Debunking the Electric Universe

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  • čas přidán 30. 04. 2020
  • I know that I've become known for my flat earth destructions, but now that I've driven that one so far into the ground that it's coming out the other side of the spherical earth, it's time to tackle some other topics. There exists an obscure fad called the electric universe, which tends to attract exemplars of the Dunning-Kruger effect who think they understand physics better than Einstein. Literally. Although not quite as ridiculous as the flat earth, it's still pretty ridiculous, so let's go through the finer points of precisely why that is the case, shall we?
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  • @barryon8706
    @barryon8706 Před 3 lety +4282

    I'm glad you debunked the Electric Universe! Now can you help me spread the REAL truth with my Coal-Powered Universe theory?

    • @xuchsun6564
      @xuchsun6564 Před 3 lety +600

      Dark matter is actually just fossil fuels we can't see

    • @NinjaMonkeyPrime
      @NinjaMonkeyPrime Před 3 lety +242

      That EU stuff is obvious bunk. But CPU is where the serious science is done.

    • @lindamaemullins5151
      @lindamaemullins5151 Před 3 lety +22

      👍

    • @nasapayrollsystem8701
      @nasapayrollsystem8701 Před 3 lety +208

      Wow ... is it therefore a steam powered universe .. ?
      like a Victorian universe ?
      Do I need a top hat ? .... please say yes .. this sounds like the best universe so far ... sign me up
      In 1899 Charles Duell, US patent office, said
      "everything that can be invented has been invented."
      So ... that’s it then

    • @barryon8706
      @barryon8706 Před 3 lety +101

      @@nasapayrollsystem8701 You're in! Top hats and bowlers are equally acceptable, but top hats add that extra panache.

  • @Jose_Hunters_EWF_Remixes
    @Jose_Hunters_EWF_Remixes Před 4 lety +1861

    You're all wrong! According to Wikipedia:
    _Electric Universe is the thirteenth studio album by Earth, Wind & Fire, released in November 1983 on Columbia Records._

    • @pranavlimaye
      @pranavlimaye Před 4 lety +137

      *Damn right!*

    • @truu-dl8rp
      @truu-dl8rp Před 4 lety +40

      You jive turkey. Muahahaha

    • @LongDrive-ze9jw
      @LongDrive-ze9jw Před 4 lety +14

      @@truu-dl8rp Electric Ladyland is there. Lol

    • @KrzysiuNet
      @KrzysiuNet Před 3 lety +45

      Wikipedia lies. Electric Universe at first is a great psytrance band!

    • @mikhailman
      @mikhailman Před 3 lety +17

      I love me some EWF

  • @bettercalldelta
    @bettercalldelta Před 2 lety +1339

    0:25 Are you two friends?
    Flat Earth: Yes.
    Electric Universe: No.

    • @nebulisnoobis102
      @nebulisnoobis102 Před 2 lety +29

      Hahaha

    • @LeeGee
      @LeeGee Před 2 lety +17

      Not a clever way to address a scientific theory.

    • @bettercalldelta
      @bettercalldelta Před 2 lety +64

      @@LeeGee scientific theory
      more like
      pseudoscientific bullsh*t

    • @loveitftw
      @loveitftw Před 2 lety +5

      😂😂

    • @VotEtoPizdets
      @VotEtoPizdets Před 2 lety +34

      @@LeeGee I met a Professor of evolutionary biology who legitimately supported the flat earth theory and used his degree in biology in an argument from authority in order to claim himself superior in all ways to anyone who did not subscribe to his misguided ideological presuppositions. That wasnt even the best part, he also argued with me that oxidative phosphorylation is a false process created by big pharma to pump hormones into our children to cause them to hit puberty more quickly. He claims puberty in humans around used to occur in their early to mid 20's. I will never forget that pretentious little man or his thrift store knockoff Nietzsche moustache. When he made the comment about Ox Phos being a lie i cited mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation thermodynamic efficiencies study involving ATP production with the brain liver and heart and i was told to progress further than a masters degree in biomedical engineering. I never said i was taking bio med or that i had a degree. Ive never met someone who was concurrently infuriating and hilariously delusional. One of my most treasured memories right there. You couldnt script a funnier dialogue.

  • @paulmahoney7619
    @paulmahoney7619 Před 2 lety +1061

    As someone who is studying mechanical engineering, I propose the universe is in fact a giant mechanical orrery that simulates all mechanics of the universe through higher-dimensional gears

    • @tiedeman39
      @tiedeman39 Před 2 lety +83

      As somebody who works in construction, I propose the universe is all built. The she of the observable universe is obviously just because of shipping delays for equipment. Like in Hitchhiker's a guide to the Galaxy

    • @joshyoung1440
      @joshyoung1440 Před 2 lety +25

      @@tiedeman39 the she of the observable universe?

    • @phoenixwithahalfofdragon936
      @phoenixwithahalfofdragon936 Před 2 lety +36

      As somebody who sucks at school and has zero understanding of anything that takes more than 2 braincells to comprehend, I propose the stars are the actual gears

    • @forickgrimaldus8301
      @forickgrimaldus8301 Před 2 lety +11

      Praise the Omnisiah

    • @dredalorie370
      @dredalorie370 Před 2 lety +42

      As a gardener, i propose that the universe is a tree that grows hence the expansion and that stars are just bugs and the planets it's fruits. But my hammer keeps telling me the universe is a nail. He says that about everything though.

  • @FirstNameLastName-qt2hz
    @FirstNameLastName-qt2hz Před 3 lety +903

    "Mainstream" scientists have so little regard for Tesla that they named a unit after him

    • @NinjaMonkeyPrime
      @NinjaMonkeyPrime Před 3 lety +146

      Tesla did some great things. He also claimed he created a cosmic death ray and loved a pigeon as if it was a woman.

    • @petroleumalley
      @petroleumalley Před 3 lety +170

      Nothing wrong with Tesla. He made a few mistakes just like other scientists at those times. It's a pity his mistakes are often being emphasized.

    • @FirstNameLastName-qt2hz
      @FirstNameLastName-qt2hz Před 3 lety +52

      @@NinjaMonkeyPrime we all make mistakes

    • @j.b.8379
      @j.b.8379 Před 3 lety +72

      @@NinjaMonkeyPrime Einstein thought the universe was static, and eternal

    • @AAAAAA-zw7oh
      @AAAAAA-zw7oh Před 3 lety +115

      @@j.b.8379 which is far less reasonable than falling in love with a pidgeon.

  • @matthewparkins3204
    @matthewparkins3204 Před 2 lety +895

    i love how he progressively becomes more hostile to the flat earthers in every episode ahahaga

    • @sweethysteria8737
      @sweethysteria8737 Před 2 lety +6

      This isn’t flat earth, it’s the electric universe
      It’s still a pseudoscience hoax, but it’s a different idea
      Many Electric Universes followers don’t believe in a flat earth
      Edit: I see that your referring to the beginning of the video
      I get that :3

    • @The92Waffles
      @The92Waffles Před 2 lety +7

      Good. We should all be hostile to FE'ers and proponents of electric universe. These beliefs are so utterly beyond ridiculous

    • @coenraadloubser5768
      @coenraadloubser5768 Před 2 lety +9

      He should employ the strategy of explaining how curiosity is good, how they can make something useful of it, and how the earth could be flat from a very specially warped perspective... Maybe one where we counted in base Pi, and our cars had 3.141 unPi wheels.

    • @Reticuli
      @Reticuli Před 2 lety +9

      Going after flat earthers and EU proponents is still like shooting fish in a barrel, though. The latter barrel might be a little murkier on the top or have fewer fish, but at a certain point it becomes like beating a dead horse or kicking someone when they're down or when Jared Leto's getting wailed on in Fight Club. It would be sort of funny if the EU people managed to find out something, though not revolutionary or debunking of Einstein, but still useful or heretofore unknown (or maybe forgotten recently) with all the money and time they're dumping into studying electricity and plasma devoid of any other ideas. With people like Puthoff getting involved with some of the EU folks, though, that increasingly looks unlikely, and their crack pottery quality seems to be solidifying. Those who have been promoting this stuff really should be the ones making these sorts of videos debunking their own views to save their reputation... like the crack pottery barn rule.

    • @matthewnelson6957
      @matthewnelson6957 Před 2 lety +6

      @@The92Waffles Says the guy who believes he's stuck to a spinning peice of rock

  • @BeekersSqueakers
    @BeekersSqueakers Před 2 lety +594

    7:37 "Why don't magnets stick to us?"
    Um, clearly someone hasn't taken their Covid vaccine.
    *I'm joking, of course.

    • @Ravaxr
      @Ravaxr Před 2 lety +11

      I would have loved to see one of those local trustees idly trying to pick up a coin with a magnet while one of those people are ranting, then stick the coin to their forehead.

    • @pomodorino1766
      @pomodorino1766 Před 2 lety +34

      @@Ravaxr dude I've got my two doses plus the booster and I still can't pick coins from the fountain.
      I want a refund!

    • @EmeraldArchive
      @EmeraldArchive Před 2 lety +22

      The fact that you have to say you're joking really shows that we live in a society

    • @neutrino78x
      @neutrino78x Před 2 lety +5

      @@EmeraldArchive nah man we've also landed men on the moon, split the atom, and created powerful computers that have advanced our quality of life. That's like saying "some uneducated serfs in the time of Newton thought the Earth was flat, therefore Newton's genius is to be ignored and in fact the serfs represented the worth of human society at that time"

    • @EmeraldArchive
      @EmeraldArchive Před 2 lety

      @@neutrino78x what the fuck are you on about?

  • @ibtastico
    @ibtastico Před 2 lety +277

    video title: "Debunking the electric universe"
    CZcams Algorithm: *hmmm, seems like flat earth to me!* "

    • @superking208
      @superking208 Před 2 lety +17

      I was wondering about that too. I think it might have happened automatically because the phrase "flat earth" is in the video description.

    • @revenevan11
      @revenevan11 Před 2 lety +15

      He mentioned flat earth within the first 10 or so seconds, and the algorithm reads the auto generated subtitles (and also description) to get an idea of these topics.

    • @moarsaur
      @moarsaur Před 2 lety +3

      @@revenevan11 I got briefly shot down by an automod this way the other day, for talking about how idiotic (as well as ugly) "Darwin Award" jokes are with regard to the pandemic. "You're agreeing with us too explicitly!"

    • @StochasticUniverse
      @StochasticUniverse Před 2 lety +3

      @@moarsaur It's not "idiotic" to call out people who so fiercely oppose basic public health guidelines that they inadvertently cause their own deaths. Didactic is a better word because it's hopefully a teachable moment for all the other covidiots who still have a chance to save themselves from the same fate by just getting the damn vaccine already (before it's too late).
      They're the only ones getting the hypothetical "Darwin Award", in that case. If someone's grandmother who is vaccinated happens to get covid and dies of it, that is, by definition, not a Darwin Award. You have to cause your own death, willfully, in order to qualify. That's stipulated in the entire premise of Darwin Awards.

    • @moarsaur
      @moarsaur Před 2 lety +4

      @@StochasticUniverse It's idiotic because it reflects nearly as misinformed and simplistic a view of the pandemic as that espoused by the people you're wishing dead.

  • @DragoCyan
    @DragoCyan Před 2 lety +416

    When Prof Dave said that some physics knowledge was needed to debunk this ridiculousness, I thought it would be graduate level theory. Thankfully it was just highschool level physics.

    • @aidanmatthewgalea7761
      @aidanmatthewgalea7761 Před 2 lety +24

      unfortunately a lot of the people who fall for this are not high-school levels of skeptic or intelligent

    • @notthis9586
      @notthis9586 Před rokem +14

      Think you might be overestimating modern high schools... Like I can't effectively debunk electric universe talking points because it only plays offense, and gish-gallops, and engages in what aboutisms constantly. I would need the actual physics and history of science in front of me to effectively argue against it, and even then they'll call me brainwashed by the Newtonian institution. Takes a lot to talk down stupid is all Im saying XD

    • @aidanmatthewgalea7761
      @aidanmatthewgalea7761 Před rokem +6

      @@notthis9586 i mean, here in europe, at least under a british education system this is all secondary school physics: 12 year olds know this stuff as basic syllabus.

    • @sean5364
      @sean5364 Před rokem +2

      @@aidanmatthewgalea7761 in the US public school doesn’t have physics till late high school, last 2 years (3) if your ahead, and even then you don’t have to take it. I never took physics instead opting for higher level chemistry and biology. So for many people like me who weren’t interested in physics at the time we get our physics from CZcams

    • @achyuththouta6957
      @achyuththouta6957 Před rokem +4

      @@sean5364 Wow this is strange. I heard that university courses in US are highly difficult. How do people cope with that if they didn't have physics until high school? I'm assuming that people from the US find college a lot more challenging than high school because the gap would be so huge.

  • @metalsmith3234
    @metalsmith3234 Před 3 lety +910

    Title: “debunking the electric universe”
    Me: the what?

    • @elweon8754
      @elweon8754 Před 3 lety +70

      Watt*

    • @treid100182
      @treid100182 Před 3 lety +15

      @@BenGrem917 All due respect, Cani:
      The Theory of GR fails from the beginning, mathematically speaking, because it changes "zero" into infinity. Any mathematician not afraid to tell the truth, will resond...

    • @freddan6fly
      @freddan6fly Před 3 lety +44

      @@treid100182 Yes I will respond to you: go back to school, you have no clue on science, math or GR.

