Name: Joe Rogan Talks Quantum Mechanics with Astronaut Terry Virts
Uploaded: 2020-12-14T18:11:22.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Talks Quantum Mechanics with Astronaut Terry Virts' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-12-14. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Talks Quantum Mechanics with Astronaut Terry Virts' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-12-14. Transcript available.

what is your perspective on the big bang dude there's a lot of people's views
vary depending
upon like what what the most recent theories are yeah but some people believe
that the universe
started with the big bang and some people believe that it's always existed and
there's it's a
continuing cycle of big bangs endless expansion and then ultimately contraction
and then it starts
all over again and that there's infinite numbers of big bangs that are
occurring through multiverses
right various universes all over the world or all over the the cosmos right so
i'm reading this book
right now called the end of everything by a friend of mine katie mack wrote it
it's about the end of
the universe and it's really cool it talks about exactly what you're saying so
there was a big bang
you can see it actually in the cosmic background radiation there's this
microwave anisotropy it's
like everything's not uniform and you can see that it's like two or three
degrees kelvin it's really
cold so the question is does it does it explode and then does it the big crunch
you know does it come
back and um they think there's a stuff called dark energy so does it continue
expanding and she calls
it heat decay or this other one's the big rip where it just keeps on expanding
accelerating and
like even electrons can't everything just disintegrates into nothing um and no
one knows what's
going to happen but the really cool thing i was just reading the chapter about
as it expands super
fast um i forgot the name of it boltzman's brain or something there's some
weird thing where
because of quantum physics which is completely not understandable if you say
you understand quantum
mechanics you don't um things can just randomly appear so if you're if the
universe is going to
be around for trillions of years like in theory at some point two trillion
years from now joe rogan
could just suddenly create itself out of nothing in the universe and you'd like
look around and go wow
what's going on and then you disappear instantly because of quantum mechanics
so it's it's a really
what yeah it's explain that again so the the theory is you could have an entire
universe just because of
quantum mechanics which is uh the heisenberg uncertainty principle right you
don't you can't
know position and velocity you can only know one or the other and an extension
of that again man i'm
just a fighter pilot i'm not a physicist but you can things can just suddenly
appear somewhere and so
given enough time even though it's highly unlikely this water bottle could
create itself out of nothing
just because of physics the quantum mechanics i remember my uh teacher at the
air force academy
would use the example of all of the electrons and protons and stuff could
suddenly move themselves
and you could just fall through the floor now the odds of that happening it ain't
going to happen
in for a trillion years but these weird things can happen and so she she uses
this kind of cheeky
funny example of you know your brain could just suddenly create itself out of
nothing and given
enough time the probability would would be that so some people say the whole
universe is just this
temporary thing that created itself but i don't know it's very disconcerting
when you hear them
talk about quantum mechanics that is you know what i figured relativity out you
start going wait what
exactly two things can exist simultaneously in different places and one of them
could be in motion the
other one could be still and they're the same thing and they appear and
disappear and what
what i mean now there's quantum computers yeah that's weird yeah do you
understand that no
i don't think no i i spoke at a conference and i followed the quantum computing
guy so um it's cool
stuff right you know i've had guys like sean carroll try to explain it to me on
the podcast it just goes
in one of my chimp ears and out the other just you and me both man i'm like i
said i'm a fighter i love
it it's cool to learn about it but um it it does make things seem a lot more
mystical than um just
the standard sort of newtonian physics perspective of life and gravity and
matter and yeah carbon-based
life forms when you when you start getting into just listening to what they're
talking about when
they're talking about quantum weirdness and entanglements and things in superposition
you're like
wait what is the world made of right like when you get down to the smallest
possible measurement
of life this the smallest things that you can measure the world becomes magic
yeah on the smallest
scale and also on the biggest scale right well that's the weirdest part about
the universe is that
i'm inclined especially as i get older and i think about things more to think
that everything is kind
of fractal and what the universe is probably is it's probably a part of some
other organism some immense
organism that's in a universe that's impossible for us to comprehend right the
vastness of it when you
know there's a thing they just did recently where they mapped out uh the human
uh they're talking about
human brain cells and the universe and they were talking about the way the
universe functions and the
the universe functions the way it looks like if you do a scan of the universe
right like it looks far too
similar right to a human brain cell this is a talk i want to do joe so i saw
these patterns from space
there's this one picture of a river in indonesia i took it looks like arteries
like all these blood
vessels coming out and i remember thinking there's all these patterns that
repeat the seashells there's
these spiral elliptical seashells and then there's hurricanes yeah and then
there's galaxies yeah and
these these patterns repeat from the microscopic to the macroscopic it's really
cool it's amazing yeah
and i don't understand them all but they in images they they're really cool
have you ever seen videos
on fractals where they show you things like the mandelbrot set and how the the
closer you get to these
fractals the same sort of pattern repeats itself over and over and over again
and
when people it is one thing to comprehend it if someone's explaining it to you
in a lecture
but there's another thing now with the advent of cgi technology you can see
these fractals be repeated
over and over and over again right and the mandelbrot set is a particularly
interesting one because it's so
beautiful and weird and uh each each part of that as they go deeper see if you
can find a video on it
because it's pretty badass mandelbrot set fractal demonstration um i know it's
on youtube but that
these these patterns if the universe really is a part of an atom that's in a
being right or a part of a
cell that's in a being that exists in uh and you know the idea of infinity too
right we think of
the universe as being massive it's 14 billion like that's not infinite right it's
not even close right
14 billion years is like no it's not infinite no at all um so this is the mandelbrot
set right oh cool
and so what these artists have done is as they zoom in the mandelbrot set
repeats itself over and
over and over and over and over again and it just it becomes the same exact
thing at the the lowest
possible levels of uh of of comprehension or of illustration they keep getting
closer and closer
to it that's amazing that's yeah i needed that i was a math major in college
and i learned about fractals
but they didn't have videos back then right into this video to see well this
this would blow you away
right because it shows it to you that in a way that appeals to the brain right
and it's it's so hard
for us to comprehend or to try to illustrate it ourself this is the kind of
that you see
when you're on psychedelic drugs too this is another reason why it makes me
this is a mushroom yeah yeah
like if you go on a super trip like a real trip where you can't come back for
four or five hours
this is the kind of shit that you'll see and it makes you wonder like you know
are you looking at
the the very fabric of the cosmos itself so i think there's a theory string
theory is kind of popular
for small stuff at what electrons are made out of and in the smallest subatomic
level and if i remember
right 10 to the minus 33rd meters which is pretty small but that i think that's
as small as you can get
like there's a there's a there is a smallest particle you can't just keep on
going infinitely
smaller just like you can't go infinitely bigger because the universe is only
so big
so there it is bounded that can't happen forever um which is which is pretty
well allegedly but
you know right but you know 10 years from now everything we think we know is
going to be disproven
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