Moreover, as far as we can tell, where life can exist, it definately does. At the moment, the jury is still out on whether life will exist as SOON as it possibly can (exist).
Yes, it is in a delicate balance. Ask yourself how any constant manages to be constant on its own? Or we must assume that any constant works on blind faith.
@@rafaelbenitez2196Earth's gravitational constant is based on its mass duh. You should try getting a grip of physics instead of spouting religious nonsense.
@@rafaelbenitez2196 Anything and everything has a reason known or unknown but I won’t sit here for the religious BS simply because you don’t understand something.
So then the current "occurrence" that we are is predicated on the balance of the environment that produced our origin...if that balance is upset, the current occurrence that we are will be subject to horrific change or eradication. So it Is about balance and that balance needs to be stable to ensure life's survival and future...we still have No evidence of any other life besides us...if we are it then there is no alternative but to ensure life here. Eos.
@@cupoli138 Besides all of the life that has and does exists on Earth, there is no known life except us. But life has existed on this planet before when the conditions would have certainly killed us. If we end up "killing" the planet ourselves, and humans die out, something else may just take our place. It's a balance for our survival.
This is why I was the weird kid in school. I loved(still love) math. I still do math puzzles for fun. I took all kinds of math but then physics took over my heart so I had to major in it. Coming from a family of doctors forced me into becoming a doctor but I have more books about physics and astrophysics than I do medicine. Still the weird one, I know. Can't help it, physics is captivating. It's the science of all sciences.
@@bjojosimpson Yes he's my favourite guest. Somebody so intelligent but he's so modest and humble too. Neil and Charles are great together. Best episodes on StarTalk in my opinion.
@@TabooGroundhog correct, 7th power could be of anything. I didn't say it *had* to be of 2, I was providing an illustrative example. Your example of 10,000,000 times only works if the number raised to the 7th power is 10. 2^7 = 128 3^7 = 2187 4^7=16,384 ... 10^7 = 10,000,000 etc. Similarly, even if it's a small number, it still gets raised quite a lot 1^7 = 1 (1.1)^7 = 1.95 (1.2)^7 = 3.58 etc.
@@TabooGroundhog to further clarify, "to the power of X" means multiply the number by itself X times. So "4 to the power of 3" means 4*4*4 = 64. Or "2 to the power of 7" means 2*2*2*2*2*2*2=128
you dont even need math to make sense of it, if the gravitational constant is higher than what it is now this would mean that earth's mass increased which in turn means that earth's orbit must become closer to the sun which in turn means the sun would seem bigger and much more brighter to us than before.
But why are we, that peculiar "thing" which works under the current situation, even a possibility that got realized in the first place along with the current situation itself? There's something obviously surprising about 'existence' allowing for the fact "peculiar beings who work under the right situation" to obtain in the first place? Why not instead an 'existence' where no "peculiar beings who work under the right situation" are to be found ever?
@@esauponce9759 Exactly. The implication here is that no matter what the parameters of the universe are, some life would have come about and we are just the kind of life that can work in these conditions. But that is, of course, a complete statement of faith. Why could it not have been the case that the gravitational constant (or any other "law" of the universe) was such that nothing resembling life in any way was ever possible? Why does the parameters even exist at all?
@jeremyinvictus for me, life just seems an emergent property of nature... i think cells are inevitable when you have so many molecules and physical proceses compressed in tiny spots.. i just think the moment the universe separates from itself, as creating another entropic sistem, it results in certain interactions between inside and outside to mentain it so "life" as we call it emerges 🤷 from cells to other things would be a matter of time only
@karllansche9843 wow, never said I was a hater of the guy and you're an internet stalker for sure. Never said I had a PhD or was a super smart guy either. All I said was "I do" and you came up with all this garbage. I'm gonna leave you alone now cause you're creeping me out Karl.
Neil is such a brilliant light in the darkness. I am always drawn to Neil's videos. His gravitational constant must be higher than the rest of the universe.
I don't know what he meant either. I think that either he didn't explain it well or the context isn't there. Does anyone know if he meant 7th decimal place?
Imagine if we had scientists instead of politicians broadcasted so frequently in their squabble, we’d have productive discourse rather than evil undermining
@@billywayne902 Pastors are political pawns too But you’ll probably argue that not all pastors are, and I’d have to agree The ones who aren’t spewing political jargon at church are probably teaching more of the true word of god Which would make them left leaning And in some peoples eyes Liberal political jesters It’s easy to disregard all science when you politicize it. This is what the last decade has done to our country. ‘Where’s our country gone’
I believe this has something to do with the fact that luminosity is determined by temperature raised to the 4th power and increasing the gravitational constant would increase the density of the sun therefore making it hotter. And since it’s a 3 dimensional object I guess it’s just 3+4 equaling 7.
