Theia: The Planet that Smashed Into Earth
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- čas přidán 16. 05. 2024
- Explore the fiery origins of Earth and the cataclysmic event that created the Moon. Discover the mysteries of Theia, the planet that collided with Earth, shaping our world as we know it.
My day started waking up at 3am for work on a day I didn't need to. I've had an incredibly peaceful bike ride, a wonderful breakfast, and now I've found a Simon Whistler channel about space I didn't know existed. It's a fucking good day.
Obligatory Coppola reference: "I love the smell of Simon in the morning."
I feel you there ! Few weeks ago I discovered a different channel of his and was all giddy for at least a week !
Did I already know all this information? Yep. Does that matter? Nah. Simon does an excellent job narrating and it's been a couple years since I refreshed my knowledge on this subject anyway.
Thanks Simon! Bang up job as usual!
Actually, while I've absorbed quite a bit of astronomical knowledge over the years, this video still contained some new nuggets of information!
Not that I wouldn't have watched the video otherwise, or minded the lack of information...
Exactly what I wanted to say! Liking the music choices too! Thank you Simon and team!!
Knowledge is something no other person can say he knows everything, there's always something coming up, so always appreciate the efforts of others brother.
I have to admit, with tail behind my legs, that there were 3 tiny nuggets of information that I didn't actually know!
But his narrative performance is just out of this world!!! it's an auditory experience extraordinaire listening to his voice!
I'm old enough to remember when "theia" was a fringe idea 😂
Kids today. I was born on Theia
What's really out of this world is how Simon runs so many channels!
A.I. and 3D printing and a lot of raw meat, maybe mutton or beef = Simon Whistlers
He's probably made at least two by now, possibly even three or four.
It's why they're all bald, because making realistic hair is very hard. But using fake beards and glasses works, and well
Last time I was this early, earth was still in its primordial state
Lol
Booooo u suck 😂😂
Liar, I'm calling you out!
Do you mean Hadean state?
Damn you're old af.
Fuckin love astrographics. Way more comprehensible and entertaining than other space channels. I also love the variety this channel adds to the subject. Great work, I always look forward to the next video!
Love the new channel fact boy! You can do longer episodes I won't be upset I promise lol.
Yes, seconded
Without this collision earth would be far less habitable. The moon creates the tides and the allows the seasons without too much wobble. Also added water and a bigger mantle to generate our magnetosphere. It’s one of the many bizarre lucky moments that makes me think intelligent life is beyond rare
I'm certain it's exceedingly rare on a local scale.
On a galactic scale I would bet it's not unusual.
On a universal scale I would bet it's incredibly common.
Despite everything that might have needed to go right for complex life to flourish on Earth... there is simply too many stars and planets to think billions of them aren't somewhat similar to Earth.
Not just that, but scraping off a chunk of the crust also thinned the crust which allows for more volcanism which increases the amount of biologically beneficial material that can make it up from below which might have kick-started life, and without it we might not have plate tectonics, hell we might be stuck as snowball earth
Earth was near identical to Venus. Very bad for life.
Planetary mergers look to be rather common in our solar system. Uranus and Venus each took major hits, and Mercury and Mars show signs of giant impacts too. With that in mind, it seems unlikely that Jupiter and Saturn both didn’t pull in several protoplanets each. Neptune’s moon Triton is a captured world, which implies that it was captured as a binary system; the other world either impacted Neptune, or was thrown away. Either way, at least a major near miss. That’s not to mention all the moons and dwarf planets with large craters and captured worlds. Major impacts happen a lot when systems accrete.
I was waiting to hear you say chunks of theia may be in earth's mantel. They have find what they think could be just that. Good video stay safe stay vigilant my friend God bless...
You make really good videos. Glad I found your channel.
Wait until you find the other 427 channels Simon runs! 😂🤩☺️
Marvelous! The script had a perfect balance of precision and poetry to tell the tale, and presented with an invigorating inspiration as always.
While I love the improvisational, explorational side-path littered form of Decoding the Unknown, it is also a pleasure to hear this sort of direct and stylized performance. The writing on this one was particularly suitable for this kind of bardic offering. I could totally see playing this for a classroom, especially with the appropriate visuals that were included as well.
