Michael Faraday's supernatural experiment
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- Опубликовано: 23 окт 2022
- Are ghosts real? The Victorians certainly thought so - and Michael Faraday wanted to prove otherwise. We've recreated his spooky experiment in time for Halloween.
Victorian society was fascinated by the possibility of communicating with ghosts. People reported mysterious phenomena, such as moving furniture, when they tried to contact the spirit world. In 1853, holding séances had become so fashionable and widespread that the great scientist Michael Faraday devised an ingenious experiment to investigate the existence of supernatural forces. Watch the video to find out more!
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So was it Faraday who first said, "Oh how the tables have turned"?
Hahaha ostensibly
No, I think it’s Jesus turning the tables on the money-changers!?
you can try it for yourself
step 1: keep your both hands in front of you
step 2: clench two hands together with all the fingers in
step 3: now stick out both index finger and keep them a centimeter apart, let loose
step 4: concentrate on the index fingers
watch them attract each other.
@Brandy Marie voodo magic 😉😎
Think it was mix master Mike who said that
As soon as the indicator was put on the table, the ghosts wave function collapsed!
The ghosts are obviously real. How else can you explain the fact that they can tell when you’re trying to detect them? 😉
Long ago it was called “table up” when people would put hands on the table and then make the table rise.
I've known about involuntary muscular action for ages now but this is the first time I've actually seen it demonstrated, thank you.
you can try it for yourself
step 1: keep your both hands in front of you
step 2: clench two hands together with all the fingers in
step 3: now stick out both index finger and keep them a centimeter apart, let loose
step 4: concentrate on the index fingers
watch them attract each other.
Most people are stronger in their dominant hand. I wonder if the table would turn in opposite direction with four lefties versus four righties.
you can try it for yourself
step 1: keep your both hands in front of you
step 2: clench two hands together with all the fingers in
step 3: now stick out both index finger and keep them a centimeter apart, let loose
step 4: concentrate on the index fingers
watch them attract each other.
Faraday totally was involved with catching ghosts. Haven't you heard of the Faraday Cage?
LOL!
Is that what the Ghostbusters built in their basement in NY?
No that was the Ecto-containment system, storage facility and protection grid in the basement of the Ghostbusters H.Q.
@@b00ts4ndc4ts whoosh
Lol
Great video! Love learning about science and medical history!
Exciting watch for a dark autumn evening. Thanks.
It is remarkable that scientists like Farad, Newton, and others were so committed to understanding nature in a fundamental way where nothing was assumed and they went about rigorous investigations to establish the basic principles. It is ironic that even today, there are so many who don't believe in science and resort to blind faith or worse. I had not known about this particular experiment to explain "involuntary" muscle action. Fascinating none the less
I wonder if Faraday and Darwin had conversations?
So Faraday basically proved it already: The less you know, the more you have to believe. And if you want to believe you have to ignore knowledge. This is what we still see today....
Faraday was a strong believer in God. 'Since peace is alone the gift of God, and as it is He who gives it, why should we be afraid? His unspeakable gift in His beloved Son is the ground of no doubtful hope.' - Michael Faraday
@@AlexanderMcConnell Given more time he would have figured out the truth. Even for Faraday it is hard to escape the indoctrination of a cult.
That's beautifully simple - nowadays we would spend a fortune on strain gauges instead.
@D R Oooo nice - yes please
The royal institution goes down the drawn with this ludicrousie.
Hi from Ukraine! Thanks for another interesting video! And I really appreciate that beautiful ribbon on that beautiful and smart person.
And matching (almost) hair, too. Nice.
You're in our thoughts and prayers. Stay safe
@@tolkienfan1972 thanks, friend! Ukrainians will never forget all kinds of support you guys are giving us. And the moral support is very important too.
I was aware of the phenomenon. Thank you for giving it structure.
They used to do it on Most Haunted back in the day...they claimed it was 👻👻👻! 🤣
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Faraday; finding out what actually happens Gnomes; calling it debunking.
