A creationist might say "the theater is on fire," and in that case I suggest erring on the side of trust. If you agree, then can we say that we have established that doubting a creationist's veracity is not an issue of dishonesty but rather of some other quality? What quality would that be?
I am glad I have found your channel. I am always searching for this type of video on youtube, people who can speak about the Universe with rationality.
The whole question about dissipation comes from a very Earth-centric viewpoint. On the Earth, gas particles would naturally be redistributed by the movement of the atmosphere, whereas in space, they have nowhere to go. Gas just collects in massive clouds, tied together by gravitation. So the question just comes from the neo-Aristotelians, who have barely gotten past the concept that the entire universe does not revolve around us.
Phil, everyone is going with the Electric Universe now. I know you like your big bad bang and your gassy clouds, but that kind of speculation just isn't going to make it through the information age.
I am trying to be nice, but I am also pretty pissed that people in the 'accepted astronomy community' are lying to our children.
All that will change when I am in charge.
Cmon, Phil. Nobody cares that scientists have been making erroneous and unsubstantiated formulas.
Gases or liquids can't exist in interstellar space as they would turn into ice crystals due to the extreme cold!
What may appear to be gas clouds in absolute space are actually minute particles that gravitated away from the surfaces of worlds that disintegrated or that are in the process of decay due to a diminished gravitational force field, and these intermingle with gigantic boulders that also were a part of the integral makeup of those worlds.
@EmperorofCartoons Would you think someone was an idiot if they thought that computers were run by tiny mice who flip switches whenever you press a button? Because that's a lot less of a ridiculous idea than creationism and carries more evidence for it.
I'm a Believer in God, and I don't see any problem with any scientific explanation of things. I just cant believe that it all just happened for no reason.
@elocoetam Haha, it happened reason. But, then again, we still don't know much of anything about how we got here and how the galaxy came to be. Science has just brought more evidence to their theory than that of religion, as of now. In a few years, who knows, maybe we will discover that god is real or discover how everything was brought into existence. :)
How can dust or gas be viewed that far away when planets revolving around stars cannot? Planets are much larger than dust so how can it be that we see the reflection of dust but not the reflection of a planet? It would be more logical to say that each grain or speck of dust is actually a small star. Dust cannot give off it's own light yet there are no stars around to cause the reflection at that scale so it cannot be dust. Please don't block me and delete my comment like other channels.
@musli4brekkies Well if it is dust then what are the nearby sources which are causing the reflection? Even at the tiny distance of Pluto compared to this so called gas cloud, Pluto barley gives off any reflective light back towards us. I say each speck which they call gas is a small star otherwise we would not even detect them. The odds are that dark matter is actually dust and this reflecting "dust" is actually stars. It would be like calling the arms of a distant galaxy dust, think about this.
If you broke Pluto up into a cloud of dust it would reflect a shed load more light than Pluto on it's own.
Also, this Gas is often at hundreds of degrees Celsius. It is most likely being ionised by nearby stars and releases light of its own. If you believe that these gas clouds are actually mini-stars, write a paper about it and win the Nobel Prize. It'd be brilliant.
@musli4brekkies Thanks, but I doubt it would win a prize. Besides, if the gas were giving off heat then it only strengthens this hypothesis. In cold empty space the heat radiates quickly if there is no gravity source to keep fueling, so to speak. Imagine the universe as opposites, vacuum = cold; pressure = heat. The furthest away from pressure, which is caused by gravity, the colder space becomes. The closest you are to the point of pressure, core of planet or star, the hotter space becomes.
@musli4brekkies Pressure and heat go together, explained in the law of thermodynamics. In the vacuum of space is cold, theoretically down to 0 K. Do you see the opposites here? This is why it is difficult to fathom the universe starting off in a soup of extreme temperatures, see BB theory. Now that inflation is observed implies the universe did not start out hot but cold and grew to the temperature it is today because of gravity, via pressure. Accretion only adds fuel to the pressure.
@musli4brekkies Then when you note that heat is another form of energy explains why the universe is inflating and accelerating from every point of gravity, see inflation theory. Gravity is causing the inflation by adding energy to the universe's total amount, see law of conservation(it's wrong because heat is energy). Theoretically energy can be transformed into matter. So if energy, aka dark energy, can be created in the cores of planets & stars then this is why the universe is inflating!
What am I if I believe in God & believe science is just an awesome way to figure out how he made the universe work? Because that's how I roll. I'm an archaeologist honestly. I just love how the world and humans work. There's nothing wrong with me believing in a higher power. I don't even apply it immediately. I just see it as an intricate artwork to analyze at all levels. If I was an astronomer of course I'm not going to publish a paper saying GOD DID THIS but that's how I feel on my own time.
And furthermore more I love your videos, and I'm so glad that people like you can come on YouTube and teach us the things we regret we didn't get the chance to take in college.
I really liked the explanation you gave. It was very well spoken and very easy to understand.
I'm a creationist (I'm Christian) so I do believe everything the bible says but I also believe some of what science says. Contrary to popular belief; that's not contridictory.
I just wanted to say there are creationists that are WAY out there, but most of the creationists/Christians aren't crazy. It's the whole 'the squeaky wheel get's the grease' thing.
@dobbynfred072107 "so I do believe everything the bible says" ..............why? I agree on one thing I went to a catholic school (though my adoptive parents were agnostic) (better student to teacher ratios). We were taught everything, The biology teacher taught evolution and the religion teacher told us about religion. (all of them that he knew about from native american to hinduism) Maybe my school was better then I thought at the time. I had a lot of teachers that cared about their students.
@Thulgore It sounds like you had a well-rounded education at a great school: I wish I could say the same.
Why do I believe what the Bible says? It'll take a lot more than the 300 characters I have left but the short story is because I have doubted, studied, and looked for other answers. For me there is no other answer than the Bible. I believe science and religion can coexist peacefully; I believe about 80% of what science says at the same time believing 100% of the what the Bible says.
I was watching your video and was interested intil you made fun of my religon. I never said that that cannot happen. Besides i think the earth rotates around the sun, am I wrong?
You also haven't addressed at all how "gas clouds" (nebulae) don't disperse in space, all you've done is recite the popular fable about "gas" collapsing under its own "gravity" and talking about plasmas in inappropriate terms like "shock wave" and "gas".
We haven't seen stars formed by "shockwaves", stars are not "gas", they are plasma. Planets are not formed from "disks" of dust and gas, they are electrically ejected from larger bodies. I think your hatred of creationists has blinded you. You're so eager to refute their claims you'll take any nonsense that comes down the pike if it contradicts biblical mythology.
