5 Things You Don't Understand about Gravity

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  • čas přidán 20. 06. 2024
  • Explore the mysteries of gravity! From Einstein's spacetime curves to time dilation near black holes, discover five fascinating truths about gravity that will change your perspective on the universe.
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  • @chrisbm123
    @chrisbm123 Před 6 dny +695

    I have a book on anti gravity, I can’t put it down

  • @jeremiahburton9894
    @jeremiahburton9894 Před 6 dny +232

    Oh he even got a mom joke in😂

    • @FlyWithFitz81
      @FlyWithFitz81 Před 6 dny +3

      "OOOHHHHH, He said yo MAMA!"

    • @jamiestrinati-greenwood8360
      @jamiestrinati-greenwood8360 Před 6 dny +6

      I had to rewatch that part a couple of times because I was laughing too hard to hear the rest. Fact boi strikes again

    • @joshuabrigden4820
      @joshuabrigden4820 Před 6 dny +7

      Simon's mum is the great attractor

    • @TheMaddoxfam
      @TheMaddoxfam Před 6 dny +6

      Trying to wrap my head around one of Simon’s sickest burns being on side projects and not BB or Decoding

    • @halfgod85
      @halfgod85 Před 5 dny +2

      That alone justifies my following of all his channels.

  • @NeoTechni
    @NeoTechni Před 6 dny +189

    That was the funniest "yo mama" joke ever, just cause it came from you of all people. I am still laughing a minute later

    • @nugboy420
      @nugboy420 Před 4 dny +1

      Go watch brain blaze haha he's not just a fact boi

    • @bendover9021
      @bendover9021 Před 2 dny

      I couldn’t bring myself to laugh, but it was hilarious the writers made him say that with the editor# putting that gif in 😭

  • @Antoni0704
    @Antoni0704 Před 6 dny +113

    I came to get info but ended up getting roasted

  • @leatileraseroka1119
    @leatileraseroka1119 Před 6 dny +162

    Why doesn’t gravity work herf?

    • @wtbanation6268
      @wtbanation6268 Před 6 dny +32

      Can’t say. I know for sure it works therf. Wherf it doesn’t work, I’m not sure.

    • @chadp363
      @chadp363 Před 6 dny +9

      There is a spot in Antarctica that has a weird gravity distortion, are you talking about therf?

    • @EShirako
      @EShirako Před 6 dny +6

      And I think the 'here' thing they would have been talking about is how we can't get gravity to work on quantum scales, it just 'falls apart', with equations heading for zero or infinity. It works for single atoms, and even on single particles like electrons, but not on quarks.

    • @Bryan-py6ul
      @Bryan-py6ul Před 6 dny +12

      because gravity bent his E into a tall F, duh, curvature and stuff

    • @aaronko3480
      @aaronko3480 Před 6 dny +12

      Damnit Whistleboy, your shoulders getting in the way of a perfectly good thumbnail picturf

  • @MrJdebest
    @MrJdebest Před 6 dny +177

    Road runner + anvil + gravity = Flattened coyote.

    • @2l84t
      @2l84t Před 6 dny +5

      Mass + momentum +headlight = Yikes!!

    • @timbo5053
      @timbo5053 Před 6 dny +4

      At least i can understand that!

    • @Gounen
      @Gounen Před 6 dny +5

      The anvil and coyote were traveling straight through a curved spacetime!

    • @montecorbit8280
      @montecorbit8280 Před 5 dny +7

      I was just coming to say that wile e coyote and bugs Bunny taught me everything I need to know about gravity....

    • @gmoney4980
      @gmoney4980 Před 5 dny +3

      The Coyote should sue ACME

  • @hendersongalbreath1072
    @hendersongalbreath1072 Před 6 dny +22

    1:22 The seldom-seen, often-feared Simon burn.

