Is Space a Thing?

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Since the days of Ancient Greece, philosophers and scientists have been wondering: What is space? Is the absence of things… a thing? These questions continued to fascinate physicists in the modern era, leading Isaac Newton, Ernst Mach, and Albert Einstein to wonder about the true nature of the fabric of the cosmos. The search for an answer led them to some of the greatest theories in physics. This week, we ask if space and time are really real, and how they come together to make “spacetime”!
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  • @besmart
    @besmart7 жыл бұрын

    Space? That's just, like, your perspective… Tell us what you thought of this week's video!

  • @BabyboyBBL

    @BabyboyBBL

    7 жыл бұрын

    It's Okay To Be Smart Its good? ( i havent watched it yet 😂) ok ill leave

  • @MikhaelAhava

    @MikhaelAhava

    7 жыл бұрын

    It's Okay To Be Smart It's nearly midnight I'm sleepy it's Wednesday tomorrow and I have no clue. 20/6/17

  • @ashboon1625

    @ashboon1625

    7 жыл бұрын

    Bathwater ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

  • @weesaw6596

    @weesaw6596

    7 жыл бұрын

    It's Okay To Be Smart plz sub to savage ice cream and maby a shout out i loved it.

  • @supersaltypearl2017

    @supersaltypearl2017

    7 жыл бұрын

    I think it was one of your most exciting video yet.

  • @imienazwisko6527
    @imienazwisko65277 жыл бұрын

    But... What is a "thing"? **music from Vsauce**

  • @jonathanschossig1276

    @jonathanschossig1276

    7 жыл бұрын

    The Artist Anything that can be experienced.

  • @imienazwisko6527

    @imienazwisko6527

    7 жыл бұрын

    Unknown Name What does it mean to experience something?

  • @jonathanschossig1276

    @jonathanschossig1276

    7 жыл бұрын

    The Artist If you can see it, taste it, smell it, hear it, touch it or do one of the above with a projection of it, you can experience it.

  • @imienazwisko6527

    @imienazwisko6527

    7 жыл бұрын

    Unknown Name What if there was no being able to experience reality?

  • @stewardappiagyei6982

    @stewardappiagyei6982

    7 жыл бұрын

    *cue vsauce music*

  • @Angelica-bf5dx
    @Angelica-bf5dx7 жыл бұрын

    That Albert Einstein graphic is life

  • @TheFvpss

    @TheFvpss

    7 жыл бұрын

    what is life though?

  • @SmokeyEdits

    @SmokeyEdits

    7 жыл бұрын

    Bum bummmm. Doooo doooooo......

  • @MonDieuMaCauseMonEpee

    @MonDieuMaCauseMonEpee

    7 жыл бұрын

    what's the song playing during the gif.

  • @AgusSkywalker

    @AgusSkywalker

    7 жыл бұрын

    YES! I want to see more of that.

  • @mer7cer7

    @mer7cer7

    7 жыл бұрын

    It's Okay To Be Smart, play that Albert Einstein graphic!!!

  • @varvaramir
    @varvaramir3 жыл бұрын

    Joe: and now its empty Michael: Or *is* it? *Vsause music starts playing*

  • @fatpotato3512

    @fatpotato3512

    2 жыл бұрын

    Who's Joe?

  • @gugugua

    @gugugua

    2 жыл бұрын

    Joe mama

  • @KirkLau
    @KirkLau7 жыл бұрын

    someone GOT TO MAKE that color changing Einstein graphic into animated GIF.. please!

  • @hvxry

    @hvxry

    2 жыл бұрын

    Colour

  • @cespen9999

    @cespen9999

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@hvxry color

  • @flyingfungus7506

    @flyingfungus7506

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@cespen9999 colour

  • @Teelirious

    @Teelirious

    2 жыл бұрын

    This is the stupidest racistism evar.

  • @KirkLau

    @KirkLau

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Teelirious to be honest, i am surprised they are arguing about Color vs Colour instead of GIF vs GIF...

  • @kcwidman
    @kcwidman7 жыл бұрын

    I have never seen a 3D graph of space-time like that before. I like it.

  • @RobotB-hd5hs

    @RobotB-hd5hs

    6 жыл бұрын

    Kai Widman Yea, its a really good way to represent it.

  • @freddieking6456

    @freddieking6456

    6 жыл бұрын

    It makes something so confusing so simple

  • @Vvopat96

    @Vvopat96

    6 жыл бұрын

    me too finally understand it correctly very clever picture!

  • @jackmuller5478

    @jackmuller5478

    6 жыл бұрын

    why does an accelerating object have a curved trajectory in that graph though?

  • @freddieking6456

    @freddieking6456

    6 жыл бұрын

    Jack Müller because as it speeds up it will travel faster through space but slower through time

  • @Exurb1a
    @Exurb1a7 жыл бұрын

    God damn, that was fantastic.

  • @antonipolski9569

    @antonipolski9569

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ok

  • @pikachu-jf2oh

    @pikachu-jf2oh

    3 жыл бұрын

    How the heck are you not verified? Also love your vids

  • @EL-ISS

    @EL-ISS

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ayye the Existential Turtle! Love your vids, you have a gift with writing.

