The Biggest Misconceptions About The Universe

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  • Join us as we debunk five common misconceptions about the universe, from the fate of stars to the true nature of black holes. Prepare to have your mind blown!
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 508

  • @Practitioner_of_Diogenes
    @Practitioner_of_Diogenes 23 дні тому +166

    "Trust us, Black Holes aren't that scary!"
    *Proceeds to play the recorded sounds of an eldritch horror.*

    • @Swiftkitten88
      @Swiftkitten88 23 дні тому +23

      "be the guy who first recorded the sound"
      Scientist 1: Guys! Guys! i managed to record a audio black hole, and convert it to it into a range about to be heard by humans"
      Scientist 2: Awesome what does it sound like?
      Scientist 1: Ummm.... Hell?

    • @Ezekiel903
      @Ezekiel903 22 дні тому +1

      which is the form of a black hole, a sphere or a flat hole?

    • @Ezekiel903
      @Ezekiel903 22 дні тому +1

      or why does the black hole exert an inward rather than outward centrifugal force on the accretion disk?

    • @Practitioner_of_Diogenes
      @Practitioner_of_Diogenes 22 дні тому +2

      @@Ezekiel903 Considering how mass works when compounded and pressured, it'd be a sphere. A hole would be something like a theorized wormhole.

    • @Practitioner_of_Diogenes
      @Practitioner_of_Diogenes 22 дні тому +2

      @@Ezekiel903 As for why there's a disc around some blackholes, it has to do with gravity and the rate at which it is spinning. It's why the gas giants have rings, it's why the solar system is going around the sun, it's why the moon goes around the earth. All these objects are spinning at enough of a rate to influence the objects around them, but the gravity from them isn't explicitly strong enough to just outright force them into the same spatially occupied location.
      Same goes for blackholes. They spin, creating the mentioned discs in the video.

  • @gregorychristensen5165
    @gregorychristensen5165 23 дні тому +52

    Mostly harmless. Don’t forget your towel.

    • @julianaylor4351
      @julianaylor4351 23 дні тому +9

      Meet you at Milliways, but don't try to order salad. ❤

    • @Chefrabbitfoot
      @Chefrabbitfoot 20 днів тому +6

      And let's not forget that the answer is 42.

  • @faarsight
    @faarsight 23 дні тому +102

    The earth is the center of the observable universe because, well, that's where the (known) observers are.

    • @janpersson9818
      @janpersson9818 23 дні тому +4

      Not a strange concept that what you can see is centered on you. The opposite on the other hand would be very strange indeed.

    • @davidva8694
      @davidva8694 22 дні тому +5

      I think it’s like how you can’t see the curve of the earth because of the size difference between us and the earth. Even the size of the observable universe still isn’t large enough for us to be able to discern the true shape of the total universe. More testing is recommended.

    • @adamredwine774
      @adamredwine774 22 дні тому +5

      It's so strange that the point of view of everything I see just happens to align exactly with the location of my eyeballs... it must be a miracle!

    • @SeraphRyan
      @SeraphRyan 22 дні тому +1

      @@davidva8694 There were some tests done using triangles on million light year scales (I dont know exactly how it was accomplished though, the scientific papers are beyond my level of comprehension) and there were no changes, the triangles were perfect 180 degrees. If it had a curve, the triangles would be more or less than that amount.

    • @SmartStructuresTV
      @SmartStructuresTV 22 дні тому +1

      Haha, that's a great way to think about it! From our perspective here on Earth, it definitely feels central! But is there really a center to the universe at all? That's a question scientists are still grappling with.

  • @ipodchips2008
    @ipodchips2008 23 дні тому +22

    Hearing the black hole at the end of the video is amazing.

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 23 дні тому +41

    0:40 - Chapter 1 - Dead stars in the night sky
    3:15 - Chapter 2 - The earth is closest to the sun the summer
    5:20 - Chapter 3 - The observable universe is the universe
    8:45 - Chapter 4 - Black holes are terrifying dangerous
    12:50 - Chapter 5 - In space no one can hear you scream

  • @ceirwynsinclair4198
    @ceirwynsinclair4198 23 дні тому +59

    Hmmm... trillions of souls languishing in hell for all eternity? I just heard space whales....

    • @alphavasson5387
      @alphavasson5387 23 дні тому +9

      YES SPACE WHALES!!!

    • @MetalMouse67
      @MetalMouse67 23 дні тому +5

      It would make a good extreme metal intro tho 🥳

    • @derekhiemforth
      @derekhiemforth 23 дні тому +5

      I heard that galaxy plans to send a probe to Earth looking for humpbacks... 🖖🏻

    • @stevenjlovelace
      @stevenjlovelace 22 дні тому +1

      Where's Admiral Kirk when you need him?

    • @bazzer124
      @bazzer124 22 дні тому +2

      Space whales? According to the Doctor, there's only one left. Cheers....

