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The Mystery That Led to 3 Nobel Prizes in Physics (Including Einstein's)
The photoelectric effect was a mysterious phenomenon that, alongside blackbody radiation, led to the birth of quantum physics. Three physicists won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their contributions to explaining this phenomenon: Philipp Lenard, Albert Einstein, and Robert Millikan.
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The Experiment That Proved the Quantum Nature of the Atom
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The Franck-Hertz experiment, done in 1914, was a revolutionary moment in quantum physics history, as James Franck and Gustav Hertz experimentally proved that electrons transfer energy in discrete amounts. They did this by firing electrons in a de-pressurized chamber filled with vaporized mercury and firing electrons between electrodes with varying voltages.
How the Oil Drop Experiment Discovered the Charge of the Electron
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Robert Millikan and Harvey Fletcher were two physicists now known for discovering the mass and the charge of the electron. They did this through their famous "Oil Drop Experiment" in which they hovered electrically charged droplets of oil in a chamber with an electric field applied. This video covers the history of Millikan and Fletcher, and discusses some controversies that followed the experi...
The Physicist Who Brought Quantum Physics to the Atom
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Niels Bohr was a Danish physicist known most notably for his proposal of electrons orbiting the nucleus of an atom in discrete energy levels. He applied the newly formed laws of quantum physics to atomic structure, and helped the scientific community to start unraveling the quantum nature of our world.
The Physicist Who Discovered Cosmic Rays
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Victor Franz Hess was an Austrian physicist who is known for the discovery of cosmic rays. He did this by using a special electroscope that he brought with him on a series of flights in his hot air balloon to study ionizing radiation in space. For his experiments and discovery, he won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1936.
How the Gold Foil Experiment Changed Our Understanding of the Atom
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J.J. Thomson is credited with the discovery of the electron, but his plum pudding model of the atom wasn't as accurate as thought at first. A series of experiments done by Ernest Rutherford, Hans Geiger, and Ernest Marsden in the coming years, most notably, the gold foil experiment, would lead to Rutherford's proposed nucleus-based model of the atom that would take atomic understanding to new l...
The Physicist Who First Liquefied Helium
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Heike Kamerlingh Onnes was a Dutch physicist who first liquefied helium in 1908. He later built upon this discovery and discovered superconductivity using liquid helium later in 1911. He won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1913 for the liquefaction of helium, and helped usher Dutch science into a golden age, following in the footsteps of another notable theoretical physicist, and giant in gas the...
The Nobel Laureate Who Was Blinded in His Pursuit of Innovation
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Gustaf Dalen was a Swedish engineer who is known for his work with the gas acetylene and his inventions that utilized it. His two most famous inventions are the Dalen light, which is a light based on slow combustion of acetylene, and the sun valve, a mechanism that opens the storage container of acetylene. Dalen was the first to figure out how to store acetylene in a pressurized container witho...
The Physicist Who Pioneered Thermal Radiation
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Link to Derivation of Wien's Displacement Law: arxiv.org/pdf/2208.06470 Wilhelm Wien was a German physicist known for the discovery of Wien's Displacement Law. He derived this relationship from his other derivation, known as Wien's Scaling Law, which was used to provide a simplified equation for black body radiation. His law came a few years after the Stefan-Boltzmann law, and a few years befor...
The Physicist Who Transformed Gas Theory
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Johannes van der Waals was a Dutch theoretical physicist who transformed gas theory by revamping the Ideal Gas Law into something that modeled gas behavior in a more realistic sense. The Van der Waals equation added variables accounting for volume of gas molecules and for intermolecular forces that attract molecules together. This change allowed gasses to be modeled much more accurately at extr...
Did Edison Really Invent the Light Bulb?
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Thomas Edison is widely known as the inventor of the light bulb, but is that really true? This video dives a little deeper into the history of incandescence and how it was turned into a light bulb over the course of many decades.
How Rutherford Discovered Radioactive Decay
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Ernest Rutherford was a research student under J.J. Thomson when a discovery would change his life forever: Radioactivity by Becquerel. From that point on, Rutherford would devote his life to the atom and radioactivity, and this video summarizes the first few experiments he did in this field that contributed heavily to nuclear physics and won him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908.
How Color Photography Was Proven to be Possible
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This is a brief history on the early stages of color photography, starting with the first color photograph ever taken by James Clerk Maxwell and ending with Gabriel Lippmann's Nobel Prize-winning experiments involving interference.
The Chemist Who Accidentally Solved Fermentation
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This is a short story of Eduard Buchner, the chemist who discovered the alcoholic fermentation can be done without living cells present. His accidental discovery that cell components can still perform fermentation ended a debate between mechanism and vitalism, and was a founding step for biochemistry.
The Most Famous Null-Resulting Experiment in the History of Physics
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This is a brief story about the Michelson-Morley experiment, the experiment that initially was done to determine the earth's speed relative to a luminiferous ether. However, the results of the experiment suggested that there was no ether whatsoever, and left the door open for Einstein later on to publish his special theory of relativity.
The Chemist Who First Isolated Fluorine
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The Chemist Who First Isolated Fluorine
How the Electron was Discovered
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How the Electron was Discovered
The Chemist Who Revolutionized the Dye Industry
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The Chemist Who Revolutionized the Dye Industry
The Physicist that Paved the Way to Einstein's First Breakthrough
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The Physicist that Paved the Way to Einstein's First Breakthrough
When a Physicist and a Chemist Get Together...
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When a Physicist and a Chemist Get Together...
Electrolysis is Literally Modern Alchemy
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Electrolysis is Literally Modern Alchemy
Today I Learned Marie Curie Didn't Discover Radioactivity...
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Today I Learned Marie Curie Didn't Discover Radioactivity...
Nobel Winners in Science by Year: Spotlight on 1902
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Nobel Winners in Science by Year: Spotlight on 1902
A Brief History of the Development of Science
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A Brief History of the Development of Science
Mary Mallon: The Silent Killer of New York City
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Mary Mallon: The Silent Killer of New York City
Ancient Greek Inventions That Are Still Used Today
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Ancient Greek Inventions That Are Still Used Today
A Brief History of the Scientific Progress Made in 1901
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A Brief History of the Scientific Progress Made in 1901
The Story of the Father of Quantum Physics
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The Story of the Father of Quantum Physics

