interact with them. like there could be a dimensions groupings with a few overlapping. Things always get more complex with more parts the longer we look.
true
The universe are things. I called this the things theory.
Virgin string theory VS chad thing theory
Who would win:
200 sciency-nerdy people with years of experience in investigation of the universe / 1 random Chad with a nice haircut and cute girlfriend
Nicolas S. This is a tough battle. But ultimately Chad uses Tai Lopez Jutsu to use his dad’s money to buy himself a Lamborghini and a house in the Hollywood hills thus dubbing him with infinite KNOWledge, a nice hair cut, and the cute girlfriend. A hard fought battle indeed.
hanif AR Ur fucking stupid
1000 IQ
this video called me stupid a few hundred times lmao
no that's just Alhun Aydin
Peggy Miller still confusing but cool
You're beautiful got instagram ?
Austin Meneses ig@xserpiente
lmao same, I really wanted to get it but I still zoned out
Nice animation and storytelling! String theory has another name: dodecahedron rescue oblongated paths. Take cohesive shapes that have higher dimension than their neighbors, then “rescue”, or convene, then with all other matter. The resulting shapes are fields and describe specific motions, using now-consistent “particles”. Publishing! I enjoyed the film.
ive watched so many Kurzgesagt videos today, like over 20 of them, I cant stopppp. Steves voice is just too nice to listen to
Im not even listening to what hes saying at this point im just looking at the ducks living their daily lives
@@honglovan6537 can you like.. not copy paste
Same tho.
@x mam ok it just makes me uncomfortable
@x mam ???
@x mam how are they racist???
The more our circle of knowledge expands, the bigger the circumference of ignorance surrounding it gets.
Luckily, our circumference area to volume ratio goes down in this example though
Very well said... The level of complexity increases as we go deeper
Thats deeper than the last potatochip in the corner of the bag.
Einstein
@@iotaman2178 thought it was vsauce lol
Thank you for your honesty ! 😊
5:42 VERY lovely showcase of existential birds for each dimension 😍
The quality and subject matter of Kurzgesagt cannot be overstated. 👏
I agree 100%.
I think there is no such a 200%
Percentages can change based on the observer
Asterverse "per cent" meaning "for a hundred"
Asterverse, by correcting my grammar, you are such a intelligent individual walk on earth
I like playing with String Theory.
Signed, Schrodingers Cat
Is this a comment or not?
@@Aakash_Goswami1 oh yeah yeah
@@Aakash_Goswami1 oh yeah yeah
this thread went downhill so fast
@@ayindephulgence4950 oh yeah yeah it did
2:30 *_sarcasm intensifies_*
The fact UA-cam automatically makes science polls that links to Kurzgesagt videos makes me so happy.
Universe: "That's not how things work"
Humans: *But what if it do be like that*
Facts
Finn:we'll use the force
Han:That's not how the force works
Gravity: I’m about to end this whole man‘s career
Lol
Lmao
Lol
More like : i'm about to start his whole career
About to aggravate this man's whole career
These videos are pretty much exactly what i would expect the The Guide to sound like
The music is so good! Actually, the whole Chanel is! I love watching it while I play Dark Souls, or just when I go onto UA-cam, I see it and watch it.
90% of the comments here:
"i am something of a scientist
myself"
lol
an exchange of ideas is not a bad thing, specially when the other idea is proven to be false.
5% of the comments here:
"I am something of a statistician myself"
Well, I study mathematics and I can confidently say that 2+2=4 is true for most cases and your statistic is questionable.
Lukas TA I didn't know that was a word.. xd
"Seeing is touching"
Me with glasses: I think my touch is off
@PROs Play bruh what
Rape intensifies
@Lucas man everytime u look at a booty, u touch a booty
@Lucas man me?
@@erukun3055 the fact this is the first thing you thought is really concerning, please cease the vital functions of your organs and completely stop your brain circuit, thank you in advance
- the FBI team
I have studied chemistry at the university, it would be worthy if I would have seen it before, great video!
beautiful, haunting background music. nice pick
"A line; or a string!"
*Draws a circle*
Circle is a string. It only has a length.
@@fhisaldsfulda3241 No, 2d ''circle'' has those. 1d''circle doesnt, aka string. (My language has two different words for it, yours dont i guess, look up ''Çember'' for 1d circle, and ''Daire'' for 2d circle, you will understand)
Lol
@MrNúmero98 1 dimension
@MrNúmero98 a line is one dimensional
5th grade physics teacher: Atoms are the smallest thing in the universe.
Me knowing about quarks: I'm about to end this guy's whole career.
Me in 5th grade: “but quarks”
My teacher:
*surprised pikachu face
What are quarks made from?
@@ANDROLOMA they aren't
@@ANDROLOMA stringd
@@alt8791 strings.
when you describe things this muchhh goood, it helps people like me to imagine the problem and come up with a solution ! ( maybe someone could solve the problem , at least in his/her imagination untill he/she becomes a scientist :) ) .