That's nonsense. Otherwise we'd find life everywhere. This is a mythology narrative he just made up to counter what science DOES actually tell us which is the universe is extremely fined tuned for life. Science does not tell us the fantasy he just made up. He did it because as we can see the absurd naturalistic model is an utter failure when even slightly examined. He either knows this and is being disingenuous or is in complete denial. Atheists that are honest like Lawrence Krauss admit the problem of fine tuning for their model is extreme but don't go as far as to see the implications that it's a critical failure because their identity is based around their Atheism and it sells books.
@@clevertaco328 Wtf does this have to do with religion or invalidating criticism of it? If the universe was different life would either also be different or not exist at all for the more extreme cases. Doesn't take a genius to understand that.
If our nation's teachers used your manner of communication, I don't think we would be so far behind when it comes to our educational achievements in the US. We might actually be competitive again, not to mention interesting and intelligent
@eboog4333 also, when I stop seeing Europeans who don't know where Florida is, I'll be concerned about every little detail about Europe. Meanwhile, I know a lot of Americans who know lots of details about Europe. I'm intelligent enough to educate myself. I don't have to depend on the government to educate me.
anthropic principle, things are as they are. For if it were not so, no one could ask the question. There are other parameters that must have exactly these values in order for life or anything at all to arise. The fine adjustment of the natural constants - a balanced tower of razor blades :)
THANK YOU. I've been saying that for years. People go "Isn't is odd that the universe just HAPPENED to exist in a way that supports human life?" And I'm like "Uhh.. no, if it didnt support human life, we would still be here, we just wouldn't be THIS *motions at body* OR we wouldn't be here at all to worry about what COULD be"
It's a wrong assessment to have. You have to have blind faith that matter arranged and ordered itself to create sentient lifeforms and have all the parameters of existence to exist within literal decimal places of it to function accordingly and actually give rise to a universe to begin with. The more you study science and the intricacies of math then the easier and more evidence there is for a Creator.
The single-best response to a fine-tuning argument is a quote by Douglas Adams that explains the same concept touched on in this video: Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, “This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find myself in, fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!”
Imagine if other universe is born out of nothing, then any property of gravity and its constant is possible because there is no laws and limits prior to birth. Then If Im being spawned there I wouldnt mind to live there and die if thats a law of the universe
If The Apple Force ( formerly gravitational force ) is constant and were to be slightly increased, then 1/2 Apple Force would have been increased at the same time, too, resulting there is no change in the illumination of the sun! Apple Force without the 1/2 of it would have caused catastrophic explosion at the atomic level! That is the accurate interpretation.
You have it the wrong way round. Neil is the one saying that we are designed to fit the universe, a creationist would say the universe is designed to fit us.
A person must be pretty dumb to think that anything in this universe ever happened by chance. What existed before the Big Bang? Who wrote the laws of physics that guides the universe? Why must the earth have a moon to provide light by night? Why does a rose flower petals form so beautifully? Where does the person that incarnate the body of a newborn child come from, and where do they go when they die since energy can not be destroyed but only change from one form to another? Who wrote the laws of nature? Do iphones occur by chance? All these questions are answered in the fact that an intelligent being beyond our comprehension made it that way. For laws to exist, they must be written. So, who wrote the laws that scientists are now discovering. You only need to look at the beautiful artwork on the skin of a python to know that it did not just occur or happen on that animal body by chance.
There are not just this gravitional thing, thare are thousands of 'coincidental' things for eg our eyes can detect a few frequency of visible lights, and yet we look at colourful things, of the earth slightly closer to the syn we will be burnt and farther we will be cold, the percentage of nitrogen, co2 and oxygen in air, the degree of earth leaning defines the four seasons in a year. So many things, in perfect harmony. It is like the water said, i fit perfectly in this pond, thus I have been designed to be in molecules, in water cycles for thousand of years, on a earth that perfect in distances from the sun, this pond will be the water source for animals and hundreds of insects, habitat for frogs and small fish. I just wrote only from the top of my head. If you study more about your own body, you will be amazed more. Even without our own intervention, it can organize itself. Read about how our self defense mechanism works against pathogens.
@@TrueSubmitter060206 Again, every single example you give in your comment is an example of evolution adapting the human body to fit the environment that we are in. If the environment were different, we would be different, or we would go extinct, because that's how evolution works. They are not "coincidences", they are "causes". Moles that live underground have evolved to become blind, because they don't need to see colourful things. Extremophiles that live at the bottom of the sea next to hydrothermal volcanic vents have evolved mechanisms to deal with the extreme heat produced by magma bubbling up through the crust. Was this planet designed for them, too? The vast majority of the planet is uninhabitable and incompatible with human life, what kind of design is that? Your entire belief system is based on ignorance.