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  • @dominicestebanrice7460
    @dominicestebanrice7460 20 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

    Superb encapsulation. Thanks! This maybe a forum to tackle the following: At 26'30" in the first video linked below (Pasco Scientific instructional about their speed of light apparatus), mention is made of the photoelectric effect and how it can now be explained using QM applied to the atomic structure without recourse to quantization of light; these guys sound like they should know what they're talking about so here's my question: "is the PEE still the sine qua non of light quantization?" 'c'apparatus demo: th-cam.com/video/QbsxoWypeIY/w-d-xo.html PEE apparatus demo: th-cam.com/video/CZZZSVS6m5o/w-d-xo.html

  • @user-xy9ip4my3k
    @user-xy9ip4my3k 29 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

    Can you do a video On physics of startrek deepspace nine

  • @europaeuropa3673
    @europaeuropa3673 2 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    How does a light packet capable of causing an electron to be ejected qualify the light as a particle with no mass?

  • @ZhanMorli
    @ZhanMorli 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    New technologies, new research tools. BIG SCIENCE doesn't want to eliminate the *BIG MUD* of noise in fundamental optical experiments. WHY? Let me suggest for schoolchildren and students on one's own to measure the Universe, dark energy, black holes, etc. To do this, I propose two practical devices. «laser tape measure *+reference distance* 1,000,000 m”» and «Michelson-Morley HYBRID Gyroscope». I am writing to you with a proposal for the joint invention of a HYBRID gyroscope from non-circular, TWO coils with a new type of optical fiber with a “hollow core photonic-substituted vacuum zone or (NANF)” where - the light travels 250000 (In a laser tape measure, the length of the optical fiber is fixed at 1000000 ) meters in each arm, while it does not exceed the parameters 84/84/84 cm, and the weight is 24 kg. Manufacturers of “Fiber Optic Gyroscopes” can produce HYBRID gyroscopes for educational and practical use in schools and higher education institutions. Einstein dreamed of measuring the speed of a train, an airplane - through the Michelson-Morley experiment of 1881/2024, and only then would the experiment be more than 70% complete. This can be done using a fiber optic HYBRID gyroscope. Based on the completion of more than 70% of Michelson's experiment, the following postulates can be proven: Light is an ordered vibration of gravitational quanta, and dominant gravitational fields adjust the speed of light in a vacuum. you can make scientific discoveries; in astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology, higher theoretical physics,... (We are not looking for ether, we will see the work of gravitational quanta) The result is a «theory of everything» in a simple teaching device and a new tape measure for measuring the universe.

