I love your passion for science and the thrill you get when explaining something to the viewers. I think that is what learning and sharing knowledge is all about. Keep up the good work. :D
@SplitSniper7 That'll keep you busy for a while... I think it is up past 1,000 videos now! :) Thanks for looking though... periodicvideos, nottinghamscience and backstagescience will keep you busy... And the new channels numberphile and DeepSkyVideos will be taking off soon!
Hold on a minute, how was he the first person to split an atom? That was Ernest Rutherford in 1917. And if Wikipedia is to be believed, he was also Ernest Walton's supervisor when he and John Cockcroft did their experiments.
Hey Brady, I just visited your new channel and didn't realize how many other channels you actually had, geeze now I must subscribe to all of them and watch them all! I have some catching up to do
There are 2 major awsomeness in youtube. Vsauce and sixty symbols, its a shame that I need to wait so long for these videos, but they are soo good that I dont care :D
that was such a sweet vid! and what a lovely guy. what lovely guys actually. thanks again Brady and all you guys for sharing so honestly and unselfconsciously :)
@w00td00t Bah, a mere trifle, for I have just this moment found out what a valediction is. Even though I've used them thousands of times I had no idea that they had a name. Now that's weird. Yours always, FreindlyRanger.
@heather0f What? Walton's work did by no mean kill anyone or had such intent. A scientist is always seeking for the truth and it's not his job to ensure that nobody abuses said truth. Being able to split the atom didn't and doesn't do humanity any good or bad. What happens with the knowledge found by the scientists and whether it is being used for good or bad purposes is other peoples job.
It's not about splitting the atom, it's about splitting the nucleus of an atom. These are two very different things, which you'd know if you listened instead of being salty. Walton was the first to split the nucleus of an atom, NOT the first one to split an atom itself, as simple as that.
What? how else do you "split an atom"? im a bit confused by this video too. It makes me think he set off a critical mass with an unimaginable small quantity of impure element; and awarded prize 5 years after WW2.
OK so I think you may be watering down my dstant cousin uncle E Ruthefords input into Walton and Cockcrofts 1932 proton experiment and lets face it even he owes most of the credit to ideas Einstein had proposed almost thirty years earlier. Its nice to lord some of your fellow countrymen but lets not undermine the true inventers.. Philo T Farnsworth springs to mind. Not quite the same but Im sure you get the point.
Don't be too hard on yourself, Moriarty. Are you aware of something called the Dunning-Kruger effect? Basically (As far as I understand it, which probably isn't very far), it means the most competent underestimate themselves and the incompetent overestimate themselves. So if the people around you think more highly of you than you do of yourself, the people around you are probably closer to the truth. Best Regards, Mike (First time I've ever used valediction in a youtube comment. Feels weird.)
I keep noticing that all astrophysicists and particle physicists, when they are explaining are sort of rocking back and forth.. >.> xD pointless information ftw.
A nobel prize for splitting that unseen by thine eyes For all his tiresome works, just to break apart a few little quarks Whats that? I hear some clicks.... its the observation of quantum mechanics. I'm no poet! but you have to have comedy.
0:42 "Target the nucleus with protons"?? You don't split an atom by firing protons at it, you do it with neutrons. What is this rubbish that I am watching
It impress me how calm and clear many of the professors are around there. It's really a pleasure to hear them, no matter what they say.
Professor Ignatius McGovern... that is an awesome name
This is so good to see...as a member of the Ernest Walton family...great...!
@Tridecalogism we're grateful to vsauce for mentioning us! and as always, thanks for watching! ;)
That's got to be the longest preamble to a short poem that I've ever had the pleasure of hearing!
Your enthusiasm is great to see ... and infectious!
Gentle conversation with ultimate smile at last beside the great professor the cartoonist has added a pinch of salt. Thanks.
Phil Moriarty is so insanely awesome
@TheSurvivalTheory thanks for watching
I love your passion for science and the thrill you get when explaining something to the viewers. I think that is what learning and sharing knowledge is all about. Keep up the good work. :D
that's how one should be about science. and this is the sort of passion that i hope catches with people.
@sixtysymbols As long as Professor Moriarty is in those videos I'll watch them!
Really cool well done vid."the gentle tapping of the silversmith"Love that
@rickimam thank you... it's fun making them.
A wonderful gem of history
@Skindoggiedog that's okay... we enjoy them too!
You made my day sixtysymbols.
@SplitSniper7 That'll keep you busy for a while... I think it is up past 1,000 videos now! :)
Thanks for looking though... periodicvideos, nottinghamscience and backstagescience will keep you busy... And the new channels numberphile and DeepSkyVideos will be taking off soon!
Thank you for the poetry jam.
3:08 "You can hear everything that's around. Noises, for example"
Does that mean he can hear non-noises?
Again, another great video. Thanks a lot for uploading these.
Went to Trinity College a few years ago and saw the book of Kells. Wonderful.
Hold on a minute, how was he the first person to split an atom? That was Ernest Rutherford in 1917. And if Wikipedia is to be believed, he was also Ernest Walton's supervisor when he and John Cockcroft did their experiments.
i love this guy, hes so passionate about science
I was in Dublin a few weeks ago, I saw Trinity College!
Hey Brady, I just visited your new channel and didn't realize how many other channels you actually had, geeze now I must subscribe to all of them and watch them all! I have some catching up to do
There are 2 major awsomeness in youtube. Vsauce and sixty symbols, its a shame that I need to wait so long for these videos, but they are soo good that I dont care :D
Thanks for keeping up the good work! I really enjoy your vids!
Excellent, excellent video! Aloha!
love this channel
Perhaps my favorite 60 symbols yet...
subbed to your channel today
and absolutely loving it!
