Does Planet 9 Exist?
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- čas přidán 1. 05. 2024
- A planet has been predicted to orbit the sun with a period of 10,000 years, a mass 5x that of Earth on a highly elliptical and inclined orbit. What evidence supports the existence of such a strange object at the edge of our solar system?
Huge thanks to:
Prof. Konstantin Batygin, Caltech
Prof. David Jewitt, UCLA
I had heard about Planet 9 for a long time but I wondered what sort of evidence could support the bold claim: a planet at the very limits of our ability to detect one, so far out that its period is over 60 times that of Neptune. The planet 9 hypothesis helps explain clustering of orbits of distant Kuiper belt objects. It also explains how some of these objects have highly inclined orbits - up to 90 degrees relative to the plane of the solar system. Some are orbiting in reverse. Plus their orbits are removed from the orbit of Neptune, the logical option for a body that could have ejected them out so far. The fact that the perihelion is so far out suggests another source of gravity was essential for their peculiar orbits.
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“Who found the Kuiper belt?”
“I did”
Awesome answer.
i found the Kuiper hat
and the sombrero galaxy
@Metal Jack because it was an unexpected answer. It's a funny situation.
Technically, anyone who finds it can say that. It's kind of like quoting someone, and then when they ask "who said that", saying "Me! I said it, I'm over here, can't you see me?!"
@НTTP 4:05
Can we take a moment to appriciate how much better the video has become by interviewing 2 experts with opposing views instead of just one of them?
This is why I listen to IQ2US debates. Best podcast ever.
@@wesleyrm76 Hadn't heard of that, thanks!
If you rewatch and listen to exactly what they say, they don't actually have opposing views. They're scientists, they will defer to the evidence.
It's just that 1 of them is optimistic, because he's actively looking for the planet. The other is neutral and merely speaks to his more limited knowledge of the subject. The optimist still calls it a hypothesis and the neutral guy acknowledges that it could easily exist, it just hasn't been found yet.
@@martixbg exactly
He says himself that you could hide anything in the outer regions of the solar system
They're simply painted this way to make the video more entertaining and that's a good thing
Take a look at this coin I bought. Planet 9 is clearly depicted in an orbit not aligned to the other planets orbit. Cheers. Royal Australian mint. 2009.
czcams.com/video/WSZscEX1Q34/video.html
After binge watching the episodes from Veritasium today, I would call this the best one. Not because of the topic discussed. I really liked the idea of two scientists arguing their points of view. Optimistic vs skeptical. It really highlights how science is made. Please make more videos like this one.
same been binge watching him today, i found the quantum mechanics video of parallel universes the most interesting
same!! this is definitely top 3
Dr Jewitt is a trip- I love how he doesn’t even put his coffee down for half of it, and how he has this “are you messing with me?” look when he asks who found the Kuiper Belt
*“I found the Kuiper Belt.”* Well earned flex, wish I had achievements like that!
Same here😔
I found his pants that dropped after his belt was lost.
He had the same tone as-
Who killed the bug on the wall?
I did
It was his student. This guy's ego is off the charts. The evidence for the 9th planet is the trajectory of matter that bends around a certain gravitational anomaly. This guy is a megalomaniacal dick.
@@jbc242424 The guy doubting it?
Imagine having that on your CV. “ I found the Kuiper Belt”
Why would he even need a CV after finding the Kuiper Belt
Bruh, imagine knowing Mike Brown, the founder of Eris, Makemake, and Haumea
@@ProxyAuthenticationRequired . Nice
@@ProxyAuthenticationRequired . I hear you buddy, there are just some things that grandads do better. I had my first alcoholic drink with mine.
You are Hired !
The two scientists that were interviewed are the yin and yang sides of science:
The curiosity and sheer will to learn and discover & The discipline of evidence and logic based verification of the truth of something.
I believe that the greatest scientists were the ones that were able to try things they were excited about, regardless of what other people said was ,,logical", even if they weren't yet 100% sure whether it worked or not (unless it would end deadly of course). We were born with creativity, not just with a logical sense, so why not combine both? It often takes creativity to make theories of course, but if the scientist relies on his sheer logical will, he'll not utilize his full potential. And of course, the other way around, it can be a huge waste of time and energy to follow the urge of finding something out you are obsessed with, but at the end, regardless of effects that make us see things we want to see, there is always a logical base behind something a scientist is obsessed with. With some scientists I just feel like their obsession with everything being 100% logical and in the same sense comprehensible made them lose the thing that makes us humans special.
