+stiimuli I was thinking the same thing! He doesn't sit and only talk to useless 'celebrities' night after night after night....ugh!! I love this show :)

+AngeliaChanel Good point!!!

+stiimuli Yeah! He even brought out a special wagon for scientists! He is *AWESOME!*

Wouldn't you?

Goggle Toggle Unfortunately, many aren't. Including many tv hosts and youtubers.....and Texas government officials.

right???? lol

Colbert holds himself to pretty high standards.

+shannon lyons murphy and gets massive views....what a society we live in....i'm still hoping that those are all paid views and society hasn't just embraced idiocy

+shannon lyons murphy To each his own. I love both guys and Jimmy Kimmel. We live in a great time for comedy. Lots of different flavors.

+OrigMedia some taste like shit, so i dont consume them. like jimmys childish comedy...

Thank you kind sir. I was hoping someone would have it typed out so I know how to spell it lol

Holt Burdette haha! No problem, I think another guy did it though too, but I didn’t notice it till I spelled the whole thing out. Wish I had known! Lol

ITS all about metrics there is nothing real. the universe is a hologram

Umm sir, we only talk English here.

@@thegreath.sapiensapien6907 Source?

it warps the line in a way that creates gravity in which turn does attract everything to the centre

Hugo Desrosiers-Plaisance I would really REALLY appreciate if you could let me know some books that can help me understand a little more of how everything works.

@@Anon-tj2zk Start with Neil Degrass Tysons astrophysics for dummies. That'll get you going. And just start googling questions to supplement your interest. Make sure that the sources you reference are reputable, but have fun. Science and math are fun!

Jackie Johnson Thankyou so so much, I’m really grateful

TotalDrganMania thankyou, I’ll definitely look into it. Really grateful :)

Yeah i wish it wasn't A issue and we had a way to come together

Humbleness is the first step to enlightenment.

@Justen Wennerberg It's way more than a bunch of scientific names, whole fields of knowledge and whole bunch of theories and techniques were referenced to. I have a PhD in Electrical engineering, and I have only a very surface-level idea about these things. These are not easy stuff.

You think you know till the end 😆

@Justen Wennerberg for a physics major, your comment hurt my soul

Marry Him

@@rock-tk1qf shut the hell up imbecile

@Stimulator7 well isn't America one of the most progressive , sanitary and educated place in the world ? .... In terms of corruptness I could name a few places worse than it ......

@@megametagrossard3342 America is no best anymore, scientific culture is actually better outside US

Agreed. Case in point the stupid host.

Well said brother

Stupid people? Intelligence is relative too.

You can be stupid and highly entertaining, just as much as you can be highly intelligent and boring as heck.. I think we can agree Late Night shows are best for highly entertaining people, and once in a while they happen to be intelligent too

But muh sports beat yer sports!

+QuantumBraced I agree. Stephen leads by example. Celebrating smart people creates heros of them. Our society needs to honor intelligence more.

+OrigMedia or it needs to ONLY honor intelligence and not useless 'celebrities'

+tonyatthebeach its society, intelligent people dont have to be social, while celebrities must, ofc there are people that are everything though :P

+gia I'm everything! :P I just need to make sure everyone knows it?? ps. good point

QuantumBraced it's good to have such honorable people since most of the time there's only bimbos around.

yes

this is the last place i expected to see you here

Cosmic Nerd Studios I love Stephen Colbert! Gotta support other South Carolinians!

+NerdSync oh

No syncing please.

Only three!?

see.... you tube!

You are a genius ... majority wont understand in a life time ... Guess what, there must be physics teacher that don't understand it. They only reproduce it for their students to figure it all out by themselves.

Ahh finally I have a life goal now. I wanna understand what he said

9/11 question... Do you know why a feather and a bowling ball dropped in a vacuum from the same height at the same time will reach the ground at the same time? The answer is because while in free fall they both weigh exactly the same, zero weight, and there is no force acting on them. So where did the weight and the force come from to destroy the twin towers when all of that weight was supported for 30 years? The NIST answer --> "Since the stories below the level of collapse initiation provided little resistance to the tremendous energy released by the *falling* building mass, the building section above came down **essentially in free fall**, as seen in videos"...But free fall means not **falling**, and it also means no weight, and no force. --> kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e5pjYKaX2tGpl6c.html

Hint, humans are gods and no one created the universe, it happened.

Puro, I sometime have this similar thought that God could be the evolved and transcended collective human consciousness in future and we are just it experiencing it's past through the flow of what we call time! But the trouble is, as always, what came first! And the cycle goes on!

No sir, God is flat earther.. he created the earth with four corners.

Well, the gods were bugs bunny n friends from loony toons, so....yeah.

Ok

Omg I laughed so hard lmao

What you say???

*Hold my trampoline

These hold my shit comments are getting old and annoying

@@ehaitem ok then

His name is right there, and still...

+Carl Rice He also has another documentary series called The Fabric of the Cosmos. I highly recommend it.

+Tr4cK17 Look up a show called Space TIme here on youtube.

