this guy is worth every cent people paid him. he's skeptical of his own findings, and definitely a very good scientist.

Now that is a good scientist. Try your absolute hardest to disprove your own findings in order to trust your own findings. I'm glad to see that kind of healthy science is still around.

"Black holes are really simple. It's just a black hole in space"

"To hell with ironing my shirt. I have science things to do. Onward to the lab!"

I love how you just let him speak in this video, no cutting to the point or anything. Very interesting to watch

While I like the video on the main channel, this interview here is even more interesting to watch.

I met this professor in India where he came to give a lecture at my university. Coolest guy ever.

Definition of optimism: Wearing Laser goggles to protect your eyes from a MW Laser, even when you know that it would vaporize your head in a fraction of a second.

that is the shirt of a man who makes breakthroughs.

The level of scepticism showed here by these scientists is refreshing to see today

PLOT TWIST:

Buy cool shades and keep your shirt in your back pocket. That's how you become a cool scientist.

It's refreshing to see a scientist literally doubt his results until he can't anymore.

That guy is really good at explaining

I'd like to see more videos like this where researchers describe how they came to their results rather than just the results themselves. I think this sort of thing is exactly what's missing from science education - and it's why people convince themselves of things like fake moon landings and flat earth etc. We're generally just told the end result of the research, and all the nitty-gritty work of eliminating alternative scenarios is mostly ignored. So people naturally get the sense that scientists themselves are ignoring those alternative scenarios - when in fact, they're the most skeptical folks of all.

One way (of many) to achieve this level of jadedness is to have your heart broken again and again by people you incorrectly thought you meant everything to. Once you have reached that realm of I no longer expect anything from this universe you become Professor Rana Adhikari.

Great scientific discoveries don't generally start with "Eureka!", but with a: "Hmm, that's funny."

Shit man, all I did was turn my washing machine on...

This gives me Goosebumps.. knowing that now being a grad student, doing a PhD in gravitational waves, actually finding these things, parameters of the blackholes.. how humble and perfect was the first detection. Even after numerous detections over the last 5 years, that one still remains one of the loudest. It's like the universe was waiting for us to start the detector and send the perfect signal.

He is so well spoken that the cello example gave me goosebumps