Light Speed: From Minecraft to Reality

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  • Опубліковано 20 бер 2014
  • Science and videogames! Together!
    Minecraft can be a great tool for visualizing complicated subjects, such as the speed of light (aka "c"). Using a straight track and simple math, we can see how the universe might be limiting speeds for very fast things, such as light.
    The "doors" metaphor is admittedly, imperfect. While they do limit speed outside of "acceleration", they falsely imply that there is something "in space" that slows things down, which does not appear to be the case at the moment. The actual mechanisms that limit objects to light speed will be the topic for a future video. (Hint: It has to do with time!)
    Space Engine:
    en.spaceengine.org/
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  • @forbiddenmediafromiraq9905
    @forbiddenmediafromiraq9905 5 років тому +1312

    Imagine hacking so much that you will get disconnected from singleplayer world

  • @WomanSlayer69420
    @WomanSlayer69420 5 років тому +2587

    kicked from SINGLEPLAYER for hacking? wow. That's new.

    • @Exaspatial
      @Exaspatial 5 років тому +18

      LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

    • @koneeche
      @koneeche 5 років тому +92

      Old, rather! This was Minecraft back in 2014, over 5 years ago.

    • @lorekeeper685
      @lorekeeper685 5 років тому +6

      Noice

    • @poobman6
      @poobman6 5 років тому +7

      You can get kicked for spamming and you go to the server list (java only)

    • @bri5033
      @bri5033 5 років тому +66

      He wasn't kicked for hacking. In fact, he wasn't _kicked_ at all. He was _disconnected_ because he moved too quickly and Minecraft couldn't keep up. The hacking part was Minecraft saying he was probably hacking, because, well, how else would he go that fast? :°

  • @kimpretzel4485
    @kimpretzel4485 5 років тому +203

    I love how this guy explains science with Minecraft, like that's next level

  • @bobbywatson5697
    @bobbywatson5697 7 років тому +1397

    It must be VERY depressing to be a beam of light.

    • @kengibson4054
      @kengibson4054 7 років тому +21

      yes - the unbearable being-ness of light.

    • @Gordon_Freeman_PhD
      @Gordon_Freeman_PhD 6 років тому +87

      Well, there is one thing that he excluded from this demonstration. He already said that he compensated for the visual effects, but he also forgot about time dilation. The closer you are to the speed of light the less time you need to pass a certain distance and not just because you are faster. If you travelled very very very very very VERY close to the speed of light, 100 000 lightyears might seem like an inch and billions of years would pass for outsiders before a single second passed for you. Photons however don't expirience any time. The distance between the Earth and the edge of the observable universe would literally be 0, and an infinite amount of time would have to pass for us before they expirienced a single instant...

    • @ValentineC137
      @ValentineC137 6 років тому +33

      Actually, because of how relativity works, no time will ever pass for you since you'd be traveling at the speed of light. You wont ever see anything, you wont ever think anything, from the very instant something is traveling at the speed of light no time will ever pass for it

    • @quintoncraig9299
      @quintoncraig9299 6 років тому +6

      +Valentine
      Meaning that light speed is akin to teleportation in the sensation, or more accurately; the lack there of.

    • @TristanPopken
      @TristanPopken 6 років тому +3

      well no, ofcourse its doesnt live but if it was you traveling the speed of light it still isnt bad, since space and time are so related and the faster you go the slower time goes. since you go at maximum velocity you deserve no time and therefore you dont know you exist.

  • @igoral3035
    @igoral3035 6 років тому +2115

    3:34 when your girl is home alone

    • @gleber773
      @gleber773 5 років тому +25

      @The Eternal Induction wdym

    • @clab232
      @clab232 5 років тому +14

      @The Eternal Induction wdym

    • @51HeHe
      @51HeHe 5 років тому +6

      @@clab232 wdym

    • @mossevern1084
      @mossevern1084 5 років тому +7

      The Eternal Induction That’s what he said

    • @firkejdjneii28283
      @firkejdjneii28283 5 років тому +5

      @The Eternal Induction wdym

  • @bunnssgalore5407
    @bunnssgalore5407 5 років тому +897

    This video actually made me understand how fast light really is, no kidding

    • @poobman6
      @poobman6 5 років тому +6

      Me too

    • @kb-ww1uw
      @kb-ww1uw 5 років тому +6

      @@poobman6 that's what the video is supposed to do

    • @ShiroCh_ID
      @ShiroCh_ID 5 років тому +4

      @@kb-ww1uw so mineraft take the next level

    • @merucy9750
      @merucy9750 5 років тому +1

      Same

    • @sorrychangedmyusername3594
      @sorrychangedmyusername3594 5 років тому +3

      This is better than 90% of our school.

  • @MrSimpsondennis
    @MrSimpsondennis 9 років тому +482

    just did some math...
    'Steve' WALKS 15km/h...

    • @hannazakiy9861
      @hannazakiy9861 6 років тому +27

      and he did travel at the speed of light

    • @mariokart6309
      @mariokart6309 6 років тому +56

      only about 3x faster than average humans

    • @satibel
      @satibel 5 років тому +10

      the marathon WR is at a bit under 20 km/hour, so it seems *fine*

    • @elpollo7079
      @elpollo7079 5 років тому +3

      ThatEditingBaka what about doom guy?

    • @icecubeviking
      @icecubeviking 5 років тому +8

      But in minecraft a day is over much faster too.

