How fast are you moving right now? - Tucker Hiatt

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  • Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
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    "How fast are you moving?" seems like an easy question, but it's actually quite complicated -- and perhaps best answered by another question: "Relative to what?" Even when you think you're standing still, the Earth is moving relative to the Sun, which is moving relative to the Milky Way, which is...you get the idea. Tucker Hiatt unravels the concepts of absolute and relative speed.
    Lesson by Tucker Hiatt, animation by Zedem Media.

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  • @lu881
    @lu881 4 роки тому +694

    Girlfriend: "I think we're moving too fast."
    Me an intellectual: "Relative to what?"

  • @Mackeye_
    @Mackeye_ 8 років тому +1355

    every time I watch Ted Ed, a nuke goes off in my brain

  • @PeridotFacet-FLCut-XG-og1xx
    @PeridotFacet-FLCut-XG-og1xx 6 років тому +404

    You know how fast you're moving?
    Relative to what?
    To that sign on the road that says the speed limit!

    • @RedFox-dj7di
      @RedFox-dj7di 5 років тому +34

      That cop was smart

    • @danpower7416
      @danpower7416 4 роки тому +1

      No, but I know where I am.

    • @darshandhabale143
      @darshandhabale143 4 роки тому

      @@danpower7416 oh Heisenbergs uncertainty principal

    • @rfahy72
      @rfahy72 4 роки тому +4

      Ask the cop if they know how fast they’re moving....a ticket will most likely will still be the result. Instead of asking “Do you know how fast you were going?” The Cop should ask “Do you know what your car speedometer said before I pulled you over?”.

    • @mitsaoriginal8630
      @mitsaoriginal8630 4 роки тому +1

      @@rfahy72 really this response is open to many points in reference where your either moving or not so it just becomes a big loop hole of complete uncertainty on the basis of your cars flactuating speed during that day before you met him so any response regardless of your intention to get caught or not is really up to you

  • @Xenon0492
    @Xenon0492 5 років тому +184

    TED-ed: "Space is not an ocean, it has no substance as water does."
    Space: "Hold my Higgs-Boson."

    • @bugs-bunny-k6g
      @bugs-bunny-k6g 3 роки тому +9

      No!
      Space: Hold my particle/antiparticale pairs.

    • @DrDeuteron
      @DrDeuteron 3 роки тому

      Higgs is a scalar boson. A 4-scalar. That's serious stuff.

    • @GraveUypo
      @GraveUypo 2 роки тому +3

      hold my imperfect interplanetary vacuum with approximately 5 particles per cubic centimeter on average

    • @evansjohnc
      @evansjohnc 2 роки тому

      If it can be bent, it must be something.

    • @peabody3000
      @peabody3000 2 роки тому

      hold my quantum foam

  • @andrewleonardi3351
    @andrewleonardi3351 7 років тому +895

    I absolutely understood this 100%.

  • @insertkahootname6233
    @insertkahootname6233 5 років тому +231

    Just got this as a notification
    5 years after its posted
    Thank you UA-cam

  • @FatymaZAli
    @FatymaZAli 8 років тому +271

    So How fast am I moving right now?

    • @luisfdconti
      @luisfdconti 8 років тому +113

      Right? These guys never answer the questions they put in the video titles.

    • @FatymaZAli
      @FatymaZAli 8 років тому +4

      Luís Frederico Dornelas Conti ikr

    • @denisel
      @denisel 8 років тому +61

      +Fay Miller Relative to the earth (spin of the earth) at the equator ~1600km/h. Relative to the Sun on avg. 109000km/h. Our Sun moves through the Milky Way at about 52000km/h. And our galaxy, the Milky Way moves at ~2 million km/h relative to our local group.

    • @edwardrobinson2853
      @edwardrobinson2853 8 років тому +58

      +Fay Miller relative to what?

    • @DivingHusky
      @DivingHusky 8 років тому +4

      +Denis P this was supposed the answer they should provided in this video

  • @jerrygundecker743
    @jerrygundecker743 4 роки тому +36

    I still want to know how fast I'm moving.
    He never did answer the question. Dang!

    • @thehexagon9407
      @thehexagon9407 3 роки тому +1

      He did. You're moving as fast as your point of reference

    • @DecoyJayc
      @DecoyJayc 3 роки тому

      @@thehexagon9407 say the reference is the origin of everything: the center of the universe

    • @JunkBondTrader
      @JunkBondTrader 3 роки тому +1

      @@DecoyJayc then yes. Are we moving as fast as earth spins? as fast as earth orbits sun? As fast as the sun orbits the galaxy? As fast as the galaxy is moving? Yes to all of them, depending on which one you are referring to. That's the thing - none of those answers work in every situation. We don't have a universal speed. Speed, to a human, is usually decided in the context, and usually relates to how fast you are moving relative to objects we observe as still. We have no absolute speed. We just know we can see objects moving to and away from us at varying rates.

    • @onyxkane
      @onyxkane 3 роки тому

      @@JunkBondTrader the summary of the video my friends...a little late... probably a year....but a good one 🤝

    • @kimsahl8555
      @kimsahl8555 2 роки тому

      You are moving with speed 0.

  • @alphaapple1375
    @alphaapple1375 4 роки тому +71

    For those who are familiar with the metric system:
    At 0:20: "So, a second tempting answer is, 30 km/s around the Sun."
    At 2:16: "Earth's speed is 30 km/s relative to the Sun."
    At 2:25: "Your speed is zero relative to your easy chair, but depending on where you sit, it is hundreds of, if not over a thousand, kilometers per hour relative to Earth's center."

