Will The Sun’s Magnetic Field Flip This Year?

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@Morilore 7 дней назад

"Why does it take 11 years? Well, because that's how long it takes." Understandable, have a nice day.

@terryjwood 7 дней назад

Ham radio operators have asked that question for years.

@Broockle 7 дней назад

Sun very big But magnetic plasma very very fast

@Graycy808 7 дней назад

@@Broocklethat cleared it right up for me lol

@1nePercentJuice 7 дней назад

You can tell how long it takes by the way that it is

@saturnblue 7 дней назад

Remember that the way we measure time is entirely arbitrary. The sun is under no obligations to do things on a time scale that makes any sense to us.

@iamthecondor 7 дней назад

Great... Now I gotta fix my compass for when I go to the Sun

@ChrispyNut 7 дней назад

Just delay for a decade, visit Venus instead and enjoy swimming in its clouds. I'm sure that'll be super easy, barely an inconvenience.

@colonagray2454 7 дней назад

Nah just fly south and your good

@NatePrawdzik 7 дней назад

Not if you go at night.

@Jatt2613 7 дней назад

Just turn it upside down.

@bobsburgers8885 7 дней назад

dude just use Google maps

@disruptive_innovator 7 дней назад

First time I've heard a cohesive explanation of these solar processes. Thank you.

@brown2889 7 дней назад

I agree. Very well explained.

@willo7734 7 дней назад

yeah, it was a great episode. I now feel like I have at least an intuitive sense of what’s happening.

@Asiago9 7 дней назад

Third time? I've heard someone go into detail about it, but still very interesting to listen to multiple people explain it

@_logicking 7 дней назад

Yeah. solar physics are so cool!

@nobody.of.importance 7 дней назад

Same, this video was particularly insightful. I finally understand how sunspots form :D

@jenbanim 7 дней назад

6:54 is that a kinked toroidal magnetic field or are you just happy to see me?

@jimmyzhao2673 7 дней назад

The Sun is getting ready for a mass ejection.

@winstonsmith6065 7 дней назад

@@jimmyzhao2673 … a mass ejection pointed straight at the face of Earth, just the way Earth likes it. Bow chica wow wow… 🌞💦🌎

@AABB-px8lc 7 дней назад

time for new even more exclusive t-shirt.

@lolalasziv1059 7 дней назад

@@AABB-px8lc The sun kinked a mass ejection at me and all I got was this kinky shirt.

@seionne85 7 дней назад

Comment of the year

@Garresh1 7 дней назад

So the suns magnetic field is kinky, unstable, stuck going in circles, and occasionally snaps from stress? Are we sure the Sun is okay?

@ardellolnes5663 7 дней назад

Maybe toxic But soooo hot

@DeltaNovum 7 дней назад

You just described one of my exes perfectly.

@AmonTheWitch 7 дней назад

omg I'm a star

@KOKO-uu7yd 7 дней назад

Perhaps she's peri-menopausal 😅

@pandoraeeris7860 7 дней назад

The sun is my ex.

@Fika_Break 7 дней назад

The graphics guy was having a bit of fun there for a minute.

@NickDoddTV 7 дней назад

I saw it

@jeu198 6 дней назад

6:58 😂

@bytesandbikes 6 дней назад

Glad I'm not the only one who thought that! 😅

@zamboni9038 6 дней назад

Kinks

@Mattrellen86 6 дней назад

How else were we supposed to see the kinks?

@aridpheonix 7 дней назад

completely surprised how incredibly informative this episode was. i had no idea. this completely enhanced my understanding of magnetic fields and how they interact with matter in such a hot, "liquid" environment. absolutely fascinating that people have figured this out

@UnreadyPlayer 7 дней назад

When the Sun snaps, everyone's in awe. But when I snap, I'M a bad guy.

@SGTRandyB 6 дней назад

Yeah pretty much.

@lynxf 5 дней назад

If you were able to burn the whole world to crisp..

