The Absurdity of Detecting Gravitational Waves

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Veritasium

Veritasium

7 жыл бұрын

A head-vaporizing laser with a perfect wavelength detecting sub-proton space-time ripples.
Huge thanks to Prof Rana Adhikari and LIGO: ligo.org
Here's how he felt when he learned about the first ever detection: • How Scientists Reacted...
Thanks to Patreon supporters:
Nathan Hansen, Donal Botkin, Tony Fadell, Saeed Alghamdi, Zach Mueller, Ron Neal
Support Veritasium on Patreon: bit.ly/VePatreon
A lot of videos have covered the general overview of the discovery of gravitational waves, what they are, the history of the search, when they were found but I wanted to delve into the absurd science that made the detection possible.
When scientists want one megawatt of laser power, it's not just for fun (though I'm sure it's that too), it's because the fluctuations in the number of photons is proportional to their square root, making more powerful beams less noisy (as a fraction of their total). The smoothest mirrors were created not for aesthetic joy but because when you're trying to measure wiggles that are a fraction the width of a proton, a rough mirror surface simply won't do.
Filmed by Daniel Joseph Files
Music by Kevin MacLeod, www.incompetech.com "Black Vortex" (appropriately named)
Music licensed from Epidemic Sound epidemicsound.com "Observations 2" (also appropriately named)

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@viclincoln1366
@viclincoln1366 4 жыл бұрын
I love scientists who don't care to iron their shirts even for an interview .
@carso1500
@carso1500 3 жыл бұрын
For the way he speaked initially it appeared like he wasnt really all that thrilled by the interview, it's posible that this isnt his first interview and most people can barely understand what he is talking about so why even matter, his question about the infrared light wave lenght being bigger than the distortion caused by the gravitational wave surprised him for the best, you can see how lively he suddenly become
@kingk2405
@kingk2405 3 жыл бұрын
He is not in the demanding position so why bother .
@bhavikshah1946
@bhavikshah1946 3 жыл бұрын
Because he is an typical Indian
@theoverseer393
@theoverseer393 3 жыл бұрын
Or those that wear whatever suits them. They’re the real scientists
@bigsherk42069
@bigsherk42069 3 жыл бұрын
@@bhavikshah1946 I just thought that. Lololol dude my dad is a brown Asian and I was gonna say this. My dad is a giant Filipino and never irons anything lol
@erikig
@erikig 7 жыл бұрын
Rana Adhikari looks like the scientist you have to drag out of the bar to save the world at the end of a sci-fi movie when the pencil necked number crunchers have failed
@LuisSierra42
@LuisSierra42 6 жыл бұрын
stop watching movies, they are making you dumb
@Commandelicious
@Commandelicious 6 жыл бұрын
Going "wubwubwubwubbrrrrrrr LETS DO THIS!" and fires the gigawatt laser at some atoms
@ViperoK
@ViperoK 6 жыл бұрын
Thats oddly specific
@nosuchthing8
@nosuchthing8 6 жыл бұрын
I haven't laughed so hard in a long time. An awesome comment!
@6884
@6884 6 жыл бұрын
or to save the other bar customers from slipping so hard on the floor after all the chicks went Niagara
@computer_toucher
@computer_toucher 3 жыл бұрын
Kudos for getting a "I wish more people would ask that question" from a leading scientist in his field. That must be the best compliment ever for a layman (sorry I don't know your physics credentials lol)
@chuckmaddox6725
@chuckmaddox6725 2 жыл бұрын
He has a PhD
@shukrantpatil
@shukrantpatil 2 жыл бұрын
That's a high school level question smartass .
@MS69CHRIS
@MS69CHRIS 2 жыл бұрын
This Comment section wack
@Resolve3s
@Resolve3s 2 жыл бұрын
@@MS69CHRIS fr
@Fidder492
@Fidder492 2 жыл бұрын
@@alexbartley3610 *your
@slickstretch6391
@slickstretch6391 2 жыл бұрын
When being hit by that laser, you cease being biology and become physics.
@ilovepineapple6393
@ilovepineapple6393 2 жыл бұрын
Damn that hits hardddd
@untergehermuc
@untergehermuc 2 жыл бұрын
And in the end philosophy.
@seth7745
@seth7745 2 жыл бұрын
@@untergehermuc You need a much bigger LASER for that transition
@micahhunter5452
@micahhunter5452 2 жыл бұрын
all biology is is physics
@slickstretch6391
@slickstretch6391 2 жыл бұрын
@@micahhunter5452 Well yeah, technically everything is physics.
@perrytheplatypus7563
@perrytheplatypus7563 3 жыл бұрын
“A megawatt will vaporize your head instantly” Good thing they have a first aid kit.
@VikingMan44
@VikingMan44 3 жыл бұрын
I don't think betadine and a bandaid is going to help...
@majapahitsumatra5771
@majapahitsumatra5771 3 жыл бұрын
I couldn't resist laughing man, you killed it
@yingxiawei821
@yingxiawei821 3 жыл бұрын
Red sus
@spiralx6249
@spiralx6249 3 жыл бұрын
Theres a wonderful (read, eye-popping) CGI effect in the first series of The Expanse, where a man's head is 'disappeared' instantly in space by a hi=speed traveling chunk of debris. I was reminded of that when he described this.
@lazertroll702
@lazertroll702 3 жыл бұрын
Meh... I'll be impressed once they start using 1.21 gigawatts ...
@eggyrepublic
@eggyrepublic 3 жыл бұрын
5:17 so not only are football fields a unit of length in America, footballs is also a unit of volume.
@chromiyum6849
@chromiyum6849 3 жыл бұрын
THIS IS AMERICA
@Prototheria
@Prototheria 3 жыл бұрын
@@chromiyum6849 If it was really America, he would have used cubic hamburgers.
@pflaffik
@pflaffik 3 жыл бұрын
Unacceptable, only olympic swimmingpools is approved as an american unit of volume. Still better than british, the last few years BBC insisted on using dinosaurs as a unit for everything, and just like other british products it doesnt work.
@Prototheria
@Prototheria 3 жыл бұрын
@@pflaffik I'm sorry, but that is absolute nonsense. The British have long used unladen swallows to perform various distance/time equations and not, my good Sir, dinosaurs as you so inaccurately implied. Now then. Good DAY!
@MrDino1953
@MrDino1953 3 жыл бұрын
EggyRepublic - I’m surprised he didn’t use the Australian unit of volume which is Sydney Harbours of water, given his Australian roots.
@Mormodes
@Mormodes 3 жыл бұрын
I really wish this channel was around when I was younger. The way information is presented in your videos makes it much easier to conceptualize and understand. Back in High School we were sat in front of a book and told to read it. We didn't care, we had a million other things to think about besides reading a bland book. I can only hope the kids watching these kinds of videos today can see the wonder in what's happening. LIGO is an incredible feat, and I'd heard the name before, but never understood what it really was doing. Thank you!
@commongivemeanicknam
@commongivemeanicknam 2 жыл бұрын
Fully agree!
@TLguitar
@TLguitar 2 жыл бұрын
This interview made me think how the science of physics is basically matter trying to understand itself.
