How We Know Space is Flat | Brian Cox and Joe Rogan

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  • čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
  • Taken from Joe Rogan Experience #1233 w/Brian Cox:
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  • @GrimJerr
    @GrimJerr Před 4 lety +3152

    I've seen that same look that was on Joe's face on my dog's face when I tried to explain to him that the ball rolled under the couch

  • @superbloodwolfmoon420
    @superbloodwolfmoon420 Před 3 lety +5378

    Joe sacrificing himself as the guy who looks dumb asking simple minded questions but getting these geniuses to utter common tongue explanations is oh so appreciated

    • @elliottjones8354
      @elliottjones8354 Před 3 lety +93

      Literal the best take about this pod ever

    • @runthenumbers9698
      @runthenumbers9698 Před 3 lety +17

      common tongue? I disagree. I agree it's comprised of words... yet he still seems to be speaking in tongues

    • @JustChadC
      @JustChadC Před 3 lety +12

      People talk shit oh Joe for this but few people get this opportunity and also pff, wtf, are they gonna ask? “aRe YoU fRoM LdN?”

    • @elliottjones8354
      @elliottjones8354 Před 3 lety

      @Papa Legba what?

    • @elliottjones8354
      @elliottjones8354 Před 3 lety

      @Papa Legba so i can talk about u freely ! Thx

  • @woodlandwrench
    @woodlandwrench Před 2 lety +118

    Brian gets a call at 4am:
    Joe: "but what's the thickness?".

  • @MixMasterMarx
    @MixMasterMarx Před 2 lety +161

    Big props to Joe for having conversations like this. More please.

  • @robertjameson2749
    @robertjameson2749 Před 5 lety +1705

    Watching this in my crappy rented accomodation, observing that there's no space in my flat.

  • @exiletsj2570
    @exiletsj2570 Před 4 lety +2048

    Poor Brian. He’s on a very noble quest to educate the masses, this still does not change the fact, I have no idea what he’s talking about.

    • @dylaneets9182
      @dylaneets9182 Před 4 lety +12

      Exile 1 you can’t fix stupid? 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️

    • @mikhem1962
      @mikhem1962 Před 4 lety +16

      Exile 1 , He could rearrange those words in any order he likes and they would be just as meaningful to me.

    • @mk4vws
      @mk4vws Před 4 lety +27

      No one does because he’s full of shit. How can you measure space to be flat? No one can understand it because it’s bullshit. It sounds like he makes shit up as he goes. Joe Rogan is a sellout. What everyone fails to understand is, they can’t measure shit you can’t see!

    • @kurtjohansson1265
      @kurtjohansson1265 Před 4 lety +35

      @@mk4vws I'm a round spacer!

    • @RouskSour
      @RouskSour Před 4 lety +63

      @@mk4vws he's saying that from the perspective we are able to see the universe, it is so out of scope of the entire thing that we cant see the curvature to it. So similar to if you slowly ascended from standing on the ground to space, the further you go up, the easier to see that the ground you stood on wasnt flat but in fact curved.

  • @xpndblhero5170
    @xpndblhero5170 Před 2 lety +181

    Brian Cox is one of my favorite physicists.... His way of describing stuff is intuitive and easy to translate to others that don't understand physics.

    • @starty8814
      @starty8814 Před 2 lety +7

      I saw him speak in person once. If you ever get the chance I would recommend going

    • @xpndblhero5170
      @xpndblhero5170 Před 2 lety

      @@starty8814 - I'd definitely do that if I had the chance but I doubt he'd be anywhere near where I live talking smart.... Natural intelligence is rare where I live. LoL

    • @robe2504
      @robe2504 Před 2 lety

      Yes, I find Brian, Neil DGT, and Michio Kaku excellent. But only to people that have a modicum of education and intelligence - maybe not the bottom 10-30%. Just being real.

    • @starty8814
      @starty8814 Před 2 lety

      Where’s that put you Rob. After all you came here to watch it at your own free will. Just being real.

    • @robe2504
      @robe2504 Před 2 lety

      @@starty8814 My point was that unless you have a basic level of intelligence and knowledge it doesn't matter how much Brian simplifies stuff, it will be beyond some people's ability to comprehend. It's just the standard probability distribution.
      Where's - I presume you mean where does, not where is. But, Brian Cox came up on my home feed, not Joe if that helps.

  • @squall86drk
    @squall86drk Před 11 měsíci +7

    The problem with Coxs explanation is that he does not explain that we are not referring to flat as a 2 dinensional feature, but as a 3 dimensional feature. Joe is thinking that the whole universe is a infinitely large board, but thats obviously not the case. The other example he could have done with curvature was taking a sphere (a soccer ball for example) and compare it with a desk surface and trace on both object 3 lines of the same lenght, each one connected by the next one by a 90° degrees angle. On the desk surface it will end up as an open shape (like a square missing one side) while on the sphere it will end up as a triangle (closed shape). Same dimostration is usually presented to debunk flat earther.

  • @AslanW
    @AslanW Před 5 lety +4814

    Man, flat earthers had it all wrong, it's SPACE that's flat!

    • @fpsserbia6570
      @fpsserbia6570 Před 5 lety +179

      😂😂 they were going in the right direction at least

    • @captainbaseballbatboy7915
      @captainbaseballbatboy7915 Před 5 lety +10

      Lol

    • @keithnicholas
      @keithnicholas Před 5 lety +94

      no! what we can see is flat....his point was about why we think the universe is much bigger than what we can see

    • @AslanW
      @AslanW Před 5 lety +20

      @@keithnicholas Whoosh

    • @r0cknr0ll3r
      @r0cknr0ll3r Před 5 lety +47

      Flat spacers rejoice

  • @many6747
    @many6747 Před 5 lety +13261

    The guy's too smart to understand what Joe is asking.

    • @TimpossibleOne
      @TimpossibleOne Před 5 lety +557

      Derique M. Joe is too dumb to understand that he answered his question

    • @many6747
      @many6747 Před 5 lety +750

      Tim Possible, he didn't answer his question. Even after he asked it twice he didn't answer what Joe asked. He was trying to explain that the universe was flat. Joe was asking how that could make sense because we know the universe has depth. The guy diverged on his explanation and started to answer the wrong question. His explanation started out right in saying that he's only talking about 2 dimensions, but could've continued in saying that basically if the universe is a box, then the top is flat. Instead he went into angles and shit that wasn't exactly where Joe was lacking in understanding.

    • @xMrJanuaryx
      @xMrJanuaryx Před 5 lety +275

      @@many6747 It's not Brian's fault Joe doesn't listen. He explained in plain English that he was talking about a SLICE of the the universe.

    • @many6747
      @many6747 Před 5 lety +377

      Robert, Joe was trying to clarify what that meant. Just because you got it doesn't mean Joe did. That lies upon Brian to answer Joe's question. That's how conversations work. I said Brain was to smart to understand what Joe was asking. I'm saying he's smarter than Joe, and it shows in his inability to see that Joe doesn't get a fundamental point of the conversation. That's sometimes a consequence of being super smart, a slight lack in social understanding.

    • @xMrJanuaryx
      @xMrJanuaryx Před 5 lety +30

      @@many6747 Well you are assuming that, but is it true? I am not so sure. I got the feeling that he was just upset that Joe wasn't paying attention, he was probably stoned and Brian was probably a bit annoyed.

  • @mubasshirkhan8231
    @mubasshirkhan8231 Před 2 lety +25

    Rogen is asking perfectly reasonable question. I am a PhD student, and it took me some time to wrap my head around what cox is saying when I first took a GR course.

    • @JokerScribe
      @JokerScribe Před 2 lety

      His 'explanation' of 'you can see the big bang light from 13.8 billion light years away' is really questionable. That would imply that earth travelled faster than light to reach where we are. Almost 13.8 billion times faster than light to get to where we currently are and then at some point it slowed to let light catch up. If his explanation of seeing the big bang light is true. No amount of gaslighting or BS or ad hominem attacks can fix the fact that his 'logic' here is flawed. Even if it takes into account that light would continue to pass us for almost 13.8 billion years, meaning that the universe would have to be much older than they give. Also, there not seeing the big bang light, that's way way ahead of the physical universe now. What he means I think is that we're seeing 13.8 year in the past, at an earlier universe which now has to be older than that to take in consideration why we're so far away when the universe was allegedly very young.

    • @JDG.RealEstate
      @JDG.RealEstate Před 6 měsíci +1

      Can you help us understand? It doesn’t make any sense to me. If we can see as far as 13.8 billion light years in any direction, how can we be in a flat universe?

