Planck Time - The shortest measure of time

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  • Опубліковано 21 гру 2021
  • We have looked at the smallest thing in the universe and I think my head has recovered from that, so what about the shortest amount of time possible. This is Planck time and is very strange indeed, let’s find out more.
    Planck time is defined as the time taken for light in a vacuum to travel 1 Planck length. Now I’ve already made a video about the Planck length that you can go and watch, but spoiler alert, the plank length is really tiny. That means that the time taken for light to travel across 1 Planck length is very short indeed. In fact it is 5.39 times 10 to the minus 44 seconds. That’s about this much. OK so we’re going to try and imagine just how mind meltingly short the plank time is, but just like we did with the Planck length we’re going to get there in stages.
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  • @is_bolo_e_cha
    @is_bolo_e_cha Рік тому +748

    Planck was such a shortsighted man, he could never go very far thinking so small.

    • @gandalf_thegrey
      @gandalf_thegrey Рік тому +7

      lmao

    • @6armslollolol
      @6armslollolol Рік тому +15

      Yeah and his middle name is length and his last one is tiny

    • @chickey333
      @chickey333 Рік тому +24

      But when he's operating at Planck temperature he can get pretty hot under the collar.

    • @timelessperspective
      @timelessperspective Рік тому +3

      Holy crap, that's a great joke!

    • @marcux83
      @marcux83 Рік тому +1

      hahahaha

  • @jamesmatthews8881
    @jamesmatthews8881 Рік тому +446

    One Planck time: roughly the time between starting a new job and realising it's not all it's cracked up to be.

    • @joostdriesens3984
      @joostdriesens3984 Рік тому +30

      My new job only allows two femtoseconds break time, and that includes going to the toilet.

    • @senorpepper3405
      @senorpepper3405 Рік тому +23

      I have a Planck length weenis😔

    • @janes_dick5843
      @janes_dick5843 Рік тому +3

      @@senorpepper3405 still bigger then bidens loololololol

    • @winstonsmith9533
      @winstonsmith9533 Рік тому

      Oh, Nyuk!

    • @imacmill
      @imacmill Рік тому +9

      Or put another way, one Planck time is the time between when the signal light you're stopped at turns green and the cab driver behind you honks his horn.

  • @rightwingsafetysquad9872
    @rightwingsafetysquad9872 Рік тому +1535

    Minor correction, kinda off the main topic. Each cone in the eye updates around 40-50 times per second. Each rod updates almost twice as often. But not all rods and cones update at the same time which means that as a whole the eye is much faster. Most people can perceive an improvement in a screen's refresh rate up to 100Hz. About 20% of people can perceive an improvement up to 144Hz. But people can generally react to screen refreshes faster than they can perceive. Elite gamers perform better with screen refreshes up to 300Hz. This is different than a game or video having 300fps, it's about how soon you are shown a change rather than how frequently you are shown changes.

    • @troll_486
      @troll_486 Рік тому +131

      agreed
      my dad bought a 120Hz phone recently, and I managed to spot it with no major problems even tho he didn't tell me this was 120Hz and I never seen 120Hz before
      sure, it took some seconds but definitly human eye can see more than 30-60 fps
      + I think for gamers, higher Hz aren't better because of "I see better" but "I feel better"

    • @eire0945
      @eire0945 Рік тому +78

      @@troll_486 same reason we get motion sick in vr at frame rates lower than 90hz

    • @boldCactuslad
      @boldCactuslad Рік тому +50

      off topic from this comment but for everyone here:
      if i claimed the limit for human perception was half a standard candle of light two miles away for 1/20,000th of a second i'd be giving figures from the 1980s.
      the eye is not a digital sensor. it is biological. please stop comparing these two disparate concepts. it does not operate with a shutter. rods and cones are not magical ideal 1st year electrical engineering student circuit diagrams. they exist in the real world: at the macro scale, events are never discrete phenomena.
      energy which reaches the eye and is absorbed impacts the system regardless of its magnitude or duration, any alternative to this idea quite obviously violates conservation of energy. the photon was absorbed, it doesn't get to disappear into nothing at all. the rest is up to the brain. this is why most nation's air forces routinely find new records for what people can detect, we're just getting better at taking the measurement. the eye has not changed, it's just really difficult to sit a person an exact distance away from a light which is shown to the person for an exact, tiny amount of time, emitting a very specific amount of energy at the desired wavelength, and measuring what effect that has on the brain.

    • @A._Meroy
      @A._Meroy Рік тому +9

      It's still more or less in the same region of the scale. The whole point is to show how short 1/100 of a second is, and that's roughly how long it takes for our eyes to update. It doesn't really matter if it is 1/60 or 1/150 exactly, as long as it is way shorter than 1/10 and much longer than 1/1000 of a second it is still a good example for showing how short 1/100 of a second is.

    • @A._Meroy
      @A._Meroy Рік тому +37

      @@boldCactuslad It's not about perceiving singnals, it is about distinguishing multiple signals. While most people can easily percieve flashes that are vastly shorter than 1/1000 of a second, you cannot really tell if it was one flash or two.