@UnreadyPlayer 5 дней назад

@@lynxf I'm sure I can if I put my heart into it

@Zentao420 День назад

@@UnreadyPlayerand I'm gonna be king of the pirates👒😁👍

@JanKnaup 7 дней назад

Watched with fascination not only by solar astronomers, but also radio amateurs. Cool things happening in the ionosphere

@terryjwood 7 дней назад

I've been monitoring this cycle since I retired in 2019. I get on Amateur Radio everyday and test propagation. When I first started only the lower wavelengths were active (160-80 meters). But as the weeks went by the maximum usable frequencies started increasing. Five years later I'm enjoying 160 through 10 meters daily. I retired at the right time!

@ArawnOfAnnwn 4 дня назад

You chose an awesome hobby! Maybe try getting your grandkids into it too. :)

@terryjwood 4 дня назад

@@ArawnOfAnnwn My parents met on the air! My mom was a ham before she met my dad!

@infectedrainbow 7 дней назад

That Coriolis affect animation was SOOOO illuminating. I always wondered 'what exactly causes the kinks?' and assumed it was some horrifically complicated mess. Sunspots are just magnetic plasma hurricanes.

@Pyxis10 7 дней назад

Were currently forecasting a category 400 plasma hurricane this weekend....highs in the low 6000's K...

@simonehudspeth861 7 дней назад

@@Pyxis10 florida man should apply spf 50 at least but florida man should have no other worries lol

@timhaldane7588 7 дней назад

6:54 Science Diagrams that look like Shitposts

@Graycy808 7 дней назад

Looks like something but I'd have to know what a shitpost looks like!

@NewMessage 7 дней назад

"The Omega Process" would be a fantastic late 60's Sci-Fi 'movie of the week'.

@Hurricayne92 7 дней назад

Right? every now and then scientists come up with the coolest names for thing, when they arent just naming them after themselves 😅

@zolo49noname45 7 дней назад

There was a 1971 movie called "The Omega Man" starring Charleton Heston. It was an adaption of the book "I Am Legend".

@HenryBloggit 7 дней назад

Or a Big Bang Theory episode title.

@totalmonkeyspeed260 7 дней назад

...and then an Alpha Process prequel

@alexpotts6520 7 дней назад

@@Hurricayne92 I think my favourite in this category is "ultraviolet catastrophe". Very metal.

@91plm 6 дней назад

Time for a new tshirt with the 6:56 illustration! Name it: Corronal mass ejection😅

@andersnilsson973 5 дней назад

Coronal mass erection?

@EvilSnips 4 дня назад

Coronal mass erection

@fraktaalimuoto 7 дней назад

We have no proof of magnetic flux tubes! Solar dynamo can be produced purely with convective turbulence and differential rotation, without assuming that flux tubes can exist as coherent entities. (Yes this is a scism in the solar physics community. Flux tube theory is popular and Anglo-American sphere. Mean field turbulent dynamo theory is more popular in continental Europe.) Greetings from a dynamo theorist.

@EnglishMike 7 дней назад

He did say that he was talking about a working theory that could change.

@AndyFletcherX31 7 дней назад

For the first time in my life I now have a basic understanding of sunspots, flux lines and CMEs. Many thanks for the crystal clear explanation. The only big question I have is what sort of field strength are we talking about in those flux tubes? My intuition is it is really high but on the other hand the flux tubes probably have a large diameter so the flux density might only be moderate.

@WildVoltorb 7 дней назад

Yes

@garethdean6382 4 дня назад

As high as 0.4 tesla, which is pretty solid. About 400x more than a fridge magnet.

@AndyFletcherX31 3 дня назад

@@garethdean6382 that is a lot more than I was expecting considering the flux tubes can be a couple of thousand km in diameter. I'm not surprised they have such an effect

@newrev9er 7 дней назад

This channel is so amazing. Thank you so much to everyone at PBS who makes this possible.

@brucepreston3927 7 дней назад

I may need to watch the first half a couple times to fully grasp this...

