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Astrophysicist Hitoshi Murayama answers the internet’s burning questions about space! Are there more stars in space than grains of sand? Can the shapes of constellations change? Will we be able to observe outside of our own universe? What was in space before the universe was born? How do we know there was a Big Bang?…

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Astrophysicist Hitoshi Murayama answers the internet’s burning questions about space! Are there more stars in space than grains of sand? Can the shapes of constellations change? Will we be able to observe outside of our own universe? What was in space before the universe was born? How do we know there was a Big Bang? Hitoshi answers all these questions and much more!

Correction: At 15:38 and 15:41, the subtitle should read “Anti-matter”

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103 Comments

  1. Venâncio Filho

    April 11, 2023 at 4:16 pm

    Fantastic theme, fantastic language to hear, fantastic person speaking. Awesome video!

  2. Siky

    April 11, 2023 at 4:19 pm

    I think he mixed WARP with WORMHOLE, he literary said its a shortcut as he described it with book. “Warp” is warping of space.

    • AnaDD

      April 11, 2023 at 5:50 pm

      He is the specialist and is speaking in his native language. At most, the translator may have gotten that wrong.

  3. Banehogg

    April 11, 2023 at 4:25 pm

    Is this an joke? So much nonsense in this one.

  4. jt

    April 11, 2023 at 4:29 pm

    To see outside the universe, one must look within the self.

  5. Robbie Stroud

    April 11, 2023 at 4:41 pm

    Bring him back!

    What a treat! Keep him speaking Japanese.

    • Mars Capone

      April 11, 2023 at 6:00 pm

      He’ll be ok he’s a legend

  6. brokenredflag

    April 11, 2023 at 4:46 pm

    Wired take down brandons sanderson article. Their lies and u know it. You have hiden agendas and their evil. He thuse not deserve it!😡

    • Nathan

      April 11, 2023 at 5:33 pm

      Proof?

  7. krono9

    April 11, 2023 at 4:56 pm

    So what if space is expanding at or faster than the speed of light…we will never see further but also less light in the future..

  8. Olatz Mahy

    April 11, 2023 at 5:07 pm

    The questions asked are fascinating 😮

  9. PanekPL

    April 11, 2023 at 5:10 pm

    PLEASE!!!! MORE MR. MURAYAMA!!!!!!

  10. gnIda

    April 11, 2023 at 5:28 pm

    Hey I’m astrophysics nerd. The translation here is bad.

    • Mars Capone

      April 11, 2023 at 5:54 pm

      Fair. Care to elaborate/be helpful not just icy?

  11. Mandeep

    April 11, 2023 at 5:41 pm

    Lovely to see a non-English speaker/ western person. So many incredible minds elsewhere that deserve recognition👏🏼. More of this please.

    • Andrew

      April 11, 2023 at 9:25 pm

      no we want less.. there are plenty of Japanese channels..

  12. AnaDD

    April 11, 2023 at 5:47 pm

    WOW thank you teacher!

  13. ABerCul

    April 11, 2023 at 6:15 pm

    Nobody knows & nobody will ever know. PERIOD

  14. Janet F

    April 11, 2023 at 6:58 pm

    I think that parallel universe/multiverse theorists are kinda like teenage boys with tv remotes, not as interested in what’s on as they are with what else is on.

  15. Mat Traviler

    April 11, 2023 at 7:05 pm

    Is it me, or is hearing a different language satisfying…

  16. Lamorra fierro

    April 11, 2023 at 7:31 pm

    Wow just wow

  17. RootedHat

    April 11, 2023 at 7:31 pm

    no mention of our bois the tardigrades 😢

  18. Taylor Weston

    April 11, 2023 at 7:32 pm

    Wait. He said it’s 13.8 billion light years old? Light years aren’t a measure of time. It’s a measure of distance technically

  19. Joanna Chase

    April 11, 2023 at 7:35 pm

    Am I the only one that noticed that these questions are so intelligent and well thought out, versus an American question that is like, “BRAH why can’t anyone be an astronaut?” Lol I do enjoy non English speaking professionals, and would love to see more like this!

  20. Lamorra fierro

    April 11, 2023 at 7:48 pm

    You know what’s crazy. The question “ how do we know there was a big bang” He says that If we can see 13.8 billion light years away we would see the Big Bang happening every direction. That means that if you were at the Big Bang and looked also 13.8 billion light years away. Wouldn’t that mean that we were there since the very beginning.

