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Today we talk about quantum computing, mother trees, diamonds, microscopy with entangled photons, a supernova that we saw 5 times, a telescope made of fluid, better glasses, a new alien search initiative, and of course, the telephone will ring.
Correction to what I say at 00:44 Niels Abel was Norvegian, not Danish, sorry about that!
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00:00 Intro
00:25 Progress with topological quantum computing
03:11 Mother-tree theory might be too wood to be true
05:38 Where diamonds are born
07:22 Entangled photons improve microscope resolution
08:53 A supernova that we saw 5 times
11:37 A fluidic space telescope
13:37 Glasses that prevent nearsightedness put to test
15:43 New alien search initiative launched
17:33 Special offer for Nautilus membership!
#science #sciencenews - Věda a technologie
"I'm not rude,I'm just old"
Thank you for this ,made my day !
Nice teaching of Topological Quantum Computing....we will be building more upon that idea.Sometimes science can jump the void between provable lab results and the intricate ways of nature.When equipment and data can verify a theory it is scientifically accepted .Sometimes a creature,a human is able to grasp concepts and just not be able to communicate,state them in a currently available scientific pattern.They might also not be under the pressures of sponsors,funding to interpret things sterilized.
Freedom has brought forth many later proven ideas, pattern even inventions I applaud you at being able to walk the balance beams between many concepts, ballet slippers of politeness??
Dedication to politeness really only benefits people with power. It wasn't a Civil Debate than ended slavery, anf it took riots to help end things like child labor, 12-hour workdays, and some of the most extreme ways that black people have been oppressed. Even the gay rights movement started with a riot. As long as you aren't being intentionally rude or disrespectful to people who are already being systematically oppressed, don't ever let anyone make you feel guilty for being rude
“I’m not rude, I am just rich enough I don’t have placate to irrational stupidity” - could/should be a possible retort.
We feel called out.
@@justinwatson1510 i guess we can still afford to make some effort to be not rude but to not be toxic/mean. Sometimes being straightforward can be misconstrued as rude. Being rude is only bad if it's toxic and mean.
"Who taught you to laugh‽" has to be the most menacing joke today!
Sabine's hair is different every week. Does it accord with Zipf's Law? Chaos? Or is it random? I don't know what I'm talking about.
It’s in a state of super position that collapses in to a different hair style ever week.
I've tried spraying it, but that only made it worse 😅
I'm going with chaos theory. 😛
@@SabineHossenfelder Your ditzy little blonde friend had the right idea, you oughta bring her back.
Wonderful hair 😅
I just wanted to share that a few channels that I subscribe to I hit the like button the moment the video starts playing. This is one of those channels. I already know it's going to be good without question. Thanks Sabine for your constant clear, detailed and intelligent explanation of current science news!
Ditto.
Ja, danke sehr; sie haben mir auch sehr geholfen (aber ich will lieber noch in der Mathematik verloren bleiben ❤)
I agree 👍
I used to agree with you, until she questioned the legitimacy of Trans people's existence
She's actually reliably incorrect when she speaks out of her field
The top science information channel on CZcams, and possibly anywhere!
Thank you, Sabine!
Well, thanks for the tip with Anton Petrov and most of all: the OP is right in my opinion. Thank you, Sabine!
😂 love the phone calls ❤❤❤ ❤
The wood wide web.. I actually laughed out loud. Genius.
I am so happy that I can watch Sabina’s videos, truly happy
That smoke ring inset video was so fricken cool that I completely missed the fact that the topological computing explanation was unedited gobbledygook! Sneaky Sabine...
I wish I could like a video twice, Sabine.
Your news videos are always a highlight to my day, and you just have the best kind of dry humour. Great job as always!
Wow, thanks, Sabine! This episode must have required lots of practice to get all the pithy scientific names and concepts, etc., right. I appreciate the effort it takes to produce all the content and then present it so well. It was full of tongue twisting sentences and paragraphs this week! For me, many were brain-twisting as well, so I use the closed captions. At 70, I use the cc function for most video anyway. Thanks again for all you do.
