What are your thoughts on string theory? Is it still worth trying to prove it, or should we refocus our efforts on other scientific questions?

@popbigdaddy9422

11 ай бұрын

Why not do everything at once?

@genericusername5909

11 ай бұрын

Some of the surreal suggestions from string theory kind of upset me. Like calculating the pattern on Russell’s teapot and debating who is right with a captive audience

@MorallyResponsible

11 ай бұрын

Consciousness can only be experienced. For example, if you had a tooth pain. Million Scientists with their Test tube(Deduction/induction via empiricism) can tell you there is no evidence of tooth pain. You will reject their scientific method because you are having direct experience of this pain. I have direct experience of existence. All i know with certainty is my experience ("Cogito Ergo Sum"). I know with certainty that this existence can only come from pre-existing Self-Sufficient/Perfect Existence(Allah the most Exalted).You have a direct proof of Allah(one/indivisible/self-sufficient/All-loving/unique) with every waking moment through direct experience of life. Once liberalism is replaced by the law of Quran/Sunnah all of the "strings" will come together in harmony/peace/justice and most importantly mercy.

@MizanHIT

10 ай бұрын

this lapses

@michaelstary3463

10 ай бұрын

isn't everything just energy vibrating at at its own specific frequency? Everything must have a specific wave form... which makes that object unique. Sound (frequency) passing through a glass sphere filled with water will create light at the center of the sphere. The ingredients are a perfect sphere, water (waves) and sound. (frequency) achieving light speed could just be a matter of finding the correct frequency... and vibrating in one spot at that specific frequency.

Neil and Chuck are National Treasures, please never stop making these videos

@nicolau2

11 ай бұрын

This is a Cosmic* treasure

@gorillafacewastaken

11 ай бұрын

Ey, don't forget Chuck

@GEEK-3

11 ай бұрын

@@gorillafacewastaken updated it brother, thanks for the correction

@gorillafacewastaken

11 ай бұрын

@@GEEK-3 Perfect👍

@StarTalk

11 ай бұрын

If you insist!

startalk literally makes my day better instantly

@petercorcoran2702

11 ай бұрын

Mee. Too. !

@jdonehew

11 ай бұрын

Agree.

@GizzyDillespee

11 ай бұрын

For me, it takes a few moments for it to kick in. But I'm much denser than air

@adrieldelgado4523

11 ай бұрын

Same man

@davidsasse40

11 ай бұрын

Not instantly, at the speed of light and sound!

Never take chuck off the show😭I’m begging you guys 🙏🏾🌼

@MrMitchbow

28 күн бұрын

He’s the everyman competing at the Olympics for reference

@Kojdo-AdwoaXaquayza-xd3sg

25 күн бұрын

What if chucks wants to go out and do other stuff? It'd be sad but sometimes it happens. And it'd happen not because chuck hates this but sometimes people just wanna go out and do something new.

@syedajwad6979

17 сағат бұрын

I hope I didn't find that Episode where there is no chuck. I think in almost all episodes chuck is present ❤

i really like the fact that Neil considers himself my personal astro physicist. thank you for that, Neil, you've got the job any day of my life! much love from Germany!

@lemongavine

11 ай бұрын

Great comment!

@alexaales7937

10 ай бұрын

@Conon the Binarian⚧ danke für den tip, werde ich machen 🙂

Somedays I have to rewatch the shows at least three times to grasp most of what Neil was saying, God bless you Chuck don’t know how you keep up with Neil so easily

@Sinner119

10 ай бұрын

right! some people make fun of chuck but I know damn well I wouldn't be able to keep up! I know what I know and that's public health/polotics, not astro physics lol

@timhyatt9185

10 ай бұрын

check is there to be our "everyman" point of view.... (he's also my favorite co-host by far!!) I'd love to have both of them sitting around a campfire or quiet bar table sharing a drink, and ask them about what fascinates them in science...

Thanks for answering my question about particles guys!!! That's an amazing answer! My wife and I were listening to the show in the car and when Chuck read my name, which we weren't expecting at all, we were just listening to an episode of Startalk, we looked at each other and freaked out😂😂😂

@MonicaRanger

10 ай бұрын

This is true.☺💋

@rangerCG

10 ай бұрын

@@MonicaRanger😘😉😉

@DrDeuteron

10 ай бұрын

1) timestamp? 2) get a room already!

@tylerlormand5644

8 ай бұрын

awe sit down that wasnt you

I’m sure I could watch this all day and forget to sleep.

Me: New episode of ST - YES!! Cosmic Query Edition - YES!! My cohost Chuck Nice - YES!!!!!!! Its a guaranteed banger

@dawnhansen7886

11 ай бұрын

100 % Agree ❕️

the moment Chuck figures out Neutrinos don't travel at the speed of light. Damn man!! Love his energy and enthusiasm.

