Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains Nothing

2024 ж. 27 Сәу.
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In this StarTalk video, we’re talking about nothing. Not in the Seinfeldian sense, but in the science sense. What is nothing? Neil explains how our usual definition of something being “nothing” is dictated by our senses.
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

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  • Now I understand the quote - *"Nothing is Impossible"* 👍

    @crazystuff6760@crazystuff67603 жыл бұрын
    • It killed me but NOTHING happened

      @muhammadbilalmirajdin3764@muhammadbilalmirajdin37643 жыл бұрын
    • Underrated comment 😂😂

      @pavanayitimepass947@pavanayitimepass9473 жыл бұрын
    • That's deep

      @sisyphusishappy9925@sisyphusishappy99253 жыл бұрын
    • Very underrated comment.

      @arjunkr3924@arjunkr39243 жыл бұрын
    • The IQ of this comment is "Astronomical" or "A Googleplex"

      @kapilshenviamonkar4641@kapilshenviamonkar46413 жыл бұрын
  • Thanks, Neil. I understood nothing.

    @Anpeo@Anpeo3 ай бұрын
    • Me too now I understand nothing

      @nathanschannel23@nathanschannel2310 күн бұрын
    • LOL

      @emjcr.@emjcr.10 сағат бұрын
  • Neil is the only guy that can talk for 13+ minutes about LITERALLY NOTHING

    @DJG0k3@DJG0k3 Жыл бұрын
    • ...and during that time talking, he explains everything. This man is a godsend to humanity!

      @dervolkstribun6240@dervolkstribun62405 ай бұрын
    • I CAN TALK ABOUT NOTHING FOR 5 HOURS

      @duledule1127@duledule11274 ай бұрын
    • During which time we learn a whole lot of nothing.... well maybe smoke a joint. lol

      @billant2@billant24 ай бұрын
    • You mean nothing that you understand. I can listen to him and understand much of his content

      @alexcooper2956@alexcooper29562 ай бұрын
  • 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!

    @globalvoice...@globalvoice... Жыл бұрын
  • Neil: "What you doing?" Me: "Nothing" Neil: " Let's talk about that, son."

    @hrod4897@hrod48973 жыл бұрын
    • Your heart is beating, your blood is flowing, your lungs are expanding and contracting, eyes are blinking, motor controlled muscles not \mussels\ are flexing, brain is constantly thinking and firing through receptors through out the brain, and signaling nerves through out your body. And even if your dead your decaying. So can't be doing nothing. old man typing. LOL

      @SierWilliam@SierWilliam3 жыл бұрын
    • @@SierWilliam 😂😂👏👏

      @vanajaajith6222@vanajaajith62223 жыл бұрын
    • SierWilliam okay then i was flowing blood through my body, pumping my heart, expanding my lungs and contracting them, thoughts firing in my brain through receptors, muscles contracting, eyes blinking, moms spaghetti.

      @mortadahasaad530@mortadahasaad5303 жыл бұрын
    • Had to like you were on 666 likes 😈🙏 😂

      @iancook7782@iancook77823 жыл бұрын
    • So accurate!!

      @derekdowney6362@derekdowney63623 жыл бұрын
  • Guy to girl: Hey babe what's wrong? Girl: Nothing. Run.

    @mixedboi@mixedboi3 жыл бұрын
    • This comment deserves more likes.

      @squeet6831@squeet68313 жыл бұрын
    • @@squeet6831 OK, I'll give it one then.

      @allenjenkins7947@allenjenkins79473 жыл бұрын
    • I read run in the Firefighter Clown voice 😂

      @BakedPhoria@BakedPhoria3 жыл бұрын
    • To which I would typically reply "Fantastic! I thought owing to your silence and the sour expression you're wearing there might be something irking you. Glad all's well. Later!" I'm not married anymore.

      @brianleslie7388@brianleslie73883 жыл бұрын
    • *The nothing proceeds to consume everything*

      @dismaldice3045@dismaldice30453 жыл бұрын
  • 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.

    @TITOFROG1@TITOFROG110 ай бұрын
  • I love these two. Neil can blow Chuck's mind, but then Chuck cracks him up

    @AkSamurai69@AkSamurai696 ай бұрын
  • Whitney Houston: “ 🎶 ...I have nothing, nothing, nothing... 🎶” Neil: Now hold on for a second there...

    @rmlmrnda@rmlmrnda3 жыл бұрын
    • 😂😂😂

      @racingfuel28@racingfuel282 жыл бұрын
    • 😂😂😂😂

      @coachfrankie1112@coachfrankie11122 жыл бұрын
    • 🎵I have oxygen, nitrogen, C02 if I don’t have you🎶

      @STRAIGHTEDGEJAKE@STRAIGHTEDGEJAKE2 жыл бұрын
    • Well…….actually😏

      @luckydragon6892@luckydragon68922 жыл бұрын
    • My thanks to you Dr. Tyson, but given all impediments inherent in human nature due to the process of evolution and struggle for survival how can we ever hope to understand an explanation such as that?

      @Skymannot6939@Skymannot69392 жыл бұрын
  • "There's not matter, not energy, not even the laws of physics" they're describing my bank balance.

    @marcello234@marcello2342 жыл бұрын
    • Lol and mine

      @dantrixter@dantrixter2 жыл бұрын
    • I wish I could say the same. My bank balance has something...anti-gravity. It currently repels all positive numbers.

      @falyoung2784@falyoung27842 жыл бұрын
    • 🤣

      @PropagandaFacts@PropagandaFacts2 жыл бұрын
    • You guys should start a club.

      @johanrunfeldt7174@johanrunfeldt71742 жыл бұрын
    • Underrated comment 😂

      @JAMR0716@JAMR07162 жыл бұрын
  • Niel is the most entertaining, enthusiastic and intelligent science communicator today. He Never ceases to blow my mind.

    @spacetime6255@spacetime625511 ай бұрын
  • 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.'

    @TomKaren94@TomKaren94 Жыл бұрын
  • 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?

