Ep 613 - Solar System Part 1 (feat. Nate Marshall)

wild wild west hey what's up everybody we're here um this is a breaking episode it's going to be a solo cast uh solo cast asterisk obviously i have nate here but uh shane's away netflix is a joke festival which is uh that'll be fun so it'll be pretty much wrapping up by the time you guys see this however i don't know maybe hulu will do one too i like when the streaming giants get silly in the comedy space you know huh they start gonna start battling i mean yeah they're all the streaming giants are battling that's all they do is battle each other i don't know we're battling for stand-up rights now oh yeah i guess hulu's doing those specials hulu does hularious or hulu's laughing now those are both terrible names hulu's laughing now you don't like hulu's laughing now i hate that i hate hulu i think the streaming giants are just on the next level with the branding they might just be getting i'm a dumbass they know what they're doing they hate hulu's laughing now dude that's i saw that and i literally cracked up and i say these guys know comedy like none other wow also amazon does not have comedy specific branding um i would like to propose to amazon amazon hey come on come on let me let me know you guys think in the comments like subscribe um yeah so yeah this week i was sitting here i was going the hell should we talk about man you know it's like political stuff no the war pretty much political stuff no i don't want to talk about that bombers big bombers yeah you know what i was like you know what would be sick to actually get into nobody i haven't heard anyone talking about at all it's the solar system you know what i'm saying can't beat space it's dude the planets here's the thing we learned about the planets when we were little boys we learned last learned about the planets when we still had an extra plan let me get it let me get a camera we still had an extra planet the last time we learned about planets we don't know you're talking pluto i'm talking pluto yeah so i haven't got i haven't got to pluto yet but i'm kind of i was i'm a little salty we've nixed pluto it's like what what was it it's not hurting anybody was that was that like a coalition of fat science teachers who were like we don't feel like covering like why would they drop i think it literally just didn't fit into the curriculum they were like we can't get this all the way through the year we gotta knock one off i mean what what's the problem with that i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know what a dick that was definitely some astra whatever they're called astra not an astrophysicist but like just like a space yeah space scientist whatever they're called definitely just being like you know technically it doesn't count it's just like dude what the fuck it's it's a it's a big ball and it rotates around the sun let it be a planet yeah what's what's your fucking problem it's technically just like an exo it's like dude it's a fucking planet man my theory is saturn's not a planet what's your problem with gas giants it's a gas giant you can't touch there's several gas giants but is it you know where saturn's rings come from i want to say you're anus but that was just me being that was just me being if you're going to bring that attitude with the fucking solar system discussion you're going to get ejected dude dude filming you like this makes me want to call the cops on you so bad um excuse me you can't do that you can't sit there karen cam um excuse me we'll see might i call the cops on eight by the end of the solar system we'll see all right are we was there a direction we're going or did you just yeah oh inside out nope starting from the sun start from the sun i almost i almost skipped the sun that that's the craziest part i was i was going to do this i was talking to sean about it i was like sean what do you think about this and i was like you know what dude i gotta i gotta cover i'll start from the sun and move on but i'm like i gotta cover the sun that'd be crazy to do the solar system and not cover the fucking thing it's named after can i tell y'all of the solar system i'm not gonna cover the solar system i'm not gonna talk about much the sun freaks me out bro i'm not gonna lie yeah i didn't know much about it the more i learned about it i i'm not lying i had a panic attack in the office researching about how the sun works and i got into like the the nitty-gritty of it yeah i for real at one point had to like stop and just like sit down and take some breaths because the sun i mean it gets it cuts you down to the base the bare fundamentals yeah to where you're like what even what okay so and it's like i hope i'm not jumping the gun but the fact that it could like blow up at any time well we'll see it's not like close the sun has maintained equilibrium for four and a half billion years and it's pretty much it'll it will continue to maintain equilibrium the problem solar flares oh yeah solar flare another scary thing we'll get into solar flash as well no no no you're eager you're eager before you're disruptive now you're eager we've gone a full dangerous minds arc and thirty seconds this is amazing but i will say this it's like here's why i wanted to do the solar system because like we learned about it as boys but that was so long ago and so much stuff has come out about the planets like all the shit you learned about the planets planets i'm not going to say is wrong but a lot of new details have come out yeah so every the average adult is kicking around i'm not i'm not coming for people but a total fucking ignoramus in terms of the solar system people have like no one knows shit about how these planets work including myself so you know i uh well you know while we were out here just kind of messing around in high school drinking college people were yeah a lot of girl scientists too by the way we're working hard that kind of seems like girl science actually yeah it kind of dude it's it's dominated there's a lot of guy scientists obviously but there's a ton a lot of these discoveries are girl scientists astrology then the then the solar system it's like a clear path pipeline yeah the horoscopes like you gotta go all the way in yeah i gotta you need to know what's up with the fucking cloud layer of venus which actually there was a discovery by a girl scientist big discovery by a girl scientist this episode is brought to you by ag1 september rolls around and suddenly everyone's got places to be early alarms work school about 14 things on the calendar that definitely weren't there two weeks ago tell me about it very relatable ag1 next gen is one less thing to worry about oh thank goodness one scoop a day helps support your gut health energy production and overall nutrition without having to completely reorganize your life around being a healthy person finally and it's not just green powder with good pr ag1 is a clinically backed comprehensive daily health drink shown to fill in common 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political power in a system that like asks more of men men should have more political power which i say obviously is a fair position for women to have more political power but i think you would be stripping the women's vote via girl logic which is it's not fair yeah yeah only a girl cares about if it's