When black holes go faster than light

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  • čas přidán 1. 06. 2024
  • I made a video about black holes and gravitational waves. Everyone wanted to know what would happen if the black holes went faster than the speed of light! Here's your answer.
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    Here's my video with Destin on Smarter Every Day: • Which Way Will the Wat...
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  • @notchieuwu
    @notchieuwu Před 4 lety +4965

    did anyone else pick up on how he said "before your grandfather gives birth to your father"
    I think someone needs to sit him down and give him the talk

    • @SteveMould
      @SteveMould  Před 4 lety +1025

      Ok, someone needs to give me "the talk".

    • @sulaiman9766
      @sulaiman9766 Před 4 lety +86

      @@SteveMould ok how does grandfather give birth???

    • @homosapiensqp3225
      @homosapiensqp3225 Před 4 lety +209

      @Audiocronic great talk, I wish I had parents that could explain me things that way

    • @jacktheripperVII
      @jacktheripperVII Před 4 lety +93

      Transgender representation what's the problem?

    • @sulaiman9766
      @sulaiman9766 Před 4 lety +35

      @@ronnyvansprengel6740 i never ask how they became parent. i asked how does he gave birth ? learn how to read

  • @brekkoh
    @brekkoh Před 4 lety +3428

    When things move at twice the speed of light the fabric of space time is torn apart revealing a WW2 era radiator, got it thanks Steve!

    • @SteveMould
      @SteveMould  Před 4 lety +735

      I know it's odd but that's just how it is.

    • @fiskfisk33
      @fiskfisk33 Před 4 lety +495

      ALL HAIL THE ALLMIGHTY WWII ERA RADIATOR BEHIND THE FABRIC OF OUR UNIVERSE

    • @SteveMould
      @SteveMould  Před 4 lety +574

      @@fiskfisk33 I sense a new religion starting. I'm not sure how I feel about that.

    • @youngjlennon
      @youngjlennon Před 4 lety +195

      @@SteveMould Fear none. You'll be the one God of this new religion.

    • @hisss
      @hisss Před 4 lety +22

      Fester Blats Never heard of humour, have ya...

  • @nicolasduguay4
    @nicolasduguay4 Před 4 lety +666

    I will remember this sentense: "Scientific discoveries are made at the boundaries of the descriptive power of the models that we use".

    • @antonf.9278
      @antonf.9278 Před 4 lety +19

      He means the blue ring the fabric of reality is clamped onto

    • @subzeroelectronics3022
      @subzeroelectronics3022 Před 3 lety +3

      I read that right as he said it.

    • @haph2087
      @haph2087 Před 3 lety +4

      Good, because that was the important thing to take away from this.

    • @CHKNSkratch
      @CHKNSkratch Před 3 lety +8

      sentence

    • @danielsteger8456
      @danielsteger8456 Před 2 lety +1

      you didnt know this prior to watching the video?

  • @roxrequiem2935
    @roxrequiem2935 Před 4 lety +488

    Steve: "I'm spinning my black holes"
    Me: "I have several questions"

  • @beskamir5977
    @beskamir5977 Před 4 lety +301

    As one of my favorite profs said, "all models are ultimately wrong but some are useful". That really applies to this video here.

  • @unaphiliated5090
    @unaphiliated5090 Před 4 lety +1258

    This is what happens when wheels travel faster than the speed of spandex.

  • @EvenTheDogAgrees
    @EvenTheDogAgrees Před 4 lety +69

    4:57 - So cause doesn't follow effect anymore.
    Can't imagine what such a universe would look like! ;)

    • @traininggrounds9450
      @traininggrounds9450 Před 3 lety +5

      It looks like a woman's world where women make every decision. Kind of like our modern world right now.

    • @EvenTheDogAgrees
      @EvenTheDogAgrees Před 3 lety +41

      @@traininggrounds9450 1) redundant comment totally unrelated to the thing it pretends to respond to
      2) not every conversation requires you to shoehorn your pet peeves into
      3) the joke obviously went over your head and/or you have trouble with comprehensive reading

    • @dsdy1205
      @dsdy1205 Před 3 lety +1

      For a good example Predestination is a pretty interesting movie

    • @EvenTheDogAgrees
      @EvenTheDogAgrees Před 3 lety +1

      @@dsdy1205 Thanks, I'll check it out.

    • @EvenTheDogAgrees
      @EvenTheDogAgrees Před 3 lety +1

      Oh, wait, I already seen it. Just forgot the title... :D

  • @b33thr33kay
    @b33thr33kay Před 4 lety +13

    This is definitely one if your best videos. The way you discussed these things is impressive. You clearly gave it a lot of thought.

  • @kurbycar32
    @kurbycar32 Před 4 lety +281

    I love that the ultimate request was "Hey Steve, can you spin the drill with the wheels faster?" and that rather silly action results in a conversation about how our universe works.

    • @Shrooblord
      @Shrooblord Před 4 lety +3

      SCIENCE!

    • @Luar77
      @Luar77 Před 4 lety +2

      It's like when you tell your parents a joke and they turn it into a lecture

  • @wagbagsag
    @wagbagsag Před 4 lety +618

    8:14 I really thought you were working towards a "Curiosity Stream" sponsorship message lol

    • @onalennasehume4586
      @onalennasehume4586 Před 4 lety +12

      Lmao me too😂😂😂😂Thought I was the only one caught on

    • @linkbond08
      @linkbond08 Před 4 lety +1

      Curiositystream sponsor anyone?

