Was the Gravitational Wave Background Finally Discovered?!?

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A few weeks ago a large team of gravitational wave astronomers announced something pretty wild. The moderately confident detection of pervasive ripples in the fabric of space time that presumably fills the cosmos, detected by watching for subtle connections between the signals from rapidly spinning cores of dead stars in our galactic neighborhood. In other words, the gravitational wave background has probably been detected using a pulsar timing array.
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00:00 Introduction
01:02 Relativity and Gravitational Waves
02:21 Discovering Gravitational Waves
03:49 Gravitational Waves & Pulsars
05:04 Pulsar Timing Array Discovers GWB
06:48 Understanding the GWB
07:55 Are Pulsars Seeing Gravitational Waves?
09:00 Correlated & Anti-Correlated Pulsar Rates
10:07 Hellings and Downs Curve
11:44 Binary Supermassive Black Holes
13:39 NANOgrav Frequency Spectrum

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@Pain53924 9 ай бұрын

@@synisterfish Hi intelligent person Question: Normally a star is stable because the its own gravity is balanced by force produced inside the star due to nuclear fusion. How are black holes stable then i.e. why isn't all the mass of a black hole in the singularity?

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@Pain53924 9 ай бұрын

@@sebastiano97 Hi intelligent person Question: Normally a star is stable because the its own gravity is balanced by force produced inside the star due to nuclear fusion. How are black holes stable then i.e. why isn't all the mass of a black hole in the singularity?

@FPSIreland2 9 ай бұрын

@@Pain53924that’s a fundamental question in general relativity lol, if you answer that you’ll probs get a Nobel prize

@brandonwalker5011 9 ай бұрын

While I agree with the above comment that this is a very hard question, there are some explainable elements. Some matter orbiting a black hole have very large angular momentum relative to the singularity which allows them to continue orbiting for some time. The other important thing to remember about singularities is that they are both an anomaly in terms of space being a point of infinite density, they are also anomolies in terms of time. Things that have fallen into the singularity from the point of view of the singularity, as much as that can even make sense, may appear to us to be still falling in. Also matter that does fall in will eventually escape via Hawking radiation but as far as I know it is not known why.

@00alexander1415 7 ай бұрын

@@Pain53924 Stability means different things for planets and for black holes. What we call "Black Hole" is what light does around a singularity, where "most" if not all of the mass is. For all we know the Singularity could be a "solid thing". Black Hole is the phenomena of space-bending by what seems pretty much infinite mass in a finite area.

@some_words2112 9 ай бұрын

Love the Anton and Dr. Becky shoutouts. Anton in particular deserves all the love.

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And Becky deserves all the peace. And Vash has plenty of both to go around!

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@@JoshuaRolen Dude, you are throwing this in everywhere! What gives? When AI can copy the Aussie accent correctly, we can be sure we are near the singularity 😔

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Hello wonderful person!

@peggyking9543 9 ай бұрын

Awesome trio - Matt, Anton and Dr. Becky. Life is good - though apparently really complicated 😂.

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@minotaurbison 9 ай бұрын

It tickled me to see my other favorite science youtuber, Anton, in your video. You both are awesome creators!

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I see you are wonderful person as well

@Pain53924 9 ай бұрын

@@nazarinoutama8269 Hi intelligent person Question: Normally a star is stable because the its own gravity is balanced by force produced inside the star due to nuclear fusion. How are black holes stable then i.e. why isn't all the mass of a black hole in the singularity?

@Demonrifts 9 ай бұрын

@@Pain53924 A black hole IS the singularity. I assume the part you're getting confused about is the event horizon of a black hole, which isn't part of the mass of the black hole itself, its the radius around it in which gravity is too strong for anything to be able to escape. The event horizon is like the top of a waterfall while the actual black hole would be the lake at the bottom. Water going over the edge of the waterfall isn't part of the lake, yet, but its the point of no return, and that water will invariably become part of the lake soon.

@Pain53924 9 ай бұрын

@@Demonrifts Oo thanks

@bootskanchelsis3337 9 ай бұрын

Dr. Becky too !!!

@gheckolock81 9 ай бұрын

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I am delighted they were proposed as an explanation, and eagerly awaiting confirmation that it wasn't just a fluke.

