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Umm, I found out something today that might interest you guys, can't find a video. Mellified Man. A practice of filling a dying person with honey, til they shat and sweat honey. They then immoliate the corpse in a honey coffin. Let it harden, then shave it off into bits as medicine. (Ancient China). It sounds like utter fantasy bullshit but might be interesting.
Yeah isn't there a joke about how if you're a Normal person you'd stop touching a button that shocks after the first time but a scientist will test it out three times just to be sure.
Nobody wanted to do this, it should have been mentioned in the video that this was an accident because both safety systems of the accelerator just didn't work
It's time for another good idea bad idea. Good Idea, creating a particle accelerator to study particle physics. Bad Idea, Putting your head in the particle accelerator in a moment of absent-minded stupidity. The end.
Dunkin Vonhosahin I think it does cause super powers...yes it blew off all Simon’s hair but also it made him a Super Powered TH-cam Host of channels beyond counting...oh and I’m pretty sure I saw flames 🔥 leap from his fingertips on a Business Blaze not too long ago. ...
"Look, if I am going to stick a knife in toast, I'm going to first turn the toaster off. If I am going to stick my head into a particle Accelerator, I'm going to do the same thing... ...I'm going to first turn the toaster off"
Toaster turns on by pushing lever to lower bread, it turns off when bread pops up, he should unplug toaster not turn it off how does he not know how a toaster works?
Yesss the whole reason I gave this channel a second chance since I discovered the awesomeness that is Business Blaze first is due to Simon's character on here slipping
In the U.S. we call a "body warmer" like that a "vest. And as an electrician for 25 years having never been able to out run electricity, you almost had me believing it was traversing time and space until you finished that segment. Whew! ;)
So this depends on your definition of "electricity." If you define it solely as electrons "moving" then sure, it's slow. If you define it as the "flow" of energy (potential), then it is, ahem, **lightning quick.** He is specifying electron movement in a copper cable, but as anyone who has seen an arc struck or a lightning strike, "electricity" is much, much faster than a turtle, whether or not all the atoms in the conduit move is irrelevant.
yeah americans were just smart enough to go "how tf is somthing that has no sleeves and covers 20% of your body called a body warmer?" then we proceeded to call it a vest for the next 100 years cause we couldnt call it a chest warmer.
Lol I'm genuinely in a life or death national security type scenario, but I sill want to say.... spam? Lol thanks Simon check out my hoodie I got it from a well chill dude from Eastbourne.
I miss Simon's super dry delivery, it was a hoot seeing him recite the often ridiculous information almost emotionless. Side note, in grad school my advisor mentioned researchers used to light their cigarettes using the beam from the accelerator.
Well, electricity and water are very similar in terms of movement and functions. It's often helpful to visualize a circuit as if it is transporting water not electricity.
As a biomedical researcher, I think it's interesting how the human brain copes after suchs incidents. There is a famous patient called Phineas Gage who had an accident where a tamping iron shot skyward, ripped into his brain and exited through his skull. Although crucial parts of his brain were severely damaged, he remained conscious and went to a doctor the same day. He survived and his brain maintained all essential functions, but his character seemed to change and he became more aggressive over time (would love to make a video about that!). Still amazing how adaptive the brain is!
I've read about Phineas Gage. For me it was really interesting and encouraging to read about, as I also have suffered a traumatic brain injury. Phineas DID survive, even with a horrific injury. I would even argue that he mostly thrived. Of course he was never the same person EVER again. Nobody is the same after a brain injury. I had three concussions by the time I turned 9. No, I wasn't the same person afterwards. Also, all of them happened from random accidents. Just to be clear, I was an unlucky kid for a few years there. I mean when I was five years old, my dad was involved in an accident with a semi trailer. I hit my head during the accident. At seven, I was running in the house and I stepped on a sock and slipped. Yup, I totally smacked my head on the hardwood floor. Woke up a few hours later in the emergency room. Then, a few months before I turned 9, I had a biking accident. I hit the back of a semi trailer at the bottom of the hill it was parked at. This injury was definitely the big one for me. Not only was I off school for a few weeks to recuperate, but even when I did get back to school--I couldn't function. I felt like my brain was totally scrambled, and to be fair, it mostly was. It's taken me twenty years to relearn how my brain works, but I think I've mostly figured things out.
