An Astrophysicist's Top 10 Unsolved Mysteries

Ғылым және технология

There are a lot of unknowns in space but here are my top 10 unanswered questions. Go to brilliant.org/DrBecky and sign up for free. The first 200 people that go to that link will get 20% off the annual premium subscription.
Here's my top 10 in no particular order, let me know in the comments if you think I've missed anything!
1. What’s inside a black hole?
2. What’s the Universe expanding into?
3. What is dark energy?
4. What’s dark matter made of?
5. Where is all the antimatter?
6. What happened in the first 10^-43 seconds of the Universe?
7. What came first: the galaxy or the black hole?
8. What causes fast radio bursts?
9. Why does the Sun’s magnetic field flip?*
10. Does life exist on other planets?
* See pinned comment below on possible explanation of this due to planetary alignments. Note this is still a hypothesis, not an accepted theory so this question still remains on my list.
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  • @DrBecky
    @DrBecky4 жыл бұрын

    A few of you have pointed out that Anton Petrov (and recently SciShow Space) did a video on a possible explanation for the 11-year solar cycle to do with the alignment of Venus-Earth-Jupiter every 11 years or so. That idea comes from a paper that was published last year that looked into a few other explanations for the cycle as well, but it's still only a hypothesis, not a fully accepted theory, so I've still included "Why does the Sun's magnetic field flip every 11 years?" in my list. Here's Anton's video explaining the alignment hypothesis in more detail: kzread.info/dash/bejne/pnaHxduiiazOg5c.html And SciShow Space's video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/hK2N2pSHqqmqpbw.html And here's the journal article that this idea came from: arxiv.org/pdf/1803.08692.pdf

  • @arctic_haze

    @arctic_haze

    4 жыл бұрын

    I do not think that paper closed the matter. There is still the problem of missing mechanism of turning the minuscule gravitational changes into visible changes of the Sun magnetic field activity.

  • @oldmansolo572

    @oldmansolo572

    4 жыл бұрын

    Dr. Becky that as very nice of you to mention Anton who I also watch and enjoy. I watch both your presentations with an open mind and at 63 I guess I'm not sharp enough to have noticed any conflict between yours and his content.....I'm just agog at all of it....

  • @Jake12220

    @Jake12220

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@arctic_haze miniscule on a human scale but quite large on a mass the size of the sun. Same as we don't notice the change in gravity from the moon, but the effects are clearly seen on the ocean.

  • @arctic_haze

    @arctic_haze

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Jake12220 Gravitational forces work per mass unit making the Sun mass argument meaningless. Sorry.

  • @8948380

    @8948380

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@arctic_haze Jupiter does a lot of gravitational damage compared to the other planets, and paired with venus and earth the effect will be increased

  • @SrinivasanAnanth
    @SrinivasanAnanth4 жыл бұрын

    Happy birthday! What's inside a black hole is a 3D library-like tesseract created by 5D beings so that an unsuspecting human who falls into it can communicate with his daughter.

  • @tehbonehead

    @tehbonehead

    4 жыл бұрын

    I'm planning to travel to the Mexico City Public Library and shout "DON'T LET ME GO, MURPH!!!" I'm hoping someone gets it, but I'll probably just be arrested...

  • @lyreparadox

    @lyreparadox

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@tehbonehead Be sure to get it on video!

  • @tehbonehead

    @tehbonehead

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@lyreparadox I'll see what I can do. ;)

  • @wiseguy8828

    @wiseguy8828

    4 жыл бұрын

    Every black hole has its own Matthew McConaughey

  • @skaphanatic5657

    @skaphanatic5657

    4 жыл бұрын

    Contact, Interstellar, etc...

  • @aner_bda
    @aner_bda4 жыл бұрын

    After no. 1 I was expecting a different clip of "No one knows." after each question. I was not disappointed. 😄

  • @davidlafleche1142

    @davidlafleche1142

    3 жыл бұрын

    They missed one: What was the exact cause of the famous Tunguska Explosion?

  • @orsemcore

    @orsemcore

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@davidlafleche1142 no one really questions that

  • @annapmark536

    @annapmark536

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@davidlafleche1142 One: nobody can say for sure since it happened 100 years ago in a remote area so there were very few witnesses back then. The situation could have been similar to Chelyabinsk Meteor with a bigger meteor. Two: this unsolved mystery is the only thing that keeps local forests from falling the victim to deforestation that would harm them way more the explosion did. So it'd be better to leave it as it is.

  • @davidlafleche1142

    @davidlafleche1142

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@annapmark536 "Deforestation" occurs much more quickly through fires than by man. There is absolutely nothing wrong with harvesting trees, since doing so would drastically reduce the recurrence of forest fires. All we have to do is plant saplings to replace them.

  • @seancostello26

    @seancostello26

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@davidlafleche1142 factual, but hard for some people to comprehend. Removing deadwood forests would greatly reduce the burden on our forest firefighters, which has steadily increased in the last 2 decades

  • @k0chum
    @k0chum2 жыл бұрын

    Oh my god, I just recently found your channel and subscribed because I am pursuing a physics degree with dreams of being an astrophysicist and- I just watched this and we have the same exact take on extraterrestrial life. I just posted this long blurb on Reddit about this exact thing. I really needed the little pep talk at the end, wow. Thank you

  • @rosellabill

    @rosellabill

    Жыл бұрын

    Her books are great also.

