Light waves, visible and invisible

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  • Опубліковано 18 лис 2024

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  • @heidismith9839
    @heidismith9839 5 років тому +270

    The whole time I was watching this, I could only focus on how abusive these people are being towards this girl.
    0:13 Glad she isn't a guy
    0:57 she was definitely set up
    1:06 they made her believe that there was actual fishing wire on that rod.
    1:21 thats just mean.
    1:41 SOUP CANS HURT! and is that wine?
    2:24 they definitely spiked her drink...
    3:47 VR gone wrong
    4:00 they stranded her in the desert and tried to drop things on her head.
    4:44 UA-cam Rewind TIME 2019!
    5:30 her reminiscing the time before she got captured by TED-Ed...she was told that she is going to be beheaded the following day.
    Can we get some F's in the chat?
    R.I.P wooden lady...

  • @Sweetitly
    @Sweetitly 11 років тому +23

    Thanks to the narrator who explained how we are perceived colors as light waves--it is stunning that human eyes are designed to decode those visible light wave and send it to the brain to recognize as a distinctive color.

  • @sikhswim
    @sikhswim 11 років тому +40

    This is the best explanation of light I've ever seen!

  • @jeremybutt9779
    @jeremybutt9779 4 роки тому +127

    who else had to watch this during Covid-19

  • @nafechowdhury8277
    @nafechowdhury8277 6 років тому +46

    2:44 what my friends think i see without glasses

  • @SL-dn6rn
    @SL-dn6rn 6 років тому +310

    I'm only here because our professor in physical science linked us this video for an essay assignment

  • @lamar6941
    @lamar6941 5 років тому +49

    goshh, that animation will hunt the rest of my life. i wont be able to sleep. welp. :((

  • @lamar6941
    @lamar6941 5 років тому +19

    The animation is creepy. dammit, im gonna get nightmares. ( 0:34 )

  • @jasminslone3844
    @jasminslone3844 6 років тому +23

    This was explained very well. Thank You.

  • @Jclownwalk
    @Jclownwalk 11 років тому +96

    Good acid that she's on

  • @Hammadisteachingchemistry
    @Hammadisteachingchemistry Рік тому +1

    Still in awe how perfect this video is

  • @inquisitivewonderer3908
    @inquisitivewonderer3908 7 років тому +29

    0:24 I gasped, I thought the bowling ball was going to fall off.

    • @lolerishype
      @lolerishype 3 роки тому +2

      Oh it did, only it didn't show

    • @cortwill4085
      @cortwill4085 6 місяців тому

      Ya! me too. I almost threw my phone!

  • @0TylerDurden0
    @0TylerDurden0 11 років тому +24

    This is amazing. I just learned today that there are colors our cones or color receptors cannot see - they're called Forbidden Colors! Colors we cannot see. Colors we haven't named --- Colors we haven't and probably will never discover. Think about it.

    • @erasmusso
      @erasmusso 11 років тому +4

      If an extraterrestrial, who could see the whole spectrum of light, compared his vision to ours, he'd say we're almost blind :/

    • @zanescheepers2084
      @zanescheepers2084 6 років тому +8

      Actually, colors only exist in our minds. There are no colors we can't see, only wavelengths of light our eyes can't detect.

    • @mrpiggyg808
      @mrpiggyg808 4 роки тому

      ok boomer

  • @aaaa-lw2kz
    @aaaa-lw2kz 4 роки тому +18

    lmao did anyone else come here becase their teacher needed them to watch this for an assignment for school

  • @Sweetitly
    @Sweetitly 11 років тому +1

    I knew about the idea of this brilliant UA-cam clip, but perceiving of different colors which were mentioned on this clip, was very important!

  • @Markus9705
    @Markus9705 11 років тому +1

    "do they convert the wave lengths that are usually out of our spectrum in order for us to see them?"
    Yeah, you can say that. In order to see the picture we must use visible light, yes.All you need to do is to multiply or divide the values, so you get wave lengths you can see.
    The cool thing here is that there're more colors than we can experience and see. There are more colors than we know. That's quite mind blowing, actually.

