@@DianeJennings To think...Star Ship by Elon Musk`s SpaceX Company is designed to go to the planets in our Solar System and deep space.... but sadly the 20+ year hate campaign towards Musk is slowing them tasks down....
@@DianeJennings Thank you. I love your optimism and enjoy ED’s responses too. I know I’m very unusual, in how I think and reason, in that I’ve had the experience of intensive focus on using formal logic and reasoning in my undergraduate work which I finished in 3 years at the age of 20 in 1980, from a small Jesuit College in the South. But I’ve never stopped growing or learning. I can’t not be interested in learning new things and connecting with people with good and merry souls. I think that’s very much the Irish in me, the cultural inheritance I received from my whole extended family. It’s why I follow you, not because you have some fame, or because I have a fantasy about being famous myself, but because I admire the way you treat the people who follow you, with kindness, silliness and joy.
Yes !!! i have come from the perspective of doing Meals on Wheels and seeing the problems others have. I am now 70 and wondering when it is going to be my time. I am thankful for my children and grandchildren and that I can still help them.
The Planck Length (named after Max Planck) is basically the smallest length at which General Relativity, i.e. our understanding of the universe works. The Schwarzschild radius (named after Karl Schwarzschild) is the smallest space you can cram a given amount of matter into before its gravity causes it to collapse into a black hole. A Buckyball is 60 carbon atoms arranged into a hollow ball. The name comes from Buckminster Fuller - inventor of the geodesic dome.
The size of the universe is very impressive And the looks on Diane’s face are very expressive With each larger object her mind is blown It’s like taking a trip through the twilight zone But things get weird when ED is optimistic As for Diane’s hair, let’s just call it artistic
What really made me realize the size of the universe was when I found out that there were more stars in it than there are grains of sand on all the beaches on Earth. Wow.😱
No, most stars are red dwarfs which last 100 billion years, therefore the majority of stars ever made are still around, and this will be the case for at least another 80 billion years.
Videos like this deserve occasional updates because new discoveries occasionally surpass what’s currently known. The new James Webb space telescope is going to make the coming years even more exciting than the Hubble era.
@@DianeJennings I’ve been in the process of putting together a presentation with a similar subject, and every time I think I’m done, I encounter better graphics and images than the ones I’ve been using.
Happy Monday to you Diane! Always a pleasure to watch a new video from you each and every week. I found this video to be quite intellectually stimulating. I'm a bit of a science nut myself and this was just fascinating. Thanks for sharing this video. Hope that you, Chewie, and Editor Diane are all doing well. Have a great rest of your week and be well! ✌️😎❤️
These videos always remind me of the Total Perspective Vortex from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy stories. In the story, the man who invented the vortex did it to annoy his wife, who would often nag him for daydreaming, and tell him to "have some sense of proportion!" And so he created the Total Perspective Vortex to truly show her a sense of proportion: "Into one end he plugged the whole of reality as extrapolated from a piece of fairy cake, and into the other end he plugged his wife: so that when he turned it on she haw in one instant the whole infinity of creation and herself in relation to it. To Trin Tragula’s horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that if life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot have is a sense of proportion."
I remember an astrophysicist (I've forgotten who) said that the second hardest thing for the Universe is for it to do something only once. The _hardest_ thing is for it to do it only twice. If we can find evidence of life or former life anywhere else in our galaxy, it's virtually 100% certain that the Universe is or has been teeming with life.
@@almostfm just looking at the variety of life on earth means there could literally be limitless different types of life forms throughout the universe.
I've seen this video countless times and it is still impressive. I usually play it for my anatomy students to give them a perspective on what they are studying. And a bacteriophage is a virus that infects bacteria.
If they're reasonably close (in galactic terms) they may well already know we're here. They could possibly detect artificial lights on the night side, and they could do what the JWST has already done with a couple of exoplanets-determine the composition of the atmosphere. If they saw the relatively high concentration of Oxygen, that would raise eyebrows (or whatever the alien equivalent is). Molecular oxygen will react with almost everything, so it would come down to two things: Really exotic non-organic chemistry, or life forms constantly pumping out oxygen that went out of the atmosphere reacting with iron, copper, or other stuff.
Things like this are mind-blowing. If you have about 45 minutes, there is a UA-cam video called "Riding Light - Traversing the Solar System at the Speed of Light". The video is as if you are a light particle leaving the surface of the Sun. It takes you out to just past Jupiter and shows just how long it takes light from the Sun to pass different planets and other solar system objects. It really illustrates just how huge our own solar system is much less anything beyond it in interstellar space.
If nobody else explained it, a "Buckey Ball" is a somewhat naturally occouring molecule of pure carbon. It is named after Buckminster Fuller, an architect who advocated geodesic domes.
Thank you for your reaction and, as always, a great video. - Yes, I agree - I don´t think the majority of people can visualize the scale or how much smaller/larger the things are. Because we don´t encounter them in our lives, besides in simulations like this one. For e.g. it´s easier for me to visualize the airplane and the Eiffel tower, because I have seen those in real life, compared to the Empire state building, a planck-length or Betelgeuse which I have not seen in real life. - If you want to see the differences in size in another way, there is a video named "Universe Size Comparison 3D". This present the objects side by side. - I noticed you mentioned your hair in the end of the video, so I will give some positive feedback. Your hair looks great and so do you. Take care and have a great day! Br //M
Buckyballs are molecules of buckminsterfullerene, which has sixty carbon atoms arranged as shown in the video. Their arrangement is the same as that of the vertices of a soccer ball. The chemical was named for R. Buckminster Fuller, known for popularizing the geodesic dome, and other stuff.
