A wire network that learns, wave-like dark matter, Mars's core & more science news from this week.
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Today we talk about wave-like dark matter, wires that learn, the core of planet mars, why quasars ignite, a superconducting highway, fabric that changes shape and colour, chemistry on a quantum computer, the Brazil nut effect, and of course, the telephone will ring.
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00:00 Intro
00:26 Wavelike Dark Matter
04:11 Wires That Learn
05:42 Mars Has a Liquid Core
07:38 How Quasars Ignite
09:28 A Superconducting Highway
11:35 Fabric That Changes Shape and Color
13:52 Chemistry on a Quantum Computer
14:55 The Brazil Nut Effect Without Shaking
16:37 Learn Science With Brilliant
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Finally, The News.
@seriousmaran9414
Жыл бұрын
And the telephone rang, nearly everyone happy 😊
@ASBOmarc
Жыл бұрын
You are not wrong, not only is it the news but it makes me happy not depressed
@InTrancedState
Жыл бұрын
The newsest news
@Ajibolaa
Жыл бұрын
Only news I care about
@gppg1799
Жыл бұрын
This lady is the most unlikely youtuber, and it makes my day evertime I see her 😂❤❤😂
Thanks Sabine for another funny and interesting look at science!
So... Dark Matter isn't just invisible, it also has random properties that change according to whatever effect you want to explain. I think this is an amazing discovery with an unlimited amount of applications. For example: next time I'm late for an appointment I can perfectly explain this with Dark Matter having a bad day.
@anarchisttechsupport6644
Жыл бұрын
I keep hearing rumors about Dark Matter being based on Newtonian physics applied at a Relativistic scale (measuring the mass of galaxies/the universe) where some Brazilian paper made it almost entirely disappear by using a Relativistic model.
@mitch_the_-itch
Жыл бұрын
Invisible things can still interact with matter. How does Dark Matter interact with our Universe?
@KaiHenningsen
Жыл бұрын
@@anarchisttechsupport6644 I dunno, that description makes pretty close to zero sense to me. The way to measure mass distribution in a galaxy cluster is to figure out a model that replicates the effect of gravitational lensing through that cluster. That model is based on general relativity (gravitational lenses come from general relativity). I don't see where you'd use Newtonian physics there, nor what you'd want with relativistic effects. Maybe you mean the galaxy rotation thing? But again, it's unclear to me how relativistic effects would help in that context. General relativity is our current theory of gravity, and until you're looking at gravity strong enough to create frame dragging, I don't know of any gravity effects you could reasonably call relativistic. Maybe there's something I don't know, but I thought I understood at least the basics reasonably well. Now if you're talking about theories that try to explain this stuff with "modified gravity", all bets are off, because you're essentially inventing your own formulas at that stage, with - as far as I can tell - the only idea that it has to reproduce the galaxy rotation thing. I haven't heard if anyone managed to explain lensing effects through a cluster that way. Or maybe the idea is modified gravity for galaxies and dark matter for more irregular effects like those lensing effects? Sounds a bit arbitrary to me.
@daarom3472
Жыл бұрын
Aa the Architect said about Dark Matter: "Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of physics."
@scribebat
Жыл бұрын
@@mitch_the_-itch 'Dark Matter' is supposed to interact gravitationally with the universe but, as deGrasse Tyson pointed out, 'Dark Matter' should be called 'Dark Gravity', since a discrepancy in observed apparent gravitational force from what is predicted by present physics is thus far the only measurable evidence we have for the existence of any such thing as 'Dark Matter'. 'Dark Matter' got proposed as an explanation for that discrepancy. The data never lies but between the data and the interpretation falls the shadow.
Gobbledygook must be a wave-like crinkle too, the Mexican wave is a good example.
I loved that quote "the future may be brighter than you think"
This is what the world needs, knowledge and humor. Thank you for your work❤
@jollyjokress3852
Жыл бұрын
both equally important
"The future may be brighter than you thought." Sabine, you could have a second career as a standup comic. Only you can make physics that funny. Also love your skeptical nature and sensitive bullshit meter. You are definitely my favorite physicist of all time.
@bobdalton2062
Жыл бұрын
Future is so bright, i gotta wear shades!
@user-kj7om9wz4p
Жыл бұрын
Hear, hear!
@TheSuszarka
Жыл бұрын
That was brilliant 🤣
@Brian_L_A
Жыл бұрын
@@TheSuszarka Outch!
@ICreatedU1
Жыл бұрын
Aww, came for this, beat me to it. Clever joke indeed.
Im a simple guy that barley understands much or retains much. But listening and watching all the information possible, relative to my interests. You my dear, have caught my attention enough to add you to my regular information binge Your comedic and thorough attitude towards the future is inspiring. 🤘👍
The brazil nut effect - isn’t that the same effect that forces you clear the potato field for rocks, year after year? No matter how many rocks you clear, new ones pop up next year?
