How Pigeon Poop Helped Unlock the Universe’s Secrets
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- čas přidán 27. 05. 2024
- Is it bird poop? Is it nuclear fallout? Nope. It’s the Big Bang!
The sound that gave us the answer to one of the universe's biggest mysteries was discovered...completely by accident. This noise let science move on to explore what the heck our universe is doing today, and spoiler alert: we only understand what a measly 5% of our universe is made of.
Fascinating Fails tells the stories of accidents in history that have resulted in some of our biggest discoveries, inventions, and breakthroughs. Following those often jaw-dropping (and sometimes hilarious) fails through time to today, host Maren Hunsberger asks: "What's next?". By talking to today's innovative young scientists, engineers, artists, and other big thinkers, we see how the mistakes of the past are leading us into the science of tomorrow...and toward a better future.
Original Production Funding Provided by National Science Foundation - Grant No. 2120006 Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
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Politely: PBS space time sent me. Loved it! Enjoyed the video immensely. Really fascinating. Thank you.
Same! this was awesome to watch :)
This video actually showed me why I watch PBS Space Time and why I don't watch Terra, even though I'm subscribed to it. The phone call was so annoying, I wanted to turn the video off. Same with some comments while talking about the Rachel telescope or the comment that galaxies are moving away from us like we have a bad breath. I don't like to use this word, especially that I rarely feel this way, but I feel the cringe or just being uncomfortable when I hear such stuff. It's unbearable for me, maybe it appeals to kids more.
I love all the production people interacting with the scientists. it's so cute!
Who knew that the white noise The t v made when I was a little kid, was actually the noise of the birth of the universe?
Wasn't the universe opaque the first few hundred thousand years, though? So, it wouldn't be the birth itself, more like the screams of the newborn universe.
Not an expert in the field, but this is correct. The CMB is from the first point that light *could* travel through the universe, the moment when that opaque universe cleared up enough to allow light to travel long distances before hitting something and scattering. The channel History of the Universe is a fantastic entry level explanation of this.
Not all the noise was the CMB, only part of it
Old TVs were listening to VHF and UHF waves and the CMB is mostly microwaves, but they do spread into other frequencies some. It would have been mixed with a lot of other sources though since it wasn’t carefully tuned like these telescopes. Apparently thunderstorms around the planet are the biggest source of static, which is also pretty cool that you can listen to.
I had to run a tube TV on white noise for over 25 years so that I could sleep.
My mother is Sterling of the Sterling Stirling Stivelyns of Stirling Scotland descendent of Adam through Dardanus son of Zarah and my father is Berlin of the Ashkenazi descendent of Solomon son of David.
I see far more of existence than I feel a human should. They don't even understand gravity or the system of non locality in correlation with local relativity. Humanity's existence is in jeopardy of extinction.
I'm a big space nerd so this is definitely up there among my favorite accidental discoveries. Thanks for covering it!
The hosting, the clips, the bts, and the selfie filming, the illustrations, the branding! What a package!
Why is Maren not the director of a production company? This woman has charisma and skills for daysssss
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Great video, please carry on doing them!
Well done. Every science communication involves figuring out what parts to gloss over. I think this video is a good way for laypeople to get their heads inside the tent.
I really enjoyed this host telling us about incomprehensible issues of cosmic importance. After watching this simple video I believe I have actually understood things that I thought were beyond my comprehension. Thank you so much I feel a little more intelligent now. Please ensure that this host continues in more PBS shows.
12:06-13:42 Pretty sure this is the best succinct description of dark energy and dark matter that I have ever heard. Very nice!
its still not proven so its still considered at best to be a philosophical explanation...at least the Ph.D did mention its not conclusive, most don't, most just try to pretend its real instead of what I think we'll eventually find, which is the measurements being used are off wildly.
Omg. this is so adorable! It is fun to see Dr. MacTier being her astrophysicist self.
To counter the other stupid comment, this host is great.
She's clear, concise, well spoken and presents facts in an interesting manner. If I see her again, I will click on the video.
I thought she did great, especially considering her field is Microbiology (Represent! Woo!) I haven't seen of her microbio videos so I'm gonna have to check those out! 😁
@@TheOtherSlideYT Eh, I'm a biologist and I thought this video was too dumbed down compared to other PBS Terra clips. Still loved the host, but she spent way too much time explaining high school physics. I felt like this episode was made for children.
