Self-Assembling Wires That Can Solve a Maze!
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- Опубликовано: 17 апр 2021
- In this video I show you how to make self-assembling wires that seek out and find the opposing electrode. I show you how this can even be used to solve a maze (kind of)!
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The maze was a good test of dexterity. You beat me to it - I was in the process of filming a rendition of this myself. Didn’t think other people had heard of the idea too, it’s pretty legit!
@@Spartans_-wq8ns epic reddit
You showed a similar demonstration with high voltage & oil that was really cool!
youtube was literally recommending the research video to anyone that ever watched a science video..
(just went and double-checked ruclips.net/video/PeHWqr9dz3c/видео.html 2.5 million views, not exactly niche)
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@@Twitchi +1
"short circuit through my finger". Electroboom would be proud 😂
haha
indeed :)
ElectroBOOM also made one of those electric ion wands
hehe
Electroboom's name must be written in Deathnote's journal.
yes Electro BooM. 🤣🤣🤣
Lightning works the same way. If you watch a lightning strike in slow motion, it creates a bunch of feelers through the air until it makes a connection with the ground. I think the slowmo guys had a video on it.
Yeah the slowmo guys has done an episode on it..
It's absolutely cool to watch the lightning ⚡⚡😁.
Btw nice comparison analogy 🔥👍
The first 'feeler' travels from the ground up to the cloud, then the cloud uses this pathway of charged air particles to throw down the plasma stream of visible lightning.
This is analogous to the arcing (tiny plasma discharges) once the ball bearings complete a circuit in the petri dish.
I was about to say the same. I took a photo of lightning recently where you could actually still see feelers coming up from objects, and the main bolt coming down through the final, "connection." Looking at all the feelers, you could see potential other strike locations. It is cool to get a lightning shot to begin with, but to get one with additional feelers (essentially failed lightning bolts) is extra cool!
I was waiting for him to say this
@@malicknjie1839 I was too.
I'm 42 and still have an unquenchable thirst for learning. I always enjoy what you have to offer.
Live Forever and Prosper, Joshua Gibson.
@@rufusapplebee1428 you as well my friend.
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Is always good t learn no matter how old you are!
Also im like 13 so yeah
@@memor22 Live Forever and Prosper, The three llamas.
How does this man find these cool ideas for his videos every weeks?
A similar video came up by another RUclipsr sometime ago. But his experiment is awesome
@@vaishnav4real yeah i saw it too
@@vaishnav4real hey can you tell that RUclipsr's name
@@vaishnav4real it is also inspired from "Hacker Om"
Stealing
Lol it's smarter than ya think. It said "forget this maze I'm hopping over these walls"
😂
he should have covered the top of walls too.
xD
Too much oil
@@the_eminent_Joshua_E_Hrouda 🇺🇲
Path of least resistance or something...
I like how the balls have a celebration when they make a connection. 🥳
woo lightning fireworks. And at that last one where it was like "eeh close enough" and shot lightning at it... or it shot lightning at the orbs. I aint going back to see which is positive and negative.
🎊🎉
5:16 Since those balls do need a little help to make it to the other end, I can hide from them in a maze. I feel safe again :)
They'll just jump onto the top of the maze walls lmao
You're not safe at all.
@@sarojandongol1482 ok
BALLS OF STEEL
@@legohexman2858 oK
@@davidgumazon lmao
Isn't it amazing when the fundamentals of physics, chemistry, and biology all coalesce so neatly?
This is just physics
Every science domain is just a side of physics
Yes, it's wonderful.
@@milesromanus7041 physics is just a domain of mathematics
Yes, quite aMAZEing
"Unfortunately that means short circuiting through my finger" Proceeds to self electrocute for the vid
that's the trademark of this channel
I don't know for how long I've been following this channel, but you seem to have gotten a lot of practice speaking and presenting this stuff; everything seems more professional than when you started, and it's a lot more interesting to watch! I'm glad you stuck to RUclips, because you're doing great work!!
"They're little balls of steel"
Brain:Giggles
Me:
How else you would make little duke nukens?