  • @potatocannon4
    @potatocannon4 Рік тому +13

    “Avoiding the obvious jokes” was not expecting that gold in a physics video🤣🤣🤣

  • @MountainRaven1960
    @MountainRaven1960 Рік тому +499

    The Zeptosecond should be followed by the: Harposecond, Chicosecond, and the Grouchosecond! That’s because it’s all ridiculously small.

    • @mikethunman436
      @mikethunman436 Рік тому +4

      😅😅😅

    • @franciswalsh8416
      @franciswalsh8416 Рік тому +5

      Brilliant!!

    • @anic1716
      @anic1716 Рік тому +42

      There's the yoctosecond after the zeptosecond, which is in fact the smallest prefix of SI, which is 10^-24 s

    • @scottbilger9294
      @scottbilger9294 Рік тому +34

      Also the Yakkosecond, Wakkosecond, and the Dottosecond.

    • @anic1716
      @anic1716 Рік тому +8

      @@scottbilger9294 this one's aren't standard

  • @Yezpahr
    @Yezpahr Рік тому +372

    3:09 Luckily we discovered that people who use monitors with much higher frames per second (165-240Hz), can actually see the frames in between. Some really can't see a difference between two monitors of 30Hz and 60Hz, but that same person will notice it if you let them compare monitors with 60Hz to 165Hz. (a difference of 105 instead of 30)
    We're not just apes, we're complicated inventors and learners, capable of nullifying our own intelligence or boosting it with school, "trains of thought" and experiments, or just "because we're told".
    The researchers that decided 30-60Hz was the max did not actually use monitors with higher capabilities and just drew a line there.
    (-edit: they might've used lamps instead of screens in some cases?)

    • @satyris410
      @satyris410 Рік тому +16

      Yeah my dad got a massive HD TV and continued to watch sd content thru his old TV tuner. It looked absolute potato but he was happy.

    • @KitsuneNoNatsu
      @KitsuneNoNatsu Рік тому +18

      Yeah, this bit kinda annoyed me, we can see a hell of a lot more than 60 hz, likely in the millions to be honest

    • @tortordenful
      @tortordenful Рік тому +23

      There was no real science done for this, but people trying to save a buck, 50-60hz was simply the lowest frequency of electricity you could push into an early lightbulb and most wouldn't perceive flickering. Not only relying on the eyes image retention but also the fact that the filament needs almost a full second to cool down to stop giving off light.
      30hz is from old hollywood where similiarily most people would accept it as continuous motion to save money on film.
      Its not the peak of what we can perceive, which is closer to 600hz than anything, but the very lowest we are able to trick our brains to perceive as video vs a sequence of pictures.

    • @nekotranslates
      @nekotranslates Рік тому +1

      @@tortordenful Would films, movies, games be in Frames Per Second?
      I know there are 2 types: 25 FPS and 30FPS - one's European, other is American.
      Yet nowadays, things would be better
      Does hertz and FPS go hand in hand?

    • @bobfleischmann5208
      @bobfleischmann5208 Рік тому +8

      @@nekotranslates - In the early days of cinema, the movie was show with whole pictures (frames) at once. Think of those old reel-to-reel projectors. A "frame" consisted of a single picture being flashed on the screen in its entirety. (There was also a brief period on "blackout" in between frames while the shutter closes as the film advanced.) This is where FPS was a big deal. it determined how much film was needed and how smooth the motion would look.
      When the first televisions came out (CRT), a single electron beam would scan the image on the screen line by line. They did not show an entire frame at once. (There are cool slow-mo videos on this!) We still used "frame rates" as the standard speed to observe smooth motion, but the images were progressively scanned and even overlapped each other. Hence, there was no blackout between frames. It was kinda like drawing a picture with an Etch-A-Sketch about 25 times per second!
      Today's flat panel TVs are a mixed bag of progressive scan tech and single frame images. The frame-rates (FPS) can fluctuate depending on the brand and TV style, but we all agree that today's TVs are clear and smooth with no motion blurring.
      The term "Hertz" used to refer to the electricity swap for AC power. In America, this +/- fluctuation is 60 Hz. In Europe, it's only 50 Hz. Initially, this was a huge factor in TV technology (along with many other early electronics). Today, the frequency of AC power coming from your outlet has little to do with anything else in the circuits (once you get past the DC rectifiers). The term "Hertz" is now interchangeable with "frame rate" for TVs, but this can be misleading. A sticker on the back of your TV that says 60 Hz might only be referring to the AC power that it runs on from the wall outlet! You really have to look for the actual frame rate capabilities of the screen (plasma, LED, DLP, LCD, etc.).
      On a side note: I run laser shows that are also measured in FPS. A laser image is exactly like the Etch-A-Sketch analogy. A single laser beam draws the entire image about 20-45 times per second. The higher this number gets, the smoother the image will be. A complicated image (lots of text or details) can only be scanned between 11-19 FPS. These images will appear choppy and glitchy. I try to stay above 20 FPS as much as possible to give the audience a smooth image. :)

  • @bill392
    @bill392 Рік тому +17

    We could truthfully say that our arms actually never stop moving. In fact, nothing ever stops moving. Another super interesting presentation, thanks.

