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  • Опубликовано: 25 янв 2024
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  • @TheActionLab
    @TheActionLab  3 месяца назад +193

    This rock is so cool! Download TEMU App to get $100 coupon bundle: temu.to/m/ugsqs5t685d
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    • @Lurkingbird
      @Lurkingbird 3 месяца назад +2

      yoo im a big fan

    • @londondeenik5
      @londondeenik5 3 месяца назад +3

      how did you make that comment 20 hours ago

    • @omatic_opulis9876
      @omatic_opulis9876 3 месяца назад +244

      you'll regret this.

    • @poemes
      @poemes 3 месяца назад +350

      Do your research when you take sponsorships

    • @JH-pt6ih
      @JH-pt6ih 3 месяца назад +8

      @@omatic_opulis9876 Regret what?

  • @Gamer-qr8ee
    @Gamer-qr8ee 3 месяца назад +2550

    How does it taste tho

    • @atomic_wait
      @atomic_wait 3 месяца назад +647

      It tastes like whatever's directly below it.

    • @londondeenik5
      @londondeenik5 3 месяца назад +16

      a

    • @an2939
      @an2939 3 месяца назад +41

      hmmm now i dont think i'll be able to sleep

    • @parkerottoackley6325
      @parkerottoackley6325 3 месяца назад +61

      It tastes like chicken

    • @Canetoady
      @Canetoady 3 месяца назад +5

      F

  • @darkrulier
    @darkrulier 3 месяца назад +1729

    Ohh no! Not Temu!

    • @sophiapriest
      @sophiapriest 3 месяца назад +186

      That's what I also thought ahaha

    • @anketmohadikar8767
      @anketmohadikar8767 3 месяца назад +23

      Context?

    • @hqcart1
      @hqcart1 3 месяца назад

      yub, chinese buying american ass with green papers

    • @windfiend
      @windfiend 3 месяца назад

      ​@@anketmohadikar8767 buy it cheap, buy it twice, they say.
      You know that nice green shirt you bought 90% off? On those sites not only it's been woven in countries where workers' lives do not matter, that bright green colour could also be toxic...
      If it is so cheap it cannot be good... in sooo many ways...

    • @user-wl2vk4eo4y
      @user-wl2vk4eo4y 3 месяца назад +200

      For real. Was so disappointed

  • @milham975
    @milham975 3 месяца назад +1296

    When you broke the TV stone all I could think was: reminds me of asbestos, hold your breath, don't breathe in the fibers.

    • @volvo09
      @volvo09 3 месяца назад +96

      Yeah, looks a lot like it with all those fibers

    • @Rachel_M_
      @Rachel_M_ 3 месяца назад +18

      Same here

    • @Griffinelements69
      @Griffinelements69 3 месяца назад +29

      Exactly what I was thinking

    • @Lampe2020
      @Lampe2020 3 месяца назад +34

      I also immediately thought of asbestos…

    • @lasagnahog7695
      @lasagnahog7695 3 месяца назад +41

      "don't breathe this"

  • @petergivenbless900
    @petergivenbless900 3 месяца назад +716

    The term "television stone" reminds me of "slow glass"; an idea in a science fiction story, 'The Light of Other Days' (1966) by Bob Shaw, in which there is glass through which light travels so slowly it allows you to see back in time!

    • @kellykinnaird3576
      @kellykinnaird3576 3 месяца назад +32

      Oh the ending to that story was sublime. It’s been many years since I read it. Every now and then I remember it. Thank you for today’s reminder!

    • @JonDoe-zi3mh
      @JonDoe-zi3mh 3 месяца назад +15

      Man, I remember reading that! Hadn't thought about it for years. Great story, will get it on Kindle asap!

    • @tellmemoreplease9231
      @tellmemoreplease9231 3 месяца назад +5

      Wow, what a great idea....

    • @Scapeonomics
      @Scapeonomics 3 месяца назад +17

      The only way you can see anything is backwards in time.....

    • @whistlesyxter
      @whistlesyxter 3 месяца назад +13

      @@Scapeonomics Procedurally correct: The best kind of correct

  • @3D_Printing
    @3D_Printing 3 месяца назад +438

    5:50 Temu are the Spam Kings

    • @core36
      @core36 3 месяца назад +38

      i never bought anything from them. the UX on their site is too bad.
      imagine you try to walk into a store and look at a product but all the employees aggressively try to distract you with unrelated stuff. i'd run out of that store.

    • @davidd2661
      @davidd2661 3 месяца назад

      I would never buy from these shitty spies. Aliexpress for the win ‼️

    • @oasntet
      @oasntet 2 месяца назад +15

      SponsorBlock is critical. Without it, I'd have quit youtube entirely by now.

