How far is the edge of the universe?

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Did you ever sit under the clear night sky and wonder “does it go on forever?" The size of the universe has long been a question that has puzzled scientists, philosophers, and theologians, without a clear answer… well, until now. In this video, Fermilab’s Dr. Don Lincoln leads you through what modern science can say about the size of the universe.
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  • When my dog gets a treat from my left hand she was expecting to be in my right, it blows her little mind...completely. That is what this video is doing to me! Thank you Dr. Don!

    @hamentaschen@hamentaschen4 жыл бұрын
    • Check out Inside Animal Hearts and Minds: Bears That Count, Goats That Surf, and Other True Stories of Animal Intelligence and Emotion-- Book by Belinda Recio ..it has some remarkable stories all sourced to actual published research papers listed in back of book or from the scientists themselves. I hate to give away one of the more powerful examples shared but ... It concerns an orangutan who had been taught and who knew sign language and was able to make basic statements& ask simple questions. True story.. One evening the orangutan was outside with their scientist care taker and got the care taker's attention and then pointed to the Moon and then used sign language to ask:"What is that?" Poignant for several reasons not just animal intelligence but also like a time machine or window to what early humans and hominids having those or similar early questions... is almost proto science by nonhumans too..

      @hb-youtube@hb-youtube4 жыл бұрын
    • @@hb-youtube this is great, and thats actual same with humans, we(if we care and are curious) gonna try to learn something new, i just wonder if other animals would be more intelligent, what they would ask!?

      @milosstojanovic4623@milosstojanovic46234 жыл бұрын
    • That's funny. I play guess which hand with my dog all the time. He sniffs it out. What really gets him is when both hands are empty. Then he goes behind my back and grabs it. I hear a dogs sense if smell is 10,000x better than humans. Yet the most offense stench doesn't bother him in the least bit. Go figure.....

      @dimtgco1428@dimtgco14284 жыл бұрын
    • Stop doing that to your dog!! 🐾🐾

      @kelleychilton2524@kelleychilton2524 Жыл бұрын
  • Does this channel pay KZhead NOT to interrupt the lecture? Dr. Lincoln, it's always a pleasure to listen to your lessons.

    @JavierArveloCruzSantana@JavierArveloCruzSantana4 жыл бұрын
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      @minilab9030@minilab90304 жыл бұрын
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      @paganphil100@paganphil1004 жыл бұрын
    • Ive never been interupted while watching him either. I just love his stuff😁

      @grassfedmilkmomma@grassfedmilkmomma4 жыл бұрын
    • @@paganphil100 Philip thanks he's all my time I'm take pain 💔😭😔😥🤐🙏🤒😢🙏 he's publishement always

      @nawynerwy6430@nawynerwy64304 жыл бұрын
    • Thanks for understand I'm so die for tired my lifetime thanks all

      @nawynerwy6430@nawynerwy64304 жыл бұрын
  • It is amazing that we've come in a century from the point where Eddington was asked whether it was true that only 3 people understood general relativity, and answered "who is the third?" (may not be true, but), to the stage where the general public can follow beautiful youtube videos dealing with topologies of the universe. GR is nowadays seemingly something for schoolchildren!

    @winstoncat6785@winstoncat6785 Жыл бұрын
    • It has always been for school children, except most people have given Einstein too much credit over the decades and feared, no thanks to pop culture, stating that obvious publicly. I will assume you meant General Relativity.

      @markuse3472@markuse3472 Жыл бұрын
  • So well explained, and enlightening! Thank you so much.

    @gerardmeyer2118@gerardmeyer2118 Жыл бұрын
  • "It's a complicated calculation but a straightforward one". Not falling for that one again.

    @junfenggao2417@junfenggao24174 жыл бұрын
    • That's like "It's not a question if, but when"? Overused for sure.

      @arthurhunt642@arthurhunt6424 жыл бұрын
    • It's like trying to figure out what a woman is thinking.😂

      @CollyDoo@CollyDoo4 жыл бұрын
    • flatearthlogic dot net why has nobody been able to get to the edge ?

      @robertbeerman8179@robertbeerman81794 жыл бұрын
    • @flatearthlogic dot net Or... only try to prove what you already believe... millions of Religious Nutcases can't be wrong!!

      @altareggo@altareggo4 жыл бұрын
    • @flatearthlogic dot net lol I wasn't badmouthing any particular site at all. However, I've seen and thought through dozens of fine examples of "flat Earth logic" and come to my own conclusion that yes, like any heavenly body over a certain size, the earth is essentially globe-shaped. Also, I've noticed that the majority of flat earthers base the core of their beliefs on the Bible or in some cases tte Quoran. If one takes the Bible completely literally, the earth is round but not sperical, immoveable and at the center of a very small universe that may involve a dime or "firmament" of some kind. However, it is impossible to explain everything we have observed about the seasons, the solar system, Legrange points, eclipses and occultations, transits of various kinds etc, using any flat Earth model I've seen or heard of so far.

      @altareggo@altareggo4 жыл бұрын
  • "Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. I mean you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space." -Douglas Adams

    @benlonghair@benlonghair4 жыл бұрын
    • "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." - Douglas Adams.

