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  • @cuppedbootboi jesus christ

  • tdarnell looks like Vince Gilligan.

  • "Just like downtown..." wtf? hahahaha

  • This star is spinning at 2 million km/sec.? So you're saying this star is spinning around at 6.6 times the speed of light? How is that possible? I thought nothing can travel at the speed of light let alone 6.6 times.

  • @cuppedbootboi ........ please read up and laugh at your comment.

  • And about "Phase Space" in these fields and Quantum Vacuum implications ?

  • ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE.

  • @blazak Ha. Let's see who gets it.

  • @blazak People are scared for what lies in europa. They have evidence of a lake and pretty sure there is an ocean. Religion on earth would change majorly. Its about time people know that the universe created itself and we are under no ruler

  • @ClanFutureTools Let's find out!

  • @blazak I want to find out right now. But they keep cutting the mission back if they really don't launch the probe to europa in febuary 2020 ill have no hope of it happening ever it feels like

  • Can someone explain to me, Pulsars, Neutron Stars and white dwarf stars, are they all the same?

  • @rockrollies why don't you just do a google search or something?

  • @rockrollies Pulsars and neutron starts are the same thing not a white dwarf starts are not d:

  • @rockrollies Pulsars are spinning neutron stars. Neutron stars are super dense cores made entirely of neutrons that are mashed together. White dwarfs are less dense dead star cores that simply glow with residual heat.

  • (continued) Hence, where the observation was taken effected the results, because of probability, which is a different thing than observation turning the photons into apples or bananas, simply because that was an expected result (yes, I am trying to be a bit funny, but I hope the point it made)

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  • Great video as always Tony! Yeah, the problem with posting intelligent videos is that you get intelligent fans, and notice the small mistakes....LOL. Hopefully most here will recognize those as mistakes though, and get a chuckle. I think your primary fans love the fact that while you are very intelligent, you are not perfect..HA!

  • If the star is rotating that fast then the outer matter must be moving 200,000,000 km/s then the outer mass must be moving faster than the speed of light 299792.458 km/s.

  • The problem with the Higgs Boson is that the observer can influence quantum particles, so the actual act of looking for the Higgs Boson might actually cause it to exist. :)

  • @bicnarok : I know and understand the theory you are working under with that statement (I heard about it), but you ignore the flaws in that ideology. As just one example, you would never find something you or the majority don't expect or imagine. I have an open mind to interesting ideas, and it is interesting, but I would suggest that if a form of that ideology exists, that we are not the controlling factor.

  • Very helpful indeed - thank you

  • They will never find it cause the Higgs dont exist. Gravity is bends in spacetime...

  • you are the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • where do you get the animations of, for example, the double star systems?

  • I like the Jovian system.

  • Just like downtown,

    i usased that often.

  • lol 'just like downtown'

  • None of these worlds are habitable or life forming. THEY ARE TOO COLD. The inverse square law of energy distribution prevents enough sunlight falling onto these icy worlds. I wish NAS would stop using the excuse that they are looking for life in our solar system. The water under the icy surface of a Jovian moon will have no solar penetration to activate photosynthisis as life does on earth. NASA should do research for research sake and stop pandering to foolish notions.

  • @CHAS1422 You need to check your facts. Scientists are aware there's not enough light to sustain photosynthesis around Europa. They don't pretend otherwise. What they're hoping is that the purported ocean is in contact with the warm rocky mantle. Look up 'Hydrothermal Vents' in Wikipedia. Scientists think if Europa has these hydrothermal vents they might be able to sustain life. It's a big if but it's worth trying to answer the question.

  • @sidoney101 I love NASA and I'm all for the exploration. They are the best. I don't like the constant specualtion of the existence of life within the solar system as justification for a mission because they are likely to find none. It is better to keep long shot speculation at bay rather than establish missions on a failed premise. The fact they can send sensory machines that return detailed environmental information is a good enough of a goal that can be a fully predictable success.

  • @CHAS1422 "did you deduce all of that by taking off your sunglasses on a Who song?!" well... Im with you man.. you sound far more intelligent than all the thousands of astronomers & scientists employed by NASA. You should take over and be a one man NASA employ

  • @djbb975 In the way you word your comment, If they find life on Jovian moons, then I am wrong, If they don't find life on the Jovian moons then I am right and the thousands of NASA scientists are wrong. I predict that no life will be found,yet I do not consider myself to be more knowledgeable or intelligent than the scientists at NASA. As an engineer, & ameteur astronomer, I understand the many of the tenets of rocket construction and orbital dynamics, and enjoy the work they do.

