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+In a Nutshell - Kurzgesagt haha I was looking for one and couldnt find it :D. Really interesting video, this is also what we are studying now at my school in physics so great timing! :D
Light is electromagnetic radiation that can be detected by the human eye. Electromagnetic radiation occurs over an extremely wide range of wavelengths, from gamma rays with wavelengths less than about 1 × 10−11 metres to radio waves measured in metres.
UA-cam is so broken lol. This comment 4 days ago and only has 3 likes is the second comment I see in the comments section... so weird. (Not saying that your comment sucks, I actually liked it)
Light is electromagnetic radiation that can be detected by the human eye. Electromagnetic radiation occurs over an extremely wide range of wavelengths, from gamma rays with wavelengths less than about 1 × 10−11 metres to radio waves measured in metres.
Well done, you've condensed about 4 scishow crash course videos into a 4:40 minute video compared to 40 minutes and made it a billion times easier to comprehend I commend you
What's really mind-blowing is that from the perspective of a photon, it hits its target of absorption or the universe ends as soon as it's created, since it doesn't "experience" the passage of time
Exactly. Not to mention that the universe is flattened into a single plain perpendicular to it's velocity which is weird if we consider the universe to be infinite. From it's prespective it measures it self to be moving at a speed of c NOT 0! Also, everything else for that photon is going to move at the opposite direction in the speed of light. Even objects with mass, meaning that they are going to have infinite kinetic energy. It truly buffles me to think how would it be like if we could run at the speed of light relative to the earth for example.
the photon doesn't "experience" anything. While I recognize you're using the term more metaphorically, the fact is that, as far as we can tell, to experience anything requires a minimum infrastructure. That infrastructure couldn't operate coherently at the speed of light.
Nothing in common? It's all about Electromagnetism. Watt is a measurement of electromagnetic power (current times voltage). Hertz is the frequency of the electromagnetic wave. Morse is just patterns of opening and closing electromagnetic circuits.
Well.. What else would it be? If light, radiation, radio-waves and sound are all basically just variations of the same concept, then.. Is there actually a difference between sight and sound other than the way we perceive it?
When you think about it , we never see things immediately , there is always postponement that depends on how much time needed for the light to touch the surface of the thing and then reflect towards your eyes , but we don't feel this postponement because the time needed is just too short for our kind to notice it , however the longer the distance is the more noticeable it becomes , take for example the dead stars that are hundreds of millions light years away from us but we are still witnessing the light that is still travelling through the universe carrying the star's image . It's like watching a livestream of match through an extremely slow internet , you are still waiting for your favourite player to make his move while the match in reality ended 10 minutes ago
Nothing is truly live in the Universe, even a meter away from your screen, the light has a small delay followed by the perception of your brain... in a nutshell, like a sports announcer says "Play the video tape!" At 3:36 is what keeps me up at night thinking about why constant "c" is what it is throughout the Universe, and why not some other arbitrary number. Hmmm....
Light is electromagnetic radiation that can be detected by the human eye. Electromagnetic radiation occurs over an extremely wide range of wavelengths, from gamma rays with wavelengths less than about 1 × 10−11 metres to radio waves measured in metres.
Well fyi in actual practice you don't see anything hundreds of millions of light years away when you look out into the night sky, you would need a serious telescope to see any of that stuff, the stars you see are mostly pretty close. There are a few very bright ones that are thousands of light years away like eta carinae though, and you may be able to faintly see the andromeda galaxy but that's as far as you can see without serious help.
We also all see differently. We use context and standards to normalize what we see as a mass. I have no clue the way you see me from your eyes and never could.
+Nitay A. Ted in general has also had increasing problems with quality control, with people producing content without really having the background to do so, but wanting to appear like they do. Ted has become high profile enough to attract people that probably are not terribly good for it.
So this photon walks into a hotel.. While at the check-in desk, the bellhop arrives beside him and asks "Can I take your bags for you, sir?" The photon replies "No, thank you. I'm traveling light."
A photon walks into a hotel. But you can't ever be quite certain of that since its wave function never falls to zero even outside the hotel. Sorry, that was a stupid joke, but I couldn't resist.
I actually expected I would see a comment like this, and that's actually why I started reading the comments, to see if I could find one. I thought it would just have changed love to light without changing anything else though. But I think a better execution would just be "What is light?" followed by 4 new lines, so you have to click *Read more* to get the punchline.
We can, we have already build machines and cameras to do that, it can be argue as an extense of "human vision". If you want to do it anytime with your eyes, than we cant rigth now, but will mostly get into it someday. Transhumanism is the future.
@Plazma03 since your name is Plasma I would expect you to know that hydrogen atoms are made of photons and electrons which makes energy smaller than that light is part of the energy range just not as small as you see the comparison with a penny and the moon
This channel is so underrated. It should have minimum 40 million plus subscribers. I got this video recommended by youtube after 5 years. It hurts to see youtube broken.
And I just finished Death Note. Why does it always happend that when I finish something awesome, I read comments of EXACTLY that series for the first time? Happened to Code Geass & Attack on Titan as well.
+MegaMitch Stop pulling some stupid anime into this you weeaboo! Unlike you,i am not a stupid wapanese! You are a total wapanese weeaboo! And light,is not a teenage boy from an anime but it is something which belongs to the universe,so please piss off you wapanese weeaboo.
Fun fact: photons do not experience time. For them, the very same instance they are created, they are also destroyed, whether it seems to us to take microseconds or millions of years.
+Jan Sten Adámek So, photons are not matter, because they are created and destroyed? Also, how are photons destroyed? By being absorbed into a black substance?
***** Matter can be created and destroyed as well, energy is the stuff that cannot be created or destroyed. Photons are indeed destroyed by being absorbed.
Vsauce and Veritassium as well but mostly Wikipedia and a lot of books (Stephen Hawking is a really good author and this fact about photons I actually know from his books)
+Juan Diego E=mc^2. Energy and matter can be converted to the other, thus matter can be destroyed by becoming energy and energy can be destroyed by becoming matter.
