The bizarre fact that lava can be held in a bucket and also destroy the bucket made me terrified of lava in beta 1.6. I once built a railway just to transport some buckets thinking they would leak in my inventory and kill me.
SAME. I always only kept lava in buckets just long enough to move it to where I needed it because I was scared it would spontaneously destroy the bucket, place where I'm standing, and then kill me.
@@Gekoloudios it was actually my friend who i was hot seat playing with. I assumed it was his logic and it was the logic I Iretroactively came to. I was also terrified of redstone ore... I was 13
@@PigHumanoid legitimately though that would actually be a really effective means of doing so since it would give you the ability to create 3d representations in a way that is clear to show to people, something most programs used at meetings don't have.
Here's a fun fact from a modder: The Forge modding framework adds properties such as temperature to fluids - and the temperature of lava is defined as 1300K, or ~1027° Celsius, same as your conclusion. :P
@@intergraphenicthat's for having to work with good numbers. really, if you were to burn in a 1000°C lava, or a 1027°C, would you feel any difference?
From this, we can deduct that souls are made of copper sulphate in Minecraft. Jokes aside, this makes me remember how much I liked taking chemistry in high school, despite my marks.
Copper sulphate? Huh. Actually I was thinking that maybe it was in the soil, instead of the souls - warped trees could be tinted blue that way by the stuff.
Thinking about it, I've seen both used extensively. Ultraviolet-left when discussing visible light spectra, like with lamps or stars, but infrared-left when discussing the full electromagnetic spectrum or anything with more than two metric prefixes.
I remember reading that there are indications that affinity (or lack thereof) for mathematics develops in early childhood so if you hate math in general then you might have less than excellent parents as well
This reminded me of something I always wondered. You can place fire on Netherrack and it will gain the infiniburn property. Meaning it will never go out. Meaning something in the Netherrack is able to provide an infinite fuel source for fire. Yet we can’t use Netherrack in a furnace for infinite fuel or harness the infiniburn in any significant way.
Huh I'd never thought about that! Maybe because Netherrack is extremely flammable but doesn't produce h- wait hold on but we can use wood. And actually... Yeah, aside from lava, every burny furnace item doesn't make fire by itself. From a meta standpoint, it's so that you don't just use one single block of Netherrack per furnace for all your Minecraft time, but it's interesting to think about as an in-universe thing.
@@carimeslockdownedtree2654 considering netherrack in a furnace makes nether bricks, which not only lack the infiniburn property, but aren't even flammable in the first place? seems like the sorta thing where an open burn results in an exothermic reaction with a nonsignificant change in composition, but bake it in a closed chamber and you end up transforming the netherrack into something completely different. a lot of the heat of an open fire is lost to the environment, after all, so the transformation could be caused by the concentrated heat reaching a breaking point or seeping in deeper and heating the entirety of the netherrack, involving the core in the process instead of just burning the surface in other words, the problem when burning netherrack as a fuel source would be that you'd end up with a lot of bricks in the fuel chamber, and the furnace does not have a second output slot for fuel byproducts
Here's a funfact about how people depict soulfires and soul-campfires: most artwork shows them being unnaturally cold, since they emit significantly less light than regular fires (in terms of the minecraft mechanic light levels) and they also have a much harder time melting ice in its surroundings. The fact that they glow blue-green is an interesting caveat to this theory but general consensus is that they are very magical and not subject to the usual laws of science. On another note, great video! I have been following this channel for a while now and although I have not commented on anything yet I have greatly enjoyed your content and the brain candy that is interesting geology! :)
The temperature of soulfire is basically unknowable, since its color is almost definitely because of souls. The color it's putting out is based on excess energy from destroying soul energy. Obviously not comparable to anything in the real world, but that's the leading theory in the minecraft community. edit: dang. I posted right before you said this lol. My bad
A blue flame would actually indicate it as being the hottest but cleanest burning fire of all fires, such is the case with stars around the universe with the hottest ones being blue in color.
@@antaresmc4407 unlikely, since soulfire items are the only example of blue flame, and there are a handful of examples in the game of sulfur itself or adjacent areas burning and not being blue
Don't forget about lava destroying a bucket filled with lava, or blocks of stone floating in water, or the infinite volume of blocks than can vanish into a cactus.
Flame tests are so cool. Not sure what it says about me but I actually cheered when you brought out the strontium salt. Anyway, this was a really good way to tie in physics, chemistry and geology. It’s always been interesting to me that the black body spectrum (at least the visible part) kind of maxes out at a white-blue, instead of going into violet and UV, etc. And it turns out it’s just statistics!
I put it last because it was my favorite. One of the ones I didn't end up adding was potassium permanganate, a common biology dye, turns out it is very exothermic.
"visable" lol. You're such a good educator, do you have a history of being a teacher or something? I wouldn't expect a normal scientist to be this good at explaining things in such a simple but sophisticated way. I love how you show things in Minecraft with the display blocks and all the time and work it must take to make them look so good.
