Hey, "But Why", I know that you're getting less views for your this quality content(s), but please never stop uploading, I love your channel, I watch all of your videos, I learn so much from this channel which I wish I knew in my school days. Power to you. Praying that you soon reach 1 million.
I appreciate that. I don't plan on stopping. However, I've been moving around lately and starting research at a new institute in a new city so I think the time between videos will get stretched out a bit.
Well, nature had 4 billion years to perfect that, and we've been building automated factories fo less than a century. Who knows what we'll be cable of in another hundred years. For me, it's more remarkable, that we managed understand that in the first place.
@@laierr True, but compared to factories it still is a rather cack handed way to store energy; why not use that excess light energy to shove electrons into a storage medium directly into an electron deficient system? Unless the ultimate ''goal'' is to increase entropy within the whole system as quickly as possible, into as many parts of it as possible; while keeping the entropy dumpsters going as long as possible.
Plants are not actually very efficient at converting light to energy (3% at best). But well, I just recently cut down all the tree and branches to give way to my solar arrays.
Came in to learn about photosynthesis, left with the best explanation of the second law of thermodynamics I've come across. Still left with a great understanding of photosynthesis
Best hilariously ironic thing in all of molecular biology is the fact that the first protein electrons enters during photosynthesis is called “photosystem 2” and the second protein the electrons enter is called “photosystem 1” This hilarious naming mixup was caused because “photosystem 1” was discovered and named before “photosystem 2” was. So the name was already established and couldn’t be changed. Always found this little factoid funny.
Photosynthesis is such a disgustingly/beautifully messy and complex set of biochemical reactions, jeez. Us non-producer organisms sure have it easy at least on that front, lol. Thank you for shedding light on that topic, I had to rewatch the summary of the video five times but I managed to grasp it thanks to you!
"Non-producer" is not quite right. While we don't do so internally, we have developed external processes to harness the energy of the sun that are around 10x more efficient then photosynthesis (solar panels). We even have processes to extract energy from rocks stored by distant long dead stars other then our sun (nuclear power). So as an organism, we aren't *quite* so unproductive when taken as a whole.
It's nice to get a somewhat understandable explanation of EXACTLY how the process works. I got lost after halfway through process 1 (strange that 2 is first)
It's always nice to come across a channel that doesn't constantly bombard you with the, "Smash that Like button. Leave a Comment and don't forget to Subscribe to the Channel" We know how CZcams works. We just wanna watch the video.
I very rarely comment on videos but I can't help but exclaim how underated these videos are. I had never even thought it possible to intuitively understand the Calvin cycle until I stumbled on this very channel. Wishing you the absolute best on this platform.
I’m sure this has been said many times before, but the visuals in these videos are absolutely spot-on. They’re both brilliantly explanatory and beautifully made. Thank you ❤
Hold on a second...you're telling me...plants use an exploit in Quantum mechanics or something? This channel is fucking amazing. You've earned yourself a sub, this is my 5th video and I can't stop watching and I flunked Highschool Chemistry hard dude.
Most of this video went way past my head. I love learning… I yearn to know about everything and I don’t understand why. I did not receive a formal education. Barely went to elementary school, then got my GED in my mid 20s. I’m so pissed that I didn’t have a proper opportunity to learn about the things that excite me, similar to the way those electrons were excited by photons. I am a gypsy and school is not encouraged with my people. Maybe... just maybe, I could’ve made something of my life. If anyone is reading this that is undecided, learn as much as you can but, remember that without a degree, it’s all for not.
I just discovered your channel and I’m in love haha, the animations are just perfect, the way I literally closed my eyes or zoned out for minutes while reading my science textbooks just to imagine all the diagrams in movement and all this processes and you’ve animated them just like I imagined them! I hope you get recommended more and more, this is the best science channel ever!
There's actually a TedEd video about the Calvin Cycle which does a great job at explaining how the regeneration of RuBP works. Granted, it's a little cartoonish, and you don't get proper chemical structures, but the explanation itself is pretty clever.