@vidyasagardaud8518
@vidyasagardaud8518 2 жыл бұрын
*Biologically Organised Matter
@shrooman768
@shrooman768 2 жыл бұрын
bro, science in general is just matter trying to understand matter
@TLguitar
@TLguitar 2 жыл бұрын
@@shrooman768 That's the case mostly when discussing natural science rather than, let's say, formal science. And in natural science I'd say all branches are ultimately sourced within physics.
@TheLuminousOne
@TheLuminousOne Жыл бұрын
Consciousness.
@BurakBagdatli
@BurakBagdatli 7 жыл бұрын
"The laser will evaporate your head instantly." "Oh, OK. Let me put on my goggles." B)
@seeranos
@seeranos 7 жыл бұрын
Appropriate goggles emoji is appropriate.
@pushkarsoni8927
@pushkarsoni8927 7 жыл бұрын
don't use the cheap ones :)
@TheDr00g
@TheDr00g 7 жыл бұрын
its for potential stray light
@darovi
@darovi 7 жыл бұрын
"MY EYES! THE GOGGLES DO NOTHING!"
@pushkarsoni8927
@pushkarsoni8927 7 жыл бұрын
i warned you .!.
@rens6374
@rens6374 7 жыл бұрын
the guy looked so cool with his glasses lol
@chrisvellner3922
@chrisvellner3922 7 жыл бұрын
Issued safety equipment is mandatory
@martinv6777
@martinv6777 7 жыл бұрын
Chris Vellner safety is numba one priority
@DerFrischkopf
@DerFrischkopf 7 жыл бұрын
Rens and his crocs!
@AtodaZ23
@AtodaZ23 7 жыл бұрын
Damn I was just about to comment that lol, he kinda reminded me of Morpheus
@Dhakhar
@Dhakhar 7 жыл бұрын
lmfao, well played Sir.
@Rinka277
@Rinka277 3 жыл бұрын
The guy explained the most advanced technology i have ever seen in 5 minutes using baby language. I feel like i am a scientist!
@sploofmcsterra4786
@sploofmcsterra4786 2 жыл бұрын
The challenge of removing the interference was crazy. The clouds themselves had a gravitational effect. And the silica threads would resonate, causing unique spikes in the readings. Wild stuff.
@ariestheram5693
@ariestheram5693 5 жыл бұрын
Scientists : "We are able to detect gravitational waves from the collision of two black holes 1.3 billion light years away" Also scientists : "For the last time, the Earth is round"
@ogi22
@ogi22 5 жыл бұрын
ROTFL, that was a good one :D
@sarthakshakya5500
@sarthakshakya5500 5 жыл бұрын
also some people : earth is flat
@KougaJ7
@KougaJ7 4 жыл бұрын
Some people are born smart, some people are born stupid. And some of them just don't care what the truth is, but prefer to spout whatever comes to their minds instead. :) There's a person for anything.
@elizasales8204
@elizasales8204 4 жыл бұрын
and we don't are smarter people if we just believe in them not knowing the why that earth be round
@MrRichiarditya
@MrRichiarditya 4 жыл бұрын
Sphere not round
@carlosponchio1869
@carlosponchio1869 5 жыл бұрын
that white shirt was last ironed in 1988, May 12.
@randomdude9135
@randomdude9135 5 жыл бұрын
He barely has human interaction. So he's lazy 😂
@Cosmic_Love
@Cosmic_Love 4 жыл бұрын
Did you measure it with gravitational waves?
@SirNyanPanda
@SirNyanPanda 4 жыл бұрын
@EZIO AUDITORE DA FIRENZE What does this have to do with anything? He's billion times smarter than you
@jehezz
@jehezz 4 жыл бұрын
@@SirNyanPanda its just a joke why so serious?
@ahamedmaluk1493
@ahamedmaluk1493 4 жыл бұрын
So how the frick you got the date may 12 lol
@FatherManus
@FatherManus 2 жыл бұрын
5:35 This guy is a mad scientist in the making.
@TheTuubster
@TheTuubster 2 жыл бұрын
So, if I understood it right: While the light being inside the space when it is stretched is stretched too, new light that is entering the stretched space is actually travelling the difference in distance due to the stretching.
@amangupta5323
@amangupta5323 2 жыл бұрын
Yes, because the gravitational waves haven't yet stretched the new light. At least, that's what I understood.
@vidyasagardaud8518
@vidyasagardaud8518 2 жыл бұрын
I don't know what you understood but it is different from what i understood which makes me feel im understanding the wrong thing.
@laestrella9727
@laestrella9727 2 жыл бұрын
I understood that they were making the tube 'boggier' to get through... (!) and not much else... As in.. I'm not sure how that then helps them with their comparison..
@josepedrogaleanogomez4870
@josepedrogaleanogomez4870 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, and they measure the difference in time it took the new light to travel the stretche space in reference to the time it should have taken, since the wavelenght is fixed. But i feel like i dont understand it well enough.
@nmarbletoe8210
@nmarbletoe8210 2 жыл бұрын
yes, the key being that the gravitational wavelength is VERY long, so while it passes the light goes back and forth in the detector many times.
@carso1500
@carso1500 3 жыл бұрын
I just love how adhikari face completly iluminated once he mentioned the size of the light wave, it was like he was expecting some idiot that would not really understand what he was talking about (like he has probably have to deal with before) and was just extatic to find someone that also talks his tongue
@sumitraturi7791
@sumitraturi7791 3 жыл бұрын
@@ymbhiojtukburtbuyt568 maybe pr maybe not
@vedangratnaparkhi
@vedangratnaparkhi 3 жыл бұрын
Good thing Derek is a PHD in physics
@slickstretch6391
@slickstretch6391 2 жыл бұрын
I know that feeling. When I suddenly realize that the person I'm talking to understands and has some knowledge of their own on the subject, it's super exciting. Especially when you're used to explaining a thing every. single. time.
@leisureb
@leisureb 2 жыл бұрын
I was going to make the same comment :)
@h1o84
@h1o84 2 жыл бұрын
👍
@MRSLAV
@MRSLAV 6 жыл бұрын
Imagine explaining what you do to your investors
@gustavlicht9620
@gustavlicht9620 5 жыл бұрын
Well, you have to apply for this money, so you need to show pretty solid motivation. There are tons of people competing for research grants and you have to explain why you and not the next person.
@kelvin254kk
@kelvin254kk 5 жыл бұрын
send them this video
@MRSLAV
@MRSLAV 5 жыл бұрын
They would need a time machine.
@nathanwoodruff9422
@nathanwoodruff9422 5 жыл бұрын
All you have to do is dream up something so absurd that sounds intelligent that will take forever to prove if provable that you have life long income for basically doing really nothing. That is what this is. If you are the only one that can prove it, you can go hunting ghosts all you like. Gravity is a function of wave energy, nothing more. Gravity is also not a pull force but a push force from within.
@semiolith
@semiolith 5 жыл бұрын
In fact, the vague and airy cliches that LIGO must rely upon to explain its particular power to transcend loopholes are no different than dishonesty. Dishonesty is the kernel upon which investment accrete. Hubris lately has been unprecidented.