    • @தமிழோன்
      @தமிழோன் 2 роки тому +1

      Thank you so much. 🙏🏻

    • @alphaapple1375
      @alphaapple1375 2 роки тому +2

      @@தமிழோன் You’re welcome. I am from the US, but I use the metric system, because it is practical, since it is based on the decimal number: 10. It is also the international system of measurement used by all countries and is even used in every field of occupation from international trade and military exercises to healthcare and astronomy. NASA and the US Military use the metric system for international collaboration.

    • @thetoss3
      @thetoss3 2 роки тому

      america should abandon this nonsense of a metric system

    • @rubiks6
      @rubiks6 2 роки тому

      _"At __2:25__: "Your speed is zero relative to your easy chair, but depending on where you sit, it is hundreds of, if not over a thousand, kilometers per hour relative to Earth's center."_
      This is false. Sitting in your chair, you are not moving in reference to the center of the Earth. You are remaining the same distance from the center of the Earth and you have nothing with which to reference any sideways motion.

    • @mrpigeo
      @mrpigeo 2 роки тому

      @@rubiks6 they were still explaining it

  • @DjGreydanus
    @DjGreydanus 10 років тому +108

    In Star Trek, warp speeds are defined relative to light speed through a vacuum, which according to relativity is an absolute speed.

    • @jerrynovotnik
      @jerrynovotnik 10 років тому +16

      Sir you are right, the video is wrong

    • @ralphrice3644
      @ralphrice3644 4 роки тому +2

      Even vacuums, space, change with gravitational forces.

    • @simopelle
      @simopelle 2 роки тому +7

      The speed of light is the same for every frame of reference... Even if you are moving.
      So you cannot tell your absolute speed (which makes no sense whatsoever) based on the speed of light.

    • @alexray230
      @alexray230 2 роки тому +1

      Is warp speed defined relative to the speed of light, or is it defined by the speed of light? Warp 1 is the speed of light; all other warp speeds are multiples of the speed of light.

    • @EGMAG
      @EGMAG 2 роки тому

      So how would you explain the claim that Tachyons move faster than light?

  • @BobbyBosler
    @BobbyBosler 4 роки тому +31

    I’m curious, does this mean that the speed of light is only a relative measurement too? If not, how can we ever get a consistent measurement of it, seeing as we are moving so quickly through the universe.

    • @MrDarren690
      @MrDarren690 2 роки тому +3

      I believe special relativity actually answers this. The speed of light is non-relative, and it goes at a blistering ~3 million meters a second regardless of the frame of reference. Other people please correct me!

    • @gamertechkid1490
      @gamertechkid1490 2 роки тому +9

      The speed of light is constant. The way that works out is that time slows down so when you measure from a speeding object, the speed of light stays the same.

    • @KING-ll2mz
      @KING-ll2mz 2 роки тому +7

      This is kind of unintuitive, but in reality all movement is relative. That is, except light. Light moves at a constant velocity no matter how fast you move. That is the basis for special relativity. The speed of light is an absolute. If you put a flashlight on the floor and turned it on, the light would be moving at the 300, 000 km per second, or just c. If you were to start moving in the same direction as the light, from your perspective, the light should appear slower right? This is not what happens. You will find that the light is moving at the same speed as it was before, c.

    • @Mir_Aakib
      @Mir_Aakib Рік тому +2

      I think it is necessary to add that relative speed is related to the mass of the objects,sinc light has zero mass relativity doesn't apply to it.

  • @JesseltonGaming
    @JesseltonGaming 5 років тому +37

    Me:How fast are we moving?
    TEDEd: no

  • @Thee_Sinner
    @Thee_Sinner 6 років тому +176

    2:53 *Vsauce music begins*

  • @kyledavis1783
    @kyledavis1783 5 років тому +6

    Is anybody else annoyed at the fact that at 4:55 the spaceship is spinning the opposite direction that the arrows point?

  • @TrueInvisible
    @TrueInvisible 9 років тому +44

    this lesson gave me headache ..

  • @smartguy9765
    @smartguy9765 9 років тому +95

    ''Some things are absolute''
    War. War never changes.
    5 days.

    • @irrelevant12
      @irrelevant12 8 років тому +2

      +Kristian D war didn´t change me, I changed war. Captain Teemo

    • @phabidz
      @phabidz 6 років тому +1

      Wah wah Neva changes - wailuigi

    • @LarJgrip
      @LarJgrip 5 років тому

      Krissern
      I agree that there are absolutes but war is not one of them.

  • @Releasethezazen
    @Releasethezazen 10 років тому +16

    Space is full of radiation and subatomic particles. It's not really a void, relatively, lol.

  • @riaelyna
    @riaelyna 5 років тому +20

    This is so humorously amazing, and I live for this kind of narratives 💜

  • @generalgrevious6449
    @generalgrevious6449 3 роки тому +14

    I thought we humans knew everything..
    Actually they don't know what is speed...

  • @Eric.Morrison
    @Eric.Morrison 10 років тому +36

    This was a relatively good presentation.

  • @LordEmilous
    @LordEmilous 9 років тому +143

    space is not a void.... it's not empty.... it maybe doesn't have any physical substance or mass, but it's not nothing, it's not completely empty :)
    There are many energies involved in the creation of the universe.
    I mean, if space was nothing, then gravity wouldn't exist, since planets bend both space and time...

    • @LemonArchipelago
      @LemonArchipelago 9 років тому +7

      Lord Emilous space itself is empty. the narrator is not wrong. you cannot measure space but planets.

    • @LemonArchipelago
      @LemonArchipelago 9 років тому +2

      Lord Emilous space itself is empty. the narrator is not wrong. you cannot measure space but planets.

    • @LordEmilous
      @LordEmilous 9 років тому +25

      LemonArchipelag0
      empty of substance, or mass, but it's not empty per sé.... it's like saying that the ocean is empty because you cannot detect salt.