You are a master at making compelling 3D visual explanations of complex subjects dude. Best of luck with this channel and your research :) i've subbed already
Absolutely amazing work, so deep and clear narrative that does not underestimate viewer, you really deserve 100x subs & views.. I can't imagine how much work you must do to create even single part on one video!
I love this channel, because it connects what we learn quite abstractly (Physics & Chemistry) with the real world. Always had an interest how the real world and quantum world work together
I have NEVER seen an animation as incredible as this to explain a biochemical process. This is absolutely astonishing! May I ask - What software did you use? I'm starting to learn animation for educational purposes and this here is a masterpiece. Thank you so much for your content.
I read 3+646/1000 and thought he is commited if he gets partial views. Then I realized you are probably from a country where the comma and period are switched for numbers and that was 3 thousand and 646. Not as fun but more likely.
Been watching your videos for some time. But only now I actually wondered how many views and subscribers you have. And oh my god was I surprised! I couldn't believe my eyes! I like education channels like yours, but only your channel managed to properly explain relativity and gravitation to me! That was a huge revelation! And after that seeing you with only 59k subs makes me feel really sad! I hope the time will soon come for your channel to blow up with views and subs, because you somehow manage to explain everything in a way that leaves no question based on poor understanding! All the best to you! Keep doing that good stuff!
I wanted to cry @9:13 when he said "no one wants to explain this step" ... Dude I've been searching on YT for a week now and only this video managed to explain to me why it's not included.
Awesome video, the animation and editing makes it easy for those easily distracted to follow. Not that I have that problem but still. Lovely, keep going and you'll be able to educate millions in a not so distant future. Liked and Subscribed.
It is the starting point for almost all energy of all living things on Earth. The only other sources are radioactive decay and thermal energy from core of the Earth its self, which is maintained almost exclusively by radioactive decay.
so, its not just making O2 and sugars.... it is literally ripping hydrogen atoms apart into protons and electrons. and then using those protons and electrons to make sugars, and oxygen is a waste product. pretty awesome. thank you for this explanation.
Its mind boggling that nature through millions of years of evolution can create such complex and delicate processes. The human brain is probably the most complex systems nature has ever created
I studied biology in high-school and always loved it. photosynthesis was hard to gasp but interesting nonetheless though lately I've come to admire chemosynthesis studying how this organism work could lead us in the search for extra terrestrial life even terraforming in otherwise inhospitable planets.
To get a good, basic graso of the Calvin cycle, I recommend Ted-Ed's explanation of the Calvin Cycle to see how the regeneration is done and the numbers involved.
This is so crazy to think about early cellular life just happened to stumble across this process in only a couple million years after they were created
@@ButWhySci Oh my ! I already had a huge huge respect for you & today you raised it even further ! God bless man ! Cheers to your work ! Edit - I'm a big fan of you ! 💯
Am I the only one who sees a similarity between photosynthesis and the firing of neurons or other nerve tissue? I mean, even the shape of the pigment molecules reminded me of the shape of a neuron. Couldn't you argue that both processes are using electro-chemical potentials to do work? If I am waaaaaaaaaaaay off base with this observation, I would love to hear from someone who can explain where my train of thought is flawed. Thanks, and I love your content But Why? That question has brought me so much joy and my friends, family, teachers, co-workers, supervisors, managers as well as strangers on the bus, so much abject misery 😅 Keep up the great work.
This is like million subscriber level content quality. Youll be as big as scishow, animal logic, professor dave and minute physics before you know it if you keep it up. Just do a clickbait, dumbed down concepts video once or twice a year to get average people hooked.
So basically plants use light to crank power a complex protein clockwork machine, that turns plant food and water into whatever wizardry the ATP are and some leftover molecules to make sugar
The quantum interaction between electrons in pigments remind me of how electrons move in a wire. (Perhaps it would be more accurate to compare it to neurons firing)
So the electrons are just used to move the protons(to the lumen) and the protons are just used to convert ADP to ATP(in the ATP synthase). In photosystem 2.