@@Aicer05 there are merits to both approaches, but evidence and logic is extremely important. After all science is the study of reality. Without a healthy respect for reality, we would still be teaching kids about planet Vulcan.
One of the best videos on Veritasium. No prejudice, no taking sides, no trying to explain stuffs by Derek, just asking the right questions to 2 different people having completely different theories. Brilliant.
"Can I go to the bathroom?"
"That's a great question"
"Well, yes and no. To answer that we first have to consider..."
But they were all great questions, that's the magic of it.
Or is it?
can u?
Look I dunno where this is going I just need to use it
"So who found the Kuiper Belt?"
"I did. You know that."
o__o
My reaction precisely.
Just checked, he actually did discovered it. His name is David Jewitt
@@MrJamesnight bowie*
@@MrJamesnight jew*
@@MrJamesnight professor
"Who discovered the Kuiper Belt?"
"I did"
*flex intensifies*
The visualization at 5:12 - 5:16 is so helpful; I'd never seen that before. The rotation and the zoom-out really give a good sense of the relative scales.
There is nothing cooler than saying “yeah I found the Kuiper belt”
Think about newton: yeah, i invented gravity
What about "I found Kuiper's trousers"?
@@AndrasMihalyi whooosh
@@AndrasMihalyi woah, did you know before that dork invent gravity, people were flying their ass off ?!?
@@AEON. Don't know what you're taking, but I want it.
-Who is responsible for finding the kuiper belt?
-I found the kuiper belt.
That's the real THUG LIFE!
He must be really proud.
A Indian is one who can notice and point out THUG LIFE....good...😉
@@gauravbhatnagar6219 bruhh
I was mesmerized by that quick answer.
@@zeal0tseven57 😂😂
Love this video. Would also love an updated video with the same two people now that it's been a few years.
Amazing interview. Not often can we see two scientist with different opinions in the same video. You can see passion of Professor Batygin when he is talking about something he love
When you have to discover a planet at 7 but be at a rock concert at 8.
he fact that he actually played in a band makes this even funnier
you win sir :D
I guess his reasoning was earth is a rocky planet so why not experience some rock.
Missed a chance at an extra joke in there "have to discover a planet at 9" :D
@@dariashen7737 Man I love these guys. Not only they're brilliantly productive enough to do this by the day, but have a complex hobby like music during evenings.
Derek: "So who's responsible for finding the Kuiper Belt?"
Prof. Jewitt: *Well of course I know him. He's me.*
I would say that. I am also me.
kuiper*
@@ItsYaBoySkinnyPenis69420 kwuipar*
@Hakunoはくの aww man
@Hakunoはくの kucreeper
This is one of your most motivating videos to me. A practical problem and challenge in astrophysics with some classy competition. Awesome.
I just love this planetary scientist rocking a RHCP shirt lol
“If you’re that sure, find it” such a scientist way of putting it
Trubich
Made me laugh when he said it the first time.
Imagine if someone had said that to Einstein or Hawking
After both of them have gone we're still finding evidence that proves them right. Actually a little ironic that a scientist is saying that when it's the point of science to predict things we haven't yet seen
@@slothpalms8124 For every Einstein there are a humanity's worth of scientists that weren't. He's not being negative and it is in fact a scientists' job to be skeptical.
@@slothpalms8124 and still it moves
I like how clearly this video shows the enthusiasm in the younger person and the wisdom and caution in the older. They are a powerful combination.
Very true.
On the one hand, we have a young, excited professor with new ideas and a new perspective. On the other, we have a respected researcher who has proven himself over and over, who has seen a lot and isn’t going to be swayed so easily.
If finding planets in other solar system is achievable. Why finding planets in our solar system is uncertain?
Caution. Don't believe everything.
@@mazighyazid241 because with planets in other sytems we detect them by how much they obscure the star behind them. Planet nine is never in between earth and the sun.
Agreed!
