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  • čas přidán 13. 07. 2024
  • In this week’s Q&A, Fraser talks about how aliens might be testing our morality, traveling faster than light to go back in time, and alternatives to the Big Bang Theory.
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  • @theCodyReeder
    @theCodyReeder Před 7 lety +14

    On hacking the ISS: I once tuned in to their frequency using my dads ham radio and I could hear them just fine while they where overhead; I could have even keyed up and talked back to them but I was afraid of getting into a lot of trouble.

    • @frasercain
      @frasercain  Před 7 lety +3

      +Cody'sLab great point, the astronauts are often ham radio geeks, you can talk to them when they're overhead

    • @RuizandSons
      @RuizandSons Před 7 lety +2

      Cody's Lab watches Fraser as well!! That's awesome, you guys make learning new things fun :)

    • @frasercain
      @frasercain  Před 7 lety +2

      In fact, we're scheming on a collaboration or two. :-)

    • @pyroslavx7922
      @pyroslavx7922 Před 6 lety

      Hack what? Crash the laptops/tablets they use to skype, watch pirated movies and youtube on???
      I guess that is the most you could do... and likely there is at least one geek up there with copies of windows/linux/macos/android on cd/dvd/usbs and drivers for each and every computer up there, that would solve the problem in few hours, on most relatively new comps you can disable bios flash in bios, which should(???) prevent hacker corrupting bios from within running OS, while ground control would have to solve much bigger problem, since they let the hacker/malware get through first...
      I guess messing up firmware of ethernet/WiFi routers/switches would be a nasty one, requiring most of running...floating? around with one laptop you managed to get online and firmwares beamed up from Earth, sticking wires stripped by teeth into serial port on laptop and on ethernet switch, since you do not have the original connecting cable up there... ;-)
      Hah i just checked, it is pins, not holes on old serial on computer side... MOFO to get connection without some proper cables...

  • @Tehom1
    @Tehom1 Před 7 lety +16

    9:30 "You get everything higher than iron in that moment"
    Therein lies an interesting bit of astrophysics. The thing is, not all heavier elements that we see can be made by that process. More exactly, not all isotopes of them that we see can be made by applying that process just once.
    So basically in a supernova, you have a huge flux of neutrons boosting iron-56 and other low-energy isotopes up to heavier neutron-rich nuclei. That's called the fast process, and it accounts for many isotopes that we see. But we see other isotopes that can only be made from isotopes that are not on the iron-56 chain et al no matter how many neutrons a supernova pumps into them.
    So how do those isotopes get made? The accepted idea is that they are made from isotopes that the first ones decay into. That is, the isotopes from the fast process decay in time to isotopes that *can* be boosted into all the isotopes that we see by a heavy enough neutron flux. This is called the slow process, and it requires not one but two supernovae.
    The reason it has to be two is that the decay takes a long time. Often millions of years, but in any case much longer than a supernova's lifetime. So this is why astronomers say that our elements - the solar system's elements - have been thru not one but two supernovae.

    • @frasercain
      @frasercain  Před 7 lety +13

      Right, great point. You can't get those secondary elements until the supernova created the first elements that then decayed. It really baffles the mind when you consider the series of events that happened to put a piece of gold in your hand.

    • @legojay14
      @legojay14 Před 7 lety +2

      Tehom Wait. Does that mean new elements would be created if the products of two supernovas went through a third supernova. Obviously if so we can't test that yet. But is that possible or do we know something that prevents that from working

    • @Tehom1
      @Tehom1 Před 7 lety +3

      Jared Something about the way you asked it makes me wonder if you are talking about elements that don't naturally occur on Earth, like elements past uranium. So I'm going to break this into two answers.
      First, would we see heavy trans-uranic elements on Earth if we had gone thru three supernovas, not just two? No, because they all decay too fast. Even elements in the so-called "stable island" are likely to have half-lives on the order of days at best. It's plausible they are made in supernovas, even the first time around, but they just decay so fast that they're all gone by now.
      Second question, could we in principle tell whether we had been thru 3 supernovas, by what isotopes we see in nature? Yes, in principle. I don't know which isotopes, if any, are good candidates for that. They'd have to be stable or long-lived isotopes that only occur on very specific isotope chains.

    • @pineapplepenumbra
      @pineapplepenumbra Před 7 lety

      Interestingly, there is a star that has trans-uranic elements in its corona, and no one is really sure how they got there.

    • @Tehom1
      @Tehom1 Před 7 lety

      Yes, John Michael Godier did a video about that star. That is an odd one.

  • @1000dots
    @1000dots Před 6 lety +1

    Easily my favourite channel I've discovered in a while, keep it up man, love your stuff

  • @IAMSOUND99
    @IAMSOUND99 Před 7 lety +1

    Fraser thank you for keeping this channel active and all the supporters on patreon as well, i wish i could help too. Great content.

  • @HenrikBoAndersen
    @HenrikBoAndersen Před 7 lety +5

    As always learning and enjoyable to watch!

  • @mouseclick92
    @mouseclick92 Před 7 lety +11

    Finally an answer on why fusion in stars stop at iron. It has always confused me a bit why we can't have iron stars!

    • @frasercain
      @frasercain  Před 7 lety +4

      Great, glad that helped!

    • @coolchucho271
      @coolchucho271 Před 7 lety +1

      Fraser Cain would you take the leap to another planet with water not knowing what lies beneith. Would you take the risk if you could.

    • @cassgraham7058
      @cassgraham7058 Před 7 lety +1

      Related question, that I have never understood about the binding energies of lighter elements: what's up with Lithium? Li7 can actually produce energy from fission, and takes energy to fuse. If you look at the graph of binding energies, it stands out like a sore thumb. How was this not a major hurdle towards higher-weight elements?

