How fast does glass crack? - The Slow Mo Guys

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  • Опубликовано: 12 дек 2018
  • Gav and Dan use some absolutely insane frame rates to learn how fast 5 millimetre tempered glass cracks. 3 pieces of glass were harmed in the making of this video.
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    Filmed at 28,500, 78,000 and 481,000fps on the Phantom V2512
    How fast does glass crack? - The Slow Mo Guys
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Комментарии • 12 тыс.

  • @theslowmoguys
    @theslowmoguys  5 лет назад +14838

    Hello everyone. I recommend you watch this one full screen or on a computer so you can see the cracks more clearly. They look bloody tiny on a phone screen! - Gav

  • @perschistence2651
    @perschistence2651 5 лет назад +16511

    So if the earth was made of glass, it would take roundabout four hours till it is completely shattered into pieces.

    • @jablinskisgoat9504
      @jablinskisgoat9504 5 лет назад +689

      Thank you Michael very cool👌

    • @drBVR
      @drBVR 5 лет назад +1022

      2.4h if you would crack it at the surface! The crack goes THROUGH the sphere, not only by the surface!

    • @perschistence2651
      @perschistence2651 5 лет назад +501

      @@drBVR That would be true, if the earth wouln't be hollow like a Christmas tree ball.

    • @drBVR
      @drBVR 5 лет назад +303

      @@perschistence2651 Ah.. yes.. I had to google it, but you are right.. the earth is hollow!
      At least Donald thinks so, so it must be right!?

    • @perschistence2651
      @perschistence2651 5 лет назад +183

      @@drBVR Exactly, you see, the internet knows everything!

  • @bingewatch8002
    @bingewatch8002 4 года назад +3794

    I don't think shorts were the best clothing option for shattering glass at extremely close range.

    • @DinnerForkTongue
      @DinnerForkTongue 4 года назад +108

      It's safety glass. Very unlikely to cut anything.

    • @jenniferlynn3579
      @jenniferlynn3579 4 года назад +197

      @@DinnerForkTongue I can confirm that tempered "safety" glass is indeed much safer and less likely to cut, but it is still glass and can still cut if you're right next to it when it shatters. I came here to this video to see what is happening in slow-mo since two hours ago I suffered multiple lacerations from a dusty arcade cabinet glass panel that slipped through my fingers and shattered right next to my exposed, shorts-wearing legs. It was like a miniature grenade going off and blasting tiny shards of glass into me. Much smaller than the glass nuggets that made up the majority of the debris. Some of the cuts were fairly deep, as well. Not enough to need stitches, but yikes. Two of the cuts took tiny chunks out of me. Definitely would not recommend breaking any form of glass next to your bare legs.

    • @MothloolVA
      @MothloolVA 4 года назад +29

      @@jenniferlynn3579 Wtf is that XD just write a whole book

    • @bupi9372
      @bupi9372 4 года назад +25

      @@jenniferlynn3579 omgsh that's insane!! Are you better now? 🌻 It must have taken ages to get all the glass out (?) :0

    • @yungcuben4137
      @yungcuben4137 4 года назад +1

      Glass can cut though pants

  • @ilian9420
    @ilian9420 3 года назад +1048

    2:44 that flash of light was everything

    • @yKuroKenshi
      @yKuroKenshi 3 года назад +11

      You talk like a girl

    • @crypticgaming3849
      @crypticgaming3849 3 года назад +10

      @@yKuroKenshi stfu, you legit like rainbows

    • @yKuroKenshi
      @yKuroKenshi 3 года назад +15

      @@crypticgaming3849 wtf of course I like rainbows... Wdym????

    • @pcd9230
      @pcd9230 3 года назад +2

      @@yKuroKenshi ruclips.net/video/HnZ4sOCU1ZY/видео.html

    • @manmannihan5403
      @manmannihan5403 3 года назад +38

      @@crypticgaming3849 what’s wrong with rainbows mate

  • @drowsiestvirus484
    @drowsiestvirus484 3 года назад +2208

    Dan just accidently explained how the earth is round

    • @orangegradient4309
      @orangegradient4309 3 года назад +18

      Haha

    • @antknee420
      @antknee420 3 года назад +5

      ? There is no factual repeatable proof of it being round, so what did he say?

    • @_itsjustcat
      @_itsjustcat 3 года назад +167

      antknee420 at 6:05.
      make what you will of what he says. Personally, I think the earth is round but if you think the earth is flat, ok. As long as you’re not hurting anyone, do and think whatever you want.

    • @drowsiestvirus484
      @drowsiestvirus484 3 года назад +20

      @@antknee420 it response for just Catie finding the part, the line is like the horizon

    • @qwe.2739
      @qwe.2739 3 года назад +213

      face it
      the earth is a banana

  • @eeliasish
    @eeliasish 4 года назад +3688

    i cant be the only who didn’t notice the glass plane at the beginning of the video.

  • @fluffyou9276
    @fluffyou9276 4 года назад +2513

    At 6:00 they debunked the "where's the curve" argument of flat earthers.

    • @heyhuhh1366
      @heyhuhh1366 4 года назад +155

      But Flat earthers still wont believe it. Science arguments for flat eathers is like garlic for a vampire

    • @onmymommyweballin9136
      @onmymommyweballin9136 4 года назад +72

      globe companies say the earth is round to sell more globes
      science confirmed

    • @heyhuhh1366
      @heyhuhh1366 4 года назад +32

      @@onmymommyweballin9136 Ah I forgot about billion making globe industry right after NRA and oil

    • @e_c_t
      @e_c_t 4 года назад +2

      Fluff you one thousandth like

    • @stevengleave9241
      @stevengleave9241 4 года назад +1

      Wheres your evidence?

