Thanks for watching, Super Nerds! This was a fun one, as many others have talked about these phenomena, but I've never seen the math on how to make some of them "work." See you in Footnotes. -- kH
Because Science I believe that galaxies at the edge of the visible universe are moving away from us around 3.34 +/- 0.02 x C even though in reality there velocity is only 71km/s parsec.
"It's not evil... Snot." Kyle, it's a good thing you're not a super villian... You'd make a good one. You rolled high on your intelligence, wisdom and charisma, great on dexterity... Good on your constitution and strength, being a rock climber takes decent strength and good stamina and that dexterity... I mean, really I'd let you use athletics or acrobatics... But, that's just me. Point is, is you'd make a nasty villian. Unsuspecting. Charming. Broad range of knowledge. Secretive. Slightly introverted. Moderately perfectionistish. I dunno... The more I type, the more I convince myself... .... Need a sidekick? I rolled pretty good stats, myself. Oh, and we can get into feats and skills when we get to the base. Ky'll-Gore Voidkeep...🤔😏
Kyle: "Here's why you DON'T want superpowers." Also Kyle: "Here's another way I could kill you with science, you non-superpowered nerds." TOTALLY not a supervillain.
Megamind: You dare challenge Megamind? Titan: This town isn’t big enough for two supervillains! Megamind: Oh, you’re a villain all right, just not a super one. Titan: Oh yeah? What’s the difference? Megamind: Presentation!
There's a great way to sort it out. Trial by Ordeal. Throw him into the event horizon of a black hole. If he falls in then he was a good guy that was accepted as pure by the universe. If he gets spat out, he's a diabolical monster and we nuke him before he can escape. Problem solved and 100% accurate to ensure no supervillains are around.
@@Carewolf no because a shadow only exists where there is light to cast it. If you move an object infront of a laserpointer you are only blocking new light, not old light.
@@bumblebee6875 Sure, but the shadow is that projected onto a surface. A spotlight on a surface can also move faster than the speed of light, because the spot like a shadow is a not a physical object, but a name we have given to an interaction point of two objects, and like the scissors example, such an abstract point can move faster than the speed of light.
I really like the fact that you threw in that pushing on the scissor handle would only propagate the force through the scissor at the speed of sound. Not that it really mattered to the point you were making, but taking the time to mention that shows a care for accuracy, even while discussing ridiculous things, that is just really refreshing. Kudos to you and your team.
“We could make make this with today’s technology, I’m not saying that we should, I’m just saying that it would be totally awesome” This man is truly the best
Kyle is definitely not a super villain. He is clearly informing everyone of the potential dangers that comes with a greater understanding of science. I mean, its not like he is using these videos as a subtle way to threaten any potential heroes that might stop his rise to ultimate glory or anything. Totally not evil in the slightest. For the glory of SCIENCE!
I might argue he has just become one. The only time length is a factor in the calculation he has presented is if acceleration is a factor (which he failed to apply). If that is what he was going for then he failed in presenting those factors so people could check his work. He never gave travel distances or desire distances to achieve with in a set time frame. Now I am willing to accept my wrongness if someone can answer this question: If light travels at 299 792 458 m/sec then how fast does a light pulse goes if I send it to a target 1000 m away, or even 200 m away? If you say 299 792 458 m/sec, then why does the 6 m/s blade need to be 14,500 km for his speed of light (299 792 458 m/sec) blade? And how fast is it going across the cut at both the 100 km mark to 500 km mark of the blade. (I am ignoring the roundness of the surfaces he is cutting) He just became a villain for bad science! But he could yet redeem himself! Maybe that's because I still like Kyle, that I say that!
Are you sure about that "speed of dark" thing? Because it sounds awfully similar to "let's destroy the sun and see how long it takes for people on Earth to notice", which of course does obey the speed of light. Not that I've personally destroyed the sun...
Those are two different phenomenons. Yes, if you destroyed the sun, it would take 8 minutes till the earth noticed it. In the same way, from the moment the you put your hand on that hypothetical flashlight till the "shadow" "arrived" on the moon, it would take roughly 1 second. But that's not what we're talking here, we're talking about the perception of said shadow on the surface of the moon Think about a screen fully lit, and some pixels turned off in such a way that it seems there is a black dot moving on the screen... Notice that no pixels are moving in this examples
@@99temporal Wait, so if I was somehow standing on the sun, and the sun disappeared out from under me, then I'd see the earth disappear right away, even though the light from the sun hadn't yet had time to reach the earth, bounce off, and come back?
@@EdKolis The main idea is the light is shining in a cone, so your hand moving across a flashlight close to the flashlight causes the shadow that's reaaaaaally far away appear to move suuuuuuper fast.
Is it bad i do that? Granted i also answer the phone like *swish/faceturn* "moshi moshi" and City morgue! you stabbem, we slabbem! Or city morgue! You killem, we chillem!
He forgot to mention one thing ... this structure is nearly impossible because of how much a 5 km blade of steel might weight ... this object need to be accelerated from hundreds of thousands of kilometers in order to reach Saturn 5 max speed
@@amineabdz Did you forget there is no gravity in space therefoe no force pressing on the object so no weight. Ok your right I forget about microgravity my mistake I'm inadequate whatever.
I was so intrigued by all the science within the first 8.5 mins that I totally forgot that this video is supposed to be about a FTL guillotine until he finally mentions it
"Our Values are Under Attack!!!" is probably one of the most conspiracy-like Things one can say, and yet, for Science, it's literally true. As Professor Dave in his epic video about the Discovery Institute and it's members showed: Yes, a lot of people are just being salty about not having had the Best Grades once... but some are doing Science-Denial delibaretely. As in 'sitting down, planning, and then going to discredit Science'. Some are silly, yes, and some want to just make money, but some want something else.