    • @EvolBob1
      @EvolBob1 Před 6 lety

      Fredrik Jensen
      He missed the main point. As fusion occurs in the star ashes form as the elements fuse. Hydrogen is the primer, and that makes mostly Helium because it starts at the lowest temperature. As there is so much of it chance collisions can make heavier elements, these mostly fall to the center. As we use up hydrogen (never all of it), the fusion shell around the stars center gets bigger, and so to burn more the temperature increases (the stars internal collapse generates this increase), allowing Helium to fuse into heavier elements. Once this starts the process accelerates for each new element fusion shell. But it is not this simple as for the other elements must be built up from scratch, with hydrogen>helium>lithium>etc to all the others with atomic weights less than Iron. This Proton + Proton reaction proceeds up the periodic table and the temperature also increases rapidly and the star now expands dramatically into its Red Giant stage - where it is making Iron ashes - and that element falls in to the stars center.
      Here's the main point: If the star still has enough lighter elements it can keep fusion going on, but Iron is the goal for all elements as it is STABLE, it has the most desired state for matter to exist in. (or so I heard a scientist say)
      It is the only reason fusion into higher elements is possible because they are all trying to be Iron and are happy to give up energy doing so. When that fails, when there is no more fusion possible to prevent the stars collapse, temperatures go up sky high and the outer layers fall in. The starts center OTOH detonates outward as pressures get astronomical. These two meet and we get a supernova (from the infall of material slaming into the outward explosion), this release of the stars total gravity potential energy is sufficient to convert some of the Iron into the other heavier elements...write up to and pass the exotic ones we can make in a nuclear reactor like Plutonium.
      There is a theory that some supernovae are more powerful and could make super-heavy elements that could be stable - Fraser?

  • @biomutarist6832
    @biomutarist6832 Před 7 lety

    This has been very educational, thank you!

  • @hdy8792
    @hdy8792 Před 7 lety

    Ahhh that was awesome!! and great answer Fraser, thanks for taking my question.

  • @b1aflatoxin
    @b1aflatoxin Před 7 lety

    These are great questions!!! :D
    Awesome answers BTW.

  • @IlicSorrentino
    @IlicSorrentino Před 7 lety

    It's always a pleasure to listen to your Q&A mr. Cain. Salutations from Italy

  • @wilkil973
    @wilkil973 Před 7 lety +2

    As always loving your vids, Fraser

  • @cedrickguillet3447
    @cedrickguillet3447 Před 7 lety

    Your show is awesome, CZcams stoped remembering me for some time and then I realized I haven't been waching it for some weeks and I finaly realized what really missed to really be happy.

  • @ioresult
    @ioresult Před 7 lety

    "Whatever plans you have, you're gonna have to move 'em up." With a straight face! Impressive!

  • @SyntaxScout
    @SyntaxScout Před 6 lety

    Great channel,love it.

  • @jonowack
    @jonowack Před 7 lety +1

    Fraser, listening to your show sometimes feels as though I'm listening to my own thoughts. It's rare to find someone who I agree with almost 100% of the time.
    In fact, we have a lot of similarities; it's uncanny. We are both computer engineers, we are both into space, we both like video games, we are both Canadians, we are both family guys and we are both balding.
    Keep up the good work!

  • @phoule76
    @phoule76 Před 7 lety +1

    wow, I never realized the reason for the lesser extreme seasons in the northern hemisphere as opposed to the southern hemisphere, great explanation!

  • @faheyplayer
    @faheyplayer Před 7 lety +1

    I think a relevant hypothesis, responding to Fermi's paradox, could be: Cloaking technology would seem fairly straightforward for a people who have the ability and means to traverse the gulf between stars. That would give alien observers/visitors maximum ability to observe us, while to us they would be of course, invisible and largely undetected. We would expect them to be able to hide any infrared heat signatures, interrupt any type of EM field, manipulate light, and it could even be possible for "a people" to have command over local time and space. That would allow easy access to human - or any organism - without them even knowing. This gives us a possible answer to the Fermi Paradox: They are here likely already here. So my question is why aren't we actively looking for them - right here. We would expect to see patterns of evasion or stealth, as is in fact the case in a great many reports. It stands to reason that sightings of unexplained aerial vehicles -given their flight dynamics, and assuming they are of ET origin - are as rare as they are.

  • @younessofri5920
    @younessofri5920 Před 7 lety +30

    Please keep 60fps. It looks good.

    • @Strideo1
      @Strideo1 Před 7 lety +9

      Younes Sofri
      But the frame rate of the CGI forest needs improvement.

    • @dustinsmith8341
      @dustinsmith8341 Před 7 lety +1

      Its a real forest, just green screened.

    • @frasercain
      @frasercain  Před 7 lety +6

      And now we're up to 4K. Simulating the forest in 4K has been so much more difficult.

  • @HardKore5250
    @HardKore5250 Před 7 lety +1

    The future is going to be amazing!

  • @joefarah06
    @joefarah06 Před 6 lety

    Love the forest setting

  • @sleeknub
    @sleeknub Před 6 lety +1

    It would be great if, when you reference one of your previous videos in a video like this, you would link to that video in the notes below (or possibly with an annotation in the video - although those can be annoying).

    • @frasercain
      @frasercain  Před 6 lety +1

      Sometimes I can find the reference point and I'll use one of those cards.

  • @colinp2238
    @colinp2238 Před 7 lety +2

    My problem with the first question and answer is that if we travel in a linear direction and look back we will not see the Solar System as it will not be physically there. The expansion of the Universe and the orbital movement of the Milky Way means that things are in constant motion so it's not the same as driving down your street and looking back to your house..

    • @frasercain
      @frasercain  Před 7 lety

      That's true, it all depends on the speed you're traveling.

  • @GeeeeezGamingIL
    @GeeeeezGamingIL Před 7 lety

    Hey, Fraser! I'm a patron on your Patreon and I just noticed that I do not appear in the credits at the end. I went back to your previous video, and noticed I'm missing there too!

    • @frasercain
      @frasercain  Před 7 lety

      Hi Jonathan, can you send me a message over on Patreon? Maybe you didn't actually choose the right tier so we don't see you in the list that we download.

    • @GeeeeezGamingIL
      @GeeeeezGamingIL Před 7 lety +1

      Fraser Cain I only donate 1$, so yes, I'm not on the right tier. Though I wish I could donate more to you and other amazing channels. You've taught me alot basically for free, and I love your content.
      Don't you stop making it!