If an astronoger says something, it's probably wrong. This video is a classic example. Gases don't self-compress, they expand to fill the available space. That's elementary chemistry, not "creationist" tripe. No matter how much "gas" (really plasma) you have, they do not self-compress.
The "temperature" of these nebulae is specious, they are not lit by radiant heat, they are lit electrically. They are not made of "gas" but plasma. Plasmas are dominated by electromagnetic forces, not "gravity".
i love watching youtube listning to videos about space and science on my day off, just relaxing and takein in knoledge untill i find one of these balding middle aged males who justify there existence by sitting in his house regurgitateing bullcrap he reads in his little science books and makeing fun of relligion and all the athiest christian bashing retards of the world gather around and make each other feel special... i dont care if your really an astronomer, your still a worthless wanna be...
This is probably gonna sound ignorant as hell, but how is it that we can see these clouds if they're far less dense than our own atmosphere when we can't see air?
I know telescopes use infrared light and stuff like that, so is that (part of) my answer? I'm guessing it's also the chemicals the dust is made up of as well?
The distance.. If you were inside that thing, you wouldn't see a thing, but since we're far far away we can see the whole thing... As distance increases, the apparent gaps become smaller and smaller till it becomes a one big mess... Something like that.. You can actually see the air - you just have to look at it from the space
Hey Phil, the simplest example that not all gas expands forever is our own sun. It is made out mostly of hydrogen gas yet it doesnt dissipate. It stays together under gravity.
@jtgilmore13 yes, because when the creationost newton, or the creationst, galileo, or the creationist copernicus or the creationist Max Plankc, or the creationist EINSTEIN said their things, they were proably wrong....oh wait...
@geiroffenberg I was quoting the Phil Plait, you dolt. And where's your evidence that all these people you've listed are creationists? Oh, right... Creationists don't need evidence to believe things.
I dont need to proove that these and more renowned scientists are creatinoists. they all confessed to it in their own writings! If you claim that they were not, then YOU should be able to proove why they are not creationists despite the fact that they all wrote about their faith in the god that created the world, and that in abundance. Newton wrote scores of books about his theology, more than he did about science.This is how athiest always argue, and its sooooo stupid, seriously.
you can test that theory by taking water and boiling it. the smaller the amount of water the more quickly it will evaporate, the more water you put in and the bigger the water is, the more time it takes to evaporate.
its like asking why doesnt the ocean evaporate. it does and probably will just over 25,000+ years :p eventualy the sun will get big enough to heat and destroy the ocean.
also that assumption is wrong if stars die out, gas clouds (ie plasma clouds i prefer) most likely dissapate, it takes millions of years to do so because thier so large :p. nothing lasts forever.
200 billion + light years of inhabitable completely hostile space that man will never explore and is deadly to live on, denounce the idea the universe was made by sentient intelligence for man. it used to be people who hear invisible voices were locked up and put away for life, now we call it organized religion :p
also i believe when you see "sunspots" your actualy looking at liquid plasma cooling, then the sun becomes hot burning off the "spot". plasma is what happens when gasses get superhot they become semi solid/liquid.
the real problem with books, religion and science is anyone can write a book and answer thier own questions, it doesnt make you write or more wrong than anyone else, it just means youve been popularized. :p thats why theories like the earth is flat were upheld for centuries, due to education popularization.
i would say probably because thier miscategorized. its doubfull that dust would be able to reflect light that well, that far away, youd need something very bright. your probably seeing plasma remains of stars being spread out, not dust. stars arent made of "gas" either, thats another astronomy blunder, thier made of liquid plasma, a semi-solid. this is why the sun has shape. plasma is similar to magma at the earths core only much hotter.
You would be more credible if you didn't almost lose consciousness when mentioning other people have their own opinions about how the universe got here. Stick to science, not politics and religion.
Keep up the good work Phil! It's great to hear you on Skeptics Guide to The Universe, and I hope you're having fun being the President of the James Randi Educational Foundation!
I know why Creationist don't believe what you say...
A quote from the show Family Guy, explains all.
"That's because Christians don't believe in gravity." - Peter Griffin
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honestly, if u can ask "what made god , and what made the thing that made god" you are seriously an asshole. did it ever occur to you that God was there all along? go to church. u'll see ^.^ btw we are made as an image of God and really, nth wrong with believing what u wish. just hope u can heal cancers with words like He can ^^ LOL
Why are you religious people so nasty? You believed show what you people are really like. How did you get on the Internet. Did god hook you up or did you use modern technology developed by free thinking humans?
The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree... yeah, makes perfect sense.
@whatthejake That isn't evolution no. That is both cosmology and abiogenesis and has so much evidence for it, absolutely everything we have observed has indicated that it is the case.
@ns88ster nice! Now i believe in God.. i dont believe hes a supernatural being... now ur gonna think this is stupid but i beleive he is a being from another planet whose planet was gonna die out ( like ours willl ) and came here and found us and helped us to keep the human race from extinction... and in the future we will be on doomsday and we will go to another planet finding people in need of help of how to live life and we will be their god.... this is what i beleive... think about it :]
@ns88ster As much sense that giant bubbles that are infinitely close to us yet infinitely far away, drifting through an invisble higher dimension collided and created our reality, which is itself made up of infinitesimally small strings.
@EmperorofCartoons Science is a tool to bring us an understanding of what is. We dont yet understand how the universe has come to be. To assume we already know how, or even IF the universe was created, is deceiving. Its much better to say we dont yet know. Unfortunately that isnt enough for some people, and thus religeon.
Love your stuff. I KNOW I have read your articles in "Skeptical Inquirer'. I recognise your name. But I didn't see it in the fellows. Have you written articles for the magazine before?
awesome video, love your explinations. see a lot of video makers arent sure what to do videos about.. please dont be afraid to pick a very specific topic or a very technical part of astronomy. i love learning about this stuff!!
You cant prove anything AT ALL not god not the big bang and not evolution. You can only choose what you think is true and stick with it because no one was there when it started. If you beleive in the big bang ask "What made the bang?and what made the thing that made the bang?" if you beleive in god "What made god?And what made the thing that made god?" evolution is the same what started it and what came before it. You just have to stick with it.
It's sad that he has to disparage creationism to talk about cosmology. Creationism is as relevant to this discussion as voodoo is relevant to a discussion of a toothache. Dentists don't say, "This cavity isn't the result of a voodoo curse, it's actually bacteria...". Neither should any scientist need to defend science against a pre-scientific superstition like creationism.
