This is a tatic in some sci-fy novels for ships so they can do crazy meanuevurs in space/atmospheres. The most recent I've that uses this is the Skyward Series by Brandon Sanderson (book #1 is called Starsight). Pretty neat. He consulted with pilots with his ship design and had to redo the whole cockpit basically so the fights he wanted to be done could actually be done without the pilots dying/severe injury (though he still uses a technology to reduce the effect of very high impulse).
That "oops we built a particle accelerator" line is so relatable. You don't know how many times I've been doing thought experiments in my head for fun, only to find I've come back to something that already exists.
Very common every time someone comes up with a fancy new technology that will revolutionize public transport. Especially if it involves pods. Almost inevitably it has multiple major flaws and by the time you fix all of them you've ended up with either a regular train or a bicycle
Between the requirements of "driver alive" and "no driver", there should be "driver, but not necessarily alive". How fast could we slush around a person's worth of soup-like homogenate?
Or alternatively, "driver, but not necessarily alive" as in an AI-piloted vehicle. The car can only go as fast as the sensors and computers can process what's happening and make decisions.
@@trbz_8745 Well, at that point you might still be limited by the acceleration tolerance of the electronics. I believe most computer motherboards can survive 100 gees for short periods, but I'm not sure about long timeframes. Artillery fuzes and shell guidance computers can also survive peak loads of thousands of gees, but again I'm not sure about sustained loads. I would assume 100 gees sustained would probably be a reasonable upper limit for a purpose-built unit with enough processing power for a self-driving race car. The tires and engine would probably give out long before reaching that, though.
As carcinization turns organisms into crabs, a similar process turns any "What if?" style question involving physics into a discussion of building a particle accelerator.
One of the best NASCAR cheats was Smokey Yunick realizing that there was a limit on the size of the gas tank, but not the size of the fuel line. Dude made an 11' x 2" fuel line that held an extra 2 gallons 😂 Serious legend right there. It's fair to say the entire rule book was written based on his stunts
The story goes that the inspectors found a different issue with his car, and tired of his antics, remove the fuel tank so he'd have to have it towed back to the garage. He then hops in the car, starts it right up, and drives off while yelling about there's one more issue they didn't catch.
And Robert Duvall said that in Days of Thunder! But it's a pretty boring way to cheat! The Chaparral 2J had better downforce than anything in 1970 because it had an extra snowmobile engine powering two fans which sucked it down to the ground. I had to look that up when I saw how weird the car looked in Gran Turismo LOL
Due to how the question is phrased, I'm pretty sure keeping the human and car stationary and moving the track relative to them at high acceleration would work.
Awesome idea! But then the structural integrity of the track would probably be a limitation, assuming you can engineer the massive machine to lift and spin a NASCAR track. If you can replace the asphalt with some kind of carbon nanotube material, is it still the same track? What if you reinforce it with an outer layer of super strong material?
@@roryschussler And what if you replace a section of the track with carbon nanotube? What if over time you gradually replace the track with the nanotube? Is it still the Track of Daytona?
Small, possibly pedantic issue: at 3:31 you say that diamond is one of the TOUGHEST materials, when in fact it's toughness (ability to deform plastically without breaking) is quite poor. Its HARDNESS, however, is spectacular. Other than that, great video, love your work!
I binge-read xkcd over a decade ago, I always thought it stood out as one of the very best webcomics. I'm so surprised to have my perception of the author suddenly expanded with the addition of his voice.
@xxpersonxx i don’t know why, but when i first heard these narrations, i was like “that couldn’t be him.” for some reason i had imagined his voice to be deeper
My first exposure to xkcd was my sister reading me one of the what if articles as a kid, so I've always read them with her voice, or at least her comedic delivery. It's weird to hear them read by a soft-spoken american man.
Fun fact: in 2001 Indycar actually found the limit of human tolerance for G force. The cars were going around the track in Texas so fast the drivers were beginning to lose consciousness and the race had to be cancelled.
Looked it up, apparently the pole in qualifying was averaged at 233mph/375kmh on a 1.5 mile/2.4 km course. Yea that sounds like it would lead to some new and interesting doctor's visits. Also minor correction, that was CART, not Indycar.
CART not Indy (Mandatory "Tony George ruined american open wheel racing") Built to the rules, Indy cars weren't as fast. People started to notice drivers walking strangely and having other obvious neurological symptoms after qualifying laps. Then after some research they realized they were hitting 5+ Gs in the turns every lap and that it was very likely someone - or multiple someones - would blackout during the race. Only race that CART ever cancelled for driver safety.
@@VekhGaming The modern Indycar series considers CART, ChampCar, and the Indy Racing League to be predecessors. In 1999 Juan Pablo Montoya won the CART championship and Greg Ray won the IRL championship, and today they're both considered Indycar champions.
"What are you doing up honey? It's 1am" "Oh just finishing putting together the barbeque" "What's this part for?" "Oh that's the capacitor for the electromagnet, it'll accelerate the- god damnit"
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the Canadian-American Challenge Cup (aka Can-Am), a hugely popular almost-no-rules racing formula that ran from 1966 to 1975. Cars in this series had to be powered by an internal-combustion engine driving some of the wheels, meet a minimum weight, and have basic safety equipment such as safety belts and a roll bar, but other than that it was pretty much anything goes. The races were run mostly on road courses, not ovals, so the need to accelerate, decelerate, and turn corners without shredding tires imposed certain practical limits: you could use a 5,000-hp airplane engine (Lycoming XR-7755-3) but the need to provide a chassis that could support it and brakes that could stop it would make it heavy enough to negate the engine's power advantage. It turned out that the sweet spot was a car with an engine in the 5.5-8 liter range with a curb weight of about 800kg. Porsche pretty much destroyed the series in 1973 with the unbeatably fast model 917-30, which packed a 1200-hp turbocharged engine. In 1975 one of these cars set a closed-course speed record by lapping Talladega in 43.3 seconds with average speed of 221 mph/356 km/h and a maximum speed of 237 mph/382 km/h. I suspect that's still pretty close to a practical limit for something that could be recognized as "a car."
Fun fact! Formula 1 cars are limited by rules to keep them within what a human being can withstand because drivers started passing out on corners! Instead of incorporating g suits and such, they made rules that keep the cars from breaking their fragile human occupants!
g-suit might not be the answer because it's not the same as fighter jet that pull you 9-10G downward. F1 are pulling 5-6G sideway. I think g-suit is just squeeze your legs and let less blood flow down when it got pulled. All the sideway protections are mostly there now. And the main thing is, they don't want to make it faster than this, it's very dangerous already at this speed. It probably capped at 7G,370 km/hr forever. Still, both are amazing enough that somehow, we as human can train to endure it hundreds of times per flight/race.
