@@miltoska9708 they may have planned it but i guess it's still a cool coincidence that the 1:1,000,000,000 scale happens to just allow the nearest star to fit on the earth
I'm a bit confused about it, could someone explain? What I understood was that it's very close to the other planets but in reality you would need to take a lap of the earth to reach it?
makes me depressed to think that we will never be able to provide enough energy to make it there in the time humanity has. We are an example of the fermi paradox
@@Gigadweeb Right didn't know that! I guess that explains why most extrasolar planets that are considered to be possible candidates to have life are tidally locked.
Some time ago I took it upon myself to provide a more "interactive" element to this wonderful installation. Armed with a large sack of rocks I would set up daily at a specific point in between the models of Mars and Jupiter and pelt passers by with rocks so that they could experience the awe and wonder of the asteroid belt. Needless to say, rather than being applauded and appreciated for bringing the wonders of our Solar System to life, I ended up copping a series of hefty fines and a lifetime ban from St Kilda Beach. It's true what they say, some people just don't understand science. ;-)
@@janebaker4912 yay good on you. I love city secrets. Me and friends used to go tripping round Sydney, discovered amazing things like a complete moving walkway (like at the airport) under ..is it called Hyde Park? Just at the bottom end of Oxford street.
There's actually another solar system model just like this one but *a lot bigger*. It is in Sweden and it's called "The Swedish solar system". The planet models are across all of Sweden! And it's all to scale. The sun is represented by the giant globe building in Stockholm called Avicii arena. (also known as "The Globe") If anyone reading this lives in Sweden, i would really recomend searching up a map of all the planets, and if you live near one of the planets, maybe you should give it a visit!
If you stand next to the Earth model and look back at the Sun model, it will appear the same size as the actual sun (this is true of any solar system scale model). Pity you didn't show this, but maybe it would have looked too small.
The fact that Proxima Centauri is still to scale and perfectly within range of the other planets is by far one of the most impressive things I’ve ever seen. That artist may not have been able to give much detail to his work due to the scale but that alone makes this the greatest art piece I’ve ever seen!
Perhaps I am a massive nerd but this would actually give me a reason to visit St Kilda next time I do a tourist visit to Melbourne. Although that may be years away at the rate we are going.
@@hindugoat2302 lol just go during the day and also very few people know about the penguin sanctuary in st Kilda too, at the end of the pier. Way cheaper than going all the way to Philip Island to just maybe see penguins.
I always love to pay Pluto a visit when we go to our local beach there. It’s amazing to think how the Sun still effects something so little so very far away. Awesome video.
@@JulianOShea it's like an hour walk, on flat paved pathway, what do you mean a trek? last night I took my dog for a walk at 2am because I couldn't sleep that was 50min walk and did 5.5km... how is that considered anything but a nice mid day walk.
Imagine if they just continued adding more planets, stars, dwarf planets, and other big space objects so that eventually there is just models everywhere around there
What about the fact that if they then added more "neaby" stars that are popular, or even the _next closest_ star, they would have to extend the layout actually _into_ outer space? 😲
I remember there was an episode of Bill Nye the Science Guy that had something similar to this but scaled down to a soccer field, and Proxima Centuri was a 7 hour drive away.
Julian, I am going to use my first ever youtube comment to say thank you! My partner always told me that there are so many hidden gems in Melbourne that a person living here could walk past one for years and never know about it. Thus all I can say is thank you for the solar system video. We used our 2 hour pandemic exercise time to check out things that we had literally walked obliviously many times before. I did miss Venus the first time past since I honestly thought that the planets would be a bit further apart.
We should have one solar model like this per city! I live in Göttingen, and we have a similar one here, at a smaller scale, including Pluto! You can easily walk from the Sun to Neptune and, if you're brave enough, climb all the way to Pluto next to the Bismark Tower, where Gauss actually made Astronomical observations. It's a great idea for almost any city... Great video!
One of my favorite things about our Solar System is the fact that if you were to take the Moon at it's furthest orbit from Earth, you could fit every planet in between the two, Pluto included
This was installed in 2005 and is still pristine in 2021. Amazing! It might seem normal and ok in many countries, but I live in Brazil and here that wouldn't last a week. Those lovely planet sculptures would have been robbed in a couple days and the stone columns vandalized in many, many ways. Congratulations.
You've given me a cool reason to get back to Melbourne! I really enjoy this series as taking a critical but casual lens to the elements of everyday life is exactly what Planners like myself need to do more of!
At this scale the speed of light is just over 1 km/h, which is about a third of the average walking speed of people in their 80s. Kinda puts the cosmic speed limit into perspective.