@andyf4292
Жыл бұрын
nah, thats the Elves, obviously
Before watching the video, I mention to my mathematics and quantum mechanics loving 17 that a new paper suggests that dark matter acts like waves. His response? “Oh really? I’ve read a lot of papers on dark matter and they’ve all been wrong.” I roll my eyes and then watch Sabine. Guess he was right again.
11:30 "maybe Elon will be interested" *looks profoundly at the phone* had me LAUGHING 😂😂😂
@Thomas-gk42
Жыл бұрын
Maybe he was just working on a sponsor contract with Sabine
Ok so in my memory this is a pretty small 50k science channel. So when did you get to almost a million??? Congrats you deserve it but i genuinely did not notice this channel explode!
@baileescott401
Жыл бұрын
She reached 500K a year ago.
@tostupidforname
Жыл бұрын
@@baileescott401 yeah i think i subscribed in like 2021 or something and idk just didnt notice ig
@SabineHossenfelder
Жыл бұрын
yes I'm not sure what happened there
@Thomas-gk42
Жыл бұрын
@@SabineHossenfelder perhaps a brand new music video for the millionth?
@DirkThys
Жыл бұрын
@@SabineHossenfelder I know what happened: you're good, and you kept up your high standards and finally people started to notice
That highway sounds as legitimate as the old "solar freakin roadways".
@MetalheadAndNerd
Жыл бұрын
Or the hyperloop. That's why she immediately asked Elon.
I am so glad to have found your channel, Sabine. It has been a year of learning and laughter. Thank you for your excellence!
Superconducting highways needs to be nominated for the ignobel awards
Starting to love these weekly updates as much as deep dives - on topic, educational, and sabiney (adj., being similar or related to Sabine)
The Brazil Nut effect, for me, was observed and understood as a child... in my Lego bin lol.
Density driven gravity by Wesley Schouw
@animationAI
Жыл бұрын
I have seen this. Excellent!
Wow. You do such a great job explaining esoteric papers. Shows a true knowledge of the science you talk about. Super valuable. Thank you.
The glass nano wire network and how they are using it reminds me exactly of the wizards' computer at the Unseen University at Ankh Morpork in Terry Pratchett's Disc World series. I'll lay odds that the scientists at play here can tell you where the counter-weight continent is, too.
Back when my dad was still alive, I tried to explain what I did in Computer Science. He thought about it for a bit, and came up with: "computers are just a bunch of tiny wires". I wish he were alive to see this video.
I am ready for this weeks Science News!!
I do so enjoy what you do, Sabine - thank you for your time! ❤❤
I have to hope that superconducting highway paper was published on the 1st April.
Wow those metal wire 'neutrons' are fantastic. Thanks for sharing 👍🏼
I loved the chancellor call bit. You could do a “isn’t chancellor the bad guy from Star Wars” bit…
I continue enjoying your new format of science news weekly, please keep up the good work.
Love the humor and content. Thank you Sabine.
1:52 Dark Matter with Ketchup
I love that you don't just categorically accept that dark matter must exist. It may, it may not, we're still unsure, and you communicate that uncertainty where no other science communicator will. Such a relief that at least one person is allowing for the possibility that the theory could be wrong.
@Thomas-gk42
Жыл бұрын
A brave mind
That is brilliant how you just slide into the commercial at the end :)
Oh... Super fast cars that the drivers can't steer? Brilliant! Thanks, Sabine! 😊 Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
"The future may be brighter than you thought". Great one.
Re: the nanowire network, I think it’s fascinating how complex systems naturally (so it seems) form this type of structure, such as the brain’s neural network, galaxy filaments, tree root systems, and so on. It’s a seemingly efficient structure to pass on information and resources (plant nutrients, hydrogen, etc.) Very cool!
@valdisandersons129
Жыл бұрын
Do tree roots form a network though? To me it looks more like an upside down tree structure that doesn’t have links between parallel nodes.
@inthefade
Жыл бұрын
The shortest distances between points.
@fandomguy8025
Жыл бұрын
Creating connections between things is simply how things work when you boil everything down.
Thank you for the news.
Wow, Happy to see you
Entertaining and informative as always Sabine!
Thanks, that's a much needed, scientifically solid hope about a bright future.
"Spacetime crinkles" sound like a breakfast cereal for astrophysicists, you just need a big enough bowl and pour just a portion of the milky-way. But the French fries with catsup joke was better than mine.
First time watching...LOVE IT! 🎉
thank you for your time and persistence
Maglev highways will be the new fly paper for forest creatures
So good, I'm loving these
They did a simple quantum chemical calulation on both a quantum and a convential computer and received lots of funding - congrats!
that was the best transition to brilliant you put down here:D funny as always, and sharp as a samoerai sword, respect sabine!