Yes, I'd recommend the (PBS) Space Time channel too. I've been watching it quite a bit lately, with the result that I actually just about understood what Brian Greene said at the end there. And I'm no Sheldon Cooper, so they're clearly very effective videos. :)

He looks a bit like Einstein if Einstein didn't have mustache 😃

Question, is saying "dynamic effects" in this NIST document the same as saying "dynamic weight"? My understanding is that objects falling "essentially in free fall" would have very little weight of any kind with respect to their "static weight", or any falling objects that do not "slow" as they fall, can only have a maximum weight of a "static weight"? Am I right or wrong? NIST WTC Towers FAQ 31...? Quote word for word... "Since the stories below the level of collapse initiation provided little resistance to the tremendous energy released by the falling building mass, the building section above came down *essentially in free fall*, as seen in videos. As the stories below sequentially failed, the falling mass increased, further increasing the demand on the floors below, which were unable to arrest the moving mass." "In other words, the momentum falling on the supporting structure below, which was designed to support only the static weight of the floors above and not any dynamic effects due to the downward momentum, so greatly exceeded the strength capacity of the structure below that the structure below was unable to stop or even to slow the falling mass. The downward momentum grew larger directly proportional to the increasing falling mass." Now can you envision a falling bottle that falls faster and faster and at the same time the water squirts out harder and harder? This is what the USA government is telling you happened on 9/11.

You've never seen that before?

@@MeltedToast84 No

+Arkadiem Hausdorff not housed :p

+Arkadiem Also, tensor, not tenser.

+1ucasvb Thanks guys, sorry if my misspellings made you feel tenser.

+Arkadiem It's the most concise, non-dumbed down explanation of relativity that I've ever heard.

+Arkadiem no _or_ between Hausdorff and differential

+Xeno Fractal sorry, not a native speaker...

+DizzyDC its all good. Science is sick though.

+Xeno Fractal Everyone knew what he meant. Talking about the commas rather than the content is just pedantic and insulting.

+Patrick Foley edgy

That's me every time my nephew asks me a science question.

Indian schools: teacher's example: 4:47 homework: 0:14 Exam: 7:14

cleverest utube comment

So fucking true!!

Trojan Pegasus +1 😂😂

O m G

My first thought after I heard the answer

Yea I was like ok I need to look up what all that is and means. I like Colbert brings in science professors and even ask them not to dumb it down but challenge us to understand.

My thought too, and my greatest hope is that he did that recognizing the world of resources at the everyman's disposal today. And what do you know, a few comments up someone's typed it up so you even know how to spell everything right. Now let us go, and learn and make merry!

BTW one thing to note - the explanation using the rubber sheet is misleading and wrong in many ways. It seems to assume relativity is only about space being affected by mass and shows nothing about time. I am not gonna explain all that here but if you wanna know why check out Veritasium's video on relativity.

@@crimsonstrykr I agree with you. It is not entirely wrong, there are just better ways to demonstrate the theory.

Brian Cox on Joe Rogan's show was great

String Theory still does not function. It is a waste of time. Feinman lectures are better, more entertaining, and do not pretend to more knowledge than we have - but do support quantum theory whose calculations work.

@@artimp152 i’m going to bet that you just heard string theory was bad from a youtuber and are regurgitating their opinion and that you don’t have a degree or any experience with physics

I did read his book The Elegant Universe. I also watched his 11 hour lecture on General and Special Relativity. To his credit he takes complex ideas and make it understandable to a lay person, who is not good in Mathematics, like me.

@@EHS611 I also watched that lecture, I was amazed at how engaged I was throughout the whole thing. The understanding I had coming out was awesome. He's a true educator.

Exam change: you have to recite what Brian says between 7:13 and 7:32; you have one week to learn it! \m/ :)

common late show team, You have to pin this comment.

Daedalus my foot.

Gurpreet Singh Matharoo no they didn’t

They’re called flat earthers

Gurpreet Singh Matharoo. Lol good one. But sadly reality is that these people are flat earthers and they need this dumbed down farther.... to say a pre-born.

Gurpreet Singh Matharoo I liked your comment so much I liked it twice

IM STEALING YOUR JOKE

Underrated comment 😂🤣

@@SRVarma1993 copied comment.. ^^

G-string theory

@@RSBLMC92 wtf XD

Hold Up 😱

Is it simple or u have to know physics or maths to read it ?

HarindeR SaharaN Some basic understanding is handy but you don’t have to. The book is specially made for the wider audience to understand without any deep mathematical insights.

@@HarinderSingh-dy7pg And you can stop in every point that you don't undestand and searh a and you will learn more !

That book changed my life as well, read it in 8th standard and immediately decided to pursue sciences in IIT

The fabric of the cosmos also was brilliant for me, and all you need to understand it is a free imagination

We need this more on TV!

Absolutely

Thank you for mentioning the series..... I really appreciate it buddy. ❤

But Brian Greene said the water is squirting out the holes because gravity is pulling down on the water. "Since the stories below the level of collapse initiation provided little resistance to the tremendous energy released by the *falling* building mass, the building section above came down **essentially in free fall**, as seen in videos"...But free fall means not **falling**, and it also means no weight, and no force. --> kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e5pjYKaX2tGpl6c.html

Wow! Thank you so much!