  • @falcongamer58
    @falcongamer58 5 років тому +289

    Recommended after 4 years

  • @xisumavoid
    @xisumavoid 10 років тому +2256

    You have a talent for these interesting videos!

    • @TehMinijimbo
      @TehMinijimbo 10 років тому +18

      *****
      The top speed of light is C. As that is the speed of light in a Vaccum.
      The speed of light in Air is 0.9997C to 4dp. Water is lower still.
      So yeah C is the top speed of light.

    • @brysonleonard9857
      @brysonleonard9857 10 років тому +1

      ***** Einstein THEORY not a LAW....

    • @gambreaker17
      @gambreaker17 10 років тому +4

      Bryson Leonard Theory and law in science mean different things than they do in regular english

    • @NoahGleasonMusic
      @NoahGleasonMusic 10 років тому +9

      Bryson Leonard In science a theory is an explanation of occurrences. It is called a theory because it is accurate by all tests thus far, but can, at any time, be proven incorrect (if the evidence arises).

    • @ncghost12
      @ncghost12 10 років тому

      Mini Jimbo Yeah, nice explanation. If light moves through something then it goes slower that it's top speed. This means you can create photonic (not sonic) booms! Get an electron to move through a material faster than the light and you get yourself a diddy little light display.

  • @eisbaeraurora
    @eisbaeraurora 10 років тому +824

    That last thought was kinda depressing... Good thing photons aren't sentient.

    • @DodgeThatAttack
      @DodgeThatAttack 6 років тому +85

      How do you know? Have you ever been a photon?

    • @trollerjakthetrollinggod-e7761
      @trollerjakthetrollinggod-e7761 6 років тому +19

      MC Dimension Sentience is literally created by electrons.

    • @hecko-yes
      @hecko-yes 6 років тому +41

      MC Dimension Photons don't even experience time. Nothing travelling at the speed of light does.

    • @Unclevertitle
      @Unclevertitle 6 років тому +4

      I mean obviously not. Otherwise he'd have come to the opposite conclusion.

    • @TheOwlGilga
      @TheOwlGilga 6 років тому +8

      @Sobsz They do "experience" time, but only when they interact with matter.

  • @enriquewessels1561
    @enriquewessels1561 5 років тому +84

    Lightspeed is just the maximum speed you can go before the rendering can’t keep up

    • @xmangle5382
      @xmangle5382 5 років тому +5

      It's a better example, congra dude

    • @jamieozden
      @jamieozden 5 років тому +4

      because we're in a simulation?

    • @beresrobert4262
      @beresrobert4262 5 років тому +7

      @@jamieozden damn devs need to optimize the game engine

    • @barsozuguler4744
      @barsozuguler4744 4 роки тому +1

      Relativity law xd
      Time goes faster by gamer pc's
      And time slows by crappy slow pc's
      Lags are bending time

  • @Kaistr0
    @Kaistr0 5 років тому +149

    IS NO ONE THINKING ABOUT HOW A MINCRAFT WORLD IS LARGER THAN EARTH?

    • @gabox17da88
      @gabox17da88 5 років тому +3

      And?

    • @gabox17da88
      @gabox17da88 5 років тому +3

      @I have a talent in retardation. No, because the devs didnt create the world, they just created algorithms and let the game use them

    • @ObjectsInMotion
      @ObjectsInMotion 5 років тому +3

      It used to be even larger

    • @Green-pn7kq
      @Green-pn7kq 5 років тому +1

      Let's upload ourselves to minecraft if you're stressed just disconnect and like build a house out of square in creative

    • @WeAreBlank18
      @WeAreBlank18 4 роки тому +1

      ua-cam.com/video/nF54VfcEW-c/v-deo.html
      This explains it.

  • @Keralis
    @Keralis 10 років тому +785

    Love these, very interesting! Well done!

    • @DinoBoiRex
      @DinoBoiRex 6 років тому +7

      Oh! Its the Detail-Lover!

    • @mz7034
      @mz7034 6 років тому +5

      Keralis i

    • @crablover3106
      @crablover3106 6 років тому +1

      +10k Subscribers Without a single video? Normie

    • @josellanes2285
      @josellanes2285 6 років тому +6

      Keralis omg you were my childhood with your house tutorials and your yachts and you achacha trees 😂😂 you are the best

    • @lukersux
      @lukersux 5 років тому

      Jose Llanes haha mine too :D

  • @cstill
    @cstill 10 років тому +613

    You are like the Vsauce of Minecraft.

    • @fuuuuuuuguuuuuuu
      @fuuuuuuuguuuuuuu 10 років тому +17

      this is the best comment you can give. Here, have my like

    • @PedTheBedHead
      @PedTheBedHead 10 років тому +8

      screw it, have my like too

    • @ikhmal333
      @ikhmal333 10 років тому +7

      PedTheBedHead And mine.

    • @h4ypal
      @h4ypal 10 років тому +11

      Bacon Shah And my axe.

    • @insectlover602
      @insectlover602 10 років тому +3

      Hell, take my first world-save.

  • @Saidriak
    @Saidriak 5 років тому +240

    Except for the fact that when you move the speed of light you experience no time at all.

    • @_leonard
      @_leonard 5 років тому +10

      Trey Atkins Well yes but a scientific theory can’t be proven right. It will remain a theory till the end of time. The theory can only exist if it fits all other scientific observations and the general laws of nature. If it doesn’t fit a single one of these laws it counts as disproved.
      You can just confirm parts of the theory and that happens all the time with Einsteins theory.
      Also this certain theory ist way to complex to just „prove it to be right“ with one or two experiments or observations.