  • @yavorshopov7958
    @yavorshopov79582 жыл бұрын

    Luv your podcast ,listening to it all day,every day at work ,all episodes at least a dozen times!Keep up the great work feeding our curiosity

  • @Allan_aka_RocKITEman
    @Allan_aka_RocKITEman3 жыл бұрын

    _"DIVIDE BY ZERO"_ sounds like a great name for a band...😉

  • @ZlothZloth

    @ZlothZloth

    3 жыл бұрын

    Rock bands love to stick it to authority figures. Most play their songs in 4 4 time, some in 3 4, a few in 5 8... we play in pi zero time. We stick it to the underpinnings of reality itself!

  • @mr.brazilian5167

    @mr.brazilian5167

    3 жыл бұрын

    Tbh that sounds like a threat

  • @Shifter-1040ST
    @Shifter-1040ST4 жыл бұрын

    Aliens: "It's never earthers."

  • @jjhhandk3974

    @jjhhandk3974

    4 жыл бұрын

    Haha

  • @davidlafleche1142

    @davidlafleche1142

    3 жыл бұрын

    How about "The Honeyearthers" (Stan Freberg).

  • @jjhhandk3974

    @jjhhandk3974

    3 жыл бұрын

    Flatearther

  • @KatorNia

    @KatorNia

    3 жыл бұрын

    Another Alien: - Earthlings don't exist dude! How would they survive on a flat planet with no gravity? & that "Voyager 1 probe" that supposedly bumped that millionaire's spacecar in orbit was a hoax. Please, do yourself a favor & learn some Astrology before speaking about these serious matters. 😒 - Marslings on the other hand... those *do* exist! They like building pyramids & sculpting faces in the desert you know. Them funny little green tripedal dudes... 😊

  • @robinhodson9890

    @robinhodson9890

    2 жыл бұрын

    Earthers, are also aliens, to aliens.

  • @eamonia
    @eamonia2 жыл бұрын

    You've done it again, Doc. This might be one of my new favorite videos on KZread. Thanks for all your hard work, we all greatly appreciate it :)

  • @phillipcuff9410
    @phillipcuff94102 жыл бұрын

    I love watching your clips. Love how excited you get talking about space. It’s nice

  • @noelwalterso2
    @noelwalterso23 жыл бұрын

    Can't believe KZread decided to stuff an advert for a magical good luck bracelet into the middle of your excellent video.

  • @OnoShinosMadeeqTuusmal

    @OnoShinosMadeeqTuusmal

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@shanesunshine1245 ❤️ u know me so well

  • @jonnytheboy7338

    @jonnytheboy7338

    3 жыл бұрын

    That's why ( at the start) I drag the cursor to the end and re-start the video ... Pushing the evil youtube algorithm into the void

  • @FrazerKirkman

    @FrazerKirkman

    3 жыл бұрын

    I hope you reported it.

  • @Inferiis

    @Inferiis

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@shanesunshine1245 I kinda doubt they are personalized. Why would I get a rocket defense system? (and why are they advertising it anyway?)

  • @sleekoduck

    @sleekoduck

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@shanesunshine1245 it's based on your zip code. I keep getting ads for fast food restaurants and I almost never go to them, I'm kind of a foodie and have a weak stomach to boot. I even went into my settings and asked not to see ads for them. Nothing worked.

  • @simonbox5687
    @simonbox56874 жыл бұрын

    I am feeling very restless at this moment and space videos always calm me down. So, Thanks.

  • @DrBecky

    @DrBecky

    4 жыл бұрын

    Glad I could help 👍

  • @asashoryuLapisphilosophorum

    @asashoryuLapisphilosophorum

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@DrBecky hi there greetings, have a nice birthday, congrets later, when is it this week??? ???? Here 1 or 2 answers, ultra dark spheres are packet up to the Planck length, would be the question if even packed under the Planck length, and they are none black i guess, or glowing black Dark energy is the room the energy from two colliding universes, so called big bang, explores into, time and room is just the moment on its way, past should be just ashes and the future , the before, is 2 different rooms, Ps there must be a big lump of the second universe, somewhere? , hitchhike to the end of the univers, its the compressed second universe, would gues end of reality and next reality is the bounceback if this second universe, critically compressed it should big bang too, or it was a compact smal universe that got fizzled out to bigger? Gravity, is movment, vibrations and none movement, the less inside moving is tried to be set in motion by the more vibrating,, the more vibrating is towards the less vibrating, none the more gravitional pulling. (A black hole doesnt suck everything inside, its the outside towards the blackhhole/ultradarksphere,, every matter, moving towards the none vibrating, I guess inside the sphere the what ever particles (strings?) got packed up onto the prelast position in space, every more packed up particle gives evergy, the rays from "blackholes" " Would guess at this moment, its brocken up into strings, first particle that fits under the Planck length) Magnetismus , Would guess the fluidpotencial of metals have an effect, (it may have the possibility to swim/vibrate itself in the room towards the magnet,? (quantum effect? Metals are overpacked with strings?) magnets are low vibrating substances,? does electricity pack the particles stuffer, in an eletromagnet? This gravity Would explain, god dammed nazis, ufo technic, Centrifuge the red mercury compresses the metal, the particles get less vibrating, gravity of this spinning metalring gets equal to the compressed metal earth core, levitation starts, would guess they have to go denser before levitation starts, it is maybe plus a weight factor itself, but this could be an effect with the room, Didnt see ufo technical datas yet, would be interesting the calculation for the point of levitation, Pps is our sun a so called white hole? The beginning of this reality didnt start on one point, the collision of the two universes, more like a lot of firecrackers??both universes burn into each other on many places??? Tetrahydron theory would say everywhere maybe. is it the product we exist in, or is reality the backdraw of this collision? We are existing in front of the explision wave,? We are the explosion wave??when we are the product we are just ashes, I gues reality is the energy wave, like the Shockwave, Crystalizing infront and pushed by the destruction itself, both universes get destroyed when collided??? Pretty sure that this reality itself moves, the complet reality, Like a wave in water, giving forward the content/information

