Are Forcefields Possible?

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  • Is Violet's forcefield from The Incredibles 2 possible?
    Why don't they exist in real life? Are they physically possible? Come find out.
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  • @hueyiroquois3839
    @hueyiroquois3839 4 роки тому +140

    Two atoms are looking out a plasma window. One atom says, "Hey, I just lost an electron." His friend asks, "Are you sure?" The first atom replies, "Yes, I'm positive."

    • @lyteyearz5810
      @lyteyearz5810 Рік тому +3

      😂😂😂😂😂

    • @kalvincochran9505
      @kalvincochran9505 9 місяців тому +1

      This deserves more likes

    • @DragonSageKaimus
      @DragonSageKaimus 9 місяців тому +1

      ​@@kalvincochran9505fr

    • @uno2326
      @uno2326 9 місяців тому +1

      Is it supposed to be funny?

    • @DragonSageKaimus
      @DragonSageKaimus 9 місяців тому +2

      @@uno2326 focus on the Yes I'm positive part... Otherwise rewatch the video to where she explains what plasma is made of.

  • @iammrbeat
    @iammrbeat 7 років тому +121

    Glad I got to show off my glasses that secretly block laser beams!

    • @upandatom
      @upandatom  7 років тому +13

      Haha must feel nice being a super hero :)

    • @Think_Inc
      @Think_Inc 3 роки тому +1

      @Shanaya Kaur Australia.

  • @MegaDcmp
    @MegaDcmp 4 роки тому +106

    I love how dejected Gravity was when you took his pencil.

  • @joshwatton9983
    @joshwatton9983 6 років тому +561

    I felt so bad for that gravity force

    • @johncochran8497
      @johncochran8497 6 років тому +18

      Why? If you look at the 4 forces described, gravity is actually quite strong.
      The weak and strong nuclear forces are both extremely short ranged. So they can't influence things over great distances.
      Gravity and Electromagnetism have infinite ranges using the inverse square law. And the electromagnetic force is far stronger than gravity. But ... there's a problem with electromagnetism. Namely that it has two charges that cancel each other out. And since there's an equal amount of both charges on a macro scale, electromagnetism really doesn't have a huge effect over long distances.
      But gravity? It may be weak, but there's only one type and it's attractive. So add more mass and the total force increases without limit.

    • @BaliwTaKa
      @BaliwTaKa 5 років тому +7

      Truly, Gravity sure is a sad character. Last time I talked to him he was living in some slum under Bikini Bottom's trash heap of decaying pineapple tops. Truly sad! I think someone should start a gofundme to help this poor powerless guy :/ ;) :D

    • @Mirandorl
      @Mirandorl 5 років тому +9

      I did too. Gravity was all like "hey you wanna go for coffee" and she was all "nah I got my own thermos flask thanks". Bro looked beaten.

    • @RogueWizard-v9r
      @RogueWizard-v9r 5 років тому +1

      thats not how it works

    • @PeterKnagge
      @PeterKnagge 5 років тому +1

      Dark energy/Dark matter stole his girlfriend
      Which makes me think that we could make a force field using these properties

  • @Phrenotopia
    @Phrenotopia 7 років тому +294

    I love these animations!

    • @upandatom
      @upandatom  7 років тому +22

      Thank you! Means a lot coming from the master of animations :)

    • @chef2pouf
      @chef2pouf 5 років тому +7

      Not only the animations !

  • @TylerMatthewHarris
    @TylerMatthewHarris 5 років тому +19

    Electrified soap bubbles (with floaty nanomaterial)

    • @jorgensenmj
      @jorgensenmj 5 років тому

      I like to believe that the electrons that race around the nucleus of my atoms act as a kind of "force field" that repels other electrons in other atoms allowing me to stand on the surface of the earth and interact with things. Is the outer shell of an atom a "thin sheet"? Pretty darn thin I would say. Seems like a natural force field already exists.

  • @Ballacha
    @Ballacha 6 років тому +143

    but electromagnetic force field already exists. the earth has one. it deflects the majority of sun's radiation.

    • @scifirealism5943
      @scifirealism5943 5 років тому +15

      Magnetic fields require too much power, and modern weapons are electrically neutral

    • @fluffygiant9060
      @fluffygiant9060 5 років тому +9

      Magnetosphere?

    • @angelmendez-rivera351
      @angelmendez-rivera351 5 років тому +11

      Discoloured Buttflaps It exists, but not the same type of force field as those of science fiction.

    • @angelmendez-rivera351
      @angelmendez-rivera351 5 років тому +5

      As described, it doesn't work as a planar structure

    • @yme3345
      @yme3345 5 років тому +7

      We need to deflect solid objects. She said something about the military using it.(pretty sure the military would not need to deflect uv rays anytime soon.

