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    Planck's Length is the length below which the concept of length loses its meaning. What exactly does that mean and what are the incredible implications this fact has upon our reality? To find out check out this episode of Space Time where Matt digs into the early history of quantum mechanics.
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  • @tompenny5684
    @tompenny5684 Před rokem +71

    This has to be possibly the most professional and well put together physics channel on CZcams. From the animations to the logical descriptions which make difficult concepts make sense! This has given me so much to write about for my formal report on Black Body radiation.
    Thank you!

  • @T33K3SS3LCH3N
    @T33K3SS3LCH3N Před 5 lety +719

    Math teachers: Zeno's paradox is easy. You can overtake the tortoise because we have calculus.
    Quantum Physicists: WE DONT EVEN KNOW WHERE YOU ARE

    • @manspider9152
      @manspider9152 Před 4 lety +18

      An underrated comment

    • @Reach3DPrinters
      @Reach3DPrinters Před 4 lety +9

      You can only describe how the overtaking would be approached and that overtaking would take infinity... as well as what quadrant one is overtaking in.

    • @Sunspot1225.
      @Sunspot1225. Před 4 lety +2

      The elements that go zero in calculus, don't. So the resultant answer is a little bit off by the Planck's Constant.

    • @Reach3DPrinters
      @Reach3DPrinters Před 4 lety

      @@Sunspot1225. Planck suggests reality is digital! :)

    • @fghsgh
      @fghsgh Před 4 lety +4

      We especially don't know where you are if we know you're running at a speed.

  • @jaybyrdcybertruck1082
    @jaybyrdcybertruck1082 Před 8 lety +23

    Im a highschool graduate with no schooling in Quantum Physics but I Have a real passion for it and these videos are absolutely fantastic! I was never good at math but I understand the theories very well!! love these videos!

    • @javiercastro8466
      @javiercastro8466 Před rokem +1

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    • @Bill-ou7zp
      @Bill-ou7zp Před rokem +3

      Sorry, but you don’t understand any ‘theories’ without the math. The day you think you understand quantum mechanics is the day you can be certain you don’t

    • @mysmirandam.6618
      @mysmirandam.6618 Před rokem +1

      Same. So weird never took it outta all the college I've had

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    @harshitshukla7382 Před 8 lety +68

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    • @raidermaxx2324
      @raidermaxx2324 Před 8 lety +35

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    • @Woodmakerstudios
      @Woodmakerstudios Před 8 lety +5

      Cheers Neo, I will most certainly check him out! I have a lot of theories myself but I lack the knowledge of actually proving them right ( Or wrong ). I will hopefully change that in the future! Either way, these video's are fascinating

    • @wholeNwon
      @wholeNwon Před 8 lety +2

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    • @busteraycan
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  • @Sett86
    @Sett86 Před 6 lety +532

    So. Einstein discovered dark energy almost a century ahead of everyone else because his math wasn't working out without it. Planck discovered quantization of light because his math wasn't working out without it. Do I see a pattern here?

    • @phoenix03ist
      @phoenix03ist Před 5 lety +2

      What do you mean?

    • @deathbydeviceable
      @deathbydeviceable Před 5 lety +21

      If you wanna get technical the dark energy is all around us, it's called gravity. It's the lack of gravity that creates anti-matter, cause no gravity is there to keep it intact.
      I'm off my rocker, let me just get back in my seat

    • @Asijantuntia
      @Asijantuntia Před 5 lety +38

      So you're implying this was all made up because someone just had to invent new stuff to make their theory work? Then how do you explain that we can actually detect these quantum phenomena? For example physicists are having trouble making computer processor chips in smaller scales, because the quantum tunneling effect makes the transistor gates randomly not work.

    • @sidewaysfcs0718
      @sidewaysfcs0718 Před 5 lety +15

      @Bob Harris Well, technically, they are. Doesn't mean they can't be true. We know for a fact that the h constant is good, Planck just plugged it in to make the theory work.

    • @janinduherath5974
      @janinduherath5974 Před 5 lety +21

      And we get an F when our math doesn't work out........

  • @kermanguy1877
    @kermanguy1877 Před 5 lety +1297

    Imagine just accidentally figuring out one of the universal constants.

    • @abhirajdutta327
      @abhirajdutta327 Před 5 lety +8

      WoWoWoWoWoWoW

    • @Reach3DPrinters
      @Reach3DPrinters Před 4 lety +37

      I don't agree, Its only a constant relative to what is needed to make measurements. The actual constant doesn't exist. Space time has no segmentation, it is analog, even if it can only be perceived digitally... in fact all real numbers are digital... we would have to describe nature with only unreal numbers to achieve a decent representation of our universe.

    • @l0kexh
      @l0kexh Před 4 lety +25

      Nothing is random they spend their lifetimes doing and calculating things . I repeat nothing is random

    • @narajuna
      @narajuna Před 4 lety +1

      Hum must not be hard to imagine; aint there a LOT of Chance accidents around here? Primates sustain on accidental figures...

