How to Detect Extra Dimensions

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On this Space Time Journal Club we look at how gravitational waves can be used to search for extra dimensions of space!
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"Limits on the number of spacetime dimensions from GW170817"
Pardo, Fishbach, Holz & Spergel 2018
arxiv.org/abs/1801.08160
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  • @nameless7838
    @nameless78385 жыл бұрын

    In a 2D world, are there Line Earthers?

  • @pepinillorick5741

    @pepinillorick5741

    5 жыл бұрын

    What a great coment xD

  • @TheChaosSpectrum

    @TheChaosSpectrum

    5 жыл бұрын

    You made my 2D week.

  • @asshatteryengaged813

    @asshatteryengaged813

    5 жыл бұрын

    Lol

  • @zantar04

    @zantar04

    5 жыл бұрын

    Chiming in from Line Earth. The Earth is a dot. That is all.

  • @christopherellis2663

    @christopherellis2663

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@zantar04 reductio ad absurdum

  • @kickinrocks6055
    @kickinrocks60554 жыл бұрын

    "There are these theoretical objects called... brains." Yes. I've felt the exact same way for years.

  • @andromedaiscoming185

    @andromedaiscoming185

    4 жыл бұрын

    Branes

  • @kickinrocks6055

    @kickinrocks6055

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@andromedaiscoming185 bird brane.

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    @altareggo

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@andromedaiscoming185 #/Whoooooooooooosh!!

  • @andromedaiscoming185

    @andromedaiscoming185

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@altareggo r/wooooosh (5 o's)

  • @RECTALBURRITO

    @RECTALBURRITO

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@andromedaiscoming185 good pun

  • @mentalmelt
    @mentalmelt5 жыл бұрын

    This guy has a good energy level, enabling him to transfer knowledge in a comfortable and meaningful way. He seems to have the exact right amount of mass, as opposed to some of these other guys, who appear to be traveling at the speed of light.

  • @reinux
    @reinux5 жыл бұрын

    Half of the stuff on this channel is over my head, so I get really excited when I actually understand it.

  • @diegofloor
    @diegofloor5 жыл бұрын

    I am finishing my PhD in physics in a few weeks. It has been several years since I saw or read any good pop science/physics material. I blamed that on the fact I might not be the target audience, since I already know the subjects. But this show proved me wrong! This is absolutely excellent. It actually tackles modern physics instead of "modern" from 150 years ago, as is usually the case. Clear explanations, good analogies, without compromising a lot. If anyone reading this is considering going into physics consider yourself lucky, because my first contact with quantum field theory was reading Peskin and Schroeder's An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory. A good book only if you already know QFT, which is never a good thing for anything that starts with "an introduction". What I'm saying is, this is good pop sci. It would have helped me a few years ago, definitely.

  • @seyrup

    @seyrup

    5 жыл бұрын

    Wow!! I am so happy to hear that being said by an actual physicist. Also, I felt like i should mention this even though it wont be of any use to you: the MITOpencourse channel on KZread has a really awesome lecture series called 'Quantum Entanglement' by Prof. Leonard Susskind. Anyone who wants to start with QFT should go through that lecture series first. Its very well done.

  • @YHLGguitargeek

    @YHLGguitargeek

    5 жыл бұрын

    As someone who isn't _yet_ a PhD in physics, have you ever considered the effects of plasma physics in the universe?

  • @NYCFenrir

    @NYCFenrir

    5 жыл бұрын

    Even if you think you know the subjects you will always be amazed at what you can still learn.

  • @ninja250r2008

    @ninja250r2008

    5 жыл бұрын

    Shut it, Grandpa

  • @Mick0722MX

    @Mick0722MX

    5 жыл бұрын

    So, in order to convince oneself a hypothetical dimension, setting the rules to fit that desire is good science to you?

  • @davejones542
    @davejones5425 жыл бұрын

    "The String Theorists are OK ...for now" LOL

  • @GinthianShield

    @GinthianShield

    5 жыл бұрын

    The String Theorists are Ok because we haven't found a way to prove or disprove anything in the theory. It would have been great to disprove String Theory, but I thought that the biggest problem with String Theory is we can't figure out an experiment that would test the Theory.

  • @needmorespaceformyna

    @needmorespaceformyna

    5 жыл бұрын

    The problem with String Theory is that it isn't "one theory". It's an mathematical attempt to describe all the fundamental particles as 1 dimensional strings. These strings can then vibrate in different ways, corresponding with the fundamental particles and interact accordingly. So on "larger scales", ie the scale of a proton, a string looks just like the fundamental particles we are used to. On the smallest scale it would act as these strings. There are many mathematical ways you could achieve this, over the years they narrowed it down to the consistent ones. Then they managed to mathematically unify those theories under what is now called M Theory. Why all that effort? Well, String Theory describes gravity as a particle, making it a potential unified grand theory. But, here comes the problem, String Theory is "background independent". It only tells us what a graviton would look like, if it would exist at a given energy level. A unified theory would have to do more than that. It would have to relate gravity to the other forces, not just tell us what it looks like.

  • @amcghie7

    @amcghie7

    5 жыл бұрын

    Ginthian Shield - what is the point in String Theory if it cannot be tested? To me, unfalsifiable hypotheses are basically worthless to science, especially if you cannot apply the scientific method to it, rather its more just a mathematical philosophy. (A little off topic but) Freud is a really good example of this in psychology, where literally all his work is just trying to describe why the mind behaves the way it does, by first observing, and then forming conclusions from that. There is no proper way to prove his work right or wrong so should we actually let it hold any merit until we can find proofs for it?

  • @n1k32h

    @n1k32h

    5 жыл бұрын

    No point people remember the earth is flat! I’ve already mentioned this come wake up

  • @TheDavidlloydjones

    @TheDavidlloydjones

    5 жыл бұрын

    The Standard Model has a problem with infinities. OK, we take all the zeroes and we replace them with little-itsy-bitsies. No more division by zero, no more infinities, problem solved. We don' need no furshugginer disprovability, you hear? Lotta pie in the eye. The problem is solved. Solved. Solved, you hear whutt I told you?

  • @Zaldodoublezi
    @Zaldodoublezi5 жыл бұрын

    I love how he patientetly guide us through a bunch of notions and theories that we really can´t grasp and can´t fully understand and still, at the end, we are able to follow his conclusions, sort of hahaha. Love the channel! Keep it up!

  • @JorgetePanete

    @JorgetePanete

    4 жыл бұрын

    patiently*

  • @swine13

    @swine13

    3 жыл бұрын

    Who is "we"? I watch these videos because I find the concepts intriguing. And grasp is a funny word. I suppose its hard to wrap my head around the immensity of space, but I definitely understand the theory of what he's talking about. Otherwise I wouldn't bother watching. 🤔

  • @s3ba2k

    @s3ba2k

    2 жыл бұрын

    “If you can’t explain it in simple terms, you don’t understand it well enough.”

  • @KeepAnOpenMind
    @KeepAnOpenMind4 жыл бұрын

    This channel should never change the host.

  • @RoastHardy

    @RoastHardy

    4 жыл бұрын

    This channel should never change the topic.

  • @shawnthompson3059

    @shawnthompson3059

    4 жыл бұрын

    So they should make a WestWorld host from him?

  • @ditchweed2275

    @ditchweed2275

    4 жыл бұрын

    Gabe was good too.

  • @swine13

    @swine13

    3 жыл бұрын

    Even when he dies? It would still be his corpse, crudely propped up with old mops and gaffa tape. Two people moving the mops around to simulate hand movement and someone off screen doing a shitty voice over while a portion of his face slowly sloughs off halfway through filming. Ew. Gross. Why would you wish for that? Let the poor man rest in peace.

  • @gaiita

    @gaiita

    3 жыл бұрын

    I am not Sean Lock ...