We are here as a result of our environment not in spite of it. Very interesting concept. If luminosity was to increase then there would be no racism because everyone would be blacker than black.
in case you were wondering if there were two stars in a binary and you look at them from the barycenter the apparent luminosity ratio depends only to the 5.5th power of mass ratio of the stars. 7th power is insane.
I use the calculation of gravity to prove to women that the closer we get to each other, the stronger our gravity. It's easy to explain that with "r" (the radius or distance between two objects) in the denominator the bigger it gets the weaker our gravity becomes and the smaller it gets, the stronger our gravity becomes. It's worked with women a couple of times so far so I'm going to keep using it.
The fact that we thrive in an environment suited for our needs is not proof of a higher power. Now, if we thrived in an environment not suited for us, then I'd have some questions.
I love the explainers but, for you peewee, Romans 1; "19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. 20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: 21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools...." There is still time for you though, atleast today, you still have a decision to make.
Glad to hear someone finally express this. “An amazing balance” is like saying the heat loving microbes are so lucky they happen to live near vents in the crust at the bottom the ocean. Wow, aren’t they lucky the vents are right here the microbes need them! We see the parameters of the universe because they are what cause us to be. If the parameters were different, another form of life that results from those parameters would exist to see them.
You missed the point of the video. If we were destroyed (or never existed) then something else would exist in our place. And THEY would be saying "hmmm looks like the universe was designed just for us" 🙄
So glad to see this. I’ve had a question I’d like to ask Neil if I ever met him that is in a similar vein: How would civilization have evolved if our natural walking speed was like 25% faster? So, in effect, everything and everyone was that much closer and the world was less spread out.
Fun and calculations can be used together a lot when talking about games, like in a medieval war game where you calculate the best arrangement of troops, how many ranged troops to melee troops you need to use said army most effectively xD
We talking Anthropic Principle here? Yes, a slightly hotter Earth would likely have produced a more heat tolerant biosphere, but at some point that tolerance has to pucker out.
Workin because it's fine tuned beyond any degree we can even remotely accurately describe or measure... Even a dimes worth of mass off at the start of the big bang wouldn't have produced a universe that could support life as one example of how extreme the fine tuning is. It's so extremely it's almost impossible to get it across in a way to conceptualize. In countless ways no less.
But.... If the constant were just a tad higher or lower, no, we couldn't enjoy life outside NOW... However! We would have evolved to adapt to that luminosity, as we grew and evolved to the current luminosity and gravitational constant.
Which is utter nonsense otherwise we'd see life manifesting itself out of nothing everywhere and adapting to our solar system and universe. It's a mythology Neil is making up, science does not tell us that. Science tells us the fine tuning is so extreme that it's a critical failure for the naturalistic atheistic worldview. Science has killed Neils god.
When something depends one something else to the 7th power, it basically means that a very very tiny change to the first something has a *massive* effect on the second something.
Damn! You said it! I’ve been saying,since 2018 - when I was considering Sam Harris and Anil Seth-when they talked about the “hard problem” in philosophy (about “why” we are sentient or conscious)l- that I think similarly about “why?” there is life on earth and “why?” everything is the way it is: we have been asking the wrong questions; it is not ‘why’; it’s only ‘how’ that matters; If you ask a subjective question you will find a subjective (not an objective) answer- and things are the way they are supposed to be when you think clearly; they’re not the way they are supposed to be for the people who are supposing in a supernatural way and are dazzled by everything.
Science only deals with "how?" That's it's limitation. It's all it can do. Philosophy deals with the "why" questions. And those questions are endless, and ambiguous. No matter how far you take it, you can still ask "but why?" Truth, however, is absolute. What is, is. And that's the way it is. And no amount of "what if..." changes it.
I've tried to explain that to people who exclaim what a miracle life is. This is a good way to say that. We, humans, and life in general, are a product of the conditions that exist.
The premise that change in gravity will have exponential effect on the luminosity of the sun is correct, but the conclusion that we are not living in delicate environment is not correct. If a change in gravity of the earth has this much effect, we are indeed living in unstable system.
Here’s a fun calculation Neil. The distance of the furthest visible star squared times Pi times 4. Convert that to square inches. Creates a sphere around the star and the star can be seen from every square inch of its surface.
EXACTLY! When people say that it can't be a coincidence, that we exist like we do, with our intelligence and all, they forget, that if we didn't exist like this, then we couldn't wonder about it. Just because it happened, it can still be a coincidence.
This is the truth. Had our atmosphere been different at this time than what it is, the planet would reflect this in its diversity of life or lack of it.
