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there is no water here. It's held

8:02

up. So I am, oh, these hooks,

8:04

I can't believe the gravity that I'm

8:06

feeling right now. So when they

8:09

say how much does a whale weigh, the answer is zero.

8:11

They give you a weight and how do they give you

8:13

a weight? They take it out of the water, put

8:16

it on a scale on dry land.

8:18

Right. And then it weighs gazillion tons,

8:20

but that's not the weight that the

8:22

whale feels as it moves through the

8:24

ocean. There you go. Now, there's another

8:27

side of this, to just make

8:29

a long answer longer, but

8:31

your weight is whatever is the attraction of

8:33

gravity is to you. Your

8:36

mass doesn't change. Doesn't change. Doesn't

8:38

change. Right. Okay. Mass is

8:40

count up the molecules in your

8:42

hand, your body, the rock. The

8:45

mass is the mass. The measurement of a mass

8:47

is the same no matter where it is in

8:49

the universe. Okay. Okay. Nice.

8:51

All right. But unless it's moving relativistic

8:55

speeds, then the mass increases. But

8:57

holding that aside, that's

8:59

a different conversation. Okay. But

9:02

mass matters with regard to

9:04

momentum. Right. So watch,

9:07

if I take a hundred pound brick and

9:10

I throw it at you. I'm suing you.

9:12

He'll knock you over. Yes, it will. Okay.

9:14

Now, so how much mass is in the

9:16

hundred pound brick? We can ask. Okay. You

9:18

can measure up that mass. If I pick

9:20

up that brick on Mars, it only weighs

9:22

40 pounds. But if I throw

9:25

it at you. The mass is the same. It'll

9:27

knock you over in exactly the same way. It

9:29

would have done it here on earth. Right. Okay.

9:32

Just so you know. And in both cases, I'm like, why you

9:35

hit me with a brick? Sorry,

9:37

that was a morbid example. What

9:39

happened? I know probably some other

9:41

example I could have thought of. I'm sorry.

9:44

Sorry about that. All right.

9:46

Next question. All right. This

9:48

is Alicia. Okora faa. Okora

9:52

faa. Okora faa. Okora faa.

9:54

Afu. Okora faa. This

9:58

is Alicia. Okay. Hey

10:00

Alicia, what's happening? How you

10:02

doing? Alicia,

10:04

Alicia. Oh, okay. There

10:07

you go. If the

10:09

Earth Center wasn't hot and

10:12

there was a hole all the way through, what

10:14

would happen if you jumped in? Because

10:16

you will only fall down until the center of

10:18

the Earth and then you'll

10:20

start going up and

10:23

you'll start falling backwards. Oh,

10:25

by the way, my name is Arian. I'm

10:29

from the United Kingdom, and

10:32

I'm from the United Kingdom, Wales. So

10:34

what was the first name? That's just a handle? I

10:37

guess that's Mom or whoever who

10:39

sent it. Okay. But Arian, who

10:41

actually... Arian, hi

10:43

Arian. Who spelled her name.

10:45

Arian. Arian spelled her name. You don't know if it's

10:48

a boy or a girl. Oh, who knows? I don't.

10:51

Okay, Arian who spelled their name... Their

10:54

name... ...fanatically

10:56

is 11 years old from Wales. But we

10:58

still genderize, dude. That's true. That is true. So

11:01

this is what Arian wants to know. What

11:03

happens when you jump in a hole that goes

11:05

all the way through the center of the Earth?

11:07

Oh, yeah. So I'd like the

11:10

fact that Arian turned off

11:12

the heat first. Isn't that something? That's good. Very

11:14

thoughtful. Arian knew the deal. She was just like,

11:16

we have a molten core. So

11:19

at the center, here's what happens.

11:21

Right. Yeah. So...

11:23

Crackle sizzle. Yeah. The core is

11:25

hot enough to vaporize you. So you would not make

11:27

it to the other side. Wow. Just

11:30

so you know. But if you dug a hole through...

11:32

And I did this, but I didn't do it. I

11:36

did the math on it. Mm-hmm. Well,

11:39

when I was a kid... Maybe when

11:41

I was 11, I said, if

11:43

you dug a hole from the United States... Right. ...because

11:46

that's where I live... Right. ...where would

11:48

you come out on the other side? And everyone

11:50

says, if you dig a hole all the way to China. Right.