  • @4362mont
    @4362mont 23 дні тому +12

    Anything in the Universe labeled "mostly harmless" reminds me of HHGG.

    • @julianaylor4351
      @julianaylor4351 23 дні тому +1

      Don't forget your towel. ❤

    • @Styphon
      @Styphon 23 дні тому

      ​@@julianaylor4351Towel Day is coming up, May 25!

  • @alphavasson5387
    @alphavasson5387 23 дні тому +33

    "The whole [radius that could be dangerous around a black hole] is only about the size of New Jersey" OK but have you been to New Jersey? That state is scary 💀

    • @HeavyTopspin
      @HeavyTopspin 23 дні тому +8

      If you escape the accretion disk do you wind up with a fake tan to show for it?

    • @captainspaulding5963
      @captainspaulding5963 23 дні тому

      ​@@HeavyTopspin and a STRONG desire to fist pump!

    • @digitalfootballer9032
      @digitalfootballer9032 23 дні тому

      I'd rather end up in a black hole than in New Jersey 😂

    • @venomenace
      @venomenace 23 дні тому +6

      ​@@HeavyTopspin depending on which side of NJ, you could end up in the Hudson which is much.. MUCH worse than a black hole

    • @Elish-a
      @Elish-a 23 дні тому +3

      @@venomenace😆😂🤣

  • @romanglinnik8073
    @romanglinnik8073 23 дні тому +7

    The sound of the black hole is both fascinating and utterly terrifying.

  • @SilvyReacts
    @SilvyReacts 23 дні тому +42

    If I were to ever see a black hole, the fear isn't necessarily from the danger is poses to me, but the inability to comprehend it. We are talking about an object so dense, with gravity strong enough to bend space and time. It's just really crazy to try and wrap your head around the idea and presence of such an object. To some degree it might even feel like all the knowledge of the universe is locked away within, unable to be observed.
    Granted, it probably only feel like that for a few days, and then I'd probably get over it. Because in reality, stuff like this just tends to be scary till you get used to it. Then the novelty wears off. I mean, even stars when you actually think about them... are pretty crazy and yet everyday we see one right there in the sky. It's so common, that you rarely even think about it.

    • @TheLastSaint17
      @TheLastSaint17 23 дні тому +5

      That's because we see them from so far away.
      Imagine looking at something that eclipses your field of view in every direction, and when you look at it, you can even see the back of your own reflection.

    • @OriruBastard
      @OriruBastard 23 дні тому

      Except, there's no time. Only motion and attraction.
      If you'll ever get that close to a black hole, the grinding motion itself has already beamed you with so much radiation that you wouldn't probably even notice that you've died.
      Time is only human made concept to understand motion.
      If you understand neutron stars then the black holes ain't much different.
      They're just densely packed objects that spins really fast and also crushes you like a lemon due to gravitational weight.
      I'd say they're like one gigantic atom. Can't get any denser than than and that also explains why they can get bigger and has a mass.

    • @persnikitty3570
      @persnikitty3570 23 дні тому +2

      I think No Man's Sky did this well, as you can only get so close to Sagittarius A before the background radiation becomes too intense, as you earn that game achievement.

    • @Astfgl
      @Astfgl 22 дні тому +1

      To be fair, our own sun and earth generate gravity strong enough to bend space and time. Orbits are essentially objects moving in a straight line through a curved spacetime. Black holes accomplish the same but on a much more grand scale.

    • @XtreeM_FaiL
      @XtreeM_FaiL 22 дні тому

      "gravity strong enough to bend space and time."
      Bend space-Time is the gravity.

  • @quinlantravis
    @quinlantravis 22 дні тому +4

    You forgot #6, people think the world is flat

  • @kamron_thurmond
    @kamron_thurmond 23 дні тому +15

    In an infinite Universe any point in that infinite Universe could technically be considered the center.

    • @digitalfootballer9032
      @digitalfootballer9032 23 дні тому +3

      Also in an infinite universe, there are infinite exact copies of everything.

    • @kamron_thurmond
      @kamron_thurmond 23 дні тому +2

      @@digitalfootballer9032 and infinite copies of every possible variation as well. Although it can be assumed that most variations wouldn't be stable. Usually the systems would collapse into more chaos, until a stable form could be reached.

    • @adamredwine774
      @adamredwine774 22 дні тому

      That also could be true of a finite universe depending on its shape.

    • @kamron_thurmond
      @kamron_thurmond 22 дні тому

      @@adamredwine774 People who believe space is finite have the same tone as flat earthers.

    • @adamredwine774
      @adamredwine774 22 дні тому +1

      @@kamron_thurmond It's literally an open question in cosmology... people who speak outside of their depth of knowledge are why there are flat earthers in the first place.

  • @ferociousgumby
    @ferociousgumby 23 дні тому +2

    Never knew the Universe was a "Sideproject"!

