Comments by "DynamicWorlds" (@dynamicworlds1) on "Veritasium" channel.

  1. Better question: why not?
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  2. Of course it breaks all intuition. It's moving in a circle. The day I saw my highschool physics teacher do those demonstrations with a flywheel was the day I gave up trusting my intuition with anything spinning. Clearly our brains did not evolve to handle such things well without help.
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  3. blacksheep837 think you're forgetting how insanely huge this event is energy wise. Pluto is a dark ball of ice and rock. This is one of the most energetic events in the universe. If that happened at the distance of pluto, we wouldn't be able to study is because we'd all be dead. Hell, if that happened by Alpha Centauri we'd probably all die too (or at least have a mass extinction event). These kinds of explosions are almost incomprehensibly huge and detectable at distances far far beyond where the stars themselves are no longer detectable.
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  4. The little bright spots aren't technically the same as the floaters. Floaters are junk like mis-folded proteins suspended in the fluid of your eye. The little bright dots are actually white blood cells moving through the capillaries in front of your retina. (Hence why they have different movement patterns than the rest) Now you not only know why you see them, but what you're looking at.
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  5. xXWhatever13Xx That one I don't know. Curious now, but can't help you there.
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  6. The closest I've seen is (with larger volumes of ice/water) the top of the ice bulging and cracking. Come to think of it, the cracks are most often spoke-like in the center in sets of 3 when they happen. I live in western PA and I believe the source of our water in an underground aquifer, so we probably have a decent concentration of dissolved minerals here, so that's likely the reason. I wonder if elevation/air pressure have any effect.
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  7. rick6011 Yes, but only locally to the thermal vents, and there are nowhere near enough to stop the hypothetical ice buildup on a global scale.
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  8. Try framing it in more natural terms: betting your next 5 days' meals you can walk away and have your next 5 days' meals be the same average stuff you eat all the time, or you can bet them. If you win, your next 5 days' meals are all 5 star and all you can eat, but if you loose you have to fast for that period of time, taking only water and a vitamin every day. Loss aversion bias makes a bit more sense in that kind of context; losses and gains are rarely equivalent in impact in that kind of sense and THOSE are the kind of risk decisions that are important to your life.
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  9. ignatius thomas i don't blame him, this is awesome stuff
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  10. It's 1. Gravitational waves are produced by the spiraling of massive objects, not the collision itself (and the gamma ray burst probably starts with a slight time delay from first contact) The specific length of the time delay will certainly be used to refine models of such collisions in the comming months.
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  11. Countless people have thought he was wrong since he first put his theories forward and have been trying, and failing, to disprove them to no success. That's generally how science works.
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  12. Well, not stupid by human standards, maybe, but I think we all experienced how well our ingrained intuition handles spinning objects the first time we saw demonstrations of the weird physics around spinning flywheels.
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