Leonard Susskind - Why Black Holes are Astonishing

Black holes warp space and time, squeeze matter to a vanishing point, and trap light so that it cannot escape. Black holes, with masses millions or billions times that of our sun, sit at the center of galaxies. How can black holes perform such stupendous tricks, and what can we learn from them?
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Leonard Susskind is the Felix Bloch Professor of Theoretical Physics at Stanford University, and Director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics. He received a BS in physics from City College of New York and a PhD from Cornell University.
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  • @Shadow-In-The-East
    @Shadow-In-The-East2 жыл бұрын

    What a fascinating discussion between Jeff Goldblum cosplaying Steve Jobs, and amateur theoretical physicist John Malkovich.

  • @Ahcelaht

    @Ahcelaht

    2 жыл бұрын

    Spot on!

  • @mra2zee

    @mra2zee

    2 жыл бұрын

    So basically, the most accurate comment that exists on the internet. Well done good sir.

  • @adnan4688

    @adnan4688

    2 жыл бұрын

    Amazing thing is that I thought the exact same thing, before even seeing your comment. The resemblance and the mash up,makes me think,they fell into a black hole,and somehow those two made it out,and decided to talk about it.

  • @Raphsk8

    @Raphsk8

    2 жыл бұрын

    😂😂😂😂 Dead On!

  • @supersongi

    @supersongi

    2 жыл бұрын

    💀

  • @JohnnyAmerique
    @JohnnyAmerique2 жыл бұрын

    Interesting interview with Dr. Susskind. Now to the comments section to see what the experts have to say.

  • @Richard-vu7kh

    @Richard-vu7kh

    2 жыл бұрын

    Haha 😂….So far, no viscous name calling !

  • @visitante-pc5zc

    @visitante-pc5zc

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Richard-vu7kh earth is flat

  • @ClariceAust

    @ClariceAust

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@visitante-pc5zc Oh dear..

  • @jeannedarc7533

    @jeannedarc7533

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@visitante-pc5zc your brain is flat

  • @arpitthakur45

    @arpitthakur45

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jeannedarc7533 more like dead...

  • @buikhai1
    @buikhai1 Жыл бұрын

    The world needs more scientists like Leonard Susskind. Such a great communicator for such complex subject. He makes us understand the universe just a little bit more.

  • @words007

    @words007

    Жыл бұрын

    The world needs more scientist in general and less tick tokers

  • @perculated7666

    @perculated7666

    Жыл бұрын

    @@words007 so true

  • @j.pershing2197

    @j.pershing2197

    Жыл бұрын

    Wal Thornhill is better

  • @michaelpacinus242

    @michaelpacinus242

    Жыл бұрын

    Sus

  • @KarmaKahn

    @KarmaKahn

    5 ай бұрын

    ​@@j.pershing2197Never heard about him.

  • @colder5465
    @colder54655 ай бұрын

    Leonard Susskind is simply the best! He can explain such a complicated phenomenon in really simple words which are understandable to practically anyone. Infinite kudos to him! He is my favorite lecturer.

  • @kayleighgroenendal8473

    @kayleighgroenendal8473

    4 ай бұрын

    Too bad this is actually John Malkovich

  • @emo65170.
    @emo65170.2 жыл бұрын

    I want to know what Dr Susskind does to keep his mind so sharp. He's 81. Amazing.

  • @MasteroChieftan

    @MasteroChieftan

    2 жыл бұрын

    It looks like he thinks about quantum physics and works out lol

  • @basteagui

    @basteagui

    2 жыл бұрын

    He does theoretical physics...

  • @Fuckjaredmilton

    @Fuckjaredmilton

    2 жыл бұрын

    The guy is a genius lmfao

  • @joegeorge3889

    @joegeorge3889

    2 жыл бұрын

    He's sharp as a tack

  • @sleazypolar

    @sleazypolar

    2 жыл бұрын

    You're watching it. He keeps talking about and learning about these things and reiterating his understanding with every conversation.

  • @Blake-cz7mj
    @Blake-cz7mj2 жыл бұрын

    The interviewer is awesome, asks great questions then lets them talk

  • @KCOtutti1

    @KCOtutti1

    2 жыл бұрын

    True, but strange there are such long shots of him, even we he doesn’t talk.

  • @davetherave303

    @davetherave303

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@KCOtutti1 They're not actually that long, it's the time distortion of a nearby black hole taking effect

  • @KCOtutti1

    @KCOtutti1

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@davetherave303 😂😂😂

  • @richardmindemann6935
    @richardmindemann6935 Жыл бұрын

    I'm a big fan of this guy. His KZread classes are fun and enlightening. I'm so old I'm proof that it's never too late to learn challenging stuff. I hated physics in high school. It wasn't as interesting as girls, pool, or baseball. But it's how things work, and I'm having fun with it in my ...ah....golden years.

  • @vogelvogeltje

    @vogelvogeltje

    Жыл бұрын

    31 year old dude here, and just getting into astrophysics and gravitational waves. Had my fun already (even though I was into opposite from you: guys, guitar and drums.) space is fuckin awesome.

  • @douglasharris2739
    @douglasharris2739 Жыл бұрын

    As always Mr. Suskind is a joy to listen to. He just tells it so well.

  • @dougthompson1598
    @dougthompson15982 жыл бұрын

    "A chicken, a duck and a physicist go into a black hole..." No punch line yet.

  • @satanofficial3902

    @satanofficial3902

    2 жыл бұрын

    "Calculations of a clam chowder dawn reach into the outer limits exploiting the mysteries of seaweed kept busy in a bookstore. Black holes shape your vision of seagulls converting energy into mass and genetic prices rushing into a grape jelly future. Caffeine-free snow drifts will ward off alien intervention and annihilate rubber-band monitors, expanding a diversity of goldfish trained in clinical psychology left intact." ---Albert Einstein

  • @satanofficial3902

    @satanofficial3902

    2 жыл бұрын

    Fact checkers say..."Correct!"