  • @nationaltidende
    @nationaltidende 23 дні тому +9

    1 million subs. Congratulations Simon🎉🎉

    • @Marykate465
      @Marykate465 23 дні тому +1

      This is his most underrated channel, in my opinion.

    • @QBCPerdition
      @QBCPerdition 22 дні тому +2

      ​@@Marykate465Astrographics would like a word. In fact, I'm surprised this wasn't posted there, or at least given a shout out.

  • @petercozzaglio6070
    @petercozzaglio6070 23 дні тому +2

    In my personal opinion, a Quasar is probably the most terrifying thing in the galaxy, or the known universe.

    • @snufkinmatt162
      @snufkinmatt162 23 дні тому

      I can think of a few things on Earth that are scarier than Quasars.

  • @Zidbits
    @Zidbits 5 днів тому +1

    Just a heads up: There's also something called "Seasonal Lag". It takes time for temp changes to effect our atmosphere. This is why the coldest & hottest months are not on the equinox (June & December 21st) when we receive the most light/least light. It's a lag of about 4-8 weeks.

  • @kento7899
    @kento7899 22 дні тому +2

    When parents scold their kid for being selfish, the kid needs to remind their parents that they are literally the center of the universe.

  • @elliotsmith9812
    @elliotsmith9812 23 дні тому +4

    Simon. You do what you do extremely well.

  • @ireallydontknow8616
    @ireallydontknow8616 23 дні тому +24

    I listen you when I go to sleep .. And it's nap time!!

    • @mikeatler
      @mikeatler 23 дні тому +4

      yeah. yawn

    • @Stang2023
      @Stang2023 23 дні тому +3

      Keep it down will ya? 😴💤

    • @TheLastSaint17
      @TheLastSaint17 23 дні тому +2

      I listen you while you're sleeping. Night night!

  • @AntonOfTheWoods
    @AntonOfTheWoods 23 дні тому +2

    The vast majority of stars, both in our galaxy and elsewhere, are red dwarfs. Red dwarfs are expected to last TRILLIONS of years. Though obviously with the universe at only 14-ish billion years old, we haven't yet observed any run out of gas yet!

  • @pessimisticideas3075
    @pessimisticideas3075 22 дні тому +2

    I really enjoyed this video! And the sound from the black hole at the end of the vid was quite eerie.

  • @christophermartin7098
    @christophermartin7098 22 дні тому +2

    And to paraphrase George Lucas, “ In space, women don’t need bras.”
    Gives me a queasy feeling trying to visualize.

    • @tealkerberus748
      @tealkerberus748 4 дні тому

      Only until we generate any form of fake gravity. Build a nice spinning-cylinder habitat so that stuff doesn't float around weightlessly and our bones don't decalcify, and we're back to bras again.

  • @Nauirune27
    @Nauirune27 23 дні тому +6

    The earth is the center of the universe as Jupiter would be if we were there. It’s the observable universe and since we are located on Earth the observable universe is centered on us where we are viewing from. People have trouble understanding that?

    • @deetee4403
      @deetee4403 13 днів тому

      So therefore, there is no real center... everything is a matter of perception to us.

  • @FloozieOne
    @FloozieOne 23 дні тому +3

    Very interesting. Some of this I knew but other parts I definitely did not. Another masterterful episode in my education.

  • @leightaylor806
    @leightaylor806 22 дні тому +2

    Haha! "It's extremely difficult to crash into a black hole on purpose, let alone by accident,"
    "So, how was your weekend?"
    Well, I had immense difficulty crashing into my favourite blackhole, and that was actually trying to crash into it intentionally!!'
    "That sucks. Well, better luck for next Sunday then!"

  • @taitano12
    @taitano12 23 дні тому +3

    Fun fact: The Star Wars galaxies are in the Abell cluster. That's why fighters bank like airplanes and shutting down your engines slows you down.

    • @mrhassell
      @mrhassell 23 дні тому

      Star Wars richly detailed galaxy, often referred to simply as “the galaxy.” The galaxy is one of trillions of galaxies in the Star Wars observable universe. It consists of over 400 billion estimated stars and more than 3.2 billion habitable systems. These systems orbit around a supermassive black hole known as the Galactic Centre, which lies at the heart of the galaxy.
      The galaxy’s structure includes four major spiral arms that rotate around the Galactic Centre. These arms are:
      The Perlemian Trade Route
      The Corellian Run
      The Hydian Way
      The Rimma Trade Route
      Norma Cluster (Abell 3627): Located near the center of the Great Attractor, this rich cluster of galaxies lies about 68 megaparsecs 222 million light-years away.
      Hercules Cluster (Abell 2151): Situated in the constellation Hercules, this cluster contains around 200 galaxies and is approximately 500 million light-years away.
      Massive Galaxy Cluster Conglomerate (formerly Abell 3192): Originally believed to be a single cluster, this conglomerate is located in the constellation Eridanus.
      The M.G.C.C is a supermassive structure, which exhibits gravitational lensing effects. The Abell cluster is a fascinating collection of approximately 4,000 galaxy clusters, each containing at least 30 members. These clusters are almost complete up to a redshift of z = 0.2. The catalog was originally compiled by the American astronomer George O. Abell in 1958 using plates from the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS). I didn't know George Lucas was an astronomer or involved in the POSS, that is interesting..