  • @williammakepeace36

    @williammakepeace36

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@DrBeckybelated happy birthday to you. You should know better then anyone E=mc2 is a worthless equation so says your fellow scientists at sixty symbols. E2=m2c4+p2c2 (?)or put a small 0 next to the m to show its static. Now you've put my single brain cell into melt down with the black hole mountain analogy. I wish you scientists would make up your minds.x

  • @scottmuck

    @scottmuck

    4 жыл бұрын

    Simon Box same!

  • @jonatascardosodesouza8350

    @jonatascardosodesouza8350

    4 жыл бұрын

    Same!

  • @johngolding7182
    @johngolding71822 жыл бұрын

    Hi Dr Becky, why havnt I seen your videos before, your 10 unanswered questions was brilliant and easy to understand because of your choice of language and down to earth style. I will be going over all them over the next few weeks, keep them coming.

  • @sentientdesign295
    @sentientdesign295 Жыл бұрын

    Dr. Bex, we are truly blessed. You are so great at making the cosmos accessible, really can't sing your praises high enough.

  • @DanielSanchez-it1ki
    @DanielSanchez-it1ki4 жыл бұрын

    Hello Becky. A follower from Nicaragua here. I've always been a science enthusiast and now I've been taking my first steps in amateur astronomy with a small and very basic telescope during the last months. I've recently discovered this channel and I'm truly loving your videos a lot. Please keep doing them !

  • @bodilsoldeberg5412

    @bodilsoldeberg5412

    Жыл бұрын

    Que haces aca mae? 😂

  • @rosellabill

    @rosellabill

    Жыл бұрын

    @@bodilsoldeberg5412 Hi Daniel. Tell me about your science programs @ your schools. I have no idea about your Counreies programs and how they do in relation to other places near your country. Here in Canada we do not promote astronomy. But if you are interested you can learn by going to a school with an Astronomy program. But most Canadian's do not do well @ math. I love it. I cannot do formulas, but try.

  • @Stan-Ran
    @Stan-Ran3 жыл бұрын

    Becky "it's NEVER Aliens" Aliens "Hold my beer"

  • @keanfo

    @keanfo

    3 жыл бұрын

    Becky "it's NEVER Aliens" Atheists. "It's Aliens" God. "Hold my Creation"

  • @jekanyika

    @jekanyika

    3 жыл бұрын

    It's never aliens, until it is.

  • @billystokes3917

    @billystokes3917

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@keanfo Me, an atheist: Guys guys guys, clearly we're wrong! It isn't aliens. It's the ultra sophisticated, very diverse, island of lizard people that cannot be found on any map.

  • @rockstonedread

    @rockstonedread

    2 жыл бұрын

    Flat earthers: its always aliens

  • @Gunni1972

    @Gunni1972

    2 жыл бұрын

    Since we could not decipher Alien morsecode,I wonder why Dr Becky is so sure about that.

  • @chrissennfelder7249
    @chrissennfelder7249 Жыл бұрын

    I just love your enthusiasm. Thanks for all the great content!

  • @roopapandit4931
    @roopapandit4931 Жыл бұрын

    i love your lectures on the theoretical possibilities and realities of the universe! i just dont feel i could confidently do the math and physics like to some people it comes so naturally. i wish i had a second shot at school and maybe if i was interested enough i would have tried more. but i was never exposed to astronomy in school. all of the physics math and sciences we learned were void of astronomy, so i never got a chance to consider that aspect of science, even though technically i knew it existed. im happy for you that you discovered your lifelong excitement for astrophysics. i guess at a time i had a teacher for a non-science class that was an astrophysicist but again we did not discuss her expertise in that class. this is so awesome and i hope you are proud.

  • @andyboybennett
    @andyboybennett4 жыл бұрын

    "The long-running joke in astrophysics is that we don't understand magnetic fields." Boy, those astrophysicists really crack me up. :)

  • @flinkultur989

    @flinkultur989

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, I was missing a punchline. Sounds more like a setup for a joke. 😁

  • @fivish

    @fivish

    3 жыл бұрын

    Cosmologists follow the maths not the observations. The maths is always wrong.

  • @fluffybites6392
    @fluffybites63922 жыл бұрын

    Wonderful stuff! Thanks, keep 'em coming pls x

  • @Budjones19
    @Budjones19 Жыл бұрын

    Dr. Becky.., you’re awesome! Great info/presentation!

  • @Echo3_
    @Echo3_4 жыл бұрын

    you are super cool, I love people that are so incredibly intelligent, but humble and enjoy sharing knowledge with those of us curious but unable to do the leg work ;)

  • @seancostello26

    @seancostello26

    3 жыл бұрын

    she's the best lol i cant get enough of these videos

  • @modalmixture
    @modalmixture4 жыл бұрын

    In principle I know that stars are in constant motion, but seeing that animation of stars jiggling around Sgr A* in their wibbly little relativistic orbits blows my mind every time. Like, the fact that we can SEE them move over human timescales is just...

