The fascinating physics of everyday life | Helen Czerski

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  • Опубліковано 27 вер 2017
  • Physics doesn't just happen in a fancy lab -- it happens when you push a piece of buttered toast off the table or drop a couple of raisins in a fizzy drink or watch a coffee spill dry. Become a more interesting dinner guest as physicist Helen Czerski presents various concepts in physics you can become familiar with using everyday things found in your kitchen.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 292

  • @carternova4458
    @carternova4458 4 роки тому +69

    She reminds me so much of me. SO much passion with what shes talking about, the breathlessness and talking so fast. I was following the whole time. Tough crowd but I loved it.

  • @rm709
    @rm709 6 років тому +177

    Seriously one of the fastest talkers out there.... and still easier to understand than physics

    • @niodyan4476
      @niodyan4476 6 років тому +3

      hahaha ever heard a polish (or what have you) person speak english?

    • @Yarshy.
      @Yarshy. 6 років тому +1

      Normal speed tbh

    • @TheScarvig
      @TheScarvig 6 років тому +2

      well bit faster than most, but i am used to watching YT on x2 speed to shorten the time i spend with each video so her normal speed was still not difficult to understand.... x2 was fine too though.....

  • @ms1975
    @ms1975 6 років тому +73

    Helen, you really love what you do, you love physics, and you showed it.
    I wish the world had more people like you. Thank you for these 15' and for the work you are doing.

  • @alinapace4859
    @alinapace4859 6 років тому +94

    I read her book a couple of months ago, and I loved it! Her book " Storm in a teacup" is amazing

    • @janethrees9907
      @janethrees9907 5 років тому

      Alina Pace couple it with Gerald Pollack’s the fourth phase of water and 100 reasons water is not H2O
      www.smashwords.com/books/view/930017
      To find the air and water are the same element
      This element looks like
      Microtubules containing bubbles
      More Microtubules than bubbles equals water
      Max bubbles inside the microtubules equals air
      Oxygen is compressed and dried air (now spongelike in its ability to absorb water from its surrounds when released from its container)
      Liquid oxygen is compressed and dried air that reveals the microtubules as the air bubbles within are compressed

    • @bentonhugo2541
      @bentonhugo2541 2 роки тому +1

      instablaster

    • @manikantan4809
      @manikantan4809 2 роки тому +1

      her vibe is amazing right

  • @filipfolkesson3865
    @filipfolkesson3865 6 років тому +81

    What a tough crowd!

    • @FreedomofSpeech865
      @FreedomofSpeech865 6 років тому +7

      Filip Folkesson For real! I get a sense it is going over their head

    • @Amani_Rose
      @Amani_Rose 6 років тому +2

      Filip Folkesson RIGHTT? So stiff.

    • @anirudh2000
      @anirudh2000 3 роки тому +1

      They were busy understand or something dude don't blame em. They surely appreciated it.

  • @briantobias9212
    @briantobias9212 6 років тому +107

    I usually only watch business based Ted talks but I am really starting to open up my mind to different talks like this. Very valuable info here!

  • @dreadcannibal3395
    @dreadcannibal3395 6 років тому +312

    that's interesting but I felt so bad that her jokes didn't land. it was a bit akward DX

    • @kinsmed
      @kinsmed 6 років тому +30

      The audience wasn't miked here.

    • @dreadcannibal3395
      @dreadcannibal3395 6 років тому +16

      ohhhhhh XD wish they told me earlier! it was very hard to watch without knowing it

    • @yuzarsif3586
      @yuzarsif3586 6 років тому +3

      But i love it

    • @Kevin-sy8uf
      @Kevin-sy8uf 6 років тому +15

      I was dying, she's pretty funny and cute too

    • @cowinbaby902
      @cowinbaby902 6 років тому +5

      Not so sure about that. You hear them laugh at about 8:28....

  • @alphacause
    @alphacause 6 років тому +91

    I really appreciate this talk because it does make physics more accessible to people, and therefore interesting. You have
    to applaud anyone who takes an esoteric subject, and distills it down to a level that a common person can grasp. However, it does upset me that so many people are dismissive of subjects, where they do not see an IMMEDIATE practical application. Many of our most consequential inventions had, as their foundation, ideas that were formulated long before these inventions existed - ideas which, at their time, were purely theoretical and abstract with no immediate practical use.

  • @MrJochido
    @MrJochido 6 років тому +121

    Great talk. Too bad she remembered that she only had a few minutes left on her parking ticket at the very beginning of the talk. :)

  • @gutspraygore
    @gutspraygore 6 років тому +21

    So, at one point she mentions a "chapter in her book."
    I was watching the video at work so please forgive me if I am mistaken, but there doesn't seem to be any reference to her book. If anyone was curious, it's called Storm in a Teacup and it is awesome.