  • @silent596
    @silent596 2 года назад +244

    To this day it still takes me a minute to remember that Dan is holding the glass in the beginning.

  • @josephyap3198
    @josephyap3198 3 года назад +218

    A road of glass would finish "cracking" from New York to London in 1 hours and 2 minutes

    • @mranonymous481
      @mranonymous481 3 года назад

      Did you calculated that yourself?

    • @mranonymous481
      @mranonymous481 3 года назад +5

      I figured it out and it would break from London to Los Angeles in 1.8 hours.

    • @datgaydangernoodle1315
      @datgaydangernoodle1315 3 года назад +2

      Wow thats mad

    • @nnewt8445
      @nnewt8445 3 года назад +1

      Dang... I could watch one act of a Gilbert & Sullivan opera in the time it takes for that road of glass to crack, lol.

    • @PunchCounterpunch_Lizzy
      @PunchCounterpunch_Lizzy 2 года назад +1

      I’d love to see that

  • @itisinfactpaul2868
    @itisinfactpaul2868 4 года назад +4865

    The speed measured here is actually the speed of sound in glass!

    • @aleksey4e
      @aleksey4e 4 года назад +398

      Yes, and it's very sad that authors didn't mention that. In fact it's common property of solid substances

    • @gryffindorgirl1009
      @gryffindorgirl1009 4 года назад +31

      WOA

    • @emilio_448
      @emilio_448 3 года назад +65

      A question, should i calculate Mach with the speed of sound in the glass or the speed of sound in the air at room temperature?

    • @itisinfactpaul2868
      @itisinfactpaul2868 3 года назад +131

      @@emilio_448 You only use 'Mach' when you're talking about an object moving through a fluid, and since contrary to popular belief, glass is *NOT* a liquid, I assume you would want to calculate the speed of sound in the air. What exactly are you trying to do?

    • @Othmar98
      @Othmar98 3 года назад +136

      That is wrong. The speed of sound in glass is between 4000 and 5000 m/s instead of the 1458 m/s that they measured.

  • @theCodyReeder
    @theCodyReeder 5 лет назад +4035

    Glass should break at the speed of sound through glass. You can look up the speed of sound in glass and find values between 4 to 5 km/second. So why does the glass seem to break at 1/3rd that speed? Well after thinking it over I realized that just like seismic waves during an earthquake there are different types of waves traveling at different speeds!
    So which sound wave are we observing?
    The "P" or "primary compression wave" travels fastest at about 4-5km/s in rock like material (glass) and is what is generally used for "speed of sound" but that of course travels far faster than what we see here.
    The "S" or "secondary shear wave" has a typical speed around 60% of that of P-waves in any given material. Great! but this means the "S" wave velocity is still too fast and cant be the culprit.

    So that leaves the 3rd type of seismic wave: "surface" or "Rayleigh waves". Rayleigh are a lot like the "wave" produced by taking a tight string and flicking it; making the string tighter makes the wave travel faster. Unfortunately this means that "Rayleigh velocity for a sheet of tempered glass" is not something I can easially look up so I will have to approximate using the equation: v=sqrt((N/m^2)/((kg/m^3)/m)
    We know that surface of tempered glass has 10,000 psi (~7000N/cm^2) of compression ( leaving the inside under tension). We also know that the density of glass is 2.5g/cm^3. Plugging this into and simplifying the equation I am left with: sqrt(7000N/.0025kg) = 1700m/s which is close to the velocity observed!
    Now this makes sense since the stress that ultimately caused the glass to break was similar to "flicking" the end of a tight rope. I predict that if you hit the edge of the glass with a hammer (or maybe bullet) so that the "p" wave is causing the glass to fail we should observe a much faster (4.5Km/s) glass breaking velocity.

    • @SidewinderScience
      @SidewinderScience 5 лет назад +392

      Wow! I think this might be the longest comment you've made in a while.

    • @vacuumtube8933
      @vacuumtube8933 5 лет назад +77

      Ah. much better explained than the first comment you made.

    • @theCodyReeder
      @theCodyReeder 5 лет назад +186

      @@khubba10 Well It is a good way to push the comment up to the top.

    • @devenirpyro
      @devenirpyro 5 лет назад +19

      @@theCodyReeder true story, amazing explanation

    • @keithinadhd6693
      @keithinadhd6693 5 лет назад +8

      Cody'sLab Look at mister smart guy here! :p

  • @Xidphel
    @Xidphel 3 года назад +332

    "what goes Mach 4.2?!"
    A manhole cover.

    • @al1rednam
      @al1rednam 3 года назад +10

      Too bad there wasn't a fast enough camera to measure that manhole covers speed more precisely...

    • @namararenteria
      @namararenteria 3 года назад +1

      The way he says Mach really annoys me

    • @mranonymous481
      @mranonymous481 3 года назад +4

      Here's what I found:
      A Mach number is the ratio of an object's speed in a given medium to the speed of sound in that medium.Mach 1, then, is the speed of sound, around 761 mph at sea level on a standard day. The term is also used as a metaphor for high speeds more generally.
      (I thought that otherwise you won't believe me)

    • @namararenteria
      @namararenteria 3 года назад +2

      @@mranonymous481 Yes

    • @AManOnline.
      @AManOnline. 3 года назад +4

      Only Half as Interesting viewers will get it

  • @sajidahmed9732
    @sajidahmed9732 3 года назад +46

    0:59 when the tea and crumpets is on point

  • @liminal548
    @liminal548 4 года назад +3633

    4:34 companies 0.001 seconds after pride month ends

    • @9hundredone415
      @9hundredone415 4 года назад +57

      FadeFA I was just about to comment that

    • @montpc259
      @montpc259 4 года назад +382

      It's a shame pride month exists at all.

