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@Thomas-gk42

18 күн бұрын

Thank you for the quiz.

@mysticone1798

18 күн бұрын

Nothing is a coincidence. I applaud Sabine for making such a video on inexplicable "coincidences", but really she has only scratched the surface on the question of the parameters that make our cosmos possible. There are many other "coincidences", all of which TOGETHER make it possible for atoms to exist, for chemical interactions to occur, for stars to ignite at critical mass, for all of the various elements that are needed for life itself to form within the stars. The presence of elements like carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, etc. all derive from these very essential "coincidental" values governing the material plane, without which there might have been NO COSMOS AT ALL, and no intelligent life to witness it. But none of these fine-tuned values are coincidences. Rather, they are the proof of the Intelligent Design of the universe, and confirmation of a creator God, in the broadest sense. Sabine should do another video examining the many other values that reveal our Fine-Tuned Universe. After all, if a Designer does exist that created the universe, isn't it the goal of science to discover who and what that Designer is?

@peacepoet1947

18 күн бұрын

The vacuum of space is as wild as the space of electrons around the proton with electrostatic forces. As humans we experience friction, but vacuum of space around an atom doesn't experience the same friction. In my mind, that's very weird!

@raulvsr

18 күн бұрын

13/16 i'm noob 💀

@_John_P

18 күн бұрын

Number 3 is not a coincidence because G comes from the contributions of all other masses in the universe.

Perhaps another coincidence is that if you calculate the Schwarzschild equation with the estimated mass of the universe, you get a Schwarzschild radius that isn't very far off from 1/2 the estimated diameter of the universe. Do we all live inside a black hole?

@Toxicpoolofreekingmascul-lj4yd

18 күн бұрын

Of course we do. Each new black hole is a new universe. An eternal chain of creation.

@paulomartins1008

18 күн бұрын

Isn't that just telling you that you cannot escape the universe if you travel at or under the speed of light?

@DANGJOS

18 күн бұрын

​@@paulomartins1008 That's an interesting thought

@rawdez_

18 күн бұрын

@@paulomartins1008 this. less fun than "living inside a black hole" though

@rawdez_

18 күн бұрын

@@Toxicpoolofreekingmascul-lj4yd black holes are just Universe's shredders. you can obviously count their insides as "universes" themselves. but those universes have quite horrible conditions to be in.

If you sum the alphabet position of your name (S=19)+(A=1)+(B=2)+(I=9)+(N=14)+(E=5) and the add 4x114 (the number of days to your birthday) you get 506.... the number of videos you posted with this video....Coincidence? 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Great video!

@michaelkohn883

18 күн бұрын

Wow - mind blowing…. Jesus ,must be real.

@2ndfloorsongs

18 күн бұрын

Please don't start a cult; with reasoning like this, you'll be successful.

@scorpion2.411

18 күн бұрын

if you sum the alphabet position of the name of the person who discovered that SABINE + 4x114 = 506, you get ADRIAN = 47, and Sabine is 47 years old. It was already premeditated by the universe to make you a top comment 🤣🤣

@xxxxxx89xxxx30

18 күн бұрын

@@michaelkohn883 Jesus is real :)

@rudolfquetting2070

18 күн бұрын

😅

Every universe that didn't have the coincidences died in a blaze of glory

@mikeguilmette776

14 күн бұрын

Nice way to illustrate the anthropic principle.

@simongross3122

8 күн бұрын

I think they just faded away :) This is how the world ends; not with a bang, but a whimper.

@aniksamiurrahman6365

5 күн бұрын

Or got stuck in a glory hole. LOL!

The chance of all this being a coincidence is not that irrelevant. I just did the math, and it is exactly 1/137. Cheers Sabine!

@RoganGunn

17 күн бұрын

Haha what a finely structured joke! 🤪

@sabinrawr

17 күн бұрын

I love this!

@michaelwhittierpearson

17 күн бұрын

Maybe you really wanted to say "Cheers Sabine!" and thought it would look awkward. So you prefaced it. That's what I'd do

@LuigiHuana

17 күн бұрын

got another good one for you Sabine 1.28 (Charm mass) /173,1 (Top mass) = 0.00739456961... which looks something like 0.00729927007, or as men of culture say: 1/137 (Fine-structure constant) looking at the errors, it is not far fetched :P

@TiagoCavalcanti-ji6hu

17 күн бұрын

@@LuigiHuana Yeah, crazy, huh... It's like we live in a stable and geometrically consistent world... no, wait... that'd be too weird, eh!

The use of approximate values can create the illusion of coincidence. With a large enough set of numbers, some values will inevitably be similar. This is unsurprising. However, a precise match is far more compelling.

@solconcordia4315

9 күн бұрын

The formula for computing Rydberg's Constant is one of the most impressive one showing a very deep connection underlying our cosmic reality.

@maxieduardoapariciom.3181

7 күн бұрын

bla bla bla

I think if you take some numbers and massage them with math enough, you gain other numbers.

@rawdez_

17 күн бұрын

lol

@malectric

17 күн бұрын

Numerology 😞

@waveysavey

17 күн бұрын

Exactly. There are so many significant numbers out there, there's probably an infinite number of weird morphs you can do to them to make it seem like they're related. This video is garbage. Clickbait. She should know better.

@jameshart2622

17 күн бұрын

The correct answer. At least, once you add in the human ability to find patterns in noise.

@malectric

17 күн бұрын

@@waveysavey In all fairness I don't think she attached any significance to the numbers. ?

The universe gives us many cherries to pick.

@ethericlimerick2992

17 күн бұрын

Well said!

I am 178cm tall, or 71 inches. Coincidence?

@CosmologicallyYours

2 күн бұрын

If we could squeeze just 1 more [m/s] into the speed of light the new c = 299,792,458 = 29*71*145,601. Seek "Foundations of Cosmological Relativity". and "John Wsol" and I promise you will find the Grand Design of the Cosmos.

