Will Wormholes Allow Fast Interstellar Travel?

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From Stargate to Interstellar, wormholes are our favorite method for traveling across fictional universes. But they are also a very serious field of study for some of our greatest minds over the last century. So what’s the holdup? When do we get to wormhole ourselves out of here?
Hosted by Matt O'Dowd
Written by Matt O'Dowd
Graphics by Leonardo Scholzer, Yago Ballarini, & Pedro Osinski
Directed by: Andrew Kornhaber
Camera Operator: Bahaar Gholipour
Executive Producers: Eric Brown & Andrew Kornhaber
End Credits Music by J.R.S. Schattenberg: / @jrsschattenberg
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[@TVNDRA]

The fact that you’d have to calculate your math 100% dead accurate when plotting a jump otherwise you get pulled into a black hole is terrifying

[@gentrymiller3170]

they call it dead accurate for a reason lol

[@jameshicks317]

Hmm very interesting mate

[@jameshicks317]

Multi near connected universe..

[@jameshicks317]

Relative to how the rest of the galaxy s÷es us. As little gravity hot messes hurdles towards them with a very small chance of life on one of its rocky planets

[@Nedula007]

When the time comes, I think maybe with machine learning and AI we will be OK. Humans will have to leave the milky way to survive and I believe we will.

[@mrspidey80]

"I need someone to hang out with" Cat: Am i nothing to you??

[@rc5989]

My cat has stepped up the interaction level from 10/10 cat to 5/10 dog. Quite an increase in logarithmic clingyness!

[@stylis666]

@@rc5989 lol So it's not only my cat. That's a relief.

[@chriskennedy2846]

Oh, God I've been pronouncing Schwarzschild incorrectly this whole time. However, I can pronounce scifi correctly - as in "wormholes are just more scifi crap."

[@lh1690]

Don't hang out with Schrodinger Mr. Cat. He is one sick B@st4rd!

[@fliu5282]

Yes because when you look at me [Cat] I am alive but when you don't look at me i am actually dead. I am both dead and alive at the same time. I am Constant looking for the matter named Mr. Plank while passing the field named quantum.

[@hdshjs]

I like the background here. It's nice to know that Matt came back from space, even if just for a short time, and recorded the episode at home for once :)

[@Aquillyne]

I like the idea that there are millions of little wormholes that can be expanded. It’s very much like The Subtle Knife: “windows can be found anywhere, but not everywhere”

[@alantorres2256]

What does that mean? They need to be fabricated?

[@alexv3357]

@@alantorres2256 Windows can be anywhere, but you need to find them

[@rifusaki]

His Dark Materials spotted 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥

[@MrChrisluke42]

16:44 Cat disappears into a wormhole.

[@sup2069]

Then returns stretching 😆

[@ariochiv]

He both disappears into the wormhole and doesn't disappear into the wormhole.

[@Ruffian_Xion]

@Jason Strom Is it a ball of wool? That would explain the cat's attraction to it.

[@secularmonk5176]

@Dan Ryan That sounds ... dirty

[@annakeye]

@Dan Ryan You've met my cat. He was always bringing worms, and parts there-of, home for us.

[@deeliciousplum]

14:19 painfully adorable kitteh travels through wormhole and finds itself on Matt O'Dowd's vid on wormholes. 🐈

[@Soulguard1]

That was a quantum cat from Schrodinger's experiment where the cat enter a super position and just resolved it's position.

[@jackielinde7568]

Is it The Cat Who Walked Through Walls?

[@jamessullivan4391]

🖕🐈‍⬛s

[@isntitabeautifulday1648]

The automatic english subtitles translate "Schwarzschild" by "fart shields". Have a good day.

[@TheExoplanetsChannel]

Lol

[@futurespeak9648]

Carl's fart shield haha

[@realzachfluke1]

Just lol

[@keithmichael112]

@@futurespeak9648 he actually ripped a hole in space time, so he invented the fart shield, his greatest achievement

[@Cyberplayer5]

When I turned on the autosub, laugh so hard that it generated it's own Schwarzschild solution,LMAO.

