Science Myths that You Still Believe...
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This is a joke right? You are crying about pseudoscience and myths, and then advertise Foreo....
Speaking of quack stuff you find on the internet with no scientific evidence...an LED face mask by todays sponsor Foreo.
Does Foreo really pay you enough to ruin your credibility?
Feeling the temperature is just a subset of the sense of touch because you have to touch the water in order to feel it's temperature. The air is also touching you and you feel it's temperature. The other two senses that you brought into this episode might be real but the people are still debating on them same like the 6th taste after umami (starchy), the seventh (greasy), the 8th (milky) and maybe more _❤_
Fuck Foreo and their bullshit
The irony of Foreo sponsoring a video about science…
The Stanford School of Medicine said LED therapy does have real (albeit short term) benefits for skincare at home as a cheaper and less intensive method than going to a medical facility, but pop off I guess
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@@psycofire93 while what you've said is true mate, it's also not the full picture. Limited studies have shown blue spectrum light can help with acne but isn't as effective as acne creams, red spectrum light can help with hair follicle growth and wound repair.
Not really aiding in younger looking skin as advertised in the Ad spot, also, all these benefits can be gotten for free from sunlight if you use a sun cream to block the damaging UV light.
I was coming to the comments to say the same thing.
He takes money from anyone. Hair care for a bald guy? Cereal he stopped promoting? His "own" beard care? He doesn't use any of it, but as long as the videos come who cares
I don't think the sponsors were told what the video title was...
LOL....savage!
Got emmmm!!
There are 6 kind of states:
Liquid, Gas, solid, Plasma, Bose-Einstein condensate & cats
Nah, cats are liquid, everyone knows that. Many YT videos out there prove it
My orange tabby is in a strange state of matter that I can only describe as gelatin.
The cat state is easily observed if an empty cardboard box is available.
@@CarmenVerandaor a jar. Or a vase. And let us not forget that they are magical beings as evidenced by their ability to always and only puke on the carpet and never EVER the tile.😂
The irony of an LED facemask being a sponsored product on a video about science myths...
My thought as well. Simon be glad you’re cool man
But, does it have AI?
Right. I remember going to the chiropractor and seeing them shining LED lights on someone’s back WITH CLOTHES, and claiming it would relieve pain. SMH
There is a paper from Stanford School of Medicine that says red light therapy works
Generally what I have heard is that the at home LED masks can have the same benefits as professional red light therapy but to a much lesser degree and you need to use them extremely consistently every day for like at least a year to really notice anything. So, basically useless for most people 😂 but not complete hogwash
Schrödingers cat goes even deeper than that. It wasn't really intended to explain qauntum physics but rather to demonstrate the seeming absurdity of it by applying it to non particles.
The way schrödingers cat is used commonly these days also creates the misconception in people that the observer needs to be a human. The experiment wouldn't work at all since the cat, and even the geiger counter itself would also be observers. Basically any kind of interaction with a particle is an observer
The 'Cat argument' was a demonstration of how ludicrous thought-experiments can become.
Asserting a 'dead-alive' state is just silly...no evidence for it.
@@pirobot668beta That was the point. Schrodinger did not believe a particle actually existed in two states simultaneously until it was observed. So, he devised a thought experiment that tied that line of thought to the observable world. His point was that it is indeed ridiculous to think that a cat could be both alive and dead until it is observed and therefore that interpretation of quantum mechanics is also ridiculous.
Many people, including my previous self, might think: How on earth did we learn about superposition when scientific discovery is made by observation, and how can you ever observe a superposition? Well, you don't directly observe superposition. Instead, you perform an experiment with a particle or photon that isn't observed, look at the result, and then do the experiment again where you observe the particle. The double-slit experiment is a classic example.
You have a plate with two slits and a screen behind it to show the pattern. If you were to shoot bullets through those slits, two lines would appear on the screen, which is logical. Before this experiment, we thought light (photons) and electrons acted as particles that would behave like bullets. However, when we "shoot" photons or electrons through the slits, we get an interference pattern, which shows more than two lines that gradually get dimmer from the center. How? That's how waves behave-they interfere with each other, just as ripples do when you throw two stones into a lake. So, we know that photons and electrons act as waves.
Now, the crazy part is that when we fire single photons at a time, we wouldn't expect an interference pattern, since surely a single photon can't interact with itself. But again, we see that it does. How can that be? Because the photon is not observed, it can go through both slits and interfere with itself. However, if we put a detector at one of the slits, we do not see an interference pattern. As soon as the particle is observed, it can't be in two places at once, and we see a single "hit" on the screen at either slit 1 or slit 2.
