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  • i wanna go in that high school...

  • I know right, let me just get my atom smasher real quick...what? dosnt everyone have one of those?

  • Don't fall in love with anyone made of anti-matter, you literally cant be together.

  • You... did.... WHAT in highschool?!

    wow.... i feel fantastically incompetent.

  • @Ephilio ever thought that maybe human mind is not capable to understand that?

  • Big bang?

    If you are so smart, tell me where that matter and anti-matter, that you mentioned was there in the Big Bang, came from?

    When did it begin?

    If it has "always been there" why did it even take time to explode?

    It had to have come into existence at some point and explode the next second?

    ....ok sure.

  • @Ephilio No one would be pretentious enough to assume they knew that without a lot of evidence to back up their claim.

  • @Ephilio ....its a 2:43 minutes video... he is not gonna explain every physics and cosmological laws and theories, read books if you wanna know more, however dr. kaku is really a credible scientist even though ideally you should always make your own research when possible

  • @Ephilio We cannot know... it came from somewhere but how could we know? it is not possible for us to know now. If you say it is a God it just brings up another question who/what created God so dont say God. :P

  • @ytcolton actually, few serious skeptics use that argument :)

  • he obvoiusly is NOT an evolutionist!!! im so much better off knowing this. (did you notice all physicists and scientists - biologists etc. are DARWINISTS too! NOT religious!

  • lolol, i too must stop clicking.. for god sake i started at animal porn and ended here???

  • Mr. Kaku, you got to play with ANTI-MATTER in HIGHSCHOOL?! What kind of high school did you go to? D: The most advanced thing I got to do in highschool was dissect a cow's eye ball. :( Clear indications that the US education system is becoming more crap with every generation.

  • In high school he was playing with antimatter. In high school I was jerking off

  • @luckycharms8282 He probebly jerked of aswell in highschool .. only u did it with your hand and he did it with matter.

  • if we were made of antimatter we would call antimatter matter and matter antimatter... if that makes sense... We wouldn't name ourselves an extension of another word where the item the word defines hardly exists... a green light is not an anti-red light, not the best example of my understanding but that's my outlook on why (not scientifically obviously)..

  • Anyone else on the Michiu Kaku Drug? Addiction level surpasses cigarettes.

  • @albokid52 Its horrible watching this stoned. It makes you think way too hard, and you just can't stop....

  • Lol could you imagine going to shake somones hand that happens to have antimatter in them and they explode..

  • He is asking why aren't we made from antimatter instead of matter?

    I ask what if for those theoretical antimatter beings we are the antimatter beings?

  • He was playing with antimatter in high school....

  • @Cruiser000x It's not hard to do. All you need is a glass chamber of low air pressure and high humidity. When you introduce your particles, push a plunger and increase the air pressure. The water will condense and the particles zipping around inside make vapor trails. Photograph these trails and you can study them.

    Bonus points for influencing your charged particles with a magnetic field. This is how antimatter was discovered in 1932, via cosmic gamma rays knocking electrons around

  • One of my moms relatives worked at fermilab near Chicago and is currently working on CERN. While I was living in Chicago he brought me to fermilab, showed me around and tried to explain it. At the time it was totally fucking over my head, but it's really cool!

  • we have plenty of anti people on this world, cant we use them for energy?

  • he's done more in his high school years than I've done in my whole life

  • What if WE'RE the anti-people?

  • He built a cloud chamber to view unstable sodium isotopes and an atom smasher while he was in high school? Asians -_-

  • there was no time to even have the big bang, isn't the big hang the start of time and space? well since you didn't have space or time b4, how could u even have a big bang?

    i'm lost

  • @TurboD16z6 You've asked the question we've all wondered about. Something from nothing. It's where my religion begins to play a factor.

  • I like how he emphasizes that he did this when he was in highschool

  • "When I was in High School, I used to play with anti-matter" nice

  • Haters gotta hate :/

  • Maybe within the antimatter, there is an anti-me. And at this exact moment in space and time, that antimatter version of me is thinking the samething.

    AHHH! jk

  • I've learned more in the last few hours than I have in the last 2 years of college. The craziest part is I don't have to write an essay about it, and I'm still learning!

  • @ebodamusic Nice!

  • What a scapegoat!! Instead of an answer... I get told I'm being "illogical"... C'mon. My girlfriend can weasel her way out of a direct question better than that.

  • @spiegeltn he does it alot, nt giving the actual answer..

  • @spiegeltn your argument is illogical and thus invalid. Do yourself a favor and learn about logic before trying to argue with people.

  • soo... wait.... if the opposite spin from antimatter pulls away from the direction the particles should be going in a magnetic field, does that mean positive is attracted to positive and negative to negative?