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@AdamBoozer 9 ай бұрын

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@r1b3y38 9 ай бұрын

Channels like this are so important because monumental discoveries like this are otherwise buried in the noise that is our grasping pop culture soup. I’m constantly appalled that you never see coverage of these stories in mainstream media. (I’d say news but we don’t really have mainstream news sources anymore other than local newspapers.)

@gehteuchnichtsan7911 9 ай бұрын

this makes so much sense to me. that's why the universe on a macro scale looks like the light reflections of surface of water in motion, like a pool or something.

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This channel continues to be among the very best on KZfaq! Thanks so much for making these amazing discoveries a little more accessible to all of us! ...also, galactic gigawhale t-shirts when?

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@JohnConn117 9 ай бұрын

While I did watch Dr. Becky's video first, it's important to get the information from multiple sources... I'm happy you referenced her, as that's added evidence of the quality of her channel. Thank you.

@EPMTUNES 9 ай бұрын

Dr. Becky knows black holes like the back of her hand! One of the best astrophysics communicators of our generation.

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Im addicted to Dr. Becky ...and Sabine Hossenfelder.

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@@bootskanchelsis3337 I just ran across Sabine Hossenfelder a week, or so, ago. The algorithm is finally bringing more positive content my way. 🤣

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@onecst 9 ай бұрын

I just watched your video about this. It, too, was a great watch.

@LaunchPadAstronomy 9 ай бұрын

@@onecst wow, thank you!

@Eamenic1 9 ай бұрын

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@marcusw3459 9 ай бұрын

Not to be *that* guy, but I know you value accuracy, so I have to point out that LIGO first detected gravitational waves in September 2015, not 2016. I say this with all humility and want to close by telling you how much I really love and appreciate what you do at Spacetime- thank you for opening new worlds to those of us who otherwise would not have access 🙂

@axetroll 9 ай бұрын

This will change everything, recall newton right now!!

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@OriginalPiMan 9 ай бұрын

Was the result published in 2016, perhaps?

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@cvayas. 9 ай бұрын

This is rad! We are all perpetually roaming, fleeting gravitational-waves

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the way i understand the axion (not at all but a huge fan of Space Time) this is precisely true, but essentially infinite.

@MCsCreations 9 ай бұрын

Yes... But can someone please stop it? I'm getting dizzy... 😖

@cvayas. 9 ай бұрын

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@@cvayas. you are too kind

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before I even watch the full video, I just want to say I love the fact that I never have to panic about 'when will the next video come out that I can binge??' because, if science is happening, you can best believe Matt and the team are going to comment on it. And, as everyone always points out, it's at a level that most can understand! Thank you so much for everything you do.

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Thanks for the explanation of the grav waves Matt! You bring a great energy and enthusiasm, and I very much appreciate you shouting out my other two favorite channels for this mind-blowing world of science discoveries. The scientists who work on these projects are all amazing and the cutting edge of human intellectual accomplishment and I really can hardly believe the these things they are doing and what they find out, but I love to hear about it!

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I've been really interested in all the discoveries and space missions that have been happening the last several years, and channels like this one help so much to understand this stuff without needing a degree in quantum physics or something. Thanks for these!

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This show has gotten pretty damn technical over the years. I love it.

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Is it just me, or is space getting even more amazing?

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No. It's just you. LoL

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I think most things do as understanding increases, right up until they don't, so you're probably not alone.

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@yourguard4 9 ай бұрын

Omg, Matt has super massive black holes close to his heart?😱 Sounds dangerous....and bad ass.

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@andrewkepert923 9 ай бұрын

To an astrophysicist, “close” = “within the Virgo supercluster”

@ThoughtsAreReal 9 ай бұрын

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@Mohammad__M__ 9 ай бұрын

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@Manchen50 9 ай бұрын

Thank You.... I sometimes have to watch/listen more than once... But you are spot on my learning curve. Thank You.

@garyfilmer382 9 ай бұрын

Wibbly-Wobbly right through the universe, it all vibrating waves, rippling through space-time. This gravitational wave background is fascinating, we have come such a long way in our understanding of the universe, thank you, excellent video.

@GerinoMorn 9 ай бұрын

I know we presume it's not, but if the Universe was finite and bounded, would analysis of that "noise" potentially allow to detect interaction with the boundaries?