The sun does rotate though, not around the planet, but it does rotate. Specifically, it rotates around the center of the milky way. It also revolves, but that's a different can of worms.
Both are correct here. Kyle did indeed use the earth as a point of refference to be the center of the universe. Middle ages all over again. But it makes it easier to understand
"Our Values are Under Attack!!!" is probably one of the most conspiracy-like Things one can say, and yet, for Science, it's literally true. Science-Denial Grows.
To quote Terry Pratchett: "Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it."
I'm glad to see this video. The idea occurred to me many years ago, so to see it confirmed makes me happy. However... Let's say you have two rigid rods that are a light-year long. One is stationary from your frame of reference. The other is parallel to the first, but it's moving toward the first one. They will collide. You're right at the midway point, a half a light-year from either end. From your perspective, the collision will NOT be simultaneous along the length. The contact point closest to you will collide first. The farther away from you the rods are, the longer it will take for you to see the collision. The rods are curved, from your reference point. It will take a half a year for you to see the ends of the rods collide. "Now" Is local. There's no such thing as absolute simultaneity. It doesn't even make sense to think of the second rod moving as a single inertial body, when it's a freakin' light-year long. What happens at one end takes a year, at best, to get to the other end. Imagine you're a light-year long. What's going on at your feet is a year away from your head. You don't exist in one time zone.
I remember they used to make us take naps on the rug in kindergaten. The girl who slept next to me would lie on her hands and stare at me. By the time we reached high school she looked like Pat Benatar (...google her).
@@erbgorre But you hear people call it "A pant"? Point is, it is technically wrong to call it "a scissor"(as that is a motion, not an object), and he is making a joke about it(like some of the other words and terms he is joking about from time to time) by leaving "pair of" out of the sentence. I'm not even a native english speaker and I got the joke right away.
@@fendelphi you hear people call them pants, or scissors, for short. thats why the original commenter pointed out that "a scissors" sounds funny, as would "a pants". that was the whole point.
11:27 "what if we put rockets on our space guillotine" xD 12:00 I'm a bit concerned about him getting so excited about this "We could build something like this with today's technology" xD
Library Adjacent: Start here: gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Advanced.aspx search in Mark (it's between Flavor Text and Artist) for League of Dastardly Doom, then Agents of S.N.E.A.K., then Crossbreed Labs, then Simic. Apparently, the computer coding can't handle brackets in hyperlinks. I prolly should've tinyurled up that bitch.
Sometimes I like to imagine Kyle is at the thanksgiving table doing these rants/speeches and everyone is too polite to tell him they don't care so they just smile and nod along. Loved the episode btw
@@becausescience Wow. I actually got a reply from BS. To be fair, I am aware that a scientist who insists on starting from first principles for everything is going to do alot less than the guy who read his professor's papers.
You guys are right. Human progress will be extremely slow if everyone starts from zero. Building from someone else's work allows us to improve their work and gives something that can go even further for the next guy.
@@iainballas Crap, I read it as " I got a reply from bullsh*t"... Again... And I've been on this channel for about 2 years. I really feel sorry for myself.
He wudnt be able to build it anyway if its too close to earth due to the size of it and earths gravity the guillotine would fall down back to earth at hundreds of miles per hour due to its weight. And earths 9.8m/s gravity would make that guillotine an absolute Hellish event if that fell onto the ground here from lets say 300KM high up......... Due to its 5KM size... the force of impact cud be comparible to a few nukes. If you wud use the estimations of his previous video bout the rods of god being only several feet long...... holy shit i wanna leave the planet now
There's not enough energy in the entire universe to accelerate an object with mass to the speed of light! So if I were to hypothetically throw a golf ball at the speed of light, it would have to be a God-given ability.
Thanks for narrowing down the coordinates to your secret lair a bit, it seems S.V. Kyle is on Mars (which kinda explains the terraforming Mars ep.) and his scientist clone/twin/pawn is on or near Earth in "the void" (Rods from God ep.). Poor Void Kyle, so easily replaced whenever the "original" KH, or an evil-er(?) VK from the future deems it necessary. 🤔 I HAD a question but unravelling the location of your lair got the better of me. Oh well. Anyways, love the show! ...and I'm not just saying that to keep you from sending those Laser Bees after me. **shudder**
12:09 Dude, did you all hear that giddy catch in his voice? He was really enjoying the prospect of the idea of a 3-mile wide guillotine. It's confirmed: he's a super villain
You sir, are cuter than a puppy and a kitty trying to climb into the same sock! It seems unfair somehow that you should also be so clever, but such is the world that we find ourselves in. I'm new to your channel, but have been immensely enjoying your content so far. I think your going to be my new favorite internet time assassin! I especially loved your video on magic the gathering powered computers! It was an awesome concept! Take it easy, W.Peace
So when I turn my head from the Moon to Sirius the center of the plane of my sight(or the end point of the line of sight wich points to the Moon then Sirius) moves 8 light years within a second. That means I have FTL vision. Cooool. (Next Because Science episode: "why you don't want FTL vision")
You dont actually see either, you just see the photons that left those places, so you dont have ftl vision, you have microscopic vision, since you see particles. You dont actually see anything, you only detect light that attacks your eye-holes, and this light carries wave patterns that make your brain hallucinate about seeing things. As this takes a certain amount of time to process, what your consciousness perceives is a memory of sensory data which is not current anymore, so you cannot perceive the current moment, you see a few microseconds into the past. When this data is saved into your memory, it is not saved as raw data, but largely as cultural and linguistical concepts which only exist as such, in your mind. Yes, everything you think you know, is a lie. Everything.
