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No but it is actually scientifically proven that plants can sense outsider’s emotions and intentions and they react (chemically and internally, of course) to their exterior. Trees in the woods communicate between each other warning of threats or trading nutrients when they have more than they need. So yeah, communication happens between all living beings, and so it does too between species. Maybe we just have to learn their language.
@@juanitome1327 There are actually entire microcultures that exist underground in some biomes that facilitate this communication between plants. For example, in southern California, where I live, the native horticulture here has an entire interdependent system that links thousands of species of plants using a fungal layer that can communicate information about drought and trade nutrients around as needed.
They use the carbon from co2 mixed with the hydrogen from h20 to make sugar(hydrocarbon) and that is used to build the mass of the tree with some minerals from the ground.
Trees gets ions from soil, air and water, ions like k+ Na+ NH4+ C H from Where it gets it's building blocks... And cements are like sunlight.... Soil works like a medium..
When you use wood charcoal (not bbq briquettes), it is there. Wood has to go through a conversion process to be burned without oxygen present to become charcoal which is mostly pure carbon.
Drake Fellwing Does that include all air material that we breathe? So when vsauce said that cats are made of air, water, and cat food, he could have gotten rid of the air part?
you're made of air the same way you're made of any material that's crunch down to solids that however doesn't mean you're made of oxygen you do contain oxygen because your hemoglobin needs it but its only using it as a filter for other chemicals specifically to remove carbon from your cells as waste
My thought process... Soil; oh wait experiment shows that's not so. What else... trees burn, why do they burn? oh carbon; where that come from? oh yeah the atmosphere.. mystery solved!
@@ongbonga9025 Yes, most of the mass is from carbon dioxide (both the carbon and the oxygen). But the tree also has hydrogen in it, which comes from water. The oxygen the tree releases to the atmosphere during photosynthesis is thrown away from the water it splits into hydrogen and oxygen.
Anyone who has tried to lose weight might have figured out every exhale we pull off without shoving calories in, is a decent amount of heavy carbon leaving our bodies and figured the reverse is true. Structurally speaking, new animal cells require fat for walls and new plant cells require carbohydrates.
Very high level retrospective and incredibly interesting new way to look at trees that invoke a sense of gratefulness for a tree’s function to human existence. Love it
@@philsburydoboy Like I said, you would be a bit wrong in stating that it's more important. But think about this; we recognize the carbon as wood in dried wood, yet the water that vaporized off we no longer consider wood.
yee i wanna update. Actual percentages, why it's hard (probably because of carbon?). But then isnt it built seperately from C and O2? If it was all CO2 molecules wouldnt it be a gas?
This is the first time I have watched this video. I am truly amazed that so many people in the world made it through 6th grade science class without knowing the answer to this question.
Cellulose is (C6 H10 O5). Glucose is (C6 H12 O6). Glucose is produced by photosynthesis and is used by plants to produce cellulose. Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen are a plants best friend 😉
I thought the video would be from glucose forward. Cellulose is already one of the final building blocks of plants. Do you know if it is from glucose or cellulose that other plant's components can be made?
Plants that are high functioning nutritionally, and consequently photosynthetically can produce lipids, proteins, and other fatty acids as well as terpenes, flavanoids, and many other complex organic compounds. See AEA's "Plant Health Pyramid" video on youtube.
I already know the answer from school (I think is learned in 3rd or 4th grade) but I love the fact that you guide these people from making them question what they know and letting them to search alternative explanations. [SFMBE]
Stennwellara1 seriously. I cringed when he said that. The sun actually loses mass constantly. Light carries mass away from the sun as does the solar wind.
At the end, those are all theories that scientists discovered, noticed and proved. This could be all just a joke. imagine all the theories that we rely on are wrong, and it’s just that the right ones luckily fit with the wrong ones that we created. Who knows, I mean who the hell knows!
Mohammed Al-Saffar take religion and destroy it and it won’t come back the same ever, now take all the science books and in time they will all come back the same
Brandon Hahaha. You completely said the right opposite. Destroy religion and it will come back the same as it was. burn all the science books and there might exist other new theories that just fit luckily with the old ones. For example, the theory of atom and quantum numbers could turn into something different.
Amazing video guys! The filmography, the science, the audio (often the underappreciated aspect of a great video), concise, sufficient to satisfy curiosity yet incite further research... plants are awesome! Thank you!!!
Thank you!! Ive wondered about this for years! I have kept a "money plant" in a vase with water and it grows and grows. But Ive always been like, but from WHAT?? All you have is water and air. How can you make more of yourself! So glad to know finally!
Before the video, I though it was from the soil. After you said "but why is there not a hole in the ground around the tree" I decided "wow, you are right, it must be from nutrients brought there through the water" I was not ready to learn that trees are made of mostly consuming air. Sir, after 5 years of graduating as a Physicist, you still teach me the most incredible and basic facts of life
I was blown away by this. CO2? That makes the issue of deforestation so much more urgent and helps explain the astonishing increase in global CO2 levels. Thanks for doing this, Derek.
Just a suggestion go up in a small plane and have a look around we actually have plenty of trees you would be amazed at how little is actually cleared for human use
@@turolretar People talk like all humans do is cut down trees, but we also plant a lot of trees. It's not like loggers actually want there to be no trees left; that would put them out of work.
Loved the video! I wish you'd spent some time explaining how the CO2 constituent gets converted into the mass of the tree, but I recognize that may have been quite the potential rabbit hole. Thanks for all you do.
IMO The biggest mistake in the video was him mentioning at the end that the Trees consume our CO2 and not adding in that the Trees produce a lot of the Oxygen that we need to survive. His lack of understanding of the symbiotic relationship between man and trees made the video a lot less impactful.
The fact that I enjoy about all plants that is generally not known is that when they are not doing photosynthesis with sun, water and carbon dioxide... they use oxygen at night for their respiration, in much the same way as other life forms do all the time.