@@mahirmohiuddin1239 I'm not a biologist, nor any other kind of -ist, but I am 55 years old so far from being a child and thoroughly enjoyed the accessible nature of the presentation.
No doubt with your higher than average level of education it was below you, but given the medium, I think it was well pitched.
This series continues to deliver such high quality, fun, and informative content! Maren is of course a phenomenal host whose infectious enthusiasm makes any topic fun and her team is amazing.
This is my favourite show on PBS. Just the energy you all have is fantastic and makes any subject instantly fun and engaging.
To clarify the part at the end about how far galaxies are from us meaning how old they are, it’s not that distant galaxies are older’younger than nearby ones. They all formed around the same time. But the light from distant galaxies took longer to get here, so we are seeing them as they were long ago.
You can also tell when in space time.
Extremely interesting
" matter" lol. Thank you for the explanation.
Wonderful video. Maren is always articulate and engaging.
This delighted me from start to finish.
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Such wonderful Bay Area talent having a cameo 🤗
Wow! Super cool. Thanks for making scientific subjects fun and easier to wrap my brain around.
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Fascinating Fails sounds like such a great idea for a show. So many people think of science as incredibly regimented and structured with no room for improvisation, but countless breakthroughs came though people who were loose enough to flow with the happy accidents of life, and had enough presence with the experience of reality to draw useful conclusions
Rachel is 108 years old. A sacred number for an aspect of the Divine Feminine that gives us views into heavenly realms
The same sound we'd hear in a sea shell. Crazy cool. Lovit.
Good explanation of this, thanks!
I like smart people talking with experts. They ask better questions and I actually learn stuff. I had no idea why we called it “dark matter” either. And I really had no idea we can only see 5% of the matter in the universe. Good stuff. Thanks.
I see Maren I click the video, she's great!
Hello from PBS Space Time! Great video, really enjoyed it.
Hello! From PBS Space.
Very interesting and well-made video. Thx!
Watching this was pure joy.
Here from Space Time. The idea of episodes about discovery by accident is a great one.
They always show the same instrument that first discovered the CMB, but i never see anything about later instruments that also did so, nor a rigorous study of how other possibilities of what it was were ruled out. Id be interested in watching something like that.
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Thank you
That's weird, I'm subscribed to this channel but am only hearing about this series now from it being mentioned at the end of the latest PBS spacetime video.
Glad you found it one way or another. CZcams can be tough at times, but if you haven't rang the bell yet that can help. If you enjoyed this episode we've got a playlist with the others from this series, with more to come: czcams.com/play/PLnNZYWyBGJ1FJ57PV_tV3-gMpA4z9XFOX.html
this is funny ài like the editing and the vibe of this very entertaining and informative
It is not good to get things wrong, by definition. But it is very very very good to recognize when you do get something wrong because then you have a better chance to get things right. Also: Maren Hunsberger should do a deep dive video that examines how they go about creating videos like this - a "our videos tell you about reality, and here is the reality of how we do it".
Here from PBS space time. Subscribed!
PBS Space time sent me here ;) Penzias was an alumni of CCNY :-)
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Matt O'Dowd sent me! I loved this episode and I have subscribed!
I really love hearing about science like this. I'm going to school for database analyst and I'm just drooling over all the data that DESI is collecting. One day I hope to join a project like that!
PBS Space Time very politely asked that I point out that they sent me.
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Politely sent by Space Time. Subbed!
The pidgeons were no help at all. If the horn was clean the background radiation discovery would've been made sooner. The pidgeons were saboteurs.
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lovely production! I like that your team was also involved :) besides, great topic to explore and to show explanations.
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Is this the best video I have ever seen?
Those strawberry earings are boss af!
6:06 this example makes it seem like the closer you are to her microphone, the higher the voice.
Politely that SpaceTime sent me.I was told to say that. Also, poop, fart, belch jokes are the best. Please don't cancel me, I was just trying to be funny.
Great video! You dont need to use click bait titles, its interesting already.
Thank you 🙏 and PBS SpaceTime sent me.