But in some places, creationism is still accepted as a valid "theory". Isn't there a museum somewhere in the USA that openly operates under the fraud that is Creationism? I actually like his "just in case" attitude. You just have to read the comments here to see if creationism is alive and well. So very sad, isn't it.
Yeah its call the "Creation Museum" funny enough 2800 Bullittsburg Church Rd. Petersburg, KY 41080. - Rather like a lame Mexican version of Jurassic park Attraction at Universal Studios Florida except "god" instead of "INGEN" created the dinosaurs - actually its far lamer than the Mexican version.
@ghuegel well when uve been in the field 4 a while being constantly bombarded wit creationist fairy-tails it takes its toll. besides creationalists wont stop pushing themselves into the field n arrogantly proclaiming tht they know the all the answers to the questions of the universe
@TOSViolator science compliments religion? is that what they teach you at sunday school? science and religion are at opposite sides of the spectrum. science is based on provable, reproducible and best of all subjective evidence. there are no true absolutes in science and all information is subjective to change. religion is based on belief without the need for physical evidence. it is also rigid and unchanging for the most part. how dare you try to compare science and religion?
'badastronomer' you think you can so easily dismiss creationists, can you explain how the universe formed from nothing? If there was a bang, what ignited it? what was there before it? Science is all cause and effect, what was the cause? Something CANNOT form out of nothing! if there was something 2 cause a 'big bang' what put it there? If you can't answer that question there is no point putting counter arguments forward because you have not answered the fundemental flaw in the evolution THEORY
Why does he so easly dismiss the creationists/intelligent design? Because it's not science, there is no way to disprove the claim that something created the universe.
If you think the creationists are right, then try to disprove my claim: This whole thing we call the universe is just a dream I HAVE.
You can't disprove that claim either, which is the reason it's not science.
For fun, try to state any fact that is in support of creationism and the rewriting of the Epic of Gilgamesh doesn't count.
I don't think many people (especially a creationist) can comprehend what the "big bang" actually is. Think of our ocean as the eternity of spacetime itself. Say our universe is an expanding bubble displacing the "water" of spacetime in this ocean of eternity.
Say there are more "bubbles" right next to us, yet we cannot see them.
What if the "bang" wasn't a "bang" at all?
And what if that bubble started off so small, we can search for the beginning for "eternity" and find "nothing".
since bad astronomy is sooo smart he already knows that CHRIST fulfilled 332 distinct prophecies in the OLD TESTAMENT. the mathematical possibilities of all these prophecies being fulfilled in the life of one man is 1 in 840,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 .
Books are written by people, people can be wrong especially without facts. Plus the time between when they say the things in the bibl ehappene dto the tim ethe decided to write them down was approx 1000 years. You cannot possibly tell me you believe the stories stayed completely accurate by word of mouth alone for 1000 years.
Plus hears a brain bender, one of my favourites to use. If we all came from adam and eve, how did we get 6 billion people without inbreeding or incest?
From the sounds of it, this gentleman does not believe in creation. If that's the case, perhaps he can explain the creation of all matter in the universe.
PS Carl Segan believed the universe was created by something.
he's not making a claim that he knows what created all matter in the universe. If you believe you know, then please explain it and cite proof. (PROTIP: The Bible does not count as proof.)
Science isn't about disproving. It is about proving.
Science merely furthers knowledge by observation and testing, then reaches conclusions. Whereas religion (i.e. creationism) reaches conclusions, then attempts to interpret science (incorrectly) to legitimize itself.
If you're so insecure about your beliefs that you must misinterpret and twist science just to fit your world view, maybe it is time to reconsider your religion.
Also, I think there is a fundamental misunderstanding about what science is among religious zealots. Science is NOT a belief system. Unlike the creationists, science does NOT have an agenda. If a scientific theory doesn't hold up, it is tossed out like the trash.
I don't care if people want to worship and invisible man and read stories from a time before man knew what a planet was, what stars were, what disease was, what matter and energy were. But don't call it science. It never will be.
you are a legend mate! You make the most complecks things easy to understand. the world would be a better place if we had more people like you. You rock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you very much for this video. I learn a lot from it. You could have considered having a podcast in 365 days of astronomy. Keep making more of these videos.
Religion is about money. Not to the poor believers of course. But to the leaders.
Many priests are gay practitioners.
I wish Jesus had invented antibiotics and HIV drugs in his time. So that now there will be no useless healing masses what so ever. How many Jesus saved compared to people developing vacines?
Looked at from the outside, all the energy of our universe totals up to zero. No energy in, no energy out. What has changed is where the energy appears to be. Just as with the virtual particles of the virtual field (called the Vacuum Energy), it will all self cancel leaving a net deficit/credit of zero. The difference is what we call time.
Space is the illusion everything hasn't all happened in one spot and time is the illusion it all hasn't happened already.
That's just it, loperspest. The matter/energy we see is *borrowed* from the vacuum energy. The sum of it all seems to be.. zero.
In effect, our universe could have been sparked off from something that has always existed and will always exist as a mere *change* in status. By something with less energy than a bee fart.
For a good anology from left field, imagine our universe is a bubble in a cosmic soup pot. Just like a black hole, all is relative in here.
OptionallySavage, that's assinine. Science can be TESTED. It can be REPEATED. If can be FALSIFIED. Religion can't even fail as well as science can and has. When science fails, it corrects the course of the failed theory and continues. Only those with COLLOSAL ignorance and NO understanding of science fail to understand this. If science is full of so much "fail", you'd better unplug your PC, refuse any and all medical treatment and die of old age at 40. The cure for ignorance is EDUCATION.
it would pretty much be like the balloon Phil is talking, about but the fact that space is a vacuum..particles have their own gravity to pull other particles.
On earth, if an item is "at rest" it is still moving along with the motion of the earth and universe though from our perspective it is not moving at all. Let's say though that I placed a ball hanging in midair and that it was not subject to the laws of our universe and it was indeed completely motionless. Any ideas as to what I might expect to see?
no one can prove god, dark matter or the big bang. that doesn't prove that they exist or don't. we're all on a wild ride and don't know the name of the driver! it doesn't make any difference. maybe gods the sun or maybe god is dark matter/energy. who knows, science is the tool that god gave us to use our brain. any thing said to be absolutely true, has always been proven wrong. no one man has any more knowledge of who or what god is then i do! AND i haven't got a clue either!