    • @necronomics1804
      @necronomics1804 4 года назад +58

      @@montpc259 could you elaborate a bit more on that

    • @swampyswamperton6536
      @swampyswamperton6536 4 года назад +178

      @@necronomics1804 I think it's because companies don't really care. They just celebrate pride month to seem inclusive.

    • @alexn9198
      @alexn9198 4 года назад +42

      Mont PC preach brother

  • @20poundvoucher
    @20poundvoucher 5 лет назад +2788

    Love the analysis in this video. Dans description of the curvature of the fractures by considering the pane as a section of larger circle is spot on. Not only is it mathematically/physically correct they, explain it in such a way most people can understand it

    • @7f0g20
      @7f0g20 5 лет назад +6

      Hello im responding fast!

    • @theslowmoguys
      @theslowmoguys  5 лет назад +317

      GaeafBlaidde was a good example of us being able to immediately learn from the footage we took. Love it when that happens. - Gav

    • @HakanBacon
      @HakanBacon 5 лет назад +11

      Yeah you're right. It's such a complicated process put in this less than a second video. It's just awsome!

    • @oswaldovzki
      @oswaldovzki 5 лет назад +1

      indeed!

    • @Cytrillex
      @Cytrillex 5 лет назад +30

      yeah that was really genius. They're two pretty smart blokes considering some of the ridiculous things they do on this channel

  • @1earflapping
    @1earflapping 3 года назад +61

    "I think it's time to get carried away." The basic principle of this channel.

  • @frobey
    @frobey 3 года назад +448

    How fast does glass crack?
    12M people: well well then, let’s find out

    • @frobey
      @frobey 3 года назад

      Kpop Fan same person as what?

    • @frobey
      @frobey 3 года назад

      Kpop Fan ohh..cuz someone else commented so i replied but he deleted that comment soo yea

    • @chaeriyahyayah8920
      @chaeriyahyayah8920 3 года назад +2

      Now is 13M

    • @tonov451
      @tonov451 3 года назад +2

      why is that interesting

    • @tuneboyz5634
      @tuneboyz5634 3 года назад

      Yeah that's right

  • @filip8689
    @filip8689 4 года назад +1654

    Dan: cracks tons of glass
    Also Dan: wears shorts

  • @smartereveryday
    @smartereveryday 5 лет назад +2447

    Excellent analysis on the failure front.

    • @oscartigwell
      @oscartigwell 5 лет назад +47

      I'd love to see you do more glass cracking, Destin! Possible collaboration with Gav & Dan? :D

    • @WeArePharmers
      @WeArePharmers 5 лет назад +26

      Hi Destin! I was going to say, this video reminded me a lot of your Prince Rupert's drop video!

    • @remi460
      @remi460 5 лет назад +3

      Hi Destin

    • @coreymeh8335
      @coreymeh8335 5 лет назад +14

      We expect a video now with your detailed analysis ;)

    • @luispuma25
      @luispuma25 5 лет назад +22

      I think you are the right person to answer this question, is the speed that they calculated the speed of acoustic waves (namely the "speed of sound") through that specific material?

  • @grimreaper1542
    @grimreaper1542 3 года назад +8

    Dan, "How much can you see?"
    Gav, "Bloody stupid, this is."
    Me, "Is that an answer? Sure."

  • @kit2770
    @kit2770 3 года назад +7

    I've always wondered how fast glass cracked. Now I know. Thank you, Slow-mo Guys.

  • @spaghetti4896
    @spaghetti4896 5 лет назад +696

    8:08 I think it’s so cool that after all these years they are still mesmerized by what their cameras can do

    • @jonanderson5137
      @jonanderson5137 5 лет назад +13

      Sponsorship is a helluva drug.

    • @PrabhuRPR
      @PrabhuRPR 5 лет назад

      yup

    • @dunno6442
      @dunno6442 5 лет назад +2

      @@timmoe3370 no
      Edit: whoops I made him delete his link 😂😂

    • @sofakingonmynuts1438
      @sofakingonmynuts1438 5 лет назад +9

      Gavin spent a good amount of money and i see why, being able to crop the image and get a better frames per second, very versatile camera.
      He has done it in other videos, or with another camera.

    • @zimmermanjohn3797
      @zimmermanjohn3797 5 лет назад +3

      I think it’s partly because as they have been uploading for so long so technology has advanced so the cameras are much better so even for them they keep being really impressive.

  • @skimtvns8486
    @skimtvns8486 5 лет назад +1384

    Watching this on my cracked phone

  • @cybersteel8
    @cybersteel8 3 года назад +3

    i love how this channel is just two blokes having some fun with a camera for our enjoyment lmao wholesome af keep it up boys

  • @kappn4748
    @kappn4748 3 года назад +7

    Gav and Dan: Have an ultra high speed camera probably capable of shooting at speeds of over 50,000 fps, amazing technology at their fingertips.
    Also Gav and Dan: Glass is cool.

  • @PressTube
    @PressTube 5 лет назад +2846

    You should try to fire a bullet at the same time and then compare the speed of the bullet with the speed of the breaking glass ;)

    • @Wissmann80
      @Wissmann80 5 лет назад +36

      Do this. Please!

    • @awppenheimer
      @awppenheimer 5 лет назад +242

      It would probably be too difficult to coordinate

    • @evanredacted7977
      @evanredacted7977 5 лет назад +256

      Glass would far outpace the bullet. Bullets don't travel at Mach 4.2

    • @michaelitsyaboymb8300
      @michaelitsyaboymb8300 5 лет назад +86

      Most bullets would look slow compared to this speed

    • @borginator1493
      @borginator1493 5 лет назад +3

      @@michaelitsyaboymb8300 Got that right!

