Brian Greene Explains The Most Powerful Explosions In The Universe

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8 жыл бұрын

Theoretical Physicist Brian Greene explains supernovas and demonstrates how a star like ours eventually dies. Oh, and he breaks a world record, too.
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@onceavamaravilla 8 жыл бұрын

I love how Stephen invites people who actually matters.

@Kisolee 8 жыл бұрын

Yeah I agree, it's what differentiates this show from many others, is that they actually target topics that everyone should be concerned about like science.

@conchobar0928 8 жыл бұрын

I kind of wish he wouldn't so Brian would actually update his MOOC site.

@snowdjagha 8 жыл бұрын

Meanwhile, Kimmel invited Trump (or just being paid to).

@whammo12 8 жыл бұрын

This guy matters?

@lizardperson2293 8 жыл бұрын

lol

@alansmithee419 4 жыл бұрын

3:15 "This is called the Galilean cannon" "Did Galileo come up with it?" "Idk but he dropped a lot of stuff and we're gonna drop some stuff" One of the many reasons I love physics.

@danielrodriguez248 4 жыл бұрын

Gallaleo did not know about super Nova's ,

@alansmithee419 4 жыл бұрын

@@danielrodriguez248 super novae were just an example of a real-world phenomenon in which this kind of action takes place, it was not by any means an exhaustive list, and Galileo could well have come up with this experiment.

@santyclause8034 4 жыл бұрын

@@alansmithee419 The little ball is the lighter particles all over the outermost layer of a star, I think. Maybe some neutrinos or something, but I do get how the outer layers just cannon off the core, like striking a drum skin, in all directions. Without fusion pushing out energy against the mass pressure of the star, the core 's matter just collapses on itself under both the inward pressure of its entire stellar mass and, I guess, the final inbound push of the Gallileoan cannon effect. The original load comprising the star's entire mass including its ejected matter equally loading in the opposite, against a fractional mass reduced to just the stellar core. Pretty involved process.

@sirmarkkevin954 3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha these lines had me.

@michaelcreek3813 Жыл бұрын

@@danielrodriguez248 On the contrary, Galieo observed the 1604 super nova along with Kepler and other contemporary astronomers. The super nova convinced Galileo that the common belief dating all the way back to Aristotle that the stars were fixed and unchanging was wrong.

@machninety7334 4 жыл бұрын

Notice how quiet the audience was when he was explaining everything? That’s because PEOPLE LOVE SCIENCE!! We’re all born curious, so this satisfies that thirst for knowledge of how things work.

@hedegaard8 4 жыл бұрын

What amazes me though, is that a room full of adults, they were intent on listening, because they DIDN'T know this simple stuff already! That is the remarkable thing. Either that or it just went above their heads.

@philipvernejules9926 4 жыл бұрын

.......I picked up that entertainment and stupid wisecracks are the rule. Education comes second

@danielrodriguez248 4 жыл бұрын

No those idiiots in the audience have no clue of what Dr Green is saying, collbert is an idiiot as well,

@ateoforever7434 4 жыл бұрын

@@danielrodriguez248 Stupid has made his point.....

@pabillonkurt7584 4 жыл бұрын

And, the important part is, he makes it sound interesting. Very few people make science sound interesting. That's why some classes with teachers or professors that lack the capacity to make the lesson "interesting" tends to have noising and talking students. They fail to catch the attention of the curiosity within people

@abdullah.a.nahyan 7 жыл бұрын

at least a thousand of teens get eencouragement from this single interview to take Physics as college major.... world would get at least one scientist for sure.

@KvDenko 5 жыл бұрын

I wish I had this show when I was in high school. I actually never took physics and only had introduction to chem 😭I thought I was lucky that I skipped it because all of my classmates complained how hard it was.. I feel like I lost a lot

@cheesywiz9443 5 жыл бұрын

Kv Denko its never too late! You could still give it a try You can start with a book called 'The six easy pieces' by Richard Feynman He won the nobel prize in physics and was the first man to introduce some of the technical sciences to the public and that book that I mentioned gives a reallly good introduction to physics If you like that you could continue reading more physics books ..good luck :)

@sh230968 4 жыл бұрын

and you will get 999 failures. At this success rate, scientists are not a good business proposition.

@ishworshrestha3559 4 жыл бұрын

@dazzaspc 8 жыл бұрын

Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder ..and we're dead.

@AGeeksTouch 8 жыл бұрын

Hah. I spit out my cheerios with this one.

@bigdog4574 8 жыл бұрын

Haha... I think I just pissed myself!

@AndorianBlues 8 жыл бұрын

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, I don't wonder what you are, for by my spectroscopic ken, I know that you are hydrogen

@dazzaspc 8 жыл бұрын

+AndorianBlues Indeed. Hydrogen, and then some helium, and later on some carbon, and then oxygen, and silicon, and tiny amounts of other heavier elements.....and some lead..... Wait! Did you say lead? Back up, back up, get the hell out of here! Faster man! why are we moving so slow! You fool! The parking brea....and we're dead.

