Pythagoras Cup (Greedy Cup) filled with Mercury
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Why not fill it with Vegetable Oil so that they won't die?
it would be a pretty cool aesthetic to use bio-luminescent plankton
the "upside" of the filling the bottom with mercury is moot.
From what I can see from the cup, even if the mercury stays at the bottom, the actual amount of wine filled would still be the same as the amount without the mercury in the cup (before being siphoned from the bottom)
"The downside is that they would have poisoned themselves"
A small price to pay to outsmart Pythagoras
Pythagoras: well you see, since there's Mercury in the cup, there's less water, so the amount is pretty much the same ye smartasses
Something for Socrates then.
Rei D T yeah but you don’t need nearly as much mercury as they showed
@@drawbras No, Socrates drank hemlock, not mercury, and he drank that hemlock because he didn't worship Mercury.
According to @@reidt182 pythagros wins, he also succeeded in making you poison yourself. Well done.
"The downside, of course, was that they would have poisoned themselves."
Sounds pretty Greek mythology-like to me.
LOBLord of Bonkles : Not just mythology-Socrates was forced to drink poison.
ErykaSoleil
Oof
Why not use compacted clay?
As a greek, that sounds pretty accurate
@@armchairphilosopher6880 why not just plug the hole then?
Student: drinks cup and then fills it again
Pythagoras: Impossible
Mauro Molinero
*hold cup with an uncomfortable grip*
Pythagoras: “why are you such a burden?”
Zipity
student: drinks straight from the bottle
Pythagoras: *_stOP_*
Student: _Drinks from the hole in the bottom_
Pythagoras: *Why are you like this?*
poor Pythagoras
Student: *put's a plug in the bottom hole*
Pythagoras: *IMPOSSIBLE*
Professor: “The story is that this cup was invented to make sure all the students got equal amount of drinks” Pythagoras: “Bro hold my beer I got this crazy idea for a chugging game. So you fill the cup to the top and chug the liquid by holding it above your head.”
and thus the first shotgun was invented.
why does he have beer but not wine?
@@qo7052 cuz pythagoras is a homie
Pythagoras: *Invents Pythagoras cup*
Students: *Invents chugging*
*chug, chug, chug, chug, chug*
Oh hey, didnt expect to see you here xD
Let me guess chugoras made chugging
@@AbsoluteAbsurd Are you following me? Or are we both following the recommended tab XD
TokuTickler I swear im not xD
I just happen to see you everywhere too. Its not weird tho right?
Students: sticks thumb on the bottom hole.
Pythagoras: Impossible
@@TheQueerSpaghetti just chug chug chug
Sounds kind of kinky.
It would probably work best as a surprise.
As the cup bottom is not flat, that wouldn't work!
Drink from bottle.
Can we just mention that this man looks like the embodiment of science ?
Modern Einstein?
@@jdgshsjchdjejkd545 id ot
there is at least one new person here who didn‘t see him before and says that, and that‘s a great thing, too
A borderline Mad Scientist, but a very likable gentleman. :)
@@chara5 imagine a collaboration between this guy and Bill Nye
Man put the effort into making this cup when he coulda just gave his students smaller cups
But you want to embarrass the students
@@Sentient_Blob make them look like a dumbass for being greedy
They are hard to drink from and refills get past the problem
Just drink from the bottle
Giving the students smaller cups doesn't teach the students self control. They'd just learn to fill the cup to the top no matter the cup size. This teaches them their actions has consequences, but more directly.
Then again, we live in an era that instead of teaching kids not to stab each other with scissors they just give students plastic scissors to stab each other with.
"I have designed this cup so you can ONLY fill it with this much wine!"
"Professor, why not just give us a smaller cup?"
"A what now!?
Because you can't fill a cup to the top and safely drink it... it will spill. Since there is always room someone will always try to get a little bit more regardless of how small it is. It is the same idea with money. People will try to skirt around laws to get more even when having more has no benefit to them... any law we create they would find a new loop hole or if the law was too strict it hurts everyone hence they fight it in court to remove it.
