The Big Bang Dilemma with Neil deGrasse Tyson
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Are we rethinking the Big Bang? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice explore features of the James Webb Space Telescope, magnetism and how the aurora borealis works, and if the Big Bang is being debunked.
Learn how the JWST is more than just its pictures. What bands of the electromagnetic spectrum can the it see in? Find out about William Herschel and his discovery of infrared light. How does the JWST avoid detecting itself? Learn about features to keep the JWST cool and infrared-free.
Will Earth’s poles flip? We discuss Earth’s precession (wobble), bob, and flip. Learn about the magnetic poles. Does your compass actually point to the magnetic north pole? Are the north pole and the magnetic north pole the same thing? Why do we even have a magnetic field? Discover Earth’s molten core, creating a dynamo, and why dead planets like Mars don’t have one. How often do Earth’s magnetic poles flip? Find out what magnets and aurora borealis have to do with each other. Will something bad happen if the poles do flip?
We explore the frontier of scientific research and what ideas are being contested. We walk through the scientific process and experimentations. What are the core tenets of the Big Bang Theory? Could the Big Bang just be a small piece of a bigger theory? Learn about Vulcan, the hypothetical planet pulling on Mercury that was invented to save Newton’s Laws. When Einstein’s relativity came along, why didn’t Newtonian physics go away? All that and more on another episode of StarTalk!
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Could the Big Bang just be a small piece of a bigger theory?
Holey Eternal Omnipresent Greetingz cuzinz 🌠🔥✋️😎
Big Bang to us…Pew Pew to the others
@BuddhaJunkee Preyz Gord cuzinz
I rarely ask the AI anything! A couple of months ago I asked AI "can scientists prove" that the big bang didn't happen just once! But a million times, a billion times, endless times! The AI answered me that it was an interesting question and gave extensive scientific data and finally concluded that we cannot know! What do you think? ☺️
pinned 3 hrs ago but posted 13 min ago. some time dilation goin on here
When I'm feeling depressed, watching a Star Talk episode with Neil and Chuck makes me feel much better. Thank you!
weed can also do that
@@goodwillhumping7331I’m doing both
That is right! These guys really put in the effort, episode by episode.
I wholeheartedly agree with your sentiment, and I often express the same viewpoint to my friends here in India. He excels as a scientist, speaker, and educator
Thats why im here too!
You can’t imagine how much education I got from you sir.
Please don’t lose sight of your main mission of educating the public, not the scientists.
Continue to simplify so that the like of me digest the hard scientific facts.
Thanks a million
I don't think he reads these comments. 😂 😂 😂
@@massey4business I don't think he reads.
Oh i watched a podcast where he states that he does read them
I can translate the universe with math in a way a child can understand.
if you are interested.
You can always come and find me. The internet is like that.
"Let me tell you something Casendra, your hypothesis!? Your hypothesis is trash..TRASH!!" 😂😂
“I went searching for the Universe and all I found was me”. Love these guys and the Startalk team!
I went searching for an observable fact to contradict my idea to unify gravity. and I found the gravitational constant, the fine structural constant and the speed of light with pi.
@@atticuswalker Try taking the velocity of the universe to the power of ten to the second and pull the galaxies within to factor the friction that causes the spin to mass from the forward motion which creates gravity to the that mass.
@@rafaelgonzalez4175 hm. I'mma look this up
@@rafaelgonzalez4175 This is inaccurate.
@@Masterfuron If you can understand this, it has to be correct.
Chuck killed me at "You gon pay what you owe, Santa!" I gotta go watch that again now 😂
The third best thing about these youtube videos, apart from Dr.Tyson and Lord Nice is that the breaks are just a few seconds for us. Let the knowledge flow
That Chuck is a brilliant comedian sometimes hides how brilliant and profound his intellect is. "You still see the hubris of human existence...". Oh, boy. That's the take-home sentence of the episode - without disrespect to dr Tyson, of course! His Herschel tale about thermometers was superb. Thank you a lot, great people.
I think the best comedians are the ones who will tell you about all these weird little things that not everyone knows about but are still culturally relevant. Especially if they only reveal them one at a time so that it takes a while to realize how much stuff they actually know about.
That basic sentence was enough to impress? 👀
Good comedians of necessity require a certain kind of intelligence.
