What’s the smallest thing in the universe? - Jonathan Butterworth
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If you were to take a coffee cup, and break it in half, then in half again, and keep carrying on, where would you end up? Could you keep on going forever? Or would you eventually find a set of indivisible building blocks out of which everything is made? Jonathan Butterworth explains the Standard Model theory and how it helps us understand the world we live in.
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Scientist: hey, strangely charming quark. Quark: *blushes*
@somewhatsadartist6930
4 жыл бұрын
Late but Top and bottom quark 😏
@inspirex1831
3 жыл бұрын
Idk why this Made me blush , I am not A Quark 😅
@SpotonEd
3 жыл бұрын
@@inspirex1831 You are human, made up of matter, atoms, which are made up of nucleons and electrons, Nucleons are made up of quarks! So- Roses are red Violets are blue I am made up of quarks And so are you
@transcendentalanarchy
3 жыл бұрын
@@fredsangalang5839 can but not always will they have holes
@manastrivedi3841
3 жыл бұрын
@@inspirex1831 I guess it's because :: Roses are Red Violets are Blue When your quarks blush, You do too.
I love when scientists give up and call things the strong force, weak force, up, down, bottom, top, strange
@RoScFan
5 жыл бұрын
They probably started out as nothing more than abstract math. Could literary call them anything.
@woodfur00
5 жыл бұрын
That's not even the half of it. For a while they were going to call the top and bottom quarks "truth" and "beauty."
@SushiPat
5 жыл бұрын
It makes very complex concepts just a tinier bit easier to deal with.
@cindyliu9746
5 жыл бұрын
Hehe bottom and top ;)
@011azr
5 жыл бұрын
Better than calling it with some random code such as g145, x859, and p215. That would be so annoying.
the smallest thing in the universe is our understanding of the universe John K. 2018
@victherocker
5 жыл бұрын
"There are two things that are infinite: the universe and human stupidity. I'm not sure about the former." Einstein
@mehek3897
5 жыл бұрын
Lolololol... Good one bro
@nzbg1132
5 жыл бұрын
“Quotes on the internet are almost never real” Bill Gates 1889
@xIronWarlordx
5 жыл бұрын
There is something smaller... our understanding of the universe yesterday
@stiltzkinvanserine5164
5 жыл бұрын
@@victherocker There's another thing that's infinite: the number of Zubats you run into inside a cave.
Ted ed: "What's the smallest thing in the universe" My brain: "Don't say it."
@philingrouille7198
4 жыл бұрын
😆
@paperdino8358
4 жыл бұрын
pp
@switch9561
3 жыл бұрын
ur pp
@kobenodders3800
3 жыл бұрын
Leon and Rakan have smallest things in universe
@XAE_A_Xii
3 жыл бұрын
Ted ed: "What's the smallest thing in the universe" My brain
You guys make physics so accessible to everyone 💛
@pheubuselectric7893
5 жыл бұрын
katie we meet again
@ASLUHLUHCE
5 жыл бұрын
likebot cough likebot
@PerceptionVsReality333
5 жыл бұрын
Luv you baby.
@idmarilamri6398
5 жыл бұрын
But still too heavy for me
@abhaysharma9317
5 жыл бұрын
Look Katie got pinned, Everyone loves Katie. ,Katie you are eternal as the fundamental particle because you are always everywhere.
I feel like TED-Ed knows what I'm struggling in so wants to help out.
@jimitsoni18
4 жыл бұрын
Youre my brother
@vedantsridhar8378
3 жыл бұрын
@@jimitsoni18 lol
@shreeh1882
2 жыл бұрын
true bro!!!.....even I was abt to say that
Quarks and stuff
@thecommonfool2110
5 жыл бұрын
Oh that’s a thing In a place
@camerongonzalez6152
5 жыл бұрын
And they’ve got spices
@adiabd1
5 жыл бұрын
@Patchthepotato try to fit together, because it's getting bigger and heavier
@frankxie7846
5 жыл бұрын
We can make a religion out of this!
@thecool5440
5 жыл бұрын
And it’s getting closer together...