I think light behaves as the wave-particle duality, because it travels outside of our observable time frame. Due to physical limitations, observers can only observe things that have already happened. By the time they detect something, it has already happened in the past. Light, on the other hand, moves so fast that it's always at the present moment as things happen in the linear time and physical space. Basically, light will always move slightly faster than a physical observation, so it seems to exist all over the place as a wave of probabilities until it has finally been observed, at which point the light has already become a part of the past(time frame we can observe) as a particle, or an information of a fixed position of light that has been observed in this particular space-time. Looking at it that way, light perhaps exists at the borderline between matter with mass and non-matter. C, the speed of light, would most likely be the maximum frame rate of the material universe, because it exists right on the speed limit. Anything slower than light would produce mass(a fixed position in space-time which is perhaps what creates gravity), and anything faster would probably leave our linear time frame and become unobservable by direct physical means. Meaning light would appear as a wave of probabilities the moment before we detect it due to light being outside of our fixed space-time, and it would appear as a particle after we do observe it and it becomes a part of the past. But it only appears as wave-particle from our linear time perspective for both cases. It is quite possible that light exists as some other state above the C barrier, but we're only able to see it as light in the physical universe, the same way 2D beings would only be able to see flat shapes when looking at 3D beings.
Because it is not exactly a particle and not exactly a wave. No one has ever observed a single photon. Knowledge about light is only derived from measurements, theories and axioms. Although we have come very far in understanding, some behaviour of light still baffles researchers. One could say that a photon is a photon is a photon - because we do not have a real watertight definition for it such as 'this is matter' or 'this is a wave'. Everyone saying they got a single closing definition for what photons are is either playing God or being a bit too sure about themselves. :)
duality of light comes from youngs double slit experiment which showed that light propagates as a wave but becomes a particle when OBSERVED. this is a lie, because you do not observe LIGHT, you observe a simulation of light.....incandescence. also 'speed' of 'light' is an illusion. light does not move. an example: newtons cradle.....if you extended the balls all the way to the other side of the milky way and dropped the first ball, its energy would be transfered to the last ball on the far side of the galaxy, not at the "speed of light" but INSTANTANEOUS~LY. modern psyence is BS & these facts have been known since ancient times
+HeavyRayne Possibly he means that both waves and particles are lies - both exhibit wave-particle duality, so they are both the same thing. Picking out photons as examples of w-p duality is therefore unfair, because everything could be example.
+HeavyRayne I have the same feeling. They exposed it incorrectly and most probably they meant what @ProfessorEGadd is hinting at. Anyways, any fundamental particle does exhibit wave-like particle duality it's just that when we look at one the other collapses and we get the famous experiment for the double slit. Here's a better depiction actuality which corrects the script: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e4/Wave-particle_duality.ogv/Wave-particle_duality.ogv.480p.webm
+HeavyRayne - This is consistent with Anase's comment above, but I think the lie is that light is neither particle nor wave nor both - each mathematical model (that of particles and that of waves) can say something about how light behaves, but neither can tell the whole story. It's a lie that makes quantum mechanics more accessible?
Alexandru Gheorghe To reiterate - all particles, fundamental or not can exhibit wave-like properties under the right circumstances. The largest things that have been observed to do so are quite sizable molecules, but in theory even people or planets could do so too. I also think you are confusing wave-functions and wave-like properties. The wave-function of a particle describes it's behaviour, which may (or may not) be wave-like. It's wave-function collapses when we observe it because it goes from potentially doing anything to doing exactly one thing. One cannot speak of wave-particle duality 'collapsing'. What you mean is that sometimes it is easier to explain phenomenon AS IF the particle was either particle or a wave, but not both. In fact there is no such thing as 'wave-like behaviour' or 'particle-like behaviour', because they are the same thing. They are nothing more than useful, historical constructs with a number of convenient, familiar analogues. Sometimes, such as in electron microscopy, it is necessary to consider both the wave and particle nature of a particle simultaneously.
I really respect this channel knowledge and confidence of stating what we do know as admitting still with confidence what we don’t know yet... even the part of what we don’t know yet is just as informative from what we do know. This is a great channel
+In a Nutshell - Kurzgesagt Make a second channel for -fuckups- videos that are "not good enough." People who don't want to see them won't have to, impatient people can see them early, and curious people can see what you refer to as a -fuckup- "not good enough" video, and feel bad about how your standards are so high compared to theirs.
rationalmartian Oh, excuse me, as I said, I don't know much about this stuff. I'm interested in knowing some more of it, but I don't know much about it.
I don't care what anyone says. Kurzgesagt was always amazing in quality. I remember watching this vid when it originally came out, and I was gobsmacked. The quality in every sense was enlightening. Good job Kurzgesagt. Good job.
Light actually doesn't travel the speed of the universe, bc it would then outpace the speed of the universe, which isn't possible. Light is slower than the expansion of the universe, which encompasses everything we know, at least for the moment.
3:36 I have a answer: Light of speed is finite because as said by ALBERT EIENSTEIN , when speed is increased the time slows So we could say that when we reach speed of light the time stops and there is no acceleration at all without time here two theory works: Time dialiation Length contraction
+Kenneth Lim they had no problem uploading about the migrant crisis, but it certainly was biased. So I don't think they'll mind talking about the subject.
I have been watching this channel for a long time now and it is more intresting and teaches more then school and i know more than others at school because of this channel now lol
Kurzgesagt: "What does make visible light special then? Nothing!" Also Kurzgesagt: "Visible light is the only set of electromagnetic radiation that propagates well in water"
Light is electromagnetic radiation that can be detected by the human eye. Electromagnetic radiation occurs over an extremely wide range of wavelengths, from gamma rays with wavelengths less than about 1 × 10−11 metres to radio waves measured in metres.