    • @JackBWise8
      @JackBWise8 9 років тому +4

      Lord Emilous Space must have some substance. If it can be warped and condensed by gravity and exhibit some form of time dilation there must be something different about one part of space under a more intense gravitational field like the space in our solar system apart from interstellar or intergalactic space which has very little for no gravitational influences. In the space near a black hole where time slows down to a crawl could you judge your speed relative to something outside that gravity well? Don't we all have some absolute speed relative to the speed of light? Speed is distance over time. Acceleration is distance over time over time. How can they be that intrinsically different?

    • @Mortis206
      @Mortis206 9 років тому +3

      Space may not contain matter but matter doesn't make up everything. 5% of the universe is matter. Also another thing I've found interesting is an observer-dependent universe. If there were no observers in the universe then what would exist?

  • @videogameguy9093
    @videogameguy9093 8 років тому +13

    2:42 A physics lesson about constant, relative, and absolute speeds, and yet fire exists within water.
    I'm done.

  • @georgebernstein4150
    @georgebernstein4150 5 років тому +24

    It would have been nice to know what speed we were going relative to the things you mentioned.. Virgo cluster etc..

    • @markmasterson1249
      @markmasterson1249 4 роки тому +1

      Ye IKR..i thought that's what was coming nx tbh

    • @ihrv23
      @ihrv23 4 роки тому

      Seriously.

    • @uninsulatedshrimp5518
      @uninsulatedshrimp5518 3 роки тому +1

      I love Ted Ed but this one was just annoying

    • @Dmullins81
      @Dmullins81 2 роки тому

      A more substantive set of answers (including speeds!) can be found with a simple UA-cam search. Trust me, I've seen other videos geared towards a non-kids audience, and those WILL satisfy your thirst for more specific info..-😇

    • @eduj
      @eduj 2 роки тому

      yes bit of an annoying condescending video with no attempt to even humour us with an estimate

  • @yanndick
    @yanndick 8 років тому +444

    I always stand still : entire universe only moves around me. ;-)

    • @oo7metallica
      @oo7metallica 8 років тому +17

      +yanndick You're not wrong

    • @Merthalophor
      @Merthalophor 8 років тому +6

      +yanndick Wrong. You can't "stand still", the term "standing still" and "moving" only discribe your movement _relative_ to something else. You can't just "stand still" in empty space. "This care moves and I stand still" doesn't make sense. It only makes sense if you consider yourself as "standing still", which you probably think are doing relative to the _ground_, so "this care moves and I stand still" is more "I define the ground as "standing still". According to this definition, I am standing as well and this car is moving".

    • @oo7metallica
      @oo7metallica 8 років тому +21

      From his perspective he is standing still, and the universe moves from his perspective. I think thats all I need to say

    • @sonnypruitt6639
      @sonnypruitt6639 8 років тому

      +Merthalophor Well in that case, what happened to the Starship Enterprise, when Cpt. Kirk ordered "All stop"? Hummm?

    • @Merthalophor
      @Merthalophor 8 років тому

      Saddle Sore I don't know. But I interpreted the original comment wrong anyways. I thought the OP meant to "stand still" in sense of not walking and thus letting the universe move around him. But he DîDnöt

  • @KorZen10
    @KorZen10 7 років тому +2

    The only reason this wasn't answered was because we don't know how fast the Virgo Cluster moves...

  • @Wolfenrahd
    @Wolfenrahd 8 років тому +25

    Let's just say you were somehow able to go to the edge of space. And let's just supposedly say that you were able to survive. What would exactly happen? Is there anyway to escape this boundary? What would be on the outside of space? If space is expanding, then is there something bigger than space? What is space expanding into? What if it really isn't space, but the space outside of space is the true space, or maybe space is expanding into the void. But if there are boundaries, than wouldn't there always be something beyond those boundaries?

    • @Wolfenrahd
      @Wolfenrahd 7 років тому +4

      ***** What would happen if you were to cross that distance?

    • @Wolfenrahd
      @Wolfenrahd 7 років тому +2

      ***** Let's just suppose that you are able to cover the full distance faster that the rate it extends.

    • @HelloThere-ys3uo
      @HelloThere-ys3uo 7 років тому

      Wolfenrahd

    • @WJRHalyn-jw2ho
      @WJRHalyn-jw2ho 7 років тому +2

      Gabriel Vinícius do Nascimento - Re the comment about becoming "one with the nothing".... reminds me of the time Buddha approached a hot dog vendor for a snack.
      When asked how he wanted his hot dog prepared, Buddha requested the vendor "make him one with everything".
      Zen joke.
      Sorry.

    • @Wolfenrahd
      @Wolfenrahd 7 років тому +2

      W.J.R. Halyn that hot dog sounds pretty tasty

  • @SAsgarters
    @SAsgarters 10 років тому +21

    No idea, but I know exactly where I am.

    • @Hgulix62
      @Hgulix62 7 років тому

      Hahaha, nice one

    • @robertjarman3703
      @robertjarman3703 6 років тому +3

      Then you must not be moving, because you absolutely know where you are. Thus, you are at absolute zero.

    • @icczy11
      @icczy11 5 років тому

      Where you are relative to what?

    • @rickbluecloud531
      @rickbluecloud531 4 роки тому

      Where you are is always 'here' relative to yourself. And the time is always now. Am I right?

  • @mrmann673
    @mrmann673 10 років тому +17

    Officer: "Have you any idea how fast you were going?"
    Me: "Relative to how late I am, I was driving very slow."

