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@@StephenConti-t6j Does? The guy's dead. And I never saw the guy while he was alive. Probably because I wasn't invented yet. But judging by the people who lived (and live) around his neighborhood, he wasn't a blue-eyed, blond Nordic type you see in paintings.
YES, I used to hang out with a circle of people who were always calling me a genius, compliments are nice, but I'm pretty dumb. People's education has been and is being completely destroyed
So I ordered a Baphy plushie, and when it came in, I was living at a Christian shelter (still am, but I'll be out soon). I had to hide her in my suitcase any time I left because I was afraid they'd kick me out if they saw it. Just a random story. Baphy is cuddly and adorable.
Have you seen the new Baphy Pride plushie? The pentagram is replaced with a rainbow, but that may or may not be viewed any less 'baphymous' where you're staying - I suppose you could convince them it's intended to represent a creature on Noah's Ark 😅 Stay safe!
@@kylie_h1978 Alien master plans can be quite complicated. Dale Gribble says they came to his neighborhood and Nancy became pregnant. Joseph Gribble and Kate have the same paternal DNA.
I personally know a SHOCKING amount of people that thinks this crap is actual history, just because it is on the "History Channel". Between that, and flat earth people, I am kind of starting to rethink freedom of speech.
Physicist here. The woman at 19:40 is more likely to be trying to talk about Virtual Particles or spontaneous creation of a particle from background energy, rather than quantum tunnelling. You did a good explanation of quantum tunnelling by the way.
There was one small error in her description of quantum tunneling that should be corrected. It is not that "we don't know how a particle gets to the other side of the barrier". It is more "there is no information to be had on that and not even an observer sitting on the particle could figure it out." There is no "hidden variable"
As a demon in Hadean middle-management, I can neither confirm nor deny that the UFOs are ours. Though I can say we've been UFO surfing at least a thousand years longer than Jesus. And it's a lot harder to UFO surf in the dim light and mild chilliness of Heck so yeah we're a little more badass.
@@AB-80X you seem to misunderstand, in Hell the damned resign to an eternity of suffering. That's too easy. In Heck we get your hopes up a bit only to demolish your fragile mortal emotions. Would you like some coffee? Sorry, we only have cold, stale decaf. And is that your severed finger in the place of a swizzle stick? Sorry, I'll make sure to put that on ice, eventually, and maybe we'll get it back to you to reattach it. Maybe even in the right place! As the Prince of Inadequate lighting, it's my job to make sure you have just enough light to read that awful novel (missing pages at the end of chapters) for the 665th time, but only if you squint really, really hard.
@@silkwesir1444 annoyingly the convention was set before we actually knew what was going on so demons have a negative sign despite being the only thing that exist.
Oh yes, Emma, please review Ancient Aliens. I grew up with Chariots of the Gods and In Search of Ancient Astronauts, so I was initially open to the theories, but after Ancient Aliens, my trust in those "authorities" on the matter has completely eroded.
Would those "authorities" you no longer trust, include people who DON'T use the word "theory" to describe incredibly speculative hypothesise, but rather rigorous bodies of knowledge that explain establish facts and data? Because I tend to be more skeptical about people who entertain ludicrously speculative ideas, without considering empirical evidence and call their flimsy untested hypothesise theory's.
Chariots of the gods was put in the fiction and occult section of my local library ... and I got to know my local librarian ..he also put Dr Who books in the Fishfingers and Custard section ...
@@skepticusmaximus184 I'm using "theory" in the vernacular (hypothesis) form. As a child, I saw In Search of Ancient Astronauts (1973) which was being treated as a "documentary film" at the time. It was based upon the book Chariots of the Gods. Primarily, Erich von Daniken's book Chariots of the Gods (1968) has been widely discredited, and the work of Maria Reiche (among others) has posited more plausible explanations to counter Von Daniken's. I am absolutely fascinated with the Nazca lines and have spent most of my life following things like the Nazca Lines, the Bermuda Triangle, and other mysterious places often "linked" with aliens. I still believe in the statistical possibility of alien life, (which, in my opinion would probably look like weird sea life rather than bipedal humanoid in form), but I have yet to see credible evidence that humans are being or have been visited / guided by any alien species.
I was in high school when that fad began. I too thought some UFOs were demonic and not physical. But as the good captain asked, "What does God need with a starship ?"
This reminded me of the people from my home city. We had a Casino built so that already got the fundamentalist's up in arms, but the REALLY nutty ones were convinced that at the top of the Casino's hotel tower was a gate to hell and the spotlights where actually angels holding back the demons. The reason for this was because the CASINO sign was red and lit up the sky over the tower which could be seen pretty much anywhere in the city and surrounding area and there where 3 spotlights that danced around the red haze that would hit the clouds, we jokingly referred to as Windsor's Eye of Sauron cause that was the kind of effect it gave. But yep people truly saw this and didn't think "that's some crazy light pollution" and went straight to "that's a gate to hell with angels standing guard!"
I usually click the Like button at some point during Emma's videos when I remember it. This time, it only took to the half-second long Red Dwarf clip! "Rimmer, you think EVERYTHING is aliens! The time we went through a whole bog roll in a day, you thought THAT was aliens!"
In quantum tunnelling, the particle doesn't 'teleport'. What happens is that on incredibly small scales, particles are a blur of possibilities and pinning them down to a 'position' becomes impossible. In fact the very word position has less and less meaning the smaller you go. The possibility space for a particle in its entirety takes up some volume, and if that volume is wider than the thickness of a barrier, there is a possibility for the particle to be on either side. When the wave is collapsed into a classical particle, it can appear to have gone through the wall. Many of the 'weird' things in quantum mechanics can be understood better by seeing particles as a fuzz of possibility. There is little 'physicality' to them and they operate through fields that permeate the universe. Fields that generally refuse to be defined in terms of rational numbers, and exist everywhere.
Oh, and they were talking about 'virtual particles', which are elements of the field. A zero value in the field can become a particle and anti-particle pair, which annihilate back to nothingness. They are virtual not real because they don't contribute anything to the universe, can be said to pop in and out of existence randomly, and keeping them around as real particles takes the energy of a black hole. If this could be tapped into and used somehow, and if their deeper nature involves extra spatial dimensions we are not aware of yet then new physics could be found there i.e. warp drive and that was their point. That's a lot of supposition though.
in general, for the "classic" quantum mechanics, as far as I understand it, it's not so much that positions don't make sense (since wave functions can get localized), and more so that the classical idea of a trajectory looses meaning (since you're dealing with wave functions which in general will only be very localized upon measurement). So you could at some time detect the particle to have been at a given position and, at a latter time, detect it to be in another position. Which in itself is nothing new - the twist is that you can't from that say a lot about where the particles was in the meantime, at least not nearly as much as you could in classical mechanics. One thing in particular which could happen would be for a particle to be at one time inside the box and at another outside the box, but between these measurements all you can really talk about is the evolution of the wave-function, and not the position itself.
I love Ancient Aliens! I’m a professional archaeologist and having this shout-at-the-TV tosh to watch is oddly enjoyable. Just remember, they’re not saying it’s the aliens, but it definitely was the aliens! 😋
I love Ancient Aliens just for the sheer audacity to be like "humans are too stupid to have done these amazing things in the past, so it was obviously aliens that did it for them/taught them. But equally obviously, we're smarter now and can do things with modern technology, but we can't figure out how they did the same things better with lesser technology." Like, dude, way to disrespect our ancient ancestors, while also disrespecting everyone currently living. Ancient Aliens and Secret of Skinwalker Ranch are my favorite shows to hate-watch.
