PBS NOVA - The Elegant Universe Part 1 of 7

[CiscoCheeko]

Its a shame that neutrinos can travel faster then the speed of light. Just another hole to fill.

[itsquazart]

@CiscoCheeko Remember, thats not conclusive yet so lets not get ahead of ourselves 

[northoforacle]

My cats like strings. Theyre little trouble makers

[davishthai4422]

science is for smart people to understand

and PS3 is for a moron for killing their time of life

[gusryang]

Electricity isn't a force.

[tahu2247]

@gusryang i'm sorry to tell you this, but it kinda is. its part of the electromagnetic force.

[guerillachan20]

string theory is fucking joke its so retarded.

[OHHHmar1]

@guerillachan20 "the theory of relativity is a fucking joke its so retarded"-- im pretty sure thats what many people said back then.. im not saying its true, but you cant think of physics without being absolutely beyond intuition and without being very creative.. especially in modern physics.. so be open minded :)

[vettedreams]

I had to pull a string out of my dogs ass the other day. Does that mean my dog can travel thru time and space?

[MrNnpivo]

@vettedreams yes

[victorhui26]

@whoislikegod81 hahahaha 

[NickAAylward]

Yes the book is so much more awesome, but it's good to see BG explaining in detail some of the concepts...

[KellAnderson]

@NickAAylward I am actually reading it right now (The big news about Neutrinos got me to finally pick it up and actually read it instead of letting it just sit there in my kindle), and I am watching this as a companion to the book. It is helping.

[phatcrayonz]

String theory is simple to understand if u r me. I'm smart.

[DalliT86]

why is the quality so fckin shitty, awesome show but would be better if the visuals were backed up by better resolution

[peternicholls88]

The book is better.

[lickmesideways1]

that was along intro grt with it

[MrJungleMonkey]

Hrmm...if I had to choose between this or religion, i'd definitely go with this.....I think god might have just been a concept created to explain the universe around people at that point in time, probably pre homo sapien. Now we have the proper tools to explain our universe. Don't get me wrong, we have a LONG way to go. Just give it probably 200 -500 years more. Our technology will be so advanced it will seem like magic to us today. We WILL have the answers. Unless we're all dead :S....flame on.

[Cristinavps]

COOL INTRO



[ThroneMy]

all of kind video like this should be viewed more than like now....

[danogzilla]

about ten years a friend gave me Elegant Universe, and Godel Escher Bach. i'm very thankful.

[salolamilainen]

I read the book, it was a VERY interesting read.

[FallofDarkness55]

okay so physicists have discovered molecules, then they discovered atoms, and within an atom they discovered a nuclei with nucleons i.e. protons and neutrons inside the nuclear shell and electrons orbiting this shell. inside protons and neutrons, they've discovered other particles including quarks. and now they're suggesting these quarks and everything in this universe is comprised of extremely tiny vibrating strings. here's the ultimate question: HOW FAR DOWN DOES THE RABBIT HOLE GO?

[MrJungleMonkey]

@FallofDarkness55 that's the beauty of the universe and trying to understand it :)

[FallofDarkness55]

@MrJungleMonkey I agree. We live in an elegant universe like Brian Greene suggests. I don't know what your religious views are but I'm an ex-catholic, now an atheist. There's so many things in religion as a whole and in the bible that don't add up. I'm a person that tries to make sense of the world around me by using logic and scientific discoveries. To me, the brane theory makes sense for it contains both energy and mass.

[MrJungleMonkey]

@FallofDarkness55 Full blown atheist..To the universe actually seems more beautiful in this explanation than creationism. To have some almighty god basically, s uck his cock everyday and go to church just to get into his heaven? I mean, come on. If there is a god, well he truly does not give a shit about mankind. Why would you worship something like that? I mean go ahead i'm not gonna bitch you out...Its like praising a neglectful dead beat dad....sorry i didn't mean to turn this into a rant..

[FallofDarkness55]

@MrJungleMonkey I agree. I hear you brother. That's why I'm a full blown atheist now! There's so many contradictions in religion and in the bible like i said. If a god did exist, like you said, he clearly doesn't give a rat's ass about humanity. Surely if he was all-powerful he could have real easily intervened and stopped the crusades or 911 from happening. If a god is there, then it's an evil god which doesn't make sense and this is why i'm full blown atheist now.

[MrConundrum2020]

man i'm a huge fan of pure awesome science, and scientific concepts.

[kewi1998]

Well, at least all that funding didnt go to waste

[xaer0knight]

30 yrs.. im hardly that age but i respect NOVA... IT'S SCIENCE!!