I dont have social media so this is the only way I know to ask neil a question You once mentioned space debris on a joe rogan podcast and vacuuming the debris , how could one create a vacuum in a vacuum This is a mind boggling question to me Is it possible to create a less dense vacuum than what space has to offer In terms of particle density
I haven't watched this part of the podcast but from what you're saying, I think it's not what he meant. In interplanetary space there are just some thousands of atoms per square meter. Around the orbit of the earth it'd be more but still not enough to be able to create a significantly more vacuumed space than it is already.
Author John Grisham, in one of his books, noted 23 different physical constants that, if altered in either direction by as little as 3%, the universe as we know it would never have formed.
Yep, Life exists where life CAN exist.
As far as we are able to imagine and detect it ...
Moreover, as far as we can tell, where life can exist, it definately does.
At the moment, the jury is still out on whether life will exist as SOON as it possibly can (exist).
Yes, it is in a delicate balance. Ask yourself how any constant manages to be constant on its own? Or we must assume that any constant works on blind faith.
@@rafaelbenitez2196Earth's gravitational constant is based on its mass duh. You should try getting a grip of physics instead of spouting religious nonsense.
@@rafaelbenitez2196 Anything and everything has a reason known or unknown but I won’t sit here for the religious BS simply because you don’t understand something.
Nice. I really appreciate how Neil doesn't get caught up in the "balance" aspect of it. If it was different, something different would take our place.
True, I caught that too, thanks for pointing that out in a comment, makes you think, love it!!
So then the current "occurrence" that we are is predicated on the balance of the environment that produced our origin...if that balance is upset, the current occurrence that we are will be subject to horrific change or eradication.
So it Is about balance and that balance needs to be stable to ensure life's survival and future...we still have No evidence of any other life besides us...if we are it then there is no alternative but to ensure life here. Eos.
@@cupoli138 Besides all of the life that has and does exists on Earth, there is no known life except us. But life has existed on this planet before when the conditions would have certainly killed us. If we end up "killing" the planet ourselves, and humans die out, something else may just take our place. It's a balance for our survival.
True mate
So, it cannot be pure luck...
Neil- “I know fun and calculations aren’t always in the same sentence”
Random asian dude: “bring it on”😂🤣
That’s Dr. Charles Liu.
This is why I was the weird kid in school. I loved(still love) math. I still do math puzzles for fun. I took all kinds of math but then physics took over my heart so I had to major in it. Coming from a family of doctors forced me into becoming a doctor but I have more books about physics and astrophysics than I do medicine. Still the weird one, I know. Can't help it, physics is captivating. It's the science of all sciences.
Random Asian Dude! please look into Dr Charles Liu. NDT looks up to him. That's all you need to know.
@@STST The Start Talk episodes where Dr. Charles comes in are always awesome to listen, and his geek repertoire is second to none.
@@bjojosimpson Yes he's my favourite guest. Somebody so intelligent but he's so modest and humble too. Neil and Charles are great together. Best episodes on StarTalk in my opinion.
7th power means if gravity was twice as strong the result would be 128x as bright. That's amazing.
If u don’t know exponents then u have been failed
7th power could be of anything, right? Why does it have to be power of 2. I interpreted it as 7 orders of magnitude magnitudes or 10,000,000
@@TabooGroundhog correct, 7th power could be of anything. I didn't say it *had* to be of 2, I was providing an illustrative example. Your example of 10,000,000 times only works if the number raised to the 7th power is 10.
2^7 = 128
3^7 = 2187
4^7=16,384
...
10^7 = 10,000,000
etc.
Similarly, even if it's a small number, it still gets raised quite a lot
1^7 = 1
(1.1)^7 = 1.95
(1.2)^7 = 3.58
etc.
@@TabooGroundhog to further clarify, "to the power of X" means multiply the number by itself X times. So "4 to the power of 3" means 4*4*4 = 64. Or "2 to the power of 7" means 2*2*2*2*2*2*2=128
you dont even need math to make sense of it, if the gravitational constant is higher than what it is now this would mean that earth's mass increased which in turn means that earth's orbit must become closer to the sun which in turn means the sun would seem bigger and much more brighter to us than before.
Love his end point....we are what works under the current situation
We are (potentially i guess) the only way that it could have gone
@@AliTanoli-cq3js don't know if that could be true....but the universe just has to deal with us I guess 🤔😋
But why are we, that peculiar "thing" which works under the current situation, even a possibility that got realized in the first place along with the current situation itself? There's something obviously surprising about 'existence' allowing for the fact "peculiar beings who work under the right situation" to obtain in the first place? Why not instead an 'existence' where no "peculiar beings who work under the right situation" are to be found ever?