    • @johannsebastianbach3411
      @johannsebastianbach3411 Před 6 měsíci +3

      @@JDG.RealEstateflat in this sense is only a mathematical concept.. to us mere humans flatness only makes sense in 2d. Which is what cox is trying to convey. Like, after a certain point you cannot visualize as a human, and just use math as the stick that a blind man uses to see around. The math that we use suggests different 4 dimensional geometries, and I guess when you draw a 4 dimensional triangle and add up the inner angles it adds up to 180 degrees or whatever mathematically in our universe 😂
      Just linear algebra after a certain point.
      That’s not the frightening part for me tho.
      The frightening part for me is this:
      All physics theorems were eventually conjured up by people with great imagination and visualizations: kepler, galileo, newton, einstein etc.
      And we are bound to visualizing in 3d since we’re humans. Newtons theorems worked well for us and explained most stuff that we cared about, since we only cared about constructing buildings and trains and cars and planes… when we started to think about far away galaxies, that’s when newtons laws failed, and that’s why einstein had the guts to sit down and imagine what could be happening really (since the old laws demonstrably failed)
      But imagine this, how could any human in the future could even start imagining a replacement to general relativity if in order to come up with one, one might need to be able to visualize in 4d 😂 if say GR fails some explaining some 4d phenomena, how could we even observe and demonstrate that it fails, let alone allowing someone like einstein in the future to start imagining what really is going on… dunno… i have work tomorrow so i don’t care after a point 😂

    • @Mussa.H
      @Mussa.H Před 4 měsíci +2

      @@JDG.RealEstatejust think of it this way. Nothing is truly flat, even a flat piece of paper has some small measurement of thickness to it. Now imagine the universe is a flat piece of paper but on an unimaginably bigger scale, and everything fits in between the thickness of the paper 😆thats my guess

  • @ezerasurfr
    @ezerasurfr Před 2 lety +30

    This is Brian's answer for the layman: "The universe could be infinite and have depth, but the small piece of it we see is flat. We know this because Albert Einstein was a lot smarter than all of us."

    • @itsmrme4951
      @itsmrme4951 Před 2 lety

      Na u troll

    • @stevenswitzer5154
      @stevenswitzer5154 Před 8 měsíci +1

      Ahhh. Ye old "appeal to authority" fallacy...

    • @ezerasurfr
      @ezerasurfr Před 8 měsíci

      @@stevenswitzer5154 or he's appealing to work Einstein did. Given most of the people on the planet can't understand Einstein's work, Brian's answer is appropriate.

    • @bladehea
      @bladehea Před 8 měsíci

      It wasnt Einstein who said It was flat but is theory is right If the universe is flat

    • @SevSeries-fi5ey
      @SevSeries-fi5ey Před 7 měsíci

      @@ezerasurfrAppeal to authority of a body of work is no better.
      People want an explanation.

  • @OneManTrail
    @OneManTrail Před 4 lety +2033

    Whenever I see Brian Cox, he looks like he’s 14 and 40 at the same time.

  • @MartyT
    @MartyT Před 3 lety +2268

    Yeah but how thick is it..

    • @gg-oo4tg
      @gg-oo4tg Před 3 lety +15

      Woah its angry ram guy hey bro big fan I'm from nz too

    • @MartyT
      @MartyT Před 3 lety +16

      @@gg-oo4tg Small world bro..

    • @oldbay2
      @oldbay2 Před 3 lety +9

      Exactly! I took physics and geometric optics in school but still think in 2 dimensions. 🤪 That being said, Brian explained it correctly but if I didnt take classes I would still be scratching my head. czcams.com/video/Aj6Kc1mvsdo/video.html

    • @TW0man4RMY
      @TW0man4RMY Před 3 lety +11

      Like a soup can. 👊😉

    • @dennisacklin3301
      @dennisacklin3301 Před 3 lety +5

      150 years ago when I was a kid Jethro Tull said thick as a brick. 😶😶

  • @saturdaysequalsyouth
    @saturdaysequalsyouth Před 2 lety +18

    I think one of the things people struggle with here is, how can a 3 dimensional object like a sphere be “flat”? Maybe another way to say it is, how can empty space have a shape?

    • @bino6453
      @bino6453 Před rokem +1

      exactly this

    • @geraltofrivia9424
      @geraltofrivia9424 Před rokem +5

      Think of the trajectory of light in space, if it finds no obstacle on its path and no massive object to change it, its trajectory will be a straight line. This is the meaning of flat in this context.
      If light was curved even if there's no physical interaction to deviate it, we could say that te universe is not flat because it would have what we call a positive or negative curvature in that case.

    • @SevSeries-fi5ey
      @SevSeries-fi5ey Před 7 měsíci +1

      @@geraltofrivia9424Flat seems a bad choice of word for communicating to laypeople. Flat implies that there's little height to it. Whereas it sounds like we're just saying that for the sphere of visible universe, it behaves just like we would expect.

    • @geraltofrivia9424
      @geraltofrivia9424 Před 7 měsíci

      @@SevSeries-fi5ey ... Sorry but I don't really care about the right or wrong choice of words. I'm just explaining what it means, not saying if the choice is good or not.

    • @SevSeries-fi5ey
      @SevSeries-fi5ey Před 7 měsíci +2

      @@geraltofrivia9424 Whereas I'm pointing out that the choice of words is poor. It's clear it does nothing but confuse everyone. Unfortunate. Thanks for sharing your understanding though! That may be helpful to some readers here.

  • @medusaskull9625
    @medusaskull9625 Před 2 lety +21

    It’s amazing how the way Joe questioned it help me to understand Dr Cox better. I have to admit, it’s a difficult subject but if you take into account everything Brian was saying, he is actually answering Joe question fully and beyond. The subtle of the answer and the question make you ponder beyond your brain can handle. it’s a single slice of the universe of zero thickness (or plank thickness if you will) expanded to infinite. That slice is our present time at every moment and it is flat, not curved, but flat, b/c mathematics shows it flat. Brian went on and did a beautiful demonstration of how math can prove something flat by the total angles of a triangle or pi value of a circle on a flat vs curve surface.

    • @thurguud
      @thurguud Před 2 lety

      The space is flat?????????? Are we retarded????????? Is this the most stupid thing i have heard in decades??????? WTF???????? Is this dude serious???????? What is this bullshit??????? Is anyone paying this man to say such nonsense?????????? Are any kind of taxes given to this shit????????? Can a human be so stupid???????? Infinite universe expanding (nonsense) with a center (nonsense) and also flat (ultra nonsense)?????????? Is this beyond idiocracy???????? How can anyone say that with a straight face????? Does this idiot thinks what he says?????????? Is it that difficult to understand infinite cannot expand from a single point because it is already infinite, cannot have a center and for fucking sure cannot be flat????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? To where does it expand???????????? to a meta universe that also expands into a metametauniverse that also expands into a metametametametametametauniverse?????????????? We live in a ball but the universe is flat?????????????????? Yeah dude humans are also flat, you are so cool for realizing it before anyone else with all those maths... This seems like a scam to make people who cannot understand basic logic pay for bullshit salaries wasted proving that because cheese have wholes the more cheese you have the less cheese you have... Fuking nonsense

    • @TheHipHopVlog
      @TheHipHopVlog Před rokem +2

      Yes. Just brilliantly said. It's not something to over think or even try to visualize. It's like trying to imagine a color you've never seen before. Our senses just aren't attuned to that. However, if you follow the math ... Space time is flat. .

    • @Andrey-il8rh
      @Andrey-il8rh Před 11 měsíci

      ​@@TheHipHopVlog don't know about you, I personally don't have any problems visualizing it

    • @TheHipHopVlog
      @TheHipHopVlog Před 11 měsíci +3

      Welp, you're the first person to every witness the fourth dimension then. Congrats@@Andrey-il8rh

    • @Andrey-il8rh
      @Andrey-il8rh Před 11 měsíci +1

      @@TheHipHopVlog what is there to do with fourth dimension? It's more about the ability of extracting 2d from 3d

  • @WAKEUPARTIST
    @WAKEUPARTIST Před 3 lety +2044

    Joe: "Yeah, but how can that be possible?"
    Brian: "The trick is to imagine a color you've never seen before, but do it without thinking."

    • @jiffylou98
      @jiffylou98 Před 3 lety +71

      I’m going to steal this whether or not it’s okay with you

    • @jordanmcintosh5451
      @jordanmcintosh5451 Před 3 lety +20

      There was a shade of blue that has been discovered recently and is expensive as fuck if you want to apply it to your home/car/etc.
      There's a lot of unknown discoveries still out there. The universe is a big place.

    • @stevenrogers9263
      @stevenrogers9263 Před 3 lety +4

      That was good right there😆

    • @olivia_kinney
      @olivia_kinney Před 3 lety +3

      @@jordanmcintosh5451 can you tell me what it’s called ? i’m interested

    • @jordanmcintosh5451
      @jordanmcintosh5451 Před 3 lety +4

      @@olivia_kinney YInMn. It's pretty af imo.

  • @denforcer8874
    @denforcer8874 Před 3 lety +1083

    I no longer understand what “flat” is or means.

    • @davekeith7504
      @davekeith7504 Před 3 lety +19

      You'll go far.

    • @denforcer8874
      @denforcer8874 Před 3 lety +112

      @@davekeith7504 so will you with that sense of humor

    • @srikanthsundaram3281
      @srikanthsundaram3281 Před 3 lety +88

      What he means by flat is like saying the surface of the earth is flat. If you look at earth as a whole it is like a sphere, but the surface of your observable earth is flat. So we can only see so much of the surface of the universe, not the whole universe in one go.