  • @mrtienphysics666
    @mrtienphysics666 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    other scientists also contributed: Hallwachs, Elster and Geitel

  • @AutomaticBadger
    @AutomaticBadger 5 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Great video. I always look forward to new content on your channel!

    • @RationalThinker118
      @RationalThinker118 5 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Appreciate it! Always look forward to the comments 😁

  • @jupa7166
    @jupa7166 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Oh, and of course, A COMMENT! 😂

  • @jupa7166
    @jupa7166 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    One may think everything was easier back then, discovering things was easier etc but it is simply not true, they were also struggling to find good hypotheses to test. It is never easy.

    • @RationalThinker118
      @RationalThinker118 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      I think understanding something for the first time is always extremely difficult no matter the time period. Agree completely!

  • @takiyaazrin7562
    @takiyaazrin7562 7 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Great content

  • @markonar140
    @markonar140 7 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Thanks for this Amazing short Documentary about the Photoelectric Effect!!! 👍😁

  • @faramarzsoltani2564
    @faramarzsoltani2564 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    How simple is brilliance ! just a hand made tube and a couple of electrodes.. no computers, calculators, .. but as simple as discovery of fire... how stupidly simple must you be to be brilliant?!

  • @williamogilvie6909
    @williamogilvie6909 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Very well presented.

  • @RamanujanPi
    @RamanujanPi 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    After Newton And wisstein, he madw new steep

  • @RamanujanPi
    @RamanujanPi 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Okay my comment 🎉

  • @douglasstrother6584
    @douglasstrother6584 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Replicating the Franck-Hertz Experiment was one of the experiments on the "menu" of my Senior Lab class. (As I remember, we had to pick 4 out of 10.)

  • @4pharaoh
    @4pharaoh 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Just subscribed, buddy you are good. Fantastic job on the video.

  • @O_Lee69
    @O_Lee69 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Another interesting story is the impact of the formula from Johann Jacob Balmer on Niels Bohr's atomic model. Balmer found it 1885 but it took until 1913 that someone (Bohr) could explain it's meaning.

  • @thenextpoetician6328
    @thenextpoetician6328 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    They should continue to question themselves, and more severely than they can. This is a magneto-dielectric universe. Relativity and Quantum physics have been falsified, however clutching to tenure under the effect of the Asch Conformity Test guarantees a slow death to the paradigm staining academia. Studies are pouring in on the electric/magnetic nature of the universe. Standard cosmology is collapsing at an accelerating rate. Have you looked into the structured atom model (SAM)? Have you listened to Eric P. Dollard discuss his work? peace out

    • @gswombat
      @gswombat 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      So, you know nothing of physics and choose semi-randomised words that have no meaning. What a fun life you must have; making things up.

  • @dip-tree
    @dip-tree 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Very well explained. It would be interesting to see if anyone tried to replicate these early experiments but using modern instrumentation.

  • @hrayz
    @hrayz 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    New great name: Frankenhertz

  • @walterbrownstone8017
    @walterbrownstone8017 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Take a billion people and average out the number of calories they eat each day and then declare it a discrete amount without ever looking at the individual calories they would eat. Yeah okay that sounds like the fraud called science.

  • @europaeuropa3673
    @europaeuropa3673 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Quantum physics grew out of control with the construction of multi billion dollar colliders that haven't resulted in humanity's lives better for example like oil, refrigeration, air planes, and automobiles. And no, lasers are not the result of quantum physics.

  • @rickintexas1584
    @rickintexas1584 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The brilliance, innovation, and tenacity of these men is staggering. And the summary video is succinct and insightful. Thanks for the great explanation!

  • @chapmag6578
    @chapmag6578 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thanks for posting. Extraordinary what physicists achieved in the early 1900’s as quantum theory was being developed and tested…

  • @baraskparas9559
    @baraskparas9559 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Fantastic presentation and explanation. Thanks

  • @glenmartin2437
    @glenmartin2437 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thanks.