    • @thingsiplay
      @thingsiplay Před 4 lety

      Me too, I was 100% waiting for the sponsor. :D

  • @imonfb
    @imonfb Před 4 lety +56

    I want to travel back in time just so I could tell myself to pay more attention in science, the older I get now the more I love it

    • @henrymourland8379
      @henrymourland8379 Před 2 lety +9

      That is not your failure, but a failure of school to teach science engagingly. Science is awesome but school makes it incredibly boring.

    • @HarryPorpise
      @HarryPorpise Před 2 lety +3

      @@henrymourland8379 can confirm, i love science, and science is my least favorite subject at school

    • @oliverm1255
      @oliverm1255 Před rokem +1

      ​​@@HarryPorpise tbh that is because a lot of people like science but are bad at it

  • @brunogens
    @brunogens Před 2 lety +2

    Not sure how I ended up watching this video 2 years after everybody else, but I liked the precision, passion and sharpness of the host. good job !

  • @AndrewKay
    @AndrewKay Před 4 lety +764

    "You end up with this triangle *behind* the boat"
    That's not a boat, Steve, it's a duck.

    • @gus9351
      @gus9351 Před 4 lety +37

      a duck? wait is that a new type of boat that they made?

    • @RSPikachuAlpha
      @RSPikachuAlpha Před 4 lety +10

      Yeah, what the heck is a duck? Never heard of it.

    • @gus9351
      @gus9351 Před 4 lety +17

      @@RSPikachuAlpha Maybe some shit millenials made up

    • @DreadX10
      @DreadX10 Před 4 lety +27

      If it quacks like a duck and swims like a duck, it's a boat!

    • @DjDolHaus86
      @DjDolHaus86 Před 4 lety +15

      A duck can be a boat to a small enough sailor

  • @gwyn.
    @gwyn. Před 4 lety +624

    “I was spinning my black holes just below 8m/s.” - Steve 2019

    • @bale9175
      @bale9175 Před 4 lety +13

      “Yes” - Albert Einstein

    • @juicereacts77
      @juicereacts77 Před 4 lety +5

      LMAO WTF IS A BLACK HOLE.. GLOBIES....

    • @GDZipper
      @GDZipper Před 4 lety

      Juice Juice either you’re a troll or you’re lost lol

    • @doomguy1167
      @doomguy1167 Před 4 lety +6

      @@juicereacts77 go away flat earther

    • @IdoN_Tlikethis
      @IdoN_Tlikethis Před 4 lety +1

      @@juicereacts77 go drink some juice juice juice

  • @alvarovalera5512
    @alvarovalera5512 Před měsícem

    Your channel is a ray of ligth for this society that make famous only the entretainment and not the knowledge, you acomplish all of that, thank you Steve.

  • @formulaetor8686
    @formulaetor8686 Před rokem

    I find your videos extremely entertaining. I love your presentation skills and your work. At the starting of your videos you just talk about stuff which feels unrelated to the title of the video and just connect the dots and when the video ends its just feels amazing. I'm currently binging on your videos

  • @janekk2487
    @janekk2487 Před 4 lety +83

    "A willingness to figure out where your ignorance is and to step into that ignorance and have look around... until that ignorance turns into enlightenment". Thank you Mr. Mould

  • @chris-hayes
    @chris-hayes Před 4 lety +64

    7:58 holy cow, I was expecting tearing in the fabric of space. Whatever the fabric of space is made of, Levi's should use that to make jeans.

    • @piteoswaldo
      @piteoswaldo Před 4 lety +4

      The fabric of space almost broke the hand of god! Be more careful, Steve!

    • @VoltisArt
      @VoltisArt Před 4 lety +2

      I think I'll leave that for yoga pants and stick to denim twill for jeans. Thin stretchy stuff doesn't protect you from splinters and nails.
      (Actually, "jeans" for women do come in stretchy materials, but not lycra or spandex, but kind of a hybrid medium between them and denim.)

    • @timc333
      @timc333 Před 4 lety

      LOL !

  • @physicsguy877
    @physicsguy877 Před 4 lety +11

    Really great job with this video. The demonstration was beautiful to look at, and you also gave an excellent description of how science works.

  • @skullkid5182
    @skullkid5182 Před 4 lety

    Wow, you did an incredible job explaining and I appreciate your words at the end most of all. Extremely impressed

  • @elliottmcollins
    @elliottmcollins Před 4 lety +81

    The bit about the descriptive limits of models was really nice.

  • @thedenial
    @thedenial Před 4 lety +196

    3:54 Steve: In a minute I want to show you the disastrous consequences of…
    Me: …leaving your expensive Phantom camera alone with another youtuber.
    Steve: …going much faster than the speed of light 'cause it's really interesting.
    Me: ok, I guess I'll watch that instead.

  • @gabrielpfgm
    @gabrielpfgm Před 4 lety

    I love how precise and clarifying your videos are

  • @ersia87
    @ersia87 Před 4 lety +8

    I think this is great. I love your work, and while I'm not very much at all as close as you are to understanding how things work, I still admire that you both explain the limitations of your models, while simultaneously explaining the limitations of the models created by all of our collected great minds, and also admitting that your own theories are just theories, however plausible. Great work! One of youtube's gems!