I'd actually continue the trend of naming them after Roman mythology and call planet 9 Proserpine. And it would make sense the same way all other planets were named. First of all, Proserpina was a wife of Pluto, and as we know Pluto isn'tn't a planet 8,5*. Proserpine was also a goddess of the underworld (spends its life in darkness, so does planet 9), and also a goddess of sprouting grain, and this would reference our sprouting knowledge about space and our own system. Proserpine was also actually Persephone but taken from Greek mythos, renamed, tweaked a little and set into Roman mythos, and Persephone (Proserpina) was kidnapped by Hades (Pluto). This last one would reference the facts that a)Pluto was supposed to be planet 9 but then the scientist said nah, and b) its even further away and it rarely visits the rest of the system.
woaa that's so cool
Amd then there's Earth which just means dirt, and Uranus which is from Greek Mythology.
@@AndyHappyGuy ummm... you mean Terra and Caelus?
But seriously tho, i have no idea why Uranus is called Uranus and not Caelus. As for our little "dirt", well, let's just say that someone probably named our planet long before we knew about the existence of other planets, and long before greek'o'roman mythology.
But in fact no matter how you call it - Earth, Terra, or Gaia, it still means dirt, as the latter two were named after the Earth and not the other way around ._.
@@Kebab136 Uranus is more OCD inducing because it was actually a choice, not just because there was already a word for it.
@@Kebab136 Discoverer William Herschel tried unsuccessfully to name his discovery Georgium Sidus, after his patron, King George III. His fellow astronomer Johann Elert Bode's suggested name Uranus won out. Apparently Bode just didn't like the sound of Caelus. Also astronomers in England persisted with Georgium Sidus for about 70 years.
Ten years later when Planet 9 is found and named David Bowie:
"David Bowie is a star!"
"No. It's a planet"
Can we call it planet ten to confuse people the same way Microsoft/apple did
that is great marketing
that's a great question!
great question!
No it’s planet X
Pluto IS planet 9, i dont care what some old white people decided in 2006
This is the kind of content I love about Veritasium: access to brilliant people, look behind the scenes and wonderful, in depth interviews! Thank you!
Yes, I didn't even watch the last video, just felt like it was going to be a stupid advertisement or lame "I'm trying to make a viral video with clickbait title" attempt.
Yup, don't want to hear about aero gel no more
Actually
I am voting for "David Bowie" name for this mysterious Planet 9 . R.I.P. dear friend.
You’d probably like sixty symbols, periodic videos, numberphile etc
Haha, David Jewitt reminds me so much of some of the scientists I know personally: Some current Macs, but more notably some absolutely obsolete ones and the software packages they came with, as well as the mandatory "don't throw it out, it's mostly working" 20-year old Apple keyboard they continue using even with their new iMac because "it feels right". And of course a box of random old electronics items that once upon a time were useful to have around. :D
I love it. Visiting or seeing offices of scientists around the world makes me feel very much at home because they really feel very familiar and relatable, just like the ones I've known for a decade. Maybe it's their mindset of sticking to proven methods :D
I love the way they disagreed with each other, but still admitted the strengths of the opposition views. True scientists.
my headcanon is that the two experts aren't on speaking terms with each other so they wanted to use you as a go-between for their spat
Lol
They probably write very sassy but dry white papers at each other, never directly mentioning the other - but they and others in their field know. Haha no - but they both make good points. The evidence thusfar is not sufficient to say that Planet 9 exists - and as the math gets better at some point we should get a specific coordinate to spot it. On the other hand, it sounds like it would solve a lot of problems all at once, and the space for it to exist within the current model exists. It sounds conspicuously absent - but that's not enough to say that it exists.
I was thinking that
@Ali Hassan Pluto isn't a planet, in 2006 it was changed to a Planetoid or Dwarf Planet (same thing). To be a planet you need to orbit a star (as opposed to moons which orbit planets), you need to be round (sufficient gravity to get round), and you need to clear your own orbit: Pluto hasn't done the last one, it's too small to shoo away the other planetoids. Additionally, it's smaller than Eris - another Planetoid in our solar system. Pluto is only 17% the mass of our Moon, and Eris is only 22% of our Moon: they're both pretty tiny - and way smaller than the Planets.