I think they should drive them remotely, and eliminate all those annoying safety rules. It'd make for far more interesting races. You might want to avoid being in the audience, however, due to the increased risk of taking a F1 car to the face.
With a liberal interpretation of rules you can essentially build a particle accelerator out of peasants, at least in DnD 3.5. Handing an item to another person is a free action, which by the rules takes no time. So get 1000 peasants in a line each in their own 5-foot square. Give the first peasant a pebble and have them hand it to the next one, who will then hand it to the next one, and so forth. Since each handoff was a free action that took no time the pebble would instantly travel 5,000 feet.
Can diamonds are just a crystalline structure of carbon. But they're just pure carbon. The only difference between diamond and coal is that diamonds are crystalline.
When I read the question itself it reminded me of Car Wars, the tabletop game. For a racing scenario like this, you usually had to limit cars to having no track-damaging or disrupting weapons, which meant no mines, caltrops, spike plates, non-flaming oil slicks, explosive rockets, etc. Just slug throwers, smoke or paint sprayers, lasers, etc. The question became what's the lightest armored car that could survive to reach the finish first.
Yeah, the lack of restrictions on preventing the competition from moving quickly is a significant oversight that the video fails to address. That sort of thing could end up being a serious issue when training AIs on how to perform tasks. The rules that humans claim they are following are always a small subset of the ones that they actually are following.
Why stick to cars tho? You could bring tanks, IFVs, and the likes! It'd turn into the weirdest game mode of War Thunder, that's for sure. :P And only the driver has to survive, the rest of the tank crews is expendable!
@@ElodieHiras Funny enough, the expansions to Car Wars, the game I was talking about, introduced among other things proper military equipment like tanks. So certainly that's "on the table", as it were, if you wanted to play out this video's scenario in game. Goes back to my point of "what's the lightest car that could survive to finish" and if you eliminate the restriction on course damaging weapons and allow military hardware, I'm betting on "M1A2 Abrams". Though it's going to be hard for the winner to recoup costs even with full salvage rights on the other vehicles... 😁
Here’s an idea: since all tracks are topologically circles, you can build a car that has the driver’s seat mounted on a retractable arm that can extend to some ludicrous length. The arm is on a pivot that allows it to point towards any direction. Now, during a race, just make sure that the human driver stays at an arbitrary point near the track, and have the arm swing in a certain way, such that the human stays relatively still as the car completes the race.
Oh, so it has a bridge/tunnel for the intersection, not both roads on the same level?🤔😅 Both roads on the same level would make the race much more interesting: "See you at the crossroads" (splat)😮.@@MikeyAntonakakis
Given how Randall follows the vocal conventions as the rest of Neptune studios productions, whether or not he pitched it, they're definitely the driving force behind it.
You guys don't understand the brilliance of the podium drawing. The car on the left, in the number 2 spot, is a 1977 Olds Cutlass Supreme, which was a HUGE breakthrough in aerodynamics. It's number 28, Buddy Baker's number, and, iirc, was the first non-winged (i.e. not a Superbird or a Daytona) stock car to go 200 mph. The one on the right is Bill Elliott's 1987 Ford Thunderbird, which holds the all-time NASCAR speed record at 212 mph. Both of the cars in that drawing are very specifically chosen and it's beautiful.
For anyone interested in actual no-rules racing, there's hill climbs, which while not strictly speaking wheel-to-wheel racing (it's a time trial), require some ridiculous aero devices to navigate twisty mountain roads at silly speeds.
Super Modifieds. They race short ovals. I don't know if they have rules today but the whole series was built on an anything goes basis. Just had to have 4 tires and an engine that powers it.
@alimanski7941 Yes. The wings were originally on Sprint Cars and Sprint Cars still use it. The super modifieds took the wing a step further and made it lift up going down the straights, reducing drag, and goes down in the corners, increasing down force.
my first reaction for what a car that was reasonably expected to race an oval track without a rulebook or budget would end up being a hybrid of an unlimited hillclimber, a supermodified, and a Group-C sportscar, likely with a turbine engine for speedways and high-displacement piston for short-tracks.
Hmmm, the speed with a healthy human might be lower, rotating them to keep the G-forces oriented towards their chests would introduce significant torque on the body as it turned at those speeds. These kinds of motions are particularly prone to concussions due to the brain failing to rotate as fast as the skull.
There is only a slight divergence between the force and the desired "down" direction. So that should not be a problem. Instead the rotation will add a centripetal force adding to the G-force. This reduces the max G-force the vehicle can experience to keep the driver safe.
I was about to say the same thing. One could probably calculate an acceleration profile which minimizes jerk or snap around the track, and simply take a couple integrals to find the time. But since that acceleration profile is periodic, I personally think a clever punch line would be to treat it as a wavefunction, put it through a Fourier transformation, and riff on the solution's units & dimensionality. Kinda like the previous "What If?" answer on fuel efficiency as a unit of area corresponding to the cross-section of a hypothetical ribbon of fuel along a highway.
I remember in _The Expanse_ one of the hard limitations of small ship space combat/racing is how many Gs the human body can handle. They have special chemicals that people are injected with to help mitigate the negative effects of high g maneuvers but even then 15g is about the maximum before people start dying
yeah, that's a huge problem for any hard-scifi witer that want human crews in space battles the following is a rant saying that drones would be great in space battles : (edit : disregard that, I fucked up my maths, you only need a 1-2 Gs to juke a laser at 5 light-seconds, the argument do not stand) (at least if you have the tech to make laser weapons effective at those ranges, but if you have torch-drives, I assume that you have at least hard-UV lasers) (unmmaned crafts still make sense in space because they are much more resilient to thing that would kill us, but g-forces are not one of them) (at least not in space battles) (edit edit : I also fucked up the earth-moon distance, it's 1 light-second, not 8) Given the fact that you can't dodge light-speed weapons (i.e. lasers, maser, xraser, etc) (and, realistically, close to light-speed, like particle beams and macrons accelerators) because you literally cannot see them coming, you have to randomly juke so that the enemy cannot know where you are due to light-lag, which mean you have to move fast enough that your ship isn't in the same place at all in a whatever your light-time distance is. So if you are engaging an enemy at 5 light-second, which is an enormous distance (for reference, the moon is at roughly 1 light-seconds from Earth), you have 5 second to move before they return fire with perfect accuracy. Having battle like that would be hell on any human crew, so the solution would be to have battle at 20-30 light-seconds or, much more practical, use unmanned ships ! You could even use highly mobile drones swarms with very fast, very small ships bouncing and refocusing a laser generated by a bigger ship much further away to engage enemies at maybe half to a third of a light-second ! (yeah, "close-quarter" has a different meaning is space) Or you could go the other way and say "fuck light-speed weapons" and use missiles and coil-guns instead. They have the same problems but at much, much closer range. But that's boring.