@@ribbitgoesthedoglastnamehe4681 okay, makes sense. But then you see objects not only trough the photons and particles alone right? Your brain uses hearing and touch as well to determine an objects distance and shape. Sight alone wouldnt then be sufficient enough to identify things. Correct me if i'm wrong tho
Love the show so much I had a weird sleep-aid induced dream that I met science thor and he's totally not a super villain thanks NyQuil Also those scissors got dangerously close to your hair be careful!
Maybe it was one of those prediction dreams that seem to predict the future but are actualy random bits and parts of your memory mushed together but then actualy happening exactly or almost exactly like your dream went ans ending up in you have a Dé ja vu
Do you think you could do a video on what would happen if the human body burned 1 calorie per second 24/7? One of many random odd discussions I had with a buddy and I said "You know what.. I bet I know who would have the answers and this sounds like something he would have on his channel". Thanks for all the awesome vids! Keep them coming! =)
Hey Kyle, love the show! A couple of additions I'd like to make! (Not corrections this time, lol). You had mentioned the expansion of the universe, and yes, you're right, there's nothing that stops space itself from expanding (or contracting, or both) at superluminal speeds. This fact is what led Mexican theoretical physicist Dr. Miguel Allcubierre to develop his Alcubierre Warp-Drive. (Yes, inspired by the star-trek warp-drive, but designed in real-world physicis.) This particular construct works by creating a bubble of space-time around a vehicle, and moving that bubble along a wavefront of expanding and contracting space-time, at speeds that can exceed that of light. His original calculations for a spherical field required energy-levels exceeding the energy of all matter in the universe though, so that wasn't very helpful. Later-on various physicsts (Such as Dr. Harold White from NASA's Eagleworks Laboratory) have managed to twist that sphere into a torus (donut) shape, and reduce the energy-requirements down to only the amount of energy in around 900kg (a little less than a tonne) of matter. Meaning this is actually potentially feasible, if not highly difficult, and implausible, just NOT impossible. Granted in order to produce these bubbles, you'd need access to something that generates negative energy, perhaps some exotic form of matter, but we're not certain on that point. (However, given the expanding universe, negative energy is a thing we know HAS to exist, we're just not sure how... yet...) Also the design as it is may have some issues when attempting to travel at superluminal speeds, such as instantly incinerating everyone and everything inside, destroying the universe through fluctuations in the vacuum energy state, and/or breaking causality in a time-related paradox. But those are small potatoes... lol. And this is just one potential suggestion of actual superluminal (Faster Than Light) propulsion that works with physics as we understand them. There are also wormholes, quantuum-entangled teleportation, and also higgs-field inverters, but that's a bit too much to talk about in just a random comment. But yeah, just sayin' that there really are some ways that we've thought-up where things can (and DO!) exceed the speed of light. It's a fascinating topic, and one worthy of the show! Keep up the good work, my totally-no-a-supervillain friend!
For the moon example: That seems to be the general *intuition* of how this should work. However, imagine light moving like a stream of water. If you block a powerful hose with your hand that's pointing at a wall, say, 20 feet away... the water between the wall and the hose that left the pipe BEFORE the stream had been interrupted still reach the wall EVEN THOUGH your hand is still in front of the pipe. Try it! The analogy works with the moon as well: if you, say, shine a laser or bright light on the moon (and for the sake of argument, assume it lands and reflects/absorbs, etc.) then moving your hand across the beam to block some of the light from reaching the moon would have the same effect as with our pipe analogy. Even though your hand (or whatever other implement) has already blocked some of the light, the moon still receives the photons that left just BEFORE the block was implemented. During the photon's travel and reaching the moon, the hand would still be there, and the photon would still bounce off. This would therefore mean the speed of "dark" is roughly, if not exactly, the speed of light. Did... VSauce have a video on this?
What I understood from that example is that if you were to say, have a spotlight that is illuminating an area, let's say 1000 times larger than the spotlight itself. If you were to pass your hand in front of the light for 1 second, the resulting shadow would also exist for 1 second, except passing over a much larger area, effectively moving 1000 times the speed of your hand in this case. Its not about the travel from source to target, its about how the target appears when it gets there.
@@dovahkat9635 The problem with that is that the light would be diffused in a cone shape, so not only would the surface area of the object be 1000 times larger, but so would the surface area of your hands shadow, therefore nothing in this example is moving relatively faster than light.
Yeah Kyle, we've all read Nick Herbert's book; 'Faster Than Light: Superluminal Loopholes in Physics.' before. Nice presentation of basically all the best parts of the book. I think you deserve a 'SuperNerd' or breaking this down even further than he did for us plebians. Herbert and Kaku got some chops when it comes to making string theory and superluminal quantum phenomena palatable. You're like their internet successor in a way, making it fun.
Thanks for watching, Super Nerds! This was a fun one, as many others have talked about these phenomena, but I've never seen the math on how to make some of them "work." See you in Footnotes. -- kH
I have a question.
How fast are we going thru the universe?
Thanks Kyle, see you there!
Edit: Quick Question Kyle, what's your favorite SCP?
Because Science I believe that galaxies at the edge of the visible universe are moving away from us around 3.34 +/- 0.02 x C even though in reality there velocity is only 71km/s parsec.
"It's not evil... Snot."
Kyle, it's a good thing you're not a super villian... You'd make a good one. You rolled high on your intelligence, wisdom and charisma, great on dexterity... Good on your constitution and strength, being a rock climber takes decent strength and good stamina and that dexterity... I mean, really I'd let you use athletics or acrobatics... But, that's just me. Point is, is you'd make a nasty villian. Unsuspecting. Charming. Broad range of knowledge.
Secretive. Slightly introverted. Moderately perfectionistish. I dunno... The more I type, the more I convince myself...