  • @PlebstersPictionary
    @PlebstersPictionary 5 років тому +2

    I know I'm way late, but how can two objects be afar with nothing between? @3:00

  • @jetfowl
    @jetfowl 4 роки тому +16

    That's fine and all. However, I was trying to find out how fast the Earth is moving toward the Great Attractor in the center of the local Laniakea Supercluster.
    And you wasted my time by not coming out at the very beginning and saying that you would not actually be answering the question you posed.

    • @blue_elite964
      @blue_elite964 4 роки тому +1

      r/iamverysmart

    • @ihrv23
      @ihrv23 4 роки тому +1

      jetfowl seriously!! I thought more people might mention... they didn’t actually tell us anything!! In regards to the title at least. They just explained relative motion...

    • @ohtych1004
      @ohtych1004 4 роки тому

      ihrv23 all science shows/videos are like that though. Vsauce, veritasium, etc.

    • @bejahmeens1143
      @bejahmeens1143 4 роки тому

      Earth isnt moving..

  • @dramida
    @dramida 8 років тому +53

    Latest update: Space is something. It can be bend and stretched and has infinite energy per volume unit. It is also expanding faster and faster ( accelerated) at an actual rate of 71km/s for each megaparsec (1 parsec= 3.2 light years)

    • @aidansomething2287
      @aidansomething2287 8 років тому +7

      There is no true nothingness, there is always something there. Even in deep space there is an estimated hydrogen particle every square feet.

    • @steelymcbeam4296
      @steelymcbeam4296 8 років тому +11

      At the planck length, about 0.00000000000000000001 the size of a proton, space is grainy and it is full of fluctuating energy fields so averaged out there is no such thing as truly empty space. But of course the video is using human scales as a reference and to us for all practical purposes space is empty.

    • @ThaBeatConductor
      @ThaBeatConductor 8 років тому +5

      I always like to say that nothing cant exist, because if it did, it would be something, which isn't nothing.

    • @saleem2991
      @saleem2991 7 років тому

      DocterCool LotsaCool Hydrogen atom example is not exactly right. The hydrogen atom itself occupies space and it is no longer emptiness. However, the space around it is void.

    • @orenmashko1177
      @orenmashko1177 6 років тому +1

      I have to agree, how can they make a video like that with such a big misconception that even contradict Einsteins' theory of relativity?

  • @rocket1478
    @rocket1478 5 років тому +9

    Just got home from jail for asking cop “relative to what”

  • @monoxide5331
    @monoxide5331 8 років тому +13

    SPEED IS KEYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

  • @OnPhysics
    @OnPhysics 5 років тому +2

    A more accurate answer, from a relativistic perspective: Everything moves at exactly the speed of light through the 4 dimensions of space and time. The faster you are moving through the 3 spatial dimensions, relative to a reference point, the slower you move through time from that reference. Things are still relative, but the vector always adds to the speed of light. At least, that's one way to always answer "How fast are you moving?"

  • @ffggddss
    @ffggddss 5 років тому +5

    1st reaction: That's a meaningless question without specifying a frame of reference.
    Answer: Pick a speed - any speed less than c - and that's how fast I'm moving, relative to some reference frame.
    With one caveat: There is one arguably universal reference frame - the rest frame of the Cosmic Microwave Background.
    Fred

  • @dhruv3726
    @dhruv3726 5 років тому +8

    I lost you at "how fast are you moving?"

  • @CariagaXIII
    @CariagaXIII 10 років тому +10

    does that mean we are moving fast and also not moving at the same time?

    • @damok9999
      @damok9999 9 років тому +1

      yes we are moving really fast, relative to this point in space. There is no change in speed (that's what makes wind! and makes us feel like no speed)

    • @MouseGoat
      @MouseGoat 9 років тому +2

      It also the reason that an immovable object and an unstoppable force, are two sides of the same coin.

    • @damok9999
      @damok9999 9 років тому

      *****
      why

    • @damok9999
      @damok9999 9 років тому +1

      ***** Circular logic works because logic that is circular works.

    • @CariagaXIII
      @CariagaXIII 9 років тому +1

      TheMida4 Madoka pic though

  • @Narbris
    @Narbris 10 років тому +5

    Prepare ship for ludicrous speed!

  • @ALBERTEINSTEIN777
    @ALBERTEINSTEIN777 5 років тому +2

    WE NOW KNOW THAT SPACE IS NOT A VOID AND IS NOT NOTHING. DARK MATTER AND DARK ENERGY ARE THE ETHERIAL PLASMA THAT HOLD THE UNIVERSE TOGETHER AS IT EXPANDS INTO THE UNKNOWABLE ABYSS BEYOND WHAT WE CAN SEE FROM THE BIG BANG.

    • @NotKiiro
      @NotKiiro 5 років тому

      what i was about to comment ;o

  • @robinson8888
    @robinson8888 2 роки тому +4

    Would have been good to hear the different relative speeds, if they are able to be estimated...ie speed of earth's rotation, speed of earth's orbit of the sun, speed of the sun's orbit of the centre of the Milky Way, speed of expansion of the Milky Way etc

  • @UsernameNULL755
    @UsernameNULL755 10 років тому +6

    sweet ending

  • @BattleBunny1979
    @BattleBunny1979 10 років тому +7

    Thx for posting, this is helpfull stuff.

  • @iamawesomeandsmart1
    @iamawesomeandsmart1 10 років тому +6

    what about the speed of light?

  • @locke_ytb
    @locke_ytb 5 років тому +1

    *I stand so still I am invisible to the human eye*
    How long have you been standing there?
    *1 hour...*

    • @locke_ytb
      @locke_ytb 5 років тому

      Clare Gibbons You didn't understand the video? What? Are you sure you didn't understand?

