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  • čas přidán 21. 01. 2013
  • This demonstration is used to explain how starfish move without having a brain.
    www.kqed.org/science/1970271/...
    and how fireflies synchronize flashes in this TEDx talk by Orit Peleg
    • How fireflies communic...
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  • @yeehaw4739
    @yeehaw4739 Před 2 lety +7527

    “Dude You’re off tempo!”
    “Just give it a second dude”

    • @cassandra_classic
      @cassandra_classic Před 2 lety +50

      legit an underrated comment. glorious my friend

    • @covb2615
      @covb2615 Před 2 lety +38

      @Charlie’s flying the plane. You can't see dislikes here. Wich is why Wesley G replied with "Legit an underated comment". Low amounts of likes and a good joke makes it underated you odd scented sock.

    • @qq3xy347
      @qq3xy347 Před 2 lety +16

      @@covb2615 lol "odd scented sock" imma gonna call one of my siblings that see their reaction

    • @sk8terkek429
      @sk8terkek429 Před 2 lety +7

      Average Tool fan

    • @Ismael-kc3ry
      @Ismael-kc3ry Před 2 lety +8

      “Not my fucking tempo!”

  • @philchekalin
    @philchekalin Před 3 lety +31508

    For the next gig Im gonna put my whole band on a stage with wheels!

  • @gabereiser
    @gabereiser Před rokem +1976

    For those of you interested in the "why". There are an odd number of metronomes. This makes sure there's a force greater in one direction as 3/5 metronomes will swing that way. This exerts force on metronomes that aren't moving that direction, nudging them backwards from their momentum. This slight nudge backwards counters the pendulum effect causing the metronome to move further towards the side with greater force. Over time this will cause all metronomes to synchronize to the greater force pendulum. If you were to do this with four metronomes it might get interesting as 2 are going left, 2 are going right, but eventually friction in the bearings will force a side.

    • @delano62
      @delano62 Před rokem +166

      No. It's magic.

    • @username-ql8ox
      @username-ql8ox Před rokem +138

      As someone with a masters degree in physics, I agree, it's magic

    • @erickflores458
      @erickflores458 Před rokem +11

      In english please.

    • @JustMe88419
      @JustMe88419 Před rokem +18

      Oh ok, this actually makes a lot of sense. I didn't really understand how it was possible but I get it. That's really interesting.

    • @delano62
      @delano62 Před rokem +10

      @@username-ql8ox Either that, or it's those cans.

  • @sammyspaniel6054
    @sammyspaniel6054 Před rokem +305

    It's cool how the 4 on the right are lending some of their energy to the one on the left. Watch the left one. It has a smaller swing than the others and gradually gets greater until it matches the others. For anyone not understanding this the cans and board are the key. The board shifts slightly back and forth dampening some while adding energy to others until synchronicity is achieved.

    • @alextownsend6662
      @alextownsend6662 Před 9 měsíci +1

      I figured that energy was being shared among them. I thought, put them in different rooms all in earshot and I bet they don’t synch. 🤔

    • @Alexander_Grant
      @Alexander_Grant Před 6 měsíci +7

      @@alextownsend6662 What does earshot have to do with it? You could just remove the cans from the bottom and they wouldn't sync like this. It's the motion of the board that causes the synchronization, the energy of motion is what is being referred to.

    • @elbbepp
      @elbbepp Před 6 měsíci +1

      @@Alexander_Grant so you can hear it

    • @claudialupper
      @claudialupper Před měsícem

      Synchronization. Synchronicity is inexplicable coincidence. Synchronicity is a made up thing; physics is REAL. Mostly.

  • @emkmannheim2765
    @emkmannheim2765 Před 2 lety +9783

    Conclusion: you need beer cans to synchronize!

  • @skirtyboi
    @skirtyboi Před 2 lety +9948

    algorithm be like "he'll watch anything at this point"

    • @afrodarkwaver
      @afrodarkwaver Před 2 lety +99

      Not wrong

    • @Yorak_Hunt0----3
      @Yorak_Hunt0----3 Před 2 lety +72

      The ammount of times I've seen this joke ..

    • @VengeanceFalls
      @VengeanceFalls Před 2 lety +24

      Right….I hate myself for watching this.

    • @beats0me
      @beats0me Před 2 lety +27

      And the algorithm was right it seems, about the both of us and anyone else responding to this comment

    • @Fighterpilot555
      @Fighterpilot555 Před 2 lety +14

      Hell, I've already seen this.
      Like, five years ago

  • @soundmapper
    @soundmapper Před 9 měsíci +81

    This can be a life lesson if you can think on a larger scale.

    • @arthurgodeia
      @arthurgodeia Před měsícem +1

      yesss!! you’re right

    • @simonhampson5082
      @simonhampson5082 Před měsícem +4

      NO! It simply becomes either Communism or Utiliitarianism

    • @billgucci8378
      @billgucci8378 Před měsícem +8

      @@simonhampson5082 Some, like you, do not have the ability to think on a larger scale like the person who set up this display or the soundmapper commenter. You are a single metronome.

    • @mino73T11
      @mino73T11 Před měsícem +1

      Right... If the office chief sees this he's gonna put the whole office on wheels, just in case I'm a tad slower than my colleagues

    • @workingTchr
      @workingTchr Před měsícem

      Practiced in every culture; exalted to a moral value only in some.

  • @puirYorick
    @puirYorick Před rokem +49

    I love this no matter how many times I see it demonstrated.

  • @stephendann
    @stephendann Před 3 lety +6044

    This shows the inordinate amount of peer pressure metronomes experience in daily life.

  • @RobertKliethermes
    @RobertKliethermes Před 2 lety +17532

    Just as satisfying as when your blinker matches up with the car in front of you.

