sick animations bro who did em, your dog? haha yeah whatever here's my twitter follow me if you wanna travel at the speed of light: twitter.com/MattColbo
My absolute favourite part of this is that I've seen about 4 or 5 videos made by actual physics professors that try to explain the concept of time dilation this way and this Yo Mama joke right here is UNIRONICALLY the best explained and only one that completely made sense to me. I love this video more than anything
Easily the funniest joke I’ve heard about Einstein’s theory of special relativity today. All the other jokes I’ve heard about Einstein’s theory of special relativity today have been lame.
The first video I ever saw of his was the Tom Scott impression video, and now whenever I watch any of his videos, I'm hearing the dialogue in his Tom Scott impression voice.
Hey Matt, quantum physics grad student here (to be more specific, I do solid state, quantum optics, and quantum electrodynamics). Your explanation was damn near flawless, and very succinct. Excellent job! Do you have a physics background, or was that just an obscene amount of memorization?
@@maxattack3853 They're not contradictory. They're just two different models that happen to work best when applied to two different factors of distance.
It is the last hour of the day here where I live and earlier today I heard a pretty good joke about Einstein. You topped it at the last minute. Congratulations
I never knew how we came to the conclusion that time slowed down as an object speeds up. You explained to me absolutely perfectly and still roasted the hell out of me. Excellent performance.
It doesn't explain one thing though, and I think that thing is really crucial. From the perspective of the person on that train, the same time dilation applies to Matt, so from the person-on-the-train's perspective the time will tick more slowly for Matt standing still. Which means that this is a paradox and this video was a just a very good joke.
@@YuriyNasretdinov its been a while ago, and it was explained to me by my high school teacher and not an uni prof, so take it with a grain of salt, but: What you said is true. For both observers the other one is experiencing time slower, just as movement with constant speed is relative. But in order to return to the earth, you have left on that train, you would have to change direction. And a change of direction at constant speed counts as change in velocity, thus acceleration. You can't tell who is moving and who is stationary but if acceleration comes into play, you can. I don't know of any formulas or whatever that goes more into detail on that though
@@YuriyNasretdinov This is well explained already, and not a paradox. The key is not speed, but ACCELERATION. You need to accelerate to depart the train, and again to turn around and come back. Meanwhile your stationary friend doesn’t feel acceleration at all. THAT decides who will age more. The youtube is full of explanations of this, which are better than my single sentence above.
i can't believe i got baited into hearing another yo mama joke by the same person for the fifth time but what i also can't believe is that it made me laugh
That's what gives the punchline its comedic timing. This was basically a shaggy dog story which goes on so long that you get wrapped up in the story, only to be told the dumbest possible punchline. The surprise makes you laugh -- the joke is so corny and you forgot you were even waiting for a joke that you are shocked. They say that a surprise like that is at the heart of any joke, and it's also why our sense of humor changes and develops: different things surprise us at different ages. We go from peek-a-boo to fart jokes to sarcasm to meta-humor and wind up here with a guy explaining us one of the most important scientific concepts in the modern age as a yo mama joke.
@@gible2330 Same, and then I found out that I am about 5.9 - 6 feet or something, because you can't get the exact measurement. The feet/inches system is chaotic as hell
Honest question Matt, how much time do you put into memorizing your lines so you can deliver them so smoothly, and how many takes does a video like this typically take? Love your videos, and keep it up.
Thank you Dylan! This vid in particular I probably memorized for a cumulative 8 hours over 2 days (not including indirect memorization from writing it), and then filmed for 3 days straight, getting only one usable take at sunset on the last day 😂 got a total of 8 and a half hours of footage. Only reason it took so long was because I wanted to make no mistakes in those 4 and a half minutes, which was tough, but fun :)
I mean, I’ve Matt before, I knew the joke was coming, but then I was like: “Wait, the setup is so long and elaborate that maybe Matt has actually turned into Tom Scott and will from now on simply explain to us complicated things in a more humorous way.” Not gonna lie, he’s got me in the first half, lol
As a physics student I thought this was gonna be about how my mom gets fatter and fatter because she's going at high speed or something, however im not dissappointed.