Haha, but you think there's a god... probably you're wrong in the very beginning, there's no driver! Just particles and probably extra dimensions we don't know about yet.
Ok, the more we find out about science, the less we believe in religion, right? Anyhow, religion provides us with one tiny detail that science doesn't: a concept of infinity. We have to admit we don't have any scientific proof with which we would be able to explain infinity. I think it would make some sense to kind of merge creationism and science... This doesn't mean "drop your physics book and start praying", this means don't get too anxious about finding out everything. It won't happen.
Every scientist alive knows that we will never know everything. But to stop or slow scientific research and progress for any reason whatsoever would be a disservice to our legacy as a species. After all, an exit from this universe comes soon enough, and no amount of faith will ensure a happy ending on the other side.
You sound really smart. I'm surprised you're not Asian.
giananimohit 2 weeks ago
Plasma universe
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Yes, but I have an ego of elaphantine proportions!
alaric63 5 months ago
This fellow condensed from a vast cloud of flatulent gas.
numbnuts234567 6 months ago
I am glad I came across your channel. good details. Thank you
ibrahim1868 6 months ago
nice explanation.. I could care less about your views on religion though..
Muttley64 6 months ago
"Why don't gas clouds in space dissipate?"
Because it's a vacuum, duh.
DOHC2L 6 months ago
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jtgilmore13 7 months ago
All these creationists getting mad. LOL.
DexterMorgan 7 months ago
3:59 holy shit space has acne!! :O
memo123414 7 months ago
your a very arrogant man
gamplyr951 7 months ago
I feel creationists get a bad rap by the only idiots in the Religion. The ones who go out publicly trying to get money.
TOSViolator 7 months ago
A creationist might say "the theater is on fire," and in that case I suggest erring on the side of trust. If you agree, then can we say that we have established that doubting a creationist's veracity is not an issue of dishonesty but rather of some other quality? What quality would that be?
mrfranksan 7 months ago
I am glad I have found your channel. I am always searching for this type of video on youtube, people who can speak about the Universe with rationality.
IgorMorais666 7 months ago
The whole question about dissipation comes from a very Earth-centric viewpoint. On the Earth, gas particles would naturally be redistributed by the movement of the atmosphere, whereas in space, they have nowhere to go. Gas just collects in massive clouds, tied together by gravitation. So the question just comes from the neo-Aristotelians, who have barely gotten past the concept that the entire universe does not revolve around us.
OrchestrationOnline 9 months ago
Phil, everyone is going with the Electric Universe now. I know you like your big bad bang and your gassy clouds, but that kind of speculation just isn't going to make it through the information age.
I am trying to be nice, but I am also pretty pissed that people in the 'accepted astronomy community' are lying to our children.
All that will change when I am in charge.
Cmon, Phil. Nobody cares that scientists have been making erroneous and unsubstantiated formulas.
Let's just get Electric!
alaric63 10 months ago
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"All that will change when I am in charge."
I feel relieved when I consider the infinitesimally small probability of that happening.
Diemedes 8 months ago
Gases or liquids can't exist in interstellar space as they would turn into ice crystals due to the extreme cold!
What may appear to be gas clouds in absolute space are actually minute particles that gravitated away from the surfaces of worlds that disintegrated or that are in the process of decay due to a diminished gravitational force field, and these intermingle with gigantic boulders that also were a part of the integral makeup of those worlds.
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jqs1943 10 months ago
5:09 Thhh, unns
jaspertjie 11 months ago
5:09 toooonnes!
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NiPpLeSpAzM 11 months ago
Lost of a lot of respect for this guy when he chose the low road when joined in the creationist bashing.
EmperorofCartoons 1 year ago
@EmperorofCartoons Would you think someone was an idiot if they thought that computers were run by tiny mice who flip switches whenever you press a button? Because that's a lot less of a ridiculous idea than creationism and carries more evidence for it.
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science explains the "how" not the "why"
TheENERGYartist 1 year ago
I'm a Believer in God, and I don't see any problem with any scientific explanation of things. I just cant believe that it all just happened for no reason.
elocoetam 1 year ago
@elocoetam So basically.. you don't care what's true... you just want comfort.
gregory06 1 year ago
@elocoetam Haha, it happened reason. But, then again, we still don't know much of anything about how we got here and how the galaxy came to be. Science has just brought more evidence to their theory than that of religion, as of now. In a few years, who knows, maybe we will discover that god is real or discover how everything was brought into existence. :)
sushixbacon 10 months ago
Hooray to the Little Marshmallow of Science!
mvszao 1 year ago
How can dust or gas be viewed that far away when planets revolving around stars cannot? Planets are much larger than dust so how can it be that we see the reflection of dust but not the reflection of a planet? It would be more logical to say that each grain or speck of dust is actually a small star. Dust cannot give off it's own light yet there are no stars around to cause the reflection at that scale so it cannot be dust. Please don't block me and delete my comment like other channels.
GateMessenger 1 year ago
@GateMessenger
That gas cloud might be hundreds, maybe thousands of lightyears across. They're not small things.
musli4brekkies 1 year ago
@musli4brekkies Well if it is dust then what are the nearby sources which are causing the reflection? Even at the tiny distance of Pluto compared to this so called gas cloud, Pluto barley gives off any reflective light back towards us. I say each speck which they call gas is a small star otherwise we would not even detect them. The odds are that dark matter is actually dust and this reflecting "dust" is actually stars. It would be like calling the arms of a distant galaxy dust, think about this.
GateMessenger 1 year ago
@GateMessenger
If you broke Pluto up into a cloud of dust it would reflect a shed load more light than Pluto on it's own.
Also, this Gas is often at hundreds of degrees Celsius. It is most likely being ionised by nearby stars and releases light of its own. If you believe that these gas clouds are actually mini-stars, write a paper about it and win the Nobel Prize. It'd be brilliant.
musli4brekkies 1 year ago
@musli4brekkies Thanks, but I doubt it would win a prize. Besides, if the gas were giving off heat then it only strengthens this hypothesis. In cold empty space the heat radiates quickly if there is no gravity source to keep fueling, so to speak. Imagine the universe as opposites, vacuum = cold; pressure = heat. The furthest away from pressure, which is caused by gravity, the colder space becomes. The closest you are to the point of pressure, core of planet or star, the hotter space becomes.