  • @cineck
    @cineck 6 років тому +54

    This is brilliant! Such passion and wisdom, I love the presentation and you can't escape the physics ^^

  • @bokyungryu
    @bokyungryu 6 років тому +11

    I love her idea that learning science is 'by playing with these fundamental little things in everyday life we gain the confident to ask the right questions'.

  • @j5s7
    @j5s7 6 років тому +10

    Thank you, Helen! Wonderful talk - so much passion!

  • @hmmmok1924
    @hmmmok1924 4 роки тому +2

    The passion and pure excitement are so contagious and endlessly endearing. What a lovely talk.

  • @Anila2497
    @Anila2497 5 років тому +3

    This is one of my favorite talks ever. She’s amazing.

  • @mpking-ey7ys
    @mpking-ey7ys 6 років тому +7

    Notice also that it is more difficult to get the raw egg start spinning. You rarely can get it spinning fast with the first and only go like the cooked egg. That is also due to conservation of angular momentum. The liquid egg inside needs to spin up.

  • @samjabermusic
    @samjabermusic 6 років тому +11

    love her energy!

  • @bokyungryu
    @bokyungryu 6 років тому

    It's comfortable to watch her presentation, because I don't have to do anything (like try to laugh and clap) but too see her energy and to gain more knowledge. Really admire this kind of people!

  • @lacoco7814
    @lacoco7814 4 роки тому +2

    omg this speech was so good. so catchy for real. nothing but love to her. She's really showing that physic is fun and nothing but fun!

  • @abhimat
    @abhimat 6 років тому +1

    I was watching it in normal speed, but I always was doubting if it was running in fast forward! Enjoyed the talk.

  • @rickwyant
    @rickwyant 5 років тому +1

    Her enthusiasm is contagious.

  • @yogi13729
    @yogi13729 6 років тому

    Awesome. Simplicity in the complexness. She is so passionate

  • @daesoolee1083
    @daesoolee1083 6 років тому

    Great talk indeed. As a person studying physics, I think of how everything works in everyday lives. Everything works under physics law, principles, every movement we see works in a way that physics can explain. People think that physics is boring and difficult and number nerdy thing but actually, even at this moment we're typing something, our fingers are giving a certain amount of force to press the keyboards. I really hope children can open their minds and see the world in a little different perspective.

  • @workspace8314
    @workspace8314 6 років тому +1

    Love your passion !!!

  • @zackarytherrien
    @zackarytherrien 6 років тому +1

    There is just something about a talk from someone that is passionate about their topic. Amazing.

  • @ferndawg665
    @ferndawg665 6 років тому +1

    I love her passion!

  • @nickdiazmma8190
    @nickdiazmma8190 5 років тому

    Highly entertaining and educative talk, thanks!

  • @muhammadazim7514
    @muhammadazim7514 4 роки тому

    Love the passion!

  • @FrancisRodrigues
    @FrancisRodrigues 6 років тому

    This lesson is very very important to me.. and very motivational.

  • @dawnbarber7980
    @dawnbarber7980 2 роки тому

    Splendid talk! Thank you

  • @bazoo513
    @bazoo513 4 роки тому

    You are a brilliant communicator, Dr. Czerski!

  • @mildsoup8978
    @mildsoup8978 6 років тому

    love this talk

  • @shiply
    @shiply 6 років тому

    Another great TED talk!

  • @BariumCobaltNitrog3n
    @BariumCobaltNitrog3n 4 роки тому +1

    It's all about rotation, rotation, rotation. Push the toast off slowly to put some butter on the carpet. Push the toast off a bit quicker and the odds are even. Push the toast a bit harder on its corner giving it a horizontal rotation before it leaves the table and it will NEVER land butter side down.

  • @naveensagar2408
    @naveensagar2408 5 років тому

    Great speech mam! you are rewined fundamentals very nice thanks for that

  • @brocanova
    @brocanova 6 років тому +1

    Actually I am only watching this in order to prepare my IELTS exam - and find it extremely fun and exciting!

  • @ptimlick
    @ptimlick 6 років тому +3

    Way to go Helen!

  • @diwitdharpatitripathi7427
    @diwitdharpatitripathi7427 3 роки тому +1

    An incredible science teacher.

  • @xXMiakodaXx
    @xXMiakodaXx 6 років тому +12

    Thanks, I really needed this video today. I'm in my sophomore year of college and learning physics for the first time. It has been...a difficult subject to love. I will try and look at it from new angles. Perhaps I can learn to love it too.

    • @agusnegra
      @agusnegra 6 років тому +1

      Jessica Lukancic that's the spirit! It's all about been curious, learn some tools and see how u can use it.. it's awesome

    • @seffvlamez989
      @seffvlamez989 4 роки тому

      Agus T Green she did that for a project

  • @anwarajaj6333
    @anwarajaj6333 2 місяці тому

    Thank you for your talk 😍👏👏 I feel passionate about physics again because of you 💐☺️

  • @Crunketh
    @Crunketh 6 років тому +4

    She's so Brilliant! 😍

  • @seansoblixe9711
    @seansoblixe9711 5 років тому +1

    Helen is a stunner!

