Why Does a Pool Table Need a Super Strong Magnet?
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- čas přidán 14. 03. 2016
- In a pool table's 30 year life span, it can rack up half a million games. What's underneath the green felt that keeps this game playable?
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who ever made the animations did a really nice job
+papabeanguy i read that in worf's voice
Michael Whitehorne lol
When would Worf say nice
Thanks
Lo mismo pensé yo.!
1:30 *places cue ball and steps back to prepare for table explosion*
Nicole Kugler
😂 👉👌
gonna bring a strong magnet to rig the game
Lol
Not all tables work like this. Some have a cue ball that is different in size, while others detect that the cue ball is very reflective and so the cue ball is unmodified.
Every pool table I have ever seen used a slightly smaller cue ball, that presumably would fall down a gap inside the table that the larger balls would just roll over.
how does the machine detect reflectivity? @cyndie26
Our table was a coin operated bar table and it needs a slightly oversized cue ball (which is thus slightly heavier than the other balls) which will trip a spring door to send the cue to the table head. The colors aren't heavy enough to force the spring door and just roll over it. We just use a normal sized cue ball and retrieve it from the table foot.
Dude sounded pretty serious about pool tables.
Exciting. :)
He is serious, when it comes to pool tables you don't want to mess this bloke about. I made that mistake once and he stabbed me in the eye with a fork!
probably should have a different title.
That's a click bait title, unfortunately, done on purpose.
+Filipe Guedes i
Thats why i use balls wihch aren't susceptible to electro-magnetic force fields.
Filipe Guedes that’s not click bait. The question comes up in the video and he answers it
Damn i always wondered how a plumbus was made
+Binge Bammer But how many shmeckles does it cost?
My man!
eeeveryone has a plumbus in their home
though how do they get the fleeb to produce as much fleeb juice as possible?
still not an answer to my question though.
what do they feed the fleeb and how do they know the juice is ready for harvest?
Like others have said, just amazing animation. Definitely one of the coolest videos I've seen in a while. Kudos to the CGI team!
Also, not all tables work like this. Some have a cue ball that is different in size, while others detect that the cue ball is very reflective and so the cue ball is left unmodified.
cue ball is different size only in british pool
they used to make the cue ball slightly smaller to keep it from going the same way as the others, is the magnetic system a new thing? or am i just really old? XD
+TheGreg6466 Actually most older coin-op tables have cue balls that are larger than the rest of the balls, not smaller. Magnetic cue balls are relatively new.
+cakins1986 Exactly that's how I know it too. Cue Balls being slightly larger then the rest of the balls.
ur cool
U talking about American pool tables? With the larger cue ball, in England the cue ball was smaller.
Australian tables have smaller cue balls, must just be a country thing
That was cool! Stop with the alien conspiracy stuff and do more of this shit!
More science newwwssss
I totall agree
yeah
Why not?
+Night Guy Do you really think we could have designed such an advanced pool table without aliens from Mexico?
Wild guess its the cue ball.
when the table opens up, i jumped out of my chair. that freaking sound effect makes me jump off from my chair, amazing
The cue ball being slightly smaller so it can roll past where other calls are caught is also used.
Probably not common for competitive pool tables but it certainly seems to be the case with a lot where I'm from
I do not know who made the animations, but they seriously need a raise and an award. Absolutely seamless and smooth.
It's a stupid design that only allows you to get back the cue ball. I always thought it was ridiculous. You can only play 8-Ball on it. Nearly all other games require the ability to "spot" the balls, put them back on the table after they were potted in certain situations, for example when it was done with an illegal shot or with a foul. It makes a lot more sense to just rent the table for specific time and pay for that.
I think that's why you lose if the cue ball and 8 ball get pocketed at the same time.
Maks Rosebuster what "other" games are you talking about? If you're on a standard size pool table, with standard Kelly Pool balls, all you're gonna be playing is either 8-ball or 9-ball.
You mainly only see these types of "pay to play" tables in pubs and bars and it's not like you're going to be playing a high-focus game like snooker or anything, even if they had a table and the proper balls.
If it's such a stupid design, tell me why it works so well?
Actually you can play straight pool, rotation, 10 ball, one pocket, suicide, there are many games played with American style balls and tables and most do require the ability to spot fouled balls, even 8 ball, so special rules have to be created to account for the inability to do so on coin tables. I doubt many American tables are set up for snooker, both the pockets and balls are different than American tables and balls. We've put markings on our American table so we can play 10-red snooker which is our favorite game, but I've never seen that in a bar or even a pool room.