    • @proto-geek248
      @proto-geek248 23 дні тому

      🙄

    • @taitano12
      @taitano12 23 дні тому +1

      @@mrhassell Umm... It's a joke. I don't think Astronomers knew about that cluster when SW came out, much less GL. I was poking at the SW dogfights and in-universe physics, and the "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..." line.

    • @ole9421
      @ole9421 23 дні тому +1

      @@taitano12 Idk, from the form of the comment, maybe an AI Bot is trying to strike up a nerdy conversation with you?

  • @MysticWanderer
    @MysticWanderer 23 дні тому +2

    Hmmm wrong channel. The universe is the ultimate in megaprojects.

  • @seanmalloy7249
    @seanmalloy7249 23 дні тому +1

    0:40 The one likely counterexample is the star Betelgeuse, in the constellation Orion, which has been undergoing a number of disturbing (at least to astronomers) distortions and brightness changes that suggest it may not be long for the universe, with some astronomers arguing for its going supernova in mere decades. This would make it the ninth supernova spotted within our galaxy, going back to SN185, recorded by Han dynasty astronomers, with the most recent being SN1604, studied by Johannes Kepler among others.

  • @PelenTan
    @PelenTan 22 дні тому +1

    You just compared a black hole to New Jersey. Bravo!

  • @just_kos99
    @just_kos99 23 дні тому +1

    I was at a sci-fi con where the Science guest of honor was Dr Robert L. Forward. He said that re: us appearing to be the center of the universe, because other galaxies generally appear to be moving AWAY from us (well, except Andromeda which is coming toward us). He said, "Picture a deflated balloon. Take a black magic marker and put dots all over it, then blow up the balloon. The black dots all appear to be moving away from one another! And that's what the galaxies are doing." He was so nice answering all of my questions, lol! (Sorry so long.) RIP, Dr. Forward.
    BTW, IMO magnetars are far scarier than black holes. Y'all ought to Google the word, or look it up on UA-cam. They're fascinating. To give an example, a magnetar FIFTY THOUSAND LIGHT YEARS AWAY gave out a "hiccup" and it affected Earth's ionosphere. That's how bad-ass they are.

  • @adamredwine774
    @adamredwine774 22 дні тому +1

    Kudos to your writers. This science stuff is not easy and they do a very good job.

  • @seanhn5415
    @seanhn5415 23 дні тому +2

    U always make great videos

  • @snufkinmatt162
    @snufkinmatt162 23 дні тому +3

    There is a video from Anton Petrov posted just today detailing strong evidence that the range of no escape is quite a bit larger than the event horizon.

  • @stax6092
    @stax6092 23 дні тому +2

    The Howl of the Blackhole is beautiful.

  • @buckanderson3520
    @buckanderson3520 23 дні тому +2

    Maybe someone smarter than me can answer a question. So the universe is expanding and accelerating eventually even faster than the speed of light. The light coming from distant galaxies starts red shifting to lower and lower energy levels eventually flat lining when the expansion reaches light speed and light can no longer travel outward. But then the expansion exceeds the speed of light, so does the light shift into a negative spectrum? If so what happens, does it then start to take on mass? Light speed is zero motion through time and maximum motion through space, allowed due to zero mass. So with zero mass faster than light speed does light start to take on mass and increase it's motion in time while decreasing it's motion through space? Maybe that's what dark matter is, just light shifted into a negative spectrum?

    • @alphavasson5387
      @alphavasson5387 23 дні тому

      I don't believe light can ever redshift to the point it flat-lines or becomes negative. All that redshifting means is that the wavelength of a photon stretches. Theoretically, the wavelengths of photons can keep stretching forever, getting closer and closer to zero but never actually reaching it.
      Also, photons that are too far away to ever reach us are traveling slower than ALL of the space between itself and us, but it's still traveling faster than the space between itself and other particles that are closer by. So it is only traveling slower than space relative to us, not relative to space that is close to the particle.
      According to one theory of the end of the universe, "The Big Rip," space could eventually expand so quickly that even space close to a photon could begin to expand faster than the photon could travel. If this is the case, no one really knows what would happen. We don't yet have a working theory to combine general relativity (the theory that predicts/describes the expansion of the universe) and quantum mechanics (the theory that predicts/describes particles like photons), so all scientists can do right now is speculate.
      Keep in mind I'm not a physicist, just an undergrad with a long-standing special interest in physics, so take this all with a grain of salt. That being said, I hope my answer can help! :)