not fair yeah that's girl logic as a guy you can't be like it's not fair it's like well now i'm taking your vote too because you're being a girl if you want to keep that's the thing it's just a vicious cycle you can't be like it's not fair if you act like a girl we also take your right to vote i mean it has to be across the board because why why can't girls vote because they act like girls but you acting like a girl to take the vote also it's it's when i see the debate it's like okay you can make as clear concise point about it no one's it's like no one's ever going to do it's not gonna happen yeah he's dude stand on that platform for real for real i mean you can stand on it all you never get pussy again like the yeah well no the one guy that i've watched has his wife pilled on the no vote for women she's fully with it and it's like dude again do your thing live your life i don't care but let's be honest it's never going to fucking happen they're never going to do it is he a politician or is he like uh he's like a debater okay he's a good debater too he's he's a he's a very very solid debater forget his name but he uh yeah i was watching the whole thing and like it's just one of those things where it's like it sounds sick obviously you're on your channel you're like here are the reasons you're watching you're like yeah we're gonna fucking do it we're gonna take their vote away not into i mean dude it's it's just never gonna fucking happen it's like it's it's just it no one nobody the country no country can possibly withstand that amount of the nagging would be crazy dude like let's be honest the worst rates would go through the roof of 80s if you're a dude who goes i agree with this you're done you're not getting pussy you're a lot of babe again this guy has got his babe she's on board that is a fucking rarity yeah yeah he's got the like the the one percenter of babes i know when babes are your babe might be like yeah i could see that and then just maybe i can't believe i can't fucking vote as soon as her period you said it was fine we watched the youtube debate we both agreed that guy was right they're never going to go along with it it's just one of those things where it's like dude like you can you're kind of chasing your tail you can you know whatever but that's and then after doing all this outer space research i'm going dude women are dominating we need some babes we need these babes to fucking look and tell us about outer space again i don't know if it's all of them but a lot of these discoveries are from babe scientists while we've been just absolutely fucking around the entire time we will if we take away their right to vote they're going to stop focusing on science is going to try to get their right to vote back we can't do it i don't know could though if we did take the vote we could get there might be some humble babe action i do like almost like like reuniting right after a breakup yeah yeah yeah could be best behavior we could have best behavior i do like the idea of women acting right i would just vote i'd be like just tell me i'll vote however you want i don't even care we get double votes i don't tell me babe i'll vote for whatever you want i don't fucking care and also too like this the nuts and bolts of blocking the vote i mean it's like what the only option you'd have to physically hold that you'd have to literally physically hold them back they would flood the voting booths we would also have so many trans women like women i just thought about that or we'd have to we'd have to we'd have to go down that rabbit hole then it'd be a whole different thing because they would they would definitely spite trans i know we'd have to have you know you'd have to have the fbi female body inspectors that'd be the only way but either way i don't want to get mired down in politics i want to talk outer space because it would be dude i'm saying it'd be a sad sight if like you know you're there they actually you pass the law on this fucking handmaiden's tale bullshit world the only way you could stop women was by you'd have to have like a security force like scrappy dude holding their heads while they fucking and that would bum me out i'm trying to cast my vote for the republic i'm seeing women get scrappy dude just nonsense that would be that would fucking piss me off some of them good girl scientists that are fucking enlightening us about space this episode is brought to you by prize picks the regular season's done and the nba playoffs are here time to get in on the action with the prize picks a preferred partner of the nba nba and space b space a download the price picks app today and use code drench 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basically greco-roman gods oh except for earth except for earth yeah we're talking about a little bit except for earth weirdly enough why why did earth not get i mean i guess probably because we're standing on it you know it doesn't get a cool god name we might have already had it named well you know we might have already been calling it earth just earth just earth all you could name earth after a god really because it was like they you know the gods were supposed to be in the heavens and yeah whatever unless you believe in like gaia so okay before we talk planets let's talk sun okay and basic facts this is the stuff i already knew before i researched sun is 93 million miles away from earth i know that one that was i learned that from a wu-tang song from triumph it's literally in the song which is kind of crazy that's like some dude smoking sherm the projects would have yeah literally been teaching a prim ass white boy like myself about the solar system yeah that's what happened that's how i started my love for outer space and now i've joined the lineage of great teachers because i've actually smoked sherm on accident before so that's the only sherm mix how do you get it's just pcp okay okay it's just wet yeah it's just i accidentally smoked sherm myself so that's how i've just following a great lineage of teachers just smoking sherm once or twice you like weird yeah during it was sick yeah fluid i really literally flew up a staircase oh it's awesome i could breathe flames out of my mouth but then i got like deeply paranoid that these babes are trying to poison me yeah okay i could have kissed him oh i was too shermed out yeah that's that's the life of a fucking astronomer like myself so okay so let's go size of the sun right off the bat how big is the sun in relative terms 1.3 million earths could fit inside the sun that's crazy it's fucking dude it's massive if the sun if the sun were a hollow ball you could fit every planet in the solar system inside of it and still have room like a lot of room right yeah it's fucked up how big this the sun is like just to get a glimpse you see it every day yeah you're just going to think about it oh fucking sun 1.3 million earths could fit inside the sun how hot is the sun exactly depends on where you measure at the core the sun is 15 million degrees celsius it's fucking hot as shit so we'll get into exactly what that means is that you hear that it's almost abstract the surface of the sun is only air quotes about 5500 degrees celsius john can we get some conversion with the surface the surface of the sun because there's a core there's the inner core where like the you know