It's interesting to follow along with this upgrade process for the camera and associated equipment to support it. While watching the cryo camera teardown, I was at first shocked to see the size of the electrical power conductors for such low power. That is, until I realized they need to be that large to minimize heat production in that cold of an environment with low thermal gradients.

You could put the laser array on the dark side of the moon. So it's not pointing at the earth.

COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

why not doing all this in a cleanroom?

Thanks to KZbin, I am down the rabbit hole to figure out what interference they are trying to overcome with the He-3 cryo upgrade…

Great channel, keep posting- you'll get traction soon!

I can imagine the ire of whatever engineer had to re-run all their FEA on the wall of the cryostat after the marketing department asked "hey, can we just have more space for the HPD logo on the side?"

What do you think will be the greatest discovery EVER ?? PS -what is the CNC milling machine behind you ?

well color me surprised - a realist visionary

I think the Lazer is S Tier

How about the nuclear salt-water rocket (NSWR)

“It doesn’t get you to another star, it gets a copy of you to another star…” picking a fight with philosophers! :)

Im just a layman, but I think your list is closer to what I would expect. I forget the exact specification of the problem. Travel in our lifetime for example would rule out a pretty reasonable option of just getting really good at tooling around our solar system, mastering fusion for life support and self-sufficiency, then settling the Oort cloud, converting dwarf planets to ocean worlds under eggshells of ice, then any passing rogue planet and so on. My pet idea* for travel in a human lifespan is some sort of "slightly smart" macron beam directed against a magnetic sail that can also slow you down at the other end... but I was assuming something like those starshot sails could work. In any case each particle has to be able to adjust trajectory by some tiny amount to stay on target over vast distances. *Im not claiming to be the first to have thought of this :)

Nice video overall but stating that wormholes don't exist is flat out incorrect. There is enough theory to suggest that they are possible. I would have accepted the issues that come with that method which are: 1. How do we create one. 2. Passing safely in and out. 3. Even if we manage to solve the above problems it would still require human activity at both ends of the wormhole which makes it non viable for exploration but perfectly viable for transport between places we have already reached.

I was thinkng though: Perhaps a solar sail is a good way to slow down when entereing a solar system? That is, a solar drouge parachute.

As for wormholes, as I understand it, tehy could naturalyl exist but they aren't possible to create (snce they required negative energy to keep open). The problemis that even if there are those rare natural ones, it's not like they'll lead you where you want to go, so wherever you pop out on the other side, you still need a drive to get you from there to somewhere useful, which is certianly nowhere close by.

It would seem to me that an Alcubierre drive makes a much better weapon of mass destruction than a way to travel. As I understand it, it would produce a gravitational shockwave powerful enough to destroy anything in its path, including entire planets.

Hey genius guy. If you were smart, aka a subscriber to Issac Arthur on KZbin, you'd know ANY SPACE CRAFT capable of a small fraction of C aka an interstellar engine is also a doomsday weapon that is more powerful than the Tsar bomb. Hence your critique of a 100gw laser being "politically impossible" means by your logic ALL INTERSTELLAR engines are thusly too politically charged to be allowed to exist. Because any craft can simply fly out to Mars, slingshot back, and crash into your enemy's country at a fraction of C with the engines at max thrust. You could wipe out China or Russia end to end with a single ship, can even be unmanned. It's simple Newtonian physics in case you want to look into it. The grand irony of all you scientists is you claim such high IQs yet I'm ever disappointed. You, and every other "well paid genius" have FAILED TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF THE 9.8m/s GRAVITY WELL PRISON WE CALL Earth. The hairless ape called "man" still clings to chemical rockets to escape Earth's gravity, a punishingly ineffective and utterly braindead way to attain orbit. Aka, the tyranny of the rocket equation! What do the hairless apes do? Do they make new technology and forsake ancient tools that simple math proves inadequate to explore the stars?? NO! NOT AT ALL! The mighty hairless ape instead creates THE WORLDS BIGGEST CHEMICAL ROCKET! So complete is the genius of the hairless ape that he can conceive of nothing new and unique, "just make it bigger!" The hairless ape screams, his fists overflowing with worthless cotton rectangles. But alas building the ancient rocket bigger didn't work...the hairless apes are proven wrong and the ancient tyrannical chemical rocket does nothing, besides spin randomly,.then explode... so you'll forgive me dear sir for laughing at you both. Two learned men of science listing what engines you'll use to explore the stars when you've got no means to escape your own gravity well. 🫢🤭 Of course, I could tell you how, I've told many. Problem is no one cares, too busy worshipping some hairless ape with a Twitter addiction who scams people for a living. The tragic fate of the hairless ape, trapped in the gravity well by their own ignorance and stupidity. 😅

Speaking of particle accelerator propulsion, there was a man named Robert Duncan enzmann who envisioned a particle accelerator drive called the “enzmann echolance.” The story behind it is pretty cool.