@Graycy808 7 дней назад

Same. I just restarted it

@vvvvxxxx9999 7 дней назад

Wish I could get it in English version.

@brucepreston3927 7 дней назад

@@vvvvxxxx9999 I feel ya...Sometimes it just sounds like word salad! lol...I can usually get it after I take my time and watch it a couple times though...

@MrManafon 5 дней назад

wow this was so informative ❤ i was told that “we don’t know where sunspots come from” back in school

@gmtom19 7 дней назад

0:47 When you were watching the Aurora Borealis in upstate New York were you enjoying a hamburger, or as the locals call them, steamed ham?

@HenryBloggit 7 дней назад

I’m from Utica and I’ve never heard anyone use the phrase “steamed hams.”

@thezipcreator 7 дней назад

@@HenryBloggit Oh, not in Utica, no. It's an Albany expression.

@user-sn8nw3rz3n 7 дней назад

I don't think he's a principal named Skinner.

@timhaldane7588 7 дней назад

And you call them steamed despite the fact there are clearly grill marks?

@alexpotts6520 7 дней назад

I hate to be that guy, but Aurora Borealis was not visible from upstate New York. It was localised entirely within Skinner's kitchen.

@NotGarbageLoops 7 дней назад

I'm not upside down, *YOU'RE* upside down.

@SolaceEasy 7 дней назад

My sixth Solar Cycle.

@MichaelDeHaven 7 дней назад

Congratulations! I'm just about to finish number five. May they be interesting, but not too interesting.

@lyrimetacurl0 7 дней назад

My 3rd if I don't count the one I was born in (same as they didn't count Solar Cycle Zero even though measurements started in its maximum 😂)

@fdabelstein 5 дней назад

The Gen X, Y, Z moniker is silly anyway. I will call myself a Gen 20 from now on.

@BorderKeeper 7 дней назад

Me as an Outer Wilds enjoyer seeing the star activity ramping up and then multiplying 11 years by 2 and turning it into minutes 😱

@Deletirium 7 дней назад

I wish I had a gaming capable computer again- that looks like a brilliant game.

@theorixlux2605 7 дней назад

@@Deletiriumcloud streaming: poor man's gaming pc. (Well worth it)

@solsystem1342 7 дней назад

@@Deletirium I'd check the requirements. Outerwilds is actually pretty decent performance wise. In my experience

@timhaldane7588 7 дней назад

Just make sure you go in with the knowledge you'll be doing the same thing over and over and over and over. I hear lots of people like it, but it wasn't my cup of tea. I have too much Sisyphus in my life already.

@geneticjen9312 7 дней назад

@@timhaldane7588 Sorry it didn't click with you but it's not that type of game at all. It's only repetitive if you're choosing to do the same thing again. The whole system is filled with mysteries and you have to go everywhere and find all the clues to find out what's going on. Going to the same clue over and over won't result in much

@onesciencedad 7 дней назад

One of the big reasons we had such a profound Aurora in May. Was that not only the coronal? Mass ejection, it was stong, but it shouldn't have been strong enough to give us the show. The big thing that is not being said. Is that our own magnetosphere is weak. And it's getting weaker, so that even moderate solar storms. Penetrate into the ionosphere. The beginning of our pokes repositioning.

@EnglishMike 7 дней назад

Nope. Not true at all. There's no evidence for a pole shift about to happen.

@joelwexler 7 дней назад

These people who figure this stuff out are so smart it's hard to fathom. Makes me feel like such a dope after thinking a couple good marks in undergraduate physics meant something.

@andersjjensen 7 дней назад

You know what it took to get those marks. Now stare angrily at a physics problem for 8-12 hours a day for a decade and you know what it takes to move one tiny aspect of one specific category by a tiny amount. If you have the problem solving capacity to do good in undergraduate physics then you also have the problem solving capacity to do good in high level physics. The question just is: do you want to stare angrily at the same problem for ages? Personally I don't have the fortitude. I can hyper focus on something for as long as it fascinates me, but not getting anywhere for a long time is also how I lose fascination rapidly....

