The Thinnest Lens in the World is One Molecule Thick

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  • @SciShow
    @SciShow  4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +7

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    • @JustMe-dc6ks
      @JustMe-dc6ks 46 นาทีที่ผ่านมา +1

      Google is running ads on your video. Make sure they’re paying you for it.

  • @TheGiggleMasterP
    @TheGiggleMasterP 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +72

    Finding those contact lenses are gonna be impossible 😅

    • @baomao7243
      @baomao7243 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +6

      Not sure I see it. Your assertion is pretty thin…

    • @benjitheengi4447
      @benjitheengi4447 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +6

      Oh god fresnel lenses. Contacts Ribbed for your pleasure

    • @baomao7243
      @baomao7243 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +4

      @@benjitheengi4447 Ribbed for your viewing pleasure

  • @Avendesora
    @Avendesora 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +103

    I'll never hear something like "he was dead at the time" and not assume that he stopped being dead at some indeterminate point in the future

    • @johnnydarling8021
      @johnnydarling8021 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      I think that they meant he was *still* dead at the time.

    • @Avendesora
      @Avendesora 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +7

      @@johnnydarling8021 I feel like that makes it worse. “He was still dead” can give the exact same interpretation without needing to add “at the time” to it, so it just acts as an intensifier for this reading.

    • @elmurcis1
      @elmurcis1 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      These words instantly reminds me about women who fell into bloody cold water and technicaly was dead at the time for ~30 min but was later brought back to life (and was fiiine afterwards).

    • @baomao7243
      @baomao7243 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

      @@johnnydarling8021 “He had already died” ?

    • @pamdrayer5648
      @pamdrayer5648 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      I'm sorry, you can't talk to Mr. Fresnel; he's dead at the time. Try again tomorrow.

  • @earlaker
    @earlaker 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +18

    He says, "so, please stay with me" long after I'm lost, lol!

  • @Adonidus
    @Adonidus 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +6

    As an Ultrasonic technician, I always called it the "Friend Zone" not just for the Frensely name, but also because at that point the signal is too close and causing too much interference to be useful to me.

  • @vidal9747
    @vidal9747 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

    Not one professor nor online resource could actually explain to me in a manner that left me satisfied what exactly are the virtual states of energy in Raman spectroscopy. I red papers on it, I did research in data processing of it, but I don't really understand virtual states of energy. A video in Inelastic scattering would be nice!

    • @genericalias5756
      @genericalias5756 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      light energy is discretized/quantized through photons, meaning that you can't absorb a fraction of a photon. Vibrational energy states are too small to absorb a whole photon, so a whole photon is absorbed, elevating the electron to a virtual state, then a lower energy photon is emitted, leaving it in an elevated vibrational state

  • @369frequencyandvibration
    @369frequencyandvibration 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +8

    😂 "leaving what scientists call 'a hole'"

  • @LogicalThinking-p2s
    @LogicalThinking-p2s 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

    Its not always the brain. Its more often the eye or light waves themselves. Darker lines are shorter lighter area's so the light is 3D.

  • @dippy4514
    @dippy4514 9 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

    sudden flash back to high school theatre when i was on the lighting crew and was always changing the lamps in our fresnels

  • @GeraldBlack1
    @GeraldBlack1 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    Let's not teach ants how to use them lol.

  • @e-memers9441
    @e-memers9441 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +5

    I never knew lighthouses have lenses

  • @capt.bart.roberts4975
    @capt.bart.roberts4975 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

    "Quantum shenaniganery!" ROTFFLMFAO !!! 😋

  • @frogz
    @frogz 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    9:00 our boy stefan here casually calling hydrofluoric acid or aqua regia extremely gentle

    • @noname_atall
      @noname_atall 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      HF wouldn't dissolve gold, aqua regia would oxidize the sulfide. it is more likely that they used sodium cyanide and dilute hydrogen peroxide

    • @badabing3391
      @badabing3391 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      hydrofluoric acid is a weak acid, aqua regia is composed of 2 strong acids (nitric + hydrochloric acids)

  • @Shaosprojects
    @Shaosprojects 2 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    Instructions unclear - I have a lens stuck in my eye now

  • @SquintyGears
    @SquintyGears 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    Sounds like we're going to get holographic lenses before this stuff gets to fruition.
    It's actually relatively the same idea except it's not limited to 1 atomic layer and it's research is much further along. I saw some papers on them around when the apple headset came out and 3B1B made a video on the underlying physics and how the holograms are made last month. Basically physical 3D pictures on a film. The real mind blowing part is that the hologram contains all the light properties of what it captured so if you took a "picture" of a lense, no matter how many elements, the "picture" bends the light the same way it did at the moment of capture.
    Tons of limitations on making them still and just like this video they only work on single wavelength light right now.

