g'day smart person my name's dylan i'm a physicist and today we're going to be reacting to another
episode of rick and morty so the first episode i did was a rickland time i believe it's called
and it had so much great physics in it i really enjoyed it and it's been getting a pretty good
response lots of people are requesting i do more um there are some negative comments of course
but we'll ignore that so i've pulled up another episode someone some lovely person in the comments
suggested another episode of rick and morty so today we're watching uh season one episode
10 i believe and it's called uh close rick counters of the rick kind so that's obviously
a uh reference to close encounters of the third kind steven spielberg film and if you haven't
seen that masterpiece so go check that out so a lot of people were saying dylan you don't need
to wear a suit and tie in a bedroom so here we are out in the lounge room hopefully i get a lot less
negative comments i'm going to be reacting to a bunch of rick and morty episodes possibly even all
of them so if you want to catch those definitely subscribe and like this video so it gets it
out to other fans of the show and other geeks and nerds like us so let's watch in our lives
so i'm guessing this is uh the multiverse right so you've got another version of rick and morty here
seemingly looking a bit different um so in the multi-multiverse theory there's a whole bunch
of universes out there right and everything that's possible within the laws of physics
is happening out there so and you know the laws of physics might be different elsewhere i i'm wanting
to go on a tangent right now but i'm trying my best not to i only just noticed that uh this wreck
is called c137 find structure constant which is a very very mysterious number in physics it's got
this weird value 1 over 137 that's a very strange number if you want to go look into that it's
hella mysterious um and it's essentially the strength of electromagnetism i didn't say the fine
structure constant is essentially a ratio of some of the constants of nature like planck's constant
the speed of light and some other things so i guess what they're getting at is this rick is from
the universe where the fine structure constant the constant for c is 137 100 1 over 137 that's pretty
cool so in the multiverse what you essentially have are these isolated universes so to speak
this you know so far that you would never be able to travel there because they're essentially
expanding away from us faster than the speed of light and there's also another interpretation
of the multiverse and that's from the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics which suggests
that reality branches off every time there's a quantum measurement explain that in the last rick
and morty one so go and watch that if you want a bit more on that if you already have watched
it you might understand what i'm talking about and in that view of the multiverse they're completely
isolated places and you can't really get to them um and this is all very theoretical this is not
you know real stuff it very it could be but we have no idea whether or not any of this is true so
don't take what i'm saying like gospel like it's probably not true and so if you have these other
universes out there which have a slightly different constants of nature like the speed
of light or the fine structure constant well you're going to get a very different universe
possibly one with nothing in it and so this argument is what leads to the fine-tuning of
the universe we seem to be in this place where if you tune the constants just a little bit the whole
thing doesn't work so that is very mysterious uh let's get back to the show so seemingly uh
rick and morty from another universe from the multiverse have showed up through a portal
um and yeah let's see what they're they're up to regular pancakes are already shaped like flying
saucers i should be making you breakfast for putting up with me should be making this a whole
restaurant nonsense i couldn't be happier to have you around i just wish i got to see more of you
you are under arrest for crimes against alternate wrecks by the authority of the trans-dimensional
council of rings hey wow neutralize the cherry bop fans out there so let me just expand on this
multiverse just a little bit so uh if you haven't thought about it that deeply before there is a
multiverse out there it essentially means there's other use out there and not just other use an
infinite number of other you's could be a universe out there where you're harry potter i'm kidding
it's only you know things have to be allowed by the laws of physics right and as far as i can tell
magic isn't really allowable but you know superiorly advanced technology is
indistinguishable from magic so i want to bring up this cool story um and it comes
from the name of the infinite monkey cage which is brian cox's podcast or tv show or whatever
um and the name infinite monkey cage right it's sort of a reference to the multiverse
so you have these infinite universes the monkey cage because we're all primates right smart
primates for the ogs out there um what that means is there's an a monkey out there an ape a primate
