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  • @DexM47
    @DexM47 5 років тому +7842

    I love the fact that they know exactly what's gonna happen but still find it marvelous when it happens.

    • @g4macdad
      @g4macdad 5 років тому +73

      Shows that atheists are not nearly as sure as they pretend to be. In fact, sure of nothing.

    • @nonotherthananother
      @nonotherthananother 5 років тому +21

      They spend money and 3h of their time just to film this. Idiots, they don't need chamber this big, and best of all it is a cornerstone law of physics, so better believe it and go to the pub.

    • @ReasonMakes
      @ReasonMakes 5 років тому +308

      It is the most satisfying thing in science to predict something and then see it follow your prediction

    • @nonotherthananother
      @nonotherthananother 5 років тому +3

      @@metroid1 Of course.

    • @ysteinlndalnilsen9924
      @ysteinlndalnilsen9924 5 років тому +234

      @@g4macdad Wait so only atheists believe in gravity?? I really don't understand what atheism has to do with this video. But if ur wondering why scientist make a smile when theories gets proven correct, its simply the fact that in science u have to prove to be right. Even tho we know pretty much 99% that a theory is correct we still have to test and prove till we truly know the facts. On the other side we have people like u, who i assume is religious. Would u say believing a book written by who ever 1000+ years ago is being critical? Sure u can believe it, that's up to u and i have no problem with that. But in science we actually try our best to look for the facts and explore this wonderful world and universe. If everyone was just gonna read one book and not keep looking for new answers we would not be here on a computer watching this video right now. U should never underestimate the importance of science. And also, there are multiple scientists with religious beliefs.

  • @rick1646
    @rick1646 4 роки тому +6611

    Imagine Galileo seeing it he would have cried watching this amount of beauty.

    • @theseductivepotato7459
      @theseductivepotato7459 4 роки тому +73

      Wasn't Newton the one who predicted that a feather and a brick would fall down at at the same speed if air resistance wasn't present?

    • @theseductivepotato7459
      @theseductivepotato7459 4 роки тому +164

      Oh my bad, just checked and turns out it was Galileo, thanks

    • @emanuelxavier9923
      @emanuelxavier9923 4 роки тому +81

      @@theseductivepotato7459 newton just prove mathematically the concept

    • @unbeatableox3846
      @unbeatableox3846 4 роки тому +26

      @@emanuelxavier9923Physicists always prove things mathematically.

    • @mbayoumi1
      @mbayoumi1 4 роки тому +61

      @@theseductivepotato7459 500 years before Newton and Galileo, it was said in Arabic book written by Abu'l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī. , u can recheck

  • @adam_fakes
    @adam_fakes 4 роки тому +2410

    I love the look on the Engineer's faces, they know it, but to see it.

    • @fromnorway643
      @fromnorway643 4 роки тому +88

      Yes, knowing something and seeing it with your own eyes are two different things.
      One of the Apollo 14 astronauts, Edgar Mitchell, once said in an interview that the lunar mission changed him from having an _intellectual_ understanding of the immensity of the universe and the Earth's tiny place in it to having a deep _gut_ understanding.

    • @ianproudlove1540
      @ianproudlove1540 3 роки тому +3

      That was full speed u loony

    • @eventcone
      @eventcone 3 роки тому +4

      @Bugs Bunny It was already "shattered".

    • @shazanali692
      @shazanali692 3 роки тому +2

      The engeneers probally never did this experiment until cox told them, so thats why they are amazed, or they had not done it in a couole of years

    • @Amen-Magi
      @Amen-Magi 3 роки тому +1

      If know somthing its not mean you be tierd too see it again .like seeing you family or eat your Favorite food.or listening you do it all your life you dont bored

  • @VivekBarolia
    @VivekBarolia Місяць тому +222

    How many are here because of ashu sir

  • @Desmodromic916
    @Desmodromic916 5 років тому +2852

    In Nasa research center, they countdown from 10 before flushing the toilet

    • @kougou48
      @kougou48 5 років тому +23

      HAHAHAHAHAHA

    • @Omi142
      @Omi142 5 років тому +6

      Lol

    • @willclark8970
      @willclark8970 5 років тому +94

      and call out "preparing for drop"

    • @RV-fg3ml
      @RV-fg3ml 5 років тому +35

      And gravity pulls the shit out of their ass

    • @elijahcox6920
      @elijahcox6920 5 років тому

      Yes.

  • @TackerTacker
    @TackerTacker 4 роки тому +3237

    Why did they show it in slowmo only? I'd have loved to also see it in real time :(
    Seeing a feather drop to the ground as fast as a bowling ball would've been the much more interesting shot IMO

    • @dekab6133
      @dekab6133 4 роки тому +408

      Yeah, it slightly piss me off the lack of real time shot.

    • @Mohammed_Ahmed99
      @Mohammed_Ahmed99 3 роки тому +30

      I'm pretty sure that the bowling ball would fall at the same speed as the feather

    • @-x-3694
      @-x-3694 3 роки тому +206

      Watch in 2x speed 😎

    • @dekab6133
      @dekab6133 3 роки тому +33

      @@lucasdotmcq Nope, it's the feather that fall faster without attrition

    • @DJFiBa
      @DJFiBa 3 роки тому +28

      It's NASA on BBC...

  • @baekhyunee4u
    @baekhyunee4u 3 роки тому +2501

    Everyone's saying their teacher forced them to watch this but I came here myself....

    • @TheTimesOfOld
      @TheTimesOfOld 3 роки тому +21

      Same

    • @hala4324
      @hala4324 3 роки тому +10

      LOL me too

    • @parzival7309
      @parzival7309 3 роки тому +34

      Same lol,there is no more beautifil thing than be passionated and curious about science,in every form it takes

    • @LARRYSEIPRODUCTSLLC
      @LARRYSEIPRODUCTSLLC 3 роки тому +4

      Q: What if there was an exterior magnet that balanced the middle in-between magnets g-force rotation around center magnet? 😁 Also my opinion on gravity is that exterior of planet earth is the condensed pressure on to earth pushing objects down that are not closest to its properties (likes attract) oil and water separate and decide position from the greater amount of mass that surrounds the smaller volume of mass. Is this possible? Please explain. Thanks

    • @Jay-lw8mi
      @Jay-lw8mi 3 роки тому +2

      same

  • @JavierBonillaC
    @JavierBonillaC Рік тому +277

    Not having this in real speed is the most frustrating thing that has happened to me in like 5 years!!! Imagine the chance of seeing a feather fall like a rock! Instead we get slow motion and the feather falling like we always see it falling.

    • @profquad
      @profquad Рік тому +22

      it's really driving me crazy

    • @Chevyguy723
      @Chevyguy723 4 місяці тому +20

      ditto, not sure wtf they were thinking

    • @IfUfindthisURlost
      @IfUfindthisURlost 4 місяці тому +18

      Yep! Seems a wasted oportunity. Those science guys aren't as smart as they make out!

    • @Seanw101
      @Seanw101 4 місяці тому +4

      Exactly

    • @haasoc2716
      @haasoc2716 4 місяці тому +1

      bro, it is for you to observe better:) still fascinating to see in slow motion.

  • @michaelmannucci
    @michaelmannucci 8 років тому +5282

    I'm actually so frustrated that they didn't show this in normal speed. I want to see feathers fall at regular speed. Wtf is wrong with the producers?

    • @TheSuperCommentGuy
      @TheSuperCommentGuy 8 років тому +848

      For once in our life we get to see feathers fall really fast. And then they slow it down!

    • @evanwilliams8289
      @evanwilliams8289 8 років тому +231

      didnt wait till the end of the video huh?

    • @Simbaw5100
      @Simbaw5100 8 років тому +5

      Michael Mannucci same!

    • @alexleibovici4834
      @alexleibovici4834 8 років тому +20

      +誰誰在
      Yes, it realy sounds stupid. Why do you think it was faked? What results have you expected?

    • @pinkfurryhat
      @pinkfurryhat 8 років тому +124

      i did but it only showed one second of it

  • @adamhowitt4033
    @adamhowitt4033 5 років тому +3748

    I’m sorry but what every person wants to see is a sheet of A4 paper go down perfectly straight and not do flips

    • @Sithlug
      @Sithlug 5 років тому +88

      the feathers didn't move but hit the ground with so much more force and speed than with resistance, feather/paper very similar

    • @druidofthefang
      @druidofthefang 5 років тому +145

      and do not slow it down and show the same slowed down footage 17 times...

    • @momo-zg3kn
      @momo-zg3kn 5 років тому +2

      Nice pic

    • @adamhowitt4033
      @adamhowitt4033 5 років тому

      momo cheers, assuming you are talking to me

    • @oldi184
      @oldi184 5 років тому +17

      True, a sheet of paper would be more impressive.

  • @TonyBullard
    @TonyBullard 10 років тому +2329

    I can't believe they never showed it fall at full speed! We've all seen bowling balls and other heavy object moves in slow motion...that's not unusual at all. But to see a feather fall quickly from that height without it being disturbed by air around it, that's novel! And yet the editors chose to leave out that footage entirely. I feel robbed!