  • @insu_na
    @insu_na 3 месяца назад +659

    And thanks to vsauce I know the coolest thing this rock can do: show you the sun even through heavy clouds. because the sun's light is parallel there'll be a brighter area visible on the stone when you point it at the sun, than when you point it at any of the diffuse light that the rest of the clouds have

    • @Pablo_Llchshh
      @Pablo_Llchshh 3 месяца назад +39

      Isn’t this rock the one sailors used to use so they could orient themselves?

    • @Hommee_
      @Hommee_ 3 месяца назад +71

      So now I know what is the "sun rock" they show on vikings thx

    • @M1551NGN0
      @M1551NGN0 3 месяца назад +16

      So basically it works like a reverse solar filter?

    • @jonasjarboe2627
      @jonasjarboe2627 3 месяца назад +5

      Which video is this

    • @insu_na
      @insu_na 3 месяца назад +1

      @@jonasjarboe2627 I have no idea, it's been way too many years, sorry.

  • @clytle374
    @clytle374 3 месяца назад +112

    There is a company that fuses a bundle of fiber optic strands, heats them up and stretches the middle, then cuts them at the thin point. After this the polish the ends and it does the same thing, but scales the image. Due to the fact that the light is amplified with the same ratio the image doesn't get dim. No idea if they are still made, but looked like magic

    • @Yugemostsuj
      @Yugemostsuj 3 месяца назад +8

      Do you have any names of the product of company? That sounds intriguing

    • @clytle374
      @clytle374 3 месяца назад +15

      @@Yugemostsuj fiber optic taper appears to be the name. I can't share any details, sorry

    • @David.C.Velasquez
      @David.C.Velasquez 3 месяца назад

      @@Yugemostsuj Optical Taper, and they come up on ebay occasionally. Edmund optics used to sell a small one for a few hundred dollars.

    • @Crystallineearthshop
      @Crystallineearthshop 3 месяца назад

      Just google TV Rock I got mine from Crystalline Earth Shop and I love it@@Yugemostsuj

    • @CineSoar
      @CineSoar 2 месяца назад

      I saw something like this at a science museum. They also put a twist in the middle, so the image would be inverted.

  • @Dskrib
    @Dskrib 3 месяца назад +72

    "they do *feel* cheaper, and that's because they *are* cheaper"
    i lost it

    • @dompan9169
      @dompan9169 3 месяца назад +14

      He could literally tell he was holding garbage, yet he still promoted it. No integrity at all.

    • @eekee6034
      @eekee6034 3 месяца назад +2

      @@dompan9169 A lot of stuff which feels or seems higher-quality has been toxic to me. Something I'm allergic to, I guess.

    • @Dskrib
      @Dskrib 3 месяца назад +4

      @@dompan9169 no integrity would be if he claimed it’s high quality

  • @DrxSlump
    @DrxSlump 3 месяца назад +100

    I'm a design engineer, quite into physics. Most RUclips channels cover things either too basic and known to me or are purely technical but without much fun. You, Sir, manage to amaze me with your amazing little experiments and "magic" materials! Thank you!

  • @capn_shorty
    @capn_shorty 3 месяца назад +246

    Imagine a box of Legos made out of this, and needing to walk across the floor after dropping the box.

    • @MahiMahi-yu5jo
      @MahiMahi-yu5jo 3 месяца назад +23

      Nightmare fuel...

    • @KafshakTashtak
      @KafshakTashtak 3 месяца назад +10

      lay on the floor, put your eye at the lowest possible level, and look around the floor. All lego parts stick up and you can easily see them.

    • @AbhisarRawat
      @AbhisarRawat 3 месяца назад +17

      Of all the gifts bestowed upon humanity,
      It was imagination that was the greatest
      But we were deemed to imagine the most abhorrent atrocities

    • @gteaz
      @gteaz 3 месяца назад +11

      @@KafshakTashtak I did and it's in my eyes!
      Oh no, I have television eyes.

    • @MXCN_El1011
      @MXCN_El1011 3 месяца назад +4

      nightmare difficulty

  • @awogbob
    @awogbob 3 месяца назад +27

    I appreciate the pace of your videos because their basically always like "Ok yeah but why?" and then you go one layer deeper, and deeper. Always learn a lot watching them.

  • @zebfross
    @zebfross 3 месяца назад +130

    1:25 "They're actually hair-like fibers"
    *Smashes asbestos

    • @a.karley4672
      @a.karley4672 3 месяца назад +7

      It's not asbestos.

    • @hoochygucci9432
      @hoochygucci9432 3 месяца назад +10

      @@a.karley4672 It's the fibres that are the worry, whatever its called.