.... Need a sidekick? I rolled pretty good stats, myself.
Oh, and we can get into feats and skills when we get to the base. Ky'll-Gore Voidkeep...🤔😏
Im just gonna say there is no speed limit, there is a maximum observable speed limit which is The speed of light
Kyle stop telling us how we can exploit the Universe's physics engine. The devs won't like that.
That. Is. A. Scary. Thought.
Icantsleepamoar....
I dont think I want the devs mad at me.
Pardon my ignorance, but what's a dev?
@@antares1070 A software developer. Like the ones that program the simulation that run our universe.
Don't worry devs gonna release the patch to fix that soon ;)
And the barman said "sorry we don't serve tachyons here"
A tachyon walks into a bar...
... and says "ouch".
Ha! That all you are getting from me.
This joke was underrated tomorrow.
Oh damn
Can someone smarter than myself explain this, please and thank you!
"I cannot stress enough that I'm not a supervillain"
Don't worry, Thor, I trust you.
Plot twist: it's Loki disguised as Thor
OMG IT'S YOU, ALL MIGHTY, I PRAY, AND KNEEL DOWN BEFORE THY. How do you not have more like. I've been subscribed since 2017.
u again
Hi
You again
“I’m not a supervillain.”
*looks at next video*
“Should we nuke Mars?”
I know
Lol!
"There are no accidents."
-Master Oogway
All for a prank call
Not very super villainy. And come on, look at his face. I'd laugh at a "villian" that looked like that
The faster-than-light guillotine.
*Louis XVI has left the chat*
Ha ha ha good one 😂
Are you sure it was not just his head that left?
@@DavidBarkland that joke was surely a NO brainer then :D
I guess you could say his connection was... Severed...
I'm guessing he just had world history lol I had it a while ago
Kyle: "Here's why you DON'T want superpowers."
Also Kyle: "Here's another way I could kill you with science, you non-superpowered nerds."
TOTALLY not a supervillain.
TheKnuckleneck Kyle is gonna be the next Lex Luthor
Lucille Francois Dear God...protecting his hair should be a national mandate.
TheKnuckleneck Honestly I’d protect his hair without any legal reason
He would know. If anyone knows, it's him
I mean, hes not wrong....
Kyle: I’m not a super-villain
Also Kyle: Lets make a giant space guillotine.
When will the "Let's put rockets on our space guillotine." t-shirt be available? Asking for a friend.
I'll buy it...
I need to know
The world needs that.
It so desperately needs that.
"I'm not a super villain, but what if rocket guillotine "
XD
Kyle is the reincarnation of Emperor Palpatine. He has the charisma and a red lightsaber to prove it.
Nah Kyle is a super villain in training
LMAO right???
Megamind: You dare challenge Megamind?
Titan: This town isn’t big enough for two supervillains!
Megamind: Oh, you’re a villain all right, just not a super one.
Titan: Oh yeah? What’s the difference?
Megamind: Presentation!
"I'm not a Super Villain, i swear."
Sounds like something a Super Villain would say...
But... wouldn't someone who _isn't_ a Super Villain say the same thing? Wait? Are *you* a Super Villain!?
Supervillains actually cant resist expositing their villainy, its physically impossible for them.
There's a great way to sort it out. Trial by Ordeal. Throw him into the event horizon of a black hole. If he falls in then he was a good guy that was accepted as pure by the universe. If he gets spat out, he's a diabolical monster and we nuke him before he can escape. Problem solved and 100% accurate to ensure no supervillains are around.
The FIRST thing a super villain would say.
Hmm... yes...
The "speed of dark" has been one of those things that have fascinated me for ages, you supervillain you.
speed of dark is just the speed of light
@@bumblebee6875 It's the speed of the absence of light
@@bumblebee6875 The speed of light projected. The projection however means a shadow can move faster than the speed of light.
@@Carewolf no because a shadow only exists where there is light to cast it. If you move an object infront of a laserpointer you are only blocking new light, not old light.
@@bumblebee6875 Sure, but the shadow is that projected onto a surface. A spotlight on a surface can also move faster than the speed of light, because the spot like a shadow is a not a physical object, but a name we have given to an interaction point of two objects, and like the scissors example, such an abstract point can move faster than the speed of light.
Kyle: * Makes a FTL Guillotine *
*FRANCE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW YOUR LOCATION*
No only french peasants
@@evanwesolowski3717 so France
@@evanwesolowski3717 Robespierre was a peasant?
"We wouldn't have a planet chopper anymore."
Why do I hear disappointment in Kyle's voice?
He’s a supervillain
NOT a super villain ok ; )
I really like the fact that you threw in that pushing on the scissor handle would only propagate the force through the scissor at the speed of sound. Not that it really mattered to the point you were making, but taking the time to mention that shows a care for accuracy, even while discussing ridiculous things, that is just really refreshing.
Kudos to you and your team.
Stuck with a phantom German accent?
You may have Einstein moustache.
The Shamanite It wazent partikularly Grrman sou. Seems too be a tuff one too imitayt.
Austrian?
“We could make make this with today’s technology, I’m not saying that we should, I’m just saying that it would be totally awesome”
This man is truly the best
I say not only should we do it, but we should use it to circumcise mount Everest.
Lol, he said that right as I read this.
Isn't this why we have the united nations? They need to get on top of this and unite everyone into building an earth FTLS guillotine
Kyle is definitely not a super villain. He is clearly informing everyone of the potential dangers that comes with a greater understanding of science. I mean, its not like he is using these videos as a subtle way to threaten any potential heroes that might stop his rise to ultimate glory or anything. Totally not evil in the slightest.
For the glory of SCIENCE!
HAIL SCIENCE
AYE AYE AYE !