      @spencerhardy8667@spencerhardy86674 жыл бұрын
    • The universe is a sphere because it radiates outward from your point of view until you can't be bothered anymore in all directions

      @spencerhardy8667@spencerhardy86674 жыл бұрын
    • @flatearthlogic dot net One more time, heh? Okay, I give up. Got other things to do with my day. Have a nice (delusional) life.

      @spikespa5208@spikespa52084 жыл бұрын
    • Who cares really how big it is. Is anybody ever gonna see it or go there? I don't have the strength to go to Walmart. The edge of the universe? I hope there's at least a bulk barn there for snacks on the way back..

      @trainhound1732@trainhound17324 жыл бұрын
    • @@trainhound1732 I saw the edge of Wal-Mart once, but it was too far so I turned back.

      @kelleychilton2524@kelleychilton2524 Жыл бұрын
  • More videos are welcome on Space and Universe. The subject is very complex but, still easy to follow your slow and precise narration.

    @tnrk2011@tnrk2011 Жыл бұрын
  • What a good explanation. Space, physics, astronomy, all they are fascinating.

    @ivanlandivar1741@ivanlandivar1741 Жыл бұрын
  • I wish this man was my science teacher when I was in high school. Now at the age of 40 I love listening to his presentation here in KZhead. It's so calming and informative at the same time. 😃

    @dreadinside654@dreadinside6542 жыл бұрын
    • Dread Inside, He probably wishes that as well. At 40 it isn't too late to study the material you didn't get when you were young. The only difference now is KZhead presents a much better learning format than any classroom format. With KZhead you can pause a lecture, study any necessary background information needed to understand the content, then, go back to the video. david

      @postholedigger8726@postholedigger8726 Жыл бұрын
    • @@postholedigger8726 , you are right. The best thing about the world wide web is that you are not tied to only one train of thought, you can listen to people from all walks of life from all around the world.

      @darrenknight9320@darrenknight9320 Жыл бұрын
    • I do feel the same. However, this knowledge is relatively new and complicated in detailed so that our K12 teachers didn't have any chance to transfer it to her/his pupils. But now we can learn from Dr. Don.

      @dduyhai@dduyhai Жыл бұрын
    • Maybe if he was a teacher he'd find himself so hassled with disruptive or apathetic students, lesson schemes and evaluation, endless meetings that he'd have little energy left to enliven his teaching

      @paulholland7803@paulholland7803 Жыл бұрын
    • So you need someone to calm you down? 😂

      @taunteratwill1787@taunteratwill1787 Жыл бұрын
  • This guy is a really great presenter. One of the best on you tube. Whoever does the scripts does a great job as well.

    @robbaskerville253@robbaskerville2534 жыл бұрын
    • Blue rectangle from 15:56 - 16:03

      @Markle2k@Markle2k4 жыл бұрын
    • This is not a "good presenter guy", he is an actual scientist who has some very significant acomplishments

      @AntoshaPushkin@AntoshaPushkin4 жыл бұрын
    • In 1995, he was a codiscoverer of the top quark (...) was a member of the team that discovered the Higgs boson in 2012. (wikipedia). Actually these are kinda public lectures of a decent scientist working in/with a very important scientific institution.

      @fikretyet@fikretyet4 жыл бұрын
    • I'm sure the presenter guy appreciates your kind words. I'm also sure that the presenter guy is the script writer.

      @drdon5205@drdon52054 жыл бұрын
    • @@drdon5205 true, I was typing my comment instead of watching the credits.

      @robbaskerville253@robbaskerville2534 жыл бұрын
  • Dr., sir i found your channel by chance. This is best explanation ever.

    @zeproo@zeproo Жыл бұрын
  • A fascinating presentation. This has filled in some of the gaps I had in my understanding of what I have picked up here and there all these years.

    @simev500@simev500 Жыл бұрын
    • Gaps huh ? ...such p athetic d orks. Now there's a filled query for ya. A rather chasmic event, for you d ork.

      @Bob-lw2kt@Bob-lw2kt Жыл бұрын
    • @@Bob-lw2kt It appears you got up the wrong side of ur bed this morning, mr troll. Or did you roll off the high loft and knock ur noggin cranky? There's a grinch for ever y season 'n occasion. happy new year ::::]%^(>

      @simev500@simev500 Жыл бұрын
  • One of my favorite quotes by Douglas Adams: > Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

    4 жыл бұрын
    • Booting up my Total Perspective Vortex so that I can see all 23 trillion light years at one time...

      @zemoxian@zemoxian4 жыл бұрын
    • Next video should be, How big is the "Whole Sort of General Mish Mash"?

      @MostafaZeinali@MostafaZeinali4 жыл бұрын
    • This about sums up how and why this is al a fantasy. If this were true, there would be actual measerments and numbers. Scientists saying space is big, that is no science man, it's deceitfull fantasies... Man.. who makes this stuff up? The Balooney Tunes? 🤣😂

      @123bug@123bug4 жыл бұрын
    • @@123bug Try to measure Earth's diameter without being able to travel, and lets see what numbers you are able to come up with.