  • @MikeBaxterABC
    @MikeBaxterABC 20 днів тому +1

    I distinctly remember in Grade 6 (this was in the 1970's) .. Our grade 5 and 6 (combined classroom) teacher telling us the sun was FARTHER AWAY in Summer (as is the truth, IN CANADA)
    But we as students argued that was not right ...and further completely disregarded the lesson and, we all got the question wrong on the test. .. the fact summer occurs in JANUARY on the other side of the world was never discussed!
    Some kids even asked their parents to intercede and the parents said it was not worth it, and the teacher was just an idiot. As "everyone knows" the earth is flat .. I mean closer to the sun in Summer.
    I myself walked home the day after the test (we had a school bus but it was only a 1.5 mile walk) ... and stopped at the Library in town, and looked up the fact the sun INDEED is FARTHER AWAY in summer, in an older Encyclopaedia Britannica, form the early 1950's

  • @ZoggFromBetelgeuse
    @ZoggFromBetelgeuse 19 днів тому +1

    Better not use a black hole for a slingshot manoeuvre! I did this once - with the result of a seven years gap in my UA-cam channel's uploads, due to time passing slower near a black hole.

  • @Timmycoo
    @Timmycoo 23 дні тому +1

    Speaking of the sounds in space, there's a great channel called V101 Space that profiles the different sounds of our solar system and it's awesome. Also, I find the black holes "being scary" thing kinda silly considering how many people nowadays are talking of how people want to utilize them for different things be it potential habitats, energy production, or interstellar space travel. I think the fear mostly comes from the lack of comprehension we can fathom due to how outlandish they are cosmically compared to what we deal with on our tiny, mundane blue planet.

    • @carlstanford7607
      @carlstanford7607 22 дні тому

      They are terrifyingly destructive and to fall into a black hole would feel like being stretched apart until disintegration for what feels like eternity due to the time dilation that occurs nearer to the black holes centre. So not great

    • @Timmycoo
      @Timmycoo 22 дні тому

      @@carlstanford7607 You'd have to actively try to get swallowed up by one. Also, time dilation doesn't work that way for you. It's not that you experience time more slowly, it's that it would seem that way to the observer. Eg. if we were traveling at near the speed of light, we wouldn't be moving/experiencing things 99% slower. PBS Spacetime does a great breakdown on how this would work with 1 person being swallowed up and one person at the event horizon, observing. The one falling in would appear to be "standing still" in space.

  • @wildfoodietours6702
    @wildfoodietours6702 17 днів тому

    The universe never ceases to perplex and amaze me.

  • @johnathonherring2583
    @johnathonherring2583 23 дні тому +1

    Hit me with my daily dose of knowledge factboi

  • @jodi_kreiner
    @jodi_kreiner 23 дні тому +6

    surprised factboi didn’t put this video on astrographics, but I’m here for the multi-channel space content 💃🏻💫

  • @llamasugar5478
    @llamasugar5478 22 дні тому +1

    “Sounds From a Black Hole” sounds like an alt-music album.

  • @anonymous_hulk
    @anonymous_hulk 21 день тому

    I love your Astrophysics videos!

  • @josephpacchetti5997
    @josephpacchetti5997 20 днів тому

    Congratulations on 1,000,000 Subs. 📡

  • @Styphon
    @Styphon 23 дні тому +2

    So long and thanks for all the fish

    • @julianaylor4351
      @julianaylor4351 20 днів тому

      The bots of You Tube are loonies, it's the 🐬s that say that in Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. Get an education in classic British science fiction comedy by Douglas Adams, and leave my comment alone. 🙄
      I'm definitely not inviting you to Milliways. 😁❤️

    • @Styphon
      @Styphon 19 днів тому

      @@julianaylor4351 To quote the petunias, "Oh no, not again". 🙄

  • @steveDC51
    @steveDC51 22 дні тому +1

    “Mostly harmless” - Hitchhikers Guide.

  • @ConnoisseurOfExistence
    @ConnoisseurOfExistence 5 днів тому

    Black hole's accretion disk is very energetic, no spaceship would survive there.

  • @GekidoShitaRonin
    @GekidoShitaRonin 23 дні тому

    Ohhh this one sounds interesting. Next can you do one on the multiverse or parallel universes?

  • @Jayjay-qe6um
    @Jayjay-qe6um 22 дні тому +2

    "The Universe is under no obligation to make sense you."
    -- Neil deGrasse Tyson

  • @vindemiator3412
    @vindemiator3412 23 дні тому +1

    We are closest to the Sun during the summer, in the southern hemisphere.

  • @davealan5685
    @davealan5685 20 днів тому

    THANK YOU for not implying that the observable Universe or any variation of "the Universe" is product of a single "big bang". I'm so fed up with that because it's so rare that anyone talks about the Universe without claiming that to be true. I recently saw something else that implied it so I'm starting to assume that after decades of my own fustration that media and science are finally starting to much more widely acknowledge should have been really obvious the entire time. (And certainly since 1997-ish.)

