[HN Gopher] PBS SpaceTime
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PBS SpaceTime
Author : andrewstuart
Score : 462 points
Date : 2022-05-20 08:00 UTC (15 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.pbsspacetime.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.pbsspacetime.com)
| can16358p wrote:
| One of my favorite channels on YT. There are many channels who
| try to explain similar topics, but PBS Spacetime is among the top
| 3 in how it engages the viewer and keeps them interested while
| explaining in (relatively (no pun intended)) simple terms.
| marceldegraaf wrote:
| PBS Space Time is great, and it always amazes me that we're able
| to watch such high quality content for free.
|
| If you're into paleontology, PBS Eons is equally interesting and
| has a similarly high production quality:
| https://www.youtube.com/c/eons
| shrikrishna wrote:
| 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
| misconceptions and starts believing in pseudo scientific claims.
|
| There are some series they sometimes do, which are entertaining
| to follow. I also enjoy things like Journal club, where they pick
| a paper and deep dive into it. The audience also participates, in
| a way, where they pick the questions/comments from the previous
| video and answer them.
|
| However, it's not all academic either. There are some running
| jokes etc, which keep the content entertaining, while being
| informative, a format that I see common in some of the best
| Youtube channels.
| wing-_-nuts wrote:
| >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.
| lc9er wrote:
| There's definitely a lot of material that, I have to accept
| that "I don't have the math for it"[0].
|
| But Matt does a pretty good job of breaking things down
| conceptually, so that even though you don't know the
| specifics, the broader picture is at least vaguely
| understandable. Even if it means you need to watch previous
| episodes to get the gist of other discussed concepts.
|
| [0] Harry Wilson, from John Scalzi's "Old Man's War"
| davidjytang wrote:
| Yeup, I took several 100 level physics in college, 400 level
| physical chemistry which involved quantum mechanics and got
| good grades on them. I can't understand the show.
| edem wrote:
| Im a total layperson and i can still understand everything,
| although i sometimes have to watch a video multiple times.
| NineStarPoint wrote:
| As someone with zero formal education in physics, I've always
| felt like they do a pretty good job. While there might be
| some parts that I have to dig into to understand or just
| accept going over my head, for the most part I come away from
| each video feeling like I understand both what they were
| talking about and what parts of what they were talking about
| were just surface level explanations.
| snapetom wrote:
| Hah. I agree, but I'll add that his style is more like it's
| easy to follow for a while, then suddenly the car drives off
| a cliff and you need upper division college physics to
| understand.
|
| I really love Anton. He has a way to ELI5 that's really
| effective and really genuine.
| djmips wrote:
| Hello wonderful person. Are you referring to Anton Petrov?
| I also really enjoy his channel.
| ravi-delia wrote:
| 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.
| idonotknowwhy wrote:
| Same here, I stopped watching because I tend to get lost
| after a while.
|
| History Of The Universe is more consumable at my level
| plandis wrote:
| Yeah definitely true.
|
| I have an undergraduate degree in physics and sometimes I
| don't understand the things they are talking about.
|
| I still find it interesting and valuable though.
| kosh2 wrote:
| Yes! If you watch more than 5 physics docs that run on TV, you
| quickly get tired of hearing "Black holes are so massive that
| not even light can escape it!".
| lvncelot wrote:
| A similar channel I've found recently that tackles the same kind
| of content is ScienceClic [1]. The visualizations are some of the
| best and most intuitive I've yet seen.
|
| [1] https://www.youtube.com/c/ScienceClicEN/videos
| Jerrrry wrote:
| 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
| devnulll wrote:
| Isaac is pretty amazing. His topic selection is like a peek
| into my brain.
|
| I wish he had a team of content producers working with him,
| rather than having to do so much re-using stock footage.
| setuid9001 wrote:
| Matt and his team are doing such a great job.The visuals are
| great and the music is alway on point! Also, when I'm stressed
| out, I can watch an episode and my mind calms down again. Thank
| you guys!
