Neil deGrasse Tyson on How Monster's Inc Got the 4th Dimension Right

and aren't binary star systems really common yeah more than half the star as you've seen the night sky or binary or multiple systems in fact the iconic image from Star Wars the original Star Wars movie before they numbered them I think would start with four Rooney right well yeah whatever whatever that that that that desert planet that Luke was on and he comes out after visiting is was what it's a stepparent no his adoptive parents were I don't remember where we was visiting he comes out and you see a double sunset so that's basically the only accurate science in the entire series that was another thing I really enjoyed is you're taking a part of gravity gravity and how many people got yeah you know so I stopped comic-con movies I don't need to piss people off I when I watch a movie I'm having those thoughts anyway so I might as well share them with people if you're interested so I did just that and then people the last time I did it was for Star Wars The Force awakens Star Wars 7 I had a series of tweets you know one of them was bb-8 a smooth rolling metal spherical ball would have skidded uncontrollably on sand people got angry so much so tweeted back shut the [ __ ] up okay that's so so I said okay I'm not here to get people angry I'm just here to enlighten to help people enhance their movie-going experience but to the extent that is not accomplishing this I don't need to do it I'm just saying I don't I'm an educator I thought I was being nice I don't need to do so I haven't tweeted about a movie since then I got tweets I could post em stop you like I have tweets I could post about arrival please dear why I didn't watch them watched a little bit of a shutter off okay no you got to give it a chance as soon as I see a movie that starts out I don't spoil or it starts out with a sick kid I'm like [ __ ] you no no in fact it's very not about the kid I'm sure that's why I keep it's totally not about the kid Jamie hated it oh yeah yeah okay so you just give it a chance but but anyhow so I just stopped maybe I'll come back but I'm yeah people need to know when gravity that was good that you explained that the the not only is it's not plausible those two satellites aren't anywhere near each other oh my god worse said oh there's that there's the International Space Station and I'm on the Chinese Space Station let me just jetpack my way there yes do you really excuse me lady do you hey lady do you know how far away these are from one another you're gonna jet around from one space station - but no can't do it tens of thousands of miles from one another for goodness sakes Oh Betty I'm so I yeah you remember please it was like 15 tweets and I didn't know that was what I realized like the press was reading my movie tweets and those tweets is it now a couple of years ago when gravity came out with Sandra Bullock and and and what's the news name George Clooney so i eated it and they got talked about on the on The Today Show sent the set the weekend Today Show on NBC then it was talked about on NBC Nightly News then my tweets were talked about a Saturday Night Live's The Weekend Update it was like the NBC trifecta and I said oh my gosh this was I had not that was not the point I didn't seek this did fine I'm glad they they are reacting this way because that means they care about the science maybe but what Seth Meyers did cuz he was doing Weekend Update at the time he said astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson harshly criticized the movie ready saying has contains a number of scientific inaccuracies for example there is no way George Clooney would have spent that much time talking to a woman his own age that's interval is still younger than George Clooney though so they should have got their facts but yeah but not by much I mean yeah they're in the same neighborhood yes yeah III think it's important I think you enjoy the movie it's great it's fun and everything like that but it's important to point out what the science errors are I think I think though I think the movie could have done better honestly the things they could have made the same movie I did he was thought I didn't like the movie when all I was doing is pointing out things they got wrong by the way they did some stunning thing correctly for example this is this is brilliant if you're in zero-g a fire basically puts itself out so think about when you burn a candle it on earth so you like the wick does people have candles anymore they forgot what a candle is you light it with a match that you used to get from smoking lunches at bars all right so you light the candle and it stays lit the fuel is the wax the oxygen continually comes in because it heats the air around it and the air rises hot air rises and fresh air comes in from below that has fresh oxygen so the can will stay lit until it burns all the way down in space if you light a candle you can light the candle it'll heat the air but the air will not know where to go because it's not lighter than everything because it's in zero-g it'll stay clustered around the candle the candle will use up all the oxygen in that bubble and then it'll put itself out they did this in the movie so why do they have some goods because they may you can't think of everything so they just have you on staff so you can't think of everything so that wasn't judgmental so much as this movie the fact that it got so much right is what put it on my map to criticize what it got wrong that makes sense does that make them a yes yeah oh the hair her bangs should have been floating now if you might think I'm in my nitpicky no because if you look at any picture somebody with hair okay in space in zero-g their hair is flying everywhere it's the first thing you notice about them it is so obvious like wow that's the cool you're not thinking about the spaceship or the tie technology you're looking at the hair doing stuff you will never see happen on earth unless someone is like underwater and they're jiggling their head so they would have to film it all in zero gravity they would have to film it on one those drop things yeah or the drop thing if they'd have to be clever about it and she only had bangs that's all you have to figure out it they did other clever things so anyway that's all I did please by the way in all fairness to movies I'll call out something that's good the science that movie got right that otherwise got no science right I'll be I'm the first in line to do that like what Oh in the movie monsters ink oh my gosh I was going there did ya those doors were four dimensional portals to another that that's possible well if you had four dimensions that's what it would look like do you remember the movie yes they take the doors home yes they opened the door and they're in the closet of the kid that they're gonna terrorize yes you that's a wormhole that's what that is what access to the fourth dimension looks like do you think scientifically that's possible one day yes I hope so I hope so really because here's the example we've got a nice broad desk we here at this interview right so desk is two dimensions it's got length and width and I can start putting papers on this desk and I can lay them out mosaic style and then all of a sudden I have no more room to put a sheet of paper if I'm an aunt living in this surface of the desk I say no more room but wait a minute we are three dimensional people and I can put an organizer and and stack things vertically so I can take a sheet of paper and I can put it higher up than the surface of the desk the aunt will say where did it go oh my gosh it disappeared in some portal where no no what what is that it went into the third dimension and the aunt bound to and obviously as a three dimensional thing right and imagine it's it only lives in two dimensions you would have made that paper disappear into a third dimension and it will have no clue where it went because you had a portal you had access to that extra dimension so look at how much you can store on a desk when you have access to a third dimension above it vastly more than just papers mosaicked out on the surface so now let's up this example by a dimension you're storing boxes in a room or I ran out of room no you didn't let's open this four dimensional door you open it put the boxes through the door close the door box is gone they'll be awesome for hoarders you uh you look around the other side of the bottle at the door there's nothing there right though you're side of the door nothing there just a door that is a portal to a fourth dimension that can hold vastly more content then what is what you're stuck storing in the three dimensional space of your room now that's so that's a brilliant concept and even though it has monsters that don't exist that all speak English and one of them is a cyclops and one of them is a you know I'm not judging the bio physiology of these creatures but they got the physics of a four dimensional portals completely accurate now the concept of dimensions is work it's really abstract with people I love me some dimensions and it is abstract it is now and that's why you take let the math take you into those higher dimensions because our intuition will not will fail for us [Applause] [Music] [Applause]

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Published: Wed Feb 22 2017