  • @PHONGNguyen-fz6pq
    @PHONGNguyen-fz6pq 3 роки тому +1

    The police: u know how fast u r driving?
    Me: show him/ her this video
    Also the police: u r arrested for making my mind nuke

  • @BosonCollider
    @BosonCollider 10 років тому +4

    Rotation is absolutely real? Kurt Gödel disagrees. = )
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del_metric
    I realize that I am being overly pedantic, but the possibillity of space itself rotating is fun stuff.

  • @williamproffitt6688
    @williamproffitt6688 10 років тому +9

    Space is not nothing. Its very much something. It can be bent and thats been proven

    • @StormwaterIsOneWord
      @StormwaterIsOneWord 10 років тому +4

      You're confusing the same term. Space is in fact nothing. That's the definition of space, a vacuum. The space you are referring to is inter and intra space, or the space that we observe. Which of course, always has something in it due to some quantum mechanical functions.

    • @williamproffitt6688
      @williamproffitt6688 10 років тому

      How is it that nothing can bend

    • @tzakl5556
      @tzakl5556 6 років тому

      William Proffitt the fabric of space time, look it up

    • @darrenm8172
      @darrenm8172 5 років тому

      A vacuum isn't nothing. Everything is made out of something.

  • @guidemeChrist
    @guidemeChrist 10 років тому +4

    A more clever answer to the police officer would be "No, but I know exactly where I was".

  • @Chris-nf4oh
    @Chris-nf4oh 3 роки тому +1

    Quick question, does it anywhere in the driving laws that the speed limit for a car is relative to the earth? Or can I argue, in court, that I was driving at 0 mp/h relative to my phone.

  • @mtj7544
    @mtj7544 4 роки тому +1

    Relative to this entire video.....my brain started moving... B) idk if thats a good thing or a bad thing....:(

  • @Luieburger
    @Luieburger 10 років тому +6

    Why do the astronauts look so smug? I think they're up to something...

  • @AlexAnderlik
    @AlexAnderlik 10 років тому +18

    This was an informative video, but I was hoping we'd actually be given an estimate as to the speed of an object on earth relative to the largest frame of reference (presumably the center of a galaxy supercluster) we can measure.
    Including _Star Trek_ was kind of confusing because it's not real, and as much as us Trekkies wish otherwise, subspace isn't.
    Finally, my last question is about rotation; why _isn't_ it relative? Sure, if you're seeing your surroundings whirl rapidly and/or you feel your insides churning thanks to a force of gravity pulling more strongly in one direction, you would get sick. But if you were in the vacuum of space so far away from anything substantial that there would be essentially no pull of gravity in a particular direction, and if your eyes were closed so you couldn't see things spinning, how would you be able to tell?
    This video is great in explaining the concepts of relativity but seems to have a lot of flaws. Just keeping it simple and avoiding making false analogies would have prevented this confusion.

    • @SullenSecret
      @SullenSecret 10 років тому +2

      Even in a vacuum with no gravity, you would feel dizzy because your body and the chemicals in your brain would try to keep moving outward and are, instead, forced to rotate. That is why it is absolute: the only thing the movement could be relative to is the object that is spinning.

    • @jerrynovotnik
      @jerrynovotnik 10 років тому

      Rotation is not relative, because you can measure the centrifugal force (for example with a weight attached on a spring) and calculate how fast you are rotating. Your body can tell if its rotating because of liquid and semicircular canals in your inner ear.

    • @MrLunithy
      @MrLunithy 10 років тому

      Watch it again ...... and again in particular listen to the part about perception 5:07

    • @EugeneParallax
      @EugeneParallax 10 років тому

      Barujin Anon Rotating in vacuum with no gravity will Not make you dizzy, as long as there's no force applied to accelerate the rotation, since with no acceleration every part of your body, liquid or not, will remain at rest. What WILL make you dizzy, is opening your eyes and tracking objects, which you're rotating relatively to, since your brain, evolved specifically to give you an idea of direction and acceleration, will be unable to - combination of rapid change of direction with complete lack of acceleration will cause your brain to go completely nuts, times worse than any such behavior in presence of gravity force.
      The further the point of reference you take, the more potential error in calculations it will give and the less comprehensive the result will emerge. That's the question of personal preference. Universal Origin, for one, is not a defined place on a certain distance from us, but merely a mean direction from which as, we presume, everything emerged.

    • @SI29222
      @SI29222 10 років тому +1

      EugeneParallax Barujin Anon Actually Barujin is correct I believe, you would feel dizzy in any rotation because you *are* accelerating. Even in the absence of an external force upon your body there would not be acceleration of your center of mass but rather centripetal acceleration of every part of your body which is not the center (which is essentially every part of your body).

  • @zero00tolerance
    @zero00tolerance 10 років тому +4

    and when you are in that prison you an rise your fist in the air and scream out "but something are absolute" as you drop the soap to the ground.

  • @aufahafizh5087
    @aufahafizh5087 5 років тому +1

    Earth is rotating counter clockwise. According to einstein special theory of relativity if we go to the west, so we experience time more faster because we cancle momentum. But if we go to the east, we experience time dilation because we travel faster trough space. Is it cannot be apply on earth? Can someone explain?

  • @shivabb2226
    @shivabb2226 3 роки тому +1

    04/12/2020
    watching this video nth time

  • @matthewmichaelson9806
    @matthewmichaelson9806 9 років тому +5

    I like the speeding joke at the end ;) . cute lol.

  • @zaparine
    @zaparine 10 років тому +10

    Scientists say that it's impossible to accelerate an object to the speed of light or little less than that. But that speed is relative to what?

    • @robertjarman3703
      @robertjarman3703 6 років тому

      zaparine The actual way to add velocities is (v1+v2)/(v1+v1*v2)/c2, which puts an absolute limit on speed, no matter how fast you are going relative to anything.