Light is never seen. Illumination is what we perceive. Light is a disturbance in the ultimate field in which should be correctly termed ," Ether ". Light is electric by Nature. Most of the Ancients understood this. The great minds that were before us allow us to stand on there shoulders.
+Danny Kim light slows down in our atmosphere, since a candle cannot burn in a vacuum, candlelight will never originate going the speed of light, however it may speed up if exposed to a vacuum.
Honestly, information like this and information found in other videos by kurzgesagt, is the reason I'm not religious. All respect left aside, I can't deny knowledge like that for the sake of "faith". It's just primitive in my opinion. We should all strive to understand our universe correctly.
KrazyPlonk _beware before reading this, the comments used are dramatisations_ well, some people think of it like this, "this was just disproven, that means anything else can't be true" and people like akdude81 think of it like this "oh, this is amazing, this proves god exists if it's this complex"
***** Actually, I find the order in the universe to sustain my belief in God. One of my physics professor (who is atheist, as most are) says it is a miracle (and he doesn't like that word) that we live in a universe that can be described with mathematics. The physics didn't invent the mathematics to describe the universe. The mathematicians figured out the math just for fun, and the physics were able to apply it later.
i know why light is finite, it is because God made it so. It is really fascinating for me as a young christian discovering all that God has made. What if if he hadn't given light a boundary, loght would off ignited the entire universe. So much light itl be as a daze! Same as the ocean, it has a boundary point its also ignite. Rhis is so fun guys, i pray that you all feel just as euthused as i am! christian or not this is so cool to learn about.❤❤❤
God here. When we do some maths with differential forms of Faraday's and Ampere's laws you'll get an equation of a wave. from this equation we get c^2=1/u*e, where u, magnetic permeability of vacuum and e, electric permeability of vacuum so, the speed of light is a square root of the product of these two constants.
Ashley Well, that explains why the speed of light is not infinite. What it does not explain though is why is the speed of light the fastest speed of causality.
Hip Colour love is your brain telling you to fuck somebody once told me the world was gonna roll I ain't the sharpest tool in the shed, she was looking kind of dumb with her finger and her thumb with a shape of an L on her forehead hey now your rockstar get your show on get paid
Water filtered out/consumed the energy from the UV and x-rays hitting the Earth's atmosphere. The highest frequency/wavelength in the ocean was the visible light spectrum of the EM wave. If it wasn't for water draining energy from the EM wave, would we still have developed eyes to see in the UV and X-Ray frequencies?
Suggestions for improvement: I suggest green be shown in the visible light spectrum I suggest if you use a cent as a reference you say ‘US cent’ if that’s what it is. However as an Australian I have no idea how big that is, so why not choose something more international? It would be worth mentioning that the retina has the ability to absorb photons - that is how we see. I’d like to see something on the properties of light but that could be a separate video 😀
not that i don't like their slimmed down theme song now, but the funkiness of that bass and the the little "doo doo doo" at the end really makes this one hit different for me
"The smallest quantity of energy that can be transported" is pretty misleading. It implies an universal quantization of energy, which isn't really an accepted notion. Frequency and wavelength are, as far as we know, continuous quantities. This means you could in principle have a photon with an arbitrarily small energy, or two photons with an arbitrarily small energy difference.
+1ucasvb I believe that the quantisation of energy is well accepted in the scientific community. And frequency and wavelength are still accepted, well-established concept. I suppose that's where the whole particle-wave duality arises from?
Quantization of energy arises in several contexts and different systems, but there is no accepted notion of "smallest amount of energy possible in the Universe".
+Sum Vigil Energy quantization arises from boundary conditions in quantum systems. Unbound systems have a continuous spectrum of energy. An unbound electron, for instance, can have an arbitrary amount of kinetic energy if you simply change to an appropriate frame of reference. Second, a photon can have arbitrarily small energy as far as mainstream theory goes. A photon could conceivably have a wavelength the size of the visible Universe and beyond. Some upcoming theories do propose further quantizations of energy, time, space, etc., but that's not generally accepted to be true right now.
+1ucasvb I think is misleading because some photons carry more energy than others. it even says it on the video!!! But anyway. the idea of a quantum universe it the most likely because there are alot of phenomenon that could not be explained without it. At the same time you could say that all scientific videos are misleading, because they are all theories. So my point is that is ok to say something that is not "true" if it is the most likely, because is better to have an explanation to something than having nothing.
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Uhm. We might have made a mistake in the last rendering. No Tardis in this video. Sorry. Might hide two in the next one.
+In a Nutshell - Kurzgesagt haha I was looking for one and couldnt find it :D. Really interesting video, this is also what we are studying now at my school in physics so great timing! :D
+In a Nutshell - Kurzgesagt Ahh :(
+In a Nutshell - Kurzgesagt Let's just say, the time lord was busy and couldn't appear :D
umm... cr cr cr oops not again
Can you post the video that was abandoned? It would be cool to watch it
I'm going to have to watch that again, it went in one ear and out the other
Same here
Honestly same
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This video has 6 million plus views. I'm betting there are only 30 of us who have watched this... and we still don't get it. :)
Ya same here i am small to understand these things i am learning things so that i can understand
Whenever I have a stable income I'm supporting this channel, seriously. Such high quality.
Not much quantity unfortunately :( I wish Kurzgesagt could churn out 2 vids a week
Quality > Quantity its in the channel home
Suki ???? yeah, but I'd sacrifice a little quality for an extra video every now and then yaknow? :P
I wouldn't
Amen
At the end of videos like these, I always feel like I've learned a bunch of things and nothing at the same time
Well, at least we saw a bunch of cute little birds just standing around.... in a nutshell. :D
Yes i feel like i cant explain what i learned properly
Light is electromagnetic radiation that can be detected by the human eye. Electromagnetic radiation occurs over an extremely wide range of wavelengths, from gamma rays with wavelengths less than about 1 × 10−11 metres to radio waves measured in metres.