    • @MrMegaMetroid
      @MrMegaMetroid Рік тому

      Not more colours, just different wavelengths. Remember, lights doesn't have colours, as they are an addition of our brain. Everything outside of our soectrum just wasnt assigned a colour, because we cant detect in anyway. There is however nothing to indicate that the brain would make up a new colour for different wavelengths.
      All colours are made up by the brain and fitted onto the wavelengths you detect. We dont even know how the brain is doing it, or why its using colour specifically (since it could use basically any sensation to represent wavelengths). Extra fun fact, you CAN use different sensations to represent wavelengths by rerouting where the input is processed in the brain. Light only gets visible because its processed in the visual center of the brain. It can however, be processed in the auditory center and hearing it works just as well. Vice versa that works too. Thats how people on certain psychadelics can taste colours for example.
      Its all happening in the brain, colour is not a physical phenomenon, and not a property of light itself any more than pain is a property of a hot metal rod.

  • @TheRealMake-Make
    @TheRealMake-Make 5 місяців тому

    I loved the section of precalculus that focused on frequencies, amplitudes, electromagnetism…Very cool stuff.

  • @ohshitakimushroom
    @ohshitakimushroom 11 років тому +12

    Loved the animation!

  • @YonatanAlem
    @YonatanAlem 11 років тому +3

    Light can be powered by thermo-nuclear fusion like we see in stars, however their are other ways to power light like nuclear fission, chemical molecular reaction, mass colliding with other forms of mass, etc., etc. Light particles/waves can move so fast because they have almost no mass, making it relatively easy for those waves/particles to move at the speed of light.

  • @SamuelTheCoello
    @SamuelTheCoello Рік тому +3

    Shoutout to the James Webb Space Telescope.
    The fact this video is 9 years old but still here to be pushed back into the UA-cam algorithm, might we well. Let’s make more telescopes! 😄

  • @reubenlhouvum2086
    @reubenlhouvum2086 7 місяців тому +1

    Amazing.. i learnt something new in here

  • @Meximagician
    @Meximagician 11 років тому +2

    They simply use a color code to shift the light back into the visible spectrum. You've probably seen this in weather maps on the news, that's just radio waves which are then given a color code. The same thing can be used for infrared (IR) or Thermographic cameras to see heat.

  • @giannacatimbang1756
    @giannacatimbang1756 4 роки тому +6

    Thr animation of this is haunting me now-

  • @alistairkillick2088
    @alistairkillick2088 2 роки тому

    Very good & witty explanation. I want to add one thought: Walkowicz calls radiation "kinds of light"; I'd like a quick clarification - "we say x-rays, microwaves, light, etc. but they are waves, so we'll call it 'kinds of light' for this talk".

  • @virendrakhanzode1319
    @virendrakhanzode1319 8 місяців тому +1

    I swear to goodness this geometrical figure is hilarious for some reason and I don’t know why

  • @bitebibo
    @bitebibo 11 років тому +2

    i like how u teach us to remember the energy of light. this is sound very easy for me.

  • @imagineatoms
    @imagineatoms 11 років тому +4

    the energy comes from various places. sometimes it's an electron jumping between orbits with the difference in energy being released as light. So if one orbit requires 3x energy to be in and then the electron drops to an orbit that requires only 1x energy, light with energy 2x is released. And it moves so fast because it is massless and everything that is massless moves at the same rate (popularly called the speed of light)

  • @SaiyaraLBS
    @SaiyaraLBS 6 років тому +3

    Beautiful animations!

  • @abrar.shahriar
    @abrar.shahriar Рік тому +1

    best explanation indeed. Thank you soo much

  • @EvanWalser
    @EvanWalser Місяць тому

    Am I the only one that loves this video

  • @wisteriablossom2730
    @wisteriablossom2730 10 місяців тому +1

    W to my science teacher for giving us a ted ed video as homework

  • @AvIsIoNINaDrEamR
    @AvIsIoNINaDrEamR 11 років тому

    I think the idea of the video was how blind we are and how much we cannot see. If we evolved differently we could maybe see magnetic waves, gamma waves or radio waves. They say the amount of the Electromagnetic spectrum that we can see, if you extended it from New York to Los Angeles is only the size of one single golf ball. That is completely mind blowing.

  • @sope1169
    @sope1169 3 роки тому +3

    0:09 Apple Stem: Am I a joke to you?

  • @myjourneytotheendofunivers
    @myjourneytotheendofunivers 4 місяці тому

    The question i asked was
    why we can't see object smaller than wavelength of light ? And youtube recommend this video ...We think we know so much because of videos like these just giving pseudo satisfaction.