    • @Thundralight
      @Thundralight Před 4 lety +1

      @@Reach3DPrinters I think it has to do with different states of consciousness Do animals or insects have what is needed to take a measurement in the way we can take a measurement of something.

  • @MaBuSt
    @MaBuSt Před 8 lety +9

    I'm a PhD in Materials Science. I also had a phenomenal Materials Properties course as an undergrad. This was still one of the best ways of diagrammatically showing the origins of the UV catastrophe (at 6:43)

  • @BeCurieUs
    @BeCurieUs Před 8 lety +22

    There have been a lot of great episodes here, but this one is by far my favorite. I like hearing the history of the math and scientists as much as the science. The story about Plank and him going "huh, try this" was really fun. And I really like the integration of the tortoise analogy with BB radiation and Plank length. Everything just worked for me :D

    • @gmtoomey
      @gmtoomey Před 8 lety +2

      Its a great explanation, probably the best I've seen.

  • @vishalmishra4408
    @vishalmishra4408 Před 6 lety +21

    Max Planck may have never imagined that his constant would be used in 2018-19 to define New/Quantum SI unit of Mass (the Kilogram Kg).

  • @MrGyulaBacsi
    @MrGyulaBacsi Před 4 lety +17

    Although it might sound exaggerated IMHO, this "math trick" was the single most important moment of the entire history of Science.

  • @EchoL0C0
    @EchoL0C0 Před 8 lety +100

    I feel like this video doesn't give Planck enough credit. Trying out lots of different ideas to re-create a distribution is not the same as mashing random buttons. For one thing, all buttons have a chance of getting pressed, but not all ideas (such as dividing the whole equation by 0) are valid.
    Also, it makes coming up with all these ideas sound a lot easier than it is.
    Lastly, his result was caused by trial-and-error, not pure random chance.

    • @ArthurCammers
      @ArthurCammers Před 5 lety +8

      Yes the video did not give Planck enough credit. He was studying entropy and a student of Boltzmann's work. He too stood on the shoulders of giants.

    • @KipIngram
      @KipIngram Před 4 lety +17

      Planck was completely brilliant. He also understood the full impact of what he'd just done, because he HATED IT.

    • @gaussianvector2093
      @gaussianvector2093 Před 2 lety +4

      @@KipIngram yup, it wasn't until Einstein believed him that people saw it as fundamental and not just a classical puzzle. Enter Quantum Mechanics, then Einstein hated what he'd done! Bohr was really the one we needed, a true believer in h and all of its consequences.

    • @Kevsterr158
      @Kevsterr158 Před 3 měsíci

      When bro actually studies 8 hours a day :

  • @SayyadinaHeresy
    @SayyadinaHeresy Před 8 lety +30

    Thank you so much, PBS Spacetime for these videos on the quantum realm! They are so clear and concise! I'm very much enjoying these!

  • @filthyactsatareasonablepri8136

    Actually, quantum mechanics forbids this.

    • @TheDearestHunter
      @TheDearestHunter Před 5 lety +21

      |FilthyActsAtAReasonablePrice| KILLA QUEEN

    • @berniexs1500
      @berniexs1500 Před 5 lety +8

      Timestamp of clip

    • @samsungsmartfridge8632
      @samsungsmartfridge8632 Před 5 lety +13

      Saltee Potatochippr sadly it isn’t in this video but it is here czcams.com/video/HF-9Dy6iB_4/video.html at about 4:30

    • @xQuiero
      @xQuiero Před 5 lety +1

      100th liek

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      @xxxxxx5868 Před 5 lety +3

      @@bobito3861 r/wooosh

  • @albertrenshaw4252
    @albertrenshaw4252 Před 5 lety +47

    Favorite line of the video: 9:22 "As usual, it took Albert Einstein, to..." Lmao

  • @n4thanfv
    @n4thanfv Před 8 lety +352

    *The best* channel on YT!! Thanks for another video that enlightens us all on the beauty of the universe!
    *Q:* _Is there an independent experimental method to measure the Planck's Constant?_
    I ask this because for what I understood, they calculated it based on previous measurements, so it was more like a math trick.

    • @ArgoIo
      @ArgoIo Před 8 lety +28

      One can actually derive Planck's Constant from the photo electric effect itself.

    • @LKAChannel
      @LKAChannel Před 8 lety +11

      +Lorenz Zahn Exactly, we did that in 12th grade.

