PBS Space Time - 2017-08-10
Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/DonateSPACE Could it be that all the electrons in the universe are simply one, single electron moving back and forth through time? You can further support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/pbsspacetime Get your own Space Time tshirt at http://bit.ly/1QlzoBi Tweet at us! @pbsspacetime Facebook: facebook.com/pbsspacetime Email us! pbsspacetime [at] gmail [dot] com Comment on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/pbsspacetime Previous Episode: Dark Flow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgdNBQCdhdA In the spring of 1940, the great physicist John Archibald Wheeler had a flash of insight. He picked up the phone and called Richard Feynman. The fateful conversation began, “Feynman, I know why all electrons have the same charge and the same mass." "Why?" asked Wheeler’s former graduate student. "Because, they are all the same electron!" Wheeler went on to describe the One-Electron Universe idea: that there exists only one electron, and that electron traverses time in both directions. It bounces in time, eventually traversing the entire past and future history of the universe in both directions, and interacting with itself countless times on each pass. In this way it fills the universe with the appearance of countless electrons. And when the electron is moving backwards in time it is a positron; the antimatter counterpart of the electron. Written and Hosted by Matt O’Dowd Produced by Rusty Ward Graphics by Kurt Ross Assistant Editing and Sound Design by Mike Petrow Made by Kornhaber Brown (www.kornhaberbrown.com) Comments answer by Matt: 0xFFF1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgdNBQCdhdA&lc=z23sjnwjrwnljxe3macdp435v2eqfl1uknp1kknjllxw03c010c Daniel Grass https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgdNBQCdhdA&lc=z230gbubioqjyn1vfacdp43azemsjdresxvjbu412tdw03c010c M Paulson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgdNBQCdhdA&lc=z221xpzafrikhxyjf04t1aokgiuxpnkzxeknjelcsx0jbk0h00410 Special thanks to our Patreon Big Bang, Quasar and Hypernova Supporters: Big Bang CoolAsCats David Nicklas Quasar Tambe Barsbay Max Levine Mayank M. Mehrota Mars Yentur Mark Rosenthal Dean Fuqua Hypernova Eugene Lawson Chuck Zegar Jordan Young Ratfeast John Hofmann Joseph Salomone Martha Hunt Craig Peterson Science Via Markets Barry Hatfield Thanks to our Patreon Gamma Ray Burst Supporters: Peter Durocher Michael Kers Chris Hicks Mark Vasile Patrick Murray Sultan Alkhulaifi Alex Seto Jared Moore Michal-Peanut Karmi Bernardo Higuera Erik Stein Daniel Lyons Kevin Warne JJ Bagnell J Rejc Amy Jie Avi Goldfinger John Pettit Shannan Catalano Florian Stinglmayr Yubo Du Benoit Pagé-Guitard Nathan Leniz Jessica Fraley Loro Lukic Brandon Labonte David Crane Greg Weiss
mom said it's my turn with the electron
can someone explain😅
I love my Digitak!
@booger bust Mom said it's my turn to play the Nintendo.
My turns. :)
Youtube has apparently mistaken me for a smart man.
so, it is OUR electron.
comunism anthem intensifies
You just started a war with the communist aliens on mars
Mom is the electron.
Spellcheck.
Ernst Busch approves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYJmGaBMQJ8
Capitalist maniacally thinks of ways to steal the electron from everybody else.
The universe is really just you and one guy running around really fast with a flash light.
Kurtz's just made a video
69 likes nice
And wearing flip flops and he’s out of breath going “wOoOoOoOoo”
or imaginary.
"Now that we completely understand the fundamental nature of antimatter..."
Excuse me?
antimatter is not dark matter. I switch them all the time myself too lol. Antimatter is just opposite matter, there's nothing else to it.
I didn't confuse dark matter with antimatter. I just taught the statement was a bit funny, because he says this to the audience as if we have some intuitive understanding of the subject, which most of us don't :D
@I Am Kocka alrighty then :3
If theres anti matter and EMc2 then there should be anti energy aswell?
"We" is imaginary-just like atoms and electrons-just like the universe. Ask me why.
I'm GOING to understand this one!
I'm going to understand.. this one..
I'm .. going to..
Um..
-plays next vid
I know the feeling. I start so positively, then as the seconds tick by, and I am following less and less, I blame the host for talking too fast. Yeah, that's it!
Kent Hoyt you can always slow down the video. But, let's be honest, we both know that's not the reason why we all can't comprehend the one electron hypothesis. 😢
I've been squirreling on the idea of FTL travel for years and it led me to this vid. It helps IMMENSELY. Thank you!
Not your fault, explanation sucks. Other vids clearer.
Einstein says if you cannot explain something simply than you do not understand it fully. So the host doesn’t even know what’s coming out of his mouth.
Jokes on you, I understood nothing!
Hahaha
cries in a corner..
Hahahaha!!!! ROTFL
Cry bitter tears!
Thought I was the only one lol
no the joke is you!
Spoiler: it's actually a single positron, and we're the ones going backwards in time.
NEEEEEERRRRRRRRDDDDD!!!!!!! I love it!
actually might make sense lmao
chillkind ofperson what? You lost me at the end.
