Meta-Materials: Invisibility Cloaks, Superlenses, And Earthquake Protection

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    Metamaterials are the next technological stage “after” materials. It’s a research area that has progressed incredibly quickly in the past decade, and that includes superlenses, invisibility cloaks, earthquake protection, and also chocolate. Yes, chocolate. What are metamaterials, and what are they good for? That’s what we’ll talk about today.
    The 2000 PRL from Pendry is here
    journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
    Aaron Danner's raytracing paper is here:
    citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc...
    The paper from Lee et al about the first superlens is this:
    link.springer.com/article/10....
    The paper about the hyperlens is here:
    www.nature.com/articles/s4159...
    The infrared invisibility cloak that hides the mouse is here:
    onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/e...
    The video from Hyperstealth Corp is here:
    • Hyperstealth Invisibil...
    The paper about magnetic metamaterials to improve wireless power transfer is here:
    www.nature.com/articles/srep0...
    The paper about the acoustic directional reflector is this:
    journals.aps.org/prmaterials/...
    The paper for hiding from ultrasound underwater is here:
    arxiv.org/abs/1009.3310
    The paper about the acoustic invisibility cloak is this:
    www.nature.com/articles/nmat3901
    The two papers about earthquake protection are those:
    ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/...
    www.frontiersin.org/articles/...
    And the paper about meta-chocolate is here:
    pubs.rsc.org/en/content/artic...
    00:00 What are Metamaterials?
    01:38 Negative Refraction and Superlenses
    08:24 Invisibility Shields
    11:58 Phononic Crystals
    14:00 Earthquake Protection
    16:25 Meta-Chocolate
    17:12 Sponsor Message
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  • @xenphoton5833
    @xenphoton5833 Před rokem +304

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    • @drmemento
      @drmemento Před rokem +6

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  • @johnregan2882
    @johnregan2882 Před rokem +105

    Sabine, Thank you for providing "humor in science" along with the education.

  • @donquixoteupinhere
    @donquixoteupinhere Před rokem +59

    You are one of my favourite science communicators, full stop! No nonsense, serious business… with a sprinkle of joviality. Thank you Sabine, you rock! 🎉

    • @stefflo712
      @stefflo712 Před 8 měsíci

      Apart from that one video where she talks about how capitalism is good :D

  • @sweebos
    @sweebos Před rokem +90

    I literally just finished the videos on wireless power and 5g, where Sabine asks if we wanted to know more about meta-materials, and thought to myself, "yes please."
    This video was just in time. 😄
    Thanks for sharing all this knowledge, it's greatly appreciated. ✌️💙

  • @grayaj23
    @grayaj23 Před rokem +29

    Thank you... I have tried to explain to friends where the word "metaphysics" came from, but they don't believe me. They want to believe it means something like "better than physics" or "more important" or "transcendent over". My undergrad metaphysics prof thought this idea was funny and treated the truth like an inside joke. What it means is "the book that came after we compiled the book on physics", because there wasn't a more formal name for the topic yet.
    I once had a cat that had a litter of seven kittens. One of them ended up named "the other cat", or O.C. for short, just because we didn't know she existed until a few hours after the first six were born.

    • @csmac3144a
      @csmac3144a Před rokem

      This is an incredibly naive and impoverished understanding of what we mean by metaphysics. It is shocking how many otherwise intelligent people are afflicted with a sort of cognitive scotoma with respect to categories such as the metaphysical. Naïve positivism at this stage of human intellectual development is an embarrassment, like the time Hawking committed 12 or so basic logical fallacies in the first few pages of one of his books.

    • @grayaj23
      @grayaj23 Před rokem

      @@csmac3144a The idea of metaphysics and the nature of existence is generally too esoteric for people outside of the interested communities to want to spend much time thinking about.
      It's naive, but that's all it *could* be, because people are people.

  • @briangarrow448
    @briangarrow448 Před rokem +5

    I’m still waiting for the invisibility cloak I ordered from an advertisement at the back of a comic book in June of 1968.
    Perhaps it will come in the same delivery as my Sea Monkey order.

