How Does Fusion Produce Energy?

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  • Опубликовано: 21 янв 2025

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  • @DrDeuteron
    @DrDeuteron Год назад +245

    it's confinement, not containment.

    • @ButWhySci
      @ButWhySci  Год назад +148

      🤦🏻‍♂️Oops. Conceptually I understand why it wasn’t noticed. But that’s annoying.

    • @DrDeuteron
      @DrDeuteron Год назад +57

      @@ButWhySci nuclear containment (vessel) is more common than nucleon confinement. Neural net picks highest weight.
      As a young researcher I gave a talk to ten ppl, and the Nobel laureate in the front, “ nice talk, but it’s nuclear , not nuke u lar “. This was before face palm emojis.

    • @mastershooter64
      @mastershooter64 Год назад +8

      @@DrDeuteronLmao

    • @ossiedunstan4419
      @ossiedunstan4419 Год назад

      Yes this is what happens when uneducated youtubers post rubbish on RUclips.
      What exactly are the mechanisms holding atoms together and why does bringing them together create energy? = This statement shows me you have no understanding of fusion.

    • @DrDeuteron
      @DrDeuteron Год назад

      @@ossiedunstan4419 for me, atoms and nuclei are completely different things.

  • @aiex010
    @aiex010 Год назад +319

    Visualizing waves the way you showed us in the vid is super useful and will definitely try to visualize it this way for my students. I'm just a lowly Highschool teacher but I love to watch vids like this that go way beyond my expertise. Thank you!

    •  Год назад +11

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      @FlippinT Год назад +7

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      @alexanderquilty5705 Год назад +5

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      @HandsomeDanVacationRentals Год назад +2

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  • @varunahlawat9013
    @varunahlawat9013 Год назад +284

    Damn, no matter how many videos I've seen previously on nuclear fusion, this video felt so new! I wish more content like this floods my feed!

    • @tonalambiguity3345
      @tonalambiguity3345 Год назад +10

      As someone with a masters in teaching, this guy is one of the best educators I’ve seen.

    • @marsdriver2501
      @marsdriver2501 Год назад +7

      yeah, it feels like everyone else is afraid to show more "boring and unimportant" details, but this channel manages to show these details in a fascinating way!

  • @terryflopycow2231
    @terryflopycow2231 Год назад +28

    Man this video brought back 2 years of college physics instantly, feels so refreshing. No matter the view count, this free content will forever be underappreciated.

  • @PasiFourmyle
    @PasiFourmyle Год назад +54

    There's so many speakers and mathematicians, but to be able to show, pretty darn intuitively, the proposed interactions is so amazing! 👏 ❤ Thank you!

  • @AndiAbrudan
    @AndiAbrudan Год назад +41

    Ok, I never understood how quantum tunneling worked until your explanation.
    Your visualization is top-notch.

    • @rumbecker5085
      @rumbecker5085 Год назад +3

      The chance that hydrogen will quantum tunnel is 1 in 10^28 that like winning powerball 3 times in a row. Since the sun has more than 10^57 hydrogen atoms, quantum tunneling is very probably. On earth when we do fusion, we are talking in the order of 10^23 atoms

  • @TBJ1118
    @TBJ1118 Год назад +81

    The way you explain things is just incredibly effective. You really developed a remarkable ability, and we all need more of you and your work. I've been a subscriber for years now, and you deserve so much more visibility. Thanks!

    • @falco6
      @falco6 Год назад +1

      Couldn't agree more as a person who just only scratched the surface by stumbling upon it just know. Loved the visualisations and explainations. Filled some understanding-gaps for me.

  • @jimitbhatt4829
    @jimitbhatt4829 Год назад +15

    Please keep making these videos. You have no idea what impact you have on generations of us watching this and passing the knowledge and the video along to our kids.

    • @PoonamMauryaa
      @PoonamMauryaa Год назад +2

      true words were never spoken before

  • @slamdunksam2872
    @slamdunksam2872 Год назад +4

    the most detailed, clear, well animated, in depth, video on fusion i have ever watched and somehow all the information has been fitted into 13 minutes!

  • @wgoulding
    @wgoulding Год назад +31

    I just want to say, you put out absolutely amazing videos. It's only a matter of time until you are ranked amongst the foremost of scientific communicators on RUclips.

  • @nigh7swimming
    @nigh7swimming 11 месяцев назад +2

    This is the best explanation of fusion I've ever seen, and I've seen a few lectures about it over the years.

