Hitting Earth with a Grain of Sand Going 99.9% the Speed of Light

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  • čas přidán 29. 04. 2024
  • In this video I show you what would happen if the earth were to be hit by a grain of sand going 99.9% the speed of light. I talk about the physics of it and then I try bigger objects hitting earth at near light speeds.
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  • @TheActionLab
    @TheActionLab  Před 4 lety +5316

    The wolf is always watching you...

  • @DrRestezi
    @DrRestezi Před 3 lety +4802

    "I don't like sand, it's coarse and rough and does only minimal damage to planets even when traveling at nearly the speed of light."

  • @toprakkarakaya7774
    @toprakkarakaya7774 Před 4 lety +4803

    "Florida man gets hit by a pyramid."

  • @Jayson_Tatum
    @Jayson_Tatum Před rokem +258

    How did you go from a bowling ball to the literal pyramid of Giza 😂

    • @tonyhuang431
      @tonyhuang431 Před rokem +17

      now lets get something a little bit bigger......
      spawns in a PYRAMID OF GIZA

    • @tomservo5007
      @tomservo5007 Před rokem +3

      @Jack Sparrow 1 millisecond is passing per second

    • @Adi-qj6ci
      @Adi-qj6ci Před rokem +10

      roughly the same as going from a grain of sand to a bowling ball tbf

    • @alexman8800
      @alexman8800 Před rokem +1

      Now that's the real Big Bang.

    • @alexman8800
      @alexman8800 Před rokem +2

      Should have done a Stacey Abrams in between.

  • @Hollowsmith
    @Hollowsmith Před rokem +51

    I like how as the severity of collisions go up, I go from hoping it hits as far away from my location as possible to survive, to as close to my location as possible to make death as instantaneous as it can be.

  • @leonesytigresyosos2695
    @leonesytigresyosos2695 Před 4 lety +1058

    Now, if you titled this "Hitting Earth with the Pyramid of Giza Going 99.9% the Speed of Light", I would have clicked faster.

  • @uday-zg8hq
    @uday-zg8hq Před 3 lety +3112

    Said ""Bowling ball haven't done much damage so let's increase the mass a little bit""
    *hits with pyramid of giza* 😂😂😂

    • @andersjjensen
      @andersjjensen Před 2 lety +183

      That was roughly the same increase as going from a grain of sand to a bowling ball. That being said, I totally wish that wikipedia would list comet and asteroid sizes in "Giza pyramids" instead of kiloton....

    • @Matt0sh
      @Matt0sh Před 2 lety +70

      I was expecting a car sized object not the most massive thing build by man

    • @johnwick9416
      @johnwick9416 Před 2 lety +5

      Matt built by lots of man

    • @playerscience
      @playerscience Před 2 lety +7

      @@andersjjensen Wikipedia is actually edited by common people I guess.🤔🤔🤔

    • @juska4235
      @juska4235 Před 2 lety +45

      @@Matt0sh "built by man"
      Every alien conspiracy theorist: And i took that personally

  • @WarrenPeace007
    @WarrenPeace007 Před rokem +52

    What would happen if someone launched a custard pie at 99.99% light speed?

    • @alexk9642
      @alexk9642 Před rokem +20

      It'd probably hurt your face more than usual

    • @WarrenPeace007
      @WarrenPeace007 Před rokem +15

      @@alexk9642 Someone should build a large custard pie collider

    • @maltheopia
      @maltheopia Před rokem +3

      Okay Moe.

    • @ankitpisharody6842
      @ankitpisharody6842 Před rokem +1

      Its gonna vaporize in the atmosphere itself

    • @bentonrp
      @bentonrp Před rokem

      Says in the most pathetically-British voice imaginable:
      "Well, then, I suppose then everything... goes to custard...!"

  • @secretagent4610
    @secretagent4610 Před 2 lety +7

    Scary to think about yet oddly satisfying at the same time. Great video! 😁

  • @neonzombi9928
    @neonzombi9928 Před 3 lety +1794

    *speaking in the most monotone optimistic voice* : “So this Just wiped out all of North America 🙂”

  • @johnster02
    @johnster02 Před 3 lety +683

    4:09 “so why didn’t it obliterate the entire earth?” wait who’s side are you on?

  • @evilchild1851
    @evilchild1851 Před 2 lety +60

    The Action Lab: throws at 99.99% the speed of light
    GrayStillPlays: *laughs in 100,000,000x the speed of light*

  • @sundaramvenkitarama3956
    @sundaramvenkitarama3956 Před rokem +1

    Really amazing and thought provoking 'what if' videos. Thanks!!!

  • @i1bbu689
    @i1bbu689 Před 3 lety +2038

    "So, the Earth is till there .I think we can do better than this ."
    Some men just like to see the world burn

    • @yatharthkaushik5504
      @yatharthkaushik5504 Před 3 lety +17

      I know that reference

    • @siddhantdas1069
      @siddhantdas1069 Před 3 lety +30

      Unfortunately no one loves zeroes more than graystillplays 😂😂

    • @ziskador
      @ziskador Před 3 lety +16

      no, they want to see the world vaporized lol

    • @arunr4407
      @arunr4407 Před 3 lety +3

      Even I know that reference

    • @MenacingPerson
      @MenacingPerson Před 3 lety +3

      graystillplays is laughing over there

  • @vivideateproductions2068
    @vivideateproductions2068 Před 3 lety +1458

    2020: "Write that down WRITE THAT DOWN"

  • @CheweyDelt
    @CheweyDelt Před 2 lety +2

    Why is this so much fun to watch? I looked this up after reading The Three Body Problem because I was curious about the size needed and was surprised at how much larger the mass necessary was than portrayed in the books. Or at least the conception that I had of the mass in the books.

