If you want to watch a cool series on how large the universe actually is, there's a man on UA-cam named David Butler with a video series called How Far Away Is It. It is extremely well done. He has a lot of other content too that is definitely worth watching.
This is my favorite thing about space. How it isn't comprehendible how large it is. No mind on this Earth can begin to imagine its vast size. Great video Cody. One of my favorite subjects to be talked about :)
Fermi's paradox resolved. We don't see aliens here because the distances in space are simply mind-bogglingly too great. Some engineering feats just ain't gonna happen. No-how, No way, Never.
I've been passively into astronomy for at least 40 years and the scales and distances of the universe never cease to amaze me. The human brain is simply not built deal with this stuff. Love it! Great video.
But we should be shooting off probes like Voyager all the time. We could be learning so much more. There should be 1,000 Voyager like probes in every direction from the Earth collecting data. We're like blind people using one finger to read braille when we have ten.
This really is amazing, how far planets and stars are. Makes me think again, where did this whole universe come from ? ... Where did we humans come from? ... the distances are shocking ...
I love the determination Cody has. Most other Science channels would say, "So, the nearest star is so far we'd have to leave the state, but that's too far away so here's some numbers: *puts numbers up on screen*" But, no. Cody up and drives outside of the state and puts the tiny peice of paper on the gravel road, like, 125mi away.
The human brain is not able to comprehend 1 millions points and still see scale (just 1mm dots over 1 meter squared, [ seems that our eyes are the limitation] ), we seem to be able to understated with our minds as much as 1m^2 data points, yet this massive scale does only allow us to imagine to the nearest star. We are are so far away from being able to imagine our galaxy that it is as in-obtainable to our conscious minds as the technology required to make cell phones are to primates... Scale is everything
It's all unprovable nonsense. Research flat earth and the Firmament. All those lights in the sky are CLOSE and TINY, not "light years" away. Look into the Inverse Square Law of Light to understand that the term "light years" is a physical IMPOSSIBILITY.
@@eugenef0zzy yes that is true, go watch a time lapse video of the stars at night. They all move around the north star, in perfect circles but after a long period of time goes by you'll see that the stars all move the exact same distance relative to there appeared 2D distance away from the north star. How is it possible, from our perspective, that this occurs, if all stars are at different distances from earth (some thousands of time farther away from each other) and yet they all appear to move from our perspective at the exact same speed, all in THE EXACT SAME DIRECTION?? Stars should be moving all over the place from our perspective, not all in perfect circles.
Additonal facts: if the distance between Proxima Centauri and the Sun on on this scale was 202 km, and in reality it's 4,2 ly away, it means that 1ly =42 km on the scale. This means that Andromeda galaxy, which our Milky Way is about to merge with in 5 Billion years forming Milkdromeda, on this scale is 120 Million kilometers from the pea Sun (roughly 80% of the distance to the real Sun). Our galaxy cluster (Local Group) is about the size of a solar system in this scale. And the diamater of the observable universe (92 Billion ly) is 4,5 Trillion kilometers in this scale which is 0,5 ly.
Just to clarify, some may think youre saying Andromeda is 5 billion lightyears away. You should have added the approximated distance in lightyears, in your case just below 2.9 million lightyears i believe.
justin brah, We don’t. The Oort Cloud has never been observed. Therefore, we don’t know if it exists at all. There was a guy, named oort, who made it up in hopes that it would explain comets. But new observations show that comets look a lot like asteroids.
If we put a star at a distance of a single human Step and star twalking, we would have to cross Uranus orbit to get outta Milky Way. Tough shit when you look at how far the next Star is. It will take our current fastest Jet Plane that flies at 1220 km/hr around 2.2 millions years to reach the Next Human Step, Proxima Century. There are 25000 million such stars in our galaxy only. And there are trillions and trillions such galaxies in observable universe alone which itself is estimated as only 0.2% of the total universe lmao.
@@boonslang6689 Nice analogy, but some of these numbers are a little off. The Columbia reached 28000 km/h in 1981. As far as spacecraft, Voyager 1 reached 60 000 km/h. With current existing technology, a manned flight could be made in roughly 13000 years. A nuclear drive could do it in a single millennia. When you start considering that in just 117 years, we've gone from a wooden & canvas plane that flew at 56 km/h, to space probes reaching speeds of hundreds of thousands of km/h with the aid of gravity, we're a whole lot closer to interstellar travel than people think. Many of us today will be alive to see telemetry from the first probe to reach another star system. With the pace of current technological development, it is not inconceivable that we may even live to see the first humans reach another star system.
One of the unforgettable moments that lead to me getting a physics degree was when an older boy ( I was around 7, he around 15), while walking me home at night, asked me if I knew how far were the stars? This was the 50s and so space travel had hardly begun, let alone general awareness of matters astronomical. I told him I did not know, and, although I forget his exact words, he was able to convey to me the staggering truth of it all. We walked the rest of the way home in silence because I was literally shocked and lost for words.
Indeed. And we have avoided this fact (ridiculously insurmountable distances) ever since. Pretending just a little more, each decade, that we're right on the cusp of actually travelling anywhere in space, other than maybe the moon once again if we're lucky. We've convinced ourselves our reach as a human race goes beyond the paper - thin wrap around our own planet. 😉
Nothing is more fascinating nor mind blowing as space facts...kind of sobering though...we live in an ocean of exotic planets that we can never know ..they exist just like our earth..
Really good video. Puts the scale into understandable perspective. Honestly, seeing our sun is a pea and Betelgeuse is a car is an insane representation.
What really puts it to scale is that car Betegeuse is way over on the East coast, BUT the distance is measured going WEST out across the pacific, across asia/europe then landing on the East Coast from over the Atlantic.
Not only what daemonhat said but electrons aren't actual objects, but electromagnetic waves with a probability of being close to the proton (but they could be anywhere really). I mad this gfycat.com/HorribleAllGermanshepherd little anymation recently were I pretended that electrons are spheres (which they aren't) to compare its weight to that of a proton and I also made this imgur.com/a/0TFn0 periodic table, where each element sticks out proportionally to its calculated radius. It might give you at least some idea.
Toemelii electrons are particles, and like any other particles they have wave properties... Also don't know why you said electromagnetic waves that's completely different thing.
Gareth Dean The trouble is at school you learn the solar system type model of atoms which is easy to visualise but wrong. Once you get into quantum physics the picture becomes a lot more complex with the particles behaving like waves and visualising it gets harder. Then you go even deeper and realise protons and neutrons behave the same but are made up of quarks and the picture gets harder and harder to imagine!
yeah thanks loads (sarcasm) I stopped watching the video. We went to the moon using imperial units to build the space craft. Where did YOUR metric country go?
This is a profoundly educational video, you have expanded so many people's imaginable reference of distance. You did so, very simply and effectively as well. Today I comprehend why you have amassed such a following considering what a superficial glance doesn't demonstrate about your depth. Well done, you have exceptional humility too. Great content Cody, keep up the good work. People like you bring so much and so many people the scientific community, which serves mankind indefinitely.
Moonrazor King A stupid comment . The flat earthers find it hard to believe that the Earth is a sphere but they’re wrong. Galileo fought against the “hard to believe” theory that the Earth is the centre of the universe let alone the solar system and he was found to be right. Evolution as a theory was hard to believe but rigorous scientific method proved it right... Gravity is a theory, lets see you jump out of an aeroplane and prove gravity wrong.
Hey Cody. I've got a challenge for you. Try to figure out the COLDEST temperature of a flame. Maybe try different fuels or different environments. Would be a great learning experience for a lot of viewers and myself. Hope to see if this gets accepted.
Yep. I know there are different ignition points for fuels but don't know which are "Colder" than others. Like I said, would be could if he could distinguish which are "colder" and "hotter".
+Cody'sLab please Cody! This would be fascinating. (Ignore my profile picture's hand gesture. I'm huge fan of science and you. This is not sarcasm. [Shit, I'm losing my credibility fast. Better stop here.])
"So, at this scale, to place the nearest star we are going to have to leave town...did I say town....I meant state!" :) awesome demonstration of the amazing distances in space.
Ronald Eddy Jr I walked into the ‘puter room during the video trip to Alpha Centauri. Recognized 80 into SlC, then north on 15 to Downey cutoff and on up to Downey. Thought my kid shot a dash vid coming in from Tooele! Instead, a vid made by a scientific Utahn with only a hint of accent! 'Morble' gives it away. Very cool vid on our need to create warp space without scrunching everything between points A and B.
Truly amazing demonstration, gives us a glimpse of how grand the universe is. I thought for a moment Proxima centauri would be at the edge of the field, didn't know it would be 125 miles away even on such a small scale..
hellelujahh That's true people haven't evolved to process such huge numbers and distances. Good though because it's fun being spun out by things like this.
