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[@jwb932]

Here's an interesting note on the discovery of Neptune: Leverrier had misjudged its mass, and his math describing its orbit was wrong as a result. However, by coincidence, the predicted orbit overlapped with the actual orbit in the 1840s, allowing Galle to see it. This overlap only occurs once every 200 years.

[@E4439Qv5]

It is as they say about a broken clock.

[@mensrea1251]

In life, sometimes it’s better to be lucky than skilled.

[@stephaniecarrow4898]

Wow. There is something to be said for coincidence. Makes me wonder how much longer it would have taken to discover Neptune if coincidence had not played a part.

[@bacicinvatteneaca]

So, when he was wrong he got lucky and they found it anyway, and when he was right he got unlucky and it was the underlying understanding of the physical world that everyone had always held which was inconceivably wrong.

[@AurioDK]

@@mensrea1251 Penicillin was a lucky turn of events, sometimes science gives you a boon.

[@ravenlord4]

I guess Pluto got off lucky, as it only got cancelled. Vulcan got erased.

[@Totalinternalreflection]

Pluto did not get "cancelled", it's still a planet, it's just correctly described as a dwarf planet.

[@CarlosSpicyWang]

@@Totalinternalreflection It's a joke genius

[@ravenlord4]

@@CarlosSpicyWang I guess it is still too soon for some people ;)

[@kennyutoob]

@@CarlosSpicyWang oh it's _a joke??_ Now I know, I shall laugh. Ha ha ha ha. That was fun.

[@CarlosSpicyWang]

@@kennyutoob Good for you. Have a non existent planet cookie.

[@shelby3822]

Finding Neptune within an hour is just nuts

[@richardcalf8337]

give that man a bells

[@pressaltf4forfreevbucks179]

Ongod. I mean its bound to be found on the ecliptic so you know more or less where to look but still extremely impressive

[@orangutex468]

they found irregularities in the orbit of uranus which is why they found neptune so quickly

[@Droidzi]

80% researching/planning, 20% doing

[@BrianEthridge-wk6hz]

How they found Pluto when they did blows my mind and how they didn't even know it was a binary planetary system until recently! I saw the chart on how they discovered Charon. Pluto was a little blip and then it had a little blip smaller than it added to its on the side. The whole thing was barely two or three pixils

[@DrNothing23]

My favorite part of this story is how the astrologers quickly added Vulcan to their charts and 'readings' during the short period that it "existed", then quietly removed it and all of it's magical influence on our lives, afterward... GOOD JOB!

[@Salamandra40k]

AstroNOMERS, who study AstroNOMY!!! Astrologists* are the ones who think constellations and tarot cards tell your future. They are not scientists

[@illbeV]

On the biggest Italian tv channel, during a traditional end-of-year recap in December 2019, a famous astrologist predicted the next one would be a particularly favourable year for 'travelling and catching up with distant family'...

[@emreyurtseven23]

Of course they did, being charlatan pieces of sh*t they are...

[@Roin_robin87]

@@illbeV wow, oppisite

[@jinarose5374]

@@illbeV astrologers on TV give a bad name. Anyone who actually studies astrology would know in 2020-2021 North Node was in Cancer/Gemini, it does not favour travel at all.

[@rodrigodiazdevivar6183]

Actually in 1846 there was "8" planets. Ceres, the now dwarf planet (discovered in 1801) was considered a planet during that time period.

[@alrightyru]

Oh I didn't know

[@KingdomOfSaulo]

im pretty sure that was like the year Ceres was demoted to an asteroid or somt

[@ThePixelated_kris]

In that time period there were 11 planets Neptune wasn’t discovered yet but ceres Pallas Juno and vesta were all considered planet’s because of there orbit.

[@noahway13]

Ackshually... 🤓

[@ThePixelated_kris]

@@noahway13 is that supposed to be me

[@resQfurppl]

it’s amazing that in the 1800’s, way before computers or calculators that these geniuses figured out so much about the universe it totally blows my mind! 🤯

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Calculators and computers were people ... and telescopes had been in wide use for a couple hundred years.

[@nagualdesign]

It's amazing that people figured out how to make mechanical and then electronic computers.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

@@nagualdesign An abacus is a calculator.

[@nagualdesign]

@@RideAcrossTheRiver I'm not sure what your point is, but yes, an abacus is a kind of calculator.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

@@nagualdesign A mechanical calculator.