Just take notes on important point
Paradox of Learning 🙂🙃💁♀️
-Everyone is asking what is light, but nobody is asking how is light
*Sad photons*
Idk why but because of you comment i am sad. Poor Photon :(
photon wont even have any time to experience sadness
@@OverskilLFull r/woooosh
Star lord: where is photon?
iron man: who is photon?
drax: why is photon?
I want to know Why is light.
It always makes me happy when they say, 'In a nutshell'.
UA-cam is so broken lol. This comment 4 days ago and only has 3 likes is the second comment I see in the comments section... so weird. (Not saying that your comment sucks, I actually liked it)
It's probably the second comment because the first is pinned by kurzgesagt
Not an it a
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@@ReusableRocket maybe the invisible comment dislikes get counted in the tree ranking.. Idk
Can we rename flashlights to photoncanons? It sounds cooler and is technically correct...
it's me YES
if it were literal. People in clubs are massacred
cool
it's me or plasma beams!
Sounds like something out of Star wars.
Learning any physics stuff always just brings up so many more questions
Yeah because relatively speaking we know almost nothing.
Welcome to the infinite complexity of reality.
sometimes learning stuff in physics raises more questions than answers
That feeling when Kurzgesagt release a new video ❤️
+Jaymax, Seven minutes and this video already has 3k views and 388 likes.
I know right? ❤️
Awesome
+Avamander / and 7 dislikes, just like all good videos
Yeee
This is heavy... Light, I mean.
+WalruszMester Feeling lightheaded already?
Hey, I see what you did there.
+WalruszMester I C what u did there
+WalruszMester There's that word again. Heavy. Why are things so heavy in the future?
Is there a problem with the Earth's gravitational pull?
Neo Mix That's a question I will never answer! It's to risky!
“Being kind of a particle and a wave at the same time...but this is a lie.”
Same energy as “Well yes but actually no”.
The picture shown is wrong, but the idea is correct
Light is electromagnetic radiation that can be detected by the human eye. Electromagnetic radiation occurs over an extremely wide range of wavelengths, from gamma rays with wavelengths less than about 1 × 10−11 metres to radio waves measured in metres.
If the universe is a simulation, the speed of light could be the rendering speed of the universe
@awesomo9 Nah, black holes are the system's recycle bin
Light is actually the frame per second of our simulation game😂
@@jonpaul3868 And atoms are simply the pixels with which the universe is rendered
@awesomo9 black holes are the farming simulator 2021 of our universe
2020 edition was the pandemic system being checked in the new statistics of humanity, spoiler: humanity failed.
*I am of course, the bug*
Why is light like the navy? Because they both travel at c...
It took me 30 sec hahaha!
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I'm mad at how hard I laughed at that. lol :)
I'm smiling and I hate it
I c what you did there.
Well done, you've condensed about 4 scishow crash course videos into a 4:40 minute video compared to 40 minutes and made it a billion times easier to comprehend
I commend you
What's really mind-blowing is that from the perspective of a photon, it hits its target of absorption or the universe ends as soon as it's created, since it doesn't "experience" the passage of time
Exactly. Not to mention that the universe is flattened into a single plain perpendicular to it's velocity which is weird if we consider the universe to be infinite.
From it's prespective it measures it self to be moving at a speed of c NOT 0!
Also, everything else for that photon is going to move at the opposite direction in the speed of light.
Even objects with mass, meaning that they are going to have infinite kinetic energy.
It truly buffles me to think how would it be like if we could run at the speed of light relative to the earth for example.
the photon doesn't "experience" anything. While I recognize you're using the term more metaphorically, the fact is that, as far as we can tell, to experience anything requires a minimum infrastructure. That infrastructure couldn't operate coherently at the speed of light.
Maybe it doesn’t experience time because it is a just a vibration of space, time.
2:30 That electron was adorable
Weeeee!
Ikr (ಥ﹏ಥ)
No.
Listening to this now after studying about all these things is definitely different than years before when I was hearing this for the first time
*Light is the opposite of heavy*
Elmy actually it's spell *LITE* not *LIGHT*
Lol.
neurax reaper lite is an informal variant of light
no
neurax reaper ur just sounding it out
I'm always amazed at the animation they create to co with the contents, besides the amazing contents ofcourse!
Watt is light?
Baby don't Hertz me
Don't Hertz me
No Morse
hahahahaha I like it
kronos444 All of those things have nothing to do with each other.
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You could fit them together if you reeeally wanted to.
Nothing in common? It's all about Electromagnetism.
Watt is a measurement of electromagnetic power (current times voltage).
Hertz is the frequency of the electromagnetic wave.
Morse is just patterns of opening and closing electromagnetic circuits.
;)
So light is like.. Noises that we hear with our eyes..
Lol I guess so?
Well.. What else would it be? If light, radiation, radio-waves and sound are all basically just variations of the same concept, then.. Is there actually a difference between sight and sound other than the way we perceive it?
Rakinjo2 in a way i guess
Faze Legend
You guess a lot!
Rakinjo2 i "GUESS" so XD
This video was very enLIGHTening. I feel so much BRIGHTER.
Ha ha ha
Noice
AngelWing 222 this is why people don't like you
+Ivana Stojanović Sadly, you're not wrong.
It shed some light on many things I didn't know about light before.
When you think about it , we never see things immediately , there is always postponement that depends on how much time needed for the light to touch the surface of the thing and then reflect towards your eyes , but we don't feel this postponement because the time needed is just too short for our kind to notice it , however the longer the distance is the more noticeable it becomes , take for example the dead stars that are hundreds of millions light years away from us but we are still witnessing the light that is still travelling through the universe carrying the star's image .
It's like watching a livestream of match through an extremely slow internet , you are still waiting for your favourite player to make his move while the match in reality ended 10 minutes ago
Nothing is truly live in the Universe, even a meter away from your screen, the light has a small delay followed by the perception of your brain... in a nutshell, like a sports announcer says "Play the video tape!"