So cody i quess u believe in the iss, please explain the speeds of the ball in comparison to the iss is out there to say the least, how can the earth be spinning at 1025 mph and the iss supposed orbit of 17,500mph, let alone the earth hurtling around the sun at 66,000mph and traveling thru the galaxy at 500,000mph and the can take steady videos and clear pics and vids how is this even possiball, it would look like the fastest long exposure ever being as blurry as can be, but yet we see sometimes on iss it spins and moves oh so slowly or is that because im a stupid flat earther some might say, let alone see no satilites ever not in one vid or pic provided from the iss, so explain the crazy fuckin theory boys n girls, correct me if im wrong, and u think we came from monkeys come give everyone a break, with ur scientism bs.
“Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s peanuts to space.” Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
+ Bob Smith. Kinda silly bunch, us humans. We measure something like interstella distances, make a scale model, then feel satisfied that we actually have the concept licked... ...but it gets worse... ...we realise maths/numbers cannot ever come to an end, invent a mere name like "infinity" and imagine that we actually understand THAT???? WTF??! Finally, via said maths, we discover things like "Infinitly dense black holes", feel comfortable that none of that stuff really matters, and carry on killing each other over oil, money, power and other real important stuff. At least quantum mechanics has the decency to be utterly baffeling...
There's only one more thing to emphasize: gravity is FAR the weakest of the basic forces of nature. Yet that is what binds together that little material compared to that huge distance that can be passed by at a very-very-very limited speed by that force.
Space Engine gets the sheer distance across the best. 4LY is a long way bro. First time I played, I located Proxima Centauri and went towards it. After about a minute of going about 12c I was thinking "damn how far is this thing?" I cranked up to 1LY/s and I shot past it lmao
Nice job. Wow. I knew it was a large distance, but this really puts it in perspective. We are definitely on our own. Hopefully we can keep the earth running for a while longer.
It's all bullshit, there is nu endless vacuum. The stars you see in the night sky are attached to the firmament, and are no more than frequencies of light. The other stars of the "solar system" are only wandering stars on the firmament. That has been known for thousands of years until the heliocentric bullshit unrealistic model took over.
Stars have to be that far away from each other, if they get too close bad things happen. Scales in space are on another level from what you are use to here on Earth. Cody is only talking about the nearest star, which is 4.3 LY from Earth, our nearest galaxy, Andromeda, is 2 million LY away from the Milky Way. There are billions and billions of galaxies spread across a universe on a scale that we can't really grasp the size of.
I'm none of the above, although in your little mind you would wish I was just trolling take a month to watch the stars every night and I dont mean in a smartphone app they haven't changed in thousands of years how is it possible if we're tossing through space with the solar system and the galaxy? these are some serious questions about the heliocentric model people are starting to ask
The thing that has long amazed me about the size scale of the universe is just how astoundingly slow the speed of light is compared to the size scale of the universe. We tend to think of the speed of light as fast. That’s only by human standards. On the scale of the universe it’s insanely slow imho.
It feels insanely slow to you because we have an peculiar relationship with time. For us, 100 years is enormous, it is our entire existence. But really 100 years is nothing for the universe. It wouldn't matter much if the speed of light would be a billion times faster or slower, sure it would take a billions times more or less time for light to travel distances, but in the end it would still be nothing compared to infinity.
That is a good point you make Flyfeuhhh. Velocity after all is simply defined as change in distance / change in time. So two way to express what I said above about how slow the speed of light is, is to simply recast that as the speed of light is fast but the universe is so INSANELY large (obviously). Or it's only slow for beings like us that have such insanely short life spans.
1:35 - 1:47 I almost cried from an overdose of cuteness when you brought out the magnifying lens: you actually made them regardless of them being that small.
He probably needed to meet his grandmother or something who lives outside of the town lol. So he was like why not just shoot a video while on the way there.
The Chemistry Nerd the other night I drove from 30 miles north of Milwaukee to Chicago just to listen to the song lake shore drive while driving down lake shore drive
+ The Chemistry Nerd Yeah, he shoulda gone for a scale of a nice, even, one-to-a-trillion. Then he'd only have had to drive a mere 25 miles. Of course, he'd also have to use that magnifier a lot more to show us the scaled-down stars and planets.
@@yungpo9853 We're the apex predator, can traverse the entire planet, can heal ourselves remarkably...we are absolutely a successful species what we want now is to expand beyond that success. However, taking in mind that rat race with ourselves never ends. :)
@@spiritualopportunism4585 Didn't say we were a failure currently. But if by 8019 we haven't traveled the stars we've failed. Our spieces will have to travel to different places in the universe to ensure our survival.
I love a good "scale of the universe" video and this is among the best! It's hard to grasp how far away objects in the universe really are, but most of us know what a long drive in a car feels like. Speaking of which, it would be worth noting how the speed of light scales to this model. I think it would be about the speed of a banana slug if it wasn't in a particular hurry!
It blows my mind that even on this miniature scale, it still takes hours to drive to the nearest star. And that the gravitational influences for such seemingly small objects can reach so far and be noticeable
@@ridethroughlifertl Some basic napkin math that was only trying to be in the ballpark (not going for super accuracy), I'm getting about 12,500x the speed of light. He took a trip that would take a little over 4.3 years at the speed of light, in 3 hours.
@@StormsparkPegasus Very cool. That's the kind of thing I was interested in. Thanks for doing that. I figured because a 3-hour drive can seem to take forever, it's nothing compared to the many multiple generations it would take to get anywhere cosmically, even at lightspeed.
@@ridethroughlifertl Just keep in mind when I said basic napkin math, it was VERY basic napkin math. No relativity, length contraction, time dilation, or anything like that. Of course, in reality, if you head off to Alpha Centauri at 99.9999% (ish, not exact) the speed of light, to you it would only seem like a few hours, but the rest of the universe would see you taking the trip in ~4.3 years.
I love simple but mind blowing stuff like this. I already knew it, but every time I see someone try to explain the vastness of the universe I always am awed by the immensity.
When put to that scale, yeah. Certainly makes you feel small. And thats just the nearest star. Imagine the scales for galaxy, and the galaxys' beyond. Wish I was born 200 years from now :/
@@danthemansmail Knowing mankind, you may be right. I like to think we will have put aside our differences by then. reached a balance with the planet in terms of resources. I suppose it's the rules of progression that excite me the most . 500 years ago, we were crossing the Atlantic in 2 months. 100 years ago, it was a week. 20 years ago, you could in 2 hours (via the Concorde) . Now there's someone in the International Space Station whipping around the planet every hour. While I'm certain we won't be reaching another star system, but travelling to Mars and back in a few days seems plausible.
JoraForever Seriously, giving imperial measurements for his (probably primarily) American viewship is cool, but you really can't take anybody of the many other channels seriously who ignore metric in this context. Edited for clarification
BoarhideGaming Just because he is American and uses American measurements to satisfy his widely American audience shouldn't make it so that you don't take him seriously. While I can understand your point, it makes me sad that Cody has been receiving much hate just over the fact that he uses American measurements, because I am an American viewer and am used to the imperial system.
I know it is hard enough to make these videos as it is much less have 2 sets of measurements to put out (and lets not forget about the Kelvinites,(but they can probably convert it in their heads) but it would be nice. I lose interest when I watch something with Metric measurements because it's like a foreign language to me, which will not stick in my head either. I grew up in the 70s and went threw the attempt at converting the U.S. to metric. The only thing I got from that is twice as many tools to fix my car. They should have did it the old fashioned way (possibly ancient to some of you) and just RIPPED the Imperial system away and said "live with it". But thank you to all that put both. Much appreciated!
JoraForever im from Australia and the onpy thing i have trouble with is Fahrenheit most other forms of measurement wherer celcius, inches or feet i easily understand
In average there is only few atoms worth of matter in cubic meter of space. We can't make that good vacuum. And all the time everything gets further away from each other, density gets smaller
@@SteveMHNgalaxies spheres of influence may collide with each other but the stars & planets within them are so tiny astronomically speaking that the chance of 2 stars colliding is said to be 1 in a trillion.
Two analogies that might be easier to visualize: -at the scale where Neptune’s orbit is 1 millimetre in diameter, Proxima is about 4.5 metres away -at the scale where the distance from the Earth to the Sun is 1 mm, the distance to Proxima is about 270 m (roughly the length of a suburban residential street)
Cody: "I'm sorry, Officer Einstein; I didn't know how fast I was going." Einstein: "Shameful. I'll write you a warning this time, but the next time you might not be so lucky. A hyperlight speed collision is hazardous to your health. Don't do it again."
This is by far the greatest video to show the scale of space. The thought of radish seeds and peas 125 miles from each other and all that nothing when blown up to scale is kind of frightening, really. I'm a little late saying it, but thanks, Cody.
@@skeeter197140 why is CGI not real? Ok, I'll bite, what was I going to say? But I'm thinking I'd say space travel by T-NASA is by the same people who produce SATAN Claus, just with a bigger budget.
@@JesusIsaFlatEarther I just don't see what CGI has to do with Cody's video, or my comment. But you seem slightly unhinged, and it's making me a tad uncomfortable, so I'm going to just politely excuse myself.
@@skeeter197140 They use CGI because the vacuum of space is scientifically impossible. So everything they show about space is either CGI or from low Earth orbit.