we'll get into what's happening in there and then there's like an actual body of the sun okay that's only 5500 degrees which is like pretty low compared to the core kind of weird how many degrees 10 000 degrees fahrenheit what's the surface in fahrenheit if it's 15 million degrees celsius that's got to be i don't know celsius throws me off i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know it throws me off because it's close to some points and super 30 probably is i think it's probably 30 30 million degrees 30 million degrees dude let's we'll wait for the official numbers to come in here's the weird part so the surface core is 15 million degrees surface is 5500 million 5500 degrees celsius okay so it's 27 million degrees fahrenheit you know whatever we'll stick to celsius that's what fucking scientists they love libs love celsius so the outer atmosphere so there's there's a core of the sun there's its surface then there's an outer atmosphere of the sun called the corona which paradoxically reaches over 1 million degrees celsius which violates it's hotter than hotter than the body of the sun not hotter than the core yeah oh yeah but according to i believe the law of thermodynamics it's supposed to get colder the further you move away from a hot thing the corona violates the law basic basic physics people still don't know why yeah that's pretty wild and the corona this is kind of a weird it actually extends because it's like a um there's you know there's the core there's the body the corona is like the what you see when there's an eclipse there's that like light around the moon that's the corona it goes on for millions of miles and it's a million degrees for millions of miles and then it actually peters out into the solar winds that basically go through the entire solar system and then they stop after pluto for planet formerly known as pluto so we're getting heat hitting our planet it's corona that's gotten here is that what kind of we'll get to that okay okay we'll get to that luckily our atmosphere but well yeah we'll get to that it's not technically the corona but the light coming out of the sun which you know is kind of a bug out in and of itself but that's that's where interstellar space starts is when the sun's solar wind finally stops somewhere after pluto yeah the solar wind stops and you're in interstellar space properly which again is kind of like weird to think about so yeah there's a thing called the corona paradox we'll get into kind of theories into why that might be but again it's like what it's it's completely wrong it's 50 million degrees and it's like 5500 degrees and then it goes to 1 million again outside away further from you're like what the hell so now i'm sure you've thought about this like what would happen to you if you like just try to get towards the sun yeah and in reality you would just burn up so fast but here's the thing we have because we like you know how do you think how do they know the sun's core is 15 million degrees we can't get close enough to measure it so they do a thing where they there's a couple methods i don't really understand that but there's like ways you can look at light signatures and the certain colors coming off give you like you know this is how hot this is this is how hot this is there's also uh they like the neutrinos that bounce out of the sun hit the ground and they somehow like collect those and measure those but still i'm like i don't know i'm taking it with a grain of salt there's no way you can actually measure without the direct probe nasa in 2018 launched the parker solar probe and uh they got within in 2024 about 6.1 million kilometers to the sun's surface it's close so they're in the corona so they were able to theorize how hot it would be and then they actually sent this probe into the corona that could verify like okay our models were correct okay i'm assuming there was no camera or nothing no pictures that got sent back i don't think so i think this thing was a i mean it was basically a bullet it traveled 92 000 kilometers an hour fast as any human-made object that's ever moved so they just hit a carbon heat shield about four and a half inches thick that kept everything inside at room temperature even as it like hit temperatures at like 1400 degrees celsius so now i'm going like oh that's why too the corona is it's kind of thinned out so like it is technically a million degrees but the particles i think are so thinned out that like it doesn't feel as hot that's why they're able to get in there so i don't know that yeah that's a little confusion a little confusing but it's still like the only thing my brain can even like compare that to is like when humidity makes things feel hotter than it is it's you you don't you really feel pretty fucking dumb yeah you try to think about this shit but it's like you know if you try to really comprehend how hot these temperatures are there's there's nothing you know like molten metal is thousands of times cooler than the sun's coolest part which is the surface yeah so you it's like it's almost abstract so it's like in the way to think about this is like as you go up the temperature ladder you don't just get more hot as you get to like you know things like 15 million degrees it literally alters what the matter fundamentally is so he changes literally like when you go when you get to the sun's core it turns into plasma which is a whole different state of matter it's like solid gas liquid plasma is just like a soup of particles because everything just breaks down is that kind of a laser beam i don't know i'm going video games i'm going video games you've got plasma guns all the time so let's just so again like the whole idea of imagine yourself floating towards the sun how close can you get before you're destroyed i mean in terms of in terms of pure radiation and heat you're dead unprotected human tissue would be destroyed long long long before getting anywhere near the surface obviously if you could even preserve yourself um parker solar probe like we said you got the closest um for context mercury which we'll get to the closest planet is still about 46 million kilometers from the sun at its nearest point so it's like halfway between earth and mercury is like the halfway point between here and the sun um so yeah with the general scientific like consensus that without shielding you would not survive much closer than mercury's orbit so and here here's the scale for reference the term of temperatures zero degrees celsius water freezes 100 degrees celsius water boils thousand degrees celsius lava molten rock that's that's what lava is 1500 degrees steel melts 3500 degrees tungsten melts this is the highest melting point of any metal it's using light bulb filaments 55 degrees celsius lava molten rock that's that's what lava is 1500 degrees steel so 5500 degrees celsius the surface of the sun and anything that exists as a solid or liquid is already just long gone 1.1 to 3 million is the corona temperature 15 million degrees is the core of the sun shit yeah which is kind of nuts and then here's so like we said the surface of the sun is cooler than the area outside the corona which you know we already we already talked about that um but again this is a big paradox scientists are like they have no idea they don't really know however the leading theory on the corona