I love the look on your face as you discover the little known dwarf about planets in our solar system, there are about 20 of them including Sedna, Ceres.
Kind of reminds me of those posts "Americans will use any unit of measurement to avoid using the metric system." Sometimes showing relative size compared to known objects is very useful.
Another thing that's helped me grasp the sheer size of the universe is the implications of light-distances. Latter 20th century science fiction films and shows tended to treat light speed as super duper fast, the way to move between star systems. (Yes I know Star Wars technically uses "hyperspace", but the early movies called it "light speed" in the dialog, so that's how audiences would think of it.) But in reality, light speed, the Cosmic Speed Limit, the fastest it's physically possible to traverse through space, is still depressingly slow next to the scale of space. The Sun is 8 light minutes away; a magical light speed space ship would take 8 minutes to reach it. The nearest star would take about 4 years to reach. The light from the Andromeda Galaxy we can see left the galaxy while non-avian dinosaurs were still around.
Absolutely fascinating. Near the end I realized my mouth had been hanging open through most of this. The more I think I understand about existence, the less I realize I do.
To quote Douglas Adams. Space is big, I mean really big. really big. Space is so vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big that the majority of it simply cannot fit into the human imagination.
Your expression during this whole process of the video was priceless👀 However in the sheer magnitude of this video if this is 100% true - WOW we are literally nothing and mean even less 🤣
You can barely grasp what was being shown. The magnitude of the cosmos is mind blowing. Really puts us in perspective how tiny we are compared to everything else.
For anyone who genuinely cares (Assuming there is one): In Ancient Greece, Anaximander suggested “apeiron” referring to how big the universe must be. The Greek word “apeiron” means without limit in time and space, suggesting the universe is boundless. In other words, infinite. This makes perfect sense to me. Since things exist, there must be no limit to existence and existence must be limitless. So I think there’s that the so called “big bang” was the “beginning” of “everything”. Meanwhile, evolutionarily, the odds of us being here, not to mention being here as humans, is unbelievably small, yet here we are. That renders us individually and collectively responsible for consciously choosing to always educating and informing ourselves and each other scientifically and to abandon our archaic, outdated, untrue, primitive superstitions and fairytales and fearmongering. You only fear something if you don’t understand it or don’t know about it. When barrier is crossed, new possibilities open that you likely haven’t even imagined before. Only a few centuries ago we didn’t even know kat if what we know about the universe today. Going back to Ancient Greece which no longer exists, all those great philosophers didn’t know anywhere near what the average person knows today thanks to the enlightenment reformations and the industrial as well as technological revolutions, breakthroughs and discoveries. Back to cosmos, I still think the universe has no beginning or end, and is ultimately exempt from time. So there was never a creation. Only evolution. And we as an ape species are but one amongst possibly countless others that are intelligent enough to compose and comprise entire civilisations, regardless of their levels and scales. And there’s no way any species is the so called “center of the universe”. So don’t be self absorbent! Check out my profile entry!
I've been to Meteor Crater. It's one of the few things in this world that's actually as big as you think it will be. Not sure if this helps visualizing the size of things, but the spacecraft that's furthest is Voyager 1 launched in 1977. By most measures, it has left the Solar System and is in interstellar space. It's about 22 light hours from Earth, compared to the observable Universe's diameter of 93,000,000,000 light _years._ When you said we're an insignificant part of the Universe, you weren't lying.
I remember when I had my mind blown by an astrophysics class at University of Houston years ago. That was when they thought there were only 100 million stars in the galaxy and maybe a hundred million galaxies, now they believe it to be in the billions for both numbers; this basically makes it mathematically impossible for us to be alone in this universe. This humbling realization means Earth is not even a grain of sand on the cosmic Beach, it is more like our galaxy which is the grain of sand.
What's interesting is after the observable universe it kept zooming out into the void further with no description meaning the possibility could be endless of how far reality can extend.
The observable universe picture is the baby picture from when the universe was only about 380,000 years old and there are no planets or stars. There is an episode of How the universe works that talks about the end/edge of things like our solar system, our galaxy, etc. When it comes to the universe. We can only see as far as the speed of light will let us. Every time you look into the sky you are looking into history as far back as billions of years and that is how they got baby pictures of the universe. At one point in time the Universe expanded quicker that the speed of light. That's not quite an accurate way of explaining it but close enough.
First video I seen of the universe in 3D infinite space with your reaction even better. There's also infinite smallness in the universe needing a microscope. In the bloopers reel that's how my long hair tends to look. Happy Monday Diane.
I'd recommend you watch "Deep Field: The Impossible Magnitude of our Universe" featuring a jaw-dropping score by Eric Whitacre. (Unfortunately UA-cam has to be their money grubbing selves and wedge some ads in there. But you can download the video off of iTunes. It cost me $1.49 in the US, and I doubt it's much more in Ireland; it's WELL worth it.) It really takes off about about the 11:27 mark, and just after 15 minutes, you may feel like you've been blown out the back of the room. Oh, and if you're in a house (or have VERY understanding neighbors), I recommend you watch on the biggest monitor possible and turn it up LOUD. (And remember, at the 17 minute mark, EVERYTHING you see in the picture is a separate galaxy.)