It would be interesting to have a model that is scaled just so that the average walking speed matches up with the speed of light. That would give a really cool feel to it
This video is amaaazing!!! I love collaborations between art and science so much!! 💕 The details about Pluto and Proxima Centauri make my heart warm! if I ever go to Melbourne I have to see this! Good job Julian you deserve so many more views and subs!!!
This one is filmed on a DJI Pocket with the wireless microphone. You can use either it directly or with a lav mic. Worked well. Beachside breezes and audio aren’t normally friends.
Theres actually a acale model like this is sweden as well! With the "Globe" building in stockholm representing the sun. And spanning north with scale the planets ybrough the whole country. (sweden is very long xd) i have yet to make a trip to any of the planets but i want to in the future!
If the solar system was scaled down to 1 billionth the size, the sun’s diameter would be about 1.39 meters, Earth would be about 150 meters away, the next closest star would be about 1 equator circumference away (over 40,000 km).
There is a project similar to this one in Florianópolis, Brazil. It's kinda to scale, not perfectly, and there aren't sculptures, only plaques. But it's still very nice. (It was made when Pluto was still a planet, so it has Pluto)
The size of the universe is just insane.......if the sun and earth were 4 feet apart.....alpha cenatuari would be in Canberra if you were located in Sydney on that scale.
My wife and i used to walk past Pluto 3 times on our Port Melbourne days out. Never new what it was there for until i saw this video. Great channel btw Julian!
There are tons of these models all over Germany, but often times smaller. You can find them across a single city park, but also along hiking trails in the hills. The first one I saw was not in Germany but on a hiking trail near Zürich.
I remember when they made this and I thought it was very cool. You get a feel for the actual scale of the solar system and why it’s called SPACE. I’m not sure if there is a scale model of the classic representation of an atom. It too is mainly a lot of empty space. If the proton/neutron were the size of a marble, the electron would be about 100 metres away and would be hardly visible to the naked eye.
On the topic of solar systems built to scale in Australia, there’s a 205km one that starts in an observatory in The Warrumbungles and goes all the way to Dubbo. There’s a few different routes that follow it if you’re ever driving through country nsw
As an astronomer and an artist, I love these sorts of exhibits. Some great coverage of this one that I didn't know about before. For another interesting perspective, there's another of these scale models in (I think) New York. It includes Alpha Centauri, the next star just past Proxima Centauri, but in the scale that model uses Alpha Centauri is located in Hilo, Hawaii, just down the road from where I used to work.
This is the third video of yours that I've watched now in a couple of days. Again, another amazing video that's well presented, informative and entertaining!!! I've just subscribed, and I love the level of interaction you have with commenters. When I visit Melbourne next, I'll definitely have to check out the solar model!
I'm on the same journey at the same time with you! Can't leave my burb, but living vicariously seeing so many of my favourite spots and learning a lot along the way is cheering me up ( along with that sunshine yay!) Great little series.
Did it several years ago. Earth was missing... ...and it started raining so I jumped on a rent-a-bike. Really puts the scale of the solar system into your head, especially when you get to the outer planets. How the whole system is held together by the Sun's gravity and how the planets still tug at each other is astounding! I did miss Alpha Centauri though.
Proxima Centauri is the one that is represented, it is actually a Red Dwarf that we are unable to see because it glows in the Infrared at 4.24 LY from us, Alpha Centauri "A" and "B" are the ones that we can see at about 4.4 LY and they are furthest ones of the two "Pointer" stars that point to The Southern Cross. On this scale, 1:1 Billion, Alpha Centauri "A" and "B" would be a further 1,500 km away. 😊🌔🌏🚀✨
Fantastic!!! This was amazing. The distances are now much easier to understand while being mindblowing still! Pluto is adorable and will always be a planet in my mind. Thank you!👏👏👏👏👏👏
There is a Scale Solar System drive that has the Siding Spring Observatory Dome (The largest optical telescope in Aus) representing the sun. Then the planets are depicted on roadside signs, the more distant planets are replicated on the three main routes into the observatory (located outside the NSW town of Connabarabran). One of the Plutos used to be in a town that was a 200km drive from the observatory.
As soon as I'm allowed to get back to my home town, (without being detained, arrested or shot), I'm taking my daughter to see this.. Thanks for the heads up on the mobility option, I'll remember to bring wheels.. :)
I'm so close to St Kilda and I never knew this existed! I live within 5km, so I can definitely take a look during lockdown once peak boredom hits. Pluto will always be a honourary planet in my eyes!
The fact that something as relatively miniscule as the sun has the strength to keep planets that far away in orbit is mindblowing to me, I feel like even with this representation its impossible to truly grasp the insane distance of our solar system, I wonder how big the universe on this scale would be...