Magnus Juul It's not the shadow blending in with the background. It's literally seethrough there. Look at his shirt. There's a spot where you can see the cloud behind him through his belly.
Марк Экэнсталэр its not sethrough, in the vid(when not paused ) you can clearly se the shadow of his head moving, and the color of his shirt returning.
I am not going to call these people stupid since I did not figure it out until probably junior high and no one explicitly told me. But I made there realization when people taught me that photosynsesis creates sugars and that cellulose which makes up plant walls was a type of sugar. I added them up in my head and made the realization a long time ago.
I'm amazed that nobody mentioned carbon dioxide until practically the end of the video. I thought that EVERYBODY knows that plants absorb C02 and give off oxygen, which is why they're so important for counteracting the effect of us burning fossil fuels.
TBF, water is just as responsible as CO2, depending which molecule's oxygen atoms end up in the photosynthesis products. Meaning if the O2 is entirely from the CO2 then 9/15 of the tree's biomass is from the water, but if the O2 comes entirely from the water then 1/15 is. So it may be somewhere in between, depending how the reaction really works.
All of the oxygen released is from the water, but not all of the water is used in photosynthesis. Cells contain water as a fluid medium and in storage in vacuoles, but the tree must also transport the water from the ground to all the cells, so there is an enormous amount of water in the tree. It is something like 50% water.
@@deluxeassortment Also with more available CO2 the pores that take in CO2 on the leaves do not have to be open in such numbers and this results in a significant amount of water not being lost through them for the plant to get the necessary CO2.This means that with more CO2 the plant actually needs less water from the environment.
@@aleksinuutila2315 Yes, the basic carbohydrate is C6H12O6, I believe. That hydrogen being ripped from water molecules is the entire reason for they existence of chlorophyll
This was a question I had I'm my mind for a long time. Thank you for answering it! I now see plants, trees and the entire biosphere with a new understanding that has fundamentally changed me! No joke, thank you!
The Timelords photosynthesis is how the plant gets the energy from the sun, it doesn’t explain the tree mass either. 6CO2 + 6H2O -> C6H12O6 + 6O2 (glucose and oxygen)
I suspect he only included those who didn't say carbon dioxide. Given the number of decades of climate change awareness and why deforesting the Amazon is a bad idea, most people should know that trees absorb carbon dioxide, even if they have forgotten what they learnt at school.
You should talk about the misconception of where the oxygen we breathe in goes in our bodies and where the carbon dioxide we breathe out comes from. It's really interesting and until biochem classes I honestly thought the oxygen we breathed in became the CO2 we breathed out, but that is exactly false. Almost none of that oxygen becomes CO2, almost all of it becomes water, and that CO2 comes from us oxidizing sugars down from C6H12O6 to CO2 and H2O (obviously some of the carbon hydrogen and oxygen in the sugar is conserved in one go round of the TCA cycle, but after a few cycles all the carbon from the original sugar is converted to CO2). It's truly amazing and unintuitive, and I'm sure you could surprise a few people with it :)
No, it is not unintuitive. I just not thinking this way. But, after you mentioned this, it makes more sense. We learned in school (well, few decades ago in my case) that plants converting CO2 into O2 and that we converting carbon and 02 into CO2. That is 'short-sightet' way of thinking. I am glad that science goes forward and that new knowledge brings new answers to the 'surface'. Thank you for clarifying this - now I feel smarter. :o)
Wow, i realised this is an old video because it ended just as it started to get deeper. Congratulations on your development since now you go "all in" on subjects.
+Swish Mule I laughed at first, but sadly you're right, we breathe money, and when the climate changes and we cut enough trees, we wonder why we are suffocating from lack of fresh air, but have all this money to breathe... I'm going to plant a tree in my backyard right now.
I think it's important to recognize at some point energy must become matter. There may not be evidence that life readily does it, but the existence of matter alone shows that at some point what we perceive as pure energy must be combined to form matter. Where else would the hydrogen that fills stars come from? This is hard to comprehend from visualizing particle mechanics, but the double-slit experiment proved that photons show wave mechanics, and as far as I know, no experiment has shown that photons require particle behavior. When you consider "photons" as waves of differing size and amplitude it makes sense that they could combine to form standing waves and vortexes of differing spins and momentum.
Halaster Black It's not actually important in this context at all, yes energy was converted into mass and then atoms and then all the elements but that all happened billions of years before the Earth was ever even a "thing". And you better believe there is no evidence that Life converts Energy into Mass because if you'll check that equation (E=MC2) you'll kind notice that light speed squared is a huge number. Like yeah, I get it, your very basic point is valid but why is it HERE? What does that have to do with this video?
I watched this video in high school when it first went viral. Now, 7 years later I periodically keep coming back to it to repeatedly blow my maturing mind with the same information that only seems to redefine how I see the world with a half life of a few years.
@@BankruptGreek Trees don't really grow without leaves, but get their energy to sprout new leaves in spring from carbohydrates stored in the roots. The carbs are the product of photosynthesis from the previous growing season. The only significant growth while a tree is dormant in the winter is root growth (root hairs absorbing water with minerals in ion form).
one atom says to another "oh gosh, i seem to have lost an electron!" the other retorts in a sceptical manner "oh is that right?" to which the first replies "i'm positive!"
"95% of a tree is carbon", well, no, but a high amount is carbon. Grew up on a Christmas tree farm. When I cut a spruce tree, or any fur tree down (for a Christmas tree) it is initially heavy. However, once it dries out in 6 months, I can feel it is about 1/2 as heavy, which means, at least, all kinds of furs, are somewhere around 50% water and almost 50% carbon. Now, hardwoods have more carbon, but again, when I cut fresh firewood, just by feeling, the wood is feels 1/5 lighter once dried. That would make it only 80% carbon, not 95%. If you work with trees, you know the actual stats, without the exaggeration of "experts", who are not experts. He does present the interesting fact about carbon being what trees are made of. Carbon Dioxide is only 4 parts out of 10,000 in our atmosphere, yet plants are still able to grow! Very fortunately for the plants, human activity is teeny, tiny, increasing the CO2, allowing plants to finally get More of what they so desperately need, to grow and survive. Predictions I think were around, after 200 years CO2 will be at 5 parts per 10,000 parts in our atmosphere, and that will give the plants some much needed "breathing room".