No doubt my friend. Life begets life. We are made from the atoms in our universe, the chemical changes those atoms go through and the biological reactions that make up life. If Earth can do it...
Well, just think about this, if the universe is infinite the possibilities are endless so, there might be millions of guys like him trying to show people like us how fucking big the universe is.
We will be forever stuck here on this earth. Thats okay though. Humans are born here, they belong here and the universe made damn sure that there wont be any exceptions to this rule. Voyager 1 needs aprox. 70000 years to alpha centauri with the speed of 21km per second.
@@SaithMasu12 To be fair, on the grand scale of things 70000 years isn't quite a long time. Voyager 1 was launched 43 years ago, and without a doubt there will be much faster space probes launched within the near future (assuming NASA doesn't keep getting bombarded with budget cuts).
@@supersoviettaco no need to worry completely on NASA, the ball has started rolling recently, meaning private companies are jumping onboard, it's like the automotive industry compared to space, the year is around 1901 right now, give it some time, they said before the wright brothers flew that it just wasn't possible for man to take flight EVER. it's only been 120 years since, i think that's pretty good progress considering we did nothing but kill each other for the last few thousand years.
Pulse propulsion could get us there in as little as 8 decades. Besides, there’s no real reason to go to another start system now; our main goal should be to build an O’Neil Cylinder.
“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.” ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Aside from illustrating the distance to that star, which is also cool, this illustrates how cool an accomplishment the voyager probe is. Science for the win.
Paranormal Encyclopedia: The most amazing thing about voyager is the fact that we can still (a bit) communicate with it and all the information it has passed to us on its voyage. The fact that it will be the first human made object to reach interstellar space is no more of a nice curiosity. I'm sure we will create probes that will overtake it, in dreams perhaps even manned missions. But yes, it is cool, and I'm sure will always be remembered.
I really love this video. But it's actually terrifying that we are so small and such a fragile life form on a random rock in space. Brings it all into perspective a bit.
this is exactly what people don't understand. We are so tiny, on a so tiny planet, in a so tiny solar system on a so tiny galaxy... have you seen how many galaxies there is so far away from us? look at the photos from the space telescope, it is amazing...and...disturbing...
We are not that small. In fact, we are way closer to the size of the observable universe than to the size of a planck length (smallest distance in physics). Also, the observable universe is far too small mathematically speaking. For instance, If you fold a paper 103 times, the thickness of the paper is already larger than the observable Universe, which is 10^26 meters in diameter. 10^26 is a very small number in Mathematics. For instance, Googol is 10^100, Googolplex is 10^10^100, yet both are still very small numbers in Math.
The stars you see in the night sky are attached to the firmament, and are no more than frequencies of light. The other stars of the "solar system" are only wandering stars on the firmament. That has been known for thousands of years until the heliocentric bullshit unrealistic model took over.
Somebody, I forget who, said you shouldn't feel so bad about your insignificance because it takes something as big as a universe to produce something like you. That's a lot of infrastructure.
I nearly unconciously cried when he was travelling to place the star. I was like ENOUGH, YOU'VE TRAVELED ENOUGH, STOP IT, I DON'T WANT TO KNOW. HOW F@#&-*G FAR IS IT??!! HOW SMALL WE ARE?????!!!!!!
The volume of the observable universe is ~3.6x10^80 Cubic Meters. A human takes up ~0.1 m^3. Or rather, you take up 1/3600000000000000307409205720723958754374371817423089397567280740026905028139679744th, or 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000028% of the universe, at least for the moment. The volume of the observable universe is expanding at the speed of light, so that number is shrinking at a cubic rate.
Frank22 Frank22 Frank22 Well, in order to give you a better feel: In my opinion the dream of being part of a race that could have the capability to handle such a huge task is overwighting the fact that we are so "small ".
It's not that there aren't any aliens, it's just that there is so much space that thousands of interstellar empires could occupy the same space and never notice each other.
@Fiery - Alessandro is most likely an ESL learner. Would we rather him type in "proper" Italian? Meanwhile, the Flattardian luddites are in here, spamming their flat antiscience. Peace!
It's really amazing that stars have the gravity power they have on planets and other stars when you see their size compared to distance from each other.
Good observation. A snail is a bit too slow, at 1m/h (metre per hour). Assuming it never stops, it would go a bit under 40 kms in 4.3 years, so about 20% the speed of light. A caterpillar at this scale would travel at around 7 times the speed of light.
What boggles my mind even more is how photons have no clock. As soon as they are emitted they instantly get absorbed at their destination no matter how far that destination is. It could be billions of light years away
@John J. Rambo This is where multi universes come to play. A thing that exists even beyong a photon is the very waves we create in thought. There is no barrier. Humans instinctively hide behind a rock, but even the densest Earth material cannot escape permeation.
Thanks for the effort, thanks for driving the 2 times 200+ km, Cody. Great visualiation. Even 200 km are not so easy to visualize, let alone astronomical distances... Living in a huge space on a tiny spec, aren't we crazy to fight each other...? Love'n'peace to all.
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
I did. That's why I'm here. Now I'm doing another video on the distance of galaxies from Alpha Centauri and I had to drop off a globular cluster on what you call "Earth".
It makes me mad that there is so much out there and never go. I was born in a time to understand it enough to know how much I am missing.its depressing.
By putting this all into perspective, it gives me a great feeling of peace and takes so much off my mind knowing that the piddly little crap in my life that causes what seem to be such big troubles, like ex-wives, girlfriends, slow internet etc and the bigger, existential worries of politics, societal problems etc are just so insignificant. Earth and all we know are like a drop of water atop an ocean wave during a storm. Thanks for this
I'm always impressed by the "power" (properties) of photons. Something that can travel immense distances at unimaginable speed, survive the various phenomenon of the universe and yet hit my retina without damaging it.
To anyone who loves astronomy in any way, and has a decent computer, I HIGHLY suggest you get SpaceEngine (It's free!). It's like a telescope, but you can explore the entire universe, wherever (And also whenever) you want, without any physical limitations, like the speed of light. It's essentially a simulator. You can look at real objects like the ones Cody talked about in this video, or you can view the trillions of other objects that DON"T exist. SpaceEngine generates realistic planets via procedural generation. You can view atmospheric, physical, and orbital detail about every little detail of an object.. The universe does have an end in that game, but I doubt you'll get to it (And yes, there are also black holes). However, if you're looking to actually create and smash planets apart in a realistic manner, then Universe Sandbox 2 is your game.
Nope! Not in the slightest bit. I don't like it when people compare the two at all. I haven't played No Man's Sky, but I know that the two are definitely different.
! play it you can go about 1,000 + times the speed of light. You can change the speed of which the camera goes too! From the speed of which an ant moves to traveling past 300 galaxies every five seconds!. did we mention that some planets have life?
As a silly side-note: if our sun is being represented by a pea 4 mm in diameter, by the same scale the largest known star (UY Scuti) would need to be represented by a sphere approximately 6.94 m or 22.76903 ft in diameter.
On the other hand, if the pea's mass also represented the sun in mass, then a same density pie representing one of the most massive objects knows, Sag A*, would be only ~65cm in diameter. However, if the peas diameter represented the suns mass the Sag A* pea would be twice the size of Mt Everest!
This really helps putting it into perspective and these are just our nearest stars. It's mind warping to even think about it. It's also sad because even though there is likely life out there in the galaxy and the universe we're never going to see it. Not unless we can find some wormhole way of travel to any point at an instant.
I literally had no idea that an astronomical unit was derived from the observation of the transit of Venus and thus established its _exact measurement_ of 149,597,870,700 meters in 2012.
A friend of mine who graduated in visual arts was writing a script for a sci fi movie and asked me to explain to him the distances between the stars. His enthusiasm dwindled quickly after that. This is why sci fi is so unrealistic considering the vast distances. A movie like "Alien" would have the crew travel for thousands of years not decades, assuming the technological advances to even make that kind of ship possible and it wouldn't transport raw ore rather highly precious refined cargo for the energy required for such a travel. Assuming it would even make economic sense for stuff we couldn't find on Earth, the largest solid surface planet in the solar system, or in the asteroid belt, millions of times closer than the nearest star.
“Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s peanuts to space.” Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. this comment was actually originally posted by someone else on this very video, SAI Peregrinus
@@mebezaccraft I just re-watched this video and realised that Cody also mentioned something else from The Hitchiker's Guide. The character Ford Prefect who was from somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse. I'm wondering if that's the car that Cody wanted to use to represent Betelgeuse. Time stamp 9:19
I love this type of videos, it puts into perspective a lot of things and also humble us to know that we are extremely far from visiting other planetary systems.
@@SherwinGooch Not quite, the amazing thing about Carl Sagan wasn't just his knowledge, it was his enthusiasm, the way he spoke, the way he could simplify stuff, so that almost everyone would understand the subject in question. "if you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. "
You believed him? He has zero proof about the distance and you bought it? 😂😂😂😂 Besides, Jesus has already been there. He created it, so why not listen to the manufacturer, rather than the used car salesman? 😂😂😂😂😂
Wow. Brilliant video. It's almost unfathomable how big the universe really is. Sad to say it but its difficult to imagine humans ever visiting the stars on this scale. Great work. Outstanding.