  • @MrHesdan
    @MrHesdan 5 лет назад +392

    Really cool to see phineas & ferb still doing cool stuff in the backyard after all these years.

  • @yeetusmeetusfeetus1273
    @yeetusmeetusfeetus1273 3 года назад +15

    I am rewatching this video after a while and still didn’t notice the glass

    • @silent596
      @silent596 2 года назад

      Same though, 10 months later. I've seen this like 20 times.

  • @BuddyPlot
    @BuddyPlot Год назад +6

    5:25 So basically a Square glass that's 1km^2 wide would take under 1 second to fully shatter. Impressive

  • @daylenkyles626
    @daylenkyles626 5 лет назад +228

    The only RUclipsrs I can’t get mad at for taking forever to upload.

  • @madssrensen9673
    @madssrensen9673 4 года назад +1123

    Just like to point out he’s breaking big pieces of glass in shorts

    • @user-rp1jr2qo1k
      @user-rp1jr2qo1k 4 года назад +23

      Tough guy... I bet he is also frying his bacon bare-breasted.

    • @kenhaley4
      @kenhaley4 4 года назад +16

      It's safety glass. You can tell by the way it breaks--no sharp shards of glass or needles; just small, more or less uniform sized pieces. Not likely to cut when it breaks.

    • @connortheandroidsentbycybe7740
      @connortheandroidsentbycybe7740 4 года назад +10

      @@kenhaley4 cool, still wouldn't gonna risk it

    • @dfsseewsfewfg3511
      @dfsseewsfewfg3511 3 года назад

      Connor, the android sent by CyberLife yeah, you’re right. Even though safety glasses lessen the danger of you getting hurt by glass shards, it doesn’t completely eliminate the danger. One example is car windows. Most cars have these safety glasses. But people still suffer injuries from shards falling on their body parts.

  • @sardorbek6399
    @sardorbek6399 3 года назад +7

    The guys break glasses out loud.
    Neighbours: Omg, that family must be having a messy divorce

  • @spencerp4242
    @spencerp4242 3 года назад +7

    I love how he isn’t scared of breaking the glass while wearing shorts

  • @xrox360
    @xrox360 4 года назад +283

    2:10 The ice after Scrat places his acorn in the Ice Age movies

  • @Ozloz
    @Ozloz 2 года назад +2

    7:26
    I just wanted a little nostalgia. I wanted none, *zero* reminders of the present day. But to be honest, I probably wouldn’t have minded one much. But this *specific* reminder, these specific colours, will be the death of me.

  • @JKonstanzer
    @JKonstanzer 3 года назад +3

    Loved this one guys, new to your channel and really have enjoyed all I have seen.

  • @ericklorenzo4772
    @ericklorenzo4772 5 лет назад +2704

    Not as fast as RUclips rewind dislike rate

  • @ashdamm9007
    @ashdamm9007 5 лет назад +258

    That intro was beautiful. I noticed Dan holding it but didn’t realize it was glass!

    • @triforce228
      @triforce228 5 лет назад +4

      I thought my phone screen was cracked because I dropped it like 15 minutes ago. It actually scared me for 5 second

    • @AxxLAfriku
      @AxxLAfriku 5 лет назад +1

      the intro is beautiful but so are my two girlfriends

    • @mynameistaken99
      @mynameistaken99 5 лет назад +1

      I didn't notice at all! Tricky 😆

  • @kamrynsmart9151
    @kamrynsmart9151 3 года назад +3

    When I watched it, I never saw the glass at the beginning, but after its revealed, I can't stop noticing it.

  • @lwally7148
    @lwally7148 3 года назад +7

    1:54 that sound though...

  • @polish_filipino
    @polish_filipino 5 лет назад +103

    0:20 I didn't realize anything was there till they pointed it out. That's one clear piece of glass

    • @Bradsmit
      @Bradsmit 5 лет назад

      Polish Filipino can you watch my new vlog and tell me if it’s good or
      not

    • @jaymesyt
      @jaymesyt 5 лет назад +1

      @Shambles1980TRealOne We didn't watch vlogs in 2001

    • @notmintmobile
      @notmintmobile 5 лет назад +2

      Please don't advertise here

  • @PP-bs3od
    @PP-bs3od 5 лет назад +104

    "I'm gonna bung in a ton of shutter here. 45 degrees?"
    - "Ooh, that's naughty! You never do that"
    "Bloody naughty innit."
    Love these guys.

    • @xenorama7033
      @xenorama7033 5 лет назад +2

      I didn't/don't know what any of that means, but "bung" makes me chuckle a little.

  • @nolearystream
    @nolearystream 3 месяца назад +1

    The famous wasp-filled ceiling fan! I love going back to the older videos and seeing stuff that Gav has mentioned on F**kface!

  • @genehunsinger3981
    @genehunsinger3981 2 года назад

    Fresh comment for an old post.You guys are doin great things,SCIENCE and stuff MANG!

  • @michaelh.9686
    @michaelh.9686 5 лет назад +889

    Who else didn’t notice the glass pane Dan was holding until they mentioned it at 0:24?