@@Golden87432 mostly how certain analytical equipment work. An example would be a scanning electron microscope, how it actually creates an electron beam how we focus and calibrate it, how it makes the image, how X-rays are generated with it and how we use them to know elemental abundances in a sample. I deal with a lot of chemistry, material science, X-rays, lasers and mass specs and I’m usually explaining these things to graduate students that usually don’t have a technical background.
You’ve got such a unique perspective for a Minecraft content creator- I hope your channel continues to grow and we see you a year or two from now teaching hermits and the sort about the history of granite in A.D. architecture or something
Thanks. Growing up I wanted to be an artist, but was encouraged to get a "practical" job. Color has always been interesting to me and it comes up in several applications in geology and I still tinker with art now and then.
You know, I tried to figure out Minecraft lava viscosity when I was doing the stone episode. Viscosity is also very depended on the makeup of the lava. I was not successful. If anyone can figure that out, I would love to see it.
@@KatThreeNine But that raises the question of does nether lavas compostion change? There is bedrock above and beneath the nether, what formed it? There is only basalt, blackstone, and netherrack in the nether. Does that mean they were formed by the lava, or that they are the only things that can survive it?
@@pauldeddens5349Netherite and Obsidian can easily survive lava with Obsidian ultimately being the end result of combining lava and water into one, and Netherite being the strongest material in the game other than Bedrock having an absurdly high blast resistance plus the fact that when dropped in lava it doesn't burn.
@@TheSilverShadow17 Im aware, but it raises the question of how does it all form? As in everything in the nether are just the results of the only material that survived when the nether formed. Or that the rocks found in the nether are directly created by different forms of lava cooling.
8:18 you can also use lava to make basalt in Minecraft! If you have lava flowing over/next to blue ice and soul soil (not sand!) it will produce basalt, similar to the classic cobblestone generator.
It feels like there’s a million and one of these little analysis channels nowadays but you really go above and beyond. This is my first video from you that’s come across my recommended but as soon as I saw you bring out the fume hood I knew I was in for something good.
I hope you aren’t underestimating how absolutely important and powerful your type of content is to the world. Condensing oftentimes hard-to-understand scientific concepts with a visually appeasing and interesting RUclips video using one of the most popular games in the world is so infinitely helpful to spark people’s interest in and increase their knowledge of science, especially for young children. I absolutely applaud you, and I hope to see your channel skyrocket in subscribers and views in the near future. Do not ever forget the huge amount of good you are doing for this world, especially now that misinformation is so widespread and easy-to-access. Great job, from one random Internet person to another!
I can confirm that souls burn quite hot due to the contained determination, usually more than 20,000°C, and they'll just burn forever if they're left burning. Also the color they burn usually depends on what type of soul it is, but those appear to be plain souls, which are surprisingly rare.
This reminds me of my highschool geology classes. We had a fella in our class that really liked minecraft and geology and he once brought a piece of gneiss to class so we could analyse it with the teacher.
Holy shit, this is actually the most insane minecraft video i've seen. You can see that you are intellegent, the math knowledge, astronomic references.. I believe you also know programming, because those ingame models are definitely either made by you, or your team(but It looks more like you are working alone to me personally). The very fact that you have those cool tools that you showed? A bit of geography with where you can find lava leftovers.. I dont think I've ever seen more scientific minecraft video than that... and its from a channel of just 24k subs. You deserve much more attention for this video.
Great video! The colored fire segment was so cool! I love how you explain everything and create visuals with the entity displays! I didn't notice the echo at all during the video.
quick assumption for the beginning of the video: since, when ignited, different pure elements give off light in varying different color spectrum bands, could you in theory have lavas with other colors aside from red if the elemental composition of that lava is mostly one element?
Yes, actually there are some volcanoes that melt sulfur near the surface and they are quite cool but are burning a blue color. Outside of earth with different elemental concentrations there could be some interesting possibilities.
It's awesome that now after taking calculus classes in uni, I finally understand what "integrate to find the area under the curve" means. I've always been really good with math in high school, even going so far as making the highest scores in the history of my high school on the standardized ACT tests, so I really love math and learning it, though I'm a little sad that I never got to understand things like limits, derivatives, integration, and etc. until I made it to college. Nice video!
I love the lottle fact about aluminium, I thought it was kind of funny to think of aluminium as rare when I've got a cabinet with heaps of it that I've melted from scrap.
I was of the impression that soul fire is blue because it contains sulfur. Sulfur fires are blue and honestly when i first got into Minecraft in 2012 i expected the nether to have blue flames and look like the soul sand valley. The trees are red and blue because those are the colors of the nether. Molten rock is orange/red and burning sulfur is blue. Fire and brimstone.
This is one of my favourite series on RUclips. Ever. You’re a great teacher, and what a fantastic use of Minecraft and its features to explain something that a lot of people (such as myself) knew absolutely nothing about.
This is actually one of the most amazing channels ever found. The presentation depth and the detail is amazing. I'm a geology student who's probably clocked over 3000 hours in this game. Really really great job.
I can’t express how perfect an intersection of my interest this video is. I love minecraft, science, coding and a passing interest in geology. Also amazing how demonstrative and visual Minecraft’s mechanics can be when utilised like this! Awesome video, subbed!
I quite like this, because a( I am a blacksmith, and am quite familiar with the glowinb of heated things, and b( I am also quite inyi astronomy, so also am familiar with the colors of stars from their heat.