11:53

That's always the case. That's how we say... You dig

11:55

a hole to China. Here in the United States. That's

11:57

right. However, China is...

11:59

is not where you will

12:01

land if you dig a hole through the

12:03

center of the earth. Because if you dig

12:05

a hole through the center and you start in the

12:07

Northern Hemisphere, you have to end up in the Southern

12:10

Hemisphere. If you

12:12

start in the Western Hemisphere, you gotta end

12:14

up in the Eastern Hemisphere. That's how the

12:16

geometry works. Is that because it's a ball?

12:18

It's a ball, all right? So when I

12:20

did that and did the measurements on that,

12:22

if you dug that hole from the United

12:24

States, you would end up in

12:26

the Indian Ocean. Nice, so basically you just- The

12:28

South Indian Ocean. You just flood the United States. That's

12:31

really what you do. You get,

12:33

you pop through and all of a sudden you're

12:35

like, oh Lord, what have I done? What

12:38

have I done? And the whole United States

12:40

is now flooded. So now, so we have

12:42

to ask now, where, if you live in

12:44

Wales, where does their hole come out? Well,

12:46

it's easy to figure that out. It's trivial,

12:49

okay? Because what line goes

12:51

through the United Kingdom? The

12:55

Prime Meridian. The Prime Meridian, most famous line in

12:57

the world. What is diametrically

12:59

opposite the Prime Meridian? The equator.

13:04

What? Let's try that again.

13:06

What's diametrically opposite the Prime

13:08

Meridian? Oh, give

13:11

me a second. I'm trying

13:13

to think of the line that goes across the North Pole.

13:17

Down on the other side. On the other side. It

13:19

goes all the way through. The South Pole. No, okay.

13:23

Okay, I'll help you. Oh, the Prime Meridian.

13:25

No, no, the Prime Meridian is only in pole to

13:27

pole, but on the other side, we call it what?

13:31

It's the same line continue, but we have a different

13:33

word for it on the other side. Oh, I don't

13:36

know. The International Date Line. Oh, I didn't know that.

13:38

You didn't know that? I didn't know. You didn't know

13:40

that? I didn't know that the Prime Meridian, the International

13:42

Date Line were the same line. They had the same

13:44

damn line. I did not know that. You didn't know

13:46

that? I have never made that connection. I've always, because

13:48

people always talk about the International Date Line. In its

13:51

own world. In its own world. Okay. And then they

13:53

talk about the Prime Meridian because it's like, oh, this

13:55

is the line that runs all the way through. So

13:57

I didn't know that. Okay. Okay, cool. Okay, so that's

13:59

why I was a kid. I spent a lot of

14:01

time looking at maps and globes and stuff. I thought

14:03

that was just cool. Sorry.

14:09

But just to be clear, I was bigger than

14:11

other kids. So thank God that kind

14:13

of nerd activity. Let me just tell you something. Get

14:15

your ass whooping. I'm just gonna say. Up

14:18

in the Bronx. Yes. But

14:20

you're a man of large stature. If

14:22

you were Chuck Nye's size, the

14:25

world would not have Neil deGrasse Tyson. That's

14:27

all there is to it. Because if Chuck

14:29

Nye's was a kid and was just like,

14:31

did you know that the international date line

14:33

and the prime meridian were actually the same

14:35

line? Isn't that amazing? First

14:38

of all, they'd have been like, take off all

14:40

those clothes, the shoes, give it a money. And

14:45

then it'd be- It'd take your lunch for

14:47

money. Money, sneakers, and then the beat. That's

14:49

how it goes. Money, sneakers, beat- In that

14:51

order. In that order. So what's convenient about

14:54

the international date line, because that

14:56

goes through Greenwich, England. Right. On

14:59

the other side is the middle of the

15:01

freaking Pacific Ocean. Right. So you

15:03

don't want the international date line going right in the

15:06

middle of your country. Right.

15:08

Because then one half the country would be one day, the other

15:10

half would be the other day, 24

15:13

hours different, right? Exactly. And so

15:15

you don't want that. So it's just convenient. Now

15:18

there's few places, is it the Solomon Islands?

15:20

There's some place where they have to do

15:22

some bending. Right. Because there's some

15:24

scattered islands in the Pacific. Right. Basically,

15:27

it bypass that challenge. Right.