- LA_Droid - Rules of 9 Ball the way I remember them require spotting balls that were pocketed with a foul. It's this silly table design that made people adjust the rules to what the table allows them. No, it doesn't work so well. Makes more sense anyway to pay for renting the table for a certain time. Paying for the duration of one game is stupid. Some weak players might take forever before they finish, while others wait for a free table, while pros will clear it quickly and have to pay again for another short game... I haven't seen this system work well in any situation, no matter where the table is situated.
Tournament 8-ball also requires you to spot balls. The rules were changed so they work on a coin operated table. Texas Express 9-ball has you leave balls down if you foul on the shot, except for the 9-ball. You could easily make the same rule change as they did with 8-ball, for 9-ball, if you wanted to.
WOW. Great video and illustrations. Good work. I already knew what happened but to see it explained this way was top notch. You have gained a new subscriber....
Videos like this is very interesting! Dissemble of things with animations are fantastic! Please make more!
The amount of work done to these animations is crazy, haha!
That’s some serious civilization inside that pool tabel
wow the animation is amazing!
Now magnets, how do they work?
My favorite part of this video is how intense the narrator sounds while describing the mechanisms
The cgi animation of the inside of the table looks INCREDIBLE
Every table I've ever played on has a slightly smaller cue ball. The table didn't use a magnet to determine the ball. All it was, was a gap smaller than every other ball, except the cue ball. The cue ball would fall down onto it's own return shoot.
The tables I played on ALSO featured mechanical timers activated by the coin slide, when the time was up the rail would drop, stopping the balls from returning.
the cue ball is usually just smaller than the coloured balls by 1mm or 2mm and just fits through a hole sending it to the pickup point
That animation is sick. kudos to whoever did it
Such a beautiful demonstration!
"The magnet channels the cue ball back into play - every single time" He obviously hasn't played at my pool hall.
I got it you guys! Now when I go to Big Bear Hotels, all I have to do is bring my own ALL magnetic balls. That way, all the balls will always come back.
Learned something new. Thanks
Oooohh I always thought the white ball was slightly smaller than the rest and fell through a hole the coloured balls couldn't fit through.
Beautiful animation, very interesting, thank you! The narration could be slightly less dramatic though.
Interesting explanations, but that dramatic narration was unintentionally hilarious =)...
I thought the Cue ball was just slghtly smaller? (small enough to fit into a different channel)
MattGaming+ it does but these are the tables for games and not actual "games"
in my old set the cue ball was considerably heavier and visibly larger.
Just put 6 large kitchen sponges in the holes and you can practise alone for hours...
MattGaming+ They do all the pool bars ive been to work like that ive seen them open the tables. This guys playing with elon musks table
I think this is still true for English cue balls (English 8Ball and snooker)
Very nice video and animation
did not know the mechanics were this elaborate !
Wow. According to that video's description, that pool table would be used 46 times per day for 30 continuous years. That's pretty busy.
WHAT??? A channel that ACTUALLY began with the very thing in the video title????
I must be dreaming. Where was the 7 minute wait time before not really addressing the title topic? lol
Well done. Made me want to watch the rest of the video out of sheer respect of honesty in the title.
Also made me willing to add this channel to my adblocker's white list.
This vid was sick. Great narration too
Just glue a thin layer of iron onto every ball and you won't have to pay again 😎
The table I own just has the Queue ball bigger, and the colored balls are too small to stay on the railing that the balls travel down, so they fall onto the layer below and go down to where the colored balls stay. The Queue ball sits at the end where you can grab it from a hole in the side. A lot less complicated than using a magnet, but it can clog when too many balls are hit into pockets at once.
That's cool, I never knew the cue ball was a magnet, gotta love the science channel!
Very cool, learning something new
That was an excellent animation!
Clever dude: the opponent stays where the ball is supposed to go, and if it's sure that the ball gets in the pocket he picks the ball and puts it on a table or somewhere to play again without paying the next round
Finally a proper video
Wow that animation was amazing!
THIS is SCI---ENCE!!!!!! Keep posting stuff like this!
The animation is so satisfying
0:16 shit's about to go down
this animation gave 1000000000000000% better idea 4 my science project
Maybe in your uptown neighbourhood the cue ball has a metal core. Where I grew up cue balls are just 1 milimeter shorter in diameter than the other balls so it will slip through some railings and ge spit back out unless every other ball has been pocketed and the railings have been covered.
Interesting video with great animations...but the dramatic voice over was pretty ridiculous. Haha.
Fucking magnets how do they work
Cmon man we learned this in 4th grade
Ammar Badri still
+Ammar Badri
4th grade university quantum physics maybe.