  21. Renard

    April 11, 2023 at 7:53 pm

    50岁的奶爸

  22. alexis davidson

    April 11, 2023 at 8:36 pm

    I had an existential crisis listening and thinking about all this

  23. humane🤍

    April 11, 2023 at 8:38 pm

    Never in my life did i start a 20minute long video and kept staring at the screen like this, i even forgot i was sitting in a weird way bc i was so into this video. The universe truly is the most interesting subject ever, esp. when a professional is talking.

  24. Celeste Felicia

    April 11, 2023 at 8:58 pm

    🤯🤯

  25. phunkydroid

    April 11, 2023 at 9:09 pm

    I think the word universe was mistranslated a few times in this, should have been galaxy…

  26. Salu omnidentidade

    April 12, 2023 at 4:58 am

    The second answer should be because they are far apart.. it’s odd that he mentions the “beginning” we have so many stars that their light reaches us but it’s still dark. It would be much more informative if he mentions the “inverse square law”

  27. Juliana Arango

    April 12, 2023 at 5:01 am

    This questions were really good ones, no just dumb or silly ones, but serious wanting to learn questions 👏🏼👏🏼 love this one!

  28. SecretWars98

    April 12, 2023 at 5:02 am

    Good questions! ❤

  29. Art Thou Not Entertained?

    April 12, 2023 at 6:22 am

    Can we ask him questions via email? Does he have a social media account like most astrophysicists?

  30. Sai Sanz

    April 12, 2023 at 6:22 am

    To learn about the universe is to learn about ourselves. Beautiful.

  31. Anita B.

    April 12, 2023 at 6:33 am

    I love him omg
    That was fascinating
    Bring him baaaack please

  32. Mr. Sioma

    April 12, 2023 at 7:09 am

    I would like some further elaboration on how dark matter created everything? Its unfortunate that many of these answers are actually theories presented as fact.

  33. Victor Valansuela 2

    April 12, 2023 at 7:23 am

    _The answer is always ✨JESUS✨
    _some kid

  34. Zaphandar

    April 12, 2023 at 8:10 am

    that red line on the big bang definitely seems like a radio-wave to me..

  35. Eric Herrera

    April 12, 2023 at 8:53 am

    🧠🧠🤯🤯

  36. Eric Herrera

    April 12, 2023 at 8:59 am

    Por favor, más de este caballero y más de esos brillantes preguntones. Hay preguntas y dudas que no se habrían ocurrido en la vida.🤯

  37. Matthew Quiroz

    April 12, 2023 at 9:08 am

    Where can I get one of those CMB globes?

  38. buh bird

    April 12, 2023 at 9:26 am

    “dark matter is our mother, I hope to meet her one day” is such a good quote

  39. danie

    April 12, 2023 at 9:36 am

    When he said that the interior angles of a triangle add up to a bit more than 180 degrees… my entire world has crumbled ;-;

  40. Hello Lol

    April 12, 2023 at 9:51 am

    Still some kids of today’s generation is also curious to learn ❤

  41. Subhashini K

    April 12, 2023 at 10:37 am

    that was a great one. need more 😀

  42. GanesaAudrey

    April 12, 2023 at 11:17 am

    His enthusiasm is endearing! Definitely loves what he does. So charming to watch 🙂

  43. G_ Rey85

    April 12, 2023 at 11:21 am

    The Big Bang is the craziest theory to the birth of the universe. I just can’t fathom that that’s how all this was made

    • Kelyaan

      April 12, 2023 at 12:58 pm

      No fam, the craziest theory of it is in the bible – that is far harder to believe than this.

    • G_ Rey85

      April 12, 2023 at 1:02 pm

      @Kelyaan shoot, idk what it is, but every theory related to the birth of the universe is not able to be proven. Guess we just ain’t there yet

  44. Patton Scr

    April 12, 2023 at 11:46 am

    It’s truly wild that a person can have a career in science without speaking the lingua franca of science, aka English

  45. Leandro Smooth_7

    April 12, 2023 at 12:01 pm

    …What they say the dark before the big bang, and what they say the big bang like a beginning of everything dude it match so PERFECT with what I believe, with what I read in my bible. This theory is just mankind trying to explain God in other way yeah.