@mysticlunala8020 7 дней назад

@@andersjjensen It's understandable. I remember when I first started Rotational motion and came across a question. I refused to ask my teacher for the solution because I wanted to do that on my own and it literally took me 4 days to figure out the solution after doing it every day at least 4-5 times. I was always missing some kind of force in the equation. Even after failing so many times, I was still ready to solve it and finally solved it just because I was so fascinated by it. I used to think about becoming a physics professor back then. And today I am a nowhere near becoming a physics professor or researcher. LMAO I always look at things as trivial as opening/closing a gate and the physics behind it and wonder how can someone he not fascinated by it. But everyone's different.

@drummerdoingstuff5020 3 дня назад

Remember it’s a collection of many bright thinkers over the years. People working together to a better understanding.

@themaker7822 7 дней назад

This is a very good video, the part with the explanation for how the magnetic field flips and how the spots form couldn't have been explained better. I would even recommend it as a good visualisation for students starting Astronomy or Heliophysics

@meltee01 7 дней назад

Perfect, yet another PBS Space Time video for me to fully 100% comprehend.

@Electric_Bagpipes 7 дней назад

What does the constant solar magnetic field flipping mean for the solar system’s “edges”? How does it effect the heliopause?

@Porcuponic 7 дней назад

Carrington event lets go!

@ardas77 7 дней назад

that would be cherry on the top of current events

@5nowChain5 7 дней назад

It's that or the Big One in California.

@MichaelDeHaven 7 дней назад

Speak for yourself! I like my electricity and computers.😂

@Porcuponic 7 дней назад

@@5nowChain5 less likely but it could be the big one on the east coast, which wouldn’t even have to be that big to be the big one

@pigbenis8366 7 дней назад

@@ardas77at least we wouldn't have to worry about nuclear war anymore.

@Richardincancale 7 дней назад

9:18 - Looks like the Dallas highway system!!! 😅

@Merennulli 7 дней назад

Last time I was in Dallas, the temperature there was also similar to the surface of the sun.

@williamcozart8158 7 дней назад

or an eggplant emoji

@deetwise4631 День назад

So happy to see a Space Time episode devoted to a "basic" explanation of observable processes in our own sun (which even directly affect us) instead of yet more of the endless undemonstrable para-scifi theoretical physics speculations about black or worm holes, invisible dimensions, putative multiverses and what not which RU-vid - and unfortunately so often Space Time - excels at. Hope to see more such videos!

@user-yp1jn6iz3r 6 дней назад

That storm knocked out the power in Alamosa Colorado. It took almost 5 hours to get it back on. All the restaurants, stores and traffic lights out. Walmart has an independent system, I think the whole town went there.

@llywyllngryffyn8053 7 дней назад

I'd be very curious to know the positions of Jupiter and Saturn during those peaks and valleys in the solar activity cycle...

@EnglishMike 7 дней назад

I sincerely doubt such a simplistic correlation would have been overlooked by the entire community of solar scientists, especially for a subject that's so important for the space and power generating industries.

@gragnaktube 7 дней назад

I saw another video that showed the 11-year cycle correspondence with alignment of Jupiter, Saturn and Venus

@godfreypigott 6 дней назад

@@gragnaktube Those three planets go nowhere near aligning every 11 years.

@EnglishMike 6 дней назад

@@gragnaktube You can find videos claiming just about anything on RU-vid. The question is, was the video made by a credible source of science information?

@ThePowerLover 4 дня назад

@@EnglishMike Nope, the question is, is the information right or wrong? Don't fall for the Ad verecundiam fallacy!

@dalektorgo2973 7 дней назад

6:56 Nothing phallic to see here folks!

