Is Our Entire Universe Held Together By One Mysterious Number?

[@taiken64]

1/137 is APPROXIMATELY the fine structure constant. It’s more like 1/137.035999174. Your video talks about how finely tuned the number has to be and then never explains that 1/137 is approximate, which is incredibly misleading.

[@Voidsworn]

There is also the fact that she said it could be a few percent either way and the universe would still be the way it is. There are an infinite number of values between the max and min of that range, so...yeah.

[@taiken64]

@@Voidsworn Actually, she says, "...if it were off by just a few percentage points, you, me, all of this, might not even be here."

[@danilooliveira6580]

I mean, to be fair 1/137.035999174 is as finely tuned as 1/137. its more like what Peanutbutter said, it could be a few fractions of percents off and not much would change (I mean, a lot would change because chaos theory, but you know what I mean)

[@Voidsworn]

@@taiken64 Eh, close enough. I have heard it the way I said it and what I did say is still correct: whatever the upper and lower bounds for the fine constant value necessary to make our universe the way it is, there is still an infinite number of values between those bounds. :)

[@TheStackeddeck77]

Most people replying to you havent gotten to calculus I. I know you know but just for everyone else that .035 yada yada will chance calculations by enough to COMPLETELY (not yelling just emphasizing) screw an enquation especially when dealing with numbers as large as the speed of light and as small as planks constant. That small value makes a difference. Not to mention it is a constance and has to be used to the farthest decimal point we know of to be precise and we have to use that every single time to be even close to accurate.

[@adityakashyap6754]

I got 1/137 in my physics test. Coincidence? I think not!😳

[@kmachine5110]

Or is it not?

[@adityakashyap6754]

@@kmachine5110 it is🎅

[@them4309]

no, it's ironic, apparently.

[@kmachine5110]

Yt playing God.

[@jojiriver627]

You gonna ba damned physicist

[@Robert_St-Preux]

The Fibonacci sequence tile in the thumbnail is 1) what caused me to click, and 2) nowhere in the video. Science videos have clickbait, too?

[@8cao261]

Same thing happened

[@Rafayel06]

That clickbaited feelings is mutual. 😑

[@Bluudclaat]

Because it’s holding Fibonacci together. It’s holding EVERYTHING together!!

[@zohairgharsalli9067]

thats the visualization of the golden ratio not the fibonacci sequencde

[@ABaumstumpf]

I really thought it would be yet another bullshit video about how the golden ratio supposedly is everywhere (only to not feature a single actual example). was pleasantly surprised.

[@jaridkeen123]

Its because we are Multiverse 137

[@kriza891]

Omg if multiverses differ by that number that is so dope.

[@user-un2qi4eo9n]

No were in station 137 of the matrix

[@sherwinnavarro4282]

C-137

[@nerdscorner2307]

Exactly.

[@gregtv1467]

no were universe 1 out of 137

[@grangermigel8543]

"Small change in alpha will change everything" Meanwhile engineers: "lets round that .25 to zero."

[@maxanderson2952]

It ain't much, but its honest work

[@basicnpcc]

Looks like we found our world seed boys.

[@TheReal_ist]

NPC Mine raft memes even still God the internet is weird. And u love it even more ebecause of that weirdness. Keep it up random person. :D

[@arent2295]

@@TheReal_ist um what?

[@treymansfield7919]

@@TheReal_ist can you spell?

[@stargazer_and_co]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/mafLYaGOZZ2hiNk

[@buddingscientist170]

Wonderfull

[@thebigsad9463]

*and that number is 42*

[@lawsil1]

I came here to write the same thing

[@benitollan]

Damn you're fast.

[@thebigsad9463]

Oh wait, that's the meaning of life

[@jaydensomeone6738]

You mean 54?

[@thebigsad9463]

@@benitollan Fastest doot in the Iberias

[@arjenb8403]

8:15, watch the books above his head, they are moving!

[@LaGuerre19]

holy shit

[@aaryapatil203]

Omg

[@ricky_pigeon]

it is interesting

[@samchen9951]

Coop is trying to send a message to him!

[@BrandonDKirkwood]

Wtf

[@andie_pants]

"Follow cutting-edge physics, if you have time. It is the process of humans learning to speak fluent universe." - exurb1a

[@cosmosandchill]

It's actually more like the process of the universe learning about itself.

[@bongbingbingbong9090]

@@cosmosandchill "We are the universe's thinking and sensing organ" kurzgesagt in a nutshell.

[@cosmosandchill]

@@bongbingbingbong9090 Totally agree. Also Carl Sagan in a nutshell, Alan Watts in a nutshell, panpsychism in a nutshell, Advaita Vedanta in a nutshell etc

[@dimitrioscamacho6131]

Yeah I love that channel

[@mihailmilev9909]

@@cosmosandchill that's the name of the youtube channel lol

[@Ebola-Kun]

Gyro Zeppeli taught me about the golden rotation

[@Just.A.T-Rex]

Ratio**

[@horacio6537]

Ah I see, you're a man of culture as well

[@diegobrando5805]

Muda

[@horacio6537]

@pkƔsiↅS don't laugh at things you don't understans idiot.

[@lokeypokey9744]

@pkƔsiↅS it's a jojo reference

[@SkylarsTerribleMemes]

Maybe 137 is our simulation ID.