    @livgertz205@livgertz2053 жыл бұрын
    • Valentino Balbonis job

      @randallf8675@randallf86753 жыл бұрын
    • I will also watch!!

      @rolando2392@rolando23923 жыл бұрын
    • Being paid to breath would be better.

      @Quintusblake@Quintusblake3 жыл бұрын
    • liv Gertz that would be epic

      @Dragnoxz@Dragnoxz3 жыл бұрын
    • But the questions he asks and some of the input.. he's actually smart as well as funny... he's not a scientist but you can tell by his comprehension, when hearing the answer the man has an IQ higher than average......

      @pharaoh2537@pharaoh25373 жыл бұрын
  • Imagine if he had to talk about 'something'. Would take forever.

    @thealmighty1@thealmighty13 жыл бұрын
    • Nah infinity when he explained it didn't take to long... Lol

      @damianmlamb@damianmlamb3 жыл бұрын
    • well, he technically did talk about something. He described what it means to have nothing, and because nothing is directly proportional to something, we can infer the limits of something.

      @Luingus@Luingus3 жыл бұрын
    • Luingus lol

      @imposter-982@imposter-9823 жыл бұрын
    • That made me laugh. Nice joke.

      @nyxzorander@nyxzorander3 жыл бұрын
    • 🤣

      @JsscRchlDrsy@JsscRchlDrsy3 жыл бұрын
  • It is always fun to listen to Dr. Tyson, discussions, regarding science and nothing. Chuck said it best. Nothing is something!

    @jeffreychandler8666@jeffreychandler8666 Жыл бұрын
  • I watched it high first and I'm mesmerized. Thanks for what you guys do. Love it.

    @erivera0270@erivera0270 Жыл бұрын
  • Mom: "What is this guy talking about?" Me: "Nothing." Mom: "???"

    @gabrielfm92@gabrielfm923 жыл бұрын
    • SAME

      @giov7@giov73 жыл бұрын
    • Its even better in my case because my family doesnt understand english.

      @indorilnerevar3161@indorilnerevar31613 жыл бұрын
    • Well actually.....

      @johnnyfkingsilverhand7120@johnnyfkingsilverhand71203 жыл бұрын
    • @@indorilnerevar3161 It would be the same in other languages in my case would be "nada"

      @8koi245@8koi2453 жыл бұрын
    • @@8koi245 are you portuguese?

      @martimking1craft@martimking1craft2 жыл бұрын
  • Title: "Tyson explains nothing" Video : *13 minutes long* Me: hmm, seems legit.

    @himalpandey09@himalpandey093 жыл бұрын
    • There's so much Nothing that a 10 minute video is actually 13 minutes.

      @quietrevelry@quietrevelry3 жыл бұрын
  • 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.

    @jayjay9932@jayjay9932 Жыл бұрын
  • @9:27 wow “Laws of Physics in NOTHING” my heart skipped a beat

    @shashidharshettar3846@shashidharshettar384620 күн бұрын
  • The biggest nothing in the Observable Universe: my bank account.

    @twonumber22@twonumber223 жыл бұрын
    • Save a minimum of 10%. Never allow yourself to be broke.

      @TNTN1977@TNTN19773 жыл бұрын
    • L

      @BrosCrypto@BrosCrypto3 жыл бұрын
    • @@TNTN1977 Are you offering 10% ? In case you were unaware. Supermajority of humans in histoty weren't born with wealth in the function of capitalism, or otherwise. Decent advice but stay on the surface level, be skimmed off the top like toxic algae.

      @dript7686@dript76863 жыл бұрын
    • that is wild, that is sad lol

      @alesscav99@alesscav993 жыл бұрын
    • That means you HAVE a bank account. So thats something

      @rolando2392@rolando23923 жыл бұрын
  • Neil gets an empty box for christmas Neil : “ OH BOY !!! “

    @LafriteRip@LafriteRip3 жыл бұрын
    • He got air as present

      @absurdist5938@absurdist59383 жыл бұрын
    • 😅🤣

      @takiyalewis6717@takiyalewis67173 жыл бұрын
    • 😁

      @dawood2u@dawood2u3 жыл бұрын
    • Then he got excited and sad almost at the same time, because he knew there was an extra virtual particle there as a present but it vanished before he could detect it.

      @AquaPeet@AquaPeet3 жыл бұрын
    • love your joke!!

      @frontsidegrinder6858@frontsidegrinder6858 Жыл бұрын
  • I was hoping to hear about black holes in the discussion. Thanks for the edification.

    @user-ml8ey4up7c@user-ml8ey4up7c10 ай бұрын
  • Wonderfull discussion with a lot of humor and strait thinking 🎉

    @nilssonbengt7152@nilssonbengt7152 Жыл бұрын
  • When you ask you clearly upset girlfriend, "what's the matter?": - "Nothing."

    @Sergio2006A@Sergio2006A3 жыл бұрын
    • that’s a double

      @sids7735@sids77353 жыл бұрын
    • "Do whatever you want!"

      @AP-ul4zj@AP-ul4zj3 жыл бұрын
    • Now, there are a lot of virtual particles swarming there.

      @lxathu@lxathu3 жыл бұрын
    • bwhahaha nice

      @000jorden@000jorden3 жыл бұрын
    • Nah you shoukd say: Everything

      @radthadd@radthadd3 жыл бұрын
  • Showed this to my wife, she replied. "I know now what I'm getting you for your birthday."

    @Hell4Gamers@Hell4Gamers3 жыл бұрын
    • This video is describing your ”wife” not birthday present.

      @dragoonTT@dragoonTT3 жыл бұрын
    • r/boomershumor

      @TJfromEarth@TJfromEarth3 жыл бұрын
    • You played yourself

      @kenbee1957@kenbee19573 жыл бұрын
    • @@dragoonTT ooff took me a while but got it, that's harsh ma man

      @goncalobaia1574@goncalobaia15743 жыл бұрын
    • @@dragoonTT Yo you just killed the man, come on.

