Powerful lasers like the one used in the video are ridiculously dangerous. But if the experiment still works with a regular laser then yeah this would be great to do in school
A little something to add to this: this might work better in a vertical setup rather than the horizontal setup used here by having the drop of water on a clean glass slide or petri dish rather than having it hang off of something and having the laser shining from below or above. This will reduce some of the irregular distortion due to the shape of hanging drop. Also, magnification factor could be varied in a controlled manner by having varying degree of hydrophobicity on the surface of glass and the shape of glass.
I've seen this happen on droplets of sweat on my eye lashes! Always figured it was probably a visual hallucination, or brain misinterpretation, but now given how accurate it is to this, I suspect it was the sunlight causing magnification of whatever was in the sweat.
What you're experiencing is just light refraction, the angle your eye sees sometimes happens to be the right ratio for the magnification to come out clear. Light diffraction being the key evidence, but to you it's essentially using the droplet of sweat as a prism that happens to magnify depending on the angle you view it. Especially being that the round profile of a droplet greatly gives to the needed ratio that is crucial for refraction to even occur, which happens with most magnifying glasses/lenses. the more round it is, and again, depending on the angle your eye is to the droplet, will determine exactly the magnification and clarity you will see. honestly, just shining a light through the bottom of drinking glasses you might see some "shadow puppets" on the ceiling if you can angle it correctly. I would do this all the time, never really understood it till i was much older.
yes, exactly, I did the same thing, with just my eye and a clear marble. it was definitely magnifying, because I was able to see microscopic air bubbles in the glass marble, as well as specs of dust and even small, things, I don't know what they were, but they looked like organisms of some kind.
Naked eye cannot see microorganisms at all. What you saw were probably "eye floaters" floating around and passing across your retina inside your eyeballs.
It's really cool to see this, since holography is what I do professionally. We make a microscope that uses exactly this principle, just engineered to be more consistent. It turns out those bullseye patterns (called holograms) are determined by the size and composition of the particles. If you throw enough computing power at the problem, you can back out those parameters and learn a lot about what's in your sample. It's been useful for pharmaceutical formulation (where protein aggregates are a big problem), semiconductor polishing slurries (where agglomerates lead to damaged electronics), and a whole range of other industries.
This man gives me the answers I was wondering forever for free, meanwhile School gives me sth I don't need irl and still charges money enough to buy a mansion
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@@skyz3ra I don’t think that is true. I have never observed that. I don’t think it destroys creativity or curiosity but it sets you into realistic ways to fulfill them. But I will say this, if every student fully cooperated the system would be able to invest so much more for all of them to develop their creativities or satiate their curiosities.
Finally some experiment I have done in my childhood. My pen laser had a detachable ring on which i could pour a drop of water and i would always check every water source with my laser 😂
my friend had a laser and he did this exact same thing but we used cheap setup lmao, and when i first got a laseri played with it but then i thought of this experiment so i trieddoing it and i put the drop on the surface of the lens and now the laser's dead, i'm so dumb 😭😓
Not sure if anyone remembers, but an old youtuber who had a series called "Do Try This at Home" showed this experiment a long time ago. Glad to see it's being shown again!
I guess this works somewhat like the first "microscope" created by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. Where the lens he used was a tiny glass sphere. Amazing! Is it possible to get an effect like using different light filters on a microscope by using different coloured lasers?
This is the same shit that I can see when I look up at the sky. I thought I was god gifted that I could see microscopic things with my naked eye, but turns out its a fookin eye condition.
i have had that laser for about 11 years, its no joke. your video just prompted me to rig up this fun little experiment again. i wore the eye protection and my eyes are kinda effed a little bit lol. i also went through a full set of that weird half of a 18650 battery in about 25 minutes
When I was a kid in the 80’s I did this with a spoon and sun light. I would hold the round part of the spoon in the light and hold it close to my eye, it would show me all the things on my eye magnified.
Oh hey I used to do this all the time as a kid, the key to better images is to use a lens that forces the light into a bright condensed circle, and that will be your viewing area. If you use cells from a cheek swap the results will be absolutely amazing! Also paramecium look cool!