[@MohamedRamadan-zg4mq]

😂😂😂😂😂 DAMN YOU ARE RIGHT !!!!!😂

[@hell1018]

Lool

[@mal2ksc]

Well we survived the discovery of the Higgs boson, so we know we're not a Type 13 planet. lexx.fandom.com/wiki/Earth

[@Leandro_SWR]

it's probably the seed they used to generate the universe xD

[@RSPikachuAlpha]

Not Quite Human it makes sense that you’re not human. IT WAS A JOKE. r/woooosh

[@enso8762]

1/137 .007 Alpha So yeah, it's James Bond OR Constant 1/137 c 137 It's Rick Sanchez

[@timothyhaug2060]

C is a rate of induction, not a constant.

[@enso8762]

@@timothyhaug2060 Thanks, but it's the "fine structure CONSTANT" Also, it's a joke. I haven't even finished the video when I made the comment

[@EthanolTailor]

@@enso8762 i hate these fact bashing cunts they are so focused on proving their own intellect to themselves they completely miss what people are actually saying

[@scientistsbaffled5730]

@@EthanolTailor you're a beta supporting your Alpha, these are also fundamental laws.

[@robocu4]

Full grown midget there isnt anything beta about not liking retard commenters who take themselves too seriously

[@eskanderx1027]

Constants aren't tuned for us - we are fine "tuned" for them. With different constants, there would be a different universe, fine tuned for them.

[@Glassbane]

Thank you for voicing this in plain language. "Fine-tuned Universe" people may as well be worshiping the sun for all of the good their conjecture does.

[@jessmith7324]

He was expressing a point of view of the constant and the many ways people interpret it. Even how you explained it is an interpretation. Ultimately at then end of the day, the data doesnt care which interpretation is right. We do

[@KuK137]

@@jessmith7324 By that standard, flat-earthers and anti-vaxxers are just "different interpretations" when they all should be called what they really are, utter idiocy...

[@jessmith7324]

@@KuK137 Whatever they should be called is your conclusion based on the info. And thats the logic: the info itself isnt calling them an idiot or you an idiot. It exists on its own with no necessity for human's opinions to exist. That was also the point to the comment made in the video about interpretations of the data and those peoples' conclusions/interpretations. Its we who feel the need to add conclusions and labels onto people, no matter the rationalization, for or against.

[@thesoundsmith]

@@KuK137 While I agree on the anti-vaxxers , flat-earthers just haven't gone far enough! There is good evidence - and on THIS channel. "Is The Universe a Hologram?" If so, and Bohm, Pribram and Susskind are correct, then it is. And a hologram IS flat - so the whole UNIVERSE is flat. But WTF do I know, I wasn't there when it was deciding... And in a many-worlds universe(s)...

[@ricobernaldo9969]

Why I'm watching this when I can't comprehend hahahahaha

[@tuber0808]

It's interesting the way he explains it, how somehow it is finely tuned for us. This is quite an ego-centric view, or human-centric view. It it probably more correct to say that we have been finely tuned to exist in this universe, not the other way around. Think about it, would it be easier to make an entire universe fit human life, or would it be easier to fit human life into the universe?

[@stevekerp1]

Either way, Someone is doing the "fitting."

[@borzan007]

@@stevekerp1 not someone

[@Earth11111]

It’s both, balanced

[@sebione3576]

Now to reverse engineer this information to get the winning lottery numbers..

[@TheReal_ist]

Sebi One What so that u can blow most of it in frivolous bullshit things to make u happy for a short period. Followed by u then spending to much, let it all go over your head. Resulting in you going bankrupt in only a few yrs from winning. Just like the many before u have all done. U are no different u stupid human meat bag...

[@Mehhhh-]

TheReal_ist chill out tf wrong wit u

[@rynesaju2761]

TheReal_ist Bruh chill

[@TheReal_ist]

This IsMe Reality and statistics chills for no one u stupid f*ck.

[@TheReal_ist]

SilentNinja Reality and statistics chills for no one u stupid f*ck.

[@vcoski]

137th simulation of the Project Universe.

[@skum73]

A bit like WD40. Btw I love your comment.

[@nipungupta6237]

You Know what man, your theory could be true in one case(if we're a simulation)

[@mammotholdwoman623]

I mean yeah you could be right. That number is how electrons are ordered. Changing it, changes everything.

[@DerpMuse]

Alpha being 1/137 is where Rick and Morty gets the name for our/their universe name of C-137 You arent the first person to talk about multiverse and simulation theory being a catalog number like that.

[@fulmetalraven1]

Yes! We cld b 1 dimension within a 137 parallel dimensions.

[@therealDannyVasquez]

So this is dimension C-137?

[@halo4176]

Mind blown, true!

[@matt2m]

Dude....