  • @satanofficial3902

    @satanofficial3902

    2 жыл бұрын

    "Fact checks can be checked because they're checkable by checkers." ---Albert Einstein

  • @satanofficial3902

    @satanofficial3902

    2 жыл бұрын

    "It is the Will of Landru." ---Albert Einstein

  • @helphelpimbeingrepressed9347

    @helphelpimbeingrepressed9347

    2 жыл бұрын

    Its an inside joke...

  • @SikStylo
    @SikStylo2 жыл бұрын

    Best most comprehensive breakdown I've heard from any physicist.

  • @buddysnackit1758

    @buddysnackit1758

    2 жыл бұрын

    And completely wrong.

  • @geraldscalajr9636

    @geraldscalajr9636

    2 жыл бұрын

    Agreed

  • @soumyojitpal3399

    @soumyojitpal3399

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@buddysnackit1758 care to elaborate ?

  • @buddysnackit1758

    @buddysnackit1758

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@soumyojitpal3399 You can read elsewhere in this thread (immediately below for me...but that is probably just my view). Even in this talk he gets it wrong. A thing stays visible at the event horizon forever? Really lets look at that. OK So the event horizon according to Susskind is because the object is being pulled in faster than C. And that light carries momentum and will never reach you. So light is completely a particle then! But no! It is not. Light is emitted by mass by vibrating what you call the fabric of space. Just like a jet in the sky. Do we suddenly not hear supersonic jets? No...we still hear them. Even though they are going way faster than sound...because the media carries the signal. The signal isn't particles shooting out of the jet to our ears. The sound proves this. So the ONLY other thing that could be happening is that the light is being pulled either directly or the media itself was being pulled. If it were the media (fabric of space) and we believe in an expanding universe, then you would at a very high speed see things being sucked into black holes. But Susskind and all the Big bangers (Similar to flat-earthers) do not realize how the universe works. The reason black holes are black is because of a upward shift in frequency of light far beyond gamma rays. This can happen because time-space (ether field) is much denser near a black hole because it creates ether. When that super high frequency light travels to less ether dense space the signal can no longer be carried. This loss of signal makes the black hole appear black. Supporting evidence. Matter getting sucked into a black hole and emits a gamma burst. It does this as it enters more ether dense space until it too is clocked too high and signal is lost. Pulls can not exist. So how else does a black hole become black. My theory is THE only game in town that fits. If the black holes are sucking in space then this should counter the expansion of space and we should be shrinking because this would be an immense power. Background radiation is from something described as a "blackhole universe". Not quite right except that black holes and this frequency mismatch are the reason.

  • @soumyojitpal3399

    @soumyojitpal3399

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@buddysnackit1758 ahh, that one guy who claims everyone else is wrong, and I am only right

  • @richardgarcia1184
    @richardgarcia118428 күн бұрын

    That was one of the best, easiest to understand illustration of falling or watching someone fall into a black hole. What a great teacher.

  • @marksimpson2321
    @marksimpson2321 Жыл бұрын

    This interviewer whose name ive forgotten is brilliant! He knows a lot about the subject but lets people who know more and who can communicate fascinatingly about their subject communicate!

  • @festyguy7405

    @festyguy7405

    Жыл бұрын

    Quincy Stagglehorn

  • @drumrit
    @drumrit2 жыл бұрын

    its so nice when the interviewer doesn't interrupt the speaker constantly

  • @avinavabraham

    @avinavabraham

    2 жыл бұрын

    Are you an NDT hater :)

  • @arbitrage2141
    @arbitrage21412 жыл бұрын

    Interviewer did a fantastic job of listening, even though it seems like he knows a lot of whats being discussed already.

  • @DManOnFire

    @DManOnFire

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Typhoid Mary LOL

  • @cryogeneric

    @cryogeneric

    2 жыл бұрын

    I dunno. His two interjections kind of bothered me because I wanted to hear how Susskind was going to describe them. For example when he blurted out, "the point of no return", I didn't think that is what Susskind was describing--even though it's true of black holes and Susskind went with it. What I thought he was describing was "the point where information is no longer transmissible". We all know there is a point where gravity in inescapable, but this didn't seem to be the crux of his analogy.

  • @ReductioAdAbsurdum

    @ReductioAdAbsurdum

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Typhoid Mary Going to have to invoke Poe's Law here.

  • @Livinghighandwise

    @Livinghighandwise

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Typhoid Mary STFU

  • @TheSCPStudio

    @TheSCPStudio

    2 жыл бұрын

    Probably because it's mainly for the viewers education.

  • @bismarckmark6566
    @bismarckmark6566 Жыл бұрын

    Id never have figured that sound, lakes, and polywogs would give me my first real appreciation of the event horizon.

  • @chuckaudio3191
    @chuckaudio3191 Жыл бұрын

    Leonard Susskind is amazing.

  • @Richard-vu7kh
    @Richard-vu7kh2 жыл бұрын

    My cat understands this very well…..if I mix chicken together with duck in his food dish, he will NOT eat it. He understands he must not confuse the information as it enters the black hole of his appetite.

  • @yourhandlehere1

    @yourhandlehere1

    2 жыл бұрын

    I used to feed sparrows when I worked at a park. Peanut butter crackers. They learned to come when I whistled...hahah...come in like a big cloud and gather around me. They wanted Lay's brand not Tom's. Tom's were cheaper of course. I could crunch them all up together and they would pick out all the "good" stuff.

  • @spiritofwisdom979

    @spiritofwisdom979

    2 жыл бұрын

    😀

  • @fuzzmaayn29

    @fuzzmaayn29

    2 жыл бұрын

    maybe he knows what happens when it comes out the brown hole and he doesnt wanna go through that

  • @thagreatadante
    @thagreatadante2 жыл бұрын

    Now you know why you can never get a hold of a good plumber.. They're busy solving quantum theory .. 😁

  • @barbara5495

    @barbara5495

    2 жыл бұрын

    Good one!