Popopopopopop
I’m glad I’m not the only one
5:20 - would've worked a lot better if the liquid medium had not been spilling all over the place. As soon as it overtopped the 'walls' of the maze the maze ceased to exist. Make the walls MUCH higher so the oil cannot overtop them even through capillary action and you'll see the balls follow essentially one route - since the electrical charge has to follow the same route to 'charge' areas that are not in a direct line between electrodes.
Absolutely satisfying !!! The way the balls assemble and when they make a series , that electric current through them makes it look really satisfying.
Your videos are always so fun to watch. Its a plus that they are informational as well. Thank you for your time.
I love this channel. Makes learning so interesting you don’t even realize he’s teaching you about physics. Can’t stop binge watching these videos. He has such an amazing conceptual grasp of physics and clearly has a gift for teaching.
Please make a video on e-dimensionality and the effects it would have on our understanding of physics.
Nob,i dont wana to see this video
Just a few days after I saw the original research you published this, great job, you are the man!
First experiment is copied from the channel " Hacker Om"
@@BloodAsp these are discoveries, not inventions. Einstein didn't create the the mass-energy equation, he discovered it. James isn't claiming credit for discovering the science he presents.
Since when do science teachers credit the creators of their demonstrations and lessons?
@@samgod can I make a video on one of Einstein's experiments and not even hint that it wasn't I who came up with it?
@@samgod if you came with with an awesome, brand new science experiment, can I make a video doing the exact same experiment without credits to you, while making some money in the process?
@@HandledToaster2 since there's no implication that you created the experiment, sure.
That was fun to watch, thanks for all you do and of course for making these videos!
I love how he gets amazed at his own experiments, because it’s different to know and understand something than to actually see it. It’s important to keep that sense of wonder.
Something else that looks a lot like this, microbial life and on a massive scale, plant life.. I wonder why =p It is amazing the things you show to the world and give us the knowledge and ideas of how things work in the world. Keep up the great work!!
Slime molds
0:23 that’s what I called myself after surviving that soccer injury when I was 12
Bruh
I like how simple yet full of knowledge your videos are.
@@BloodAsp By that logic he also copied NASA and my science textbook
Your experiment is getting cooler and cooler man... Keep it up!!!
So I watched this being done on another channel, they discourage people from doing this at home due to the high voltage. Then on your channel, you encouraged it!
Hmmm I'm gonna do it
@@megatronyeets You should totally record it!!
@@-_IT_- Lol, i just need the materials. If I remember and end up with them I will (my previous comment was some stupid joke I don't even remember making it XD)
I would not have believed it if i hadn't seen it with my own eyes. Amazing.
This is a very cool demonstration of the "feelers" finaly "solving" the maze! So lot's of cred to your channel! What's also amazing is that there are living fungus in nature that actually can solve mazes to find food. And even more amazing is that they retract all the feelers that didn't find food to save the energy wasted if they didn't. I've seen a video of this on a TV program "Brille" on a Norwegian channel, but unfortunately I cannot find it on YT. I'm sure the equivalent is out there somewhere!
The behavior, especially with the maze, remind me of a documentary I saw on slime mold. Great presentation. Thank you!
A little smoke would have been cool to show the ionic wind. So cool!
I think your gel overlapped the maze, so the path of least resistance was reduced and I guess that magnetism played a part :) I'm not sure but it is fascinating :)
This is actually really cool. I haven’t watched many action lab videos lately, but this is good
I love the way the copper lining looked when he was moving the red electrode above the ball bearings towards the end. It was really mesmerizing! 🙂
5:18 I know this meme is old but still That’s what she said
Best comment. The balls need a little help. But eventually got there. Jajajajaj you make me choke
@@oskimac thx
@@oskimac thx
@@oskimac that's what she said
@@cheeseboy8241 fuck. that joke gets me everytime
This reminds me of an extra credit project I made in high school. I had made a maze where the solution would be shown when a Tesla coil was turned on. The way it worked was the entire maze was covered with iron filings that had small nails buried underneath like the dots on a Pac-Man board.
Dude, I love your channel. Great stuff man!
