Biggest Thing in the Universe - Sixty Symbols

Discussing it here are Mike Merrifield and Ed Copeland.

This project features scientists from The University of Nottingham

Sixty Symbols videos by Brady Haran

A run-down of Brady's channels:

[Sluggernaut]

It's always such a pleasure to see someone so pleased with their own field of study like this. The passion and excitement is really contagious.

[Mayla_boo]

I could listen to these guys all day. In fact I do fall asleep to their lectures w my earbuds. I love how passionate they are and have made this their life's work. I dont understand how this doesn't fascinate everyone. To me this is the most critical subject in life to learn about!

[paul]

I feel like Ed would be a great first year teacher, Breaks things down and truly loves what he does!

[davidlbaird]

This video was wonderfully edited, interleaving two interviews, that complement and explain each other. I understand this newly discovered structure and its orgins, and I feel I can share the excitement of the physicists explaining it.

[Silvah]

A big blown up projection of just a funny little wobble in a field.
Wow.

[rickrose]

I love these guys. A lucid explanation of some fundamental and very compelling cosmological issues. For the inflationary epoch of your mind.

[huntergoddard]

3:40
The observable universe is not 13 billion light-years across, it's 93 billion light-years across. It's 13 billion years old, but that's not its size.

[Rami-llbq]

its a pleasure to see the best of humanity that we unfortunately lose as we grow up, inquisitiveness, curiosity, thank you, we need more people like these

[adamh]

Ed’s reaction to Brady’s final comment at the end 👌🏻

[HewkiiMusic]

Am I the only one that has this raging phobia of gas giants, Jupiter in particular? When that picture of Jupiter popped up on the screen my heart nearly stopped, and even that when the picture is only in black & white. I guess it's the enormous size and perfection along with the lack of a solid surface that scares me the most.

[AnimationB]

I did a speech for my Communications class on this discovery. Thanks for showing it to me!

[EL-mgst]

Thank you Thank you Thank you!  This stuff is fabulous. There's never a boring moment when you can watch a Sixty Symbols video.

[MartinB_Art_Design]

Very very off topic question, and I really love these videos.

I haven't had much luck googling but does anyone know any youtube channels LIKE numberphile and sixty symbols that primarily focus on type and design?

[ToddLewden]

Starmaker by Olaf Stapledon is all I keep thinking about. Fantastic SciFi read! :)

[alexisrodriguez]

"The ultimate elephant in the room." This is extremely quotable.

[frankbraker]

Love this show. It makes me want to see an interview with the paper's authors.

[Kavetrol]

They should make a video on light travel distance vs. light travel distance plus space expansion.

[skinnyofdoom]

These videos are brilliant! It's the very example of how complex and cutting-edge science should be spoken about when addressing an audience of non-experts! Well done folks. keep up the good work.

[michamasny]

I would appreciate a word on time in this video. I'm guessing all of this stuff isn't stuck on a circle around the Earth so there are probably considerable differences in distance between us and various points on this thing. If the thing is about 4 billion light years then, unless the points of it are close to equidistant from the Earth, some parts of the thing we see will likely be a billion or two years older than others. It seems to me time should be a real factor here since things can change their relative positions in time, especially when they have lots of it. It's a pity it wasn't touched in the video I think.

[silverwaterbug]

I was wondering when you'd make a video on this, Brady. Interesting stuff. :)