@apllDgrapllD 8 жыл бұрын

😳🔥😖💀😀😂😂😂😂

@gomezdaperez 8 жыл бұрын

I love that he's bringing on scientists

@mjs28s 8 жыл бұрын

Um....How is he not a very academic scientist? He is still highly involved in research and has been active for decades and he is also still a professor of math and physics. So we have your opinion on one side and on the other we have decades of working in his field while currently working as a math and physics professor and continually doing research on string theory and cosmology on the other side of the scale. Is it because you think he should be using $10 words all the time rather than addressing people in in context and who his target audience is when he is on a TV show or a PBS science show?

@mjs28s 8 жыл бұрын

I see. Make a claim that gets countered with correct information and then come back with some other comment rather than defending your initial claim. Me thinks nothing you say stands up to any scrutiny.

@5erazoR 8 жыл бұрын

We call that a theory.

@robertoolvera2918 8 жыл бұрын

+JR S. Well, google it. It's actually very interesting if you're into noobie physics

@creedishere420 7 жыл бұрын

Peder Hansen it was a physical demonstration aka an experiment.

@esruez 3 жыл бұрын

Wtf I wanted to see the transmission of energy from ball to ball. I was expecting a slow-mo at the end tbh.

@robertsamson4610 3 жыл бұрын

You're right they should have used two cameras.

@uncleben7306 3 жыл бұрын

it's probably on the internet

@mikmik4443 3 жыл бұрын

They should've hired the slowmo guys.

@gobblinal 3 жыл бұрын

@@mikmik4443 You should ALWAYS hire the Slowmo Guys!

@ebarling4730 3 жыл бұрын

There's a tiny bit at the very end of the video. The bottom, largest ball doesn't bounce all that much at all. The yellow one shoots right up. I'm wondering if it's a bit like those desk toys with the swinging balls where the middle ones don't move much but the end ones are the ones to absorb the energy?? That's what it looks like is happening. Kinda cool! (But yes, even better if they showed a clearer view! Lol!) 🙌😋💫

@johndeluca-howard4442 2 жыл бұрын

Brian Greene is awesome. Someone gave me one of his books, and it’s really good. He explains difficult ideas so well.

@neekedese8974 8 жыл бұрын

Well, that escalated quickly.

@proutytyler1 8 жыл бұрын

Haaaaaaaaah.

@agriperma 8 жыл бұрын

Supernovas are like that.

@mybrainsondrums 7 жыл бұрын

this. I like this. 15 points for Ravenclaw

@benm5221 6 жыл бұрын

N3D A belated bravo.

@edawg0 5 жыл бұрын

Well played

@mvp4lithuania 8 жыл бұрын

So much cheering for a star dying

@RantingRamsay 8 жыл бұрын

*Read this with the voice of Neil DeGrasse Tyson in your head* ...but the death of that star spreads the stuff of life throughout the cosmos. Don't think of it as the end of a giant; think of it as the beginning of life facilitated by the passing of a giant. We are all made of star-stuff, and when we die, our atoms will eventually become the stuff of stars. Thus, we will some day become the stuff of other stars, or other life.

@giannis5250 8 жыл бұрын

We are made from dead star stuff so it's only logical that we would celebrate star deaths.

@17Haru17 8 жыл бұрын

What is dead may never die.

@stiimuli 8 жыл бұрын

stars dying is why we're here...literally.

@asain79able 8 жыл бұрын

we are actually living on the star's memories.... like physically

@manqobahlanze6258 3 жыл бұрын

I wish I had been introduced to Prof. Greene when I was in high school. I would be a Physicist today, bringing the excitement of science to South Africans 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦 .

@rifaldisaputrawan1089 3 жыл бұрын

Well atleast south africa already had elon musk :)

@MrFungus420 3 жыл бұрын

It's not too late...

@elethumbalane480 3 жыл бұрын

Bra yam khululeka ungabuyela eskolweni uyofunda iScience it's not too late. I was also talked out of studying sciences which is a decision I regret now.

@manqobahlanze6258 3 жыл бұрын

@@elethumbalane480 akuyinto enhle ukuthi teachers and parents/elders to project their own fears and feelings towards such subjects. Thank you for your encouragement, but I feel like that ship has sailed.

@elethumbalane480 3 жыл бұрын

@@manqobahlanze6258 Ngiyakuzwa mfowethu.

@tomd5678 3 жыл бұрын

When this was filmed the world seemed normal

@killer1963daddy 3 жыл бұрын

More so today, post insurrection

@okrajoe 8 жыл бұрын

I love science -- glad Colbert is featuring astronomy.

@Melyeaw 6 жыл бұрын

Astronomy???