[@liamjohnston2000]

The conditions is more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules. - Einstein Barbosa

[@Joe-xo4yg]

Liam Johnston Savvy 🙃

[@TheExoplanetsChannel]

Oh

[@RIZFERD]

Remember how the tarot card readings are so accurate, yet I also met one of my Ancestors back in 2012 on Bali as Bali 4 mountains area is the Gate 7 of Planet Earth's Chakra 7th which is Mount Kailash Tibet (China/India), my belated Mother who passed away in her 27 years old of age with my younger sister just after birth also met Ancestors at her teenage and also quantum traveled with my belated younger Auntie from one point to another in a same day here on Sumatra Indonesia by a lightbeings we called The Bunians. So many scientific matters sounds like a fairytale for most people. Telepathy is the smallest digestible example for majority of people, or telephone, satellite internet connection, and so on. #SpaceTravel #quantumphysics #darkenergy #quantumtravel #quantumteleportation #teleportation #telecommunications

[@paavobergmann4920]

@@RIZFERD going to bed a little earlier might help.

[@kvdrr]

@@RIZFERD sure buddy, but did you take your meds?

[@mikeo759]

14:18 Schrodinger appears

[@Orthanc6]

Cats are constantly in a state of being both on and off every part of the internet

[@brubrusuryoutube]

16:44 Schrodinger disappears

[@captindo]

I laughed harder then I probably should have lol.

[@smartart6841]

Where

[@FullmoonW0lf]

A living cat showed up, a minute of silence for the dead version of it

[@stylis666]

Make sure to send the gesture to the corresponding universes. Would be sad if it never reached them.

[@skylesai]

lol.

[@TheExoplanetsChannel]

:(

[@n0yn0y]

I will always be remembered

[@edwardofgreene]

For a second I thought I was watching The Hockey Guy channel.

[@battlefieldcustoms873]

Video: *shows science and unimaginable mathematical data* KZbin commenters: oH LoOK A kItTy

[@guytheincognito4186]

A teleporting kitty. Finally we have it recorded, cats do have one paw in quantum physics. Lol

[@battlefieldcustoms873]

Guy The Incognito damnit lol there is always a first, I am ok with it but he needs a cool science name PBS should do a poll

[@guytheincognito4186]

@@battlefieldcustoms873 Indeed 😆👌

[@Syranovara]

I came for the cat. I stayed for the big words... and small hard to understand words..

[@tomkerruish2982]

Creating a wormhole is easy: you just need a piece of paper to fold and a pencil to poke through it. Works in the movies every time! (Thanks to Andrew Dotson for this observation.)

[@jennyreid722]

Event Horizon is my favourite for this

[@anthonystark3959]

​@@jennyreid722 Libera Te Tutemet Ex Inferis

[@abraneveah5677]

Most important question: what is the name of the grey kitty?

[@Kalorag]

yes, I expect full introduction next episode.

[@jaronwillemadriaanvangolve6351]

Schrodinger's Cat

[@ogieogie]

You mean the magic teleporting disappearing kitty-cat?

[@jaronwillemadriaanvangolve6351]

@@ogieogie Definitely in Super-Position

[@scotthammond3230]

@@jaronwillemadriaanvangolve6351 If you observe the cat, it disappears

[@JrunkJesus]

Me: “hmm...I never thought about that. Totally makes-OOH KITTY!!!😻”

[@MsSonali1980]

Same... but I was ohhh Katooooo :P

[@pressaltf4forfreevbucks179]

You know this is gonna be a hard one when he says "we are gonna try to follow them"

[@Commander-Ledi]

i forgot everything i had learned from this video the moment i saw the cat

[@thenaimis]

If you've done six impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

[@Xeridanus]

Let me just get my towel.

[@3PercentNeanderhal]

42

[@Its-Just-Zip]

I really needed that joke about a galactic scale pandemic, got a solid laugh out of me there. Thank you.

