The Scale of Everything - The Big, the Small and the Planck
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- čas přidán 22. 12. 2020
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Living on our little planet and looking up at the night sky it's easy to forget just how big the scale of the universe really is not only on the grand scale but also on the microscopic one too, so for this video we look at the scale of everything from the size of the universe to the smallest distance we can conceive that doesn't collapse our mathematical models put in place by Einstein and Planck.
This is Scale of Everything - The Big, the Small and the Planck
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Written, Researched and Presented by Paul Shillito
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Astromony: observing really big things with really small things
Particle physics: looking at really small things with really big things
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Listen to Sabine Hofstadter and her explanation for Plank's Length
"Very short lifespans of just a few million years."
Sucks to be them, right?
Merely a moment.
Its all about perspective.(not really but for humans, yes)
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@@greenanubis 🤯
Cosmic timescale is insane. After thr stellifarous era, there will the the degenerative era and then the era of black holes. The scale of time in these eras will be measured in trillions of trillions of years.
This reminds me about my dads theory on scientific specialists. He said a specialist is a person who learns more and more about less and less until eventually he knows everything about nothing.
My Phd. advisor makes a point of telling me this at least once a month as a means of humbling me. Apparently he's done it with all his students for decades and I'm sure it will stick with me for the rest of my days! :)
That's funny, and makes sense since you start out knowing nothing about everything
This is a direct quote by Alfred Einstein who the first to say this.
@@bazsnell3178 Awesome! Thanks for sharing! I suspected my advisor didn't come up with this, but finding out the true source is possibly Albert Einstein is gratifying. Do you have a source for this information as I'd like to bring it up next time he notes it?
@@Sangrell Uh, nope. Same as with many other things, Einstein didn't say that. Interestingly, the people who coined the saying not always applied it in the current meaning.
quoteinvestigator.com/2017/10/25/more/
It could be said that the point of the phrase is avoid specialising so much that you lose the view of the general picture, not that specialising is bad per se. Be careful with the hyperbolic sayings. Have you ever found someone who actually knows everything about nothing?
The size of the observable universe isn't just difficult to imagine. It's impossible to imagine. Our brains can't hold the concept of all the intermediate ranges in our minds at the same time.
So it's like... way farther than I can throw a rock, right?
@MichaelKingsfordGray Awwwww... feel better about yourself now, Michael?
My favorite analogy for the size of a light year is that one Astronomical Unit (Earth-Sun distance) were one inch, a light year would be almost exactly a mile.
It is! Well, a little over - but who's counting? Unfortunately, outside the US, this doesn't mean much! If an AU is 2.54cm, a light year is 1.66km...
Paul, this is the best video you've done that I've seen. It's wonderful!
I need a drink after watching this.
“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
i knew this would be in the comments before i even looked
How can you thumbs down this video!? Kudos to you Paul for another masterpiece and happy holidays!
I have never seen a CZcams video that doesn't have thumbs down. The best you can ever hope for is to have less than 1% thumbs down. Remember, you are dealing with people.
I gave a thumbs down because relativity and gravity breaks down long before you're at the Plank length. Hell, the equations are inaccurate down by the time you're at the size of an electron, you have to refer to Schrodinger's equations in order to describe what is observed
Some people are complete planks.
Sometimes it happens by accident. There are several videos that I love to watch over and over and it’s happened on several occasions… I will return to a video and see I accidentally left the thumbs down while scrolling on my screen. Also, some of them are bots.
Those people have brains the size of ONE _Planck length._
I’ve been watching videos on this channel since it was way below 50k subs. I’m so happy that this channel is continuing to put out good content and didn’t become a washed-up sponsored channel. I love the information this channel gives out!
Discovering Pauls collection of shirts must be a great adventure !
If you place them all next to each it will sircle whole earth and beyond.
This is the only channel on CZcams that I watch every single video. Can't wait for your next vid!
This channel need more credit
Nice to see some more CuriousDroid content. Your videos are always a welcome pleasure
Absolutamente 👍
Sherlock Holmes, looking at the night sky: “Somebody stole our tent”
Hahaha ❗😆
more like, for someone has the guts to steal something that has no sell value, must require extraordinary motivation
watson: how do you know it is one person
sherlock: obviously
watson: not obvious for me
I don’t get it
@@larsonwells2656: It's the punchline to a joke.