In other words, the particle exists in a superposition, just like Schrödingers cat, until it is detected. It can thus go through both slit 1 and slit 2 at the same time! Only when observed it will collapse into a single particle even if that particle goes through the slit without a detector as the detector at the other slit will force the wave to collapse.
I remember bonsai cats.
I was going to study physics with Dr. Heisenberg, but I was never sure where his office was.
Propioception - I had a nerve injury in my elbow (the "funny bone" nerve.) I had virtually no feeling in my left hand. It was so bad that I had no idea where my hand was in space. I had to visually locate my hand in space to prevent from shutting in in my car door frame when closing the door. Kind of scary.
@@rockroll7649 That’s honestly pretty horrifying. Only to one hand is less bad than to two, and the past tense makes me hope you got better. But it’s still such a terrifying concept. Like the people who can’t feel pain and wander around with broken bones and second degree burns.
I do hope it got better
I lost proprioception in both feet due to nerve damage. It's very much not fun.
@@kaldo_kaldo Well, that really sucks. Are you able to walk some still?
I have a genetic disorder (Ehlers-Danlos), and having bad proprioception is part of that (as well as poor balance). Needless to say; I get injured frequently. Outdoors, I use a wheelchair or a rollator to prevent tripping and falling over for no reason, but indoors it's too much of a hassle sine my house isn't accessible, so I'll just keep walking into doorframes and dislocating shoulders😂
I have ulnar nerve damage as well…the numbness is not nearly as bad as yours, but the tingling and stinging sensation is enough to make me wish for amputation sometimes..
I actually thought that mask commercial turns into a joke
I gotta buy it for next Halloween 🎃. Good grief Simon ... but who knows, maybe it works on the flat earth
If he had worn it on his Chromedomus it would have been a brilliant one😂
Not every cosplayer can make their own costume!
There are studies that say it works, but not to the level you get at skin care places and dermatologists. You have to use this every single day and you’ll see results after about a year. So you can easily add it to your daily skincare routine, but you have to have some REAL patience to wait so long to see the benefit.
@@Spooky_Platypus Great i just ordered one for my groin. Next summer these old balls we be as smooth goose eggs. I can't wait!
Simon...I put my light mask on which made my cat jump into a box which fell into the tub full of water where I was making underwater toast and I am pretty sure he got hit by a few nutrinos. Not quite sure of what to do next...
Taste the cat and the toast to see which part of the tongue decides it's delicious? 🤣🤣🤣
Whatever you do don't open the box.
Butter the toast.
see fett713akamandodragon5's comment for next step.
Knowledge is knowing that water is an electrical insulator, wisdom is not putting it in an electrical insulator salad
Based on the number of likes, it seems that this joke has met with some resistance.
Knowledge is knowing that pure distilled water is an electrical insulator,
wisdom is still filling your submerged PC build with mineral oil,
experience is not building a submerged PC in the first place because of the mess it makes.
@@BunjiKugashira42Is diluted water made by evaporating and recondensing water, so that its "pure", free from adulterants that are left behind in the evaporation process??
But, that makes it an insulator by being pure?
n o n s e n s e
@@MOSMASTERING ??? yes and yes
In all fairness the amount of shit that has happened to animals in the history of science, the idea of schrodinger's cat being a real experiment isn't that outlandish
And then there are the horror shows called pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries.
Sadly you have a point.
@@kaltaron1284 How about just the entire industrialized farming industry? People are so content to pay for the abuse and death of trillions of conscious creatures each year. It’s not the companies. It’s the disgusting consumers
@@fizzmoe9846 I try not to think about it but yes, industrialized husbandry is disgusting. I don't mind the killing but the conditions most of those animals are held in.
Currently at least here in Germany companies are carefully trying whether people are willing to pay a bit more for a little improvement in living conditions for the animals.
@@kaltaron1284 That’s sickening. The entire reply actually. There’s no justification at all for us to even eat animals anymore. Nutritionally or otherwise. Why do you feel it’s okay for you to decide for some other creature to have to suffer through death after a short, miserable life? Is your ego that out of control because you’re human and they’re not? Because they can’t speak English or German to tell us that they are scared of death just as much as we are or that it makes them sad to never know anything but suffering? So many assumptions on your part packed into your own apathy.