    • @notnotfake226
      @notnotfake226 5 лет назад +16

      I didn’t notice it but I did notice a whale noise at 3:00

    • @BoxFwog
      @BoxFwog 5 лет назад

      Yep

    • @lemonnoob5333
      @lemonnoob5333 5 лет назад +4

      I didnt even know it was there until I saw this comment

    • @DOSTalks
      @DOSTalks 5 лет назад +1

      ... that’s the joke

    • @therake9599
      @therake9599 5 лет назад

      Me

  • @troyjackson3400
    @troyjackson3400 4 года назад +929

    Not gonna lie, I didn’t even see the glass until they pointed it out

  • @ankushanni2323
    @ankushanni2323 2 года назад +2

    "45°"
    "Ohh that's naughty u never do that!"
    "Bloody naughty innit"
    Best lines

  • @The_DynamiteX
    @The_DynamiteX 3 года назад +20

    The slow mo guys: what goe’s faster than mach4.2
    Me:light

    • @luvie802
      @luvie802 3 года назад +4

      They said physical things

    • @squidwardo7074
      @squidwardo7074 3 года назад

      @@luvie802 light is physical

    • @SylveonMujigae
      @SylveonMujigae 4 месяца назад

      @@squidwardo7074No, light isn’t physical matter. It’s a form of energy; it’s radiation.

    • @squidwardo7074
      @squidwardo7074 4 месяца назад

      @@SylveonMujigae never said anything about matter

  • @vghnmj5523
    @vghnmj5523 5 лет назад +676

    I didnt notice the glass in the beginning lmao

    • @TheBestGrapefruitGuy
      @TheBestGrapefruitGuy 5 лет назад +4

      Me neither 😂😀😝😛😜

    • @ronaldburrelljr.226
      @ronaldburrelljr.226 5 лет назад +27

      Scrolled through the comments just to make sure I wasn’t the only one 😭

    • @dogfart1237
      @dogfart1237 5 лет назад +2

      i did

    • @davidm4728
      @davidm4728 5 лет назад +3

      ya i didnt see it at first.
      i wish they would have used the glass that dosent crack like this

    • @incomprehension7571
      @incomprehension7571 5 лет назад +2

      @@dogfart1237 r/iamverybadass

  • @xMaverickFPS
    @xMaverickFPS 4 года назад +455

    it's a circle because it's literally just a "sound" wave moving through the glass. the speed at which it breaks is the speed of sound through that material. typically at ~345m/s through air at sea level, the speed of sound is magnitudes faster through solid objects. (audio engineering is a hobby of mine - i obsess over this stuff)
    amazing video. i loved every second.

    • @bboyfan22
      @bboyfan22 4 года назад +17

      This was the comment I was looking for. I was hoping they would talk about this during the video

    • @zevolaful
      @zevolaful 4 года назад +9

      I know that you commented this two months ago but I'm super curious about it and I'm having a hard time finding answers via google that I'm able to understand as they're all very jargon heavy and I'm not really educated about this at all. What takes the physical force exuded by the pliers and transforms it into a "sound" wave? Is this the only way force is transferred through things? Does the speed of the force applied affect the rate at which the break forms despite the speed of sound being a constant? (For instance if Dan would have used a hammer and bashed the edge of it instead of crunching into it with the pliers) If you don't have time to answer would you perhaps have a link to something I could use to learn about it myself? Very much appreciated either way.

    • @bboyfan22
      @bboyfan22 4 года назад +43

      @@zevolaful the reason it travels at the speed of sound is because that's how long it takes one molecule to bump into another molecule. Each molecule can only "inform" the one next to it that it's "time to move" after it bumps into that molecule.
      Think of it like a line of dominos, that last Domino will feel the push but only after the *wave* makes it way through all the other dominos first. That "wave" of energy propagates at the speed of sound because that how fast vibrations can travel through that particular object

    • @xMaverickFPS
      @xMaverickFPS 4 года назад +7

      @@bboyfan22 you said it better than i could have.

    • @zevolaful
      @zevolaful 4 года назад +18

      @@bboyfan22 OH! Thank you, that makes so much sense! Since sound is just a vibration of air particles it's essentially all the speed of 'vibration' but "speed of sound" is more understandable and useful. I really appreciate you taking time to explain that to me, thank you very much. I hope you and yours are safe and healthy.

  • @waitselljones8068
    @waitselljones8068 3 года назад +1

    14.1 million subscribers, 14.1 million views.
    The ultimate in efficiency

  • @lewiskelly14
    @lewiskelly14 3 года назад +5

    You're getting a thumbs up from me for catering for your international audience

  • @mobiegaming4240
    @mobiegaming4240 5 лет назад +309

    0:33 I legit didn’t even know he was holding glass

    • @cody-wf6zp
      @cody-wf6zp 5 лет назад +7

      same, i didnt even realise until they pointed it out

    • @sagemadara1265
      @sagemadara1265 5 лет назад +1

      Same lol

    • @Summon_Ls
      @Summon_Ls 5 лет назад +2

      I was on my phone so I didn't realized...

    • @silent3956
      @silent3956 5 лет назад +1

      Same

    • @GANGST
      @GANGST 5 лет назад

      Mobie Gaming I knew they were holding the glass.

  • @Lickwetcarrion
    @Lickwetcarrion 5 лет назад +376

    Might be one of the nicest videos, visually, ever made on RUclips. The edits, cuts, little moments... Brilliant video.

    • @scatered1
      @scatered1 5 лет назад +6

      Hahaha I like how you are talking about this video as if it's anything more than just a couple of chaps breaking glass to see what it looks like in slow motion and lazily trying to explain the science behind it all

    • @danielkuf2593
      @danielkuf2593 5 лет назад

      And not even 10 minutes.

    • @SovietMemes
      @SovietMemes 5 лет назад +1

      Thank you John, very cool!

    • @guyfriedman295
      @guyfriedman295 5 лет назад +1

      Lol welcome to the SloMo Guys...

    • @Lickwetcarrion
      @Lickwetcarrion 5 лет назад

      @@scatered1 Yet they still did an excellent job, and it got over four million, very well deserved, views. That is their magic, my friend.