  • @TheAsem1992
    @TheAsem19925 жыл бұрын

    this is the most interesting / entertaining / educational channel on KZread . *editing* the reason why i like him he makes it simple without the extra dumbing down .. I'm only a Med student not a physicist but i can enjoy & understand this ..

  • @RayyTX

    @RayyTX

    5 жыл бұрын

    asem al balawe да

  • @tatjanagobold2810

    @tatjanagobold2810

    5 жыл бұрын

    Check out flammable maths, scishow space, steve mould or standup maths :)

  • @MarpLG

    @MarpLG

    5 жыл бұрын

    if u are interested for some deep knowledge about higher dimensions this guys working it out for few hundreds of years ..kzread.info/dash/bejne/X42j0qlyls3Ug9I.html

  • @afonsodeportugal

    @afonsodeportugal

    5 жыл бұрын

    t. gobold The Science Asylum is great too and it's very undersubscribed!

  • @rittenbrake1613

    @rittenbrake1613

    5 жыл бұрын

    Don’t jump to the conclusion,still a lot out there

  • @johnnyprimeone4533
    @johnnyprimeone45335 жыл бұрын

    Normal zombie: BRAAAAAIIINS 200 IQ zombie: BRAAAAAANES

  • @JoeWhite3572

    @JoeWhite3572

    5 жыл бұрын

    JohnnyPrimeOne Boltzmann’s BRAAAAAAIIIIIINS!

  • @WaltRBuck

    @WaltRBuck

    5 жыл бұрын

    Zombie who had a great summer 50 years ago: BRYYYYAAANS!

  • @ninja250r2008

    @ninja250r2008

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@elessarstrider5210 Depends on the BRAAAAAIIIINS

  • @dillymcdamm

    @dillymcdamm

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Walt First real six string theory?

  • @medexamtoolsdotcom

    @medexamtoolsdotcom

    4 жыл бұрын

    I once had a dream that Beavis was giving a lecture on Hilbert-space and higher dimensional metrics and in the context of the dream, he was the greatest intellect in the universe, and he was talking about Hilbert-space so as to accomplish something amazing, like backwards time travel so as to undo an event and save the universe. But he still talked like Beavis and laughed in the characteristic way. I like to think that was the true Beavis, that the dumb one in the Beavis and Butthead show was his dumber counterpart in another universe.

  • @Jbarb777
    @Jbarb7775 жыл бұрын

    This is the best KZread channel in the observable universe. MO’D makes me want to go back to school and get a physics degree. Plus, his art of explaining the complex in fairly simple terms is a service to us all.

  • @northyland1157
    @northyland11575 жыл бұрын

    I tried this out! I'm able to detect five extra dimensions! Thanks for the video!!

  • @johnathansirko3290

    @johnathansirko3290

    4 жыл бұрын

    Oh yeah buddy!? See you on the inf-flip-inite side 😂

  • @swine13

    @swine13

    3 жыл бұрын

    People slept on this comment. 😂

  • @BeCurieUs
    @BeCurieUs5 жыл бұрын

    Null outcomes are underrated

  • @talltroll7092

    @talltroll7092

    5 жыл бұрын

    Because they usually make poor headlines, and poor research grant applications

  • @jessstuart7495

    @jessstuart7495

    5 жыл бұрын

    Agreed.

  • @billyboy1er

    @billyboy1er

    4 жыл бұрын

    I was actually relieved at the end, when he said that observations disproved this hypothesis, cause i understood almost non of it ! 😅

  • @eliduttman315

    @eliduttman315

    4 жыл бұрын

    Are they ever! The Michelson-Morley experiment is an excellent example.

  • @OpportunisticHunter

    @OpportunisticHunter

    4 жыл бұрын

    Cause neutrinos... change mass through their paths while never changing direction and

  • @IronEchoX
    @IronEchoX5 жыл бұрын

    Looks like you lost a thumb to an extra dimension there at the 11:51 mark...

  • @poppy3879

    @poppy3879

    5 жыл бұрын

    L6rd 6f Cr6ws why is my Butthole hurting like a thump is stuck in it

  • @MegaFonebone

    @MegaFonebone

    5 жыл бұрын

    Reminds me of ‘Black Hole Thumb" ... you know... by Thoundgarden.

  • @thoughtstricken8579

    @thoughtstricken8579

    5 жыл бұрын

    Great pickup. Direct evidence the Matt is a quantum hitchhiker!

  • @ZomBeeNature

    @ZomBeeNature

    5 жыл бұрын

    [screams and runs away in fear]

  • @kaustubha7371

    @kaustubha7371

    5 жыл бұрын

    Damn

  • @Jmjholden
    @Jmjholden4 жыл бұрын

    I love how every episode ends with the word spacetime

  • @endlesslypictures
    @endlesslypictures3 жыл бұрын

    I just started watching your channel, and am blown away. I am so intrigued by everything, everything in this area is new to me, and am literally watching everything to try and learn more. Thank you! Keep up the amazing work.

  • @abramthiessen8749
    @abramthiessen87495 жыл бұрын

    "There are these theoretical objects called brains" -Matt O'Dowd 2018.

  • @alimibrahem8120

    @alimibrahem8120

    5 жыл бұрын

    Abram Thiessen this objects that you talk about in hadron physics in atiny tiny diameters not in the dimensions of space

  • @abramthiessen8749

    @abramthiessen8749

    5 жыл бұрын

    I know. I just thought that the audio was funny out of context.

  • @YodaWhat

    @YodaWhat

    5 жыл бұрын

    Brane Soup.

  • @jjsmith706

    @jjsmith706

    5 жыл бұрын

    Quantum Mechanics Composer - Way to get the joke.

  • @budgieentertainment9931

    @budgieentertainment9931

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@alimibrahem8120 I think the ceiling lamp in your apartment was destroyed by a joke flying over your head

  • @phoule76
    @phoule765 жыл бұрын

    insane in the 3-brane

  • @amcghie7

    @amcghie7

    5 жыл бұрын

    That is the best band name.

  • @markcdespain

    @markcdespain

    5 жыл бұрын

    insane in the brane!

  • @talltroll7092

    @talltroll7092

    5 жыл бұрын

    *sigh* Have we forgotten Cypress Hill already? Better call Dr Greenthumb

  • @orange993

    @orange993

    3 жыл бұрын

    *i am brane*

  • @user-ih6jg9od6h
    @user-ih6jg9od6h4 жыл бұрын

    I'm going to take university entrance exams this month.I've used Spacetime's videos to prepare for listening exams.I'm interested in space so I was able to study with joy!Thanks for your good videos!

  • @93Baby_
    @93Baby_3 жыл бұрын

    I could sit and listen to the PBS Space intro song for hours

  • @PavlosPapageorgiou
    @PavlosPapageorgiou5 жыл бұрын

    Null results are the best! Science works by falsification, and null results rule out huge chucks of theory-space greatly advancing our certainty. The Eötvös experiment, Michelson-Morley, and the double slit experiment were all intensely eciting because they let us put narrower constraints on the ways the universe can behave.

  • @kaigreen5641

    @kaigreen5641

    5 жыл бұрын

    The greatest null result in history was when physicists tried to prove the existence of the aether by measuring the speed of light in different directions and finding it was always the same.

  • @user-be8ep2zd6r

    @user-be8ep2zd6r

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yea but null results are not that exciting. Physicists love new mind bending ideas.

  • @Naqaj

    @Naqaj

    5 жыл бұрын

    But that's exactly what they got. This null result threw out the idea of extra dimensions. That means the truth must be even more crazy.

  • @pitthepig

    @pitthepig

    5 жыл бұрын

    Excellent comment, that's exactly what this is all about.

  • @ChuckCreagerJr

    @ChuckCreagerJr

    5 жыл бұрын

    Naqaj: "That means the truth must be even more crazy." Does the universe being fundamentally information? Because, that view of reality actually predicts this result as extra dimensions would be superfluous.