GateMessenger 1 year ago
@musli4brekkies Pressure and heat go together, explained in the law of thermodynamics. In the vacuum of space is cold, theoretically down to 0 K. Do you see the opposites here? This is why it is difficult to fathom the universe starting off in a soup of extreme temperatures, see BB theory. Now that inflation is observed implies the universe did not start out hot but cold and grew to the temperature it is today because of gravity, via pressure. Accretion only adds fuel to the pressure.
GateMessenger 1 year ago
@musli4brekkies Then when you note that heat is another form of energy explains why the universe is inflating and accelerating from every point of gravity, see inflation theory. Gravity is causing the inflation by adding energy to the universe's total amount, see law of conservation(it's wrong because heat is energy). Theoretically energy can be transformed into matter. So if energy, aka dark energy, can be created in the cores of planets & stars then this is why the universe is inflating!
GateMessenger 1 year ago
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meattube2009 1 year ago
What am I if I believe in God & believe science is just an awesome way to figure out how he made the universe work? Because that's how I roll. I'm an archaeologist honestly. I just love how the world and humans work. There's nothing wrong with me believing in a higher power. I don't even apply it immediately. I just see it as an intricate artwork to analyze at all levels. If I was an astronomer of course I'm not going to publish a paper saying GOD DID THIS but that's how I feel on my own time.
IrishNut 1 year ago
And furthermore more I love your videos, and I'm so glad that people like you can come on YouTube and teach us the things we regret we didn't get the chance to take in college.
IrishNut 1 year ago
Fascinating, always explains concepts so well and with great enthusiasm and interest
stevo632 1 year ago
I really liked the explanation you gave. It was very well spoken and very easy to understand.
I'm a creationist (I'm Christian) so I do believe everything the bible says but I also believe some of what science says. Contrary to popular belief; that's not contridictory.
I just wanted to say there are creationists that are WAY out there, but most of the creationists/Christians aren't crazy. It's the whole 'the squeaky wheel get's the grease' thing.
Great job and keep making videos please!
dobbynfred072107 1 year ago 9
@dobbynfred072107 "so I do believe everything the bible says" ..............why? I agree on one thing I went to a catholic school (though my adoptive parents were agnostic) (better student to teacher ratios). We were taught everything, The biology teacher taught evolution and the religion teacher told us about religion. (all of them that he knew about from native american to hinduism) Maybe my school was better then I thought at the time. I had a lot of teachers that cared about their students.
Thulgore 1 year ago
@Thulgore It sounds like you had a well-rounded education at a great school: I wish I could say the same.
Why do I believe what the Bible says? It'll take a lot more than the 300 characters I have left but the short story is because I have doubted, studied, and looked for other answers. For me there is no other answer than the Bible. I believe science and religion can coexist peacefully; I believe about 80% of what science says at the same time believing 100% of the what the Bible says.
dobbynfred072107 1 year ago
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I was watching your video and was interested intil you made fun of my religon. I never said that that cannot happen. Besides i think the earth rotates around the sun, am I wrong?
singlaprety12 1 year ago
0:29 "if a creationist is saying it, its probably wrong." kind of unfair, but so true.
EpicSqrl 1 year ago
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You also haven't addressed at all how "gas clouds" (nebulae) don't disperse in space, all you've done is recite the popular fable about "gas" collapsing under its own "gravity" and talking about plasmas in inappropriate terms like "shock wave" and "gas".
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We haven't seen stars formed by "shockwaves", stars are not "gas", they are plasma. Planets are not formed from "disks" of dust and gas, they are electrically ejected from larger bodies. I think your hatred of creationists has blinded you. You're so eager to refute their claims you'll take any nonsense that comes down the pike if it contradicts biblical mythology.
fertilizerspike 1 year ago
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If an astronoger says something, it's probably wrong. This video is a classic example. Gases don't self-compress, they expand to fill the available space. That's elementary chemistry, not "creationist" tripe. No matter how much "gas" (really plasma) you have, they do not self-compress.
The "temperature" of these nebulae is specious, they are not lit by radiant heat, they are lit electrically. They are not made of "gas" but plasma. Plasmas are dominated by electromagnetic forces, not "gravity".
fertilizerspike 1 year ago
Creationists are stupid as hell.
Zurround100 1 year ago
@Zurround100 and presumably we're all going there.
silentplanet2020 1 year ago
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i love watching youtube listning to videos about space and science on my day off, just relaxing and takein in knoledge untill i find one of these balding middle aged males who justify there existence by sitting in his house regurgitateing bullcrap he reads in his little science books and makeing fun of relligion and all the athiest christian bashing retards of the world gather around and make each other feel special... i dont care if your really an astronomer, your still a worthless wanna be...
weponized 1 year ago
This is probably gonna sound ignorant as hell, but how is it that we can see these clouds if they're far less dense than our own atmosphere when we can't see air?
I know telescopes use infrared light and stuff like that, so is that (part of) my answer? I'm guessing it's also the chemicals the dust is made up of as well?
eksyte 1 year ago
@eksyte
The distance.. If you were inside that thing, you wouldn't see a thing, but since we're far far away we can see the whole thing... As distance increases, the apparent gaps become smaller and smaller till it becomes a one big mess... Something like that.. You can actually see the air - you just have to look at it from the space
imarchello 1 year ago
Hey Phil, the simplest example that not all gas expands forever is our own sun. It is made out mostly of hydrogen gas yet it doesnt dissipate. It stays together under gravity.
putesputes 1 year ago
"if a creationist is saying, it's probably wrong." quote of the day sir, quote of the day. :)
jtgilmore13 1 year ago 45
@jtgilmore13 "you can listen to a creationist when they talk, it's always good, because you can find out what not to think" hahahahaha
1800ghostdance 1 year ago
@jtgilmore13 of the day? probably of the sentuary :)
hejsan119 8 months ago
@jtgilmore13 yes, because when the creationost newton, or the creationst, galileo, or the creationist copernicus or the creationist Max Plankc, or the creationist EINSTEIN said their things, they were proably wrong....oh wait...
Man athiest are so stupid
geiroffenberg 7 months ago
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@geiroffenberg I was quoting the Phil Plait, you dolt. And where's your evidence that all these people you've listed are creationists? Oh, right... Creationists don't need evidence to believe things.
jtgilmore13 7 months ago
I dont need to proove that these and more renowned scientists are creatinoists. they all confessed to it in their own writings! If you claim that they were not, then YOU should be able to proove why they are not creationists despite the fact that they all wrote about their faith in the god that created the world, and that in abundance. Newton wrote scores of books about his theology, more than he did about science.This is how athiest always argue, and its sooooo stupid, seriously.