    • @tonytonychopper999
      @tonytonychopper999 5 років тому +13

      Heres a scenario. If you saw a clock and backed away from it at the speed of light, it would seem like nothing is moving because your faster than the speed it takes for the light to reach your eyes

    • @MrPokemon7777
      @MrPokemon7777 5 років тому

      yep and your length would be 0 and so is your mass

    • @MaksonGamingHD03
      @MaksonGamingHD03 5 років тому +9

      @@trickytreyperfected1482 gravity is also "just a theory"

    • @Lucas-po6mn
      @Lucas-po6mn 5 років тому +1

      @@tonytonychopper999 thats not what the theory is about but okay

  • @skii_two
    @skii_two 5 років тому +38

    Scientists: It’s impossible to travel the speed of light.
    Me : */tp @s x : 299 792 458 y : 299 792 458 z : 299 792 458*
    NOT CONVINCED YET? */movementspeed 299 792 458 m/s*
    * c a m m a n d b l o c c *

    • @kepler_22b83
      @kepler_22b83 5 років тому +1

      You're not traveling physically in a game... And teleportation is not actually travelling through space...

    • @nathan44u
      @nathan44u 5 років тому +1

      @@kepler_22b83 look up definition of travel

    • @kepler_22b83
      @kepler_22b83 5 років тому

      @@nathan44u And? ... Sorry if I used a word incorrectly, since I may mess up my way of speaking with 3 more languages.
      I got that this comment was a joke, but I had to reply :shrugg: Alexander

    • @nathan44u
      @nathan44u 5 років тому

      @@kepler_22b83 ok

    • @noobiii
      @noobiii 4 роки тому

      @@kepler_22b83 repeating always active command block with the command /tp [name]/@p ~1 ~ ~ (and for fun, add "facing ~0.1 ~ ~")

  • @Chrisandthemike
    @Chrisandthemike 10 років тому +803

    This video was very well done. Loved it!

  • @sl1pg8r
    @sl1pg8r 10 років тому +221

    Great vid dude! :)

    • @Robberu
      @Robberu 6 років тому +1

      Slip what are you doing here?

    • @Royaz
      @Royaz 6 років тому +1

      lol

    • @electrobot9871
      @electrobot9871 6 років тому +2

      Sl1pg8r - Daily Stuff and Things! Omg ist you :D

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      @asneecrabbier3900 6 років тому +2

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  • @commandercomrade8680
    @commandercomrade8680 5 років тому +19

    2019 UA-cam recommendations: *Hello we would like you to watch this video 5 years after it was released*

    • @Nova-ge4lp
      @Nova-ge4lp 4 роки тому

      YT be like for some reason right now

  • @markviz7842
    @markviz7842 5 років тому +37

    He could travel 8 times light speed in the Nether

    • @kepler_22b83
      @kepler_22b83 5 років тому +3

      Actually, he would have to mine all the obstacles before, or travel outside the bedrock box

    • @winnamon7587
      @winnamon7587 4 роки тому +1

      Kepler _22b no one ask you to ruin this please

    • @kepler_22b83
      @kepler_22b83 4 роки тому

      @@winnamon7587 lol

    • @curseofgladstone4981
      @curseofgladstone4981 4 роки тому

      Well the nether is contracted space. So in a way it would be like hyperspace in star wars.

    • @altar8010
      @altar8010 4 роки тому

      Lol he can travel around mc world in just 1/40 of a sec

  • @BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines
    @BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines 10 років тому +127

    Thankyou Professor Wack, that was extremely informative and fun to boot :-)

  • @Luis23TV
    @Luis23TV 10 років тому +75

    This was just badass, thank you!

  • @sleepywalker87
    @sleepywalker87 5 років тому +1

    Never thought Minecraft would help me understand physics. Really helpful.