    • @esterester7853
      @esterester7853 Před 8 měsíci

      Its not more rapid its more stronger

    • @ersia87
      @ersia87 Před 8 měsíci

      @@esterester7853 What?

  • @yorkerold
    @yorkerold Před 4 lety +454

    The distance between the black holes being constant is also a limitation of this model.

    • @jesperFrost
      @jesperFrost Před 4 lety +13

      Char Aza stay away from islam

    • @lovesravens
      @lovesravens Před 4 lety +27

      @@jesperFrost Stay away from the letter "j"

    • @mushthaqazeez8573
      @mushthaqazeez8573 Před 4 lety

      Yeah..i wonder what would happen...

    • @junkyyard2273
      @junkyyard2273 Před 4 lety +3

      @@tthung8668
      Stay away from the letter T

    • @pseudoharm
      @pseudoharm Před 4 lety +4

      @@jesperFrost stay away from religion and sensitive issues. You might triggers someone

  • @Razi98
    @Razi98 Před 4 lety +29

    "[The scientific discoveries] are made at the boundary of the descriptive power of the models that we use."
    Such a great quote

  • @raydog97
    @raydog97 Před 4 lety +3

    A sonic boom in space-time waves sounds like a great basis for science fiction discussing time travel

  • @justinisaac4086
    @justinisaac4086 Před 4 lety

    So glad i got this video recommended today. I had failed to explain gravity waves. Then in the evening your video came out. The visual was all that was needed.

  • @gabrielegaetanofronze6690
    @gabrielegaetanofronze6690 Před 4 lety +48

    I'm working at the Virgo-LIGO collaboration and being totally galvanized by your video! Keep going Steve!

    • @michellekeefer7397
      @michellekeefer7397 Před 4 lety +2

      Any chance of an upload of your own?

    • @piteoswaldo
      @piteoswaldo Před 4 lety +6

      RIP Gabriele, who fell in the galvanization tank while distracted at work.

    • @gabrielegaetanofronze6690
      @gabrielegaetanofronze6690 Před 4 lety +2

      Michelle Balfe maybe in the future, why not! I work on the IT crowd of the Collab, so the video might be about astrophysics and computer science. Let's see if Steve wants to make a featurette 😏

    • @ransombot
      @ransombot Před 4 lety

      be kinda fun to see his fabric waves compared to ligo's black hole merger waves slowed down to fabric speed. as close to orbiting faster than light as it gets and there's data to see how well the standard fabric model holds up.

    • @anandsuralkar2947
      @anandsuralkar2947 Před 4 lety +1

      Cool

  • @razi_man
    @razi_man Před 4 lety +567

    "Control over those black holes is ripped out from the hand of God."
    God: This is why an instant delete button is always a good thing.

    • @illusiveelk2558
      @illusiveelk2558 Před 4 lety +3

      Notice how when he says that, the drill is literally ripped out of his hand.

    • @pameladaley955
      @pameladaley955 Před 4 lety +4

      Steve got a bit carried away there being mid several metaphors, I think!

    • @alexchannel3187
      @alexchannel3187 Před 4 lety +1

      never forget the killswitch

    • @BierBart12
      @BierBart12 Před 4 lety +2

      Reminds me of going too extreme in Universe Sandbox, it just deletes the thing ripping the universe apart

    • @lolgamez9171
      @lolgamez9171 Před 4 lety +2

      @@illusiveelk2558 almost as if that's the joke

  • @dru4670
    @dru4670 Před 4 lety +1

    I've never seen an analogy or model that is very easy to understand and explains orbital mechanics in such a way. You really put things in perspective.

  • @noahman27
    @noahman27 Před 3 lety

    I love this channel. Steve, you are awesome. I got here from Smarter Every Day.

  • @Westwoodshadowgaming
    @Westwoodshadowgaming Před 4 lety +224

    " control over those black holes is ripped out of the hands of God" Might be one of the most amazing lines I've ever heard.

    • @zanderoneil3405
      @zanderoneil3405 Před 4 lety +16

      God: *I need to update the simulation*

    • @lolgamez9171
      @lolgamez9171 Před 4 lety +4

      @@johnconstantine2639 why?

    • @LuisAldamiz
      @LuisAldamiz Před 3 lety +6

      @@johnconstantine2639 Why stupid. As God, I can assure you that I put those limits to prevent my own lost of control after some very crazy experimentation you really would not want to be involved in. Rules exist for a reason, at least at the level of fundamental physics, kiddo.

    • @netts2315
      @netts2315 Před 2 lety +3

      @@LuisAldamiz Ok, Luis.

    • @altaccount4825
      @altaccount4825 Před 2 lety +3

      "Universe Sandbox 2 has crashed, Windows is looking for a solution to the problem."]
      "Godammit!"

  • @ketsuekikumori9145
    @ketsuekikumori9145 Před 4 lety +141

    When even the model itself breaks down for an impossible thought experiment.

    • @deluxeassortment
      @deluxeassortment Před 4 lety +10

      I kind of wonder if the analogy still holds and at certain energies the mass might actually drag on spacetime so drastically that it begins to crumple into the system. It would almost fit with the recent mathematical model of twisting and bending spacetime until it creates a new universe (or drags our spacetime into the distant future).