At 3:36 is what keeps me up at night thinking about why constant "c" is what it is throughout the Universe, and why not some other arbitrary number. Hmmm....
Light is electromagnetic radiation that can be detected by the human eye. Electromagnetic radiation occurs over an extremely wide range of wavelengths, from gamma rays with wavelengths less than about 1 × 10−11 metres to radio waves measured in metres.
Well fyi in actual practice you don't see anything hundreds of millions of light years away when you look out into the night sky, you would need a serious telescope to see any of that stuff, the stars you see are mostly pretty close. There are a few very bright ones that are thousands of light years away like eta carinae though, and you may be able to faintly see the andromeda galaxy but that's as far as you can see without serious help.
We also all see differently. We use context and standards to normalize what we see as a mass. I have no clue the way you see me from your eyes and never could.
this channel is better than ted-ed
now billions of people disagree with me...
+Rohan Rahman not better but not worse too. I think they both are at same level
+Omkar Chavan Ted Ed's videos don't feel nearly as polished, visually or script-wise.
+Nitay A. Ted in general has also had increasing problems with quality control, with people producing content without really having the background to do so, but wanting to appear like they do. Ted has become high profile enough to attract people that probably are not terribly good for it.
+Rohan Rahman And even better then Clear Instruction, I guess.
‘The twin paradox, quantum stuff?’
I just love this channel.
i think they've forgotten about it :v
So this photon walks into a hotel..
While at the check-in desk, the bellhop arrives beside him and asks "Can I take your bags for you, sir?" The photon replies "No, thank you. I'm traveling light."
>v
nailed it
A photon walks into a hotel.
But you can't ever be quite certain of that since its wave function never falls to zero even outside the hotel.
Sorry, that was a stupid joke, but I couldn't resist.
@@medexamtoolscom Both were pretty good, in my opinion
Nice my guy
"What is light" baby don't blind me
Don't blind me
No more
I just left a comment referring to this song lol
That's what I'm expected comment, lol :D
am i the only one who pressed "no more" thinking it would show more? yes? ok... just checking 😂
I actually expected I would see a comment like this, and that's actually why I started reading the comments, to see if I could find one. I thought it would just have changed love to light without changing anything else though. But I think a better execution would just be "What is light?" followed by 4 new lines, so you have to click *Read more* to get the punchline.
Remember when Kurzgesagt used to reply to comments?
+RainingApocalypse Good times.
Man, he got you good.
Remember ya right....
+In a Nutshell - Kurzgesagt Ahahaha good one bro.
Social engineering at it's finest.
It would be really cool if we could see a larger range on the electromagnetic spectrum.
NO! If we see heat and sun ultraviolet everything is going ULTRAPURPLE-RED!!!
it would hurt your eyes if you saw it all at once
We can, we have already build machines and cameras to do that, it can be argue as an extense of "human vision". If you want to do it anytime with your eyes, than we cant rigth now, but will mostly get into it someday. Transhumanism is the future.
Many birds and most (all?) insects can part of the UV spectrum. Some animals, like pit vipers, can also sense infrared.
Caio de Castro but do we see it in it's true nature?
"-which is still way smaller than a hydrogen atom."
...I dont think I'm ready for this video...
triggered?
do you even know what triggered means?
I had to watch that part twice
Oh I'm all in for it
@Plazma03 since your name is Plasma I would expect you to know that hydrogen atoms are made of photons and electrons which makes energy smaller than that light is part of the energy range just not as small as you see the comparison with a penny and the moon
This channel is so underrated. It should have minimum 40 million plus subscribers. I got this video recommended by youtube after 5 years. It hurts to see youtube broken.
1:35 the bottom right "This image is a lie"
What is the truth then
udontnomynamesostop tryingtonoitustalkers wha
It means that the visual representation of it is not necessarily correct
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C is the speed of light.
You guys are the best. This was smartly scripted, well narrated and you produced it in an interesting and memorable way. Well done.
REME 7hvvvhu
Sorry my screen cracked
When someone tells me what light is, i will say
*_Light is the connection between us and universe._*
@trinity nuggets Baby don't blind me.
Don't blind me, no more.
Yeah. As if we aren’t part of the universe
Goku: fuses with picollo
Gicollo: Dab
True but light doesn't care about you or me
Rick Robitaille light doesnt care about your feelings
3:41 "I'm just built different"
-The Universe
Request:
“What is humor?”
Explain why we find things funny,p.
:)
hey everyone, like this comment up here so they can see it.
Anyway, VSauce sounds like it'd suit that question better.
That question is not for this channel
Social bonding, cheers and gone
@@FireyDeath4 Vsauce is now dead
Light is a teenage boy who gets a magical notebook and goes on a wild adventure of friendship in the show, Death Note.
And I just finished Death Note.
Why does it always happend that when I finish something awesome, I read comments of EXACTLY that series for the first time?
Happened to Code Geass & Attack on Titan as well.
*slow clap*
+MegaMitch Stop pulling some stupid anime into this you weeaboo! Unlike you,i am not a stupid wapanese! You are a total wapanese weeaboo! And light,is not a teenage boy from an anime but it is something which belongs to the universe,so please piss off you wapanese weeaboo.
Erik Ondrejkovic
hahaha I've watched 4 animes, I know who Light is but nobody here is a weeaboo.
+[ IFDIFGIF ] is code geass good for death note and aot fans? I really liked death note and i have read that they are similar. Reply plzz
Fun fact: photons do not experience time. For them, the very same instance they are created, they are also destroyed, whether it seems to us to take microseconds or millions of years.
+Jan Sten Adámek So, photons are not matter, because they are created and destroyed? Also, how are photons destroyed? By being absorbed into a black substance?
***** Matter can be created and destroyed as well, energy is the stuff that cannot be created or destroyed. Photons are indeed destroyed by being absorbed.
+Jan Sten Adámek Vsauce?
