5 Things that Seem to Defy the Laws of Physics

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  • @Sideprojects
    @Sideprojects  Місяць тому +10

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    • @Exodus26.13Pi
      @Exodus26.13Pi Місяць тому

      ⭕ God told Moses on Mt. Sinai to use Pi 3.14 π as the cornerstone to build the Wilderness Tabernacle in 1440 BC. In 94 AD Josephus the historian wrongly described it as rectangular-shaped. Exodus 25-26-27 blueprints build a circular-shaped hendecagon outer courtyard. What is superior, the bible or confirmed secular/ecumenical history?
      330 Exodus 26:8 eleven curtains each 30 cubits long
      15 Exodus 26:12 one curtain is folded in half to 15 cubits long
      - 1 Exodus 26:13 curtain hang over/seams add to 1 cubit long
      = 314
      3.14 = 314 circumference/100 diameter ≈ π ratio (100 cubit court per Exodus 27:9-18)
      .................
      Is this discovery like the Dead Sea Scrolls or even Martin Luther's 95 Theses? How did we miss this for 1900 years and does it even matter anymore? Pi is 3 or 3.14... very small difference.
      ..................
      History of finding π:
      -(1900-1680 BC) Babylonian 3.125 for π
      -(1650 BC) Egyptians gave the approximate value of π 3.1605
      -(1440 BC) Moses recorded Pi in the Exodus blueprints 3.141592653... Exodus 26:13 ≈ Pi
      -(500 BC) India's Aryabhata approximation was 62,832/20,000, or 3.141
      -(429-501 BC) Zu Chongzhi a Chinese mathematician 3.1415926 - 3.1415927
      -(250 BC) Archimedes from Syracuse showed between 3.1408 and 3.1429
      .................
      More than a thousand years removed Josephus did NOT know Exodus 26:13 approximated Pi. He was describing the Temple's structure and NOT, and NOT the Tabernacle from Exodus 25-26-27. See?
      Pi is coded in your DNA.
      Consider King Josiah & the Prophetess Huldah rediscovering the forgotten scriptures, right? Will Pharaoh let this go? Almost 3500 years ago "Exodus 26:13 ≈ Pi" was lost on Mt. Nebo when Moses died. How will religious and non-religious acknowledge this systemic seed-changing paradigm shift? We going back in time in real-time to change history to line up the Word as it should've been.
      Moses recorded Pi 1000 years before Archimedes from Syracuse's Pi. Everyone including myself rejects this text/arithmetic until studied personally. Please use consistent hermeneutics along with the scientific method for our non-religious friends. After confirmation please repent then rejoice. Please remember this is God's big tent.
      Exodus 26:13 ≈ Pi ⭕ כְּכֹ֗ל אֲשֶׁ֤ר אֲנִי֙

    • @delphinazizumbo8674
      @delphinazizumbo8674 Місяць тому +2

      this AI host is strange
      and, yes, I can tell it's an AI by the HANDS

    • @michaelhumphreys9302
      @michaelhumphreys9302 Місяць тому

      😅

    • @delphinazizumbo8674
      @delphinazizumbo8674 Місяць тому

      @@michaelhumphreys9302 really. and sentence structure. it's true.
      isn't my insistent sincerity reassuring?
      /s

  • @paradox7358
    @paradox7358 Місяць тому +394

    The shear number of channels Simon has seems to defy the laws of physics.

    • @Fullyloaded_00
      @Fullyloaded_00 Місяць тому +11

      Good one my man

    • @smyth0077
      @smyth0077 Місяць тому +13

      Legend has it that mathematicians once tried to calculate the number of channels Simon has but found that numbers don't go that high

    • @DrankenDune
      @DrankenDune Місяць тому +3

      The shear number of times this thumbnail will get uploaded in one week

    • @takeohtyme
      @takeohtyme Місяць тому +8

      He does it by recording for 27 hours per day 7.13 days a week.

    • @WayneBraack
      @WayneBraack Місяць тому +3

      Because he's smart enough to set up a business model where he doesn't actually do any of the work. He just comes in and bees to showman he got so many other people working behind him he can produce a lot of things

  • @milk-it
    @milk-it Місяць тому +56

    Forget coating sand with a chemical to make it hydrophobic, come to Western Australia and try gardening in any backyard. It's so hydrophobic here, we have to add wetting agents just to get it to keep the water!

    • @BuzzinVideography
      @BuzzinVideography Місяць тому +13

      Can confirm. There's some places in North America so arid that we have to agitate the ground to puddle up the water because the ground can't absorb it

    • @dearthditch
      @dearthditch Місяць тому +10

      Which is why you can have flash floods in the driest of places

    • @kevinbeazy
      @kevinbeazy Місяць тому +1

      That doesn’t change the point. Everywhere is special and everyone has the cutest dog and smartest kid

    • @AlwayslookingNeverlookedfor
      @AlwayslookingNeverlookedfor Місяць тому

      Just maybe it doesn't want to get wet unlike yourself. Lol

    • @jgharston
      @jgharston Місяць тому

      @@kevinbeazy And all the children are above average.

  • @user-tf2tr2tl9j
    @user-tf2tr2tl9j Місяць тому +89

    Great video as usual, thx. If this is read by who ever is in charge of the background music, not so loud, chill, need to hear Simon 😂🎶

    • @minners71
      @minners71 Місяць тому +6

      Get rid of the background music!

