Whenever a lot of people are having a chat to the point where the room was so noisy and then suddenly everyone just stop talking to complete silence is someting that is mesmerising and scares me. It's like they/we unknowingly agree to stop talking at the same time
@@jinjunliu2401 I think that's why he Wrote "uninteresting" between quotation marks, he didn't mean it that hard, it's more like things that if not really well explained like discovery did, wouldn't be interesting at all because of their complexity But as ronald says, couldn't agree more
couple days ago i thought about how its possible the moon always facing us and how it can not be a coincidence cause there are other moons that do the same... very interesting especially the fact with jupiters moons orbiting 1-2-4... does that mean all jupiter moons will synch up over time or only the inner 3 cause of gravity?
The entropy thing has always messed with my head. Living beings are so wonderfully complicated and an organized wonder. If things move towards disorder is that proof of intelligent design? Just another example of coincidence? Not a smart man by any means so it's probably just a lack of information.
@easley421 The Egyptian concept of the "Ahnk" , and the Greek version, "Cosmos" each refer to the tendency of matter toward higher levels of organization. The "life" force. "Entropy" is the opposite, ............ death, decay....... the tendency of matter to fall into disorder. You cannot have one without the other. The universe must maintain it's natural balance. Imbalance is chaos, confusion. I hope this helps to clear up some of your confusion. 🙂
Yeah I noticed that as well. It's really weird but u know when someone is gonna speak coz u feel u wanna speak at that exact moment. It applies to movement aswell, which us why you get that awkward moment when tryna walk past someone and u both go each same way
I'm from Russia and I watch your videos, but I watch your videos from another channel that does Russian voice acting. But I still go to your channel looking for the right video and put a like. It was you who instilled in me a love for physics and I would like to say a huge thank you! You probably won't even read this comment, but I still want to write it. Thanks!
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I am 75 years old and an engineer. Physics has been my favourite subject. We see physics all around us but most people do not observe and analyze. This video explained synchronisation so beautifully. I salute the makers of this video. Just loved it. 🙏
But physics isn't all around us. Physics is the product of the human mind. What we see around us is 'Phenomena' - Science(physics) being the language that humans create in order to equate our minds to that 'Phenomena'. It is a very useful tool, but if one thinks it's the only and primary way one looses much insight and understanding.
Derek has just dropped 3 videos in a row that are straight up next level. Quite frankly they are cinema quality. He’s hitting out the park lately. Absolutely well done sir 👏🏿👏🏿
I know! He has come a long way since the channel started. I think he should have had a section where he asked a bunch of random Aussies on a day out to explain synchronicity, for old times sake.
Derek, I know we’ve worked together in the past so our relationship has been mostly professional, but honestly, I REALLY love your content and the outlook you give to the topics you touch. You and your team are amazing!
In Hungary, members of the audience purposely sync up the clapping to honor a great performance. We call it the "iron clap". After a while, it disintegrates into just random normal applause, but people will again try to sync up. It's fun and the performers love it.
.. yes - the clap speeds up, as folk hear an early clap but not a late one, till it's too fast to maintain. The Icelandic slow shout is extraordinary different, as it's not cool to be the first to shout, so it slows down, if anything. Other countries cannot reproduce it as they do not obey that single social rule. Love it :)
There are nearly 7,500 comments so I can't imagine you'll see this, but something you might be interested in is that human hearts and breath will synchronize if two people with a close connection sit near each other and look at each other in the eyes for several minutes, or hold hands. The same happens if two people watch certain kinds of movies or listen to certain kinds of music together. It sounds very woo woo but it's true, there have been legit experiments and they will sync up, every time. Little is known about this kind of synchronization but it'd be cool to learn more about it.
10:02 I don’t think I’ll ever see this clip and not get chills, the way all these strangers just happened to all be swayed by one another to then combine into something much louder and greater is just amazing
What happened in the audience was not at all spontaneous. I'm hungarian (Budapest is the capital of Hungary) and we do this on purpose.. It's to let the actors and actresses know that the audience really liked the performance
@@noemiszilagyi6833 fair it might not have been spontaneous, but still they each altered their clapping based on those around them and not clapping to a metronome to all get in synch as we see they all start off with different frequencies
5:14 conclusion: if school bands start playing on wobbly platforms we’ll finally always play in time. Even better, the longer we play the better we play in time!
There would be that one guy or girl who would have a mild case of motion sickness. It wouldn't yet matter during practice, but during the actual performance, with the added factor of stress from nervousness, that person would suddenly throw up.
@@Simply_Pip Unfortunately I never played in any bands. In practice, there are also no wobbly platforms either, with the exception of boats small enough, or a storm big enough to shake a cruise ship. I have never witnessed either personally. So, no, I was just continuing the OP's joke.
In a sense, two coupled pendulums are an unstable time crystal, they resist changes to their structure through time, as opposed to regular crystals resisting changes to their structure in space.
@@Woffenhorst "space" is "time" as time is just the rhythm of "space." This is why it isn't "space and time" but the singular fabric that is called "spacetime." *Giant Robot Lives Matter!!*
I went to a recording for a German TV show yesterday and I really enjoyed the sensation of when we, the audience, were clapping. We were in a circus and arranged around one circle in the middle, so I could look at people face to face, to the other side of the middle. (the show is called "Stars in der Manege" in case any German speaking person reading this wants to see it) When music was playing we started clapping in sync, a room of over a thousand people syncronized without any instruction to do so. It happened at different paces each time, some times the irregular phase lasted longer and others we almost syncronized right away. When we were in sync I loved looking around at a random person and no matter where my gaze went, I was in perfect sync with that person. funny how this video showed up on my feed one day later
That's a different phenomenon though, isn't it? You guys were simply clapping to the beat of the music, right? And if I know my fellow Germans, probably on 1 and 3 ;)
Professor Strogatz really carried the whole video! I like how good he is at making extremely clear, simple, and easy to understand explanations. It's something you don't see very often with professors that study such complicated subjects.
I just realized I’ve experienced synchronization with clapping. My high school did a thing at lunch where one table would start randomly clapping and others would join in until the entire lunch room was clapping. One time it got a lot louder suddenly and I figured it was just my weird hearing but I think it was synchronicity especially because we had strong coupling. My school had a bunch of groups strongly opposing each other (mostly divided by political views) but one thing that could bring all the people together was the clapping, even the most reserved groups would get in on it. Some teachers hated it cause the noise and others liked it because it was nice seeing all the students doing something collaboratively
Derek, I've been with this channel since the egg inertia demonstration 10 years ago. I grew up with this channel. You've directly impacted who I've become and what I strive for in the world. I can't put into words how happy I am that these videos continue, and that you keep finding ways to improve the production quality. Thank you!
9:41 since it's Budapest and I'm also hungarian, i must say that THAT clap is called "vastaps" as in Iron Clap which is a way of reply form the audience how great the perfomance was in a theatre. It has a meaning too: it says "play more!". Hungarian music bands on concerts are also "using" this, they keep the most anticipated music to the end of the concert, then they stop before playing it, they are bowing and leaving the stage. Then the crowd "claps them back" (as we say - "vissza tapsolják") then they enter the stage again and plaing THE music the crowd waited for.
at some point i was helping out at a day camp for a bunch of kids, and on the last day, when they caught the "bad guy" they started laughing at him, and after a short while they were all just synchronized. Hearing 60 or more kids chant "ha ha, ha ha" was one of the creepiest moments of my life lmao
I love how some people actively force themselves to clap in unison while others just *stop* like "whoa, somethings happening... should I be a part of this?"
@@enchantedgamer9428 It's called the iron clap. Actors/performers usually take this as a signal to return for more rounds of bows and sometimes put on an encore that was agreed upon in case the audience is enthusiastic enough.
The part where he explained the hearts patterns and movements shocked me so much because I always see the weird pattern when I close my eyes but I never knew it was from the rhythm of your heart
As a Hungarian I only have one comment: the synchronized clapping is called "Vastaps" ("iron clap") and is a traditional way in Hungary to express deep admiration and appreciation for the performance on stage. As it is tradition and everyone knows it, the synchronization is not completely spontaneous - we expect it, and as soon as we hear a tiny pattern, we intentionally join in.
@@christophersanders3252 Sort of, the crowd starts out clapping randomly. They know it will to get into sync, but there isn't any queue or signal to force the phase transition, it just ... happens. The synchronized clapping was new to me when I first lived in Iceland, and it fascinated me for a long time as to how an entire crowd went from random clapping to synchronized clapping without any queue.
@@aoeuidhtnsnthdiueoa Rubbish! All it takes is a few people to start clapping in time louder the others and soon after everybody joins in because it's expected. This is not spontaneous at all
What's interesting to me is that this "Go with the flow" sync applies not just to living things. And the beauty of how despite how chaotical the world is, it's still so orderly.
i don't want to bring any unwanted controversial topics into discussion, nor do i want to do any sort of weird theoretical 'hand waving' of natural phenomena- but what do you, personally think of Theism in the context of being a theoretical possibility? now when i refer to 'Theism' i don't mean any specific belief system or any specific religion or any of that, i mean do you think it is possible that there's _something_ responsible for everything? i genuinely want to beg that question, not from any desire to 'convert' you into believing something- i ask purely from a place of curiosity. i haven't personally seen any genuine scientific debate regarding Theism, and i think some actually very interesting discussion could come from it if people would set aside personal flag-waving momentarily. i would only want to engage in such a discussion with anyone if they were comfortable in doing so, however.