    • @dudoklasovity2093
      @dudoklasovity2093 Před 4 dny

      he was distracted by preparing himself for the "mom joke" :-)

  • @andrewsurowiec80
    @andrewsurowiec80 Před 6 dny +27

    Did not have Simon making a your mom joke on my bingo card for this year... That was great. Thanks for the laugh

  • @OneViolentGentleman
    @OneViolentGentleman Před 5 dny +9

    In case anyone is curious about the wood engraving at 1:00
    It is (old) German and here is the translation (ChatGPT):
    Doctor Zirkel (Zirkel is compass I believe)
    [1st picture:]
    From the study's stuffy air,
    Dr. Zirkel steps into the morning fair.
    [2nd:]
    Mr. Zirkel strolls to and fro,
    His head heavy with ideas that grow.
    [3rd:]
    Suddenly he sees with great desire
    A ripe apple hanging higher.
    [4th:]
    Dr. Zirkel thinks: now would be
    Quite pleasant the effect of gravity!
    [5th:]
    And lo, not a minute does flee,
    When from the tree he sees the apple free.
    [6th:]
    How great from the tree the distance is,
    The doctor measures with his compass.
    [7th:]
    Once his thirst for knowledge is satisfied,
    He decides not to let the apple be denied.
    [8th:]
    Though the process isn't fully clear,
    Suddenly it becomes perfectly dear.
    [9th:]
    A new law of nature in space unfurls:
    "The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree!!!"

  • @paulbarnett227
    @paulbarnett227 Před 6 dny +30

    Another thing with Gravity, GPS has to take account of time dilation for both Special and General Relativity otherwise the accuracy would drift away rather quickly by about 2km per day.

    • @sophierobinson2738
      @sophierobinson2738 Před 4 dny +2

      Is it akin to the 15 degree per hour drift (thanks, Bob) discovered using a laser gyroscope?

    • @jamescox8429
      @jamescox8429 Před 3 dny +3

      @@sophierobinson2738 No, the 15 degree per hour "drift" is just due to the rotation of the earth. One full rotation of 360 degrees / 24 hours = 15 degrees per hour. It wouldn't be exactly 15 degrees due tot he difference between a sidereal day and a solar day.
      Newtonian mechanics is fine for just about everything. You could fly to the moon just with newtonian mechanics. The gps system needs relativistic corrections because it uses time to determine location. The satellites broadcast the time using atomic clocks on the satellites and at ground stations. The receiver calculates the location based on the difference in time from different satellites. The satellites are moving fast in orbit, which causes their time to slow down slightly compared to on earth (special relativity), but they are also up much higher which causes their time to be slightly faster than on earth (general relativity).

  • @FlyWithFitz81
    @FlyWithFitz81 Před 6 dny +32

    Gravity: Just when I thought I was out, ... pull me back in!

    • @douglasbillington8521
      @douglasbillington8521 Před 5 dny +1

      I'm too old for this $#it!
      Or I'm too far from a sufficiently large mass!!

    • @SpaceDad42
      @SpaceDad42 Před 2 dny +1

      That’s what I said to your mom.

  • @basecius
    @basecius Před 6 dny +17

    Correction: The strength of gravity isn't stronger in the center of a planet. It is in fact zero there. Inside a homogeneous sphere, the gravity is linear to the distance from the center.

    • @neilwisnewski7013
      @neilwisnewski7013 Před 5 dny +2

      Thank you. But I have to correct your correction. Earth's gravity is zero at Earth's centre, but we are still in the sun's (and moon's etc) gravity. Otherwise, love your work.

    • @user-tm7mr9je9v
      @user-tm7mr9je9v Před 4 dny +1

      THIS SHOWS, THIS PRESENTER IS A BULL**** CZcamsR BUT TRY TO USE PHYSICS TO EARN MONEY ONLINE

    • @basecius
      @basecius Před 4 dny +4

      @@user-tm7mr9je9v No, it shows that everybody makes a mistake once in a while. Even if they are correct most of the time.

    • @user-tm7mr9je9v
      @user-tm7mr9je9v Před 4 dny +1

      NO, THIS IS NOT A MISTAKE BUT HE DIDN'T KNOW THE SUBJECT MATTER. BUT TRY TO FOOL PEOPLE BY ACTING LIKE A PHYSICIST. A FAKE PHYSICIST LIKE HIM ONLY MAKE KNOWLEDGE UPSIDE DOWN AND FAR FROM TRUTH. HE IS A **** CZcamsR. THERE ARE GOOD CZcamsR AS WELL.

    • @jonkelly7908
      @jonkelly7908 Před 4 dny +2

      ​@@neilwisnewski7013However the nulling effect of the earth's gravity would be far greater than the gravity from the moon and Sun, plus there would be a point very near the centre of mass where the earth's gravity would null any other gravitational forces.