  • @TrancorWD No, the negative electrons will coil in a direction towards the positive side, while a positron will do the opposite. :)

  • @henkie666666 sounds like it would create some cool effects in a magnetic field.

  • KAKUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!! YEAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

  • whoa whoa whoa whoa- in high school?! In high school i was still dissecting stuff and learning what an electron was....

  • @MrFiretruck23 Isn't the education system in the united states amazing?

  • Wow... you sound so smart there Mr. Kaku.... Could you explain to me how the smallest and most simple Cell came to be? Can you reproduce even the smallest cell are even tell me how it was produced? Umm. Nope you can't. If you can't tell me about one tiny little simple cell... How in the world do you have so much knowledge about "the big bang"? Ridiculous. Psalm 14:1

  • @spiegeltn Life is something nobody knows yet.

  • Yeah, but if we were made from anti-matter, then what regular matter is to us now would be anti-matter if we were made from our anti-matter...

    Kind of an "If everyone is king then no one is king" thing...

  • If there was equal amount of matter and anti-matter and if it annihilated how can there be left overs?

  • @patep02 Cause not all the anti-matter has annihilated with all the matter(us) in the universe. Therefore logically if we exist as matter there must be antimatter somewhere in the universe according to the theory.

  • Maybe we are made of anti-matter but based on our point of view we believe that the matter we are made of is actual matter.

  • @dogindagrass The name doesn't matter, all that matters that whatever type of matter we're made of, there's an equal and opposite type of matter out there.

  • @xDestroyer2x you do realize that's exactly the point I was getting at?

  • To which high school did he go to??!?!

  • @MrOverlord1000 He went to a normal one. His parents were able to make the investments into his research. He took the initiative and got a full scholarship to Harvard. :) ASIANS

  • That's the last one for today... Oh shit! I've got to watch "The Metaphysics of telepathy"....

  • "Later I built an Atom Smasher..." 

    ...You know, no big deal...

  • What if the anti mater is the next step of particle atrophy happening inside a large enough black hole, and it all just started?

  • What if we are antimatter and what we think is antimatter is really matter and not antimatter. How do we know if we are right to assume we are matter and not antimatter.

  • @Blake2423 Talk to the Anthropic Principle about that one. =D

  • And Bing Bang........is crap......together with quantum theory.

  • Antimatter doesn't exist.

  • about this subject. is it possible, because the universe expands, that we are further away from the point of the big bang than the number of light years that the galaxy is old? because that means that we can't actually see "the center of the universe" and what lies beyond. maybe that's where the antimatter is.

  • @AlmightyThor90

    except there are no center of the universe.. :)

    it expands like a balloon, search on youtube for further info.

  • He played with anti-matter in high school.

  • I admire you soo much, Professor Kaku!

  • I love how he just casually says that he created an atom smasher in highschool.

  • What if we are the antimatter people? Our knowledge and terminology is only dictated by our perceived environment.

  • "and then I built an atom smasher..."

    WHAT?

    like a boss.

  • I'd like to high five an antimatter person.

  • Angels & Demons movie was the biggest CRAP ever. The book was overwhelming though. Dan Brown sure knows how to write.

  • MUST...STOP...CLICKING RELATED VIDEOS!!!

  • @XxJokerxX90 Especially those of Dr. Kaku =P

  • if we are left of an equal amount of matter and anti-matter, then there should be still an equal amout of it now, cant we just not find it? or where would be the antimatter gone which is obviously not here in the same amount as the normal matter

  • @deyomash

    It's been a while since I've read up on this, but I think the theory is that the universe started with *almost* equal matter and antimatter, (10 billion to 10 billion and 1 ratio IIRC). Now that most of it has annihilated each other, the ratio between matter and antimatter is much more significant. Of course, we're still trying to figure out why there was that slight difference in matter and antimatter in the first place.

  • God was bored so he smashed his balls and here we are.

  • Why aren't we made of anti-matter? Well, aren't we? Are we sure that 'normal' matter is just anti-matter to us?

  • @SillyEddyPhotography Is that a serious question?

  • @stevenreid1990 Well, yes. An observer only sees things from the observer's point of view. Whether or not what they see is actually 'true' is a different matter completely - Anti-matter :D

  • @SillyEddyPhotography

    Another person laughed at your question, but I think that you make a good point.

    I think, in this situation, positive and anti are relative to the matter. If we did find anti-matter humans, we should expect them to claim themselves as the positive matter and call us the anti-matter humans.

    

  • @chadd990 Yeah I can run with it being relative to us. I think one of the problems with science, which is next to impossible to avoid, is that we only see things from our perspective and with us as the observer. We believe what we see, but what we see might not neccessarily be the truth.

