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Physicist Jeffrey Hazboun visits WIRED to answer the internet’s swirling questions about physics. How does one split an atom? Is light a wave or a particle…or both? How soon will the universe end? Is time travel is possible given physicists’ current understanding? What’s the deal with string theory? Director: Lisandro Perez-Rey Director of Photography: AJ…

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Physicist Jeffrey Hazboun visits WIRED to answer the internet’s swirling questions about physics. How does one split an atom? Is light a wave or a particle…or both? How soon will the universe end? Is time travel is possible given physicists’ current understanding? What’s the deal with string theory?

Director: Lisandro Perez-Rey
Director of Photography: AJ Young
Editor: Marcus Niehaus
Talent: Jeffrey Hazboun
Creative Producer: Justin Wolfson
Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi
Associate Producer: Paul Gulyas
Production Manager: Peter Brunette
Production and Equipment Manager: Kevin Balash
Casting Producer: Vanessa Brown
Camera Operator: Lucas Vilicich
Sound Mixer: Kara Johnson
Production Assistant: Fernando Barajas
Post Production Supervisor: Alexa Deutsch
Post Production Coordinator: Ian Bryant
Supervising Editor: Doug Larsen
Additional Editor: Paul Tael
Assistant Editor: Billy Ward

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90 Comments

  1. Anthony Smith

    November 7, 2023 at 5:15 pm

    There needs to be a correction to his answer as to when the heat death of the universe will occur. It is going to occur WAY WAY WAY WAY after 40-50 billion years. The last black hole with evaporate after a googol amount of years, which is 10^100 amount of years. Thats way more than 40-50 billion. Its more like going to happen in around thousand trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion years. However, this is only if the assumption that proton decay is correct, and we have yet to observe it. If it isnt correct, and protons dont spontaneously decay away after a certain period of time, then black dwarfs – not black holes – will be the last thing to evaporate away. As previously stated, the last black hole will evaporate away in a googol amount of years, or 10^100. The last black dwarf however, wont evaporate away until 10^32,000.

  2. J Randall

    November 7, 2023 at 5:38 pm

    I learned all of this in school. What are the teaching kids nowadays? Apparently nothing…

    • Delta Lima

      November 7, 2023 at 7:37 pm

      No rigour, no detail. Sad.

  3. Amonimus

    November 7, 2023 at 5:40 pm

    I’ve thought how the universe ends is up to speculation

  4. rika

    November 7, 2023 at 5:41 pm

    I hate physics because it always works against me 😭

  5. Wendelyn Music

    November 7, 2023 at 5:49 pm

    Ok. You said the universe will end in 50 billion years and you said the universe is infinite. How can both be true

    • koooo34

      November 7, 2023 at 6:37 pm

      “End” in this context does not mean “stop existing”.

  6. AQ

    November 7, 2023 at 5:56 pm

    I have a question that deserves an answer, if fission creates energy, and fusion also creates energy then why can’t we just use fission then fusion then fission again to create unlimited energy??

  7. erebuxy

    November 7, 2023 at 6:01 pm

    The observable universe is finite. What is beyond the observable universe, as the name suggested, is not observable. We really know whether the universe is infinite or not.

    • Vash The Stampede

      November 7, 2023 at 7:28 pm

      Came here to say this. Idk how he could have made that mistake

  8. george so___s

    November 7, 2023 at 6:08 pm

    Black hole is a misnomer. It’s actually black sphere…

  9. Dispelled Word

    November 7, 2023 at 6:12 pm

    video containing 80% thoery – 20% facts XD

    • koooo34

      November 7, 2023 at 6:33 pm

      Tell us more about how you dont understand what the word theory means in physics you dumdum.

  10. dblanco77

    November 7, 2023 at 6:30 pm

    I would LOOOOVE to see how Sheldon Cooper (young AND adult versions) would react to this video! 😂. Great video BTW! Loved it!

  11. UkroNazis_Started_The_War_Nov.2013_before_Ru_Came

    November 7, 2023 at 6:43 pm

    ok then

  12. Russell Hutcheson

    November 7, 2023 at 6:47 pm

    Get this man a dog and a green striped turtleneck

  13. Ares Galamatis

    November 7, 2023 at 6:53 pm

    I appreciate the effort of science communicators, but I have to say that oversimplifying their fields long-term will make more damage, than the short-term good of getting kids interested in doing something useful in their lives, rather than voting Trump, brexit and fighting for Putin.

