Matt O'Dowd talks "Spacetime," Einstein, and Mr. Spock's Dad!

[@Hostile_Design]

Found Spacetime fairly recently, it's probably the best show about space I have ever seen. I'm so tired of the dumbed down narration, shallow facts and flashy graphics of your average documentary and the annoying, overly energetic style of your average KZbin videos. Matt is a great host and the information is presented in a very clear manner without any of the bullshit.

[@Anaximander29A]

This!

[@2CSST2]

Couldn't have said it better. The quality, the substance, the precision of the explanations are many many levels better than the average cosmos video on youtube. Not to mention those also often have errors or misconception of the actual concepts presented.

[@p382742937423y4]

Good conversation. And what a good host. Enthusiastic and intelligent/informed.

[@Guizambaldi]

Matt, I'm an economist interested in physics, and your PBS spacetime is my favourite channel on the whole of KZbin, maybe together with 3blue1brown. Thank you very much, you and your team.

[@berengamble1882]

This interviewer did such a great job. As always, love your explanations, Matt.

[@alexandragrace8164]

Matt is so awesome as is Spacetime, and I'm glad he brought up the problems with Big Bang Theory.

[@HurricaneOG]

He's right at the end, learning more about physics and the universe reveals how "magical" a place it really is.

[@johnbates2709]

Matt is such a brilliant communicator on all things quantum and space time, the clarity of how he communicates often abstract areas. I really like the clarity of how he puts it across, which seems to give a great starting point to thinking about these areas of astrophysics.

[@mirkx7382]

see that happiness when matt talks about quasars.....

[@AutisticThinker]

1:41 - Only Matt can make awesome science jokes. :)

[@Tripskull]

A quantum comedian lol

[@PantsuMann]

Fantastic interviewer. This was great. Prof Matt is awesome.

[@scumbagdyln]

Spacetime FTW!!!

[@teashea1]

The best interview of Matt

[@klugyboy1500]

I thought I was pretty clever until I began watching Space Time...

it does that to people

[@Posesso]

Really liked it! 9:03 Matt, you failed to say Accretion Disk, and she was trying to get it out of your tongue! You forgot the word fire to describe the fire spitting bat winged unicorn :P You are still the bestest

[@LiquidAudio]

Spacetime is awesome, likewise this interview!

[@Tripskull]

Humble Matt. You are the 2k Einstein to all of us!

[@hotdrippyglass]

Yet another very well produced video! Nice work on the editing, and adding in the relevant images as well as the back ground images during the conversation. There only one and a half thousand of us signed up now but this channel has every reason to grow exponentially in the near future. Try getting together with Complexly for some cross pollination because there is a lot of similarity between your two channels. This deserves a larger audience and there is a larger audience that deserves to hear what you are saying.

[@chrisnurse6430]

Matt is up there alongside Neil deGrasse Tyson as a science communicator. Australia is very proud 😍

[@christianpetersen163]

Her:" Quasars? I don't know what that is! DERP! Please mansplain to me what active galactic nucleus I MEAN... Quasars! Are."

[@TngMutantNinjaTroll]

24:44 As one of those loyal members I can answer that with one word. _Curiosity._ But that's just me.

[@logiconabstractions6596]

That's a really good popular interview from a leading astrophysicist.

[@manojkhatri7259]

Loved her curiosity

[@Canisestlupus]

invite a man who spoke of things of unimaginable scale, horrors beyond visible universe, things, that even light couldn't reach anymore, and ask him stupid questions about big-bang tv-show

[@berengamble1882]

Ah, but there-in lies the cleverness.. she's making it accessible to the layperson by filtering it through a lens of a popular reference.

[@mubashshiruddin3567]

I am so lucky my first idol in science was Richard feynman

[@Bandofmodernbrothers]

Big fan of matt, and spacetime, but this host needs to do some more research in the questions.

[@p382742937423y4]

Really? For mainstream media i thought this was actually REALLY good. How did you figure

[@ask230]

Is she playing dumb? She hosts a science show. She must know more than she's letting on and is asking these definitional questions for the audience's benefit. Just funny how she's doing it.