@@doc______ I don't know, it seems like a big conclusion to imply that there is "something" or "someone" that is responsible for the synchronization, orderliness, etc, of the universe. Why can't the nature of things simply be orderly? Why is spontaneous synchronization something so surprising that it could only be explained by intelligent design? And why does it have to be something "theological"? It implies that there is some sort of shadowy figure, some sort of God, that is working against the chaos of the universe to create order. But then that begets the question, is the nature of the universe to be chaotic then?? How could you prove that? What if it's actually the other way around, what if the universe is inherently orderly and there's actually a hidden "chaos god" that puts everything into disorder? What if they're both real and they're fighting against each other? What if there's hundreds of gods out there all controlling some aspect of the universe?? The problem is, you can't prove any of these. All of this is highly abstract and immaterial. You can't show me direct proof of a god, there is no testable evidence, nothing, literally nothing at all. Maybe you can count eyewitness accounts, but again, there is no direct evidence. Sure, a christian may tell me that he felt the hand of God after praying when he did x thing, but I could follow his exact sequence of actions, and feel nothing at all! Religious evidence is not repeatable, it's something highly dependent on culture. You can't prove that a God exists, so there's really not much point in having discussions about that topic. This is not to say that abstract topics aren't important to discuss! I admit that there's some merit to abstract discussion when it relates to artistic expression or human conscience. I can't empirically prove that a movie made me feel a certain way internally, I can't open up my brain and show you the specific electrical impulses that prove I'm thinking about eating a taco right now, but understanding these things and trying to explain them does help us understand ourselves better. I guess I just personally don't see the point of believing in a God. I get that it can bring peace and meaning to some, I do see the importance of that. But religion really has no importance to science, at least to me personally. I understand that the existence of a God would have HUGE ramifications for, well, everything. It would completely change the way we think about the world, about people, about intelligence, about purpose and philosophy, art and politics, etc. I get that, but there's literally no way to prove a God exists. Art gets a pass because human emotions are fairly universal, most people can agree that a sad movie is indeed "sad", and even if one particular person doesn't find the movie that tear-jerking, they can at least admit that the movie is "intended to be sad". So you can prove artistic intention, to an extent. Philosophy also get a pass somewhat, almost all philosophies follow some sort of similar logical reasoning, or they admit that they aren't the "one true philosophy" and instead accept that their philosophy is simply one specific angle to look at things, but never the whole picture. My problem with theism is that it tries to be the "one true philosophy". It discards everything else, and shuts down any sort of criticism or examination. God is perfect and he can never be questioned, even though there is nothing to prove that. At least, that's the way I've been exposed to religion my whole life. Perhaps the actual philosophy of theism is much different from mainstream religious dogma, I wouldn't know.
I always wondered why audiences would start clapping together. I always figured it was the concerted effort of a group of people and people start copying to make a more deliberate clap, that I would consider to be a more enthusiastic clap for a great show. But maybe it only happens for great shows because people are clapping longer and therefore giving themselves time to synchronize? Interesting. I was always the weird kid paying attention to clapping when I was a kid. In church people often clap in sync with the music, and when I would try to clap out of sync, it was very difficult and I would keep trending towards synchronization, even though I was consciously objecting to it. This explains a lot! But I feel like it could be explored more deeply in relation to how this not only affects human psychology, but the effect of their behavior, such as analyzing economic market behavior.
The clapping in audiences like concerts, there is nothing to do with this theory. Actually is a sign to artist that the people want him/them to back to sing/play another music. Just that.
yeah, if you sing in front of an audience you can start with them clapping to the beat of your singing but end up singing to the beat of their clapping.
I was playing with my son to "Hot Wheels" circuit. We set it as a "speed ring". 2 accelerators are integrated in the middle of each straight line making the tiny cars go around indefinitely. When we tried to put several cars at the same time on the circuit, they first go randomly and after a few seconds they all synchronized ! I did some scientific studies but could not explain it ! This video did it perfectly ! 👍
Strogatz is awesome. His textbook "Nonlinear dynamics and Chaos" is a true joy to read. All you need to start is a little bit of differentiation and matrix algebra.
Prof. Steven Strogatz is such a great speaker. His tone, his calm voice, even at the end he seemed to show humility which I greatly value when it comes to science and knowledge in general. I'll definitely take a listen to his podcast.
As a Hungarian I never tought that some people didn't clap like that, but its apparently a mostly eastern european thing. I always tought of it as a milder form of a standing ovation. And I think its absolutely not as spontaneous as people think, people might do it somewhat subconsciously, but only because its culturally ingrained, everyone did it that way since they were a kid, so they follow along. Like I never suddenly realized "wow we are clapping in sync randomly" more like "ok everyone liked the performance, I guess we are doing the syncing thing". There is always some guy that starts it by clapping slower and louder, then everyone follows, we speed up until its random again, repeat until we are bored.
This is a really interesting (to me) observation. In 50-some-odd years of participating in applauding audiences in the US, I've never experienced full synchronization, just near-miss synchronization. At which time, my instinct was to go out-of-synch. I bet there is a comparative psychology experiment in that.
I just noticed, the moons tidally locked with Jupiter at 11:50 make a little note and flash when they eclipse and you continued to use those notes in time with the rotations and revolutions in the music after the video moves on. That is such lovely subtle editing!
Order from chaos... remember when we were in school, and the teacher would leave the room and everyone would start talking? If she was gone long enough, there would come a point when as if by magic everyone would take a breath at the same time, and the room would be silent for a second. Synchronicity!!
I had a 3d design class where the teacher never showed up. So kids started smoking cigarettes and chasing each other around with the blow torch. Good times.
There's this concept in philosophy of mind, called emergentism. What it essentially says is, that there are phenomena that arises in complex systems, owing not to the individual parts of the system or their properties, but rather the interaction between them and hence, can't be reduced to the individual parts. This can also be applied to consciousness in principle, where the proponents of emergentism argue that while our senses, on their own might not be conscious, the complex interaction between all of them, through brain, results in consciousness emerging as a phenomena, that we can't attribute to any physical process or any individual physical entities.
Ever since I was a child, I've noticed that when people walk together, they end up walking with synchronized steps. I thought it was some kind of telepathy or, at least, a no-verbal communication. I never realized it is actually a phenomenon in physics and chemistry.
It kind of is a type of "telepathy", just not what most would recognise as "telepathy"... I believe that data like this is often transferred thru our electromagnetic fields as well... u could blindfold all these ppl and make them walk across the bridge and as long as they don't bang into each other, they will still end up doing the same thing. We can't help what we are...
@@leighatkins22 it's just easier to walk in sync than out of sync when people are walking in crowds for a variety of reasons. Also people naturally mimic each other and generally enjoy patterned experience. No telepathy is necessary.
When you have the same height and you walk the same speed you already have the same step frequency. And don't forget that you hear the other ones steps even if it is pretty subliminal. Also when you make steps your body moves up and down a bit, that you can see. And while the brain kinda stabilizes the picture of the world, another person moving up and down out of sync is noticeable. So that are already two channels of information if you pay any attention to the other person and it's not too loud.
I watched this earlier, and I was thinking about how it relates to the concept of "sanity" and if sanity really just means synchronicity. When people get isolated they often lose their minds and become out of step with normal thinking and behavior. I wonder if it's really a question of socialization keeping people "sane" or just keeping them like other people.
It's like being given a responbility at work and must learn fast - eventually, you become less hectic and more orderly because you syncronise with the environment, and it leads to a more secure behaviour. I guess insanity is a removal from a sense of order.
I feel this. I've been inside home 2 years only going out a little. My mind started to act weird and I am starting to work on stopping this because its not healthy
somehow unrelated but also kinda related: the prof in the video, Prof. Strogatz, has written a book called "sync" where he also writes about sleep cycles and how one professor was so determined to find out his own undisturbed sleep cycle that he locked himself in a bunker without any contact to the outside, no natural light sources and so on. he wanted to stay there for 7 months or so but in the end he did not last that long because he became suicidal in his last month so they ended the experiment early. So as he experimented to find out his sleep cycle without the influence of any synchronization phenomena, he lost his sanity too so to say
I didn't realize synchronization was so universal even across all scales. You know it intuitively, but to see the math and animations of so many different applications really makes it clear
what if we started ALL the metronomes on earth and put them on the ground. there _technically_ coupled via earth. would they eventually all sync up?!?!?
@@pvic6959 Asking the real questions here! (I heard Nikola Tesla actually created an earthquake device using the same science in his New York laboratory, but I'm not sure it's true)
I love how Huygens's discovery, despite being so magical, and brain wrecking still made him look for a scientific explanation until he finally found the answer. Such an incredible strive for a logical answer led to this wonderful and such important discovery. When we notice, document, and reproduce something that nobody in the world can explain, it means that we are on a brink of a wonderful discovery that can leap the entire humankind forward thousands of years in technology, and knowledge.