Oxygen evolving complex 2 water + 4 protons(from the sun?) = 1 oxygen + 4 protons + 4 electrons Electrons > Photosystem 2 Protons > Lumen/Triggers electron movement from rxn center to cytochrome protein complex Oxygen > Waste product
Wait, I don't get it. If the antennae already absorb electrons from light, and these already go to the reaction center of Photosystem 2, why does the plant need to split water? EDIT: wait nevermind i realized that the light only gives a photon, not an electron. whoops
Cellular Respiration is really one of those cases of “how the hell did scientists figure this out??”
Yeah, we need (a) video(s) explaining how all of these processes were figured out!
Probably like a decade of observation and testing.
@@MatkatMusic war crimes will probably be apart of it
Even crazier is how this is just the way life has happened here
@@iang1650 yeah how the fuck did any of this start lol
Aw man, I can't wait til you got like 2 mil subs. This is some crazy quality content that you just can't find anywhere else.
Hey, "But Why", I know that you're getting less views for your this quality content(s), but please never stop uploading, I love your channel, I watch all of your videos, I learn so much from this channel which I wish I knew in my school days.
Power to you.
Praying that you soon reach 1 million.
I appreciate that. I don't plan on stopping. However, I've been moving around lately and starting research at a new institute in a new city so I think the time between videos will get stretched out a bit.
@@ButWhySci I really appreciate that. And, I also admire your teaching style.
Love from India.
It's remarkable to have a feeling that every cell of usual leaf is more sci-fi accurate automated factory than humans still probably have ever built
Well, nature had 4 billion years to perfect that, and we've been building automated factories fo less than a century. Who knows what we'll be cable of in another hundred years.
For me, it's more remarkable, that we managed understand that in the first place.
@@laierr Even a trillion will not be enough.
@@KingKing-ny2ew not enough fo what?
@@laierr
True, but compared to factories it still is a rather cack handed way to store energy; why not use that excess light energy to shove electrons into a storage medium directly into an electron deficient system?
Unless the ultimate ''goal'' is to increase entropy within the whole system as quickly as possible, into as many parts of it as possible; while keeping the entropy dumpsters going as long as possible.
Plants are not actually very efficient at converting light to energy (3% at best). But well, I just recently cut down all the tree and branches to give way to my solar arrays.
Came in to learn about photosynthesis, left with the best explanation of the second law of thermodynamics I've come across. Still left with a great understanding of photosynthesis
I'm just trying to comprehend it lol
I hope you're reading the comments, you've got a great future my dude, keep it up with the channel, there's nothing like this anywhere.
Best hilariously ironic thing in all of molecular biology is the fact that the first protein electrons enters during photosynthesis is called “photosystem 2” and the second protein the electrons enter is called “photosystem 1”
This hilarious naming mixup was caused because “photosystem 1” was discovered and named before “photosystem 2” was. So the name was already established and couldn’t be changed. Always found this little factoid funny.
Photosynthesis is such a disgustingly/beautifully messy and complex set of biochemical reactions, jeez. Us non-producer organisms sure have it easy at least on that front, lol. Thank you for shedding light on that topic, I had to rewatch the summary of the video five times but I managed to grasp it thanks to you!
"Non-producer" is not quite right. While we don't do so internally, we have developed external processes to harness the energy of the sun that are around 10x more efficient then photosynthesis (solar panels). We even have processes to extract energy from rocks stored by distant long dead stars other then our sun (nuclear power). So as an organism, we aren't *quite* so unproductive when taken as a whole.
we probably have chemical processes that are a 100x more complex lmao
It's nice to get a somewhat understandable explanation of EXACTLY how the process works. I got lost after halfway through process 1 (strange that 2 is first)
Photosystem 1 was discovered first, even though it is the "second" step in this particular chain of events.