Some bloke caled 'Pratchett' had an idea about this "“Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.”

@outtakontroll3334

18 күн бұрын

a man of deep intuition, was pratchett

@phtamas

17 күн бұрын

Happy Terry Pratchett day! (Coincidence?)

@simonfarre4907

17 күн бұрын

@@phtamas Whoa.

@skop6321

17 күн бұрын

​@@phtamas Uh, huh . . .

@sabinrawr

17 күн бұрын

​@@phtamasOmg... Happy birthday to The Man Himself!

When you look for coincidences, you will find coincidences -Umberto Eco, “Foucault’s Pendulum” (paraphrased)

@axle.student

17 күн бұрын

It's a bit like the philosophers web, or as Douglas Adams put it "The interconnectedness of all things".

@homerodysseus4203

17 күн бұрын

This is why philosophy is in my opinion an integral part of science and math. It seems to be the field that everyone loves to mock, but in the end always has the last laugh.

@Android480

17 күн бұрын

Whew thank you, I can stop reading that damn book now!

@TiagoCavalcanti-ji6hu

16 күн бұрын

Spoooooooooiler Alert!

@fredknowles5784

15 күн бұрын

and the square root of 2 is APPROXIMATLY 1.4!!!!!!!

Closer to home (as it were), two of my favourite coincidences are: 1. pi seconds is approximately a nanocentury 2. a foot is covered by sound in a millisecond and by light in a nanosecond

@martifingers

17 күн бұрын

Is that light in vacuo and sound in air?

Seeing the Fibonacci sequence crop up so many times in nature is quite a coincidence.

@antonseoane9092

2 күн бұрын

It's not a coincidence, it comes from logarithmic growth

One thing I've learned about science is when a politician uses the words "the science says" it has nothing to do with real science.

If you take the Cosmological Constant, divide it by 10 to the 14th, add the weight in grams of all the Cod in the Atlantic and multiply by the number of beams in the Eiffel Tower, you get a figure which is equal to the number of atoms present in the bodies of all the Koalas in Western Australia. Coincidence?

@keithsquawk

18 күн бұрын

An obvious sign of some sort of higher intelligence - or 'God did it' ? 🙂

@jeremywilliams5107

18 күн бұрын

The problem is that these things are commutative: when the Koala population rises, you get some pretty weird effects on the Eiffel Tower. Also the cosmological constant, which is why it's so difficult to measure.

@fanlb769

18 күн бұрын

@@keithsquawkGod fine-tuned the universe for koalas!1!

@MrKOenigma

18 күн бұрын

Very good, I thought I was the only one who noticed this 😂😂

@TiagoCavalcanti-ji6hu

18 күн бұрын

That has always bugged me too!

The speed of light is nearly 300,000,000 meters per second. The meter could have been defined in terms of the speed of light, but instead it was defined as 1/10,000,000 of the quadrant of the Earth’s circumference running from the North Pole through Paris to the equator. Coincidence?

I’m surprised you didn’t discuss the anthropic principle, survivorship bias, and string landscapes. They explain a lot of this perfectly well. Particularly things like the metastability of our vacuum.

@frankcl1

17 күн бұрын

Wouldn't we survive with a stable vacuum?

@jadusiv

17 күн бұрын

@@frankcl1 Sure, but it’s quite possible there is no such thing as a stable vacuum. Instead, we’re here because it lasts a very long time and is metastable. A certain degree of stability is required in the string landscape for life to emerge.

@milanstevic8424

17 күн бұрын

But if we are to talk about metastability (and anthropic principle), then we have to talk about the multiverse (or metaverse). This is where theoretical physics massively overlaps with philosophy, because anything beyond our observable and measurable universe is untestable by definition.

@user-uf4rx5ih3v

17 күн бұрын

@@jadusiv Either that, or our measurements are wrong and the vacuum is actually just stable. The thing is, our error intervals for some of these are actually relevant to make the entire calculation wrong. The errors propagate both from measurement, as well as calculation.

@simonnorburn3518

17 күн бұрын

​@@user-uf4rx5ih3v -+Well assuming you are using the strong anthropic principle which makes us the sole observers (or at least one of us equipped with the tools that we all are needed to invent for (choose your gender pronoun here)) to observe, then none of this is coincidence, it is necessary. A side argument about determinism might require the ratios to be slightly "off" the calculated values to prevent external events (i.e. facts of co-incidence) interfering with the observers’ structural integrity.

I am old now and never was that bright to begin with so it is eminently understandable that much of what Sabine says is profoundly opaque to me. What is difficult to understand is why I watch regularly and wonder at the complexity of what seems simple to a simpleton.

@Thomas-gk42

18 күн бұрын

If you would be a simpleton, you wouldn´t watch this channel and listen to Sabine😊

@SabineHossenfelder

18 күн бұрын

Sorry for the opacity, but to be honest when it comes to these coincidences I'm not sure I understand why many physicists think they are relevant. Then again, maybe I am thinking too simple...

@thepuma2012

18 күн бұрын

well i only understand a bit of one of those 7.... i dont know what the rest is all about

@CodepageNet

18 күн бұрын

​@@SabineHossenfelder coincidences that are precise down to x place after the decimalpoint are most likely really not coincidences but some inherent underlying connections that we currently do not understand. ie, we should try to figure out what's going on.

@rawdez_

18 күн бұрын

@@SabineHossenfelder pretty sure its what you've said recently - many physicists are just writing papers for grant money. and thats it. so making things up works for them

THE most fundamental law of physics being that the universe is humorous, carry on smiling with your brain! A most beautiful video!

I am always smiling when somebody is using the size of the universe as a known factor in the equation. It is unbelievable how smart scientists are.

Sabine is pulling our legs with this episode. It should have come out on April 1st.

@edus9636

17 күн бұрын

Exactly my thought!