    • @Ithirahad
      @Ithirahad 3 месяца назад

      It's alkali metal borate. Could be poisonous in giant amounts, but tiny fibres of it will just dissolve in your lungs and basically disappear. Asbestos, carbon fibre, and other problematic materials just sit there.

    • @loglad5394
      @loglad5394 3 месяца назад +5

      Did some research and powdered ulexite can in fact not only contain asbestos but small amounts of boron, so yeah, definetly not great to do

    • @Ithirahad
      @Ithirahad 3 месяца назад +3

      @@loglad5394 CAN, but it isn't asbestos itself. Small amounts of asbestos aren't scary; it's mainly dangerous in occupational-exposure quantities. i.e. large amounts over months or years. Likewise these amounts of boron are just a total non-factor.

  • @WilliamLeeSims
    @WilliamLeeSims 3 месяца назад +37

    I've had a chunk of this stone for 25 years. I never once knew about the laser property. Awesome!

  • @YoungGandalf2325
    @YoungGandalf2325 3 месяца назад +61

    1:30 "Look at this cool rock. Now let's smash it!" 😅

    • @Resursator
      @Resursator 3 месяца назад +12

      My entire soul was crushed, when I saw this part. Just like this cool rock.

    • @ninjalectualx
      @ninjalectualx Месяц назад

      Nooooooo!!!!!!!

  • @RADZIO895
    @RADZIO895 2 месяца назад +8

    video was great up until 4:53

  • @Enderkruemel
    @Enderkruemel 3 месяца назад +343

    Please dont Support temu. Its realy not good .

    • @legioning
      @legioning 3 месяца назад +3

      elaborate why

    • @alexcsirkovics603
      @alexcsirkovics603 3 месяца назад +58

      ​@@legioningslave labour and shady business practices

    • @legioning
      @legioning 3 месяца назад +7

      @@alexcsirkovics603 damn wtf

    • @Splarkszter
      @Splarkszter 2 месяца назад +11

      ​@@legioning The simple fact that noname companies sell there you are just waranteed to get sold trash.

    • @Ducky69247
      @Ducky69247 2 месяца назад +9

      Yeah I won't support anyone who advertises or uses it.

  • @TempleoftheSon
    @TempleoftheSon 3 месяца назад +21

    My brain: why don't we use this stuff for phone screens?
    Action lab: (whacks stone with wooden dowel and shatters it into a million pieces)
    My brain: "fair enough"

    • @beepboop6212
      @beepboop6212 2 месяца назад +2

      sooooooooooo, the same as a normal phone screen?

  • @nius3774
    @nius3774 3 месяца назад +34

    A big unknown: why someone that investigates all these subjects doesn't do the same with the sponsors?

    • @Arch88ch
      @Arch88ch 3 месяца назад +11

      It took me a few seconds to understand what you meant, but … 100%. I was shocked to see such a nice guy promoting this diabolic company.

    • @BESTofAlp
      @BESTofAlp 20 дней назад +1

      Same! I can't understand it :(

  • @MintMilk.
    @MintMilk. 3 месяца назад +15

    "The sky is falling!"
    "It hit me on the head, and it looked like a stop sign!"

  • @S0ulGh0st
    @S0ulGh0st 3 месяца назад +18

    When he started to break it, my mind went NOOO for a second

  • @wurlitzer153duplex
    @wurlitzer153duplex 3 месяца назад +22

    Cool stuff. I work with similar but tapered fiber optic blocks to optically couple an x-ray scintillator screen to an array of camera chips. It's pretty amazing the amount of resolution we can get out of such blocks.

  • @MrDowntemp0
    @MrDowntemp0 3 месяца назад +85

    I imagine if they can grow this synthetically there'd be SOME sort of application with it and screens. Screens in bathroom tiles or kitchen counters or something.

    • @TechnoMinarchistBall
      @TechnoMinarchistBall 3 месяца назад +11

      Er, it'd still need a screen underneath it

    • @Soddus.
      @Soddus. 3 месяца назад +7

      @@TechnoMinarchistBall yeah why wouldnt they just use glass hahahahaha

    • @Ilix42
      @Ilix42 3 месяца назад +21

      @@Soddus. Because glass works differently, exactly as explained in the video.
      A countertop made of this stuff would look like the image is coming off the countertop itself. With glass, it would look like you had a screen on top of your countertop.
      With a thin backing screen that had the same backing behind it as the rest of the counter, you'd have a section of countertop that looked identical to the rest when it wasn't displaying an image and would look like the surface itself was a screen rather than a layer of glass.