  • @bullpuppy7455

    @bullpuppy7455

    3 жыл бұрын

    ♥ The infinite blackness of space corresponds to an imaginary blank slate, which has the potential for something to exist within it. ♥ The 'things' that exist within that imagination are thoughts, given form. ♥ As individuals we get to experience these thoughts through the 5 senses of the vehicle that is our body. ♥ These senses are fed up into our brain, and converted into thought in our mind for us to perceive. ♥ If this greater mind that is exterior to us, but which also contains us, did not flow into us continuously, we would not exist. ♥ We are the universe, experiencing itself from many different perspectives. ♥ We are one with the Force, and the Force is with us. ♥ We are in the Father, and the Father is in us. ♥ Our minds are a part of God's mind. We are very holy! ♥ Therefore, LOVE your neighbor as yourself:)

  • @explorateur8159

    @explorateur8159

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@bullpuppy7455 very interesting, energetic bubbles upon an ocean of energy, yet move as if by some spirited wind upon the waters. The wind of the laws of physics & yet His intervention, yet our wind upon the world & each other as well. We sense the world & each other not by touching it even, but merely by being in the proximal presence of one another & having our particles mediated to one another by forces via virtual particles & bosons. These invisible carriers & messengers communicate between all of our quanta infinitesimally & somewhere, somehow we sense it macroscopically. Where is a sense? & What is it? But yet another fluctuation of energy across our dendritic bodies, where is our soul but perhaps in the collective excitation of this brief collection of quanta?

  • @silverslider562
    @silverslider5625 жыл бұрын

    That Einstein guitar solo tho 🤘🏽

  • @TrasherBiner

    @TrasherBiner

    3 жыл бұрын

    I would like 10 hours of that Einstein solo with the color changing animation and all.

  • @profcanbeatbox

    @profcanbeatbox

    3 жыл бұрын

    Me too

  • @brentoctaviano7059
    @brentoctaviano70594 жыл бұрын

    "Is space a thing?" *Well yes but actually no*

  • @luffy23101993

    @luffy23101993

    3 жыл бұрын

    But yes

  • @joelmartinez7687

    @joelmartinez7687

    3 жыл бұрын

    But no

  • @delqyrus2619

    @delqyrus2619

    3 жыл бұрын

    As a physicist this is the answer to so many simple questions.... Almost like "It depends...". The problem is: The universe isn't "simple". So how should there be simple answers - especially to simple questions? "Is the Earth flat?" - "No, but yes, maybe, it depends - if you are moving with the speed of light, basically everything is flat, but if you don't, Earth behaves like it isn't, but maybe we are wrong about the behavior of things, so maybe it is, but .if you view it from the point of view of a four dimensional being, you can wrap the earth into flat shapes, but if you are a being of higher dimensions you most probably don't have any idea of what 'flat' is., but...".

  • @vintage-radio

    @vintage-radio

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@delqyrus2619 calm down they were just doing a joke

  • @ccyclink3101

    @ccyclink3101

    3 жыл бұрын

    They should take their jokes elsewhere. Some people would like to find further explanations or professional opinions in the comments, but all they can see are jokes upvoted by the crowds of average-Joes who flock on them like flies on pies of excrement.

  • @goldenkipi334
    @goldenkipi3347 жыл бұрын

    that graph showing relation between space and time was helpful to understand spacetime, great work as usual

  • @flow5718

    @flow5718

    7 жыл бұрын

    yh.. very ncie

  • @riccardocuciniello2044

    @riccardocuciniello2044

    6 жыл бұрын

    But it doesn't make you understand what TIME is. Time is seen as a sort of space something can move, "flows" through. Philosophically uninformed videos :/

  • @MrHeroicDemon

    @MrHeroicDemon

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@riccardocuciniello2044 Universe doesn't have to make sense to humans. Humans couldn't fathom germs, now we do. If you say you understand it fully, then you don't. Watch startalk. We have tools to help humans try and grasp what is happening. Like maths for blackhole gravity. We humans have a need to make something this or that. Yet light is a wave and a particle point. It's not a wave OR a particle. We don't have the right definitions at this time to describe many things that math can prove. That is all. Our time of understanding/definitions are going to update as we gain a sensibility of it all. Humans couldn't fathom germs, now we do.

  • @riccardocuciniello2044

    @riccardocuciniello2044

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@MrHeroicDemon it absolutely MUST make sense to humans. Not now, not tomorrow, but it must have to possibly to make sense, even if we will never understand it - in other words, we must be able to understand the universe completely, even if we will never practice succeed in it.

  • @riccardocuciniello2044

    @riccardocuciniello2044

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@MrHeroicDemon the fact that we can't understand what maths proves it's a problem, but what does it mean? It means that there is a real shift between reality and the object of science itself. Reality as we experience it normally is not just an illusion, but it's the realm in which we can't not live. We don't live in the realm where things are and aren't at the same time - at the same time, to make sense of our reality, we must construct something that isn't part of normal reality. One of those things is time. We don't, and won't ever experience time for what it is according to scientific theory. But scientific time isn't TEMPORAL at all. So, while "time" may be a physical notion, the character of temporality is the foundamental way of human experience of reality.

  • @H20fulman
    @H20fulman7 жыл бұрын

    But the real question is.. If crabs walk on the ocean floor, when they look up, do they see *flying* fish?

  • @hellothing

    @hellothing

    7 жыл бұрын

    Codie Tanguma yes they do technically

  • @UncleFLarry

    @UncleFLarry

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@hellothing no because fish don't fly, they swim. They see swimming fish, just as we see flying birds. You can't fly in the water. You can swim, float, sink, et cetera...

  • @paolovallejo8022

    @paolovallejo8022

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@UncleFLarry air is a fluid and is explained as such by fluid mechanics so yes, fish do fly, just in a much denser medium

  • @travishirschfelt413

    @travishirschfelt413

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@paolovallejo8022 bingo. I tell people all the time that air is more like water then what you think of as empty space

  • @marleyjanim5033

    @marleyjanim5033

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@UncleFLarry This is how gravity work 1 - think of space as a fluid The mass of the earth dispersed space.... Space compresses on earth... That's how gravity works, it is a push

  • @denttech2515
    @denttech25152 жыл бұрын

    6:18. To be honest, this is the first time I truly understood what spacetime means and what gravity actually is (according to modern physics and Einstein... it may change). I feel like an idiot, but I have to say something. Thanks for another awesome video

  • @noahwilliams8996

    @noahwilliams8996

    2 жыл бұрын

    Here's a playlist I made that explains it in more detail: kzread.info/head/PLogZUlUedQpb8oRmVvsF47YA8VUvpv9z0

  • @IzzySoDope
    @IzzySoDope4 жыл бұрын

    I appreciate how this channel factors in the relatively short attention soan of people and constantly bombards us with changing images and graphics

  • @Tuchulu
    @Tuchulu7 жыл бұрын

    What's the Einstein "theme"? It sounds totally wicked, bro

  • @bubblebuttbubberduck8912

    @bubblebuttbubberduck8912

    7 жыл бұрын

    Tuchulu darude sandstorm

  • @arthurpenndragon8091

    @arthurpenndragon8091

    7 жыл бұрын

    arigato, Notch-san!