  • @keijimorita1849
    @keijimorita1849 Před 3 dny +4

    Time dilation makes it so that even if you could somehow get out of a black hole, the universe would be over.

  • @Captain.AmericaV1
    @Captain.AmericaV1 Před 6 dny +26

    Thats what id say if i accidentally got caught in the event horizon of a singularity..... Whoopsy daisy!! 😂😂

  • @dellman2kawesome
    @dellman2kawesome Před 6 dny +9

    Thats the thing that genuinely mesmerises me with space is that any question you may possibly answer will only lead to a thousand more questions , something we will never understand or truly comprehend its creepy but amazing at the same time, also the size of it is just ridiculous when you stop to think how truly meaningless and insignificant we are in the grand scheme when not even our solar system would be a grain of sand in the ocean

    • @teranyafitch2328
      @teranyafitch2328 Před 4 dny +3

      Actually our entire solar system is roughly a single particle in just the observable universe, nevermind the entire thing we can't even see.

  • @TastyScotch
    @TastyScotch Před 6 dny +20

    “Do you hear that Mr. Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability.”

  • @canonwright8397
    @canonwright8397 Před 6 dny +15

    I once escaped from a black hole riding on a gravitational wave. They said it was impossible! I told them I didn't have time to explain. =].

  • @joshuabrigden4820
    @joshuabrigden4820 Před 6 dny +11

    "Gravity doesn't work herf" is how i read the thumbnail

    • @sophierobinson2738
      @sophierobinson2738 Před 4 dny

      That danged shoulder….

    • @joshuabrigden4820
      @joshuabrigden4820 Před 4 dny

      @@sophierobinson2738 i swear Simo and team do these things on purpose and clearly obvious mispronunciation of commonly known words.
      I grit my teeth and laugh every time🤣

    • @theoriginalkyttyn7724
      @theoriginalkyttyn7724 Před 2 dny

      Herf is a universal constant that is both an immovable object and an unstoppable force, moving at a speed 1mm/sec faster than the stated speed of light. This is why gravity doesn't work herf, herf works gravity.

    • @joshuabrigden4820
      @joshuabrigden4820 Před 2 dny +1

      @@theoriginalkyttyn7724 you actually got me laughing out loud! Nice one!🤣

    • @theoriginalkyttyn7724
      @theoriginalkyttyn7724 Před dnem +1

      @@joshuabrigden4820 I'm grateful to have given you the gift of mirth.

  • @klocugh12
    @klocugh12 Před 5 dny +5

    E = mc^2 is not complete BTW. It is actually E^2 = (mc^2)^2 + p^2c^2 to account for massless particles.

    • @SDsc0rch
      @SDsc0rch Před dnem +1

      momentum?

    • @klocugh12
      @klocugh12 Před 20 hodinami

      @@SDsc0rch Yes. Massless particles still can have momentum and energy (eg photons).

  • @Ji66a
    @Ji66a Před 6 dny +8

    “Maybe yah Mum does!” 😂

  • @Bryan-py6ul
    @Bryan-py6ul Před 6 dny +4

    This was a great one Mr. Whistler, keep em coming!

  • @junction13pirate
    @junction13pirate Před 6 dny +4

    Great job on this one Simon🙏🏻

    • @markedis5902
      @markedis5902 Před 6 dny

      All he did was read the auto-que. He has a massive team of script writers and researchers, it’s them who deserve the credit.

  • @ElSarcastro
    @ElSarcastro Před 3 dny +1

    The plane analogy stops being intuitive as soon as someone asks "but what if the plane is stationary?"

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 Před 5 dny +7

    0:35 - Chapter 1 - It's not exactly a force
    5:05 - Chapter 2 - Our theories fall apart at the quantum level
    7:45 - Chapter 3 - It's also limited by the speed of light
    12:20 - Chapter 4 - Gravity warps the passage of time
    15:45 - Chapter 5 - It is most extreme in black holes

  • @DataJack
    @DataJack Před 5 dny +4

    This is excellent. One of your best.

  • @chriswoodend2036
    @chriswoodend2036 Před 6 dny +4

    The young picture of Einstein makes him look like he sells tweed covered furniture. Everything plaid.