Did you hear about that french man who has only some 10% of a healthy persons brain volume? I read that he was not mentally handucapoed, just a bit slow, and he works as civil servant.
The brain truly is remarkable and can adapt. All of you researchers and other medical professionals these days are real badasses in my book. I am personally somewhat of a proof: - I had a brain hemorrhage at birth. - As a result of that brain hemorrhage I have a scar in the brain that is the cause of my photosensitive epilepsy. - Due to hydrocephalus, and liquid slowly building inside my brain as a result, they had to put a shunt in my brain at the age of 13 through what they called "less important parts of the brain" which in turn naturally were destroyed. It also hospitalized me for a full month since the change in pressure that had built up during those 13 years was so great. - I had been legally blind all my life but I had sight. Bad in my left and worse in my right. My right retina had a hole in it since birth. - I lost my right retina later along the way. No idea when it happened. At that point that eye had already gotten much worse due to atrophy. So, not even light perception there these days. - At 30 I had to go through cataract surgery to save my left eye. This was years after I had lost my right. - At 36 I had a rupture in my left retina and had to get two surgeries to save my left eye again. Was off work for about 9 months. As amazing as it might sound after that, it even does to me when I think back, with all that I've been able to get two batchelor's degrees in IT before the age of 30. And I've had a steady job for almost 10 years. Only after the latest happenings I've had to move to partial disability pension and work only half days. But even with all the above it has taken almost 40 years for the world to start to get the best of me. I wish I was making all this up... I'm not.
Simon didn't say (I don't know why), that there were two security systems (a door-locking system and alert signal at the door into an inner accelerator room), which had to prevent situations like this, but they both didn't work. So this scientist wasn't a crazy one at all
This was great i laughed with you every time. But still i learned not to stick my head in a particle accelerator. This one was so awesome. Thank you for showing that you learn sometimes with us.
I'm an electrical engineer, and Simon definitely misread a lot of the calculations. For example, the charge on an electron is 1.6 x10 ^( -19) C (note the '-' char; it's a very very...very small number), not 1.6 x10 ^19 C, which is a very very...very big number.
604116 Tan France would say it's definitely not a top though, that's a vest jacket. The UK is more specific about their common clothing item names, apparently.
When thinking about how how electricity seems to move instantaneously despite being so slow, if you think of a wire as being a hose you would hook up to the tap, Imagine that that hose has water in it at all times. When you turn the tap on, it isn't the new water molecules that are watering your plants, they are the ones that were pre-existing in the hose, and then displaced due to new pressure being placed on it.
He didn't do it intentionally. Earlier in the day the accelerator was used for a different experiment and the room he was in allow beams to bounce around when the accelerator isn't being used in high energy experiments. There was supposed to be a lock on the door and a light bulb that is lit when the beam is in use. He told the techs working in the control room that he would be there in 5 minutes but arrived early. He said when he got to the room he sensed something wasn't right since the lock was missing but went in anyway since the light was off. The light burned out earlier. As he bent over to read the instruments, as he had done plenty of times before, he saw the light that was described in the video. He didn't report it right away. He finished his work and went home. The next day he went to the doctor and reported it since the left side of his face was swollen.
Sweet!!! It’s awesome when Simon gives us on this channel, one of the “rimshots” he usually uses on his, quite interesting and awesome Business Blaze channel. Thanks Simon. Take care and stay safe. Peace!
"if I'm going to stick a knife in my toaster to get the bread out, I turn the toaster off. If I'm gonna stick my head in a particle accelerator, I'm gonna do the same thing." You're going to turn your toaster off before you stick your head in the particle accelerator? I'm not sure that's how an accelerator works...
I'm glad you're still doing these vids. Thanks. You're a friend to people who get told "you're too smart for your own good" or "I bet you're really good at trivia" or "why are you asking that question? go away."