  • @oaegates
    @oaegates Год назад +1

    I literally didn't even see the glass in the intro until Dan grabbed it.

  • @RGC_animation
    @RGC_animation 2 года назад

    Objects tearing apart (glass breaking, balloon popping etc.) are some of the most interesting stuff to slow down, since somehow they go so incredibly fast.

  • @steffenpetersen8314
    @steffenpetersen8314 5 лет назад +820

    me: "Should i google what that number is in meters?... nah.."
    Gav: "And for the International audience"
    me again: "nice."

    • @zombievac
      @zombievac 5 лет назад +9

      General rule: 1 meter = 3.3 feet (so I just multiply by 3 in my head, and then add a bit for the remainder if I don't need exact figures)

    • @pocketlint82
      @pocketlint82 5 лет назад +16

      Marking it in feet like a proper American. Gav is fully indoctrinated now.

    • @cykachu8080
      @cykachu8080 5 лет назад +23

      pocketlint82 marking in feet like a proper inferior system user

    • @dwobneb
      @dwobneb 5 лет назад +9

      @@pocketlint82 lol we use feet for a lot of things in the UK too measuring the height of a person for example

    • @TheMharr
      @TheMharr 5 лет назад +2

      @@zombievac Why not multiply by 10 then divide by three? No guesswork then!

  • @GippyHappy
    @GippyHappy 4 года назад +176

    I love that this channel made me actually enjoy learning and it’s just 2 dudes painting rainbows on things and breaking them (for science)

    • @charredtodeath2205
      @charredtodeath2205 3 года назад +21

      The different between science and messing around is writing (or recording) it down xD

    • @Rachel-fi4sc
      @Rachel-fi4sc 2 года назад +1

      I love that quote.

  • @demetriusthers1186
    @demetriusthers1186 Год назад

    The circle theory makes so much sense therefore showing how genius u guys r

  • @henryhere
    @henryhere Год назад +3

    Did anyone else not even notice the glass in Dan's hand at the beginning until he said "oh here's one!"

  • @CreativoErratico
    @CreativoErratico 5 лет назад +129

    So we can all agree you guys now have to make a giant round glass video.

  • @mizutani2144
    @mizutani2144 5 лет назад +2992

    I didn’t realize he was holding glass in the intro...

  • @huntsmanlazeralis4539
    @huntsmanlazeralis4539 2 года назад +1

    I’d love to see you guys revisit this with the faster phantoms that are now available.

  • @ProLogic-dr9vv
    @ProLogic-dr9vv 3 года назад

    When you two put a video on you tube there is no point in there being a thumbs down button because all of your videos are great!

  • @ontheBrightsiide
    @ontheBrightsiide 5 лет назад +28

    6:04 I think that was the smartest thing I've ever heard Dan say in a video

  • @thejesuschrist
    @thejesuschrist 5 лет назад +567

    These never cease to amaze me!

    • @frederiklausing5071
      @frederiklausing5071 5 лет назад +21

      Jesus Christ youre like the new justin y

    • @caidenmerritt1930
      @caidenmerritt1930 5 лет назад

      captions at the start of the video and youll change your mind about sending them to heaven (im joking)

    • @pmc614
      @pmc614 5 лет назад +2

      *_Dad?_*

    • @demonwizard1
      @demonwizard1 5 лет назад +6

      *verified*

    • @extrnalsorce4974
      @extrnalsorce4974 5 лет назад +2

      Jesus Christ thank you Jesus Christ! Very cool.

  • @TomujoenYliopisto
    @TomujoenYliopisto 3 года назад +5

    "Glass is glass and glass breaks"
    -Jerryrigeverything

  • @jonjon7311
    @jonjon7311 3 года назад

    Excellent video. Excellent maths. Phenomenal speed. Well done, thanks 👍👍

  • @liamsassman5630
    @liamsassman5630 5 лет назад +281

    You guys should film macro shots of insects walking and there joints moving, like a ant or a centipede. I think that would look cool.

    • @Sam-iu8nb
      @Sam-iu8nb 5 лет назад +6

      I love this idea.

    • @Emily-yz9zd
      @Emily-yz9zd 5 лет назад +1

      Me too!

    • @Yonatan24
      @Yonatan24 5 лет назад +1

      Bump

    • @TheDanyschannel
      @TheDanyschannel 5 лет назад +12

      Would be awesome, unfortunately macro + high speed require stupid amounts of light. I'm talking tens if not hundreds more light than the brightest noon sunlight. Would probably heat up any insect to the point of killing it in seconds. Check out Tesla500, he did a high speed macro shot of a phonograph needle, took him some serious light sources and melted some plastic. Cheers

    • @BensChannel-rn7ge
      @BensChannel-rn7ge 5 лет назад +2

      I did a slo motion of a snapping turtle bite

  • @jasonwoodring4479
    @jasonwoodring4479 4 года назад +132

    "Got a church window?" is one of my favorite lines ever on this channel

    • @luxdeitine4882
      @luxdeitine4882 4 года назад +8

      Jason Woodring am I the only one who's ever wanted to remove church windows and replace them with lgbt pride mosaics

    • @Pao234_
      @Pao234_ 4 года назад +7

      @@luxdeitine4882 I really hope you are

    • @luxdeitine4882
      @luxdeitine4882 4 года назад

      @@Pao234_ fair enough

    • @gamer-tn4yy
      @gamer-tn4yy 4 года назад +3

      @@luxdeitine4882 bro you poor thing. #didn'tdeservethemean

  • @rjpittman4510
    @rjpittman4510 2 года назад

    Awesome. It's amazing how fast it goes

  • @hydrocat6218
    @hydrocat6218 3 года назад

    That was soooooo satisfying to watch the paint just,well,crack I guess

  • @just-a-silly-goofy-guy
    @just-a-silly-goofy-guy 5 лет назад +912

    Not as fast as my self esteem broke

  • @SmellTheCheeeez
    @SmellTheCheeeez 5 лет назад +273

    Dan, you probably should have worn some pants for that...