Very cool video! We’re just a little speck of dust in the universe. It’s hard to think we’re the only beings out there. 🤯 Thanks for sharing this. Have a great week! ❤️U☘️🇮🇪🇺🇸
It finally happened. Bizarro world! DJ & ED switched places. Dogs and cats living together!! What’s next now that we know how small we really are??? Oh well we can always hope for a new UA-cam video from the best Irish creator soon!!!! Thanks for watching this cool video Diane. Even if it is a reaction video I enjoyed it. Always curious to see what videos creators watch. Oh and your hair always looks nice. I think it was the bizarre switch that did it. ;-)
I believe the Empire State Building was the tallest in the world when it was built. It was surpassed a long time ago. Max Planck was a physicist who, among other things, figured out the smallest length that can possibly be measured (I'm oversimplifying, but I don't want to write an essay here). That distance is now called the Planck length. There are a bunch of other units named after him, including the Planck time, which is how long it takes light in a vacuum to travel one Planck length. The Planck units are interesting because they're based on the physical properties of the universe, instead of some arbitrary measure (like the meter or the second). For most purposes, though, the Planck units are at a scale that's not useful for most things. Mostly they're too small, although some Planck units are too big. A bucky ball is a molecule of carbon atoms that are arranged like the intersection points in a geodesic dome. It's named for Buckminster Fuller, who invented the geodesic dome. Soot has bucky balls in it. A bacteriophage is a type of virus that infects bacteria. The ending "-phage" means "eat," so a bacteriophage is a bacteria eater. The Hyperion redwood (the world's tallest tree) is in California, which also has the world's most massive tree (the General Sherman giant sequoia), and the world's oldest tree (the Methuselah bristlecone pine, which is over 4850 years old).
The Empire State Building was the tallest building in the world for almost forty years, until the World Trade Center was built in 1970. The Planck length is just a length that you get if you combine the fundamental constants of nature in such a way that you get a length. It is not necessarily the smallest length possible. The vertices of a buckyball are the same as the vertices of a soccer ball, not a geodesic dome.
I haven't been to the Hyperion redwood. I got to see the area where the Methusela tree is (the exact location is not divulged to the general public). The General Sherman is easy (which it hasn't snowed). It's about an hour and a half northeast of me and it is huge in a way that makes you say that no tree can actually be that big. At its base, the diameter is about 11m or 36 feet. It's at the point that you can't really understand how big it is unless you back away from it some. Otherwise, it's like trying to judge the size of a house by looking at the wall in one room.
You are correct to gather that we are so small and insignificant, that nothing we do matters...but you are also correct to understand, in that case, that the only things that can matter to us are what we do.
Two things to check out after this to blow your mind are "The Galaxy" from Monty Python and the Meaning Life, and "Powers of 10", an old conceptual video that will blow you away.
The objects in the video are called the observable universe. The scientific community applies quantum mechanics just to get some inference in an attempt to theorize some aspects of the universe. The limitations of understanding and technology make everything we know about the universe speculative. Arro's comment regarding "truly humbling" is a truth which humanity must take note.
I am left wondering how effective it is showing comparisons between things most people don't recognize. By the end of the video most of the objects shown have been forgotten. There is anothervideo, considerably older, "Powers of Ten" (1977) which I think was more understandable. But if you *really* want to understand this, you need to listen to "Yakko's Universe Song" on UA-cam. Great hair!!!
Amazing vid. Thanks for bringing it to our attention! I also didn't realize how big the tallest tree was. Like....it is MASSIVE (compared to other trees lol, not the rest of the universe 🤪)
That shaggy hair looked great! The pulled through a hedge backwards look is always intriguing and fun. I look like Einstein first thing, straight out of bed, nothing on top but long and bushy on the sides. To think that the Flat Earth Society still exists, time it went the way of the Dinosaurs.
Such grand and splendid space, and so far we're the only part of it that's eatablished as self-aware... For all that massive and majestic cosmos, it's us and those like us that give it meaning.
I wish i could go back in time and take more baby pictures of my kids. I have episodes of How the universe works on my DVR and I put it on low volume to fall asleep to. This is October. 9 months after the post and Venus is now the morning star. I mention that because Fun Fact --- During WW2, a battleship in the south pacific spotted an object beyond the 1000 yard range of their fire control system and fired on it at about 1 O'clock in the afternoon. They mistook Venus for one of the Japanese fire bomb balloons.
Size is relative between objects and the size that really matters is the capacity to do good vs the depth of evil. That was a very good video. Thanks Diane for sharing it. BOOP
In all of the universe, there is only one you. All of the steps in the last approximate 14 billion year's the observable universe has been in existence, and without one missed step, you were born. That doesn't make you insignificant. It makes you a bloody miracle.
And on the reverse side, the size of atoms is way smaller than you think. I like the comparisons of sizes, like if the Sun were a basketball the Earth would be a tiny bead 2mm in size and 28 meters away, the nearest star would be 60KM away! That's how fricking empty space is. We can still see that nearby star, that's how bright it is.
Amazing and a bit scary. I enjoyed that. However I'm suprised the Jeddah Tower was used in Harry's video, because the Jeddah Tower building is only one-third complete, and no completion date is yet in sight. The project has been delayed and It might never get finished.
You look at all this, all these insanely massive distances and volumes.... Yes, they're obscenely large. But they are literally 0% of infinity. All of the things in this video have an end. Infinity is the most terrifying, mystifying, and beautiful concept I think humanity has ever conjured. I would love it if you made a video reacting to Numberphile (or anyone else who does a good job of it, like the "Wait But Why" blog's article on numbers above a million) explaining Graham's number. If you ever want to have an existential crisis and start to understand how thoroughly, bone-chillingly horrifying infinity is, have a look into that.