And mild spoiler: In one of the further books they had a ship which had those capsules with breathable liquid inside (like the one mentioned in the video) for extremely high G burns
I genuinely feel that the "Oops we've accidentaly built a particle accelerator will stick to the channel as a lifelong meme and as a slogan. It is the most Randall Munroe sentence ever.
Here's my plan: Build a really tall vehicle where the driver sits at the top. Just before start of the race, it starts to tip over to the left. Once the driver is over the exact center of the track, the car can drive around as fast as it wants. The driver stays in place and only experiences rotation.
If you allow for a circular track, orbiting a gravity well will get you moving pretty fast without any unhealthy acceleration. Tidal forces from the gravity well will set a lower limit to the track size.
The person in question would still have to contend with hard radiation from small particles that happen to be nearby, and from the gamma/x-ray radiation from the "spectator lights". So, yes, you could race "particles" this way, but for humans, the limit would be how much radiation do you agree to take to your balls.
Isn't an orbit by definition a constant acceleration towards the centre? Just because we don't feel significant g-forces in freefall around the earth, doesn't mean we wouldn't while orbiting on the scale of 1-2km circumference
@@dielaughing73 the point of the OP is to compensate for the human-squashing acceleration by entering an orbit of a small black hole. so, in principle, if you set things just right, you could be orbiting a tiny black hole and doing just 3G inwards and that would be faster than doing a zero-G orbit around the same gravity well. You would still have to contend with the radiation though.
@@dielaughing73 As long as every bit of your body is being accelerated at the same rate it might as well be standing still. It's when some parts of the body are accelerated more than others and they bang into each to balance things out that you turn into goo.
@@Wick9876 that's making my head hurt a bit but I can't find a way to refute it. I imagine you'd get a bit dizzy or disoriented still from spinning around so fast..
I remember getting into xkcd's what ifs about like 8-10 years ago. Loved the concept. After it kinda stopped I discovered lots of youtubers, that in my eyes took the formula, tweaked it and run with it, all great educators in their own right, guys like mustard and CGP grey, latter i think adapted the art style and tendency to go off a deep end. The scene bloom and grew, it became a staple, a phenomena, tracing roots to xkcd's what if. In a way it is to all others like AVGN was for comedy game reviews and letsplayers - a granddad. But as AVGN continued to work in the same medium, What if never really jumped to video format. Well, up until recently that is. And it worked out just about as well as I was imagining it (barring the mouse over quotes and footnote hyperlinks). That underlines how much the edutainment community borrowed from What If in my opinion. And it's great. Thanks, Randall!
I love when these ideas trend to "Whoops, we accidentally built an x." Fastest NASCAR? Reduce the mass, magnetically levitate it! Oops, it's a particle accelerator. Cook a chicken by slapping? Reduce the size of the slaps, spread them out over time. What you're describing is an oven.
What about "teleporting"? Now before you say it's impossible, hear me out. I'm not going to move the car to the finish line, I'm going to build another one here. An identical one. Ta-da! 0 seconds
No freakin way we get an xkcd TH-cam channel!! THANK YOU FRIEND, I’ve missed binging your comics at work but our filters don’t allow it anymore, now you’re back where they can’t see you :)
You could reanimate the dead driver right before the finish line just go fast enough to not have lasting damage from being dead but not too fast to make sure they don’t get damage from going to fast
"Let's say the racer has to survive." I'm rather glad that was included as part of the criteria! And then the video proceeds to ignore that requirement.
I love the idea that a racetrack and a particle accelerator are two points along the same spectrum 'cause it's never something I'd think of but when I think about it it makes perfect sense
for the survival part, what if we place a pod in the middle of the racing course where the driver is in and connect that pod to the vehicle via Kevlar and use several mechanisms to keep it in the air so the rope does not get stuck under the wheels. it is technically a part of the vessel and the "driver" will be alive no matter how fast the car goes. we can automate the controls to prevent crashes. actually, the only rule is "the driver must survive" but it doesnt specify if the driver should be on the car, so using an autonomous car with the driver just watching is still valid. the driver is alive if that does not work, it also did not specify if the driver should be a human so we can make the driver an AI.
I have a NASCAR game on Xbox. When I play, there are no rules. I set my car to "No damage" and as soon as the race begins, I turn around and go the other way. I usually meet the other cars in a straightaway so we hit at around 185mph. 🙂 I keep doing that until all the cars are unable to continue because they suffer damage. Not me. 🙂
3:53 Alice, a proton, wants to finish a NASCAR race that is 26.7km diameter spherical racetrack in fastest way possible, Without violating special relativity.
One thing to suggest is to put the person in an apparatus best suited to help them survive any g forces (backwards facing chair, laying down, gimbal chair, laying submerged in a pool of water hooked up to an air line, etc). Then have a computer drive the vehicle around the track. The contest says to get the human around the track 200 times as fast as possible, not that they had to drive.
I'm interested though if the sport were to evolve to have drivers remotely operating their vehicles. It becomes much more like a video game, but with the limitations of real life physics. What are the highest speeds that could be achieved before the reaction time of the driver is insufficient to operate the vehicle on these tracks?
They already race RC cars. Look at multirotor FPV racing, 3D heli aerobatics and pan car racing to get an idea. If you look at top level video gaming, the reaction times needed are superhuman.
or even better - allow ai. at first it will be the same driving aids used in road cars but over time better ai will be developed that can completely replace the human driver.
You can have the "driver" be in a ball in the center of the track and have an arm connected to the main body which will go around the track, thus the human will remain in the center, unmoving, while the main body finishes the race
2:08 would the constant swiveling of the driver to "face" the acceleration also cause problematic forces? How quickly would he need to whip around at the transitions?
The coolest part in my opinion is that this video included a track that has only been used once (so far) @4:06 (it's the one that looks like a dog). It's a course on the streets of Chicago and the winner of the race was a guy who had never raced in NASCAR before!
It seems like everyone's thoughts are predicated on non-divergent thinking; i.e., just go faster and faster. While the question is imprecise, it is a safe assumption this is a race against others. One need not go 'the fastest' in an absolute sense, but merely in a relative sense and just be the fastest amongst the group of racers. Using tactics to slow down or stop your opponents appear to be far simpler, at least for the first race when one deploys C4 at the start.