Being an electrician, a wind turbine technician, a grid operator and a transmission operator, being certified in all sorts of electrical backgrounds, its amazing how many water analogies work for electricity
Simon's wife; when you're done laughing at your own joke's with a camera in the basement. Can you get me some frozen vegetables out of the freezer? Yes, I imagine Simon does all of his videos in his basement, with Danny chained to a room with a typewriter..*write the fucking script, Danny!*
Hey, I am from Protvino! My father says he knew this dude. The whole story doesn't seem plausible though, because the beam needs very high vacuum, otherwise the protons would just collide with the atoms in the air. And as far as I know, they don't run separate bursts of protons, rather a constant beam for a period of time.
From what I've read he notified the operators he'd be entering the room to ensure it was off. They forgot. Also, coincidently, the red light bulb used to warn of operation was burned out and unchanged by maintainence. Since the beam itself is invisible, he could not see it running. The worst kind of luck
Well let's see... Depending on the size of the accelerator... A large one, when operating, would result in an instant death (or near instant at least)... **Edit** Honestly, that dumb moment when you remember proton treatments for brain tumors (kills the cells with a focused beam)... Which has become a common treatment...
Kinda... I would guess that the beam he was exposed to in a pulse mode (otherwise it would have cut across his head) and collimated fairly tightly (or a larger area would have been damaged). However, the cells in his head within the beam, were probably dead by the time he pulled his head out. I would guess one closer effects of what happened to him is getting shot in the head, or stabbing a piece of rebar through his head. I've worked with several large sources and around the target material the radiation spreads out (1/r^2) and can generate a lethal dose over a large area, meters, almost instantly.
It was not in a vacuum so it was a tiny accelerator. Probably an electron beam. I think you are right about the pulse unless he stopped moving with his head in the beam so it worked on one area for more time.
@@MaxBrix it was a 70GeV proton beam, so by no means tiny. U70 is actually one of the most powerful particle accelerators in the world (it was the most powerful one ever built at the time of construction) - LHC is the only one that has its power measured in TeV and there are only a handful of GeV accelerators in the world.
except that proton treatment uses beams 1000 times less energetic than the one this scientist got hit with(70-250MeV vs 70GeV, which is 70 000 MeV) and 100 000 times less energetic than the LHC(7TeV, which is 7000 GeV, which is 7 000 000 MeV), so it's not really a fair comparison.
This has to be the most casual I have seen Simon in one of his videos. He was so relaxed I was wondering if he hadn’t had a couple drinks to loosen up just before recording.
I really like that last analogy, it shows that the 'drift' velocity of water in my shower is faster then the drift velocity of the electron in the light in that same bathroom. Heck I had two classes in electronics and I never heard of drift velocity until last year. We are talking 50 years since the first class. Ethelred Hardrede
Vest, Simon. You were looking for the word "vest." I can totally relate, however. I constantly have common words that I *know* I know suddenly drop out of my head, like, more times a day than I can count. This is super frustrating as I can't seem to move past it until I remember the word, usually hours later, when I will seemingly, out of nowhere, shout something like "Fuck, KETTLE!!!" A trick I like to use to locate a forgotten word within my brain is to slowly go through the alphabet. Most of the time, when I get to the letter the word starts with, the word I was looking for pops back into my head.
In regards to the last bonus fact, it's important to clarify that what we call electricity is actually a few different components and the electrons moving within the wire is only one of them. Many people have been taught that electricity is electrons moving through a wire but if it were just electrons being consumed by your light bulb, you'd have to replace the wires running through your house after a while since they have a finite amount of electrons in them but obviously no one has to do that. You can actually test this right now since if it were electrons moving up through your wire and into your light bulb, the wire would become positively charged and therefore magnetic but if you place a magnet on a wire you'll see that it is in fact magnetically neutral. What most people think of as electricity (that being what actually moves along the wire and gets consumed by an electronic device) is another component called electric charge and that part actually moves quite fast and is why your light bulb turns on immediately when you flick the switch.
I'm loving how casual these are now... Simon's having natural reactions to the script... making whatever odd comments and opinions he has on the subject matter as he goes along... he's not trying too hard to be professional and it makes the video feel fresher.