Incredible demonstration. Thank you for putting in the time to explain all that! If anyone is interested, I did a little calculations regarding time dilation to Alpha Centauri: The distance to Alpha Centauri (from the perspective of someone standing on Earth) is 4.367 light years. If one were to travel to Alpha Centauri (from Earth) at 85% the speed of light (using antimatter propulsion), the journey time from the perspective of the traveler on the ship would be: 2.706 years, while the journey time from the perspective of someone standing on Earth would be: 5.137 years.
What's about that "High Valley chemical and laboratory supply" flashing in at 4.33?
Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy reference.
The answer you are looking for is 42
under 1000 miles. they are lights of some kind in the sky. star in a petri jar. not planets.
Masterful advertising... We are all curious cats...
Subliminal
This guy drove 200 km to put a bean on the ground
GO SCIENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He could have used a tiny little Cream of Wheat granule (0.5 mm) and instead drove just 8 miles.
Just imagine if they forgot to record it 😂
In a similar video a man drove from england to spain as he took a golf ball as the size of the sun.
Pure respect!
An English guy crossed the British Channel and ended up in Pamplona to show the same...amazing in both cases.
Good thing he used a pea. Just imagine if he used an apple. He'd have to drive to Alaska.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
But he'd get to explore British Columbia along the way.
Hed have to go to the moon 😂
Andrew frrrrrr
Much further probably...
"we're gonna have to leave town." That's where the realization of cosmic spectrum of distance really hit.
John Pettit it probably hit even harder when he said he left the state
If you want to watch a cool series on how large the universe actually is, there's a man on UA-cam named David Butler with a video series called How Far Away Is It. It is extremely well done. He has a lot of other content too that is definitely worth watching.
This is my favorite thing about space. How it isn't comprehendible how large it is. No mind on this Earth can begin to imagine its vast size.
Great video Cody. One of my favorite subjects to be talked about :)
Fermi's paradox resolved.
We don't see aliens here because the distances in space are simply mind-bogglingly too great.
Some engineering feats just ain't gonna happen. No-how, No way, Never.
Yeah, that should manage to put pretty much anyone back in place.
I've been passively into astronomy for at least 40 years and the scales and distances of the universe never cease to amaze me. The human brain is simply not built deal with this stuff. Love it! Great video.
But we should be shooting off probes like Voyager all the time. We could be learning so much more. There should be 1,000 Voyager like probes in every direction from the Earth collecting data. We're like blind people using one finger to read braille when we have ten.
This really is amazing, how far planets and stars are. Makes me think again, where did this whole universe come from ? ... Where did we humans come from? ... the distances are shocking ...
@@talalmalki but maybe the distanced aren't so big. we just lack the understanding to bend space and time. the answer is right under our noses.
@@talalmalki *s
Who said that?
*No matter how big you imagine the scale of the universe, it's bigger!*
That's deep
Nope it’s even bigger than that
@@David-gb1qn *Nope. It's still bigger than bigger than that.*
ico Nope bigger
@@David-gb1qn pretty sure it's EVEN BIGGER
I love the determination Cody has. Most other Science channels would say, "So, the nearest star is so far we'd have to leave the state, but that's too far away so here's some numbers: *puts numbers up on screen*" But, no. Cody up and drives outside of the state and puts the tiny peice of paper on the gravel road, like, 125mi away.
Cody rules!!
he subbed to the work harder, not smarter... I'm the opposite.
and luckily gasoline is cheap in the US
So how far is andromeda?
@ Eric:
It is so far out that in this scale nothing on the Solar System would sufice [but stil not SO FAR that Proxima Centauri could be usefull]
so the furthest weve gone is 1.3cm, and we want to go 202km
Let's start by going those 1.3cm again and then go the extra meter.
jso the furthest we've sent humans is 1.3 cm. He showed the voyager probe which is well past pluto
HILARIOUS
If Voyager was headed to Proxima Centauri it'd be 0.04 percent of the way there by now. I don't think man is leaving the solar system lol
it's worse than that. The furthest we've gone (the moon) is 2 mm - though what's a little factor of 6 at that point...
Even with your downsized scale my mind still couldn’t accept what I was seeing.
I’m glad you made this video, my mind needed this challenge. Thank you
The human brain is not able to comprehend 1 millions points and still see scale (just 1mm dots over 1 meter squared, [ seems that our eyes are the limitation] ), we seem to be able to understated with our minds as much as 1m^2 data points, yet this massive scale does only allow us to imagine to the nearest star. We are are so far away from being able to imagine our galaxy that it is as in-obtainable to our conscious minds as the technology required to make cell phones are to primates...
Scale is everything
this guy has no clue how far stars are total bs! Astrology is not science it’s pseudoscience
It's all unprovable nonsense. Research flat earth and the Firmament. All those lights in the sky are CLOSE and TINY, not "light years" away. Look into the Inverse Square Law of Light to understand that the term "light years" is a physical IMPOSSIBILITY.
Definitely the best demonstration I've ever seen to truly understand the distances. Thanks for sharing your work.
Coming back to this, I really appreciate how he recorded the entire drive.
too bad this is all just theory and not proven. NASA lies about everything!!
3cs3hs hahah....is this true
@@eugenef0zzy yes that is true, go watch a time lapse video of the stars at night. They all move around the north star, in perfect circles but after a long period of time goes by you'll see that the stars all move the exact same distance relative to there appeared 2D distance away from the north star. How is it possible, from our perspective, that this occurs, if all stars are at different distances from earth (some thousands of time farther away from each other) and yet they all appear to move from our perspective at the exact same speed, all in THE EXACT SAME DIRECTION?? Stars should be moving all over the place from our perspective, not all in perfect circles.
3cs3hs couldn’t that just be rotation of our planet on its axis from our point of view? I’m not saying I trust nasa, or any government organization...
In your scaled system a snail would move at the speed of light :D
8 minutes takes light to travel from Sun to Earth. Between Sun and Pluto it takes more than 5 light-hours.
You are right Andrew, that's so mind boggling considering light travels 670.6ish million mph and takes that long just to go through our solar system.
Well I'd have to say that's a super fast space snail! =)
give that snail some redbull hey?, good advertisement though!
I was thinking humans wanting to travel to the stars is like an ant wanting to travel around the world. kinda hard when you're dwarfed by a Pea.
these scale visulaistions never get old. And never stop to impress.
I could watch em all day !
Absolutely. Great comment.
Additonal facts: if the distance between Proxima Centauri and the Sun on on this scale was 202 km, and in reality it's 4,2 ly away, it means that 1ly =42 km on the scale.
This means that Andromeda galaxy, which our Milky Way is about to merge with in 5 Billion years forming Milkdromeda, on this scale is 120 Million kilometers from the pea Sun (roughly 80% of the distance to the real Sun).
Our galaxy cluster (Local Group) is about the size of a solar system in this scale.
And the diamater of the observable universe (92 Billion ly) is 4,5 Trillion kilometers in this scale which is 0,5 ly.
Wow
This was amazing information
Just to clarify, some may think youre saying Andromeda is 5 billion lightyears away. You should have added the approximated distance in lightyears, in your case just below 2.9 million lightyears i believe.
I'd also like to add, if I may, that the nearest star is so far away that we can't even get there by traditional means. That, I can tell you!
Wow, that is some MiB crazy Universe inside Universe stuff.
Crazy to think that a "pea" is exerting gravitational pull on an object 97 feet away....
In fact way, waaaay further if you consider the Oort cloud
AInfrEEzebr,
The Oort cloud has never been observed.
@@owenkeller2748 how do we know such a place exists?
justin brah,
We don’t. The Oort Cloud has never been observed. Therefore, we don’t know if it exists at all.
There was a guy, named oort, who made it up in hopes that it would explain comets. But new observations show that comets look a lot like asteroids.
@@owenkeller2748 pretty sure Voyager observed it when it went through and also discovered the heliosphere
Now lets see you put Andromeda on this scale. I think you may have to leave the planet for that one.
David Henderson Yes! ... and then the Universe?
If we put a star at a distance of a single human Step and star twalking, we would have to cross Uranus orbit to get outta Milky Way. Tough shit when you look at how far the next Star is. It will take our current fastest Jet Plane that flies at 1220 km/hr around 2.2 millions years to reach the Next Human Step, Proxima Century. There are 25000 million such stars in our galaxy only. And there are trillions and trillions such galaxies in observable universe alone which itself is estimated as only 0.2% of the total universe lmao.