@@Seriouslydave Everything we accept as “reality” is only what is observable to us. We are not a clever race and oft become victims of our own cognitive bias and short-sightedness
9:55 I’m from Hungary , we clap on purpose like that, because we would “clap back” the artist(s) to come back to the stage and then clap for them again. “Vissza” means “get back” in Hungarian, and we clap to the rithm of “visz-“ “-sza “ which transfers to two strong clap in a row.
I then soon noticed that it was on purpose, because I was focused on one person, of which he clapped in applause and then put his hands down for 1 second, and bring them back up to clap in sync
One of my favorite things to do in school was in gym class, while we were learning about basketball. There were 30 kids in my elementary school gym class and every one of us had a ball. When doing dribbling exercises, I noticed this phenomenon for the first time, and I was kind of amazed that no one else had paid attention to it. When everyone sort of locked in sync, I purposely broke the sync and went against the flow. Interestingly, even though I broke the synchronicity, eventually so did everyone else; but what truly threw me for a loop was when everyone starting synchronizing with MY pattern instead of coupling to someone else's. Even if you try to purposely break the system, it just adapts, and it's no great wonder that the good professor Strogatz loves the concept so much, it's truly incredible that it permeates every facet of nature and synchronicity is almost integral to the universe.
@@jinjunliu2401 youre right, there is no sarcasm. however im pretty sure he meant that original commenter was making a joke tho and its just him mistaking what sarcasm means.
I have this core childhood memory of an awards ceremony at school, which we did every Friday and applauded for every award. On this day in particular for one of the awards everybody, like 200 kids, just clapped in sync as if to a beat instead of applause. The headteacher was fuming and asked whoever organised it to see her afterward, but of course nobody did, nobody organised it like that
As a kid, I remember hearing this noise in the middle of the night. First time i heard it, it scared the life out of me! It was loud and scary, sounded like a bear’s breath echoing through the house. But after many nights of wondering what it was, i finally discovered it was my mom and sister snoring in sync with one another. Back and forth, after hours it would eventually echo through the whole house and i swear it was something i wish i could record because it sounds impossible when i try to tell people
In my experience, it's pretty common for Applied Mathematicians to have at least basic knowledge of many/most other STEM fields, since that's, y'know, where the math is going to be *_applied._* Most undergrad Differential Equations courses will at least touch on things like drug distribution in the body, moving astronomical bodies, heat exchange, and yes, oscillating suspension bridges are a favorite. The collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge probably came up at least 3 separate times during my undergrad career, lol.
From what I have seen, synchronized clapping doesn't just happen - there is a purpose behind it. With synchronized clapping, the audience is asking for an encore or curtain call by the performers, and it only takes a few people to start it. Interestingly, the beat in synchronized clapping is almost always considerably slower than regular applause - I wonder what the explanation for that might be.
Yeah it's not completely a coincidence. Once you hear people clapping in unison, which means they really liked the show, you either join in to signal you also enjoyed it, or you stop clapping if you didn't like it that much.
I've been in audiences when applause began and observed the applause beginning to synchronize. When I've noticed this, I have immediately increased the speed of my applause. Still within minutes the crowd has synchronized again. It's strange and fun to observe
Anyone who's been in a drumline understands this well. When everyone is playing together, you can just FEEL how good it feels, and if you try to play out of time with a metronome(such as splitting 8th notes), you often speed down or slow up naturally to line up with the metronome if you don't focus on splitting it.
That feeling is, in my belief, the evolutionary origin of one of two aspects of music: rhythm, the other being tonality. The sense of being totally 'one' with a group, would have been hugely important in achieving group cohesion for religious, or martial purposes. The Haka is a great example and groups who could achieve it, out competed those who couldn't.
@@michaeljames5936 I 100% agree with you. I play bass drum, and I can truly just FEEL when things are right and when they aren't. For splits to sound right, we have to be perfectly in sync with each other in terms of tempo, but we also have to be able to have our notes not sync up at all. You can feel when a split is lining up perfectly because of how the rebound of the drum feels like nothing else is being played, but when we play in unison, it's almost like your drum accepts the mallet and there's just a single sound from everyone.
I played tenors for Phantom, Infinity and TCI indoor. Played with Blue Man Group, and UCF drumline too and i will never forget the sound and feel of perfect rhythm in a drumline.
This video was really neat, and got me to thinking about when I ran cross-country in high school. To move up in placement, I'd simply focus on a person ahead of me (but not the next closest/direct). My body would then naturally adjust my pace, to reach that individual, passing those between us, and I'd find I would naturally fall in behind them, my pace and steps syncing to theirs. Then, I'd repeat and focus on a new individual farther ahead, and the process would repeat as long as I had the endurance/stamina.
Yeah, but for me the defeating day in cross country was the day that I chugged past some dudes on a climb, but on the downhill they passed me back. We were running the same pace, but I had shorter legs and thus a shorter stride. Matching their pace left me behind...I had to be stronger than them to run the same speed...it pissed me off.
@@benjaminroot6270 I wish I had the lungs to be able to run that far or run like I did when I was a kid. I forget just how fun it can be to run as an older adult now
Marc, that was an impressive insight for a high schooler. To me it certainly relates to the topic of the video we just watched. As for me, I was twice in my life told that I had "good form" while running XC, in HS and as an old fart. At the time I took it as a compliment, now I realize they were just saying I wasn't very fast.And now I don't care.
@@johnbusher6375 lol. It's true. by the time you hit the age around 30, I stopped caring at all ab what others think of myself. You start to learn that it's really pointless n that family is the only thing that matters
I get a notification every time an inaccurate beating heart animation appears in a RUclips video Edit: swinging bridges this was a fascinating and eclectic vid
Holy crap! Imagine you are performing on stage and the crowd is giving you a massive applause, then suddenly: CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP Edit: It's so interesting how this happens in different places. I've never experienced it in the US.
I’ve always noticed as a kid, walking along side someone for long enough uninterrupted and you’ll notice your legs are naturally in sync. Or while on the swings, I’ve noticed you end up swinging the same as the person next to you.
Two people walking in sync makes it easier to talk and also less likely to shoulder bump into each other. Swinging and talking is the same reason . Swinging the same without conversation could be an unconscious "competition " of sorts? From what I've seen in playgrounds, younger kids will swing however they want and just yell to their friend but at an "older" age they'll swing together to talk.
@@deadmanswife3625 We're both right. If kids stay on the swing long enough they eventually swing together or one grabs the rope on the other swing, collide then keep chatting lol. I remember being young, watching my kids when young and now watching my grandkids. 😊 swings are great fun
@@deadmanswife3625 best part of swinging with someone lol even if you clunked heads or fell off or jammed knees and fingers 😆 it was all fair game in the playground 😉
The firefly effect is awesome. I have seen the same thing under water in a coral spawning event on a full moon night in Bonaire. The Ocean lit up around us and waves of bioluminescent light lit up the whole ocean around us. One of the most incredible things I have ever seen. Now I understand how it worked! Thanks.
Amazing! There was 2D and 3D animation, interviews, physical and chemical experiments, footage both old and new, even the writing went from motions in the cosmos to matters of the heart. So beautiful ❤️ thank you :')
i love your videos, but this one really got me... Only this time, it was you and your son that literally made me cry. Seeing that, honestly, was so healing to my soul... That was my favorite experiment proposal ive heard in a long long time. lol
A tall case weight driven grandfather clock with a less than rigid case, or with an unstable base or floor will stop midweek because of sympathetic motion between the weights and pendulum. Often the case motion is imperceptible through casual observation.
One summer evening, in Pennsylvania, I was witness to a huge cloud of lightening bugs, against a pastel sky, at sunset. Additionally, up on a hill, the chimes of a church played a melodious hymn, which tune floated over the small town. The gentle pace of the hymn was synchronized with the lighting of the bugs, as they kept a beat. It was a magical moment, that I wish I could've captured on video..
9:50 I believe most people experienced this after a great show. It's the "bis, bis, bis" clap. I think it's the most humbling thing to happen to an artist and a beautiful homage to their craft.
Love how the Budapest clapping is note worthy, happens everytime I go to the theatre or symphony. Used to think it was completely normal until my American friend went with me and was dumbfounded.
This is a tradition across Europe I’ve found in my performance career, and not synchronisation. It’s usually a sign that they’ve enjoyed it and want an encore. It’s never happened in GB (in the many years I’ve experienced performing there), despite some continuous clapping for many minutes. Good video though.
@@edwardgoater Absolutely agree with you. "Synchronized clapping" is more of a "tradition" then science, but I do think (and I've had an experience) that if the clapping is "overly continuous" - it's still does synchronize. Yet, in this particular case, I do consider it is more of a human nature than a law.
Synchronised clapping in Budapest (actually in all Hungary) is a sign of appreciation from people to the author and it also means that the audience would like to get back the performer on stage for extra bowing or extra show.
Agreed. We do this in Switzerland and it means "this was great, we want more", for example another song at a concert. It is a conscious effort to synchronize in order to communicate.