    • @kaynithdarkwater6194
      @kaynithdarkwater6194 Місяць тому +5

      Agreed! Do not mind the music, but it is a bit loud.

    • @cheekyb71
      @cheekyb71 Місяць тому +2

      It's a nightmare in my headphones!!!

    • @HooKedGxing
      @HooKedGxing Місяць тому +1

      yea the background music is pretty loud. after all these years they still suck at sound lol. I'm so glad i use the bring back the down vote button extension :P

    • @o0Donuts0o
      @o0Donuts0o Місяць тому

      The problem here is that it’s cello and pretty low in the spectrum hence having to be turned up and become obtrusive.

  • @easaspace
    @easaspace Місяць тому +50

    Is the background music way to high at times, or is it just me? Love your videos, but its hard to hear you speak sometimes over the music...

    • @martanowicka3340
      @martanowicka3340 Місяць тому +4

      It's terribly loud sometimes. He has some fixation recently about adding loud music in the background 😂😂😂

    • @rgerber
      @rgerber Місяць тому +1

      yes it is

    • @BrickTsar
      @BrickTsar Місяць тому +1

      Indeed

    • @easaspace
      @easaspace Місяць тому +2

      Good to hear it is not just me getting old and cranky. Hope he reads this and instructs his editors.

  • @NonEuclideanTacoCannon
    @NonEuclideanTacoCannon Місяць тому +15

    The one way glass is similar to cutting peppers. If you put a trimmed piece of a pepper down on a cutting board with the skin side up and try to cut it, it will deform and squish and only a very sharp knife will actually cut through the skin. If you put the same pepper down with the skin side down, the knife slices right through with little resistance. It's the same deal, a hard layer on one side and a soft layer on the other.

    • @moogle68
      @moogle68 3 дні тому

      No, your example is not the same. The glass depends on the bullet traveling so fast that it deforms upon impact, causing it's surface area to increase, which is what stops it penetrating, whereas with your example the knife never changes, and simply struggles because the outer layer of the pepper is both hard _and_ flexible, making it difficult to actually apply enough pressure to the outer skin for the blade edge to do it's thing. This can easily be overcome by using a horizontal, downward slicing motion instead of "cutting" by pressing down perpendicularly to the surface that the pepper is on. Using a curved blade instead of a straight one makes this much easier as the curvature causes the effect as long as you hold the blade at even a slight angle. The pepper's skin does have the same combination of properties as the bullet proof glass in a way, so you are right in a way, but they use them differently to achieve different effects. A closer analogy involving bullets to the way the pepper's skin works would be bullet proof vests. Also, regarding cutting, the difficulty in cutting veggies with skin like peppers is why knife sharpening and making channels will often cut veggies to prove the sharpness of their blades, because a well sharpened blade should _not_ struggle at all when cutting something like peppers. I hand sharpen my knives as a hobby, so I can prove this firsthand. If your knife struggles, then it has been dulled, or more likely burled (bent sideways and the rolled over on itself) at the edge.

  • @GoTakeADrive
    @GoTakeADrive Місяць тому +11

    The Audio mix is so stinkin bad in this video that I couldn't get through it, background music is intrusive in its volume.

  • @uni6988
    @uni6988 Місяць тому +220

    Correct video this time 😂

    • @Fullyloaded_00
      @Fullyloaded_00 Місяць тому +1

      He uni!

    • @AnnaNicole.
      @AnnaNicole. Місяць тому +14

      Knew this comment would be here somewhere. :)

    • @mementomori29231
      @mementomori29231 Місяць тому +1

      ​@@AnnaNicole.What happened before?

    • @MrEnjoivolcom1
      @MrEnjoivolcom1 Місяць тому +23

      @@mementomori29231 Same physics title, but wrong video, lol. Honest mix up for someone who records and uploads as many videos as Simon does!

    • @carston101
      @carston101 Місяць тому +4

      Ah so that's why it got delisted.
      I was excited for the video when I got the first notification but was very confused when I couldn't find the video lol

  • @itstonberrytime
    @itstonberrytime Місяць тому +34

    Some bulletproof glass is constructed in 3 layers, but the high end stuff is usually at least 5 layers most of which are actually tempered glass with a special coating of adhesive that is strong like polycarbonate. The glass is actual glass though in most cases, because glass is the best at breaking the bullet apart while the polycarbonate backing deforms to catch the broken up round.

    • @kevinbeazy
      @kevinbeazy Місяць тому +1

      Not anymore. 2 layers is fine now.

    • @itstonberrytime
      @itstonberrytime Місяць тому +1

      @@kevinbeazy even with GCP (Glass-clad polycarbonate) you are only going to get a UL level of up to 3 with a 2 layer design. It can stop small calibers like .223 or 5.56 but a larger caliber rifle will punch right through a 2 layer GCP like paper. If you want level 4+ protection you'll need more than 2 layers, even with the thicker 2.5 inch layers. Can you make a stronger 2 layer design? Yes, but each layer is going to be so thick, it would be smarter and weigh less to just add more layers. I don't doubt it exists, but a 2 layer is never going to be more practical than 5

  • @romulusnr
    @romulusnr Місяць тому +11

    Magic Sand used to be a kids toy in the late 70s. I had some.

