(Edric Chan partially made the video without use of an auto-filler) The professors in the Pokemon Series are complete and utter hacks.
Today I start my quest to expose their lies.
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GAME THEORY
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Welcome to Game Theory!
The show whose primary strategy is "flail"
You know try as I might
I openly admit that I occasionally get things wrong on this channel.
When you've done early 200 episodes
covering topics as diverse as helicopter physics
to gemology and ancient history
to hacking then you fuse those with
franchises that have lasted literal decades
with each installment involving 60 plus hours of gameplay per game
and do that weekly to meet the unforgiving treadmill of YouTube
well, things unfortunately slip through the cracks.
Hashtag 'Excuses'
But you know what?
At the very least, I have a better track record than
The Pokedex
Ohh yeah!
I am calling you out
you Sceptile spewing Siri wanna-be
My eyes were open during my last Pokemon episode
where we discovered that the Pokedex was just
outright wrong about Charmander's tail flame
And the more I looked into the Dex's entries the more this
realization started to hit
That the Pokedex
- this pocket encyclopedia educating young trainers,
- this storehouse of information that people take as fact
is passing off legends and myths
as hard facts at best
and peddling in outright lies at absolute worst
And while that might not seem like a big deal
remember, this is one of the primary ways
information about these creatures is handed down
And who's out there correcting it?
Not the professors since as we know
it's freakin written by them
Imagine if Wikipedia was just filled with lies
You'd never know when the false information would perpetuate
virtually becoming fact
So like my ongoing series
on the psychology of the Mario verse,
today of starting a new series
Debunk The Dex
where I'd deconstruct the science of the Pokedex
one Garbodor fire entry at a time.
Because darn it!
The ten-year-old Johtoans need to hear the truth,
That their Pokedex is full of lies
Today I'm starting My One-Man quest to debunk The Dex with a Generation I haven't covered all That Much in Other Theories.
Sure, we've done Plenty of Gen 1 and Gen 2, even some Black, White and X, Y.
But I've never really talked about Gen 3
Ruby and Sapphire. The `Mon on my mind specifically though is Gardevoir the "Embrace Pokémon"
Embrace?
Really Game Freak what?
Like it gives great hugs, or something?
You can't just throw words out there and expect them to mean something guys,
that's what got you into this mess to begin with
Anyway Here's Sir Hugs-a-Lot's Pokedex Entry from Sapphire
"Gardevoir has the psychokinetic power to distort the dimensions and create a small black hole."
"This Pokemon will try to protect its trainer even at the risk of its own life."
And in Black and White the Pokedex says this,
"To protect its trainer it will expend all its psychic power to create a small black hole."
So these entries seem pretty consistent about two main facts:
One, Gardevoir has protective instincts and looks out for its trainer,
And, two, Gardevoir has the power to create small black holes
I'll give Gardevoir a pass on the first point I mean apparently it's the "Embrace Pokemon"
So it's giving away more free hugs than cheddar samples at a Wisconsin cheese bar
But making black holes out of thin air? Really?
I don't think that word means what you think It means Game Freak. So let's ask the question what would it mean for our
Little psychic fairy friend over here to create a small black hole well the tackle that we first have to ask What is a
Black Hole? Well the official definition of a black hole is a region of space-time where gravity Is so strong
That nothing Not even light can Escape, hence the term Black hole. Well except once again we're being lied to by
science and this time It isn't even By a professor with a tree name Black Holes aren't Black
They're invisible i mean think about it It Makes Logical sense your eyes
See things when light Bounces off them but if Black Holes suck in the light
nothing Bounces back for our eyes to see making Black Holes
Actually invisible so black Holes are Actually
Invisible Death Holes in Space That's a reassuring Thought But we Know they exist because we can observe Their gravity Pulling in other space
objects Black Holes Have Their own gravity
Just Like Planets Do and Much in the same Way That anyone Who Jumps or trips is immediately pulled Towards The Earth by the force
of gravity anything That gets close to a black Hole is pulled Toward its center The difference here though is that When your Feet or
Face Hit upon the surface of The earth we're gonna stop Moving Whereas anything That gets pulled Towards The center of a Black Hole Will
Eventually Cross an event
Horizon
or Crossed the Boundary past Which It becomes impossible to escape from the black Hole's gravity and thus you're ultimately gonna be mushed by the
Forces of Gravity Into super dense Matter in the process it's Kind of like The Genie from Alladin
Genie: PHENOMINAL COSMIC POWER!