  • @birgerjohansson8010
    @birgerjohansson8010 Před rokem +29

    An important application: I read that a metamaterial 'Lens ' for ultrasound could make ultrasound check images four times sharper, for the benefit of expectant mothers worrying about the fetus.

    • @collin4555
      @collin4555 Před rokem +7

      I imagine it would also make ultrasounds more useful for other diagnostic purposes as well. On several occasions I've been given an ultrasound which detects some mass is present, but can't get any clearer detail and needs additional imaging. So it'd be even more good news all around

  • @ryo0o0o88
    @ryo0o0o88 Před rokem +5

    I love Sabine, her cute German sense of humor, her intelligence is up there with all the great minds, and her ability to entertain while teaching is so refreshing to watch;

  • @lbgstzockt8493
    @lbgstzockt8493 Před rokem +16

    I've only recently discovered your channel, but the way you combine interesting science with a great way of talking makes me really happy.

  • @rickseiden1
    @rickseiden1 Před rokem +17

    Dr. Hossenfelder, if you ever decide to give up on physics, I really think you'd have a great career as a stand up comic. You're very funny, and your ultra serious delivery makes it so much funnier!

    • @mikecope806
      @mikecope806 Před rokem +4

      German humor is no laughing matter!

  • @Kram1032
    @Kram1032 Před rokem +14

    Would it be possible to use an accoustic invisibility cloak to significantly reduce the sound of ships' motors without impacting the ships' ability to travel?
    Because honestly that does sound like something incredibly useful: Since sounds travel far farther in water than in air, noisy ships have become a huge problem to marine life.
    (I suspect it'd also be useful for covert military application, but honestly, if it's possible at all, it should kinda be a standard feature of boats in the future. This sound pollution is a rather big deal)
    In fact, "hiding from dolphins" is exactly what this would be for: Whale songs have changed to far higher pitched just to be able to hear each other over the constant drone of large ships.

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  • @ElDJReturn
    @ElDJReturn Před rokem +14

    I love your humor. Well timed and also very informative and insightful knowledge in between. I'm so glad I found your channel. Thank you for making science not only accessible but also entertaining.

  • @rayoflight62
    @rayoflight62 Před rokem +22

    Metaphysics is, for all practical purposes, a branch of philosophy.
    The study of metamaterials must therefore be the quest for the material a philosopher stone is built from.
    A similar material with a negative refractive index was referred in a paper from Isaac Asimov, the thiotimoline. Thiotimoline had a negative solubility time...

    • @ldbarthel
      @ldbarthel Před rokem +2

      Ah yes, "The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline". After creating endochronic polymers, it became possible to use the endochronicity to counter the effects of relativistic time dilation in space flight. (Yes, THAT guy again.) cf "Thiotimoline to the Stars".

    • @Blowfeld20k
      @Blowfeld20k Před rokem +5

      @@kensho123456
      You do get that they are mostly just referencing a trope from a scifi book, don't you ?

    • @Blowfeld20k
      @Blowfeld20k Před rokem +1

      @@kensho123456
      No problems, but I strongly advise trying some book scifi, it usually takes interesting science concepts much more seriously than the likes of Star Trek and Star Wars.

  • @MrWildbill
    @MrWildbill Před rokem +8

    That was a really great intro to Meta-Materials, perfect balance of digestible information and humor. It will be interesting to see what we get when and if some entrepreneur gets their eureka moment.

  • @timesathousand
    @timesathousand Před rokem +1

    I love Sabine's deadpan, snarky interjections.

  • @virginie_fabrice
    @virginie_fabrice Před rokem +1

    hi sabine i was a school collapse teen once but each time i watch your videos i feel like i was successful in my studies thanks for that and bravo for your work

  • @punditgi
    @punditgi Před rokem +2

    Very interesting! Thanks for the video. And your comment about frequent zooming in CZcams videos is spot on. Those folks should be fined for each instance.
    Also, you make a very fine Egyptian hieroglyph, Frau Doktor! 😃

  • @nicholascurran1734
    @nicholascurran1734 Před rokem +6

    I always enjoy your videos, the topics are typically interesting and well presented.

  • @kb5zuy
    @kb5zuy Před rokem +5

    ".. it's not what a fish is supposed to do." Love it. Thank you.