      @samuellourenco1050@samuellourenco10504 жыл бұрын
    • @@samuellourenco1050 yeah so were Just talking a bunch of numbers in the air... It doesn't matter if you add a zero... It is still HUGE! The scientists have discoverd someting people: space is HUGE! 🤣😂 BTW this was pretty hard to type spinning with 60 MPH 🤗

      @123bug@123bug4 жыл бұрын
  • One of the best channels on youtube

    @Nickeman@Nickeman4 жыл бұрын
  • A very complex subject explained in a simple manner, great lecture

    @zahidmunawar3981@zahidmunawar3981 Жыл бұрын
  • It is "mind-blowing" and in all rational aspects, seemingly inconceivable. Might as well be infinite if the visible universe is 92 billion light years in diameter but its actual size 250X that. Great video explained thoughtfully and clearly. Bravo Professor Lincoln!

    @rnnyhoff@rnnyhoff Жыл бұрын
    • But they don't know that, it's just an estimate until proven.

      @ENGLISHISBEST@ENGLISHISBEST Жыл бұрын
    • @@ENGLISHISBEST I believe his "...250X" use made that clear.

      @markuse3472@markuse3472 Жыл бұрын
  • I really appreciate the style of these presentations. Very clear concise and "straight forward" Thank you Dr. Lincoln..

    @nowkentapplegate5315@nowkentapplegate53154 жыл бұрын
    • As clear as mud!

      @josephstanton4872@josephstanton4872 Жыл бұрын
    • Fog Brain's...just so "ignernt !" Lol.

      @Bob-lw2kt@Bob-lw2kt Жыл бұрын
    • Your mama, too. 🤣

      @markuse3472@markuse3472 Жыл бұрын
    • @@josephstanton4872 For the simple minds: yes! With a little education it becomes clear!

      @Guillaume2606@Guillaume2606 Жыл бұрын
  • When you consider that the furthest man has been from earth is just 1.3 light seconds... Blows my mind

    @Leo-eb1wl@Leo-eb1wl4 жыл бұрын
    • Spike Flea furriest*

      @_LilRascal_@_LilRascal_4 жыл бұрын
    • @Spike Flea thanks for that I had no idea what OP meant. /s

      @JohnSmith-im8qt@JohnSmith-im8qt4 жыл бұрын
    • But our probes went futher.

      @tnekkc@tnekkc4 жыл бұрын
    • @@tnekkc Maybe, because of our probes, we are 1.3 light seconds out. I'm no scientist, but humans have only been from the Earth to the Moon. I think that's considerably less than 1.3 light seconds.

      @brianrichard8310@brianrichard83104 жыл бұрын
    • Barry Miller this. 1.07 billion km far outweighs the 400k km round trip we’ve managed

      @marksantos834@marksantos8343 жыл бұрын
  • Fantastic video and a new subscriber. Thanks Dr. Lincoln.

    @alals6794@alals6794 Жыл бұрын
  • Absolutely perfect explanation thanks for video Dr.

    @premdeepkhatri1441@premdeepkhatri1441 Жыл бұрын
  • I have been fascinated with space since I was a child. Unfortunately I’m physics and mathematically challenged. Thanks for making this awesome knowledge understandable for people like me.

    @yolandacroes5491@yolandacroes54913 жыл бұрын
    • Yeah me too love it ive got books and books on space its just so facinating till theend of time.

      @HeavyMetalThunder180@HeavyMetalThunder1802 жыл бұрын
    • no matter how smart we are how advance we are but compared to the Universe we are nothing, the mystery of the Universe has nothing to do with math, physics but in the eyes of scientists they think that human intelligence someday may solve it, nah we are curious but at the same time we are delusional and arrogant, the mystery of this Universe is not a mathemathical problem, it is beyond our understanding

      @minhnguyen-mk9om@minhnguyen-mk9om10 ай бұрын
  • I try to measure how much I love this channel and keep coming up with infinities in my calculations! Please make more videos Dr. L! You're the BEST!

    @bruinflight1@bruinflight14 жыл бұрын
    • Have you tried quantization and renormalization?

      @suokkos@suokkos4 жыл бұрын
  • Thank you for this video. Great content!

    @dannypowell594@dannypowell594 Жыл бұрын
  • Yes it goes on forever.

    @teratokomi8731@teratokomi8731 Жыл бұрын
  • I was looking over the calculations on the chalkboard behind you and it appears you forgot to carry over the 1.

    @johnnycincocero@johnnycincocero4 жыл бұрын
    • Johnny CincoCero 😂😂😂

      @spuramshetty@spuramshetty4 жыл бұрын
    • I think that you may be correct but if you divide 1 by X-bxy the correct answer is reached ,ie the thinking explained in this video is entirely mind boggling and apart from speculating until new science is developed we can only ponder the inponderable!!

      @bhgardeners1199@bhgardeners11994 жыл бұрын
    • Dr. Jones! You funny guy! Ha! Ha! Ha!

      @johnshilling2221@johnshilling22214 жыл бұрын
    • You are all wrong ...it’s a picture of a waitress note book , taking orders in a diner

      @lena19191@lena191914 жыл бұрын
    • Johnny CincoCero Omar khayam says Our talks occurred beyond a curtain We will disappear if the curtain falls off

      @zoltankhani@zoltankhani4 жыл бұрын
  • The thing I liked the most is realistic admission that yet we don't know a great deal. Every answer presents a new query about nature.