Was gonna go for the supermassive object that a spaceship is travelling around is forcing it to experience time dilation and then reveal that the object was indeed your mother, but opted against, in honestly though all routes really would have been sufficient lol
"…but how would you attain such a velocity? Well, you would need to be orbiting very close to the event horizon of a supermassive black hole 🕳️. Or possibly, your mom."
@@kostaspatsatzakis9264 Einsteins theory of relativity predicts that the apparent mass of an object which is Travelling at high speed will increase by a factor of 1/sqrt(1-B^2), where B=v/c (v being the velocity of the object and C the speed of light). However this is more complex than that, but the most simple explanation is that mass "increases"
The coolest thing about this is that special relativity can be extended into the theory of general relativity, which takes into account space time and gravitational forces. You can imagine celestial bodies resting on a space time fabric, making a dent in it and pushing the fabric down, which will pull all things towards it. The three major bodies that affect the earth with such a pull is the sun, our moon, and...
I don’t like the sheet of fabric description. If I recall correctly it gets some exponents in Kepler’s laws completely backwards. Been a while since I looked but the point is it’s only useful for a really surface level understanding.
sick animations bro who did em, your dog? haha yeah whatever here's my twitter follow me if you wanna travel at the speed of light: twitter.com/MattColbo
Epic
Better tag Tom Scott, the mans got some solid competition
This is brilliant
That was a relatively funny video
Gabriel Collin Red coat vs Red shirt, I like it
Came here to be insulted, left insulted. +1 would recommend.
We need a jazz version of this beautiful yo mama joke
What a lovely surprise, I'll insult you any time Charles my friend
Ahhhhh it's our local musical genius, we stan bamfs stanning bamfs
No idea why you're here, but I support this wholeheartedly
Well hello Charles..
This was such a charismatic performance you could easily start a cult
Ah would you're cult be interested in some robes?
I’ve really been working on my culty vibe thank you
I'd better introduce you to my good friend Tyler!
@@canopus5896 Would you be able to make one big enough for my mom?
@@MattColbo it’s Wednesday tyler, where’smy tip kiss
My absolute favourite part of this is that I've seen about 4 or 5 videos made by actual physics professors that try to explain the concept of time dilation this way and this Yo Mama joke right here is UNIRONICALLY the best explained and only one that completely made sense to me. I love this video more than anything
Pov: your bully has graduated from med school and is now studying to become a scientist
Ah yes the sequel
@@gloriaramos4468 the sequel to your childhood?
Human Just yeah if your gonna get bullied you might as well learn something
Easily the funniest joke I’ve heard about Einstein’s theory of special relativity today. All the other jokes I’ve heard about Einstein’s theory of special relativity today have been lame.
I have actually seen some good jokes about einsteins theorie of relativity, but that one is the best joke about einsteins theorie of relativity ever
"Theory of special relativity"
Oh shut up, she's still your cousin!
Relative to me, this was a close second.
But were they objectively lame, or just lame relative to this one? 🤔
It's about time
The "here is an equation you are familiar with" bit was honestly way to funny
I had to pause from dying laughing
This feels like Tom Scott but he’s bullying me. He has the red coat and everything...
This seagull, right here, in the middle of nowhere in Russia doesn't look that useful.
Tom Scott doesn't have a red coat, he has a red shirt and a grey hoodie.
@@Crazycrazy13449 yeah but it’s red.
@@Crazycrazy13449 His hoodie is orange. We learned this, guys.
The first video I ever saw of his was the Tom Scott impression video, and now whenever I watch any of his videos, I'm hearing the dialogue in his Tom Scott impression voice.
These videos are impressive as hell. This man didn’t even stutter. He even remembered to swat Alabama away. Matt, you’re one talented dude.
thanks friend :)
@@MattColbo
well put, youtube user crusty dog taint
Well he probably has a teleprompter
@@vladirackpubama6785 I didn't, but I appreciate you thinking I have that kind of money :)
Hey Matt, quantum physics grad student here (to be more specific, I do solid state, quantum optics, and quantum electrodynamics). Your explanation was damn near flawless, and very succinct. Excellent job! Do you have a physics background, or was that just an obscene amount of memorization?