  • @Baekstrom

    @Baekstrom

    2 жыл бұрын

    And they think about black holes in terms of plumbing. "Imagine if the kitchen sink was infinitely large, and water was sucked out of it at a speed greater than sound."

  • @Talia.777

    @Talia.777

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Baekstrom 😂😂😂

  • @Talia.777

    @Talia.777

    2 жыл бұрын

    🤣🤣

  • @malibu3602

    @malibu3602

    2 жыл бұрын

    LOL

  • @Whit3hat
    @Whit3hat5 ай бұрын

    2 things fascinate me, black holes and even more Leonard Susskind, just a brilliant man, i cant fall asleep listening to his lectures....

  • @Stars4Hearts
    @Stars4Hearts2 жыл бұрын

    He literally answered my question in the first 60 seconds (why are we so fascinated with black holes/ are they useful). He answered that. But I could keep listening for hours…

  • @dr.debajyotibose2928
    @dr.debajyotibose29282 жыл бұрын

    He was a plumber in the beginning, what a life, Leonard.

  • @barbara5495
    @barbara54952 жыл бұрын

    I love how he explains things - It allows us non-physics to not only understand but also have a fascination and yearning to learn more about black holes. Thank you!

  • @paulmoffat9306

    @paulmoffat9306

    2 жыл бұрын

    He started his working life as a plumber, and now has this moniker 'Susskind the Plumber' with his peers.

  • @barbara5495

    @barbara5495

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@paulmoffat9306 Love it!

  • @mahoganysins614

    @mahoganysins614

    2 жыл бұрын

    He’s a wonderful teacher

  • @MK-xn6qx

    @MK-xn6qx

    2 жыл бұрын

    سَأُصۡلِيهِ سَقَرَ ٦٢ I will drive him into Saqar. وَمَآ أَدۡرَىٰكَ مَا سَقَرُ ٧٢ And what can make you know what is Saqar لَا تُبۡقِي وَلَا تَذَرُ ٨٢ It lets nothing remain and leaves nothing [unburned], لَوَّاحَةٞ لِّلۡبَشَرِ ٩٢ Blackening the skins. عَلَيۡهَا تِسۡعَةَ عَشَرَ ٠٣ Over it are nineteen [angels].

  • @MK-xn6qx

    @MK-xn6qx

    2 жыл бұрын

    Above verses are from Al -Quran, Chapter 74. Surah Al-Muddaththir "There are signs everywhere for people who believe." May Allah open our hearts for truth & peace. Humans are incapable of many things. What's in Heavens & on the earth is governed by law of Allah. Laws of Physics do not apply at many many places. Even on earth. And there is no explanation for it. If you doubt it then indeed, death is the reality and we shall meet our lord. The only one who created us to obey him and respect every other human being. Ameen.

  • @teymoorazarpaad9167
    @teymoorazarpaad9167 Жыл бұрын

    Wow, that was an amazing description of black hole I’ve ever heard. The analogy of limitless lake for black hole was the most ingenious method to describe the black hole. That was a brilliant analogy. Thanks!

  • @seanmccall7277
    @seanmccall7277 Жыл бұрын

    Every...single time I listen to Leonard Susskind talk, I end up taking away an idea that I cannot ever forget. Every..time. What a mind.

  • @AmiyaSarkar

    @AmiyaSarkar

    Жыл бұрын

    "You just don't remember I'll never forget".. Yngwie Malmsteen

  • @onebylandtwoifbysearunifby5475
    @onebylandtwoifbysearunifby54752 жыл бұрын

    Susskind is my favorite physicist. For one, he is a great explainer. He is more interested in *YOU* understanding what he is explaining than making himself sound impressive.

  • @ResurrectingJiriki

    @ResurrectingJiriki

    2 жыл бұрын

    Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett are also really good at that and in very similar ways. Only making the idiocy of it just a little more obvious because you know they are writing fantasy/fiction.

  • @halweilbrenner9926

    @halweilbrenner9926

    Жыл бұрын

    Poignant

  • @joedoe783
    @joedoe7832 жыл бұрын

    I love the fact he talks about Galileo's experiment to combine two disparate worlds and then he uses a combination of plumbing and quantum physics to show a dumbass like me what's going on in the universe.

  • @emesar5233

    @emesar5233

    2 жыл бұрын

    He speaks an English we can understand. ☺

  • @ResurrectingJiriki

    @ResurrectingJiriki

    2 жыл бұрын

    Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett are also really good at that and in very similar ways. Only making the idiocy of it just a little more obvious because you know they are writing fantasy/fiction. I hope that helped, mostly for not thinking of yourself as a dumbass ;-)

  • @live4Cha

    @live4Cha

    2 жыл бұрын

    Just wrong reference! Throwing rock Wasn’t Galileos but mewtons idea.

  • @pauldirac6243

    @pauldirac6243

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@live4Cha I can't believe we are the only 2 people that caught that.

  • @Edrwad

    @Edrwad

    2 жыл бұрын

    1

  • @stellarwind1946
    @stellarwind19465 ай бұрын

    Susskind is such a riveting speaker.

  • @iraklikotiashvili1776
    @iraklikotiashvili1776 Жыл бұрын

    At exactly 10:00 when the interviewer asks "that's through a quantum mechanical effect" Leonard gets so surprised but also excited that he knows :D

  • @altyra1
    @altyra12 жыл бұрын

    That equals 2 years of my high school boring physics classes. I enjoyed every moment!

  • @pmcdermott4929
    @pmcdermott49292 жыл бұрын

    Black holes are astonishing. I’ll be feeling one this weekend.

  • @the_Punisher_

    @the_Punisher_

    2 жыл бұрын

    B r u h

  • @charlesmorris5168

    @charlesmorris5168

    2 жыл бұрын

    Under rated comment

  • @billfromgermany

    @billfromgermany

    2 жыл бұрын

    I‘d check with your doctor first.

  • @pmcdermott4929

    @pmcdermott4929

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@billfromgermany you mean after*.