| kikokikokiko wrote:
| The visual effects team that does the cgi for Spacetime is
| amazing, and being a fellow brazilian those guys make me really
| proud.
| colechristensen wrote:
| The best thing about SpaceTime is the balance of how much content
| is slightly out of reach for an average viewer. Pushing that
| boundary is an important thing to do with educational content
| especially in a world where so many things are dumbed down.
| thejackgoode wrote:
| 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
| insomnia, for which I am infinitely grateful.
| kosh2 wrote:
| I got the best stuff ever for you: In depth chess videos. I
| once had bought a chess game (not sure if it was the chess
| master series) and it contained a whole bunch of annotated
| games by a GM.
|
| It was interesting but also tired my brain so quickly, that it
| was the best sleep tool ever.
| ricardo81 wrote:
| I'm not an insomniac but as a layman, the drifting certainly
| happened. Found their content a little too deep for my general
| curiosity.
| Ygg2 wrote:
| Doesn't work for me since I am interested in physics. Can
| recommend Elden Ring lore channels, for very smooth tone of
| voice and little variations, really put me to sleep.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYDs_Inzkz4
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXN1oi4BmxQ
| the_only_law wrote:
| Used to listen to AoE2 game commentary to fall asleep.
|
| Ironically the guy running the channel used to joke about how
| many people used his videos to fall asleep to.
| instakill wrote:
| problem with t90 is he sometimes gets too excited and wakes
| you up with his outbursts
| taude wrote:
| 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...
| maaaaattttt wrote:
| I was wondering if I was the only one and glad to find out I'm
| not. I was a bit embarrassed because I absolutely love the
| videos (and have done so for years) but if I watch them in bed
| they put me to sleep in < 10 minutes.
|
| Great quality and content. I recommend this channel for anyone
| interested in space and physics in general.
| willis936 wrote:
| I never miss a week. It's great. I wish they would sell a Penrose
| diagram shirt.
| npace12 wrote:
| this! also, i used to basically only wear spacetime tshirts for
| a couple of summers but their quality went down quite a bit
| spacemanmatt wrote:
| PBS SpaceTime is easily one of my favorite channels on any
| platform.
| plandis wrote:
| PBS Eons [1] (history of earth related science) and and Be Smart
| [2] (general science topics) are also pretty good. Both are
| definitely more targeted for lay people than SpaceTime however.
|
| [1] https://youtube.com/c/eons
|
| [2] https://youtube.com/c/itsokaytobesmart
| dylan604 wrote:
| For those of us of a certain age, does anyone else recall a
| series on PBS from the early 90s (maybe earlier) on physics and
| calculus? I remember whatching these programs well before I took
| those classes so that I didn't understand all of it, but when I
| finally got to them in school, the concepts in the videos made
| much more sense and the videos helped make sense of some of the
| textbook learning too.
| bgm1975 wrote:
| Was it The Mechanical Universe (https://youtube.com/playlist?li
| st=PL8_xPU5epJddRABXqJ5h5G0dk...) from Caltech? I loved that
| series back in the day.
| dylan604 wrote:
| This might have been it. There are way more episodes than I
| was familiar. If it's not it, then all I've been reminded
| today is how much amazing content has been provided by PBS.
| jinushaun wrote:
| Newton's Apple? I loved that show.
|
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_Apple
| dylan604 wrote:
| Oh wow, I had forgotten about that show. I had no idea that
| the theme was done by part of Kraftwerk.
|
| Unfortunately, this is not the same show as I was originally
| thinking. The one I was thinking was more like a video class
| on physics subjects. More like teacher suplemental type
| stuff. It was the first example of video based teacher
| reinforcement stuff that clicked with me, and helped me
| actually like the subject matter.
| vladkovalev wrote:
| Great show
| edem wrote:
| This is the only Youtube channel where I watched __all videos__.