"biologists", they name things in a weird way..
absolutely fascinating. i really appreciate how you get right into the subject and don't waste time in some "set up" for your topics.
This. And every process is incredibly well explained in a short period of time for anyone who doesn't study cellular biology
It's always nice to come across a channel that doesn't constantly bombard you with the,
"Smash that Like button. Leave a Comment and don't forget to Subscribe to the Channel"
We know how CZcams works.
We just wanna watch the video.
Most biochem students have Kalvin cycle-induced PTSD.
That guy: I wonder why they omit that?
That guy loves learning more that those biochem students, and is more curious about processes like that
I have never felt so enlightened watching a video about the molecular processes of nature. Extraordinary, you’re truly great at what you do
Finally, somebody to give me a good explaination, not the usual "plants take light and make good air", keep at it
I didn't expect this amount of details. Very interesting video!
I very rarely comment on videos but I can't help but exclaim how underated these videos are. I had never even thought it possible to intuitively understand the Calvin cycle until I stumbled on this very channel. Wishing you the absolute best on this platform.
WOW. I don't think I've seen such an easy and digestible explanation of a photosystem. Even in college intro biology, we just leave it at photosystem.
"Easy"
Or maybe I'm just distracted because I'm eating Doritos
I’m sure this has been said many times before, but the visuals in these videos are absolutely spot-on. They’re both brilliantly explanatory and beautifully made. Thank you ❤
Hold on a second...you're telling me...plants use an exploit in Quantum mechanics or something?
This channel is fucking amazing.
You've earned yourself a sub, this is my 5th video and I can't stop watching and I flunked Highschool Chemistry hard dude.
Most of this video went way past my head. I love learning… I yearn to know about everything and I don’t understand why. I did not receive a formal education. Barely went to elementary school, then got my GED in my mid 20s. I’m so pissed that I didn’t have a proper opportunity to learn about the things that excite me, similar to the way those electrons were excited by photons. I am a gypsy and school is not encouraged with my people. Maybe... just maybe, I could’ve made something of my life. If anyone is reading this that is undecided, learn as much as you can but, remember that without a degree, it’s all for not.
As always, best educator on youtube. His visual analogies are unmatched
I just discovered your channel and I’m in love haha, the animations are just perfect, the way I literally closed my eyes or zoned out for minutes while reading my science textbooks just to imagine all the diagrams in movement and all this processes and you’ve animated them just like I imagined them! I hope you get recommended more and more, this is the best science channel ever!
I agree with everyone. Educational videos are the BEST on CZcams. And I like your style, man.
Please grow, this is some astounding work on par with kurzgesagt and am itching for more
facts motion is on par with kurzgesagt
There's actually a TedEd video about the Calvin Cycle which does a great job at explaining how the regeneration of RuBP works. Granted, it's a little cartoonish, and you don't get proper chemical structures, but the explanation itself is pretty clever.
Quality content bro keep uploading ☺️👌👌
You are a master at making compelling 3D visual explanations of complex subjects dude. Best of luck with this channel and your research :) i've subbed already
All your videos are just excellent. The quality is of the highest standard.
Absolutely amazing work, so deep and clear narrative that does not underestimate viewer, you really deserve 100x subs & views.. I can't imagine how much work you must do to create even single part on one video!
This is mind-bogglingly good content. Just incredible.
Amazing! ...Both your video and photosynthesis.
He deserves some more subscribers man
Awesome video, by far the one of the most important reactions on earth.
These videos are magnificent, really makes you ponder about the secrets of the universe. Love you channel bro
What everyone else is saying. This is an incredible channel and you will grow! I tell everyone remotely interested to watch you
Thank you for your work! You share fabulous contents, and your ability to explain and communicate is unreal! Thank you
I love this channel, because it connects what we learn quite abstractly (Physics & Chemistry) with the real world.