  • @billfromgermany

    @billfromgermany

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@pmcdermott4929 👍😄

  • @DamonMacready
    @DamonMacready2 жыл бұрын

    "We are now in a position where we have to reconcile this. We have no choice. Oh, of course we have a choice...!" Such an appropriate remark in relation to determinism yielding to new concepts

  • @anotherjoshua
    @anotherjoshua2 жыл бұрын

    i love that this brilliant man still has his bronx accent.

  • @packratswhatif.3990
    @packratswhatif.39902 жыл бұрын

    Existence itself is mind-blowing and fascinating........ Black holes are just the icing on the cake.

  • @redhotbits

    @redhotbits

    2 жыл бұрын

    black holes do not exist

  • @packratswhatif.3990

    @packratswhatif.3990

    2 жыл бұрын

    @The star Moses Brown and the Boston Celtics : Im sorry but that is the Dumbest thing I have heard from a religious person, Really ?

  • @Mannwhich

    @Mannwhich

    2 жыл бұрын

    @The star Moses Brown and the Boston Celtics Ummmm, God's work isn't hindered by people choosing certain career paths. Observing what's out there only fulfills our God given purpose here on Earth. Which is to learn and grow!

  • @Mannwhich

    @Mannwhich

    2 жыл бұрын

    @The star Moses Brown and the Boston Celtics Learning and growing helps us become more like him. So Yes! God doesn't hide knowledge from us, nor does he forbid us an education. Our purpose is to prepare to return to him. How do you glorify God if you don't know anything about him or his creations?

  • @Mannwhich

    @Mannwhich

    2 жыл бұрын

    @The star Moses Brown and the Boston Celtics It's no surprise that you know very little.

  • @PureNRG2
    @PureNRG22 жыл бұрын

    His use of relatable analogies is the signature of a good teacher. I think he could make sense of a lot of quantum mechanics that baffles most of us.

  • @chanmeenachandramouli1623

    @chanmeenachandramouli1623

    2 жыл бұрын

    Agree with you totally. MeenaC

  • @ResurrectingJiriki

    @ResurrectingJiriki

    2 жыл бұрын

    Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett are also really good at that and in very similar ways. Only making the idiocy of it just a little more obvious because you know they are writing fantasy/fiction.

  • @PureNRG2

    @PureNRG2

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ResurrectingJiriki hmmm. Now I’ll have to go back and reread Hitchhiker’s again just for that.

  • @ResurrectingJiriki

    @ResurrectingJiriki

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@PureNRG2 If that's what you feel you need to do to see that Susskind is talking pure fantasy, please do. And enjoy, obviously XD

  • @PureNRG2

    @PureNRG2

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ResurrectingJiriki I apologize. I didn’t realize I was responding to someone who believes theoretical science is fantasy. Now back to my fantasy wireless computer.

  • @otbricki
    @otbricki Жыл бұрын

    Dr Susskind is such a great speaker.

  • @bjpafa2293
    @bjpafa2293 Жыл бұрын

    Masters explain scales in a perspective that includes history, humanity was aware of foundational questions since its dawn. This analogue with sound should be highly respected. Always an honor with your thought processes. Thank you so much. In time, maybe there's no delay in this comment 😉

  • @tubbymunchkin7254
    @tubbymunchkin72542 жыл бұрын

    And here I was thinking the “point of no return” was Taco Bell’s drive-thru line…

  • @masterofdisguise1112

    @masterofdisguise1112

    2 жыл бұрын

    Nah its when you don't pull out and get a girl pregnant

  • @GinoNL

    @GinoNL

    2 жыл бұрын

    😂

  • @wthomas7955
    @wthomas79552 жыл бұрын

    This is the sort of interview that makes this particular channel worthwhile.

  • @skkapoor31

    @skkapoor31

    2 жыл бұрын

    exactly

  • @kenanderson7769

    @kenanderson7769

    2 жыл бұрын

    Channel is evidence of the conflict of two principles. It has the conflicts of fantasy and sensible.

  • @gusgebzz

    @gusgebzz

    2 жыл бұрын

    For sure

  • @neildown7231

    @neildown7231

    2 жыл бұрын

    Seriously? Blackholes are nonsense

  • @andrewbreding593

    @andrewbreding593

    2 жыл бұрын

    You can find this sort of thing all over the place. I love his social work more

  • @tndd4922
    @tndd49225 ай бұрын

    After watching a hundred videos in black hole and still being confused … I now have some clarity thanks to this man

  • @daviddemuth6075
    @daviddemuth6075 Жыл бұрын

    This man is a hero

  • @ashutoshsingh9639
    @ashutoshsingh96392 жыл бұрын

    That's why Leonard Susskind is so important, he explains in everything in "your" words ! And we people can understand the Universe.

  • @michaelpacinus242

    @michaelpacinus242

    Жыл бұрын

    I hear he molests

  • @BrianPseivaD
    @BrianPseivaD2 жыл бұрын

    Leonard Susskind is my hero, this guy is so forward thinking, I actually have his name tattooed on my arm so I can enjoy and remember his teachings forever, I’ll never forget your notions as a result. Thank you for changing my full outlook on reality Dr Susskind. Knowledge negates fear!

  • @ummmno3871

    @ummmno3871

    2 жыл бұрын

    I will truly never understand tattoo people

  • @DaddySizeIt

    @DaddySizeIt

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ummmno3871 Same here, I support their freedom.. but I'd rather wear my current thoughts on a tshirt.

  • @BigRW

    @BigRW

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ummmno3871 Or bumper sticker people.

  • @Chief_Brody

    @Chief_Brody

    Жыл бұрын

    No, you do not have his name tattooed on your arm. Stop lying for attention and likes.

  • @thatdemoninthecar

    @thatdemoninthecar

    Жыл бұрын

    So... so you have "susskind" tattoo'd on your arm?

  • @Google_Does_Evil_Now
    @Google_Does_Evil_Now Жыл бұрын

    3:12 interviewer caught using earbuds listening to music. Can't stop nodding to the beat.