A great and simple example is that we can't limit how much a person makes in a year to stop people from getting billions while their employees get nothing... because then the lottery and gambling can't happen. The people who use those things will be upset and fight said law, along with the people who run those things, and of course the people who get billions would fight it as well.
The exception to this would be create something which solely punishes people from the inside... of course this then leads to people using multiple cups and so forth. The only way to get around this is to ruin someone's reputation (Their cup spilling) and hence making everyone distrust them or dislike them and blaming them for the reason we can't sneak more... and people will be less likely to try to get around it as they risk basically losing everything.
Of course a new cup has to be endlessly designed... to compensate for the new cheaters.
An unfortunately endless battle.
Dragoonsoul7878 if I said “you must be great at parties” I’d probably get wooshed
Dragoonsoul7878 idc
Pretty sure it's more about restraint than the actual amount.
@@Buglin_Burger7878 I love your comment.
My teachers never gave me any wine when I was a student. No wonder modern education is failing.
Aye, It really brings out your inner creativity.
I have doubts.
@Bruzel Azcriarati German joke
I bet they didn't give you any mercury, either. Failing indeed!
@@Blade_Of_Heaven doubts are things that don't exist
If Pythagoras's student were really clever, they would have brought their own glass.
it was rude in these times :D
@@mariovalusiak2969 really?
@@Fred_the_1996 I heard the same thing, and it wasn't exclusive to ancient Greece. I can't name any sources (so its probably made up) but basically when you where invited to someone else's house (or were offered wine by someone else in general) and brought your own cup you were implying that you dont trust this person and thought he was going to poison you. In ancient times poison was not put into the drink (at least not commonly) but rather they would rub the poison on the inside of the cup the victim was supposed to drink from.
Or plug the hole
Or they could fill a little mercury
"The downside is that they would have poisoned themselves"
Pythagoras:"Who's laughing now?"
Students: "Yeah, but at least we were still able to scoff all your wine!" 😝
"the downside of course, is that they would have poisoned themselfs."
*Video ends*
lol I read this as that happened.
Themselves. Just saying.
It's okay, they just want to follow a similar path to Socrates, they just prefer a slower, far more destructive death of their psych firat.
I would have filled the hole inside the cup with candle wax, or simply over fill it and quickly drink it all. ;D
chili cheesemf not necessary
"Inside here, there is a U-tube" - he says, inside a RUclips.
u-ception
448
Lul
95Titanium
It's actually symbolic of how RUclips siphons money out of its users.
@@e5a Youception*
This guy obviously knows what he's talking about, just look at his hair.
....k
Normal people trade IQ for hair colour.
@@snowjix Do you think it like that because you think you're different from others
@@demiray1097 Do you see yourself as an exact copy of everybody else?
@@snowjix I think you dont understand what I'm talking about or you're just joking
Not only would they poison themselves, but it defeats the purpose of filling the cup. The amount of mercury is about the same amount of extra wine they would get
Said Chammas Not necessarily. If my understanding of physics is correct, you should be able to cheat in an amount of water/wine that is of equal mass to the amount of mercury that would “fill” the glass. To maximize wine, you only need enough mercury to fill to the top (without going over), plus enough mercury at the bottom to prevent water from entering the siphon. If the glass were engineered with a very thin siphon, you could use next to no mercury and fill the cup to over 13 times the allowed volume (given the geometry of the glass allowed that much wine; this is theoretical to show a point). Given you’re only trying to fill an extra fraction of the allowed volume, you essentially only need enough mercury to cover the aperture to the siphon. If you imagine a cylinder and use the first cup as a reference, the height above the top of the siphon is significantly greater than the diameter of the siphon. Given the siphon has a roughly circular cross-section and is doubled up on itself, it’s very hard to think the opening is taller than the amount of wine to gain. Even with the most conservative of rough estimates, that particular glass would fill to compensate for the mercury’s volume, then allow for an extra volume of wine equal to that of the mercury. Given an optimal functioning vessel utilizing the same principle, the theoretical limit to this ratio is ludicrous. Very little mercury (a negligible amount considering the total volume) to tredecuple your allowed wine and then some.