    • @peoplez129
      @peoplez129 Před rokem

      Well there was a slight difference: The tear drop was made of ultra dense and hard material that couldn't even be scratched, and didn't even slow down on impact. So it would be quite destructive compared to regular materials that do get destroyed and slow down on impact.

  • @davehowe7332
    @davehowe7332 Před 2 lety

    Thanks for your show here, I really enjoyed it.

  • @mrsaraf3459
    @mrsaraf3459 Před 4 lety +3398

    Everyone: celebrating beginning of earth's next lap around the sun
    Action Lab: throwing stuff at earth at light speed

  • @toddkurzbard
    @toddkurzbard Před 4 lety +653

    Moral of this story:
    Don't hit Earth with small planetoids at nearly the speed of light.

    • @GHN1013
      @GHN1013 Před 4 lety +14

      Todd Kurzbard - but what happens if Han Solo can switch off the hyper drive of the Millennium Falcon right before it impacts the Earth??

    • @Aereto
      @Aereto Před 4 lety +8

      There is a particle that flew at a velocity above 99% of c, known as the OMG particle. Just colliding with the atmosphere causes subatomic interactions.

    • @nocturnal7345
      @nocturnal7345 Před 3 lety +1

      @@GHN1013 That's exactly what happened in TFA, except, it's more of an earth-like planet.

    • @chuckkelly1225
      @chuckkelly1225 Před 3 lety

      Don't Solar Flares travel that fast.since they are mass an light. I just don't see a Grain of Sand hitting the Ground. If Larger Astriods burn up. How would a Grain of Sand ever hit the ground.

    • @gen_edits
      @gen_edits Před 3 lety +1

      Funny how the like count is 365 at the time of writing this comment

  • @pushpapaul7002
    @pushpapaul7002 Před 2 lety +2

    I got a question......what would happen if we get hit by those fire waves after the explosion?

  • @BBQDad463
    @BBQDad463 Před rokem

    Thank you for this video. Cool demo!

  • @Keplxr
    @Keplxr Před 3 lety +866

    6:20
    ActionLab: Lets increase the mass *a little bit more*
    Also ActionLab: *Switches from *BOWLING BALL* to *PYRAMID OF GIZA**

    • @PC-vx6ko
      @PC-vx6ko Před 3 lety +3

      I watched the video, but thanks for explaining it.

    • @aarohansworld2844
      @aarohansworld2844 Před 3 lety +4

      @@ElectricGun100 Always has been.

    • @aarohansworld2844
      @aarohansworld2844 Před 3 lety

      more like much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much more

    • @bender4452
      @bender4452 Před 3 lety +10

      Let increase the mass a lil bit more. SWITCHES TO HALEYS COMET

    • @assiddiq7360
      @assiddiq7360 Před 3 lety +10

      That's just sound like "lets add 1 to 2019"

  • @english_chat
    @english_chat Před 2 lety +3317

    "Hahah oh man haha. That literally just vaporized Earth. And it's gone. Haha."

    • @captainhd9741
      @captainhd9741 Před 2 lety +36

      Or if they use Google translate I guess they can speak English : )

    • @syfx1485
      @syfx1485 Před 2 lety +12

      For some reason I wondered what would happen if the same happened in the real world, if someday an asteroid or a planet going at an incredibly high speed would crash on earth and while we can probably foresee it we could do absolutely nothing about it and we'd just wait until our doom inevitably comes. I wonder what will happen to our world and people if someday in the future something like that would happen...

    • @enfissione8297
      @enfissione8297 Před 2 lety +6

      @@syfx1485 well, in this case we just dead, nothing we can do, such thing will destroy the earth

    • @JustAnotherGuyOnTheInternet
      @JustAnotherGuyOnTheInternet Před 2 lety +31

      That's what the gods sound like lol

    • @StarGreg
      @StarGreg Před 2 lety +4

      @@syfx1485 if we can foresee it we can stop it.

  • @garyperkovac1002
    @garyperkovac1002 Před rokem +2

    What's fascinating is seeing not just the simulated collisions.., but just how increasingly goofy the Action Lab host is with each level of utter devastation. Can you imagine ?

  • @bobmartin4788
    @bobmartin4788 Před rokem

    I enjoyed the video. I have always been interested in what it looks like to travel the speed of light, or near. It seems that a computer could do the calculations to show that. In other words, do Star Wars and Star Trek get it right or not?

  • @skat1140
    @skat1140 Před 3 lety +197

    You don't need to increase the mass, you just need to increase the speed:
    go from 99.9% to 99.99% to 99.999%. each time you're adding massive amounts of energy to the grain of sand.

    • @thomasmaughan4798
      @thomasmaughan4798 Před 3 lety +19

      There's also a problem of how to couple that energy to the earth. A tiny particle with incredible mass could just go entirely through the Earth's core and come out the other side.

    • @IdkYoYo
      @IdkYoYo Před 3 lety +7

      @@thomasmaughan4798 Thats what I was thinking, but I thought that it would get vaporized when going through the atmosphere even before that, and even if you give it the liberty of surviving that, when it makes impact itd be vaporized immediately. An object would probably have to be pretty dense to survive all that and Penetrate through the Earth.