  • @jamesmcconnel6198
    @jamesmcconnel6198 Před 4 dny +1

    Fun fact: The ends of the LIGO arms are built up slightly higher than the surrounding landscape, because they had to be so straight, that they had to account for the curvature of the Earth.

  • @KenMac-ui2vb
    @KenMac-ui2vb Před 2 dny +1

    The Zeno Effect. That and Bell's Inequalities. Really are blowing my mind. Then, of course you have Negative Energy, Entanglement, Vacuum Energy, QCD, QED, Field Theory, Tensors, Scalars, Hilbert Spaces, Time Dilation, Antimatter and on and on. You all are cray cray, and I love you.

  • @MilesBellas
    @MilesBellas Před 6 dny +10

    "Entropy" next ?

  • @jaymac6041
    @jaymac6041 Před 6 dny +21

    Have a good weekend everybody!

  • @tomwithuhn9472
    @tomwithuhn9472 Před 3 dny +1

    Nicely done video Simon. The is one the best written/edited you’ve done and in a challenging topic.

  • @psycofire93
    @psycofire93 Před 5 dny +2

    Hey writers!
    Super awkward timing (I know the time between script and release is delayed) but the “radiation” or light only black hole was just proven impossible in a paper released I think exactly a week ago, maybe 2 weeks ago. I’m not 100% certain if it was peer-reviewed yet but.. just so you know haha. Honestly with how much crazy space stuff has been figured out this year it can probably be a “10 discoveries this year (plus some corrections) video

  • @justprivate2333
    @justprivate2333 Před 6 dny +3

    Gravity is a cruel mistress.
    God forgives, gravity abstains.

  • @alexdelvento1273
    @alexdelvento1273 Před 6 dny +57

    Does this guy ever stop making CZcams videos. Like wtf.

    • @kingnaga619
      @kingnaga619 Před 6 dny +10

      Homeboy puts in a 40 hour work week for sure.

    • @Sammael251
      @Sammael251 Před 6 dny +20

      You must be new here. No, he does not stop, and he hasn't stopped for years. It's kind of insane, but there's always so much content and I love it

    • @the80hdgaming
      @the80hdgaming Před 6 dny +23

      Simon is really a series of clones... The original Simon has been kicking back on a beach, sipping mimosas for at least 4 years now... 😂😂😂

    • @rj13bayne2
      @rj13bayne2 Před 6 dny +15

      Welcome to the Simon WhistlerVerse 😂 There are *so many* channels here. You'll never not have a video to watch again.

    • @alexdelvento1273
      @alexdelvento1273 Před 6 dny +14

      @@rj13bayne2 he NEEDS to make a logistics video on how he produced his videos.

  • @Ryans_Revenge
    @Ryans_Revenge Před 4 dny +1

    The mom joke caught me off guard and now i have to wipe coffe off of my phone.😂😂😂

  • @tinytim71301
    @tinytim71301 Před 5 dny +2

    Brilliant work. Thanks! Geaux Louisiana.

  • @markjohnston1971
    @markjohnston1971 Před 5 dny +3

    Great video, Simon!

  • @RealJonNewton
    @RealJonNewton Před 6 dny +3

    1:05 is the beginning of the sickest burn ever 😂😂

  • @chadvanderlinden9548
    @chadvanderlinden9548 Před 4 dny +1

    Ahhh... >raises finger< Your path may lead toward the singularity (there is evidence that the singularity can be orbited or bypassed) but it does NOT end with you MEETING the singularity. Space trades places with time and so the singularity remains forever IN YOUR FUTURE.

  • @aaronsosnoski1017
    @aaronsosnoski1017 Před 3 dny

    I have never heard time dilation explained so simply and clearly.

  • @ARIXANDRE
    @ARIXANDRE Před 6 dny +4

    Best use of a Mom Joke in years...

  • @DavidFMayerPhD
    @DavidFMayerPhD Před 6 dny +3

    Recently, new thinking has forged a link between Quantum Field Theory and General Relativity: the Higgs Field. The Higgs Field is (supposedly) responsible for the rest masses of the elementary particles. However, the ONLY definition of rest mass is the resistance to acceleration, and acceleration is defined entirely by General Relativity since it determines the Metric Tensor which defines local inertial frames.