  • @Filet64
    @Filet64 7 років тому +16

    Jade these videos look so high quality now. I can't watch this right this second but I am gonna come back and check it out :)

  • @alexlittrell9043
    @alexlittrell9043 5 років тому +122

    What about the greatest force of all?
    love

    • @amsterdamdaydreams2420
      @amsterdamdaydreams2420 5 років тому +28

      Cringe.

    • @myscreen2urs
      @myscreen2urs 5 років тому +6

      Oh nooo! So many have been burnt that way. You could say you'd need a force field against love.

    • @colonelstriker2519
      @colonelstriker2519 5 років тому +4

      Can it stop a time fused nuke?

    • @amsterdamdaydreams2420
      @amsterdamdaydreams2420 5 років тому +6

      @@colonelstriker2519 it can stop someone from launching one.

    • @post1305
      @post1305 5 років тому +5

      That’s not a force. That’s just lust in disguise. More of a diluted emotion than a force.

  • @lopezanimationinc3419
    @lopezanimationinc3419 6 років тому +207

    Dash: HEY NO FORCEFIELDS!!!!

  • @spencerpanes8748
    @spencerpanes8748 7 років тому +7

    Brilliant work Jade :) I love topics like these and for sure all the science fans. Actually I requested a video to you before about physics of the impossible and I'm very happy to see it for real haha :p Thank you very much for your efforts!

    • @upandatom
      @upandatom  7 років тому

      Thank you! I listen to my viewers ;) and I'll be doing more videos on the physics of the impossible so make sure to stick around!

    • @spencerpanes8748
      @spencerpanes8748 7 років тому

      Yes, We will XD, because this is our favorite hobby, doing positive stress LOL. And it is said that : It is difficult when I have to and so easy when I want to. And we want it all :) We'll be waiting for your new physics of the impossible vids

  • @StepBackHistory
    @StepBackHistory 7 років тому +134

    Props for the clip from Dune

    • @FedorSteeman
      @FedorSteeman 7 років тому

      Step Back History Damn! You beat me to it!

    • @StepBackHistory
      @StepBackHistory 7 років тому +2

      I have put at least 2 Dune references in my videos. I don't mess around.

    • @Phrenotopia
      @Phrenotopia 7 років тому +2

      Step Back History I don't know why so many people hate the David Lynch movie. Yes, it's gritty and weird and doesn't follow the book closely, but those rough edges is what's good about it.

    • @StepBackHistory
      @StepBackHistory 7 років тому +2

      Gritty and weird kinda defines Dune... and David Lynch.

    • @upandatom
      @upandatom  7 років тому +3

      Thank you! Someone on my twitter recommended I use it :) Glad you liked it! It did make me realize how far special effects have come...

  • @redvelvet727
    @redvelvet727 3 роки тому +17

    The magnetosphere is a force field. It burns up things that fly through it. Although it isn't perfect it is a shield. It stops a lot of things. It repeals it protects it is spherical as well. By my definition we have a giant force field.

    • @SavageDarknessGames
      @SavageDarknessGames 2 місяці тому

      Correct and if we develope a emf emitter stronger than electromagnets, we could in theroy create a thin field of emf at high particle density.

    • @thewizardsofthezoo5376
      @thewizardsofthezoo5376 2 місяці тому

      My friend I cry when I see intelligent people working in the wrong paradigm, what a waste for humanity. It's like when the police came to look for my mother in law in the wrong lake, how long do you think they searched, and do you think they found the body? In order to find my mother in law they had to look in the right lake, starting with the fact that, and hold on to your braces, there is no space. Universe, space, stars, but even the atomic conception of matter it's all unproven, it's something they have been drilling into us since I was kid when I was reading Asimov, Clarke and Bradbury, I fell for it and lost 30 years on this, I am telling you with all the love in the world, look better look deeper and use your head, but you already are, just not int he right lake.

    • @thewizardsofthezoo5376
      @thewizardsofthezoo5376 2 місяці тому +1

      @@SavageDarknessGames Good thinking, but magnetism will be reacting to metal objects only, electrostatics would be the answer as it attracts anything and moves anything given the right voltage - in zillions volts probably; however in order to offset's earth production of electrostatics (diaelectrics), you would need a generator the size of earth, and that would be if we knew how earth created it's magnetic (dialectric) fields, because it isn't with a molten core, by definition, past the Currie point that this is ever going to happen.

    • @thewizardsofthezoo5376
      @thewizardsofthezoo5376 2 місяці тому

      @@SavageDarknessGames How is magnetism made of particles, it's big claim that we cannot prove, even light it's unproven it's made of particles - photons. (The monadic approach was an invention from Leibnitz where atoms = monades, it's a nice story, science ran with it, but again, it is unproven.)
      Being linguistically proficient in identifying scientific elements doesn't means those scientific elements 1. do exist 2. are used in the right context anyway.

    • @SavageDarknessGames
      @SavageDarknessGames 2 місяці тому

      @@thewizardsofthezoo5376 try the double slit experiment with a charge emp burst

  • @saklainmahmudanindow5249
    @saklainmahmudanindow5249 6 років тому +20

    Every night before I go to sleep i get my phone and learn something from this channel.
    LOVE FROM BANGLADESH 🙏

  • @evildracko
    @evildracko 7 років тому +127

    also is that a 12 tone shirt? Love it!