    • @frasercain
      @frasercain  Před 7 lety

      I really appreciate even the $1 donation, that makes a huge difference. :-)

  • @FirstPassOfficial
    @FirstPassOfficial Před 7 lety +2

    Question: Assuming a civilization could feed a black hole, be it super massive or stellar mass (whichever works better), constantly to produce a controlled quasar, would there be a habital zone around the quasar that could host a planet with Earth like life?

  • @yogsothoth7594
    @yogsothoth7594 Před 7 lety +9

    What if the earth was simply deep within an alien civilisation's territory. If they maintained a kind of blockade around earth to prevent either foreign or private parties from interfering it would explain why we haven't be contacted.

    • @frasercain
      @frasercain  Před 7 lety +6

      Sure, but if there are individuals within that empire, there'd always be a single rogue Captain Kirk who wants to break the Prime Directive.

    • @cyboot214
      @cyboot214 Před 7 lety

      and even if one might have failed, earth was here for billions of years with its atmosphere containing oxygen and methane for a long time and it's watery surface. So one should have succeeded by now...

    • @kurtreber9813
      @kurtreber9813 Před 7 lety

      Théodore Sarno unless time is somehow slower for those beings

    • @dustinsmith8341
      @dustinsmith8341 Před 7 lety

      Kurt Reber If it were slower to them then it would mean that they are moving faster. And for it to be a difference of any appreciable matter then the beings would have to be moving ALOT faster. This doesn't seem likely given evolution. A being develops characteristics based on how it benefits them. A creature that inherently is faster requires quite a bit more energy on a regular basis to function.

    • @yogsothoth7594
      @yogsothoth7594 Před 7 lety

      Assuming they are using slower than light travel then it wouldn't exactly something someone would casually do on a weekend. And may I point out that throughout the majority of both human history and that of life on earth if aliens turned up and had a look around with trying to colonies the place we would have no way of knowing. Especially if they came to an area where they kept few written records.

  • @greghanc
    @greghanc Před 7 lety

    Hi Fraser! What do you think about the upcoming space science game oddysey by Neil Degrasse Tyson that is on kickstarter now? Since you have a backround in computer science ever wanted to dive into video game programming?

  • @h.plovecat4307
    @h.plovecat4307 Před 7 lety

    Have another question, got the idea for the iron fusing star question. Could there ever be a star that crushes material into quantum state while still creating fusion and without becoming a black hole?

  • @agingermonster5711
    @agingermonster5711 Před 7 lety

    Here's a question I have been wondering for a while, if Hawking radiation is the emission of high energy particles that allows a black hole to gradually dissipate, if we were to gather those particles, what would they look like, what are these particles made of and what do they make?

  • @XaveRave
    @XaveRave Před 7 lety

    G'day Fraser, if you had control of 1% of the world's GDP dedicated towards interstellar colonisation how would you spend it and in which order would you spend it e.g, fusion research, advanced propulsion, genetic modification for hibernation or radiation resistance...etc.

  • @NilsAlbertsson
    @NilsAlbertsson Před 6 lety +1

    *Did anyone else freak out when the black bear appeared briefly in the background, before ducking out again!!!*

  • @ToxisLT
    @ToxisLT Před 7 lety +1

    Heh, if the hypothetical alien would break the silent rule of the federation, I would expect it to be more the naked dude running on the football or tennis match, than captain Kirk =)

    • @frasercain
      @frasercain  Před 7 lety +1

      Well, exactly, all it takes is one crazy alien to reveal the truth of the galactic federation.

  • @victormendoza3295
    @victormendoza3295 Před 6 lety

    For god sakes niles, love your videos.

  • @CountArtha
    @CountArtha Před 6 lety +1

    _If aliens show up here to lecture us on not burning fossil fuels, that had better be followed five seconds later by them saying, "Oh yeah; we also brought you blueprints for these easy-to-build fusion power plants. Like the ones on our ship."_
    *- Isaac Arthur*

  • @magzire
    @magzire Před 7 lety

    so what is space fabric? does it actually hold planets and stars?

  • @christopher2573
    @christopher2573 Před 7 lety +1

    A question for you -- do you think it's likely that we'll create a probe that will outpace Voyager 1 into the void? I was reading up on the Oort Cloud and was just blown away at the vastness of space and how long Voyager will take to get even remotely close to it.

    • @frasercain
      @frasercain  Před 7 lety

      Eventually, I'm sure we will. :-) we did an episode on a mission that might make the trip to Alpha Centauri - czcams.com/video/3FWcEtXgK2g/video.html

  • @Tabaraka562
    @Tabaraka562 Před 7 lety

    Hello I would like to ask you a question about the two pioneer probes sent outer space. I understand that both had plutonium batteries in their bowels. What if one exploded while still in earth's orbit? Would the charge harm us? Thanks

  • @KubaJurkowski
    @KubaJurkowski Před 7 lety +6

    Why are we so focused on developing fusion that is always 10 years away, when we could do fission right with molten salt thorium reactor that was mostly proven in the 70's? That would set us up for centuries.

    • @dustinsmith8341
      @dustinsmith8341 Před 7 lety

      Mostly proven since the 70s and yet still never actually proven where other methods have been created and proven since then. I think there's a reason thorium reactor's haven't advanced.

    • @MegaHarko
      @MegaHarko Před 7 lety +5

      Why are we so focused on building faster computers, when the slide rule works perfectly?

    • @KubaJurkowski
      @KubaJurkowski Před 7 lety

      And what reason would that be? Axcept for established light water lobby and stupid legislation in the US? Even if there is something wrong with thorium breader, you could still build a molten salt burner fueld with uranium that would run circles around this light water crap we are still building and you could fuel it with the waste that is curently pillng up.

    • @KubaJurkowski
      @KubaJurkowski Před 7 lety +1

      Yea but molten salt breader is way better than the light water reactors we build. It's like 2 orders of magnitude more efficent, doesn;t produce waste, you don;t need to refine uranium and thanks to low operating pressure it's safe. It also operates in hight temps so you can use it for other purposes like amonia production, desalanization and would be great for nuclear thermal rockets. We could even scrub CO2 from the atmosphere and make diesel from it. Fusion is great but efficent fission would easlly fill the gap betwen now and when fussion is widely available, and that would be like 50 ears at least.