    @mohdzikrya5396@mohdzikrya53963 жыл бұрын
  • Thanks a lot for your excellent presentation. Instructive, concise, and easy to understand. Just wonderful!

    @hassankhani2324@hassankhani2324Ай бұрын
  • Just saw your video for the first time, I AM HOOKED!

    @alancox4469@alancox4469 Жыл бұрын
  • I can watch these videos over and over cause Ill never really grasp the grandiosity of it, lol. Its just mindbending, that humans are capable of such feats. Thanks Mr Lincoln for the great moderation. :)

    @Sesso20@Sesso202 жыл бұрын
    • I come back to these videos every few years and it truly is amazing how much and how little we know at the same time. How big and how small we are. It messes with our primitive ape brains thinking about such scales

      @Fantax92@Fantax92 Жыл бұрын
    • PLEASE, show at the least, a modicum of due respect for "Professor" Lincoln.

      @wuodanstrasse5631@wuodanstrasse56319 ай бұрын
  • I think the thing that is mind blowing is not just how big it is, but that no matter which direction, you're always looking towards the beginning.

    @burnerjack01@burnerjack013 жыл бұрын
    • Yes. That's what yo momma said and I nodded in agreement 🤣

      @MarkRai-ko1sk@MarkRai-ko1sk3 жыл бұрын
  • Many thanks, great joy to watch your videos.

    @mahyar305@mahyar305 Жыл бұрын
  • Humans tend to think in terms of everything having a beginning and an end. To think that the universe just keeps going, with no end, is mind blowing.

    @davidgagliardo3258@davidgagliardo32584 жыл бұрын
    • Their are never ending universes, let that sink in.

      @JeffSpehar-ov1cn@JeffSpehar-ov1cn4 жыл бұрын
    • Coi Pansat if time is an illusion then nothing makes any more sense than anything else as you have no order of events.

      @devinerentalsltd8708@devinerentalsltd87084 жыл бұрын
    • David Gagliardo @ because the universe had a beginning we think everything has to have a beginning but I don’t think so.

      @jabibiszum6764@jabibiszum67644 жыл бұрын
    • I don't know, that it had no end seems like the natural conclusion to me. Closed just seems like a limited frame of reference.

      @devo196047@devo1960474 жыл бұрын
    • @Coi Pansat There Big bang theory seems like a local phenomenon, a simplified frame of reference.

      @devo196047@devo1960474 жыл бұрын
  • The entire video, the entire series, the entire Fermilab channel is fascinating, and we are so fortunate that you chose to share the fascination of physics with me and other physics aficionados.

    @CarolynFahm@CarolynFahm3 жыл бұрын
    • Some hints about the universe (Duniya in Arabic) are here in this video; if you have the patience, please go through it - kzhead.info/sun/lLJylMWPenatd40/bejne.html

      @zady4481@zady44813 жыл бұрын
    • He so calm and wise, is easy too learn some goodstuff

      @nixy7473@nixy74732 жыл бұрын
    • Yes. Don Lincoln has the most understandable explanations of physics.

      @TheSongDuck@TheSongDuck2 жыл бұрын
    • Of course the universe is a buble. It appears flat because of unfathomable expansion.

      @donbrunton9374@donbrunton93742 жыл бұрын
    • Carolyn, question things rather than blindly following what you hear. Read my comment above and decide for yourself.

      @zipsteri@zipsteri2 жыл бұрын
  • Awesome presentation, Dr Lincoln 😃

    @radwanparvez@radwanparvez Жыл бұрын
  • Respect Sir ! Appreciate Your knowledge in Astrophysics. Great work !

    @Sledgehammer007@Sledgehammer007 Жыл бұрын
  • i'm glad that you came back with another wonderful lesson

    @bikashthapa7316@bikashthapa73164 жыл бұрын
  • Have never ran into this channel, and just saw this in my feed, so I thought I’d give it a go. Was beyond fascinated with the science taught. You got a new sub out of me! Tyvm! Looking forward to binge watching your channel now 👍

    @fxdelusions77@fxdelusions774 жыл бұрын
    • Ha gayy

      @thatswhatithought6519@thatswhatithought65194 жыл бұрын
  • I knew this was my new favorite science series when he read my mind and knew I was immediately pondering "yo mama" jokes 🤣. Excellent series!!

    @Rumptertumskin79@Rumptertumskin79 Жыл бұрын
  • This channel is amazing. This contents should be in every school

    @dr.kingschultz@dr.kingschultz Жыл бұрын
  • This was a really good video about truly mind-bending astronomical ideas. Thank you for creating and putting this video on KZhead.

    @anthonycooper3191@anthonycooper31914 жыл бұрын
  • Dear Don, You routinely blow my mind, my mind hurts.... THANK YOU FOR THAT! I LOVE the videos! I think it's wonderful that you're doing them. And, thanks for that, too! 😊

    @stuf9164@stuf91642 жыл бұрын
  • Eight minutes? I knew that? Don't think I could pass your Monday quiz sir. I actually attended a lecture given by Carl Sagan at Cornell University. Amazing

    @markfromct2@markfromct2 Жыл бұрын
    • Admit it, Mark .... you failed miserably, didn't you. I'll bet Sagan tossed you out on your ear. 👂

      @kelleychilton2524@kelleychilton2524 Жыл бұрын
  • The most beautiful thing about the conversation is infinite possibilities, Merry Christmas!