Thanks Mito! I do not have a background in physics no, just a lot of study and memorizing the script word for word lol, thanks again mate!
If your a quantum physicist, shouldn't you disagree?
@@maxattack3853 not if matt is right
Edit: that joke flew right over my head.
@@armokil it's a joke about quantum physics and gravitational physics being contradictory
@@maxattack3853 They're not contradictory. They're just two different models that happen to work best when applied to two different factors of distance.
The hardest part of landing a relativity joke is the timing.
A
yeah you can't take it lightly
and if it doesn't land right, from your perspective everyone's reactions would play out in slow motion
It's relatively difficult.
Let’s be honest. It’s all relative
Okay, it's official, this channel is next level.
Always has been
hahahah thank you very much Bryce, my friend
@@MattColbo I hope you go far man. You're hella smart and entertaining
@@seanA416 same bro he's the next big thing
Bryce, You're now on graenolf and Matt's videos, and I am scared
I was genuinely so interested by the physics lesson that by the time it got to the end I forgot the joke was coming and it was great
If you morph into an educational channel I'm doomed
KEEP YOURSELF ON YOUR SIDE OF THE FENCE MISTER!
He's turning into Tom Scott for real
@@Antwonio9 he really is
@@Antwonio9 Tom Scott but more insults
@@Splinter-ge9pf And no excessive hair-touching and no red t-shirt, but yeah lol
Wow first time ever liking a comment giving it the point hundred jump yay
super helpful visuals. thank you
ripping pages out of your book (but, only the worst pages, and then making them even worse)
Oh hi there Redlight.
2.4k likes but only 3 replies including mine wtf
@@stupidvideoman3187 ikr
"You're hardly 5'8", bro that was personal
Bruh, you’re like a passive-aggressive Tom Scott.
@Tara Tom Scott is just passive
amen lmao
Nothing passive about that... that was just aggressive
Never forget the field.
Tom Scott abs Vsauce
I forgot this was even supposed to be a joke until the last sentence, I was so surprised to hear that lmao
I forgot that this was supposed to be a joke until I read this comment-
The build 4 minute build up, consisting of the smartest things I’ve heard today, all for a your mom joke
Perfection.
So Einsteins marriage was relative too?
His first one wasn’t but he left his first wife for his cousin
there’s a joke here somewhere and it’s really good
@@RetiredRobot strong family bonds right there
Daaaamn you right
relative to yo mama
“Hey what if Tom Scott hurt my feelings”
“Brilliant idea! Give him a show!”
tom scott + vsause + insults = this guy
Exactly what I was thinking
Wait how did Tom Scott hurt his feelings
I like how this video helped me understand special relativity than any other content I've ever seen
This was some of the most effort I’ve ever seen put into a “your mom” joke.
Welcome to Matt Colbo
Stop spoiling the video man im on the first minute,put a spoiler warning or something like that
@@doublemosasaur5091 don't read the comments when watching a video if you don't want it spoiled.
Don't spoil it;
@@k-techpl7222 could've been the top comment at that time.
It is the last hour of the day here where I live and earlier today I heard a pretty good joke about Einstein. You topped it at the last minute. Congratulations
hahahaha had a good chuckle at this
@@MattColbo it is a serious honour to have made the person on the internet who makes chuckle the most, chuckle. I'm gonna remember this for a while
Don't leave us hanging; what was the joke?
I never knew how we came to the conclusion that time slowed down as an object speeds up. You explained to me absolutely perfectly and still roasted the hell out of me. Excellent performance.
Why even go to college when you can just subscribe to Matt Colbo for constant learning and abuse for free.
Well college sounds like the exact same, just with worse learning and more abuse
The dedication to a 4 and a half minute script just to call my mom fat. Brilliant
she'll be devastated from this one
Even if you time travel decades into the future, you Dad still won't be home with the milk
Newton: has sick hair
Einstein: married his cousin
feels bad
Also Newton: died a virgin
if i do both, will i become a great physicist?