  • @jlwilder8436
    @jlwilder8436 2 роки тому +78

    Such great visualization!
    I'm one of the original subscribers and viewers and can't believe this channel hasn't hit hundreds of thousands of views yet.
    Come on, people!

    • @LearningCurveScience
      @LearningCurveScience  2 роки тому +12

      Thank you very much for your continued support. I don't get to make videos as much as I would like to as I work full time. I appreciate everyone who comes and watches my videos and I hope they get as much joy out of watching them as I do in making them.

    • @benj5889
      @benj5889 2 роки тому

      @@LearningCurveScience if you want to your videos full time I'm sure once the channel hits 100k subscribers you'll have no trouble crowdfunding a career shift

    • @CrakenFlux
      @CrakenFlux Рік тому +1

      he may not want/need one.

    • @enigmag9538
      @enigmag9538 Рік тому

      This is the first video I've watched from this channel and I'm doing the "like, comment , subscribe" thing! I don't know why it hasn't been in my recommendations before now.

    • @benj5889
      @benj5889 Рік тому +1

      @@CrakenFlux yes good point...but wow the world needs more of these videos. His students very fortunate indeed

  • @rightwingsafetysquad9872
    @rightwingsafetysquad9872 Рік тому +101

    I think the quantum model of the universe does a good job of describing a moving object traveling less than the speed of light. There is a certain probability that a particle will jump a Plank Length during any given Plank Time. With a photon that probability is near 1. With "normal" objects that probability is near 0, but not 0.
    I propose a new fundamental aspect of the universe. The Plank Probability. That is the smallest possible probability that a particle will jump a Plank Lenght in any given Plank Time. It would describe the slowest possible motion.

    • @ElectronFieldPulse
      @ElectronFieldPulse Рік тому +14

      Do you really need that? If you imagine that all fundamental particles travel at roughly the speed of light, the slower you move as a massive object, the more of that speed will be dedicated to advancing the massive object through time. Local interactions in a massive object traveling at close to the speed of light are why molecules look like they are vibrating in animations. So, as you move closer to the speed of light as a massive object, less of that speed is spent locally. The speed is used in translational motion, so the massive objects appears to slow down in time

    • @cougar2013
      @cougar2013 Рік тому +2

      Who says that the Planck length is the smallest distance? It’s just a fairytale that sounds nice. Kind of like string theory.

    • @cougar2013
      @cougar2013 Рік тому +2

      @@ElectronFieldPulse pretty much none of what you said makes any sense. If you don’t have a physics PhD, best not to try and tell others what you think about relativity. ✌️❤️

    • @BlackBull.
      @BlackBull. Рік тому +5

      but planck lenght is not a pixel

    • @cougar2013
      @cougar2013 Рік тому +2

      @@BlackBull. people want it to be lol

  • @Coastfog
    @Coastfog Рік тому +124

    The first video of yours I watched and I'm getting "gonna enjoy this channel a lot" vibes. Interesting topic, really good communication of the science, and a very likable and professional style. Looking forward to seeing you grow!

  • @abbyofgenderpronouns
    @abbyofgenderpronouns Рік тому +3

    Man's found the framerate, the pixel density and all the game parameters

  • @OVAstronomy
    @OVAstronomy Рік тому +22

    Great explanations and examples, that ending has really made me consider the uncertainty of spacetime differently!

  • @alecisla
    @alecisla Рік тому +49

    Amazing video, awesome channel, I'm watching all the videos, pure science, straight to the point, no clickbait... we need more channels like this! Thanks for your amazing work! Subbed and liked!

  • @doctorwu1303
    @doctorwu1303 Рік тому +11

    You blew my mind sir! Very well presented…

  • @OnlyTrueNeko
    @OnlyTrueNeko Рік тому +1

    now that is a video that just blew my mind.. i barly was able to visualise the planck times in a second and was amazed by how small this truly is~ VERY well done video! earned a sub and like

  • @sourcecode6467
    @sourcecode6467 Рік тому +3

    Explained and illustrated beautifully, mind blown. Thank you 👍

  • @yallprettysus
    @yallprettysus Рік тому +25

    I am really enamoured with the way you say thank you for watching! I feel that you appreciate each and every viewer as I deeply appreciate the way you present these borderline science topics! You are a great person with an awesome talent and I am happy to follow you through te wonders of our universe ❤️

    • @LearningCurveScience
      @LearningCurveScience  Рік тому +2

      Thank you, and yes I do appreciate every view. It is my belief that science should be for everyone. I try to make my videos as understandable as possible, I'm not saying I get it right every time, but I try.

    • @spx730
      @spx730 Рік тому

      yea there's something about it haha, esp with that music in background

  • @nehoymenoy3845
    @nehoymenoy3845 Рік тому +14

    God this is an enjoyable series. Thank you for your work on this. I know it can't have been an easy project.