He was Planing project Thor last week thou 😅
I might argue he has just become one. The only time length is a factor in the calculation he has presented is if acceleration is a factor (which he failed to apply). If that is what he was going for then he failed in presenting those factors so people could check his work. He never gave travel distances or desire distances to achieve with in a set time frame.
Now I am willing to accept my wrongness if someone can answer this question: If light travels at 299 792 458 m/sec then how fast does a light pulse goes if I send it to a target 1000 m away, or even 200 m away?
If you say 299 792 458 m/sec, then why does the 6 m/s blade need to be 14,500 km for his speed of light (299 792 458 m/sec) blade? And how fast is it going across the cut at both the 100 km mark to 500 km mark of the blade. (I am ignoring the roundness of the surfaces he is cutting)
He just became a villain for bad science! But he could yet redeem himself! Maybe that's because I still like Kyle, that I say that!
Are you sure about that "speed of dark" thing? Because it sounds awfully similar to "let's destroy the sun and see how long it takes for people on Earth to notice", which of course does obey the speed of light. Not that I've personally destroyed the sun...
That WOULD be evil
Well either way we wouldn’t know for 8 minutes.
Those are two different phenomenons.
Yes, if you destroyed the sun, it would take 8 minutes till the earth noticed it.
In the same way, from the moment the you put your hand on that hypothetical flashlight till the "shadow" "arrived" on the moon, it would take roughly 1 second. But that's not what we're talking here, we're talking about the perception of said shadow on the surface of the moon
Think about a screen fully lit, and some pixels turned off in such a way that it seems there is a black dot moving on the screen... Notice that no pixels are moving in this examples
@@99temporal Wait, so if I was somehow standing on the sun, and the sun disappeared out from under me, then I'd see the earth disappear right away, even though the light from the sun hadn't yet had time to reach the earth, bounce off, and come back?
@@EdKolis The main idea is the light is shining in a cone, so your hand moving across a flashlight close to the flashlight causes the shadow that's reaaaaaally far away appear to move suuuuuuper fast.
"Answer the phone you coward." is my new favorite way to call people.
Is it bad i do that? Granted i also answer the phone like *swish/faceturn* "moshi moshi" and City morgue! you stabbem, we slabbem! Or city morgue! You killem, we chillem!
"I'm not a super villain. And if anyone knows it, it's me."
The thing that makes a good villain is that they don't think they are the villain. ;)
Yup, he's not an evil villain just like the Joker isnt crazy.
Garou.
Every villain is the hero of his own story
@@tappajaav Are you calling the warriors of Gaia villains?! That sounds like something a tool of the Wyrm would say! Brothers, to battle!
Negatory.
Me: space guillotine is the coolest idea ever
Kyle: LET'S PUT ROCKETS ON OUR SPACE GUILLOTINE!!!
Me:Oh...My...God
Yes :D
He forgot to mention one thing ... this structure is nearly impossible because of how much a 5 km blade of steel might weight ... this object need to be accelerated from hundreds of thousands of kilometers in order to reach Saturn 5 max speed
David Gold
Mmn~
@@amineabdz Did you forget there is no gravity in space therefoe no force pressing on the object so no weight. Ok your right I forget about microgravity my mistake I'm inadequate whatever.
@@seanm4095 did you forget how mass works? You still need a large amount of force to move a large amount of mass
Kyle: " I have a new idea for a guillotine"
French ppl: " tell me more..."
Kyle isn't a supervillain, he's the guy that makes their plans and the weapons.
I immediately thought of vsauce's video on "what is the speed of dark?" when you mentioned it.
thanks for the tip, going to go watch that now
same here
What ever happened to vsauce
Same
@@garrettflaherty5440 he started doing youtube premium videos
5:54-5:57 "The speed of dark." Hey Vsauce, Michael here.
I have an issue with the "shadow can move ftl" thing. Going to run some models to see what I can come up with.
I'm a lot more interested in this concept then the whole space guillotine thing...
The shadow doesn't move at all, it's not a thing, your seeing the absence of anything move @ the 2 clueless replies, vsauce explains it =^]
I was so intrigued by all the science within the first 8.5 mins that I totally forgot that this video is supposed to be about a FTL guillotine until he finally mentions it
Kyle Hill: Into the Voideyverse (2019)
my dad saw me watching this video and asked y thor was making sciencey videos
Lol xD
Science is just what you midgardians call magic.
"By Feynman's follicles, you scared me!"
That's a new one.
"Our Values are Under Attack!!!"
is probably one of the most conspiracy-like Things one can say,
and yet, for Science, it's literally true.
As Professor Dave in his epic video about the Discovery Institute
and it's members showed:
Yes, a lot of people are just being salty about
not having had the Best Grades once... but some are doing Science-Denial
delibaretely. As in 'sitting down, planning, and then going to discredit Science'.
Some are silly, yes, and some want to just make money,
but some want something else.
"I'm not a supervillain"
Me: yeah ok. Keep telling yourself that.
When you keep denying that you’re not a super villain - - - you’re a super villain 😂
3:40 Evil Kyle eliminates his good counterpart (2019, colorized then decolorized and then colorized again)
Kyle: Calculates very complicated equations like it’s nothing.
Also Kyle: “As the Sun rotates”
The sun does rotate though, not around the planet, but it does rotate. Specifically, it rotates around the center of the milky way. It also revolves, but that's a different can of worms.
Krishnath Dragon true, but he did mean the Earth in the context that I speak of.
Both are correct here.
Kyle did indeed use the earth as a point of refference to be the center of the universe.
Middle ages all over again. But it makes it easier to understand
Honest slip of the tongue without an extra take to fix it. Happens. Feels bad -- kH
@@becausescience
Hey, It's Alright.