He used a lot more mercury than was necessary; once you block the hole you only need 1/13th the height of drink you want in additional mercury
if you used mercury you could just fill the tube and not the glass. i could be wrong but i don’t think you need that much mercury outside the tube like you see in the video
@@limepop340 What he's saying in a complicated way: Mercury is about 13 times denser than water. So to push mercury one inch up a tube, you need 13 inches of water. If you want the mercury not to be pushed over the u tube, you thus need enough mercury such that the difference of water vs mercury pished is a bit more than the distance between the u turn and the top of the glass. So you need about 1/13th of that distance in mercury. The diamateter of the tube is irrelevant as long as it's smaller than that distance.
except that it isnt
I’m glad Neil took off his entire vacation time to record a few minutes of mercury and water
I love how your comment is just 2 days ago but got 116 likes, that means more and more people are aware of science 👍
Beth Johnathan No, it just means that RUclips’s algorithm doesn’t work
Beth Johnathan I didn’t even know it had likes until you replied 😂
@@tannercortez yo did u really leave that comment only 2 days ago?
@@rittenbrake1613 Unless youtube is lying. Up to 216 now :O
"If they were clever, they could have poured a bit of mercury. The downside is that they would have poisoned themselves."
I have a solution: use gallium instead. Non-toxic and still works the same. Also, oh heck.
Or you could just plug the exit whole with your finger
Or something that is heavier than water, like pretty much anything
Jacob R It has to be a liquid
@@yaykruser true
@@yaykruser
or you could just stuff the opening with cloth, or you could just not use the cup.
4:10 "A small price to pay for salvation".
Hi dad
@@Milly7119 Hi pain, my close friend. :)
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@@EthanAdey r u ok
i, of cause am no expert but i thought pure mercury wasn't that dangerous anyway because we can't digest it anyway so it just goes through and that mercury also doesn't dissolve in water/ wine so actually nothing would have happened. actually.
Thank you, Neil for giving us this instead of going on holiday.
Moral of the story: be clever, poison yourself
I believe most mythologies would argue that if you try to outsmart the gods, you get punished for it. I'm sure the Greek gods would have loved Pythagoras' cup.
No, the moral is never drink from a cup. It's a classic blunder. Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.
Technically alcohol is also a poison lol
Actually, there is another way to fill the cup completely. Stop up the hole in the bottom with bees wax. It is non-toxic, and it will prevent the air in the tube from being displaced, which in turn will prevent the water/wine traveling up the tube in the first place.
I couldn’t have said it better myself
Pythagoras: Everyone can only have this much wine
Students: Gets refills
Pythagoras: Wait WHAT?
Thats what you get for getting smart students
imagine if the students were actually supposed to do that and the students have more iq than 25% of the ppl in the world currently
Same student: gets to much again
Also student: chugs wine before it drains
Just get some clay and stick it on the bottom of the cup, problem solved.
Imagine giving this to a friend and not telling him what this does
And then he gets Mercury poisoning and dies a vegetable
I'm not sure I understand this fully, if no one poured mercury in wouldn't it just limit how much could be put in?
yeah bruh dont give him any mercury :P
@jack daniels yeah, the thing that confused me was XyW saying someone drinking from the cup would give them mercury poisoning and I thought there was just inherent mercury always in the cup, sometimes I just overthink things I guess
Lol your pfp is a google image
4:00 "If Pythagoras students were clever... they would poison them selfs"
I mean pythagoras did have a cult.
@@kennarajora6532 and thats the loophole
Student: Plugs the hole with their finger
Pythagoras: *NANI?!*
Wow you're so funny and original
@@PASTELXENON wow, you're so funny and original
wow everyone is so funny and original
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Wow no one cares if you don't like it, that's the problem.
However if they were really really smart, they’d just drink from the bottle
Back in the day, they didn't have bottles.