My suggestion is that: 1. the singularity before the Big Bang was all photons, and 2. that the universe was made by pair conversion where photons make electron positron pairs. Readers challenge me with, how can you prove that? Most of it has already been proved! These 3 things that we know are true, support many of my ideas on the importance of photons in physics 1. Photons are outside of time and distance. 2. Photons create an electron positron pair in pair conversion. ( During extreme conditions photons can create proton, anti proton pairs; and neutron, anti neutron pairs). 3. Should all the mass be converted to energy, we would have a universe of photons.
You caught me in the middle of a smaller scale video that documents the construction of the Alaskan Highway by the US Army Corps of Engineers from the US through Canada to Fairbanks, Alaska which though only 1,500 miles long (approximately 2,400 kilometers) was still an amazing engineering feat.
13:45 Yeah, without faster-than-light travel most of the universe is simply out of reach. For a species that enjoys exploration so much, this really drives it home that we are going to be on this little blue dot for quite some time. Perhaps we will start to take care of it as if we are staying, not just passing through. This is the home to our entire species, not a cheap motel.
I support the theory that the universe keeps growing outward in a building sphere from "the Big Bang", until it eventually meets itself and begins to compact. Tighter and tighter until it becomes infinitely small and.... another Big Bang. Around, and around she goes, Ad Infinitum.
As has been said before, there are two possibilities; either we are alone, or we are not. Both are equally terrifying! I think it highly unlikely that any intelligence capable of traversing the stars will find anything here that is unique other than the life itself. Since our biology is very likely incompatible with theirs (an assumption, to be sure) we would be of no value for food, organs or anything else that requires compatibility. Bottom line, we have nothing anyone would want that they couldn't get closer to home with far less effort, so the conquest scenario is probably more projection of human characteristics than reality...
And here we are, fighting constantly over a spec of land only slightly less inconsequential than we are. Good one for a Monday episode, or a "deep contemplation" episode on DbD. Cheers Diane(s) & Chewie
i think what's hilarious is we literally just don't comprehend the size of even our own solar system, anything beyond that is literally a number we don't fully understand
Not gonna comment on your hair... okay, gonna comment on your hair... It was artistic genius on your part when after watching our existence becoming so tiny as the universe became so huge that you let your hair explode out to the orbit of Neptune. Such a beautiful orbit. 😉🤣
"So, basically, you are inconsequential." Yep...pretty much sums up the whole aspect of life as a whole...except for those who deep down believe that the universe revolves around them.
I actually had a theory that light has a finite (limited) distance that it can travel, and if that's the case, with current technology we will not be able to study beyond the limits of the observable universe.
Knowing the universe goes on infinitely, a person's brain can't deal with it. Don't try and think about it, because if you do your brain shuts down. By the way, love your hair😉
The size ànd scope of the universe is truly humbling
It really is!
@@DianeJennings To think...Star Ship by Elon Musk`s SpaceX Company is designed to go to the planets in our Solar System and deep space.... but sadly the 20+ year hate campaign towards Musk is slowing them tasks down....
@@DianeJennings It sort of takes me off the hook if I don't seem to understand everything.
What a cool video Diane! You know the universe is large because it contains all of those unmatched socks and Tupperware lids. Happy Monday!
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I prefer to look at this positively and use the size and scale of the known universe to remind me how small my problems are.
That’s the BEST perspective
@@DianeJennings Thank you. I love your optimism and enjoy ED’s responses too.
I know I’m very unusual, in how I think and reason, in that I’ve had the experience of intensive focus on using formal logic and reasoning in my undergraduate work which I finished in 3 years at the age of 20 in 1980, from a small Jesuit College in the South.
But I’ve never stopped growing or learning. I can’t not be interested in learning new things and connecting with people with good and merry souls. I think that’s very much the Irish in me, the cultural inheritance I received from my whole extended family.
It’s why I follow you, not because you have some fame, or because I have a fantasy about being famous myself, but because I admire the way you treat the people who follow you, with kindness, silliness and joy.
Yes !!! i have come from the perspective of doing Meals on Wheels and seeing the problems others have. I am now 70 and wondering when it is going to be my time. I am thankful for my children and grandchildren and that I can still help them.
Same. It gives me comfort honestly
The Planck Length (named after Max Planck) is basically the smallest length at which General Relativity, i.e. our understanding of the universe works.
The Schwarzschild radius (named after Karl Schwarzschild) is the smallest space you can cram a given amount of matter into before its gravity causes it to collapse into a black hole.
A Buckyball is 60 carbon atoms arranged into a hollow ball. The name comes from Buckminster Fuller - inventor of the geodesic dome.
The size of the universe is very impressive
And the looks on Diane’s face are very expressive
With each larger object her mind is blown
It’s like taking a trip through the twilight zone
But things get weird when ED is optimistic
As for Diane’s hair, let’s just call it artistic
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What really made me realize the size of the universe was when I found out that there were more stars in it than there are grains of sand on all the beaches on Earth. Wow.😱
that number boggles the mind
And most of them are long dead.
No, most stars are red dwarfs which last 100 billion years, therefore the majority of stars ever made are still around, and this will be the case for at least another 80 billion years.