    • @DrDeuteron
      @DrDeuteron Před 5 dny

      naw, the Higgs just gives particles finite frequency at zero wavenumber,

    • @semaj_5022
      @semaj_5022 Před 5 dny

      Isn't it just that interaction with the Higgs Field "gives" particles mass, which in turn allows gravitational interaction between those particles?
      The Higgs Field itself doesn't have anything to do with gravity, as far as I am aware, aside from imparting the property that allows for interaction with gravity.
      Please correct me if I am wrong.
      Edit: nevermind. I realized myself that I am wrong. Higgs gives mass to fundamental particles, but that (particle rest mass) is different than the mass of atoms and matter. Should have read your comment better. The majority of larger scale mass comes from the energy bound up between particles and atoms then, yes?

  • @davidpalmer4184
    @davidpalmer4184 Před 5 dny +2

    A wise man said "Time is an illusion, lunch time doubly so..." It's a shame he passed away (Sort of ironic too)

  • @doclewis8927
    @doclewis8927 Před 5 dny +1

    The concept of gravity altering time is best summed up in the movie "Interstellar" (2014) with Matthew McConaughey. That movie spawned several scientific papers that won some notable prizes and were proved to be correct. It's amazing, especially if you like science and astrophysics to be specific.

  • @ImNotGonna85
    @ImNotGonna85 Před 6 dny +3

    Woooooo science

  • @Rydonattelo
    @Rydonattelo Před 6 dny +31

    Gravity is ridiculously weak. The fact that a human being can stand up and even jump with the entire earth's worth of Gravity pulling on you shows how weak it is.

    • @martinchitembo1883
      @martinchitembo1883 Před 6 dny +2

      The question how far can you jump from it? Beside you are quiet far from the centre of the earth.

    • @SteveTheExploiter
      @SteveTheExploiter Před 6 dny +7

      But gravity isn't a force, it's an effect. If you throw a baseball 90 degrees to a perfectly flat plane, the baseball will hit that plane at the same velocity as it did when it left your hand (ignoring wind resistance). This means that the space the baseball traveled thru is curved because everything has to travel in a straight line. Think of the MythBusters experiment. They shot a bullet straight ahead and dropped another bullet from the same height. They both hit the ground at the same time.

    • @Rydonattelo
      @Rydonattelo Před 6 dny +9

      @@martinchitembo1883 True but gravity is still extremely weak. The earth compared to a person is almost impossible to imagine the size/ mass difference yet we can move around. One of the problems physicists have with studying gravity is that its just so a weak compared to the other 3 fundamentals. Even the weak nuclear force is almost infinitely stronger than gravity.

    • @Rydonattelo
      @Rydonattelo Před 6 dny +1

      @@SteveTheExploiter Yes but then the effect of gravity is extremely weak then. Force isn't the right word. Honestly, I'm not that educated on this subject but this isn't my theory about gravity being weak, this is what the people that know this stuff say. You need incredible amount mass or energy before you get any real effect of gravity.

    • @jooei2810
      @jooei2810 Před 6 dny +1

      The strongest force affecting the whole universe is curvature of space-time.

  • @fulgor9393
    @fulgor9393 Před 5 dny +1

    I like all your videos but this was the most thought provoking one ever, thanks.

  • @williamconrad1087
    @williamconrad1087 Před 5 dny +2

    That was heavy. Thanks for enlightening us.

  • @EdwardSnortin
    @EdwardSnortin Před 6 dny +5

    Gravity doesn't work herf

  • @jonbold
    @jonbold Před 4 dny +1

    Thanks for a great explanatory video!

  • @johngriffon2118
    @johngriffon2118 Před 3 dny +1

    That 'ur mum' joke really brought me back down to earth

  • @hanswolfhausen8347
    @hanswolfhausen8347 Před dnem

    I’d be interested in you making a video about Penrose’s black hole singularity theory and Kerr’s paper in response to that theory. Theories and ideas about the nature of black holes, geodesics, and singularities are fascinating and the work of Penrose and Kerr are equally so.

  • @hitshappens3278
    @hitshappens3278 Před 3 dny +1

    I may not understand Gravity, but... it just works

  • @lundsweden
    @lundsweden Před 2 dny +1

    Let's face it, nobody fully understands how gravity works. Even Einstein's theory of relativity describes how gravity works, but not why. There must be (possibly quantum) mechanism, just saying it distorts spacetime is a fudge- how does it actually do so? It doesn't happen by magic.