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phodasspa 6 months ago
@phodasspa what are you talking about? that these ppl was creatinoists? read some, pls. dont belive the atheist lie.
geiroffenberg 6 months ago
google Doe's Account, its mindblowing
Phatcass 1 year ago
you can test that theory by taking water and boiling it. the smaller the amount of water the more quickly it will evaporate, the more water you put in and the bigger the water is, the more time it takes to evaporate.
reboothater 1 year ago
the larger something is, the longer it takes to become gas,evaporate, destroy through heat or dissapate :p end of rant.
reboothater 1 year ago
its like asking why doesnt the ocean evaporate. it does and probably will just over 25,000+ years :p eventualy the sun will get big enough to heat and destroy the ocean.
reboothater 1 year ago
also that assumption is wrong if stars die out, gas clouds (ie plasma clouds i prefer) most likely dissapate, it takes millions of years to do so because thier so large :p. nothing lasts forever.
reboothater 1 year ago
200 billion + light years of inhabitable completely hostile space that man will never explore and is deadly to live on, denounce the idea the universe was made by sentient intelligence for man. it used to be people who hear invisible voices were locked up and put away for life, now we call it organized religion :p
reboothater 1 year ago
thats right :p
reboothater 1 year ago
also i believe when you see "sunspots" your actualy looking at liquid plasma cooling, then the sun becomes hot burning off the "spot". plasma is what happens when gasses get superhot they become semi solid/liquid.
reboothater 1 year ago
the real problem with books, religion and science is anyone can write a book and answer thier own questions, it doesnt make you write or more wrong than anyone else, it just means youve been popularized. :p thats why theories like the earth is flat were upheld for centuries, due to education popularization.
reboothater 1 year ago
i would say probably because thier miscategorized. its doubfull that dust would be able to reflect light that well, that far away, youd need something very bright. your probably seeing plasma remains of stars being spread out, not dust. stars arent made of "gas" either, thats another astronomy blunder, thier made of liquid plasma, a semi-solid. this is why the sun has shape. plasma is similar to magma at the earths core only much hotter.
reboothater 1 year ago
You would be more credible if you didn't almost lose consciousness when mentioning other people have their own opinions about how the universe got here. Stick to science, not politics and religion.
Malatesa 1 year ago
who knowes when the new celestia (simulator program) will be in net ?
MAGOMEDIKK 1 year ago
creationists are total idiots....
science will proove that :)
Panz82 1 year ago
Science already has, they just can't admit it.
InfidelAvenger 1 year ago
ok well i would have just asked the creationists, has a creationist popped a hot air balloon in space?
mathewgivney 2 years ago
i already figured alot out i cant stop thinking about it
xtreo8 2 years ago
this is interesting, but this clip can be much shorter!
illier78 2 years ago
I mean seriously. You don't hear videos "Anytime you hear Scientolgists say this you KNOW its a lie" I mean not everyone is an idiot.
crocen0 2 years ago
you Douche bag, didn't come here to hear your take on religion, just science idiot.
it's not like sceintists always have it right. should i stop believing everything they say? no
so shut up on crap you "feeeel" about.
crocen0 2 years ago
I know, right?
DirtyTrick 2 years ago
I love how you're offended by opinion. it's quite funny :)
shantred 1 year ago
huh????
That's because Christians don't believe in gravity." - Peter Griffin
im a christian and i believe in "magnetic field" ^_^
but I dont believe Peter Griffin
or maybe he just insecure about miracles ^_^
kokoz123 2 years ago
hahaha pg rulez!
Slack3ron 2 years ago
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lulz im a creationist, and believe me, I'm not that stupid, nor are all of us xD
whatthejake 2 years ago
it is good
mascuud2000 2 years ago
your awesome to listen to thanks!!
5plumposts 2 years ago
your excelent... i really liked what you said on the few episodes of penn and teller you did
bonham42 2 years ago
where did he said that?
deljugo 2 years ago
wow, this is so cool. Nebulae running into each other and creating shock waves that create stars from the denser areas of the wave?
captainmanacles 2 years ago
Ohhh Science and Logic... How I love thee...
Keep up the good work Phil! It's great to hear you on Skeptics Guide to The Universe, and I hope you're having fun being the President of the James Randi Educational Foundation!
I know why Creationist don't believe what you say...
A quote from the show Family Guy, explains all.
"That's because Christians don't believe in gravity." - Peter Griffin
severeimplement 2 years ago
I've read that book! ^^
ErikeRKK 2 years ago
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honestly, if u can ask "what made god , and what made the thing that made god" you are seriously an asshole. did it ever occur to you that God was there all along? go to church. u'll see ^.^ btw we are made as an image of God and really, nth wrong with believing what u wish. just hope u can heal cancers with words like He can ^^ LOL
CWSSje 2 years ago
Go away
qwasd0r 2 years ago
Why are you religious people so nasty? You believed show what you people are really like. How did you get on the Internet. Did god hook you up or did you use modern technology developed by free thinking humans?
MicrosoftsourceCode 2 years ago
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Christianity
The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree... yeah, makes perfect sense.
ns88ster 2 years ago 24
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Evolution
The belive that Hydrogen, which makes us almost all of the universe, when left alone for billions of years, turns into people.
whatthejake 2 years ago
@whatthejake That isn't evolution no. That is both cosmology and abiogenesis and has so much evidence for it, absolutely everything we have observed has indicated that it is the case.
9hello123 8 months ago
you know, normally i would get mad at that, but thats just damn hilarious
UnchainTheNight1 2 years ago
@ns88ster nice! Now i believe in God.. i dont believe hes a supernatural being... now ur gonna think this is stupid but i beleive he is a being from another planet whose planet was gonna die out ( like ours willl ) and came here and found us and helped us to keep the human race from extinction... and in the future we will be on doomsday and we will go to another planet finding people in need of help of how to live life and we will be their god.... this is what i beleive... think about it :]
flowerpotproductions 1 year ago
@ns88ster As much sense that giant bubbles that are infinitely close to us yet infinitely far away, drifting through an invisble higher dimension collided and created our reality, which is itself made up of infinitesimally small strings.
EmperorofCartoons 1 year ago
@EmperorofCartoons Science is a tool to bring us an understanding of what is. We dont yet understand how the universe has come to be. To assume we already know how, or even IF the universe was created, is deceiving. Its much better to say we dont yet know. Unfortunately that isnt enough for some people, and thus religeon.
ns88ster 1 year ago
@EmperorofCartoons Because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't correct.