@thedeemon What did you say about Captain Crunch?
If we're going backwards in time, and it's all a matter of perspective, does that mean all black holes are actually white holes and that's where the universe really comes from?
Now I got evil plan to stop electron in spacetime.
Yes, break the universe
I mean ok but it already did all its past and future movements, you're just locking it in the present
WELL ALL BE TURNED BACK INTO ENERGY
But you cannot stop cinque contra uno, or rather practising it, as you face advertises.
A close analogy would be CRT screens. An electron gun creating a pixel on the screen can be thought of as the "one" electron. Then sweeping it across the screen at very high speed creates an image. It looks like we have so many pixels but in reality it is just one pixel present at so many points at the same time (given persistence of vision of-course). This one electron universe makes some sense to me.
That is how exactly old TV sets work!!!
I like your way of thinking
bright thinking , thank you for the bridge
Which supports the simulation theory too.
But isn't constantly sending in new electrons from the cathode and acceleratd by the anode to be deflected by the two parallel plate to be "painted"?
"Every time you do math, you use the same 3 as Archimedes"
- Henry from MinutePhysics
Electron is god, praise electron
Electron always was, always will be.
Electron is present everywhere, and nowhere.
Electron is all powerful, all knowing, merciful, loving.
Electron arises out of nothing, all arise out of Electron.
you got it - eventually.
That means i am god to since i am a reflection of gods image.
@Challe3d Yes, in miniature
@Challe3d You are a Microcosmos of the Megalocosmos (which is the only rational way of understanding God)or that dream that men call the Universe, which is one of the ways of saying that you are made in God's image, and only in miniature, but to actually understand that requires something that you have yet to acquire, but that has nothing do with information but rather with your capacity (or rather possibility) to Be, which you have to develop (whether you like it or not) and which takes a very long time and a great deal of suffering so that eventually you may be perfected, or finished or completed or accomplished – they all mean the same thing, but don't imagine that that as anything to do with your self-identity or personality(Me_ness, but it is your " I_ness" that comes from God, which(not who, for god is a 'thing') is the ultimate I_ness, and has nothing whatsoever to do with Me_ness, which is nothing more than a mask or a number of masks that cover up the I_ness, which is both your underlying reality and the underlying reality the entire universe. Don't confuse the real or Megalocosmos with the mister god fantasy that some people may have been busy trying to insinuate into your dreaming mechanism or mind. Neither has anything to do with electrons, which are purely imaginary. You have been given three apprehending apparatuses and you need to use all three in order to be able to apprehend anything that isn't just another dream. All this mister god nonsense is dreaming, and so is all this electron nonsense. You have a place in the Megalocosmos which only you can fill, and learning to understand what is necessary in order to fill your place in the Megalocosmos or universe is your what the Hindus would call Dharma (it means duty) – it is an inescapable obligation that has actually nothing to do with your dreaming apparatus(mind) or your Me_ness or what some people call your identity (which is imaginary). Another word for which is personality, which is a word of Greek origin meaning mask. The great trick of learning to become a human being is to be able to discriminate between the mask and what it masks – the I_ness.
That is all empty information, but for it to be transformed into knowledge or something of your own depends on factors that I am in no position to set out or explain.
Consciousness is the capacity to experience I HERE NOW, and anything less than that is merely dreaming or the various churnings of what is called the mind which is a dreaming machine.
None of it as anything to do with you p-e-r-s-o-n-a-l-l--y, because that is merely an illusion – a mask. All this me, me, me, me nonsense is temporary and illusory b-e-c-a-u-s-e it is temporary. One day it is one me, and the next day, another. 'Me' doesn't matter, but one day it has to be transformed into *I*, which is part of your Dharma or duty. You don't get a choice about that and you never had a choice ever. All this nonsense about choice and free will is pure fantasy. The parts really don't matter; what matters is the Whole, of which you and I are merely parts tiny little parts that stand in relation to the whole in the ratio 0 to infinity. If you want to call the Whole God fine. If it is real (that which is and can't be different). It really doesn't matter what you call it.
There is a marvellous film called the teahouse of the August Moon in which the leading character gets given a cricket cage and when he looks into it, he says, where is the cricket? – And the chap that gives him the cricket cage laughs and says Oh no, you have to find your own cricket – that is the point of your entire existence: To find your own cricket or rather, where your I_ness belongs.I_ness is the being, Am_ness the function of the being.
The mister god teddy bear (the anthropomorphic God) is just a teddy bear for frightened children
Dude, you look like stretched out Tyrion
Couldn't put my finger on it. He thinks and he knows things. :)
just reading the comments to see if somebody else noticed that!
Same as I thought
I mean, it makes sense since they are both sharing an electron.
Mm yes very interesting. strokes chin Here's a question my good sir: What books do I need to read to become smart enough to understand at least 30% of what's being talked about here?
Not a one; you just need another mind, and to stop dreaming-And cinque contra uno
It's my electron. You can't have it!
But mom said it was my turn! 😢
Actually it's mine.