[@sugarmatty338]

I came for a planet that apparently did not exist but I left with life lessons. Amazing work as usual, keep it up!

[@TIMEtoRIDE900]

Spock came from Vulcan. Kirk dated Spock's Vulcan sister but broke up with her... She had a Vulcan attitude !

[@ioneldobrin6613]

Read and inform

[@tomrumler3577]

@@TIMEtoRIDE900 ... Kirk dated everyones'sisters....

[@virginiawolfe2581]

@@tomrumler3577 and some of the 'brothers', apparently

[@DiggitySlice]

What life lessons?

[@JosePineda-cy6om]

Vulcan vs Neptune vs Special Relativity is a classical example used when studying epystemology, of how when confronted by an anomaly in the data, scientists typically try first to solve it within the then currently accepted paradigm, by twitching here or there. Sometimes this works (as with Neptune), sometimes it doesn't (Vulcan). When too many anomalies start to gather, it's time to take a step back and check out new paradigms, that map yield results from an unexpected place

[@Lb00gie90]

Thomas Kuhn, the Structure of Scientific Revolutions

[@andrewferguson5992]

Someone needs to do this with wave-particle duality, or more broadly with the question of UFT

[@jamesrodgers3132]

Vulcan was the dark matter/energy of its day.

[@pacevy3798]

@@jamesrodgers3132 nah, maybe for dark matter. But not for dark energy, since we can measure dark energy

[@kamion53]

In a way the same kind of assumption nowadays is in play for the excistance of planet X; the massive planet supposed to exist in the outer reagons of the solar system and influencing the orbits of the Kuiperbelt objects like Pluto, Sedna, Eris, Haumea of Makemake. There could be such a planet, but it also could be an idea-fix based on calculations.

[@Aztesticals]

I like to hope that it may be more likely as many simulations of system formation show many bodies from 0.5-8x earth mass getting ejected out of the inner system early in life. With so many perhaps one was also turned by another protoplanet into a far elliptic orbit instead of an escape one

[@Emdee5632]

As is often the case, many people confuse Planet X with Planet Nine. PX was supposed to be the planet perturbing the orbit of Neptune. When Voyager 2 made its 1989 flyby, they were able to do very precise measurements of its mass. It turned out that the mass estimates in the 19th century were a bit off. There was no need for a hypothetical planet, and that was the end of PX. Planet Nine is ANOTHER hypothetical planet and is supposed to influence orbits of Kuiper belt objects. Brown & Batygin and their team who had run the simulation program are convinced P9 exists - we'll see what happens...

[@cykkm]

“In a way the same kind of assumption” - if you're referring to the Batygin-Brown model, it's entirely different. Minor GR correction to the orbit of Mercury vs. a dozen of very obviously perturbed orbits (perfectly Newtonian, just very much out of expected alignment) explainable by a simple, although quite unconventional prediction of a planet on an unusual orbit. We observe a lot of quite weird orbit in multi-star systems. This is not at all prompting for a radical revision of gravity. You want gravity that changes over time, for it obviously perturbed these orbits in the past, but does not perturb them any more? But then did not affect other planets at the same time, so that gravity varies not only in time but from place to place, all within the gravity well of the Sun¹? That's too far-fetched. A past encounter with a massive body is a much simpler explanation for the orbits of the transplutonian objects. Computational models match-and these are many orders of magnitude more precise, multi-body computer simulations, compared to the simplistic Vulcan model in the 19c. Sorry about killing your idea on the spot, but just no. :) _____________ ¹ There _are_ models that attempt to correct GR in the very weak gravity limit, to get rid of dark matter, that stubbornly refuses to get detected. Nothing even close to solid math yet, but this is where we need to keep our minds open. But not in the Solar System, please.

[@zimriel]

Sedna is the only one of those orbits which is thought to be influenced by Planet Nine

[@kamion53]

@@cykkm baseline is: oddities in an orbit of a planet or celestial body led to speculations of another celestial body . It worked in the case of Neptune, it did not work in the case of Vulcan, and it might work or might not work in the case of planet X.

[@paintMonkey_]

I genuinely thought I saw Vulcan transitioning the Sun once, through a fog. Turned out to be a significant blind spot on my retina.