[@vqsxd]

Oouuu!!! Ur following the right path friend :)

[@airplayn]

I used the 1/137 fine structure constant as an integral part of my Cosmological poem, "Existance Extant". After reading it, Dr. Lawrence Krauss, who is an internationally recognized Cosmologist said, "It's got the physics right but I don't know enough about poetry to judge the rest" ;-) Existence Extant Once merely a shower Condensed creation unclouded Hundred thirty seventh's power Foaming structure enshrouded Entropic decision Magic fractional form Constructs to precision Planks of relative norm Hottest heat from sublime Cooled now coldest of cold Gritty sand flows of time Now forever grow old Seen seer of sight Thinker entire from thought A consciousness bright Existence from naught Bubbled living from Space-time Single multiplied to anthropic Oozed philosophical slime Forming life kaleidoscopic Your existence is futile Fresh mint observers of all Transcendence dims, rueful Amid creation seems small Yet this child of pure stardust On a small pale blue dot Quest the extant of existence Of matter’s why or why not Philosophical stance Intellectually derived Existentialist’s dance? Finally, wisdom arrived My humble attempt to merge cosmology & consciousness in an ode to relative reality Tim Kiehl emergeART ™ ©2016

[@sovereignpsyche7968]

Krauss is a theoretical physicist, not a cosmologists. Big difference.

[@potat8089]

@@sovereignpsyche7968 He is both a theoretical physicist and a cosmologist. They're not mutually exclusive.

[@liljade53]

and the devil said "HellOooo? hell here. You don't get what you want, I don't answer your questions! (maniacal laughter ensuing)

[@LukesLight313]

Yes pretty ignorant for someone to think they will be asking the devil questions when he will be subjected to eternal torment not some sort of ringleader of a punishment circus.

[@jeffreyjdesir]

I can't wait till my great grandkids laugh at times we lumped gravity in with the other standard forces XD

[@Kube_Dog]

You need a new perspective on things.

[@antonioskontonasakis]

Honestly, even though most of physicists do that, I think it's wrong, and I don't think gravitons exist. I think that space is quantized and that gravity is just "denser" regions of space where spacetime quanta are just closer together. Maybe 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

[@edwinvital1206]

If you think gravity is not a force, it means other phenomenons actually Are forces. But a force is just a concept applied on phenomenons. So... It cannot be something real. And it will always be legit to apply it on gravity

[@evanstowers8529]

Force is just a behavior...maybe from another perspective that behavior never happens but from our perspective right here, right now matter does follow certain behaviors such as gravitation.

[@marleyjanim5033]

@@antonioskontonasakis This is how gravity work 1 - think of space as a fluid The mass of the earth dispersed space.... Space compresses on earth... That's how gravity works, it is a push

[@ixamraxi]

"Is Our Entire Universe Held Together By One Mysterious Number?" No. The number is not responsible for anything, alpha is simply a description of a property of the universe. Descriptions are not prescriptions. Why might be an interesting question, but regardless of what kind of universe you conceive, that property would still exist, and it's value would be specific to the given conceived universe. To rephrase, the properties of the universe are *not* fine tuned for our existence, rather we are adapted/fine tuned to the properties of this specific universe. It is not surprising that our existence necessarily falls within the allowable properties of the universe we exist in. It would be more 'miraculous' if the properties of the universe did *not* allow our existence, but we existed anyways. It's a bit like imagining a universe where everything that exists inside that universe is blue, and then being amazed at how the universe is finely tuned for blue-ness; when the reality is that its not at all surprising to find blue things in a universe where only blue things exist. It would be more impressive if something red existing in that universe.

[@denmutlu498]

I guess the "red" might be us, as concious beings in otherwise unconcious universe.

[@ixamraxi]

@@denmutlu498 If consciousness is possible in this universe, then it must be blue. That we are amazed at it does not change the fact that it was possible, and happened. Also, to say that the rest of the universe is unconscious is to commit a black swan fallacy, as just because you have not experienced consciousness beyond our corner of the universe does not mean that it is the only consciousness in this universe. (neither can we say it does exist, all we know is that its possible, using us as examples).

[@waysideme]

Dimension less numbers are so cool and useful being applied in so many things. Numbers being dimension less allow us to take advantage of so many physical properties. For example in a wind tunnel testing the shape of an airplane we can use a small model and scale those results up to real size because of Renoulds number.

[@camilosantos4380]

In the book “ASCENSO, Civilization of the Humus” published on Amazon, a theory is proposed that unifies relativistic and quantum physics, supported by a mathematical and analytical calculation of the fine-structure constant (1/137) for the 3rd dimension and the other dimensions that make up the Universe. It includes parallel and mirror universes. It proposes a mathematical theory of how the multiverse should be structured and the action of dark matter and energy within it

[@filipsperl]

I strongly agree with the last point that was made. Either in this one universe, or in this local region of the universe, the constants are what they are, because otherwise we wouldn't be able to measure them, because we wouldn't even exist.

[@Master_Therion]

The reciprocal of 137 is important in physics... While 1337 is important to the internet/computers. R U 4 h4x0r 0r 4 n00b?

[@timothyhaug2060]

h4x0r 73v37 3000

[@daphne4983]

Simulation theory

[@bckstrm1897]

1337? what's its importance?

[@tehjamerz]

I've been waiting my whole life for this moment... kzbin.info/www/bejne/fl7QgnuGfs11sLc

[@timothyhaug2060]

@@bckstrm1897 I have been on since the original BBS system used for internet using a dialup cradle modem. Back then, we in the hacker community used Leet speak (short for elite hacker) to make our messages harder to read by common users. Over the years, leet has morphed somewhat and are used by anyone with even a monocom of internet experience. Nowadays, even script kiddies consider themselves h4x0r5 even though they are barely at n00b level.