[@danilooliveira6580]

technically the "global" was called for, since "pan" means all, but the virus didn't reach the ISS yet, so it never left the globe into orbit. so yeah, he was correct.

[@BothHands1]

omg best part of the vid, had me wheezing 😂

[@bytefu]

On a serious note, a galactic-scale pandemic is pretty much impossible, because of vast distances and time periods required to travel that far. By the time a ship would reach another star (actually, its surroundings), all the sick people would have healed and developed immunity. And it would be like 10th generation of people at best. But I like the idea, would be nice to have it in the next version of Plague Inc 😀

[@aviralrastogi]

@@bytefu Cool Idea, someone email plague inc.

[@bskibinski]

@@bytefu Not saying that you're wrong, just that 'caveman' probably would have said the same thing about a global pandamic ;-)

[@asdfdfggfd]

The best way to survive going through a wormhole is to install a teleporter device on either end, then just send the teleporter data between the sides. This also greatly reduces the amount of exotic matter a space traveler needs to make in their particle accelerator.

[@h4z4rd1000]

It would also kill the traveler at the beginning of the travel and then create a replica on the other side. Doesn't Heisenbergs uncertainty principle prevent us from creating anything like a teleporter?

[@fubaralakbar6800]

"Fart shield solution" Humanity's only hope for traveling the stars.

[@keekwai2]

And how do you plan to carry the100s of 1000s of tons of baked beans required to generate enough farts to propel a huge spacecraft several light-years?

[@ducksonplays4190]

@@keekwai2 its simple you have a wormhole carrying baked beans

[@phillynott2459]

Funny

[@cameronmilligan]

Between Carl"s Fart Shield and Ludwig Phlegm, youtube"s wormholes are kind of nasty

[@lepotato135]

I CAN'T DO THIS I KNEW IT SOUNDED LIKE THAT. 😂 Your comment is beautiful.

[@sermah]

"In 1915 Carl's fart shields.." Thx KZbin

[@albertjackinson]

Lol; the automatic subtitles are hilariously dumb :D

[@corvardus]

You never know Carl's Fart Shields may be the exotic matter we're looking for to traverse a wormhole.

[@albertjackinson]

@@corvardus Maybe :D

[@bersl2]

My inner 12-year-old lost it :3

[@albert6157]

I read: "In 1915 Carl's fart shields.." Thanks for watching

[@alexandernichols413]

“There is literally everything in space!” - Rick Sanchez

[@nicosmind3]

Including snakes!

[@pistolpunch349]

Golden!

[@rasfdrsafdre]

@Rafi Daryl Hafiz how can i enlighten ur tiny mind, of space is rly endless, all things u have described, exists. if u cant understand that its totaly ok, just dont assume any things u dont know about, basicly everything thx.

[@TheBlaseGuy]

Bitchute is better than KZbin kkkkkkkt

[@SpanishArmadaProd]

no

[@dennistucker1153]

Wow...episodes like this make me happy I got into an applied science field. Love ya Matt.

[@jankoberic7620]

The cat shows up at 16:17 You're welcome

[@_zkk_1175]

through a wormhole !!!!!!!!! omg

[@boffo25]

I can see you have the Schrodinger's cat. Do you feel dead, alive on in a superposition?

[@AlexHanselka]

Next weeks live stream def needs to include the kitty ❤️

[@Jop_pop]

As an amateur mathematician I appreciate your casual use of the term "multiply connected" 2:36

[@7reemo]

Very cool. Keep up the great work sir. Soo complex and interesting @ the same time.

[@FineFlu]

I love how you end episodes with ‘spacetime’ its iconic

[@megan_alnico]

AMA - Ask Me Anything: Anything Goes AMAA - Ask Me Almost Anything: Normally used to say ”Ask me anything that's safe for work” Or at least that's what I understand from my Reddit experience.

[@placer7412]

Hey Megan A will you do an AMA?