Chuck’s Boondocks reference… *chef’s kiss* @24:56
I love how Chuck just accepts that every day is a learning day...no matter how much he's learned Neil is gonna blow his mind on something or everything
I can only imagine the things that will be discovered in the next 1000 years. What's nearly impossible for us will be quite simple for those humans. Great episode also 👍. History will remember your work
Or humans might be extinct.
jesus™ told me that in the next 1,000 years there will be wars, earthquakes and volcanoes.
And maybe an asteroid.
"You can only imagine the next 1000 years of inventions? Mwahahaha puny Earthling, I can imagine 100,000 years worth of inventions in my sleep!"
- Napoleon Dynamite
@@beamboy14526 I seriously doubt it will take 1000 years for we humans to bring about our extinction.
What will be discovered in a millennia, is the ashes of this civilization.
Chuck was awesome with his humour on this episode... syncing beautifully with NDT's science.
Tell me about it ..ptsss 🙄 18:07
He is smarter than he acts! Love you, Chuck! Thanks, Neil, for keeping him on board.
They are a great pairing.
Just to be clear for anyone wondering. North and south polarity are naming conventions.
Historical South magnetic pole = north polarity
Historical north magnetic pole = south polarity
However, if you have a compass needle that points to the Historical North Magnetic Pole ( which is the South Polarity Pole ) you could arbitrarily say that the needle is of south polarity and thus it is pointing to a north polarity pole, therefore the Historical North Magnetic Pole becomes of North Magnetic Polarity. All these are arbitrary naming conventions.
Thank you! I was going to comment but found your reply and it's spot on. North is just a term to indicate direction with nothing to do with polarity. The compass is a tool. If the magnetic pole flipped tomorrow we would just start painting the other end of the needle. North would remain in its traditional location.
Thanks was banging my head against this one thinking I was just missing something 😂
It's actually incorrect to say a compass points north. It points *both* north *and* south. So when the magnetic poles flip, the compass will still be pointing north and south. This is why the N/W/E/S directions are not printed on the spinning bar but the perimeter of the compass body. As it wouldn't matter which direction the polarity is, as long as the bar faces both magnetic north and magnetic south the cardinal directions are still maintained
I am still confused. "Historical" north? Does that mean the "official" definition is changed every few years to keep us on our toes? "Nope, 'down' is 'up' now. You must still be thinking in 20th century terms."
Chuck screaming into the mic is something I'll never get used to
Our world needs many more Neils, I love everything about this man.
The world would be much better with out him
@@mr.mclibtard5015*me I’m sure you meant. People like you need to be gone.
Always stoked for another StarTalk. Neil is so good at communicating and explaining these topics. And having two people with comedic tendencies makes it a pleasure to watch.
Ehhhh
He’ll yea
What I love about the frontier of knowledge is, we have questions. Once that question is answered after we developed instruments to find out the answer, another question pops out of that answer.
Right? More like ten questions
Have heard it described as a balloon. What we know is inside. What we don't know is outside. The questions we have are the membrane. The more we know leads to more questions to ask, which makes us realize how much more we don't yet know.
For me, if follows with the theory that if you’re ever the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room. Any time you tell yourself you’ve found the final answer, you’re asking the wrong questions.
Dr tyson and chuck you make my day
when im down thank you❤❤❤
I think part of the reason I love startalk so much is Neil is super casual, and saying whatever he wants because it is his show.
If you muted Chuck, and just had the Neil audio it would basically sound exactly like some of the ridiculously long voicemails I used to randomly leave friends when super drunk as an astronomy undergrad
I cannot express enough how much I appreciate Chuck's humour, especially since I've watched 3 episodes of Desperate Housewives of any given city, it still makes me laugh! I love you Professor, but I prefer the Hilarious house of Frightenstein collab (w/o makeup, costume and camera operators etc.
I've missed you guys together!