  • @Trinexx42
    @Trinexx42 6 років тому +178

    I'm not sure I really like this video's portrayal of light speed travel. It just kind of says that you can't go faster than the speed of light, without touching any of the space/time distortion and it can lead to some conclusions that aren't really true.
    When I was a little kid, I was taught that "you can't go faster than the speed of light" and that was really it, and so I kind of just conceptualized it as a universal speed limit, where you just accelerate up to the speed limit but can't go over because the universe doesn't let you. And this thinking leads to the conclusion that if you have a distance, let's say 4.3 lightyears, the fastest you can travel that distance is in 4.3 years.
    This conclusion is technically correct and is useful in some contexts. If you are going to send a probe to Alpha Centauri, then no matter how fast you accelerate it, it will take a minimum of 4.3 years to get there. This is true. That timeloss is unavoidable. It is also true that if you wish to communicate with Alpha Centauri, it will take a minimum of 4.3 years between when you send a message and when they receive it, because from our stationary perspective, our probes and messages cannot travel faster than the speed of light.
    However, while the universal speed limit interpretation may be technically correct, it leads to some erroneous conclusions in other contexts. Suppose that instead of sending a probe, you are traveling in your space ship to Alpha Centauri. This type of thinking will logically lead you to the conclusion that it will take you a minimum of 4.3 years to get to Alpha Centauri. This is false. You can accelerate however fast you and and if you travel fast enough, you can arrive at Alpha Centauri in a blink of an eye (I don't know exactly how fast you would need to go as my graphing calculator's FPU doesn't have enough precision, but to get to Alpha Centauri in about 400ms you would need to travel at roughly 0.9999999999999999c give or take a nine or two)
    The reason that it's possible despite the "universal speed limit" is that what exactly a meter is and what exactly a second is changes when you move. Consider you as the traveler and your friend as the stationary observer. While regardless of your speed, you cannot travel more than 299792458 of your meters in a single one of your seconds. At the same time, your friend cannot see you travel more than 299792458 of his meters in a single one of his seconds. But there is no limit on how many of his meters you an travel in one of your seconds. As you travel faster and faster, from your perspective his meters get shorter, while from his perspective your seconds get longer.
    The standard measure of velocity which is observer distance over observer time or travel distance over traveler time I refer to as actual velocity, while the measure of observer distance over traveler time is called proper velocity. Usually the distinction isn't relevant so actual velocity is just referred to as velocity and proper velocity isn't brought up. Anyways, while your actual velocity can never exceed the speed of light and this is useful for things like probes, there is no limit on your proper velocity. Your proper velocity reaches the speed of light at c over root 2. So if you were to travel at approximately 0.707c, then it would actually take you about 4.3 years to reach Alpha Centauri. The depictions shown in the video more closely match traveling at 0.707c and that's (roughly) what it would look like.
    Now it is important to note that while from your perspective you would get there in 4.3 years, from everyone else's you would not. Your friend would see it take you just over 6 years.
    If by some magic you were to actually travel at the speed of light, you wouldn't see anything at all. This is because time would cease to have meaning. Time is no longer a thing that applies to you. Everything within the entire future of the universe would happen within a single instant. From now to the heat death and far far beyond. Instantly. You would be traveling infinitely fast from your perspective and infinitely far into the future, while from his perspective you would seem frozen in time.
    Anyways, I dunno. I don't actually really understand special relativity, I just don't like it when people treat it like it's a universal speed limit as it tends to give the wrong impression both about what can and cannot be done, and about what traveling at light speed would actually be like.

    • @xenobis7534
      @xenobis7534 6 років тому +14

      If his meters get shorter from your perspective and your seconds get longer from his perspective, doesn't that cancel each other out? Or do you mean his meters AND seconds get shorter and your seconds AND meters get longer?
      Please don't be rude if this question is dumb It's really hard for me to imagine this stuff.

    • @Trinexx42
      @Trinexx42 6 років тому +23

      It's not dumb at all. Special Relativity is really counter-intuitive and hard to really wrap your head around because it doesn't really make any sense but it's just kind of the way it is. I don't actually understand any of this and I'm pretty sure about half of what I said/am about to say is wrong.
      From your perspective, his meters get shorter and from his perspective, your seconds get longer. These two effects are what allow you to have a proper velocity faster than the speed of light.
      What's really weird is that while from your perspective, his meters are shorter, from his perspective, your meters are *also* shorter. Same with the seconds. From your perspective, his seconds are longer, while from his perspective, your seconds are *also* longer.
      The reason that this isn't inherently contradictory is that events don't necessarily have a strict chronological order. The only events with a strict order are those that are close to each other in space but far enough apart in time that one influences the other at or slower than the speed of light. Any events that are too far apart are not causally connected and depending on your reference frame, can happen in any order or at the same time.
      This is what allows you to age faster than him while at the same time he ages faster than you in a different reference frame. Your aging and his aging aren't causally connected and so it doesn't really matter. The only time it does matter is if one of you decides to change reference frames to go back to him. Usually this is done by turning around and accelerating back, but it can also be done by some complicated reference frame switching schemes involving more people. Anyways, if that happens, then when you two reach each other, you become causally connected again and that point, whoever switched reference frames objectively aged less.
      Something important to note is that the time dilation is *not* caused by the acceleration. Time dilation is an inherent feature of moving objects in our universe. The acceleration is merely the mechanism that allows your time and his time to "resync."
      I'm sorry if I'm not explaining this very well. This is really hard to understand and even harder to effectively communicate. I honestly don't really understand any of this and just kinda roll with it.
      Just for fun I'd like to leave you with a quote from Numberphile. I believe they were talking about distances inside higher dimensional cubes made from stacking higher dimensional spheres or something like that:
      Brady: How are you reconciling this in your head? Like how does it make sense to you?
      Matt: Ah, see there's a trick you can use in mathematics called "not worrying about it."

    • @xenobis7534
      @xenobis7534 6 років тому +6

      Thank you for explaining this to me. :)

    • @DeadpoolXI1
      @DeadpoolXI1 6 років тому +3

      Really bad idea to read this before going to sleep, i really like physics and i'm kind of obsessed with the Velocity, now i'm just thinking about it again, i have to go to some funny videos, maybe puppys... don't try at home...

    • @vincentproplayer
      @vincentproplayer 6 років тому +4

      you can't go faster than the speed of light: true, because it would take an infinite amount of energy to get there if your mass is > 0. is your mass in 0, then you basically move all the time at that speed and can't slow down.

  • @vandelayindustries2274
    @vandelayindustries2274 9 років тому +37

    You are amazing at this type of videos. I love the fact that you can make me so speechless... I'm blown away.

  • @ToryK13
    @ToryK13 10 років тому +12

    I really appreciate you for making this video. I found this very intriguing and educational. It kept my attention throughout the entire thing. I'm now going to watch more. Thank you very much, and fantastic job!

