A year ago, I managed to attend a lecture by Yuri Tsokalovich Oganesyan. Throughout the lecture, he never mentioned the element by name and always referred to it as "element 118". In this lecture, I witnessed the Embodiment of Science
I really like that there's just a hole punched in the wall at 4:19. Just imagine the conversation with the architect when they realized the machine wouldn't fit.
It is most likely the building was constructed for something else and was used later on to build the accelerator. Why build an entire new building when you can just punch a hole.
Cicolas Nage Yeah I know it was probably reused but it's still great that they have this top of the line scientific equipment and then a rough hole in a concrete wall.
Actually it is not a wall. It is a bunch of really big concrete blocks made of special 'heavy' concrete to reduce radiation, so that detectors would detect less background radiation from cyclotron. It is just has some paint on the surface to look a bit better. If you were to look at it from above you would see those blocks separately. P.S. You could actually see those blocks in the video at 4:34 just look at the ceiling.
I have used test equipment 45 years of my life and I know what WW2 and Korean era equipment can do. I also know (and completely respect) what men of science can tinker together and I am sure Professor Yuri Oganessian has done a remarkable job with a very small and tight budget (small and tight being relative of course). This is a beautiful lab but it deserves to be with historic and culturally important structures and preserved and Professor Yuri Oganessian deserves a gofundme or similar and a planned built lab with much more accurate and reliable modern equipment. Gosh even the Professor had a OMGasm for that old periodic table on the wall.
I feel like this is one of the Professor's ultimate dreams, to see these elements and go to visit Russia and Oganessian and to see the processes and machines creating this stuff.
Yeah, that was my first thought, look at that chipped hole in the cement wall.... but then I thought again, ya know, the hole serves it's purpose, it may not look pretty, but the look of the hole has no effect on the outcome of the experiment that's being conducted. With limited funds, you could plop a wad of money on a pretty hole (which before this video almost no-one saw it) or spend precious funds on a pretty hole, that no-one cares about, and limits your research.
That was almost word for word my thought process, and I came to the same conclusion that you did. There's really no need to make a neat job of it other than because you want to, and I think they have much more to take pride in there than making neat holes in walls.
built by scientists, not engineers and safety briefings in all reality, the holes in the lhc probably look the same. they just put up some plasterboard to cover it up afterwards.
Am I wrong if I have the feeling that Pr. Oganessian, by his sheer enthusiasm talking about his great job and accomplishments, would be a great mate of Sir Martyn doing some others videos? I mean, this duo could be the Miami Vice of chemistry.
The difference between British/American laboratories and East European ones is quite striking. In the first case everything is super clean and polished and in the second one everything looks extremely... pragmatic is probably the best word. "Today we make atom. Tomorrow we make tank."
The most striking thing I saw at Fermilab was all of the old Sun Microsystems mainframes and workstations. but yeah: wide walkways, polished surfaces outside of the machining area.
nick4819 Yes I agree that you need certain amount of money, my point is to prove that having extraordinary success in science doesn't resolve that much around money. As much as around more important stuff like having an idea & being devoted to scientific exploration
What an honour having an element named after you. I can just imagine people 500-1000 years from now reading about the people the elements are named after. Incredible to imagine that scientists within the past couple centuries will be remembered throughout human existence because their names are engraved on the periodic table.
I just wanted to leave here a (roughly translated) fragment from an interview with Yuri Oganessian regarding the purpose of science. "Not everyone has the desire and the ability to live only for the sake of an abstract idea; not everyone is willing to come back and start all over again after taking the wrong way. But the person who is obessed with a goal, an idea, a thought is willing - as strange as it may sound - to dedicate their life to it. And with making this decision the person also loses a lot. I think that to a degree we - me and my colleagues - are limited due to the massive amounts of time, strength and energy that we have spent (and are continuing to spend) on the one single task. And all these sacrifices, the persistent striving for the goal may never pay off; there is a very high probability that you will get nothing as a result. And you always need to be ready for that. And also need to be ready for the fact that the society won't understand your work. And even if they will, it will probably happen after your death, which, unfortunately, happens quite often. Isn't it the same in art? Paintings are starting to be sold for millions of dollars when the artist is not alive anymore. And he had a hard life, barely making ends meet... But it didn't stop the artist, he still put his brush to the canvas over and over again, simply because there was no other way he could live."