If they were smart they would just plug the hole with their finger or something.
Words of Dionysus
Or drink from the bottom
i shotgun a lot of cans so this is acceptable too
If they were smart, they would just overfill and drink from the bottom.
This cup is looks like first ever ancient prank to me
it is, its a joke device.
"Yo yo It's just a prank bro! "
---pythagoras
Wine filling prank (gone wrong) (gone sexual)
@@siddhanthravichandran3245 2 scholars 1 cup
Oh but it is
you are so wholesome and i love u
Verified moment
The true test of greed was whether or not his students were willing to drink it as it spewed out the bottom or let it all fall on the floor and pour another glass of wine
Put those lips to the bottom of the glass and shotgun it
Why not just block the whole at the bottom with ur finger..
why not drink it out of the jug you're pouring the wine out of
Chug! Chug! Chug!
Man. College ruled back then, too.
You are coming up with remarkable ways to defeat this ancient high-tech device.
Student: just refills his glass
Pythagoras: inconceivable
You keep saying that word, I’m not sure if you know what it means
@@SirShanova Pretty sure it's just a fancy way of saying "unimaginable" or "unbelievable". It's really not that hard to understand.
@@SirShanova That is correct use though
y’all, steve s is making a movie reference. it’s from the princess’s bride
Blue Thunderbolt 😂 you missed the joke bud
“They could’ve put mercury at the bottom “
Or, plug the hole on the bottom
That only demonstrates how greedy we are
no one goes looking for a hole in a cup
@@JaveLester No that just demonstrates how smart we are actually
Then make it a pinhole.
@@man.i.literally.failed6772 no one goes filling a cup with mercury either
“the downside is that they would’ve poisoned themselves” what an inconvenience 😂😂
When I first read the title I thought it meant that if someone was greedy the cup would fill with mercury and they would be drinking mercury
Me to
That's the impression I got from the thumbnail
That sounds more like something that Diogenes would do.
that would be the most deadliest troll
@@cheesemanofficial9986 epik gamer momemt
RUclips then: Drains Liquids
RUclips now: Drains Time
I liked what you did with you tube and U tube 😉😉😉
RUclips is the closest to a time machine
*HAHAHAHAHA **1:51** "There is a RUclips!!!!!!"...*
sorry i found that amusing
+xxuncexx
RUclips, invented by Pythagoras.
Ikr
+xxuncexx Was youtube named after this?
+xxuncexx Got 'em
+xxuncexx That's because it IS amuzing. I missed it the first time!
I love the excitement in his eyes when he said that they would have poisoned themselves😂😂😂
"Thirsty hoe."
- Pythagoras
I want this on a T-shirt with the Pythagorean cup beneath it!
Anne Staff imAGINE AHAHAHHSHSAJJA that would be amazing
1k likes. 3 comments
nice
Hahahahahahha, that was legit funny. 😂
This guy looks like a Half-Life scientist
STAHP
the einstein one?
Hmm…
Are you the microwave from black mesa?
You soaf f*cked up the Magnusson's magnificent microwave casserole
The u tube drains you out if you're too greedy
Me at 4AM on RUclips
Clever comment 👏
A U-tube in a RUclips!
Lel
So true.
RUclips RUclips everywhere even inside this cup at 1:49 ;)
In order to circumvent this tricky cup, I would have filled the hole inside with candle wax, or simply over fill it and quickly drink it all (course not the mercury). ;D
Pythagoras: *Designs a cup to make sure his students don’t take too much wine*
The student who fills the cup twice: You may have outsmarted me, but I have outsmarted your outsmarting
He can just not allow refills
@@skelet8337 But how would he control that? They clearly pour their own wine.
The student that drinks out of the drain:
I am inevitable.
The student who drinks out of the bottle: "Finally, a worthy opponent"
“The downside of course was that they would’ve poisoned themselves”
Is it really a downside?