  • @editorrbr2107

    @editorrbr2107

    3 жыл бұрын

    Wibbly Relativistic Orbit is the name of my alt-punk band.

  • @granander
    @granander2 жыл бұрын

    You have a beautiful mind! Passionate contagious curiosity. Thank you for sharing!

  • @hudaabdelsalam8560
    @hudaabdelsalam8560 Жыл бұрын

    Soooo Interesting & Useful..Thaaanks❤❤❤🌹🌹🌹🌹

  • @Garresh1
    @Garresh13 жыл бұрын

    The wind analogy for dark matter was probably the best I've seen. I watch a lot of physics and science channels and you're probably one of the best at coming up with clever analogies to explain complex ideas.

  • @pandapower5902
    @pandapower59023 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for sharing the list at the beginning, instead of doing the clickbait, gimmicky thing so many videos do that slowly bring them out one by one, after ads! When you share the information generously like you did, it allows me to think deeper about what you are saying.

  • @davecarsley8773

    @davecarsley8773

    2 жыл бұрын

    "Clickbait" means you don't deliver what you promised to deliver. It doesn't mean "You said things slower that I PERSONALLY would like you to say them".

  • @james8736

    @james8736

    Жыл бұрын

    I thought just the same thing!

  • @qkcmnt1242

    @qkcmnt1242

    Жыл бұрын

    That is so true Panda 🐼. I stopped and reviewed it right away. It set me right in the mood for listening to the rest of it. Thank you Panda Power, and thank you Dr Becky. 😌

  • @qkcmnt1242

    @qkcmnt1242

    Жыл бұрын

    @@davecarsley8773 Have you never been frustrated 🥴 by anticipating something promised, and having to wait till the very end before getting to the good stuff that you were expecting all along??!! It might as well have been clickbait.

  • @pandapower5902

    @pandapower5902

    Жыл бұрын

    @@davecarsley8773 not necessarily.. because they could say 'top 10 most life changing discoveries of 2021' or something, and really, you can't trust them, because this is youtube isn't it? You need to know before hand before wasting your time, because what if its just garbage or something not really so life changing, or stuff that you already knew about or stuff you just didn't care about.. then you sit through ads just for garbage

  • @Todd5747
    @Todd57472 жыл бұрын

    Congrats on gaining a level! I hope you have many happy years, and more awesome videos. :D

  • @Tim60076
    @Tim60076 Жыл бұрын

    Love this lady...very intelligent and interesting...WEII DONE ‼️

  • @HelenasAstrophotography
    @HelenasAstrophotography4 жыл бұрын

    Happy Birthday Dr. Becky! Keep the awesome content coming. 🥳

  • @jajssblue
    @jajssblue4 жыл бұрын

    The "don't know" references are so on point! Love Queens of the Stone Age!

  • @richardroush16
    @richardroush163 жыл бұрын

    Nice job. Keep it up. Thanks

  • @jacobmanjooran4358
    @jacobmanjooran4358 Жыл бұрын

    Love the way you present this. Its perfect. Psychiatrist, but really into math and physics.

  • @denisdaly1708
    @denisdaly17084 жыл бұрын

    What were the top 10 solved questions in astrophysics? Thanks.

  • @alecj3454

    @alecj3454

    4 жыл бұрын

    This is a great idea for a video! Someone tell Dr. Becky!!

  • @DrBecky

    @DrBecky

    4 жыл бұрын

    I like this idea! I’ll add it to my list

  • @denisdaly1708

    @denisdaly1708

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@DrBecky im guessing, Red shift, being able to understand the chemical composition of stars, the parameters for supernovae to form. The idea of dark matter. Lots and lots. It will showcase all the work astrophysicsts have done from their desks and on planet earth.

  • @walterbushell7029

    @walterbushell7029

    4 жыл бұрын

    1.The geometry of the solar system - by Galilo , 2. the dynamics of Newton. The rest are details, by comparison.

  • @CaesarBro

    @CaesarBro

    3 жыл бұрын

    Gravitational waves are on this list for sure.

  • @Vix2066
    @Vix20664 жыл бұрын

    You answer all my questions Dr. Becky! We’re lucky to have you i’m so glad you’re safe♥️♥️ And a very happy birthday to you!!💥⭐️

  • @rodgersericv

    @rodgersericv

    4 жыл бұрын

    The video was about her top 10 UNANSWERED questions.

  • @MaryAnnNytowl

    @MaryAnnNytowl

    3 жыл бұрын

    @dick prickenson it's "Anton's" and "math," genius. Learn to type.

  • @PlayingLittleLife
    @PlayingLittleLife2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this amazing video ❤️

  • @rogersledz6793
    @rogersledz67933 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!

  • @michelle_h
    @michelle_h4 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely LOVE this video! I have always found these mysteries so fascinating. Thanks Dr. Becky!

  • @clickrick
    @clickrick4 жыл бұрын

    "Where did I put my phone?" I never knew you had such a wonderful singing voice! Can we please, please, please have you sing something? About black holes, natch :D

  • @IRex-wm9pd

    @IRex-wm9pd

    4 жыл бұрын

    The Universe Song seems fitting...

  • @BenjWarrant

    @BenjWarrant

    4 жыл бұрын

    Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving And revolving at 900 miles an hour. It's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned, The sun that is the source of all our power. Now the sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see, Are moving at a million miles a day, In the outer spiral arm, at 40, 000 miles an hour, Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way. Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars; It's a hundred thousand light-years side to side; It bulges in the middle sixteen thousand light-years thick, But out by us it's just three thousand light-years wide. We're thirty thousand light-years from Galactic Central Point, We go 'round every two hundred million years; And our galaxy itself is one of millions of billions In this amazing and expanding universe. Our universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding, In all of the directions it can whiz; As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know, Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is. So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure, How amazingly unlikely is your birth; And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space, 'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth!

