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How do you contain fungus that like all fungi are highly reproductive and spread easily through the air as spores to eat every plastic item in the world?
You really want to bring a fungus that like all fungi are highly reproductive and spread easily through the air as spores to eat every plastic item in your home?
@@rtb1724 I really just want to do my part and degrade plastic at home. I don’t see big companies stopping using plastic anytime soon so what’s the alternative? I should just throw it away and continue to allow plastic to enter the landfill after I use it?
scientists creating some form of organic system of eating plastic is how I always picture the earth ending if it got out of control. I know it may sound paranoid. but there have been mistakes before in science
I think Arthur .c. Clarke said that the centre of Jupiter may be a massive diamond? .I like it when Brian and Jim get together on RU-vid . With the moon being nearer to us than Mars wouldn't it be better to try and Colinnise the moon.😊
Professor Brian is analyzing things out there the way he thinks BUT HE can be wrong .he DOESN'T have absolute answers to those questions just assumptions not more than that.
Is there a difference between going back in time and go back to your time? The rocket man goes to the moon and instantly return when he returns his watch would slightly off there for its believe he travel forward in time however he is actually returning to his time…
Fungi is what nature uses to break all life down. Fungi that dissolves plastic makes sense, but hopefully we don't end up with unintended consequences, like fungi dissolving plastic car parts and artificial body parts.
Weirdly enough I looked this up so that I would know why my internal clock wakes me up before I ever get to hear my alarm clock. It's usually 40 mins to an a hour a head of when I need to be up.m.. which I'm torn about because sometimes it's a good thing and sometimes it's a bad thing.
i want to add something about the speed of light. he hints at it, but doesn't actually say it. he does say that the speed of light isn't the speed of LIGHT, but rather it's the speed of "things with no mass." and light has no mass. he then goes on to say that if he were traveling at the speed of light, he would appear to us to be aging really slowly, and indeed his time would seem slow to us, and our time would be immeasurably fast to him. so let's say he was running at the speed of light. it might be 100 years before his next foot touches the ground (even though he'd be in the middle of space, what i mean is his running motion would appear almost "still" even though he's flying through space at the speed of light). and if he could turn around and observe us, as he travels away, he would see us skurrying about like a blur, because we'd be moving really fast living our lives and aging and time passing. but there's one other paradoxical thing about it: he would arrive at his destination instantly. we often hear that the light has traveled from the edge of the universe to us and it took 13.8 billion years for that light to get here. but that's only HALF true. according to the light, it got here instantly. it was US that went through time while the light went through space. you're going through both space and time at all times, unless you're standing completely still in the middle of space affected by no gravity. see, even here on earth sitting in a chair in an empty room, we are still moving through space due to the earth moving around the sun which is moving around the galaxy. but assuming we're moving at say, 300,000 miles per hour, which is just a wild guess i don't know the actual number, but it's something close to that, that is still only like 1% of the speed of light. so we spend the other 99% of our existence traveling through time. Something going 99% the speed of light would spend most of its existence traveling through space, and only 1% of its existence traveling through time, meaning it would get places really fast, much faster than its speed would suggest, and this really breaks down when you hit 100% the speed of light, as then you are basically getting places seemingly instantly, it's just that once you get there, everything looks different than it did when you left. you can think of mass as energy. it really is just a form OF energy. it's basically so much energy that the energy popped into existence and became heavy. and mass is sort of like the opposite of moving energy, or light energy. so, the black hole at the center of the milky way for instance, just wants to sit there. it doesn't want to move anywhere, it wants to exist THERE. and all the stars around it, they are struggling to stay where they are as well, only altered by the gravity of each other and the center of the galaxy. it's like there's this gravity and mass which work together to control energy and alter energy, and there's light that uses energy to escape those boundaries when possible. something in-between would be a car, or water, or us. these things and us have mass, but not so much mass that we cannot use energy to move. so, we have SOME control over our energy, but we still move. one could argue that a black hole has sort of lost control and lost the ability to move. and light is moving so fast that it never had control to begin with.. it merely bounces around and follows the bends and curves that gravity throws in its way. but, anyway, so the example where Brian flies to Andromeda: He would get there instantly, 2 million years from now, and travel back instantly, 4 million years from now. So for him about 2 seconds would have passed, maybe much less, and we'd all be long gone.