[@mspoints4fre123]

There's a ton of values in our universe that if they were slightly different we couldn't exist.

[@vknl99]

right? “if you change alpha everything changes” yes, same with the charge of an electrong, the mass of a proton, etc...

[@robertrosenthal7264]

Which is why we don't exist in a universe with a wildly different alpha.

[@lycanthoss]

Um no, constants and numbers are just human concepts. We didn't learn them because they exist, but because these numbers explain forces and events in a mathematical view. If the forces in our universe were different then we would get different values, but not the other way around because these numbers come FROM those forces.

[@sutapasbhattacharya9471]

@@lycanthoss The Pythagorean mythology that numbers are ultimate reality remains strong in the West, especially amongst mathematicians and physicists. Remember, that Pythagoreans believed that only rational numbers existed and were shocked to discover irrational ones! The Westerners are also very ignorant of the phenomenological basis of such conceptual constructions in our mental processes which should take epistemological priority over the mathematical theories we construct from our measurements of phenomenal appearances - although Edmund Husserl and others did some work in this field, few Westerners know or understand such things and most practise what Whitehead called 'The Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness' - or the reification of abstractions - mistaking abstract concepts to be ontologically real entities!

[@sutapasbhattacharya9471]

@Cosmic Rift That is correct for modern Westerners (I myself have lived in the West since I was 2) but these Westerners are also very arrogant and staggeringly ignorant in dismissing things that they do not understand as all being nonsense and bullshit [there is in fact a 'baby' hidden in the 'bathwater'.] I am in fact the man who identified the physical correlate of the central element of all true Spirituality [meaning the universal transformations of Consciousness leading to enlightenment] - the Inner Light or Pure Consciousness - with the brainwaves of the Reticular Activating System showing how Science and true Spirituality can be harmonized. The immediate knee-jerk reaction of most materialistically-indoctrinated, modern Westerners [who reify the so-called 'Physical Universe' - which is merely our conceptual interpretation of phenomena appearing in our Consciousness - as if it were ultimate reality] would be to dismiss this without further consideration. However, as you will find on my website, www.sutapas.com - many of the greatest Western physicists who inspired or who actually invented the New Physics [e.g. Ernst Mach , Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Arthur Eddington, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrodinger, Wolfgang Pauli, David Bohm) understood the limitations of the Physicalist ontology and took such Spiritual experience and the largely Eastern philosophical knowledge gleaned from them very seriously. Indeed, both Heisenberg and Schrodinger [who was an advocate of Nondual Brahmanism] have put on record how Indian [spiritual] Metaphysics inspired their invention of Quantum Mechanics.

[@saranyasaara9246]

1/137 mark for the incorrect spelling of aluminium. .....

[@MusicalSavior23]

There are three ways to spell it. Aluminum was the original. Look up the history of the word.

[@bethanyfreer1175]

Someone, someone is trying To tell him something, will he listen? (Should he listen?) Someone, someone is dying To find out something, will he reason? (What is the reason?) Do you see it, there on the door? Death is coming, life nevermore Obsession drives me, clouding my mind What's the message, am I running out of time? Someone, someone is trying In search of something, death by numbers (Getting closer) Someone, someone is dying To know the answer, the key to heaven (One thirty seven) Do you see it, there on the door? Death is coming, life nevermore Obsession drives me, clouding my mind What's the message, am I running out of time? I can see it, here on the door One three seven, forevermore Between dimensions, the boundary line One three seven, I am running out of time

[@JeffreyGreaux]

1/137 when converted to decimal is 0.007299, which when converted using vortex based mathematics = 0+0+0+7+2+9+9 = 27 = 2+7 = 9. It is the number 9 that is the universal constant not 1/137. 9 is the universal number.

[@jesusdiscipledon1499]

8:15 Book moves above the dudes head with a sound effect? Playing tricks? Lizards in disguise? You be the judge...

[@Super-qr7wm]

Deliberate cgi , to 'help' the viewers to come to the conclusion that other dimensions are real . This whole clip is a social experiment and the comment section is the testing ground . Imo .

[@thereisnospace]

Of course, the Italian scientist would name something espresso :D

[@robertrosenthal7264]

The universe is not finely tuned for us, we are finely tuned for this universe. It's a given that any universe that has life will have life that is finely tuned for that universe, if it has any form of life at all.

[@heartsongkatie]

This makes more sense. Thanks

[@dbk5816]

A dumb statement that wouldn't be spewed if you had the slightest knowledge of what you are talking about. Firstly if life is fine tuned for the universe as you claim, why there is no life in stars and most planets? Secondly and more importantly, the cosmological constant, the the most finely tuned constant, if it were slightly higher, galaxies, stars and planets wouldn't exist. Without stars, no elements other than hydrogen and helium would form, hence you would also have no chemistry. Hence saying life could possibly exist in such a universe because "Constants aren't tuned for us - we are fine "tuned" for them." is laughable. Same with gravity, universe with slightly stronger gravity would collapse into a black hole. Using your silly statement , life may somehow emerge in a black hole because it is "fine tuned for it".