  • @WayneTheSeine

    @WayneTheSeine

    3 жыл бұрын

    Amen.

  • @rogerstone3068

    @rogerstone3068

    3 жыл бұрын

    Would Bowie's 'Blackstar' be best? Or there's 'Black Gold' by Graham Gouldman, but the only lyrics in that are sung by a deep bass voice; or 'Black & Gold' by Sam Sparro asks a lot of meaningful questions about the existence of the universe. Ah! I got it. Muse, of course. Supermassive Black Hole.

  • @thatguywhocallsmebill5797
    @thatguywhocallsmebill5797 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks Dr Rebecca. Really interesting topic. Your knowledge, enthusiasm and obvious passion is infectious. Unfair that you're so smart, charismatic and beautiful. Rare combination tbh. Take care x

  • @mirandahotspring4019
    @mirandahotspring4019 Жыл бұрын

    Just stumbled onto this and I love it!

  • @rjonboy7608
    @rjonboy76084 жыл бұрын

    Dear Dr Becky, A belated happy birthday. The day you were born the world got a little brighter. Your genius for astronomy is supported by your ability to explain such lofty ideas in great detail without dumbing them down. I feel smarter for having watched your videos.

  • @RipzOnNubes
    @RipzOnNubes4 жыл бұрын

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY DR. BECKY!!! THANK YOU FOR DELIVERING NEWS OF THE UNIVERSE TO US!! SPACE IS THE PLACE!

  • @redakumaproduction
    @redakumaproduction2 жыл бұрын

    this chanel is gold !! i compare it to anton the wonderful person ! really both great great youtuber !! great research behind every sentance ! thank alot dr.becky !!

  • @TcSearch
    @TcSearch Жыл бұрын

    I Subscribed because the way your mind works is so Elegant and Fascinating, which allows my brain to understand such a complex subject

  • @lloydy68
    @lloydy683 жыл бұрын

    There have been a number of scientists over the years which really inspired me to get into astronomy. Carl Sagan was incredible, I was glued to his shows every week on the TV. Patrick moore, Brian Cox and now I can add you, Dr Becky, to the list. I could not get my head around the idea of Dark matter or antimatter, until I watched your videos on here, now I get it! This stuff is gripping if the delivery is good, yours is. Thank you!

  • @davecarsley8773

    @davecarsley8773

    2 жыл бұрын

    So you now "have your head around dark matter"??? Well... at least that makes 1 human on the planet earth.

  • @williamanderson5437

    @williamanderson5437

    Жыл бұрын

    Sir Patrick Moore, please - and yes he was inspirational, even though I only met him once.

  • @qkcmnt1242

    @qkcmnt1242

    Жыл бұрын

    @@davecarsley8773 😂

  • @sujimtangerines

    @sujimtangerines

    Жыл бұрын

    I've always been a bit interested (Cosmos when I was teen was revelatory) but a lot of these topics didn't really grab me until Prof Cox. Then I started looking for more on specifics in the universe. Found symbols & Dr. Becky thru another of Brady's channels. She really does make these astrophysics topics approachable so that even if I don't completely understand, she doesn't scare me off from learning more or figuring it out.

  • @roopapandit4931

    @roopapandit4931

    Жыл бұрын

    are you a scientist or a science enthusiast?

  • @danielschechter8130
    @danielschechter81303 жыл бұрын

    I want to know what happened in the first 10^-43 of a second of the universe, and I want to know what it's like inside a black hole. As for life on other worlds, Monty Python said it best: "Pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space because there's bugger-all down here on Earth."

  • @hughmoore786

    @hughmoore786

    3 жыл бұрын

    I think Lily Tomlin said it first in a video titled . . . The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe

  • @davecarsley8773

    @davecarsley8773

    2 жыл бұрын

    So what efforts are you making in your personal life to get inside a black hole???

  • @williamanderson5437

    @williamanderson5437

    Жыл бұрын

    Myself excepted please.

  • @tSp289

    @tSp289

    Жыл бұрын

    @@davecarsley8773 I bought £200 worth of vodka and pornography. (I didn't) (The porn was free)

  • @jordan9604

    @jordan9604

    Жыл бұрын

    @@williamanderson5437 No, especially since you are the one saying you are intelligent.

  • @joedaodragon3565
    @joedaodragon3565 Жыл бұрын

    That was awesome! Thanks Doc!

  • @frankrwalsh
    @frankrwalsh2 жыл бұрын

    Happy Birthday Dr. Becky!

  • @Neilhuny
    @Neilhuny4 жыл бұрын

    Great start! Kudos to Editing Becky for the confetti

  • @tomcastonguay2847
    @tomcastonguay28473 жыл бұрын

    Thank so very much. You take my favourite thing and exsplain it well and clearly. Astrophysics I've been trying to get a grasp of at least the basics. You have helped me a very good way on this. Peace love & stardust. TomCat

  • @skatoulli
    @skatoulli2 жыл бұрын

    Happy Birthday this week!! Admire your knowledge and enjoy your explainations of the mistery of the Universe we all belong to.