D.M. Koelen i dont think so
random happens here oh sorry that wasn’t me,i am not d.m. Koelen
i, of cause am no expert but i thought pure mercury wasn't that dangerous anyway because we can't digest it anyway so it just goes through and that mercury also doesn't dissolve in water/ wine so actually nothing would have happened. actually.
D.M. Koelen what do u mean?
Pytharogas Cup ❌
Self-Urinating Cup ✅
Pee pee cup
Pee pee cup
Oh dear why does it's draining sound like that
Or you could just plug the hole at the bottom of the cup.
A11ex I'd plug it with my lips. I want the wine to come out of the cup and into my mouth, how it gets there is just a technicality.
MrSubjugation You could also make that impossible by making the liquid distribute evenly on all sides through small pepperbox-like holes as it's leaving at the bottom, so at least you get much less of it but even that can be defeated if you just put the cup in a bucket.
A11ex Or do you mean bottom of the cuuuuuuuuhhhhp
etnies777
uuuuuuUUUUUHHHHHp
A11ex beat me to it
"The downside is that they would have poisoned themselves"
A small price to pay for salvation.
drink from the bottom of the cup and have a buddy keep pouring it in, thats what pythagoras is all about babbyyyy
to the top! :D made me lough
this needs to be a rick and morty bit.
+Jonathan George omfg was just thinking that, read it in rick voice
WHY IS THIS SO RICK & MORTY-Y?
Complex because i was binging the second season that week
Students: * drink out of the bottle *
Pythagoras: IMPOSSIBLE
They didn't use bottles back then, wine was stored and poured from big ceramic pots.
Now, I'll r/wooosh myself out.
@@cyberhaggis Student: * drinks out of the pot *
Pythagoras: Who are you, who is so wise in the ways of science?
@@cyberhaggis You could just get a clay bowl and drink it with that. Or alternatively just get a piece of clay and shove it into the hole, clogging it.
"This is how the U tube demonetize you, by draining all the monetization away through the bottom"
Just for the name & profile pic alone you'd get my 'like'.
Here, have another engagement point.
This man in the calmest voice possible told us to poison ourselves
What if they put honey, then wine...?
I think it might drain slower, but the honey would still be forced out. It's the density of mercury, not viscosity that makes this work.
+Josh Wilson but isnt honey denser than water too...?
Ooh! Better yet: Syrup
You're right. I think it would take more honey than the mercury they used, though. Since mercury is much denser, a thin layer at the bottom is enough. With honey, you might need to fill half the cup or more.
Here's the plan. Mercury, honey, then water.
Dude they had RUclips back then thats epic
He could have just said U shaped tube, but he's a boomer, he doesn't understand
@@indofan1708 Most anyone would say "U tube," because that's what it is: a tube that's curved like a U. Generation has nothing to do with it, so quit acting pretentious.
@@TrueFlameslinger Awokawokawok 😂😂😂
Very clever
Damn they had RUclips and armoured knights we have it really bad
1:52 The first u tube! We can thank the Greeks for cat videos.
You're welcome 😂
Imagine that, a RUclips so long ago!
you're welcome!
I wondered where Captain Obvious was, and now I know. 🤦♂️
If only Pythagoras was still around to see the awful, awful mess he's made.
imagine being that person who goes just a tiny bit over the line by accident.
Have you ever gotten a video that's years old recommended? Heres the explenation: 1:58
Yes
I have reached salvation now
thank you comrade
I cannot believe I found you and your channel again. When I was younger, my dad and I watched literally every element video of yours available at that time. You folks are the reason I passed chemistry last semester. Keep going strong!
Not only would they have poisoned themselves but also the volume they would have gained if they had filled the cup to its brim was taken up by the mercury.
nura loh
No. Since mercury is over 13 times denser than wine (water) you need 13x more water above the mercury to "push" it up the same height. That can be seen in the video by the way. While the cup is full with water the mercury in the inner tube is pushed up just a few millimeters.
superdau what I was trying to say is that the Mercury takes up volume which can no longer be taken up by the wine to maximise the amount of wine in the cup. There will at least be 1/13 of volume wasted to Mercury.
nura loh That depends on how big the hole at the bottom is and how high the u-tube goes. You can make a cup that spills at any arbitrary height.