Y'all missed the obvious: You can't lose a race if nobody else crosses the finish line. Who cares if you're the fastest car? Bring an M-1 Abrams. You can still be the first across the finish line.
Did you consider the possibility of a frozen embryo? It's a stretch of the definition of human and alive, but I think it would be able to withstand more gs.
ahah, now that's thinking with portals hell, let's go a step further. Change the laws to recognize a fertilized egg as a human. Think how much we could improve the record!
0:57 enter f-15 pilot that hit 15G trying to dogfight a mig-29 and subsequently scored a maneuver kill when the mig flew into a mountain cause he was so freaked out
1:54 is that chart correct or are the upward and downward effects reversed? If you had G forces from body to head, shouldn't you have too much blood in your head rather than too little?
Oh wait, I get it now Instead of slinging all the blood to the other side We’re moving so fast blood can’t flow upward or downward Our heart isn’t strong enough to pump the blood The arrow isn’t gforce it’s moving direction
At 0:45, the gforce arrow was pointing the wrong way. Gravity does not push you up, unless you are driving the car upside down. (Which would not be against the rules in this case.)
even if they are sitting on the axel? i think there is a possibility where you have a human on a chair that counterspins against the spin of the axel to balance it out
The question specifically asked for a method to get a good time, not to beat someone else. Even if you are the only person on the track, 20 km/h still gives you a very bad result.
The major innovation here is the driver seat gimbal to make sure the accelerations are always "Eyeballs In".
That seems like a good classification of virtually all what if? experiments: eyeballs in or eyeballs out. Mostly it is out though...
This is a tatic in some sci-fy novels for ships so they can do crazy meanuevurs in space/atmospheres. The most recent I've that uses this is the Skyward Series by Brandon Sanderson (book #1 is called Starsight). Pretty neat. He consulted with pilots with his ship design and had to redo the whole cockpit basically so the fights he wanted to be done could actually be done without the pilots dying/severe injury (though he still uses a technology to reduce the effect of very high impulse).
Hey Destin!
Laces out! No wait, eyeballs in!
What if we hired a driver with no eyeballs?
"Let's say the human has to survive" is my favorite clause of what-if questions.
I love how quickly it was vetoed to make things more interesting.
Usually everyone here dies immediately, how about we don't do that for a change.
This is the exact phrase that comes up whenever me and my friends are having conversation
That's one rule more than in group B
“Oops, we’ve accidentally built a particle accelerator” might be the most XKCD sentence ever
As soon as we went from centrifuge to tube, I knew this would be the inevitable result
Aww not again !
Nah, the most xkcd sentence is “you wouldn’t really die of anything in the traditional sense, you’d simply cease being biology and become physics.”
@@DestructivelyPhasedthat one's a classic 😂
@@DestructivelyPhased Oh no Mr Stark I don't feel so physics
That "oops we built a particle accelerator" line is so relatable. You don't know how many times I've been doing thought experiments in my head for fun, only to find I've come back to something that already exists.
Very common every time someone comes up with a fancy new technology that will revolutionize public transport. Especially if it involves pods. Almost inevitably it has multiple major flaws and by the time you fix all of them you've ended up with either a regular train or a bicycle
@@laurencefraser okay but hear me out, a train but every passenger has to pedal it like a bicycle BOOM
@@tezzla6358I meeean it could work. The issue comes from the inconsistent amount of passengers 🤔
Between the requirements of "driver alive" and "no driver", there should be "driver, but not necessarily alive". How fast could we slush around a person's worth of soup-like homogenate?
Ah, the self-driving racecar hearse variant.
This was Elon's original plan, but then he bought twitter. Similar if slower result.@@jkid1134
Or alternatively, "driver, but not necessarily alive" as in an AI-piloted vehicle. The car can only go as fast as the sensors and computers can process what's happening and make decisions.
Gaygenate
@@trbz_8745 Well, at that point you might still be limited by the acceleration tolerance of the electronics. I believe most computer motherboards can survive 100 gees for short periods, but I'm not sure about long timeframes. Artillery fuzes and shell guidance computers can also survive peak loads of thousands of gees, but again I'm not sure about sustained loads. I would assume 100 gees sustained would probably be a reasonable upper limit for a purpose-built unit with enough processing power for a self-driving race car. The tires and engine would probably give out long before reaching that, though.
Turns out, even if Nascar had no rules, the universe still would have
Great phrase
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No, you're wrong. NASCAR's rules are the one thing holding the universe together.
beautiful
When you cross the line from “driving a Nascar track quickly” to “Oops, we built a particle accelerator”, you know SCIENCE was involved.
I laughed at that one
At least technology...
specifically all-caps... *inhales... SCIENCE*
As carcinization turns organisms into crabs, a similar process turns any "What if?" style question involving physics into a discussion of building a particle accelerator.
lol nice one
The "conCERNing" pun deserves an award
Thank's for pointing that out! I would've missed it
Thank you😂
One of the best NASCAR cheats was Smokey Yunick realizing that there was a limit on the size of the gas tank, but not the size of the fuel line.
Dude made an 11' x 2" fuel line that held an extra 2 gallons 😂
Serious legend right there. It's fair to say the entire rule book was written based on his stunts
That's magnificent
The story goes that the inspectors found a different issue with his car, and tired of his antics, remove the fuel tank so he'd have to have it towed back to the garage. He then hops in the car, starts it right up, and drives off while yelling about there's one more issue they didn't catch.
@@gamemeister27how do you remove a fuel tank with fuel in it??
And Robert Duvall said that in Days of Thunder! But it's a pretty boring way to cheat! The Chaparral 2J had better downforce than anything in 1970 because it had an extra snowmobile engine powering two fans which sucked it down to the ground. I had to look that up when I saw how weird the car looked in Gran Turismo LOL
@@GewelReal you're gonna have to ask someone who knows way more about mechanic stuff
2:29 I love the casual mention here - "It would also mean breaking the sound barrier on the back stretch" like it's NBD 🤷♀️
Compared to building a particle accelerator, it isn't
Due to how the question is phrased, I'm pretty sure keeping the human and car stationary and moving the track relative to them at high acceleration would work.
Awesome idea! But then the structural integrity of the track would probably be a limitation, assuming you can engineer the massive machine to lift and spin a NASCAR track.
If you can replace the asphalt with some kind of carbon nanotube material, is it still the same track? What if you reinforce it with an outer layer of super strong material?