    • @freddan6fly
      @freddan6fly Před 3 lety +35

      @@atum7355 There are exactly zero proof of electrical universe.

    • @freddan6fly
      @freddan6fly Před 3 lety +23

      @@atum7355 you talk like a midget with a butterfly brain. The energy out of safire as sun model gives approx the same energy as Jupiter, 145K at the surface. Last I checked the temperature of the sun was 6000K. So no I am not a midget, I am an Engineer with basically the same education in physics and math as Bachelor of Physics. Thrust me when I say no sane Ph.D in Physics, Math or Engineering believe in the 3:rd most stupid conspiracy theory, after flat earth and young earth creationists. Go back to school.

  • @ObservantHistorian
    @ObservantHistorian Před 9 měsíci +16

    "Does not offer a working model." The bane of conspiracy theorists everywhere.

  • @Montesama314
    @Montesama314 Před 2 lety +11

    "You can't explain X, therefore my claim of Y is right" is such religious apologist bullcrap.

  • @dragondodger8322
    @dragondodger8322 Před 4 lety +486

    That plasma image looks suspiciously like an orange cut in half:- Therefore Gravity is fruit based

    • @rudiekazu
      @rudiekazu Před 4 lety +13

      LOL....that made me laugh....thanks

    • @truu-dl8rp
      @truu-dl8rp Před 4 lety +21

      You're just fruit biased.

    • @anhedonianepiphany5588
      @anhedonianepiphany5588 Před 4 lety +18

      Proponents of the Orange Earth Theory would rather you say that gravity is _citrus-based!_

    • @waynebow-gu7wr
      @waynebow-gu7wr Před 3 lety +9

      Get your facts right... Neil Degrass Tyson reckons the earth is supposed to be PEAR shaped ! ha ha vegan science !

    • @autobotstarscream765
      @autobotstarscream765 Před 3 lety +7

      Or fruit is gravity-based, that's why apples fall from trees. 🍎🌳

  • @nazarsoroka23
    @nazarsoroka23 Před 3 lety +400

    “now that we’ve grounded ourselves a bit.” 😂

    • @BasedPureblood
      @BasedPureblood Před 3 lety +5

      I was about to comment the same thing lmao.

    • @hassanahmed2275
      @hassanahmed2275 Před 2 lety +2

      These guys need to be more down to earth like Mr Dave here. :D

    • @yourbiggestfan395
      @yourbiggestfan395 Před 2 lety +6

      @@hassanahmed2275 I think the people who think there's an reference point in an electrical circuit are the most grounded.

    • @ivoryas1696
      @ivoryas1696 Před 2 lety

      @@yourbiggestfan395
      Wait... which people are those?

    • @roseproctor3177
      @roseproctor3177 Před 2 lety +1

      Lol that got me too

  • @GiggaGMikeE
    @GiggaGMikeE Před 2 měsíci +12

    Personally i prefer when the universe was acoustic, before they sold out and went mainstream.

  • @johnlevin4567
    @johnlevin4567 Před 2 lety +32

    Professor Dave in an alternate electric universe: Debunking the gravitational universe

  • @SP_3333
    @SP_3333 Před 2 lety +194

    "Earth, Wind, & Fire's “Electric Universe” album in 1983 broke a string of 11 straight gold or platinum LPs and led to a four-year hiatus. During the break, group members Maurice White and Philip Bailey worked on separate projects and, mainly, sought to revitalize their creative energies."
    I believe there may be a copyright issue here.

    • @RadeticDaniel
      @RadeticDaniel Před 2 lety +4

      It was a whole thing back then apparently.
      Brazilian singer and composer Tim Maia released in 1975 an album titled "imunização racional" (rational imunization), following a cult that claimed bitter, angry, sorrowful people were all badly magnetized and needed to discharge so they could recover their health.
      Not surprised to hear Earth, Wind and Fire had a similar career patch less than 10 years later, since it is still close and these things hunt for artists like the scientology bunch

    • @ericmckenzie1221
      @ericmckenzie1221 Před 2 lety +10

      Electric Universe DESTROYED by earth, wind, and fire

  • @cargo_vroom9729
    @cargo_vroom9729 Před 3 lety +262

    What is it with all the fringe beliefs hating on gravity? What did gravity ever do to them?

    • @johnwarosa2905
      @johnwarosa2905 Před 3 lety +129

      They were dropped on the head because of gravity

    • @NinjaMonkeyPrime
      @NinjaMonkeyPrime Před 3 lety +93

      That's easy. Because gravity is what "the mainstream" believes and anything that "the mainstream" believes" must be evil. I wish I was making this up.

    • @San_Vito
      @San_Vito Před 3 lety +39

      It has nothing to do with Einstein being jewish at all... nope... that's not it...

    • @ThatCrazyKid0007
      @ThatCrazyKid0007 Před 3 lety +39

      Because there are anomalies that General Relativity alone can't account for and think it's bullshit how many 'dark' fudge factors are added to make the equations work, even though that's literally the scientific process to refine your model to match observations more accurately and figure out why your model doesn't work without these modifications. They are also pissed tax dollars are being spent on research that is not yielding enough results, even though eliminating possible explanations is literally how science advances in order to get closer to the actual explanation. Their shortcomings feed their already inherent distrust of the establishment because it doesn't line up with how they think the world should be. The sad thing is they completely miss out on the fact physicists are the first to acknowledge the limits of our current theories and that a lot of work is left to be done, as well as taking the assumptions that they do as assumptions and not facts they base their work off of and will quickly readjust them should any evidence come up to suggest them to do so.

    • @NinjaMonkeyPrime
      @NinjaMonkeyPrime Před 3 lety +27

      @@ThatCrazyKid0007 _"They are also pissed tax dollars are being spent on research that is not yielding enough results"_ Like how we just managed to punch an asteroid and take a sample or how we managed to get a probe closer to the sun than ever before even during pandemic lockdown? Yea, those things sucked didn't they?
      I mean we landed on the moon around 50 years ago right? And we still haven't figured out the entire origin of the universe in that time? How lame is that? I mean cancer research started around the 1770's and there's no way that cancer is more complicated than the start of the universe right bro? We totally need a new approach because there's no way that humans shouldn't have this figured out in like 6 months right bro?

  • @aelolul
    @aelolul Před 2 lety +106

    24:40 Pyramids are spaceships? ahahaha don't be ridiculous. We all know that pyramids are the *landing pads* of spaceships.

    • @ldbarthel
      @ldbarthel Před 2 lety +11

      And there's another Stargate fan.... :-)

    • @NikoLiabotis
      @NikoLiabotis Před 2 lety +6

      All hail anubis

    • @yeetmeister0704
      @yeetmeister0704 Před 2 lety +2

      I thought they were the energy suplies for spaceships

    • @Ratchet4647
      @Ratchet4647 Před 2 lety

      I assume you're joking but there are indeed people who are ancient aliens types who think they're part of some landing area for spaceships, and that they're beacons or guidelines for the incoming ships

    • @yeetmeister0704
      @yeetmeister0704 Před 2 lety

      @@Ratchet4647 im joking but qho knows

  • @revenevan11
    @revenevan11 Před 2 lety +217

    Came here from PBS Spacetime! Glad you've made this video, these people drive me crazy in the comments section on any Spacetime video that even tangentially involves dark matter or electromagnetism or gravity, so I'm very excited to hear your take on the psychology of them and this belief.

    • @ldbarthel
      @ldbarthel Před 2 lety +16

      Likewise stopped by after the ZTF J1901+1458 video.
      Now, if I'm understanding the info on magnetic fields correctly, the galactic magnetic field may be a factor in *where* gas concentrations form, but once enough gas is there, gravity takes over the production of the new star and its proto-planetary disc. Which unfortunately, might be enough "evidence" for EU'ers. Sigh.

    • @SuperTonyony
      @SuperTonyony Před 2 lety +2

      Thirded.

    • @anarchyantz1564
      @anarchyantz1564 Před 2 lety +1

      @@SuperTonyony Fouthed. Came here as never heard about this "Electric Universe" thing. Is this something more American?

    • @FredericoKlein
      @FredericoKlein Před 2 lety +1

      Coming from PBS Spacetime and never having heard of this theory before I had seconds to prepare me to what it was and I just started imagining what kind of bs they would be pushing through. Turns out what I imagined was (at least to me) much more interesting than this, so I will share, because maybe someone will find interesting.
      So my bs theory of electric universe, was that much like magnetism is "rotational" electricity, maybe gravitation is also derived from them; it is like the sum of the higher order interactions (like rotation of magnetism, and rotation of rotation of rotation) and so on, and those forces combined, which have a much smaller magnitude, give something that behaves like gravity. It is similar to the idea of feynman diagrams (with the infinite sums thing), so maybe this will have some allure.
      Also you can argue that even though sums of interactions of single charges cancel out, once you take into account interactions of dipoles, quadripoles and octopoles, they stop cancelling out perfectly, and there would always be a statistical residual.
      I am pretty sure you can even come up with some maths to justify this bs, so there you have it, my bs theory.

    • @NewNecro
      @NewNecro Před 2 lety +5

      @simpsons Bart Apples fall to ground. Conspiracy nuts debunked centuries before they were even born.

  • @TheGargantuanLeviathan
    @TheGargantuanLeviathan Před 4 lety +883

    The only positive thing about flat earthers is that they make me feel smart.

    • @pickukumar8931
      @pickukumar8931 Před 4 lety +12

      Lmao🤣🤣🤣

    • @n8ture690
      @n8ture690 Před 4 lety +38

      Lol definitely a positive.... Though it helps make my outlook on humanity more grim as well.

    • @ManOnTheRange
      @ManOnTheRange Před 4 lety +30

      2nd positive thing is they make laugh :) i know its not OK to make fun of mentally ill people but anyway :D

    • @Gamdizem
      @Gamdizem Před 4 lety +36

      Smart? They make me feel like a god.

    • @mykobe981
      @mykobe981 Před 4 lety +38

      What's really funny is, that's exactly how they feel about us. The true allure of 'flat-earth' is; "I have special knowledge you don't". Imo, it's just a tool insecure people use to feel better about themselves.

  • @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache
    @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache Před 4 lety +195

    Not only is this legend battling the flat earthers but debunking other fallacious claims too. Thank you, Dave.

    • @Hygix_
      @Hygix_ Před 4 lety +10

      Oh you are a fan of science too huh

    • @Auvisome
      @Auvisome Před 4 lety

      If only he'd debunk some of the "Initial State GER" claims.
      *Jotaro Dies in Part 6*

    • @lumpi472
      @lumpi472 Před 4 lety +2

      Omg this guy is everywhere

    • @asher3311
      @asher3311 Před 4 lety +1

      @Asyam Abyan rip

    • @xebek
      @xebek Před 4 lety +1

      *Pulls off flesh-colored tape peeling from upper lip*
      Aha! You had a mustache all along!

  • @prosefessional2387
    @prosefessional2387 Před 2 lety +22

    Im glad my first introduction to this was your video, because this is something a younger me might’ve fallen for

    • @crystal.balls612
      @crystal.balls612 Před měsícem

      That was a close call, thank the self proclaimed science gods the excess fluoride and the all pervading omnipresent nonstop propaganda successfully cured you from independent thinking and prevented you from developing discernment or into an autonomous free individual instead of a sheep!

  • @JimmyMcBimmy
    @JimmyMcBimmy Před 11 měsíci +39

    Tinfoil hatters like them do a massive disservice to Tesla. He was a legit scientist who briefly entertained the idea of wireless power at a time when that was legitimately within the realm of theoretical physics. It no longer is. He wasn't a "prophet", he was brilliant, but a man of his time.

    • @dogwalker666
      @dogwalker666 Před 10 měsíci +4

      Exactly.

    • @NetHacker100
      @NetHacker100 Před 2 měsíci

      Why is wireless power not within the realm of theoretical physics anymore apparently? I seem to have missed the memo

    • @mikeoxmall69420
      @mikeoxmall69420 Před měsícem

      ​@@NetHacker100they didn't quite understand how the atmosphere worked and Tesla thought about using it as a comically large capacitor

  • @taylorasbell7074
    @taylorasbell7074 Před 4 lety +240

    I can't believe decades after Galileo, capernicus, and other amazing break throughs we have there are still people who believe the earth is flat. I have 2 pieces of proof that anyone can test. First climb a mountain, many are reachable without technical gear and from the summit you can see the curvature of our beautiful earth. I know this because I've seen it several times. Second get a cat. After a few months of owning a cat you would realize that if the earth was truly flat cats would have knocked everything off the edge by now

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  Před 4 lety +52

      This is not about flat earth.

    • @taylorasbell7074
      @taylorasbell7074 Před 4 lety +52

      @@ProfessorDaveExplains my apologies, I was watching a sci man dan video and near the end was writing that comment, the auto play CZcams generator played your video and thus my comment was added to both simultaneously. I can understand your frustration, the whole idea of flat earth is as irritating as a ill fitting sock in your shoe but you are too busy to fix it. However I did subscribe to your channel as well because I love learning from my betters. I've noticed that once I understand a subject I assume others must know it too because its now simple for me to understand. You do a great job of avoiding that, and understand that it may be a little difficult for some people to wrap their mind around a foreign concept. Thank you for the awesome vids

    • @Stewartthorp
      @Stewartthorp Před 4 lety +7

      you have to be 100km above earth's surface to see the curvature (which does exist) You can however watch a boat go over a horizon (I think you would use a Nikon P900000)!