  • @UrFuture_56
    @UrFuture_56 Жыл бұрын

    Happy Belated Birthday @DrBecky 🎂 🥳 🎉

  • @shogun2215
    @shogun22154 жыл бұрын

    Penblwydd Hapus! (I'm Welsh so you get a Welsh happy birthday 😅) I love these questions! Number 10 though is, to me, a hard yes. There must be life elsewhere, and the prospect of discovering it and how different it is to our biology and chemistry really excites me.

  • @jamielondon6436
    @jamielondon64363 жыл бұрын

    I think this is one of the best videos on this channel, because it really raises the curiosity for more! And it's also clear that Dr. Becky is made of only the best, grade A+ atoms. ;-)

  • @farleyredfield3768
    @farleyredfield37682 жыл бұрын

    Becky you make the facts so interesting. Your hair and dimples are so attractive. And your accent is Ausie? I just enjoy watching you. Thank you for being here.

  • @DanielJStromme
    @DanielJStromme Жыл бұрын

    I just asked many of these questions, on one of Dr. Becky's previous videos... as though she's listening specifically to me! I'm honored!

  • @martian.bass.priest
    @martian.bass.priest3 жыл бұрын

    "you're probably okay with not knowing what happened in the first one-times-ten-to-the-minus-forty-three seconds of the universe" doctor becky, it's three in the morning and i *need* to know!

  • @shwetsam

    @shwetsam

    3 жыл бұрын

    Poor becky. She just got proved completely wrong

  • @HassanPlayz

    @HassanPlayz

    2 жыл бұрын

    It's 4 in the afternoon, I *need* to know!

  • @fred_2021

    @fred_2021

    2 жыл бұрын

    Don't worry, we'll find out. It's just a matter of time.

  • @alanclark7807
    @alanclark78073 жыл бұрын

    Who knew that understanding the mysteries inherent in a banana could unlock the secrets of the multiverse?! *mind blown* P.S. Belated Happy Birthday, Dr. Becky!

  • @darkpassenger2852
    @darkpassenger2852 Жыл бұрын

    You are so adorably amazing!

  • @kingof.london
    @kingof.london2 жыл бұрын

    Very good list!

  • @abbas1872
    @abbas18724 жыл бұрын

    My Aero-press coffee maker creates the best Dark Energy ever.

  • @Cepheid_

    @Cepheid_

    4 жыл бұрын

    I literally have coffee brewing in mine! Can confirm.

  • @lordgarion514

    @lordgarion514

    4 жыл бұрын

    Just remember that the darker the matter, the less energy it has.

  • @BenGrem917

    @BenGrem917

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Cepheid_ Same, except mines a cheap drip coffee machine. Does the job.

  • @leemaples1806

    @leemaples1806

    4 жыл бұрын

    the coffee grinder is the black hole and the coffee grounds are dark matter which i extract some dark energy from. coffee science.

  • @jonbold

    @jonbold

    4 жыл бұрын

    That is so good!

  • @inerlogic
    @inerlogic4 жыл бұрын

    "...you probably didn't notice..." I'm a ham radio operator.... we noticed......

  • @jamesdriscoll9405

    @jamesdriscoll9405

    4 жыл бұрын

    milisecond duration bursts? If you heard it at all it's just a pop or snap in your speaker, If it's strong enough to detect. Too fast to be more than a pixel on your waterfall.

  • @inerlogic

    @inerlogic

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@jamesdriscoll9405 sunspots, which run on the same 11 year cycle, affect HF propagation on Earth. My comment was about the Sun's magnetic poles shifting... not FRBs

  • @jamesdriscoll9405

    @jamesdriscoll9405

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@inerlogic I jumped the gun and assumed you meant FRB's - sorry, my mistake.

  • @antoniomaglione4101

    @antoniomaglione4101

    3 жыл бұрын

    I have been an ham for quite sometime. About 2% of the total RF noise at the input of a receiver is from the Big Bang radiation (2.7 Kelvin).

  • @MaryAnnNytowl

    @MaryAnnNytowl

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hello, I'm the daughter of KA0CLY, myself! He went silent key several years ago, but I still remember helping him string long wires all over our pasture, and putting up towers and such, and even winning him a nice, new rig at a hamfest one year, as a door prize!

  • @brendan5539
    @brendan5539 Жыл бұрын

    Informational paradox as well spectrography within two minutes = immediate subscribe! Per the "photos" of the "Black Hole", they were compiled as you know

  • @J7m7s
    @J7m7s2 жыл бұрын

    Brilliant video!

  • @ragnkja
    @ragnkja4 жыл бұрын

    Gratulerer med dagen! (That’s how we wish someone a happy birthday, or congratulate them on another significant occasion, including the constitution day, in Norway.)

  • @daisyxfaith
    @daisyxfaith4 жыл бұрын

    Now when anyone looks at me funny for eating everything in sight, I'm just going to tell them "I'm just accreting more matter".

  • @nicklong27

    @nicklong27

    4 жыл бұрын

    Except most people are thick as shit and will think that's just a posh way of saying your taking a shit.

  • @SpaceCadet4Jesus

    @SpaceCadet4Jesus

    3 жыл бұрын

    We know you are accreting more matter, .....we saw it bulging out your last new outfit !!

  • @CaesarBro

    @CaesarBro

    3 жыл бұрын

    Now imagine if two accretion disks met and joined together. It would be a love story of matter accretion.

  • @MaynardKeenanX
    @MaynardKeenanX Жыл бұрын

    Thank you Becky for your content. Greetings from Denmark

  • @Astronomo_Space
    @Astronomo_Space Жыл бұрын

    Thanks Dr Becky for spreading Science to the masses and inspiring young people into it!