  • @MikePattison
    @MikePattison Рік тому +3

    How am I just now discovering this gem of a channel? Well done. Subscribed.

  • @artdonovandesign
    @artdonovandesign 8 місяців тому +1

    Beginning at @9:20
    This analogy is stupefying!
    And the following comparison is impossible to get my mind around. 11:26
    You're a wonderful narrator. Clear, simple and dignified. And congratulations on all of the research you did to produce this fine video.
    Best Regards and wishes for many more subscribers!, Art

  • @strikermodel
    @strikermodel Рік тому +3

    "avoiding the obvious jokes" I was actually so into your explanation, that didn't cross my mind until you said it LOL

  • @scarv9584
    @scarv9584 Рік тому +3

    1:26 this is why i love this channel, little jokes but the info is explained well and in an amusing effort to learn. Perfect delivery of education

  • @larrygraham3377
    @larrygraham3377 Рік тому

    Thanks for a really wonderful.video.
    This is truly a very different way of visualizing the universe we live in.
    Hope you get the opportunity to enjoy all the plank times that life has to offer !!!

  • @artisanrox
    @artisanrox Рік тому +3

    This is REALLY well explained, thank you so much!

  • @hummakavula1304
    @hummakavula1304 2 роки тому +71

    This video is exactly what I am looking for! I need to keep pausing though because of the jam-packed information. This is exemplary! Thank you so much for the effort! Subscribed!

    • @LearningCurveScience
      @LearningCurveScience  2 роки тому +5

      Thank you so much. I'm glad you enjoyed it (and thanks for your subscription)

    • @everythingisalllies2141
      @everythingisalllies2141 Рік тому +1

      This video is about pure nonsense, why don't you study real physics instead of pseudoscience?

    • @satyris410
      @satyris410 Рік тому

      @@everythingisalllies2141 lol small brain

    • @billlawson3467
      @billlawson3467 Рік тому +4

      @@everythingisalllies2141 better to stay quiet than to show your ignorance

    • @everythingisalllies2141
      @everythingisalllies2141 Рік тому

      @@billlawson3467 so you wont be wanting to discuss Einstein's errors with me then? Because you are ignorant?

  • @justanotherguy469
    @justanotherguy469 Рік тому +15

    "That body part moved a certain distance during 1 Plank time.
    That distance must have been less than the plank length.
    To travel 1 plank length in one plank time, you must be traveling at the speed of light."
    I find that to be very interesting.
    To travel at a fewer Plank length, you would have to be traveling at fewer plank times, which means that you would have to be traveling faster than light. It is a conundrum, because not only is the Plank length an aggregate for the other fundamental forces, it also brings about the resolution of space, time, and velocity as well, where everything is in equilibrium, everything is the same, everything is the one.
    The plank length is beautiful.
    We should have a day, dedicated to the birth of our Universe.

    • @djs2006
      @djs2006 Рік тому +15

      I don't agree with that statement. I believe that at Plank time and length, there is no smaller increment. So, the universe is digital. Fastest is light at 1 Plank length / Plank time unit. At that speed, the photon will exist at a position, then, exist at the next Plank length. For slower things, like a finger, it will exist for n Plank time units, then exist at the next Plank length. There is nothing in between.

    • @justanotherguy469
      @justanotherguy469 Рік тому +2

      @@djs2006 That is exactly what I said. The first paragraph is in quotations, it is what he said in the video.
      I think that the world is pixelated at one plank length and one plank time. The plank time is the ultimate refresh rate and that is what gives the illusion of the fluidity of time.
      Did you read my whole comment?

    • @justanotherguy469
      @justanotherguy469 Рік тому

      @@djs2006 Forgive please., your statement is exactly what I said in another comment. I went back and read the comment that you are responding to and I did not say what you said in this one.
      I disagreed with what he said in the video about moving your body fewer than one plank length because that there is no fewer than one plank length.
      I agree 100% with what you said.

    • @djs2006
      @djs2006 Рік тому +1

      @@justanotherguy469 Sorry. I must have missed the 'More' button. I read it now. Since particles can blink in and out of existence, we must be doing the same thing. Apparently, the 'More' must have blinked out while I was looking at your comment. Either that or my brain cells blinked out and I blanked out.

    • @Ziplock9000
      @Ziplock9000 Рік тому +3

      In a PBS Spacetime video he mentions that there's nothing in physics that says things can get smaller than plank length, just that we don't have any formula as to how they would work.

  • @fredkelly6953
    @fredkelly6953 Рік тому

    Those numbers exist between awe-inspiring and downright scary. I'd have to be in a completely rested state to even begin to comprehend them. I'll know where to come to when I feel like putting a hole in my head, subbed.

  • @JafoTHEgreat
    @JafoTHEgreat Рік тому +1

    You have an amazing and beautiful mind. Thanks for teaching me!

  • @r.gelmers6580
    @r.gelmers6580 Рік тому +3

    Amazing. Mr Planck was a true genius. The real mind blowing aspect is where all these planck units come together and connect. It's simply exhilarating!