    • @faz_s
      @faz_s Před 2 lety +70

      😂 😂 😂 😂

    • @joshw9277
      @joshw9277 Před 2 lety +587

      Or when the beat of ur music matches the windscreen wipers

    • @SilverBullet93GT
      @SilverBullet93GT Před 2 lety +14

      Xkcd reference lol

    • @raeeskamaar6190
      @raeeskamaar6190 Před 2 lety +197

      Oh goodness, I thought it was just me paying attention to synchronised blinkers 😁

    • @AzrialAlaria
      @AzrialAlaria Před 2 lety +10

      Definitely!

  • @Saltience
    @Saltience Před rokem +46

    If I had to guess, the swinging of each metronome got transferred into the plank they were balancing on, which slowly sped up and slowed down each one until they swung together.

    • @StevoDesign
      @StevoDesign Před rokem +5

      Yeah pretty much.

    • @utube9000
      @utube9000 Před rokem +4

      Yes. It's all about transfer of energy. If the metronomes where simply placed on a flat solid table they would NOT sync up. It's the rolling platform underneath them that "evens" out the energy of the metronomes above.

    • @StevoDesign
      @StevoDesign Před rokem +4

      @@utube9000 Actually they might still sync up, through tiny vibrations and shifting of the table. But it would take a long time. If they were placed on an "ideal" table that did not move or shift at all then they wouldn't sync up.

    • @JoshPhoenix11
      @JoshPhoenix11 Před rokem +1

      No. It will happen regardless of the swinging base, it may just take longer to happen. Grandfather clock pendulums will synchronize, clocks in a clock store.
      Its from a morphogenic field.
      In nature you see it with schools of fish swimming in unison, and flocks of birds. All moving as though they are of one mind, making movements far to quick for each single animal to be independently sensing and making assessments at every fraction of a second. That would be impossible.
      Its morphogenic fields.
      Its also how homing pigeons navigate.

    • @Felix-Sited
      @Felix-Sited Před rokem +9

      @@JoshPhoenix11 I can assure you that no 'morphogenic field' is happening here. What you are seeing is physics.

  • @davidloftus2654
    @davidloftus2654 Před 11 měsíci +7

    It's amazing how the amplitudes eventually sync as well as the frequency.

  • @Thejigholeman
    @Thejigholeman Před 3 lety +38605

    they started off as a rag tag group of dancers, but after training they learned the true meaning of teamwork and became friends.

    • @ivankawnartist
      @ivankawnartist Před 3 lety +367

      Step up 5

    • @Chimera_166
      @Chimera_166 Před 3 lety +56

      You must be a child to write this nonsense

    • @Atozanycome111
      @Atozanycome111 Před 3 lety +408

      Someone can make an anime about this 😂

    • @mastergap0885
      @mastergap0885 Před 3 lety +501

      @@Chimera_166 lmao you sound dumb

    • @ivankawnartist
      @ivankawnartist Před 3 lety +417

      @@Chimera_166 Boooo. Take the stick out of your ass. Loosen up and have some fun once in awhile.

  • @Yeagerists1321
    @Yeagerists1321 Před 2 lety +4436

    The one on the far left may be a slow learner but he's got spunk.

  • @WierdSpookyDude
    @WierdSpookyDude Před rokem +95

    Interesting! Even the metronome on the far left gets in synch with the others. More interesting yet is the how the far left metronome acquires more energy, so that it's period of swing becomes the same as the others, even though it started out slower. I wonder what would happen if the weights on the metronome arms were adjusted such that 2 metronomes had the longest periods, and 2 had the shortest, and the other 2 were randomly set.

    • @brianrosenthalbudack
      @brianrosenthalbudack Před rokem

      Probably the same being as the applied force on the board and the cans as casters are the stabilizing mechanism that links up to the cans having synchronization.

    • @stardust644
      @stardust644 Před 7 měsíci

      Синхронизация почти невозможной,но само стремление к синхронизации будет безпрерывным.. войдёт в подходящий такт- циклов.. которые будут постоянно повторятся ..

    • @jean-louispech4921
      @jean-louispech4921 Před měsícem

      You will have an average frequency of oscillation for the plateform.
      Then the more the frequency of à metronome is closer, the more it will have a higher level of oscillation, the more the frequency is far from the plateform, there wil be non sync interactions that will lower the level of oscillation of the metronome.
      It can become complex because every change in the level of oscillation for some metronomes with z given frequency should change the average frequency.
      You could have a chaotic system.

    • @swhbpocl
      @swhbpocl Před 25 dny

      I really wish the far left(-ist) could come in sync with reality.

  • @CharlesVeitch
    @CharlesVeitch Před rokem +2

    This pleases my intuition greatly

  • @codyshann
    @codyshann Před 2 lety +4022

    It's a classic saying, "If you can't beat them, join them."

    • @nishantmudgal4434
      @nishantmudgal4434 Před 2 lety +14

      Words Of A Foolish

    • @nghtbot340
      @nghtbot340 Před 2 lety +18

      I can beat anyone with two cans of beer and that plank as well.

    • @nishantmudgal4434
      @nishantmudgal4434 Před 2 lety +12

      @@bryanagustin5886 But this saying has no conditions applied.. Why are you applying conditions and alter it your own way?

    • @dgraxel
      @dgraxel Před 2 lety +2

      Nice pun

    • @averagehuman8452
      @averagehuman8452 Před 2 lety +1

      @@bryanagustin5886 thats a bit sussy

  • @lucaortolani2059
    @lucaortolani2059 Před 3 lety +7909

    I have to admit it, at the end I felt the need to join into their little dance

    • @AssistantCoreAQI
      @AssistantCoreAQI Před 3 lety +184

      Are You Perhaps On A Resonating Platform With Wheels?

    • @TheDanubeDepleter
      @TheDanubeDepleter Před 3 lety +57

      @@AssistantCoreAQI no.. Is a rotating body sufficient?