  • @SanyamAgarwal94
    @SanyamAgarwal945 жыл бұрын

    I love it how you always manage to end your video with the word "spacetime" :D .. great content and lucid explanations!! I love this channel

  • @alanwelch9216
    @alanwelch92164 жыл бұрын

    Every now and then on a rare occasion these episodes begin to make sense to me and it feels amazing and I appreciate the intelligence of these scientists infinitely more

  • @ianhargis182
    @ianhargis1825 жыл бұрын

    I watch PBS Space Time when I want to learn less of what I already dont know.

  • @hugodsa89

    @hugodsa89

    4 жыл бұрын

    Ahahaha learning disproving theories might not sounds as interesting, but there’s a lot of value to it. Funny comment though. 😅😆

  • @OpportunisticHunter

    @OpportunisticHunter

    4 жыл бұрын

    So much bullshit in one video... I think I am done for a long time now...!!!

  • @sajpar9765

    @sajpar9765

    4 жыл бұрын

    Gave me a stroke trying to understand this comment

  • @altareggo

    @altareggo

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@OpportunisticHunter Hm..... so its turtles all the way down then? Who knew?

  • @bigsmall246

    @bigsmall246

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@OpportunisticHunter only, it's not bullshit

  • @SoliKareien
    @SoliKareien5 жыл бұрын

    "Brilliance, wit, and/or whining. That's what it takes." I need that on a T-shirt

  • @TheExoplanetsChannel
    @TheExoplanetsChannel5 жыл бұрын

    Out of topic but, in case someone missed it, a new dwarf planet has been discovered in our solar system !

  • @sarcasmo57

    @sarcasmo57

    5 жыл бұрын

    I call him Steven.

  • @ganaraminukshuk0

    @ganaraminukshuk0

    5 жыл бұрын

    Would probably take a few more rounds of confirmation but yeah, we might have to rethink planets again.

  • @BlueFrenzy

    @BlueFrenzy

    5 жыл бұрын

    Name it Pluto

  • @volbla

    @volbla

    5 жыл бұрын

    How big and at what orbit?

  • @elektrotehnik94

    @elektrotehnik94

    5 жыл бұрын

    You should at least give us a better bone to chew :D

  • @punkuncle9033
    @punkuncle90333 жыл бұрын

    Best Spacetime episode I’ve ever seen. Well done!

  • @phillipnunya6793
    @phillipnunya67935 жыл бұрын

    Awesome video. This is one of my favorite channels on KZread. Keep it up!

  • @tpespos
    @tpespos5 жыл бұрын

    Space time journal club is the best idea ever I love these videos!

  • @SylvEdu
    @SylvEdu5 жыл бұрын

    >spends 10 minutes talking about what might be the case >spends 30 seconds telling us that the data indicates that everything talked about in the first 10 minutes is absolutely not the case

  • @tracyh5751

    @tracyh5751

    5 жыл бұрын

    The audience can't appreciate a negative result without the background to understand the question it has answered with 'no'.

  • @idiocracy10

    @idiocracy10

    5 жыл бұрын

    aka "a teachable moment".

  • @Phobos_Anomaly

    @Phobos_Anomaly

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yes, this is good...it demonstrates more broadly how the theoretical and observational aspects of physics interact, enriching one another.

  • @sumahuma6054

    @sumahuma6054

    5 жыл бұрын

    Tracy H it was not a negative result. It made me smile, knowing that General Relativity still holds up to over 100 years worth of testing.

  • @Phobos_Anomaly

    @Phobos_Anomaly

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@sumahuma6054 oops. Maybe you misunderstood me or something lol yes, I agree the theory of special and general relatively might as well be fact at this point.

  • @feddy11100
    @feddy111002 жыл бұрын

    I love this series. Thank you and your team for all the hard work and awesome content

  • @erlangerklaviertrio
    @erlangerklaviertrio5 жыл бұрын

    This Episode was awesome and inspiring to see the newest insights to physics and astronomy! This channel is my favourite on KZread even being a classical musician, nothing is more interesting for me then sientific hints of the real nature of the universe. Great conductor Sergiu Celibidache also thought of the cosmos as everything it's vibrating an oscillating, very much as string theories and quantum fields...

  • @woulg

    @woulg

    2 жыл бұрын

    You should check out bergsonism by Deleuze, iirc there are some ideas in there about matter being different waveshapes of time or something. It was definitely too hard for me to understand all of it when I read it, but as a musician I found lots of interesting ideas and inspirations in there (even if some of the ideas I got were from misunderstanding the text haha).

  • @Rubbergnome
    @Rubbergnome5 жыл бұрын

    It's so cool that Matt noticed my discussion with Iago Silva. Unfortunately it just ended there... I haven't gotten a response as of yet. ...and I don't always complain, I'm sorry for misunderstanding last time :x I love the channel! And this video was awesome like always.

  • @Twitchi

    @Twitchi

    5 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the closure

  • @Rubbergnome

    @Rubbergnome

    5 жыл бұрын

    Certainly it's not closure for me :x

  • @bertpasquale5616

    @bertpasquale5616

    5 жыл бұрын

    You probably didn't wine and dine Silva enough before suggesting they go to a private room with you...

  • @cesarcarrizo662

    @cesarcarrizo662

    5 жыл бұрын

    I am surprised Matt takes his time to go through all these comments! good job Rubbergnome lol

  • @thstroyur

    @thstroyur

    5 жыл бұрын

    XD LOL didn't expect him to point that out; I'm famous now ;) BTW, I _did_ post a reply to the last one/two convos - with a 2-4 days delay, meh... Just mentioning, cuz I noticed YT randomly fails to notify new posts sometimes (or, you just didn't care to keep at it XP either way, it's cool :) )

  • @quahntasy
    @quahntasy5 жыл бұрын

    This is the most interesting education channel on KZread . BTW a new dwarf planet has been discovered in the solar system.

  • @harrysvensson2610

    @harrysvensson2610

    5 жыл бұрын

    It's not nice to use the word "the" when it is only known to you.

  • @BryanTheGreatBrittain
    @BryanTheGreatBrittain5 жыл бұрын

    "Let's get a little bit more technical." Oh shoot.

  • @austejawiyus9301

    @austejawiyus9301

    3 жыл бұрын

    ¡ there are beyond eternal dimensions in our space orb, or any space orb ! i guarantee the number of dimensions is unknowable to any supercomputer before, now, or ever no matter who designs it 。¿ why be concerned with count of dimensions ? it's only a fruitless endeavor 。

  • @rc5989
    @rc59894 жыл бұрын

    Watching this great backlog of content, this one is the best episode yet, imho. This null result really matters and sends many theories into “less likely” categories of possible answers. Also, String Theory again is both ‘safe for now’ and a null result. Imho, being a dedicated hard working fervent string theorist requires a significant level of faith, with so many null results which *could* have been spectacular empirical results otherwise.

  • @GGrev
    @GGrev5 жыл бұрын

    Friendship ended with String Theory Now quantum gravity theory is my best friend.jpg

  • @henriksundt7148
    @henriksundt71485 жыл бұрын

    Any chance you would do an episode on emergent gravity (/entropic gravity), the theory of Erik Verlinde? It would be immensely interesting to have it explained in this format.

  • @rameyzamora1018
    @rameyzamora10184 жыл бұрын

    Wow. This is one of the only Space Time episodes I can understand. But I can't stop watching all of 'em. Thanks, Dr O'Dowd.

  • @pspicer777
    @pspicer7775 жыл бұрын

    Sharp. Very sharp - and the explaination is simply superb. Thanks for this series.

