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🗿 Archaeology isn’t just about old bones and dusty ruins — sometimes it uncovers things that are downright creepy. From bizarre ancient burials to objects that make no sense, the past has left behind mysteries that can give you chills. These discoveries don’t just raise questions, they spark legends and fears that scientists are still trying to explain. The deeper you dig, the stranger it gets — and some of these finds might just haunt your imagination. If you thought history was boring, wait until you see the dark side of what’s been unearthed. Stay tuned, because these creepy archaeological mysteries will leave you stunned!
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Imagine sending a submarine under the ice of Antarctica… only for it to spot something bizarre — strange patterns carved deep beneath the frozen waters — and then suddenly vanish. That’s just one of the unusual discoveries we’re diving into in this video. From unexplained formations to mysteries hidden under the most remote places on Earth, these stories blur the line between science and the unknown. Some sound like sci-fi, but they’re all real enough to leave experts scratching their heads. Stick around, because these discoveries prove the planet still has plenty of secrets left.
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Vacations are supposed to relax your brain… but these riddles will do the opposite. In this video, you’ll face 17 tricky vacation-themed puzzles that will make you second-guess everything you see. From sun-soaked mysteries to travel twists that hide clever clues, each riddle tests how sharp you really are. Think you can solve them all before time runs out? Pack your logic, because this trip is going to be a mental rollercoaster.
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I took a boat through 96 million black plastic balls on the Los Angeles reservoir to find out why they're there.
The first time I heard about shade balls the claim was they reduce evaporation.
But it turns out this isn't the reason they were introduced.
Lift is an important concept, not only in flying but also in sailing. This week I'm talking to Olympic Sailor, Hunter Lowden. But before I get to the physics of sailing I thought I would explain lift since it's generally poorly understood.
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When pressure is applied to ice, its melting point is reduced so it turns to water. When the pressure is removed, however, it turns back into ice. This process is called 'regelation.' Big thanks to Art of Ice Sculptures www.icesculpture.com.au who donated the beautiful block of ice.
Stained glass is thicker at the bottom - so is it a liquid? Earth's mantle enables plate tectonics, so is it a liquid?
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Silicone oil droplets provide a physical realization of pilot wave theories.
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Filmed by Raquel Nuno
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Thanks to Google Making and Science for helping me pursue my #sciencegoals. If you want to try this experiment, instructions are here: link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12650-016-0383-5
The standard theory of quantum mechanics leaves a bit to be desired. As Richard Feynman put it, "I think I can safely say that no one understands quantum mechanics." This is because observations of experiments have led us to a theory that contradicts common sense. The wave function contains all the information that is knowable about a particle, yet it can only be used to calculate probabilities of where a particle will likely turn up. It can't give us an actual account of where the particle went or where it will be at some later time.
Some have suggested that this theory is incomplete. Maybe something is going on beneath the radar of standard quantum theory and somehow producing the appearance of randomness and uncertainty without actually being random or uncertain. Theories of this sort are called hidden variable theories because they propose entities that aren't observable. One such theory is pilot wave theory, first proposed by de Broglie, but later developed by Bohm. The idea here is that a particle oscillates, creating a wave. It then interacts with the wave and this complex interaction determines its motion.
Experiments using silicone oil droplets on a vibrating bath provide a remarkable physical realization of pilot wave theories. They give us a physical picture of what the quantum world might look like if this is what's going on - and this theory is still deterministic. The particle is never in two places at once and there is no randomness.
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Sound design by A Shell in the Pit
The definitive answer about the direction water swirls in two hemispheres
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For the record Destin and I repeated the experiment 3-4 times each in each hemisphere and got the same results every time.
The idea that water going down a drain or flushed down a toilet swirls in opposite directions in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres has a long history. But few have ever done the experiment. Destin from Smarter Every Day and I performed identical experiments in the Northern and Southern hemispheres. What we found is the direction of water swirl in a toilet, sink, or bathtub is determined by other sources of angular momentum. However if the body of water is big enough, e.g. a kiddy pool, and left still for long enough (at least 24 hours), then the Coriolis effect is observable with water swirling counterclockwise in the Northern hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern hemisphere.
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Gordon McGladdery did all of the sound design for the video. We used two songs from other artists (licensed of course). Derek split the first one up so it fades from video to video, and Gordon split the instruments up on the second one. There are violins on one video and percussion on the other for example. It's really neat.