  • @ioanbota9397
    @ioanbota9397 23 дні тому +1

    Realy I like this video so so much like you can imagine its so interestyng

  •  21 день тому

    Imagine living in a galaxy where you can constantly hear the black hole at the center of it. Talk about music of the spheres.

  • @kamron_thurmond
    @kamron_thurmond 23 дні тому

    The Perseus Galaxy black hole just sounded like a wind storm to me?

  • @digitalfootballer9032
    @digitalfootballer9032 21 день тому +1

    So all the scientific evidence points to a universe that is expanding faster than the speed of light. I believe this is yet another reason why faster than light travel could never be allowed by the laws of physics. Because if this were possible, you could actually reach and theoretically overshoot any theoretical "edge" of the universe (if such a thing exists). For this reason alone I can't possibly see how the laws of physics would ever allow it, it would break the whole system.
    Edit : It's also quite possible that FTL travel would seriously mess with time, potentially (in theory) sending occupants of an FTL vessel backwards in time, as at C time stops. No need to even get into the problems with causality and potential paradoxes this could cause. If you went backwards in time and were traveling at such speeds the universe would "deflate" from your perspective and where would you even end up? It can't be any more possible than creating a time machine out of a DeLorean 😂

  • @mattyvlietstra5017
    @mattyvlietstra5017 21 день тому

    I was wondering if I'd been misconceived but I already knew everything you mentioned thanks to the OG facts boy Simon Whistler! And all his great videos giving us all a better education than we got from school. I hope your empire continues to dominate.

  • @jensphiliphohmann1876
    @jensphiliphohmann1876 22 дні тому +1

    02:10 f
    _The lifespan of stars range from 15 million to 20 billion years..._
    That's an understatement. The lightest stars may life for trillions of years. Of course, they aren't visible with the naked eye.

    • @digitalfootballer9032
      @digitalfootballer9032 21 день тому

      I was thinking the same thing, many red dwarves have estimated lifespans in the hundreds of billions to trillions of years.

  • @PorkyPie01
    @PorkyPie01 23 дні тому +1

    How is this guy on every other channel?

  • @417jumps3
    @417jumps3 23 дні тому

    Persons Galaxy cluster - yeah that “sound” isn’t enough to creep someone out..

  • @briebel2684
    @briebel2684 23 дні тому

    Thanks for covering the first point. That meme just keeps circulating even though it isn't true.

  • @ZomBeeNature
    @ZomBeeNature 23 дні тому +1

    Very interesting!

  • @mercenarygundam1487
    @mercenarygundam1487 23 дні тому +15

    Be warned, existential crisis beyond this point.

    • @mrhassell
      @mrhassell 23 дні тому +1

      Three stars circling the Milky Way’s halo formed 12 to 13 billion years ago. Care for another existential crisis, just for good measure?

    • @fathertimegaming17
      @fathertimegaming17 23 дні тому +2

      It's not really an existential crisis. You're just not as special as your parents LED you to believe

    • @savagecomanche
      @savagecomanche 23 дні тому

      This is one of the least existential crisis inducing side projects I've seen in awhile

    • @nowthatsjustducky
      @nowthatsjustducky 22 дні тому

      @@fathertimegaming17 But we are each the center of the universe. That has to be the first ever participation trophy.

  • @yobgodababua1862
    @yobgodababua1862 22 дні тому

    "Dead stars, still burn. Dead still, stars burn"

  • @nowthatsjustducky
    @nowthatsjustducky 22 дні тому

    7:58 - If you want to narrow it down even further, we are each the center of the universe.

  • @joebiscoeiv747
    @joebiscoeiv747 23 дні тому

    What specific evidence are you referring to when speaking about the geocentric model? Very curious about this. Thanks!

  • @jfmccrosson
    @jfmccrosson 23 дні тому

    Thanks for that ending thought

  • @truebluemiata
    @truebluemiata 21 день тому

    RE Stars possibly being gone when we see their light, let us dream Simon, let us dream.

  • @bhab
    @bhab 22 дні тому

    10:48 noooo the jazz returns

  • @heman6169
    @heman6169 23 дні тому

    That little hell graphic at the end is(I'm pretty sure) the same one in the new @4saken song.

  • @carlstanford7607
    @carlstanford7607 22 дні тому

    Black holes can devour entire galaxies becoming quasars but sure they’re harmless! Probably the craziest thing I’ve heard Simon with huge assumptions, sophistry, relativism, and conflations throughout. Black holes are the destructive engines of the universe however given the scale of space we are fortunate to not having to worry about them.

  • @HeavyTopspin
    @HeavyTopspin 23 дні тому

    "...that amorphous blight of nethermost confusion which blasphemes and bubbles at the center of all infinity - the boundless daemon sultan Azathoth, whose name no lips dare speak aloud, and who gnaws hungrily in inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond time and space amidst the muffled, maddening beating of vile drums and the thin monotonous whine of accursed flutes."