@@kolleghessig sure
I was actually Isaac Newton's barber. True story!
shoulda gave him a tight fade
my violin teacher used to play violin w/ einstein (he was really bad apparently)
So, is yo mama still fat?
@@MattColbo And then a haircut.
Can confirm that, I was the scissor
jokes on you, I haven't reached 5'8 yet
this is the single best explanation of time dilation coupled with a your mom joke humanity has ever seen.
It doesn't explain one thing though, and I think that thing is really crucial. From the perspective of the person on that train, the same time dilation applies to Matt, so from the person-on-the-train's perspective the time will tick more slowly for Matt standing still. Which means that this is a paradox and this video was a just a very good joke.
@@YuriyNasretdinov its been a while ago, and it was explained to me by my high school teacher and not an uni prof, so take it with a grain of salt, but: What you said is true. For both observers the other one is experiencing time slower, just as movement with constant speed is relative. But in order to return to the earth, you have left on that train, you would have to change direction. And a change of direction at constant speed counts as change in velocity, thus acceleration. You can't tell who is moving and who is stationary but if acceleration comes into play, you can. I don't know of any formulas or whatever that goes more into detail on that though
@@YuriyNasretdinov This is well explained already, and not a paradox. The key is not speed, but ACCELERATION. You need to accelerate to depart the train, and again to turn around and come back. Meanwhile your stationary friend doesn’t feel acceleration at all.
THAT decides who will age more.
The youtube is full of explanations of this, which are better than my single sentence above.
Bar's really high on that one
Coincidentally, it's also the ONLY one.
“You’re smart, which is good, cause you’re hardly 5’ 8”” had me in tears. 49.9 percentile gang rise up
I mean, it's not gonna be that up is it?
You wish you could rise up, but we all know that's not gonna happen. You're only gonna fall down as you get older.
85% percentile gang
At least we fit better in tunnels?
@Joseph Ruffing aame
“You’re smart, which is good because you’re hardly 5’8”
Bro don’t attack me like that 😭
i can't believe i got baited into hearing another yo mama joke by the same person for the fifth time but what i also can't believe is that it made me laugh
Wait what are the other ones
my b I found the playlist for anyone else interested ua-cam.com/play/PLW1hp8R0Li9sVoYJRCBof8jYt77lv3JNY.html
This is a 4 minute yo mama joke I bet
dammit
It always is, thats what makes it the greatest joke
MattColbo would never do such a thing!
We've been waiting lol
@@MattColbo the ultimate goal is to see you on an American late night show telling one of these jokes.
“Let’s pretend you are not in a loveless marriage.”
Joke’s on you, I’m not even in a relationship to begin with.
I forgot there was a joke coming and was just enjoying the science lesson ...
True, he explained it so well!
That's what gives the punchline its comedic timing. This was basically a shaggy dog story which goes on so long that you get wrapped up in the story, only to be told the dumbest possible punchline. The surprise makes you laugh -- the joke is so corny and you forgot you were even waiting for a joke that you are shocked. They say that a surprise like that is at the heart of any joke, and it's also why our sense of humor changes and develops: different things surprise us at different ages. We go from peek-a-boo to fart jokes to sarcasm to meta-humor and wind up here with a guy explaining us one of the most important scientific concepts in the modern age as a yo mama joke.
@@dogchaser520 you shouldve found a way to tie in a real yo mama joke at the end there
she's so fat, escape velocity from her surface would be higher than light speed.
I hope this is a set up to a Your Mom joke
EDIT: I was pleasantly unsurprised
"Your wife's car, 'cause you can't afford one-" 💀
Now this is quality content
1st ig
@@aaronacuna5073 precisely!
Confusing concept explained in a timely manner.
It’s also relatively funny.
"Because you're hardly 5'8"
*looks around scared for hidden cameras*
Wait I’m 5’7 but I tell people I’m 5’8 how the fuck does he know?
*Looks up what 5’8 is in cm*
@@gible2330 accurate
@@gible2330 accurate
@@gible2330 Same, and then I found out that I am about 5.9 - 6 feet or something, because you can't get the exact measurement. The feet/inches system is chaotic as hell
This man be Vsauce and Tom Scott at the same time impressive
Man just explained the theory of relativity to make a “your mom” joke, now that’s what I call dedication, great job!
