Electricity Takes the Shortest Path (in the air), LATITY-010
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By: Mehdi Sadaghdar - Věda a technologie
I MEANT SHORTEST PATH THROUGH AIR! 😂 Also "electricity takes the path of least resistance" is wrong! It goes more into the path of least resistance, but it still goes through the higher resistance too. But in the air it breaks though shortest path, then I guess it curls as the air heats up... hmmm, something to check there
I literally screamed put them back together like i was watching a horror moive
Not content with rectifying Veritasium’s videos, you started rectifying yours 🤣
Yesss!!
Finally some professional confirms my idea that electricity would take *all* available paths, but the amount of current passing through each path would depend on the resistance of that path.
Thanks Mehdi, for reassuring that I'm not as insane as I think I am.
When the air break down and ionizes it becomes very low resistance so electricity will flow almost entirely through that conductive plasma...which behaves like a hot gas and starts rising and spreading out. Videos of arcs in microgravity are interesting since they tend to stay more in one place.
@@imranroy4731keep in mind that this is only true for low frequency signals. When higher frequencies are involved, resistance may no longer be the dominant factor and we must use total impedance instead.
Ahh yes, the connect fork. That’s how I got my start, actually. Turns out you can BREAK a breaker. 😂
WhAt'S tHe WoRsT tHaT cOuLd HaPpEn?
I started mine when I connected 9V DC motor holding it in my hand into the 240V Powerlines and it Exploded LOL
@@KeysightLabs A ChaRgeBaCk
Hi
Power of Mehdi 😂 smart blewup is matter 😁
3:50 Mehdi didn't really explain the specifics here, so for anyone interested:
What this is depicting is step voltage - basically because the ground is relatively high resistance the point where the high voltage source contacts winds up at or near that voltage, and the voltage reduces the further away from the source, similar to a resistive voltage divider. The danger is if you take a step towards or away from the voltage source then your feet will be at 2 different voltage potentials, and your body is far more conductive than the ground so this can result in enough of a voltage difference to kill you.
Ah, so that's why they showed putting your feet together (same potential) then hopping on one foot.
Jeez, I already get enough anxiety with hopscotch. Death hopscotch would not be fun.
@@x--. Very short steps would also work, just slightly higher risk
@@x--. I feel like this is similar to being worried about quicksand.
I've experienced this when using a 120 v rod to bring up nightcrawlers. When picking them up, you need to wear rubber-soled shoes and be careful not to brace with your other hand.
@@bosstowndynamics5488 what about jumps from one leg to the other? Never both legs touching ground.
The static making that sound when the person on that mountain moves their hand is one of those "most terrifying things in the world that would seem fine to someone who doesn't know"
Ditto. Scary.
What do you do in that situation? Lie down and wait for lightning to strike?
@@YourMJK If your goal is to be struck by it, I suppose. Otherwise you get as far away as you can ASAP.
@@YourMJK i don't know... i'm not a religious person, but i think i'd just crouch down and pray. Not lie, because if the lightning does strike and doesn't directly hit me, it can still get me through the ground.
@@victortitov1740 Feet together presumably.
I love LATITY, make more of this please, its a perfect combination of reactions and creation as well as demonstration
Exactly
YES
@Don't read profile photo bruh
@Don't read profile photo ive seen this already on another yt channel
HAHA I said the first part of your comment out loud as I opened the video then read this.
"What I would give to short-circuit the heavens" is my favorite thing Mehdi has ever said, and I don't say that lightly
Also the most ominous.
"Welcome to the world of high voltage, where everything is a wire and you are probably gonna die" - William Osman
He will evolve into the Cheeky Charger, Evil Knievel's evil electric cousin, flying a rocket that's powered by a lithium-ion battery fire drive, connected to a bunch of wires that are in turn connected to power stations, putting cities in a blackout.
EDIT: oh, i guess Mehdi's name is much closer to Evil Knievel... Mehdi Knievel, of course
Thor will never even know what hit him...
also 100% agree, that statement was glorious
Medhi begins his electro emperor phase.
6:45 You pronounced it pretty well in italian. Good job! ( 2 is pronounced "due")
7:26 - WAAAA - he didn't shorted the power - he's just afraid of the dark ;)
7:29
As an italian, hearing medhi say "le prese vanno sostituite dopo 2 anni" made me laugh, im a simple italian guy.
Mamma mia
Same😂
"Le prese multiple vanno sostituite dopo TWO any" fantastico medhi
ma la vera domanda è perche' scriviamo quelle cose sulle spine!
IT'S MEHDI
Every time he uploads I feel the same thing. WE NEED MORE ELECTROBOOM!
Thank you for another magnificent video.