[@megan_alnico]

@@placer7412 nobody's interested in that.

[@raV_3d]

3:25 “Do. Or do not. There is no try.” Master Yoda

[@gimmethatsweetknowledge2478]

I always find my way here at 1am.

[@swordmage]

16:43: Someone opened the box!

[@Doktor47]

7:38 actual footage of the passenger seat while being driven by his wife.

[@RandomNullpointer]

I repeated that part 3 times to make sure the confusion wasn't because of what I smoked.

[@averyce2]

HAHAHAHA!!

[@thefirstsin]

Its been 5 years this man is amazing!

[@Fedethedangerous95]

I've seen this video after some months of not keeping up with your updates, it was quite like seeing an old friend!

[@Thalario]

1:50 and I've finally understood the wormholes of Greg Egan's "Diaspora" 14:10 scratch that

[@johncao6516]

16:16 The true mastermind behind Spacetime finally revealed their identity.

[@midnight1672]

Now I understand why it's called the grey eminence!

[@stephencregorykelley9850]

This was an awesome video, thank you for discussing this!

[@joshuacox7483]

You guys are so awesome! Keep these coming.

[@aliservan7188]

Can you do a video with more math? I know most people don't know enough math, but the math is beautiful and even if you can't solve the equations, you can still appreciate the form.

[@Ariemius]

Seriously high level math is like beautiful abstract art.

[@cp37373]

Lol

[@mina86]

Why just one Math? I say, more Maths!

[@igorastral4816]

Keep up the excellent work you have been doing so far! Thank you Matt!

[@robertschlesinger1342]

Excellent video. Interesting and worthwhile video for all to see.

[@kirkjohnson9353]

This can't be how things actually work . I've never heard Picard mention this guy.

[@keithmichael112]

Plus you would probably run into evil Riker on the other side

[@thehumanistisin9924]

Idk how to tell you this, but Star Trek is fiction.

[@js4981]

@@thehumanistisin9924 You're just like my father when he told me Santa Claus wasn't real: a filthy liar.

[@thehumanistisin9924]

@@js4981 🤪

[@WeeWeeJumbo]

Your home is better-looking than the usual green-screen graphics. There I said it

[@DissedRedEngie]

Burn the heretic

[@Xpistos510]

"Seriously guys, I need someone to hang out with." "Well human, it appears that you forfeited cuddles for the next 12 months." - Cat

[@inveele]

Imagine flat-earthers watching this 🤯

[@bane4743]

Come we all know they are going to scream fake. I used to argue them but I'm done. It's like having conversations with a wall.

[@kanchanapuranik6474]

@@bane4743 ur right

[@vetakousting]

U cant have a conversation with a flat earther. Ive tried to explain why flat earth is impossible but they dont wanna listen😭😂

[@mountainjew1474]

@@vetakousting You can have only two parallel monologues with flat earther but no dialogue.

[@azzy831]

I am watching it )) i try to understand blackhole. It become interesting.👍👍👍😁😁😁

[@johnnafunkhouser5999]

Always perfect! Thanks

[@NewMessage]

Fast Interstellar Travel? I'd settle for a leisurely trip to the grocery store at this point of the lockdown.

[@madderhat5852]

Says he needs someone to hang out with, cat's tail immedialtly goes into anger mode.

[@clobbopus_used_beat]

Amazing stuff as always!

[@jish55]

Probably my favorite explanation to wormhole travel is to think of traveling from point a to point b in space as one very long line, but figuring out wormhole travel would essentially take point b and put it next to a, essentially removing the necessity to travel from one area to another in extended periods of time.

[@A-Legitimate-Salvage]

The Swartchild wormhole seems like a big tease: sure, you can achieve interstellar travel, that is, if you’ve already mastered FTL Edit: No, I’m not correcting the spelling

[@EvenTheDogAgrees]

Or better yet: cryogenics and time travel. And if you really want to troll an immortal observer: travel to a distant planet's past, but do it in stints, where every 50 years or so, you travel 100 years into the past while maintaining position. For them, it'll be like watching Memento. ;)

[@thiago.assumpcao]

Since it requires infinite energy to reach speed of light that is just another way of saying you can't cross it.