@Graycy808 7 дней назад

Just move along, lol

@Kubose 7 дней назад

That night in May with the arouras was awesome, I was outside on the phone not really thinking about it (I live southern AL, we don't get arouras and I had zero hope) and I saw a Starlink trail of satellites randomly. Thought that would be the highlight of stargazing for the night, but eventually I noticed the sky towards the north was a purple-ish color and put two and two together. My eyes only really saw a colorful night sky, but I took some longer exposures on camera and it looked amazing, made me want to take a trip up north to see the real thing one day. Kinda hoping the sun really pops off and rips us a new one so I can see some pretty lights from my backyard lol.

@jimmyzhao2673 7 дней назад

Will The Sun’s Magnetic Field Flip This Year? THE ANSWER WILL SHOCK YOU !

@mountainhobo 7 дней назад

🤣🤣🤣

@Ohenry92 7 дней назад

I think what the bigger question is, is are the earths magnetic poles flipping?

@MichaelDeHaven 7 дней назад

Average is 200,000 to 300,000 years and the last flip was 780,000. So we could be due. But a short search didn't show any clear signs. So we're likely good for now. I do wonder how it would affect our relatively Hi-Tech society. Satellite, electronics, etc.

@ThePowerLover 7 дней назад

@@MichaelDeHaven Magnetic excursions are way worse, way, way worse.

@Ohenry92 6 дней назад

@@MichaelDeHaven A modern day Carrington event would be scary

@VictorAntares 5 дней назад

I love the theory for why the sun's magnetic field is so loopy

@warbird2k 7 дней назад

Perfect timing! Was looking for something to watch, and I've watched everything good I like at least twice... Dropping this now couldn't have been more perfect.

@ChrispyNut 7 дней назад

More perfect? Perfection's a spectrum? That's more things I learned here. 😉

@Merennulli 7 дней назад

@@ChrispyNut It's quantized, though. Every elemental particle has charge, mass, and spin, and if they are all perfect, the particle is perfect. The level of perfection is a Fermi estimation of the percentage of particles in perfect state averaged over a period of 10^9 nanoseconds.

@ChrispyNut 7 дней назад

@@Merennulli That seems paradoxical. N.B. I'm making a joke, Fermi paradox, because this went to a greater depth than I can cope with, so distracting from that with a joke seems the right thing to do. 😉

@Merennulli 7 дней назад

@@ChrispyNut Mine was a joke too. 😉

@billkrause6880 7 дней назад

Damn it Matt, if you are going to talk about the sun flipping it's magnetic pole wearing a "Game Over" tee shirt, the tee should be in the merch store.

@Merennulli 7 дней назад

I know you meant "merch store" but that typo works a little too well. 😂

@randallpetersen9164 7 дней назад

He wears cool Ts that aren't in the merch store way too often!!!

@Merennulli 7 дней назад

I did some looking online - the shirt is sold by the American Museum of Natural History.

@iLLadelph267 7 дней назад

I believe this is a legacy design from older Space Time merch

@JorgetePanete 7 дней назад

its*

@user-vc5zt9ci12 7 дней назад

6:54 erm, interesting feild lines...😂.... looks ready for a mass ejection

@chefRyan38 7 дней назад

"This kinking..." 😂

@timhaldane7588 7 дней назад

@@chefRyan38oops! That's my kink.

@timhaldane7588 7 дней назад

Coronal mass erection

@reina4969 7 дней назад

8:38 Yep, they know what's up.

@FleshWizard69420 7 дней назад

"AMBATUKAM" - the sun

@Elesario 6 дней назад

Matt - "It probably won’t be as strong as those in the peak of the modern maximum"... Meanwhile the Sun - "Hold my beer!"

@philochristos 7 дней назад

That's extraordinary! I always wondered how the pole reversal happened.

@ValheruIII 7 дней назад

6:55 hehe

@richtheobald4390 7 дней назад

No kink shaming, please

@fhvisuals479 7 дней назад

😅 6:54

@timhaldane7588 7 дней назад

Coronal mass erection

@jakokaiser1169 7 дней назад

I can't overstate the value of this channel. Thank you!