      @piccoloatburgerking@piccoloatburgerking3 жыл бұрын
  • I also understood nothing. Beautifully explained. Simple explanation to something that is nothing. Chuck rightly said "sothing". I will say both of you are "soothing" to hear. Well done.

    @SVSP1976@SVSP19762 күн бұрын
  • Chuck's delivery of that 'oh god...' after Neil mentioned quantum physics is just so perfect 🤣🤣🤣

    @iberianeko@iberianeko2 жыл бұрын
    • yea i just heard it and it's perfectly timed if you understand quantum physics as much is possible to understand it lol

      @BIGREDDOG09@BIGREDDOG092 жыл бұрын
    • 7:56

      @timothyalan34@timothyalan34 Жыл бұрын
    • ​@@timothyalan34 - Nobody asked.

      @MrMuz99@MrMuz99 Жыл бұрын
    • @@MrMuz99 speak for yourself

      @MrRinre@MrRinre Жыл бұрын
    • @@MrRinre - I usually do, gets messy trying to speak for others.

      @MrMuz99@MrMuz99 Жыл бұрын
  • I'm watching this. I was supposed to be doing work. Mom walked in and asked "What are you watching?" I replied with "Nothing, Mom." She asked "Lemme see" so I showed her. I didn't lie but now I'm grounded.

    @1SLMusic@1SLMusic3 жыл бұрын
    • If I found my kids watching star talk, and liked it, I would have done gave them more...... more star talk

      @samanthanor332@samanthanor3323 жыл бұрын
    • Serves you right, Simon

      @jmanj3917@jmanj39173 жыл бұрын
    • Bruh that's clsssic haha

      @loboradio555@loboradio5553 жыл бұрын
    • @@samanthanor332 Heck! I would buy them a gift!

      @marconeyu@marconeyu2 жыл бұрын
    • @@marconeyu you need co. Ck

      @prophecygucci6289@prophecygucci62892 жыл бұрын
  • One time I was very high and I thought about this. What if we can go beyond the universe? Beyond everything? What would be there? I kept repeating to myself “even that nothingness is still within a paradigm of something” it’s just wild to think about. There can never be nothing because it will always be within something. There’s so much we don’t understand and I don’t think we ever will.

    @Changon@Changon9 ай бұрын
    • Firstly, nothingness can't itself have an existence which is a tautological consequence of what existence actually is. You can't use "nothing" and "existence" in the same sentence without contradicting yourself. The relation between existence and the absent of it could be expressed as follow: existence=E, non-existence=E-, nothing=non-existence, existence=everything, E/=E-=> existence is not nothing, E=E=>existence is everything. The potential for everything to exist must be true since if existence didn't cover some parts that could conceivable exist, nothingness or non-existence would therefore exist in some way which cant be true since that would imply that a paradox was realized. One way to imagine this is to imagine the set of reality, that would be the ultimate set containing absolutely everything which would include all sub-sets. But then you might wonder why this ultimate set doesn't contain the set of nothing. This can be explained by imagining the set of nothingness, the absent of existence illustrated as an empty ring containing nothing since the set of nothing consist of nothing inside of it. The area inside of it would be totally empty and blank. Since a set is defined by its elements, the set of nothing is the only set that could never exist. Therefore, it doesn't either exist as a sub-set of the all-encompassing set of reality. Since logic is the means by which existence is realized, defining existence and non-existence firstly requires the explanation for why that logical operation can be made. That is, why logic itself exists. This must be explained trough the means of using some kind of metalogic where you define logic with logic itself. The answer to why logic must exist in this metalogical sense is that analogues to existence, the absent of logic would itself require an attribution that can't be attributed to it without the presence of the attribute. Non-logic is the absence of logic, making a distinction is itself by nature logical and therefore logic must exist as the very nature of its own structure. The relationship between logic and reality could be expressed as simple as: Logic=the structure of that which is true, Existence=that which exists and therefore is also the complete set of truth, Logic=Reality. Since reality is all there is, it defines, configure and processes itself from this primordial state of infinite potential into every logical structure that could possible exist, since remember, logic and its product which is reality requires the mere possibility for anything to exist to actualize since L=E=Everything.

      @adamlindfors5082@adamlindfors50828 ай бұрын
  • Neil has the best laugh. So genuine. And it’s about particle physics.

    @TheSquishiRex@TheSquishiRex3 жыл бұрын
    • 😂why I am laughing

      @pavankalyan5915@pavankalyan59153 жыл бұрын
    • Jahhahahahahhghahahaha LOL ROLPH

      @propizza6454@propizza64543 жыл бұрын
    • He could've easily say something about oxygen and hydrogen gas particles bonding together making water, and falls downward as RAINDROPS, DEBUNKING Gravity .

      @rayagoldendropofsun397@rayagoldendropofsun3973 жыл бұрын
    • @Nadaguru 0 It's nothing, do U agree ?

      @rayagoldendropofsun397@rayagoldendropofsun3973 жыл бұрын
    • My fault. He's into Space Bending, and GAS BONDING is physical reality science !

      @rayagoldendropofsun397@rayagoldendropofsun3973 жыл бұрын
  • "There's snakes in space?!" "There's literally everything in space, Morty!!!"

    @hyronvalkinson1749@hyronvalkinson17493 жыл бұрын
    • Of course, Earth hangs in space.

      @yonderpath@yonderpath3 жыл бұрын
  • This is my favourite Star Talk Video

    @sr.gaminggaming8742@sr.gaminggaming8742 Жыл бұрын
  • For those that like this kind of topic, there’s an amazing graphic novel called Logicomix. Even if you don’t like graphic novels, you won’t be able to put this down. The last part of what Neil was talking about is the philosophy of language, which is what Wittgenstein basically said all philosophy boils down to. And if you read this far, let me digress (not to be confused with deGrasse) a little further. Doesn’t Neil sort of make Wittgenstein’s argument here? In school we used to argue about which science was the science to rule them all. Biologists, chemists, and physicists all had a go to say they were on top, but I always felt it was Philosophy. “Philosophy, that’s not even a science. Are you crazy?” they said. True, Philosophy gets has the rep that it was supplanted by science in the search for truth and supplanted by religion in the search for wisdom. But when you really get down to it, Philosophy has the most grounded appreciation of the boundaries of reality. Every day, physicists discover amazing things about the material universe; yet, when an astrophysicist tries to explain the concept of ’nothing,’ as he strips away everything he can describe he realizes the concept itself starts to make less sense. This is because we do not interface with reality directly, we do so through the senses and, importantly, through language.