The whole universe might be infinite or not; we don't know. What we can currently work with is called the observable universe. It includes everything that's close enough that there's been enough time since the Big Bang for its light to reach us. At this moment, the observable universe has something like a 45 billion lightyear radius, but we can't see how distant galaxies look right now because the further away we look, the further back in time we see, due to light's travel time. Since we don't know how distant galaxies look right now, we would have to depict them as they are seen in the sky. This would make for a more interesting replica anyway because as you move away from the Earth, the general features of the universe would change because you would be moving away in distance but also back in time. As such, the observable universe we would depict in this scale model would have the same radius measured in lightyears as years since the Big Bang, meaning a radius of nearly 14 billion lightyears. That means this smallest possible interpretation of "the universe" would be about 14 lightyears in radius on this one to one billion scale. Obviously, that's way too big. If we wanted to fit such a scale model onto Earth, say by putting the Sun on the North pole and the Big Bang on the South pole, with galaxies becoming more and more concentrated and younger along the way, the scale would have to be something like 1:6,500,000,000,000,000,000. That means the Sun would have to be about the size of a phosphorous atom.
One factor helping the Sun is that on this scale the planets move HORRENDOUSLY slowly. If you walk past the model at an average pace you're doing something like 5x the speed of light, and the planets would be orbiting at speeds 50 million times slower.
Oooooh this is awesome! I might see if I can convince my niece to come with one day when we are out of lockdown. There’s a great chippy at the Station Pier end and trams from both so it’s accessible from the CBD.
@@JulianOShea I did, sore feet and all. Took several detours (the pier and a Ferris wheel) and in total I covered 10km. And the chippy was not open 😭 thankfully the weather was cooler so it was a great day for it.
Wish I'd known about this when I was in Melb back in 2018. There's also a 90km long version on the Central Otago rail trail here in NZ. Well worth doing, some beautiful scenery and nice wee townships (and pubs) along the way!
Thanks. Never heard about it. Do they have a tour app to go with it? You down load the app at a start point, then it uses gps to give you information based on your location. Not used enough in Australia.
I've walked & cycled past these for years but had no idea. Thanks for the detailed information Julian. My local is Pluto. Next time I'll appreciate it more
There's another one built near Coonabarabran in nsw, it goes down the entire length of this highway as a scale representation of the distance between all the planets, it makes a nice day trip, and his over a 100km to all of them
There's a similar model in Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands, also 1:a billion made of all recycled materials and, afaik, is the largest model with a direct line of sight between the sun and each planet and pluto.
So... Just recently discovered the channel... Would have to say this and the Uni / Mad Max carpark are my favourite vids so far. If Covid eases up I'll have to come visit planet earth, only an hour from home.... not sure I'll make the trip to Proxima Centauri though, might be a bit far.
fun fact: after being kicked out of the planet club, pluto was found to be an ice formation in the kuiper belt, if you don't know a bout the kuiper belt, its like the astroid belt, but instead of splitting apart the terrestrial planets and gas giants, its on the outer edges of our solar system, and instead of astroids, its made out of massive formations of ice (like pluto) and is named after Gerard Kuiper.
We actually have the same thing in bridgwater Somerset UK called the Somerset space walk and has been a wonderful addition to the bridgwater and taunton canal, which was the inland waterway linking to the Bristol channel, via the river parrett to the river tone, approximately 23 km in length and opened in 1827, it still has narrow boats sailing today that have been repurposed for pleasure cruises. Our space walk opened in 1997. Nice to see you have one too 🙂 love from the UK 🌍
3:01 Yes, I really was wondering that. Are you a Warlock? 🤷♂️ I live in a SE suburb and I had never heard or knew about this project / _work of art_ before this video. NICE!! *Thank You* for bringing this to my attention.
I think there's quite a few of these around Australia. But this one is very nice with it being metal. We've done the one that is in NSW is a 1:38,000,000 scale and stretches from Siding Springs (near Coonabarabran which is the Sun) and has plutos in Dubbo, Merriwa, Tamworth and Bellata (there's one more, but I can't remember where). They have different ones so you can work in through the planets from different places. It's really well done and interesting to visit.
2:57 - Neptune (like Uranus) isn’t normally considered a gas giant, but an ‘ice giant’. It is thought to have condensed well beyond the so-called ‘snow line’ of the outer solar system where a significant amount of raw input were ‘ices’.
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Proxima Centauri's placement is actually extremely clever
I can only assume they based the scale of the whole thing around it.
Cant be a coincidence right?
@@miltoska9708 they may have planned it but i guess it's still a cool coincidence that the 1:1,000,000,000 scale happens to just allow the nearest star to fit on the earth
@@LambdaTF2 coincidence, lol.