@litmusaero2645
@litmusaero2645 2 жыл бұрын
I love that guy, he’s so smart but so funny and relatable. I wish more people could be like him and our father derick
@shriyanshpandey112
@shriyanshpandey112 2 жыл бұрын
These people give us hope
@thedanyesful
@thedanyesful 2 жыл бұрын
Out of all the Veritasium videos I've watched, this is my favorite. Dr. Adhikari's responses were both educational and entertaining.
@fluffmallow1159
@fluffmallow1159 5 жыл бұрын
Orange crocs and those shades? what a legend
@ZesPak
@ZesPak 5 жыл бұрын
The shades are maybe mandatory in the "laser zone".
@hamjudo
@hamjudo 4 жыл бұрын
@@Vallecaucanisimo There are a whole bunch of lasers in the real-time measurement system that damps external vibrations. There are more lasers to worry about than the one in the tube. They were standing next to a semi-functional scale model, far from LIGO. They have a very simple policy to protect people from the big beam. When people are working in that building, they shut off the beam. LIGO can't produce good data when there are people or other masses moving near by. The scale model is used to test ideas before they start working on the real thing. It is functional in the sense that it is comparing laser beams in a vacuum, and there are real sensors being tested. It is not functional in the sense that it can't detect a real gravity wave. They have some other mechanism to move the mirrors do they can test hardware and software.
@hamjudo
@hamjudo 4 жыл бұрын
@@Vallecaucanisimo No problem. Some graduate student once put a laser enclosure back together wrong in a distant university research lab, and bad things happened. So now the safety engineers at universities and national laboratories want everyone to be at least two mistakes away from blindness, death, or dismemberment.
@derekboyt3383
@derekboyt3383 4 жыл бұрын
Voice: Kent, wake up! Kent: Who is this? Voice: It’s Jesus Kent! Stop playing with yourself! Kent: It is god.
@TIBYCOLLINS
@TIBYCOLLINS 4 жыл бұрын
Future project being guarding us from black holes. Yessir absolute legend
@brettb.7425
@brettb.7425 4 жыл бұрын
I thought the guy was meditating before explaining this.
@brianhecimovich4488
@brianhecimovich4488 3 жыл бұрын
mmmmmmmmmmmmmm Bp P p
@heaven4247
@heaven4247 3 жыл бұрын
thats when I was Born.
@crapmailtome5621
@crapmailtome5621 3 жыл бұрын
Hahaha..He is Indian guy..thats why.
@PlubusDomis
@PlubusDomis 3 жыл бұрын
A lot of those folks do, the intelligent usually have their own morning rituals which is like a form of meditation if you think about it, whether it's sleeping in late or being productive early, everyone has a different circadian rhythm. Just a fun little rabbit hole that ur welcome to join me in
@heaven4247
@heaven4247 3 жыл бұрын
@@PlubusDomis We,We, Are creature's of habit s I gotta have it hahaha 😉
@teppec
@teppec 2 жыл бұрын
I always like coming back to some of your older content and looking at it with eyes that have now seen some of the fruits of this research. Would be interesting to do a follow-up on LISA and see some in depth information on how they are looking at transitioning this project to space to be able to detect even more gravitational waves.
@abhayagarwal5097
@abhayagarwal5097 8 ай бұрын
Didn't understood much but mind blowing how motivated humans are to do things that would take unimaginable size and money to build instruments that could have detected these things easily.
@OuterRem
@OuterRem 5 жыл бұрын
Rana Adhikari is the prof whose classes you tried your hardest to register for, only to realize that it was already waitlisted at 2.7 femtoseconds. I'd kill to have this guy as a lecturer.
@SukacitaYeremia
@SukacitaYeremia 4 жыл бұрын
Lol, did a pack of bacteria waitlisted him?
@marknasia5293
@marknasia5293 4 жыл бұрын
OuterRem that is who designed that project, easy A scientists that went on to secure govt grants
@derekboyt3383
@derekboyt3383 4 жыл бұрын
And that is why he doesn’t lecture.
@karthickmurali598
@karthickmurali598 4 жыл бұрын
Did you just said you would kill someone? I am calling the cops
@TucsonDude
@TucsonDude 3 жыл бұрын
Meh.
@Prototheria
@Prototheria 3 жыл бұрын
3:11 I tell my wife the same thing.
@TheArchit1
@TheArchit1 3 жыл бұрын
haha
@bhaaratsharma6023
@bhaaratsharma6023 3 жыл бұрын
Because it's too small?
@BlackVogel1
@BlackVogel1 3 жыл бұрын
Can you measure it? *Changes size 100 times a second*
@Axairu
@Axairu 3 жыл бұрын
She gotta meausre it in milimeters
@benm8407
@benm8407 3 жыл бұрын
i clicked the time stamp and the advertisement i got was about consumer cellular saying “its that easy grandma” oh god oh no oh no
@joftenly
@joftenly 3 жыл бұрын
"Guys... science is sometimes boring...." "Yeah but not if we wear sunglasses." Production Manager: "We wearing sunglasses!!!" Boom science is cool now.
@thekinginyellow1744
@thekinginyellow1744 2 жыл бұрын
When you are in an environment with that kind of laser power special anti-laser glasses are required. a single dust particle in the beam could deflect enough light to fry your retinas
@amazinggreats5333
@amazinggreats5333 2 жыл бұрын
So basically… gravity waves make space-time wiggle a bit and make giant lasers get darker slower when the gravity wave passes over the laser. Did I get that right? And you need to use one very low wavelength of light so that you can even detect the wiggle because on a higher wavelength, the light won’t interfere enough for it to be detected. Gosh, I feel like I’m operating on the edge of my IQ here hahaha
@janmamu8721
@janmamu8721 Жыл бұрын
opposite wavelengths destroy each other, so when one of the lightwaves stretch they get more or less different, so more or less light survives so they can detect the difference by detecting the brightness of the resulting combined laser stream… probably
@Jason9637
@Jason9637 11 ай бұрын
​@@janmamu8721 The beam splitter actually puts the photons into a superposition (similar to the double slit experiment), and then each photon will interfere with its own waveform. Photons can't interfere with each other, only themselves.
@janmamu8721
@janmamu8721 11 ай бұрын
@@Jason9637 thanks!
@PeteBetter
@PeteBetter 3 жыл бұрын
A professor who can explain the highly complex to the every day person like me is a treasure.
@aoaoa605
@aoaoa605 2 жыл бұрын
Oh you are a professor!?
@Systenize
@Systenize 2 жыл бұрын
The professor: 1:06
@michaelmacdonald2907
@michaelmacdonald2907 2 жыл бұрын
The measure of your understanding is your ability to explain it to others
@ryanwatkins7924
@ryanwatkins7924 2 жыл бұрын
I was just thinking about the Veritasium audience and our demographics. I wonder at what level does he tell his interviews to explain concepts and what level most of the viewership is comprised? I ain't no professor myself or nothing, but I pick up because I am able to understand the concept at a fundamental level. I had professors, actual professors, that failed to explain much less complex questions as well as these videos do. This channel is so great.
@1ucasvb
@1ucasvb 7 жыл бұрын
Hah, Prof. Rana is awesome!