Vsauce and Veritassium as well but mostly Wikipedia and a lot of books (Stephen Hawking is a really good author and this fact about photons I actually know from his books)
+Juan Diego E=mc^2. Energy and matter can be converted to the other, thus matter can be destroyed by becoming energy and energy can be destroyed by becoming matter.
“One existential crisis please”
“How original...”
“An existential crisis about light”
“Daring Today aren’t we!”
What is light?
Baby don't hurt me,
Baby don't hurt me,
No more...
*proceeds to bang head*
Still a good song in my opinion
ECCENTRIC 2:57 lightbike
Klucky fried mayos
Yes
@@Slenderman63323 no
I think light behaves as the wave-particle duality, because it travels outside of our observable time frame.
Due to physical limitations, observers can only observe things that have already happened. By the time they detect something, it has already happened in the past.
Light, on the other hand, moves so fast that it's always at the present moment as things happen in the linear time and physical space.
Basically, light will always move slightly faster than a physical observation, so it seems to exist all over the place as a wave of probabilities until it has finally been observed, at which point the light has already become a part of the past(time frame we can observe) as a particle, or an information of a fixed position of light that has been observed in this particular space-time.
Looking at it that way, light perhaps exists at the borderline between matter with mass and non-matter.
C, the speed of light, would most likely be the maximum frame rate of the material universe, because it exists right on the speed limit. Anything slower than light would produce mass(a fixed position in space-time which is perhaps what creates gravity), and anything faster would probably leave our linear time frame and become unobservable by direct physical means.
Meaning light would appear as a wave of probabilities the moment before we detect it due to light being outside of our fixed space-time, and it would appear as a particle after we do observe it and it becomes a part of the past. But it only appears as wave-particle from our linear time perspective for both cases.
It is quite possible that light exists as some other state above the C barrier, but we're only able to see it as light in the physical universe, the same way 2D beings would only be able to see flat shapes when looking at 3D beings.
you guys really like hexagons
Who don't?
Maybe the video was made by a bee 🐝
the bestagons
Thanks Kurzgesagt! I just watched this before my exam, thx for the help!
You started confusing me in 45 seconds.
Light is useful. It helps us 'c' things.
that was 'relatively' funny ;)
Oh I get it hahahahahaha 😄😄😄😄😄😆😆😆😆😆😆😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Genius
4:04 The shadow just moved with the tan bird! I didn't know shadows could jump!
nice observation
This channel is one of my fav science channels on this app.. SUCH good animations and information .. perfect
“Light is a particle and a wave, however this is a lie.” What’s this mean?
Because it is not exactly a particle and not exactly a wave. No one has ever observed a single photon. Knowledge about light is only derived from measurements, theories and axioms. Although we have come very far in understanding, some behaviour of light still baffles researchers.
One could say that a photon is a photon is a photon - because we do not have a real watertight definition for it such as 'this is matter' or 'this is a wave'.
Everyone saying they got a single closing definition for what photons are is either playing God or being a bit too sure about themselves. :)
@@Astronomynatureandmusic wow! that taught me a lot about light. thanks for the explanation!
@@Astronomynatureandmusic oh
That just
Blew my mind
Im not ready
So not ready
Because all i heard or learnt was "light is a wave" then now ?
O.M.G
duality of light comes from youngs double slit experiment which showed that light propagates as a wave but becomes a particle when OBSERVED. this is a lie, because you do not observe LIGHT, you observe a simulation of light.....incandescence. also 'speed' of 'light' is an illusion. light does not move. an example: newtons cradle.....if you extended the balls all the way to the other side of the milky way and dropped the first ball, its energy would be transfered to the last ball on the far side of the galaxy, not at the "speed of light" but INSTANTANEOUS~LY. modern psyence is BS & these facts have been known since ancient times
@Siniestro Triggered. God is real, and i'm going to kill it.
What did he mean when he said that the photon's wave-particle duality is a lie?
+HeavyRayne I think he was referring to the images and depictions of it.
+HeavyRayne
Possibly he means that both waves and particles are lies - both exhibit wave-particle duality, so they are both the same thing. Picking out photons as examples of w-p duality is therefore unfair, because everything could be example.
+HeavyRayne I have the same feeling. They exposed it incorrectly and most probably they meant what @ProfessorEGadd is hinting at. Anyways, any fundamental particle does exhibit wave-like particle duality it's just that when we look at one the other collapses and we get the famous experiment for the double slit.
Here's a better depiction actuality which corrects the script: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e4/Wave-particle_duality.ogv/Wave-particle_duality.ogv.480p.webm
+HeavyRayne - This is consistent with Anase's comment above, but I think the lie is that light is neither particle nor wave nor both - each mathematical model (that of particles and that of waves) can say something about how light behaves, but neither can tell the whole story. It's a lie that makes quantum mechanics more accessible?
Alexandru Gheorghe
To reiterate - all particles, fundamental or not can exhibit wave-like properties under the right circumstances. The largest things that have been observed to do so are quite sizable molecules, but in theory even people or planets could do so too.
I also think you are confusing wave-functions and wave-like properties. The wave-function of a particle describes it's behaviour, which may (or may not) be wave-like. It's wave-function collapses when we observe it because it goes from potentially doing anything to doing exactly one thing.
One cannot speak of wave-particle duality 'collapsing'. What you mean is that sometimes it is easier to explain phenomenon AS IF the particle was either particle or a wave, but not both. In fact there is no such thing as 'wave-like behaviour' or 'particle-like behaviour', because they are the same thing. They are nothing more than useful, historical constructs with a number of convenient, familiar analogues. Sometimes, such as in electron microscopy, it is necessary to consider both the wave and particle nature of a particle simultaneously.
Questions like this makes me question my existence
+bobet delos santos Whose existence?
+Lone Starr A girl is no one
+Hex PLAYS Lie.
Lone Starr A girl is no one!
+Hex PLAYS *smack* *smack* *K.O. smack*
I really respect this channel knowledge and confidence of stating what we do know as admitting still with confidence what we don’t know yet... even the part of what we don’t know yet is just as informative from what we do know. This is a great channel
Is there anyway that we'll see the video you killed? (See endcard)
+Nitay A. Absolutely not. We need to 100% remake it.