  • so we are the left-overs huh...bet that does less for my low self esteem...but this guy is a genius for sure...

  • My brain just farted so hard I woke up the neighbors....

  • I'm anti - people

  • He's been mind-fucking with me so much today.

  • people made of anti matter are the ghosts

  • @ghassanhassansutaih No, they are dodos. That's why they went extinct.

  • Hey Gordon, nice going on destroying the evidence for the antimatter.

  • Whoaaaa.  Mind blowing

  • equal? we are the leftovers? then who aer we? we're not equal .... Michi you are lost my friend,,,

  • Five people were made of antimatter.

  • well what if we are made of antimatter and our antimatter is just matter there cant be a true opposite form

  • I heard from another source that the amount of antimatter and matter was the same once and they destroyed each other, but antimatter was slightly more unstable and when two antimatter and matter atoms collided not it might have been a chance for a second antimatter atom to be destroyed leaving its pair matter atom unharmed. And those few matter atoms that had their pair destroyed are the atoms in us. And not that it was more matter than antimatter.

  • if it was equal amounts of matter and antimater - why any leftovers exist, shouldn't it anihilate completely?

  • so basically..... we are just shrapnel from a massive explosion?

  • How do we know that we are not antimatter?

  • @XxFlashTuTorialsxX because when we touch each other we dont annihilate as he said

  • @1Hydraulic1 if we were all antimatter, we won't annihilate. you don't get that antimatter can interact with antimatter the same way that "matter" does. that was my question.

  • @XxFlashTuTorialsxX thanks for mentioning that :D

  • @1Hydraulic1 But if we are all antimatter, then we wouldnt.

  • @XxFlashTuTorialsxX Good gotdamn question.

  • While he was playing with anti-matter, i was playing mario kart on the 64 :)

  • Note to self: Do NOT shake hands with my antimatter self.

  • Dr. Michio Kaku writes the script for Mrgan Freeman's through the wormhole. (;

  • @GarrettDavisHustle thats awsome!

  • @GarrettDavisHustle What a badass!!!

  • It doesnt matter, Or does it matter. The answer that matters... ANTIMATTER

  • The anti-matter people would view us as anti-matter people. "Anti" is subjective in this instance.

  • so in high school y didnt it blow up

  • wow! we have clones? maybe they are evil.

  • Bizzaro World is real????

  • So if antimatter people came to earth and started poking us regular matter people... We would all start blowing up? That doesn't seem good..

  • so the energy can be destroyed ? O_O.?

  • man, that high school tidbit is a little discouraging.

  • He made antimatter in High school and made an atom smasher....

  • what if our whole existence is just an experiment from higher up, more intelligent beings?

  • @fpsreaver

    it is possible

  • @fpsreaver What if we dont even exist? or this is really a figment of your imagination and you are stuck in a white room in a mental institution creating a reality for yourself within your mind. What if the people around you arent real or this world or your loved ones? All possible. Reality is Unreal.

  • @InnerConflict011 If that is the case lets just make the best out of it.

  • ok. so how is anyone able to create anti matter w/o destroying everything? (in a cloud chamber or anything else...) also how is there anti matter present anywhere in the universe -wouldn't it interact with the surrounding matter?

    i guess when he speaks of a fountain of anti matter in the middle of the galaxy he's talking about the black hole we revolve around, but that means it'd always be impossible to meet anti people/see anti planets because we'd be dead if we did.. can someone explain?

  • @MsSkateboardP Vacuum. Anti-matter only gets annihilated when it comes into contact with matter. Luckily, most of the universe is devoid of matter.

    Also, matter and antimatter don't really attract each other (except due to gravity, which is almost non-existent at that level). That means if you shoot a beam of Antimatter particles through gas with reasonably low density, many of them will get through without colliding.

  • @apomk2 ohhhh ! that makes soo much sense. didn't even think of no gravity in space being a factor for some reason.. thanks :)

  • Was he... Dexter as a child?

  • PEOPLE ARE DIEING OF HUNGER ON >>>>>>>THIS<<<<<<<<<PLANET! FYI "smart" guy.

  • @strangenamenobodyhas And why is that HIS problem and not yours?

  • @strangenamenobodyhas humanity wants to excel, capitalism means you can do what you want with your money. if humans don't want to help others they don't have to and if a capitalist has money they don't need to feed you.

  • You said "Bending".. For every action there's a Reaction. Question. The mater created came into a force that caused it to bend.

    Stop.

    Answers needed...

  • vampires are anti-people lolol

  • @xBlackEditionx But if they bit someone the reaction of touching each other would cause a burst of energy destroying them both!