“Trying not to think about it” is a wild response because it tells me you know well and good how wrong what you’re paying for is, yet you still order that it be so. You pay for the abuse and death of animals every single day for 10 minutes of pleasure in your mouth. If I said the same thing except the pleasure was for my ears cause I loved listening to it, what would you think of me?
so water everywhere actually does conduct electricity, unless you go through the long and arduous task of purifying and de-ionizing it.
Saying water isn’t a good conductor is correct, but pedantic. We typically do not use water in English parlance to mean chemically pure dihydrogen monoxide. We mean the solvent, with all the stuff it has dissolved.
Everything is an insulator until it isn’t. Air is just a wire that needs a few thousand volts per inch to get going. If there is an electron, there is a way
Real pure water is rare. Water is a very good solvent. For example, water cooling for computer did use deionize water in the past. However, after a short while, there was enough copper, aluminium and others contaminant in the water that it was actually "Conducting Electricity".
Actually, even ultrapure water contains ions and will therefore conduct electricity (albeit weakly), the reason being the so-called autoprotolysis of the H2O molecules, which produces OH- and H3O+ ions.
I was about to say, it's a little irresponsible to have a thumbnail saying that water isn't conductive, when nearly all of it apart from distilled water is to some degree depending on the amount of solute
@@michab4083I didn't know that - thank you it explains a lot :)
My mom has a well-developed sense of when I'm engaging in...intimate activities. Probably 90% of her phone calls hit during those times 🤣
Simon finally sold his soul. I hope/trust they payed well.
Oh yeah he's been doing em for a while. I skip hard 😂
*paid
And you know what? He has more success and money than 99.99% of the people watching his channel will ever experience, so he's doing something right lol.
lol Simon did that long ago, you should see some of the channels that aren't there anymore from when he first began to speak at us for cash
@@jonathanhill6064 I'd probably pay him money to see it 🤣
It is also rarely noted that Schrodinger conceived the "cat experiment" as a means of mocking the seeming contradictory terms of quantum theory b/c, obviously, the cat cannot be alive and dead at the same time, it's merely a question of if you *know*. It has become turned around as an example of the quantum states and effects.
Im pretty sure if the box starts emitting an odor, the cat is no longer with us.
@@mebreevee1997 you clearly never had a cat :)
@@mattyt1961 I own 5. I think cats are pretty individualistic, but like, if you smell rotting flesh, I think it best assume its no longer living.
@@mebreevee1997 dunno, I had a cat whose farts could clear a room....
@@mattyt1961 Aww kitty had the gas :(
I thought u had learned from the whole "become a lord or lady" ads
0:00 Intro
0:55 AD
2:27 #1 - Light is not Affected (sic) by Gravity
4:54 #2 - Humans only have five Senses
6:15 #3 - Water Conductivity
7:37 #4 - Tongue Taste Receptors
9:05 #5 - Primary States of Matter
11:38 #6 - You will Explode in a Vacuum
12:59 #7 - Schrodinger's Cat Experiment
Thank you sir. I can't understand why Simon refuses to put chapters on any of his channels' videos.
Glad you noticed (sic).
Thank you!
Affected is right, though?
@@TheLithp only indirectly as gravity does not affect photons directly, but only bends the space they are travelling through.
Fun fact about water's lack of conductivity: Large commercial generating plants (up in the hundreds of MW range) have the generators cooled by constructing them with hollow tubes for 'wires'. Then water is pumped through all the tubes that make up the windings. This water has to be kept extremely 'pure' with demineralizers, but it is very effective and removing the heat from within the windings.
And many of them cool the generator rotors with pure hydrogen, because hydrogen is only flammable when exposed to oxygen.
@@scottbeckes6319 Used because hydrogen conducts heat much better than air.
Those that use H2 cooling have systems of plumbing so they can be purged with CO2 to get rid of the H2 before opening the machine for maintenance, and purged with CO2 again before refilling with H2, so there is NEVER an explosive mixture of H2 and O2.
This is really cool. Thank you. I'm always up for learning things that weren't covered in my science classes *forty years ago* 😂
Thermal conductivity and electrical conductivity aren't the same thing.
I can detect ultraviolet light. I just have to expose myself to a potential source, then wait and see if the skin peels off :-)
Your retinas can actually see UV light down to 310nm wavelengths. Its the lens that blocks it. Some people that had cataract surgery, removing the natural lens, can see in UV.
To be clear, the experiments verified they could see UV during the operation. Once they had the new lens in place they were back not not seeing it again.
I seriously thought the LED mask was going to be a joke about science myths we still believe. Like at the end you would say "and this is complete hogwash and does not work but people believe it does" and move on to the next myth. You got me Simon!