    • @treid100182
      @treid100182 Před 3 lety +6

      EU plasma theorists don't believe the world is flat… In fact, it goes against their entire research … so … what the F are you getting at?

    • @nerdzilla1355
      @nerdzilla1355 Před 3 lety +8

      @@treid100182 he commented an explanation for his comment.

  • @CptChaos-ju8ix
    @CptChaos-ju8ix Před 3 lety +122

    I think we are living in a chocolade universe. Because for some reason I am - and most people I know - definitely attracted to chocodlade... Granted there seems to be a link to gravity, because I become heavier and heavier when I eat it. Mhhh. I going to do some more research, I guess...

    • @CptChaos-ju8ix
      @CptChaos-ju8ix Před 3 lety +20

      @Q - AGEIDO Some weird things are happening. For instance, the attraction apparently is not depending on the distance at all. I also am attracted to choclade even without knowing where it is.
      Currently, I am trying to prove that the Sun is actually a large chunk of hot choclade.

    • @CptChaos-ju8ix
      @CptChaos-ju8ix Před 3 lety +4

      @Q - AGEIDO Brilliant idea! Wanna join in the research? :D

    • @garyk1334
      @garyk1334 Před 3 lety +25

      I'm not so sure . The more chocolade that I attract the more females I seem to repulse . There seems to be an equal & opposite relationship between the two phenomena . As you say more ingestion of chocolade is required for research purposes

    • @DiggyPT
      @DiggyPT Před 2 lety

      @@voraciousfred no, is speled chocolade. yum.

    • @GamesFromSpace
      @GamesFromSpace Před 2 lety +1

      The universe is clearly based on whisky, so I guess you and I are at war now.

  • @solveforwhy6518
    @solveforwhy6518 Před 2 lety +7

    3.5k downvotes on a video essentially stating that gravity is real. We truly do live in a society.

    • @Dopemische
      @Dopemische Před 2 lety +5

      Gravity still exists in the EUT... they just say that electromagnetism plays a way bigger role than the standard model assumes. How does gravity explain the allignments of Quasar axes all over the cosmic web? There must be more than just gravity at work. Dark matter cant do that either.

    • @macrozone
      @macrozone Před 2 lety +2

      @@Dopemische and EU explains that? Can you send a link to the reviewed papers where EU proofs statistically that electromagnetism is responsible for the alignements of quasars?

    • @ianw_xvi8784
      @ianw_xvi8784 Před 2 lety +3

      @@Dopemische Quasars? EU don't believe in quasars. Quasars are AGNs. Active Galactic Nuclei. Those are black holes spewing out enormous jets. EU don't believe in black holes. Therefore in EU, quasars don't exist. So, they cannot be aligned with anything. QED.

    • @ianw_xvi8784
      @ianw_xvi8784 Před 2 lety +5

      @@Dopemische _"How does gravity explain the allignments of Quasar axes all over the cosmic web?"_
      And further to my previous; EU follow the claims of Arp, that quasars are just mini galaxies, spat out by other galaxies, like wet mogwai! Really dumb idea. Therefore the claim of Arp, and the EUists, is that quasars are not at the distances that redshift tells us they are at, due to having some weird intrinsic redshift, due to motion away from the parent galaxy. The study you mention sees the alignment only based on the redshift distances of those quasars. If Arp was right (he wasn't) then the quasars would be a lot closer, and the alignment with the cosmic web disappears.
      Of course, we have long since known that there is no correlation between nearer galaxies and quasars. Arp was a victim of a small sample size, pareidolia, and his almost religious belief in the steady-state universe, long after the vast majority of scientists had ditched it due to the overwhelming evidence for the big bang and the LCDM model. That is why nobody takes him seriously anymore.

  • @DrStrangeBrew
    @DrStrangeBrew Před 2 lety +50

    First off, I enjoyed the video. There was one thing I disagreed with. Maybe it's because I have a limited experience with the electric universe. I have a friend that has bitten on to the electric universe hook line & sinker. When listening to him and watching some videos that he recommended for me. I had one name in mind that I was looking for, Nikola Tesla. Seems like if we were talking electricity and we are ignoring the mainstream. We'll skip over guys like Michael Faraday. I don't see how the electric Universe could Champion a guy like Nikola Tesla because Tesla was a huge fan of Newton and admittedly used his equations and ideas. Tesla read Principia multiple times as a child like it was fairy tales. So I was really hoping that the electric universe would be into Tesla thinking that would really unravel the web they wove.

    • @budmackenzie
      @budmackenzie Před 2 lety +6

      EU does not negate Newton, Tesla was not alive to experience this becoming popular (~60s) AND he demonstrated wireless electricity.

    • @bjornfeuerbacher5514
      @bjornfeuerbacher5514 Před 3 měsíci +2

      "EU does not negate Newton"
      Huh? EU proponents usually say that Newton's law of gravity is wrong.

  • @daddyattitude
    @daddyattitude Před 3 lety +212

    With a heavy heart and much sadness, I must declare that Magneto (Max Eisenhardt) is the god and deity of this electro-manifesto universe. Now it will make sense.

    • @yourbiggestfan395
      @yourbiggestfan395 Před 2 lety +13

      You worship a false idol for there is only one with the power to control this electro-world with music and oppressive might. She's the creator of minecraft, Harry Potter, and has blue hair. Hatsune Miku.

    • @ivoryas1696
      @ivoryas1696 Před 2 lety +2

      Nazar Soroka
      Magneto is quite the radical, so this doesn't surprise me very much... 😬

    • @kristjanpeil
      @kristjanpeil Před 2 lety +2

      Man is a glutton for punishment, sacrificing himself every bloody episode for humanity's benefit like that... :'(

    • @marcushendriksen8415
      @marcushendriksen8415 Před rokem

      Funny, I'd be saying that with a light heart! He's always been my favourite mutant in the X Men stories, ever since I was a kid

    • @user-pr6ed3ri2k
      @user-pr6ed3ri2k Před rokem

      199thliker

  • @donready119
    @donready119 Před 4 lety +65

    10:24 "All charges cancel out". They certainly don't in plasma. Plasma can form counter rotating stacked double layers where one layer is negative, the other positive.

    • @paulmaydaynight9925
      @paulmaydaynight9925 Před 3 lety

      @Ian w16 the Debye length is the distance over which significant "charge separation" can occur.

    • @bjornfeuerbacher5514
      @bjornfeuerbacher5514 Před 3 měsíci +3

      So what? The _total_ charge of these two layers taken together is still zero. _That_ was his point.

    • @AlcyonEldara
      @AlcyonEldara Před měsícem

      That's why a plasma "acts" like a "magnet", with a dipole. And "magnetic" type forces decrease really fast with distance. I keep being vague because if you understood your own comment, you wouldn't have posted it.

    • @bjornfeuerbacher5514
      @bjornfeuerbacher5514 Před měsícem +1

      @@AlcyonEldara "That's why a plasma "acts" like a "magnet", with a dipole."
      No, it doesn't. Wheree did you get that from?!
      "I keep being vague because"
      Because you know yourseld that you write nonsense.
      "if you understood your own comment, you wouldn't have posted it."
      Pot. Kettle. Black.

    • @AlcyonEldara
      @AlcyonEldara Před měsícem

      @@bjornfeuerbacher5514 hilarious coming from a moron who doesn't even understand the notion of Debye length.
      At distances way larger than this length, a plasma is electrically neutral and has a magnetic field. The end.

  • @t.j.webster5545
    @t.j.webster5545 Před rokem +5

    8:20 "Now that we've grounded ourselves a bit"
    Oh, Dave, you so cheeky

  • @EpppicRecks
    @EpppicRecks Před rokem +48

    I love how they just say 'electricity', or 'electrical magnetism' as a excuse like it's a pokemon move or something

    • @brettvv7475
      @brettvv7475 Před rokem +14

      Same with the flaterfers. They use the "perspective" and "refraction" Pokemon.

    • @DarkMatterVisible
      @DarkMatterVisible Před rokem +1

      @@brettvv7475 Without understanding either in ay capacity.

    • @charleshultgren7804
      @charleshultgren7804 Před rokem

      I mean thunderbolt is a pokemon move so

  • @guillermoviramontes851
    @guillermoviramontes851 Před 4 lety +107

    “Now that we’ve Grounded ourselves” I see what you did there

    • @wishusknight3009
      @wishusknight3009 Před 4 lety +3

      @@sonpopco-op9682 I love how this video twists and straw mans someone in an attempt to claim said person is twisting and straw-manning a nonsensical belief system. Seems like the creator of this video didn't actually watch professor dave, but made assumptions based of a generalized and false caricature. Much like how all pseudoscience peddlers roll. You guys seem to be just a tiny notch above flat earthers for dishonesty and projection.

  • @PurpleChevron
    @PurpleChevron Před 4 lety +238

    "Science-illiterate unemployable simpletons with personality disorders" is the greatest thing I will hear all day.

    • @sabin97
      @sabin97 Před 4 lety +10

      i almost fit that definition(with the exception of science-illiterate) perfectly, and i'm definitely not a flat earther, or antivaxer, or feminist, or libertarian, or drumpf supporter, or anti-gmo, or creationist.....i feel ike i should really take offense.....but somehow i dont feel offended....

    • @justdata3650
      @justdata3650 Před 4 lety +3

      I was going say the same thing, it's just hilarious.

    • @PurpleChevron
      @PurpleChevron Před 4 lety +3

      @@sabin97 I somehow feel that "libertarian" does not fit with the rest of the things you listed.

    • @UrbFoxFact
      @UrbFoxFact Před 4 lety +8

      @@sabin97 good that you don't take offence....but dave is being a dick for mocking the way people speak and for the kind of employment they can or can't do.

    • @beneu95
      @beneu95 Před 4 lety +4

      @@UrbFoxFact When did he mock anyone's type of employment?!!! Unemployable simply means "cannot be employed."

  • @Tinil0
    @Tinil0 Před 10 měsíci +9

    Man, thank you for this. My dad fell into this particular nonsense about a decade back. He claims it is because of his frustrations with scientists and "Dark Matter" but that's a whole 'nother issue and I won't bore you with his misunderstandings with it. Regardless, it's been...depressing to have someone you care about fall for a fringe theory like this when you otherwise consider them, you know, a rational person. Although he has flirted with conspiracy theories at various times in his life, it was always more as a casual fan, not a true believer, and I don't know any other fringe beliefs he has that are demonstrably false based on a preponderance of available evidence, other than him believing dark matter doesn't exist, which is tied up with this one.
    Sadly, I probably won't be able to get him to watch this since you don't coddle their feelings enough, so I imagine the first time in the video he hears it be described derogatorily he will just shut down and get defensive. Esp[ecially the comparison with flat eartherism, we actually got in an almost shouting match when I used that analogy before as to why I was so annoyed with his belief when, yes, it doesn't hurt me to have someone else believing something wrong...But still, he can understand why I would be frustrated if it were flat eartherism which is clearly insane, but this is TOTALLY different in his eyes.

    • @FutureWorldX
      @FutureWorldX Před 10 měsíci +1

      6:24 from this section, I know that these are compelling questions that you can use to ask on how phenomena can be explained with the current explanation of gravity vs the electric universe model.

    • @Philitron128
      @Philitron128 Před 9 měsíci +1

      Same here but my dad isn't quite as clever as yours. My dad fell into the conspiracy hole decades ago as a truck driver listening to Alex Jones. He believes in some crazy stuff haha.
      Apparently the queen of England (rip bitch) is the actual ruler of the illuminati/masons/communists/new world order/NASA, and she obtained the ability to control all of these people because she was actually a demon who sat on magical (and I do mean magical in the sense that it gave her magic powers) meteorite which the devil gave her. That's what he really truly believes. It's very frustrating having to speak with him because he is simply detached from reality at this point.

  • @LazyEinstein
    @LazyEinstein Před 2 lety +4

    Oh my God subbed. If all your other videos are this fantastic, where do I send you all my money?

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  Před 2 lety +4

      Check out the debunking playlist I'm sure you'll enjoy several more! Patreon is always there should you wish to support.

    • @freddan6fly
      @freddan6fly Před 2 lety +1

      You can buy his book, "Is this wifi organic?"

  • @sigmamaleonhisgrindset
    @sigmamaleonhisgrindset Před 3 lety +93

    Man, that part about reading textbooks was so relatable. I’m outlining my chemistry textbook and there’s so much about quantum mechanics that I had no clue about. Just looking at the equations and how they’re derived gives me the same feeling that I get when looking through a telescope at night. It’s difficult to see at first, but your brain really does begin to make those connections between math and science. And when it does, it’s awesome!

    • @honkhonk8009
      @honkhonk8009 Před 2 lety +5

      i mean math is just a tool we use to quantify logic.
      like we normally think of logic as just "if then, then that", but math lets us put that type of logical thinking into actual quantities and shit.
      its basically teh same thing.

    • @mansionoflostspiritsrecords
      @mansionoflostspiritsrecords Před rokem +6

      YES! Math is the pure logic tool to describe the truth, not the truth itself

    • @Srelus
      @Srelus Před rokem

      QM and GR are a one big fiction.

    • @jonnyjames862
      @jonnyjames862 Před 10 měsíci

      I remember just the feeling you describe in my Waves and Optics course sophomore year of college. It’s like the veil of reality has been lifted and you’re allowed to see behind the curtain.

