How Does a Floating Water Bridge Work?
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In this video I show you how a water bridge or water thread is made using high voltage. I talk about the mysteries related to the phenomenon.
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First? Maybe?
It's funny because I literally got the same email this morning 😂
The current of electricity is traveling in a circuit through the water. That's why it's going round and round from beaker to beaker
Ayy
@@diegopicadidot8948 It would make a bubble bath.
More crazy details: the water on the outside of the bridge is whipping around in a helical pattern at something crazy like 100k rpm, and I think the water on the inside of the bridge is going back the other direction. Also, the water in the bridge is freaking birefringent. And, there is a dramatic pH difference between the two beakers. I put up a few videos on this 10 years ago, and I've really been hoping a big science channel would pick this up, so it's awesome to see this video.
Curious if varying the Hz of AC would affect the bridge and flow?
Nice, now what would happen if the liquid is highly viscous?
have you ever heard about Stanley Mayer? he clamed to invent a device that used voltage and resonance to split water molecules instead of current as in electrolysis. He called his method voltrolysis and claimed to run a car on water due to the voltrolysis method having several times more efficiency than faraday electrolysis.
The views of your channel are criminally low. You deserve more.
So if switched to DC would this even work?
Man I have a PhD degree in physics yet still get surprised every time with Action Lab video.
Flex op
Same lol.
I was at a conference when I heard a lecture by Elmar Fuchs on this phenomenon. He published several papers on it from about 2007-2010. I was teaching physics at the time, so I cobbled together a ballast and a flyback, and my students and I ran a bunch of experiments on the water bridge. It was a great way to show the students that one doesn't need expensive equipment to make cool discoveries.
You must have to watch Electroboom.. 😎
@@MonteFleming Me too, Elmar F. was here at UW Seattle. After his talk, I found that our HV supplies lacked the required wattage (except for one, and that one had so much 60Hz hum, that the water bridge would always splatter.) So, I tried it with pools of DI water on a big level sheet of extremely clean plexiglas. GIANT WATER BRIDGES, an inch wide and many inches long, and they dynamically crawl around like living snakes. Two separate pools, connected to (very clean) electrodes, will send out long pseudopods in order to find each other and connect. "Electrostatic Amoeba" demonstration!
Then drop in a single grain of table salt, and everything stops. Ionic contamination poisons the poor snake.
When you moved that live beaker with your bare hand, my heart rate went way up
Same here. People die from this sort of thing, and it is disconcerting to see a smart man do something like that. Worse yet, a person could be inspired by this video to replicate the demonstration on their own with the same lack of safety measures.
@@arty1799 it’s safe, dude. Stop spreading fakes about deaths and go read about high frequency current and “skin effect”
he has skin gloves guys don’t worry
Really interesting phenomenon, and a proof that no isolation will stop high voltages!
This man has more demonstrations I've never seen before than anyone.
Thanks for the discussion of explanations at the end, definitely improves the video over just showing a weird phenomenon!
This is impressive!
What would happen if you repeat this experiment with a very viscous liquid that doesn't physically harm you by making by products?
Also, does it work for molten states?
Really, I want to know.
Science has unlimited content
Dude... they don't even understand why the water bridge does what it does. We don't even know if the questions you're asking make sense to ask.
It's great that really you want to know. So does science. Go help out figuring it out.
The liquid has to be be insulating. Distilled water doesn't work, instead you need hundreds megohms or better, from DDW, deionized water, called "chemically purified water" in old journals. But perhaps oil will work, veg. oil, kerosene, gasoline. On YT there are videos of the strange electrostatic effect with oil. It grows points, then spews droplet-streams. Probably it's a similar phenomenon to the ultra-pure water. (Ultra-pure water has been used as capacitor dielectric in mil systems, HVDC radar and transmitter supplies, etc.
Curious to see the effect of a strong magnetic placed above the water bridge. Maybe the Lorentz force would produce some interesting effects.
Great video as always, thank you.
damn... seeing like the water just work against gravity to hold up a flowing current is so awesome
This is awesome - great video! What is the current in this experiment? Does the deionized water actually transport charge?
Try some INSULATOR-SUPPORTED water-bridges. After Elmar Fuchs gave a talk here at UW Seattle, I used 4ft sheets of extremely clean acrylic, adjusted to be level. The resulting bridges then are an inch wide and many inches long, and man do they behave weird. A "water snake" crawls around like a living thing. First it "humps up" to ~1cm height when the HVDC is applied. Even an isolated pool of water, hooked up to 10KV, moves around like Amoeba! It sends out pseudopods, searching for the other distant terminal. (This occurs even with low-watt supplies, neg. ion generator modules etc.) But still we do need DI water, and not just standard distilled water.
Then, drop in a couple of grains of table salt, and everything stops instantly. Water snakes killed. (Probably the salt allows the water to self-shield, via surface charge, so as with any conductor, e-fields are excluded from the interior.)