    • @ezchoice28
      @ezchoice28 Před 3 lety +60

      It's just a matter of geometry according to our best measurements to date. Simply put that any triangle, to the furthest reaches of observation, will add up to 180 degrees. If there was curvature you would not get this measurement. What he is saying is that this likely means that the universe is a lot bigger than what we see. There is a chance with more advanced measurement, with better technology, a curved surface may be detected (he is not saying it will be detected either). At this point, the universe seems flat in all directions in terms of geometry.

    • @BreezyFknDoesIt
      @BreezyFknDoesIt Před 3 lety +11

      @@ezchoice28 thank you I actually understand now 👌

  • @shantanoob
    @shantanoob Před 2 lety +5

    Man that explanation was sooo good! Bit strange to see so many folks in comments not understand and enjoy that. I thought it was great.

    • @g07denslicer
      @g07denslicer Před 5 měsíci +1

      It wasn't good. He didn't catch that when Joe hears "space is flat" that he litterally thinks space is flat.
      But Dr Cox doesn't say that the word "flat" in this context has a different meaning to everyday life.

  • @KPpivot
    @KPpivot Před 2 lety +13

    Joe understands that if you imagine the universe as a flat styrofoam slab and the earth as a marble stuffed inside the styrofoam slab that it explains how we can see the universe all around you. But by measuring the universe (the styrofoam) as much as you can it only appears flat. But Joe just wants to know approximately how much can could or have, has been measured distance wise of the universe.

    • @jesterpkl
      @jesterpkl Před 8 měsíci

      i dont think the flat he is trying to say is referring to the shape of the universe..not flat like a spiral galaxy spinning thus creating a flat look that have a certain dimension like a flat round table top...
      the flat he is trying to say probably just means that there are no curvature in space, that the space is flat..

  • @sentientmeat8975
    @sentientmeat8975 Před 4 lety +1471

    Flat earthers everywhere.
    “Well we knew something was flat.”

    • @1981peacemaker
      @1981peacemaker Před 4 lety +34

      Their brains are flat 🧠 😀

    • @usctrojanfreak
      @usctrojanfreak Před 4 lety +2

      Sentient Meat 😂😂

    • @IkenFister
      @IkenFister Před 4 lety +7

      @JC Denton it simply suggests but does not prove. It is simply research.

    • @sentientmeat8975
      @sentientmeat8975 Před 4 lety +4

      Camron Toney will you shut the fuck up trying to be edgy.
      Stop pretending that knowledge isn’t interesting when your listening to a fucking podcast about the universes shape.
      😂😂😂

    • @sentientmeat8975
      @sentientmeat8975 Před 4 lety +1

      Camron Toney is that really the best you could come up with.
      You must be the dullest dude in the room.
      You’d of been one of the apes who sat back watching the other apes crack bone with rock to get at the marrow contemplating why that would benefit you.

  • @justice7788
    @justice7788 Před 4 lety +5836

    I know less after watching this

    • @joshlink2129
      @joshlink2129 Před 4 lety +70

      I'm not alone

    • @ghamal
      @ghamal Před 4 lety +35

      @L1qu1d S1lenc3r Your explanation is bad, your video is bad, and you should feel bad. You're* welcome.

    • @ThomasDoubting5
      @ThomasDoubting5 Před 4 lety +48

      Generally is the case thats the irony of this kind of enquiry its truly is meaningless all it does is raises more questions for every one question answered by scientific enquiry 3 more even more complicated questions emerge its a worm hole of insanity and does drive and has drove many to madness.
      Just live... Common sense is the highest form of intelligence and the least valued in our times.

    • @ric84
      @ric84 Před 4 lety +154

      @@ThomasDoubting5 We'd still be busy throwing rocks at our food if everyone lived like that.

    • @user-iu3kv2bo4h
      @user-iu3kv2bo4h Před 4 lety +33

      @@ric84 great response

  • @patrickbrady447
    @patrickbrady447 Před 2 lety +9

    Thank God for people like Brian Cox, he can understand and explain what is but a mistry to so many of us.

    • @HEAVYDIAPER
      @HEAVYDIAPER Před rokem

      Mystery *

    • @macman975
      @macman975 Před 7 měsíci

      ​@@HEAVYDIAPER It's a mystery to me why clowns go out of their way to correct the spelling of a stranger on the Internet.

    • @HEAVYDIAPER
      @HEAVYDIAPER Před 7 měsíci

      @macman975 Not all heroes wear capes, my dude.

  • @terrydaniels9126
    @terrydaniels9126 Před 2 měsíci +1

    allways like listening to Brian an others make think an open new things in my mind

  • @aoshot
    @aoshot Před 3 lety +662

    89 missed calls from Eddie Bravo

    • @Hugo-py2ce
      @Hugo-py2ce Před 3 lety +2

      Hahahaha

    • @bobafeet1234
      @bobafeet1234 Před 3 lety +1

      Funny! I imagine Eddie would cut off Brian to tell him that the Earth was flat too! :)

    • @ballsislife6018
      @ballsislife6018 Před 3 lety +9

      Comments like these is why I’m addicting to the internet not because of other issues

    • @zencomeseasy602
      @zencomeseasy602 Před 3 lety +3

      I'm laughing so hard I have tears in my eyes

    • @tobyhutchison536
      @tobyhutchison536 Před 3 lety

      😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @obsidianman50
    @obsidianman50 Před 3 lety +856

    For those that are confused, think about it this way; If you were to send a beam of light from the edge of the observable universe to Earth, it would travel in a straight line except for when it curves slightly around objects like stars due to gravity. That is how we can tell space alone (ignoring gravitational influence ) is flat.
    Further optional explanation:
    However, this would mean that the universe doesn’t curve around on itself, and would imply that beyond the observable edge, the universe continues infinitely. What Cox is saying though, is it is like ants trying to determine whether the earth is flat, from the ants perspective of a tiny portion of Earth, they would think that earth is flat, and If an ant rolled a ball (rolling a ball on the material surface of earth is equivalent to sending a beam of light through space time) from the edge of the area in which it spends its entire life (quite small) then the ball would go in a straight line, but if you tried to do that from London to Tokyo for example, the ball would roll around the curvature of the earth, figuratively speaking. The universe is potentially the same, the space time fabric itself may curve on a massive scale that we can’t comprehend, so that theoretically eventually a beam of light going in one direction would end up at the same place. But that would take longer atleast than the current age of the universe

    • @satnamsingh9604
      @satnamsingh9604 Před 2 lety +49

      Bro I didn't read your comment after the 2nd line as I was feeling lazy

    • @markblack9520
      @markblack9520 Před 2 lety +22

      Nerd

    • @obsidianman50
      @obsidianman50 Před 2 lety

      @@markblack9520 unintelligent loser

    • @ezrahitee
      @ezrahitee Před 2 lety +129

      this helped a lot lol, thank you.

    • @TrishCanyon8
      @TrishCanyon8 Před 2 lety +3

      So both examples further suggest the flatness.

  • @EdgyDabs47
    @EdgyDabs47 Před rokem +3

    To further dumb down what he's saying:
    The universe is round. But when we observe it, it looks flat.
    This is because we are only observing a very very very very tiny proportion of the universe. The universe is so much bigger than what we can even comprehend.
    Much like the flat earth theory. To the naked eye, the Earth seems flat. We need satellites to observe it's curvature.

    • @jojag5
      @jojag5 Před rokem

      The universe doesn't look flat though. It appears as though we are living inside of a giant balloon-shaped universe (3D shape).
      This is vastly different from living on a surface (e.g. the surface a balloon) which is a 2D shape.

    • @bsherman8236
      @bsherman8236 Před 4 dny

      We don't need sattelites to understand the sun cast shadows at different angles on the earth's surface

  • @EmptyHouseGuy
    @EmptyHouseGuy Před 2 lety +7

    Perhaps I can help...
    Imagine that you send 2 space ships on a mission in space. They start one mile apart, and have the exact same angle (vector).
    After 1 year of travel, assuming they travel at the same speed, and assuming they only travel through space without spatial interference (gravity), they will still be 1 mile apart. But why? Why don't their lines of travel intersect or diverge? Why is a straight line in one place consistently perpendicular to another line with the same starting angle? On the surface of a sphere, this is not the case. Why would space be flat and not spherical, or some other shape? Why can't you travel 1,000,000 miles in a direction and arrive back where you started? You can do this on a sphere or a mobius strip and on many other surfaces.
    We take this property of space for granted, but scientists do not. There isn't a particularly good reason that this should be so.
    I think this idea is purposefully misconstrued to confuse people. He is not saying that 3 dimensional space is a 2-dimensional plane, he's saying 3 dimensional space is flat like a 2 dimensional sheet of paper can be flat - provided it is on an even surface. The number of dimensions is irrelevant.
    If you put 2 bugs on an ice cream cone, they might start in different places, both walk in the same "direction" on the cone, but still eventually meet. In truth, the very concept of "walking in the same direction" requires existence on a flat plane, regardless of how many there are (1,2,3,4 planes)

    • @ivanvoronov3871
      @ivanvoronov3871 Před 2 lety +1

      That is a really good explanation, thank you

    • @HackingAxe
      @HackingAxe Před rokem

      I agree this is a really good explanation.