  • @sandbach7195
    @sandbach71952 жыл бұрын

    Wow! That "both domain" theory about black holes hit me like a rock!! I get it!

  • @philostreet781
    @philostreet7812 жыл бұрын

    This is the best explanation of the black hole ever! Using sound as metaphor is a great way to understand this curious phenomenon. Thanks!

  • @daraquinn5260

    @daraquinn5260

    Жыл бұрын

    Why? Both light and sound are part of the electromagnetic spectrum. It’s actually a very poor analogy. He is no Feynman.

  • @chrisdevine4848

    @chrisdevine4848

    Жыл бұрын

    @@daraquinn5260 - um... I think you need to scrub up of your physics.

  • @adolfog316

    @adolfog316

    Жыл бұрын

    Analogy* but yes it was brilliant helped me a bit too

  • @icetraigh

    @icetraigh

    Жыл бұрын

    I think it's an even better analogy than it appears on the surface. Where does that poor fellow, aka the information, go? Have you ever had a pen and paper and scribbled a dot so hard until you ripped through the paper? I think black holes are 3D tears in the paper, and the information falls into the 4th (or next higher) dimension. How 'bout that? :O

  • @kevinbeazy

    @kevinbeazy

    6 ай бұрын

    @@daraquinn5260Loser

  • @khankhole25
    @khankhole252 жыл бұрын

    I read or watched few things about black holes, this was the best way of describing it to a general public member like myself. Thank you.

  • @ResurrectingJiriki

    @ResurrectingJiriki

    2 жыл бұрын

    Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett are also really good at that and in very similar ways. Only making the idiocy of it just a little more obvious because you know they are writing fantasy/fiction.

  • @tresajessygeorge210
    @tresajessygeorge210 Жыл бұрын

    THANK YOU... DR. SUSSKIND...!!!

  • @calpal9983
    @calpal9983 Жыл бұрын

    This guy is incredibly pleasant to listen to.

  • @asifiqbal2776
    @asifiqbal27762 жыл бұрын

    There are teachers and then there are teachers like Susskind or Feynman.

  • @sinisa5567

    @sinisa5567

    2 жыл бұрын

    Or me, i am also good

  • @omnipotent1992

    @omnipotent1992

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@sinisa5567 This is true

  • @nirmalapersaud7589

    @nirmalapersaud7589

    2 жыл бұрын

    .

  • @evanjameson5437

    @evanjameson5437

    2 жыл бұрын

    amen!

  • @Spacemaaan

    @Spacemaaan

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@sinisa5567 very true senpai

  • @warrenbarnes9653
    @warrenbarnes96532 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely wonderful video! Dr. Susskind is a brilliant teacher. It would be much appreciated if you could ask him to provide a plain English explanation of his string theory for one of these videos. Thank you.

  • @halweilbrenner9926

    @halweilbrenner9926

    Жыл бұрын

    Not explainable or understandable or maybe even valid (theoretical)

  • @anirprasadd
    @anirprasadd Жыл бұрын

    AMAZING video!! Brilliantly articulated

  • @dontgettoknowm9864
    @dontgettoknowm9864 Жыл бұрын

    I love these talks even though i understand it on a basic level. It makes me feel smart and fascinated.

  • @victotronics
    @victotronics2 жыл бұрын

    Fascinating interview. I've never heard things explained this way.

  • @greensombrero3641
    @greensombrero36412 жыл бұрын

    when we were in highschool physics, my friend, last named Rays went to visit his grandmother in Florida. He returned sunburned and we asked him if this was because of grammarays.

  • @TheFos88

    @TheFos88

    2 жыл бұрын

    Wot

  • @jetflights

    @jetflights

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hulk smash 😂😂

  • @smalljbug

    @smalljbug

    2 жыл бұрын

    Not bad not bad

  • @theresachung703

    @theresachung703

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hahhaha! Dang!

  • @baronvonhoughton

    @baronvonhoughton

    2 жыл бұрын

    We? Was it collective thinking, Did you all ask simultaneously?

  • @picazzo5150
    @picazzo5150 Жыл бұрын

    The sound and tone are in the fingers and Wolfie inherited them all from his dad. He sounded amazing.

  • @AmiyaSarkar
    @AmiyaSarkar Жыл бұрын

    Splendid interview! It's so so kind of Dr. Susskind to illuminate on this luminous topic that light and other objects with "information" embedded within of not being able to escape the stranglehold of the black holes. Yet they expand our 'horizons' of understanding the principles of contemporary physics and even help amalgamate the old with the new. Information isn't lost. In fact, nothing is ever lost. From the absolute (say the absolute zero Kelvin) arise the "quantum jitters", like Shakti (Nature) arising out of Nothing (Shiva)! Be it the Big Bang or the Big crunch, information will be ever etched in the fabric of the DNA of the Cosmic Consciousness, like the Akashic records (Boltzmann's brain). Amalgamation and interchangeability is nothing new. The wave and particle properties of light and even macrocosmic objects can be boiled down to the quantum properties of wave function and its collapse thereof. Advaita (non-dualism) vedanta had long proposed the idea since the ancient times by the great Indian sages. Erwin Schrodinger, Werner Heisenberg, Albert Einstein, Aldous Huxley had experinced it ituitively and dwelled on it. We are not just particles, merely confined to some location in space, rather we need to think of us in terms of waves spread out over the whole Universe. Professor Sean Carroll had once said in a lecture that physicists won't tell you this fact that we are waves in reality and not just particles. We ever live. We don't die, ever! "There's got to be Just more to it than this Or tell me, why do we exist? I'd like to think that when I die I'd get a chance, another time And to return and live again Reincarnate, play the game Again and again and again and again" .... Iron Maiden, Infinite dreams

  • @jamegumb7298
    @jamegumb72982 жыл бұрын

    "Infinite lake". Alright. "Drain in the center." Lost me man.

