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- Michio Kaku: Parts of Me Ooze in All Directions
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Because of the wave nature of matter, there is a finite possibility-albeit a minuscule one-that you could go to bed on Earth and wake up the next morning on Mars.
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MICHIO KAKU:
Dr. Michio Kaku is the co-founder of string field theory, and is one of the most widely recognized scientists in the world today. He has written 4 New York Times Best Sellers, is the science correspondent for CBS This Morning and has hosted numerous science specials for BBC-TV, the Discovery/Science Channel. His radio show broadcasts to 100 radio stations every week. Dr. Kaku holds the Henry Semat Chair and Professorship in theoretical physics at the City College of New York (CUNY), where he has taught for over 25 years. He has also been a visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Study as well as New York University (NYU).
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Question: Could one crank up the vibrational frequency of their body to a higher dimension, move around in that dimension, and then crank the frequency back down somewhere else? (Submitted by Brad Wade Johnson)
Michio Kaku: Well, Brad, you touched upon the very heart of the quantum theory. In Newton’s theory, the theory proposed 300 years ago a dot represents matter and it’s just a dot. That’s all it is. These dots can reform, collide with each other, obey certain equations, but they don’t vibrate. Then in 1925 along came quantum mechanics which says that these dots of matter-the electron, the proton-are not really dots at all. In some sense they’re waves, waves of vibration, things are waving. And this means that our bodies are actually waving as well. This is the basis of wave mechanics, the fact that particles have wave-like properties.
Then the embarrassing question is what is waving? What is it that is waving? The answer is- and you’re not going to like this-the answer is that what is waving is the probability of finding that particle at a given point.
So let’s now summarize it in one sentence: According to the quantum theory matter is made out of dots, but the probability of finding the dot at any given point in space and time is given by a wave. Now then you raise a question: What happens if you change the vibrations of these waves? Can you then drift into other universes? Can you then drift into other planes of existence? And at the atomic scale, the answer is yes. It turns out that waves can split at certain key junctures, like an ocean wave can hit a barrier and then we have two ocean waves. So it is possible that quantum events can actually split universes apart separated by probability, a 50% probability of this happening or that happening.
So let’s take, for example, Hitler’s mother. Let’s say a cosmic ray went through Hitler’s mother. A cosmic ray is a quantum event. There is let’s say a 50/50 chance that Hitler’s mother will then have an abortion-I mean have a spontaneous abortion, a miscarriage-and a 50% probability that she won’t have a spontaneous abortion, that she will have a full term child, Adolf Hitler. So we now have the fact that because everything vibrates two universes have now separated and one universe has no World War II; all of the sudden 60 million people didn’t have to die. While the other universe is our universe. Now this sounds like science fiction, right? The only difference between this and science fiction is that the scenario I have given you comes from modern physics. This is the basis of our industrial, present-day industrial revolution. Think of transistors. Think of GPS, the Internet, television, radio, all the wonders of modern technology. They’re all based on the idea that electrons are waves, and these waves in turn are waves of probability. And probability can bifurcate, can fission and universes can then emerge from other universes.
So when I look at myself in a mirror, well most people would say I see me in the mirror. Well I don’t look at it that way. First of all, when I look at myself in a mirror I say to myself I’m looking at myself as I was a billionth of a second ago because that is the time it takes for light to go from my face to the mirror and back. I’m not really looking at me at all. I’m looking at me as I was a billionth of a second ago in the past. Second of all, I’m not really well defined. I’m really a mixture, a mixture of different kinds of waves. Now...
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"...let's take Hitler's mother"
shit just got real
when i tell kids that parts of me ooze in all directions i have a problem
Or you are a theoretical physicist.
I learn more watching these 5 minute videos than I have in 11 years of public education.
I can't watch 30 seconds of any Michio video and not be completely blown away, confused, or cry in disbelief lol.
Thanks Mich! if i don't get to see you here, there is always the probability that I'll see you on Mars or, somewhere else for that matter.
And I've got lots questions.
Hence our aura and energy description right? That we constantly give off!
Love it!!
Its interesting to realize when one looks in the mirror they're looking in the past, back in time.
the best theoretical physicist hand down.i cant even stand watching the other physicist lecture because they make it so boring, but this guy makes every thing interesting and make you want to learn more keep it coming DR MICHIO KAKU
@LynxCoding Generally a space craft of some kind, but what Dr. Kaku was referring to was the fact that the locations of the particles in your body are basically a cosmic craps shoot. The way they interact with each other and the particles in the environment generally place them in a specific pattern that is you, but on the quantum level there is no hard rule saying that they have to stay that way. It could just be your unlucky day and the quantum dice land on "Go to Mars".