    • @astrospect
      @astrospect Před 9 měsíci +1

      I just find it amazing that the eggheads can visualize hypothetical ideas purely with math. Like how Einstein visualized how time slows down around you at the speed of light, and made an equation that explains it. I don't get how math can describe specific things like that, but the fact that it can is astounding. I wish I wasn't completely hopeless at understanding mathematics so I could experience your epiphany.

  • @matthewcreaks2147
    @matthewcreaks2147 Před 4 lety +199

    I feel bad for tesla, his character has been so butchered in history that he will end up being remembered completely differently and his actual work gets forgotten

    • @way2nasty533
      @way2nasty533 Před 4 lety +34

      Not entirely, we will always measure magnetic fields in units of Telsa :)

    • @kevinfisher1345
      @kevinfisher1345 Před 4 lety +16

      I do as well, anyone going around quoting Tesla while at the same time trying to allege that gravity does not exist, is NO fan of Tesla at all nor understand that he believed in gravity as was working on his _Dynamic theory of gravitation_ unpublished work he kept periodically talking about.

    • @kevinfisher1345
      @kevinfisher1345 Před 4 lety +39

      @ThisAintKyle I think you are confusing EU theory with the related but different theory of Plasma Cosmology. And yes I already did a little bit of research into this as I am skeptical person and check sources. This video was in regards to EU theory NOT plasma cosmology. And more specifically it was in regards to videos from The Thunderbolts Project. From their own webpage it states this right on its home page "Was there a big bang? Not likely. Einstein’s Relativity? Doesn’t hold up. Is the Sun a thermonuclear fusion reactor which will eventually run out of fuel and burn out? Nope. Are there black holes? No such thing." Looking into it further on what all it claims, states this "Magnetism, gravity and the nuclear force are various effects produced by charged, orbitally structured protons and electrons in response to an applied electric force. All matter in the universe is connected by the electric force." This is all confirmed with another website electricuniverse.
      In other words no it does not deny gravity per se, it is saying what we know and call gravity really is not gravity at all. Instead it is allegedly electromagnetic force. So it is indirectly denying gravity .. or at least as we know it. And yes I do regret it because it is complete and utter BS. This implies that everything in the universe MUST be a conducter (whether good or bad conductor) and we know that simply is NOT true. As an engineer with physics, you should know that IF this crap were true that we should easily be able to detect that electric current flow ... yet we can not. You should also know that IF this crap were true we would see different results of gravitational pull with good conductors vs bad conductors ... yet once again that is not the case. Let alone it should not impact non-conductors at all. For example does gravity pull more with conductive copper and less with bad conductor of pure water? Nope. It simply does not hold up even on the very basic level of its suggestion. Now there might be something to some of those other theories such as plasma cosmology, but I kind of doubt it. Tbh physics is not strong suit of mine, so no point in dwelving into such complex things such as plasma until I know physics better ... which just doubt will do as there are tons more interesting things to me. Unlike electric which I do know quite a bit more ... enough to know this is pure BS. I do however partially agree with its main premise that electricity plays more a part than we are aware of, piezoelectrics is all around us and I think more important than we currently realize ... but significant role uhm NO. And it definitely does not replace other forces such as gravity like this theory suggests. If it were so significant role we would be seeing it and detecting it, but we simply do not.

    • @pranavlimaye
      @pranavlimaye Před 4 lety +6

      @@kevinfisher1345 well said, Sir. Cheers

    • @wishusknight3009
      @wishusknight3009 Před 4 lety +10

      @@AngryHateMusic AHHAHHAHHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA 48 minutes of conformation bias, misinterpretation of basic grade 8 cosmology and erroneous conclusions. I had to facepalm a couple of times through that video. This has been done before, and explained way better with much less need to play games of dictionary and obfuscation to push a narritive. I think tesla would dropkick these guys off of his electricity distribution tower.

  • @catcatcatcatcatcatcatcatcatca

    This seems to be a great debunking, however I love nit-picking:
    You explained the need to comply with Newtonian gravity on our usual scale, which is obviously given. However, you kinda implied that doing so would require things to act intuitively the same in any scale. General relativity does not do this, and is our best model: a good theory (electric universe has no theory at all, but this argument argues it couldn't possibly ever have) can have significant limits and vastly differing areas, as long as they are derived logically and are not at odds with each other. In general relativity, we see why on earth and on most planetary systems newtonian gravity is so precise: compared to speed of light, the relative velocity of objects we measure is marginal, thus time dilation is neglectable.
    Secondly right after you lay many good layman examples what theory arguing that electromagnetism is very significant force for everyday objects, on par with gravity, would absolutely need to explain. However it would be fair to acknowledge that hypothetical plausible theory (there is none, and there won't be one. But this line of arguing tries to show us why so it has to be assumed so it can be falsified) would probably be fine explaining only few of these, and the rest carry out naturally. For example: the main interaction is magnetic field: my layman understanding goes as far that I'm quite confident insulation of shoes won't matter. Humans probably don't carry enough current through us, ever, to change how we would interact with hypothetical earth-sized magnet. So we'd explode in MRI, see magnetic objects falling faster and could generate electricity by just moving around. But we wouldn't get lighter by wearing rubber shoes. Similarly if some secret second electronic current was connecting us to earth, the magnetic fields it (we, all the time) would generate would not be the same as super strong poles of a planet.
    The second one is quite minor point and as the idea is so ridiculous and any earth magnetism theory of gravity would need to re-explain both forces pretty much entirely from scrap. So acknowledging that one or two of the million obvious cases it would struggle with are likely mutually exclusive won't exactly help.
    However the first point: what if general relativity on scales it disagrees with Newtonian gravity is actually some secret web of electromagnetism is in my opinion more poisonous pseudotheory as it's harder to debunk, and can easily jab back on examples on earth by pointing at general relativity and saying "you don't consider that the falling magnets experience time differently from you either, now do you?". So focusing on it and especially why it can't possibly comply with constant speed of light would in my opinion be a more fruitful starting point. (unless time is now somehow electromagnetic dimension of universe, and all speeds and distances somehow secretly tie into electromagnetism regardless of current, polarity and magnetic fields).
    Either way, it's quite funny how often bad science is just some quack either trying to write bibble into science or write a new bibble-like mythology from some mixture of astrology and documentaryfilm level understanding of science. Or as it often is, both.

    • @twotwo108
      @twotwo108 Před 2 lety +4

      do you understand when you make long thoughtful arguments people cannot reply to it

    • @lekhakaananta5864
      @lekhakaananta5864 Před 2 lety +8

      I think I understand what your nitpick is. You're saying, if we play devil's advocate, one can make a stronger argument for electric universe by adding in some term in their equations so that the effects are only noticeable at large scales.
      I want to nitpick your nitpick. Instead of saying "a good theory can have significant limits", I think the correct way to describe it would be more like "there are limits to empirical tests that can be done when the theory predicts a very small difference".
      I don't know about you, but some people have the wrong assumption that there's a boundary of some sort where physics transition from newtonian to relativistic. There are actually people who say "relativity doesn't apply when going sufficiently slow". No, relativity does apply, it's just that it predicts almost the same behaviour as newtonian physics. Insofar as there is a difference, relativity is still the more accurate over newtonian, even at slow speeds. It's just that in everyday life we don't care about differences so insignificant. But it is there.

    • @tomrhodes1629
      @tomrhodes1629 Před 2 lety +7

      Both the Bunker and the Debunker err to presume too much. So, let's get Socrates' input. For, Socrates is one of the foremost authorities on wisdom...
      Through his genius, Socrates illustrated the fact that wisdom is the ability to know and admit the limits of one's knowledge. Wisdom is knowing that one does NOT know. Wisdom is the opposite of presumption. So...
      Wisdom is a requirement in order to engage TRUE science. And through the process of elimination, the scientist must admit that which he does NOT know in order to be left standing securely on that which he DOES know.
      With that in mind...
      Newton and Einstein described WHAT gravity DOES, which proves correct (with math).
      But they then theorized WHY gravity does these things. And they theorized HOW gravity does these things. Which led them to theorize WHAT gravity IS. But theories require presumption. And Newton's theories on the latter three topics are acknowledged to be incorrect by modern scientists. And Einstein's theories on these topics have yet to be proved.
      So, all science really knows is WHAT GRAVITY DOES.
      And this brings us to human nature, which is the monkey wrench in the gears of science (and philosophy and religion, for that matter).Why? PRESUMPTION; wisdom’s opposite.
      Men like to think they know things that they do NOT know, as Socrates illustrated so well. And a good psychiatrist knows that this is because men seek a sense of security in this manner.
      Now, someone with a very high IQ and a PhD (or several PhD's) is going to believe that he can study and experiment and think his way to the answers that he seeks. However, I will ask such a person right now to use math to give me the EXACT circumference of a circle that has a diameter of 10 inches, down to the final decimal.
      A simple request. But he knows that he cannot honor it.
      And yet, even Albert Einstein thought that math would allow him to know the Mind of God.
      So, what high IQ PhD would believe that a simple man with no more than a high school education can know more than he concerning the biggest questions? The simple man who, not by thinking, but by SILENCING his ego mind and LISTENING to the Mind of GOD.
      For, as it turns, That Mind is ALL that there truly is! And try as it may, science will never be able to dissect or know That Mind. But it CAN listen and learn.
      "The Book of GOD" at A Course in Truth.
      Once you have the simple answers to the BIGGEST questions, all others are moot.

    • @slowfieldgenerator
      @slowfieldgenerator Před 2 lety +3

      @@tomrhodes1629 1984 much?

    • @turkepic3637
      @turkepic3637 Před 2 lety +1

      @@tomrhodes1629 Sure , this mind of God give me the exact circumference of a 10 inch diameter circle to the last digit?
      I though not.

  • @myriahkeays3846
    @myriahkeays3846 Před 3 měsíci +3

    the gentle way you talk in this video is such whiplash from your later ones where you've had time to become more jaded and just "done" with people being ridiculous lol

    • @Nothingseen
      @Nothingseen Před měsícem +1

      It's genuinely funny once you see the Dave trajectory. Flat Earth, James Tour, and Electric Universe all start out, honestly, as really gentle good faith rebuttals. But then, they're met with anger, arrogant dismissal, or threats by the people pushing the stuff. Each time, Dave realizes that the people he's dealing with aren't interested in having a discussion about reality, they're either hucksters trying to con their way through stuff, narcissists who are convinced they're right for no reason whatsoever, or people so wrapped up in their story about big bad SCIENCE not listening to the little guys that they're not interested in learning anything.
      So he treats them like the clowns they are. Then people go 'hey why are you so mean,' like he didn't fucking try something different at first and realized that these people need to be treated like the trash they spew because they worm their way into people's minds through even handed treatment.

  • @robertlove8593
    @robertlove8593 Před 4 lety +287

    I remember the first time I heard the electric universe. I was shocked!
    Sorry I just could not resist.

    • @TCLucas40
      @TCLucas40 Před 4 lety +12

      Well played.

    • @Oyasumi05
      @Oyasumi05 Před 3 lety +35

      @@dedskin1 I'll start listening once you learn how to make a proper sentence, then I'll do some basic research to disprove you

    • @freddan6fly
      @freddan6fly Před 3 lety +29

      @@dedskin1 Electrical Universe is just a load of scientific sounding words put together in random order. It has as many scientific papers as flat earth, it has as much science behind it as flat earth, it has as much predictive capabilities as flat earth. It is just con men trying to sound scientific.

    • @fuckednegativemind
      @fuckednegativemind Před 3 lety +14

      Pavle Pavlovic It's a good thing NASA's work is just a small part in all the astrophysics, astronomy, heliophysics and cosmology research.
      At least your comment shows that you don't know what you're talking about...

    • @markokriegel5787
      @markokriegel5787 Před 3 lety +6

      @@dedskin1 pls tell me something about plasma. Anything. I'm sure u just know nothing about the physics behind ist.
      And while u are thinking about reading the wikipedia also answere the following: how do u come to the idea of lightning bolds creating hexagonal patterns when hitting something not conducting like the moon?

  • @roberrplatt4214
    @roberrplatt4214 Před 3 lety +22

    I saw The Electric Universe at the Fillmore East with Wavy Gravy and The Moving Sidewalks.

  • @deadk133
    @deadk133 Před 2 lety +379

    Thanks to Matt at Spacetime for sending me to this channel! The only downside is that I now know that this ridiculous, vaguely sciencey, conspiracy theory exists. But, its always good to be reminded to keep a healthy scepticism when faced with extraordinary claims.

    • @XraynPR
      @XraynPR Před 2 lety +9

      Those people frequent many other astrophysics or science channels, including Dr. Becky and Anton Petrov. I like seeing those channels giving them a little pushback, and Dave does it in a fittingly sarcastic manner

    • @alexthomas5633
      @alexthomas5633 Před 2 lety +7

      If you enjoyed this video, you should absolutely check out all of professor Dave's other debunks. They're excellent.

    • @nicholashylton6857
      @nicholashylton6857 Před 2 lety +11

      Ditto. I knew all about the Electric Universe nonsense but I would never have found this channel without its mention on SpaceTime.

    • @alexthomas5633
      @alexthomas5633 Před 2 lety +17

      @@earlysda I genuinely can't imagine a rational human could watch this video in it's entirety and come to that conclusion. The only explanation is that you didn't actually watch the video.

    • @t0kinl3lunts
      @t0kinl3lunts Před 2 lety +2

      @@alexthomas5633 Not that they are completely irrational?

  • @Thomas.Wright
    @Thomas.Wright Před 2 lety +38

    So a couple of weeks ago, PBS Spacetime posted a video about magnetism on galactic scale. This week, Professor Matt gave this video a shout-out in response to all the EU nuts claiming that he was validating their fraudulent cosmology.