1:00 To be more precise, predominantly in the infrared spectrum. We also emit light that would be in the visible range, the problem is that it is so little of it that we can't detect.
ive never been particularily interested in geology but i love science and minecraft and this channel has been super interesting to me, i love watching these videos. great work! one question ive always wanted to ask a geologist or someone who knows a lot about rocks is, like, is there any obsidian irl thats actually purple and if not why do you think its portrayed that way in video games
In my experience most obsidian is basically black. I do have some that are a brown chocolate color because of some iron content. If i had to guess, the purple is similar to comic book characters with black hair. You need to be able to show some highlights and texture but its hard to do with a black material. Comic book characters usually end up having some blue highlights to show the shape and body of hair. I have been thinking of doing some shorts, this could be a little video to show off this.
There is a possibility that such blue-green pallete is caused by nickel compounds, as there are trees in real life that use nickel and produce blue-green fluids. Following that lead, we can deduce that the nether's soil is rich in heavy metals like nickel, copper and chromium, what could explain some of the colors that we find in it's pallete.
I clicked only half interested, thinking it'd be some over the top goofy video like most Minecraft content. Definitely wasn't expecting such a down to earth and scientific explanation. Had me hooked til the end, thank you.
I thought this was gonna be a game theory and you were gonna use the hardest thing like a diamond and seeing it gets destroyed instantly that you would just use real world temps to get that to happen but this goes way more in depth and is super realistic.
When you said Black Body Radiation, I just know where you're going. ;-) You're not only a Geologist, you're also a chemist, astronomer, physicist, coder, gamer, and most importantly, Science Educator. Keep up the Good Work, Gneiss!
Have you played around with the chemistry components of Bedrock edition with education turned on? There are ways to create different colored glow sticks and sparklers by changing which chemicals you add. And there’s a material reducer that turns blocks like dirt and sand into its basic elements in their relative amounts. If you put soul sand in it, you get an “unknown element”. Great video as always!!
The topics that you are looking at and the things you are teaching are awesome and I'm learning a lot however I can't get over the stuff you are doing with command blocks(at least I presume you are using command blocks) the animations and stuff is really cool.
it's crazy to me that RUclips is a platform where you can find a 12y.o. annoying ass screaming kid and an ACTUAL professor both playing Minecraft. It's honestly super impressive that you know so much and explain it so good, even a child can understand.
physics and minecraft and geology all in one video? lovely thank you. that was a really nice concise explanation of the uv spectrum as well as star temps
I hope to do a decent video sometime soon talking about how geology just kind of got left behind in education and has that disregarded mentality with a lot of people.
@@gneissname I'd love that! I honestly only remember doing one session of it in highschool where we talked about different rocks and how they are formed
I would be hyped for a video about the difference between lava and magma. Minecraft calls them the same block and they have the same texture, but they need not have the same temperature. Additionally, I haven't seen Magma in the Nether form Obsidian so maybe that has a different composition as well (it also flows faster!)
You know, It never really crossed my mind that fire was a chemical reaction. I always considered it to be its own separate phenomena rather than the result of another process. I guess that's why certain things just explode if they get too hot, even if they didn't come into contact with an open fire.
"Calculus is my favourite math subject. If it is not yours, you probably had a horrible math teacher." I know this is a joke, but as somebody who competes in math, my math teachers were great 👍
Lava can also be used to make basalt, and that stuff is plentiful in the nether, where soul sand and blue fire is found so i think the lava in the nether is hotter despite being functionally the same
another video that made me visualize colors that I cant see, its just so amazing how amazing the theory of colors is so complex, do you have some videos or articles that go more in depth about this subject? I want to know more about this
I think soul fire is probably supposed to be similar to butane torch flames. Butane torch flames glow blue because of ionized carbon dioxide and slightly yellow because of tiny amounts of yellow-hot soot, for a net greenish-blue effect. You can achieve a similar effect by setting the oxygen slightly too low on an oxyacetylene torch.
the lava in the nether being more viscous (flows faster) and hotter would make sense since there's also a lot of basalt there. I'm kind of sad now that they didn't make lava in the nether brighter
Hobby metallurgist and chemist here, firstly, I want a pyrometer now. _How did I not know this existed?_ such a cool device! Secondly, it would be nice if you provided temperature values for the hottest and coolest portions of the lava texture. The lava texture (like real lava) has a speckled surface with hotter spots and cooler spots indicating areas that stick out on the surface that are cooler and areas that are more confined and closer to the center and therefore warmer. This means that the "inside" of the lava block (and therefore the average temperature) will be at least as hot as the brightest part of the lava texture, since the inside will be at the maximum temperature, and the outside will be cooler. Perhaps this would warrant changing the official temperature of Minecraft lava? Would appreciate your thoughts on this. Great video nevertheless, you seem very intelligent and down to earth, and as a bonus you like geology and Minecraft, like myself! +1 Subscriber.