  • @bellagonna7825
    @bellagonna7825 8 років тому +19

    why did that have to happen?
    look closely 1:23

  • @Paulholzherr
    @Paulholzherr 11 років тому +7

    light waves are usually shown as being vertical like this ~~~ or vvvvv I suppose that in reality light waves are more complicated than this. They must overlap and coincide and meld and mix and interfere.

    • @SuperNumber420
      @SuperNumber420 10 років тому +1

      that is true. also, when we see colors, we are very rarely seeing one color. other than pure red, green and blue (i believe those are the three...), whenever we see a color, it is multiple wave lengths of different colors. they are put together and viewed as one color by our brain. pink, yellow, orange, magenta, they are all just different ratios of the red green and blue wavelengths that our visual system translates into one smooth color. it gets much more complex than what this video (or i) describes.

    • @geancarloestrada152
      @geancarloestrada152 8 років тому +1

      Not green, yellow

  • @kizurain167
    @kizurain167 Рік тому +1

    the energy of light in our eyes tells is how it will interact with matter

  • @natepepin09
    @natepepin09 11 років тому

    I know that there are a few other replies to this, but I think this one is better. Imagine your favorite song, and imagine you play it at 1/100 the speed. The pitch is lowered and it isn't likely to be recognizable. But if someone in the room records it in full, and then speeds it up by 100 times, they will essentially have the original track. In the same way, if the frequency of light is too high for the eye to see, they will stretch it out until it is in the visible spectrum.

  • @cr-lc8fg
    @cr-lc8fg 8 років тому +26

    theres a lot of soup on that boat

    • @lolerishype
      @lolerishype 3 роки тому

      YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

  • @rey8741
    @rey8741 Рік тому

    Bruh that's sick ! Very good explanation

  • @princesinggh
    @princesinggh 6 років тому

    One of the best video in terms of description..❤❤😙

  • @sudiptahalder8634
    @sudiptahalder8634 9 років тому +6

    very great videos
    i always keep searching for these types of videos ...
    CAN YOU PLEASE MAKE A VIDEO ON EINSTEIN'S THEORY OF RELATIVITY......????

  • @AvIsIoNINaDrEamR
    @AvIsIoNINaDrEamR 11 років тому

    We only call it light because we can see it. It is a human made concept. In fact what we see is a part of a spectrum so small if you extended it from New York to Los Angeles would be the size of a golf ball.

  • @daxiaogui
    @daxiaogui 11 років тому

    Those are the mathematical simulation of how a wave looks. They're used because this is how physical waves look. Look at a body of water to see what they mean. Does light actually move like this, nobody is actually sure but it's close enough to explain things.

  • @iezioaudi22
    @iezioaudi22 5 місяців тому

    WOW!!!
    WHAT A BRILLIANT VIDEO.
    THANK YOU TED ED

  • @kizurain167
    @kizurain167 Рік тому +1

    whn the light hits our eye, the relative amount of energy each cone of the retina measures, signals our brain to perceive colors.

  • @katiekat4457
    @katiekat4457 7 років тому +1

    Excellent video. Great animations

  • @KevNev
    @KevNev 5 років тому +27

    2:23 what did she have? Drugs? Mushrooms?

    • @chadandjill2004
      @chadandjill2004 4 роки тому +1

      im gonna bet both but combined so like magic shrooms

    • @KevNev
      @KevNev 4 роки тому

      @@chadandjill2004 wow I nearly forgot about this drug related video

    • @lolerishype
      @lolerishype 3 роки тому

      223

    • @elric5943
      @elric5943 Місяць тому

      "These edibles ain't sh-"

  • @cortwill4085
    @cortwill4085 6 місяців тому

    Great animation ! 👍😁😄👏🙋‍♀️
    You got an A++++++++++++++++++++++
    Love from
    Cali S. Butler
    April 26th, 2024

  • @daxiaogui
    @daxiaogui 11 років тому

    there's a special relationship between water and microwaves, which causes water to absorb energy from microwaves easily. Think of how a black shirt collects far more heat in a sunny day than a white shirt does. It's an almost identical effect.

  • @ThanyaC
    @ThanyaC 11 років тому +1

    Very informative helps understanding the wavy nature of light and how it can be put to use:) nice animation

  • @jacquelinejoffe6771
    @jacquelinejoffe6771 Рік тому +1

    Please can you do one on nanometers I love your teaching it helps me with my work !