    • @brittanyc3282
      @brittanyc3282 Місяць тому

      I had a kit in the 90s called Squand 😊

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 Місяць тому +20

    0:40 - Chapter 1 - 1 way bullet resistant glass
    3:45 - Mid roll ads
    5:10 - Chapter 2 - Hydrophobic sand
    8:30 - Chapter 3 - The Emdrive
    11:15 - Chapter 4 - Starlite
    14:05 - Chapter 5 - Nitinol

  • @danielstokoe6564
    @danielstokoe6564 Місяць тому +23

    1 way bulletproof glass sound cool but please god dont install it the wrong way round !

    • @mattthemouse1
      @mattthemouse1 Місяць тому +4

      “Are you sure you installed it right?”
      *bang!*
      “Do I have to answer that?”

  • @user-nu8in3ey8c
    @user-nu8in3ey8c Місяць тому +23

    Starlite is an ablative coating, to block thermal heat. The basic recipe has been reverse engineered by chemists, some of which are on youtube:
    * Something that forms carbon (sugar for example)
    * Something that produces gas when heated (baking soda or borax also called sodium tetraborate)
    The heat causes the sugar to form into carbon which is hard to burn or oxidize, and the gas released from the second gas forming compound makes it into a foam which is non-conductive. What we get is a somewhat non conductive foam that gets thicker as more heat is applied upon it.
    Starlite may be more advanced, but it exists in a group of compounds called ablative coatings, and it is possible it was never bought because those existed before, and after, the man's invention. No one bought it because someone probably explained that it was not that special, or even it if was, it only had specific use cases
    To someone who has never seen an ablative coating, it looks amazing. To someone who knows what an ablative coating is, already knows the limitations of those materials, and why this product may not replace other similar coatings.
    Regardless the man's invention is impressive if it was non-toxic and could be applied that thinly.

    • @billant2
      @billant2 Місяць тому

      At 13:22 the company ThermaShield still appears to be around. A quick Google search for starlitethermashield shows that they have StarLite availalbe. heh

  • @Allegheny500
    @Allegheny500 17 днів тому +1

    The Starlight story reminds me of another process that was lost, cement that would harden underwater was in use by the Roman Empire, after it fell the process was lost until rediscovered by the Germans just prior to 1940. I'm surprised nobody found the original samples after the man passed, or investigated what purchases he made for his lab for clues.

  • @nicmainville9954
    @nicmainville9954 Місяць тому +3

    To add on to the bullet proof glass: the pulverized glass dust is not something you want to breath in, it will do more than just make someone's day more difficult

  • @thegrimreefer3185
    @thegrimreefer3185 Місяць тому +9

    Starlite worked as advertised, but it also has a very short effective life. You can't just coat something in it and it's heat proof forever. Or even a year for that matter. It's effective life is only a few months at best. Still very impressive, but not as cool as it is generally touted. (no pun intended)
    It's been a few years since I read up on the EM drive, but I thought it didn't work in space. It's actually "pushing" off of the earths magnetic field.

    • @HH-ru4bj
      @HH-ru4bj 9 годин тому

      I don't know the specifics of the emdrive, but there was another one that would use micro second pulses through a pile, that in theory exerts a force, but is too short to experience the counteractive recoil, essential like a rowboat. Last time I heard it had positive results, but the amount of thrust was just barely measurable. Still haven't heard if anyone tried to replicate it.

  • @pr0xZen
    @pr0xZen Місяць тому +2

    Nitinol does _not_ need to be formed at time of creating the "alloy". You can change its austenitic shape at/above roughly 500°C. Its melting point is over 1300°C so there's a solid margin to work with.
    500°C is a temperature most people can reach with simple tools, so you don't have to stick with the sold-as shapes. Actually handling it at 500°C can be more challenging, so a common practice is to have it firmly fixed when in its martensite state at room temperature, in a way so that it can't move when you heat it up between reaching the austenite state (where it would "revert to its original shape"), and reaching 500°C(+).
    Just beware when working out a way to fix it in a shape, especially with thicker material - that since nitinol is an intermetallic superelastic compound, the amount of force by which it will attempt to revert to its "original shape" can be _very_ strong.

  • @fredblonder7850
    @fredblonder7850 Місяць тому +5

    Different formulations of Nitinol have different transition temperatures. Some forms can be triggered by human body temperature. I was once speaking with someone who works for a supplier of this alloy, who said that they sell a lot of it for use in . . . sex toys.

  • @JamesSherrick
    @JamesSherrick Місяць тому +16

    Perfect timing, just got off work and boom, side projects video

  • @danko6582
    @danko6582 Місяць тому +30

    EM drive is like a looney tunes character blowing on a ship's sails.

    • @robsquared2
      @robsquared2 Місяць тому +3

      Which mythbusters somehow got to work. The physics of why it worked still breaks my brain.

    • @streetguru9350
      @streetguru9350 Місяць тому +4

      @@robsquared2 Mythbusters? The thrust it gave in one test was so minimal it was probably just the heat radiating off it giving the illusion of thrust. Especially given the power input it needs.