  • @polite_as_fuck
    @polite_as_fuck Před 4 lety +1178

    Eddie Bravo: “Space is round. Look into it.”

    • @lortaborpercs1347
      @lortaborpercs1347 Před 4 lety +14

      😂😂

    • @connorbleakley5241
      @connorbleakley5241 Před 4 lety +9

      It is round new theory suggests couple of weeks ago

    • @Bamboozled007
      @Bamboozled007 Před 4 lety +10

      www.universetoday.com/143956/new-research-suggests-that-the-universe-is-a-sphere-and-not-flat-after-all/

    • @garydelong7750
      @garydelong7750 Před 4 lety +74

      Flat spacers smh

    • @redakumaproduction
      @redakumaproduction Před 4 lety +20

      @@Bamboozled007 dont post thing from shiti website with no autor no name no proof no tool no address no way To speak with anyone there ..he is just à random guys on a website that no ones knows about ..it just make u look stupid..and you are not ..

  • @gardensoundrecords3598
    @gardensoundrecords3598 Před 4 lety +586

    "The trick is to think in 2D"
    "Yeah but what about the height and the width tho?"

    • @azizmesned4537
      @azizmesned4537 Před 4 lety +35

      The only 2D i fuck with is 2D waifus

    • @neonplay786
      @neonplay786 Před 4 lety +10

      @@azizmesned4537 what about the dude from Gorillaz?

    • @joshua7015
      @joshua7015 Před 4 lety +2

      @@azizmesned4537 eww

    • @SamJ_1980
      @SamJ_1980 Před 4 lety +13

      Just goes to show Joe has no clue what he's trying to say...

    • @Fabian6980
      @Fabian6980 Před 4 lety +7

      Space is flat not the things in it space is like an never ending wall basically never ending in both height and length

  • @MagisterMilitumBelisarius

    We're basically specks of dust so profoundly small that we can never hope to see even the shape of the universe in its entirety. We're capable of only seeing perhaps its smallest peripheries. Watching this high is such a vibe

  • @thetruthoutside8423
    @thetruthoutside8423 Před 2 lety +10

    He was given a fantastic explanation 👏 as always I have learned a lots from his explanation.

  • @mubinjonzokirov7832
    @mubinjonzokirov7832 Před 4 lety +771

    Flat Earthers be like: Space is round!

    • @AK-de7jn
      @AK-de7jn Před 4 lety

      Ahahahaha

    • @john-paulhunt9380
      @john-paulhunt9380 Před 3 lety +1

      NEC X and VACO Partner on AI, Machine Learning Solution

    • @hugosadhus
      @hugosadhus Před 3 lety +3

      Yes. The flat Earthers says the sky is curved like a dome, the globists say the sky is flat. I've been saying this for a long time, that's why they don't understand each other.
      Drawing from left to right is the same as drawing from right to left. That is, the calculations are the same.

    • @hugosadhus
      @hugosadhus Před 3 lety +7

      @@knxtta That is one of the problems. it's in the person's unconscious.
      Another problem, few people understand about the sky.
      And the problems are piling up.
      I am not saying that flat earthers are right, but I know that many globists are wrong, because they believe instead of understanding.

    • @thomasjuniardi3559
      @thomasjuniardi3559 Před 3 lety +1

      From the certain point of view is true, depends on you pictured it 3D or 2D 😁

  • @scottylafuegofuentez5931
    @scottylafuegofuentez5931 Před 3 lety +298

    Walks into counselors office: “yea I’d like to drop this class please”

  • @unadomandaperte
    @unadomandaperte Před dnem

    He was just secretly trying to get flat earthers to fall off the edge of their seats.

  • @frankcasarelli9140
    @frankcasarelli9140 Před 5 měsíci

    I’m so thankful Joe brings me Brian Cox and Joey Diaz. The paradox here is I enjoy both equally.

  • @hoyit
    @hoyit Před 3 lety +144

    There’s such a gentle kindness in Brian’s voice, you almost feel like he would never get frustrated with trying to explain these things to someone that didn’t understand what he was talking about.

    • @bosoxfan2525
      @bosoxfan2525 Před 3 lety +1

      Even if it was the 99th time to the same person, which would be me.

    • @mapsgoonthewall5396
      @mapsgoonthewall5396 Před 3 lety +3

      He's one of those rare people who just enjoy politely helping other people understand something.

    • @chrismonks592
      @chrismonks592 Před 3 lety +5

      He got mad at a climate change denier once. But that is the only time I have seen him get mad

    • @Spladoinkal
      @Spladoinkal Před 3 lety

      In fact you can tell he's super excited to talk about it. He always smiles when talking about science.

    • @bobinthewest8559
      @bobinthewest8559 Před 2 lety

      He has probably gotten quite “used to” people being completely incapable of understanding what seems to himself to be so “simple”.

  • @Rocco_Dimeo
    @Rocco_Dimeo Před 3 lety +935

    Legend has it Joe is still asking him what the height and the length is....

    • @argentinodelavillacomerata2399
      @argentinodelavillacomerata2399 Před 3 lety +42

      Hilarious! He started throwing hand gestures hoping that it bridged the huge gap in intellectual ability between the two.

    • @btc1337
      @btc1337 Před 3 lety +19

      yea like he got an answer to that yeah its 2trillion x 4trillion mate 🤣🤣🤣

    • @hermanfourie66
      @hermanfourie66 Před 2 lety +10

      I, still, don't quite understand what "flat" means in this context; do you?

    • @HydraulicDesign
      @HydraulicDesign Před 2 lety +20

      @@hermanfourie66 It means that (as far as we can tell) it's infinite. If it's "curved," then if you go off in one direction forever you'd eventually loop around and come back. It's also possible it could be curved AND infinite, but let's just simply things and ignore that for now...

    • @hermanfourie66
      @hermanfourie66 Před 2 lety +3

      @@HydraulicDesign Ohhhh, ok. That makes sense; thank you very much!

  • @GMBethHarmon
    @GMBethHarmon Před 2 lety +3

    Brian Cox is usually a great science communicator, but he was kind of all over the place here, apart from the non-Euclidean geometry part.

  • @jedi4049
    @jedi4049 Před rokem +7

    Joe does well interviewing scientists

  • @mariasederes6236
    @mariasederes6236 Před 3 lety +1687

    I love him, I have no idea what he’s talking about but I love him

    • @DB-Slugz
      @DB-Slugz Před 3 lety +23

      Me too 😂 shits way over my head

    • @bigcountry5977
      @bigcountry5977 Před 3 lety +36

      He can't help but Smile. He gets paid Big Money and he doesn't know what he is talking about either. Lol.

    • @nunocoelho8979
      @nunocoelho8979 Před 3 lety +11

      Me to...the only slice I know is white bred..lol

    • @OculusQuestFun
      @OculusQuestFun Před 3 lety

      Right? Lol.

    • @lockheed67
      @lockheed67 Před 3 lety +4

      I actually understood what he said

  • @1pcfred
    @1pcfred Před 4 lety +212

    When the conversation literally goes a billion light years over your head.

    • @1pcfred
      @1pcfred Před 4 lety

      @@scottybrav so I heard. I could be lying down though. In which case it is entirely possible with a flat Universe.

  • @buzzard720
    @buzzard720 Před 2 lety +1

    Terrence McKenna... "The world is made of words". Never a truer word spoken.,

  • @hondro7430
    @hondro7430 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Space is not the type of thing that can be curved or flat. The reason why Joe does not understand what Cox is saying is because Cox is not saying anything coherent. Saying space is flat rather than curved is like saying the color blue is flat rather than curved, it doesn’t mean anything. Space is three dimensional extension, end of story.

  • @willgreene6856
    @willgreene6856 Před 5 lety +800

    Please don't tell Eddie Bravo the universe is flat..

  • @thaliuswarborn1148
    @thaliuswarborn1148 Před 5 lety +77

    I get serious Bob Ross vibes from Brian. The way he explains such unfathomable things with such simple words while still showing so much patience when teaching to people who don't yet know the Grandeur of the cosmos baffles me. The honest excitement in his eyes, the way he "dumbs" it all down to a level that most people can comprehend just so they can experience a part of what he feels when talking about the vast unkowns of existence and maybe, just maybe, spark that flame of curiosity within someone to make them question "what if?".
    i'm not even into JRE, but i swear to God Joe could do a 10 hour episode with Brian about the organized chaos that must be his mind and i'd gladly watch every second of it.

    • @amitbidaye7855
      @amitbidaye7855 Před 5 lety +3

      He is so intelligent yet so humble... And almost child like in the way he explains things. I love listening to him explain such complex thoughts and ideas.

  • @lunarrover24
    @lunarrover24 Před 2 lety +1

    Here is a simple explanation of flatness. You are floating in space but can walk in any direction in 3d.
    0. Mark your starting position.
    1. Draw a small line segment, maybe 1 mm small in any direction starrting from where u are.
    2. Goto the end of that line segment. Draw another one, make sure the angle between the previous one and next one is 0.
    3. Keep doing this forever. If at any point you are closer to starting point than the sum of all segments, the space is negatively curved. If at any point you are farther than the sum og all segments, the space has positive curvature.
    You only need one dimension, but potentially infinite time to prove this depending on the curvature.
    Physicists use light from distant galaxies to measure curvature and as far away and back we can see, barring for local gravitational lensing effects. Space is flat.