Nobody:
Kyle: what if you built a rocket-mounted super massive space guillotine?
"Our Values are Under Attack!!!"
is probably one of the most conspiracy-like Things one can say,
and yet, for Science, it's literally true.
Science-Denial Grows.
Eusten:" We need an orbital strike towards asteroid shower gamma quadrant, over."
My little cousin is an infinite energy source, that little bastard doesnt seem to slow down ever
Then use the FTL guilletine on him
Give him a few decades, he'll slow down.
SlyPearTree or just break his legs, in a few seconds he would slow the fuck down
SlyPearTree oof
break his femurs
Kyle: "Get out of my future past!"
Kitty Pryde exits chat
I think you got the order wrong
@@julianlockwood8056 I'm pretty sure it goes both ways...
0:43 That is a sick animation, and I think it goes underappreciated!
*"I'm not a super villain"*
- Kyle, Because Science of Doom
To quote Terry Pratchett:
"Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it."
I see you are a man of culture aswell.
Or you a woman, not sure because of your profil pic.
Woman, last time I checked.
You have shown what I always imagined Occam's razor to be before I looked it up. Thank you.
I'm glad to see this video. The idea occurred to me many years ago, so to see it confirmed makes me happy.
However...
Let's say you have two rigid rods that are a light-year long. One is stationary from your frame of reference. The other is parallel to the first, but it's moving toward the first one. They will collide. You're right at the midway point, a half a light-year from either end.
From your perspective, the collision will NOT be simultaneous along the length. The contact point closest to you will collide first. The farther away from you the rods are, the longer it will take for you to see the collision. The rods are curved, from your reference point. It will take a half a year for you to see the ends of the rods collide.
"Now" Is local. There's no such thing as absolute simultaneity. It doesn't even make sense to think of the second rod moving as a single inertial body, when it's a freakin' light-year long. What happens at one end takes a year, at best, to get to the other end.
Imagine you're a light-year long. What's going on at your feet is a year away from your head. You don't exist in one time zone.
"Oh, I was roaming. Oh, shi-"
There goes 10 years worth of salary for that Mars call.
Best part was the 12mins later he answered that phone call
Man I remember trying to race with light in my room by turning on the lights as im running through the room when i was little
I remember trying to explain to other kid that circular logic cannot be proven and is thus false.
I remember they used to make us take naps on the rug in kindergaten. The girl who slept next to me would lie on her hands and stare at me. By the time we reached high school she looked like Pat Benatar (...google her).
@@skylx0812 I remember trying to take a nap while one kid was vomiting his guts out.
7:15
“You probably used a scissors before-“
This got me. 😂
The chop on the stash and the look after was amazing.
Light speed guillotine? Sounds like something I'd want to get my neck under.
We meet again
Nearly Headless Nick wishes they used one ;)
France wants to know your locations!
Id be willing to be the first person executed faster than light
Sign me in
"Not planet cutters"
Sure Kyle, sure not sounding evil at all
Cutting Planets makes more planets
I did a time dilation calculation on those near-light-speed protons at the LHC, and it's effectively 1 second = almost 2 hours.
"Scissors! Not planet cutters!"
-Kyle Hill, 2019
Kyle: I'm not a villain
Every musician: But your theme music is a tri-tone. Historically known as...the DIABLO chord! 🤯
😱😱😱😱
Evil Illuminate confirmed
Wait what...? Thats a real thing?
Not the Star Wars Imperial March?
@@soundmassstudio7595 As an illuminatus, i resent that. Thats discrimination, it is!
I've never heard someone say "a scissors"...you're my favorite.
Well, it is called "a pair of scissors", similar to "a pair of pants".
@@fendelphi and, similarly, you probably have not heard someone say "a pants" either ;P
He should've said "2 scissors" XD
@@erbgorre But you hear people call it "A pant"? Point is, it is technically wrong to call it "a scissor"(as that is a motion, not an object), and he is making a joke about it(like some of the other words and terms he is joking about from time to time) by leaving "pair of" out of the sentence.
I'm not even a native english speaker and I got the joke right away.
@@fendelphi you hear people call them pants, or scissors, for short. thats why the original commenter pointed out that "a scissors" sounds funny, as would "a pants". that was the whole point.
"The speed of dark" is the best explanation I've seen of how a tachyon would work.
This will absolutely and unequivocally be my final year project proposal. I dont care where the funding comes from. I will do this.
11:27 "what if we put rockets on our space guillotine" xD
12:00 I'm a bit concerned about him getting so excited about this "We could build something like this with today's technology" xD
Annnnnnnddddddddd... of course he's not a supervillain. Only supervillain's think of those things
@@pudgebl67 but he isn't a supervillain, he is a MAD SCIENTIST!!! there is a small but distinct difference between the two.
gdesign95: Of course there's a difference. Supervillains are BR (gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?action=advanced&mark=+["League%20of%20Dastardly%20Doom"] ) &/or UB (gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?action=advanced&mark=+["Agents%20of%20S.N.E.A.K."] ), whereas Mad Scientists are GW (gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?action=advanced&mark=+["Crossbreed%20Labs"] ) or GU (gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?action=advanced&mark=+["Simic"] ).
@@sdfkjgh having trouble with the links 🙁
Library Adjacent: Start here: gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Advanced.aspx
search in Mark (it's between Flavor Text and Artist) for League of Dastardly Doom, then Agents of S.N.E.A.K., then Crossbreed Labs, then Simic. Apparently, the computer coding can't handle brackets in hyperlinks. I prolly should've tinyurled up that bitch.
Sometimes I like to imagine Kyle is at the thanksgiving table doing these rants/speeches and everyone is too polite to tell him they don't care so they just smile and nod along.