    • @AmeerolisaRa-cw3qg
      @AmeerolisaRa-cw3qg 5 лет назад +1

      Sean Hearrell That’s what I was thinking.

    • @bloodytosser1
      @bloodytosser1 5 лет назад +9

      It's safety glass, so there aren't large razor sharp edges, but yeah.

    • @TheEthanEdge
      @TheEthanEdge 5 лет назад +1

      You're lucky he wore goggles and gloves tbh.

    • @Sharpless2
      @Sharpless2 5 лет назад

      and also a respiratory system with 1500 liter oxygene tanks and 2 bomb suits?
      seriously...

    • @photonicpiston9231
      @photonicpiston9231 5 лет назад

      And here i am thinking it’s a camo joke.

  • @dadankstank
    @dadankstank 3 года назад +28

    "Waste of paint", they said
    Yet still using a two meters long glass panel to film two feet of it

    • @delb64
      @delb64 3 года назад +3

      Thats the control size, to get contstant accurate readibgs.

  • @bigbigblast
    @bigbigblast 3 года назад +7

    Couple of questions:
    Is that speed true for all types of glass?
    Did the paint slow down the cracking in some way? Like a film that held the glass fragments together?

    • @the_undead
      @the_undead 2 года назад

      That speed likely wouldn't even be the same for the same types of glass.
      Because of the way glass is produced the actual molecular structure of it changes wildly from peace to peace so the speed at which a pressure wave can travel through it will again wildly vary relative to most other materials where it is a very predictable speed.
      You could probably find pieces of glassware the speed of that pressure wave is up to 50% faster or slower depending on many factors

  • @nathanschmick9681
    @nathanschmick9681 5 лет назад +171

    I want a video showing how fast two liquid droplets will join surface tension and become one drop. You could do them two different colors.

    • @JordanYee
      @JordanYee 5 лет назад +3

      Pretty cool idea, although my intuition wants to say that at that level of precision, colored dyes might affect the surface tension! 🤔

    • @masterraceofeverything4504
      @masterraceofeverything4504 5 лет назад

      They did it once

    • @Robert-yf1kn
      @Robert-yf1kn 5 лет назад

      If the earth really spins i want a video showing a helicoper hovering over a building in one position showing everything on the surface of the earth moving east.

    • @Soken50
      @Soken50 5 лет назад +5

      @@Robert-yf1kn that's not how reality works

    • @Robert-yf1kn
      @Robert-yf1kn 5 лет назад

      @@Soken50 You dont understand reality then,research why the earth does not spin.

  • @kale6991
    @kale6991 4 года назад +78

    7:57
    Gav: “it just looks like a software wipe”
    Dan: “it just instantly turns to like lizard skin”

  • @quittison
    @quittison 3 года назад +2

    1:37 Accidentally talking into two mics at once sounds kinda funny ngl

  • @Aruesx
    @Aruesx 3 года назад +3

    Chill out guys. Your neighbors will think Stone Cold Steve Austin lives in your backyard

  • @RANDOMstuffanimation
    @RANDOMstuffanimation 5 лет назад +54

    0:21 I did not notice that glass XD

    • @Skysiax
      @Skysiax 5 лет назад +1

      RANDOMstuff animation I did not notice you watch this channel m8

    • @Therealseegs
      @Therealseegs Год назад

      Me too

  • @wsl10op44
    @wsl10op44 5 лет назад +206

    Can you guys do candle wax drop on water really curious how they form in slow mo

  • @holyotakuqueen2641
    @holyotakuqueen2641 3 года назад +18

    "What goes mach 4.2 apart from space ships?"
    Koro sensei who can go mach 20: Am I a joke to you?

    • @qayray
      @qayray 3 года назад

      fun fact: space ships basically go Mach infinity because Mach is defined as (speed)/(speed of sound in the medium the signal/object is traveling through) and the denominator is practically zero in space ;)

    • @holyotakuqueen2641
      @holyotakuqueen2641 3 года назад +1

      @@qayray I don't know what a joke is either

    • @Retr0dag
      @Retr0dag 3 года назад +1

      It’s crazy because I posted a comment like this scrolled down and saw this

  • @CorePathway
    @CorePathway 3 года назад

    Backyard Slo Mo guys was/is the best.

  • @roromad9603
    @roromad9603 5 лет назад +89

    If i was your neighbor, i would build a deck so i could just watch you guys do your stuff. better than tv.

    • @mr.e2297
      @mr.e2297 5 лет назад

      But no slow mo

    • @gildedbear5355
      @gildedbear5355 5 лет назад +2

      @@mr.e2297 you build the deck to watch and then they invite you to see the slo mo and you slowly become the third member of the slo mo guys.

  • @lukegoldbach1517
    @lukegoldbach1517 5 лет назад +39

    I didn’t even notice the glass Dan was holding at the start of the video.

  • @Xezlec
    @Xezlec Год назад +4

    Wow, that happens to be almost exactly the speed of sound in water!

  • @dunodisko2217
    @dunodisko2217 Месяц назад

    There are several air/space craft that could outrun glass shattering. That’s so fascinating to me.