  • @daniacorp
    @daniacorp Před 2 lety +3

    What he refers to with the flatness in the universe is like the point of view of a flea on the surface of a basketball vs. a human looking at the same basketball. In the context of the universe, we're the flea, and from our point of view, it seems flat when it isn't (the human point of view which is the more extensive scale)

  • @thegamersbucketlist7927
    @thegamersbucketlist7927 Před 4 lety +444

    Joe's confusion about the flat space theory was perfectly in sync with mine through this entire clip :)

    • @RichMitch
      @RichMitch Před 4 lety +51

      @Cody Waggener idiots, the pair of you. Go to your rooms.

    • @Dr.Rosenbaum
      @Dr.Rosenbaum Před 4 lety

      Fizz ex r tuff

    • @jamesolivito4374
      @jamesolivito4374 Před 4 lety +1

      Flat space is as stupid as flat earth .

    • @Fermion.
      @Fermion. Před 4 lety +5

      @Cody Waggener You should realize that you wouldn't be able to post your drivel without those "bs theories." You can't simultaneously reap the benefits of science, and call it bs.
      And by the way, you don't make up a theory. You propose a hypothesis, and after consistent, reproducible results by labs all around the world, and tons of peer review, does it finally become a theory.
      You and your lil buddy go take your circle jerk of ignorance elsewhere. I think I saw some flat earthers that way --->
      You guys will fit right in.

    • @aaronroark4256
      @aaronroark4256 Před 4 lety

      @@Fermion. sorry, bur theory and hypothesis are literally synonomous with each other. What you're referring to is called a law. Like newton's law.

  • @christopherd.0356
    @christopherd.0356 Před 4 lety +490

    Flat universe means that if you beam two parallel laser lights, the will neither meet or part no matter low long they will be travelling. This is a proof that space/time does not bend/curve. Scientists do not refer to the spherical observable universe (it is a sphere because we can see in every direction and that makes the observable universe a sphere out of which we have no idea what it exists), but to the actual fabric of space/time. That is why he speaks in two dimensions..to simplify. For example space/time does significantly curve/bend around masses as planets, stars, black holes and galaxies - which is what we perceive as "gravity" - but it does not curve/bend in a grand scale. On the other hand, since we can only observe that much, we can not know for sure of the actual shape of space/time outside of the observable universe. As for the negative comments about Brian Cox, due to lack of astrophysics' knowledge on behalf of the commentators, I will quote Carl Sagan: "The Universe is not obliged to conform to what we consider comfortable or plausible".

    • @ThePedroRobalo
      @ThePedroRobalo Před 4 lety +4

      Thank you, can you point me to some articles, books or videos on this?

    • @ubayyd
      @ubayyd Před 4 lety +11

      Thank you so much, it made sense after I read this.

    • @joecedars4463
      @joecedars4463 Před 4 lety +3

      Thank you! That makes sense. I was struggling with the concept.

    • @ianbowden1807
      @ianbowden1807 Před 4 lety +8

      I'm not sure people are turned off by him because he lacks the credentials, it's because he spends a lot of time saying nothing really. Never answers questions directly

    • @-syphec-3600
      @-syphec-3600 Před 4 lety

      ok thanks for saying nothing. haha event horizon Schwarzschild radius

  • @BlueLineofthesky
    @BlueLineofthesky Před rokem +1

    The things we learn in this show...is sooo much more than we learn in school!

  • @jmanbrizzle
    @jmanbrizzle Před 2 lety +6

    Get this guy back on! Or someone else as interesting. Been a while since he had some truly great guests on. He had so many good episodes in the past

    • @thurguud
      @thurguud Před 2 lety

      The space is flat?????????? Are we retarded????????? Is this the most stupid thing i have heard in decades??????? WTF???????? Is this dude serious???????? What is this bullshit??????? Is anyone paying this man to say such nonsense?????????? Are any kind of taxes given to this shit????????? Can a human be so stupid???????? Infinite universe expanding (nonsense) with a center (nonsense) and also flat (ultra nonsense)?????????? Is this beyond idiocracy???????? How can anyone say that with a straight face????? Does this idiot thinks what he says?????????? Is it that difficult to understand infinite cannot expand from a single point because it is already infinite, cannot have a center and for fucking sure cannot be flat????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? To where does it expand???????????? to a meta universe that also expands into a metametauniverse that also expands into a metametametametametametauniverse?????????????? We live in a ball but the universe is flat?????????????????? Yeah dude humans are also flat, you are so cool for realizing it before anyone else with all those maths... This seems like a scam to make people who cannot understand basic logic pay for bullshit salaries wasted proving that because cheese have wholes the more cheese you have the less cheese you have... Fuking nonsense

    • @LadyLeda2
      @LadyLeda2 Před 3 měsíci

      Joe has had way to many comedians on lately. Like 10 in a row. Something is going on.

  • @waynedurning8717
    @waynedurning8717 Před 4 lety +715

    Boy this guy’s right on the verge of actually explaining what the hell he’s talking about.

    • @azynkron
      @azynkron Před 4 lety +22

      I doubt you'd understand it even if he explained it to you like you were a 3-year old.

    • @waynedurning8717
      @waynedurning8717 Před 4 lety +73

      BadTrip ok Sheldon thanks for the input.

    • @waynedurning8717
      @waynedurning8717 Před 4 lety +4

      My friends have a sense of humor. Or at least try to understand it.

    • @pseudophp
      @pseudophp Před 4 lety +5

      @@azynkron lmfao you big microbrained babt

    • @pseudophp
      @pseudophp Před 4 lety

      Baby*

  • @TheMboe76
    @TheMboe76 Před 4 lety +1781

    Brian Cox searching his vocabulary trying to find words us "normal" humans would understand.... LOL

    • @johnjohn-cs9eu
      @johnjohn-cs9eu Před 4 lety +50

      Don't put yourself down. I'm sure you or anyone could come up with a more convincing fantasy on LSD too

    • @fabianliebregts1600
      @fabianliebregts1600 Před 4 lety +7

      John Kean great comment

    • @johnjohn-cs9eu
      @johnjohn-cs9eu Před 4 lety +4

      @@fabianliebregts1600 Thanx

    • @christopherkearney3869
      @christopherkearney3869 Před 4 lety +5

      You simp

    • @rmac2786
      @rmac2786 Před 4 lety

      John Kean but I smoked weed once back in the day. You’re telling me that’s not enough?! Do you have any mother

  • @flfun2no
    @flfun2no Před 11 měsíci +2

    Space is flat and so is this place.

  • @okgo3763
    @okgo3763 Před 2 lety +4

    Joe: "What is the height and width of space?"
    This guy: " Let me tell you how we only make linear measurements instead."

  • @ngallardo1994
    @ngallardo1994 Před 3 lety +414

    I think Rogan is asking: Is the universe flat as in all cosmic bodies are on the same plane?
    Brian Cox is saying: The universe is flat as in the cosmic bodies do not distort spacetime in a significant way

    • @mao7
      @mao7 Před 3 lety +38

      Suddenly everything is clear. Thank you sir

    • @rnjesus9950
      @rnjesus9950 Před 3 lety +5

      Suddenly I feel less stupid.

    • @mikejo8083
      @mikejo8083 Před 3 lety +3

      So what’s above us... then what’s below??...

    • @dumbfk
      @dumbfk Před 3 lety +37

      what the fuck are any of you talking about

    • @billyumbraskey8135
      @billyumbraskey8135 Před 3 lety

      no significant way except for orbits, fusion, bodies forming at all, dark matter being 70% of the universe yeah not significant at all lmfao
      this is like saying the earth is actually flat because a bubble level works. buildings do not significantly curve to form to the earth.

  • @christiandiaz
    @christiandiaz Před 5 lety +588

    Props to Joe Rogan for asking the questions us stupid people are too afraid to ask 😌

    • @shipshrekt2156
      @shipshrekt2156 Před 5 lety +6

      Me a stupid person,*

    • @TimeRelease_1
      @TimeRelease_1 Před 5 lety +2

      You’re stupid not me I have more questions that this guy probably will be able to answer just as much as a person that believes in god could answer

    • @iscato74
      @iscato74 Před 5 lety +3

      You made me laugh

    • @jaimep456
      @jaimep456 Před 5 lety +17

      Lol he never got an answer he understood

    • @hypno5690
      @hypno5690 Před 5 lety +1

      Joes not the brightest bulb come on now..

  • @apers5do
    @apers5do Před 2 lety +2

    My interpretation: the earth surface is actually not flat, but the air, and the universe is flat in the sense that if you “zoom out” it’s still the same, not curving on the back of a turtle or more precisely a 4-dimensional turtle.
    Mathematically, the definition of flat is some equations like triangle example, which you can measure and confirm.

  • @dhanukaprishan8771
    @dhanukaprishan8771 Před 2 lety +1

    This is the only explanation I could understand when I searched what does "flat" mean when we say the shape of the universe is flat.. Thanks Prf. Brian Cox..