It has been said there are more stars in the sky than grains of sand on the Earth. True. The stars are as numerous as CZcams channels Simon has.
Really loving this channel. I hope you keep growing it, as it is one of the best in the Whistlerverse. I know there are many ideas out there you can delve in to, and I'm always glad to see an Astrographics notification 😊! Thank you for the new episode, great topic, very much enjoyed!
Thank you for saying "it's just a hypothesis," not "it's just a theory."
Terra and Theia smashed and Luna was born.
Gaia (proto Earth) and Theia.
@@abloogywoogywoo but Gaia was Theia's mother. Theia's "brother-consort" was Hyperion. Who was somehow a Sun God but also one of their children was Helios, the sun. So none of the naming structure makes quite as much sense as I'd like it to! It's a nice nod to the theory of creating a moon though.
I also like how you used Proto-Earth because I feel like the GIH really clearly states that what we know as the Earth today is a mixture of Theia and a proto-planet. Calling that Earth seems to be a misnomer to me!
Sorry, I find this stuff fascinating!
I remember some sort of reference to this in high school, but it was not explained then as well as you have just done it now. Thank you for this.
Bam! There you go, planet nine is right here
Yes more of this. Factboy serving it up thank you friend.
This is one of my favorite channels. Thank you for creating it.
I only just learned about the Giant Impact Hypothesis recently and I find it fascinating! Great video, thanks Simon!
Our moon is very special. None of the other moons in our system are as large compared to their host planet. The effect the moon has on earth is very special. Lots of planets are in goldilocks zones or have water etc but having a moon like ours will be very rare.
Yes Simon, I learned some stuff; thanks as always 🎉
Fascinating topic! Only comment is the background music has a high frequency (whistle like) that is a bit distracting when listening on headphones
It was painful and had to be muted, I'm glad I saw your comment cuz I've had an infection-induced fever for days and thought I was makin the noise up when I initially didn't see anyone else mention that terrible noise lol
Another great episode. Thoroughly enjoyed
YAY! new vid! love this channel!
I like to think that you talk like this in real life when not doing youtube.
He talks more naturally when casually interacting with the scripts on his Brain Blaze and Decoding the Unknown channels
Brain blaze. That’s the real Simon lol
It's cool not seeing a new Simon video in a short while and seeing his beard has grown exponentially since
He said "URANUS" again.
This never gets old.😂
Oh it gets old after a while…..
That's not what Space Penis said... @@Timbo6669
Every other week or so I’m finding a new channel from Simon and I just sub no questions.
13:48, i was waiting, hoping you'd mention the most up to date stuff!😃
Simon…been followin you since you started your channels. Videos with the other guy just aren’t the same. Your beard has gotten quite full and large. Great vids!!
thank you Theia for my coffee infused water this morning
Great Video! Subscribed!
Okay i did not know simon had another channel and am absolutely subbing 😂
Let’s keep in mind that earth’s 23 (+/-) degree tilt works nicely into the impact hypothesis.
thank you Theia for giving your life for all life on Dirt, I mean Earth. With an added bonus of 2 moons that formed into one so mom can watch over us.
I love to see Simon explain in full the Fermi paradox
Still say you should negotiate geographics and biographics back from that channel you used to work for, then change places to placeographics and become the Ographics Bossman!
"Boss-ographics" could be the name of the channel, as a whole. lol
@@jacob4920 nah. Thats to off brand! It woukd have to be Simonographics or Factographics, or Factboiographicd, but the problem is simon has several channels that dont ographics well. Lol Mega and side projects, casual criminalist, into the shadows.....
How the hell are there still Simon channels I have not found yet. Man is insane
Thank you momma Theia for giving us our moon, we love her very much.
Huh, neat. This is like the fourth or fifth video I’ve seen about this in the last week.
"Tide goes in tide goes out. You can't explain that....How did the moon get there?"
The mantle "blobs"! OMG now that you mention it, it's so obvious! That makes so much sense.
There's even a scene, in the movie "The Core," where, the team of scientists sent to the Earth's core, to restart the planet's core-rotation, actually crash into some "unknown gigantic mass," that turns out to be a mostly-cobalt infused GEODE! A geode that should not exist in Earth's mantle. Yet it does, for some reason. Ever since hearing about the theoretical "Theia Chunks" in our mantle, I always wondered if this movie was referencing that anomaly, in some way, by inserting this scene??