It's impressive she knows exactly the right time to record for the phone to ring during the taping
It always feels good watching your Videos, Thank you very much for your great work!
I used to agree, until she made a video asking if Trans people's existence is a fad among teenagers. Isn't that a bit bigoted?
@@baileescott401 No, it is not bigoted at all, but you are a Radical Gender Ideology militant, so of course you are incapable of understanding simple scientific facts.
@@baileescott401 it's a disease
@Pero Ren chino maybe it's neither bigoted nor a disease?
@@baileescott401 no, it's a legitimate question from a researcher's perspective, although your phrasing wasn't really accurate to the subject of that video. There was no question about the existence of trans people in general not being a fad, but rather if such a subset exists among the cases of trans adolescents. It was an interesting and beneficial subject to explore.
That said, she did a very poor job of it, from what I've been able to gather. Shoddy research overall, which is the only such case I've found in her videos so far. She deserves criticism for this failing, but it's also wrong to label it as intentionally transphobic or dismiss the rest of her body of work over it. People doing so are judging the video, and Sabine's points and shoddy research, through the lens of a culture war she genuinely seems to have no stake in. It strikes me as unhelpful and misguided, and might weaken the more legitimate objections one ought to have to her trans video.
Her chat with chatGPT made my day 😀
finally my major in underwater basketweaving is coming into use.
I love these news videos - and i always love the phonecalls.
Fascinating material! Thanks for bringing it to us, Sabine.
Excellent video, Sabine! I always look forward to your science updates related to quantum computing. Thank you so much for this awesome weekly update !!!
That ChatGPT bit had me cracking up; thanks!
😂 I love the sound of laughing
I really like the week news format.
Thanks a bunch, Sabine! 😊
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
I'm 79 and I use whatever I can to understand the modern world, thanks for helping.
Fantastic video, it amazes me how you can be so fluid, knowledgeable, and witty at the same time! Thank you for your content, this deserves many more views
These are so good Sabine, absolutely love it!
Another great video! I love your sense of humour too!
Only if you have their seed phrase.
hahaha
Phormerly Chucks
"It's working...just not at Microsoft"
Pretty much sums up Microsoft as a company.
I thought it summed up Bill Gates genitalia, as a man. 'Micro-soft', and not working.
Microsoft has performed its job with perfection. What do you think its job is?
@@tedmoss To be the world's biggest spreader of malware. Exhibit 1 Windows 11...I rest my case.
@@JohnH1 Microsoft did write and distribute one of the earliest pieces of malware. It was called the 'concept virus' and was sent out to customers and support techs. A lot of miscreants jumped on that bandwagon once Microsoft had demonstrated how easy it was to do.
I am impressed that you could say all that with a straight face.
Once again, it has been a great week for the news. Thank you, Sabine.
There are thousands of species of plants, some of them don't like each other.
Others only communicate under certain specific conditions.
And there are a lot of different techniques, some of which no human has ever studied.
There are even cases where a single tree sends out runners that pop up new trunks.
It looks like a forest but is actually just one tree.
Also some species only communicate with fungus, while others only communicate
With bees, and only while flowering of course.
Certain species of trees remain uncomunicative their entire lives unless they survived
A forest fire recently.
Some trees use chemical signals, others use electrical fields, while yet others
Use shiny waxy leaves to reflect sunlight at each other in complex patterns.
Some species can send roots into dead rotten logs and read the life history
Of their fallen comrades, by tasting the variations of mineral concentrations
Within its ring structures. All of the articles I have read on
the subject, vastly oversimplified It.
Some species even "taste" pollen from other species and integrate fragments of
Genetic code. For instance, some species of Witch grass have picked up
Gene fragments from over 100 other species.
They use sound too. Its incredibly complicated, even more so than you mentioned, and the research has barely scratched the surface.