paradox why the outside area of the sun is hotter than the body of the sun again just including the core which is just literally nuclear um they think that the massive heat shift around the corona is due to electromagnetic fields snapping together in like you know in tiny tiny increments and each of the realignments generates heat and like micro flares so it's similar to a big solar flare yeah um that originates on the sun's surface but in the corona they're thinking like this is happening and they're thinking like this is happening and they're thinking like this is happening on a tiny level but just like billions of them every single second so it turns into a big ass thing kind of yeah so like it kind of collectively heats it's more so like electromagnetic heat than technically heat from the sun but it is coming from the sun because the sun's core does generate electromagnetic or does like dictate the movement of electromagnetic lines it's dude yeah electromagnetic shit is so so fucking weird so it's like think of like you know we talked about solar flares obviously so solar flares i think originate because there's like um you know the core is doing all of its crazy shit it gets so hot that the electromagnetic fields get all like whacked out so then like they're getting all whacked out coming from you know the core of the sun they hit the sun's body and as the sun's rotating the electromagnetic lines just twirl together yeah and they get so tense like twirling a rubber band together and eventually they just snap yeah and just fire off like a massive thing of heat and energy and the the biggest solar storm that hit earth that we know of was the carrington event 1859 it was so strong that it set telegraph machines on fire yeah so those old morse code lines were all we're all connected by copper wires so everyone was just working on them and out of nowhere like people got like shocked yeah like some of them burst in flames i think it was all over the it just it just that energy got absorbed by those copper wiring connecting them all together so that some of them burst into flames other operators were just like ow just got shocked did it hit the whole planet or the whole planet like a chunk of the i think it hit the whole i think it fucked up like the i i think it fucked up anywhere that had that yeah okay okay yeah um also the weird thing was the the energy from the solar flare after they they had unplugged some of the machines like what the fuck's going on with these and they were still powered no plug-in the energy from the solar player flare actually powered the machines for a time being afterwards but they were just fucked it was off they were off but they were on but they were on you couldn't turn them off they had too much juice yeah so and the cool thing too is that the the solar flare was so intense that the you know like the aurora borealis you can see from like the poles yeah you can see that in like cuba it just lit up the electric whatever that is like hits the sky and it bounces colors bounce off of the atmosphere and it just there was like an aurora borealis visible something like it visible all the way down silver lining to that chaos because aurora borealis is like one of my bucket lists see that in person things it'll be sick although the weirdest part was it was so bright that that it happened in the middle of the night so people were like oh my god it's like a solar flare it's like a solar flare it's like a solar flare it's like a solar flare it's like a solar flare and people woke up in the middle of the night thinking it was daytime so they kind of popped up like oh man birds it would birds even got tricked birds started singing like it was nighttime they came out being like what the three in the morning why is it so bright yeah it just looked completely up the weirdest thing is if such a solar flare happened today it would destroy the infrastructure of the entire internet yeah truly it would cause trillions of dollars in damage the internet would go down as far as i know that's terrified plus side search history destroyed destroyed everyone clean slate that'd be so bad we're talking if we get a big enough solar flare it could destroy now would destroy the entire internet dude clean break but what about my bookmarked favorites bro you gotta let them go you could find them again you'd have to create recreate them yeah that would be the real thing because they would be gone they just be gone they would exist in your heart and you would have to write them down like like one of those ancient greeks stories so so who's the lady that's always getting like having sex in the shower with like wet makeup on her face i don't know michaels giana michaels yeah oh you have to write about you have to sing her song you make the lords i would definitely this is a story of miss michaels giana michaels and pinky with i'd sing to the heaven yeah they'd have to live on through you so and this is this is why we're talking about this story because it's a story of miss michaels giana michaels and pinky with i'd sing to the heaven yeah this is a story of miss michaels giana michaels and pinky with i'd sing to the heaven very very spooky man very spooky this episode is brought to you by ag one september rolls around and suddenly everyone's got places to be early alarms work school about 14 things on the calendar that definitely weren't there two weeks ago tell me about it very relatable ag one next gen is one less thing to worry about oh thank goodness one scoop a day helps support your gut health energy production and overall nutrition without having to completely reorganize your life around being a healthy person and you're not going to be able to do that finally and it's not just green powder with good pr ag one is a clinically backed comprehensive daily health drink shown to fill in common nutrient gaps yes ag one 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If you think you might be struggling with OCD, go to nocd.com to book a free 15-minute minute call they are here to help so also too just how big we talked a little bit about just how big the sun's corona is so it's like all right the diameter of the sun's visible surface is about 864 000 kilometers which if you were to take a radius of that half the circle yeah guess how big it would be 432 000 kilometers anyway pretty sick the corona starting at the end of the sun's surface extends for like we said three to five million miles raging at roughly a million degrees which again asterisk that because apparently they were able to probe it and it was only 1400 well you know only 1400 degrees celsius so maybe that was like the outer outer reaches i don't oh yeah you know what it probably was because they weren't even yeah they had got to like the outer reaches of that uh maybe they're in salt because the corona of the sun that goes off the body extends for 3.5 million miles at a million degrees and then thins out and the solar wind that we talked extends all the way out to pluto and beyond so this the technically speaking the whole solar system is located inside of the sun yeah and i'm going to get pushed back because they're going to say dude that's the you can't include solar winds was like hey man i didn't write the rules oh the girls did this is girl rules girl rules sorry i didn't make them actually used to live