@roneyandrade6287 9 ай бұрын

There are no models that predict any kind of boundary even in a finite volume universe. There's no "outside" of the universe but perhaps you could get measurements of the curvature (wherer it's finite or not) of the universe.

@kafirekufr 9 ай бұрын

We don't presume anything. As far as a scientist is concerned, there could even be a creator. So boundaries of the universe are most welcome. But, we must test the hypothesis that there may be a boundary. Think about how you would test it and how it can explain existing universe and you have yourself a theory. Good luck 🤞.

@oriraykai3610 9 ай бұрын

@@kafirekufr Who's "we"? Atheism is firmly built into the core of these theories from the ground up. It is assumed that there is no God.

@CodyEthanJordan 9 ай бұрын

Presumably the boundary would also interact with light waves, which would probably be much easier to measure

@vurpo7080 9 ай бұрын

@@oriraykai3610 These theories make no statements regarding the existence or nonexistence of a god.

@cyanah5979 9 ай бұрын

The LIGO configuration somehow reminds me of the Michelson-Morley experiment. I'm wondering if we could detect an absolute vector of movement against the gravitational background?

@stuartdparnell 9 ай бұрын

It IS the Michelson-Morley experiment with a precision magnitude of 100x. If their inferometer was 2m wide, LIGO is 4km. So the "aether wind" wasn't disproven, null result does not mean it is disproven - it came back as gravitational waves!

@CodyEthanJordan 9 ай бұрын

Something else to consider is that a vector of motion against something isn't absolute, thats relative. We can already detect motion against the CMB or stars via light waves.

@emanemanrus5835 9 ай бұрын

@@stuartdparnell not a physicist here: what about if we tilt the M&M interferometer 90° vertical ? (making it working on a vertical plane?). What if the aether would existi and "move" from the above space in the earth direction? I'm thinking about superfluid quantum spacetime models, imagining the gravity as a manifestation of spacetime quanta flowing towards the Earth, in a radial direction, generating pressure. Could M-M's interferometer have found anything in that configuration? (laying on a vertical plane?)

@kylelochlann5053 9 ай бұрын

@@emanemanrus5835 The orientation makes no difference whatsoever.

@emanemanrus5835 9 ай бұрын

@@kylelochlann5053 sure on a flat plane (I know they repeated the experiment from every possibile angle 360°, but the instrumentation was laying horizontal). But on a vertical plane? Did you mean also the vertical case ?

@Yumari-Mai 9 ай бұрын

I've watched an explanation on a different channel and read an article on GWB before, but PBS really brought home the idea of angular correlation and anti-correlation, so I'm hugely thankful for that. I feel like I finally understood why this detection was possible in spite of all the possible sources of timing differences. Great stuff, and I hope we can learn more about gravitational waves in the future, most notably pinpoint the source of their background.

@morganisles4222 3 ай бұрын

Does correlated and anti-correlated mean that the waves interfere constructively or destructively?

@xepher42 9 ай бұрын

I remain in awe of how well your team can communicate extremely complex science concepts. I can watch while sober, and be enlightened. I can watch while drunk and be astonished. But I am never lost! Huzzah!

@gurk_the_magnificent9008 9 ай бұрын

The fact that there is such a thing as “gravitational wave astronomer” is amazing 🤯

@drakomus7409 9 ай бұрын

so amazing that we are wasting money on 'gravitational wave astronomers' instead of cleaning up east palestine ohio or flynt michigan water 🤯

@gurk_the_magnificent9008 9 ай бұрын

@@drakomus7409 you know these things aren’t mutually exclusive, right? 🙄

@drakomus7409 9 ай бұрын

@@gurk_the_magnificent9008 30trillion in debt, maybe learn basic maths and how to balance a budget. if the money went to cleaning up the water GURK, then the crooks wouldnt be able to steal it. savvy? btw, that gravitational research center(HANFORD) has been getting billions for 30years to clean up the nuclear waste leaking into the water tables, the contractor gets 100million a year for NOT cleaning it up, they call it '90% job completion' each year. if they actually cleaned it up then they wouldnt be getting billions every year to clean it up.(SOURCE: I LIVE HERE) DEFUND THE DoE

@AmblesJambles 9 ай бұрын

Can gravitational waves be lensed? Like what happens to the GWB around supermassive black holes right before they merge?