This series needs like a billion views. Extremely interesting

Love this show, love his teaching style, whereas if every teacher possessed his ability to engage i would be a lifetime willing learner.

@morbidmanmusic

11 ай бұрын

Law of averages says most teachers do. ..

@maniacslap1623

2 ай бұрын

I would definitely advocate for these videos in the classroom. These two together really make it easy to engage.

My brain hurts. I'll have to watch it again and again and again ….. No gain without any pain. Thanks guys loving it.

This is one of the best episodes of StarTalk.

Who is here that has realized that Lord Chuck could be taking some lessons/classes in Theoretical physics or experimental physics? Damn, the guy is so sharp nowadays and knowledgeable. Indeed birds that flock together stay together. Kudos Chuck,,,

When I have nothing I still have startalk. It’s a breath of fresh air to see people thinking outside of the boundaries of thought that it feels like we were meant to be trapped in. My brain only feels free during these times. Between thinking about work and my small family this is a light for me and I will be forever great full

Two of the funniest and intelligent men I’ve ever had the pleasure of watching. Keep up the good work.

Thank you gentlemen for another educational and entertaining episode. Chuck, the Cajun chef to whom you refer is probably Justin Wilson. He was indeed on PBS back in the days when dinosaurs walked the earth (I know because I too was there) and was also entertaining and educational in all manner of food.

@shanoukgaming6763

11 ай бұрын

Yes he's definitely talking about Justin Williams I garunnnnnteee.

@rileyshelton2850

11 ай бұрын

One cup of wine and as the cup overflows make that one cup heaping.

@billbaker9623

11 ай бұрын

@@shanoukgaming6763

Wow. What a great episode. I loved these topics.

Love these explainers. I learned so much

That was great, thanks guys! Keep up the fantastic work! I LOVED those questions. The answers were amazing, well delivered, and I appreciate Doctor Chuck's childlike wonder on many of those! Cheers!

I always check in with Neil for mind-blowing updates. 💥

What an AWESOME episode of StarTalk!! You guys covered everything from String Theory, General Relativity along with the Equivalence Principle, geometry of space-time, why orbits are elipses (and not circles), science of neutrinos and their differences from electrons, evolution of the Universe...(did I miss anything?) You can all go home now having solved all of physics! :D

My dog passed away today. This was the best 48 minutes I've spent today. Thank you guys for what yall do.

@Gordon_L

11 ай бұрын

Sorry to hear that . Unfortunately it happens , dogs , other pets , people . Grief is the price of love , as hard as grief is to endure , it's better than a life without love . The grief will fade , the love will endure in memory . Be kind to yourself .

@PandasEatBamboo

11 ай бұрын

@@Gordon_L Thank you for the kind words, I really needed them. Hope you're having a great day.

@Gordon_L

11 ай бұрын

@@PandasEatBamboo You're welcome my friend , all the best 🙂

23:13 bro we need a whole episode on this. And get Chuck a blunt. It’ll be your best video!

Great episode! One thing you could also say about clouds are that they are made up of very small particles of water, each of which is buoyant enough to follow air currents. However, when these collect together they form drops of rain or snowflakes that are ‘heavy’ enough to be affected by gravity and fall. In cumulonimbus clouds, sometimes the updraft of air is so severe that hail that is falling is sent back up to gain size. That’s why you occasionally hear of ‘softball’ sized hail. The forces in thunderstorms are amazing.

@Maxrepfitgm

5 ай бұрын

You didn't finish...

Times are hard for me right now but wish I was a patron member this channel is by far my favourite! Still fantastic we get most of it free but theres 2 questions I have that I simply cant find any remote answer that comes even close to satisfaction, maybe there isnt any but I know for should if NDT didnt want to even make an attempt! ❤

@Ali-lm7uw

11 ай бұрын

Try asking gpt 4

@furrybear7853

10 ай бұрын

@@Ali-lm7uw How much does that cost to use, I'm pretty sure it's not free and CBT3 fails miserably to answer both questions satisfactory!?

Incredible episode! It is much more impactful played at 0.75 speed when you have time to let personal ponder to emerge.

I appreciate all the help time and attention you've both given us as viewers, seriously 😣 without limits for thought. Ty

This is an amazing and wonderful session. That took some real stamina for both of them.

I LOVE you guys!! I understood so much more with this episode🙌🏼🙌🏼✨✨

22:00 minutes in, and doing other stuff at the same time, and I've heard enough of this, thank you.

Love learning for a few hours a day from this guy

The best thing to start a day with!! Meditative, contemplative and so much fun even for the science layman with a curious mind!! Thanks team Startalk!!