    • @upandatom
      @upandatom  7 років тому +31

      Yes! He's a friend of mine :)

    • @donaldcarothers832
      @donaldcarothers832 6 років тому +8

      cool i watch that too

    • @moadot720
      @moadot720 5 років тому +2

      @@donaldcarothers832 I watch 12tone VERY often!!!!

    • @zernebock73
      @zernebock73 4 роки тому

      Loved the video but the T-Shirt drew me down here...

    • @GiorgioCastaldo1
      @GiorgioCastaldo1 4 роки тому

      12 tone’s channel is super cool I immediately noticed the shirt how neat I haven’t checked out his merch yet but I love it. I’m a biochem student and I love to nerd out about music theory and play bass as a hobby. I always think those two hobbies as very distinct but doing both of them keeps me sane and curious and I couldn’t imagine my life without the arts and science. I wish I knew the story behind his doodles I don’t know why he draws them that way. Does anyone else know?

  • @susandanajones7765
    @susandanajones7765 7 років тому +18

    Great and interesting video- keep up the great work. Love the 12tone T shirt too!

    • @upandatom
      @upandatom  7 років тому

      Thank you for the support! And yes it's a very cute T-shirt n_n

  • @Devilofdoom
    @Devilofdoom 5 років тому +18

    If interstellar gas is plasma. Then why is is called interstellar gas? Shouldn't it be called interstellar plasma?

    • @crackedemerald4930
      @crackedemerald4930 5 років тому +1

      For the same reason reduction reactions in chemistry give electrons

    • @jorgensenmj
      @jorgensenmj 5 років тому

      Interstellar gas is made up of ionic, atomic and molecular gas as well as larger particles of dust. Interstellar plasma would be the ionic type. A caveat to this is if the non ionic gas is heated high enough or moving fast enough it can also be considered a plasma. (99.9 percent of the sun's mass is considered in the plasma state. That means about 0.1 percent is not a plasma)

  • @davidchang5862
    @davidchang5862 5 місяців тому +1

    Scientists and highly technical folks will tell you this is not possible until one fine day it arrives with a bang like the iPhone

  • @CogitoEdu
    @CogitoEdu 7 років тому +7

    Awesome video! I wonder how the world would change of we had forcefields. They would be great at preventing disasters or just keeping the rain off :D

    • @upandatom
      @upandatom  7 років тому +3

      omg the world would change in so many ways cogito. I wanted to talk about it more in the video but I couldn't think of how to do it without diverging too far from the point. We could live in giant underwater domes because force fields could separate water and air. We could control the weather on land if we lived in giant domes. Entire building, structures and cities could be made out of force field and built much more quickly and cheaply than the way they are built now. They could completely replace concrete, brick and mortar. It would be REVOLUTIONARY!!!

    • @gamerspantheon
      @gamerspantheon Рік тому

      ​​​​​​​@@upandatomsorry to butt in. Electromagnetic force fields could work against any object so long as you can fit a few conditions. Ionizing any incoming object then using a high grade repulsion field. Or coat any incoming object in iron and use the repulsion field to manipulate the object. Depending on output field strength you could stop any incoming projectile. Aside from turning energy into a solid object i dont think theres any conventional way to make a sci fi force field as far as your materials are concerned.
      Plasma wouldnt work. Any object that emits a magnetic field could punch right threw, even temporarily. Bypassing it wouldnt be overwhelmingly hard... Most of these solutions are ridiculously high in energy requirements and bypassing them would be fairly easy.
      A missile fitted with a high power magnetic penetrator tip could slip threw any plasma field. A chromatic finish would render your laser screen... Well pointless. And an armor layer could be bypassed either fast or slow.
      Any laser could be countered rather easily with a water atomizer sprinkler, and chromatic finishes. Hell even a fog machine would help.

    • @another3997
      @another3997 9 місяців тому

      A really high powered laser, one capable of being used as a weapon, isn't going to be neutralised by atomised water. The water would be instantly boiled away. Chromatic surfaces have the same problem... whilst it might take slightly longer, you can melt any material if you can generate enough focused heat. A missile with a magnetic tip can be deflected by other magnets.

  • @robinhodson9890
    @robinhodson9890 9 місяців тому +2

    3M accidentally invented a force field some time ago, when a combination of very high static electricity with a particular humidity, created an invisible wall in the corridor of one of their facilities, but only at a certain time of day.

  • @damonfreeman8027
    @damonfreeman8027 6 років тому +35

    I saw Violet

  •  5 років тому +1

    reflective (preferably in all wavelength) surfaces can't stop laser either, but are totally able to make them someone elses problem.