  • @elmolewis9123
    @elmolewis9123 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Great research and presentation. Having taken an undergraduate degree in physics many, many years ago, I sit thinking how nice it would have been to have the internet and videos like this. Nice job.

    • @RationalThinker118
      @RationalThinker118 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I appreciate that. I also did undergrad in physics, and that very thing inspired me to make these videos!

  • @fightwithbiomechanix
    @fightwithbiomechanix 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Great video! This encourages me as I am doing my PhD research in engineering via experiments

    • @RationalThinker118
      @RationalThinker118 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Thank you, so glad I am encouraging you! Hope all goes well!

  • @karhukivi
    @karhukivi 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The philosophy behind science, which makes it distinct from religion, is that no experiment ever "proves" a theory. Science progresses when theories are disproved, and the theory has to be modified, the best example being Newton's laws of motion which had to be modified for relativistic effects at high speeds.

    • @primenumberbuster404
      @primenumberbuster404 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

      One of the solutions of the Demarcation problem is Popper's argument. That's how we differentiate between pseudoscience and Science.

    • @karhukivi
      @karhukivi 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@primenumberbuster404 That's correct, a theory has to be falsifiable.

    • @lapin3657
      @lapin3657 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ⁠​⁠@@karhukivi"réfutable", pas falsifiable…En français, falsifier c’est tricher délibérément.

    • @karhukivi
      @karhukivi 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@lapin3657 Un autre exemple de "faux ami" (= false cognate) - e.g. librairie is a bookshop and not a library which is a bibliotheque, location is rent, not a place, and journee is a day, not a trip to some place. Falsifiable is the word in English.

    • @lapin3657
      @lapin3657 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@karhukivi Oui, parce qu’en français falsificateur, falsification à le sens de faussaire. Karl Popper avait lui même que le terme réfutable était plus approprié en français.

  • @jonathanlister5644
    @jonathanlister5644 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Another lovely video, you reveal the humanity behind these great achievements.

  • @GmodErki
    @GmodErki 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    What kind of sources do you use for these videos?

    • @RationalThinker118
      @RationalThinker118 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I often try to find the original papers, but if I can't, I go to online encyclopedias or university pages.

  • @OzGoober
    @OzGoober 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    It's wonderful to cover this work.

  • @onradioactivewaves
    @onradioactivewaves 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Great video

  • @ZhanMorli
    @ZhanMorli 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    ❤schoolchildren and students to measure the Universe, dark energy, black holes, etc. two devices “laser tape measure with fixed fixation at 1,000,000 meters” and “Michelson-Morley HYBRID Gyroscope” you can make scientific discoveries; in astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology, higher theoretical physics,... I am writing to you with a proposal for the joint invention of a HYBRID gyroscope from non-circular, TWO coils with a new type of optical fiber with a “hollow core photonic-substituted vacuum zone or (NANF)” where - the light travels 250000 (In a laser tape measure, the length of the optical fiber is fixed at 1000000 ) meters in each arm, while it does not exceed the parameters 84/84/84 cm, and the weight is 24 kg. Manufacturers of “Fiber Optic Gyroscopes” can produce HYBRID gyroscopes for educational and practical use in schools and higher education institutions. Einstein dreamed of measuring the speed of a train, an airplane - through the Michelson-Morley experiment of 1881/2024, and only then would the experiment be more than 70% complete. This can be done using a fiber optic HYBRID gyroscope. Based on the completion of more than 70% of Michelson's experiment, the following postulates can be proven: Light is an ordered vibration of gravitational quanta, and dominant gravitational fields adjust the speed of light in a vacuum. (We are not looking for ether, we will see the work of gravitational quanta) The result is a «theory of everything» in a simple teaching device and a new tape measure for measuring the universe.

  • @jupa7166
    @jupa7166 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    A comment 😂

  • @jupa7166
    @jupa7166 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Nice videos, I like'em!

    • @RationalThinker118
      @RationalThinker118 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Thanks for all your comments, I see them on almost every video 😂♥️

    • @jupa7166
      @jupa7166 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@RationalThinker118 Thanks for your every video, i've seen ~almost~ all... But I can see that one like and comment is not enough unfortunately.