  • @drain_001
    @drain_001 22 дні тому

    That ending is :chef kiss: lol.

  • @andrewdreasler428
    @andrewdreasler428 19 днів тому

    9:58 So staying safe from this sample black hole is as easy as staying out of Jersey!
    (No disrespect to Jersey.)

  • @ronanzann4851
    @ronanzann4851 21 день тому

    The biggest misconseption is that astronomers and main stream cosmologists actually know what they're talking about !

  • @unculturedweeb4240
    @unculturedweeb4240 12 днів тому

    Yup sounds like an Eldritch horror alright.

  • @JohnRandomness105
    @JohnRandomness105 23 дні тому

    2:10 Red dwarfs probably have a lifetime in the trillions of years. And most stars are red dwarfs -- granted, they aren't visible.

  • @nrsrymj
    @nrsrymj 23 дні тому +3

    The universe is a side project

    • @julianaylor4351
      @julianaylor4351 23 дні тому

      According to ...

    • @captainspaulding5963
      @captainspaulding5963 22 дні тому

      ​@@julianaylor4351 it was a joke, based on the name of the channel you are commenting on....

    • @julianaylor4351
      @julianaylor4351 20 днів тому

      @@captainspaulding5963 Obviously my joke back to you was too subtle. 😁❤️

  • @sergiosmith6443
    @sergiosmith6443 23 дні тому

    :o I gave a talk very much like this a few weeks ago at my local observatory! My preamble was basically identical 😅 and a couple of the misconceptions I addressed overlapped with these! Wait, were you there?!

  • @fredyellowsnow7492
    @fredyellowsnow7492 22 дні тому +1

    Could you ask your neighbours to turn their damned music down?

  • @funnytourtoise
    @funnytourtoise 22 дні тому +1

    Pluto is a flat planet! - Change my mind... 😅😂

    • @julianaylor4351
      @julianaylor4351 20 днів тому +1

      There's another dwarf planet shaped like a rugby ball. 😁

  • @fooltimer
    @fooltimer 18 днів тому

    Glad I'm not the only one who finds every sound NASA brings to us creepy AF!

  • @TheJMBon
    @TheJMBon 22 дні тому

    Danger from black holes isn't just falling into it, but 1) being captured in its orbit for all eternity, 2) periodic high energy radiation bursts, 3) the Roche limit is huge and will shred any objects into atoms at hundreds of millions of kilometers away, 4) time dilation as you get close will ensure that everything you know or love is long gone before you age and die, and 5) depending which direction you orbit, with or against the black hole spin, frame dragging will slow your orbit each time around, pulling you closer and closer.

    • @digitalfootballer9032
      @digitalfootballer9032 21 день тому

      Isn't it theorized that if you are caught in the event horizon of a black hole that time will slow to a stop for you? If this is true then wouldn't it also then be impossible to reach the singularity, as if time stops for you then all movement would as well. I am sure there are other factors like being crushed by gravity or cooked by radiation, but if you somehow could shield yourself from that, would it just be a fate that completely froze you in time for eternity? That would be pretty unpleasant to say the least.

  • @antoninuspius1747
    @antoninuspius1747 22 дні тому

    I thought your number 1 would be the Big Bang starting with a singularity. Yes, there was a Big Bang and it was a singularity, but it more and more cosmologist believe it was a singularity in time, not a physical point. The analogy I like to use is supercooled water. Many have probably experienced this. Its when you have usually relatively pure water in a glass in the freezer and it's not frozen. But as soon as you disturb it, it freezes almost instantly. The theory is that there was energy everywhere that slowly cooled over time . Then, at that singularity in time, it instantly "froze" everywhere. EVERYWHERE. The expansion of the universe (and there is debate if expansion is really happening) is not due to expansion from a "bang", as often depicted, but that all of space itself is expanding, and there are many theories as to why that is happening.

  • @jon_j__
    @jon_j__ 22 дні тому

    On point #1, due to relativity, you can argue that anything we observe at the speed of light is in some sense happening "now" - not "N years ago" for a star N light-years away. (Because information cannot be transmitted faster than the speed of light.)
    From this point of view, the statement that "some of the stars in the sky might have burned out thousands of years ago" can be refuted by walking outside and looking up - if you can see it, it's still burning. The fact the photons were emitted 1000 light-years away from your retina is irrelevant.
    (It's a bit of a simplification to use photons, but it's close enough, and it's a lot easier to observe light than something that ALWAYS travels at EXACTLY c - eg. gravitational waves.)

  • @fredrickbambino
    @fredrickbambino 23 дні тому

    Judging from the sounds they make I have come to the conclusion that black holes are literal portals to hell itself.

  • @Whatisright
    @Whatisright 23 дні тому

    Do you guys have a channel on folklores or myths?