    • @gonedeadforlife
      @gonedeadforlife 10 років тому +22

      they did show it towards the end pay attention

    • @TonyBullard
      @TonyBullard 10 років тому +18

      gonedeadforlife You got a timestamp? Cause I never saw it fall in real time.

    • @gonedeadforlife
      @gonedeadforlife 10 років тому +51

      Tony Bullard 4:13 they show it a little enough to see what it looks like

    • @TonyBullard
      @TonyBullard 10 років тому +156

      4 minutes and 41 seconds, and only about 3 quarters of a second, in a super wide angle, is at actual speed. Very lame.

    • @WillRose3
      @WillRose3 10 років тому +81

      Completely agree. Right from the first second of the video, that was the footage I was waiting for. Pretty disappointing.

  • @dsdy1205
    @dsdy1205 Рік тому +30

    I think what I love most of all is how all the seasoned NASA engineers are still nerding out about it. They put men on the Moon, the concepts involved in this experiment are child's play for them. But seeing a bowling ball and a feather fall at the same time, seeing that visceral smack of the feathers and watching the equations you use everyday come to life is still special.

    • @NVmountaineer
      @NVmountaineer 5 місяців тому +2

      ​@davidmudry5622 IF, you were inside this vacuum chamber, you couldn't throw the bowling ball... you would be dead.

    • @paoloorione
      @paoloorione 4 місяці тому +1

      the thing that hurts me most in this age of conspiracy is the lack of curiosity and imagination. The curiosity and imagination that sixty years ago allowed extraordinary men to accomplish extraordinary feats

    • @TheNagualWilliam
      @TheNagualWilliam 2 місяці тому

      If you believe a man went to the moon you are wasting your time studying anything and should be reading comics.......

    • @godbyone
      @godbyone 20 днів тому

      @@TheNagualWilliamfact. You will never see a nasa astronaut in a space suit in there with vacuum on. Fact. Will never happen. Has not been done . It would be pulled apart. In 3 minutes

  • @rajdeepchakraborty9533
    @rajdeepchakraborty9533 3 роки тому +287

    This is one of the most beautiful video I have ever seen. Years and years of humans pushing their knowledge just to understand the working of the universe in a much better way.

    • @KissMyFatAxe
      @KissMyFatAxe 3 роки тому +12

      And yet some people still claim it's all a lie and "fake news".
      Those people shouldn't breed.

    • @attav8
      @attav8 3 роки тому +3

      @@KissMyFatAxe it is fake lol

    • @Based-Anti-Theist
      @Based-Anti-Theist 3 роки тому +10

      @@attav8 Dont breed

    • @mikecheck1two453
      @mikecheck1two453 3 роки тому +4

      The feather’s move right as they are released, this is suspect. Why the slow motion and cut shots too? Man, show it in real time, uncut as well. Too many talented special effects folks out there to not have the uncut real time footage shown as well.

    • @heldermonteiro2718
      @heldermonteiro2718 2 роки тому +2

      @@KissMyFatAxe This test didn't answer the question if things are upside down how that things are attracted towards the planet

  • @WildPhotoShooter
    @WildPhotoShooter 3 роки тому +963

    Thinking of how Newton and Galileo would react to this, seeing their lifes work in action, puts a lump in my throat , they were two astounding human beings.

    • @atulyaaishwarya3550
      @atulyaaishwarya3550 3 роки тому +13

      Well, they observed it right but explained it wrong. It was actually Einstein

    • @muddyfunker3014
      @muddyfunker3014 3 роки тому

      I love this comment

    • @lucaslinares7806
      @lucaslinares7806 3 роки тому +1

      Some day we will be able to go back in time and tell them 😉

    • @WildPhotoShooter
      @WildPhotoShooter 3 роки тому +1

      @@lucaslinares7806 Im sceptical about time travel, 🤷🏻‍♂️

    • @emotionalvideos6897
      @emotionalvideos6897 3 роки тому

      @@WildPhotoShooter it was not Galileo, he just copied it...

  • @mazeu9105
    @mazeu9105 5 років тому +892

    I wanted to se how weird it would look if the feathers was falling fast, as fast as the bowling ball. But of course this was in slow motion.

    • @chrrissss
      @chrrissss 5 років тому +10

      Mazeu here’s a similar experiment doing showing full speed
      ua-cam.com/video/s9Zb3xAgIoY/v-deo.html

    • @asicdathens
      @asicdathens 5 років тому +2

      it has been done on the lunar surface.....

    • @Astrix_Jaeger
      @Astrix_Jaeger 5 років тому +4

      set video speed to 1.25

    • @Astrix_Jaeger
      @Astrix_Jaeger 5 років тому +3

      oh wait 1.5 rather

    • @Astrix_Jaeger
      @Astrix_Jaeger 5 років тому +3

      forget it, i tried 2.0 still shit like my suggestion

  • @burningnose5866
    @burningnose5866 6 місяців тому +24

    I am 62 and no teacher said I should look those videos. They are interresting for me...

  • @patroclus1729
    @patroclus1729 4 роки тому +223

    It's the most beautiful thing to watch, ball and the feather falling together.

    • @hunchily
      @hunchily 4 роки тому +5

      It would be if they didn't slow it down

    • @hunchily
      @hunchily 3 роки тому +2

      @Filthy Animal it's still slower than real-time speed

  • @FleaOnPeanut
    @FleaOnPeanut 9 років тому +280

    All that work and you never bother to run it at normal speed. Which would sell the whole element of heavy and light moving at the same speed. In slow motion it just seems dreamy and unreal. I don't get why people have a hard time getting this. Show both slow and normal speed if you have slow motion.

    • @therebel4332
      @therebel4332 9 років тому +3

      +FleaOnPeanut They wont show it in live speed because they can't. its a crock of shit and they know it which is why they are laughing their tits off. people have well and truly duped if they believe this crap.

    • @FleaOnPeanut
      @FleaOnPeanut 9 років тому +42

      Ah, right. This is why I shouldn't post comments on youtube. Thank you for reminding me. For the record I do like this video, and my gripe was with a technical style choice. I won't respond after this comment. Take care.

    • @DulksVenee
      @DulksVenee 9 років тому +11

      +FleaOnPeanut The slow motion is there so you can clearly see that they are travelling and accelerating at the same ratio. And of course... for dramatic effect. I agree on that part that they should have showed it at normal speed at least once.

    • @superbionicbatman
      @superbionicbatman 9 років тому +3

      +FleaOnPeanut Modern Science has to be fluffy and dreamy. Personally, I want real and I want facts.

    • @peterjf7723
      @peterjf7723 9 років тому +5

      +Andrew Jackson
      The bowling ball will fall faster in a vacuum than in air, both the feathers and the ball are slowed by air resistance.

  • @MarcoAGJ
    @MarcoAGJ 8 років тому +269

    The fact the second drop was shown in slow motion actually bugged me more than it should.

    • @whatevernoticed
      @whatevernoticed 8 років тому +1

      its 2016, you can make the video run at normal speed yourself.

    • @mikes899999
      @mikes899999 8 років тому +3

      It's 2017 ;)

    • @enquire422
      @enquire422 8 років тому +2

      Mikes8899 Earth is flat , BBC lies!

    • @jacobe1942
      @jacobe1942 8 років тому

      you never know, maybe it was sped up!

    • @jacobe1942
      @jacobe1942 8 років тому +1

      I am a free thinker like einstein. he would propose that if you can change the speed of the video feed then it is impossible to deduce what initial speed the ball was falling. perhaps without an atmosphere the pressure would cause gravity to have less of an impact, we do see the ball struck the card board at significant force though that is is probobaly not the case, but without a reference its impossible to say for sure. some other interesting observations.
      2:53 shows 1 ball 1 feather starting to drop, then next clip is ball and like 7 feathers? ok odd..... then at 4:16 the feather shows much more wind resistance and the ball dropping faster than the feather. and then back to the 7 feathers and 1 ball clip. so badly edited

  • @DeepSukhwani
    @DeepSukhwani Рік тому +2

    Just started reading Deep Simplicity by John Gribbin and searched for "objects falling on airless moon" and came right through to this video. Remarkable! Just fell in love with Science once again.

  • @pandorahecate1584
    @pandorahecate1584 2 роки тому +262

    Absolutely fascinating. Makes me wanna become a scientist. You can see how enthusiastic they are about it all makes me smile and its one of the most beautiful videos I have ever seen

    • @SuzukiKid400
      @SuzukiKid400 Рік тому +16

      Being a scientist or an engineer is a very rewarding career. A lot of frustration and issues to solve but when you get something to work as you intended, the joy is immeasurably satisfying!!!

    • @AlexandraGuttman-sd6ni
      @AlexandraGuttman-sd6ni 6 місяців тому +1

      You should give it a try! The world could always use another scientist!

    • @ericocb
      @ericocb 4 місяці тому

      Find wht u love and apply science to it

  • @Razta_S
    @Razta_S 5 років тому +456

    These guys who have been managing this multi million dollar structure are still fascinated by how this known principle of gravity works. That’s what I love about scientists. They are genuinely amazed by their field every time.

    • @sharpuslf
      @sharpuslf 5 років тому +11

      That is exactly what makes me suspicious. Their amazement would have faded away long ago, yet they pretend to be amazed for the camera. I get the host, presumably this is his first time...but the others? Seems odd.

