Cruising The Cosmos With Cub! | Imp And Skizz Podcast (S2E6)

This show is really giving us the lore of the Hermits

Loved this episode! Great topic

Another great episode guys, I’ll be in Scottsdale next week imp and skip if y’all want me to buy yall a beer.

I understand the thought process of "*f you think about how small our problems are in the grand scheme of it, our problems seem ignisificant* but i dont agree with it. Yes, we are small compared to the rest that excist in this universe. But our problems on this planet is now, they might be small from Jupiters pov but that doesnt make any sense because we live here and not on another planet in space.

EDIT: Like if you turn it around, when is it okay to be happy? Because at the end of the day, our happiness is so small in the grand scheme

Lovely episode <3 love when people are given the chance to talk about their professions:) <3

Favorite episode so far, thanks guys

It would be cool if Cub dedicated a channel just to talking about cosmology.

Cub is the Hermit version of Neil Degrasse Tyson - He's a great space communicator!

I absolutely love hearing people talk about subjects they're passionate about. Whether they're a collector talking about their collection, a builder talking about their building techniques, a scientist talking about their field.... Not only do I get to learn about things from someone who really loves that subject, but their enthusiasm is contagious and uplifting. Really enjoyed listening to Cub!

Space is an amazing, incredible place. The universe is so vast it is beyond human comprehension. And yet, as insignificant as we feel in this ocean of existence, it helps to remember something very important; we are the universe knowing itself. A star cannot know of itself. A galaxy cannot feel grand. We are, as far as we know, the only things in the universe who have come up with names for the things in the universe. I feel like that thought makes me feel a little less tiny and insignificant.

Creativity and curiosity are built into human DNA. :)

Please do more podcasts on specific topics like these, that would be the best 💯💯💯💯🔥

This is such a "dad" episode. They were so excited about space stuff and me as 30yo dude I was all in yoo 😂

As a massive Hermitctaft fan who is currently getting a degree in astrophysics this was the best episode I could ask for! You guys are amazing, thank you!

Made me search up when the next solar eclipses will happen- only to see that there will be a path of totality right through my home city of Sydney Australia in three years.
I can’t wait.

Skizz, I dont blame you for not understanding relativity. Its is a ridiculous fact of the universe. Your reaction to it should be "That doesn't seem right and makes no sense". This is the instinct that drives science forward. That being said, here the idea for why special relativity exists and some intuition for what is happening:

The basic assumption of special relativity is that light moves at the same speed in all reference frames. Consider if I have a very fast rocket that moves at 150,00m/s (half the speed of light) and as I whiz past the earth, you shine a laser beam. Since you shot the laser, you would expect to read its speed to be the speed of light: traveling away from you at 300,000m/s. Now since I'm going at half its speed in the same direction of the laser, one would expect me to read its speed as 150,000m/s but instead I ALSO read it to be moving away from me at 300,000m/s. No matter how fast I move or what direction I go, I will always read it to be that speed. This is the basic assumption of relativity that we have observed.

So what does that mean? how can it go in the same speed in different reference frames? Well, the only option is if space and time work differently in each frame. We both read 300,000m/s but somehow my meters and my seconds are different to yours. The faster I move, the slower my seconds must be and the longer my meters must be to compensate for that. Einstein figured out how much time must dilate and how much length must contract to keep this constant, depending on your relative speed, and thus the theory of special relativity was born.

As for the big picture of it all, we must not think of space and time as two separate things, but rather as one object; spacetime, where space and time are connected. There is this tug of war going on between space and time in the fabric of reality, spacetime, where if you stretch space, you shorten time and vice versa. Think of it like if you have some square of fabric and you stretch it in one direction. The fabric wants to keep the same area so in order to stretch it one way, it will shorten in the other direction. There is this balance between space and time that must be held.

With that in mind, when we think about moving through space, we must consider how we move through spacetime instead. In reality, we are always moving through spacetime as time is going forwards. In fact, we are always moving through spacetime at the same, maximum 'speed', just the difference is that we tend to think of space and time as disconnected. If I'm standing still in space, then I must be moving through time at top 'speed'. However, if I want to move through space, then to do so I need to trade off some of my movement in time, hence when I move through space, my clock slows down as I'm not moving through time at max 'speed' anymore. Notably because light has no mass, it is always moving through space at the max speed and doesn't really experience time.

Of course this is a vast simplification, all of this depends on reference frames and I dare not touch the affects of gravity with general relativity, but this is the gist of it and where this mad theory comes from.

What abt havin Ollie(The orion sound)(The music guy of the life series) on the show next? It could be fun to have a music/composers focus episode

The next episode with Cub should be about the time he met Obama

Cubby Wubby Womb Room!!!!!!