  • @ThomasGodart
    @ThomasGodart 5 років тому +91

    It's funny how usually people rely on animated characters who are cuter than their real person counterpart... But with Up and Atom, it's just the opposite 😂 Good video, thanks for sharing!

  • @martinwilliams9866
    @martinwilliams9866 4 місяці тому

    1.Electrical discharge
    2.Induced current producing opposite magnetic field
    3.Graphene balloon
    4.Unipolarised high frequency longitudinal waves of ever greater amplitude, with a tiny tail of opposite charge

  • @markenangel1813
    @markenangel1813 5 років тому +12

    Wait a minute...
    IS THAT A 12 TONE SHIRT!?

  • @MrBlackdragon1230
    @MrBlackdragon1230 6 років тому +91

    Michio Kaku is one of my absolute favorite scientists. Just discovered your channel.......Awesome. (corrected)

    • @upandatom
      @upandatom  6 років тому +7

      :)))

    • @ObjectsInMotion
      @ObjectsInMotion 6 років тому +9

      As opposed to one of your relative scientists?

    • @peterobinson3678
      @peterobinson3678 5 років тому

      @Toby Henderson yeah, not really a 'scientist' tho, is he... :p

    • @thewhizkid3937
      @thewhizkid3937 5 років тому

      Right. Have you read any of his books

    • @knerduno5942
      @knerduno5942 2 роки тому

      He is hardly a scientist now. He has done nothing with anything science in very long time. His faculty page is basically empty for anything he has done in research

  • @Mirandorl
    @Mirandorl 5 років тому +59

    I want anti-gravity first. Back to the Future II promised me anti-gravity cars and they are nearly 4 years late.
    ITS YOUR KIDS MARTY. SOMETHING'S GOTTA BE DONE ABOUT YOUR KIDS

    • @alvallac2171
      @alvallac2171 5 років тому +1

      *IT'S (not possessive)

    • @Mirandorl
      @Mirandorl 5 років тому +3

      EVERYONE, ITS STRICKLAND! RUN!

    • @mairisberzins8677
      @mairisberzins8677 5 років тому +2

      It aint hard to make magnetic roads that repel magnets in cars. just pop on some engine and you are good to go

    • @GlennDavey
      @GlennDavey 4 роки тому +1

      Also why didn't Marty just go "thanks for the advice, doc, when I have my kids I'll remember to raise them better". Why did they have to go to the future?

    • @hydrolito
      @hydrolito 4 роки тому

      Back to the future 2 is just a movie and not a prediction of the future, just a guess as to what could happen. people have made hover device but is much larger than hover board used in movie.

  • @fiveoneecho
    @fiveoneecho 5 років тому

    I mean, plasma windows are basically the kind of shielding you see in a lot of Sci-fi, separating a hangar bay from the vacuum of space.

  • @supersmashsam
    @supersmashsam 7 років тому +34

    Your representation of carbon nanotubes looked alot more like graphene sheets! (I don't blame you, they share alot in common)
    Also, I believe those nanomaterials are a bit overrated in term of projected properties, but it doesn't hurt to dream! :p

    • @upandatom
      @upandatom  7 років тому +14

      Haha yeah when I was reading I didn't really understand how a carbon nanotube can only be 1 atom thick if it loops back around on itself?

    • @ma5t
      @ma5t 6 років тому +1

      How long ago was that design put forward? If it was before 2004 then maybe they said carbon nanotubes because graphene hadn't been isolated yet.

    • @monad_tcp
      @monad_tcp 6 років тому +4

      wouldn't the tube surface be just one atom thick, but the material is made from those tubes? i think the material itself isn't 1 atom thick.

    • @pix23
      @pix23 5 років тому +1

      I'm guessing graphene wasn't yet a "household name" back in 2017

    • @alvallac2171
      @alvallac2171 5 років тому +2

      *a lot

  • @reallyWyrd
    @reallyWyrd 5 років тому +1

    I wish force field tech could actually work, and on a personal level-- because that's one of the few things that might really change the gun equation.

    • @DEury-fr7ce
      @DEury-fr7ce 5 років тому

      A. E. van Vogt's books "the Weapon shops of Ishtar" talk about this subject. He wrote it back in 1951.

  • @arvindhram5964
    @arvindhram5964 5 років тому +15

    I really love the way you explain things in a calm tone and at just about the right pace. The animations really help visualize the idea. Keep making such wonderful science videos. Subscribed :)

  • @siliconslice
    @siliconslice 5 років тому +10

    Your attitude, moves and expression are fabulous. You could be a great teacher for anyone or with anything :P .
    love for you and for the force field as Star Trek Discovery has shown :D .

  • @donwald3436
    @donwald3436 4 роки тому +6

    We’ve been making force fields for thousands of years. They’re called walls.

    • @elliotalderson9945
      @elliotalderson9945 4 роки тому

      L.A.M.E

    • @donwald3436
      @donwald3436 4 роки тому

      Elliot Alderson Keep studying physics, you’ll understand why it’s literally true.