  • @paulyshore1942

    @paulyshore1942

    2 жыл бұрын

    Drain in a place kinda like a center I guess lol

  • @kdub1242

    @kdub1242

    2 жыл бұрын

    For the model, just start with a bathtub with a drain, but imagine a round bathtub with a big drain in the center. If you put a rubber ducky in the bathtub away from the center, it hardly notices the movement of the water towards the drain. But if a rubber ducky floats near the center, the rushing water will pull it down the drain. Now just imagine a bigger bathtub, and then an even bigger bathtub... An "infinite" lake just means the bathtub is so big that most rubber duckies will never encounter the drain, or even notice it, because they're so far away from it. But the drain is there, and every once in a while, an unlucky rubber ducky will unhappily float too close and get swallowed.

  • @chrissekely

    @chrissekely

    2 жыл бұрын

    I was just about to comment something like this before I found your comment. I get what he means by this (as some here went to great length to explain). But I think what you're getting at (and what I was thinking) is that from a purely mathematical perspective, it makes no sense.

  • @kdub1242

    @kdub1242

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@chrissekely I think what you mean is that from a purely _physical_ perspective it makes no sense. It is only from a purely mathematical perspective that reasoning about infinity does make any sense.

  • @chrissekely

    @chrissekely

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@kdub1242 Thanks for the response! But no that's not what I meant. Maybe that's what I should have meant though. I do understand how anything infinite makes no sense from a physical perspective. You've totally got me there. Please explain, though, how to even in a purely mathematical sense find the center of an infinite plain. Please understand that I'm not upset at all. I really enjoy this sort of exchange of ideas. Please let me know where you might take this from here.

  • @renupathak4442
    @renupathak44422 жыл бұрын

    How beautifully explained. What a great teacher

  • @furiouswolf2566

    @furiouswolf2566

    2 жыл бұрын

    You girl or a boy??

  • @IloveGod210
    @IloveGod210 Жыл бұрын

    Explained poetically and elegantly. Wow!

  • @paulbeades6681
    @paulbeades6681 Жыл бұрын

    Could listen to this all day.

  • @FirstCelestialEmperor
    @FirstCelestialEmperor2 жыл бұрын

    The shots of the interviewer just bobbing his head up and down while the other is talking are hilarious

  • @caseykja

    @caseykja

    2 жыл бұрын

    yes, but you should see his suspicious look when the interviewee is talking BS (plenty of these BTW)

  • @justinrill2483

    @justinrill2483

    2 жыл бұрын

    best part. he's engaged

  • @vansdan.

    @vansdan.

    2 жыл бұрын

    I gota turn the phone away when I watch cuz of this

  • @0ptimal

    @0ptimal

    2 жыл бұрын

    This what I do when someone asks me a question

  • @The268170

    @The268170

    2 жыл бұрын

    He looks like a weiner

  • @nicofonce
    @nicofonce2 жыл бұрын

    I could listen to Leonard for hours.

  • @b.g.5869

    @b.g.5869

    2 жыл бұрын

    Which hours specifically?

  • @mjt2231

    @mjt2231

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@b.g.5869 yesterday's hours

  • @D1N02

    @D1N02

    2 жыл бұрын

    You can. kzread.infosearch?query=s%C3%BCskind

  • @martin..3700

    @martin..3700

    2 жыл бұрын

    I'm like that with music

  • @azhakhussam
    @azhakhussam Жыл бұрын

    I always refer to mr. Susskind as the plumber physicist, in my own opinion he is a true genius,humble to declare that he was wrong on the multiverse theory after he was one of the most influential people on it,but he keeps on going looking for the truth. If we were to meet I believe that we can really be friends.

  • @joshportie

    @joshportie

    Жыл бұрын

    And yet he's saying a theoretical thing nobody has ever seen or proven is amazing.

  • @JohnJohansen2
    @JohnJohansen2 Жыл бұрын

    I love the chair he's sitting in. 🙂👍

  • @DasnarkyRemarky
    @DasnarkyRemarky2 жыл бұрын

    This guy looks like he could play Archimedes, Galileo or Da Vinci perfectly

  • @williamhardes8081

    @williamhardes8081

    2 жыл бұрын

    John Malkovich?

  • @UATU.

    @UATU.

    2 жыл бұрын

    I would love to see him as da Vinci with a heavy NYC accent.

  • @FFGG22E

    @FFGG22E

    2 жыл бұрын

    Or Leonard Susskind even.

  • @oln3678

    @oln3678

    2 жыл бұрын

    Except when he talks ...

  • @lordlemond1350
    @lordlemond13502 жыл бұрын

    Best explanation on black holes I’ve ever heard ✨

  • @jaysartori9032
    @jaysartori9032 Жыл бұрын

    We need more teachers like Leonard Susskind.

  • @5kMagic
    @5kMagic Жыл бұрын

    Great explanation. I once read of a theory that said black holes ‘seeded’ other universes: the information that was sucked into it came out again, on the ‘other side’, in another universe. It has always stuck with me.

  • @nuntana2

    @nuntana2

    Жыл бұрын

    They're in this universe. It's a point, not a hole.

  • @rocren6246

    @rocren6246

    Жыл бұрын

    Maybe what they have observed as blackholes are similar entities as the theoretical blackholes, because blackholes only exist in theory.

  • @rocren6246

    @rocren6246

    Жыл бұрын

    It's like saying something travels at the speed of light, where in our world such things don't exist.

  • @martello44

    @martello44

    Жыл бұрын

    A hole into another universe is just a theory. it assumes that our space-time fabric can be punctured. Suppose Space-time is infinitely elastic. Nobody knows and we will probably never know.

  • @altonb93

    @altonb93

    Жыл бұрын

    @@rocren6246 black holes aren’t a theory when we have photographs of them

  • @djvelocity
    @djvelocity2 жыл бұрын

    This is such a *fantastic way of teaching the material!* Stellar! 🙌🔥

  • @tedl7538

    @tedl7538

    2 жыл бұрын

    "Stellar"....ㄥ丨ㄒ乇尺卂ㄥㄥㄚ!

  • @johnnygraz4712

    @johnnygraz4712

    2 жыл бұрын

    Quasi-stellar, even.