15:30

Okay. I'd say that. Okay. So,

15:32

our end, we'll dig a hole

15:34

and we'll land in the South Pacific. Okay. Okay.

15:37

Let's get back to the question. What's gonna happen when you

15:39

jump in? So you jump in, you

15:41

will fall and accelerate.

15:46

Continually. Right.

15:48

You're picking up speed the whole time. Actually, it's

15:51

not discrete. So I have to say you will

15:53

fall and accelerate continuously. Right. Continuously.

15:55

I will and continuous. I was talking to a

15:58

Brit who invented the language. So we got to

16:00

begin. good about the language here. Yeah, that's right.

16:05

Yes, they sound so much smarter than we do when they

16:07

speak English. Well, some of

16:09

them. And we're self-aware. You don't go

16:11

deep cockney. Right, yeah, we sound smart

16:14

if they're going like, oh God, no,

16:16

no, no, no, no. Yeah, then we

16:18

sound like the smart ones. But

16:21

if you're like Gary, our Gary O'Reilly,

16:23

automatically sounds sophisticated and smart with the

16:26

British accent. Right, right, right. So you'll

16:28

jump in, you'll accelerate continually until

16:30

you get to the center. Let

16:33

me just, for those who didn't know, okay, a

16:36

river flows by continuously.

16:39

The parade floats moved

16:42

by continually. Right, right,

16:44

because those are discrete objects. They're discrete and they

16:46

are not connected. If it's

16:48

connected, then it's continuous. And

16:50

usually it's the same material substance, right? You

16:53

can't tie a chain between the floats and call

16:55

it continuous. So you jump in,

16:58

you will accelerate until you get

17:00

to the center. Where you'll be,

17:02

you'll hit peak speed. Nice.

17:05

Peak speed. And I'm

17:08

thinking that speed is five

17:10

miles per second. Okay.

17:14

I have to verify that. I'm just pulling that out. Five miles

17:16

per second, so you're dead. No, no,

17:19

no, you're just falling. Yeah. You

17:21

are weightless. Right. You don't care that

17:23

you move five miles per second, but you care. Well,

17:26

that is true. You're on earth

17:28

going 20 miles per second around the sun. So

17:30

now, okay, I'm gonna let you finish because you

17:32

don't care what the speed. No, I was talking

17:34

about when you said peak speed, that means now

17:36

we're going up because you're not. I didn't get

17:38

there yet. We're the center of the earth. All

17:40

right, all right. That's what I'm saying. Peak speed

17:43

center of the earth. Now, what happens to you?

17:45

The hole is all the way through the earth.

17:48

You will overshoot the middle. Okay.

17:51

You go five miles per second. You'll overshoot. Right.

17:54

You'll overshoot the middle and now earth will slowly

17:57

slow you down. So that's what

17:59

I was saying. and you're dead, so that breaking,

18:02

actually you're going up now. You're not going up, up

18:04

is any way away from the center of the

18:06

earth. Exactly. So you're going up in terms

18:08

of that. So you're going up into and

18:10

towards the South Pacific if you're in waves.

18:14

And you are

18:16

slowing down continuously. Right.

18:19

And in the exact rate that you

18:21

had sped up, going in. So

18:24

it's the exact undoing of everything that happened

18:26

on route to the center of the earth.

18:28

Sweet. And then you

18:30

will exact, we're ignoring air resistance here of course. Okay.

18:33

Okay. There we go. And then

18:35

you get to the South Pacific. Now

18:38

assuming the water's not just flowing right in the gas

18:40

tube. Yeah, we have a tube that takes us above.

18:42

A little tube, above. We'll give you a life

18:45

saving tube. You'll come right up to the

18:48

edge and unless somebody grabs

18:50

you, you're going to fall

18:52

back down and you're going to repeat this forever.

18:54

Oh, that's terrible. Somebody's got to grab you. Well,

18:56

this is a good version of hell. Forever.

19:00

I like it as a version of hell. Yeah, it'll just

19:02

keep going back and forth. Right. There

19:04

it is. Oh, well that was cool.

19:06

And one round trip. Right. Comes

19:09

back to Wales. One round trip takes the

19:11

same amount of time as

19:13

an orbiting spacecraft. Ooh. Yep.

