The Alpha Beta Gamma Paper - Sixty Symbols

[stardude692001]

It's amazing stars have been burning for billions of years and have yet to make a significant change in the universes composition.

[DigitizedSelf]

Might be because I'm tired but are we supposed to get why it's 1/4 and 3/4 of helium and hydrogen respectively?

[Mallaclllypse]

@DigitizedSelf due to the rapid expansion temperature and pressure dropped too quickly for nucleosynthesis to continue

[DigitizedSelf]

@Mallaclllypse Well, yeah, figured as much - the question was more if we, from the contents of the video, should have been able to predict that it was 1/4 and 3/4 (if he hadn't mentioned it)

[MultiPaulinator]

Forgive me if I misunderstood. I've got two disabilities. I'm blind and I'm American. This Alpha guy seems very smart and I just found out about the Greek letter alpher.

Okay, I'm not really blind, but I wasn't lying about the American part.

[stuntyannick2]

@MultiPaulinator He's called Alpher. The letter and particle are called Alpha.

[MultiPaulinator]

@stuntyannick2 I'm very aware of that. I was giving them a hard time about their English accents and returned that by referring to my being an American as a 'disability'.

[stuntyannick2]

@MultiPaulinator Oh ok haha

[lbochtler]

cat co auther FTW

[PedroBremberger]

Why 7 Protons to 1 Neutron?

[stardude692001]

@PedroBremberger

my guess it has to do with the ratio of, the probability an electron and a proton collide and form a neutron, to the half-life of the neutron. or more accurately how many collisions could have happened in the 2 minutes and some seconds since these particles formed.

[ruster1971]

A Hot Big Bang you say? Sounds quite fascinating ;)

[tko863]

So how did Alpher know that 7 protons existed for every 1 neutron?

[Desmaad]

Note, Gamov wrote the Mr. Tompkins stories.

[Kitsua]

I just read about the history of this paper in Simon Singh's 'Big Bang!', which chronicles the history of the theory. It's an excellent book, highly recommended.

[michalchik]

GO Board FTW!

[OniLinkSword]

What did I tell all of you? Cats know physics!

[VeryOxygen]

"You and 2 guys in a room somewhere, and after 4 hours..."

[imxikhuang]

7:1, 28:4. in a Go board. quadratic? what happened within the physics or the science community on January 7th, July 1st, and April 28th? j/k

[kinofrohan]

Do an episode Serre's theorem on Proj, mostly on the subcategory of grade modules and their finite length and its relation to noncommutative projective geometry

[jeebersjumpincryst]

lol - the royal 'we'.... him and his cat ;)

[L00NGB00W]

Meuon: The smallest particle a cat can knock off the kitchen table.

[screezwiitz]

... if you do them very accurate it'll take a lot of time. then there's no time left for fancy pants - especially if you also want to fuck with a girl from time to time.

[screezwiitz]

read feynman's lectures (also the lectures on computation), watch walter lewin's lectures on ocw (8.01, 8.02, 8.03) (+ also do the assignments), read eric kandel's "principles of neural science" and do schaum's outlines on modern physics. you might also watch some vids from feynman (cornell lectures), the engineering guy - and do some basic experiments on your own....

[VideoJargon]

I wonder if the cat's alive and/or dead

[marjan15]

I love use of go board for demonstration of early universe! :)

[MzAlyCat]

I've seen the dark matter video and I remember you mentioning dark energy was going to be covered to when is the energy video coming out or have I overlooked it ?

[GalacticMuppet]

Sorry to correct Professor Bowley on this but, Hans Bethe's last name is pronounced 'Beta' not 'Bethay' @4:53. My German physics professor scoulded me when I pronounced it similarly to Prof Bowley...I will never forget how to pronounce it!

[MrOldprof]

@GalacticMuppet

Neither will I forget how to pronounce Bethe now that you've told me. Of course you probably mispronounce my name "Bowley" in a way I that I would object to. Lots of my students do.

[genericmember1]

Next time I submit a paper to a journal I have to put my dogs on. This is the best idea ever.

[mbfanz]

Love the cat part...lol

[t90ad]

The cat's lecture...."Can i haz cheezburger??!11!!!1!!"