Kurzgesagt is honestly THE best thing i have seen. No matter what i watch this is better. Big respect to you.
For anyone who wishes to go further, I would advise Brian Greene's book "The elegant universe", a beautiful account about string theory!
I was looking for this! Many thanks
thanks
Thank you
Thanks mate
Thank you
*The earth is a string*
nah, the earth is a thicc anime girl
VAPERROR What if earth is a Testicle and we are its sperm ready to go to other planets???
Earth is not thicc! Earth is a loli.
A FLAT string
Digital Pyro the earth is controlled by minecraft youtubers
Most amazing video I watched maybe this year. Thank you
00:01 Exploring the complexity of stories that describe the universe
01:10 Elementary particles can't be seen with visible light
02:04 The Heisenberg uncertainty principle defines the limits of measuring elementary particles.
03:03 Electrons are point particles and Quantum Field Theory predicts their interactions.
03:53 Gravity is not a force and is a theory of geometry
04:54 String theory promises to unify all fundamentals forces but has limitations
06:06 String theory has limited utility but still holds value in physics
06:55 String theory may help us solve the mysteries of quantum gravity.
What if when you died, you wake up in an alien body holding a bong and a nearby figure asks you "How was it?"
That means a lot to me, you definitely are an IQ 145+.
I don't know why, but i'm thinking about that for a few days
such an underrated comment.
or a robot just just closed one of its tab.
Or you come out of a VR booth in an alien mall
Now imagine after 50 years the solution came out to be "Knot".
u have a mind like penny's and sheldon's....
Lol the depictions of branes (the object replacing the point particle with a higher dimensional string equivalent) often look like cool knots when depicted in 3D shadow representations. I don't know if our intuitions about the knotiness of the branes' shadow in 3 dimensions carry over into the true geometry of the higher dimensional shapes though.
It can’t be a knot
After studying some it can’t be a knot
Everything is connected
Thank you so much you cleared all my basics😊
breaking bad was so popular they named a quantum mechanic principle after heisenberg
I don't know if you are joking but no Heisenberg came years before Breaking bad
Me: hears Heisenberg
my brain: must be meth related
Ahh I miss breaking bad.i hope they pick Jessie and make another sequel
@@rajacali5925 well there's a movie coming out :)
@@rajacali5925 a Breaking Bad prequel is already on production, I believe the 4th season is out, called "Better Call Saul", where the protagonist is Saul Goodman before he met Walter White...
I recommend it, it's on Netflix
no, it's math related
A true icon of Methematics
Exciting times we live in! I never thought I would see the day humanity would successfully detect gravitational waves, and here we are! Praise be science! 🙏🔭
Jesus Christ god bless you
Bro, turn the ocean into wine. I wanna see a drunk whale. Thx
Jesus Christ How did you get that verified sign?
Jesus Christ sup jesus
Jeeeeezzzzz
the stylized animation in these vids is superb!
This is an incredible explanation.
"What we know is a drop. What we don't know is an ocean".
ANNNDDD we are still not sure if the drop we know is correct or not... I-
@@lalalahahaha4671 😂LoL so true!!!
@@lalalahahaha4671 Our thinking is shaped by dualism. Entrance, exit. Black, white. Good, evil. Everything appears as opposite pairs. But that’s wrong.
@@HypnosisBear There are things out there that our little minds will never comprehend.
@@noamansiddiqui9976 you've had too much of DARK.
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Cool
Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell coooooooooolol
Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell your videos are awesome!
Thanks for everything
nah i won't thanks
2:15 that's the observer effect, not the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. The uncertainty principle is a fundamental limit to how accurately we can know the physical properties of a particle, unrelated to the instruments used.
Breaking bad refrence
This is a very well made video. Thank you...
*Loved* the music in this one!
SDG Danny the way it built up using the same melody but making small changes was sweeeeeet
Oh yes. Now I'm patiently waiting for the new 'Epic Mountain' volume to come out :)
Hope they put it spotify soon
Seen the emergence video yet?
Is there anywhere to listen to it?
The bird doesn't like to be poked sir.
s-sir...SIR
D'aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw
This brought up memories 12 year old me searching up string theory videos so I could seem really smart to my friends
Thanks Guys!!!! i really appreciated this wonderful and insightful video. It was very cool to watch and my 2 year old loved it.
Before watching the vid: oh string theory.
After watching: What is string theory?
Lol
Elzar i think its one of the best
@Elzar Nah it explains it really well tbh, before I had no idea how string theory was meant to help explain our quantum physics model, this sums it up really nicely.
Just because it doesn't go low level on the specifics it gives a really good idea of what it tried to achieve.
Yeah you need a bit of predisposed knowledge to fully grasp it
You dummy. >:^I
Is it just me or did this episode have the best animation so far?
No Optimistic Nihilism was the best animation in my opinion this one was 2nd best
Mr.Random your pfp gave me nightmares
the birds seemed all pissed off in this one
"Kurzjesjgagshakngt" never fails to deliver good content.
This was a good video to watch and nice animation man :)