    • @billyandrew
      @billyandrew Před 3 lety +35

      Please, do...whilst I provide the prerequisite clicking sounds.

    • @tomnyskull
      @tomnyskull Před 3 lety +37

      Yeah, i unconciously tapped to the beat when they synchronized. I think rythm heaven has trained me like a dog

    • @billyandrew
      @billyandrew Před 3 lety +8

      @@TheDanubeDepleter
      No, too pendulous an answer.

  • @chumpster69
    @chumpster69 Před 9 měsíci +14

    This is, without a shadow of a doubt, the coolest youtube clip I've ever seen.

  • @hugegoogle
    @hugegoogle Před rokem +10

    What amazed me was someone owned 5 identical metronomes

  • @opedromagico
    @opedromagico Před 3 lety +27186

    When women start living together

  • @Cgeta4
    @Cgeta4 Před 3 lety +7358

    I feel like this is the kind of discovery someone could have made only because they were bored out of their mind one day

    • @DeltaEchoGolf
      @DeltaEchoGolf Před 3 lety +472

      Like the guy who decided to sit under an apple tree.

    • @DustinTV3
      @DustinTV3 Před 3 lety +292

      I heard someone discovered it, cuz he watched 2 pendulum clocks getting synchronized like that while trying to sleep and then tried to unsynchronize them

    • @05anonymous50
      @05anonymous50 Před 3 lety +326

      It was discovered by the guy who invented the pendulum clock (to help sailors keep time with land for navigation purposes) and while he laid bed ridden with some illness or broken bone or whatever, he noticed that two pendulum clocks when supported by the same beam would slowly synchronize regardless of their starting position. So yeah, pretty much.

    • @elin4364
      @elin4364 Před 3 lety +33

      @@05anonymous50 i think he was quarantineing from a big outbreak, so he probably was pretty bored

    • @harimanpasaribu5290
      @harimanpasaribu5290 Před 3 lety +18

      Well the man who discover this thing was bored and watch a clock for an hour.

  • @FumblsTheSniper
    @FumblsTheSniper Před rokem +2

    The energy at the top of the movements is dispersed down into the table (besides the normal constant forces acting against them) and because they all move with the same frequency of motion their transfer of energy harmonizes. Like ripples that overlap but eventually join into one larger ripple/wave.

  • @lucasg.rebollo2083
    @lucasg.rebollo2083 Před rokem +3

    Someone: Why do you like physics and mathematics?
    Me:

  • @celsiusfox2631
    @celsiusfox2631 Před 3 lety +4751

    The left one is me trying to repeat the moves that I don't remember after others during the group dance

    • @Funkytrip73
      @Funkytrip73 Před 3 lety +91

      In the end, you succeeded it seems though.

    • @AndrewAce.
      @AndrewAce. Před 3 lety +7

      LMFAOOOOOOOOO

    • @alexwu69700
      @alexwu69700 Před 3 lety +3

      what if there is a moving platform

    • @iiaethereal7518
      @iiaethereal7518 Před 3 lety +4

      @@alexwu69700 the earth is rotating

    • @flashbeaster
      @flashbeaster Před 3 lety +2

      haaaa good one foxey I was about the same thing

  • @Marcten10
    @Marcten10 Před rokem +14083

    Damn, i saw this video a few years back and had no clue how it worked (was like 14 at the time) but coming back to it with a degree in physics i can confidently say i still have no clue whats going on

    • @antenym8947
      @antenym8947 Před rokem +873

      Its quite simple. When one of the metronomes swings a force is exerted on the bottles below which causes them to move. When multiple does that it moves in such a way that the small forces exerted on the bottles slightly alters the swinging motion of the metronomes until they eventually synchronize with each other. I have just gotten started in studying physics and could easily figure that out cmon dude.

    • @Marcten10
      @Marcten10 Před rokem +1272

      @@antenym8947 i know😂😂 i just thought the joke would be more funny if i said i had no clue
      Also you would get a 1/3 for that explanation because it’s actually a frequency system with each metronome applying their frequency to the moving beam causing the beam to have an average frequency that it then applies back to the metronomes equalising till everything has the same frequency (tbh even my explanation is still not complete since i study physics to be a teacher rather then a researcher)

    • @rykehuss3435
      @rykehuss3435 Před rokem +172

      @@Marcten10 You would get 2/3 for that since you failed to mention anything about energy

    • @Marcten10
      @Marcten10 Před rokem +199

      @@rykehuss3435 what energy? Although it can be explained using energy theory when explaining it with frequency the only energy in the system is in the frequency and thus you can use frequency instead of saying “the frequency of the metronome uses its energy to apply movement to the beam which changed that movement back into energy to change the frequency of the metronome” “better wording would be “metronome 1 applies its frequency to metronome 2 using the beam as a medium”

    • @rykehuss3435
      @rykehuss3435 Před rokem +71

      @@Marcten10 Takes more energy to go against the grain so to speak, so the metronomes out of sync lose it constantly until they get in sync

  • @vitamori843
    @vitamori843 Před rokem

    Love how the differences in sounds meld into one

  • @BallietBran
    @BallietBran Před 4 měsíci +1

    Beautiful and Harmonious!

  • @21Walls
    @21Walls Před 3 lety +1963

    So the lesson here is that I need to put all of my band mates on a sheet of wood and some soda cans, then we'll finally play in time?

    • @DM-of7ys
      @DM-of7ys Před 3 lety +7

      Lmao

    • @SweetTodd
      @SweetTodd Před 3 lety +17

      Definitely how life is. It works with the bottom text

    • @ericplaysbass
      @ericplaysbass Před 3 lety +13

      Depends on the drummer.

