Will A Solar Beam Reflect or Melt A Mirror?
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You NEED to see what Vantablack looks like under this much light 🤯
great idea
It would look like it was on fire.
Great idea 👍🏼
Ask Anish kapoor really nicely
@@MercurialCorsair Vantablack is made from carbon nanotubes and carbon does have a very high melting point. It's a decent curiosity. Could catch fire or just smolder, who knows.
My son Jack wants to see what the solar scorcher does under a full moon. I'm a little curious too!
I stand by that idea
Mike Nay
So you’re suggesting they bounce the sunlight off the moon then through the fresnel...great idea Jack!
I wonder if a super moon would be any better than a regular full moon?
This has my vote!
Hmmmmm, Nothing! You can try a flashlight it would be even brighter than the moon, moon is a reflector of the sun light
Are you proposing mooncooked popcorn?
@@TBC256 YES THAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN!!!!!!!!
The follow up science behind the mirrors breaking:
All the mirrors used were second surface mirrors, meaning the part that actually reflects the beam is under the clear glass. Because the focused beam has to go through the glass bounce off the reflective surface then go through the glass again it should be no surprise that the glass melts/breaks the same way a normal piece of glass would break. If anything you are adding more energy/heat into the glass as the beam is not passing through the glass. You also have to consider any spec of dust or streak on the glass or tiny imperfection in the glass also absorbs the heat.
This is why optics for things like lasers use first surface mirrors, where the reflective portion of the mirror is on top. These mirrors absorb very little energy as it is mostly reflected.
Second surface mirrors are used because re-polishing a reflective metal surface, which is not nearly as scratch resistant as glass, is much harder than cleaning a piece of glass. So in general used as something to see your self in etc second surface mirrors are much more durable and cheaper to manufacture, but are not suited for energy reflection.
Jeremy B you’re smart
Thanks, appreciate the info man 🙏
glad I read down to your post as I was thinking the same
Did you copy that straight off the internet
@@jedidahfrederick2025 no, just 20+ years of working with high energy equipment like lasers well into the thousands of watts. First surface/second surface mirror knowledge is fairly basic and necessary even in very low powered laser usage as a laser reflected off a second surface mirror is going to diffuse, not have a predictable path and depending on wave length will produce an unwanted "ghost" reflection traveling at a different angle. All that is fine if you're only using it for a toy laser that will draw patterns on your wall etc. However for any kind of scientific work , precision work (making holograms etc) or as stated in my original reply, for high powered lasers/beams, a second surface mirror would never be an option.
seriously would love to see a quartz (or other crystal) in the solar scorcher!!!
You guys should try deep frying steel wool Please.
It’s gonna sizzle steel wool isn’t gonna catch fire in a fluid it might grow a bit that’s it
Have they deep fried styrofoam?
Family Nolte and lollipop
drippingwax I wish I knew the answer but I don’t know 🤷♂️
Y'all have so many years of bad luck
Missed opportunity: try it with a first surface mirror.
Edit: and not a $2 acrylic locker mirror. A real optical quality mirror.
I second this. Cheap glass on cheap mirrors had impurities like iron in the glass making it a suboptimal material for this. A first surface mirror would eliminate that variable and truly test the ability of mirrors to reflect such a concentrated sunbeam.
Yeah those are the kind of mirrors you get in primary school when you first learn about how light reflects
11.8m Subscribers. You guys can afford a real mirror...
@@Krystalmyth Would be awesome to have them demonstrate how to make too. Like pottery materials maybe? Glass blower or shop maybe? Cody's Lab for chemical silvering or even golding a mirror. Maybe others who like the Thought Emporium or more likely someone with a larger electrospray or plasma deposition system... thinking forensics lab might have a larger system to vapor deposition or even an astronomy lab.
I love how dedicated they are to these experiments, def gets me going in the morning before work! Thanks guys!
what if you Point it at a solar Panel and measure the power Output until it is detroyed (?)