@@esauponce9759 Exactly. The implication here is that no matter what the parameters of the universe are, some life would have come about and we are just the kind of life that can work in these conditions. But that is, of course, a complete statement of faith. Why could it not have been the case that the gravitational constant (or any other "law" of the universe) was such that nothing resembling life in any way was ever possible? Why does the parameters even exist at all?
@jeremyinvictus for me, life just seems an emergent property of nature... i think cells are inevitable when you have so many molecules and physical proceses compressed in tiny spots.. i just think the moment the universe separates from itself, as creating another entropic sistem, it results in certain interactions between inside and outside to mentain it so "life" as we call it emerges 🤷 from cells to other things would be a matter of time only
Love Dr Tyson. I never get tired to listen to him
I do
@@karllansche9843 why did you delete your last comment? When did I say I didn't like him? Get off Neil's nuts and let the man breathe Karl.
@karllansche9843 wow, never said I was a hater of the guy and you're an internet stalker for sure. Never said I had a PhD or was a super smart guy either. All I said was "I do" and you came up with all this garbage. I'm gonna leave you alone now cause you're creeping me out Karl.
neither does he
He said “damn”, like he had ANY idea wtf he just said 😂
That guy is an astronaut. He knew exactly what neil was tapking about
Tapking 😩
You don't even know who that is. You're just protecting because you're an idiot lol
😂😂😂 yes I caught that! He was just as lost as we all were until Neil put it into perspective.
@@Cheasle2the guy that said
“Damn” is an actor/comedian. Also, Neil is an astrophysicist, not an astronaut 😉
Honestly I love linking together equations to show how one variable is, in fact, connected to another. It’s the best part of physics.
Dr. Charles Liu taking up the whole screen really sent me 😂
Zoom out, my guy!
Neil is such a brilliant light in the darkness. I am always drawn to Neil's videos. His gravitational constant must be higher than the rest of the universe.
Haha, that's a good one
Yeah but he's also a big ham in front of the camera
My brain just hit the 7th power and then all I heard was hello darkness my old friend 😂
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I laughed hard at that. Thanks.
I've come to talk to you again:
Have you heard about the words of my personal lord and savior?
I don't know what he meant either. I think that either he didn't explain it well or the context isn't there. Does anyone know if he meant 7th decimal place?
😂
😂😂😂
My Asian bro is hyped asf when he heard math."Bring it on" 😂
Imagine if we had scientists instead of politicians broadcasted so frequently in their squabble, we’d have productive discourse rather than evil undermining
We get the politician we have chosen. Sadly, voters would never want a scientist. Interferes with their preconceptions.
Sadly he's already began engaging in political discourse
Yah right, because scientists are perfect human beings 🧐🤮
The scientist are the politicians jesters
@@billywayne902 Pastors are political pawns too
But you’ll probably argue that not all pastors are, and I’d have to agree
The ones who aren’t spewing political jargon at church are probably teaching more of the true word of god
Which would make them left leaning
And in some peoples eyes
Liberal political jesters
It’s easy to disregard all science when you politicize it.
This is what the last decade has done to our country. ‘Where’s our country gone’
I believe this has something to do with the fact that luminosity is determined by temperature raised to the 4th power and increasing the gravitational constant would increase the density of the sun therefore making it hotter. And since it’s a 3 dimensional object I guess it’s just 3+4 equaling 7.
Chuck: dayum
Chucks mind: wtf this homie talkin' about
Oh he has nooooo clue
I feel like Bart hearing the “RDRR” joke in that advanced class.
I always learn something new about physics everyday. Thank you Dr. Degrass-Tyson
Love that jacket. That's exactly something I would have wore back in the '90s when I was a kid
It's a vest
It's a vest. ...learn
Exactly. We are what works for given conditions.
Yeah, it just works is so very scientific lol. If i ever hear someone say this and then criticize a religious person...
Why are you even here if you don't believe in science? You have nothing better to do? Lol
I think everything being said has gone over your head.@@clevertaco328
That's nonsense. Otherwise we'd find life everywhere. This is a mythology narrative he just made up to counter what science DOES actually tell us which is the universe is extremely fined tuned for life. Science does not tell us the fantasy he just made up. He did it because as we can see the absurd naturalistic model is an utter failure when even slightly examined. He either knows this and is being disingenuous or is in complete denial. Atheists that are honest like Lawrence Krauss admit the problem of fine tuning for their model is extreme but don't go as far as to see the implications that it's a critical failure because their identity is based around their Atheism and it sells books.
@@clevertaco328 Wtf does this have to do with religion or invalidating criticism of it? If the universe was different life would either also be different or not exist at all for the more extreme cases. Doesn't take a genius to understand that.
The universe isnt perfect for us, we're perfect for the universe.