@Ali Hassan if Pluto were to continue to be considered a planets, then we would have to say that the Sun has thousands of planets
my vote would be that if we ever find planet 9, we name it pluto
just to make the "is pluto a planet?" debate even worse
Absolute mad man
this man is evil
Just call it Plutwo and call it a day
Pluto is a planet. It's a Dwarf Planet. Just like there are Gas Giants. It has its own family with Eris, Ceres, Haumea, Makemake and so on. I think it's in a better place that it being the odd planet. Now it fits in with the others.
New Pluto or Pluto Twodo please make my school teachings accurate again!!!
When I was in 8th or 9th grade I was really interested in the topic and read everything I could get my hands on which was very limited then because my english was trash 😅. So I wrote Konstantin Batygin an e-mail and he actually replied with a link to his researchpaper and the website which I hadn’t found myself then
Nobody:
Absolutely nobody:
Planet 9 guy: “that’s a great question”
To all the commenters making fun of "that's a great question": That's a great habit for a professor to have. When you're a student and you're nervous about asking a question, even that little bit of encouragement can be a big deal. It encourages students to engage with the lessons.
Abe Dillon thank you! Someone finally explained it. It has make me feel less nervous and feel more encouraged to ask question when the lecturer say it.
That's a great explanation
Abe Dillon bottom line: there’s really something to be said about a professor with the passion and understanding necessary to engage students. Pair that with charisma, relatability, and a desire to spread knowledge, and you’ve got the recipe for a great teacher.
Thank you!
Wrong. It passes a value judgment on the question, leaving other nervous students to wonder, "Is my question good? Should I ask it?"
A good public speaking instructor will tell you to say, "Thank you for asking" or, "I'm glad you brought that up." It gives the same positive affirmation without a value judgment on the question itself.
Also, that dude is just way too repetitious. You need to find alternative ways to say it so that you don't sound like a broken record.
When you can say "I found the kuiper belt" nonchalantly like its nothing
Blue
Edit: i get it people thx...
I’m confused because he didn’t? It’s teached that he found the first entity/body in it but the belt was already theorized and discovered before?
I am confused
@@gymweeb9229 Well of course if you've found the first object, that proves its existence. He'll say that because he has something to be proud of.
@@gymweeb9229 theorizing is not discover. Discovery is discovery.
@@gymweeb9229 There are several people who shared in the discovery. But either Clyde Tombaugh or David Jewitt could best be called its direct discoverers.
Heck, I found the moon last night. Naked eyed, no less.
We just learned about the belt in my hs class on Wednesday, we even used the same graph at 5:40!
That was on a different device though, no clue how CZcams decided to recommend this
- Who found Kuiper's belt?
- I did.
- Please return it to Kuiper, he's really upset about losing it.
I love hearing scientists disagreeing.
"I'm pretty sure, but nothing is 100%"
"Slim chance, but I'm ready to be convinced"
These guys are always either skeptically optimistic or optimistically skeptic, depending on what side they're on. Everyone wants new discoveries, it's just that some people are less sure of whether or not it'll actually happen
Meanwhile, in Flattardia:
-Earth is flat because I think it's flat. But it's flat 100%, no matter what.
-Earth is flat because I saw videos on Y/T and because the bible says so. No way it's a spinning ball.
Ya keeps it real²
I'd love to hear "them" say this about man made climate change
Unlike some ignorance, excalated self-confidence kids these days. The dumber they are, the more they think they are smart. Which is a very sad fact.
You brought the proponent and the opponent of the hypothesis, but made sure the opponent was given coffee to be less cranky. Brilliant!
yes.....
you are here......
Hello there! Wonderful Person!
OMGs! Anton is here! :D
Geekdom overlap!! Yay - I love it! I'm in an awesome space Venn diagram! >; )
Here after the black hole theory i watched from your channel :D
@@ronaldoheta7825 same
The fact that he wants to name the 9th planet David Bowie is the most unsurprising thing ever.
**looks at his hair** "Yeah, of course you want to name it that."
If we ever happen to find it, I think it should be named "Nox" or "Erebus".