Assuming volume increases proportionately with the height of the cup, and the height of the u-tube is equal to the height of the cup, at least 1/13 will be wasted. Any higher and you'll need less Mercury and any less, you'll need more. It's reasonable to say that the one in the video is lower than the height of the glass. The size of the hole shouldn't matter should it? I remember learning that when I was back in school a decade ago or sth. You place water into 3 connected cylinders of different circumference and the height of the water will be leveled.
nura loh Well, they'd probably just have to drink the mercury too.
"The downside of course being that they would have poisoned themselves"
Ah only a small downside
People: -Block the hole-
The cup: You weren't supposed to do that
Pythagoras was just a prankster and invented the first dribble-glass...It works like a toilet. (the British call it a "bog") Ooooh... mercury in a toilet.
Great video guys!!
Jokes on you pythagoras, I'll drink it right from the bottom of the cup. Endless flow of wine says I.
kind of defeats the point of a cup....
@@solomonjenkins9505
Precisely the point.
CHUG CHUG CHUG CHUG CHUG!
@@warmnutjuice1682 he never met Brits or Americans!
Brits: This is what we do!
Americans: Hold my beer.
Smart Student would put some mercury on the bottom ...
But you ... You make the demon of greed bow to you ...
"The students could of been clever and filled the cup right to the top"
"The only downside would be that they would *_poison_* themselfes"
Ah yes, I am going to drink a bit more wine in exchange for getting poisoned
this man is literally what i would think of when someone said a scientist
Scientists: Pythagoras Cup
Me, an intellectual: *Pot of Greed*
Student: *fills it to the top*
Cup: "YOU'VE JUST ACTIVATED MY TRAP CARD!"
what deoes it do?
@@dragovern draw 2 cups of wine
Pog
Pot of hubris
"The downside is that they would have poisoned themselves."
Seems like a win win to me
This is very unique! I never would have thought that Pythagoras branched out and created such a simple(yet impressive) contraption.
Isn't this just a cup sized toilet?
yes, yes it is
No. This is a cup that uses the syphon principle. A toilet is a sanitation fixture that uses the syphon principle.
They are both the same concept though.
***** Too bad irl I cant do that...
peter griffin thats exactly what a toilet is,
you pull the tab and water floods in creating weight to push the water down (like a syphon) and emptying the bowl hopefully getting rid of whatever is inside and then refills.
Why drink from the cup?
Why not just get the entire jug of mercury?
hol up
R.I.P Freddie
“So Neil obligingly trued even though he was meant to be going on holiday”
Oh poor Neil
iPhone XR : But it was for Science! (Agreed, poor Neil.)
Scientist: Fill your cup with mercury to outsmart Pythagoras
Engineer: lol no, just plug the hole
The logical conclusion is to just turn it upside down when it starts falling out the bottom.
Ok boomer
Oh that makes much more sense
The logical greedy conclusion would be to hold it over your head and start chugging it down! Beat you Pythagoras!
It's an open cup it'll pour out.
Better idea is to hold it up and drink from the bottom.
What about the liquid in the big part of it ?
Student "man I love me some wine!"
Cup "I'm about to end this mans career."
DukeOfTennessee117 got this joke needs to die off already.
DukeOfTennessee117 cup: na na na na hey goodbye
Dr. Poliakoff, I think a safer way to stop the pythagoras cup would be to simply melt some wax into the bottom and let it dry to effectively plug the hole. Much safer!!
yes why overcomplicating it with Mercury lol
+Flaxify Because science is cool. Obviously, it's not a very practical way to stop it...
+CubeBag Sure it is. After your first fill-up, grab a candle (which would have been ever-present), and let its wax drip into the bottom of your cup. It should solidify on contact with the cool wine, and form a plug around the base. Once you've quaffed your cup, press your finger into the inlet at the bottom to seal it, then go fill up greedily.