  • @daleerium5479
    @daleerium5479 9 років тому

    incredibly well done Spum! I have always been a fan of using something simple to relate something complicated, and I think you have done exactly that. I look forward to the rest of your minecraft science videos.

  • @nolanjshettle
    @nolanjshettle 5 років тому

    Dude. Awesome.
    I wasn't exactly sure what to expect coming to this video, but you exceeded it. You really put it into perspective in a really interesting way

  • @SnorboSockfish
    @SnorboSockfish 10 років тому +28

    I have no idea what you were saying half the time but I subbed anyway

  • @100donuts
    @100donuts 10 років тому +22

    Minecrft and science. A nerds best dream! ;P great vid!

  • @saljavin3287
    @saljavin3287 5 років тому

    Very intriguing and I'm loving how you used the space engine for visual stimulus it added to the immersion of this video greatly! Seriously amazing video just subscribed to you :)

  • @Andrey_27249
    @Andrey_27249 5 років тому +2

    this dude did a better job at explaining light speed than a lot of science youtubers

  • @xYottabyte
    @xYottabyte 5 років тому +44

    "This is light speed, despite the fact that nothing on the scree-"
    *Video Buffers*

  • @PsychoSoldier01
    @PsychoSoldier01 10 років тому +10

    Spumwack, if you're trying to insinuate that you want to make these videos a semi-regular thing, then please, for the love of God do it.

  • @ezanchi5422
    @ezanchi5422 6 років тому +2

    This was incredibly eye-opening, super well crafted (pun intended) and definitely something i want more of!

  • @DS-oq5mz
    @DS-oq5mz 6 років тому

    This is so awesome! Explaining such complex things in minecraft makes everyone understand it! Well done, i subscribed!

  • @mlgproplayer2915
    @mlgproplayer2915 5 років тому +4

    Cool video.
    I love how UA-cam choose some random mornings at 5am to recommend me this kind of old videos.

  • @FTJlegit
    @FTJlegit 10 років тому +6

    so enlightening, im loving these vsauce Esq videos keep it up

  • @big_cheesin03
    @big_cheesin03 6 років тому

    Music, Perfect
    Narration, perfect
    Science, Trustworthy
    Video, One of the best
    This was really well done. Nice job.

  • @ArcticArca
    @ArcticArca 5 років тому +88

    *used mod that allows you you move the speed of light*
    Me: Can’t you use a mod to increase the world border? Or do /worldborder (maybe /setworldborder)

    • @johntelekom9712
      @johntelekom9712 5 років тому +5

      Isnt the limit something like 326 billion?
      Or am i wrong? Maybe its because them Video is 5years old

    • @ArcticArca
      @ArcticArca 5 років тому

      Nemisis _HD I used cubic chunks to increase the height limits, but idk of it does for the worldborder

    • @courier3567
      @courier3567 5 років тому +1

      After this limit minecraft really breaks down it's not supposed to work after the set worldborder so it doesn't

    • @tylerjames4863
      @tylerjames4863 5 років тому

      Why kill ur computer traveling 5 Minecraft worlds when you can scale it down to one world and get the same results lol ur just doing too much work fam he did it perfectly

    • @ilmcamam
      @ilmcamam 4 роки тому

      The modern concept of the worldborder (the semi-imposed single wall of collision with the diagonal blue lines) was added in one of the 1.8 snapshots (14w18 off the top of my head, likely wrong). This was done in 1.7.5 when the worldborder really was just an invisible wall where stuff sort of stopped. Sancarn has a video titled "The Geometry of the Minecraft 1.7.4 World" (v=cWGA0HRi6vg) which breaks down some of the complexities of the world beyond the border, but unless you go really, really high up, the border is set in place and non-negotiable.
      As for mods, I'm unaware of any that could have increased the world size at the time. Cubic chunks goes back a long way, but as far as I know Robinton's original only affected world height. I believe Antvenom did cover a mod that added populated terrain generation past the border more recently though.

  • @mordicai9867
    @mordicai9867 5 років тому +3

    Honestly, I never thought I'd see another minecraft video in my life, but I'm a sucker for astronomy so you got me

  • @TheMix7000
    @TheMix7000 10 років тому +7

    Good old Muse, this made me understand light speed easily. Thanks Sean

  • @MakszemMarton
    @MakszemMarton 6 років тому

    one of the most excellent videos out on youtube. Respect!

  • @voqzi5296
    @voqzi5296 5 років тому

    What a great way to make Minecraft interesting! Well done! Subbed for that

  • @shortforchange
    @shortforchange 10 років тому +47

    im liking these mincraft science videos! keep up this epic work, you'll be hitting 1Mill in no time! :)

  • @DrBagPhD
    @DrBagPhD 9 років тому +4

    You have a wonderful voice!
    Thanks for sharing. This video was fantastic.

  • @AdamHolland-Adz
    @AdamHolland-Adz 2 роки тому

    I remembered watching this years ago and came back to rewatch. Very well made, good job.

  • @jeanpanachay
    @jeanpanachay 7 років тому +2

    I'd never imagine i would learn something like this from a minecraft video

  • @coolingheat5644
    @coolingheat5644 5 років тому +3

    3:34 when it's the last day of school and the bell just dismissed you

  • @SuperSimspons
    @SuperSimspons 10 років тому +5

    This. Was. Perfect.