I like the idea of a NASCAR track frisbee, but chatGPT says it can't exist :(@@roryschussler
Or, speed up time relative to anyone else on the track.
@@DirtyMardi "Q:It's simple, change the gravitational constant of the universe."
@@roryschussler And what if you replace a section of the track with carbon nanotube? What if over time you gradually replace the track with the nanotube? Is it still the Track of Daytona?
Man i hate when i accidentally create a particle accelerator
Yeah that’s frustrating
Small, possibly pedantic issue: at 3:31 you say that diamond is one of the TOUGHEST materials, when in fact it's toughness (ability to deform plastically without breaking) is quite poor. Its HARDNESS, however, is spectacular. Other than that, great video, love your work!
True! Toughness is the area under the stress strain curve.
Yes! Words have specific meanings in a science/engineering context.
This is a safe space for pedantry.
That's one point for PumpkinsAmongUs
I'm sorry but you didn't say "Um, actually" so I can't give it to you
4:15 *the driver's bodies have made it to the first turn
I binge-read xkcd over a decade ago, I always thought it stood out as one of the very best webcomics. I'm so surprised to have my perception of the author suddenly expanded with the addition of his voice.
I feel like his voice sounds exactly like I expected haha
@xxpersonxx i don’t know why, but when i first heard these narrations, i was like “that couldn’t be him.” for some reason i had imagined his voice to be deeper
My first exposure to xkcd was my sister reading me one of the what if articles as a kid, so I've always read them with her voice, or at least her comedic delivery. It's weird to hear them read by a soft-spoken american man.
Now try the TED Talk so you can get some live personality
Fun fact: in 2001 Indycar actually found the limit of human tolerance for G force. The cars were going around the track in Texas so fast the drivers were beginning to lose consciousness and the race had to be cancelled.
IIRC the drivers were hitting 6 Gs in the turns
Looked it up, apparently the pole in qualifying was averaged at 233mph/375kmh on a 1.5 mile/2.4 km course.
Yea that sounds like it would lead to some new and interesting doctor's visits.
Also minor correction, that was CART, not Indycar.
CART not Indy (Mandatory "Tony George ruined american open wheel racing") Built to the rules, Indy cars weren't as fast.
People started to notice drivers walking strangely and having other obvious neurological symptoms after qualifying laps. Then after some research they realized they were hitting 5+ Gs in the turns every lap and that it was very likely someone - or multiple someones - would blackout during the race. Only race that CART ever cancelled for driver safety.
Was this the same event that cause driver's retinas to separate? or was it corneas
@@VekhGaming The modern Indycar series considers CART, ChampCar, and the Indy Racing League to be predecessors. In 1999 Juan Pablo Montoya won the CART championship and Greg Ray won the IRL championship, and today they're both considered Indycar champions.
"Oops! We've accidentally built a particle accelerator"
You need to stop doing that Randall
Channeling black hat.
“Caaaarrrrlllllll!!!!”
"What are you doing up honey? It's 1am"
"Oh just finishing putting together the barbeque"
"What's this part for?"
"Oh that's the capacitor for the electromagnet, it'll accelerate the- god damnit"
We’re gonna need an intervention at this rate
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the Canadian-American Challenge Cup (aka Can-Am), a hugely popular almost-no-rules racing formula that ran from 1966 to 1975. Cars in this series had to be powered by an internal-combustion engine driving some of the wheels, meet a minimum weight, and have basic safety equipment such as safety belts and a roll bar, but other than that it was pretty much anything goes. The races were run mostly on road courses, not ovals, so the need to accelerate, decelerate, and turn corners without shredding tires imposed certain practical limits: you could use a 5,000-hp airplane engine (Lycoming XR-7755-3) but the need to provide a chassis that could support it and brakes that could stop it would make it heavy enough to negate the engine's power advantage. It turned out that the sweet spot was a car with an engine in the 5.5-8 liter range with a curb weight of about 800kg. Porsche pretty much destroyed the series in 1973 with the unbeatably fast model 917-30, which packed a 1200-hp turbocharged engine. In 1975 one of these cars set a closed-course speed record by lapping Talladega in 43.3 seconds with average speed of 221 mph/356 km/h and a maximum speed of 237 mph/382 km/h. I suspect that's still pretty close to a practical limit for something that could be recognized as "a car."
Had the same thought when I read the video title! Nascar with no rules? That's just CanAm lol
Fun fact! Formula 1 cars are limited by rules to keep them within what a human being can withstand because drivers started passing out on corners! Instead of incorporating g suits and such, they made rules that keep the cars from breaking their fragile human occupants!
That's a funny way of spelling "squishy meatbag."
In other words, their balls were too heavy to go this fast
g-suit might not be the answer because it's not the same as fighter jet that pull you 9-10G downward. F1 are pulling 5-6G sideway.
I think g-suit is just squeeze your legs and let less blood flow down when it got pulled.
All the sideway protections are mostly there now.
And the main thing is, they don't want to make it faster than this, it's very dangerous already at this speed. It probably capped at 7G,370 km/hr forever.
Still, both are amazing enough that somehow, we as human can train to endure it hundreds of times per flight/race.
I think they should drive them remotely, and eliminate all those annoying safety rules. It'd make for far more interesting races. You might want to avoid being in the audience, however, due to the increased risk of taking a F1 car to the face.
CART (now IndyCar) actually had to cancel a race at Texas Motor Speedway in 2001 because of this
“Oops, we’ve accidentally built a particle accelerator.” will be said in my next D&D campaign
With a liberal interpretation of rules you can essentially build a particle accelerator out of peasants, at least in DnD 3.5. Handing an item to another person is a free action, which by the rules takes no time. So get 1000 peasants in a line each in their own 5-foot square. Give the first peasant a pebble and have them hand it to the next one, who will then hand it to the next one, and so forth. Since each handoff was a free action that took no time the pebble would instantly travel 5,000 feet.
I feel like "Oops, we accidentally made a particle accelerator" is going to become a running joke of this channel.
I really hope so
So far these are all from the books, so no, the running gag is ending life on earth or worse.
@@mrptr9013 Why not both!
It's like the way that all efforts to perfect transportation end up reinventing the passenger train.
That or "oops we accidently made a black hole" or "oops, we accidently made a particle accelerator followed by a black hole"
3:40 "Diamonds: actually flammable"! 🔥
Can diamonds are just a crystalline structure of carbon. But they're just pure carbon. The only difference between diamond and coal is that diamonds are crystalline.
@@Rose-yx6jq but that's sometimes a significant difference... The lattice is not always easy to break off to allow the atoms to combust into CO2...