Backyard Scientist did this.
Matt H That was much more reckless But much more fun
Backyard scientist did this already
that would be cool but expensive
That would destroy that panel
Can you turn a blender into a vacuum chamber and blend things in a vacuum?
Can you blend a smoothie in a vacuum?
You would have to put the entire blender in a vac chamber. Blenders aren't actually airtight
You can make em airtight I put pressure in it and make smoothies it makes them smoother by basically crushing the ice with pressure
@@ezrabrannen6677 you can't make a blender airtight without making it not a blender anymore. Also gonna press X to doubt on that.
That sounds really cool, and super difficult to pull off ... like marshmallows in a vacuum .. lots of things outgas ,, but none the less this sounds like a VERY interesting idea. Its kinda the perfect project for TKOR
Yall should show us a liquid at its triple point... PLEASE!!!😭😭😭
Lmao Joe rogan Neil Degrass Tyson podcast (butchered name)
Cody's lab has done that
supercritical CO2 YASSSSS
@nic11101 bruh
@nic11101 No
Did anyone else see the rainbow in the flame/smoke? 06:07 and 06:13-06:20 and 09:20
OLI 27 of course because that's exactly how rainbows are created, Whight light be refracted by water. Which is why rainbows only occur when it's sunny and rainy
Light is basically made out your so called mirror
@@Shorkii. white*
YESSSS!!!
It’s satisfying
This was literally all just smoke and mirrors.
Yeah
Hey-O!
Get outta here
Try to Cook full meal for dinner by sun in survival way
I mean you dont have to try, companies make solar grills
Yasz
Qiq e
Sun stove
Black spray paint might work with the solar scorcher because there's color so it'll absorb more heat from it
I ignited a black piece of rubber with round 0,33 l bottle full of water
Thats true
Or that flex seal stuff.
10,000 brain-thinking points!
I just wished they'd try to explode the aerosol cans.
Should strive the usage of dry ice as a cooling agent. May extend the existence of the replicate assuming thermal shock doesnt kick in.
dry ice-cooled pc
It will ring really loud and possibly break.
I always watch your videos when I’m anxious
And tell ya what, it helps bring a smile on my face, and makes me less anxious 🤗
Here's a challenge for you. Try to create Bose-Einstein condensate using commonly available materials.
Lmao nice. First comment so far that I've laughed at. Thank you
What happens if you put a water balloon in a vacuum chamber? It'd be cool to see it in the freeze dryer too.
Edit: Or rather, try out different liquids in a balloon in the freeze dryer and vacuum chamber, and also deep fry?
These other ideas belong to the people in the replies :P
Maddie C they’ve already done balloon is vacuum chamber, but no freeze dryer. it would be interesting if they did different types of liquids in a balloon in a vacuum chamber or freeze dryer
And deep fryed😂
They should try to use the solar beam to try to cook food like steak or chicken!!!! LOL
@@andyg.6082 actually look into solar ovens I had built one from foil backed fiberglass insulation, cardboard, polycarbonate, foil backed ducting tape, a brick or 2 and some black spraypaint and it would reach cooking Temps in excess of 500 degrees f the best pan to cook meats/eggs on in the solar over was a black pan or cast iron, grey was best for making bread products and avoid the glass pans
It will expand and bubbles of air will appear until it explodes and water starts to boil quickly, if you continues removing air it will freeze.
What happens if you shine solar scorcher in a welding mask
Gregor Schweiger
It would probably burn a hole in the mask lens within a few seconds.
@@Tux.Penguin I'm with you right there.
Gregor Schweiger l
I'm glad they were wearing sunglasses but they prolly wouldn't last long in that beam, either.
It will melt, but yes, it will be amazing to see this experiment being done!!
Lovin the home DIY kit. Pretty creative
You guys should throw/fly a foam rc plane through that.