This is similar to an older comment and I gave this answer: "I did think about this and I decided to average because in the lava texture there is one pixel that is the lightest color, but it was off the radiation line. In the fire texture there is a lot of pure white near the bottom which would have been too hot for fire. The edges are this dark orange that was also off the radiation line. To me it seemed like more artistic decisions for texture color and I went with averaging. A possible better option would have been to average only the hottest frame of animation."
@@gneissname Ah, I see... although, couldn't you still shift the hottest pixel color to the nearest actual radiation color? it should be relatively close considering the yellow color. you could also check to see if the colors of the few hottest (yellow) parts of the lava are all shifted in the same direction, then you could shift them all back to find the corresponding color temperatures. Idk, just my thoughts. also thanks for the response.
Yo that's an interesting stuff right here! Maybe mojangs should consider making all the iron items invulnerable to lava just like netherite. That would confuse people less about lava being able to destroy buckets
I love colour theory, and have always been interested in colour temperature, and I never knew it was based off of black body radiation. I only knew of colour temperature from how sunlight is refracted though the sky, blue is refracted more so cool shade is more blue and direct hot sun is more red. Really cool.
I feel like the explanation for soul fire (as much as there can be for a game) is chemical. As a rocket guy, when I hear "green fire" my mind immediately goes to TEA-TEB (tri-ethyl borane/tri-ethyl aluminum), which is a liquid that spontaneously combusts on contact with oxygen at room temperature. It's used as a starter in SpaceX's engines, as well as on the SR-71. TEA-TEB fire is more green than in the game, though. The soul fire color more closely matches the color of really nice clean methane combustion like you see on Relativity Aeon 1s or Blue Origin BE-4s.
The bizarre fact that lava can be held in a bucket and also destroy the bucket made me terrified of lava in beta 1.6. I once built a railway just to transport some buckets thinking they would leak in my inventory and kill me.
That’s great.
That would be a great mod!
SAME. I always only kept lava in buckets just long enough to move it to where I needed it because I was scared it would spontaneously destroy the bucket, place where I'm standing, and then kill me.
how the hell would you ever come to that conclusion... how old were you when you thought of that lol
@@Gekoloudios it was actually my friend who i was hot seat playing with. I assumed it was his logic and it was the logic I Iretroactively came to. I was also terrified of redstone ore... I was 13
Your ability to use Minecraft as a PowerPoint presentation is stunning, impressive and effective.
I’d like to imagine some intern at a big company using Minecraft as an effective data visualization tool.
@@PigHumanoid legitimately though that would actually be a really effective means of doing so since it would give you the ability to create 3d representations in a way that is clear to show to people, something most programs used at meetings don't have.
@@PigHumanoid Maybe they do at Mojang lol
Here's a fun fact from a modder: The Forge modding framework adds properties such as temperature to fluids - and the temperature of lava is defined as 1300K, or ~1027° Celsius, same as your conclusion. :P
woah, that's interesting
Someone did their homework.
Most mods, however, like tinkers' construct, use 1000 degrees Celsius rather than the bucket temperature of 1027
@@intergraphenicthat's for having to work with good numbers. really, if you were to burn in a 1000°C lava, or a 1027°C, would you feel any difference?
@@fieryri think I'd disappear from goddamn existence 💀💀
From this, we can deduct that souls are made of copper sulphate in Minecraft. Jokes aside, this makes me remember how much I liked taking chemistry in high school, despite my marks.
I can relate to poor marks. I did horribly in school until I had the right teachers. I thought I was dumb for years.
Copper sulphate? Huh. Actually I was thinking that maybe it was in the soil, instead of the souls - warped trees could be tinted blue that way by the stuff.
well, I mean, we do have plenty of copper in Minecraft, and the nether does seem like it would have plenty of sulfur
Seeing the electromagnetic spectrum from right-to-left took a moment to process.
Thinking about it, I've seen both used extensively. Ultraviolet-left when discussing visible light spectra, like with lamps or stars, but infrared-left when discussing the full electromagnetic spectrum or anything with more than two metric prefixes.
@@TlalocTemporal I guess it also depends on whether you are going by wavelength or frequency, since increasing order is opposites.
“if you dont like calculus, you probably had a bad math teacher…” SO TRUE !!!!!
I remember reading that there are indications that affinity (or lack thereof) for mathematics develops in early childhood so if you hate math in general then you might have less than excellent parents as well
Or you’re straight up traumatized- Have you SEEN the way some people in school react to math in highschool?
This reminded me of something I always wondered.
You can place fire on Netherrack and it will gain the infiniburn property. Meaning it will never go out. Meaning something in the Netherrack is able to provide an infinite fuel source for fire. Yet we can’t use Netherrack in a furnace for infinite fuel or harness the infiniburn in any significant way.
Huh I'd never thought about that! Maybe because Netherrack is extremely flammable but doesn't produce h- wait hold on but we can use wood. And actually... Yeah, aside from lava, every burny furnace item doesn't make fire by itself.
From a meta standpoint, it's so that you don't just use one single block of Netherrack per furnace for all your Minecraft time, but it's interesting to think about as an in-universe thing.
