How Do The Terrific Tumbling Rings of Antiquity Work?

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  • čas přidán 20. 06. 2024
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Komentáře • 373

  • @traviscampbell2374
    @traviscampbell2374 Před 2 lety +414

    So basically, the ring isn't falling to the bottom, they're just changing places with the ring below in sequence all the way to the bottom since they're in pairs and the 3rd ring in the link is swapping places so it looks like it's falling. Nicely done.

    • @martynagr3961
      @martynagr3961 Před 2 lety +8

      Yes, it would be more clear if the rings were a different color.

    • @tylerkropf9522
      @tylerkropf9522 Před 2 lety +20

      It's a CHAIN reaction!

    • @Shadowmare4575
      @Shadowmare4575 Před 2 lety +2

      Yeah, that's the same thing I thought too.

    • @Creaford
      @Creaford Před 2 lety +3

      The Ring *Lore*

    • @FedeG86
      @FedeG86 Před 2 lety +4

      @@martynagr3961 yes but in consequence it loose the magic. 🤷🏻‍♂️😁

  • @PlasmaChannel
    @PlasmaChannel Před 2 lety +301

    James, this is so random, yet so fascinating. Loved the segment with the wifey trying to figure it out as well, because she logically went through the steps a lot of us would have done.

    • @QuestionTheAnswers
      @QuestionTheAnswers Před 2 lety +1

      I see some sort of perpetual motion device or motor somehow.. what if the rings were grabbed and dropped in succession, ..?

    • @sanchitsharma3260
      @sanchitsharma3260 Před 2 lety +4

      @@QuestionTheAnswers well then successively grabbing and dropping the rings require energy, hence you are putting some energy into the system. Hence no perpetual motion and no "free energy".

    • @QuestionTheAnswers
      @QuestionTheAnswers Před 2 lety +1

      @@sanchitsharma3260 True. Maybe this could be a part, in connection with other parts to other devices, and in conjunction with those, it can perform some sort of viable role in a more complex device.. leading up to one day being a key position in solving the world's energy needs.. maybe.. perhaps not as well though 😅

  • @Digital-Dan
    @Digital-Dan Před 2 lety +120

    This is a good way to describe how electrons really work, and explains why water doesn't really move along with waves, etc.

  • @theCidisIn
    @theCidisIn Před 2 lety +8

    It's magic. You will NEVER change my mind!

    • @armaan4770
      @armaan4770 Před 2 lety +1

      Yes its clearly magic without a doubt 🙂 we need to protect magic by putting a petition against calling magic other things like science/chemistry physics 🙃🙂

  • @coriscotupi
    @coriscotupi Před 2 lety +29

    It's like a travelling wave, where there is no actual matter being transported.

  • @loganthesaint
    @loganthesaint Před 2 lety +6

    My grandma had a necklace that looked very similar 😂 it was gold color though...

  • @What_The_Fuck_Did_I_Just_Watch

    You can clearly see that he had fun doing this

  • @russellzauner
    @russellzauner Před 2 lety +13

    Paint every other ring a contrasting color to the one next to it.
    Then you can follow it easier with the eyes.

  • @admiralrex69
    @admiralrex69 Před 2 lety +82

    I never heard about these rings! You show us a crap ton of new things dude!

  • @Mister_Relentless
    @Mister_Relentless Před 2 lety +2

    Hey brother. I just wanted to tell you. I've been subscribed for quite some time. I love your videos. So do millions. But I just showed a compilation of your coolest experiments to my six year old daughter. She suggested Galaxy roses for mother's day gifts for my mom and grandma. Thanks for that, btw! BUT SPECIFICALLY, I wanted to thank you for helping to spark my little girls fascination with science and inspiring her creativity like no "kid plays with supersatatisfying toy video ever could. You don't know what wonders you unlock with your killer vids. Keep them coming!

  • @peterjf7723
    @peterjf7723 Před 2 lety +18

    I used to have the Jacob's ladder device so I realized that the rings were a version of the same effect.

    • @draketungsten74
      @draketungsten74 Před 2 lety +4

      Yeah, 2 minutes in I guessed it was topologically the same as a Jacob's ladder.

    • @MrT------5743
      @MrT------5743 Před 2 lety +3

      yep same. We still have one of the Jacob's ladder.

  • @bpark10001
    @bpark10001 Před 2 lety +29

    I saw this written up in Scientific American magazine in 1956 & independently discovered the method of assembling it. I refer to the process of building it as "growing DNA". I made these from coat hanger wire coiled around a dowel & slit with a hacksaw. I made a large one from the hubs from old disk drives. It is important to get the proportions (outside diameter of ring to the cross-section diameter) correct or the tension in a long chain will cause the movement to jam. The cross-section of the rings must be circular.