Please do Most Haunted! For a while it was my favourite (unintentional) tv comedy, and Yvette Fielding has been a love since she was on Blue Peter :D Also, what's wrong with All Things Bright & Beautiful is the verse "The rich man in his castle/The poor man at his gate/God made them high and lowly/And ordered their estate." No complaining or trying to improve your lot in life - god says what you get and you have to put up with it!
Most Haunted was a fav in my household! Mainly because it was so ridiculous! We absolutely lost it when they were investigating somewhere and started throwing marbles down a hallway and *supposedly* an entity was throwing them back! It was so absurd and we just lost it watching that. We still occasionally talk about it every once in a while and still lose our shit talking about it.
17:50 to what I've read on both (historical fairies and modern ufos) they do have correlation. Some of that is different cultural interpretation of dreams or possibly hallucinations (induced by ingesting drugs/plants or otherwise). One example is the interpretation of sleep paralysis. There are fae folk who were known to attack at night making it so someone couldn't move. Then demons who did the same thing. Now we have alien abductions stories with similar aspects. Many of them follow the same narrative. Theres some being sitting on their chest or holding them down. They can't move and often have trouble breathing.
I once wrote a short story called "The Accidental Savior" that featured an alien who crash lands in the ancient Middle East and despite his best efforts to blend in, becomes a respected teacher for the locals. When it all threatens to get out of hand, he decides he has to fake his own death in order to discredit himself and minimize his impact on human society... I really must dust it off and publish it sometime.
It sounds like Most Haunted was for you what Ghost Adventures was for me. It was such a guilty pleasure. I would watch it the same way people watch bad movies. It was just so funny. I think it's still on. Zac Bagins is a character. He cracks me up so much. "I swear, dude, I swear... I just saw... wait. Did you hear that?" Omg I need to go back and watch that show again. It is so hilarious.
You should check out "The Haunted Home Inspector", which is unironically my favorite ghost show! Basically, they set up the whole situation, the family explains what hauntings have happened, they do the reenactments, everything. And then they have an actual home inspector show up and he VERY dryly and immediately gives perfectly logical explanations for every single thing the family described, lol! But because it's still a ghost show, then they bring out a 'psychic' who 'gets possessed' and sees spirits and everything in EVERY SINGLE HOUSE right after the supernatural phenomenon was debunked! It's so funny, lol!
I was casually watching your video, have to admit I'm a bit of a fan but when you said "what's wrong with All Things Bright and Beautiful....it's a fucking banger" I literally spat my wine across my once white carpet -I'm holding to blame Ms Thorne 😂
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17:45 - The comparison of UFO phenomena and faerie encounters in folklore was presented by Jaques Vallee in _Passport To Magonia_ back in the early 1970s. I think you'd find Dr. Valle of interest.
Another absolute banger of a video from one of the wittiest, funniest people on you tube…. The snark is high yet again and I’m all for it … And that opening image of Jesus riding a UFO is just awesome !!! Keep up the fab work Little Duck ….
Hi Emma, the Dark haired woman in the witches type dress and hat with the scottish accent is Evelyn Hollow. They were the team believer side of the Uncanny series that came out around Halloween on the BBC. And she's from the same town as i am.
If people want a good content creator that already covers Ancient Aliens and Ancient Alien theories, there's a great podcast called "It's Probably Not Aliens", which I'd highly recommend. They do good research, cover things one topic at a time, and keep things fresh and understandable as they cover some pretty interesting history. But yeah, I would also want to see Emma cover this because it's just such a wild topic. History's full of really cool and interesting cultures and it's always crazy to see all these really fascinating practices and bits of folklore just get boiled down to "Yeah, they just didn't know how to describe a shiny metal disk, it's totally a UFO if you ignore everything that isn't UFO like!"
Brava on a more seamless transition you ad read than I've ever heard before! I actually sat through the entire sponsor spot because I was so impressed 😅 Looking forward to the rest of the video!
Hi Emma....I suffer from the same thing for your eye....My optometrist told me that my eyeball and inner eyelid stick together and when you open your eye you rip a layer of cells off your eyeball....hence the intense pain and blurry vision. Using some liquid tear eye drops can help when they are dry. Great video as always!!! I would say yes to you watching Ancient Aliens....but that show frustrates me to no end!!!
26:28 machine learning researcher here. Pretty much correct. These networks are not "creative" in the sense you would probably use the word. They basically learn relationships between the input and the output, so image generation for "dinosaur wearing a hat" would likely create something that relates to the training data that had "dinosaurs" or "wearing a hat" and basically can fuse what it's seen.
However... the jury is still out whether we as humans do more than that. Well, if it was for me, they would have already decided: of course not, we're just kidding ourselves, probably would go mad (or in some other way unable to properly navigate the world) otherwise - but this is very contentious. The question is less about how smart these "AI"s are, more like how dumb we actually are. The likes of ChatGPT do have the potential of shining a very harsh spotlight on this age-old philosophical problem, imho. EDIT: I'd like to clarify that I don't meant to say that people would go mad from having this realization. Those are two different layers. One can accept something intellectually but on another, more visceral level, still be subject to the illusion. It's a bit like with the concept of mythology, which can be of a certain use even if you know it is "only made up". This does not only extend to religious ideas, btw - think of, say, the French Revolution being a foundational myth for our current western cultures.
@@silkwesir1444 The jury isn't out on that at all, it is clearly evidenced that humans are able to complete tasks that AI are not able to. Because AI lack the ability to think they are unable to relate concepts to each other and actually understand them, this becomes abundantly clear when you ask any language model about anything related to science that is slightly more complex than pop science. They'll fuck up the calculations and get confused over the name of variables, especially if you're using a language other than English, and they're unable to think through any kind of problem. The same also shows up in the humanities, an AI can produce an essay about say symbolism in Edgar Allen Poe's writing but it will just repeat the average of what was found on the internet, it is unable to actually perform any novel analysis and won't be able to defend what it wrote, so it'll just produce an extremely average essay that never gets high marks. This has been borne out in studies where it was noticed that when people who wrote at an above average level used AI their level fell down to the average, meanwhile those who were below average were raised to an average level. You're getting confused over two different concepts here, AI companies claim that AI learn in a way that is similar to how humans learn (this claim should be taken with a grain of salt because they're using it as justification for stealing art). However learning and creativity are not the same thing, a human might learn in a similar way but that does not meant they produce works in the same way because humans learn skills and then intentionally apply them, whereas AIs learn patterns and just replicate them. Some part of human learning is also pattern recognition but that's a minor part of it and it's obvious that humans learn best when we focus on skills rather than rote memorization, like you don't learn calculus through memorization, you learn it through learning the proofs so you know how to do it yourself.
NO, EMMA! DON'T DO IT! We need you with your brain intact, not spattered all over your studio walls as your head explodes from all the stupidity! By the way . . . I saw the Pride Baphy plushie the other day. It makes me wish I had someone to give it to!
"The Inglesby Chronicles" would be the best ever movie to watch at 2AM with dorm mates or the very last people at a party or various kinds of cool overnight guests!
@@Erika.D84that was Piccolo junior (or Ma junior in japanese) the son of the original Piccolo, which wasn't technically an alien since was born in "Earth"... the original Piccolo (the old one who died at the hands of Goku) was the "alien devil"... so, I gonna say even demons are better people than religious people as a whole...😂
@EmmaThorneVideos Carl Sagan published a book in 1995 called "The Demon Haunted World" that was all about the similarities between religious experiences, fairy kidnappings, and alien abductions. And how all these hallucinations similarities are explained by abnormalities in a certain part of the brain occurring in people experiencing these hallucinations. Oliver Sacks also goes into this in his book "Hallucinations". 17:34
17:57 Carl Sagan's _Demon Haunted World_ devotes a great deal of attention to the phenomenon of "demon possession," and how after the launch of Sputnik (and the advent of sci-fi movies), these same sorts of people started claiming alien abductions. Same script, updated characters.
