Curling, The Most Mysterious Olympic Sport
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.พ. 2018
- To physicists, curling presents the most puzzling conundrum in the Olympic Games.
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Digital Producer: Ari Daniel
Production Assistance: Yasmeen Fakhro & Annie Kim
Editorial Review: Julia Cort
Special Thanks: Greg Kestin
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Visuals:
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Linda Yip
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Music: APM - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
Man...I could really use these people and their skill set for my Kitchen Floors 🤣😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
if you hired them you'd be slipping all over the place.
I don’t understand all the dislike people have for Curling? I think Curling is very underrated
That's new for me. Out of all sports curling isn't seen on television like majority i see. Seems cool to play given the standards. Id try it
Watch the reaction of Eun Jung Kim's last stone 10th end Korea vs Japan semi final. The stones travel and center of rotation have a certain eccentricity, which speaks to the nature of this problem.
the mystery is that this is a SPORT. lmao
LMAO, exactly. The mystery is that people get paid to do this
I see you haven’t actually played Curling before. It is a lot harder than most people thing it is
I'm surprised no scientist has tryed those theories out
Actually they are trying. There are two different views with two theories. (that explained in the video). There are scientific articles about each theory. Its still unknown
Isn’t it behaving how a sphere behaves on air? If you kick a ball with a (anti)clockwise spin it’ll swing that way in its flight. No idea, but that may be somewhere to look for answers?
Damn, I thought this was a joke but my mind is blown. This is the game of gods! the game played by aliens! the game of the universe!!!
now excuse me, I have to pick up my pieces and get my mind cellotaped
But it didn’t explain what the sweeping does exactly? Does the friction shave down the pebbles?
generates heat, reducing resistance and increasing the range
The friction of sweeping generates a little bit of heat which melts the pebbles a tiny bit. Depending on how you sweep you can use this to make the rock Curl a little bit more or a little bit less. You can even increase the distance a little bit. In fact the sweeping is half the game.
It may also have to do with an increase in pressure melting the ice, because liquid water is more dense than ice.
Holobrine because the universe doesn't need to make sense
Shockwave Shockwave No it doesn't have to, but it does anyway.
They need a Swiffer Wet mop for super brushing!
there has to be some sort of chaotic motion in this system
Never laughed to hard at this, is this an olympic sport?... But I actually started practicing with tea boiling pot on the floor, fun!
It is such a stupid "sport". I can't believe these people take themselves serious
@@LM-he7eb Ah, yes, a sport where you need both brains and brawn, which includes excellent balance, flexibility, endurance and strength is considered stupid to someone sitting behind a screen who probably never touched grass just because it consist of stones, a broom, and an ice rink. You can’t do it and you don’t know what it’s like to practice for hours and hours on end to hone your skill, so why don’t you just shut up?
@@Infinite_Dimensional_Cheese Brawn, brains, flexibility, endurance, balance , FOR THIS?
@@LM-he7eb Yes, there’s more to the surface of it. Why don’t you go try it, so you can see what I’m talking about?
@@Infinite_Dimensional_Cheese I'll let you know when I do. I regularly slide glasses across the counter top at home
4mins 32seconds I'll never get back 😭
Make disc golf an Olympic sport
The comments at the end kind of killed the climax 😖
At no point does it curl. It does curve though.
I totally understand and can explain the "Mystery or Secrets" of Curling but I can't figure out who to talk to about it. Also would love to explain and test a theory of the brushing that could change the sport of curling.
watched this because of bill burr
I would say it is the added weight and the slight bit of lubrication at the front. That makes a lot of sense honestly.
My theory? This is an elaborate prank they pulling on normal god fearing hard working simple folks.
I hate to say it, but doesn't a bowling ball also curve in the direction of its rotation? They said that this curling stone is the only object on earth that does so. :-/
Different kinds of rotation.
Tire analogy:
Bowling ball is like a tire that is upright (on your car). Rotational forces align with the tread.
Curling stones are like a tire on it's side (like the spare in the back of the car). If you set this tire on the ground, rotational forces are different.
It's also why they used the analogy of the cup rather than a ball to show the difference in how the rotation is not the same.
Thank you, Ken. I don't understand the physics of it, but you're probably right, and I imagine that's the best answer I'm going to get. :-)
The centrifugal force of a bowling ball and the like makes things bend one way as they travel and then bend back again, like a wavelength. Curling stones are unique because the ice and how much liquid there is from sweeping somehow cancels out one direction of the centrifugal pull and the force of a curling stone will only ever make it "hook". How long or wide that hook is controlled by the direction and spin made by the person throwing the stone, and also by the people sweeping. More sweeping means less resistance so it will go faster and travel more, but it will also curl less.