  • @johnladuke6475
    @johnladuke64754 жыл бұрын

    "I'll just find a quick little five or ten minute video to wa... oh hey Dr Becky dropped a twenty-minuter!" Edit... oh goody, I was hoping that magnetar/FRB business would be in the next Night Sky News. Soon as I heard about that I thought how Dr B would be super excited about it.

  • @beckywilson8198
    @beckywilson81983 жыл бұрын

    My name is becky too and I love astrophysics

  • @DrBecky

    @DrBecky

    3 жыл бұрын

    👋🤗

  • @patrickwalsh2361
    @patrickwalsh23612 жыл бұрын

    The world can use more good news like this! Thanks Dr Becky!

  • @TD5rage
    @TD5rage2 жыл бұрын

    You are great to watch. I suck at all science’s and you make it seem easy.

  • @johnneuman9470
    @johnneuman94704 жыл бұрын

    HAAAAAAAAAAAPY BIRTHDAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! May all the frostings you encounter be light fluffy and EXCESSIVE! 🎂❤️

  • @errexe0
    @errexe03 жыл бұрын

    Alt title: Compilation of top 10 "we dont know" scenes existing in this universe

  • @markspc1
    @markspc12 жыл бұрын

    Brilliant Dr. Becky.

  • @jameswells6874
    @jameswells68742 жыл бұрын

    I really enjoyed there was a Buffy clip in thos video! More please!!!!! ♥️

  • @DavidSmith-jj7ll

    @DavidSmith-jj7ll

    2 жыл бұрын

    OMG tho "The Body" and now Joyce won't have any more fruit punch and Anya doesn't understand why and nobody will tell her. :(

  • @romithromith
    @romithromith4 жыл бұрын

    It's my birthday today! Happy Birthday to us!

  • @Hopeless_and_Forlorn
    @Hopeless_and_Forlorn4 жыл бұрын

    I am going to go accrete some brownies with chopped walnuts.

  • @vlademis-prime
    @vlademis-prime2 жыл бұрын

    I'll tell you what I enjoyed about this video. All the compilations of movies clips to say, "We don't know." That's pretty funny.

  • @gustavorabino9353
    @gustavorabino9353 Жыл бұрын

    First I wanted to say that I really like your videos because they make me think. And regarding some of these questions. Have anyone ever pondered if there might be other mirror dimensions/universes of antimatter created at the same time of the "big bang" and may have a spread gravitational interaction with ours, this would explain the gravitational effects alluded to "dark energy" which cause the universe to expand and the lack of antimatter. On the other hand, there might be very massive stuff affecting our observable universe beyond our visual reach that is pulling our universe apart. On the third-hand dark energy might just be space being created constantly like a balloon being filled with air in all directions.

  • @balaclavabob001
    @balaclavabob0014 жыл бұрын

    A recurring thought I get while watching the bloopers : One day she's going to discover the secret of the universe ... and then drop it . That said . the song to accompany that will be epic lol Happy Birthday .

  • @ericnist503
    @ericnist5034 жыл бұрын

    Congratulations on completing another trip around the sun. (Happy Birthday) :-)

  • @leondarnell1
    @leondarnell1 Жыл бұрын

    Her answer to "what is the Universe expanding into" was great. It makes alot of sense. I"ve always wondered the answer to that question and she just solved it.

  • @hendman4083

    @hendman4083

    Жыл бұрын

    The answer was: "we don't know". 🤔

  • @frankcavazos5263
    @frankcavazos52632 жыл бұрын

    Love the clips 😁😁

  • @andrewshaw7998
    @andrewshaw79982 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Dr. Becky! You've been added to a very exclusive , very short list - physicists who do such an exceptional job explaining astrophysics, that even I can understand a wee bit of it. :-) Dr. Carl Sagan, Dr. Neil deGrass Tyson, Dr. Brian Cox, MinutePhysics, and Dr. Becky.

  • @debrawehrly6900

    @debrawehrly6900

    Жыл бұрын

    Bill Nye too

  • @tehbonehead
    @tehbonehead4 жыл бұрын

    Mathematician: Divides by 0 Big Bang: Oh, hai!

  • @haroldhotchkiss2836
    @haroldhotchkiss2836 Жыл бұрын

    ❤Thanks Dr Becky for explaining things so well. l don't know if you have the right contacts but it would be wonderful if you could contribute to The Sky at Night in someway as your enthusiasm for your subject is contagious

  • @patrickbasin9389
    @patrickbasin93892 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the science… and the music!

  • @IraqWarVet03
    @IraqWarVet033 жыл бұрын

    You have a awesome voice. Start doing parady songs about science!! Lol

  • @shughy1
    @shughy13 жыл бұрын

    This video is a good representation of a black hole, having so much information squeezed into it, except we can still see you 😁