Using a fairies graphic to represent negative mass gave me a good chuckle.

Are you really that high in elevation you need supplemental oxygen while working? Or is it just a precautionary measure?

Those blue crates will outlive every instrument they ship....truly my greatest contribution to the field.

Hunting boxes at the Subaru telescope

I love this series, please do more. Spicy suggestion: coronagraph tier list

Thanks, I found this to be very informative.

This was a great episode! Looking forward to Hawaii!

Congratulations to jenny for a really cool thesis defence,so that's what it's like!! I wont be in that position myself! But i have an understanding of rf circuitry,and fourier transforms,and i understand basics of fpgas, it was completely comprehendable,many phds talk in greek.. What a diverse skillset,she deserves her doctorate,she put in a hell of a lot of work. Well done her.

Hmmm..... Thanks for this video!.. Does geophysics dark energy evidence from Professor Mary Fowler's PREM chart tweak your, or one of your grad student's interest?? ... Will call... an azimuth-like liquid nitrogen experiment could really compliment Fowler's PREM chart data - and its suggestion of a dark energy discovery!.....again will call in August.

yippie

Invent a device that integrated into the human brain that enables us to seamless multitasking, invent a device that integrated into the human brain that activates 100 percent neuron in the human brain,invent a device that integrated into the human brain that provides us a ability to fly in sky,invent a device that integrated into the human brain that prevents overthinking side effects like migraine, heart pain, testestoren level low in male, memory power loss in male,acid reflux etc and invent a device that integrated into the human brain that prevents stress, anxiety, depression side effects like migraine, heart pain,hernia disease chance increase, periods problem, memory power loss,invent a device that integrated into the human brain that prevents late night sleep side effects like migraine, obesity, anxiety,dark circles in eye,low eyesight etc.

So exciting!

Is that shop at UCSB? I’ve never seen that monarch before

Now this is the content I come to KZbin for. Congratulations Dr Smith.

Congratulations Dr. Smith 🎉

I don’t even know why I'm watching this, but i love it 💯

This is honestly one of the most interesting things I've seen in a long time. From the 'basic' principle of the sensor's operation to the signal processing and RF plumbing in between; any one of the topics would be well worth a watch. Inspiring stuff :)

🎉i love your content

Funding agencies next

I heard that snl hottest club reference 😂

as a physics student specializing in cosmology, "astronomy is the study of the universe. Since physics happens in the universe, it is clearly a subfield of astronomy" got me hard

why did i get an ad for this 😭

It's funny because it's true lol

I'm convinced that most of Quantum information is founded upon the most powerful feature of quantum mechanics: a heap of buzzwords that generate limitless funding, and will confused Big Tech VIPs but assure them you must be very smart and visionary indeed.

Yes please make a astrophysics tier list. It will be helpful as i want to pursue astrophysics as my major :)

You speak truth: Physics is a subset of astronomy, as are cosmology, astrophysics, asteiroseismolgy, astrobiology, cosmo chemistry and the like. This is a welcome change to the last decades of these sub-sets of astronomy being presented as somehow domains of physics. None of astronomy is experimental. Or, more correctly, all of it is. Astronomy is one of the Natural Sciences like geology, biology, anthropology, etc.

As a biophysicist... when I heard S tier... HELL YEA! But can guarantee there's not as much money as on that photo!

Jenny is an "Old Crow". (EW reference.)

Spent time doing experimental Condensed Matter Physics, magnetic stuff, in Academia. I've been frolicking through electromagnetic fields as a Microwave Engineer for 20+ years.

Loved this! I would definitely love to see that astro tier list. I do agree that biophysics and quantum information seems to be the best places to be (objectively). But I can still hope that one day we’ll find those supersymmetric particles (at this point high temperature low pressure superconductors are more likely though 😅).

This was a complete Howl... Lol