@@carimeslockdownedtree2654 considering netherrack in a furnace makes nether bricks, which not only lack the infiniburn property, but aren't even flammable in the first place? seems like the sorta thing where an open burn results in an exothermic reaction with a nonsignificant change in composition, but bake it in a closed chamber and you end up transforming the netherrack into something completely different. a lot of the heat of an open fire is lost to the environment, after all, so the transformation could be caused by the concentrated heat reaching a breaking point or seeping in deeper and heating the entirety of the netherrack, involving the core in the process instead of just burning the surface
in other words, the problem when burning netherrack as a fuel source would be that you'd end up with a lot of bricks in the fuel chamber, and the furnace does not have a second output slot for fuel byproducts
@@hi-i-am-atanbyproducts would actually be cool
@@hi-i-am-atanyou would, quite literally, brick your oven
Here's a funfact about how people depict soulfires and soul-campfires: most artwork shows them being unnaturally cold, since they emit significantly less light than regular fires (in terms of the minecraft mechanic light levels) and they also have a much harder time melting ice in its surroundings. The fact that they glow blue-green is an interesting caveat to this theory but general consensus is that they are very magical and not subject to the usual laws of science.
On another note, great video! I have been following this channel for a while now and although I have not commented on anything yet I have greatly enjoyed your content and the brain candy that is interesting geology! :)
Good comment, glad you enjoy the videos.
The temperature of soulfire is basically unknowable, since its color is almost definitely because of souls. The color it's putting out is based on excess energy from destroying soul energy. Obviously not comparable to anything in the real world, but that's the leading theory in the minecraft community.
edit: dang. I posted right before you said this lol. My bad
A blue flame would actually indicate it as being the hottest but cleanest burning fire of all fires, such is the case with stars around the universe with the hottest ones being blue in color.
@@TheSilverShadow17 Wait... this means that souls in Nether are pure ? Now I want to see the color of a burning stained soul 😂
Could just be a sulfur flame
@@antaresmc4407 unlikely, since soulfire items are the only example of blue flame, and there are a handful of examples in the game of sulfur itself or adjacent areas burning and not being blue
Weird fact: fire and other light blocks will melt snow layers, but soul fire will not. Does that mean that souls burn cold?
I'm confused about how minecraft works, you can hold a lava bucket but you can't sink in the lava even though the bucket is made of iron
trees can float
Minecraft does not share our laws of physics
Temperature flow is much slower in minecraft than the real world
Don't forget about lava destroying a bucket filled with lava, or blocks of stone floating in water, or the infinite volume of blocks than can vanish into a cactus.
Hand are stronger than body
Flame tests are so cool. Not sure what it says about me but I actually cheered when you brought out the strontium salt. Anyway, this was a really good way to tie in physics, chemistry and geology. It’s always been interesting to me that the black body spectrum (at least the visible part) kind of maxes out at a white-blue, instead of going into violet and UV, etc. And it turns out it’s just statistics!
I put it last because it was my favorite. One of the ones I didn't end up adding was potassium permanganate, a common biology dye, turns out it is very exothermic.
@@gneissnameI can attest to it being exothermic. I’ve got a massive scar on my hand from that.
@@gneissname Was waiting for lithium, got strontium instead, fair enough...
@@Metal_Master_YT Yeah, i just kind of pulled things from a cabinet and didn't go buy anything special.
@@gneissname since you're here, by any chance did you see/read my other comment? it was quite important to the video but overlooked.
"visable" lol.
You're such a good educator, do you have a history of being a teacher or something? I wouldn't expect a normal scientist to be this good at explaining things in such a simple but sophisticated way. I love how you show things in Minecraft with the display blocks and all the time and work it must take to make them look so good.
Oof, well I’m not a spelling teacher. Lol. I work at a university and have to explain complex topics daily.
@@gneissnamewhat complex topics?
@@Golden87432memes
@@Golden87432 mostly how certain analytical equipment work. An example would be a scanning electron microscope, how it actually creates an electron beam how we focus and calibrate it, how it makes the image, how X-rays are generated with it and how we use them to know elemental abundances in a sample. I deal with a lot of chemistry, material science, X-rays, lasers and mass specs and I’m usually explaining these things to graduate students that usually don’t have a technical background.
@@gneissname yeah I have no idea lol
You’ve got such a unique perspective for a Minecraft content creator- I hope your channel continues to grow and we see you a year or two from now teaching hermits and the sort about the history of granite in A.D. architecture or something
Loved the discussion on the relationship between color, temperature, and lava behavior.
This video seems like "What if Game Theory was made by someone who knows about science, instead of someone who has heard of it"
tbf older videos did contain a lot more science stuff
We do not tolerate game theory slander in this house
Are you a color theory enthusiast as a result of your chosen field, or just as a side hobby? I love these videos.
Thanks. Growing up I wanted to be an artist, but was encouraged to get a "practical" job. Color has always been interesting to me and it comes up in several applications in geology and I still tinker with art now and then.
what about lava flowing speeds? lava flows faster in nether than in the overworld
You know, I tried to figure out Minecraft lava viscosity when I was doing the stone episode. Viscosity is also very depended on the makeup of the lava. I was not successful. If anyone can figure that out, I would love to see it.