  • @masterroshi6993

    @masterroshi6993

    7 жыл бұрын

    I found it here --> soundcloud.com/chrisgoulstone/red-star

  • @thenecromorpher

    @thenecromorpher

    7 жыл бұрын

    Master Roshi Thanks for the link drop.

  • @masterroshi6993

    @masterroshi6993

    7 жыл бұрын

    thenecromorpher no problem, happy to help

  • @tgg1217
    @tgg12177 жыл бұрын

    can we please have that Einstein gif?

  • @sigmamale520

    @sigmamale520

    4 жыл бұрын

    no you can't

  • @timmy18135

    @timmy18135

    4 жыл бұрын

    🕸🕷dada

  • @shruthisrikumar5907

    @shruthisrikumar5907

    2 жыл бұрын

    Well

  • @sksury3067
    @sksury30676 жыл бұрын

    1:03 "It all has to do with relativity" *ROCK METAL MUSIC!* *RAINBOWS* *ALBERT EINSTEIN!* *SCIENCE!* *PHYSICS* *BOOM!!!* *BOOM!!!!* *!!!!BOOM!!!!*

  • @anthonybeervor2265
    @anthonybeervor22656 жыл бұрын

    Albert Einstein was kind of a rockstar. I mean he was a celebrity scientist and he even had groupies lol.

  • @KazuyaMusic
    @KazuyaMusic7 жыл бұрын

    I was following along until he started talking about spacetime

  • @noakatz6545

    @noakatz6545

    5 жыл бұрын

    SAME

  • @rockalOvEerx73
    @rockalOvEerx737 жыл бұрын

    I demand a full version of that Einstein sick tune

  • @AThingFromSpace
    @AThingFromSpace7 жыл бұрын

    It's mee

  • @Poshur

    @Poshur

    3 жыл бұрын

    cool a verified youtuber

  • @thorny8013

    @thorny8013

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lmao

  • @idqau

    @idqau

    3 жыл бұрын

    oof ouch no one recognizes you....I don't know you but I checked out 2 of your latest videos just now to see wh at k i n d o f y o u t u b e r y o u a r e

  • @kbimm
    @kbimm2 жыл бұрын

    As far as I know, Einstein was a fierce defender of Mach‘s principle. He did not believe that spacetime was a thing. Also acceleration must be relative to SOME reference frame. The bucket water would NOT bend in an empty universe. Considering the Lense-Thirring effect, there even seems to be empirical evidence for this apparently merely philosophical stance.

  • @ladyviolety6678
    @ladyviolety66787 жыл бұрын

    A L B E R T E I N S T E I N

  • @malvoliomaximillian2001

    @malvoliomaximillian2001

    6 жыл бұрын

    LordHylar *Badass rock music start playing*

  • @thebettafish3239

    @thebettafish3239

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ta da da da ta da da ta da daaaaaaaa

  • @alexanderbira
    @alexanderbira7 жыл бұрын

    The real question is: Is thing a space???

  • @Nyuum

    @Nyuum

    7 жыл бұрын

    MangoTube *vsauce music ensues*

  • @alexanderbira

    @alexanderbira

    7 жыл бұрын

    Hey guys, Michael, Vsauce here. As we all know, the word space derives from the Latin word 'spaceibus' which, back then meant big. They would often use it to describe house size. Anyway, space. What is it? Space is where there is nothing. Like a vacuum. Vacuum is a cool word because it is the only word to have a double U but not a W. As I was saying, space is a vacuum (nothing), a place where there are no atoms. For example, if I was to hold out this empty bottle *shows bottle* it may look empty, but there is actually matter in it. Atoms, particles if you will. Oxygen with a combination of other gases and even water. In conclusion, the answer is... No.

  • @swinde

    @swinde

    7 жыл бұрын

    Even if space was a pure vacuum, it still has a property of separating matter by distance, so it IS a thing that keeps all of the matter from clumping together.

  • @NOMAD-qp3dd

    @NOMAD-qp3dd

    7 жыл бұрын

    hehe

  • @madderhat5852

    @madderhat5852

    7 жыл бұрын

    Duuuuuuuuuuuuude.......

  • @shadowcat9164
    @shadowcat91647 жыл бұрын

    6:53 DOCTOR WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

  • @haachamacultist1stcultisto19
    @haachamacultist1stcultisto196 жыл бұрын

    I was saying "YOU CAN STILL FEEL IT SPINNING EVEN IF THERE'S NOTHING" through the entire video

  • @cursekatana
    @cursekatana7 жыл бұрын

    this actually helped me finally understand spacetime .a concept I just couldn't get my head around but it makes so much sense. I'm saving this video💯

  • @cursekatana

    @cursekatana

    7 жыл бұрын

    space isn't really a thing, just a part of a thing. space is 3 dimensions but we are 4 dimensional and the fourth dimension is time. my theory is that the expansion of the universe (which is constantly accelerating) is time and it explains why time only goes in one direction because the universe is only expanding not contracting. Matter warps space time and this warping effect causes gravity however the warping effect also causes time dilation due to time being a quantity of space time. this also explains why the speed of light is constant as photons are massless and therefore do not warp space-time and can travel at the maximum speed allowed by space ( shown by that nifty graph at the end other the video). I probably just came to the same conclusions as many other people but this video really cleared it up for me. Thanks itsoktobesmart !