[@tonygoochafanchi578]

This brings back memories of the movie “far side of the sun” where a sister earth exists on the opposite side of the sun and always out of our line of sight

[@alrightyru]

The other day I was driving past someone and there was a light post in our way. The person was hidden from me as I drove past, the pole was in the way where I couldn't see them.. just like that!

[@noahway13]

@@alrightyru WTF?

[@brucelucasjr5856]

@@alrightyru Not exactly. You knew the person was there, you saw part of them. He's saying we never even catch a glimpse or shadow of the sister Earth so we never knew it even existed. I've always wondered what's on the dark side of the moon

[@TreeStump-and-CheeseKetchupIT]

@@brucelucasjr5856 There's actually no dark side of the Moon. What we envision as dark is just the side that's always facing away from Earth. We can't see it from Earth so our instinct is to think of it as dark, but it's often illuminated by the Sun -- during a solar eclipse would be the most obvious example where the Sun is shining directly on it. There are many images of the other side of the moon available online although it's basically made of the same stuff as the side that faces Earth. No secret alien moon base or anything 😥

[@davidmorris8319]

​@@alrightyru except the light post is a mllion times larger than the other person

[@FlyinZX10R]

Vulcan was a founding member of both the Coalition of Planets in 2155 and the United Federation of Planets in 2161. 🖖

[@pearl-pf6xz]

🖖

[@Australian_Made]

🖖

[@carlos_2121]

Um it hasn't even been 2100 yet😂😂😂

[@pacevy3798]

@@carlos_2121 r/wooooosh

[@zbengman]

🖖

[@domenicobulzis4397]

Yes. PLEASE more videos on speculated planets/moons (Neith, Lilith, Phaeton etc.)

[@ngocgiabaophan3704]

Maybe about Planet 9 too

[@BipoIarbear]

There's 2 they found vertically orbiting the solar system close to Neptune, niku an another I forget

[@chocobear4078]

​@Jinx now I'm getting this mental image of a giant sphere of meat in our solar system

[@dpterminusreal]

phaeton was a planet hypothesized to have torn apart, which formed the asteroid belt. it was not a moon

[@feyaia]

"Sometimes we want something too much, but we find it anyway, whether it’s really there or not." That, of the whole video, stuck with me.

[@JohnnyAngel8]

Known as confirmation bias.

[@burtknighten4438]

Is anything a better example than love?

[@swflracing]

“The truth does not need our fervor, it will prove itself” . That’s truth, gospel or whatever you want to call it

[@RoundShades]

Every relationship I ever had be like...

[@longtailgt]

I love how you changed the genre of music to match the video! Going classical instead of your usual electronic/ space ambient music.

[@astrumspace]

It seemed fitting! And I think it worked quite well!

[@reyndimensions2180]

Makes me wonder if we're experiencing something similar with dark energy/matter and all we need is an even deeper understanding of the universe

[@barbarafogle3541]

Our problem is that our math is flawed and that effects every thing we try and explain. In the past we used observation more that theory. Mass and gravity are just theories that break down when trying to explain what we actually can see.

[@sparking023]

dark energy/matter are complicated because they're not easy to measure and/or observe, hence their name. both venues are currently being explored: a model that predicts dark matter/energy, but for that you have to get evidence of it existing, which is the entire problem; or other models that do away with them and propose another underlying mechanism for the laws of our universe. an example would be string theory, or M theory, which is a very elegant and concise solution, but the problem with those is also finding hard evidence of such constructs. In sum, we can't completely check the quantum world, neither the far distant deep space, at least with current technology.

[@karalyzel3177]

@@sparking023 it’s difficult not to question our math when it comes to these theories. The whole gimmick of dark matter and dark energy is that it isn’t observable, similarly to quantum theory. I really enjoy the math and effort going into them, don’t get me wrong, but it really sounds like a physicist got drunk one night and said, “Our equation is wrong because of an unobservable force!”, and that joke was taken as the leading theory. The James Webb telescope has disproven many things we thought we knew about the early universe, and left others in question. We need better instruments and new approaches, not to write off things failing to add up on invisible problems. And hey, maybe I’m totally wrong, dark matter and quantum theory are really, really cool concepts. And I’d love for them to be true. It’s just hard to say 1+1=4 because of a 2 that if you observe doesn’t exist anymore.