Holy .... I can actually do the same thing with my eyes, no joke. I didn't know what it was until i saw your video. I stare at a source of light(NOT a lazer, just a regular light source, small so that you dont go blind, it can be as far away as you want, even a street light, preferably at night with no other sources of light) and just unfocus my vision in such a way that i magnify the source of light. And inside the magnified light i can see dark floating spots and strings just like the ones you showed on the video. Pretty cool!!!
Your eye is somewhat a microscope. If you look at the sky you will observe dots. These are WBCs and you can see without microscope! This is blue field entopic vision.
This is a fantastic experiment that almost anyone can do. Virtually everyone has a old red laser pointer laying around. You can buy them at the dollar store. Anyone can do this.
I sometimes used to see the tip of my eyelash in glasses reflection of light when almost closed my eyelid. It was really strange and now feeling that the phenomenon principal is same this vid.
I know liquid glass is a material also used in some pottery, usually in liquid terracotta before you pour it into moulds, does anyone know what is the commercial name for this material?
Please try this Place a metal sample between two powerful magnets (both should have same power ) such that metal stays inside of magnitic field of both magnet equidistant from magnet If metal stays in middle not being attracted towards any magnet Then by doing this can you levitate metal in air
No, unfortunately this doesn't work because while it would be in force equilibrium exactly between the two magnets, this is an unstable equilibrium. Therefore it's impossible to get the metal to levitate. In fact, Earnshaw's theorem proves it to be impossible for any arrangement of magnets using ferromagnetic materials passively. However, it is possible using diamagnetic materials such as bismuth, or using a powerful enough magnetic field, even water! Here is an action lab video showing levitation using bismuth: ruclips.net/video/E-nQPveFYYM/видео.html
You can see this effect with reflected water too. Fill a container with a clear bottom with water, let the sun shine on it on to the bottom of the container. Drop a hair in the water, and you can see the disruption in the water. Note that it is not microscopic yet but it’s the same effect.
ive seen the same thing at my tears too! but instead,i shine my eye at a ceiling light and it looks a bit messed up because of my eyebrows but i can see it at the edges of the viewed light source. teachnically im using the cells inside my eye as a projection pad but it still looks as cool
@@TheRainHarvester during the euro cup semi-final match between England and denmark, a laser beam was pointed out by an audience in the eyes of denmark's goalkeeper while there was a penalty kick. England team was later fined.
Not exactly the reverse of this process (microscope), but ASML’s EUV lithography machine uses droplets to create particular wavelength light and focus it to etch silicon wafers to make chips with tiniest transistors. Bloody expensive machine, sold out for years to come and it won’t get any better with all the chip shortage around us.
What about using a microscope slide and cover plate. Significantly less magnification but maybe some from the phase change or maybe use a curved cover plate?
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Would putting the drop of water in between glass microscope slides make the image more clear? Would it still even refract to give you a similar projection because it's now flat instead of in the shape of a drop?
Great video. I wonder if a camera obscura (pinhole camera) with bright sunlight would do the same thing at all? The rays are mostly parallel. If it could work even a little someone would have seen microbes 2000 years before the invention of the microscope!
I have some questions about piranha solution since I just saw the video with the diamond. What would piranha solution do to plastic? And more importantly how do you safely and properly dispose of piranha solution?
Wow this is really freaking cool dude! I happen to actually be doing research with lasers this summer, so that makes it even better! Those rings of light and dark around the cells might be Airy's disks. Not sure though
I'd like to know what the thing that holds the dropper is called. There is something written on it and I think it says "mysterystane" but I found nothing online
Hands down the coolest new home experiment I’ve seen in years. Thank you.
@Ur Friend reported for sexually explicit material, spam, child abuse, harassing me lol 😂
@@Anshul93798 lol what did he/she say? I would really love to know.
@@cameronhuff5170 Spreading their Religious thing under scientific channel.
It doesn't even makes sense.
@@Anshul93798 wtf are you on?
