This is true I spent a while checking sources to see if flat earth is possible I even went on some flat earther gura channels sadly for some reason what the gura was saying sounded like nonsense to me with really obnoxious music in the background no comments explaining making it really hard to understand from their point of view just not proving their point at all where sphere earth explained things in detail saying what this thing is that and not this instead you know
"Diffraction of light: It was the cause of massive debate about 200 hundred years ago" Debates today: earth is flat or not. Vaccination is good or bad.
@@REIDAE years ago the round earth was the generally unaccepted explanation. What does this mean? That years ago the earth was round because nobody believed that and now it flattened because everyone believes it's round?
Technically people are not afraid of vaccines perse, we all witnessed their validity growing up. It's more the concern now that additional vaccines are being introduced that are seemingly unnecessary, outside of the handful of true stories where a child changed dramatically after a vaccination. Skepticism is a primary factor in human evolution. Also knowing that our media IS propaganda, it should be easy to understand the person who is skeptical about putting something into their children that is presented by governments, who themselves are proven to be untrustworthy.
That explanation of fuzzy edges in the first minute: NOW I realize why, during the last solar eclipse, at over 99% totality, the edges of shadows were SO SHARP! Because it was like the sunlight was a point source.
So if there's a giant sphere and a laser hits it then there would be a laser at the other side that's weaker and smaller then if you used it to hit another sphere there would be another small laser,theoretically there should be many spheres and many smaller lasers until there is only a laser the size of a single photon that can't refract around another sphere 1: there's no sphere small enough 2: the photon would haft to refract all around the sphere to create the laser. On this. Theasis it's possible that a satalite (astronomy wise,not a satalite like a tv satalite) should be able to create this laser on the other side possibly like there's a hole in the object; imagine how cool that'd look... NASA should use a perfectly round object to orbit earth to see how cool that'd look
I have had to deal with the spot of Arago off and on through my laser career. In one case, an entire high energy laser resonator concept was abandoned due to excess heating on the mirrors center from diffracted energy in to the spot of Arago. You are a pretty smart dude
And then Einstein managed to get the Nobel Prize in physics for demonstrating that light can, in fact, be viewed as particles after all. But of course, phenomena such as the one shown in this video demonstrates that light still also has properties of waves.
+Thulyblu, yes it is definitely a wave. It is also definitely a particle. Hence the wave particle duality of light and everything else in the Universe.
Particle-wave duality. Every elementary particle or quantic entity exhibits the properties of both particles and waves. The classical concepts "particle" or "wave" cannot fully describe the behavior of quantum-scale objects.
You can take this experiment one step further by using magnetized spheres to float in the air. So you have no surface distortion. I would love to see this work.
Rajorsi Roy Chowdhury / mr, if i may, try to consult a doctor. you have the symptoms of one having a migraine, i know because i do too. anyway, if you're seeing a spot where it follows where you look, then that is dirt on your eye, get some eye-drops.
Guys, guys, You DON'T need to panic or see a doctor, what actually you are seeing is inside your eyes like Red blood cells, proteins or tissues here's Ted's Great Video about it: ruclips.net/video/Y6e_m9iq-4Q/видео.html
23 x; dr is not necessary least of all a shrink. Worst person in the world to talk to about what you see in cyberspace or microscopes or neglected attics etc. Anything you see that others cant is for your priest. Tell the shrink about his clipboard and nice shirt and the weather. Small talk that is obviously true. Unless you want medicated. Psychiatrists medicate (they went to school for the power to write prescriptions for mood manipulating drugs so they arent likely to want to waste that power by entertaining people who are not clearly insane or who wont get on the zombie bandwagon). Psychologists talk things out.
@Aidan Snyder I don't want to speak over the real facts because you're biased, but I'll also make the effort to answer respectfully, and I think it's an important point. I don't agree with your "edit", you're saying people can't accept major unanswered questions anymore. However, science does, and religion doesn't. In fact, what did the people when they couldn't find answers? They created gods to explain. Science doesn't claim to know everything and that's exactly why scientific theories exist. A scientific theory is something that is based on facts and observations, you can upgrade it or disprove it when you find new elements. What happened with the evolutionism ? It's is based on millions years of proofs and facts and everything matches perfectly. Every year we add new elements which make it more reliable. What I find fascinating, is that creationists claim to use science to disprove evolutionism, while creationism has absolutely no scientific proof. Stephen Hawking once said: "The Universe doesn't need God to exist"
@Aidan Snyder I have read your entire comment. I'm willing to teach things to uninformed people who want to learn, but not to creationists, because they will never change their mind. Arguing with people who do not want to recognize anything is wasting my time and depressing. Then, as I implied, I see myself as an agnostic, there is absolutely no evidence of the existence of God, and the Universe does not need him to exist, but nobody has a proof of it's non-existence, which is basically impossible to prove. I also remind you that the Bible is not a scientific document, and that is an indisputable fact, there is no debate on it. Since you don't agree, we apparently don't have the same science, or we don't live in the same world. The theologians and the Vatican said that God gave "an impulse" to create the universe, but they agree on the scientific explanations like the Big Bang and the age of our Earth (~4.5 billion years) because they cannot deny it. The Church here in Europe said clearly that we cannot read the Bible and take everything in it litterally. And this time, it's not my opinion... Also, the Earth is'n flat, and it's statistically absolutely impossible that we are "unique" in the Universe. It's just common sense don't you think? Thank you for your respect, and have a good evening.
As airline pilot, I see fresnel's bright spot all the time... When you are at around 5000' in a cylindrical object like a fuselage, you can see a bright light until you get close enough to the ground and the shadow is less diffused to show the bright spot... The light basically diffuses around the cylinder at a particular altitude and all the light around the fuselage is shown inside the shadow... Derek, if you want me to show you this I can get you videos on this anytime as I see this everyday in my line of work
As an illustrator it's really interesting to see how science and knowledge helps inform you to create more believable artwork. Like the Fresnel effect explaining how even matte surfaces become almost mirror-like at a steep enough angle.
I feel like this is absolutely one of the coolest ideas out there... I can see, with my own eyes, proof that light is a wave. Thanks for sharing and all your work.
Veritasium, I have to tell you that I think you are the smartest vulgarisateur I have ever heard of. Any time someone comes to me to know more about science I tell them go and watch Veritasium. One day we will meet and will thank you for all of that !!
+paxpacis2 "Is the brightest part of the shadow really in the biddle?" Probably not - I mean, why would you have made a video about a phenomenon noone thought of that doesn't exist?