9hello123 8 months ago
Love your stuff. I KNOW I have read your articles in "Skeptical Inquirer'. I recognise your name. But I didn't see it in the fellows. Have you written articles for the magazine before?
xPHOENIX269x 2 years ago
awesome video, love your explinations. see a lot of video makers arent sure what to do videos about.. please dont be afraid to pick a very specific topic or a very technical part of astronomy. i love learning about this stuff!!
lejink 2 years ago
lol @ bashing creationists. Great explanation!
ManusFrigus 2 years ago
You cant prove anything AT ALL not god not the big bang and not evolution. You can only choose what you think is true and stick with it because no one was there when it started. If you beleive in the big bang ask "What made the bang?and what made the thing that made the bang?" if you beleive in god "What made god?And what made the thing that made god?" evolution is the same what started it and what came before it. You just have to stick with it.
Stormwind187 2 years ago
the long and short of it is not one of you can answer the question of how the everything came from nothing by itself
mosty85 2 years ago
It's sad that he has to disparage creationism to talk about cosmology. Creationism is as relevant to this discussion as voodoo is relevant to a discussion of a toothache. Dentists don't say, "This cavity isn't the result of a voodoo curse, it's actually bacteria...". Neither should any scientist need to defend science against a pre-scientific superstition like creationism.
ghuegel 2 years ago
But in some places, creationism is still accepted as a valid "theory". Isn't there a museum somewhere in the USA that openly operates under the fraud that is Creationism? I actually like his "just in case" attitude. You just have to read the comments here to see if creationism is alive and well. So very sad, isn't it.
downundabruthahood 2 years ago
Yeah its call the "Creation Museum" funny enough 2800 Bullittsburg Church Rd. Petersburg, KY 41080. - Rather like a lame Mexican version of Jurassic park Attraction at Universal Studios Florida except "god" instead of "INGEN" created the dinosaurs - actually its far lamer than the Mexican version.
robhiengler 2 years ago
hahahah
toolegit2quittttt 2 years ago
@ghuegel well when uve been in the field 4 a while being constantly bombarded wit creationist fairy-tails it takes its toll. besides creationalists wont stop pushing themselves into the field n arrogantly proclaiming tht they know the all the answers to the questions of the universe
krakmynutz 8 months ago
@krakmynutz
We don't have all the answers. The Bible itself says that. I see you don't know the secrets to grammar though.
And science compliments Religion if you think about it.
TOSViolator 7 months ago
@TOSViolator science compliments religion? is that what they teach you at sunday school? science and religion are at opposite sides of the spectrum. science is based on provable, reproducible and best of all subjective evidence. there are no true absolutes in science and all information is subjective to change. religion is based on belief without the need for physical evidence. it is also rigid and unchanging for the most part. how dare you try to compare science and religion?
krakmynutz 6 months ago
'badastronomer' you think you can so easily dismiss creationists, can you explain how the universe formed from nothing? If there was a bang, what ignited it? what was there before it? Science is all cause and effect, what was the cause? Something CANNOT form out of nothing! if there was something 2 cause a 'big bang' what put it there? If you can't answer that question there is no point putting counter arguments forward because you have not answered the fundemental flaw in the evolution THEORY
mosty85 2 years ago
Why does he so easly dismiss the creationists/intelligent design? Because it's not science, there is no way to disprove the claim that something created the universe.
If you think the creationists are right, then try to disprove my claim: This whole thing we call the universe is just a dream I HAVE.
You can't disprove that claim either, which is the reason it's not science.
For fun, try to state any fact that is in support of creationism and the rewriting of the Epic of Gilgamesh doesn't count.
MoeffG 2 years ago
I don't think many people (especially a creationist) can comprehend what the "big bang" actually is. Think of our ocean as the eternity of spacetime itself. Say our universe is an expanding bubble displacing the "water" of spacetime in this ocean of eternity.
Say there are more "bubbles" right next to us, yet we cannot see them.
What if the "bang" wasn't a "bang" at all?
And what if that bubble started off so small, we can search for the beginning for "eternity" and find "nothing".
downundabruthahood 2 years ago
We see TOOOOOONS of evidence about this 5:08, it sounds funny if u listen to it over
horderok123 2 years ago
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horderok123 2 years ago
that guys gay
blacktooth6604 2 years ago
theres a bottle missing in the shelf.
rreinhardd 2 years ago
since bad astronomy is sooo smart he already knows that CHRIST fulfilled 332 distinct prophecies in the OLD TESTAMENT. the mathematical possibilities of all these prophecies being fulfilled in the life of one man is 1 in 840,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 .
wankelyama701 2 years ago
Did you calculate the odds yourself or did you pull the, straight out of your ass?
FilipKunc 2 years ago
oh yeh because a 2000 year old book said it happend that means it definatly did
furiousharry 2 years ago
Hear hear man.
Books are written by people, people can be wrong especially without facts. Plus the time between when they say the things in the bibl ehappene dto the tim ethe decided to write them down was approx 1000 years. You cannot possibly tell me you believe the stories stayed completely accurate by word of mouth alone for 1000 years.
Plus hears a brain bender, one of my favourites to use. If we all came from adam and eve, how did we get 6 billion people without inbreeding or incest?
Terezar 2 years ago
lol i think u replied to the wrong guy, wankelyama701 is the 1 u want
furiousharry 2 years ago
no no I was saying I agree with you, THEN i commentedon what he said :)
Terezar 2 years ago
Doesn't 1 mole (2.02*10^23) of ANY gas on Earth at room temperature and pressure take up 24dm^3?
AxxeMaster 2 years ago
yeh so whats your point?
furiousharry 2 years ago
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this guys a tool
Trentoniscool11 2 years ago
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DUMB
sp4c3m0nk3ygl33k 2 years ago
From the sounds of it, this gentleman does not believe in creation. If that's the case, perhaps he can explain the creation of all matter in the universe.
PS Carl Segan believed the universe was created by something.
I do too!!!
dickandharry 2 years ago
he's not making a claim that he knows what created all matter in the universe. If you believe you know, then please explain it and cite proof. (PROTIP: The Bible does not count as proof.)
NexIuguolo 2 years ago
if god could have created everythinng icluding himself before he existed somehow, that doesnt mean science isnt still true.
CrazyMcSwaggin 2 years ago
"He doesnt know, therefore I am right." Brilliant logic.
FilipKunc 2 years ago
I've never heard of ANY creationist saying stars are not formed in nebula.