A combination of Anthropomorphism and oversimplification? Along the same vein I was thinking it would be awesome to sample a groups DNA as they age to see the changes from interaction with viruses etc.
@@deltalima6703 So you can't say there is no sound if no one is there to hear it?
I've seen where forest biologists used powerful hoses to wash away the soil
to expose
the root systems of two trees (I believe of the same species, Alder?).
The well established mature tree was on a higher, more beneficial tier. The other smaller tree
grew a few feet lower in elevation, in a less advantageous position.
In analyzing their individual root systems, you could easily trace where a thick root from
the mature tree had bumped up against a separate one originating from the lower tree.
At the point of contact, you could clearly see how the roots touched, entangled and
eventually melded into one another, creating one continuous root. There was a noticeable
big knob or bulb that had formed where the roots had actually combined.
I didn't know that was possible, but nature knows, and often astounds.
I don't think it's a big leap to imagine tree sap being shared/exchanged with the less
advantaged tree during a difficult environmental period.. I'd like to think of it
as a nutrient rich transfusion line, or like an umbilical cord, but one that formed
only after the trees had grown independently. Otherwise, why combine?
@@Rayceemon Combining root networks saves you from having to grow your own, and would significantly expand your resource pool should the other tree die for whatever reason.
16:00 if you haven't seen the movie Contact and are interested in this, it's super sci fi and not at all real but Jodie Foster driving around the desert is dope
Thank you for your fantastic science channel Sabine. I am sorry I have to correct you though. Niels henrik Abel was not Danish but Norwegian, born in Nedstrand, not far from Stavanger in Norway in 1802 and dead in Froland also in Norway in 1829.
From 1:14 to 1:20 I don't think I heard a word you said because of the amazing smoke ring effect on the screen!
Awesome show, Sabine!!!
Smart, informative, and fun. Already loving this channel. Thank you for sharing!
thx for the info and nice way to bring it!!
The second phone call had me laughing out loud
Dear Mrs. Hossenfelder I appreciate how your confidence keeps getting stronger with every new episode - along with the aspect of comedy :-) Your little puns make me pause to think and make me smile. Thank you 🙂
BTW, how much use is a spherical mirror, really? Parabolic mirrors do focus rays into a focal point, spherical mirrors don't...
I guess that they will add a correcting lens. An antispherical abberation lens. Hang on.... they already did that for Hubble.
13:40 The fix is letting kids out of the house, instead of having them confined to a classroom for 6+ hours a day and then several more hours every day at home doing homework.
No lens will fix the problem, because it's a developmental issue in the eye caused by insufficient daylight exposure at an early age.
Different lens designs may worsen or improve eyesight by weakening or strengthening the muscles in the eye, but that's a purely symptomatic treatment as the underlying structure remains the same.
As always, it is soothing to know that expansion with age is a universal phenomenon. Makes me feel better my personal expansion measurements.
Who wants a Sabine Bobblehead? This would be awesome!
Is it available?
I think we should all ask WHEN it will be available.
But without youtube I would never have met you Sabine. Love you.
You summarize everything I want to know cleanly concisely and as quickly as possible. _ with the right amount of humor. I'm so happy I found your Channel!
I feel like there was a missed opportunity when the fluidic space came up for some kind of joke involving the Borg and Species 8472.
The imagination and creativity of the human mind never ceases to amaze me. Thank you Sabine for bringing these instances to my attention.
The phone calls from the kid and ChatGPT made me laugh out loud! Your delivery is just so perfect for this kind of humor.
I love your channel it's so informative and well presented. Where do you find the time to sort through this stuff let alone prepare the videos?
Wow! Sabine you will likely soon hit 1M subscribers. Congratulations to you, success undoubtedly deserved. Thank you for keeping me informed on the latest in science news.