When I read the question itself it reminded me of Car Wars, the tabletop game. For a racing scenario like this, you usually had to limit cars to having no track-damaging or disrupting weapons, which meant no mines, caltrops, spike plates, non-flaming oil slicks, explosive rockets, etc. Just slug throwers, smoke or paint sprayers, lasers, etc. The question became what's the lightest armored car that could survive to reach the finish first.
Yeah, the lack of restrictions on preventing the competition from moving quickly is a significant oversight that the video fails to address.
That sort of thing could end up being a serious issue when training AIs on how to perform tasks. The rules that humans claim they are following are always a small subset of the ones that they actually are following.
Why stick to cars tho? You could bring tanks, IFVs, and the likes!
It'd turn into the weirdest game mode of War Thunder, that's for sure. :P
And only the driver has to survive, the rest of the tank crews is expendable!
@@ElodieHiras Funny enough, the expansions to Car Wars, the game I was talking about, introduced among other things proper military equipment like tanks. So certainly that's "on the table", as it were, if you wanted to play out this video's scenario in game. Goes back to my point of "what's the lightest car that could survive to finish" and if you eliminate the restriction on course damaging weapons and allow military hardware, I'm betting on "M1A2 Abrams". Though it's going to be hard for the winner to recoup costs even with full salvage rights on the other vehicles... 😁
The second we started sending a ball down a chute I immediately thought "Wait, are we gonna end up with a particle accelerator?" lol
Here’s an idea: since all tracks are topologically circles, you can build a car that has the driver’s seat mounted on a retractable arm that can extend to some ludicrous length. The arm is on a pivot that allows it to point towards any direction. Now, during a race, just make sure that the human driver stays at an arbitrary point near the track, and have the arm swing in a certain way, such that the human stays relatively still as the car completes the race.
The challenge is not move a car around a track, rather "get a human being around a track" not sure if yours fulfills that requirement.
cheater ;-)
It is not true that all racetracks are toplogically circles - Suzuka in Japan, for example, is a figure-8. But I think the solution works anyway.
@@Adarisayou’d have trouble getting the arm under the bridge at Suzuka I think
Oh, so it has a bridge/tunnel for the intersection, not both roads on the same level?🤔😅 Both roads on the same level would make the race much more interesting: "See you at the crossroads" (splat)😮.@@MikeyAntonakakis
So cool to actually hear Randall's voice along with these what-ifs! Congrats on arriving to a new platform buddy!
whoever had the idea for this youtube channel is a genius. makes me wanna buy the books more and more. love you randall!
Given how Randall follows the vocal conventions as the rest of Neptune studios productions, whether or not he pitched it, they're definitely the driving force behind it.
@@punkdigerati TH-cam videos are just a medium for the delivery of content. It's the content that matters. And the content is made by Randall Munroe.
@@Li-Nuss you can read the same video description as I did to see the people and corporation behind this.
What's crazy is that minutephysics was inspired by xkcd and they now get to work together
that is awesome@@adityakhanna113
You guys don't understand the brilliance of the podium drawing. The car on the left, in the number 2 spot, is a 1977 Olds Cutlass Supreme, which was a HUGE breakthrough in aerodynamics. It's number 28, Buddy Baker's number, and, iirc, was the first non-winged (i.e. not a Superbird or a Daytona) stock car to go 200 mph. The one on the right is Bill Elliott's 1987 Ford Thunderbird, which holds the all-time NASCAR speed record at 212 mph. Both of the cars in that drawing are very specifically chosen and it's beautiful.
For anyone interested in actual no-rules racing, there's hill climbs, which while not strictly speaking wheel-to-wheel racing (it's a time trial), require some ridiculous aero devices to navigate twisty mountain roads at silly speeds.
Also time attack. Google "KERS Kels" and that's not even close to the craziest one...
Super Modifieds. They race short ovals. I don't know if they have rules today but the whole series was built on an anything goes basis. Just had to have 4 tires and an engine that powers it.
@@thejman3489 those are the ones with the gigantic rear wings, right?
@alimanski7941 Yes. The wings were originally on Sprint Cars and Sprint Cars still use it. The super modifieds took the wing a step further and made it lift up going down the straights, reducing drag, and goes down in the corners, increasing down force.
my first reaction for what a car that was reasonably expected to race an oval track without a rulebook or budget would end up being a hybrid of an unlimited hillclimber, a supermodified, and a Group-C sportscar, likely with a turbine engine for speedways and high-displacement piston for short-tracks.
“What if NASCAR has no rules?”
Then it’ll be basically just wacky races.
Hmmm, the speed with a healthy human might be lower, rotating them to keep the G-forces oriented towards their chests would introduce significant torque on the body as it turned at those speeds. These kinds of motions are particularly prone to concussions due to the brain failing to rotate as fast as the skull.
There is only a slight divergence between the force and the desired "down" direction. So that should not be a problem. Instead the rotation will add a centripetal force adding to the G-force.
This reduces the max G-force the vehicle can experience to keep the driver safe.
I was about to say the same thing. One could probably calculate an acceleration profile which minimizes jerk or snap around the track, and simply take a couple integrals to find the time.
But since that acceleration profile is periodic, I personally think a clever punch line would be to treat it as a wavefunction, put it through a Fourier transformation, and riff on the solution's units & dimensionality. Kinda like the previous "What If?" answer on fuel efficiency as a unit of area corresponding to the cross-section of a hypothetical ribbon of fuel along a highway.
I do appreciate that he went for the re-orientation sphere, though.
I’m so happy this series is on TH-cam now. Thank you!
I remember in _The Expanse_ one of the hard limitations of small ship space combat/racing is how many Gs the human body can handle. They have special chemicals that people are injected with to help mitigate the negative effects of high g maneuvers but even then 15g is about the maximum before people start dying
"Here comes the juice!"
Also racing ships have gyroscopes in them to orient the pilots into the safest position.
ooh and they also had these really cool pilot seats that would swivel against the g-forces just like the ball thingy in the video
yeah, that's a huge problem for any hard-scifi witer that want human crews in space battles
the following is a rant saying that drones would be great in space battles :
(edit : disregard that, I fucked up my maths, you only need a 1-2 Gs to juke a laser at 5 light-seconds, the argument do not stand)
(at least if you have the tech to make laser weapons effective at those ranges, but if you have torch-drives, I assume that you have at least hard-UV lasers)
(unmmaned crafts still make sense in space because they are much more resilient to thing that would kill us, but g-forces are not one of them)
(at least not in space battles)
(edit edit : I also fucked up the earth-moon distance, it's 1 light-second, not 8)
Given the fact that you can't dodge light-speed weapons (i.e. lasers, maser, xraser, etc) (and, realistically, close to light-speed, like particle beams and macrons accelerators) because you literally cannot see them coming, you have to randomly juke so that the enemy cannot know where you are due to light-lag, which mean you have to move fast enough that your ship isn't in the same place at all in a whatever your light-time distance is.