  • @dystophilia
    @dystophilia5 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Matt, great episode as usual! One thing that surprised me about GW170817 was how identical the travel speed was between the gravitational wave and the gamma ray burst. I would have expected the gamma rays to arrive significantly later than the gw. Surely in 40Mpc of traveled space there must have been very low density sporadic concentrations of matter or dark matter, leading to a refractive index less than c. Is there such a thing as a refractive index for gravitation waves, identical with that of electromagnetic waves?

  • @JakubMareda

    @JakubMareda

    5 жыл бұрын

    Dark matter does not interact with light though, right?

  • @luudest

    @luudest

    5 жыл бұрын

    How about the gravitional red shift at the source -the two massive neutron stars. Wouldn‘t that also have delayed also the gamma ray signal?

  • @Dragrath1

    @Dragrath1

    5 жыл бұрын

    The problem is that since gravitational waves are thought to be self interacting wouldn't they also be effected canceling out much of whatever difference might arise otherwise?

  • @Linshark

    @Linshark

    5 жыл бұрын

    It does, there's gravity warping space.

  • @Dragrath1

    @Dragrath1

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yep gravitational lensing it's only indirect but there is an effect

  • @freshely9309
    @freshely93095 жыл бұрын

    Wow that's a simple but genius method to test extra dimensions!

  • @guillaumemaurice3503
    @guillaumemaurice35033 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for sharing this. That was very interesting. Very well presented.

  • @AJSDawg
    @AJSDawg3 жыл бұрын

    These are actually so good! Thank you.

  • @JohnJohnson-hl4fv
    @JohnJohnson-hl4fv4 жыл бұрын

    I know about the Fifth Dimension. I love most of their songs.

  • @polysci006
    @polysci0065 жыл бұрын

    If the path of a photon is altered by the gravitational effects of a large mass near its path, is the path of a gravitational wave altered in the same manner?

  • @atk05003

    @atk05003

    5 жыл бұрын

    Short answer: Yes. Slightly longer answer: Gravitational waves are like ripples in spacetime. If the fabric of spacetime is warped by a large mass, the ripples will follow the warped paths. Much longer answer that I only sort of understand: physics.stackexchange.com/questions/170410/do-gravitational-lenses-work-on-gravitational-waves

  • @DeathBringer769

    @DeathBringer769

    5 жыл бұрын

    Pretty sure that gravity doesn't curve the path of itself like that.

  • @travispluid3603

    @travispluid3603

    5 жыл бұрын

    But it would have to, to make sense, wouldn't it? A ripple has to travel through "something". If that something is already rippled, it would have to build on itself, right?

  • @eideticex

    @eideticex

    5 жыл бұрын

    I wonder about that one as well. Gravity is the force felt by traveling the curvature of space-time. In other words gravity is the path. We know that electromagnetism is self-interacting. So why not gravity as well?

  • @davidrosner6267

    @davidrosner6267

    5 жыл бұрын

    Should we be comparing the photon to the gravitional wave or the graviton? Negative mass could make the gravity self-interesting. Negative mass repels while positive mass attracts gravitionally. Its different then negative and positive charges because opposites don't attract but that could still produce some interesting outcomes. Equal positive and negative mass objects would exert equal positive and negative gravity and remain equidistant from each other.

  • @alisaiterkan
    @alisaiterkan5 жыл бұрын

    It may be based on a null-result but I think this was the best episode. Thank you.

  • @BANKO007
    @BANKO0073 жыл бұрын

    Thank goodness. I'm incredibly relieved by these results.

  • @CraZ3lmo
    @CraZ3lmo5 жыл бұрын

    Awesome video. Would love to learn more about string theory from you, any chance of a video?

  • @PersimmonHurmo
    @PersimmonHurmo5 жыл бұрын

    Finally a new episode, I've been waiting many light years!

  • @francescosorce5189

    @francescosorce5189

    5 жыл бұрын

    So you've been waiting n * 9.461 * 10^12 Km | n>0 Λ n c N?

  • @phillipschulze168

    @phillipschulze168

    5 жыл бұрын

    I did not know it is possible to wait for a distance.

  • @PersimmonHurmo

    @PersimmonHurmo

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@phillipschulze168 this was a wordplay, not a physical statement. I should have highlighted the word "years" for party *poopers* like you!

  • @Skizm6666

    @Skizm6666

    5 жыл бұрын

    I'm going to download to watch on my journey to catch Oumuamua 😊

  • @Brandon-rc9vp

    @Brandon-rc9vp

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@phillipschulze168 The Millennium Falcom completed a race in under 12 Parsecs....so I assume it is possible

  • @AmorosoGombe
    @AmorosoGombe4 жыл бұрын

    It's great to be able to devise such a simple but powerful mathematical test.

  • @SuperTangodelta
    @SuperTangodelta3 ай бұрын

    I agree this show is the best out there. It’s real contemporary science explained in just the right level of detail to back it up

  • @trasherhead
    @trasherhead5 жыл бұрын

    I guess I'm a bit slow, but why does gravity have to be a force in the first place? If you've done an episode on why gravity needs to be a force equal to the others, I think I missed it. I thought the higgs boson was supposed to explain gravity, either by being the force carrier or the catalyst for the emerging property of gravity. Higgs gives matter mass, mass compresses/stretches space and we observe it as gravity. Gravity just seems to simply be an emerging property of space being compressed. So confuzzzed :S I'm just glad there are people smart enough on our little ball to slowly figure this out. Keep up the good work :)

  • @marcodasilva1403

    @marcodasilva1403

    5 жыл бұрын

    This is what I also want to know.

  • @KohuGaly

    @KohuGaly

    5 жыл бұрын

    In physics, force is basically anything that breaks law of inertia. If object diverges from inertial motion, it is by definition being acted upon by a force. Some forces are just a matter of perspective and go away when you pick the right frame of reference (for example, centrifugal force) and others don't.

  • @raredrop6872

    @raredrop6872

    5 жыл бұрын

    Gravity and other force of nature are the reason why earth, sun, animals and pretty much everything we can see exist today!

  • @raredrop6872

    @raredrop6872

    5 жыл бұрын

    For more detailed explanation. Because gravity and other forces are attractive, gravitational energy is negative: one has to do work to separate a gravitational bound system, such as earth and moon. This negative energy can balance the positive energy needed to create a matter, but it's not quiet as simple. The negative gravitational energy of the earth, for example, is less than a billionth of the positive energy of the matter particles the made is made of. A body such as a star will have more negative energy, and the smaller it is(the closer the different parts of it are to each other), the greater the gravitational energy will be. Buy before it can become greater than the positive energy of the matter, the star will collapse to a black hole, and black holes have positive energy. That's why empty space is stable! Bodies such as stars or black holes cannot just appear from nothing. But a whole universe can. =)

  • @kasparsoltero1995

    @kasparsoltero1995

    5 жыл бұрын

    super helpful

  • @gravijta936
    @gravijta9365 жыл бұрын

    Imagine playing Extra-Dimensional Angry Birds. Those chickens wouldn't grasp the gravity of the situation, but I'd still be waving as they fly by!

  • @TheAngryDwarfff

    @TheAngryDwarfff

    5 жыл бұрын

    My god thats hilarous

  • @BattousaiHBr

    @BattousaiHBr

    5 жыл бұрын

    1907: 3d chess 2018: 4d angry birds

  • @ThePseudomancer

    @ThePseudomancer

    5 жыл бұрын

    Pretty sure this comment is from 2009.

  • @eval_is_evil

    @eval_is_evil

    5 жыл бұрын

    Holy crap this was one epic play of words my friend

  • @Soulwrite7

    @Soulwrite7

    5 жыл бұрын

    Have a look at the game Miegakure (4D puzzle game), been in development for years but I occasionally check on it. There was also a 4D simulator which allows you to roll cubes and spheres around, sometimes losing them in the 4th Dimension when they bounce in/through it. Having a corner of a dice 'floating' in the air, emerging out of nowhere apparently 'hovering' without support.