  • @chtadow13
    @chtadow13 3 роки тому

    Man am so high. Enjoyed the video

  • @cortwill4085
    @cortwill4085 6 місяців тому

    Ooooooo😬! That's got to hurt! Did it knock her out?😵 0:18

  • @luminouswolf7117
    @luminouswolf7117 Рік тому

    Came here being quite aware that there are facets of reality not readily apparent.
    Unfortunately, many seem to be under the impression that they have all pertinent information on reality.. while being blind to most of it.

  • @kizurain167
    @kizurain167 Рік тому

    the waves of light and colors are like waves of the ocean. it could be big or it could be small. this size of wave is called wavelength

  • @TSA1963-b7e
    @TSA1963-b7e Рік тому

    Thank You for sharing this video, very insightful ✌️

  • @klaramcgoldrick4468
    @klaramcgoldrick4468 3 роки тому

    LIGHT IS ALL OF CREATION! THANK LIGHT!

  • @abdussamad657
    @abdussamad657 Рік тому

    Nice illustration and thanks f

  • @anasmmtaji
    @anasmmtaji 11 років тому

    “Light
    Light
    The visible reminder of Invisible Light.”
    ― T.S. Eliot

  • @jsufi1
    @jsufi1 11 років тому

    a woman walking into an anvil, got hit in the groin and then fell to the ground... I dont think they know how much pain it really is...

  • @kurtilein3
    @kurtilein3 11 років тому

    ugh, the animation is really trippy.

  • @TheGrape761
    @TheGrape761 Рік тому +2

    0:59 is that lady okay..?

  • @sebastianschrage338
    @sebastianschrage338 11 років тому

    I do not know it but i guess you have to edit the pictures (on a computer) by multiply the wave length.
    Lets say you can see from 1 to 5 and you want to see something between 0 and 1, then you simply multiply every value below 1 with 5 and got a value you are able to see

  • @cendietr2283
    @cendietr2283 11 років тому

    I think it depends. From electricity (bulb, lamp, traffic light,etc.) or thermonuclear explosions ( solar energy).

  • @SansDream6810
    @SansDream6810 11 років тому

    The way the narrator says "wave" reminds me of a very subtle Bermudian accent

  • @jamesbuckley4605
    @jamesbuckley4605 10 років тому

    awesome, small detail in the rainbow shot when there is a double rainbow the "inner" rainbow had is colors reversed

  • @raheel9759
    @raheel9759 4 роки тому

    I think light is visible when it hits particles and we can't see it passing through if there is no dust flying around but if it hits anybody it becomes visible

  • @cyanide-3421
    @cyanide-3421 4 роки тому +3

    watching this because of school.. hey other comrades from apec wassup

  • @mauriciogama1236
    @mauriciogama1236 11 років тому +2

    You don't really understand it unless you can explain it to your grandmother .

  • @GodWhyAmiHere
    @GodWhyAmiHere 6 місяців тому

    Thank you, and the Science makes sense..there are missing pieces meaning.. some frequency of light and or sound certain animals and human can pick up and others can..lets say like invisible energy as ghosts or photonic energy... some gaps on info. Need to be filled,.but great video 👍

  • @jinblum5253
    @jinblum5253 3 роки тому +1

    why i need this

  • @mudcrutched1
    @mudcrutched1 11 років тому

    You only NEED to see those wavelengths which emminate from physical objects.

  • @skypixel5466
    @skypixel5466 3 роки тому +4

    5:26 ...she left the electricity on...

  • @TinaChahhh
    @TinaChahhh 11 років тому

    Very nice video!

  • @thecanman3833
    @thecanman3833 4 роки тому +1

    me after eating my older brothers special brownies: 2:24

  • @chadandjill2004
    @chadandjill2004 4 роки тому +3

    bro when she was getting abused my the wine bottles and the soup cans at 1:45 I realized that the whole video was her hallucinating because she had too much booze like and my teacher assigned this to children

  • @abe357382
    @abe357382 10 років тому

    Some people have had surgery to remove a pert of their eye lense so they could see ultra violet light or so I read somewhere

  • @kingoftangents
    @kingoftangents 11 років тому

    Cool animation!

  • @matttatts
    @matttatts 11 років тому

    I thought the animation was great fun!! She took an anvil to the box right off the start that brings the lolz

  • @supahsid7608
    @supahsid7608 10 років тому +1

    That was so nice....

  • @chronoflect
    @chronoflect 11 років тому

    Kinda disappointed that you didn't include a picture of the spectrum. It really puts into perspective just how minuscule the visible light spectrum is compared to the rest of the EM spectrum.