+mariokarter13 yeah, Stiff competition

Miles Hayford He definitely worked hard to come to that conclusion.

+mariokarter13 You guys should be penalized for those.

+mariokarter13 It must've been hard, but he certainly rose to the occasion.

Evan Thomas I'm sure there's a loophole I could squeeze through.

😂😂

Steven Kapturowski Holy shit, thank you for that comment! It made me think deeper into the problem, and I think I finally got it! So basically, it's like time is just another spacial dimension, in which we are moving with constant velocity(which we preceive as time passing by) at all times, and the curvature, which mass produces, extends into the future(which is basically just a direction if we consider time as a spacial dimension), and the fact that objects with mass get drawn into that curvature is due to that constant movement in time!

Space time is freaky.

It's even stronger than that. The overwhelming majority of the acceleration we experience towards the earth - and everything experiences towards everything else - comes from the curvature in time specifically, not of space. Spatial curvature contributes to more exotic effects like lensing and black hole dynamics.

@@jmcsquared18 exactly I was just going to explain that. For the most part, gravity is just matter bending space so that relative to spacetime curvature, you're actually not moving through space at all but only through time when you and another object of mass accelerate towards one another. If we could think in four dimensions these concepts would be so easy and kindergarten level intuitive, but unfortunately we're stuck in our boring 3D 🙄

@@MrFlameRad Being stuck in three dimensions kinda sucks sometimes, but that's why it's fun to imagine :)

Don’t give him too much credit. Clearly those questions were provided to him.

@@Cohdiboi I've only recently come across him tbh (I live in England) so don't know much about him.

He always has scientists and retains some knowledge, although a comedian, he still has excellent questions and some understanding which makes it all more entertaining. I love when the host has some actual interest in science and not just trying to poke fun at scientists.

And he didn't belittle Greene either, was clearly interested in his explanations. Most people would put down an intelligent person simply because they don't understand him.

Devon Miller nope that's Brian Cox

wow .

Devon Miller there’s another Brian of physics. His name is Brian Cox. He also has a great way of explaining this stuff to people who have difficulty comprehending it.

Yes he is

And so is Brian May.

@@guptadagger896 The "line with a double point" (two copies of the real number lines identified except at the origin) is a differentiable manifold but not Hausdorff.

No u

Ur mom space

"Absolutely no one" would structure a sentence that way. Are you sure you're in collage?

@@spacewitchvulcan English is not everyone's native language.

@@spacewitchvulcan Technically his sentence was still correct, since nobody _absolutely_ understands general relativity and physics. Honestly though people make mistakes. Not every sentence gets typed out perfectly, sometimes we make errors in spelling and grammar, and sometimes we just have a brain fart and type some stupid shit. So I personally try to avoid correcting anybody on stuff like that. The only time I really "correct" people is when they are spreading lies or misinformation, because that bothers me far more than somebody mixing up "their/there/they're" or something else along those lines.

@@spacewitchvulcan Next time you're correcting somebody, make sure you're not misspelling *college* .

You didn't have to clap, you know?

Yup, except of course that Tony Stark was just making shit up and Greene isn't!

Wasn't he speaking in english already?

It was rehearsed

You'd be surprised as to what kind of insights some of the celebrities actually bring to the table. They're not all just eye candy and gossip.

+kevokoma Yeah most celebrities are celebrities for a reason especially actors who have honed their craft to a phenomenal and mind bending level.

+kevokoma You should watch the one with Pewdiepie. It will change your life. His best guest so far.

+kevokoma you dont want your time wasted, dont watch a comedy show you plonker

+kevokoma Pretty much every episode, he does the Daily Show style routine, has a celebrity, and then has a political person, or science person on. it's a mix. He basically turned the late show into The Daily Show.

*papers

More like "Halte mein Bier" as he was German XD

*beer slips from hands and falls to ground without spilling until it crashes in to floor* Einstein: This gives me an idea....

Or "hold my photons"

He didn't drink so....idk

Tommyhillpicker how about you go and fuck yourself! I tried accessing your shitty adress and all i found is some crap for register for the courses and shit like that.

@Den Ax Dude, Well, all you have to do is register for a course. But it's completely free. And the series on special relativity is the best I've ever seen.

But Brian Greene said the water is squirting out the holes because gravity is pulling down on the water. "Since the stories below the level of collapse initiation provided little resistance to the tremendous energy released by the falling building mass, the building section above came down **essentially in free fall**, as seen in videos"...But free fall means not **falling**, and it also means no weight, and no force. --> kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e5pjYKaX2tGpl6c.html

+Saint Val fabric of time, contrary to a cup of coffee, proves that christ is just a fairy tale :P

+Saint Val Along the geodesic of the next video.

+Xenial Xerus Christ was real. God is a invention of humans. And Christ being son of God is Literature.

+Xenial Xerus the only fairy tale who people like you love to believe is evolution

+fhaddad3 Better pretend those flu injections work forever. Someone else who has been dumbed down by religion.