  • @hollisoorebeek6963
    @hollisoorebeek6963 Год назад +14

    holy shit, this is the first time i've actually understood what quantum tunnelling is, actually having a visualization of the waves is GENIUS. this channel is amazing

  • @codeofdestiny6820
    @codeofdestiny6820 Год назад +3

    This is most detailed explanation I've ever seen, regarding a concept of quantum mechanics/nuclear physics. I have never seen a video that is not afraid to explain the actual physics, instead of explaining everything with handwavy analogies. Sure, I am confident that this is still really dumbed down version of the actual explanation, but it doesn't leave anything to be desired. It offers just enough information to satisfy all of the curiosity, without scaring you away with scary concepts rooted in really complicated mathematics. Wonderful job! Wonderful animations!

  • @1224chrisng
    @1224chrisng Год назад +4

    this is the most intuitive explanation I've seen. Love how the gluons (literal springs) break off to form pions

  • @TheKalll
    @TheKalll Год назад +12

    I'm happy to have found a well made educational RUclips channel that I can't watch while doing something else, a channel that really challenges me to keep up and honestly gets me to smile like I made some sort of discovery understanding the underlying mechanisms of our universe, and inspires me to find such visualisations when teaching my students. you my man are the GOAT, keep up the great work and the awesome animation style!

  • @iveharzing
    @iveharzing Год назад +15

    Very well made video!
    I feel like I'm finally starting to understand the Strong Force & Strong Nuclear Force.
    The fact that the mediating particles have a limited lifespan being the reason that the Force is so short range, is something that I hadn't realised before, but now it makes a lot of sense!
    I guess that's also why eventually (after Iron), the binding energy drops again, because the size of the nucleus becomes larger than the interaction length of the Strong Nuclear Force.

  • @ronjon7942
    @ronjon7942 Месяц назад +1

    Geez, I still don't know shit, but you've explained more fusions and quantum mechanics to this layman, in a digestible way, than I've ever been able to grasp in my 54 years. Thank you.

  • @Supernoxus
    @Supernoxus Год назад +4

    I know have I said this plenty of times before, but I continue to marvel at your ability to present me a topic I thought I understand reasonably well and then make me feel like I had no idea about anything. You explain it so well too. I am thankful for every one of your videos. I am hoping for your subscriber count to eventually reach a suitable number. Like 1-2 million would be nice.

  • @cameronwatson5501
    @cameronwatson5501 Год назад +3

    its crazy how you can make such in depth videos on quantum mechanics, while keeping it so engaging and easy to understand

  • @marsdriver2501
    @marsdriver2501 Год назад +4

    no matter the subject, you always show something new and exciting!
    love it!

  • @usuck2521
    @usuck2521 10 месяцев назад +2

    100% the best explanation out there

  • @Elrond_Hubbard_1
    @Elrond_Hubbard_1 Год назад +5

    I consider myself a veteran of the RUclips science and physics content audience. I'm not an expert in any of this, I did complete a BSc fifteen years ago, and I didn't study physics but I've always maintained my fascination with it all.
    Your channel is just the perfect level of explanation for me, and you do such a great job of painting a picture of what is going on.
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  • @dporangecounty
    @dporangecounty Год назад +2

    Thank you for going into more depth than the typical scientific content provider. Subscribing now!

  • @ImpossibleEvan
    @ImpossibleEvan Год назад +1

    Literally filled in every hole of knowledge I had about this IN ONLY 13 MINUTES

  • @chloec.5205
    @chloec.5205 19 дней назад

    your ability to explain these concepts is incredible. i have a basic high-school level understanding yet i was able to follow along your entire video. thank you for making these explanations in-depth and accessible.

  • @emperortgp2424
    @emperortgp2424 Год назад +3

    Love your videos, the visuals are always clear and the topic is never dumbed down no matter how complex. Wish there were more STEM youtube channels like this one.

  • @-Kerstin
    @-Kerstin Год назад +1

    Really wasn't expecting an explanation this good when I clicked.

  • @hipokemonfans
    @hipokemonfans Год назад

    This is the best description of quantum phenomena i think I've seen thusfar. It makes it soo much easier to visualize and it's clear to understand. Well done!

  • @jayrose5333
    @jayrose5333 Год назад +1

    You need to keep making videos. Your videos I literally watch every single one.

  • @juanrincon777
    @juanrincon777 Год назад +1

    These visuals are craaaazy. What a great video. Earned a new sub

  • @KnowledgewithScience
    @KnowledgewithScience Год назад +2

    He has explained it perfectly!!!
    Dude that is sooo gooood
    Make more of such videos

  • @supratimmitra9352
    @supratimmitra9352 Год назад +1

    Whoever you are, you are very good at what you do.

  • @HYPERMUSH64
    @HYPERMUSH64 Год назад +2

    What a phenomenal video that simply explained something I had never understood! How do you make such beautiful and useful graphics?