| In fact I watched many more than once! Ever since Gabe left and
| Matt took over the quality also increased tremendously. I've
| learned more about how the universe works from this source than
| any other source combined. this channel is a must for everybody
| interested in the topic!
| zekica wrote:
| I like them, Matt doesn't like to make everything sound like a
| mystery, but instead explain it to the point and not dumb it down
| too much. I also like watching Sabine Hossenfelder for physics
| topics.
| Slackwise wrote:
| 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?v=sB1EPGmpzyg
|
| "Quantum Superposition, Explained Without Woo Woo":
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUipVyVOm-Y
|
| "Capacitors Are Gaps! How Does That Work?!":
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYRx6Zub3cA
| ravi-delia wrote:
| 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.
| notRobot wrote:
| Another cool channel in the same vein is SciShow:
| https://www.youtube.com/c/SciShow
| TechSquidTV wrote:
| One of the best and most underrated science channels on
| YouTube. I hope he gets his deserved rise in popularity, though
| his channel is growing faster now.
| nsv wrote:
| PBS Digital Studios has produced some real gems - I really
| liked PBS Idea Channel, a content which discussed philosophical
| concepts related to media and technology.
| runarberg wrote:
| PBS eons is my favorite
| knubie wrote:
| I'll throw in ScienceClic as another great channel in the same
| vein.
|
| https://m.youtube.com/c/ScienceClicEN
| nemothekid wrote:
| Science Asylum is great, but I dislike the 90s educational show
| presentation format. An absolute gem I've stumbled across is
| ScienceClic:
|
| https://www.youtube.com/c/ScienceClicEN
|
| They have amazing presentations on Relativity, my favorite
| being:
|
| "A new way to visualize General Relativity" -
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrwgIjBUYVc
|
| "Hawking Radiation" -
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isezfMo8kW
|
| Another, while heavier and less accessible channel is Physics
| Explained:
|
| https://www.youtube.com/c/PhysicsExplainedVideos
|
| These are closer like lectures, but I enjoy them because they
| go into the histories of some of these experiments; and what
| the prevailing wisdom was around the time the experiments were
| performed:
|
| "What is the Ultraviolet Catastrophe?" -
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCfPQLVzus4
| 8note wrote:
| As far as lecture-y YouTube series go, Sean Carrol put
| together "the biggest ideas in the universe" in early covid:
| https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrxfgDEc2NxZJcWcrxH3j.
| ..
| kosh2 wrote:
| Also Sabine Hossenfelder. She sometimes does non-physics topics
| but it's mostly physics
|
| https://www.youtube.com/c/SabineHossenfelder/videos
| czbond wrote:
| I love SpaceTime, thanks for the suggestion. As a non-physicist
| - I realized the details are a bit too much and I care more
| about the higher level.
| LUmBULtERA wrote:
| Love this channel!
| zachruss92 wrote:
| 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.
| [deleted]
| platz wrote:
| 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.
| desmosxxx wrote:
| 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.
| instakill wrote:
| hard disagree. earlier content had more surface area to cover -
| as they get into more specific content in these latter years,
| of course topic delivery will get leaner
| conz wrote:
| > the quality has definitely gone downhill lately.
|
| I can't agree.
|
| This video from a few weeks ago about the W Boson mass
| discrepancy is about as deep as a lay audience can hope to
| surmount:
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0Q4UAiKacw
| arturventura wrote:
| I love watching SpaceTime on youtube! If you watch it, it will
| give you a surprisingly deep understanding of the state of the
| art on physics, but is the kind of show that if you don't have a
| massive background in physics, you either need to be extremely
| focused to understand it, or blazed out of your mind.
| nickthegreek wrote:
| repeat viewings also help.
| woojoo666 wrote:
| 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
|
| [4]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhVR7gFMKNg
| TechSquidTV wrote:
| I watch an _absurd_ amount of PBS content on YouTube and other
| science channels. Not as many math channels but certainly a
| few. I am so angry this was never recommended to me earlier,
| and full of joy that my weekend is set!