  • @DylanKurbel
    @DylanKurbel Před 3 lety +538

    Flat Earthers: “Earth is flat”
    Everyone: “no”
    This guy: “Space is flat”
    Joe: “woah”

    • @jacobfromallstate4963
      @jacobfromallstate4963 Před 3 lety +9

      Flat earthers: dropped out in the 8th grade. CZcams P.H.D.
      This guy: quantum theoretical physicist with multiple awards in his field and an IQ of 183
      Yeah, this guy knows a bit more than your average red pilled 4Chan "genius" flat earther.

    • @DylanKurbel
      @DylanKurbel Před 3 lety +24

      @@jacobfromallstate4963 he explains it’s not exactly “flat” but can be measured as flat by our technical perception of it. Anyway, it’s a joke!

    • @jacobfromallstate4963
      @jacobfromallstate4963 Před 3 lety +1

      @@DylanKurbel I know, I'm just messing around. I know you're not defending flat earthers or anything LOL

    • @peaceonearth351
      @peaceonearth351 Před 2 lety +3

      I don't think Brian is right. There is a new theory that the universe is like a 3D donut. In the middle would be a super Black Hole.

    • @kpkp7777
      @kpkp7777 Před 2 lety

      @@peaceonearth351 oh.....

  • @penthief83
    @penthief83 Před 5 lety +343

    the title misses the point...
    what he is saying is that all of know space appears flat because we can't see enough of it from far enough out to establish the actual shape

    • @natashagoode501
      @natashagoode501 Před 5 lety +3

      sure, I get that concept, but from what point? If I look at Space in Australia and it's flat, how can someone in China see space and it's flat, and same for someone in the US? Whose flat is correct? When Cox was talking about taking slices of flatness, he was illustrating a stacked type of slice - not angled, overlapping slices.....?

    • @penthief83
      @penthief83 Před 5 lety +74

      @@natashagoode501 you completely missed the point.
      from where you are standing in your house the world appears to be on a flat plain . from outside the world you can see that it is a globe.
      the same concept exists for space as a whole.
      It appears to be a flat plane because we can only percieve it at our level regardless of where we are.
      but imagine we could leave our universe and from outside it and at a distance we could see it's shape.
      what cox is saying is that as far as we can see within our universe, it appears flat. which means 1. it could be flat or 2. it's so massive that we can't see far enough to percieve it's true shape with the technology we have available.

    • @natashagoode501
      @natashagoode501 Před 5 lety +15

      @@penthief83 ahhh, thanks for the clarification. So it sounds like a dynamic concept rather than fixed. My brain still struggles with the concept (clearly I need lessons in advanced mathematics and physics to being to grasp these concepts), however, what you say makes sense.
      Thanks for spendingthe time and effort with your post. :)

    • @penthief83
      @penthief83 Před 5 lety +9

      @@natashagoode501 cool.
      yea, cox was talking about the whole universe that we can observe. with Hubble and other observation labs.

    • @neosomaliana
      @neosomaliana Před 5 lety +18

      This comment needs to be pinned bc it cleared up what Cox was trying to explain

  • @F3YAW
    @F3YAW Před 2 lety +1

    If the universe is flat it's unique in nature.

  • @Malpheron
    @Malpheron Před 2 lety +1

    When physicist talk about shape, they are talking about how is gravity distorting and bending space.
    The universe could be infinite and their a few ways the distortions of gravity can have this happen. There are also distortions that mean that the universe is finite (not infinite).
    So, you can have "shape" with or without edges.
    "Flat" means that the space is really boring (regular space that we are familiar with). Around a black hole space is really distorted, so not at all "flat".
    When they say the university is "flat", they mean that over HUGE distances, on average, the distortions of gravity end up being boring; it's just regular space, it is not distorted on any large scales.
    Using the word "flat" is a bad choice when trying to explain these things to people that have not done many years of hard maths. For people that have done all that maths, it makes a lot of sense.

  • @richardhayes373
    @richardhayes373 Před 3 lety +1868

    Earth is flat=stupid
    Universe is flat=genius

    • @richardhayes373
      @richardhayes373 Před 3 lety +32

      @PL Lyons Dude no you are dumb, everything in the universe is flat but the earth is round. You need to listen better lol

    • @turtlesquad5931
      @turtlesquad5931 Před 3 lety +65

      If you look down at your feet the small amount of ground you can see would appear flat to you since your vision is "zoomed in" now you have a jet pack and you start flying straight up in the air eventually when you are high enough the flat ground beneath your feet appears as the globe we see as the earth. It's a matter of perspective in what we know is true vs what we can measure right now.
      Ultimately what he is saying is since we can define when something is flat using his example of measuring the angle of triangles on a flat surface vs a curved or globe surface. Knowing this we can understand that obviously the universe is much bigger than we can observe with the instruments we currently use. He is NOT saying we live on a globe planet in three dimensions on a two dimensional universe. Hopefully that helps you Richard.

    • @richardhayes373
      @richardhayes373 Před 3 lety +26

      @@turtlesquad5931 have you seen any of those videos of guys recording like a boat and it is completely flat like its 100feet from them and then they zoom back out and the boat is so far in the distance you cant see it?
      Neil degrasse tyson said you would have to go 100+k feet to see the curvature of the earth but most people think they see the curve at only 30. Is it at all possible that they teach and talk about these things that are incredibly complex in order to make us think things are 1000 times more complex than they are? How did they know so many facts about space before they supposedly got there? Why is it they could go to the moon with less technology than is in our phones from 10 years ago but now its not possible?
      I think I learned what you were saying when I learned how to draw a pov of me standing in a highway and watching things further away getting smaller. But my painting didn't have the cameras and scopes that we have now.

    • @Seanne411
      @Seanne411 Před 3 lety +17

      @@richardhayes373 Who says we can't go to the moon today? Ofc we can, but money, politics, and the fact that we've already been there is the answer. I'd rather see a space programme that focuses on getting to Mars or other stuff. Going to the Moon today is still impressive, but would not impress as much as other discoveries.

    • @richardhayes373
      @richardhayes373 Před 3 lety +10

      @@Seanne411 NASA

  • @143ba
    @143ba Před 3 lety +83

    i love the way brian smiles when he talks about what he loves

    • @bengrizzlyadams6187
      @bengrizzlyadams6187 Před 3 lety +2

      He didn't mention Uranus today though.

    • @boyanbo6418
      @boyanbo6418 Před 3 lety +1

      He is absolutely loving it. I thought I was the only one who noticed. This is true happiness.

  • @TheRock1.0
    @TheRock1.0 Před 2 lety +1

    What Joe is asking is.. If the universe is flat, then how come we see stars in all directions?

  • @sergiorome48
    @sergiorome48 Před 2 lety +1

    I miss these podcast episodes…

  • @MauricioMartinez0707
    @MauricioMartinez0707 Před 5 lety +586

    This is in an alternate universe, when the Beatles got physics PhD's instead of doing music

    • @Goglerom
      @Goglerom Před 5 lety +18

      Brain cox did do music

    • @harryheist
      @harryheist Před 5 lety +1

      😂

    • @MauricioMartinez0707
      @MauricioMartinez0707 Před 5 lety +1

      @Notsopro Gaming 25

    • @stevenjenkins3882
      @stevenjenkins3882 Před 5 lety +1

      @Notsopro Gaming I'm 44

    • @willdwyer6782
      @willdwyer6782 Před 4 lety

      The only Brian associated with The Beatles was their manager, Brian Epstein. Brian Cox might have the mop top but he's not from Liverpool, he's from Oldham.

  • @mieguistumas
    @mieguistumas Před 5 lety +326

    "Forget 3dimensions, we can think about space as 2 dimensional"
    "Yeah, but what is the height?"

    • @GradyRho92
      @GradyRho92 Před 5 lety +11

      mieguistumas I think thickness would have been better wording. He understands that it’s flat like the table description but not spherical shaped like a ball.

    • @Macheako
      @Macheako Před 5 lety +9

      bro, have you already missed the first step?
      FORGET 3 dimensions.....like....just forgeddabout em....and dont ever look back

    • @nuntana2
      @nuntana2 Před 5 lety

      😂😂😂

    • @Gcammo
      @Gcammo Před 5 lety +2

      Nuby29 cos your a smart ass?

    • @johndoesson
      @johndoesson Před 5 lety

      @@oliverlarsen6355 whats your point?

  • @Nu.kuul.blu2u
    @Nu.kuul.blu2u Před rokem

    space is literally flat but you have to understand it in the abstract... thank you Brian.

  • @alfred7350
    @alfred7350 Před rokem +8

    I feel so bad for not being able to grasp what Brian is saying

    • @brianlaudrupchannel
      @brianlaudrupchannel Před rokem

      So what's does he mean by flat? Bet you can't answer

    • @alfred7350
      @alfred7350 Před rokem +1

      @@brianlaudrupchannel ????

    • @brianlaudrupchannel
      @brianlaudrupchannel Před rokem

      @@alfred7350 thanks for proving my point

    • @alfred7350
      @alfred7350 Před rokem +1

      @@brianlaudrupchannel proving your point? Your point is seemingly exactly what I stated…

    • @brian4180
      @brian4180 Před rokem

      @@brianlaudrupchannel lol he literally said he didn't understand it and felt bad about it you imbecile. In your rush to try and insult someone on the internet you just come off as a complete moron. Good job.