@TiagoCavalcanti-ji6hu

16 күн бұрын

It's her point.

1) nearly a number not impressed 2) nearly a number not impressed 3) funny as we do not know the size of the universe. Even about the shape we are not sure. conclusion: interesting but i find it even more interesting to focus on one and discuss ideas why it might be no coincidence and the take/view of a sceptic physicist on those ideas.

@DaMonster

17 күн бұрын

I think it's worth noting that (2) isn't nearly a number, it's actually within the margin of error. I think there is an explanation for it, but it probably won't be groundbreaking.

@TiagoCavalcanti-ji6hu

16 күн бұрын

Science channels also need views and interactions to keep them making more, like the ones you mentioned. But I just suppose it.

@georgelionon9050

15 күн бұрын

3) its not unitless! that "coincidence" has a unit attached to it, so certainly nonsense.

@2perspectivevideos312

9 күн бұрын

Thought exactly thr same thing. A bit disappointed by this video.

This all went over my head. Albert Einstein had a head. Coincidence?😂

@sMVshortMusicVideos

18 күн бұрын

Ditto, I can usually hang, but not this time. Maybe you can make us a sacred (special) numbers and formulas for dummies.

@MrKOenigma

18 күн бұрын

​@@sMVshortMusicVideossomething is coming up, I don't know where she is leading us. But I'm eager to find out

@BadManaManXXi

17 күн бұрын

You have a head? I have a head. Coincidence?

@jimmyzhao2673

17 күн бұрын

@@sMVshortMusicVideos co-authored by Deepak Chopra.

@Disgracefoold

17 күн бұрын

@@BadManaManXXiI have a head, too! What are the odds of that???

Yes… There are lots of theories and even more numbers… some line up in imaginary ways

What i find interesting is that Coulombs formula for force between two charges is the same as Newton's formula for gravity between two objects. The interesting part is that there is a particle that is responsible for charge, but gravity is just a curvature of space time. It is not the force and somehow you can use "same formula".

The "coincidence" I find worthy of attention is the Koide rule. A lot of free parameters in SM are particle masses (Higgs couplings): nine out of 19. Koide rule (and a few other curious "coincidences" with other masses) hints that masses are not free parameters. They can be predicted by a better theory.

@frun

18 күн бұрын

Koide rule=descartes circle theorem

@AlejandroRivero

12 күн бұрын

viavca.in2p3.fr/presentations/koide_formula_beyond_charged_leptons.pdf here I did a good collection of bibliography

I for whatever reason strongly desire long form videos on each of these, and also on the 1/137

I'm still hung up on the fact that the top of the great pyramid at Giza is 29.97924°N and the speed of light is 299,792.4 km/s, it's exact. Egyptians didn't use degrees or meters, which makes the coincidence even more wild.

Not the laws of nature per se, but I always found it extremely interesting that proportions of the distance and ( to a lesser extent ) the orbit of the moon from the earth and thst of the sun has a “goldilocks” relationship. It is just the right distance away from the Earth to nearly precisely block out the sun at a simple and regular frequency.

@63MGB1

14 күн бұрын

Yeah, almost like someone is messing with us...lol.

@theunderstatement

7 күн бұрын

The moon is very slowly moving away from earth, and was much closer in the past. In the future, around 600 million years from now, there won’t be full eclipses any more.

Since we can only perceive the observable universe, and have no real idea of what's not observable, how can scientists even estimate the "size of the universe?"

@thstroyur

18 күн бұрын

Size of the _observable_ Universe

@Duke_Romilar_III

18 күн бұрын

@@thstroyur- that's like standing on your roof and drawing conclusions about the whole planet, based on what you can see from there...and we wonder why there's this "cosmology crisis". The more we discover, the more we find that observations don't relate to the "accepted" theories and formulas.

@thstroyur

18 күн бұрын

@@Duke_Romilar_III That's drawing conclusions from what data is available. Alas, I do agree that's a fundamental limitation of cosmology - which prevents it from being a full-fledged science

@axle.student

17 күн бұрын

You make an interesting point here and touch upon something that irks me in all descriptions of the universe. We only see a past light cone of the universe in both space (distance) and time (past). There is no "NOW" universe for us to see. When I here the universe (observable?) is "This Big Now" it is illogical. Either it is the observable universe in terms of m/s or it is a universe that is of unknown size. In the same context I hear about people (scientists) making a 3D map of the universe. This is also illogical as we have no "NOW" 3D awareness of the universe. At best we have a past histogram of shells (Outer layers of the sphere) stretching back in time and out in space. In some sense all we have is multiple 2D representations "In Time". I guess it is a kind of pseudo 2.5/4D.

@ethericlimerick2992

17 күн бұрын

@@axle.student You are correct sir! Now draw a 4th dimensional picture of a black hole with pencil and paper!

Is it me, or is Dr. Hossenfelder talking directly to the scientific community, and we're just here with our popcorn?

@georgesheffield1580

17 күн бұрын

You figured it out ,join the party .

@andersjjensen

17 күн бұрын

Most of these are pretty well known facts. The problem is to root out which are coincidences and which are fundamental relations. There have been many others, that started diverging as measuring of constants got more and more accurate.

@axle.student

17 күн бұрын

Yeah, it was all a bit opaque so I wasn't sure where or who that was directed at lol

@EdwardCurrent

17 күн бұрын

The experts already know these things, but what's great about her videos is we feel like she's talking to experts and not dumbing anything down...as opposed to the Fermilab guy, for instance.

@TiagoCavalcanti-ji6hu

16 күн бұрын

Don't tell everybody, it's just too fun to watch...