@jordonleigh174 7 дней назад

Thanks for this video, Matt! This really puts together an extraordinary insight into our Sun's inner workings. It makes much better sense to me now! Bravo!

@regannyhuis2728 7 дней назад

Is the earth magnetic field due to flip soon as well

@MichaelDeHaven 7 дней назад

Reposted from a reply to a similar comment.. Average is 200,000 to 300,000 years and the last flip was 780,000. So we could be due. But a short search didn't show any clear signs. So we're likely good for now. I do wonder how it would affect our relatively Hi-Tech society. Satellite, electronics, etc.

@mckinleycard3065 7 дней назад

Ben over at @Suspicious0bservers has many opinions about it, he says we are in for a flip very soon. Pretty interesting and somewhat concerning

@regannyhuis2728 6 дней назад

@@MichaelDeHaven @Suspicious0bservers has it happening in the next 25 years Have you ever seen his channel be interested in your view of him

@godfreypigott 6 дней назад

@@mckinleycard3065 Suspicious0bservers has many opinions, but that is all they are ... opinions.

@meltee01 7 дней назад

Perfect, yet another PBC Space Time video for me to fully 100% comprehend.

@Graycy808 7 дней назад

This is the first channel I subscribed to on utube, I still get just as excited as in the beginning! Matt thank you for explaining it all in a way that give me hope I'll understand it all someday... if I listen to the episodes enough times and my IQ increases as well!

@holgerspielmann1073 4 дня назад

Thank you to Matt and all the other folks at PBS for this great show! Mostly on the edge of what my knowledge of physics, mathematics and the English language allows me to comprehend, it always brings forward my understanding of the universe! 🙏🏼❤️

@fizola88 7 дней назад

6:55 I am so immature... 🤣🤣🤣

@fhvisuals479 7 дней назад

Damn beat me to it 😅

@user-vc5zt9ci12 7 дней назад

I saw that too!

@KungKras 7 дней назад

Don't forget he also called it the Alpha process 😂😂😂

7 дней назад

Not all experts expected low activity in this cycle.

@godfreypigott 6 дней назад

None of them are experts in regard to predicting the strength of a cycle. The one that's closest will have fluked it.

@MCsCreations 7 дней назад

Fascinating stuff indeed!

@bigjermboktown6976 7 дней назад

This is definitely one of my top five favorite channels!

@TheCjbowman 7 дней назад

The important information is when the magnetic field of the Earth will flip.

@reubenj.cogburn8546 7 дней назад

Since the process is basically unknowable, unpredictable, and unchangeable what difference would any knowledge make?

@Merennulli 7 дней назад

@@reubenj.cogburn8546 Mass producing upside-down compasses in advance.

@JamesCairney 7 дней назад

@@reubenj.cogburn8546practice in reading a back to front compass. These things take time.

@Alex-js5lg 7 дней назад

I didn't expect the sun to be so kink friendly.

@solsystem1342 7 дней назад

Sun's been around long enough to know not to kink shame. Besides that'd be pretty hypocritical

@patellis8904 7 дней назад

Oh my god, I never knew about the sunspot pairing before, as well as equatorial pairing too! That is amazingly cool.

@KeithCooper-Albuquerque 7 дней назад

Great video, Matt and team!

@cx3268 7 дней назад

Next thursday at 7:34 pm PST is my guess.

@relwalretep 7 дней назад

and 12 seconds

@Omnifarious0 7 дней назад

Isn't it also true that the Earth's magnetic field is about to flip, and hence is getting weaker and more disorganized?

@xjohnny1000 7 дней назад

No it is not true.

@EnglishMike 7 дней назад

No, the recent weakening of Earth's magnetic field (10% in the last 200 years) is not a sign there's a flip about to occur. The strength of the magnetic field fluctuates more than this all the time but flips only happen every five hundred thousand years, on average. There's lots of pseudoscientific nonsense about pole flips out there on the Internet, but the people who actually know what they're talking about (i.e. Earth scientists) are not expecting anything to change anytime soon (as in the next few thousand years).