  • @savannahjackson8513
    @savannahjackson8513 Před 3 lety +188

    I bet it feels the same to Brian Cox when he speaks to us, as it does when I speak to my cat.

    • @rodgerq
      @rodgerq Před 3 lety +11

      I hold no disdain for Brian. My cats on the other hand, I'm not so sure of their opinion of me.

    • @richardgratton7557
      @richardgratton7557 Před 3 lety +3

      Yeah, but at least your cat is able to lick his own crotch!😂

    • @casey3635
      @casey3635 Před 2 lety

      Dude

    • @matterridge9222
      @matterridge9222 Před 2 lety +1

      Fuck thats how I feel In the morning with everyone sometimes throughout the day also.

    • @thurguud
      @thurguud Před 2 lety

      The space is flat?????????? Are we retarded????????? Is this the most stupid thing i have heard in decades??????? WTF???????? Is this dude serious???????? What is this bullshit??????? Is anyone paying this man to say such nonsense?????????? Are any kind of taxes given to this shit????????? Can a human be so stupid???????? Infinite universe expanding (nonsense) with a center (nonsense) and also flat (ultra nonsense)?????????? Is this beyond idiocracy???????? How can anyone say that with a straight face????? Does this idiot thinks what he says?????????? Is it that difficult to understand infinite cannot expand from a single point because it is already infinite, cannot have a center and for fucking sure cannot be flat????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? To where does it expand???????????? to a meta universe that also expands into a metametauniverse that also expands into a metametametametametametauniverse?????????????? We live in a ball but the universe is flat?????????????????? Yeah dude humans are also flat, you are so cool for realizing it before anyone else with all those maths... This seems like a scam to make people who cannot understand basic logic pay for bullshit salaries wasted proving that because cheese have wholes the more cheese you have the less cheese you have... Fuking nonsense

  • @AlexXanderMarketing
    @AlexXanderMarketing Před 3 lety +309

    Joe “I just wanna know how thick the damn table is” Rogan

    • @heliotropezzz333
      @heliotropezzz333 Před 3 lety +1

      Isn't the answer that nobody knows that, or do they?

    • @srikanthsundaram3281
      @srikanthsundaram3281 Před 3 lety +1

      What he means by flat is like saying the surface of the earth is flat. If you look at earth as a whole it is like a sphere, but the surface of your observable earth is flat. So we can only see so much of the surface of the universe, not the whole universe in one go.

    • @ajjackson1526
      @ajjackson1526 Před 3 lety

      2xUniverse=Tube

    • @Goatlinton
      @Goatlinton Před 3 lety +2

      @@srikanthsundaram3281 no he is saying wherever you draw a triangle in space aslong as its not being curved by objects of mass the angles in that triangle would add up to 180 degrees, that is all he is saying.
      space is by definition flat because that literally defines flat.

    • @prissymommylife6402
      @prissymommylife6402 Před 3 lety

      hh hh No But How Do You Know That?! Unrealistic. Nice Pacifier But Unrealistic.

  • @Sanskarpachhai07
    @Sanskarpachhai07 Před 2 dny

    I really like what Brian Cox explained about the dimension and space facts. His way of mentioning things about such facts is way out of this world.🤓💯💫

  • @SerErryk
    @SerErryk Před 2 lety

    Now I know 3 famous people named Brian Cox - the actor, the 🏈 player, and now this guy.

  • @Close.Quarters.Ramen.
    @Close.Quarters.Ramen. Před 3 lety +457

    I swear this guy is exactly what Rodney Mullen would look, and act like if he never got into skateboarding.

    • @tslaza
      @tslaza Před 3 lety +16

      Fantastic Comment.. Rodney Mullen is also a GENIUS and they do look alike!

    • @cresc3ndo475
      @cresc3ndo475 Před 3 lety +4

      Exactly my thoughts

    • @Bunke09
      @Bunke09 Před 3 lety +6

      "And I think to my self ....... what a flat universe." Brian gets the words changed for his Plan B session.

    • @SayornSous
      @SayornSous Před 3 lety +1

      Hah

    • @detroitfettyghost8492
      @detroitfettyghost8492 Před 3 lety +3

      It so does look like Rodney! Just as nice too lol

  • @ladyslovelucas82
    @ladyslovelucas82 Před 4 lety +106

    Joe went quiet. You know he’s lost 😂

    • @landonic81
      @landonic81 Před 4 lety +19

      He's just running scenarios in his head of how he can insert the topic of DMT into the conversation

  • @dadhacks9449
    @dadhacks9449 Před 2 lety +1

    The beauty of our knowledge is how limited it is. To think that what we “know” today will seem so silly in 1000 years. Big Bang, flat universe, expanding space…all wonderful theories that are true until they are not. Science is fun

    • @mephenstessina6081
      @mephenstessina6081 Před 2 lety

      I like the science that stays the same and doesn't suddenly evolve to favor certain politics at the most convenient of times.

  • @jonathanseibert8832
    @jonathanseibert8832 Před rokem

    My problem here is that we DON'T know that space is flat. We don't know definitively what shape it is at all

  • @ratsc7595
    @ratsc7595 Před 5 lety +474

    Bro my mind is about to explode with this guy lol

    • @ftlpunk
      @ftlpunk Před 5 lety +53

      Imagine your a teeny tiny ant, walking around inside of a large sponge. The surface you are walking on feels flat to you, because its so much larger than you. But as your traveling through it, you're actually looping and twisting around. This is how space is. Its invisible, and yes it takes up 3 dimensions, but to us, it feels like we are traveling in a straight line rather than traveling up or down through space, because we are the ant, and the only way to travel is forward.

    • @ratsc7595
      @ratsc7595 Před 5 lety +3

      ftlpunk 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

    • @ByMnnT
      @ByMnnT Před 5 lety +1

      @@ftlpunk fucking hell dude.

    • @zx208
      @zx208 Před 5 lety

      @@ftlpunk the flaw with that is the sponge the ant is inside of has walls/sides surrounding the ant, so the ant can technically walk from one side of the "wall" to the other side of the "wall"... but with space it is infinate and there is no physical wall or boundary you can travel to

    • @alexanderfrennett2439
      @alexanderfrennett2439 Před 5 lety +2

      @@zx208like the analogy, being an ant inside of a massive sphere makes us believe it's infinite, when the ant is actually walking on the wall(edge/perimeter of the universe)... If it wasn't so massive, theoretically i could look straight into space with a telescope and see my own back. Only after the light reflected off my clothing and traveled all the way back to the front of the telescope lens. We'd be capable of viewing the past, imagine looking into a telescope when dinosaurs roamed the earth, or looking into the past and seeing a man was wrongfully convicted for a crime he didn't commit and now having evidence to support his alibi. Side thought: every different source and angle of light would change the view, different view == different perception, perception then sees alternate realities (appearing as infinite multi dimensions) dimensions)?

  • @shawnchaudry2126
    @shawnchaudry2126 Před 4 lety +344

    Joe: “ok so we measure light from the Big Bang ...but what is the height?”

    • @Google_Does_Evil_Now
      @Google_Does_Evil_Now Před 4 lety +51

      Joe's right to ask that. If it's flat then how flat is it?
      And if it's flat then how come we can see stars and galaxies from all points on the earth going out in every direction?
      Which way is the long way, which way is the short way?
      Flat like a sheet of paper, or a bit thicker, or thinner?

    • @oligoyoutube
      @oligoyoutube Před 4 lety +9

      T A exactly! the perfect questions

    • @w.t.h.2040
      @w.t.h.2040 Před 4 lety +44

      @@Google_Does_Evil_Now The observed 2D layer inside the 3D space does not get curved.
      Basicly if you move 1 direction in space you will just keep moving that direction. So you get a straight line. Flat. On earth you return to the samepoint if moving in 1 direction. Curved.

    • @minhfam
      @minhfam Před 4 lety +13

      @@Google_Does_Evil_Now When we say flat universe we don't mean it's like a flat sheet of paper. It means it has zero curvature. We can also have positive or negative curvature. The easiest way to imagine this is if you have 2 parallel lines (at your frame of reference):
      - 0 curvature (flat): the lines will always be parallel to each other.
      - positive curvature: the lines will converge (think of longitude lines all converge at the poles on Earth)
      - negative curvature: the lines will diverge (hyperbolic space but it's harder to imagine)
      Independent sources have confirmed our observable universe to be flat (with a small margin of error). But the global universe is a much tougher question.

    • @Google_Does_Evil_Now
      @Google_Does_Evil_Now Před 4 lety +10

      @@minhfam why didn't he just say that in every direction it goes in a straight line. Flat implies flat. And he didn't say flat in any plane, any vector, any direction.
      So it's not flat as a whole thing, it's if you choose a single plane in any direction then that plane is flat as far as we can observe. Which is a very different thing to the universe being flat.
      But thank you for helping to clear that up.
      And it's worth seeing Prof Brian Cox's show. I enjoyed it.