The neat earth animation at the beginning and the synchronizing timer was made by http://eisenfeuer.com/. He also made still images of the earth from the top and the bottom.
Thanks to Vanessa for filming in Sydney: http://youtube.com/braincraftvideo
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There was a study performed at MIT years ago (http://web.mit.edu/hml/ncfmf/09VOR.pdf) that explained the physics involved. We repeated some of these demonstrations, but on opposite sides of the globe…and in a way that can be easily understood.
This site is a great resource on the Coriolis effect and ways people have gotten it wrong:
http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/Ba...
A head-vaporizing laser with a perfect wavelength detecting sub-proton space-time ripples.
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Here's how he felt when he learned about the first ever detection: https://youtu.be/ViMnGgn87dg
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A lot of videos have covered the general overview of the discovery of gravitational waves, what they are, the history of the search, when they were found but I wanted to delve into the absurd science that made the detection possible.
When scientists want one megawatt of laser power, it's not just for fun (though I'm sure it's that too), it's because the fluctuations in the number of photons is proportional to their square root, making more powerful beams less noisy (as a fraction of their total). The smoothest mirrors were created not for aesthetic joy but because when you're trying to measure wiggles that are a fraction the width of a proton, a rough mirror surface simply won't do.
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The Vikings suffered many hardships living in the north of Europe: long, cold winters and importantly a lack of sunlight. Luckily, they had cod.
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When making a video about vitamins I thought the story would mainly be about supplement pills, whether we should or shouldn't take them and how they're made. But what I found out is vitamins have a remarkable story that affects many more aspects of our lives. For example the Vikings needed a source of vitamin D to last the dark winter months and for their children to develop strong, healthy bones, avoiding rickets.
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Researched and written by Derek Muller and Jonny Hyman
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The General Theory of Relativity tells us gravity is not a force, gravitational fields don't exist. Objects tend to move on straight paths through curved spacetime. Thanks to Caséta by Lutron for sponsoring this video. Find out more at: https://www.lutron.com/veritasium
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Amazing VFX, compositing, and editing by Jonny Hyman
2D animations by Ivy Tello
Filmed by Steven Warren and Raquel Nuno
Special thanks to Petr Lebedev for reviews and script consultation
Music by Jonny Hyman and from Epidemic Sound https://epidemicsound.com
Rocket made by Goodnight and Co.
Screen images in rocket by Geoff Barrett
Slow motion rocket exhaust footage from Joe Barnard at BPS.Space
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0:00 Why is it hard to see atoms?
2:12 How does an electron microscope work?
4:09 Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM)
5:11 Spherical Aberration
8:55 Field Ion Microscope
11:05 Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope (STEM)
13:24 Probe microscopes
14:02 An unlikely solution
18:08 Seeing atoms
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Busch, H. (1926). Berechnung der Bahn von Kathodenstrahlen im axialsymmetrischen elektromagnetischen Felde. Annalen Der Physik - https://ve42.co/Busch1926
Ruska, E. (1986). The development of the electron microscope and of electron microscopy. Nobel Lecture - https://ve42.co/Ruska1986
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Jensen, G. (2015). Part 1: EM Lenses. Caltech - https://ve42.co/Jensen2015
Field Ion Microscope via Wikipedia - https://ve42.co/FieldIon
Transmission Electron Microscope via Wikipedia - https://ve42.co/MicroscopeTEM
Albert V. Crewe biography via UChicagoNews Microscopy Society of America - https://ve42.co/CreweBio
McMullan, D. (1993). Scanning Electron Microscopy 1928 - 1965. Microscopy Society of America, Cincinnati - https://ve42.co/McMullan1993