Damn I fucking love this guy...
"Parts of Me Ooze in All Directions"
that's what she said
Horrible, not funny at all. Dont get me wrong, I enjoy many forms of humor, this is simply lame, it doesnt work. Nice try though.
This is the principle behind the improbability drive on the heart of gold.
LOL I just love the quote out of context:
"Parts of me ooze off.
It oozes off to mars, to jupeter, to outer space.
Parts of me ooze in all directions."
"It demonstrates that the act of observing changes the observed result." This doesn't lead to a probabilistic interpretation though. Measuring the particles in the double slit experiment collapsed their wave function so they did not act randomly. They only acted randomly when not 'observed'.
Einstein was also unable to accept that the universe is not deterministic. He insisted that there must be some hidden variable. No evidence for this exists. We must follow the evidence wherever it may lead.
Love it x
Brilliant 😊
how would you calculate the position of atoms? I am interested in how the equation would go and what the formula would look like. Sounds really cool.
I kinda like the idea. Sometimes I'm aware that only the instant is real .. which according to my mood, can feel pretty isolating ... or enormously exciting. Like one time when I sat with a pilot on a commercial jet ( before all this security stuff) and the incredible feeling of nosing into the air without being conscious of the rest of the plane. Really weird ... and wonderful!
haha, this was one of the funniest I've seen so far. and mind-blowing of course
Conclusion:
So to answer your question there is an insane amount of highly accurate evidence showing that extremely unlikely probabilies do occur in the quantum world for particles or groups of particles. Wheather this means that the ultra insanly low probability events can happen in the macro world has not been confirmed. There simply isn't anyway to confirm it other than wait for these events to occur and see if they match their theoretical probility which theoretically is next to impossible.
well it's either that or both energy and matter origin from something smaller.. I guess another way would be that small quantitative energy buildblocks make up the smallest particle with mass
@llparasitell Take a single particle, an electron for example. That electron can exist in three places, right here or over in Japan or on Mars. It is on a big spinning roulette wheel with slots labeled "here", "Japan" & "Mars". Wherever it lands, that's where it is in the physical world. There are other particles going around the wheel. These particles all bounce off each other limiting where they can go so they all tend to fall into the same slots on the wheel over and over again.
Wow... the same thing happened to my kids when they fell asleep on the couch... after I picked them up and took them to bed.
when i was little i always had a thought about things happening in other "universes", by that i mean if i had an "near experience" like i almost missed the bus but i did'nt, i always had a thought in the back of my head that i did miss the bus but that that version of me was'nt really who i currently were. and sometimes i felt like that other me might have died in the bus from a crash but since that version died i passed on too the other version currently living. Strange toughts for a 9 year old
Trippy....Awesome!
Parts of me do too but I always flush the toilet to escape from being oozed up. It's the good old wizardry of Ooze.
So that means The Beatles had it all figured out, "I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together"
Damn this blow my mind
@Theroha I dont get it.. can you explain to me ? are you saying that every atom of mass has the probrablity for me to be in contact with it?
So like.. a atom on mars has a written code that allows me to have a certain probability to be in contact?
Im confused ..,
The chance of a cosmic ray sniping a single cell is very miniscule. Like a cosmic headshot.
Made a stable gas crystal ball one time I think it was a piece of my soul, before it manifested my whole body's skin vibrated noticably and the vibrations pooled to my head and then I noticed it in less than half a minute and making it wasn't what I thought I was trying to do, I was just working with a line in mentally realized geometry and my soul split and I took controll of the split part, I stayed around my house with my spaceship.
@Sursion7 I heard that over the years, and find that hard to agree with. What force in the universe can allow for creating a copy of a universe every Planck time (5.39106(32) x 10^-44 seconds) since choices and events are occurring constantly. It'd be an infinite addition of new matter and energy and everything being the same except for one different outcome. Maybe it works in theory, but how can matter and energy be recreated infinity of the same universe and stored somewhere in hyperspace?
I think it is because two things: 1) he understand what he is saying (like many other scientist) and 2) he can comunicate them very easily (like few scientist).
I don't see any other scientist been so easy to understand.