@CallMeTipz
@CallMeTipz 7 жыл бұрын
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
@gurpreetsingh793
@gurpreetsingh793 7 жыл бұрын
Also, how he makes those sounds :P
@CookingWithCows
@CookingWithCows 7 жыл бұрын
sounded almost like... a frog... which is called rana in spanish, lol
@tolyaph
@tolyaph 7 жыл бұрын
He needs to get a new shirt, too ;)
@ChrisOrillia
@ChrisOrillia 7 жыл бұрын
He's like a Pixar character, lol.
@caty863
@caty863 2 жыл бұрын
This guy is genuinely happy that finally someone is asking an intelligent question. You can tell he's used to the regular media and their stupid questions
@kennyalternative
@kennyalternative 2 жыл бұрын
Mind expanding info. I did not understand this measuring of gravitational waves till now. Thanks for making it simple enough for me to understand.
@smartereveryday
@smartereveryday 7 жыл бұрын
I really liked this man. Is it really just a Michelson Interferometer on a really incredible scale? Excellent job on this video. Prof Adhikari did a FANTASTIC job as well.
@trevorcginn
@trevorcginn 7 жыл бұрын
Thanks to KZfaqrs like you and Derek, the scientists doing this kind of incredible work are able to be showcased. I think a lot of personality is cut out (more often than not) when specialists like Rana Adhikari are interviewed by cable media or documentary creators. Showing him in a casual light shows the audience that anyone can be contributing to science if they work towards it hard enough. These kind of honest interviews bring a real human element to the world of science and I'm thankful the world has people like you, Derek, and Rana. Keep being awesome! :)
@TCBYEAHCUZ
@TCBYEAHCUZ 6 жыл бұрын
I like how you said it's just a Michelson interferometer
@thesunflowchannel1995
@thesunflowchannel1995 6 жыл бұрын
SmarterEveryDay found you!
@pvtmill3rr
@pvtmill3rr 5 жыл бұрын
gravity doesn't exist kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b55knrxj2rSwm30.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rpZ1eqWQ1J-4ioE.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ZrR9aNRjl9CZhn0.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pN90mNxotrnLl2g.html
@dontomaso11
@dontomaso11 5 жыл бұрын
i dont like him
@jojojorisjhjosef
@jojojorisjhjosef 7 жыл бұрын
Its funny to me how there are physicists and engineers that know everything about lasers, do everything with lazers, and suddenly they are dealing with cosmology.
@Voidsworn
@Voidsworn 7 жыл бұрын
Not really. Science tends to be interdisciplinary, but still cool.
@Chronically_ChiII
@Chronically_ChiII 7 жыл бұрын
Mathematicians and physicists can end up everywhere because how pure their branch is.
@KaiPlews
@KaiPlews 7 жыл бұрын
jojojorisjhjosef lasers get involved in anything as long as you science hard enough.
@Dream0Asylum
@Dream0Asylum 7 жыл бұрын
Everything is physics. EVERYTHING. Geology is physics. Cosmology is physics. Chemistry is physics. Engineering is physics. Physiology is physics. Photonics is physics. Being a specialist does not invalidate the cornerstones by which all other disciplines operate.
@MuffinTastic
@MuffinTastic 7 жыл бұрын
why do you people have this urge to correct him? all he's saying is that it's interesting, not "incorrect"
@derpnerpwerp
@derpnerpwerp 2 жыл бұрын
I'm really glad you did this video.. I was reading about this the other day and I had the exact same question about environmental noise.. I asked on reddit and I kinda got snobby answers.. thanks!
@brahmburgers
@brahmburgers Жыл бұрын
I've watched this entire video 3 times, at month's intervals, .... and it still amazes me. Thanks to everyone involved. It's sooooo cool.
@josephastier7421
@josephastier7421 4 жыл бұрын
1:25 The Alpha Centauri vs human hair comparison is killing me.
@MMCKB
@MMCKB 4 жыл бұрын
True 10 mm ≠ 0.1 mm :)
@justinl2009
@justinl2009 3 жыл бұрын
@Progressive Dude same, though it's Pokemon not CoD in my case.
@dominic9517
@dominic9517 3 жыл бұрын
seriously.... makes no sense
@timoms1748
@timoms1748 3 жыл бұрын
@John Loibl u don’t
@dumbass3843
@dumbass3843 3 жыл бұрын
@@dominic9517 lets say you are measuring a table that is 30 cm long with a measuring tape Is the the table 30.000001 cm or 29.999999 cm Now imagine one end of the table is milkway and the other end is alpha santori Is the distance and hair width longer or one hair width shorter
@vinayaknavada4677
@vinayaknavada4677 3 жыл бұрын
That professor is like "I don't need to iron my shirt , I need answers "😅
@virajkharat1515
@virajkharat1515 2 жыл бұрын
I need to give answers 😂😂
@James-wd9ib
@James-wd9ib 2 жыл бұрын
This must mean I am a scientist too
@mattsmith2247
@mattsmith2247 2 жыл бұрын
I'm really glad I found this video because I first learned about LIGO in the episode on Black holes from the show Strip the Cosmos. And I had so many questions. So I'm loving this video fir asking those questions
@LuisLopez2
@LuisLopez2 Жыл бұрын
I have lived a few blocks away from that Caltech building for years and this is first time I get to see what's inside of it.
@mike_dunno
@mike_dunno 7 жыл бұрын
That guy's shirt has been affected by some gravitational waves
@TheDudecof
@TheDudecof 6 жыл бұрын
Reading your comment and laughing after watching such a complex and advanced explanation is kind of like the same feeling as walking into a warm room after hiking through the arctic for one hour
@TauCu
@TauCu 6 жыл бұрын
Stiggy Vandsrinskeen How? And why didn't they find anything?
@assootoshmotah2350
@assootoshmotah2350 6 жыл бұрын
Stiggy Vandsrinskeen Antropy is the problem my friend.
@nishant147vats
@nishant147vats 6 жыл бұрын
And there are those who throw candy away and cry why there is a printing mistake on its label.
@4amcuriosity162
@4amcuriosity162 6 жыл бұрын
Miika Mäentaus Maybe he lives inside a black hole
@veritasium
@veritasium 7 жыл бұрын
Prof Rana Adhikari is clearly a star. Here's how he felt when he learned of G-wave detection: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jM99oaqY056blJs.html Those glasses provide laser protection - the laser in that lab won't vaporize your head but it could burn your retinas.
@adamgreen7742
@adamgreen7742 7 жыл бұрын
Kissy kissy.
@subhoghosal7
@subhoghosal7 7 жыл бұрын
Veritasium Name should be pronounced as Rana Odhikari ( 'A' is pronounced in Bengali as 'O')
@Luisitococinero
@Luisitococinero 7 жыл бұрын
+Veritasium Next step will be using two slits for studying the diffraction of gravitational waves!!!
@veritasium
@veritasium 7 жыл бұрын
I believe the upgrade to 1MW they're implementing right now. The 1064 nm lasers have excellent stability, low noise and they are not huge - this makes them ideal for this purpose. BTW older g-wave interferometers used green lasers (that's why Rana's glasses were green).