WHATT?! How the hell do these prople not know that? My 5 yr old nephew knows trees make oxygen from co2. I expect him to realize that carbon builds trees by the time he's 10. It's as common knowledge as that water boils at 100 °c
MisterBhodisattva really? I wouldnt know but its plausible that sugar as found in fruits (which contain hydrogen atoms, I don't know how many hydrogen to how many oxygen if any goes in sugar molecules, so I think it's plausible some oxygene comes from water). As for the wood, that's mostly carbon, and carbon doesnt come from evaporating water ;)
user314159265358979A jup. we can even extend the final statement. "humans produce CO2 from organic matter and plants convert CO2 into organic matter". but also: humans pump electrons into O2 to produce water (so water is a wasteproduct of our metabolism) but plants oxidise water to get electrons to pump them into CO2 to produce organic matter. their wasteproduct of metabolism is O2... best reciprocal relationship EVAR :D
But H2O has far less mass than the CO2 molecules used to make cellulose and what have you. Plus I think he's just referring to the dry tree mass.
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I was talking about the fraction of water in mass, actually: _>_ Source: www2.ca.uky.edu/agc/pubs/for/for55/for55.htm Other plant materials such as roots and leaves contain greater percentage of water,the latter in the oder of 90%.
Timothy McDonald he never implied that he was referring to dry wood in the video. Also CO2 is not what makes up cellulose. The tree, via photosynthesis, splits the oxygen from the carbon dioxide leaving oxygen for us to breathe. Cellulose is actually made from single atoms of carbon combined with water, which is why we call it carbohydrate. Carbon actually weighs less than water so cellulose is essentially 50% water. On top of that, the tree itself is probably already 60-85% or so water by mass so it is fundamentally wrong to say that the majority of a tree's mass comes from the air. The majority in fact comes from water
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Actually, the oxygen comes from the photolysis of water in the photosystem II, whereas all the atoms of CO2 are entirely incorporated in the Calvin cycle by the enzyme RuBisCO to form carbohydrates.
Zephyr López Cervilla I stand corrected. Although isn't that just one process? Do all the carbohydrates get formed through incorporating the entire molecule of carbon dioxide?
scientific illiteracy is at higher than it has ever been in the modern era....the last time there were this many people rejecting even basic concepts of science, was before public education became commonplace.....
SubhanAllah, So beautiful 😍 i mean i am in love with science that’s amazing, ALLAH SWT has so beautifully crafted our universe, could you even imagine, that the carbon molecule which is exhaled by our body becomes a molecule of the nature, and probably so many things have been in existence that we don’t know. It amaze me so much, so beautiful, lovely , thank you so much for the video.
I had been thinking about it fot days. Couldn't figure it out but TH-cam recommendations knows what i was thinking and suggested this old video. Now i know
@@scotthappy6885 It is easy stuff. My son is in grade 8 and he knew the answer to this question. Ignorance is not just what you don't know, it is also what you won't know. Intentional ignorance equals stupidity. Why do you think global warming is such a problem. It's not because people don't know, it's because people won't know. Justification for higher education my friend.
@@kosys5338 Well, my friend, you just said a load of bullcrap. Either you're not using the right language or are just iGnorAnT but saying someone "won't" know doesn't mean anything. I don't even know what you mean by that. Oh sorry, I'm just being intentionally ignorant. Oh, wait, that's redundant because ignorance is being dumb because you intentionally don't. You are so ignorant and no wonder the world's grammar skills are declining. You should have paid attention to your education *,* my friend.
Light carries mass and energy simultaneously.....but it doesn't work with the tree and he said something wrong ....is it just me that noticed this thing????
No, light does not contain any mass. It is just a bunch of photons. I bet you heard about the fact that you actually need infinite amount of energy to propel any mass at all to speed of light, the very speed photons are traveling at.
Nobody:
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Fr tho 😂
I am here too. I am being led around by an algorithm.
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Everybody: Please stop using the "Nobody:" method of TH-cam commenting, because it has already, only a few months after its popularization, become extremely clichéd and predictable.
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That tree where Derek was standing is terrifyingly massive.
Or Derek is shorter than we thought
he’s actually only a meter tall irl
Pedro... that tree is beautifully massive !
Sim, Pedro. Inclusive estou curioso para saber que espécie é aquela. As raízes me lembraram uma seringueira.
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these trees are much bigger
¡Gracias! You have inspired me to look at the world around me differently
That might explain why some people think that talking to plants helps them grow.
Nice observation
It's probably more than if you're attached to the plant you're more likely to think of watering/fertilizing & otherwise caring for it.
Actually energy does flow between people and plants.
Talking does play a role but not always a positive one.
No but it is actually scientifically proven that plants can sense outsider’s emotions and intentions and they react (chemically and internally, of course) to their exterior. Trees in the woods communicate between each other warning of threats or trading nutrients when they have more than they need. So yeah, communication happens between all living beings, and so it does too between species. Maybe we just have to learn their language.
@@juanitome1327 There are actually entire microcultures that exist underground in some biomes that facilitate this communication between plants. For example, in southern California, where I live, the native horticulture here has an entire interdependent system that links thousands of species of plants using a fungal layer that can communicate information about drought and trade nutrients around as needed.
Doesn't anybody know anything anymore?!?
Trees are made of wood.
Wood comes from Lowe's or Home Depot...