And yes, maybe after I listen to this guy my understanding of things are very superficial. But that is not possible for other scientist. That is why I like this guy. Not because he invented or created something new.
ya i just realized that after i posted the comment. i was driving in the freeway and looking around and i said everything im looking at is a past version of what it actually is since it takes light time to reach my eyes.. mind boggling
It's an extremly fascinating world beyond human comprehension. It's a very complicated answer honestly, they don't have size because we need to consider them as "dots" in a certesian system, when calculating where they will most likely be around the core of the atom. And to make things worse for us, they aren't a particle of mass only. They exhibit what is called "particle duality" and means that it behaves like a particle in some aspects and behaves like a wave in others.
assuming in a vacuum. you pecieve 1 sec lag when you are 300,000km away from the source of the light? the lag is proportional to the distance since speed of light is a constant in a vacuum.
exactly, because they both travel near or precisely at the speed of light... but like i said before, all particles behave in this manner, they just have to travel at the speed of light to exhibit this duality property
@ojideagu i luurrve learning and im still in high school , but even if light came to us from back then dont that mean that theyre are photons that never reached anywhere till they got to us ? i dno
I don't get tired of Michio's videos
I wonder if the oozing he is talking about explains sixth sense. Since we know a particle can not only be two places at one time but that they also share the same information, if the sixth sense is the wave vibration be interrupted by something and the particles are sharing that interruption causing us to be aware of it.
This guy is brilliant!
Ye I've studied quantum mechanics. And you are right that tunneling is time-dependent. I believe that teleportation is the same basic thing as tunneling, only that either via quantum entanglement you get a process which is indenpendet of time
All are wave/particle duality, the thing is that the duality is only really noticable at either sub-atomic level or at the speed of light. Even entire planets are huge waves, but the wavelength is soooooooooo massive that we cannot percieve their duality
I wanna wake up on Mars tomorrow.
i wish i had skill in mathematics so i could do theoretical physics. Its so interesting
No, the lag depends on how long it takes light to reach us. It's all about the source of light you try to perceive, for example, the lag is MUCH greater when we're talking about galaxies, but if it's a mirror on earth, light doesn't need all that much time to reach us. Find out the speed of light for more clarification.
@kenny116116 yes, but it's a countable infinity. only those universes that would allow for something to 'observe' them are possible. for instance, the gravitational constant has to be very very close to what it is or nebulae would never form and give rise to the various elements, etc.
of course, that's just within the realm of physics. if you give any merit to religion, solipsism, etc. then there are other possibilities (albeit not particularly scientific ones).
this is pretty mind blowing.
Tunneling and teleportation can be considered the same thing, one would need to tunnel to be able to teleport (I believe).
Tunneling usually only happens if the barrier (to overcome, like in particle in a box) is small enough and if the distance is short enough. Don't get me wrong now, you can have any size barrier/distance and tunneling will still be possible, just a much much smaller chance
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but that's what I remember from school about quantum mechanics.
Last I checked, this channel was called Big Think, not Big Fact. These videos are purely made to make one THINK, not to say the ideas presented are undeniable truths.
The waves that make you "you" also extend well beyond your body. So a part of you could be on mars, another solar system, or even another galaxy. You think of yourself as solid matter, like a cluster of solid objects but this is not true when you get down to the quantum level. So when he says "part of you" he is not talking about atoms, but the waves that make up the matter in your body.
If Kaku is ever reported dead, he's really just ended up on Mars. We should make sure to set up a Mars base fairly soon so that way when he wakes up on Mars we can bring him home.
Be thankful we got the universe with MW3.
@k0b0yash1 Just popped some campaign, you'll have to wait a half hour for the light of that happening to reach Mars unfortunately.
@llparasitell It's largely just a fun idea that comes out in the math. Unless you actually have to work in physics, don't stress too hard if you don't understand it.
when i was young i experience this!.. i sleep on the couch.. wake up in my bed!
I think that's called when, parts of you *booze* in all directions.
That waking up on mars thing explains strange disappearances and alien abductions
I made my whole family watch this guy... now my sister changed her major to physis
As a mathematician I claim that physicists don't do any calculations at all, they smoke weed all day and come up with crazy stuff like this.
Seriously, this blows my mind. I can't believe most people know more about their baseball or football team than they do about physics. This is what matters! This is what's interesting!
i was literally 3/4 asleep before i watched this , now im awake like a kangaroo
I'm not gonna lie, almost all of this went over my head.
My body is on Earth. My brain is on Mars. Yep . That explains a lot.
@limaloloful Amazing! That was brilliant!
Believe it or not... I Believe You Doc!!! :o))))) Big Hug From Brazil !
Parts of all of us re on Mars right now? O.o
Yay! Party on Mars, bring your waves! xD
So, John Carter isn't just some science-"fiction" stuff? Awesome! I wouldn't have to try and understand the logic of him winding up on Mars when I watch the film when it comes out.
Thanks for informing the government that I have been to Mars Michio. Now I have to totally delete system 32.