  • @slowpnir
    @slowpnir4 жыл бұрын

    To calculate drop-off, you either need 2 collisions of the same mass on different distances, or 2 detectors separated by decent chunk of space. We have neither. The mass and distances are calculated and therefore are prone to errors and fudges.

  • @johnmorrell3187

    @johnmorrell3187

    4 жыл бұрын

    I think the idea here is that since we observed this event directly we can confidently calculate what the gravitational waves would be and then compare to the actual measured data. If we only had the gravitational wave data, you'd be right. But this event was observed optically as well.

  • @pawanpatel2874
    @pawanpatel28745 жыл бұрын

    Very good explanation, I understood absolutely nothing, but it sure spin my head and knocked me out of my element while I'm drunk. Thank you.

  • @ariangorman2325
    @ariangorman23255 жыл бұрын

    I actually got excited at the end of this episode. Love the channel, keep up all the great work!

  • @adamgray9212
    @adamgray92124 жыл бұрын

    4th spatial dimension: *exists* Gravity: "aight imma head out"

  • @simplyamazing7779

    @simplyamazing7779

    4 жыл бұрын

    🤣

  • @IXIPRESS
    @IXIPRESS5 жыл бұрын

    My favourite channel that I cannot comprehend.

  • @Bluemilk92
    @Bluemilk925 жыл бұрын

    You'll never know how much I appreciate what this channel does. It doesn't treat it audience as children. I'm a college dropout, an ex-drug addict, and disabled. That doesn't make me any less capable of learning. This sort of information, is made accessible with content like this. I've always said, you could _theoretically_ gain a "PHD" equivalent, with Google alone. If you had the discipline. So it's technically possible for me to gather this information. That doesn't mean I'd have done it. This channel is *giving* ideas away, not just supplying them to people who ask.

  • @ChappalMarungi

    @ChappalMarungi

    9 ай бұрын

    I appreciate this comment but you CANNOT get a physics phd equivalent with Google alone lmao that's laughable. What he mentioned here is the most layman of layman, you wouldn't understand even the basic equations necessary to understand the math behind this.

  • @Bluemilk92

    @Bluemilk92

    9 ай бұрын

    ​@@ChappalMarungi It's laughably absurd, neigh impossibly difficult. It'd almost certainly never happen. Still, *in theory* are there not way's to pirate books required, bribe or find private tutors, get lesson plans, find forums to have work checked, find research papers etc?

  • @ChappalMarungi

    @ChappalMarungi

    9 ай бұрын

    @@Bluemilk92 Haha ok yea, if we look at it that way, alot of conviction could probably help in getting one

  • @Bluemilk92

    @Bluemilk92

    9 ай бұрын

    @@ChappalMarungi I want to stress that I agree it's neigh impossible. Still, I can imagine a savant in year 2121, born in poverty, pulling it off. It'd make a 5 out of 10 film.

  • @ExaltedDuck
    @ExaltedDuck5 жыл бұрын

    Chemists have had a way to detect extra dimensions for decades. It involves reacting lysergic acid diethylamide with a human consciousness.

  • @Gogglesofkrome

    @Gogglesofkrome

    5 жыл бұрын

    no, that's called an acid trip. Do you know what a hallucination is? You're stimulating yourself with LSD, and no matter what sort of fucked up neural re-wiring that you end up going through, you're not going to experience anything extra-dimensional.

  • @ExaltedDuck

    @ExaltedDuck

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@Gogglesofkrome you must be a lot of fun at parties.

  • @Gogglesofkrome

    @Gogglesofkrome

    5 жыл бұрын

    >queue stereotypical response about 'muh parties' Your post was pretty much something that someone who sucks down on LSD at every given chance they get would probably say, so I hope you can understand that I thought that you were yet another drug induced psychotic posting bullshit on the web, and I just couldn't help myself but btfo another libtard

  • @ExaltedDuck

    @ExaltedDuck

    5 жыл бұрын

    I'm not sure if I know how to do anything unironically anymore. I should just change my name to Poe's law disclaimer or something.

  • @jorgepeterbarton

    @jorgepeterbarton

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@ExaltedDuck what, are you joking? Deed poll wont let you! ;)

  • @juzoli
    @juzoli5 жыл бұрын

    It doesn’t mean there are no extra dimensions out there, only that gravity doesn’t lose energy there.

  • @JakubMareda

    @JakubMareda

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, it also doesn't mean there is no God, just that he doesn't surf on gravity waves to steal their energy.

  • @gnikola2013

    @gnikola2013

    5 жыл бұрын

    It doesn't even mean that, just that with the setup used, extra dimensions where not measured, in the one case measured. We can neither conclude that there are no extra dimensions, nor that they are. It's just new data we have

  • @juzoli

    @juzoli

    5 жыл бұрын

    Kiritsu Exactly... We shouldn’t draw conclusions based on 1 experiment. But even if we do, this only disproof 1 specific property of extra dimensions, not the existence of these dimensions.

  • @AbdulHannan-uv6ym

    @AbdulHannan-uv6ym

    5 жыл бұрын

    point to ponder. Acceleration due to gravity is vector quantity, but gravity itself is not a vector, so how can even inverse square law even applied to it. correct me please

  • @SuperFish40

    @SuperFish40

    5 жыл бұрын

    True, it's making an assumption that gravity interacts in higher dimensions the same as in our 3 physical and 1 time

  • @Raiddd__
    @Raiddd__5 жыл бұрын

    So glad I found this DIY tutorial

  • @starscape539
    @starscape5395 жыл бұрын

    Is it okay for gravity to travel "pretty much" (11:12) the speed of light? Gravitational waves arriving 1.7s sooner than light itself seems like it might be a big deal. Is it just that light was slowed down on the way over by gases in its path whereas gravitational waves aren't slowed down by anything and so traveled at the speed of light in a vacuum? A fun way to think about it is that the wave of light was over 500,000km away from Earth by the time the gravitational wave had already reached us. On a separate note, when will we get to enjoy PBS Space Time in eye-wateringly beautiful 4K? Or at least 1440p? :)

  • @ioxsoft

    @ioxsoft

    5 жыл бұрын

    I think that the light is emited when they merge, but the gravitational waves start before that when they are merging.

  • @valasfar1557

    @valasfar1557

    5 жыл бұрын

    ioxsoft It’s both of your explanations.

  • @UdayNatt

    @UdayNatt

    5 жыл бұрын

    So time really stands still for someone traveling at 100% lightspeed and the entire universe ahead becomes a single 2D flat sheet. That is so weird.

  • @mattmatthews1869

    @mattmatthews1869

    5 жыл бұрын

    Mukul, 4K isn’t beautiful, you can’t see it, it’s a scam, humans can barely ascertain more than “standard definition” it’s just marketing.

  • @shafransky93
    @shafransky935 жыл бұрын

    With optical astronomy, we could hear the thunder of our universe. Now with gravitational astronomy we see the lightning that drives it. {●.●}

  • @OpportunisticHunter

    @OpportunisticHunter

    4 жыл бұрын

    @DC Perry Now we need to detect the Hammers that wields the thunders and lightnings of the universe.

  • @kevinstevens5309
    @kevinstevens53092 жыл бұрын

    None of your videos are boring. I appreciate the content. I can see someone thinking science "boring" if "it's too hard to understand" for that person. 🙄

  • @tedbates1236
    @tedbates12363 жыл бұрын

    I have been listening. The idea that gravitational waves were created with two neutron stars merging and that the intensity and distance traveled would predict the energy you should measure. Then if that measurement is less than expected, that would be evidence for extra dimensions because some energy could have been drained off in an extra dimension. That is clever. That the intensity you measured did not lose any energy seems to indicate that there are no extra dimensions. That is sad but quite clever. Thank you. I couldn't understand everything you said but I did understand the main point you made.