IIRC a teacher split their class into groups, gave each group a copy of Moby Dick. Then told each group there was a hidden code in it. Written in the text. letter spacing, line numbers, transposition of letters.. whatever was needed. The code was hidden somehow. They should try as many ways as possible to find the code and extract the meaning. He made up some topics and gave each group a different topic. Claiming they would find meaning in Moby Dick on that topic...if they could crack the code of the book. Almost all the groups returned at the end of the project sure they had cracked the code and found that meaning. Some were amazed by what they thought they had discovered. The story goes that several refused to believe the teacher when he said he had made it all up. His point was that, with a big enough data set, where you are allowed to extract meaning in whatever manner you like with no rules, you can read almost anything into anything.

A more interesting question is... If you take all the mathematical constants in both physics and astronomy and apply any combination of half a dozen different mathematical functions like additions / divisions / square roots to any group of them (be they related or not) and define a simple 'match' (being being any decimal number that looks interesting up to 5 digits like 0.666661 ) then.... what is the probability of there being zero coincidences found?

Another one that gets brought up is that the fine structure constant α is "almost" 1/137. However, the current accepted value per NIST is α = 7.2973525693 x 10^-3, in which case 1/α = 137.035999 which most decidedly is *not* 137. In fact, α is about 0.026% smaller than 1/137, which is comparable to 22/7 being about 0.04% larger than π , and nobody takes seriously the idea that π is 22/7. Anyhow, I think there are probably a few cases for these and other "coincidences": 1. Humans instinctively wanting to find patterns and order. 2. Indications of deeper physics. 3. Anthropic principle. 4. Brute facts. Whether we will ever figure out which is an interesting science question, and whether we even _can_ is a an interesting epistemological question.

@aaaaa5272

18 күн бұрын

regarding 22/7, keep in mind that 7 is a prime, which 22 is not.

@Olivia4eva

17 күн бұрын

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@Olivia4eva

17 күн бұрын

youtube.com/@Olivia4eva?si=lEIaMogAZfPbAfT3

@charlesbrowne9590

17 күн бұрын

22/7 is the second in a sequence of rational approximations of π using continued fractions. It is possible to show that this sequence of approximations to π is most efficient at minimizing error while simultaneously minimizing the denominator. So 22/7 is not coincidentally approximate to π, but is derived from π.

@JK_Vermont

17 күн бұрын

@@charlesbrowne9590 Sure, but Archimedes came up with the 22/7 upper bound using geometric methods well before anyone was messing about with continued fractions.

OK, OK, OK: I didn’t understand even one of these coincidences… Coincidence? No… Thank you for the videos…

@alexshapiro9841

18 күн бұрын

Your mom has the same mass as all of food missing from Africa. Coincidence?

@VikingTeddy

18 күн бұрын

Oh c'mon. If you take this charge, multiply it by pi. Then take the square root and substract the energy of the universe, add plancks constant, divide by Einstein birthday in binary. You get almost the mass of a proton! That's gotta be a coincidence right!?

@ninablessing9350

17 күн бұрын

😂

@Tailspin80

17 күн бұрын

No, I didn’t. Ignorance?

As a retired chemical engineer, I collect science coincidences while studying physics. I can verify your first 2 but the others, I don't have all the info to confirm. i.e. On 3, is the size of the observable universe a mass or a diameter? Dr. Becky detailed her coincidence with the microwave background very well and it was easy to verify. I have found several other parallels between folklore and science as well.

The 'coincidence' that recently really blew my mind when I learned about it is that gravity can be derived thermodynamics..... I think the explanation is that the teen simulating us in the basement is lazy and lacks creativity and reuses code.

@mikeguilmette776

14 күн бұрын

Sometimes I wonder . . .

00:01 Someone taught me that equations and numbers are actually our way to describe/understand the universe, in the way that a painter uses color to describe the subject of his attention. It's pretty pretentious to claim that the universe is ruled by OUR equations and OUR numbers.

@TomSkinner

17 күн бұрын

I think everyone pretty much agrees. It's just a manner of speaking. All know that these are mathematical models that closely resemble reality but aren't reality itself. But it is odd that they can work so well.

@JZsBFF

17 күн бұрын

​@@TomSkinnerYou're right, it's odd but that might very well be coincidental. Some painters are better than others but even the best painting/piece of art isn't reality. I suppose that 's pretty good analogy. As far as we know our closest theories might be no better than a first grader sticking a random number to his first sum; ie Newton's gravity vs Einstein's spacetime.

Physicists hate this one simple trick..

@danoconnell1833

18 күн бұрын

...but they can't stop you from using it.

@aaaaa5272

18 күн бұрын

...but they can't stop you from using it.

@noob19087

17 күн бұрын

...but they can't stop you from using it.

@milanstevic8424

17 күн бұрын

...stop from it you can't but they using.

@Laughing_Cat_Meme

17 күн бұрын

...they stop using you but can't from it.

Surprised you don't mention the Dirac Large Numbers Coincidences, which can also be related to the quantum vacuum state, but may also have an anthropic explanation

I think Dirac’s Large Numbers Hypothesis is even more intriguing.

I'm still just mad at statisticians for using the word "correlation," which should be most similar to "interdependent," instead of using "coincidence," which means occupying the same space/time and/or with accidental/incidental agreement.

@DefaultFlame

18 күн бұрын

It's because they want to be paid, and correlation sounds a lot more important than coincidence, hence making statistician a job instead of just fancy numerology. Hence why mopping the floor is "surface engineering designed to minimize obstruction between travelling system (feet) and the traction interface (floor)."

@michaelhorning6014

18 күн бұрын

Correlation means correlation. It doesn't imply, suggest, or hint at causation. So you're mad at them using correct language.

@Lolwutdesu9000

18 күн бұрын

Ladies and gentlemen, I present not knowing the difference between correlation and causation.

@IzudeDarkwolf

18 күн бұрын

​@michaelhorning6014 except it does it speaks to a shared causal factor/s despite the subjects not directly effecting one another.