    • @franklinrichards6559
      @franklinrichards6559 Před 2 lety +2

      Always the religious looking for their god in the gaps.

    • @ddegn
      @ddegn Před 2 lety +2

      @@franklinrichards6559 Are EU nuts religious? I know they are just a step up from flat earthers in scientific literacy but I didn't think they were necessarily religious?

    • @franklinrichards6559
      @franklinrichards6559 Před 2 lety +6

      @@ddegn religious in the sense that they blindly hold onto un testible theories like an extreme devote person might. (Not looking to insult the religious just comparing their devotion to a belief. )

    • @franklinrichards6559
      @franklinrichards6559 Před 2 lety

      @@ddegn and sorry saying god of the gaps isshorthand further looking for the smallest place to say mytheory fits there. Or using that small gap to attempt to invalidate anything

    • @Thomas.Wright
      @Thomas.Wright Před 2 lety +8

      @@earlysda Yeah, right. Where do you get that nonsense from?

  • @Forest_Fifer
    @Forest_Fifer Před 4 lety +38

    Isn't this all to get rid of gravity, which is necessary for flat earth to work, and that's why there is such an overlap between EU and Flerfism?

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  Před 4 lety +25

      It's why flerfs have espoused EU, but it's not why EU exists.

    • @therobot1080
      @therobot1080 Před 4 lety +2

      It connects

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  Před 4 lety +12

      This is too stupid to even reply to.

    • @therobot1080
      @therobot1080 Před 4 lety +2

      @@ProfessorDaveExplains that commenter shares brain cells with a mcchicken fragment

    • @Forest_Fifer
      @Forest_Fifer Před 4 lety +10

      @@osmosisjones4912 "replulsive forces like elections"?
      Flat Out, is that you?

  • @deadturret4049
    @deadturret4049 Před 4 lety +62

    The pictures of planets being blown up by lightning would make for good metal album covers

    • @ericpode6095
      @ericpode6095 Před 4 lety +10

      @@pastramilover1012 your comment made me curious so I looked it up. "Electric Universe" is a psychedelic trance project from Germany formed in 1991 (Wikipedia). Sorry mate, the names taken!

    • @sergegodin9621
      @sergegodin9621 Před 4 lety +4

      @@ericpode6095 Galactic Lightning would work as well if the other one's taken. You could call the album "Canyon Of Destruction". Lol

    • @way2nasty533
      @way2nasty533 Před 4 lety

      people do understand how horrifying that concept is

    • @danielfarmer6062
      @danielfarmer6062 Před 3 lety

      totally

  • @lauravillanueva2175
    @lauravillanueva2175 Před 2 lety +4

    I love your content it’s honestly refreshing to see something on CZcams that provides clarity and discussion, having just found your debating videos and the like. I’m a little worried that you may think that some of us without the strength in math and science aren’t going to necessarily understand the concept of some of the things you talk about. Speaking for myself, I’m down to learn more, and I think people like me seek out information for ourselves to see what we can best be capable of doing with newly acquired knowledge. I’m not sure why there’s so much disrespect involved with learning that a flat earth or electrical universe doesn’t exactly jive, but I for one, appreciate your help to understanding the science and other aspects of the debate on such silly topics.
    It is my hope that you know how many people might be listening to your explanation and experience in the matters of some of these subjects and that you’re aware that not everyone listening now is closed minded or uneducated. Keep bringing your expertise to the debate.. you’re definitely appreciated.

  • @mackingcheese47
    @mackingcheese47 Před dnem +1

    The fact that one of their talking points is that astrophysics is too mathematically oriented is the icing on the cake for me, most mathematicians will get mad at physicists because they aren’t mathematically oriented ENOUGH. Though I’m sure that to the average EU believer, even arithmetic is difficult.

  • @sunseed37
    @sunseed37 Před 4 lety +104

    I suggest a debate with some electric universe proponents, like say, Ben Davidson???

    • @NinjaMonkeyPrime
      @NinjaMonkeyPrime Před 4 lety +17

      Stop doing what a con artist on FaceBook tells you. Ask Ben to give you one EU formula that can be used to do anything in reality.

    • @wheelsonfeet8511
      @wheelsonfeet8511 Před 4 lety +7

      @Ian w16 Yeah, I would be scared to...

    • @flookd5516
      @flookd5516 Před 4 lety +3

      Justin Kennedy Did he actually give references?

    • @thunder88100
      @thunder88100 Před 4 lety +10

      @@flookd5516 He gave links to alll his published and peer reviewed works. :)

    • @cmac4641
      @cmac4641 Před 4 lety +12

      @@justinkennedy3004 If you actually look at the link he only has one paper, books are not peer-reviewed. It is not cited by anyone from a NASA center, there is one citation from someone who lists their affiliation as "Geo Cosmo Science and Research Center", which is based in a NASA research park. This a private company unaffiliated with NASA which leases space. It is totally wrong to claim he has paper*s* cited by NASA, both are aspects are false.

  • @brianswindall
    @brianswindall Před 4 lety +34

    We understand the effects of gravity very well. How it works, not so much. Just saying

    • @rasronin
      @rasronin Před 3 lety +4

      The effects are similar enough to magnetism that we need to study their similarities and call it what it is, an electro static phenomenon. Hence the electric universe theory.

    • @doubleFay
      @doubleFay Před 3 lety +6

      @@rasronin ???, gravity does not induce currents like magnetism does, gravity has only one charge, unlike electro magnetism. electric universe is nonsense

    • @rasronin
      @rasronin Před 3 lety +1

      @@doubleFay gravity doesn’t exist just like time. They are phenomena we experience but magnetism exists and is responsible for the attractive and repulsive forces we observe in nature. Now you’re gonna tell me time exists and is some universal constant. Electo-magnetism is far from understood but we can exploit what we know for useful work. Black holes and dark matter are made up.

    • @rasronin
      @rasronin Před 3 lety +1

      @@doubleFay gravity is not a thing and does not have a charge. You believers remind me of Christians. Believing in imaginary things. Gravity is an electro static phenomenon caused by electromagnetic waves. Show me a gravity wave please.

    • @doubleFay
      @doubleFay Před 3 lety +6

      @@rasronin Sure lets entertain the idea that "Gravity is an electro static phenomenon". So the fact that things are accelerated towards the earth is purely electrostatic. This is demonstrably false. Electrostatic attraction is dependent on the charge (+ -) as well as the ammount of charge. So just by reversing the charge the force should reverse its direction. Also things with twice the charge should expirience twice the force. NONE OF THIS HAPPENS IN REALITY.

  • @optillian4182
    @optillian4182 Před 11 měsíci +7

    It's always sad to return to this comment section and see so many idiots defending pseudoscience.

  • @helpyourcattodrive
    @helpyourcattodrive Před 2 lety +8

    Thank you, Dave. I’m so with your mission. Thank you so much. I stated on another comment on one of your videos that I cannot believe all through humanity so much work has been done for progress and yet so many people are so dumb to reject it was such a ignorance, confident ignorance.

    • @russellmillar7132
      @russellmillar7132 Před 2 lety +2

      Yeah, these days a little bit of stupid goes a long, long way.

    • @glumsulk
      @glumsulk Před rokem +1

      Its bc stupid people genuinely dont understand how little they actually understand, and so assume they understand all there is to know.
      Whereas smart people understand they are actually kinda lacking in knowledge, relative to how much there is to actually learn in the world. Which is where the humility comes from. And the reverse is indeed where the lack of it comes from.
      Dunning-kruger yadda yadda yadda

    • @glumsulk
      @glumsulk Před rokem

      @@jaredmoore5232 i mean it depends on what. His ideas on transgenderism are completely dangerous and will do nothing but ruin lives tbh. he is unapologetically, and in fact incredibly patronizingly, pro-trans. To the point where he spouts the mainstream talking points, even though just a basic amount of research coupled with impartiality would show him how wrong he is on the topic.
      Its the reason why i unsubscribed from his channel; i cant in good faith support someone who believes such dangerous ideas with such fervor.
      It honestly sucked realizing he was just another brick in the wall of wokies.
      Oh also if you read thru his comments on any of his more involved videos, like the physics ones, there are plenty of actual engineers and other professionals saying he doesnt actually know what he is talking about... Granted, im not smart enough to verify, but judging on the trans opinion that he has, i was willing to believe them.
      So now i just watch the flat earth debunk vids when they come up bc they are all great, and the math isnt so crazy that i cant keep up.

    • @handledav
      @handledav Před rokem

      dave is one of the dumb people rejecting the progress

  • @frocat5163
    @frocat5163 Před 2 lety +18

    I will never understand the mentality that drives people to believe that because something is complex and they can't understand it, that thing must be wrong. I'm a pretty well-educated and intelligent person, but I'm thoroughly aware that there are plenty of things I don't know and don't understand. I don't think those things are fake / wrong.

    • @CrankyRayy
      @CrankyRayy Před 2 lety +1

      I think the reason is because humans think they know everything but we don't really know as much as we think we know. Science is constantly changing after all.

    • @madingo02
      @madingo02 Před 2 lety +3

      I had a friend who believed in this theory so I questioned him on it. The more questions I asked, i realised it wasn't about the science, he wanted to be an outsider going against the mainstream. He also believed in chemtrails, 9/11, cancer isn't real, etc. He's open to any theory as long as it goes against the "mainstream". Its completely a personality issue.

    • @zoyadulzura7490
      @zoyadulzura7490 Před 2 lety +1

      @@madingo02 This sounds exactly like some people I've known, the same specific beliefs they subscribed to, the same motivations for following those conspiracy theories. One of them was also very prone to falling for scams, like Bitcoin copycats, then when it would inevitably fall through, they'd blame the scammer and then fall for the next one. It's really tough to watch it and fail to help them see the cycle. They would get mad when told it was a scam. I think the mentality of wanting to have a special knowledge and go against the mainstream is part of what made them so gullible for scams--they sought special knowledge, about the nature of the world or about how to get rich quick. It's hard to help people like that.

  • @TheChris2hill
    @TheChris2hill Před 3 lety +152

    Interesting D&D campaign... wait Electric Universe is a thing?

    • @johnnyrepine937
      @johnnyrepine937 Před 2 lety

      Lunar lightning!

    • @colbycox8783
      @colbycox8783 Před 2 lety +6

      @Nathan O'Keefe that’s what happens when you don’t invest any points in intelligence or charisma

    • @cyberjfh
      @cyberjfh Před 2 lety +1

      @@colbycox8783 In Fallout RPG game, I always put more point in intelligence and charisma to get more interesting dialog and to access technology.

    • @colbycox8783
      @colbycox8783 Před 2 lety +1

      @@cyberjfh me too those are the best play throughs

    • @LateNightKaiju
      @LateNightKaiju Před 2 lety +2

      This reminds me of the old Spelljammer AD&D setting, and the Sons of Ether (mad scientists essentially) faction in Mage The Ascension.

  • @laurenroseanne8205
    @laurenroseanne8205 Před 2 lety +5

    I know someone who has fallen into the flat earth + electric universe stuff, and I'm here because I realised I didn't know enough science to confidently argue with them - at least not after they wouldn't accept all the simple reasons the Earth isn't flat that you can see with your own eyes. After watching some of your videos I now feel like I remember most of what I was taught in school again!

    • @xt5tx138
      @xt5tx138 Před 2 lety +1

      How can you believe both in flat earth and electric universe?

    • @laurenroseanne8205
      @laurenroseanne8205 Před 2 lety

      @@xt5tx138 no idea, but they do!

    • @XraynPR
      @XraynPR Před 2 lety +1

      @@laurenroseanne8205 is that person also some sort of young Earth creationist?

    • @laurenroseanne8205
      @laurenroseanne8205 Před 2 lety

      @@XraynPR I'm not sure but there is some sort of religious aspect to it yeah

    • @XraynPR
      @XraynPR Před 2 lety +1

      @@laurenroseanne8205 sounds like they just grabbed any internet woo available and stuck it together, must be a handful ...

  • @love_heaven
    @love_heaven Před 6 měsíci +4

    Thank you Professor Dave. I just recently stumbled upon an electric universe video that has million views. After a few minutes in the video, I felt what they are saying is wrong so I looked you up since I know you debunked flat earth. I learned a lot today.

    • @hamon_master1390
      @hamon_master1390 Před 6 měsíci

      If you were watching the why files he explains that the theory doesnt have a strong basis for reality but "never let the truth get in the way of a good story".

  • @joelstanley3894
    @joelstanley3894 Před 4 lety +31

    The electric universe has been promoted for 250 years and not just by fringe scientist and lay persons.I have never heard anyone promoting the EU say gravity does not exist or is not a force.Observations in the last 30 years give a lot of credibility to the Electric Universe.You should research some of them instead of sounding like a flat earther.

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  Před 4 lety +10

      Nope. It's a hoax. End of story. If you were to actually learn physics, you could see that.

    • @nihlify
      @nihlify Před 4 lety +2

      @@shockwave326 Congrats on showing your ignorance and lack of scientific understanding. Einsteins theories will go the same ways as Newtons yes, but it won't be replaced by the EU...

    • @fromagefrizzbizz9377
      @fromagefrizzbizz9377 Před 4 lety

      @@vincitomniaveritas3981 Those were full sentences, it is a hoax, and demonstrating that the theory is completely destroyed by physics is not ad-hom, it's simply the truth.