The amount of galaxies
We need to edit this to zoom all the way out and show the universe is just an atom on editor Diane's fingernail. Cool reaction!
You can definitely tell the amount of time, knowledge, and passion that was used to make the video
Right?! I’m in awe
Videos like this deserve occasional updates because new discoveries occasionally surpass what’s currently known. The new James Webb space telescope is going to make the coming years even more exciting than the Hubble era.
@@DianeJennings I’ve been in the process of putting together a presentation with a similar subject, and every time I think I’m done, I encounter better graphics and images than the ones I’ve been using.
Happy Monday to you Diane! Always a pleasure to watch a new video from you each and every week. I found this video to be quite intellectually stimulating. I'm a bit of a science nut myself and this was just fascinating. Thanks for sharing this video. Hope that you, Chewie, and Editor Diane are all doing well. Have a great rest of your week and be well! ✌️😎❤️
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No one can comprehend that really. I really like your reaction to videos like this and the history of everything. It's mindblowing, isn't it?
These videos always remind me of the Total Perspective Vortex from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy stories.
In the story, the man who invented the vortex did it to annoy his wife, who would often nag him for daydreaming, and tell him to "have some sense of proportion!"
And so he created the Total Perspective Vortex to truly show her a sense of proportion:
"Into one end he plugged the whole of reality as extrapolated from a piece of fairy cake, and into the other end he plugged his wife: so that when he turned it on she haw in one instant the whole infinity of creation and herself in relation to it.
To Trin Tragula’s horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that if life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot have is a sense of proportion."
As big as the universe is there definitely has to be life like us out there somewhere
I agree!
Drake Equation?
And all of it goes extinct when it discovers social media.
I remember an astrophysicist (I've forgotten who) said that the second hardest thing for the Universe is for it to do something only once. The _hardest_ thing is for it to do it only twice. If we can find evidence of life or former life anywhere else in our galaxy, it's virtually 100% certain that the Universe is or has been teeming with life.
@@almostfm just looking at the variety of life on earth means there could literally be limitless different types of life forms throughout the universe.
I think I saw a puff of smoke come out from under Diane's headphones as her mind was totally blown! LOL! Great video Girl!
I heard plants like to sing, they mostly listen to Neptunes
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This was really fun to watch and learn about the size of everything.
I live away from large cities and the night sky is crowded with stars. I get the feeling of humility when I use a telescope to observe the universe.
Lucky 😞 I wish I could do that
I've seen this video countless times and it is still impressive. I usually play it for my anatomy students to give them a perspective on what they are studying.
And a bacteriophage is a virus that infects bacteria.
“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.” ― Carl Sagan | Great reaction, Diane. 👍
Imagine some beings far out in the universe able to see our tiny planet and wondering if there’s life on it. 🤯
Imagine! What if they know but we’re too insignificant to bother with 😱
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If they're reasonably close (in galactic terms) they may well already know we're here. They could possibly detect artificial lights on the night side, and they could do what the JWST has already done with a couple of exoplanets-determine the composition of the atmosphere. If they saw the relatively high concentration of Oxygen, that would raise eyebrows (or whatever the alien equivalent is). Molecular oxygen will react with almost everything, so it would come down to two things: Really exotic non-organic chemistry, or life forms constantly pumping out oxygen that went out of the atmosphere reacting with iron, copper, or other stuff.
I just love that the blurb for the UK is "The place where all the tea is" 😆
Things like this are mind-blowing. If you have about 45 minutes, there is a UA-cam video called "Riding Light - Traversing the Solar System at the Speed of Light". The video is as if you are a light particle leaving the surface of the Sun. It takes you out to just past Jupiter and shows just how long it takes light from the Sun to pass different planets and other solar system objects. It really illustrates just how huge our own solar system is much less anything beyond it in interstellar space.
If nobody else explained it, a "Buckey Ball" is a somewhat naturally occouring molecule of pure carbon. It is named after Buckminster Fuller, an architect who advocated geodesic domes.
Thank you for your reaction and, as always, a great video.
- Yes, I agree - I don´t think the majority of people can visualize the scale or how much smaller/larger the things are. Because we don´t encounter them in our lives, besides in simulations like this one. For e.g. it´s easier for me to visualize the airplane and the Eiffel tower, because I have seen those in real life, compared to the Empire state building, a planck-length or Betelgeuse which I have not seen in real life.
- If you want to see the differences in size in another way, there is a video named "Universe Size Comparison 3D". This present the objects side by side.
- I noticed you mentioned your hair in the end of the video, so I will give some positive feedback. Your hair looks great and so do you.
Take care and have a great day!
Br //M
These videos are always mind blowing, super cool
Buckyballs are molecules of buckminsterfullerene, which has sixty carbon atoms arranged as shown in the video. Their arrangement is the same as that of the vertices of a soccer ball. The chemical was named for R. Buckminster Fuller, known for popularizing the geodesic dome, and other stuff.
I love the look on your face as you discover the little known dwarf about planets in our solar system, there are about 20 of them including Sedna, Ceres.
Omg I literally just watched this and was wishing that someone reacted to it, and now BOOM! This video
Kind of reminds me of those posts "Americans will use any unit of measurement to avoid using the metric system." Sometimes showing relative size compared to known objects is very useful.
Happy Monday! I really enjoy this video. Have a very good week.
Thanks you too Greg
Your work is a blessing to all of us, Diane. Thank you for sharing the best of what you know about. And thank you for your helpful thoughts.
Work?!