Think reductionistically. There is NEVER EVER SHAME in reporting DIRECT OBSERVATIONS of events, NO MATTER HOW STRANGE! Bigfoot, poltergeist, aliens, UAPs -- these have NOTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH STORIES STORIES STORIES about hypothetical government agents with hypothetical motives. If these are DIRECTLY WITNESSED, then there is ZERO shame in reporting them to the world. These are events that are FORCED UPON THE OBSERVER! They are NOT claims of "superpowers" by the observer. People SHOULD be ASAHAMED to believe UNOBSERVED and UNOBSERVABLE FANTASY STORIES such as reiki or claims of "super powers" by (fake) "psychics" (which ARE falsifiable and HAVE been falsified) or god demon spirituality shit.
Please, NOT Isaac Arthur! I've viewed a number of his videos, and his "futures" work is horrid. He doesn't offer alternative futures, presenting "the future" as something certain. It looks good as science fiction, but to someone trained as a professional futurist (I have a Master's degree in the field) Arthur's work is GARBAGE.
@@johndemeritt3460Where does he present the future as "certain"? I've never seen him do that. I've seen him present his material in as optimistic way as possible, but never as "this is how it will be".
@@zemorph42 watch carefully: you'll hear the word "will" with a frequency no professional futurist would EVER consider. We understand that there are multiple, alternative futures that are tentative and contingent. The fact that Arthur presents only the most optimistic scenario among the range of possible futures is misleading at best.
@@johndemeritt3460 well, to be fair, he's trying to make videos that people will want to watch ... leaning towards optimism is probably the difference between getting and not getting that adsense check.
@2:21 Emma, pirates wore eye patches so they could keep one eye dark adapted. If they went from daylight on deck to below decks, there wasn't a lot of light down there, so they would move the patch to their other eye. At least, that's the lore anyway. Some may have worn one to cover an injury, but that wasn't the general case. I saw this tested on Mythbusters, which the results tend to lend credibility to this. Anyhow, I enjoy your videos, keep up the good work.
That's a myth, all sources from pirates are pretty explicit that eye patches were there to cover up blind or removed eyes. When they went under the deck they just brought a lantern.
On alien abductions and fairy encounters, Jacques Vallee wrote quite a bit on the topic. He was one of the first UFO experts out there, worked with Hynek & Project Blue Book, and was one of the most respected anti-alien theorists in the UFO community ... Thus one of the only ones respected both within & without the community. _Passport to Magonia_ in 1969 was his classic on it, but there's a dozen books, articles, etc on the subject. Coincidentally, he was the guy that the French scientist in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" was based on. At any rate, point is, from the very beginning that alien/fairy nexus was known to the UFO community... And ignored by many.
Also YES there's a genuine argument to make from the perspective of folkloric studies that aliens and fairies fulfill a similar role in stories. There are some similar themes: aliens and fairies both inhabit liminal spaces, they both think in ways that are intractable to humans, they both have a tendency to adbuct people, there is a specific role for infants in the mythos (changelings for fairies, hybrid children for aliens).
Yes! I was going to mention this too! There were also claims of abductions by fairies back in the day, as well! And up until Betty and Barney Hill, aliens could vary drastically, including fairy-like beings. Hell, the Hopkinsville Goblins really toe the line.
Unimportant irrelevant analogies. Say, a bunch of people in Cambodia got bombed by a bunch of American bombers ordered by then President Nixon. That's a story with a bunch of nouns and verbs. That is very similar to another story I heard also involving nouns and verbs about how Jennifer Lopez once experienced a nipple slip on stage during a SuperBowl halftime show! See?
I'm glad, thank you! Someone said the sound effect I was using for a lil bit was a bit 'nails on chalkboardy' and they were so right. Can't go wrong with a funky lil tune
@@surfpsych Historically yeah, but recently he's been on a bender going on more and more insane conspiracy theory platforms. It's pretty irresponsible regardless, and definitely sad to see an expert like him become a crank.
My dad watched ancient aliens and still quotes things from it to this day as if its evidence of his conspiracies. I love you channel because your story feels very relatable to me in many ways. ❤❤
I love this episode so much! Any time a Red Dwarf clip of Rimmer saying "ALIENS!" Is included, I'm all in! Also, my favorite color is green as well, and I also wear glasses. I am, sadly, not a Silly Little Duck, though, but some day I aspire to be
The physics phenomenon referenced is virtual particles. In quantum field theory, the basis for the standard model, it is possible for particles to pop in and out of existence incredibly briefly. The theory states this is because of fluctuations in their respective fields. The brevity is due to the almost instantaneous annihilation of these particles by their antiparticles, which are created in parity to preserve the laws of physics. We also have evidence of this phenomenon through the Casimir effect. This is where two neutral, conducting plates are held in close proximity, generally a micron apart, within a vacuum. The only force working upon the plates should be gravity, yet that is not what is measured. It is said to be evidence of virtual particles because this discrepancy is within the parameters for virtual particle prediction. Another theoretical phenomenon that could definitively prove virtual particles is the Schwinger effect. In this proposed experiment, spinning magnetic fields are imposed inside a vacuum. Once the field is strong enough, it should spatially separate virtual particles from their antiparticles long enough to prevent instantaneous annihilation, hence become observable. Tangentially, the most famous premise based on this concept is Hawking radiation. Proposed by Stephen Hawking, a similar circumstance could happen upon the surface of black holes, where gravity is so strong one virtual particle is absorbed while the other escapes. This energy differential provides a theoretical basis for black hole evaporation.
Really? I thought it might actually ward people off... At least in my experience I have encountered people who were deep in conspiracy theories, but they thought Ancient Aliens ridiculous and only made fun of it.
@silkwesir1444 for younger folks at least, it was. When I was a kid, History Channel still had some legitimacy so when they had a show say that some experts say that extraterrestrials could have done a thing it held some weird legitimacy. Not to mention that it invoked the mindset that QAnon also used where you aren't saying this thing IS TRUE, just that it could be true and you're just asking questions.
I mean, the whole Ancient Aliens community believes that extra-terrestrials are what several religions and cultures around the world have worshipped as deities, so who knows which side is correct? Neither. Neither side is correct.😂
Please review some ancient aliens. Watching that show alone is already a bucket of chuckles so having a sensible person analyze it and pick it apart would be a riot.
About the "quantum tunneling" and all the weird quantum effects I think it's a problem with analogies. When they talk about "barriers" in the quantum realm they are not referring to literally barriers, as in brick walls. They are talking about energy levels. So the context is that of a particle in a meta-stable state that in order to go to a lower-but-stable energy state has to pass a "barrier" (requiring a bump in energy). The particle is not supposed to have the energy to "escape" (meaning making the "jump" to cross the barrier) but can do it via quantum tunneling. And this has been observed experimentally. But again, we are not talking about a ball warping through a brick wall, it's a particle changing energy levels in a field. It may change a 0 to a 1 in a CPU made of nanometer transistors.
Good video - keep up the fun stuff. Regarding Ancient Aliens - I have watched the whole series at least twice. It is fun to plan trips to the sites they visit and I like to yell at the TV so it is perfect for me. Give it a go - you will have material for years - so many shows. I am an archaeology nerd so I find it really hilarious how they interpret things I have actually seen. Another short series you might check out is Ancient Apocalypse - similar vibe without the aliens.
Yes! You had me hooked as soon as I saw Rimmer in the intro! Your pronunciation on "Ufologists" is correct, I wish you luck in finding that program you mentioned. I'm a little hesitant on recommending "Ancient Aliens". I love sci-fi/ space stuff, etc, but I give that one a huge miss whenever I find it on The History Channel here in The U.S. "Cheeky Like" given as always! Keep up the great work!