Made me laugh.
ogenmatic wood comes in the morning and then it goes...
so you are becoming a tree
@@panda-bm4de I'm 3 years late. Still funny
They use the carbon from co2 mixed with the hydrogen from h20 to make sugar(hydrocarbon) and that is used to build the mass of the tree with some minerals from the ground.
Trees gets ions from soil, air and water, ions like k+ Na+ NH4+ C H from Where it gets it's building blocks... And cements are like sunlight.... Soil works like a medium..
Takes in CO2, emits 02, where does the C go? The tree itself is almost all C never really thought about it
It goes into the sugma
When you use wood charcoal (not bbq briquettes), it is there. Wood has to go through a conversion process to be burned without oxygen present to become charcoal which is mostly pure carbon.
@BigMan99 The oxygen actually comes from the water. The entire CO2 molecule is used to make carbohydrates.
@@firmabugiii
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@@NerdOracle Sugma dick!
Dogs are made of water and dog food.
Brent Fisher Technically there is nothing wrong with this statement.
Brent Fisher and oxygen
Technically no... oxygen is used to filter chemicals from us but doesn't actually get used to 'build' much of anything.
Drake Fellwing Does that include all air material that we breathe? So when vsauce said that cats are made of air, water, and cat food, he could have gotten rid of the air part?
you're made of air the same way you're made of any material that's crunch down to solids that however doesn't mean you're made of oxygen you do contain oxygen because your hemoglobin needs it but its only using it as a filter for other chemicals specifically to remove carbon from your cells as waste
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Nobody:
Derek Muller: *swims into the ocean* “How do you think trees get their mass?”
Trees are made up of air.
Lays: Finally, a worthy opponent..
@@atharva2004 are battle will be legendary
We eat veggies to take back what the trees took from us.
This comment is so underrated
+DarKMaTTeR "And so, Simba, we are all part of the great circle of life."
+DarKMaTTeR we also eat the whole animals that eat the trees and leaves
+DarKMaTTeR Thats what u call The Circle of Life cuz our lives are in cycle
+DarKMaTTeR well, by eating veggie we are basically eating each other
I must have yelled carbon about 100 times!
My thought process...
The soil. Wait, no, carbon dioxide.
Spends next few minutes shouting carbon dioxide.
My thought process... Soil; oh wait experiment shows that's not so. What else... trees burn, why do they burn? oh carbon; where that come from? oh yeah the atmosphere.. mystery solved!
@@ongbonga9025 Yes, most of the mass is from carbon dioxide (both the carbon and the oxygen). But the tree also has hydrogen in it, which comes from water. The oxygen the tree releases to the atmosphere during photosynthesis is thrown away from the water it splits into hydrogen and oxygen.
Same, this was one of the more annoying videos if you already knew the answer
Anyone who has tried to lose weight might have figured out every exhale we pull off without shoving calories in, is a decent amount of heavy carbon leaving our bodies and figured the reverse is true. Structurally speaking, new animal cells require fat for walls and new plant cells require carbohydrates.
Why are you asking Brits they haven't had trees since the industrial age
well played
Lol..thats kinda sad...
They're Australians
@@RobinNewbrough eh, British prisoners
@@ls200076 typical dumbass yanky comment. no wonder you's know f all.
Very high level retrospective and incredibly interesting new way to look at trees that invoke a sense of gratefulness for a tree’s function to human existence. Love it
Johann Baptista van Helmholt couldn't find the correct answer, but at least had a badass name
But he eliminated the soil which many people think is what a tree is made up of.
wooosh
Name u can get from the era of fantastic beasts
Wick Bobby whooosh
Ddd
The tree is not made out of carbon dioxide, it takes in CO2, then it frees the Oxygen and it’s finally made most of Carbon.
And even then, it's still more water than carbon
@@philsburydoboy Percentially speaking. Carbon gives the structure so you could say it's more important and only be a little bit wrong when saying it.
@@randomnumbers84269 Would you say carbon is more important to humans than water? Just because something is structural doesn't make it more important.
@@philsburydoboy Like I said, you would be a bit wrong in stating that it's more important. But think about this; we recognize the carbon as wood in dried wood, yet the water that vaporized off we no longer consider wood.
The whole molecule is used, the oxygen comes from the water
He made this 7 years ago and still getting paid from it.... Im in the wrong business.
Haha yeah, me too!! 😆
Start your own channel today
What business are you in?
Are you on TH-cam for the first time?
Ddd
Veritasium : *slaps trunk of the tree*
"This bad boy can fit a ton of carbon."
*G R A P H E N E T A N K*
🙃
Tree recipe:
1 seed
3 cups air
1 cup water
a pinch of dirt
Mix well, let sit 5-10 years.
You’re forgetting the main component - sun!
@@Noname-w7f1e you can use UV light . Like I use to grow weed .
You forgot something- the goodness from the soil!
Awesome thanks. Anybody know where I can get a decent gas measuring cup??
i 0 TH-cam need to know your location
6CO2 + 6H2O + energy -> C6H12O6 + 6O2.
C6H12O6 is glucose, sugar.
Yes I know I learnt this in grade 11 biology...
Sean Smith Obviously people forget.
David n
Likewise hydrocarbon+oxygen->water+carbon dioxide+energy (aka cellular respiration).
+David n Now proceed with the conversions into sucrose and fructose.......
Interesting, I learned it in 6th grade.
Nature's 3D printing where the CO2 in the air is the medium.
Veritasium: you are becoming a tree
Me: *I AM GROOT*
Lol
I guess i can finally say, I Am Groot.
Groot, no! You can't do this! Don't sacrifice yourself.. :0
+animu equals child pornography
guardians of the galaxy
This video will be much better in today's version of Veritasium, deep into explanation.