Electric and Magnetic Field Lenses via MIT - https://ve42.co/LensesMIT
Haider, M. et al. (1998). Towards 0.1 nm resolution with the first spherically corrected transmission electron microscope. Journal of Electron Microscopy - https://ve42.co/Haider1998_1
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Krivanek, O. et al. (2022). Aberration correction in the STEM. CRC Press EBooks - https://ve42.co/Krivanek2022
Crewe, A. V., et al. (1970). Visibility of Single Atoms. Science - https://ve42.co/Crewe1970
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Pennycook, S. J. (2012). Seeing the atoms more clearly: STEM imaging from the Crewe era to today. Ultramicroscopy - https://ve42.co/Pennycook2012
Rose, H. H. (2009). Historical aspects of aberration correction. Journal of Electron Microscopy - https://ve42.co/Rose2009
Kavli Prize in Nanoscience via kavliprize.org - https://ve42.co/Kavli2020
Vogt, T. (2019) Aberration-Corrected Electron Microscopy - https://ve42.co/Vogt2019
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Directed by Gregor Čavlović, Derek Muller, and Tim Usborne
Written by Gregor Čavlović, Tim Usborne, Emily Zhang, and Casper Mebius
Edited by Trenton Oliver and Charlie Grayley
Animated by Mike Radjabov, Fabio Albertelli, Ivy Tello, Emma Wright, and Andrew Neet
Illustrated by Jakub Misiek and Maria Gusakovich
Filmed by Charles Clements
Additional research by Gabe Strong, Geeta Thakur, and Emili Gyles
Produced by Casper Mebius, Derek Muller, Emily Zhang, Gregor Čavlović, Rob Beasley Spence, Tori Brittain, Gabe Strong, Luke Lewis, and Matthew Cavanagh
Thumbnail contributions by Ben Powell, Ren Hurley, and Peter Sheppard
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Music from Epidemic Sound
The mistakes of Amelia Earhart’s final flight, and the physics that could have saved her. Use code VERITASIUM to get 50% off your 1st club crate when you join a club for kids aged 3+ or go to https://kiwico.com/veritasium
00:00 Amelia Earhart’s final flight
03:33 Who was Amelia Earhart?
05:36 The flight plan
07:13 How celestial navigation works
09:16 Invention of radio technology
12:02 Radio waves explained
22:44 Earhart makes her critical decision
24:55 Communication failures
28:30 “Gas is running low”
31:39 Her desperate final message
33:01 The small detail that could have saved her
Special thanks to Clifford Heath for his help putting together the radio demo, and the folks at the Victorian ARDF group for connecting us.
Thank you to Brian Harrison and Michael Murphy with the AWA Communication Technologies Museum for their assistance with early research.
Thank you to Peter Bevelacqua over at Antenna Theory for help filling in some missing details.
Sharp-eyed viewers might notice there doesn't seem to be a loop antenna in the flight simulation shots. It sadly wasn't included in the simulator's model of Earhart's Electra, but it features prominently in old photos.
The Secret Life of Radio video credits: Tim Hunkin - https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=4AyDKVi6brMqSIMD&v=LMxate9gegg&feature=youtu.be
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Directed by Sulli Yost and Derek Muller
Written by Sulli Yost and Derek Muller
Edited by Peter Nelson
Animated by David Szakaly, Fabio Albertelli, Ivy Tello, Mike Radjabov, Mohamed Alhaj, Emma Wright
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Thumbnail contributions by Peter Sheppard, Ren Hurley
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Music from Epidemic Sound and Jonny Hyman
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Holographic wormhole, via Nature - https://ve42.co/Holographic
‘Did physicists create a wormhole in a quantum computer?’ by Davide Castelvecchi, via Nature - https://ve42.co/NatureWormhole
Traversable Holographic Wormhole by Sarag Wells, via Vice - https://ve42.co/ViceWormhole
‘Quantum teleportation opens a ‘wormhole in space–time’’ by Martijn Boerkamp, via Physics World - https://ve42.co/PWTeleportation
‘Physicists Create a Holographic Wormhole’ by Natalie Wolchover, via Quanta - https://ve42.co/QuantaWormhole
‘the Smallest, Crummiest Wormhole You Can Imagine’, via The New York Times - https://ve42.co/NYTWormhole
‘How Physicists Created a Holographic, via Quanta - https://ve42.co/QuantaYTWormhole
Quantum computer imagery, via Quantumai - https://ve42.co/Quantumai