now if you really want to take away their vote you can amend the solar winds no it does not extend to all the thing all right so we covered the surface in the corona i think pretty well but what about the core the churning powerhouse of the sun the core is where yeah i mean dude like the surface is cool and all the corona is pretty cool you know paradoxical whatever the core i don't think i've ever heard shit about the core bro you i i'm if you want to cover your ears i don't blame you it's freaky you'll never look at the sun again the same way so the core makes up the innermost 25 percent of the sun's radius so 25 percent of the sun's size is the radius not obviously including solar winds and all that stuff but don't let that fool you 25 of the sun is still enormous the core alone is roughly twice the diameter of jupiter the largest planet in the solar system so it's massive yeah so you have this massive ball it's 15 million degrees celsius and again we've already established the corona's 1.3 million degrees the core is 5 to 15 times hotter than that and like we said every step up the temperature ladder changes what matter fundamentally is so once you get into the core you're you're like you're just complete you're you're beyond what any physical matter on earth is basically you turn into plasma and the pressure this is fucked up if you think about it the pressure of the core it's 250 billion times earth's atmospheric pressure and pressure is not gravity it doesn't mean you weigh like 250 billion times more yeah it's like if you were you know when you're underwater when like submarines go thousands of feet and they get crushed yeah dude like if you did like a couple hundred thousand times bigger you're crushed it's 250 billion times atmospheric pressure it'd be like being like 10 billion feet underwater like it's it's unfathomable how much it grows it's it's crushing it's containing an explosion which the core essentially is yeah the core's explosion is equivalent to 90 trillion nuclear warheads going off every second already for four billion years slated for another roughly 4.5 billion years more every second every second you look at the sun it's 90 trillion nuclear warheads just going we're just looking at it like damn it's a pretty day out there dude it's so it's insane so okay 20 250 billion times earth's atmospheric pressure and again it's being crunched down by gravity the sun contains 333 000 times the mass of earth and all of that mass is gravitationally attracted to its own center i don't really know that's how gravity works so if you have a big ball like earth or the sun all like it's like the weight so you have like you're standing on france all of france from the surface down to like all the shit underneath it is pressing on the core and you have china that's also somehow pressing into the core as well and every place is just crunching down on the core so the the core of the the sun is just fucking massive amounts of gravity containing this never-ending explosion that just kind of repowers itself over and over so every layer of the sun is sitting top on the on top of the layer below it is i mean it's the most extreme pile on ever just all the way down the floor like we say and the temperature so it's the temperature by the way so we're saying about like the the you know 1500 15 million degrees changing what matter fundamentally is it's from two things it's from the temperature and it's from the pressure yeah so the temperature gets the particles mass moving fast enough to overcome the repulsion because you have like say uh you have hydrogen a hydrogen nucleus seems another hydrogen nucleus so it's just sitting there like this they're repelled like magnets like think about two magnets you can't get them to touch each other you're sitting there like you know you can't do it so the heat gets the particles moving so fast that the electrons since it's plasma the electrons fall away now we have the soup the electrons are just floating here and there there's no order to any of these things and the neutrons are just going like this and then they get hot enough they get fast enough and they get close enough to each other to overcome the repulsion that's love so like dude it'd be like if you threw a magnet so it is love it's true it's like if you threw the magnet so fast which i've actually seen one of my boys do this one time you throw the magnet fast enough it would just go it would actually connect however the connection is nuclear it's like particle fusion so it's what powers nuclear bombs yeah and the pressure so it's like the temperature gets them moving fast enough to overcome the repulsion but then the pressure gets them close enough for the strong nuclear force to grab them together so and this is the core is the only place in the solar system where both conditions are met at once which is why fusion only happens in the center of stars and nowhere else it really is when people do atomic bombs if they're harnessing the power of the stars yeah that's crazy it's the power of the stars yeah and here yeah so and the cool part is the same gravity that's kind of badass that people we're just harnessing the power of stars on the planet i don't mean to cut you it's cool it's certainly it's terrifying it's really scary we didn't kind of do that though i know i mean shout out to us obviously but yeah the same crushing gravity is what keeps the whole system stable the fusion at the core and we'll get into exactly what fusion is this nuclear fusion is constantly trying to blow the sun apart so and again like we said 90 trillion nuclear bombs per second exploding gravity is just hugging around it just no brother just holding it all together and these two forces these two massive forces have been pretty much perfectly balanced for 4.6 billion years like we said turns out we get another 5 billion in the future and we're going to get another 5 billion in the bank so we're chilling on the sun for 5 billion more years the sun's a controlled explosion that gravity won't let escape and fusion won't let collapse in on itself so the fusion also is pushing out against gravity wanting to just fucking crunch it all in i wonder if it'll be like signs i mean obviously we won't be here for but you know 400 billion years from now will the sun like feel or look different you know what i mean because we've lived we've experienced it for such a short period of time we don't even i don't know yeah i don't know they claim they claim that it's been 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believe i don't know so that yeah may 16th it's being my phone's being a piece of shit so come on come on we'll get it we'll get into fusion because again we kind of touched on it but how it happens is really cool so like you know what actually happens to these you know molecules or like hydrogen particles at 15 million degrees so again at a few thousand degrees molecules break apart into atoms at around 10,000 degrees celsius atoms this is when it becomes plasma atoms themselves start to break down like we said electrons get stripped away because it's like you have remember the science thing you have a nucleus which is like a i think a proton and a neutron and then it's circled by electrons okay and luckily hydrogen has no proton no hydrogen has no neutrons or something so it's just a