@DrAsshole 5 жыл бұрын

Syed Haider the fucks your problem?

@Sabinsandinsky 5 жыл бұрын

Syed Haider triggered dumbass, knowledge is knowledge, doesn't matter where it comes from.

@marinaproger2324 5 жыл бұрын

Read his books. .

@abrahamhmar7317 5 жыл бұрын

Can't get enough of astronomy.

@snausages43 8 жыл бұрын

Seems like a pretty easy record to break.

@stellarfirefly 8 жыл бұрын

It kinda is, as long as they allow the balls to be strung along with, I think, string. What is really difficult and impressive are stacks of balls that are simply dropped on top of one another without any kind of string guides. Even a 3-stack of basic solid rubber balls bounces higher than this string-tethered setup, it's just super-difficult to make sure they all hit right on top of one another so that they bounce straight upward.

@SarthorS 8 жыл бұрын

I was also pretty unimpressed by the balls. But considering this was a world record, either no one bothered setting it before, or there is a hell of a lot more involved to getting it to work than we saw.

@shane4622 8 жыл бұрын

It looks easy, but think of the balls it took to do.

@smaarmy 8 жыл бұрын

thus...the joke.

@smaarmy 8 жыл бұрын

ouch.

@verumsemita4333 4 жыл бұрын

so this video exploded 3 years ago and now it reach my recommendation,good thing it was not yesterday it would've wipe me out.

@ericaamodt4004 4 жыл бұрын

hahaha

@lecielo 7 жыл бұрын

This was great. PLEASE HAVE MORE SCIENTISTS AS GUESTS!!!

@-bdl2696 8 жыл бұрын

Amazing how this went from educational to reality show in the blink of an eye.

@bobsingh11 8 жыл бұрын

Sadly because reality tv is what general public is interested in.

@flurbanmoran7797 6 жыл бұрын

Bobby Singh Yeah, it's so sad.

@hassaneeen 4 жыл бұрын

this really saddens me, instead of focusing on sparking science interest in people, the focus of the show went to the Guiness World Record gimmick... Its because of things like this that we never revisited the moon...

@ritwikreddy5670 4 жыл бұрын

@@hassaneeen visiting moon became impractical after semiconductor technology gained momentum. Because of that, sending rovers and satellites is much cheaper and more useful than sending a human. Moonlanding was more of an effort to win at the space race than actually studying the space.

@SustainaBIT 3 жыл бұрын

@@ritwikreddy5670 I like your comment, sums up a lot of history

@SnakeonFlag 8 жыл бұрын

Colbert is great on this show. He doesn't just have some dumb bubbly celebrities on, he also has scientists and what not, helping educate the public or at the very least get them interested in things, rather than always just have mind numbing guests and topics.

@ljv2094 8 жыл бұрын

yess

@JasonZakrajsek 8 жыл бұрын

He did that on the Report as well

@templarrising6299 5 жыл бұрын

and now it's a show filled with left-wing hate propaganda... sad how things change

@Irfan87 5 жыл бұрын

He had Anita Sarkeesian on it. That's absolute failure.

@RobbyIbarra 5 жыл бұрын

@@templarrising6299 im sorry. Everyone give him room. He needs his safe space e

@Sturnburn772 3 жыл бұрын

Bryan is cool and I appreciate Stephen's genuine curiosity and not making cheap jokes at the expense of understanding

@matin563 4 жыл бұрын

Stephen: ... hyernova ... Captions: ... *HYPERNOVEMBER* ...

@dalilbaby4238 8 жыл бұрын

I read one of Brian Greene's books for my physics class and THAT made my brain implode on itself.

@LydCal999 8 жыл бұрын

And that made your balls fly into Steven Colbert's mouth

@lochestnut 6 жыл бұрын

Love all of his books! :D

@devendrapratapsingh241 6 жыл бұрын

Which one??

@ZesPak 6 жыл бұрын

Calvin Dang I like his books and he is undoubtedly a very intelligent man, but I don't like him in talks or videos at all. I do like NDT though, so what do I know.

@devilshoez1098 5 жыл бұрын

Name of the book?

@xslonk 8 жыл бұрын

I didn't expect that experiment to end in confetti lol

@ericaamodt4004 4 жыл бұрын

if there was a record brocen then of coarse

@ihatelordvoldemort5899 4 жыл бұрын

He isn't interested in breaking records he is just more concerned about how he could comprehend this magic to the people. Just look at his eyes 4:25

@alphaduck2926 2 жыл бұрын

It’s not magic but rather physics but I get what you mean.

@theone31man 2 жыл бұрын

I love Brian Green. That was incredible. Thank you Steven for sharing him with us.

@cloudofthought 8 жыл бұрын

Thanks Stephen and CBS for featuring non-sensationalist or dumbed-down science on your show! I hope this becomes a trend for others.