  • @llamallama1509
    @llamallama1509 Před rokem +79

    Could superlenses be used in microchip manufacturing to photographically etch even smaller chip features than currently possible?

    • @SabineHossenfelder
      @SabineHossenfelder  Před rokem +87

      Interesting question. The wavelengths for which superlenses have been manufactured so far don't lend themselves for this purpose. The ones I have read about were all below the visible range. However, it's possible that I have missed something, and in any case, I can't think of any reason why it shouldn't be possible.

    • @hzdvb
      @hzdvb Před rokem +48

      In principle, yes, but it seems unlikely that it would work. Currently, we use EUV light at 13.5 nm for lithography. The problem with EUV is that pretty much everything is absorbant in this wavelength region. Therefore lithography optics in EUV don't use lenses but rely solely on parabolic mirrors to focus and redirect light, and even that becomes difficult. The superlens would need to transmit a sufficient amount of light and not be damaged by the intense EUV radiation, which doesn't seem likely.

    • @JanBruunAndersen
      @JanBruunAndersen Před rokem +7

      I was about to ask the same question.

    • @kylebowles9820
      @kylebowles9820 Před rokem +3

      @@hzdvb usually the photonic metamaterials I read about use the electrons in conductors to interact with the light. The resulting interface having different properties than the bulk material, hence metamaterial. I don't know much about resilience to EUV, but it really comes down to the conductor efficiency; making the ultra tiny structures able to handle the energy. In EUV research they use gold; but in an industrial setting it would probably be prohibitively expensive.

    • @peca87bg
      @peca87bg Před rokem +6

      @@SabineHossenfelder speaking about interesting properties of meta materials. Some researchers focus on mechanical response such as negative Poisson’s ratio. But, did you know that an fcc single crystal has negative Poisson’s ratio when pulled along [110] direction? The thing is that for some interesting mechanical response we don’t need to build metamaterials.

  • @_ninthRing_
    @_ninthRing_ Před rokem +4

    The metamaterial I'm most familiar with is a type of paint which absorbs virtually all of the light which impacts it. It does this by redirecting incoming light waves into a labyrinth of nanostructures, with the result of being close to the blackest black possible (96% absorption). It's actually really bizarre to see in action, as any object painted with it becomes an abyssal silhouette that lacks any defining features other than the outline.

    • @r0cketplumber
      @r0cketplumber Před rokem

      Nighthawkinlight demonstrates a metamaterial with the exact opposite effect- extremely high reflectivity in visible light combined with high emissivity in IR.
      czcams.com/video/N3bJnKmeNJY/video.html

  • @dannypope1860
    @dannypope1860 Před rokem +5

    ❤️ you Sabine! Never lose your sense of humor!

  • @flatworm00
    @flatworm00 Před rokem +3

    A really cool presentation...there is so much going on in this world that we don't understand, it is fun to get a quick glimpse

  • @BRUXXUS
    @BRUXXUS Před rokem +15

    How can I get into a research study about the meta-chocolate?

    • @dogcarman
      @dogcarman Před rokem +5

      Asking an important question here. 👍

    • @sarahrosen4985
      @sarahrosen4985 Před rokem +3

      I am willing to be a test subject.

  • @JohnSmith-ju1gi
    @JohnSmith-ju1gi Před rokem +1

    I love your videos and your sense of humor. I especially like that I believe that some folks don't even know when you are being funny. I watch and smile and enjoy that the world has people like you.

  • @lanekarabani8084
    @lanekarabani8084 Před rokem

    LOVE you pr approach to humour in science. You’re perfect omg

  • @stellarshriner
    @stellarshriner Před rokem +1

    My favorite Saturday morning class and teacher. I love the knee slappers. 'uhh yucka yucka yucka' Thanks Sabine

  • @nixdorfbrazil
    @nixdorfbrazil Před rokem +2

    Love you! Keep it going, Thanks for your amazing perspective! I also like the script was written, so praise the writers. And the editing.

  • @lukedowneslukedownes5900

    I just came from your newest video. I must say I’m so excited for the future of meta material

  • @davidfalgout7304
    @davidfalgout7304 Před rokem +1

    I could listen to you explain the world around us for hundreds of years!