    • @adamhogan4267
      @adamhogan4267 Před 8 lety +43

      the photo electric effect can measure the planks constant by an experiment where a light source is shone onto a specific metal which cause some of the electrons to be ejected from the metal. there will be a certain voltage within the circuit which you can measure just by using a variable voltage supply and so because of the equation V=J/Q you can rearrange to get the J=VQ where J is the minimum kinetic energy that the photon needs to overcome the voltage which is also know as the stopping voltage. once you know this you can use the equation E=Hf-Ø to work out planks constant where E is the kinetic energy of the photon, F is the frequency on the light and Ø is the work function, which is the minimum energy that needs to be given to a photon to be ejected from the surface of the metal, hope this helps

    • @LKAChannel
      @LKAChannel Před 8 lety +1

      MultiMdave
      What was posted here is not even theoretical physics, it's experimental physics. Theoretical physics is where it gets completely crazy and where without very advanced math skills you will despair. (trust me, I'm studying Physics and Astronomy in Bonn University)

    • @valeriobertoncello1809
      @valeriobertoncello1809 Před 8 lety +5

      But why is plank's constant called "h" ?!

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    @Moonbo Před 8 lety +167

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      @clarkfeeley1959 Před 8 lety +2

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  • @jackhill2765
    @jackhill2765 Před 4 lety +1

    Thank you for (1) a clear, concise and comprehensive explanation of exactly what the "ultra violet catastrophe" was and how reformulating conventional wisdom (the Rayleigh-Jean Law) by incorporating Plank's constant to form the Plank Black Body Law, quantized the relationship between frequency and energy, resolving the issue, (2) for confirming that the flaw in the Rayleigh-Jean Law was fundamentally the same misconception as that leading to Zeno's paradoxes, and finally, (3) for tying it all together by showing how the fallout from Plank's idea essentially resolves both issues not to mention giving birth to QM. I also appreciate seeing the actual Rayleigh-Jean Law & Plank Black Body Law. Understanding the history is a necessary first step toward understanding the result. Extremely well done!

  • @bdz_4206
    @bdz_4206 Před 2 lety +2

    The BEST episode. Never fear being silly!

  • @MooImABunny
    @MooImABunny Před 8 lety +101

    "I'm glad we could help you guys entangled"
    holy crap that was the most wonderful geeky thing I've heard in a while XD

    • @rudiepunk85
      @rudiepunk85 Před 8 lety +12

      As they say.. I'll science anybody I want

    • @tubeofvideos
      @tubeofvideos Před 5 lety

      He should have completed saying "not in a quantum entanglement".

  • @BoomBrush
    @BoomBrush Před 2 lety +6

    That moment at 9:40 was a "lightbulb" moment for me. The explanation is amazing here, well done with the video!

  • @vinayseth1114
    @vinayseth1114 Před 7 lety +232

    9:27- Who else laughed when he said 'As usual, it took Albert Einstein...'? :D

    • @riptorn4722
      @riptorn4722 Před 5 lety

      Seems tv shpw for them object moving all around adderall only works on in nechanics little nemo on hbo: am-jazera which hbo v ecplain I in..

    • @tomrhodes1629
      @tomrhodes1629 Před 5 lety +2

      I like to look at it this way: "Heck, you know he was smart. His name was Einstein!!" Give me a "click" if you're open-minded and want the secrets of the Universe...no joke.

    • @golfinhocomchamas4054
      @golfinhocomchamas4054 Před 5 lety +11

      @Goble By solving what their original creators coulden't...

    • @419Audio
      @419Audio Před 4 lety

      me too 🙂

    • @Sunspot1225.
      @Sunspot1225. Před 4 lety

      Albert Einstein once said that if you want the smartest physicist go see Tesla.

  • @iainballas
    @iainballas Před 6 lety +6

    "I'm glad we could help you guys get entangled"
    Keeping education Classy. Thanks, that made my day!

  • @johnasgonzales4503
    @johnasgonzales4503 Před 4 lety +199

    VERY HARD PROBLEM
    “As usual it took Albert Einstein”

    • @MegaBaddog
      @MegaBaddog Před 4 lety +2

      www.amazon.com/Albert-Einstein-Incorrigible-Christopher-Bjerknes/dp/0971962987
      The name "Einstein" evokes images of genius, but was Albert Einstein, in fact, a plagiarist, who copied the theories of Lorentz, Poincare, Gerber, and Hilbert? A scholarly documentation of Albert Einstein's plagiarism of the theory of relativity, "Albert Einstein: The Incorrigible Plagiarist" discloses Einstein's method for manipulating credit for the work of his contemporaries, reprints the prior works he parroted, and demonstrates through formal logical argument that Albert Einstein could not have drawn the conclusions he drew without prior knowledge of the works he copied, but failed to reference. Numerous republished quotations from Einstein's contemporaries prove that they were aware of his plagiarism.

    • @Thundralight
      @Thundralight Před 4 lety +3

      They have studied Einstein's brain and the folds in it are much deeper than a normal brain

    • @achyuththouta6957
      @achyuththouta6957 Před 4 lety +17

      @@MegaBaddog Nobody cares. Anyone who has read a book written by Einstein knows your comment is bullshit

    • @filename1674
      @filename1674 Před 4 lety +22

      @@MegaBaddog well thats how science works buddy. We copy the work of others to make an even greater statements to understand the universe

    • @MegaBaddog
      @MegaBaddog Před 4 lety

      @@Thundralight nice comedy

  • @DavidTJames-yq9dr
    @DavidTJames-yq9dr Před 3 lety +6

    that was great. I love going back and watchig these. New, or as a refresher, a seriously good watch.