@@asdfxcy Of course, it's same with fireflies. He didn't say it was some natural force. Of course they syncronised knowingly. But in order to do so, they have to listen each other.
Don't you just love it when you're just about to go to sleep, then you accidentally discover a new scientific phenomenon
Best comment here xP
Almost exactly what happened, I couldn't fall asleep, and then discovered a new scientific phenomenon. Loved that
This what's happening now!! I'm actually trying to sleep while watching this lol
Yh same
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Whenever a lot of people are having a chat to the point where the room was so noisy and then suddenly everyone just stop talking to complete silence is someting that is mesmerising and scares me. It's like they/we unknowingly agree to stop talking at the same time
This happens so often in school classrooms
Omg this has happened in my classroom so many times in class and each time I think a teacher entered the room or someone did something wrong
My theory.....everyone realizes when they can no longer hear themselves talk......that it’s time to dial it back......or you all decide to lip read😁
If that happens when playing an instrument it’s usually that people have to breathe at the same time and it’s weird
and then someone farts during complete silence and it's so awkward
This channel is what the Discovery Channel was like to me when I was a child. I love how it brings life to "uninteresting" subjects.
I do agree, but I wouldn't think this synchronisation effect is uninteresting at first sight for most people
@@jinjunliu2401 but eventually we nudge thy neighbor and pretty soon RUclips has synchronized lol
@@jinjunliu2401 I think that's why he Wrote "uninteresting" between quotation marks, he didn't mean it that hard, it's more like things that if not really well explained like discovery did, wouldn't be interesting at all because of their complexity
But as ronald says, couldn't agree more
Right!! I hope I make something of my life in the future due to these
I feel the same.
I am a theoretical physicist, have thought about synchronization (resonance) for many years, and still I learned from this presentation. Thank you.
couple days ago i thought about how its possible the moon always facing us and how it can not be a coincidence cause there are other moons that do the same... very interesting especially the fact with jupiters moons orbiting 1-2-4... does that mean all jupiter moons will synch up over time or only the inner 3 cause of gravity?
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@@Judas1911WR1Luna is "tidally locked" to Earth. It has nothing to do with resonance.
The entropy thing has always messed with my head. Living beings are so wonderfully complicated and an organized wonder. If things move towards disorder is that proof of intelligent design?
Just another example of coincidence?
Not a smart man by any means so it's probably just a lack of information.
@easley421 The Egyptian concept of the "Ahnk" , and the Greek version, "Cosmos" each refer to the tendency of matter toward higher levels of organization. The "life" force.
"Entropy" is the opposite, ............ death, decay....... the tendency of matter to fall into disorder.
You cannot have one without the other.
The universe must maintain it's natural balance.
Imbalance is chaos, confusion.
I hope this helps to clear up some of your confusion. 🙂
As a child I did observe that randomly people in group start walking in synchronization but could never reason it. This video was amazing tbh!
Same in school, when people start clapping. Like everyone was in sync, and I don't have any rhythm yet somehow would be clapping in sync.
Then you were wrong. It happened on that bridge only for reasons that generally never apply.
Yeah I noticed that as well. It's really weird but u know when someone is gonna speak coz u feel u wanna speak at that exact moment. It applies to movement aswell, which us why you get that awkward moment when tryna walk past someone and u both go each same way
I'm from Russia and I watch your videos, but I watch your videos from another channel that does Russian voice acting. But I still go to your channel looking for the right video and put a like. It was you who instilled in me a love for physics and I would like to say a huge thank you! You probably won't even read this comment, but I still want to write it. Thanks!
Vert Dider, bro
Смотреть подобные большие, качественные и интересные каналы, тем более если на них есть субтитры - неплохой способ очень значительно поднять уровень английского, к слову
What’s that channel name?
@@RobGcraft Vert Dider
And what an amazing credit it is to you that you are so capable of writing such perfect English as a second language.
7:40 "if your friend is sympathetic enough "
The guy who runs fast : "On your left ! "
Oh come on!
Hey
On your left 😎
A lot of Avengers moments happened because the friends were sympathetic enough.
Oh, I got that reference.
You could have a friend very sympathetic who wouldn't slow down.
I am 75 years old and an engineer. Physics has been my favourite subject. We see physics all around us but most people do not observe and analyze. This video explained synchronisation so beautifully. I salute the makers of this video. Just loved it. 🙏
But physics isn't all around us. Physics is the product of the human mind. What we see around us is 'Phenomena' - Science(physics) being the language that humans create in order to equate our minds to that 'Phenomena'. It is a very useful tool, but if one thinks it's the only and primary way one looses much insight and understanding.
@@babajaiy8246 I want to Salute to you🙏
@@HaharuRecords🩵
Damn bro you 75? Who let yo old ass on the internet
Derek has just dropped 3 videos in a row that are straight up next level. Quite frankly they are cinema quality. He’s hitting out the park lately. Absolutely well done sir 👏🏿👏🏿
and I clap in syncro....
I know! He has come a long way since the channel started. I think he should have had a section where he asked a bunch of random Aussies on a day out to explain synchronicity, for old times sake.
Can we take a moment to appreciate how much effort was put into those animations damn they explain it so well
They used Manim, same engine that 3B1B built!
Facts
pity the animator knows nothing of sinusoidal motion
So why not store that energy for power supply?
Only creators will understand. it's a lot of work even to produce a 10sec video 😏
This is how you make school interesting again. Videos like these SHOULD be the norm in our high schools.
We have to tell them paper burns at 451F so they don't stick the pizza box in the oven...knew a stupid college kid who set the porch on fire that way.
@Anel natural selection ofc
Instead now teachers are pushing their political and social agendas
@@jfnovae didnt realize this was a global issue
Yes instead of social studies!
Derek, I know we’ve worked together in the past so our relationship has been mostly professional, but honestly, I REALLY love your content and the outlook you give to the topics you touch. You and your team are amazing!
In Hungary, members of the audience purposely sync up the clapping to honor a great performance. We call it the "iron clap". After a while, it disintegrates into just random normal applause, but people will again try to sync up. It's fun and the performers love it.
.. yes - the clap speeds up, as folk hear an early clap but not a late one, till it's too fast to maintain. The Icelandic slow shout is extraordinary different, as it's not cool to be the first to shout, so it slows down, if anything. Other countries cannot reproduce it as they do not obey that single social rule. Love it :)
You don't need to start the iron clap to archive and iron clap 🤯🤯
jaja
Sometimes we do the same thing in Russia...
wait thats a hungarian-only thing?? never really thought about it and i assumed its something everyone does!
There are nearly 7,500 comments so I can't imagine you'll see this, but something you might be interested in is that human hearts and breath will synchronize if two people with a close connection sit near each other and look at each other in the eyes for several minutes, or hold hands. The same happens if two people watch certain kinds of movies or listen to certain kinds of music together. It sounds very woo woo but it's true, there have been legit experiments and they will sync up, every time. Little is known about this kind of synchronization but it'd be cool to learn more about it.
Even womens periods will sync, if they share a room for months.
it's like a vibe
Would love to know more about the theory behind this. Anything you can recommend?
@@mateny.6770 Is this true?
@@laqueefasteinberg4981 Yeah. It happened to the girls in my class.
Give your animation guy a raise, he deserves it... a lot. Wonderfully done!
I agree, very talented person!
10:02 I don’t think I’ll ever see this clip and not get chills, the way all these strangers just happened to all be swayed by one another to then combine into something much louder and greater is just amazing
honestly its kinda creepy idky
@@tetrapolis that’s fair, it is a bit unnerving for sure
What happened in the audience was not at all spontaneous. I'm hungarian (Budapest is the capital of Hungary) and we do this on purpose.. It's to let the actors and actresses know that the audience really liked the performance
@@noemiszilagyi6833 fair it might not have been spontaneous, but still they each altered their clapping based on those around them and not clapping to a metronome to all get in synch as we see they all start off with different frequencies
Everyone thinks they are unique until they are in a moment where they are not. They never realize it when it's happening.
The quality of the videos is amazing
Yawwwwn
Because the guy who made the video is amazing 😁😁
@UC2D9jTUXWs1N6ShkcULniCA But this is 4k ;)
The art of him explaining is even better.
He puts a lot of work in his videos.
5:14 conclusion: if school bands start playing on wobbly platforms we’ll finally always play in time. Even better, the longer we play the better we play in time!
There would be that one guy or girl who would have a mild case of motion sickness. It wouldn't yet matter during practice, but during the actual performance, with the added factor of stress from nervousness, that person would suddenly throw up.
@@herrakaarme and someone throwing up suddenly starts a chain reaction...
God it never stops!
@@herrakaarme kinda sounds like you talking from experience, so have you?
@@Simply_Pip Unfortunately I never played in any bands. In practice, there are also no wobbly platforms either, with the exception of boats small enough, or a storm big enough to shake a cruise ship. I have never witnessed either personally. So, no, I was just continuing the OP's joke.
@@Simply_Pip I think every American school has had atleast *one* chain vomit reaction incident
"The crystallization in time is the phenomenon that we call synchronization"
Love that.