  • @rickkearn7100
    @rickkearn7100 Před rokem +1

    Our host "walked like an Egyptian"! This subject post was so well presented (and satisfying) that when I finished watching it, my brain lit a cigarette...

  • @theophrastus3.056
    @theophrastus3.056 Před rokem +1

    I always look forward to Sabine’s take on things.

  • @hp127
    @hp127 Před rokem +2

    What an interesting theme. Thanks for the introduction.

  • @symbolspangaea
    @symbolspangaea Před rokem +1

    Thank you so much for this beautiful video! Really eye opening !

  • @jamielondon6436
    @jamielondon6436 Před rokem

    12:15 I cannot even put into words how satisfying it is that there actually is a reference to cheese in the video! :-)
    Kudos, Dr. Hossenfelder, well done!

  • @UncleSmokey
    @UncleSmokey Před rokem +1

    Love this video. Thank you Sabine! This was very informative 👏. Earthquakes wow!

  • @nowzarybijan7956
    @nowzarybijan7956 Před rokem

    Grossartige Fähigkeit bei Sabine : Great ability to make science accessible to people ! That’s really wonderful ! Toll

  • @nacoran
    @nacoran Před rokem +2

    You had me at meta-chocolate!
    I've always had an idea for a large sculpture (not a sculptor, just an idea I have) where the sculpture is ringed by a series of transparent pillars with various angles of refraction across their surfaces. It would allow the figure to face you from different directions- sort of a more complex version of the Mona Lisa eyes, and then to appear different when you go inside the circle of pillars. (Some of the techniques from sculptures that only line up into an image from one direction might be involved too).

  • @geckel2145
    @geckel2145 Před rokem

    Danke Sabine, your videos are always great!

  • @helmutzollner5496
    @helmutzollner5496 Před rokem +1

    Excellent video. Thank you for sharing!

  • @GururajBN
    @GururajBN Před rokem +1

    New material science for the engineers to master. This was something I had never heard of. Many thanks for imparting this new bit of knowledge.

  • @phy6geniuxYTcreations
    @phy6geniuxYTcreations Před rokem +1

    This is my current field of research, electromagnetic metamaterials. Thank you!

  • @0neIntangible
    @0neIntangible Před rokem +3

    I foresee and anticipate the meta-material development of composite alloys for fabricating wave channeling envelope skins of high speed vehicles/aircraft/submersibles/projectiles to drastically reduce friction with the air or water, reducing the heating effects while allowing increasing the rates of speeds through the medium, and possible stealth characteristics.

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  • @edreusser4741
    @edreusser4741 Před rokem

    I love you Sabine! And I love listening to your videos. Even the old ones.

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  • @dimension2788
    @dimension2788 Před rokem +1

    Nice job on meta materials its a massive subject and Sabine did a super job on super lenses. Pendry has some very interesting lectures on this and his sense of humor is meta funny. I highly recommend the ISS lectures with Pendry what a brilliant scientist!

  • @XmarkedSpot
    @XmarkedSpot Před rokem +2

    This was a particularly delightful episode, I can't adequately express my gratitude for the #meta joys you bring

  • @AlienScientist
    @AlienScientist Před rokem

    Look up Edgar Fouche - Former Area 51 Employee who talked about metamaterials and invisibility research back in 1998. That's where I first learned about Metamaterials back in 2004... I have been researching them ever since!

  • @D3GamesOficial
    @D3GamesOficial Před rokem +2

    I loved the lens mini class

  • @smb10011001
    @smb10011001 Před rokem +1

    Sabine's dry humor never fails to tickle. Thank you!

  • @Cre8tvMG
    @Cre8tvMG Před 3 měsíci

    I appreciate your nerdy humor, along with solid scientific information. Keep having fun. Science is wonderful fun, not just serious business.

  • @4draven418
    @4draven418 Před rokem +1

    Thank you for an interesting video. Lot of progress being made in this and related areas, very difficult to keep up with it all.

  • @s.vidhyardhsingh3881
    @s.vidhyardhsingh3881 Před rokem

    Your humour is rare if not one of a kind 😂😁👍🏻 This video is amazing!!! A lot learnt ..