  • @empathyisonlyhuman7816
    @empathyisonlyhuman7816 Жыл бұрын

    Love the recognition of Anton Petrov and his "Hello wonderful person" introduction. Here are my ideas about how to answer your list of unanswered questions. 1. A neutron star who's Schwarzschild radius has grown larger than the radius of the star. Comprised of a unique form of neutronium wherein its constituent neutrons feature massively high numbers of quarks within an otherwise classic neutron architecture. Thus raising the neutron degeneracy pressure needed to superimpose two such particles to insanely large values. 2. The universe isn't expanding, but instead is just returning to its pre 'big bang' state of equilibrium in what might be an infinite expanse of space-time. As it flows past galaxies, a miniscule amount of kinetic energy is transferred into that matter causing the expansion to accelerate. 3. See the answer to number two. 4. Referring to the answer in number two, dark matter might be relativistic mass generated by space-time speeding past all the matter is the observable universe. 5. I don't know. The three words that signal the beginning of wisdom. 6. Referring to answers one and two. Having reached a point where neutronium could no longer generate more massive neutrons by adding quarks to the existing structures. Two by two at or near the core neutrons begin to superimpose and annihilate each other generating heat. Material naturally falls into the void left behind marking the point at which the neutron star/black hole implodes down to the size of a point with the diameter of a single plank length. With the phase shift into heat energy, space-time, no longer bound by mass is pulled outward omnidirectionally at faster than the speed of light. At some point this dispersion allows the temperature to cool sufficiently for matter to form again. And we have the various elements we understand as the evolution of the universe from the point of the big bang. 7. The only thing I can say on this is that matter existed first prior to coagulating into a form sufficient to form black holes. In other words I don't know. 8 & 9 are again things I have no idea of how to answer. 10. For this one, I would refer to an idea not of my own but which has been postulated. All life is an emergent property or consequence of the second law of thermodynamics. Entropy (the measure of disorder or chaos) always increases in the aggregate. Contrary to current theory however I think that entropy is caused by the expansion of the universe as opposed to it being the cause of the universe's expansion. To explain the idea that life emerges from entropy consider that all life consumes other organic matter and or inorganic sources of energy. The results of this is that post consumption and even post death of any given unit of life. The material either expelled, or that remains post death. Is always in a state of higher entropy than what is consumed or what was alive. Thanks for reading my ideas. While this list isn't comprehensive. Please feel free to pick it apart with criticisms and or questions. I love discussing this stuff and welcome learning the reason this isn't the way we think our environment(universe) works. But yes I do understand that there are some elements that are unmeasurable / observable. Please do better than that if you'd like to engage me in conversation on this topic.

  • @nosuchthing8
    @nosuchthing82 жыл бұрын

    Good list

  • @jordanr.2120
    @jordanr.21203 жыл бұрын

    "The problem is how we'd ever confirm that life existed on a planet elsewhere." Idk man I was hoping that Area 51 raid would go somewhere but since it didn't I'm fresh out of ideas.

  • @ryanhegseth8720

    @ryanhegseth8720

    3 жыл бұрын

    Just do what the “scientists” do, make up an assumption and declare it as fact.

  • @adrianruiz1139

    @adrianruiz1139

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ryanhegseth8720 might want brush up on the scientific method there, mate

  • @altumurnemtzra2026

    @altumurnemtzra2026

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@adrianruiz1139 To be fair, when you see some studies and even worse "tv scientist". Not much of a scientific method there.

  • @TomasTheTankEngine

    @TomasTheTankEngine

    3 жыл бұрын

    Idk dude I think we should give the area 51 raid another try

  • @babypenguin8754

    @babypenguin8754

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ryanhegseth8720 That's not how PROFESSIONAL scientists do it

  • @missionzukunft7222
    @missionzukunft72223 жыл бұрын

    Becky (like any rational scientist): "Aliens can't go fast than light" Me: "Warp drive?!"

  • @vrendus522
    @vrendus5223 жыл бұрын

    Terrific, thanks so much ;)

  • @gsmokeyjoe
    @gsmokeyjoe2 жыл бұрын

    new subscriber, really enjoying your delivery of the amazing, so excited for JWST data, the way you say "Saturn" makes me chuckle too, you really attack the second half, you got a problem with Saturn? cheers, g

  • @DMS-pq8
    @DMS-pq83 жыл бұрын

    "Its never aliens" Somebody doesn't watch the History channel

  • @Unityframe

    @Unityframe

    3 жыл бұрын

    yeah because she's a scientist

  • @starscream2092

    @starscream2092

    2 жыл бұрын

    ancient alien theorist say yes

  • @wellusee
    @wellusee4 жыл бұрын

    So! Maybe the Higgs field collapsed and caused the universe and black holes are natures way of repairing the damage. That was an amazing video.

  • @user-ui6kv2np8i

    @user-ui6kv2np8i

    4 жыл бұрын

    Incorrect. If the Higgs field ever collapsed it would lead to 'vacuum decay' at the speed of light. Everything would literally fall apart. The universe would cease to exist.

  • @wellusee

    @wellusee

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@user-ui6kv2np8i Aw! Thanks Kal taught I was on to something there.

  • @user-ui6kv2np8i

    @user-ui6kv2np8i

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@wellusee The Higgs Field is actually at quite a high rate of GeV (giga electron volts). Astrophysicists believe it could quite easily go lower. Though they think it can't because they believe it is in a sort of trough and would therefore need quite a helping hand to push it out of that. However it's not beyond the realm of possibility. And if any part of the field actually made it to a lower rate of GeV it would cause a cascade that would bring the rest of the field with it. Since our universe is built on a higgs operating at the level of GeV it is operating at, any change in that level would cause spacetime to literally unravel.

  • @TheBuckeyeJeff
    @TheBuckeyeJeff8 ай бұрын

    I like learning from your content.

  • @bornfree2237
    @bornfree22372 жыл бұрын

    About your closing ad for Brilliant; second best life advice I was ever told was, "you're not bad at math, you're just lazy." Went from being basically a high school dropout to doing really well in college calculus after I learned how to learn in the military.

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