@uhmGrimz
@uhmGrimz 7 жыл бұрын
Veritasium Hey why are you guys wearing the glasses in there? Some protection?
@theexodeus
@theexodeus 2 жыл бұрын
Very much agree with your sentiment at 8:11, absolutely fantastic that we’re peeling back reality beyond what should even be possible it’s crazy.
@straightdrive6192
@straightdrive6192 Жыл бұрын
level of expertise is known in how simple someone can explain a complex topic in their domain.
@safir2241
@safir2241 5 жыл бұрын
Aliens have this on their smartphones
@Sampoochy
@Sampoochy 5 жыл бұрын
Safir WE are the aliens smartphones. Chew on that mere mortal.
@chanakyasinha8046
@chanakyasinha8046 4 жыл бұрын
And those aliens died colliding with black hole
@sciencegeek9706
@sciencegeek9706 4 жыл бұрын
Thinking the same thing
@novodkagohome9508
@novodkagohome9508 4 жыл бұрын
I have this on my backyard
@bryanpedrosa8061
@bryanpedrosa8061 4 жыл бұрын
LMAO
@publiclyshamed5383
@publiclyshamed5383 3 жыл бұрын
I’m always the smartest person in the room when I’m watching Veritasium alone.
@floreaciprian9742
@floreaciprian9742 2 жыл бұрын
Sometimes i feel like the dumbest person in the room when im watching Veritasium alone
@abhineetthaire4602
@abhineetthaire4602 2 жыл бұрын
@@floreaciprian9742 well you can be both the smartest and the dumbest in the room at once!
@AtPrEd
@AtPrEd Жыл бұрын
@@floreaciprian9742 Schrödingers Intelligence 😆
@CdFMasterVideo
@CdFMasterVideo Жыл бұрын
​​@@floreaciprian9742 Quantum superposition says you can be both as long as there's no observator in the room
@childcannibalism5080
@childcannibalism5080 Жыл бұрын
​@@floreaciprian9742 It's a 50/50 either I feel extremely dumb or very smort
@carrickrichards2457
@carrickrichards2457 Жыл бұрын
An intriguing glimpse into new possibilities and old ones. Thank you
@andrewwalker3002
@andrewwalker3002 Жыл бұрын
As usual fantastically interesting and very intelligent interview🙏🏼❗️
@Coco044
@Coco044 3 жыл бұрын
The guy running that place knows so much about what hes doing its amazing. He found the perfect job (for him).
@rapianopenaldo1669
@rapianopenaldo1669 2 жыл бұрын
Well he has a phD from MIT....need anything more to say?
@grealish2234
@grealish2234 2 жыл бұрын
@@rapianopenaldo1669 haha your Name
@nigglebit
@nigglebit 5 жыл бұрын
Humans are amazing. We are able to detect changes to our very frame of reference *from within that frame of reference.*
@MisterWillow
@MisterWillow 5 жыл бұрын
That is the surprising part indeed! Good thing the interviewer asked explicitely how that works, and after a lame joke he clearly explained, well kind of clearly.
@nigglebit
@nigglebit 5 жыл бұрын
@@MisterWillow Hahaha that's so accurate! I also could understand the theory, somewhat, but the practicality is still unclear to me. Basically, I'm not enough acquainted with the field.
@johnterpack3940
@johnterpack3940 5 жыл бұрын
I can't wait til they can measure the pixels on the screen of the simulation we're part of.
@MrPhilipe711
@MrPhilipe711 5 жыл бұрын
@@nigglebit thing is, there aint much to understand.. an interaction so strong that had too much energy dispensed.. being it noticeable over our planet system noise. This energy flow wended up stretching spacetime in the direction it came from. simply then we measure two 90 degrees angle lengths using lasers. (called interferometer). which is able to pick on quantum distances being bended in reference to another (if one length is streched more than the other it will take the light from the laser a tiny bit more time causing it to when it comes back to interfere with the other light causing positive and negative patterns of interference seen as the final laser (getting brighter and darker) with different levels of intensity over time), which happened that we were able to measure with clarity. .
@Sushobhit333
@Sushobhit333 5 жыл бұрын
@@johnterpack3940 indeed haha that would be nice and along with that i would also like to know how the universe goes into edit mode by the creator of our simulation
@duaneburris7ate9
@duaneburris7ate9 8 ай бұрын
I'm so glad someone was around to see this, Dave
@YeloPartyHat
@YeloPartyHat 3 жыл бұрын
That man is a good communicator... and in his job I would imagine rightfully so!
@Jimmeyyyyy
@Jimmeyyyyy 7 жыл бұрын
That guy is so chill
@27plays
@27plays 7 жыл бұрын
:P yeah
@AkashRajDahal
@AkashRajDahal 7 жыл бұрын
lol.. The guy is a Nepali
@wyomingptt
@wyomingptt 7 жыл бұрын
He sounds American
@Ophiax
@Ophiax 7 жыл бұрын
pGpants indians ask all my friends for nudes, not my favourite
@27plays
@27plays 7 жыл бұрын
ElectroBarb who is ceo of google? microsoft? Adobe Systems? MasterCard..... see im not pretending we are god... but we are kinda cool not only us but we all on earth are amazing, beautiful peoples ;) accept every person's opinion.. and those who asked for n**es are kinda exceptions.. whom you found every where else too... lets not fight on these some words and enjoy the nature of science and explore through Veritasium
@besmart
@besmart 7 жыл бұрын
A megawatt *continuous* laser? That's a helluva beam. I toured the Petawatt laser in Austin but that thing only fires for like a trillionth of a second
@johnarbuckle2619
@johnarbuckle2619 7 жыл бұрын
It's Okay To Be Smart I love your channel
@willwhite1987
@willwhite1987 7 жыл бұрын
I thought he said light was discrete, duh.
@ABaumstumpf
@ABaumstumpf 7 жыл бұрын
I want one of those - gonna troll my cat with a 1 megawatt :D
@derek
@derek 7 жыл бұрын
It's Okay To Be Smart the power of the laser itself is much lower but they resonate it in a cavity to build up to 1MW
@ABaumstumpf
@ABaumstumpf 7 жыл бұрын
Gameboygenius www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/ligos-ifo Seems like 750 kW can be stored in the arms.
@FafliXx
@FafliXx 2 жыл бұрын
To me it's even more impressive that we even knew to look for them.
@xlynx9
@xlynx9 2 жыл бұрын
5:23 thank you @Veritasium for answering the question I came here for. And I love how Prof Rana Adhikari was tickled at you being the first journalist to ask interesting questions. The way you introduced him was so crazy and funny! Now I have another question, were you guys wearing sunnies to protect your eyes from possible laser leakage?
@genshinsbizzareadventures
@genshinsbizzareadventures Жыл бұрын
To look cool 😆 😎
@SandlotRider
@SandlotRider 7 жыл бұрын
I Detect a Gravitational Meme is Born 1:06
@Master_Therion
@Master_Therion 7 жыл бұрын
"Mantra meditation for physicists."