Loved the episode btw
Man I love your channel i like your energy
This needs to be a Mythbusters special!!
Bring Adam and Jamie back for this one off.
2:31 Kyle mentally high fives himself for that pun without skipping a beat in the script. Nice.
He looks like he had a brain-gasm
"Mostly because I read a paper that did the same thing"
Ah, a true scientist: Cribbing off someone else's research since time immemorial.
How science is built my dear boi -- kH
@@becausescience Wow. I actually got a reply from BS.
To be fair, I am aware that a scientist who insists on starting from first principles for everything is going to do alot less than the guy who read his professor's papers.
And this is how engineering works. Source: I’m an electrical engineer.
You guys are right. Human progress will be extremely slow if everyone starts from zero. Building from someone else's work allows us to improve their work and gives something that can go even further for the next guy.
@@iainballas Crap, I read it as " I got a reply from bullsh*t"...
Again...
And I've been on this channel for about 2 years. I really feel sorry for myself.
Super kool. Love the enthusiasm.
Kyle: ...rockets on a space guillotine!
Mermaid Man: EEEVIIIIIIIIIL!!
So what did we learn today?
Never give Kyle enough money to build something for Space... He is NOT a Supervillain!
He wudnt be able to build it anyway if its too close to earth due to the size of it and earths gravity the guillotine would fall down back to earth at hundreds of miles per hour due to its weight. And earths 9.8m/s gravity would make that guillotine an absolute Hellish event if that fell onto the ground here from lets say 300KM high up.........
Due to its 5KM size... the force of impact cud be comparible to a few nukes. If you wud use the estimations of his previous video bout the rods of god being only several feet long...... holy shit i wanna leave the planet now
Ok now I'm convinced Kyle is actually some comicbook villain but in real life
Every time I watch an episode of these, I change my own past beliefs and understanding of my own future, because science.
Love the science. Love the passion. Love the impression.
ATTN KYLE: I'm sooo so sorry for doing this but I've gotta ask, "Why sooo sirius?" ... Because Science
Serious*
@@handsome_elite7203 ummm no that's not a correction Sirius is the name of the star. It's called a play on words.
@@handsome_elite7203 That joke went over your head faster than something at the speed of light eh? XD
@@paulwagstaff5373 r/woooosh on myself lmao
Super villain?! I always thought you were Thor wearing a Kyle disguise
There's not enough energy in the entire universe to accelerate an object with mass to the speed of light! So if I were to hypothetically throw a golf ball at the speed of light, it would have to be a God-given ability.
"Entangled"
*JADA WANTS TO KNOW YOUR LOCATION*
3:40 so that's how Super Villian Kyle killed Super Nerd Kyle and took his place 😮
Glad to see that kyle was an evil mastermind even before he started the facility
"I'm not a Super-Villian..." is EXACTLY what a Super-Villian WOULD say to throw us off the scent.
The scissors example broke my brain.
i mean he said it himself, he CANT be a supervillain. nice one kyle
Me: Super villian?
Kyle: *Super villain?*
*Me: Yes.*
the universe expands faster than light
This Guy is SO Awesome,I literally can't stress that enough!
"Change your perspective a bit." You mean take a certain point of view?
Obi Wan *Intesifies*.
Dv mjyr dggb?
Thanks for narrowing down the coordinates to your secret lair a bit, it seems S.V. Kyle is on Mars (which kinda explains the terraforming Mars ep.) and his scientist clone/twin/pawn is on or near Earth in "the void" (Rods from God ep.).
Poor Void Kyle, so easily replaced whenever the "original" KH, or an evil-er(?) VK from the future deems it necessary. 🤔 I HAD a question but unravelling the location of your lair got the better of me. Oh well.
Anyways, love the show! ...and I'm not just saying that to keep you from sending those Laser Bees after me. **shudder**
Kyle, man, we need to have an intervention. You're in denial about your super villainy.
“I’m not a super villain! I swear!” Famous last words before becoming a super villain.
Roaming on a hard wire phone, that bill would break your bank account.
Morticus Would his bank account break faster than the speed of light?
12:09 Dude, did you all hear that giddy catch in his voice? He was really enjoying the prospect of the idea of a 3-mile wide guillotine.
It's confirmed: he's a super villain
It has been confirmed for years practically 12:40
Before light is darkness therefore darkness is faster than light.
You sir, are cuter than a puppy and a kitty trying to climb into the same sock! It seems unfair somehow that you should also be so clever, but such is the world that we find ourselves in. I'm new to your channel, but have been immensely enjoying your content so far. I think your going to be my new favorite internet time assassin! I especially loved your video on magic the gathering powered computers! It was an awesome concept!
Take it easy,
W.Peace
So when I turn my head from the Moon to Sirius the center of the plane of my sight(or the end point of the line of sight wich points to the Moon then Sirius) moves 8 light years within a second. That means I have FTL vision. Cooool.
(Next Because Science episode: "why you don't want FTL vision")
Nice
You dont actually see either, you just see the photons that left those places, so you dont have ftl vision, you have microscopic vision, since you see particles. You dont actually see anything, you only detect light that attacks your eye-holes, and this light carries wave patterns that make your brain hallucinate about seeing things. As this takes a certain amount of time to process, what your consciousness perceives is a memory of sensory data which is not current anymore, so you cannot perceive the current moment, you see a few microseconds into the past.
When this data is saved into your memory, it is not saved as raw data, but largely as cultural and linguistical concepts which only exist as such, in your mind.
Yes, everything you think you know, is a lie.
Everything.
Oh shit bro.... that means we actualy have some real Hawk eyes XD
@@ribbitgoesthedoglastnamehe4681 okay, makes sense. But then you see objects not only trough the photons and particles alone right? Your brain uses hearing and touch as well to determine an objects distance and shape. Sight alone wouldnt then be sufficient enough to identify things.