Technically, even the purest of liquid water will always contain ions, because water self-ionizes into hydronium and hydroxide ions. It's just that the concentrations in pure water are too low to serve as an effective conductor.
Said ions define the pH scale with their presence.
Please stop being a shill for pseudo-science products as it runs counter to your brand and creates an air of untrustworthiness.
Schrodinger's experiment would have produced a radioactive cat with four-and-a-half lives.
Simon: "please, don't kill your cat." Also Simon: "Bring on the dog genocide!."
You misunderstand the second quote. Simon never actually inferred that, much less said that. He once said that if given a mandatory choice between committing a dog genocide or a human genocide, he would choose killing the dogs because humans are scientifically the better species. He doesn't want a dog genocide!
@@Starkiller-Sniper I think the original commenter was joking.
@@ujustgotpwned2008 I figured I would explain just in case he wasn't joking.
Simon never said anything about a human genocide. He said he’d rather commit a dog genocide before killing a single human. Although, after him reading some of his CC scripts I think he may have reconsidered that stance…especially when it comes to monsters like Pedro Lopez, Javed Iqbal or Luis Garavito
@@14gears55 Okay, perhaps he didn't say "human genocide." But I think my point about him valuing human life more than canine life is still valid. At least for 99% of humans (excluding the 1% that are criminal psychopaths).
Chapter five - 3 PRIMARY states of matter. We understand popularly as states in which matter naturally occurs on Earth, so there'd be the three and maybe also gels and zoles and that weird state water gets into when ice gets warmer and is about 4 degrees centigrade. But it's still about primary states (3), not about all possible matter can be driven into in very specific conditions. So I'm not angry at schools for teaching that.
Common on Earth...the primary state is plasma, when I show my students how much plasma is out there amongst the stars their mind is blown.
@@A._is_for a-ha! Among the stars, sure. How much plasma are we going to meet for everyday life? And I'm not dissing plasma and its cosmic ubiquity. I'm saying I don't mind schools - primary and comprehensive secondary - teaching three states and the physics thereof, cause that's what we're most likely to need to understand and manipulate the world around us. Kudos to you for getting the students excited about and maybe even interested in physics, but even if all of them becomes engineers, physicists, bioengineers, and inventors, responsible for new methods of creating, sustaining and applying plasma - what percentage of all students will that be? And will all your students go into science, engineering and investigation? Would you agree to call plasma the primal state and leave the other three as primary (as in most basic for everyday life physics) 🙂?
The extra states of matter are like the added dimensions. Not available.
The Big Bang either wasn’t an explosion or it’s still in the process of exploding. The expansion is increasing.
Thank you for this. The primary states are the only known states under general conditions in which the atoms themselves are not altered - which can't be said about plasma or a BEC.
Actually, _Farscape_ got the vacuum exposure thing just about right. John Crichton survived several seconds in a vacuum.
Exactly !
Event Horizon also, oddly enough.
@@fett713akamandodragon5 And 2001.
@@fett713akamandodragon5 Beat me to it, although the eyes bursting may be a bit over the top.
I picked up on that too. For being a sci Fi show that didn't focus on hard science, farscape did get exposure to vacuum closer to correct than most sci Fi shows.
Farscape as far as I remember NEVER suggested you would explode or die immediately in the vacuum of space. In fact there is a point made that Luxans can survive longer in vacuum than humans, but it isn't specified by how much. There is an episode in Season 2 which always bothered me where John is thrown out an airlock on the edge of an atmosphere and survives way longer than I thought he would, but your video just confirmed, as the writer likely knew, that he would have in fact survived and I was the dumb one.
Jesus Simon, you're getting really low with the Foreo sponsorship. My respect for you is dwindling.
Who cares who the sponsor is? This is a money making venture.
Huh, wdym? He's not promoting a scam, is he?
@@FireballunDefine a scam. Its an actual product, but not all products on the market are reliable or based in science.
I don't care, do you complain about women's useless beauty creams too?
@@LegendLength yes
A video about scientific misinformation sponsored by an LED skincare mask. I do love irony.
I thought the face mask thing was joke on the science-deficient folks. Hmm, it's not. Bye at 1:53
There is a paper from Stanford School of Medicine that says red light therapy works
@@AltonV And red light therapy isn't LED lights that are red. Red light therapy is INFRA red light. Basically heat, and if not done correctly or in a controlled environment can cause burns or blisters.