  • @arvindramanathan6278
    @arvindramanathan62782 жыл бұрын

    I so wish I had teachers like this in high school and university.

  • @SuckaFREE2.0

    @SuckaFREE2.0

    2 жыл бұрын

    I hated school and they hated me right back….SO I WENT TO CLASS half baked🥴

  • @zabtej1645

    @zabtej1645

    2 жыл бұрын

    they don't teach anything useful.

  • @albertschultz7151
    @albertschultz7151 Жыл бұрын

    As someone else commented. What a privilege to listen how something so complicated as Black Holes can be explained to us less gifted and yet leave one with a whetted appetite for more. Many thanks 🙏🏻

  • @vikramantin3995
    @vikramantin3995 Жыл бұрын

    Wow! Thanks for the clarity

  • @dandatiles8404
    @dandatiles84042 жыл бұрын

    "Information is not allowed to be lost" To my brain: "Why can't you give me the information that I know you knew? Do not say you forget, you're just not telling me. Do not prank me always."

  • @rigobertovillalobos3614

    @rigobertovillalobos3614

    2 жыл бұрын

    Inside the book of Enoch is information about stars, galaxies, and black holes. This book contains a code and key set to understanding how to decode the message given from God about revelations. We must unlock the truth. If you read the book of Jude, 1st and 2nd Peter you will see that much of message as clues on how to decode it. When you read them look at the similarities of the words used. They are almost identical.

  • @javasoy
    @javasoy2 жыл бұрын

    shaking my head on the fact that so many of you don't know who Lenny is... perhaps the most underrated physicist of our life time, I guess.

  • @metamesh1
    @metamesh16 ай бұрын

    Thanks John Malkovich, for this great explanation, great physicist and better actor!

  • @srikanthkal8695
    @srikanthkal8695 Жыл бұрын

    Black holes have always fascinated me since I was 13-year old from the time my much older friend Vivek Rao, an Electronics Engineering student from IIT, Madras, explained it to me. These great scientists explain it in such a simple and interesting manner. Thanks.

  • @imissya54454

    @imissya54454

    Жыл бұрын

    I know him. That’s crazy. Famous guy!

  • @balaji-kartha
    @balaji-kartha2 жыл бұрын

    Well, this is the edge of knowledge as far as theoretical physics is concerned, and it would be really something when we do reconcile the two understandings of the very big and the very small.

  • @darksu6947

    @darksu6947

    2 жыл бұрын

    That will be the day that things change forever. I hope I’m around to see it.

  • @balaji-kartha

    @balaji-kartha

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@darksu6947 very true; because once we understand how the very small makes the very big, we just might even understand what is consciousness! Everything changes after that!

  • @Mr.MarkGuerrero

    @Mr.MarkGuerrero

    2 жыл бұрын

    You would still be lost.

  • @mustangmikep51

    @mustangmikep51

    Жыл бұрын

    All of Creation begins as THOUGHT and expands outward in DENSITY. Focused thoughts create the energy molds(thought forms) within the nonphysical dimensions and act as the sub structure for matter.....Black holes lead to that sub structure...thats where our physical Universe originates from...to travel through a Black hole...to the "other side" if you will,you would have to give up your "physical dense form" and transform into your much finer ,higher vibrational energy form...after you get to that realm...there are even finer realms to explore and experience...sounds all woo-woo I know, but its REALITY!

  • @mustangmikep51

    @mustangmikep51

    Жыл бұрын

    @@balaji-kartha EVERYTHING originates from CONSCIOUSNESS.....but that's another enigma like Black holes isn't it?

  • @tonycahill9621
    @tonycahill96212 жыл бұрын

    A great physics storyteller! 👏

  • @gracie99999

    @gracie99999

    Жыл бұрын

    man, not sure about all that cause i m clueless but this a reasoned seasoned person

  • @kzelmer
    @kzelmerАй бұрын

    The lake analogy is wonderful

  • @user-lu9hq6jv4v
    @user-lu9hq6jv4v Жыл бұрын

    Wonderful explanation of insights!

  • @dhruvyadav9499
    @dhruvyadav94992 жыл бұрын

    3 mins in and already blown away I thought the video is done.. Never been happy to discover h There was more to go

  • @sudstahgaming
    @sudstahgaming2 жыл бұрын

    This guy is a great talker and explainer

  • @dr.derekrobinson1920

    @dr.derekrobinson1920

    2 жыл бұрын

    Seriously

  • @alexgoslar4057
    @alexgoslar4057 Жыл бұрын

    So well explained tahnk you Professor Leonard Susskind.

  • @triquetrawitch3002
    @triquetrawitch3002 Жыл бұрын

    thank you for posting this it was most excellent I've been obsessed with black holes ever since I was a kid so thank you very much it was very different to hear and see theorized and a different point of view

  • @JonYuill
    @JonYuill2 жыл бұрын

    What theory was it that convinced the camera operator to focus so much on the guy who wasn't actually speaking?

  • @LOL-vm8hs

    @LOL-vm8hs

    2 жыл бұрын

    To tell us how focused we should be

  • @El_Beat

    @El_Beat

    2 жыл бұрын

    The camera operator is in love 😻

  • @zabtej1645

    @zabtej1645

    2 жыл бұрын

    it was an attempt from the cameraman to show how big of a clown he is.

  • @hpygolkyone

    @hpygolkyone

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you. I thought I was the only one who found the constant camera shot on the interviewer to be annoying. Perhaps he was looking for the eye roll when he is discussing quantum physics and then suddenly switches to giving a talk to an elementary school about polywogs, tadpoles, chickens and ducks.

  • @pearz420

    @pearz420

    2 жыл бұрын

    You mean the editor cutting in reaction shots... they linger too long, but that's an editing issue and has NOTHING to do with camera operators.

  • @DrDeuteron
    @DrDeuteron2 жыл бұрын

    So when Sabine asked "What's inside a blackhole", I said: "The future". You can't get out because you can't go back in time.