@cloudofthought 8 жыл бұрын

Yes, of course. I meant in reference to some other shows that play to the absolute lowest-common denominator treating the audience like they're slow witted 2 year-olds. I've seen some of that even on the Science Channel, and it's annoying because they often fail in their attempt to simplify the complex, so that the science itself seems suspect, if not bunk, when it isn't. For the time allotted, Brian Greene's bit was sufficient for his goal. *****

@Jrock420blam 8 жыл бұрын

I agree, it was simplified and not dumbed-down. That is a very important distinction.

@brokenwave6125 7 жыл бұрын

Not dumbed down? He compared bouncing balls to a supernova... This is the epitome of dumbed down. This is a middle school science class demonstration.

@jondunmore4268 6 жыл бұрын

I agree cloud... but good luck getting a scientist on Fallon. Jimmy'd probably fake-laugh at him and make him throw balls at a target of Pauly Shore.

@starboxxxchrononaut5707 6 жыл бұрын

Broken Wave There's a difference between something being "dumbed down" and something being explained in terms laypeople can easily visualize.

@anarkyah4440 8 жыл бұрын

this dude was so excited by start that it made ME excited

@SMBrwnie 8 жыл бұрын

Same, he has great energy

@nomimalone7520 4 жыл бұрын

Why are Guinness "officials" always dressed like flight attendants?

@ericaamodt4004 4 жыл бұрын

@ProdSketch 3 жыл бұрын

that guy is always in Dude Perfect videos AHHA

@TLHockeyCards 4 жыл бұрын

I wish they showed that part again in slowmo

@frankguy9772 3 жыл бұрын

Let go my purse! I dont kneewwyouuu! 😁

@TLHockeyCards 3 жыл бұрын

@@frankguy9772 Lol bobby in the ymca

@daniellaviolet6207 8 жыл бұрын

Now this is why I love Stephen Colbert's Late show rather than the other Late shows, he actually interviews people with intelligence, talks about current important issues as well as being funny, not just throwing pies at people's faces who are as thick as a brick #soznotsoz

@andrewbell2712 4 жыл бұрын

Oh, come on. Queen Elizabeth I interviewed both Tycho Brahe and Wayne Newton, Isaac Newton's grandfather, in 1588 when she founded BBC 2. Then Johnny Carson had Carl Sagan on his show regularly during much of his run on TV. Jay Leno and Dave Letterman always brought scientists on their shows as well. Stephen Colbert is just carrying on a tradition here. Neil deGrasse Tyson has also been a frequent guess on late shows in the past. This obviously isn't an ideal venue for them, but they have even made it there. A much better venue is Ira Flato's radio show on NPR called Science Friday. Did you know that some of the best scientists in the world are women? Science Friday features outstanding scientists from all corners of the world, many of whom are women. Check it out on your radio dial on Friday's at 3:00 p.m., E.S.T., on NPR.

@JohnMichaelStrubhart2022 8 жыл бұрын

If you don't see something truly beautiful there, there is something sadly missing in the core of your being. Thank you, Stephen and Brian! Great exposition!

@babacane8952 6 жыл бұрын

Finally found something I can do to get me onto the Guinness book of records.

@zazzzy 7 жыл бұрын

Stephen Colbert is goofy af. That face on the ceiling was hilarious. This is really lighthearted comedy we need right now. Thank you Stephen!!

@GetOffMyLawnYouDangKids 8 жыл бұрын

Isn't that the same guinness guy they just had on dude perferct?

@alongforthememories 8 жыл бұрын

That's what I was thinking

@IatAS 8 жыл бұрын

the same guy

@yoadhordan2809 8 жыл бұрын

lol I was so expecting this comment

@DaveAp7 8 жыл бұрын

that's what I thought!

@cewl20 8 жыл бұрын

It sure is! Pretty sure at this point, Guinness is just this one dude who prints out certificates and wears that outfit like it's the opening ceremony of the Olympics.

@AADITYAAPANDYA 8 жыл бұрын

I've a feeling that he is NOT going to be able to hold this record for a very long time

@1014p 5 жыл бұрын

Aaditya Pandya get some really good rubbers and probably not.

@ericaamodt4004 4 жыл бұрын

hell he is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@GUFFmaster97 5 жыл бұрын

I love that Stephen takes genuine interest in this stuff! Why did he stop having Brian on the show?

@hassaneeen 4 жыл бұрын

Cuz DeGrasse Tyson became the new science popstar 😂

@Azrael2812 7 жыл бұрын

great combination of education and entertainment. we need more of this.

@shkotayd9749 8 жыл бұрын

There is hope for the world when major talk shows like The Late Show has scientists on it and they get a good reception :D And as for the title? Well, OUR world will end when our sun goes red giant and either cooks us from a close distance, or envelops us. We'll be a wee little crisp. And it'll finish with a little bang and settle into a tiny white ball. faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/~infocom/The%20Website/end.html

@mohmoony3918 8 жыл бұрын

I rather go out with a boom rather than a sizzle.