In a sense, two coupled pendulums are an unstable time crystal, they resist changes to their structure through time, as opposed to regular crystals resisting changes to their structure in space.
I fell a dissertation in the air
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It is sufficient
@@Woffenhorst "space" is "time" as time is just the rhythm of "space." This is why it isn't "space and time" but the singular fabric that is called "spacetime."
*Giant Robot Lives Matter!!*
I went to a recording for a German TV show yesterday and I really enjoyed the sensation of when we, the audience, were clapping. We were in a circus and arranged around one circle in the middle, so I could look at people face to face, to the other side of the middle. (the show is called "Stars in der Manege" in case any German speaking person reading this wants to see it)
When music was playing we started clapping in sync, a room of over a thousand people syncronized without any instruction to do so. It happened at different paces each time, some times the irregular phase lasted longer and others we almost syncronized right away.
When we were in sync I loved looking around at a random person and no matter where my gaze went, I was in perfect sync with that person.
funny how this video showed up on my feed one day later
That's a different phenomenon though, isn't it? You guys were simply clapping to the beat of the music, right? And if I know my fellow Germans, probably on 1 and 3 ;)
@@klauskinski4060 haha, yeah!
though it also happened without the music!
Now Im going to have to look up a music concert and see if people wave their lighters in sync.
Ich bin ehrlich ich werde es nicht anschauen aber ich wünsche dir trotzdem viel erfolg!
Synchronicity!!!
Nile Red saving the day with that footage
That's THE Nile Red to you lol
As soon as they started talking about oscillating chemical reactions, I was thinking about him lol
He was the first guy that came to my mind
Thank you for reminding me where I saw that video before.
I was afraid they wouldn't use his footage. The clip they started out with was pretty lame compared to Nile's.
Professor Strogatz really carried the whole video! I like how good he is at making extremely clear, simple, and easy to understand explanations. It's something you don't see very often with professors that study such complicated subjects.
He is a gem
He talked about physics, chemistry, and civil engineering with equal ease.
He da man
especially a professor that specifically said that he likes to study complex system
I loved it, except for the runners allegory. The runners synchronising their speed is intelligence, not some automatically running principle.
I just realized I’ve experienced synchronization with clapping. My high school did a thing at lunch where one table would start randomly clapping and others would join in until the entire lunch room was clapping. One time it got a lot louder suddenly and I figured it was just my weird hearing but I think it was synchronicity especially because we had strong coupling. My school had a bunch of groups strongly opposing each other (mostly divided by political views) but one thing that could bring all the people together was the clapping, even the most reserved groups would get in on it. Some teachers hated it cause the noise and others liked it because it was nice seeing all the students doing something collaboratively
That’s a cool story
I wonder how this channel manages such high quality in as much quantity
its amazing haha. Even I struggle to make content consistently
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Conspiracy!
I really appreciate this channel
Very helpful ❤️
@@DyslexicMitochondria I really appreciate ur work man.
Its preety hard to upload quality content at this stage of your channel and Kudos to you man
Derek, I've been with this channel since the egg inertia demonstration 10 years ago. I grew up with this channel. You've directly impacted who I've become and what I strive for in the world. I can't put into words how happy I am that these videos continue, and that you keep finding ways to improve the production quality. Thank you!
This just gives me more and more of an idea of what would happen if everyone jumped at the same time.
Vsauce has a video about that
We would move the earth 0.0000003 centimeters. And after the world would move back right after
@@nico_otte148 But if we keep jumping, it would make a pendulum with the earth, and after time, it would change everything
It would move back like right after, like it didnt happen
There would not be enough time to jump and jump again. Before it will move to its original place again.
9:41 since it's Budapest and I'm also hungarian, i must say that THAT clap is called "vastaps" as in Iron Clap which is a way of reply form the audience how great the perfomance was in a theatre. It has a meaning too: it says "play more!". Hungarian music bands on concerts are also "using" this, they keep the most anticipated music to the end of the concert, then they stop before playing it, they are bowing and leaving the stage. Then the crowd "claps them back" (as we say - "vissza tapsolják") then they enter the stage again and plaing THE music the crowd waited for.
at some point i was helping out at a day camp for a bunch of kids, and on the last day, when they caught the "bad guy" they started laughing at him, and after a short while they were all just synchronized. Hearing 60 or more kids chant "ha ha, ha ha" was one of the creepiest moments of my life lmao
*ha ha ha ha ha ha*
Literally sound like a nightmare
Lol
@@pisulolol ha haha ha ha ha ha
Why u look like Rick 🤩🤩🤣🤣
We may now know the secret of synchronization, but we will never know the secret to how Veritasium edits his videos so impeccably smoothly.
U got heart!
i’m assuming a full staff/editing team
Dont say that.
Or why we were in Viet Nam. Oh, wait. I know.
U got heart
I love how some people actively force themselves to clap in unison while others just *stop* like "whoa, somethings happening... should I be a part of this?"
Apparently that's a thing they try to do there.
You saw that guy too?! What if he just had some weird problem with clapping outta sync? Lol that ocd.
@@enchantedgamer9428 It's called the iron clap. Actors/performers usually take this as a signal to return for more rounds of bows and sometimes put on an encore that was agreed upon in case the audience is enthusiastic enough.
We do that in football
Actively? I always felt like it was a muscle memory response....
The part where he explained the hearts patterns and movements shocked me so much because I always see the weird pattern when I close my eyes but I never knew it was from the rhythm of your heart
Forget about synchronised frequencies, we all should appreciate this mans frequency ! 1 video/week 😳👌
As a Hungarian I only have one comment: the synchronized clapping is called "Vastaps" ("iron clap") and is a traditional way in Hungary to express deep admiration and appreciation for the performance on stage. As it is tradition and everyone knows it, the synchronization is not completely spontaneous - we expect it, and as soon as we hear a tiny pattern, we intentionally join in.
And I think that is his point exactly... as soon as the pattern gets recognized, everyone follows!
Yeah, it's weird to me that they used that clip. The crowd clearly did that intentionally.
That's "calling for an encore" where I come from.
@@christophersanders3252 Sort of, the crowd starts out clapping randomly. They know it will to get into sync, but there isn't any queue or signal to force the phase transition, it just ... happens.
The synchronized clapping was new to me when I first lived in Iceland, and it fascinated me for a long time as to how an entire crowd went from random clapping to synchronized clapping without any queue.
@@aoeuidhtnsnthdiueoa Rubbish! All it takes is a few people to start clapping in time louder the others and soon after everybody joins in because it's expected. This is not spontaneous at all
Everyone: Quality > Quantity
Veritasium: Quality = Quantity = Veritasium
You could say the quality has _synchronized_ with the quantity.
Vsauce
What's interesting to me is that this "Go with the flow" sync applies not just to living things.
And the beauty of how despite how chaotical the world is, it's still so orderly.
Ordo, ab Chao
Order out of chaos
i don't want to bring any unwanted controversial topics into discussion, nor do i want to do any sort of weird theoretical 'hand waving' of natural phenomena- but what do you, personally think of Theism in the context of being a theoretical possibility?
now when i refer to 'Theism' i don't mean any specific belief system or any specific religion or any of that, i mean do you think it is possible that there's _something_ responsible for everything?
i genuinely want to beg that question, not from any desire to 'convert' you into believing something- i ask purely from a place of curiosity. i haven't personally seen any genuine scientific debate regarding Theism, and i think some actually very interesting discussion could come from it if people would set aside personal flag-waving momentarily.
i would only want to engage in such a discussion with anyone if they were comfortable in doing so, however.
@@doc______ I don't know, it seems like a big conclusion to imply that there is "something" or "someone" that is responsible for the synchronization, orderliness, etc, of the universe.
Why can't the nature of things simply be orderly? Why is spontaneous synchronization something so surprising that it could only be explained by intelligent design? And why does it have to be something "theological"? It implies that there is some sort of shadowy figure, some sort of God, that is working against the chaos of the universe to create order.
But then that begets the question, is the nature of the universe to be chaotic then?? How could you prove that? What if it's actually the other way around, what if the universe is inherently orderly and there's actually a hidden "chaos god" that puts everything into disorder? What if they're both real and they're fighting against each other? What if there's hundreds of gods out there all controlling some aspect of the universe??
The problem is, you can't prove any of these. All of this is highly abstract and immaterial. You can't show me direct proof of a god, there is no testable evidence, nothing, literally nothing at all. Maybe you can count eyewitness accounts, but again, there is no direct evidence. Sure, a christian may tell me that he felt the hand of God after praying when he did x thing, but I could follow his exact sequence of actions, and feel nothing at all! Religious evidence is not repeatable, it's something highly dependent on culture.
You can't prove that a God exists, so there's really not much point in having discussions about that topic. This is not to say that abstract topics aren't important to discuss! I admit that there's some merit to abstract discussion when it relates to artistic expression or human conscience. I can't empirically prove that a movie made me feel a certain way internally, I can't open up my brain and show you the specific electrical impulses that prove I'm thinking about eating a taco right now, but understanding these things and trying to explain them does help us understand ourselves better.