‘Nuclear fusion breakthrough’, via Sky News - https://ve42.co/SkyWormhole
‘NASA scientist explains why images from new telescope astounded him’, via CNN on YouTube - https://ve42.co/CNNWormhole
‘Neutrino Faster Than Speed of Light’, via Associated Press - https://ve42.co/APWormhole
‘Michio Kaku on Quantum Computing’, via PowerfulJRE - https://ve42.co/JRE
AskScience AMA Series, via r/askscience on Reddit - https://ve42.co/ClimateAMA
‘Professor Andrei Linde celebrates physics breakthrough’, via Stanford - https://ve42.co/AndreiLinde
‘Gravitational waves turn to dust’ by Ian Sample, via The Guardian - https://ve42.co/Waves2Dust
‘The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor’, Sukbae Lee, Ji-Hoon Kim, Young-Wan Kwon, 2023, via arXiv - https://ve42.co/Superconductor
‘What's the buzz about LK-99?’, via Global News - https://ve42.co/GlobalLK99
Meissner effect, via @andrewmccalip on Twitter - https://ve42.co/Meissner
‘Will LK99 Superconductor CHANGE THE WORLD?’, via Breaking Points on YouTube - https://ve42.co/BreakingPoints
‘Superconductor Breakthroughs’, via WSJ - https://ve42.co/WSJSuperconductor
LK99 claims forum post, via Spacebattles - https://ve42.co/KL99Forum
Copper graph, via Handbook of Electromagnetic Materials - https://ve42.co/CopperGraph
LK-99 Superconductor showing levitation - https://ve42.co/Levitation
‘Unreliable social science research’ by Cathleen O’Grady, via Science - https://ve42.co/SocialScience
Tiny Neutrinos article by Dennis Overbye, via The NYT - https://ve42.co/NYTNeutrinos
‘The Crisis in Cosmology’ by Astrophysics in Process, via Medium - https://ve42.co/CosmoCrisis
‘Some scientists speak of a “crisis in cosmology.”’ by Adam Frank, via Big Think - https://ve42.co/BigThinkCosmo
‘Why is there a 'crisis' in cosmology?’ by Paul Sutter, via Space - https://ve42.co/SpaceCosmo
‘Breakthrough in nuclear fusion, via PBS NewsHour on YouTube - https://ve42.co/PBSBreakthrough
DOE National Lab press conference, via U.S. Department of Energy on YouTube - https://ve42.co/DOEPress
‘Nuclear fusion breakthrough’ by Catherine Clifford, via CNBC - https://ve42.co/CNBCFusion
‘US officials announce nuclear fusion breakthrough’, via CNN - https://ve42.co/CNNFusion
Nuclear fusion article, via CNN - https://ve42.co/CNNNuclear
Climate catastrophe article by Robin McKie, via The Guardian - https://ve42.co/GuardianClimate
Nuclear fusion article by Nicola Davis, via The Guardian - https://ve42.co/GuardianFusion
Fusion breakthrough article, via Imperial College London - https://ve42.co/ImperialFusion
Wednesday briefing by Archive Bland, via The Guardian - https://ve42.co/GuardianBriefing
Sky Sport News Bulletin, via Sky Sport NZ on YouTube - https://ve42.co/SkyBulletin
Alien Probe Ignored Us article by Ed Maz - https://ve42.co/AlienProbe
Attempts to scan the mysterious Oumuamua 'comet' article by Shivali Best, via MailOnline - https://ve42.co/Oumuamua
‘Have Aliens Found Us?’ by Isaac Chotiner - https://ve42.co/NYTAliens
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Written by Derek Muller
Edited by Peter Nelson
Filmed by Derek Muller
Produced by Derek Muller and Han Evans
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Thumbnail by Geoff Barrett
Glass is one of the most important materials humans have ever made. Try out Saily by heading to https://saily.com/veritasium and remember to use coupon code veritasium to get 15% off your first purchase.
00:00 Glass and our place in the universe
01:23 How Gorilla Glass works
04:35 What is glass?
05:15 Is glass a liquid?
07:29 Different types of glass
09:59 Invention of transparent glass
11:56 Why is some glass transparent?
14:54 Invention of glass lenses
15:52 Development of magnification
18:02 How to make glass more durable
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Directed by Petr Lebedev
Written by Petr Lebedev and Derek Muller
Edited by Nick Lear
Animated by Fabio Albertelli, Ivy Tello, David Szakaly and Rokas Viksraitis
Illustrated by Jakub Misiek, Emma Wright, and Maria Gusakovich
Filmed by Petr Lebedev, Sulli Yost and Miranda Prise
Additional research by Gabe Strong, Geeta Thakur
Produced by Petr Lebedev, Derek Muller, Rob Beasley Spence, Gabe Strong, and Tori Brittain
Thumbnail contributions by Jakub Misiek, Ren Hurley and Peter Sheppard
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New research shows chameleons actively tune nano-crystals to change their color.