The other Stanford Study I see you guys mentioning is about BBL treatments, a form of laser skin treatments with side effects ranging from mild irritation or sunburn to permanent skin discoloration.
The actual therapies you guys are using to defend this LED mask is WAY more energy intensive than this mask should ever do without being heavily regulated out of serious complications that could occur.
LED facemask? Simon, please get some morals when it comes to your sponsors
The irony made it worth it. Some jokes are best presented as if they weren't a joke.
lol shouldda seen some of the scripts he read back in the day
let the man do his job, he don't pick the sponsors or the scripts
It might of been a hilariously ironic joke tbh
They do appear to be real and very expensive!
Love his content but yes I agree with you so much on this.
People dropping toasters into a sink full of tap water (and possibly other stuff) or standing in their bath tubs in water while blow-drying their hair and accidentally dropping said hair dryer into the water is the reason why we electrical engineers had to make electric hand tools (like drills) with plastic bodies and have grounded power cords, make appliance cords shorter, move electrical outlets farther away from sinks and tubs, and forced the use of GFCI outlets in kitchens and bathrooms via the NEC (National Electric Code), just so people who insist on doing stupid stuff would be less likely to electrocute themselves. The old metal body, ungrounded electric drill my dad used to have could've killed somebody if they had to drill a hole into something while standing on wet ground or touching something that was grounded while using it (somebody did get shocked by the thing once, even though it was in good working condition).
Underwater toast has much larger problems than getting the toaster to work underwater.
Your bread is now soaking wet. :)
Yeah, I mean the water one is as good as true. If the point of the information is to warn people, or keep them safe, it's probably still a good idea to avoid that toasting bath session! And as you say, contact with skin would immediately create the conductivity.
Me: thinking about fun electricity + water experiements....
Simon: Hey, small-brain! Don't be small-brained!
Me: ... awwww, man! I never get to have any fun! ☹️
* hmph *
Work with a battery and there won't be enough power to travel through tap water, experiment away
I’m always excited to hear Simon say the word conductive and actually mean conductive, instead of just misreading conducive.
There ARE ions in pure water and that is why we have the pH scale. Water autodissociates into H3O+ and OH- at a very consistent rate. However, it is in very low condentrations within any purified water sample. It will conduct electricity....very very poorly, just as any insulater conducts electricity very very poorly.
They are trying to keep it simple
It's impossible to sense speed. You can sense some of the effects of going fast but a constant speed has no input on your sensory system.
For that the speed needs to change which means acceleration which means force which can be sensed.
I mean, it makes sense for this to not evolve. Imagine being able to sense movement on a ball earth around a solar system that is constantly moving in a galaxy that’s zooming through the universe. That sort of thing (outside of it breaking relativity and making no sense) would be overwhelming for a brain.
@@Forsworcen Judging your speed is important. We do it all the time. Of course relative to other points of reference so things like the rotational speed of the earth or how fast we are cruising through the galaxy don't matter.
The thing is that there is no way to sense speed because there's no input.
The flat earthers will have some issues with that statement! 😂
@@newman977 They have issues, I agree.
@@kaltaron1284 "issues" is a kind way to put it.
Water is a great conductor, it just cant find an orchestra that vibes with them
that's because water likes making waves
@@mattyt1961 that's true. Water just can't stop rocking the boat.
Out of curiosity dose Foreo turn you into a power ranger
Excuse me. Where in all of Farscape did _ANYONE_ explode in a vacuum? Dargo went floating in space several times. Criton even went out without a suit a few times - it's unpleasant, but he doesn't explode.
Stanley Ipkiss wants his mask back.
On the "Explode in a vacuum" one... you mentioned Farscape as one of the unrealistic depictions... I feel Farscape is one of the more realistic depictions. John is exposed to hard vacuum for about a minute before managing to get back into his shuttle pod, and close the airlock door, and pressurise, and you can tell he's not having a good time while he's floating around in space without a suit on.
The only injuries he seems to have experienced are things like inflamed blood vessels, the kind of things you'd expect to see when flesh is exposed to hard vacuum. He's far from in peak medical condition by the end of it, but there's no instant freezing that Hollywood loves to depict these days, no exploding.
The one time I remember about Stargate is fairly realistic too. Teal'c and O'Neill have to eject from their space fighter before they can get ringed onboard the cargo ship. Carter tells them to make sure to exhale, and not hold their breath.
no joke, i would absolutely watch a video on the 17 other states of matter
I have my doubts about that FA-Q.