    • @Makes_me_wonder
      @Makes_me_wonder 3 месяца назад +3

      You can achieve the exact same effect with mirrors and lenses

    • @karrotsrkool
      @karrotsrkool 3 месяца назад +8

      They have synthetic versions, blocks of fiber optics. And they are used, most notably in fighter jets. But its very expensive so it's not often used unless budget isn't a concern like in the military

  • @4RILDIGITAL
    @4RILDIGITAL 3 месяца назад +22

    Really captivating demonstration of ulexite's optical properties and total internal reflection. It's fascinating how nature has had its own version of a 'fiber optic cable' all along.

  • @jamesbarisitz4794
    @jamesbarisitz4794 3 месяца назад +5

    The most interesting mineral arrangement I've had explained to me ever. Very well done!

  • @zachhoy
    @zachhoy 3 месяца назад +62

    I'm a nerd and I studied engineering and yet... yet... I always learn so much from your quick and simple lab stuff, so glad you're inspired to share it (I'm sure RUclips revenue helps but I can tell you just genuinely love it)

    • @MitzvosGolem1
      @MitzvosGolem1 3 месяца назад

      We are not Nerds....
      Why you call us that?
      That's so 80s

    • @zachhoy
      @zachhoy 3 месяца назад +6

      I said I'm a nerd :p, and I'm from the 80s@@MitzvosGolem1

    • @MitzvosGolem1
      @MitzvosGolem1 3 месяца назад +1

      @@zachhoy I am not and went to MIT engineering .
      We are not all nerds
      That term early on made it "not cool" to study become educated in America in 70s to 80s .
      Bizarre

    • @Wave1dave
      @Wave1dave 3 месяца назад +5

      @@MitzvosGolem1 The term nerd is not at all negative, what are you on about?

    • @MitzvosGolem1
      @MitzvosGolem1 3 месяца назад

      @@Wave1dave it was when I was a kid and in university . Like " Geek"..
      Not all educated people are nerds or geeks .
      🤔

  • @westonding8953
    @westonding8953 3 месяца назад +50

    Television stone sounds like a funny name. I wonder why they did not call it a chameleon rock. 😂

  • @reindert3414
    @reindert3414 3 месяца назад +265

    sorry but disliking for promoting TEMU!!

    • @LgiidOakLeaves
      @LgiidOakLeaves 2 месяца назад +3

      Ye

    • @dosdude1935
      @dosdude1935 2 месяца назад

      LOL, you really commented that 😂

    • @pork1346
      @pork1346 Месяц назад

      Cry me a river snowflake😂😂

    • @Primarysearchtraining
      @Primarysearchtraining 23 дня назад

      Second that! Very disappointed for this channel taking money and legitimizing this company.

    • @Aliyah_666
      @Aliyah_666 11 дней назад

      Wow a dislike, that nobody can see or know about. Wow...very tough. 😂

  • @3D_Printing
    @3D_Printing 3 месяца назад +48

    6:08 Temu also say you have to buy at least £10.00 of stuff, because of delivery costs, and is Paid for by the USA I hear

    • @Crystallineearthshop
      @Crystallineearthshop 3 месяца назад

      Just google TV Rock I got mine from Crystalline Earth Shop and I love it

  • @Dudleymiddleton
    @Dudleymiddleton 3 месяца назад +3

    Never knew about this television stone - absolutely fascinating and mega cool! Thank you for sharing!

  • @monty3322
    @monty3322 3 месяца назад +6

    1:30 I was like "don't break it"!

  • @user-yr5yl6zt5l
    @user-yr5yl6zt5l 3 месяца назад +11

    Bro took a sponsorship from worlds leading child labour supporters

    • @dompan9169
      @dompan9169 3 месяца назад +1

      Knowingly too.

  • @hdpostpro
    @hdpostpro 3 месяца назад +2

    your analogies are fantastic, it makes the subject matter attainable

  • @lacryman5541
    @lacryman5541 3 месяца назад +8

    Is it a dangerous cristal (maybe because of the cristaline fibers) like asbestos is?

    • @therealdonnawagner
      @therealdonnawagner 3 месяца назад +4

      Apparently not. Geologists under other comments said the difference is these crystals are water soluble and made up of minerals absorbed and utilized by the body (the excess being filtered out by the kidneys), whereas asbestos never breaks down and leaves the lungs, causing damage for the entirety of a person's life after exposure.

  • @BerzerkaDurk
    @BerzerkaDurk 3 месяца назад +10

    In my 13 years working in an optical shop, we never called the angle at which total internal reflection occurs the "critcal angle". We called it the Brewster's Angle, and it is specific to any two adjacent optical media. For super nerds, the angle is equal to arctan(n2/n1), where n2 and n1 are the Indices of Refraction of the outside media and inside media.