    @robertdouglas4293@robertdouglas4293 Жыл бұрын
  • I’ve watched maybe 6-7 videos of this person. So far this is the best one, because it’s the most comprehensible one, the others not so much.

    @coevad3961@coevad39614 жыл бұрын
  • Welcome back, Doc, we missed you!

    @heliomartins6681@heliomartins66814 жыл бұрын
  • Fascinating stuff. He really does well explaining to the viewer in layman terms about a subject that most people know nothing or only a little about. Plus those of us who have a passion for learning more about life , the multiverse and everything

    @PNGPJS@PNGPJS Жыл бұрын
    • But while he was presenting this, he was forgetting Uli's goodbye cake.

      @TonyEnglandUK@TonyEnglandUK Жыл бұрын
    • Assuming that there is a 'multiverse' which is only an unproven theory, aka a guess.

      @kelleychilton2524@kelleychilton2524 Жыл бұрын
    • @MZT Then why don't you straighten it out with a video of your own? Since you've already listed his mistakes, surely you know the truth about the whole universe...right?

      @schechter01@schechter01 Жыл бұрын
    • @@mzt2929 Exactly what Einstein and many other scientists many times gave us and still do. I use Einstein as a named example due to most people being familiar with him than most other, actually better scientists.

      @markuse3472@markuse3472 Жыл бұрын
    • Very poor explanation. He didn't explain anything clearly.

      @milzijex7340@milzijex7340 Жыл бұрын
  • This stuff is above my pay grade, but you make it interesting and much simpler to understand. Thanks and subscribed.

    @ironDsteele@ironDsteele Жыл бұрын
  • Brilliantly explained! I have heard so many attempts to convey this topic and this was the most salient and clearly conveyed of them all. Well done! x

    @scottbennett9531@scottbennett95313 жыл бұрын
  • "I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.” - Douglas Adams

    @zoeherriot@zoeherriot3 жыл бұрын
  • It's really, really difficult to explain complex topics in simple terms. And to do it with wicked humor is truly enjoyable.

    @thatinventionsus@thatinventionsus Жыл бұрын
    • Boil that dust speck.

      @googleuser868@googleuser868 Жыл бұрын
  • Absolutely impressive explanation. A complex topic explained in simple words. Thank you!

    @Robelmar@Robelmar Жыл бұрын
    • The reason it's simple and that you understand it is because it's wrong. The universe is both infinite in size and age.

      @HankTrucker@HankTrucker Жыл бұрын
    • @Hank Trucker precisely, and what is more, if we are to conclude it's approximate infinity and the endkess, infinite extension of it's approximate infinity, then we must thereby conclude that it's very existence is imaginary within the confines of the space-time continuum , in the sense that it is only the moment in which we are experiencing time that actually exists and therefore since nothing is in fact real we are all at perfect liberty to take mushr⚪⚪mzZZ and LSD , with which we can experience it's existential paradoxical illusion until the cows come home to roost!

      @sirbarnabyst.johntoffingto9017@sirbarnabyst.johntoffingto9017 Жыл бұрын
    • @@HankTrucker The arrogance in many people borders on disgusting and dimwittedness. Many actually honest people find that in basic and simple terms, Occam's Razor applies to all things. "Absolutely impressive explanation. A complex topic explained in simple words" is true. You wont win this. More to come...

      @markuse3472@markuse3472 Жыл бұрын
  • Thanks for all these great vids. Fermilab is my favorite science channel! Dr. Don explains it well!

    @Pigjes@Pigjes4 жыл бұрын
  • Brilliant expose and breakdown. I love this channel to the edge of the universe...and back.

    @nachannachle2706@nachannachle27064 жыл бұрын
  • A very good and "simple" explanation of the seize of the universe, and that is very good with numbers this big 👍

    @ulrichkristensen4087@ulrichkristensen4087 Жыл бұрын
  • What I find interesting (and humbling) is that all those plants/systems/galaxies/etc. that we do see, and will never get to visit, are just the tip of the iceberg. Beyond are many, many, many more that we won't even know exist - ever.

    @goaway7346@goaway7346 Жыл бұрын
  • This channel and PBS SpaceTime give me my cosmology fix.

    @JDSleeper@JDSleeper4 жыл бұрын
  • Regardless, wherever you go in space, there you'll be.

    @TheFunkman@TheFunkman4 жыл бұрын
    • Space is everywhere.

      @roaster591@roaster5914 жыл бұрын
    • Ipse Dixit BS.

      @count7340@count73404 жыл бұрын
  • 13:22 I think you meant to say " If the universe is flat" :) You have one of my favorite YT channels thank you so much !

    @edtapia8580@edtapia85806 ай бұрын
    • No, he did mean to say that. Listen for like 30 more seconds. He's saying that, from your point of view the earth's curvature is relatively small, and so for measurements at that scale it wouldn't really matter if the earth was flat or round. You don't count the Earth's curvature into the equation, when you're using a tape measure to see if your new couch is going to fit in your living room.