+Darius P honestly I would rather browse through magazine with the cover page stating "the brightest part of a shadow is in the middle" then "man wants to know where is the brightest point of a shadow is what he finds out is shocking." No hate friend it's just that it sounds like something posted on media leech website making up ridiculous stories of celebs.
I don't know if you'll ever read this comment, but I do greatly appreciate that you don't flood your videos with filler just to hit that magic 10min. mark. Your whole videos from beginning to end are generally as much info as you can efficiently compress into the time it takes to both explain and demonstrate a concept.
+Orch everyone has them, they're just really really transparent and hard to see. He made the visuals a lot more contrasting than they are in real life. They can be ridiculously hard to see . Squinting may help you see them a bit clearer ans it lets less light into your eye.
Is that spot not also the cause of laser light bouncing off of the wall, some hitting the metal ball, and bouncing back (exactly as with the projector)? Because that's exactly what it looks like. Especially with those radial lines in the shadow as well, as not quite perfect hits of the light bouncing back to the ball. I'm not convinced. We would still have to take your word for it, that explanation. Because there are other explanations for those white dots moving erratically in your vision, and it has to do with the bright blue diffuse light, rather than just diffuse light. I suggest repeating the experiment with a ball or circle of material covered in vantablack.
+Velexia Ombra Light reflecting diffusely off a surface, especially so far away, would illuminate the entire ball dimmly. You wouldn't see a bright spot. You'd see a lighter shadow overall.
Velexia Ombra But the light that would be hitting the highly reflective ball is doing so from a diffuse source. There shouldn't be a pattern in the reflection.
+Velexia Ombra I agree. I noticed that the ball was too reflective. So what if they did use a ball that had no (or at least very little) reflective properties? I'm willing to believe that there wouldn't be a spot in the center of the shadow. And I truly hope that they choose to retest this test under these conditions. Because until the experiment is done with a non-reflective ball, I will too remain skeptical.
When I first saw those as a kid I thought they were some single cell stuff lol. But while I didn't ask many people, The few I asked said they don't really see anything. I never knew what they were until now.
I thought it where Some sort of bacteria(or small hair/dust) .i asked a doctor What it could be, he looked at me like i was seeing "things" like halucinating. (Shitty doctor perhaps) Now i know. Some science is going on in my eyeball. First time i Hear other people see this to. Nice to know.
He must of been worried about his shadow. Sleepless weeks. But as soon as he got the eureka moment. He made this video.. you can tell by the bags under his eyes. He's stoked.
+MrFreakHeavy +jeneau saunders 100 % agreed, my moron fiend. Also check out lifeknowhow on youtube, good sir. it is simple. just type in his name on the search bar (above) and you shall find his paradise of science videos.
Veritasium is Vsauce just not "or is it?" And "hey Vsauce, Michael here" and no suspense/vsauce music, so basically Veritasium is just relaxing and u wont be scared that someone will be looking at ur back and say "or is it?" To anything u think...
most people dont really bother with those things they just scratch the eyes and go back to what they were doing :v so if you talk about it they would have no idea wth are u talking about, and even if they do.. i didnt knew it had a name till i saw this video :v
@@OhKnow379 It is pretty common to just say "naked" instead of "almost naked", don't you think? When someone is referred to as "naked", this is often followed by the question "Completely naked?". I'd argue that the fact that you sometimes hear or say "completely naked" is in itself proof that "naked" isn't necessarily understood as "completely naked".
Well maybe....u cant see the spot on moon's surface....the poisson spot would be in middle of the shadow of the moon on the earth's surface....and i guess u can't go to the moon to see it. And the possibility is there because moon's diameter, it's distance from earth, and the wavelength of visible ray is satisfies fresnel's number which is needed to be >1 for poisson's spot....
you wouldn;t need to be on the moon to see it, if you where on earth at the bright spot it *should* be as light as day despite being in the moons shadow.
On the iron-sight of a C7, on the long-range setting, the whole is made in such a way that there will be a destructive interference point in the middle of the sight that you can line up with the pin at the canon end of the weapon. It's insanely precise for an iron-sight and works off the same principle!
In lighting for film and TV, we often use rectangles of black cloth stretched on a lightweight metal frame to create shadow areas. These flags or cutters as we call them are held in place by special "C" or "Grip" stands along with arms and knuckles that look like huge tinker toys. Over the course of the years I've noticed that when the flag is twisted so that it is more or less in line with the beam of light instead of perpendicular, the edges of the shadow caused by the flag has a brighter line next to the shadow of the flag. I'd wonder if this effect is a manifestation of Fresnel's theory, only linear rather than circular?
6:20 was the question i search for my entire childhood, what is this worm like shadows im seeing when i see sky or my white wall in my room, is it my vision disfunction or i can see small bacterias inside my eye balls! Floaters inside my eye balls fluid! 👀👁️👀
@@Ultiminati Once again, that's not the exact cause of the "eye floaters" Here's a more in-depth video about them ruclips.net/video/Y6e_m9iq-4Q/видео.html
Don't know why everyone is slamming on Victor. He's correct. If anyone was paying attention to the video, it's Victor... Eye floaters have nothing to do with the phenomenon portrayed in this video. Eye floaters are caused by tiny flakes of debris in the fluid filling the eye. When starting at a uniform, bright surface (such as a blue sky on a sunny day), the shadows this debris causes are cast on the retina, and the 'floaters' we see are these shadows. In the video, we're just observing a bright spot caused when a coherent light source strikes a round object. Constructive interference causes a bright spot to appear, under a very controlled set of circumstances. Sky-light is not coherent at all, eye floaters are very rarely completely round, or spherical. I'm not saying that an eye floater could never exhibit the effect portrayed in this video, but it's really got very little to do with why we see eye floaters in the first place.
Vivi 21 anos para descobrir que minha visão é perfeitamente normal e a doença que eu pensava ter não é nada mais que um fenômeno físico \o/! Thanks Derek, thanks Veritasium, thanks science!!!
A cool thing about this video -and most of them- is that it starts from something we all know, to guide us to to deeper science. On the other hand, I don't completely agree with calling Poisson's idea a "mistake". He may have been wrong in his assumption of light being particles(*), but that did not prevent him from drawing a correct and interesting conclusion, based on the assumption that it would be a wave. Thinking so hard about a competing theory is an accomplishment in itself. The only regret is that he didn't actually perform the experiment. (*) was it actually wrong?: first of all, in those days, the debate particles/waves was unsolved, so he *couldn't* know. Secondly, light obviously also has a particle character, so he wasn't completely wrong after all.
omg!! Thank you so much Veritasium I'm so glad now! I always thought that my eyes have problems because I always see weird things floating around my eyeball !! thank you so much man !!