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Chameleon research in Nature Communications: http://bit.ly/1FacHO2
"Photonic Crystals Cause Active Colour Change in Chameleons"
This research was carried out by Jérémie Teyssier, Suzanne V. Saenko, Dirk van der Marel & Michel C. Milinkovitch at the University of Geneva Department of Quantum Matter Physics and the Laboratory of Artificial and Natural Evolution (LANE)
Original videos of chameleons are here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIRiCwHlUd8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdQvtP8EKrM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSH7EmXFMac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egwueh6wj1E
Additional details available at: http://www.lanevol.org/LANE/ch....ameleon_colour_chang
For correspondence: Michel C. Milinkovitch, Laboratory of Artificial & Natural Evolution (LANE), Dept. of Genetics & Evolution, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
The melanin spreading out video is courtesy of Richard Wheeler:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL0USeWjTHQ
http://www.richardwheeler.net
Special thanks to:
Harry, Jo, Daniella and Raquel for helping me produce and film this video - it looks great thanks to you!
If there's a hotel with infinite rooms, could it ever be completely full? Could you run out of space to put everyone? The surprising answer is yes -- this is important to know if you're the manager of the Hilbert Hotel.
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References: Ewald, W., & Sieg, W. (2013). David Hilbert's Lectures on the Foundations of Arithmetic and Logic 1917-1933. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. -- https://ve42.co/Ewald2013
Gamow, G. (1988). One, two, three--infinity: facts and speculations of science. Courier Corporation. -- https://ve42.co/Gamow1947
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Animation by JD Pounds and Jonny Hyman
Thumbnail by Ivy Tello
Music by Jonny Hyman and from Epidemic Sound and E's Jammy Jams (Hotel Lavish - Radio Nights, Steps in Time - Golden Age Radio, What Now - Golden Age Radio, Book Bag - E's Jammy Jams, Arabian Sand - E's Jammy Jams, Firefly in a Fairytale - Gareth Coker)
Written By Derek Muller and Alex Kontorovich
Sound Design by Jonny Hyman
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The physics behind Kelvin's Thunderstorm explained. No, it is not a practical way of generating electricity, which is why we use turbines at hydro stations.
This video goes into more detail about the phenomenon demonstrated in this Hunger Games collab video: http://youtu.be/Rwa26CXG1fc
Physics of contraptions meant to go faster than light.
Audible: http://bit.ly/AudibleVe
My video about the problem with Facebook: http://bit.ly/PwFB
Special thanks to MinutePhysics for visual effects and Prof. Geraint Lewis for revisions to earlier drafts of this video.
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References:
The Man in the White Suit — https://ve42.co/Suit
London, B. (1932). Ending the depression through planned obsolescence. — https://ve42.co/London32
Slade, G. (2009). Made to break: Technology and obsolescence in America. Harvard University Press — https://ve42.co/madetobreak
Krajewski, M. (2014). The great lightbulb conspiracy. IEEE spectrum, 51(10), 56-61. — https://ve42.co/Phoebus
Planet Money, The Phoebus Cartel - https://ve42.co/PMobs
The Light Bulb Conspiracy - https://youtu.be/e9xmn228HM0
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Written by Derek Muller and Petr Lebedev
Animation by Ivy Tello
Filmed by Derek Muller and Raquel Nuno
Edited by Derek Muller
Video supplied by Getty Images
Music by Jonny Hyman and from https://epidemicsound.com"Aquatic Planet", "Rhythm of Dreams", "Tread Lightly", "Unexpected Visitors", "Curved Mirrors" "Drunken Lullaby" "Fluorescent Lights"
Thumbnail by Raquel Nuno and Karri Denise
Europa Clipper is looking for signs of alien life in a very deadly place. Head to http://80000hours.org/veritasium to start planning a career that can help change the world for the better.
A massive thank you to Dr. Robert Pappalardo for his expertise and time.
A huge thank you to Gretchen McCartney and Cynthia B. Phillips at NASA JPL for their help.
For more on hydrothermal vents, check out NaturalWorldFacts on YouTube - @NaturalWorldFacts
00:00 ATTEMPT NO LANDING.
01:06 Jupiter’s deadly radiation belts
03:56 Europa’s secret
06:15 Why Europa isn’t completely frozen
08:03 Effects of tidal flexing
09:13 Why alien life could exist
10:39 How Europa Clipper detects signs of life
11:34 Why not Enceladus?