  • @brandoncueto
    @brandoncueto Před 2 lety +31

    i love the really scientific "i'll prove to you this is real with my wife's reaction"

    • @rafetizer
      @rafetizer Před 2 lety +11

      It will soon be peer-reviewed by the rest of the scientific community's wives.

    • @The_Original_Brad_Miller
      @The_Original_Brad_Miller Před 2 lety

      @Brandon Cueto.... My wife got it right off...... I think I need to have her re-calibrated.

  • @littletimelord2755
    @littletimelord2755 Před rokem +2

    When you were showing your wife, and she was trying to figure it out, my brain finally fully comprehended what it was seeing and I started to notice that it was multiple shifting rings as apposed to one falling ring. As soon as I saw that, I couldn’t unsee it. I didn’t have to wait long to have my suspicions confirmed. Good video, the illusion almost had me!

  • @jer103
    @jer103 Před 2 lety +55

    I've always been interested in learning how magic works.

    • @erstwhilegrubstake
      @erstwhilegrubstake Před 2 lety +6

      So that would be the science of ... magic?

    • @jer103
      @jer103 Před 2 lety +6

      More using the scientific method of understanding magic.

    • @MrT------5743
      @MrT------5743 Před 2 lety

      @@jer103 Hint, magic isn't real. There is only illusions or other physical interactions that is unknown to the audience but so well known to the performer he can hide what may give away the secret.

    • @westonding8953
      @westonding8953 Před 2 lety +1

      @@jer103 It's not too difficult to learn. You have to have keen eyes and figure out where to look.

    • @westonding8953
      @westonding8953 Před 2 lety +1

      @@erstwhilegrubstake Magic is a science in itself. I define it as the science of "breaking" the familiar laws and properties of science and producing the best performance with it.

  • @jimmysyar889
    @jimmysyar889 Před 2 lety +2

    I remember seeing this and making it on CZcams like 10 years ago!

  • @BluBlu777
    @BluBlu777 Před 2 lety +10

    Excellent video as always. Definitely have to try this.
    Have a great day everyone. 🙂

  • @GooogleGoglee
    @GooogleGoglee Před 2 lety +11

    You should make more video is on revealing how magician do some stuff especially when chemistry or physics is involved!

    • @westonding8953
      @westonding8953 Před 2 lety +2

      I like this idea! That being said, there are often many ways to do a trick, even chemical and physics tricks. There are already many channels that do reveals already.

    • @scriptdevil253
      @scriptdevil253 Před 2 lety

      Ancient Alchemists would feel proud .

  • @vikitheviki
    @vikitheviki Před 2 lety +6

    Made one of these 25 years ago in a blacksmith class and still got it. Made mine of 5mm thick bars about 5cm wide rings and forged welded them together.

  • @RandiRain
    @RandiRain Před 2 lety +31

    There's a magicians move with the Chinese linking rings that essentially does the same thing. You have to switch rings in your hand as you pretend to move it down the links, but it looks like it's real.

    • @westonding8953
      @westonding8953 Před 2 lety +1

      Yeah. It's a sleight you have to practice. Often the first move of the linking rings trick!

  • @mduvigneaud
    @mduvigneaud Před 2 lety +4

    Awesome! :)
    As someone who has made chainmail this was very obvious to me. ;)

  • @mike1024.
    @mike1024. Před 2 lety +41

    I think it would be really interesting to explain some of the math behind how it's cascading. It seems a little bit like knot theory!

    • @ItIsYouAreNotYour
      @ItIsYouAreNotYour Před 2 lety +6

      I rather knot know the secret or magic level required. I'm assuming around level 9-10 you get manipulation spell.

    • @russellzauner
      @russellzauner Před 2 lety

      The math models could be tuned to make a chain that has a specific link or links that have different functions in control of the motion of the entire assembly, which should have useful applications in soft robotics.

    • @russellzauner
      @russellzauner Před 2 lety +1

      @@ItIsYouAreNotYour ​ If you notice the rings are not only interlocked but consistently staggered in the same manner. That's why it matters which side you grab it from. What would be magical is making it happen no matter which side ring was grabbed while dangling it from a single ring.
      But this could be used for a lot of applications where you want to move things in a controlled manner without using any or much power.