    • @Razta_S
      @Razta_S 5 років тому +5

      If you want to doubt it, y don’t you try to find out for yourself? Instead of taking the easy way out and leaving a comment on a UA-cam vid.

    • @sharpuslf
      @sharpuslf 5 років тому

      @@Razta_S Who says I am not trying to find out how this works?

    • @albertraich3492
      @albertraich3492 5 років тому +9

      I guess they a very tight schedule, and this is just a break for them of their daily routine.

    • @Razta_S
      @Razta_S 5 років тому +1

      I’m not tying to argue with you. I just expressed my amazement. I appreciate your comments.

  • @jurassicparkmark4188
    @jurassicparkmark4188 4 роки тому +7581

    Who else is watching this in 2020 because your teacher made you

    • @AndreaVegaa
      @AndreaVegaa 4 роки тому +92

      okay but what conclusions did u get, cause they asked me that and I have no idea m8

    • @keenynman34
      @keenynman34 4 роки тому +74

      @@AndreaVegaa Theres gotta be a reason that the apple falls "Down" to the earth instead of going sideways or continuing up. He then developed a theory that there was a strange invisible force pulling things to the centre of the earth called "Gravity" And then he did a bunch of math and found out he was right.

    • @だいすけ-z8d
      @だいすけ-z8d 4 роки тому +24

      me from Japan

    • @kamyip4226
      @kamyip4226 4 роки тому +18

      Y e s-
      H e l p-

    • @Saami674
      @Saami674 4 роки тому +11

      yes from French

  • @NaaneVinu
    @NaaneVinu 4 місяці тому +1

    What amazes me, is when it is evacuated it's so dangerous inside due to the huge pressure difference between inside and outside, it can get imploded in huge pressure. It's just matter smallest hole inside. Also the pressure on the ball, could have broken but its a solid ball as mentioned.

  • @aaronclegg5696
    @aaronclegg5696 3 роки тому +349

    I teach 9th grade physics, and this video actually confuses my students. This film is the absolute best experimental demonstration of freefall's independence of mass, but it has one confusing point. The film shows the evacuated drop only in slow motion, never in real-time. As a result, most of my students believe that removing the air from the chamber makes both objects weightless and drastically slows down their acceleration. Even though I tell them repeatedly that the video is in slow motion, we know that students often don't listen to what we tell them, instead believing their eyes.
    Many of my students write things like this: "Reason why bowling ball and feather hit the ground in same time in vacuum chamber is because less air mean less force which seem like they standing stell and going very slowing down" [sic]
    This video would be much better for students if they first showed the real-time video of the vacuum condition before showing the slow motion video, just as they did in the first experiment (with air).

    • @alexleibovici4834
      @alexleibovici4834 2 роки тому +8

      > This video would be much better for students if they first showed the real-time video
      Yes, maybe... However, the entire fall takes less then 3 seconds, so that it would be difficult to observe that the two bodies are perfectly synchronized all the time...

    • @magoninhogamer
      @magoninhogamer 2 роки тому +9

      just put a small piece of paper over a notebook, then drop them to the ground, the notebook will remove air resistence behind it and the piece of paper won't be affected

    • @alexleibovici4834
      @alexleibovici4834 2 роки тому

      @@magoninhogamer
      > just put a small piece [...]
      And what will this prove?

    • @supeskrim
      @supeskrim 2 роки тому +3

      @@alexleibovici4834 The much lighter paper (feather) without buoyancy/drag coeficient of medium fall at the same rate as the much heavier notebook/book/object. If the paper & notebook is drop side by side the fall rate is significantly differ due to CD of medium. The same principle can be used to safe gas/energy by tailgating a larger vehicle or in race your opponent car/bycycle/etc, or bird formation for lengthy flight.

    • @alexleibovici4834
      @alexleibovici4834 2 роки тому

      @@supeskrim
      > The much lighter paper (feather) without buoyancy/drag coeficient of medium fall at the same rate as the much heavier notebook/book/object.
      This is a completely different phenomenon that the one presented in this video. The one in this video is purported to show that the acceleration of a body does not depend on its mass IF the only force acting on it is gravity.

  • @rahulb.329
    @rahulb.329 5 років тому +653

    Couldn't even insert 2 seconds of normal speed clip? Wtf

    • @shanedonlon1039
      @shanedonlon1039 5 років тому +20

      Rahul Bondar look for the full documentary idiot. You’ll find that they do show it at normal speed. Don’t Rely UA-cam showing you everything you want to see.

    • @vargasbasti
      @vargasbasti 5 років тому +13

      ua-cam.com/video/s9Zb3xAgIoY/v-deo.html normal speed

    • @marvinmartinsYT
      @marvinmartinsYT 5 років тому +2

      Why do you need that

    • @rachytony7827
      @rachytony7827 4 роки тому

      @LUNA GUEVARA hahahaha

    • @rwood1995
      @rwood1995 4 роки тому +3

      @@marvinmartinsYT because......... 9.8 meters per second per second ..... god dammit. The vacuum is to demonstrate gravity interaction in its purest form.

  • @brucebaxter6923
    @brucebaxter6923 8 років тому +593

    Amazing how slow the ball falls in a vacuum.

    • @insidemechanics
      @insidemechanics 8 років тому +38

      Haha

    • @oreolamp5676
      @oreolamp5676 8 років тому +32

      Is this comment serious or not? The shot is slowed down

    • @brucebaxter6923
      @brucebaxter6923 8 років тому +60

      Eero L.
      No, it's not serious.

    • @oreolamp5676
      @oreolamp5676 8 років тому +17

      +Bruce Baxter such sarcasm, much wow

    • @brucebaxter6923
      @brucebaxter6923 8 років тому +61

      QB Machine
      Yes, the ball is slowed by the vacuum so that it keeps pace with the feather

  • @amydxnne
    @amydxnne Рік тому +102

    özcan aykın'dan geldik :))

  • @zeet7698
    @zeet7698 4 роки тому +857

    It's amazing how a crazy scientist named Galileo gave this theory 400 years ago.

    • @lucadipietro2310
      @lucadipietro2310 4 роки тому +33

      Actually the concept is obvious! But we can not see! Do you know how Galileo discovered this? Because he made fall a small iron ball of 10 grams and a paper also of 10 grams from the same high... and he saw that the ball still to arrives in the floor before than paper. So, this means that is not about the weight!!!!

    • @thevigamerpixerlator
      @thevigamerpixerlator 4 роки тому +31

      @@lucadipietro2310 Of course its a theory, but that test didn't prove his thought that air resistance was the cause of objects falling at a different rate. The definitive test he made was to create 2 iron balls of different weights but of the same diameter. In this case, both the balls fell at the same speed and that's the proof that Galileo needed to show how the concept works.

    • @jonahjerryson4913
      @jonahjerryson4913 4 роки тому +2

      @@thevigamerpixerlator what is so bad if it is a theory a theory and a hypothesis are different

    • @thevigamerpixerlator
      @thevigamerpixerlator 4 роки тому +9

      @@jonahjerryson4913 I agree, they are. A hypothesis is an assumption based off facts that you may infer to. A theory on the other hand, is a proven answer that is done through multiple testing procedures. That is literally what I was saying.

    • @jonahjerryson4913
      @jonahjerryson4913 4 роки тому

      @@thevigamerpixerlator oh sorry my bad

  • @matteoo_bruno
    @matteoo_bruno 4 роки тому +67

    It's gorgeous how a brilliant man gave this theory so many years ago and without be able to verify it with such advanced tools

    • @khuti007
      @khuti007 11 місяців тому +1

      He was so brilliant that if you read his paper, he actually says, this is what happens but I have no idea why?
      He understood, that he didnt have it all.
      Einstein worked out why.

  • @jerryross2
    @jerryross2 8 років тому +471

    ? The interesting part of the experiment is seeing it performed in real time. Why on earth didn't your show the real time footage to show how quickly the feathers are dropping? - Physics professor

    • @BobbieBees
      @BobbieBees 8 років тому +5

      where's the fun in watching something go so fast that you'd miss it if you blinked.

    • @neerkoli
      @neerkoli 8 років тому +71

      Bobbie Bees They can show the slow motion later, after showing the real time footage first.

    • @IcedPlasma
      @IcedPlasma 8 років тому +23

      It's rigged pretty high up. The fun is seeing a feather fall as fast as a bowling ball.

    • @jan-thijnwijnker6762
      @jan-thijnwijnker6762 8 років тому +4

      Jerry Ross 9,8m/s^2 now happy

    • @zammmerjammer
      @zammmerjammer 8 років тому +27

      +Karim You keep posting the same comment on every thread. So, listen up -- 1.37 seconds is PLENTY OF TIME. The human mind is capable of tracking motion that occurs over a second, ffs. You're basically arguing that if someone dropped something off the roof of a house, it's trajectory would be invisible to the human eye.
      The decision not to show the entire drop of both feathers and ball at real speed the whole way through is just baffling (and stupid).