    • @6jbxe
      @6jbxe 3 роки тому

      @@donwald3436 I was also wondering why she didn't discuss the electromagnetic force at the quantum scale.

  • @lemonous6289
    @lemonous6289 14 днів тому

    gravity tried to sell me ketamine behind a petrol station in 2007

  • @AwesomeSauceShow
    @AwesomeSauceShow 7 років тому +6

    Great video, as you started i tought about plasma being a candidat as i remambered the different tokomak fusion reactors. They alredy work in a similar way.

  • @esa062
    @esa062 5 років тому

    A shield, made of wood or these days plastic, is a force field. It is just our inability to see thigs as they really are that makes us think that solid matter is something else. All you can ever interact with in a shield is repelling electromagnetic force of electrons.

  • @warren286
    @warren286 5 років тому +3

    We have force fields everywhere.
    A shield or armor is a force field, it uses the electrostatic force field

  • @Gracklef1int
    @Gracklef1int 5 років тому +6

    Loved this! Such a fantastic explanation for layman like me. I run a tabletop superhero RPG game and Force Field is the most controversial power that a character can have. We're always having armchair-science debates about it. I'll be sure to share this with my group. Oh, and liked and subbed.

  • @jeffbengtson
    @jeffbengtson 5 років тому

    The force of Electromagnetism has been tested as a type of forcefield. Very high voltage plates separated by a thin insulating barrier. When a metal projectile passes through the first plate and contacts the second it completes the loop, and is liquefied or sublimates. This setup has some major issues for practicality.

  • @AirCicilia
    @AirCicilia 5 років тому +5

    There is no need to construct a forcefield against laser beams.
    Just polish your spaceship to a mirror smooth reflecting finish and you're set.

  • @scottsheffield6474
    @scottsheffield6474 5 років тому +2

    I feel like a few inches of steel would meet the definition of a force field pretty well

  • @GenLiu
    @GenLiu 4 роки тому +5

    That was very interesting to watch.
    If I were to guess, among all the impossible things we can see in sci fi, force field doesn't strikes me as the most difficult to make.
    So, I would say they will probably be a thing in a distant future (or something similar would probably be).
    There's quiet a few things that I can't buy as being possible (at least within the realm of what we have and know in this world), like a human being going through solid materials or teleportation but Force field doesn't seem too bad.

  • @compellingpoint7802
    @compellingpoint7802 4 роки тому

    The best material for a force field, however, is probably lead because it is the densest element and has the highest atomic number of all the elements.

  • @drreason2927
    @drreason2927 5 років тому +18

    Your perpetual enthusiasm is charming... and that accent just makes listening that much easier. You make head-hurting science fun.

  • @josephcoon5809
    @josephcoon5809 3 роки тому

    Look into 3D printed magnets and Halbach Arrays. By “programming” a magnet with a pattern of North and South poles can create variable layers of magnetic fields creating interesting effects. You can program two magnets to strongly attract each other until they are a certain distance then they hover apart from each other.
    That’s how plasma windows would be created. Only you’d use electromagnets to achieve the required flux density to contain plasma.
    Another application would be to create a plasma pillar to propel spacecraft into space. Basically, it would be to parabolic magnetic fields that the plasma bounces back and forth between. One field would be terrestrially based, and the other would be generated in the space craft. In conjunction to this, the spacecraft would have another parabolic receiver for radiant energy. Energy would be transmitted to the craft to power the onboard magnetic field.
    Once the craft exits the Earth’s atmosphere, orbital platforms would replace the Earth based fields. These platforms can be placed anywhere in the solar system.
    The ship based field generator can project the field in any direction to achieve thrust at the beginning of a journey and retro-thrust at the end of the journey.
    The main benefit of this is the craft no longer requires onboard fuel or propellant. A secondary benefit is the ability to project a broad beam of plasma to vaporize any nearby objects the craft may collide with as well as a plasma barrier surrounding the whole vessel.

  • @mheermance
    @mheermance 5 років тому +9

    Predictions are hard, especially when they're about the future.

    • @yme3345
      @yme3345 5 років тому +1

      Yeah, like if.... i can predict the past.

    • @thewhizkid3937
      @thewhizkid3937 5 років тому

      Not entirely.
      We can look at patterns in models and structures 😁

    • @hydrolito
      @hydrolito 4 роки тому

      I predict the day after Sunday will be Monday so not all predictions are hard. Now if all English speakers change it to something else I will be wrong.

  • @deadman746
    @deadman746 2 роки тому

    I make a force field every time I walk across a carpet, but I haven't figured out how to get around that 1/r² thingie.

  • @Ludifant
    @Ludifant 5 років тому +4

    Interesting! How about interference of electromagnetic waves? Or gravimetric waves, if that is possible. We can now use acoustic wave interference to lift small objects and stuff. This could be the basis of a tractor/repulsor type beam in my imagination. Which might lead to shaped forcefields?? It just seems a shame if we couldn´t do it. Excellent video, by the way!