Another thing that's helped me grasp the sheer size of the universe is the implications of light-distances. Latter 20th century science fiction films and shows tended to treat light speed as super duper fast, the way to move between star systems. (Yes I know Star Wars technically uses "hyperspace", but the early movies called it "light speed" in the dialog, so that's how audiences would think of it.)
But in reality, light speed, the Cosmic Speed Limit, the fastest it's physically possible to traverse through space, is still depressingly slow next to the scale of space. The Sun is 8 light minutes away; a magical light speed space ship would take 8 minutes to reach it. The nearest star would take about 4 years to reach. The light from the Andromeda Galaxy we can see left the galaxy while non-avian dinosaurs were still around.
Don't feel small Diane. My part of the Universe loves watching your part of the Universe Diane. You are a Special and Important part of the Universe.
Absolutely fascinating. Near the end I realized my mouth had been hanging open through most of this. The more I think I understand about existence, the less I realize I do.
Our minds are blown by the size and scope of the universe. ED’s mind is blown by the possibility she’s feeling optimistic. Existential crises abound.
To quote Douglas Adams.
Space is big, I mean really big. really big. Space is so vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big that the majority of it simply cannot fit into the human imagination.
Your expression during this whole process of the video was priceless👀 However in the sheer magnitude of this video if this is 100% true - WOW we are literally nothing and mean even less 🤣
You can barely grasp what was being shown. The magnitude of the cosmos is mind blowing. Really puts us in perspective how tiny we are compared to everything else.
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In Ancient Greece, Anaximander suggested “apeiron” referring to how big the universe must be. The Greek word “apeiron” means without limit in time and space, suggesting the universe is boundless. In other words, infinite. This makes perfect sense to me. Since things exist, there must be no limit to existence and existence must be limitless. So I think there’s that the so called “big bang” was the “beginning” of “everything”. Meanwhile, evolutionarily, the odds of us being here, not to mention being here as humans, is unbelievably small, yet here we are. That renders us individually and collectively responsible for consciously choosing to always educating and informing ourselves and each other scientifically and to abandon our archaic, outdated, untrue, primitive superstitions and fairytales and fearmongering. You only fear something if you don’t understand it or don’t know about it. When barrier is crossed, new possibilities open that you likely haven’t even imagined before. Only a few centuries ago we didn’t even know kat if what we know about the universe today. Going back to Ancient Greece which no longer exists, all those great philosophers didn’t know anywhere near what the average person knows today thanks to the enlightenment reformations and the industrial as well as technological revolutions, breakthroughs and discoveries.
Back to cosmos, I still think the universe has no beginning or end, and is ultimately exempt from time. So there was never a creation. Only evolution. And we as an ape species are but one amongst possibly countless others that are intelligent enough to compose and comprise entire civilisations, regardless of their levels and scales. And there’s no way any species is the so called “center of the universe”. So don’t be self absorbent!
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I've been to Meteor Crater. It's one of the few things in this world that's actually as big as you think it will be.
Not sure if this helps visualizing the size of things, but the spacecraft that's furthest is Voyager 1 launched in 1977. By most measures, it has left the Solar System and is in interstellar space. It's about 22 light hours from Earth, compared to the observable Universe's diameter of 93,000,000,000 light _years._ When you said we're an insignificant part of the Universe, you weren't lying.
And as immense as it is, it's statistically impossible that we are alone in it.
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I remember when I had my mind blown by an astrophysics class at University of Houston years ago. That was when they thought there were only 100 million stars in the galaxy and maybe a hundred million galaxies, now they believe it to be in the billions for both numbers; this basically makes it mathematically impossible for us to be alone in this universe. This humbling realization means Earth is not even a grain of sand on the cosmic Beach, it is more like our galaxy which is the grain of sand.
What's interesting is after the observable universe it kept zooming out into the void further with no description meaning the possibility could be endless of how far reality can extend.
Look at you making us all contemplate our insignificance on a Monday. Enjoy the rest week everybody!😆
The observable universe picture is the baby picture from when the universe was only about 380,000 years old and there are no planets or stars. There is an episode of How the universe works that talks about the end/edge of things like our solar system, our galaxy, etc. When it comes to the universe. We can only see as far as the speed of light will let us. Every time you look into the sky you are looking into history as far back as billions of years and that is how they got baby pictures of the universe. At one point in time the Universe expanded quicker that the speed of light. That's not quite an accurate way of explaining it but close enough.
First video I seen of the universe in 3D infinite space with your reaction even better. There's also infinite smallness in the universe needing a microscope. In the bloopers reel that's how my long hair tends to look. Happy Monday Diane.
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I'd recommend you watch "Deep Field: The Impossible Magnitude of our Universe" featuring a jaw-dropping score by Eric Whitacre. (Unfortunately UA-cam has to be their money grubbing selves and wedge some ads in there. But you can download the video off of iTunes. It cost me $1.49 in the US, and I doubt it's much more in Ireland; it's WELL worth it.) It really takes off about about the 11:27 mark, and just after 15 minutes, you may feel like you've been blown out the back of the room. Oh, and if you're in a house (or have VERY understanding neighbors), I recommend you watch on the biggest monitor possible and turn it up LOUD.
(And remember, at the 17 minute mark, EVERYTHING you see in the picture is a separate galaxy.)
Well that was nice to share with you...and it certainly puts one's "ego" in check.