  • @GSPV33
    @GSPV335 жыл бұрын

    Einstein validated once again, baby. 😎

  • @Phobos_Anomaly

    @Phobos_Anomaly

    5 жыл бұрын

    At this point it's more or less a given. We're well within the "Einstein was right" target...now it's simply a matter of showing over and over again just how right he was, to ever increasing decimal places.

  • @jonbainmusicvideos8045

    @jonbainmusicvideos8045

    5 жыл бұрын

    Not so fast. GR contradicts QM and both claim to be empirically validated. Not possible. Blackholes cannot emit anything past the event horizon traveling at lightspeed and yet it is claimed that gravitational waves are doing this. Contradiction. Resolution is at this link www.flight-light-and-spin.com/simulator/relativity-orbit-solar-system.htm

  • @jessedampare1379

    @jessedampare1379

    5 жыл бұрын

    Jon Bain what? When has an object “emitted” gravity? GR says gravity is a result of curved spacetime. The blackhole is an object that “curves” spacetime. It doesn’t emit it

  • @katrinal353

    @katrinal353

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@jonbainmusicvideos8045 I think you confuse partricles with gravitational waves there buddy.

  • @apurvmj
    @apurvmj5 жыл бұрын

    I will pretend like I understand this

  • @billyboy1er

    @billyboy1er

    4 жыл бұрын

    I was actually relieved at the end, when he said that observations disproved this hypothesis, cause i understood almost non of it ! 😅

  • @frederickjohnpicarello1909

    @frederickjohnpicarello1909

    4 жыл бұрын

    I understood everything completely..I think ??! 😜

  • @werewolf4358

    @werewolf4358

    4 жыл бұрын

    We can tell if there are other dimensions by measuring how strong gravity is vs how strong it's supposed to be assuming only the dimensions we know of exist. Gravity is exactly as strong as it should be = no extra dimensions.

  • @OpportunisticHunter

    @OpportunisticHunter

    4 жыл бұрын

    Detail: All of this comes out of an ass... it's just a bunch of shit. That is not even a theorized form of detecting extra-dimensions... (it should be very small, subatomic instead). But what we see is just shit!! I never seen PBS Space Time go completely full of shit! But now I have... this is all just a bunch of bullshit

  • @nosuchthing8

    @nosuchthing8

    4 жыл бұрын

    Calm down!

  • @leaturk11
    @leaturk115 жыл бұрын

    Very well explained, top man.

  • @mrsimadana
    @mrsimadana4 жыл бұрын

    Synchronous events and parallel existence is VERY RELATED. Personal experiences lead me to this awesome THEROY, but MY personal TRUTH.

  • @lewisyoung1271
    @lewisyoung12714 жыл бұрын

    In summary, the gravitational wave detection shows that there are no extra dimensions beyond 3 plus 1 spacetime dimension.

  • @frankdimeglio8216

    @frankdimeglio8216

    2 жыл бұрын

    THE THEORETICAL, TOP DOWN, CLEAR, SIMPLE, AND BALANCED MATHEMATICAL PROOF OF THE FACT THAT E=MC2 IS F=MA OF NECESSITY: Gravity AND ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy are linked AND BALANCED opposites, AS E=MC2 IS F=ma; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity. Gravity IS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy. Very importantly, outer “space” involves full inertia; AND it is fully invisible AND black. NOW, carefully consider what is THE SUN; AS it does (and it must) exist in both time AND SPACE. The stars AND PLANETS are POINTS in the night sky !!! E=MC2 is CLEARLY F=ma ON BALANCE. Gravity IS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy. ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity. "Mass"/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. E=MC2 IS F=ma. This NECESSARILY represents, INVOLVES, AND DESCRIBES what is possible/potential AND actual IN BALANCE, AS gravity IS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy !!!! Gravity/acceleration involves BALANCED inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE, AS E=MC2 IS F=ma ON BALANCE; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. "Mass"/ENERGY involves BALANCED inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE consistent WITH/AS what is BALANCED electromagnetic/gravitational force/ENERGY, AS E=MC2 IS F=ma; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity !!! It all CLEARLY makes perfect sense. Carefully consider what is THE MAN who IS standing on what is THE EARTH/ground. Touch AND feeling BLEND, AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity; AS E=MC2 IS F=MA ON BALANCE !!! (Energy has/involves GRAVITY, AND ENERGY has/involves inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE.) Objects fall at the SAME RATE (neglecting air resistance, of course), AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity; AS E=MC2 IS F=MA ON BALANCE !!! ACCORDINGLY, the rotation of WHAT IS THE MOON matches it's revolution. The stars AND PLANETS are POINTS in the night sky. The sky is blue, AND THE EARTH is ALSO BLUE !!! Carefully consider what is THE EYE. GREAT. GRAVITATIONAL force/ENERGY IS proportional to (or BALANCED with/as) inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE, AS E=MC2 IS F=ma IN BALANCE; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity. TIME is NECESSARILY possible/potential AND actual IN BALANCE, AS E=MC2 IS F=ma IN BALANCE; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity. Gravity IS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy. BALANCE AND completeness go hand in hand. TIME DILATION ULTIMATELY proves ON BALANCE that E=MC2 IS F=ma, AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity. This CLEARLY explains the cosmological redshift AND the black hole(s) !!! AGAIN, gravity IS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy. E=MC2 is CLEARLY F=ma IN BALANCE !!!! Think QUANTUM GRAVITY !!! It all CLEARLY makes perfect sense ON BALANCE !!!! Great. By Frank DiMeglio

  • @ASLUHLUHCE
    @ASLUHLUHCE3 жыл бұрын

    11:43 This did not rule out the possibility of extra spatial dimensions. It only constrained extra dimensions where gravity is leaking into them. It doesn't say anything about extra spatial dimensions that aren't doing anything to gravity or light.

  • @billyt8868

    @billyt8868

    3 жыл бұрын

    congrats. you understand context. 🙄

  • @yuryeuceda8590
    @yuryeuceda85905 жыл бұрын

    Prodigiousness Professor. Thank you as always perfect.

  • @captainyt1177
    @captainyt1177 Жыл бұрын

    Fantastic channel keep up the good work

  • @Italiano9091
    @Italiano90913 жыл бұрын

    Have any of you ever had the experience of looking into the future while sleeping? This has happened to me a lot in the past. It's a little difficult to explain, but I try: When I am half asleep, I dream (or feel that something will happen in the next few seconds) and it actually happens. I heard my mother say something once, half asleep, and a few seconds later, she really said it.

  • @thomaswx2245

    @thomaswx2245

    Жыл бұрын

    Did she perhaps repeat herself?

  • @jondreauxlaing
    @jondreauxlaing5 жыл бұрын

    Man, that result destroys a whole mess of wild cosmological theories I've heard. The 3+1 universe is certainly easier to wrap one's head around, but now we still have the open questions. I will say that I have a hard time believing gravity is a force like the others are forces. The geometric description is just so elegant. I get that it clashes with quantum mechanics, but I really don't think we're going to find a "graviton". I do have a question though. In Einstein's description of gravity, as I understand it, gravity isn't a force but rather a consequence of inertial movement along a geodesic through curved spacetime. How does this jive with the description of the arrow of time and its relationship with entropy? I never really see gravity and entropy discussed at the same time, even though they're both some of the only concepts that rely on a concept of time, as far as I know. Maybe I'm asking a nonsensical question, but it was a thought I had.

  • @ninja250r2008

    @ninja250r2008

    5 жыл бұрын

    I want an answer to this too. Also, if gravity is not a force then is time not a "dimension" Idk anything about entropy, but maybe gravity is just curvature and time is just entropy. And that's it?