    • @bomblade15
      @bomblade15 Před 4 lety

      @@vincitomniaveritas3981 You don't know what a sentence is? And you don't know what ad hominem means?

    • @pavalotheartist
      @pavalotheartist Před 4 lety

      @@ProfessorDaveExplains I seems to me that some degree of personal insecurity witholds you from really investgating what EU claims. If you want to be a searcher for truth you would encourage others to investigate for themselves, as you imagine yourself to do. Instead you present yourself as a authority. sharp critics I know.
      I agree that any model contending should be scrutinised but just as much as the conventional model it contends. Furthermore some of your claims about EU concept are simply wrong or untrue. This means doing more extensive homework. Generalising a large number of people like you do is not a characteristic of an investigator. Take the issues and opinions one by one and you'll get much further than this. I got feeling that after glancing over the presented material your goal became how to make a debunking vid about rather than take the time to really let it sink in and see what has substance. I think you have gotten to a false conclusion and trying to convinve your public that you are right and that they need not look or ask or be curious about it themselves. You may doubt it as much as you like, but be pure about it and do not misrepresent what you dislike. Hope you take this as constructive criticism. Btw I'm not making claims about any concept being the absolute truth. Personally, based on years of following science and research, I think we are far from a conclusive model of the universe. Claims are made throughout time and are constantly undermined by observation, experimentation and interpretation.

  • @jokerjoe666
    @jokerjoe666 Před 3 lety +119

    You helped me, helping a friend who fall for the electric Universe. Thanks a lot!!!

  • @jamiegallier2106
    @jamiegallier2106 Před 7 měsíci +1

    I appreciate your enthusiasm and ability to convey complex concepts so seemingly effortlessly. ❤

  • @BrumbleBush
    @BrumbleBush Před 2 lety +2

    I was introduced to Electric universe theory by watching Ken Wheeler and occasionally it has popped into my mind. Glad to have a good debunking. Now what about Wolfram physics?

    • @BrumbleBush
      @BrumbleBush Před 2 lety

      @@DrWhom Thanks for insight, I really appreciate it!

  • @cbnewham5633
    @cbnewham5633 Před 4 lety +43

    "Now we've grounded ourselves..." 😂 Brilliant.

    • @DoctorPhobos
      @DoctorPhobos Před 4 lety +2

      I'm shocked he said that.

    • @user-pk9qo1gd6r
      @user-pk9qo1gd6r Před 4 lety +1

      @David Van Doren Ben Davidson is the equivalent of Nathan Oakley: the only things he does is saying how "mainstream" cosmology is wrong and that his "plasma" cosmology is somehow better without giving any conctrete evidence for that: he will dig for cosmological data that he can present as evidence for his hoax without ever elaborating or citing any science papers that would show such a connection, because he knows he can't. He does that so he can sound appealing to laypeople who don't have the required knowledge (which is most people actually, and that's the danger about this type of hoax), so that they hopefully buy his book (only 45 bucks!) conference tickets, or a premium membership on his beautifully professional website. Did you?

    • @pranavlimaye
      @pranavlimaye Před 4 lety

      @@mrsHeather985 ....did you just ruin a wonderful pun for me? •_•

    • @wishusknight3009
      @wishusknight3009 Před 4 lety

      @David Van Doren Debate a guy who is clueless about basic grade 4 science? HAHAHAHAHA

    • @CHristopherSierzchula
      @CHristopherSierzchula Před 4 lety

      Descriptions of a force does not explain it

  • @Giescul
    @Giescul Před 4 lety +47

    I have a feeling that this is going to turn into another back and forth like it did with the globebusters. Can't wait.

    • @flookd5516
      @flookd5516 Před 4 lety +10

      MotesYT Predicts how?

    • @flookd5516
      @flookd5516 Před 4 lety +10

      MotesYT So your argument is that less than perfect knowledge of the sun means we should summarily dump everything we go and accept conjecture as gospel truth but that’s just gotta be right?

    • @pranavlimaye
      @pranavlimaye Před 4 lety +9

      @@MotesTV it's spelled "quiet". Go to school. (After the lockdown though)

    • @freddan6fly
      @freddan6fly Před 4 lety +1

      @@MotesTV The power of the sun in EU is around the same as the power of Jupiter. Jupiter on the non sunlit side is around -145C. A bit hotter than the surrounding but not by much. Go outside during daytime. Is it bright? Then the EU model is debunked. In EU model it would be pitch dark. The sun surface is in fact 5600 degrees and the sun is hot and bright. Thus EU "model" is debunked.

    • @freddan6fly
      @freddan6fly Před 3 lety +1

      @@MotesTV It was a napkin math debunk. But EU model has no math themselves. If you have extraordinary claim, you should provide extraordinary proofs. If you remove fusion from the sun, it is no longer hot. You should provide the math for it. Not just say "you are not even trying really". It is you who should *prove* that the EU model works.

  • @mikenorfleet2235
    @mikenorfleet2235 Před 2 lety +11

    Gaslighting is pervasive and people want to believe stories. Scientific Method is not emotionally driven and is significantly harder to employ because it takes effort to think. Belief requires less energy, even if its a belief in something false.

  • @JesusMowsMaLawn
    @JesusMowsMaLawn Před 2 lety +4

    I honestly don't understand the people in the comments stating that you're making "sweeping claims" about gravity and our understanding of it. Yes, we don't understand everything about gravity, but that applies to literally everything the in the universe. That doesn't mean what we shouldn't treat the understanding we have at our disposal as being fact. If we have the best possible explanation for something and there's no equally valid alternative, why wouldn't we apply it? Jesus, it's just like the flat Earthers all over again. Do schools not teach the scientific method anymore or something?
    Anyway, great job on the video. Reading your replies to some of the more recent comments was pretty funny

  • @JohnWilliams-lf5xb
    @JohnWilliams-lf5xb Před 4 lety +17

    I love your channel! In every video you explain and word everything perfectly for me so that I only need to watch it once. Thank you

    • @alfonsoislas5948
      @alfonsoislas5948 Před 4 lety +4

      @@osmosisjones4912 when two forces act on an object, but in opposite direction, the vectors are summed, and the net force results in acceleration of matter. Thats why monorails push the train off the tracks, but the EMF is only stronger than gravity when the train is super close to the rail, thus when the two forces are equal, the train can levitate in equilibrium. Also, i get a migrain trying to read your comments

    • @phxgen
      @phxgen Před 4 lety +3

      @@osmosisjones4912 How English language.

    • @wolfster1063
      @wolfster1063 Před 4 lety +1

      Yooo a donation buddy

  • @gipugly
    @gipugly Před 3 lety +47

    Poor Nikola, he's been in so many conspiracy and hoaxes such as free energy towers and stuff because of his inventions. :/

    • @markbrisec3972
      @markbrisec3972 Před 2 lety +10

      If he knew what some people would claim 80 years after his death, he would have gone mad and talked to the pigeons much sooner..

    • @chrisgenovese8188
      @chrisgenovese8188 Před 2 lety +5

      I like the people who claim he was murdered because he was gonna expose 'free energy'. Mofos, he was almost 90 when he died!

    • @alexrator7674
      @alexrator7674 Před 2 lety +1

      How dar you insuLt OuR sUPreme LEader Tesla You will BE banished to ELectricity JaIL

    • @sujimtangerines
      @sujimtangerines Před 2 lety

      I managed to scoff at or dismiss everything presented until that point. Co-opting Tesla like that made me angry.
      He had issues & was definitely misunderstood & taken advantage of but whenever he had an hypothesis, he tested it. When he questioned a model, he provided an alternative.

  • @lolly9804
    @lolly9804 Před 2 lety +9

    I knew nothing about this before the conspiracy nut in my life, mentioned it in an arguement we had over whether gravity is real. I got the impression then that he was just mashing science words together. So good to know he was doing just that.

  • @Lucas-ki9vc
    @Lucas-ki9vc Před rokem +9

    How do you still manage to go to every comment, two years after you made this video. Mad respect man

  • @Tomoose736
    @Tomoose736 Před 4 lety +37

    Does electromagnetism affect planetary and solar system formation? Yes it does, compare that to gravity and it's nearly negligible.
    I am open to the theory that there is a single unifying force holding the universe together... Could there be a single force that accounts for both gravity and electromagnetism? Yes. But that unifying force has not yet been described and gravity MUST be a part of that equation.
    You can call it whatever you want. If you dig down deep enough, gravity and electromagnetism might be lesser effects of the same force.
    Right now we don't know. My guess is that there is a unifying force, we're just waiting for some supergenius to have an "aha" moment.

    • @NinjaMonkeyPrime
      @NinjaMonkeyPrime Před 4 lety +6

      So even though all evidence points in one direction, you still want to look in a different direction because it sounds cool?

    • @sandornagy1565
      @sandornagy1565 Před 4 lety +4

      Ian w16

    • @sandornagy1565
      @sandornagy1565 Před 4 lety +3

      Ian w16

    • @sandornagy1565
      @sandornagy1565 Před 4 lety +3

      NinjaMonkeyPrime

    • @NinjaMonkeyPrime
      @NinjaMonkeyPrime Před 4 lety +6

      @@sandornagy1565 The evidence is all the research on gravity and EM we have to date. In order to believe in EU you need to forget what we know about EM and then insert magic woo.

  • @MrBrianms
    @MrBrianms Před 4 lety +13

    In my opinion. you're arguing with your idea of the thunderbolt project. Donald scot explained the electric star model precisely and Wal Thornhill accepted that gravity is there and that the electromagnetic force is much greater. I'm thinking that you haven't watched all the lectures before forming your opinion.

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  Před 4 lety +3

      There is no "electric star model". There's some bullshit paraded as science. It does not correlate with reality. At all. You also misinterpreted what I said about who believes what, likely because you were too triggered by my dismantling of your ridiculous worldview.

    • @azerdraco3146
      @azerdraco3146 Před 4 lety +9

      All great scientific discovery comes from those brave enough to not only question the "entrenched dogma" of the day, but also work to expand and prove their theories.
      I'm not saying that either side is right or wrong. And yes, our understanding of physics HAS lead to a lot of additional understanding in other fields.
      But in the same way that the heliocentric system was fought and called idiotic by the mainstream during the time of Copernicus, so too may portions of the Electric universe be true.
      Never dismiss ANY theory unless you yourself can create or replicate an experiment that either proves or disproves it.

    • @fromagefrizzbizz9377
      @fromagefrizzbizz9377 Před 4 lety

      @@azerdraco3146 Unfortunately, in SAFIRE's case, all we have is SAFIRE's word for any of it, and not enough information for anyone to test it out, and even if it did, it STILL can't explain the discrepencies between EU and the real universe that gravity is so good at explaining.
      There is nothing whatsoever wrong with the plasma theories surrounding EU. EU itself, however, is a crock and simply doesn't work.

    • @mcrrocks897
      @mcrrocks897 Před 4 lety

      @@azerdraco3146 Unfortunately you show fundamental ignorance about the scientific method. The responsibility lays on the proposer of the theory to provide evidence supporting their ideas, it is not up to others to provide evidence to disprove wild and ridiculous theories that fly in the face of preceding evidence.

  • @thegreatgazoo2334
    @thegreatgazoo2334 Před rokem +2

    It was when I read the Velikovsky-type claims that the planets were wandering around just a few thousand years ago that I realized there was less to it than I first thought. Later, I read about the serious hypothesis that some did indeed wander a bit, but not within any kind of human time scale.

    • @manuell3505
      @manuell3505 Před rokem

      Wander?
      You would be surprised reading real science regarding the history of the solar system. Like asteroid collisions that have spread material all over the place. That knowledge is very solid.