*These animations are **_particl-ularly_** awesome*
@tymgamerz
5 жыл бұрын
Nice pun
@tymgamerz
5 жыл бұрын
@@EthanWLin LOL. You made my day. :)
@pjk7260
5 жыл бұрын
sty guy
@oitthegroit1297
5 жыл бұрын
This joke is quite... Strange
@ryanchuabowen2045
5 жыл бұрын
@@oitthegroit1297 hahahha....now gwt out
3:40 Small correction - neutrinos actually do interact with gravity a *very* small amount and not just the weak force. (This was discovered in recent years, which, I assume, is why it's not in the video.) That said, their mass is so tiny (millions of times smaller than an electron) that the force of gravity is almost nothing on them and everything except the weak force is negligible.
@Nosirt
Жыл бұрын
It’s weird that they explicitly said neutrinos have mass but didn’t say they interact with gravity. I don’t think it was “discovered”, more like just proven because anything with a mass should interact with gravity. And even things without mass but energy (like photon) interacts with it. Since in general relativity, gravity is not really a force but rather the curvature of space time- it is not possible, at least in theory, for anything to exist, including virtual zero mass particle that do not interact with gravity. We have not found a single particle that does not interact with gravity.
Very amazing animations to explain this complicated model. Thanks TED for existing!
@abuzohaifa1066
5 жыл бұрын
Yup and I still don't get it.
@reasonerenlightened2456
3 жыл бұрын
@@abuzohaifa1066 When they say, "May the force be with you" they mean "have exposure to force particles".
@SpotterVideo
2 жыл бұрын
Quantum Entangled Twisted Tubules: Quantum Entangled Twisted Tubules: When we draw a sine wave on a blackboard, we are representing spatial curvature. Does a photon transfer spatial curvature from one location to another? Wrap a piece of wire around a pencil and it can produce a 3D coil of wire, much like a spring. When viewed from the side it can look like a two-dimensional sine wave. You could coil the wire with either a right-hand twist, or with a left-hand twist. Could Planck's Constant be proportional to the twist cycles. A photon with a higher frequency has more energy. (More spatial curvature). What if gluons are actually made up of these twisted tubes which become entangled with other tubes to produce quarks. (In the same way twisted electrical extension cords can become entangled.) Therefore, the gluons are actually a part of the quarks. Mesons are made up of two entangled tubes (Quarks/Gluons), while protons and neutrons would be made up of three entangled tubes. (Quarks/Gluons) The "Color Force" would be related to the XYZ coordinates (orientation) of entanglement. "Asymptotic Freedom", and "flux tubes" make sense based on this concept. Neutrinos would be made up of a twisted torus (like a twisted donut) within this model. Gravity is a result of a very small curvature imbalance within atoms. (This is why the force of gravity is so small.) Instead of attempting to explain matter as "particles", this concept attempts to explain matter more in the manner of our current understanding of the space-time curvature of gravity.
12 years of school and not once was I told that the electromagnetism between protons and electrons is maintained through the transfer of photons. The classic model and by extension, the classic educational system has failed me.
@Andreamom001
5 жыл бұрын
They didn't know this back when I was in physics class. Makes me wonder what my physics teacher is teaching today (well, likely he is retired, but if he was still teaching...).
@waqqas6799
5 жыл бұрын
This is prbably universiry level stuff
@RyBrown
5 жыл бұрын
waqqas no this is at very least eighth grade or high school
@waqqas6799
5 жыл бұрын
@@RyBrown How do you know? J diddnt learn this in high school (im in grade 10)
@Andreamom001
5 жыл бұрын
I did learn this sort of stuff in high school physics, but I am pretty sure it should have been called AP Physics...my teacher worked with a local college proof to develop the lab workbook, which the local college physics class also used. It was a HARD class in high school. He did have a formula for grading that either gave students a straight grade based on percentage or a "grading on the curve" grade, whichever was a better grade...he figured if a significant number of the class did less well on the test, he hadn't taught the material well, so it was his fault, not theirs.
What did the neutron say to the proton? Neutron: What's up? Proton: My quarks! Whata bout you? Neutron: Not my quarks. I'm feeling pretty down, actually.
@want-diversecontent3887
5 жыл бұрын
No
@voldemort6668
5 жыл бұрын
SnowLeopard84 fangirl no
@aldric2252
5 жыл бұрын
No
@DragonMoth34
5 жыл бұрын
yes
@ticklemypickle5407
5 жыл бұрын
Affirmative
That cup molecule looks... suspicious...
@aceseedc9253
5 жыл бұрын
P
@PlasticDoll.