  • @adriancontreras6797
    @adriancontreras6797 3 месяца назад +1

    The slinky demonstration was brilliant! Action lab and Steve Mould are great at intuitive analogous demonstration

  • @glitchy_weasel
    @glitchy_weasel 3 месяца назад +4

    One of the most interestinf episodes! I wonder if this rock has any use appart for doing experiments with it. It's amazing how the Earth can form such perfect rock!

  • @peterfulk174
    @peterfulk174 3 месяца назад +5

    I noticed something about a month ago that I wanted to tell you about. The vent below my dash has a white circle with a white X inside of it. When I saw the reflection of this in the window of my door that was half way open the white circle had a white + inside of it. Some how the curve of the window is just right to rotate the reflection 45 degrees.

  • @Solotris
    @Solotris 3 месяца назад +9

    One thing you said wrong. Critical angle is not “ when 100% light gets reflected”. It is when the angle of refraction is 90 degrees. Light rays just move on the surface touching it. Most of the light gets reflected. Above critical angle, be it even 1 degrees, then it gets completely reflected what we call 100% reflected. Correct me if I’m wrong.

    • @mike1024.
      @mike1024. 3 месяца назад

      I'm a little unconvinced this number would be 90° in every pair of materials.

    • @vaakdemandante8772
      @vaakdemandante8772 3 месяца назад

      more like the critical angle would be when 50% of light get reflected.

    • @asd-wd5bj
      @asd-wd5bj 3 месяца назад +2

      @@mike1024. It's 90 degrees by definition. Critical angle is the angle at which you have to shine light into a material to get it to reflect at 90 degrees, if it doesn't do that then we don't call it a critical angle, simple as that.
      In case you misunderstood, they aren't saying that the critical angle itself has to be 90 degrees, that one varies from material to material, 90 is the exit angle by which it's defined

  • @VladTchompalov
    @VladTchompalov 3 месяца назад

    Really like these videos when you break down complex ideas with something I never knew existed

  • @iamthemaninde
    @iamthemaninde 3 месяца назад +2

    I have a few pieces of this. Bought some from a shop about 5 years ago. Very cool

  • @OCRay1
    @OCRay1 3 месяца назад +3

    It’s so weird to me that the circles are perfect coming through the stone. Literally perfect

    • @davidd2661
      @davidd2661 3 месяца назад

      They aren't perfect circles in the stone though I think. They are more like polygon based. Like hex or so because of quartz formation 😊

  • @TaniaKisha
    @TaniaKisha 3 месяца назад +6

    Damn... Soul sold... -.-

    • @norrinradd8952
      @norrinradd8952 3 месяца назад +3

      That's crazy, was about to post the same thing. Thumbs up.

  • @Tekz12
    @Tekz12 3 месяца назад +1

    This is soo neat.
    Your channel is always so Informative and fun! 👍

  • @justinarreaga4731
    @justinarreaga4731 18 часов назад

    I'm sorry everyone's hating on your sponsorship. I understand as a content creator you've gotta hustle to make livable wages. Keep making that educational and high quality content friend.

  • @ultralaggerREV1
    @ultralaggerREV1 3 месяца назад +4

    I’m gonna call it reality fragment as it’s basically a piece of reality that was shattered and can be placed on anywhere in space to merge onto such existential object

  • @1erinjames
    @1erinjames 3 месяца назад +5

    Never seen one of those before. Very cool !!

  • @GlorifiedGremlin
    @GlorifiedGremlin 2 месяца назад +2

    Oh man this has a lot of potential for cool decorations

  • @Digital-Dan
    @Digital-Dan 3 месяца назад

    This is one of your better efforts. Fascinating, and previously unknown.

  • @NickWrightDataYT
    @NickWrightDataYT 3 месяца назад +13

    I think angling the camera would have been a great way to show how the light was coming from the *top* of the stone.

    • @TheActionLab
      @TheActionLab  3 месяца назад +18

      If you aren't looking directly from the top then it is blurry, so you can't look at it from the side. It is more noticeable that it is on top in person because we can see stereoscopically but we can't do that on camera.

    • @NickWrightDataYT
      @NickWrightDataYT 3 месяца назад +6

      @@TheActionLab that makes a lot of sense, my bad!

    • @TiredMomma
      @TiredMomma 3 месяца назад +3

      Someone else made a comment basically wondering if something could be hidden when the rock is sideways, which I agree might, or just blur the object, depending how thick the rock is, and how dark the object is behind it.

    • @davidellsworth4203
      @davidellsworth4203 3 месяца назад +3

      @@TheActionLab You still could have used narrow depth of field to demonstrate better what it's like in person, right? The video could go back and forth between focusing on the background and on the image on the top of the ulexite stone. In fact narrow depth of field is kind of like stereoscopic vision, in that it shows an integrated view of multiple angles of light (especially when used for phase-detection autofocus).
      And regardless of it not looking good from the side, I still wish you had shown this in the video, to further give a better idea of what it's like to see this in person.

