March Video Poll
Choose as many as you like! If there is something specific or interesting you want me to think about leave comment.
I break a tie.
Comments (14)
The Webb telescope’s early galaxy problems and potential explanations including new hypothesis that overlapping universes might explain them?
I work in tech and there are all kinds of obscure and forgotten math that found practical applications or ended up being solutions to problems in Computer Science, Graphics, AI, network theory, cryptography, etc. My favorite is Quanternions in 3D graphics. I'd love to find out when that's happened with physics.
Anton Petrov's most recent video is about the idea that "dark energy" arises from different bubble universes merging. There's a link to the 2023 paper proposing the idea in the description. I'd be most interested in what you think. Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg4PZst9a5g
To piggy back on potential sources of dark energy, a recent PBS Spacetime video discussed the idea that the Hubble Tension could be a result of cosmic voids acting like bubbles, which to my untrained brain was a super-fascinating idea.
I read a interesting article about gravitational waves and the LISA project a couple days ago, it could be interesting at some point to discuss the applications of large detectors like this, also this might be a stretch but what speed do gravitational waves propagate at and would this in any way be useful to synchronise distant clocks if we wished to measure the one way speed of light? I could definitely see gravitational waves being useless for this suffering from the same problems as light but I mean it's not light so is it possible? How would the space probes in LISA have there clocks synchronised or avoid needing such clocks?
Gravity propagates at the speed of light in a vacuum, because aside from being the speed of light, it is also a measure of the speed at which things can happen in this universe.
be careful i once told my nephew who asked about the economy to go read how bad russia had it in the great depression, he googled "ru 34 inflation" now I am not allowed to see him anymore :(
The inflation one is interesting as it pertains to the inflation book I mentioned in a recent reply. The obscure math one could be fascinating, e.g. even though String Theory isn't testable, what insights and tools have mathematicians and mathematical physicists gained from it? The supercolliders one is interesting, given a recent relisten of a talk between Brian Greene and I think Sam Harris, where he mentioned to test ST we'd need a collider the size of the galaxy, which as he put it, is just not possible in this funding climate. The John C. Wright Golden Age trilogy has a character who built a supercollider around Jupiter for making an element over atomic number 900! lol
Why is gravity weaker than the other forces?
I would like to know why my Netflix bill has gone up so much, in relation to the Big Bang. Or whatever you prefer. 🤷🏻♂️
Would love to revisit some choices from the December poll like Science Museums :D
I think it would be nice to give a second for some high voted subjects from past months
Betelgeuse
Just don't say it or it's Gleise number 3 times.