[frankystein12]

I saw this feature for my physics IB class, and it was awesome (although a bit too generalized for my taste)!

[breakdancer97]

one thing to add, the energy needed to rip the fabric of space would be equivalent to literally "blowing up" the earth itself :)

[konohartist52]

I love this theory, it fascinates me to no end~

[junior00bacon00chee]

hahaha....mathematical physicists say the darndest things.

[EbClectic]

so tolkien was right after all...

[DerrickB82]

why is it like knowone takes chances anymore?? build the nuke then get lazy?

guess you gota be killing to get anywhere with science these days..but when you wana make life for humanity better and less draining you get knowhere..bsbsbsbsbs

[SuperMerlin100]

@DerrickB82 The befits we get from science feeds 40% of the world's people!

You know that vacine for smallpox? That was them.

MRIs, global communication/transport. That was them to.

So before you make such a huge statement think for 10 seconds!

[DerrickB82]

can you harvest electrons and build your own atoms from scratch? if we could then material would be renuable on a whole new level..build matter from electricity(Its possible!!!!) electron materializer..use magnetism to seperate electroms from the host atom and store them ..I bet we could do this right now if the funding was there for it and a dedicated scientist with some balls to push the emvelope

[SpunkySkunk347]

"... from scratch"? How exactly are you going to get more "from scratch" if you are talking about electrons and protons?

No, you can't make them "from scratch", but there's no need to worry because your proposal was completely retarded in the first place.

[SuperMerlin100]

@DerrickB82 elements are definded by proton number, and what you're talking about is alchemy.

[RJL738]

Any suffciently advanced technology would be unseperable from magic. That is what comes to mind mostly.

[DerrickB82]

the universe is magic its undeniable and science cant explain everything..Humans cannot explain what they cant imagine. science is onely good for explaining the explainable..what do you do when there are no more answers? what do you do when guessing is more accurate then proof..? everything is energy some moving fast some moving slow creating leaving trails of atoms..if you control the amount of energy in a field you can create anything by minipulating electrons and nutrons..

[SuperMerlin100]

@DerrickB82 If you are going to make a state ment like that at least know what Z boson is.

How do you know there are no answers? The only KNOWN way to test a theory of everything is a particle accelerator to big to build on Earth.

So how exactly are you suppose to know the result already?

[MrJungleMonkey]

@DerrickB82 heh...wait 200 years of quantum computing, we'll have the answers then :)

[SpunkySkunk347]

i hate how they try to make quantum mechanics seem like something it isnt... they try to make it seem like some "magical new-age" bullshit

[laughingmandude]

What is it really?

[SpunkySkunk347]

Figuring out the probable locations of subatomic particles.

[glabblegill]

It isn't the facts invovled with quantum mechanics that theyre talking about, but instead the implications of these facts. That's where the supposed "magical new-age" concepts come from.

[SpunkySkunk347]

@glabblegill

But these aren't the real implications of quantum mechanics - they are pseudo-implications at best

[DerrickB82]

what do you know spunky? seriously the universe is magical just look at us a thriving alien race called humans!! the mear fact we exist is the result of something magical..your just dead inside evil hatred bread blood leach.sorry im just very against negative minded ifections like you

[SpunkySkunk347]

What do I know? I read Nietzsche and Schopenhauer so my opinion is automatically valid.

Hmm, the mere fact we exist is magical? I can agree and I can see how you'd think that, but think of the dichotomal implications:

A) You can spend each waking moment in absolute gratefulness for even being alive, and do nothing besides this.

B) You can choose not to do proposition A, but then you are immoral and take life for granted.

C) You can reconsider your initial hypothesis, and

[SpunkySkunk347]

choose to view life as being extraordinarily mediocre. Be thankful for life? Why? Life is given.

[culwin]

The 3 minute intro seems like a waste of time.

[SeetheTruth4Yourself]

@culwin Any Nova video will have that since that's how these advertise, but the ads are certainly a waste of time.

[NVLUTZ007]

I remember seeing this way back in science class when I was in highschool, I never got to finish it, and I always wanted to see the rest of it.

[blindedby2monkeys]

damn you crappy quality internet video!

[MrPharaoh2009]

I attended Dr.Brian Greene at CSUMB, it was so cool to see him in person.

[crazydonutz]

i'm soo glad i found this. no, i don't believe much in the string theory(although it sems like a cool theory) we just had to watch this in science and i wasn't paying attention and our teacher gave us a worksheet on it, so now i have to sit through it again =[

[XpolarstormX]

Just asking, why dont u believe in it? :D

[imarchello]

so...what are those strings made of...? :D

[XpolarstormX]

Energy? :D

[imarchello]

quantum physics makes no sense to me :D

[SuperMerlin100]

@imarchello They are what every thing else is made of. They can't be said to be made out of "something".