    • @whatsthebigfndeal
      @whatsthebigfndeal Před 3 lety +25

      @@ericplaysbass
      God created drummers to piss off musicians

    • @KandiKlover
      @KandiKlover Před 3 lety +3

      Just scaled up, plywood and some oil drums.

  • @matttypes2695
    @matttypes2695 Před 3 lety +3133

    When you’re at a stop light and you notice 2 different car’s turn signals start to synchronize.

    • @quarans08
      @quarans08 Před 3 lety +76

      So it’s not just me!

    • @jcdenton7261
      @jcdenton7261 Před 3 lety +34

      Took me so long to realize my blinker and the ticking noise it makes arent in sync too

    • @PetCactusA_HarmlessLittlePrick
      @PetCactusA_HarmlessLittlePrick Před 3 lety +59

      I wish that were true. It annoys me greatly that turn signals blink at different rates. The more makes of cars in the turning lane the worse it gets. IT HURTS!

    • @spoopyscaryskelebones3846
      @spoopyscaryskelebones3846 Před 3 lety +9

      Yeah, only for a brief moment tho :(

    • @sheerluckholmes5468
      @sheerluckholmes5468 Před 3 lety +12

      @@PetCactusA_HarmlessLittlePrick geez mate if that's your only problem life is pretty good for you ....... I just ran out of beer, that's way worse than worrying about blinkers.

  • @UncleWally3
    @UncleWally3 Před rokem

    When this was posted ten years ago it explained a lot, it still does, but it did back then too.

  • @inventgineer
    @inventgineer Před rokem +1

    I'll bet the mathematical function that represents that damping oscillation is even more beautiful than the physical appearance of the thing.

  • @3km143
    @3km143 Před 2 lety +8439

    This is the definition of "Oh yeah, it's all coming together"

    • @user-qp5gi4np7w
      @user-qp5gi4np7w Před 2 lety +15

      Synonym is "wtf? how?"

    • @christian98
      @christian98 Před 2 lety +4

      Exactly🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @johnsmith-sk1ep
      @johnsmith-sk1ep Před 2 lety +1

      dunno 'bout that but they should be playing 'come together' on this and maybe some small paper puppets attached to the swinging arm...just saying

    • @mariekt313
      @mariekt313 Před 2 lety +1

      wtf.. I literally was just suggested and watched that video RIGHT before this one...

    • @maxuabo
      @maxuabo Před 2 lety

      No

  • @lastdonuts
    @lastdonuts Před 3 lety +3759

    Idk why CZcams is pushing multiple synchronization videos at me but now that I have clicked, I shall now proceed down this rabbit hole, wish me luck

  • @sixstringedthing
    @sixstringedthing Před rokem +1

    Shoutout to the one metronome that refused to sync up and kept its own beat for as long as it could.
    Don't feel bad man, peer pressure is hard to resist.

  • @JazzyBrissy
    @JazzyBrissy Před měsícem

    The sound of the audience's applause at the end of a performance resembles the sound of waves, with each rendition at a different tempo, but soon everyone clapping in synchronization.
    The movement of the ground reflecting the reciprocating force of the pendulums of these metronomes eventually made all the pendulums of all the metronomes synchronize into a single rhythm.
    As I'm a musician, I believe that all repetitive motion is circular motion, and that drum rhythm is an expression of gravity.
    Real musicians play inaudible sounds and feel invisible things.

  • @Mr.Tom_69
    @Mr.Tom_69 Před 3 lety +1362

    "What is he doing?"
    Morpheus: "He is Beginning to believe!"

    • @brianmessemer2973
      @brianmessemer2973 Před 3 lety +3

      😂 not bad not bad

    • @mrincodi
      @mrincodi Před 3 lety +2

      Ha ha ha!!

    • @ilikelobsters.2376
      @ilikelobsters.2376 Před 3 lety +2

      This is the matrix. Anything can happen, lets just hope that the smith program doesnt come back again 😳

    • @ccaithezz
      @ccaithezz Před 3 lety +1

      Lolll

    • @archonoid2
      @archonoid2 Před 3 lety +1

      This very comment just made my day, thank you.

  • @nordinreecendo512
    @nordinreecendo512 Před rokem +3

    I think this happens because the metronomes average out one direction, so if three swing left and two swing right, the average is swinging left, causing the platform to move in that direction and weaken the rightward swinging of the two metronomes. Eventually, those two are so weakened that they stop entirely, but then the motion of the platform causes them to swing again, this time in the direction of the other metronomes, thus causing them to sync up.
    This is just a theory though, I have no way to confirm or deny this, but it makes sense to me.

  • @vendettx8837
    @vendettx8837 Před 6 měsíci

    for some reason this always amazes me i just love to watch it happen when my dad turns on his blinker and it starts to match the car in front of us

  • @peterwindle4453
    @peterwindle4453 Před 3 lety +2302

    when you don't want to dance with everyone, but the music just gets you...

    • @elgatofelix8917
      @elgatofelix8917 Před 3 lety +9

      There's nothing spontaneous about this. Put these metronomes on an immovable surface and they don't sync

    • @thisdanguy
      @thisdanguy Před 3 lety +44

      @@elgatofelix8917 which is why they put it on a movable surface.

    • @moo4249
      @moo4249 Před 3 lety +3

      @@thisdanguy then it defeats the purpose

    • @thisdanguy
      @thisdanguy Před 3 lety +17

      @@moo4249 not really, it's just a random experiment on physics

    • @evilash2388
      @evilash2388 Před 3 lety +1

      After drink a few doses i must add.

  • @gildog391
    @gildog391 Před 3 lety +2052

    As a guitarist for over 40 years, this is how the band starts off. We hope we can get the cans rolling when the audience gets intoxicated .

  • @aroundandround
    @aroundandround Před 28 dny

    Made me smile even knowing it would happen.