[@ioratv]

@@EvenTheDogAgrees please explain that like I am stupid

[@thegrunch6448]

Schwartzschild* it doesn't have any relation to a child just saying

[@A-Legitimate-Salvage]

u giey Well, I spelled it better than I thought I had

[@darrennew8211]

Robert Forward's "Timemaster" is a very hard-sci-fi novel about finding exotic matter and using it to open a wormhole. It's quite entertaining.

[@gregorysagegreene]

I miss 80's Sci Fi authors. I believe Forward wrote 'Dragon's Egg', which was an awesome read.

[@derrick211000]

Love these videos they make me think and learn.

[@lancethrustworthy]

Thank you for existing. Please continue.

[@danielcoert2597]

Amazingly explained once again! I don't know how Matt makes these ideas so understandable. Please do a video on Sir Roger Penrose' CCC theory sometime!

[@troyyoung8167]

Daniel Coert yes however I challenge anybody to provide some realism about (1) a person remaining in tact when moving at the speed of light, and (2) how one would age when in a super gravity field vs the fact that they are there now and there now (that place at that time) regardless of how “space time” “bends”.

[@thenovicenovelist]

I agree. It's one thing to know the subject matter. Being able to explain it in a way that non-experts can understand it is a completely different skill. I have a M.S. in Marketing Communications, but I love learning about space and my childhood dream was to work as an astronomer for SETI. My former best friend got her PhD in molecular biology. She had this ability to break down complex knowledge into easy-to-understand explanations. I told her that was an impressive skill to have and she could use it in a variety of ways. Unfortunately, she was so worried about making her future in-laws like her, she did a complete 180 on her personality and now she's a pretty hateful person who believes in religious conspiracy theories peddled by her in-laws and social media rather than actual science. It's very sad.

[@videosbymathew]

Sliders! That would have been the show of choice to mention, even more than Stargate (love them both!)

[@bensiveges]

And Farscape.

[@MsSonali1980]

@@bensiveges Oh man, I loved Farscape so much, also Sliders and then Stargate.. but Farscape I loved more.

[@solomonkane6442]

Been watching sliders reruns on the horror channel I remember it from the 90s loved the show it looks really dated now I had the biggest crush on wade 😍

[@BobJones20001]

Sliders for me, then Stargate the movie, Farscape I never got into, good calls though.

[@eduardofracassi3113]

Thanks, great work!

[@Maddin1313]

Let's assume you have a stable, traversable wormhole: How would you control the location of the entrance/exit?

[@someguy7137]

Idk make somkind of engine with the anti matter that is able to move the hole around. Like the barrel of a gun the entry probably wouldn't have to move much to have a massive effect on the exit point

[@whatsupbudbud]

You would create the wormhole with specific destination in mind.

[@garethdean6382]

A wormhole's exit has energy and thus responds to gravity. You can 'tow' it behind a large mass (Or if the energy is negative, push it). Similar ideas have been mooted for moving asteroids or small black holes. Of course if the wormhole is very massive you might have to move a star to shift it.

[@luongmaihunggia]

He *ALREADY* mentioned that at 11:49 even a stable transversal wormhole like the one by a rotating black hole would have no known way of controlling it destination.

[@unknownfact4466]

You'd need some cool dudes on the other end to rev it up too.

[@stiqula]

Yaaaass I've waited YEARS for you to discuss Susskind and Maldacena's entangled black holes!!

[@blubastud]

You know, you should just rename this the dream crusher series. I swear everytime you address a popular Sci fi trope I just prepare for my hopes to be crushed. No time travel, no wormholes, no white holes, hey wait warp engines are possible? Nope requires unobtanium exotic matter.. Why does the universe conspire to keep us from exploring it? I'm starting to believe this really is a simulation. *edit This is the most reaction I've ever had to a comment. It was a comment made in jest but some folks seemed to have taken it serious lol.