proton that's why they have like the proton collider thing that's what they're trying to replicate did you ever hear of the higgs boson particle collider no they have these things underground and they're trying to get particle fusion they try to shoot them at such speeds that they can overcome that natural resistance and actually collide and that sounds scary as shit to just fuck around with these girls are out of control right now man blows up oh my god yeah it's freaky but at 10,000 degrees 10,000 degrees celsius matter stops becoming matter in any recognizable sense that we know and becomes plasma which we said is a soup of free electrons and bare atomic nuclei so it's like the nucleus not surrounded by their revolve you know the electrons that are spinning around it again this is the fourth state of matter between solid liquid and gas so that's at 10,000 degrees celsius the core is 15 million degrees so you're so far past plasma that the nuclei the proton and neutron in the case of hydrogen just the proton like we said themselves are being slammed into each other hard enough to fuse and like we said it's because the electrons are stripped away from the heat leaving the protons again not being possibly charged but still to repel each other like magnets uh the repulsion between these protons is called the kaloon barrier in case you're wondering so that's the the barrier that keeps protons from kind of slamming but now like we said the heat has the protons going so fast they overcome the repulsion and so then as they do this they just boom slam into each other these are two hydrogen nuclei colliding and merging transforming in a flash and nuclear you know a miniature nuclear explosion yeah transforming to form helium in the process so that you have a hydrogen a hydrogen which by the way two hydrogen one hydrogen i think is heavier than a helium okay but when the two come together which you would think oh the helium is going to be heavier the helium is lighter than these two guys that just crash together so because the helium is fundamentally lighter the helium is lighter than the helium that's coming together and the loss of weight right so you have say a hydrogen weighs one pound with it they don't but let's say for the sake of numbers two hydrogen nucleuses weigh one pound each they slam now they weigh like collectively i don't know whatever the fuck it is they've lost 0.7 percent they get smaller though yeah they're they're lighter than those so you start off with two things weighing something they collide you're left you have the leftover the helium's like the ash of a cigarette it's like a leftover component of this reaction that had nuclear reaction that tiny little bit of weight that's lost is then transferred into the energy that basically becomes light so those particles colliding in the 15 million degrees in the core in the core is what generates the sun's light but it's happening over and over and over and over over and over just boom every second it's and there's this light blinding flashes of gamma rays which you don't want to fucking you know i know you think you're tough but you do not want to gamma ray at all put me on the gamma you do not want to get it's it's that that little the hydrogen nuclei this is important colliding and merging transform into helium which is like kind of the body of the sun yeah boom white flash but that just like infinitesimal part of the mass that's lost becomes a force that becomes a gamma ray which is like a really weird to think like if you took a tiny bit of weight of this thing single you know i don't know what it weighs probably fucking not even like 0.1 pounds that would become a intense burn and then you're like oh my god i'm gonna die i'm gonna die i'm gonna die like that's the first of light energy yeah this is what you know it's trying to think of how to explain this so so the fusion of two particles again which is because of heat and pressure transmutes the hydrogen into helium we already we already said that and it loses that little bit of weight that just becomes light pure energy and here's how i try to think of it so it's like when the protons collide in nuclear fusion they turn into helium which we said is the byproduct of the reaction and the reaction is a massive explosion of energy relative to the size of the tiny bit of weight that was lost so like think of it this way if you multiply something's mass right i'm just this is how i kind of figured it out if you multiply something's mass by the speed of light and then multiply that number by the speed of light again you'll see how much energy has been converted in the process so this is just think like you know e for energy m for mass and let's do c for the speed of light and square that you get i think it's like e equals mc squared whoa oh dude that's crazy that's science theory actually but that's what yeah i had no idea that's what e equals mc squared is yeah it's just accounting for how much how much mass converts how much the tiniest amount of mass converts to like light energy basically okay it's einstein's theory of special relativity it's crazy case of parallel thinking honestly but i just i was like oh yeah that's how that works so going back to the sun you're a dude sitting there by yourself and just figuring that all out for the first time yo he's just being like i'm him he's definitely him yeah i think though there was a guy who figured out um uh what is it magnetism and electricity are part of the same thing yeah and that came first which was also like what the fuck yeah and i think that they say that's what kind of like helped einstein be like oh okay and he kind of piggybacked off that he basically ooped alley ooped einstein was that that's not tesla right no no i forget the guy's name um me the guy discovered electromagnetism another beast that was a big one dude that was crazy to somehow be like no they're the same thing because it's like electricity and magnetism you can't have one without the other the one produces electricity and the other one produces magnetism and there it's it's a self-sustaining field the thing that i've noticed this is a little sidetracked but like we're talking you're talking this i because we're talking about how beast these guys are i've kind of i don't know if it's instagram or the internet has i always pictures like smart dudes i didn't even see you doing it i don't know if it's instagram or the internet has i always pictures just smart dudes as dorks and like now you're starting to see like sometimes like nerds are kind of just cool you know smart people they used to be cool einstein was cool yeah he used to like i see stuff that he seemed like he was kind of him back in the day like he wasn't like well you know what it was though those early um physicists and those type of guys they would look at this outer space shit and be like they took almost like a religious perspective they'd be like god god's mysteries are so tight now scientists are like cold and objective and they're like they talk like robots yeah they lost all their swag let's see they lost their swag when they stopped being like this is so beautiful dude how do i fit into this beautiful tapestry now they're like well the forces are impersonal and cold and dark and they turn on the guy who who tries to go back to the other shit they go like no