James Lovelock discusses his greatest epiphany.
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- Over the past century, inventor-cum-independent scientist James Lovelock has proved a hugely influential figure, from devising extraordinarily sensitive pollutant detectors to creating the Gaia hypothesis and speculating about living with cyborgs at the end of this century.
Given his range of achievements, watch and discover his most treasured moment in Science.
Tom sent me here.
Great man.
Indeed. Leave it to Tom Scott to point you to incredible things - and people. ;]
So inspiring! Many more great inventions to both of them!
BTW could electric valves without moving parts be feasible and effective?
he's quite clueless about AI but nevertheless he's a great mind.
@@theglobol How did you come to this conclusion? Then again, can't be informed about every latest development and invention not needed to live a happy life ;)
@@DarkSkay if you read his most recent book, it will become obvious to you that he is very uninformed and/or delusional about that topic.
Hear that sentence "I was explaining this thing to the engineers at JPL", that is a power statement !
The most underestimated mind of the 20th century.
what a wonderful example of a human being. i give my respect gratitude to u , James Lovelock for all that u are...for all ur work in creating the Gaia hypothesis! LOVEPEACEJOY!
Thank you for the interesting video.
It could be improved by removing the distracting background music.
really, nonsensical use of background music. Stupidity reigns.
Couldn't agree more...
How did it work?
Lovelock published a paper in 1969 describing his "Palladium Transmodulator". In short, hydrogen gas (and only hydrogen gas) can diffuse through solid metal walls of heated palladium-silver alloy, which provides an easy way to remove hydrogen gas from gas mixtures.
More details: hydrogen gas was added as a carrier to gas samples taken on Mars by the Viking probe's gas chromatograph. None of the gases of interest in the sample could diffuse through the walls of the palladium alloy tubing, so passing the sample gas through the tube was a very simple and effective way to remove the hydrogen gas from the sample. This increases the accuracy of the concentration measurement of the other gases of the sample, since you don't need to worry about how the ratio of carrier gas (hydrogen) to sample gas is changing. So you can now achieve a higher accuracy of gas concentration measurement without precisely controlling the gas flow rates (with heavy and complicated valves) or precisely measuring and adjusting for variable gas flow rates (with heavy and complicated instruments).
@@michaelsearing8369 Thanks for the explanation.
he doesn't look 100 years old at all 😲
he will turn 103 next July 26, 2022
@@aaaenglish well, this was technically true
@@Molteniceee It doesn't matter if he died on his birthday, 103 is 103.