    • @LyubomirIko
      @LyubomirIko Рік тому

      Where?

    • @dudono1744
      @dudono1744 Рік тому +1

      nah he was just lazy to remember all constants so he created a unit system where all constants are 1

  • @SeraphimKnight
    @SeraphimKnight Рік тому +5

    If the speed of light is going at 1 planck length / planck time and you can't measure anything less, than technically it's impossible to measure any speed BUT the speed of light. A real Achilles paradox here innit.

    • @Furyswipes
      @Furyswipes Рік тому +3

      I do think there is an implicit paradox here. Planck distance is the smallest incremental distance. You can't "move a distance less than the planck distance". At all.

    • @dudono1744
      @dudono1744 Рік тому +3

      so you either go at 0 or c ?

    • @Furyswipes
      @Furyswipes Рік тому

      @@dudono1744 Yeah, this seems really paradoxical.

    • @mordet2
      @mordet2 Рік тому +1

      @@Furyswipes I don't think this is a paradox at all. Imagine a particle that moves at .5c, half the speed of light. the thing this means is that every other planck time, the particle moves 1 planck length and the other it does not.

    • @Furyswipes
      @Furyswipes Рік тому +1

      @@mordet2 Ah! I didn't think of that at all. Good point.

  • @outdoorcoaching
    @outdoorcoaching Рік тому +1

    Already hooked during the introduction. Great content ‼️‼️‼️

  • @Mike-cu3kj
    @Mike-cu3kj 5 місяців тому

    Amazing. Especially the move you body part at the end. Leaves me breathless

  • @epicpatato2571
    @epicpatato2571 Рік тому +9

    i always wondered the fps of the universe. thank you for making this video i may be able to glitch reality to dupe some cool stuff with this knowledge

  • @ReflectiveLayerFilm
    @ReflectiveLayerFilm 2 роки тому +8

    Another interesting topic and great video. No matter how hard I try, I still can't properly visualized the dynamic range of the tick of a clock and the Planck time. Can't imagine that range for anytime. Distance, size, temperature, etc. My head hurts just putting it into words!

    • @LearningCurveScience
      @LearningCurveScience  2 роки тому +2

      Thank you very much. Sorry I haven't been active here for a while, my job has kept me very busy recently.

    • @ReflectiveLayerFilm
      @ReflectiveLayerFilm 2 роки тому +1

      @@LearningCurveScience No problems. I haven't uploaded either since Oct last year. Got tied up also. But I'm working on finishing my latest hopefully in the next 2 weeks.

  • @dunyakas4833
    @dunyakas4833 Рік тому

    Sooo good. Luv it. Perfect analogies. Keep on!

  • @berylman
    @berylman Рік тому +1

    This video series on Planck is GREAT! and totally up my alley. Subscribed. *insert clapping animation here*

  • @Jodawo
    @Jodawo Рік тому +18

    Here's something that's more unbelievable. A deck of cards being shuffled and how many different combinations those 52 cards can get into is so large. If you got one Plank Time for every combination, you could go from The Big Bang to our time over 10 million times. (Universe is a little over 13 billion years old)

  • @andrewroberts5988
    @andrewroberts5988 Рік тому +10

    "...avoiding the obvious jokes". I love it! Thanks. ALso, there was a very interesting question at the end (many interesting things thruout the vid), but the shortest time and shortest distance. Reminds me of the Zeno (?) paradox and the ancient Greeks and the arrow. Also, is space and time a continuum or discrete at the smallest level. Very cool video and thoughtfully put together.

  • @GetOutsideYourself
    @GetOutsideYourself Рік тому

    Great content. Subscribed. I'm sure you're about to blow up. Keep making great videos.

  • @foramagasobeselettucepurpl6911

    Totally mind blowing man! I love it!

  • @Kevinrothwell1959
    @Kevinrothwell1959 Рік тому +4

    Although you explain the concept very well, it is totally beyond the ability of the human mind to comprehend Planck sizes! You could go insane trying!

  • @EvetheFurry
    @EvetheFurry 2 роки тому +6

    The frame rate of the simulation

  • @dunyakas4833
    @dunyakas4833 Рік тому

    Sooo good. Luv it. Perfect analogies. Keep on.

  • @mikethunman436
    @mikethunman436 Рік тому +1

    Nice! I love these number games...! Good luck further with your channel. As of today, I'm in and looking forward ofr what's to come... 😉

  • @anic1716
    @anic1716 Рік тому +8

    Pretty sad to see a so underrated channel have this amazing quality videos. Keep going!

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      @tncorgi92 Рік тому +2

      I just ran across this channel, watched 3 videos and I'm now subscribed.

    • @ahklys1321
      @ahklys1321 Рік тому +2

      Same

  • @Linventor
    @Linventor Рік тому +5

    ...our eyes are not limited to 60fps.
    There is an entire market for "high refresh rate" displays - even a cheap gaming monitor can do upwards of 120hz, with top-tier esport monitors able to do _triple_ that.
    The tech is also making its way into more mainstream gadgets, including phones and TVs, because the only way you can't tell the difference between 60 and 120 hz refresh rates is if you're looking at a static image.