    • @danielkron2513
      @danielkron2513 Před 4 lety +2

      I am sitting on my chair

  • @igxniisan6996
    @igxniisan6996 Před 2 lety +1

    0:54, “...when distant massive objects like blackholes move backward and forward really quickly...” -some great words from Steve.

  • @AdityakrishnaMr
    @AdityakrishnaMr Před 4 lety +185

    When you leave your stuff with your roommate and he 'borrows' it:

  • @logangrove4103
    @logangrove4103 Před 4 lety +172

    I guess you could say these are going wheely, wheely fast...

  • @gammabeam02
    @gammabeam02 Před 4 lety

    love your work! Keep at learning new things :)

  • @atiquezaman7128
    @atiquezaman7128 Před 3 lety

    Loving your explanations :)

  • @epicbot22
    @epicbot22 Před 4 lety +60

    4:55 "If you go faster than the speed of light, you break causality"
    This seems like a very interesting concept. Why is that, is it a law? Is it a secondary effect from a characteristic of light or space- time? Absolutely wild to think about and Id love to know more.

    • @lolgamez9171
      @lolgamez9171 Před 4 lety +30

      It happens because space and time are connected and are a part of the same whole, spacetime. When you move through space, you move through time. When you ripple space, you 'ripple' time so to speak. When you go close to light speed time starts to dilate, and when you hypothetically go faster than light time dilates so much it goes backward, breaking causality.

    • @gnanay8555
      @gnanay8555 Před 3 lety +13

      Since the way time is passing depends on the observer and its speed, you can ask yourself if every observer, no matter its speed compared to another one, still sees the same causes before their consequences, like all other observers.
      You can verify that doing the maths, and you'll find that it's true if no one can go beyond a certain speed. This is the speed of light (or speed limit. Or speed of information).

    • @monad_tcp
      @monad_tcp Před 3 lety

      why would that be any different than your information being destroyed from the Universe point of view?
      At this point you better fall into a black-hole, or perhaps you become one if you try to go faster, to go faster you need energy, and lots of energy in a small space become a black hole, you lost causality from the Universe, what remains is the quaint Hawking radiation slowly emanating, like information being "deleted", so energy can be conserved.

    • @cho4d
      @cho4d Před 2 lety +3

      if you could travel faster than the speed of light travelling away from the earth then your eyes would be catching up to the light of the earth and the events of the world would play backwards to you. that's neat. then you could stop, turn around, and have it all play forwards again.

    • @fcgHenden
      @fcgHenden Před 2 lety

      Because we simply can't answer a question not asked yet.

  • @ivanmallez4629
    @ivanmallez4629 Před 4 lety +21

    4:58 "cause doesn't follow effect anymore" - He's done it! He broke causality!

  • @joce0993
    @joce0993 Před 3 lety

    Love what you do! Keep it up!

  • @Closer2Zero
    @Closer2Zero Před 2 lety +1

    If you look at your example, but see the orange fabric as *time* instead of space, it can also provide a way to understand how time dilates and stretches and ‘breaks’. If ‘1 minute’ is the length of your favorite sock from end to end, and you *stretch* the sock, well now the ‘beginning’ and ‘end’ of that 1 minute is still at each end of the sock, theres just ‘more time for you to traverse in that minute’ which sounds a lot like time feelings slower as time dilation occurs.
    And as for going back in time and “getting an answer before you asked the question”, that can be understood as the object/answer/etc moving so quickly thru the medium of spacetime that it can travel to its destination faster than the question its answering.
    Thats at least how this model made contextualized the above concepts in relation to time, time travel, and time dilation.
    Does that all sound like a reasonable understanding of what would go on?

  • @thenerdyouknowabout
    @thenerdyouknowabout Před 4 lety +928

    "You can kill your grandfather before he gives birth to your father" - Steve. We need to talk.

    • @aeredhaelredfalen6194
      @aeredhaelredfalen6194 Před 4 lety +91

      Astrophysics he understands. Basic biology, not so much.

    • @ChuckNorrizHIM
      @ChuckNorrizHIM Před 4 lety +12

      Next video: I've. Finally. Rid myself

    • @jbmst1450
      @jbmst1450 Před 4 lety +22

      I noticed him say that and went straight to the comment section lol

    • @yamemeguy4744
      @yamemeguy4744 Před 4 lety +4

      kys what?

    • @nUrnxvmhTEuU
      @nUrnxvmhTEuU Před 4 lety +14

      Lol everybody whining about their boring cis grandpas

  • @tezer2d
    @tezer2d Před 4 lety +351

    Black holes that are faster than light?
    Wait, that's illegal

    • @far1002
      @far1002 Před 4 lety +3

      tezer2d see the darkness has different rules lol, they hint at it in movies.
      Elements more powerful than light.
      Teleportation is always linked with darkness ( dark matter) same physics rules don’t apply lol remember u can’t touch or see it but it’s everywhere at once
      Locality
      An artificial intelligence

    • @irri3191
      @irri3191 Před 4 lety

      what happens if two black holes faster than 1/2 the speed of light . hit each other head on . or just miss. then what.?

    • @irri3191
      @irri3191 Před 4 lety

      while spinning

    • @irri3191
      @irri3191 Před 4 lety

      fast. hum fast can a black hole spin. whats the most magnetic strongest force in the Universe ?