Very cool video! We’re just a little speck of dust in the universe. It’s hard to think we’re the only beings out there. 🤯
Thanks for sharing this. Have a great week! ❤️U☘️🇮🇪🇺🇸
Right!? 👽 glad you enjoyed it
It finally happened. Bizarro world! DJ & ED switched places. Dogs and cats living together!! What’s next now that we know how small we really are??? Oh well we can always hope for a new UA-cam video from the best Irish creator soon!!!! Thanks for watching this cool video Diane. Even if it is a reaction video I enjoyed it. Always curious to see what videos creators watch. Oh and your hair always looks nice. I think it was the bizarre switch that did it. ;-)
Thanks for reacting to it Diane!
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I believe the Empire State Building was the tallest in the world when it was built. It was surpassed a long time ago.
Max Planck was a physicist who, among other things, figured out the smallest length that can possibly be measured (I'm oversimplifying, but I don't want to write an essay here). That distance is now called the Planck length. There are a bunch of other units named after him, including the Planck time, which is how long it takes light in a vacuum to travel one Planck length. The Planck units are interesting because they're based on the physical properties of the universe, instead of some arbitrary measure (like the meter or the second). For most purposes, though, the Planck units are at a scale that's not useful for most things. Mostly they're too small, although some Planck units are too big.
A bucky ball is a molecule of carbon atoms that are arranged like the intersection points in a geodesic dome. It's named for Buckminster Fuller, who invented the geodesic dome. Soot has bucky balls in it.
A bacteriophage is a type of virus that infects bacteria. The ending "-phage" means "eat," so a bacteriophage is a bacteria eater.
The Hyperion redwood (the world's tallest tree) is in California, which also has the world's most massive tree (the General Sherman giant sequoia), and the world's oldest tree (the Methuselah bristlecone pine, which is over 4850 years old).
The Empire State Building was the tallest building in the world for almost forty years, until the World Trade Center was built in 1970.
The Planck length is just a length that you get if you combine the fundamental constants of nature in such a way that you get a length. It is not necessarily the smallest length possible.
The vertices of a buckyball are the same as the vertices of a soccer ball, not a geodesic dome.
I haven't been to the Hyperion redwood. I got to see the area where the Methusela tree is (the exact location is not divulged to the general public). The General Sherman is easy (which it hasn't snowed). It's about an hour and a half northeast of me and it is huge in a way that makes you say that no tree can actually be that big. At its base, the diameter is about 11m or 36 feet. It's at the point that you can't really understand how big it is unless you back away from it some. Otherwise, it's like trying to judge the size of a house by looking at the wall in one room.
You are correct to gather that we are so small and insignificant, that nothing we do matters...but you are also correct to understand, in that case, that the only things that can matter to us are what we do.
i just love space so much its so relaxing and stunning.
The size of galaxies and the like truly are beyond real comprehension.
Two things to check out after this to blow your mind are "The Galaxy" from Monty Python and the Meaning Life, and "Powers of 10", an old conceptual video that will blow you away.
The objects in the video are called the observable universe. The scientific community applies quantum mechanics just to get some inference in an attempt to theorize some aspects of the universe. The limitations of understanding and technology make everything we know about the universe speculative. Arro's comment regarding "truly humbling" is a truth which humanity must take note.
Yes, the universe is bigger than you think it is.
And you 😜
I am left wondering how effective it is showing comparisons between things most people don't recognize. By the end of the video most of the objects shown have been forgotten. There is anothervideo, considerably older, "Powers of Ten" (1977) which I think was more understandable.
But if you *really* want to understand this, you need to listen to "Yakko's Universe Song" on UA-cam.
Great hair!!!
Amazing vid. Thanks for bringing it to our attention! I also didn't realize how big the tallest tree was. Like....it is MASSIVE (compared to other trees lol, not the rest of the universe 🤪)
That shaggy hair looked great! The pulled through a hedge backwards look is always intriguing and fun. I look like Einstein first thing, straight out of bed, nothing on top but long and bushy on the sides.
To think that the Flat Earth Society still exists, time it went the way of the Dinosaurs.
Such grand and splendid space, and so far we're the only part of it that's eatablished as self-aware...
For all that massive and majestic cosmos, it's us and those like us that give it meaning.
It can be difficult to comprehend the size of the universe. And your hair is gorgeous. Beautiful natural wave. 😊
I wish i could go back in time and take more baby pictures of my kids. I have episodes of How the universe works on my DVR and I put it on low volume to fall asleep to. This is October. 9 months after the post and Venus is now the morning star. I mention that because Fun Fact --- During WW2, a battleship in the south pacific spotted an object beyond the 1000 yard range of their fire control system and fired on it at about 1 O'clock in the afternoon. They mistook Venus for one of the Japanese fire bomb balloons.
Size is relative between objects and the size that really matters is the capacity to do good vs the depth of evil. That was a very good video. Thanks Diane for sharing it. BOOP
So you’re saying “ this cow is close 🐮 … But that cow🐄 is far away”
The scale of the universe is the definition of awesome
In all of the universe, there is only one you. All of the steps in the last approximate 14 billion year's the observable universe has been in existence, and without one missed step, you were born. That doesn't make you insignificant. It makes you a bloody miracle.
The tallest tree in the world is in Redwood National Park that has the tallest and some of the most oldest trees in the world.
🌲 s are cool! We got our 🎄
And on the reverse side, the size of atoms is way smaller than you think. I like the comparisons of sizes, like if the Sun were a basketball the Earth would be a tiny bead 2mm in size and 28 meters away, the nearest star would be 60KM away! That's how fricking empty space is. We can still see that nearby star, that's how bright it is.