  • @pR1mal.
    @pR1mal. 6 років тому

    There is a professor at U.C. Berkeley named, Richard Muller. He had a simillar revelation about physics and everyday people so he created a course titled, "Physics for Future Presidents" . The lecture seried teaches some of the most interesting and important topics in physics, stressing conceptual understanding rather than math, with applications to current events.
    The series has approximately 26 lectures, they are hosted on YT by Berkeley, and there are DL links in each lecture's description panel.

  • @yawen3506
    @yawen3506 5 років тому

    Wow, I like her so much and she absolutely supports my idea. Inspiring !!,

  • @hansshrestha7953
    @hansshrestha7953 3 роки тому

    The best ted on physics I’ve ever watched.

  • @iriorton
    @iriorton 6 років тому +1

    Memorised

  • @toilaxuannam
    @toilaxuannam 10 місяців тому

    SUCH AMAZING

  • @gloriamitchell3518
    @gloriamitchell3518 2 роки тому

    Storm in a teacup. Fascinating.

  • @shoug2614
    @shoug2614 4 роки тому +1

    I thought It might be boring honestly ,but It's hasn't. ..great talk,with great advise about science and how we have to look to all around us..because we will find every time and every where science
    Everything is science

  • @Rico-Suave_
    @Rico-Suave_ 4 роки тому

    I really agree with her talk,I wish she could have given more examples of the gap she mentioned

  • @terrigodfrey8260
    @terrigodfrey8260 5 років тому

    I love her!!

  • @sreekuttanpb8989
    @sreekuttanpb8989 3 роки тому +1

    Great!!

  • @ConcaveWindow
    @ConcaveWindow Рік тому +1

    Wow!

  • @frankG335
    @frankG335 18 днів тому

    She was trying to get everything in that she wanted to say...
    If she had cut some of it and slowed down a bit, it would have been even better.
    I think she's a wonderful ambassador for physics and science in general.
    We need to de-mystify all the sciences and make it more accessible to regular folks.

  • @chewiestquill9027
    @chewiestquill9027 6 років тому

    Her stage presence is really good

  • @diwitdharpatitripathi7427
    @diwitdharpatitripathi7427 3 роки тому

    She's a very good narrator, a wonderfully talented logician.

  • @mohsenmehrani5881
    @mohsenmehrani5881 6 років тому

    Great! more power:)

  • @titaemira
    @titaemira 6 років тому +1

    My boyfriend is a physicist and I love to learn more about it now 😀

  • @locouk
    @locouk 6 років тому

    Helen is amazing, I wish I had 1/100th of her skills.

  • @LeonidasGGG
    @LeonidasGGG 6 років тому

    I like cooking and F1... Lots of physics there. ;)
    Too bad most teachers don't know how to relate science to everyday life. But this Talk is amazing!

  • @ikenray
    @ikenray 6 років тому

    Very interesting.

  • @aviahveredusa6099
    @aviahveredusa6099 5 років тому

    Super fascinating and yes I tried and yes toes lands butter-side down! 😁😍

  • @arctic_haze
    @arctic_haze 3 роки тому +1

    Air-sea interaction. This is why her name sounded familiar to me! I'm pretty sure we worked with the same people.
    PS. I now realized she cited a paper I coauthored 😁

  • @ridium7721
    @ridium7721 5 років тому

    I would with pleasure marry somebody like her. Thanks for letting me know that your kind exists. Such a positive energy...loved it!

  • @NicoSmets
    @NicoSmets 6 років тому +9

    I'm pretty sure Curie appreciated her image, and would cringe from todays image

  • @muhammadidrees3701
    @muhammadidrees3701 3 роки тому

    Her biceps and triceps are bigger than mine 👌👌😍 a nice talk btw

  • @kinsmed
    @kinsmed 6 років тому

    Very enthusiastic. Hope they are using her for recruiting as well.

  • @Number1classes
    @Number1classes 4 роки тому

    Nice video 👌👌 really it was amazing

  • @HFH-lt2xi
    @HFH-lt2xi 2 роки тому +1

    She'd go into teaching in South Korea (E-Learning). High Passioned Educators're treated like Superstars there.

  • @The_Kini
    @The_Kini 3 роки тому

    I LOVE HER

  • @no_named_js9754
    @no_named_js9754 4 роки тому

    I appreciate this talk because she makes us understand physics easily.
    People who take an esoteric subject have to applaud and distill it down to a level that person can grasp.
    However, ignoring the subject of too many people not seeing practical applications makes me pitiful.