What did @no say
"I thought a spider was crawling across the floor right there, but it's just spores in my water" is surely a sentence i did not think i'll ever hear
This could be the start of a "The Action Lab, but out of context" video. You never knooow.
@@Andrew90046zero I checked out your channel but sadly no such compilation
I am quite dissapointed 😒
@@ateyaba7253 well I was hoping somone else would do that xP
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I'm surprised they never do this in school
Yeah
@@Flashisgreatfr hey kid, learn how to market yourself better
People just never knew. It took modern min-maxing of kits and ideas to get this far
Powerful lasers like the one used in the video are ridiculously dangerous. But if the experiment still works with a regular laser then yeah this would be great to do in school
@@StrawHatRain no I need to see styropyro make a drop of water evaporate using a laser
These type of channels should be supported and promoted instead of those useless TikTok video channels.
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And make science out of School.
Fr and those stupid yt shorts reaction channels that just steal content and stare at them from a corner of the screen with no feedback
@@sawc.ma.bals. Literally tiktok trash transfers
Oh my!! I so agree!👍💕
A little something to add to this: this might work better in a vertical setup rather than the horizontal setup used here by having the drop of water on a clean glass slide or petri dish rather than having it hang off of something and having the laser shining from below or above. This will reduce some of the irregular distortion due to the shape of hanging drop. Also, magnification factor could be varied in a controlled manner by having varying degree of hydrophobicity on the surface of glass and the shape of glass.
I think the droplet has to be spherical for this experiment to work. On a slide the drop would spread out and be flat.
The light would have to go through the Petri dish. That might distort it more.
I think his laser needs a lot of space to disperse that far, hanging this vertically might require a large vertical space for this to work
@@terratec1001 yeah but if you have a coat of hydrophobic material on that glass then the droplet will be nearly spherical
What you're describing is essentially a microscope.
This channel is continuously impressive.
New science experiments every day!
I've seen this happen on droplets of sweat on my eye lashes!
Always figured it was probably a visual hallucination, or brain misinterpretation, but now given how accurate it is to this, I suspect it was the sunlight causing magnification of whatever was in the sweat.
the reason this works is because lasers are different than normal light/sunlight so i have to doubt your theory
What you're experiencing is just light refraction, the angle your eye sees sometimes happens to be the right ratio for the magnification to come out clear.
Light diffraction being the key evidence, but to you it's essentially using the droplet of sweat as a prism that happens to magnify depending on the angle you view it.
Especially being that the round profile of a droplet greatly gives to the needed ratio that is crucial for refraction to even occur, which happens with most magnifying glasses/lenses.
the more round it is, and again, depending on the angle your eye is to the droplet, will determine exactly the magnification and clarity you will see.
honestly, just shining a light through the bottom of drinking glasses you might see some "shadow puppets" on the ceiling if you can angle it correctly. I would do this all the time, never really understood it till i was much older.
yes, exactly, I did the same thing, with just my eye and a clear marble. it was definitely magnifying, because I was able to see microscopic air bubbles in the glass marble, as well as specs of dust and even small, things, I don't know what they were, but they looked like organisms of some kind.
Naked eye cannot see microorganisms at all. What you saw were probably "eye floaters" floating around and passing across your retina inside your eyeballs.
Holy shit this the same thing i did after i took a bath
It's really cool to see this, since holography is what I do professionally. We make a microscope that uses exactly this principle, just engineered to be more consistent. It turns out those bullseye patterns (called holograms) are determined by the size and composition of the particles. If you throw enough computing power at the problem, you can back out those parameters and learn a lot about what's in your sample. It's been useful for pharmaceutical formulation (where protein aggregates are a big problem), semiconductor polishing slurries (where agglomerates lead to damaged electronics), and a whole range of other industries.
This man gives me the answers I was wondering forever for free, meanwhile School gives me sth I don't need irl and still charges money enough to buy a mansion
@@Flashisgreatfr didn't know bots could be classed as kids...