+In a Nutshell - Kurzgesagt
Make a second channel for -fuckups- videos that are "not good enough." People who don't want to see them won't have to, impatient people can see them early, and curious people can see what you refer to as a -fuckup- "not good enough" video, and feel bad about how your standards are so high compared to theirs.
+Seanathon James smart person with good suggestions.
+Seanathon James agreed
+In a Nutshell - Kurzgesagt Could give it as a sort of patreon reward?
I'm really looking forward to a possible video on the twin paradox. I don't know much about quantum mechanics but I'm really interested in it!
+Cowfaic'd Realm
The twin paradox pertains to relativity. Not QM.
rationalmartian
Oh, excuse me, as I said, I don't know much about this stuff. I'm interested in knowing some more of it, but I don't know much about it.
Holy cow. I was supposed to sleep, now my fatigued brain is confused
it's 3:30 in the morning, and I'm in exactly the same situation.
6:35 for me XD
Hahaha XD
̈ Did you sleep at all ?
Anna-Maria Helou no i just use energi drink
I love that you’re adapting your format a bit, even for a time or two. It’s a smaller time commitment and that’s an easier nibble. Please mix it up.
I don't care what anyone says.
Kurzgesagt was always amazing in quality. I remember watching this vid when it originally came out, and I was gobsmacked. The quality in every sense was enlightening. Good job Kurzgesagt. Good job.
Light actually doesn't travel the speed of the universe, bc it would then outpace the speed of the universe, which isn't possible. Light is slower than the expansion of the universe, which encompasses everything we know, at least for the moment.
3:36 I have a answer:
Light of speed is finite because as said by ALBERT EIENSTEIN , when speed is increased the time slows
So we could say that when we reach speed of light the time stops and there is no acceleration at all without time here two theory works:
Time dialiation
Length contraction
fuzzy-hair crackpot
can you repeat that in english?
I loved the old intros… the music was cool.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
this channel teaches me more than i will ever learn in school
True
the wave model of light: im a joke to you
kurzgazat: yes
this channel explains things like a lost lore, I am mesmerized.
2:03
this noise comes from
lego batman 2
when people use lasers
0:27 "Photons can't be split, only 'created or destroyed'". Doesn't that conflict with conservation of energy? (1/2 laws of thermodynamics).
WHAT IS LIGHT !!!
BABY DON'T HURT ME
DON'T HURT ME
NO MORE
Lincoln Osiris what
@@therealfredang it's quite an old song exept its love instead of light XD
I have opened the video only to leave this comment
baby dont blind me... no more. sorry bud you had your chance.
The same song came to my mind while reading the videos´ title
Watt is light? Baby don't hertz me, don't hertz me, photon...
Kurzgesagt: *asks a deep question* What Is Light?
also Kurzgesasgt: puts a snail on the thumbnail
SNAIL????
@@Amy-si8gq thats what that is right?
@@somedoof1831 no an ammonite
its a nautilus
@@jeffsesos4596 no an ammonite
"In a nutshell, light is..."
ROLL CREDITS!
@Francisco Nieves WTF does that even mean?
@Francisco Nieves godzilla had stroke while trying to read *THAT* and fucking died
Worry not curious repliers who didnt get the joke, the joke is basically yhat light is so fast that the video ended just as it began.
do a video on diffrent ideologies like socialism, capitalism and communism for example. May help take away the socialist fear in the US.
That is a good idea but that is a sensitive topic so might take a while to get it unbiased
+Kenneth Lim Well they made a video about the immigration crisis
+Kenneth Lim they had no problem uploading about the migrant crisis, but it certainly was biased. So I don't think they'll mind talking about the subject.
+ObservableFiction if you mean the refugee crisis, it is made and upload. Check it out
+Thomson Not hard to do. Capitalism = Person control. Socialism = People control. Communism = Gov Control.
I have been watching this channel for a long time now and it is more intresting and teaches more then school
and i know more than others at school because of this channel now lol
"What is Light?"
*What is Something? video flashbacks*
Finally I got my answer 8yrs back when I asked this question
Kurzgesagt: "What does make visible light special then? Nothing!"
Also Kurzgesagt: "Visible light is the only set of electromagnetic radiation that propagates well in water"
Light is electromagnetic radiation that can be detected by the human eye. Electromagnetic radiation occurs over an extremely wide range of wavelengths, from gamma rays with wavelengths less than about 1 × 10−11 metres to radio waves measured in metres.
Light is never seen. Illumination is what we perceive. Light is a disturbance in the ultimate field in which should be correctly termed ," Ether ". Light is electric by Nature. Most of the Ancients understood this. The great minds that were before us allow us to stand on there shoulders.
its poetic how "see" which involves light, coincidentally in english uses the letter "c" which sounds like "see"
But candlelight never travels at c because a candle cannot burn in a vacuum, CHECKMATE!
Checkmate. I said it already.
Thanks! :)
Obviously not.
+Danny Kim light slows down in our atmosphere, since a candle cannot burn in a vacuum, candlelight will never originate going the speed of light, however it may speed up if exposed to a vacuum.
+Danny Kim I'll take your word for it, I'm just running off of the Physics class i'm taking right now.
"Light is the connection between us and universe." ... so how about blind people?
Those people shall we say will be connected with the universe in due time..
Wow.......that’s deep 😐
Still got vibrations tho
they can feel the sun's heat so....
"people"
Honestly, information like this and information found in other videos by kurzgesagt, is the reason I'm not religious. All respect left aside, I can't deny knowledge like that for the sake of "faith". It's just primitive in my opinion. We should all strive to understand our universe correctly.
For me, the more I study physics and the universe, the more it strengthens my belief in God.
Preach
how does knowledge like this contradict religion?