Nox is the goddess of the night in Roman Mythology (Nyx in Greek), and Erebus is the personification of darkness. In my oponion, Erebus fits the best, as the planet was hard to find due to its location in a "dark" (meaning, we can't see clearly) part of the sky
Nyx is already one of the moons of Pluto. There's Charon, Nyx, Hydra, Styx and Kerberos.
Now Erebus would be badass in many levels
“How are you?”
Prof: “that’s a great question.”
I was going to write this comment. You did it for me bro
@@minhajshovon9789
But he'll get the likes.
@@cloroxbleach3936 who cares.!
@@JAKOB1977
ok
lol.
“Hey where’s the bathroom?”
Batygin - “That’s a great question”
😂😂😂
Lool
I came here to find this comment xD
That’s a great comment
To be fair, it would be.
So you're telling me that we can't find this planet, but we can find thousands of rogue planets light-years away.
The reason why it is so much harder is because we are able to detect exoplanets based on the effect they have on their parent star. If one passes in front of it, we see this by the brightness of the star decreasing very slightly. We can also detect exoplanets by looking at how they affect the parent star’s velocity towards and away from us by looking at the Doppler shift of light from the star.
For planet 9, there is no star to use to measure the planet’s influence and we instead can use only dynamics (mostly numerical calculations I believe, such as N-body simulations, to estimate where it could be). This is much more difficult, hence why we can find exoplanets but not Planet 9.
@@chrisallen9509 Very good explanation!
Happy fourth anniversary of this video! Any news or updates regarding the search, @Veritasium?
Young enthusiasm with the latest technology being challenged by a seasoned, accomplished astronomer with a skeptical eye?
This is the most beautifully scientific thing you’ve ever posted.
we call it balance
If they work at the same place, I hope they also play pranks at each other
Perfectly balanced
As all things should be
Mr Joe one in favor of planet 9 works at CalTech in Pasadena which is about a 15 minute drive from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The older man who questions the existence works at UCLA.
4:05 Damn that man said he discovered kuiper belt as if it's a small deal
ARAH my man was totally nonchalant. Cool as F.
@@nikhilshetty007 right?! Now *THAT* is true modesty, right there.
Cant help but respect the man, and even like him a bit, just for that little bit.
he was vibing
That is weird.OK
ARAH “you know I found a second asteroid belt no big deal tho”
I feel weirdly invested in finding this planet.. I guess I never really got over Pluto
Was this not called “Planet X” before Pluto was demoted?
"That's a great question". It shows the guy has to answer students' questions all day long.
Actually, that doesn't make a great scientist yet, but the answers someone might give do.
Meh, it's a meaningless platitude designed to stroke the questioners ego and encourage them to accept the answer in the most positive way possible. Middle managers preface their answers that way in team meetings all the time. I hate it.
Konstantin's kids: Dad, can I have some pocket money?
Konstantin: That's a great question. No.
David Jewitt to his children: You have yet to provide me with empirical evidence that you need pocket money.
SAVAGE!😂
@@hudsonslim3169 😂😂🤣🤣
@@hudsonslim3169 At this rate I think we’ll find pocket money in the next ten years.
"That's a Great question. At this rate, no kid will have any pocket money in 10 years. We devote all resources for finding Planet 9."
"Who found the Kuiper belt?"
[dramatic pause] "I found the Kuiper belt, with my student."
Such a power statement. You know he was waiting to be asked that.
Is there a chance that there is enough cumulative mass in the kuiper belt and ort cloud in that direction to create enough gravity to produce this effect?
"I found the Kuiper Belt in 1985." - Well, I found my carkeys this morning. Checkmate.
I've found that my gf is cheating on me.
Now beat that, @blacklupus.
I just found that u too are lying..
'the farther you get away from the Sun the more Easier it is to Hide Objects'... Lol
@@sullenskulls9709 so did I, your dad is just way too hot.
@@cmdrtianyilin8107 It's true, he's the only thing hotter than that burn :D
is it just me or does everybody get intersted in science at 2 am
reets 101 nope
Dude it's 3 am for me rn lmao so true
12:53 am here. But ya, I’ll be up for awhile now after watching this.
It is said that the brain tends to absorb more information thus making you more curious during night time. I wish they'd do more studies on it but the ones that have been done lead to better learning in the evening to morning time.