Always had an interest how the real world and quantum world work together
I have NEVER seen an animation as incredible as this to explain a biochemical process. This is absolutely astonishing! May I ask - What software did you use? I'm starting to learn animation for educational purposes and this here is a masterpiece. Thank you so much for your content.
Thanks for the kind words. I use Blender. It's a great tool, I highly recommend it.
This is absolutely insane, thank you for this video
I hope this channel blows up one day. And I'll be happy to be here for that ride.
Damn, this channel is quite underrated-
How does this video only have 3.646 views? You are insanely commited to scientific accuracy and I love it!
I read 3+646/1000 and thought he is commited if he gets partial views.
Then I realized you are probably from a country where the comma and period are switched for numbers and that was 3 thousand and 646.
Not as fun but more likely.
2:10 AM here and this is what I'm watching.
Thanks my dude, this type of content doesn't exist anywhere else but here.
Wishing all the best
It's also 2 am for me lol
Been watching your videos for some time. But only now I actually wondered how many views and subscribers you have. And oh my god was I surprised! I couldn't believe my eyes! I like education channels like yours, but only your channel managed to properly explain relativity and gravitation to me! That was a huge revelation! And after that seeing you with only 59k subs makes me feel really sad! I hope the time will soon come for your channel to blow up with views and subs, because you somehow manage to explain everything in a way that leaves no question based on poor understanding! All the best to you! Keep doing that good stuff!
Photosynthesis really is quite fascinating, it's like life figured out a cheat code for energy.
I wanted to cry @9:13 when he said "no one wants to explain this step" ... Dude I've been searching on YT for a week now and only this video managed to explain to me why it's not included.
Then cry
@@phantomgamingignt6275 😭😭😭😂
@@con_el_maestro3544 😅
A fine presentation showing Entropy as a driving force for electromagnetic forces in nature 🌿🍃. 👍😊
After a long wait, finally another really good science channel here
Awesome video, the animation and editing makes it easy for those easily distracted to follow. Not that I have that problem but still. Lovely, keep going and you'll be able to educate millions in a not so distant future. Liked and Subscribed.
One of the best explanantions out there.
Interesting.. I never really thought about how mainly the energy from the sun supports most forms of life on earth
It is the starting point for almost all energy of all living things on Earth. The only other sources are radioactive decay and thermal energy from core of the Earth its self, which is maintained almost exclusively by radioactive decay.
This video is great and seriously underrated. Glad yt feed showed me.
Omg yes I am going to binge watch all of your videos
so, its not just making O2 and sugars.... it is literally ripping hydrogen atoms apart into protons and electrons. and then using those protons and electrons to make sugars, and oxygen is a waste product. pretty awesome. thank you for this explanation.
Awesome visuals about ramps powering ramps! Essentially all chemistry and physics in a nutshell
Man keep it up your content it amazing. You're going to blow up very soon
Have a biology test in a few days, even though my textbooks have more complicated information, I'm using this as a backup in case I forget everything
Its mind boggling that nature through millions of years of evolution can create such complex and delicate processes. The human brain is probably the most complex systems nature has ever created
What a time to be alive! I get this content for free. (Almost free, one always pays in one way or another)
Solid solid solid video. Thanks!
Thanks for making physical chemistry fun!
I studied biology in high-school and always loved it. photosynthesis was hard to gasp but interesting nonetheless though lately I've come to admire chemosynthesis studying how this organism work could lead us in the search for extra terrestrial life even terraforming in otherwise inhospitable planets.
4:40 This isn’t instantaneous, the speed is determined by difference in energy and wavefunction overlap. This is second semester quantum mech stuff
Great presentation.
Amazing explanation!!
To get a good, basic graso of the Calvin cycle, I recommend Ted-Ed's explanation of the Calvin Cycle to see how the regeneration is done and the numbers involved.
This is so crazy to think about early cellular life just happened to stumble across this process in only a couple million years after they were created
My god dude ! You rock !! Nice vid !
Btw can you let me know background music ?
It's my own music I create. I try to write a new melody every three videos or so.