    • @rlmillr
      @rlmillr Před 7 lety

      This would be an interesting topic.

  • @OldGamerNoob
    @OldGamerNoob Před 6 lety

    I understand the concept of a mass-less, constant speed photon just following a straight line through curved space and as such being bent by gravity.
    What I've always had a hard time getting my head around is how this works with orbital mechanics for more normal objects with variable velocities.
    How is it that going different speeds effects the course your orbit forms? Wouldn't the trajectory of any object in motion at any speed then just follow the same path as would a beam of light you shine in that same direction since both would just follow the same curved space?

  • @mikrolaineahi
    @mikrolaineahi Před 7 lety +1

    Question: Is it possible to see if there are continents on exoplanets from the glint of the light reflected from the planet? Would detecting many continents on an exoplanet mean it's more likely that intelligent life develops there as more continents leads to development of larger number of species?

    • @frasercain
      @frasercain  Před 7 lety

      In theory yes, we should be able to detect the presence of continents by the way the light from the planets change over various orbits. But, that's still a long way off. :-)

  • @SCIENindustries
    @SCIENindustries Před 7 lety

    1. What is the percentage of heavier than iron elements that will produced in the star, are they all equal amount or what affect that?
    2. If I pull a string from one point to another along the star, is it then straight or also curved?

  • @daffidavit
    @daffidavit Před 6 lety

    The 1951 movie " The Day the Earth Stood Still" with Michael Rene as Klaatu I believe first brought the Fermi Paradox to light. Klaatu was an ambassador from an Earth-like planet who landed his saucer in a baseball field in Washington D.C. His "Federation" had no qualms about "Earth's petty squabbles" until we started developing missiles and H bombs.
    The remake of the movie a few years ago doesn't come close to the original, despite all the CGI in the new version. The original was in high def black and white film. I saw it for the first time as a kid and it had a lasting impression on me all my life. You can still see it on Netflix if you hurry. They sometimes remove good movies after a while, so if you haven't seen it yet, get it while you can. It's one of my favorite si-fi movies of the era, along with Forbidden Planet, which was the inspiration for Gene Roddenberry to create Star Trek, TOS.

  • @chrismiko4145
    @chrismiko4145 Před 7 lety +1

    Fraser! Can you talk about Milankovic cycles and how they affect Earth's climate? When are we due for another ice age, and will anthropogenic-caused global warming mess this up?

  • @shamusfarmer7057
    @shamusfarmer7057 Před 7 lety

    Hi, can you explain what MACHOs and WIMPs are?

  • @sanders555
    @sanders555 Před 7 lety

    Fraser! Why does Earth's axial tilt precession match its solar revolution time? Why is the ratio 1:1 and not 3:1 or 1:42?

  • @christianskytte5507
    @christianskytte5507 Před 7 lety

    Q: Is the planets/moons in Star Wars realistic, when they only have one biome, aka a forest planet or a desert plant.
    Btw love your videos, keep up the good work

  • @PhilHug1
    @PhilHug1 Před 7 lety

    Fraser, how would you enter or leave a rotating? We be like hopping on and off an escalator?

  • @Threedog1963
    @Threedog1963 Před 7 lety

    13:04.
    Saw person walking back there on the green screen.

  • @gavinminton457
    @gavinminton457 Před 7 lety

    Do we have any idea on why particles that have no mass (i.e. photons) are compelled to move the speed of light? If so, what insight does that give us about our universe?

  • @katorone1841
    @katorone1841 Před 7 lety

    Could the expansion of the universe/black matter be explained as a property of string theory? I'm probably off by a few dimensions, but I'm thinking how an egg white behaves in a vacuum. It expands yet forms a net. Maybe the strings moving away after the 'snap' has this same effect on the universe?

  • @DaggerAPM
    @DaggerAPM Před 7 lety

    Gravity distorts spacetime in a way that straight lines are curved. Are objects following those straight lines experiencing centrifugal/pedal force?
    For example if my Spaceship would orbit really close & fast around a Blackhole would I (in my pilot seat) experience centrifugal force like in a car driving in a circle?

  • @IraqWarVet03
    @IraqWarVet03 Před 7 lety +1

    question,
    in the future if we have a large enough telescope (say the size of our solar system or larger) and powerful enough computer, we should theoretically be able to use gravitational (black holes or galaxies) lensing (slingshot effect photons) as a mirror and see or solar system from our past shouldn't we?
    would that theoretically work?

    • @frasercain
      @frasercain  Před 7 lety

      That's a really interesting idea, actually, I think there are two techniques you're pushing together here. One is that you could see the light echoes from photons emitted by Earth. They could orbit around a black hole and then return to our telescopes. We'd see photons that left the Earth for however long the journey takes. Say, 50,000 years for a trip around the central black hole.
      Reflected gravitational waves are still totally theoretical, but you could do the same thing. See the movements of things that happened in the past by how the gravitational waves reflect back.
      Really great idea, but it would take capabilities we can scarcely comprehend.

  • @ecolight4022
    @ecolight4022 Před 7 lety +12

    Question. Let's say we actually do find life on say Jupiter's moon Europa, such as fish, maybe similar to what we have here on Earth or completely different, do you think humans here would be interested, perhaps gain a new perspective on life? Or will it blow over and we just get on with our lives?

    • @jesseback3536
      @jesseback3536 Před 7 lety +7

      ECO LIGHT Are you kidding? Despite zero evidence of life being anywhere else in the universe ( in fact, the evidence we do have implies it to be preposterously unlikely, statistically equal to zero) people are OBSESSED with it. Cults would form and people would worship the superfish of greatness.

    • @doncarlodivargas5497
      @doncarlodivargas5497 Před 7 lety +7

      Jesse Back - people will ask the fish what is the meaning of life

    • @AndreasStom
      @AndreasStom Před 7 lety +1

      It would not blow over, it would be the biggest discovery man ever made. But human life would be pretty much the same, business as usual. I mean, would you stop going to work if we found alien life?

