Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains Nothing
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Published 2020-06-23
What if you wanted to get all the way down to true nothing? Well, even when there’s nothing, there’s air molecules, and a lot of them. So, what happens when you take out the air molecules? Find out just how much air molecules permeate in our environment, in our solar system, in interstellar space, and intergalactic space.
Then, just when you think you truly have nothing, you’ll hear how quantum physics comes into play. Discover more about virtual particles and why the best “nothing” you could have is filled with virtual particles. All that, plus, we debate if being able to describe something that is nothing makes it something.
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0:00 - Introduction
0:30 - How Our Senses Dictate 'Nothing'
4:38 - The Best Vacuum On Earth
5:50 - The Emptiest Regions Of Space
7:30 - The Closest You Can Get To Nothing
8:36 - The Greatest Nothing
10:32 - Is Nothing Still Something?
12:30 - Closing Notes
All Comments (21)
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Now I understand the quote - "Nothing is Impossible" 👍
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Thanks, Neil. I understood nothing.
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Neil is the only guy that can talk for 13+ minutes about LITERALLY NOTHING
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No slides, no animations, no special effects... and yet he explains complex concepts so effortlessly! Hat's off to you Neil!!! I wish I had such teachers during my school and college days. Each episode you do is an eye-opener. And Chuck is great too, representing us with our thoughts, queries and amazement! Keep it up guys!
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Neil: "What you doing?" Me: "Nothing" Neil: " Let's talk about that, son."
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Guy to girl: Hey babe what's wrong? Girl: Nothing. Run.
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I love these two. Neil can blow Chuck's mind, but then Chuck cracks him up
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When I was in High School, I wasn't interested in science at all. And now that I am older and retired, I'd like to know more and more about science. I think it is mainly because of Neil who is an excellent teacher and makes the subject very interesting and fascinating. Thanks and kudos. Keep on educating us for it is significant that we understand what goes on around us, the earth, the seasons, the gravity pull, atoms, protons, molecules, et al. Wish you all the best.
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Whitney Houston: “ 🎶 ...I have nothing, nothing, nothing... 🎶” Neil: Now hold on for a second there...
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Mom: "What is this guy talking about?" Me: "Nothing." Mom: "???"
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Niel is the most entertaining, enthusiastic and intelligent science communicator today. He Never ceases to blow my mind.
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In 1967 when I was 10 my grandfather, a small town electrician with no high school diploma in southeast Ohio, spoke philosophically to us kids... "I can understand the concept of everything but I can't understand the concept of nothing." He also said about the universe "I can understand 'will always exist' but I can't understand 'has always existed.'
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Imagine if he had to talk about 'something'. Would take forever.
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Chuck has my dream job: getting educated in a plethora of interesting fields by actual experts, in a causal setting where you can ask questions , and there’s not even an expectation of being smart: they just ask you to make jokes to appeal to the other average joes. What could be better?
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It is always fun to listen to Dr. Tyson, discussions, regarding science and nothing. Chuck said it best. Nothing is something!
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Believe it or not, having nothing is one of my scariest dreams/ or nightmare. I dreamt about a dark place one day that space is being sucked into a vacuum and the space in a deep darkness, I was losing air and view of an immediate viewable space to a point that I almost not see a space in a complete darkness waking up panicking gasping for air, I was totally scared beyond words. Until now I get uneasy remembering it, what if big bang (as explained by scientists) didn't happen or what if creation as depicted in the Bible didn't occur? This gives me appreciation that I exist and the place that I can see and live in also exist.
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Title: "Tyson explains nothing" Video : 13 minutes long Me: hmm, seems legit.
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"There's not matter, not energy, not even the laws of physics" they're describing my bank balance.
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I watched it high first and I'm mesmerized. Thanks for what you guys do. Love it.
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Omg, I love the two of you 😅 You make me smile on a bleak day❤