@paulomartins1008

18 күн бұрын

As elegant as what you said sounded the thing is that statistical objects do not occupy space-time, they are abstractions. To see this from a philosophical view point, consider that even mundane objects like marbles are very hard to define strictly ("can it be made of stone?", "does half a sphere suffice?", "is the sun a marble?"), so any potential object of which to derive statistics is already itself hard to define rigorously. Now, consider actions, which in language systems are verbs, and incidentally consider a verb that relates one or more objects (or subjects), and ponder the question of how rigorously you can define said verb in such a way that it describes unequivocally the relation between the aforementioned objects, that are themselves unambiguously defined ("what does it mean for two objects to collide?") Having said this much, it becomes clear that statistical objects described through quantified relations only appear natural because of our familiarity with mathematical abstraction itself, and "incidence" despite its practicality would miss the point, whereas "relation" having a particular meaning in statistics, logic, and algebra points to a clearer notion of abstraction away from the object of study.

By the size of the universe, I assume you mean the observable universe. Any correlation involving such an arbitrary quantity is going to be coincidence.

@EinsteinsHair

18 күн бұрын

And is "size" a length or a volume?

@raginggerman5377

17 күн бұрын

Not if we actually are at the center of the universe and the end is right beyond where we just can't see it. I bet the CIA knew all about it all along.

Great video. What a mountain of knowledge there must be behind noticing just one of f these "coincidences"

Presenting physics as art is an inspired move. Thank you for sharing. The CC symbol looks like a barless A, a pair of walking legs or a spear tip in the negative space. In Pagan tradition this begins a love story between the Corner and the Line.

Those floating equations really mess with KZread compression algorithms. Each time they are on the screen you turn into a blob of pixels.

@therealpbristow

17 күн бұрын

It's not just KZread. 99% (rough guess) of video compression is done using motion estimation to track things and record the motion vectors (very little data needed) instead of having to redraw that thing from scratch in every frame. But throw in 2 or more moving things that are translucent, and... which motion is it supposed to follow? The algorithm gets very confused, so the fall-back mechanism just sighs and has to resort to encoding the "instructions" for redrawing the relevant bits of each frame after all... But it has to do that while keeping within a tiny bit-budget, so the instructions end up very imprecise. Result: Messy splurge. =:o/

@TiagoCavalcanti-ji6hu

16 күн бұрын

Coincidence???

Another thing that comes to mind is the correlation of the zeros in the Riemann zeta function vs. the function describing the energy levels of the atom.

Finally! The Koide Formula. It would be so amazing if you could make a whole video about this anomaly and additional similar anomalies, for example there is also a remarkable one with respect to quark mixing angles, but I also think others. Those anomalies are highly significant as the formulas were found at a time when the measured precision of the constants that are part of the formula was much lower. But they still hold up. This makes the probability that the are just curve fit less than 1%.

@AlejandroRivero

12 күн бұрын

The wikipedia page already mentions most of the known things, for the rest you can visit physicsforums long thread "what is new with Koide formula"

The reciprocal of the hubble constant is very close to the age of the universe: this makes sense if you assume that all galaxies have been moving away from us at a constant speed ever since the big bang, but in reality the hubble constant changed wildly with time and this is purely a coincidence.

Most excellent break down. One a note: in an infinite multi-verse universe there is a non-zero chance all factors will inevitably produce the right circumstances...if you believe in that sort of thing.

@rawdez_

18 күн бұрын

we just happen to exist and we only can exist in a universe with these constants. also vacuum degradation from unstable higher energy levels could've been what we call "the big bang". so probably the Universe "evolved" into what we have now. hence all "coincidences" were inevitable to happen.

@derickd6150

18 күн бұрын

Sure but there are a range of "right" circumstances if all you mean by "right" is that we exist to observe it. So why did we get this particular set of "right"? Why are we in the top right sliver of meta stable instead of the bottom left sliver of meta stable or just in the stable region? Believing in a multiverse doesn't remove all these questions. There is still stuff to ask

@rawdez_

18 күн бұрын

@@derickd6150 particular set of "right" is just random and there's nothing behind that. no hidden meaning. no creator. and multiverse have nothing to do with that. >Why are we in the top right sliver of meta stable if it was any different physics would also be different and we wouldn't exist to ask silly questions))

@bishopdredd5349

18 күн бұрын

Maybe like evolution, things evolved into these circumstances.

@derickd6150

18 күн бұрын

@@rawdez_ you see you didn't even read what I said. These KZread physics gurus. There's no reason to think that if we were in a different sliver of META STABLE we wouldn't exist to ask such questions. Maybe you're right that there are no reasons for such things... Or maybe they are indicative of better theories that result in cleaner pictures. I get the feeling you just REALLY want to say everything is random and you have all the answers. Case closed. Well it's not closed and it won't be a for a long time

This just makes sense, this is clearly optimization of the engine used by the simulation we're living in. If it weren't for these optimizations our thinking and movement would have taken much more time!

Add all these coincidences together. Take away the number you first thought of. What you are left with is a research grant proposal.

The wobbly line hypothesis. If there's a wobbly line ~ anywhere in the equation then it's a coincidence.

@ethericlimerick2992

17 күн бұрын

What if it contains something timey whymey? (Apologies / Bygones)

The sun and moon appear to have the same diameter. What is the chance of that?

@philsharp758

18 күн бұрын

That is an interesting coincidence. As the Moon is moving away from the Earth total eclipses will be a thing of the past.

@velisvideos6208

18 күн бұрын

Exactly, and we are here now. What does that imply?

@heisag

18 күн бұрын

@@philsharp758 Aye, i guess that will make the future brigther.

@philsharp758

18 күн бұрын

@@velisvideos6208 I would contend that a Cosmic Intelligence is involved with a sense of humour. In accord with our current understandimg of the formation of the Moon, millions of years ago the Moon was much closer to Earth. That in this present epoch with sentinent beings noting that the angle subtended by the Moon and Sun is identical is an act of Providence. And discovery of the Babel Fish will prove this beyond doubt.