  • @SimonClarkstone
    @SimonClarkstone 4 роки тому +1

    2:04 "The weak force is the force of radioactive decay. It heats up the Earth's core and is responsible for volcanoes, earthquakes, and continental drift."
    An interesting way of looking at it!

  • @TheHandOfFear
    @TheHandOfFear 5 років тому +18

    Gravity's disappointed expression just made my day.

  • @STONECOLDET944
    @STONECOLDET944 5 місяців тому

    Large number quark spherical QCD nucleon , ie a shield, you can spead a large number of quarks apart in a spherical form like inflating a balloon

  • @jamesnathanceriola8727
    @jamesnathanceriola8727 6 років тому +20

    Earth has force feild its called atmosphere but everybody knows that but the planet are not in the talking list 😐😐😐😞😞😞
    (Edit)also thanks for sharing of your smartness 😊😊😊

    • @KhushiSharma-ci2kf
      @KhushiSharma-ci2kf 5 років тому

      Wtf you both

    • @callumsworld2503
      @callumsworld2503 5 років тому

      @MrZyliaThe earth's atmosphere protects us from most meteors, debris and the coldness from outer space.

    • @callumsworld2503
      @callumsworld2503 5 років тому

      @MrZylia Mhm, personally, it reminds me of a natural version of the forcefield from passengers.

    • @michaelbooster2
      @michaelbooster2 5 років тому

      if only humans can make something like an atmosphere, forcefield may be come true

  • @arlobrennan3754
    @arlobrennan3754 7 років тому +1

    Interesting topic and the production is bloody brilliant! You go gal :)

    • @upandatom
      @upandatom  7 років тому

      wow this is the first time you've ever commented on one of my videos... I must have done something right!

  • @samreet25dhillon
    @samreet25dhillon 2 роки тому +4

    Since i have also read it, I can confirm that you prepared this video after reading Physics of the Impossible. Tbh, I really loved your narrating style. You doubled the fun with your excellent visuals and explanation. Keep it up!

  • @mannahusum
    @mannahusum 6 років тому

    I didn’t expect this answer, since I consider the electrons “circling“ around my atoms and molecules as such a forcefield.
    If they would be penetrable by matter, I would be mostly a vacuum, and I could pass through walls, and other people through me.
    And they absorb light and emit light in other frequencies.
    I wouldn’t like to play a human shield for others, though, and I don’t think this effect easily scales up to a strong forcefield containing, e.g. a whole human being. - But it gives another idea of how reaching an opaque force field and still maintaining visibility through it could work. It would depend on how light would be absorbed and turned into other energy, e.g. differently coloured light.

  • @Valandar2
    @Valandar2 5 років тому +4

    I remember a scifi story from either Clarke or Asimov where they created a starship out of the strong and weak nuclear forces from a solid steel hull, but having removed the atoms and left behind the forces. Somehow.

    • @Valandar2
      @Valandar2 5 років тому

      @@ronruszczyk7935 Thank you! I knew I wasn't imagining it...

  • @yvesgomes
    @yvesgomes 5 років тому +1

    The weak force actually seems strong af, by what it does.

  • @peterobinson3678
    @peterobinson3678 5 років тому +4

    I probably shouldn't mention that the 'Physics of the impossible' audiobook is on youtube... :p

  • @luked9301
    @luked9301 5 років тому

    For the laser beam; what if you had 2 polarized lenses on the inner layer. When a beam is detected, one of the layers turns 90 degrees and block out the light.

  • @moved9799
    @moved9799 6 років тому +4

    What if you use the Earth's atmosphere as an example, like how meteors can disintegrate when they enter the Earth's atmosphere. make the regular air outside seem like space by changing the air inside the "Force Field" but not so much so that it's impossible to be inside. Then use plasma to hold the air inside. This way it'll be like Non-Newtonian Fluids (Oobleck) but instead of hardening when hit, this disintegrate when they enter the "Force Field" at high speeds. This means that you can walk in the "Force Field", but bullets won't be able to get through.

  • @j9dz2sf
    @j9dz2sf 4 роки тому

    I don't understand why weak force is called a "force": there are no particles attracting or repulsing other particles. Just a transformation.

  • @marcusbrooks2118
    @marcusbrooks2118 4 роки тому +10

    I’m reminded that some of the first tries at AI made scholars realize they didn’t know quite what intelligence was. When someone achieves a force field, they might find it functionally equivalent to a windowpane.
    Indeed, I gather a windowpane is quite literally a force field. The bits of mass it is built around are a tiny fraction of its volume, and it can be made both transparent and practically impenetrable.
    It seems to me the true goal is to conjure windowpanes from nothing and dismiss them at will. Maybe that outlook will spark an idea.

  • @autonomous2010
    @autonomous2010 6 років тому

    A missed point is the harshness of radiant temperature from superheated plasma.