+AMaleWhale They are said to be more frequent with age, so it might just be that you don't have too many of them yet. I have some, but hardly notice them unless it is a dim light setting personally
+AMaleWhale Poor vision maybe. You really should be able to see them if you look at a blank blue sky. (No clouds, just a solid tone). And just stare straight at the sky.
The lecture hall he was using is the one that I had nearly all of my Physics lectures in at UCLA. Really weird seeing the room and being like... woah, I've been there.
+majed alhitmi Well, he doesn't post much, but he posts some very high quality content. Would you like it if Vsauce 1 posted a video every week, but crappy, half-assed videos?
+majed alhitmi It takes him a very long time to research the subjects for each video, which are now 20 mins long as opposed to his older videos of about 5-10 mins. I would take him several hours to film and record the voice overs, and even longer to edit. The end result is some of the highest quality science content you can find on RUclips
Credit to poisson for coming up with a very accurate response as to why light can't be a wave. He was spot on with the experiment, just a pity it was someone else who proved it.
+vladoportos No,but at that time they was two sides: the wave side and the particule side.So each side try to dispprove the other .But Quantum mechanics proves that light was both
+vladoportos It does have properties of both. However, the particle behavior and the wave behavior are observed under different circumstances. The tools available when this experiment was first done only really allow for the wavy character of light to be seen. It wasn't until much later (50ish years) at the birth of quantum mechanics that the particle side started to come through in experiments, in particular the photovoltaic effect. So no you didn't miss anything Derek was just talking about the theory of light at the time the experiment was done.
+TheJollyGamerJoe I hate it when people use OCD wrong. It's a mental disorder; what you are experiencing is a case of perfectionism or just the natural human knack for patterns.
Physicist: *Proves that if light was a wave, a circular object's shadow would have a bright spot with the intent of disproving light-is-a-wave theory* Reality: "A circular object's shadow has a bright spot" Physicist: *surprised pikachu face*
+supertigik The lunar irregularities ("mountains and valleys" made mostly by craters) are actually a [dangerous] "feature" for total solar eclipses. Because the iris opens automatically when the total ammount of light is low enough [but do not close if intense but tiny points are still present]; the same kind of damage by UV light that an electrical arc can cause (without protection) is also present on the "pearls" of sunlight still passing trough the deepest parts of the Moon when [almost] of the photosphere is already covered by it. The necessary protection to safely see the Sun directly also makes imposible to apreciate the exact moment when the Moon completes the ocultation [a video recording is necessary in order to avoid eye damage]. - - - - - Even if the Moon was a perfect opaque sphere, the Sun is not a laser beam (its surface it turbulent and complex, with rings of plasma coming out of it (the "atmosphere" also has its own bright in visible light). But if it was, then the central "spot" will have similar lighting caracteristics than the Sun itself, making it as dangerous as the border-line spots of light explained above.
+Argamis (SilverComet) We live enough to 'see' that we can live years without sun glasses. And although they protect your eyes from UV lights we cannot be 24/7 using them, and I don't 'see' anyone having their eyes burned on daily basis. I don't deny their uses, but the glasses industry talk like we're going to get blind only for looking a few minutes for the moon.
Douglas Aranda You can watch the Full Moon the entire night (blinking regulary) and nothing will happen to your eyes, because the ammount of reflected UV is negligible [there may be some psychological efects tough...] - - - - - I was not talking about sunglases. I was talking about watching The Sun *directly* (with or without using "filters"), in the middle of a total solar eclipse; instead of the safely method of a capture[camera]->reproduction[screen]; or a reverse proyection of the sunlight over a wall. In normal conditions you can not watch the Sun at full bright (when it has no atenuation from clouds or suspended dust); because the overall luminosity is big enough for your nervous system to automatically close the iris of the eyes (to the point of generating pain and the need to blink or look away).
While you mentioning the eye floaters, there are also string-like eyefloaters, which result in a line-like spot. So, I think that it can also be visible with a capsule or cylindric objects. The important property is the light source. Directional lightrays is key. You have the proof with the double-gap experiment. The distance between the gap (diameter of sphere or capsule) and the resulting inferences. Also the wavelength could be influencing the inferences (my assumption). Thanks for this video.
So how did Arago do the experiment? Why is it so hard to replicate without a laser? This has troubled me. On the flip side excellent content with a wonderful twist in the end!
Very good question. Another good question is... how do we know the bright spot isnt a reflection like it was in the overhead projector? After all, there is a bright light on the wall to make the reflection, just like with the overhead, but a little farther out. If it was projected onto a Vantablack backdrop, with just small white dot in the middle, would the laser still show the effect? Otherwise, how do we not know this isnt also a reflection? Or use a Vantablack sphere and see if the effect is there. So many variables left untested by this demonstration.
'....your greatest mistakes can be named after you.'
Also a good explanation for surnames.
Arnaldo Manuel like Jerome Freeman lol
And Kevin
Or the Parker Square.
500th likd
Me and my dad have the same name so........
when i was young and saw eye floaters, i thought i had the ability to see things at a cellular level
+litojonny many nerds thought that
Same, thought I was superman
+litojonny Lol i thought the same, as well as making my ears ring whenever i wanted to i thought i was special!
+litojonny i thought they were pets that aliens put in my body so i wouldn't feel lonely.
They were my imaginary friends! XD
"When you think something is true, you really should try as hard as you can to disprove it." Christ this is a good quote.
This is true I spent a while checking sources to see if flat earth is possible I even went on some flat earther gura channels sadly for some reason what the gura was saying sounded like nonsense to me with really obnoxious music in the background no comments explaining making it really hard to understand from their point of view just not proving their point at all where sphere earth explained things in detail saying what this thing is that and not this instead you know
That's ho scientific reasoning works
@Waldel Martell are you s flat Earther or something? I never said gravity
@Waldel Martell
Good luck, flerfo!
You mention Christ and he is a good example oi this, actually.
"... Your greatest mistakes can be named after you. "
I think my dad agrees.
Are you a Jr.
@@studderist I think SenseiKai was making a self deprecating joke.
LOL
LoL bust with laughter, amazing sense of humor
@@Thunderage03 +10 savage points +10 hol up
That actually blew my mind when you mentioned eye floaters at the end. Thought I was going crazy when I was younger xD
OMG I THOUGHT I WAS CRAZY I SEE THESE ALMOST EVERYWHERE
Omg true
@@Misuey ikr
@Jhaysson Moura Lol is that not already implied? But thanks for your input
Grace lmfao
"Never interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake."