Cub is slacking - Voyager 1 and 2 communication is not several days - it's an average of 22 hours - so only a day each way. Additionally, I'm surprised Cub didn't mention how we've been using black holes for decades as gravitational lenses to peer into the universe. Even more, surprised Cub couldn't explain time dilation better - he basically just dodged the question, a shame.

Just clicking on the video - and before watching - is this Cubfan135, or another person called Cub? I don’t see it written anywhere, and there isn’t a link to his channel in the description.

(Before anyone says anything, I can be face blind, so the thumbnail doesn’t help me.)

so glad yall could get together for this episode; ive honsetly been waiting for a cub space episode for a while! i would love to see another if yall get the chance! it would be amazing to do more episodes like this with other hermits! thanks guys!

Dudes, come up to Canada. You'll get great views of the Aurora Borealis. We even get glimpses of it in Southern Ontario, but go visit Gem on the east coast. I'm sure she can tell you when it's great to view the aurora. She's gone south - you should go north :D. Do a podcast from Canada :D

You need to pick the other hermits brains on the other hermits interests besides Minecraft stuff

Absolutely LOVE this episode. I feel like I got to see a whole new side of all three of these folks. Such great questions for Cub, and really great answers/conversations as a result.

Hearing Cub talk about astronomy leaves me so awestruck. At the moment I'm taking a chemistry course on life in the universe and the first unit is on star formations and how vast our universe is. Listening to Cub leaves me more motivated to learn as this was his passion.

My grandfather worked for Ball Aerospace on the JWST program. I got to see those giant hexagon mirrors in person.

I think that Doc once mentioned one of his hivemind friends works at the large hadron collider at cern, maybe you could get them for a follow up episode

"Cub, how's our son?
Is the lil guy doing alright?"

How many people watching are now thinking of studying Astrology?

I never learned about anti-matter because it don't matter

I do enjoy science fiction and that's all this is, fiction. I hope people are just kidding in the comments acting as if there is anything beyond the firmament.

cub is so interesting i'd listen to him talk for hours tbh

I love Cubs voice

Best episode!! Space nerds unite!!

I was saving this video for when I had the time to do something mindlessly and just listen and boy did I listen. I'm always just so happy to sit and listen to someone who is passionate and knowledgeable about something, especially about scientific topics. I find it so cool

All three are high in the thumbnail. High in terms of sky height ofc (or build height if you will)

I'm an aerospace engineering major just started working at NASA - love this type of episode! It's always fun listening to people explore astronomy and aerospace when they're less familiar with it :D

p.s. For Imp & Skizz and all you commenters... it's not about being smart, but that everyone in astronomy/aerospace fields is extremely dedicated and love what they work on. That's what makes the years of studying and learning culminate in exciting jobs and lots of knowledge!

"Thats a lot of valuable gunk in your head" needs to be a Hermitcraft horn!

My understanding of general relativity and time dilation is you are always traveling through spacetime (space and time are intrinsically tied). Effectively, your speed (or velocity, not sure which term is more appropriate) through spacetime is constant. Therefore, the faster you travel through space, the slower you travel through time to maintain a constant spacetime speed.

Great episode! No shade on Cub, I have no problem believing that he’s really smart. I just find it super weird that we’re living in a timeline where I’m watching a podcast featuring someone with an Astronomy and Physics degree who makes Minecraft videos for a living.

I listened to this episode on my long run, and I came here to say it was one of your best episodes yet! The formula of a subject matter expert willing to entertain some goober questions really made this both entertaining and educational. I laughed, I learned, I facepalmed, and when you got to the part about time dilation I can vouch time was moving a lot more slowly at that point in my run 😂 I am so glad I came here to comment because the thumbnail is chef's kiss as well. PS, as someone in the industry living on Florida's Space Coast...make a point to go see a rocket launch IRL someday, it's way cool.

If Pluto is a planet, there's many other that would be also a planet.

Please continue to make future thumbnails look dope like this!
Annnnnnddddd NOOTCH!

Astronaut is a job title. There are Astronauts that have not been in space.
They have special badges that they call 'Wings' what mean they have been in space.
Tourist are not hired by a company/country. So no. The real question is, Do they get Wings. That one is more debatable. Personally I think each company should have their own official set of wings.

This episode is great and we need cub back for part 3. Also skizz about time dilation think of space fabric as a tablecloth higher the gravity of an object bigger the effect on that tablecloth by the object . So close r you are to a space fabric disturbances or by a celestial object slower your time travel. Since we are on such an object ( earth ) relative to clocks on earth the time dilation is slower in outer space.