[@One-IronOX]

DBK thank you, my thoughts exactly!

[@peabody3000]

@@dbk5816 if physical constants were different in this universe, some things wouldn't exist, but other things would, which could also conceivably give rise to life. presuming that only this exact type of universe can spawn life is presuming far too much

[@thetherorist9244]

hahahaha explain how Alpha equals 1/137 please....what the f234k are you saying? Why doesn't Alpha equal 2/2456? who came up with this and how is it achieved?

[@Kube_Dog]

six minutes in, it's still not explaining 1/137

[@peabody3000]

@Leo Coyne yea but they didn't even properly explain WHAT it represents, even if they don't know why

[@peabody3000]

@Leo Coyne "LOL" no. they didn't explain nearly as much as they could have.. just a few token words.. if you actually think they explained much you should read up more on the fine structure constant.. there's a wiki page

[@peabody3000]

@Leo Coyne you apparently are satisfied with an empty title.. can't help you there "LOL" adios sucker

[@thetherorist9244]

hahahaha explain how Alpha equals 1/137 please....what the f234k are you saying? Why doesn't Alpha equal 2/2456? who came up with this and how is it achieved?

[@riffraff1880]

Kube Dog and they never do..

[@oofy_emma1072]

The fibonacci spiral in the thumbnail activated my inner gyro, and I am disappointed

[@codygallik2261]

Some thumbnails activate my inner gyno. But not so much on this site.

[@blvckjack94]

I think we should look for Professor Hank Pym.

[@Collectivemindsnow]

All of a sudden I'm craving coffee!🤣😂

[@AifDaimon]

I was just wondering how we got 1/137 as the fine structure constant in the first place; thank you for the explanation..

[@lolbro8701]

no one knows yet, probably

[@lylecosmopolite]

The dimensionless number at the center of both particle physics and astrophysics is 137.036 = hc/(Coulomb constant x square of charge of electron) = reciprocal of, alpha, the fine structure constant. This number is also the coupling constant for the electromagnetic interaction, the interaction that governs all chemical reactions and photonic radiation. Photosynthesis is how life on earth harnesses photonic energy. Life is a vast system of very complicated polymer chemistry centered on carbon chains and rings. The other great dimensionless constant of physics is beta, the ratio of the rest mass of the proton to that of the electron. A great deal of physics is ultimately grounded in the numerical values of alpha and beta. A good detailed scholarly study of this point is Barrow and Tipler (1986). An easier book is Barrow (2002) The Constants of Nature. The laws and fundamental constants of physics are such as to make galaxies, stars, supernovas, and hence life, all possible. But from "life is possible" we cannot conclude that "intelligent life is common", if only because our universe is still young on a timescale set by evolution. Such is the Rare Earth hypothesis, which concludes that we could well be the only species in the Milky Way that uses technology at this time..

[@vettemandavid3806]

That it! That explains why as my energy decrease… my mass is increasing!

[@biscuitburger725]

When you see the title, clicks to comment 42, realize everybody’s already done it

[@andrewaronson3364]

zip it they'll figure out what you're saying

[@craigwillms61]

Exactly where my mind went as soon as I started this video... 42, it explains everything.

[@hasher2265]

Isn't it focusing too much on one element of the universe? There are many fine constants like Pi and Euler's constant which if off by a digit would change the fabric of reality.

[@raphaelkap]

Yeah, but those arise because there are others, which are even more fundamental.

[@hasher2265]

@@raphaelkap: Or do those discoveries arise from more rudimentary empirical observation? Point is a symphony can't be predicated on one note. There is a range of constructs which work together to give rise to reality.

[@timothyhaug2060]

Or gyromagnetic procession which exists at 1/phi^-3

[@RudraJain]

1/138 There destroyed the universe

[@CarFreeSegnitz]

Woah there Satan.

[@akuljamwal3085]

Someone should've used this instead of years of searching, conquering and murdering!

[@BaBboon-zd5zt]

That's what THANOS does in Endgame!!

[@zugzi]

@@BaBboon-zd5zt no, he changed it to 1/68.5 and in endgame ant man changed his purple hole size to 1/274.. there

[@EthanolTailor]

@@zugzi *2/137

[@exactspace]

I’ve used this number with Mandelbrot Julia sets set to generate photos of lifelike scenes, but I don’t know if it means anything. Most looks like patches of galaxies, or just black space, but some actually are stars, planets, random geographical scenes and sometimes living things. I wish I could zoom in further, but the data types reach their limit and the image becomes pixelated.

[@regular-joe]

New subscriber asking: why isn't the narrator credited in the description, as on many channels?

[@alexanderdeclercq1740]

tbh i think life adapted to the constants, not the other way around... in a universe with different constants yeah we wouldn't be able to live but there would probably be other life that fits that kind of universe

[@ashoif77]

Alexander De Clercq That's what they meant. When they said "We wouldn't exist" they literally mean "We" as in humans/carbon based life/life on Earth wouldn't have developed. Not that life as a concept wouldn't happen

[@alexanderdeclercq1740]

Squawk Hawk yeah but they ask themselves “why are the constants right for us?” That shouldn’t be a question since we are right for the constants and not the other way around

[@ashoif77]

Alexander De Clercq I guess. In feel they were just phrasing it that way to nudge at other theories like multiverse. "If these ultra-specific constants that could mess up everything if they were different by even a *little* bit are right for us. What does that say about universes with different constants" But yea, I get your point

[@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep]

@@ashoif77 No that isn't true. Life would not exist. They never meant we as in our current form but life at all.