| PartiallyTyped wrote:
| It is astounding that so many people (me included) have this
| complain. I also watch numberphile, computerphile, 3B1B and
| the likes and yet I had never heard of the channel before.
| dskloet wrote:
| It was good with Kelsey, but after she had to leave and was
| replaced, it somehow became really bad.
| jjcon wrote:
| I'll second that, it died only because the new host couldn't
| fill her shoes. Conversely Matt on SpaceTime has done a great
| job taking over from Gabe.
| joadha wrote:
| 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!
| joshbaptiste wrote:
| It's not recommended because it hasn't been updated in
| years.. the algorithm promotes channels with updated content
| higher
| dylan604 wrote:
| Are you suggesting that the YT recommendation algorithm is
| some how flawed? I hope you're doing that on a throwaway
| account ;P
| frogpelt wrote:
| Is it possible that it doesn't serve YTs interests to have
| a recommendation engine that works best for the end user?
|
| I honestly think they just experiment with it a lot. The
| variety of videos that are recommended for me don't seem to
| follow a pattern.
|
| Maybe they know my brain better than I do.
| dylan604 wrote:
| >Is it possible that it doesn't serve YTs interests to
| have a recommendation engine that works best for the end
| user?
|
| 100% absolutely it is similar to Goog's search
|
| >I honestly think they just experiment with it a lot. The
| variety of videos that are recommended for me don't seem
| to follow a pattern.
|
| Possibly, but I'd posit that it's not a good system if
| the experiment is causing a lack of consistency. I'm sure
| there's a lot of people that would opt-in for a
| exeperimental reco system if just asked.
|
| > Maybe they know my brain better than I do.
|
| Now you're just being silly.
| bowsamic wrote:
| Is this a jab at dang?
| shepardrtc wrote:
| They said YT, not YC.
| dylan604 wrote:
| This makes even more sense at the confusion.
| dylan604 wrote:
| dang was not a thought in my mind when I replied, so if
| there's any inference to dang by you in my comment, it is
| solely within your reading of the comment.
|
| however, out of curiosity, what in my comment makes you
| think that?
| bowsamic wrote:
| You were criticising the moderation of this site
| dylan604 wrote:
| I see. No, that was more so of the swarming vs staff
| management, but I can see how it wasn't so out of left
| field now.
| TheDesolate0 wrote:
| Numberphile fills the void.
| ugh123 wrote:
| They did some great vids with Cliff Stoll, including this one
| about his Klein Bottles
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3mVnRlQLU
| system2 wrote:
| Gets too mainstream though.
| gorkish wrote:
| Try Mathologer instead
| lvncelot wrote:
| 3blue1brown is also excellent
| thawaya3113 wrote:
| Numberphile lost me with their doubling down on their "sum
| of natural numbers is -1/12" video.
| dvt wrote:
| The analytic continuation of the Riemann zeta function
| that gets you to -1/12 is such nuanced mathematical
| trickery, I'm not even sure why so many people
| incessantly argue it one way or another.
| runarberg wrote:
| Me to, however I forgave them after a great response
| video by Mathologer.
| pokolovsky wrote:
| I love this channel.
| okamiueru wrote:
| If nothing else to add a differing voice, I cannot stand PBS
| SpaceTime. I will be completely honest and say that it's probably
| more due to my lack of understanding than fault of theirs. But,
| that said, I'm perfectly fine following other science "bloggers".
| I enjoy them, and I learn from them. PBS however bugs me to no
| end, because I rarely feel I've understood it, or even learned
| anything. I'm likely in the minority.
| jayknight wrote:
| I always feel like I learn _something_ , but by the end of an
| episode I'm completely lost. I love it.