Wbeaty... Good to see you here! Long-time fan of the Science Hobbyist/Weird Science pages. Is there a video of the clean acrylic high voltage water snake? If not, how soon can you post one?
@@aclinks1 On my original article (search... amasci high voltage water thread,) I received an email eyewitness report of giant water-snakes, apparently created by a desert thunderstorm. That involves extremely clean rain water, plus DC megavolts, with the water-snake in a dry wash. So, perhaps try a classroom VandeGraaff machine as your 300KV power supply. It may cause the water to raise up far more than 1cm. (The report said: half-mile snake, six feet in diameter. Must have been some extremely clean sand, considerable milliamps of leakage, plus WAY more than one megavolt involved.) Huh, I wonder if the water-snake, while it's charged, will not wet a dry particle surface (or even a dry paper surface?) If true, then it could extend itself over a contaminated surface, a desert dry-wash, but without wetting or dissolving any salty dirt.
Therefore, with conventional water-bridge, what will happen if we touch the bridge with a paper strip, or sandpaper, cotton, etc? Is the "electrowetting" decreased or enhanced? I have no idea. Never been tested? (Also try a safe HV power supply, far below 1/2 watt, and then carefully touch the water-bridge w/finger, while your body is isolated from ground. Can you shove the bridge around? Or does finger-contact simply destroy it?)
@@aclinks1 That's up to others. My policy is to post unexplored discoveries, so kids can use them for science-fair projects. Those who read about secrets, then test them at home, get the rewards. U be first! High-traffic YT vids!
The setup is incredibly simple, the only trick is to get some sufficiently-pure distilled water. I don't know if store-bought DW is pure enough. Perhaps it would still work, if a dangerous high-watts 5KVDC supply was used. Perhaps order some gallons of Milli-Q ultra-pure water from a chem supplier? Or, ask around at a local chemistry class, bring a clean bucket?
It's the same problem, if you want to demonstrate the 2-beakers water-bridge. Glassware and electrodes repeatedly scrubbed in alcohol, and a litre or two of deionized water.
There has N E V E R been a better time science content wise for ADHDers like myself. Thank you.
I have to say, you come up with the coolest demonstrations ever!
This was something I had never seen before. Thank You!
Man! your videos are utter *genius!!*
This was very interesting, I learned a lot!!!
The music is holding the bridge up.
Bridge of troubled water
"Water up, is H²O go
Got me hanging on like a yo yo ..." ?
Yeah. Nahh !
Hi Tay, good to see you in the comments.
The chorus, too.
So cool 😎. I like your science videos.
Many science channels make videos on what the world already knows.
But you focusses on what the world tries to know ✨👍
What are you using for your power and voltage control?
Old tv high voltage transformer
Discovered in 1800's and forgotten: It was water under the bridge...
😂😅😂
You should go on a field trip to a reputable neon shop and do a video. Thanks for this video too, your awesome!
This is fantastic . Thanks
Incredible stuff!
Finally another amazing one
Compliments for the video!
The background look awesome 😲❤❤
THIS LOOKS REALLY COOL
Insane !!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤ I love stuff like this
The like to view ratio is extremely impressive! Seriously though I opened some videos including those from Vsauce and veritasium and this one far surpassed them.
My dude, it flips me out how you find the weirdest phenomenon I've never seen before with EVERY single video you put out. You gotta run out of mind boggling physics sometime.... I'm starting to think you're a wizard and you're changing reality for RUclips content 😮
Your channel is amazing
Loved the video! And what about the human body? Does it also have a slight electric flow? Could this one be disturbed like the charged balloon on the bridge and beaker? I mean, can a magnetic source influence localized body temperature???
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I thought that the reason was that the electrons would drift to one beaker as it is connected to positive terminal of the battery and in moving they would drag water molecules as they aren't solid conductor. Further if small particles were put on either side, depending on their charge they would move to the opposite side as they are positively/negatively charged.
Does the flow of one jar to another follow the current from negative to positive charge? If the water is charged could that increase the occurrence of localized dipole moments in the water bridge and present bulk dielectric properties; causing a flow of water monomers following the flow of the current? If you observe the zwitterion dipole moment and hydration, could the same effect be present through the flow of an electrical current through water?
Enjoying the videos
Your breaker is gonna hate you
😂😂
It probably already does.
@astrolover 95 of course it does.. hell, I'm not even that beaker and I hate him
Transformers bro
He's probably powering it by batteries or something
0:53, proceedes to move the high voltage + high current settup without so much as electrical gloves 😂
This but with ferro fluid would be neat, might just catch on fire but that would be neat too
Gives a new meaning to electrical CURRENT.
Btw, the movement of water is caused by the Maxwell "dielectric displacement currents". If the water is a perfect insulator, these dielectric currents attracts the water molecules and successively repels them.
This happen because the water molecules are strongly polarised.