[@Lk-be4gj]

How do you know that? We are literally human beings. We mean nothing and we know nothing. For all we know the big bang could be part of the chemical reaction inside an alien vehicle.

[@micahphilson]

"Is Our Entire Universe Held Together By One Mysterious Number?" ... *YES! 42!* I thought this was common knowledge already!

[@stephenbachman132]

Exactly it is common knowledge. Apperently scietists are not knowing of the study of common knowledge.

[@ahmadsahil9531]

Why 42?

[@treasureplanet9082]

Wait... what was the question again?

[@Johnny_NY]

If it was common knowledge, we would've learned it in public schools long ago

[@LuisMedina-yq5fd]

@@ahmadsahil9531 *

[@samissa9921]

8:19 ٱلْـحَـمْـدُ للهِ

[@manuelsanchezdeinigo3959]

الحمد יהוה ישוע אלוהים

[@rgoodwinau]

I have long thought this is the most interesting area of physics study that has potential to break our current physics paradigms. Great to hear about new research happening.

[@Otomega1]

e²/hc = 1/137 lol Irrational divide by rational is rational np

[@jayboston9620]

& Remember.... Always Carry a Towel

[@randomdoomer8549]

Because today's a scorcher

[@EthanolTailor]

its not that weird dudes and its not just 1/137 which seems rather too perfect and is just slightly disingenuous, its not some nice round number like they for some reason are making it out to be its this 1/137.03599913... not so perfect now is it. there really is no meaning behind its supposed perfection we just got lucky with our universe, if it were any different we wouldn't be here but something else might, if it were anything else of course we wouldn't be here it would be like expecting a lizard to evolve into a fish in the middle of a dessert

[@jonmkl]

1/137.03599913 is even LESS likely and therefore sounds even MORE precise.

[@EthanolTailor]

@@jonmkl well i guess you could say that but a universal constant being a round fraction would be far too convenient

[@PuneetMehra]

If Pauli died in room 137, this is the biggest answer that there is God or alien watching / controlling us and everything else.

[@effortlessawareness8778]

Whose Paul

[@Lak1148]

@@effortlessawareness8778 watch the vid

[@Wigwamwish]

Google Paulis exclusion principle

[@effortlessawareness8778]

Mr. pear Watched it. I learned about the fine structure constant and its numerical value is 1/137. I learned Paul died in room 137, and i learned this at the time the universe was 13.7 billion years old. Boomshakalaka boom

[@Scarletraven87]

No. It's just a chance. There was this article about 2 twins who lived in different continents dying the same day. My mother, ever emotional, commented: "What are the chances?" "One in 365, for every twin couple living apart, to spring up such an article" I replied.

[@gusmore26]

As a Meditation expert, I'm interested in the Fine Structure Constant and the Permeability of Free Space, because if a person has learned to reach the closest thing to the threshold of consciousness in a state of equanimity, that absolutely calm peaceful almost tactile-less-ness smoother than velvet feeling, where and when you're barely aware of yourself and sometimes not, while sitting in, say... a half lotus position, that feeling is in my experienced opinion, the Fine Structure of the Human Mental Universe, and it would be interesting to contemplate how the Permeability of that 'free space' related to what Physicists talk about when they use that term.

[@architectsdesignjournal3269]

8:15 Illuminati confirmed

[@scis3385]

Richard Feynman is my favourite,...and Richard Feynman is my favourite

[@EthanolTailor]

bu he raycist tho

[@vol2reminisce]

What a feynman indeed

[@kjw79]

You just labelled a master number which maintains the order of the universe as coincidence. That’s a bold, unnecessary statement for which there is no evidence either way. If we don’t know why it is, we cannot know how it became.

[@travisaurand7550]

You can know if you like have to change that preception though

[@PandemoniumVice]

Yeah, coincidence isn't quite the right word to use, but it's close. It is that way, because it is that way, nothing more or less. It's neither an accident, nor intentional.

[@dr.ofdubiouswisdom4189]

Dammit! I watch these to try to be smarter...instead I come away feeling stupid. So.....good job??

[@ekici1645]

- Whats in youre cup? - Espresso! - Whats that? Me showing this : 6:25

[@yacovsimons393]

137 is the gimatria (hebrew numerical value) of קבלה/kaballa, meaning 'received'/'reception' - from the infinite Oneness...

[@tfsheahan2265]

So the answer to "Life, the Universe, and Everything" is not 42, but 1/137?

[@harish2309]

isn't it just a case of survival fallacy? we are Carbon based forms and we obviously wouldn't be able to survive in a Universe where alpha was different in a way that would cause no atoms to form. As to why its so fine tuned for "us", I'd say there are infinite universes where the alpha is different and it didn't take off, or maybe it did and there are different forms of life, but it would not be viable to us. We exist here because its the only place we could exist.