I had a similar idea while swimming on LSD :0
"It surrounds us, and penetrates us; it binds the galaxy together" - Obi-Wan Kenobi
“Actually it’s slightly more complicated”. That’s okay I’m only slightly lost.
Wheeler: there is only one electron
Pauli exclusion principle:I'm I joke to you
I for one approve of "WTF Flow" and "Discombobulating Energy".
What about a case of a gamma photon with enough energy to pair produce an electron-positron pair, but not enough energy to give the pair enough kinetic energy to escape each other's electric field so the two collide and annihilate.
That sounds like a new electron to me.
Matt looks like a younger, less chubby George Lucas.
Great video PBS, thanks
This blows my mind. How would the electron interact with the various event horizons in the universe?
I enjoy O'Dowd ...he reminds me of a full sized Peter Dinklage
Opening sound and graphic.....OOPS, didn't realise my speakers were turned up so high.
Matt starts to talk.....OOPS, I must have turned it down too much.
Another graphic/sound.....WTF WHY IS IT SO LOUD!?
Matt talks again......SPEAK UP HOLY SHIT!
+1 Playing on my monitor at about half volume, the opening PBS clip is much louder comparatively to the rest of the video. Please decrease the clips volume. @PBS Space Time
It stabilizes by the end of it
yeah he sounds very quiet. I like it when people whisper quantum mechanics into my ear. It's very sexy.
I agree and was gonna comment about the audio but forgot while reading comments
His time of using the electron is warped during time travel of the electron.
I am really glad Agent Smith is now teaching theoretical physics.
This for some reason reminds me of the simulation hypothesis. A simulation, covering an infinite amount of space, that works at one equation at a time, on a sufficiently/ridiculously fast computer.
Or, imagine a 3-D printer, and imagine the nozzle represents this one electron, filling in every single particle in the universe within the scale of the smallest measurable unit of time, hence there being a potential limit to the smallest measurable unit of time possible.
I don't claim any academic background, just enjoyed the thought experiment.
What you described is similar to cellular automata. Each unit of space locally computes a single algorithm based on its neighbors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQJ5aEsP6Fs
@Jared Seeders and to simplify things, everything is based on fractals
Really to make a computer that can simulate something that big doesnt need to do it in real time it might take a millennium to calculate a single day but for anyone in the simulated universe wouldn't be able to tell the difference time would appear normal
All Hail our ELECTRON GOD
I like to imagine the electron getting to the end of time, panting as it tries to catch its breath for a few seconds, then chugs a Gatorade super fast before turning around and bolting off the way it came :)
"The heat death of the universe is coming" I was so calm until you said this
Hi,
Does “moving” has any meaning without time? doesnt it break causality?
To paraphrase Sting & The Police, "One electron is enough, for all of us..."
"The heat death of the universe is coming", we got it, you mean; "The winter is coming!" ...for real!
"Look Morty I'm an electron.... I'm Electron Rick, Morty!"
6:30 ffs. Has every scientific theory I've ever thought up just already been thought up?! This has been going on since I was a child and I found out the Fibonacci sequence was already a thing which had more significance than the random doodle I'd made of it years earlier. Well anyway, I'd love to tell you how I'd thought of this all in my mind and what I felt was missing.. I guess I still have the gravity thing but I need more info for that one before I try to explain it in my limited tongue. There is still a chance I could elaborate on this thing though... Keep going Matt, I'm going to stay tuned in for now ...lol 😟🤓
Oh good, I needed to have an existential crisis today
I just counted. Yup, there's 1.
good job
great job. musta been like herding schrodinger's cat....
KEvron
bruh I counted two
@Abel Sujeev you are clearly drunk, and seeing double
Countless
Watch "Smallest particle" on Youtube
https://youtu.be/A3SSf-PoBg4
10:13 I wish I knew what the hell I was looking at
9:35 That moment when the teacher asks you to hand in homework and you realise you hadn’t been listening.
9:35 That moment when the teacher asks you to hand in homework and you realise you hadn’t been listening.
An Electron is a CLASS with many INSTANCES. A programmer
It always cracks me up when he says, actually it's a little more complicated than that. You don't say?
When the electron hits me next time, I will keep it for myself. No more electrons for anyone😁
gonna check more of this cool!🖒
It's Douglas Adams "Heart of Gold" theory of the universe. Don't panic :)
Oh damn this could fit well in M theory from what ive heard, like if the electron occupied a point in a higher dimension which would like cover all over our... Space Time ;)
9:00 Science speak for: when you make love you're basically effing yourself
My brain is slowly turning into a positron😭
a. y - 2017-09-20
I'm going to tell my electricity supplier I've only used one electron!
jim smith - 2020-01-26
Yeah but you used it 10,000,000,000,000,000,000 times so it's going to cost you.
James Serra - 2020-01-28
a. y haha they should ‘charge’ you 1/Avogadro usd.
fynes leigh - 2020-01-31
and when they ask*which* electron?
I just found a pound note!
what colour was it?
Green.
It's mine! - the goons.
What are you doing here!!?
Everybody's got to be somewhere.
Patrick Fitzpatrick - 2020-02-17
Lol