Structures in the Universe

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  • čas přidán 9. 07. 2024
  • How did the cosmos transition into space characterised by galaxies in a plethora of different shapes of great beauty?
    This lecture will consider what happens when groups of galaxies interact with one another and what happens when these galaxies collide and merge.
    A lecture by Katherine Blundell OBE
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Komentáře • 39

  • @ArtDocHound
    @ArtDocHound Před 2 lety +6

    Thank you, professor. Have a great day.

  • @robertblackwell1350
    @robertblackwell1350 Před rokem +1

    “Vastly in excess of human timescales” must be classic British understatement for “melt your eyeballs and boil your brain kind of big numbers”.
    Also, the simulation of the fly-by is just beautiful.

  • @edysinsimon8646
    @edysinsimon8646 Před 2 lety +6

    I've found your lectures quite satisfying whilst I lay in bed waiting for the slumber to arrive upon my eyes. I feel like when I'm falling asleep I still seem to be focused on your words. That's when the real magic happens! I wake up the next morn and sometimes thru out the day I find myself thinking about things I've heard...somewhere? Again, Thank you for the subliminal lectures?

  • @alancrabb
    @alancrabb Před 2 lety +6

    Speech is correctly synchronised after 3 mins - stick with it!
    "Katherine Mary Blundell OBE is a Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Oxford" and is married to "Stephen John Blundell (born 1967)[1] ...a professor of physics at the University of Oxford." [Wikipedia]. Imagine the conversation over tea and toast.

  • @fazilnajeeb9097
    @fazilnajeeb9097 Před rokem

    Remarkable Lecture to the Public!! She is very enthusiastic and passionate about it. Very communiticative indeed.

  • @bobd5119
    @bobd5119 Před 2 lety +3

    What an excellent presentation!
    It is huge fun contemplating big things.

    • @jamesdolan4042
      @jamesdolan4042 Před 10 měsíci

      "It is huge fun contemplating big things". Is that a pun?
      "The Unicerse went from smooth to structured or lumpy". Is that entropy?
      Excellent presentation, thank you.

  • @jkaryskycoo
    @jkaryskycoo Před 3 měsíci

    Thank you for teaching us about science.

  • @kenchesnut4425
    @kenchesnut4425 Před 2 lety +1

    Such a wonderful communicator...MUCH LUV FROM N.AUGUSTA S.C

  • @climbeverest
    @climbeverest Před 2 lety

    Dr the world is richer because of people like you

  • @bovegan4710
    @bovegan4710 Před 2 lety +2

    Marvellous! Thank you very much indeed!

  • @teashea1
    @teashea1 Před 2 lety +1

    very excellent content and style. articulate and intelligent.

  • @shaunlanighan813
    @shaunlanighan813 Před 2 lety

    Excellent lecture with beautiful photographs.

  • @climbeverest
    @climbeverest Před 2 lety

    This is incredible for us to know the sky

  • @monicaaparecidaoliveira8063

    Excellent lecture. Thank you.

  • @MOS6582
    @MOS6582 Před 2 lety

    Great talk.

  • @Mrch33ky
    @Mrch33ky Před 2 lety

    Great presentation. Though I must confess, I remain skeptical of the CMB maps and what they can tell us.

  • @sonarbangla8711
    @sonarbangla8711 Před měsícem

    Structures in the universe tries to accommodate infinite complexity, with the aim to enable life and consciousness. Cosmic consciousness , collapsing the quantum field into particles, leading to entanglement that make the whole universe obey divine design.

  • @matthewkelly2399
    @matthewkelly2399 Před 2 lety

    Nice one

  • @janibeg3247
    @janibeg3247 Před 2 lety

    excellent

  • @earthexpanded
    @earthexpanded Před 2 lety

    33:45 "If only we could observe galaxies evolving on the timescales on which they actually evolve, it would be a wonderful thing; but of course, we can't."
    This is going to be a round-about comment, but I assure it pertains to the above statement and explaining how we can in fact see precisely this.
    Since the observation of increasing redshift per distance in all observed distant galaxies in all directions, we have interpreted it to be caused by motion which is then interpreted to be caused by expansion of space. However, gravity can also cause redshift. And importantly, if light from all distant galaxies were to be gravitationally lensed into a Figure-8 orbit flow pattern by a sufficiently massive object--such as the Great Attractor--where all the galaxies we see at sufficiently large distances have the light traveling in a Figure-8 orbit where it literally passes *through* the object it orbits, then arriving at Earth from any angle due to bending light and additive *gravitational* redshift from the orbit flow away from the central object. Light traveling in this manner would be redshifted per distance (overall) by gravity. Thus, nearby galaxies are real while more distant galaxies are actually "optical illusions" or more precisely snapshots of galaxies at earlier stages in their evolutionary process.
    Therefore, if we can fine-tune the exact details of the above process, we could determine which galaxies are the same and then have many images of the same galaxy across time. We could even see the Milky Way galaxy in its past and from the outside.
    Sure, it requires throwing away a lot of our interpretations of observations. But, that doesn't make it not so. After all, it not only provides a mechanism for redshift per distance without adding new mechanics, only using previous, but it further simplifies previous by showing how magnetic fields are caused by gravity (that there is evidence for a Figure-8 orbit beyond just the actual magnetic field structure).

  • @charlesmadisonrhea
    @charlesmadisonrhea Před 2 lety

    Do gravitational waves affect the spherical perturbation of the blast wave? The increased gravity associated w the star clusters.

  • @vernonvouga5869
    @vernonvouga5869 Před 2 lety

    I love this lecture and I love the fact that the people watching this have already known these things for years

  • @john_critchley
    @john_critchley Před 2 lety

    Can someone please provide me a reference to the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai eruption pressure wave being detected in Gloucestershire?

  • @LuciFeric137
    @LuciFeric137 Před 2 lety

    How did supermassive black holes form so early?

  • @vernonvouga5869
    @vernonvouga5869 Před 2 lety

    Well if we know passing through the barrier of a void could possibly cause a mass extinction, it would both constructive and interesting... if we had a conversation about this right now! Do the properties of space change once we pass into regular space?

    • @vernonvouga5869
      @vernonvouga5869 Před 2 lety

      Like seriously once we pass through the barrier on the other side of the bubble , and if everyone survived the high-energy event... would Jupiter gain more mass?

  • @42Goatee
    @42Goatee Před 2 lety

    ...why are we still thinking of super massive black holes at the centers of galaxies and galaxies as two different things?..

  • @MsHburnett
    @MsHburnett Před 2 lety

    Remember genesis

  • @CLipka2373
    @CLipka2373 Před 2 lety

    Audio is a bit out of sync at the beginning.

  • @AG-of3ix
    @AG-of3ix Před 2 lety

    You state theories as tacts. Why is that?

  • @BarefootBill
    @BarefootBill Před 2 lety

    We don't know how stars form. Makes me froth at the mouth when so called astrophysicists say "We Know". Just makes me want to call you a liar. Plain and Simple.

    • @TheStruck3r
      @TheStruck3r Před 2 lety +1

      She talks about this stuff like grownups speak to kids. In reality, she knows nothing about it. Its all sparkly, rotating, beauty arms, glittery, amazingly smoothly distribution blablabla. Gas compression... Get outta here.

    • @gabrieldunn7384
      @gabrieldunn7384 Před rokem

      ​@@TheStruck3r You post like a child.

  • @shadetreader
    @shadetreader Před 2 lety +1

    Great lecture, but please stop humouring climate change deniers.