  • @jameslaughlin3298
    @jameslaughlin3298 3 роки тому +1

    Ok, your specialty is bubbles, so I have a bubble question. There’s a UA-cam video of bubbles freezing at -35C. The ice crystals that form have 4 points, not 6 like a snowflake. Can you explain why this happens? Thank you!

  • @bigjohno242
    @bigjohno242 3 роки тому

    Super intelligent and interesting

  • @spikedouglas9989
    @spikedouglas9989 6 років тому

    damn. I tried to search her name in my podcast app for an interview or a panel discussion and nothing came up.

  • @nicorodriguez5167
    @nicorodriguez5167 6 років тому

    that bring to my mind my old phisic's teacher
    a man who explain me the atomic size with eggs and box of eggs
    then i thought that he was mad after seen this i know that he isn't

  • @thrivesurvive
    @thrivesurvive 6 років тому

    Great talk. Even as a child, I wondered why adults misrepresented physics to kids in cartoons. It seems like such a disservice.

  • @proffski
    @proffski 6 років тому

    Genius!

  • @fisheye9559
    @fisheye9559 6 років тому +1

    We had Ted Talks at our school one time so it was my first time, so I thought this is how it would go. Skinny tall man says ""Hi, um.... I'm Chuk from TedTalks and today we will be umm... (reads script) talking about the 21st century techni tehnik - tehcnicloloigigcal - technological advancements! "

  • @nathanezra1
    @nathanezra1 6 років тому

    Raisins in lemonade....will try that next time I'm at a boring party

  • @jtremblay100
    @jtremblay100 6 років тому

    Nice lady makes complex things seem simple. Must do more coffee than I do.

  • @mhill88ify
    @mhill88ify 6 років тому

    Wow what an adorable, insanely smart and personable woman...

  • @darkmatters868
    @darkmatters868 6 років тому

    I just watched boxing channel, does boxer being knocked out has anything to do with angular momentum :)

  • @vorlonagent
    @vorlonagent 6 років тому

    She has a lot of great engaging energy. She could host a science program. Or since she's a brit, a "science programme". :)

  • @bello8440
    @bello8440 3 роки тому +1

    Here because I wanna get the motivation to study for my uni exam.

  • @TheScarvig
    @TheScarvig 6 років тому +1

    she gave the answer to the way how to push toast off a table without it landiung butter side down in her speech......
    SPOILER:
    keyword: conservation of angular momentum.
    push the toast in a way so that it spins in the plane of the table so that when it leaves the table its angular momentum will prevent it from turning over and the butter side keeps on pointing away from the ground!
    captain out! #flies away#

  • @h2energynow
    @h2energynow 6 років тому

    She has an amazing website: www.helenczerski.net/

  • @fleXcope
    @fleXcope 6 років тому

    3:00 no problem whatsoever with that pose

  • @affanansari9570
    @affanansari9570 6 років тому

    Physics will make your life beautiful

  • @spidermen6499
    @spidermen6499 2 роки тому

    4:40

  • @ryccoh
    @ryccoh 6 років тому

    That area in between that she talks about that's what engineers tackle on a daily basis

  • @iroquoistechnologychannel6318
    @iroquoistechnologychannel6318 4 роки тому

    These physicists are making a real difference in this world.
    @Jzps

  • @karel5796
    @karel5796 6 років тому +1

    I have her book i think

  • @slam3485
    @slam3485 2 роки тому

    قانون الحفاط على القصور الذاتي

  • @paulsmyers203
    @paulsmyers203 5 років тому +6

    I refrigerate my boiled eggs, and other foods such as grapes, because I prefer my food cold. I've also been told recently that cold food burns more calories because your body has to warm it up.
    Physics ;)

    • @hannahdivic28
      @hannahdivic28 4 роки тому +1

      Paul Smyers it doesn’t actually the difference is negligible 😂 like 0.00001 of a calorie lol you’re doing yourself no favors

  • @spidermen6499
    @spidermen6499 2 роки тому

    7:27

  • @joshuabarrios7496
    @joshuabarrios7496 6 років тому +2

    Wow. Tough crowd

  • @AlexAlex-zx7cu
    @AlexAlex-zx7cu 2 роки тому

    Recommend a book for those who interested in physics:
    Physics For Entertainment by Yakov Perelman

  • @mud2479
    @mud2479 6 років тому

    fit bird. good talk

  • @wigzenga
    @wigzenga 4 роки тому

    Do you know the egg thing? Is that the same reason we get dizzy when we spin around and then stop?

  • @geoffbuck6865
    @geoffbuck6865 6 років тому +2

    See her on telly and she's calm and convincing. In this she seemed stressed and nervous. HC is a good communicator but it seemed to me this didn't work.

    • @14newworld
      @14newworld 6 років тому

      Geoff Buck I think she's speaking the more faster that she can.