Dear Startalk, love your show please do keep up, way more worthy than another 100th "reality" shows and it cold be a long list of those. A couple of thoughts from me though, The Big bang Theory TV series I believe brought people closer to science that is after all not that boring but instead can be very exciting. Question here, I know I'm not an exclusive member just yet (though considering), regarding the Big Bang that was confirmed and widely accepted, in the process, has it been "investigated" what caused it in the first place? If you could tell in percentage points at what percentage scientists "focus" on answering the how and the why, such as 50-50? The reason I'm asking is that I've worked in improving in many different fields and surely the first step to understand the how, but my favourite is still the 5 Why, to find any root cause for any plausible cause. Shall we focus on the why the big bang happened? What chemical or other actions-reactions resulted to we all be here today? Being an Atheist myself this could probably clear the GOD question as well for many people. Thanks and Peace
You realize no one knows that right? What caused the Big Bang (if there was such a thing) implies a cause, a trigger, a before. Imagine waking up in a car not knowing where you are, going 100 down the highway, and from looking out the window for one minute, you are asked where you "started" your trip a month ago. You don't know what country you're in, what a car is and why you are in the back seat with no driver. Some say God is driving, others insist it's Mohammed or Yahway or Bob. This is why I'm an Atheist, nature is too amazing to make up stories. No one knows what happened and there is no reason to think we should know.
@@BariumCobaltNitrog3n Well said.
@@WestEnd_Nightmares818 Thank you.
Wow thanks for the holiday epsiode. Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Stay looking up.
Amazing results from a seemingly simple experiment, I love that story
Is this a re upload? I swear I heard the same thing already.
@@FacesintheStonewhat did your search results come up with?
@@illogikit's a few different videos glued together.
@@Max_Jacoby Yeah I realized that after watching it
NDGT told the story of the discovery of infrared in the 2014 Cosmos mini series. I guess Chuck Nice missed that episode 🤣
They have both the NDGT Cosmos seasons for free on Tubi, but not the original Carl Sagan mini series. Only thing is they mixed up the episode names and the order they aired. The infrared story is 18 minutes into the episode Tubi calls season 2 ep 4 A Sky Full of Ghosts, which is actually ep 5 Hiding in the Light.
I LOVE how your English (both of you) is very clear even to non-native English speakers!
I agree
I love listening to Neil De Grasse Tyson. This man in beyond genius. I'm glad that he takes time out of his schedule to educate those with little or no understanding of what's is science.
Guys, you are so GREAT, it always makes my day and puts a smile on my face 👏👍😃
That infrared story is fantastic and fascinating !!!
Neil and Chuck for 2024
Watching and listening to these two boosts my mood- no wonder what time of the day it is and the kind of depression I am in. Love them to bits!
Chuck referencing Riley Freeman from The Boondocks trying to hustle Santa immediately made me a fan
Thank you so much to communicate and explain the scientific method! There are so many, even highly educated people, who don't know this and think that at any time a new discovery might turn everything we know so far upside down (I personally use the "earth goes around the sun and there's no way back since we discovered it" example, too). This only happens in nutrition science and possibly economics, lol.
I was scrolling through the comments and though your profile picture was an eyelash on my screen. It took my forever to figure out it wasn't there
Two astrophysicists enter. Only one will leave victorious.
Though, they fight in a tesseract, not an octagon.
They break kline bottles on each other's heads
Awesome, I love how u guys broaden our horizon (so fundamental)
As the perimeter of my ignorance grows, so does the area of my knowledge.
@26'07'xChuck 's face was the same as mine!!!!😂😂😂😂
Finally. 10mins in I finally understand Newtonian gravity against Einstein’s special theory of relativity. Thank you! 🙏 Neil has such a great gift to explain things in a clear and concise, and friendly way
Neil Degresse is brilliant mind, amazing human being and I agree with him in most theory ..98% 🙏
Do you believe little children should change their genders because they heard you could do this at school
@@Donationsfordelivery No, of course I don't believe it, it's actually a serious crime against children and anyone who does it should be held accountable in court! Don't tell me that he proposed that, he represents, they agree with that? I don't follow him regularly, but if I sometimes hear his opinion about the universe, physics, etc., he's nice to me and he explains it from the heart! But if he supports that small children can change gender, it is unacceptable! It's like tattooing a five-year-old child all over his body because he's "cool".
@@DonationsfordeliveryIs that all you argue about? Argue something *important*
@@NewYork-hi6zdNo, he never said anything like that.
@@MagicToenail I'm glad to hear that 🤗
I love the way Neil answered my questions as I think of them.
That's a sign of a good teacher.