  • @nikhilmenda2983
    @nikhilmenda29837 жыл бұрын

    HOly crap this is enlightening. the part at 6:21 blew me away. I never thought about spacetime like that before, Thanks Joe!

  • @THECANDYISGONE
    @THECANDYISGONE7 жыл бұрын

    Im having a hard time understanding this.

  • @johnniewalker39

    @johnniewalker39

    4 жыл бұрын

    You're not alone, rest assured. :D

  • @ahmedsrabon6173

    @ahmedsrabon6173

    4 жыл бұрын

    Us

  • @davidmacphee3549

    @davidmacphee3549

    4 жыл бұрын

    Tough stuff but super well done. Come back to it again after doing some more looking and this will seem easier.

  • @davidmacphee3549

    @davidmacphee3549

    4 жыл бұрын

    @FocusFanatic I don't know if you were kidding when you used the word black. I did not get the joke. Africa is a very large continent with many countries. American blood is rich in it's DNA. in it's way, it leads us on in our evolution. It is strongly believed that the Human race began around the great lakes of Africa so please open your mind to ALL the wonderful and beautiful people around you, please. People that have difficulty understanding things are still probably smarter than you

  • @deontesisson549

    @deontesisson549

    4 жыл бұрын

    FocusFanatic wat

  • @danieltdp
    @danieltdp7 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic video! Touching a very complex subject in a really nice way. Kudos

  • @BLeachRoX4eVa
    @BLeachRoX4eVa7 жыл бұрын

    Can we hv a loop of that Albert Einstein?

  • @thelastcube.

    @thelastcube.

    7 жыл бұрын

    Nope maybe we can have a Spacetime of that Albert-o-Einst-ein *sigh* Yeah

  • @chandrakantsharda3525

    @chandrakantsharda3525

    7 жыл бұрын

    Chaitanya Singh fu

  • @eaterdrinker000

    @eaterdrinker000

    7 жыл бұрын

    Symphonic power metal makes absolute sense for introducing Dr. Einstein.

  • @inkoalawetrust

    @inkoalawetrust

    6 жыл бұрын

    kzread.info/dash/bejne/dIFmj6iSYrSrn8o.html Don't bother with the souncloud link lykury gave you it probably doesn't work in your country.

  • @ecsdwe129

    @ecsdwe129

    5 жыл бұрын

    Ahhh I see what you did there with that abbreviation of 'have.' E=hv, the Planck-Einstein equation, which states that photon energy is proportional to frequency. I feel special because I'm on youtube and I know basic physics. Also I have the physics GRE in less than a week, pls send help.

  • @JohnFKennedy420
    @JohnFKennedy4204 жыл бұрын

    Very intriguing video.. I feel like I actually understand spacetime logically now. Obviously I don’t know the math behind it but I never really understood what the different between everything was. Thank you for this

  • @shelley-anneharrisberg7409
    @shelley-anneharrisberg74097 жыл бұрын

    Thanks so much - this was such a great video! Love your series! :)

  • @Mr6Sinner
    @Mr6Sinner6 жыл бұрын

    Why did that apple look so huge?

  • @jackupstate3740

    @jackupstate3740

    6 жыл бұрын

    Can you change your gamer tag so it shows your balls

  • @xShareem

    @xShareem

    6 жыл бұрын

    Jack Ahah lmao 😂

  • @jujuyee2534

    @jujuyee2534

    5 жыл бұрын

    Maybe bc it's a huge apple?

  • @ginnyjollykidd

    @ginnyjollykidd

    4 жыл бұрын

    It's a huge apple. You can find them commonly in US groceries. You can also find apples that are about half that size, called "lunchbox" size.

  • @sion8
    @sion87 жыл бұрын

    No! I wanted to see Einstein's awesome entrance!!! (watches until the end) *NEVERMIND!!!*

  • @MyVitros

    @MyVitros

    4 жыл бұрын

    sion8 I wanted that too. So funny

  • @woutverhoeven9828
    @woutverhoeven98287 жыл бұрын

    This episode absolutely blew my mind! Great job!

  • @franzanth
    @franzanth7 жыл бұрын

    your editing job is so wild lately and I love it

  • @sarahchurchwell2665
    @sarahchurchwell26657 жыл бұрын

    Great vid!

  • @cup_check_official
    @cup_check_official7 жыл бұрын

    depends on what space you are talking about. The out side of earth space or the personal space that most people dont have a concept of :p

  • @xdas11

    @xdas11

    7 жыл бұрын

    Tell Me This can you explain what is this personal space?

  • @Ignacio.Romero

    @Ignacio.Romero

    7 жыл бұрын

    xdas11 Can you explain me what explain is?

  • @hokumisolated3551

    @hokumisolated3551

    7 жыл бұрын

    Or the Safe space that left are being crazy about.

  • @DaRealXzKingJacobzX

    @DaRealXzKingJacobzX

    7 жыл бұрын

    Alright welcome back to the show. I'm Philip Jacobs.. And let me tell yea heh I care about my personal wo-woah Hey! Who's around me right now? Who's around me?! Now why don't we step up here and everybody get stepped up, and lets get some stepped up Personal Space up in this place!

  • @littl3chik0r1t4
    @littl3chik0r1t47 жыл бұрын

    Those small jabs and the fun they poked at with the Albert Einstein graphic gave me life. It made the video so much more fun and enjoyable

  • @Noone-of-your-Business
    @Noone-of-your-Business6 жыл бұрын

    Wow. This is the first time I actually understood a _tiny_ bit about light speed and relativity. That spacetime graphic is _really_ helpful! Thank you!