[@sparking023]

@@karalyzel3177 it's funny because a lot of scientific discoveries were made precisely because something wasn't adding up and then they looked further into it. but I admit that I too feel like a lot of scientists are "making up" formulae and throwing it on the wall to see what sticks. It's not the most refined approach, but in theory, if you try everything, eventually you'll arrive at the correct answer and you're also correct in the difficulty in confirming those theories. I think that until we develop a way to get out there and check those galaxies, we'll never have a definitive answer as to why they're acting weird. That or someone lands a verifiable theory of Modified Gravity

[@karalyzel3177]

@@sparking023 Definitely! Either way we have lots to look forward to!

[@jaimecohen5616]

“Sometimes when we want something too much, we find it regardless of whether it’s really there or not…” This is such a powerful statement! We can be blinded by what we wish were there and by doing so miss out on what really is.

[@Monody512]

"The truth does not need our fervor" is a fantastically poetic line.

[@LuisAFlorit]

Beautiful video Alex, thanks a lot. Yet, it is not Special relativity that implies the drift in the orbit of Mercury, but General relativity (the one that actually appeared in 1915).

[@directoryerror6653]

For clarity special relativity is about the speed of light being the same for all observers (and physics is invariant to motion), general relativity explains gravity as a consequence of this

[@AstronAndry]

@@directoryerror6653 Thank you!

[@altrag]

Yeah, Alex referenced it correctly (and even put up a graphic with the correct 1915 paper's title page) but then started saying special relativity later. A bit of a odd flub.

[@pauljs75]

Wouldn't be too surprised if they saw "the anomaly" which is a circular dip in the photosphere that is sometimes associated with solar prominences. That thing can be mistaken for a planet, because it occurs further out from the sun unlike the usual sun spots. (It's probably something to do with magnetic fields that happens to clear out a void or cool off the gases inside it and makes it dark enough to look like an object orbiting the sun.) It's still a kind of weird phenomenon, as it doesn't happen too frequently and brings up a lot of speculation when it gets spotted.

[@chaseviolinsandbows]

"If you want something so much you'll find it there regardless of whether it is really there or not." Good line. Reminds me of everything astrophysicians call dark.

[@brianbrengle9933]

Alex, It would be nice if you made a video on how, where and when the imaginative planet Nibiru came on the scene and invaded the world of space conspiracies. Im sure that video, if made by you, would certainly raise much banter.

[@dull_demon4717]

better question: what is Nibiru?

[@CHRB-nn6qp]

​​@@dull_demon4717 Nibiru is a planet that was proposed to be the homeworld of the Anunnaki of ancient Sumerian mythology. This is based purely on the mistranslations of ancient Sumerian texts by Zechariah Sitchin, in an attempt to prove that aliens had visited earth in the past. Despite his 'translations' being heavily critisised by actual Sumerian scholars, they were still accepted by ancient alien conspiracy theorists, largely because it lined up with their beliefs.

[@dull_demon4717]

@@CHRB-nn6qp ooh gotcha

[@picklep9812]

I like how you seem so sure of your intelligence

[@ticler]

Nibiru conspiracy videos were fun to watch in early youtube days.

[@brianbrengle9933]

Thank you for this video on Vulcan. I haven't paid much attention to talk about Vulcan in years. Thank you for educating me on its place in history.

[@mark6302]

as someone who struggled with it i cant comprehend what its like to be so good at math you discover a planet

[@Magneticlaw]

So the planet Vulcan is like the Sasquatch of celestial bodies - everywhere and nowhere all at once.

[@TheRealNormanBates]

Could there be a Schrodinger’s Sasquatch?

[@sparking023]

nah, that's more like Planet X

[@synthetictruth671]

The fact that ancient civilizations had thoroughly mapped the planets just always peaks the interest what all has been lost to time

[@badpiggies988]

The Sumerians were around when woolly mammoths weren’t fully extinct yet and the Pacific Northwest was still permafrosted over- and that’s just the oldest civilization we have any surviving record of, agriculture has been around since around 10,000 years ago when we were only starting to turn wolves into dogs.

[@synthetictruth671]

@@badpiggies988 my question is when is the war that the dark ages destroyed in history finally gonna come to truth between the atlantians and sumarians with all the radioactive anomalies around the world 100% byproduct from a world war

[@MogaTange]

The fact we discovered Neptune 123 years before we got a man on the moon is mind blowing.