Great content as usually, HOWEVER (I want you to hear the Neal way of saying and moving his hands at the same time ) If you can show that the way the measurement was done was flawed in some way, then naturally to data gathered from those experiments are more or less flawed, thus it is possible to change "existing physics". HOWEVER, for the most parts many of the measurements done are quite robust :D
you missed the point that "experimentally verified science" doesnt get undone or thrown out when new ideas come along. If the experiment was found to be flawed in some way then it would be not have been "experimentally verified science".
You are correct sir! Didnt think it that way.
I was more just pointing out untill the flaw was found it was declared as such -> it makes objective truths. And when the experimental verified science turns out flawed more or less of the objective truths can/will change. The way NTD implied here was that what we allready established objective truths cannot be undone.
But one last point. English isnt my first language so I might have understood that part incorrectly.
Nice’s comment about how the light was “unfit” for us was brilliant. It definitely reflects our hubris.
Dr Tyson, but isn’t violet hotter than red (higher frequency/energy/temperature)? Why did Herschel’s experiment find the temperature rising from blue to red rather than the other way around? What am I getting wrong?
Update: found the answer… tricky! 😊
“The prism refracts light in such a way that the "blue" part is more spread than "red" part. So that overall the energy hitting the thermometer is greater in the infrared and red part than on the blue part of the spectrum.”
_"I went searching for the universe and all I found was me._ " Funny and profound!
I keep coming back to the question of the plausibility of the big bang being the result of the formation of a black hole...
At the moment of the collapse, a big bang event occurs specifically within the black hole.
But where matter of black hole comes from?
@@Max_Jacoby intelligent design.
I'm an eagle scout and very into orienteering, I use compasses a lot, I always thought they just labeled the south pole of the magnet in the compass as north
The South Pole of the needle points North. It’s not labeled North because it’s the North Pole of the needle, it’s labeled North because it orients based on the North Pole. Neil lost it on that one.
@@JosephRNalbone okay yeah that's what I thought, that really confused me when he said that
How much I love these two. Thank you , kind sirs, for spreading the light. Indebted🙏🙏🙏
I’m curious about the magnetized portion of the core. Can the portion of the core that is hotter than the Curie temperature be magnetized? (Maybe the Curie temperature is higher with pressure?) If not, then the magnetized volume would be near the interface bet the core and the crust (or mantel). Also, temperature would be part of the complex dynamics of magnetic pole movement.
Interesting there’s a verse in the Bhagavad Gita where Krishna says the cosmic manifestation happens over and over (emanating from
him and going back to him at the end), as a reflection of what might be a recursive Bang And Crunch
21:35 best moment 🤣🤣
Thank You guys so so much. I Love you guys more than you will ever know. Keep making my day over and over again. Thank you.
Is there a way to submit questions to the show?
You need to be subscribed or be a patreon member. Then they will answer your questions :)
My fiance should be monitoring me when I watch, or rather listen to, Neil Degrasse Tyson. 👀 ❤
"WTF" is a highly technical term only uttered in the most perplexing of experimental situations.
Amazing explainers, as always. Thank you!
I came before the big bang. If you don't believe me, just ask my wife.
BudumpPsh😂 exwife?
Mr Tyson, sir., you are one of those people that i have respect for without any backthoughts. Can you please explain to me how our planets (Earth) core works? There seems to be a lot of information regarding it but it seems there is more information on all other planets and starts rather than our own planet. How does our planet core works, is it iron and rotates counter clockwise? Thank you sir! Best regards, Peter K.
Brilliant and interesting
Tyson explains concepts so clearly and easy to understand
And makes it interedribf
If we are being visited by aliens advanced enough to travel across the galaxy, they probably think it’s hilarious that we are stuck at the Big Bang Theory and haven’t figured out everything about the universe lol.
“They don’t even know what Dark Matter is!” 😂
Before the Big Bang was just the tip
A Big Tip or did it expand!? I NEED ANSWERS!
I ❤ Chuck!😂
Welcome to science dome
As an earth scientist its my duty to rebut two things that Neil said.
1- the outer core is liquid while the inner core is solid.
2- the pole reversals are not symmetric by any means and it does not flip every 1/2 million years, quite a few have been much longer than this.
The " BIG THANG (THING) " IS AN EXCELLENT TOOL FOR BEFORE THE BIG BANG. GLAD TO SEE THE INCEPTION OF THE TERM ON YOUR SHOW. CONGRATULATIONS ♥️!!!!!