  46. Aang Dknight

    April 12, 2023 at 12:16 pm

    I like how he didn’t make fun of something fictional like warp or parallel worlds and just straight up explaining if it’s possible or not, truly a man deserve some respects for doing so for others.

  47. At Large

    April 12, 2023 at 3:01 pm

    😂😂😂

  48. Óliver Pereira

    April 12, 2023 at 3:13 pm

    This man is awesome, just loved the explanation!

  49. Hopper Nero

    April 12, 2023 at 3:13 pm

    This guy is so full of energy and passion!! Glad I clicked on this vid, learned some stuff I didn’t know!

  50. Tochir0

    April 12, 2023 at 8:57 pm

    I’ve had the pleasure to meet Murayama-sensei and I’m pleased to report that he is a charming in social settings as he is brilliant in academic ones.

  51. Corncob Johnson real

    April 12, 2023 at 10:27 pm

    I want my science spoken to me in English I don’t want to read. If I was interested in science and reading I would grab a book. Although this is how I prefer to watch anime

  52. Seal Of Apoorval

    April 12, 2023 at 10:43 pm

    Mooooooorrrrrrrrreeeeeeee!!!

  53. ICader

    April 12, 2023 at 10:49 pm

    The universe seems to be the concept of the entity that contains everything in it; the bubble we’re all floating around inside of. Now, because I don’t think there’s proof of anything outside this universe, and because I think the definition of ‘the universe’ has become interchangeable with ‘all of existence’, I think that the universe could instead be the entity that contains everything. So if all of existence is within this unknown shape of unknown proportion and uncertain limit, the theory of universal expansion could be mistaken for that of a universe that stretches infinitely and semi-fourth dimensionally in the shape of a perfect (irrational, and thus infinite) sphere to contain anything that travels its edge. That would also explain the curvature of the fabric of space, as well as gravitational rules within the universe. It could be that the universe contains us like entities in a glass ornament filled with semi-solid resin to leave no room for freedom of (universally-relative) existential entities. So to escape the universe, you’d simply have to not exist. Easy, right?

  54. Arnold Sapida

    April 12, 2023 at 11:16 pm

    I’m a bit confused about the human size:solar system and ???:galaxy question.
    Did he get it switch around or it’s a problem with the translation/subtitle?
    If our solar system is human sized, the galaxy (the Milky Way) would just be a couple of small globes big?
    Isn’t the galaxy bigger than our solar system?

  55. Weird champ

    April 13, 2023 at 12:16 am

    hes so passionate and ambitious

  56. Andromeda

    April 13, 2023 at 1:27 am

    Probably my favorite one yet

  57. needheartranken

    April 13, 2023 at 3:14 am

    Dang it’s so refreshing to hear another language contemplating the Universe!

  58. Mary Beth

    April 13, 2023 at 3:18 am

    This was a very lively, thoughtful, and lovely talk. Thank you!

  59. Wahyu

    April 13, 2023 at 7:27 am

    I tought that big bang ball was a one piece world map lmao

  60. COELACANTH

    April 13, 2023 at 8:29 am

    God.

  61. T Minus

    April 13, 2023 at 9:29 am

    What does outside mean when talking about boundless space?

  62. Mike Sheffield

    April 13, 2023 at 10:17 am

    A+

  63. Jacob Tovar

    April 13, 2023 at 12:44 pm

    I feel like having to read the subtitle helped me to grasp the concepts a bit more thoroughly and then caused me to ask more questions. Truly engaging content. So many great minds on this planet let’s give them a spotlight.

  64. AsiaDanceScene

    April 13, 2023 at 1:02 pm

    His Japanese, for those that speak, is really lovely too, he speaks like your favorite uncle who is also really smart😊

  65. Bruce Mastorovich

    April 13, 2023 at 2:19 pm

    ありがとうございました!

  66. 물건

    April 13, 2023 at 2:40 pm

    Even if it is in a different language, I can tell his explanations are very accessible for the average person! What a great science communicator!

  67. Rafael Ramos

    April 13, 2023 at 3:32 pm

    Murayama-san really knows how to speak about the Universe! I love him

  68. Антон

    April 13, 2023 at 5:59 pm

    I just realized I want to listen to Japanese more, it’s so good to ears!

  69. Xin Mohaiya

    April 13, 2023 at 6:20 pm

    The timing on this video coming out during my trip to Korea startled me. I thought I was getting Japanese media because of my location 😅 I didn’t know he was the feature for this episode. Always amazing content

  70. Mel O

    April 13, 2023 at 8:30 pm

    This guy talks with his hands. I like him.