@@boonslang6689 wow. lotsa zeros bro
Ha Haha
David, you is sarcastically savage!👍
@@boonslang6689 Nice analogy, but some of these numbers are a little off. The Columbia reached 28000 km/h in 1981. As far as spacecraft, Voyager 1 reached 60 000 km/h. With current existing technology, a manned flight could be made in roughly 13000 years. A nuclear drive could do it in a single millennia. When you start considering that in just 117 years, we've gone from a wooden & canvas plane that flew at 56 km/h, to space probes reaching speeds of hundreds of thousands of km/h with the aid of gravity, we're a whole lot closer to interstellar travel than people think. Many of us today will be alive to see telemetry from the first probe to reach another star system. With the pace of current technological development, it is not inconceivable that we may even live to see the first humans reach another star system.
One of the unforgettable moments that lead to me getting a physics degree was when an older boy ( I was around 7, he around 15), while walking me home at night, asked me if I knew how far were the stars? This was the 50s and so space travel had hardly begun, let alone general awareness of matters astronomical. I told him I did not know, and, although I forget his exact words, he was able to convey to me the staggering truth of it all. We walked the rest of the way home in silence because I was literally shocked and lost for words.
Indeed. And we have avoided this fact (ridiculously insurmountable distances) ever since. Pretending just a little more, each decade, that we're right on the cusp of actually travelling anywhere in space, other than maybe the moon once again if we're lucky.
We've convinced ourselves our reach as a human race goes beyond the paper - thin wrap around our own planet. 😉
That's poetry man.
Nothing is more fascinating nor mind blowing as space facts...kind of sobering though...we live in an ocean of exotic planets that we can never know ..they exist just like our earth..
Cool memory.
…..and that’s the story of how Andrew lost his virginity
Really good video. Puts the scale into understandable perspective. Honestly, seeing our sun is a pea and Betelgeuse is a car is an insane representation.
What really puts it to scale is that car Betegeuse is way over on the East coast, BUT the distance is measured going WEST out across the pacific, across asia/europe then landing on the East Coast from over the Atlantic.
Cody you should do a similar video, but with distances and sizes of atoms in molecules and electrons, neutrons in atoms etc.
would still need a football field just for the atom. plus we don't know exactly how big, or in this case, small, an electron is.
Not only what daemonhat said but electrons aren't actual objects, but electromagnetic waves with a probability of being close to the proton (but they could be anywhere really). I mad this gfycat.com/HorribleAllGermanshepherd little anymation recently were I pretended that electrons are spheres (which they aren't) to compare its weight to that of a proton and I also made this imgur.com/a/0TFn0 periodic table, where each element sticks out proportionally to its calculated radius. It might give you at least some idea.
We could use its minimum possible size as determined by experiment. He could do a helium atom and explain the nuclear shell model.
Toemelii electrons are particles, and like any other particles they have wave properties... Also don't know why you said electromagnetic waves that's completely different thing.
Gareth Dean The trouble is at school you learn the solar system type model of atoms which is easy to visualise but wrong.
Once you get into quantum physics the picture becomes a lot more complex with the particles behaving like waves and visualising it gets harder.
Then you go even deeper and realise protons and neutrons behave the same but are made up of quarks and the picture gets harder and harder to imagine!
Thanks for using the metric system!
César Córdova boooooooooo
Metric system is used in science, too...
more like thanks for using normal system
si, aguanten los metros centimetros segundos, que me vienen con onzas, patas, dedos, ojos jajaja
yeah thanks loads (sarcasm) I stopped watching the video. We went to the moon using imperial units to build the space craft. Where did YOUR metric country go?
This is a profoundly educational video, you have expanded so many people's imaginable reference of distance. You did so, very simply and effectively as well. Today I comprehend why you have amassed such a following considering what a superficial glance doesn't demonstrate about your depth. Well done, you have exceptional humility too. Great content Cody, keep up the good work. People like you bring so much and so many people the scientific community, which serves mankind indefinitely.
While the focus is on size and distance - watching this again years later I'm struck by the power of gravity, and it's reach.
@@terrylandess6072 Yea. . . my nuts have dropped 2 centimeters in the last year.
Amen on that !
Fuck with the scientific community. This should be knowledge of the common people. Agree with the rest.
if two galaxies collided head on, it's likely not a single planet or star would collide due to the sheer open space between them.
Wow
It is hard to believe that such little objects at these immense distances are influencing eachother by gravity.
If its hard to believe, than it is most probably not true.
Stars barely affect one another. It's the big bad black hole in the center of the milky way that makes them all stay nice and organized in the galaxy.
The distances are small tho
Moonrazor King A stupid comment . The flat earthers find it hard to believe that the Earth is a sphere but they’re wrong. Galileo fought against the “hard to believe” theory that the Earth is the centre of the universe let alone the solar system and he was found to be right. Evolution as a theory was hard to believe but rigorous scientific method proved it right... Gravity is a theory, lets see you jump out of an aeroplane and prove gravity wrong.
@@moonrazorking2366 what horrible reasoning
Hey Cody. I've got a challenge for you. Try to figure out the COLDEST temperature of a flame. Maybe try different fuels or different environments. Would be a great learning experience for a lot of viewers and myself. Hope to see if this gets accepted.
Make the coldest flame possible?
Yep. I know there are different ignition points for fuels but don't know which are "Colder" than others. Like I said, would be could if he could distinguish which are "colder" and "hotter".
Bisceps Gaming great idea!
+Cody'sLab please Cody! This would be fascinating.
(Ignore my profile picture's hand gesture. I'm huge fan of science and you. This is not sarcasm. [Shit, I'm losing my credibility fast. Better stop here.])
Please :)
"So, at this scale, to place the nearest star we are going to have to leave town...did I say town....I meant state!" :) awesome demonstration of the amazing distances in space.
That blew my mind. I love these kinds of visualisations. It really puts things into perspective.
Subtle, really subtle
"We're gonna need a bigger boat," moment.
Aaaaand that's why I'm dubious of claims made that we've had E.T. visitors.
Ronald Eddy Jr I walked into the ‘puter room during the video trip to Alpha Centauri. Recognized 80 into SlC, then north on 15 to Downey cutoff and on up to Downey. Thought my kid shot a dash vid coming in from Tooele! Instead, a vid made by a scientific Utahn with only a hint of accent! 'Morble' gives it away. Very cool vid on our need to create warp space without scrunching everything between points A and B.
Truly amazing demonstration, gives us a glimpse of how grand the universe is. I thought for a moment Proxima centauri would be at the edge of the field, didn't know it would be 125 miles away even on such a small scale..
It’s kind boggling
I thought maybe a couple of blocks away, but 125 miles… wow. At that scale, it’s hard to wrap your head around just how massive the universe is.
@@Earth1218 it’s to impossibly big for puny humans to explore in our short time existence
I know all of this already, but it fucks me up every time I see it again
Same. How many times can one's mind be blown over and over again?
fugithegreat Minds weren't made to withstand that! Such cruelty...
Same. Nothing new here to me, but it is still incredible when presented like this.
hellelujahh That's true people haven't evolved to process such huge numbers and distances. Good though because it's fun being spun out by things like this.
So cody i quess u believe in the iss, please explain the speeds of the ball in comparison to the iss is out there to say the least, how can the earth be spinning at 1025 mph and the iss supposed orbit of 17,500mph, let alone the earth hurtling around the sun at 66,000mph and traveling thru the galaxy at 500,000mph and the can take steady videos and clear pics and vids how is this even possiball, it would look like the fastest long exposure ever being as blurry as can be, but yet we see sometimes on iss it spins and moves oh so slowly or is that because im a stupid flat earther some might say, let alone see no satilites ever not in one vid or pic provided from the iss, so explain the crazy fuckin theory boys n girls, correct me if im wrong, and u think we came from monkeys come give everyone a break, with ur scientism bs.
Did anyone else see the space monster ant almost destroy Alpha Centauri?
that was a reaper
@@esteban20969564 I'll stop the reapers
The reapers are coming
lol
Don't fear the reaper
"Betelgeuse, a red supergiant, which would be about the size of a car" while the Sun at this scale is about a pea. Mah brain. I love space
beatlejuice.....lol
Ed i hope you do know betelgeuse is correcr
So would that mean VY Scuti would ve the size of a Catapillar dump truck?
Pseudo science hurts your brain eh?
@@mysticnomad3577 ???
Those distances are mind blowing and that was just to our nearest star. Great presentation!
“Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly
big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the
chemist, but that’s peanuts to space.” Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide
to the Galaxy.
yeh and we think we understand it ALL ???
+ Bob Smith. Kinda silly bunch, us humans. We measure something like interstella distances, make a scale model, then feel satisfied that we actually have the concept licked... ...but it gets worse... ...we realise maths/numbers cannot ever come to an end, invent a mere name like "infinity" and imagine that we actually understand THAT???? WTF??!
Finally, via said maths, we discover things like "Infinitly dense black holes", feel comfortable that none of that stuff really matters, and carry on killing each other over oil, money, power and other real important stuff.
At least quantum mechanics has the decency to be utterly baffeling...
waIT WAS THAT CHEMIST PART IN THE ACTUAL QUOTE BECAUSE CODY STOPPED AT A CHEMIST PLACE ON THE DRIVE THERE
+Niko Yes, it is in the actual quote, well caught mate.