[@thstroyur]

WAP: We're here because the conditions for us being here are met SAP: We're here because it's impossible for the abovementioned conditions to not be met CRAP: All this pseudoscientific garbage

[@robertrosenthal7264]

Life is like the water in a glass that is the universe. The glass is not shaped by the water, rather the water is shaped by the glass.

[@sallyforth2955]

Maybe some alien schoolgirl created 137 universes, with mathematical templates for each, and ours is one of them. Each grew differently, like water crystals or flopped.

[@wallyworld817]

2020 the year everyones eyesight is clear. May truth and love shine upon us each and every last one!!! It's an electric universe.

[@edwardlewis1963]

according to wikipedia: 1: 1/137 is an approximation. 2: it is independent of the system of units - which is the interesting part. The fact that it is a dimensionless quantity implies that it is independent of the system of units, however, a non physicist would not understand that; it needs to be explicitly stated. An example of a special number that is independent of the system of units is Pi, the ratio of circumference to diameter of a circle.

[@str0fix]

What is this science populism? As stated it's not 1/137, it's e^2/h*c. There's no need to study it. Charge of electron, Planks constant and speed of light is fundamental constants. The alfa is just those. Should I take electrikal constant and gravitational and sum those so I get new constant , so you do video on this?

[@NovaHolyDays]

If alpha is inversely proportional and the universe is expanding, things always change and wouldn't some of the constants change over time too? Everything was in order then moved into chaos, the 1/137 number is probably changing as we speak in some form or another, fluctuating to become the better of itself like evolution on earth. One person said in the comments that aren't it a coincidence that the alpha number and the age of the universe 13.7 Billion Years? Well maybe yes that the alpha value changes after time and we happen to be living in the best time possible. But after a while, we have to adapt to the sudden changes in every fundamental force in the universe.

[@vknl99]

no, the charge of an electron, planck’s constant and the speed of light are constant values. they do not change

[@TrueWolfPvpMC]

The answer to life, the universe, and everything, 1/137

[@lightdarkequivalent7143]

It's ???% on mob psycho 100 But sure, the golden ratio is fine Your Life is Your Own

[@rajdeepsingh6296]

I was just considering wathing that anime

[@wiseknack4591]

@@rajdeepsingh6296 you should, it's a masterpiece 😁

[@tylermacdonald8924]

Who devised the equation for alpha? And why that arrangement?

[@Mark-zq1tj]

I would presume the conflicting data found in the constant throughout "our" universe, is that the constant IS finely tuned for life everywhere and "throughout" the universe.

[@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep]

So far it looks like the universe was only fined tuned for life on earth, and it really does take a whole universe to be just for life on one planet so it's all required and not a waste.

[@TokyoTraveller]

I really thought you were going to say 42

[@leemcmindes1464]

we all know that 42 times 3 is 137

[@UnfunnyXavier]

Looking at thumbnail i though video will be about " the golden number" 1.618033.... formed from Fibonacci series but what the hell i saw here🙄🙄🙄

[@The.Golden.Door.]

It is about the golden number!!!

[@jpwe10]

Rick C-137

[@damianp7313]

Hes the rickiest Rick I guess that was on purpose

[@catcollision8371]

"Is Our Entire Universe Held Together By One Mysterious Number?" It's a simulation running on a 137 Bit, 299792458 MHz video card in grandma's basement..

[@JohnDoe-nm3lg]

Rick c-137

[@Gavanater7]

If this number is so important we should build are number system around it and change fine structure constant to one and build all other numbers around it.

[@Kube_Dog]

Why?

[@StefSubZero270]

This statement makes no sense

[@maxplaysgamez-sharesgaming1756]

Seeker: Explained The Concept Of 1/134 For 9 Minutes 31 Seconds. Me: In Summary -- *MATTER-MATHICS.*

[@ro-deo119]

Indeed...it's 1/137

[@kidmohair8151]

...held together by ! mysterious thread in a haiku? if you pull on the mysterious thread all will unravel all of it

[@viliusvaiciunas9562]

Watch at the books behind his head moving 8:16

[@quintinkrivacek9800]

Don't know what made me think I would understand this.

[@thebigsad9463]

It's held together by 13.42% of Shaggy's power

[@DaddyAZTL]

Dead meme

[@vol2reminisce]

Did anyone see the books moving?

[@linecraftman3907]

Editing artefact

[@linecraftman3907]

@Giovanni Marrero it's either video compression in editing or on youtube. When we compress videos we don't store every single pixel on screen, we only store what changes between frames. And that algorithm prioritizes moving things. Like sometimes it's easier to just move a head instead of drawing it again but 1 pixel shifted. So the algorithm selects head and in this case took some of the background too

[@Xianpaul0523]

And here I am struggling to passed my algebra 😂🤣

[@isaacponder6829]

They can figure all this stuff out yet I still have to recharge my phone everyday.

[@Constellation3232]

Blame warmongerers

[@paulmichaelfreedman8334]

The Universe has no obligation to make sense to us.

[@PaperDragons]

Terrific editing and storytelling for such a complex subject. Great job.

[@Gsklakshdnalojdg]

Ricardo Milos and Shaggy have made all universe

[@Demiurgos001]

Shaggy created Ricardo Milos with only 10% of his power

[@aasyjepale5210]

Shaggy created himself with only 0.005% of his power

[@robertrosenthal7264]

Sure, and Scooby had nothing to Do with it I guess...