    • @mariamaalouf2138
      @mariamaalouf2138 Před 2 lety +1

      It certainly is! This is a trick that I think heavily lies on the “valence” of each ring. “valence” is a fancy word we use in graph theory to indicate the number of rings each single ring is connected to. For example: if ring A is linked to ring B, C, and D, we say that ring A has valence 3 (it is connected to 3 other rings).
      When we look at this chain, it seems like the very first ring is linked to 2 rings (the 2 that are right under it, let’s call each of these sets of 2 “double rings”), then each ring corresponding to a double ring seems to be linked to all rings that are over and under it. So the first set of double rings would have valence 3, since they are linked to a single ring at the very top and to 2 rings at the bottom (second set of double rings). Then all of the double rings in between seem to have valence 4 (linked to double rings directly atop and under them). The final set of double rings has valence 3 like the first set (it’s the same situation but reversed since we have a single ring at the very bottom). Finally, the single ring at the bottom has valence 2.
      I think that’s what’s tricky! Even after finding out how all the rings are being connected, it is hard to find the true valence of each ring in the chain, because in reality, the double rings in the middle actually do NOT have valence 4! Even the first and last set of double rings don’t have valence 3!

    • @eideticex
      @eideticex Před 2 lety

      It's really just a delay line that can't hold it's state. When you shuffle the top rings, it flips every bit along the sequence. The motion we're seeing is the rising and falling edge of that pulse.

  • @Lampe2020
    @Lampe2020 Před 2 lety +4

    Thanks for showing how this works!
    (and how to make one of your own)

  • @W.D.I.G.M.I.Tanner
    @W.D.I.G.M.I.Tanner Před 2 lety

    One of my favorite educational videos! Thank you

  • @balajisriram6363
    @balajisriram6363 Před 2 lety

    very beautifully explained. Loved it!!

  • @roberthobbs6318
    @roberthobbs6318 Před 2 lety

    Awesome! Thank you for taking the time to show us how to make it! I knew what the illusion was going to be right away, but did not expect it to be so intricate!

  • @Ehatntmtntahe
    @Ehatntmtntahe Před 2 lety +5

    Wow, I was just gifted a toy that was from Mexico that has the same concept as this, but it's small slabs of wood instead of rings, that are all attached together with ribbon thingys (I don't remember what they're called). It works exactly like this but you can start the tumbling from any part of it.

    • @karlm9584
      @karlm9584 Před 2 lety +1

      We used to make these when i was a kid and sell them at the markets. They're really easy to make.

    • @NoLongerBreathedIn
      @NoLongerBreathedIn Před 2 lety +3

      Jacob’s ladder

  • @thegeek3295
    @thegeek3295 Před 2 lety +4

    If you made a chain 50' long and went to your favorite multistory car park, could you get multiple rings falling at once? That would be cool to see! 3, 4 or 5 rings dancing down the chain...

  • @Dashchaser
    @Dashchaser Před 2 lety +1

    Simply amazing 😄😄😄

  • @afcv10
    @afcv10 Před 2 lety +1

    Thank you again for showing me something I didn't know I needed

  • @HelloKittyFanMan.
    @HelloKittyFanMan. Před rokem +1

    Thanks for showing us how this trick works!

  • @runplatypus
    @runplatypus Před 2 lety

    . . . and just like that i learned something cool and new today! Thank you. You guys are the best 🤟🏼

  • @iamthemaninde
    @iamthemaninde Před 2 lety +27

    I’m surprised you don’t have 10 times the followers on here. One of the coolest channels on CZcams 👍🏻 Keep them coming

  • @RainbowFlowerCrow
    @RainbowFlowerCrow Před 2 lety

    I love the Action Lab channel so much!

  • @lindaedvardsson4218
    @lindaedvardsson4218 Před 2 lety +1

    😧satisfying.. I will do me one of those.. Thank You❣️👏🏼☺️

  • @pavangaonkardonigadde
    @pavangaonkardonigadde Před 2 lety

    I start my day with your videos.thank you

  • @AlgoatAll
    @AlgoatAll Před 2 lety +1

    You unblocked a childhood memory when you showed the Jacob's ladder toy. I completely forgot about those!

  • @StockDoctortrade
    @StockDoctortrade Před 2 lety +27

    Basically the top ring moves to the next layer then the right or the left ring moves to the next layer and then the top layer has one ring again instead of two

    • @dogwalker666
      @dogwalker666 Před 2 lety

      Yes exactly

    • @crazkurtz
      @crazkurtz Před 2 lety

      Wrong! Magic

    • @mrsaraf3459
      @mrsaraf3459 Před 2 lety +1

      I think the ring going through 2 rings moves down, pushing the next ring doing through 2 rings.