@@Flashisgreatfr haha I never thought about it. Thank you for the fun fact🙂
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school teaches u how to think not what to think. or well, ideally
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If I had discovered this channel back when I was in school, I'd have been pursuing a doctorate in science by now. Sad I gave up on science midlife.
Same for most ppl. School's just there to destroy curiosity/creativity and introduce conformity.
hopefully the school system is fixed by the time I reach college
@@skyz3ra I don’t think that is true. I have never observed that. I don’t think it destroys creativity or curiosity but it sets you into realistic ways to fulfill them. But I will say this, if every student fully cooperated the system would be able to invest so much more for all of them to develop their creativities or satiate their curiosities.
@@skyz3ra I don't think it's "just there to" etc. but the effect is much the same.
You did the right thing Deepak .
Just casually waiting for the video on a desktop nuclear reactor.
@redxpen thats crazy
@@Flashisgreatfr stop
You should tell that to diy perks
You don’t have to go through all that trouble. Just turn the lights off in your bathroom and bounce your LASER off the toilet water and look up.
"Mom i want a microscope"
"we have a microscope at home"
microscope at home:
this is just the most simple and awesome experience, and yes, teachers around the world, take notes please.
I am so happy you put this video up I have been doing this for years with the tears in my eyes as I squint and let light through.
2:21 wow that second one you can clearly see rings around it, like as if it's double slit style wave effect
Me: “Oooo”
The algae: “I M B L I N D E D B Y T H E L I G H T S”
cringe format
@@lurji no u
Though I can't sleep until I feel your hand's electrons electrically repel my hand's electrons.
* Blinded by the lights Reference *
@@allytie736 I've been tryna call
Finally some experiment I have done in my childhood.
My pen laser had a detachable ring on which i could pour a drop of water and i would always check every water source with my laser 😂
my friend had a laser and he did this exact same thing but we used cheap setup lmao, and when i first got a laseri played with it but then i thought of this experiment so i trieddoing it and i put the drop on the surface of the lens and now the laser's dead, i'm so dumb 😭😓
@@maskboy2743 Even though i had a cheap chinese laser it was still water resistant 😂
@@unknownhuman9416 ;-;
I love how he always comes up with great science ideas to share with all of us :D
its scary how water can be so dirty under an microscope. i think i quit drinking water.
Who said those bacterias are bad to you??
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no
Free protein
Mmmmm
Tasty
Not sure if anyone remembers, but an old youtuber who had a series called "Do Try This at Home" showed this experiment a long time ago. Glad to see it's being shown again!
Action lab and Cody's lab on the same day. To whom do I owe thy honor. 😎
Not only is a cheap microscope, it also comes with a badass proyector.
It just need some psychedelic music, when it’s projected on the wall.
Should try this with the acoustic levitation machine that levitates small water droplets could inject different liquids.
I won't be surprised if he will make a video to see sub-atomic particles with naked eyes.
Its actually possible believe it or not, you can put single atoms in a high-energy state until they start giving off a lot of light
@@Donald_Trump_2024 damn you're smart
@@thucanhvuthi5018 no, im not smart, its not really that unknown of a fact
@@Donald_Trump_2024 yes you are smart, move on
@@masaratech no u
Wish you had tried a drop of swamp water. Should be some interesting activity visible.
you should try it with droplets of plant juices and test it with plants that have infections like blight.
3:33 Oh no, he's going to give some spit facts too!
Wow!!! Best experiemnt I've ever see till now! Thanks!
you need to get out more.
I guess this works somewhat like the first "microscope" created by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. Where the lens he used was a tiny glass sphere. Amazing!
Is it possible to get an effect like using different light filters on a microscope by using different coloured lasers?
no
truly awesome and easy home experiment.....really amazing for a schooler...
I had Done This 2years ago in 8th grade, A very wonderful experiment!!!
I just had to go give this a try and good fantastic results. You can even magnify something like a strand of hair held in front of the droplet.
Hey! Great experiment. Why not have a curved (concave) screen instead of a
instead of a wall, which could keep most things in perspective...
yeah cause everyone has a concave wall in their house dur
@@markylon amazing justification 👍🏽
I was not prepared for how mind blowing this was going to be.