that's not what we do now we can't write peer-reviewed papers on that i know how can you quantify that it's like dude shut the fuck up dude that's why einstein got pussy and you didn't so maybe you want to know michael faraday what the hell huh i think it's ernest mock did he maybe he was i don't know but either way we'll leave that like comment below figure that out so going back to the sun that is a good point why einstein was the man i do think they just lost their respect for you know yeah they took they stopped taking a poetic view towards nature they just started being like yeah yeah it's that's a good point i think that's a good point i think bunch of math it's just math going back to the sun so nuclear nuclear fusion is constantly happening at the core hydrogen nuclei slamming fusing gamma burst and this is what sunlight is and then leftover helium the body of the sun so the sun by the way through fusion is converting four million tons of mass into energy gamma rays every single second and this isn't like burning a log this is physically like you know that's like you burn it it's like it's light this is physically converting mass into like traveling light beams you know a fire just kind of like oh it's like a candle just kind of hovers that's more of a chemical reaction yeah this is fundamentally taking mass and going like being flying out so in gamma rays too by the way here's a cool thing too the gamma rays don't just blast out of the reaction and hit us because if they did we'd be fucked like we would be gamma rays are in terms of energy rays like gamma x-rays you're all that shit they're the king daddy of energy rays they have no mass no charge it's just pure energy moving at the speed of light so and you think okay what's the fuck's the big deal about that so okay so let's just get into this thing first the gamma ray because if well let's just say if it hit you you're fucked like a gamma ray goes uv ray hits your skin and it gets trapped you get a little sunburn maybe but your body's like okay let's kind of repair that a gamma ray would go right through you like it'd be a hole in my body wouldn't be a hole but it would pass through you but it would sever anything it touched in terms of like your dna cells so it goes through you and just severs your dna so if you got hit with a full body dose of gamma all your all your dna strands would just be severed instant like like that so anything huh do you vape that sounds like you you don't vaporize you're just you just be there like nothing happened but all of a sudden you'd be like oh like your body all your body's natural intelligence just goes offline and you become what's called a walking ghost and you just slowly die like you die in like two minutes because your body all your bodily processes are just like what the fuck was that they just stopped their lines of dna to shred so your dna is what's telling all your cells what to do yeah that just goes down and then you go oh i don't feel so good two minutes later fucking toast so that's what's happening in the sun's core now here's the cool part you have those kind of weapons the gamma would fuck dude that would suck getting hit with gamma so the core you would think like okay so that light hits the core the hydrogen you know or hydrogen hits each other you. gamma the hydrogen turns into helium that's like the energy process the energy exchange or whatever that gamma those gamma rays produced by the uh particle fusion it gets trapped in the sun's core it just it can't get out it goes bounces around guess how long it bounces around for i guess million years seventeen thousand seven okay seventeen thousand you should have went low for a record just go low next time it's better but no but so if that was escaped we'd be toast yeah somehow and the sun's already kind of nuts right now but the gap the energy it produces it holds it inside of itself and just kind of it bounces around on a weird ten to seventeen thousand year journey inside of the core where it's slowly degraded into like lesser and lesser forms of energy basically so it's like gamma all the way to where it's like bang bang bang bang bang now it comes out as uv light as soon as it escapes the core and hits the you know basically surface of the sun yeah it takes eight seconds to get to earth so it bounces around for let's say seventeen thousand years and then it gets to the sun's surface and it's eight seconds hits you right in your fucking face get a little tan as uv and you get a little tan you know white boys like me a little crispy but so yeah it's pretty uh it's pretty crazy man al it's like every every time you stand in the sunlight the light hitting you seventeen thousand years old and has been stamped down it kind of is set up for black people originally so white people might be from yakub but it was it's kind of just like held in the sun and then shot out at like the perfect shit that we need for here for plants and people and you know all that other stuff that's fire pretty beautiful yeah pretty beautiful pure gamma dude don't want no parts of that you don't want that dude you just you just don't you don't want anything literally like we said just malfunctions everything gets you fucked up so curious um but yeah dude like we said before the sun this is actually kind of cool too um the sun somehow sun basically self-regulates so like we said before the you know the outward pressure of a fusion is kind of trying to explode the sun just out into the into the solar system but the size of the sun itself is kind of crunching it down in on itself yeah so here's the thing when fusion speeds up the sun expands so at the sun it's like okay the thing is starting to explode but the sun expanding expands the core too which then naturally cools the core down and so like we said the heat is what gets the particles moving faster yeah so when the core expands the particles slow down ever so slightly so fusion slows down so then the sun contracts again because everything cools down it's like breathing it's it's literally self-regulating yeah so it's just it's expanding it's been doing this every for four billion years keeping itself in perfect balance yeah making the light just perfect for us pretty fucking wild however so it's doing this all the time but then within that kind of like breathing kind of thing every 11 years it's on it's on a it's been on a cycle like this forever every 11 years it has solar flares cycle so we're in we're in a period of high solar flare flares right now so every 11 like we said that's from just electromagnetic fields just twisting twisting twisting and snap and they go and shoot out so it's like you have there it's always solar flaring but every 11 years it's like high solar flares and then every 11 year next 11 years like low solar flares okay so we're in high times right now we're not we're not so long is it supposed to longer than supposed to last the high times like i don't know which where we're at in it but it's either you know we're probably just say we're in the middle we got like five more years okay and apparently the flares do have i should have researched this i did not but they do have like a measurable effect on like people's like thinking and stuff like that so they can like they can get you it might be why we're all a little crazy right now we're in heavy we're in