and if you sit it if it's sat in front of a typewriter um it would randomly punch on the
different keys right all the different letters um and it would be nonsense it'd be random right but
if you did that an infinite amount of times in the multiverse there will be a one place out there
where that monkey has accidentally by you know punching around has letter for letter character
for character typed out the play of hamlet shakespeare's play and so that's where that name
comes from the infinite monkey cage um and that's what the multiverse means by random coincidence
there's going to be a monkey up there that gets to the very last character and gets it wrong
but anyway let's keep watching um i think you get the idea right so most ricks have a morning this
place is a real who's who of who's you and me turn your boring old morty into a hot fashion statement
with some morty dazzlers hey check this out show me the morning dumb excuse me sir is your word
in their own timelines an unprecedented rickety epidemic what say you earth rick c-137 you think
i did this why am i the first rick you pulled in every time you have a question you fit the profile
of all the wrecks in the central finite curve you're the mount context
and so were the rest of you before you form this stupid that doesn't make a lot of sense if there's
a multiverse like i've been explaining there'd be an infinite number of them a finite curve
no infinite curve so uh i'm not sure what they're getting at with that uh the rick
that was formerly a scientist um maybe there's something i have missed in previous episodes
yeah i'd like to order one large person with extra people please
white people no no black people and hispanic
so there's not too much physics going on but there's a lot of portals
um and if you want to learn a little tiny bit about wormholes go and watch my previous video
interstellar explained because i essentially talked about wormholes and what they are
and whether or not something like this could be possible so i thought i just plugged myself
with phone balls more phone sticks please right away sir you know rick when i first
saw those ricks and mortys i thought gee that kind of devalues our bond but then i realized
it just means that our relationship must be pretty special to span over all those different timelines
so all this stuff where uh you know there are people for chairs and chairs for people
it's not exactly realistic i know we're just watching a cartoon and i you know we're not
meant to take this stuff seriously i get it but i'm gonna be doing that anyway because that's
what i'm making these videos for um to sort of break down if any of this is realistic right i
get that it's just entertainment and it is entertaining but um are there multiverses
out there where people are chairs and chairs are people no because it has to be allowable by the
laws of physics and you know humans arose to be the apex predator thanks to many things but uh one
of those things is natural selection and i don't think natural selection would allow chairs to
it doesn't really make any sense does it um so
is there a multiverse out there where a chair has consciousness well i don't think so but
yeah it's gotta be that way you're a camouflage
what are you talking about rick's have a very distinctive and traceable brainwave
due to our genius the best way to hide from an enemy's radar is to stand near someone
with complimentary brainwaves that make ours invisible see what would would a wreck it is with
um because our personalities are so different oh [ __ ] my portal gun was heck that's fantastic
um could you really create could you really create something to detect brain waves
of course you could because what are brain waves just normal electromagnetic waves like
everything else so of course you could do that there's nothing weird coming out of the brain
in terms of physics it's all the same stuff that makes up these chairs
you know in saying that i should say we don't really know what consciousness is but
it's clear there's nothing strange going on there um it's just normal
physics stuff um and i love what he said about morty being close to him
sort of interferes with his brain waves his genius waves whatever they are but um
obviously that's not a real thing but you know he's getting at this principle of
constructive and destructive interference and that's a real thing a really awesome example is
the double slit experiment so youtube that if you want to have your mind blown because it is awesome
i'm just going to keep watching here i've i've done enough tangents for this video already so
let's focus 137 the council apologizes for its false accusation and in the way of reparations
for our terrible mistake we would like to compensate you with this voucher for a free
replacement morty in the event that your current before he shot guys so i think i'll leave it there
that'll do for this episode i enjoyed it it was really funny wasn't as much physics in this one um
but there's lots of humor so once again if you haven't subscribed
already please apply some time derivative of momentum and hit that subscribe button
yeah i'll see you next time guys catch ya