Thumbs up for a new version!
yeah @Veritasium do it man.
yee i wanna update. Actual percentages, why it's hard (probably because of carbon?). But then isnt it built seperately from C and O2? If it was all CO2 molecules wouldnt it be a gas?
Me: *at 12 am trying to get a good night sleep for school*
TH-cam: "where do trees get their mass?"
At least you can now ask the same question to your biology teacher and see if he/she can explain it!
Trees are made up of air.
Lays: Finally, a worthy opponent..
Just what happened to me today lol
This is the first time I have watched this video. I am truly amazed that so many people in the world made it through 6th grade science class without knowing the answer to this question.
Cellulose is (C6 H10 O5). Glucose is (C6 H12 O6). Glucose is produced by photosynthesis and is used by plants to produce cellulose. Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen are a plants best friend 😉
Someone who understands photosynthesis! Thank you!
I thought the video would be from glucose forward.
Cellulose is already one of the final building blocks of plants. Do you know if it is from glucose or cellulose that other plant's components can be made?
Plants that are high functioning nutritionally, and consequently photosynthetically can produce lipids, proteins, and other fatty acids as well as terpenes, flavanoids, and many other complex organic compounds. See AEA's "Plant Health Pyramid" video on youtube.
Thank you because that we become the tree killed me what person gonna lose Mas from breathing.... Doesn't go like that....
Oxygen is heavy and there is a lot more in there than I knew. Thanks
Why don't someone ask these questions to me while I'm in a beach.
They'll probably edit the correct answers out, until the end perhaps.
Yeah probably haha
Some, old men who wore pink underwear and black socks once did ask me.
At the end, did anyone think to them selves " I am one with the tree"
Daniel W
the breathable oxigen comes from water and the hydrogen from water joins CO2 to form sugars
I am Groot.
we give to them carbon dioxide, they give to us oxigene, we are conected:) an entire body :)
***** Groot is me
Henkiepenkie We are groot
i love these older videos. they have a funny take that the newer ones don't. please come back to these!!!
"And in a sense, you *become* the tree..."
*Mine Explodes*
*Body Decomposes Into Nutrients For Trees*
*Mind Explodes... Again*
do humans farm plants or do plants farm humans?!?!?
Or does the tree become you?
*mind
One day we'll all be together in that forest, collectively recounting the days where Veritasium predicted our fate on TH-cam.
All is one, in a sense.
I already know the answer from school (I think is learned in 3rd or 4th grade) but I love the fact that you guide these people from making them question what they know and letting them to search alternative explanations. [SFMBE]
Love how banjo music is being used to exemplify "ignorance" in the respondents. #Banjophobia
and laughing with the respondents after their statements with his "this dumbfuck"-laugh hahaha
banjo music is very commonly used in the movie industry to portrait silly, stupid, funny things.
@@dariusdareme And hillbillies. AKA Trump's base.
AOC would say it's racist
Trees and all other plants are also get nitrogen from the air and little minerals from water too
i love how this video was 12 years ago and yet he looks as if he hasnt changed a bit. i love this channel
Derek: The suns energy is not mass!
Einstein: Am I a joke to you?
Stennwellara1 seriously. I cringed when he said that. The sun actually loses mass constantly. Light carries mass away from the sun as does the solar wind.
At the end, those are all theories that scientists discovered, noticed and proved. This could be all just a joke.
imagine all the theories that we rely on are wrong, and it’s just that the right ones luckily fit with the wrong ones that we created.
Who knows, I mean who the hell knows!
Mohammed Al-Saffar take religion and destroy it and it won’t come back the same ever, now take all the science books and in time they will all come back the same
Brandon
Hahaha. You completely said the right opposite.
Destroy religion and it will come back the same as it was. burn all the science books and there might exist other new theories that just fit luckily with the old ones. For example, the theory of atom and quantum numbers could turn into something different.
Clorox Bleach
Yes
0:15 Goodness out of the soil...
man he is original
*My mom always taunted me "Don't sit there like a tree. DO SOMETHING !!"*
I guess I was always a tree.
Mind blown by the density of the interviewees.
After watching this video I have decided to identify as a tree.
...and my pronouns are tre, treech and treeself
Eszti Szép tre is insane! Look at treech, tre is embarrasing treeself. Tre is a fungus at most! [/just joking] 😉
wait what...? i dont htink i can decode that sentence...
Ujvári Mátyás
vízmelegítő készulék tranzakció lebonyolítására vár
Eszti Szép na ezzel csak zavarosabb lett...@_@
Note, on 0:49 - It was Jan Baptist van Helmont, a Flemish scientist. Not Johann Baptista van Helmholt.
Amazing video guys! The filmography, the science, the audio (often the underappreciated aspect of a great video), concise, sufficient to satisfy curiosity yet incite further research... plants are awesome! Thank you!!!
Thank you!! Ive wondered about this for years! I have kept a "money plant" in a vase with water and it grows and grows. But Ive always been like, but from WHAT?? All you have is water and air. How can you make more of yourself!
So glad to know finally!
how did you lived all tat time with the doubt, i couldnt sleep with the doubt
I literally had this question the other day and now it's in my recommended.
Snowden
Before the video, I though it was from the soil.
After you said "but why is there not a hole in the ground around the tree" I decided "wow, you are right, it must be from nutrients brought there through the water"
I was not ready to learn that trees are made of mostly consuming air.
Sir, after 5 years of graduating as a Physicist, you still teach me the most incredible and basic facts of life
Wow! mind blown....
The fact that I’m only seeing this video now.
Haha ha
This gave me the chills!! Superb video!
Lovely and interesting reflection at the end:
..."and in a sense, you're becoming, ...THE TREE".
I was blown away by this. CO2? That makes the issue of deforestation so much more urgent and helps explain the astonishing increase in global CO2 levels. Thanks for doing this, Derek.
