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  1. This is a great video about a not-so-great reality. I sincerely appreciate the depth of information you provide. Keep up the fantastic work!
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  2. Thanks for posting this longer video and for the First Light team for allowing you to film for us. Inspirational and an excellent example of the scientific process. Try fail, try fail, try fail...oh wait...that fail turned out to be a success! (the build up of carbon in the target chamber)
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  3. Oh, the Super Sayen Reference.... 😢 R.I.P. Akira Toriyama 😭😭😭
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  4. Awesome video, really well paced and edited. Sounds like they use superconductors in just about all the cool stuff, I hope we get some decent, affordable high temperature superconductors soon!
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  5. Thank you for providing a link to an open-access paper. The public must demand that all publicly funded research is published open access. If this means that authors and their institutions must pay thousands of dollars for each publication, then so be it. This will encourage more interdisciplinary collaboration and more research participation from undergraduate students. More coauthors implies more cost sharing for risky theoretical projects that are unlikely to receive funding.
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  6. Every 22 minutes It's the next introduction to a cosmic sitcom
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  7. I was quite out of my depth but this explanation was a perfect balance of simplifying ... but not too much.
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  8. I just think the fears are just like what plastic has become now, it was a revolution when it was made. Now it is a disaster because of our inability to realise the long term dangers it can pose.
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  9. Lisa speaks about this subject with such joy and passion. It's enchanting.
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  10. I really appreciate the recap of the various climate cycles. Your recap seemed specially clear and understandable
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  11. Maybe they should revise how to evaluate human capability for intellectual demonstration, other than knowing how to paraphrase different sources. This just shows that it's not an important part of humanity and our efforts are better used elsewhere
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  12. Great content and so well presented, as always. Thank you
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  13. Congratulations for breaking the YouTube algorithm! Keep up the good content :)
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  14. OSIRIS ftw. Fascinating topic and great content. Thank you Dr. Miles.
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  15. The world around us is amazing! Thanks for sharing.
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  16. Good News is it brings more diverse experience on the focus. Could result in other interactive designs. It flexes the work and can open more options that yet may rise beyond hypotheses. Very good. Wonderfully presented. I appreciate knowing more about it. Certainly appreciate those on the project you have described.
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  17. Waybackmachine. Everything from yhe internet Archive
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  18. The United States and other nations are falling behind in our technology. Better hurry up. This is potentially a world changing development to power everything we do with electricity which we desperately need right now. Thorium is plentiful in the USA. Great video Dr Miles, thank you 😊
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  19. Your videos are always very constructive and informative! I admire it
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  20. Great explaination of this really cool experiment. Also I like the addition of the motion graphics. Your videos are getting better and better. Great Work!
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  21. veritasium needed 20 minutes to sat this. Thanks for the shortsr version
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  22. If you are searching for alien life look no further than the back of my refrigerator..
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  23. Thank you for another great video! I hope the oncolytic virus in this video succeeds in becoming an effective cancer therapy, though at 5-10 years it'll be a while before we find out. In any case the larger field will no doubt grow and provide many more potential therapies. With so many possibilities out there, surely some of them will become gamechanging and history making treatments! It really feels like we're getting closer and closer to a world where cancer is a treatable disease.