    • @rursus8354
      @rursus8354 Před 4 lety +2

      Yes absolutely! God will send out his traffic angels to give us supraluminal fines.

  • @behrensf84
    @behrensf84 Před 3 lety

    That’s a good point. I once had to really drill into the head of a junior engineer why you can’t use an open channel modeling software to model sheet flow by making a very shallow and wide channel. “Dude, it’s a model, crap in crap out...”

  • @gebular118
    @gebular118 Před 4 lety

    The best analogy of gravity wave existence I have ever seen. I can grasp it so much better. Thanks.

  • @HerrXenon_
    @HerrXenon_ Před 4 lety +104

    Next upload:
    _I've accidentally created a black hole in my backyard, Earth has now 15 minutes left to live_

    • @GabrielCSousa
      @GabrielCSousa Před 4 lety +7

      I'd watch it in a couple billion years

    • @goranaxelsson1409
      @goranaxelsson1409 Před 4 lety +24

      Bugger! I'm too late, I wondered why the Earth disappeared 20 minutes ago.
      There was a young lady named Bright
      Whose speed was far faster than light;
      She set out one day
      In a relative way
      And returned on the previous night.

    • @thesecret6019
      @thesecret6019 Před 4 lety +1

      Depends upon the mass of that black hole. If it has the schwarzschild radius the size of a tennis ball then boy 40 minutes are way too long!

    • @HerrXenon_
      @HerrXenon_ Před 4 lety +1

      @@thesecret6019 I'm not an expert, I was imagining something like the size of a coin! What time do you suggest I should put?

    • @thesecret6019
      @thesecret6019 Před 4 lety +1

      @@HerrXenon_ Size of a coin still larger than the schwarzchild radius of our Earth! Well please do put less than 20 minutes

  • @troyertje1
    @troyertje1 Před 4 lety +3

    The whole time i was wondering why your videos are zo amazingly calming and clear, there is no background music and i adore it!

  • @skhaaaan
    @skhaaaan Před 3 lety

    Loved the video!

  • @honeysenpai116
    @honeysenpai116 Před 4 lety

    This looks like a wonderful visualization

  • @Viruzzz
    @Viruzzz Před 4 lety +114

    "What happens if you go faster than light?"
    "The universe breaks"
    Oddly accurate despite being a bit of a joke :p

    • @mateotrejo7048
      @mateotrejo7048 Před 4 lety +2

      If l go faster than light? Hoo that's why l live in darkness

    • @Goblin-King
      @Goblin-King Před 4 lety

      @@mateotrejo7048 No, that's just because you're too depressed to get out of bed and pull the blinds up.

    • @sadhlife
      @sadhlife Před 4 lety +1

      @@Goblin-King ok

    • @zhurs-mom
      @zhurs-mom Před 4 lety +1

      The universe already broke
      Look at the sky is it familliar
      The blue acreen of death

    • @zhurs-mom
      @zhurs-mom Před 4 lety

      @Tcll5850 you het the blue sky of death

  • @-sasha-5975
    @-sasha-5975 Před 4 lety +47

    after he lets go of the drill: hey you, you're finally awake*

  • @chandramishra4649
    @chandramishra4649 Před 4 lety

    Great explaination

  • @zero_day_virus
    @zero_day_virus Před 4 lety

    Awesome episode 👌

  • @austinpowers7670
    @austinpowers7670 Před 4 lety +48

    4:57 "cause doesn't follow effect anymore" ohhhh noooo!!! waaaaaaait a minute....

    • @seanboyd2898
      @seanboyd2898 Před 4 lety +7

      I argue that it further drives the point home.

    • @DreadX10
      @DreadX10 Před 4 lety +3

      I think I can see the insight joke in his eyes when he says that.

    • @Walking_Death
      @Walking_Death Před 4 lety +7

      cause not following effect, cats and dogs living together and your grandfather giving birth to your father... you just HAD to spin those wheels faster didn't you?

  • @siegfried_artificer
    @siegfried_artificer Před 4 lety +210

    God: *creates our universe*
    Few billion years leter:
    *A spaceship from parallel universe ignores the speed limit while crossing the border of our universe*
    God: ah shit, here we go again...

    • @YesB0dy
      @YesB0dy Před 4 lety +41

      We gotta put up a wall. Make our Universe great again

    • @Bleepbleepblorbus
      @Bleepbleepblorbus Před 3 lety +2

      @tshrpl HE'S GOING LUDICROUS SPEED TO POWER PI 5!!!

    • @somethinginteresting7118
      @somethinginteresting7118 Před 3 lety

      Don't you just hate it when your tryin to make life on a planet and they leave and go to another universe

  • @meh11235
    @meh11235 Před 4 lety

    Rate of inductance within specific bandwidth is what you're showing...
    Transverse longitudinal perturbation along the z axis, yields sound and light.
    Your model is fantastic, demonstrating how things work. Each medium has a rate of inductance based on resonance and bandwidth and is so because of the conjugate nature in the geometry expressed in harmonic material resonance.

  • @SuperJusSaiyan
    @SuperJusSaiyan Před rokem

    It’s just amazing you managed to film wheely wheel black holes!

  • @ulincsys
    @ulincsys Před 4 lety +46

    The second you said the word "Curiosity", I immediately thought "CURIOSITY STREAM!!!", I am pleasantly surprised.