  • @adamrspears1981
    @adamrspears19816 жыл бұрын

    Can anyone please clarify this? I've heard that the universe started out from a point infinitely small; hot & dense. My question is, if the starting point of the universe was just a hot & dense state...then what was available to compare its temperature & density too? Hot compared to what? Was there a temperature outside of this hot dense state? Dense compared to what? Was this hot & dense state contained inside of something else with less density? How can something be described as hot & dense, when there is not yet anything else to compare its temperature & density to?? -Thank You in advance for your clarification.

  • @roner61

    @roner61

    6 жыл бұрын

    You need to check temperature definition: Cold and hot are relative to atoms movment. The coldest: atoms with no movment.(or minnimun possible) The hottest: atoms moving at the maximun velocity possible.

  • @adamrspears1981

    @adamrspears1981

    6 жыл бұрын

    roner61 Thank You for your reply. & yes you are correct. But let's remember that at the moment just before The Big Bang event happened, there were no atoms yet. The 1st atoms of Protium, which is just comprised of 3 quarks that make a proton, didn't form until after the singularity state. So my questions remain, hot compared to what? Dense compared to what?

  • @MrGrimmiefan

    @MrGrimmiefan

    5 жыл бұрын

    I suggest you look into hawkings theorys of the universe

  • @michaelrose93

    @michaelrose93

    5 жыл бұрын

    *"what was available to compare its temperature & density too?"* < Nothing, but then again, no one was around to make comparisons then. We're comparing it to the present moment.

  • @cashcurtis

    @cashcurtis

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hot and dense compared to the current state of the universe. It's the same universe, after all, just cooler and spread out.

  • @333angeleyes
    @333angeleyes7 жыл бұрын

    This episode was so funny and so clever!!! (^_^) Your channel has really come a long way and is now my main science channel... THANK YOU!

  • @scudder991
    @scudder9914 жыл бұрын

    Outstanding summary, perfectly presented. Great work!

  • @benburdick9834
    @benburdick98347 жыл бұрын

    This video was amazing. Really helped me through the first section of Fabric of the Cosmos.

  • @shawn4086
    @shawn40864 жыл бұрын

    "no, too late! you mossed ur chance," me in the background: the music is cool tho

  • @theawesomeMikeMike09
    @theawesomeMikeMike097 жыл бұрын

    Why did you have to give us blue balls with the Albert Einstein thing? I was looking forward to that introduction.

  • @SmartInvestor
    @SmartInvestor5 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for these videos. Finally something worth time spending watching it.

  • @physicsbywajidfarooq9593
    @physicsbywajidfarooq95935 жыл бұрын

    It really good work and expanding physics in such a way is rewardable..

  • @scott4398
    @scott43987 жыл бұрын

    Do "Is Time a Thing?" next!

  • @akashwalavalkar7313

    @akashwalavalkar7313

    3 жыл бұрын

    he said, spacetime is a thing. Not time or space individually

  • @pjeffries301

    @pjeffries301

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@akashwalavalkar7313 "Spacetime is a mathematical construct." -- Albert Einstein

  • @fransende
    @fransende7 жыл бұрын

    Absolue space is definitelly god's bathwater

  • @grizzly443

    @grizzly443

    7 жыл бұрын

    lol

  • @europeansovietunion7372

    @europeansovietunion7372

    7 жыл бұрын

    True, and this is what real vacuum looks like : imgur.com/vRYhKUa Space is filled with quack particles.

  • @01wadder

    @01wadder

    6 жыл бұрын

    So then the big bang was a fart and the turd that followed was the precursor to life.. The more you know!

  • @timmy18135

    @timmy18135

    4 жыл бұрын

    Nullo space is Vishnu's bathwater

  • @edgeeffect

    @edgeeffect

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@timmy18135 Any even slightly knowledgeable Hindu would tell you that Vishnu is one personality of an unknowable supreme god anyway.

  • @mostlynew
    @mostlynew2 жыл бұрын

    The Space-Time explanation and diagrams following 06:00 helped me the most

  • @_unknown_user_6002
    @_unknown_user_60026 жыл бұрын

    We really need more videos like this. Love the content!

  • @md.hossain693
    @md.hossain6934 жыл бұрын

    7:46 "The power house of the cell."

  • @kyzer422
    @kyzer4227 жыл бұрын

    But won't the water be spinning relative to the bucket, or vice versa? Not to say I don't think space is a thing, on the contrary, I just think that proof isn't the best one.

  • @veraalvarado8632
    @veraalvarado86325 жыл бұрын

    Albert's "Soundtrack" is awesome :D I bet there's a power metal fan at the PBS staff haha

  • @AdelWolf
    @AdelWolf5 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for finally making space/time and relativity make sense to me!

  • @thecentalist3160
    @thecentalist31607 жыл бұрын

    What about dark matter?

  • @jarryd8167

    @jarryd8167

    6 жыл бұрын

    In 20 years or so someone will come back and answer your comment

  • @freddieking6456

    @freddieking6456

    6 жыл бұрын

    Dark matter is a thing that we don't know but is a thing

  • @Nico-dt5hu

    @Nico-dt5hu

    6 жыл бұрын

    The Centalist if u use the reality stone from marvel to convert matter to antimatter

  • @ibangedmyheadtokeyboardgjg6735

    @ibangedmyheadtokeyboardgjg6735

    6 жыл бұрын

    It doesn't matter.

  • @carlosmp2043

    @carlosmp2043

    6 жыл бұрын

    Fred King Scientists do know quite a bit about it.

  • @lastshadow4930
    @lastshadow49307 жыл бұрын

    Name of the song used when Albert Einstein appeared?