  • @IrritatedHomelessMan Maybe that's why there are no more vampires lololol

  • while i was playing with toy soldiers and video games, michio kaku played with cloud chambers and atom smashers o_O

  • matter matter matter matter matter matter matter matter matter matter matter matter matter matter matter matter matter matter matter matter matter matter matter matter matter matter matter matter matter matter matter matter matter matter matter matter matter matter matter matter matter matter matter matter matter

  • According to Hawking, the Universe could have come out of nothing, without any energy being involved in the "creation" process. How is it possible, then, that matter and anti-matter have such energy potential? Shouldn't they just null each other out?

  • are you sure we are made of mather and not anti-mather?

  • Maybe antimatter and dark matter are somehow connected?

  • @fallenmutt13 dark matter is what keeps us and other planets where we are.. if a planet or an astroid was falling through space, theres certain areas it can't fall through because there is dark matter blocking that path.

    from what i understand anti matter is basically black holes and such.. so there's a circle around the black hole of anti matter and anything that touches it (gets too close) gets pulled inside

    visually there's a difference too, i think

  • @MsSkateboardP Dark matter is now thought to be present everywhere around us, and to be of a kind that would not (easily) interact with out kind of matter. Like neutrinos they would just pass through us, so an asteroid would not be blocked by dark matter.

    Secondly, the energy produced by a single annihilation of a positron/electron is still not very high (equal to their rest masses). The rest mass of an electron is 8.1*10^-14 J according to Wikipedia.

  • @Fuglebolle oh! my bad, i was confused by something else i saw. this happens with light, not tangible things. so i guess it would have no effect on things like asteroids, planets and stuff like that....hmm but then how is it that this dark matter keeps galaxies together then?

  • @Fuglebolle also.. does this mean you're saying if matter and antimatter collided the annihilation wouldn't be that great? does it depend on the amount of matter & anti-matter present during collision?

  • @MsSkateboardP Yes, the energy from a matter-antimatter annihilation comes from their rest energies, which means the total energy will be proportional to their total mass.

  • @Fuglebolle ahh i see.. so it really just depends on how many are colliding which would most likely be a very small amount at any given moment... thanks

  • Because there are parallel universes & anti-matter is confined to its own domain... I just wanted to ramble something off actually :D

  • maybe there is another universe where antimatter won and everything is anti matter

  • wait wait wait. He created anti-matter while he was in high-school.

  • @PlaguedByEarth so while i was getting wasted in high school he was creating anti matter...

  • @PlaguedByEarth

    but it went annihilation with matter immediately

  • @PlaguedByEarth I also got confused when he said that. guess other countries have better physics departments in high school

  • @PlaguedByEarth He is Michio Kaku. Bitch :D

  • @PlaguedByEarth well, he is a famous scientist, i guess there is a good reason for it.

  • @sunslap Famous and genius are two different things..

  • @PlaguedByEarth Anti matter is used in MRI scans.

  • @PlaguedByEarth obviously this guy is a fucking legend

  • so shaking hands with aliens isnt the way to go

  • A guy asked me, what would matter be called if we lived in a world made of anti matter? I said "......antimatter...."

  • ebutuoy would be youtube if we would be made of anti-matter

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  • i will build an anti matter cannon to destroy armies

  • If matter and anti-matter existed in equal amounts at the beginning of the universe, and they can only be destroyed be their opposites, shouldn't the amounts always be equal to each other?

  • @amiyaiitkgp The thing is can light exist without darkness. We dont really know.

  • @TheKirger you'r playing with language...darkness is the absence of light, It is not a thing in itself. Don't confuse darkness as a (physical) opposite of light. It is a linguistic placeholder to address absence of light.

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  • hentai people are possible. yes we know.

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  • "If both touch each other, they will annihilate and turn into energy."

    Hmm... so matter can turn to energy.. where did I hear this before ?(E = mc²)

  • so does this mean there is anti-Copper? etc?

  • @Zyziz anti everything, all the matter particles have counterparts and so do the particles of the fundamental forces e.g photons and antiphotons

  • @Nujjitoza I mean't as in does it have the same naming system?

  • @Zyziz dunno, probably

  • if there's equal amounts of both matter and antimatter at the beginning, how come there are leftovers to begin with?

  • @hylohunter he said ALMOST equal, the universe didnt perfectly make exactly 50% matter and 50% antimatter, randomness gave barely more to matter, annihilation isnt perfect either, so there was some left as well for both sides, just more for matter. NOTHING is perfect. If there was such thing as perfection, then all matter would be uniformly spread across the universe, look at the microwave residue from the big bang, it isnt uniform because there is no such thing as perfection.