  • @tdarnell How come the NASA website has no mention (as far as I can find) of the Europa lander? Anyway, I hope it happens in 2020. Probably be delayed by 5 plus years if past missions are anything to go by. Europa, I think is the absolute jewel (after Earth) of the Solar System. I hope I'm around when our intrepid robots beam back the first pictures of Europa's ocean.

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  • There's a random still of you at 5.33. You're the man, Tony.

  • Love the videos, Tony. But you're about the last person I would expect to have to remind that there is no such thing as "centrifugal" force. It is centripetal force, the force which makes a centrifuge work!

  • @TsunamiBeefPies Neither "centrifugal" nor "centripetal" are fundamental forces of nature. They are, however, equally useful terms. Centrifugal being essentially the inverse of centripetal. How many sling psychrometers can swing on the head of a pin? Who cares. ;-)

  • you the man Tony

  • 1:25 "first few smashes" come on, that's a gross understatement.

  • The only thing that creates mass is uniform motion!

  • Europa is my favorite moon! I'm looking forward to those missions arriving to Europa. It will be a huge accomplishment for humanity.

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  • I love the bloopers at the end

  • Do photons really have no mass at all? I thought they had a little.

  • @atomspace Nope, none at all. That is why they travel at the speed of light (which is pretty obvious, being that they are light)

  • @atomspace They have no rest mass. But they are moving - so they have energy. And so they have an effective mass - that's where Einstein comes in with Emc^2. So photons are also influenced by gravity.

  • love the bloopers. haha. space is soo interesting.

  • if confirmed would the discovery of the Higgs boson, give early hints as to the validity od string theory? And I am waiting until 2030 edition of Space fan news the probable news from Europa could be earth shattering.

  • @homousios Finding evidence for supersymmetry would be more important for string theory, and so far there are no indications of it, which is problematic!

  • First the Higgs field, then the gravity gun!

  • You have more books than I porn on my HDD.

  • @GreatVomitto What impresses me is that they are all hardcover. My collection consists almost entirely of dog-eared paperbacks.

  • The end is always so funny:)

  • Thank you so much for not saying 'G*d particle'. That phrase annoys me...ever...so...slightly...

  • lol Love the duck phone

  • If you keep looking up in Manhattan you look like a tourist!

  • I rarely ever comment, but I have to say...I ENJOY YOUR VIDEOS!!!!!! By far my most favorite subscription. You are an inspiration Darnell. Keep looking up, yourself.

  • If the Higgs boson can only be made through artificial means in accelerators, then how would there be a Higgs field in nature to give mass to particles? Wouldn't there have to be naturally-occurring Higgs bosons for that to happen?

  • @PanicButton042

    They aren't creating the Higgs Boson per-say. The artificial collisions actually break apart the atoms so we can find evidence for the smaller particles such as quarks and hopefully the Higgs Boson that create those atomic particles. I think the term "create" means that we have to use artficial means to crack open the atom because it takes a lot of energy to do so, a lot more than what happens in a way which we can see in nature. :)

  • hey dude show me the maths

  • If things gain mass as the go faster does that mean the interact with the higgs field more as they increase speed

  • hey isn't that animation at the end of a type 1A supernova? 

  • Reminds me from 2010:Odyssey Two, where HAL sent a message to earth: "ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS, EXCEPT EUROPA, ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE".

  • Awesome, like always.

  • thank u as always for the Updates and info

  • My understanding is that after giving priority to EJSM over TSSM, NASA has now pulled out of EJSM, too. From Wikipedia:

    "In April 2011, ESA stated that it seemed unlikely that a joint US-Europe mission will happen in the early 2020s given NASA's budget, so ESA is investigating the possibility of proceeding with a European-led mission."

    It seems that Europe is fast becoming the premier player in space science, picking up the many shirked responsibilities of the increasingly slacking US.

  • so, with this research going into the higgs boson, could that mean we could learn to eventually manipulate mass and inertia? i am thinking star travel here.

  • I spy Capt. Kirk

  • Just like downtown !

  • Europa's cool and all that, but what I really want explored is Titan :/

  • Come for the Science, stay for the Bloopers

  • 2 million Km per second?? Wait a sec that is much faster than the sped of light!. Cannot be!!

  • @Guldumar yes its possible. the speed of light is only the maximum at which matter can EXPAND, not rotate.

  • @fireluigi12 What?! SR clearly established that no relative *velocity* (velocity has both magnitude and direction) between 2 objects can ever be measured as > c. It doesn't matter what the direction or acceleration is. *Space itself*, measured over vast distances, can expand at > c. But objects within space are most definitely limited to c, rotating or not.

  • @sbergman27 sorry, i misunderstood something. i just saw tony's correction.