Just a suggestion go up in a small plane and have a look around we actually have plenty of trees you would be amazed at how little is actually cleared for human use
@@swedesspeedshop2518depends on where you look
@@turolretar People talk like all humans do is cut down trees, but we also plant a lot of trees. It's not like loggers actually want there to be no trees left; that would put them out of work.
Loved the video! I wish you'd spent some time explaining how the CO2 constituent gets converted into the mass of the tree, but I recognize that may have been quite the potential rabbit hole. Thanks for all you do.
Yes! The carbon dioxide losing the oxide and keeping the carbon.
IMO The biggest mistake in the video was him mentioning at the end that the Trees consume our CO2 and not adding in that the Trees produce a lot of the Oxygen that we need to survive. His lack of understanding of the symbiotic relationship between man and trees made the video a lot less impactful.
@@trying3841 The entire CO2 molecule is used. It doesn't lose the oxide.
@@derickvernon6652 Algae make most of our oxygen though. Also everyone knows that trees make oxygen? There's no point saying that again
even i never thought of it, this was very interesting and the way you gave the exposure was so good keep it up brother
Alternative title: "How them trees get so T H I C C?"
thicc tree hours
The fact that I enjoy about all plants that is generally not known is that when they are not doing photosynthesis with sun, water and carbon dioxide... they use oxygen at night for their respiration, in much the same way as other life forms do all the time.
they actually respire all the time. Its just that the oxygen they produce far outweighs the oxygen they take in
They are amazing how they do what they do to exist and go thru their life cycle.
James King complex processes that I studied in A level and O level. hard to explain in a comments section
His shoulder is invisible @ 3:59
vikrant singh no it's not it's because of his heads shadow blending in with the background
Magnus Juul It's not the shadow blending in with the background. It's literally seethrough there. Look at his shirt. There's a spot where you can see the cloud behind him through his belly.
Марк Экэнсталэр its not sethrough, in the vid(when not paused ) you can clearly se the shadow of his head moving, and the color of his shirt returning.
Green screen effect?
Adam Oakley more like sky-bluish shirt effect XD
The answers he received from the interviewed show very well why protecting the rain forest and fighting climate change is so damn hard...
I had always just assumed it was the dirt. It's so obvious now thank you for le knowledge
It would be an interesting stat to know, how many ppl got this right.
I'm on the didn't get it right side. (Thought water)
+kistuszek Why the comma?
+Zhōu yǔ Qiáo Haha, its a subconscious thing, my native language would use a connecting word that calls for it. ;)
What is your native language? I'm interested in languages, so that's why I asked in the first place.
Zhōu yǔ Qiáo
Hungarian.
I am not going to call these people stupid since I did not figure it out until probably junior high and no one explicitly told me. But I made there realization when people taught me that photosynsesis creates sugars and that cellulose which makes up plant walls was a type of sugar. I added them up in my head and made the realization a long time ago.
I'm amazed that nobody mentioned carbon dioxide until practically the end of the video. I thought that EVERYBODY knows that plants absorb C02 and give off oxygen, which is why they're so important for counteracting the effect of us burning fossil fuels.
Never thought of this up until now. TH-cam pique my curiousity right for once.
You CONFIRMED Harm's theory: People are idiots with moments of genius
nope, just idiots
About one in a million is smart enough to support the other 999,999.
@@batfink274 1 in a million dosnt help when theres a snake box to open
@@flyfin108 *Harsh threat detected *-CIA
@@angellaboy8336 o m g thank you, exactly the Word i was looking for
0:13 when you are half naked and want to enjoy and someone comes to you with a camera and asks you questions you don't know the answer of.
Lol
That last line gave me Goosebumps
Amazing words at the end of the video: "In a sense, you are becoming the tree."
Yes, 🌲🌳 but sadly nowadays there's a lot of people being born, and every day are less trees, so not everybody can become a tree.
Fun fact: you need 20 trees to sustain enough o2 for 1 human being
TBF, water is just as responsible as CO2, depending which molecule's oxygen atoms end up in the photosynthesis products.
Meaning if the O2 is entirely from the CO2 then 9/15 of the tree's biomass is from the water, but if the O2 comes entirely from the water then 1/15 is. So it may be somewhere in between, depending how the reaction really works.
All of the oxygen released is from the water, but not all of the water is used in photosynthesis. Cells contain water as a fluid medium and in storage in vacuoles, but the tree must also transport the water from the ground to all the cells, so there is an enormous amount of water in the tree. It is something like 50% water.
@@deluxeassortment Also with more available CO2 the pores that take in CO2 on the leaves do not have to be open in such numbers and this results in a significant amount of water not being lost through them for the plant to get the necessary CO2.This means that with more CO2 the plant actually needs less water from the environment.
@@deluxeassortment Dont forget that the H in hydrocarbons comes from water. Its a small fraction of the mass, but a majority of the atoms.
@@aleksinuutila2315 Yes, the basic carbohydrate is C6H12O6, I believe. That hydrogen being ripped from water molecules is the entire reason for they existence of chlorophyll
Nitrogen is also needed.
I can't believe people didn't realize a tree is mostly made of carbon. I guess I should.
saurav budathoki thats like saying is the formation of galaxies inevitable... it just happens by chance that it can
saurav budathoki Gee, I don't know..maybe because life on Earth is based on carbon? When you burn wood, carbon is what's left behind? Other clues..
tadpole444 Minerals are left behind. Carbon unites with oxygen and becomes CO2 which wafts away.
Tell that to the ashes in my fire-pit.
My first thought was "A tree is carbon"... Trees take in CO2 and release O2... Carbon is left... They get it from the air. Haha!
This was a question I had I'm my mind for a long time. Thank you for answering it! I now see plants, trees and the entire biosphere with a new understanding that has fundamentally changed me! No joke, thank you!
I look around and fore all I see, there is nothing I would rather be than a Tree.
The amount of people who didnt understand photosynthesis made me upset.
I agree with you.