      @user-ex6xc5ox3k@user-ex6xc5ox3kАй бұрын
  • 2:30 am and I'm watching a Fermilab video. Now I can't sleep and I'm supposed to wake up in another 2 hours... it's totally worth it, though.

    @michaelm1@michaelm14 жыл бұрын
    • same here 😎

      @froop2393@froop23934 жыл бұрын
  • Quantum physicist walks into a bar. Bartender says, "Weren't you here tomorrow?" Quantum physicist says, "No, but I'll be back yesterday."

    @jrdeckard3317@jrdeckard33173 жыл бұрын
    • Bartender takes long hit of 451

      @halweilbrenner9926@halweilbrenner99263 жыл бұрын
    • Bartender says, "Hey, we don't serve faster-than-light particles here!" Two tachyons walk into a bar.

      @davidh.4944@davidh.49443 жыл бұрын
    • I thought it was more like "Here's your bill? was the drink alright?". Response "Here's the money and I'll tell you once I drink it"

      @dcocz3908@dcocz39083 жыл бұрын
    • The earth is concave

      @jiml8637@jiml86373 жыл бұрын
    • A ha. Ha.

      @danal81@danal813 жыл бұрын
  • Enjoyed this, cheers!

    @Fuff63@Fuff63 Жыл бұрын
  • Excellent presentation!!!

    @pablopmp5096@pablopmp5096 Жыл бұрын
  • “Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”―Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

    @zhubajie6940@zhubajie69404 жыл бұрын
    • I was just about to post the same quote. Great minds think alike. (Or fools seldom differ.)

      @andrewbesso4257@andrewbesso42574 жыл бұрын
    • You're not lonely. This is the third of fourth time I read this quote here.

      @davidwilkinson8431@davidwilkinson84314 жыл бұрын
  • Amazing. Kudos for the simple way of explaining. It blew my mind, I always considered a closed “infinite” universe, now I have two other views to take into consideration. Congratulations!

    @CarlosSampaio1337@CarlosSampaio13373 жыл бұрын
    • Three views... And he said a closed universe NOT infinite.

      @JohnLloydScharf@JohnLloydScharf Жыл бұрын
    • @@PraiseTheLORDGodourFather Are you talking about Goldilocks or Rapunzel?

      @richardcarter5314@richardcarter5314 Жыл бұрын
  • So in other words we have no idea. Since it is to big to see if it is curved or flat all we can use to define it's size is Incomplete math equations. Still great lecture.

    @keithmcdonald7256@keithmcdonald7256 Жыл бұрын
  • Fascinating thought processes!

    @alvinmick218@alvinmick2185 ай бұрын
  • I've always liked this channel. Very well done.

    @2serveand2protect@2serveand2protect Жыл бұрын
  • Don Lincoln knows how to explain the complicated in simple and visual terms. He's brilliant and I love his videos.

    @bcflyer99@bcflyer994 жыл бұрын
  • Absolutely the size of the universe is measurable, the problem is Stanley just hasn’t made a tape measure big enough yet. Until then this was a great video! Thanks

    @stroys7061@stroys70614 жыл бұрын
    • Michael Collins my humor is extremely low.

      @codylujan@codylujan4 жыл бұрын
    • Lufkin "universal" tape measure? www.homedepot.com/p/Lufkin-Universal-Lightweight-3-8-in-x-50-ft-Hi-Viz-Long-Steel-Tape-Measure-HV15CME/205223239

      @markburch6253@markburch62534 жыл бұрын
    • if you could make tape measure as fast as speed of light then space would be faster expanding than you could make it. If you could make it faster than expanding of the universe you might eventually see your tape measure reach you behind you and touching your back while you are rolling it forward faster than universe expanding.

      @TheAmethyz@TheAmethyz4 жыл бұрын
    • TheAmethyz The faster I read that comment the more sense it makes.

      @stroys7061@stroys70614 жыл бұрын
    • @@stroys7061 My text sometimes is as hard to understand as quantum physics. But that makes it exciting for me to figure out what the hell i said when i read it myself.

      @TheAmethyz@TheAmethyz4 жыл бұрын
  • Totally enjoy the presentation and the presenter. So informative. Ok, so now what is on the other side of the edge of the universe?

    @dmbabiy@dmbabiy Жыл бұрын
    • That is the $64,000 question dm. Heaven? Hell? Another universe? A so-called 'multiverse'? Nothingness? Good question .... and one that could drive a sane person nuts just contemplating it .... good thing I'm half nuts to begin with. 😂🤣

      @kelleychilton2524@kelleychilton2524 Жыл бұрын
  • I was expecting him at the start to go all Hitchhiker's Guide on us. "Space is big, really big. You won't believe how enormously big it is. You may think it's a long walk down the street to the chemist. But that's just peanuts compared to space. Listen..."

    @nowthatsjustducky@nowthatsjustducky4 жыл бұрын
    • YOU SEE IT TOO.

      @joinfranknow@joinfranknow3 жыл бұрын
    • "Then it starts to settle down."

      @Sootaroot@Sootaroot3 жыл бұрын
    • Just ducky - the answer to the equations on the chalkboard is 42.

      @navret1707@navret17073 жыл бұрын
    • @@navret1707 Well, belgium.