    • @jonahbranch5625
      @jonahbranch5625 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Woah, got more resources on this?

  • @_andrewvia
    @_andrewvia 2 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Stefan is doing the whole video (content and ad) himself. Everybody else delegates some of that responsibility. Come on, Stefan! Take it easy! Like the song says: Delegate! Delegate! Dance to the music!

  • @rolfs2165
    @rolfs2165 2 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Teeechnically Fresnel lenses aren't made from a lot of prisms, but a convex lens (with a flat back) that had all the unnecessary bits cut away. Yes, the individual "steps" _look_ like prisms - but they have one curved side, while a prism doesn't.

  • @vidal9747
    @vidal9747 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    Extreme UV litography shows that we, with a lot of effort and trillions of dollars, can create extreme small stuff. The scale of chamical bonds is Angstrons , what is about 0.1 nm. Part of logic gates of modern processors are 3nm.

  • @General12th
    @General12th 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    Hi Stefan!

  • @FaeFemboi
    @FaeFemboi 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +4

    "High tech sounding methods" 💀 ☠️ 💀

    • @MHWGamer
      @MHWGamer 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      username checks out
      (and I hate that I "get" it. thx reddit for that xD)

    • @paulbecker7039
      @paulbecker7039 2 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      "plasma edging" 💀 ☠ 💀

  • @Olikiscrazy
    @Olikiscrazy 2 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    Hank, the team did an excellent job with this video. I really enjoyed it. Thank you and thanks to the team.

  • @Violet_Knight
    @Violet_Knight 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

    Forget AR headsets - would tech like this be able to help near- or farsighted people?

    • @Jeff-ss6qt
      @Jeff-ss6qt 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      That'd be interesting if it can somehow attach to the muscles and use that as an electricity source. At least, assuming that the one molecule thick thing doesn't break apart or embed in something like asbestos.

  • @CaedmonOS
    @CaedmonOS 48 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

    Everyone knows Fresnel as a pretty good guy. He's got great optics.

  • @ODISeth
    @ODISeth 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    So what I’m hearing is these would neither be efficient nor useful to put in eyeglasses, BUT it would be really cool

  • @mellissadalby1402
    @mellissadalby1402 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    What a minute, you're really a horse?
    OK, I know it was Dad joke

  • @gamechannelminecraft6583
    @gamechannelminecraft6583 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    Hello everyone, good viewing🐼

  • @BrandEver117
    @BrandEver117 10 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

    2:07 Yo I think that's Heceta Head in Oregon

  • @mikamekaze
    @mikamekaze 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    "He was dead at the time." Not sure how I feel about the implications of this

    • @johnnydarling8021
      @johnnydarling8021 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Well, he was STILL dead at the time.

  • @BracaPhoto
    @BracaPhoto 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    Gravity is a lens also - thinner than 1 molecule !
    It surround LIGHT- compressing time creating a lens around light ... the same way we try and calculate Pi - frenel lens
    Little triangles of "vacuity" - creating a Gravity lens for light to SEE
    Light Displaces Gravity - i am light as a Feather ❤🎉
    God is the LIGHT
    Peace

    • @BracaPhoto
      @BracaPhoto 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      All this may not be TRUE, but it helps explain alot 😂🎉❤
      It even explains why light can only make decisions in a limited Domain - lenses work the same way - only certain sections create coherence

  • @EyesOfByes
    @EyesOfByes 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    New TV tech incoming

  • @VampcatVvvvV
    @VampcatVvvvV 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    I was today old when I learned the 's' is silent. I've always pronounced it freznell.

  • @jaycrew2953
    @jaycrew2953 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    It’s nuts to me that one of the main components in the exfoliation method is scotch tape 🤣😑 bruh

  • @AHotLlama
    @AHotLlama 2 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    9:16 probably best not to google "sounding methods"

  • @Jobobn1998
    @Jobobn1998 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    Interesting fact: The smallest lens is one molecule thick, but the (arguably) largest lens is one atom thick. Neutron stars* are, by some definitions, one giant atomic nucleus made primarily out of neutrons, and their extremely high mass allows them to warp space and create gravitational lenses.
    *I'm not counting black holes since they're, you know, causally disconnected from our reality in weird ways and extremely hard to define in a meaningful way--although they do create gravitational lensing to an extreme degree.