I think lava flows faster in the nether than the overworld because it's hotter in the nether (same reason water evaporates instantly there)
@@KatThreeNine But that raises the question of does nether lavas compostion change? There is bedrock above and beneath the nether, what formed it? There is only basalt, blackstone, and netherrack in the nether. Does that mean they were formed by the lava, or that they are the only things that can survive it?
@@pauldeddens5349Netherite and Obsidian can easily survive lava with Obsidian ultimately being the end result of combining lava and water into one, and Netherite being the strongest material in the game other than Bedrock having an absurdly high blast resistance plus the fact that when dropped in lava it doesn't burn.
@@TheSilverShadow17 Im aware, but it raises the question of how does it all form? As in everything in the nether are just the results of the only material that survived when the nether formed. Or that the rocks found in the nether are directly created by different forms of lava cooling.
8:18 you can also use lava to make basalt in Minecraft! If you have lava flowing over/next to blue ice and soul soil (not sand!) it will produce basalt, similar to the classic cobblestone generator.
Another question no one asked, but I'm here to learn the answer to. Amazing work as always!
the echo is subtle but noticeable and i think it actually sounds quite good i feel like im in school and have the cool science teacher lol
Thanks for letting me know.
Subtle echo is fine. Completely dry vocals from a studio are actually off-putting because there's almost always some echo in real life.
It feels like there’s a million and one of these little analysis channels nowadays but you really go above and beyond. This is my first video from you that’s come across my recommended but as soon as I saw you bring out the fume hood I knew I was in for something good.
Very accessible talk! I didn’t expect to learn so much about color and chemistry!
dude i was just so stoked that he data-packed in changing the fire from normal to blue when he threw in the copper
I hope you aren’t underestimating how absolutely important and powerful your type of content is to the world. Condensing oftentimes hard-to-understand scientific concepts with a visually appeasing and interesting RUclips video using one of the most popular games in the world is so infinitely helpful to spark people’s interest in and increase their knowledge of science, especially for young children.
I absolutely applaud you, and I hope to see your channel skyrocket in subscribers and views in the near future. Do not ever forget the huge amount of good you are doing for this world, especially now that misinformation is so widespread and easy-to-access. Great job, from one random Internet person to another!
I can confirm that souls burn quite hot due to the contained determination, usually more than 20,000°C, and they'll just burn forever if they're left burning.
Also the color they burn usually depends on what type of soul it is, but those appear to be plain souls, which are surprisingly rare.
I'm blown away by the emission sprectrum animation :o
This reminds me of my highschool geology classes. We had a fella in our class that really liked minecraft and geology and he once brought a piece of gneiss to class so we could analyse it with the teacher.
Holy shit, this is actually the most insane minecraft video i've seen.
You can see that you are intellegent, the math knowledge, astronomic references..
I believe you also know programming, because those ingame models are definitely either made by you, or your team(but It looks more like you are working alone to me personally).
The very fact that you have those cool tools that you showed?
A bit of geography with where you can find lava leftovers..
I dont think I've ever seen more scientific minecraft video than that... and its from a channel of just 24k subs.
You deserve much more attention for this video.
Thanks LaNiBlackLight. Yeah its just me, this stuff kind of lets me combine a lot of things I like into one.
You can also convert lava into basalt with blue ice and soul sand.
Nether lava flows fast, so, maybe it could also be the third type of lava.
I want more content like this, a great mix of real world applicable science and games. My job and hobby all in one, perfection.
Great video! The colored fire segment was so cool! I love how you explain everything and create visuals with the entity displays! I didn't notice the echo at all during the video.
quick assumption for the beginning of the video: since, when ignited, different pure elements give off light in varying different color spectrum bands, could you in theory have lavas with other colors aside from red if the elemental composition of that lava is mostly one element?
Yes, actually there are some volcanoes that melt sulfur near the surface and they are quite cool but are burning a blue color. Outside of earth with different elemental concentrations there could be some interesting possibilities.
It's awesome that now after taking calculus classes in uni, I finally understand what "integrate to find the area under the curve" means. I've always been really good with math in high school, even going so far as making the highest scores in the history of my high school on the standardized ACT tests, so I really love math and learning it, though I'm a little sad that I never got to understand things like limits, derivatives, integration, and etc. until I made it to college.
Nice video!
I love the lottle fact about aluminium, I thought it was kind of funny to think of aluminium as rare when I've got a cabinet with heaps of it that I've melted from scrap.
I was of the impression that soul fire is blue because it contains sulfur. Sulfur fires are blue and honestly when i first got into Minecraft in 2012 i expected the nether to have blue flames and look like the soul sand valley. The trees are red and blue because those are the colors of the nether. Molten rock is orange/red and burning sulfur is blue. Fire and brimstone.
This is one of my favourite series on RUclips. Ever. You’re a great teacher, and what a fantastic use of Minecraft and its features to explain something that a lot of people (such as myself) knew absolutely nothing about.
I noticed that the properties of Mafic Lava match up nicely with the lava in the Nether, forming basalt and flowing more easily than overworld lava.
This is actually one of the most amazing channels ever found. The presentation depth and the detail is amazing. I'm a geology student who's probably clocked over 3000 hours in this game. Really really great job.