@@LambdaTF2 this make me thinking that it is one of the things that kind of define a meter
I'm a bit confused about it, could someone explain? What I understood was that it's very close to the other planets but in reality you would need to take a lap of the earth to reach it?
The guy who circled the entire world to place Proxima Centauri needs a raise
Agree
Lmao
One hell of a trip.
I love this comment
How was this not pinned
That distance to Proxima Centauri really illustrates the vastness of interstellar space! Also it's a really small star, barely bigger than Jupiter
The distances are just beyond our comprehension
Amazing! There's a vast nothingness between space bodies.. while Earth is so small yet full with life.
makes me depressed to think that we will never be able to provide enough energy to make it there in the time humanity has. We are an example of the fermi paradox
And we think we’re special. Perspective.
@@Gigadweeb Right didn't know that! I guess that explains why most extrasolar planets that are considered to be possible candidates to have life are tidally locked.
Some time ago I took it upon myself to provide a more "interactive" element to this wonderful installation. Armed with a large sack of rocks I would set up daily at a specific point in between the models of Mars and Jupiter and pelt passers by with rocks so that they could experience the awe and wonder of the asteroid belt. Needless to say, rather than being applauded and appreciated for bringing the wonders of our Solar System to life, I ended up copping a series of hefty fines and a lifetime ban from St Kilda Beach. It's true what they say, some people just don't understand science.
;-)
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Genius! 😂😂
I love it hahaha
Ahahhaa
@Stella Hoenheim The average for mainbelt asteroids is 17.9 km/s. To scale that would be 17.9mm/s. That is pretty much the speed of a snail.
I was admiring that sun statue a couple of weeks ago. I had no idea it was part of a solar system model. Thank you.
I would hope they indicate the existence of the whole installation on each part. Bit of a missed opportunity if not
I read this as “I was admiring the sun a couple weeks ago, had no idea it was a part of the solar system.”
@@dielaughing73 2:19 It does show where the other planets are on the map with dots but it doesn't explain anything else. Most would miss it.
I never knew we had this in Melbourne. I need to go see this now.
It’s worth the visit. Great spot for it.
Me too, this is great! Shame we’re in lockdown
Me too
@@janebaker4912 yay good on you. I love city secrets. Me and friends used to go tripping round Sydney, discovered amazing things like a complete moving walkway (like at the airport) under ..is it called Hyde Park? Just at the bottom end of Oxford street.
I too now need to see this. Gotta love Melbourne and its art sculptures everywhere
"and if we get further out, we get to Uranus" haha never gets old
All that walking to reach Uranus lol
I never had problem with Uranus before. Now that I speak/understand English, every time I hear this I have to pause until I stop laughing
Ur-a-nus
@@wallacesantos0 Same. Knowing this language has many blessings but also some curses lol
Its where the Klingons hang out.
There's actually another solar system model just like this one but *a lot bigger*. It is in Sweden and it's called "The Swedish solar system". The planet models are across all of Sweden! And it's all to scale. The sun is represented by the giant globe building in Stockholm called Avicii arena. (also known as "The Globe")
If anyone reading this lives in Sweden, i would really recomend searching up a map of all the planets, and if you live near one of the planets, maybe you should give it a visit!
Epic road trip
I've visited the Pluto and Neptune models. The vastness of our tiny little corner of the universe is mindboggling.
The globe is the superior name
I am baffled to find out that I live 400 meters away from one of the models without being aware of it.
There's also another between (I think) Shanklin and Ventnor sea fronts on the Isle of Wight, UK
That “cheat” on the nearest star is spectular
It's not cheating. It's technically correct.
It truly is spectular, isn't it?
It's actually the ONLY way to have it be 40000km away going in a straight line
Well, you could say that, in a way, they've created their own wormhole
If you stand next to the Earth model and look back at the Sun model, it will appear the same size as the actual sun (this is true of any solar system scale model). Pity you didn't show this, but maybe it would have looked too small.
It's the Moon and Sun that appear to be similar sizes.
@@tanginicholls207 You're right, but so is glyptodon
Most underrated comment ever.
At first I was like: "whaaaaat?!"
But then I realized: "Of course, similar triangles and all that".
I just looked at the sun to check what size it is in the sky and... don't do that.
Perhaps it didn't show well on camera.
The fact that Proxima Centauri is still to scale and perfectly within range of the other planets is by far one of the most impressive things I’ve ever seen. That artist may not have been able to give much detail to his work due to the scale but that alone makes this the greatest art piece I’ve ever seen!
Well it is not in range it is actually 40000kms away. It is like bending space time continuum.