Cracking stuff, Sabina.
Jetzt habe ich gelernt, wie "Memory" auf Englisch heißt. Das wird mir garantiert auf ewig im Gedächtnis bleiben.
Your intro to the Brilliant ad was inspired. But I thought you were introducing your new GPT-4/Wolfram physics course! ❤
Thank you for another fascinating video!
Sabine, du bist nach wie vor meine Go-To Quelle für diesbezügliches. Cheers from cloudy Vienna, Scott
Another interesting video 👍. Not sure about the transitions though
Amazing content as always, Sabine. Would you consider doing a video on mycorrhizal networks? There seem to be some controversy about the topic currently, as the original study was published in a questionably scientific way, and it even became the basis for the highest grossing movie ever. It'd be interesting to know the reality behind the "talking trees" theory.
@Robert-er5wq
Жыл бұрын
Also it has an effect on the phosphate retention (as I have learnt from a TED talk). Quite important considering the discussion around 'peak phosphorus'
@ExecutiveChefLance
Жыл бұрын
Its no Theory its Fact. But talking trees? ahh what? 80% of all Plant Life HAS to have Fungal counterpart or else it will die. As most plants cannot Fix Nitrogen. Fungi just naturally form "networks" its what they do. The networks are the Fungus Body essentially. We call these Hyphae. This strand filament looking things that are quite similar looking to a Brain. Now do they respond to pressures and react spreading out Nutrients and other stuff? Yes. Talking? Meh. You get a Cut. Swelling Occurs. Your body singled other areas to bring in stuff to help. That is what is happening. Weird Analogy but this Evolution Strategy, using each Piece or "End" or your body to relay information well to the whole. Instead of relying on the Whole's Features for that information. Is exactly like how Napoleon won so many battles. He created smaller Cores and gave them more leverage to act on information. Which is far more efficient. We also do that to a smaller extent. You foot tells your brain it hurts.
The superconductor highway is absolutely vacuous. You might as well replace the entire network with high speed rail at that point; I don't understand why they think making each car a mini maglev and retrofitting the entire highway system is more efficient than just expanding and upgrading the rail system. Completely bonkers.
Danke für die News!
Ma'am. Thank. You. You're way of breaking down the terms so it's easier to understand for those who only had high school level sciences? -chefs kiss- I greatly appreciate it. Adding in your lovely humor, sarcasm and accent, I LOVE spotting a weekly news update ❤ It's also a fun way for me to keep up with new topics and scientific findings. No idea that maglev cars would have potentially been possible, but contemplating it... the idea of freezing to the road brings to mind more wildlife issues.... And what happens if a car "falls off" the road? Would need fully automated cars to attempt adjustments at that speed. 🤘🖖🖒🖒🖒
It’s the tune that haunts you all week! 👍
Love the hot air joke. Never gets old :)
Iliked the superconductor idea
Great show & content! Will be watching all your past & future vids. Entertaining & informative, keep it up Sabine.
Another great video. Keep it up
@path1024
Жыл бұрын
You're keeping me up.
Sabine, I find your sense of humor refreshing. I'm just a regular human with some interest in science, yet I find dark energy and dark matter to be constructs by humans that are unable to understand our true nature of the universe. We are learning so much over the years yet we seem not to understand the most basic and fundamental aspects of our universe. Over our lifetime we have gone from the Atom being the smallest thing and it being a smaller model of the solar system, to quantum fields and particles popping in and out of existence from where? I doubt very much that we will ever find out in my lifetime what the true nature of our existence is. Right now I'm in the great state of Utah looking at a large reservoir of water being blown by the wind. The sun is reflecting off of the surface of the water and Waves. There are some white caps on the top from the wind. It reminds me of a video I recently saw about quantum fields. Is there such a thing? And is it a particle or wave? What's real? And what really is real? And then there's time.... Used to be time was just something that passed or like the flow of water down a river.. now it's tied into gravity and space and particles and Fields and, truthfully it can make my head hurt. I appreciate you making the pain a little less with your knowledge and the way you present it. Thanks!
Finally, Brazil mentioned🎉🎉🎉
You crack me up. Thanks Sabine.
Another great video
Interesting and mind boggling as always.
Thanks for this! Best dead-pan comedy of matters of science ever. A few cold buckets of realism thrown provide perspective.
Thanks for the video :)
Thank you
Love it when you get sarcastic. I really do.
She was excellent in this video. The knowledge transfer was great and the humor was top of line.
Does the Brazilian nut phenomenon allow for seperation of charges this way as well? Wouldn't this then be practically free energy (probably not, for physics reasons) if they just return to the ordered state just like that what then would allow to extract the potential energy again?