  • @Bobby-fj8mk
    @Bobby-fj8mk Před 7 lety +52

    My university professors never explained Planck's constant as well as this.
    We just learnt the formulas to pass our exams - how bad is that?

    • @JoshYates
      @JoshYates Před 7 lety +10

      Institutions are dying. Society probably collapsing and rebuilding because of the internet disruption. Damn my student loans!

    • @Bobby-fj8mk
      @Bobby-fj8mk Před 7 lety +3

      Hopefully your lecturers were better than mine & as good as this CZcams video?

    • @jorymil
      @jorymil Před 4 lety +5

      Depending the class or classes you took, it's not _that_ surprising. They're trying to fit 400 years of science into a semester or two, so the history and justification for the physical laws sadly gets left out sometime. I'm not sure why that's acceptable: it seems better for entry-level chemistry/physics students to cover a little less material, but understand where it comes from.
      If you majored in chemistry or physics and your professors didn't cover the blackbody spectrum, the ultraviolet catastrophe, Planck's solution, and give you problems to derive the formula for yourself, shame on them: this is something that should be covered in a thermodynamics or intro to quantum mechanics class.

    • @conorm2524
      @conorm2524 Před 3 lety

      @@jorymil I always wished lecturers would give a heads up on what we were going to cover next time. I find it much easier to learn something "new" when I've had a chance to introduce it to myself for a little while first. Brand-brand-new concepts usually overwhelm me somewhat.

    • @jorymil
      @jorymil Před 3 lety

      @@conorm2524 Preach it, sir! A good syllabus can certainly help with that, but providing that context in-lecture, almost like a TV serial, certainly would be helpful sometimes. Depends on class size and format, too.

  • @abundantsoul6487
    @abundantsoul6487 Před rokem +1

    i am so grateful to god that he made me stumble on this channel . as i am an indian student the people from my country who create videos on this stuff are all occupied by JEE , NEET AND CBSE no one is interested in science rather all r interested in marks . thank u for this beautiful explanation

    • @schmetterling4477
      @schmetterling4477 Před rokem

      Which god? We invented so many of them. Especially in India. ;-)

  • @maycksonvogas3129
    @maycksonvogas3129 Před 8 lety +8

    Awesome!! That was the best explanation of Plank constant since my high school, I never got very well this subject. When you think of a limit of the quantum scale, really simplifies it. Thanks

  • @dbartholemewfox
    @dbartholemewfox Před 8 lety +14

    Wow, I think this might be the best episode yet! Can we get a part 2 on the origin of quantum mechanics?

  • @no_more_free_nicks
    @no_more_free_nicks Před 5 lety +7

    Absolutely brilliant episode, I was wondering where from this constant came from, but the process is just amazing!

  • @cec831
    @cec831 Před 5 lety +7

    "When he (Planck) came up with in his moment of desperation..." A powerful statement!

  • @Atodaso
    @Atodaso Před 8 lety +40

    LOL'd @ " *_Space Time and Chill_*" / "I'm glad we could help you guys " *_get entangled_*."

  • @sholmen1872
    @sholmen1872 Před 3 lety +3

    This was a mindblowing explanation to the tortoise problem. Never thought about it from a quantum perspective!

  • @jpaine619
    @jpaine619 Před 4 lety +1

    These videos are freakin' awesome. The host does a great job of making it easy for a non-scientist to understand.

  • @danielmunoz-lifeideas5124
    @danielmunoz-lifeideas5124 Před 8 měsíci +1

    Finally a well put together science video, and i love you pace, keep it up brother!

  • @MattRieckman
    @MattRieckman Před 8 lety +10

    These topics are so... badly unexplained in most other places. This channel does an absolutely perfect job of making it understandable.

  • @Xollas
    @Xollas Před 7 lety +82

    Our hero wandered down the mean streets of Blackbody Radiation and stumbled upon the Ultraviolet Catastrophe. The hero thought he must have taken a wrong turn somewhere in the past to be forced to confront this horrendous monster. The Ultraviolet Catastrophe wrestled aggressively with our hero. In a moment of desperation our hero discovered a weapon. He took Planck's Constant and used it against the Ultraviolet Catastrophe. Then out of nowhere a friend appears and blasts the Ultraviolet Catastrophe with his powerful laser the Photoelectric Effect. The friend helped up our hero and both were awarded medals for their achievements. At that moment everything in the city had changed...

    • @davep8221
      @davep8221 Před 5 lety

      Now we need a "Far Side" illustration.

  • @afshinmansoorieh824
    @afshinmansoorieh824 Před rokem +1

    Thank you PBS for another excellent science episode. The video production and story telling is built beautifully and logically so it's easy to follow and understand . Excellent, thank you .