A joke that became popular in Russia after a TV series.
I dunno..I'm beginning to think he's no droid at all..hmm.
then what is he lol
He isn’t the droid we’re looking for...
@@thsxi He's a bit short to be a stormtrooper.
Overthinking it much? Ofc he's a droid. If you look carefully he's got no eyebrows, clear sign of a droid.
Absolutely brilliant video. Thank you. I love the way you transitioned across the human scale with such finesse. You managed to encompass everything without getting dragged off at any point. Seriously good script writing.
I sure agree. Excellent presentation and super interesting!
The Milkyway-Andromeda dance is absolutely beautiful.
The fact about viruses was mind blowing, I knew all the others except that one
One of your best videos ever. A very nice Christmas present. Thank you. :)
That was awesome. Best ever. So reassuring to feel so insignificant. Great shirt btw. THANK YOU!
Great video -- thank you, Curious Droid!
Aerospace Varys explaining the entire range of known scale was one of the most enjoyable experiences I've had in the last few days.
Always love it when i find a curious droid vid that i haven’t seen before.
Every time I see this kind of video I'm in the middle of the Existential Crisis
I'm just a very little thing who ever live in a very short life
Same here... But here's a thought that might help: we are a manifestation of the universe to become conscious of itself; we are the universe.
But to the people that matter the most, you're larger than life. Hang in there, Fauzul ;)
Carl Sagan summed it all up beautifully in his soliloquy The Pale Blue Dot. Look it up it will help you find peace.
This video will cure your existential crisis.
czcams.com/video/mMRrCYPxD0I/video.html
Have you heard that it looks like we live in a void and not only any old void but a supervoid and not any old supervoid but the largest known supervoid?
You make me feel like I know nothing at all. I feel like my knowledge is so insignificant when compared to what is out there.
Thank you amazing video.
Thank you for the perfect Christmas gift. One more outstanding video!
Thanks Paul and team for the time you put into these interesting videos.
Worth the wait.
Zaphod Beeblebrox: "You really know how to make a guy feel inadequate."
Pizpot Gargravarr: "I don't. The Vortex does."
Always nice to find alike minds in the comments 🤝
"Is that a piece of fairy cake ?"
Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.
This proves a statement Isaac Asimov once wrote: the smaller the object, the more of it there is. He called it "The Rule of the Numerous Small." (Written in his essay collection, "Far as Human Eye Could See."
Wonderful video. Have always appreciated your work Paul.
Kudos...
It's always a pleasure to have my mind boggled by your content. Thanks!
When I was at college in the 60's someone argued like crazy that our sun was not a star. Dressed like a Beatle but with medieval thinking.
They’re called hippies
Oh don't worry, there are people who think that now, too
Just Imagine if we could travel to all these galaxies what a journey. It would be absolutely amazing. ✨✨🖖🖖
But first we have to shrink the universe to a plank .
Only showed up in my feed today but I'm so glad it did. Paul, your work is spectacular and I wish you and yours all the best for the year to come and continued success on your channel including your Millionth subscriber!! It is so well deserved. Thank you for sharing these wonderful videos with us!
Paul -- Wishing you and yours a Merry Christmas and a Blessed 2021! Thank you for the knowledge this year.
Feynman's quote was also supposed to include, "I teach Quantum Physics and, I don't understand it." Or, something to that effect.
Doktor Eric Vossermans, I presume? Are you jealous of Feynman's trip to Sweden? Neils Bohr would have a word with you.
@eric vosselmans You've mistaken self deprecation for low IQ. Sad.
Compared to Feynman, most of us are about as smart as a bag of hammers.
The only thing IQ tests measure reliably is how good people are at IQ tests. “Intelligence” is such a complex phenomenon, reliant on so many different attributes that a test is a rough indication but by no means a precise measurement. The very fact that training helps people to get better scores at IQ tests shows how factors that have nothing to do with intelligence can easily influence the results.
@Tuukka Silventoinen I think RF's inquisitive nature was shaped by his father's diatribes.
He certainly had a lot to show us mere mortals, and offered more questions than answers.
Eternally grateful that he wrote of his experiences and shaped my developing mind.
So weird that we basically live right in the middle, between the smaller magnitudes and the larger magnitudes.