If our nation's teachers used your manner of communication, I don't think we would be so far behind when it comes to our educational achievements in the US.
We might actually be competitive again, not to mention interesting and intelligent
Many of us are intelligent. At what age did you stop reading the encyclopedia?
@@johnclaybaugh9536Decades ago because I have a computer😂
@eboog4333 also, when I stop seeing Europeans who don't know where Florida is, I'll be concerned about every little detail about Europe. Meanwhile, I know a lot of Americans who know lots of details about Europe.
I'm intelligent enough to educate myself. I don't have to depend on the government to educate me.
We’ve been doomed by the “don’t pay them until it’s too late” system.
Most of this dudes jackets have a gravitational constant 😂🤣🤪
“Damn “ 😂😂😂😂
Having no idea what Neil is talking about lol
@@MrJvigue99nah, He knows exactly what he is talking about
Evolution. What fits this situation lives, what doesn't dies out.
Thanos: everything balanced, how it should be
New Physics term: "Dam"😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😊
Neil and Chuck for 2024
@2REACTION4UI'll vote for you
I love listening to him.
That jacket he has on is fantastic too. 😊
Happy New Year to all. 🎉
Man explains it in the simplest way possible and I still had to watch it 3 times to understand it. 😔
anthropic principle, things are as they are. For if it were not so, no one could ask the question.
There are other parameters that must have exactly these values in order for life or anything at all to arise. The fine adjustment of the natural constants - a balanced tower of razor blades :)
Physics Grad Students Worldwide: "Whaddya mean 'fun and calculations' can't go in the same sentence?!?!?!" 😉
“Are not always,” not “can’t go”
THANK YOU. I've been saying that for years. People go "Isn't is odd that the universe just HAPPENED to exist in a way that supports human life?" And I'm like "Uhh.. no, if it didnt support human life, we would still be here, we just wouldn't be THIS *motions at body* OR we wouldn't be here at all to worry about what COULD be"
Nerrr jebus done it 😂
Nobody’s saying this, and for the record everything they told you about the Big Bang has been debunked!
@@gregwilliams6828 😂😂😂
Now I know I’m not the only one struggling to explain this to other people 😂
It's a wrong assessment to have. You have to have blind faith that matter arranged and ordered itself to create sentient lifeforms and have all the parameters of existence to exist within literal decimal places of it to function accordingly and actually give rise to a universe to begin with. The more you study science and the intricacies of math then the easier and more evidence there is for a Creator.
The single-best response to a fine-tuning argument is a quote by Douglas Adams that explains the same concept touched on in this video:
Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, “This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find myself in, fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!”
it would also mean that we would be entirely different and probably watching him talking what if it were a tiny bit less.
Imagine if other universe is born out of nothing, then any property of gravity and its constant is possible because there is no laws and limits prior to birth. Then If Im being spawned there I wouldnt mind to live there and die if thats a law of the universe
If The Apple Force ( formerly gravitational force ) is constant and were to be slightly increased, then 1/2 Apple Force would have been increased at the same time, too, resulting there is no change in the illumination of the sun! Apple Force without the 1/2 of it would have caused catastrophic explosion at the atomic level! That is the accurate interpretation.
Chuck looking lost af 😂😂
He doesn't even pretend to know
"we are what works with the properties of the universe."
Thats really something for religious people who believe that we are somehow special
people who say we are intelligently designed are like the pond water that says: "i fit perfectly in this whole i must've been designed for this hole"
You have it the wrong way round. Neil is the one saying that we are designed to fit the universe, a creationist would say the universe is designed to fit us.
@@sfdntk you got me wrong, we conformed to the universe, not we are designed and the universe was conformed for us
A person must be pretty dumb to think that anything in this universe ever happened by chance. What existed before the Big Bang? Who wrote the laws of physics that guides the universe? Why must the earth have a moon to provide light by night? Why does a rose flower petals form so beautifully? Where does the person that incarnate the body of a newborn child come from, and where do they go when they die since energy can not be destroyed but only change from one form to another? Who wrote the laws of nature? Do iphones occur by chance?
All these questions are answered in the fact that an intelligent being beyond our comprehension made it that way. For laws to exist, they must be written. So, who wrote the laws that scientists are now discovering. You only need to look at the beautiful artwork on the skin of a python to know that it did not just occur or happen on that animal body by chance.
There are not just this gravitional thing, thare are thousands of 'coincidental' things for eg our eyes can detect a few frequency of visible lights, and yet we look at colourful things, of the earth slightly closer to the syn we will be burnt and farther we will be cold, the percentage of nitrogen, co2 and oxygen in air, the degree of earth leaning defines the four seasons in a year. So many things, in perfect harmony. It is like the water said, i fit perfectly in this pond, thus I have been designed to be in molecules, in water cycles for thousand of years, on a earth that perfect in distances from the sun, this pond will be the water source for animals and hundreds of insects, habitat for frogs and small fish. I just wrote only from the top of my head.