  • @EyesOfByes
    @EyesOfByes Před 6 dny +2

    Well this little video just cost me 57 years

    • @NealWilliams
      @NealWilliams Před 5 dny

      One of Simon's videos is 7 years back on Earth!

  • @stephenhammond6962
    @stephenhammond6962 Před 3 dny

    Thanks Nomis, great video, mind blown again, go to love science 👌

  • @Torskel
    @Torskel Před 6 dny

    They forget to show the rotational curve on illustrations, heavy objects that have spin will also spin space time which is why you can’t go in a straight line into a black hole, you’re forced into moving along space time which is nearly infinitely curved at the event horizon

  • @anthonysciabarrasi2280

    Damn Simon, I wasn't ready for that 😂

  • @victorfranca85
    @victorfranca85 Před 5 dny +2

    Space itself can travel faster than light. The seemingly ever increasing expansion. And entanglement seems to be instant and ever present.

    • @jonbold
      @jonbold Před 4 dny

      Yes. That is because the thing that controls the speed of light is galactically defined, and space is a lot bigger than a galaxy

    • @ianstopher9111
      @ianstopher9111 Před 3 dny

      The measured distance between two identified points in the universe can increase faster than c, but that is not the same as space 'travelling'.

    • @Michael75579
      @Michael75579 Před 3 dny

      It's OK for entanglement to act instantly over any distance because you can't use it to send information. If you measure the spin of one of the entangled pair of particles and get spin-up then entanglement will ensure that someone who later measures the spin of the other particle will get spin-down, no matter how far away the other particle in the pair is. You can't use this to send messages because there's no way for you to know whether you're going to get spin-up or spin-down (and therefore what someone measuring the other particle will get) until you measure your particle.

  • @MrJoeGarner
    @MrJoeGarner Před dnem

    I really didn't understand any of this but, found it incredibly interesting. Thanks, @Simon Whistler.

  • @williammoore3279
    @williammoore3279 Před 2 dny

    I was a few days behind in viewing my favorite CZcams content. I made my tea, grabbed a couple lemon cookies I'd made earlier in the day, turned on the TV and up popped "GRAVITY DOESN'T WORK HERF". I was trying my best to figure out what HERF meant (thinking it an unfamiliar acronym). Heavy Earthen Radial Fixtures? Then it hit me, I almost spilled my tea laughing at myself. As always, wonderful, well researched and well-presented content that is much appreciated.

  • @dislikecounter5191
    @dislikecounter5191 Před 6 dny +2

    On a k hole trip felt like I was in a black hole falling through space time. Kinda cool and scary at the same time

    • @theoriginalkyttyn7724
      @theoriginalkyttyn7724 Před 2 dny

      Time is not existential. It is a tool without substance, only purpose. Your past is your future is your present.

  • @TheHairyHippy1
    @TheHairyHippy1 Před 5 dny +1

    enjoyed this one

  • @donaldcarey114
    @donaldcarey114 Před 5 dny

    Two recent papers have shown quite well that one CANNOT make a black hole out of photons.

  • @glendownton
    @glendownton Před 6 dny +2

    Gravity is a *side* project now? Settin' that bar pretty high ...

  • @ajparry1996
    @ajparry1996 Před dnem

    Thank you for the Your Mum joke. Feeling a bit down today and that made me laugh stupidly. 🤣

  • @piotrmiazek
    @piotrmiazek Před dnem

    I noticed two mistakes. The gravitational pull weakens as we go deeper inside the planet. It reaches 0 in the centre of any planet. Second is that when we replace the Sun with a black hole it will suck all the planets, unless they start rotating much faster which would be noticeable by observers on the surface of the planets.

  • @chrislong3938
    @chrislong3938 Před 4 dny

    I like to think of black holes like a spinning record or platter, where the outer diameter is moving faster than the speed of light by a lot and everything within is slower linearly.
    The Event Horizon is a little further out and due to gravitational 'drag' is moving at light speed only!