  71. Oscar

    April 14, 2023 at 12:59 am

    ZA WARUDO! TOMURA TOKIYO

  72. aamate

    April 14, 2023 at 1:53 am

    The whole drawing a triangle thing blew my mind. Hes so good at explaining!

  73. saberline152

    April 14, 2023 at 3:28 am

    so if black holes are ever expanding, will they eventually eat the entire universe?

    • アイズ

      April 16, 2023 at 8:34 am

      Prolly, prolly not

      Reminder that Black Hole do loses it’s matter via Hawking Radiation, and the bigger it’s, the more it loses

  74. Tenerensis

    April 14, 2023 at 9:03 am

    love this guy. he seems really interested and passionate about what hes teaching

  75. Nyarlath_Hunters

    April 14, 2023 at 11:47 am

    That was so good, super knowledgeable and gave such great answers. Also the questions were really good questions

  76. Threadsinger

    April 14, 2023 at 11:55 am

    I wish I could understand japanese, the subtitles help with the comprehension but I’d love to be able to understand the energy and wisdom conveyed here, unfiltered!

  77. Southern Fried West Coaster

    April 14, 2023 at 11:55 am

    I could listen to him all day

  78. Thanos Arvanitis

    April 15, 2023 at 7:39 pm

    Ωραία μπλούζα

  79. Mal

    April 15, 2023 at 9:33 pm

    He was wonderful to watch and listen to!! My favorite so far 🙌🏻🙌🏻

  80. Allan Tj

    April 16, 2023 at 7:31 am

    They got the wired version of Michio Kaku

  81. Richard C

    April 16, 2023 at 5:59 pm

    Didn’t want to spend the money on a translator I see. That’s translator phobic

  82. Arne Lilleseter

    April 16, 2023 at 7:58 pm

    I don’t know if something was lost in translation. What he is explaining at 14:05 is a wormhole. A warp-drive works by stretching and contracting space pulling a spaceship along as if it’s riding on a wave. Warp drive may be possible in theory but would require a lot of energy, maybe even more energy than exists in the universe.

  83. L.C

    April 17, 2023 at 3:13 am

    took one of his courses he’s the best

  84. Khairani M.

    April 17, 2023 at 5:57 am

    Now I got it why in the photograph of big bang, there’s a red belt on the equator…
    So it’s cuz of milky way’s shiny belly, huh

  85. Outsider Atilla

    April 17, 2023 at 10:28 am

    I love how he repeatedly says “big bang”.

    BIGGU BANGU

  86. Roald van de Munt

    April 17, 2023 at 3:20 pm

    Yes, a passionate speaker – answering quite simple questions, but there is much more to know. I have been reading about astrophysics for decades – it is fascinating stuff. I encourage anybody to pick up some books on the subject.

  87. SA 10

    April 17, 2023 at 5:41 pm

    I couldn’t watch this while having my dinner so saving it for later cause I can’t eat and watch out for the subtitles at the same time.

  88. Efrizaldi Affanda

    April 17, 2023 at 9:38 pm

    Perfume support when??

  89. Kirtana Shanchez

    April 19, 2023 at 4:04 am

    We need more non-English content and speakers talking about the subjects that they’re experts in! This was so fascinating!

  90. abctract

    April 19, 2023 at 8:13 am

    The way he said dark matter reminded me of the dark tamatama crayon shinchan movie.

  91. MolecularWizard

    April 19, 2023 at 1:02 pm

    I like that they are bringing non English speakers on but it makes it so I have to stare at the screen to understand what’s going on lol. Still a great video though!

  92. WIRED

    April 19, 2023 at 2:35 pm

    Correction: At 15:38 and 15:41, the subtitle should read “Anti-matter”

  93. Enjoyer of Things

    April 20, 2023 at 3:06 am

    what an energetic legend

  94. Mr Tien Physics

    April 20, 2023 at 11:18 am

    those textbooks …

  95. Masterclass20

    April 20, 2023 at 7:15 pm

    When he was answering that question about explosions in space he spoke about the heat/energy used to hold the nucleus in an atom. So does that mean that the heat generated in a space explosion is like ‘nuclear’? Coz it sounds like a ‘splitting of the atom’ type thing. I only have high school level physics here so someone help me out please.

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