  • @peterlawson777
    @peterlawson777 Рік тому +2

    Excellent video, expertly narrated. Thank you 🙂

  • @MarcFromBerryland
    @MarcFromBerryland Рік тому

    Cool you already made it. On your Planck length video I left a comment asking you to make a video on Planck time not knowing that you already had then next in my UA-cam recommendations this video shows up.

  • @justanotherguy469
    @justanotherguy469 Рік тому +8

    Thank you for the great video, very well illustrated and dictated.

  • @florincoter1988
    @florincoter1988 Рік тому +18

    "Where the Universe breaks!" - The Universe does not break. This is only a model. The model breaks. A newer one will be discovered in due time and all will be fine.

  • @dunyakas4833
    @dunyakas4833 Рік тому

    So good. Luv it. Perfect analogies.

  • @whirl3690
    @whirl3690 Рік тому +38

    Seeing that the speed of light, the planck length, and the planck time are all related as just the fastest units of distance, time, and speed, why is the speed of light not called "planck speed?" I think it would make more sense, since light isn't the only thing that travels at the speed of light. Gravitational waves, false vacuum decay, and more all travel at the same speed.

    • @onlyguitar1001
      @onlyguitar1001 Рік тому +20

      Physicists will refer to it as the speed of information when they're being pedantic. It's definitely easier to teach people about this speed in reference to light because they experience it, and historically it was the first thing to be measured that travels at this speed.

    • @MidnightSt
      @MidnightSt Рік тому +10

      yes, I remember when I realized that speed of light is planck length per planck time, it was a magical moment :)

    • @Resomius
      @Resomius Рік тому +5

      for the same reason americans still use unites like Eagle per freedom square and europeans are not meassuring temperature in Kelvin.
      Because changing it would be very hard, the people are used to it and in day to day live it works.
      When needed the correct thing gets used. Untill then the easy thing gets used.
      And we always called it Lightspeed and till now it worked, why should we Change it?

    • @whirl3690
      @whirl3690 Рік тому +6

      @@Resomius In this case, it's not switching to a new system. This theoretical "planck speed" is literally just the same as the speed of light. It is still c, it is still 299,792,458 meters per second. All I proposed was simply changing its name to "the planck speed."

    • @hotpawsmathsandscience3124
      @hotpawsmathsandscience3124 Рік тому +1

      if you divide planck length by planck time, "planck" is reduced because it's both in numerator and denominator

  • @williamt4749
    @williamt4749 Рік тому +7

    I would really like to know how the development of the final analogy actually went. Like did you start with grains of sand? Or did you start with a universe of time? Or did you start somewhere else like numbers of atoms within something?

    • @satyris410
      @satyris410 Рік тому +5

      Number of chess moves x number of pokemon x number of embarrassing incidents you remember from when you were 8.

  • @MusicalRadiation
    @MusicalRadiation Рік тому +1

    I love the subtle reference to the soundtrack of Interstellar in the piano part of the background music in this video! You can hear it really well between 7:22 and 8:00

  • @cceres
    @cceres Рік тому

    These Planck videos are beautiful.

  • @PrivateEyeYiYi
    @PrivateEyeYiYi Рік тому +7

    Planck length and time (and weight, if it exists) could be the basis of our measuring systems when scaled up. What we use today, whether it’s based on the length of a king’s thumb, a fraction of the earth’s circumference, or even defining a meter as the distance light travels in 1/299,792,458 of a second, is completely arbitrary.

    • @PrivateEyeYiYi
      @PrivateEyeYiYi Рік тому +1

      @@MrHurricaneFloyd
      There’s no need to measure anything. The precise mathematical calculation is known. From that we dimply scale up by many orders of magnitude

    • @PrivateEyeYiYi
      @PrivateEyeYiYi Рік тому

      @Queeb Borda The Third
      These are all based on arbitrary measures.

    • @PrivateEyeYiYi
      @PrivateEyeYiYi Рік тому

      @Queeb Borda The Third
      A ten millionth of the distance from the equator to the north pole is arbitrary. So is a random fraction of light speed.
      Whereas Planck length has a formal mathematical definition: 1.62×10-35m
      There’s nothing arbitrary about it.

    • @PrivateEyeYiYi
      @PrivateEyeYiYi Рік тому +2

      @Queeb Borda The Third
      An exact definition of the shortest measurable length isn’t arbitrary, it’s a benchmark of physics.
      It’s like the speed of light, which isn’t arbitrary either.

    • @PrivateEyeYiYi
      @PrivateEyeYiYi Рік тому

      @Queeb Borda The Third If the speed of light is arbitrary then you have a point, otherwise…

  • @slydog7131
    @slydog7131 Рік тому +5

    So does this mean that time is discrete instead of continuous? My understanding is that we just don't know, but I think that it is. It seems to be the only way to resolve some classical paradoxes.