01:51😲🙆🙈👌🎯
12:14 this is the most impressive statement a scientist can make. mostly, we hear a ton of lies and assumptions sold as facts which they are not. good man.
awesome video.
“I discovered the Kuiper Belt”. what a boss. he has my vote.
Imagine these 2 guys at a party:
"I discovered the Kuiper Belt, what did you discover?"
"Red Hot Chili Peppers"
OMG World Adventures oh shut up
I mean Red Hot Chili Peppers is a good discovery
U need research and theorizing to discover
U mean he discovered david bowie
Space may be the final frontier, but it's made in a Hollywood basement.
"There is a chance that we're wrong" - Such a pleasure listening to real scientists, rather than "flat earthers" who are completely convinced and nothing can change their minds.
czcams.com/video/dIHiq5FwhHw/video.html
Because thay know there's a lot they don't know but flatearth people (THAY DON'T KNOW, they don't know)
right, they were both like “yeah it’s possible i’m wrong” that’s what science is about!!
You become a scientist by being open to wildly opposing possibilities. You become a conspiracy nut by being only open to whatever is contrary to the accepted.
I mean yeah that’s basically most people. Flat earthers are extremely low in number but people focus on them so much
I like where Elite Dangerous went with naming Planet 9 "Persephone" since it more or less follows current convention in naming distant Solar System objects
The thing to remember here is that search is taking place in 3D space. That multiplies the vastness of search area manifold and increases difficulty compared to say searching a pin on a floor.
Pluto will be really pissed when they name planet 9 “The Real Pluto”
Pluto is a planet damnit 😭
There is only one Pluto. And it's the ninth planet.
@@charginginprogresss ye, shame they didn't discovered yet
Joren Van de Voorde -
Shh but secretly I still consider it one.
Planet David Bowie
🌟 V: *"Who's responsible for finding the Kuiper belt?"*
Prof.: *"I found the Kuiper belt."*
I guessed Al Gore.
David Turner Nah, Al Gore found Climate Religion.
Right? Instant credibility.
Jesus Fried Christ Climate denial has certainly become a trendy pseudoscience, hasn't it... Its advocates remind me of creationists alot, but whatever floats your anti-empiricist boats I guess
@@JesusFriedChrist it's just k8nd of sad now, that there are still some people who can't understand climate change
A follow up video is needed. You can't leave us on a cliffhanger
Would love to see an update on this project
"Who's responsible for finding the Kuiper Belt?"
Scientist: "I found the Kuiper Belt"
The way he said it so nonchalantly was kinda badass actually
Your next line is "wHy d0 i seE yOu eVerYWheRe oN y0uTubE".
How are you everywhere?
I've seen you too many times
I think he already told Derek so he was a little taken aback, but Derek wanted to get footage of him saying it for CZcams.
The real question is:
Once he found it, why didn't he give it back? I'm not Kuiper but I know what kind of awkward situations a lacking belt can cause.
I found the Kuiper Belt. One size fits all. Only $9.99 in eBay.
I love how Konstantin Batygin styles his hair to represent the distribution pattern of Kuiper Belt objects.
that is 5 head
an expert doesn't learn about his major
major learns about him
😂😂😂
@@kaiedwards8997 so is he
lol
Could you please do a second video on this topic, an update on the search for planet 9? ...we just gotta find David Bowie!
I nonchalantly use "I found the Kuiper Belt," as a meme/joke nowadays because of this video.
“The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.”
An old Chinese saying , so beautiful to see actual scientific arguments done in person , this could be history
Is there or is there not a cat?
@@fsaczb Since we are dealing with physicists, the other question is whether that cat alive, dead or neither until a measurement is taken and the wave function collapses.
@@lewisdoherty7621 In my experience, if you put a cat in a box what you usually get is Bloody Furious Cat. I think this is the only true quantum state for cats.
Easy to me
Here's the funny thing, all internet search had led this quote back to Confucius. However, Confucius had never said such things before.
Who discovered the kuiper belt?
Professor : I did.
Wow, he's among the very few who could answer that way about discovering something!