@kylelochlann5053 9 ай бұрын

Yes, GW follow the same geodesics that light does and are necessarily lensed.

@Elephantine999 9 ай бұрын

Great description of a complicated story. Thanks for making the science accessible to non-specialists! :)

@ziumzium5049 9 ай бұрын

Kudos for giving shoutout to the two other astrophysics communicators that i tegularly watch! It's great seeing people not seeing others in the field as competition but as colleges and linking to their videos as well.

@sudoboat 9 ай бұрын

Is the data public? I would love to build a pulsar delay visualizer from it. Would be interesting to see it in 3D.

@RagaarAshnod 9 ай бұрын

Opera being everywhere and nowhere, but greatly appreciated in this vast gravitationally bumpy version of spacetime :mattbot:

@JoshuaRolen 9 ай бұрын

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@matl7560 9 ай бұрын

⁠@@JoshuaRolenDid the real Matt get kidnapped by Opera?

@zacharywong483 9 ай бұрын

Superb video, as always!

@phobosmoon4643 9 ай бұрын

I've been waiting to see this for weeks, im so excited! It's so cool to see Anton (the bottom of the two youtubers shown at the start) in this video.

@ardag1439 9 ай бұрын

Take a moment to gravitationally wave back at all the black hole pairs who made these studies possible

@drabbyvideos 9 ай бұрын

So on point! 👋🌌🌌🌌

@BassNinja 9 ай бұрын

I seen dr becky and Anton

@DJWalt88 9 ай бұрын

This was a fantastic episode!

@thomaskilmer 9 ай бұрын

Oh shoot, I did my undergrad capstone on how ALIGO or the Einstein Telescope wouldn't be able to detect gravitational background waves. So it's really cool to see researchers found an alternative way to measure it! Thanks for the update, I'd stopped following this field, so I'd have never known without this channel!

@palpytine 9 ай бұрын

If pulsars are more accurate than even caesium clocks, how can we be so sure of our accuracy in measuring them?

@JoshuaRolen 9 ай бұрын

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@garethdean6382 9 ай бұрын

Because the accuracy change caused by gravitational waves is great enough. If I have a cesium clock and a stopwatch, I cannot hope to measure nanosecond changes to the atomic clock. But if I bump it and it skips a few seconds, my stopwatch can see that. To measure the base accuracy of pulsars, we merely need to time it with a bunch of cesium clocks. The cesium clocks and pulsar will 'drift' a certain, random, amount. If the pulsar is totally accurate then it will end up out of step with the clocks by an amount averaging x in a normal distribution. The clocks meanwhile will have drifted from each other MORE since any two clocks will BOTH be drifting, giving twice as much average drift. This allows us to measure something more accurate than our clocks.

@alla5578 9 ай бұрын

Could we use the SMBH in combination with Opera One AI to finally playback earth and find out Einstein's last words?

@petergreen5337 9 ай бұрын

Beautiful lesson

@tastesawesome 9 ай бұрын

Great video! I definitely learned a lot due to your wonderful teaching and presenting.

@naimah92 9 ай бұрын

Has there been any consideration of gravitational permeability? And a follow on of that, the idea of gravitational waves being subject to refraction?

@JoshuaRolen 9 ай бұрын

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@zacharyalger2302 9 ай бұрын

@@JoshuaRolen why do you repeatedly comment this?

@davidcerutti8795 9 ай бұрын

One thing that I've been trying to figure out about this is how the rotation of stars in the Milky Way can be discounted, or subtracted from the result. We needed very precise measurements of the movements and masses of planets in our solar system in order to understand the positioning of the earth to do this, and I suppose that these motions are much more significant.

@juliasophical 9 ай бұрын

The orbiting of stars in the Milky Way has no measurable effect on the signal, so there's nothing to subtract here.

@JoshuaRolen 9 ай бұрын

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@garethdean6382 9 ай бұрын

We're fortunate in that the orbits of stars in our galaxy are both much weaker sources and much longer wavelengths than what the array needs to detect. Galactic orbits are on the range of hundreds of millions of years. Binary star systems however produce shorter wavelengths that COULD conceivably be detected by LIGO type detectors with a bit more sensitivity than the ones we have.