If you study more about your own body, you will be amazed more. Even without our own intervention, it can organize itself. Read about how our self defense mechanism works against pathogens.
@@TrueSubmitter060206 Again, every single example you give in your comment is an example of evolution adapting the human body to fit the environment that we are in. If the environment were different, we would be different, or we would go extinct, because that's how evolution works. They are not "coincidences", they are "causes". Moles that live underground have evolved to become blind, because they don't need to see colourful things. Extremophiles that live at the bottom of the sea next to hydrothermal volcanic vents have evolved mechanisms to deal with the extreme heat produced by magma bubbling up through the crust. Was this planet designed for them, too? The vast majority of the planet is uninhabitable and incompatible with human life, what kind of design is that? Your entire belief system is based on ignorance.
We are here as a result of our environment not in spite of it.
Very interesting concept. If luminosity was to increase then there would be no racism because everyone would be blacker than black.
the sun would be super bright lol
and also super hot.
and also little closer.
and we would be different beings.
I love your vest. May I also add that I’ve loved your brain for a very long time! 💜
Hey, math is fun af to me 😅
in case you were wondering if there were two stars in a binary and you look at them from the barycenter the apparent luminosity ratio depends only to the 5.5th power of mass ratio of the stars. 7th power is insane.
I use the calculation of gravity to prove to women that the closer we get to each other, the stronger our gravity. It's easy to explain that with "r" (the radius or distance between two objects) in the denominator the bigger it gets the weaker our gravity becomes and the smaller it gets, the stronger our gravity becomes. It's worked with women a couple of times so far so I'm going to keep using it.
Love what Dr. Steven Greer had to say about NDT!! So gratifying.
The fact that we thrive in an environment suited for our needs is not proof of a higher power. Now, if we thrived in an environment not suited for us, then I'd have some questions.
It really is that we are suited for this environment. The environment was here long before we got here.
I love the explainers but, for you peewee, Romans 1; "19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools...."
There is still time for you though, atleast today, you still have a decision to make.
@UGANDIUM PERMANGANATE oh jeez.
@@ugandiumpermanganate8202 awesome verse from a storybook.
@@Peewee0413 funny- hypocrisy and blindness mixed together and baked at a temperature of 800°C
Glad to hear someone finally express this. “An amazing balance” is like saying the heat loving microbes are so lucky they happen to live near vents in the crust at the bottom the ocean. Wow, aren’t they lucky the vents are right here the microbes need them! We see the parameters of the universe because they are what cause us to be. If the parameters were different, another form of life that results from those parameters would exist to see them.
That guy is really really close to his camera lol haha
A good point to make when discussing the "finely tuned universe".
Sounds like a smart designer to me
Not at all.
The shrek movie script sounds good too
I love his solar blazer! ☀️
If the GRAVITATIONAL CONSTANT were different in some way, I would weigh less...😳😂😂😂
you'd still have the same mass though ;)
Move to the moon and you would weigh 1/6 of what you do here on earth lol
I hate Terran gravity... I'd probably go for Mars over the moon though...
Hey, rocketman, why are you wearing Elton John's jacket?
It's called design, you know how many things would completely destroy us if they were slightly different.
You missed the point of the video. If we were destroyed (or never existed) then something else would exist in our place. And THEY would be saying "hmmm looks like the universe was designed just for us" 🙄
@@nbartlett6538Precisely.
N.D. Tyson....I love your vest, man .....
SubhanAllah
Fun and calculations.... so exciting.
I'm gonna have fun calculating the gravitational pull of this bullet that goes through my head. Physics!
This is an extremely important perspective, this is where folks need to evolve too.
So glad to see this. I’ve had a question I’d like to ask Neil if I ever met him that is in a similar vein: How would civilization have evolved if our natural walking speed was like 25% faster? So, in effect, everything and everyone was that much closer and the world was less spread out.
LOVE the print of the jacket ❤
Bro said “Damn” like he understood anything 🤣
Fun is relative, in high school, my friends dad would do problems from calculus and trig books like crossword puzzles
He said "dayum" like he knew what that meant 🤣🤣
"It's not in balance, it's just what works"
Heard a redneck say the same thing putting wheels together
Fun and calculations can be used together a lot when talking about games, like in a medieval war game where you calculate the best arrangement of troops, how many ranged troops to melee troops you need to use said army most effectively xD
We talking Anthropic Principle here?
Yes, a slightly hotter Earth would likely have produced a more heat tolerant biosphere, but at some point that tolerance has to pucker out.
