Size, Distance, and Time in the Universe | Soft-Spoken ASMR (3.5 Hours)

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Description: Tonight we explore the often misrepresented concepts of size, distance, and even time on cosmological scales.
Check out my deep dive into the furthest galaxies found by the new Webb Space Telescope: • (Documentary) The Jame... . And if whispering is more your speed, try my 5.5-hour-long: "1000 Space Facts Part 2: Nebulae and Extraterrestrials": • 1000 Space Facts Pt. 2...
Thanks to all my generous supporters (across Patreon, Paypal, Venmo, the Tingles app, and amazing gifts to the PO Box) who have helped the channel over the years.
A remarkable quote:
“A very popular error- having the courage of one's own convictions; rather, it is a matter of having the courage for an attack upon one's own convictions” - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:56 parallax and distance to the Moon
30:36 distance to Alpha Centauri if Earth was a marble
32:10 how the Sun's light rays are parallel anywhere on Earth (Earth is 8,000 mi across, Sun is 800,000 miles across but 116x further away at 93,000,000 miles)
45:35 often-misrepresented aspects of existence (importance of proper scales)
54:56 "To Scale: The Solar System" • To Scale: THE SOLAR SY...
1:03:30 linking psychology and astronomy: the social environment shaped our ancestor's cognition (and so ours, too) perhaps more than the physical environment
1:10:24 deeper dive into commonly distorted aspects of existence (history, progress, time, data, society, technology)
1:26:49 million vs billion: better understanding the universe across orders of magnitude (perspectives along exponential/logarithmic scales and rates of change)
1:37:00 recipe for making the solar system to scale
1:40:01 behind the scenes
1:42:36 pyramids to andromeda: my desk pictures as examples of orders of magnitudes across space
1:49:42 million vs billion part 2
1:57:04 parallax and distance to the Moon part 2 / how-to-measure-the-dis...
2:02:11 the slow and very impressive accumulation of knowledge, the astronomy book amzn.to/3ksfr56
2:08:09 an example of why misrepresentation confuses me (parallax)
2:11:34 beginning our solar system
2:31:21 taking our measurements of the planets
2:37:29 assembling our mr pencil compass (not sponsored) amzn.to/3rmH80r
2:46:04 drawing the inner solar system to scale
3:04:56 our baseball-field model of the inner solar system m
3:06:03 an overtired baby giving grandma a hard time
3:06:51 comparing Earth, Mars and the Sun's mass and diameters
3:12:40 completing the solar system model (on my desk and on the baseball field)
►Equipment used:
(video editor) Final Cut Pro apps.apple.com/us/app/final-c...
(mic) Rode NT1-A amzn.to/2Da4CBa
(other mic) Blue Yeti amzn.to/33jNrYA
(USB interface) Scarlette 2i2 amzn.to/316c7kG
(computer) MacBook Pro 16" amzn.to/3jXRuzT
(camera) iPhone 11 (1080p, sometime use 60 fps) amzn.to/2PjT2pz
(mic mount) Desk-mounted mic boom amzn.to/33kMK1s
(mouse) silent-click mouse amzn.to/3jZMrit
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