Comments by "sogerc1" (@sogerc1) on "Veritasium" channel.

  1.  @mustafaaliabd3021  Actually it's a less physical explanation. That energy transfer field is not a physical field, it's a mathematical tool, and Derek is mixing it up with the real-world electric field.
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  2. If we can't see beyond the particle horizon how could we ever know if the universe is infinite or not?
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  3. you know... about revolutions... as in "turning"
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  4. My thought exactly.
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  5. Trees are always the solution.
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  6. Engineers: this approximation is good enough for this usecase, stop wasting your time on nonsense.
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  7. Yeah, they weren't too clear about it, but think of it this way: if you hook the "1 Newton apple" to a spring then due to it's weight it will extend the spring a little bit. That 1 Newton is it's weight by the way. Now if you hook a weightless rocket nose down to the spring and turn it on then if it extends the spring to the exact same length as the apple then the rocket produces 1 Newton of thrust. Hope this example makes it clearer.
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  8. No, that's Chuck Norris XD
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  9. Wow, I didn't even know this was a thing.
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  10. The triangle was my aha moment. Very interesting video.
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  11. Derek was right, the answer is obvious to me, a cointoss is always 50-50, there's nothing to argue about.
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  12. Brown carbonated sugar water... huh! okay. But yeah, it's true.
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  13. SciShow did a similar video, if you're not sure you got it, watch that too, it was called "How to predict the odds of anything".
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  14. Well, I felt like this video was 3 minutes long.
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  15. And who is the fourth girl?
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  16. Geez, who made those animations? A supercomputer?
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  17. What?! Are you saying that frogs can see individual photons?
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  18. Is that suposed to be an insult? Or a joke? Like frogs can see my mom or something?
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  19. Ok, but what makes the water attach to the surface of the ball for so long?
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  20. Because it was built by americans and they know better. Because apparently multiplying with 1000 is too hard to step down from kilometers to meters so instead they measure 1760 yards to go 1 mile. Which is coincidentally 5280 feet or 63360 inches, what don't you understand? :-P
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  21. Oh man, it's too bad I didn't know about this channel back in 2013. Of course I guessed wrong the first time (with the lower height) but after that I figured out the bullet penetration.
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  22. Depends on what you think of when you say the "world". Because I would say the Sun is also part of our world in which case it is the winner.
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  23. I dunno, it's among the first things I see every day after I wake up. If you said the heaviest weight in this planet that would be a different story. My world is what I experience every day.
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  24. Are you sure? Why don't you ask the Sun? That puny little planet tugs on it ever so slightly.
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  25. Wow, I didn't think it would show in such a tiny pool.
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  26. 1:34 then how are the staff members standing? Are they that strong?
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  27. Although thinking back my grandma used to say that if you have to sneeze but it just won't come out, you should look at the sun. Never worked on me though.
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  28. I don't understand why a simple fan pulling in air wouldn't work just as well as the dognose.
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  29. This video desperately needs a better title. Fortunately I know Derek, otherwise I wouldn't have clicked on it.
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  30. Well, if people think you're paying for electrons with your power bill that's the fault of the american school system, the electron's respond to the electric field in the wire and man do we wish if they didn't, that's what superconductors are all about. And this video is very sensationalist because it mixes up that academic field of energy transfer with the real-world electric field. Derek, you better get those extra long wires because your explanation is like swiss cheese. Yes, the electric field is used to transfer energy, but you said it yourself, air is used to insulate power lines, so why does air not insulate in your example? Furthermore, if we'd actually did the experiment it's possible that the light would indeed light up as fast as this 1/c (which is by the way not a unit of time) but it's not because energy flows like this or that I'm thinking more of the parasitic capacity of those two extra long lines so close together, and so Derek's theory wouldn't work in other setups.
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  31. Boy, I really hope nobody trains an AI to take over the world.
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  32. Motherf.... I never imagined such a machine exists. Kudos for the Japanese!
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  33. Yes, I can attest, my wife has wonderful skin on her butt, that's why I keep grabbing it at home.
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  34. Throughout the video I was thinking what's the point of doing all this, maybe cryptography? No wonder there's no Nobel for math.
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  35. Destin and I are pissed! XD
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  36. I am lucky to have found this channel so many years ago. It wasn't hard work or skill of finding worthwhile channels.
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  37. @k4vbRms7-yt :face-orange-frowning:
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  38. Yeah, don't make those people angry or they'll find a way to build an actual Earth-sized telescope.
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  39. These guys made lemonade, if you know what I mean.
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  40. I don't buy it. Instead I think Derek is a superhero.
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  41. I would hear my tinnitus acting up.
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  42. Negative Ions sounds like homeopathy anyway.
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  43. 80 million views on one video! Way to go, Derek!
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  44.  derekbd  I've seen it. That experiment should've been included in this video, because his point did not come through in this video.
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  45.  @rockabyebaby6111  Quitter talk.
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  46. Survivorship bias! Thank you! That's a phenomenon that I am aware of but so many people aren't and I could not label it in conversations.
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  47. psyneur - no because by the time you feel like you've had enough you've already ate too much. Try eating slowly and try to learn how much food your body needs for various activities (not an easy thing to do btw, you need a lot of experimenting). For ex. right now in here the weather is very hot, so I generally eat less than say during winter.
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  48. I second the fasting thing. Just because food is so easy to obtain it doesn't mean you should never ever be hungry. Sometimes I skip breakfast and on some saturdays I skip lunch too not because I'm on some diet or something, just because it feels good.
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  49. 32K people (so far) have tossed their phone.
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  50. What the actual f**k ?!?!?!
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