    @FaunsNW@FaunsNWАй бұрын
  • All this man wanted was nothing, and Neil couldn’t even give him that😂😂

    @racingfuel28@racingfuel282 жыл бұрын
    • Technically he gave him nothing at the end.

      @GovindSomai@GovindSomai2 жыл бұрын
    • Just one Pepsi

      @guitarsenpai420@guitarsenpai4202 жыл бұрын
    • @@guitarsenpai420 Lol what a reference

      @Roach_Dogg_JR@Roach_Dogg_JR2 жыл бұрын
    • By giving him nothing he gave him something.

      @dazronrichard5331@dazronrichard53312 жыл бұрын
    • He gave him something! It’s called BS. Typical Neil deGrasse Tyson! For real!! Neil goes round and round, with a multitude of words, that in the end, all add up to……..Yeah, NOTHING!!

      @gnzlsdebra1064@gnzlsdebra10642 жыл бұрын
  • I was so received that I finally knew what nothing was, but then Neil went "BUT I DESCRIBED IT SO NOW ITS A THING" and my soul broke

    @ira-siapremium8061@ira-siapremium8061 Жыл бұрын
  • Omg, I love the two of you 😅 You make me smile on a bleak day❤

    @MonicElle@MonicElle8 ай бұрын
  • Sorry of being late, I have two points/questions to make: 1. before the big bang when all the matter was a tiny ball, wasn't "nothing" around it? 2. We know now that the universe expands every second, so isn't the area that universe is not there yet "nothing"? I really hope one day you read this. Until then thanks for training my brain!

    @isidorosisidor6994@isidorosisidor6994 Жыл бұрын
    • The laws of physics still act upon the area outside the expanse. With universal gravitation, there are waves being sent out from particles, but outside of the expanse, there just isn't anything to attract.

      @Cal3000@Cal30002 ай бұрын
  • I wish Neil was my seventh grade science teacher! I might have learned something and been interested in it... at 69 years old I'm glad I finally found a teacher of science I can listen to and I will learn all I have missed. Thanks

    @deborahbarry9421@deborahbarry94213 жыл бұрын
    • Do you laugh when you think of number 69.. internet wants to know

      @MrSirBoastAlot@MrSirBoastAlot2 жыл бұрын
    • I have a little of doubt about your age...

      @dayanivanov@dayanivanov2 жыл бұрын
    • As long as these kind of videos have order of magnitude more views than the flat Earth videos, there's hope for humanity. Unfortunately we have entered (mostly here in America) an age of anti science where people are so cynical and have no trust in institutions that even the science and scientists became victims of this crazy movement. These people trust their feelings, their guts, their eyes and their local pastor, more than they trust people who've spent most of their lives learning and explaining how the world works... But in spite of this these people love to use their smartphones, the internet, cars with GPS, etc. And all the stuff I've mentioned is based on science and not on some guy having a feeling about something.. I like my doctor to base his opinion on the scientific facts thank you very much..

      @markbrisec3972@markbrisec39722 жыл бұрын
    • Bruh you’re not 69 years old you’re 6.9 years old

      @irenaveksler1935@irenaveksler19352 жыл бұрын
    • @@markbrisec3972 most people in the world don’t believe in flat earth

      @irenaveksler1935@irenaveksler19352 жыл бұрын
  • If I had a science teacher like Neil, I would have been a scientist! I love this channel! I love learning and I’m in my 60’s!

    @angelamurphy9472@angelamurphy9472 Жыл бұрын
    • there is no age restriction on expanding the brain! I am 20 & love this show. Salute to you OG keep rollin

      @omars-qz6rn@omars-qz6rn Жыл бұрын
    • There’s so much more to learn now than when we were young . I’m 71 and I can’t get enough of this stuff - I mean all things scientific, but most especially science involving the largest and the smallest features of our universe -> such as astronomy, chemistry, physics and the like. Makes me wish I could read faster! The advances lurking just barely around the corner are truly mind-boggling!

      @fredrickstephens5586@fredrickstephens5586 Жыл бұрын
    • You write this comment in every video

      @cnscm2614@cnscm2614 Жыл бұрын
    • 72 and still learning. Love this,!

      @patriciaschuster1371@patriciaschuster1371 Жыл бұрын
    • @@omars-qz6rn There's a difference between being a hobbyist astronomer/learning the cool concepts, vs doing the work of one.

      @duc2133@duc2133 Жыл бұрын
  • A good example of how limiting language can be. What trying to explain can only be experienced. Namaste🙏🏾

    @cathalg312@cathalg3128 ай бұрын
  • The more I watch these the more amazed I am by creation and it's Source. Just wow... WOW!

    @rakeldanell@rakeldanellАй бұрын
  • So the instant you think of it, it becomes an idea, and is immediately something.

    @Druwoods@Druwoods3 жыл бұрын
    • But luckily/unluckily we don't have psychic powers, so when I think of a canoe sized banana into my room, it doesn't appear in the room because I thought of it. Only through using my body along with my mind, will I achieve this important GMO goal!

      @kaspartambur@kaspartambur3 жыл бұрын
    • Yes, but only if you clarify what you mean by something. Not everyone considers immaterial things like thoughts and ideas to be something, but if you do, then sure.

      @aidankarmali2888@aidankarmali28883 жыл бұрын
    • It's trivial to describe non-physical/made-up things. That doesn't make them "a thing" but they are non-scientific. And that's the problem with talking about "nothing" in physics, because it's impossible to have a theory without starting from something. And if you define nothing as the absence of that, then the definition of nothing is non-scientific.