this could also suggest that time would flow very differently depending on how fast the object you're on is moving... i mean, it DOES suggest that. but, i guess what i mean is, let's say we meet a group of aliens from a binary star system, and they're on a planet of one of those stars, and that planet is moving say at twice the speed around their sun, and their sun is moving at twice the speed of our sun around its galaxy, and its galaxy is moving some huge speed through space as well.. This could mean that they would experience time differently WHILE ON their planet. So, let's imagine they're 400,000 light years away from us. Well, we might be 200,000 light years away from them. There's also the possibility that while in a gravity pit, you experience more time than you would if you were not affected by gravity. So, let's say you're in our gravity on earth, we experience one second as one second. But if you were falling into a black hole, with much greater gravity, you would experience one second as one second, but your one second could be 1000 years for us. So this could mean that we SEE Andromeda as 2 miilion light years away, but once we got out of the sun's gravity it might suddenly become 200,000 light years away, and then once we left the milky way, it would suddenly become just a few light years away, even though our speed never changed and we only traveled 100,000 light years away from earth. And once we get to andromeda, it would reverse due to the gravity there, so we would again see the earth as being 2 million light years away. Does that make sense? In other words, just as light was able to get here instantly, but we saw it took 13.8 billion years, that could be because we are being held by gravity, which again, doesn't move through space so it moves through or creates time. but anything outside the grasp of gravity could move much faster, and therefore get places much quicker, and experience less time. it's all mind boggling. i'd really love to hear Brian's opinion on this.
if i would have watched about 2 minutes longer he actually DOES go on to mention that no time passes for light (it gets places instantly), it just appears that way to us because we experience time. So, now i feel stupid for not being patient.
Also, i wanted to sort of disagree with "mathematics is the language of the universe." I don't think it is anymoreso than any other language. In fact, if there's any sort of communication that is universal, it might be religion or belief. believing in something greater than ourselves, whether that's God, or many gods, or even believing some of the scientific theories. regardless, we only write the numbers we write nowadays thanks to Ancient Arabic philosophers. There's been other ways to write it, including using letters (roman numerals and others), using dots and dashes, etc. One could argue well "you're still counting 1, 2, 3." Not exactly true, because some cultures didn't have a zero. There was no such thing as zero for thousands of years. Not only that, but many other cultures did and some STILL DO use a different counting system altogether. We use base 10, and they may have used base 2 or others, i think there was one culture that used something crazy like base 24 or base 36. This would seem alien to us today and be almost impossible to just pick up and begin understanding it, at least for all but the smartest among us. So, no, i don't think our version of math is anymore naturally universal than English or Spanish. You can argue that everyone today uses the same version of math, well you could also argue that most of the world speaks either english or spanish or both. Most of the world follows some sort of religion, or at the very least refuses to follow some sort of religion. There's no culture out there and no group of people who never mention religion ever in their lives, so whether they believe or not, whatever it is that they believe, they definitely talk about it, there's definitely words for it, just like there's some version of a number for math. Also, much of the complicated maths we do today were invented or discovered within the past 2,000 years. As he says ,we've been around a LOT longer than that... which means we went a very long time not understanding, nor caring to understand this supposed "universal language." Another universal language contender (besides religion and math) would be art. The oldest known communication we have evidence for is art work on cave walls. It's also something we regard very highly today in its many different forms, be it drawings, paintings, pictures, videos, videogames, music, etc.
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It took me quite a few good-intending low-brow bedroom producer's short-from videos regurgitating ideas around Supernormal Stimuli to get here and only regret I have now is that, unlike Robert Sapolsky's behavioral biology lectures, more videos and scientists like this didn't go viral back in 2011. Is there any chance of re-uploading this video with a better sound ± video quality and or follow-up interviews with Deirdre Barrett?
If we are in a universe and there are infinite universes, what contains all these universes? And even if it is not multiple universes, what contains our universe? How do we know we have reached the boundary of our universe? What forces/particles can we expect there? Of course we don’t know but just want your perspective sir.
Hey, I found your channel's trailer of a video about Kuru/prion disease. Where is the whole video available? There is no link and the comments are disabled.