The fact that stars are formed in nebula does not dissprove creationism sir.
Nor does is prove your debunked materialism.
azkeyz 2 years ago
Science isn't about disproving. It is about proving.
Science merely furthers knowledge by observation and testing, then reaches conclusions. Whereas religion (i.e. creationism) reaches conclusions, then attempts to interpret science (incorrectly) to legitimize itself.
If you're so insecure about your beliefs that you must misinterpret and twist science just to fit your world view, maybe it is time to reconsider your religion.
nekad2000 2 years ago 6
Also, I think there is a fundamental misunderstanding about what science is among religious zealots. Science is NOT a belief system. Unlike the creationists, science does NOT have an agenda. If a scientific theory doesn't hold up, it is tossed out like the trash.
I don't care if people want to worship and invisible man and read stories from a time before man knew what a planet was, what stars were, what disease was, what matter and energy were. But don't call it science. It never will be.
nekad2000 2 years ago 3
yeah the material world is so fake and debunked.
NexIuguolo 2 years ago
before I even watched this video, I read the title and I instantly thought "GRAVITY!!!!"
belliebum12 2 years ago 6
same =D
Ascensiam 2 years ago
me too
NexIuguolo 2 years ago
you are a legend mate! You make the most complecks things easy to understand. the world would be a better place if we had more people like you. You rock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
tommo25l 2 years ago 3
creationists everything they say IS WRONG! all things even if say air is used for breathing there WRONG!
mobby32 2 years ago 3
i learned something new today :D
GameCentralTV 2 years ago 2
i also learned some thing new
mobby32 2 years ago
Thank you very much for this video. I learn a lot from it. You could have considered having a podcast in 365 days of astronomy. Keep making more of these videos.
Thanks!
derizonlyone2PAC 2 years ago
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watch this guy he could be a troublemaker man..
johnsmdm 2 years ago
watch this youtuber he could be a troublemaker idiot
Ascensiam 2 years ago
What's reality?
Religion is about money. Not to the poor believers of course. But to the leaders.
Many priests are gay practitioners.
I wish Jesus had invented antibiotics and HIV drugs in his time. So that now there will be no useless healing masses what so ever. How many Jesus saved compared to people developing vacines?
Yeah, he's major in sin forgiveness.
stonedboxing 2 years ago 3
This guy doesn't like creationists
Enderwiggan1 2 years ago
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This is just a stab in the dark - but I'm gonna say this guy was touched by a priest as a child.
earthtoincubus 2 years ago
Yay! Brian May!
andytom 2 years ago
hehe, "if a creationist is saying it, its probably wrong"
true :P
Jegermeister0 2 years ago 2
Looked at from the outside, all the energy of our universe totals up to zero. No energy in, no energy out. What has changed is where the energy appears to be. Just as with the virtual particles of the virtual field (called the Vacuum Energy), it will all self cancel leaving a net deficit/credit of zero. The difference is what we call time.
Space is the illusion everything hasn't all happened in one spot and time is the illusion it all hasn't happened already.
RyuDarragh 2 years ago 2
That's just it, loperspest. The matter/energy we see is *borrowed* from the vacuum energy. The sum of it all seems to be.. zero.
In effect, our universe could have been sparked off from something that has always existed and will always exist as a mere *change* in status. By something with less energy than a bee fart.
For a good anology from left field, imagine our universe is a bubble in a cosmic soup pot. Just like a black hole, all is relative in here.
RyuDarragh 2 years ago
Hehe, I never thought of it like that. Could you explain further? Send me a note, if 500 characters isn't enough.
loperspest 2 years ago
OptionallySavage, that's assinine. Science can be TESTED. It can be REPEATED. If can be FALSIFIED. Religion can't even fail as well as science can and has. When science fails, it corrects the course of the failed theory and continues. Only those with COLLOSAL ignorance and NO understanding of science fail to understand this. If science is full of so much "fail", you'd better unplug your PC, refuse any and all medical treatment and die of old age at 40. The cure for ignorance is EDUCATION.
RyuDarragh 2 years ago 5
Yes! I love this stuff! Thank you AW for introducing me to you =D
Kamidake83 2 years ago
why don't gas cloud in space dissipate?
it would pretty much be like the balloon Phil is talking, about but the fact that space is a vacuum..particles have their own gravity to pull other particles.
kresslack99 3 years ago
On earth, if an item is "at rest" it is still moving along with the motion of the earth and universe though from our perspective it is not moving at all. Let's say though that I placed a ball hanging in midair and that it was not subject to the laws of our universe and it was indeed completely motionless. Any ideas as to what I might expect to see?
mitch26 3 years ago
no one can prove god, dark matter or the big bang. that doesn't prove that they exist or don't. we're all on a wild ride and don't know the name of the driver! it doesn't make any difference. maybe gods the sun or maybe god is dark matter/energy. who knows, science is the tool that god gave us to use our brain. any thing said to be absolutely true, has always been proven wrong. no one man has any more knowledge of who or what god is then i do! AND i haven't got a clue either!
traintaz 3 years ago
Haha, but you think there's a god... probably you're wrong in the very beginning, there's no driver! Just particles and probably extra dimensions we don't know about yet.
SpartanLV 3 years ago 2
I love learning about the universe :)
Thanks for this video, i'll probably check out your other video's too. It's nice to see that you take the time to inform us :)
Truly fascinating stuff, isn't it?
Fepl 3 years ago
SUCCESS!!!!! i did it tanks to you.
hihihippl 3 years ago
Ok, the more we find out about science, the less we believe in religion, right? Anyhow, religion provides us with one tiny detail that science doesn't: a concept of infinity. We have to admit we don't have any scientific proof with which we would be able to explain infinity. I think it would make some sense to kind of merge creationism and science... This doesn't mean "drop your physics book and start praying", this means don't get too anxious about finding out everything. It won't happen.
rebirthsaph 3 years ago
Every scientist alive knows that we will never know everything. But to stop or slow scientific research and progress for any reason whatsoever would be a disservice to our legacy as a species. After all, an exit from this universe comes soon enough, and no amount of faith will ensure a happy ending on the other side.
As for infinity, you're retarded.
OptionallySavage 3 years ago 2
xDDDD retarded? what the fuck you stupid ass, if im retarded, your mom's a hoe
rebirthsaph 3 years ago
wow, you're mature
hissclick 3 years ago
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rebirthsaph 3 years ago
thanks for proving my point
hissclick 3 years ago
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rebirthsaph 3 years ago
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hissclick 3 years ago
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