      @oaksnice@oaksnice3 жыл бұрын
    • You’re confusing philosophical nothing with physical nothing.

      @g33xzi11a@g33xzi11a3 жыл бұрын
    • @@aidankarmali2888 an idea is a series of electrical impulses in the brain

      @AbeMangum@AbeMangum3 жыл бұрын
  • "What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind!" -Homer Simpson

    @kevinoneill8542@kevinoneill85423 жыл бұрын
    • Lol

      @barryyoung6797@barryyoung67973 жыл бұрын
    • Dude I know some people hate scientist & they just "happen to have family who are straight {N WORD}" some of you know what I mean, how can I make them better? Because the dude that investigated French fries fuel died alone, same as testla & the way they parish worries me

      @noeluna7354@noeluna73543 жыл бұрын
    • Dude I know some people hate scientist & they just "happen to have family who are straight {N WORD}" some of you know what I mean, how can I make them better? Because the dude that investigated French fries fuel died alone, same as testla & the way they parish worries me

      @noeluna7354@noeluna73543 жыл бұрын
    • Alan watts said it before homer simpson. I imagine someone before him as well...

      @alexprieto8277@alexprieto82773 жыл бұрын
    • That's the spirit ! 0f n0thing-ness.

      @Charlesputnam-bn9zy@Charlesputnam-bn9zy3 жыл бұрын
  • Never stop sharing the knowledge, the laughs, and the unguided stories.

    @m.korygreenmun4668@m.korygreenmun466811 ай бұрын
  • Neil's been describing the inside of my head: Empty & nothing

    @RedTheMandalorian@RedTheMandalorian7 ай бұрын
  • What a great “educational” comedy team! I love learning and laughing at the same time!

    @johngirolamo8221@johngirolamo82213 жыл бұрын
    • kzhead.info/sun/eMyIc7mofWeLqpE/bejne.html

      @logiclogic6703@logiclogic67032 жыл бұрын
    • Who doesn't?

      @starxsirius1429@starxsirius14292 жыл бұрын
    • The energy/chemistry these guys have is amazing to watch, They're both funny and very smart.

      @MrMuz99@MrMuz99 Жыл бұрын
  • “The Three Oddest Words” by Wislawa Szymborska When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it. When I pronounce the word Nothing, I make something no non-being can hold.

    @najummushtaq3391@najummushtaq33913 жыл бұрын
    • Wislawa is the best waifu

      @lavandergoth@lavandergoth3 жыл бұрын
    • So quote-worthy

      @Sinannuncioshasta--k@Sinannuncioshasta--k3 жыл бұрын
    • @@David-vz4yk I don't watch anime, I just like those terms. Try being a little cooler, would ya?

      @lavandergoth@lavandergoth3 жыл бұрын
  • thanks for the gift idea!! a very well thought gift

    @aanchalnano5933@aanchalnano5933 Жыл бұрын
  • "Nothing" is the baseline for the selected scope. A box of air is "nothing" in a party room, but the same box of air is a.. well, its a "box of air", while in the depths of the ocean, where the same box filled with water is now a box with "nothing". "Nothing" is a philosophical construct, not an exact "absence of every possible concept".

    @EvgGaar@EvgGaar6 күн бұрын
  • "If you want and smoke your marihuana" Buddy, how do you think i ended up in this video?

    @sanvegapoet@sanvegapoet3 жыл бұрын
    • XD

      @wesperlot@wesperlot3 жыл бұрын
    • Yup

      @michaelcorcoran3942@michaelcorcoran39423 жыл бұрын
    • It’s like he knew...

      @thegreatgabriel@thegreatgabriel3 жыл бұрын
    • Having a smoke whilst watching hahaha

      @seanchivers5546@seanchivers55463 жыл бұрын
    • hahaha xactly !!!

      @Convolutedtear@Convolutedtear3 жыл бұрын
  • I clicked expecting Neil to be quiet for +10 minutes.

    @wildhogOW@wildhogOW3 жыл бұрын
    • In what universe would that ever happen? Lol

      @saramatthews7159@saramatthews71593 жыл бұрын
    • That would be something

      @thejpx@thejpx3 жыл бұрын
    • @@thejpx yeah, that would still be a youtube video Or It would still be neil being silent wich is something

      @ZackAngelSmith@ZackAngelSmith3 жыл бұрын
    • Neil is never quiet

      @bazinga5342@bazinga53423 жыл бұрын
    • I expected Chuck to interrupt Neil and say: allow me to start explaining nothing. And then he would remain silent.

      @chrisrea6841@chrisrea68413 жыл бұрын
  • Great discussion with humor. Super!

    @raydowning7738@raydowning7738 Жыл бұрын
  • Dis is one of da best deleted scenes from "Idiocracy" EVER!

    @StoriesFromUncleMurray@StoriesFromUncleMurray10 ай бұрын
  • Me: "What are you doing?" Them: "Nothing" Me: "That is false"

    @shadbenjamin@shadbenjamin3 жыл бұрын
    • Gotta always be skeptical in the modern world.

      @robmcilheney1657@robmcilheney16573 жыл бұрын
    • That’s what I always answered people (especially my daughter) when they told me they were doing nothing. ;)

      @cielprofondinfo@cielprofondinfo3 жыл бұрын
  • So, the moral is that our universe dislikes “nothing” so much that “nothing” cannot exist....

    @kkaagg1000@kkaagg10003 жыл бұрын
    • Which is why the big bang is such a mystery to people who aren't creationist. Kinda supports the fact that something was always since "nothing" cannot be.