[@Tommyandersonskateboard]

OMG I’m so in love with the planets at the end, I want one 😭 another epic episode btw Alex, thank you for sharing your knowledge and vision of the cosmos 🙏✨

[@maxwellweaver8723]

I imagine there is a Super Vulcan, a planet that fell into the sun's top layer and is still orbiting the core, it's own composition being too stubborn to disintegrate.

[@TonyLeadholm]

What a video! Not what I expected at all - tremendous research and then using astronomical history to provide an overall life lesson for humanity was just a glorious treat. BRAVO! 👏👏

[@RJSF9]

"The truth does not need our fervor." - I love this.

[@kuo-yingwang2273]

Excellent work! Your previous works on showing resluts from NASA and ESA and JAXA planerary and asteroid exploration missions, such as Horizon on Pluto, Dart, Rosetta mission, Hayabusa missions, Mars explorers, etc, contain in-depth and awesome analysis and breath-taking knowledge. It will be great to see you review the results from the JWST.

[@colessolarchannelmyoldchan6940]

Pluto is a real planet since a secret of 8/24/2006 It’s a shame Vulcan is not a part of us anymore. I hope Vulcan is in our solar system forever

[@truthsmiles]

“The truth does not need our fervor. It will prove itself given time…” Indeed. In fact, my username is based on this idea. The truth does not need to defend itself. We can bicker and argue all we want, but the truth only smiles :)

[@yessssss5461]

My Mom once talked about Vulcan as our 10th planet now I knew about it

[@teugene5850]

love your videos Alex... thank you so much for continuing to post this content... truly.

[@Malbeefance]

There is an old saying in archeology, "If you're goal in visiting Jerusalem is to find Jesus's burial tomb, you will find it." The point being that if you have already convinced yourself of the conclusion, you will bias, unintentionally, the research towards the conclusion.

[@harrisonmoore3841]

Plot twist: That happened to be the last time Vulcan existed before it fell into the sun. That'd be nuts

[@dpterminusreal]

when a planet falls into its star it causes massive issues in the star and its brightness shifts quite noticeably, so no

[@DocWolph]

Ironically, Venus should have been named Vulcan, knowing what we know now.

[@manoz6194]

And which celestial body would we name Venus instead I wonder? My vote would be Uranus. Nepture and Venus has a better ring to it.

[@cosmicpuma1409]

Another amazingly educational vid. Love your channel, learn so much. Thank you, really appreciate it 🙌

[@billyyank2198]

The existence of the planet Vulcan was ultimately proven, illogical.

[@nagualdesign]

Very good. 🖖

[@trekietechie1119]

Fascinating

[@owlcowl]

"It's a planet, Jim, but not as we know it."

[@Kenya_Berry]

Before I finish this video, what if Vulcan is a misunderstood effect from the sun, like perhaps there’s occasionally a mass ejection of plasma that immediately stops fusion reaction and slows down in an orbit bound to crash back into the sun, and it can get big enough to have its own gravitational pull?

[@geoffreyraleigh1674]

A beautiful description of the phenomenon. Thank you for the upload.

[@______IV]

The notion that such repeatedly verified physics could be in err must have seemed ludicrous to those scientists, but it’s what makes science so exciting.

[@dougules]

Obligatory public service announcement: Do not stare directly at the sun, especially not through a telescope without the appropriate filters.

[@mred8002]

If no one else will say it: your pronunciation of all these names is marvelous. Thank you.

[@gray12566]

Alex , I like what you did there at 10:15, confirmation bias, so eloquently put. I realized you were paraphrasing niel tyson, who was talking about segan, you you really made it your own. Bravo 👏

[@edgarscirulis1129]

Your videos are amazing! Thank you for your work :)

[@__-pl3jg]

Maybe Vulcan fell into the sun. Or maybe it was phasing in and out of our space/time.

[@catsgame9282]

Maybe vulcan is closr to the sun than thought making is harder to find

[@ardentdfender4116]

Planet 9 may be the new Vulcan. I just hope we actually find Planet 9 though as that would be so fascinating beyond belief and with so many questions.

[@zciliyafilms5508]

That was the scientific method done right. This video is an example of why I still gravitate to KZbin. It told a compelling story with every bit of information that I would ask for about a topic like this. I'm really grateful that so much high quality content like this still exists here.