~Napoleon Bonaparte
Wow
Thats a good quote
+TinyFoxTom "England knows Lady Hamilton is a virgin. Cut off my arm and poke out my eye if I am wrong." - Lord Nelson
@@cosmicjenny4508 woah now that's a quote
Said Napoleon, on an island.
"Diffraction of light: It was the cause of massive debate about 200 hundred years ago"
Debates today: earth is flat or not.
Vaccination is good or bad.
Well, the generally unaccepted explanation was actually the correct one so...
@@REIDAE years ago the round earth was the generally unaccepted explanation. What does this mean? That years ago the earth was round because nobody believed that and now it flattened because everyone believes it's round?
@@Dr_Hax That means the earth is actually a cylinder
@letter h Nah its a disc shaped planet
Technically people are not afraid of vaccines perse, we all witnessed their validity growing up. It's more the concern now that additional vaccines are being introduced that are seemingly unnecessary, outside of the handful of true stories where a child changed dramatically after a vaccination. Skepticism is a primary factor in human evolution. Also knowing that our media IS propaganda, it should be easy to understand the person who is skeptical about putting something into their children that is presented by governments, who themselves are proven to be untrustworthy.
That explanation of fuzzy edges in the first minute: NOW I realize why, during the last solar eclipse, at over 99% totality, the edges of shadows were SO SHARP! Because it was like the sunlight was a point source.
I actually laughed hard at the dude doing a naruto run at 6:36
@@terrigomez6531 that guys on a bike
@@ginj4ninj4180 nah hes just too fast for us to comprehend
actually it is dispersion also plays a part in this but on a much smaller scale, in day to day life you don't notice it
@@ginj4ninj4180right
I use to play with that floaters when I was kid
It was like never let floaters touch the ground
As by raising up ur eyes floater will too bounce up
Can relate x)
Me too!
Me too..
If you blink suddenly the floaters go back to it's initial positiin
And I thought I grew up poor....
@@garyventure8442 HAHAHAHA
I see a new use for the worlds roundest object!
XD I was thinking the same thing when he said the object can't have any surface roughness
So if there's a giant sphere and a laser hits it then there would be a laser at the other side that's weaker and smaller then if you used it to hit another sphere there would be another small laser,theoretically there should be many spheres and many smaller lasers until there is only a laser the size of a single photon that can't refract around another sphere 1: there's no sphere small enough 2: the photon would haft to refract all around the sphere to create the laser. On this. Theasis it's possible that a satalite (astronomy wise,not a satalite like a tv satalite) should be able to create this laser on the other side possibly like there's a hole in the object; imagine how cool that'd look... NASA should use a perfectly round object to orbit earth to see how cool that'd look
Jokes on you I can't see anything.
Wait a minute...
Yeet
It has another purpose
The title is a perfect deep quote for social media
+MordieSG or a Jaden Smith's tweet
+Cokolwiek LONG LIVE THE REPITLIANS HISSSSSSS
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+Espen Foshaug i don't know what you are but you are being reported for spam
+MordieSG All it needs is to be printed on old paper, photographed, and then compressed into a jpg for easy Facebook consumption!
I have had to deal with the spot of Arago off and on through my laser career. In one case, an entire high energy laser resonator concept was abandoned due to excess heating on the mirrors center from diffracted energy in to the spot of Arago. You are a pretty smart dude
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Fun fact poisson on french is fish. So his name is Simon fish
@@falcon5178 I haven't noticed eye floaters for long time
@@deepfriedewoks7657 Fish is actually an English surname as well tbf
@Niggawok
Or... Simon *Finch* perhaps?
Coincidence, I think not!
And then Einstein managed to get the Nobel Prize in physics for demonstrating that light can, in fact, be viewed as particles after all. But of course, phenomena such as the one shown in this video demonstrates that light still also has properties of waves.
+Eugene Khutoryansky But he was mistaken. Einstein has a hoax. Light is waves. cant be both man. Seriously.
+Eugene Khutoryansky
I have heard several talks of theoretical physicist Sean Carroll who says it's definitely a wave. (yes, available on youtube)
+Mc Einstein en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave%E2%80%93particle_duality
+Thulyblu, yes it is definitely a wave. It is also definitely a particle. Hence the wave particle duality of light and everything else in the Universe.
Particle-wave duality. Every elementary particle or quantic entity exhibits the properties of both particles and waves. The classical concepts "particle" or "wave" cannot fully describe the behavior of quantum-scale objects.
6:45 that little circle that just came in has haunted me my whole life.
Same
I always compared them to little doughnuts lol
Same 🥶
You can take this experiment one step further by using magnetized spheres to float in the air. So you have no surface distortion. I would love to see this work.
After so many years now I finally got to know about the little spots that I see. Thanks Veritasium.
Rajorsi Roy Chowdhury I know right!!!!! :D
Rajorsi Roy Chowdhury / mr, if i may, try to consult a doctor. you have the symptoms of one having a migraine, i know because i do too. anyway, if you're seeing a spot where it follows where you look, then that is dirt on your eye, get some eye-drops.
Rajorsi Roy Chowdhury yeah...I see them too..just gazing at the sky and wonder may I be the one seeing those spots in the blue sky
Guys, guys, You DON'T need to panic or see a doctor, what actually you are seeing is inside your eyes like Red blood cells, proteins or tissues here's Ted's Great Video about it:
ruclips.net/video/Y6e_m9iq-4Q/видео.html
23 x; dr is not necessary least of all a shrink. Worst person in the world to talk to about what you see in cyberspace or microscopes or neglected attics etc. Anything you see that others cant is for your priest. Tell the shrink about his clipboard and nice shirt and the weather. Small talk that is obviously true. Unless you want medicated. Psychiatrists medicate (they went to school for the power to write prescriptions for mood manipulating drugs so they arent likely to want to waste that power by entertaining people who are not clearly insane or who wont get on the zombie bandwagon). Psychologists talk things out.
3:48 If everyone did that, then the flat-earth theory would not exist.
OW
True
@Aidan Snyder in what way is it disproven
@Aidan Snyder I don't want to speak over the real facts because you're biased, but I'll also make the effort to answer respectfully, and I think it's an important point. I don't agree with your "edit", you're saying people can't accept major unanswered questions anymore. However, science does, and religion doesn't. In fact, what did the people when they couldn't find answers? They created gods to explain. Science doesn't claim to know everything and that's exactly why scientific theories exist. A scientific theory is something that is based on facts and observations, you can upgrade it or disprove it when you find new elements. What happened with the evolutionism ? It's is based on millions years of proofs and facts and everything matches perfectly. Every year we add new elements which make it more reliable.