KrazyPlonk _beware before reading this, the comments used are dramatisations_ well, some people think of it like this, "this was just disproven, that means anything else can't be true" and people like akdude81 think of it like this "oh, this is amazing, this proves god exists if it's this complex"
***** Actually, I find the order in the universe to sustain my belief in God. One of my physics professor (who is atheist, as most are) says it is a miracle (and he doesn't like that word) that we live in a universe that can be described with mathematics. The physics didn't invent the mathematics to describe the universe. The mathematicians figured out the math just for fun, and the physics were able to apply it later.
Coming back to this video after finishing physics 2...
This video is hopelessly short, and yet does its best to cram all the info it can in 5 min.
0:13 caught his intro
in
in a
in a nutshell
Baby don't blind me, don't blind me, no more
i need to do my home work!!!!! AGHHHHHHHHHH!!!
same!!!!!!!!!!!!!
me too
QuestGiver me too
the answer to question 2 on your next test is B
You're welcome
OH yeah thanks for Remembering me
i know why light is finite, it is because God made it so. It is really fascinating for me as a young christian discovering all that God has made. What if if he hadn't given light a boundary, loght would off ignited the entire universe. So much light itl be as a daze! Same as the ocean, it has a boundary point its also ignite. Rhis is so fun guys, i pray that you all feel just as euthused as i am! christian or not this is so cool to learn about.❤❤❤
God here.
When we do some maths with differential forms of Faraday's and Ampere's laws you'll get an equation of a wave. from this equation we get c^2=1/u*e, where u, magnetic permeability of vacuum and e, electric permeability of vacuum so, the speed of light is a square root of the product of these two constants.
#SpilHype science!
what
Yes, but that didn't prove anything. We know that. Can you explain why?
Ashley Well, that explains why the speed of light is not infinite. What it does not explain though is why is the speed of light the fastest speed of causality.
So, e=mc^2? A century or so late there God
Could you please make an episode of What is love?
dont hurt me
no more
Hip Colour love is your brain telling you to fuck somebody once told me the world was gonna roll I ain't the sharpest tool in the shed, she was looking kind of dumb with her finger and her thumb with a shape of an L on her forehead hey now your rockstar get your show on get paid
Reads the first line
Plays what is love in my head
Hits Read more
Writes this comment.
HiP CoLouR Love is the aftermath of an alien pooping in your brain
Love is an endorphin that causes you to reproduce and not eat your children. Easy peezy.
@@johannesvonkleist6647 do not forget the adrenaline !
Don't know how many times i ve re-watched this video
That fact about visible spectrum evolving based on liquid water absorption is fascinating - hadn't heard that before!
Water filtered out/consumed the energy from the UV and x-rays hitting the Earth's atmosphere. The highest frequency/wavelength in the ocean was the visible light spectrum of the EM wave. If it wasn't for water draining energy from the EM wave, would we still have developed eyes to see in the UV and X-Ray frequencies?
@@stewiesaidthat only if there was any evolutionary advantage.
didn't get how the particle-wave duality part was a lie
Was waiting for that too
Suggestions for improvement:
I suggest green be shown in the visible light spectrum
I suggest if you use a cent as a reference you say ‘US cent’ if that’s what it is. However as an Australian I have no idea how big that is, so why not choose something more international?
It would be worth mentioning that the retina has the ability to absorb photons - that is how we see.
I’d like to see something on the properties of light but that could be a separate video 😀
Pur retina also reflects light, this is how others can see it
What is Light? Baby don't hurt me!
+MrBlackHui Watt is love. Baby dont hertz me! Dont hertz me! No morse
+MrBlackHui No more....
Damn it I was gonna say that... You get a like
+MrBlackHui The internet never disappoints me.
+MrBlackHui I don't want herpes, no more.
The light near me is understanding light.
This video is way more comprehensive than my physics lesson in highschool
true
Don't blame schools u won't get it this better anywhere else's too!! Mans legendary
esse canal é muito lindo eu amo ele do fundo do meu coração!
Can u repeat 0:00 through 4:39?
It isn't complicated
Well, complicated is relative.
Anthony Fucaloro sss
Just hit this: 0:00
See! Even you made one of them!
not that i don't like their slimmed down theme song now, but the funkiness of that bass and the the little "doo doo doo" at the end really makes this one hit different for me
"The smallest quantity of energy that can be transported" is pretty misleading. It implies an universal quantization of energy, which isn't really an accepted notion. Frequency and wavelength are, as far as we know, continuous quantities. This means you could in principle have a photon with an arbitrarily small energy, or two photons with an arbitrarily small energy difference.
+1ucasvb I believe that the quantisation of energy is well accepted in the scientific community. And frequency and wavelength are still accepted, well-established concept. I suppose that's where the whole particle-wave duality arises from?
Quantization of energy arises in several contexts and different systems, but there is no accepted notion of "smallest amount of energy possible in the Universe".
Oh, OK.
+Sum Vigil Energy quantization arises from boundary conditions in quantum systems. Unbound systems have a continuous spectrum of energy. An unbound electron, for instance, can have an arbitrary amount of kinetic energy if you simply change to an appropriate frame of reference.
Second, a photon can have arbitrarily small energy as far as mainstream theory goes. A photon could conceivably have a wavelength the size of the visible Universe and beyond.
Some upcoming theories do propose further quantizations of energy, time, space, etc., but that's not generally accepted to be true right now.
+1ucasvb I think is misleading because some photons carry more energy than others. it even says it on the video!!!
But anyway. the idea of a quantum universe it the most likely because there are alot of phenomenon that could not be explained without it. At the same time you could say that all scientific videos are misleading, because they are all theories.
So my point is that is ok to say something that is not "true" if it is the most likely, because is better to have an explanation to something than having nothing.
I would want this guy to narrate my whole life
Imagine having a life worthy of narration :(
Become a patrion now 😂😂
Kurzgesagt: "But we will explore this theme in a part II video in the future"
(everytime you hear this know that it will never happen..)
Now I understand 😊