    • @davecarsley8773
      @davecarsley8773 Před 7 lety +3

      ECO LIGHT
      Jesse may be right about cults and such, but truly, if us being the *only* living things in the entire universe (as the only hard _evidence_ we currently have indicates, regardless of the _probability_ of it being true) doesn't make us stop killing each other and destroying our planet, then why would having the knowledge that even if we destroyed all life on earth, life would still go on in the universe change us?
      Would it be the single greatest discovery in the history of mankind? Of course. Would NASA immediately get more funding to go study it? Probably. Would it trend on Facebook and Twitter, have a million articles written about it, be on the cover of every magazine, and give thousands of documentary producers guaranteed work for the next decade? Sure.... But at the end of the day, the day after the announcement is made, people will get up and go to work- just like they did the day before.
      It may change the internal perspective of great thinkers the world over, but most of them already believe it's out there anyway. Unfortunately, I wouldn't count on it changing the bad parts of what makes us "human" at all.

    • @-kxvin-5239
      @-kxvin-5239 Před 7 lety +12

      A better question is would we call these life forms *EUROPEANS*??

  • @XaveRave
    @XaveRave Před 7 lety

    Hey Fraser! I was wondering how we could get my government (Australia) to invest more in space science and which space project we could invest in to boost national prestige and pride. ( similar to Canada's Mobile Servicing System (MSS) on the ISS).

  • @monashclayton
    @monashclayton Před 6 lety +1

    Hi Fraser can you please explain what you mean by flat universe? Everything we observe in the universe has some shape but not flat. Also when any spacecraft reach outside earth do they travel only on X axis or they go on y axis too thanks

    • @frasercain
      @frasercain  Před 6 lety

      Here's a video we did about it: czcams.com/video/s-P1BlI4jAw/video.html

  • @jeffmathers355
    @jeffmathers355 Před 6 lety +1

    Hi, Fraser. Regarding star cores fusing to iron triggering an almost instant collapse, I'm assuming your'e talking about some critical mass point between the appearance of that first drop of iron and 100% conversion, when the iron buildup interferes with the fusion process and causes it to sputter like a stalling engine?
    If that's the case, do astronomers try to calculate that critical mass point and predict when a star's collapse is imminent?
    Thanks!
    Jeff

    • @frasercain
      @frasercain  Před 6 lety

      It happens so quickly. It goes in the chain of elements in moments, compared to thousands of years for the lighter elements. They still can't give an accurate estimate. We know Betelgeuse is going to explode some time in the next 100,000 years or so.

    • @jeffmathers355
      @jeffmathers355 Před 6 lety

      Cool, thanks. I wasn't aware that those last few few elements fuse so quickly.

  • @UpcycleElectronics
    @UpcycleElectronics Před 7 lety +2

    4:17 Brought on a question
    Could the less understood enormous gravity wells of both galaxies and galaxy clusters distort light and cause everything more distant to appear more redshifted in every direction? Has this been disproved?

    • @biomutarist6832
      @biomutarist6832 Před 7 lety +1

      There's also the phenomenon of gravitational lensing, not sure how it can redshift light though if it's possible at all...

    • @Corvaire
      @Corvaire Před 7 lety

      I call this "Dark Lensing" and I personally believe it does exist. An analogy I use is a cars side mirror, but the opposite. Things in our universe are much closer (across voids) then they appear. ;O)-

    • @biomutarist6832
      @biomutarist6832 Před 7 lety

      If your idea turns out to be true, then things might get exciting very fast 0.0

    • @Corvaire
      @Corvaire Před 7 lety

      A lot of numbers will have to be re-crunched, for sure. ;O)-

  • @wankerplutonium6671
    @wankerplutonium6671 Před 7 lety

    What are the effects on antimatter when placed in a neutron enhancer cladding ? I think it would suck all types of radiation into it at once and stay contained . This would be very good way to clean a nuclear reactor melt down up.

  • @LordBitememan
    @LordBitememan Před 7 lety

    Question: Are elements heavier than Uranium formed during supernovas and simply decay before they end up in other bodies we more easily observe?

  • @aminbe3079
    @aminbe3079 Před 7 lety

    I think the most reasonable solution to the Fermi paradox, is the fact that we humans are among the very first intelligent species in the universe

  • @user-earthandfire
    @user-earthandfire Před 7 lety

    Hi Fraser.
    I have a hypothetical in relation to terraforming both Venus and Mars.
    It seems they both have the complete opposite problem, V to much atmosphere, M to little.
    If it were possible to create a worm hole from one to the other, would we be able to pump atmosphere from V to M (would a pump even be needed with Venus having such a dense atmosphere and Mars having little could the two atmospheres meet an equilibrium ?)

  • @XxRepercussionxX
    @XxRepercussionxX Před 7 lety +1

    To expand on the question in this video about stoping the expansion of the universe, what if we developed a dark energy black hole. or supermassive black hole then sent it out into the universe. would that eat up all the dark energy, thus allowing gravity to start pulling galaxies back together?

    • @XxRepercussionxX
      @XxRepercussionxX Před 7 lety

      @Alien of Sol 3
      I understand that. My meaning behind the question wasn't if one. but say, many were released. Also, not in thinking that it would actually reverse the movement of the universe but it would have an effect on a smaller scale. So my question is what would that effect be? Finally my interpretation of this video type is to ask him a question and have him expand upon it with his own ideas of the subject. So though I know the idea isn't perfect, I asked the question because I wanted to know his thoughts on the answer, even if I generally already know what it is. I feel, much like anyone else who asks him a question for these videos.

  • @halilzelenka5813
    @halilzelenka5813 Před 7 lety

    are there spatial dimensions that we cannot perceive? could we ever indirectly detect them?

  • @nikitakuznetsov8446
    @nikitakuznetsov8446 Před 7 lety

    According to time dilation you can go into the future if you travel fast enough so if I was to travel at the speed of light how long would I have to fly around to end up in the year 3000? Or am I not understanding this correctly?