@chicken6944 8 жыл бұрын

Ah man, bummer, you mean we all are going to one day die? And the buzz-kill of the year award goes to.........Shkotay D. For somebody interested in such scientific knowledge you'd think you would be able to come up with a better screen name, instead of some crap that's not even a word. Your email address is probably 1Tl1l1%@aol.com

@shkotayd9749 8 жыл бұрын

chicken Oh its a real name, just not english. You could have asked what it meant: Ojibway word for "Fire". Thanks for the ignorant comment of the day :D WELL DONE!!

@chicken6944 8 жыл бұрын

Shkotay D Oh good come back. That's like saying: 'I know you are but what am I?' I was going to end it on peaceful terms but then I just had to click the 'show more' button. God this world is going to blow itself up; people are so stupid.

@shkotayd9749 8 жыл бұрын

chicken K :D

@peternilsson6310 8 жыл бұрын

Thank you Stephen, for doing this type of segment and not just comic bits, thank you for inspiring people to not only be comedians or work in showbusiness, but to be scientists and engineers as well, someting that the world truly needs

@Gabagool93 4 жыл бұрын

Scientists always have the coolest demonstrations.

@b-2466 3 жыл бұрын

Brian Greene is awesome.

@c24c24c24 8 жыл бұрын

Brian Green dropping kowledge like Trump dropping nonsense

@IatAS 8 жыл бұрын

"take cover, small arms fire imbound!!!" (shots)

@robzen2713 8 жыл бұрын

Dropping science like Galileo dropped the orange.

@Deadpool-su2po 7 жыл бұрын

Christian Mora *knowledge

@abrahamntienjem2659 7 жыл бұрын

More like Trump dropping The Mother of all Bombs

@ROOKTABULA 7 жыл бұрын

Abraham Ntienjem That was a Russia gate obfuscating, penis compensating device, not a bomb.

@GregRogers503 8 жыл бұрын

So much more interesting than some random celebrity plugging their latest movie or tv show.

@ThatGuyInVegas 4 жыл бұрын

Who are these 1.5 thousand people who thought this wasn't good?! Have you no sense of wonder left?

@ryancoke9301 4 жыл бұрын

Religious people, that's who.

@ericaamodt4004 4 жыл бұрын

@artifexdebello2568 4 жыл бұрын

People who think this is scripted and didnt watch it

@hassaneeen 4 жыл бұрын

Not really, while I didn't hit the unlike button, I got a little disappointed in the end. The show is about exploding stars, and science, and suddenly it became a Guinness world record reality TV gimmick... I would have loved it, and respected it much more if the focus was purely on the science aspect of it... (Neil DeGrasse Tyson never reverted to gimmicks to explain science...) Also, at the end we only saw the ball pass through the colbert poster, no explanation, and no conclusion...

@legoblox01 6 жыл бұрын

I love how Stephen always invites scientists onto the show

@nashrarig4439 8 жыл бұрын

Ok now I'm going to demonstrate how a black hole works. Alright, so I got my calculator here, and then I'm gonna take one divided by zero--NO WAIT!!!!!!!!

@zacharysantos494 8 жыл бұрын

I get what you are trying to say but zero divided by anything is zero.

@zacharysantos494 8 жыл бұрын

Fair enough. I forgot to say except zero. Sorry.

@catradummy_ytp 8 жыл бұрын

+dahalofreeek 0/x = 0, but x/0 = undefined

@dirhido9665 8 жыл бұрын

+Falcø only when x>0

@nashrarig4439 8 жыл бұрын

+Zachary Santos *FIXED*

@imeredithc 8 жыл бұрын

This is what I love about The Late Show: Stephen will not only have celebrities on it but also physicists and other important people!

@tvortbox 4 жыл бұрын

2:45 who could have predicted the scientist describing nuclear-astrophysics would fumble a sports analogy

@hedegaard8 4 жыл бұрын

" a very stiff surface"

@ailei140 5 жыл бұрын

That ended unexpectedly 😂😂

@JoshRoweice 8 жыл бұрын

Was pretty hard to spot that ball in all the confetti and the bitrate

@NoktynGaming 8 жыл бұрын

Maybe you should learn what confetti actually does to cameras. Tom Scott just did a video on it actually. Also, why would you need to see the ball falling back down? You clearly see it go passed the Stephen cutout.

@Adlore 8 жыл бұрын

He literally mentioned the bitrate, which implies that he knows the effects of a large amount of changing data, and its relation to video compression.

@NoktynGaming 8 жыл бұрын

ENTERUSERNAMEHERE555 Just because he mentioned the bitrate, it doesn't mean he know's why it is that way. You're inferring information. There was literally no reason for his comment to exist at all anyway. The bitrate obviously wasn't an issue for the demonstration...