@BeHappyTo
@BeHappyTo 7 жыл бұрын
gravitational mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmeme
@denninosyos
@denninosyos 7 жыл бұрын
Sandlot Rider À
@victoriaeads6126
@victoriaeads6126 3 жыл бұрын
Prof. Rana Adhikari is SUPER AWESOME! He's obviously an expert in this field, and he's eminently capable of explaining his passion in a way that others who don't have his knowledge can more easily understand. That's a rare talent. Sir, I hope you teach undergraduates, because you are the sort who can REACH undergraduates and enthuse them about science and physics.
@kato_dsrdr
@kato_dsrdr 3 ай бұрын
I'm just glad that there are people out there that are intelligent enough to figure this out.
@RiDankulous
@RiDankulous Жыл бұрын
I think something very important to acknowledge during explanation is that these gravitational waves are tiny *at this distance from the source*. They were not tiny near the source. They were huge at the source.
@MauveAvenger7889
@MauveAvenger7889 4 жыл бұрын
A megawatt won't even rip your head off, it will just vaporise. So why are we bothering to wear these glasses? Because they look badass, that's why
@darklion13
@darklion13 4 жыл бұрын
A direct contact will vaporise you, which isn't always the case
@cheemomugdoo6001
@cheemomugdoo6001 4 жыл бұрын
The glasses do nothing!
@grenzviel4480
@grenzviel4480 4 жыл бұрын
@@cheemomugdoo6001 I didn't want to be that guy, but actually, there is a chance that a small reflection of the laser could leak somewhere and hit your eyes. Such light would blind you instantly even if you can't actually see it.
@davemerit6433
@davemerit6433 3 жыл бұрын
Sometimes your water tap accidentally gets a tiny leak. Its like a seat-belt for your eyes.
@intrepidmixedmedia7939
@intrepidmixedmedia7939 3 жыл бұрын
ITs oNLy a MoDEl!
@adamgillespie3393
@adamgillespie3393 4 жыл бұрын
Imagine testing your lasers and then one of them bends weirdly and it turns out that they were affected by two colliding blackholes from over a billion years ago
@aayushdhungana360
@aayushdhungana360 2 жыл бұрын
imagined
@LD-qj2te
@LD-qj2te 3 жыл бұрын
My mind is blown ! I would love to know how they compensated for everything and how things were toleranced
@maxfoster4383
@maxfoster4383 Жыл бұрын
I've always been a fan of the content you and others like you (smartereveryday, vsauce, ect.) make, but recently I've been on a binge of your content. Please never stop helping us learn new things about our world!
@jjuupa
@jjuupa 7 жыл бұрын
*video starts *doesn't understand anything *keeps watching *video ends **feels smart*
@Mp57navy
@Mp57navy 7 жыл бұрын
Hmm... what part didn't you understand? I'd go so far and say they explained it pretty idiot proof...
@jjuupa
@jjuupa 7 жыл бұрын
glad to know you're all smart to understand every single part of this video😊😊 Smart enough to leave a comment bragging about it
@diarmuidhurley3230
@diarmuidhurley3230 7 жыл бұрын
Mp57navy. Wow. .!A true Michael Brown
@vizthex
@vizthex 7 жыл бұрын
I've heard of that but not seen it.
@mrgomelonsolaris
@mrgomelonsolaris 6 жыл бұрын
but why show less?
@77gravity
@77gravity 3 жыл бұрын
Stuff like this makes "rocket science" look extremely simple.
@jamesambrocio
@jamesambrocio 2 жыл бұрын
@@charliebingaman571 exactly. A huge chunk of the technology we use in our daily lives were accidentally discovered/invented because of these 'useless' projects, as they say.
@yuritardid7761
@yuritardid7761 2 жыл бұрын
@@charliebingaman571 Better than spending billions on war
@maxwellsequation4887
@maxwellsequation4887 2 жыл бұрын
@@charliebingaman571 go back to your trash can
@maxwellsequation4887
@maxwellsequation4887 2 жыл бұрын
Rocket science IS simple. Its like basic Physics. Anyone with a very basic knowledge of calculus can understand most of it. NASA is kinda lame.
@frankdimeglio8216
@frankdimeglio8216 2 жыл бұрын
@Mario Castillo THE ULTIMATE (AND CLEAR) MATHEMATICAL UNIFICATION (AND PROOF) REGARDING PHYSICS/PHYSICAL EXPERIENCE IS NOW DEMONSTRATED, AS E=MC2 IS F=MA: TIME DILATION ultimately proves (ON BALANCE) that E=mc2 IS F=ma, as ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity. This NECESSARILY represents, INVOLVES, AND DESCRIBES what is possible/potential AND actual IN BALANCE. (Importantly, balance and completeness go hand in hand.) The stars AND PLANETS are POINTS in the night sky. NOW, A PHOTON may be placed at the center of WHAT IS THE SUN (as A POINT, of course); AS the reduction of SPACE is offset by (or BALANCED with) the speed of light (c); AS E=mc2 IS F=ma; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. Indeed, ultimately and truly, TIME is NECESSARILY possible/potential AND actual IN BALANCE; AS E=MC2 IS F=MA; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. Very importantly, outer "space" involves full inertia; AND it is fully invisible AND black. GREAT. Accordingly, INSTANTANEITY is thus FUNDAMENTAL to what is the FULL and proper UNDERSTANDING of physics/PHYSICAL EXPERIENCE; AS E=mc2 IS F=ma; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity. It ALL CLEARLY makes perfect sense. Gravity IS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy. E=mc2 IS F=ma. ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. E=MC2 IS F=MA. GREAT !!! Gravity AND ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy are linked AND BALANCED opposites, AS E=mc2 is F=ma; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. Consider THE MAN who is standing on what is THE EARTH/GROUND. Touch AND feeling BLEND, AS E=mc2 IS F=ma; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. The stars AND PLANETS are POINTS in the night sky. GRAVITATIONAL force/ENERGY IS proportional to (or BALANCED with/as) inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE, AS E=mc2 IS F=ma; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. Gravity/acceleration involves BALANCED inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE, AS E=mc2 IS F=ma; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. Accordingly, the rotation of WHAT IS THE MOON matches it's revolution. Great. MOREOVER, a given PLANET (including what is THE EARTH) then sweeps out equal areas in equal times consistent WITH/AS F=ma, E=mc2, AND what is perpetual motion; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. Gravity IS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy. INSTANTANEITY is thus FUNDAMENTAL to what is the FULL and proper UNDERSTANDING of physics/physical experience, AS E=mc2 IS F=ma; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. This NECESSARILY represents, INVOLVES, AND DESCRIBES what is possible/potential AND actual IN BALANCE. Stellar clustering ALSO proves ON BALANCE that E=mc2 IS F=ma, AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy is gravity. Objects (including WHAT IS the falling MAN) fall at the SAME RATE (neglecting air resistance, of course), as E=mc2 IS F=ma; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. "Mass"/energy is gravity. ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. E=mc2 IS F=ma. THE DOME of a PERSON'S EYE is ALSO VISIBLE. (Notice the flat AND black space of what is THE EYE.) The stars AND PLANETS are POINTS in the night sky. The sky is blue, AND the Earth is blue. THE EARTH/ground AND THE SUN are E=mc2 AND F=ma IN BALANCE, AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS UNIVERSALLY PROVEN TO BE GRAVITY in what is a mathematically unified fashion. E=mc2 IS F=ma. The middle distance in/of/AS SPACE AND the full distance in/of/AS SPACE are NECESSARILY linked AND balanced. MAGNIFICENT !!!!!!!!!! INSTANTANEITY IS thus FUNDAMENTAL to what is the FULL and proper UNDERSTANDING of physics/physical experience, AS E=mc2 IS F=ma; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. Gravity IS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy. It is ALL CLEARLY proven. Again, the stars AND PLANETS are POINTS in the night sky. GREAT. Energy has/involves GRAVITY, AND ENERGY has/involves inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE. GRAVITATIONAL force/ENERGY IS proportional to (or BALANCED with/as) inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE, AS E=mc2 IS F=ma; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. Gravity/acceleration involves BALANCED inertia/INERTIAL RESISTANCE, AS E=mc2 IS F=ma; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. It is all CLEARLY proven !!!!!!!! TIME is NECESSARILY possible/potential AND actual IN BALANCE, AS E=MC2 IS F=ma; AS ELECTROMAGNETISM/ENERGY IS GRAVITY. Gravity IS ELECTROMAGNETISM/energy. GREAT !!!!!!!! BALANCE and completeness go hand in hand. By Frank DiMeglio
@brahmburgers
@brahmburgers 2 жыл бұрын
I just turned 70 and am glad I can witness some this phenomenal detector stuff - b4 I die.