  • @quantumchu
    @quantumchu 3 місяці тому +1

    I love to show this video clip to my science students (Grade 7) in class. It is both eye-catching, entertaining but most importantly, convincing! Seeing is believing!! Galileo would be pretty happy with his hypothesis and now is fully tested. Thank you for the modern technology to create the ideal environment (vacuum state). Professor Cox is really a great public speaker.

    • @Garmashua
      @Garmashua 2 місяці тому

      2:52 Look at feathers. Why it moves that way? Different parts of the feathers moved differently. It should not be that way if it stands still.

  • @좋아과학-e5e
    @좋아과학-e5e 3 роки тому +16

    I am a science teacher in Korea. This video is amazing. I really appreciate everyone who filmed the video.

    • @jenm1
      @jenm1 3 роки тому +1

      Hi, could you please explain if there is negative pressure in the surroundings when it's made into a vacuum? I'm confused on that.

    • @hudson415
      @hudson415 3 роки тому

      닥쳐 한국어 여기 초밥이 없어

  • @ritvikvaishnav3472
    @ritvikvaishnav3472 6 років тому +569

    what's wrong with you BBC why can't you show the video in normal speed huh?

    • @huisbaasbob1923
      @huisbaasbob1923 6 років тому +55

      @Jim Harol I'm no racist but it bugs me that they didn't show it in normal speed

    • @miguellama7618
      @miguellama7618 6 років тому +6

      Maybe to show the fall more clearly... because you know it is on Tv and they were probably too lazy to make a normal speed video for youtube

    • @1989Chrisc
      @1989Chrisc 6 років тому +34

      4:14 stfu

    • @miguellama7618
      @miguellama7618 6 років тому +1

      @@1989Chrisc 2:53 stfu x2

    • @MinecraftMed343
      @MinecraftMed343 6 років тому +12

      It would have fallen at 9.8m/s^2, the drop would be over in a second.

  • @pranjalvw2193
    @pranjalvw2193 2 роки тому +108

    as an astrophysicist, it gives me immense satisfaction to watch our equations, postulates and study implements accurately as it is explained...
    Marvellous video...
    Hats off to BBC

    • @Tom-qw8fg
      @Tom-qw8fg 2 роки тому +3

      It's always nice when the equations WORK! As an amateur ballistician I understand your satisfaction!

    • @womp6338
      @womp6338 Рік тому +3

      "our" equations lol you mean Newtons, you didn't invent them.

    • @rg5312
      @rg5312 Рік тому +1

      They aren't your equations, you haven't come up with anything. BBC didn't do anything either, it was NASA that built the chamber, they were just allowed in to film.
      People like you are what is wrong with this world.

  • @adnantunc37
    @adnantunc37 3 місяці тому +8

    Nice bro. Thanks 👍 even our Fatih laughed out loud. Adamım

    • @pnarklc738
      @pnarklc738 3 місяці тому +3

      yes i agree budy! 👍🏻

  • @HardayalSingh-tr8pm
    @HardayalSingh-tr8pm 4 роки тому +293

    even though I already knew what would happen it still felt so beautiful

    • @bryananofa7165
      @bryananofa7165 4 роки тому

      Do you know its dangerous to be in a low room?

    • @joeg5265
      @joeg5265 3 роки тому +1

      The music

  • @MadMonkey572
    @MadMonkey572 8 років тому +379

    >see video
    >looks interesting
    >click on it
    >see a comment I made
    >forgot I already watched it

    • @arkie87
      @arkie87 8 років тому +7

      forgot i already read this comment

    • @Wheredatruth_at23
      @Wheredatruth_at23 8 років тому +11

      Stop trying to greentext, it's not 4chan and it's so freakin cringey.

    • @MadMonkey572
      @MadMonkey572 8 років тому +6

      >implying

    • @202015spongebob
      @202015spongebob 8 років тому

      +Cyrus Hinojos fr

    • @anonymous7371
      @anonymous7371 6 років тому

      Guy: This is NASA's....
      I skipped the video

  • @nadadada9784
    @nadadada9784 4 роки тому +153

    The Music makes the experiment even more beautiful

  • @BL12378
    @BL12378 2 місяці тому +5

    Özcan aykindan gelenler seviliyorsunuz hocam ❤

  • @stvrob6320
    @stvrob6320 9 років тому +32

    Wish they had at least one clip of the entire drop without slow motion video.

  • @ishansheikh3058
    @ishansheikh3058 3 роки тому +61

    I am an Astrophysicist and I know these kind of stuff very well. But still to this day videos like these make me cry to see physics at this best. Tears of joy rolling down my cheeks.

    • @fromnorway643
      @fromnorway643 3 роки тому +1

      That reminds me of Apollo 14 astronaut _Edgar Mitchell_ who walked on the Moon in 1971.
      He said in an interview once that going to the Moon changed him from having an _intellectual_ understanding of the immensity of the universe and Earth's tiny place in it to having a deep _gut_ understanding of that.

    • @AlexZander688
      @AlexZander688 3 роки тому +2

      And then you see flat earther cultists and their failed flat earth model nonsense and it brings tears rolling down my cheeks from comical laughter.

    • @merihim666
      @merihim666 2 роки тому +1

      can u explain me why feather moved it "hair" at the beggining of falling down? i wonder

    • @VivekanandaKF
      @VivekanandaKF 2 роки тому

      @@merihim666 I notice this detail and I don't have an exact answer, but I suppose that this is due not being a perfect vacuum.
      Editing: found another 2 comments here:
      1) "Inertia."
      2) "For every action there is an equal but opposite reaction. As the feathers accelerate from zero the parts that you see move are actually still standing still until they are acted upon. While it looks like they are moving up they are actually being pulled down. Once all parts of the feather reach the same speed there will be no movement."
      My conclusion: the feather is not a rigid body, and the feather undergoes sudden acceleration. The softer parts are flexible, and react to this.

    • @SuzukiKid400
      @SuzukiKid400 Рік тому

      @@merihim666 it’s not a perfect vacuum, there is still a small fraction of air in the chamber causing small amounts of feathers to flutter

  • @cogitateandabet
    @cogitateandabet 2 роки тому +44

    That put a simile on my face. The scientists didn't have this facility back then, yet they predicted it so correctly.

    • @dvillisback
      @dvillisback 2 роки тому

      ❤❤🎉🎉🫦🤱👙❤️‍🔥💓💕

    • @dvillisback
      @dvillisback 2 роки тому

      God bless

    • @pradyumn2692
      @pradyumn2692 Рік тому +2

      Yes. A lot of things were discovered like this. That's what makes science different from religion. It is specific.

    • @Woahthatisnotfair
      @Woahthatisnotfair Рік тому

      @@pradyumn2692 fax

    • @floorboss
      @floorboss Рік тому

      ​@@pradyumn2692Not necessarily, because "Science" can be very ambiguous. See the Covid 1984 exaggeration.
      > Science can be defined as A group of people in agreement & signing off on A paper that details the degree of consent. While another group can do the exact same thing, while detailing in their paper, A polar opposite conclusion. This happens all the time.

  • @_T0miOka_435
    @_T0miOka_435 11 місяців тому +1

    When they were removing the air, the control room had that rocket launch atmosphere straight out of a movie.

  • @Team.Louish
    @Team.Louish 9 років тому +371

    Wish I could of seen it at normal speed.

    • @solaaar3
      @solaaar3 9 років тому +3

      +Clint Decker (Louish) you can a bit at 4:16

    • @AuroraNora3
      @AuroraNora3 9 років тому +34

      Grrrrrrrr >:(
      Could have*

    • @davisbender6337
      @davisbender6337 9 років тому +3

      +Clint Decker (Louish) just watch the video at 2x speed lol

    • @StanSylvania
      @StanSylvania 8 років тому +3

      +Nice Try M9 the ball falls faster and the feathers are moved by air at 4:16 watch closely

    • @Team.Louish
      @Team.Louish 8 років тому +1

      +Hoo Dini I hate when I do that.

  • @haushofer100
    @haushofer100 5 років тому +61

    Cox's remarks about the equivalence principle in the end are confusing. Of course the ball and feather are not "standing still". They're falling. But according to the equivalence principle this is locally indistinguishable from as if (!) the objects are standing still. The "as if" is crucial here.
    The same goes with other inertial forces. Accelerating observers can describe deflecting objects in their frame with newton's laws AS IF there are forces acting on these objects (which, for inertial observers, would move in a straight line). But really, the force (e.g. an engine) is acting on them, not on the objects.

    • @NOMADdaf
      @NOMADdaf 5 років тому +5

      I agree. He totally misrepresented Einstein

    • @hongry-life
      @hongry-life 5 років тому

      What if the objects WERE standing still? Many possibilities in media circles and maybe he doesn't lie.

    • @celesteceleste6670
      @celesteceleste6670 4 роки тому

      any links for more info on this?

    • @youssefbalhas1219
      @youssefbalhas1219 4 роки тому +17

      I came to the comments to find an explanation about the last part because i found it confusing too.

    • @anthonypape6862
      @anthonypape6862 4 роки тому +6

      Agreed. Einstein was merely saying which objects were falling, and which were not with no frame of reference would be impossible to tell. They would only be moving relative to each other. Or more specifically the man in space being picked up by an elevator that accelerated at 9.8 m/s^2. Would cause the man to not know if he entered a gravitational field or if he was being accelerated by the make believe elevator. As to why everyone is obsessed with dropping paper or whatever and that this was some how faked is disappointing to see. It doesn't matter what you drop. They took all of the air out. Drop a dude with a parachute it won't work. I sure hope NASA didn't spend millions on this vacuum chamber to simply fake experiments.

