You Are Not Where You Think You Are
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Look around you. Where are you? Where is this place you are occupying? Somewhere in a room, maybe in a city on a continent on a planet orbiting a star in a galaxy among billions. But… where is all of that? While this may feel like a daft question, it turns out that the concept of an absolute position is something humans made up.
In a nutshell, the universe is a big bag of space that has things in it. If someone removed all these things, the stars and planets and black holes and dust, there would just be empty space left. In empty space, the concept of having a position loses all meaning. Empty space is uniform, the same everywhere.
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Absolutely Magnificent video
I’m confused. How could you staple nothing to space time, yet you said making wormhole in space time could be possible?
Hello Kurzgesagt!
I was thinking on an interesting topic for a video: Kinetic bombing.
Tho I have tried to do some research, I haven’t been able to find a lot of information on the subject. Maybe you could dig a bit more deep into it!
You make great video’s 💪
Your animation has improved drastically well done kurzgesagt
I am in awe of your animations. Brilliantly well done as always Kurzgesagt.
Class recognizes class. Both channels are exceptional!
Jim Browning watches Kurzgesagt?!? I love that
@Average gamer everyone does
Oh hi jim browning, the master of scamming the scammers
Lets send the scammers data to sagitarius A star 😁
It is always a pleasure to see a new Kurzgesagt video in my subscription feed. Complex, high-level topics explained so simply and eloquently. So wonderful. If you ever need any orthopedic insight for a video, don’t hesitate to reach out. 👍
They say that when you can explain a difficult concept with easy words, it means you are smart.
Well, the people scripting this video must be geniuses then.
You guys have conveyed one of, if not my most, favorite thing about astronomy – how *everything* is relative, and how everything is always changing, even though a lot of those changes are very slow compared to human timescales. The measuring of positions in space – astrometry – is genuinely one of the most fascinating (and frustrating, haha) subfields of astronomy
I remember having conversations about how “stillness” is so relative. It’s insane to think about how if we wanted to be “still” we’d have to counter ALL of this: the Earth’s rotation, the Earth’s revolution around the sun, the sun’s movement around the galaxy, the galaxy’s movement through intergalactic space. “Still” compared to everything we can see moving would be MOVING… uh… thataway… at millions of kilometers per hour.
If you could truly still yourself relative to your galaxy you probably tip a hole in spacetime.
Don’t forget the movement of the cells of the body and the atoms of those cells too.
Maybe the best visualization of this topic ever. Animation team is insane.
Where is the next warzone mythbusters
I was watching you back in middle school during the black ops days. Good times!
@Soul Index good idea!
yeah
Absolutely beautiful. Your team makes animation look easy so flawlessly, your viewers should feel lucky to get such high-quality content
I’ve had a lot of fun simulating n-body orbits in unity, the crazy patterns that emerge from switching around references frames is so cool to see.
Kurzgesagt: Where are you?
Me: *Disintegrates*
Kurzgesagt: 3 motivation sentences at the end of the video
Me: *Comes back to live*
Great job Kurzgesagt, really, I don’t know what we would be doing without you! Amazing video!