Ur now the most annoying bot on YT
@@Exachad i think there should be an award show. CZcams has so many infamous bots.
@@Exachad she is not a bot
What is the point? Do utubers buy bots to comment for the algorithm?
That "Total Shield" looks to consist mainly of two PVC end caps and a chunk of sewer pipe.
It's also branded with the logo for the old United States Army Research, Development and Engineering Command, a former component of the Army Materiel Command. (It still exists, but as the Combat Capabilities Development Command, a component of the Army Futures Command). Gotta love the BS people will make and sell.
Buuuuuut the lights, man, the lights!!! They surely do something!!!
@@nameredacted1242 yes, it illuminates the lights ;)
Probably still contains some of the shit from the sewage line they cut it out of too.
@JM Coulon surely they ask enough to pay for some dozens of these already not cheap knobs to free you from the insidious 5G
2:35 "Oh, I just need to put my finger(s) back together." 😂😂😂😂😂
Hey finally, any day with a new electroboom video is a good day
I would love to hear and see Mehdi's reservations for Derek ASAP. The Rectifier is pure gold content.
I second that.
@@nicholaswilliams5915 I third that.
I’ll add the forth
I plead the fifth!
7:43 there is something about an old man sticking a lightbulb in his ear and it turns on that just makes me smile the same way he did
3:25 one of the best explanations on how capacitors behave with frequency 😜
4:27 yeah, but who wouldn’t want super fast Internet speed?
That one Karen that falls for 5g is lethal and cooks you
God, how many days have passed without that intro.
ElectroBoom - The best electroteacher
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"path of least resistance" which can also be extended to "path of least impedance" for rapidly rising edges.
BINGO!
I win, I had this comment on my predictable comment bingo card!
@@Quick_in_and_out but it's true, isn't it?
6:48 I'm italian.
I busted into pure laughs.
That pronunciation was molten Platinum.
3:47 I heard it's actually safer to moonwalk out of the dangerous potential zone, in many cases just keeping feet barely apart poses a lot less risk than jumping on one leg when you can lose stability and faceplant all the volts
It looks like an ad for a mobile game with how uncanny it is
I mean you don't have to do big jumps.
I would take all the time in the world and inch my way out if my life was on the line, I don't trust myself to hop on one leg
Ikr
@Delsin "it's actually safer to moonwalk out of the dangerous potential zone" NOPE!! (facepalm) its not safe to moonwalk, the point is NOT to have two feet on the ground!! dont be stupid!!
How I shower: water at 30 °C.
How my wife showers: 1:44
2:28 GET IT OFF
I don't know all the details, but I thought MOVs that they use in typical surge protectors wear out over time, and there isn't a way to test if they've failed without destroying them in the process. Hence you need to replace surge protectors with some regularity to be sure that it will function as desired. The flip side of this is if you buy good ones they have lifetime warranties and really a lightning strike isn't going to be completely stopped by almost anything so really what you're buying is the warranty, so it's not worth worrying about.
Yep, although the new one you buy is likely even worse than the old one...
Wish I saw this before my a-levels physics exam🙁
6:45 it's italian, it says: the multiple plugs must be changed after 2 years
Yes. Is the joke.
2:41 To be fair here. In opposite to you, he has a layer of leather in between.
I doubt that'll do much with that kind of voltage.
Hey ElectroBOOM, have you ever seen those videos of people managing to display video signals on their oscilloscopes? It might be a good idea to experiment with, hoping you have old analog composite or component cables (the YWR, or RGB ones) and a video source. Or maybe doing it in reverse and seeing if you can just turn any old television you may have laying around into some sort of x-y oscilloscope?
2:16 You’re just testing death aren’t you?
I've been waiting for another episode for so long.
When Mehdi read the Italian part, actually made me laugh my ass off. That's not because I laugh for stupidity, but I was laughing because I'm Italian and that phrase took me
lamo same
You killed this one! Thank you for the learning and entertainment :)
6:18 this actually a cool mind hullucination thing
its made so you can hear the stomping without any sound
It doesn't work for everyone
6:12 If you watch this video in complete silence, you can hear the sound of the prop landing.
Doesn't work for everyone.
Cant believe this man is still uploading. What a legendary guy!
7:29 🤸 ooAA-
Electroboom is a genius and a madman
3:20 very good!
Thanks for your wonderful videos. I had to play the "tesla gloves" part a few times. I dont think I've laughed so hard in my life.
I LOVE seeing the copper vaporized and the green plasma it creates when the lightning discharge hits the wire. All of that smoke left behind is the vaporized copper.