@StarTalk

11 ай бұрын

You're welcome!

After 5 years of star talk, Chuck finally had his PHD in physics.

@nefertariali6378

9 ай бұрын

lmao!! so true

@jasonlaine8449

5 ай бұрын

I think he's a very long way off. He's idiotic. I guess he makes some people feel smart. He tries too hard with his jokes

I never get tired of this stuff.

Wow....Impressed by Chuck's understanding of neutrinos and the relationship to the speed of light.

24:09 No, Chuck, you don't mean "sentient" aka "having senses," you mean *Sapient* aka "having sense of self."

Very enjoyable session today Neil snd Chuck. Great stuff!

Chuck's deftly tuned wit always enhances Neal's style of delivery. More evidence for the hypothesis that learning new information seems to be more easily achieved while one is in a good mood.

I love seeing this wholesome, fun, black energy in the context of an educational science video- as well as how you treated each and every question as being just as valid as the next, always entertaining everyone's wonder and curiosity. I laughed a lot and really enjoyed this- you guys rock!

@orilion1820

11 ай бұрын

What is "black" energy 🤔

@420Khatz

11 ай бұрын

@@orilion1820 that energy that tends to arise when black people are in their element, having a great time. I don't know what else to call it but it's not a vibe anyone else but black people can authentically bring- not at all to say that other cultures don't have their own very specific awesome vibes as well. I'm just saying, I love to see it in this context especially when the field is often so dominated by white men with a very serious approach.

@briseboy

9 ай бұрын

An imaginary phenomenon, as a smile tends to light up neurons & minds.

Archimedes gave us a good theory of buoyancy back in 200-and-something BCE, it seems to me. A very clever and productive human, he was. It seems to me we should be teaching the sciences in schools with historic scientific discoveries such as his, partly because we've had over 2,200 years if scientific observations to show some way in which he was wrong, and that's a good sign of a very successful theory :-)

Chuck deserves to live on this program full-time - I don't care if he can't pronounce names more complex than Mark and Chris, his humor fits perfectly.

This episode is amazing! So empty space could be like a field that's powering up everything inside the universe?

Hi Neil love your videos And they help me learn astronomy

Particles have rights!

That information on neutrinos is so cool! Neil always explains things in such an understandable way. 😊

Chuck and Neil are the perfect combo

Every time Neil talks about how quantum entanglement works, it sounds like its just travelling through a fourth dimensional pathway we have yet to learn to observe.

i learned by no mans sky that its actually faster to rise above the atmosphere to travel somewhere than to travel through it. so it would take longer to fly a jet along the surface of the earth than it would if you went some distance into the sky and then back down again. thats what the game taught me at least idk if thats reality :)

Dayum what an excellent episode. Great questions, more of these please

37:06 The guy you were referring too is Justin Wilson. The show was called " Louisiana Cookin' " on PBS. My mother and I loved watching his program back in the day and hearing his stories. I hardly knew what he was saying (other than, "I guarONtee"), but my southern mother understood his every word. 🤣

The whole neutrino oscillation discussion gets me thinking about the whole possibility that the universe keeps pulling a veil over our eyes to hide the truth from us... big galaxies in the early universe, neutrinos that change so we can't measure the original flavor, the inability to localize electrons. I feel like it's all connected to some elaborately woven conspiracy conjured up by the universe itself.

@DaddyHensei

10 ай бұрын

It’s the cosmic joke. It’ll give us the build up but not the punch line.

@NotTheEx

9 ай бұрын

The mysteries of God's creation that flesh can neither reveal nor receive.

Neil, what happens if you operate a "particular smasher" (LOL) in zero gravity?

I love his Great Courses videos

I'm so happy I'm part of a generation that can just turn on thoer phone n search unlimited information..I wished throughout school I had this but having access now keeps me learning something new every single day or several things a day.im excited always to listen to yall n I'm not stuck begging a teacher or getting to a library..which took away so much time that I can now spend wide eyed ears open n soaking this all in.thank you GOD n thank u Neil n others for sharing so much knowledge..we couldn't ask or want 4 more.its the best!

String theory can’t be real if it was all the strings would have snapped carrying humanities issues

@VishamaKannaa

11 ай бұрын

Is it an american thing to use "of" instead of have? It looks so wrong

@J040PL7

11 ай бұрын

​@@VishamaKannaa I've seen road man in London using that too 😂

@ginnyjollykidd

11 ай бұрын

It is wrong. It is "Would have." The pronunciation gets in the way of the meaning. The pronunciation is a contraction: "would've" It is pronounced the same as "would of." That is how we end up with incorrect words. An English teacher these days would probably bury their face in their hands, roll their eyes skyward, and sigh helplessly at the fact that their students refuse to learn any semblance of standard grammar, syntax, spelling, and style.