[@maxsalmon4980]

*touches earpiece* Yes. I have located a target. Need physical location on 'blubastud' before they can spread counter-sim memes.

[@timothyhilditch]

My suggestion give up on string theory. Which has become stale and cancerous to Physics. Rethink everything and rebuild from the ground up.

[@XavionofThera]

Really? I don't come away from any of these videos thinking these things are impossible, they just require materials and understanding beyond our current one. Notice how much these ideas come into contact with unknown areas of physics?

[@tgoddard1988]

Agree with you dude, they really should rename this channel something like “sci-fi debunked” as that’s all this guy ever talks about! But I wouldn’t worry, they are constantly proving and disproving things, some people like to believe we are the night of scientific understanding, but if you listen long enough, they all say that what we know about physics is barely scratched the surface. One thing he said though is completely true, it will be hundreds of years though before we actually have any concept of the real story. Human kind will (if we make it through quarantine) crack faster than light travel, in every century you have the nay sayers who say “man cannot fly” and “man cannot travel into space” because they apart her shady believe they know matter of factly it’s not possible, with all the “scientific” evidence to back themselves up, but it’s the dreamers who find the way for everyone.

[@captindo]

Well, most scientists of the day thought the Wright brothers couldn't achieve flight because, well, ignorance. Really think about it, nature refuses and we create and over come, and, as a species, we will figure out space travel, just like the explorers of old sailing into destiny, we will as well.

[@kokroucz]

I love that piece of art on wall behind you

[@guillaumemaurice3503]

Thank you for sharing this ❤️ that was very interesting 😊.

[@deadguy389]

Me:going to sleep PBS:new video.... Me:well well guess I'm not going to other side by warmhole.....

[@vitallygolovanov8321]

Like for the very second word being Stargate, the name of my favourite sci-fi franchise!

[@troyyoung8167]

Vitally Golovanov totally

[@frankkubrick865]

love this show so much

[@johneonas6628]

Thank you for the video.

[@den4213]

Let's suppose that 2 wormholes collide. Does this mean that also on the other side they collide? It would imply that the two sides are somehow always spacetime-linked. Or does this mean that we can enter a black hole and "exit" in two random different locations? You are a great channel! Keep up the astonishing work!

[@arielcurra7647]

I never thought worm holes could explain quantum entanglement, it's a brilliant idea

[@SirThomasJames]

Thank you for pronouncing Schwarzschild correctly. I keep hearing "Schwarts Child" all the time, lol.

[@youknowwhoiam1314]

Kip Thorne, the man that makes space movies awesome with realness

[@captainsugar01]

I would like to kindly request an episode featuring your kitty as Nyan cat passing through a wormhole to a planet of pure catnip and scratching posts

[@dillbourne]

"These energy conditions are more guidelines than rules". I think Barbosa suddenly developed an interest in physics.

[@multitudeofidols]

2:05 I'm so used to it being referred to as the Einstein-Rosen-Podolsky bridge.

[@lainard13]

Damn. Another goosebump-inducing video. 😮

[@wangtoriojackson4315]

16:44 How do we know that this *isn't* a galactic pandemic? It could be the Space Flu for all we know and there could be thousands of other worlds affected.

[@garethdean6382]

We have its genome, it's very similar to other coronaviruses and SARS in particular. A space flu might not even HAVE DNA.

[@asherikamichaela8425]

The possibility of tiny wormholes popping in and out of existence makes me think of quarks that have been said to do the same thing. Interesting coincidence... 🤔

[@epicsmashman6806]

Because they both emerge from quantum field fluctuations

[@frankjoseph5450]

Quarks is where I like to go for drinks on the promenade 🤪

[@jamezbrian4135]

You have to get that small first. Zip

[@scottt9382]

Actually, all quantum phenomena 'pop' in and out of existence - i.e. virtual particles. See also quantum field theory. (~ a helpful physicist)

[@asherikamichaela8425]

@@scottt9382 Many thanks!