  • @zeekjones1
    @zeekjones1 5 років тому +18

    An old article I read talked about it, a tape factory (accidentally)invented an electrostatic forcefield.
    Shooting off high amounts of static force as the rollers moved, pushing things away from them.
    So... Yes, I believe forcefields can and have existed.

    • @CB-ul2np
      @CB-ul2np 3 місяці тому +1

      Yep I read that same story. It was in I think North or South Carolina at a Scotch tape factory. Morning moisture in the air also had something to do with it as well as X-Rays being emitted at the point where the raw tape material was being pulled off the roll headed to the cutters.

  • @raizin4908
    @raizin4908 5 років тому +2

    "But [the electromagnetic force] is completely useless against any insulating material, like rubber or plastic"
    If that were true, rubber and plastic would fall right through your hand.
    And not just through your hand, also through the floor. Any piece of rubber and plastic would be in an orbit around the earth's core, eternally falling straight through the earth and back up again, and down again, and up again, etc, without even any friction to slow it down.

    • @mspeir
      @mspeir 5 років тому +1

      I was about to post that. Without the electromagnetic force, matter would fall through itself.

  • @heavenlyguitar5913
    @heavenlyguitar5913 5 років тому +5

    Good breakdown on this subject. Thank you.

  • @h82fail
    @h82fail 7 років тому +1

    Cool video. I'm going to go with Impossible, at least the bubble around your ship/person type. Some type of wall or window might work but would have a completely different application. Wouldn't be useful in the same way a force field is in scifi protecting you from all directions.
    Also I think nano tubes are overrated. 100 times stronger then steel is still not that strong in the grand scheme of things. I mean if aluminum foil is 200,000 atoms thick and its ~2/3 the strength of steel or (133,333 atoms thick steel). Wouldn't that mean it would take 1,333 atoms thick nano tubes to get the strength of foil?

  • @DomBurgess
    @DomBurgess 7 років тому +5

    Great work Jade! Really like the idea and well written. :)

  • @bikedawg
    @bikedawg 4 роки тому

    Invisible force field: Eating lots of garlic.

  • @stephencottman9865
    @stephencottman9865 7 років тому +5

    I wish you were my teacher 😥

  • @rascal1234
    @rascal1234 4 роки тому

    Air pressure could be used as a weak repulsive field. Depends on one’s expectation. We could repulse feathers and leaves. One could detonate a nuke. Single use only force-field.

  • @gingernut5057
    @gingernut5057 5 років тому +3

    Could we manipulate the higs field making what ever enters will just pass through you?

  • @mkDaniel
    @mkDaniel 4 роки тому

    nearly all materials, which are not feromagnetic are paramagnetic - are repelled by magnet. But the force is nearly non existent. But with crazy strong magnetic fields...

  • @ImpudiaGames
    @ImpudiaGames 7 років тому +3

    Great animations! they are very effective. It is an interesting topic, I wonder what would happen if two force fields collided... I guess they would deflect, so maybe the force field itself is not about stopping objects but rather changing their direction? In that sense maybe gravity points away from the person or object could act as a force field? When I say gravity points I obviously talk from a SciFi point of view, not sure if they would be even possible. Great video, thanks

    • @upandatom
      @upandatom  7 років тому +1

      maybe it would be like in dragon ball z with the kamayamaya waves?

  • @michalchik
    @michalchik 3 роки тому

    I have a "force field" that can stop a laser in my house. It's called a mirror.
    Back when Reagan proposed the strategic defense initiative designed to stop incoming ICBM (INTERCONTINENTAL BALLISTIC MISSILES) lots of people suggested we use laser to blow them up.
    That idea was quickly abandoned for a variety of reasons. One reason was that even if you could develop a laser that was powerful enough, maneuverable enough, and accurate enough to hit the incoming nuclear warhead. All the Soviet Union had to do was polish it nicely and spin it up and the laser energy would never be significantly transferred to it. Essentially you can make your ship a Chrome plated mirror and as long as it stayed clean lasers would be useless against it or you can deploy a mirror send film out in front of your spaceship

  • @MrA2Zor029
    @MrA2Zor029 5 років тому +3

    Jade!
    Same with Tractor Beams, Yes?
    love
    Steve Holliday

  • @pogdog8655
    @pogdog8655 3 роки тому

    We can use electricity to make plasma now and we already have developed plasma shields prototype

  • @rodrigodiaz5003
    @rodrigodiaz5003 5 років тому +4

    Love this channel. May the force be with you :)

  • @ArthurEKing8472
    @ArthurEKing8472 6 років тому

    There's another option you didn't mention (although I understand why you didn't, lol) and that'd be warp-bubbles, via the alcubierre warp drive. That kind of bubble of space-time wouldn't allow things from the outside world to pass in, mimicing some of those self-same properties you mentioned. Still, VERY far-out there technology, and only possible if we find a particular form of exotic matter, but I still think it's worth a foot-note.

  • @grumpycat9694
    @grumpycat9694 6 років тому +8

    totally subbing

    • @upandatom
      @upandatom  6 років тому

      thank you and welcome!