19:16

That makes sense. So if the space station orbits

19:18

over your head, right, you jump in the hole,

19:21

you go down the other side. You actually see it

19:23

passing over your, you see it's the other side. Oh,

19:25

that's great. And you come back. And

19:27

there it is. There it is again. That's really

19:29

cool. It's really cool. Yeah. Well,

19:32

you have to do the math and the

19:34

Newtonian physics and it all works out. Yeah,

19:36

it makes sense though, because you're falling. It's

19:39

falling. Yes. So you're falling the diameter. It's

19:41

falling the side conference. You're both in

19:43

free fall. That's awesome. In Earth. Dude,

19:45

I love it. It's physics. That's really

19:47

cool. Yeah, that's cool. Well, Ariana, that

19:49

was thank you for that. Ariana, sorry.

19:51

You're right. I messed up her

19:53

name. You spelled it phonetically. If it's a she. Sorry,

19:57

Ariana. Sorry. They.

20:00

There you go. Thank you, Ariane, for that

20:02

question. Thank you, Ariane. From Wales. Great to

20:04

have fans in Wales. There you go. Mm-hmm.

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22:58

says hello Dr. Tyson and his niceness

23:00

warm greetings from Copenhagen here in Denmark.

23:02

Wow, we're getting international. Oh no. Look

23:05

at this. By the way, one of the

23:07

most famous astronomers ever was Danish. Okay.

23:10

Give me a sip. And I sat for 20

23:13

minutes with some native Danes to teach

23:15

me how to pronounce his name. Okay. And

23:17

I will show off now that I can pronounce his name.

23:20

Okay, who was this? Tukobra. Tukobra.

23:22

No idea. Tikeobra, we

23:24

call it here. Tikeo. There's

23:27

a crater on the moon named after him called Tikeo. It's

23:30

the crater that has rays coming off of it.

23:32

It's called the Ray Crater Tikeo, very famous crater.

23:35

But Tukobra. Tukobra. Yeah, I

23:37

want A plus for that because I worked

23:39

my butt off pronouncing that. Pretty cool. Okay,

23:42

what do you have? All right. Carl Sagan

23:44

edited a golden record which went into space

23:46

in 1977 on NASA's Voyager expedition. This

23:49

disc included music by diverse

23:51

sources such as Chuck Berry,

23:53

Peruvian, Panpipes, and John

23:56

Johannes Buck. If

23:58

you had to revamp the playlist. to meet

24:00

2024 standards, which one of the

24:02

two songs would you add to

24:05

ensure a more modern

24:08

repertoire? Oh. So

24:10

is there a song recently? So let's

24:12

get past Chuck Berry time. So I'm

24:14

gonna say you have to go from

24:17

late 60s till now. What two songs would

24:19

you add to those? Two songs. Two songs,

24:22

I said. From late 60s till now,

24:24

because Chuck Berry's the 50s. Okay. So

24:26

you gotta go late 60s till now. I gotta

24:28

put in Rapper's Delight. What? Well,

24:31

it did start at all. It

24:33

birthed an entire genre. It's from

24:35

my home borough, The Bronx. That's

24:37

true. Okay. Bronx, birth, hip hop.

24:39

There you go. So I put

24:41

in Rapper's Delight. Wow. Okay.

24:43

Worst rap song ever made. But

24:46

the most important rap song ever made. And it charted, it was

24:48

number one. Yes, it did. And we danced our ass off in

24:50

college to that. This is true. Because it came out when I

24:53

was in college. All right. And

24:56

shake it off. Oh,

24:59

Taylor Swift, shake it off. I don't know.

25:06

I mean, we gotta update it. Right.

25:09

And that's very in the moment. Whatever alien

25:11

finds this, we'll also find the

25:13

leader of our world. When they

25:16

listen to Taylor Swift, they'll

25:19

be like, oh, and this is the leader of their

25:21

world. Take me to your leader. Yes, it is. From

25:24

the realm of pop music. I think that's what I

25:26

would pull out. What would be fun

25:28

if we put John Cage's 427 or

25:31

whatever the name of his work is? It's

25:33

a piano work. Okay. I don't think I know

25:35

that. The pianist sits there at

25:38

the piano. It

25:41

doesn't do anything. Is this the guy who doesn't play? Doesn't

25:43

do anything for four minutes. I've

25:45

heard about this. We should put that on the

25:47

record. Yeah, that'd be great. Four

25:49

minutes of silence and somebody going.