    • @thomasmaughan4798
      @thomasmaughan4798 Před 3 lety +13

      @@IdkYoYo What is likely to happen (grain of sand going 99.9999 and some 9's percent speed of light) hitting the earth is that while the grain itself would likely lose cohesive structure, it's own time is seriously dilated, it will have gone through the earth completely in a microsecond from its own sense of time. As measured from Earth, at 3x10^8 meters per second, and Earth has a radius of about 6300 kilometers? Trying to do this from memory... 6378 km so not bad memory. Anyway, from Earth vantage point it would seem to take 20 milliseconds to go through Earth.
      Energy can be depleted by a shockwave but that depends on the velocity of a shock in rock, so I'm not going to try right now but the only energy transfer could be to the atoms directly in front of the grain of sand and they will be compressed and stuck to the grain and start traveling with it; a HUGE transfer of energy accelerating to .999999 speed of light more or less instantaneously so in very likelihood what comes out the other side aren't the same atoms that went in, but the bundle of energy will go through the earth and popping out the other side will be approximately the mass and energy that went in but having exchanged some atoms along the way.
      The tremendous energy to accelerate an atom will be taken from the trailing atoms and they'll probably just stop.
      It's a bit like a Newton's Cradle czcams.com/video/0LnbyjOyEQ8/video.html

    • @zsomborhollay-horvath4602
      @zsomborhollay-horvath4602 Před 3 lety +3

      @@thomasmaughan4798 I think the whole think starts from where are you shooting from. Given the distance it has to travel to reach Earth, I bet it would just vaporize and became a halo of particles before actually reaching the atmosphere. It would fill a good reddit conversation for sure.

    • @paulweston8184
      @paulweston8184 Před 3 lety +1

      ​@@zsomborhollay-horvath4602 I don't think so dude. The reason why it's vaporizing is from the friction of our atmosphere. How fast something is moving in space is all relative since you can only gauge how fast something is moving in relation to something else. At least I think that's right. I could be wrong. Shit I don't know.

  • @tylerkent1377
    @tylerkent1377 Před 4 lety +817

    'Let's increase the mass a little bit'
    *goes from bowling ball to great pyramid*

    • @tchgs11zdok15
      @tchgs11zdok15 Před 4 lety +10

      Thank u

    • @macmedic892
      @macmedic892 Před 4 lety +33

      That escalated quickly. I mean that really got out of hand.

    • @mattthomas1442
      @mattthomas1442 Před 4 lety +19

      lol I know right? I thought he was gonna perhaps say the size of a car or something.

    • @MK73DS
      @MK73DS Před 4 lety +11

      He went from the size of a grain of sand to the size of a bowling ball, that's also quite insane

    • @tylerkent1377
      @tylerkent1377 Před 4 lety +2

      @@MK73DS so tru

  • @Blayzn18
    @Blayzn18 Před rokem

    Great video! I'm only now just seeing this but it's really interesting!!

  • @SimonStuff2000
    @SimonStuff2000 Před rokem +5

    I was expecting him to go to space, and drop a grain of sand, but that's good enough.

  • @MatthewMartinDean
    @MatthewMartinDean Před 3 lety +581

    Phew, I was worried there when the pyramid missed Florida, but we still got rid of Florida. Maybe a smaller pyramid & better aim next time.

    • @BadassBobY
      @BadassBobY Před 3 lety +5

      Bruh

    • @NotUrProfile
      @NotUrProfile Před 3 lety +5

      @@BadassBobY bruh

    • @Mooooorty
      @Mooooorty Před 3 lety +4

      @@NotUrProfile bruh

    • @ez_is_bloo
      @ez_is_bloo Před 3 lety +1

      Heh

    • @jaydensmith920
      @jaydensmith920 Před 3 lety +7

      Im sure if we got new york and texas together with some shovels we could just dig a trench between florida and the rest of us

  • @pandeydevanshu
    @pandeydevanshu Před 2 lety +1012

    Getting vaporized instantly seems like a pretty sweet death

  • @lucashalo7066
    @lucashalo7066 Před rokem

    Thanks for the tutorial!

  • @mpboardphysics
    @mpboardphysics Před 2 lety

    I like your content . Please tell me about that application you use in this experiment

  • @GameCastersOfficial
    @GameCastersOfficial Před 3 lety +667

    "But the Earth is still there, I think we can do better than this"
    Gray...is that you?

  • @Kyanzes
    @Kyanzes Před 3 lety +218

    "What are you going to do in the afternoon?"
    "Running simulations of destroying Earth."

  • @presto709
    @presto709 Před 2 měsíci

    Danka comrade. Wery helpful.

  • @sciencesonic
    @sciencesonic Před 7 měsíci

    what is the stimulation software?
    please share

  • @KirosPOV
    @KirosPOV Před 4 lety +337

    Being an Egyptian I can confirm we are the first in making a nuclear space pyramid

    • @jacobpeters5458
      @jacobpeters5458 Před 4 lety +12

      also the grain of sand I bet

    • @KirosPOV
      @KirosPOV Před 4 lety +5

      87 SavageCat it means also

    • @davidcampos268
      @davidcampos268 Před 4 lety +3

      Some people in Turkey said hold my beer

    • @3amthoughts5
      @3amthoughts5 Před 4 lety

      Bro somewhere up there there is a made in China one for sure

    • @pano6035
      @pano6035 Před 4 lety

      🤦‍♂️

  • @maggs131
    @maggs131 Před 3 lety +763

    I feel so betrayed. I'm accustomed to seeing actual experiments on this channel. I was hoping youd actually do this

    • @squorcle3607
      @squorcle3607 Před 3 lety +77

      With a title like this one I'm expecting a masochistic Florida man

    • @doomguy8718
      @doomguy8718 Před 2 lety +7

      @@squorcle3607 a high af cat and a sunglasses wearing blonde Australian

    • @Eighteen19
      @Eighteen19 Před 2 lety +4

      🤣

    • @thewetzelsixx9009
      @thewetzelsixx9009 Před 2 lety +9

      @@squorcle3607 So, GrayStillPlays?