  • @HossinFW
    @HossinFW Před 5 dny +1

    Excellent

  • @beowulfschmidt6031
    @beowulfschmidt6031 Před 5 dny

    Isaac Asimov wrote an essay once about gravitational effects that caused scientists to consider the possibility of the "planet" Vulcan orbiting inside the orbit of Mercury. It was presented in a discussion of historical coincidences, but the final explanation was that the Sun's energy density was the source of the observed gravitation effects. It's an interesting read, if you can find it now.

  • @jaredb4922
    @jaredb4922 Před 5 dny +1

    Entertaining and educational

  • @brunoB1980
    @brunoB1980 Před 5 dny

    Those glasses accentuating your skull, Simon! 😁

  • @muhammadal-nahhal8174

    Something gives me sleepless nights: How did they manage to equate the lengths of both laser arms at LIGO with such accuracy?
    Need an episode on that

  • @nicksmacro
    @nicksmacro Před 3 dny

    I think about Roger Penrose and how he said as a perticles speed increases, it's time slows. What if there is nothing beyond the even horizon, all particles falling in would accelerate to zero or near zero time. (Relative to all of us outside observers).

  • @migga86
    @migga86 Před 4 dny

    About time dilation with proximity to large masses, a simple way to describe it would be that for light to get trapped in a black hole, the speed for light to leave must be faster than the speed at which the light is falling inside. So your speed relative to the speed of light gets closer together creating a similar effect as travelling close to the speed of light.
    I know it's not scientifically correct, but easier to understand if you accepted that part with time dilation due to traveling at speeds close to the speed of light in a vacuum.

  • @peterzerfass4609
    @peterzerfass4609 Před 2 dny

    Black holes only from light seem to be disproven (or at least cast into doubt) by a recent paper on such 'Kugelblitz' black holes (due to Schwinger effect causing matter/antimatter pairs to be created before the energy density becomes sufficiently large for a 'photon energy hole' to form)

  • @seumasnatuaighe
    @seumasnatuaighe Před 2 dny

    I recently saw an experiment with coherent light in a fluid medium which showed photons slowed down to a visible pulse. I do not remember where this study took place but it was in the USA.

  • @buckanderson3520
    @buckanderson3520 Před 6 dny

    It's also interesting to note that when time stops at the speed of light the space between you and any destination also shrinks to zero. There is no distinction between taking zero time to travel a certain distance and it taking no time because no distance existed to begin with. Essentially at the speed of light you are already there from your own perspective. It's weird that the size and shape of the universe depends on the perspective you observe it from. It makes me wonder if anything else changes like physical laws or constants. It could be that we can't answer some questions because we are assuming that the laws we use to find the answers have always been the same.

  • @bnthern
    @bnthern Před 6 dny +1

    DEEP, but well presented - now if you find a way to stop my head from spinning, please!

  • @mycenaeus9128
    @mycenaeus9128 Před 5 dny

    The gravitational pull near the centre of the earth is actually much smaller than on or near the surface, so the core should age more quickly, not slower.

    • @jessepearce194
      @jessepearce194 Před 5 dny

      Exactly, you’d be weightless at the exact center. I was looking for this comment, thanks. Now I don’t have to write it…. Even though I just.. wrote- nvm.

  • @mightytheknight2878
    @mightytheknight2878 Před 3 dny

    Astronaught; moves 1 cm
    The Event Horizon: that a move that you won't be able to financially recover from

  • @darrenalec6979
    @darrenalec6979 Před 3 dny

    Your description of Ligo and gravitational waves is great! However you equated the theoretical emission of graviton particles (which we’re still nowhere near able to detect) with gravitational waves. Gravitational waves are oscillations in spacetime, not graviton emissions.

  • @michaelgonzalez-casiano1769

    @sideprojects, the second LIGO in the U.S. is located in Oregon, now Washington State :). Thank you for sharing this interesting topic!!

  • @IlluminatiBG
    @IlluminatiBG Před 6 dny

    There is a great video showing you what you will see if "pass" through a black hole (if you are somehow not affected by its gravity). Essentially it is the same effect as your field of view angle approach 360 degrees. As the field of view increase more of your surrounding fits the center of view. At some point your field of view goes "beyond" your surroundings where there is nothing. As you approach 360 degrees, all your surroundings (what's behind and in front of you) collapse into a single point at the center of your vision. That is you can see the entire universe in a single point surrounded by the void. At the event horizon, every direction everywhere is the black hole and the entire universe is a single point in your view (a point has size of zero).

