And our goal here is just to make a real tight, concentrated blob of a mass. "Blob " is a culinary term for anything that sort of moves in "blobular" motion. So these take a while to cook.
actually dark most of the time there um for most of the year uh that's uh mid-February um taken around about midday that's the light it was getting that blob in the corner is the sun it pops up uh sort of midm morning hovers around the Horizon of it and then disappears the rest of time it's it's dark you get this strange Dusky orangey purpley light apparently 2,000 people live in this town I have no idea what
This fact hints at an important law that governs our void, the law of stability. Unstable blobs fall apart and vanish. Stable ones endure. Now, watch what happens if we speed this up dramatically, maybe a couple of years per second, maybe even a couple million.
how do we implant electrodes into the brain? and blobs . What they're bad at is looking at high dimensional information.
See, the blobs it's made of just happen to attract similar blobs from the surrounding environment. This red blob always attracts green blobs , and this purple blob always attracts yellow ones, and piece by piece, all these blobs attract their opposites until their counterparts suddenly snap into position next to the original shape.
this in my hands at the moment. It's for anyone that can't see, you should probably look at the screen right now. It's a yellow blob of squidgy, slightly disgusting material. What is this and why does this matter?
I boiled it. They all clumped together. I was eating a blob of dough. Usually, that's because your dough is too wet.
Take those orbits and essentially just mix them up and mix them up until all you're left with at the end is essentially a big blob of a galaxy, like we saw at the beginning, where the stars aren't on nice, ordered orbits anymore. They're a little bit more chaotic, kind of like a beehive.
So that's what the black points are showing there, whereas the red points are showing sort of spiral galaxies that have maybe had little mergers that have built up this central blob . Then on the y-axis, you've got the supermassive black hole in the center. And it amazes me that we can even, as humans, actually be able to measure that.
Well, let's back up a step, and let's look at some pictures of the sky for a second. This fuzzy blob in the middle of this image is a picture at optical wavelengths of Cygnus A. At optical wavelengths, it looks like a fairly unremarkable galaxy, this fuzzy little blob .
And now you can zoom in further onto the jet, and you can zoom in even closer in and you can see that, at its center, there is this blob . And this blob , when you image it with a telescope that is the size of the entire Earth, and you image it with high enough resolution and at high enough frequencies, you basically get this picture, which is the shadow of a supermassive black hole
It's reasonably quiescent. But if you're overfeed a black hole, then things can happen. This green blob -- well, imagine I trained an algorithm to classify galaxies.
Here you're seeing little bubbles form that orbit each other and fly around inside the tank, but they're resistant to becoming part of the bigger blob . In microgravity, the surface tension of water is a lot greater and counts for a lot more of its motion, which is why it's so different than how
going from where you are now to an Olympic gold medal does not have as much processing in your brain as that does, going from the blob to the running thing, no help at all. I need you to be thinking of that because there is a distinct difference in what we would do, say, with code or software and the way we've got to program this.
It just depends how thick the clouds are whether you keep observing through the clouds or you have to stop because there's just nothing coming Here's another fuzzy blob in the universe.
Here's the new image. Nearly every blob you see is a galaxy.
And so we were racing. Because having established that Blob -- Blob ?
And so we were racing. So having established that Blob is belligerently slothful, then we know what might have to happen to him.
When you looked for images of the internet, this was the one that comes up again and again and again-- this image by of this amorphous blob that you're not really meant to be able to find yourself on it. It kind of reminds me of the Apollo blue marble picture of the earth that I think is similarly sort of meant to
He'd see the blob and he'd turn. And there wouldn't be anything there. And he told his co-workers that and they said, "Oh, yeah. That lab's haunted."
that little tiny blob in the upper right became a tiny little bit brighter that's a supernova that's a real supernova I
- Nobody reads these test blobs .
Now, watch what happens if we speed this up dramatically, maybe a couple of years per second, maybe even a couple million. You can see our blobs keep getting random jolts of energy, so they combine with others to form more complex compounds. Most attempts fail and fall apart, but every so often, by pure chance, you get a compound that is more stable than the blobs it's made of.
Now, this shape goes on to do the same thing. Its green blobs attract red ones and yellow ones attract the purple until another shape yet again snaps into position. This new shape looks exactly like the original.
experience these blobs right now. So your brain is now categorizing this visual
These are not blobs .
You have these blobs that can combine, and then what comes out of that is at least not visually immediately predictive.
It just looks like blobs on this film.
And then it just blobs out.
It was just blobs of color.
Right now, they are all individual particles, but each time step we move forward, let's say there's a 10% chance that all four combine into one red mega-blob . And now imagine this mega-blob isn't very stable. For every time step it's alive, it has a 95% chance of falling apart back into the four smaller blobs .
We've got a big blob that consists of all the points in the sub tour on the left.
What's that big white blob ?
But it's kind of like the blob .
It's just a brown blob .
You're just seeing a blob of white, which is the headlamp.
And then finally, she concludes that she wishes that the internet looked like Matt Damon, or like lines of light written by an invisible hand in the night sky. So we're back to the amorphous blob . There's sort of no escaping that glowing amorphous blob .
preparing for that moment when that magenta blob comes and you know one of the things I ended the book thinking was
It's a bit like the blob . And then, the problem is now you think you're done. But you're gonna come to a point where once
For every time step it's alive, it has a 95% chance of falling apart back into the four smaller blobs . If we add more of these red blobs into the mix, you'll notice that they rarely ever come together. On average, a mega-blob only exists around 10% of the time.
Most attempts fail and fall apart, but every so often, by pure chance, you get a compound that is more stable than the blobs it's made of. This doesn't happen because the blobs want to build more complex structures. It's just because these new configurations happen to be more favorable in the environment.
They are a little glowy analog blobs of light.
But they do have these things called blobs .
And here are these little blobs there, where there were still Saxons in those areas.
bunch of black and white blobs . Tell me
We started out with these really big blobs of ideas, and as we made it into a larger arc, and then into individual episodes,
So each one of these blobs here shows a separate region that's more responsive to this face than anything else.
So each one of these blobs here shows a separate region that's more responsive to this face than anything else.
Well redshifts are easy to get. You just take spectra of these little blobs here, all these are little galaxies. There's only a couple of stars in our own Milky Way galaxy in the Hubble ultra-deep field.
If we add more of these red blobs into the mix, you'll notice that they rarely ever come together. On average, a mega-blob only exists around 10% of the time. But if we were to reduce the chances of the mega-blobs dissolving to only 1%, the void would suddenly be filled with them.