    • @miguelbaltazar7606
      @miguelbaltazar7606 Před 2 lety +6

      if he destroys the earth it would be the last thing we see

  • @grugbug4313
    @grugbug4313 Před 2 měsíci

    Solid!
    Top KEK!
    Peace be with you.

  • @njathifrancis
    @njathifrancis Před rokem

    Dope shirt. I dig the wolf 🤙

  • @HoloScope
    @HoloScope Před 4 lety +286

    This game is called "Universe Sandbox 2" in case anyone wants to know

  • @scottkelley9013
    @scottkelley9013 Před 4 lety +1002

    *vaporizes entire continent and wipes out all life on earth*
    “We can do better than that”

    • @chaotic_neutral_nerd1673
      @chaotic_neutral_nerd1673 Před 4 lety +16

      I came for this comment

    • @waynethomas1726
      @waynethomas1726 Před 4 lety +10

      @@chaotic_neutral_nerd1673 Yea, I laughed when he said that...I'm like...does dude have something against the Earth or what? BETTER? I get that it was just the way he was wording it in order to make us understand that a grain of sand doesn't have the mass to do the kind of damage something with much more mass would but I did get a kick out of that.

    • @maruftim
      @maruftim Před 4 lety +9

      Yeah lol, "we can do better than that."
      Like, are you really trying to destroy the Earth?

    • @siggyretburns7523
      @siggyretburns7523 Před 4 lety +3

      Greta: How dare you!!
      AOC: OMG...I WAS RIGHT? NO WAY!

    • @thewizzard3150
      @thewizzard3150 Před 4 lety +2

      americans think they are everybody. an idiotic display.

  • @Jayson_Tatum
    @Jayson_Tatum Před rokem +42

    I'm happy to know that the planet will at least survive a lightspeed collision from Hailie's comet but will not survive such collision from named planetoid. This is useful information. 👌

    • @somark28
      @somark28 Před rokem +5

      I don’t imagine as we will be dead either way. I am at peace knowing that if the Pyramid of Giza were to hit at light speed only a single continent would be oblitered

    • @RandoWisLuL
      @RandoWisLuL Před rokem +2

      400 Celsius isn't good for humans and that's what Hailie's comet did lol

    • @RealElevenTimes
      @RealElevenTimes Před rokem +1

      @@somark28 Only single continent would be obliterated, but everything still alive would die from the following disasters.

    • @Jayson_Tatum
      @Jayson_Tatum Před rokem

      @@RandoWisLuL does SPF 1,000,000 exist?

    • @Jimbo8012
      @Jimbo8012 Před rokem

      It's not a lightspeed collision. Mass and energy at 99.9% the speed of light isn't anywhere close to the mass and energy at the speed of light.

  • @01klaatu
    @01klaatu Před 2 lety

    Love these videos. Atmospheric music is soooooo cool . Anyone know if it’s a proper track or just random synth?

  • @MSonMarss
    @MSonMarss Před 4 lety +421

    "Let's increase the mass a little bit more than a bowling ball"
    "Alright now let's hit it with the pyramid of giza"

    • @MSonMarss
      @MSonMarss Před 4 lety

      @Wandy Wexler Weslon can you elaborate?

    • @davidelliott5843
      @davidelliott5843 Před 4 lety +3

      think about the kinetic energy or armour piercing anti tank munitions. 6 ponds of hard metal has enough energy to puncture the tank and set fire to the contents.
      It’s speed is trivial compared to space rocks so no surprise they cause extinction events.

    • @walshy2116
      @walshy2116 Před 4 lety +6

      ْ ْ shes saying that compared to the massive size of the earth a bowling ball and a pyramid are both still really small, but to a human the pyramid is way bigger than a bowling ball. It’s relative to the size of the thing being compared to the two different objects.

    • @livinginvancouverbc2247
      @livinginvancouverbc2247 Před 4 lety

      You often hear people say "I need to work out! I feel like I weigh as much as the Pyramid of The Sun!"
      "Don't you mean the Pyramid of Giza?"
      "How rude!"

    • @sunilcunningham3080
      @sunilcunningham3080 Před 4 lety

      @@davidelliott5843 Talking Munitions on Armour and Tanks. I talked to scientists at the MOD who created a shape alloy filmant weapon which fired projectiles from an electromagnetic rail gun. These were 1/10th of a human hair and travelling at 260,000 miles per 1000th of a second. See what that does to a Tank... The speed at impact It rips the fabric of Time-space, and in split second the occupants are ejected from the exit hole like silly string from a can, the heat wave then plasmarises the tank, and it collapses into itself.

  • @danal81
    @danal81 Před 3 lety +339

    There is something unsettling about the amusement you get from destroying Earth

    • @MrRayopt
      @MrRayopt Před 3 lety +15

      That's because his actual name is Ming and he lives on the planet Mongo

    • @elijahlucian
      @elijahlucian Před 3 lety +5

      it's part of his charm

    • @kbellanger4140
      @kbellanger4140 Před 3 lety +1

      LOL

    • @AshishSingh95
      @AshishSingh95 Před 3 lety +2

      *evil laughs*

    • @alisher1984
      @alisher1984 Před 3 lety +2

      Oh, Jesus effing Christ... It's just a simulation. You must be one of those sensitive cornflakes. Get over yourself.