Bryan Elliott , cubebag was saying the mercury is cool, but impractical. Not that the wax is impractical.
*****
Yes, thank you
"if his students where smart they would of put a little but of mercury in there to fill it to the top but the down side is that they'd be poisoning themselves" XD
When you fill the cup with mercury: I’ve won, but at what cost
No cost.
Not much would happen, even if you did drink the mercury.
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Bodragon 3:13
@@FunStudios Your point being ?...
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Bodragon when you fill it with a little mercury you can fill the cup all the way. However mercury is poison so you would most likely get sick.
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3C (09) Ng Sze Hon
Mercury poisoning can cause Alzheimer’s, ALS, certain cancers as well as kidney failure
And thus the toilet was made
Best RUclips channel ever.
Luciano Nooijen Your avatar makes it look like you're being sarcastic.
Bricks Of Awesome He is, video has no point really.
Thmyris Other than to educate, entertain, and open one's mind up to new ideas from old technology. Clearly the concept behind these videos is outside the realm of your limited comprehension. Go back to watching whatever senseless drivel passes for entertainment in your narrow minded world.
Luciano Nooijen U-Tube*
Luciano Nooijen Yes! I was looking for this! :D
It’s amazing how we can just get all those results even without those real experiments, simply with physics formulas! After watching this video, I thought why not work it out, so I derived the equation for the height up to which the water should be filled (given that there’s no limitation on the height of the wine glass, and there exists no surface tension, just to make it simpler) in terms of ‘g’, density of the denser liquid, height of the U tube from the initial level, density of water and the height of the column of that denser liquid. Apparently, if its mercury, we need to have water column’s height 13.6 times that of if the water column filled was replaced by mercury instead. Or simply put, 13.6 times the distance between the top of the mercury level and the top of the U tube.
Next step. So even if the Pythagorus’s students were greedy and they somehow manage to save themselves from mercury poisoning, they still can’t drink unlimited wine (given that the U tube has fixed height of ‘h’). It’s just 13.6 times ‘h’.
Next step. Let’s get practical. Now the glass itself doesn’t have unlimited height. And it has height of ‘n’ times ‘h’. With lil bit help from integration, you can get that height of drinkable wine too. I won’t spoil the activity for you, go find out if you managed to read up till here sincerely!
I somehow feel that the downside of putting Mercury in the bottom outweighs the upsides.
Neue Ära Outsmarting your teacher is impossible to outweigh
Mr. Grimdek Unless you consider outliving them.
PhilBagels The problem is that the salt water would mix with the wine, making it taste horrible and also not work. Someone pointed out you could use Gallium which melts at 30C, but that was only discovered in 1875.
Well, if you poured the wine carefully enough, it wouldn't mix too much. And I assume wine is less dense than water due to the alcohol. So you could get a cup with a layer of saltwater at the bottom, and wine at the top. There would immediately be enough mixing to taste, but not necessarily enough to start the siphon (assuming the saltwater is dense enough to begin with). However, no matter how carefully you pour and no matter how well separated the two layers are at first, they will mix over time - each liquid diffusing into the other, and when they become sufficiently mixed the siphon would work.
That might be an interesting question: Is there a liquid that is dense enough to stop the siphon from working, but that will gradually diffuse until the density is uniform enough for the siphon to start working. The liquid would sit there for some length of time, and then, without your having to do anything, the siphon would start to work and the liquid would all drain out.
Remember that I don't even know if there's enough of a difference in the density of saltwater and the density of wine for it to even matter.
PhilBagels here is a better solution plug the hole
Not to mention they would have taken up some of the volume of the glass with a substance other than wine.
first thing i thought also
Rational Reality if they want more wine simply putting a finger underneath the hole would do the trick.
Me: puts finger on the hole
Pythagoras: **surprised pikachu face**
Surprised Pythagoras face
@@aryamaangoswamy179 lol
@@aryamaangoswamy179 Surprised a²+b²=c² face
@@arcanechicken4342 technically wouldn't it be a²+b²=√c² to get the solution
Since
--------|------
4......| 16
6..... | 36
........|____+
7.21| 52
So
4² = 16
6² = 36
16+36= 52
longest side = √62
longeat side ≈ 7.21
I love that his thought when going home is 'what if I filled it with Mercury!?'.
