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  • Опубліковано 5 кві 2024
  • The glacieral waters of Iceland are so pure that they are perfect for understanding why water is blue. With such good visibility, professional diver Ted Whittnal can see the importance of photons and light at different depths of the ocean.
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  • @Danin4985
    @Danin4985 Місяць тому +45

    This is why many deep ocean creatures tend to be red colored. They become less visible. Many of them are also as transparent as possible to avoid predators.

    • @JayMillyPowerKingdom
      @JayMillyPowerKingdom Місяць тому +2

      and why they look better cooked too like shrimp lobsters idk I think there is something beautiful in the our world has to be other worlds like ours

    • @Danin4985
      @Danin4985 Місяць тому +1

      @@JayMillyPowerKingdom What we generally get in the supermarket are not deep sea creatures. Though shrimp and lobsters do turn red after cooking. That red color has nothing to do with the color the deep sea creatures have when they are alive.

  • @glasshaven.
    @glasshaven. Місяць тому +7

    Thank you, I have used the solar eclipse and why is colour blue information to form the concept for a song.

  • @Ellygator
    @Ellygator Місяць тому +1

    Interesting to see the colors vary with depth, thanks for the documentary.

  • @wladdenko5812
    @wladdenko5812 14 днів тому +1

    Thanks, good explanation

  • @lornalong6468
    @lornalong6468 22 дні тому +2

    It is not only deep water that reflects blue.
    I was always enchanted by the colour of ice and you don't need large glaciers or big chunks of ice to see the effects.
    Take a look at photos of Sweden's Ice Hotel and you will see the clear ice carvings, blocks of ice & chandeliers reflect blue.
    When you look at these carved ice rooms, they mostly look white to the naked eye.
    But when you take a video or photograph they reflect far more blue, especially where the ice is clear as opposed to 'frosted'.
    I would think there is less 'photon vibration' in ice absorbing red & yellow wavelengths and the little pieces of carved ice chandelier do not require a 'depth of water' to return the blue colour.
    Our atmosphere reflects blue back to us on earth on a clear sky day, even though we know the depths of space beyond are pitch black.
    Interesting & beautiful.

  • @wmarclocher
    @wmarclocher Місяць тому +11

    Okay, so red is absorbed by the water, that still leaves green and blue of the primary emitted colors and since our eyes are twice as sensitive to green (having twice as many cones in our retinas) why wouldn't the water look green? Or did I miss something?

    • @user-xc6wu3ve8u
      @user-xc6wu3ve8u Місяць тому

      There might also be a second process happening involving the remaining outer electron of the oxygen atom. This absorbs energy and re-emits it as blue. For example, sunsets are red, at least some of the time, because through the process of Rayleigh scatter blue is absorbed, and re-emitted in all directions including back towards the sun, such that only the longer wavelengths get through.

    • @Pops-km8xt
      @Pops-km8xt Місяць тому +4

      Green is not a primary color.

    • @wmarclocher
      @wmarclocher Місяць тому +4

      @@Pops-km8xt I would agree with you if we were talking about reflected colors, but with emitted colors the primaries are Red, Green and Blue; as all other emitted lights are a combination of these, which is why early crt monitors only had green blue and red phosphor on them

    • @hieratics
      @hieratics Місяць тому +2

      ​@Pops-km8xt blue, red and GREEN are primary colors in addictive color model when talking about light.
      Yellow, Magenta (not red) and Cyan (not blue) are primary colors in the subtractive color model when talking about printing and painting.

    • @techcafe0
      @techcafe0 Місяць тому

      @@Pops-km8xt In physics, Red-Green-Blue (RGB) are the primary 'additive colours' for emitted light; whereas, Cyan-Magenta-Yellow (CMY) are the primary 'subtractive' colours for reflected light. The How Stuff Works website has a very good explanation about light and how we see colours. Search for "Primary Colors Are Red, Yellow and Blue, Right? Not Exactly" on Google.

  • @Santosh32142
    @Santosh32142 17 днів тому

    Great explanation thank you, bcz she is perfect in Blue no matter science whatever say...

  • @LoneWombat2126
    @LoneWombat2126 24 дні тому +4

    That crystal clear water looks amazing and absolutely tranquil. I truly hope it will stay this pristine forever without tourists ruining it.
    I will say, however, that you still didn’t really explain why water is blue. 🤷‍♀️

  • @madcow3k
    @madcow3k Місяць тому +3

    So there are different color photons? I thought a photon was a photon and the eye receptor changed based on the wavelength (rods and cones). Does she mean the red wavelength gets swallowed up, and maybe the density of the water changed the speed of the wavelength further to the point of bending the red out? Interesting vid. Thanks.

    • @NPJGlobal
      @NPJGlobal Місяць тому +3

      The photon's energy level makes the "color", but yeah a photon is still a photon

  • @johnleos1687
    @johnleos1687 Місяць тому +1

    Great explanation, I get it! Water absorbs/filters out light color
    but BLUE gets through the filters! Another interesting video! Keep up the great work! Enjoy these interesting videos 🤠🇺🇸

    • @lornalong6468
      @lornalong6468 22 дні тому +2

      It has to do with the different wavelengths of each colour, refraction & reflection back to our eyes.
      It's like a diamond can appear clear in colour but according to the angles of the facets the wavelengths break up (refract) and reflect individual colours back out of the diamond due to the individual angles of the facets of the diamond.
      Thus you see colours & white light when you look at a diamond & twirl it around.
      A prism shows that clearly.
      White light goes in, coloured refracted light emerges as a rainbow of colours the other side of the prism.