@philipmurphy2 9 ай бұрын

Quality content for sure from Space Time.

@marcelotemer 9 ай бұрын

Fantastic explanation!!!!! Kudos Matt!!!

@WhitefirePL 9 ай бұрын

Have you noticed this cool thing... The universe shows wave-like behavior on its largest scale (gravitational background, black holes collisions etc) and ALSO on the smallest scale (quantum world, probability waves...) The medium for these waves is not precisely the same (spacetime or "now" for gravity and quantum fields for particles), BUT this wave nature of both relativity-scale and quantum-scale physics seems to be telling us something important. Or is it just my excitement?

@JoshuaRolen 9 ай бұрын

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@jerrykrampera8145 9 ай бұрын

The medium /spacetime /quantum /background gravity has long ago been identified as the "AETHER" by Nicola Tesla, for one. It is what a spike of energy we call a photon, perturbs through at the speed of light. When this spike of energy is much higher its actually a particle with mass, a proton ,we call it Matter. a building block of the hydrogen atom. Aether is what connects Spacetime to quantum.

@feynmanschwingere_mc2270 9 ай бұрын

Guess who first came up with the idea of probability waves (in a letter he sent to Max Born)? Rhymes with spine. ; )

@feynmanschwingere_mc2270 9 ай бұрын

@@jerrykrampera8145 Tesla did nothing of the sort. Tesla didn't even understand Relativity. Go look it up.

@WhitefirePL 9 ай бұрын

@@jerrykrampera8145 I think the classical 19th century concept of aether has been disproved, and later, kind of, replaced with 'spacetime'. But it seems that the idea of spacetime is confusing even for hardcore physicists. Perhaps because, in its core, spacetime is more of a mathematical, abstract concept dealing with dimensions, rather than part of real physics (which, intuitively, deals with *things* not with nothing). I'm sure there is an episode about spacetime on PBS Spacetime :).

@6Twisted 9 ай бұрын

If the whole of the universe is wobbling how much energy is involved?

@JoshuaRolen 9 ай бұрын

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@garethdean6382 9 ай бұрын

Quite a lot, a single decent black hole merger can release more energy in its few seconds than all the stars in the observable universe do via light in that same time. Compared to the mass energy in the universe it's quite small, but on human scales gigantic.

@steelgreyed 9 ай бұрын

We spent 1,000's of years trying to make the most precise clock possible, using everything from Astronomy to technology to both. Then about 100 years ago, we figured out the Universe really doesn't care about precise time, and we've been trying to figure out what to do with that ever since. This is the best application I've seen yet. :)

@arsalkhan9034 9 ай бұрын

Yes, finally! Have been waiting for this episode for a while.

@JoshuaRolen 9 ай бұрын

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@benmcelwain5301 9 ай бұрын

Sounds surprisingly similar to the space-time topology described in the discredited pilot wave theory.

@JoshuaRolen 9 ай бұрын

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@garethdean6382 9 ай бұрын

In what way? Pilot wave involves a distinct, ordered waveform guiding a particle. This result indicates random, noisy waves moving through space. It's signal vs random noise. It's like saying that a stormy sea is similar to pilot wave theory. I'm not seeing the parallels.

@fredcloud9668 9 ай бұрын

Really enjoyed your presentation.

@sean_vikoren 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for the Opera tip.

@anywallsocket 9 ай бұрын

If you played MassEffect you know the core of the galaxy contains not only a maelstrom of blackholes, but the secret hideout of the Reapers 😳 Lets hope they don’t notice we’ve started listening to them!

@stuartdparnell 9 ай бұрын

And the Leviathans...

@xBINARYGODx 9 ай бұрын

well, it contains both - but the reapers are not really meant to chill there, only a totally thralled species as a form of backup. Also, leviathans don't live there - they hide elsewhere.

@mraarone 9 ай бұрын

Can we get a breakdown of what might be on the inside of a black hole as if we are disassembling matter down to the Higgs, much like the disassembly of matter at the core of a neutron star?

@gjjkhjkk9241 9 ай бұрын

anti-matter are inside black hole

@JoshuaRolen 9 ай бұрын

Matt has been replaced with an AI, listen to the words closely. The Globalists have faked science!