25:55

The aliens are listening. Someone's clearing their throat. What's

25:57

wrong with these people? Right. If

26:00

I were to do it, maybe that. I might've

26:02

thrown in a disco song, but disco kinda came and

26:04

left. And I would not have

26:06

predicted that at the time. I

26:09

would've said hip hop was a flash in the pan

26:11

and disco would be here forever. But the

26:13

opposite happened. What

26:15

two songs did you pick? Hmm, okay,

26:18

for me, I'm going

26:20

to go Kendrick Lamar, They Not Like

26:22

Us. Just

26:25

because clearly these are aliens that found it.

26:30

Okay, very clever. Very clever,

26:32

okay, all right. And for my

26:34

second song, it smells like

26:36

teen spirit. That

26:39

is Nirvana. And the reason is

26:42

because I don't know any teenager

26:44

ever, no matter what their color,

26:46

no matter what their creed, no

26:48

matter like what their background, who

26:51

doesn't hear that song and isn't

26:53

moved by it. They truly captured

26:55

teenage angst in a song. They

26:57

found the resonant frequency, way

27:00

to say it, not just

27:02

of a generation, but of a

27:04

period of life. Life. Yeah,

27:07

a period of life. Everybody knows

27:09

what it is to have the

27:11

anxiety of teenage existence and it

27:13

exists in that song. All right,

27:15

so it smells like teen spirit.

27:17

All right, all right. I

27:19

love that, okay, we hope that, there you go.

27:21

All right, well, there you go. This is Oliver

27:24

Cook. Hello there, this is Oliver. I'm 36 year

27:26

old painter and decorator from South Wales. Whoa.

27:29

Love the podcast. This is a second

27:32

question from Wales. I wanna know if

27:34

there's such a thing as absolute stillness

27:37

in the universe. And if so,

27:39

what would happen if we were to reach

27:41

it? Would everything else just blink out of

27:44

existence? Wow, look at

27:46

that. That'd be a fun science fiction premise. That

27:48

would be. Or if you can't

27:50

find it, you create it. Right.

27:53

Right? Earth is rotating, let's stop the rotation.

27:55

Earth is going around the sun, let's stop

27:57

that. Earth, the sun is going around the galaxy,

27:59

let's stop that. Right. Galaxies falling towards us.

28:01

The power of stillness. What a cool

28:03

supreme. I have the power. And

28:06

now would that be stillness all the way down

28:08

to the vibration of molecules and atoms? That's not

28:10

how I'm thinking of the question. But

28:13

it turns out that that's not possible

28:16

because quantum physics demands

28:18

that even when you cool something

28:20

down to absolute zero, in

28:23

the day, in Lord Kelvin's

28:25

day, the lady

28:29

and Lord Kelvin. Kelvin,

28:32

his actual name is Thompson, but when

28:35

he became Lord, he was Lord Kelvin.

28:37

A brilliant physicist, a little cocky, but

28:39

brilliant. He pioneered the Kelvin temperature scale,

28:41

which is the absolute temperature scale. So

28:43

what they found was at any

28:46

given temperature, air molecules are

28:49

vibrating, or they're moving among and bouncing off

28:51

each other. If you drop the temperature, they

28:53

move a little slower. If

28:56

you drop it some more, they move a little slower. And

28:58

so he extrapolated, there must be a point where

29:00

they stop moving at all. They stop

29:02

moving at all, there's no temperature left. Absolute

29:05

zero. You can't have temperature

29:07

less than the temperature of something not moving.

29:11

Completely reasonable before quantum physics.

29:14

Quantum physics says you try to take it to

29:16

the lowest possible energy state and you cannot characterize

29:19

a zero energy state. There's

29:21

always some fluctuation. Something is moving. Fluctuating.

29:25

I want to distinguish sort of vibration

29:27

from translational movement. And I'm thinking he

29:29

means translational movement. Is there a point

29:31

where nothing is moving? Right. So

29:35

the answer is no. Wow.

29:37

Because you've

29:40

been on a train before. So

29:42

true. Let's say Amtrak, not everyone

29:45

has, but Europe, they're all about trains.

29:47

Some of us have been on trains. Yeah, we only have

29:50

one, it's called Amtrak. Yeah, yeah, and you sit on the

29:52

train and you look out the window and

29:54

all of a sudden things start moving.