  • @V1rusFPS
    @V1rusFPS 5 років тому

    Being a higher mathematics and physics student in uni, and having loved minecraft through my middle and high school years, this video is awesome. Especially considering the group of players that this game is popular with currently, you my man, are doing a great thing. Keep producing content like this. I genuinely clicked this video expecting something cringy, but got quite the opposite. Keep it up

  • @Skyflip
    @Skyflip 9 років тому

    Well done video, Really Enjoy these ones, Keep it up C:

  • @peterpanther8627
    @peterpanther8627 5 років тому +3

    So the speed of light is actually the refresh rate of the universe.
    Thanks, subbed.

  • @Freepdied
    @Freepdied 10 років тому +45

    Great stuff, very interesting :) You are clearly one clever fellow.

    • @drunkonsuccess779
      @drunkonsuccess779 6 років тому

      Eyyy sup dude this is the last place i expected to see you XD

  • @jellyman509
    @jellyman509 5 років тому +2

    That was one of the most genius ways I have ever seen light speed explained.

  • @kengibson4054
    @kengibson4054 7 років тому

    what a great way to explain something fundamental, fun and mental - good work Sir!

  • @JeffreyBoser
    @JeffreyBoser 10 років тому +32

    Problem with the end there. We can see other galaxies with the naked eye from earth. There is no reason this would not be the case from a point of view outside our own galaxy. While the milky way would be gone, we'd still see more than blackness.

    • @papatooth1
      @papatooth1 10 років тому +3

      good, i was wondering the same thing. i guess there could be places in the universe that are totally black but in our local group we should still be able to see something.

    • @TheSpidiBiStudios
      @TheSpidiBiStudios 10 років тому +9

      You're mostly right. But don't forget you're travelling away from our galaxy at light speed, so everything "new" behind you wouldn't be visible, as their "light" never manages to reach you. Methinks.

    • @iexusuxei
      @iexusuxei 10 років тому

      TheSpidiBiStudios Except our galaxy isn't on the edge of the universe, there would be galaxies you are travelling towards which you would be able to see fine (until you passed them by..).

    • @erberor8007
      @erberor8007 10 років тому +2

      except the speed of light is WIERD. When moving at light speed away from something, time gets really wierd, as in, REALLY wierd. Space warps as your perception of time tries to keep up with you.

    • @JeffreyBoser
      @JeffreyBoser 10 років тому +4

      The whole 'what you would see while traveling at light speed' thing is weird to begin with. Stop taking this in dumb circles. My only point was that simply leaving the galaxy doesn't mean you would only see blackness around you. The sky is full of billions of galaxies even on earth, even within the atmosphere, you'd still see those no matter where you were in the observable universe.

  • @silvergg8152
    @silvergg8152 5 років тому +6

    3:34 OR WAS IT TOO FAST TO DETECT? MAYBE I SHOULD ADD IN A BEEP OR A BOOP OR ANOTHER WACKY SOUND EFFECT.
    (like if you get the reference)

  • @rebmcswaggerwagen7861
    @rebmcswaggerwagen7861 9 років тому

    Love the videos edited beautifully and explained so well I wish they were as long as a nat geo special...think you can do one on how time is affected by light speed? That is the hardest concept for me to understand

  • @junjett6358
    @junjett6358 8 років тому

    Great new series of vids. Got my sub!

  • @DragonsREpic
    @DragonsREpic 9 років тому +3

    WOW THIS IS DEEP SHIT EVEN FOR ME, Fantastic video!

  • @samuelvancik3762
    @samuelvancik3762 5 років тому +3

    Now you're speaking my language! I understand physics!

  • @kortniechanGaming
    @kortniechanGaming 8 років тому

    explaining science through minecraft. What an awesome idea. great vid

  • @seancooper8168
    @seancooper8168 8 років тому

    this is the first vid ive seen by spumwack ( i came from mumbo jumbo's hermitcraft ep 34) and you sir, have gained a subscriber!

  • @ItsThatMilkshake
    @ItsThatMilkshake 10 років тому +5

    The photon, (or reference of 'thing' travelling at velocity c) experiences no time, or displacement. As v approaches c, time and length approach 0.
    At c, you experience no displacement, and no time. Travel is instantaneous from the c frame of reference.
    So the intro and travel from point a to b is misleading
    The part where you use the 2nd observer's frame of reference (viewing the v=c object) is correct.

    • @leewardstyle
      @leewardstyle 10 років тому

      Well to show C from the perspective of a photon would be pretty boring, no? Over before it began. Time-like curves be damned.

  • @TheFlashzChannel
    @TheFlashzChannel 8 років тому +6

    can you do sound speed? (speed of sound)

    • @ichbinein123
      @ichbinein123 8 років тому +10

      The speed of sound is really boring. It is just a 'wave' of energy, propagating through a medium, which speed differs in different materials (Air: 343 m/s, Water: 1500 m/s, Steel: 6100 m/s etc.)
      Where it gets interesting is the actual physics of the wave, and how they interfere with each other, but that doesn't fit a short video like this unfortunately.

    • @TheEyez187
      @TheEyez187 5 років тому

      Interestingly, sound moves through Diamond at 27,000mph or 12,000m/s.
      If you had diamond ear canals, you would hear things sooner, technically, but it would be immeasurable, given the lengths of your ear canals!

  • @TheGargalon
    @TheGargalon 9 років тому +2

    I love how optimistic your videos end :D

  • @oscargland7214
    @oscargland7214 5 років тому

    I keep coming back to this video. I love it

  • @Mumr4real
    @Mumr4real 5 років тому +6

    NASA: write that down WRITE THAT DOWN !