I guess I just personally don't see the point of believing in a God. I get that it can bring peace and meaning to some, I do see the importance of that. But religion really has no importance to science, at least to me personally. I understand that the existence of a God would have HUGE ramifications for, well, everything. It would completely change the way we think about the world, about people, about intelligence, about purpose and philosophy, art and politics, etc.
I get that, but there's literally no way to prove a God exists. Art gets a pass because human emotions are fairly universal, most people can agree that a sad movie is indeed "sad", and even if one particular person doesn't find the movie that tear-jerking, they can at least admit that the movie is "intended to be sad". So you can prove artistic intention, to an extent. Philosophy also get a pass somewhat, almost all philosophies follow some sort of similar logical reasoning, or they admit that they aren't the "one true philosophy" and instead accept that their philosophy is simply one specific angle to look at things, but never the whole picture.
My problem with theism is that it tries to be the "one true philosophy". It discards everything else, and shuts down any sort of criticism or examination. God is perfect and he can never be questioned, even though there is nothing to prove that. At least, that's the way I've been exposed to religion my whole life. Perhaps the actual philosophy of theism is much different from mainstream religious dogma, I wouldn't know.
Some kid gets in trouble and everyone goes "ooooooooooh" at the same frequency
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I always wondered why audiences would start clapping together. I always figured it was the concerted effort of a group of people and people start copying to make a more deliberate clap, that I would consider to be a more enthusiastic clap for a great show. But maybe it only happens for great shows because people are clapping longer and therefore giving themselves time to synchronize? Interesting. I was always the weird kid paying attention to clapping when I was a kid. In church people often clap in sync with the music, and when I would try to clap out of sync, it was very difficult and I would keep trending towards synchronization, even though I was consciously objecting to it. This explains a lot! But I feel like it could be explored more deeply in relation to how this not only affects human psychology, but the effect of their behavior, such as analyzing economic market behavior.
You got a good head on your shoulders!
keep being inquisitive my dude
wonderful insight
The clapping in audiences like concerts, there is nothing to do with this theory. Actually is a sign to artist that the people want him/them to back to sing/play another music. Just that.
yeah, if you sing in front of an audience you can start with them clapping to the beat of your singing but end up singing to the beat of their clapping.
To whoever animated this video, your work is loved and appreciated. Cheers mate!
Animation by Fabio Albertelli and Jakub Misiek
3D animation by Jonny Hyman
-from the description lmao
@@downhill2k013 I can't read unfortunately lol. thanks, btw
@Downhill2k01 tfw people don't read the description 😂
I was playing with my son to "Hot Wheels" circuit. We set it as a "speed ring". 2 accelerators are integrated in the middle of each straight line making the tiny cars go around indefinitely. When we tried to put several cars at the same time on the circuit, they first go randomly and after a few seconds they all synchronized ! I did some scientific studies but could not explain it ! This video did it perfectly ! 👍
Once again, Veritasium pumping out 20min videos that feel like 5min long
Sticky indeed
for the ammount of information i felt like it was a 60 min video
That's because you're in sync with time. ;)
@Solve Everything But can we all circle jerk in synchronization?
Sooo true
Hats of to this guy for his curiosity in knowledge and making it available to curious ppl all over , let's take moment to appreciate him...
Hey, thanks
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Steven Strogatz looks so excited when explaining what happened to the bridge. That is the feeling all great teachers try to instill in their students!
I felt his excitement for his field, too! It was very engaging.
Yeah feel it too. Hope have teacher like that
Actual critical thinking
Strogatz is awesome. His textbook "Nonlinear dynamics and Chaos" is a true joy to read. All you need to start is a little bit of differentiation and matrix algebra.
that transition at 11:54 from a visual polyrythm to an actual musical one is GOLD
Can we all take a moment to appreciate such knowledgeable content for free on this platform...
Power of the internet
OK BRO
@@Burbie cringy?? Wtf is wrong with u?
@@Burbie u are 😂😂😂😂
@@Burbie How this is cringy? Genius!!!
The Animator!!! We Salute Him. He is the Hidden Hero Of Veritasium Channel.
Those metronomes… At one point were kicking the sickest beat
Idk, I wasn’t really feeling it.
Haha yesss
@Dyslexic Mitochondria Omg hi!! I watch ur videos. Absolutely love ur channeI. Its like a hidden gemmm
@@DyslexicMitochondria Triplets For the win
Very aphex like
All I wanna know is how Dr. Derek creates his videos. His animations are always so appealing and on point
Prof. Steven Strogatz is such a great speaker. His tone, his calm voice, even at the end he seemed to show humility which I greatly value when it comes to science and knowledge in general. I'll definitely take a listen to his podcast.
As a Hungarian I never tought that some people didn't clap like that, but its apparently a mostly eastern european thing. I always tought of it as a milder form of a standing ovation. And I think its absolutely not as spontaneous as people think, people might do it somewhat subconsciously, but only because its culturally ingrained, everyone did it that way since they were a kid, so they follow along. Like I never suddenly realized "wow we are clapping in sync randomly" more like "ok everyone liked the performance, I guess we are doing the syncing thing". There is always some guy that starts it by clapping slower and louder, then everyone follows, we speed up until its random again, repeat until we are bored.
I have never seen that, it seems really weird to me
This is a really interesting (to me) observation. In 50-some-odd years of participating in applauding audiences in the US, I've never experienced full synchronization, just near-miss synchronization. At which time, my instinct was to go out-of-synch. I bet there is a comparative psychology experiment in that.
@@rmdodsonbills would love to see a psychological experiment on this subject!
That's interesting. At least here in Brazil, synchronized clapping has a specific meaning - it signifies the audience's desire for an encore.
Also it's called "vastaps" (ironclap) if i'm not mistaken. Sounds funny in english
can we take a moment to appreciate the amazing animation in this video?
Its so amazing. Wish i could animate my videos like that
@@DyslexicMitochondria Your videos are amazing bro!
@@anameisntenough it's not nice to lie to people
Which editing software to use?
This and Type of Content VSauce does is why I still Surf on RUclips everyday.
I wish I'd knew more of RUclipsrs or Videos like this.
I just noticed, the moons tidally locked with Jupiter at 11:50 make a little note and flash when they eclipse and you continued to use those notes in time with the rotations and revolutions in the music after the video moves on. That is such lovely subtle editing!
The literal music of the universe. And it's a banger too!
He says it was seen as a giant embarrassment, but it was truly fascinating and provoked new science studies. It spawned new ideas.
I mean, this was all pretty much known decades ago.
Apple falling on Newton would have been giant cause of laughter if there were people around him. But now he is god of gravitation
It's new to you, but it should have been common sense to the engineers. Epic fail.
Crack pipe…..put it down please 🤦🏼♂️
As said by one pilot named Bill, you don't know what you don't know until you know it. Or something like that.
Order from chaos... remember when we were in school, and the teacher would leave the room and everyone would start talking? If she was gone long enough, there would come a point when as if by magic everyone would take a breath at the same time, and the room would be silent for a second.
Synchronicity!!
That comment was awesome
We'd say and angel just passed
oh my god you're right
😂
I had a 3d design class where the teacher never showed up. So kids started smoking cigarettes and chasing each other around with the blow torch. Good times.
Imma be honest, i hope kiwico is still around when I have children, is literally the best sponsor on RUclips, i wish my father did that with me
There's this concept in philosophy of mind, called emergentism. What it essentially says is, that there are phenomena that arises in complex systems, owing not to the individual parts of the system or their properties, but rather the interaction between them and hence, can't be reduced to the individual parts. This can also be applied to consciousness in principle, where the proponents of emergentism argue that while our senses, on their own might not be conscious, the complex interaction between all of them, through brain, results in consciousness emerging as a phenomena, that we can't attribute to any physical process or any individual physical entities.
It makes a heck of a lot more sense than the “god dunnit” idiocy I see passing for conversation in this comments section.
Ever since I was a child, I've noticed that when people walk together, they end up walking with synchronized steps. I thought it was some kind of telepathy or, at least, a no-verbal communication. I never realized it is actually a phenomenon in physics and chemistry.
It kind of is a type of "telepathy", just not what most would recognise as "telepathy"... I believe that data like this is often transferred thru our electromagnetic fields as well... u could blindfold all these ppl and make them walk across the bridge and as long as they don't bang into each other, they will still end up doing the same thing.
We can't help what we are...
@@leighatkins22 it's just easier to walk in sync than out of sync when people are walking in crowds for a variety of reasons. Also people naturally mimic each other and generally enjoy patterned experience. No telepathy is necessary.
yes, I see you are smart here, let's be late for the lesson together))
When you have the same height and you walk the same speed you already have the same step frequency. And don't forget that you hear the other ones steps even if it is pretty subliminal. Also when you make steps your body moves up and down a bit, that you can see. And while the brain kinda stabilizes the picture of the world, another person moving up and down out of sync is noticeable. So that are already two channels of information if you pay any attention to the other person and it's not too loud.
Tbh I never cared about that.