21:23 🤔 anyone else pick it up 😂
0:01 Mike check, testing 1 2 3, thump thump thump, screeeeeeechhh. Mike check.
This is absolutely joyous! Thank you 😊😂
I can't wait to introduce my newborn daughter to startalk, Dr. NdT, and Lord Nice
So Awesome how you and Chuck ping off each other, making important scientific topics fun. Appreciate you guys!
Science constantly questions existing knowledge and builds upon what is already proven.
enjoyed your thought on science. I would question that anything in science is proven. science seems to say that which is most likely. we seem not to know anything with certainty only that which is most probable. science as all else in the universe is evolving and possibly without direction such as Darwinian evolution. as you stated, science is constantly questioning existing knowledge. this is healthy. whish other aspects of humanity would do the same. thank you for comment.
And some people see that science being progressing towards the truth of reality as a bad thing. Those people are science deniers, and they are constantly strawmanning and ridiculing the fact that in science it's ok not to know something, and that theories can change with new data. These naysayers live in a static mindset where all they can do is accuse others of not being "open minded," on the basis that their claims about reality are unconvincing and unscientific. It's sad.
I've got this sci fi idea i like regarding the Big Bang where what happened was the universe is actually cyclical in the sense that what ends up happening is that sentient life inevitably develops and in its inherent need to fight each other inevitibly ends up in the development of a weapon capable of releasing so much energy that it leads to the destruction of the one universe and the creation of a new one.
Wow, what a tragically dumb fate that would be. I hope it isn't true, lol.
Could very well be cyclic for no purpose at all - regardless of what shenanegans we're up to.
Certainly, we won't be around next time, so throwing some sort of pre-determined human action into the equation it's like introducing an un-necessary complication of the theory.
@@D.Appeltofft did you read the "it's a Sci-Fi idea" bit? You know the first 5 words of the post. 😒
@@thatdudeinasuit5422 Yeah. But, it doesn't really matter what kind of idea it is - it's a quite interesting thought even if it just explain how Universe started THIS time.. :-)
What if the universe was once 4-dimensions, but collapsed to a single point? And the Big Bang of the 3-dimensional universe is what we observe as that collapse of that extra dimension?
Nope
I recently discovered StarTalk... I can't stop watching the episodes 😶
these videos have been some of the most of the most enlightening thank you very much Please keep them coming
I think Karen would disagree. The universe clearly revolves aroune her!!! and she wants to see your manager NOW!!!!!
Just curious, if E=mc(2) and now knowing the rough speed of expansion of space, rough total mass of universe, do we not estimate the total energy of big bang? (Or at least the close estimated amount of energy needed for big bang to occur?) And if we can estimate that, what kind/amount of element and reaction could have caused the big bang? Just very curious
Mr. Tyson is so interesting to listen too. I really like him!
4:11 I searched Big Bang Theory on Google.
I got The Big Bang Theory (The show) then I got The Big Bang Theory Wikimedia page (The Theory)
And then I got Big Bang Wikimedia page (The Theory)
So this theory is just behind The Big Bang Theory show 😅. Not that bad.
Beautiful Penny 🤩
Scientific question…when are you two going on a tour? Please include Atlanta.
Chuck is the luckiest guy ever to have a partner like Neil on a day to day basis. He’s hilarious and the perfect compliment to Neil, a human super computer.
Chuck is definitely an above average thinker. His intelligence seeps through during his banter. It's another element of this show that I really enjoy
Neil and Chuck are so brilliant together.
Tyson is great, but lately I’ve been appreciating Chuck more and more. He’s so perfect in his role in this show. His face, his eyes, his expressions-all show genuine wonder and curiosity. The fact that he’s so easy on the eyes doesn’t hurt his likability either! Did I spell that right? It looks like it says lick-ability, which may or may not apply, according to your preferences!
Wow @StarTalk I can't believe you didn't mention the magma extrusion where seafloor spreading at divergent plate boundaries happens. When lava is extruded at any mid-ocean ridge, the rock it forms becomes magnetized and acquires the magnetic polarity that exists at the time the lava cools. As the crust moves away from mid-ocean ridges, it contains a continuous record of the Earth's changing magnetic polarity.