@TiagoCavalcanti-ji6hu

16 күн бұрын

@@velisvideos6208 Coincidence???

Occam's Razor dictates that the simplest explanation should always take priority over the more complex. In this case the simplest explanation is obvious. The universe was designed.

The fact that Pi pops up all over the place might indicate that the ultimate model that our universe is based on is periodic.

@martifingers

17 күн бұрын

Is pi only valid in Euclidian space? Are there not other coefficients of periodicity?

Yes, they are all coincidences since a coincidence is _the fact, condition, or state of coinciding._ The question is whether they are random, causally connected, or accidental coincidences.

@brothermine2292

18 күн бұрын

"Coincidence" has another definition, which is the one that's relevant in Sabine's context.

@mikemondano3624

17 күн бұрын

@@brothermine2292 It always means two things coinciding.

@sabinrawr

17 күн бұрын

The phrase is "just a coincidence", implying that there is no deeper relation. The phrase is often shortened in colloquy, given that of there were some causal or dependent relation, that relation would then be the fact to express because the coincident nature would be trivial and moot. For example, the value of τ is defined to be 2π, or τ=C/r as the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its radius. Thus, the fact that τ/2=π may well coincide (it does), but colloquially it would not be referred to as a coincidence if the underlying definition is known.

@axle.student

17 күн бұрын

There is a Physical as well as a Philosophical interpretation. It's the Philosophical interpretation that can become a little ambiguous :)

@richardatkinson4710

17 күн бұрын

Or (Jung/Pauli synchronicity) acausally connected.

I hadn't heard of any of these except for the vacuum decay issue. I learned that from Katie Mack's book "The End of Everything"

@guest_informant

18 күн бұрын

In case you're interested there's a new podcast with Katie Mack and John Green, a sort of Beginner's Guide to the Universe.

@yeroca

17 күн бұрын

@@guest_informant Interesting! Thanks for the tip, will check it out

@andersjjensen

17 күн бұрын

PBS SpaceTime also did a good primer on it.

@Thomas-gk42

17 күн бұрын

Sabine interviewed Astro-Katie in her book "Lost in Math". Thanks for the hint.

"My cat's breath smells like cat food" -Ralph Wiggam, PhD.

Sorting, sifting, dreaming about the the coincidences to answer Dr. Sabine Hossenfelder's question about whether they point to a deeper meaning, and if so, which ones do . . . is a worthy topic for grad students . . . personal motives intensify the quest

great video of the universal constants. you forgot the fine-structure constant, 1/137.

@ludwitch1097

18 күн бұрын

That is what I thought.

@SabineHossenfelder

18 күн бұрын

The fine-structure constant, contrary to what its name suggests, is not constant, it's energy-dependent. Never understood why people think there's something special about it.

@PrimordialOracleOfManyWorlds

18 күн бұрын

@@SabineHossenfelder there is so much media content on 1/137 that it influences the masses. if you can prove that 1/137 is not a constant, please make a video about it. i always loved your insights.

@thstroyur

18 күн бұрын

​@@PrimordialOracleOfManyWorldsWhat she means is that it's a 'running coupling', according to QED: 1/137 is roughly the value for low-energy experiments - but it increases with said energy. That's renormalization for you...

@gingerestkitten

18 күн бұрын

@@thstroyur what’s sad is I have seen well respected high energy physicists (the likes of Brian Cox) and theorists (other Brians) prevaricate about how interesting it being almost 1/137 when they know better.. we shouldn’t really stand for this. I would welcome a video on this nonsense from Sabine but if you’re in need of immediate satisfaction then @acollierastro has a few choice rants (with worked problems :)

Just last night I was thinking about the Universe...coincidence?

@NachtmahrNebenan

18 күн бұрын

I'm an old white man and last night I thought about ancient Rome - coincidence? Oops, wrong thread here…

"...just about..."; "...approximately..."; "...virtually the same as...". None of those descriptions seemed to work with my maths teacher...

I love that there are still mysteries in physics. We might still know more. Bend your brains to these problems, physicists! Understand! Calculate! I believe in you!

One coincidence I've noticed over the years, is that as I get older, the people of the the world get stupider.

@jeremywilliams5107

18 күн бұрын

Simple statistics - plot the average maturity curve and the expected lifetime curve against age, and you'll also find a correlation with shoe size. No kidding.

@waltsullivan8986

18 күн бұрын

We olds have already made most of the easy mistakes, so when we see youngs doing things we now know is stupid, the youngs look stupid, but they are just unexperienced.

@antoniopena8101

18 күн бұрын

This is the Conjecture of Total Knowlege. It says that the Total Knowledge in the planet is constant, but population increases.

@SiqueScarface

17 күн бұрын

My take on this is: With less and less effort to tell something to the whole world, the signal-noise-ratio is ever decreasing, and we are approaching 1, when there is no difference anymore between signal and noise.

@stefaniasmanio5857

17 күн бұрын

Because the smart-iness is constant… and people grow up constantly…

"I believe in coincidences. Coincidences happen every day. But I don't _trust_ coincidences." -- Garak, _Star Trek: Deep Space Nine_

@Thomas-gk42

17 күн бұрын

😊

Indubitably! E = hc/λ, with h = 6.625 × 10-34 Js and c is the velocity of light, which results in values of 4.9 × 10-19 J (400 nm) to 7.1 × 10-19 J (280 nm)... In Layman's terms; If you made a Left hand turn this morning instead of a Righthand turn, you would have ended up finding yourself in a completely different location in Spacetime than if you had just made a Left. Coincidence? I think not.

What is the ratio of things that aren’t coincident to those that are? This is like saying,….”we have 4 fingers and a thumb on each hand,……..coincidence??” . That is just the way it is!

Perhaps they could be solved by using the DaVinci code.

@fibber2u

18 күн бұрын

Now you are talking about stuff I can understand.