PBS space time asked for volunteers to explore a black hole, and somehow I ended up here.
Very kindly, I wish to inform you that PBS Space Time sent me here, big shout to Matt and all the awesome people at PBS
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I have a dumb question:
I know we think we understand ‘time’, I’m not so sure space would operate as we perceive time… what if the start of the universe had already passed us by and we are watching it move away from us after that passing? So it could have come towards earth before we recorded these things. Also, aren’t there distortions in what we can see out there?
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Coming from PBS space time. It's great that you're making simple educative videos and simplifying for anyone to understand, but don't oversimplify so much that it becomes wrong.
The explanations and demonstration need to be more though out. The dopler effect demonstration is wrong and poorly explained, you were running in a circle around her, you need to go straight past her for an effective demonstration, it would also influence the pitch and not just the volume
Same for blue shift and red shift they won't have a "blue wavelength" they will have an accelerated or slowed down wave length (or blue shifted but not blue)
Same for saying that wavelength = temperature (that's a wrong oversimplification)
On the other hand I really enjoyed the scientific explain dark matter and dark energy
If moving away is redshifting, is the andromeda galaxy blueshifting towards us?
SpaceTime sent me. :P Sub'd.
Dr Moiya McTier is awesome!
PBS Terra show on antarctic sea ice sent me.
1:27 : so the big bang hasn't happened yet? 😁
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As a space obsessionist, I enjoyed the crap out of this video. I also have to know where she got that rainbow sweatshirt. So cute!!
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Was there reference to mean girls?😊
Loved it! I'm not exactly new to astrophysics, but love seeing new ways to explain these admittedly hard to grasp concepts (as underlined by Mark Rober's video a bit ago). And I can't help getting enthusiastic about anything that makes new people enthusiastic about this field! 😀
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Excellent video and a great host!
I hated the phone call conversations, but loved everything else!
boooo. I loved them!
Now, this is a well crafted video. Thank you
I need Rachel's secret so I can look that good when I'm 108
We know that the stuff in the universe is expanding away from us. But how do we know that it is also expanding away from other stuff?
This is one thing I don't understand - say, in a two-dimensional plot, there are three points on a line, each equidistant from each other. If point 1 and point 2 are moving away from each other, that necessarily means that point 2 is moving towards point 3. How is it that point 2 can simultaneously move away from points 1 and 3?
Neil Degrasse Tyson has been overtaken in science education, especially for young people. This is amazing.
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This content is better suited for children.
Is that a problem? And you'd probably be surprised how many adults do not know this, its stuff that was discovered before thier textbooks were written
Very cool! Guessing a woman wrote the script. Not quite big words in there
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Matt from SpaceTime sent me... he asked me to politely say so.
P.S.: " Matt from SpaceTime" 😅 ... as opposed to 'Matt from somewhere outside of SpaceTime' .
Terry Pratchett wrote about this technique quite awhile ago;
The Listening Monks (or the (Holy) Listeners) are thought to be the oldest religious order on the Disc, except that they're not very religious; they're just trying to make out what the Creator said (whoever he was) to make the universe. Clearly, as nothing the Creator made could disappear completely, the echoes must still be out there. In this quest, they are led by Abbot Lobsang, the 89th bearer of that title. But since he reincarnates, he may have been Abbot for much longer.
To this end, they train their hearing to fantastic sensitivity and live in Enlightenment country in the narrow end of a valley that forms a huge horn, where they listen to the universe. Their temple occupies the same spot in the valley as the armchair of a rabid hi-fi fanatic in his custom-built listening room. Part of their initiation into the monastery is to listen for a coin dropped "at the distance of a thousand yards" and then detect which side it landed on. 'The Compleat Discworld Atlas' tells us they are devoted to The Rite Of Good Vibration.
Always upvote Pratchett.
Pratchett really was a man of such an amazing mind
@@hannahbrown2728 How to seize up the brain of any Pratchett fan: ask them which is their favourite Discworld novel.
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"... from Bell Labs, up in New York." As a lifelong resident of Holmdel, New Jersey, I'm highly offended. Get your facts straight!
PBS Space sent me, but this is a little too simplistic.
Came here from Weathered!
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