Yet we learned about photosynthesis in bloody elementary school.
@@ardikaputu they eliminated that class and replaced it with holocaust studies.
The Timelords photosynthesis is how the plant gets the energy from the sun, it doesn’t explain the tree mass either.
6CO2 + 6H2O -> C6H12O6 + 6O2 (glucose and oxygen)
I suspect he only included those who didn't say carbon dioxide. Given the number of decades of climate change awareness and why deforesting the Amazon is a bad idea, most people should know that trees absorb carbon dioxide, even if they have forgotten what they learnt at school.
You should talk about the misconception of where the oxygen we breathe in goes in our bodies and where the carbon dioxide we breathe out comes from. It's really interesting and until biochem classes I honestly thought the oxygen we breathed in became the CO2 we breathed out, but that is exactly false. Almost none of that oxygen becomes CO2, almost all of it becomes water, and that CO2 comes from us oxidizing sugars down from C6H12O6 to CO2 and H2O (obviously some of the carbon hydrogen and oxygen in the sugar is conserved in one go round of the TCA cycle, but after a few cycles all the carbon from the original sugar is converted to CO2). It's truly amazing and unintuitive, and I'm sure you could surprise a few people with it :)
No, it is not unintuitive. I just not thinking this way. But, after you mentioned this, it makes more sense. We learned in school (well, few decades ago in my case) that plants converting CO2 into O2 and that we converting carbon and 02 into CO2. That is 'short-sightet' way of thinking. I am glad that science goes forward and that new knowledge brings new answers to the 'surface'. Thank you for clarifying this - now I feel smarter. :o)
Wow, i realised this is an old video because it ended just as it started to get deeper.
Congratulations on your development since now you go "all in" on subjects.
-Respiration (humans AND plants !) :
C6H12O6 (glucose) + 6O2 (oxygen) -> 6CO2 (carbon dioxide) + 6H2O (water) + ATP (energy)
-Photosynthesis (plants only) :
6CO2 + 6H2O + Sunlight (energy) -> 6O2 + C6H12O6
What about methyl propane people leave out of their butts
@@anand.suralkar it makes the planet UrAnUs
And then the tree produces fruit. The tree loses mass from the fruit, you gain mass from eating the fruit.
+Swish Mule I laughed at first, but sadly you're right, we breathe money, and when the climate changes and we cut enough trees, we wonder why we are suffocating from lack of fresh air, but have all this money to breathe...
I'm going to plant a tree in my backyard right now.
+Swish Mule spot on!
+Goabnb94 IT'S THE CIRCLE OF LIFE!
I think it's important to recognize at some point energy must become matter. There may not be evidence that life readily does it, but the existence of matter alone shows that at some point what we perceive as pure energy must be combined to form matter. Where else would the hydrogen that fills stars come from? This is hard to comprehend from visualizing particle mechanics, but the double-slit experiment proved that photons show wave mechanics, and as far as I know, no experiment has shown that photons require particle behavior. When you consider "photons" as waves of differing size and amplitude it makes sense that they could combine to form standing waves and vortexes of differing spins and momentum.
Halaster Black It's not actually important in this context at all, yes energy was converted into mass and then atoms and then all the elements but that all happened billions of years before the Earth was ever even a "thing". And you better believe there is no evidence that Life converts Energy into Mass because if you'll check that equation (E=MC2) you'll kind notice that light speed squared is a huge number. Like yeah, I get it, your very basic point is valid but why is it HERE? What does that have to do with this video?
4 years ago during lockdown my teacher showed me this. Today I was recommended this.
Thats a very good question, I've never asked this to myself... but now I want to know^^
"Co2 is how we lose mass"
*breathes out perfusely*
2:49 Einstein: Am I a joke to you?
I watched this video in high school when it first went viral. Now, 7 years later I periodically keep coming back to it to repeatedly blow my maturing mind with the same information that only seems to redefine how I see the world with a half life of a few years.
1:41 the old Petter Griffin trick...talk to someone long enough until they self-conscious about their boobs
try a next lvl question:
how the tree gets that CO2?
-by roots
-by bark
-by leaves
-by all
Leaf
Stomates in the leaves open up and breathe in the air.
@@danielsiapin how about when the tree is growing and has no leaves left or when it sheds all its leaves and has to re-grow them?
@@BankruptGreek Trees don't really grow without leaves, but get their energy to sprout new leaves in spring from carbohydrates stored in the roots. The carbs are the product of photosynthesis from the previous growing season. The only significant growth while a tree is dormant in the winter is root growth (root hairs absorbing water with minerals in ion form).
@@danielsiapin cool, and I dd assume baby trees have energy stored in their seed to last them until the first leaves are out?
3:53 But then you breathe in the oxygen and consume the glucose that the tree excretes, so you become bigger and the tree becomes smaller
you made my day, this makes me love them more.
Wait: Electrons have Mass and I didn’t even know they are Catholic!
that's more of a comment really
Reminds me of a story. A guy told a girl he has MS. She said, she has a Mac.
Ha! Good one! But, I understand quarks only have low Mass.
one atom says to another "oh gosh, i seem to have lost an electron!"
the other retorts in a sceptical manner "oh is that right?"
to which the first replies "i'm positive!"
Before the video ended I thought maybe from the carbon dioxide the absorbed?
I really miss this format of Veritasium videos 🙄
"95% of a tree is carbon", well, no, but a high amount is carbon.
Grew up on a Christmas tree farm. When I cut a spruce tree, or any fur tree down (for a Christmas tree) it is initially heavy.
However, once it dries out in 6 months, I can feel it is about 1/2 as heavy, which means, at least, all kinds of furs, are somewhere around 50% water and almost 50% carbon.
Now, hardwoods have more carbon, but again, when I cut fresh firewood, just by feeling, the wood is feels 1/5 lighter once dried. That would make it only 80% carbon, not 95%.