  • @fireluigi12 That's cool. I apologize for what, upon rereading, comes off as an overly critical tone. I hope my comment was, nonetheless, helpful to you.

  • @Guldumar Yep.  My mistake, it two million km/hour. I mistyped when I wrote that, I'm so used to saying km/sec.

    Thanks for catching that! I'll make an annotation in the video when I return from my trip.

    Man, you guys don't let me get away with anything! :-)

  • @tdarnell How do we know how fast distant stars are rotating? What calculation is used to find rotation speed?

  • @tdarnell

    Not to be rude, but the statement is meeningless. Something can not rotate at a given speed. You can express it as a peripheral velocity, but it says nothing about how fast it rotates.

  • @tdarnell LOL i was like hey LHC forget about the neutrino beam here your evidence on travelling faster then light lol. no but i understand typing mistakes can occur great video buddy keep posting more and in the mean time i'll just make sure to keep looking up ;-)

  • @tdarnell Well when you got that much audience, chances are one or another guy will spot everything you fail to.

  • @tdarnell You didnt type that you said it

  • @tdarnell I was thinking the same thing. lol! For a moment I thought you had found evidence that faster-than-light speed was possible!

  • @Gik1618 It is possible, galaxies have been observed to be moving away faster than light. That´s why they say light speed is a "local effect". Maybe the laws of physics are different outside heliosphere´s bubble of protection:) Imagine the time dilation we are under, rotating on our axis, around the sun, around the galaxy and the galaxy hurtling through space at who knows what speed. We are fast folk.

  • @tdarnell That may warrant an audio dubover and repost. You're going to get a trillion ... I mean a thousand replies just over the FTL rotation speed.

  • I imagine the high rotational velocity would allow this star to outlive other stars of similar mass.

    The centrifugal forces should help to counteract the star's collapse as it runs out of fuel.

  • Thanks for the upload, as always very interesting.

  • about 30 years after E=mc^2, we opened the nuclear age. What could we expect if higgs boson truly does exist?

  • Ty!

  • I'm excited about the prospective Europa mission. I was wondering when that was going to happen (or "if", I mean).

  • The LHC isn't "purring along" is it? I read somewhere that it's shutting down for the winter and reactivated later next year?

  • @DougieBarclay

    Right now its in a technical stop, action will continue in 2012. But it did work a lot during most of 2011, you can look at the screens they have in their control room online, google for LHC status OP Vistars. But everything works as sheduled, lots of proton smashin in 2011, new world records, recently they did lead ion collisions, again setting world records. Now its time for some improvements/upgrades.

  • @DougieBarclay

    shutdowns, if you want full access, need to be quite long, for two reasons: safely heating it up from close to absolute zero to room temperature takes time, cooling it back down takes even longer, and radiation levels need to go down.

    Right now, the cryogenics live page shows that they are letting it heat up, they already are at around 25 kelvin. It needs to go to ambient temperature, you can watch online, will take a few days.

  • Thumbs up for the burp. Oh, all that science stuff was pretty cool too, I guess. ;)

  • "Just like down down" LOL nice line..

  • would i be possible to grab one of thos moons and use gravity to pull it into the habitable zone. Just to see if life develops

  • Did you get a new Camera/lightbulb/random lamp?

    the footage from yourself in your "studio", seems too bright.

    Just saying i noticed a difference in the light, and something not processing it correctly ^^.

    Could be Youtube, (but i didn't seem to notice it in the space footage ((duuhh it's dark.))

    Have a great day,

    I love your video's!

  • $4.7 million!!! you know how many missiles we can buy with that!?

  • @AXSofHFDS lol one ^_^

  • @AXSofHFDS I believe he said $4.7 Billion - still, that's what 1 one of those fighter jets F22 or some shit that doesn't work! - or a handful of bombs

  • @AXSofHFDS

    cruise missiles, like tomahawk? maybe two or 3.

  • @AXSofHFDS not that many....

  • @AXSofHFDS *Billion

  • @AXSofHFDS not even one

  • @AXSofHFDS no kidding! Just think of all the stuff we could blow up. I believe the amount is 4.7 billion. That difference will buy a lot more missiles and blow up a lot more stuff.

  • I thought they found neutrinos that traveled faster than photons. Wouldn't the photons be a bit caught up by the higgs if this is the case?

  • @OurFadedGarden get up to date on your info! It turned out they did the experiment slightly wrong.

  • @pheonex OH! Well I've been a bit busy lately. Thanks for the update.

  • I always have to laugh at the idea of a Europa mission. Not that its not important or interesting. Just the fact that you have to build a submarine then launch it into space. Lol. But i misunderstood what tony say i think. Would this be a lander to just poke around the surface? Or would it be the nuclear powered melty-probe everyone always talks about?