This is the best news channel in existence, full of facts, no culture wars..... perfect. Thank you Sabine.
Hilarious episode this week, thank you! 🤣
Thx Sabine!
Love you Sabine! 🥰
Everything I want to know about, brilliantly communicated! Thank you Sabine!
Me, a swedish person: We have a quantum computer??
Just amazing. ...
Sabine, you might be a good match for Dr. Sheldon Cooper. Seriously, I love your work here. You teach us things in a way that is understandable to the common man. Thank you.
Thanks!
Who knew physics could provide so many insights into the puzzling problems of the day! Thanks Sabine!
Thanks for the video Dr. Much appreciated. Your sense of humour is also greatly appreciated. 😂
@_John_Sean_Walker
Жыл бұрын
I've heard someone call her Hossenpfeffer, but Dr. Much is new to me.
@LeandroSilva08
Жыл бұрын
@@_John_Sean_Walker 🤣 I was here thinking: "wth is he talking about?" It took me some seconds to realize 🤣
@_John_Sean_Walker
Жыл бұрын
@@LeandroSilva08 😂
Thanks Sabine
The "Computer Chronicles" 1980's intro music always gets my attention :-)
OMG i nearly died laughing about your comment on the old box of cables soon good to enrol in college 😂😂 Love it
Your deadpan jokes get me every time !😂
"The future may be brighter than you thought." LOL! GOOD ONE!
I really dig your humour @sabine. Im off to start saving for a college fund for my box of wires.
There is a road in the northern territory. Of Australia called Sabine Road And that my dear is one reason I subscribe to your channel The other reason is your superb content , thank you for your effort
Using liquid H2 as a superconducter for highways gives me the image of icy roads in the middle of a sweltering August ;-)
My bracelet is turning blue, oho I must be running a 60°C fever
The Brazil Nut experiment was actually pretty interesting.
Thank you for your work. Helps to become a bit smarter every week. What about your approach of superfluid DM, does it fit the data?
@SabineHossenfelder
Жыл бұрын
No, it doesn't, but it's also not my approach, I just worked on it for some while. Recent paper here arxiv.org/abs/2303.08560
@Thomas-gk42
Жыл бұрын
@@SabineHossenfelder Thank you, I'm sure you worked hard on it, all the best
@AquarianSoulTimeTraveler
Жыл бұрын
@@SabineHossenfelder the crinkles are darkmatter higher density formations. Yes i agree saying wave like implies particle. Black holes have emissions of non baryonic matter... they are folding over 3d string membranes into hooks (aka non baryonic matter) or ripping them... blackhole at center of galaxy is constantly emmiting this non baryonic matter this the search for darkmatter particle is a waste of time and money... doesn't exist. Accelerating expansion past speed of light at any point is illusion... i recently created a new theory about a toroidal universe... in this universe you have regular light speed and negative light speed and can allow basically illusion of faster than light expansion up to 2x lightspeed... past that has to fundamentally be a illusion.
@AquarianSoulTimeTraveler
Жыл бұрын
@@Thomas-gk42 hey Samoht
@AquarianSoulTimeTraveler
Жыл бұрын
@@SabineHossenfelder btw software is still physical... its electrical signals which is physical... binary is physical.
I swear just yesterday I watched a science video on recent ideas of dark matter that suggested that it was particles and not waves. Which is it? We don't know. Does it even exist? We don't know. This is why I enjoy this channel so much. Sabine calls it like it is, and not like some who claim that dark matter has been proven to exist.
@undercoveragent9889
Жыл бұрын
I have been wondering lately; how many photons are traveling through intergalactic space. Every star in every galaxy is literally pouring photon energy into space and given that E=mc^2, all those photons are equivalent to a certain amount of mass. How can a real scientist simply ignore all of that matter/energy that is agglomerating in deep space? The number of photons traveling through space is increasing _all_ the time. The number _never_ goes down. They call it 'dark matter/energy' but in fact, it is photons. I take the view that science died on 9/11 after a protracted illness and Sabine is almost unique in the sense that she possesses the qualities of a true scientist despite the demise of science.
Our galaxy could become a quasar, so...”the future may be brighter than we thought”. That’s a Sabine-ism, lol
Ah, Dark Wave... great memories :)
The maglev-hydrogen transport is super old ! people were talking about hydrogen+superconducting wires for energy transport 10+ years ago
When dealing with spheres, using radius often confuses people greatly due to the Pi*r-cubed ratio. Adding the volume is more helpful. A core with 1800km radius has a volume of 2.44×10^10 cubic km. A core with 3600km radius has a volume of 1.95×10^11cubic km! So, while the radius is double for Earth, the volume is 8 times larger.
"Round trip...a lot of money to go nowhere!" jajaja! Funny!
I wonder if that shape changing fabric could be used to monitor various parameters of water in Aquariums ?