g'day my smart mates my name's dylan dance i'm a physicist from the land down under grab a coffee
grab a chair grab a vegemite sandwich look grab whatever you want to grab let's talk some natural
philosophy so we're finally watching some more rick and morty today and i'm gonna check out this
pickle rig thing whatever that means we're gonna see if we can find some physics and
science that can explain pickle wreck so before we do make sure you subscribe and like this video
and leave a comment down under if you have any good suggestions for things that i can uh react to
and uh find some physics in morty rick hey morty rick are you far away or are you inside something
is this a camera is everything a camera morty the garage morty come to the garage morty rick
where are you on my workbench morty are you invisible and you're gonna like fart on me
flip the pickle over what a nickel morty you're not gonna regret it the payoff is huge
i turned myself into a pickle morty boom big reveal i'm a pickle what do you think about
that i turned myself into a pickle what are you just staring at me for bro i turned myself into
a pickle morty and and what more do you want tactic i'm a pickle i'm pickle rick
yeah his face says it all look i've got nothing for you guys i uh don't know where to begin this
one not sure physics can help us here this is beyond anything i've ever come across in
physics so i think we're just gonna have to move on and see what else we can find i honestly just
thought rick was going to have some obsession with eating pickles or some pickle fetish but
clearly i'm lacking imagination so i'm intrigued to see what this pickle can
do so let's keep watching we got it because this pickle doesn't care about your children
and i'm not gonna take their dreams i'm gonna take their parents that's one intense laser
double a batteries come on all right so we could probably work out the energy in one of those
double a alkaline batteries uh for to produce that sort of laser and we could work out the brightness
of that beam of radiation so the monochromatic specific intensity so let's do some calculations
all right let's run through these calculations because you probably can't read much but you've
got a nice little picture here you've got rick's god-like laser and three heads ready to be melted
um and then you can work out the change in temperature of the heads because obviously
they're at room temperature before they're melted and then if you look up at what temperature humans
are cremated at um so i looked up what temperature uh humans made it at and it's about 593 kelvin
apparently i just really looked that up and it's way off but look this will still demonstrate
the point i'm trying to make all right so then you've got the specific heat capacity of a bone
you've got the average weight of a male human head unless your head is four and a half
standard deviations larger than the average human head and then that gives you this number here
892 936 joules um that's just for one head then you work it out for three heads
you get about 2.67 megajoules now the average double a battery will give you about 13 000 joules
somehow rick's battery that he found produces 2.67 million joules so yeah that's one pretty
ridiculous battery but anyway this next bit shows you just how ridiculous the laser is um so
not going to go through this bit because it's a bit more involved there's some integration
involved but it works out the monochromatic specific intensity of rick's laser gives you
this number down here which is 5 times 10 to the 26 times greater than the brightness of the sun
which is a trillion more than a trillion trillion times greater than the brightness
of the sun so yeah that's a pretty intense laser he's managed to whip together in about two seconds
so yeah i reckon that's enough uh physics for this video so anyway let's watch some more
oh great oh boy what's wrong right is it the quantum carburetor or something quantum
carburetor jesus morty you can't just add a sci-fi word to a car word and hope it means something huh
looks like something's wrong with the microverse battery we're gonna have to go inside let's pause
it there um that's exactly what the show does all the time but anyway i just wanted to say
quantum isn't a sci-fi word it's a real word that would and it represents real things in nature
so a quantum is the smallest possible amount of a physical entity of an interaction um so
when you have many of when you have more than one quantum we call them quanta and a really important
thing to note here is that these quanta can only come in discrete packets so what i mean by that is
that you can't nature isn't continuous so let me use an analogy to try and explain this because it
might help you understand so you've got two pieces of chalk here right one small one one big one
and you could imagine a piece of chalk any size in between these two couldn't you it's a continuous
thing you don't need to only have you know one this bigger one this big but in nature
on the smallest possible scale for any physical entity if you had if this was the smallest
amount of energy it was allowed to have for a physical entity and then this was the next