  • @quantumfineartsandfossils2152

    im so happy that this has been viewed almost 3 million times its so reassuring

  • @davidlewis6699
    @davidlewis6699 Před 2 lety

    That was awesome! Thank you!

  • @teriyaki6865
    @teriyaki6865 Před 4 lety +567

    Breaking news: Florida man claims to have seen a flying pyramid.

    • @sterlinggenzer362
      @sterlinggenzer362 Před 4 lety +46

      Breaking news: Flying pyramid claims to have seen a florida man.

    • @dustytgw3946
      @dustytgw3946 Před 4 lety +26

      Pyramid man:Flying Florida claims to have seen a News man

    • @yohansaldana8218
      @yohansaldana8218 Před 4 lety +12

      @@dustytgw3946 Man Pyramid:Florida claims to have seen a Flying News man.

    • @johnnyd1790
      @johnnyd1790 Před 4 lety +3

      @@sterlinggenzer362 genius! =))))

    • @jesssald
      @jesssald Před 4 lety +6

      @@dustytgw3946 News Pyramid: Breaking Florida claims to have seen News man.

  • @erikminck9264
    @erikminck9264 Před 2 lety +1

    Please do a video on Super Conductors and how energy sufficient they could be!😉

  • @quantumfineartsandfossils2152

    8:06 you are a divine freak of genius I love your mellow music too thanks for making this for us

  • @TROOPERfarcry
    @TROOPERfarcry Před 4 lety +112

    Here's the thing: in space, it's all relative. So the last thing this pyramid saw was "Florida Man" flying towards *it* at the speed of light. Headlines on 'planet Pyramid' read:
    *"Florida man runs over pyramid astronaut with a planet"*

    • @syedharishassanzaidi6400
      @syedharishassanzaidi6400 Před 4 lety +1

      you're underrated

    • @briane173
      @briane173 Před 3 lety

      🤣🤣

    • @keerthichandra376
      @keerthichandra376 Před 3 lety +1

      U just totally skipped Newton's first law there 😅 if the florida man was not moving, you cant use the relative motion argument. So that headline would never see the light of the day 👍

    • @TROOPERfarcry
      @TROOPERfarcry Před 3 lety +5

      @@keerthichandra376 So long as the pyramid wasn't ACCELERATING, then it felt like it wasn't moving. From its perspective, the planet Earth ran into *it*
      -
      That's not "ignoring Newton's Law"
      -
      You're nitpicking to show that you're smart, but you still failed?? You sure you're not "Florida Man"?

    • @fgvcosmic6752
      @fgvcosmic6752 Před 3 lety

      @@keerthichandra376 doesn't need to be. Relativity.

  • @newview1259
    @newview1259 Před 4 lety +362

    Action Lab: *Blows up the entire United States and Canada with a Pyramid*
    ISIS: "WRITE THAT DOWN, WRITE THAT DOWN!!"

  • @shreyaagarwal9369
    @shreyaagarwal9369 Před rokem

    Hey, just wanted to ask which app you use to test these things.

  • @seeharvester
    @seeharvester Před rokem

    I'd like to see you use this computer program to simulate the creation of the Carolina Bays as proposed by Antonio Zamora's theory.
    (Secondary impacts of ice balls created by the initial meteorite impact on the Laurentide Ice cap.)
    Would that be possible?

  • @fundacaotucanocacareco1798
    @fundacaotucanocacareco1798 Před 4 lety +715

    I don't like sand, it's coarse and rough and irritating, and it just gets everywhere!!!!

    • @Dragonbyte
      @Dragonbyte Před 4 lety +16

      star wars reference lol

    • @vkookie6033
      @vkookie6033 Před 4 lety +12

      66 likes better exacute order 66

    • @mudarhamidi
      @mudarhamidi Před 4 lety +1

      No one asked

    • @Matt_6781
      @Matt_6781 Před 4 lety +13

      Mudar Hamidi I don’t like salt, its sour, it’s rough, and gets everywhere

    • @noel1626
      @noel1626 Před 4 lety +12

      @@mudarhamidi do you not actually know starwars?

  • @digitalbusiness8108
    @digitalbusiness8108 Před 4 lety +219

    *Sedna didn’t do any damage to earth*
    Action lab: let’s hit Earth with the Sun traveling at the speed of light.

    • @serious.business
      @serious.business Před 4 lety +6

      I would like to know what would happen

    • @sarasaif7528
      @sarasaif7528 Před 4 lety +7

      I was thinking just the same thing😂 if sun too didn’t manage to do anything to earth, no problem lets try with a multiverse and make it hit earth and see what happens next 😂

    • @TdotSoul
      @TdotSoul Před 4 lety +2

      Happy 2020!

    • @digitalbusiness8108
      @digitalbusiness8108 Před 4 lety +1

      TdotSoul thank you happy new year ❤️

  • @markxavier1238
    @markxavier1238 Před rokem

    What programme are you using? It's really cool

  • @RamonChiNangWong078
    @RamonChiNangWong078 Před rokem

    Hey, I got a stuupid question.
    How do we call these objects that moved with 99.99% the speed of light?
    And we probably never observe any of these objects in the universe before? or have the tools to measure these?