  • Did he say VFTS102 was rotating at 2 million kilometers per second?

  • nice outtakes at the end

  • Thanks for doing these videos. youre great!

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  • @electrodacus It is 2 million km/h, he just misspoke. Also, you seemed to misunderstand something, it's not the speed at which the sun orbits the galactic center, its the rotational surface speed of the star itself, which for the sun is ~2 km/s

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  • @electrodacus The earth has an equatorial circumference of 40,075 km....

  • @desager1 By air must be even more so the delay will be even larger than 12 seconds :) since planes usually fly at 10km altitude so will need to travel about 40106 km.

    They also did not mention what direction where they flying :) not that will make any significant difference they will still be late by about 12 seconds.

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  • @desager1 Thanks for clarification it makes sense now.

    The plane example on ESA website was confusing and I did also bad calculations they say at this speed 556km/s it will take one minute for a plane to circle the earth.

    Earth is 40000km circumference so you need about one minute and 12 seconds but is close enough.

  • @electrodacus The correct was 2 million Km/h = 556 km/s = 0.005 c = about 1/200 of the speed of light. Not really that fast.

  • @Neueregel Yes, I already found out thanks.

  • @electrodacus No problem. 2 Mega Km/s = 6.67 c is only available in Celestia simulations but not in nature.

  • Any idea how long it will take to get to Europa?

  • @lukenuetzmann I'm pretty sure he said about 6 years. They leave in 2020 and arrive in 2026

  • @CalisCool Oh wow okay. Thanks for the reply :D

  • Thanks for informing my brain!

  • So the Higgs-Boson particle seems to almost act like gravity. Is this the first step to unlocking the laws of quantum gravity?

  • So theoretically a star could be flung to spin faster then this one and we could someday find a star spinning itself apart, now that would be a beautiful sight to observe!

  • Tony, always a pleasure to see you on YouTube. We live in outstanding times indeed.

    Ahem... centrifugal force? (4:51) Oops. My bad. You actually said "centrifugal forces..." and that would be more correct (sic)!?

  • If it weren't for the dark ages, we would have explored the solar system by now. And many religious people are still trying to drag us back to those "good ol' days"

  • @goreziad /agree

  • @goreziad Just because you don't understand RELIGION doesn't mean we should not take into consideration their point of view...

    Religion = Re (Sun) + Legion

    => Legion of the sun

  • @WILDLEGHORN i haz bucket?

  • @goreziad i cant wait for the days where we have powerswords like in warhammer 40k and fly trough space, medieval times in the future - just like downtown :D

  • @goreziad The ancient greeks invented the steam engine, but we didn't start using it until a few centuries ago. Imagine what our world would be like today if the industrial revolution had started thousands of years ago.

  • @goreziad Please stop the religious comments on science videos! Especially if its hypothetical bullshit like yours.

  • @BasicSpace42 did i ask for your opinion retard? no, so fuck off or dont reply if you dont like the comment. watch the video you came here for or gtfo. asshole.

  • @goreziad (When you say religion you mean Christianity?) please...... tell me who want to drag you to dark ages(about 5th - 10th century). Religion (Christianity) are well aware that these times weren't the good old days.

  • @cgzebra1 Actually dude it does have a thin atmosphere with traces of oxygen!

    And yes Auroras have been spotted on Ganymede:)

    It is an interesting world

  • 3:38 Ganymede has a magnetic field but no atmosphere to support a aurora ?? Bad artwork .. Check out some of my space CGI brown dwarf proxima cnetauri vids on my channel..

  • rotating at 2million km/s?

  • plz subtitles.

  • Just like downtown :P

  • What does "just like downtown" mean?

  • @Sakanakao I only heard Tony using this phrase and I think it means "just like downtown" we know where it is and everything about it.

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  • awesome!! thank you!

  • Tx as always for the upload, you are among the few people, who's videos i thumbs up even b4 watching it, assuming it is guaranteed to be a great watch. TX and keep the good work up.

  • i dont mean to be picky on details but did you say that the star was rotating at 2 million kilometres per second at 4:43? I'm no scientist, but isn't that impossible?

    Great video anyway!

    Another question: does the higgs boson have any similarity to the "graviton" which is a term I have heard used before, though that may just be in string theory.

  • ...talk about a calling my space fan friend !

  • Tony, and excellent update. What is your bet of what will be found on Jupiters Moons? Life or no life...

  • Just like Downtown... :)

  • lol that was great. Just like down town!

  • Great vid, as always. Outtakes made me laugh, oh my.

  • Hiii Tony. Thanks for another great video.

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