So if you are engaging an enemy at 5 light-second, which is an enormous distance (for reference, the moon is at roughly 1 light-seconds from Earth), you have 5 second to move before they return fire with perfect accuracy.
Having battle like that would be hell on any human crew, so the solution would be to have battle at 20-30 light-seconds or, much more practical, use unmanned ships !
You could even use highly mobile drones swarms with very fast, very small ships bouncing and refocusing a laser generated by a bigger ship much further away to engage enemies at maybe half to a third of a light-second ! (yeah, "close-quarter" has a different meaning is space)
Or you could go the other way and say "fuck light-speed weapons" and use missiles and coil-guns instead. They have the same problems but at much, much closer range.
But that's boring.
And mild spoiler:
In one of the further books they had a ship which had those capsules with breathable liquid inside (like the one mentioned in the video) for extremely high G burns
Your ability to simultaneously answer a question, and not answer a question that wasn't asked is incredible.
I am so happy Randall started a TH-cam channel. Thank you for your content!
I genuinely feel that the "Oops we've accidentaly built a particle accelerator will stick to the channel as a lifelong meme and as a slogan. It is the most Randall Munroe sentence ever.
Here's my plan: Build a really tall vehicle where the driver sits at the top. Just before start of the race, it starts to tip over to the left. Once the driver is over the exact center of the track, the car can drive around as fast as it wants. The driver stays in place and only experiences rotation.
That's what I was thinking!
At least the world wasn't destroyed in this one, just the odd driver. I love this series.
If you allow for a circular track, orbiting a gravity well will get you moving pretty fast without any unhealthy acceleration. Tidal forces from the gravity well will set a lower limit to the track size.
The person in question would still have to contend with hard radiation from small particles that happen to be nearby, and from the gamma/x-ray radiation from the "spectator lights". So, yes, you could race "particles" this way, but for humans, the limit would be how much radiation do you agree to take to your balls.
Isn't an orbit by definition a constant acceleration towards the centre? Just because we don't feel significant g-forces in freefall around the earth, doesn't mean we wouldn't while orbiting on the scale of 1-2km circumference
@@dielaughing73 the point of the OP is to compensate for the human-squashing acceleration by entering an orbit of a small black hole. so, in principle, if you set things just right, you could be orbiting a tiny black hole and doing just 3G inwards and that would be faster than doing a zero-G orbit around the same gravity well. You would still have to contend with the radiation though.
@@dielaughing73 As long as every bit of your body is being accelerated at the same rate it might as well be standing still. It's when some parts of the body are accelerated more than others and they bang into each to balance things out that you turn into goo.
@@Wick9876 that's making my head hurt a bit but I can't find a way to refute it. I imagine you'd get a bit dizzy or disoriented still from spinning around so fast..
I just clocked that all the sound effects were made by a person's mouth. That must have been the best recording day ever.
I remember getting into xkcd's what ifs about like 8-10 years ago. Loved the concept. After it kinda stopped I discovered lots of youtubers, that in my eyes took the formula, tweaked it and run with it, all great educators in their own right, guys like mustard and CGP grey, latter i think adapted the art style and tendency to go off a deep end. The scene bloom and grew, it became a staple, a phenomena, tracing roots to xkcd's what if. In a way it is to all others like AVGN was for comedy game reviews and letsplayers - a granddad. But as AVGN continued to work in the same medium, What if never really jumped to video format. Well, up until recently that is. And it worked out just about as well as I was imagining it (barring the mouse over quotes and footnote hyperlinks). That underlines how much the edutainment community borrowed from What If in my opinion. And it's great.
Thanks, Randall!
As far as I'm concerned this might as well be in a foreign language.
@@Frisbieinstein sorry, English is not my native language, and I tend to ramble...
I'm so ecstatic you're on TH-cam now, Randall. This platform needs people like you to steward the unshittification of the platform.
I love when these ideas trend to "Whoops, we accidentally built an x."
Fastest NASCAR? Reduce the mass, magnetically levitate it! Oops, it's a particle accelerator.
Cook a chicken by slapping? Reduce the size of the slaps, spread them out over time. What you're describing is an oven.
What about "teleporting"? Now before you say it's impossible, hear me out. I'm not going to move the car to the finish line, I'm going to build another one here. An identical one. Ta-da! 0 seconds
Discovering xkcd has a TH-cam channel is like Christmas coming early
0:14 mr bean thought of somethin XD
The thing is, in the last example, The driver (particle accelerator operator) actually stays alive and well!
Not really going around the track anymore, though, are they?
@@abraveastronaut No, but they’re still alive.
Nice touch having Buddy Baker and Bill Elliott's actual Daytona cars on the podium at 2:15.
No freakin way we get an xkcd TH-cam channel!!
THANK YOU FRIEND, I’ve missed binging your comics at work but our filters don’t allow it anymore, now you’re back where they can’t see you :)
Honestly i would actually watch nascar if the goal was literally just “who can go around a circle 200 times fastest. Only rule don’t kill the drivers”
Soooo, the Large Hadron Collider is basically a miniature NASCAR track…
Seriously love these videos. Good brain food.
Miniature? It's 27 km long
@@galoomba5559 On the other hand, the "cars" are very small.
@@galoomba5559 my bad. I mean the cars are miniature, the track is humongous.
I am so happy to hear Randall's voice after loving his work for so many years.
These What-Ifs work so well in video format! Great idea.
What if NASCAR had no rules? Then it would probably be called "MURDER CAR".
You could reanimate the dead driver right before the finish line just go fast enough to not have lasting damage from being dead but not too fast to make sure they don’t get damage from going to fast
"Let's say the racer has to survive." I'm rather glad that was included as part of the criteria!
And then the video proceeds to ignore that requirement.
3:00 this limit holds only if the strap has the same cross section all along. If the cross section is allowed to vary, you can go way faster.
One of the best scientific and humorous youtubers out there.
I legitimately love this series! Own all of the books, favourite being what if and what if 2, thanks for making such a great series :)
What other books are there? I only knowing these 2
@@foximacentauri7891 Thing Explainer is great fun.