  • @YusufshaMaricarT
    @YusufshaMaricarT Рік тому +14

    It was the air resistance in space that was stopping the ball and the feather. Because the mass of the ball is heavier, the ball was pulled quickly by the gravity of the earth because of the higher mass. The second factor is the space resistance, since the air has been removed it means that the space inside is squeezed (like when a plastic bag is vacuumed to keep food fresh) so whether the object is heavier or not, that does not matter, the external pull (earth's gravity) is the same!

  • @rattywoof5259
    @rattywoof5259 4 роки тому +7

    1:03 - love the way the subtitle writers have capitalised The Force! May it be with you all.

  • @_samuelajayi
    @_samuelajayi 4 роки тому +22

    Brought a tear to my eye. So beautiful.

  • @spreadlove8624
    @spreadlove8624 6 років тому +1009

    We have people like these doing amazing things and then we have the flat earthers. The quality of human is so inconsistent.

    • @sqlevolicious
      @sqlevolicious 6 років тому +21

      I don't think we should consider such a high-praise as to call a "flat-earther", a human.

    • @jam22bear43
      @jam22bear43 6 років тому +5

      Flat earth is psyops so you can lump them in with people who have legitimate questions. Id like to se them shoot a rocket in there hanging from a string

    • @edfae3021
      @edfae3021 6 років тому

      the quality of human is also subjective. im sure as far as the universe is concerned both flat earthers and physicists are both equal and merely different

    • @Will91289
      @Will91289 6 років тому +8

      and we have religious fundamentalists, especially Islamic ones, who want to destroy science.

    • @jam22bear43
      @jam22bear43 6 років тому +3

      Ya we have people asking questions of the established world view kinda like martin luther newtom and people like the founding fathers! I dont. Believe in flat earth but asking questions does not make you a lesser human in fact it can make you a great human you negative troll!

  • @joelgilhernandez3070
    @joelgilhernandez3070 Місяць тому

    I drop a tear every time I see this video...

  • @TheLyricsGuy
    @TheLyricsGuy 8 років тому +257

    I get seeing it in slow-mo, but why the hell would the editors keep the viewers from seeing the whole drop at full speed? Wouldn't seeing a feather drop that fast next to the bowling ball be one of the best parts of this experiment? Not really sure what they were thinking.

    • @jaybluff281
      @jaybluff281 8 років тому +2

      Because it's a preview clip and they want you to watch the whole show.

    • @wtfvids3472
      @wtfvids3472 8 років тому +4

      a "preview clip"?? at the end??? cognitive dissonance 101.

    • @jaybluff281
      @jaybluff281 8 років тому +2

      Which part of the concept are you struggling with? That this clip is an edited down preview of a 60 minute show or that it's edited to entice you into watching the other 56 minutes?

    • @TheLyricsGuy
      @TheLyricsGuy 8 років тому +4

      Unless I'm wrong, I didn't see it in the full version either.

    • @wtfvids3472
      @wtfvids3472 8 років тому +1

      +Jay Bluff What are you talking about, even if that was true why would they show the balls falling at a different rate after they have shown them fall at the same rate just before...
      Use your head. Don't just kneejerk away anything not fitting your preconceived belief system. Did you even see my video??

  • @agerven
    @agerven 4 роки тому +13

    Seeing it over that distance in slow motion is very beautiful.
    What i like most about it though is touchdown, where:
    1. You see they arrive simultaneously at their end destination
    2. Mass does matter since the impact of the big ball crushes the landing surface whereas the feathers do not impact it at all.

    • @_Burak_54
      @_Burak_54 Рік тому

      yeah as the mass gets bigger momentum gets bigger and makes more damage.

  • @leokimvideo
    @leokimvideo 10 років тому +1864

    this video sucks in a very good way

  • @CandyCrush_Joe
    @CandyCrush_Joe 5 місяців тому +3

    This video is given to be watched in our textbook
    Luv from India 🇮🇳 ❤

  • @abel9351
    @abel9351 3 роки тому +24

    i loved physics in high school and college. im now a doctor and searched this up out of curiosity. i started crying cause of how beautiful this is

  • @BartTricas
    @BartTricas 9 років тому +301

    I wonder how much BBC had to pay to pump out the air for the purpose of this 4 min video clip...

    • @AngelFaudoa
      @AngelFaudoa 9 років тому +19

      Bart Tricas I asked myself the same question xD

    • @AAO-Falcon
      @AAO-Falcon 9 років тому +21

      Angel Faudoa Did you get an answer?

    • @calmdown15
      @calmdown15 9 років тому +9

      Bart Tricas
      TBH it seemed like a waste pumping out 30 tonnes of air just to drop a couple feathers and bowling ball.

    • @respeezy
      @respeezy 9 років тому +4

      Bart Tricas Haha i was also thinking about all the costs, even when they closed those giant doors i was thinking about elecrtricity costs.

    • @redtails
      @redtails 9 років тому +9

      Bart Tricas The electricity is irrelevant, the facility and the people cost the most!

  • @someoneforone1
    @someoneforone1 5 років тому +41

    Brian Cox's face is stuck in a permanent smile )))

    • @randomguy8995
      @randomguy8995 5 років тому

      @Eric Schmidt no one cares lol

    • @elijahcox6920
      @elijahcox6920 5 років тому

      I love my uncle 💗

    • @stephenjones9746
      @stephenjones9746 5 років тому +1

      @alex gilmour You know he has a PhD in Physics and works at CERN right?

    • @jaif7327
      @jaif7327 4 роки тому

      elijah cox no way?!!

    • @foodunravelled2836
      @foodunravelled2836 4 роки тому

      That's because his face is full of Botox to make himself more appealable children.

  • @jeffreysokal7264
    @jeffreysokal7264 4 місяці тому +2

    Probably the best video I've ever seen. I never tire of seeing this. It is humbling.

  • @00Linares00
    @00Linares00 2 роки тому +17

    Everyone has seen an object in slow motion falling slowly, yet that's what you chose to show instead of the object that never falls fast falling as fast as a bowling ball. Good job.

    • @deego911
      @deego911 6 місяців тому +1

      Yes I found that, why not show in real time until the end!!

    • @maxyman86
      @maxyman86 6 місяців тому

      Because slow motion just shows the same only slower? ​@@deego911

  • @_aryacore
    @_aryacore 4 роки тому +21

    I found this video's link in my 10th physics text book , this is the first time when i felt that physics is so interesting .

    • @siddheshvalantino8288
      @siddheshvalantino8288 3 роки тому +1

      Bro sister i found in my 11th book page no.79 samachher book tamilnadu

  • @lovegachafox09entj31
    @lovegachafox09entj31 3 роки тому +124

    POV: your on a teams call and you were set to watch this....

  • @jamiebusch9406
    @jamiebusch9406 4 місяці тому

    Gravity is not just a theory... SOOOO cool.. i am going to share this widely.. I love that even the professional engineers are stunned..

    • @fromnorway643
      @fromnorway643 4 місяці тому

      Knowing the theory intellectually is _not_ the same as seeing it actually happen with your own eyes. 😃

  • @math4fun
    @math4fun 4 роки тому +8

    It's incredible how the human mind forget things along the time...For a couple of moments I had forgotten that objects accelerates equally to the ground in a free fall, independently of its mass - and it's more unbeleavable recognise it's exception.

  • @digitalArtform
    @digitalArtform 10 років тому +32

    Incredibly annoying that they never show a full unedited real-time drop.

    • @YINGAI1995
      @YINGAI1995 10 років тому

      ikd OMG I AM CRYING FUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @deanmuhl7417
      @deanmuhl7417 2 роки тому

      They can't because that would reveal their deception.

  • @QwertyQwerty-gf7bk
    @QwertyQwerty-gf7bk 4 роки тому +624

    Plot twist: The feather was a paid actor

    • @EthanMastercrafter
      @EthanMastercrafter 4 роки тому +3

      LOL

    • @supertechniker11121
      @supertechniker11121 4 роки тому +5

      It's probably in reverse

    • @fredfarkle6347
      @fredfarkle6347 4 роки тому +7

      that was funny. OH how the flatards must hate this video.

    • @dylankatz1850
      @dylankatz1850 3 роки тому

      You r a gee
      also i think the air was paid to dip

    • @goldenratio_phhia
      @goldenratio_phhia 3 роки тому

      it really does look like its being lowered down using some sort of string up until it comes in contact with the ground though lmao

  • @inoz02
    @inoz02 10 місяців тому +1

    It would be nice if the slow mo was saved for the ending. Real time would be neat to see with out slo-mo

  • @SuperNova-py1ec
    @SuperNova-py1ec 2 роки тому +21

    It’s beautiful. It makes me smile every time I see this clip. Yes it was also shown on the moon of all places. Us humans are odd sometimes but hey that’s what makes us unique.