    • @mmseng2
      @mmseng2 Před 4 lety +3

      This is exactly what they want.

    • @MuffinTastic
      @MuffinTastic Před 4 lety +2

      if most youtubers weren't such shills it wouldn't be this way

    • @ulincsys
      @ulincsys Před 4 lety +1

      @@MuffinTastic well, you gotta pay the bills somehow.
      I support most of my favorite creators on subscription platforms like patreon, and I also have CZcams premium. I understand that they (usually) rely on unstable streams of income, and I've been there myself many times. Whenever a creator advertises for a company or is otherwise compensated for the exposure they have, I see it as nothing more than a necessary part of the service they provide (content).
      Every situation is different, and there are some forms of advertisement that I don't agree with, but I believe that someone whose work provides entertainment and enrichment to thousands or even millions of people has the right to a living just like everyone else.

    • @yorkerold
      @yorkerold Před 4 lety +1

      Wow, brand names are being ingrained into people's memories.

  • @stormorjin6300
    @stormorjin6300 Před 4 lety +132

    I wonder how non newtonian liquid would response to this demonstration.

    • @jakemulligan9405
      @jakemulligan9405 Před 4 lety +8

      Well it's under a force so it would act as a solid

    • @MutohMech
      @MutohMech Před 4 lety +30

      Messily, I suppose

    • @quadragnos4156
      @quadragnos4156 Před 4 lety +14

      Which is why non Newtonian universes are bad

    • @bacicinvatteneaca
      @bacicinvatteneaca Před 4 lety

      It would probably break the drill

    • @LuisAldamiz
      @LuisAldamiz Před 3 lety +2

      @@quadragnos4156 - All the universes we know are non-Newtonian and they work perfectly well, at least most of the time. Update your knowledge, kiddo: Newtong was wrong!

  • @personalsinr
    @personalsinr Před 2 lety

    LOL. Loved the description of what happens when your model goes faster than the speed of light.

  • @shaneruetz5604
    @shaneruetz5604 Před 4 lety

    Stepping into your ignorance and looking around until you become enlightened. I love this analogy so much!

  • @Bruh-rz2hc
    @Bruh-rz2hc Před 4 lety +53

    "What if.."
    *"NO"*

  • @andrewchapman2039
    @andrewchapman2039 Před 4 lety +105

    What have we learned today children? Yes that's right, "don't go faster than light or you break the universe and tear yourself from the hand of God."

    • @gcewing
      @gcewing Před 4 lety +6

      Actually, you see it as *length* contraction. You're still moving at less than the speed of light, but the distance between you and your destination appears smaller.

    • @diogenesoliveira6473
      @diogenesoliveira6473 Před 4 lety +2

      @@Grauenwolf no, no. No observer can be measured as going faster than light, not even yourself. That is a basic postulate of special relativity.
      Pretty clear in the asymptotic of the curve he showed.

    • @coopergates9680
      @coopergates9680 Před 4 lety

      @@diogenesoliveira6473 Factor in time dilation, and an observer can think it is traveling faster than c based on its own clock.

    • @tiropat393
      @tiropat393 Před 4 lety +1

      @@coopergates9680 no he can't, from an observers perspective they never move, when i get in a car and accelerate up to highway speeds i never left myself, I am still motionless, the world is just moving relative to me

    • @coopergates9680
      @coopergates9680 Před 4 lety

      @@tiropat393 The world in front would appear to move toward you faster than light if you were going at near light speed, measuring with your own clock.

  • @christopherkent7786
    @christopherkent7786 Před 4 lety

    Appreciate what you doing

  • @Anonymouzor
    @Anonymouzor Před 4 lety

    i think that demonstration of spinning the holes faster than the speed of light is a great explanation of how the fabric of space time keeps you bellow the speed limit of light

  • @crackedemerald4930
    @crackedemerald4930 Před 4 lety +98

    "we're not warping space-time"
    Not significantly, but people at LIGO would probably not want you near with that thing

    • @tristanwegner
      @tristanwegner Před 4 lety +6

      I just warped space time for a bit this morning.

    • @nUrnxvmhTEuU
      @nUrnxvmhTEuU Před 4 lety

      Lool, they wouldn't want you near but only because you'd vibrate the ground around the apparatus. A man's gravitational waves are nooowhere near the gravitational waves of an (even very distant) black hole merger. But I appreciate the pun :D

  • @bhupender539
    @bhupender539 Před 4 lety +10

    dude your sense of humour is hilarious and that's beautiful

  • @Marvin-sl4fu
    @Marvin-sl4fu Před 3 lety +11

    3:22
    It seems so random to me that what he explains takes place in the mario-universe.

  • @andrebartels1690
    @andrebartels1690 Před 4 lety

    I really enjoyed the video, thanks. Especially the part that left the topic behind and went into the thoughts about the way how our scientific models change by probing their limitations.
    By the way, I'm *really* happy that you didn't actually tore the fabric of the universe apart, but just warped and tangled it with a cord drill 😉

  • @mozkitolife5437
    @mozkitolife5437 Před 4 lety +12

    1:32 Steve's off camera concentration face confirmed.

  • @bale9175
    @bale9175 Před 4 lety +48

    “I can survive a black hole” - camera man

  • @HelloKittyFanMan
    @HelloKittyFanMan Před 7 měsíci

    I'm glad you said "orbit each other" later, since that could be thought of as a correction of "orbit[ing] around each other," which is a redundancy.