    • @knyt0
      @knyt0 5 років тому

      Why would they?

    • @General_C
      @General_C 5 років тому

      @@knyt0 i dunno... Its light speed travel?

    • @knyt0
      @knyt0 5 років тому

      @@General_C I said that because they already know about light speed

  • @fireant202
    @fireant202 10 років тому +4

    They should use this on Cosmos! so good.

    • @Ethan_Brant
      @Ethan_Brant 10 років тому +1

      Idk... maybe not as good as Cosmos. But it is an amazing video.

    • @insectlover602
      @insectlover602 10 років тому

      Cosmos: A Voidtime Blockstacy

    • @insectlover602
      @insectlover602 9 років тому

      ***** Wat?

  • @TitanGamingZ
    @TitanGamingZ 5 років тому

    Awesome content man! Very thought inspiring :)

  • @Trance_
    @Trance_ 6 років тому

    I've never heard of that door analogy, but wow did that me understand what you were talking about. Nice.

  • @SapphireCrook
    @SapphireCrook 10 років тому +5

    That's new. So the speed of light is just the highest speed a piece of [mechanical] information can travel?
    Just like how falling gravel sends a pulse of information, slowly updating and causing nearby gravel to fall? And never can this collapse travel faster than the universal 'speed limit' of Minecraft, it's update rate.
    That said, you can mod speed-limits or use redstone (which is technically cheating, unless we allow quantum entangles pairs/particles to be involved).

  • @jonathanbojorquez8395
    @jonathanbojorquez8395 5 років тому +3

    2014 wow it's been so long now minecraft is literally infinite procedurally generated world everytime you walk forward

  • @antilopesalga4342
    @antilopesalga4342 5 років тому

    Awesome video my man :D

  • @ninuju375
    @ninuju375 5 років тому

    Really cool video, nice job

  • @juicymullet4468
    @juicymullet4468 9 років тому +85

    We'll do it some day. It may not be for 100s of years, but we'll travel the speed of light one day. I bet we'll warp too. It's always impossible to think of now, but if you were to tell someone 15o years ago that we could fly, they would have called you insane. We can fly, breathe underwater, talk instantly around the world, and even go to the freaking moon. Give mankind time and a dream, and we can make just about anything happen.

    • @jojojorisjhjosef
      @jojojorisjhjosef 9 років тому +35

      Harrison DuRant But with the speed of light it is a little different, you LITERALLY need and infinite amount of energy to move even a gram of matter at the speed of light. We however would be able to cheat the speed of light by/with gravity warping/wells.

    • @sinethw3007
      @sinethw3007 8 років тому +15

      +Harrison DuRant The dream of flying is realistic, as we can observe it being acheive (by birds, etc). We have never observed anything with more than 0 rest mass travelling at the speed of light. If ever comes a day we can travel at the speed of life, we would be also able to change the universal laws of physics.

    • @juicymullet4468
      @juicymullet4468 8 років тому +16

      Sineth Waters Your statement is kind of confusing. You're saying we saw birds fly and fish breathe underwater, so that gives us the right to do those things, but because we can see light travel at it's natural speed, we can't ever achieve that? Seems like splitting hairs to me. We never saw humans breathe underwater. We certainly never witnessed anything go to the moon or talk around the world instantly. Why should lightspeed be any different?
      Your statement goes with what I originally said about "150 years ago". If you would have told someone 150 years ago that we would do the things that we're doing today, they would have locked you in a mental institution. You just can't comprehend what you don't think is possible now because, well, it isn't possible now. It takes time, and small inventions here and there that come together in a few really smart minds to make something great.
      I won't even begin to argue that lightspeed is a crazy dream right now, and it seems to be forever away. I just think that mankind will find a way one day.

    • @jojojorisjhjosef
      @jojojorisjhjosef 8 років тому

      Harrison DuRant Wow, what an overreaction. He just meant that if we see other beings do the stuff we can't, that that might motivate us to active what those beings can do.

    • @juicymullet4468
      @juicymullet4468 8 років тому +2

      jojojorisjhjosef How was me explaining stuff an overreaction?
      That's not what he meant at all.

  • @MisakaMikotoLuv
    @MisakaMikotoLuv 5 років тому +18

    The speed of light limit is there because the computer running our simulation doesn't have enough CPU to run at a higher clock speed

    • @HughMcGough
      @HughMcGough 5 років тому

      Intel must be making their cpu's too then.

    • @Exaspatial
      @Exaspatial 5 років тому +1

      ha....I get it.....lol.

  • @boxassisin2754
    @boxassisin2754 5 років тому +1

    you rly like this to make!! i love it :D

  • @siweidu2048
    @siweidu2048 6 років тому

    Bro u took science to another level 😂. Great work!

  • @ssbmars2
    @ssbmars2 10 років тому +3

    Spum's voice is always deeper when he talks about space.

  • @deprilula28
    @deprilula28 8 років тому +3

    "So you will end up with a pretty spectacular view... of nothing. Until the end of time."

  • @bryceacusmaximus
    @bryceacusmaximus 6 років тому

    This was very deep dude.. Nice Job!!!

  • @violetrose4660
    @violetrose4660 5 років тому

    I really like how you used Minecraft to explain this. Nice video!