  • @KeithCooper-Albuquerque
    @KeithCooper-Albuquerque Před rokem +4

    Great video, Sabine! It will take me a little time to reflect on it though ...

  • @BigZebraCom
    @BigZebraCom Před rokem +7

    I was going to create some meta-materials--but then things got really busy at work.

  • @teashea1
    @teashea1 Před rokem +1

    Your humor is so excellent..........................

  • @Lord0fTheCheese
    @Lord0fTheCheese Před rokem +1

    thanks for another entertaining and educational video.

  • @naughtyrobutt
    @naughtyrobutt Před rokem +1

    Best sense of scientific humor online

  • @alcyone1349
    @alcyone1349 Před rokem +1

    Well, this video is so well done that even I, a layman, understood it. Thanks Sabine!

  • @yangpachankis
    @yangpachankis Před rokem

    Ah! This is so brilliant! So that is why the opaque observatory worked!

  • @annestephens9631
    @annestephens9631 Před rokem

    Marvellous 🙂- Thank you for another fine video.

  • @Descriptor413
    @Descriptor413 Před rokem

    This is definitely in the personal horn tooting category, but in my Master's degree, I studied the use of microwave frequency metamaterials for use as strain sensors. Basically, metamaterial sheets (here called Frequency Selective Surfaces) act like notch filters at a certain RF frequencies, allowing certain frequencies of EM radiation through and reflecting others back, kinda like a colander. The trick of it is that the frequencies where this happens is dependant on the size of the metallic elements that make up the metamaterial.
    Because the frequency response is dependant on geometry, if you stretch the material, the resonant frequency shifts. We used this as a fancy strain gauge, which could be useful, since you can embed it deep within an opaque object, and then determine strains occurring at that point by simply interrogating it with an external electromagnetic wave and seeing what frequencies come back.
    That being said, the applications are still somewhat limited, but it's an interesting use.
    It also suggests that metamaterials are weak against strain, and thus if they are deformed, it could cause a shift in its behavior, so something to look out for that I don't hear talked about too much.

  • @ismarcintora2263
    @ismarcintora2263 Před rokem +2

    Always very clear and scientific explanations, thank you. I.Cintora, MD.

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  • @Teh-Penguin
    @Teh-Penguin Před rokem

    I cannot express how much I love the dry humour in these.

  • @pumbaa667
    @pumbaa667 Před rokem +9

    Damn, there is so much jokes in this episode that this channel will soon become a comedy channel :D
    Lovin' it Sabine, keep it up.

  • @alterego3734
    @alterego3734 Před rokem +3

    With metamaterials with a refractive index smaller than one (but positive), things can be made to appear further than they are. With asuch materials, we could make fake windows with scenery that appears far away.

    • @WarrenLacefield
      @WarrenLacefield Před rokem +1

      Rear view mirrows already do this. Or try looking through binoculars backwards.

    • @chrisfuller1268
      @chrisfuller1268 Před rokem

      With a refractive index of zero, light appears to move faster than the speed of light, but it does not really because metamaterials store energy causing the strange effects. With a negative index the light appears to move backwards in time.

  • @PhilipRhoadesP
    @PhilipRhoadesP Před rokem

    Another interesting and amusing podcast!

  • @josephimports
    @josephimports Před rokem +3

    Love your content. Thank you

  • @capitalistdingo
    @capitalistdingo Před rokem +6

    I could be mistaken (and maybe I just missed it in the video because I was multitasking) but I think there may be more types of meta-materials than these. The changes in the materials can be more than just structural. Adding different materials in regular intervals can creat something with properties that a regular alloys or composites don’t have and these properties can be things much different than adapting the way waves propagate through the substance.
    I imagine that using elements with mechanical abilities that we could change on command or which change in response to certain conditions could allow all sorts of applications beyond my ability to predict.

    • @SabineHossenfelder
      @SabineHossenfelder  Před rokem +8

      Yes, sorry, didn't mean to imply that those are the only possible meta-materials. Those are the ones on which there has been the most research.

  • @eottoe2001
    @eottoe2001 Před rokem +2

    Don't know if this is the same thing but if you buy a refactor telescope, the ones with the best lenses are the ones with the special coatings that help to make the star field uniform and eliminate lens distortions. It is very specific coating for the telescope. If that is it, thanks for explaining it to us. You rock!