  • @CED99
    @CED99 Před 3 lety

    Excellent video

  • @binarysmile
    @binarysmile Před 4 lety +31

    4:57 "so, cause doesn't follow effect any more"
    Wow, just try to imagine a world where causes come before effects!

    • @Spartan322
      @Spartan322 Před 4 lety +5

      When you go faster then the speed of light and as a result you break reality.

    • @ObjectsInMotion
      @ObjectsInMotion Před 4 lety +4

      Read the comment, causes are supposed to come before effects. He mispoke in the video.

    • @Spartan322
      @Spartan322 Před 4 lety +1

      @@ObjectsInMotion r/whoosh

    • @ObjectsInMotion
      @ObjectsInMotion Před 4 lety +5

      You can't cover up your mistakes with woooosh, people see right through it.
      Also woooosh is spelled with 4 o's and no h.

    • @Spartan322
      @Spartan322 Před 4 lety +2

      @@ObjectsInMotion You honestly shouldn't be trying to troll such a basic joke. It's not that funny, its like low-tier pun quality.
      reddit.com/r/whoosh has 41,000 subscribers
      reddit.com/r/whoooosh has 60,000 subscribers
      reddit.com/r/whoooos has 100 subscribers
      www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Whoosh
      knowyourmeme.com/memes/whoosh-you-missed-the-joke
      Anyhow these statistics say whoosh is the valid form of common use and r/whoooosh is only moderately larger as a subreddit. There are no records of whoooos on the internet with enough reputation to be credible. If you're gonna troll, could you at least do it with something a bit less half-assed, something more bs that I can't just go into a search engine in five seconds and confirm. Although it would nice if you didn't try to troll me by denying reality afterwards, that's not really funny. Then again I suppose there's not point responding after this. You know what go ahead, its not like anything you respond with can counter reality anyway, maybe we can be less lonely.

  • @Zerum69
    @Zerum69 Před 4 lety +6

    So technically speaking, if we ever observe that self intersecting gravity waves then we might have found the first ever faster than light object in the universe
    And we would also should be scared as heck because that means something impossibly energetic happened far away in the far past or maybe even far future

    • @Bleepbleepblorbus
      @Bleepbleepblorbus Před 3 lety

      We would all die paradoxically.

    • @williamhorn411
      @williamhorn411 Před 2 lety

      We just established that achieving light speed or greater is impossible so there is no scenario where that would happen. You're basically saying if the impossible happens we're screwed, which is a trivial statement.

    • @Zerum69
      @Zerum69 Před 2 lety

      @@williamhorn411 not impossible, for something to move faster than light it requires infinite energy, something really really hard to do, since infinity is well infinity
      But we have examples of infinity already, black holes have infinite density, so in conclusion if one infinity exists, why deny another?

    • @williamhorn411
      @williamhorn411 Před 2 lety

      @@Zerum69 We don't have any examples of infinity in nature, and by the definition of infinity we should not find any. In physics, the occurance of infinity is basically a universal error message. Yes, you will find that the description of a blackhole is mass with infinite density and infinitely small volume, but this is not an answer to the problem. It is a representation of how much we still don't know about blackholes. Infinity is not a number, and is not containable. It is the concept of something endless, or continuous, therefore you will never reach it because there is no "it" to reach. So at best, this description of "infinitely small volume" is really saying that all of the matter in the blackhole is being crushed further and further down until the death of the blackhole. However, at any given moment in time both the volume and density of the blackhole is finite.
      Anyway, obtaining infinite energy isn't something "really really hard to do", it is impossible. Even if you assumed the universe is infinite (which is unproven), you would need all the energy in the universe to propell such an object. Which not only would be pointless, but would include the energy of the object you're propelling as well. The law of conservation of mass and energy also falsify this idea as you cannot "cheat" by recursively creating energy. You would also need an infinite amount of time to allow this infinite energy accelerator to infinitely approach the speed of light and you would still never get there.
      There are solid theories supported by modern physics that suggest sort-of "faster than light travel" solutions, but they only work because you're not actually moving faster than light. These theories include space-tunneling (wormholes), Alcubierre Drive (manipulating local space-time), and probably several more.
      You can propose that we may discover ground-breaking physics in the future that completely change the scope of what we now think is impossible, but that's about it. Beyond what we know, we cannot know what is possible or impossible. Saying something IS possible because we are unsure is a logical fallacy. The definition of truth is the inability to falsify an investigatable claim, and currently there are many falsifications for true faster-than-light travel.

  • @andrewedis9907
    @andrewedis9907 Před 4 lety

    I enjoyed watching you loose control of the drill 🧐
    Science!

  • @deslomator
    @deslomator Před 4 lety

    I have different reasons to love every science channel I'm subscribed to. I push play on Steve Mould's videos trusting that I'm going to understand the content.

  • @Fex.
    @Fex. Před 4 lety +6

    Is there any visualization of gravitational waves within a 3D object like a sphere? It's always shown on a 2D plane, but considering the gravitational waves propagate in all three spatial directions, the inference etc would be quite interesting to see.

  • @dfgdfg_
    @dfgdfg_ Před 4 lety +3

    Steve and Destin in a London back garden doing science. What a nice set of chaps.