Makes you wonder if it goes a long way further in each direction, and we just can’t see that ‘far’.
Maybe it’s even circular in nature - if we could see far enough in either direction, we’d eventually see the stuff from the other direction. Imagine an ant on a beach ball and how he’d struggle to understand how, if he were to set off in a straight line in one direction, he would eventually return to where he started. How would he get his head around that weirdness?
I don’t think that’s true in any way. The largest thing is observable universe. The smallest is human made constant. If we were thousand times larger, we might have much larger observable universe and much larger constant for the smallest of things. Bot those limits are not limits of what is there, but limits of what we can detect. It is not about describing what is actually knowable but rather what out horizon allows us to know. So it is no wonder we seem to in the middle of it. It is a horizon.
@@guzmaekstroem except that the limits of the observable universe are independent of our size and were imposed by light speed and age of the universe. So one if end of the horizon was not defined by us, why we are in the middle?
Thanks for all of the videos in 2020 Paul!
Your best video yet. Happy Christmas
In other words a check for 600 US Dollars is, relatively speaking, not really much of a big deal. In the US on planet Earth, at today's prices.
Indeed $600 is a fucking joke for the people that are really hurting. They really need to have doubled it to $1200 and then MAYBE that would have a significant impact.
@@kurtisrinker1202 Just ask George Soros to write you a check.
$600 is what rich people think poor people think is a lot of money.
These figures make my head hurt, it's hard to comprehend how insignificant we are from that perspective.
Here I thought I was the only one, this is the first time my brain cells got a workout from a curios droid video.
I love it! No one has ever broke it down like that before. Great episode I loved it!
A really good video - thanks. I always enjoy your videos, even if it's a topic I didn't think I'd be interesed in, but this was a step up even from those - a fascinating subject, intelligently presented. And (relatively!) easy to understand! You've set a new high bar with this one.
And thank you especially for the notes on most of the visuals explaining what they were - if only other CZcamsrs would do this! Anything you watch about science or space on CZcams has constantly changing images in the background, usually with no explanation at all. You never know if you're looking at a real photograph/clip, or an artist's representation (or just a meaningless mix of images!) - drives me potty! Thank you, Paul - I only hope other CZcamsrs are watching and learning.
I only grasped a fraction of this presentations information - fascinating nonetheless!
Never heard more...illions in my life
I met my wife at a cotillion. One day she was riding pillion on my vermillion motorbike a, but we had to turn around when we encountered a tourbillion.
Thought you'd like to know.
@@everything777 I wish I could imagine that in my head. But it’s impossible 😔
I've seen quite a few videos that cover this topic and this could be my favorite. Great job.
Merry Christmas, Paul and company! :)
Actually, the smallest measurement is counted in Flat Earthers brains, it allows for measurement of the absolute smallest things :)
What ??? Are you suggesting the earth is round ? Where's the furugging pope?
Fake, earth is a flat line like a road, change my mind 😤
It is wise to remember, that all those comparisons, metaphors and visualizations make sense only to our human dual-brain, which operates qualitative links (pure free associatons). A deer would not think of galaxies, nor atoms. So, perharps, all those measurements are of our human hallucinations dimension (like time, distances, abstraction, future and past)...
That was amazing. Merry Christmas Paul
A big thank you Paul. Merry Christmas!
I wish I knew what to think about this; I don't.
Thumbs up anyway.
Merry Christmas!
This is what happens when Curious Droid smokes weed
Your videos are so well researched and presented! it's impossible to wrap your head around these numbers but this is about as close as I have got!
Amazing video, full of great content. Happy holidays to you.
Oops scrolled past this a couple of times because the thumbnail just made me think it was CZcams stories as I quickly scrolled past.
I find it bizarre that people want to formulate a theory of everything, yet fail to prove/disprove paranormal phenomena and other things. We'll never formulate a theory on everything if we can't define what "everything" actually is. And we most definitely don't know what everything truly is or even a remote conception of what it may look like.
And what we 'see' doesn't even comprise most things: "By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible." ~Hebrews 11:3
Thank you for taking the time and effort to make this!
Outstanding! Enjoyed this very much.
There is a possibility that one of those small particles contrain a complete universe in themselves, thinking about this frys my brain.