What I find fascinating, is that creationists claim to use science to disprove evolutionism, while creationism has absolutely no scientific proof. Stephen Hawking once said: "The Universe doesn't need God to exist"
@Aidan Snyder I have read your entire comment. I'm willing to teach things to uninformed people who want to learn, but not to creationists, because they will never change their mind. Arguing with people who do not want to recognize anything is wasting my time and depressing. Then, as I implied, I see myself as an agnostic, there is absolutely no evidence of the existence of God, and the Universe does not need him to exist, but nobody has a proof of it's non-existence, which is basically impossible to prove. I also remind you that the Bible is not a scientific document, and that is an indisputable fact, there is no debate on it. Since you don't agree, we apparently don't have the same science, or we don't live in the same world.
The theologians and the Vatican said that God gave "an impulse" to create the universe, but they agree on the scientific explanations like the Big Bang and the age of our Earth (~4.5 billion years) because they cannot deny it. The Church here in Europe said clearly that we cannot read the Bible and take everything in it litterally. And this time, it's not my opinion...
Also, the Earth is'n flat, and it's statistically absolutely impossible that we are "unique" in the Universe. It's just common sense don't you think?
Thank you for your respect, and have a good evening.
You are like a not bald Michael.
Spell ICUP Nigga: Who, on contrast, doesn't introduce himself
Spell ICUP Nigga HAHAHAHA
Spell ICUP Nigga he _is_ a not bald Michael
Nahh man, he's better
Edit: him referring to veritasium of course
Hey Veritasium, Michael here.
Please never stop making videos like this. It truely reveals new facets of reality.
Let's do this experiment again with a sphere coated in vantablack.
eduard!
Exactly this is what I wanted to say
Ikr
I like that idea, the spot is not going to show at that condition
I think it would, difraction is different from reflection (which doesn't happen with vanta black)
As airline pilot, I see fresnel's bright spot all the time... When you are at around 5000' in a cylindrical object like a fuselage, you can see a bright light until you get close enough to the ground and the shadow is less diffused to show the bright spot... The light basically diffuses around the cylinder at a particular altitude and all the light around the fuselage is shown inside the shadow... Derek, if you want me to show you this I can get you videos on this anytime as I see this everyday in my line of work
"He is like a not bald Micheal." And a not British Tom Scott.
This guy, Tom Scott and Michael could make a colab.
@@flyingdart9819 2/3 happened
And as always, thanks for watching
Woah u watch tom scott?
@@Fillthrill when give link and no rickroll
As an illustrator it's really interesting to see how science and knowledge helps inform you to create more believable artwork. Like the Fresnel effect explaining how even matte surfaces become almost mirror-like at a steep enough angle.
Im studying physics with a casual hobby in art so i'll be noting this for the future
3:13 Epic voice crack from a grown ass man...happens to the best of us :P
+Dan Smoke Haha, indeed. :D
+Dan Smoke really not that noticable
what's an assman?
+Twixgtx it's an ancient legend, a cousin of Bigfoot. My aunt found him in the forests of California and married him!
+Dan Smoke he later dropped his retainer in the deep fryer
I feel like this is absolutely one of the coolest ideas out there... I can see, with my own eyes, proof that light is a wave. Thanks for sharing and all your work.
“The brightest part of a shadow is in the middle” sounds like such a 2002 New York City post-punk revival song lyric
My black morphsuit...
Veritasium, I have to tell you that I think you are the smartest vulgarisateur I have ever heard of. Any time someone comes to me to know more about science I tell them go and watch Veritasium. One day we will meet and will thank you for all of that !!
"Is the brightest part of the shadow really in the middle? Let's find out!"
*Looks at title*
GEE WONDER
+paxpacis2 hehe nice
+paxpacis2 xD
Man wants to know where is the brightest point of a shadow. What he finds is shocking.
+paxpacis2 "Is the brightest part of the shadow really in the biddle?" Probably not - I mean, why would you have made a video about a phenomenon noone thought of that doesn't exist?
+Darius P honestly I would rather browse through magazine with the cover page stating "the brightest part of a shadow is in the middle" then "man wants to know where is the brightest point of a shadow is what he finds out is shocking."
No hate friend it's just that it sounds like something posted on media leech website making up ridiculous stories of celebs.
So if the moon was a perfect sphere, would that bright spot be visible an earth during a solar eclipse or are we not at the right distance?
+Sebastian Carrier Could happen during a solar eclipse.
***** oh yeah, forgot to put that in my comment
+Sebastian Carrier No, the sun's not a point source.
+Tal Risen Like Gareth said, the sun is far away from being a point source and thermal radiators are so incoherent as a light source can get ;)
+Gareth Dean also the light from the sun is not all in phase
I don't know if you'll ever read this comment, but I do greatly appreciate that you don't flood your videos with filler just to hit that magic 10min. mark. Your whole videos from beginning to end are generally as much info as you can efficiently compress into the time it takes to both explain and demonstrate a concept.
5:04 "And then that beam was Sean." :)
0-0
6:31 I FINALLY KNOW WHY I SEE THESE WHEN I STARE AT THE SKY.
Thx o3o/
+TheAwkwardGuy Me too!
+Mikolaj Wojnicki same
+TheAwkwardGuy I've never ever ever ever seen them LOL
+Orch everyone has them, they're just really really transparent and hard to see. He made the visuals a lot more contrasting than they are in real life. They can be ridiculously hard to see . Squinting may help you see them a bit clearer ans it lets less light into your eye.
DreadKyller What I"m saying is that i'm 15 and i've never noticed them - provided they are there or not. I have just never seen them.
Is that spot not also the cause of laser light bouncing off of the wall, some hitting the metal ball, and bouncing back (exactly as with the projector)? Because that's exactly what it looks like. Especially with those radial lines in the shadow as well, as not quite perfect hits of the light bouncing back to the ball. I'm not convinced.
We would still have to take your word for it, that explanation. Because there are other explanations for those white dots moving erratically in your vision, and it has to do with the bright blue diffuse light, rather than just diffuse light.
I suggest repeating the experiment with a ball or circle of material covered in vantablack.
+Velexia Ombra Light reflecting diffusely off a surface, especially so far away, would illuminate the entire ball dimmly. You wouldn't see a bright spot. You'd see a lighter shadow overall.
Except that it's a highly reflective metal ball. I remain skeptical.
+Velexia Ombra He should've tried as with the projector, covering the edges, and see if the dot disappeared.