    • @JarrodFrates
      @JarrodFrates Місяць тому +4

      ​@@streetguru9350It wasn't just heat, and heat wouldn't give that much inertia. The experiment has been repeated numerous times by others. The air is transferring its inertia to the sail as it bounces off. That counteracts the force from the fan moving the air to begin with. But the air then bounces back, and under Newton's Third Law, it imparts a force on the sail. The result is that the boat gets a net increase in inertia, moving it in the direction of the fan's airflow.cIt is far less efficient than taking down the sail and pointing the fan backwards, but it does work. (There are other nuances surrounding interactions between the reflected air and the new air from the fan, as well as air not reflected straight back, but that gets beyond what works in a YT comment.)

    • @kenbrown2808
      @kenbrown2808 Місяць тому +4

      @@robsquared2it is simple thrust vectoring. the same principle as the thrust reversers on a commercial airplane. the fan draws in air from all directions and then through the mechanism of the sail, blows it towards the back of the boat, giving the boat a net forward thrust.

    • @Hevach
      @Hevach 26 днів тому

      The results are really weird, though, because actually set up in ways that should produce no thrust (including removing the microwave emitter and replacing it with a big resistor) still produced the same thrust. Flipping it around but not rotating the test harness made it work backwards. Rotating the drive and test harness 90 degrees made it stop generating thrust at all.
      Two have been sent to space. One generated no detectable thrust and the other was recently abandoned without being properly tested due to power and communication issues with the cubesat bus it was mounted on. Rogue Space Systems called the mission a success but that seems to be mostly for investor relations purposes because literally no aspect of the satellite seems to have worked properly.

  • @user-zd3ow9kw4z
    @user-zd3ow9kw4z Місяць тому +9

    Omg, I remember seeing the shielding foam on Tomorrow's World and seeing how paranoid he was about not getting ripped off. Such a shame that he didn't agree a sale price with someone that he could trust.

  • @pseudotasuki
    @pseudotasuki Місяць тому +3

    One fun application of nitinol is electric muscles. The wire can easily be stretched, but whun electricity is rin through it, it heats up and contracts back to its original length. This is commonly used on small spacecraft to do things like deploy solar panels or instruments.

    • @pirobot668beta
      @pirobot668beta Місяць тому +1

      Jim Henson muppet-labs used it a lot for eye-brows and other facial expression.

  • @EK14MeV
    @EK14MeV Місяць тому +43

    We live in such strange times, it seems every day is 1 April.

    • @Fullyloaded_00
      @Fullyloaded_00 Місяць тому +3

      It's not bro

    • @animalbird9436
      @animalbird9436 Місяць тому +1

      We are changing the name to.April usa day😊

    • @Matt.Thompson.1976
      @Matt.Thompson.1976 Місяць тому

      Low brow comment of the day award. Congratulations.@@Fullyloaded_00

    • @DuckAllMighty
      @DuckAllMighty Місяць тому

      Now the funny thing is, that this is not an Aprils fool video. There truly does exist one way bulletproof glass, nitinol and hydrophobic sand. And the EM drive have really been constructed, but as he said in the video, it's sadly doesn't work, bc if it did, we could theoretically get infinite acceleration without breaking the third law of thermodynamics and the theory of relativity, which states that the closer you get to light speed, the more mass and energy you need, meaning at lightspeed, you would need infinite mass and energy. But with the EM drive, it doesn't accelerate by creating thrust, meaning we could achieve infinite speed, which of course would be far greater than the speed of light. It would have been awesome if it actually worked, then getting around the Universe would suddenly become possible with the tech we have right now. Damn you Newton for inventing thermodynamics and Newton for inventing relativity, that the Universe suddenly had to follow.

  • @J_Titor
    @J_Titor Місяць тому +3

    The music is distracting

  • @mwolkove
    @mwolkove Місяць тому +5

    I'm now super curious why car makers aren't using that paperclip stuff for cars. I'm guessing there are drawbacks besides cost, since we're making cheap paperclips from it, but it would be pretty cool if you could straighten a dented panel with hot water.

    • @jpdemer5
      @jpdemer5 Місяць тому +1

      Much too expensive: it's far cheaper to replace a steel fender than it would cost to make it out of nitinol in the first place. Also, I don't think it behaves as you'd like when in thick sheets - all of the uses I've seen employ nitinol wire, sometimes woven into larger shapes.

    • @thatonecoolchild
      @thatonecoolchild 4 дні тому

      ​@@jpdemer5 Nitinol is available in blocks and sheets as well, and in my PhD research we used them quite a bit. It still functions the same.
      But you are right, it is SUPER expensive. Being part Titanium it is also very hard, which makes working it into shapes difficult.

  • @stevearmstrong4883
    @stevearmstrong4883 Місяць тому

    Great video, some jaw-dropping stuff!

  • @minxythemerciless
    @minxythemerciless Місяць тому +2

    You missed out on the satellite orientation system that can rotate satellites in any direction with zero mass leaving the satellite in thruster gas. They use reaction wheels driven by solar panels and assuming the bearings are good enough can last forever. I have a theory they could also be used in pairs for lateral translation as well as rotation

    • @kevinbeazy
      @kevinbeazy Місяць тому

      Thats been proven false

  • @warrenjohnknight.9831
    @warrenjohnknight.9831 Місяць тому +1

    The 10 years I drove armoured truck's, definitely didn't want to be involved in a shooting, haha .mind you other weapons were more likely as I walked from the truck .