Perhaps I am a massive nerd but this would actually give me a reason to visit St Kilda next time I do a tourist visit to Melbourne. Although that may be years away at the rate we are going.
mate just be careful of the racial gang violence if you do
@@hindugoat2302 lol just go during the day and also very few people know about the penguin sanctuary in st Kilda too, at the end of the pier. Way cheaper than going all the way to Philip Island to just maybe see penguins.
@@BoogieBrando maybe dont mention it here for thousands to read then bro...
ixnay on the enguin pay
@@hindugoat2302 i dont think thousands will read it but for the occasional person who comes across it, it'll be a nice tip
@@hindugoat2302 we are only racist against NSW and SA
I always love to pay Pluto a visit when we go to our local beach there. It’s amazing to think how the Sun still effects something so little so very far away. Awesome video.
"The hot ... itself" 😂
Super Hot!!!
Super Hot!!!
How has this comment not been pinned or hearted yet?
That’s what I sound like when I try record myself 🤦♂️
It's also a deadly laser
This explains why I could never find them past mars haha! Ill go back and try to find the rest. Gonna be a long walk
It’s a trek.
@@JulianOShea A star trek some may say
@@cherri_chip7257 😎
@@JulianOShea it's like an hour walk, on flat paved pathway, what do you mean a trek?
last night I took my dog for a walk at 2am because I couldn't sleep that was 50min walk and did 5.5km... how is that considered anything but a nice mid day walk.
@@svampebob007 rude, not everyone has legs
That lap around the Earth thing for Proxima Centauri is a pretty awesome little detail.
Imagine if they just continued adding more planets, stars, dwarf planets, and other big space objects so that eventually there is just models everywhere around there
Too much space in-between I guess
Imagine turning Australia into a small scale universe
What about the fact that if they then added more "neaby" stars that are popular, or even the _next closest_ star, they would have to extend the layout actually _into_ outer space? 😲
I remember there was an episode of Bill Nye the Science Guy that had something similar to this but scaled down to a soccer field, and Proxima Centuri was a 7 hour drive away.
Julian, I am going to use my first ever youtube comment to say thank you! My partner always told me that there are so many hidden gems in Melbourne that a person living here could walk past one for years and never know about it. Thus all I can say is thank you for the solar system video. We used our 2 hour pandemic exercise time to check out things that we had literally walked obliviously many times before. I did miss Venus the first time past since I honestly thought that the planets would be a bit further apart.
Thanks, Trevor! Glad you enjoyed the video and you had the chance to check it out for yourself. Lovely day for it today.
We should have one solar model like this per city!
I live in Göttingen, and we have a similar one here, at a smaller scale, including Pluto! You can easily walk from the Sun to Neptune and, if you're brave enough, climb all the way to Pluto next to the Bismark Tower, where Gauss actually made Astronomical observations. It's a great idea for almost any city...
Great video!
In Kassel haben wir auch eins
One of my favorite things about our Solar System is the fact that if you were to take the Moon at it's furthest orbit from Earth, you could fit every planet in between the two, Pluto included
This was installed in 2005 and is still pristine in 2021. Amazing!
It might seem normal and ok in many countries, but I live in Brazil and here that wouldn't last a week. Those lovely planet sculptures would have been robbed in a couple days and the stone columns vandalized in many, many ways.
Congratulations.
You've given me a cool reason to get back to Melbourne! I really enjoy this series as taking a critical but casual lens to the elements of everyday life is exactly what Planners like myself need to do more of!
There’s indeed a lot of cool reasons to be in Melbs. Glad you’re enjoying the vids!
I had no idea this was there and was in St Kilda ten years ago. Australia is such an awesome place with great people.
0:01 Proxima Centauri: Well hello there!
Sneaky early cameo…
Thanks, Lateral, for helping me find this video!
At this scale the speed of light is just over 1 km/h, which is about a third of the average walking speed of people in their 80s. Kinda puts the cosmic speed limit into perspective.
It would be interesting to have a model that is scaled just so that the average walking speed matches up with the speed of light.
That would give a really cool feel to it
Hmmmm, I guess that would make the scooter an FTL drive.
@@scrotymcboogerballs6756 If you assume 1m/s for walking speed, then you need only multiply everything by 3.333 to get it into scale.
This video is amaaazing!!! I love collaborations between art and science so much!! 💕 The details about Pluto and Proxima Centauri make my heart warm! if I ever go to Melbourne I have to see this! Good job Julian you deserve so many more views and subs!!!
Glad you liked it! Do check it out when you’re in the ‘hood. It’s a lovely walk / ride / scoot. :)
@@JulianOShea btw, what mic do you use for outdoor filming? Your sound quality is great! I can never pull off outdoor audio well.