  • @gnarthdarkanen7464

    @gnarthdarkanen7464

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@ninja250r2008m just to offer a bit of help (a nudge? in approximately the right direction) Entropy is simplest understood as "chaos". Physicists termed it "entropy" in dissertations about Order and Chaos in Systems regarding Thermodynamics, so that's probably the subject you'd find most helpful... Basically, as Time progresses "forward" entropy generally increases... (Simplified Conceptual) Think of your system like building a house. The system will naturally "settle" into a certain order as you build, due to equilibrium. (This is the short-cut explanation for why the solar system and the Milky Way generally resemble discs instead of wonky spheroids)... BUT left to itself, the house will start to corrupt and fall apart eventually... as entropy enters. (Basically, everything systemically put together, falls apart sooner or later.) I'm willing to go out on the limb and quietly suggest Time as three dimensions, being logically the required minimals for interlacing so thoroughly with three-dimensional space to give us the universe as we understand it. Time works everywhere. What's tougher to "wrap your head around" (still baking my noodle years into it) is that we (humans) can't yet measure time the way we can measure space... You can take a ruler or tape-measure that's "theoretically" long enough, and measure anything spacially. It's so many yards, feet, or meters (etc) long, tall, and wide... three spacial dimensions. BUT even a clock or a specialized radiological decay counter doesn't measure Time. It's only feasible (so far) to measure the RESULTS of Time Passing... like the seconds measure "ticks" of gears working inside an old pocket watch or mechanical clock... the "oscillations" of a crystal in a newer digital time-piece... even the particles streaming out of a specific sample of specific purity of radioactive material decaying at a known rate ONLY ever measure the RESULTS of time passing. We can't technologically quantify how FAR in time it will be when the sun next sets a direct beam of light through a certain window in your house (for instance) from exactly the moment I type this period. That doesn't stop it being a dimension, and the same as space, it's more or less just "sitting there" while we pass through it. In fact, it doesn't stop us seeing "results" no matter what "hypothetical vector" we take in passing through it... since we only measure results of that passing. AND super-gravity, from say... ultimately dense objects, can really F*** things up and make them difficult to understand... but I'm still just working on it. I don't think we're going to find "gravitons" either. I have a suspicion (lately) that gravity is kind of a consequence of existing or "expressing" in any material sense. SO whenever particles show mass, they show gravity... just on such an infinitesimal level that we struggle to measure, quantify, or factor it into work. BUT that's just more theory, too. ;o)

  • @wellrose17

    @wellrose17

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@gnarthdarkanen7464 I'm being completely genuine, define a demention for me please. I am so drawn to this topic but lack the education.

  • @gnarthdarkanen7464

    @gnarthdarkanen7464

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@wellrose17 Okay... bear with me... and I'll try to get it so you understand it. Essentially, a "dimension" is a measureable linear field. In studying dimensions, we use "lines" to represent dimensions... so we have something visual to diagram and measure... and quantify with numbers. So 2D or 2-Dimensional means two linear measureable fields, and we'd represent that as two lines crossing at right angles (usually)... A 2D object then, is a flat plane... like a piece of paper... Somewhere here, it's important to point out that in Physics (especially Astro Physics) we tend to assume everyone knows that dimensions and planes are generally considered "infinite" unless otherwise specified. It doesn't always look that way in diagrams and pictures, but we're "supposed to" put little arrows at the ends of lines to indicate the intention, sort of a symbol of "infinite in that direction"...without having to write it out or draw lines all the way across everything else. It just avoids clutter. BUT assuming most of us already know that, some folks forego the arrows for neatness and move on. 3D or 3-Dimensional means we now include a third line intersecting with the original two, also at a right angle (usually) to both of them, and is conventionally going to indicate space around you in general terms... Normally, the base three dimensions are Height (up and down, vertically), Width (sideways, left and right), and Depth (forward and backward). Those three spacial dimensions can be measured easily with a measuring tape... say in inches, centimeters, miles, kilometers, Astronomical Units, etc... Hope that helps. ;o)

  • @wellrose17

    @wellrose17

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@gnarthdarkanen7464 thank you for explaining that. I get it. I just watched this kzread.info/dash/bejne/dHqmpNRxn7i8iLg.html entanglement, holographic & it was amazing.! So information is spewed from the horizon continuing on via quantum entangled universe?

  • @dragonshadowstorm
    @dragonshadowstorm5 жыл бұрын

    Explaining how we would measure anything in an additional dimension would work much better with a 2d to 3d example. What would be a good 2d analogy for gravitational waves?

  • @tacticalbros9823

    @tacticalbros9823

    2 жыл бұрын

    I’m not a expert, but i believe it would be a semi thick line of sort that thins out as it keeps expanding along the two dimensions, however I do question if the waves would even be possible in 2d space time due to there being no third dimension for them to pull with their rotation, correct me if I’m wrong

  • @crewtheaftermath4105
    @crewtheaftermath41054 ай бұрын

    wish i lived on your block to drink coffee with you often man. awesome math here. openening minds man good stuff.

  • @zombiasnow15
    @zombiasnow153 жыл бұрын

    W-- I-- L-- D-- !!! I wish I could say I can't wait to see these amazing sights, but at 55 I don't think I will see too much more new and exciting inventions .. but I Can say the amount of mind blowing things I have been party to, is awe-inspiring! So far it has been quite a ride! Thank You GOD Stay Safe everyone

  • @sunshadow7XK

    @sunshadow7XK

    3 жыл бұрын

    You say that now and then by the time you're 70 you're on alpha centauri swearing at your agri-bot for pouring manure on your house

  • @Dagobah359
    @Dagobah3595 жыл бұрын

    @PBS Space Time Are there 3+2 models?

  • @joeytribani6115
    @joeytribani61154 жыл бұрын

    Love your videos bro keep it up

  • @MDBowron
    @MDBowron3 жыл бұрын

    What about Hilbert Space, which can theorize there are more dimensions in the macro world? Take a bottle of coke, for instance. You can move it forward-back (z axis), left-right (x axis) and up-down (y axis), but you can also rotate the bottle along its axis (clockwise-counterclockwise), you can also spin it between 0 and 360 degrees in a forward-backwards motion clockwise-counterclockwise, or a left-right motion again clockwise-counterclockwise. That creates 6 dimensions of movement in a macro level. We also use the three dimensions as grid references, for simplicity, but say there are 360 degrees of movement in a flip, what if you expand that circle of movement by a factor of 10, now you have 3600 degrees of movement. It's like you can't get a smallest fraction of a degree, or you could expand that circle endlessly into any size and the degrees will increase based on the order of magnitude. So there are infinite amounts of degrees within an expanded circle or within fractions of a degree.

  • @MDBowron

    @MDBowron

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Krishna Laxkaranother dimension of existence or another dimension of movement? because Hilbert space is correct in a mathematical and geometrical sense

  • @MDBowron

    @MDBowron

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Krishna Laxkar the 4D idea is a grid reference point, used to simplify where objects exist in relation to each other. Descartes invented it. But Hilbert came after Descartes, and he proved geometrically that there are more dimensions than the mere grid reference. If every angle of movement is a dimension, then there could be infinite dimensions of movement, as you'll never get the smallest or largest amount of degrees in a circle or sphere. There could also be other dimensions as in other universes in the multiverse like the Turok-Steindhart cyclical model and M-theory.

  • @TheRogueWolf
    @TheRogueWolf5 жыл бұрын

    Disappointing. I was hoping that we finally might locate wherever it is that my socks go when they disappear in the dryer.

  • @rylian21

    @rylian21

    5 жыл бұрын

    Since your socks are an entangled pair, the only logical explanation is that all dryers are powered by a black hole. One of the pair occasionally falls in and is converted to what I like to call Stocking Radiation.

  • @jamespikover2278
    @jamespikover22785 жыл бұрын

    I'm confused by your question about why Gravity is so weak relative (no pun intended) to other forces; according to General Relativity it isn't a force, but rather objects with Mass are, effectively, displacing space-time, and our ability to witness the phenomenon is because of scale. Not because gravity is so weak, but because this displacement of space-time is not really observable except at massive scales.