  • @HaphazardDisastard
    @HaphazardDisastard 3 месяца назад +4

    That stone looks more like satin spar selenite to me. Both selenite and ulexite are very similar with all properties mentioned in this video, but selenite is more common, cheaper, and often whiter than the yellowish ulexite.

  • @erikschmidt2571
    @erikschmidt2571 3 месяца назад +1

    The slinky thing is such a smart and clever example!

  • @noname-li5tl
    @noname-li5tl 3 месяца назад +1

    Nice demonstration of optics!

  • @flamingmonkays
    @flamingmonkays 3 месяца назад +5

    This looks like a material you would *not* want to inhale.

  • @erktrek
    @erktrek 3 месяца назад +14

    I wonder if you could make one out of stacking a bunch of super thin fiber optic cables together? Less optical defects..

  • @TheInevitableHulk
    @TheInevitableHulk 3 месяца назад +2

    1:09 I thought that was a giant screen you were calling your phone but after watching a few times I realized you just covered it with a fabric lol

  • @sannyassi73
    @sannyassi73 3 месяца назад +1

    I have one of these inside my computer case- I got it at the top of Pike's Peak, it's really neat- it doesn't magnify, it projects what's on the bottom to the top.

  • @leyonki3362
    @leyonki3362 3 месяца назад +3

    I feel smarter after each of your videos man... Thanks bro keep it up

  • @Yurkevich22
    @Yurkevich22 3 месяца назад +26

    Bro, please don't promote this BS site. It's the epitome of cheap consumerism culture. Please don't promote it.

  • @dyllanusher1379
    @dyllanusher1379 2 месяца назад

    Okay the slink demo is so awesome!

  • @darrennew8211
    @darrennew8211 3 месяца назад +1

    I had a tie tack and finger ring made out of polished fiber optic cable. It was pretty cool to look through.

  • @der_noa
    @der_noa 3 месяца назад +12

    I've actually been thinking about this material for a while now 🤔‼
    I wonder if we could make an "orthographic camera lens" out of it. It wouldn't be a lens in the traditional sense since it doesn't focus any light, but given it's optical properties it would still filter out light by its incoming angle - the angle in question being a precise 90°, ideally speaking, making the resulting image perfectly orthographic. Randomly incoming light hitting a light sensitive screen would usually produce no image at all or a very blurry one, depending on the exact setup, but by using this "lens"/ filter, we effectively eliminate blur, which means we should be able to produce sharp images. The image would obviously be restricted and limited by the image sensor shape and size, and the exposure time would likewise vary wildly depending on the type of image sensor and its sensitivity, but I imagine some sort of polaroid-like film would be sufficient to make this a fun experiment.
    I'm not sure if there are any practical use cases for such a lens, especially given its sensor limitations, but I think something like this could have potential in microscopy, where (I'd assume) the electronic image sensors are as small as phone cameras' anyway, small scale telescopes for astrophotography, other fields in which small image sensors are used or maybe even laser technology

    • @rongarza9488
      @rongarza9488 3 месяца назад

      @der_noa If you look at a girl through this rock you can see her underwear.

    • @der_noa
      @der_noa 3 месяца назад

      ​@@rongarza9488rumor has it if you look at a glass through this rock you can even see the water inside it 😱🤯‼️

    • @a.karley4672
      @a.karley4672 3 месяца назад +3

      This idea is about 450 million years old. Trilobites (marine animals with nothing similar alive today) had some very sophisticated eyes, including some really fancy mineral optics. Read up Euan Clarkson's work from Edinburgh University.
      Fascinating eyes. But they still went extinct. Slowly. Nobody knows why. And one of their predators was in the habit of attacking form the right-hand side - which is also really weird.

    • @der_noa
      @der_noa 3 месяца назад +2

      @@a.karley4672 450 million years? Damn, there goes my chance to patent this idea.
      Thank you for reminding me though, I totally forgot about Trilobites' eyes for a second. Fascinating little critters

  • @CHIEF_Games
    @CHIEF_Games 3 месяца назад +3

    Dude that slinky was such a great visual example. Thanks for making great, entertaining and educating videos! God bless.

  • @melkel2010
    @melkel2010 3 месяца назад

    I didn't believe you at first, I thought this was going to be a debunk of a viral subject. Really cool. I want one!

  • @TurtleMan2023
    @TurtleMan2023 2 месяца назад

    One of the coolest things I've ever seen in my entire life, and we named it the "television stone" great job guys

  • @MrGredawg
    @MrGredawg 3 месяца назад +10

    So in a random galaxy, in a random planet there could be this stone scattered throughout the planet so those aliens could spy on other countries with this stone...