"You taught you to laugh??" - I chuckled, then got scared
lol
Thanks for the info on Kimberlite Volcanic eruptions. I've been fascinated by them for decades, they are, by far, the most violent Volcanic eruptions that we currently know of. Calderic super Volcanic eruptions may fling a lot of material about, but if that same volume of material was ejected Kimberlite style it would deflect the earth's orbit in a very easily measured way. And, of course, diamonds .
Aliens have such a long lifespan that communications are sent only once a year - which saves on power & gossip
i just frigging adore you! Thank you for existing!
I have read that the very large increase in myopia in Asia is due to so many children now being born in cities and not spending enough time outside looking into the far distance. Especially in countries where there is severe pressure on children to achieve academically.
A case of use it or lose it.
Perhaps, letting these children play more outside and spend more time in places such as parks might be a better solution to avoid them damaging their vision in the first place. And maybe make better adjusted human beings at the same time.
Thanks Sabine for another eloquently and amusingly presented install of current science news
😊❤not a small fish, the best
Thanks Sabine. It's been a good week for science news. Not so much for Hollywood.
Hi Sabine! Hope you're having a good day!
Very interesting! Trank-you very much.
Absolutely fascinating thank you 😊 ❤
Thank you Sabine.
The mother tree takes me back to the OTHER avatar (the last airbender), the eposode in the swamp.
Muito obrigado pelo vídeo, Sabine!
I can’t believe Boromir got a ring named after him.
Love your channel Sabine. I’m allergic to math, but in love with science, and you bring it together beautifully. Love your wicked sense of humor.
"It uses gravitational lensing, but not in the way you're used to it".
(Blush.) Why thank you. I don't think I've ever been so over-estimated.
I cant believe i didnt find u till a few months ago.
U are legit one of the best science channels on the planet hands down and ive loving these news videos u started recently.
Keep them UP!!!❤❤
“Old dogs”😂👍……Dry as a bone and hilarious.🕊🌹🕊
5:42, diamonds. Dissolve aluminum carbide in molten LiH with about 5 ppm boron. Electrolyze to grow diamond as with methane-hydrogen-argon plasma (and a trace of methanol to erode non-diamond carbon), but at 500× the density at the electrode double-layer. UV illumination to confirm. Imagine a square meter of electrode (both sides!) in a slit pot - a tonne/day of product. (Safety footnotes omitted).
It's certainly more interesting for finding nickel and rare earths - to my knowledge, attempts to lab grow those haven't seen much success. Diamonds? Yeah, we can make shiny coal. Forever is pretty short when you set it on fire.
Didnt expect to hear about myopia management in one of these, they've been about for a couple months (at least with my company) and so far they seem good time will tell!
Imagine going to dinner with Sabine, it would be so interesting,
She might get bored but I would love to hear her talk about her life and how she got into physics and what she dreams about and a millions other questions about all sorts of things I'd love to hear her opinion on
She reminds me of Richard Feynman, in his love for science and humour and bringing the depths of science to everyday folks
Great video as usual, just a tiny note being myself italian: Majorana is pronounced like "Maiorana" and not "Magiorana". ☺
Ettore was a great Italian, greetings from Cologne 😊
You are just awesome Sabine. I ❤ your INTELLECT, your WIT, your KNOWLEDGE, and your TRUTH. An incredible gift to us. Thank you.
Thank you
Sabine's overt excitement about advances in topological quantum really gripped me ! Yes, I am being ironig calling her "overt", but I do mean her presentation transported the excitement well.
I think you have the most interesting approach to reporting on science on the web. Many thanks for that.
Recently Cosmologists have come up with (yet) another "Big Bang" theory which includes a sudden 'great expansion'. Tell me, what happens to Time when you 'expand' it?
Cheers Sabine, another excellent episode :>
I love the telephone that is there ❤ always a wonderful show Sabine
that "j" in Majorana should be pronounced as the "y" in "yes", not as the "j" in "jeans". That j is a semivowel in Italian. Great video, as usual!
your content is the best.
Sabine - could you talk about the future of quantum computing when we run out of helium? Are there other ways to achieve low noise quantum computing without supercooling with liqHe?