      @OfTheTribeOfJudah@OfTheTribeOfJudah3 жыл бұрын
    • Ale ssandro ………You have said what ARISTOTLE a Greek Philospher had already said , about 2400 years ago …You are as great .Thanks IN HIS own words **Universe does not like VACUUMs**… In the Universe of Space - Time , there exist no *Nothingness*…man made or Natural .. But Pre - Big Bang Condition is of **Absolute Nothingness**…There existed not even a single material Particle , whatsoever. That’s the True Nothing ………JagtarSinghAujla USA

      @mohinderjitaujla6245@mohinderjitaujla62453 жыл бұрын
    • @@OfTheTribeOfJudah matter and virtual particles ain't the same thing, though.

      @mirabilis@mirabilis3 жыл бұрын
    • We don’t know enough about our universe to claim that nothing can’t exist. Cuz we literally don’t know what nothing is.

      @wespicedmemes@wespicedmemes3 жыл бұрын
    • @@OfTheTribeOfJudah Personally, I believe our universe was created from the brief formation of a white hole. This could explain why we haven't found the theoretical "center" of our universe and why everything is rapidly expanding outward. Also, to believe in an all-powerful creator, would still leave you with the same question: if "nothing" cannot be, where did this creator come from?

      @DragonNutz420@DragonNutz4203 жыл бұрын
  • “The nothing that is something which is nothing” is the perfect conclusion, good for Chuck!

    @EM-qx3hx@EM-qx3hx8 ай бұрын
  • Always a great pleasure to hear and see Dr. Tyson. Brilliant mind.

    @GabiRuta@GabiRuta Жыл бұрын
  • First time seeing this channel. Chuck is absolutely hilarious 😂

    @RobCrowley85@RobCrowley8511 ай бұрын
  • I've never seen anyone talk about nothing for 13 minutes straight and still be this entertaining and insightful. Lol

    @piccoloatburgerking@piccoloatburgerking3 жыл бұрын
    • Just listen to any philosopher.

      @alejandrotellez2962@alejandrotellez29623 жыл бұрын
    • not even jerry?

      @scottmcshannon6821@scottmcshannon68212 жыл бұрын
    • You're the first person that I've read in the comments to perfectly pull off the "nothing" double entendre

      @adu11@adu11 Жыл бұрын
  • This is why "the nothing" from The Never Ending Story was so terrifying to me.

    @darthfb@darthfb3 жыл бұрын
    • Truee. Don't forget one cannot have shadow without life.

      @dript7686@dript76863 жыл бұрын
    • Darth FB because Neil deGrasse Tyson made a 13 minute video on it?

      @elijahwallis3252@elijahwallis32523 жыл бұрын
    • People who play Minecraft, and have fallen in the void 420 times: First time?

      @commander_eaa2862@commander_eaa28623 жыл бұрын
    • Aww I know

      @JDTHEONEANDONLYORIGINAL@JDTHEONEANDONLYORIGINAL3 жыл бұрын
    • @@JT_771 not that it matters, but 'yes.'

      @Raz.C@Raz.C3 жыл бұрын
  • Love the banter and humor almost as much as the physics of it! Real fun.

    @omarnassery7280@omarnassery728013 күн бұрын
  • You picked the best co host I love watching your videos! I learn and laugh everytime thank you guys

    @tydemeter1@tydemeter1 Жыл бұрын
  • "You moment you try to describe nothing, you've filled it with something."

    @kierananthony25@kierananthony253 жыл бұрын
    • Nothing: The absence of something. Checkmate.

      @robertsharp2633@robertsharp26333 жыл бұрын
  • When Chuck said "Not with my carrier", I felt that.

    @doctorfeelok8575@doctorfeelok8575 Жыл бұрын
    • career*

      @1NonlySeriouZ@1NonlySeriouZАй бұрын
  • His reaction to a mention of quantum physics in a vacuum had me laughing out loud. I hear you mate. Quantum physics is hard

    @mickonosmickorasmus3933@mickonosmickorasmus3933 Жыл бұрын
  • This is one of the best videos of all time ❤

    @jeganstarkhere@jeganstarkhere9 ай бұрын
  • The dynamic of this show is so underrated and overlooked. I absolutely love how these two communicate their different ways of thinking.

    @lazaruseffect7212@lazaruseffect72122 жыл бұрын
    • One is teaching, the other is learning...

      @avro357@avro357 Жыл бұрын
    • @@avro357 not always..

      @pathickey6874@pathickey6874 Жыл бұрын
    • Is it? Seems every other comment is talking about the chemistry between these two.

      @hackguitarist@hackguitarist Жыл бұрын
  • Neil trying to imagine The Nothing and explain it to us - while i was having a Michael Ende's 'The Neverending Story' flashback.. The Nothing cannot be named, explained, understood or even imagined; therefore, Nothing is the absence of imagination, creativity.

    @TioAe@TioAe3 жыл бұрын
    • Uhm you just described it tho...

      @clarcktumazar@clarcktumazar3 жыл бұрын
    • Does it mean that my nothing can be completely different than your nothing?

      @MrRakaukolis@MrRakaukolis3 жыл бұрын
    • Contrariwise, Nothing is Everything, all the potentialities, even the unknowables, the undefinables, the undescribables. Infinitely rich and dense.

      @cristianm7097@cristianm70973 жыл бұрын
    • Nothing does not exist, there's no such thing as nothing, for even describing "nothing" means its something. Therefore it should not exist.

      @clarcktumazar@clarcktumazar3 жыл бұрын
    • @@clarcktumazar "Nothing" is beyond and above our existence, our reality. It is more real than our Universe. We are after all mere projections in 3D of a 2D reality on the surface of our Universe sphere, on the boundary to Nothing.

      @cristianm7097@cristianm70973 жыл бұрын
  • @11:40 “Philosophy” that’s great

    @shashidharshettar3846@shashidharshettar384620 күн бұрын
  • We have to trust that science is right to have our own thoughts to ponder. I'm fairly normal and I'm not perfect nor any human being. Just by throwing that in the mix gives me great concern about when and about what that imperfection is about.

    @joe-dp3ng@joe-dp3ng11 ай бұрын
  • One must even take a “void” out of the picture when contemplating nothing. Because even that is, yes, something.