  • @matthewlee7287

    @matthewlee7287

    7 жыл бұрын

    i think it's "red star" by chris goulstone

  • @shiweiding9510

    @shiweiding9510

    7 жыл бұрын

    Last Shadow Darude-sandstorm Sorry had to

  • @lastshadow4930

    @lastshadow4930

    7 жыл бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @harvindam1638

    @harvindam1638

    7 жыл бұрын

    Last Shadow rick Ashley never gonna give you up

  • @naeem6583

    @naeem6583

    6 жыл бұрын

    "Did somebody say red star?" "Liberty Prime is online." "All systems nominal." "Weapons: hot."

  • @nivedithav7620
    @nivedithav76206 ай бұрын

    I really appreciate your sense of humour combined with your sense of Education.

  • @lorenrenee1
    @lorenrenee15 жыл бұрын

    Most clear explanation I’ve heard to date. Thank you.

  • @juanmiguelreyesguerr
    @juanmiguelreyesguerr7 жыл бұрын

    And can there be spacetime without matter? If there is no bucked spinning, nor anything else, is spacetime still there? If not, does that mean spacetime is an aspect of matter?

  • @ivanbolatti

    @ivanbolatti

    6 жыл бұрын

    You got it backwards. Matter is an aspect of spacetime. Particles are perturbations of spacetime fields.

  • @RalphoMadalpho

    @RalphoMadalpho

    5 жыл бұрын

    Idk the correct answer to this question, but in ny opinion, this is still considered a very good question! After all, I was taught that no matter, person, place, thing, or any event cannot exist without spacetime. There would have to be the 3 spatial coordinates of x, y, & z for there to be a place for any existance, plus the w coordinate to represent time and tell us when it existed. So without spacetime, there definitely isn't a time nor a place for any matter.. But what if that concept is also, somehow, actually reciprocated?.. as to imply an inverted causality that would nullify any existance of a spacetime without any kind of matter or substance to validate any space or time (the duality of reality shows its face almost anywhere you look) #thingsthatmakeyagohmmmmm

  • @sneedfeed7204
    @sneedfeed72047 жыл бұрын

    Is life a thing ?

  • @Nyuum

    @Nyuum

    7 жыл бұрын

    Somali Pirate Who Pirated Your Girlfriend *Vsauce music ensues*

  • @justADeni

    @justADeni

    7 жыл бұрын

    Depends on definition of life that you meant when asking this question.

  • @lennymachadorivero3904

    @lennymachadorivero3904

    7 жыл бұрын

    You are life.

  • @g.seangourlay2593

    @g.seangourlay2593

    7 жыл бұрын

    Somali Pirate Who Pirated Your Girlfriend life is not a thing. it is a process happening to a thing made up of many other things, and using other things.

  • @alphamineron

    @alphamineron

    7 жыл бұрын

    Somali Pirate Who Pirated Your Girlfriend First of all, how dare you pirate my girlfriend that doesn't even exist yet... Second, Life is what meaning we give to it. Life has no meaning and thus no significance in the cosmic index. Life started on Earth some 2 billion years ago, till now our impact on our own Galaxy is beyond insignificant

  • @joshualatusia4858
    @joshualatusia48584 жыл бұрын

    I just love the fact that these channels exist and as you watch their videos you get to learn more and more. But none of the less I love how much more lovely the comment sections are in comparison to more simple videos. #Gratitude

  • @potawatomi100
    @potawatomi1003 жыл бұрын

    Excellent program and very well narrated.

  • @adaojr10
    @adaojr106 жыл бұрын

    laughed so hard at 0:55

  • @Felix-cm5fg
    @Felix-cm5fg7 жыл бұрын

    I have a Question: At 6:08 you said "An objekt not moving thou space" Not moving relativ to what? The earth, the Galaxy? How can I know that I am not moving?

  • @Felix-cm5fg

    @Felix-cm5fg

    7 жыл бұрын

    What is the top speed that I can travel throu Time? How can I mesure it? Sorry for bad english

  • @roblaquiere8220

    @roblaquiere8220

    7 жыл бұрын

    To answer your questions we need to understand the differences between space-like and time-like motion. The four ships in this video's example display these alone and together: Diagonal Ship: Both space-like and time-like motion, this ship is not accelerating. The velocity of the space-like motion is X m/s, something we understand easily using basic physics. The time-like motion has a speed that is curiously measured in seconds per meter, in this case it would be traveling through time at a rate of... 1/X s/m. Yes, you travel a number of seconds through time per meter of space traversed. Remember Einstein's clocks measure time by measuring a photon in motion through space, space is measured in meters; seconds per meter is literally the unit of time-like motion. Perpendicular Ship: Only time-like motion, this ship has zero velocity and is not accelerating (not possible for reasons, but I'll continue). The time-like motion has a speed of ∞/0 s/m because you would travel infinite seconds for each 0 meters traveled... therefore ships truly at rest have an undefined speed in time-like motion. Parallel Ship: Only space-like motion, this ship has velocity of exactly C and in not accelerating (and has no mass, somehow). The time-like motion of this third ship is 0/∞ s/m because you would travel zero seconds for each infinite meters traveled... therefore ships traveling at C also have an undefined speed in time-like motion, but it is a different undefined. Curved Ship: Both types of motion, and is accelerating. Nothing different than the first ship to be honest. Einstein used a distance metric that included time called the Spacetime Interval, this metric measured the distance between two points, like the endpoints of a ship's path, in such a way that all observers would agree on the interval regardless of their frame of reference while observing some event like a ship path. Spacetime intervals that do not have one component of the interval, the space or time component, are special cases that only work in particular cases. I could go on about it, but I have said enough for now.

  • @Felix-cm5fg

    @Felix-cm5fg

    7 жыл бұрын

    Rob Laquiere wow I didn't expect something like this, I didn't understand a word thats fascinating! Thank you for that explanation! No joke

  • @feynstein1004

    @feynstein1004

    7 жыл бұрын

    +Felix Vogel You can know that you're moving because it's impossible to stay still in spacetime. In fact, everything is moving through spacetime at the same velocity (the velocity of light). Now how much of this velocity gets transferred to the space or time directions depends on the reference and hence is relative. However, the actual "speed" of everything is always the same. You should take a course in special relativity. It's really interesting. And fascinating as well.