  • @Tesseract9630
    @Tesseract9630 Год назад

    This so much new information, none of which covered in other science channels. I always wanted to know the deeper mechanisms of the particle interactions. I am so great full you made this video

  • @poor4d
    @poor4d Год назад +1

    Thanks a lot . I am in 11th grade and i love your videos. This was the best explanation about strong nuclear force and strong force and yes fusion too. Your videos always generate more questions to me and also answers my previous ones.

  • @miinyoo
    @miinyoo Год назад +2

    That was magnificently well illustrated. For a visual person like me, I can see the equations in the animations even if abstractly, I don't really understand them on a purely mathematical basis. Using 3 dimensions in them is very helpful to breed an intuitive insight however, reality on this level is 4 dimensional so even though we're only considering ~2% of c, there is still a small effect of time and length(distance) relativistic effects. How to illustrate that specifically, I think you did without explicitly saying it but through implication that the probabilities are so unreasonably small yet with so many particles and such density, those effects emerge and have an on our human scale a significant impact. Like you know, existing at all.

  • @bamfoer
    @bamfoer Год назад +1

    i never comment but this video single handedly helped me understand questions my teachers couldn't answer

  • @lucak4013
    @lucak4013 Год назад

    i love this video. perhaps another title would give it more attention, cuz many people just think of fusion of a deuterium and a tritium nucleus to form a helium nucleus with the release of a neutron.
    But this is way more interesting. Your videos are incredible

  • @PlexiumGames
    @PlexiumGames Год назад +1

    YESS! Love these videos never stop dude!

  • @timothysleeper5441
    @timothysleeper5441 Год назад +1

    Once again, astounding video!

  • @friguspersona
    @friguspersona Год назад +1

    I never knew fusion could be even more fascinating

  • @leonardgibney2997
    @leonardgibney2997 11 месяцев назад +1

    My brain's too old for this. I'll just take your word for this.

  • @lemonke8132
    @lemonke8132 Год назад

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  • @Work-g9t
    @Work-g9t 5 дней назад

    By seeing your explanation i understand the whole concept and able to get good flow in my studies ❤

  • @customfreak567
    @customfreak567 Год назад

    Shame the algorithm didn’t pick this video up :( love the hard work

  • @mastershooter64
    @mastershooter64 Год назад +2

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  • @romansanders
    @romansanders Год назад +2

    Absolutely fantastic video!

  • @kimbring2727
    @kimbring2727 Год назад

    I tried to find how two protons are combined together. However, I could not find the the good explanation about it. Finally, I understand that pion is reason of that force from this video 😮😮 Nice lecture.

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    @tekjess_ Год назад

    I wish I could help you make more videos of such quality. This is so good.

  • @usm1le
    @usm1le 11 месяцев назад

    its incredible that this even exists and that we figured this out

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    @marvintalesman6306 11 месяцев назад

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  • @fleetwingpone966
    @fleetwingpone966 9 месяцев назад

    i was NOT expecting it to go as deep as quantum mechanics, i have been pleasantly surprised :3

  • @Paraselene_Tao
    @Paraselene_Tao Год назад +4

    It's my first time watching or trying to deal with how the strong force works, and it's pretty wild. I am surprised that it works like this, and I want to know how we researched all of this and how we know with high certainty that these are the mechanisms.

  • @Odysseus81
    @Odysseus81 Год назад

    Probably the best video out there. Thank you

  • @ImpossibleEvan
    @ImpossibleEvan Год назад +1

    I have watched this about 6 times as it explains sosny different things

  • @RenBR
    @RenBR Год назад +2

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    @Mr.Loewenzahn Год назад

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    @_34_Lies Год назад

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  • @cleanerben9636
    @cleanerben9636 Год назад +1

    Thank you the visuals really help with the explanation.

  • @bonecanoe86
    @bonecanoe86 Год назад +6

    The fusion power plant in SimCity 2000 gave me the impression that fusion power was the future and inevitable.

    • @Canucklug
      @Canucklug Год назад

      I think you get it in 2050, we might be faster

  • @Brucebod
    @Brucebod Год назад +1

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    @bobchelsy163 Год назад +1

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    @borja556 Год назад +4

    i dont really speak english properly, and i usually dont understand most of what i listen in english, but your tone, words or speed, i dont know. Make me easy to understand you without problems, even without substitles.

  • @SwiFTDBL
    @SwiFTDBL 11 месяцев назад +3

    Imagine humans could live in peace- we could dedicate all the defense funding, military budgets, war budgets, etc, toward researching a realistic way to harness fusion power. If it ever became possible it would be near infinite energy with basically no waste (not like fission). Unfortunately I don’t think humans will ever stop fighting each other 😢

  • @ryanbalestrery2988
    @ryanbalestrery2988 Год назад +1

    I'm going to need to replay this 100 times and read as many articles to understand what I just saw. Well here goes...