@Omnifarious0 7 дней назад

@@EnglishMike - Given what has been called "pseudoscience" and who has been called "charlatans" recently, I'm far lest trusting of those words than I once was, so I would appreciate a more detailed understanding of why the group of scientists you cite do not think the Earth's magnetic field will be flipping in the near future. My chief reason for thinking it might is that the north magnetic pole has been moving around a lot more than it has in the past.

@ThePowerLover 7 дней назад

@@EnglishMike That 10% loss is like 10 to 20 years off...

@ThePowerLover 7 дней назад

@@EnglishMike How many geophysicists do you know?

@jo_crespo11235 4 дня назад

Excellent video Matt and team, keep the hard work.

@zacharywong483 2 дня назад

Absolutely fantastic video, as always!

@sephrinx4958 7 дней назад

9:12 heehehehehe....

@NewMessage 7 дней назад

So we shouldn't flip out.

@nielsssg 7 дней назад

ba dum tsss

@heaslyben 6 дней назад

Back in Cycle 21, several members of my developmental cohort and I visited the communal recreation facility within our habitation tract. We saw Flux Tube open for Omega Process. Many of us count this as our most preferred memory of communal recreation -- even now, well into Cycle 25!

@randyhavard6084 6 дней назад

Great job explaining the whole process

@LukeSeed 7 дней назад

Solar experts are as accurate as hurricane experts in their predictions

@filonin2 7 дней назад

So quite good then and continuously getting better. These stats are freely available and come up as the first result when you search "accuracy of hurricane predictions" from HurricaneScience.

@tabularasa0606 7 дней назад

It's already quite an accomplishment we can predict something at all.

@CraftySasquatch 7 дней назад

@@tabularasa0606 ancient human civilizations predicted more than we predict now days and where way more advanced. Our current civilization has been dumbed down so bad it's not even funny anymore. Example Egyptians, Mesopotamia, India, China, Persia and Rome If the power where to go out tomorrow our so called advanced civilization would crumble without electricity. (CME from the sun) The civilizations I listed above had no electricity and where way more advanced without it. Rid the world of oligarchs and their man made religion and we will have world peace. Before oligarchs we worshiped nature and the stars and lived in harmony with one another.

@drdca8263 7 дней назад

@@CraftySasquatchYou have an unusual way of using the word “advanced”. Also, you are incorrect when you say they could make better predictions.

@MichaelDeHaven 7 дней назад

Our ancestors were no idiots. It's thanks to their efforts, we are where we are. But they definitely didn't know nearly as much as we do today. Some knowledge may have been tragically lost. But we are far more competent now, as a species. As far as electricity. Yeah. But we crossed that bridge long ago. You could make the same argument for most of our technology. Metal working, fertilizer, etc. Heck, just plain old agriculture or living in stationary locations were massive turning points. Each where the previous can't support the new population, if we tried to go back. But this is what our species does. We adapt and learn. As long as we do it wisely we'll be fine.

@doomfanboy9413 7 дней назад

to give you guys the short version. The sun's got some gas and it's about ready to pass.

@timhaldane7588 7 дней назад

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace.

@shutincharlie3461 7 дней назад

Great video! Thank you!!

@tigertiger1699 3 дня назад

Fantastic vid to start me day🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 Mate vids are excellent… and this would be the first it understood most of.. in a while 😂👍🙏

@davydecock5593 7 дней назад

This was fast.

@oracleofdelphi4533 7 дней назад

Heads it will flip, Tails it wont...

@RoastMePls 6 дней назад

The sun is kinky, gotcha. Another important science lesson, thats why I keep coming back to this channel.

@jensonee 7 дней назад

thanks Matt, always the best.