  • @roblaquiere8220

    @roblaquiere8220

    7 жыл бұрын

    This is not correct. Not everything is moving through spacetime at the same velocity. Remember, velocity is a measurement of speed and direction... surely not everything in spacetime is moving in the same direction. The absolute value of velocity, on the other hand, is the same for the types of matter and energy we have discovered. I don't want to rule out the possibility of discovering matter or energy that does not obey these rules however (I think of Tachyons from Star Trek). In fact, some hypotheses imply that exotic matter like anti-hydrogen is in fact normal hydrogen moving backwards in time... This means that particle anti-particle annihilation is just two normal hydrogen smashing into each other in the time dimension! One from the future and one from the past! The reason the charges are switched is because we are seeing the anti-particle moving in reverse through time, and thus the EM waves produced by the anti-matter is flipped. QED predicted anti-matter's existence because of these ideas, and we have indeed synthesized anti-hydrogen.

  • @SClerckx
    @SClerckx7 жыл бұрын

    FINALLY! This awnserd a question I had for a loooong time. Thank you!

  • @shahindranmoonieya4742
    @shahindranmoonieya47424 жыл бұрын

    I enjoy your program. It is especially useful when teaching my children at school.

  • @chriscarlisle8997
    @chriscarlisle89977 жыл бұрын

    I think the real question here is, 'Is Thing a Space??'

  • @cup_check_official

    @cup_check_official

    7 жыл бұрын

    I think the real question here is, 'Space thing is a???

  • @Nyuum

    @Nyuum

    7 жыл бұрын

    Tell Me This *Vsauce music ensues*

  • @cup_check_official

    @cup_check_official

    7 жыл бұрын

    Savitar Hello Vsauce, Micheal here

  • @isramohamed5535

    @isramohamed5535

    5 жыл бұрын

    What is this 👆

  • @mate5163
    @mate51637 жыл бұрын

    I understood absolutely nothing

  • @mate5163

    @mate5163

    7 жыл бұрын

    ...

  • @sanguiVSdobbi

    @sanguiVSdobbi

    7 жыл бұрын

    Mate don't worry neither do scientists, these are just theories after all :)

  • @YaBoiKeith

    @YaBoiKeith

    7 жыл бұрын

    Giulio Baia The fact that scientists call it a theory, means that there is a lot of evidence behind it.

  • @edhondo4447

    @edhondo4447

    7 жыл бұрын

    s nothing is a thing .. thanks ,, I will remember that

  • @C0deH0wler

    @C0deH0wler

    7 жыл бұрын

    Because it was vague to begin with.

  • @TheLocust1990
    @TheLocust19907 жыл бұрын

    i love these videos it just makes my day better when i learn somthing new thank you

  • @jsfbr
    @jsfbr6 жыл бұрын

    Outstanding presentation! Enjoyed it a lot!

  • @WontonTV
    @WontonTV7 жыл бұрын

    "Einstein said light could travel without a medium" Wasn't that proved by Michelson & Morley?

  • @reclavea

    @reclavea

    4 жыл бұрын

    Wonton Einstein’s was wrong. The 1887 MMX recorded the Aether ....but the the speed was not near the .40 fringe shift needed to justify the heliocentric preference. The laboratory experiments all prove the geocentric model which Einstein detested (ie...God, creator, judgement ...etc) Einstein invented his 1905 STR to effectively null those laboratory results in order to keep the BS heliocentric model. Genesis 1:1😊👍🏻

  • @daithimac5785

    @daithimac5785

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@reclavea idiocracy achieved!! Have a nice cold glass of Brawndo to celebrate....

  • @reclavea

    @reclavea

    4 жыл бұрын

    John Doe Lol! It’s the splendor of truth 😊👍🏻 Genesis 1:1😊👍🏻

  • @daithimac5785

    @daithimac5785

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@reclavea go away!!!! ....batin!!

  • @reclavea

    @reclavea

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@daithimac5785 LOL!...Truth can never go away! LOL It’s the splendor of truth 😊👍🏻 Genesis 1:1😊👍🏻

  • @SirMikeys
    @SirMikeys7 жыл бұрын

    The real question is: Is consciousness a thing?

  • @fandomguy8025

    @fandomguy8025

    6 жыл бұрын

    It's information, and things are information. So maybe?

  • @sabi6684

    @sabi6684

    6 жыл бұрын

    SirMikeys we’re not conscious enough to figure that one out yet.. Our conscious is within space, and space within our conscious... 💭 i think...

  • @muskansharma4833
    @muskansharma48334 жыл бұрын

    That graph was so amazing

  • @reyvanbueno9298
    @reyvanbueno92986 жыл бұрын

    At 6:02 it's just like people who are tired of working saying that the time is so slow and people who don't mind about anything saying that the time is so fast.

  • @thelastcube.
    @thelastcube.7 жыл бұрын

    Hey Q/A time: If mass is constantly changed to energy and energy to mass (the reason why we weigh even though ~99% of our body is just blank space*) and if the "void" space out there has energy (CMB or quantum energy fluctuations - whatever you like), Do the Void space between us have mass? And if it does have mass, Doesn't that make void space have its own Gravitational field (Yeah that inward dimple on spacetime )? * Veritasium had a video explaining this some time ago (yrs ago)

  • @crisp7423

    @crisp7423

    7 жыл бұрын

    indian stop Lol hindu headass

  • @thelastcube.

    @thelastcube.

    7 жыл бұрын

    Earth Mars umm.. What?