This one is filmed on a DJI Pocket with the wireless microphone. You can use either it directly or with a lav mic. Worked well. Beachside breezes and audio aren’t normally friends.
@@JulianOShea Nice thank you for the info!!
2:35 caught me offguard. I don't know why I laughed so hard but I know myself that I usually don't laugh at these. Maybe my humor is declining
Yeah… it’s declining. I don’t know why people still think it’s funny to laugh at the planet’s name after all these years.
I’ve lived in Melbourne my whole life and have learnt so many new interesting things about our city because of your channel. Thanks!!
Oh nice! An Australian Tom Scott
Okay American
Yeah, Nah. More like an Australian Tim Traveller.
This guy just went around the entire planet for us. Thanks man!
I've thought for years that this would be a great thing to make, but had no idea it was in my back yard!
That's fantastic, first time I've heard about this. The idea for placing Proxima Centauri is sheer genius. 👏🏻👍🏻
watching your videos make my miss Melbourne mate. I did the same trail on my bike in 2019. Really gives you perspective on how big space is
It’s a special city for sure. Great spot for a ride.
We can never have enough solar system scale models. Also, the way they added Proxima Centauri is absolutely brilliant.
Super cool! I had no idea this was there, will have to check it out sometime. And that Proxima Centauri hack is perfect
I know, right? Why stop there - just keep doing laps of Earth and add whatever you like.
Always love walking past these while having my lockdown walk!
I know where I'll go riding with my daughter once this lockdown ends. Thank you for sharing this.
Fantastic. Next time I go to Melbourne I’m going to incorporate that in to a run.
Theres actually a acale model like this is sweden as well! With the "Globe" building in stockholm representing the sun. And spanning north with scale the planets ybrough the whole country. (sweden is very long xd) i have yet to make a trip to any of the planets but i want to in the future!
If the solar system was scaled down to 1 billionth the size, the sun’s diameter would be about 1.39 meters, Earth would be about 150 meters away, the next closest star would be about 1 equator circumference away (over 40,000 km).
There is a project similar to this one in Florianópolis, Brazil. It's kinda to scale, not perfectly, and there aren't sculptures, only plaques. But it's still very nice.
(It was made when Pluto was still a planet, so it has Pluto)
Pluto is still a planet in our hearts.
You have the coolest videos Julian! I've learnt more about Melbourne from your videos than I have living here for the past 25 years!
Glad you like them! Thanks, Sarah.
The fact Proxima Centuri is actually in its correct place, just an entire revolution must be added, is insane..
Universal Fibonacci?
Yeah, it's pretty clever
I thought the same, very clever. It’s endlessly fascinating learning about the scope of our universe!
The size of the universe is just insane.......if the sun and earth were 4 feet apart.....alpha cenatuari would be in Canberra if you were located in Sydney on that scale.
"revolution" of what?
@@michaelbastin9851 revolution of the earth.
My wife and i used to walk past Pluto 3 times on our Port Melbourne days out. Never new what it was there for until i saw this video. Great channel btw Julian!
There are tons of these models all over Germany, but often times smaller. You can find them across a single city park, but also along hiking trails in the hills.
The first one I saw was not in Germany but on a hiking trail near Zürich.
This is bloody brilliant! Really fascinating stuff, thanks so much for sharing!
Look forward to checking it out after lockdown bummer bollocks. Cheers from Sydney dude!
Cheers, Brendan!
I have been to St Kilda, a wonderful place, but had no idea about the Planet Walk. Thank you.
Been past them so many times and never stopped to read the plaques
I remember when they made this and I thought it was very cool.
You get a feel for the actual scale of the solar system and why it’s called SPACE.
I’m not sure if there is a scale model of the classic representation of an atom. It too is mainly a lot of empty space. If the proton/neutron were the size of a marble, the electron would be about 100 metres away and would be hardly visible to the naked eye.
On the topic of solar systems built to scale in Australia, there’s a 205km one that starts in an observatory in The Warrumbungles and goes all the way to Dubbo. There’s a few different routes that follow it if you’re ever driving through country nsw
As an astronomer and an artist, I love these sorts of exhibits. Some great coverage of this one that I didn't know about before.
For another interesting perspective, there's another of these scale models in (I think) New York. It includes Alpha Centauri, the next star just past Proxima Centauri, but in the scale that model uses Alpha Centauri is located in Hilo, Hawaii, just down the road from where I used to work.
It's cool that Proxima Centauri is still to scale, albeit after one circumnavigates Earth.
That was a really clever idea to make it wrap around like that!