| mindcrime wrote:
| While we're all advocating for our favorite science related YT
| channels, let me add a plug for "Physics Girl" (aka Dianna
| Cowern). Note that her channel isn't so much cosmology and deep
| theoretical stuff, but has a lot of focus on exploring "real
| world" aspects of science, including lots of field trips to see
| neat places and things, but explored from a physics perspective.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/c/physicsgirl
|
| Another great channel is Dr Becky (Becky Smethurst). Dr. Becky is
| an astrophysicist, so her channel is more specifically oriented
| towards astrophysics topics.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/c/DrBecky
| Zamicol wrote:
| Dr. Becky is stellar for astrophysics.
| epaulson wrote:
| PBS SpaceTime is great. Another physics video series on Youtube
| that is also excellent (and maybe even a little better) are the
| videos by Don Lincoln of Fermilab. They don't break his videos
| out into his own channel, but he's a lot of the Fermilab content:
| https://www.youtube.com/user/fermilab
| jmartin2683 wrote:
| I've been watching these guys for years, they're great. Perfectly
| approachable deep dives into things I know very little about... I
| love it.
| Zamicol wrote:
| For physics and science history,
| https://www.youtube.com/c/KathyLovesPhysicsHistory
|
| Many of Kathy's videos, especially those on quantum physics and
| Einstein, I've watched a few times.
|
| Here's a good one, "Joseph Fraunhofer Biography: The Father of
| Modern Astronomy" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0cjG1UdqKo
| sen wrote:
| One of my absolute favourite YouTube channels of all time. Very
| well presented, truly fascinating topics, and explained in a way
| even a pleb like me can understand (at least enough to know that
| I don't understand shit about the universe, but am still
| endlessly fascinated by it all).
| parentheses wrote:
| I just subscribed to several PBS channels. Thanks!!
| gigatexal wrote:
| I rewatch their videos on YouTube all the time. After maybe 8
| watches each I begin to understand. It's amazing and very well
| done.
| hateful wrote:
| I've been a fan of many channels over the years, but one I've
| found recently that was very good is The Science Asylum:
| https://www.youtube.com/c/Scienceasylum/videos
|
| My favorites are minutephysics and CGP Grey - but they have been
| very lacking in content lately.
| formerly_proven wrote:
| Spacetime is nice because they / Matt often acknowledge
| uncertainty (indeed, gaps being found or closed in current
| understanding are probably one of the most common themes of the
| show), unlike many others which tend to present theories as facts
| (e.g. kurzgesagt often does this). Likewise, they don't shy away
| from making relatively complex explanations instead of leaning
| all to heavily into bogus analogies. They made a well-regarded by
| physicists (as far as I can tell) series on relativity, for
| example.
| supercheetah wrote:
| Kurzgesagt has acknowledged this was a problem with some of
| their earlier videos, but they're trying to do better with
| presenting any uncertainty around the topics they cover from
| now on.
| formerly_proven wrote:
| Do you remember where they did this / have a link? I'm not
| "citation needed"-ing you, I'm just curious when they said
| this.
| Dextro wrote:
| I believe they did it on this video called "Can You Trust
| Kurzgesagt?". They also removed a few of their older videos
| at the time because they had this exact issue of presenting
| as fact some things that were not at all certain.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtUAAXe_0VI
| wnevets wrote:
| I would agree, they have done a much better job presenting
| the uncertainty.
| nkrisc wrote:
| I think acknowledging uncertainty is one of the most important
| jobs of science communicators. It's important that they say,
| "...but we really don't know for sure" and emphasize when
| something is theoretical, a best guess, or a rough model. I
| think Matt and team do this very well.
| formerly_proven wrote:
| I've come to somewhat randomly expose a few of my major
| biases and preconceptions in the last couple months, which
| has been very interesting. This video hits the nail on the
| head for science communication (the 2nd half is the meta
| portion, the 1st half addresses a specific issue):
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzpIsjgapAk
| colechristensen wrote:
| I took a philosophy class one where several of the
| participants were getting upset that there weren't just facts
| to learn because up to that point they had not been exposed
| to any kind of uncertainty. These were mostly students in the
| sciences too.