[@keithbrown7685]

What precisely is the nature of your orbit around youtube?

[@maxhurst9878]

This was beyond helpful. I tried multiple times with missing anywhere between 3 and 12

[@kakarroto007]

6:09 "Very impressed Royal Society members". That's badass.

[@praisethesun69]

your channel is like a thunderstorm blanket for my anxiety. thank you

[@ideegeniali]

Very well researched and presented! Thank you!

[@PurpuriteRite]

I really liked when Vulcan said its vulcanin' time and vulcaned all over the sun

[@tristantheoofer2]

yes

[@pennsred4900]

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[@MrPDTaylor]

@@pennsred4900 That's What She Said

[@zZwingli]

are you a bot?

[@mechanwhal6590]

Truly, one of the planets of all time.

[@Sugarglidergirl101]

Does anyone else get this weird existential sinking feeling when seeing these amazing mathematicians and scientists knowing you’ll never make the amazing discoveries they have?

[@marcusmcbee3356]

I usually just ignore and skip sponsor segments, but those globes are incredible. One day I will have one of each planet in the solar system, including Pluto.

[@ryanskewer1534]

Such a great science channel, happy to have found it.

[@Tidyweekender]

Great video Alex. Your voice is very relaxing to listen to!

[@BrassAxe]

I've had a Mova globe for probably 7 years now. Looks like new, performs like new. The sponsor is legit.

[@phpART]

They look insane, very cool sponsor!! Reminds me of a recent technology connections video, so probably that is how they work 😜

[@kyleeames8229]

Expected some habitable zone exoplanet 12 light years away, as in Star Trek cannon. This is not only more satisfying, it’s somehow nerdier. Cool video, Cousin!

[@Psion_Phoenix]

I just found your channel. I love this. You have earned a sub.

[@Raziel1984]

"The truth does not need our fervour. It will prove itself, given time and opportunities for repetition." - Alex McColgan, 2023

[@swflracing]

Loved your closing saying about the truth. That was solid and beautiful👍I felt that

[@Pantomas-PG]

Today, we all know that Vulcan is a Class M planet in the 40 Eridani Star System.

[@garrygraves3848]

What a great and educational video. I've learned alot that I didn't know. Thanks, Alex! ☺

[@PhysicsGuy46]

Nice video. One error, somewhere around 9:38: it's not special relativity that predicted the perihelion shift of Mercury, but general relativity (this is correct in the caption above the paper). Also, general relativity/the perihelion shift doesn't have anything to do with speed (that would be special relativity, in principle, but nothing in our solar system is moving that quickly). Still, delightful video!

[@dwightalexander2648]

Always been a fan of your videos man, thank you for yet another great analization and discussion

[@bethanygee6939]

I think you're looking for the world "analysis," but yeah, I agree with you. 😊

[@Novusod]

Vulcan could still exist if it was close enough into the sun. It would be difficult to detect visually and mathematically due to it's gravitational effects being canceled out by the mass of the sun.

[@paulhaynes8045]

It would have an effect on the orbit of Mercury which would be observable, but not explainable - even with the mass of the sun 'interfering'.

[@Novusod]

@@paulhaynes8045 The gravitational mass of the sun would mask the existence of such a planet. It would not be observable due to the inverse square law of how gravity works.

[@paulhaynes8045]

@@Novusod I'm not sure Einstein would agree with you...

[@TheStockwell]

No offense intended, but scrambling physical and mathematical reality to fit a desired effect is bad science. 🤔

[@Novusod]

@@paulhaynes8045 Einstein only disproved that no planet could exist at that particular distance from the sun. Newtonian physics predicted that Vulcan would have existed at 10 million km from the Sun. Einstein said nope, relativity proves no planet should exist there. However there could still be a planet at 1 - 2 million km from the sun where it's influence on Mercury would be negligible. Such a planet would be completely masked by the sun's gravity.

[@mikehajdu6154]

Love your videos Alex!

[@anakina1]

Shows how smart these guys were figuring out existing planets with their archaic equipment and math skills.

[@sirbum1918]

We always live on the edge of technology and it makes us think we know it all. I wonder how they will see us in 100 years.