  • @Yobehtmada
    @Yobehtmada Місяць тому

    I think one of the best uses for Starlite would be as a material for the pusher plate for a Nuclear Pulse Propulsion spaceship.

  • @bwright7503
    @bwright7503 21 день тому

    I thought I watched a video saying that starlite was a cornstarch or baking soda mixture that could easily be made at home.. The material is supposed to degrade fairly quickly with heat though.. Which is why it never went anywhere commercially..

  • @danidavis7912
    @danidavis7912 Місяць тому +2

    I used to sell so-called "bullet-proof" glass. The product is called Lexan and has been used everywhere and was invented in 1953, well before 1982. And the bullet-proof qualities depend on a multitude of factors, not the least of which are the thickness of the Lexan and the caliber being used to fire at it. This stuff is used everywhere. I sold it primarily to manufacturing facilities that had areas where parts and pieces had the potential of splintering, exploding, flying apart, etc and injuring production workers nearby. It works and is effective - for its intended application.

    • @jpdemer5
      @jpdemer5 Місяць тому

      Lexan is just a trademark for polycarbonate.

    • @danidavis7912
      @danidavis7912 Місяць тому

      @@jpdemer5 I know what it is. I sold it for 30 years. And there are at least a dozen different types of Lexan. The stuff I sold was indeed called, bulletproof glass.

    • @jpdemer5
      @jpdemer5 Місяць тому

      @@danidavis7912 Just need to rearrange the quotation marks: so-called bullet-proof "glass". 😉

    • @kevinbeazy
      @kevinbeazy Місяць тому

      @@jpdemer5not exactly

    • @paulmartin2348
      @paulmartin2348 27 днів тому

      @@danidavis7912 I call the pages in my Bible bulletproof. They have never stopped a single bullet but I still call them that.

  • @jgharston
    @jgharston Місяць тому

    "He took the secret to his grave".
    DIG UP HIS GRAVE!!!!! 😁

  • @GlassDeviant
    @GlassDeviant Місяць тому +1

    Seem to, and yet could not have been developed without a deep understanding of the laws of physics.

  • @davidallen111
    @davidallen111 Місяць тому +3

    A material that looks and acts like starlite can be made from household materials. By heating this material, and most likely starlite, with a torch, the material forms a carbon foam. Carbon foam is very heat resistant and will not burn. The reason starlite was never commercially feasible is that starlite produced a carbon foam that was not very durable. Starlite produced a carbon foam that would last for only a single use and was easily damaged.
    A carbon foam that is is durable and easily shaped is now made from a flour and yeast based dough that is heated in a vacuum to prevent oxidation.

    • @jpdemer5
      @jpdemer5 Місяць тому

      For fire protection (as in an airliner), one use is all you need. For a permanent insulating layer, we have better materials already.

    • @davidallen111
      @davidallen111 Місяць тому +1

      @@jpdemer5 What kind of temporary and fragile insulating layer would be of use in an airliner?

    • @jpdemer5
      @jpdemer5 Місяць тому

      @@davidallen111 It's not fragile and insulating until there's a fire.

    • @davidallen111
      @davidallen111 Місяць тому +1

      @@jpdemer5 Starlite is always fragile. When it is soft, it is easily torn. Once it hardens, it is easily broken. The carbon foam it produces is fragile compared to other carbon foams.

    • @kevinbeazy
      @kevinbeazy Місяць тому

      @@jpdemer5it is extremely fragile.

  • @jpdemer5
    @jpdemer5 Місяць тому

    The "small positive results" for the Emdrive could be explained by experimental setups that could only measure values of zero and up. Do a large number of experiments, and you get a distribution curve centered on zero . . . but with a positive average value, since you're missing half of the curve.
    There was a kerfuffle some years back about a "positive" test for homepathic concoctions, that got attention until somebody pointed out that the data literally traced out the right-hand half of a bell curve.

  • @carliecole2563
    @carliecole2563 Місяць тому

    Im so giddy to hear the term "Magic Sand!"⏳❤️😂

  • @Nymaz
    @Nymaz Місяць тому

    The EM (not M) drive was disproven a couple of years back by the Institute of Aerospace Engineering in Dresden, Germany. An experimental apparatus that eliminated thermal interaction with the surrounding area was designed and testing was done on multiple devices from 2015-2021. And the device consistently failed to produce any thrust. So it appears that all the false positives were a result of thermal distortion of the chamber interacting with the environment, something that would not be available in space.

    • @VulpisFoxfire
      @VulpisFoxfire Місяць тому

      I may be thinking of a different drive system, but didn't someone attempt to sent up a small satellite into orbit to test this? (Though if I remember, the launch had a mishap, causing said experiment to fail to be deployed)

    • @Nymaz
      @Nymaz Місяць тому

      @@VulpisFoxfire Yes, that was a different one. It's called the "IVO drive" and we don't know much about how it's supposed to operate because unlike EMDrive which was released to the public the owners of IVO have played tight to the chest. As best as I can tell from rumors it's supposed to accelerate "virtual particles" caused by vacuum fluctuations, while EMDrive was supposed to work by getting asymmetrical thrust by bouncing microwaves around a cavity (turned out to be experimental error).
      As you note there was a failure of testing as they supposedly lost communication soon after deploy.