This is the same shit that I can see when I look up at the sky. I thought I was god gifted that I could see microscopic things with my naked eye, but turns out its a fookin eye condition.
It's not an eye condition, everyone sees highly magnified particles in their maculars
Same, but then it turned out just to be eye floaties
Those particles which every one can see are wbc
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Man I have a scientific session with kids tomorrow about the unseeable world and you just handed me a really cool and easy demonstration ! Thanks !
i have had that laser for about 11 years, its no joke. your video just prompted me to rig up this fun little experiment again. i wore the eye protection and my eyes are kinda effed a little bit lol. i also went through a full set of that weird half of a 18650 battery in about 25 minutes
When I was a kid in the 80’s I did this with a spoon and sun light. I would hold the round part of the spoon in the light and hold it close to my eye, it would show me all the things on my eye magnified.
I've done this experiment in my high school. And all appreciated me😀
This is cool. When I got my first laser pointer many years ago, I used it to examine the surface of countless many objects. Hours and hours of fun.
this is the the only science channel i need
Oh hey I used to do this all the time as a kid, the key to better images is to use a lens that forces the light into a bright condensed circle, and that will be your viewing area. If you use cells from a cheek swap the results will be absolutely amazing! Also paramecium look cool!
This is awesome! When I recognized those diffraction patterns as the same ones I've seen with interferometers... I s*** brix
Thanks to this video, I can say that I see bacteria floating with bare eyes.
If you look closely, you will notice the brightest zone of a spere shadow is in it's center. Veritasium talked about this in one video.
Your channel has been a revelation. You are doing a great job. Thank you very much for so many interesting science videos.
Basically these are dust and dissolved particles in water suspended in it
Holy .... I can actually do the same thing with my eyes, no joke. I didn't know what it was until i saw your video. I stare at a source of light(NOT a lazer, just a regular light source, small so that you dont go blind, it can be as far away as you want, even a street light, preferably at night with no other sources of light) and just unfocus my vision in such a way that i magnify the source of light. And inside the magnified light i can see dark floating spots and strings just like the ones you showed on the video. Pretty cool!!!
Your eye is somewhat a microscope. If you look at the sky you will observe dots. These are WBCs and you can see without microscope! This is blue field entopic vision.
This is a fantastic experiment that almost anyone can do. Virtually everyone has a old red laser pointer laying around. You can buy them at the dollar store. Anyone can do this.
This video got recommended to me by RUclips like a million times
Can u do this in a freezer so we can see the microscopic ice crystals begin to form
3:20 heck of a wallpaper
I sometimes used to see the tip of my eyelash in glasses reflection of light when almost closed my eyelid. It was really strange and now feeling that the phenomenon principal is same this vid.
I know liquid glass is a material also used in some pottery, usually in liquid terracotta before you pour it into moulds, does anyone know what is the commercial name for this material?
Could you fire the laser down a short section of straw. This would give even circular projected image field
Science has never been fun since 1999... Thank you man
can we turn our room into club if we have that laser?
Technically yes if you make the laser point up into a ball that reflects the light from the laser in all directions
The pipette is more suspect. Very cool! Thank you.
Keep doing things like this bro... Constant support from a fan...
These were likely no spores in your filtered water, just particles
Please try this
Place a metal sample between two powerful magnets (both should have same power ) such that metal stays inside of magnitic field of both magnet equidistant from magnet
If metal stays in middle not being attracted towards any magnet
Then by doing this can you levitate metal in air
No, unfortunately this doesn't work because while it would be in force equilibrium exactly between the two magnets, this is an unstable equilibrium. Therefore it's impossible to get the metal to levitate. In fact, Earnshaw's theorem proves it to be impossible for any arrangement of magnets using ferromagnetic materials passively. However, it is possible using diamagnetic materials such as bismuth, or using a powerful enough magnetic field, even water!