(in an itty bitty living space)
So how is babby black holes formed? The black holes that we're able to observe in space usually come about when an aging star
collapses and goes supernova! And I'm not talking about mew's poor imitation of a supernova. I'm talking about something Really
tremendously massive getting crumpled down into a teeny
tiny space. When I say massive I mean *REALLY* massive. I'm talking 20 times the mass of our own sun
massive. But, why does that all cause a Black Hole? Well we know that matter can't be created or Destroyed
This principle of The Conservation of Matter is derived from The first law of
Thermodynamics and Einsteins Energy Mass
Equivalents E Equals MC Squared but all of that is too complex and too Nerdy to talk about here so think about it this Way it's
Like Pushing a Bag of potato Chips even if you completely
Crush That bag into a Teeny tiny space and
Reduce it to a Lump of Crumbs you're not gonna change how much It weighs or how many calories are in it They're still the
Same amount of Chip in there it's Just Sad Crushed Up chips that you can no longer dip so Now imagine your potato chip Bag
Is filled with the amount of stuff in a star and then You crumple It down well thats it's gonna be one
Incredibly dense potato Chip bag Meaning that it's gonna be creating huge
Amounts of Gravity on its surface to claim that Gardevoir can create a Black Hole
Seems a Bit unbelievable i Mean sure It might Be good at
embracing But It'S not embracing matter 20 Times the Mass of the sun to protect its trainer That Would be One enormous
Group Hug but a Cosmic event like a star going supernova
Isn't the Only way to form a Black Hole There's more Than One Way to skin a Skitty after all
Atoms Are Mostly empty Space With a Few tiny subatomic
Particles Making Them Up so the recipe for a small Black Hole Is a Lot like The recipe for guacamole
take a Bunch of Avocados or in this case subatomic particles i personally
Recommend protons and You mash them together until They form a Teeny tiny Microscopic
paste voila
You've Got Yourself a Mini Black hole and a delicious diP for all Those Chips you Smashed earlier can You tell them i'm Hungry as
I write this script where can i work diet coke into this Analogy
AnyWay The sort of Thing is Actually happening on Earth You may Have Heard of the large Hadron collider?
Created in 2009 Which was created for the purpose of mashing Subatomic particles Together At Incredibly Fast Speeds to see what happens cuz
science Seriously It's like a Toddler Smacking Trucks Together Except these are Highly trained
Scientists Doing It in a lab That costs a billion Dollars a Year to run the
Scientists At Cern Who Run the large Hadron collider are Mostly interested in observing New particles and Under The right Conditions
They've confirmed that these particle collisions could form a Black Hole
to quote the official Cern website another Way of revealing Extra dimensions Would Be Through The production of
Microscopic Black Holes What Exactly we Would detect Would Depend on the number of Extra
Dimensions The Mass of the Black Hole the size of the dimensions and the Energy at Which the Black Hole occurs end quote let me
translate That for you They are literally trying to create Black Holes
on earth it's Wild right so based on our current Understanding if Gardevoir can Indeed Mash subatomic
Particles Together Like The large Hadron collider It Should Be Able to make a Black hole Well at least in theory in
Scientific Theory so is the pokedex right can Gardivoir Actually make a Tiny Black Hole to protect its trainer well if the pewdiepie drama
Earlier This Year Didn't convince You That
Context Is important Here's a Lesson in Why
Context Matters If You Keep reading That Cern article the Very Next sentence that i haven't Read yet is this
Quote if micro Black Holes do Appear in the collisions created By The lhc they would disintegrate
Rapidly and Around 10 to the negative
27th seconds wait What
disintegrates Why well remember matter Doesn't come out of nowhere
So a Black Hole Will only have as Much Mass as the building blocks that you use to make it if you make a Black
Hole by mashing Together two protons well then
Congratulations You've Made Yourself a Black Hole but it's a Black hole with the mass of two subatomic
particles lighter Than Even a single atom and completely
Microscopic and this Becomes a Problem for Gardevoir Because of something Known as Hawking Radiation
Now this idea could Get Really
complicated But The Simple way of putting it is that Stephen Hawking the famous physicist proved That Black Holes emit Radiation and Radiation
Has Mass that means that as a Black Hole emits Radiation It Loses Mass It gets
Smaller it's like What happens to water on a hot day
Over time The Water will evaporate until there's nothing Left in fact This Whole process is officially Called Black Hole Evaporation
Usually This Doesn't cause Black Holes to completely evaporate Because most Black Holes are so large and gain Mass from all the Matter that they
Suck In and evaporating a Black Hole in space is more Like trying to evaporate an ocean It Just ain't gonna Happen
I mean sure Water is constantly
evaporating from the ocean But more Water is constantly Being Added to the ocean via
Rainfall and Rivers on land Same Thing with Black Holes it's constantly evaporating Away thanks to the radiation but it's also
Sucking in New Material New Matter to help It Keep growing
But Things start to get Tougher When we Have our small microscopic Black Holes Because it'S so small
Evaporating a Microscopic Black Hole Is more like evaporating a single Drop of Water in fact a
Microscopic Black Hole Would evaporate so quickly that we'd Only Be Able to observe it for like a
Fraction of a Second i gotta admit When i first read about scientists creating Black Holes on Earth i was like you idiot
You're gonna Kill us all but this fact That many Black Holes evaporate made me feel a lot Better
In fact in order for a Black Hole to be stable,
It would have to be about the same mass as the moon.