What I find cool is that they can get a pretty close approximation of how often the polar shift has happened in the past.
Excuse me if I’m repeating a previous question, but the images from the James Webb telescope are observational facts that need an explanation. Considering, these beautiful spiral galaxies were not expected to be seen at the timeframe observed. My thoughts are that maybe galaxies can form a lot faster than our models show us. James Webb is a tool that helps understand our universe.
I love this show. Big props to Lord Nice for the Boondocks quote!
I knew the JWST had sun shields, but i didn't realize that it also actively cooled it. I said "That's wild! just a few seconds before you guys did, too 😂😂
NDT has the most infectious laugh!!! Love ❤ this video!
This one episode got me to subscribe to this so great.
I scream-laughed on the train, scaring other passengers. By the way, thank you so much, Doctor Tyson, for visiting our store the other day, please, come again soon!!!🤩🤩🤩
In order to think ' out of the box' we definitely need ' thinking in the box'. But we should not turn the sentence. Neil, are you sure ? ' the magnets poles are depicted as you are telling us'. If the souths of the magnets are painted red they perfectly can indicate the North ... hmm, gyess i missed being a boyscout . Baden ! To late, i'm retired 🙂. With all my respect for you and Chuck. ❤🍀🍀🍀 FM, 30/3/24
Neil is the kinda guy to give you directions on the street before you've even stopped him to ask.
I feel like I’ve seen this episode a while back, is this a re-upload ? Correct me if I’m wrong though
The big thang 😂😂😂😂
Love the content, feed me more science!!!
Hey Doctor, I think this is the most interesting and useful video of yours. Really good stuff.
Neil and Chuck are my favorite YTers to learn from. ❤
Dr. Neil is an amazing person and I learned alot from him.
Thank you sir.
When we see the distant infra red images of early galaxies, is it possible the dispersed dusts and elementary scattering of that/those early galaxies already have contributed to galaxies that appear near in distance and time to us? Or are there other sources of the elementary particles/waves that celestial objects close to us are formed from?
Light from early galaxies is fastest thing that reaches us or it's effects I.e the big bang expansion and cooling forming elements that make up celestial objects close to us and even the elements that make up our planet..
Does the taking of a measurement change what you are measuring?
In one high school advanced physics class, the first semester was basically Newton's physics. Then second semester, we were told that Newton was wrong and subsequently was taught about vectors and then moving up to the basics of Quantum Mechanics or some of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. Even in college in my Physical Chemistry class, (a requirement for Chemistry majors, I have a BA in Chemistry) was told the same thing about Newton being wrong. In my head, since high school physics, I thought something was wrong about these statements about Newton's Laws. Newton's laws cannot be totally thrown out the window. He was right on a lot of points. The first and second law apply to the quantum as well. I thought to myself. And Newton's Laws work...to a point. I didn't understand why people would want to throw Newtonian physics totally away.
This Startalk video is the very first video that helped put my thoughts together. Einstein's Theory becomes Newtonian Physics for low speeds and low gravity. I was amazed how that clicked with my unease about throwing out Newton and his Laws. 😅 Newton was seeing only part of the picture of the universe, Einstein did not debunk Newton, he included Newton's proven laws in his wider view of the universe. That makes me think of singularities and dark matter and dark energy. First singularities: Einstein's Laws completely break down at the singularity point. Some scientists say tbey do not exist. Do they not exist just because we seem to have run into a roadblock? Or is there evidence in the equations and/or the outside world that suggests that singularities do not exist?
Same with dark matter ( and energy) are they thrown into equations like the "planet" Vulcan was? Or is there rational mathematical and/or real evidence that it (they) fundamentally exist?
Why it can be south of the magnet used in compass and we saw it is indicating north?
Watching StarTalk is my bed time storyteller
How do we know which pole of the earth is which? Or the poles of any magnet? All I can find online is that you determine it with another magnet. Well, how did you determine the poles of THAT magnet? It's maddening that I can't find an answer to this question. Then I found the response that you measure the direction of the magnetic field lines using tbe Hall effect which induces a different voltage at each pole. That means the poles differ in energy. But then I read that the poles are of equal strength. Is there a magnet in the Dept of Weights & Measures where some arbitrarily picked a side and every other measurement is based on that?
“Pay what you owe Santa” boondocks 😅