@mikenoike What things do you need to mash to pass; potatoes, carrots etc.?
Thank you for all your great videos! Why do you have so little subscribers and views?
Awww, this is a really sweet video.
that was such a sweet vid! and what a lovely guy. what lovely guys actually. thanks again Brady and all you guys for sharing so honestly and unselfconsciously :)
Welcome home :)
Why are Irish poems so awesome?
Thank you for making this video. I have found your channel to be exquisite
well, it's just a brand name for modeling clay, and play dough is a dough (made with water and flour etc)
@itsMinuteMaid it says splitting the nucleus of the atom. ;)
modeling clay isn't necessarily made from clay (as much as the name might imply) it is merely a malleable substance used for sculpting
Disappointing that the poem was apparently cut off at the end.
Some great anecdotes ... Kudos :-)
That theatre room was featured in Hearst asylum movie wasn't it
@w00td00t Bah, a mere trifle, for I have just this moment found out what a valediction is. Even though I've used them thousands of times I had no idea that they had a name. Now that's weird.
Yours always,
FreindlyRanger.
"You can hear everything that's around....noises, for example." lol
Famous physicist "Behind The Green Door". LOL.
1:32 This made me laugh,
my desk is held together with bluetac.
Hi, can you make a video about energy from Thorium? Thanks so much, i love your videos
Albert Tremblay check Periodic Videos.
I have seen the channel. thanks
to be fair, in your original comment you equated them, which is misleading
aw yeah new sixty symbols video! :D
great job once again :)
Do they have a video on Hamilton?
i love sixty symbols
The lecture theater looks like Schrodinger's theater :O
i use a Cockcroft-Walton generator in my Tesla coil circuit :D thanks guys!!
Do you know John boy?
I guess you could say Ernest Walton had an...earnest...personality. :)
The man who proved Democritus and Leucippus wrong. Or at least not quite correct, in that the 'unsplittable' was in fact splittable
Indeed a humble man, if I split the atom I'd probably end up using it as a pick up line :D
@Copimi I failed at splitting the atom too. But I'm not bitter. Thumbs up.
0:58 he specified that they split the nucleus, might have been a different experiment...
hmmm I really enjoy your vids... :D
cool.
Bleep Bloop! Achievement unlocked: Split the Atom!
they're different
Wait, "he knows exactly how little physics I actually know"? I'm doomed...
Why no 'waltonium'?
4:36 what if it first landed on a different step???? wtf
Oh yeah told smitty about the single malt whiskey, I hope you now agree the universe is accelerating
Also, his accent.
@URKillingme100 I'm sure they're just being polite to me... :) But thanks anyway!
2:50 - What the hell, is that Comic Sans I see?
@heather0f What? Walton's work did by no mean kill anyone or had such intent. A scientist is always seeking for the truth and it's not his job to ensure that nobody abuses said truth. Being able to split the atom didn't and doesn't do humanity any good or bad. What happens with the knowledge found by the scientists and whether it is being used for good or bad purposes is other peoples job.
@Tridecalogism two new channels coming from me... numberphile (about numbers) and DeepSkyVideos (about astronomy)
Check them out!
wtf what about Ernest Rutherford?
@lepthymo
lets say its just pretty damn small :D
The flimzy wall lol
ball bearing counting badass.
IRISH = AWESOME
Plasticine = Bodger ..I love it. :)
surely Hamilton is the most important Irish physicist?
you are too modest!
4 people failed at spliting an atom.
More like hammer and spaaaark.
2:50 Comic Sans, we meet again...
Excellent spotting of a terrible choice (of font).
I wish he would stop saying that Walton split the atom...that's wrong...Rutherford split the atom!
It's not about splitting the atom, it's about splitting the nucleus of an atom. These are two very different things, which you'd know if you listened instead of being salty. Walton was the first to split the nucleus of an atom, NOT the first one to split an atom itself, as simple as that.
What? how else do you "split an atom"? im a bit confused by this video too. It makes me think he set off a critical mass with an unimaginable small quantity of impure element; and awarded prize 5 years after WW2.
See the dislike bar? Neither do I.
I thought New Zealander Ernest Rutherford woz the first to split the atom and lectured Walton. Could be wrong thou :)
Physics TMZ.
OK so I think you may be watering down my dstant cousin uncle E Ruthefords input into Walton and Cockcrofts 1932 proton experiment and lets face it even he owes most of the credit to ideas Einstein had proposed almost thirty years earlier. Its nice to lord some of your fellow countrymen but lets not undermine the true inventers.. Philo T Farnsworth springs to mind. Not quite the same but Im sure you get the point.
Don't be too hard on yourself, Moriarty. Are you aware of something called the Dunning-Kruger effect?
Basically (As far as I understand it, which probably isn't very far), it means the most competent underestimate themselves and the incompetent overestimate themselves. So if the people around you think more highly of you than you do of yourself, the people around you are probably closer to the truth.
Best Regards,
Mike (First time I've ever used valediction in a youtube comment. Feels weird.)
another room 13b...
COMIC SANS!
Unacceptable.
Ignatius McGovern is almost as good a name as Philip Moriarty.
Almost.....
Did you mean hammer and sickle? *commie dab*
I keep noticing that all astrophysicists and particle physicists, when they are explaining are sort of rocking back and forth.. >.> xD pointless information ftw.
A nobel prize for splitting that unseen by thine eyes
For all his tiresome works, just to break apart a few little quarks
Whats that? I hear some clicks.... its the observation of quantum mechanics.
I'm no poet! but you have to have comedy.
0:42 "Target the nucleus with protons"?? You don't split an atom by firing protons at it, you do it with neutrons. What is this rubbish that I am watching