Brilliant video! I love the idea of Faraday bringing his movement detectors to a seance and de-bunking it in front of everyone. 😅 It is strange how we can bring these things about involuntarily but then think it must be supernatural powers.
Are there any files or templates for these devices for us to cut out and make our own?
Thanks for sharing! ❤
Brilliant!
Amazing...!
People are endlessly suggestible and this is a neat demonstration of that.
Thanks Volunteers, sorry if you're possessed now!
I went to a seance in the back of a Methodist church in the suburbs of Sydney in about 1964-5-6 which was run by my friend who was the son of the minister of that church lol. (Not long after he and I became militant science-minded atheists). But at the time of the seance (we were about 12 years old) the objects did move and I have often wondered the mechanism. There were about 5 or 6 of us children present. I mostly suspected a similar mechanism to that shown in this video. Interesting. Thank you.
Brilliant and simple. We need more people like Faraday around now debunking supernatural nonsense.
Where are these involuntary muscle movements coming from? What is the internal mechanism?
And so, the turntable was invented. Sounds and songs could be now heard even long after the makers had died. Thus in truth, we could now hear from the dead.
The power of science
Stunning isn’t it. I just wish that more people would find it more fascinating than the woo that they are determined to attach to reality.
You're right
you can try it for yourself
step 1: keep your both hands in front of you
step 2: clench two hands together with all the fingers in
step 3: now stick out both index finger and keep them a centimeter apart, let loose
step 4: concentrate on the index fingers
watch them attract each other.
guys, make a Ouija board with this built into the planchet. Like, have individual finger pegs that users hold a single finger on to collectively guide the planchet. these pegs would feature a 360 gimble version of this mechanism with an indicator on the body of the planchet which would point in the opposite direction of the way the peg is pushed. then, in a group, if the planchet moves under your finger, it lags and hence your indicator points the same way the planchet moves. but if you are the one pushing it, your indicator will be singled out pointing opposite to the motion. this would let everyone see who was forcing it.
Im super curious if, due to its higher degree of freedom, there might be ways to move the planchet such that random meandering is still possible. like if everyones indicators all tilt in the same direction by a small amount and lead to a stable rotation. or maybe if peoples musclular contributions are severe enough, the indicators would be moving too randomly and too rapidly to actually see which ones were or werent aligned with the way the planchet moves.
The real SHTF when it moves and everybodys indicator is pointing the right way. This can only happen if each users finger is lagging behind and hence slightly resisting the motion of the planchet. but if everybody is resisting it, then it requires a true outside force to move. spoooookyyyyy
Going to Faraday and asking him to explain seances, it's like going to Einstein and asking him to explain bloody Mary.
I find it odd that the father of motors, and modern experimentation would give a second of his time for such hogwash.
Then again, maybe he was trying to instruct people to be more skeptical about things they don't yet understand.
Did he make it eventually? Nah. The same type of people who believed in seances back then, still believe them today.
If you read Faraday's description of the experiments in Experimental Researches he ends by saying: 'I am a little ashamed of it, for I think, in the present age, and in this part of the world, it ought not to have been required.'
What's bloody Mary got to do with it?
@@DevilishScience it's a similar example. Einstein did lots of experiments with light, bloody Mary is on the mirror, reflection, light, similarities.
Seances etc. were very much in fashion in the time and place Faraday lived. Amazing new facts of the universe were being discovered, electricity wasn’t understood, and it wasn’t clear where the line was between science and magic. In that context I think it makes sense for a guy like Faraday to address something like this.
Maybe he was even genuinely curious about this phenomenon rather than simply trying to debunk it.
@@lebojay well, he did debunk it for sure. He even made an instrument to measure the debunkness.
Here's to Faraday for actually having the whatsits to test this, so may supposed supporters of science these days would scoff at the suggestion of testing alleged supernatural phenomena.
Those tables have to be extremely easy to move!
Low and behold there is no God
Super
What a beautiful table cloth.