    @themodernlyceum@themodernlyceum3 жыл бұрын
    • But the Void must exist.....some where...it has to. In infinity,and infinity has to exist as well.

      @bigcity2085@bigcity20853 жыл бұрын
  • I felt that "not with my carrier" joke, lol.

    @jaredpurcell8835@jaredpurcell88353 жыл бұрын
  • Niel i have question regarding time Say u were in intergalactic space and in the empty space would u still count time as though it was a small unit i.e using sec, hrs n mins or would u use a different scale _ what im trying to get at is there a different time scale n would u say that time increases ( 1 sec )the more space increases

    @user-te5ln2cu2f@user-te5ln2cu2fАй бұрын
  • 7:58 actually had me.

    @divyeshsonawane7521@divyeshsonawane752111 ай бұрын
  • it's three in the morning in Athens & I'm extremely tired but...I've been sitting on my couch for the last two hours, binge watching startalk and i literally can't stop. you're both great. thanks for explaining all these wonderful things.

    @tatianetse@tatianetse Жыл бұрын
    • Athens Georgia?

      @robertwright1410@robertwright1410 Жыл бұрын
    • Athens Ohio? 🤪

      @travislee9662@travislee9662 Жыл бұрын
    • Nope! Athens, Greece

      @tatianetse@tatianetse Жыл бұрын
    • Are you wearing sunglasses?

      @jazu40@jazu40 Жыл бұрын
    • Litterly knowledge freinds

      @sheismrda322@sheismrda322 Жыл бұрын
  • They're at it again ✨

    @ZeniferJenZ@ZeniferJenZ3 жыл бұрын
    • At what

      @alfiemore3192@alfiemore31923 жыл бұрын
    • Lovin' every minute of it !!

      @palmereldritch4166@palmereldritch41663 жыл бұрын
    • Talking about nothing

      @aceg7098@aceg70983 жыл бұрын
    • 🤣🤣🤣🤣

      @kenbee1957@kenbee19573 жыл бұрын
    • I'm pretty sure they are making fun of me.

      @TheEtAdmirer@TheEtAdmirer3 жыл бұрын
  • In a few years, a box of fresh air will bet the best gift one can get, so that's breath of air.

    @pear7777@pear77779 ай бұрын
  • 👍🏻💎Thank you for all the knowledge you both share to the world 🥇💎👍🏻

    @prajaymaru4390@prajaymaru43906 ай бұрын
  • Me watching this at 2 a.m. while high: "Woah"

    @lukepizza8117@lukepizza81173 жыл бұрын
    • You gonna get so many thumbs up from stoners :3

      @greyprox4677@greyprox46773 жыл бұрын
    • WoOoOAhHhH

      @dript7686@dript76863 жыл бұрын
    • @@dript7686 YANKEE

      @gavinthecamel3854@gavinthecamel38543 жыл бұрын
    • Hello my friend

      @qrroll109@qrroll1093 жыл бұрын
    • Broooo

      @drock1400@drock14003 жыл бұрын
  • Jeeeez These two smoking a bowl talking about “nothing” would be a whole other show.

    @jamchiroptera4258@jamchiroptera42583 жыл бұрын
    • They sound to me as though they have already smoked a bowl, or had a couple of whiskys.

      @jt2097@jt20973 жыл бұрын
    • It would just take longer to arrive to the same point lol They would probably lose their train of thought quite often

      @AmazingOwnage@AmazingOwnage3 жыл бұрын
  • The PARTICLE TRAIN! Previously I suggested that eternal photons made electron positron pairs, (as well as all standard model particles). Here's how. Start with a PARTICLE TRAIN, each time you add an electron or positron car to the train, you get a new particle. The only rule is the cars have to alternate from electron to positron. Think of a wave with trough always alternating with crest. Photons as electron positron pairs could make the main parts of an atom in the brief time after the Big Bang under those extreme and never repeated conditions. Charges are the cars on our particle train. Positive positron (+), Negative electron (-). Positron (+) Electron (-) Photon (+) (-) Proton (+) (-) (+) Anti Proton (-) (+) (-) Neutron (+) (-) (+) (-) Anti Neutron (-) (+) (-)(+) . The PROTONS and NEUTRONS are made from ELECTRONS and POSITRONS! When this production of particles was over, most anti particles with charge; positrons, and anti protons, didn't exist on their own. They were LOCKED INTO PROTONS OR NEUTRONS. That way conservation of charge was maintained. That also explains the MISSING ANTI MATTER PROBLEM! This from Wikipedia article Matter Creation: It is possible to create all fundamental particles in the standard model, including quarks, leptons and bosons using photons of varying energies above some minimum threshold, whether directly (by pair production), or by decay of the intermediate particle (such as a W− boson decaying to form an electron and an electron-antineutrino).

    @TomHendricksMusea@TomHendricksMusea Жыл бұрын
  • i love watching star talk blasted

    @cristianmundo@cristianmundo10 ай бұрын
  • I finally have an argument for my wife about how I missed our first anniversary.

    @Alex-dk1um@Alex-dk1um3 жыл бұрын
    • Let us know how that goes

      @KlljyC@KlljyC3 жыл бұрын
    • ZINGGGGGGG

      @highandtight5544@highandtight55443 жыл бұрын
    • @@highandtight5544 or you could call it a Hawkins moment. i micro black hole manifest in in the brain causing it to malfunction.

      @craigscott2315@craigscott23153 жыл бұрын
    • I feel bad for u for having a wife.

      @gzzzboi7368@gzzzboi73683 жыл бұрын
  • Neil is a really cool scientist. Thank you for explaining really complicated stuff so easily for everyone to understand.

    @nizamieminov3648@nizamieminov3648 Жыл бұрын
    • For me, it's that these always something new. Even on things I know a fair bit about there's always something fresh on every topic

      @katieheys3007@katieheys300710 ай бұрын
    • Thank you Neil & chuck

      @dbapto6994@dbapto6994Ай бұрын
  • This is my go-to guy now; I always quote him as I have been enlightened on how the Universe works; and want to pass this information on to others. He makes me laugh; I love his sense of humor.