  • @barefootalien
    @barefootalien Před 2 lety +17

    The problem with debunking videos like this is... well, actually there are multiple problems, including that it actually serves to give attention to the very things they're trying to debunk, i.e. feeding the trolls... but the _main_ problem is this:
    In order to communicate effectively with the kinds of people who buy into these kinds of pseudo-science, who invariably don't have sufficient education to understand the full nuance of the real science involved, you have to dumb down the science _a lot._ For people _with_ the education to understand the nuance, we can recognize where you've dumbed it down and why, and realize the way you're trying to make your points, but for people _without_ that education, it's your word against "someone else's."
    So, say I'm a highly credentialed scientist who has a CZcams channel in which I say something like, "Gravity alone is not completely sufficient to define how galaxies form and move, why star-forming regions are where they are, and how they interact in clusters."
    This is completely true, of course... and to someone with a full education in astrophysics, it will contain a lot of subtext along the lines of "A galaxy's magnetic field can help guide and move gas to form overdense and underdense regions, which can trigger star formation in consistent regions that greatly influence the galaxy's future shape, even though of course gravity has far greater effects on the motions of those stars once they're created, and the macroscopic orbits of the gas as a bulk. Furthermore, certain interactions between elements of galactic clusters demonstrate important effects, such as relativistic jets and plumes that seem to slam into invisible walls and flatten out, that can't be explained by gravity alone, and are also neatly explained by electromagnetic interactions with a hot but very sparse plasma and/or the magnetic fields of the entire cluster."
    But to the uneducated pseudo-science adherent, all they heard was "This person with better credentials than you said that gravity can't explain a lot of stuff, and the really powerful thing that decides where stars are made and how galaxies look is electromagnetism!"
    And now, my more nuanced take has 'defeated' your _deliberately_ more simplified take that was _intended_ to defeat the pseudoscience, and winds up supporting the pseudoscience (for those people) _because_ it's more nuanced, i.e. they lack the education to fully understand said nuance.
    So, just as an example from this video, you say things like "Gravity is the attraction between all matter." Well... I mean, yeah. The Newtonian interpretation of gravity does say that, but we know (and I'm sure you know) that that is just a useful approximation of an emergent property that holds and is very helpful for, certain limited regimes of scale and movement.
    So now imagine that that person hears on another channel with a much bigger name or institution name attached, say, Fermilab or Sean Carrol or someone like that, that in fact, that isn't what gravity is at all; it isn't a force. Objects actually don't fall because of a force at all, but because _time_ simply flows toward massive objects, so an object isn't really being "attracted" to the celestial body, so much as its future simply _does_ intersect that body in a predictable way due to the flow of spacetime (but mostly time).
    Because they didn't have the education or insight to be able to fully grasp the nuance of that much more complex and mind-blowing definition of gravity with relation to tennis balls and planets, the correct but confusing and nuanced part just kind of glitches out in their mind and doesn't really get recorded as memory in any sensible way. And yet, they _do_ remember hearing someone really believable saying that the way _you_ described gravity, isn't it at all; they remember the _impression_ that your take on gravity, and theirs previous, is wrong "somehow".
    Now, the next time they hear someone _else_ repeat that your version is wrong, but also offer a replacement that sounds plausible to them, and just understandable enough to be impressive... and then toss in some psychology and a need to have a special insight others don't have and... boom. Your debunking video, plus Fermilab's deeper analysis video, plus some troll's semi-plausible pseudoscience video, equals a new pseudoscience adherent, like magic!
    So I... get what you're trying to do, and I admire it. But ultimately it can only fail. To _really_ "debunk" this kind of nonsense, you need to engage those people where they really are, interest them enough in science to get them to open their minds and _want_ to learn how the world really works (NOT that they are wrong, just "would you like to know more?"), and help them gain enough education, from the ground up, to finally acquire genuine understanding. This, of course, is exhausting, nearly impossible, and is the job of _society_ from parents to schools to media in a ground-up effort... and since our society in America is kind of trying really hard to do the exact opposite, it's... kind of a losing battle.
    Of course... the subtext of all of this is that _your_ purpose is, at least on some level, to generate popular content, get views and subscribers, and earn money. Which, of course, is exactly the same purpose that _most_ of the flat earthers and electric universers have as well, which kind of makes you one half of the economic microcosm that perpetuates these piles of nonsense in the first place.
    Plus, I mean... some people are just really bound and determined to dumb. Dumb can't be argued with, or reasoned with. It can only be educated... and even then, only if it wants to. Determined dumb is just dumb, and there's sadly not much we can do about it.
    P.S. Your cartoon guy (version of you?) you use at various points in this, with the brown hair, brown eyes, and green shirt? Pretty cute! Did you draw him? -Too bad he's not barefoot.- >_

    • @nashviperthe4th66
      @nashviperthe4th66 Před 2 lety +1

      Stopped half in the wall of text but good shit i gave you like

    • @human78631
      @human78631 Před rokem +2

      It's a cynical take and I have a horrible feeling you're right, but I still prefer people like Dave to do what they do, for anyone on the side of reason to speak up in any way they can. I sure as hell don't have the emotional fortitude to try to engage with anyone and explain things, present things on a silver platter perfectly customized for what their situation might be, in order to spark curiosity and not spook them and cause them to scurry away to the "enemy camp"...
      My issue with these videos is actually the hostility and how he kinda unintentionally spits at the field of psychology and mentally ill people here, throwing around stuff like "simple psychology", "delusion", "personality disorder" and even "unemployable" which doesn't really have anything to do with how intelligent or willing to learn someone is. There's several reasons why someone might be unable to work. This won't make someone who is disadvantaged and looking to something (pseudocience) to make them feel better about themselves (as Dave correctly identified as one reason) any more likely to engage in good faith, as they're not engaged with in good faith either... But... it really is next to impossible to find the right formula to snap someone out of it and I fully admit to have descended to apathy, just trying to make it from one day to the next. I keep educating myself but have very little faith overall.

    • @kathykonkle1097
      @kathykonkle1097 Před rokem

      @@human78631 Exactly. I find him so offensive I'll go elsewhere to learn.

    • @adrianaslund8605
      @adrianaslund8605 Před rokem

      @@human78631 Yeah. I don't like his tone. It makes the people that you actually want to get through to, defensive. And what's the point in that.

    • @EzekielLutherWright
      @EzekielLutherWright Před rokem

      'Debunking ' is a big research area across the social sciences, we're figuring a few things out. And all too often, the way we (society) attempt to debunk is not very productive

  • @desel8737
    @desel8737 Před 3 lety +19

    i like to think that the rules that define our universe (and others?) are like puzzle pieces of a really really big universal puzzle.
    we have already found a few pieces that fit together (with science) and are now wondering how the puzzle will look like when it's complete.
    and than we have those people who try to complete the universal puzzle by adding cornflakes as puzzle pieces...

    • @Endelite
      @Endelite Před 3 lety +7

      That'd be the dark matter and dark energy then.

    • @SnootchieBootchies27
      @SnootchieBootchies27 Před 2 lety

      Or they just try to smash the pieces together

  • @brucewilson77
    @brucewilson77 Před 4 lety +12

    Dark matter is real? Do a video on that. I have not seen where that had been discovered yet.

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  Před 4 lety +6

      i did that! check out my astronomy playlist.

    • @nihlify
      @nihlify Před 4 lety +3

      @@TrusePkay Let me know when they have a working model that explains the same thing as our current theories.

    • @fromagefrizzbizz9377
      @fromagefrizzbizz9377 Před 4 lety

      For the vary simplest proof: Neutrinos, for example, are dark matter. They're proven to exist by a number of research labs. So dark matter is real.

  • @sebastianb.3978
    @sebastianb.3978 Před 2 lety +16

    There is one good thing about the electric universe: it gave me a setting for a space adventure that could be fun to map out.

  • @uraid
    @uraid Před 2 lety +1

    I saw that movie a while back and acknowledged it as basically meaning "Alright, there's electric charge moving throughout these universal 'filaments' which determines the shape of said filaments. On small scales, though, gravity rules."
    I thought it was just something they said governed the shape of universal structures. I didn't know it was this mad.

  • @Yourwaifuisntreal
    @Yourwaifuisntreal Před 4 lety +17

    Dude. Kudos for making a video about this "electric universe". It's a subject that's often ignored when it comes to pseudo-science debunking.

    • @smashexentertainment676
      @smashexentertainment676 Před 4 lety +2

      Yeah, that bold fat arrogant schmuck Theoria Apostasis even wrote a book about that shit and deletes the comments he doesn't like.

    • @Yourwaifuisntreal
      @Yourwaifuisntreal Před 4 lety +2

      ​@@smashexentertainment676 - I had no idea this fat schmuck even existed until you mentioned him. He even has his own take on the 5G TECHNOLOGY, and oh boy, the top comments. Its hard to tell whether or not they're genuine or just trolls screwing with these delusional narcissists.
      Here are some examples:
      "I'm ashamed to say in a previous life I was a disinformation agent before I woke up and turned on my masters and leaked the crap they were about.their beyond countries beyond boundaries of all kinds but have united agenda unlike the gen. Population. I don't think they can be stopped but we must try"
      "don't be concerned about being called a ' conspiracy theorist' , we know the term was invented by the C.I.A to ridicule thinking people. and make us self censor. I am proud to be a Conspiracy Theorist. I made a T-Shirt. When the conspiracies stop the theories will stop."
      "This extreme trolling is solid proof that 5g is a military weapon ... the trolls seem to swarm on me when I comment on these topics: 5g, vaccines, israel, and believe it or not, FLAT EARTH and NASA fakery! I wonder if they are all part of a nefarious plot somehow ....."
      "You are obviously over the target..5G is a weapon (simple)...full spectrum dominance, in military use for years and about to go urban for crowd control, tracking and wet works!! ;)"
      "Labelling something/somebody a 'conspiracy' = silencing and oppressing scrutiny"
      " This was not a "person" sweet pea. This was Ai. This was the proverbial beast of revelation. Prove me wrong."
      I'll have to keep an eye on this "Theoria Apostasis" channel.

    • @hexzyle
      @hexzyle Před 4 lety +2

      I'm so glad some of these channels are giving it attention. It's much more convincing than flat earth since its believers do have a basic understanding of science, and is difficult to debunk sometimes because they talk about topics a layperson wouldnt understand. I went through a 8 minute thunderbolts video on my channel and it took me over an hour to disprove because of how complex it is. It does my head in trying to learn enough about the topics to understand how they are wrong

    • @freddan6fly
      @freddan6fly Před 4 lety

      @@smashexentertainment676 *bald*

  • @JamesHolben
    @JamesHolben Před 4 lety +23

    I would dearly love to see you debate this issue with Ben Davidson. By the way "Professor", how many degrees do you hold? Please answer.

    • @athands
      @athands Před 4 lety +3

      You can literally look at his about page and see his degrees.
      On the contrary though... Ben Davidson only has degrees in economics and law. I wouldn't be the one to talk about credentials ;)

    • @NinjaMonkeyPrime
      @NinjaMonkeyPrime Před 4 lety

      Do you have a Ben t-shirt?

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  Před 4 lety +4

      Haha, I have two, in chemistry and science education. How many does Ben hold that are relevant to science? Zero.

    • @carlhoward5469
      @carlhoward5469 Před 4 lety +1

      @@ProfessorDaveExplains Funny... I initially took his comment as a sarcastic stab at your constant "appeal to authority". ;-) and..., I'm not seeing much in the way of physics in your cv there.

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  Před 4 lety +4

      Apart from the physics I took for my chemistry degree, including an E&M lab, it's irrelevant. I'm not the one contradicting science. I report science. When someone with zero science education thinks they can rewrite physics, they're delusional. That's Ben.

  • @flandrescarlet2655
    @flandrescarlet2655 Před 10 měsíci +8

    i love electricity, but nah man, Electric Universe is just stupid

  • @SuperTonyony
    @SuperTonyony Před 2 lety +10

    I found this quote from an electric universe believer: "In an interdisciplinary science like the Electric Universe, you could say we have no peers, so peer review is not available."
    Wow.......

    • @ianw_xvi8784
      @ianw_xvi8784 Před 2 lety +3

      That was from the idiot Wal Thornhill. Co-founder of the Velikovskian cult.

    • @okuno54
      @okuno54 Před 2 lety +3

      The best (worst?) part is that interdisciplinary fields have _more_ peers

    • @zoyadulzura7490
      @zoyadulzura7490 Před 2 lety

      I feel like that quote illustrates part of the appeal of fringe theories like this: the fact that few people believe it makes followers feel special, like they're holding some rare, exclusive knowledge, which makes them feel superior to the masses who put their trust in real science. They don't want to admit that they fell for something flashy sounding and simply don't understand proper science.

  • @sunrazor2622
    @sunrazor2622 Před 4 lety +47

    By definition, solar winds carrying electric charge _is_ electric current.

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  Před 4 lety +20

      So because the sun emits charged particles, there are magic invisible electric currents connecting every star and every galaxy which powers all of them and relativity isn't true? Got it! Thanks, bud!

    • @fromagefrizzbizz9377
      @fromagefrizzbizz9377 Před 4 lety +5

      So what? Compare the power inherent in an infinitesimally thin solar wind to a great fat thermonuclear furnace consuming millions of tons of hydrogen per second. The solar wind should be glowing white hot and melting the earth. is it? Nope.

    • @shokker2445
      @shokker2445 Před 4 lety +7

      @@northeastslingshot1664 Strong argument there mate.

    • @mahlononthemoon2728
      @mahlononthemoon2728 Před 4 lety +6

      @@ProfessorDaveExplains wow youre dense

    • @mahlononthemoon2728
      @mahlononthemoon2728 Před 4 lety +4

      @@loveleyday exactly

  • @earth14rocco36
    @earth14rocco36 Před 3 lety +33

    Without this video, who knws how far down I could've gone...

  • @theguythatknowssongsfromvi6619

    Interesting the kind of theories people come up with, for monetary gain or not. Are you planning to debunk any other common universe / creation type theory thingies?

  • @lazergurka-smerlin6561
    @lazergurka-smerlin6561 Před 2 lety +21

    I just now realized ppl are abreviating Electric Universe and are not talking about the European Union

    • @anarchyantz1564
      @anarchyantz1564 Před 2 lety +3

      Well both are stupid to be honest so easy to confuse

  • @Felixkeeg
    @Felixkeeg Před 4 lety +69

    Could've started out with telling us that those people cite literal cave drawings, would've spared me watching 10 minutes of this.

    • @DarkAlkaiser
      @DarkAlkaiser Před 4 lety +9

      @@sonpopco-op9682 It's entirely possible the drawings were of a constellation that existed at that time, plenty of stars have died and even exploded. Most likely they weren't trying to tell people in the future anything.
      How often do ones doodles have meaning for the future?

    • @blackhat4206
      @blackhat4206 Před 4 lety +6

      Son&PopCo-OP Yeah too bad all we can do is baselessly speculate as to what was going through the mind of loincloth Leonardo Da Vinci... Then again that applies to most art/artists. I do like some of his nature paintings though! You know, the ones with the horses? Their most impressive accomplishments include making pigments and using them in caves where time and weather have a harder time erasing them.
      I really enjoyed the first part of Ancient Aliens too! Some people will believe anything. For me, I lend any idea credibility until it becomes obvious that speculation is really all it is. I could imagine the aboriginal people drawing the large white humanoids (ancestors or aliens!?) who currently rule Scientology Centers all over the flat plane, but I’ll never know what Tom Cruise or Flat Earthers are thinking! 😂

    • @DarkAlkaiser
      @DarkAlkaiser Před 4 lety +2

      @@GlennSwart So how does time dilation work in an electric universe?