    • @eottoe2001
      @eottoe2001 Před rokem

      @@thealienrobotanthropologist I re-reading about AR coatings now and it maybe more related than you're able to think.

  • @euanthomas3423
    @euanthomas3423 Před rokem +1

    Good text on the optical aspects: "Geometry & Light : The Science of Invisibility" by Ulf Leonhardt & Thomas Philbin (Dover publications). However not for the mathematically faint-hearted. Nice video.

  • @TheAntibozo
    @TheAntibozo Před rokem

    Love your videos, Sabine. 🐿

  • @pendalink
    @pendalink Před rokem +1

    Super cool video, let me add my own emphasis as to how incredible and broad the applications of this field are. Modern E&M is some crazy cool stuff

    • @whatsapp-.3481
      @whatsapp-.3481 Před rokem

      🔝🔝ᴛᴇʟʟ ᴍᴀx ɪᴍᴍᴇᴅɪᴀᴛᴇʟʏ, ғᴏʀ ғɪɴᴀɴᴄɪᴀʟ ʟɪғᴇ ᴄʜᴀɴɢɪɴɢ ʙᴜsɪɴᴇss ɪɴᴠᴇsᴛᴍᴇɴᴛ/sᴏᴍᴇᴛʜɪɴɢ ɴᴇᴡ ᴘʀᴏғɪᴛᴀʙʟᴇ..📈🔝.

  • @KarimDeLakarim
    @KarimDeLakarim Před rokem +1

    Love you Sabine.

  • @TheMemesofDestruction

    8:38 - The subtle Trolling is beautiful. ^.^

  • @damslifevlog5031
    @damslifevlog5031 Před rokem

    Thank you mam, Very informative. With little humor add ons. Very well done. I don't mind the video quality 😁👍

  • @KrystelSpicerMindArkLateralThi

    🤣Love it. Great show. This ep makes me wonder just how long it's going to take us to come up with all solutions though at the rate we're going.

  • @patrickw9520
    @patrickw9520 Před rokem

    Sabine reminds me so much of my HS chemistry and German teacher.

  • @justinahole336
    @justinahole336 Před rokem +1

    Now I have "Walk Like An Egyptian" stuck in my head!

  • @robblerouser5657
    @robblerouser5657 Před rokem

    I love these types of videos!

    • @whatsapp-.3481
      @whatsapp-.3481 Před rokem

      🔝🔝-ᴄᴏɴᴛᴀᴄᴛ ᴍᴀx ᴛʜᴏᴍᴘsᴏɴ ᴅɪʀᴇᴄᴛʟʏ ғᴏʀ ᴀ ʙᴜsɪɴᴇss ғɪɴᴀɴᴄɪᴀʟ ɪɴᴠᴇsᴛᴍᴇɴᴛ☝️☝️**

  • @josephgdangelo9807
    @josephgdangelo9807 Před rokem +1

    The only way to obtain invisibility its to make sure none of the light reflects back to the observer. But in that case you would see black. So there's 2 parts to it. Stopping an object from reflecting while also allowing the background to be reflected to the observer... not so easy.

  • @marcfruchtman9473
    @marcfruchtman9473 Před rokem

    Thank you for this video.

  • @sherriec5258
    @sherriec5258 Před rokem

    The orange plastic dish with the spirals that "changes the refractive index" reminded me of Stonehenge. That's the first thing that popped into mind.

    • @whatsapp-.3481
      @whatsapp-.3481 Před rokem

      🔝🔝ᴛᴇʟʟ ᴍᴀx ɪᴍᴍᴇᴅɪᴀᴛᴇʟʏ, ғᴏʀ ғɪɴᴀɴᴄɪᴀʟ ʟɪғᴇ ᴄʜᴀɴɢɪɴɢ ʙᴜsɪɴᴇss ɪɴᴠᴇsᴛᴍᴇɴᴛ/sᴏᴍᴇᴛʜɪɴɢ ɴᴇᴡ ᴘʀᴏғɪᴛᴀʙʟᴇ..📈🔝.

  • @francescos7361
    @francescos7361 Před rokem

    I was stupid as student but perseverant so great competencies and educator.