  14. Seth Lawson

    November 7, 2023 at 6:55 pm

    50 billion years feels a bit early for universal heat death, I believe he forgot a few orders of magnitude lmao

  15. Aaron Haag

    November 7, 2023 at 7:31 pm

    I appreciate Wired still calling it Twitter, that is all.

  16. mandel eli

    November 7, 2023 at 7:44 pm

    Let’s go physics!!!! ❤

  17. Delta Lima

    November 7, 2023 at 7:53 pm

    String theory predicts nothing, thats why its not even wrong.

  18. Sam Bottum

    November 7, 2023 at 8:24 pm

    why’d they give him a crayon and a notebook to write for this lol

  19. Chris Felonall

    November 8, 2023 at 7:22 am

    Hi WIRED, can you make a video about different levels of Ice Skating? It would make a good educational topic/content

  20. bcd2233

    November 8, 2023 at 8:19 am

    Real life Dr. Strange. Real questions and reasonably simple and clear answers! Many many thanks! Just met a guy that works at CERN and trust me: clear answers aren’t easy for quantum physicists!🤪

  21. Chiberia

    November 8, 2023 at 8:20 am

    The opening question helped me tremendously. I’ve been trying to get my mother-in-law to stop orbiting me, and it turns out it’s because she’s both massive AND dense. Thanks, physics!

  22. Su Hurting

    November 8, 2023 at 8:32 am

    All great but he DID NOT explain the twins paradox only re-capped it!

  23. Mark Anderson

    November 8, 2023 at 9:33 am

    This guy has a great way of explaining, but he gets some things wrong. The heat death of the universe for example will not happen in tens of billions of years, but much, much longer. Millions of trillions of years. Red dwarf stars for example should burn for a trillion years or more by our simulations.

  24. A2431

    November 8, 2023 at 10:01 am

    he still didn’t answer what will happen to the earth if the sun disappears.

  25. Mice

    November 8, 2023 at 10:57 am

    0:16 “anything that’s massive will bend space time” , a smile slowly creeps on my face

  26. Marina Elliott

    November 8, 2023 at 11:24 am

    Coolest professor at OSU 😎

  27. Javier B

    November 8, 2023 at 11:45 am

    I need an expert physicist to explain physics to me understanding I know nothing about physics.

  28. Sam Hayes

    November 8, 2023 at 12:16 pm

    I thought he was going to do the pencil-and-paper wormhole analogy for a bit there…

  29. patrik lauvberg

    November 8, 2023 at 1:30 pm

    12:10, didn’t know this was confirmed 😮

    • stellar wind

      November 8, 2023 at 1:35 pm

      It’s speculation. We can’t see or measure what is beyond cosmological horizons, only make predictions.

  30. Zach B

    November 8, 2023 at 2:10 pm

    We don’t know for sure if Heat Death is how the universe ends but it’s the more supported theory. 🤷‍♂️

  31. phunkydroid

    November 8, 2023 at 2:58 pm

    When you said the universe IS infinite, you were a bit more confident in that statement than I think you should be. That is not a proven fact yet.

  32. Chirag Arora

    November 8, 2023 at 4:07 pm

    “Anything that’s massive will bend space-time”; actually everything bends space-time. Some bend more while some do less.

  33. stinkinmushroom

    November 8, 2023 at 4:20 pm

    Can you maybe switch to Threads for asking the questions?

  34. Chad Jordahl

    November 8, 2023 at 4:23 pm

    Smart and interesting guy, but I stopped watching when he used “dice” as singular to talk about one die. 😥

  35. Chirag Arora

    November 8, 2023 at 4:32 pm

    Majority of LHC is in France. Source: I have worked at CERN.

  36. Camden White

    November 8, 2023 at 6:59 pm

    Dang, wish I was in this guy’s Astrophysics class

  37. Juvencus

    November 8, 2023 at 7:02 pm

    The speed of light is really the speed of causality. It’s just that massless particles like photons (light) or electrons always move at the speed of causality, in a vacuum.