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  24. Despite the fact that the thought experiment allows for no resistance in the wire... Veritasium is making several mistakes. The amount of energy required to light the bulb must be considered as "some reasonable" amount of current for the Light to turn on, NOT "any ridiculously small amount of current". The claim is that the when the switch is closed, the current starts moving which induces an electromagnetic field (EM field) in the wire near the switch. This means that an Electromagnetic Wave will be produced and start radiating from the wire and will reach the light bulb after traveling only 1 meter. However, Veritasium ignores the fact that the EM Field traveling thru the air or free space will be inversely proportionate to the square of the distance. Therefore the energy reaching the bulb after 1 meter of travel in the air, will be very very small. The counter claim would be that the amount of current needed to turn the light bulb on is very very small, and any amount of current would turn the light bulb on, but then why bother with wires at all? It makes no sense since in that case, one simply has to touch the battery or touch a switch connected to the battery, and not even have the wires present. So it makes no sense to setup a giant thought experiment requiring 300,000km of wire with a switch if all Veritasium wanted to demonstrate was that EM fields radiate. So, we must conclude that Veritasium earnestly believes that the energy in the EM field traveling thru 1 meter in the air is enough to power a regular light bulb with regular amounts of current. But he is wrong. Some will say that Veritasium requires "ANY" amount of current to be acceptable. But the counter to that is ... no. He claims that once current reaches the bulb then the bulb instantly turns on. That current must be considered as "the required current" to activate the bulb and not "any" current... otherwise, mere movement of anyone to even turn the switch... the blood flowing in your body, etc would activate the bulb thru induction. so since that is a preposterous assumption that such a low amount of current would activate the bulb we must then conclude that the bulb does require a standard amount of current to turn it on and simply that it must turn on immediately when receiving that current rather than a delayed effect in time due to filament heating / driver charging etc. I also find it immensely frustrating that the "papers" provided by the experts are in no way "proving" any of Veritasium's claims. They are not 1 for 1 and they are extrapolating two or more very different experiments. Additionally, they are simulations and then those simulations are extrapolated. Going back over the Power point provided by Veritasium shows that at 2.5 seconds only 0.25 volts are measured (under the simulation). That is FAR LESS than the energy needed to light a bulb. Extrapolating to a 12volt car battery and light bulb we get ~1/10th of a 12 volt battery's voltage which simply cannot light a bulb. So the answer is that current necessary to light the bulb properly must travel 300,000km down the wire in order for the bulb to receive enough current to turn it on. So the amount of time to travel that distance is the amount of time it will take for the bulb to see that current. Additionally, it is not constructive to claim that we have been told "Lies" about the nature of the electrical energy. Those are theories. Not lies. It does science a Great Disservice to rebrand past theory as "lies". @Dr Ben Miles... I agree with you on almost every point. @Veritasium, with respect, It devalues your integrity to use these methods to drive conversation. I much prefer your older more conscientious methodology where you are more careful about the things you say. I am especially focusing here on the claim regarding "Lies" in your video. Remember that your value to the scientific community is in your integrity not in your hype.
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  25. Thanks. Shankaracharya in his exposition of the philosophy of Advaita Vedanta ( ~ 8th Century CE) had asserted "Brahma Satya, Jagat Mithya" or The World is an Illusion, only the primordial Consciousness is real.
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  26. The physicists who produced the first attosecond pulse won an attaboy prize.
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  27. This looks really promising! Never imagined we might figure out dark energy before figuring out dark matter
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  28. Dr. Ben makes videos on random topics so interesting .... Appreciate the hard work 👍👍👍
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  29. Sorry for being that guy, but you've some errors in the introduction. First, Stern was German and Breslau a German city back then. That changed in 1945. Secondly, the 19th century refers to 1801 till 1900. 1901 till 2000 is 20th century.
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  30. 6:30 The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't
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  31. Good video, glad to see someone tackling exactly why this sort of TV 'endorsement' by proxy is so damaging. As someone with ME I'd just like to add that our primary symptom is not actually fatigue, it is post Exertional Malaise - which is a giant flare up of all our symptoms including feeling flu like and very unwell indeed, caused by going even slightly over our physical limitations, anything that uses energy counts - including talking, reading, and even THINKING for people at the very severe end! Thinking uses energy on a cellular level - how else would it happen after all. I would appreciate it if more people could start making sure they mention Post Exertional Malaise since it really is the symptom that rules them all, so to speak. It is what rules my entire life and it's risky - trigger it often enough or big enough, and you don't really recover back to where you were, you stay stuck at a lower level of functioning, it literally makes you sicker than you were. Over time some people end up dead, because it's so incredibly difficult to control and keep inside your limits. When 'over doing it' can simply mean you had an upset tummy and went to the loo a few times too many that day, or had to pick something up from the floor, or simply moved around in bed a bit too much that day, it is unbelievably difficult to stay inside your limits and prevent triggering PEM, many people don't manage it and therefore deteriorate over the years getting sicker and sicker. It's so poorly understood by medical staff that going to hospital becomes something to fear. Research is coming along though and I love that this video talks about how we need more people investing in genuine medical entrepreneurship, moving real, science evidence backed treatment forwards. In all areas, but hopefully soon for ME too.