That was amazing...
Very interesting!
Can we test this on the verticle, have a beaker with a Tap running into a beaker of demineralised water bellow it then turn on the static, does the water still flow, does it stop, does it speed up or slow down or does it ripple due to the frequency.
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What were the power of that transformer and the secondary voltage? Please tell me
i wanna see this in 30yrs... mind blown!!!
Physics is awesome. Thanks
That's VERY cool!
Physics Professor: “Things are insulators, until they aren’t…”
You sir, are a damn wizard!
Hello ! What is your power source to do this experiment?
What would happen if you added something to break the water tension, like a rinse aid or other chemical along those lines?
Interesting how does it work in microgravitation, like on ISS
I personally don't like using filled cups of water for an experiment like this. It's too messy for me. Cool video tho. Keep up the good work. 😁👍
Very interesting
If you do this in the freezer, will the water freeze forming a cool ice sculpture?
Wife: what are you doing?
Husband: don't you mean "water you doing?"
Tape and a wood skewer instead of another metal alligator clip. adjustable without worrying about a jump i used that for a water rheostat for a carbon rod arc heater.
Water has never disappointed curious minds by being mysterious in various phenomena 🤔🧐
Can you do this and put some food coloring in to show the dynamics of the water please. Thank you in advance.
Is there anything more magical than electrickery??
Me:okay I don't think I'll be surprised by another experiment, I've seen too many
The action lab: hii check this
Me: 😮
Have you seen the slapping water to get light video? Maybe try that?
Reference [1] in the paper shown is : "The floating water bridge", Fuchs, et al, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, v.40, p.6112, (2007)
Yo could try first putting the deionized water in a vacuum chamber to get rid of dissolved gasses. This removes one unknown variable. Or the other way - dissolving different gases in cold water.
Using the good ol flyback transformer, I see!
Is the "Water Bridge" the only known unusual behavior that water performs. As looking at your experiment here one can deduce other traits it appears to manifest when given an electrical charge and providing the water is de-ionized. Which brings us to other very important question about the true nature of water. The electrical charge applied clearly alters the state and conductivity that water possesses, and displays a number of behaviors that we would not have imagined.
One point that isn't raised in your experiment is the evidence that water can alter its course from being a "Water Bridge" to a "Water Fall" which we can observe in your experiment. As with the ability to flow in both directions. You also demonstrate that the bridge can act and perform like a "Transport System" allowing an object to float on its surface. So potentially you have interestingly gained my attention in all of this.
Thank You.
With the power on, you moved the wet beaker bare handed??😮
t-shirt looks good on you
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How i imagine "magic" in movies or games and stuff, is fhysics phenomens like this one here.
Like every spell, particles and all that powers is some kind of anomaly that allows humans to distribute energy in such a way to the point where they can bend reality and environment like this water in the video.
does it work as a chain of 3+ beakers? What about in a circle so they can refill?
So this phenomenon was discovered in 1893 and it became water under the bridge.
Good thing it was rediscovered as actually a water bridge.
so awesome
I recently was informed that in a vacuum, 2 pure, oil/corrosion free pieces of the same metal can weld themselves together if they touch, and doesn't require heat. Can you test that out?
I think he actually brought this up in one of his videos a while back.
well, water is polar so it would be interesting to measure actual water molecule orientation in the bridge - I bet they are aligned along the direction of mass transfer.
I mean do you actually need nano-bubbles if every water molecule is a tiny magnet dragged by the moving charges? I think not.
Beautiful laminar flow
imagine this on a massive scale. it's probably more complicated than just increasing everything but imagine swimming through the bridge.
That is a shocking suggestion!
@@davidroddini1512 literally 😂
Was it direct or alternating voltage?
Nice shirt !
If this works because of Nano bubbles, would it stop working in a vaccum chamber?
But I guess the phase change to gas would make it difficult to test
Could this be used to make water flow uphill?
Please make a tutorial on how you made your power supply.
How many volts and amps did you use for this
😃 My favourite combination, Water and Electricity 😵💫🤣👍
Maybe someone could make a transistor using the nanobubbles as charge carriers? :)
Tornado inside the cyclone. Each going opposite directions depending on the right hand rule.
One is centripetal one is centrifugal, both are the same so they stick together but the internal tornado is going right hand and through the middle.
The other is going right hand spin but on the outside travelling in the opposite direction. Essentially splitting the charge in the water
Marvelous
how about trying oil and water or some other pair that won't mix, and different color, so you can see what's moving where at smaller scales
I really expected more from you
Please how do i calculate the capacitance of a capacitor of unequal area of its plate
bro, which wire is which. red is positive or negative?
Did you use AC or DC source? If AC, what would be happened on DC?
how are you moving the beaker?
Can you please bring more videos explaining X-rays and electromagnetic radiations?
Sick
And here I thought bridges are built OVER water.
How high is the voltage and current?