  • @matthewoliver7559
    @matthewoliver7559 Před 7 lety +1

    Hi Fraser,
    I'm following on from Iogan manko's question regarding travelling faster than the speed of light and looking back at the Earth to see it in the past. If you travelled at the speed of light for 100 years and looked back at the Earth would it look exactly the same as when you left? Like it hadn't aged at all while you have aged 100 years?

    • @frasercain
      @frasercain  Před 7 lety +3

      Well, that's ignoring time dilation effects for traveling that fast for 100 years. But yes, if you move at the same speed as the light, you'll always see the Earth at the same time.

    • @matthewoliver7559
      @matthewoliver7559 Před 7 lety

      Crazy! Thanks Fraser :)

    • @adammathisson5119
      @adammathisson5119 Před 6 lety

      but if your traveling at the speed of light there wouldn't be any light catching up to you from behind, so you wouldn't see anything in that direction. to see something you need travel slower then the speed of light compare to the object your observing.

  • @ajdaniels
    @ajdaniels Před 7 lety

    Hi Fraser! You've done several terraforming videos now. My question goes in a different direction: how, as humans, could we form a planet with perfect living conditions and put it into orbit around a star?

  • @Boomstickfan495
    @Boomstickfan495 Před 7 lety +3

    If you had an advanced enough civilization, could you theoretically blend all the galaxies together, including Irr clouds and so forth, into one massive galaxy that would make up the universe, effectively turning the universe into one massive galaxy?

    • @Mayordomo32
      @Mayordomo32 Před 7 lety

      Cai Howson if you had the capacity, distance no longer probably has any meaning. So trying to do that would be purely for the fun of it.

    • @Boomstickfan495
      @Boomstickfan495 Před 7 lety +3

      That, or the civilization that's doing it could consider themselves the guardians of the Universe, and be doing such a thing so that they can bring the universe together and keep it together, and make it much, much easier for future civilizations to expand out and even meet each other.

    • @unapologeticallylivinwitho1312
      @unapologeticallylivinwitho1312 Před 6 lety

      Cai Howson Probably not.

  • @onesunghero
    @onesunghero Před 7 lety +1

    If we set a telescope out at pluto to watch our sun could we measure the wobble caused by venus/mercury to help pinpoint where any new planets might be found in the solar system? Like say those planets pull the sun further in 1 direction than another because a large body is pulling in the other direction.

  • @gregball6069
    @gregball6069 Před 7 lety

    Do supernova produce the heaviest elements like Gold though? Isn't it now thought that these are produced when 2 neutron stars merge?

  • @Andrew-ts2jj
    @Andrew-ts2jj Před 7 lety

    If black holes have spin then does conservation of angular momentum hold inside the event horizon? Why cant we also say the Pauli exclusion principle also holds inside a black hole, and that matter is not crushed to an infinitely small point. If the laws of physics break inside a black hole what makes conservation of angular momentum different? Anyone got ideas?

  • @silentbubble
    @silentbubble Před 7 lety

    what would happen to the magnetic field lines of a bar magnet if one of its poles is inside the event horizon of a black hole and the other is outside?

  • @lukaslekavicius2204
    @lukaslekavicius2204 Před 7 lety +1

    Hi. What is dark flow? Is it just a black hole or something completely different?

    • @frasercain
      @frasercain  Před 7 lety

      It's probably nothing more than a galaxy cluster that's attracting other parts with its gravity.

  • @doncarlodivargas5497
    @doncarlodivargas5497 Před 7 lety +1

    question: if I should fall into a black hole without any other stuff circling around it, I will be spagettifizied, that I get, but, when I, or what is left of me, hit the rotating black hole, will I be a thin line on the surface on the black hole, around "equator" or will I be covering the whole sphere due to the strong gravity? in that case little me could create a coating covering the whole sphere?

    • @frasercain
      @frasercain  Před 7 lety +1

      We just don't know what happens once you cross the even horizon. We sort of talk about this here: czcams.com/video/FjP8u4O1uQU/video.html

    • @doncarlodivargas5497
      @doncarlodivargas5497 Před 7 lety

      Fraser Cain - hehe! so annoying! but this I don't quite get, we have gravity, what does that tell us? and with mass we must have higgs field, there is magnetism from a black hole, all this is conventional physics, is it not? and even centrifugal forces, isent that a law of nature? we are told a black hole will evaporate, obviously it must have 'recognizable' matter which can escape the hole, I think, if law of nature does not exist in a black hole, how come there is gravity?

  • @doncarlodivargas5497
    @doncarlodivargas5497 Před 7 lety

    if we should travel faster than light and look back to the earth, do we have to stop first? if we travel faster than the light from the earth and want to see it it dosent even keep pace with us?
    we must direct the telescope in the direction of the speed to see what is behind us?

  • @Leonhavenify
    @Leonhavenify Před 7 lety +27

    I'm planning on taking a trip to Venus this summer, what should i bring with me?

    • @mansamusa1743
      @mansamusa1743 Před 7 lety +7

      Leon Haven plenty of water and sunscreen,you'd get pretty thirsty and sunburnt without em.

    • @doncarlodivargas5497
      @doncarlodivargas5497 Před 7 lety +7

      Leon Haven - take an umbrella, it is raining

    • @Tehom1
      @Tehom1 Před 7 lety +3

      A tank of breathable air.

    • @duckgoesquack4514
      @duckgoesquack4514 Před 7 lety +3

      i would use SPF 10 trillion sunscreen, and lots of it.

    • @Strideo1
      @Strideo1 Před 7 lety +4

      Bring a blimp so you can float high in Venus's atmosphere where the pressure and temperatures aren't lethal.

  • @KavanaghMythicalAdventure1

    I have another question Frasier if you can make the sun disappear in an instant fraction of a second would it take the eight minutes that it takes light to travel the 93 million miles between the Sun and the Earth would it still take the 8 minutes for the gravity to let us go so if the sun was to disappear it would be 8 minutes later before we was released from that gravity well just wondering

  • @Lesesmo
    @Lesesmo Před 7 lety

    People always say that we see everything is moving away from everything else, and if rewind the universe they must all be at a single point. so, where is that point? can we calculate how far away are we from that "center of universe"?