Maybe the question about the power-strip should have specified that they're talking about the surge protector? Or have I been lied to and the MOV in surge protectors *doesn't* wear out over time from "small" spikes?
Disclaimer: This is from my experience with good and bad power strips, obviously I cannot confirm if a particular brand or model is well built or not, even the same make and model that I have may have undergone major design changes or be outsourced from a different factory.
Always do your own research, check the reviews, google the model (use the barcode if available) to see if there was a recall, suspect if the price is too good to be true...
It wears out very slowly unless the mains supply is really "dirt" but in a good power strip (or whatever application) design it's usually not the end of the world because each MOV will be in series with a ceramic/plastic housing thermal fuse which is mechanically clamped to the body of the MOV via heat shrink tubing or some similar method, in this way as soon as the varistor approaches the temperature at which the plastic of the strip could begin to soften, the fuse opens, interrupting the flow of current through the MOV and rendering the strip unusable.
That is the case with any power strip manufactured or distributed by well-known manufacturers of electrical and computer equipment.
Even if there is no thermal fuse, nothing serious should happen if the plastic casing and the other components of the power strip are made of fire retardant materials, in which case the MOV will disintegrate into dust or just explode depending on gravity of the glitch, but just making some crackling noise and releasing some magical smoke.
If you have an unknown brand or you suspect that it may be an imitation, you may have to disassemble it to see how it is built, the good quality ones have screws, even if they have security heads and cannot be easily removed, if the case halves are welded/glued it can be assumed that it is so cheaply made that they couldn't even afford the screws and/or don't want you to see how poorly built it is.
Some of these low quality ones can even degrade in a few months exposed to sunlight (even through a glass window) and although at first glance they appear to be in good condition and may have not discolored, when you go to pick them up in your hand the plastic will disintegrate leaving you holding the exposed live (deadly) conductors.
5:59 (short circuit clouds) collaboration with xyla foxlin? 🤔
I had my physics gcse test today and your Channel has helped me a lot I wanted to thank you
That bench vice looks perfectly positioned to ruin an elbow. Another great video. Some very good chuckles.
3:31 That is so cool
It might be better to say that electricity 'prefers' the path of lowest resistance. If it 'always' chooses the 'shortest distance' a Jacobs Ladder couldn't work 😜
Ok boomer
@@andreimadalin6207 ok electroBoomer
was going to say path of least resistance. the ionized gas has less resistance. Since it gets hot it rises, however it is still less resistance than the non-ionized air, so the arc is sustained even though the distance is longer.
I learn a lot watching these. Thank you Mehdi
6:12 in Italy, when there is a black out, we say that "the current jumped"... well now we know why!
I still know nothing about how electricity works but i could watch these videos for hours
u in fact can 😀
I can help you with that in seconds... Go grab a fork, then let me know when you're ready for the next steps.
I've learned from these videos that electricity is blue, comes from wall socket and hurts like hell.
@@suburbanraider
what is blue is the ionized heated gas that the charge passes through.
It would have different color in different gases.
Ok
1:36 yeahhhhhhhh!
haven't even gotten twenty seconds in, but i've instantly got a huge grin on my face.
i love your videos, Mehdi. now we just need to work on getting more of them, please?
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loved it as always 🙂 - keep going Mr Mehdi :)
Mehdi, you are better at reacting than like 95% of reacting channels!
I did not laugh so hard in quite a while...
6:34 oh boy... that's how Matrix started...
5:31 Was I the only one screaming in my head "GET DOWN GET DOWN GET DOWN GET DOWN GET DOWN"?
I see you really like the digital scopes. Yea they can do FFT and cool stuff but there's something special about a real CRO seeing the waveform's actual shape in realtime with no digital distortion that I love.
I have a Tektronics 2467B that has a time base of as low at 500pS /div. That means you can view a waveform so quick that light has only traveled 1.5 meters by the time the trace goes from one side of the screen to the other. Pretty amazing to see GHz with a CRO.
5:11 I can’t believe my post actually made it into a latity video! Let’s get to 10 millions subs!!
Actually, power strips do you have an expiration date. Specifically, the power strips that are surge protectors. How long depends upon the strip and what quality of power you’re dealing with. Two years is a little short, but I’d replace them all after five years.
I love the picture they have of you in their special guest tab haha
Love this guy!!
@ElectroBOOM 2:01 That's why the glove. Although having your fingers unprotected certainly makes for a more entertaining viewing experience.
@@user-nb5jn5ru5tscamer
When Medhi tries to short the heavens, all hell do is trip the ground fault of the skies. So if the sun ever goes out, you know who the blame!
The skies/heaven has NO ground fault interrupts, you get ELECTROBOOMed!
Great video! Thanks Mhehdhi!