Velexia Ombra But the light that would be hitting the highly reflective ball is doing so from a diffuse source. There shouldn't be a pattern in the reflection.
+Velexia Ombra I agree. I noticed that the ball was too reflective. So what if they did use a ball that had no (or at least very little) reflective properties? I'm willing to believe that there wouldn't be a spot in the center of the shadow.
And I truly hope that they choose to retest this test under these conditions. Because until the experiment is done with a non-reflective ball, I will too remain skeptical.
WAIT THOSE LITTLE SPOTS WHEN YOU LOOK INTO THE SKY ARE NORMAL OMG
Yes. They are especially apparent to people with very high light sensitivity though.
When I first saw those as a kid I thought they were some single cell stuff lol.
But while I didn't ask many people, The few I asked said they don't really see anything.
I never knew what they were until now.
I thought it where Some sort of bacteria(or small hair/dust) .i asked a doctor What it could be, he looked at me like i was seeing "things" like halucinating. (Shitty doctor perhaps) Now i know. Some science is going on in my eyeball. First time i Hear other people see this to. Nice to know.
Actually those are things floating around in the fluid in your eyes.
I'm so happy others have seen these things cuz of talked to all my siblings and some friends and there all looked at me like I was crazy
He must of been worried about his shadow. Sleepless weeks. But as soon as he got the eureka moment. He made this video.. you can tell by the bags under his eyes. He's stoked.
Not only do I see it with my very own eyes... I see it *in* my very own eyes.
+MrFreakHeavy you tried
+Oscar Elenius he won
+Ich Selber || we all won.
+MrFreakHeavy +jeneau saunders 100 % agreed, my moron fiend. Also check out lifeknowhow on youtube, good sir. it is simple. just type in his name on the search bar (above) and you shall find his paradise of science videos.
5:23 Eye of Mordor
hahah yup😂
It's been hiding in the shadows the whole time.
I thought I was the only one that saw that.
Oompa Loompa
I wonder if it would have ended differently if the Dark Lord had offered Bilbo cookies.
Able Baker that would have been a pretty 'sweet' ending.
I can never stare at a floater derectly, it just flys away
Same thing happens when I look directly at a girl
+Jake Moyer (yourtvbananas) pfff HAHAHAHA.
ME TOO :(
+jeneau saunders You'd probably have to wait for one to just happen to float right past the center of your eye.
+jeneau saunders Problem is that you move your eye when you want to try to look at it. And the floater is moving with it... in the liquid.
+jeneau saunders the trick is not to chase the floaters but concentrate on one thing and let them follow you.
I thought this was a vsauce video, and was disappointed when I didn’t hear “hey, vsauce Michael here”. Then I looked at the channel
This is the new vsauce
HAHA INDEED
This is the less confusing version of vsauce
The darkest part of a shadow is the middle... or is it? *suspense music*
Veritasium is Vsauce just not "or is it?" And "hey Vsauce, Michael here" and no suspense/vsauce music, so basically Veritasium is just relaxing and u wont be scared that someone will be looking at ur back and say "or is it?" To anything u think...
5:15 but when you turn the lights off,
SAURON!
LOL
My doctor said that I might have a brain tumor when I've described him I can see the floaters LMAO
Time for a new doctor.
Is your doctor WebMD
The doctor tells you that you have a brain tumor, you start crying, doctor says that your having a stroke...
Angry Kouhai Google M.D
most people dont really bother with those things they just scratch the eyes and go back to what they were doing :v so if you talk about it they would have no idea wth are u talking about, and even if they do.. i didnt knew it had a name till i saw this video :v
1:14 Poor guy in the background can't even be naked at home without being caught on camera. lol
Lmao
Omg I haven't even seen that before
He’s not naked. He’s just got no shirt
@@OhKnow379 It is pretty common to just say "naked" instead of "almost naked", don't you think? When someone is referred to as "naked", this is often followed by the question "Completely naked?". I'd argue that the fact that you sometimes hear or say "completely naked" is in itself proof that "naked" isn't necessarily understood as "completely naked".
scelestion then just say half naked. Sorry to be a grammar nazi
I just can't stop watching his videos. Absolutely blew my mind.
5:42
As Matt Parker is reminded in every Numberphile's comments.
PARKER SQUARE
Sean M I haven't seen your "Irish people review abstract art" comment on Facts recently!
@@baptistebauer99 Yeah the damn Parker square will haunt him forever
And at every convention he speaks at :)
"Well that's one hell of a Parker Square" - Brady Haran
Use a non-reflective marble, otherwise it could be an odd reflective ripple.
Or... Don't. Either way.
A Vantablack marble perhaps?
I thaught about that too. I would recommend a flat circular object maybe coated with something like vantablack.
actually, I think someone might produce a shadow at the center of 'round light' using Babinet's Principle :)
or a simple focusing effect that always happens with glass spheres.
is there a bright spot in the centre of a solar eclipse?
Men, probably.
You should try to see it
The sun is not a coherent light source so the effect would not occur
Well maybe....u cant see the spot on moon's surface....the poisson spot would be in middle of the shadow of the moon on the earth's surface....and i guess u can't go to the moon to see it. And the possibility is there because moon's diameter, it's distance from earth, and the wavelength of visible ray is satisfies fresnel's number which is needed to be >1 for poisson's spot....
you wouldn;t need to be on the moon to see it, if you where on earth at the bright spot it *should* be as light as day despite being in the moons shadow.
My wife said, "this guy gets too excited about random things," just as I pondered if this is the best channel on RUclips.
*Great video, as always*
Love the channel. Everything is to the point, precise and extremely well explained.
On the iron-sight of a C7, on the long-range setting, the whole is made in such a way that there will be a destructive interference point in the middle of the sight that you can line up with the pin at the canon end of the weapon.
It's insanely precise for an iron-sight and works off the same principle!
In lighting for film and TV, we often use rectangles of black cloth stretched on a lightweight metal frame to create shadow areas. These flags or cutters as we call them are held in place by special "C" or "Grip" stands along with arms and knuckles that look like huge tinker toys.
Over the course of the years I've noticed that when the flag is twisted so that it is more or less in line with the beam of light instead of perpendicular, the edges of the shadow caused by the flag has a brighter line next to the shadow of the flag. I'd wonder if this effect is a manifestation of Fresnel's theory, only linear rather than circular?
that could work good as a line
"if you wants to see the light, you have to look at the shadows"
That's just a cosmological principle
6:20 was the question i search for my entire childhood, what is this worm like shadows im seeing when i see sky or my white wall in my room, is it my vision disfunction or i can see small bacterias inside my eye balls!