@@foximacentauri7891 there is how to and i think there is also a why if however it may have just been a parody inside the book
I love the idea that a racetrack and a particle accelerator are two points along the same spectrum
'cause it's never something I'd think of but when I think about it it makes perfect sense
3:25 hardest* diamond is extremely fragile and cant handle that high g forces
for the survival part, what if we place a pod in the middle of the racing course where the driver is in and connect that pod to the vehicle via Kevlar and use several mechanisms to keep it in the air so the rope does not get stuck under the wheels. it is technically a part of the vessel and the "driver" will be alive no matter how fast the car goes. we can automate the controls to prevent crashes.
actually, the only rule is "the driver must survive" but it doesnt specify if the driver should be on the car, so using an autonomous car with the driver just watching is still valid. the driver is alive if that does not work, it also did not specify if the driver should be a human so we can make the driver an AI.
I have a NASCAR game on Xbox. When I play, there are no rules. I set my car to "No damage" and as soon as the race begins, I turn around and go the other way. I usually meet the other cars in a straightaway so we hit at around 185mph. 🙂 I keep doing that until all the cars are unable to continue because they suffer damage. Not me. 🙂
Dude I loved your books, so glad I found this channel :D
3:53
Alice, a proton, wants to finish a NASCAR race that is 26.7km diameter spherical racetrack in fastest way possible,
Without violating special relativity.
So glad you're still uploading! Thanks so much! I've loved this series so long, & am super eager for more videos of it!
3:47
O O P S
4 likes in a month?
That was fast...
Also
This is conCENing
One thing to suggest is to put the person in an apparatus best suited to help them survive any g forces (backwards facing chair, laying down, gimbal chair, laying submerged in a pool of water hooked up to an air line, etc). Then have a computer drive the vehicle around the track. The contest says to get the human around the track 200 times as fast as possible, not that they had to drive.
I'm interested though if the sport were to evolve to have drivers remotely operating their vehicles. It becomes much more like a video game, but with the limitations of real life physics. What are the highest speeds that could be achieved before the reaction time of the driver is insufficient to operate the vehicle on these tracks?
Drone car racing would be an amazing sport
such a sport would be required to make power-ups _mandatory_. Nascar with banana peels and turtle shells is something I might actually watch!
They already race RC cars. Look at multirotor FPV racing, 3D heli aerobatics and pan car racing to get an idea.
If you look at top level video gaming, the reaction times needed are superhuman.
or even better - allow ai. at first it will be the same driving aids used in road cars but over time better ai will be developed that can completely replace the human driver.
You can have the "driver" be in a ball in the center of the track and have an arm connected to the main body which will go around the track, thus the human will remain in the center, unmoving, while the main body finishes the race
2:08 would the constant swiveling of the driver to "face" the acceleration also cause problematic forces? How quickly would he need to whip around at the transitions?
The coolest part in my opinion is that this video included a track that has only been used once (so far) @4:06 (it's the one that looks like a dog). It's a course on the streets of Chicago and the winner of the race was a guy who had never raced in NASCAR before!
These illustrations are neat! He should start a webcomic!
Yeah. I think he could write a book or two as well.
Hey I have a brilliant idea! He should name it "What if" just like his youtube channel!
"oops, we've accidentally built a particle accelerator"
It seems like everyone's thoughts are predicated on non-divergent thinking; i.e., just go faster and faster. While the question is imprecise, it is a safe assumption this is a race against others. One need not go 'the fastest' in an absolute sense, but merely in a relative sense and just be the fastest amongst the group of racers. Using tactics to slow down or stop your opponents appear to be far simpler, at least for the first race when one deploys C4 at the start.
Casually breaks the sound barrier on the back stretch. Yep this is very much an XKCD moment.
I absolutely love your videos!!! Keep up the good work!
Y'all missed the obvious: You can't lose a race if nobody else crosses the finish line. Who cares if you're the fastest car? Bring an M-1 Abrams. You can still be the first across the finish line.
You can hear a cat at 1:41
Cat
Cat
Cat
Cat
unfortunately i think that's just the guys little foley sounds that he uses for his doodles lol
i love that these are being turned into videos. i read your first what if years ago and loved it
The NASCAR to particle accelerator pipeline is real
This channel is an absolute winner. I'm surprised it hasn't been established earlier.
Did you consider the possibility of a frozen embryo? It's a stretch of the definition of human and alive, but I think it would be able to withstand more gs.
ahah, now that's thinking with portals
hell, let's go a step further. Change the laws to recognize a fertilized egg as a human. Think how much we could improve the record!
"It's a stretch of the definition of human and alive"
Religious lunatics disagree
0:57 enter f-15 pilot that hit 15G trying to dogfight a mig-29 and subsequently scored a maneuver kill when the mig flew into a mountain cause he was so freaked out
This is amazing, I been reading XKCD for years, so happy to see it on TH-cam!!
1:54 is that chart correct or are the upward and downward effects reversed? If you had G forces from body to head, shouldn't you have too much blood in your head rather than too little?
Oh wait, I get it now
Instead of slinging all the blood to the other side
We’re moving so fast blood can’t flow upward or downward
Our heart isn’t strong enough to pump the blood
The arrow isn’t gforce it’s moving direction
If you're accelerating upwards, you'll feel a force downwards.
At 0:45, the gforce arrow was pointing the wrong way. Gravity does not push you up, unless you are driving the car upside down. (Which would not be against the rules in this case.)
4:30 Lol what in the world are the units on that? Its gotta be terrifying.
4:08 I love how those are all tracks that NASCAR holds events at.
1:20. So... F1.
14G f1 drive: 🤷♂️
Now, if there are *no* rules, that means sabotaging your opponents isn't out of the question. Oops, all diesel!
Particle accelerator doesn't leave much room for advertisements thats for sure!
Well I bet that if you give Dominic Toretto a 67 Challenger, ~20 gear gearbox, and some Nitrous Oxide he’ll outrun the particle
No matter what, there would be no living human in the example with the kevlar "centrifuge", as the g forces would be about 358gs.
even if they are sitting on the axel? i think there is a possibility where you have a human on a chair that counterspins against the spin of the axel to balance it out
My favorite part is the fantastic sound barrier noise at 2:20
No rules? just missiles for the other competitors and just drive around at 20 kph to finish the race.
The question specifically asked for a method to get a good time, not to beat someone else. Even if you are the only person on the track, 20 km/h still gives you a very bad result.
I love your books. It's fun and informative. Nice to see you on TH-cam.
Actually, it's "faster than the other contestants". I'm pulling up in an M1 Abrams. You will, let me win the race.
My favorite video in your series. Nice work 👍
No, Patrick. A single particle isnt a vehicle.