    • @skywarp1216
      @skywarp1216 3 месяца назад +4

      Wanna go even crazier? What's stopping that random galaxy from having a planet or a satellite made entirely from it? Just a clear sphere ether somehow inhabited or just the most useless moon for an eclipse.

    • @Lucius_Chiaraviglio
      @Lucius_Chiaraviglio 3 месяца назад +4

      @@skywarp1216 Elemental abundance is stopping it. In fusion reactions, boron is consumed more easily than it is made, so its steady state in stars is extremely small (it is one of those elements made primarily by cosmic ray spallation). So any planet is going to have overwhelmingly large amounts of other stuff in it.

    • @Ithirahad
      @Ithirahad 3 месяца назад +4

      Not dense or strong enough for that. Even in a planet without tectonic plate movement, the ground always shifts and settles which would break any natural fibre optic cabling longer than a meter or two over thousands and millions of years. So until you break off pieces of the rock layer and realize it's made of optical fibre, you'd just see white rocks.

  • @TomtheMagician21
    @TomtheMagician21 3 месяца назад +6

    This is really cool, would there be any way to make it work if it wasn't directly touching the surface? Like a sort of orthographic camera?

    • @BLUYES422
      @BLUYES422 3 месяца назад +4

      you would have to focus the image right onto the surface of the material with a lense, i always thought this stuff was cool but i wish action lab had rotated the camera around the sample to give a better idea of the effect.

  • @KingPBJames
    @KingPBJames 2 месяца назад +1

    "This stone is so incredible."
    [smashes it]

  • @gnocchidokie
    @gnocchidokie 2 месяца назад

    I assumed this stuff was rare and expensive, but I'm holding a big block of it in my hands right now because it was so cheap! Thanks for showing me this, I'm having lots of fun with it!

  • @jrpence
    @jrpence 3 месяца назад +11

    Sorry but temu's labor practices are questionable.

  • @davynolan182
    @davynolan182 3 месяца назад +8

    Always exposed cool stuff on this channel, actually I am in the process of starting a business that was inspired by your videos on refractive indexes. Specifically the video where you drilled a hole in clear ice, put some water in it and put your finger in it to make it look like your finger was frozen solid.

  • @djafk
    @djafk 3 месяца назад

    I have never heard of that stone before, but suddenly I need some lol!

  • @mathhacks-bj9ih
    @mathhacks-bj9ih 3 месяца назад +2

    what is the software that you are using to show the ray tracing ?

  • @adamp7376
    @adamp7376 3 месяца назад +19

    Aristocrat slot machines use this tech on their button panels. A 1" piece of what looks like glass that sits on a small lcd screen. This magnifies the image and also makes the image appear on top of the piece of 'glass' just like the stone in the video.

  • @cumber3631
    @cumber3631 3 месяца назад +4

    the real fiber optic cable core

  • @kev_gamer_uk
    @kev_gamer_uk 3 месяца назад

    Just discovered your channel. I'll put it on the list for 1st year college students. Cheers.

  • @matthewsaulsbury3011
    @matthewsaulsbury3011 3 месяца назад

    Wow, this is amazing! I did not know that kind of stone existed.

  • @Riomations
    @Riomations 3 месяца назад +3

    So this is how cavemans watched the football matches... I see!

  • @TrevTSutch
    @TrevTSutch 3 месяца назад +4

    Wow, the video description is literally just about the advertiser, would be nice to at least mention what the video is about.

    • @dompan9169
      @dompan9169 3 месяца назад +1

      Nah, this man is selling his soul to the CCP. It’s time to find a new science channel.

  • @alexiskeller2724
    @alexiskeller2724 3 месяца назад

    Again what a good video ! thank you for te content🤗🤗. I hope that after the lulexite you will be talking about the optical calcite which also has good features 😉

  • @jondeik
    @jondeik 2 месяца назад +1

    I had a chunk about that same size, as a kid. I have no memory of where I got it, but I loved that thing

  • @johnsmith-bt4ur
    @johnsmith-bt4ur 3 месяца назад +14

    Why are you taking money from scams ?

  • @nerd26373
    @nerd26373 3 месяца назад +5

    Television stone works when you hit it against a flat surface. All the spirits in the cemetery will be enticed to come along.

  • @freakinccdevilleiv380
    @freakinccdevilleiv380 2 месяца назад

    Always great content man 🤯🤯

  • @h-leath6339
    @h-leath6339 3 месяца назад

    Oh man, I love that stuff. The only optical phenomenon that tingles my brain more is looking through a ruby laser rod. Try it!