  • @ManuelGarcia-gu4wc
    @ManuelGarcia-gu4wc Před 2 lety +541

    Try with a Nokia, it will vaporize not only the earth, but the whole universe

  • @camerongray7767
    @camerongray7767 Před 4 lety +465

    Next:
    “Hitting grain of sand with earth going 99.9% the speed of light”

    • @AnotherCasualViewer
      @AnotherCasualViewer Před 4 lety +76

      Relatively speaking, that could be the title of this video

    • @pressaltf4forfreevbucks179
      @pressaltf4forfreevbucks179 Před 4 lety +24

      Relativisticly the same thing would happen.

    • @waynethomas1726
      @waynethomas1726 Před 4 lety +6

      @@pressaltf4forfreevbucks179 Yea...right up until some jerk leave a pyramid out there right in front of us! Then....pizza!

    • @ArynWellspring
      @ArynWellspring Před 4 lety +3

      That is what happened.

    • @ViewThis.
      @ViewThis. Před 4 lety +5

      If you can't bring Mohammed to the mountain, bring the Mountain to Mohammed.

  • @Emerymelvin166
    @Emerymelvin166 Před 2 lety

    what is name of the program your using.and may i purchase a copy

  • @supersayanblue9607
    @supersayanblue9607 Před 2 lety +6

    But if the grain of sand was travelling that fast wouldn’t it have been vaporised when it travelled through earths atmosphere?

    • @choreomaniac
      @choreomaniac Před rokem

      Yea, but the energy is conserved. The collision would accelerate air molecules to relativistic speeds causing a cascading effect.

  • @andrewmetasov
    @andrewmetasov Před 4 lety +516

    Everyone: happy new year
    The action lab: LiGhTSpEeD GrAiN oF SaNd

    • @GlzDS
      @GlzDS Před 4 lety +15

      why do you people keep leaving these kind of comments everywhere?????? it's just stupid at this point. STUPID.

    • @Ps3rikbr68
      @Ps3rikbr68 Před 4 lety

      @@GlzDS Better than "Yes!"

  • @dossantosmarklester8874
    @dossantosmarklester8874 Před 4 lety +455

    Imagine watching this on 2019
    This comment was made by the other side of the world

  • @lucyfyre6126
    @lucyfyre6126 Před 2 lety

    Wo8uld be interesting to try planetoids at slower speeds especially if it could model the gravitational effects on the debris field. Basically seeing if you could simulate the formation of out moon like one of the most popular theories.

  • @stavanmehta4771
    @stavanmehta4771 Před rokem

    Best videos, keep on making

  • @davidtheking2251
    @davidtheking2251 Před 3 lety +93

    Meteorit: nearly misses earth by 7937939630 km
    News thumbnail: 10:26

    • @GeraltofRivia22
      @GeraltofRivia22 Před 2 lety +14

      Nearly misses means it hit.

    • @fishplayztoh
      @fishplayztoh Před 2 lety +3

      Lol

    • @kaustubhthaker982
      @kaustubhthaker982 Před 2 lety

      That's ur phone no thank yo soo much
      Everyone seeing this spam call him

    • @pixelmaster98
      @pixelmaster98 Před 2 lety

      @@GeraltofRivia22 English is probably not his first language, so don't judge him too harshly. I assume he meant "barely".

    • @GeraltofRivia22
      @GeraltofRivia22 Před 2 lety

      @@pixelmaster98 I'm not judging him, merely offering a correction, something a person learning another language would be grateful for.

  • @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache
    @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache Před 3 lety +230

    Lowkey, this channel is a gold mine educational, yet interesting content

  • @tesla-spectre
    @tesla-spectre Před rokem +1

    In the old days creators needed 7 days to build earth. Nowadays it needs 10 seconds.

  • @EvilSSP
    @EvilSSP Před rokem

    Would the sand and bowling ball actually hold together at these speeds and/or while going through the atmosphere or are we just assuming they would just for fun?

  • @ericjorgensen6425
    @ericjorgensen6425 Před 3 lety +302

    There was an opportunity missed here to teach about the special properties of light speed. Instead of increasing the mass, increase the speed from 99.9 to 99.99 then 99.999... even a grain of sand could wipe out the earth if it is close enough to light speed.

    • @b.lonewolf417
      @b.lonewolf417 Před 3 lety +14

      There's actually already a video out there that does this! :-)

    • @brandanmurray193
      @brandanmurray193 Před 2 lety +5

      @@b.lonewolf417 any chance you could link the source?

    • @b.lonewolf417
      @b.lonewolf417 Před 2 lety +5

      @@brandanmurray193 believe me, I tried to find the original video, but after plenty of searching, I sadly had no luck

    • @brandanmurray193
      @brandanmurray193 Před 2 lety +5

      @@b.lonewolf417 appreciate the effort 😊

    • @wavez4224
      @wavez4224 Před 2 lety +17

      @@damedusa5107 I mean, it takes infinite energy to get the grain of sand to the speed of the light. The closer it gets, the higher the energy is. If you put enough decimal places and ignored the sand hitting the air, it would destroy the earth

  • @AstroLean
    @AstroLean Před 4 lety +254

    Thought this was a Gray Still Plays video

  • @rekoawa5732
    @rekoawa5732 Před rokem

    That was bloody awesome, scary if, but still bloody awesome.

  • @juantellez7521
    @juantellez7521 Před 2 lety

    this guy could be a military laser technician or scientist on death star station ! awesome and very, very illustrative video, thanks, sir......

  • @logantc.1353
    @logantc.1353 Před 4 lety +130

    Everybody gangsta till the Pyramid of Giza does the Kessel run in 12 parsecs.