  • @satori92
    @satori92 Před 8 lety

    you are seriously THE BEST, you bring me back to the school desk, when I was discovering such things for the first time, and then reading on books and science magazines, watching Carl Sagan on the tv... amazing

  • @RyanCelsiusMusic
    @RyanCelsiusMusic Před 8 lety +43

    Love this channel, can't wait for next weeks episode!

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      @noahforester7715 Před 3 lety +1

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    • @nenmaster5218
      @nenmaster5218 Před 2 lety

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    • @yuke...
      @yuke... Před 2 lety

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    • @ayseraysertaha7594
      @ayseraysertaha7594 Před 2 lety

      Again why is the ultra violet is catastrophic

  • @jluna8715
    @jluna8715 Před 5 lety +5

    What Planck came up with is so beautiful. An equation for the absolute smallest unit by mathematical definition.

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    @peace2u4eva59 Před 3 lety

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  • @madierenee473
    @madierenee473 Před 6 lety +1

    I had to pause around 2:00 just to appreciate how amazing this is, my mind is blown! I haven't gotten to take any quantum mechanics classes yet, but now I'm even more excited!

    • @januszpawlikowski6627
      @januszpawlikowski6627 Před 2 lety

      You want to take classes in quantum mechanics based on CZcams? Anyway, 3 years passed since your comment, I hope you somehow made it.

  • @Kehlvowen
    @Kehlvowen Před 8 lety +4

    "...help you guys get entangled."
    I love everything that you stand for.

  • @theambient1
    @theambient1 Před 8 lety +3

    My favourite channel by far! Great video and excellent explanation! But actually the one thing that really made my day was the fact that you used Terry Pratchett's Discworld-Tortoise. He sure would have loved to see this!
    Keep up your amazing work!

  • @psychyouout709
    @psychyouout709 Před 5 lety

    I'm glad to see PBS never lost its mission to educate. Thank you.

  • @ascohn
    @ascohn Před 8 měsíci

    I think this is my favorite episode of Space Time.

  • @jumper7625
    @jumper7625 Před 5 lety +262

    70% edgy kids that came from stranger things
    30% Actually quantum mechanics forbid this

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      @SweatFPS Před 5 lety +1

      Jumper Memer cuantum

    • @5mamiya
      @5mamiya Před 4 lety +2

      I’m in the 70% LOL

    • @tylerhaverland9026
      @tylerhaverland9026 Před 4 lety +1

      One of my friends pressured me if I knew this and I was like no???? So now I’m here

    • @thombruce
      @thombruce Před 4 lety +5

      @@tylerhaverland9026 Well, if you're going to be peer pressured into anything, quantum mechanics is... Who am I kidding? Listen to your parents: Quantum Mechanics, NOT EVEN ONCE!

    • @Max_Le_Groom
      @Max_Le_Groom Před 4 lety +1

      People who get Their science knowledge entirely fed to Them *from TV* sicken Me

  • @calculon000
    @calculon000 Před 8 lety +79

    If Space itself is expanding, does that mean that the Planck Constant of that space is expanding as well? If not, does this imply some kind of universal framework of distance?

    • @Kaepsele337
      @Kaepsele337 Před 8 lety +65

      No, because ħ doesn't really pixelate position, it pixelizes the so called "action". If you fix momentum, this is equivalent to position pixelation, but that's not fundamental.
      Also, note the difference between "position in space" and "spacetime" itself. Nobody knows how to quantize (i.e. pixelate) spacetime, but in any case expanding space would probably just mean more pixels and not larger pixels. Planck's constant is constant.

    • @peterburgess9735
      @peterburgess9735 Před 8 lety +17

      Great question, and great answer!

    • @JuBerryLive
      @JuBerryLive Před 8 lety +2

      Conservation of energy relies on the symmetry of your system under time translation (see Noether Theorem).
      In a system that is not time translation invariant, eg expanding universe, energy doesn't have to be conserved.
      The plank constant is not expanding. Only more space is created.

    • @escupetube
      @escupetube Před 8 lety +1

      No cause it's a constant, doesn't matter if space is expanding

    • @SkyAce200
      @SkyAce200 Před 8 lety +2

      The Loop Quantum Gravity theory basically describes a quantized spacetime with a granular structure. We're a little far to being able to prove it, but it's a good theory in my opinion.

  • @MrGreglego
    @MrGreglego Před 3 lety

    This is like the first PBS spacetime videos I've understood... Feels like I just ran a marathon...

  • @zikermu
    @zikermu Před 6 lety +2

    Awesome. thank you very much for this very educational video (the flow of words is correct, the tone is not monotonous, the verbal and non-verbal languages are adapted, the subject of the course is very well mastered, the sound and video are qualities ). I had a nice and informative time.

  • @Teddy0567
    @Teddy0567 Před 8 lety +5

    Wow, this video was really easy to understand, the videos about the space-time curvature equasions were a lot harder for me to understand. Really well explained! thanks.

  • @RSP13
    @RSP13 Před 8 lety +5

    3:03 When he says "Science fact" I immediately remember of Beakman!