Very Strong Leaf , Whoop Whoop
very nice information.. I didn't know that!
What a super visual explanation
It's neat how the magnet is strong enough to move the cue ball from the track, but weak enough to not hold the cue ball permanently.
OK now I know why my cue ball wouldn't cone out, the magnet kept it inside!
Very interesting, i've never heard about thus until now.
a cueball like this, iron inside, secretly swap, a strong magnet hidden in hand it will forward or back as your wish.
Top of the line Diamond smart tables have a density sensor that they use to identify the Cue ball.
Just learned something pretty cool
I always thought they did this by having the cue be slightly smaller.
+AsHellBored see I thought the opposite because of an episode of 1000 ways to die where a guy gets the cue ball stuck in his throat because it's slightly bigger, sure wasn't expecting that though.
+AsHellBored In UK pub pool, the white ball is smaller, which is why I thought the same thing. I never even considered a magnet might be involved. The white is 1" 7/8 and the reds and yellows are 2".
@@YouTougle 2" 1/16th for snooker balls, American pool ball sizes 2" 1/4, Some American pool ball sets have a smaller cue ball eg. Aramith Crown
Now I know how pool tables work so I can try to build 1 on my own
Wait, when the game ends why does the white ball doesn't return then?
It's a different system, all the pool tables I've seen had slightly smaller cue balls, must have something to do with size, at the end of the game the passage for the cue ball is blocked by the colored balls in the way.
My best guess would be that it detects when all of the colored balls have been sunk, and then it activates a set of switches on the cue ball return to move it to a different place to be sent out again like the rest of them.
The cue ball always comes back, even if the game is over. Next time you're in a bar with a coin-operated table, just look for yourself. The cue ball is always there, even before you pay to release the others.
In every table I've ever seen, the cue ball comes out after the colored balls
I've never seen one like that before. Typically the cue ball comes out at the head of the table, while the rest come out at the foot.
wow i never knew this! I thought the cue ball was simply, a tad smaller. always learn something new eh :D
This was interesting, but it actually raised another question for me. IIRC, in games like 8-Ball, when you pocket a ball AND the cue ball, you are supposed to take out the regular ball from the pocket and put it back on the table. How do you do that if once you pocket them, you can't get them back out?
Add a robotic electronagnetic linear accelerator just below the table top to act as a cue, and a camera above, and play against an AI program that magically shoots the ball without a stick.
Many balls. such creativity. very scientific.
Maybe it's just me, but I have never in my life seen a pool table like this - I've always just seen the equipment kept behind a counter. But this is pretty interesting.
I've always wondered this.
I surprisingly learned a lot, for this just happening to be in the queue for auto-play, and me not wanting to originally watch this
Thank you sir
0:41 I LAUGHED SO HARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! XD XD XD XD
-_- pervert :p
I always thought the Q ball travels across 2 plans with enough space to let co.or balls fall
great animation
Amazing animations
Never an explanation on magnets and pool was this dramatic
Ha! never thought about how it works. Brilliant.
All this time I thought the cue ball was different in size that the others. We learn something new everyday.
Not what I expected but really interesting
lovin those animations
People should put cups inside of the pool pockets so they don't have to pay more than 1 time.
I need that billiard table with the cue ball, sticks, and 15 colored balls with numbers on the top and the bottom.
Cool, but in Brazil the holes is in the size of the numbered balls and the cue is a little bigger, so it never falls inside the table
1:15 reliable rebound everytime. white ball hits cushion and gets oushed back the same way it went in. very reliable and stuff
Now explain how the cue ball is gathered after you have pocketed all the other balls
+Hayden Pollard Probably via weight.
In English pool the cue ball is a different size so it can be differentiated in that way.
Very visualizing
This is crazzy!!
This is the most interesting thing i've seen all day
Yağız Ozan Dibek yeah me too
In the UK the cue ball return works because the white ball is an eighth inch smaller than the object balls.
Now I know why it's so heavy
I would describe it as a chain reaction of multiple phases. Simplified!!
What video editor you use? AE? SV? Cinema 4D?, plz.
I'm sure, at least in the UK, this "magnetic" system doesn't exist. Instead, the smaller size of the cue ball means it falls through the under-rails towards the baulk end, rather than ending up in the trapped zone.
In the UK, Europe, Russia, and Asia
The cue ball is smaller
very creative pool table :)
cool. so how does the que ball stay in when no one's playing?
This was very interesting
I always got told that the cue ball was just a little smaller than all the other balls so it didn't trip a little trigger on the inside of the table.
I've never seen this show, but now I want to.
Why does a pool table need a super strong magnet?
It doesn’t 🙄