So how far away until the lag is perceivable?
@D3m190d is there any proof of alternate universes? It's all nice to talk and hypothesize about, but is there any real evidence of a universe outside our own?
@Mwyapolo just as there are an infinite amount of dots i an coordinate system
Continued:
The longer the half life the smaller the probability of an even occuring. Uranium235's half life of 1.5 billion years means that the probability is incredibly small for Uranium to decay. The rules developed out of QFT governing decays (one particle becoming two or more) and cross sections (one particle interacting with another paricle and possibly producing/destroying particles) govern all known change in our universe and is the most fundamental and accurate theory known to man.
unless they reach the speed of light or very close to it (95% or so).
Have you read about string theory?
Hm, Well I've sort of just stepped into the realm of physics, but right now I've really just been fascinated with particle physics in particular, and theoretical physics. One topic I found really interesting to think about was the speed limits of our universe and why Einstein proposed that light speed was the fastest speed achievable, I wondered if anything with mass could even achieve near the speed of light. Just light itself is interesting.
My initial reaction is to say "I don't believe any part of me is on Mars". But then... I do feel a bit cold and disconnected.....
Oh so that's where all those missing people end up. They're on Mars.
"hey mom..hey i can't talk right now.. no mom..no--IM ON MARS"
why not
I'm willing to bet Kaku's kids NEVER asked him 'why?' questions when they were little just in case he tells them something like THIS! Total Mind Fuck!!!
So do the dots move randomly or teleport?
A part of me is in the bathroom, and the other part is watching this video. Yes, it's possible.
Kaku studies string theory, which walks hand in hand with multiverse theory.
It's his job to talk about them.
If Kaku doesn't put full confidence in these theories while advocating them, who will?
I'm 13 years old and in 8th grade, I am happy to see a few my of peers are interested in mutual topics :). It is really quite interesting, just thinking about these theories and concepts is just mind-bending and exciting. I mean, I have spent 2 hours straight just thinking about these things.
It's well proven for particles. The Quantum Field equations such as Fermi's golden rule that governs decays and cross sections rely on very unlikely probablities occuring. An example of this is Uranium's decay rate at about 1.5 billion years or Carbon14's at 5,200 years.
The simplest way to say how Carbon decays is to say that every split second the carbon atom randomly chooses a state and eventually even though its not probable it picks a state where an electron decided to be father away.
So on the macro scale things average out, but what about the microscale? Would these aspects of quantum mechanics affect the performance of nanomachines?
Quantum mechanics is very relevant at the nanoscale. For example, the transistors in computer processors cannot be made much smaller with current technology because the transistors become so small that quantum mechanics takes over and traditional models for electricity no longer apply.
+onzku 20 atoms thickness is the minimum before the electrons start jumping around.
We have single molecule thick plates of extremely strong materials though. Quantum mechanics does not cause it to collapse. One solution could actually be to have 2 identical transistors that are each 2 or 3 atoms of stable elements and only when both conduct current does the signal transmit. But this becomes very complicated and is beyond exact control even then.
good to know that a some part of me in some universe is right now in Vegas partying his ass off with the whole crew of the playboy mansion.
what this video is really telling you is : Miracles are possible .
Nope, it's telling us that scientific anomalies are possible. Miracles are magic -- miracles are not science.
@toggsuk i think it does yeah...
@powck it was just an example. you might be proud that you know some history, but please keep it to yourself if you are getting distracted from the subject.
Awesome
So maybe I am looking at this too literally, but what happens if those split ocean waves run into each other further down the road in time?
@Joel04f No, No they are not, a dimension is like length, width, depth and time(although there are many more) and a parallel universe is well, another universe where everything is exactly the same, of course there's alternate universes, where things are different.
at 5:03 after the jingle, I said to myself "Hmm.." out loud ^^
@schoolboywashington Someone was not paying attention. You can't know where each atom was and where it was heading.
Then you raise a question, What happens if you would change the vibrations of these waves? Can you then drift into other universes? Can you then drift into other planes of existence?
That's ... exactly what I was going to ask :(
1:42 now I know jack ma is not being an idiot when debating with elon musk. he understands string theory.
Micho Kaku: Delivering colossal mind-fucks since 2011.
he means that whatever light we do see is a billionth of a second old, not that we produce new "renderings" every billionth second.
This is mind boggling
Or no -- if it collapses, energy is conserved and has no'where/when' else to go. It's funnelled back into one universe, hence causing the universe to expand exponentially.
that makes sense
So there's actually a tiny chance that i'll wake up on Kardashian's bed tomorrow morning!! I've got a reason to live and dream on, once again.