Note that the UK Ministry of Defense didn't have a UFO division or bureau, just a desk. Very small. Mr. Pope sat at that desk for a few years, and then he didn't anymore. And now they've removed the desk entirely. So sad.
20:30 you've got it. It's called the "tunneling" phenomenon, and is the operating principle of the tunnel diode, which is often employed as an oscillator and amplifier, in electronics. Incidentally, in chemistry, electron orbitals are usually represented as "clouds," the shading of which indicates the probability of finding an electron at a particular location.
I totally get your trepidation around ancient aliens. When you grew up around people who are that crazy or had ideas that crazy, it's really hard to just go back and be able to laugh at it. Am example for me would be the British series Everybody Else Burns. I grew up around so many people who were preparing for the apocalypse in Y2K or even just recently in the last few years. They bought goats and quit their jobs and shit like that. It's really difficult to really let myself laugh at it because it's just too familiar and it makes me sad. Even though I feel like to an outsider, the series is probably objectively hilarious.
17:59 - I agree, that's a great shirt, but the guy before that had an even better T-shirt on. I immediately wanted to like him, even if he was talking gibberish. 🙂
You're pretty much right on with Generative AI in it's current state. It is essentially creating an image, following keywords and phrases, by making an exceedingly complex collage out of the collection of images inside its database. It simultaneously repeats much of the patterns those images tend to have as well; such as having a figure centered in the image, having a strong lightsource (though it doesn't understand things like the direction of light and will often put a sun or moon directly in the background that doesn't cast light on the figure), and so on.
I think you should. It’s really interesting. I couldn’t take it very seriously, but the parallels they draw between alien technology in ancient Egyptian times and now are super intriguing.
Really made me laugh - you are great. Thank you for covering my film - God Vs UFOs - it's actually coming out on most AVOD platforms on June 25th. Mark
I fucking hated the opening title sequence of Unsolved Mysteries cuz they showed a picture of the grey alien drawing lol. When I heard the music I'd look away.
The reason you don't see quantum events in classical mechanics is not because there is a quantum world where quantum rules apply and a classical world where classical physics apply, but because of the law of large numbers. As an analogy: If a quark has to roll a die to tunnel through a potential, and would need a 6 to do so, it's chance is 1/6th. If you as a person want to tunnel through a solid wall, you have to roll that die a lot of times and roll a 6. A lot lot. At some point the numbers become so small that impossible and improbably are the same.
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God Vs Aliens is on Tubi in America. If you have a vpn you should be able to watch it by switching to a US server
i resubbed because you dumber raid. well done for not going back or carrying on with raid. congrats
also for the love of all that is not god PLEASE do anchient aliens!
I started buying nice glasses after I was diagnosed with glaucoma and realized I can't/shouldn't really wear contact lenses anymore, because the excessive protein build-up is deleterious to the ducts that regulate intra-ocular pressure. I took notice when you mentioned your condition, because my cornea/lenses can occasionally become blurry or mishapen if my eye pressures are too high, and my eyes also tend to be dry. Anyway, everyone ought to have their pressures regularly checked even if they don't need corrective lenses, because retinal nerve damage is prettymuch non-reversible, and high IOP is quiet and insidious.
The "God vs UFOs" movie is on UA-cam on the channel "Nub TV".
Jesus riding a demon UFO is the image I needed today.
Jesus riding a demon??? 👀😳😳
@@RowinAlong They said UFO were demons, and they also showed an image of Jesus riding on a UFO.
What does Jesus look like
@@StephenConti-t6j Does? The guy's dead. And I never saw the guy while he was alive. Probably because I wasn't invented yet.
But judging by the people who lived (and live) around his neighborhood, he wasn't a blue-eyed, blond Nordic type you see in paintings.
@@janerkenbrack3373 what do you believe
I read something only today and I think it fits: "what haunts me is that I am just not smart enough for so many people to be stupider than I am."
YES, I used to hang out with a circle of people who were always calling me a genius, compliments are nice, but I'm pretty dumb. People's education has been and is being completely destroyed
So I ordered a Baphy plushie, and when it came in, I was living at a Christian shelter (still am, but I'll be out soon). I had to hide her in my suitcase any time I left because I was afraid they'd kick me out if they saw it. Just a random story. Baphy is cuddly and adorable.
Have you seen the new Baphy Pride plushie? The pentagram is replaced with a rainbow, but that may or may not be viewed any less 'baphymous' where you're staying - I suppose you could convince them it's intended to represent a creature on Noah's Ark 😅
Stay safe!
@@SixteenTonesStudio I haven't, but now I want one!
Best wishes Jennifer! I hope you're okay 💙
@@SaintD382 I am. Thank you so much. 💓
NGL I like the idea of there being a battle between intergalactic beings for my soul. Makes me fell super important.
😂
Until you realize that they just want your soul as fuel for their hyperdrives.
plot twist: they're battling to see who gets to not have to keep your soul
@@user-sl6gn1ss8p Why you gotta shatter my illusion, or perhaps delusion... budum tshhh
@@kylie_h1978 Alien master plans can be quite complicated. Dale Gribble says they came to his neighborhood and Nancy became pregnant. Joseph Gribble and Kate have the same paternal DNA.
Ancient Aliens is fucking brilliant. The leaps those people are capable of would make Icarus blush. It is super entertaining.
I personally know a SHOCKING amount of people that thinks this crap is actual history, just because it is on the "History Channel". Between that, and flat earth people, I am kind of starting to rethink freedom of speech.
The weird hair is a dead giveaway. No human being would present themselves in that way.
Ancient Astronaut theorists say yes!
Ancient aliens is so fake but funny as hell. The fact that people believe it is real is nuts
you should at least watch one episode, just for the leaps and raw faith the "experts" have
Physicist here. The woman at 19:40 is more likely to be trying to talk about Virtual Particles or spontaneous creation of a particle from background energy, rather than quantum tunnelling. You did a good explanation of quantum tunnelling by the way.
Yeah that was also my interpretation. Though I don't know *why* that clip was used there other than trying to sound science-y and profound.
That what I was thinking - the quantum flux
Photons to be precise - photon pairs annihilating to form particle-antiparticle pairs.
@@pseudotasuki absolutely. It doesn’t fit the rest of the video. I’m almost tempted to watch the documentary to work out what’s going on!
There was one small error in her description of quantum tunneling that should be corrected. It is not that "we don't know how a particle gets to the other side of the barrier". It is more "there is no information to be had on that and not even an observer sitting on the particle could figure it out." There is no "hidden variable"
As a demon in Hadean middle-management, I can neither confirm nor deny that the UFOs are ours. Though I can say we've been UFO surfing at least a thousand years longer than Jesus.
And it's a lot harder to UFO surf in the dim light and mild chilliness of Heck so yeah we're a little more badass.
"the dim light and mild chilliness of Heck" Sounds positively awful...🤣
Is Phil still running things in Heck?
Do you really expect me to believe the liar of lies? Get thee behind me Satan.
PS I have a long spoon if you want to grab a bite sometime
"Heck"? It's not very demon-like or badass calling Hell, Heck.
@@AB-80X you seem to misunderstand, in Hell the damned resign to an eternity of suffering. That's too easy. In Heck we get your hopes up a bit only to demolish your fragile mortal emotions. Would you like some coffee? Sorry, we only have cold, stale decaf. And is that your severed finger in the place of a swizzle stick? Sorry, I'll make sure to put that on ice, eventually, and maybe we'll get it back to you to reattach it. Maybe even in the right place!
As the Prince of Inadequate lighting, it's my job to make sure you have just enough light to read that awful novel (missing pages at the end of chapters) for the 665th time, but only if you squint really, really hard.
