Comments by "VE7NDE" (@denelson83) on "Veritasium" channel.

  1. Hey, he gave math and science a new ton of ideas.
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  2. 25:28 - "So, tell me how that makes any cents". You mean dollars, right?
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  3. But capitalism will not cooperate.
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  4. That physics professor essentially wants you to repeat that experiment, with different types of measurements.
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  5. Try to address the root cause of climate change and Big Oil will instantly exterminate your efforts in a bid to protect its profits.
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  6. That's the point. See how much easier the metric system is?
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  7. XXY must mean Klinefelter's syndrome.
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  8. Because that's a circular definition. The temperature of a fluid and the atmospheric pressure on the fluid determine its density, and pressure is defined based on mass.
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  9.  @arthurg.machado6803  And what is force? It's mass multiplied by acceleration.
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  10. Yeah, she thought the bible was a textbook.
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  11. So, I guess all these experiments that gather data from watt balances could be called "Kibbles n'Bits n'Bits n'Bits".
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  12. 0:21 - The caption says "shitfed".
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  13. Caught a mistake at 14:16 - That -(1/8)×(x^4/4) term on the second line should actually be -(1/8)×(x^5/5).
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  14. Basically, e = hf.
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  15.  @terrymcmiller3513  The IPK walked the Planck.
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  16. Why not test to 2^69 instead? And then once that's done, test it to 2^70, etc.
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  17.  @jmodified  Also, why not try other prime factors in the rules, such as 5x + 1, 7x + 1, 11x + 1, etc.
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  18. It was calculated, not directly measured. Tried synchronizing your clocks using GPS? And have you tried putting an observer, such as a second, semi-silvered mirror, at the halfway point? It would reflect half the light back, and let the rest of the light through to bounce off the second mirror, so you could leverage the two-way speed of light measurements in a certain way. And then repeat this experiment in the exact opposite direction. Essentially this could be called the "Einstein simultaneity crisis".
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  19. Derek already mentioned that in his previous schlieren video.
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  20. Does this have something to do with something called a phase-locked loop?
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  21. Scanimate was probably the most famous analogue computer.
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  22. You can actually see some schlieren with your unaided eye. If you leave a car out in the Sun with its windows up for a prolonged period of time and then open one of the car doors on the side facing the Sun, you can see the schlieren effect on the car seat as the heat trapped within the car escapes.
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  23. The US may have gone metric in a way, but American society hasn't.
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  24. I wonder if Tom has ever been to the Stikine area of British Columbia. He would have to take Highway 37 to get there. Also, no television station in North America has ever broadcast on channel 37. In Western Union's 92 code, 37 meant "inform all interested".
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  25. 0.615384 repeating is precisely 8 out of 13.
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  26. Notice that that "mvs" figure to quantify "action" has the same dimensions as Planck's constant, the "quantum of action".
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  27. Two V's?
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  28.  @wasdwasdedsf  Capitalism is also known as systemic greed.
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  29.  @amankukretti8802  Actually, he plotted the orbits.
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  30. No, the US is not metric because the regular people in the US do not use the metric system, as those regular people want to instead be stupid.
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  31. That's a circular definition. Force and density are both defined using mass.
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  32. There's some kind of positive feedback loop at play.
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  33. It was national security.
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  34. Two metres of DNA.
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  35. Hot damn!
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  36. 7:23 - "Condom plating"?
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  37. Derek, you need to do a follow-up video on this for how this would work with a proper AC source like a generator, and for us ham radio enthusiasts, an RF source like a transceiver. BTW, a takeaway I got from this video is that Derek reacts with enthusiasm when you try to debunk him en masse.
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  38.  @Wyoming307  But density is defined using mass, so that definition is circular, with no concrete point of truth.
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  39. CinemaScope?
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  40.  @hagotem3071  Which means you're backwards.
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  41.  @GPCTM  This is obviously a rather kg subject.
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  42.  @ArunaKhudan  But now it needs to throw away those conversion factors and use straight grams and kilograms.
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  43. You will also notice that the last number in the series of natural numbers that produces these perfect numbers is one less than a power of two. Of course, mathematicians have already considered this pattern.
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  44. BTW, Derek, you inadvertently demonstrated the functional mechanism of an instrument known as a Campbell-Stokes recorder when you burned yourself in the focused light from your sphere.
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  45. Who the heck is Sean Carroll?
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  46. 7:00 - The general scenario being described here is "psychological reactance". The students have beliefs that they think are being challenged, so they double down on those beliefs. Sounds a bit like religion, doesn't it?
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  47. One-time pads, anyone?
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  48. Like math duels?
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  49. Dracula says, "I vaaant to fliiip yo biiits!"
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  50. Are you in Vancouver in this video, Derek?
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