  • @recreationalchannels8693

    Nothing is accidential. Results of their whole life devotion and their curiosity are enjoyed by us in various ways

  • @biamenezes7801
    @biamenezes7801 Před 8 lety

    I'll have to watch this a thousand times to really understand, 'cause my brain was collapsing. When I didn't understand some word I forgot it until I could search, so the concepts that are not so easy didn't get in my head :( But I'll try again anyway, the channel is awesome

  • @therenjoseph
    @therenjoseph Před 8 lety +38

    What happens if you increase the temperature of an object to a point where the wavelength of light it emits is smaller than the Planck length? Is it impossible to increase the temperature any more?

    • @KohuGaly
      @KohuGaly Před 8 lety +20

      that's where currently known physics breaks down. A wavelength of planck length has such amount of energy, that gravity becomes comparable with other physical forces and we currently lack a theory which would describe such state.

    • @joeybeauvais-feisthauer3137
      @joeybeauvais-feisthauer3137 Před 8 lety +9

      KohuGaly is right, our understanding of physics breaks down at that point; your object would have the Planck temperature. But the energy density of such a thing would be such that it would have collapsed into a black hole way before that point.

    • @shrekogreton6405
      @shrekogreton6405 Před 8 lety +8

      look up "Kugelblitz"

    • @garethdean6382
      @garethdean6382 Před 8 lety +4

      That's not possible. In so many ways. Firstly at a temperature far below that 'pair production' causes hot objects to start emitting electron-positron pairs as well as EM radiation. Keep pumping in energy and 'electroweak symmetry' is restored which stops photons and the electromagnetic force being a thing entirely. Keep pushing past that and a few billion times the Planck-photon length the energy density is so high that any bulk mass will collapse into a black hole.
      Masses with de-Broglie wavelengths on the order of the Planck length are possible, at least in theory., they'd have some interesting properties in regards to measurement.

    • @MrTripcore
      @MrTripcore Před 8 lety +2

      The temperature of the big bang doesn't exist because the effects of the hottest temperature is equal to the effects of the coldest temperature.
      There is also no need for a 'temperature' at all at the moment of the big bang because temperature itself is a type of measurement. You cannot 'compare' a single entity against another entity if that 'other' entity doesn't exist yet.

  • @Harryandleo
    @Harryandleo Před 8 lety +19

    i keep watching these videos thinking i'll get smarter.
    so far nothings happened

    • @pbsspacetime
      @pbsspacetime  Před 8 lety +26

      As much as we try to pack into these episodes, you're not going to learn quantum mechanics from a CZcams video. However you can gain some insights to guide further reading and further watching (and re-watching).

    • @Harryandleo
      @Harryandleo Před 8 lety +7

      I've just checked and I'm pretty sure the fault lies at my end. Exceedingly high cranium bone density, although....... not quite as thick as a Planck

    • @KaizerSozaye
      @KaizerSozaye Před 4 lety +1

      Harryandleo yeah I guess it doesn’t work like that...

    • @conorm2524
      @conorm2524 Před 3 lety

      @@Harryandleo Don't worry. We are in the vast majority.

  • @amazinggolfshot
    @amazinggolfshot Před 7 lety

    This is the best explanation of the shape of black body radiation curve I have ever seen. Great job!

  • @MindfulAttraction
    @MindfulAttraction Před 7 lety

    you know your video is good when people elect and plan to watch your videos when they're high.

  • @whatthefunction9140
    @whatthefunction9140 Před 8 lety +21

    OK was not expecting to get my comment featured...
    My wife is going to freak when we chill tonight.

    • @supersonictumbleweed
      @supersonictumbleweed Před 5 lety +5

      A friendly bi-annual reminder this happened

    • @winstonknowitall4181
      @winstonknowitall4181 Před 5 lety +2

      @@supersonictumbleweed I'd like to check if they're still together, but I don't want to collapse their wave function.

  • @professorfoxtrot
    @professorfoxtrot Před 8 lety +35

    The cover looks like Dark Side of the Moon by Planck Floyd.

  • @Roedygr
    @Roedygr Před 6 lety +1

    Thanks for explaining how planck's constant was computed. I have wondered about that for 55 years.

  • @TheEwmoon
    @TheEwmoon Před 2 měsíci

    This channel is great for the explanations of stuff I will never study from the maths perspective but have infinite interest in. Yea math is everything and everywhere in astrophysics but it is also easily explained with language and I love that!
    The concepts are all around us and there are as many ways to communicate an understanding of the universe and celestial bodies as there are ways to perceive our surroundings and conceptualize an attempt to define their structures.

  • @bohanxu6125
    @bohanxu6125 Před 3 lety +24

    3:03: "everything in the universe glows with its own internal heat"
    dark matters: how about no?

  • @Master_Therion
    @Master_Therion Před 8 lety +100

    How many Planck Lengths would a wood plank length be?

    • @jfhow
      @jfhow Před 6 lety +9

      How many planks would a Planck length nail,
      if a Planck length could nail wood?