Floaters inside my eye balls fluid! 👀👁️👀
"Poisson's Spot" sound like a euphemism for, ugh... something.
sounds fishy
@@QweRinatrtY STOP! Take my like! GET OUT!
By euphemism you mean a metaphore I guess?
@@irokosalei5133 yeah a euphemism is just a kind of metaphor that downplays the meaning of the word
You've changed the way I look at my eye floaters forever! :-)
Oh my god i always thought about the stuff i saw in front of my eyes when i stared at the sky now i know thank you
did you watch the video at all victor??!
@Victor Giaquinto did you really watch the video?
@@Ultiminati Once again, that's not the exact cause of the "eye floaters"
Here's a more in-depth video about them ruclips.net/video/Y6e_m9iq-4Q/видео.html
Don't know why everyone is slamming on Victor. He's correct.
If anyone was paying attention to the video, it's Victor...
Eye floaters have nothing to do with the phenomenon portrayed in this video.
Eye floaters are caused by tiny flakes of debris in the fluid filling the eye.
When starting at a uniform, bright surface (such as a blue sky on a sunny day), the shadows this debris causes are cast on the retina, and the 'floaters' we see are these shadows.
In the video, we're just observing a bright spot caused when a coherent light source strikes a round object.
Constructive interference causes a bright spot to appear, under a very controlled set of circumstances.
Sky-light is not coherent at all, eye floaters are very rarely completely round, or spherical.
I'm not saying that an eye floater could never exhibit the effect portrayed in this video, but it's really got very little to do with why we see eye floaters in the first place.
6:36 random guy runs in front of camera. No bro, not low enough.
i wonder who that was
Vivi 21 anos para descobrir que minha visão é perfeitamente normal e a doença que eu pensava ter não é nada mais que um fenômeno físico \o/! Thanks Derek, thanks Veritasium, thanks science!!!
I love that all your videos have captions
This guy answers every question in my head
Hey, Poisson, was that overhead projector using a Fresnel lens..?
Massimo O'Kissed
Hidden Irony ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED!
A cool thing about this video -and most of them- is that it starts from something we all know, to guide us to to deeper science. On the other hand, I don't completely agree with calling Poisson's idea a "mistake". He may have been wrong in his assumption of light being particles(*), but that did not prevent him from drawing a correct and interesting conclusion, based on the assumption that it would be a wave. Thinking so hard about a competing theory is an accomplishment in itself. The only regret is that he didn't actually perform the experiment.
(*) was it actually wrong?: first of all, in those days, the debate particles/waves was unsolved, so he *couldn't* know. Secondly, light obviously also has a particle character, so he wasn't completely wrong after all.
The mind-blowingness of this experiment put aside, pretty relieved floaters are normal.
3:12
I feel like in the vERy center of each one
lol i didn't notice that voice crack
Did nobody see the Guy running trough the screen at 6:37?
Sounds like you are assuming we didn't
i Am spEeD
No I didn’t
He was cycling
it was just a floater
omg!! Thank you so much Veritasium I'm so glad now! I always thought that my eyes have problems because I always see weird things floating around my eyeball !! thank you so much man !!
This is some next level content , congrats veritasium.
I never get those floater things, is there something wrong with me?
+AMaleWhale It gets easier if you look at a uniformly lit object like the sky and squint.
+AMaleWhale They are said to be more frequent with age, so it might just be that you don't have too many of them yet.
I have some, but hardly notice them unless it is a dim light setting personally
+AMaleWhale Poor vision maybe. You really should be able to see them if you look at a blank blue sky. (No clouds, just a solid tone). And just stare straight at the sky.
No in fact it means you don't have something wrong with you. Floaters are a defect.
+AMaleWhale You tend to see less of them as you age, old man!
The lecture hall he was using is the one that I had nearly all of my Physics lectures in at UCLA. Really weird seeing the room and being like... woah, I've been there.
Woah, that's so cool! It's amazing seeing a place you recognize in a popular video.
I wish vsauce would upload like 2 times a week or a month. I really miss him. Vsauce 1
+majed alhitmi Well, he doesn't post much, but he posts some very high quality content. Would you like it if Vsauce 1 posted a video every week, but crappy, half-assed videos?
So true u should follow him on instagram
+majed alhitmi he has been uploading some stuff recently, just not on a schedule
And why are you posting this on Veritasium?
+majed alhitmi It takes him a very long time to research the subjects for each video, which are now 20 mins long as opposed to his older videos of about 5-10 mins. I would take him several hours to film and record the voice overs, and even longer to edit.
The end result is some of the highest quality science content you can find on RUclips
I never understood why shadows are fuzzy.
Now you answered my question. Thanks
"You can see it with your very own eyes." I see what you did there.
*Reads the title*
Me: Hmm, cool random fact...
Me after 2 sec: WHAT?
It's a verritasium video, what did you expect?
I'm surprised I haven't seen a comment about this - 6:36 a guy just ran by >.>
amazing!!
+MarioSMG64 why?? its just a passing by, what is strange with that?? i am suprised that i saw a comment about that, ppl are weird
If you take a closer look, he was riding a bike.
Notice me, I have a bait comment!
@@chrisakaschulbus4903 hahah
Credit to poisson for coming up with a very accurate response as to why light can't be a wave. He was spot on with the experiment, just a pity it was someone else who proved it.
But Poisson was wrong. The experiment showed that light is a wave and the spot Poisson claimed wouldn't be there actually was there.
yeah but he was wrong
Finally someone have the answer for shadows in my eyes when i close it. Small particles!
“If you think something is true, you should try your best to disprove it” probably shouldn’t say that to flat earthers
They never try their best
Or religious people.
But they did! "15 degrees per hour"
I mean a funny story is a study funded by flat earth era found that the earth was round
Ehm, I though light have both properties waves and particles... did I miss some breakthrough ?
+vladoportos No,but at that time they was two sides: the wave side and the particule side.So each side try to dispprove the other .But Quantum mechanics proves that light was both
+vladoportos It does have properties of both. However, the particle behavior and the wave behavior are observed under different circumstances. The tools available when this experiment was first done only really allow for the wavy character of light to be seen. It wasn't until much later (50ish years) at the birth of quantum mechanics that the particle side started to come through in experiments, in particular the photovoltaic effect.
So no you didn't miss anything Derek was just talking about the theory of light at the time the experiment was done.
+vladoportos It's a wave particle duality. Don't worry nothing has changed.
+vladoportos yeah but they didnt know that back then
+YouCanScienceIt ah ok, thanks :) the ending confused me a little :)
Here is a channel that deserves my subscription!