  • @talexratcliffe
    @talexratcliffe Před 9 měsíci

    It's an equalizing of forces applied by the metronomes. Since the platform under them is moving that force is being enacted on all the metronomes by the metronomes.

  • @StudioMarLin
    @StudioMarLin Před 3 lety +2050

    We all have that in common...
    We have no idea why is this in our recommendation, but we found it interesting anyway

  • @helixwletcher4703
    @helixwletcher4703 Před 3 lety +1109

    Spontaneous Synchronization 8 years after this video was uploaded: it's my time to shine

    • @marquizzo
      @marquizzo Před 3 lety +4

      Title says "spontaneous", but it took ~30 seconds for it to get there.

    • @urilevy1
      @urilevy1 Před 3 lety +2

      That is a cute comment

    • @chimmy___
      @chimmy___ Před 3 lety

      Yep!

    • @Chrono..
      @Chrono.. Před 3 lety +12

      @@marquizzo It is spontaneous, not instantaneous.

    • @grubytuesday
      @grubytuesday Před 3 lety +2

      CZcams’s recommendation system is something else

  • @gordonbruce6292
    @gordonbruce6292 Před 24 dny

    The moving base on the cans synchronises them. The rocking base does this.

  • @skeep8795
    @skeep8795 Před 7 měsíci

    Good example of "everything will fall into place at the right time"

  • @Pteriidae
    @Pteriidae Před 3 lety +838

    Once they started synchronising... the moving parts began to look like hands flipping you off, now all in unison lol

    • @henleyn5046
      @henleyn5046 Před 3 lety +10

      Shit I was thinking the same 😂

    • @toucl
      @toucl Před 3 lety +16

      cool i can't unsee it now 🖕

    • @thekrutchinator
      @thekrutchinator Před 3 lety +3

      I'm going back to check that out!

    • @Dylan_1263
      @Dylan_1263 Před 3 lety +2

      What? Looks nothing like it.

    • @OliveMule
      @OliveMule Před 3 lety

      WAT?!
      UUUMMMM NO

  • @parkerdavidson5868
    @parkerdavidson5868 Před 3 lety +1364

    This is exactly what learning the drums sounds like

    • @computerscience2589
      @computerscience2589 Před 3 lety +13

      I thought Drums were louder than these

    • @anansiackhasone3428
      @anansiackhasone3428 Před 3 lety +5

      @@computerscience2589 metronome

    • @wintermute8315
      @wintermute8315 Před 3 lety

      He's not taking about a metronome, he's talking about the various drums and cymbals.

    • @parkerdavidson5868
      @parkerdavidson5868 Před 3 lety +1

      in terms of trying to get all your limbs to communicate together on a beat, it's typically a little messy til you get tighter.

    • @Rikissimissimo
      @Rikissimissimo Před 3 lety

      @@parkerdavidson5868 honestly I think that the harder part is having each limb do its thing

  • @jbkibs
    @jbkibs Před 9 měsíci +1

    the cans rolling underneath create the synchronous movement.

  • @tsegulin
    @tsegulin Před rokem +1

    What an elegant demonstration of an obscure sounding physics concept.
    If only school had been more like this....

    • @workingTchr
      @workingTchr Před měsícem

      The extent of my HS physics teacher's explanation of particle-wave duality was to have us all play with water tanks generating waves without any context. Only decades later did I learn what was behind it. If I had had a decent physics teacher I might have gone into that field.

    • @tsegulin
      @tsegulin Před měsícem

      @@workingTchr
      A really good, inspiring teacher is SO important.
      I was fortunate to get the Science Master in my senior high school years and he was so good that I ended up doing a science degree with a chemistry major.
      Sadly, school is a long, drawn out pitch battle that tends to make hacks out of many teachers and students alike. They say Finland has a better approach.

  • @jurapalanga7879
    @jurapalanga7879 Před 3 lety +911

    When all of them start moving synchronicly, it's strangely hypnotising

  • @mikewilson6940
    @mikewilson6940 Před 2 lety +3446

    Just listening to them work their way into harmony is pretty calming.

  • @djlykaen
    @djlykaen Před 7 měsíci +1

    "you tend to become the sum total of the 5 people you are closest to"

  • @anotherwofartist5895
    @anotherwofartist5895 Před rokem +3

    When the percussion finally gets their act together and the band stays in time

  • @ryanritter7814
    @ryanritter7814 Před 3 lety +396

    The moment they sync up is what happiness looks and sounds like.

    • @Bilycaon1
      @Bilycaon1 Před 3 lety +5

      True. Happiness is harmony

    • @blenddii
      @blenddii Před 3 lety +2

      That must be why I've never felt it before

    • @RogueMage50
      @RogueMage50 Před 3 lety +1

      If you saw what hapiness looked and sounded like, you would be weeping. And a few thousand dollars in debt from therapy.

  • @retrochristmas7329
    @retrochristmas7329 Před 2 lety +590

    That one on the left was having a hard time. I was worried. I'm glad he found his way.

    • @Theangeliqueherring
      @Theangeliqueherring Před 2 lety +13

      I’m glad I’m not the only one who was worried for him.

    • @kiya46107
      @kiya46107 Před 2 lety +12

      He got a little help from his friends.

    • @AdrianOkay
      @AdrianOkay Před 2 lety +9

      he changed from peer pressure, but he should have kept being himself

    • @CieJe.Alexander
      @CieJe.Alexander Před 2 lety +2

      One Band. One Beat.

    • @shifty4277
      @shifty4277 Před 2 lety

      It was starting to get off beat in the end if you watch closely

  • @cjay6547
    @cjay6547 Před rokem

    I could easily watch this all day. In fact, I already have.

