The 7 Strangest Coincidences in the Laws of Nature

The universe seems to be ruled by equations and numbers. But why just these equations and why just those numbers? Is it just coincidence? In this video I have collected seven of the weirdest coincidences in physics.

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[kalzium]

I think if you take some numbers and massage them with math enough, you gain other numbers.

[adriang]

If you sum the alphabet position of your name and the add 4x114 (the number of days to your birthday) you get 506.... the number of videos you posted with this video....Coincidence? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Great video!

[victorkrawchuk]

Perhaps another coincidence is that if you calculate the Schwarzschild equation with the estimated mass of the universe, you get a Schwarzschild radius that isn't very far off from 1/2 the estimated diameter of the universe. Do we all live inside a black hole?

[thePronto]

"...just about..."; "...approximately..."; "...virtually the same as...". None of those descriptions seemed to work with my maths teacher...

[jonnie]

The mother of all such coincidences is when James Clerk Maxwell calculated in 1862 the speed of propagation of electric and magnetic waves, based on his own mathematical description of them ("Maxwell's equations"). He observed that the answer was within 10% of the measured value of the speed of light. Just a coincidence? No, Maxwell deduced (correctly) that light was a form of electromagnetic radiation ... and modern physics was born. Genius.

[ShadowManceri]

The use of approximate values can create the illusion of coincidence. With a large enough set of numbers, some values will inevitably be similar. This is unsurprising. However, a precise match is far more compelling.

[keithsquawk]

Some bloke caled 'Pratchett' had an idea about this
"“Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one.
But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.”

[jamesgrover]

Every universe that didn't have the coincidences died in a blaze of glory

[jasonz]

A world without coincidence would be even stranger.

[JoeBlowUK]

Seeing the Fibonacci sequence crop up so many times in nature is quite a coincidence.

[MykePagan]

When you look for coincidences, you will find coincidences

—Umberto Eco, “Foucault’s Pendulum” (paraphrased)

[malcellison]

If you take the Cosmological Constant, divide it by 10 to the 14th, add the weight in grams of all the Cod in the Atlantic and multiply by the number of beams in the Eiffel Tower, you get a figure which is equal to the number of atoms present in the bodies of all the Koalas in Western Australia. Coincidence?

[TiagoCavalcanti-jihu]

The chance of all this being a coincidence is not that irrelevant. I just did the math, and it is exactly 1/137. Cheers Sabine!

[hyperbaroque]

> "That's almost 6π⁵ !"
> my brain: 🧠

[johnnywezel]

There's just a tiny little problem with physical constants: they can't be constants. There can't be any constants in nature.

[NomadSupreme]

This all went over my head. Albert Einstein had a head. Coincidence?😂

[vincenttolve]

I am old now and never was that bright to begin with so it is eminently understandable that much of what Sabine says is profoundly opaque to me. What is difficult to understand is why I watch regularly and wonder at the complexity of what seems simple to a simpleton.

[josephmartin]

THE most fundamental law of physics being that the universe is humorous, carry on smiling with your brain! A most beautiful video!

[dennisconley]

As a retired chemical engineer, I collect science coincidences while studying physics. I can verify your first 2 but the others, I don't have all the info to confirm. i.e. On 3, is the size of the observable universe a mass or a diameter? Dr. Becky detailed her coincidence with the microwave background very well and it was easy to verify. I have found several other parallels between folklore and science as well.

[mr.pavone]

"My cat's breath smells like cat food"
-Ralph Wiggam, PhD.