  • @Tigeristiger
    @Tigeristiger Місяць тому

    On the Starlite part, there are some formulas floating around that might be it. Cornstarch, sodium bicarbonate and Elmer's glue. 10:1:4 respectively.

  • @o0Donuts0o
    @o0Donuts0o Місяць тому +1

    Microwave Resonant Cavity Thruster. I’m naming my junk that.
    Now I’m sad… 😢

  • @wingerding
    @wingerding Місяць тому

    Happy to hear no laws were truly broken in the filming of this video.

  • @romulusnr
    @romulusnr Місяць тому +2

    7:54 how many takes did "viscoelasticity" take in that cut? :D

  • @jaewok5G
    @jaewok5G Місяць тому

    "explain how positive results _could_ be real" is an epic phrase.
    also, i have a sample of nitinol coated with starlight and i can't get it hot enough to change back so it looks just like a twisted piece of wire, but don't be fooled, it's totally legit!

  • @jacoblind5390
    @jacoblind5390 Місяць тому

    It’s crazy that no company stepped up and agreed to the 51% condition to acquire Starlite

  • @YTANDY100
    @YTANDY100 7 днів тому

    nighthawkeinlight made a "star light" type substance that looked the same as star light as seen on tv when burned :-)

  • @christiancook3118
    @christiancook3118 Місяць тому

    Currently machining and lasermarking Nitinol Guidewires in a medical manufacturing facility as i listen to this. It certainly is a unique material that we have had to make many accommodations for during our process. Weve made millions of them over the last year, and have many more to go.

  • @romulusnr
    @romulusnr Місяць тому +3

    Anakin doesn't like sand because he grew up on a desert planet. He knows all about sand.

  • @deejayRavien
    @deejayRavien Місяць тому

    What prevents the bullets from deflecting? Seems that once past the glass it's very likely to veer off in an unknown direction creating hazards for innocent bystanders.

  • @ScentlessSun
    @ScentlessSun 13 днів тому

    The debate around the EM drive has absolutely not been put to rest. The primary team working on it has it producing enough thrust right now to counteract 1G. That’s right. According to them, they have it levitating. These are NASA scientists and aerospace experts, not quacks. Let’s all withhold judgement on this for a while. There could be some new physics we don’t understand. Perhaps a 5th fundamental force that interacts with electromagnetism or a relationship between gravity and EM we weren’t aware of. They are planning on taking this device up into space to see how it behaves.

  • @pinchopaxtonsgreatestminds9591
    @pinchopaxtonsgreatestminds9591 Місяць тому

    The bullet proof glass one is very easy to picture, because most physics actually do work like that. Everything moves towards its area of least resistance, so No1 is very common. It's the main reason that people say that time has an arrow. The M drive would only need to work with the resistance of space, because space does have resistance. Matter eliminates resistance, but if you can move the resistance to the back of matter you have an M drive. Newton's 3rd law is full of mistakes.

  • @icreatedanaccountforthis1852
    @icreatedanaccountforthis1852 Місяць тому

    Wild stuff

  • @Yupppi
    @Yupppi 11 днів тому

    Veritasium and some other science experiment channel tested something like Starlite and it was extremely cool, you could stand behind a thin wall shot by a flamethrower for good time and be all good.

  • @mrhassell
    @mrhassell Місяць тому +1

    Polycarbonate and Glass-Clad Polycarbonate: Are virtually unbreakable, even when riddled with bullets. They maintain strength and integrity, making them excellent security doors and windows.

  • @ndowroccus4168
    @ndowroccus4168 Місяць тому

    You did it!!! Yay good boy!

  • @meglukes
    @meglukes Місяць тому

    8:22 This isn’t Brain Blaze, you’re not supposed to break our suspension of disbelief and remind us you’re a real person with a mundane life

  • @DrDavelope
    @DrDavelope Місяць тому +2

    Paper clip at the end of this video is the most awesome. Just don’t press F1

  • @leftcoastdrifter
    @leftcoastdrifter Місяць тому

    Nice video

  • @clintonpangburn3698
    @clintonpangburn3698 День тому

    Simon said cavity thruster😂

  • @zufalllx
    @zufalllx Місяць тому +5

    "Anything that makes the attacker's life more difficult is a good thing"
    That sounds like a statement from a guy who assumes he's always going to be on the 'right' side of the glass.

    • @battlesheep2552
      @battlesheep2552 Місяць тому +1

      My intuition may be off, but Simon seems like the kind of guy who most likely wouldn't be shooting at someone on the other side of bullet proof glass.

  • @waynewilliamson4212
    @waynewilliamson4212 Місяць тому

    interesting, I thought the mdrive basically relied on moving particles at near the speed of light in one direction and then collecting them back to reuse at a much slower speed. the gain was the differential in time of the particles....

  • @pimpampet7053
    @pimpampet7053 26 днів тому

    Hee, the RangeRover pope mobile @0:46

  • @NihongGenesis
    @NihongGenesis Місяць тому

    My job has the 1 way bulletproof glass. Only reason I know this is because they put it backwards during installation, and had to redo it.