There is a pet's food bowl on the floor with a ring of food around the edge, but the center is bare. That bowl is both full and empty. It is Schrodinger's cat dish. Just ask your cat. they'll tell you it's empty, even though you can see it is not.
I have a hard deciding which of Simon's channels is my favorite. But this is the one I'm enjoying the most right now.
Farscape never depicted anyone as exploding due to rapid decompression. Quite the opposite. They showed several characters surviving a vacuum for up to several minutes, depending upon the species. They often required medical attention afterwards,but they lived. And there's a bona fide astronaut who in his ad for his Masterclass in astronaut training perpetuates some of the ideas you attribute to Hollywood.
Ah, yes...another reminder that one can (nearly) hold a PhD and not know anything about anything outside your own field of study. 😅 (I actually like the reminder...keeps me humble.)
Hey, I've just got a BA and yet have managed to not know an enormous number of things.
Every day for years I took the train to work. I noticed that on the really hot days, the conductor was not only in a bad mood but he was lazy about checking the tickets or answering questions about the train’s schedule. During the fall, he did a better job but still not as good as it should have been. However during the winter months he was cheerful and helpful and had every ticket checked within the first 5 minutes of leaving the station. It turns out that when he got cold enough he became a super conductor.
HA!
Foreo needs to develop an LED hat for Simon.
0:39 No, some schools are forced to recognize up to date science, and point out very clear evidence for design, much the same way an anthropologist would explain ancient cave paintings.
The myths were what I learned in 1st grade.
The realities I learned in highschool.
I don't think they are myths, so much as most folks just want to pass high school. Not learn.
- America is a democracy
- Working hard will make you rich
- Justice exists
- The good guys always win
- Heroes will come to save the day
Thank goodness I watched on for clarification. I was about to take my toaster into the bathroom to prove a point...
The physicist J.A. Wheeler said, “Spacetime tells mass how to move, and matter tells space time how to curve.”
Distilled water is a compound, tap water is a solution.
...and salt water is a problem.
So Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy got it more correct than all of those other science fiction examples. I love Douglas Adams.
I thought he was insulting me until he said "....Now that's more my speed."
Alright, sir. Alright. Continue.
How did he keep a straight face with the led bs😂
Common believe:
Musk is a genius.
Truth:
He's not.
Dude.. I know they’re giving you money.. but foreo? Really. LED face masks are like 70s-80s silly bs infomercial stuff.
Similar to X-ray Specs advertised in comic books or magazines. You're really taking money from snake oil salespeople.
I was at a pub quiz last week that asked “the front of the tongue detects which taste” and I was PISSED. I didn’t want to be a Karen so in typical British fashion I just complained to my quiz team, but my goodness I couldn’t believe it
True answer: all five tastes - sweet, sour, salty, bitter and umami (savoury).
My HS Chem teacher killed the water myth with a light bulb, cut wires, and salt. No salt, no current.
Many, many, schools teach that there's an invisible magical man in the sky who created the universe - considerably crazier than denying evolution, crazy as that is.
I unintentionally read this comment in my head with the voice of George Carlin.
I just want to spread the news that in oklahoma, all teachers in every class in every public school are now required to incorporate the bible into their curriculum. So yea, science or something 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Good lord
@@nosuchthing8 Amen!!
It used to be that people got most of their BS information from teachers. I can't count how many incorrect "facts" that I heard in classrooms from teachers repeating urban myths they heard. At least today, the real information is out there. You just have to look for it.
And recognize it when you find it. Unfortunately, lots of people see something on the web and think it's true.
As a scientist, creationism is the bane of my life - ever since I stopped doing my compulsory teaching modules, and was free from having to say: "if you agree" - Known science is backed up by undisputable maths, you can't have one without the other - and there is nothing, NOTHING to back up anything, to do with anything, they want to "teach" in the big book of fairy tales. Except how to kill each other if someone thinks differently from you, or various imaginary ways to "test your beliefs" by saying some magic words.... and then killing each other. As a race of over 50% intelligent human beings, we should be waaay beyond nonsense like this, we would already maybe have a colony on the moon and space travel would be easy, we would have worldwide freedoms to move wherever we want with our passports, and winnie the pooh and pootin wouldn't have to be a threat. But the root of all evil is still here, and it was written by a drunk guy and his mates, then badly translated a good few hundred years ago.... baaaaaahhhhh ok vent over, back to the beers!
How can you pedal this pseudoscience crap Simon?
"I don't think anybody would watch that." You underestimate our nerd, sir.