Looks so lifelike, and i also like that once they've found an anchor, like the copper tape on the side of the plate, it will stick to that, while chasing his finger, the electrostatic keeps it at place, which makes sense, but it looks so alive.
It reminds me of vines growing up the side of a tree in high speed motion. They are moving and searching their way up the tree like the balls.
What voltage and amperage were you using for you're power supply? I think a professor of mine would love to try this out!
I love this dude! Such a refreshing passion for experimentation
This has really got me thinking, and I would award as many likes as possible in this dimension.
Man your an awesome science youtuber 🔥🔥🔥
Wondering if ionized tracking like this can be used to "reconnect" and repair damaged nerve cells and pathways.👍
The way I see it is if you hook this up with a ton of balls and the stuff it’ll almost as a power diverter letting you choose what’s being charged just by swapping the negative
The damaged pathways could probably be done by hebbian learning
And you might be able to revert cells back into stem cells and replace the nerve with it and give it the right conditions to turn into a nerve cell. Then reconnect it by hebbian learning again.
You should build a basic electrostatic speaker array! It uses the same concept, but with a taut sheet of mylar coated in graphite powder or some similar material. The don't move a LOT of air, but because the "diaphragm" is so light, it generates a full, wide range of frequencies!
Some of the best (possibly THE best) speakers I've ever heard were SoundLab electrostats!
Your videos keep getting more interesting and better and better and better and better
Things like this are so cool! Its amazing how you can move non-living objects through the power of physics and static electricity
But he didn't use static electricity here
@sudip saha I am pretty sure that conductors cannot have static electricity.
@sudip saha That is induced charge, not static charge.
@sudip saha What does Faraday cage has to do with present situation?
@sudip saha nope. It is caused by friction or something that has contact.
I would LOVE to see something similar done with ferrofluid!
This is really cool. I wonder if sealing the maze so the steel balls can't climb above it would improve the effect.
This man always makes unique experiments. That's awesome
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With love from 🇧🇼 Botswana ❤️
Balls: *Goes overtop the maze walls to get to the exit*
Me: Hey wait, that's illegal!
Man, the greatest channel ever. I watched all your videos since for 2 years and more. I will see how long I can go :)
I am also 13 so ya. People my age think this is boring.
This was so cool
This is probably one of the best phenomena I have ever seen
Him: "I'm gonna pour these right on the center"
also Him: **pours a little on the side**
This Dude's kid mind is still kicking!!! And here I try something different, gets my ass whooped.
@@BloodAsp You just rips off other peoples comments, and purposefully does not give them credit.
I have confronted you on this before, and you are is notorious for it.
You just copied the comment from your mum in 2015 called "Destructuring-Who Cares" (search it up!).
This dude is nothing better to do then copying other peoples comments without giving them mountain dew.
@@BloodAsp I will assume that he is only trying to spread the knowledge and get younger folks inspired to doing their own experimentation and research. It would be good if he gave credit, if he is in fact not doing so, but I think that his intentions are good. He is not aiming to steal anyone's Nobel Prize or anything, he just wants other people to enjoy and find passion in science, as he has. It is not entirely a bad thing.
@@BloodAsp every video you will ever see on the internet has a similar video. what if you had never seen that other video? you would have just learned something new. and sometimes there will be a similar video but it might not explain WHY what's happening is happening. this channel always explains what is happening and it's always easy to understand.
@@crashbeamng201 there is a video roughly 6 years ago with the same experiment from stanford complexity group, the concept is the same, but the presentation were not, and have many variables and thorough on explanation in this video than that video from 6 years ago. His (heyou) criticism were invalid tho since this has been released to public and encourage experimental studies among all science enthusiasts to learn and better the research on the matter. The video from 6 years ago are titled self-assembling wires.
@@SyahidanIbnMokhtar So this guy's full of shit, then
Wow! Absolute amazing experiment
I love how your channel covers physics we all see in life but in a way that we understand what’s going on
"Solve the maze"... It just attracts in a straight line to the other side and does not work with areas where it must go away from the other side.