[@MrBanzoid]

Matt's correct that the original astronomers were amateurs. Perhaps the most well-known amateur astronomer of recent times was dear old Sir Patrick (Caudwell) Moore. The very earliest astronomers made money on the side by writing horoscopes. In the very early days, astronomy and astrology were the same.

[@winstonchang777]

You can't just understand Space-Time by being smart... Unfortunately, if one is born blind but very very intelligent, cannot quite grasp space if he cannot see an illustration of space-time on a blackboard.... So, our senses expands our mind but we only have five senses...... An alien with 11 senses can speak of things we cannot quite understand WE ARE LIMITED BY OUR SENSES....

[@prof1crl]

Nonsense. You can create simulations simplifying a lot of the more complex problems. We are limited by funding, not by our senses.

[@nickinurse6433]

Are these really the best questions they could come up with for this genius? your anus jokes? Really? Geeze...they couldn't find someone who passed high school science to interview Matt?

[@zes3813]

wrr

[@obscurity3027]

The Big Bang Theory is honestly one of the worst TV shows ever produced. It's just awful.

[@umair9456]

Sorry to say that..but most of his videos he tries to complex things up with preassumption that all the audience have an astronomical degree etc.. videos have an awesome title but I always get confused more watching him.. an awful orator

[@TheKaurK]

I understand your frustration but it's on you and not on the host. His idea isn't to entertain you with dumbed down jargain. There are plenty of shows out there that already do that. His work asks of his viewers to engage with what he is talking about. You gotta research your basics, watch all his previous videos, and in general be willing to learn about astronomy overall. The result is that you get to learn about astronomy in a much more realistic sense, which I personally find to be way more mind blowing. Point is, astrophysics is hard and this channel is operating on the advanced level and you may need an easy mode. BUT just because you need an easy mode, doesn't mean the advance mode is an "awful orator". He is a fantastic host and he does a very difficult job really well.

[@umair9456]

@@TheKaurK Its, not my frustration, It's just the point i hope should reach him. I disagree with that that its audience fault to not fully grasp the idea of what's going on or what the host is talking about, I mean so why should I watch a youtube video then... Its the duty of host to make his presentation clear and clean. His accent is also quite awful just like his approach. Segan, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Michio Kaku all were excellent hosts, I don't feel like the most brilliant minds trying to lecture me some rocket science or throwing some wannabe concepts upon the audience(brag in a way) . they make things clear and they are far far better than this man in intelligence and qualification I guess. Matt O'Dowd does not know at all what a host should do... he may be excellent in his academic career. I don't care.

[@lucifer2133]

@@umair9456 I adore Carl Sagan and like Neil quite a bit as well, but make no mistake - what they deliver is a story designed so anybody can understand it. It really is like a kiddy drawing of a house, compared to a detailed blueprint of architecture, engineering and 10 other disciplines. You recognise it's a house and they tell you it has walls and a roof, but that doen't mean you have any idea what a house is really comprised of. The point of most televised programs is to give a hint of what physics has to offer, but the actual science remains totally hidden. I think Matt and PBS team have the absolute best presentation of any televised physics show in history. This is a channel for aspiring scientists or people who want to get atleast some basic grasp of the actual science. The topics are actually fairly broadly covered and an undergraduate student will find them to be very nice presentations of concepts, but by no means enough to grasp a subject. For that you would have to study said concepts rigorously, learn the supporting skills needed to even tackle them and turn them inside-out 100 times to get a good idea about the actual workings of the physics behind them. Lastly the language they use is not about bragging. It's the only way to convey the actual meaning of the subject matter. You cannot simplify a complex problem beyond a point, without sacrificing the understanding of it. P.S. If any of Michio Kaku's babbling has led you to believe you understand physics, do reconsider!

[@holandreas]

He is an amazing lecturer, but his videos are aimed at people with a foot in the world of physics already.

[@redaabakhti768]

@@umair9456 you have to make some mental effort to understand what he's saying and its also not for the broadest audience but people who did prior research on that (assuming they were interested int he subject before clicking on the video)