  • @0bjective
    @0bjective Před 5 měsíci +1

    reminds me of the process where the group working on something becomes more productive

  • @depressedbuttercat5318
    @depressedbuttercat5318 Před 3 lety +523

    To me they look like a band of tiny blocks with little guitars, and I find it so cute

  • @paulmlemay
    @paulmlemay Před 3 lety +1682

    this demonstrates the intrinsic power in two cans of coke

  • @michaelconrad4445
    @michaelconrad4445 Před rokem

    It's simple how it works and you can be sure it would not work on a flat fixed surface. Within the provided rolling plate form it sets up a oscillator circuit which influences each metronome.

  • @jimmoses6617
    @jimmoses6617 Před rokem

    They are united by the board and "wheels", as one unit, all finding common center. So cool...

  • @ToastyDino
    @ToastyDino Před 3 lety +164

    Watching the blinker in the car in front of you while listening to your blinker be like

    • @fukatinsaan522
      @fukatinsaan522 Před 3 lety +4

      Underrated

    • @Gravvvyyy
      @Gravvvyyy Před 3 lety +3

      Great, now every time I see or hear this that’s all I’ll be able to see.

  • @alexs.362
    @alexs.362 Před 3 lety +256

    When you’re waiting to make a left turn and your blinker clicking matches up with the blinker of the person in front of you.

  • @OblivionAviator
    @OblivionAviator Před 7 dny +1

    "Still like that old time rock 'n' roll"

  • @RawkMusicIsAwsome
    @RawkMusicIsAwsome Před 9 měsíci

    great demonstration of how the universe tends towards maximum entropy

  • @adriannavas4671
    @adriannavas4671 Před 5 lety +1745

    For the sake of knownness, the mathematical model describing this behavior is the Kuramoto model.

    • @shreeniwasdaulatabad3373
      @shreeniwasdaulatabad3373 Před 4 lety +34

      thank you!!

    • @hareeshscifi13
      @hareeshscifi13 Před 4 lety +74

      kuramoto is an abstract synchronization model. This behaviour is modelled uisng some other coupling terms. If I remeber correctly, they have coupling terms similar to Vanderpoll oscillators.

    • @manmis007
      @manmis007 Před 3 lety +10

      @@hareeshscifi13 Many misspelled words bro.....

    • @zoomatazoo3520
      @zoomatazoo3520 Před 3 lety +7

      so what do you learn from that.
      i have no clue.

    • @TimoRutanen
      @TimoRutanen Před 3 lety +92

      @@zoomatazoo3520 You learn that if you were inclined to find out more about it, it would now be easier to search for the information.

  • @Kmn483
    @Kmn483 Před 3 lety +4264

    If anyone wonders how this works: the rocking of the base provides resistance for the swinging arms, which slows down their motion in the opposite direction, and propels it in the correct direction. It's like continuously nudging someone the right way when they're dizzy.

    • @deemeetube
      @deemeetube Před 3 lety +98

      Thank you. I saw this too and wondered if this should be call spontaneous when it truly isn't. But everyone else it's talking about its beautiful rhythm

    • @donaldhamilton5345
      @donaldhamilton5345 Před 3 lety +16

      Garcias amigo .

    • @Clock_COD
      @Clock_COD Před 3 lety +13

      How about other situations like for example, one day I was sitting on my car with the alerts light turned on. The car right in front of me was also with its alert lights on and every now and then both them synchronizes.
      Is there a possible way where both of alert lights were affecting and /or interfering each other?

    • @Clock_COD
      @Clock_COD Před 3 lety +4

      I really watch that kind of sync many times in many different situations

    • @jekecho-4983
      @jekecho-4983 Před 3 lety +3

      Oh shit, I didn’t even see this! I wrote down the same thing but it was a complete guess! I can’t believe I got it. Thanks for confirming 😄

  • @DiyorbekRoyiD
    @DiyorbekRoyiD Před 23 dny +1

    Safda yurishni oʻrganayotgan askarlarga oʻxshar ekan💯🇺🇿

  • @yeetusdeletus4239
    @yeetusdeletus4239 Před rokem

    It feels good to be able to instantly disern what's going on here without looking at comments, i feel superior

  • @mc5986
    @mc5986 Před 3 lety +1417

    And 8 years later this video arrived in my recommended and I couldn’t be happier

  • @ExternusArmy
    @ExternusArmy Před 3 lety +2131

    The explanation for this is that the vibrations and kinetic energy of each metronome is transferred into the surface below which moves depending on the net force. This same force is disturbed back to each metronome. The most stable energy state is when they are all in sync with each other and not conflicting each other’s movement. When they eventually reach that state, they can’t get back out the cycle since it’s the most stable.

    • @lordjogonnath6580
      @lordjogonnath6580 Před 3 lety +53

      Yup, resonance

    • @ExternusArmy
      @ExternusArmy Před 3 lety +30

      @@lordjogonnath6580 exactly. The cycles of simple harmonic motion.

    • @sazechs_451
      @sazechs_451 Před 3 lety +15

      Oh thanks, I was wondering how it worked

    • @abrahammartinez3603
      @abrahammartinez3603 Před 3 lety +7

      And here I was thinking about entropy. Huh... Neat.

    • @whith5184
      @whith5184 Před 3 lety +6

      Would this happen on a base that was firm and stable?

  • @thevikingwarrior
    @thevikingwarrior Před 5 měsíci

    I think that when we feel pleasure, and we get what we want; it is because it is synchronized with the properties of my personality and how we operate mentally. What you love is what defines you and your interests and what you support, not what you hate and what harms you. Harmoniousness = Pleasure

  • @kangarooninja2594
    @kangarooninja2594 Před rokem

    This is so satisfying. It just *feels* right.

  • @attilajuhasz2526
    @attilajuhasz2526 Před 2 lety +4446

    Beautiful.
    It is important to note that the synchronising effect is communicated through their common base. The 'stragglers' are nudged into sync by the momentum of the 'increasing majority'.