  • @theforgottenpup1330
    @theforgottenpup1330 Місяць тому

    "I don't like sand" hahaha omg

  • @TheKrispyfort
    @TheKrispyfort Місяць тому

    STARLITE:
    The bloke was a hairdresser.
    Start with those chemicals common in his vocation

  • @Jayjay-qe6um
    @Jayjay-qe6um Місяць тому +5

    "A pair of legs engineered to defy the laws of physics and a mindset to master the most epic of splits."
    -- Jean-Claude Van Damme

  • @LordDustinDeWynd
    @LordDustinDeWynd Місяць тому

    Greetings and Salutations from Temple, Texas, USA!

  • @LostCylon
    @LostCylon Місяць тому

    Why not make Nitinol body panels for cars? Get a minor (or major) dent? No worries, simply hose it off with hot water at a car wash, and buy a can of the correct paint, or have it repainted (I realise some paints are painted in layers/special paints not readily available to the public).

    • @thatonecoolchild
      @thatonecoolchild 4 дні тому

      It is way too expensive for large thick chunks like that, and very hard to work into shape, since it likes to spring back into position. Steel is much easier to bend and fold into all the shapes you need.

  • @christianavance9124
    @christianavance9124 Місяць тому

    The must mundane use no one would realize the usefulness for with the last tech in the video is circular knitting needles. Chiaogoo cords are nearly indestructible with the ability to just steam them back into the right shape after an aggressive project.

  • @soccerdilan
    @soccerdilan Місяць тому

    "Heresy!" Got two s's for a second at 9:12

  • @APOLLO-777BC
    @APOLLO-777BC 11 днів тому +1

    Violating the laws of physics will get you arrested.

  • @worldsstrongestblacksmith
    @worldsstrongestblacksmith Місяць тому +1

    I wonder if nitinol would work for car body panels

  • @angelitabecerra
    @angelitabecerra Місяць тому

    Yay! The right video this time *settles in to learn* 🍿

  • @erictaylor5462
    @erictaylor5462 7 днів тому

    One thing you need to keep in mind, our understanding of the laws of physics is not yet complete.
    We've been here before. Relativity is essentially a more accurate version of Newton as it contains factors that were unobservable in Newton's time.
    I think there are factors that still have an effect, but are as yet unknown.

  • @soggycracker5934
    @soggycracker5934 14 днів тому +1

    Sand is a liquid. I'll die on this hill!

  • @mikeharris5681
    @mikeharris5681 Місяць тому +9

    Are we sure this time?.. okay then, we shall proceed. Giles, fetch my tangerines and I shall remove my trousers while I wait...

  • @awsomedude12345678
    @awsomedude12345678 Місяць тому

    One way bulletproof glass isn't counter intuitive
    If i bake flour than add the rest of the ingredients i will not have bread but if i add all the ingredients than bake it i will

  • @TheMaddoxfam
    @TheMaddoxfam Місяць тому

    I love how the lines between each of Simon’s channels continues to blur

  • @robsquared2
    @robsquared2 Місяць тому +11

    The EM drive has already been debunked, so unfortunately it won't be used for anything. For those curious it was an effect of electricity moving air. It didn't work in a vacuum, which is kind of important for a space ship.

    • @FLPhotoCatcher
      @FLPhotoCatcher Місяць тому

      So they say.

    • @thatfuzzypotato1877
      @thatfuzzypotato1877 Місяць тому +1

      I was looking for a comment like this. I recalled it being debunked but couldn't recall why. I admittedly know next to nothing about the drive: would there be any feasability in getting it to work for say, ships at sea? Instead of hundreds of thousands of gallons of diesel? Or would the constant ocean spray, waves, humidy, and salt turn it into instant "oh hell no"

    • @robsquared2
      @robsquared2 Місяць тому +2

      @@thatfuzzypotato1877it's a fair question, unfortunately the level of thrust was equal to that of a hair falling on a piece of paper, so indeed it wouldn't be enough for anything where friction of even air is involved.

    • @thatfuzzypotato1877
      @thatfuzzypotato1877 Місяць тому +1

      @@robsquared2 I appreciate the answer thank you

    • @paulmartin2348
      @paulmartin2348 27 днів тому

      @@robsquared2 There is no thrust. Not even the weight of an atom.

  • @JohnRandomness105
    @JohnRandomness105 Місяць тому +1

    9:10 Electromagnetism, and special relativity in general, doesn't obey Newton's third law.
    13:40 Why wasn't starlite patented?
    A month later: I unwittingly began a comment, almost word-for-word identical to the start of this comment, before I saw it. But I was going to add this: The classic example is light (an electromagnetic wave) exerting a force on a charged particle. The charged particle exerts no counterforce on anything.

    • @mr.potato9449
      @mr.potato9449 Місяць тому +1

      He would of had to give them the formula for starlite if he had patented it so everyone would know how to make it.

    • @JohnRandomness105
      @JohnRandomness105 Місяць тому

      @@mr.potato9449 Yes, the formula would have to be revealed. In most places, if he filed everywhere that he could, he would have the right to legally exclude others from making it or importing it. But there are places where one could make imitations, and there are also lawless persons.

    • @paulmartin2348
      @paulmartin2348 27 днів тому

      If he released the formula for Starlite then it would be almost instantly known that it was worthless. Only way to remain a celebrity was to hide it so that no one knew it was all a big scam.

  • @moffjerjerrod1579
    @moffjerjerrod1579 Місяць тому

    One way bullet proof glass! On the next Demolition Ranch!!