  • @aldozulfikar54
    @aldozulfikar54 5 лет назад +410

    *_Not that fast compared to 2018 youtube rewind disliker growth_*

  • @senilegoldsmith4112
    @senilegoldsmith4112 4 года назад +200

    "Wot goes mach 4.2?Probably a spaceship"
    TL;DR: Yes, a spaceship.
    The SR71 Blackbird had a recorded top speed of 3.5, however it's true top speed is still classified. In an interview with a former pilot, he recalled one of his missions over I think Germany, (probably off on that one) having a total of three missiles fired at him, and top performance was in order. Tilting the throttle to the maximum, engaging full afterburners, the two engines on that monster outran all three without any problem. When the interviewer asked how fast the blackbird took them in that moment, the pilot wouldn't say, only that it easily pushed them to mach speeds they had never seen yet.

  • @SlashRfnR
    @SlashRfnR 3 года назад +1

    Dan actually explained the shockwave pretty well

  • @Blue-oq9tq
    @Blue-oq9tq 2 года назад

    I love these guys so much

  • @Holden_McHock
    @Holden_McHock 5 лет назад +673

    Lol who else didnt notice dan was even holding the glass???

    • @harleyss
      @harleyss 5 лет назад +10

      If you didn’t say that I wouldn’t have of known 😂

    • @KODABARKS
      @KODABARKS 5 лет назад +7

      They wouldent have said anything and i would say no there was no glass

    • @arturofernandez4058
      @arturofernandez4058 5 лет назад +6

      5:40 Clarifications from an Aerospace Engineering student. Spaceships don't go at mach speeds because there is no air in space, so you cannot go supersonic. But velocities above Mach 5 exist, they are called hypersonic. So far the only thing that reaches those speeds are bodies returning from space during the descent, called reentry bodies, or atmospheric entry bodies.

    • @jamesmnguyen
      @jamesmnguyen 5 лет назад +8

      @@arturofernandez4058 I think you commented on the wrong thread

    • @jdrmurphy4141
      @jdrmurphy4141 5 лет назад

      I alwasy skip the first ten 20 or 30 secs of any video so i had ro go back to see it. And still didnt get it for a bit.

  • @keeghanyule6465
    @keeghanyule6465 4 года назад +687

    The slow mo guys: now if we shrink our horizontal and vertical view we can increase our frame rate up to 481 500 frames a second
    PC gamer frantically scribling on a piece of scrap paper: IM LISTENING

    • @egg4444
      @egg4444 4 года назад +26

      y e s

    • @paulopereira47
      @paulopereira47 4 года назад +13

      The same gamer:what kind of alien graphics card have you bought and where can I get it

    • @oorohbooroz1781
      @oorohbooroz1781 4 года назад +5

      *laughs in 8k in just a couple months*

    • @urayi8008
      @urayi8008 4 года назад +15

      laugh in 144p 5fps

    • @Project_VideoGame
      @Project_VideoGame 4 года назад

      *laughs in 8K and 300 fps*

  • @yuumain264
    @yuumain264 2 года назад

    As a kid (9) my brother (11) and I discovered an AMAZING game where one throws a dart board and the other tries to hit it. Well, we did it facing a sliding glass door and I missed and the dart went into the first of 2 panels in the glass door. The initial shatter was fast but it slowed exponentially as it webbed out to the edges. After I ran down and told my parent and they saw the entire thing looking like modern art, the first thing one of them said was "I'm glad you told us and didn't hide it"... I wasn't known for hiding things before then anyways, so I'm still confused why they said that lol
    I hit the thing almost right in the middle, too so the spread was pretty even, and I think there was a safety coat to keep the glass from dropping, because my dad had to actually pull away chunks of the shattered glass. The plus side is, I learned something kind of complex with physics at that age because of it though.

    • @yuumain264
      @yuumain264 2 года назад

      So they are right about the circle thing, and I think the coating + pressure from the frame were what slowed it down so I could actually see what was going on.
      Maybe anxiety kicked in and slowed time for me a bit too

  • @adambinks9596
    @adambinks9596 3 года назад

    On low frame rate this is like the best mime act ever

  • @philipstephenson6118
    @philipstephenson6118 5 лет назад +119

    Am I the only one who didn’t notice the glass Dan was holding at the start until they pointed it out? 😂😂😂

  • @andru4474
    @andru4474 4 года назад +890

    Teacher: give me one fast thing in the world
    Me: a glass breaking
    Teacher: how is that fast?
    Me: trust me, it's very fast

    • @lostsoul--
      @lostsoul-- 4 года назад +22

      Legendary Andru just say light.

    • @thesandwich5321
      @thesandwich5321 4 года назад +2

      Is light 'in the world'?
      ...hm...

    • @jjcondado
      @jjcondado 4 года назад +26

      You can also back it up by saying it goes mach 4 speed, which is too fast for the human eyes to see properly, now if the teacher says then it should make a sonic boom, say that it depends on the size of the item, a glass that size clearly makes a loud shatter, not making a sonic boom

    • @johnhenderson5041
      @johnhenderson5041 4 года назад +5

      @@thesandwich5321 ...yes

    • @trueaidooo
      @trueaidooo 4 года назад +4

      @@thesandwich5321 can you see things?

  • @mariotheslut
    @mariotheslut 2 года назад +8

    My question is...does the amount of force being exerted in the start have an affect on the speed of glass breaking?

    • @andrewbryan8597
      @andrewbryan8597 2 года назад

      That was my question too! Hope they'll respond to this excellent question.

    • @peacedustinc.7108
      @peacedustinc.7108 Год назад

      It shouldn't, the speed of a wave does not depend on the amplitude(power/force of the wave).

  • @Rednova08
    @Rednova08 2 года назад +1

    I like to think that the camera that films at normal speed is literally just a Dan Cam😂