9:34 People think you are secretly a demon? What idiots! You’re really open about it!
In my estimation she is an absolute angel. Her videos make my day.
Openly bi and demon
@@michaelsintef7337 Basically angel and demon are the same things, just the sign is different.
@@silkwesir1444 annoyingly the convention was set before we actually knew what was going on so demons have a negative sign despite being the only thing that exist.
Red Dwarf reference! That makes us old people feel included lol
You hit the nail right on it's smegging head.
Would anybody like any toast?
You hit the nail right on the smegging head.
Was going to leave the same comment!
Smegging Hell. . .
Smoke me a kipper. I'll be back for breakfast.
Oh yes, Emma, please review Ancient Aliens. I grew up with Chariots of the Gods and In Search of Ancient Astronauts, so I was initially open to the theories, but after Ancient Aliens, my trust in those "authorities" on the matter has completely eroded.
Would those "authorities" you no longer trust, include people who DON'T use the word "theory" to describe incredibly speculative hypothesise, but rather rigorous bodies of knowledge that explain establish facts and data?
Because I tend to be more skeptical about people who entertain ludicrously speculative ideas, without considering empirical evidence and call their flimsy untested hypothesise theory's.
Chariots of the gods was put in the fiction and occult section of my local library ... and I got to know my local librarian
..he also put Dr Who books in the Fishfingers and Custard section ...
@@skepticusmaximus184 I'm using "theory" in the vernacular (hypothesis) form. As a child, I saw In Search of Ancient Astronauts (1973) which was being treated as a "documentary film" at the time. It was based upon the book Chariots of the Gods. Primarily, Erich von Daniken's book Chariots of the Gods (1968) has been widely discredited, and the work of Maria Reiche (among others) has posited more plausible explanations to counter Von Daniken's. I am absolutely fascinated with the Nazca lines and have spent most of my life following things like the Nazca Lines, the Bermuda Triangle, and other mysterious places often "linked" with aliens. I still believe in the statistical possibility of alien life, (which, in my opinion would probably look like weird sea life rather than bipedal humanoid in form), but I have yet to see credible evidence that humans are being or have been visited / guided by any alien species.
I was in high school when that fad began. I too thought some UFOs were demonic and not physical. But as the good captain asked, "What does God need with a starship ?"
@@aubreyleonae4108 Lol, I'm watching the premier of Star Trek V on another channel when this comment popped up! Luv it!
This reminded me of the people from my home city. We had a Casino built so that already got the fundamentalist's up in arms, but the REALLY nutty ones were convinced that at the top of the Casino's hotel tower was a gate to hell and the spotlights where actually angels holding back the demons. The reason for this was because the CASINO sign was red and lit up the sky over the tower which could be seen pretty much anywhere in the city and surrounding area and there where 3 spotlights that danced around the red haze that would hit the clouds, we jokingly referred to as Windsor's Eye of Sauron cause that was the kind of effect it gave. But yep people truly saw this and didn't think "that's some crazy light pollution" and went straight to "that's a gate to hell with angels standing guard!"
Some people need to get better hobbies for entertainment
@@williamchamberlain2263 They really do
That really is insane!
Hello lovely Emma. Yes, please review of "Ancient aliens". It will be absolutely hilarious!
I usually click the Like button at some point during Emma's videos when I remember it. This time, it only took to the half-second long Red Dwarf clip!
"Rimmer, you think EVERYTHING is aliens! The time we went through a whole bog roll in a day, you thought THAT was aliens!"
I can’t wait for the sequel to God vs UFOs, Aliens vs Cowboys vs God vs UFOs
His previous movie was God Versus Aliens.
Aliens vs Predators vs Cowboys vs Gods vs Robots
vs. dinosaurs @@theultimatereductionist7592
Please tell me you're writing this script right now otherwise I'll lose the will to go on! 😂
@@brendanoehl5018 Then space sharks come out of space-time and cross attack Jesus's space ship.
In quantum tunnelling, the particle doesn't 'teleport'. What happens is that on incredibly small scales, particles are a blur of possibilities and pinning them down to a 'position' becomes impossible. In fact the very word position has less and less meaning the smaller you go.
The possibility space for a particle in its entirety takes up some volume, and if that volume is wider than the thickness of a barrier, there is a possibility for the particle to be on either side. When the wave is collapsed into a classical particle, it can appear to have gone through the wall.
Many of the 'weird' things in quantum mechanics can be understood better by seeing particles as a fuzz of possibility. There is little 'physicality' to them and they operate through fields that permeate the universe. Fields that generally refuse to be defined in terms of rational numbers, and exist everywhere.
Like grabbing a bar of soap when you're in the bath 😄👌
Oh, and they were talking about 'virtual particles', which are elements of the field. A zero value in the field can become a particle and anti-particle pair, which annihilate back to nothingness. They are virtual not real because they don't contribute anything to the universe, can be said to pop in and out of existence randomly, and keeping them around as real particles takes the energy of a black hole. If this could be tapped into and used somehow, and if their deeper nature involves extra spatial dimensions we are not aware of yet then new physics could be found there i.e. warp drive and that was their point. That's a lot of supposition though.
Please note that this ability is confined to the very small. Beings, space ships and such are not quite as small as individual particles.
in general, for the "classic" quantum mechanics, as far as I understand it, it's not so much that positions don't make sense (since wave functions can get localized), and more so that the classical idea of a trajectory looses meaning (since you're dealing with wave functions which in general will only be very localized upon measurement).
So you could at some time detect the particle to have been at a given position and, at a latter time, detect it to be in another position. Which in itself is nothing new - the twist is that you can't from that say a lot about where the particles was in the meantime, at least not nearly as much as you could in classical mechanics. One thing in particular which could happen would be for a particle to be at one time inside the box and at another outside the box, but between these measurements all you can really talk about is the evolution of the wave-function, and not the position itself.
No it’s pretty simple really. It works just like the transporter in star trek.
I love Ancient Aliens! I’m a professional archaeologist and having this shout-at-the-TV tosh to watch is oddly enjoyable. Just remember, they’re not saying it’s the aliens, but it definitely was the aliens! 😋
Have you watched Miniminute Man? Milo has some words for Ancient Aliens.
I love Ancient Aliens just for the sheer audacity to be like "humans are too stupid to have done these amazing things in the past, so it was obviously aliens that did it for them/taught them. But equally obviously, we're smarter now and can do things with modern technology, but we can't figure out how they did the same things better with lesser technology." Like, dude, way to disrespect our ancient ancestors, while also disrespecting everyone currently living. Ancient Aliens and Secret of Skinwalker Ranch are my favorite shows to hate-watch.
Geophysicist here. Agree. It's hilarious.
Please do Most Haunted! For a while it was my favourite (unintentional) tv comedy, and Yvette Fielding has been a love since she was on Blue Peter :D
Also, what's wrong with All Things Bright & Beautiful is the verse "The rich man in his castle/The poor man at his gate/God made them high and lowly/And ordered their estate." No complaining or trying to improve your lot in life - god says what you get and you have to put up with it!
Most Haunted was a fav in my household! Mainly because it was so ridiculous! We absolutely lost it when they were investigating somewhere and started throwing marbles down a hallway and *supposedly* an entity was throwing them back! It was so absurd and we just lost it watching that. We still occasionally talk about it every once in a while and still lose our shit talking about it.
That's nothing compared to ufo cowboys!
"Man with unhealthy obsession with UFOs warns against having an unhealthy obsession with UFOs. More after this word from our sponsors."
17:50 to what I've read on both (historical fairies and modern ufos) they do have correlation. Some of that is different cultural interpretation of dreams or possibly hallucinations (induced by ingesting drugs/plants or otherwise).