Electricity solves the maze quickly, and finds the shortest path.
The metal balls organize themselves to minimize the electricity wasted by going through castor oil instead of metal
@@official-obama True but they need an absurd amount of help in the video.
Is the behaviour more pronounced with finer particles like iron filings?
You're my current favorite science guy and channel always fun and informative
That's incredible! Thank you 🌄🌿
At first you showed lightning in really slow motion. The cans experiment shows how a classic, dial phone rings.
Not sure if a phone has high voltage in it. Isn't an electromechanical buzzer what you were thinking of? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzzer
@@u1zha I remember opening one up and seeing a hammer between two bells. Seeing the cans made me think of them.
No, it's not the same thing:
There are 2 relè (Electric switch) Mutually toggling off/on, they give current-- to 2 e-magnets that attract the hammer
@@maramauu Thanks 😊
0:50 what are the clicking sounds? The sounds of the balls slamming together? Or the sound of electric sparks/arc between the balls when they are attracted to each other?
It's the high voltage. The electricity is forcing itself between the positive and negative through a hard to conduct material
How would it slam together if it was in castor oil
Educated guess: I think the next step for this would be to create some kind of gate that can open and close so the electricity is directed in one path. I also think there should be a point a to point be kind of maze with the start point as positive (+) and the finish point at negative (-). This wasn’t as successful as it should be because the electricity is flowing through the liquid which makes the metallic balls follow its flow (electricity). I also think the only reason they go over the wall is because there is oil covering the whole board (maze). Electricity finds the quickest path and those metalic balls represents that because it’s a even conductor of electricity. If you also notice, the first few balls when they come out of the first corner of the maze, they curve in the direction the electricity is flowing in/towards.
Awesome. Love your channel 👍🏻
He saw the original self-assembling wire video that was recommend by youtube
He directly tried experiements
It's called Teslaphoresis I think
@@somniato7759
ruclips.net/video/PeHWqr9dz3c/видео.html
Here's the original, no fancy name
Just a RUclips recommendation resulting into a 2.6M view spike
"Little tiny balls of steel"
Something you would say after beating the game of Mario
duke nukem approved?
This is an interesting demonstration of the sort of mechanisms that might have lead to simple life developing
This is awesome thanks!
POV: you're early for once
Yez
Stfu
U made me jus notice 👀
Yup
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So, they *can't* solve a maze. They cheated in two ways.
First, they were jumping over the walls like crazy. They bypassed the first bend completely by just throwing some balls over the wall and connecting over that.
Second, obviously, you helped them. :P
I'd have liked to see a line of castor oil with the balls scattered throughout self assemble into a line from one electrode to the other
A straight maze if you will
The oil letting the current jump over the walls was an issue with the maze. But higher walls would fix that (or a less viscous medium for the current). But, too, the balls seemed impeded by the viscosity of the caster oil; you may need a vibrating table to help add to the overall enthalpy. Yet a very cool demo, easily relatable to nearly any dendritic branching, from roots to rivers to neurons. I'd love to see it move the other way, too, from around the exterior to the center.
Nobody:
The 0.01% germs that survived after i use sanitizer:
Hey Action Lab, what would happen if you took the world most powerful flashlight, attached a thin rod to it and then attached an IR Flock Sheet to the end of the rod to block the light? (I'm hoping it makes a real life lightsaber!) Like this comment so he reads this, please!
Claim your “here before a million views” ticket here
6:18 that "ow" was kinda cute
If the maze walls were higher, so that the oil didn't pass over the tops, which provides a shorter path between the electrical contacts, it might work better. With the oil passing directly over the maze walls, the bearings are attracted directly to the contact, "as the crow flies," so to speak. I'd love to see a repeat of the experiment in a maze with higher walls.
5:38: "it reached the end."
No, it actually did not, even with your help.
Dude. Dude, this is super super fascinating. That's so much fun to see and imagine playing with. I love the actions leading up to the completion of the circuit where the balls become excited and bump each other into formation to conduct current. And once the current escalates you can see spark gaps forming and the forces involved pull the whole chain of balls into more tension -- haaa, cool man
In the final maze experiment, you should agitate the source like draw circles through the pool of balls or something. I wonder how much further the self-assembling chain could get with actions like that.