| dylan604 wrote:
| Unfortunately, there are people that take that "we really
| don't know for sure" comment as a negative as "proof" of
| whatever thing they are pushing instead. The internet is full
| of them.
| ff317 wrote:
| I still think it's important that scientists be factual
| about the uncertainty, though. The alternative whacko
| theories also have uncertainty, so if we hold ourselves to
| that standard, we can also rationally hold them to their
| even greater degrees of uncertainty. When we try to pretend
| that a current theory is 100% certain and factual just to
| win an argument with idiots, it invites obvious and IMHO
| reasonable criticism of all of science.
|
| Science is not a set of facts caved in stone. Science is a
| process; a way of thinking critically and exploring the
| boundaries of reality in a way that makes a best effort at
| getting closer and closer to the boundaries of the knowable
| in a rational and reasonably-objective way. It often makes
| missteps and corrections along the way, and we can
| acknowledge that openly while also contrasting it to non-
| science junk that isn't even on the right track.
| sophacles wrote:
| > because they / Matt often acknowledge uncertainty
|
| Great pun! :D
|
| They also will present the strengths and weaknesses of various
| 'competing' theories. For ones that have been shown to be
| incorrect, they still present them accurately and well and
| explain how those theories led to our current, more correct
| understanding. For ones that are still being considered they
| will tell you evidence for and against.
|
| I think this show is what made me realize that physics isn't
| one unified whole, but rather a lot of different models that
| are all somehow wrong (but still better than what they were
| built on!), and that there's conflicting evidence for each of
| them.
| cdubzzz wrote:
| 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/
| apinnes wrote:
| SpaceTime is an amazing channel, if you enjoy the in depth videos
| then I'd also highly recommend ScienceClic (no K at the end) and
| History of the Universe, both channels similarly go in deep on a
| lot of physics, and have really great visuals.
| qrybam wrote:
| 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
| spacemanmatt wrote:
| Best contextualized recommendation of the morning. TY.
| willis936 wrote:
| I started off really liking Kurzgesagt but got tired with how
| often they started with conclusions and then constructed
| narratives to justify it, rather than starting with
| observations. It's just the wrong way to think and present
| things.
| dghughes wrote:
| Kurzgesagt seemed out of character for his rant video on
| dairy, it was odd.
| electrondood wrote:
| I prefer this "main idea up front" presentation. In Slack
| messages, emails, articles, etc. Everything but
| drama/fiction.
| TheMerovingian wrote:
| +1 Sabine Hossenfelder. I find her way of explaining a bit more
| towards my tastes.
| ludsan wrote:
| To pile on with the recommendations, I really enjoy "Launch Pad
| Astronomy".
|
| https://www.youtube.com/c/ChristianReady
| Trasmatta wrote:
| I'd also recommend Sean Carroll. His "Biggest Ideas in the
| Universe" series is really great:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI09kat_GeI&list=PLrxfgDEc2N...
|
| I'd also recommend his podcast, Mindscape.
| otikik wrote:
| Thanks, will give it a go
| mettamage wrote:
| Yep, he's awesome. I am kinda surprised that he himself seems
| to be a data scientist? I'd have suspected he'd be a phycisist.
| mtnygard wrote:
| Physics degrees were the gateway into data science before
| there was such a thing as a data science degree. So it's
| possible that he works as a data scientist but was trained as
| a physicist.
| [deleted]
| dav_Oz wrote:
| Second this. For someone enjoying long formats his compilations
| are also great[0].
|
| [0]https://m.youtube.com/results?search_query=anton+petrov+comp
| ...
| cyri wrote:
| For all the German speakers have a look at https://urknall-
| weltall-leben.de
| wvh wrote:
| PBS SpaceTime has been running for quite some time already.