    • @frenzzyleggs
      @frenzzyleggs 5 років тому

      Literally anything next to it

  • @alfredfanshaw4786
    @alfredfanshaw4786 5 років тому +3

    I'm not moving I live on static flat plane.

  • @flamephlegm
    @flamephlegm 5 років тому +1

    IDK, the video talks about space as having no substance, but Spacetime, I have heard, has some properties similar to a hyperfluid. Spacetime does impair travel through space and time based in part on mass and speed. I feel like there is more to this.

  • @johnernst8718
    @johnernst8718 4 роки тому +2

    There must be a way to measure how fast you are going and I would imagine it has something to do with how much energy it takes to accelerate you. For instance, in special relativity, it says the closer you get to light speed the more energy it takes to accelerate you. This should be quantifiable and measurable... Plus, if you can calculate the location of the Big Bang, i.e. trace all the observable motion back to a single point, that would be your reference - assuming that single point wasn't in motion when it started to inflate.

  • @datboyed1221
    @datboyed1221 10 років тому +4

    I love these kind of videos, the animation, and the examples that fully explain the question instead of just answering it.

  • @allnewluke1
    @allnewluke1 8 років тому +4

    Why would you go to jail for speeding

    • @melissabautz2346
      @melissabautz2346 6 років тому

      You dare question authority?
      No use in resisting us, so go to your living room and wait. My agents will ask a few quick questions, so relax and get your story straight before they come. Anyone who questions authority will be silenced.....

    • @theutopianoutopioan464
      @theutopianoutopioan464 6 років тому

      allnewluke , In some cases you can get arrested for speeding, for example if you don't pay your speeding ticket or don't attend court, you can be thrown in jail

    • @rickbluecloud531
      @rickbluecloud531 4 роки тому

      @@theutopianoutopioan464 or if it's extreme speeding. They call that 'reckless endangerment'.

    • @rickbluecloud531
      @rickbluecloud531 4 роки тому

      @@theutopianoutopioan464 Stephen Wright said that when he went to pay his parking ticket, he pleaded insanity, because no one in their right mind parks in the passing lane.

  • @MusicLovers-nc7we
    @MusicLovers-nc7we 8 років тому +5

    possibly you are moving faster than speed of light.....if consider the speed of galaxies

  • @zakunknown9737
    @zakunknown9737 7 років тому +1

    "Space is not a thing" I believe lawrence krauss would disagree with you. Srsly did a trump voter make this video?

  • @ChanwooPark-me1wc
    @ChanwooPark-me1wc 2 роки тому +1

    속도가 무엇인지에 대한 영상 잘 보았습니다. 과학에서의 속도는 무엇에 상대적이어야 한다는 게 참 흥미롭네요. 자세히 들여다보면 우리가 일상에서 쓰는 표현들 중 틀린 것들이 참 많은 것 같습니다. 유익한 영상 감사합니다!

  • @walterwhite7092
    @walterwhite7092 10 років тому +6

    WRONG from minute three on.
    WHO peer reviews these videos ?
    Just because it is in the a Ted named channel does make it accurate.

    • @ZsoltPinters
      @ZsoltPinters 10 років тому +3

      Yep, I've just stopped at 3:13, it is just incorrect. I'm happy that other people also noticed this :)

    • @alexanderleeart
      @alexanderleeart 10 років тому

      What specifically is incorrect?

    • @ZsoltPinters
      @ZsoltPinters 10 років тому +1

      "Space is nothing" is wrong. And because of this, other statements are also wrong. Space IS a thing. It HAS properties. Space can twist, expand, bend, shrink. Space has a structure, it is like a sponge. You can't tell this is nothing...

  • @ButterOnMyBiscuit
    @ButterOnMyBiscuit 10 років тому +5

    All this talk about speed and movement, and not one mention of Isaac newtons laws of motion

    • @IstasPumaNevada
      @IstasPumaNevada 10 років тому

      Beyond the scope of the video. It also could have mentioned that space isn't really empty, but it would have distracted from the main point that the video focused on; that of motion being relataive.

  • @sjcb
    @sjcb 10 років тому +4

    This is a subject I find really hard to explain to other people down at the pub (I'm not as boring as I sound, I hope) but you guys have covered pretty much all important factors when it comes to speed/relativity. Very good. Big thumbs up!

  • @ChickenSplash
    @ChickenSplash 6 років тому +1

    is there such thing as coordinates in the universe or space-time? if every particle of matter were to be removed, will speed still be a thing?

  • @shantanudas528
    @shantanudas528 3 роки тому +1

    In terms of space it's all decided in terms of blow in ocean

  • @WJRHalyn-jw2ho
    @WJRHalyn-jw2ho 7 років тому +6

    Interesting thought arises here. If every speed is only relative to reference objects, then why can't we go faster than the speed of light? What is the "absolute" reference point we will be moving away from that "knows" we're over the speed of light?
    Like, if all the stars, planets and galaxies are all moving in different directions anyway, any one motion we are making is going to be towards some, away from others, and all at varying degrees of reference, depending on THEIR speeds.
    But, how does the universe know you've hit light speed? Are you passing particles of some "ether", or crashing through "gravity waves" (analogous to sailing through the ocean), or passing by some so-far-unknown relativistic "grid of quantum particles" making up otherwise "empty" space??
    Highly unlikely.
    So, how do we know we've hit light speed when all of our reference points are moving around us?
    I bet this gets into incredibly tricky relativity issues, because even though the Lorentz contraction and effects of time dilation would be visible on the speeding person from outside, from inside the actual moving frame of reference everything would seem fine.
    But how does the UNIVERSE know you're approaching, or have hit, the speed of light, since all the references are moving?
    There's got to be SOMETHING that is forming some absolute comparative reference.
    Just wondering......