5 жыл бұрын
worth pondering..
@abienniela9350
4 жыл бұрын
Strange
@someperson8953
4 жыл бұрын
Hmmmm possibly flaccid?
@doritos6548
2 жыл бұрын
pretty sus ngl
I am showing this to my eight year old immediately! The simplest and best explanation of matter that I have ever seen.
@Andreamom001
5 жыл бұрын
He liked the video, although I paused it a couple times to add explanations (like what a particle accelerator is). Now he's back playing video games.
@Jordan_Dossou
5 жыл бұрын
@@Andreamom001 lol
@elasticmind4389
5 жыл бұрын
First I read "Now he's back playing with his particle accelerator."
@abcxyz-
Жыл бұрын
So how is your son now? Is he on his path to become the next Einstein?
Even Wikipedia could not explain this as elegantly as you guys did. Finally I understand it better.
@andywr.097
2 жыл бұрын
wikipedia cant explain anything as well as a 4 year old trying to teach quantum mechanics to a bunch of college students
@ASLUHLUHCE
2 жыл бұрын
Wikipedia isn't known for its elegance
Alright, let's pass this AP physics test. Thanks
@slartibartfast426
5 жыл бұрын
Haha good luck with that...
@giovannip8600
5 жыл бұрын
Good luck, what is meant by AP?
@kayb2739
5 жыл бұрын
advanced placement @@giovannip8600
@kayb2739
5 жыл бұрын
aha yes!
@thematrix1101
4 жыл бұрын
I don’t think quantum mechanics is on the AP test lol
This is not an easy topic and being in 7th grade with the urge to learn, Ted Ed has made it possible form me to learn anything. Thanks!
@hobelarge6389
Жыл бұрын
r u a sophomore in highschool now?! what's up man r u still being curious, what's interesting u nowadays? :)
@JM-zf7sl
7 ай бұрын
As an 8th grader, I agree!😯
I remember my Physics A level paper that was on the Standard model and astrophysics, I got 117/120 and i was so proud. I never followed this field further but im happy to see i still remembered the basics. Excellent video
Thanks for the information. Now I can recreate literally ANYTHING in the universe.
I love how easily understood this lesson is despite its very complex subject matter. I’d love to see more physics videos!
Thanks Ted-Ed for making physics, a subject I'm easily confused by, a fun lesson with wonderful animation and narration!
Thank you so much for this! I've always wondered what the particles that are smaller than subatomic particles were. I also really love how you can explain complex concepts in a really simple way that people can understand and that can be easily accessed.
Fun fact: the term Quark is derived from James Joyce's puzzling masterpiece Finnegans Wake. "Three quarks for Muster Mark! Sure he has not got much of a bark And sure any he has it’s all beside the mark."
Great video!! I have known about the elementary particles for years but this quick video just gave me more info about the interactions of the particles then I ever knew. Now it's time for more advanced vids
An hour ago was confused about the fundamental particles while watching a video and now this video solves my problem Great work 😁
Amazing......after watching this I was so intrigued that I opened at least 20 more tabs just to know more
Ted-ed makes any topic very easy to understand...... Whenever i want to learn anything i just search the topic followed by the words 'ted-ed'. It is amazing. Thanks a lot Ted-ed team!
Pretty amusing animations and impressive explanation, adore it!
Yiee! Ted Ed's animations are awesome.
You forgot the carrier of the fourth Fundamental Force, the gravito... Oh wait...
@sanskargosavi578
5 жыл бұрын
Yeah
@betoa2741
5 жыл бұрын
Gaigaborn it would be gg
@jacobandrews2663
5 жыл бұрын
Genius comment
@rofaidaelsayed9596
5 жыл бұрын
what do you mean ?
@traskth
5 жыл бұрын
It totally makes sense if you dont consider gravity a force at all, but rather curves in spacetime
From basics to such depth... Just awesome!!!!❤️❤️
This is one of the best explanations I have seen so far.
Very good explanation of science. Nice video.
Isn't it amazing!? We're made of the universe.