    • @ronniecox109
      @ronniecox109 Před 2 lety +57

      Mythbusters did this with a bunch of these . More than a few of them would not synch.

    • @Jesusbcappin
      @Jesusbcappin Před 2 lety +7

      Yup I figured that was the reason as well, does that mean I'm not as dumb as I thought?

    • @saooran7364
      @saooran7364 Před 2 lety +2

      I know you meant well, but I feel even more dumber right now

    • @Robertahausen
      @Robertahausen Před 2 lety +1

      from the force of gravity....

    • @barrywebb7398
      @barrywebb7398 Před 2 lety +4

      I know your own understanding and what fascinates you within is what you look for in the external world. some will see God, some physics, some a 440 engine. I saw the vocal minority a part of a political communications theory called the spiral of silence. seems i wasnt the only one that applied this to the masses.

  • @rcmfjones
    @rcmfjones Před 2 lety +4377

    Any kid who's ever "boosted" someone on a trampoline gets this phenomenon intuitively.

    • @schr4pnel
      @schr4pnel Před 2 lety +190

      or *been* boosted, lol.

    • @uncannyhiddencrow2385
      @uncannyhiddencrow2385 Před 2 lety +431

      Being boosted is the most terrifying yet thrilling thing in the world

    • @jengleheimerschmitt7941
      @jengleheimerschmitt7941 Před 2 lety +64

      I hope it was as much fun for these metronomes.

    • @WhippoorWispWillow
      @WhippoorWispWillow Před 2 lety +23

      I may not understand how it works when actually being the one to *witness* this phenomenon, but I DO understand, if only in application instead of theoretical, how boosting someone on a trampoline works, so I agree with very much so.

    • @sohamjavheri3715
      @sohamjavheri3715 Před 2 lety +8

      Resonance, they say.

  • @sleepycandle2642
    @sleepycandle2642 Před 8 měsíci

    I like to think that this world really likes it when groups of stuff works together, like people, molecules, or in this case, metronomes.

  • @tedbaxter5234
    @tedbaxter5234 Před rokem

    Beautiful!

  • @Ristretto_Interest
    @Ristretto_Interest Před 3 lety +981

    0:41 All the clocks in the school collectively growing louder as the end of the class draws near but you've only answered 13 out of 100 questions so far.

    • @jonparker8795
      @jonparker8795 Před 3 lety +29

      Thanks I'm sweating and having flashbacks now

    • @Jonarella
      @Jonarella Před 3 lety +11

      *Speedrun mode*

    • @stronzetti3750
      @stronzetti3750 Před 3 lety +3

      @OREJITAS79 GOOD LUCK BROTHER

    • @rkshl2688
      @rkshl2688 Před 3 lety +3

      @OREJITAS79 haha mine is in 6 hours and I haven't slept for the past 2 days 😎😭

    • @sc_krispy9459
      @sc_krispy9459 Před 3 lety +3

      Now I have anxiety

  • @GucciGuilty
    @GucciGuilty Před 3 lety +710

    This is what it feels like when your car and the car in front of you’s blinkers start going at the same time

    • @guy2574
      @guy2574 Před 3 lety +4

      How can animals drive?

    • @zajournals
      @zajournals Před 3 lety +3

      You's? LOL 🙂

    • @z42O
      @z42O Před 3 lety +1

      Lol 😂

    • @shevangomis6432
      @shevangomis6432 Před 3 lety +8

      Yes!!! They always go in sync for a few seconds and then go out of sync and repeats

    • @19jayjay96
      @19jayjay96 Před 3 lety +2

      That's exactly what I was thinking about xD

  • @bb5979
    @bb5979 Před 3 měsíci

    The cans underneath the board is the key here.
    I have no experience in physics but i think just looking at it logically it seems pretty simple

  • @nPcDrone
    @nPcDrone Před 9 měsíci

    When waiting to make a left turn I wait for this with everyone's turn signal.
    So satisfying when it happens.

  • @calebwilliams586
    @calebwilliams586 Před 3 lety +441

    I've watched enough bird videos to know they would love dancing to this.

    • @ethanadkins4052
      @ethanadkins4052 Před 3 lety +2

      ok buddy ik you,ve been playing minecraft too much calm down that is not a juke box lol u right tho

    • @pyroboss1013
      @pyroboss1013 Před 3 lety +12

      @@ethanadkins4052, birds dance in real life... not just Minecraft.

    • @toast2715
      @toast2715 Před 3 lety +4

      @@ethanadkins4052 bitch

    • @sexycowman
      @sexycowman Před 3 lety

      @@ethanadkins4052 bitch

    • @calebwilliams586
      @calebwilliams586 Před 3 lety

      Wait my comment actually got likes wtf

  • @NatePrawdzik
    @NatePrawdzik Před 3 lety +657

    Said one pendulum to the other, "This is the way."

  • @TraeFury
    @TraeFury Před 7 dny +1

    "If you rockin', I'm rollin'!

  • @shubhampatil2952
    @shubhampatil2952 Před 3 lety +2050

    That's how still Dr.D.R.E and snoop found the music to a historical song

    • @alexd2316
      @alexd2316 Před 3 lety +18

      Underrated comment

    • @HouseLyrander
      @HouseLyrander Před 3 lety +6

      I dun geddit

    • @exudeku
      @exudeku Před 3 lety +16

      @@HouseLyrander Still D.R.E. by Dr Dr. D.R.E. and Snoop Dogg

    • @Mark-ib7uq
      @Mark-ib7uq Před 3 lety +25

      The song played on my head thank you

    • @moodfm5673
      @moodfm5673 Před 3 lety +13

      wow something has roughly the same BPM as a famous song for a few seconds and all of a sudden theres thousands of retards trying to get likes. fuck off:)

  • @assnapkined9295
    @assnapkined9295 Před 3 lety +2116

    Yooo they should start a band, I like these guys. “Clunk clunk clunk clunk clunk clunk” catchy asf💯💯

  • @Hangishta
    @Hangishta Před rokem

    Why did I start bobbing my head along with this?