I watched this earlier, and I was thinking about how it relates to the concept of "sanity" and if sanity really just means synchronicity. When people get isolated they often lose their minds and become out of step with normal thinking and behavior. I wonder if it's really a question of socialization keeping people "sane" or just keeping them like other people.
It's like being given a responbility at work and must learn fast - eventually, you become less hectic and more orderly because you syncronise with the environment, and it leads to a more secure behaviour.
I guess insanity is a removal from a sense of order.
I feel this. I've been inside home 2 years only going out a little. My mind started to act weird and I am starting to work on stopping this because its not healthy
@@gabrielv.4358 Writing is helpful in this endeavor. Even if it's not organized or focused on anything in particular
@@gabrielv.4358 kinda same with the lockdowns
somehow unrelated but also kinda related: the prof in the video, Prof. Strogatz, has written a book called "sync" where he also writes about sleep cycles and how one professor was so determined to find out his own undisturbed sleep cycle that he locked himself in a bunker without any contact to the outside, no natural light sources and so on. he wanted to stay there for 7 months or so but in the end he did not last that long because he became suicidal in his last month so they ended the experiment early. So as he experimented to find out his sleep cycle without the influence of any synchronization phenomena, he lost his sanity too so to say
Seeing NileRed's chemistry on this video warmed my heart.
Man, imagine Nile and Veritasium make a video together
I clapped when I saw it
@@brunocarranzaaragon921 at first I was like"hey, that looks like NileRed's video, I wonder-" and sure enough!
I'm glad we got to see NileRed's demonstration of the BZ clock here!
I didn't realize synchronization was so universal even across all scales. You know it intuitively, but to see the math and animations of so many different applications really makes it clear
what if we started ALL the metronomes on earth and put them on the ground. there _technically_ coupled via earth. would they eventually all sync up?!?!?
@@pvic6959 Asking the real questions here! (I heard Nikola Tesla actually created an earthquake device using the same science in his New York laboratory, but I'm not sure it's true)
You mean synchronization. Synchronicity is a metaphysical concept unrelated to the physical phenomenon.
@@pjz7088 yeah I heard that he was testing some kind of stirring engine but then it somehow causes an earthquake
@@Silikone Right you are, fixt
This is basically the scientific and thermodynamic version of “Coincidence i think not”
Lol u get me homie
😂
What is Coincidence but a simultanious
coe inciding of events that meet together.
@@Zie-Zwei You know sometimes 'm' looks like 'rn' at first glance and it really threw me off for a second there.
Theres no such thing as coincidence everything align perfectly as planned
Synchronization even works with Walmart shoppers, when everyone ends up at the check-outs at the same time.
Chaos happens at Wally World. It would be wonderful if shoppers were in sync when pushing their frickin' carts around.
Lol nice one
So what if u use the power of synchronized metronomes to measure the spead of light ?
Yesssssssss i ageee.
I would be so mad if everyone on that bridge with me started shaking it in synchronization then got us all killed.
Whereas, the more I read the comments of others, & their experience of synchronicity the more I appreciate its meaning.
I love how Huygens's discovery, despite being so magical, and brain wrecking still made him look for a scientific explanation until he finally found the answer. Such an incredible strive for a logical answer led to this wonderful and such important discovery. When we notice, document, and reproduce something that nobody in the world can explain, it means that we are on a brink of a wonderful discovery that can leap the entire humankind forward thousands of years in technology, and knowledge.
This!
‘We are looking directly at you Dark Matter… 👀” - Humans
Eveything we learn and invent is observable, we are not a clever race, we are predators of knowledge.
@@Seriouslydave Everything we accept as “reality” is only what is observable to us. We are not a clever race and oft become victims of our own cognitive bias and short-sightedness
Huygen reading this: Thank you so much!
9:55 I’m from Hungary , we clap on purpose like that, because we would “clap back” the artist(s) to come back to the stage and then clap for them again. “Vissza” means “get back” in Hungarian, and we clap to the rithm of “visz-“ “-sza “ which transfers to two strong clap in a row.
Indeed
Actually I always try to break the rhytm
I then soon noticed that it was on purpose, because I was focused on one person, of which he clapped in applause and then put his hands down for 1 second, and bring them back up to clap in sync
@@sudoer2317 Same :D
I think this is normal in Europe. At least Germany is the same, but this only happens if the concert was good. Else you just let it die in chaos.
Varitasium has gone mad. Two videos in quick succession. I think he set the schedule wrong... by a month or more.
It synchronized with another channel, speeding his uploads up
no video for a few months now probably lol
Probably experimenting more with the RUclips algorithm. He's done it multiple times now.
I'm off to watch the directors cut of The Bridge on the River Kwai. Maybe I will notice something new this time.
Don't worry the frequency of the other video uploads will gradually resynchronize his schedule over time.
0:18 REINCARNATED I WAS STARGAZING
LIFE GOES ON I NEED ALL MY BABIES
One of my favorite things to do in school was in gym class, while we were learning about basketball. There were 30 kids in my elementary school gym class and every one of us had a ball. When doing dribbling exercises, I noticed this phenomenon for the first time, and I was kind of amazed that no one else had paid attention to it. When everyone sort of locked in sync, I purposely broke the sync and went against the flow. Interestingly, even though I broke the synchronicity, eventually so did everyone else; but what truly threw me for a loop was when everyone starting synchronizing with MY pattern instead of coupling to someone else's.
Even if you try to purposely break the system, it just adapts, and it's no great wonder that the good professor Strogatz loves the concept so much, it's truly incredible that it permeates every facet of nature and synchronicity is almost integral to the universe.
I wonder how synchronicity affects television viewership and how it can affect the development of the mind
you are amazing and good observer.
"Crystallization in time" that is one of the coolest phrases I've ever heard.
Tell me about it.
Legit!
Time crystals sounds like something from Sci-fi more.
Might I then recommend the very strange sci-fi book called The Crystal World
Thought the same thing. I replayed it. Saw your comment after the video. So funny.
Your heartbeat is perfectly synchronized with another person.....
Especially when you're Dead 😂
Since there's only 1 phase it wouldn't be synchronized. Your dead, lifeless hearts would be a constant of nothingness
@@skrimper he was using sarcasm, as in everyone is now a hard hearted person
@@theawantikamishra huh I don't see any sarcasm
@@jinjunliu2401 youre right, there is no sarcasm. however im pretty sure he meant that original commenter was making a joke tho and its just him mistaking what sarcasm means.
@@Kassieq well we both can't argue unless the writer shed light on it
I have this core childhood memory of an awards ceremony at school, which we did every Friday and applauded for every award. On this day in particular for one of the awards everybody, like 200 kids, just clapped in sync as if to a beat instead of applause. The headteacher was fuming and asked whoever organised it to see her afterward, but of course nobody did, nobody organised it like that
How do you even make videos this fast, this is actually insane. Great job man.
Planning and project management... And of course - talent.
I'd love to see his video making process
@@AdamsAppleseed video idea found
I know right
We'll see a video about that in a day or two
The editting skill is just outstanding
thanks
Hi
Ikr
wtf
@@pixeldestroyer6434 you edit this
The beat made from the moons of Jupiter at 11:42 was such a creative idea. And so smooth how it just continued into the next scene!
I didn't even notice that on the first run through, thanks for pointing it out :D
As a kid, I remember hearing this noise in the middle of the night. First time i heard it, it scared the life out of me! It was loud and scary, sounded like a bear’s breath echoing through the house. But after many nights of wondering what it was, i finally discovered it was my mom and sister snoring in sync with one another. Back and forth, after hours it would eventually echo through the whole house and i swear it was something i wish i could record because it sounds impossible when i try to tell people
Womens menstral cycles synchronize, why not human snoring? Great observation RE snoring.
My name is Jeff !!
tell me your name
i will wait for you to appear in the news :D
my name is Nut
Hey tell us your name
Name?
@@robertneumann532 my name is Bo N. Herr
That guy he interviewed was like a mathematician, chemist, physicist, civil engineer/ architect, astronomer, medical doctor combined!
I thought: "wait a moment..... He knows about everything!" hahahha
That's called an Asian.
In my experience, it's pretty common for Applied Mathematicians to have at least basic knowledge of many/most other STEM fields, since that's, y'know, where the math is going to be *_applied._* Most undergrad Differential Equations courses will at least touch on things like drug distribution in the body, moving astronomical bodies, heat exchange, and yes, oscillating suspension bridges are a favorite. The collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge probably came up at least 3 separate times during my undergrad career, lol.
And he’s a great author!
Johnny sins finally getting the recognition he deserves
I don’t think I’d be able to contain my laughter if I was in an audience where our clapping synchronized
Wait until the laughter starts synchronizing too
@@skytec1811 omg I love this
From what I have seen, synchronized clapping doesn't just happen - there is a purpose behind it. With synchronized clapping, the audience is asking for an encore or curtain call by the performers, and it only takes a few people to start it. Interestingly, the beat in synchronized clapping is almost always considerably slower than regular applause - I wonder what the explanation for that might be.
Really? Weird because it kind of creeped me out for some reason...
Yeah it's not completely a coincidence. Once you hear people clapping in unison, which means they really liked the show, you either join in to signal you also enjoyed it, or you stop clapping if you didn't like it that much.