    • @mryellow6918
      @mryellow6918 Рік тому +1

      Its just more that the speed of causality is the limit

  • @Martin_xd69
    @Martin_xd69 Рік тому

    Not a second wasted by watching this video, thank you

  • @robertpierce1981
    @robertpierce1981 Рік тому

    I like your descriptions of events.

  • @MrDino1953
    @MrDino1953 Рік тому +11

    The strong force doesn’t keep atoms together, it binds quarks into baryons and baryons into atomic nuclei. Atoms, the combination of nuclei with electrons, are held together by electromagnetic force.

    • @JonahRoyes
      @JonahRoyes Рік тому +4

      Protons in a nucleus is bound by the strong force

    • @JonahRoyes
      @JonahRoyes Рік тому +1

      As well as neutrons , although electrons orbit via electromagnetic force and that also holds molecules together

    • @nmarbletoe8210
      @nmarbletoe8210 Рік тому

      @@JonahRoyes True. Taking it further, Quarks are bound by the strong force, protons and neutrons are bound by "the residual strong force"
      Strong force is carried by gluons, residual strong force is carried by mesons (which contain gluons and quarks). Atoms are bonded together into molecules by the electromagnetic force. And matter is gathered into planets by gravity.
      And universes are held together by... puppies.

  • @jeremysargent5037
    @jeremysargent5037 Рік тому +3

    Great to know the processor CPU speed of our universe as a multiverse VM if it was a simulation 😂

    • @user-cy1rm5vb7i
      @user-cy1rm5vb7i Рік тому

      it's just the simulated speed, you can spend a lot more units of time on simulating just one unit of time

  • @lucasstrujak
    @lucasstrujak Рік тому +1

    Such a great content! Thanks for sharing.

  • @thevikingwarrior
    @thevikingwarrior Рік тому +1

    My teacher was so strict at school, that if we was one plank time too late; we would be forced to experience eternity in detention. We would be forced into a cube one plank length across in all three directions! That was what child discipline was like back in 1986!

  • @jackiereynolds2888
    @jackiereynolds2888 Рік тому +4

    Your comment at the end reminded me of explaining Zeno's paradox.
    It's like when you mentioned the amount of time we moved our arms- say; you-were-like, - well of course your arm 'moved' -
    'some' distance in 1 single unit of plank(c) time - because if it didn't your arm wouldn't move - 'at-all' !
    It's just interesting (and very difficult) using the concept of 'distance' when trying to imagine the Plank
    constant (length) - which begs a question - can-you-imagine
    one WITHOUT the other ?
    Plank length must be entirely conceptual, it must always be conceptual because it is simply not possible to ever have any 'perceptual' experience of it. You can pinch your fore-finger and thumb together to pretty-tiny measurable lengths, - say, one inch, one centimeter, even a single millimeter ! But now imagine squeezing them together to even smaller and smaller lengths ! ! AT SOME POINT Plank-length (or 'distance') ties-in together with

    • @Furyswipes
      @Furyswipes Рік тому

      You can't move a distance less than the planck distance, by definition. Do you not agree?

    • @jackiereynolds2888
      @jackiereynolds2888 Рік тому +1

      @@Furyswipes Yes, but I think that perhaps most of us need to remove the 'idea of distance' from our minds, because to approach an understanding of a 'Plank' anything, the common and conventional ideas of temperature, length, or distance - or the Plank reference to anything else -
      the 'common' understanding of these familiar units must be abandoned.
      The commonly held idea about space itself rather comes apart at the quantum level. It's because I suppose, none of us have had an actual 'experience' of this rather hidden (but nonetheless there) reality.
      'Theoretical' reality is another variety of understanding entirely as opposed to experienced reality.

  • @kavalkid1
    @kavalkid1 Рік тому +8

    Terrific! I see the Plank Length used to describe the Universe to be rather like using triangles to describe a circle. No matter how many you use, there is still more accuracy to be gleaned as one approaches Infinity.

  • @xam2215
    @xam2215 4 місяці тому

    i woke up this morning wondering just how much far can we get to record reality ...i couldn't find a best teacher then you on this subject,thank you very much.

  • @KarlMarcus8468
    @KarlMarcus8468 Рік тому

    lol those facts are so awesome that when I hear them I just laugh, like my brain can only deal with how insane those numbers are by just categorizing it in the "that's ridiculous, shut up" list. I also got a kick out of this, when my friends and I would have like our little pretend scientist 'look how cool the universe is' type of discussions, I would throw out my little fact of "hey guys did you know, there are more planck time in 1 second, than there are seconds in the age of the universe WWOOOAAHHH" and while I guess I wasn't technically wrong, I think I missed the true gravity by a couple orders of magnitude. Great video man.

  • @GD_Argyza
    @GD_Argyza 5 місяців тому +3

    0:05 and its you

  • @ezza88ster
    @ezza88ster Рік тому

    Gloriously Mind-bending!