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    @Baloney108 Год назад

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    @LauAM80 Год назад +3

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    @Parcian- Год назад +1

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    @pinkyblueAPefc Год назад

    It makes me feel better knowing my revision for my physics exams is going well because I can understand what’s going on in this video

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    @mikewillis4362 Год назад

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  • @Parapresdokian
    @Parapresdokian Год назад

    Oh man, oh man, oh man... I'm gonna study Nuclear Physics for my undergrad this fall. And I expect to do the same for the rest of my life.
    Dunno why, Mr. But Why, this video is kindling a fire inside me.

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    @peacekeeper9687 10 месяцев назад +1

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    @my_lawn_needs_you_not Год назад

    Once again amazing work, Sir.

  • @Meican_Spy
    @Meican_Spy 11 месяцев назад

    2:48 but how is the anti blue quark and the blue quark Pion work? And what charges does the gluon that was emited by the anti blue quark have? anti blue and anti blue?

  • @jollyroger2730
    @jollyroger2730 Год назад +1

    Awesome video! Thank you!

  • @cart0443
    @cart0443 Год назад +2

    Great thing I was awake to see a post notification lol

  • @CraftyF0X
    @CraftyF0X Год назад

    This is it! These are the important fundamentals, if you know this you pretty much understand fusion !

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    @blacklight683 Год назад +1

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    @edenasharpie Год назад

    this is the 3 blue 1 brown of physics, thank the gods!!

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    @yetti423 Год назад

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    @user-vq3lk Год назад

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    @michaelmoran6364 Год назад

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    @callmepease Год назад

    I love waking up to this at 2 am

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    @moseschellakannu7548 Год назад

    SUPERB EXPLANATION

  • @braydenvantell6047
    @braydenvantell6047 17 дней назад

    10:36 so it basically makes up for energy in the form of “mass” (as in amount of events happening) which makes sense because mass and energy are related like space and time?

  • @JuliusUnique
    @JuliusUnique Год назад +1

    great video! nice animations! thanks for this! 👍

  • @solapowsj25
    @solapowsj25 Год назад

    One view is that a shell with radius 3 would have surface area of interaction equality to the volume of a sphere with radius 3, as also cones and hemisphere and the circle in this energy transfer sequence. However, when two spheres unite, the surface area of the second sphere is less; the excess is released at 'c' from each atom.

  • @Thrna_1
    @Thrna_1 Год назад

    I actually find that assigned triadic colors to three quarks is very helpful and engaging, especially for those of us learners who are easily distracted. And their collective charge combines to make white? Very fascinating, even though I know they are abstract terms to help novices understand with ease.

    • @Thrna_1
      @Thrna_1 Год назад

      so seamless to see the blue-yellow pair, then the red-cyan pair as balanced pion messons, so seeing which colors are paired adds a visual element to understand whether a baryon/mession is balanced or not, truly helps!

  • @TechSY730
    @TechSY730 Год назад

    4:18
    Suggestion: it probably would have been good to explicitly mention that the up and down quarks (and quarks in general) have electric charge too.
    That way way it would be much more obvious why swapping quark types could change the charge of the nucleon for those who didn't already know. Or why pions can themselves also have charge.

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    @josefhermann8101 Год назад +1

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    @eduardomedina5794 Год назад

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    @chillinJohnny Год назад

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    @Liamg1999 Год назад +1

    you should release the summary at the end as a short so you can get more views

  • @arserna92
    @arserna92 2 месяца назад

    This is so cool and understandable to someone like me that doesn’t have a college education

  • @FutureAIDev2015
    @FutureAIDev2015 Год назад

    How does the gluon "know" which quark to collide with? Is it analogous to how opposing electric charges attract?

  • @parthvarasani495
    @parthvarasani495 Год назад +1

    Awesome 🎉

  • @lorenzoplaserrano8734
    @lorenzoplaserrano8734 Год назад

    This was amazing. thank you so much

  • @grexjr1420
    @grexjr1420 Год назад

    One question: when you say “charges” for those quarks, is it electrical charges? And if so, what is the third charge? If it’s not positive, negative, or neutral? Or is it something separate from electrical charge that can be three-way? Like some property other than electromagnetism?
    Amazing video by the way! I love watching them all :)

    • @emperortgp2424
      @emperortgp2424 Год назад +2

      the latter, it's a separate quantity that can have three-way interactions

    • @codyexzonk
      @codyexzonk Год назад

      It is something separate. Electrically charged particles participate in electromagnetic interaction. Color charged particles participate in color interactions. It is as "abstract" as electric charge is.