    • @isabellind1292
      @isabellind1292 2 роки тому +3

      It was beautiful to watch. As was Brian Cox's brilliant smile, lol! I think the astronaut dropped a hammer (more practical than a bowling ball when you're trying to pack light, lol)!🌌💓

    • @SuperNova-py1ec
      @SuperNova-py1ec 2 роки тому

      I revisited this with some nephews the over day and tried to explain the principles but I think failed as I got confused looks. Should have shown them this video to explain all …

  • @PathanPhoto
    @PathanPhoto 2 роки тому +4

    I have watched this video numerous times and it still makes me smile and wonder when I see it again. Absolutely brilliant,

  • @Applesgosh
    @Applesgosh 9 років тому +527

    I enjoyed the one second they showed it in real time. Other than that, what the fuck man? It's so less interesting in slow motion because that's not how we would actually see it.

    • @SpiritHawk7
      @SpiritHawk7 9 років тому +4

      applesgosh That's exactly why it was presented in slow motion on purpose. In real life, the objects would be falling too fast for human perception to simultaneously 1) track and 2) detect any change in form, such as relative distances of the bowling ball to the feathers, and the feathers moving or bending, etc. You don't get much useful data out of something if you can't properly see change happen; real-time would be an imperceptible blur to the mind.

    • @Applesgosh
      @Applesgosh 9 років тому +57

      SpiritHawk7 Dude we can all tell the difference in distance and speed between a feather and a bowling ball falling in real time. That one second was way more impressive/interesting to watch than watching it multiple times in slow motion. All I wanted to see from this was one full drop in real time, but they ruined it and slowed it down mid-fall, successfully crushing my dreams.

    • @princeofdnmrk
      @princeofdnmrk 9 років тому +14

      applesgosh you're so right. I ONLY watched this to see something my brain knows as lightly gliding to the ground (feathers) falling as fast as a bowling ball. THAT would be a mind-blowing sight. such a shame - bad editing

    • @alfredondatra
      @alfredondatra 9 років тому +5

      applesgosh Yeah, absolutely with you on the editing. They could have squeezed that one second of real-time footage in for this 4 min epic, but no...

    • @madcorbin
      @madcorbin 9 років тому +4

      applesgosh YES. I watched this on another site but went to UA-cam specifically to see if anyone had made this comment.

  • @LearnNeuroSky
    @LearnNeuroSky 10 місяців тому +1

    The acceleration and velocity of fall are the same, but the surface condition when colliding with the background is different. Can you experiment with letting 1 big orange and 1 small orange fall one by one, then try to drop 2 metal balls with the same diameter but 1 type of dense intestine, 1 type of intestinal hollow fall for yourself in turn? (Requires a hollow metal sphere pod that is hard enough not to deform. Let it fall on an electronic scale to know the strength of the impact force. On the scale, place a soft foam sheet so as not to break.

  • @toast1589
    @toast1589 4 роки тому +94

    Physics students after neglecting Air Resistance and seeing this video: This whole operation was your idea, don't blame me!

    • @PatriotPits
      @PatriotPits 3 роки тому

      Air resistance doesn’t play a factor, does it? Clearly this vid shows that it does. But I was thinking about flying from the equator over the North Pole and back to the equator on the other side of the earth. The plane took off we a relative speed of the earths movement at 1000 mph, some how slows down to nearly nothing at the North Pole then manages to regain that lost speed? Also on take off the plane is getting the rotational force of the air on one side of the plane, then once past the pole it’s on the other side of the plane. Do we just not fly over the North Pole due to this? I see pilots keep it simple and assume a “flat and stationary earth”. How the heck can they do that if the atmosphere is moving one way then the next once over the pole? Just trying to learn here. Thanks

    • @siddheshvalantino8288
      @siddheshvalantino8288 3 роки тому

      Yes how u gessed me i would partner to galileo !

  • @fluffyvampire2046
    @fluffyvampire2046 3 роки тому +11

    This video was my inspiration to science when I was in middle school, now I’m physics student & I’m welling to complete my studies on this major ♥️

  • @TimpBizkit
    @TimpBizkit 4 роки тому +11

    Weird fact, if you drop the bowling ball and feather individually, the bowling ball will hit the ground sooner - by a few planck length amounts of time. The reason is that the bowling ball pulls up on the earth with a greater force, and so the earth will move up to meet it by tiny fractions of a pico-metre. If you drop them both together, both objects fall together, they are pulling the earth up at once and so they will hit the ground at the same time.
    This is a fun reminder that gravitational attraction is between two objects, but the equal time to hit the ground is the special case of a scenario where one object (the Earth) is much greater in mass, such that the other (feather or bowling ball) is negligible. But on an extreme scale, if you take two of planet Earth and hold them 100,000 kilometres apart, they will fall together more quickly than an Earth and the moon held 100,000 kilometres apart.

    • @TimpBizkit
      @TimpBizkit 4 роки тому +2

      To make sense of this comment - imagine two bowling balls in space 1 metre apart at rest with respect to each other and not rotating around each other. Because they both have mass, there is a small but present and measurable quantity of gravitational field between them. Two equal mass bowling balls 1 metre apart will come together at the mid-point of 0.5 metres. Now consider the feather and the bowling ball coming together under gravity. The feather weighs barely anything compared to the bowling ball. The feather will experience the same initial acceleration towards the bowling ball, but the bowling ball will barely accelerate or move towards the feather at all. The feather is travelling almost the whole (0.9999 metres) distance and its acceleration towards the bowling ball is less at future points in time due to not being as close to the bowling ball.
      Now consider a bowling ball and an atlas stone (that strong men lift on TV). Because the atlas stone weighs about as much as 20 bowling balls give or take, when they come together, the atlas stone has migrated only 5 cm towards the bowling ball, whereas the bowling ball has moved 95 cm from its initial position (in the frame of reference that defines both as stationary). When comparing the feather and the atlas stone, the feather travels practically the entire metre and the atlas stone moves only a few microns. You would say that the bowling ball falls towards planet atlas in 95% of the time the feather does - when dropped individually.
      Now the earth is just a giant atlas stone that has a mass of 6 x 10^24 kg. For ease of calculation we'll say it has the mass of 10^24 bowling balls. When you drop a bowling ball 10 metres, the earth moves up at (10/10^24) = 10^-23 metres (1/87 million of the width of a proton). If the bowling ball is moving at 14 m/s it will hit the ground around 7 x 10^-25 seconds before the feather (the time it takes light to travel 1/4 the width of a proton). For this to be correct, the bowling ball and feather must be dropped one at a time, or else the earth is moved up for both the bowling ball and feather by their combined mass.

    • @melonenlord2723
      @melonenlord2723 2 роки тому +1

      Yes, but not if they fall together :)

    • @profquad
      @profquad Рік тому

      not really, since they are right next to eachother

  • @mgunslinger17
    @mgunslinger17 Рік тому +2

    Does anyone have the link for what comes after this? Sounds like he’s setting up for a deeper discussion of Einstein’s theories, and I would love to watch that if there’s a video.

  • @tcreate.s
    @tcreate.s 5 років тому +5

    This host's delivery is phenomenal sounding, great storytelling!

  • @jgquinton
    @jgquinton 6 років тому +207

    They used the wrong clip at 4:15

    • @harshsinha12
      @harshsinha12 6 років тому +1

      That's my question too

    • @Adrian-uy5rh
      @Adrian-uy5rh 6 років тому

      Lmao

    • @leon_brave_racing898
      @leon_brave_racing898 6 років тому +1

      The feathers repositioned themselves to have heavy end first

    • @miguellama7618
      @miguellama7618 6 років тому +4

      the correct one is here 2:53

    • @Lucas-zd8hl
      @Lucas-zd8hl 6 років тому +1

      The feathers are longer, so the tip of them started off longer down than the bowling ball. I was confused by this until I realized it.

  • @manish7512
    @manish7512 3 роки тому +87

    I want to see feathers falling at actual speed, not slow-mo

    • @ritusachan115
      @ritusachan115 3 роки тому +3

      They would fall with high speed in the absence of air i.e in vaccum

    • @alexleibovici4834
      @alexleibovici4834 3 роки тому

      > actual speed, not slow-mo
      With the actual speed, the fall takes less than 3 seconds and one sees very little.

    • @sultans1377
      @sultans1377 3 роки тому

      Nasa from CGI to SLOW-MO

    • @ivan_ayala4971
      @ivan_ayala4971 3 роки тому

      same bro same...

  • @niss.782
    @niss.782 10 місяців тому +24

    Ozcan hocama neden telif attiniz 😡😠

    • @onur9515
      @onur9515 10 місяців тому +1

      hapsjqpskdpqops

    • @marcelomarquez2089
      @marcelomarquez2089 7 місяців тому

      TCHUPVIEJEN

    • @RevolutionibusOrbiumCoelestium
      @RevolutionibusOrbiumCoelestium 4 місяці тому

      Why did your Özcan teacher try to steal the BBC’s copyrighted material? Surely you should know that stealing is wrong?

    • @niss.782
      @niss.782 4 місяці тому

      ​@@RevolutionibusOrbiumCoelestiumcalm down dude it was just irony ☠️

  • @MrSporkster
    @MrSporkster 6 років тому +118

    2,4000 flat earthers were triggered by this video.