    • @Nomphalos
      @Nomphalos Před 6 lety +2

      How many planck lengths would a platypus platinum plate if a platypus platinum plated plancks?

    • @genesanborn2367
      @genesanborn2367 Před 5 lety +2

      As long as a wood plank length could be

    • @deanwinchest3906
      @deanwinchest3906 Před 5 lety +2

      "If a wood plank could plank wood"

    • @aprameyaneopane7766
      @aprameyaneopane7766 Před 5 lety +2

      We will never sleep cuz sleep is for the weak!!!!!!!!!🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🔥🔥🔥🤘🏻

  • @solowinterwolf
    @solowinterwolf Před 2 lety

    Clearest description of the Ultra-violet Catastrophe and Plank's resolution of it that I have found.

  • @0GRAVITYGAMER
    @0GRAVITYGAMER Před 5 lety +1

    Wow im so amazed, i never knew what plancks constant a question always probing my mind. But now I know the plancks constant represents the boundary between classical and quantum physics. Truly spectacular

  • @ColinCarmody
    @ColinCarmody Před 8 lety +16

    How are people already commenting? The video was posted about 7-8 minutes ago yet it is 15 minutes long!

    • @AnimeTheAmv
      @AnimeTheAmv Před 8 lety +9

      Because for some reason being the first to comment is some sort of achievement for people? It seems trivial to me.

    • @petergimeno6547
      @petergimeno6547 Před 8 lety +18

      Didn't you watch the episode? The tortious can be overtaken, at the quantum level. Thus, comments can precede the video, at the quantum level of course!

    • @ColinCarmody
      @ColinCarmody Před 8 lety +1

      +Peter Gimeno I'm sorry, but the comment section of this video does not look like the quantum level to me.

    • @petergimeno6547
      @petergimeno6547 Před 8 lety +18

      +Colin Carmody Yes. Apparently it lacks humor too.

    • @calebboud90
      @calebboud90 Před 8 lety

      The same reason you commented

  • @los1wochos
    @los1wochos Před 7 lety +82

    As usual it took albert Einstein to fully understand this.
    God, fuck, how can one sinlge human be on a level so far above everyone else.
    This line had me laughing, and then just baffled.

    • @nickieshadowfaxbrooklyn5192
      @nickieshadowfaxbrooklyn5192 Před 6 lety +2

      los1wochos bs. Pr and money to hide etherium. So much wrong in GRT and SRT, but it comes by steps. When you make wrong assumptions, your theory can’t be right. Another ultraviolet catastrophe is about to happen, if not that we have crisis in physics already.

    • @Phobos_Anomaly
      @Phobos_Anomaly Před 6 lety +8

      Nickie Shadowfax Brooklyn "When you make wrong assumptions, your theory can't be right."
      That's actually incorrect.

    • @angusharvey686
      @angusharvey686 Před 6 lety

      los1wochos Indeed! ........🤔

    • @higgsbonbon
      @higgsbonbon Před 5 lety +4

      @@nickieshadowfaxbrooklyn5192 Wut

  • @douglasstrother6584
    @douglasstrother6584 Před 2 měsíci +1

    Planck's approach was to analyze the entropy of blackbody radiation as a function of energy. To make both high-frequency and low-frequency data consistent with the Second Law of Thermodynamics, he included an additional "guess" term proportional to the frequency (hf); this results in Planck's Law. Planck's subsequent application of Boltzmann's Statistical Mechanics to justify his guess then led to his revolutionary conclusion that the material of the walls emit and absorb radiation in discrete quanta.
    A paper titled "Planck’s Route to the Black Body Radiation Formula and Quantization" by Michael Fowler (7/25/08) gives a nice discussion.

  • @kokroucz
    @kokroucz Před 3 lety +1

    shout out to your graphic and animation artists, this is job well done.

  • @heinrichgoebbers2234
    @heinrichgoebbers2234 Před 8 lety +10

    "Einstein saved the phisycs as usual"
    Damn, that guy is the RL superman of nerds.

    • @irokosalei5133
      @irokosalei5133 Před 3 lety +3

      Except that time when quantum entanglment won.

  • @accadia1983
    @accadia1983 Před rokem +5

    So, a full round circle of seven years rediscovering advances im physics brings me back to pixels, like whaaa?
    It's like welcome back to Matrix, Neo, except this time the pixels are spinning, rotating (referring to Higgs particles) and there is more to the whole rabbit hole thing

  • @marcellorossini5490
    @marcellorossini5490 Před 2 lety

    Thanks for the perfect explanations. You are an excellent communicator of concepts that are truly out of everyday life.
    I am just an engineer but with a degree taken 30 years ago. My physics texts lacked a lot of things that are now taken for granted.
    In my time, exoplanets and higgs' bose were not discovered and it was still almost science fiction to talk about black holes and multiverse.
    Personally, I believe that if we can study and fully understand the fabric of space at the Planck level, then the human species will be able to manipulate gravity and also allow us to travel among the stars in the blink of an eye.
    Thanks again and keep informing us.