The Moon!
And if that sounds like It's a lot, well that's because it is.
Or, at least It would be a lot of Mass.
But remember, black holes are incredibly dense
so all of that mass would actually be packed into a -really- tiny space
Get This! A black hole with the mass of the moon would still be microscopic.
You still wouldn't be able to see it with your eyes.
Well, you wouldn't anyway Because They're invisible, which I already covered and all that.
But -Arrrgh!!- Black Holes are so complicated!
So enough science! Back to Gardevoir
What we've Just proven is that sure, it could create a really small black hole
But, that's not gonna do anything to protect its trainer It'll evaporate in a fraction of a second
It Is useless.
On the other end, in order to create something that could possibly,
even -remotely- help Its trainer. He needs to find a nearby moon
and squish It down until it's microscopic, making It dense enough to form a black hole
But even this poses a problem.
What Gardevoir would have created Is a super-heavy microscopic marble
That weighs 7.35 times 10 to the 22nd Kilograms or 16.2 Times 10 to the 22nd pounds
It's the weight of the moon, but Squeezed down a whole lot
Imagine What Would Happen if you had a pebble That Weighed 73 Thousand billion Billion
Pounds well for One Thing It Would Still Be affected by earth's
gravity and It would drop like a brick except, unlike a brick, it wouldn't stop when it hit the ground
Remember how black holes devour everything that gets close enough to cross their event horizon?
Well as soon as it hit the ground the black hole would start eating the dirt, sand, rock,
and anything Else It Touched as It continued to accelerate towards The earth's center of gravity.
Gaining Mass as It went like a snowball rolling down the hill.
it would eventually reach the center of the planet
Continuing to eat everything in its path and just getting more and more massive
as It consumed more and more of The earth With it
Now i bet you're thinking 'oh, i know how this ends'?
Once the earth Starts Getting Sucked Into The Black Hole There's no stopping it, and eventually the entire
Planet and Everything in It gets Sucked Into The Black hole Well i hate to say It but That's where you're wrong kiddo the earth
Would Be Destroyed Much Sooner Than That according to Frank Hile
Phd of Physics at Stanford When the Black Hole
Consumes Matter It Becomes Part of The Black hole and as a Part of That process It gets compressed to be super dense but When
You Compress Matter
Matter Starts to heat Up all that Increased heat and Increased pressure would act on The Earth like You would an Overinflated Balloon?
That's near to bursting Here's a tip try Over inflating a Balloon Then Heat It up
Spoiler Alert It Doesn't end well for the Balloon sure the earth's crust Is a Lot Stronger Than the Thin Layer of Latex that covers
The Balloon But Remember that When the Black Hole is at the center of The earth it's consuming
Everything Around It compressing It Heating It and
Increasing The pressure so no matter how thick your skin IS he can Only take so much pressure before he explode so the Good news
Earth WouLd Probably explode before we All Got Sucked into the Black hole and were Crushed under the infinite
Gravitational Force so taking all That Research into account we're led to one conclusion
The Pokedex is wrong no matter What Way you look at It Either Gardevoir crates Black Holes that are
Too small to be stable Which are completely Useless and immediately
Evaporate Out Of Existence or it creates Black Holes That are large enough to be stable and completely Destroys The earth in the process
Wait isn't Gardevoir Supposed to be using its powers to
Protect its trainer to protect its trainer it Will Expend all its psychic power to create a small Black Hole
Yeah That One's not happening but in a Cruel twist It turns Out Gardevoir still gets
To have the last Laugh Because according?
To the Pokedex entry Pokemon Emerald It Apparently Does not Feel the pull of gravity?
So well the entire planet and everything on it is being obliterated by the Black hole Gardevoir is apparently completely
Immune no bad touch i don't want your hugs you Creepy Wisp monster but hey That's Just
A theory a game
Theory
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