  • @jondreauxlaing

    @jondreauxlaing

    5 жыл бұрын

    Think of it like a side-quest, where the ultimate goal is marrying quantum mechanics and general relativity. Answering questions like this about gravity limits the scope of possibilities to how to make those two play nice together (ex: GR sees spacetime as a continuous "surface" with no minimum metric, whereas QM sees it as a roiling disjointed mess, with the minimum possible metrics being the Planck length and Planck time)

  • @stefanstankovic4781
    @stefanstankovic47814 жыл бұрын

    Wow, this episode's closing "space-time" just landed in your lap. :D

  • @abrisvegas
    @abrisvegas Жыл бұрын

    This is such a brilliant channel!

  • @jessstuart7495
    @jessstuart74955 жыл бұрын

    Do gravitational waves experience a doppler shift due to expansion of the universe?

  • @KohuGaly

    @KohuGaly

    5 жыл бұрын

    yes. All waves traveling at lightspeed experience redshift and blueshift.

  • @josephmarsh5031

    @josephmarsh5031

    5 жыл бұрын

    He never explained why the Gravity Waves beat the light of the event.

  • @Misfiring89

    @Misfiring89

    5 жыл бұрын

    Isn't that because those light come from the actual merging event, and the gravitational waves are generated seconds before the merge (due to strong interactions from the rapid binary rotation)

  • @pierreabbat6157

    @pierreabbat6157

    5 жыл бұрын

    My guess is that the GRB is from the atoms of gold and other heavy elements as they formed. The two neutron stars threw off gobs of neutronium as they spiraled in; it took a fraction of a second for the neutronium to decompress and fragment into ordinary-sized nuclei.

  • @aitch9053

    @aitch9053

    5 жыл бұрын

    Joseph Marsh - Gravity waves can travel through matter with no effect, while light energy is slowed. Similar to why neutrinos can be detected just before the flash of a supernova.

  • @Tokahax
    @Tokahax5 жыл бұрын

    The awesome data that these Neutron stars merging gave us does seem to have ruled out gravity expanding outward into higher dimensional planes, but that doesn't rule out lower dimensional space (which may be a confusing way to state that concept). When a supernova core collapses into a black hole, it is my conjecture that the space between the compact neutrons collapses into a dimension below that of Spacetime, for lack of a better way to say it. As a true and hardened armchair physicist, I'd say if you could observe a singularity at a black-hole's center, you'd find a hypersphere.

  • @ericzeigler8669

    @ericzeigler8669

    5 жыл бұрын

    Someone's been peeking into the computer on the Mothership. Double probing for you.

  • @wipalo.the.artist
    @wipalo.the.artist2 жыл бұрын

    Great video! Question: We tend to say that other dimensions are twisted up to fit in our spacial dimensions, but what effect would it have if our spacial dimensions were crumpled and twisted in larger spacial dimensions? (Reversed) Like a drawn stickman on a crumpled paper - he can't tell he's crumpled, he thinks we are from his vantage point. Could we detect gravitational waves spontaneously popping up from neutron star collisions as an indication of our dimension being "crumpled"? And could dark matter and energy be indicative of the "folds" in the paper from our perspective of the stickman?

  • @sandro7
    @sandro75 жыл бұрын

    Since we are in only one slice of 3D space, wouldn't gravity drop off in proportion to 1/R^2 anyway because we only interact with a spherical slice (bear with me for a sec)? This would be the same with light if we only saw its dispersion on a plane; it would only lose intensity if that 'plane' had thickness. If the source of light is in that plane, the light originally in that plane would stay in that plane.

  • @yaelurtusastegui2774

    @yaelurtusastegui2774

    4 жыл бұрын

    Exactly what I was thinking. Our "point of measurement" is inside the 3d

  • @Trias805
    @Trias8055 жыл бұрын

    Hey. I'm planning to start a Flat Universe Society. Could you maybe make t-shirts with a nice FUS logo or "the Universe is flat" on them?

  • @seekthelight9320
    @seekthelight93204 жыл бұрын

    Oh you can also go to these diemensions, it’s called DMT have fun everyone ☺️

  • @visualeyes7192

    @visualeyes7192

    4 жыл бұрын

    Seek The light 🙌😂🌵👁🌵

  • @hansisbrucker813

    @hansisbrucker813

    4 жыл бұрын

    Dimensional Mental Travels 😜

  • @twenty-fifth420

    @twenty-fifth420

    4 жыл бұрын

    Joe rogan has entered the chat.

  • @oliver_siegel

    @oliver_siegel

    4 жыл бұрын

    That's a whole nother dimension altogether

  • @lunafrejafahlgren2441

    @lunafrejafahlgren2441

    4 жыл бұрын

    Go away joe rogan

  • @doctari1061
    @doctari10612 жыл бұрын

    Interesting. That was actually quite important because it filters out many competing theories to General Relativity.

  • @memofromessex
    @memofromessex3 жыл бұрын

    I think I got this! Also, null results are great - imagine how much science would have advanced if people admitted they discovered nothing and this was promoted in the journals!

  • @MattersChris
    @MattersChris5 жыл бұрын

    Oh thank god. If there was positive result you would have to change your channel's name to "PBS Space time & 5th dimension".

  • @stevepittman3770

    @stevepittman3770

    5 жыл бұрын

    PBS Space Time Etc? :)

  • @nineball039

    @nineball039

    5 жыл бұрын

    With Marilyn McCoo and group?

  • @theRealDonaldTrump666

    @theRealDonaldTrump666

    5 жыл бұрын

    "5th dimension" is that near this flavor town i hear about? do they have toyotathons in flavor town. are toyotathons bleeding in from the 5th dimension?

  • @gursimarmiglani9143
    @gursimarmiglani91435 жыл бұрын

    It might be of help that I mension there's a spelling mistake in the thumbnail Edit: *mention, it's fixed now

  • @David-sx7on

    @David-sx7on

    5 жыл бұрын

    Might it be of help to mention there is a spelling mistake in your text?

  • @subplantant

    @subplantant

    5 жыл бұрын

    Think that's a joke bro

  • @igmusicandflying

    @igmusicandflying

    5 жыл бұрын

    I see what you did there.

  • @David-sx7on

    @David-sx7on

    5 жыл бұрын

    Ok good one. *Wondering why i even bothered to mension

  • @BothHands1

    @BothHands1

    5 жыл бұрын

    mension

  • @thersten
    @thersten3 жыл бұрын

    I love this program and Matt is the best!

  • @nosuchthing8
    @nosuchthing83 жыл бұрын

    Excellent show, excellent host. The world thanks you. But like your predecessor your enthusiasm energizes your voice. But dont forget, the faster you speak the less data is assimilated.

  • @devilsnetwork4212
    @devilsnetwork42125 жыл бұрын

    Does the existence of time cause gravity, or does the existence of gravity cause time; and how would you test for it?

  • @werewolf4358

    @werewolf4358

    4 жыл бұрын

    No, to the best of my knowledge time is a byproduct of entropy. That is to say that the only reason we can conceive of or observe time is because things around us do stuff, and they do it in a clearly observable direction. It only ever goes in that direction (as far as we currently understand it) because entropy cannot currently be reversed, to the best of our knowledge.

  • @iosefka7774

    @iosefka7774

    4 жыл бұрын

    Gravity is caused by the curvature of time due to energy. Time's existence does not cause gravity but gravity wouldn't work without time.

  • @carlwillows

    @carlwillows

    3 жыл бұрын

    I'm glad someone else sees it! Gravity is a result, similar to speed.

  • @brunoborma

    @brunoborma

    3 жыл бұрын

    All foundations lie one upon the other. There is no first fundamental atribute.