  • @fadelbedewi4286
    @fadelbedewi4286 2 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    One problem I do not understand is how do you control the Siri of light using this “lens” because when an atom or electron absorbs a photon and the emits it there is no link between the direction the photon came from and the direction it is emitted to. So it emit it in any direction

  • @TheSirGoreaxe
    @TheSirGoreaxe 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    At first I was like darn, that is not nearly big enough for contact lenses. But looking it up the focal area for contact lenses is only 3-5mm. So they only need to 5x the size and ensure it works with all the colors. Throw in some circuitry and power on a contact lenses and boom! We have better contact lenses with binocular enhancement. Still far away and will be expensive, but still neat!

  • @ThePSGgaming
    @ThePSGgaming 2 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    They stole that from the Graphene guys!! 7:58

  • @mellissadalby1402
    @mellissadalby1402 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Wait, Shenaniganry? OK

  • @jhoughjr1
    @jhoughjr1 2 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

    Before i even watch this coupd be a powerful tech

  • @J.A.Smith2397
    @J.A.Smith2397 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Tks

  • @Unchained_Alice
    @Unchained_Alice 2 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    With how bad my eyes are I need them for glasses. Even getting them extra thin they are still so thick 😭
    I struggle to read line 2 of the chart without glasses and line 1 isnt the easiest

  • @bhami
    @bhami 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    I've never understood: how is it that constructive and destructive interference do not violate conservation of energy?

    • @Octa9on
      @Octa9on 2 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      the energy missing from the areas of destructive interference is always exactly equal to the extra energy in the areas of constructive interference. you always get both. it's impossible to just have one or the other

  • @AaronGeo
    @AaronGeo 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +4

    The vibrations of the atoms will be enough to shatter it.

  • @GoatOfTheWoods
    @GoatOfTheWoods 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    There's one individual by the name of Markiplier that might be interested in one of these lenses...

  • @bensoncheung2801
    @bensoncheung2801 2 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    👍

  • @gerrie2477
    @gerrie2477 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    10:35 am l the only one who see's the light sabre's first step?

  • @ptonpc
    @ptonpc 2 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    I see.....

  • @denverflatpackjedithornton
    @denverflatpackjedithornton 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Scientists call it a hole..... Jeremy Clarkson would call it
    The smallest hole.... In the world

  • @Iamrightyouarewrong
    @Iamrightyouarewrong 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    For what though?

  • @AlfaOxTrot.
    @AlfaOxTrot. 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    5k views and bro already got colored 💀🙏

  • @MarisaElyse
    @MarisaElyse 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    I love new scishow videos

  • @Avendesora
    @Avendesora 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    "Less than a billionth of a METER thick"? Why are we not using millimeters as the base unit here? did you feel the need to exaggerate it to make it sound more impressive?

    • @Billionth_Kevin
      @Billionth_Kevin 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      because "less than a trillionth of a kilometer" would have been ridiculous

    • @Avendesora
      @Avendesora 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @@Billionth_Kevin I feel like you've got a bit of a bias there, Mr. Billionth

    • @Narokkurai
      @Narokkurai 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

      Because the meter is the SI unit for distance, so for the sake of consistency it's always better to refer back to the base unit. A millimeter is literally just a thousandth of a meter anyways, so to give the length in millimeters would be the same as saying, "Less than a millionth of a thousandth of a meter."
      Easier to just say, "Billionth of a meter."

    • @sween187
      @sween187 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@Billionth_Kevinbest response to a question, goes to you , 👏😂

    • @johannamarseille5305
      @johannamarseille5305 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      'Cause in the US you gotta find a way to use fractions

  • @riannongrubbs4231
    @riannongrubbs4231 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Video is very cool but I just want to say I liked this ad particularly, can’t pinpoint why I like it better than the usual pitch for brilliant etc but I do ❤

  • @CatholicSatan
    @CatholicSatan 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    Could you please use other adjectives besides "super"? The English language is a rich beast with many adjectives you can use.

  • @SoumyaGuharoy-m9r
    @SoumyaGuharoy-m9r 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    3rd to comment.

  • @JesusMarilieie
    @JesusMarilieie 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    This video is the best way to forget all your problems and just laugh. I recommend it to everyone🍓