Regardless of the shape of the curvature of space/time, instead of being smooth,
could it have an intrinsic texture, not created by the presence of mass? If so, then
in the early stages of the universe, these undulations would create areas where
mass would concentrate, eventually forming galaxies, and other areas where it
would be dispersed. For example: Our galaxy may have formed around one such
dimple on the space/time surface. Assuming this texturing is fixed on the
space/time surface, then it's still present, providing a gravity-like effect that allows
outer stars to rotate around the galaxy faster than the mass of the galaxy accounts
for. This provides an alternative to the presence of dark matter to explain this.
Thank you for your time.
Mein Lieblings-Wissenschafts CZcams Kanal. Danke für die spanende Themen 😊
I feel entangled with the opening tune. It haunts me throughout the week.
The Sequoia and giant Redwoods in California can reach amazing heights, but not on their own. They tie their roots together to withstand the winds and don't have that kind of strength on their own.
The findings of that paper don't suggest that trees don't communicate through fungal networks, just that they don't trade resources through them, which isn't something that was near as widely accepted. As the evidence currently stands, trees indeed do likely communicate through fungal networks and the same can be said for intra-fungal communication.
Realy great all the best. .....
Love the old-fashioned phone!
That's a relief because I've been very concerned that some trees round here in rural Canada might be trying to connect to the gap between my baby toe and the next one (I could have worried far worse).
For the record: Niels Henrik Abel was Norwegian -- not Danish (or Swedish for that matter). It is somewhat depressing to see such a mistake one week ahead of the 2023 Abel Price award ceremony (in Oslo).
Not exactly, Norway was part of the Danish kingdom that time
@@Thomas-gk42 This is wrong. He was born in the kingdom of "Denmark and Norway", but he was only 12 years old when that union was dissolved. To my knowledge, he had no connection to Denmark whatsoever.
@@ivarru ok, I'm a bit smarter now 🙂but I would be happy to see overcome that nationality stuff
I just realized that making this claim on the national day of Norway was perhaps meant as a joke -- or maybe a way to "increase engagement". Oh well...
@@ivarru haha, no, random. I'm just a historical interested german, who is obviously not informed good enough about scandinavian history, to make claims about it in CZcams comments. All the best 😂
I've found trees of the same species physically attached by their roots. One little stump, under a driveway for nearly 20 years, was being kept alive by the fusion of its roots to neighboring trees.
I've seen this with wild black cherries, sassafras, maples, and several species of oaks.
Some species of trees make new shoots for the roots. So they clone them-self. So it's not two trees that have fused there roots. It's one tree that have created more stems. Plants in general don't have any clear individuals so it's hard to say what is a tree or plant and count them.
I can't believe she always knows the telephone will ring.
Retrocausality
Superdeterminism
I wish my brain was more like yours.
Thank you for helping keep me informed!
Could the anomalies in brightness of far away stars (and therefore the proposed expansion rate) be due to curvature of the universe? If the universe is positively curved, then far away stars would have higher brightness than we would expect from their distance to the Earth.
Thanks for the video :)
13:00 I'm old enough to admit i had to watch this twice
"just not at microsoft" isnt that of a plot twist but it always delightful
Finally news that bring a chuckle to my brain !
I love this woman. Imagine living with someone that intelligent!
It would be nice to live with someone with mutual logical dishwashing machine stacking standards.
I would be constantly intrigued and fascinated. She would be bored to tears. Actually my wife is tremendously intelligent, but our areas of expertise and interest are so divergent we each think the other to be an idiot occasionally. When we see eye to eye, our myopia progresses. (Really, strive to see the genius hidden in your mate. It enriches your life and your marriage.)
The only thing about mother trees I can say is that one tree can provide shade for soil to retain moisture as well as some limited protection from wind.
It's Hubble-Lemaître law, hence Hubble-Lemaître constant. Lemaître was the first to derive it (and publish it). Hubble made it more precise courtesy of better data.