Hey I’m not 5’8”
close enough ;)
@@MattColbo Feelsbadman you’re too accurate
@@Coolmark123 lol yeah
I don't even know how tall this is. The metric system is just better.
@@zekiz774 LMAO
Okay. A funny joke about space. And it is about time.
Why can’t teachers be like this, adding jokes into science lessons.
About your mom?
well, they would probably get fired if they called a students mother overweight
one of my science teachers does that
@@qualia765 thats not your science teacher, thats the homeless dude outside McDonald’s
@@explorerssss no lol
The video was so long that the your mum joke actually got me
But, from the perspective of a traveler at the speed of light, the video took no time at all.
the amount of times I've been roasted in this video
Learn from school: No
Learn from Matt: Yes
These jokes are really just a way to teach us about physics aren't they?
Yes
And the matriarch's hatred of exercise.
Nah, they’re to whittle away at your insecurities about your marriage and mother’s body mass.
I don’t know why, but this video made me laugh harder than I’ve laughed for the past year. Jolly good job.
Astrophysicist here: math checks out
Aye, I was skeptical at first but after applying the right coefficients to the formula, she still remains densely overweight.
Even applying general relativity the correction due to her gravitational field checks out.
I mean it doesn't tho..
"But you're smart, which is good, cause you're hardly 5'8""
**cries in 5'3"**
edit: im like 5'7 now so this quote hits harder
Trying to laugh confidently in 5.9, but then realizing that it's only one inch bigger.
Dw, I'm 5'0
Chuckles in 6'5", pretending he knows of the sadness.
@@PopeGoliath *GIVE ME YOUR HEIGHT*
I am thirteen and 5'7.
I was waiting for the joke part but then I realized. He's constantly using me as an example.
“Your wife's car, cause you can't afford one" - daaamnnnn
shots fired
bro, that's just the first one. there's *more*
@@andreimoga7813 are you KIDDING ME
Ur profile pic is such a flex. I have been teying to beat that game for ages.
@@SoVidushi Save yourself while you still ccan
@@adamherzenberg9162 sed
Oh so you learned the script eventually lol
through fire and flames i've carried on
@@MattColbo Dragonforce?
@@smog1926 Darude sandstorm
Man, i just found your channel. Thanks for the laugh!
I got destroyed at “you’re barely 5’8,” but by the end no trace of me was left.
Maybe the real jokes we made was the friendship we made along the way.
friendship is a joke? then i guess that makes me a very serious person because im never laughing
The real friends are the jokes we made along the way
«Salamis off my chest» was uncanny. I am literally eating a salami sandwich sitting in my bed holding a plate in front of my face.
This feels like a mix between Tom Scott and Casually Explained
Perfect comparison!
It does!
I get a veritasium at 1.5 speed vibe
i learned so much in this small amount of time i didn’t even process the joke at the end, i was still rolling at “you’re smart but you’re barely 5’8”
"Which is good because you're hardly 5'8"
You assume that I am taller than 5'0
bruh no joke, that's the best explanation of theory of relativity I have ever read so far
The “because you’re hardly 5’8”” line hurt
This is the most science any man has ever put into calling my mom fat.
A physics lesson and a joke all in one video? Please give this man 10 million subscribers
I started watching this video at 6' 1", I left embarrassed about my mother and feeling barley 5' 8"! Well done sir!
I am barely 5'6" so jokes on you
You can go blind feeling barley.
It amaizes you how this vid reduces your self esteem to a grain of what it used to be
This joke took so long I thought I was travelling at relativistic speeds...
I would like to see you literally just explain scientific topics. No joke, just the science. You're like Vsauce
But with bunch of funny insults and your mom jokes mixed in between.
only, less creepy and more vibin' like a jock (for some reason)
But it's missing out some key details xD
he's talking to me like I'm smart, but he gets me at the dumbest jokes
“Which is good cause your hardly 5’8”
I felt this pain in every 5’3’s of my body
The "you are hardly 5'8" part. I felt that.