  38. Unknown

    November 8, 2023 at 7:50 pm

    One thing I’d like to ask to Jeff : what if the universe never ends? Yes, I know, data shows that its curvature is unlikely negative, BUT! What if its topology is like a Möbius strip, or a torus, and singularities just lead to the other face of the universe, made of dark matter and dark energy, that we cannot detect because we’re on this side on the universe?

  39. Ivan Alvarez

    November 8, 2023 at 10:57 pm

    I think the universe will die at the same time as it’s rebirth. Everything will be cold and distant and then come back towards itself at a center to create another big bang. Futurama got it right

  40. Rick Field

    November 9, 2023 at 12:01 am

    It never ends.
    Prove me wrong.

  41. Nicholas Crow

    November 9, 2023 at 4:24 am

    I love how he explained the equation for time dilation with a crayon marker! 🤣

  42. Antonio Usai

    November 9, 2023 at 5:10 am

    I don’t know if the guy that Tweeted knew it and was making a joke, but special means something like “specific” in the sense of “restricted to a certain subset. It doesn’t mean special in the most common use of the word we do today.
    In many languages it is translated as something like “restricted relativity”, and after that came General Relativity, of which special relativity is a subset under specific conditions.

  43. Db DB

    November 9, 2023 at 5:49 am

    Little do y’all know…. It will be because the Biden corruption!

  44. trucker

    November 9, 2023 at 12:02 pm

    alrwady his very first statement is incorrect

    • Republic of Åxenö

      November 9, 2023 at 4:40 pm

      Says the guy who said alrwady

    • trucker

      November 10, 2023 at 11:46 am

      he says, matter is curving space according to general relativity
      that’s completely false
      the general relativity says energy curves spacetime

    • Republic of Åxenö

      November 11, 2023 at 4:19 am

      @trucker yeah

    • Republic of Åxenö

      November 11, 2023 at 4:19 am

      @trucker does it not

    • trucker

      November 11, 2023 at 10:42 am

      well, it doesn’t
      the gr is describing energy and all events in spacetime
      it’s based on 4D math matrix called spacetime
      the spacetime got introduced by minkowski, the spacetime matrix is all based on maxwell equations for electromagnetic radiation

  45. Just Janitor

    November 9, 2023 at 1:06 pm

    Lots of fun

  46. Tolga Tolu

    November 9, 2023 at 2:38 pm

    The heat death of the Universe will happen in approx. 1.7 trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion years. but the stellar era that we live in will end so much sooner. In fact this is a brief time period in Universe’s history where there is light, the vast majority of it is in darkness where there is nothing but black holes for trillions and trillions of years.

  47. Isabella Banuelos

    November 10, 2023 at 1:53 am

    Question for Wired!! How do you all go about selecting the folks featured on Tech Support? I know a Professor that would be PERFECT!

  48. Spacemonkeymojo

    November 10, 2023 at 9:28 am

    THIS GUY IS AWESOME!!!!! WOW. He seems to really know his stuff.

  49. milk grapes

    November 10, 2023 at 9:30 am

    The hallmark of a great educator is one that can break down an idea into its purest form. This guy is it.

  50. Graham Cox

    November 10, 2023 at 12:19 pm

    When is he on next. I want to ask where the boundary is between physics and chemistry.

  51. Samuel Lyngdoh

    November 10, 2023 at 2:01 pm

    This is how physics should be taught in schools! Fun, interesting and easy to understand.

  52. Invox

    November 10, 2023 at 2:58 pm

    I hope scientist can figure out a way to use “entanglement” for long distance communication.

  53. Pre Malone

    November 10, 2023 at 4:02 pm

    First he says the universe will end in about 40-50 billion years but then later he says it will be around forever.

  54. Mike Schriber

    November 10, 2023 at 6:46 pm

    Of course time travel is possible, but only into the future. A spacecraft moving at relativistic speeds is essentially a time machine.

    • Anon Ymes

      November 12, 2023 at 3:38 pm

      I mean, so is my couch (i’m currently travelling into the future at 1 second per second :).

  55. Richard Ringler

    November 10, 2023 at 7:01 pm

    Let’s discuss all of this in the context that there was no beginning and there is no end to time or universal existence.

  56. ademir ze

    November 10, 2023 at 7:34 pm

    That’s great….thank you…

  57. BobRossDaHoss

    November 11, 2023 at 12:46 am

    He isn’t a has been, he is a Hazboun.