    • @johnleos1687
      @johnleos1687 22 дні тому

      @@lornalong6468 Excellent examples, thank you for sharing the knowledge. 😃

  • @skorpnikusclaw9516
    @skorpnikusclaw9516 Місяць тому

    Why is this an edited version of the one with brian cox of 2016? Some shots are literally the same! Which is the original?

  • @johnfaulders9880
    @johnfaulders9880 Місяць тому

    Is this Silfra?!

  • @containedhurricane
    @containedhurricane Місяць тому

    So, there are lives in other blue planets? Since the color indicates water

  • @PM18Alumni
    @PM18Alumni Місяць тому +2

    😮😮😮😮😮

  • @memyselfyo8844
    @memyselfyo8844 Місяць тому

    Can’t this be explained using the same rationale used for why the sky is blue, I.e Rayleigh scattering? Vibgyor, or violet blue green yellow orange and red comprise the rainbow, or visual light spectrum. The colors that any medium doesn’t absorb, are re radiated outwards, giving said medium its color. The sequence is from low wavelength to higher, which is why at sunset, when the suns rays traverse a greater relative distance , the sun now appears orangish.

  • @ariespinal
    @ariespinal Місяць тому

    Aaaaa ok

  • @o1ecypher
    @o1ecypher Місяць тому +5

    Better yet, why is water wet?

    • @Ellygator
      @Ellygator Місяць тому

      Because it's not dry yet

  • @BrownyBird
    @BrownyBird Місяць тому +1

    Simply right? Well I didn't bloody get it 😅

    • @Ellygator
      @Ellygator Місяць тому

      maybe it was absorbed, try going back to surface

    • @Ellygator
      @Ellygator Місяць тому +2

      well, to simplify, water eats the red color first, then you go a little deep, the lower water has no red to eat. So, it eats the remaining colors in this order : ROYGBIV
      in the end, Blue, Indigo and Violet remain.
      That's why some seas appear turquoise , some blue and some deep green

  • @jondoeami
    @jondoeami Місяць тому +5

    Who else was today years old when they learnt of this

  • @kotastrophie
    @kotastrophie 15 днів тому +2

    Why is grass green

  • @devrim-oguz
    @devrim-oguz Місяць тому +1

    So, the water knows where it is because it knows where it isn’t

    • @Ellygator
      @Ellygator Місяць тому

      LoL, nice quote, I understood that reference

  • @chamberlainpwc
    @chamberlainpwc 23 дні тому

    Yes, and the thermal pools at Yellowstone are various colors because… ouch my brain..

    • @MM-we4no
      @MM-we4no 14 днів тому

      Lol those ones are due to deposits of minerals. Deep blues are due to copper; yellow pools likely have sulphur in them

  • @growingmelancholy8374
    @growingmelancholy8374 Місяць тому

    Water is actually neon tan.

  • @neilmanx1001
    @neilmanx1001 Місяць тому +2

    So red is absorbed by water and blue is not and that's why water is blue?. still not clear...

    • @Ellygator
      @Ellygator Місяць тому

      Fish can absorb air from water. But they do not absorb water. Hence you can only see water and not air. Does this help?
      Absorb means it is 'eaten'. You only see what's not eaten.

    • @MM-we4no
      @MM-we4no 14 днів тому

      @@Ellygatoryour example made the situation worse. Please find better ways of explaining

  • @EyesOfByes
    @EyesOfByes Місяць тому

    "Red photons"

  • @adammoorby3466
    @adammoorby3466 Місяць тому +1

    Water is clear

    • @RR-in7do
      @RR-in7do Місяць тому +2

      "looks blue"

  • @Al-cynic
    @Al-cynic Місяць тому +3

    Your assuming that people would realize that the blue saturates the water column more and more as the other colours are absorbed, that is obvious to someone trained to think scientifically, not to a lay person. Thus; this is a very poor educational video, did the person make it to feel superior or something. i've had better explanations of unevidenced string theory nonsense from profoundly conceited physicists.

  • @Hozebeast
    @Hozebeast 11 днів тому

    Clear as mud. Still don’t get it

  • @oowaz
    @oowaz Місяць тому +1

    bro water is not blue lmao

  • @tommyfrerking
    @tommyfrerking Місяць тому +37

    You didn't explain this at all. You started with a ROYGBIV scale, explained red and assumed we'd just get the rest. If you were a teacher I'd give you an F grade.

    • @PeterArnold1969
      @PeterArnold1969 28 днів тому +9

      I think it was perfectly explained. You might want to go back and watch it again. The scientific explanation starts at the 2:00 minute mark.

  • @reinhardt3090
    @reinhardt3090 Місяць тому +8

    This video sucks, it wastes time with music and dramatics and doesn't justify itself being 4 minutes.

    • @wbbartlett
      @wbbartlett Місяць тому +1

      That comment sucks, it wastes time with whining and words and doesn't justify itself being posted.

    • @growingmelancholy8374
      @growingmelancholy8374 Місяць тому +1

      @@wbbartlett Thank you for criticizing your own comment.

  • @Booya-Kasha714
    @Booya-Kasha714 Місяць тому +4

    You're slipping BBC. You didn't wedge in any Climate Change propaganda in this one. Tsk, tsk. 😆

    • @Al-cynic
      @Al-cynic Місяць тому +1

      Get a Brian you Moran.

    • @skorpnikusclaw9516
      @skorpnikusclaw9516 Місяць тому

      ​​@@Al-cynic you mentioned brian. Did you do it on purpose?......i just saw the one with brian cox (2016).....and some scenes are literally the same shot! In his doc HE is the diver with the red suit, not Ted! Its like it is the same doc but edited with different people!....i dont understand this.

  • @BUY_YOUTUB_VIEWS.304
    @BUY_YOUTUB_VIEWS.304 Місяць тому

    Well done on every video!