This was actually a really good scale to try to get across the concept of the kinds of distances the universe operates on
There's only one more thing to emphasize: gravity is FAR the weakest of the basic forces of nature. Yet that is what binds together that little material compared to that huge distance that can be passed by at a very-very-very limited speed by that force.
Our time as homo sapiens on earth is half the size of a pea if the age of earth was as long as a football field (100m)
Why actually?
Hey, that would make a good video.
Space Engine gets the sheer distance across the best. 4LY is a long way bro. First time I played, I located Proxima Centauri and went towards it. After about a minute of going about 12c I was thinking "damn how far is this thing?" I cranked up to 1LY/s and I shot past it lmao
Nice job. Wow. I knew it was a large distance, but this really puts it in perspective. We are definitely on our own. Hopefully we can keep the earth running for a while longer.
Woa, that car drive was unexpected. I had no idea stars are THAT far away ._. Good job visualizing that Cody!
Raren I was surprised he didn't hop on a plane until going to Betelguese.
I feel like comments using the creators name are so superior and get likes XD
It's all bullshit, there is nu endless vacuum. The stars you see in the night sky are attached to the firmament, and are no more than frequencies of light. The other stars of the "solar system" are only wandering stars on the firmament. That has been known for thousands of years until the heliocentric bullshit unrealistic model took over.
Stars have to be that far away from each other, if they get too close bad things happen. Scales in space are on another level from what you are use to here on Earth. Cody is only talking about the nearest star, which is 4.3 LY from Earth, our nearest galaxy, Andromeda, is 2 million LY away from the Milky Way. There are billions and billions of galaxies spread across a universe on a scale that we can't really grasp the size of.
I'm none of the above, although in your little mind you would wish I was just trolling
take a month to watch the stars every night
and I dont mean in a smartphone app
they haven't changed in thousands of years
how is it possible if we're tossing through space with the solar system and the galaxy?
these are some serious questions about the heliocentric model people are starting to ask
The thing that has long amazed me about the size scale of the universe is just how astoundingly slow the speed of light is compared to the size scale of the universe. We tend to think of the speed of light as fast. That’s only by human standards. On the scale of the universe it’s insanely slow imho.
Yup!
About two years to Proxima, I think...
More like 4 years
It feels insanely slow to you because we have an peculiar relationship with time. For us, 100 years is enormous, it is our entire existence. But really 100 years is nothing for the universe. It wouldn't matter much if the speed of light would be a billion times faster or slower, sure it would take a billions times more or less time for light to travel distances, but in the end it would still be nothing compared to infinity.
That is a good point you make Flyfeuhhh. Velocity after all is simply defined as change in distance / change in time. So two way to express what I said above about how slow the speed of light is, is to simply recast that as the speed of light is fast but the universe is so INSANELY large (obviously). Or it's only slow for beings like us that have such insanely short life spans.
1:35 - 1:47 I almost cried from an overdose of cuteness when you brought out the magnifying lens: you actually made them regardless of them being that small.
I can't believe you did the drive BUT it does explain perfectly how far that closest star is.
We appreciate your efforts !!!! Even here in Thailand.
He probably needed to meet his grandmother or something who lives outside of the town lol. So he was like why not just shoot a video while on the way there.
Damn driving 125 miles for a videos, that's commitment
The Chemistry Nerd the other night I drove from 30 miles north of Milwaukee to Chicago just to listen to the song lake shore drive while driving down lake shore drive
the aesthetic commitment
The Chemistry Nerd he drove that to get lab supplies from a shop
He went there to buy lotto tickets.
+ The Chemistry Nerd
Yeah, he shoulda gone for a scale of a nice, even, one-to-a-trillion. Then he'd only have had to drive a mere 25 miles.
Of course, he'd also have to use that magnifier a lot more to show us the scaled-down stars and planets.
6:34 I'm actually from the Alpha Centauri system, and I remember like it was yesterday when that giant space ant roamed around 🐜🐜🐜😔😔😔
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Space 1999! ;-)
The giant space ant is a threat to our very galaxy and must be eradicated!!!
2019: travelling between star is possible in near future
8019: still stuck on earth
Must've been the space litter.
If at the year 8019 we are still stuck on Earth then we have a species have failed.
@@yungpo9853 We're the apex predator, can traverse the entire planet, can heal ourselves remarkably...we are absolutely a successful species what we want now is to expand beyond that success. However, taking in mind that rat race with ourselves never ends. :)
@@yungpo9853 ALSO SPACE LITTER, AHHHHHHHH :)
@@spiritualopportunism4585 Didn't say we were a failure currently. But if by 8019 we haven't traveled the stars we've failed. Our spieces will have to travel to different places in the universe to ensure our survival.
I love a good "scale of the universe" video and this is among the best! It's hard to grasp how far away objects in the universe really are, but most of us know what a long drive in a car feels like.
Speaking of which, it would be worth noting how the speed of light scales to this model. I think it would be about the speed of a banana slug if it wasn't in a particular hurry!
It blows my mind that even on this miniature scale, it still takes hours to drive to the nearest star. And that the gravitational influences for such seemingly small objects can reach so far and be noticeable
good point
I'd like to know the relative-to-light-speed he was driving in this scale. Might be interesting.
@@ridethroughlifertl Some basic napkin math that was only trying to be in the ballpark (not going for super accuracy), I'm getting about 12,500x the speed of light. He took a trip that would take a little over 4.3 years at the speed of light, in 3 hours.
@@StormsparkPegasus Very cool. That's the kind of thing I was interested in. Thanks for doing that. I figured because a 3-hour drive can seem to take forever, it's nothing compared to the many multiple generations it would take to get anywhere cosmically, even at lightspeed.
@@ridethroughlifertl Just keep in mind when I said basic napkin math, it was VERY basic napkin math. No relativity, length contraction, time dilation, or anything like that. Of course, in reality, if you head off to Alpha Centauri at 99.9999% (ish, not exact) the speed of light, to you it would only seem like a few hours, but the rest of the universe would see you taking the trip in ~4.3 years.
Seeing it at this scale, it's mind boggling to see how the gravity from that little pea can affect the gravity of things so far away
shows how much gravity expands
It’s a little spooky
Gravity is like Thanos.
Its ineneviteable.
@@carpballet spooky action at a distance?
Especially because its effect diminishes by the square of the distance.
I love simple but mind blowing stuff like this. I already knew it, but every time I see someone try to explain the vastness of the universe I always am awed by the immensity.
When put to that scale, yeah. Certainly makes you feel small. And thats just the nearest star. Imagine the scales for galaxy, and the galaxys' beyond. Wish I was born 200 years from now :/
@@jamesobrian1643 Be glad you weren't, we will be reaching peak die-off just about then I figure.
@@danthemansmail Knowing mankind, you may be right. I like to think we will have put aside our differences by then. reached a balance with the planet in terms of resources. I suppose it's the rules of progression that excite me the most . 500 years ago, we were crossing the Atlantic in 2 months. 100 years ago, it was a week. 20 years ago, you could in 2 hours (via the Concorde) . Now there's someone in the International Space Station whipping around the planet every hour. While I'm certain we won't be reaching another star system, but travelling to Mars and back in a few days seems plausible.
Are you also laughing at how silly it is that he thinks he knows all of these measurements and distances of made up constructs in our sky=“universe”
This is a truly "brilliant" demonstration. "Stellar" explanation, Cody.
thank you cody for converting the most important measurements to metric, other youtubers suck
JoraForever Seriously, giving imperial measurements for his (probably primarily) American viewship is cool, but you really can't take anybody of the many other channels seriously who ignore metric in this context.
Edited for clarification
BoarhideGaming Just because he is American and uses American measurements to satisfy his widely American audience shouldn't make it so that you don't take him seriously. While I can understand your point, it makes me sad that Cody has been receiving much hate just over the fact that he uses American measurements, because I am an American viewer and am used to the imperial system.
I know it is hard enough to make these videos as it is much less have 2 sets of measurements to put out (and lets not forget about the Kelvinites,(but they can probably convert it in their heads) but it would be nice. I lose interest when I watch something with Metric measurements because it's like a foreign language to me, which will not stick in my head either. I grew up in the 70s and went threw the attempt at converting the U.S. to metric. The only thing I got from that is twice as many tools to fix my car. They should have did it the old fashioned way (possibly ancient to some of you) and just RIPPED the Imperial system away and said "live with it". But thank you to all that put both. Much appreciated!
JoraForever im from Australia and the onpy thing i have trouble with is Fahrenheit most other forms of measurement wherer celcius, inches or feet i easily understand
Well good for you Zakyta_4, GOOD FOR YOU!!!
I always wondered how it was possible for two galaxies to pass through each other. Now I know: lots of space.
In average there is only few atoms worth of matter in cubic meter of space. We can't make that good vacuum. And all the time everything gets further away from each other, density gets smaller
That used to blow my mind to think that two galaxies could collide but none of the stars are likely to collide, just interact.
@@SteveMHNgalaxies spheres of influence may collide with each other but the stars & planets within them are so tiny astronomically speaking that the chance of 2 stars colliding is said to be 1 in a trillion.