Thank you for the tour and explanation. You make nuclear physics seem like a simple process. I'm quite surprised at the ratio of material costs to operational costs just for a few atoms, but the research is priceless. I can remember as a child in school that the elements "ended" at 99, with 100 - 103 as being unnamed. Today we have 118 elements. Many thanks for your efforts!!!
This is really incredible. The facility looks slightly dated and haphazardly assembled. Perfect acknowledgment that success isn't necessarily borne of riches and beauty.
For some reason I'm just noticing the myriad number of wires and hoses all around this place - all the walls ceilings etc, and I wonder to myself "Each one of these does something" - it's an incredible maze and I wonder how it was all planned, set up, and put together?
What ever happened to the hypothesised 'Island of stability', an area of superheavy elements that could be very stable. Are people still researching in that area?
Yes, and the latest few elements skirt very close to it, such that they decay more slowly than would otherwise be expected. I almost wonder if they've made some without realising it, because their decay is so delayed that the equipment hasn't detected it.
But in that case they would be able to detect it anyway wouldnt they? They wouldn't be able to pinpoint it's atomic number tho. Because as far as I understand it depends on the decaying elements.
Professor Poliakoff was nerdgasming throughout the whole video!! It's so endearing to see the brightest minds re-connect with child-like wonder to the world and our latest advances in understanding it!
I get the impression that Yuri is quite the character and would be a fun guy to be around. The little mischievous grin he had when the professor gave him the periodic 'cape' was great.
This is amazing given A. This man is as knowledgable on this subject as he is B. He is as knowledgable on the subject as an L2 english speaker C. He is as knowledgable as an L2 english speaker who is likely older than Professor Poliakoff.
it is so amazing to see how science connects the world and even more important makes things happen, that seemed to be impossible... hope that there will be way more new findings and results from science in the future :)
Very impressive video. Very impressive scientific work professor Oganessian and his Dubna team is performing. Nice presentation done by professoe Poliakoff. Congratulations. We are looking forward for the discovery of element 119and 120 🙂
man what an honor to make an element, it's not like creating the first car or bow and arrow, it's making a whole fundamental building block of the universe that can be replicated over and over. insane
Make new elements! Americans: It will cost billions of dollars and lots of time plus of course hundreds of scientists and... Russians: Alright, we'll see if we can put something together from old equipment
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helfire I love this channel it's way above my head but it is very very good comparing it to what I do for a living mending steam engines it fascinates me can't wait to see more
Dr. Richard Feynman, in his biography stated that when he was at MIT doing his undergrad they had the newest and most hi-tech particle accelerator, in contrast to Princeton whose students had constructed their particle accelerator from scratch in the basement of the physics department, need less to say it was Princeton who won that battle.
what about the alchemical imagery from the Rosicrucian text that expresses using copper tubing wrapped with copper wire around an electromagnet in the middle of the tubing torus using the triangular pattern of magnets with shale, cinnabar, sulfur as prima materia; sodium, sodium bicarbonate, sodium tetraborate, magnesium sulfate and potassium nitrate as oxidaters; iron, copper, lead, gold, silver, zinc, and tin/aluminum? as metal transfers in the circumference of the copper tubing/wire torus(tb eternity loop)??
I asked this in the calcium 48 video and ill ask it again: Is it possible to recover the calcium after it goes through the disk? won't it make the entire process much cheaper if you can at least recover a small amount of the calcium and reuse it for another round?
can you do a more up to date video on cadmium and it's uses in battery applications please? also could you explain that it is safe when sealed as well please?
I sure hope they do a video on Fluoroantimonic acid. I'd be so cool to watch it eat through some steel or something. And I imagine that only these guys would have the resources to do a demonstration/experiment with it safely. In fact, you can even buy the stuff online.
When I saw that there are hard captions for Oganessian's statements, I thought he was going to be either speaking Russian, or hard to understand. He was neither. Captions are nice, but I don't think they needed to be forced on in this particular case. His English is quite intelligible -- more intelligible than some University professors who have been in English-speaking countries for most of their professional lives. Caption? Yes. Hard caption? Not necessary.