I can’t express how perfect an intersection of my interest this video is. I love minecraft, science, coding and a passing interest in geology.
Also amazing how demonstrative and visual Minecraft’s mechanics can be when utilised like this!
Awesome video, subbed!
I quite like this, because a( I am a blacksmith, and am quite familiar with the glowinb of heated things, and b( I am also quite inyi astronomy, so also am familiar with the colors of stars from their heat.
I was actually wondering why irl fire looked orange earlier this week
Amazing video
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To be more precise, predominantly in the infrared spectrum.
We also emit light that would be in the visible range, the problem is that it is so little of it that we can't detect.
ive never been particularily interested in geology but i love science and minecraft and this channel has been super interesting to me, i love watching these videos. great work!
one question ive always wanted to ask a geologist or someone who knows a lot about rocks is, like, is there any obsidian irl thats actually purple and if not why do you think its portrayed that way in video games
In my experience most obsidian is basically black. I do have some that are a brown chocolate color because of some iron content. If i had to guess, the purple is similar to comic book characters with black hair. You need to be able to show some highlights and texture but its hard to do with a black material. Comic book characters usually end up having some blue highlights to show the shape and body of hair. I have been thinking of doing some shorts, this could be a little video to show off this.
Tinker's Construct figured it out, lava is around 1000C, however iron smelts way lower in that mod
There is a possibility that such blue-green pallete is caused by nickel compounds, as there are trees in real life that use nickel and produce blue-green fluids. Following that lead, we can deduce that the nether's soil is rich in heavy metals like nickel, copper and chromium, what could explain some of the colors that we find in it's pallete.
This is an awesome education video, i love the idea of using Minecraft to tech science
This was cool af im usually not a math or science guy but something about it doing with Minecraft is kinda entertaining
I clicked only half interested, thinking it'd be some over the top goofy video like most Minecraft content. Definitely wasn't expecting such a down to earth and scientific explanation. Had me hooked til the end, thank you.
I thought this was gonna be a game theory and you were gonna use the hardest thing like a diamond and seeing it gets destroyed instantly that you would just use real world temps to get that to happen but this goes way more in depth and is super realistic.
using minecraft to teach physics is pretty cool ngl
Very talented, your expertise shines throughout your work
i think if my highschool earth & space science classes had been as fun to watch as these videos i would have actually passed the class... lol
2:43 I'm in quantum chemistry right now and didn't expect my homework to be in this video
When you said Black Body Radiation, I just know where you're going. ;-)
You're not only a Geologist, you're also a chemist, astronomer, physicist, coder, gamer, and most importantly, Science Educator. Keep up the Good Work, Gneiss!
Have you played around with the chemistry components of Bedrock edition with education turned on? There are ways to create different colored glow sticks and sparklers by changing which chemicals you add. And there’s a material reducer that turns blocks like dirt and sand into its basic elements in their relative amounts. If you put soul sand in it, you get an “unknown element”.
Great video as always!!
The mystery deepens! No i have not played with the bedrock edition. I know it has a lot of stuff that could be cool.
The topics that you are looking at and the things you are teaching are awesome and I'm learning a lot however I can't get over the stuff you are doing with command blocks(at least I presume you are using command blocks) the animations and stuff is really cool.
Thanks! Yeah everything I do is vanilla minecraft using command blocks, and datapacks, so anyone can download the world and run it without mods.
it's crazy to me that RUclips is a platform where you can find a 12y.o. annoying ass screaming kid and an ACTUAL professor both playing Minecraft. It's honestly super impressive that you know so much and explain it so good, even a child can understand.
Oh, an actual educational video in minecraft! Something to behold!
As a baby geology nerd, clicking a Minecraft video and hearing "Welcome back to another geology episode" made me extremely happy. Subbed immediately.
That visualisation and animations you did were awesome and really helped me understand it better. You're so talened!
how do you not have more subs dude, this is awesome!
physics and minecraft and geology all in one video? lovely thank you. that was a really nice concise explanation of the uv spectrum as well as star temps
3:55 my favourite fields of maths is topology
this guy casually demonstrated a deep understanding of chemistry, physics, calculus, geology, astronomy, and coding/modding all in one minecraft video
The quality put into the videos.. I'd spend so long attempting to figure out everything you did in minecraft that i'd just give up
For the longest time i threw geology off as haha funny rock science but i stumbled across your channel and habe feel in love with geology ❤
I hope to do a decent video sometime soon talking about how geology just kind of got left behind in education and has that disregarded mentality with a lot of people.
@@gneissname I'd love that! I honestly only remember doing one session of it in highschool where we talked about different rocks and how they are formed
I would be hyped for a video about the difference between lava and magma. Minecraft calls them the same block and they have the same texture, but they need not have the same temperature. Additionally, I haven't seen Magma in the Nether form Obsidian so maybe that has a different composition as well (it also flows faster!)
You know, It never really crossed my mind that fire was a chemical reaction. I always considered it to be its own separate phenomena rather than the result of another process. I guess that's why certain things just explode if they get too hot, even if they didn't come into contact with an open fire.
"Calculus is my favourite math subject. If it is not yours, you probably had a horrible math teacher."
