The Ozma Problem (draft for patrons only)
Added 2020-01-31 17:50:55 +0000 UTCThis is a draft for a video that's coming out next week or the week after - I need to fix the section from 3:12 to 4:00 because I got the electron & positron numbers reversed :/ Please let me know if you find any other mistakes! (& please don't share with anyone else)
Oh, and of course patrons won't be charged when the final version is uploaded publicly to youtube.
Thanks for your support!
Henry
Comments
That might be a good thing to include in the footnote!
Henry Reich
2020-02-06 22:29:00 +0000 UTCAh, it is very brief! The only Ozma I could think of was in the land of Oz, which it turns out the SETI project is named for. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Ozma
Shad Sterling
2020-02-06 06:24:23 +0000 UTCHold up, I thought we didn't know why there was more matter than antimatter in the universe. Doesn't this explain that?
Jason Hise
2020-02-05 04:15:47 +0000 UTCWell it's actually the same problem as handedness - if you can establish the right-hand rule, you can explain clockwise & counterclockwise.
Henry Reich
2020-02-04 00:49:14 +0000 UTCNamed after the Ozma SETI project (I have a footnote in the video, but it's very brief)
Henry Reich
2020-02-04 00:48:32 +0000 UTCThanks! Yeah this one got a little bit more into the weeds.
Henry Reich
2020-02-04 00:48:00 +0000 UTCNow imagine trying to explain "clockwise" to an alien using just words.
Jason Youngberg
2020-02-03 01:21:39 +0000 UTCWhy is it called the "Ozma" problem?
Shad Sterling
2020-02-02 00:18:12 +0000 UTCI tried to look up the left- vs. right-handed electron/positron decay percentage online to double-check you. It is surprisingly hard to find a source that simply states the percentages. So thank you for doing all the work and checking yourself. If I were left to find this information, it would take me many hours to convince myself which numbers were right. Did you consider mentioning Gell-Mann, Feynman, Sudarshan, and Marshak for the discovering the chirality of the weak force?
Patrick W. Gilmore
2020-01-31 18:14:39 +0000 UTC