Amazing Information
Physics is the anormally there mate!
He said "dayum" like he knew what Neil was saying 😂
Bravo wearing sun ☀️ coat and talking about sun ☀️☀️☀️
So many things are dependent on each other. Thank God for math and science. ❤
If it's not broke don't fix it, we workin 💯
Workin because it's fine tuned beyond any degree we can even remotely accurately describe or measure... Even a dimes worth of mass off at the start of the big bang wouldn't have produced a universe that could support life as one example of how extreme the fine tuning is. It's so extremely it's almost impossible to get it across in a way to conceptualize. In countless ways no less.
Amazing!😊 Im happy, to be in that sweet, Goldilocks zone. Took my breath away, when he said the 7th power bc thats a huge exponetial number.
But.... If the constant were just a tad higher or lower, no, we couldn't enjoy life outside NOW... However! We would have evolved to adapt to that luminosity, as we grew and evolved to the current luminosity and gravitational constant.
Which is utter nonsense otherwise we'd see life manifesting itself out of nothing everywhere and adapting to our solar system and universe. It's a mythology Neil is making up, science does not tell us that. Science tells us the fine tuning is so extreme that it's a critical failure for the naturalistic atheistic worldview. Science has killed Neils god.
Proof God is Great 🙏
When something depends one something else to the 7th power, it basically means that a very very tiny change to the first something has a *massive* effect on the second something.
That was an "Ohhhhhhhhh" moment for me there when he said that last sentence.
Damn! You said it! I’ve been saying,since 2018 - when I was considering Sam Harris and Anil Seth-when they talked about the “hard problem” in philosophy (about “why” we are sentient or conscious)l- that I think similarly about “why?” there is life on earth and “why?” everything is the way it is: we have been asking the wrong questions; it is not ‘why’; it’s only ‘how’ that matters; If you ask a subjective question you will find a subjective (not an objective) answer- and things are the way they are supposed to be when you think clearly; they’re not the way they are supposed to be for the people who are supposing in a supernatural way and are dazzled by everything.
Science only deals with "how?" That's it's limitation. It's all it can do.
Philosophy deals with the "why" questions. And those questions are endless, and ambiguous. No matter how far you take it, you can still ask "but why?"
Truth, however, is absolute.
What is, is.
And that's the way it is.
And no amount of "what if..." changes it.
This! Fk the "fine tuning" argument!
So that’s what is called delicate balance.
I've tried to explain that to people who exclaim what a miracle life is. This is a good way to say that. We, humans, and life in general, are a product of the conditions that exist.
He lose me at…. “There is”😂
you dont understand what putting a number to a power means?
Perfect vest for this discussion
That was a nice slide in of the puddle analogy for the significance to us.
The premise that change in gravity will have exponential effect on the luminosity of the sun is correct, but the conclusion that we are not living in delicate environment is not correct. If a change in gravity of the earth has this much effect, we are indeed living in unstable system.
Charles Liu! Whoohoo! 🥰
Here’s a fun calculation Neil. The distance of the furthest visible star squared times Pi times 4. Convert that to square inches.
Creates a sphere around the star and the star can be seen from every square inch of its surface.
EXACTLY! When people say that it can't be a coincidence, that we exist like we do, with our intelligence and all, they forget, that if we didn't exist like this, then we couldn't wonder about it. Just because it happened, it can still be a coincidence.
This is the truth. Had our atmosphere been different at this time than what it is, the planet would reflect this in its diversity of life or lack of it.
Also I can't believe the little bears porridge was the best in the context of cold and hot 😂
Man these guys rock. Great stuff as always
"we are what works w the properties that exist in this universe" ... 🎯
I love listening to this man but it's still a constant whew over my head. 🤣 Still fascinating.
I dont have social media so this is the only way I know to ask neil a question
You once mentioned space debris on a joe rogan podcast and vacuuming the debris , how could one create a vacuum in a vacuum
This is a mind boggling question to me
Is it possible to create a less dense vacuum than what space has to offer
In terms of particle density
I haven't watched this part of the podcast but from what you're saying, I think it's not what he meant. In interplanetary space there are just some thousands of atoms per square meter. Around the orbit of the earth it'd be more but still not enough to be able to create a significantly more vacuumed space than it is already.
Author John Grisham, in one of his books, noted 23 different physical constants that, if altered in either direction by as little as 3%, the universe as we know it would never have formed.
how can i find that jacket
When the guy said "Damn!" I knew he didn't know what any of that meant lol
The cells in my body gets exited whenever l listen to u brilliant ppl …
NDT I love how he buts everything into an equation, and then turns around and explains how he got his answer
yes the water or gravity is more dense it would constrict the expansion