One example is the interpretation of sleep paralysis. There are fae folk who were known to attack at night making it so someone couldn't move. Then demons who did the same thing. Now we have alien abductions stories with similar aspects. Many of them follow the same narrative. Theres some being sitting on their chest or holding them down. They can't move and often have trouble breathing.
I once wrote a short story called "The Accidental Savior" that featured an alien who crash lands in the ancient Middle East and despite his best efforts to blend in, becomes a respected teacher for the locals. When it all threatens to get out of hand, he decides he has to fake his own death in order to discredit himself and minimize his impact on human society...
I really must dust it off and publish it sometime.
Would read that.
I wrote one about an atheist psychiatrist who finds himself in heaven, with the job of therapist to the Big I Am.
@@OnASeasideMission One day... :)
God undergoing therapy? Hmm. Sounds like a rich vein for comedy and skewering satire!
It sounds like Most Haunted was for you what Ghost Adventures was for me. It was such a guilty pleasure. I would watch it the same way people watch bad movies. It was just so funny. I think it's still on. Zac Bagins is a character. He cracks me up so much. "I swear, dude, I swear... I just saw... wait. Did you hear that?" Omg I need to go back and watch that show again. It is so hilarious.
You should check out "The Haunted Home Inspector", which is unironically my favorite ghost show! Basically, they set up the whole situation, the family explains what hauntings have happened, they do the reenactments, everything. And then they have an actual home inspector show up and he VERY dryly and immediately gives perfectly logical explanations for every single thing the family described, lol! But because it's still a ghost show, then they bring out a 'psychic' who 'gets possessed' and sees spirits and everything in EVERY SINGLE HOUSE right after the supernatural phenomenon was debunked!
It's so funny, lol!
"Emma explains things she doesn't understand" is a channel I would subscribe to and watch every video.
UFO hoverboard Jesus is the best thing I've seen in ages, and the phrase "false-flag Second Coming"... well, that's certainly a combination of words.
Some of the words of all time.
I was casually watching your video, have to admit I'm a bit of a fan but when you said "what's wrong with All Things Bright and Beautiful....it's a fucking banger" I literally spat my wine across my once white carpet -I'm holding to blame Ms Thorne 😂
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@@loki6626 "or bodily fluids"
well, I'm not spilling the tea!
😂😂😂
Time stamp?
@@AB-80X 11:50
17:45 - The comparison of UFO phenomena and faerie encounters in folklore was presented by Jaques Vallee in _Passport To Magonia_ back in the early 1970s. I think you'd find Dr. Valle of interest.
Alien abductions? Remote viewing, Uri Gellar? Sounds like he was nothing more than a credulous crank.
As far as I'm aware Fairies didn't anal probe people :P
Another absolute banger of a video from one of the wittiest, funniest people on you tube….
The snark is high yet again and I’m all for it …
And that opening image of Jesus riding a UFO is just awesome !!!
Keep up the fab work Little Duck ….
Hi Emma, the Dark haired woman in the witches type dress and hat with the scottish accent is Evelyn Hollow. They were the team believer side of the Uncanny series that came out around Halloween on the BBC. And she's from the same town as i am.
If people want a good content creator that already covers Ancient Aliens and Ancient Alien theories, there's a great podcast called "It's Probably Not Aliens", which I'd highly recommend. They do good research, cover things one topic at a time, and keep things fresh and understandable as they cover some pretty interesting history.
But yeah, I would also want to see Emma cover this because it's just such a wild topic. History's full of really cool and interesting cultures and it's always crazy to see all these really fascinating practices and bits of folklore just get boiled down to "Yeah, they just didn't know how to describe a shiny metal disk, it's totally a UFO if you ignore everything that isn't UFO like!"
Brava on a more seamless transition you ad read than I've ever heard before! I actually sat through the entire sponsor spot because I was so impressed 😅
Looking forward to the rest of the video!
Hi Emma....I suffer from the same thing for your eye....My optometrist told me that my eyeball and inner eyelid stick together and when you open your eye you rip a layer of cells off your eyeball....hence the intense pain and blurry vision. Using some liquid tear eye drops can help when they are dry. Great video as always!!! I would say yes to you watching Ancient Aliens....but that show frustrates me to no end!!!
The picture shown at 24.00 is clearly from the Trek spin-off show, Star Trek: The Next Ressurection.
Jesus Christ Spock! 😂😅
You should use a colon to have the timestamp be an actual link: 23:58 🧐
@@irrelevant_noob D’oh! (Or possibly D:oh!)
26:28 machine learning researcher here. Pretty much correct. These networks are not "creative" in the sense you would probably use the word. They basically learn relationships between the input and the output, so image generation for "dinosaur wearing a hat" would likely create something that relates to the training data that had "dinosaurs" or "wearing a hat" and basically can fuse what it's seen.
However... the jury is still out whether we as humans do more than that. Well, if it was for me, they would have already decided: of course not, we're just kidding ourselves, probably would go mad (or in some other way unable to properly navigate the world) otherwise - but this is very contentious.
The question is less about how smart these "AI"s are, more like how dumb we actually are. The likes of ChatGPT do have the potential of shining a very harsh spotlight on this age-old philosophical problem, imho.
EDIT: I'd like to clarify that I don't meant to say that people would go mad from having this realization. Those are two different layers. One can accept something intellectually but on another, more visceral level, still be subject to the illusion. It's a bit like with the concept of mythology, which can be of a certain use even if you know it is "only made up". This does not only extend to religious ideas, btw - think of, say, the French Revolution being a foundational myth for our current western cultures.
@@silkwesir1444 The jury isn't out on that at all, it is clearly evidenced that humans are able to complete tasks that AI are not able to. Because AI lack the ability to think they are unable to relate concepts to each other and actually understand them, this becomes abundantly clear when you ask any language model about anything related to science that is slightly more complex than pop science. They'll fuck up the calculations and get confused over the name of variables, especially if you're using a language other than English, and they're unable to think through any kind of problem. The same also shows up in the humanities, an AI can produce an essay about say symbolism in Edgar Allen Poe's writing but it will just repeat the average of what was found on the internet, it is unable to actually perform any novel analysis and won't be able to defend what it wrote, so it'll just produce an extremely average essay that never gets high marks. This has been borne out in studies where it was noticed that when people who wrote at an above average level used AI their level fell down to the average, meanwhile those who were below average were raised to an average level.
You're getting confused over two different concepts here, AI companies claim that AI learn in a way that is similar to how humans learn (this claim should be taken with a grain of salt because they're using it as justification for stealing art). However learning and creativity are not the same thing, a human might learn in a similar way but that does not meant they produce works in the same way because humans learn skills and then intentionally apply them, whereas AIs learn patterns and just replicate them. Some part of human learning is also pattern recognition but that's a minor part of it and it's obvious that humans learn best when we focus on skills rather than rote memorization, like you don't learn calculus through memorization, you learn it through learning the proofs so you know how to do it yourself.
My former best friend's mom believed that UFOs were demons!!! She also thought that nebulae were something like organs (see, Cat's Eye Nebula)
That latter part is basically just the lore for Sunless Skies.
'Get saved!' is my new favourite shout out.
Watch Ancient Aliens, Emma. I need that content.
NO, EMMA! DON'T DO IT! We need you with your brain intact, not spattered all over your studio walls as your head explodes from all the stupidity!
By the way . . . I saw the Pride Baphy plushie the other day. It makes me wish I had someone to give it to!
"The Inglesby Chronicles" would be the best ever movie to watch at 2AM with dorm mates or the very last people at a party or various kinds of cool overnight guests!