I've been in audiences when applause began and observed the applause beginning to synchronize. When I've noticed this, I have immediately increased the speed of my applause. Still within minutes the crowd has synchronized again. It's strange and fun to observe
I don’t think enough people out there fully realise how incredible these videos are
Says that on a video with over 8 million views 😂
And now one million plus in 3 days
I learned so much in this one! Thank you for educating us while keeping it very entertaining
Me too!
yeee
Yep.
You too!
Exactly
When I was younger, this channel reminded me of the Discovery Channel. I adore how it makes "uninteresting" topics come to life.
stolen comment
Anyone who's been in a drumline understands this well. When everyone is playing together, you can just FEEL how good it feels, and if you try to play out of time with a metronome(such as splitting 8th notes), you often speed down or slow up naturally to line up with the metronome if you don't focus on splitting it.
And hence, the magic feeling of playing in a band.
That feeling is, in my belief, the evolutionary origin of one of two aspects of music: rhythm, the other being tonality. The sense of being totally 'one' with a group, would have been hugely important in achieving group cohesion for religious, or martial purposes. The Haka is a great example and groups who could achieve it, out competed those who couldn't.
@@TheScreamingFrog916 indeed it is my friend....indeed it is
@@michaeljames5936 I 100% agree with you. I play bass drum, and I can truly just FEEL when things are right and when they aren't. For splits to sound right, we have to be perfectly in sync with each other in terms of tempo, but we also have to be able to have our notes not sync up at all. You can feel when a split is lining up perfectly because of how the rebound of the drum feels like nothing else is being played, but when we play in unison, it's almost like your drum accepts the mallet and there's just a single sound from everyone.
I played tenors for Phantom, Infinity and TCI indoor. Played with Blue Man Group, and UCF drumline too and i will never forget the sound and feel of perfect rhythm in a drumline.
Me at 10 pm:"Just one more video"
Me at 3 am:" *S Y N C H R O N I Z A T I O N* "
yeah
One more beer...then abba happens
Abha?
we are synchronize on this
so me... one of the effects of the RUclips flow
This video was really neat, and got me to thinking about when I ran cross-country in high school. To move up in placement, I'd simply focus on a person ahead of me (but not the next closest/direct). My body would then naturally adjust my pace, to reach that individual, passing those between us, and I'd find I would naturally fall in behind them, my pace and steps syncing to theirs. Then, I'd repeat and focus on a new individual farther ahead, and the process would repeat as long as I had the endurance/stamina.
Yeah, but for me the defeating day in cross country was the day that I chugged past some dudes on a climb, but on the downhill they passed me back. We were running the same pace, but I had shorter legs and thus a shorter stride. Matching their pace left me behind...I had to be stronger than them to run the same speed...it pissed me off.
It's the law of attraction
@@benjaminroot6270 I wish I had the lungs to be able to run that far or run like I did when I was a kid. I forget just how fun it can be to run as an older adult now
Marc, that was an impressive insight for a high schooler. To me it certainly relates to the topic of the video we just watched. As for me, I was twice in my life told that I had "good form" while running XC, in HS and as an old fart. At the time I took it as a compliment, now I realize they were just saying I wasn't very fast.And now I don't care.
@@johnbusher6375 lol. It's true. by the time you hit the age around 30, I stopped caring at all ab what others think of myself. You start to learn that it's really pointless n that family is the only thing that matters
I saw thousands of fireflies synchronizing with my own eyes, the most beautiful thing I've ever seen (here in Brazil)
I get a notification every time an inaccurate beating heart animation appears in a RUclips video
Edit: swinging bridges this was a fascinating and eclectic vid
Bruh
Ah! I love your channel very much
lol
Bruh
you must get a lot of notifications then
Holy crap! Imagine you are performing on stage and the crowd is giving you a massive applause, then suddenly:
CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP
Edit: It's so interesting how this happens in different places. I've never experienced it in the US.
I would faint
And then the Opera house collapses. 👀
CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP
So, it's really just a Hungarian thing?
It happens ALL the time at the theatre. And I hate it, it creeps me out.
The universe is like a teenager that only cleans up when its mom comes into the room
🌌♾️
It really shook me
I'm 14 billion years old and this is deep.
I do not want to know what the universe's mom would look like.
So the teenager is quantum uncertainty, the room is the state of the system and mom is an observer?
I always learn something new when I re-watch your videos. Thank you.
I’ve always noticed as a kid, walking along side someone for long enough uninterrupted and you’ll notice your legs are naturally in sync. Or while on the swings, I’ve noticed you end up swinging the same as the person next to you.
Two people walking in sync makes it easier to talk and also less likely to shoulder bump into each other. Swinging and talking is the same reason . Swinging the same without conversation could be an unconscious "competition " of sorts? From what I've seen in playgrounds, younger kids will swing however they want and just yell to their friend but at an "older" age they'll swing together to talk.
@@jayceewedmak9524 when we were little kids we always ended up swinging together
@@deadmanswife3625 We're both right. If kids stay on the swing long enough they eventually swing together or one grabs the rope on the other swing, collide then keep chatting lol. I remember being young, watching my kids when young and now watching my grandkids. 😊 swings are great fun
@@jayceewedmak9524 oh my goodness you just jogged my memory. Remember when the other person would grab the Rope on your swing?
@@deadmanswife3625 best part of swinging with someone lol even if you clunked heads or fell off or jammed knees and fingers 😆 it was all fair game in the playground 😉
The firefly effect is awesome. I have seen the same thing under water in a coral spawning event on a full moon night in Bonaire. The Ocean lit up around us and waves of bioluminescent light lit up the whole ocean around us. One of the most incredible things I have ever seen. Now I understand how it worked! Thanks.
Amazing
Well, completely different reason, with respect to the coral, but still cool.
This is depicted (however it is I presume aminated?) in the movie PI - glad to know it is real and is due to "the secret of synchronization"
Same thing when you go to a bar and it's just a bunch of guys and no women in there. We all know why.
@@KB-ke3fi LOL
Amazing! There was 2D and 3D animation, interviews, physical and chemical experiments, footage both old and new, even the writing went from motions in the cosmos to matters of the heart. So beautiful ❤️ thank you :')
i love your videos, but this one really got me... Only this time, it was you and your son that literally made me cry. Seeing that, honestly, was so healing to my soul... That was my favorite experiment proposal ive heard in a long long time. lol
The reason we like the opening of "Still D.R.E." so much, we as species like symmetry and synchrony
Cling, cling, cling, cling, cling, cling, cling, cling, cling, cling, cling, cling.
Especially when it starts out with playing Moonlight Sonata and then synchronizes.
Being a clock collector (and tinkerer) I found this very interesting and had no idea that this happens in nature...Well done!
A tall case weight driven grandfather clock with a less than rigid case, or with an unstable base or floor will stop midweek because of sympathetic motion between the weights and pendulum. Often the case motion is imperceptible through casual observation.
@@edwrench4796 Cool-I have three tall case clocks and one more on the way in Feb....Thanks for the info-didn't know that!
clock collecting must be very time consuming
One summer evening, in Pennsylvania, I was witness to a huge cloud of lightening bugs, against a pastel sky, at sunset. Additionally, up on a hill, the chimes of a church played a melodious hymn, which tune floated over the small town. The gentle pace of the hymn was synchronized with the lighting of the bugs, as they kept a beat. It was a magical moment, that I wish I could've captured on video..
Check out smarter everyday he just did a video on those
@@sergioh2015
I'm not sure what you're referring to. Would you please specify.
@@MrChrispy777 "smarter everyday." Is the name of the channel, Destin made a video on those lightning bugs
Not everything needs to be on video. It's still ok just to experience them.
@@nineteenfortyeight
Indeed, but a video is worth 10,000 words.
easily one of the best from veritasium
9:50 I believe most people experienced this after a great show. It's the "bis, bis, bis" clap. I think it's the most humbling thing to happen to an artist and a beautiful homage to their craft.
Love how the Budapest clapping is note worthy, happens everytime I go to the theatre or symphony. Used to think it was completely normal until my American friend went with me and was dumbfounded.
This is a tradition across Europe I’ve found in my performance career, and not synchronisation. It’s usually a sign that they’ve enjoyed it and want an encore. It’s never happened in GB (in the many years I’ve experienced performing there), despite some continuous clapping for many minutes.
Good video though.
@@edwardgoater Absolutely agree with you. "Synchronized clapping" is more of a "tradition" then science, but I do think (and I've had an experience) that if the clapping is "overly continuous" - it's still does synchronize. Yet, in this particular case, I do consider it is more of a human nature than a law.
Synchronised clapping in Budapest (actually in all Hungary) is a sign of appreciation from people to the author and it also means that the audience would like to get back the performer on stage for extra bowing or extra show.
Agreed. We do this in Switzerland and it means "this was great, we want more", for example another song at a concert. It is a conscious effort to synchronize in order to communicate.
@@asdfxcy Of course, it's same with fireflies. He didn't say it was some natural force. Of course they syncronised knowingly. But in order to do so, they have to listen each other.