In a similar vein our known universe could be within something as small as a grain of sand in its own larger universe? Prob not so fries brain completely.
@@LOOKINVERTED We're part of the leg of a chair on some giant hillbilly's porch.
@@RCAvhstape If I recall there was an ending of a movie that postulated this wild theory in a visual representation, an advance race of aliens playing with marbles (in their world) but were in fact complete universes in of themselves contained within each and every marble? I'm struggling to remember but perhaps 'Men in Black'?
@@LOOKINVERTED Sounds like old school Twilight Zone or Outer Limits.
@@LOOKINVERTED yes it was .
Parts of this video reminded me of "The Galaxy Song". I knew I was ignorant before, now I feel like a total plank.
A total planck _length_ ? 😉
another great video Paul! keep em coming
Excellent.
Fascinating.
Well Presented.
Curious droid videos are very interesting, prove me wrong.
Why would you want to be proved wrong?
What's wrong with you?
@@elitecol69 idk, someone might want to :/
@@shmarvdogg69420 okay, mate :) "interesting to who exactly?"
Your comment looks like the one verified youtubers would post
The Science Asylum
That ruler in the thumbnail made me self conscious
Amazing video as always! Thanks for the quality content!!
Your finest video for some time, happy Xmas
Chi-Mu-Alpha-Sigma!
I had a bit of an existential crisis when you were explaining the scale of a planck length. I had to pause and just sorta sit and think for a while.
It would be impossible that intelligent life know each other from a distance of 1 million au with current tech.
Great summary Sir. Thanks!!
Thanks! Super well explained as usual! Merry Christmas from Granada!
The first human image at 0.43 is in Melbourne Australia, currently one of the very few places on the planet with no community transmission of COVID (and it's been like that for months)
Yeah but there's spiders in the toilet and the koalas have STDs, so I'm good. Hope you stay healthy though. And check for spiders, that's a terrible way to die. Especially after you wore your mask all day.
Ant Man: been there, done that.
Merry Xmas Paul! I cant wait to see you over 1million subs!
Very interesting and intriguing. Thank you and looking forward to your next video! ✌️
Made me feel insignificant in the grand scheme of things.
There's no reason for that. You are an integral part of the Whole.
Boo hoo
Thats because you are. Me too but i dont care, live life to the fullest.
imagine a creature that lived on the orbiting electron of an atom, thinking that your body was the universe. Somehow that's really depressing.
Here's an idea: as we are about to create super intelligence AI, that should be able to self replicate - what if the universe is actually itself, a self replicating AI
@@DaysOfFunder I'd like to have a word with the programmers, this user interface sucks and the program seems to be just about to crash all the time. And that was before 2020.
I figure it all keeps getting bigger. Our seemingly mind-blowing sized Universe is just one of billions of other Universes of varying size. And that's just within this dimension! There's something to ponder!
Excellent work Paul, fascinating subject
Loved this video, really got me interested. Keep it up good sir.
This means that humans are orders of magnitude closer to the size of the observable universe than we are to the Planck length.
We're actually giants.
As much as I love this stuff, especially the astro related things, it's still so incomprehensible that it almost gives me headaches. Imo we need to figure out how to make wormholes, fold space or teleport ourselves before trying to make faster spaceships because it will take way too long to get anywhere outside of the Kuiperbelt if we only rely on flying rockets around.
Thank you for the subtitles.
Always informative..and definitely brilliant! 😉
11:00 _"If you removed all the arteries, veins, & capillaries from your body, and tied them end-to-end, you will die."_
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Dear people who like to say first:
"No one cares, find a better way to get your dopamine"
Mind blown!!! Seriously good stuff, top work!!!
Excellent video as always. Amazing channel!!
Thanks for the video and the captions.
Utterly fascinating. Thank you.
AMAZING! Great video!
0:45 Finally a place in CZcams I recognise - That's the eastern side of the intersection between the pedestrian path and Queen Bridge St
mind boggling. great vid thanks Paul...peace out
great breakdown video!!
Okay, I’ve now watched this three times over, there is so much to take in, excellent work
Okay, make that four times...
the best ive seen on this subject hats off
I find myself watching this over and over because it's so enlightening.
Excellent video I watched it a couple times already!
This channel is just greatness
A great video journey! Thanks!