Here is an action lab video showing levitation using bismuth: ruclips.net/video/E-nQPveFYYM/видео.html
You can see this effect with reflected water too. Fill a container with a clear bottom with water, let the sun shine on it on to the bottom of the container. Drop a hair in the water, and you can see the disruption in the water. Note that it is not microscopic yet but it’s the same effect.
You need to further develop this idea with different drop materials ! Want to see more :)
Cool that was helpful when other people they think the water is really processed and really clean
You should've gotten pond water sample. There's a lot of microorganisms in it.
ive seen the same thing at my tears too! but instead,i shine my eye at a ceiling light and it looks a bit messed up because of my eyebrows but i can see it at the edges of the viewed light source. teachnically im using the cells inside my eye as a projection pad but it still looks as cool
Hey!! that laser guy from the football match between england and denmark might be watching ur video for a more intense beam.
What happened at the football match?
I was wondering how many mW his blue laser was. Might be dangerous.
@@TheRainHarvester during the euro cup semi-final match between England and denmark, a laser beam was pointed out by an audience in the eyes of denmark's goalkeeper while there was a penalty kick. England team was later fined.
Do it with a drop of blood! super cool experiment
Not exactly the reverse of this process (microscope), but ASML’s EUV lithography machine uses droplets to create particular wavelength light and focus it to etch silicon wafers to make chips with tiniest transistors. Bloody expensive machine, sold out for years to come and it won’t get any better with all the chip shortage around us.
What if there was a ball that gains energy when it bounces
Cool! I wonder if you could incorporate a saturated clear orbee instead of the water drop, to magnify other objects or surfaces. Thanks!
If lasers weren't so power hungry, I'd combine three to get a white beam, then use this as a night light.
You can see this in your eyes with the right kind of light blob
Can this be done with blood too???
And if yes then can you please make a video
If your blood is transparent...
Bacteria : Hey see pal...How handsome i am...!
What about using a microscope slide and cover plate. Significantly less magnification but maybe some from the phase change or maybe use a curved cover plate?
also works to see darpas machine to human interface when you been marked for death and they point their gyrotron at you
Thank you for sharing this, I tried it out and it worked!
And in Australia suddenly a spore start crawl onto your hand then boom you are dead by those pesky spiders. 🤣🤣🤣
Can it be used to make quick covid-19 test ???????pls reply?
Can we use this technology for covid-19 test as we knoe how coronavirus looks likw
Hi Action Lab! I’m just fellow fan loving your videos! Your videos always supports me to keep on doing science. Thank you so much for keeping up those great videos! I’ll be here always supporting you. Thank you!
I haven’t even watched this vid but I can just tell it gonna be good
Would putting the drop of water in between glass microscope slides make the image more clear? Would it still even refract to give you a similar projection because it's now flat instead of in the shape of a drop?
Great video. I wonder if a camera obscura (pinhole camera) with bright sunlight would do the same thing at all? The rays are mostly parallel. If it could work even a little someone would have seen microbes 2000 years before the invention of the microscope!
Definitely use eye protection when working with high-power lasers!
well, can we then say that it is a humble indicator that we can check if water is even close to be drinkable or not?
Exactly.
That’s what the floaters in my eyes look like!
Same lol
The resolution really sucks! Looks more like a 70's psychedelic light show.
Now I wanna try it! Good thing it doesn't require anything crazy
For this one, I used a syringe. With some water I picked up from may small back yard floor, Amazing!
I have some questions about piranha solution since I just saw the video with the diamond. What would piranha solution do to plastic? And more importantly how do you safely and properly dispose of piranha solution?
Pro tip: Dip the front end of the laser so that drop settle downs on laser. Then turn it on it will be more clear & Use red laser its beautiful.
Wow this is really freaking cool dude! I happen to actually be doing research with lasers this summer, so that makes it even better! Those rings of light and dark around the cells might be Airy's disks. Not sure though
I have every thing to do this experiment. Cool af man.
I'd like to know what the thing that holds the dropper is called. There is something written on it and I think it says "mysterystane" but I found nothing online
In a world full of nonsense, it's comforting to know there are still those that value science and educational material. Science rocks!
I love these experiments 🤓💕👍👍