    • @logantc.1353
      @logantc.1353 Před 4 lety +15

      Lenni Leem thank you greatly for your rough tone, it really made me reconsider my spelling. I hope you have a nice day.

    • @everything777
      @everything777 Před 4 lety

      *Kessel Run. It should be capitalised you uncultured swine.

    • @logantc.1353
      @logantc.1353 Před 4 lety +2

      Everything fine, but if you say anything more I will capitalize every second letter.

    • @everything777
      @everything777 Před 4 lety +2

      @@logantc.1353 I'm only going to let the z in "capitalize" slide because the film reference is American ;-)

    • @logantc.1353
      @logantc.1353 Před 4 lety

      Everything thank you.

  • @realitygaming_
    @realitygaming_ Před 3 lety +122

    Inagine doing a routine walk outside and then suddenly a great pyramid of Giza falls on your head at 99.9 percent lightspeed

    • @anuradha582
      @anuradha582 Před 3 lety +3

      There is only great pyramid of Giza.

    • @shawnwhalen6358
      @shawnwhalen6358 Před 2 lety +9

      ...would be just my kinda luck

    • @heavysaber9431
      @heavysaber9431 Před 2 lety +5

      You wouldn't even notice anything, everything would black out instantaneously as if you were passing out.

    • @haroldtan4207
      @haroldtan4207 Před 2 lety

      lol you wont even notice it colliding, its will just explodes in an instant. XD

    • @davidfloren5339
      @davidfloren5339 Před 2 lety +2

      Hit by a Great Pyramid at Giza would be "Too-uncommon".
      But if it happened, you wouldn't even have enough time to call your mummy.
      Even if you had a bumper sticker that says "Ankh If You Love Egyptologists".

  • @toridactylband9383
    @toridactylband9383 Před rokem +2

    So if you are traveling close to light speed in a space ship and you hit a grain of space dust with your ship.....

  • @thomasbolton8373
    @thomasbolton8373 Před měsícem

    oh what fun we have watching your show,, love it.

  • @squiddlyd755
    @squiddlyd755 Před 4 lety +135

    Somebody’s been watching Gray Still Plays

  • @ZyphLegend
    @ZyphLegend Před 3 lety +407

    *throws sand at earth*
    "So why didn't it just completely obliterate the whole earth?"

    • @hhhhhhhhhhhh5517
      @hhhhhhhhhhhh5517 Před 3 lety +7

      i mean he didnt throw the sand he made it travel at near lightspeeds but whatever

    • @ZyphLegend
      @ZyphLegend Před 3 lety +3

      @@hhhhhhhhhhhh5517 is throwing not propelling something at speed?

    • @MrEtayshachar
      @MrEtayshachar Před 3 lety +6

      Kinetic E= (mv²)/2
      The sand grain mass times the speed of light squre is: (10‐⁵ ×3×10¹⁶)/2 = 1.5×10¹⁰ Joule is around 37.5 magaton of TNT. A big nuclear bomb but not earth demolition.

    • @urbanizeedDzn
      @urbanizeedDzn Před 3 lety

      HAHAHAHAH hilarious

    • @grimmcreeper192
      @grimmcreeper192 Před 3 lety +2

      @@ZyphLegend no. No it’s not

  • @theepicukrainian
    @theepicukrainian Před 2 lety

    What app are you using for the simulation?

  • @joecliffordson
    @joecliffordson Před rokem

    Was that glee I detected at about the pyramid size? This is the first I have seen your channel and I feel like old friends.

  • @ladyjustice1111
    @ladyjustice1111 Před 4 lety +167

    The Wolfe on his shirt looks like it's about to jump right out lol

    • @genrafi
      @genrafi Před 4 lety +5

      Woke Unveiled im on acid rn imagine

    • @ev0wizard
      @ev0wizard Před 4 lety +1

      Ikr it looks so cool!

    • @hakrj12
      @hakrj12 Před 4 lety +4

      That wolf isn't on his shirt. It's a real wolf he adopted and carries in a baby sling.

    • @hiimwaynko-4987
      @hiimwaynko-4987 Před 4 lety +3

      GenRafi hope you had a happy trip :) also hope you got real lsd not that research shit.

    • @charris5700
      @charris5700 Před 4 lety

      WOLFENSTEIN: *3D* 😎

  • @zzp100
    @zzp100 Před 2 lety +262

    "That grain of sand made a small explosion..." Me: it's a crater the size of LA...

    • @dimanxgermanist1327
      @dimanxgermanist1327 Před 2 lety +22

      And it probably accurately reflects what would happen. Relativistic speeds are nuts. A bullet weighs +- 10 grams and is quite blunt. Yet even at 650 m/s it does A LOT of damage. And with growing speed, the damage increases proportionate to the speed squared, so it's that exponential growth Elon likes to talk about.