In the USA in the state of Maine there is a similar model,along US 1. It's about 40 miles long
This is the third video of yours that I've watched now in a couple of days. Again, another amazing video that's well presented, informative and entertaining!!! I've just subscribed, and I love the level of interaction you have with commenters. When I visit Melbourne next, I'll definitely have to check out the solar model!
Thanks, Caelan! It’s well worth a look.
I'm on the same journey at the same time with you! Can't leave my burb, but living vicariously seeing so many of my favourite spots and learning a lot along the way is cheering me up ( along with that sunshine yay!)
Great little series.
Hi Julian ! This was amazing. Thank you. We're definitely going to see this again ! Now with a new eye for the solar system.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Did it several years ago. Earth was missing... ...and it started raining so I jumped on a rent-a-bike.
Really puts the scale of the solar system into your head, especially when you get to the outer planets. How the whole system is held together by the Sun's gravity and how the planets still tug at each other is astounding!
I did miss Alpha Centauri though.
Proxima Centauri is the one that is represented, it is actually a Red Dwarf that we are unable to see because it glows in the Infrared at 4.24 LY from us, Alpha Centauri "A" and "B" are the ones that we can see at about 4.4 LY and they are furthest ones of the two "Pointer" stars that point to The Southern Cross.
On this scale, 1:1 Billion, Alpha Centauri "A" and "B" would be a further 1,500 km away. 😊🌔🌏🚀✨
UA-cam's algorithm is clearly broken! How have this channel been recommended to me now only? From your newest subscriber!
Great video, thanks!
Fantastic!!! This was amazing. The distances are now much easier to understand while being mindblowing still! Pluto is adorable and will always be a planet in my mind. Thank you!👏👏👏👏👏👏
I'm just saying something for the algorithm, so UA-cam shows it to more people. Everyone needs to see this
Thanks so much for making this series! I'm really enjoying it! :D
Nice we finally have an Aussie Tom Scott
I had no idea we had this in Melbourne. I will check it out whenever we can be out again :)
There is a Scale Solar System drive that has the Siding Spring Observatory Dome (The largest optical telescope in Aus) representing the sun. Then the planets are depicted on roadside signs, the more distant planets are replicated on the three main routes into the observatory (located outside the NSW town of Connabarabran). One of the Plutos used to be in a town that was a 200km drive from the observatory.
Cool tip
I had no idea this was here, super cool! I love it!
Crazy that light from the sun, no matter how little light there is, still reaches Pluto.
Not to mention gravitationally bound.
My family and I love this walk! How is it that I've only just heard of you.....
You've done it again, Julian. Thanks!
As soon as I'm allowed to get back to my home town, (without being detained, arrested or shot), I'm taking my daughter to see this..
Thanks for the heads up on the mobility option, I'll remember to bring wheels.. :)
Why would you be arrested or shot?
Drew Lovelyhell for breaking “chief health officer” directions
@@drewlovelyhell4892 because I live in NSW currently, and we're not allowed to cross state borders..
Heavy fines imposed for those who attempt
This is brilliant. Thanks so much. Will be checking it out very soon. Well done.
I'm so close to St Kilda and I never knew this existed! I live within 5km, so I can definitely take a look during lockdown once peak boredom hits. Pluto will always be a honourary planet in my eyes!
Yeah science is cool and all, but They can't tell me what I can call a planet!
@@dielaughing73 I feel like my childhood was a lie! 🤣
The fact that something as relatively miniscule as the sun has the strength to keep planets that far away in orbit is mindblowing to me, I feel like even with this representation its impossible to truly grasp the insane distance of our solar system, I wonder how big the universe on this scale would be...
The whole universe might be infinite or not; we don't know. What we can currently work with is called the observable universe. It includes everything that's close enough that there's been enough time since the Big Bang for its light to reach us. At this moment, the observable universe has something like a 45 billion lightyear radius, but we can't see how distant galaxies look right now because the further away we look, the further back in time we see, due to light's travel time. Since we don't know how distant galaxies look right now, we would have to depict them as they are seen in the sky. This would make for a more interesting replica anyway because as you move away from the Earth, the general features of the universe would change because you would be moving away in distance but also back in time. As such, the observable universe we would depict in this scale model would have the same radius measured in lightyears as years since the Big Bang, meaning a radius of nearly 14 billion lightyears. That means this smallest possible interpretation of "the universe" would be about 14 lightyears in radius on this one to one billion scale. Obviously, that's way too big.
If we wanted to fit such a scale model onto Earth, say by putting the Sun on the North pole and the Big Bang on the South pole, with galaxies becoming more and more concentrated and younger along the way, the scale would have to be something like 1:6,500,000,000,000,000,000. That means the Sun would have to be about the size of a phosphorous atom.