Another very simple analogy for the electrical current in a wire is a garden hose filled with large marbles. We're talking touching each other filled... no empty space. Push a marble into one end and another marble will pop out the other. You're screwed if you want it to light up a bulb, however. Enjoy your work quite a lot, Cheers!
_I'm 9weeks recovering right now from my second fully detached retina. My surgery (at Duke Eye Center) on the 1st detached retina in 2015, was 5 days after it completely detached. My vision returned 100% in left eye, with just a slight power differential. My latest retinal detachment (right eye) was also a full detachment and my surgery was 7 days after it detached. All seems to be heading towards 100% recovery of vision._
You don't push electrons through a wire. You pull them, or more accurately, you attract them. You present a lack of electrons to the wire with an electron source at the other end (typically both are from the same power source). The lack of electrons is positively charged and causes extra electrons in the outer shells of the atoms of the conducting material to rush to fill the gap leaving a gap behind. The gap left behind is filled by electrons farther along the wire. So effectively, you have a stream of gaps traveling in the opposite direction of the stream of electrons. This stream of gaps moves along far more quickly than the electrons in total. That's in direct current. Alternating current has the electron/gap movement go back and forth instead of in one direction, kind of like in a shaker. This makes it a lot more efficient to travel long distances.
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My cats really couldn't give a shit what I wear, sometimes I wear deely-boppers for fun - the reaction..... the're fecking cats! (Sorry MW)
I would've thought your head would explode.
But Simon looks so nice. 👍👍
Umm, I found out something today that might interest you guys, can't find a video. Mellified Man. A practice of filling a dying person with honey, til they shat and sweat honey. They then immoliate the corpse in a honey coffin. Let it harden, then shave it off into bits as medicine. (Ancient China). It sounds like utter fantasy bullshit but might be interesting.
dont you just hate it when you get your beard caught in your zip
Simon seems like he’s getting a little slaphappy from the quarantine isolation, poor guy...
Gerb McNuggets i thought I was the only one to notice... 🤣. Watching him crack jokes is sooo odd.
Gerb McNuggets Agree😂😂😂
Gerb McNuggets Beat me to it,
I like it!
I don't like it... He's.... No.
"I'm not a scientist, and I probably wouldn't stick my head in there!"
Maybe that's why you're not a scientist
Yeah isn't there a joke about how if you're a Normal person you'd stop touching a button that shocks after the first time but a scientist will test it out three times just to be sure.
The comment made me think of kerbals
@@tnk4me4 It's from xkcd.com/242/
@@tnk4me4 some normal people would keep trying it till the battery ran dead, especially if it involved cupcakes.
Your confusing Scientist and mad Scientist.
lol, I love how he can't keep a straight face through all this, because the real question is WHY you would ever want to do this.
its fake laughing and it's so bad
Nobody wanted to do this, it should have been mentioned in the video that this was an accident because both safety systems of the accelerator just didn't work
He can. He's just faking it and it's difficult to watch
Guy survives decades after having brain torched on the inside.
Simon: fascinated by touch screen phone pocket in a "body warmer".
He did say he wasn't a scientist.
a body warmer? dude....quit sniffing glue.
In Soviet Russia, high-energy particles accelerate YOU.
In Nazi Germany, high-energy particles ignore Einstein.
@@conveyor2 🤔😆
@@conveyor2 what that supposed to be funny?
thank you for this comment b4ddy
Didn't the particles do the opposite. though?
Spoiler alert: Sticking one's head in a particle accelerator is a bad idea.
D" ya think?
It's time for another good idea bad idea.
Good Idea, creating a particle accelerator to study particle physics. Bad Idea, Putting your head in the particle accelerator in a moment of absent-minded stupidity.
The end.
@slam zamillion 🤣👍
@Martha get this lady a Phd!!!
yeaaahhh, when I saw the title I was like "more like super cancer and stuff like that...."
is it just me, or is every Simon Whistler channel turning into Business Blaze?
This is the way.
Loving it. Pump all the Simon into my veins lol.
Yeah, I believe so
You say that like it’s a bad thing. Business Blaze is freaking hilarious.
God I hope so. Gives me like 20 more channels to enjoy
“Super powers?” No, you just get the worlds fastest lobotomy.