Its crazy how organic this looks!
Once you master it and have more accurate control of the beads, I think it can produce some really nice artwork. The metal beads give a really nice texture. You should give it a shot, I would love to see what you make.
Hmm.
That looks fun.
Good choice of mediums.
I tried a similar demonstration with cooking oil and the iron extracted from a breakfast cereal(leftover from a kiddie experiment)
That was great to see that. I would love to know how a house fly/midge can keep going for hours flying, where's the energy come from to keep flapping there wings being small as they are? Great experiments though through the videos you have done. Cheers
This was very cool. Thanks.
This one is so cool, I though you where going to use one of those maze solving fungi, but this is much cooler
Great video!! Just curious, in the can and foil setup, would the foil just repeatedly bounce off a single can (i.e. when the other can is far apart and doesn't really affect the foil)?
absolutely fascinating
His best video so far. Loved this
IMO this is one of the most interesting/inspiring test I’ve seen you do. You’ve done many great experiments, but like this one, a few of them inspire relational thoughts!👍🏼
?Do you think this movement is related to space movements, self assembling and the way the filaments seem to be arrange through out space. ?
- ? I see you use castor oil, specific reason? Could mineral oil be used as well ??
This is the best analog of lightning that I've ever seen.
I've seen several videos of this effect & I'd be fascinated to see it done with different
Sizes (50mm ball bearings would be entertaining)
Shapes (rods, cubes, spheroids, etc.)
Materials (graphene, superconductors, etc.)
For the ball bearings,
Also, trying different insulating fluids with varying viscosities, differently shaped containers (a sphere with an electrode at the center would be really interesting) & different voltages. What kind of effect would pulses or waves of energy have on the growth of the particulate branches? Is there any way to make it more efficient..?
How about filling the container with liquid nitrogen & using superconductor spheres?
(Also, putting a cover on your maze would prevent the balls climbing over the sides. You may also want to try a maze made of a nonconducting material, as some plastics retain a surface charge at high voltages.)
A safety switch that shuts off the system once a short circuit is achieved is probably a good idea - that arcing doesn't look good...
Do you think this effect could be used to make a dynamic switch which restructures itself under different conditions?
New method to become another type of stepper motor! With direct current, voltage control speed, step signal feedback, constant torque in various speed, emf defect, and maybe so on...
It’s strange, your video is the second time of this action I’ve seen, but got this idea here...
Hey, Action lab, I have had a pretty interesting thought. Black holes condense matter into a singularity, A singularity being an infinitely small point. In physical dimensions, 3D is what we perceive, 2D is a straight line and 1D is a singular point. A singularity.
So I believe matter is moved from dimensions (3D sphere - 2D line - 1D Singularity)
would it be possible for matter to be moved down dimensions from higher dimensions? for e.g 4D Hypercube -> 3D Cube/sphere -> 2D line -> 1D singularity
And could we possible reverse that - 1D->2D->3D->4D
Could this also mean a universe has always existed but not in our dimension So 4D matter created our 3D universe?
Your parties have got to be crazy! "Wanna see something cool" has a totally different meaning when you say it compared to most other people! You don't know what you're going to see but you know it's going to be cool!! Cops come, not to tell you to stop but to watch!!
You've got such a great channel, your videos are never boring! I'm alway looking forward to seeing your next one! Thank you!!!
The behavior of the ball bears here is, at least visually, strikingly similar to slime molds. Very cool.
I love the renegade balls just ignoring the maze and legging it over the walls. Great video mate
Every now and then you actually do a good video
Yes always a good video
Your videos makes lots of complex experiments looks easy. cudos
this really challenged my understanding of how electricity flows. thank you
The can and bowl of tin foil experiment is a good example of what happens at the end of the live wire demonstration.
The connection is causing it to discharge it's stored electricity giving it a different charge state repelling it and attracting it to the other terminal.
How much voltage do you need to do this? Thanks! Great video man