Amazing and a bit scary. I enjoyed that.
However I'm suprised the Jeddah Tower was used in Harry's video, because the Jeddah Tower building is only one-third complete, and no completion date is yet in sight.
The project has been delayed
and It might never get finished.
You look at all this, all these insanely massive distances and volumes.... Yes, they're obscenely large. But they are literally 0% of infinity. All of the things in this video have an end. Infinity is the most terrifying, mystifying, and beautiful concept I think humanity has ever conjured. I would love it if you made a video reacting to Numberphile (or anyone else who does a good job of it, like the "Wait But Why" blog's article on numbers above a million) explaining Graham's number. If you ever want to have an existential crisis and start to understand how thoroughly, bone-chillingly horrifying infinity is, have a look into that.
Infinity only exists in mathematics, not in reality. Nothing is infinite.
"So pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space 'cuz there's bugger-all down here on Earth." - The Galaxy Song, Eric Idle
13:42 Editor Diane is really a closet optimist, who hides behind sarcasm.
My suggestion is that:
1. the singularity before the Big Bang was all photons, and
2. that the universe was made by pair conversion where photons make electron positron pairs.
Readers challenge me with, how can you prove that?
Most of it has already been proved!
These 3 things that we know are true, support many of my ideas on the importance of photons in physics
1. Photons are outside of time and distance.
2. Photons create an electron positron pair in pair conversion. ( During extreme conditions photons can create proton, anti proton pairs; and neutron, anti neutron pairs).
3. Should all the mass be converted to energy, we would have a universe of photons.
You caught me in the middle of a smaller scale video that documents the construction of the Alaskan Highway by the US Army Corps of Engineers from the US through Canada to Fairbanks, Alaska which though only 1,500 miles long (approximately 2,400 kilometers) was still an amazing engineering feat.
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@@DianeJennings I’ll post the link to Patreon.
Last year my teen son had his first existential crisis after watching this. He STILL says it stole his innocence!
13:45 Yeah, without faster-than-light travel most of the universe is simply out of reach. For a species that enjoys exploration so much, this really drives it home that we are going to be on this little blue dot for quite some time.
Perhaps we will start to take care of it as if we are staying, not just passing through. This is the home to our entire species, not a cheap motel.
That was intense yet for me, relaxing. thanks Diane.🌎🌍🌏My scientist hubby loves this.
The size of the universe is incredible I just can't get my head around it.🤯😵💫🌌🪐🌞
One of the ways of looking at it is with one's mouth open and the other is studdering "ga, ga, ga" rapidly. ¡¡¡WOW!!!
Fun Fact: Yesterday I had a trivia question that was covered by this video, so I got it right! Yay Universe!
I support the theory that the universe keeps growing outward in a building sphere from "the Big Bang", until it eventually meets itself and begins to compact. Tighter and tighter until it becomes infinitely small and.... another Big Bang. Around, and around she goes, Ad Infinitum.
As has been said before, there are two possibilities; either we are alone, or we are not. Both are equally terrifying! I think it highly unlikely that any intelligence capable of traversing the stars will find anything here that is unique other than the life itself. Since our biology is very likely incompatible with theirs (an assumption, to be sure) we would be of no value for food, organs or anything else that requires compatibility. Bottom line, we have nothing anyone would want that they couldn't get closer to home with far less effort, so the conquest scenario is probably more projection of human characteristics than reality...
And here we are, fighting constantly over a spec of land only slightly less inconsequential than we are. Good one for a Monday episode, or a "deep contemplation" episode on DbD. Cheers Diane(s) & Chewie
In Monty Python The Meaning Of Life Eric Idle sang a great song about hoe big the universe is.
i think what's hilarious is we literally just don't comprehend the size of even our own solar system, anything beyond that is literally a number we don't fully understand
We’re nothing but ants crawling on a speck of dirt floating through endless night 😂😂
People not understanding the distances involved, is part of the reason ufo myths are so common.
Editor Diane: "Did we switch?" LOL
Editor Diane definitely looked optimistic
Not gonna comment on your hair... okay, gonna comment on your hair... It was artistic genius on your part when after watching our existence becoming so tiny as the universe became so huge that you let your hair explode out to the orbit of Neptune. Such a beautiful orbit. 😉🤣
There I was thinking “Diane’s hair looks cute & fun today.” This video reminds me of the song Eric Idle sang in “The Meaning of Life”
Ah thanks pal!
"So, basically, you are inconsequential."
Yep...pretty much sums up the whole aspect of life as a whole...except for those who deep down believe that the universe revolves around them.
As the Hitchhikers Guide once said: "Space is Big"
I think it is beautiful. No matter how small you are, you mean something.
That is why I know we are not alone in this universe. it's pretty big.
I actually had a theory that light has a finite (limited) distance that it can travel, and if that's the case, with current technology we will not be able to study beyond the limits of the observable universe.
wow......amazing. No way we're alone in the universe.
Knowing the universe goes on infinitely, a person's brain can't deal with it. Don't try and think about it, because if you do your brain shuts down. By the way, love your hair😉
What did Jupiter say to Neptune? Hey I can see Uranus from here. 😂
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@@DianeJennings Pluto, isn’t counted as a planet anymore, which makes no sense. They should bring Pluto back as a planet.
13:38 As a wise man once said, "If nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do. 'Cause that's all there is. What we do. Now. Today."