@TheViolism 8 жыл бұрын

It is a comment section there is no reason to write anything especially pedantic bs like you

@Adlore 8 жыл бұрын

Nokty So you're saying that even though he correctly used a term in the right context... he doesn't understand what it means or its implications?

@mizuhonova 8 жыл бұрын

I wish they allocated more time for this segment. The supernova explanation was very rushed and anyone who didn't already understand how it worked wouldn't have followed.

@JamesSmith-ek1or 8 жыл бұрын

+supremebeing87 I think you're overestimating. The average American thinks Europe is a country. Cmon now. We're talking severe ignorance here. You probably frequen educated communities, but if you really meet an average American then it is quite sad. Almost appalling how slow and ignorant they are.

@flurbanmoran7797 6 жыл бұрын

James Smith I don't get it.

@333pinkelephant333 5 жыл бұрын

Yea, I don't understand why American talk shows only invite guests to talk for like 5-10 minutes only. I can literally talk about breakfast I had for longer than that.

@chrisofstars 3 жыл бұрын

I didn't already understand and I feel this made me understand perfectly. How can it get any simpler when you're bringing out the colorful plastic candy balls?

@realshlimshady8966 6 жыл бұрын

love it when Brian green is on the show. he is awesome and always demonstrates an amazing experiment

@ARC87 5 жыл бұрын

Nice to see a Late Show interested in explaining science in a fun way to audiences... much more interesting than gossiping about "celebrities" 👍

@cardboardclown 8 жыл бұрын

2:14 Stephen was thinking about Sauron

@siddjoshi9166 8 жыл бұрын

Finally something interesting @LSSC , which did not have trump in it.

@JcisKingg 4 жыл бұрын

My most powerful explosions come after I eat del taco

@Elitecommando501 4 жыл бұрын

Your stomach gases implode on itself and it rebounds to a hyperfart

@byronp2311 3 жыл бұрын

Please, more mathematicians!! I know they tend to be weird, but they can be fun. This is pure awesome sauce.

@randyjoble4607 8 жыл бұрын

it's good that supernovas and hypernovas use the same naming system as potions in pokemon

@zantomun 8 жыл бұрын

don't forget the masternova that only appears once per universe

@CartyCantDance 8 жыл бұрын

+zantomun haha nice.

@MuhammadEgypt 8 жыл бұрын

Incredible! Really worth watching.

@ericpapilayaTV 4 жыл бұрын

i love astrophysics, but man does Guinnes make a Fool out of themselves

@ANunes06 4 жыл бұрын

@Ganiscol Meanwhile, the crazy australians at How Ridiculous launched a two stage galillean cannon some 40 meters. I get that Guiness is a business and all, but just watch the bit on Last Week Tonight about the Turkish royal to get a sense of how ... shady ... things are.

@ericpapilayaTV 4 жыл бұрын

Ganiscol exactly that is the problem.

@binkapooh 4 жыл бұрын

Now they need to go to Australia and give the HowRidiculous guys the new record.

@mistrofelis6600 8 жыл бұрын

Thank you for always giving prime time space to science Colbert, you are and the show is the best!

@rocknrollch1ck 8 жыл бұрын

Agreed 👍

@iolaniherrera2704 8 жыл бұрын

agree 2 👏👍

@chrismorgan7234 8 жыл бұрын

Wait...THAT's all I needed to do to win a lifetime supply of beer?

@xXxBladeStormxXx 8 жыл бұрын

Record holders get lifetime supply of beer??

@Thorntonian 8 жыл бұрын

Well, if it's *Guiness* world records, i'd certainly hope so.

@Harry351ify 8 жыл бұрын

You also need to be a renowned professor of physics and a popular character in TV

@ericaamodt4004 4 жыл бұрын

huh

@enejkelecija7377 6 жыл бұрын

If we stopped watching the Kardashian’s and focused on science imagine what we could have solved

@aikotachibana2060 Жыл бұрын

brian greene and brian cox and jim holt are my favorite scientists out there people should really check out their videos their explanation has made physics so much more fun for me

@MagnusAnand 8 жыл бұрын

I just love Brian Greene

@BrianGreeneRAD 5 жыл бұрын

Guz Man Thank you!

@Krebzonide 4 жыл бұрын

I feel like I could double that height in my backyard with $100.

@YG-rr6zv 4 ай бұрын

I love how Stephen invites scientists and makes it interesting with real examples, but I would love to see a psychologist on there or something with the same passion and enthusiasm

@jpseet1 4 жыл бұрын

Cool video featuring Brian Greene. Thanks! I found it entertaining. The talk about the anniversary of the discovery of the powerful supernova/hypernova was cool. It's instructive to learn about how a (massive) star can collapse, producing a shockwave and explosion. The core rebounds into the outer layers/shells. (I believe such a Hypernova explosion can sometimes be associated with a Gamma-ray burst as well). The tallest Galilean Cannon demonstration was nice too. The Guinness world record was cool, (though I believe it was surpassed in 2018). Likes/replies/comments welcome! Thanks.