  • @springfieldbearpatrol2937

    I don’t think he’s simplifying this for Joe. Basically, if you mapped any three points on Earth you’d conclude the Earth is round and has curvature. But we don’t observe this in space. If you mapped between the Earth, Moon and Jupiter you have straight lines forming a triangle - no curvature.

  • @ramo7481
    @ramo7481 Před rokem

    "The whole earth will be gripped in His hands on the Day of Judgment and the heavens shall be folded(like a scroll) in His right hand."
    -Surah Az-Zumar 67 (39:67 Quran)

  • @Eusantdac
    @Eusantdac Před 3 lety +307

    I never learned Korean but if someone spoke Korean to me, I would probably understand more than what this guy is sayin' lol

    • @finalcam1740
      @finalcam1740 Před 3 lety +9

      Because he isn't saying anything.

    • @vitorfernandes651
      @vitorfernandes651 Před 3 lety +21

      I don’t get what’s so hard to understand. The guy was very on point and makes a lot of sense.

    • @finalcam1740
      @finalcam1740 Před 3 lety +2

      @@vitorfernandes651 I understand exactly what he's saying. Nothing.

    • @tn15_
      @tn15_ Před 3 lety +20

      @@finalcam1740 It's funny that you're too incompetent to comprehend what he's saying, so instead you choose to confidently declare that he said nothing. Probably to make yourself feel better.

    • @finalcam1740
      @finalcam1740 Před 3 lety +6

      @@tn15_ its actually quite the opposite. To feel intelligent you choose to believe there is any substance to this clip.

  • @johngrimm1103
    @johngrimm1103 Před 5 lety +232

    I love this guys explanation, and tnks Joe for not interrupting it. :)

    • @flashyshoes9426
      @flashyshoes9426 Před 5 lety +1

      I would love to see Joe's expression, on a PIP, as he's hearing this explanation!

  • @L_Train
    @L_Train Před rokem +1

    We don't know it's flat. We know the universe is bigger than what we can see because we know what we can see is flat. The video is mistitled.

  • @oriongurtner7293
    @oriongurtner7293 Před 2 lety +1

    I feel someone should point this out, since he went over it quickly: pi is still pi on a curved surface, it’s the _diameter_ that changes, specifically it gains a curve that adds length proportional to the distance from the center
    We make spheres out of good old fashioned pi, it’s still very much the same on the surfaces of said spheres, they’ve just got an extra curve to consider

  • @ryankramer8082
    @ryankramer8082 Před 4 lety +446

    Answer Explained:
    Joe: Is the universe bigger than we think?
    Brian: Yes
    Joe: How?
    Brian: Look at a table from 2 inches away. It appears flat. Stand 10 feet back it looks like table. When we look at universe it appears flat and we know its not. So therefore it must be bigger than we think.

    • @homebrewinstrumentals7700
      @homebrewinstrumentals7700 Před 4 lety +9

      Hmmm but you can't turn around to face the opposite direction when looking st a table and see more table in the opposite direction

    • @hearmehmm797
      @hearmehmm797 Před 4 lety +17

      @@homebrewinstrumentals7700 it does if you are at the centre of the table. (No I'm not saying earth is the centre)

    • @homebrewinstrumentals7700
      @homebrewinstrumentals7700 Před 4 lety +1

      @@hearmehmm797 well that much is obvious but my point is that the analogy isn't great it might work for some people but for the average IQ not so well.

    • @homebrewinstrumentals7700
      @homebrewinstrumentals7700 Před 4 lety +10

      @@hearmehmm797 in fact, another guy put a good point forward "brian is too smart to know what joe is asking"

    • @hearmehmm797
      @hearmehmm797 Před 4 lety

      @@homebrewinstrumentals7700 Haha very true

  • @thesethreekings
    @thesethreekings Před 3 lety +247

    Joe: “Sure, but could a brown bear still defeat a gorilla in zero gravity?”

    • @oldmusician5236
      @oldmusician5236 Před 3 lety

      If it's true on Earth, then yes. If we assume that both animals take the same amount of time - and are equally able - to adjust to the new environment, then Newton's 2nd law tells us that the force needed to produce a given acceleration is related to its mass. This is observed in space when astronauts have to move objects with a large mass. Their very mass (even with zero weight!) makes them harder to move. So if the power to mass ratio is the deciding factor, it will be the same in zero gravity.

    • @AthelstanEngland
      @AthelstanEngland Před 3 lety +11

      @@oldmusician5236 but what if the gorilla knows Judo?

    • @oldmusician5236
      @oldmusician5236 Před 3 lety +2

      @@AthelstanEngland It wouldn't work very well in zero gravity. As soon as you try to throw someone, you'd be throwing yourself in the opposite direction, and you can't take someone 'down' if there is no down! Tae kwon do might be better if you could brace your non-kicking leg against something.

    • @AthelstanEngland
      @AthelstanEngland Před 3 lety +1

      @@oldmusician5236 lol! Good to know thanks 😊

    • @oldmusician5236
      @oldmusician5236 Před 3 lety +2

      @@AthelstanEngland Your welcome. You never know when your life might depend on this knowledge! I think that there is plenty room inside Elon Musk's Starship for a bear and a gorilla.

  • @FountainOfYoot
    @FountainOfYoot Před 2 lety

    Lol "what is flat" made this conversation go into another dimension

  • @genzfamily7355
    @genzfamily7355 Před 2 lety

    He is saying that the only measurements of space have been “flat.” Just like when you measure a square mile on the earth it measures as “flat.” But when you measure the earth as a whole it’s much much larger than a square mile.. He’s not saying that space is flat, he’s saying that the only thing measured in space shows as a “flat” measurement. Space in its entirety is immeasurable at the moment.

  • @jonathandorozowsky4005
    @jonathandorozowsky4005 Před 5 lety +147

    Tried to listen to this in the background. Had to drop everything I was doing and just stare before it was over.

    • @jondoe8o
      @jondoe8o Před 5 lety

      Jonathan Dorozowsky it’s not helping when you didn’t hear the question. He has a problem to give more examples for what he is describing

  • @remystern7818
    @remystern7818 Před 3 lety +207

    The title of the video should be “Brian Cox try’s to explain something none of us will understand”

    • @gmee123
      @gmee123 Před 3 lety +7

      I thought it was just me lol I get this gist of it, but man, most of it's way over my head

    • @CranyumHipHop
      @CranyumHipHop Před 3 lety +5

      It’s not over your head it’s just nonsense

    • @GreasyWop
      @GreasyWop Před 3 lety +3

      Bc he doesn’t even know what he’s talking about

    • @MalcolmTexxx
      @MalcolmTexxx Před 3 lety +1

      He didn't even understand it.

    • @MalcolmTexxx
      @MalcolmTexxx Před 3 lety +3

      @@CranyumHipHop pure non sense... but hey, this guys job depends on being able to spew out scientific words like radiation wall degradation encapsulements, that lock the inter steller dimensions 10a into a permanent state of suspension, so that the earths inhabitable biological thermal oscilloscope, perrinially thrusts across the giroscopio plane thus called, bullshit.

  • @jamess3241
    @jamess3241 Před rokem +1

    It can be racks me up that the people that are either trying to explain space information, or ask detailed space information questions, always end up looking like they're trying to swim if you mute the sound

  • @Sir1626
    @Sir1626 Před 2 lety

    Joe is pretty much all of us in that situation. The idea of space being flat is counter intuitive to us

  • @adamrspears1981
    @adamrspears1981 Před 3 lety +177

    I'm starting a Round Universe Society.
    Are you a Round Universer?

    • @lazarusstuber6133
      @lazarusstuber6133 Před 3 lety +9

      He actually agrees with you or at least thinks it plausible. He said we were just seeing a small part of our universe, and like measuring a mile on earth you wouldn't see much curvature. Or at least thats what I got from it.

    • @captainalie9264
      @captainalie9264 Před 3 lety

      aw hell yeah gamer

    • @devmike
      @devmike Před 3 lety +1

      what gets me is how the Milky-Way planets rotate around our sun in a similar plane, and don't really whirl around more sporadically, so the flat universe society is probably onto something

    • @adamrspears1981
      @adamrspears1981 Před 3 lety

      @@devmike The planets of The Solar System are not orbiting The Sun on a "flat plane".
      & the only thing that Flat Earthers are on to..........is a spherical planet. But they are not
      intelligent enough to understand why its not flat.

    • @kevedwards
      @kevedwards Před 3 lety +1

      @@lazarusstuber6133 That’s what I thought, it seems flat because we’re only measuring a tiny portion of it, if we could see more we would start to see the curve.

  • @J24Richie25
    @J24Richie25 Před 3 lety +120

    Joe Rogan: “Ok so what do you mean by flat?”
    Brian Cox: “well another example could be your head”

  • @zippymax1
    @zippymax1 Před 2 lety +1

    No. Wrong. Our space is a point on a helical line which floats in a nine-dimensional koi pond.

  • @WeaselWorks
    @WeaselWorks Před 2 lety

    I can't believe this expert never uttered the word "plane" at any point in this conversation about "flatness." If you know it's three-dimensional but you're going to ignore one dimension so it will be flat like the surface of a table because you only want to talk about a specific slice of space, that is called a plane!