Always more space in space!
Maybe we’re doing it right now.
Two analogies that might be easier to visualize:
-at the scale where Neptune’s orbit is 1 millimetre in diameter, Proxima is about 4.5 metres away
-at the scale where the distance from the Earth to the Sun is 1 mm, the distance to Proxima is about 270 m (roughly the length of a suburban residential street)
Cody, you are getting a speeding ticket, for exceeding the speed of light.
Cody: "I'm sorry, Officer Einstein; I didn't know how fast I was going."
Einstein: "Shameful. I'll write you a warning this time, but the next time you might not be so lucky. A hyperlight speed collision is hazardous to your health. Don't do it again."
Buds420King random stoner is stoned, surprise surprise.
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Ethan Shen I get what you're going for, but, he is no where near the speed of light. (:
it was time warp and if he was going faster than the speed of light he would go around the earth 6.7 times in 1 second
This is by far the greatest video to show the scale of space. The thought of radish seeds and peas 125 miles from each other and all that nothing when blown up to scale is kind of frightening, really. I'm a little late saying it, but thanks, Cody.
I love the CGI universe, just wish it was real.
@@JesusIsaFlatEarther Ok. I'll bite. Why is it not real? And I think I know what you are going to say already.
@@skeeter197140 why is CGI not real? Ok, I'll bite, what was I going to say? But I'm thinking I'd say space travel by T-NASA is by the same people who produce SATAN Claus, just with a bigger budget.
@@JesusIsaFlatEarther I just don't see what CGI has to do with Cody's video, or my comment. But you seem slightly unhinged, and it's making me a tad uncomfortable, so I'm going to just politely excuse myself.
@@skeeter197140 They use CGI because the vacuum of space is scientifically impossible. So everything they show about space is either CGI or from low Earth orbit.
I bet theres a guy or being, in another galaxy doing the same thing.
Are we in diffrent galaxy go sattelite helping us talk to each other
Haha talking about our solar system 😂
Maybe they’re already or have explored us. Those pentagon ufo videos seem like alien probes.
No doubt my friend. Life begets life. We are made from the atoms in our universe, the chemical changes those atoms go through and the biological reactions that make up life. If Earth can do it...
Well, just think about this, if the universe is infinite the possibilities are endless so, there might be millions of guys like him trying to show people like us how fucking big the universe is.
This kind of crushed my hope humanity will ever make it to another star
Not unless we turn ourselves into machines. Also a damn good reason to take better care of our home world.
We will be forever stuck here on this earth. Thats okay though. Humans are born here, they belong here and the universe made damn sure that there wont be any exceptions to this rule. Voyager 1 needs aprox. 70000 years to alpha centauri with the speed of 21km per second.
@@SaithMasu12 To be fair, on the grand scale of things 70000 years isn't quite a long time. Voyager 1 was launched 43 years ago, and without a doubt there will be much faster space probes launched within the near future (assuming NASA doesn't keep getting bombarded with budget cuts).
@@supersoviettaco no need to worry completely on NASA, the ball has started rolling recently, meaning private companies are jumping onboard, it's like the automotive industry compared to space, the year is around 1901 right now, give it some time, they said before the wright brothers flew that it just wasn't possible for man to take flight EVER. it's only been 120 years since, i think that's pretty good progress considering we did nothing but kill each other for the last few thousand years.
Pulse propulsion could get us there in as little as 8 decades. Besides, there’s no real reason to go to another start system now; our main goal should be to build an O’Neil Cylinder.
“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
That's why we have hyperspace acceleration systems...
Shouldn’t we put a paper bag over our head or something? :)
As long as you don't panic you'll be fine :)
And....bullshit to me,or anyone that can see right through this huge and really far out lie!
@@pedrovaldez8503 no I'm pretty sure that was the work of Douglas Adams
Aside from illustrating the distance to that star, which is also cool, this illustrates how cool an accomplishment the voyager probe is. Science for the win.
Paranormal Encyclopedia: The most amazing thing about voyager is the fact that we can still (a bit) communicate with it and all the information it has passed to us on its voyage. The fact that it will be the first human made object to reach interstellar space is no more of a nice curiosity. I'm sure we will create probes that will overtake it, in dreams perhaps even manned missions. But yes, it is cool, and I'm sure will always be remembered.
This is the best video ever for getting a grip on the true distance of Proxima Centauri et al.
I really love this video. But it's actually terrifying that we are so small and such a fragile life form on a random rock in space. Brings it all into perspective a bit.
this is exactly what people don't understand. We are so tiny, on a so tiny planet, in a so tiny solar system on a so tiny galaxy... have you seen how many galaxies there is so far away from us? look at the photos from the space telescope, it is amazing...and...disturbing...
nick cline Psalms 8:4-8, Psalms 147:4
We are not that small. In fact, we are way closer to the size of the observable universe than to the size of a planck length (smallest distance in physics). Also, the observable universe is far too small mathematically speaking. For instance, If you fold a paper 103 times, the thickness of the paper is already larger than the observable Universe, which is 10^26 meters in diameter. 10^26 is a very small number in Mathematics. For instance, Googol is 10^100, Googolplex is 10^10^100, yet both are still very small numbers in Math.
The stars you see in the night sky are attached to the firmament, and are no more than frequencies of light. The other stars of the "solar system" are only wandering stars on the firmament. That has been known for thousands of years until the heliocentric bullshit unrealistic model took over.
Somebody, I forget who, said you shouldn't feel so bad about your insignificance because it takes something as big as a universe to produce something like you. That's a lot of infrastructure.
*here comes my existential crisis kicking in*
I nearly unconciously cried when he was travelling to place the star. I was like
ENOUGH, YOU'VE TRAVELED ENOUGH, STOP IT, I DON'T WANT TO KNOW. HOW F@#&-*G FAR IS IT??!!
HOW SMALL WE ARE?????!!!!!!
Frank22 I felt worthless before, and knew that things are far. But this pea stuf made the whole thing worse.
oh shit waddup
The volume of the observable universe is ~3.6x10^80 Cubic Meters. A human takes up ~0.1 m^3. Or rather, you take up 1/3600000000000000307409205720723958754374371817423089397567280740026905028139679744th, or 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000028% of the universe, at least for the moment. The volume of the observable universe is expanding at the speed of light, so that number is shrinking at a cubic rate.
Frank22 Frank22 Frank22 Well, in order to give you a better feel: In my opinion the dream of being part of a race that could have the capability to handle such a huge task is overwighting the fact that we are so "small ".
I love videos like this where the distances are, more or less put into relatable metrics
It doesn't matter how many times I see videos like this...it never gets old trying to wrap my head around the scale of everything...
This makes me feel such existential dread. We’re so small. No wonder we haven’t met aliens.
We need warp drive technology. So get to work.
I expect it within the next 5,000 years.
@@jmitterii2 i doubt it with what
We may be small but we are still the universe’s way of acknowledging its existence.
It's not that there aren't any aliens, it's just that there is so much space that thousands of interstellar empires could occupy the same space and never notice each other.
Sorry, "Brandon Larkin" is on our avoid list. You may or may not be the "Brandon Larkin" we are avoiding, but we're not taking any chances.
Far is now more meaningfull to me.
Infinite Plane Society The flat earth society has members all around the world
@Infinite Plane Society. Flat on a map plane.
Spelling still isn't.
@Fiery - Alessandro is most likely an ESL learner. Would we rather him type in "proper" Italian?
Meanwhile, the Flattardian luddites are in here, spamming their flat antiscience.
Peace!
It's really amazing that stars have the gravity power they have on planets and other stars when you see their size compared to distance from each other.
This is a nice video. Most people don't understands how big actually the universe is, so this helps a lot.
Yeah, Mandingo's dick doesn't seem that impressive anymore.
I love how speed of light in scale would be like a snail or a caterpillar moving very slowly.
Good observation. A snail is a bit too slow, at 1m/h (metre per hour). Assuming it never stops, it would go a bit under 40 kms in 4.3 years, so about 20% the speed of light. A caterpillar at this scale would travel at around 7 times the speed of light.
The universe is made from treacle.
I love how ignorant you are and that you actually believe nASaaaa
What boggles my mind even more is how photons have no clock. As soon as they are emitted they instantly get absorbed at their destination no matter how far that destination is. It could be billions of light years away
@John J. Rambo This is where multi universes come to play. A thing that exists even beyong a photon is the very waves we create in thought. There is no barrier. Humans instinctively hide behind a rock, but even the densest Earth material cannot escape permeation.
Thanks for the effort, thanks for driving the 2 times 200+ km, Cody. Great visualiation. Even 200 km are not so easy to visualize, let alone astronomical distances...
Living in a huge space on a tiny spec, aren't we crazy to fight each other...? Love'n'peace to all.
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
Honestly one of the most insane videos I've ever seen, perfect wish fulfillment for a space buff like me! You represented this perfectly.
he is the man, great demo
*Imagine, if right now someone far away in deep space is explaining our planets just like in the video*
I did. That's why I'm here. Now I'm doing another video on the distance of galaxies from Alpha Centauri and I had to drop off a globular cluster on what you call "Earth".