29:57

Right. You're at the station.

30:00

And you're there and then things start moving

30:02

backwards. And you rationally say,

30:04

oh, they're not actually

30:06

moving. I'm moving because I'm on the train. But you

30:08

didn't know that because it was so smooth. Okay?

30:13

All I'm saying is if you

30:15

believe you are stationary, someone

30:18

else has equal rights to that claim.

30:24

And if you say they're in

30:26

motion, they can legitimately say,

30:28

no, there's

30:31

no experiment you can conduct to say otherwise.

30:33

I know I am, but what about you?

30:36

What about you? I know you are. So

30:38

what am I? I know I am, but what do

30:40

you? So that is a foundational principle

30:43

of relativity. Right. Yeah.

30:46

Okay. And so we're stuck with it. That's

30:48

how the universe is put together. There was

30:50

a brief moment where looking

30:53

out to the cosmic microwave

30:56

background, the question

30:58

was, is it a different temperature in

31:00

this direction than that direction? Okay. Because

31:03

if it is, that means we can

31:05

tell absolutely that we are moving relative

31:07

to a reference frame that's the entire

31:10

freaking universe. Right. There

31:13

is no such thing as no motion. There's no such thing

31:15

as no motion. Correct. Because once you get

31:17

down to the quantum, there's something. And

31:19

even so, even if you think you're in

31:21

motion, someone else's frame of

31:23

reference. It's a reference frame. Someone else's frame

31:25

of reference says, if you think you're not

31:27

moving. You're not in motion. You're still, your

31:29

frame of reference says, I'm in motion, you're

31:31

still. Correct. There you go. And there's

31:33

no experiment that you can conduct that can

31:36

tell you differently. Right. Okay.

31:38

Wow. I never thought we would

31:40

get all of that out of Oliver's question. Yeah, there

31:42

it is. That is fantastic. What's his name? Oliver Stone?

31:45

Oliver Cook. Oliver Cook. Oliver Stone

31:47

is the director. Yeah. I'm Oliver

31:49

Cook. Oliver, okay. Please,

31:51

sir. May I paint some more? That's

31:54

a bad Welsh accent. You're

31:57

imitating Oliver from the streets of

31:59

London. Yes. All right, here it

32:01

is. Caleb Carter says, Howdy from

32:03

Northern Indiana. I just watched an

32:05

episode where someone asked if a

32:07

pair of quarks get spaghettified, would

32:09

they sooner or later find an

32:12

equilibrium? Y'all responded with essentially, I

32:14

don't know, but I do know

32:16

this is the moment there is

32:18

enough energy to sufficiently separate them.

32:20

They would just make quarks

32:22

to become a pair again. Thus, an

32:25

infinite amount of quarks would be made.

32:27

I remember y'all talking about how a

32:29

single H2O molecule doesn't make water, but

32:31

water is made from clumps of H2O.

32:35

It's possible that quarks and gravity are

32:37

related in a similar way. If,

32:40

and this is a mighty big if, both

32:43

cases are true. Could this explain

32:45

why black holes are infinitely dense?

32:47

Could this just be another version

32:49

of a runaway thermonuclear reaction, like

32:52

we see in stars, but in

32:54

terms of gravity? I'm gonna handle

32:56

this one for you, Neil. Okay,

32:59

thank you, thank you. Here we go, watch

33:01

this. Nah, bro. Sorry,

33:04

bro, nah. That's

33:06

not how it works. That

33:10

ain't how it goes. So I'm thinking again

33:12

about this quark falling into the. Into the

33:14

black hole. We were talking about. Would you

33:16

have a runaway creation of quarks? And I

33:19

realized where's it getting its energy

33:21

from? It's getting its energy from

33:24

the gravitational field

33:27

of the black hole. Correct. So

33:30

the black hole, I

33:32

think would eat itself. It's

33:37

right. Its entire gravitational

33:39

field morph into particles.

33:41

Right, because it's feeding

33:43

off of the field. Which

33:46

is feeding off of the field. Which

33:48

is feeding the reaction. Particle

33:50

itself can then make a field. Exactly. So

33:53

you have this kind of just infinite loop

33:55

that would keep happening and it could end

33:57

up eating itself. Yeah, so. That's

33:59

really cool.