  • @moneybagz82
    @moneybagz82 14 днів тому

    We know so much until we find we know so little

  • @the-chillian
    @the-chillian 23 дні тому

    Fun fact: Any work published by an agency of the United States government is in the public domain by law. So you can republish anything NASA produces (on its own, not through a contractor) without even crediting them, although you really should just so that people understand what they're looking at. Or hearing, in this case.

  • @DrDeuteron
    @DrDeuteron 23 дні тому

    Misconceptions:
    1) you can time order distant events, e.g. "Betelgeuse has already exploded"...we can't time order it until we see it. Fact.
    2) related: the earth spins once per day (false).
    3a) That the entire universe was tiny at the start, no, we only know that the visible U was.
    3b) That saying "The Earth is stationary at the center of the universe and stars revolve around us once per (sidereal) day" is wrong. General Relativity disagrees.

  • @ianjames1437
    @ianjames1437 9 днів тому

    Interesting video answered a question that I've had for ages. That is our sun will last 2.5 billion years yet we are taught everything on earth comes from stars, the universe only being 13 billion years old all seemed lucky tight timeline.

  • @Killer_Kovacs
    @Killer_Kovacs 23 дні тому +1

    Earth is not a typical planet because basically everything about our solar system is not typical.

    • @julianaylor4351
      @julianaylor4351 20 днів тому +1

      Which makes a habitable planet all the more of a rarity. ❤️

  • @LurkerAnonymous
    @LurkerAnonymous 15 днів тому

    NOT EVEN TIME CAN ESCAPE BLACK HOLES.

  • @jensphiliphohmann1876
    @jensphiliphohmann1876 22 дні тому

    07:15
    _...well beyond what we can see,
    most likely to infinity._
    You're a poet!

  • @tadcooper9733
    @tadcooper9733 23 дні тому

    "mostly harmless"
    haha I see you.

  • @briandash1351
    @briandash1351 23 дні тому

    at 7:26, the Earth is rotating the wrong way.

  • @benzomanic2972
    @benzomanic2972 23 дні тому

    All hail, Father Simon!

  • @seanb3516
    @seanb3516 23 дні тому +1

    Here's some TidBits:
    - The Earth Does Not Orbit the Sun. Both the Sun and the Earth Orbit the Solar Systems' Common Gravitational Center...which is very close to the middle of the Sun.
    - Daytime gets longer in the Winter and Shorter in the Summer. The longest day of the year is June 21st. This is also the First Day of Summer. So as soon as Summer starts the Daytime will begin to Shorten. The Opposite happens on the First day of Winter, December 21st.
    - The Earth's North Magnetic Pole is in the Southern Hemisphere. A Compass has a tiny Magnet which has the North Pole of the Magnet painted to mark where it Points. The Magnets North Pole points Directly towards the Geographic North Pole above Canada. However, with Magnets Opposites Attract. This means the North Pole of the Compass Magnet is Attracted to the Earth's' South Magnetic Pole. And the Magnetic Flux of the Earths Magnetic Field Comes out of the Earth in the Southern Hemisphere and reenters the Earth in the North Pole above Canada. This Flow Direction of the Magnetic Flux causes Solar Storm Particles (CME) to be Trapped in the North of the Earth. And, we get Awesome Northern Lights here in Canada Because of it.

    • @XtreeM_FaiL
      @XtreeM_FaiL 22 дні тому +1

      "Daytime gets longer in the Winter and Shorter in the Summer. The longest day of the year is June 21st. This is also the First Day of Summer. So as soon as Summer starts the Daytime will begin to Shorten. The Opposite happens on the First day of Winter, December 21st."
      How sure you're about that?
      Let's say that you're in middle of a summer in Sydney or anywhere else on the southern hemisphere. What do you expect to see?

    • @digitalfootballer9032
      @digitalfootballer9032 21 день тому

      ​@@XtreeM_FaiLEverything is just the opposite in the Southern hemisphere. I'm sure the OP is referring to what happens in the northern hemisphere and is probably where they live.

  • @julianaylor4351
    @julianaylor4351 23 дні тому

    Think of us being a tiny object, on a table, in a room, in a house, on a planet, in a solar system, in a galaxy, in a universe..... 🤯😎😁

  • @bazzer124
    @bazzer124 22 дні тому

    The fascinating thing about the universe are the paradoxes it presents. It's 13.5 or so billion years old yet 93 billion light years in diameter, among the countless other weirdness our theories and discoveries have highlighted. Cheers....

    • @nowthatsjustducky
      @nowthatsjustducky 22 дні тому

      The acceleration of the universe's expansion is a likely explanation for the 13.5b vs 93b disparity. So that really isn't a paradox.

  • @reasorlloyd1
    @reasorlloyd1 22 дні тому

    We’re in space, therefore there is sound in space.
    Checkmate, scientists.