He flexed hard
@@bluebellaj7908
other people: yeah, this other dude discovered an amazing thing
him: I discovered this amazing thing
@Doctor Drywell | The word meme was originally a genetics term.
He has a box labelled "Files" that's full of wires. Might be the most relatable thing I've seen on CZcams.
Very interesting. What surprised me the most is that they took a movie poster from 1959 (@3:14) and edited for their use. The movie is "Plan 9 From Outer Space". Key word being Plan not Planet.
Veritasium: *asks literally anything*
CalTech prof: yeah, great question
I was about to
comment that but you beat me to it.
probably a habit from lectures to give students self-confidence to encourage more questions and participation regardless of how stupid it would be in the minds of the students.
sounds like a real teacher to me. Ask a stupid question at a state school get laughed at, ask a good question at state school and the prof probably doesnt know it
@@dashielcockrill998 oops 😬
@@russiazucha yeah totally, I wish my teachers were like that too. Middle school was really fun, and my teachers actually cared about teaching the class but I'm in my freshman year of high school and it just feels like I'm trying to beat a system. I hope college is better (I'm trying to get into CalTech ;) ).
I love both of these perspectives. Such healthy science. On one hand, you have a man confident in his calculations and predictions, and on the other hand you have a man who's skeptical but acknowledging, not dismissive.
one is hungry, one's legacy is secure thanks to the kuiper belt. hunger clouds many a judegment
@@hansolo631 Both are absolutely necessary. Try new things based on some data but don't treat it as fact until it is AND someone who's skeptical, but open to facts.
Absolutely. Love the acknowledgement of good science even if at this point you disagree with it's preliminary conclusion.
And on the far end of the spectrum, there are flat earthers.
He even workout and eat healthy bruh
That guy looks super young and chill for a professor.
I had no idea that we were so clueless as to what's in our outer solar system that there *could* be a planet with a mass 5 times greater than earth ... but we don't know for sure.
What a badass thing to say, “ I found the Kuiper Belt”.
Sol/Apollo/Amaterasu/etc: "I WEAR the Kuiper belt."
He's wearing a badass t shirt too
@@WhiteChocolate74 A plain black t-shirt?
@@hansolo631 well I was referring to the RHCP t shirt
@@WhiteChocolate74 That was the other guy.
Derek: *breathes*
The science guy: That's a great question!
Derek: *gets asthma attack*
The science guy: those are the questions we are trying to find the answers to
Derek : Can I get fries with that?
Science man : That's a great question.
@@geethsan1567 lmao
Derek: Who found the Kuiper Belt?
Old man: *That's a great question*
I hate you guys. Now I'm hearing it more frequently. Gosh make it stop 😭
as random person with no bias who stumbled into this, the older gentleman with the glasses is way more convincing.
Derek: *Breathes*
Professor Batygin: That's a great question.
This guy's hair is more mysterious than any potential planet 9.
It just screams "I love punk rock from the 90s"
He also sounds like an auto tuned robot some times
Uranus
With a shirt like that, I’m definitely not surprised that he compared the size of Kuiper Belt Objects to somewhere in California.
We have a 9th planet
“How do you shred your cheese”
Battgin- “thats a grate question”
@@AD-kv9kj timestamp ?
@@AD-kv9kj His brain be like: "Hmmm I should know the answer to this."
Then says, "That's a great question"
What does the new mac pro look like?
Batygin "that's also a grate question"
What did the old mac pro look like?
Batygin "that's another grate question"
"How do you hold and provide air to the fuel in a fireplace?"
"Yet another grate question"
omfg please do a follow up on the petition. i love this
I remember mention of a Planet Ten in the 1960's and 1970's, in sci fi novel titles and astronomical articles. This was of course before Pluto's demotion to a planetoid.
“Is math related to science?”
“That’s a great question.”
It's called physics.
Actually, he said "that's a great question" to every question
@@djohle3430 Easy. There are no dumb questions.
Hello Katy Perry lmao
That is basically "I don't know but I want to appear SMART so I'm going to reply with this instead" ugh I immidiately see anyone who answers like that as fake, stupid and prideful.
Watching 2 of the best minds disagree on speculation is like watching history in real time. So cool!
nobody:
literally nobody:
Le Konstantin: That a great question
Me: How can y---
Konstantin: That's a great question
@@dancobb118 Did you notice that's a "sarcasm" ?