  • @zebfross
    @zebfross Před 2 lety

    I just read about this a few days ago, and there were hardly any videos about it on CZcams, so it's crazy to see this uploaded, ha

  • @sdog300
    @sdog300 Před 2 lety

    My grandma just brought back a wooden toy from her trip that has the same gimmick. I’d explain it as being double jointed. Well time to watch the video. (I was playing with it for a while after she showed it to me.) now it’s time to watch.

  • @EternalDog
    @EternalDog Před rokem

    On first viewing, i knew exactly how it worked. But when you got to making it, that's where my mind couldn't comprehend it anymore.

  • @josefaction6982
    @josefaction6982 Před 2 lety

    This is amazing!!!

  • @MammaOVlogs
    @MammaOVlogs Před 2 lety +1

    way cool, great fun for the Grandkids

  • @Purgg
    @Purgg Před 2 lety +1

    🗣“2022 Is My Year, My Music Will Be Heard”🙏🏽

  • @JH-ux1re
    @JH-ux1re Před 2 lety

    Oh I love this! Can you make more videos like this?

  • @jonathandawson3091
    @jonathandawson3091 Před rokem +1

    Very cool video as always.

  • @mcmaschio
    @mcmaschio Před 2 lety +20

    This channel teaches me so much 💯 and also inspires me to keep going and making better videos .. love it thanks 💯🔥

    • @Fipsh
      @Fipsh Před 2 lety

      Stop your bot-like personality

    • @SteveFrenchWoodNStuff
      @SteveFrenchWoodNStuff Před 2 lety

      Your comment is nothing more than a thinly veiled attempt to get people to visit your channel.

  • @d4slaimless
    @d4slaimless Před 2 lety

    Great illusion! I am certainy going to make one and surprise my friends.

  • @tanduckamore6058
    @tanduckamore6058 Před 2 lety +3

    I needed this too let’s go

  • @atata9
    @atata9 Před 2 lety

    I knew immediately as I saw it how it worked. I used to play with the wooden version as a kid.

  • @superdilly3720
    @superdilly3720 Před 2 lety

    This is my son's favorite channel. !!

  • @jozboi
    @jozboi Před 2 lety

    I've got a jacobs ladder. Had it since i was a kid and its awesome.

  • @ExperiencePath
    @ExperiencePath Před 2 lety +3

    this was sold as a toy like ~20 years ago 🤣

    • @terrypussypower
      @terrypussypower Před 2 lety +1

      “~20 years ago”?? More like ~100 years ago!

  • @The_Modeling_Underdog
    @The_Modeling_Underdog Před 2 lety +1

    Half the magicians in Vegas, right now: "He's become too dangerous."

  • @Amira_Phoenix
    @Amira_Phoenix Před 2 lety

    How awesome is this guy 🤯

  • @johnschewe6358
    @johnschewe6358 Před 2 lety +2

    The individual rings might not travel from top to bottom, but the energy wave does, much like sound or light.

  • @sleepy_Dragon
    @sleepy_Dragon Před 2 lety

    A trip down memory lane, as we had such a chain when I was a kid. Maybe it even exists in a box in my parents' cellar.

  • @profetarmageddon
    @profetarmageddon Před 2 lety

    That was good. I had the answer right away

  • @ghiansudelo2590
    @ghiansudelo2590 Před 2 lety

    This is so cool 😱🤗👍

  • @timmyb8353
    @timmyb8353 Před 2 lety

    Me having ADD watching the magic of the creation of the rings going NOPE. But watching the rings fall down going YAY!

  • @damegataco
    @damegataco Před 2 lety +2

    I literally guessed it was like a Jacob's ladder early on

  • @jamessotherden5909
    @jamessotherden5909 Před 2 lety

    Thats is pretty cool.

  • @westonding8953
    @westonding8953 Před 2 lety +11

    This concept seems analogous to waves and how the matter does not travel in a wave. Only the energy does. It also reminds me of photons where the photon is emitted per atom it “enters”.

  • @cats1900
    @cats1900 Před 2 lety

    I was just going to say I had a similar wood toy before you mentioned Jacob's ladder. lol

  • @maybecomicsandetc
    @maybecomicsandetc Před 2 lety

    YOOO I DID NOT EVEN THINK FOR A SECOND IT COULD BE A CAMERA TRICK YOU DID NOT HAVE TO CLEAR THAT UP😭😭

  • @and7barton
    @and7barton Před 2 lety +1

    I now have 50 rings on order. We'll soon discover how difficult it is to assemble the darn thing in the first place.

  • @ZeusHelios
    @ZeusHelios Před 2 lety

    I want one of those.