  • @johnwang9914
    @johnwang9914 6 років тому

    Well, technically the reason why your hand doesn't pass through a table is the electromagnetic field of the electron shells around your atoms but the only way we know of to have that specific concentration and strength of electromagnetic force is with matter itself.

  • @dhirajpallin2572
    @dhirajpallin2572 4 роки тому +5

    Jade is an example of someone who probably could have also been a successful actor, but instead went into science. That's a pretty rare combination.

  • @culwin
    @culwin 3 роки тому

    What if we just add another layer behind the forcefield, that's a mirror. To stop the laser.

  • @Szobiz
    @Szobiz 6 років тому +6

    It's amazing but electromagnetic fields would also be a huge weakness to the field. It would be insane to blow up a ship through its defensive systems with just the right electromagnetic field

    • @MrBrew4321
      @MrBrew4321 6 років тому +1

      That's why I like how in star trek the forcefields are useless if the enemy has some number. You can imagine they have a technology that almost encrypts the magnetic field so that you can't just disrupt the contained energy with your own field? And yet in sciFi they don't have to explain all that detail to us, just take artistic license and all...

  • @jacoboneill2494
    @jacoboneill2494 4 роки тому

    for opacity, we could use multiple layers of the carbon nanotube sheets, maybe with other atoms interspersed 🕸🕸🕸. we could also use multiple plasma windows 💥|||😌. one nice thing about carbon nanotubes is their conductivity. it seems like that could help. i usually agree with Dr. Kaku, but not about the laser wall. that part seems costly and unsustainable.

  • @gregorio9955
    @gregorio9955 6 років тому +6

    to cute to pay attention lol

  • @adenintriphosphat520
    @adenintriphosphat520 5 років тому

    SpaceX falcon9: reentry burn is technically a forcefield

  • @jacquonnelson9102
    @jacquonnelson9102 6 років тому +6

    Well isn't plasma part of the electromagnetic force?

  • @gyro5d
    @gyro5d 4 роки тому

    4 forces of the Universe.
    1) Capacitance.
    2) Resistance.
    3)Permeability.
    4) Permittivity.
    The Inertial plane's, infinite capacitance could be a force field.

  • @orangesky925
    @orangesky925 5 років тому +3

    Wow in your Thumbnail u look ravishing😍😃

  • @imofage3947
    @imofage3947 4 роки тому

    You forgot to mention that a plasma at several million degrees would emit it's own blinding white-hot light. Firing a laser through this screen to cook your face would be unnecessary, the screen would do that job for your enemy.

  • @samsamsamsamsamanilla5281
    @samsamsamsamsamanilla5281 6 років тому +8

    Jade, you're adorable, I want to give you a hug😊

  • @jeremiahlarkins618
    @jeremiahlarkins618 6 років тому

    I like how real quick at the end jade says, and sometimes math. She says, disclaimer, math may be present in physics videos... For all the crazies that actually wanna do some science.

  • @jmanj3917
    @jmanj3917 2 роки тому +1

    I love your graphics, but I think you might have misrepresented the weak nuclear force in saying that, "[it heats the earth's core, causes volcanoes, and is responsible for plate tectonics.]"
    *I'm not a physicist, but I know that the weak force is responsible for radioactive decay.*
    This decay happens in the earth's core (among other places). It provides some of the heat in the earth's core. This heat is the energy behind volcanism, and it (the heat) allows for the earth's "stiff" continental plates to slide over the more "plastic" molten rock and metal of the mantle.
    This does NOT mean that the weak nuclear force is responsible for plate tectonics (or volcanoes, for that matter). (Could these things happen Without the WNF? Probably, yes, they Could and Would, as there are Other sources of heat inside our planet. But, they most likely wouldn't be at the same scale as what we witness happening With the WNF.
    I hate to be "that person" but it's important to clarify these things since your audience is too large and too varied for any assumptions to be made regarding who will know which facts aboout certain processes.
    Keep up the great work!!

  • @blob431
    @blob431 5 років тому

    Today: maybe there will be forcefields in the future!
    The year 3000: borgnite floss dance challenge

  • @DJ_Force
    @DJ_Force 4 роки тому

    Well, technically, a plasma window uses the electromagnetic force to influence objects.

  • @Ryooken
    @Ryooken 5 років тому

    There is also sound and vibration.

  • @yonihales9133
    @yonihales9133 4 роки тому

    What about black cloth vs nanotubes to stop the laser beam and something before the black cloth to negate the heat from the high intensity laser.

  • @thewickedjester7495
    @thewickedjester7495 5 років тому

    I feel like it would be more feasible energy wise if the plasma was only heated to the extreme temperatures needed when an impending impact was detected. That way you're not dumping energy into it when it's not doing anything

  • @danielbrennan5872
    @danielbrennan5872 4 роки тому

    Carbon mist to refract laser beam dispersing energy