@@dancobb118 Did you notice the intentional grammatical error in your “Stupid question “ making triple stupid and sarcastic?
He's probably had some public speaking / interview training.
so looks like Konstatine has guaranteed himself 10 more years at Cal Tech. He should have said it will take at least 20 more years to find it XD
Serendip nice name
Plot twist: Planet 9 is a shade ball
A shade ball covered in aerogel*
OMG I was driving down the 5 the other day and saw the shade balls. Did a huge double-take. Must of driven by it a dozen times but had no idea that was the LA reservoir or that it was covered in shade balls.
Angel it’s a resorvoir ball
It's made of Vantablack
@@EEGmaghrabi Covered in laminar flow. Oh sorry, wrong channel.
People commenting "its called pluto" or similar haven't watched a single second of the video.
The guy in the RHCP shirt reminds me of an alternate reality Elon Musk if he got stuck in the 90's and learned how to skate.
Hahaha
And wasn't a gigantic arsehole
@@Pippinn13 And understood basic physics.
Unrelated to the video - stay hydrated 👊
How exact description. Plus a Hard Rock fan Elon Musk would look like that.
Do you know who found the Kuiper belt?
Jedi Prof: Of course I know him, he's me
There's a story about Niels Bohr, where he was giving testimony at a patent trial and he was asked on the stand who the greatest living expert on physics was. Niels answered, "I am."
Niels' friends teased him about it, since he is famously quite modest and humble, and Niels just replied, "I had to tell the truth, I was under oath."
Stolen comment.
@aDBo'Ch 1 look at the top comment.
@@Max_Matrix the top comment is a joke about Pluto crying..
@@DanOutdoorsUK thats strange, it shows it differently on my side.
Every once in a while I come back to this video to remind myself that we don't know everything about the universe, let alone our own solar system, and that any possibility, no matter how ridiculous it may seem to some, is still a possibility nonetheless.
Their theoretical model of Planet Nine is remarkable, a lot of deep thinking was put into it obviously. In any event, I think it exists and its discovery will bring about a reawakening in astronomy whereby more people will want to become more cosmic literate about the universe.
That's planet 10. and if it's that far out their, kick it from the planet club.
4:05 You can just tell how happy he was asking that. Thats so cool to meet him
At first, I thought it was sarcasm
"Who found the Kuiper belt?"
[Stunned look]
"I found the Kuiper belt. You know that."
I like that he didn't seem to get that you were trying to get him to say that for the video, and he didn't even crack a smile while you were laughing about it.
He became a grumpy old man. 100% pragmatic and first degree humour
When people are that brilliant, they sometimes lack social awareness.
@@jackrockwell6698 it’s ok, sacrificing some social traits is a small price for being a decent human being
Hell yeah I was the 669th like
At least he gave credit to his partner
What a great Veritasium video!
Bad acoustics. You can literally here a truck backing up during the presentation🤣😂😂😂😂😂
" I mean, if you're that sure, find it."
Boss.
I think hes just anxious cause he may be dead before we put our telescopes on planet nine
My dude found the Kuiper Belt, so it’s fair for him to ask people to put their money where their mouth is
@don't care Yeah, but at the same time you want people who are enthusiastic enough about something that they want to dedicate their life to it. In this case it is the younger scientists job to come up with possibilities that a planet 9 might exist, to think outside the box and really try to make sense of it. And there is nothing wrong with that at all, as long as the community at large waits for the evidence.
The older scientist in this video probably behaved quite similarly when he went on the search for the Kuiper belt and due to his enthusiasm and dedication to his work he was able to find it, something which a lot of people didn't think he would be able to.
So I wouldn't say there is anything inherently wrong with being enthusiastic and moving forward with loads of theories, thats how discoveries are made.
That old man dude really did discover the kuiper belt. He found Albion, a part of the kuiper belt other than pluto and charon. That's so dope!!!
Charon***
He's not that old!
Otherwise I'd be old.
@@timothyvilla - He's at least 10-15 years older than me and I'm 51. He's very old.
Then how come his name isn't Kuiper?
@Siddhant Kumawat en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15760_Albion