5:55 "this is your hairspray" Nate get exposed 😂
btw I'm just kidding guys chill out
there's absolutely nothing wrong with a guy using hairspray
Lol
?
Lmaooooo
She meant the hair spray they were using
guys use hairspray all the time, child
I miss gant Thompson i wish he never passed away 😭😭
Would love to see you guys make a diy solar cooker... I've seen a few commercially available ones.
You should try heating sand with the solar scorcher. Maybe it'll make glass?
If it makes glass, it's probably the glass that you find on a beach, meaning there will be some impurities (probably) in the glass.
Yes, that has been done by someone else on CZcams a few years ago.
Yes it does work.
There is an artistic that makes sculptures with sand melted by the sun
*this litteraly reminded me of how you make glass in Minecraft*
J Kane Who did it? Can you link the video?
Love your vids and can you mix liquid nitrogen and liquid aluminum together
Lol i have commented that sooo manyy times
nothing happens
German Espinosa the aluminium solidifies
Type that into the youtube search and a backyard scientist video will pop up. Hes done exactly what you asked
@@ivanemilov522 yup
Entertaining videos- i really like what you do, thanks.
"Still warming up sir!"
"Warming up?!... The sun is WARMIMG UPP???
One second more and... Just a tippy tappy tippy tap tap tip top more... And we are ready in just a few... Hang on one second...
For the aerosol spray to ignite when you spray, you will have to mix the aerosol with some kind of color. So when the magnifying light hits it, it wont reflect thru like the clear aerosol spray. It's like water, the heat light will just go thru the clear aerosol without being contact to a color aerosol spray. Try dyeing the aerosol to a different color and maybe it will ignite
Can you test the whitest brightest paint and Venta black against the scorcher?! 🤔🤔
Vanta Black isn't commercially available, but they could test Black 2.0 which is the next best thing. However, it would just light on fire in a matter of seconds. Not much to test there.
That would be sweet! I was thinking Titanium Dioxide since I'd use as 99% diffuse reflectance NIR standard along with others that make with sintered or powdered PTFE.
Could you transport solar power and burn wood using fiber optic cable?
It would burn the cable, the same way it burnt the mirror . The cable can transport many wavelengths of light but the ones it can't burn it.
Aiden Harris So filter out the wavelengths it can’t? I wonder if it would still be hot enough to cook but not enough to melt the internal reflective surface of the fiber optic cable.
You could also split it between multiple strands.
This is an interesting idea. Definitely worth trying. Don’t listen to the guy just writing it off as a bad idea.
@@empanada65 Thanks Carlos. You're right. It may or may not work, that's why we experiment.
Mixed results at best. Use a laser instead
I would so love to have one of those solar scorchers as you call it. Got rid of my projector-tv a long time ago.
Put a marshmallow in liquid nitrogen then put it in the oven
Charizard09 what does it fo
@Justin McCoy he doesnt know, thats why he asked em to do it
Why doesn’t anyone how to spell?
Charizard09 so nat can eat it
So how many years bad luck is that? What 5, 6 mirrors? 35 to 42 years?
Nice try but no one believes that nonsense anymore except people currently 80 or older and Catholics.
do the mirrors dare face the sun when it comes to bad luck? seeing as it was the suns concentrated energy destroying them. and by concentrated the energy does not even equal 1 Decillionth of the suns true power, perhaps even a Decillionth of a Decillionth of its full power. (a Decillion is 10 to the power of 33 short scale)
r/Woooosh?
49 years
@@timothyneiswander3151 r/woooosh
Been watching a couple of vids today, one from Chris Ramsay and the other from The Action Lab, both talking about a True Mirror. You guys should play with one, maybe make one life size! Love you guys!
I love you guys and all the stuff you are doing ❤️❤️❤️😃
Hi TKOR! can you freeze-dry suncream to make a soap bar?
Lmao
what?
I heard that Acrylic Nails were very flammable. Could you guys please do a video just on Acrylic Nails? Thanks, that would be a lot.