Americans think gas is a liquid!
gases are fluids, and so are liquids, but everyone knows they’re not the same thing, since they are still different states of matter in another way, but i don’t think most americans even know the physics concept of fluids being anything but the liquids we regularly interact with in day to day life
@@briannam3140 The OP was making a joke that in America, "gas"-among other meanings-is short for "gasoline," which is the American word for petrol-a liquid hydrocarbon fuel that you put in motorcycles, cars, and other vehicles and devices powered by internal combustion engines that burn petrol to generate motive power ... never mind, I think I ruined the joke.
Speaking of believing things that are “not true or fundamentally flawed:” that’s a perfect description of RELIGION.
Even before graduating high school I already knew about gravitational lensing thanks to Star Trek.
As I understand it, Schrodinger proposed the thought experiment as more of a joke to point out just how absurd quantum physics is, even to the very scientists that study it. It isn't meant to explain anything. 13:08
When I used to scuba dive, for night dives and dark dives I had a diving light, but usually for fresh water lakes and rivers I just bought a cheap 2D cell flashlight and took it under with me. The fresh water was not conductive enough to short out the light during my dive and these lights worked just fine during my dive.
If a cat falls in the woods near Chernobyl how many flerfers can you fit in a box?
The real question about Schrödingers cat is how angry will the cat be when you open the box
There's a fifty-fifty chance it will be angry.
@@sydhenderson6753 the odds change if the cats name is greebo
@@jonharvey6277with him there are three options alive, dead or very angry
Many people, including my previous self, might think: How on earth did we learn about superposition, existing in two states at once like Schrödinger's cat, when scientific discovery is made by observation, and how can you ever observe a superposition? Well, you don't directly observe superposition. Instead, you perform an experiment with a particle or photon that isn't observed, look at the result, and then do the experiment again where you observe the particle. The double-slit experiment is a classic example.
You have a plate with two slits and a screen behind it to show the pattern. If you were to shoot bullets through those slits, two lines would appear on the screen, which is logical. Before this experiment, we thought light (photons) and electrons acted as particles that would behave like bullets. However, when we "shoot" photons or electrons through the slits, we get an interference pattern, which shows more than two lines that gradually get dimmer from the center. How? That's how waves behave-they interfere with each other, just as ripples do when you throw two stones into a lake. So, we know that photons and electrons act as waves.
Now, the crazy part is that when we fire single photons at a time, we wouldn't expect an interference pattern, since surely a single photon can't interact with itself. But again, we see that it does. How can that be? Because the photon is not observed, it can go through both slits and interfere with itself. However, if we put a detector at one of the slits, we do not see an interference pattern. As soon as the particle is observed, it can't be in two places at once, and we see a single "hit" on the screen at either slit 1 or slit 2.
In other words, the particle exists in a superposition, just like Schrödinger's cat, until it is detected. It can thus go through both slit 1 and slit 2 at the same time! Only when observed it will collapse into a single particle even if that particle goes through the slit without a detector as the detector at the other slit will force the wave to collapse.
Schrodinger's cat thought experiment was originally proposed by Schrodinger as a joke. It was supposed to be understood as such without any explanation being necessary, but of course most of us don't have sufficient insight into quantum physics to see the farcical nature of the experiment.
My favorite response from a teacher was we don’t teach what is right or wrong just what is in our text books
The responsibility is on the text book publishers to ensure their information is factual and up to date. If the information can be proven false, it's misinformation or disinformation.
6:30 Americans also call it 'tap', hence calling it 'tap water'. We just more commonly call it a 'faucet' when it normally enters into a container. Sink, tub, pool, bucket that is supposed to stay under it, etc. But if it doesn't have a designated emptying vessel, it's usually called a tap or spigot.
Preeeeeety sure that weird foreo thing is prime material for a video on "Stuff companies produced that no one needed or wanted."
Also, nominees for the Ig Nobel Prize.
"A further 17 states of matter."
I'd watch that.
one thing i do want to say, i don't believe that Farscape did put forward people explode when subjected to the vacuum of space.. IRC they actually advocated the opposite as i am pretty sure one alien species crew member ended up in the vacuum of space, and I think the human crew member does to, without space suit .. I might be wrong, it's been a while since i last watched the series..
On creationism: The universe; matter, light and energy self organizes into "life" that self organizes into more and more complex forms. To believe this is random luck or unintentional is naive. It starts with H2. Hydrogen is self aware. "Simply, I'm not that hydrogen atom, I'm this hydrogen atom." See Itzak Bentov's musings.