  • @DrewLSsix
    @DrewLSsix Před 6 lety +1

    The faster than light thing always seems like the obvious solution in Star Trek whenever they would stumble upon some mysterious wreckage or discover one of their ships has been destroyed. Zip a way to say 8 light hours distance and just look at what happened right?

    • @frasercain
      @frasercain  Před 6 lety

      Hah, absolutely. Of course, you'd need a very powerful telescope. Actually, I'm surprised nobody has ever done that. This sounds like it would be a great episode.

  • @Puddin-Tamir
    @Puddin-Tamir Před 7 lety

    What's the average speed galaxies are moving, relative to one another.

  • @NocturneSega
    @NocturneSega Před 7 lety

    Q: How do they measure the speed of something in space?

  • @ccbell1982
    @ccbell1982 Před 7 lety +1

    Since we usually talk about the longevity of humanity in terms of the sun's life cycle, how close or how soon could an outside force (e.g. rogue black hole) affect the already slightly unstable orbits of the planets to eject a planet or change conditions in the solar system so that it was no longer compatible with human life? Other than outright ejecting a planet from the solar system or striking Earth, what other ways could an interstellar actor cause the solar system to become unsustainable for human life (e.g disrupting gravity, interfering with the sun, etc.)?

    • @frasercain
      @frasercain  Před 7 lety

      It hasn't happened in the 4.5 billion years that the Solar System has been here so far. It's apparently still possible for Jupiter to kick Mercury out of its orbit because of gravitational instability.

  • @shatyr3156
    @shatyr3156 Před 7 lety

    I find it strange that the speed of light in a vacuum is so slow compared to the overwhelming size of the universe. Is the light-speed value important to the structure and evolution of the universe in the same way that something like the gravitational constant is? Would the universe be significantly different with a faster or slower light-speed? Thanks!

    • @daffidavit
      @daffidavit Před 6 lety

      I've thought that as well. If someone shines a flashlight from one end of our galaxy, it will take over 100k Years for the light to reach the other end. Not very fast when you consider the size of the universe.

  • @ustinov10
    @ustinov10 Před 6 lety

    we are definitely not alone in the universe because that simply challenges our own existence. if we are here then it must be someone there.

  • @mymohammad
    @mymohammad Před 7 lety

    Q: Is the fact that we haven't been able to find any dyson sphere wrapped around any star in our universe (as far as we could possibly see), an indication that there probably isn't any type 2 and above aliens in our universe? Should we be only looking for max of type 1 civilizations?

    • @williamblack4006
      @williamblack4006 Před 2 lety

      Or perhaps the Kardashev scale simply doesn't apply. I mean it is brilliant, but realize that it is only a guess as to what advanced civilizations might do. Realize that there are likely infinite other options for technological manifestation -- including things humans have never thought of.

  • @itzed
    @itzed Před 7 lety

    Hi Fraser. Has anyone ever calculated what the odds were of life on earth developing here, and then evolving into what we are now? The more I learn about all the conditions that had to fall into place for this to happen, the more I think the odds must have been small for this even here on earth, and they must also get smaller on a daily basis as we continue to not find it elsewhere.

  • @Hovado_Lesni
    @Hovado_Lesni Před 7 lety

    so if no information can escape black hole how can rotation or magnetism?

  • @thelightone1467
    @thelightone1467 Před 7 lety +1

    questio .... is it posible to use black wholes as a fule sorce or a tether or sorts to pull your ship useing hawking radiation to make shure u do not enter tje point of no return

    • @frasercain
      @frasercain  Před 7 lety

      In theory, you could use black holes as an energy source by dropping material and then catching the radiation that gets emitted as it gets consumed.

  • @davidshafer1872
    @davidshafer1872 Před 7 lety

    Could we ever find the point from which the universe expanded from?

  • @matsuiiiiiiiiii
    @matsuiiiiiiiiii Před 7 lety +1

    if you travelled further away from earth faster than lightspeed, then looked back through a powerful enough telescope to observe earth from the past then started moving towards earth, what would you see as you observe an earth coming closer and closer to the present day? Fast-forward?

    • @frasercain
      @frasercain  Před 7 lety +1

      Yes, you'd be watching Earth on fast forward until you got here.

  • @Chemson1989
    @Chemson1989 Před 7 lety

    Q1:Are there really absolutely nothing in the void(eg: Boötes void)? Not even blackholes?
    Q2:Hotter supernova create heavier elements, right?

  • @AnonymousFreakYT
    @AnonymousFreakYT Před 7 lety

    One of my college friends was (after graduation) a programmer at the company that wrote the navigation/control software for ISS/Destiny. We always joked that if ISS fell on our college campus, we'd know why.
    They do have a direct link to NASA HQ, but on a system that has zero internet connection. I suppose someone could try to piggyback on that signal, as it doesn't have anything resembling modern encryption protecting it...

  • @hgkrmz
    @hgkrmz Před 7 lety +1

    What do you think actual physical aliens might look like? We have all the principles of physics and evolution to play with, but every movie director wants aliens to be humanoid and speak English. I find it frustrating, and I am fascinated by the concept of what nature might have created somewhere.

  • @filiusstellae849
    @filiusstellae849 Před 7 lety +4

    Let's suppose that there was no moon, but life on Earth and all of human history was the same up until 1957 (the year Sputnik 1 was launched). What do you think would be humanity's capacity for interplanetary travel today? Would we be better or worse off if we had a space race with no moon? Please speculate!

    • @frasercain
      @frasercain  Před 7 lety +3

      Interesting question. The Moon is such a close and easy place to get to compared to the rest of the Solar System. It's quite a gift, and there's no way we'd have gone as far as we have without it.

    • @JohnGeorgeBauerBuis
      @JohnGeorgeBauerBuis Před 6 lety

      Well, there definitely would be way more unmanned missions to Mars and Venus.

    • @thecatoa7647
      @thecatoa7647 Před 5 lety

      Filius Stellae worse off. Two words. Microchips

  • @XerShadowTail
    @XerShadowTail Před 6 lety

    Can you build a space station at the L2 point and would it be easier served than a station orbiting the Moon?