  • @artdonovandesign
    @artdonovandesign 8 місяців тому

    "An Attosecond ...is seriously brief"
    You have a remarkable skill for understatement😊

  • @purplehaze2358
    @purplehaze2358 Рік тому +1

    “So let’s think about some things that last for one second..”
    That would be m-
    “Avoiding the obvious joke”
    Damn it.

  • @csmic-phantm8095
    @csmic-phantm8095 Рік тому

    That's just excellent, I'm thoroughly impressed.., but mostly by the Planck'- just to be clear 👌🏻✨️

  • @greyghost3497
    @greyghost3497 Рік тому

    There’s a natural progression to this line of thinking: that the plank time is actually the period of transition where the future becomes the past. The “moment” or the “now”. The time is takes for “will happen” to become “happened”.

  • @luckyluc9972
    @luckyluc9972 Рік тому +1

    Double comment. At 10:00 you talk about the number of galaxies we think there might be. With the new images of the James Webb Space Telescope, we believe there may be 10x more galaxies than previously thought!

  • @satyris410
    @satyris410 Рік тому

    Fantastic explanation thank you!

  • @TheMiojox
    @TheMiojox Рік тому +2

    I feel really sorry for Max Planck, his pickup line "The smallest things in the universe are named after me" never worked for some reason.

    • @Cjnw
      @Cjnw 5 місяців тому

      Pontius Pilate: I have a fwiend in science with the name of…
      Tinius…
      Dickus!

  • @X3MgamePlays
    @X3MgamePlays Рік тому

    Oh, I actually learned something new from this video.

  • @berthold64
    @berthold64 Рік тому

    underrated channel

  • @MacElMasMancoDeTodos
    @MacElMasMancoDeTodos Рік тому +1

    Plank Time, also referred as how much time passes between you close Clash of Clans and your village gets attacked again

  • @joshonemoore
    @joshonemoore Рік тому

    thanks. great work. keep living.

  • @erika-xu1wg
    @erika-xu1wg Рік тому +1

    The video was good but the narration made it great - I love this guy's voice! Plus he sounds like Holly from Red Drwaf so that's even better!

  • @baronvonhoughton
    @baronvonhoughton Рік тому

    Fascinating.

  • @chrisregister8021
    @chrisregister8021 5 місяців тому

    The fact that planck time operates on such a vast scale gives some explanation to how the entire universe could be held Together by tiny particles...

  • @JIREH0924
    @JIREH0924 5 місяців тому

    This is a cool video Love it 😊

  • @JWS1968
    @JWS1968 Рік тому

    My new guilty pleasure.

  • @chekote
    @chekote Рік тому +1

    I was really hoping you were going to go into *why* our understanding breaks down at the planck time scale

  • @vinstyles
    @vinstyles 4 місяці тому

    loved the vid. So interesting. Still trying to get my head around Planck time, but still.....

  • @lerk.
    @lerk. Рік тому +2

    If my arm has to move less than a planck length in one planck time (otherwise it woould be faster than light), and we could do a "1 planck time time step", would my arm move at all if we can't really measure any distance smaller than a planck length?
    How many of those steps do we have to do until the movement is measurable?

  • @dommice
    @dommice Рік тому

    Great video. Thanks!

  • @ESLTopics
    @ESLTopics 2 роки тому

    Wonderful video! Subscribed!

  • @foxabilo
    @foxabilo Рік тому

    Enjoyed that.

  • @badtaste311
    @badtaste311 Рік тому

    This is key information in regards to its application towards meta material.

  • @ufade2
    @ufade2 Рік тому

    I don't know why but the earth moving that far in a second just blows my fing mind...

  • @ianmichael5768
    @ianmichael5768 Рік тому +1

    I freely interact with light. Does this mean I am moving at the speed of light? Granted, at a different frequency.
    This is great stuff. I truly appreciate the work!

    • @jonathanmarin1250
      @jonathanmarin1250 Рік тому +3

      There is a video that explains that yes, you are indeed traveling at the speed of light, it c for that matter. But unlike light which used all of it's speed on spacial movement and non on temporal, your speed is mostly temporal and less spent on spacial.

  • @charleswheeler3689
    @charleswheeler3689 10 місяців тому

    Mind fairly and well Boggled.

  • @torababdullah7952
    @torababdullah7952 Рік тому +2

    I clearly understood that a planck second was. then I watched this video and with all these elaborated examples just to explain a Planck second , now I cannot remember my name.
    thank you.

  • @rj795w6
    @rj795w6 Рік тому

    awesome video, awesome quality

  • @b.griffin317
    @b.griffin317 Рік тому +1

    Easy way to think of a Plank Time: There have been approximately 5x10^17 seconds since the Big Bang. But a Plank Time is 10^-44s. So there have been about as many 10^-14s since the big bang as there are Plank Times in 10^-14 seconds. 10^-14s is 10 femtoseconds. This is the time frame for typical very fast chemical reactions or atomic vibrations (per Wikipedia).

  • @fatneek4554
    @fatneek4554 3 місяці тому

    This is something i was wondering about for years and year but couldnt get an answer on

  • @ebob4177
    @ebob4177 Рік тому

    That last thought is cool.