@iamapoorv4504
3 жыл бұрын
*We ARE the universe
Explanation was really awesome 👍
Very interesting concept. Animations are fantastic and especially the way of explaining along with it is fabulous.😊👏the video is fantabulous.👏👍
Ted-Ed makes physics or whatever topic easy for me Thanks Ted-Ed
@tymgamerz
5 жыл бұрын
Same My school uses it for teaching
Hi there take some extra info Atom in Greek is άτομο Άτομο is a synthetic word and breaking it down we end with α which basically is un and τομος which means cuttable So in Greek ατομος means uncuttable
@danielliu2819
5 жыл бұрын
Lol I just know some Greek letters but I didn’t know that
@Andreamom001
5 жыл бұрын
Yeah, back int he day, scientists believed the atom was the smallest particle of matter that could exist. I still wonder if some day science will discover there is something smaller than all these subatomic particles...perhaps not. Something has to be the actual smallest, right?
@AquaIsUseless
5 жыл бұрын
@@Andreamom001 there might be strings
I have been wanting to learn this for years. Thank you so much :)
Thank you so much for helping. I was trying to understand the standard model for 3.5 months, but after seeing this video I understood it.
very amazing Animation to understand science. thanks TED.
wow i was watching videos about muon yesterday and today this!
@gagangovindaraju1106
5 жыл бұрын
Minute physics?
@VaibhavShewale
5 жыл бұрын
@@gagangovindaraju1106 yeah it was one of them
Love your vids 10/10 P.s when will ted talk??
I can always count on TED to take something complex and make it understandable in just a few minutes. Great video and much appreciated.
The smallest thing in the universe is my will to live.
@abienniela9350
4 жыл бұрын
get help
Maybe we didn't realise this. But *The force* was within us all along.
Thank you so much for this beautiful and marvellous video!
Wonderful work!
The science behind creation is truly mesmerizing :-)
@jakejones3453
2 жыл бұрын
"Chance and Necessity."
@floki5605
Жыл бұрын
What do you mean by "creation"?
" Strange and Charme Quarks " Physicists know memes .
Just found another great video to show my students. Thanks 👍
Thank you this was so informative and easy to understand.
Early. I love TED-Ed videos and also Particle Physics.
Tomorrow is my physics exam and this video helped me ALOT!!! THANKS TED-ED😀😀
I'm looking to do molecular physics as a profession, and this just pushed me forward a bit more, so thanks!
This was amazing. So clear.
If I would keep breaking my coffee cup in half and in half again, my coffee would just end up all over my desk ...
Who else loves Physics!
@azrafrahman8456
5 жыл бұрын
Me!
@ObjcetSohwRael
2 жыл бұрын
ME! Especially Particle Physics!
Excellent presentation..thanks
Well done. Can't wait for part II: Physics Beyond Standard Model ( BSM )
"And I think to myself What a Wonderful World"
02:04 my reaction to the video !!!
@lanfour4444
5 жыл бұрын
You just got an UPvote.
@ameymorshed4744
5 жыл бұрын
Lol
One of the clearest explanations on the Standard Model
Thank you for this amazing video!
Thanks to Dara O'Briain, as soon as I hear the word 'neutrinos' my mind went: "The neutrinos have mutated!".
Should we be happy we were born before future theories have been created and put into textbooks? What have we been taught by our schools today that will be called silly tomorrow.
@generalginger7804
3 жыл бұрын
It doesn't matter.
Very good information keep up the good work.
Absolutely well done and definitely keep it up!!! 👍👍👍👍👍
Some days I feel like the smallest thing in the world is my patience.
What happens to strange quarks when it is formed. Pls don't say that it decompose as they are heavy particles because they are fundamental and can't be broken.
@riddle212
4 жыл бұрын
To think about it I would also like to know...
@abhishekbenny6829
3 жыл бұрын
They decay through weak-force interactions
Love the way you explain.
Lovely explanation - I was curious about how you were going to tackle the gravitational force and the hypothetical graviton. Interesting how gravitational force use to be so often included in Standard Model discussions but, then, after LIGO, people seem more cautious to include it. I would have thought the opposite. I would love to see a Part 2 focused on QFT that shows the underpinnings of all of the particles (and where energies "go" when unstable). [~ a happy physicist]
The Only UNIVERSAL SCHOOL ➡️ TED-Ed
If you ever feel DOWN, like you've hit rock BOTTOM, cheer UP! You are on TOP of the world! This may sound quite STRANGE, but I'm trying to cheer you UP and CHARM you.
@aryansinha6667
4 жыл бұрын
Wow. U are really good in this.