heavy solar flare hopefully you know we're on time for in i've said it before i think 2030 onwards it's going to be like a chill that's my prediction now if i check solar flares right now and it lines up with that i'm just going to run with that so yeah that's another mystery it's like okay the sun is a self-regulating it's it's it has like rhythms and stuff that it does um and also like we said obviously it's it's held a perfect balance for 4.6 billion years um with like really no room to mess up like if it if it got like just a few degrees cooler or hotter i mean life on earth is fucking toast so it's like it doesn't have a huge window of error if the sun goes off just a little bit we're fucked we're cooked so brings me to the next question is the sun conscious i was for real i was sitting here whole and then i was sitting here holding and saying something about that because i was literally i have that thought sometimes whether or not like planets and like shit in the solar system is a higher form of life that we just don't understand yet i don't know i mean if life is exist on earth and grows out of earth what the fuck is earth that's what i'm saying what's the sun dude i don't know dude here my thing is that so if you if you if your brain produces consciousness your brain is just a bunch of like electrical sparks flying around and like water and tissue why can't the sun dude you have electromagnetic fields you have water you have heat i mean the sun doesn't have water but you know what i'm saying there's there's like water on the planets you have heat you have electromagnetic fields i mean dude why not dude i don't know i don't know so then the the people there's people that say that consciousness this man psychics they say that consciousness is like a field just like gravity or electromagnetism it's just present and then we just you know pick up on it just like gravity crushes us there's like a field for consciousness you have the right stuff you tap into the field i could be the sun the sun could be conscious i don't know however i think regardless of how you feel about it something like religious reverence is due for the sun after i learned about it i was like we need to go back to sun gods dude or at least just look at it and get stoked i would like ever since i look at like dude i got into just how like the sun puts out these like um whatever it is radiation and our eyes are designed to actually see radiation like if our eyes weren't designed we couldn't pick up on light basically we have like light sensors in our eyes and i just like i was here typing and i was like wait so do we see light or does light let us see and i was just like getting all wrapped up on if we even see light in the first place and i had i took a knee by my computer i was like dude just chill go outside dude it's fucked up there's a it's a dumb this is dumb as shit but it's a cart in the show invincible there's a whole scene where they go into this room and you can't see anything because of because because they they're exactly what you're talking about they they it's like a certain they have a certain kind of light on in the room that our eyes aren't made really to be able to pick up on and then they had they like they like give him a needle that injects in the show they give him a needle that injects something that makes his eyes be able to see this new type of light it's kind of what you're saying no exactly yeah well there's also a ton there's also a ton of uh yeah like infrared wavelengths that we can't see yeah so there could be shit like going on that we just we'll never be able to see it and it was just bugging me out dude but here's the thing too it's like you know people people back in the day would look up at the sun this is this is you know the rest of the solar system look at the sun and all the planets and just be like dude these are gods they like really truly thought they're like oh shit they'd be like just kicking around the morning and they just see like venus and be like oh shit there's the fucking whole thing and they're like oh shit horny god yeah there's my baby there's my baby horny guys in the sky so even that the term so we're going to get into kind of the try to get into the somewhat into the etymology of the planets so the term sun they you know there's like stuff went back and forth being like yeah actually the sun in the english language has no connection to the gods like you know mercury venus all those are like easily traceable so they're claiming the sun has no connection in the english language to the gods but then i you know i started doing a little digging and it actually it does actually so it's like so this the term sun in english can be traced back through the proto indo-european language family to a relation with the norse deity soul which is actually latin for the so that did have a sun god in rome actually became the official god of uh like it was some of the late roman empires it was like the it was called the undefeated sun yeah it was a minor god in the roman pantheon and during the fall of rome some people were like oh my god it's like we call sun god is our god because actually julius caesar called venus the horny god to be he claimed to be descended from the horny god which is pretty sick and everyone had to be like yeah dude for sure you're the horniest guy so the the actual term sun in english it can be traced back to the norse deity soul also called also called suna soul back then was a goddess literally the sun itself which would race across the sky being chased by a hungry wolf you know the hungry wolf's name skull and erasing the hungry wolf was trying to eat the sun which is why they thought the sun went across and at ragnarok the apocalypse skull would catch and eat soul and during eclipses it was thought that skull got himself a little bite of her but the chase continued and actually sunday believe it or not is actually named after this ancient sun babe huh so pretty sick pretty sick so that you know my friends and haters is the deal with the sun and it would be crazy i almost skipped over the sun yeah i almost skipped over the sun but oh man just think all the nuclear fusion going on in there the perfect balance of light being trapped honed to perfection released it's yeah i just thought it was fucking sick hits us it feels good when it feels fucking awesome it powers your body dude you don't get enough sun you don't produce tests that's why i fucking do ride my blanket a tank top all the time um so from the sun now we move on to mercury and you know mercury is the actually should we all slide to the patreon let's slide to the page yeah let's slide the page we're at an hour oh yeah we're good guys thank you for joining me for the uh series into the planets but we have to slide to the patreon we have to be in places to be that probably promise you that wasn't planned i just god damn those you know what the hell i've been doing this for a while exactly an hour on the sun who would have thought nate thank you sean thank you we're sliding to the patreon we're gonna do mercury and venus if you don't want to join don't join whatever i don't care watch new episodes of matt and shane secret podcast on spotify do it this is the way hi i'm john favreau we are launching the all-new star 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