    • @GuiMenGre
      @GuiMenGre 7 років тому +1

      that's just a guess,but i think it's because the faster you're moving relative to something,the slower time passes for you,so you're procedually taking more and more time to move,thus moving slower.At the speed of light the velocity in which your clock is slowing down catches up with the increase in your speed,turning it impossible to go any faster,as the time freezes and the concept of velocity doesn't make sense anymore.

    • @WJRHalyn-jw2ho
      @WJRHalyn-jw2ho 7 років тому

      Yes. But again, relative to what? A galaxy moving towards you at 2,000 miles per second, or one moving away from you at 2,000 miles per second? Relative to the vacuum of space? How does a vacuum know how fast you are going "past" it?
      (I tell you, the more I think about it, the stranger it gets....)

    • @GuiMenGre
      @GuiMenGre 7 років тому

      Well,you just blew my mind

    • @AndyTrampke
      @AndyTrampke 7 років тому

      W.J.R. Halyn Space does have a structure. Space-time is a fabric a soup of virtual particles poping into and out of existance. this video is misleading as the reality of relativity shows space is a tangible thing to which if it could be measured a referance point could be established.

    • @AndyTrampke
      @AndyTrampke 7 років тому +2

      But you posed an excellent question that points out the fault of this video not recognizing the fabric of space itself as an actual.... thing

  • @zerospin876
    @zerospin876 8 років тому +4

    We are always moving at exactly the speed of light through 4D space-time. When we focus all the motion on space, we stand still (don't age) in time (as photons do), and when we focus all the motion on time (age fastest), we stand absolutely still in space (impossible to achieve?). That's why c is the limit and that's how I understand it anyway.

  • @FlyingAce1016
    @FlyingAce1016 5 років тому +3

    Space isnt even considered a void anymore though technically considering quantum fluctuations in even a vacuume empty space isn't empty

  • @jacobc2778
    @jacobc2778 4 роки тому +1

    what about dark matter or quantum fluctuations being empty space

  • @Prithvibeats
    @Prithvibeats 4 роки тому +1

    That Was An Absolute Explanation

  • @branot89
    @branot89 9 років тому +4

    So the speed of light isn't absolute. It's relative to something? What a bullshit video.
    We feel acceleration and rotation because of inertia. But that doesn't mean that some movements are relative and others are absolute. They are all absolute. Our feeling doesn't have anything with it.

    • @LJShaun
      @LJShaun 9 років тому +1

      The speed of light is the only speed that is absolute. You can read up on Einstein's theory of relativity for that.
      Acceleration is absolute because an increase in speed can be measured and there are no arbitrary starting positions increases in speed must head towards or from. On the other hand, most other movements are only relative as you can only measure them from arbitrary starting and/or ending points. It is physically impossible to map a "grid" of the Universe like we would on Earth.

    •  9 років тому

      LJ Shaun the speed of light in a vacuum is a constant... the speed of light is not. therefore the speed of light is not absolute. I understood what you meant : if you are on a spaceship, light is passing by at c, relative to you, even if you are going at 0.99999999999999999c in the other direction (relative to the motion of the photon in this case). This is true for all rays of lights, all frames of reference, everywhere in the universe until proven wrong, that is until Einstein theory of special relativity is proven wrong. Still the speed of light is not absolute, it's just constant in a given material

    • @AnstonMusic
      @AnstonMusic 9 років тому

      Rémy Doyen Oh, the speed of light is absolute, the observer's time just dilates to nullify the effect of the observers speed relative to said photon. It cancels out, leaving the speed of light a constant when your speed and time are variables.

    •  9 років тому

      Andy Flow [Music Producer] : no it's not. In a vacuum it's the fastest reachable speed (by massless particules) in our current understanding of physics. But electrons can be faster than photons in water (see Tcherenkov effect).
      I do agree with you on the implications though. just not on the word : absolute, the word is giving the idea that photons are always faster that anything, in every material. And that is not true .

    • @AnstonMusic
      @AnstonMusic 9 років тому

      Rémy Doyen Well, in water the light particles just bounce around a bit, so they take a longer course, therefore I still think of them as having the same speed.
      If you say that in water light is slower than electrons, then by same reasoning I can put light to bounce back and forth between two ideal mirrors, walk past said mirrors, and say that I walked faster than light. But I guess you can think of it in different ways.

  • @shantanudas528
    @shantanudas528 3 роки тому +1

    Flowers are trench bt trench is ultimate dent . 🌲 are gonna b 💯

  • @davids.9789
    @davids.9789 5 років тому +1

    Love it how the ball would've landed in the chicxulub crater

  • @Rex_The_Mouse
    @Rex_The_Mouse 4 роки тому +1

    Who animated this?
    Because it's um...
    Not that good.....

  • @Inspired2Teach
    @Inspired2Teach 2 роки тому +2

    This might be something to keep in mind if you happen to be a time travel enthusiast. Arriving where and when you hope might be tricky. Coming back might be even trickier. Be sure to take a very good calculator with you.

  • @pavanrk9552
    @pavanrk9552 4 роки тому +1

    Even nothingness weighs 4 protons per meter cube...

  • @evank3718
    @evank3718 3 роки тому +1

    0:54 Minecraft ghast, parrot, then guardian sounds

  • @陽天-g8g
    @陽天-g8g 5 років тому +1

    当たり前の話やな。しかし落とし穴がある。地球と太陽や。地球と太陽はどっちが動いとるかわからん。だから、地球が止まっとって、太陽が動いとると考えてもええんか?あかんやろ。地球が太陽の回りを回っとるんやないか。

  • @diorynovis
    @diorynovis 5 років тому +1

    Its Absolute your Relative will visit you in jail.