More like SOMETHING. 😂
No I wont
This is the best video i've seen about the perspective of distance between planets and stars
It makes me mad that there is so much out there and never go. I was born in a time to understand it enough to know how much I am missing.its depressing.
By putting this all into perspective, it gives me a great feeling of peace and takes so much off my mind knowing that the piddly little crap in my life that causes what seem to be such big troubles, like ex-wives, girlfriends, slow internet etc and the bigger, existential worries of politics, societal problems etc are just so insignificant. Earth and all we know are like a drop of water atop an ocean wave during a storm. Thanks for this
Hey, try this: get off social media and life will improve
This is so brilliantly simplified, even I can understand it, AND I am entertained as well!
Thanks for the conversion into the metric system. Helps a lot...
I'm always impressed by the "power" (properties) of photons. Something that can travel immense distances at unimaginable speed, survive the various phenomenon of the universe and yet hit my retina without damaging it.
The effects of no mass
@@MEXPCGAMER That's what I told her when she asked if I was in yet.
Why should light start travelling anywhere at such a speed: why doesn't it simply diffuse relatively slowly away from its source ?
light is not matter
Guess it's called "Space" for a reason
To anyone who loves astronomy in any way, and has a decent computer, I HIGHLY suggest you get SpaceEngine (It's free!). It's like a telescope, but you can explore the entire universe, wherever (And also whenever) you want, without any physical limitations, like the speed of light. It's essentially a simulator. You can look at real objects like the ones Cody talked about in this video, or you can view the trillions of other objects that DON"T exist. SpaceEngine generates realistic planets via procedural generation. You can view atmospheric, physical, and orbital detail about every little detail of an object.. The universe does have an end in that game, but I doubt you'll get to it (And yes, there are also black holes).
However, if you're looking to actually create and smash planets apart in a realistic manner, then Universe Sandbox 2 is your game.
Do remember that most of the systems are purely fictional.
Andrew Kovnat no mans lie?
Nope! Not in the slightest bit. I don't like it when people compare the two at all. I haven't played No Man's Sky, but I know that the two are definitely different.
! play it you can go about 1,000 + times the speed of light. You can change the speed of which the camera goes too! From the speed of which an ant moves to traveling past 300 galaxies every five seconds!. did we mention that some planets have life?
I love spaceengine
You made a "pea-clipse"!
If you look back at earth from far enough away you can see we don't exist yet.
Gamma Light are you suggesting we can fix our mistakes?!
mrmexicano64 the light hasnt reached yet
Alvis Gwa, from that far away, we don't even exist yet!! Perhaps Australopithecus, but nothing resembling modern man...
@@shivamdharni3673 Cool, Obama is still president
when did shaggy become an astronomer
@M Chopin you seem to be obsessed with mens asses.
That's when you understand why when galaxies collide and end up mixing, almost no star collide.
As a silly side-note: if our sun is being represented by a pea 4 mm in diameter, by the same scale the largest known star (UY Scuti) would need to be represented by a sphere approximately 6.94 m or 22.76903 ft in diameter.
On the other hand, if the pea's mass also represented the sun in mass, then a same density pie representing one of the most massive objects knows, Sag A*, would be only ~65cm in diameter.
However, if the peas diameter represented the suns mass the Sag A* pea would be twice the size of Mt Everest!
Trigonometry -
is maths that trigger flat earthers
xD
lol
Is that right that the Flat Earth Society is now so popular that it's gone global?
Mister Cynical flat global.
Some mathematicians just call it trigga. But only THEY can use that word.
Amazing. The dedication to emphasize distance made me appreciate this video!
This really helps putting it into perspective and these are just our nearest stars. It's mind warping to even think about it.
It's also sad because even though there is likely life out there in the galaxy and the universe we're never going to see it. Not unless we can find some wormhole way of travel to any point at an instant.
& the wormhole way would be the equivalent of humanity finding a cheat code to be able to travel those vast distances. Possible but very unlikely
I literally had no idea that an astronomical unit was derived from the observation of the transit of Venus and thus established its _exact measurement_ of 149,597,870,700 meters in 2012.
Yeah, that was a mindblower. Three cheers for trigonometry!
yes, but the Venus transit made it so much more accurate.
It was originally measured through the transit of Venus. We now use radar measurements off of Venus and Mercury to refine it much more accurately.
_Cody eats the sun_
Great video man, i really appreciate your effort u made for this video.
*"Betelgeuse is somewhere on the East Coast"*
"Oh, that's not so far..."
*"And that's assuming you started off by travelling west"*
"Oh shit"
hahaahah i died on that part
Lol
Now do a scale distance to the closest black holes ;)
Theres not enough space on the planet
Edit: 142500 km
I mean depends what your scale is, but yeah it would be pretty massive
Yeah the closest black hole is like almost 3000 light years away. would have to circle the earth a few times.
do salieri
Hum, how small of a dot can you make? Maybe use a single atom, then, with the rough math I just did in my head, it should fit on the planet, ha.
A friend of mine who graduated in visual arts was writing a script for a sci fi movie and asked me to explain to him the distances between the stars. His enthusiasm dwindled quickly after that. This is why sci fi is so unrealistic considering the vast distances. A movie like "Alien" would have the crew travel for thousands of years not decades, assuming the technological advances to even make that kind of ship possible and it wouldn't transport raw ore rather highly precious refined cargo for the energy required for such a travel. Assuming it would even make economic sense for stuff we couldn't find on Earth, the largest solid surface planet in the solar system, or in the asteroid belt, millions of times closer than the nearest star.
am I the only one who thinks that the song cody uses for is timelapse is super awesome
Gangsta Hat I wish we knew what it was it sounds so good.
Nope! I agree as well! It was very fitting for the kind of journey he was taking.
i thought it sounded like no mans skys music, and indeed its made by the same musicians
Kalle Höh but that would get copyrighted
nah you cant Copyright no mans skys soundtrack because its procedually generated out of samples the band made
4:32 Cody stopped off at High Valley Chemical & Laboratory Supply 😕👍
No that's a super secret nerd science meeting about taking over the world with lasers oh my god :o
Duuude! It was supposed to be a *super secret* nerd meeting! 😖🔨
“Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly
big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the
chemist, but that’s peanuts to space.” Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide
to the Galaxy.
this comment was actually originally posted by someone else on this very video, SAI Peregrinus
Actually it's 4:33
@@mebezaccraft I just re-watched this video and realised that Cody also mentioned something else from The Hitchiker's Guide. The character Ford Prefect who was from somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse. I'm wondering if that's the car that Cody wanted to use to represent Betelgeuse. Time stamp 9:19
"we're gonna have to leave town".
Goes on a road trip.
"You do realise you were speeding, don't you, sir?"
"Sorry, Officer - I had to go to Alpha Centauri, and I needed to be back by lunchtime".
I love this type of videos, it puts into perspective a lot of things and also humble us to know that we are extremely far from visiting other planetary systems.
Carl Sagan would be very proud of you!
Cody's talent is worth 10x Carl Sagans's.
I love this video. But he forgot the tape measure when he left town...even with technology Proxima Centauri/radish seed has got to be off by feet!
@@SherwinGooch Not quite, the amazing thing about Carl Sagan wasn't just his knowledge, it was his enthusiasm, the way he spoke, the way he could simplify stuff, so that almost everyone would understand the subject in question. "if you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. "
You believed him? He has zero proof about the distance and you bought it? 😂😂😂😂
Besides, Jesus has already been there. He created it, so why not listen to the manufacturer, rather than the used car salesman? 😂😂😂😂😂
@@RMJ1984: So, you're sold by enthusiasm? All he has to do is act EXCITED and you buy it? 😂😂😂😂😂
Wow. Brilliant video. It's almost unfathomable how big the universe really is. Sad to say it but its difficult to imagine humans ever visiting the stars
on this scale. Great work. Outstanding.
Unlikely but not impossible
Holy CRAP! Can you imagine how far away the nearest star would be from our Sun if our Sun was the size of our Sun?
Mind blown.
You may need a roadster to get there. And a helmet.
@@CyberlightFG Uhm.. And snacks! Don't forget the snacks.
@@JoeShopper Don't panic
@@CyberlightFG I never panic when I have my pan-galactic gargle blaster with meh.
Putting things into perspective! This is AWESOME!
It's all bullshit.
JohnnyC Major What is?
This is an extremely valuable exercise in terms of calibrating us on the world in which we live. Thank you for going to the effort, Cody!
Incredible demonstration. Thank you for putting in the time to explain all that!
If anyone is interested, I did a little calculations regarding time dilation to Alpha Centauri:
The distance to Alpha Centauri (from the perspective of someone standing on Earth) is 4.367 light years.
If one were to travel to Alpha Centauri (from Earth) at 85% the speed of light (using antimatter propulsion), the journey time from the perspective of the traveler on the ship would be: 2.706 years, while the journey time from the perspective of someone standing on Earth would be: 5.137 years.