Correct me if i'm wrong tho
Can't have FTL vision if vision depends on light...
"Im not a villain" you would say that if you were one... hmmmmmm
Wow, great Einstein impression!
(I take that back)
Great Stanley Tucci from Captain America impression!
Of course you're not a super villain 🙄
You're Thor for f*** sake !
Thor Odin-son !
I can't unsee that the Because Science Logo is inside of an upended triangle, resembling a Super "V" for "Villian".
It was there the whole time...
Love the show so much I had a weird sleep-aid induced dream that I met science thor and he's totally not a super villain thanks NyQuil
Also those scissors got dangerously close to your hair be careful!
Maybe it was one of those prediction dreams that seem to predict the future but are actualy random bits and parts of your memory mushed together but then actualy happening exactly or almost exactly like your dream went ans ending up in you have a Dé ja vu
"We could make it and it won't be evil" cuts though space-time.
Do you think you could do a video on what would happen if the human body burned 1 calorie per second 24/7? One of many random odd discussions I had with a buddy and I said "You know what.. I bet I know who would have the answers and this sounds like something he would have on his channel". Thanks for all the awesome vids! Keep them coming! =)
so now kyle wants to go back in time and rule the past wielding a light guillotine...very supervillain like
WHAT. NO. -- kH
@cak01vej thts just a ruse, a cover up for his true purpose...standard supervillain mo
Hey Kyle, love the show! A couple of additions I'd like to make! (Not corrections this time, lol).
You had mentioned the expansion of the universe, and yes, you're right, there's nothing that stops space itself from expanding (or contracting, or both) at superluminal speeds. This fact is what led Mexican theoretical physicist Dr. Miguel Allcubierre to develop his Alcubierre Warp-Drive. (Yes, inspired by the star-trek warp-drive, but designed in real-world physicis.)
This particular construct works by creating a bubble of space-time around a vehicle, and moving that bubble along a wavefront of expanding and contracting space-time, at speeds that can exceed that of light. His original calculations for a spherical field required energy-levels exceeding the energy of all matter in the universe though, so that wasn't very helpful.
Later-on various physicsts (Such as Dr. Harold White from NASA's Eagleworks Laboratory) have managed to twist that sphere into a torus (donut) shape, and reduce the energy-requirements down to only the amount of energy in around 900kg (a little less than a tonne) of matter. Meaning this is actually potentially feasible, if not highly difficult, and implausible, just NOT impossible.
Granted in order to produce these bubbles, you'd need access to something that generates negative energy, perhaps some exotic form of matter, but we're not certain on that point. (However, given the expanding universe, negative energy is a thing we know HAS to exist, we're just not sure how... yet...)
Also the design as it is may have some issues when attempting to travel at superluminal speeds, such as instantly incinerating everyone and everything inside, destroying the universe through fluctuations in the vacuum energy state, and/or breaking causality in a time-related paradox. But those are small potatoes... lol.
And this is just one potential suggestion of actual superluminal (Faster Than Light) propulsion that works with physics as we understand them. There are also wormholes, quantuum-entangled teleportation, and also higgs-field inverters, but that's a bit too much to talk about in just a random comment.
But yeah, just sayin' that there really are some ways that we've thought-up where things can (and DO!) exceed the speed of light. It's a fascinating topic, and one worthy of the show!
Keep up the good work, my totally-no-a-supervillain friend!
"We could build something like this with today's technology."
Phineas: Ferb, I know what we're gonna do today.
That's the dirtiest pair of scissors I've seen online.
For the moon example:
That seems to be the general *intuition* of how this should work. However, imagine light moving like a stream of water. If you block a powerful hose with your hand that's pointing at a wall, say, 20 feet away... the water between the wall and the hose that left the pipe BEFORE the stream had been interrupted still reach the wall EVEN THOUGH your hand is still in front of the pipe. Try it!
The analogy works with the moon as well: if you, say, shine a laser or bright light on the moon (and for the sake of argument, assume it lands and reflects/absorbs, etc.) then moving your hand across the beam to block some of the light from reaching the moon would have the same effect as with our pipe analogy. Even though your hand (or whatever other implement) has already blocked some of the light, the moon still receives the photons that left just BEFORE the block was implemented. During the photon's travel and reaching the moon, the hand would still be there, and the photon would still bounce off.
This would therefore mean the speed of "dark" is roughly, if not exactly, the speed of light. Did... VSauce have a video on this?
What I understood from that example is that if you were to say, have a spotlight that is illuminating an area, let's say 1000 times larger than the spotlight itself. If you were to pass your hand in front of the light for 1 second, the resulting shadow would also exist for 1 second, except passing over a much larger area, effectively moving 1000 times the speed of your hand in this case. Its not about the travel from source to target, its about how the target appears when it gets there.
@@dovahkat9635 The problem with that is that the light would be diffused in a cone shape, so not only would the surface area of the object be 1000 times larger, but so would the surface area of your hands shadow, therefore nothing in this example is moving relatively faster than light.
Yeah Kyle, we've all read Nick Herbert's book; 'Faster Than Light: Superluminal Loopholes in Physics.' before. Nice presentation of basically all the best parts of the book. I think you deserve a 'SuperNerd' or breaking this down even further than he did for us plebians. Herbert and Kaku got some chops when it comes to making string theory and superluminal quantum phenomena palatable. You're like their internet successor in a way, making it fun.
Very high praise Marcus, thank you! I need to check out that book... -- kH
@@becausescience Holy shit dude. Thanks for the reply! I can't believe you never read the book?!? You pretty much nailed the material.