  • @juliana.x0x0
    @juliana.x0x0 Před rokem

    Whenever it almost starts to get a bit overwhelming, a lot of information to process at once, she slips a funny little line in, somehow stopping me from overthinking and I end up understanding better and having a good time while doing so. She’s funny and very sharp, I’d love to kick it with this chick!

  • @erikziak1249
    @erikziak1249 Před rokem +1

    13:43 About sound. I spend enough time measuring, simulating, building and listening to hi-fi speakers to know that what really mattes: a good passive crossover design. Even with sub-standard material, you can get pretty decent overall sound. At the same time I am aware of the limitations of my approach, of all the short-cuts I took and I am very grateful for other enthusiasts who did the extra work for free (it takes lots of time and equipment) and shared schematics for really good passive cross-overs for what used to be cheap vintage speakers. Now they are only vintage. Not cheap anymore, because not abundant anymore.

  • @warrenfriedman156
    @warrenfriedman156 Před rokem

    Classic video. Thank you.

  • @ohsteeev
    @ohsteeev Před rokem +1

    Metamaterials were used in the Joo Janta ultra chromatic anti-peril sunglasses. At the first sight of trouble they turn completely black preventing you from seeing anything which might alarm you.
    Of course , the glasses turning black is itself a warning of danger, which makes their usefulness somewhat limited.

  • @vauchomarx6733
    @vauchomarx6733 Před rokem +42

    Gotta aim for an Ignobel Prize now, by developing a method to calculate the number of Sabine's eyebrows. I see this is becoming a running joke on the show… ;)

    • @CAThompson
      @CAThompson Před rokem +4

      Or, something with dairy-based food materials.

    • @Bassotronics
      @Bassotronics Před rokem +2

      Probably somebody not long ago mentioned her eyebrows for some reason and she’s getting back to that person.

    • @yadt
      @yadt Před rokem +4

      A fairly easy calculation: 1 + 1 = 2

    • @ernstoud
      @ernstoud Před rokem +2

      The number of *hairs* in the eyebrows is the question. I don’t think the answer 2 will get you the Ignobel prize.

  • @berndmayer3984
    @berndmayer3984 Před rokem

    Super, endlich mal ein Video das mit Wellen und nicht mit den leidigen Photonen arbeitet. Nicht die Linse macht das Bild, sondern die Störung der Fresnell'schen Zonen.
    Linsen machen ein Bild handlicher und heller und fügen noch ein paar Abbildungsfehler hinzu.

  • @MCsCreations
    @MCsCreations Před rokem +6

    Really interesting indeed! Thanks, Sabine! 😃
    I think the "car detection" material would help blind people to hear electric cars better. Less accidents.
    Anyway, stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

    • @nacoran
      @nacoran Před rokem +2

      I think a much better solution would be a device- an earpiece and some sort of detector for the car that could detect a signal. It would have to be extremely reliable, and probably have a failsafe mode so the person knew it wasn't working if it wasn't working. I know blind people have a particularly hard time with electric cars- but on the other hand, it's a pretty major quality of life issue to have quieter vehicles for other people outside.
      Some system something like this- and earpiece that the blind person wears, and a radio signal all EVs emit. The blind person, when they want to cross a road, presses a button on their earpiece and it sends a signal. It chirps to let them know it's working (so dead batteries don't lead to dead pedestrians). EVs would emit this signal by default, and the earpiece would detect it and give an auditory warning- direction, speed, etc. to the blind person. At the same time the earpiece could send a signal out to the car. For self-driving cars it could let them know a blind pedestrian needs to cross. An audio tone could play in the car for drivers to warn them to be more cautious- something like that could actually be used in a wrist strap for kids too, when they get close to the road. At proper intersections with crosswalks the earpiece signal could also interact with the traffic signal, triggering the signals the same way the walk buttons do, and sending back a signal to the blind person that the signal was received. The best version could then track the blind person's location in the crosswalk to make sure they made it across safely, or at least give a blind person a little more time than the normal amount of time. You could probably also add some magnets or other trigger in the crosswalk so that the blind person could more easily navigate the crosswalk with a sensor in their cane. (Or you could make a wearable camera system kind of like a self-driving car has that could feed information to blind people as they walk.) It all has to be designed failsafe though. The earpiece needs to give some signal to let the person know it's working properly, so that if it's not working the person doesn't just start walking thinking everything is clear. By notifying the car you add an extra layer of safety to the process. You can have the crosswalk chirp to help (although I've seen a bird that lived near a crossing learn to mimic the crossing chirp). Another option would be for the signal from the blind person to activate something in the car so it would start making noise. That would be very directional. It would be harder to do that as a failsafe though.
      /And, as with all adaptive technology, I think insurance should cover it.