I had a broken telephone cable underground in my garden. The telephone company send some men to find it. They used a groundradar and then one of them used to pieces of L shaped wire to check. He walked toward the breach, hold them loosely, and indeed the wires rotated toward the correct spot. I do not believe those things so I asked if I could try. And indeed they pointed correct. After they were gone I made 2 for myself to investigate more. And then I found out it always points to the correct point no matter what it is. Just a ball on the grass or an imaginary spot on the ground. Only when I tested it on a wall at the hight of my eyes, it did not work. This gave me the conclusion it needed to be a low point. And after playing around some more we (my wife and I) found out it was very simple If I looked down (To a spot on the ground) I slightley bow my head to keep looking at it and that slightly changed my balance and so my arms and the "probes" followed the laws of physics and start to point down. If I lstared at a spot in the distance at the height of my eyes i, walking to the same spot on the ground, nothing moved. And to be sure, standing still, slowly shifted my eye-sight towards a spot on the ground a meter in front of me, trying not to move my arms (but you do a lot of things with your muscles to keep balance), caused the probes to follow my eyes and at the end point towards that spot when I looked at it. This was a very funny experiment to debunk and nice to know scientists like Farraday also did these kind of experiments.
I'd be an anti-plant and resist the table moving just because I saw this video.
ideomotor effect
But. ... I learned this as a child playing with a Ouija board. Why did the Victorians need a fully grown adult to figure out what a child could discern?
I imagine its because the Victorians liked to have fun. Much like today many people don't believe in magic, yet still enjoy watching magic performances, people in Victoria's time may not believe this but still enjoy being part of the spectacle.
I can't help saying, "Thank God for Evolution!"
lol
Spooky Action at a table...
Observe it and it stops!
It’s actually Daniel Faraday
Faraday was a strong believer in God. 'Since peace is alone the gift of God, and as it is He who gives it, why should we be afraid? His unspeakable gift in His beloved Son is the ground of no doubtful hope.' - Michael Faraday
this is true...but ghosts do exist I have seen one
How do you know that what you saw is a ghost? You do not.
All good unless the ghost is conscious. Then manipulation of the results could be available to a "Spirit" lol
If ghosts and other supernatural beings are only going to interact with people when the effects can be explained scientifically as completely natural processes, then they might as well not exist
That has called out charlatans around the world.
Instead of looking for ghosts You should try calling on demons and welcoming them into you life.....
Yay! I am real..
Ha!. I see the comment section is eager to 'believe', and seem happy, that science disproves otherworldly explanations. I find calling, yet unknown, forces supernatural nonsense very dim-witted and unscientific.
Loved the work of Faraday.
However as a counterpoint to the video and someone who has experienced the real thing, a table doing an elegant pirouette was the most sublime experience of all my personal investigations into this field.
Despite it being Halloween don’t fear, all things can be explained by science I’m sure it’s just that we don’t yet have all the science.
Thanks to the makers of this video, I wish I was able to share this phenomena with you all but sadly it ended some years ago for me personally.
Maybe the ghost is making people push on the table and with this device they fight against the ghost and no communication is possible. We need to device a new experiment to rule this out. XD
Bored housewives needed something to do.
Why that ukrainian is not in the 'war'?
This is about Faraday's experiment, not politics.
Because there's no 'war', Ian, there's WW3 taking place, right now.
@@guyh3403 tell that to the girl in the video
@@User-jr7vf tell her what? That she needs to defend humanity? She's doing her part, while you're trying to annoy people, looks like.
@@guyh3403 she is with a ukrainian flag colours in the chest and is that not about politics???
I've got a hacked radio and have asked questions, and i've had answers back. I've got 1 video where i asked (what ever it was as i've not got a clue what could've answered back) to say my brother's name, and it said Stan, which isn't my brother's name. So i asked again and the second time i asked it said "Paul" which is his name. What is answering my questions, science people. The video is on my channel so if you want to have a look and try to explain WTF is answering this question i'd love to know.