  • @toawing
    @toawing Před rokem +1

    Anyone not sure how this happens, look at what their on.
    Each action has an equal and opposite reaction.
    The force of the moving arm imparts the opposite action to the base.
    Since there are five of them this action is the sum of all five arms.
    To begin each is in a different phase, this makes each interact slightly differently with the motion of the base. Slowing or accelerating the arm.
    In time this interaction will cause each arm to be in-phase with each other.

  • @wildankautsar7148
    @wildankautsar7148 Před 3 lety +588

    When they synchronized, my inner self feels "awww"..

    • @__-fm5qv
      @__-fm5qv Před 3 lety +18

      I'm glad that im not alone in thinking this is weirdly cute.

    • @shumeister1059
      @shumeister1059 Před 3 lety +4

      The resolution is oddly satisfying

    • @verfassungspatriot
      @verfassungspatriot Před 3 lety +2

      @@__-fm5qv no, I guess this is human all too human.

    • @Leukefilms
      @Leukefilms Před 3 lety +2

      @@verfassungspatriot Very funny... My laughing chimney is a creepy guy and my flying chair destroy him!

    • @tontobuzz
      @tontobuzz Před 3 lety +5

      It's interesting how different the feeling can be. For me, it's the other way around. Somehow I have "respect" for this effect here, in a rather negative, intimidating way. For me, the whole thing radiates something, like several different currents are switched to the same, until there is only one direction, to which everyone submits. That has something of a dictatorship. I know I'm exaggerating, of course, it was just about the vibes i get from this scientific phenomenon :)

  • @jackmandu
    @jackmandu Před 3 lety +288

    I dunno why, but it made me smile when they all finally synced up.

    • @enantiodromia
      @enantiodromia Před 3 lety +1

      All together in one synchronized movement, all in step... Politically, this tendency to feel good in a model of minimized individuality has proven very dangerous.

    • @tim-kevinwahlert250
      @tim-kevinwahlert250 Před 3 lety

      I've been waiting for it too! 😄😊❤

    • @Tenaxis
      @Tenaxis Před 3 lety +4

      Bro, you don’t need to bring politics into this.

    • @timjohnson1199
      @timjohnson1199 Před 3 lety

      @@Tenaxis It's hard not to.

    • @Darth_Uchiha47
      @Darth_Uchiha47 Před 3 lety

      @@Tenaxis it's a comment section. Abiding by youtube term and agreements then hes fine. Some people like myself like reading comments like those anyway. Comments don't need to appeal to everyone. That wouldn't make sense.

  • @chrisblenkinsopp8588
    @chrisblenkinsopp8588 Před měsícem

    This is the meaning of life; the most amazing phenomenon I have ever experienced; I will never see anything like this again; this is better than eggs on toast...

  • @traceycolbert3635
    @traceycolbert3635 Před rokem

    This is beautiful simple genius

  • @_Matsimus_
    @_Matsimus_ Před 2 lety +3732

    So this is where CZcams takes me when I look for “how to figure my life out”

    • @Vaasref
      @Vaasref Před 2 lety +67

      Get together with buddies that did and let synchronization works its magic ?

    • @Nx553
      @Nx553 Před 2 lety +12

      Tho that search didn't bring me here today I've gotta say I can relate. That question keeps me awake at night...

    • @bigsoopermamohajo3338
      @bigsoopermamohajo3338 Před 2 lety +7

      Yeah this means your days are counted

    • @MSGtJimator
      @MSGtJimator Před 2 lety +3

      Same bro, I’m at the same point.

    • @ndreyah1160
      @ndreyah1160 Před 2 lety +3

      Where we come to be calibrated

  • @matthew6533
    @matthew6533 Před 3 lety +920

    The sound they make when they synchronize sounds like they are marching

    • @thebotanist7145
      @thebotanist7145 Před 3 lety +28

      Dude look outside the window, they are marching towards ya

    • @oftankoftan
      @oftankoftan Před 3 lety +10

      Siri, play "Red Alert Hell March"

    • @user-dv5qq9hv4i
      @user-dv5qq9hv4i Před 3 lety +12

      ironically, marching soldiers can be so sincronized it's dangerous for bridges because of swaying

    • @DisgruntledPigumon
      @DisgruntledPigumon Před 3 lety +3

      I was triggered. I thought Biden was coming.

    • @thatoneguy9582
      @thatoneguy9582 Před 3 lety +4

      @@user-dv5qq9hv4i
      -someone watched veritasium-

  • @dragulia_venaro
    @dragulia_venaro Před měsícem +1

    So, this is why starfish can move without having a brain.

  • @carlosrosas6397
    @carlosrosas6397 Před rokem +1

    Love this!

  • @manarallego3745
    @manarallego3745 Před 3 lety +668

    8 years later, I am here to say: The thumbnail looks like a tiny shovel knights band with guitars 😊

  • @memesifoundonline
    @memesifoundonline Před 3 lety +766

    Sometimes CZcams decides everyone in the entire world would like this video made eight years ago

    • @trevligadaniel
      @trevligadaniel Před 3 lety +2

      Wait until you get the one with 32 ones in it recommended! It'll blow your mind!

    • @c0n22
      @c0n22 Před 3 lety

      I liked it

    • @TheCobaltKnight27
      @TheCobaltKnight27 Před 3 lety

      I mean, they aren't weong

    • @andrewdevine3920
      @andrewdevine3920 Před 3 lety

      These kinds of comments are getting so tedious.