@jutco 8 жыл бұрын

That's the same Guinness guy from the Dude Perfect video

@rgaud8 8 жыл бұрын

Hard times at Guinness.

@willbesuccessful9125 5 жыл бұрын

Gay

@ericaamodt4004 4 жыл бұрын

ya i love dude perfect

@stevenbenitez1851 8 жыл бұрын

It's great Stephen is incorporating people with actual intelligence into his shows

@rumpel_stiltskin1233 4 жыл бұрын

It seems like every modern late night talk show has some sort of science segment, but what I really appreciate about Colbert's show is that he has the thought to bring on people (like Brian Greene) who can stimulate curiosity in cutting edge physics. There's no party tricks, only really interesting cut down versions of extremely important physics ideas. Although some of these explanations can be challenging to grasp for some, I hope at least a portion of viewers feel intrigued and potentially do their own research on the subjects. These types of guests really inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers who will take the human race further into the future. Thank you Stephen and Brian!

@Tubueller 5 жыл бұрын

Never thought a talk show would do something like this. I love it!

@infirmux 8 жыл бұрын

oi, I want to see all the balls drop and rebound, not just the yellow one. And in slow motion, this is Internet after all .

@Fr8monkey 8 жыл бұрын

This isn't how the world will end. The sun isn't massive enough to go nova. It will swell up to the orbit of Earth and fry everything. /nerdsoapbox

@MisterDewong 8 жыл бұрын

Yeah, although everything in the video is accurate, the title is not :(

@Fr8monkey 8 жыл бұрын

Still cool though...

@ironiccookies2320 8 жыл бұрын

No. He was explaining how a supernova starts, not our sun

@tyler8253 8 жыл бұрын

The Sun will undergo a regular nova, which is basically the sun expanding to a red giant, and eventually expelling its outer layers, leaving a white dwarf. Even the white dwarf will eventually die, but not for billions of years after that.

@UltimateBreloom 8 жыл бұрын

+Mel hooprah Title is mostly right. . Description not so much. .

@SyzygyNoon 3 жыл бұрын

I never realized that the transfer of energy on this scale could produce that much confetti.🤯

@Nightstick24 7 жыл бұрын

I love Brian Greene, he's so excited and passionate about science you can't help but get excited yourself.

@mariadaluzmoutinho6691 4 жыл бұрын

Este Senhor é um grande comunicador ...a ciência divertida e bem explicada! ...

@AUniqueBot 8 жыл бұрын

You know what's the most powerful explosion in the universe? My life. Because it is now in pieces.

@UTUBESUCK666 8 жыл бұрын

Think of the guy that was just underneath the bomb when it went off in Hiroshima and realize the enormity of what you just said. The dude was literally disintegrated and his atoms spreaded a few thousands miles across. Atoms travel far in the winds...

@AUniqueBot 8 жыл бұрын

+Ramon Zarat uhhh... Sorry....?

@AUniqueBot 8 жыл бұрын

+TheRedRaccoonDog It's not a bad life really. Sometimes I wonder if people take jokes a bit too seriously. But then this is the Internet, anything goes.

@AUniqueBot 8 жыл бұрын

+TheRedRaccoonDog True that

@KHasan-de6yq 3 жыл бұрын

Superb...awesome explanation and demonstration condensed in just few moments...brilliant

@erichimes3062 4 жыл бұрын

Dudes in the band be like: “dafuq??”

@zinaright 4 жыл бұрын

😅😅😅

@citizensguard3433 3 жыл бұрын

That seems like an easy record to break, right? Just get a few more balls right?

@bhavyasharma9090 3 жыл бұрын

Yes please someone answer me that

@jcindass89 3 жыл бұрын

not necessarily. i'm pretty sure the various masses of the balls were optimized prior to the experiment using the the equations of conservation of linear momentum and kinetic energy. And this isn't to put into the account of thermal energy lost when the balls made contact, nor the drag forces applied. There's a lot of moving parts to this, and I'm also pretty sure that the amount of balls is restricted based on the record you are trying to break.

@angelbythewings 3 жыл бұрын

@@jcindass89 linear moment should be conserved irrespective of the masses of the ball, I agree with everything else u said

@rafabdc04 3 жыл бұрын

Fr this is the best guest on this show

@DreadEnder 2 жыл бұрын

Getting an award and a congratulation with huge cheers for dropping a stack of balls connected to a string

@Zlnfgz 2 жыл бұрын

Guinness records have lost their value.. They give certificates for the most useless things nowadays... Just take something so random and useless that people on earth haven't heard/know anything about it or don't care about and do something in it and boom... You've got yourself a Guinness world record... 😝😝

@DreadEnder 2 жыл бұрын

@@Zlnfgz about 8 minutes ago ( when you posted that comment) I walked past 50 can tabs on the ground

@marcoklaue 8 жыл бұрын

As world records go, this one seems pretty easy to break. We could make a bigger Galilean cannon at my place this weekend.