A rock curls because it has three speeds. If you use Vector quantities to measure these you will find that the bolt which is attached to the handle has the speed of the actual motion of the rock. Then you have the speeds of rotation, one which is moving faster than the centre bolt and one which is moving slower than the centre bolt. The faster side does not have time to grab the pebble but the slower side does. Like ABS in a vehicle the slower side relative to the centre makes more contact with the pebble and drags the rock that direction.
There is nothing mysterious about it. The coefficient of friction between that flat rock with a handle, and the ice, is essentially zero!
You answer the question of the stone, now explain why you need a 2 people with a broom sweeping the ice as it is gonna slow the stone down
There's a great tool called the search bar that you can utilise.
@@mymusic8546 Right, but it's kind of lackluster for a NOVA video called "Curling - The Most Mysterious Olympic Sport
" to not explain obvious questions about the sport in it's entirety.
they melt the ice with the brooms, which REDUCES friction. In fact, with skilled enough throwers, a game could be played with no sweepers at all. They just make it a little easier.
WOW BUT WHAT ARE THE MOPS
This fascinating sport which involves a lot of decision making and often enough comes down to the last stone bowled is maligned by some. The naysayers frankly baffle me. Even here there are trolls. And, no, it's not shuffleboard on ice anymore than chess is checkers.
Curling is gay
Luis Rodriguez i shall activate now
@@LuisRodriguez-vf1ks like your daddy
It’s 2022 & I’m just knowing about this sport. Thanks to TH-cam auto play😩😂😂😂😂
Again; kindly slow down the speed of the rolling text so we could read it.
Thank you.
no one is stopping you from using the pause button
Maybe you're just a slow reader compared to average
dafuq
Wtf they do with those sticks ... You didn't explain that
The friction of sweeping generates a little bit of heat which melts the pebbles a tiny bit. Depending on how you sweep you can use this to make the rock Curl a little bit more or a little bit less. You can even increase the distance a little bit. In fact the sweeping is half the game.
I need to about this because I’m playing a game called Battle cats an they have cat called curling cat it looks just like a curling 🥌 stone but a tiny cat in it . I know now . 😂
Is it just me...
Or did they sample either a Tevin Campbell or Toni Braxton song??? I mean...AM I TRIPPING??????
Me: no, they're not curling. They're cleaning the floor
Nd they havent allowed cricket in Olympics
All those years working as janitor.
Noice.
The sweeping is kinda funny (and a little dumb..)
Look, i have an idea to make everyone's opinion
Make the rock become an explosive bomb
and if it hit the bull mark and blow up, everyone can enjoy a little something
It's real tension
Sooo why is it in the Olympics?
They don't have that many varieties of sports in Winter Olympics.
Obviously you have never tried Curling before. I is a lot harder and more fun than most people think it is.
@@dustmybroom288 Correct. Never had. I'd like to.
Whoever made this video reads at 100mph
Its weird
Still not make sense this thing still on olympic
Who knew physics was so complicated- Trump
This must be fun to play. But watching it? Doesn’t look exciting
Curling is an Olympic sport but MMA is not. That's weird.
How this became an Olympic sport?🤨🙄😒
This video is pure nonsense. Comedic brilliance.
Did you come here after TikTok????
i suppose anything can be turned into a game
Tug of war should replace this.
Ha!
Nah is still weird
sounds pretentious
No no no no no no no.
Dreadful presentation, completely distracting and unnecessarily dramatic music, underwhelming penetration into subject matter, immature and tabloid in tone
Who the hell came up with this sport?? And who thinks that yeah this is what I will do for the rest of my life?
The Scottish.
People who love the art of curling. It's no less dumb than billiards or golf or bowling.
I love this sport and I will dedicate all my life to this marvelous sport.
Why is this a sport?
These people were bored as sh*t! 😂
Still not worthy of being an Olympic sport.
no u
And why is it not worthy?
Olympics sports are not exclusively for dumb muscles.
@@chunyinanimation sure, dumb muscles. You just demeaned every other sport to defend people pushing a teapot and washing the floor.
Congratulations, you just wasted 4 and a half minutes of your life.
Never has humans been so board. 🤷
Wasting time to play.... Better to clean the floor
Full of nonsense
This is as boring as golf i dont know how its a sport
It is definite people would watch anything
man these people push a rock on ice and they have Olympics for that.......... WTF
I need to stop using the internet now
Yeah go ahead
Seems pretty dumb to me.
"sport" my ass. next vid pls
tomsmith4 That's not respectful.
Please check back with us when you're sore for two days after playing and sweeping properly.
@Rory Calhoun then explain how hitting a puck on the ice makes you an athlete.
this comment is a hot dumpster fire 🔥🔥🔥. Curling is more skilled than you can possibly imagine
Why a waste of time and resources just for this silly “sport”