    • @metanumia
      @metanumia Před 4 lety +1

      They're just missing Gav and Dan from Slow Mo Guys! :)

  • @santiagoeliasm.a.t.3139

    the first feedback was so funny , love ya man

  • @no1bandfan
    @no1bandfan Před 2 lety +1

    "Then who's my grandfather?!?"
    "Isn't it obvious?"
    *Shakes head*
    "YOU ARE!!!!!"
    ".....AHHHH!!! AHHHH!!! AHHHH!!! AHHHH!!! AHHHH!!!"

  • @nelis3480
    @nelis3480 Před 4 lety +5

    Thank for this videos. I really like your explanations. This visualizes 2 black holes with the same gravitational force so the centre of the spin is equal to each other.
    I am wondering what happens with the waves if you are spinning the wheels with the powerdrill with a slight offset from its rotational centre and one higher wheel (that wheel represents a bigger gravitational force)

  • @esa062
    @esa062 Před 4 lety +5

    "To infinity (not beyond)". That's well put :-)

  • @dugldoo
    @dugldoo Před rokem

    Thanks for an important reminder of the limitations of even great analogies and models, both physical and mathematical, that purport to illustrate the essence of real phenomena. If such models are useful at all, they always have limits or boundaries beyond which they break down and they are likely useful for only certain aspects of the modeled phenomenon.

  • @fionatanzer5270
    @fionatanzer5270 Před 3 lety

    That's a lovely visual metaphor on attempting to go faster than the speed of light

  • @robertrosenthal7264
    @robertrosenthal7264 Před 4 lety +40

    When being asked a "what if" question, that's a request for a "thought experiment".
    Any answer that results in statement that "you can't do that" "or that's impossible" is a failure by the person "answering".
    Of course an honest reply of "I don't know" and "this model can't handle that situation" is acceptable even if they don't answer the question.
    Steve however did an honest "my model falls apart" reply.
    Sadly a lot of people online attack the people asking such hypothetical questions or otherwise blow them off.
    I haven't gone through the comments on Steves videos to see if his audience is doing that, but it happens on so many science sites there are bound to be some.

    • @pestoriusj
      @pestoriusj Před 4 lety +7

      And honestly I think the ":the whole thing implodes and the drill is ripped from the hand of God" is a perfect simulation of what *would* happen, with the universe violently correcting itself so that what had been faster than the speed of light is no longer

    • @PedroMelloA
      @PedroMelloA Před 3 lety +3

      Well, if you ask a "What if" question based on an impossible parameter, the only possible answer is "I don't know".
      Of course the model can't handle it. Even reality can't handle it.
      Any explanation attempt is equally invalid.

    • @johnboats9075
      @johnboats9075 Před 3 lety +1

      @@PedroMelloA LIFE YOU CANNOT SEE THAT CAUSES ILLNESS!? IMPOSSIBLE!!!!

  • @infinitystorm7458
    @infinitystorm7458 Před 4 lety +7

    When your grandma is so macho you think of her as your grandfather subconsciously 😂

    • @TehmasKhan
      @TehmasKhan Před 4 lety

      Infinity Storm
      😆😂👍🏻

  • @jkchandravanshi
    @jkchandravanshi Před 4 lety

    Nice demonstration

  • @bjpcorp
    @bjpcorp Před 4 lety +1

    Thanks, I never thought about gravitational waves breaking like the wake of a ship!

  • @crec0269
    @crec0269 Před 4 lety +5

    Normal folks:
    1080p60
    Steve:
    1080p50
    Me:
    nice

  • @rhoddryice5412
    @rhoddryice5412 Před 4 lety +7

    Button for the destruction of the fabric of 2D space:
    7:56
    7:56

  • @dallasstroud8061
    @dallasstroud8061 Před 2 lety

    “It’s quite dangerous look what happens” What I saw is at 7:59 a worm hole is created where two points on the fabric are folded together, and that wormhole was moving. So science fiction has it all wrong, a person doesn’t move through a worm hole but rather the wormhole moves to/through the person… aaannndd then the universe collapses in on the wormhole! Unless you can spin faster than the speed of light for a fraction of a second, just long enough for the wormhole to appear and disappear over your stationary self. Awesome stuff, keep it up!

  • @vasst4506
    @vasst4506 Před 3 lety

    This is amazing

  • @ICanDoThatToo2
    @ICanDoThatToo2 Před 4 lety +3

    6:07 I think you can explain why your model has limitations using this chart right here. What's the energy vs speed graph for your universe?

  • @eleeyah4757
    @eleeyah4757 Před 2 lety +5

    What I learned: If we want to undo the endless acceleration of the expansion of our universe, we need to go faster than light. So, in other words, the energy we put into going faster past lightspeed really goes into contracting the universe against that expansion.

    • @NeilBooth
      @NeilBooth Před 2 lety

      No i think our universe will eventually collapse on itself, if we can travel faster than light we may escape. The big contractrion is believed at the end of time all stars and black holes will die heating the entire universe, and it will all merge into a singularity creating a new big bang.

  • @jaroxmuzik8601
    @jaroxmuzik8601 Před 4 lety

    Amazing!

  • @kbeezeeify
    @kbeezeeify Před 4 lety

    Sick vid bro.

  • @baptistedelplanque8859
    @baptistedelplanque8859 Před 4 lety +16

    I wonder how that model can relate to rotating electric charges generating a magnetic field.