A year ago, I managed to attend a lecture by Yuri Tsokalovich Oganesyan.
Throughout the lecture, he never mentioned the element by name and always referred to it as "element 118".
In this lecture, I witnessed the Embodiment of Science
It's amazing, you can just see the joy he takes in his work. He knows what he's doing is awesome.
What are you doing here 12tone? :D
Professor Yuri looks very swift and light for someone made out of Oganesson...
😊
especially for someone who has almost 90 years behind them
@@defeatSpace Oganesson with half-life of more than 90 years? Bruh that's crazy!
@@Bemajster the dude not the element XD
@@defeatSpace i know lol
I really like that there's just a hole punched in the wall at 4:19. Just imagine the conversation with the architect when they realized the machine wouldn't fit.
It is most likely the building was constructed for something else and was used later on to build the accelerator.
Why build an entire new building when you can just punch a hole.
Cicolas Nage Yeah I know it was probably reused but it's still great that they have this top of the line scientific equipment and then a rough hole in a concrete wall.
you know youre in a russian lab when...
Actually it is not a wall. It is a bunch of really big concrete blocks made of special 'heavy' concrete to reduce radiation, so that detectors would detect less background radiation from cyclotron. It is just has some paint on the surface to look a bit better. If you were to look at it from above you would see those blocks separately.
P.S. You could actually see those blocks in the video at 4:34 just look at the ceiling.
SoFZlodei24 Actually it's a storm drain.
Those two men look like science indeed. Now, if Yuri lives to 118 years of age, his life will be complete.
"He told me they had just used equipment they had lying around the lab. It produced 6 new elements."
Well. Okay Russia, calm down please.
It's true, just lie in Iron-Man when he made a new element with some scraps lying around his house and an old shield.
@@hughmungus6838 Iron-man's machine is little and short when u compare them lol
American scientists and engineers: “It doesnt exist...-“
American government: “THE RUSSIANS WERE ABLE TO BUILD THIS IN A CAVE!”
Amazing how cutting edge science is being created in a lab that looks like it was built just after WW2.
It's not about the looks, y'know. All about reliable and durable materials.
I have used test equipment 45 years of my life and I know what WW2 and Korean era equipment can do. I also know (and completely respect) what men of science can tinker together and I am sure Professor Yuri Oganessian has done a remarkable job with a very small and tight budget (small and tight being relative of course). This is a beautiful lab but it deserves to be with historic and culturally important structures and preserved and Professor Yuri Oganessian deserves a gofundme or similar and a planned built lab with much more accurate and reliable modern equipment. Gosh even the Professor had a OMGasm for that old periodic table on the wall.
To be fair, some of it probably is from the 50's
FLNR (the lab) was founded in 1957, and U-400 (the cyclotron) was initially built in 1978 (but later modernised and reconstructed).
@@Quinteger same thing can be said about junks LOL
I feel like this is one of the Professor's ultimate dreams, to see these elements and go to visit Russia and Oganessian and to see the processes and machines creating this stuff.
It gives you chills just by watching what's behind elements synthesis. Incredible, wise and humble people.
All that sophisticated and precision equipment together with a really rough hole in the wall (9:02)
Yeah, that was my first thought, look at that chipped hole in the cement wall.... but then I thought again, ya know, the hole serves it's purpose, it may not look pretty, but the look of the hole has no effect on the outcome of the experiment that's being conducted. With limited funds, you could plop a wad of money on a pretty hole (which before this video almost no-one saw it) or spend precious funds on a pretty hole, that no-one cares about, and limits your research.
That was almost word for word my thought process, and I came to the same conclusion that you did. There's really no need to make a neat job of it other than because you want to, and I think they have much more to take pride in there than making neat holes in walls.
built by scientists, not engineers and safety briefings
in all reality, the holes in the lhc probably look the same. they just put up some plasterboard to cover it up afterwards.
As long as everything works, it will be fine... But still, even a nice plastered wall is part of the 'science'. Don't neglect it i would think.
4:20, not 9:02. The latter is the end of the video.