[xcheesyxbaconx]

Seems like lots of famous astronomers came from Cornell University.

[alcyonae]

Alpher Bethe Gamow! It's the paper that made me decide to pursue Cosmology <3

[theBUZer]

I love Go!

[MarkArandjus]

I actually heard that cat's lecture. He had some revolutionary ideas like m=eow.

[JoshMr07]

who said physicists don't have sense of humour!!!

[jgordon707]

At :43 he added a modifier that "he believed that the universe started with a big bang". Is he saying he disagrees?

[DSAhmed]

awsome video... I love it love it love it.

[KemaTheAtheist]

Who says scientists don't have a sense of humor?

[LiiMuRi]

I love the scientist sense of humor when it comes to publishing papers. The story of the "penguin diagrams" is also an interesting one. You can look it up in Wikipedia.

[Ratdogthebad]

Classic gag

[AlanKey86]

Go Physics!

[MrEurgbp]

haha pranksters :)

[Vonzi0000]

I am wondering if the physicists at Nottingham acctually play Go.

[BENBOBBY2]

@patrick2586 Was just about to make the same joke hehe :)

[62dan1]

Woooo  this is new to me I was told something about seven days and this God fella.

[skots]

a go board ! 

[morto360]

So what about the matter and antimatter, all this was gone 3 min after the big bang?

[dradeel]

Lol, he uses a Go table to present the idea of Alpher? Approved! Approved ten-folds! I should play some Go again. Hmm... and perhaps watch Hikaru no Go again as well. It's been a while... but I digress... :)

And that last story is hilarious! I love that.

[joexrampage]

Please don't ever stop making videos. Also, try to do some more on electrical engineering!

[TheFaustianMan]

You know, I am disappointed in these vids. Still no neutron radiation. However, they are informative and the presenter's take their time to make a vid. So still thumbs up!

[imalwayswatchingu00]

My physics teacher said - once we all ace grade 12 physics, we can all go out and get physics tattoos!

[deadeaded]

Reminds me of Zoe the cat, whose owner managed to procure her several advanced degrees and who is now a psychotherapist. In fact, there's a whole list of animals with diplomas on wikipedia.

[RLSanji]

Hooray for Go!

[bluebychoice]

Too bad the paper wasn't published a century earlier or it could have been Alpher Bethe Gamow Dalton.

[jeebersjumpincryst]

@bluebychoice ha ha - nice!!! :)

[Desmaad]

Goban, zing!

[cristianfcao]

Great video guys!

[2naruto1]

i like the go bord

[skinnyjohnsen]

Brilliant story! Thanks ;-)

[Lavabug]

The cat story is hilarious, what scientist was this?

[subh1]

@Lavabug Google "coauthor cat" and see the first result.

[dudekyle13x]

I just got done taking a particularly hard physics exam. The last thing I wanted to see was anything physics related for awhile. So I get on youtube and this video is at the top of my subscription list. Well suffice it to say, I don't feel tired of physics anymore. You guys are awesome and you make physics so enjoyable. Sometimes as a student who is required to take physics for their major, you tend to lose sight of the big picture. These videos bring that picture back into focus. :)

[jorge10928]

science rules!!!!!!

[wowggscrub]

so in the very begining when the conditions were to hot it was all plasma?

[madadane123]

Oh sweeet, that's a go board :D

[un2mensch]

Oh you wacky physicists, surely you're joking!

[mosle123]

I love it when teachers tell these stories! more more!

[culwin]

Should have gotten Delta Burke to co-author the paper too

[nellux]

I go to a modest university and the thesis defence hearings I have witnessed had more like 5-6 professors. Not 2.

So for example, considering a thesis on organic chemistry, there would be 5 chemists and 1 biochemist, and about half the professors would have to work at another university.

[cuntylishus]

@nellux Two examiners is the norm for the viva voce everywhere in the UK, from Oxford & Cambridge down. Also, the examinations are normally private.

[HWGuyEG]

Makes me wonder what the first compound was...

[jakerano08]

i love physics.

[Neutrinoghost]

Did the cat actually belong to him or Schrödinger?

[Draxis32]

@Neutrinoghost If the cat belong to Schrödinger the cat might be dead so watch out.

[untouchblz]

where did u get those neutron proton m&m's?