The fact that religious creationist still actually exist in this world of knowledge and information is true testament to the absolute power of denial. I'm with George Carlin when he used to say that religion is the worst thing to happen to humanity.
your knowledge can't even prove its own beginning. even worse, it disproves itself. the worst thing to happen to humans is arrogance and pride. when i see a clock on the wall i don't think "wow what a stroke of random luck. that all these things came together to work in perfect unionsen to form a complex structure that serves a very unique and specific role!" that would be lunacy. but that is what your "knowledge would have me believe...
@@firstlegoleague8 Exactly, arrogance and pride. Just like your post.
@@girrl88 would you be willing to point out the areas of my post that lead you to believe that? i'm not seeing how you came to that conclusion, from what i wrote.
"Light isn't effected by gravity, _space_ is though, and light travels through space."
If the cat ignores Schro"dinger and doesn't look at him, does he really exist ?
Superfluids are also being batted about as possible new states of matter.
Schrodinger's Cat experiment doesn't specify if the cat is supposed to be alive when going into the box... so if your cat dies and you perform this experiment, does it mean there's a 50% change the cat will be alive when you open the box? 🤣
The enshitification of the Simon Industrial Complex is picking up speed.
None of these are “myths.” Some are simplifications, some are straw man list-fillers (I was taught that gravity bends light in a mediocre American high school in 1977). The pedantry in several of these is excruciating (hypothetical states of matter not found in nature and never experienced by humans; micro-distinctions among senses).
There are quite obviously no quality controls on accepting sponsorships, which is a failure of judgment so dire as to call into question the organizing background assumption of all of the too-rapidly metastasizing channels: being smart and being right actually matters.
And my favourite: Eating carrots will make you see better at night! The back story of that one is amazing, and worth inclusion in a future video!
While I get that we have more than 5 senses, but Simon says there are at least 10, but only gives us 7. I wish he had explained at least 3 more, and ones that couldn't be folded into the basic 5.
Sense of timing, the need to take a breath, the need to dispose waste, etc.
Fun fact about pure water: it doesn't boil. It explodes. Technically, every water molecule phase changes at the same time, increasing the volume by 160,000%
In a post-truth world, it's nice to see the likes of Simon with a firm foothold on that thing we used to call reality
I did a demonstration when I taught high school chemistry. Put an electrode on each side of a beaker of distilled water, before I hooked up leads attached to a light bulb to a power cell polled students whether or not the light would come on. They were surprised when the light stayed off. Sprinkling NaCl in the water caused a current flow that illuminated the bulb. [Really, Spellchecker doesn't recognize the word 'beaker'?]
Simon mispronouncing the name Lewandowski gave me physical pain. Also, come on, everyone knows pure H2O is non-conductive
Anyone else notice the last line implies in the past they *didn't* really mean to not kill your cat?
Isn't there also a state of superficial something or other where its neither frozen, gas or liquid.
I know there’s the triple point, where it contains all three states simultaneously.
There’s also weirdness during phase changes or forced states at different pressures, you can get superfluids there.
My favorite example of the potency of phase changes is a drink with some ice in it. Ice is so effective at cooling because it takes almost as much energy to convert it from a solid at 0C to a liquid at 0C as it does to heat it from near-freezing to near-boiling. I want to say it’s about 75-80%. Then it takes like 5 times the energy to convert it from 100C water to 100C steam
@@VoodooTrashPanda yeah I think they use this method for extraction of coffee
@@ifell3 Seeing occasional shorts from what I probably would’ve used to call “coffee snobs”. I’ve come to appreciate coffee quite a bit more for the art form of it. It’s their hobby, and they want to share what they do, almost like minifig painting or digital art.
I’m unable to drink the stuff anymore because of the caffeine and a multitude of other things that interact with crohn’s.
But the science and art behind different coffee pours is really neat. I think one of them involves getting it to a high temperature then shocking it back down by pouring it through ice to stop it from “burning”.
The chemical menagerie contained within that stuff is so complex it really is more of a guided art form with tons of experimentation, which is then all up to personal taste.
Even if I can’t drink it, it smells really good.
@@VoodooTrashPanda Really that sounds awesome. The furthest I've got is with an Aeropress and that makes a nice coffee. You can get decaf beans!
@@VoodooTrashPanda You say, "coffee snob", I say Victorian.
"Within the limits of observation in the confines of terrestrial laboratories at the resolution of presently available equipment, electromagnetic quanta (i.e. photons, including those of visible light) do not appear to be percievably affected by gravity."
There, I fixed it.