@DSP_Gaming0 7 дней назад

I keep trying to tell my friends and family about CMEs and what could happen. They all think im some doomsday conspiracy theorist. They dont understand that it's not a theory, its an actual event that has happened already. The Carrington event. Its crazy how clueless everyday humans are, they all seem to think that the world we live in now will never go away.

@pikotech1 7 дней назад

Faraday cages at the ready! They'll come running to you if it happens!

@vvvvxxxx9999 7 дней назад

Engineering claims to have prepared for such events. Meaning that they believe that they can limit the damage. I wouldn't worry much. Life will go on.

@DSP_Gaming0 6 дней назад

@@vvvvxxxx9999 electric companys don't want to invest in the safety's precautions though. It'll cost billions to protect us from CMEs and they think our chances are too low for them to spend so much

@memopinzon 7 дней назад

HOW DOES THIS AFFECT THE MICROPLASTICS IN MY BALLS?

@ChrispyNut 7 дней назад

You tell us! On second thoughts .... 😆

@reubenj.cogburn8546 7 дней назад

It won't They are large enough to have their own gravity

@erikhesjedal3569 День назад

We have had many evenings with the aurora this winter up in Norway. Theyre pretty awesome to watch

@Kyzyl_Tuva 7 дней назад

Your channel is one of my favorites.

@kishorec1237 7 дней назад

1st comment From INDIA

@mathieudespriee6646 6 дней назад

Mind blown. I've always had many questions about the Sun's magnetic field And now i have some more. Thank you.

@Nothing2150 5 дней назад

Thank you pbs space time for another great vid

@Stellectis2014 6 дней назад

6:52 Matt's showing off.

@CartoonHero1986 7 дней назад

Seeing the auroras during that flare event made me have to reread Sunstorm by Arthur C. Clarke from the Time's Eye Series. Such a cool effect to have an aurora over head while reading a sci-fi novel about Alien's weaponizing the sin to destroy humanity.

@Killuminati23 7 дней назад

That triangle shaped coronal hole in 2012 was amazing

@ThePowerLover 7 дней назад

Illuminati confirmed, the Sun follows our meme culture.

@iLLadelph267 7 дней назад

10:22 for any given star, what factors might affect this time cycle? our's takes about 11 years, so would a more massive star take a longer time? the first things I think of are: mass, composition, and rotational speed to determine the length of such a cycle. is this process even comparable to any star or might there be more classification playing a part? like only main sequence stars falling under this ruleset to define their own magnetic fields and how they behave, for example

@garethdean6382 4 дня назад

Let's not forget that some stars are 'fully convective' and don't have an isolated core like our sun does.

@hokudadog7637 3 дня назад

Excellent, I learned a lot

@George-rk7ts 5 дней назад

Good job, Matt.

@jimmurphy6095 6 дней назад

This is so well described.... I defy anyone to explain the shredding of the solar dynamo better than Matt and PBS.

@camp44mag 6 дней назад

This is the first PBS Spacetime episode I felt as if I well understood.

@elementsofphysicalreality 6 дней назад

I’m going to write a thesis about hawking radiation and how particles get broken down by dimension when falling into a black hole and how the information gets cancelled and transferred out of the black hole. Not lost. The last episode you made was excellent and highly relevant. Still questions with no answers.

@thetommantom 7 дней назад

It could be like an electron counter with a remainder variable where it adds and subtracts like a game where you can't go over but once you reach a critical mass and or a certain amount of remainders adding up certain interactions that like pop the bonus bubble and it reaches critical mass flips shrinks and restarts

@barry_g8443 7 дней назад

What a great informative video, thank you.

@michaelshortland8863 3 дня назад

That was a very good video, i learnt a lot thank you.

@bunger4679 7 дней назад

Amazing collection of simulations this video, its great

@subliminalvibes 7 дней назад

Flipping heck!

@davesatxify 7 дней назад

amazingly fun and interesting video about something extremely complex. I may have missed it and i'll rewatch sometime soon.. but i find myself wondering how the rotation of the radiative zone compares to the apparent surface rotation (at the equator).