😄😛😀
How tremendous is paint at dissipating thermal energy. Blackest black vs whitest white.
Jame Andy maybe action lab can try it.
Time to sponsor some Vantablack!
Jame Andy ថៃ
Do you mean absorb?
Light based heat?
That ending with the Jaden Smith quote. VERY funny!!
Love the vid
First btw
You didn’t:t even watch it full yet xD
@@buppy599 lol
I was just watching your last video and this notification popped up😂Perfect timing
Thank You Very Much for answering my question about using a reflector after the lens to cook. I'm trying to solve the "problem" of solar cookers taking so long to cook normal grilling foods. IMO You proved that sun light CAN be reflected to a cooking surface successfully BUT the reflector is ABSORBING too much energy and will fail. IMO you also proved that the reflected energy is less than the energy being absorbed by the reflector. I really appreciate this experiment.
The spray can test probably didn't ignite because the spray isn't dense enough to effectively transfer/contain heat. It's the same reason insulated clothing is usually full of air. Think wool and puffy jackets.
always love the vids! :)
at 1:14 tell us what happened to your right hand thumb bro
I scrolled down just to see if anyone had commented about it lol
Ikr
Looks like he had a blister there that rubbed off.
Uh thats his left hand
XxCross_ CharaxX no
Very nice! Please try this with a "first surface"mirror. Instead of the light passing through and heating up the glass, then hitting the reflective coating, a first surface mirror has the reflective part exposed to the air. Then the glass is behind it. I think some telescope mirrors are like this.
hi Calli and Nate! My sister and I love watching your videos and she had the idea to make s’mores with your solar scorcher and maybe see if you can get a aerosol propelled can of shaving cream to explode by putting it under the solar scorcher. She also wants to see other random experiments with shaving cream.
Try using black spraypaint. Black absorbs light much better. Would be very interesting to see
next time i want to see a cooling system made for those mirror, specifically made to keep them from over heating and shattering
who loves when someone shows you part of a video and then three years later you see the same video
You guys should point the solar scorcher at a solar panel. Test 2 things if it can withstand the heat and to see if there is a difference in the output of electricity.
Quick question:What happens when you use a glass(Eg. :window glass) instead of a reflective mirrors?I'm just curious🤷♂
You guys should try to make your own mirror.
You can make a super weapon with this no sun is even needed!
That result with the little crater is awesome, because it demonstrates the energy that's actually hitting the mirror. Because it melted the glass, then pushed it into a crater, to make that little lip. So, it demonstrates how concentrating the mass of the photons the light is composed of can actually make it physically push things.
3:48 spider runs down her leg, I thought that was a spider in my room lol
Wait what
@@broccloi A bit before that. At like 3:41 just keep looking at her leg...
TANKS how tf do u see thet
Know what? I would love to see a measurement of a solar energy cell absorbing the solar beam.
3:38 Those are some beautiful flames !
When you do it with your friends it's just hacking around. When you put it on video, it's science. Very interesting video.
I always love your experiments 🤘
Well, because Wobbuffet can use Mirror Coat to reflect a Solar Beam, yes.
The King of Random used Solarbeam!
It’s super effective!
Old video, but still, CRAZY! Could you then take the focal point and use the lenses from the projection tv and/or prisms to convert it into a beam you could aim in any direction?
My heart is still melted by the passing of the true King of Random :(
Move on brother. The king would be upset if you are still mourning for him.
Jared Toh In memory, long live the King! Skål!
We should move on and focus on the present and future
He is with the power of light itself
Get a bucket or bowl of water and and make it boil by the solar beam
Not interesting/fun
In the Northeast of Brazil is very common to have mirror or sun “stoves”
The concept is basically the same , you use a reflective surface to heat up and cook food.
Greetings from Brazil 🇧🇷!