13:01 Europa Clipper’s instruments
15:13 Launch date and first results
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References:
Europa Clipper via Wikipedia - https://ve42.co/ECWiki
Magnetosphere of Jupiter via Wikipedia - https://ve42.co/JupiterMagWiki
Europa Clipper (2024) via Nasa.gov - https://ve42.co/ECNasa
Extraterrestrial Cycloids - Why Are They on Europa? via minutephysics on YouTube - https://ve42.co/MinPhysCycloid
Hand, K. P. & Carlson, R. W. (2015). Europa’s surface color suggests an ocean rich with sodium chloride. Geophysical research letters - https://ve42.co/Carlson2015
Dalton, J. B. et al. (2003). Near-Infrared Detection of Potential Evidence for Microscopic Organisms on Europa. Astrobiology - https://ve42.co/Dalton2003
Europa Clipper: Exploring Jupiter's Ocean World (2024, May 24) via Youtube - https://ve42.co/PappalardoLec
Carr, M., Belton, M., Chapman, C. et al. (1998). Evidence for a subsurface ocean on Europa. Nature 391, 363–365 - https://ve42.co/Carr1998
New Findings Support Prospect of Life on Jupiter’s Moon Europa (2024) via Nasa.gov - https://ve42.co/NasaEuropaLife
Meitzler, R., Jun, I., Blase, R. et al. (2023). Investigating Europa’s Radiation Environment with the Europa Clipper Radiation Monitor. Space Sci Rev 219, 61 - https://ve42.co/Meitzler2023
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2010: The Year We Make Contact - https://ve42.co/2010Contact
CGI animations via NASA - https://ve42.co/NasaCGI
NASA Eyes on the Solar System - https://ve42.co/NasaEyes
Jupiter's magnetosphere via Chandra X-Ray Center - https://ve42.co/JupiterMagChandra
Io's Volcanoes via BBC Earth Science - https://ve42.co/IoBBCEarth
Clipper ships via Wikipedia - https://ve42.co/ClipperShipWiki
Various moon images via NASA - https://ve42.co/NasaMoons
Hydrothermal vent animation from NaturalWorldFacts - https://ve42.co/NWFVentAnims
Hydrothermal vent footage by Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute - https://ve42.co/ARIVent
Snotbot footage from VICE News - https://ve42.co/SnotBotVice
Plate tectonics on Europa by Noah Kroese - https://ve42.co/KroeseTectonics
JUICE CGI animations via ESA - https://ve42.co/JUICECGIESA
Arthur C. Clarke photo via ITU Pictures under the CC 2.0 license - https://ve42.co/ClarkePhoto
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Written by Gregor Čavlović and Derek Muller
Edited by Jack Saxon
Animated by Mike Radjabov, Fabio Albertelli, and Jack Saxon
Illustrated by Jakub Misiek
Filmed by Derek Muller, Petr Lebedev and Gregor Čavlović
Additional research by Gabriel Strong
Produced by Derek Muller, Gregor Čavlović, Rob Beasley Spence, Tori Brittain, Luke Lewis, Barbara Abraul, Gabriel Strong, Petr Lebedev, and Casper Mebius
Thumbnail contributions by Ren Hurley, Peter Sheppard, and Jakub Misiek
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Music from Epidemic Sound
A short a cappella tribute to experimentalists. It is sung while performing three simple experiments with household items: Mentos dropped in diet Coke, a tea bag emptied and burned, and a ping pong ball floating in the air stream of a hair dryer.
Everyone loves laminar flow but turbulent flow is the real MVP.