    • @RationalThinker118
      @RationalThinker118 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Even if it isn't enough, it's better than nothing. I always happily take them 😊 and thank you for watching all my videos!!

  • @shanehebert3237
    @shanehebert3237 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Scientific micromentaries without fluff and filler like into sequences are awesome, keep it up dude!

    • @RationalThinker118
      @RationalThinker118 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Appreciate it! I'll keep em coming.

  • @Ansh.917
    @Ansh.917 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Make a video on maxwell 4 equations

  • @markmanning2921
    @markmanning2921 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    why do americvans say "ex-peer-ments" it is ex-per-ee-ment please learn to english :/

  • @XanderDDS
    @XanderDDS 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    these videos are great, showcasing the men of high intellect who were able to articulate the secrets of the universe!

  • @ahbushnell1
    @ahbushnell1 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I did the experiment in a physics lab in college. Very interesting. We spent 9 hours taking data. We measured the speed of the drops for zero electric field. positive and negative. From that you can cancel out the drag of the drop going through the air. We got an excellent result. We also did E/M. great video.

    • @RationalThinker118
      @RationalThinker118 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Thank you! 9 hours is a lot of data I bet.

  • @stevebabiak6997
    @stevebabiak6997 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    0:30 - spellcheck might have corrected “defeleted” into “deflected”

  • @JxH
    @JxH 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

    "...mass to charge ratio..." I kept hearing *Master Charge* ratio (MasterCard until 1979).

  • @glenmartin2437
    @glenmartin2437 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thank you.

  • @rgfrw
    @rgfrw 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I had read that among Fletcher's papers which you mentioned was a letter by Fletcher in which he stated that he, not Millikan suggested the use of oil drops rather than water. This would seem to make Fletcher a major contributor to the work rather than just a technician. The letter also discussed his conversation with Millikan in which Millikan said he, Fletcher, could be the sole author on another paper while Millikan was the sole author of the oil drop experiment.

    • @RationalThinker118
      @RationalThinker118 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I was also thinking it could have been a possibility that the experiment's credit could've/should've gone solely to Fletcher... he should've at least been included for sure.

  • @lednique2742
    @lednique2742 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

    There's really no need to show stupid stock video of two guys in lab coats to accompany the mention of "scientists" in the video. This kind of stuff really detracts from an otherwise very informative video. From now on, please assume we know exactly what a scientist looks like!

    • @RationalThinker118
      @RationalThinker118 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Well of course I don't assume you don't know what a scientist looks like... but thank you for the critique.

  • @LiborTinka
    @LiborTinka 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

    You can also make a video about Robert Mulliken and his contribution to chemistry (the concept of electronegativity) because both names: R. Mulliken and R. Millikan are easily confused - yet they both won the Nobel Prize except one was in physics (1923) and the other in chemistry (1966). I remember my confusion when studying the history of chemistry, knowing only about the 'oil drop guy' 🙂

    • @RationalThinker118
      @RationalThinker118 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Nice idea! Thanks for the insight.

  • @fredsalter1915
    @fredsalter1915 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

    2:04 Wow! Dr. Hess had a lot of students!

  • @mechez774
    @mechez774 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Love the details of the experiments. 99.9% of videos just state determined facts without at all discussing the experiments. A notable exception is maybe the double slit experiment

    • @RationalThinker118
      @RationalThinker118 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Thanks! I always want to include the science along with the history for sure.

    • @alphalunamare
      @alphalunamare 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I have yet to see a description of the double slit experiment that sits well with the average knerd. I mean, how accurate is the lasar gun shooting electrons at the two slits, and how small are the electrons compared to the slits? I can never get a conceptual mind picture of what is going on. Why? because people just accept it and don't bother to explain it other than from wave functions.

  • @GmodErki
    @GmodErki 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Have you considered making the music/ambience slightly louder in your videos? I know it's there but I can't hear it at all :')

    • @RationalThinker118
      @RationalThinker118 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Sure I can adjust, I turned it down a while ago because people were saying it was too loud

    • @dogcarman
      @dogcarman 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Oh please don’t. Loud music makes it very hard for non-neurotypicals like me to concentrate on the content.