amount of energy it was allowed to have you can't have anything in between that's what i'm
trying to say so for any physical entity there's only allowable amounts of energy it can have you
can't have anything in between and that goes for everything in nature it's really freaking
weird all right that's enough of that you guys can look further into that if you want when i paused
he was talking about some microverse battery and how they were going to have to go inside
so i'm interested to hear what the hell he's talking about so i'll rewind just a little bit
oh man where are we rick morty remember eight seconds ago and when you said go inside what
and i said the battery and then we showed up here and i wasn't like whoa this is unexpected huh this
isn't right this pipe's supposed to be sending 20 terawatts of juice up to the engine morty instead
we've got zero now what are these people doing whoa whoa people uh it's time for some hands-on
engine repair i put a spatially tessellated void inside a modified temporal field until a planet
developed intelligent life i then introduced that life to the wonders of electricity which they now
generate on a global scale and you know some of it goes to power my engine and charge my phone
and stuff appears we are being revisited by the alien known as rick who once gave our world the
gift of google box technology which when stomped on generates electricity powering our homes and
businesses improving our daily lives while safely removing the dangerous waste power to a special
disposal volcano but why has rick returned and what will he say when he hears the big news
let's find so rick said his ship gets about 20 terawatts of power and terror is a trillion so
that's 20 trillion watts so we can work out how many people must be in this little microverse
that's how much power he gets so on average human can generate about 75 watts uh over eight hours
so if you assume half of that is waste so you get about 37.5 so you power is equal to energy
over time so if you take the 20 trillion watts divide that by 37.5 you're going to get a number
so let me quickly calculate that so that works out to be 533 billion people working 24 hours a day
um so obviously people need to sleep so if you assume you know they work a third of the day
you multiply that by three and you get about 1.6 trillion people working eight hours a day on these
google boxes so yeah that's a lot of people uh 1.6 trillion people that's 200 times larger than
the population of the earth and for reference earth our current our civilization's current
power consumption is about i think it's about 18 uh terawatts a year so rick's little ship
generates more power than all of humanity's consumption every year so someone pointed
out that we actually missed some physics in that first episode we watched a ritual in time
when rick's trying to prove that they're both pieces of poo so let's go back watch it and i'll
see what i can see conclusion you're both equally mercurial overly sensitive clingy hysterical bird
brain humong all right so on this board let's have a look i can see in the top left corner side which
represents the wave function in quantum mechanics so the wave function quantum state eigenfunction
it's all the same sort of thing so and that is for the infinite square well which is like a
common problem in quantum mechanics 101 so in the middle there i could barely make out what it says
that's more math and physics but it says summer is isomorphic to morsi if and only if there exists
a mapping such that for all summers there exists exactly one morty so i think that's what it says
and isomorphic essentially means that two sets are equivalent so rick using real abstract
algebra essentially proved that they're both equally pains in his ah so that's pretty great
there is a problem with what he's written but it's a little nitpick so we'll ignore that so then down
the middle there that is a cat uh schrodinger's cat that's both alive and dead at the same time
and then the bottom right you've actually got a differential equation which is
schrodinger's equation which is one of the most famous in all of physics we essentially use it
to calculate the probability that we'll find an electron in any given position um in terms of its
orbit but it's not really orbiting uh electrons don't really orbit atoms they uh exist in this
uh what we call a probability cloud around an atom so the electron in its probability cloud it's kind
of existing everywhere simultaneously around the atom and then when you take measurement you
collapse this wave function when you measure where an electron is you collapse the superposition
of the electron being everywhere around the atom at once and then it exists in one place
but anyway if i lost you you can go do some further reading on that it's a really fascinating
thing in physics anyway that'll do for this video i'll finish with a nice quote from brian
cox uh a famous particle physicist and i think it relates to this show and he says in science
there are no universal truths just views of the world that have yet to be proven false so anyway
i'll leave it there guys please subscribe if you haven't already and i'll catch you guys next time