Am I wrong if I have the feeling that Pr. Oganessian, by his sheer enthusiasm talking about his great job and accomplishments, would be a great mate of Sir Martyn doing some others videos? I mean, this duo could be the Miami Vice of chemistry.
Aw yeah, I love watching these two. They're great.
Great duo always
Wait Oganesson is named after this guy!? Dang! These new elements are awesome! :)
The Professor always seems so cheerful and engaging in these videos. Thanks for sharing them with all of us.
The difference between British/American laboratories and East European ones is quite striking. In the first case everything is super clean and polished and in the second one everything looks extremely... pragmatic is probably the best word. "Today we make atom. Tomorrow we make tank."
And the day after that we make atom fight tank!
lol im done
Pile of carbon hey well as long as it works its fine
Pile of carbon and on the day after tomorrow, you make tank small as atom
The most striking thing I saw at Fermilab was all of the old Sun Microsystems mainframes and workstations.
but yeah: wide walkways, polished surfaces outside of the machining area.
This is one of your best videos Brady. Thanks.
I've always admired how Russians make good science with little to no financial means.
ozdergecko you do not need some huge financial support to have remarkable results in science, all it takes is a creative mind & a will to explore 😃
....and money. you need to buy all the equipment you need. That stuff just doesnt pop into your lab out of nowhere.
nick4819 if theres little money, but a need for it/ or enough drive, passion ect, its going to be done
nick4819 Yes I agree that you need certain amount of money, my point is to prove that having extraordinary success in science doesn't resolve that much around money. As much as around more important stuff like having an idea & being devoted to scientific exploration
this is a joint scientific adventure, ~10 countries were involved in funding and researching it. It just so happened to be based in Russia
What an honour having an element named after you. I can just imagine people 500-1000 years from now reading about the people the elements are named after. Incredible to imagine that scientists within the past couple centuries will be remembered throughout human existence because their names are engraved on the periodic table.
I've been waiting for this video for so long! It made me incredibly happy, thank you Periodic Videos!
OMG, what a treasure of a video!
+DaxHamel thanks
I just wanted to leave here a (roughly translated) fragment from an interview with Yuri Oganessian regarding the purpose of science.
"Not everyone has the desire and the ability to live only for the sake of an abstract idea; not everyone is willing to come back and start all over again after taking the wrong way. But the person who is obessed with a goal, an idea, a thought is willing - as strange as it may sound - to dedicate their life to it. And with making this decision the person also loses a lot. I think that to a degree we - me and my colleagues - are limited due to the massive amounts of time, strength and energy that we have spent (and are continuing to spend) on the one single task. And all these sacrifices, the persistent striving for the goal may never pay off; there is a very high probability that you will get nothing as a result. And you always need to be ready for that. And also need to be ready for the fact that the society won't understand your work. And even if they will, it will probably happen after your death, which, unfortunately, happens quite often. Isn't it the same in art? Paintings are starting to be sold for millions of dollars when the artist is not alive anymore. And he had a hard life, barely making ends meet... But it didn't stop the artist, he still put his brush to the canvas over and over again, simply because there was no other way he could live."
This is beautiful Valeria, thank you very much. Do you have the source in Russian, I would love to read it with my rusty Russian and google translate.
He was so excited to show the professor around the cyclotron. It's adorable.
This is one of my favourite videos ever from this channel.
Actually of any science/education video ever.
And I don't say that lightly.
+JustOneAsbesto thank you
You're very welcome.
nice to meet your Russian brother
Russia: "had some spare lab parts - thought Id make some atoms"
Yuri pulled a 'Tony Stark'.
Thank you for the tour and explanation. You make nuclear physics seem like a simple process. I'm quite surprised at the ratio of material costs to operational costs just for a few atoms, but the research is priceless. I can remember as a child in school that the elements "ended" at 99, with 100 - 103 as being unnamed. Today we have 118 elements. Many thanks for your efforts!!!
He is wonderful he started in 2005. Watching him age is lovely as he is
close to to my age terrific series
This is really incredible. The facility looks slightly dated and haphazardly assembled. Perfect acknowledgment that success isn't necessarily borne of riches and beauty.
These are my favorite notifications! Best UA-cam channel EVER.