[FrozenAnthems]

@untouchblz These are go stones

[untouchblz]

@FrozenAnthems no they are pretzel m&m's, in an obvious limited edition run.

[FrozenAnthems]

I love the go board and the awesome explaination :)

[annettesalsman]

Sometimes I wonder if you purposely pick out the starting frame just to make the interviewee look silly.

[stormh4x]

Is there a video that talks about why matter can have both wave/particle like properties?

[viper100200]

everytime I see a new one of these in my subscriptions it's like seeing an old friend

[ajp06u]

There was a paper called "A New Data Encoding Scheme" by Andrew B. Cheese and Julian P. Onions (popularly known as 'Cheese and Onions') which was published by Nottingham's Computer Science department on 1st April 1988.

It was published in the European Unix User Group Newsletter, and subsequently republished in the Australian Unix User Group Newsletter, who presumably failed to notice the joke. If you actually READ the paper, it's pretty obvious!

cs.nott.ac.uk/ ~azp/cheese-onions.pdf

[MaxParadiz]

"Two-, Three-, and Four-Atom Exchange Effects in bcc 3He"

Authors: J. H. Hetherington and F. D. C. Willard (Felis Domestica Chester Willard)

[Pada007gangster]

Why did the electrons cool down? where did the energy go ? :S

[MoGaDeX]

@Pada007gangster Universe expands => Energy dissipates.

[colinstu]

What is the name of the paper exactly @ the end? (the one with the cat)

[huntingvuk]

you guys are so cool with these great vids, THANKS!

[Pulsar89]

Strange how that editor wanted to change the 'we' into 'I', because in scientific writing that is generally disapproved of. The 'we' in a scientific paper does not only refer to the author(s), but to both the authors and the reader: the author acts as a guide. So the phrase "we will prove" means "you (the reader) and I together will prove it, just follow my lead".

[525047]

@Pulsar89 There are a lot of anal people in the world. WE can only hope a papers' value is not determined by pronouns.

I have a love hate relationship with this paper. Its good science, its jut not usable science because we'll never know for sure.

[puncheex]

Having done this theory, I fully expect you'll also cover (at some point in the future) the B2FH theory of the Burbridges, Fowler and Hoyle, the root of the "we are stardust" phrase.

[Copimi]

bah, nonsence..

[IgotPowa]

Loled at the end XD

[DKmetallic]

the laugh at the end ^^

[tmafkap]

I'd like to hear that cat's lecture...

[montee827]

@tmafkap meow that I'd like to hear.

[RoGeorgeRoGeorge]

@tmafkap Meeeeeow!

[omsrswt]

I love physicists :)

[NilsMcCloud]

@omsrswt I wanna be one one day.

[ereg1300]

I like how everything ties together. This whole video's about Elements and where they come from, which I'd almost have expected to appear on Periodic Videos.

[puncheex]

@ereg1300: It's more properly cosmology, though, and that is usually considered in the realm of physics, as chemistry is still conked out until about 400,000 ABB.

I can make that observation because I'm an engineer, and used to being dissed by scientists of all kinds!

[BruckThatsMe]

Was that a Go board used in the example?

[aman57]

@BruckThatsMe Yes

[jamiehasnomercy]

salmon are fished in japan. 1000's of these fish swam into an american harbour days before the earthquake tradedgy and died through getting trapped! coincidence i think not!

[tcrusader]

looks like GO

[MrTranceNinja]

1:47 - What do you mean by 'evaporated'?

[badblueman]

@MrTranceNinja Probably just fly off. A plasma I suppose.

[puncheex]

@MrTranceNinja: Ionized in the heat?

[MrTranceNinja]

@puncheex Ah, I suppose that's right...sorry, the wording was a little loose for me. :P

[MelleB90]

0:40 INCEPTION

[particlephysicssolut]

Love your videos.



[ludikalo]

That must of been Schrödinger cat.

[adamthecg]

great vid! you guys are the best!

[jnthnbush]

love it!

[kipshiux333]

Does the professor play GO?

[sixtysymbols]

Don't miss the extra footage from our nottinghamscience channel (see video response)

Goes into more science detail and discusses the background radiation left behind by the whole process, etc.

[subajk]

love your vids, keep em coming