@juancjuanc9 5 жыл бұрын

"Did galileo come up with this?" That ladies and gentlemen is pure wit and humour. L

@Qui_Gon_Jinn_76 4 жыл бұрын

Well spoken, very articulate, matter of fact and to the point. Well taught.

@hernankaufmann7688 5 жыл бұрын

This kind of stuff is why colbert is better than anyone else in the air right now

@matt8863 8 жыл бұрын

0:54 - 1:07 He meant to say "Half a Trillion"...Even incredible minds experience a brain fart every 3.8 billion years or so.

@hasch5756 6 жыл бұрын

Glad someone else also uses the long ladder ^^

@kwokziyi4937 5 жыл бұрын

This is damn good television. I wish more of his work were like this, less politics. Colbert is a brilliant man and he can more than keep up with difficult topics while making them concise and entertaining. But that's just my opinion.

@ericaamodt4004 4 жыл бұрын

its mine to

@rukh397 Жыл бұрын

If late night shows invites people like Brian all the time, i might watch all of the episodes.

@DilminPerera 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you Stephen for inviting scientists to your show.

@Smallville4613 8 жыл бұрын

Lol!!! That's the same World Record guy from the Dude Perfect video!!!

@ericaamodt4004 4 жыл бұрын

i love dude perfect

@serickemetz 8 жыл бұрын

Our star won't explode in a super nova ... so i guess this shows us how the world would end IF our star could explode.

@nicosmind3 8 жыл бұрын

+Jeff-66 FL Isnt it going to become a planetary nebula? Its not going supernova sure, but it will explode and lose its out layers and then become a white dwarf

@ITRIEDEL 7 жыл бұрын

Privilege to hear him talk last year. I even took a selfie with him. Such an animated individual that is so intelligent. It's very humbling to be in the same room as him.

@biggucci3hunna741 6 жыл бұрын

I understood the concept a little bit but the demonstration helped me visualize and conceptualize this phenomenon much more! Thank you Stephen!! I love and appreciate these scientists you bring on the show ❤️🙏🏽

@0prahTV 8 жыл бұрын

Colbert needs to go back to his old show.

@epsilonproductions1602 8 жыл бұрын

why

@awolpete10 8 жыл бұрын

Because CBS isn't letting Colbert be Colbert on his new show. This is the only thing he has done in a while that I would attribute to his idea and not a studio exec saying they need to promote a lame actor, show, or movie.

@epsilonproductions1602 8 жыл бұрын

Jeremy Aylward good point

@UncleMilo 8 жыл бұрын

First off... your contempt for actors is really kind of annoying. Second, Colbert has had scientists, artists, government officials and all kinds of interesting people on his show and he's had a lot of musicians from all kinds of backgrounds on as well.

@monkeyman522 8 жыл бұрын

+Hatchet Jack He's just not playing an alter ego character like he was on the old show. I find him actually being himself refreshing.

@ThomasLien1 8 жыл бұрын

This is the best talkshow on tv.

@friedpicklezzz 5 жыл бұрын

Always good to see scientists being invited on TV shows.

@buzzknutson 3 жыл бұрын

Brian Green is amazing. Giving him such a large platform to help spark curiosity in science is far more important then a celebrity plugging there latest project. Good job Colbert

@Wunderkind04 8 жыл бұрын

That's not how the world will end. Whoever put this video up knows nothing about the topic they discussed; I'd be surprised if they even watched the video. What a clickbait title.

@Layjus123 8 жыл бұрын

Well it will be when the sun gives in I guess

@ARSP33LS 8 жыл бұрын

yea to be fair, as the Dr. Greene said, if the star had been where Pluto was it would have wiped out Earth. So if our star goes, Earth will be gone, the world will be gone. WE may already be dead and humans gone, but the world will end, just not OUR opinion of what the world is.

@shkotayd9749 8 жыл бұрын

Interesting and probably correct. Our sun wont go hypernovae. www.livescience.com/32879-what-happens-to-earth-when-sun-dies.html

@bkdmode 8 жыл бұрын

+Justin L, It is physically impossible for our sun to go nova, not enough mass. It will, however, expand swallowing Mercury and Venus while models differ on whether Earth too will be swallowed or it will just be "fried" to a crisp.

@shaunpearson7905 8 жыл бұрын

Then I suppose a question would be would the nearest star (after ours) affect us if it went hypernova. Then again would alpha centauri (I think that's the nearest) have enough mass to go hyper-; probably not.