Oh you must watch ancient aliens. It's brilliant and Giorgio Tsoukalos's hair is out of this world. 🛸 👽
I think she would enjoy his ruffly outfits as well
YES! I WOULD LOVE EMMA'S REVIEW/REACTION OF/TO ANCIENT ALIENS!!
Demonic Alien you say. So Piccolo.
OK, but he did train and father Gohan?
@@Erika.D84that was Piccolo junior (or Ma junior in japanese) the son of the original Piccolo, which wasn't technically an alien since was born in "Earth"... the original Piccolo (the old one who died at the hands of Goku) was the "alien devil"... so, I gonna say even demons are better people than religious people as a whole...😂
Piccolo has the most Frankenstein backstory ever. Namekians are basically just green smurfs.
@@Syncrotron9001 Green Smurf? That's racist!
@@Syncrotron9001 Also love how they went the whole way and later introduced a character called God who is of the same species.
@EmmaThorneVideos
Carl Sagan published a book in 1995 called "The Demon Haunted World" that was all about the similarities between religious experiences, fairy kidnappings, and alien abductions. And how all these hallucinations similarities are explained by abnormalities in a certain part of the brain occurring in people experiencing these hallucinations. Oliver Sacks also goes into this in his book "Hallucinations". 17:34
17:57 Carl Sagan's _Demon Haunted World_ devotes a great deal of attention to the phenomenon of "demon possession," and how after the launch of Sputnik (and the advent of sci-fi movies), these same sorts of people started claiming alien abductions. Same script, updated characters.
Think reductionistically. There is NEVER EVER SHAME in reporting DIRECT OBSERVATIONS of events, NO MATTER HOW STRANGE! Bigfoot, poltergeist, aliens, UAPs -- these have NOTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH STORIES STORIES STORIES about hypothetical government agents with hypothetical motives. If these are DIRECTLY WITNESSED, then there is ZERO shame in reporting them to the world. These are events that are FORCED UPON THE OBSERVER! They are NOT claims of "superpowers" by the observer.
People SHOULD be ASAHAMED to believe UNOBSERVED and UNOBSERVABLE FANTASY STORIES such as reiki or claims of "super powers" by (fake) "psychics" (which ARE falsifiable and HAVE been falsified) or god demon spirituality shit.
Thank you for showing love! Never feel bad for showing love! Much love back to ya!
I'd love to see you "do" ancient aliens! You should partner up with Isaac Arthur, he has an interesting take on the subject!
Please, NOT Isaac Arthur! I've viewed a number of his videos, and his "futures" work is horrid. He doesn't offer alternative futures, presenting "the future" as something certain. It looks good as science fiction, but to someone trained as a professional futurist (I have a Master's degree in the field) Arthur's work is GARBAGE.
@@johndemeritt3460Where does he present the future as "certain"? I've never seen him do that. I've seen him present his material in as optimistic way as possible, but never as "this is how it will be".
@@zemorph42 watch carefully: you'll hear the word "will" with a frequency no professional futurist would EVER consider. We understand that there are multiple, alternative futures that are tentative and contingent. The fact that Arthur presents only the most optimistic scenario among the range of possible futures is misleading at best.
@@johndemeritt3460 well, to be fair, he's trying to make videos that people will want to watch ... leaning towards optimism is probably the difference between getting and not getting that adsense check.
"trained as a professional futurist, I have a masters degree in the subject"
🙄 Whatever. I got a masters degree in winning lotto numbers.
6:52 I like the Oxford Annotated Bible with all its footnotes for stuff like that.
I love my Oxford Study Bible for the footnotes and intros to each book.
@kayleescruggs6888 yeah, the intros for each part are really well done. Also, it's fun to go "well according to scholars...."
@2:21 Emma, pirates wore eye patches so they could keep one eye dark adapted. If they went from daylight on deck to below decks, there wasn't a lot of light down there, so they would move the patch to their other eye. At least, that's the lore anyway. Some may have worn one to cover an injury, but that wasn't the general case. I saw this tested on Mythbusters, which the results tend to lend credibility to this. Anyhow, I enjoy your videos, keep up the good work.
Today I learnt.... That makes so much sense, either that or as a group they had a serious issue with eye health or eye injuries in fights
That's a myth, all sources from pirates are pretty explicit that eye patches were there to cover up blind or removed eyes. When they went under the deck they just brought a lantern.
On alien abductions and fairy encounters, Jacques Vallee wrote quite a bit on the topic. He was one of the first UFO experts out there, worked with Hynek & Project Blue Book, and was one of the most respected anti-alien theorists in the UFO community ... Thus one of the only ones respected both within & without the community. _Passport to Magonia_ in 1969 was his classic on it, but there's a dozen books, articles, etc on the subject. Coincidentally, he was the guy that the French scientist in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" was based on. At any rate, point is, from the very beginning that alien/fairy nexus was known to the UFO community... And ignored by many.
Also YES there's a genuine argument to make from the perspective of folkloric studies that aliens and fairies fulfill a similar role in stories. There are some similar themes: aliens and fairies both inhabit liminal spaces, they both think in ways that are intractable to humans, they both have a tendency to adbuct people, there is a specific role for infants in the mythos (changelings for fairies, hybrid children for aliens).
Yes! I was going to mention this too! There were also claims of abductions by fairies back in the day, as well! And up until Betty and Barney Hill, aliens could vary drastically, including fairy-like beings. Hell, the Hopkinsville Goblins really toe the line.
Unimportant irrelevant analogies.
Say, a bunch of people in Cambodia got bombed by a bunch of American bombers ordered by then President Nixon. That's a story with a bunch of nouns and verbs. That is very similar to another story I heard also involving nouns and verbs about how Jennifer Lopez once experienced a nipple slip on stage during a SuperBowl halftime show!
See?
I like the new music in the intro! Way to keep it fresh, Emma!
I'm glad, thank you! Someone said the sound effect I was using for a lil bit was a bit 'nails on chalkboardy' and they were so right. Can't go wrong with a funky lil tune
That was one of the slickest transitions to an add I've ever seen. Bravo!
Kinda wild to see Avi Loeb showing up here. Surprised Emma doesn't know who he is
Same. Avi likes the fringe, but he's historically mad legit.
@@surfpsych Historically yeah, but recently he's been on a bender going on more and more insane conspiracy theory platforms. It's pretty irresponsible regardless, and definitely sad to see an expert like him become a crank.
My dad watched ancient aliens and still quotes things from it to this day as if its evidence of his conspiracies.
I love you channel because your story feels very relatable to me in many ways. ❤❤
Would a Spiritualist/Ghosthunter/Medium want to rest in peace? Surely they want to haunt/possess/table-tap?
Depends if there's any money in it...
I love this episode so much! Any time a Red Dwarf clip of Rimmer saying "ALIENS!" Is included, I'm all in! Also, my favorite color is green as well, and I also wear glasses. I am, sadly, not a Silly Little Duck, though, but some day I aspire to be
The physics phenomenon referenced is virtual particles. In quantum field theory, the basis for the standard model, it is possible for particles to pop in and out of existence incredibly briefly. The theory states this is because of fluctuations in their respective fields. The brevity is due to the almost instantaneous annihilation of these particles by their antiparticles, which are created in parity to preserve the laws of physics.
We also have evidence of this phenomenon through the Casimir effect. This is where two neutral, conducting plates are held in close proximity, generally a micron apart, within a vacuum. The only force working upon the plates should be gravity, yet that is not what is measured. It is said to be evidence of virtual particles because this discrepancy is within the parameters for virtual particle prediction.
Another theoretical phenomenon that could definitively prove virtual particles is the Schwinger effect. In this proposed experiment, spinning magnetic fields are imposed inside a vacuum. Once the field is strong enough, it should spatially separate virtual particles from their antiparticles long enough to prevent instantaneous annihilation, hence become observable.