One factor helping the Sun is that on this scale the planets move HORRENDOUSLY slowly. If you walk past the model at an average pace you're doing something like 5x the speed of light, and the planets would be orbiting at speeds 50 million times slower.
2:35 hehehe... I'm a child
You did no Uranus joke, that level of restraint is really impressive on the internet.
Oooooh this is awesome! I might see if I can convince my niece to come with one day when we are out of lockdown. There’s a great chippy at the Station Pier end and trams from both so it’s accessible from the CBD.
Have fun!
@@JulianOShea I did, sore feet and all. Took several detours (the pier and a Ferris wheel) and in total I covered 10km. And the chippy was not open 😭 thankfully the weather was cooler so it was a great day for it.
Wish I'd known about this when I was in Melb back in 2018. There's also a 90km long version on the Central Otago rail trail here in NZ. Well worth doing, some beautiful scenery and nice wee townships (and pubs) along the way!
What on earth! I live in Balaclava, I've walked past numerous times - I'm shook! Glad I found and subbed to your channel
Cheers Dan!
Thanks. Never heard about it. Do they have a tour app to go with it? You down load the app at a start point, then it uses gps to give you information based on your location. Not used enough in Australia.
When lockdown finishes, I'm going to leave earth and visit pluto.
I miss Australia. I would love to come back to this amazing country.
I've just discovered your channel and I've learnt so much about Melbourne I never knew, although I've lived here all my life
I've walked & cycled past these for years but had no idea. Thanks for the detailed information Julian. My local is Pluto. Next time I'll appreciate it more
There's another one built near Coonabarabran in nsw, it goes down the entire length of this highway as a scale representation of the distance between all the planets, it makes a nice day trip, and his over a 100km to all of them
That's beyond impressive. It's fascinating to take up such project and execute it, all the while keeping proportions and scales
There's a similar model in Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands, also 1:a billion made of all recycled materials and, afaik, is the largest model with a direct line of sight between the sun and each planet and pluto.
Amazing how people think these are beaches. It's just all lake shore in Melbourne.
How cool is that!!!
The content on this channel is top notch!!
Good work!
Thank you very much!
So... Just recently discovered the channel...
Would have to say this and the Uni / Mad Max carpark are my favourite vids so far.
If Covid eases up I'll have to come visit planet earth, only an hour from home.... not sure I'll make the trip to Proxima Centauri though, might be a bit far.
fun fact: after being kicked out of the planet club, pluto was found to be an ice formation in the kuiper belt, if you don't know a bout the kuiper belt, its like the astroid belt, but instead of splitting apart the terrestrial planets and gas giants, its on the outer edges of our solar system, and instead of astroids, its made out of massive formations of ice (like pluto) and is named after Gerard Kuiper.
Did this walk yesterday, was amazing, got to Pluto as the sun was setting, absolutely beautiful.
Daaaaam your channel is such a hidden gem
Rather astonishing that the New Horizons probe to Pluto manages to pass that tiny target.
And Ultima Thule which is even tinier.
We actually have the same thing in bridgwater Somerset UK called the Somerset space walk and has been a wonderful addition to the bridgwater and taunton canal, which was the inland waterway linking to the Bristol channel, via the river parrett to the river tone, approximately 23 km in length and opened in 1827, it still has narrow boats sailing today that have been repurposed for pleasure cruises. Our space walk opened in 1997. Nice to see you have one too 🙂 love from the UK 🌍
We have something similar in Sweden, that covers the entire country!
Amazing video, if I ever get to visit Australia I'll have to come down to Melbourne for a bike ride :)
LOL those at the beach are here for the same reason as me science lol YEAH!!! excellent video and I lived in St Kilda and never knew this was here!
3:01 Yes, I really was wondering that. Are you a Warlock? 🤷♂️
I live in a SE suburb and I had never heard or knew about this project / _work of art_ before this video. NICE!!
*Thank You* for bringing this to my attention.
I think there's quite a few of these around Australia. But this one is very nice with it being metal. We've done the one that is in NSW is a 1:38,000,000 scale and stretches from Siding Springs (near Coonabarabran which is the Sun) and has plutos in Dubbo, Merriwa, Tamworth and Bellata (there's one more, but I can't remember where). They have different ones so you can work in through the planets from different places. It's really well done and interesting to visit.
2:57 - Neptune (like Uranus) isn’t normally considered a gas giant, but an ‘ice giant’. It is thought to have condensed well beyond the so-called ‘snow line’ of the outer solar system where a significant amount of raw input were ‘ices’.
That's likely true, but my middle and elementary school called them gas giants all the way up 'till high school