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  32. Dude, you are producing ane awesome content 👌
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  33. The advertisements! Everyone loves to see those. Oh, and all clickbait.
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  34. I guess being the kind of person that never cared about fashion, prefers long lasting items and wear them until they disintegrate….isn’t all bad…
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  35. Thank you for this very interesting analysis of the topic. I see most of the comments below have focussed on the time to commercialisation, but I think the real payload of this video is how mathematical modelling is changing the landscape. Modelling physics requires that we understand enough of the way the universe works such that we can codify a small part of it mathematically. When you are breaking new ground as nuclear fusion is then we see our understanding being challenged every step of the way. The point about this method is that the more we know, the faster we make progress. There are two benefits that pop out of this - first we have a viable fusion reactor, which in itself is a game changer for climate change and geopolitics of the Middle East. - and secondly we have a set of tools which mean we can take greater strides in understanding fundamental physics. Both of those things are game changers and I applaud the progress being made by this team. Congrats - and thank you.
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  36. Can't wait for life 2 to drop
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  37. Thank you Prof. Miles, it is actually the first time I see a proper explanation of the Moxie device installed on the Perseverance Rover. Greetings, Anthony
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  38. I haven't even finished this video yet, but it amazes me how many things that would change the world, such as Fusion, a cure for aging, a cure for cancer etc, have much less funding that you would expect. You would think that almost unlimited funding would be available for them since they are so important. It is something to see such a lovely physicist.
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  39. Great video. Detailed enough to really get the interest going, explained in a clear non sensational manner and such that I will now have to follow this project regularly. :). Obviously it’s brilliant that the team are so willing to show and tell in enough detail to be meaningful. I do hope we can have future follow ups on this as things progress 🤞 for the team !
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  40. Very informative, thanks a lot! Interesting topic as well!
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  41. Information, well presented, is more valuable than gold, and your presentations are ticking the boxes in this department. Thanks for focusing on the practicality of the subjects you cover.
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  42. Absolutely fascinating research.
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  43. I'm not sure when commercial fusion will be a thing as I'm just an average Joe. But I strongly hope it to be before 2050. It will be a greatest breakthrough toward carbon neutral, or even negative carbon society.
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  44. Combine this with all the longevity and age reversal research that is being done and our expectations of life and death may drastically change in the coming decades.
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  45. Thanks for the increased use of metric! At 8:38: 10,000ft² = 929m², so about 1000m². Interestingly then we now know the scale factor from the original 1cm² panel: 1000/(.01²) = 1,000,000, which gives us a much better direct sense of the scale.
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  46. Very good explanation and the first I encountered stating that the mechanism itself is not yet known. It's definitely the biggest missing part - to propose a way this actually works. Nevertheless, I now really understand the importance of this research. Thanks to you :)
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  47. Its looking like the BBC have broken advertising rules, an article published today says the ASA have said there is a clear problem and have gone straight to enforcement rather than doing the usual initial investigation. ME patients deserve real scientific research and protection from predatory businesses such as Acu Seeds. Giselles story has changed so much over the past few years that many people even doubt the validity of her personal story which her pitch on the tv show was based around.
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  48. You're a nano physicist? You so seem taller on camera. <rimshot> Seriously, thank you for going over this topic - I knew my skepticism wasn't unjustified. Thank you for your work!
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  49. This is truly fascinating! Thank you for making this video.
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  50. Finally a concrete evidence.
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