@@jacob4920 Most likely just a lucky guess, because it wouldn't be Cobalt.
I found a new fact boy channel!!! Happy day
My sources say it wasn't called Theia, but Tiamat... But either way, I love this story.
There is also the fact that the moon is slowly moving away from earth, which would make sense if the moon came from a glancing impact .
Also add in Jupiter’s gravity.. it’s trying to steal our moon!!
@@djjeeveslarue3499 I'm not sure Jupiter gravity has any significant pull out this far .
@@righty-o3585 actually Jupiters gravity effects all the planets and moons in our system. It’s massive. It’s not super significant. But ever so slightly tugs on all the planets, mercury’s daisy pattern orbit is because of the tug between the sun, mercurys velocity, and Jupiter. Eventually Jupiter will wreak havoc through the system in the distant future.. a second grand tact is likely.. we will be long gone when that may happen
@@djjeeveslarue3499 The Sun would dramatically out-pull Jupiter, considering one object is several hundred million miles closer to us, and several thousand times more massive. But that's just me...
Imagine not knowing about this channel
ahhh so nice to get some good space stuff fact boi.
He’s so serious and dignified, though!
Great video, love this channel 👍
Another day another channel hosted by Simon made.
You missed the latest theory: Theia was a bit bigger. It hit, lost it's crust and water then kept on going to become.... Mercury.
'The water your drinking right now', come on this is youtube, chances are a lot of people are watching at the other end of that particular bodily cycle 🚽😁
What was a large body doing orbiting the sun at 45 degrees to the ecliptic? And why did it emerge at a different angle, essentially in the same plane as the ecliptic? Does the answer to that question apply to the moons of Uranus, given their very different orbital planes? Finally, if there was a collision then why does one body have water and an atmosphere and the other have none?
Yo Theia... It's not my first time smashing it.
🤦 Early Earth was a Chad. 4:05
How would someone contact the research team(s) looking into this event?
Sometimes the story is SO good, it has to be true
Possibly those anomalies in the Moon's geological structure, could be down to small impacts when it was forming, maybe even at different points during its development, into our large natural satellite? 🤔
My personal opinion about Theia: While the core and larger elements did fuse with Earth's core as the Giant Impact hypothesis suggests, I think that the oblique angle of impact wouldn't lead to escape velocity for mass majority. Instead, I believe that the impact coupled with the relatively higher gravity of Earth (compared to Theia) would have captured the ruined remnants of Theia, which then re-coalesced over time into what we now know as our moon. I find it more interesting to believe that Luna (our moon) is in fact the reformed corpse of Theia.
The original source of the moon is speculative but what is known is without the moon the earth would wobble on its axis so much that rapid, drastic seasonal changes would probably keep higher life forms, like humans, from developing.
collecting simons channel, subbed
I need to brag a little because I'mjust proud of it and think its beautiful. I have this event tattooed on my ribs :)
Sweet new factboi channel
Wtf Simon has ANOTHER channel? Dude is/has taken over the Internet
Actually, the moon is an egg laid by a gigantic space butterfly. In 2049, it will grow to be a similar mass to Earth and hatch! We have to remember not to blow it up when the time comes because it's harmless and will lay a new moon-egg.
I love listening to Simon but I do struggle with this theory, just like a lot of other theories of how the moon became to be. Like most theories they just seem to fit the evidence that are available at the time. At least it does until another explanation which makes more sense for the data available at that time.
Would be interesting if the initial impact happened between Mars and Jupiter. That kind of impact would litter the orbital path with clear signs
Call it a theory instead of a guess. It´s more than a guess. Solid science backs up this theory of Theia. In fact it´s very hard to come up with an alternate theory that can´t be shot down instantly.
This argument is dodgy AF. The absence of a better argument doesn't turn it from a hypothesis into an incontrovertible fact. It's still a guess, as is all science.
Where did you go to school? Who taught you?
I know a great many things about Theia you won't find anywhere else.
