April patreon video delay
Hi Y'all
The winning topic this month was related to funding in science and NASA versus SpaceX, and another one with a lot of votes was 'brain drain'. I wrote and filmed that video but I ended up making it a main channel video. It's going up sometime this afternoon.
So for the patreon video I am going to choose one of the other topics and post that (hopefully next week??) I am picking Bose Einstein Condensates unless any of you all have incredibly strong opinions about what the video should be instead. (Comment below)
Hope everyone is well!
Comments (32)
I don't really know what I'm doing here, but I'll say this. Science is the truth. Politics is lies.
Delivery is not Digiorno
Just joined, so apologize if I'm out of left field. I was just watching the Simon Whisler side projects about 6 or 7 ways earth might go through another extinction. Made me think about something I have heard before (maybe here?) about what would be left of humans. I think it's interesting backwards thought experiment. We know what we're like, but what would survive buried for millions of years, and then what would it tell the future about us as it's dug up. Reverse dino bones walk through. Just a thought. If I have to vote, I vote for mentoring one below.
BECs; you can even make one at home - https://www.open-quantum.org/
Just watched the functioning governments video. I think what’s underlying the measles outbreak, and why it’s happening the way it’s happening, is that there is a lack of an ability to imagine tragedy. American exceptionalism provides a framework for people to become enamoured with their own Romantic narratives of themselves as purveyors of a secret truth that isn’t part of general society. They stimulate themselves with random noise rather than accepting their socially contingent positions. And so then when the inevitable does strike, they’re so enmeshed in the noise that they can’t comprehend what has happened to them and how it is their fault. They can’t hear it. Idk if this is the post to make that comment but it’s something I’ve written about and the video moved me a lot.
You’re right. What I should have said was “a lack of ability to imagine tragedy can happen to them.” As you frame it, the people who think they’re God’s chosen. Ensured a good life by virtue of moral superiority.
@SamThede your OP got deleted. We need to rally and protect. Our protégé (what’s the opposite of patréon?) is going to attract targeting from the enemies of truth. Ticks all their boxes. They’ll even get in here.
Loving a bit of Bose-Einstein Condensates, memories of being the only kid at school to know about “plasma” — do we call these a “state” or a “phase”? My school teachers in the 1970s and 80s said “state”, but most of my life on the internet was “phase” in the 2000s and 2010s. But since the 2020s I notice it’s “states of matter” again.
Kibitz: To me a phase differs from a state in that phase is a statistical property of a population, a state is narrowly focused. In a way, it's a matter of lensing: if our focus is on a tiny volume, we call what our detector picks up, a state. The hallmark of a phase is the transition we get when we cross an edge in the phase map. Typically the variables on the map are thermodynamic parameters. Counterexample: the Hoyle state. It's just an intermediate step in a process. We know the endpoint of the process, but Hoyle noted that the reaction rate would be too slow if there wasn't some help along the way. He deduced a mediating state that could act as a sort of catalyzing agent. Short-lived of course & in present understanding of quantum mechanics, maybe not even a real state per se, just a statistical property of a certain mixture of dynamical states. We could call it a virtual state. Anyway, an analogy might be that it's like a splash when we skip a stone across a pond. As I recall, one leading model imagines a carbon-12 precursor as a superposition of a triple alpha nuclear state & 3 alpha particles loosely bound into a bent chain. Both of these splashes are incredibly short-lived, but together they might account for pathways to the reaction rate implied by our IRL observation of abundance of the chemical elements.
I'm very pro-BEC. I'm an old superfluid helium person, so it's near and dear to me.
Is there a survey form that I am missing? If so where do I find it?
BECs are one of my favorite things in physics. Unfortunately it also makes me prone to go down the superfluid vacuum rabbit hole. It's the one thing I'm kinda a crackpot about
To be fair, those rabbit holes with superfluid vacuums are really hard to get out of.
You really dialed it up to 11 with the Functioning Government video. Best thing I've watched this year! It makes the most sense on the main channel. Amazing content as usual, looking forward to some BEC action :)
It makes total sense that the "Space X + brain drain" video went in the main channel. People need to hear this. When you put out videos of that kind, I am reminded of how proud I am of supporting you on Patreon.
Point the money hose where it’s needed! I’m learning that we can be as effective with 1/1000th of the money, because faith and passion doesn’t exist on the other side. At least not with those bankrolling it. They can temporarily engage fans of bacon, but bacon fans’ hearts are up for sale.
Maybe just make things simpler for yourself: simply map out an agenda of videos for the coming months instead of a messier system which seems to keep you uncertain of what the next month will bring. Just a suggestion (obviously).
Holy shit! Two cakes!?
I dunno, but a topic highlighted in the popsci news was InTeRnEt QuAnTuM. So like, maybe go into that?
Did she say flower point presentation?
Hope you’re doing well too! I’m an undergrad getting a degree in Chemistry and just wanted to say thanks for your content. It wasn’t too long ago I was in an associate’s degree nursing program, and you talking about how you took the plunge into physics motivated me to explore my interest in STEM further despite my real lack of preparation or exposure to any previous formal STEM education. I’m hoping to be PHD bound after I graduate, we’ll see! Also originally from KY too!
I picked Bose Einstein Condensates so this makes me very happy!
Nope I’m just here to learn and have fun watching you nerd out about your field. Few things are more satisfying than seeing someone talk about something cool that they are passionate about.
Sounds great! Thanks for the content.
No worries!
Sounds good!
looking forward to it
Can you consider Thorium Reactors for the future?
No worries here!
I choose to see this as getting two videos for the price of one so I'm all for it!
Bose Einstein condensates sounds great!
At first I was disappointed, but Bose Einstein condensates? That's another matter entirely!