  • @clocked0

    @clocked0

    2 жыл бұрын

    You can see objects which fell in during the past. And you can't go back in time outside of the black hole, either

  • @scoreprinceton

    @scoreprinceton

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@clocked0 seeing and hearing are analogies but with Page time you can understand what happens to quantum mechanics and celestial mechanics of the rock as explained in this podcast: d2r55xnwy6nx47.cloudfront.net/uploads/2021/02/quanta-155_Physics-Paradox-FINAL.mp3

  • @rainappleby

    @rainappleby

    2 жыл бұрын

    Maximum Entropy

  • @davidmusser7927

    @davidmusser7927

    2 жыл бұрын

    How stupid.

  • @Lyndanet

    @Lyndanet

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@clocked0 how do you actually know that…

  • @evanfinch4987
    @evanfinch4987 Жыл бұрын

    I used to listen to his lectures on quantum mechanics when I worked in a warehouse; an excellent teacher.

  • @geert574

    @geert574

    Жыл бұрын

    Bro if u understood a thing u wouldn't be in a warehouse would u 🤣

  • @morganmitchell4017

    @morganmitchell4017

    Жыл бұрын

    @@geert574 Why? I worked in a warehouse, and now I'm doing a PhD in physics.

  • @LQhristian
    @LQhristian Жыл бұрын

    There's no violation if you include higher dimensions to explain the 'loss/conservation' of information!! Great videos!

  • @vulnikkura
    @vulnikkura2 жыл бұрын

    This is so frickin' COOL and terrifying at the same time!

  • @reginaldbauer5243
    @reginaldbauer52432 жыл бұрын

    Black holes may be extremely cold (near absolute zero) to us from the outside, but if the gravity of the black hole swallows up all matter and energy, then how do we know that all that mass and energy inside, which cannot escape the event horizon and is trapped inside, is not in fact extremely hot inside? How do we know what the temperature is just inside of the event horizon? What are the astrophysical jets that come from the black hole? How do black holes convert mass into energy? Articles about LIGO discovery state that some percentage of mass from black hole mergers is converted into energy, resulting in a black hole that is smaller than the sum of the original mergers. They found two black holes - of 36 and 29 solar masses - merging together to create a new black hole of 62 solar masses. Where did the other 3 solar masses (about 5% of the total system's mass) go? Into the energy of gravitational waves? So, it isn’t that the black holes are losing mass but that the total amount of energy in spacetime is transforming from one form (in two well-separated, unbound masses) to another form (a single, tightly bound mass plus gravitational radiation). How does this process happen? If in the very last second of the merger is where most energy is released (in the form of gravitational waves), then these gravitational waves are pure energy (not particles of any kind)? It is accepted that nothing escapes black holes. So: how is energy radiated from black hole mergers? How are these gravitational waves able to escape black holes?

  • @cxjaguar617

    @cxjaguar617

    2 жыл бұрын

    I’m only typing this in hopes your comment gets more attention.

  • @DeStinAr0

    @DeStinAr0

    2 жыл бұрын

    Soo many questions but no answers 🥲

  • @LordTetsuoShima

    @LordTetsuoShima

    2 жыл бұрын

    I'm thinking it has something to do with Hawking Radiation

  • @mlfilion

    @mlfilion

    2 жыл бұрын

    I don't think anything escapes the black holes until they implode and then explode tearing a hole in spacetime creating a wormhole, where some energy escapes into another spacetime or dimension

  • @nmarbletoe8210

    @nmarbletoe8210

    Жыл бұрын

    yes it could be hot inside. it can also be hot outside. the temperature is that of the event horizon itself, with nothing else around

  • @kwilliams5260
    @kwilliams5260 Жыл бұрын

    Ive always wondered whether blackholes act like portals to a mirror universe. If the event horizon could be stabilised it would be like a piece of paper 2 sides; a hole in that paper would provide a peep hole to the other side of the paper. Everything in our life and universe has an equalateral balance. Day and night, land and sea, life and death; everything is a cycle. I am a fond believer of the multiverse theory and i hope one day while i still draw breath i get to learn the true nature of blackholes. Universally fascinating

  • @sankararajan1731
    @sankararajan1731 Жыл бұрын

    Top Class elucidation. Hats of to you gentlemen. Please share more such videos.⚘⚘🌺🌷👍👍

  • @timmarshall4881
    @timmarshall48812 жыл бұрын

    That was the most fascinating and meaningful program I have watched for a long time. I only wish my own teachers was as clear and entertaining back in the day.

  • @DeanHorak
    @DeanHorak2 жыл бұрын

    Fascinating discussion. Thanks.

  • @thesmilegame
    @thesmilegame Жыл бұрын

    Thank You

  • @todd.66
    @todd.663 күн бұрын

    You guys are amazing. Thank you.

  • @malkhalifa3D
    @malkhalifa3D2 жыл бұрын

    if a movie was ever based on Susskind, John Malkovich should play him

  • @TenzinLundrup
    @TenzinLundrup2 жыл бұрын

    What a beautiful explanation: "The black hole is the rock of Galileo." Love it.

  • @GalileoAV

    @GalileoAV

    2 жыл бұрын

    I always wanted a rock. But for real though it is a great analogy.

  • @CreepsCompilation

    @CreepsCompilation

    2 жыл бұрын

    Black holes don't EXIST, they have NEVER EXISTED anywhere except in the minds of people who NEED them to exist to FIX their BROKEN EQUATIONS

  • @TenzinLundrup

    @TenzinLundrup

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@CreepsCompilation Can you write-up your ideas. You can post them on arXiv. Let me know the manuscript number. I would be happy to look at it. Thanks. BTW, black holes don't "fix" equations, they actually break them!

  • @gracie99999
    @gracie99999 Жыл бұрын

    clash of principles, progress begin! Zthank u for verbalizing this

  • @miggitymikeb
    @miggitymikeb Жыл бұрын

    This is the kind of thing that should be on prime time network television instead of all the reality tv game show slop we have now.