  • @Skizm6666
    @Skizm6666 Před 7 lety

    What is the shortest known amount of time that it takes to form a star?

  • @HalfAhBean
    @HalfAhBean Před 7 lety

    Question: shouldn't the smallest unit of matter be continuous because otherwise the foundation of existence would be nothing? And because of that it would continue in both ways.

  • @RipplzMusic
    @RipplzMusic Před 7 lety

    Hello I'm newer to your channel and question videos, so I don't know if you have covered the paper that claims there could be a 9th planet. arxiv.org/abs/1601.05438 is link to the paper. Im not into the 'mystical planet X' stuff, I just want to know if there is possible proof of another large planet. Any thoughts?

  • @mannygee005
    @mannygee005 Před 7 lety +1

    I have a question - I guess the rule is to place it anywhere. So I've been contemplating the world as a simulation, so that's great and all, but ... I need a clarification: I can see that there could be 4 ways of looking at this, the basis is "what does it feel like to be inside the simulation" and the answer is it should feel exactly like "this" what we see and perceive. So the first 2 ways of looking at this is from outside the simulation and from inside the simulation. Now my question is would the fundamental laws of physics etc and what we are discovering, are these then the rules of the program? For example the speed of light, the Planck length, quantum field theory, etc, all these things discoverable are the principles of the simulation? And the 4th thing is ... could it be easier to create a whole new universe using these rules versus simulating every-day-events inside a super-computer. This is to say is this simulation uncontrolled once set in motion? I guess maybe am I questioning the basis of the simulation hypothesis?

    • @mannygee005
      @mannygee005 Před 7 lety

      I guess I'll restate it other than as a question. So if we are inside a simulation yet we are still individuals inside, meaning we are each sentient, that sort-of imply that what we discover is real because these are the rules of the universe that can create sentience. Even though "we could" have original bodies and we've just uploaded our minds into a simulation that is this universe and we've erased our memory... It seems like philosophically if this life is indistinguishable from reality then it's as good as reality and that it is not diminished, not any less by this ...and then this is just to say that the rules of this universe are also valid (in fact perfectly selected). So I guess maybe the question - is this a controlled on uncontrolled experiment/simulation?

    • @frasercain
      @frasercain  Před 7 lety

      At the end of the day, there's really no way we could find out if we're living in a simulation. It's kind of pointless to try and figure it out.

  • @filipprochazka4961
    @filipprochazka4961 Před 7 lety

    Regarding the Sun heating up, I also saw info about starlifting, when material is extracted from a star (I believe Isaac Arthur made an episode on the topic). As lower mass stars shine less (and live longer), couldn't we, theoretically speaking, "save" Earth from the Sun warming up by lowering its mass over time? I suppose it would also stave off the red giant period of the Sun, although not by much (and the star being lighter, it would also affect the orbits in the Solar system, but I suppose that would be calculated into how much mass would have to be starlifted).
    Maybe moving Earth might be just easier, considering the strength of Sun's gravity that would have to be overcome to starlift from it...

    • @filipprochazka4961
      @filipprochazka4961 Před 7 lety

      I highly doubt starlifting would be an option for anything below Kardashev 1.5+ civilisation, at which point, the mass could be just ejected out of the solar system, for whichever reason (a brown dwarf at an opportune spot? fuel deposit midway between sun and other stars where the other star doesn't have a jovian-type planet to extract hydrogen from? etc.).
      Besides, the extraction wouldn't take place immediatelly, but over a very long period of time - after all, we have 500+ milion years to do something about the Sun heating up problem, so the rate of extraction doesn't need to be very high. Say, if 100 milion years from now the starlifting would start and take 200 milion years to achieve just about the right amount of dimming - the change per year in orbits of each planet would be nearly impossible to measure. Only an immediate change of a very massive scale would throw the solar system out of whack.
      Also, if one jovian mass was extracted out of the Sun, considering all other would stay the same (aka, the extracted mass would be put somewhere where the effect on the rest of the solar system would be negligable), then the orbit of the Earth would expand by roughly 150 thousand kilometers (I would assume the kinetic energy of the Earth-Moon system would remain the same, therefore they would assume an orbit further away from the Sun), which, considering that the difference between Earth's perihelion and aphelion is 5 milion kilometers, is not much of an issue. Of course, if we extract one jovian mass out of the Sun at once, some orbital adjustement would happen, but it wouldn't be anything even close to cause the orbits the planets to affect one another enough to destabilise the solar system. (see the 150 thousand km adjustement above, and compare that to the closest Earth and Venus ever get, 41 milion kilometers). I think that shows that unless we suddenly starlift insane amounts of solar mass at once, the solar system would remain safe and stable.

  • @splitsecondscience9368

    what do you think about the idea of making a gravitatinoal forcefield inside a spacecraft to dampen interntia and allow us to accelerate at a rate that would otherwise kill a human?

  • @Khannea
    @Khannea Před 7 lety +4

    Question - if some trillionaire were to unilaterally break any world/UN treaties and went out of his way to "seed" every single moon, asteroid and planet in the solar system with a fine blend of simple terrestrial lifeforms
    (a) would this be "illegal" ?
    (b) would any terrestrial life seeded in specific solar system bodies survive and spread? (I am thinking algae, mosses, extremophiles)

    • @frasercain
      @frasercain  Před 7 lety

      This is a great thought experiment, super fun.
      If they were breaking treaties, then their country would be held accountable for their actions. That said, if they were entirely off world, how's anyone going to stop them?
      Life could survive. We did an episode on how ready life is for Mars, and it's surprisingly ready. But the oceans on Enceladus and Europa seem like the perfect environment for our bacteria.
      czcams.com/video/E5AeXm4I0l8/video.html

    • @Chemson1989
      @Chemson1989 Před 7 lety +1

      The Belters....

    • @joelmorningstar3645
      @joelmorningstar3645 Před 7 lety

      The funny thing is though Fraser...most of the trillionaires of earth are Exempt....Yes..Exempt from the laws (immunity), and are independent from the countries' land they reside on. Just look at the B.I.S. their employees all have immunity, and this is the Bank of Banks.