    • @MCsCreations
      @MCsCreations Před rokem

      @@nacoran Some pretty good ideas there indeed.
      I am almost blind... But not really at the same time. I lost 75% of field of view because of a brain surgery when I was 13. (The other option would be dying, so... No doubts there.) I only see with the left half of my right eye. But I see pretty well with it, I use glasses but it's a pretty small amount... Degree... I don't know how to say it in English.
      Either way, it's really curious, because if someone left something out of place at home I'm definitely going to collide with it. So I imagine how hard should it be to see nothing at all...

  • @10minutes_Physics
    @10minutes_Physics Před 11 měsíci

    amazingly brilliant!!

  • @Zift_Ylrhavic_Resfear

    Thanks for the video :)

  • @TerryBollinger
    @TerryBollinger Před rokem +5

    Great video! BTW, the threads of the easiest invisibility cloak are tight bundles of optical fibers reaching from one side to the other. Twist each thread 180° along the way, add spherical lenses at each outward-pointing end, and the resulting fabric transmits 3D images in both directions. It's thick and finicky, though, so it's best for passive hiding of equipment, not people. I designed this cloak in high school, which was... a long time ago... :)

  • @jamesduncan6729
    @jamesduncan6729 Před rokem +3

    Sabine was extra snarky in this video. Love it. This woman is a personal hero of mine 😆❤️❤️

  • @rapauli
    @rapauli Před rokem +1

    Darn, just when I started to understand the basic fundamentals of physics - the stuff covered in just about a half-course of high school physics - you come along and put out this smorgasbord of new things to digest. Yikes!! Will there be even MORE complexity? . The chocolate would be fun to experience. { is there NO end to learning ?? } Yum, yum.

  • @clintsheppard9699
    @clintsheppard9699 Před rokem

    I must say, that was excellent use of 🤔

  • @WilliamVMeyer
    @WilliamVMeyer Před rokem

    I remember learning in a philosophy class many years ago that Aristotle's book that we call his metaphysics was the one that came after (or the one just beyond) his book on physics (as Sabine noted) - and that physics in Greek means understanding - so the title for his book we call his metaphysics can be translated, perhaps a bit too literally, as "beyond understanding".

    • @fto3367
      @fto3367 Před rokem

      That's very wrong. physics (physika) means nature. You are confusing it with logos. Meta means after and it's meant in the chronological sense.
      The name of this specific untitled writing from Aristotle was given by a later historian. As the historian put Aristotle's work in chronological order, he gave the untitled writing a cryptic name: the stuff Aristotle wrote after the books with the title "physika".
      => metaphysika
      It has absolutely nothing to do with what it is falsely associated with today.

  • @greg4367
    @greg4367 Před rokem +1

    Greetings from San Francisco, Sabine. Here's a challenge for next week: Can we you work a reference to BOTH Einstein AND cheese? It would make my Saturday complete.

    • @whatsapp-.3481
      @whatsapp-.3481 Před rokem

      🔝🔝 ᴡʀɪᴛᴇ ᴍᴀx ᴛʜᴏᴍᴀs ɴᴏᴡ, ʜᴇ ʜᴀs ʜᴇʟᴘғᴜʟ ɪɴғᴏʀᴍᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ᴛᴏ sʜᴏᴡ ʏᴏᴜ ᴀɴᴅ ᴀʟsᴏ sᴏᴍᴇᴛʜɪɴɢ ɴᴇᴡ ᴘʀᴏғɪᴛᴀʙʟᴇ ɪɴ ʙᴜsɪɴᴇss ɪɴᴠᴇsᴛᴍᴇɴᴛ📈🔝.