      @nowthatsjustducky@nowthatsjustducky3 жыл бұрын
  • Hooked on the vids Big D. Wish they came out more often.

    @gwyllymsuter4551@gwyllymsuter45514 жыл бұрын
  • Brilliant video…well done by excellent presenter !

    @gailblissitt4504@gailblissitt4504 Жыл бұрын
  • excellent and accessible presentation.

    @Gamla123@Gamla123 Жыл бұрын
  • When you get to the end of the internet, you are almost there.

    @garyK.45ACP@garyK.45ACP4 жыл бұрын
    • the internet is infinite..

      @brianping3105@brianping31054 жыл бұрын
    • @@brianping3105 The internet is a Cul De Sac.

      @garyK.45ACP@garyK.45ACP4 жыл бұрын
    • Internet is bigger than the universe

      @yamchagodofdestruction6327@yamchagodofdestruction63274 жыл бұрын
    • @@yamchagodofdestruction6327 Depends. Which of the internets are you talking about?

      @garyK.45ACP@garyK.45ACP4 жыл бұрын
    • @flatearthlogic dot net YOU are the evidence I needed to prove that the price of admission to the internet is WAY too low.

      @garyK.45ACP@garyK.45ACP4 жыл бұрын
  • Amazing lecturer. We often hear these facts being quoted, but to explain how we *know* them to be true without endless reams of mathematical proofs and in terms most people can understand, is a real gift

    @carpii@carpii4 жыл бұрын
  • Where can i pick up one of those Einstein Tee's you're wearing? Knowing where and how would make me infinitely happy to do so. Thanks and Happy New Year 2023.

    @jessedylan6162@jessedylan6162 Жыл бұрын
  • I might have missed it but do the small variations on temperature of the universe take into account the high temps of stars?

    @ryanbenson4610@ryanbenson4610 Жыл бұрын
  • Fascinating facts in a beautiful and easy to understand style. Thank you Mr Dan. I also love the intriguing novels of your name sake, Mr Dan Brown.

    @nomanvardag1@nomanvardag14 жыл бұрын
  • Fascinating but completely incomprehensible to me. I'm thankful that I came across this video because now I have a place I can go to learn as much about the universe that I'm capable of learing.

    @neilphelan145@neilphelan1453 жыл бұрын
    • Incomprehensible is a mighty long word. It’s got 5 more letters than mockingbird. All I know is is the fact that God cannot be boxed in nor can He be boxed out. But He did give us the abilities to measure stuff.

      @soldtobediers@soldtobediers Жыл бұрын
    • @@soldtobediers as it’s been said before ,science is the discovery of God mind.

      @charlesx593@charlesx593 Жыл бұрын
    • @@soldtobediers You can't be that foolish, that you believe some sort of god has anything to do with this! god is just invented by humans that couldn't understand how some natural events took place. Things that we now can explain were very difficult to understand in the old days. For instance: A rainbow was supposed to be a sign of god that there would never be a deluge again! That deluge never happened anyway, that;s completely impossible, there has never been that much water on earth, so where did it come from and where went it after the so called deluge?

      @Guillaume2606@Guillaume2606 Жыл бұрын
    • @@Guillaume2606 Young Earth Creation

      @soldtobediers@soldtobediers Жыл бұрын
    • @@Guillaume2606 kzhead.info/sun/mLqoaNatsKh-lKs/bejne.html

      @soldtobediers@soldtobediers Жыл бұрын
  • This is a very good explination.

    @jamesfwhalen9285@jamesfwhalen928510 ай бұрын
  • Mind blowing that an actual calculation can be made - but what is on the other side of the edge?

    @bostonaudi@bostonaudi Жыл бұрын
    • Heaven? Hell? Multiverse? Nothingness? Pink Floyd?

      @kelleychilton2524@kelleychilton2524 Жыл бұрын
  • You have that special talent to explain complex subjects in a more easy way to understand ! That is sure a gift Dr. Lincoln... I enjoy a lot to watch your video''s here ! Thank you !

    @roypruysvdhoeven1855@roypruysvdhoeven1855 Жыл бұрын
    • Did your son write this? Careful not to say dad!

      @josephstanton4872@josephstanton4872 Жыл бұрын
  • This helped me understand so much better thx I think this is my 2nd or 3rd watch over the months but it clicked more each watch. Sometimes it takes me awhile lol

    @brandonscottwallace@brandonscottwallace4 жыл бұрын
  • Talking about all that lightyears, light days and the rest got me thinking and confused too. You could do a video on if there was no black holes would the universe be bright or flooded with light? Would be worth a watch.

    @xizilionyizzexeliqer3897@xizilionyizzexeliqer3897 Жыл бұрын
  • Thank you sir!

    @Mike-nt9sx@Mike-nt9sx Жыл бұрын
  • This was the best explanation of the cosmic microwave background. I think I finally understand it. Might have to watch it a few more times though :)

    @hammer86_@hammer86_4 жыл бұрын
    • Its not actually very hard to understand, to put it as simple as possible, its residue of "cosmic explosion" but the thing that im not sure is how they(people who made instruments) knew that what they see is measure of microwave from "big bang" and not some "other" cosmic event that instruments measured.

      @milosstojanovic4623@milosstojanovic46234 жыл бұрын
    • @@milosstojanovic4623 because it is omnipresent!!