    @katherinekarrington696@katherinekarrington69610 ай бұрын
  • I love to hear Neil explain things, I wish I could playfully and respectfully talk with him as the student who doesn’t know enough to not to ask the or state the wrong observations or questions. For instance, just because you can’t see it and measure or record it, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. I’m the student that doesn’t know enough about science or physics, etc. To be convinced that consciousness is not the by product of things no matter how far down the scale you find a way to see or detect the earliest manifestations of energy, preforms of matter and matter. But rather consciousness creates everything we attribute to the known and unknown universe and multiverses from the smallest to the largest, and from here through out all eternities. ONESELF BY PHILLIP HOLLOWAY Sr. Before there was anything or any place, before there was anywhere, any time or any space, There was One Self, this was and is the Self Being of what we now call God. There was no over there, or over here, there was no this or that...nor was there any light or white, darkness or black. But there was One Self...there was no far or near...there was no anger or fear... There was no high or low, there was no where to stay and no where to go... But this I do know, there was One Self...Before there was anything else. This is just a few lines from the longer version of this poem I wrote decades ago… But it expresses my observation of All that Is from the depths of me that science alone will never be able to explain to its satisfaction. The One Self I’m referring to here includes all the perspectives of self from All that Is. This most definitely includes you and me, I fully believe and except that we are as eternal and infinite as the universe and multiverses are. Not as humans, but as conscious co-creators knowing ourselves as one and many with no true point of separation only the perceptions of it.

    @Mindpro2@Mindpro26 ай бұрын
  • *:Neil when he opens an empty box:* THeRe IS OnlY sOmE OxyGeN MoLEcuLeS In HeRe

    @Wonka2208@Wonka22083 жыл бұрын
    • No you gotta go the full scope. What did he say - Nitrogen, Co2 etc. - probably should pull up somekind of instrument/s to measure the presumably empty box. :D

      @kaspartambur@kaspartambur3 жыл бұрын
  • As I'm watching this, I'm thinking about a Star Talk - Mind Field Cross-Over... Michael Stevens & Neil de Grasse Tyson... That would be perfect...

    @greyprox4677@greyprox46773 жыл бұрын
    • *... Or wouldn't be?* [VSAUCE THEME INTENSIFIES]

      @user-wm7mk2nt4d@user-wm7mk2nt4d3 жыл бұрын
    • @[REDACTED] . do you happen to come from the scp foundation?

      @parunihyl3401@parunihyl34013 жыл бұрын
    • Yesssssss

      @jemadamson2715@jemadamson27153 жыл бұрын
    • And as always.. keep looking up

      @emmanuelesrael6480@emmanuelesrael64803 жыл бұрын
    • VSAUCE HERE

      @David-qv9yy@David-qv9yy3 жыл бұрын
  • I just saw this. My thought: "Whoopee! Mad scientists!" I'm subscribing!

    @michaelhendrickson9809@michaelhendrickson9809 Жыл бұрын
  • Hey Dr T, are those insect collections on the wall behind you? I grew up doing the same thing for years when I wasn't looking through my telescope at the rest of the universe ;)

    @user-yu9lr7wb6z@user-yu9lr7wb6z7 ай бұрын
  • Ygritte- "You know nothing, Jon snow" Jon after watching this video- 😏

    @floki5605@floki56053 жыл бұрын
    • Ygritte understood that in the absence of virtual particles, there was something there and Jon knew it.

      @IEnumerable@IEnumerable3 жыл бұрын
    • nothingness doesn't exist. therefore when Ygritte says that Jon knows nothing, she meant that what Jon knows doesn't exist. therefore Jon doesn't know anything 😏 back to square one.

      @GrammeStudio@GrammeStudio2 жыл бұрын
    • @@GrammeStudio the value of nothing exists tho just like how we know life is around us but we dont value it so we say it is not there.

      @CruiserDynasty@CruiserDynasty2 жыл бұрын
    • Weak

      @ronsonesteban8632@ronsonesteban86322 жыл бұрын
  • Question: What is nothing? Answer: it isn't

    @dead_sync3680@dead_sync36803 жыл бұрын
    • Or is it?

      @Kilmoran@Kilmoran3 жыл бұрын
    • *mind blown* see as humans we are so use to everything being "something" even the basic terms we use are incorrect when attempting to discuss nothing

      @Gaetafix@Gaetafix3 жыл бұрын
  • This man deserves everyone's subscription

    @Uploading_stuff@Uploading_stuffАй бұрын
  • this feels like hanging out with a smart friends with physics as intrest, wish i had those

    @MrStarlightt@MrStarlightt5 ай бұрын
  • Nobody: nothing Neil: Let's talk about that

    @ThanosBackAtIt@ThanosBackAtIt3 жыл бұрын
    • Literally nothing😂

      @goncalobaia1574@goncalobaia15743 жыл бұрын
    • 🎯😂🤞🏾

      @BLKGURL_GOLDMOUFMISSES@BLKGURL_GOLDMOUFMISSES3 жыл бұрын
  • I learned "nothing" from this video, thx!

    @THINK86200@THINK862003 жыл бұрын
  • Your videos are satisfying, because every other scientists I observed so far seems to me so dumb, which they are not! but they make me feel they are so dumb. You teach stuff so simple, I love it! Thankyou

    @shway313@shway3136 ай бұрын
  • Neil Tyson takes the time to explains all those things to normal person like me. We should have more like him. I am afraid if he retired, we would lose a lot of knowledge to the public.

    @merveilmeok2416@merveilmeok2416 Жыл бұрын
  • 12:10 Fun fact, in Hungarian 'nothing' is 'semmi' [ ˈʃɛmːi]. However, there is also a thing called 'semmi sem' [ ˈʃɛmːi ˈʃɛm], meaning 'not even nothing', or 'nothing else/either/neither'.

    @megiski3116@megiski31163 жыл бұрын
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