  • @dhanvi-shah
    @dhanvi-shah 2 роки тому +1

    "How fast are you moving?"
    *"Umm...."*

  • @mulder2400
    @mulder2400 4 роки тому +1

    Zero miles per hour in any direction, time to wake up children ...

    • @mulder2400
      @mulder2400 4 роки тому +1

      The Jesuits and "Global" Elite have known Continuity of Universe reality, (Earth is Flat and connected to the rest of Hollow World) for a long time. Use an Azimuth Equidistant Map, www.google.com/search?q=Flat+... and place a Torus Field above it (Atmosphere,Ozone,Ionosphere/"Sphere"-LOL) and this Torroidal Vortex, is no higher than Magnetosphere altitudes, 30,000 miles ? www.google.com/search?q=torus... The North Pole-arized point on the Earth Plane is Center, and the Antarctic Ice Wall is the range of our Local "Sun" melting the ice. This glowing Capacitor (or Fusion), is seen many miles up as it continues to cycle in the Torus Field, between the Tropic of Cancer and Capricorn of 6 months speeding up and 6 months slowing down, held in perpetual Luminescence through "Capacitive Coupling" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacit... Periodically Cosmic forces (GRB Bursts, etc), compress the Magnetic Fields (KP Index) and degrade it. The weak #24 Solar Max, www.google.com/search?q=recen... and related 2012 era "Comet" Phenomena (Elenin/ISON) actually moved the Sun "out of Position" in the Sky, as the Torus Crest had lowered. This may occur again at Solar Minimum. What we see as "Stars" in motion may be an optical illusion, read on Refraction en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refraction and Gravitational Lensing www.aeos.ulg.ac.be/GL/didactic..., no telling what it really looks like out there in the Void, as Human eyes don't have the Focal Length available to see it.
      Earth is a Luminated motionless Plane on this side of the Raqia - Hebrew biblehub.com/hebrew/7549.htm Expanse or Firmament, and "Stars" aren't Suns at all.

  • @copiedoffme
    @copiedoffme 4 роки тому +1

    Bah... I'm relatively confused now.

  • @happyunderstanding5115
    @happyunderstanding5115 3 роки тому +1

    The police officer says "relative to me"

  • @SKEC212
    @SKEC212 5 років тому +1

    Space is not nothing. It's an ocean of dark energy creating pressure against everything in the universe so that our electrons don't fly apart. When applying the rule of For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, you have to realize that the resistance you feel when you try to accelerate in space is the action of dark energy running into to you. If there was nothing in space then you would be able to take off in the blink of an eye. Just like when you put a feather in a vacuum sealed tube it falls like a rock. That accurately represents the difference of what space would feel like if you removed all of the dark energy. But you can't without your body exploding. Think about an air bubble underwater. It stays together because of the pressure caused by the water. As soon as it reaches the surface it explodes and disperses. Mass is caused by dark energy all around us. So, no space is not nothing.

    • @fissurelearning3708
      @fissurelearning3708 5 років тому

      It's gravity or magnetic fields. the area inbetween them is the closest thing to not moving or being at rest. The thing will be tho, that your body is always in motion and that's how you know your still alive. If not you won't know anything because your dead. Just felt like saying that. I don't see your explanation as wrong. Just that it could be better explained like this post could be. Dark energy diffinition in my opinion is the affects of magnetic fields in an area. Being it don't have an exact explanation to what it actually is with relatable terms. which creates a language to be used in communicating what something is or isn't. I don't know why I did this really. It's my first post on here✌

  • @shantanudas528
    @shantanudas528 3 роки тому +1

    Dent is easy bt we need to get busy to make it easy kinda

  • @shantanudas528
    @shantanudas528 3 роки тому +1

    At fst it was for meta 4 rive . Nd then the sea breaks the crack in data or we can say ata

  • @lsb2623
    @lsb2623 2 роки тому +1

    I am moving at 1 badass per lifetime!

  • @shantanudas528
    @shantanudas528 3 роки тому +1

    If we r connected then it's their know to our knows ^∆√

  • @peaceatlast8286
    @peaceatlast8286 5 років тому +1

    WOW....I’m blown away! 🌬🌬🌬💨💨💨

  • @shantanudas528
    @shantanudas528 3 роки тому +1

    We have to breed 🌲 better verson at a time . Or ya

  • @merukit
    @merukit 7 років тому +1

    space is not a thing
    weeeeeeeeelllll

  • @Astraeus..
    @Astraeus.. 5 років тому +1

    The orbital velocity of the Earth plus or minus the approximate rotational velocity, depending on whether you're on the half where spin is towards the direction of orbit or the half where spin is away from direction of orbit, with some variation based on geographical location as well as where along the point of rotation you happen to be.... In other words, 30km/s plus or minus an additional 460m/s...
    Typically the speed a person is moving at on Earth creates an inconsequential change, though I suppose if you want to be technical about it you''d also need to factor in any other velocity in excess of about 100mph, as well as it's direction relative to both the surface as well as orbital trajectory of the planet.

    • @godsbeautifulflatearth
      @godsbeautifulflatearth 5 років тому

      You have a vivid imagination. The Earth is stationary and non-rotating. We aren't moving at all.

  • @victorzhang6859
    @victorzhang6859 3 роки тому +1

    4:55 the arrows are backwards lol

  • @psychonaut1829
    @psychonaut1829 2 роки тому +1

    12 parsecs per second.

  • @knowyourself4149
    @knowyourself4149 4 роки тому +1

    But some things are absolute !