@ethervagabond
@ethervagabond 3 жыл бұрын
"Now here's something most people don't think about, which is that gravitational waves stretch space-time." That's an understatement if I ever heard one. Most people don't even think about gravitational waves OR space-time at all.
@WarringFighter
@WarringFighter 5 жыл бұрын
i’m stereotyping, but he’s the type of brown dude, with glasses that has hit the highest levels of chill and great to hang around with
@namitanene3531
@namitanene3531 5 жыл бұрын
😂😆😁
@fitnesspoint2006
@fitnesspoint2006 5 жыл бұрын
here is a better video of your brown guy kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jM99oaqY056blJs.html
@burnttoast0425
@burnttoast0425 5 жыл бұрын
not gonna lie, they got us in the first half.
@Anonymous37980
@Anonymous37980 5 жыл бұрын
I'm sorry I put back the megawatt laser and stop vaporizing people please just stop showing up in the comment section
@ultimaxkom8728
@ultimaxkom8728 5 жыл бұрын
@JOYJIT ROY k...?
@pantherowow77
@pantherowow77 4 жыл бұрын
3:39 best nerd bromance moment ever.
@shaantubes
@shaantubes 3 жыл бұрын
Yes. Loved this part😂
@shaantubes
@shaantubes 3 жыл бұрын
5:30 is another one
@TheAlmostTV
@TheAlmostTV 3 жыл бұрын
Hahaha this is so good to see
@slickstretch6391
@slickstretch6391 2 жыл бұрын
Still better than Twilight.
@justiceitself
@justiceitself 2 жыл бұрын
This is just amazing, thank you sooo much!
@astrobua2343
@astrobua2343 2 жыл бұрын
I watched this five times now. In my opinion, it is one of Veritasium's best. Thanks, Derek!
@B3Band
@B3Band 7 жыл бұрын
What do you call a Fleshlight in Japan? 6:38
@snowpeaky
@snowpeaky 7 жыл бұрын
Made me laugh!
@wowstefaniv
@wowstefaniv 7 жыл бұрын
it's fureshi raitu
@RyanRyzzo
@RyanRyzzo 7 жыл бұрын
Yuo of win Noberu puraizu.
@raiedr
@raiedr 7 жыл бұрын
Underrated comment
@joshua43214
@joshua43214 7 жыл бұрын
He even made an appropriate gesture :)
@sbkaggle5961
@sbkaggle5961 4 жыл бұрын
When you are a PhD student watching this amazing absurdly incredible accomplishment, and realizing that your simpler, and ultimately more useless research, has dumbass problems you have no idea how to solve.
@FFGG22E
@FFGG22E 4 жыл бұрын
Its funny that so many smart people cant see how this makes no sense
@Yellow.1844
@Yellow.1844 4 жыл бұрын
@@FFGG22E they might not be able to explain it all but just because it doesnt make sense for your little brain doesnt mean its wrong and I doubt you got a better theory
@user-mz7cn9hq8v
@user-mz7cn9hq8v 4 жыл бұрын
Wtf is with self-creators here
@chappie3642
@chappie3642 4 жыл бұрын
@@Videot99 it's a KZfaq comment, no one cares about punctuation
@adolf221
@adolf221 4 жыл бұрын
Videot99 are you serious
@jerryoconnor9133
@jerryoconnor9133 3 жыл бұрын
Can't wait to look back at this engineering in 20-30 years and see where we've gone
@darknez09240
@darknez09240 Ай бұрын
this is crazy, the extreme of extreme conditions to even be able to detect the wave,respect to all the scientist that are doing experiments similar or related to LIGO
@JuuRokuChan
@JuuRokuChan 4 жыл бұрын
I used to live in Louisiana, and im so glad my physics teacher in high school made a visit to LIGO Livingston a 50 point extra credit project. It wa really cool to be able to visit a place that made this kind of measurement.
@tpm2637
@tpm2637 3 жыл бұрын
I live in Livingston. I was supposed to go on a field trip years ago, but it got canceled. Sad I never got to go.
@JuuRokuChan
@JuuRokuChan 3 жыл бұрын
@@tpm2637 rip ;_;
@TheHolosim
@TheHolosim 5 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Professor Adhikari, for finally answering this question that has been bugging me since high school. "What does a gravitational wave sound like?" It's now the ring-tone on my work cell. (6:12)
@carazy123_
@carazy123_ 5 жыл бұрын
1:07
@crustyoldfart
@crustyoldfart 3 жыл бұрын
An Egyptian colleague of mine, many years ago used to recount apocryphal stories of the [ presumably mythical ] character Jo-Hah. In this particular story Jo-Hah has just been awarded a contract by the Caliph to teach a donkey to sing. If he fails he will be beheaded, if he succeeds he will be world-famous. His friends are appalled. One asks how much time do you have ? Answer 25 years. Jo-Hah explains : in that space of time many things could happen - the Caliph might die, the donkey might die ..... etc
@antoniomaglione4101
@antoniomaglione4101 3 жыл бұрын
Truly great explanation, Thanks!
@The-Dom
@The-Dom 5 жыл бұрын
I apparently need to use more photons because my uncertainty levels are very high...
@pvtmill3rr
@pvtmill3rr 5 жыл бұрын
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@zaccash5824
@zaccash5824 5 жыл бұрын
@@jclouds2257 I really cant tell if you are actually an idiot or you are just joking.
@danielmconnolly7
@danielmconnolly7 5 жыл бұрын
Maybe next time try Kryptonite...
@johnpaul.hello.
@johnpaul.hello. 5 жыл бұрын
All I heard was, " ...we have lasers... they will vaporize your head off..."
@ThatOneGuy-nd6od
@ThatOneGuy-nd6od 4 жыл бұрын
US gov be like
@RiDankulous
@RiDankulous Жыл бұрын
Rana Adhikari is an excellent communicator. It is remarkable this achievement was completed and the results accepted by the scientific community.