6:37 , FINALLY i know why i was seeing bubles in the sky , especially falling and every single time i was trying to catch them
Nobody:
RUclips: i'm going to suggest you this 5 year old video
Me: I NEED A DIFFUSED SOURCE OF LIGHT
Any OCD instantly got triggered when I saw that fence post facing the wrong way at 0:55
Dammit! I hadn't noticed, but now I have and it's annoying!
I don't think that's how ocd works o_O
+TheJollyGamerJoe OCD isn't a cool trait, it's an actual disorder that causes real problems for some people.
+markorply Finally someone else realizes this
+TheJollyGamerJoe I hate it when people use OCD wrong. It's a mental disorder; what you are experiencing is a case of perfectionism or just the natural human knack for patterns.
I love you veritassium man
Thank you for making me less stupid one video at a time
God will bless your life with happiness and success
I mean... In a metaphorical way
I'm not religious I just wanted to wish on good things for you
I'll just leave and pretend this didn't happen okay bye
don't smoke weed kids
Physicist: *Proves that if light was a wave, a circular object's shadow would have a bright spot with the intent of disproving light-is-a-wave theory*
Reality: "A circular object's shadow has a bright spot"
Physicist: *surprised pikachu face*
Cringe comment
Jornad Crusegravitch nope
@@luging2051 cringe
@@luging2051 cringe
@@luging2051 cringe
WIll there be a poisson's spot somewhere on earth in a solar eclipse ? or is the moon isnt spherical enough
Great question, I wonder too.
+supertigik
The lunar irregularities ("mountains and valleys" made mostly by craters) are actually a [dangerous] "feature" for total solar eclipses.
Because the iris opens automatically when the total ammount of light is low enough [but do not close if intense but tiny points are still present]; the same kind of damage by UV light that an electrical arc can cause (without protection) is also present on the "pearls" of sunlight still passing trough the deepest parts of the Moon when [almost] of the photosphere is already covered by it.
The necessary protection to safely see the Sun directly also makes imposible to apreciate the exact moment when the Moon completes the ocultation [a video recording is necessary in order to avoid eye damage].
- - - - -
Even if the Moon was a perfect opaque sphere, the Sun is not a laser beam (its surface it turbulent and complex, with rings of plasma coming out of it (the "atmosphere" also has its own bright in visible light).
But if it was, then the central "spot" will have similar lighting caracteristics than the Sun itself, making it as dangerous as the border-line spots of light explained above.
Argamis (SilverComet) interesting , thanks !
+Argamis (SilverComet) We live enough to 'see' that we can live years without sun glasses. And although they protect your eyes from UV lights we cannot be 24/7 using them, and I don't 'see' anyone having their eyes burned on daily basis. I don't deny their uses, but the glasses industry talk like we're going to get blind only for looking a few minutes for the moon.
Douglas Aranda
You can watch the Full Moon the entire night (blinking regulary) and nothing will happen to your eyes, because the ammount of reflected UV is negligible [there may be some psychological efects tough...]
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I was not talking about sunglases.
I was talking about watching The Sun *directly* (with or without using "filters"), in the middle of a total solar eclipse; instead of the safely method of a capture[camera]->reproduction[screen]; or a reverse proyection of the sunlight over a wall.
In normal conditions you can not watch the Sun at full bright (when it has no atenuation from clouds or suspended dust); because the overall luminosity is big enough for your nervous system to automatically close the iris of the eyes (to the point of generating pain and the need to blink or look away).
good experience, congratulations
While you mentioning the eye floaters, there are also string-like eyefloaters, which result in a line-like spot.
So, I think that it can also be visible with a capsule or cylindric objects. The important property is the light source. Directional lightrays is key.
You have the proof with the double-gap experiment. The distance between the gap (diameter of sphere or capsule) and the resulting inferences. Also the wavelength could be influencing the inferences (my assumption).
Thanks for this video.
Anyone: is this true?
Veritasium: Actually, no.
now tell me how much my shadow weighs
That video is on the Vsause channel
Miloš Zeman so does hydrogen and helium, not impressed
+lukassnakeman Are you pretending that you are stupid?
Gapponi maybeh ;)
+lukassnakeman Do a search on "I'm Fat" by Weird Al Yankovich. In that song, he sings that his shadow weighs 42 lbs.
Veritasium: give answers and explanations
Vsauce: give questions...and more questions...and more questions...and an answer
you forgot the existential crisis given at the end
This thing actually blows my mind .
👍🏼👍🏼
This is one of the best physics experiment i have ever watched on you tube ❤️
I actually laughed hard at the dude doing a naruto run at 6:36
I thought nobody else had seen it. But seems like you haven't seen bikes either.
Bruh he’s riding a bike or something.
That’s called cycling...
@BitterVoid I didn't see the bike the same way you didn't see the past 3 replies already mentioning he's on a bike :D
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Poissant's spot by the moon during a full eclipse...does that exist?
+Jay-Beats *Poisson
I don't think so. As he explains in the video the light from the source must be in phase and coherent.
Jay-Beats and moon’s surface is rough, so I don’t think that it will occur
Jay-Beats so where is the moon's shadow cast at?
+nightmare5479
He missed a bit of information when researching this:
ruclips.net/video/tF4iCgxsZX4/видео.html
5:53 who was focusing on his shadow the entire time
you 2 me
Lol
Wow!
Just WOW man! Super great material - thank you!
I would like to know what type of light Arago did experiment with? Aragon did not have laser, as you mentioned, so what type?
And how overall he did the experiment, thats whats missing in this video.
Did anyone notice the old naked guy behind the white fence at 1:15 LOL
If you pause at the right time, you can see he's wearing brown shorts.
Probably he is looking for bright spot.
Lux's Bewbs
I'd like to see Copenhagen explain that.
if its a girl im gonna fap until next year
+Lantera497 Rasio497 boi
So how did Arago do the experiment? Why is it so hard to replicate without a laser? This has troubled me. On the flip side excellent content with a wonderful twist in the end!
Very good question. Another good question is... how do we know the bright spot isnt a reflection like it was in the overhead projector? After all, there is a bright light on the wall to make the reflection, just like with the overhead, but a little farther out. If it was projected onto a Vantablack backdrop, with just small white dot in the middle, would the laser still show the effect? Otherwise, how do we not know this isnt also a reflection? Or use a Vantablack sphere and see if the effect is there. So many variables left untested by this demonstration.
Just seeing it didnt work except in very specific conditions makes me suspicioud
I'm in love with your teachings. Love love love love love