    • @christobotha1700
      @christobotha1700 5 років тому +7

      And this does not prove or disprove a flat earth. It only shows that air resistance or density is the reason that they fall at same speed. This begs the question can we use 9,8m/s as a standard to measure gravity? I think not.

    • @BBBuckley
      @BBBuckley 5 років тому +20

      ​@@christobotha1700 Actually the reason they fall at the same speed is due to gravity, which is measured in m/s^2, not m/s

    • @dattan2850
      @dattan2850 5 років тому +1

      Christo Botha m/s^2 sir, if you know what you talking about then you can explain otherwise just don’t...

    • @JSSTyger
      @JSSTyger 5 років тому +3

      @@christobotha1700How exactly does falling at the same speed in a near-vacuum prove that air resistance is the reason they fall at the same speed?

    • @JSSTyger
      @JSSTyger 5 років тому +4

      @rvidal0001There are circular slits in the dome where the strings come down through for the Sun and the moon. The Sun has a long lasting Duracell battery and the moon runs on cell phone batteries which is why we get 75% moon, 50% moon, etc. Above the dome, the strings are attached to a carousel operated jointly by Eric Dubay, Mark sargent, Nathan Oakley, and Jeran.

  • @ArchangelExile
    @ArchangelExile 6 років тому +453

    I thought that this place was destroyed by Loki?

    • @yussi01
      @yussi01 6 років тому +22

      I'm so glad I'm not the only one who recognised this place

    • @OriginalPuro
      @OriginalPuro 5 років тому +5

      "I thought that this place was destroyed by Loki?"
      Why are you asking us what you thought?
      That's a stupid question, only you can answer what you thought or not.

    • @MRSomethin1
      @MRSomethin1 5 років тому

      actually Loki rented it to Pazuzu

    • @lupreztryson
      @lupreztryson 5 років тому +1

      Aaah. The first avengers movie

    • @randomguy8995
      @randomguy8995 5 років тому +4

      @@OriginalPuro is this a wooshed comment?

  • @Trailtested
    @Trailtested 3 роки тому +102

    Why didn’t they actually show it falling in full speed it was just for like a glimpse that kind of sucked I don’t care about slow speed

    • @CarbonTech19
      @CarbonTech19 3 роки тому +8

      Agreed. They could have run it in slo-mo AND full speed. 2 more seconds run time, lol.

    • @Newmoon19
      @Newmoon19 3 роки тому +1

      Fast forward or

    • @user-ts4dc4di5g
      @user-ts4dc4di5g 3 роки тому

      *Only 18* 👇👇👇
      *q897232 Like

    • @Face2theScr33n
      @Face2theScr33n 3 роки тому +8

      That's cuz NASA fakes everything... and BBC pushes their propaganda.

    • @ThomasKundera
      @ThomasKundera 3 роки тому +4

      @@Face2theScr33n : What's fake, here?

  • @bernadetteviecelihurtado9593

    I'm watching this in September 2023 just because your pilot instructor in Brazil🇧🇷 showed us this video during our online class.. and I am based in London 🇬🇧...😂

  • @HalcyonVoid
    @HalcyonVoid 5 років тому +11

    @4:22 That is why you need 3 points of reference to understand what or who is moving in a space. With only 2, you can't tell if you or they are moving.

    • @Rick-the-Swift
      @Rick-the-Swift 4 роки тому +1

      Even with 3 (or more) points of reference you still can't tell what's moving and what isn't. For instance if object A (an apple) and object B (a bird) were both seemingly hurling towards object C (the earth) and even though object A seems to be falling faster than object B, who is to say that the bird isn't sitting perfectly still in space while the apple is moving away and the Earth is moving toward it?
      Yeah I know- you're mind just got blown again ;)

    • @HalcyonVoid
      @HalcyonVoid 4 роки тому +1

      @@Rick-the-Swift sure you can tell. Compare the distance between the objects and you will know which is moving.
      In your example, we know earth will be static so compare a to c and b to c to see which one is moving.

    • @Rick-the-Swift
      @Rick-the-Swift 4 роки тому

      @@HalcyonVoid But we already know the earth is not static and is moving as well. It's what we think we know which causes conundrums, no? Have you ever heard that every single point in space is potentially the very center of the expanding universe? And that if we were to view the universe from any given galaxy- it would seem as if almost every other galaxy were moving away from our perspective? Isn't this an important aspect of Einstein's 'relativity'? If we knew where the so-called 'big bang' happened, we'd know the true center of the universe, and what is truly static, but as it stands you or I could be at the very center and everything else swirling around us. Not likely I know but it's possible I believe, haha Cheers.

    • @HalcyonVoid
      @HalcyonVoid 4 роки тому

      @@Rick-the-Swift by that logic, then we could never tell if a car is moving. Obviously we can because we are basing it on a reletive view of the objects

  • @danielml
    @danielml 5 років тому +4

    I keep imagining the amount of experiment they do in this huge place. This was a small (but impressive) one.

  • @ebchacon
    @ebchacon 8 років тому +8

    ...and to think a man without computers other than his own: His amazing brain figured this out is simply amazing.

    • @vaughanscott7308
      @vaughanscott7308 2 роки тому

      Its a hoax you idiot. Why is gravity still only a theory?

  • @charbel7
    @charbel7 Рік тому +2

    Em 4:16 a bola claramente começa a cair mais rápido e na próxima cena ela volta a ser nivelada por cima junto com a pena. Realmente a gravidade tem poderes inimagináveis...

  • @freddan6fly
    @freddan6fly 5 років тому +7

    Love Brian Cox enthusiasm doing experiments he must have done before.

  • @KsNewSpace
    @KsNewSpace 10 років тому +75

    What they actually mean by mentioning Einstein ist the general relativity. The ball and the feather are not moving because there is no general reference frame. You can only tell they are moving relative to the ground and to the wall. This is the key to understand.
    A thought experiment: People usually assume gravity pulls them down because they fall down. If you lay on the ground and look upwards to the sky your cheeks get pulled towards the ground. If you want to achieve the same effect with a car for example you have to accelerate forward in order to pull your cheeks back.
    If gravitational pull is also an acceleration, the acceleration is not downwards but upwards. The ground pushes us upwards and we are therefore pressed against it. This imagination always blows my mind :-)

    • @mammadunderline1
      @mammadunderline1 10 років тому +12

      Even by considering the relativity and the fact that if we assume the ground surface as the reference, they are moving relative to this reference. So, there's a force acting on them! But they guy says there's no force acting on them! That would be true, only if they moved with constant velocity which is not the case because they start at zero velocity and end up with a non-zero velocity!

    • @StephenSichina
      @StephenSichina 10 років тому +3

      Mohammad Kermani Just because they're moving doesn't mean there's a fore acting on them though, I think is the point. Like, if you fling a satellite out into interstellar space, it'll keep 'moving' forever precisely because there aren't any significant forces acting on it at that point.

    • @PlayersMind
      @PlayersMind 10 років тому +5

      Stephen Sichina That's still not "no force". And in the example in the video you can easily observe the effects of the gravitational force acting upon them with your own eyes since the objects accelerate towards the ground.

    • @PlayersMind
      @PlayersMind 10 років тому +14

      Mohammad Kermani Yeah, his "no force" statement also boggles me. It's what made me skim through the comments, hoping that I'm going to find someone else who was also irritated by it.

    • @KsNewSpace
      @KsNewSpace 10 років тому +10

      PlayersMind Hi, a force or acceleration can always be measured. In free fall there is no acceleration and no force you can measure. You are free from every acceleration and force.
      Imagine you fly in a circle. You are pressed against the walls. The reason for this is you move in a curved fashion through space. This curvature is not different from the one created by massive objects. It presses you against the ground as if you were flying in a circle. This is called gravity.
      Now lets assume this room you see in the video is in a giantic rotating frame and not on earth. As soon you release the ball it wants to shoot tangentially away from the spinning centere until It gets stopped by the ground. All you see is a radial movement because you are traveling with the ground.
      edit: I had to draw a picture before I get missunderstood: i.imgur.com/TA47eu6.png This is why the ball is "free" and you are not. You are accelerating as you stand on the ground (centripetal force) and so is the ground. This is what I have meant in my original post.
      edit: The ball seems to be accelerating because of the curvature. The longer it falls the more the room curves and the faster it is relative to the ground. In reality however, It is not accelerating at all. Its speed is constant as soon as you release it.

  • @AkashKothawale
    @AkashKothawale 8 років тому +14

    If this makes your smile, you love science.

  • @rchatte100
    @rchatte100 4 місяці тому +1

    At the end he says they're not falling... but the video cuts before he (should) say that it's the earth that's rising up to them!

