Veritasium

[Sunshine]

My favorite YouTube channel, a wealth of great videos.

 

Edited August 13, 2022 by Sunshine

[Paul M]

It's a bit f an old one that.

I think I like Varitasium, thought provoking and original, but recently I've had the feeling that he's trying to be controversial.  In particular his more recent video abbot electricity not flowing in cables.  He postulated that It propagates as a (the) field, dissociated from the "conductors" . That troubled me a bit, well, a lot actually. But as his detractors  eventually conceded, he was right!

And so it seems, perhaps much more controversially, with gravity. Just a manifestation of spacetime?? Beyond my pay grade!  

[OK Apricot]

His channel is excellent, I've watched for years. As said very thought provoking but he always quotes the science. Seems to be good friends with Destin from Smarter Every Day and they do some great collaborations! 

[Paul M]

Soon after his "electricity not flowing in conductors" episode the Youtube science fraternity was alight with arguments against his position. Quite a debacle but eventually they conceded defeat!

Look at the traffic he generated!

 https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHBF_en-GBGB995GB995&sxsrf=ALiCzsbroPGnsbNhSFYTCVUz_JHIAClLcA:1660427332047&source=univ&tbm=isch&q=is+veritasium+wrong+about+electricity&fir=vu-TXOHjhEhJGM%2CKGKqVc7h22iWvM%2C_%3BS2CqerFfP9VukM%2CAILw1QQmwR80bM%2C_%3B6O_1xbATem3WVM%2Clox5-l9jAQCwFM%2C_%3BB8Vz-r520tIZmM%2CFAfoPyflrsB0HM%2C_%3BdlTKzNCsOtpX7M%2CCYVzGYxbq75ceM%2C_%3BKART3wIAi0jzkM%2Clox5-l9jAQCwFM%2C_%3BATTdwV4yOzC49M%2CtMlSnpPjPDxIiM%2C_%3B6uUg1jEG7CAWFM%2Clox5-l9jAQCwFM%2C_%3B6NE6Qw5x2ywGzM%2CdMWmci7P_4kC8M%2C_%3BntmEx869z7IaEM%2C-BRSHSak9tJ7fM%2C_&usg=AI4_-kTWrcrvMs9164h1l-SHA-wvZa7txg&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi587Tq5cT5AhVDiFwKHZRSBSQQjJkEegQIHRAC&biw=1536&bih=656&dpr=1.25

[CraigT82]

I first came across the topic outlined in the video linked to in the OP in the book Universal by Brian Cox and Jeff Foreshaw. Was a bit of a ‘mind blown’ moment but made perfect sense. 

[900SL]

The Royal Society lecture on how everything is interacting fields was a mindblower.

[Earl]

One of the many channels I have a gander at from time to time. 

[billhinge]

On 13/08/2022 at 22:52, Paul M said:

Soon after his "electricity not flowing in conductors" episode the Youtube science fraternity was alight with arguments against his position. Quite a debacle but eventually they conceded defeat!

Look at the traffic he generated!

 https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHBF_en-GBGB995GB995&sxsrf=ALiCzsbroPGnsbNhSFYTCVUz_JHIAClLcA:1660427332047&source=univ&tbm=isch&q=is+veritasium+wrong+about+electricity&fir=vu-TXOHjhEhJGM%2CKGKqVc7h22iWvM%2C_%3BS2CqerFfP9VukM%2CAILw1QQmwR80bM%2C_%3B6O_1xbATem3WVM%2Clox5-l9jAQCwFM%2C_%3BB8Vz-r520tIZmM%2CFAfoPyflrsB0HM%2C_%3BdlTKzNCsOtpX7M%2CCYVzGYxbq75ceM%2C_%3BKART3wIAi0jzkM%2Clox5-l9jAQCwFM%2C_%3BATTdwV4yOzC49M%2CtMlSnpPjPDxIiM%2C_%3B6uUg1jEG7CAWFM%2Clox5-l9jAQCwFM%2C_%3B6NE6Qw5x2ywGzM%2CdMWmci7P_4kC8M%2C_%3BntmEx869z7IaEM%2C-BRSHSak9tJ7fM%2C_&usg=AI4_-kTWrcrvMs9164h1l-SHA-wvZa7txg&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi587Tq5cT5AhVDiFwKHZRSBSQQjJkEegQIHRAC&biw=1536&bih=656&dpr=1.25

 

Its the Poynting Vector (ExB) - physics not engineering   😉 

It was originally here - many of the the youtube science channels seem to share stories (I subscribe to most of them)

 

An equally surprising one, Do you know how a mirror works? 😉 

 

 

 

[billhinge]

On 13/08/2022 at 22:00, Paul M said:

It's a bit f an old one that.

I think I like Varitasium, thought provoking and original, but recently I've had the feeling that he's trying to be controversial.  In particular his more recent video abbot electricity not flowing in cables.  He postulated that It propagates as a (the) field, dissociated from the "conductors" . That troubled me a bit, well, a lot actually. But as his detractors  eventually conceded, he was right!

And so it seems, perhaps much more controversially, with gravity. Just a manifestation of spacetime?? Beyond my pay grade!  

The problem is at school everyone tells you gravity is a downward force and then they test you on Newtons Law of Gravity, after that its hard to get that out of your head

here is a great example showing gravity isn't a force