  • @Qermaq
    @Qermaq Před 4 dny

    Gotta hand it to you, Simon. This was a really accurate and researched explanation. Few CZcamsrs other than dedicated science creators get it this right.

  • @tunneloflight
    @tunneloflight Před 3 dny

    "gravity isn't exactly a force" ---> "gravity isn't a force, period, full stop"

  • @kevin_mitchell
    @kevin_mitchell Před 2 dny

    I believe the analogy of a planet moving through space to that of a heavy ball on a trampoline is misleading. The ball on the trampoline is affecting one plane only, whereas a planet has an infinite number of planes surrounding it in all directions.

  • @londov1
    @londov1 Před 5 dny

    16:41 you meant to say "any other object of that mass", because since obviously densities differ, if a black hole of the same size as the sun replaced it, the solar system would very much collapse, as the black hole is so dense the gravitational pull on the other objects would be extraordinarily bigger.

  • @DaKavMan
    @DaKavMan Před 6 dny +2

    CZcams gets Simon burnout

  • @dalaanibombina8822
    @dalaanibombina8822 Před 3 dny

    Most confusing part: gravity is the weakest of the four major forces, yet nothing is able to escape a black hole which is essentially a gravity well.

  • @HeruUrAusar
    @HeruUrAusar Před 4 dny

    The singularity says, "You can't win. I have the low ground."
    The singularity says, "I'm inevitable."
    The singularity says, "Resistance is futile."

  • @Torskel
    @Torskel Před 6 dny +1

    After passing the event horizon spacetime becomes timespace, you aren’t moving in space, you move in time and time only moves in a straight line and that line goes straight to the singularity

    • @charlestaylor3195
      @charlestaylor3195 Před 5 dny

      How fast to the singularity is it seconds or does it take years.

    • @Torskel
      @Torskel Před 4 dny

      ​@@charlestaylor3195Theoretically close to the speed of light, so depending on the size of the black hole, seconds.

  • @skylerbowerbank5847
    @skylerbowerbank5847 Před 3 dny

    4:30 light made blackhole used to be theoretically possible, but I believe a recent paper said that it's so unstable that it basically doesn't exist

    • @VolodymyrLisivka
      @VolodymyrLisivka Před 3 dny

      If photon has non-zero mass and moves at c, then photon is a blackhole. If photon has non-zero mass but moves slightly slower than c, then it is not.

  • @mssmith3604
    @mssmith3604 Před 2 dny

    Simon Whistler is the only presenter I know of who can encrypt speech simply by the speed at which he delivers it.

  • @audiblevideo
    @audiblevideo Před 4 dny

    Another way to put it: "Once you pass the event horizon you can't exceed the 'speed' of causality". Your future only has one inexorable direction and all other possibilities are cut off.

  • @BrianStDenis-pj1tq
    @BrianStDenis-pj1tq Před 11 hodinami

    This was interesting and detailed, thanks. A clarification is that escape velocity from objects has to do with distance from object as well as the mass of the object. Earth, for instance, has an escape velocity from the surface that. you shared, but from the moon's distance away, it requires less velocity.

  • @nugboy420
    @nugboy420 Před 4 dny

    4:54i can see Simon reading that quote snd being like idk wtf i just read this whole chapter. Also i can see him doing the same at the end of this whole video

  • @Sidharthavicious
    @Sidharthavicious Před 2 dny

    Joke's on you, I don't know way more than five things about gravity. I just know that an actor needs it to be taken seriously.

  • @foetaltreborus2017
    @foetaltreborus2017 Před 18 hodinami

    In another vid I watched, there was a weird discussion that if nothing goes faster than the speed of light - but working out orbitals you always assume gravity is instantaneous- start adding in any delays won't work...like an aircraft flying over the sound lags behind - so the source of gravity should look like it lags but it doesn't work....did my brain in..

  • @hanksimon1023
    @hanksimon1023 Před 5 dny

    In the branch of Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ion Physics, I believe that the stable orbital 'circle' around a nucleus is called the rainbow scattering angle, because of the similarity to the effect in wave mechanics. I wonder if the Rainbow Scattering Angle and the Photon Sphere share similarities? Might make for an interesting cross-disciplinary paper, if pertinent and non-obvious.