6:08 Rainbow Smoke! 😲
Can you guys try to “fry “popcorn in the pan they u had.
You should invite Gav from The Slow Mo Guys and do this again!
or u can ask them to make such video by themselves
@@rahmanrejepov4283 or invite Gav who is a professional at what he does and has the equipment instead then have them buy all the equipment themselves.
How fast would pressure treated wood take to light on fire
6:05 the mirror is making the fire colorful!!!
After this video they have like 1000 years of bad luck😂
no
@@weiner3393 no
@@weiner3393 Yes. That's how mirrors work. Magical artifacts they are
@@LuckyOwI777 no
@@weiner3393 You apparently have not done your research into how mirrors work, my friend. You have no knowledge of the magical properties that they posses
What about spraying like liquid oxygen or something really really flammable into the focal point
Oxygen itself isn't flammable but it speeds up the burning or combustion of other things
Super Stefanovich liquid oxygen is
Perspective No it isn’t he just said that. Oxygen is an Oxidizer which means it aids in the combustion of other compounds. It isn’t flammable itself.
Frankenwood have u seen the vid where he lit liquid oxygen on fire
Oxygen ain’t flammable. Hydrogen is your word
I think this would be a lot of fun to do again with Cody and more mirrors. Also, what about igniting thermite with the sun?
Could you use the scorcher to heat steel to a forging temperature?
Your guys should put broken glass or mirror in a crucible and put it under the solar beam and see if u can fully melt it??
What would happen if you used the solar beam on oobleck?
it... would burn.
@@Xeryun lol
It burns
dry out and char.
You need to try making glass sculptures using the solar scorcher. Even just to melt some glass rods.
Interesting additional experiments: 1) use a high quality, high reflectivity first surface mirror, 2) use a dish of mercury instead of mirror, 3) use a dish of (thalium?) instead of mirror, 4) place different colored films on the fresnel lens.
Humans: I wish I could harness the power of the sun!
TKOR: YOU HAVE THE POWER!!!
You are aware that Photovoltaik exist, right?
*I don't know about Melting a Mirror*
but what I DO know is that Solar Beam can make other Pokemons faint
I want to see some experiments with powdered Coffee Mate. That stuff is supposed to be super flammable!
I had a similar experience. Have you tried a first surface mirror where the silver is on the top of the glass?
What happens if you put bilistic gell under the heat glass will it make a hole in it or will it start on fire
Heat glass? Really?
Yep
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Now that you have tried mirrors, I really want to see metal and how if it will reflect the light or if it will actually melt. Like try a small aluminum sheet, steel sheet, copper sheet, and maybe tin. See how those work under the sun. Then see if after, you can do something similar to today with the popcorn but put the popcorn directly in the initial sun.
Who watch this in 2019 r.ı.p
What happens if you spray water through the beam using a hose?
I wanna see that
The beam gets wet.
That answered the question I had been wondered for the whole childhood of mine
Wouldn't have minded seeing the ignition effects in proper slow-mo. You guys should collab with The Slo-Mo Guys, would be fantastic to see what you could come up with.
@the king of random can you make a big/huge Hershey's cookies 'n' cream
I have bad news
Hey, just wondering if you’ve ever opened up a hard drive and have taken the plates out. They’re polished metal.. so if you used these as reflectors, world they last better than mirrors?
No.
The best Jiffypop popcorn I've ever had was cooked on top of an up-turned ARRI 650 studio light with the barn door fixture removed.
Ya know, I would love you guys to make a *MASSIVE SOLAR OVEN* ! 😀😀
You should get a parabolic lens and put it in the focus of the scorcher. Lightbeam ftw
Take it out, i wanna see it. - caali 2019
Is that supposed to sound wrong if not sorry.....
@@timikobilyeu9908 yep it is
It would be cool to try a parabolic mirror with the solar scorcher
Would you create a touchable rainbow if you used the solar scorcher to focus light through a prism that is sitting on a mirror?