A portion of this video was sponsored by Cottonelle. Purchase Cottonelle Flushable Wipes and try them for yourself: https://bit.ly/2WJm9Hq
Special thanks to:
Prof. Beverley McKeon and team https://www.mckeon.caltech.edu
Destin from Smarter Every Day https://www.youtube.com/smartereveryday
Nicole Sharp from FYFD https://ve42.co/fyfd
Pavol Dobryakov turbulent simulations: https://paveldogreat.github.io..../WebGL-Fluid-Simulat
I got into turbulent flow via chaos. The transition to turbulence sometimes involves a period doubling. Turbulence itself is chaotic motion, it is unpredictable and sensitively dependent on initial conditions. What surprised me is all the ways turbulent flow is useful to us. It is diffusive, meaning it causes mixing. This is useful in jet engines or rocket nozzles (which Destin studies) and is important to achieve in microfluidic devices, which are so small that turbulent flow is actually difficult to achieve. Turbulent flow can energize a boundary layer, which is important to maintain flow attachment over a wing, maintaining lift and delaying stall. Similarly a turbulent boundary layer over a golf ball reduces pressure drag allowing golf balls to fly further. This is the reason for the dimples on golf balls. Flow transitioning to turbulence in the wake of a bluff body can create periodic vortex shedding. This beautiful phenomenon can be seen in the von Kàrmàn vortex street in clouds viewed from space. Turbulence is everywhere, in the air currents in a room, in your aorta, in the breaths you exhale, in oil pipelines and water pipes, in the flow over cars and ships and planes. Animals have evolved for it (like dead fish swimming up stream) and we have engineered our environment, our planes and golf balls for it. Laminar flow may be nice to look at (which is why we use it in decorative fountains) but turbulent flow does the real lifting.
Animations by:
Jonny Hyman (Sun, Jupiter, Reynolds, airfoil, Earth time-lapse)
Research and writing:
AJ Fillo and Derek Muller. AJ also created the wind tunnel golf ball shots
Filmed by:
Daniel Bydlowski and Derek Muller
Additional footage:
Images of Jupiter courtesy of NASA
Turbulence in air currents by the Physics Girl, Dan Walsh, and Grant Sanderson https://youtu.be/N7d_RWyOv20
https://youtu.be/_UoTTq651dE
Music:
illBird "Shaffuru" https://youtu.be/5rkt53fNMgc
From EpidemicSound https://epidemicsound.com "Seaweed" "Colorful Animation 4"
Kevin MacLeod https://incompetech.com "Sneaky Adventure"
There is an entire branch of math simply devoted to knots – and it has changed the world. We’ll rope you in. Head to https://brilliant.org/veritasium to start your free 30-day trial, and the first 200 people get 20% off an annual premium subscription.
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Huge thanks to Prof. Colin Adams for his excellent help guiding us through the world of knots.
Many thanks to Prof. Doug Smith, Dorian Raymer, Prof. David Leigh, and Prof. Dorothy Buck for helping us understand applications of knot theory.
Many thanks to Prof. Dan Silver & Prof. Jim Hoste for speaking with us about the history and tabulation of knots.
If you want to learn more about knots and play with them yourself, check out:
The amazing KnotPlot tool — https://knotplot.com/. Thanks to Rob Scharein for providing technical help as well!
A table of knots and all their invariants — https://knotinfo.math.indiana.edu/
The Knot Atlas for general info on knots — http://katlas.org/wiki/Main_Page
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Knot Theory Video References – https://ve42.co/KnotTheoryRefs
Images & Video:
Alexander Cutting the Gordian Knot by Donato Creti via Fine Art America - https://ve42.co/GordianCut
Indus Valley tablet via Quora - https://ve42.co/IndusValley
Pages from the Book of Kells via National Trust of Scotland - https://ve42.co/BookOfKells
Medieval Celtic designs from @thebookofkellsofficial via Instagram - https://ve42.co/KellsInsta
Chinese knotwork by YWang9174 via Wikimedia Commons - https://ve42.co/Panchang
Quipu cords by Pi3.124 via Wikimedia Commons - https://ve42.co/Quipu
Borromeo heraldry via Terre Borromeo - https://ve42.co/Borromeo
Birman/Jones letter via Celebratio Mathematica - https://ve42.co/JonesBirman
Molecular trefoil knot by M stone via Wikimedia Commons - https://ve42.co/TrefoilMolecule
X-ray structure of trefoil knot by Ll0103 via Wikimedia Commons - https://ve42.co/XrayTrefoil
Bacteria animation from Your Body's Molecular Machines by Drew Berry via the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research - http://wehi.tv
Topoisomerase and knots from Orlandini et al. Synergy of topoisomerase. PNAS, vol. 116, no. 17, 2019, pp. 8149–8154. – https://ve42.co/Orlandini2019
KnotProt 2.0: A database of proteins with knots and slipknots - https://ve42.co/Knotprot
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Produced by Emily Zhang, Han Evans, and Derek Muller
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Music from Epidemic Sound