Amazing
Pythagoras: *See I pulled a sneaky on ya*
He looks li,e qn older version of Bob ross
Damn the Pythagoras was like the B.C.E prank master.
If they were being smart they would've put their finger over the hole in the bottom. The air pressure would keep it from siphoning out
What if you don't have any fingers?
then you can't grab the cup ;) (i know you actually can, but cmon)
I heard the smart ones had someone fill it all the way while they let the wine pour into their greedy mouths through the hole in the bottom, funnel style.
400 BC: FUNNEL-BOOZE FRAT PARTY WAS INVENTED
Why didn't they just drink straight from the bottle?
This man looks like science
Student : *pulls out Flex Tape*
Pythagoras : Am I a joke to you?
When you accidentaly add a little too much of wine in the cup
"Ah frick."
Someone bumps into you while you're just done pouring
"A l c o h o l a b u s e !"
@@FroggyMosh G A S P
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So pythagoras invented RUclips?
Dang, THAT was way ahead of his time.
I'm not greedy. I just peed myself.
nice
Conclusion: Pythagoras wasn't invited to many parties after inventing this.
😂
This guy is officially one of my favorite RUclips personalities.
Is this method essentially how the "U-bend" flush toilet works?
Not really, the u bend in a toilet does not siphon as the tube is too large. The bowl is more like a dam in a river. It overflows over the top once the water level gets high enough downstream.
However a toilet cistern could be designed to use this technique, if you have floating upside down u bend. push it downward it would then empty the cistern.
No valves to block or leak in this arrangement.
thank you youtube for recommending me this 5 years later
I'm watching someone talk about a U-tube on RUclips. I need coffee!
Cant you just make the cup smaller if you dont want people to take too much wine?
I guess it tested them if they were greedy or not.
The thing is if they were greedy they would get no wine (the cup empties out), opposed to the small cup which they would get wine (if they were greedy).
+Ernsk Hans Bengton Bengton You're pretty damned slow, aren't you?
And into their lap.
This man looks like science.
I bet he smells like science too
And how would that be?
(We all know how you must smell then)
Like...lab stuff. Latex and Bunsen burners warming up boiling tubes.
It is actually used in (almost) every washer if you take a look to pull fabric softener out simply by adding a bit of water into the bucket.
Not only would they have poisoned themselves, the added mercury would have displaced enough wine to make this a net loss in overall volume of wine served. So hopefully, Pythagoras was a better teacher than that, and none of his students were abject idiots.
No it wouldn't have, watch the video. The extra volume of the water that Neil is able to add by filling the cup to the brim is way more than the little bit of mercury at the bottom.
He said that in the video
True, the volumes are not made clear, hence my disbelief at the concept. I mean, I'm sure it works mechanically, just... eh... it seems somehow off. Maybe that's a trick of the mind. I don't know.
no, it's basic physics.
Maybe... Students were smart enough NOT to use mercury.
Lol true
They used to make cups out of lead tho
There is a difference of 2000 years between Pythagoras life and Mercury's foundation
Maybe…just…Maybe
The students would still get the same amount since the mercury would be taking up the space where the "extra" wine would be.
they would probably be getting less
The students would die if they drank it.
if it wasn't poisonous I would have done it just to mess with the teacher
I don't care how much wine do I win or lose but one thing is certain, I ain't drinking anything with even a little drop of mercury in it.
The secret is not really in the Mercury. All you need is to plug the hole INSIDE the cup (plugging the one outside if obvious) with something that the water can't push *up* the siphon. Mercury does that job, but so would.. chewing gum? (first thing that came into my mind, I'm sure they would figure out something).
Then you could screw with Pythagoras, shove some chewing gum at the bottom, around the pole in the middle, then go "Hey watch this" :D
Cheers!