@ChaineYTXF

17 күн бұрын

Ouch.. I was hoping to never have to lay eyes on that book title ever again...

Koide's formula, take the masses as areas and their square root as radiuses. The area of the three particles is 2/3 of the area if the radius were of the three particle radiuses lined up and added. Sounds like geometry. So they're not lined up, they're in some other configuration.

I think, the reasonable answer is that it's grounds to at least look. How much effort you want to spend looking likely depending on how glaring the coincidence is. If you look long enough and don't place any a-priori restrictions of what you are even looking for, then you are 100% sure to find "something interesting" from random noise. It's *always* possible to fit data to a curve, especially if you allow any equation, no matter how complex. But, then, OTOH there are genuine cases where we have found those "that's odd" things. If you arrange the elements in the order of their atomic mass, why do their properties seem to repeat every eight place? What's so special about the number eight? Well, we did found out the deeper explanation when we investigated that. However, let's never forget that most of the time we do NOT find anything. Heck, the particle physics is a prime example of getting loads of false alarms as the data masses grow gigantic. 3-sigma? Happens every week, it's a random fluke, so go back to sleep. But we *should* still investigate. Particularly if the coincidence seems to not be too complex. If the coincidence requires you to write an equation filling the blackboard, then you're likely overfitting your observations. But if you start seeing a simple fraction appearing between two seemingly unrelated things, then yeah, could be random but then again, it *is* weird, isn't it? Might warrant a look. Just in case.

I was amazed at the vacuum longevity figure... I deduce it wasn’t produced by Dyson.

This video feels a lot like: "Oh hey, look at this pond. It's wet and circular. It also takes on the exact shape of the hole. Coincidence?"

@Thomas-gk42

18 күн бұрын

It depends, Koide´s formulare seems to be more than that, these three particles are different flavors of the same lepton.

@derickd6150

18 күн бұрын

This is a little disingenuous and you are just implying that OF COURSE these things would be so. But the stuff she mentions really is at the edge of human knowledge and we don't know what the range of "of course" is. You might say, well the vacuum couldn't be unstable or we wouldn't be here, to which I say maybe, but there are a lot of values it could have as shown in the stability plot. Why did we get the exact one we did? Is there even a reason? These are not trivial questions and they are worth asking

@Masonova1

18 күн бұрын

Some of the observations clearly have less implications or are "easier coincidences" than others, but IMO many formal relationships in advanced physics started out as (approximately) spurious numerology about repeatable observations, until we gather more hypotheses for the phenomena. It's easy to relate fluid filling its container to an intuitive understanding of fluids, and _of course_ water would do that, but as soon as one tries to formalize _why_ water conforms to the shape of the pond, we have to engage with some very convoluted dynamics. For that matter, we don't even fully understand the motion of viscous fluids in 3 dimensions, and the Clay Math Institute will throw a million dollars at you if you can close that gap.

@haudace

18 күн бұрын

@@derickd6150 sometimes we don't even know if a question is indeed trivial or not.. For instance, why did I choose to reply to your message now instead of 5 minutes ago? Is there some uniqueness to this exact time I picked?

@O_Lee69

18 күн бұрын

I think the reason is more like this: kzread.info/dash/bejne/qoqAuaeYcqmbm8Y.htmlsi=FVaMd_9CySve2Msg

My wife's birthday is 1 May, Mayday, arguably the greatest celebration of Spring in our climate and also a national flag day. Coincidence? If so, a very lucky one since I have never yet forgotten her birthday. Consequently we are still married after 40 years which is pretty close to a parsec divided by the cosmological constant. Another coincidence?

@danzigvssartre

17 күн бұрын

If you have a Jungian therapist, they will tell you this is a synchronicity. The universe is meaningful.

I knew none of this stuff, but what I will remember is that Pringles make Einstein's head unstable.

Here's one: the fine structure constant is approximately 1/137. The police code for a riot is 137. Fine structure constant is the inverse of the police code for civil unrest! Coincidence?!

I thought the game was that you have to drink a shot every time you say Einstein

@sabinrawr

17 күн бұрын

I'll drink to that!

@TiagoCavalcanti-ji6hu

16 күн бұрын

Einsh-tein. Which is prolly how his mother meant it...

These are all so fascinating and insane and I have absolutely no skill to do anything useful with them

That was so fast! Really would love to see you making a video about 1-2 of these and really dig into them, theorizing what could it mean and what scientific ideas there are about it.

Thanks for great teaching.. Clear British Accent is very nice to understand physics. Thanks

Absolutely LOVE your videos! I look forward to them daily!

Another interesting coincidence is the fine structure constant. The deeper you go into the hyperfine levels of hydrogen, the powers of the fine structure constant pop up.

Wild take: things arent measurable in "units", we just do that to make it fit our atomic model, which is fundamentally wrong. The universe is built in fractal ratios that resonate with one another like scales and notes in music, or something like that...

@andreizelchenko934

16 күн бұрын

yep, same thoughts. If we do not have enough knowledge we will see everywhere our 1-10 metrics and sometimes will find similar rules. But still we do not know exact measuring system and the core way how it all works. It will be actually a mess in schools, if the real rules will be: 2+2=4 but here are 12 other dimensions, 5th dimension that have 2+2= -6 etc ... and all this rules you will have to learn😅

@xxxxxx89xxxx30

16 күн бұрын

@@andreizelchenko934 In the persuit of measure we've forbidden ourselves to wonder.

Cauliflower growth patterns adaptes to building construction as the Parthenon in Athens or the Gothic Cathedrals, create a powerfull uplifting athmosphere which shows that we are also sensitive to these universal laws, questioning therefore the chaos theory en vogue some years ago. Thanks for another great Video!

Oh, this makes us sleepless. I like Plank's magic "rule" the most By the way, I also like numbers that have no units.