@KipIngram
@KipIngram 3 ай бұрын
I LOVE what a straight face he kept when he told you the laser would just leave your neck a smoking stump. 🙂
@leerowe280
@leerowe280 4 жыл бұрын
The more science Professors I see the more I realize they are the BEST HUMANS AROUND
@warshipsatin8764
@warshipsatin8764 3 жыл бұрын
not really
@user-fv4bz8lv4u
@user-fv4bz8lv4u 3 жыл бұрын
1:25 The Alpha Centauri vs human hair comparison is killing me.
@MN-sc9qs
@MN-sc9qs 6 жыл бұрын
The host asks great questions and the professor answers very well.
@dontomaso11
@dontomaso11 5 жыл бұрын
did they really or are u just racist maybe?
@panimbryk
@panimbryk 5 жыл бұрын
dontomaso11 are you kidding?
@WanderTheNomad
@WanderTheNomad 5 жыл бұрын
@@panimbryk I don't know if he's joking, but I think it's safe to say you don't need to take them seriously.
@sterlincharles8357
@sterlincharles8357 5 жыл бұрын
Marc, I agree with you. Very well explained. Lol especially if I could somewhat understand it.
@wingwang4342
@wingwang4342 5 жыл бұрын
I agree with Marc as well, I might be a little racist. Lol
@alancovington4851
@alancovington4851 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for explaining this was having trouble with this but not now
@georgerevell5643
@georgerevell5643 Жыл бұрын
The human race has had a lot of fails, but the huge effort and cost we put into our pure science ventures like this one, now that I'm really proud of.
@Iseenoobpeoples
@Iseenoobpeoples 7 ай бұрын
Proud of faked results?
@danparish1344
@danparish1344 5 жыл бұрын
Don't you just love hearing smart people talk who are experts in the field?
@stevie7000yt
@stevie7000yt 5 жыл бұрын
Yeah, but also in cafes, classrooms, around kitchen tables, anywhere really. Doesn't have to be outdoors.
@OfMiceAndMegabytes
@OfMiceAndMegabytes 5 жыл бұрын
Yes, yes and yes!
@pvtmill3rr
@pvtmill3rr 5 жыл бұрын
gravity doesn't exist kzfaq.info/get/bejne/la6Rf9Vq0eDYcX0.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q8xddM591L-3Y3U.html
@jaytan531
@jaytan531 5 жыл бұрын
pvtmiller you do know density doesn’t dictate which direction the objects move right? And the fact that we’re moving downwards already proves gravity...
@smilernok
@smilernok 5 жыл бұрын
but where do you find videos , this is not one of them
@Gruggo
@Gruggo 7 жыл бұрын
This guys is so bad ass, that he doesn't even have to iron his shirt.
@Xakslied
@Xakslied 7 жыл бұрын
Grugg people still use irons? What is this? 19-fuckin-55
@Gruggo
@Gruggo 7 жыл бұрын
evidently not ;)
@Retromags
@Retromags 2 жыл бұрын
Let us not pretend that he doesn't come to work shirtless everyday, that shirt is just kept in his desk for emergencies.
@alastermcdonach2020
@alastermcdonach2020 2 жыл бұрын
Ron Drever described this in a lecture I attended in 1976. Thank you Ron.
@ChrisMillerLite
@ChrisMillerLite 3 жыл бұрын
Dude didn't have time to iron his shirt. "I gotta wake up and science, no time for that"
@snorman1911
@snorman1911 3 жыл бұрын
At least it's right side out!
@MrKelsomatic
@MrKelsomatic 5 жыл бұрын
Rana seems like the best possible combination of brilliant scientist and chillest dude
@itsthorondil7608
@itsthorondil7608 2 жыл бұрын
Having visited LIGO Livingston a few years ago, absolutely incredible.
@desklamp8591
@desklamp8591 2 жыл бұрын
“a megawatt will vaporize your head” props to the guy who tested that 🙏
@jefferynelson
@jefferynelson 5 жыл бұрын
I'm a blue collar type. There must have been extremely skilled construction workers involved in building this. Glad this is happening in my lifetime.
@BuhnanaFone
@BuhnanaFone 5 жыл бұрын
Usually these are assembled by engineers. The construction workers may have been involved in building the actual stretch of building with wiring. The actual pipe that has all the ingenuity requires precise measurements only engineers can build
@Lexender
@Lexender 4 жыл бұрын
Like spacecraft (space ships, drones, etc) theres engineers who specialice in working with these massive structures that despite being kilometers Long have to be made with nanometric precision
@Videot99
@Videot99 4 жыл бұрын
@Dr Deuteron One thing that has me scratching my head a bit is that at 2.5 miles long the curvature of the earth will cause a drop of something over 40 inches. How do they get the laser beam to bend around that? Or is the tube elevated as it goes?
@semperfipar1299
@semperfipar1299 4 жыл бұрын
@@Videot99 It should have you scratching your head because it is theory(blackholes) piled on top of theory(two blackholes) piled on top of theory(two blackholes colliding) and this place is measuring the theory. What he has really created is a scientific BS meter.
@Darfaultner
@Darfaultner 4 жыл бұрын
@@semperfipar1299 You might want to go and check the difference between a hypothesis and a theory and stop embarrassing yourself.
@MilesUmbrae
@MilesUmbrae 7 жыл бұрын
He's right; it's not alien civilization level of technology... ..it is just as simple as refining and perfecting technology we already have.
@kingjamestres
@kingjamestres 7 жыл бұрын
We didn't have this technology previously you weren't listening the professor said 20 years ago he would have thought this impossible. Its thoughts like yours that constantly limit scientific discovery.
@Architector_4
@Architector_4 7 жыл бұрын
+james d I dunno, maybe "eh, it's simple, lets just build that real quick" approach is a good thing, really...
@Outwardpd
@Outwardpd 7 жыл бұрын
It is impossible to attain 'alien civilization level of technology' as the moment we would ever reach such an instance people are immediately thinking 'oh the aliens might have something better', 'Oh you've learned how to reach 10% the speed of light? Aliens can go 99% of it', 'Oh you've reached light speed? Aliens have learned to manipulate wormholes', 'Oh you've learned how to manipulate wormholes? Aliens have learned how to create them'. It it is a never ending chase, today's technology is alien technology to people 100 years ago and the tech we'll have in 100 years would be alien tech to us.
@beaconrider
@beaconrider 7 жыл бұрын
And since we have never had contact with an alien race, wouldn't it be a trifle presumptive to discuss their scientific prowess?
@Outwardpd
@Outwardpd 7 жыл бұрын
beaconrider Alien technology isn't a reality it is a concept.
@OJB42
@OJB42 2 жыл бұрын
This is one of humanity's greatest achievements. The numbers are incredible. It's almost impossible to believe that it actually worked!
@ThomasKundera
@ThomasKundera 2 жыл бұрын
First attempts where in the 1950's. Tooks decades of hard work.
@brendanfan3245
@brendanfan3245 Жыл бұрын
review it after 6 years, it still let me fell excited.
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