If you work with trees, you know the actual stats, without the exaggeration of "experts", who are not experts.
He does present the interesting fact about carbon being what trees are made of.
Carbon Dioxide is only 4 parts out of 10,000 in our atmosphere, yet plants are still able to grow!
Very fortunately for the plants, human activity is teeny, tiny, increasing the CO2, allowing plants to finally get More of what they so desperately need, to grow and survive. Predictions I think were around, after 200 years CO2 will be at 5 parts per 10,000 parts in our atmosphere, and that will give the plants some much needed "breathing room".
it makes sens. when you burn it the carbon is released and almost nothing left from it.
WHATT?! How the hell do these prople not know that? My 5 yr old nephew knows trees make oxygen from co2. I expect him to realize that carbon builds trees by the time he's 10. It's as common knowledge as that water boils at 100 °c
Welcome to modern society, my friend ;)
well not exactly. trees make mass from CO2 but the oxygen comes from water .. ;)
MisterBhodisattva really? I wouldnt know but its plausible that sugar as found in fruits (which contain hydrogen atoms, I don't know how many hydrogen to how many oxygen if any goes in sugar molecules, so I think it's plausible some oxygene comes from water). As for the wood, that's mostly carbon, and carbon doesnt come from evaporating water ;)
user314159265358979A jup. we can even extend the final statement. "humans produce CO2 from organic matter and plants convert CO2 into organic matter". but also: humans pump electrons into O2 to produce water (so water is a wasteproduct of our metabolism) but plants oxidise water to get electrons to pump them into CO2 to produce organic matter. their wasteproduct of metabolism is O2... best reciprocal relationship EVAR :D
MisterBhodisattva
Kinda makes you wonder why no organisms that actively move themselves ever developed photosyntehsizing epidermal cells of their own
Actually, plant matter contains more water than CO2-derived compounds such as cellulose.
But H2O has far less mass than the CO2 molecules used to make cellulose and what have you. Plus I think he's just referring to the dry tree mass.
I was talking about the fraction of water in mass, actually:
_>_
Source:
www2.ca.uky.edu/agc/pubs/for/for55/for55.htm
Other plant materials such as roots and leaves contain greater percentage of water,the latter in the oder of 90%.
Timothy McDonald he never implied that he was referring to dry wood in the video. Also CO2 is not what makes up cellulose. The tree, via photosynthesis, splits the oxygen from the carbon dioxide leaving oxygen for us to breathe. Cellulose is actually made from single atoms of carbon combined with water, which is why we call it carbohydrate. Carbon actually weighs less than water so cellulose is essentially 50% water. On top of that, the tree itself is probably already 60-85% or so water by mass so it is fundamentally wrong to say that the majority of a tree's mass comes from the air. The majority in fact comes from water
Actually, the oxygen comes from the photolysis of water in the photosystem II, whereas all the atoms of CO2 are entirely incorporated in the Calvin cycle by the enzyme RuBisCO to form carbohydrates.
Zephyr López Cervilla I stand corrected. Although isn't that just one process? Do all the carbohydrates get formed through incorporating the entire molecule of carbon dioxide?
I knew the answer, and that exhaling is how we lose weight, but that final statement blew my socks off! xx
My guess is air and watter. Lets see if Im right
Yep, Carbon basef life form
1 minute in: ITS CARBON DIOXIDE ISNT IT :D
For fucks sake people, Oxygen? I can't believe they guessed oxygen.
scientific illiteracy is at higher than it has ever been in the modern era....the last time there were this many people rejecting even basic concepts of science, was before public education became commonplace.....
it's worse. considering that the world population has skyrocketed, there's never been so many idiots on the planet at any one time.
I have wondered this for years. Awesome channel
SubhanAllah, So beautiful 😍 i mean i am in love with science that’s amazing, ALLAH SWT has so beautifully crafted our universe, could you even imagine, that the carbon molecule which is exhaled by our body becomes a molecule of the nature, and probably so many things have been in existence that we don’t know. It amaze me so much, so beautiful, lovely , thank you so much for the video.
You're deranged and disillusioned
yeah seriously, don't criticize our brothers from the religion of peace.
He forgot the most essential part; trees exhale O2, the stuff we breath!
He totally said that
Thanks. Now I feel stupid for not knowing the answer.
If you're basing your stupidity upon not know about trees, well, now you do. So.. you're not stupid.
I had been thinking about it fot days. Couldn't figure it out but TH-cam recommendations knows what i was thinking and suggested this old video. Now i know
0:37 I'm a tree and I'm offended
For half the video i kept saying CARBON DIOXIDE. CARBON! CARBON! CARBON! Come on people! This is grade school stuff.
yEaH iM sUpER inTelijENt you iDIoiTS thIS IS eASY sTuFF
Apparently not
@@scotthappy6885
It is easy stuff. My son is in grade 8 and he knew the answer to this question.
Ignorance is not just what you don't know, it is also what you won't know. Intentional ignorance equals stupidity. Why do you think global warming is such a problem. It's not because people don't know, it's because people won't know. Justification for higher education my friend.
@@kosys5338 Well, my friend, you just said a load of bullcrap. Either you're not using the right language or are just iGnorAnT but saying someone "won't" know doesn't mean anything. I don't even know what you mean by that. Oh sorry, I'm just being intentionally ignorant. Oh, wait, that's redundant because ignorance is being dumb because you intentionally don't. You are so ignorant and no wonder the world's grammar skills are declining. You should have paid attention to your education *,* my friend.
Light carries mass and energy simultaneously.....but it doesn't work with the tree and he said something wrong ....is it just me that noticed this thing????
light has no mass
No, light does not contain any mass. It is just a bunch of photons. I bet you heard about the fact that you actually need infinite amount of energy to propel any mass at all to speed of light, the very speed photons are traveling at.
The old man who answered goodness ❤️❤️