[@brewskiproductionslasvegas]

There will always be a part of me that holds out hope for planet Vulcan. 🖖

[@christinakinch]

Okay, but the globes presented in the advertisement look like the coolest decoration pieces ever.

[@JorgeCarrizo]

excelente e inspirador video

[@combatking0]

I pointed my telescope at the sun, but I didn't see anything ever again.

[@graemep.1316]

One of your best videos yet! THANKS Alex 💯

[@marenpurves4493]

This was really well done!

[@edwardenglishonline]

Fascinating!! Thank you :)

[@zmckinley]

“Sometimes, if we want something too much, we find it, regardless of whether it is really there or not.”

[@sabnox9869]

I watched a zepherus video on this, it was his first video in years and he makes brilliant content when he does actually make a video.. I personally love the Eddystone Lighthouse(s) video. Wouldn't be surprised if Astrum is subbed to him, channels like Plainly Difficult and Exurb1a are subbed to Zepherus..

[@bukster1]

Interesting that while Le Verrier didn't discover Einsteinian physics or the theory of relativity, he did observe an effect of it with distortions in the orbit of Mercury. He just didn't know what he was seeing.

[@nemo6900]

you may not travail to space Alex you may never discover a planet but the mark you leave on the minds that watch you that may inspire them to learn more .....priceless

[@chrisyoung5363]

And the souls born now in 2023 may yet see beyond the planets... :)

[@Rares.E]

Thank you!

[@justdriveon]

Very well done, Alex! 👏👏👏👏👏

[@DVSx86]

cool! i was not aware about such interesting story of Vulkan!

[@Robert_McGarry_Poems]

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[@bcddd214]

Einstein did NOT "replace" Newton. Einstein rides on Newton's back. “science is fundamentally a cumulative enterprise. Each new discovery plays the role of one more brick in an edifice.”

[@MichaelPohoreski]

Ironically crackpot and plagiarist Einstein will be replaced this century.

[@bcddd214]

@@MichaelPohoreski Your GPS 100% depends on Einstein. Every pizza you order that arrives in 30 min or less, is a testament to Einstein!

[@MichaelPohoreski]

@@bcddd214 Even a broken clock is right twice a day. /s

[@bcddd214]

@@MichaelPohoreski I didn't detect your sarcasm earlier my friend. Thank you for the /s. I see my error now.

[@MichaelPohoreski]

@@bcddd214 There was no sarcasm in my first post.

[@middleburyastrology]

Did not expect you to cross paths with esoteric astrology :) . Love your channel

[@handledav]

where’s thhe cross

[@middleburyastrology]

​@@handledav yes. The Theosophic society was being formed near this moment and esoteric astrology, through Alice Bailey writings where claiming these esoteric realities as un collected / premanifested entity . thats all.

[@paulbennett7021]

Excellent presentation. One takeaway is that Newtonian mechanics is a useful approximation, SR is a more accurate useful approximation until we find a more accurate one. Another takeaway is that all planets' orbits precess; Mercury's precession is merely most noticeable.

[@PleiadesRuby]

Love your usage of lumiere brothers

[@auntsasalili]

Oo I like astronomy history - and then seeing where star trek writers may have gotten their names and ideas (Eddington on DS9,for example, and the obvious one here)

[@CovertOperation13]

This made me wonder about the Star Trek planet Vulcan, is it as close to the sun as this nonexistent one?

[@thewiirocks]

@@CovertOperation13 No. Such a planet would be so hot that the surface would be perpetual lava. The planet Vulcan in Star Trek was habitable by humanoids despite being quite hot. It’s likely quite close, though I think Vulcan’s star might be brighter and hotter so possibly not even as close as Earth.

[@rah938]

The Vulcan home planet is in the 40 Eridani A star system 16.3 light years away from your sun. Live long, and prosper.

[@akowboyshippielife7405]

Much love to everyone and their families from Quartzsite Az USA currently 🤠💪🙏🏵️

[@davidsradioroom9678]

Very informative!

[@sikemo9432]

Great film thanks a million

[@BlondieSL]

Those MOVA globes are gorgeous!

[@perfectionbox]

I'm a hopeless romantic so my heart still belongs to Vulcan and to Planet X. ❤🥰

[@Thulgore]

Beautiful video!

[@LindyBlue14]

Can you do a video on The Parker space probe that captured pictures of visible light from Venus night side that would be a great video 🧡💛