  • @grizzly443

    @grizzly443

    7 жыл бұрын

    link the video

  • @GepardenK

    @GepardenK

    7 жыл бұрын

    I think you got that a bit wrong. Mass is not changing to energy and back again. Mass IS energy; it's energy that is trapped from traveling at the speed of light. Thus it is energy that experiences time (since, as described in this video, if something does not move at the speed of light then it travels through time instead)

  • @bonniedean9495

    @bonniedean9495

    7 жыл бұрын

    Chaitanya Singh It does not have mass since its made up of "virtual particles" whitout mass. If they however had mass that would break the thermodynamic law about conservation of energy. The virtual particles have to exist in the first place to satisfy Heisenbergs uncertanty principle about energy and time. The more you know about the energy of a particle (or in this case, vacuum) the less you can know about the time it had that energy and vice verca. Because a classical vacuum would have no energy in it there would be an infinite uncertanty about the time the system had that energy, which is simply not plausible, therefore viritual particles were theorized and later proved to be right by the casmir effect. If i remember correctly the energy required to make those viritual particles are borrowed from space itself, creating negative matter (not to me confused with dark matter or anti matter) for a very short amount of time. Sorry for my bad english

  • @nathan_fellicia
    @nathan_fellicia5 жыл бұрын

    space is... that long bar on your laptop

  • @thabomalete7908
    @thabomalete79085 жыл бұрын

    That space time graph is amazing, never thought about relativity like that.

  • @michaelcox436
    @michaelcox4362 жыл бұрын

    This is really excellent. Thank you.

  • @bobwiener4053
    @bobwiener40537 жыл бұрын

    I had no idea what he was taking about I just watched the pictures 😂

  • @kamssun
    @kamssun7 жыл бұрын

    But but but... how about Kant's theory of space and time as a priori of human perception?

  • @elisabethschiering8466

    @elisabethschiering8466

    6 жыл бұрын

    I'm writing an essay about it and asked myself the Same thing. Have you found any answers yet?

  • @josecaodaglio

    @josecaodaglio

    6 жыл бұрын

    It is not a theory, it can't predict nothing. Just philosophy. You can write whatever you want, but to predict events is far more complex.

  • @peter5844

    @peter5844

    6 жыл бұрын

    JLC You're right. Kant stated a philosphical thing. Physicists don't sit back, think about those things, write down their thoughts and call it a theory. a physics theory needs to be proven with math. talking about these theories, like it is done in this video, is just explaining what the math means for real life

  • @waldeckalex
    @waldeckalex7 жыл бұрын

    Excellent video absolutely love your take on relativity! thanks doc!!

  • @JavierCR25
    @JavierCR257 жыл бұрын

    As usual, awesome video! Pretty interesting how Newton's concept was on the right track he just didn't have all the accumulated knowledge Einstein had access to maybe?

  • @Busidrio
    @Busidrio7 ай бұрын

    God bathwater... I, m an atheist and this was very funny

  • @realmasterwizard2003
    @realmasterwizard20037 жыл бұрын

    Space is also a place

  • @local_catgirl3344

    @local_catgirl3344

    7 жыл бұрын

    Jack Sprayson it's a Splace... (end me)

  • @chelseataylor5244
    @chelseataylor52446 жыл бұрын

    Great video. And great Lebowski reference 😊

  • @kasdarack
    @kasdarack4 жыл бұрын

    Liked your narration, personality, and explanation. Subbed.

  • @mudflaps5686
    @mudflaps56867 жыл бұрын

    What?

  • @darkenforcer245
    @darkenforcer2457 жыл бұрын

    what is that Albert Einstein music

  • @daksh8747

    @daksh8747

    7 жыл бұрын

    Chicken Guy Channel not available in my country man.

  • @eaterdrinker000

    @eaterdrinker000

    7 жыл бұрын

    Symphonic power metal makes absolute sense for introducing Dr. Einstein.

  • @inkoalawetrust

    @inkoalawetrust

    6 жыл бұрын

    kzread.info/dash/bejne/dIFmj6iSYrSrn8o.html

  • @churchofclaus
    @churchofclaus7 жыл бұрын

    the problem with the analogy of the bucket is, that at each point during the spin, you're actually on a linear trajectory moving outward relative to the bucket.

  • @edga2323
    @edga23237 жыл бұрын

    One of your greatest videos! Also, part of 23andme. Cheers!

  • @AEther0238
    @AEther02387 жыл бұрын

    Last time I was this early... Was yesterday.

  • @Jana-ho9mu

    @Jana-ho9mu

    6 жыл бұрын

    Ethan McDonald you had a fail with the read more thing

  • @RaySavageMinecraft
    @RaySavageMinecraft7 жыл бұрын

    Such cool things to think about! All those who liked the vid, say "I liked'!

  • @versace6609

    @versace6609

    7 жыл бұрын

    DG Interviews understandable have a nice day

  • @whydoesyoutubehaveahandlenow

    @whydoesyoutubehaveahandlenow

    5 жыл бұрын

    Why?

  • @YT-hu1bq
    @YT-hu1bq5 жыл бұрын

    Amazing video , now i do have a question , Objects at rest are moving at top speed through time ? What does that mean ? And what is that speed ? If anyone can enlighten me please do :)

  • @harku123
    @harku1237 жыл бұрын

    Awesome 3D diagram of spacetime, it makes it really easy to understand

  • @riel1674
    @riel16747 жыл бұрын

    video starts at 00:00 you can thank me later

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    @tarttooth60227 жыл бұрын

    Hello random comment reader! Try doing something nice for someone today. It'll make you feel good :)

  • @thelastcube.

    @thelastcube.

    7 жыл бұрын

    You're awesome (i did it now)

  • @havocmaverick

    @havocmaverick

    7 жыл бұрын

    i did the opposite and it made me feel good. 😁

  • @Conceptbase

    @Conceptbase

    5 жыл бұрын

    🤔🥀

  • @maxxavier1378
    @maxxavier13787 жыл бұрын

    Wow this video is superbly well-done

  • @rogersledz6793
    @rogersledz67933 жыл бұрын

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