    • @invaderzim256
      @invaderzim256 Před 4 lety +1

      @@Keys4Change No life would survive on earth to the point of a supernova let alone survive it.

    • @kingmanspiritsandwine8291
      @kingmanspiritsandwine8291 Před 4 lety +5

      @@invaderzim256 He said the sun's nova. Not a supernova. We now know that many stars repeatedly nova and still remain.

  • @NYCFenrir
    @NYCFenrir Před 4 lety +30

    Off topic but I'm disappointed in that you didn't go over the "Crisis in Cosmology" paper that came out last year when you covered the early universe in earlier videos.

    • @RomanBelisarius
      @RomanBelisarius Před 3 lety

      Suggest it to him directly in posts or write an email to him! Try your best to get heard, and ignore this Kenny Nickell who again like many other comes from pure bad faith/motivation thinking fully bad of Dave (and on the other hand fully believing the gospel of Michio Kaku, even though Michio was likely referring to a different cosmological theory like the old heliocentric from Copernicus or something else on that 10^120 thing). The difference is not that the whole entire model is wrong, and while the time/distance discrepancy between the two methods in the crisis in cosmology is large and noticeable, it's not off by a factor of 10^120.
      If it however eventually shows it to be, would mean the universe would be 10^120 as much old, (as it is no way 10^-111th of a second young)

  • @godagon97
    @godagon97 Před 2 lety +1

    Very well done episode, Dave!! 💯🔥🍻

  • @philipmetts8831
    @philipmetts8831 Před 3 měsíci +3

    You know that's really freaky is the way the electric universe theory describes the sun. Like it is liquid and they show wave motions on the sun caught on video.
    I get one thing though is that iomagnetic levitation of objects is real but that doesn't mean magnetic forces keep us down.

  • @Zenodilodon
    @Zenodilodon Před 4 lety +14

    Except here in the shop we see AC fields coupling due EM waves and their temporal offset. The source would be the very small charges that are AC within the very small small parts such as quarks, except smaller or with-in them. The idea if at one point things move at the same speed since they are too small to interact directly with larger electromagnetic sources. Think about an antenna for receiving a UHF signal, yet it cannot receive a signal from a light bulb. It's not the motion of electrons as we see in electromagnetism, but the universe isn't just electrons. If we look at the Lorentz force equations there is the law that any charge in motion creates an " electromagnetic wave " Though not all sources of charges in motion are electrons such as protons and quarks. So figure things like quarks make waves to small for us to detect with molecular/atomic based radiation/EMF detectors. Gravity can be one of these easily, it's a very strong force with weak interaction. Waves so fast and small that they cannot interact with matter strongly, or for that matter anything, this is why you simply cannot block gravity even it's it's a " Electromagnetic field " quite the same way, because it's simply not EMF made from the movement of electrons.
    So at one point we have a stable field that is emitted from electrons, up quarks, and down quarks and there self referenced fields in space. We have EMF fields that are AC and couple and are mostly passive with a weak interaction force globally. Both things are covered quite easily in this case. And this can be modeled however not directly interacted with due to technological limitations. It gets complicated, what do you expect. I am also not a nutcase nor a pseudoscience fan by any means, quite the opposite. As I have said there has been tests with this happening and we can pull objects with AC fields demonstrably and I am also a well read and skilled laser technician of whom studies the interactions of EMF with materials. Why we don't have flying anti-gravity cars is covered under the impossible nature of trying to build structures on the subatomic scale that can repel billions of tiny weakly interacting EFMs derived from leptons and quarks, it simply isn't possible. Secondly we cannot block it because these are not simply waves that interact with electrons, these are small, very very small. Gravity to an atom/molecule is akin to a UHF antenna picking up light.
    I am up for thorough discussion on this and I can easily show you video of AC coupling objects together, it's not quite the same but it shows that this interaction is due to time delay over space vs the movement of the EMF fields and using AC also shows it's not electrostatic attraction. You asked to see it and understand the models and explanation of where is comes from, why it's constant, why it cannot be blocked, and why the fundamentals of this if true cannot be put into practice technologically. The electric universe has been blown out of the water in the same aspects quantum physics has been by pseudoscience but the real deep core that takes years of study to understand still has merit. My contact information is on my about me section, the offer of discussion is open.

  • @pepejulianonziema69
    @pepejulianonziema69 Před 4 lety +43

    The scientists are debating whether the universe is flat or curved.
    meanwhile, many people still believe the earth is flat🤦🤦

    • @tsvetanstoychev655
      @tsvetanstoychev655 Před 4 lety +1

      They aren't really debating that anymore. It is considered flat (the universe, of course), to my knowledge.

    • @allekatrase3751
      @allekatrase3751 Před 4 lety +10

      @@tsvetanstoychev655 I don't think it's entirely settled. It is seemingly flat to the limits of our ability to measure, but nobody knows the scale of the entire universe so even curvature too small for us to currently measure could be meaningful.

    • @death_parade
      @death_parade Před 4 lety +5

      @@tsvetanstoychev655 Nothing is settled. For all we know, we could be in a Klein bottle analogue of a 3D manifold embedded in 5D space.

    • @beneu95
      @beneu95 Před 4 lety

      Have your head checked first before making an ass out of yourself.

    • @pepejulianonziema69
      @pepejulianonziema69 Před 4 lety +6

      @@beneu95 have you fucking head checked yourself, you fucking flat brained flat earther

  • @danielhumphreys4429
    @danielhumphreys4429 Před 2 lety +5

    2:26 'Black holes aren't real' I wonder how they're going to explain the picture we have of one.

  • @bjorndanielsen4680
    @bjorndanielsen4680 Před rokem

    Damn son. Turning the one debunk into a double slap of debunking with Flat Earth too within a minute. That's great.

  • @The_Laser_Kittens
    @The_Laser_Kittens Před 3 lety +13

    I love that you said "as currently understood by physicists."
    Perfect Science. Holding to what's been proven true while leaving an opening for further knowledge.

    • @scotty
      @scotty Před 3 lety +3

      ? Nothings been 'proven true' the currently understood models in physics are wrong.

    • @GamesFromSpace
      @GamesFromSpace Před 2 lety +1

      Scientists hate being wrong. They hate it so much that they spend all their time trying to prove themselves wrong, so that they could start being less wrong.

  • @proxim_24
    @proxim_24 Před 3 lety +31

    the fact that this has so many dislikes is depressing

    • @proxim_24
      @proxim_24 Před 3 lety +3

      @Bacon Cheeseberg oh no 😭 i wasn’t writing formally as if the CZcams comment section is a college paper :,(((

    • @proxim_24
      @proxim_24 Před 3 lety +2

      @Bacon Cheeseberg if i get to the age of having kids, i’ll be LESS concerned about how people talk in a CZcams comment section. get over yourself.

  • @howiestillgamez5326
    @howiestillgamez5326 Před 2 lety +10

    Sorting the comments by newest first and reading every person that Prof. Dave responds to has made me lose multiple braincells in the past minute.

    • @MRWERK-hh8gc
      @MRWERK-hh8gc Před 2 měsíci

      He's still doing it. Idk how he had a patience to do this and not suffer from this

  • @Paraselene_Tao
    @Paraselene_Tao Před 2 lety +8

    First, I am not any kind of whacky, ideology-pushing person. The following are simply my curious questions.
    First question: how do we find the mass of something like Mars or the Moon? Second question: when I have the mass of a large body like Mars or the Moon, then I calculate its surface gravity, then how do I measure/observe its gravity without going there and dropping something on the surface?
    I'm not asking these questions to build doubt. I'm simply curious about how things work. I should review an astronomy textbook, watch your astromony lecture series, or study the topic more. Thanks.

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  Před 2 lety +15

      I think mainly by looking at its orbit, and density calculations, stuff like that. I'm not sure about observations of acceleration due to gravity, I just know that when we went to the moon and dropped stuff, it all checked out.

    • @Paraselene_Tao
      @Paraselene_Tao Před 2 lety +6

      @@ProfessorDaveExplains I appreciate you and all of your work, Dave. Have a great afternoon.

    • @lorenzobarazzuol5307
      @lorenzobarazzuol5307 Před 2 lety +7

      You can measure the mass of the planets simply by looking at the orbits of the various planets.
      Now, since there's the famous N-bodies problem, we don't have a law that lets us calculate the orbits of all the planets at the same time, so what happens is that you observe, make a graph and then make an approximate fit. Once you can verify that this fit is accurate fornthe most part, you take what's called the residues (the parts your initial fit cannot describe well) and make a correction so to make another, more accurate, fit, and so on. This method is basically on the lines of trial-and-error, but works so well you can calculate the masses of exoplanets as well.
      As for the surface gravity, Newton's gravitational theory is one of the best understood theories of physics, and since we know for a fact the Gm1m2/r² works, and calculating the radius of a planet is easy, you can find the sirface gravity of any planet you please, and since you know the formula is right, you can assume you are right

    • @Paraselene_Tao
      @Paraselene_Tao Před 2 lety +3

      @@lorenzobarazzuol5307 Thank you Lorenzo.

    • @lorenzobarazzuol5307
      @lorenzobarazzuol5307 Před 2 lety +3

      @@Paraselene_Tao no problem, glad to have answered your question

  • @jjbz0399
    @jjbz0399 Před 4 lety +13

    23:06 Why did he use the Fallout guy showing the middle finger and slap "EU" to on it it represent someone who believes in the Electric Universe? It seems so out of place.

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  Před 4 lety +11

      i have to use images that are licensed for fair use, i just take what i can get for free, i don't really know or care who the little dude is.

    • @sirwhitemeat9785
      @sirwhitemeat9785 Před 3 lety

      @@BenGrem917 you must be 10 year old

    • @davorbrijacak
      @davorbrijacak Před 3 lety +1

      @@sirwhitemeat9785 Jesse Lee Peterson: "ar yu an adult vidya gaymer? BEYTAH!"

    • @attemptingconclusion2935
      @attemptingconclusion2935 Před 3 lety +1

      @@davorbrijacak lol yeah didn't someone call him a computer gamer?

  • @JohnSmith-vd6fc
    @JohnSmith-vd6fc Před 4 lety +22

    I was attracted to your electrifying discussion of this subject. Thus you inadvertently proved that the Electric Universe is true.

    • @ThErElOaDeR99
      @ThErElOaDeR99 Před 4 lety +3

      He is using strawman arguments without actually showing any proof, kind of interesting. But, truly weird he says learn science yet shows no backing for all his claims about the Electric Universe being pseudoscience.
      Truth and Freedom!
      Peace and Love!

    • @fizzy4149
      @fizzy4149 Před 4 lety +3

      ​@@ThErElOaDeR99 -- Give me one example of something that he should "prove".
      Generally speaking, Dave's overall contention is that the EU asserts many claims (e.g., The moon's craters are caused by lightning. The Sun is externally powered via an influx of electrical current. etc ...) but they offer no proof for these claims. Are you saying that he (Dave) needs to _prove_ that the EU has no proof? I always thought that the burden of a claim is on the person who is making the claim. Regarding the electric sun model Dave asks, and I'm merely paraphrasing, if the sun is externally powered by electrical currents then why isn't there a map of such currents? It's a question. What is he supposed to prove?
      The general consensus of the EU community is that "mainstream science" is something akin to a huge corporation, such as an oil company. The EU presents itself as a solar wind upstart that can power the world in a way that's much cleaner and much less expensive. But it's all about money. The general relativity factory has too much at stake. The EU community must be silenced!! So the thousands of people from all over the world, who study things such as general relativity, are in on some sort of conspiracy, to hush the competition so that their theory can continue to flourish. Is this not the idea that the EU community puts out? Well this was one of the topics in this video. I'm at a loss. What should he prove?

    • @freddan6fly
      @freddan6fly Před 4 lety +1

      15 seconds debunk of -flat earth- electrical universe: Go outside daytime. Is there light? If so Electrical Universe is debunked, since EU has a model of sun power that would yield about as much power as the not lit side of Jupiter @ 128 Kelvin has a bit warmer than the surrounding but not by much. The sun's surface is in fact around 6000K and bright.

  • @johngavin1175
    @johngavin1175 Před 2 lety +10

    I have a personality disorder,and dont buy into the conspiracy,anti science bullshit. I have respect for science.

    • @pastoryoda294
      @pastoryoda294 Před 2 lety +3

      Then it’s not targeted at you

    • @zoyadulzura7490
      @zoyadulzura7490 Před 2 lety

      That line irked me a bit. Not fond of "personality disorder" as an insult. I've never heard of a personality disorder making someone more likely to believe in conspiracy theories, so its use here is totally irrelevant.

    • @johngavin1175
      @johngavin1175 Před 2 lety

      @@zoyadulzura7490 You mean me,or how Professor Dave used it? I like Dave,but that kinda irritated me to be honest.

    • @zoyadulzura7490
      @zoyadulzura7490 Před 2 lety +1

      @@johngavin1175 I mean in the video. I feel the same way you do.

    • @johngavin1175
      @johngavin1175 Před 2 lety

      @@zoyadulzura7490 Thats good. Would OCD and Intrusive thoughts count as or be related to personality disorders?