@therealpbristow

17 күн бұрын

I can't stand unitless numbers. It seems like a great way to accidentally lose track of the meaning/dimensionality of the numbers you're working with, and thereby end up combining them in completely invalid ways... Which is what some of these "coincidences" seem to be, at least at first glance. But I'm a bear of very small brain... I need my metres-per-second and my kg-metres-per-(second)^2 and whatnot, to stop my spherical cows acquiring negative curvature. (Trust me, it's not pretty when that happens! =:o[ )

@fkeyvan

17 күн бұрын

unitless numbers are harder to discover but they play a fundamental role. I think there could be more unitless numbers still to be discovered that could shine light on these coincidences.

I love when people say "almost" when talking about coincidences or conspiracies. 😎

Some of these approximate coincidences depend on picking one number rather than any other to divide another sum by. None seem to be exact coincidences. 6pi to the power 5? - why use that?

Multiplying, dividing and otherwise manipulating data to get results that are "about", "approximately" and so on does not denote coincidence. If two or more seemingly unrelated raw data points were EXACTLY the same then coincidence.

@KingCobbones

18 күн бұрын

I agree. Taking the square root of a number or raising it to the fifth power, then pointing out a similar result, isn't really a coincidence.

@EinsteinsHair

18 күн бұрын

But if it were exactly the same to an infinite number of decimal places, then probably NOT a coincidence. There is some hidden reason.

@gingerestkitten

18 күн бұрын

Someone definitely needs to explain why an integer ratio of one constant to one constant square rooted would be so exciting in the first place, for sure. Who gives a toss if it’s 3 times bigger. What’s the significance of the 3? What’s the significance if it WAS exactly 3?

@gingerestkitten

18 күн бұрын

@@EinsteinsHair no, there isn’t. At times where you have a constant you’re trying to measure and refine and you’re out by the first decimal place and over 50 years you finally get a 5-sigma result, sure - you can look for hidden meanings to attempt to refine the result. These aren’t those numbers they’re VERY well measured. They’re not integer ratios, and they’ll never be integer ratios.

If I had the means, I'd make a video series response to this, discussing each coincidence in turn. There's so much interesting fundamental physics involved, and I'd also discuss the explanations that have been proposed over the years, and whether there are any physical arguments for or against pure coincidence in each case.

I really don't understand why the universe would be guided by equations and be about numbers. To me it seems very physical and not mathematical at all. I think physicists forget that the success of their theories is very much based on formulating physics theories in a language that measuring apparatuses speak: numbers. That has made it possible to compare theories' output with measurements and adjust the theories accordingly. But it does not indicate that physics is about numbers or equations. It only informs you that you can describe physics with equations, Just like reality is not about words, even though you can describe reality with words. Mathematics is the map, not the road.

@guillermoemiliomariaibanez339

3 күн бұрын

Waited till the end to hear the word "quantum" is enough for me to get into the paradox planted by Descartes: "Only I know that nothing I know"

This sounds a lot like the Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy 🙂 "Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy were both presidents of the United States, elected 100 years apart. Both were shot and killed by assassins who were known by three names with 15 letters, John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald, and neither killer would make it to trial. Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy, and Kennedy had a secretary named Lincoln. They were both killed on a Friday while sitting next to their wives, Lincoln in the Ford Theater, Kennedy in a Lincoln made by Ford. Both men were succeeded by a man named Johnson - Andrew for Lincoln and Lyndon for Kennedy. Andrew was born in 1808. Lyndon in 1908. What are the odds...." (Courtesy: You Are Not So Smart)

@SylveonSimp

18 күн бұрын

Praise the Lord! This must be a sign!

@martifingers

17 күн бұрын

It seems Lincoln did not have a secretary called Kennedy. Lincoln did not die on the Friday.

@guest_informant

17 күн бұрын

@@martifingers Buzz Killington!

Also, we are closer to the size of the observable universe (10 to +24 meters ), than we are to the Planck Length (10 to -36 meters), by order of magnitude. I love videos like this. Thank you Miss Sabine for informing the uninformed! 😊

@patpowers9210

18 күн бұрын

That Planck guy has a lot to answer for!

@dancingdog2790

17 күн бұрын

There's plenty of room at the bottom!

Such complexity built upon just 10 numbers. Positive or negative. Real or imagined.

Indeed, many physicists hold a strong belief in the power and reliability of mathematical calculations to accurately describe and predict physical phenomena

My dog's name was Jimmy jazz, coincidence?

Phew - that chart

I have another one for you. It's part of a geometry discovery I made. The square root of 12 is 3.4641016151... This number is also the ratio of a hexagon's perimeter to twice it's apothem, the same way "Pi" is calculated. You can use the circle based formulas on regular polygons when you substitute the "ratio" of their perimeter to twice their apothem. In other words, Pi*R(squared) will calculate the area of a hexagon when 3.464101... is substituted for Pi and you use the apothem in place of the radius. Furthermore, the sphere volume and surface area formulas work for the regular solids when you use the ratio of the polygon used in construction in the calculation. 4/3Pi*R(cubed) works for the volume of an octahedron when you use 5.196152... for "Pi" and the radius of an inscribed sphere for the radius. Isn't it odd that for a hexagon, this ratio happens to be exactly the square root of 12? The square root of 16 is "Pi" for squares and the square root of 27 is "Pi" for triangles. Here are the "Pi" numbers for the following regular polygons: triangle: 5.19615... square: 4 pentagon: 3.63271... hexagon: 3.464101... I'm trying to get this discovery noticed and published. There's a lot of other cool elements to it like: when the apothem length of a polygon is equal to 1/2 the number of its sides, then the side length is equal to its "Pi" number.

When you put fertile numbers next to other fertile numbers, you get more numbers? Coincidence? I stubbed my toe on an old hard drive full of numbers this morning? Coincidence?

I suppose one can concoct any mathematical manipulation that gets “approximately” what one is looking for one way or the other.

Math is so tidy.