[imarchello]

@SuperMerlin100

yeah, the same thing was with atoms... stuff just keeps getting smaller and smaller..

[SuperMerlin100]

@imarchello Quarks & leptons didn't volate the laws of physics.

The only time atoms were ever thought to be the smallest was before they were discovered. Sense electrons were discovered before them.

And that was only because the word atom was suppose to be used for the smallest building blocks.

It has always just been the case that scientist didn't have a good reason to think there was anything smaller but now their coming up against a phsical limit.

[SuperMerlin100]

@imarchello OK I just went back and checked the rest of the rest of this thread, my last reply still holds. In fact it holds even more it isn't string theory if the strings are made of something else. And the strings are suppose to be on the order of the plank lengh. In string theory the concept of distance breaks down at that point.

[imarchello]

@SuperMerlin100

so basically they're like infinitely small since there's no concept of distance working in their case?

[SuperMerlin100]

@imarchello No the concept brakes down if you go any lower then the plank lengh.

[djfakt]

@SuperMerlin100 LOL! What ARE you talking about? You're talking absolute NONSENSE, my boy.

[SuperMerlin100]

@djfakt It is this or quantized space or boiling space.

Energy fluctuations get increasingly violent at small distance scales. Those energy fluctuations have gravitational fields. Below the plank length, the fluctuations in the curvature of space would start making black holes.

If you don't believe that this is something string theory predicts, read "the elegant universe" by Brian Greene.

[monkies978]

If we weren't meant to understand God then why does it state in the Bible that we are made in God's image?And honestly why do people need to prove the existence of God in order to believe in it. Or rather convince other people in the existence of their deity.

[Beaverita]

Your not the shit...your just.....yeah boring.

[Coolguyrob2006]

for shits and gigles?

[ottosantiago]

His very very smart, but lets not forget Mr. Michio Kaku. I think they're friends..

[monkies978]

I'm not a big fan of Mr. Kakui. Simply because he suggested that we should use batteries instead of nuclear power for space crafts, according to Frank Zubrin's book 'The Case for Mars'.It's not very practical.

[ottosantiago]

True, if Mr Kaku said that then I over estimated him I gues. Bateries instead of nuclear in space? Not practical at all.

[Devinvollmer]

putting nuclear reactors in space could be risky though. a accidental rocket explosion might spread radiation

[SinnFein4ever]

This was my first introduction to Brian Greene.

He's probbably the most famous mathematical maverick since Albert Einstein.

I love the way that he's not afraid to walk off of the beaten-path.

Of course Steven Hawking did also, but I think that "The Elegant Universe" is a mush more interesting read than "A Brief History of Time".

[Cosmodious]

I love that they try to make this seem exciting with all of that techno music. Hilarious when you actually listen to what they're saying and ignore the music, then go back and pay attention to it.

[commandolam]

so you have to assume heaven and hell to exist to conclude that god exists?

thats quite the assumption there.

[Kuwaiti1990]

brian greene is the shit

his book "the faric of the cosmos" is also the shit

[navyseal100]

He's from NY!?...me too!

[RisenFromAshes427]

omg Brian greene is the new Heero 5:20

[riotme2000]

haha! science made interesting; is this a networking chu chu?!

[GR1o6180339887498948]

Brian Green's book "The Elegant Universe" contains even more information and in overall it's a bit more interesting then this documentary alone. Also String theory is now called M-theory which beside strings it includes vibrating membranes! That's so cool :)

[petercriss45]

im reading it to brah-ski. piece of art.

[Airfresh0]

I'm reading the book right now. It's amazing. I'm only in high school and i haven't taking any physics classes yet and i understand it. (so far, lol). Brian uses many great analogies that really make it easy to understand. I just hope I'll be able to keep up with the rest of it. :)

[GR1o6180339887498948]

I'm glad to hear this and I hope you like too.

[XpolarstormX]

good for u. I like all these things about atoms, the universe, and stuff as well.

[MikePike5]

5:24 The guys fell off

[KikiG1rl]

Hey! The United States Department of Energy also sponsored Magic School Bus!

[pbscraze]

True that.

[pooka5472]

So did the National Science Foundation.

[mccote]

FYI it doesnt even start until 4:55

[yellowmunster]

lol thanks -- i just skipped the first 3 minutes

[mastifiorulamitongla]

wtf with the ads? science with sponsors now?

[chloemargarita]

Thanks for the heads up, mccote. I honestly would have stupidly continued watching for several minutes before I noticed the lack of science.

Sadly, I might not have noticed at all...