- a 5'4 guy
Honest question Matt, how much time do you put into memorizing your lines so you can deliver them so smoothly, and how many takes does a video like this typically take? Love your videos, and keep it up.
Thank you Dylan! This vid in particular I probably memorized for a cumulative 8 hours over 2 days (not including indirect memorization from writing it), and then filmed for 3 days straight, getting only one usable take at sunset on the last day 😂 got a total of 8 and a half hours of footage. Only reason it took so long was because I wanted to make no mistakes in those 4 and a half minutes, which was tough, but fun :)
Great question and great response
@@sightorvision Great reply
@@Based-Anti-Theist Great secondary reply to the great reply about the great question and great answer
@@MattColbo still less then what my mom takes to get from the bed to the kitchen
Ah yes, Conservation of MumMass. The forgotten chaper of Feynman's Lectures on Physics.
I mean, I’ve Matt before, I knew the joke was coming, but then I was like: “Wait, the setup is so long and elaborate that maybe Matt has actually turned into Tom Scott and will from now on simply explain to us complicated things in a more humorous way.”
Not gonna lie, he’s got me in the first half, lol
More like, the seventh eights😅
Matt is a poet, an educated comedian, and an icon. I hope his channel takes off.
a photon checks in to a hotel. "have you any luggage sir?" no I'm travelling light .....
As a physics student I thought this was gonna be about how my mom gets fatter and fatter because she's going at high speed or something, however im not dissappointed.
wouldn't she be getting slimmer because she going at a high speed?
Was gonna go for the supermassive object that a spaceship is travelling around is forcing it to experience time dilation and then reveal that the object was indeed your mother, but opted against, in honestly though all routes really would have been sufficient lol
"…but how would you attain such a velocity? Well, you would need to be orbiting very close to the event horizon of a supermassive black hole 🕳️. Or possibly, your mom."
@@nunyobidniz that's a good one
@@kostaspatsatzakis9264 Einsteins theory of relativity predicts that the apparent mass of an object which is Travelling at high speed will increase by a factor of 1/sqrt(1-B^2), where B=v/c (v being the velocity of the object and C the speed of light). However this is more complex than that, but the most simple explanation is that mass "increases"
I'm almost 5'7", so I'm offended
Matt picked just the right height to offend us the most.
You are a mix of Vsauce and Tom Scott... very good combo
Bo burnham would love this guy. The writing and flow is on another level.
This was the best joke about Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, I was *relatively slow* to get other jokes about it.
This is the greatest "your mom" joke in the history of the internet.
The coolest thing about this is that special relativity can be extended into the theory of general relativity, which takes into account space time and gravitational forces. You can imagine celestial bodies resting on a space time fabric, making a dent in it and pushing the fabric down, which will pull all things towards it. The three major bodies that affect the earth with such a pull is the sun, our moon, and...
Your mom.
Yo momma.
I don’t like the sheet of fabric description. If I recall correctly it gets some exponents in Kepler’s laws completely backwards. Been a while since I looked but the point is it’s only useful for a really surface level understanding.
as someone who is pursuing a physics degree this is the funniest joke i've heard period
This was the first video of yours I watched, a year later after watching many more. I'm studying special relativity and this is the perfect revision
When he said “cause you’re smart, which is good, because you’re hardly 5’8”” that one hit me
you’re style of humor is unlike anything i have seen, this deserves a like.
Relatable science served up with healthy sides of banter and sarcasm, and a dash of condescension. A fun find. Subscribed.
"which is good, cause you're hardly 5'8"" the smile wiped off my face cause damn it you're right
"N-no she isn't!" says the child on the playground who sat through that whole 4 1/2 minute joke.
Easily the best John C. McGinley impression I've ever heard.
I already know what's coming but that's not stopping me from coming.
My god... they are getting longer. He’s getting too powerful
I thought this was gonna be a "missing dad" joke. Still not disappointed.
Whoa this is like the funniest joke I’ll hear all day about Einstein’s theory of special relativity
I've been waiting for this joke my whole life
I was to busy learning relativity that I forgot about the insults