For some reason I'm just noticing the myriad number of wires and hoses all around this place - all the walls ceilings etc, and I wonder to myself "Each one of these does something" - it's an incredible maze and I wonder how it was all planned, set up, and put together?
You can tell. A few days and those two would be best buds. Watching people with a passion for the same subject is priceless.
I love how he sounds so joyful in his work.
this man is a real hero.
What ever happened to the hypothesised 'Island of stability', an area of superheavy elements that could be very stable. Are people still researching in that area?
Yes, and the latest few elements skirt very close to it, such that they decay more slowly than would otherwise be expected. I almost wonder if they've made some without realising it, because their decay is so delayed that the equipment hasn't detected it.
But in that case they would be able to detect it anyway wouldnt they?
They wouldn't be able to pinpoint it's atomic number tho. Because as far as I understand it depends on the decaying elements.
I love how the professor is so giddy about the radioactive periodic table lol
8:31 I hope you got that picture printed and signed, would be worth a lot.
He has all my respect
Professor Poliakoff was nerdgasming throughout the whole video!! It's so endearing to see the brightest minds re-connect with child-like wonder to the world and our latest advances in understanding it!
How exciting to be there and have Prof. Oganessian himself show you around.
big thanks to periodic vids and Yuri for putting this together :)
Sir you are gonna get a noble for oganesson . What a great person he is....
I get the impression that Yuri is quite the character and would be a fun guy to be around. The little mischievous grin he had when the professor gave him the periodic 'cape' was great.
thank you for showing us such an incredible place... and such an incredible man.
Shout out to chemists around the world for being a 21st century wizard
Periodic videos are the best, I love the fascinating science behind each video. Well done to all at the University of Nottingham :)
what a privilege to see the inner workings of the machines behind super heavy element creation :)
This is amazing given
A. This man is as knowledgable on this subject as he is
B. He is as knowledgable on the subject as an L2 english speaker
C. He is as knowledgable as an L2 english speaker who is likely older than Professor Poliakoff.
This is by far my favorite video you have made. This is so cool! Thank you!
it is so amazing to see how science connects the world and even more important makes things happen, that seemed to be impossible... hope that there will be way more new findings and results from science in the future :)
Very impressive video. Very impressive scientific work professor Oganessian and his Dubna team is performing. Nice presentation done by professoe Poliakoff. Congratulations.
We are looking forward for the discovery of element 119and 120 🙂
man what an honor to make an element, it's not like creating the first car or bow and arrow, it's making a whole fundamental building block of the universe that can be replicated over and over. insane
I'm going out to my garage to see if I have enough stuff lying around. I'm gonna build me one of those accelerator things.
That's how that CERN fella got started, with just a shovel and 27km of superconducting magnets.
Damn, I only had 13km of superconducting magnets in my garage, but I did find two shovels!
Make new elements!
Americans: It will cost billions of dollars and lots of time plus of course hundreds of scientists and...
Russians: Alright, we'll see if we can put something together from old equipment
He seemed pretty calm for the second person in history to know they have an element named after them.
And the only living one too!
The only man alive rn who can say that an element in a periodic table is named after him. So cool.
thank you for this great video. looking forward to see more of bouth profesors! greeting from germany by a russian/british philosophy student
if only people cared more about actual heroes like this than kardashians
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thats not irony
P R E A C H
YES!!!! I love this guys youtube channel!! :D
Ikr
People do.
Probably your most moving video to date. Bravo!
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this is incredible I would have loved to be able to be there and see this amazing machine thank you very very much
I don't think I've ever met anyone this brilliant in my life.
amazing how everything looks so soviet there. Also the size of the the accelerator gives you the perspective on the scale of LHC.
The professor is as happy near dated radioactive periodic tables as a child in an ice cream shop
Fascinating. I always imagined you needed more space for this.
It's amazing what people can do with what they have laying around them.
They built it with scraps around the office lol! Really puts me in my place intellectually since I struggle with IKEA furniture!
Relatable
I assemble my Ikea furniture by accelerating the components to 10% of the speed of light and aiming them at the centre of the room
love the explanations, need more. is there more, i could watch this for an hour.
+roelvoort we have more to come from our Dubna trip.