| Beyond the obvious space/time and physics aspect, it's also a
| good example of a fact-based show that shows scientific method
| and critical thinking in action, without unnecessary drama or
| exaggerated sensationalist style; it strikes a perfect balance
| between science and narrative, serious and not-so-serious, in-
| depth and manageable chunk size. The graphics help to understand
| some of the material for us non-physicists or math geniuses, and
| Matt O'Dowd calm voice and wit create an environment suitable
| both for deep learning and deep relaxation, occasionally battling
| insomnia.
|
| This is one of the gems of Youtube for sure.
| digisign wrote:
| Why not watch on PBS, rather than subjected to the drawbacks of
| youtube?
| tzs wrote:
| I've never seen it on my local PBS station. Is it actually
| aired anywhere?
|
| It is streamable on the PBS website, and via the PBS apps on
| iOS, Android, Roku, Samsung TVs, Amazon Fire TV and others,
| but YouTube is still better.
|
| As far as I've seen the PBS streams just include the episode
| itself, compared to the YouTube version which included the
| episode itself plus replies to points raised in the comments
| to the previous episode or two.
|
| Also the PBS apps on some of those devices are buggy or have
| serious interface annoyances.
|
| If you watch on the web on a platform where your browser can
| run an ad blocker, YouTube beats the PBS website because of
| the comment replies.
|
| If you watch on the YouTube apps on a device such as a FireTV
| where you cannot block ads, I'd say YouTube still beats using
| the PBS on the device. The PBS apps often have 30 to 60
| second promos for other PBS series. These aren't as annoying
| as YouTube ads, but can get pretty annoying after a while
| because there is a much more limited set. The Space Time
| episodes are short enough that most of the time you will only
| get YouTube ads up front, and those tend to be shorter than
| the promos in the PBS app, and often let you skip after 5
| seconds.
|
| Even if the ads in the YouTube ad are more annoying than the
| promos in the PBS app, I think for most people they won't be
| more annoying enough to counter the YouTube app being less
| buggy and having a better interface and including the comment
| reply segments.
| digisign wrote:
| Hmm, have rarely found youtube comments to be worthwhile,
| and on average terrible. However use of yt-dl or similar
| might be the best of both worlds. Newpipe can make that
| easier.
| Snowworm wrote:
| MPV or IINA are good for streaming YouTube videos too.
| etoulas wrote:
| The German equivalent is Alpha Centauri by Prof. Dr. Harald
| Lesch.
|
| He created over 200 of those 15 min clips between 1998-2007.
|
| https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF86BBCC6E99AF968
|
| Space Night is another classic that should be mentioned in this
| context.
|
| https://www.ardmediathek.de/sendung/space-night/Y3JpZDovL2Jy...
| gigamike wrote:
| I rarely comment but PBS Spacetime is an amazing channel and Matt
| a great host. Even though they don't (hell, I don't) understand
| it all, I love watching it with my kids and see their eyes get
| huge when they see the excellent graphics and concepts.
| osigurdson wrote:
| I love the deep dives into the basics like the "What is energy?"
| and "True nature of matter and mass" episodes.
| ziofill wrote:
| I like it because they go one step further than other science
| outreach channels, and they don't renounce on accuracy while
| simplifying obviously complex physics topics.
| barredo wrote:
| I love this channel very much.
| zabzonk wrote:
| This, together with The History Guy and The Critical Drinker are
| my three favourite channels on YouTube.
| plandis wrote:
| I've been adding a bunch of new recommendations from this
| post... If you had to give like a one line pitch for each how
| would to describe them?
| sylware wrote:
| The only way I can pay on the net, is by using a wallet code
| (like with amazon). Namely, I need a monetary account I can fuel
| with wallet codes I will buy at my local monetary outlet. Then
| upon payment at pbs, I would log to this "wallet code" service
| where I would validate (one time code receive via email, sms,
| etc) that payment. All that must be possible with noscript/basic
| (x)html browsers.
| bdhcuidbebe wrote:
| And your issue is?
| Vanit wrote:
| Somewhat related, Kurzgesagt is amazing.
| spacemanmatt wrote:
| Much agreed, and you may also enjoy Exurb1a
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