Tangentially, the most famous premise based on this concept is Hawking radiation. Proposed by Stephen Hawking, a similar circumstance could happen upon the surface of black holes, where gravity is so strong one virtual particle is absorbed while the other escapes. This energy differential provides a theoretical basis for black hole evaporation.
The crap that some people will believe is mind boggling.
lean into the pirate thing, get an eyepatch and a big hat
That would be too much fun! Especially if she released a video on September 26th -- International Talk Like a Pirate Day.
And a Norwegian Blue on your shoulder ;)
@@thhseeking, true, that! Beautiful plumage!
I will always love how you use the Countdown clock when you're compiling possible answers...
I was waiting for Jimmy Carr to go and do one of his stunts :P
AHHHHHH! PEAK EMMA! Religion and ancient aliens!
Damn, that was a masterclass in pivoting to an ad read. Round of applause for your mad skillz
Ah Ancient Aliens, one of the entrances to the conspiracy pipeline
Really? I thought it might actually ward people off... At least in my experience I have encountered people who were deep in conspiracy theories, but they thought Ancient Aliens ridiculous and only made fun of it.
@silkwesir1444 for younger folks at least, it was. When I was a kid, History Channel still had some legitimacy so when they had a show say that some experts say that extraterrestrials could have done a thing it held some weird legitimacy.
Not to mention that it invoked the mindset that QAnon also used where you aren't saying this thing IS TRUE, just that it could be true and you're just asking questions.
Yes to a Most Haunted review!!! I was enthralled as a middle schooler watching it in the mid 2000s and would love to revisit
I mean, the whole Ancient Aliens community believes that extra-terrestrials are what several religions and cultures around the world have worshipped as deities, so who knows which side is correct?
Neither. Neither side is correct.😂
Please review some ancient aliens. Watching that show alone is already a bucket of chuckles so having a sensible person analyze it and pick it apart would be a riot.
Casual reference to Red Dwarf, like button pressed immediately. Thanks for that!
About the "quantum tunneling" and all the weird quantum effects I think it's a problem with analogies. When they talk about "barriers" in the quantum realm they are not referring to literally barriers, as in brick walls. They are talking about energy levels.
So the context is that of a particle in a meta-stable state that in order to go to a lower-but-stable energy state has to pass a "barrier" (requiring a bump in energy). The particle is not supposed to have the energy to "escape" (meaning making the "jump" to cross the barrier) but can do it via quantum tunneling. And this has been observed experimentally.
But again, we are not talking about a ball warping through a brick wall, it's a particle changing energy levels in a field. It may change a 0 to a 1 in a CPU made of nanometer transistors.
i.e. it only applies to UFOs that are smaller than a single atom
@@williamchamberlain2263 OMG sub atomic aliens!
just a lil boi 👽
PLEASE REVIEW MOST HAUNTED!!! It was one of my favorite shows! I would watch the Halloween lives every year!
What makes me excited to see the sponsor is these puppets, I just love them. My mate looks happy 4:27
Good video - keep up the fun stuff. Regarding Ancient Aliens - I have watched the whole series at least twice. It is fun to plan trips to the sites they visit and I like to yell at the TV so it is perfect for me. Give it a go - you will have material for years - so many shows. I am an archaeology nerd so I find it really hilarious how they interpret things I have actually seen. Another short series you might check out is Ancient Apocalypse - similar vibe without the aliens.
Yes! You had me hooked as soon as I saw Rimmer in the intro! Your pronunciation on "Ufologists" is correct, I wish you luck in finding that program you mentioned. I'm a little hesitant on recommending "Ancient Aliens". I love sci-fi/ space stuff, etc, but I give that one a huge miss whenever I find it on The History Channel here in The U.S.
"Cheeky Like" given as always! Keep up the great work!
I'd also love Emma's reactions to Most Haunted!!
Passport to Magonia - Jaques Vallee - History of encounters with various entities through history
Your sponsored ad intrigued me so much I forgot that, I initially came for the demonic alien rabbit hole. lol
I love all of your videos, but to be honest this one was like dialed up to 11. It’s fantastic. I completely Stan metaphysical rabbit hole Emma!
Yes please review that ghost show you loved
11/10 will watch
Emma your reviews are always amazing and I would watch you review pretty much anything
Note that the UK Ministry of Defense didn't have a UFO division or bureau, just a desk. Very small. Mr. Pope sat at that desk for a few years, and then he didn't anymore. And now they've removed the desk entirely. So sad.
I think the full movie review would be really cool!
The segway into the ad read was so clean!
Or segue as it's properly spelled. (Yeah, the pronunciation is seg-way, which has always confused me!)
20:30 you've got it. It's called the "tunneling" phenomenon, and is the operating principle of the tunnel diode, which is often employed as an oscillator and amplifier, in electronics. Incidentally, in chemistry, electron orbitals are usually represented as "clouds," the shading of which indicates the probability of finding an electron at a particular location.
Thank you Emma, this was a fun one!
I've been binging your content and have been loving it, but the Arnold Rimmer "Aliens!" clip is the hologramatic cherry on top for me
I totally get your trepidation around ancient aliens. When you grew up around people who are that crazy or had ideas that crazy, it's really hard to just go back and be able to laugh at it.
Am example for me would be the British series Everybody Else Burns. I grew up around so many people who were preparing for the apocalypse in Y2K or even just recently in the last few years. They bought goats and quit their jobs and shit like that. It's really difficult to really let myself laugh at it because it's just too familiar and it makes me sad. Even though I feel like to an outsider, the series is probably objectively hilarious.
Emma ❤❤❤
Thnx for saying my favorite phrase: CITATION NEEDED 😊😊
That hoodie you’re wearing is absolute magic! 😉👍🍄
Emma reviewing Ancient Aliens must be golden content 😂🎉But a video about Most Haunted probably too!
17:59 - I agree, that's a great shirt, but the guy before that had an even better T-shirt on. I immediately wanted to like him, even if he was talking gibberish. 🙂
You're pretty much right on with Generative AI in it's current state. It is essentially creating an image, following keywords and phrases, by making an exceedingly complex collage out of the collection of images inside its database. It simultaneously repeats much of the patterns those images tend to have as well; such as having a figure centered in the image, having a strong lightsource (though it doesn't understand things like the direction of light and will often put a sun or moon directly in the background that doesn't cast light on the figure), and so on.
You've explained the quantum tunneling effect quite well. 👍
I could listen to Emma talk about glasses all day...🥰
Don't make a spectacle of yourself. 😂😂
I think you should. It’s really interesting. I couldn’t take it very seriously, but the parallels they draw between alien technology in ancient Egyptian times and now are super intriguing.
Please review ancient aliens Emma! Love your take on this:) have at em!
Yes Emma, watch it for us😉
Really made me laugh - you are great. Thank you for covering my film - God Vs UFOs - it's actually coming out on most AVOD platforms on June 25th. Mark
You had me at the awesome fight that needs to happen 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Aliens were my biggest fear as a child. Thanks Unsolved Mysteries and Fire In the Sky. Also, Nope was awesome.
I fucking hated the opening title sequence of Unsolved Mysteries cuz they showed a picture of the grey alien drawing lol. When I heard the music I'd look away.
The reason you don't see quantum events in classical mechanics is not because there is a quantum world where quantum rules apply and a classical world where classical physics apply, but because of the law of large numbers. As an analogy: If a quark has to roll a die to tunnel through a potential, and would need a 6 to do so, it's chance is 1/6th. If you as a person want to tunnel through a solid wall, you have to roll that die a lot of times and roll a 6. A lot lot. At some point the numbers become so small that impossible and improbably are the same.
I loved that you used the Countdown timer!