  • @navneetkumaryadav7280
    @navneetkumaryadav7280 Рік тому

    Amazing, Thank you!!

  • @remist
    @remist Рік тому

    that animation is trippy aff

  • @DemiRonin
    @DemiRonin 11 років тому +2

    Made me feel like i was in middle school in the 90s

  • @markocska94
    @markocska94 11 років тому

    I like it! It' s like the Mona Lisa

  • @edwardwachowicz9895
    @edwardwachowicz9895 2 роки тому

    Nicely done. (Nice last name, also)

  • @MinuteLaboratory
    @MinuteLaboratory 11 років тому

    The colors of the double rainbow at 2:50 are in wrong order. Anyway, great video!

  • @Kill2Kiss
    @Kill2Kiss 4 роки тому +3

    The animation quality makes me want to die

  • @Kotifilosofi
    @Kotifilosofi 2 роки тому

    I wonder why we have all kind of uses not directly related to seeing for the invisible vawe leghts, such as microvawe or radio, but we only use visible light for seeing? Why there's no other useful characteristics for the visible light, but we have found these other uses for the wave lengths of the light we can't even see? Haven't we just figured them out or is there simply none? 🤔
    Also, not seeing some wave legths doesn't mean we wouldn't see items that have these colors (we wouldn't be blind to them)? But we should see them just as different color. For example, many animals have colors we can't see (but these animals can), and we still see them. But the invisible wave leghts seem to not just change the color, but actually have additional information, such as internal vision to human body. The wave leghts we see are just colors, but the other wave legths seem to be "more" than just the color. I kinda don't get that 😄

    • @andranohitipeuw5543
      @andranohitipeuw5543 Рік тому

      Well, lasers are made out of concentrated visible light and it's pretty useful. Also, not seeing some wavelengths ACTUALLY mean that we wouldn't see items that have "those" colors. We humans are trichromatic beings whereas creatures like a certain type of butterfly, etc, have tetrachromatic capabilities that allows them to see different colors than us. Our eyes has limits and we can't see something that's beyond our eyes' limits.

    • @Kotifilosofi
      @Kotifilosofi Рік тому

      @@andranohitipeuw5543 thank you for the reply! I was actually just thinking about these questions again the other day.
      I wonder if we could use visible light to send messages, such as radio waves, or if we could use it to understand structures, such as x-rays, for example? Or are these only characteristics of the certain wave lenghts? And also if we could use the invisible wave lengths to make a laser? Is it just a coincidence we use different wave lengths for different purposes, or do they have specific characteristics that make them very different in physical realm? What are these characteristics?
      Also, I was thinking about the example of a colorblind person. They have limits on their eyes, certain cells don't work. If you can't see certain colors, it doesn't mean that for example certain stripes of a ball are literally invisible to you, but you see them as different hues. Is this phenomenon somehow yet different from the certain wave lenghts being invisible to us? How?

  • @iantheimeldific
    @iantheimeldific 5 років тому +2

    0:42 (PAUSE IT) Thats Creepy...

  • @NotAcornKid
    @NotAcornKid Рік тому

    this will be the kinect in 2022

  • @gururajpanghri5949
    @gururajpanghri5949 4 роки тому +2

    X Ray: ha ha ha!! IAM most powerful light wave ever!!
    Visible light:☹️
    Gamma Ray: oi!! IAM the most powerful, X Ray!
    X Ray:--------------------------------------

  • @MuhdAmran-o1y
    @MuhdAmran-o1y 29 днів тому

    so if we could see wavelenghts or all spectrum of lights, then our surroundings will be too colourful right? what a mess

  • @all_gaming_0556
    @all_gaming_0556 Рік тому +1

    He you
    I just search ultra violent sound for long sleep can u make a video for relaxing music fo 6 hours.
    I want relax. The loneliness is eating me.

  • @sunilmandal4270
    @sunilmandal4270 6 років тому

    Thank You

  • @Hunter7509
    @Hunter7509 4 роки тому

    Good work

  • @VedrapBro
    @VedrapBro 10 днів тому

    Im there because my teacher on science gave me that link

  • @lamar6941
    @lamar6941 5 років тому +3

    3:44
    me when the light it shut and im trying to hit my sibling with a stick -_-

    • @cortwill4085
      @cortwill4085 6 місяців тому

      😮😮😮 hit your sibling with a stick!?!? What the #?$&

  • @daisuke4bleach
    @daisuke4bleach 9 років тому

    great video!