  • @marklonergan3898
    @marklonergan3898 3 месяца назад +7

    "it's as though it's a tv screen, but really it's a bright green stone that i'm putting an overlay on. This April Fools joke is sponsored by..."

  • @cayenigma
    @cayenigma 3 месяца назад +43

    I was about to give this video a like, but then you had a Temu advert. I cannot support their questionable business practices. I am frankly appalled a science channel I respect like you, would take a sponsorship from any of these companies.

    • @killernyancat8193
      @killernyancat8193 3 месяца назад +2

      If it works, it works

    • @JanKowalski-wb8ih
      @JanKowalski-wb8ih 2 месяца назад +1

      @@killernyancat8193 They are using slave labor, you are literally condoning slavery my brother in christ

  • @BillNyeEnthusiast
    @BillNyeEnthusiast 16 дней назад

    this guy taught me about light in detail and with examples within 2 minutes, but my school takes about 1 month at least to teach this

  • @heyspookyboogie644
    @heyspookyboogie644 3 месяца назад

    The slinky visual was a cool analogy.

  • @PaleoWithFries
    @PaleoWithFries 3 месяца назад +5

    This video sponsored by the CCP!

  • @TheCito
    @TheCito 3 месяца назад +27

    I‘m sorry but he’s lost me at that sponsorship. Thought he’s better than that

    • @IrethAmandil
      @IrethAmandil 2 месяца назад +7

      Agreed, though at some point bills need paid

  • @conorstewart2214
    @conorstewart2214 3 месяца назад

    How good could we make this synthetically? If we could make really small glass fibres and combine them into a block would the effect be much better?
    This reminds me of devices for creating laminar flow, lots of tubes combined together in the same orientation to direct the fluid and try to get it going straight.

  • @speedyrb7457
    @speedyrb7457 3 месяца назад

    What program are you using to make the light demonstration models

  • @delusionalmerg1323
    @delusionalmerg1323 3 месяца назад +5

    fun fact: it’s physically impossible to move without relying on other matter or without losing mass

    • @filonin2
      @filonin2 3 месяца назад +3

      Nope. You could emit light in only one direction, which in a vacuum would move you without relying on other matter or losing mass. Light has inertia but no mass and whatever I use to power the laser will lose energy but not mass. Your assertion only works if you count the mass-energy equivalence, but that's not really in the spirit of the "fun fact."

    • @delusionalmerg1323
      @delusionalmerg1323 3 месяца назад +1

      @@filonin2 depending on how much mass the object has the amount of energy used to overcome its inertia could be enough to lose some level of mass although a very small amount, just a few atoms still contains a ton of energy (also technically any reaction does in fact convert mass into energy although much smaller than .0000000001%)

    • @Ducky69247
      @Ducky69247 2 месяца назад +1

      Does emitting light cast off mass? Why do you say it would lose mass?

    • @delusionalmerg1323
      @delusionalmerg1323 2 месяца назад

      @@Ducky69247 using mass for energy to emit light

    • @Ducky69247
      @Ducky69247 2 месяца назад

      @@delusionalmerg1323 as in a chemical/matter reaction? So is all light chemically created?

  • @maria50337
    @maria50337 3 месяца назад +15

    Your choice of sponsors is appalling lately.

  • @Whatsinanameanyway13
    @Whatsinanameanyway13 3 месяца назад

    This is an amazing material. Would love to see more on how it is formed. What kind of geology creates a parallel bunch of fibers?

  • @GetMoGaming
    @GetMoGaming 3 месяца назад +1

    With the cube of glass, you can see light coming in the sides and shadow, this confirms to me what's happening with that rock, as it has no such light coming in the sides..

  • @_Dearex_
    @_Dearex_ 3 месяца назад +9

    with every ad this channel looses some of its value...

    • @westonding8953
      @westonding8953 3 месяца назад +1

      Wrong. The money he spends to create a video without ads to supplement it is a bigger loss. Please respect the importance of ads and sponsorships to supporting a sustainable income source and channel.

    • @juliethecyborg
      @juliethecyborg 3 месяца назад +6

      I just wish he could get sponsored by less shady companies :/

    • @Ducky69247
      @Ducky69247 2 месяца назад

      ​@@westonding8953nope. The worse the sponsors are, the more subscribers he loses.

    • @westonding8953
      @westonding8953 2 месяца назад

      @@Ducky69247that seems contrary to his gradually growing numbers. Although I do dislike shady sponsors, I am considerate to what RUclipsrs must deal with and choose at times.

  • @ChrisNP87
    @ChrisNP87 16 дней назад

    How fascinating! It looks similar to Selenite, especially after seeing the Ulexite shattered. So cool!

  • @redfacejoe7129
    @redfacejoe7129 3 месяца назад

    Amazing! You found an actual USE for a Slinky!