  • @sethbrooks8889
    @sethbrooks8889 Місяць тому

    There we go

  • @TheKrispyfort
    @TheKrispyfort Місяць тому

    Semi-permeable ballistic filter 😂
    AKA the first item, the one way bullet resistant glass.

  • @cookieDaXapper
    @cookieDaXapper Місяць тому

    BRAVO!!!!....been looking for Starlite for 2 decades, it could have started a new scientific and societal revolution,....WOW now lost to time. PEACE dear Sir, and God bless.

  • @vulcanfeline
    @vulcanfeline 26 днів тому

    the magic sand would repell water and bind to oil causing it to sink to the bottom of the ocean - out of sight but not out of the food chain :(

  • @animeandwieardness6132
    @animeandwieardness6132 Місяць тому

    Amazing technology!!!

  • @holyassbutts
    @holyassbutts Місяць тому +2

    *Me:* Pls make sure to install my one-way bullet proof glass the right way around
    *Worker:* Why?
    *Me:* Okay, I think we're done here

  • @arcuscotangens
    @arcuscotangens Місяць тому +7

    Fun fact: there is nothing that defies the laws of physics.

    • @kevin9218
      @kevin9218 Місяць тому +4

      And if there is, that just means we got the laws wrong.

    • @kewlideas7687
      @kewlideas7687 Місяць тому

      Are you kidding me there definitely is we can’t even understand a black hole how do describe that

    • @arcuscotangens
      @arcuscotangens Місяць тому

      @@kewlideas7687
      lol

    • @kewlideas7687
      @kewlideas7687 Місяць тому

      @@arcuscotangens we as humans made up the “laws of physics” not the universe we are constantly learning how things work and evolving and to think we have hit the end point is just ver ignorant of the reality we live in

    • @paulmartin2348
      @paulmartin2348 27 днів тому

      Not true. Human stupidity defies all laws including those of physics.

  • @user-mi6zq6jh8c
    @user-mi6zq6jh8c 22 дні тому

    just hope an inept installer doesn't put the glass in backwards.

  • @kevinn4038
    @kevinn4038 Місяць тому +3

    Not going to trick me with the title again, are you?

  • @GeoffryGifari
    @GeoffryGifari Місяць тому

    are there samples of starlite still around somewhere?

  • @PitboyHarmony1
    @PitboyHarmony1 Місяць тому +3

    I followed the Ward / Starlite saga at the time.
    Ward was a jerk. I mean a real selfish asswipe.
    All he had to do was licence it to whoever wanted it, he would make a fortune for him and his family, but no ... he insisted on a full sale, but wouldnt sell it.
    Eventually, his family sold it off to a small company, and rumour has it they cant replicate the exact mix.
    He took the recipe to the grave ... because he could.
    Heres the story of a guy who intentionally left the world worse off, because he could.

    • @MrEnjoivolcom1
      @MrEnjoivolcom1 Місяць тому

      Whereas Tesla gave up literal millions so that New England and New York could have electricity. Utter shame how he died alone, horribly ravaged by OCD, and penniless.

    • @M-_-O
      @M-_-O Місяць тому

      According to this video no one wanted to let him have 51% ownership. It sounds more like capitalist grifters really can’t be satisfied with 49% ownership for a revolutionary product and would rather let something die off than lose 2% of potential money. With just the information from this video it seems like pettiness and spite on both sides.

    • @paulmartin2348
      @paulmartin2348 27 днів тому

      The truth is that he only approved tests with himself present to oversee what was done and make it look amazing. If any real tests had been done it would have showed to be useless. As long as he kept it hidden he would be famous and worshiped. It died with him but would have died much sooner if anyone had known what it was.

  • @TheEulerID
    @TheEulerID 23 дні тому

    Only one of those examples qualifies as appearing to break the laws of physics, and that is the very questionable Emdrive. None of the others come remotely near qualifying as law breakers.

  • @jonathonclary1681
    @jonathonclary1681 28 днів тому

    Most shocking fact in the video "Microwave Resonant Cavity Thruster" isn't a euphemism.

  • @RogerRabbit342
    @RogerRabbit342 Місяць тому

    Brother I literally had 12 advertisement breaks

  • @pulsar7632
    @pulsar7632 Місяць тому +2

    NightHawkInLight was able to recreate starilte

  • @TheKalaxis
    @TheKalaxis Місяць тому

    The glitch in the Whistlerverse has been repaired.

  • @y.dylanhusband8664
    @y.dylanhusband8664 Місяць тому

    I wonder if there’s a way to slow down the eruption of a nuke lol that would make enough thrust per weight

  • @bjornodin
    @bjornodin Місяць тому

    I love when nasa gets involved and were still left with... Yeah, it's basically magic! ❤

  • @SkyCollins
    @SkyCollins Місяць тому +2

    Microwave resonant cavity thruster sounds like an adult toy

  • @thedevensafe
    @thedevensafe Місяць тому +3

    Love the video - chill on the music though please. Here for Simon lol

    • @rgerber
      @rgerber Місяць тому

      yeah it was slightly irritating

  • @JeffBrazeel-fe4wc
    @JeffBrazeel-fe4wc Місяць тому

    I Live in the Desert Southwest, Sand? NAH, DUNNO WHAT THAT IS.