[@Blindashitmetalasfuck]

ALL HAIL THE KEK TELESCOPE!!!

[@thevoicestoldmetoagain4627]

Number or ratio? Pretty sure 1/137 is a ratio and not a number.

[@PEACE17_1]

If there's two objects that had the same amount of force and they were going towards each other, is there a way that they wouldn't go towards each other because some mysterious force was between them? Or is it impossible?

[@kb24crazylaker]

I like how you included God as a possible explanation. Most KZbin channels completely neglect this obvious possibility

[@thetherorist9244]

hahahaha explain how Alpha equals 1/137 please....what the f234k are you saying? Why doesn't Alpha equal 2/2456? who came up with this and how is it achieved?

[@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep]

So true, and the irony God is literally the ONLY explanation. What else is a "causal agent beyond space and time" that is also intelligent and caring since the universe was fine tuned for us. God is the only explanation.

[@millball]

Jesus said "i am the alpha & the omega" 👌

[@millball]

gaurav kocheril I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end." - Revelation 22:13

[@millball]

gaurav kocheril & also And he [Jesus] is before all things, and in him all things hold together. - Colossians 1:17

[@millball]

gaurav kocheril is from the Bible, which is all God's/Jesus' word. Why? Do you not believe? There is plenty of proof.

[@willc9235]

Yup plenty of proof from a text translated god knows how many times over 2000 years ago. I would call that accurate as hell.

[@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep]

@@willc9235 The accuracy and validity of the biblical text has been extensively established. The best scholars in the world are even on record stating such. It's accuracy of secular events is more accurate than secular historical texts even. The dating of scrolls also has established it does indeed have predictive power and 100% prophecy accuracy, like in the case of Daniels prophecies we have texts dated to before the events in the prophecy that would later happen in great detail. We even have had one of the best ship builders in the world in South Korea computer model the ark since the exact dimensions are given and it was found to be able to hold up to waves 50 meters high before it would capsize, tsunami waves for reference are 20-30 meters high. List goes on and on. The bible clearly gets all the details of the creation event correct too. You've heard of the big bang right?

[@ABaumstumpf]

I can tell you why there is no explanation for the value 137: Cause alpha is *NOT* 1/137 - that is just a decent approximation. And same as any other constant - if they were just any different we, as we are now, would not exist. how the universe it self would look, or if there was intelligent life, is a different question.

[@EthanolTailor]

1/137.03599913 to be slightly more precise, i stated the same earlier, this video seems slightly disingenuous.

[@EthanolTailor]

the speed of light is tecnichly more approximate to 3*10^8 than alpha is to 1/137

[@jonleonard538]

In this video it is said (@time 1:30) a (alpha) dictates the force. Not so “a” is a described of the force, or a reference of the force. Though the force may be exact the description of the force can not be. It is constantly being refined.

[@paulmichaelfreedman8334]

The big pisser of the fine structure constant is that it is unitless, all the terms cancel out leaving just a number. Which means we're in the dark as to what is actually IS.

[@GauravSharma-dy8xv]

So basically I learned about the fine structure constant and its numerical value is 1/137. I learned Paul died in room 137, and I learned this at the time the universe was 13.7 billion years old. *Boomshakalaka boom*

[@DA-wr9uy]

Gaurav Sharma shut up

[@KyleDB150]

@@DA-wr9uy noooooo, thats excatly what der gov'ment wants!

[@notlegitbos]

It should have been 69/420

[@KyleDB150]

I posted this above but here you go: If the meaning of life is 42, and life gives zero fucks, then 42=0 what do we have? *420* , the weed number Thanoss killed half the universe, except for himself. (137+1)/2 = *69* , the sex number therefore the meanings of life and the whole universe are sex and weed take that libtards

[@caiheang]

69 It's deep but it's not a secret. Don't know what you guys are talking about.

[@issolomissolom3589]

If u know what i mean *mr.bean meme*

[@thorboy666]

It's the fuckin sex number! 😂😂

[@K1RTB]

That’s why you can’t play it in jeopardy

[@hollo1611]

DAMN YOU I ALREADY POSTED IT

[@hollo1611]

You beat me by 2 hours

[@robdeskrd]

But what is the 1 over 137 a 1 of and, what is the 137? And how do the 3 stated sources interact to produce this ratio? Also if the ratio is derived from light speed than it is a dimensional number, the amount of energy in light or, actual brightness are qualities that arent defined with dimensions but the speed of light is the rate at which it traverses distance which is dimensional measurement Mr. Physics professor.......

[@FranzBiscuit]

First of all, the stated value is incorrect. It's only APPROXIMATELY 1/137. Moreover, the equation they give is ALSO incorrect. It should be multiplied by Coulomb's constant. Finally, the reason it is dimensionless is simply because all the dimensions cancel out once you work out the (actual) equation. For more on that try Googling "dimensional analysis". Hope that helps...

[@KerryEmerson]

Our universe isnt finely tuned for us, we are finely tuned by the nature of our universe.

[@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep]

That's ridiculous. If that was the case life would be possible all over the universe. No the whole universe is clearly fined tuned for life only on one planet earth out of all the galaxies and solar systems.