4:20 soviet engineering at its finest... but seriously it is an amazing and historic machine!
Indeed, old but gold. Element 118 is the most expensive element on earth.
I love these videos. A great man here. Two great men here in this one actually :)
Fascinating. Could watch hours upon hours of this.
This kind of science communication would make Einstein and Eddington proud. Well done!
4:20 reminds me of how Tony Stark punched a hole through the wall to create his new element "Badassium".
helfire I love this channel it's way above my head but it is very very good comparing it to what I do for a living mending steam engines it fascinates me can't wait to see more
Dr. Richard Feynman, in his biography stated that when he was at MIT doing his undergrad they had the newest and most hi-tech particle accelerator, in contrast to Princeton whose students had constructed their particle accelerator from scratch in the basement of the physics department, need less to say it was Princeton who won that battle.
A very impressive system.
yes
I like the radioactive periodic table.
"Made with parts they had laying around" only in Russia
I wonder if Roscosmos say that all the time.
youkofoxy sadly, yes...
what about the alchemical imagery from the Rosicrucian text that expresses using copper tubing wrapped with copper wire around an electromagnet in the middle of the tubing torus using the triangular pattern of magnets with shale, cinnabar, sulfur as prima materia; sodium, sodium bicarbonate, sodium tetraborate, magnesium sulfate and potassium nitrate as oxidaters; iron, copper, lead, gold, silver, zinc, and tin/aluminum? as metal transfers in the circumference of the copper tubing/wire torus(tb eternity loop)??
Wow! Thanks for showing us this. It's fascinating to see science history in the flesh.
Nobody is gonna ask this guy how it feels to have an element named after him?
He probably would say " It feels very nice"
I had been missing your videos, guys. 😃
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As a child I had a s science book with 104 Kurtschatowium. In west Germany
Same here, in Spain. Saw plenty of periodic tables with Kurchatovium as the last element in the table.
Nice to see two genius !
Absolutely fascinating! Thanks for making this video and sharing a remarkable facility with your viewers. :-)
I propose that we should make russian subtitles to every video
I asked this in the calcium 48 video and ill ask it again:
Is it possible to recover the calcium after it goes through the disk? won't it make the entire process much cheaper if you can at least recover a small amount of the calcium and reuse it for another round?
FlyingJetpack1 failed collisions usually dont seperate back into calcium and titanium, they are turned into random other elements.
I see, thanks for clearing it up :)
One day, I wish to meet Yuri Oganessian. ❤️
What kind of science lab just has a cyclotron laying around?
"Oh yeah, thats from the old kitchen. We used it to make burritos on Fridays."
A dude showing us how to make an element named after him is pretty amazing.
I like how they just busted through the wall 4:18
can you do a more up to date video on cadmium and it's uses in battery applications please? also could you explain that it is safe when sealed as well please?
So what isotope were they trying to make whilst this was being filmed?
I was wondering that myself... I was also wondering what the background radiation level was in that lab.
probably Element 120, because It'll be more stable than 119
Caffiene with a punch?
With great respect
Suddenly I'm wondering what Prof. Oganessian's half-life is. I hope it's very long!
I love this kind of videos keep the great work up !
We missed you
SIMPLY AWESOME
Chemistry really keeps you young...! great men!
I sure hope they do a video on Fluoroantimonic acid. I'd be so cool to watch it eat through some steel or something. And I imagine that only these guys would have the resources to do a demonstration/experiment with it safely. In fact, you can even buy the stuff online.
What are the best natural product you can buy to chelate & clean heavy metals in the body? I know Chlorella but what are the other best?
When I saw that there are hard captions for Oganessian's statements, I thought he was going to be either speaking Russian, or hard to understand. He was neither. Captions are nice, but I don't think they needed to be forced on in this particular case. His English is quite intelligible -- more intelligible than some University professors who have been in English-speaking countries for most of their professional lives.
Caption? Yes. Hard caption? Not necessary.
i agree, it kinda felt condescending.
Was actually hoping Poliakoff would speak russian to honour Oganessian.
90hijacked, i bet they spoke russian off camera. These videos are mostly for english speakers so Oganessian was just polite.
I love how they made a hole (4:19) like tony stark would for his experiments :D