  • @xpndblhero5170
    @xpndblhero5170 Před rokem +1

    I just found a new toy my son would LOVE.... LoL

  • @magicjack
    @magicjack Před 2 lety

    That's also a flourish linking ring performers use.

  • @tejaspatel6580
    @tejaspatel6580 Před 2 lety

    I some how figured it out the first time I saw it

  • @HashirEasa
    @HashirEasa Před 2 lety

    imagine if jotaro has these on his gakuran
    that would be a pretty nice touch

  • @mikeroni
    @mikeroni Před 2 lety

    Interesting variation of the jacobs ladder

  • @keli224
    @keli224 Před 2 lety +4

    i just love your scientific content

  • @karlm9584
    @karlm9584 Před 2 lety

    When i was a kid we used to make similar things from wooden cards and ribbon.

  • @superfluidity
    @superfluidity Před 2 lety +1

    This feels like it might be somehow related to the Borromean rings.

  • @kipthebunbun
    @kipthebunbun Před 2 lety

    You're the only scientific channel other than the Backyard Scientist and NileRed that manages to make science interesting. I'm studying to be a veterinarian so it's not that science is boring, it's just exhausting when you're learning so much... Which is why I don't watch science stuff and reserve my science tolerance for my 8 years of med school and veterinary classes I gotta go through. But your vids are not super complex and they're just interesting.

  • @GilmerJohn
    @GilmerJohn Před 2 lety +1

    It would be much more interesting were some of the ring to be visually quite different. I'm tempted to get a bunch of key rings and
    have some fun.

  • @ariesmars29
    @ariesmars29 Před 2 lety

    I have this science toy. I got it 25 years ago at a magic shop. My set is made of brass rings.

  • @WakleeKins
    @WakleeKins Před 2 lety +1

    Huh, if only my wedding ring knew the same trick

  • @randyfitz8310
    @randyfitz8310 Před 2 lety +1

    Great video and your garage is nicely finished!

  • @NitrousProductions
    @NitrousProductions Před 2 lety

    Good to see another The Action Lab video made my day!

  • @saketsharma9741
    @saketsharma9741 Před 2 lety +1

    Saw this for the first time. Amazed.

  • @Zireael83
    @Zireael83 Před 2 lety

    wow, very interesting :)

  • @mr_mews
    @mr_mews Před 2 lety

    That’s an interesting chain reaction

  • @quietflint1
    @quietflint1 Před 2 lety

    "how to get to the bottom" my man literally said it😭😂

  • @farvatron
    @farvatron Před 2 lety +1

    your are very cool and the rings

  • @ItzTheMemeLord
    @ItzTheMemeLord Před 2 lety

    What is the clearest material, more clear then glass?

  • @typograf62
    @typograf62 Před 2 lety

    This could be used for education of project managers. See how to create the illusion of progress!
    I had such a thing as a kid. It was in two colours so it was quite obvious what was happening.

  • @W.D.I.G.M.I.Tanner
    @W.D.I.G.M.I.Tanner Před 2 lety

    This would be a great giveaway!!

  • @MarcioHuser
    @MarcioHuser Před 2 lety +2

    Nice trick. Very clever

  • @nikolaipavlov2179
    @nikolaipavlov2179 Před 2 lety

    Basic chain motion

  • @Tker1970
    @Tker1970 Před 2 lety +1

    Special report "Amazon reporting unexpected shortage of 2" keyrings"

  • @fleghel
    @fleghel Před 2 lety

    Why is there no link to Amazon for both the rings and Jacobs ladder?

  • @MarkR-wc2el
    @MarkR-wc2el Před 2 lety

    I already understand it at my first watch because if you hold the ring below the ring in the top will go at the 2nd then it will react like a domino

  • @xgozulx
    @xgozulx Před 2 lety +1

    I heard about jacobbes ladder before, and even have one, The Terrific Tumbling Rings of Antiquity sounds much cooler xD

  • @bdr420i
    @bdr420i Před 2 lety

    Wooow 🤩

  • @Alice-ui9oy
    @Alice-ui9oy Před 2 lety

    This is the first one of your problems/questions presented that I worked out before you showed the solution lol. I'll carry my smug look around until you post something else that wipes it off my face 🤣

  • @martin11844
    @martin11844 Před 2 lety

    i'm gonna expand this, and make jewelry ot of it :))

  • @divyanshjaiswal3629
    @divyanshjaiswal3629 Před 2 lety +1

    Today I took a precalc honers test and many of my classmates were getting up to use the tissues. I also had a runny nose. Can you please explain this? Why does this happen and can I stop this?

  • @anonymous-jj3cw
    @anonymous-jj3cw Před 2 lety

    Somehow I knew it was a domino effect already lol