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Re: PBS SpaceTime

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Post by Jerrrry » Fri, May 20, 2022, 1:47 PM UTC

I'm just here to shill Isaac Arthur's Youtube channel[1]

Few people try to take our progress as a species to the next evolutionary step while making the content accessible.

If you want to know how we as a species will reverse entropy and shrink into the fabric of space-time as the universe reaches thermodynamic conformity, this guy has ya covered.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g

Re: PBS SpaceTime

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Post by npace12 » Fri, May 20, 2022, 1:50 PM UTC

willis936 wrote: post #35

I never miss a week. It's great. I wish they would sell a Penrose diagram shirt.

this! also, i used to basically only wear spacetime tshirts for a couple of summers but their quality went down quite a bit

Re: PBS SpaceTime

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Post by desmosxxx » Fri, May 20, 2022, 1:53 PM UTC

platz wrote: post #43

the quality has definitely gone downhill lately. Compared to a couple years ago, they only lightly touch on topics rather than they deep dives they used to do. Not sure if they are struggling for content or just a shift in priorities.

Their series on the holographic universe was peak physics youtube.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKjJE86mQRtt-kzviEIwzEYOz...

Such an amazing channel & still one of my favorites, but I do wish they'd do more deep dives. Has seem scattered lately.

Re: PBS SpaceTime

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Post by zachruss92 » Fri, May 20, 2022, 1:54 PM UTC

I became obsessed with PBS space time over the pandemic. I love the depth of content that Matt goes into. It’s clearly a ton of work and I pays off. I’m definitely super interested in Astrophysics now.

Re: PBS SpaceTime

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Post by taude » Fri, May 20, 2022, 1:56 PM UTC

thejackgoode wrote: post #21

I have enjoyed them for years, I can recommend their merch and also give a slightly embarassing advice for insomniacs. If you have insomnia, find a subject that you are genuinely interested in (but not too much) and watch videos on it while in bed. After a while, your brain slowly drifts off. After even more awhile, you learn to do this without a video. PBS Spacetime, Sabine Hossenfelder, Isaac Arthur cured my insomn…

Another YouTube channel I watch on this type of stuff is SEA [1], and the channel even has a curated list of their videos to help sleeping [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/c/SEAmedia

[2] Space Sleep playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkoaIad9k4NIlsG6g-alm...

Re: PBS SpaceTime

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Post by joadha » Fri, May 20, 2022, 1:58 PM UTC

woojoo666 wrote: post #38

It's really sad that PBS ended their sister series on math, Infinite Series[1]. Those videos were just as deep, informative, and accessible as PBS Spacetime. Some of my favorites are the one on the mathematical "hydra"[2] and the ones on voting systems [3][4] [1]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs4aHmggTfFrpkPcWSaBN9g [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWwUpEY4c8o [3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoAnYQZrNrQ…

I had never even heard of this, and I've watched dozens and dozens of episodes of Spacetime!

I'm shocked YouTube didn't steer me to this sister channel. Thank you!

Re: PBS SpaceTime

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Post by cdubzzz » Fri, May 20, 2022, 2:00 PM UTC

PBS Digital Studios[0] has a couple of cool deep series like this. See also Eons[1].

[0] https://www.pbs.org/franchise/digital-studios/

[1] https://www.pbs.org/show/eons/

Re: PBS SpaceTime

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Post by dav_Oz » Fri, May 20, 2022, 2:03 PM UTC

qrybam wrote: post #10

If you enjoy Matt @ Spacetime, Sabine Hossenfelder, and Kurzgesagt, and are into astrophysics, I would highly recommend Anton Petrov’s YouTube channel: https://m.youtube.com/c/whatdamath

Second this. For someone enjoying long formats his compilations are also great[0].

[0]https://m.youtube.com/results?search_query=anton+petrov+comp...

Re: PBS SpaceTime

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Post by ravi-delia » Fri, May 20, 2022, 2:13 PM UTC

Slackwise wrote: post #41

If you like PBS Space Time, you'll likely also enjoy "Science Asylum": https://www.youtube.com/c/Scienceasylum This channel covers the same subjects of physics and space, but does so with some incredible insight that I've seen no other channels dig into, and thoughtful animated diagrams that really help in comprehending the subject. Here are some great episodes: "What is Quantum Spin?": https://www.youtube.com/watch?…

I love Science Asylum! It has the tone and vibe of a children's pop-sci "educational" resource, with incongruously rigorous content. The tensor video is very good, but I always laugh while watching because even with an admirable attempt to dumb it down it's so clear that there's a lot of iceberg beneath the surface. Reminds me of my favorite undergrad math profs, it's clear they're simultaneously doing their best to dumb the content down for us neophytes and not doing nearly enough.

Re: PBS SpaceTime

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Post by ravi-delia » Fri, May 20, 2022, 2:15 PM UTC

wing-_-nuts wrote: post #47

shrikrishna wrote: post #20

A channel worth subscribing. Matt (and team?) manages successfully to walk the fine line between managing the complexity of the topics they discuss (which are sometimes extremely dense), making it consumable for the population that's interested in science and physics, but doesn't pursue it on a daily basis. At the same time, they don't fall for the trap of dumbing it down to the point where the audience develops misc…

>making it consumable for the population that's interested in science and physics, but doesn't pursue it on a daily basis. While I love the channel, it seems like they're more targeted to someone with a lot of physics education, more so than lay people. This is the only channel I've ever watched and genuinely felt dumb on a regular basis.

I think that's the key. Without a somewhat rigorous treatment, most interesting physics just doesn't work. The magic is that a well made resource is still consumable without quite understanding the complicated stuff. Then, if you come across something else later, maybe the commonalities make something click.