[@kagannasuhbeyoglu]

Great content.👍👍

[@BunnyslippersEUC]

Loving the dry humour at the end.

[@co9648]

About to get my degree. You have truly helped me very much. You provide so much insight in such a short time, its incredible. You all need to take notes! 🤓

[@dennisrasmussen798]

Aggugu nugu bugu

[@user-rf4vc7mt4d]

degree in what?

[@MalcolmCooks]

"Carl's Fart Shield" 0:23

[@omaro77]

MalcolmCooks cracked me up

[@CMDR_John_Crichton]

Can't unhear it

[@Games_and_Music]

Oh damn, i checked the comments before i made my comment, but i now see yours. I heard the same thing haha, i had to Google the guy to see who he was talking about, Karl Schwartzschild.

[@Ultiminati]

the subtitles lololol

[@ralseineo9481]

This was a interesting video!

[@luketaylor1257]

Could we do episodes about specific objects in space? Like an episode all about a specific nebula, or galaxy, or star cluster, or single star, or comet, or moon, and go into what astronomical things caused it to form, or what mysteries it holds, or what we can tell about the universe at large from it or something like that? All this big concept stuff is fascinating but sometimes I just want to learn about fancy rocks.

[@Rassilon42Omega]

*_"...Quantum Foam makes me roam, Yale in France has no chance..."_*

[@Kalumbatsch]

He's got the "Schwarzschild" pronunciation almost down now. Now just a "sh" at the beginnning and it's perfect 😃

[@gabor6259]

But will he learn to say Szekeres?

[@ignotumperignotius630]

I would say it right once and then anglicise it to /shwarts child / just to annoy you

[@nacho9865]

I can’t help myself when I see a video that says space time like that

[@bzybert872]

I love this show and watch it often. 👍

[@kjpmi]

Awww. Hey kitty. I hope you gave him (or her) a cool spacey/physics-y name. I’m going to assume it’s Fermi or Star Dust or something like that.

[@mn-ru4li]

Please sir, I'd like to know more about the Einstein Rosen parallel reality bridge... thing

[@austencourpet]

I am so intrigued by black holes, dark matter, and dark energy. And yet every time I read a new article, book, or watch a scientist talk about them, I feel like I am learning about them all over again from square one.

[@pigalow2002]

I strongly suspect “dark” matter & energy are alternative explanations for “we don’t know “. I don’t have a lot of faith in their validity.

[@umairshaikh8048]

Wow great inf Tnx keep it up

[@ikkeheltvanlig]

I literally laughed out loud at that last bit about everybody being grateful you were specific 😂

[@qmurec]

Matt, you are a global treasure! (And I hope that I am not too specific in this case regarding any interstellar future)

[@Craftlngo]

Love the Photo-Bomb at the end of the video

[@jordanscott8307]

Upon clicking on this video I immediately said out loud (in response to the title) "I know the answer is no but tell me some interesting things about wormholes"

[@noeldenever]

I humbly request you to feature the grey kitty during your live stream, Good Sir. Please. A bit of furry face will be huge comfort during this global pandemic.

[@TheRolemodel1337]

is dark matter constantly falling into black holes? making them grow w/o any evidence for the BH feeding (besides gaining mass)

[@samsungtelevision695]

TheRolemodel1337 this is a great question. I’m not a physicist but to consider the converse, it’s hard to imagine how all dark matter could avoid black holes right? Hopefully some qualified commenter will jump in.

[@tabularasa0606]

No, apparently Dark Matter only generates gravity but is not subject to it. I believe Matt explained it in an earlier episode.

[@Drkwll]

@@tabularasa0606 no, dark matter is subject to gravity too.

[@Nadhriq00]

Strategy of tranversing black hole is like opening a door to your house without your parents noticing and each door creaks will determine what year you arrive to your bed room.

[@eliyahkilada338]

Excellent.