@@ButWhySci Oh my ! I already had a huge huge respect for you & today you raised it even further ! God bless man ! Cheers to your work !
Edit - I'm a big fan of you ! 💯
@@ButWhySci Woah thats so impressive!
Feynman would totally approve your videos.
Antennae of photosystems are embedded in the lipid bilayer, not sticking out on "special membranes"
Am I the only one who sees a similarity between photosynthesis and the firing of neurons or other nerve tissue? I mean, even the shape of the pigment molecules reminded me of the shape of a neuron. Couldn't you argue that both processes are using electro-chemical potentials to do work? If I am waaaaaaaaaaaay off base with this observation, I would love to hear from someone who can explain where my train of thought is flawed. Thanks, and I love your content But Why? That question has brought me so much joy and my friends, family, teachers, co-workers, supervisors, managers as well as strangers on the bus, so much abject misery 😅 Keep up the great work.
Wow, really nice video. ❤️
I love your videos, you are a godsend!
This is like million subscriber level content quality. Youll be as big as scishow, animal logic, professor dave and minute physics before you know it if you keep it up. Just do a clickbait, dumbed down concepts video once or twice a year to get average people hooked.
It’s beyond comprehension how evolution can produce such nanomachines like photosynthesis, that operate on the quantum level.
Wow ....i am amazed by ur work... thank u thank u thank u a lot for ur videos 🙏🙏🙏
This is unique. What do you use to make the animations?
Yup this was an important thing to learn
That’s the video i needed
Damn a guy talking about science who actually knows his stuff.
can you do a video about string theory and how the frequencies change their behavior?
I love your channel.
Thank you!🙌
Dude you are fabulous
With all the unfamiliar terms being machine gunned out, this video reminded me of the process for creating a plumbus from Rick & Morty.
Thank You
Good job mate
6:02 "it spins"
So we can attach a dynamo there to generate even more power!! /s
So basically plants use light to crank power a complex protein clockwork machine, that turns plant food and water into whatever wizardry the ATP are and some leftover molecules to make sugar
Love the animations!
I love you literally
Love your videos... Just can't get enough..😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘
Great animation
Thanks
This man is on the right track
It kinda blows my mind.
The quantum interaction between electrons in pigments remind me of how electrons move in a wire. (Perhaps it would be more accurate to compare it to neurons firing)
So the electrons are just used to move the protons(to the lumen) and the protons are just used to convert ADP to ATP(in the ATP synthase). In photosystem 2.
Oxygen evolving complex
2 water + 4 protons(from the sun?) = 1 oxygen + 4 protons + 4 electrons
Electrons > Photosystem 2
Protons > Lumen/Triggers electron movement from rxn center to cytochrome protein complex
Oxygen > Waste product
Calvin Cycle
[Carbon fixation]: (3) Carbon dioxide(+(3) preproduct) > Rubisco > product 1
Product 1 + ATP(from photosystem 2) = product 2
[Reduction]: product 2 + NADPH(from photosystem 1) = (6) product 3 (+ NADP+)
[Regeneration]: (5) product 3 + 3 ATP = 3 preproduct (via a very complex reaction)
(1) Product 3 goes on to make bigger sugars(glucose?)
Preproduct: Ribulose Biphosphate(aka ribulose sugar) (what is the 1.5?)
Product 1: Phosphoglycerate (3?)
Product 2: biPhosphoglycerate (1.3?)
Product 3: Glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate (aka phosphoglyceraldehyde aka PGAL) (aka G3P at Khan Academy)
Water and sunlight to create ATP and NADPH.
Carbon dioxide(and ATP and NADPH) to create sugars.
This is so good!
this is some high quality shit man gimme more
Wait, I don't get it. If the antennae already absorb electrons from light, and these already go to the reaction center of Photosystem 2, why does the plant need to split water? EDIT: wait nevermind i realized that the light only gives a photon, not an electron. whoops
...almost forgot: Thank You :)