    • @Max-zo6rv
      @Max-zo6rv Před 2 lety +2

      @@dimanxgermanist1327 bullet weights like 100 grams
      Idk im not a gun expert

    • @dimanxgermanist1327
      @dimanxgermanist1327 Před 2 lety +1

      @@Max-zo6rv Масса пули ПМ - 6 грамм:
      ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/9_%C3%97_18_%D0%BC%D0%BC_%D0%9F%D0%9C
      Автоматные потяжелее, но все равно легкие. Вместе с патроном - да, могут весить больше 50 грамм, но летит-то только пуля

    • @ngotemna8875
      @ngotemna8875 Před 2 lety +17

      @@dimanxgermanist1327 Ah Yes, elvish

    • @heinrich.hitzinger
      @heinrich.hitzinger Před 2 lety

      @@ngotemna8875 *Soviet

  • @kvnvk8947
    @kvnvk8947 Před rokem

    I remember finding a site back in the mid 00s which included an app where you could find out the results of hypothetical meteor, comet and asteroid impacts with Earth, it allowed you to select the composition and size of the impactor and enter a handful of other variables like speed, trajectory, and whether it struck land or the ocean. It also imposed upper limits on everything to provide more real-world results, so no 100 mile wide, tungsten asteriod traveling the speed of light scenarios allowed. Of course, after seeing what damage smaller rocks would cause regionally, I scaled up for planetary mayhem, and got pretty good at destroying all life on the planet, but there was a single time, don't recall the numbers I plugged in, but it was an iron asteroid at the upper size limit, and the results were all Earth's oceans were vaporized. One happened that one time and regardkess of what I tried I was never able to repeat those results again.

  • @Budgie2024
    @Budgie2024 Před 4 měsíci

    Bro is so smart! W The Action Lab!

  • @Ash-ft5su
    @Ash-ft5su Před 4 lety +51

    I got universe sandbox 2 after watching Gray still plays 👍

    • @sleepywall7294
      @sleepywall7294 Před 4 lety

      This is the action lab dude

    • @Ash-ft5su
      @Ash-ft5su Před 4 lety +5

      Eric Jiang I know.. I came to the action lab channel to watch this.. just stating a point. The game was made popular on CZcams by gray still plays. Good gaming vids, you should check him out.

    • @soumyadeepmondal6130
      @soumyadeepmondal6130 Před 4 lety +3

      @@Ash-ft5su Yeah I watch him. He is so funny 😍

    • @_mossy_8520
      @_mossy_8520 Před 4 lety

      So

    • @depa_kid.2646
      @depa_kid.2646 Před 4 lety

      Man of culture

  • @martingaete8098
    @martingaete8098 Před 3 lety +165

    Later:
    "But solar system is still there, we can do better than this"

    • @devasion
      @devasion Před 3 lety +2

      Lmao

    • @Juli-lf5kc
      @Juli-lf5kc Před 3 lety +1

      This isn't a GrayStillPlays video.

    • @Inertio
      @Inertio Před 3 lety

      where is Perfect Cell when you need him? :\

    • @Evoleth
      @Evoleth Před 3 lety

      But my computer is still ok, we can do better than that

    • @ZaHandle
      @ZaHandle Před 3 lety

      Now let’s explode the sun with jupiter

  • @RoadHead62
    @RoadHead62 Před 2 měsíci

    I read a book a few decades back about an advanced species that keeps attacking earth. Humanity rebuilds and finds its way back into space and eventually find allies and start to fight back. When they finally locate the homeworld of the aggressors, the humans launched 500,000 metric tons of Mars dust @99.92C, ( Poetic justice for the total annihilation of the Mars colony ) timed to split up and spread out so as to cover and hit half the planet, twice, half a rotation apart. (I don't remember if it was 500Kt twice, or split in half though) Long story short, it took out every ship and station in orbit, roasted the surface to over 700 degrees c to a depth of 100 feet, +/-, vaporized the oceans and blew away most of the atmosphere.
    It was glorious, lol.
    Love to see this played out in your simulator. Those damage estimates seem very high compared to what I just saw here.

  • @PhantomMark
    @PhantomMark Před rokem

    how much influence would gravity have ?? with the small weight stuff ?

  • @RahulKumar-rg7ce
    @RahulKumar-rg7ce Před 3 lety +205

    From a bowling ball to pyramid of giza. That escalated quickly.

  • @ma5tercraft19
    @ma5tercraft19 Před 2 lety +122

    I love how excited he gets to destroy the whole earth and everyone on it.

    • @asideofaioli4630
      @asideofaioli4630 Před rokem

      Lol, we know how he'd play the Sims.

    • @bmw328igearhead
      @bmw328igearhead Před rokem

      The leaders of China, Russia, the USA, England, France, India, Pakistan and Israel, all have that power... and they could start it at anytime that pleases them...

    • @bmw328igearhead
      @bmw328igearhead Před rokem +3

      I get a giggle from the fact that these impact craters would be miles wide, and no mention of the tsunami that would be generated because of them..

    • @davidjorgensen877
      @davidjorgensen877 Před rokem

      @@bmw328igearhead These are but mosquitos to the elephant of planetary vaporization.

  • @nileshparmar4246
    @nileshparmar4246 Před rokem

    Which software did you use to show this colision

  • @thetoxictitan6486
    @thetoxictitan6486 Před měsícem

    This really makes you think... The fact that each day goes by without something destroying the earth is nothing short of a miracle. Each day is truly a blessing with that in mind so live life to the fullest.

  • @GTNTAnimations
    @GTNTAnimations Před 3 lety +35

    Action Lab: Hitting the earth with a grain of sand going 99.9% light speed
    Graystillplays: Hitting Earth with Saturn going 900 billion light speed

  • @phdtobe
    @phdtobe Před 2 lety +20

    Can you have the objects go in increasingly faster decimal percentage steps of c, such as 99.99%, 99.999%, 99.9999% and so on, to show how quickly the Lorenz factor increases the relativistic mass of the object?

  • @pelimies1818
    @pelimies1818 Před rokem

    Was that aluminium bead test done in a vacuum, or in normal atmospheric conditions?

  • @Jako1741
    @Jako1741 Před rokem

    Thank you for the explanation Sheldon.