  • @asgardiansummoner23
    @asgardiansummoner23 5 років тому +3

    You could mention that you used space engine to achieve that space graphic.

  • @gipro1
    @gipro1 10 років тому +3

    That universal doors thing is hard to get a hold on. My understanding is that time will slow down for the vessel approaching the speed of light so that it doesn't actually reach it, and it slows down even more for what's inside the vessel. I wonder if we'd rip through the universe or something if we broke that boundary.

    • @CypherSean
      @CypherSean 10 років тому

      Yes that does happen, in a way, take a look into time dilation. But it isn't the reason why something with mass can't reach the speed of light. Something with mass gets more massive(heavy) as it approachs the speed of light. So a spaceship would get heavier and heavier and require more and more energy to get to the speed of light. To be able to push or pull an object to the speed of light, would require infinite energy. This video tries to explain why a photon travels at the set speed of c.

    • @firemagicmaster8289
      @firemagicmaster8289 10 років тому

      Cypher at school i learn you can't change object mass if it is changed then that is another object but you can change speed a spaceship require more fuel(energy) but that from speed like this cinetic energy theory Ec=mxvxv(that mean v at 2)everthing :2(i can't write the formule excalty to understnad here becuase i can't write that things)

    • @CypherSean
      @CypherSean 10 років тому

      firemagicmaster Well I think you are meaning Ek= 1/2*M*V^2 This is the Newtonian formula for kinetic energy. This works well for objects moving at lower speeds just fine because the mass increase is minuscule on the order of micro-grams or less. What we need to look at is E = M*C^2. Einsteins equation which shows how energy = mass. Increase in energy = increase of mass. The previous equation you are referring also shows how energy and velocity correlate.

    • @CypherSean
      @CypherSean 10 років тому +1

      Yup and require infinite energy.

    • @gipro1
      @gipro1 10 років тому

      Cypher If we could separate our selves from the Higgs Field(some how) we could go well beyond light speed. Right?

  • @idiot4241
    @idiot4241 6 років тому

    this is my new favorite channel

  • @giga2406
    @giga2406 4 роки тому +2

    Therapist: naked Steve isn't real, he can't hurt you.
    Naked Steve: 0:57

  • @wybel
    @wybel 5 років тому +10

    So if there were no doors, light would move at an infinite speed?

    • @ChimaeraPwns
      @ChimaeraPwns 5 років тому

      everythingvwould and would not then.

    • @stephendevita2397
      @stephendevita2397 5 років тому +2

      Kind of, the acceleration would be infinite. The door analogy is a bit flawed, as it implies you can "catch up" to the door and then stop. In reality, time slows down for you so you reach the "door" at under light speed. It's really difficult to understand, but light would accelerate indefinitely.
      Light didn't move at max speed when the universe was created, for instance. It accelerated to 299792458 m/s and then kept that speed. If you removed the barrier, it would be moving really fast but not infinitely fast. Light just reaches that limit nearly instantly, which is why we don't notice.

    • @wybel
      @wybel 5 років тому +1

      @@stephendevita2397 ye

    • @NotWizardRealms
      @NotWizardRealms 5 років тому

      Lemme remove the doors from my Lamborghini real quick

  • @CadetGriffin
    @CadetGriffin 8 років тому +12

    Why would you do your fast launch machine on a server instead of your own personal world?

    • @niekname88
      @niekname88 7 років тому

      Jacob Griffin because a personal world needs to be runned.

    • @CadetGriffin
      @CadetGriffin 7 років тому +1

      I mean on a single player world.

    • @oreole9608
      @oreole9608 7 років тому

      Singleplayer worlds have servers ik its weird

  • @runnerlizardreoladed2284
    @runnerlizardreoladed2284 5 років тому

    Beautifuly done, thank you for this

  • @datcamel4210
    @datcamel4210 9 років тому

    I've never seen minecraft so complicated, nice work!

  • @matthewmea3566
    @matthewmea3566 5 років тому +3

    Light speed is how fast i get kicked out of minecraft servers

  • @robburgundy9539
    @robburgundy9539 5 років тому +6

    Till the end of time- but we must remember that a proton moving at the speed of light does not experience what we call time.

  • @carlonnrivers
    @carlonnrivers 6 років тому

    This was so fascinating!

  • @lucasmakelaar9630
    @lucasmakelaar9630 8 років тому

    you explained it very good! great job!

  • @corua1063
    @corua1063 5 років тому +9

    UA-cam:
    2016: not quite
    2017: maybe?
    2018: um??
    2019: yeah now i thonk
    Recommendations: AM I A JOKE TO YOU?

  • @thetimelords911
    @thetimelords911 7 років тому +20

    Actually, we would see galaxies outside our own. We are right now.

    • @LuckyTechy
      @LuckyTechy 5 років тому

      I was confused by that last bit claiming we would see 'nothing' for an eternity. Can't you almost see Andromeda with the naked eye?

    • @khenricx
      @khenricx 5 років тому

      LuckyTechy Yeah, you would probably see a few faint smudges here and there. but nothing more.

    • @jamieozden
      @jamieozden 5 років тому

      @@LuckyTechy The Andromeda galaxy is actually heading straight for us at around 194m/s and will clash with our galaxy in around 1 billion years :D can't wait

  • @justsometimber1nthelake873
    @justsometimber1nthelake873 6 років тому +1

    beautifully made!

  • @Jozaru
    @Jozaru 6 років тому

    This is very nice. You make the videos very interesting.