@DouwedeJong 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for explaining and making this video. I learned a lot.

@ChrisChoi123 7 ай бұрын

As a theoretical comsologist working on this myself, i was very excited with the new nanograv results. it has more tight bounds on various predictions frmo beyond-GR models, like massive gravity, which is what im working on.

@morningstarkid07 9 ай бұрын

I am a huge fan of the channel but the AI voice filter in your recent videos is extremely distracting to me. Your audio was already perfect! In this day and age we are all beginning to train our eyes and ears to pick up on what's real vs what's AI generated, and this filter raises my alarm bells unintentionally. Obviously I know you guys are a legit and trustworthy source of information, but it still gives me the creeps.

@JoshuaRolen 9 ай бұрын

Head this missive, listen to the speach closely, Matt has been replaced with an AI

@markhuebner7580 9 ай бұрын

Awesome! 15 years well spent, thanks!

@dylanstone1327 9 ай бұрын

Thank you... For this channel

@rxscience9214 9 ай бұрын

There may be other channels that got to this first but only Matt’s voice puts me right to sleep without fail every time ❤

@eonasjohn 9 ай бұрын

Thank you for the video.

@gregsutton2400 9 ай бұрын

Great video, what a resource

@twotheabyss5966 9 ай бұрын

perfectly wrapped up with another Space Time finale 👏

@Numba003 9 ай бұрын

Thank you guys for another excellent video! The level of precision required for these gravitational wave detectors is mind-blowing. It's such an exciting time to be alive in terms of space science! God be with you out there everybody. ✝️ :)

@XxTheAwokenOnexX 9 ай бұрын

The universe has been surfing on gravitational waves since the big bang 😅👍

@Kardashev1 9 ай бұрын

Very exciting times in exploring the universe.

@owlredshift 9 ай бұрын

THAT NEW POST Q+A MUSIC, THO

@cleversonsutil4495 9 ай бұрын

0:40 Really great from you for mentioning Dr Becky and Anton channels! I follow them and watch their content.

@jahosaphat 9 ай бұрын

Thank you PBS.

@baseformrolf6710 9 ай бұрын

Shoutout too my boy anton, bro’s smile at the end of the video always making my day good 💯

@voxsideres 9 ай бұрын

Love getting a shout out, even if unintended 😅

@yuvalne 9 ай бұрын

This is the first time I understood the Hellings-Downs curve! Thanks!

@janzacharias3680 9 ай бұрын

Never regret my subscription, what an amazing video again ❤

@MistSoalar 9 ай бұрын

awesome. it's a new category of astronomy

@mariotabali2603 9 ай бұрын

This was actual good stuff

@MinoriMirari-fans 9 ай бұрын

My new physics where wrote 5 years ago. I love you professor. Good video.

@robbabcock_ 9 ай бұрын

Wow! This is an exciting bit of news!

@saumyaladhani 9 ай бұрын

Amazing video giving air to the spark of curiosity in numerous young minds. At 4:42 the formula should be distance = travel time * speed of light.

@markahenda 9 ай бұрын

Love the shoutout to Dr. Becky at the beginning! She's great, also an amazing science communicator. :)

@darthshima820 6 ай бұрын

Love the shout out to Anton.

@marioromano4039 9 ай бұрын

I love pbs spacetime!

@jestermoon 9 ай бұрын

Take A Moment My dear Proffeser Waves and water is a great analogy Nice mate. Keep Looking Up Stay Safe and Stay Free

@codyashline4003 9 ай бұрын

The guy swimming while in space with a jet pack got me.

@ethzero 9 ай бұрын

Nice nod to Dr Becky Smethurst and Anton Peteov's excellent KZfaq channels!

@amanjain4817 9 ай бұрын

That "pair of pulsars" at 9:52 had some real emotional depth behind it

@tbg10101 9 ай бұрын

Heard you on Radiolab. Very cool!

@scholtif 9 ай бұрын

Greetings from Canada and how much do we Owe you? you are better than any Lecture comming out of our Universities,,,,, you should be integrated in our schools, and being very critical of what ends up Payed by Public funds,,,you are one Great Exeption! Bravo!