@johnowens8992

11 ай бұрын

Weve never had less

@linyenchin6773

11 ай бұрын

Humanity's issues not "humanities issues." The nonsense term "humanities" is a woman(aka vague and useless) term similar to amenities in it being a worthless word for " useful items in a place or situation you are in" but more worthless as it is a super vague reference to "the state of affairs" in cultivating all the avenues of curiosity and general experience that is typical in the human existence. Intellectual males are just females in the bodies of men, they adore obnoxious vagueness and inventing useless terns to reflect their fragments~tangents of retardation or "perspective." So called "humanities" is just one such worthless perspective.

Watching these videos have really helped me because i would wonder a lot of these questions but wouldn’t know who or where to go for some explanation. I’m not sure if i can 100% agree upon all these answers but I sure can relate and just keep learning

The lecture series Niel is talking about on the Great Courses is his Inexplicable Universe series. So good I bought the whole series on amazon prime!

This is one of the best science sessions I've ever heard! Funny too!!!!

Neil, I’m glad you live in my iPad and teach me things while I’m at work.

Justin Wilson was the PBS chef...thank you Chuck for the memories! Grab bag...Gumbo...either way these are so much fun!

You guys are awesome and so great to watch and listen to.

perhaps the best ep yet, all great questions

11:41 - the great courses are really good. Have a couple on Audible, which are sometimes a little odd as I believe they’re videos originally, but still a great listen

Awesome episode ❤

Virtual particles linked by wormholes that weave the fabric of space and time blew my mind. And also the beginning of the universe still existing within the 4th dimension of time, the time arcs on the surface of the balloon. Losing sleep on this gumbo for sure.

This is a great episode! So many tantalizing topics to tickle my brain, sprinkled with humor that made me rewind multiple times!

Neil!!!!!! I need a breakthrough from you and this channel.

Love this channel! I once had a cosmology teacher like this once and it was great.

Yes the electron bit was nice I'm right there with you Chuck, amazing! thanks Neil

@peronkop

10 ай бұрын

But is it True? Pretty sure I learned a relative size of the electron to the nucleus. Why did that change?

Grab Bag Edition is perhaps my absolute favoritest version of this show 😻 not just for the content but also hearing the thoughts and curiosities of people abroad 😺 (and let's be honest... that's when Chuck's at his Chuckiest!) 😹

Just a few years ago this stuff was absolutely bonkers to me and now I actually understand when listening

Can't wait for quantum entanglement communications.

This was the best show in a long time!!!

Bring in Sheldon Cooper to help with that whole String Theory thing!

For anyone wondering the chef Chuck was referring to with the cajun accent was the late Justin Wilson. Look him up you will love his show if you like cooking, I guaraaanteee.

This was a WONDERFUL talk!!

@StarTalk I bet you were like you were how you and Bill were Making fun of Rodney in that Stargate Atlantis episode you did. That was super awesome! One of my favorite episodes of that series. : )

Neil and Chuck y'all rock! Peace

Chuck is back! He's growing on me.

What a great episode! Thank you!! All the best from Mexico

One of the best of some great videos, coolest of cool. And Lord Nice is at his erudite best (!)

@38:01, his response made my day because I came to the same conclusion as he did…I’m learning something 😂😂. Actually learned that from Brian Greene’s book.

I wish these went Longer

Love Startalk. Thank you so much!

Awesome as always! May I suggest that your team add the persons name at the bottom of the screen so that just in case, on the off chance that Chuck mispronounce it, that it will be displayed to compliment the questioner.

Wormholes are the fabric of space time. That is SO COOL!!!

Good questions Better answers Best time

Y'all should do a full Cosmic of ALL Violetta questions...that would be super coo...she would squeal so happily! 😁😁😆

What a wisdom... Thank you.

this show is like therapy.

I agree with Neil. Finally someone finally said it in public

this was an awesome episode

i want him to hit 100 million subs so everyone loves and respects astrophysics and science in general

The chef you’re talking about is Justin Wilson. Loved that dude.

so. i think my idea about the double slit experiment is actually correct. when you do the double slit experiment and cause the interference pattern to emerge the photon is actually slowing down through time but in space it becomes unstable and can appear in a random location. it fell beneath the electromagnetic spectrum and all we are left with is evidence the waves which the photon was once surfing on before the experiment "broke down" maybe this is how you explain vaccum energy? idk some random thoughts for ya

out of the bushes for that one. Thanks guys I enjoyed that.

Love knowing AstroBoy was your favorite cartoon as a kid - I was crazy about AstroBoy! Also love everything else you say...

You guys are the BEST !!!