  58. Gage

    November 11, 2023 at 4:07 am

    Very interesting, on the topic of gravitational waves in elementary school I got to visit the LIGO center in Livingston Louisiana. If you ever get the chance look it to it. It’s crazy technology. Very cool place as well, kind of had a Riley’s believe it or not type of room with a nail bed and other physic related things.

  59. bla bla

    November 11, 2023 at 7:58 am

    6:05 so squidward was right all along Aware

  60. FireArm Nightcore

    November 11, 2023 at 9:36 am

    thanks for the knowledge, Taika Waititi

  61. Jacob Lashley

    November 11, 2023 at 10:58 am

    Don’t think it was fair for him to say that the size of the universe is infinite – this is still an open question in cosmology

  62. Cheiyenne Jimenez

    November 11, 2023 at 11:44 pm

    The blue‘s clues crayon was a nice touch 🥰

  63. Fish Sticker

    November 12, 2023 at 12:40 am

    Eh, let hazboons be hazboons

  64. Varnzy20

    November 12, 2023 at 12:48 am

    Universe will end but universe is infinite???

  65. Lucia Codreanu

    November 12, 2023 at 3:34 am

    Can someone explain please? So at 12:14 he says that the universe is infinite and the amount of time the universe will be around is infinite. Yet, a bit earlier he says that the heat death of the universe will occur in 50 bln years. So is it infinite or not?

    • Anon Ymes

      November 12, 2023 at 3:34 pm

      The universe will still _exist_ after its “heat death”, it’ll just be “dead” (all stars will have died and the entire universe will be in thermodynamic equilibrium, meaning life is impossible). It’s a bit like a glowing ember – when it stops glowing there’s still _something_ there, there’s just no glow and no heat. And it’s estimated to be _way_ further in the future than 50 billion years (he just misspoke there – current estimates put it at 100 _trillion_ years or more).

      (to be clear BTW, we don’t actually _know_ that’s how the universe will end – it’s one possibility but whether it’s actually true depends on the average density of matter in the universe and how accurate our cosmological models are)

  66. Gonzalo T.

    November 12, 2023 at 11:17 pm

    I love the fact that he’s explaining things while using regular objects. As if he was an elementary teacher talking to his class.

  67. Cal

    November 13, 2023 at 8:51 am

    Quantum entanglement is so crazy that it can only be described to the layman as “it is what it is”

  68. DirtyBird

    November 14, 2023 at 6:48 pm

    When that guy mentioned a $1,000 he cut the lights and did a while demonstration to answer it 😂

  69. DirtyBird

    November 14, 2023 at 6:56 pm

    If it takes her 50 years to get to a star.. it doesn’t matter how fast she’s going if no matter what it took 50 years. They will both be 50

  70. CalciumEcho1000

    November 15, 2023 at 1:19 am

    Taking physics next year and using these specific types of videos as a recovery method may correlate with my chances of becoming a individual within physics right?

  71. Trilok Dhakad

    November 15, 2023 at 2:47 am

    Why all the questions are only related to Universe, gravity and light ?

    Is Physics about that much only ….?

  72. TheMarquis

    November 15, 2023 at 10:31 am

    A bit of a clown

  73. an60310dy

    November 15, 2023 at 2:38 pm

    if the universe will end in the heat death in 40-50b years (6:28), how can the amount the amount of time the universe be around be infinite (12:12)?

  74. Elliott Revell

    November 15, 2023 at 4:11 pm

    Why is the twin paradox a paradox?

  75. Ethan Nelson

    November 15, 2023 at 8:09 pm

    Some of the questions these people answer are proof to me that the American education system is fine. A lot of the questions in these more academically inclined videos are things I learned in middle school or early high school. Thus, it’s fair to say that people just don’t fully pay attention or don’t engage with the material enough to retain it

  76. skmusic7777

    November 16, 2023 at 12:58 am

    First he says the universe will be around for only 40 billion more years, then he says the amount of time the universe will be around is infinite. ???

  77. Kataang101

    November 16, 2023 at 3:27 am

    One of those rare times where they show you an actual equation which helps answer a question

  78. Akicita A.

    November 16, 2023 at 5:15 am

    I don’t trust a person with a doctorate who doesn’t know the words “Dice” and “Die.”

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