    • @stewiesaidthat
      @stewiesaidthat 4 місяці тому

      That would defeat the purpose of the gravitational attraction scam. Einstein wrapped his relativity nonsense around gravity. By proving that gravity doesn't exist, mass does not attract mass, mass is not an actionable force, it invalidates relativity.
      What's left? Acceleration. So now you are stuck explaining Acceleration. There are two origins of acceleration. An inertial frame-> the universe is being acted upon by an outside force (Genesis) or, the universe is infinite with no cosmological center (Giordano Bruno).
      And as Carl Sagan would put it, Both possibilities are equally frightening.
      Galileo-> mass does not attract mass. The earth is in motion which creates 'gravity'. The Earth's motion in space creates the tides. Locked up in jail.
      Newton: Laws of Motion. Force comes from Acceleration of the mass, not the mass itself.
      Newton: either wasn't aware of Galileo's heliocentric model of the solar system, his ball drop tests showing that mass is not a factor, or wished not to suffer the same fate as the others at the hands of the flat earthers, erroneously created gravitational attraction laws. A law which contradict His laws of motion. A law which was never experimentally verified and had, in fact, been disproven by Galileo's ball drop from the Tower of Pisa.
      Einstein: Who knows. He seemed to be a dimwitted patent clerk who plagiarized everything. Didn't understand what he was stealing, put his own twist on it and peddled it as relativity. Space and Time are separate frames of reference. Motion is absolute as nothing can go faster than light. Light travels in its own frame so your motion changes the amount of force on your frame.
      Net result. A scientific community that thinks the earth is flat, a stationary frame because the alternative is unfathomable.

    • @gracialonignasiver6302
      @gracialonignasiver6302 3 місяці тому

      @@stewiesaidthat I'm interested in everything you said. Are there any videos to watch or articles to read that contain information doubting Newton and Einstein? Or could you even elaborate further?

    • @stewiesaidthat
      @stewiesaidthat 3 місяці тому

      @gracialonignasiver6302 You won't find any videos on the subject. At least not an accurate explanation. This video here is a perfect example of lying by omission. The correct observation is that mass does not attract mass. That mass is not an actionable force. Unfortunately, the entire scientific based their models on mass being the actionable force and are now stuck repeating the lie.
      Everything you need to know regarding this experiment is spelled out in Newton's Laws of Motion.
      1st Law. An inertial frame is one in which the acceleration comes from an external force. An inertial frame is one in which the object is accelerating itself.
      On the first floor of a building, the ground is accelerating you - inertial frame. As you ascend the stairs, you are accelerating yourself- non-inertial frame.
      Taking the elevator- inertial frame.
      On the rooftop. Step over the side. There is now nothing accelerating you. You don't have the stairs to push against. Nor do you have a parachute/jet pack.
      You are then in a non-inertial frame, accelerating yourself. The inverse square law of motion, force decreases with distance. You are actually decelerating back to the ground level.
      This is another problem with these experiments. The acceleration factor should be reported. What is the rate of drop. Is it falling faster at the top vs. the bottom.
      The reason both objects fall at the same rate is because both objects have the same acceleration factor.
      Newton's 2nd Law. F=ma. Mass TIMES Acceleration. Force comes from Acceleration of the mass. Not the mass itself. F=ma then becomes f=a or a=a. Acceleration comes from Acceleration. Not mass.
      F=ma -> ma=ma -> m=m & a=a.
      3rd law. Action and Reaction. Gravity/g-force is a Reactionary force. The resistance of the mass to being accelerated by an external force.
      What you feel at your feet is the ground accelerating you. Not just you but also the air above you. As your altitude increases, the amount of air above you decreases and less total force is needed to accelerate you. Your total mass is decreasing.
      There are some videos that demonstrate this by weighing objects in a vacuum.
      Careful though, one guy had the bottle hanging off the scale so it was originally being accelerated partially by atmospheric pressure. When you walk on thin ice and you fall through vs. laying flat and dispersing your weight.
      By laying down on the ice, you increased your mass factor acting on the ice. Going from just the bottom of your feet to the entire length of your body. Since your overall weight stays the same, your acceleration factor decreases. You have less force per square inch pushing back on the ice, which is accelerating you.
      Once you understand ma=ma, then you understand 'gravity'.

  • @thetomasklos
    @thetomasklos 5 років тому +43

    this brings tears to my eyes every time I see it.

    • @konstandinose.6695
      @konstandinose.6695 4 роки тому

      Wtf how😂

    • @pajo5014
      @pajo5014 4 роки тому

      Why tf

    • @duasarfraz3586
      @duasarfraz3586 4 роки тому

      i too

    • @h2w25
      @h2w25 4 роки тому

      Honestly it's the great production value. The music teamed with the slow motion is meant to evoke an emotional response, combine that with the fact that you are clearly involuntarily celebrate and you have tears from observing 8th grade science experiments.

  • @srezwana1234
    @srezwana1234 5 років тому +10

    I don't know why but this vedio gives me tears and a eltimate satisfaction which I may not find anywhere else..
    Ahh..such a beautiful thing😍
    who says physics doesn't have beauty!you just have to feel it.😊

    • @wantlessworkless.2558
      @wantlessworkless.2558 Рік тому

      It gives a tear in the eye to people who understand what is going on simply because we are seeing the vast universe in action in one small place.

  • @tinajsiha
    @tinajsiha 3 роки тому +20

    This video is so beautiful that the gravity force pulled my tears down

    • @AquaTurtle1234
      @AquaTurtle1234 3 роки тому

      Gravity isn’t really a force

    • @attav8
      @attav8 3 роки тому

      @@AquaTurtle1234 explain please

    • @nochinchinhere9339
      @nochinchinhere9339 3 роки тому

      @@AquaTurtle1234 c'mon you ruined the joke

    • @Rachie-nj3oi
      @Rachie-nj3oi 3 роки тому

      @@attav8 gravity isn't a force hence why Brian cox says the reason the bowling ball and feather fall together is because they aren't falling they are standing still there is no force acting on them at all.
      Not a force since 1915, einstein general relativity.

    • @Eu77234
      @Eu77234 3 роки тому

      Isso mostra que a gravidade não existe , Porque se existisse o objeto com menos massa seria puxado com maior velocidade. Isso refuta a gravidade. Eles estão em um vácuo onde não há meio(ar) então a força da massa dos objetos são nulas "0"porque não há meio(ar) para esses 2 corpos exercer aceleração. Resumindo os objetos caem porque tendem a cair ,como simplesmente poderiam cair pra esquerda ,direita ou cima. Mas daria no mesmo pois nossa perspectiva seria a msm de agora. Os objetos caírem e um fato. Mas isso n quer dizer q tenha uma força mágica puxando objetos para baixo.

  • @Paulcarrer876
    @Paulcarrer876 Місяць тому

    A suitable video to benefit students. Thanks to the BBC❤

  • @earthinthecomments4944
    @earthinthecomments4944 8 років тому +49

    Who else is here cause their science teacher showed this?

  • @umurkaragoz
    @umurkaragoz 5 років тому +14

    2:20 I love how these guys wearing SpaceX falcon 9 and dragon t-shirts

  • @jxdigital
    @jxdigital 3 роки тому +13

    They actually demonstrated this experiment on the moon too! You can look it up: Apollo 15 Hammer Feather drop.

    • @kitcanyon658
      @kitcanyon658 3 роки тому

      Yeah, that was pretty cool.

    • @kitcanyon658
      @kitcanyon658 3 роки тому

      @Harry Moorehouse : "Who dat?"? Wow, say no more.

    • @jxdigital
      @jxdigital 3 роки тому

      @Harry Moorehouse search for “Apollo 15 hammer feather drop” on UA-cam, then watch the first search result

    • @WildPhotoShooter
      @WildPhotoShooter 3 роки тому +2

      Many of us older citizens saw the feather & hammer drop on the moon in 71.

  • @mennucc
    @mennucc 2 місяці тому

    I recommend that you (using the web player on a PC browser) go to 2:53, hit "k" for pause, and then hit "." to go forward step by step. When the pins are retracted, there are 4 frames in which nothing moves, but for the cable holding the ball, that retracts due to its elastic tension. Indeed the motion is s= g t^2 / 2 that is _"space = acceleration product time squared divided by two"_ where "acceleration" is due to gravity for the two objects (ball and plume) whereas for the cable there is a lot of force and a small mass so a larger acceleration . So for small t , the motion of the cable is visible, while the motion of the ball is not perceivable. Then after some frames you can see how the ball and the plume move in perfect coordination.

    • @Garmashua
      @Garmashua 2 місяці тому

      2:52 Look at feathers. Why it moves that way? Different parts of the feathers moved differently. It should not be that way if it stands still.

  • @kalebbruwer
    @kalebbruwer 8 років тому +743

    How much did you pay those Nasa scientists to pretend that this amazed them?

    • @fikri.rahman
      @fikri.rahman 8 років тому +71

      they're great actors though lol

    • @kalebbruwer
      @kalebbruwer 8 років тому +2

      陈鸿 uhhh what?

    • @merryjman
      @merryjman 8 років тому +42

      I've seen this video a couple dozen times, and it amazes me every time I see it!

    • @aidanjt
      @aidanjt 8 років тому +121

      Why would they have to pay them anything? They're scientists, they know that would be the result, but it's no less amazing to them actually seeing it happen as expected. It's not like they get to do stuff like this with the chamber every day.

    • @kalebbruwer
      @kalebbruwer 8 років тому +17

      aidanjt Ok, that's true. But it still seems a little exaggerated since they just saw it on a screen as well, seeing it in person would be amazing.
      That being said, these chambers take forever to cycle, so the long wait may have made it much more special.