  • @prajwalnakure19
    @prajwalnakure19 Před 2 lety

    "Everything in the Universe glows with it's own Internal Heat."
    Now that is deep!

  • @garypalmer997
    @garypalmer997 Před 8 lety +4

    WOW! so psyched that you used/answered my question. Thank you😃 I like watching your guys shows even though I don't understand most of them😁 thus hence my question lol. keep up the awesome wrk ☺

  • @aalx4900
    @aalx4900 Před 5 lety +366

    stranger things 3 anyone?

  • @0318kent
    @0318kent Před 7 lety

    this guy is so good at explaining

  • @johnhuldt
    @johnhuldt Před rokem

    Best video I’ve seen on this topic. Thank you.

  • @ewanhassall7350
    @ewanhassall7350 Před 8 lety +38

    Or as v-sauce would say... "Plunk length"

  • @WiscoDrinks
    @WiscoDrinks Před 8 lety +17

    the flat earth tortoise is awesome.

  • @kaufmanindustries5538
    @kaufmanindustries5538 Před 6 lety

    The best explanation on the subject I've ever heard.

  • @KauanRMKlein
    @KauanRMKlein Před 7 lety +1

    I didn't know that story about Planck's desperate move haha! We aren't taught the story like that in school. Awesome video, as always.

  • @xgozulx
    @xgozulx Před 8 lety +9

    thankyou so much for leting me understand the link betwen the vibratotion of the atoms and the radiation than an object emits. It was really pissing me off.

  • @a.wolfgang6423
    @a.wolfgang6423 Před 5 lety +50

    5:10

  • @tonyreyes8190
    @tonyreyes8190 Před 7 lety

    Wish you were my physics teacher in college. I remember this from class but I've learned so much and the constant makes so much sense!

  • @Bubbalubagus
    @Bubbalubagus Před 5 lety

    This has to be the greatest explanation of this stuff ever.

  • @texini8368
    @texini8368 Před 5 lety +58

    🎵A NEVER-ENDING STORY!🎵

  • @manfredpseudowengorz
    @manfredpseudowengorz Před 5 lety +6

    5:01
    Not so fast You PBS Space Time Peepz!
    Max Planck presented quantized EM force postulate on 14th of Dec 1900 - two weeks before the end of the 19th century.

  • @bernardshrewsbury
    @bernardshrewsbury Před 7 lety

    Most definitely the best channel anywhere! One question I have though, who are the people that click the dislike icon? really?

  • @realtombergeron5229
    @realtombergeron5229 Před 2 lety

    thank god this guy exists so i can follow my spiritual discovery of the universe.

  • @flopsnail4750
    @flopsnail4750 Před 4 lety +5

    3:42 the sun is actually white. Green and yellow and the rest of the frequencies of the light mix and white is the color we see, ignoring the scattering earth's atmosphere does to it.

  • @lorenbooker9486
    @lorenbooker9486 Před 8 lety +190

    You really want your mind blown? Eat a pot brownie and then go on a Space Time marathon. #SpceTimeBrownieAndChill

    • @itskelvinn
      @itskelvinn Před 8 lety

      Can't focus if that were the case

    • @lorenbooker9486
      @lorenbooker9486 Před 8 lety +14

      I find it easier to focus on the abstract ideas of the quantum world, and difference in perception, or ways of looking at problems.

    • @kanen100
      @kanen100 Před 8 lety +17

      shrooms do a pretty good job aswell

    • @hailoper
      @hailoper Před 8 lety

      legit xD

    • @jake1996able
      @jake1996able Před 8 lety

      Yeah! :D Highly recommended by the way.
      Especially after watching videos of Space Engine or playing it in thay condition...

  • @TheGuruNetOn
    @TheGuruNetOn Před rokem

    AWESOME!! This is one of the best explainer videos I've seen. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

  • @walidnouh1747
    @walidnouh1747 Před 7 lety

    awesome and rich presentation on planck constant

  • @mariscotesgerald174
    @mariscotesgerald174 Před 5 lety +139

    Me:
    No one:
    The comment section: *StrAngEr thIngs BrOuGht mE heRe*

  • @AngelaGonzalez-sf1yx
    @AngelaGonzalez-sf1yx Před 8 lety +6

    this is a weird question but something that is very could would it give off in the radio wave spectrum? if so would there be a way to "listen" for it. i wonder what it would sound like.

    • @garethdean6382
      @garethdean6382 Před 8 lety +1

      Yes, but VERY cold. 1K objects emit mainly micowaves. The emission rate becomes incredibly INCREDIBLY low, wile regular radio equipment would work, the signal would be incredibly weak.

  • @leyawonder2306
    @leyawonder2306 Před 5 lety

    This video tied all the loose knots I had in quantum theory, thanks a lot!

  • @TheChampionofthepeople
    @TheChampionofthepeople Před 5 lety +90

    Stranger things brought me here... loool