I love your videos man. You always make my day
1:07 So, a Jacob's ladder with GFCI?
When you address the new Veritasium video about power not traveling in wires, can you address why 120V/60Hz power does not electrocute you until you touch the wires?
Good question, I say.
Thank you for another fun installment of Latity.
regarding that hop on one foot post. when lightning struck 50 feet away i started to hopscotch immediately. it may be a primal instinct from natural selection from some primeval time when lightning was more common
It's kinda sad how his video ends soon
5:43 yesterday a neighbour's got hit by a lightning
😢 oh
@@joysonbaretto3690 don't worry, there is only a very small damage on the roof
your videos make my day, so god damn hilarious to watch
I love the picture of Mhedi on the Keysight website
4:20 , i'll be that guy , reading the description of the "total shield" , all it does , it DETECT , not PROTECT.
(There is nothing to protect from anyway)
wrong, you didnt read all of it. it says "... will detect, INTERRUPT and ELIMINATE ..." (but yeah it is fake)
@@_tophat Oh , oops , i see it , thank you.
The path most traveled...the Mehdiway
Keep these coming!
You are the only youtuber that makes me happy
1:50 Fun fact: Those "sparks" cool off so quickly, he doesn't feel anything but a tickle. You can even hold your hand in front of it without it being painful! Electric sparks are something different. They are actually very dangerous, because there are also bigger parts of metal flying off that won't cool down very fast.
Those sparks come from the fine metal powder that is spontaneously combusting in ambient oxygen as it's being sprayed. It's not going to be painful for short durations but: 1. your skin will be covered with burned metal powder (rust) and 2. if you stay under it long enough, it will burn... like the spark spray from an angle grinder can easily ignite your clothes if you're not careful about where you aim the spray.
If electricity passes through the shortest path, why does it go throw both in parallel 10 Ohms and 20 Ohms instead of just the 10 Ohms?
Because electricity takes every path, not just the shortest.
Well they didn't say it ONLY takes the shortest path
When you have unlimited current available from your power supply the 10 ohm resistor will pass all the current it can. But the power supply still has current available so the 20 ohm resistor will pass whatever current it can.
So what if your power supply is current limited to below what the 10 ohm resistor can pass. How much will go through the 20 ohm resistor, if any. That is a really good question.
@@ecospider5 cool! So it's basically because there is a limited amount of electrons? Or more like a fraction of a nano second or something the resistance goes up to balance the flow or something like that?
He has another video where he explains that the amount of current is inversely proportional to the resistance. But yeah, a valid point against that sentence which is incorrect and misleading.
6:51 I'm rolling on the floor hahaha! Ani? Ani means arse whole in italian😂😂
Awesome video and entertaining 💙 and regarding veritasium :
I think it just due to change in electric potential at the rod which leads to change in magnetic flux which in turn induced electric current at source.
Thank you for your persistance! Any chance of a garment with the Rectifier logo on it?
Who else's google assistant got triggered?
0:38
Mine
Me
I actually talked to a employee from Keysight technology in Santa Rosa. All I had to do is mention ElectroBOOM and he started l laughing and said I love watching that guy.
I know it’s a good day when I see you have uploaded
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You are FIRST congratulations on this amazing performance you get 🥇🏆🍾🥂👏🇨🇦 You were so fast to click!
I needs this man to be my teacher, his way of explaining things is astronomical
My favorite part is the power in the ear and light bub because he pissed off the trickster and love the power lines playing jump rope. I fell out of my chair laughing at those sneaky power lines
Happy new year
Indeed my favorite CZcamsr
The hopping on one foot thing is hilarious... but actually accurate.
i made a taser glove too it has a button in the plam so that you can shock what you grab
You see GreatScott’s more efficient Full Bridge rectifier? Good stuff and right up your alley.
6:25 I bought couples to rectify.
The principle behind is that they have fluffy conductive threads that expands due to repulsion when charged with static electricity. Similar principle to why hair raises up when charged in the attempt to mitigate charge from pointy objects.
Although surface area of those is no where near enough to prevent any static charge build up.
Thank you for blessing my feed beautiful electric eyebrow man
was a pleasure to listen Mehdi talking italian...thank u master
Yaay! Another video in the topic, I was awaiting since the reply video dropped.
you can use different gas compositions in the air to direct electricity though, and also arcs are longer than straight lines.
My only complaint with this channel is he doesn’t post enough.😂 We need more of this stuff!!!
6:43 the post sayes: the powerbars need to be changed or substitute after 2 years of use.
(It was in Italian)
That Capacitor outfit makes you look super different! 😲Perfect representation!, plus it really shows that higher frequencies will pass easier