      @keepcalm7453@keepcalm74534 жыл бұрын
    • I’m surprised no one has come out with a microwave oven branded “Cosmic” 😀

      @dewiz9596@dewiz95964 жыл бұрын
    • Milos Stojanovic, it’s all theoretical garb and it’s actually deception because they act like they have enough evidence to act like their theories are logical...

      @Spark-In-The-Dark@Spark-In-The-Dark4 жыл бұрын
    • @@Spark-In-The-Dark Yeah it really sucks when a presenter talks as if what he's saying is fact. When he could have a more honest tone and it'd still be just as interesting.

      @Newshustle@Newshustle4 жыл бұрын
  • Great detail and explanation. Thank you

    @rositahl@rositahl4 жыл бұрын
  • Question: If you were at the absolute edge of the universe. facing 180 degrees away from the center and took a step forward, Where would you be?

    @mrcrankshaft2000@mrcrankshaft2000 Жыл бұрын
    • In deep sh*t.

      @kelleychilton2524@kelleychilton2524 Жыл бұрын
  • When you measure those heat-spots, do you have to correct for gravitational lensing?

    @duncanfisher2986@duncanfisher2986 Жыл бұрын
    • No

      @kelleychilton2524@kelleychilton2524 Жыл бұрын
  • I finally understand. Well explained Don.

    @abidnaqvi8485@abidnaqvi84854 жыл бұрын
  • I enjoyed this, learned something, thank you.

    @houseofpain3580@houseofpain35804 жыл бұрын
  • I don't know much about this but it seems to me that if the universe has an edge, then it isn't an Universe.

    @mrchickene1805@mrchickene1805 Жыл бұрын
  • it will be interesting to hear how the quantic mechanics affects all these experiments and calculation, as an observer of the experiment we know that will always affect the outcome

    @BeyondGabi@BeyondGabi Жыл бұрын
  • I’m pretty sure that he is saying that “Objects in mirror may be closer than they appear.” Still like the explanation though.

    @steve-o5859@steve-o58594 жыл бұрын
  • "How far is the edge of the universe?".... just over that hill up there....

    @jasonking1284@jasonking12843 жыл бұрын
    • not less than 11375 billion light years away.

      @inverse2k1@inverse2k13 жыл бұрын
    • "In the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but if you want to make good people do wicked things, you’ll need religion." Hutchins. Just thought I would preemptively attach this universal fact to this content just in case there were some ignorant loonies about.

      @phreepharrah9893@phreepharrah98933 жыл бұрын
    • A very tall and icy hill that all the governments of the world keep people away from 😄 🤣 😂

      @highlysuspiciousnews8641@highlysuspiciousnews86413 жыл бұрын
    • Who is to say there's an edge, anyway? 🧐😎

      @ZeHoSmusician@ZeHoSmusician3 жыл бұрын
    • @@ZeHoSmusician you know who

      @highlysuspiciousnews8641@highlysuspiciousnews86413 жыл бұрын
  • It's amazing how philosophers like Aristotle and Ayn Rand have reached the same conclusions. Brilliant individuals!

    @BuFFoTheArtClown@BuFFoTheArtClown2 ай бұрын
  • The edge of the universe is closer than my understanding of it.

    @shawnchaudry2126@shawnchaudry21264 жыл бұрын
    • Assuming we are not in the center of the universe is the distance different in every direction.?

      @robpagan1@robpagan14 жыл бұрын
    • Infinity + infinity + infinity + 1

      @robpagan1@robpagan14 жыл бұрын
    • What’s outside the universe that it is expanding into? Empty vacant lot?

      @robpagan1@robpagan14 жыл бұрын
    • @@robpagan1 Either an empty vacant lot not yet filled with matter or a very puzzling "non-existence", as space itself is being stretched along with the expansion of matter and energy (as a side note, space itself -or rather spacetime as we would be more correct in calling it- is pretty interesting even if void of usual matter and energy, as it is still home to quantum fluctuations that can generate particles from nothing. That is a concept I still have to deeply understand and wrap my mind around). The Universe thus would be a growing bubble of sorts, not necessarily round per se but an enclosed space; all of this geometry mentioned here and in the video happening at more dimensions than we as humans can visualize (and the number of which is still being debated by scientists). This whole universal system is possibly happening in a several-dimensional "sea" of Universes (in which Universes "happen": are born, grow and end -maybe interact?- in a realm where time as we know it either doesn't exist at all or exists interacting with any number of yet unknown forces and energies through these additional dimensions in ways that we can't possibly conceive any time soon). The Existence is awesome!

      @thomasgeise5745@thomasgeise57454 жыл бұрын
    • Nice

      @mechanicjobs@mechanicjobs4 жыл бұрын
  • This channel is so freaking awesome 😂😍😍, best physics Prof.

    @obadzayed4186@obadzayed41863 жыл бұрын
  • 5:48 What I don't understand is how does one measure the temperature of space? I imagine that there was far more material dispersed throughout space, so one measures the temperature of that material, right? So it's not the temperature of space but little bits of stuff we're calling material. What am I missing? And how can one measure empty space. There's no material there to register a temperature, no?

    @salassian3162@salassian3162 Жыл бұрын
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