I know this is a joke, but as somebody who competes in math, my math teachers were great 👍
Its probably not a coincidence that my calc teacher was one of the best teachers I ever had.
Lava can also be used to make basalt, and that stuff is plentiful in the nether, where soul sand and blue fire is found so i think the lava in the nether is hotter despite being functionally the same
another video that made me visualize colors that I cant see, its just so amazing how amazing the theory of colors is so complex, do you have some videos or articles that go more in depth about this subject? I want to know more about this
This is next-level video creation
Using Minecraft to teach geology
Two of my most favorite things
Thank you Good Sir 🎩
This is question I would have never dared to even approach to answering and I love it!
It's definetly hot enough to burn that rainbow.
I think soul fire is probably supposed to be similar to butane torch flames. Butane torch flames glow blue because of ionized carbon dioxide and slightly yellow because of tiny amounts of yellow-hot soot, for a net greenish-blue effect.
You can achieve a similar effect by setting the oxygen slightly too low on an oxyacetylene torch.
the lava in the nether being more viscous (flows faster) and hotter would make sense since there's also a lot of basalt there. I'm kind of sad now that they didn't make lava in the nether brighter
This has become one of my all-time favourite RUclips channels as of late. Keep up the good work!
Thanks!
Hobby metallurgist and chemist here, firstly, I want a pyrometer now. _How did I not know this existed?_ such a cool device! Secondly, it would be nice if you provided temperature values for the hottest and coolest portions of the lava texture. The lava texture (like real lava) has a speckled surface with hotter spots and cooler spots indicating areas that stick out on the surface that are cooler and areas that are more confined and closer to the center and therefore warmer. This means that the "inside" of the lava block (and therefore the average temperature) will be at least as hot as the brightest part of the lava texture, since the inside will be at the maximum temperature, and the outside will be cooler. Perhaps this would warrant changing the official temperature of Minecraft lava? Would appreciate your thoughts on this. Great video nevertheless, you seem very intelligent and down to earth, and as a bonus you like geology and Minecraft, like myself! +1 Subscriber.
This is similar to an older comment and I gave this answer:
"I did think about this and I decided to average because in the lava texture there is one pixel that is the lightest color, but it was off the radiation line. In the fire texture there is a lot of pure white near the bottom which would have been too hot for fire. The edges are this dark orange that was also off the radiation line. To me it seemed like more artistic decisions for texture color and I went with averaging. A possible better option would have been to average only the hottest frame of animation."
@@gneissname Ah, I see... although, couldn't you still shift the hottest pixel color to the nearest actual radiation color? it should be relatively close considering the yellow color. you could also check to see if the colors of the few hottest (yellow) parts of the lava are all shifted in the same direction, then you could shift them all back to find the corresponding color temperatures. Idk, just my thoughts. also thanks for the response.
I just learned and understood so many things and still don't know how hot lava is in Minecraft
I love your videos, they are extremely high quality for how many subs you have. Keep it up!
Hell gotta be very hot if souls burn at those temperatures.
I feel like I just got tricked into a geography lesson
another banger, good work gneiss
Thanks! This one took a lot more time than I expected. I kept thinking of little things to add.
I love your educational content. Never thought geology could be so interesting! Thanks for posting!
Yo that's an interesting stuff right here! Maybe mojangs should consider making all the iron items invulnerable to lava just like netherite. That would confuse people less about lava being able to destroy buckets
If your favorite field of math isn't topology then you're wrong.
This is a video straight out of Game Theory, I swear 😄
you sure cover a range of interesting topics
Before I kew you would be talking about the soul fires, seeing a sign that said "On for Souls" on the edge of the screen was extremely ominous.
I love colour theory, and have always been interested in colour temperature, and I never knew it was based off of black body radiation. I only knew of colour temperature from how sunlight is refracted though the sky, blue is refracted more so cool shade is more blue and direct hot sun is more red. Really cool.
Oxidized souls are blue, and unoxidized souls are brown.
I feel like the explanation for soul fire (as much as there can be for a game) is chemical. As a rocket guy, when I hear "green fire" my mind immediately goes to TEA-TEB (tri-ethyl borane/tri-ethyl aluminum), which is a liquid that spontaneously combusts on contact with oxygen at room temperature. It's used as a starter in SpaceX's engines, as well as on the SR-71. TEA-TEB fire is more green than in the game, though. The soul fire color more closely matches the color of really nice clean methane combustion like you see on Relativity Aeon 1s or Blue Origin BE-4s.
and if you're spaceX, your green flame might be copper-rich exhaust :P
this man is like the vsauce of minecraft
This Video was amazing, im amazed that you can make such high quality videos and work at an university.
The weird thing with minecraft lava is that it can form cobblestone, obsidian, or basalt depending on what cools it.
hot enough to instantly evaporate obsidian
The lava in the nether is probably mafic since if flows more easily and quickly than the overworld lava. Basalt is also found in the nether
whattt a segment of him burning colored fire ??? i dont think ive ever seen a minecraft youtuber do that
Soul Campfire!
I’m so happy I discovered this. It’s so informative but in a fun and interesting way.
this channel is so good! I love your videos, I didn't know that geology could get me that much interested lol