The funny thing about this theory is the fact there is essentially zero remnants of the accretion disk that the impact of Earth wouldve produced. You'd think that there would be SOME orbiting debris , even now.
The thing about science is that it's all guesses. And i don't mean that in a bad way. That's the beauty of science, that nothing is ever truly considered a fact. Prople usually get the scientific method backwards. The goal isn't to eventually prove something right, it's to keep testing until there's nothing else you can do to prove it wrong. And then if something comes along that allows you to test the hypothesis further, you try to prove it wrong again.
Wow... another channel Simon ? Well done that man ! You're starting to dominate my watch time.
Thea also likely gave us most of our water, AND it is possible that it is Mercury.
Dear lord how many channels does this guy have
CZcams is now officially 99% Simon Whistler!
I Just found another of Simons channels, it will be added to the collection
I saw a prog on here about the craton under Africa, it trapped carbon deep enough to cook it into diamonds,,
I understand that it was a "glancing blow" but why didn't the gravity of both bodies pull them together?
How did it smash through the dome?
Simon, i love you.
To go into a higher orbit the orbiter must gain velocity/energy. If it loses energy/velocity it goes into a lower orbit. Question : Why/how is the Moon moving farther away (increasing its orbit)?
Its pull on the tides is causing the Earth to spin slower which in turn makes the moon drift farther
Let’s gooooo
Does this channel still exist? I figured it had died as a sacrifice to the algorithmic gods already (but don't get me wrong, I love this stuff, especially from Simon)
I hope there's no life in Theia when it collide.
Earth and theia formed un the same orbit around the sun. They were in a thicker part of that area of dust the planets formed from. there wasnt enough to make a super planet to suck up everything around it like in the outer system. This collision also lets us have 2 cores worth if material for longer heated core and larger magnetic field protection.
Simon why would you use mud as an example when custard is right there?
If Romeo and Juliet had been created by a giant impact, it would have been a much more exciting play!
The impact that reversed Venus’s rotation probably did not result in enough angular momentum to support the debris forming a moon - it would have all fallen back to Venus.
had to watch on mute, the dinging in the background was hell
You didn't mention this:
In 2023, astronomers and geophysicists in the US, the UK, and China suggest that anomalies in Earth's lowermost mantle are “relics of Theia mantle material.” These anomalies are large low-velocity provinces (LLVPs), or characteristics of Earth's mantle identified via seismic tomography.
Is this Morgan Freeman opening up on the world's creation? Or Simon doing a space-based show, that CZcams suggested? Regardless, happy to subscribe!
Earth: Aye bro watch yo jet... Watch yo JET BRO!!! WATCH YO JET- 💥💥💥💥
Yes... Soon, Simon will be the only narrator on every channel.
Were there any Theians, that is living beings on the planet? If so, they thought of it not a Theia smashing into Earth, but as this big planet that came along and smashed into them, ruining everything. Then getting gifted with abundant drinking water as a result. Theians would have cause to be pissed at us.
The key word is "hypothesis." In science that means it is a proposed explanation with proposed experiments design to confirm or dismiss the proposed explanation. What the average person would say would be what they think is the answer but they have not proven to be true.
A scientific hypothesis is what the average person would call a theory.
What happened to the hot earth heating the near side of the moon and driving vaporized material to the far side to cool and thus building a thick crust? Now it was caused by a 1 in a 1000 hit by some debris on the near side and slinging it to the far side. That sounds less plausible.
And then we came along.
This is so close to what happened, it was nighttime and it wasn't over in hours but took closer to two years albeit for those who survived it seemed an eternity. Toxic plumes of gas as well as the occasional raining of small rock debris made life insufferable for the next thousand years..
Is that from a movie or something? It's always nighttime for half the planet.
Oooo! What if our planet or Theia was a super advanced in technology 10s of billions of years ago, but the collision wiped all forms of such technology out?
Self defeating idea. If they were super advanced in technology, they wouldn't have been destroyed or let it happen in the first place.
😅
The Big Bang for the Universe. The Big Splat for the Moon.
Maybe this scenario explains the approximately every 600,000 years magnetic reversal..... only the Moon knows the answer!!🌕
How many pairs of glasses does Simon have?
these are fake. he had eye surgery recently and uses the fake ones as part of his brand