Super simplified , how TED-ED explains the standard model in a simplified way. They make it so simple that a kindargarten kid can understand 💛💛💛
Beautiful animation
Uh-huh, yeah that's uh... good job science... I'll be uh... in my room, dribbling.
The smallest thing are particles? This guy is STRINGing you all along.
Exceptionally well explained 👌
I love your explanations :D
*I CANT DENY IT NO LONGER...!* ...i am small...
Did I just not get it or am I Stupidly Interested in this subject, but: What are Photons made out of? Yeah, I know they don't have mass but are they really made out of nothing then? How can they be something, if they're made out of nothing? Help :)
@thecommonfool2110
5 жыл бұрын
Photons aren’t made out anything, they are fundamental particles. So they’re made of just a different state of energy
@majorbcf
5 жыл бұрын
Remember that God is Light.
@redjr242
5 жыл бұрын
I'd wouldn't say photons are made of nothing, they are something, but they're not made out of anything (smaller). They're fundamental particles that happen to not have mass. I definitely get that it's weird to think about something that doesn't have mass but that's just the way it turns out to be. I think it basically means that it can't travel at any speed but the speed of light - that's probably the best way to think about it. As a side note: I'm pretty sure the reason why the weak force is "weak" is because the force carriers have mass, a quite significant amount, in fact. This means that they decay quickly and have a short range so the likelihood that they have enough time to exchange between particles is very low.
The best of Ted ed simplicity in all. This is best vid till in my view
Awesome and informative video
*_Do you guys just put the word 'Quantum' in front of everything?_*
@RyBrown
5 жыл бұрын
That’s just the way science is
@jacobduran8256
5 жыл бұрын
Quantum just means extremely small and that's what this vid is talking about lol
@cloudpoint0
5 жыл бұрын
More precisely, quantum means the smallest possible discrete unit of any physical property, such as energy or matter, which will be something extremely small but some extremely small things are not quantum.
@matinrahimi2456
5 жыл бұрын
I understood that reference!
@raz0229
5 жыл бұрын
You Bunch Of Pathetic Morons, That was just an Easter egg from the movie *_"ANTMAN AND THE WASP (2018)"_* I didn't ask for Wikipedia!
Meh, I still prefer the standard Victoria's Secret model.
@danielliu2819
5 жыл бұрын
Sebastian Elytron Victoria still needs to tell us her secret
@000Krim
5 жыл бұрын
@@danielliu2819 then it wouldn't be a secret anymore
@MoMo-qe2im
5 жыл бұрын
Stop fighting guys
Thank you for your help
The animation is awesome!
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@tymgamerz
5 жыл бұрын
2
0:43 you can't have infinitely small particles as 1/infinity can only become a whole if you add infinity. So if you put an infinitely small object somewhere,you have infinite space which is not the object. And if the object moves,even a trillion times its size,it would move 1,000,000,000,000/infinity and infinity is still infinitely bigger than trillion,so,paradoxically, doesn't move.
I gain so many knowledge thank you Ted Ed
Teded just blowed this difficult chapter up 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
The smallest thing in the universe is........Donald Trump's brain.
@deliveryman7001
5 жыл бұрын
The smallest things in the universe are.... the jokes that people still throw at Donald Trump and the insults too. Go find something else to do other than pick at the president all the time in 4 consecutive years!
@tamhynh6410
5 жыл бұрын
Delivery Man don’t get it
@shaaddhillon3819
5 жыл бұрын
Hahahaha
@bepisman4127
5 жыл бұрын
I would say yours is too since your first thought is that. I just hope that you are younger than 16
@diomilmontesdeoca8303
5 жыл бұрын
The smallest things are people talking politics in a physics video.
"The standard model is a remarkably elegant..." Hahaha no it's not. It's the ugliest theory in all of physics
This is a very good channel. Keep it up
So much information man
Smallest? 'quarks n stuff' (like if you know what I mean)
@aa_not_battery
4 жыл бұрын
People like you are called cyber beggers
dude indivisible infinitely small particles??? you make no sense (it should be indivisible very small particles)
@64standardtrickyness
5 жыл бұрын
an infinitely or infitessimal small object is by definition indivisible
@64standardtrickyness
5 жыл бұрын
actually quantum physics states that there is a smallest nonzero unit of distance so infinitely small is not correct
I wanted such video and it is there thanks,Ted-ed.
Man this is so amazing