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From The Science Asylum. The Stern-Gerlach experiment was the first detection of quantum spin, except we didn’t know it for 4 years. At the time, we didn’t even know quantum spin was a thing. Watch this video ad-free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/scienceasylum-physics-misunderstood-this-experiment-for-years Nick Lucid – Host, Writer, Editor, Animator Em Lucid – Producer ________________________________ VIDEO ANNOTATIONS/CARDS…
From The Science Asylum. Quantum spinors are abstract mathematical entities, so people often seek analogies to make more sense of them. Here are the best two analogies I’ve been able to find. Watch this video ad-free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/scienceasylum-quantum-spin-which-analogy-do-you-like Nick Lucid – Host, Writer, Editor, Animator Em Lucid – Producer ________________________________ VIDEO ANNOTATIONS/CARDS Quantum Fields…
From The Science Asylum. White dwarfs are made of degenerate matter, so compact there isn’t room for atoms to exist. And, believe it or not, we discovered that using a model from a completely different context. Watch this video ad-free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/scienceasylum-we-discovered-this-matter-by-accident Nick Lucid – Host, Writer, Editor, Animator Em Lucid – Producer ________________________________…
From The Science Asylum. Sirius is the brightest star in the sky and visible from most of the planet. We’ve been staring at it for 1000s of years, but the more we learn about it, the weirder it gets. Watch this video ad-free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/scienceasylum-the-star-that-keeps-getting-weirder Nick Lucid – Host, Writer, Editor, Animator Em Lucid…
From The Science Asylum. Believe it not, Einstein originally thought the universe was static. It would take Alexander Friedmann to correct him. Here are the Friedmann equations, explained simply. Watch this video ad-free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/scienceasylum-the-equations-that-proved-einstein-wrong Bonus Video (Nebula Exclusive): https://nebula.tv/videos/scienceasylum-measuring-curvature-in-an-infinite-universe Nick Lucid – Host, Writer, Editor, Animator Em Lucid – Producer ________________________________ VIDEO ANNOTATIONS/CARDS…
From The Science Asylum. The big bang is the model that describes the birth and evolution of the universe. But where did the term come from? What does it actually mean? Watch this video ad-free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/scienceasylum-the-big-bang-as-simple-as-possible Nick Lucid – Host, Writer, Editor, Animator Em Lucid – Producer ________________________________ VIDEO ANNOTATIONS/CARDS Element Origins: Cosmic…
From The Science Asylum. You may have heard "We’re all stardust," but that’s not actually true. Most elements on the periodic table have surprisingly weird origins like neutron star mergers or even the big bang itself. Watch this video ad-free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/scienceasylum-not-all-your-atoms-are-stardust Nick Lucid – Host, Writer, Editor, Animator Em Lucid – Producer ________________________________…
From The Science Asylum. Massive stars end their existence in a blaze of glory called a supernova. What are those last moments like? And why does it end in a supernova? Watch this video ad-free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/scienceasylum-how-do-massive-stars-end-their-existence Nick Lucid – Host, Writer, Editor, Animator Em Lucid – Producer ________________________________ VIDEO ANNOTATIONS/CARDS The Sun and…
From The Science Asylum. Tachyons travel faster than light, so do they go backward in time? Well, maybe, but they probably don’t exist. Here’s why. Watch this video ad-free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/scienceasylum-the-problem-with-faster-than-light-particles-tachyons-explained Nick Lucid – Host, Writer, Editor, Animator Em Lucid – Producer ________________________________ VIDEO ANNOTATIONS/CARDS 4-Velocity: Speed of Light: What if YOU were made…
From The Science Asylum. With all the YouTubers quitting lately, you might be worried about who is next. Well, it ain’t me! I do need to make some changes though. ________________________________ SUPPORT THE SCIENCE ASYLUM Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/ScienceAsylum YouTube Membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXgNowiGxwwnLeQ7DXTwXPg/join Advanced Theoretical Physics (Paperback): http://www.lulu.com/shop/nick-lucid/advanced-theoretical-physics-a-historical-perspective/paperback/product-24250687.html Advanced Theoretical Physics (eBook): https://gumroad.com/l/ubSc Merchandise: http://shop.spreadshirt.com/scienceasylum/ ________________________________ VIDEO ANNOTATIONS/CARDS…
From The Science Asylum. Ground News Holiday Sale: Compare news coverage. Spot media bias. Join Ground News today to get 40% off unlimited access: https://ground.news/scienceasylum. Sale ends December 31. The speed you know is only your spatial speed, but you also have a speed through time. The two together make something called a 4-velocity and…
From The Science Asylum. Get Nebula for 40% off with my link: https://go.nebula.tv/scienceasylum The Equivalence Principle is considered the major turning point in our understanding of gravity (General Relativity). But, if you think about it for more than a second, it doesn’t hold up. Why is it so important if it isn’t true? Nick Lucid…
From The Science Asylum. Get Nebula for 40% off with my link: https://go.nebula.tv/scienceasylum Then watch my next video early: https://nebula.tv/videos/scienceasylum-this-important-principle-is-always-explained-wrong We can’t measure the distance to astronomical objects directly, so we have to be creative. That’s why we need the cosmic distance ladder. It’s a serious of techniques we use to calculate astronomical distances indirectly.…
From The Science Asylum. Get Nebula for 40% off with my link: https://go.nebula.tv/scienceasylum Then watch me in a D&D game: https://nebula.tv/videos/neurotransmissions-a-therapeutic-dungeons-dragons-oneshot?ref=scienceasylum The James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, is the greatest telescope ever constructed. But between ballooning budgets, a decade and a half of launch delays, and a huge controversy over the name; getting this…
From The Science Asylum. If you’re in a boat and you drop a heavy ball into the water; will the water level go up, go down, or stay the same. Solving this requires Archimedes Principle, Newton’s Laws, and some logic. Nick Lucid – Host, Writer, Editor, Animator Em Lucid – Producer ________________________________ VIDEO ANNOTATIONS/CARDS Black…
From The Science Asylum. Black holes look really weird because of the way light bends around them. This video explains how that all works and why black hole images look the way they do. Nick Lucid – Host, Writer, Editor, Animator Em Lucid – Producer ________________________________ VIDEO ANNOTATIONS/CARDS Black Hole Misconceptions: Planetary Rings: ________________________________ RELATED…