Dunkin Vonhosahin I think it does cause super powers...yes it blew off all Simon’s hair but also it made him a Super Powered TH-cam Host of channels beyond counting...oh and I’m pretty sure I saw flames 🔥 leap from his fingertips on a Business Blaze not too long ago. ...
Good one.😄😄😄
_My name is Barry Allen..._
@@jacrispy3275 - ... and I am the fastest man alive. (Except that nearly every episode shows otherwise).
@@jacrispy3275 😂
"Look, if I am going to stick a knife in toast, I'm going to first turn the toaster off.
If I am going to stick my head into a particle Accelerator, I'm going to do the same thing...
...I'm going to first turn the toaster off"
Just because parts of your face get obliterated doesn't mean your toast should get burned.
Toaster turns on by pushing lever to lower bread, it turns off when bread pops up, he should unplug toaster not turn it off how does he not know how a toaster works?
hydrolito there are other types of toasters too.
On a side note, I bet the particle accelerator makes an excellent toaster. Why not kill 2 birds with 1 stone?
I know I’m not the only one who watches because they like facts and enjoy Simon himself. Really enjoy him showing more personality and less script
yes, he def broke character in this one....still like it tho
Yesss the whole reason I gave this channel a second chance since I discovered the awesomeness that is Business Blaze first is due to Simon's character on here slipping
Yea, by the looks of it he just fimed a few business blaze eps. This is sort of how he acts in those just turned down to about 4
Hes quite the character
If you are into script slapping, boy do I have the show for you!
Really Blazing up the (Today I Found Out) today aren’t we.
always
In the U.S. we call a "body warmer" like that a "vest.
And as an electrician for 25 years having never been able to out run electricity, you almost had me believing it was traversing time and space until you finished that segment. Whew! ;)
So this depends on your definition of "electricity." If you define it solely as electrons "moving" then sure, it's slow. If you define it as the "flow" of energy (potential), then it is, ahem, **lightning quick.**
He is specifying electron movement in a copper cable, but as anyone who has seen an arc struck or a lightning strike, "electricity" is much, much faster than a turtle, whether or not all the atoms in the conduit move is irrelevant.
"Body warmer, whatever" It's a vest, Simon. It's things like this that make me suspect he's an alien and has only been here for a few years.
Just not an American. We don't call that a vest in the UK.
@@TodayIFoundOut We call that a body warmer in the Netherlands as well.
@@TodayIFoundOut I love the English language
yeah americans were just smart enough to go "how tf is somthing that has no sleeves and covers 20% of your body called a body warmer?" then we proceeded to call it a vest for the next 100 years cause we couldnt call it a chest warmer.
@@TodayIFoundOut Well that's no fun. 😆👍
Have to change the title to "Today Simon Finds Out ....."
"Tis but a scratch." LOL!
Flesh wound
He's getting better.
Lol I'm genuinely in a life or death national security type scenario, but I sill want to say.... spam? Lol thanks Simon check out my hoodie I got it from a well chill dude from Eastbourne.
Oh, and think of it like marbles in a hose pipe.
Love that reference
I miss Simon's super dry delivery, it was a hoot seeing him recite the often ridiculous information almost emotionless.
Side note, in grad school my advisor mentioned researchers used to light their cigarettes using the beam from the accelerator.
Yeah, the channel transformed a bit from a science/history channel to a comedy channel. I don't hate it, but it is a little weird imho.
You guys would hate business blaze lol
Loving this more loose and almost nonchalant way of presenting. Laughing and learning apparently really do go well with each other!
If you like this Simon, you have to check out his Business Blaze channel. It is one of his best channel by far.
@@juliefultz4781 I was going to mention this too, I am glad that now I don't need to! Lol
you absolutly need to watch business blaze
Apparently quarantine has made Simon start to lose his mind 😆
if you like this you should check out business blaze.its all simon goofing off
Do Not Worry, Simon. We have your Mind at the Lost and Found section of TH-cam. :-)
The electrons travelling thing is like hydraulics. Where the water doesn't move quickly but the effect of it applies instantaneously.
Hydraulic systems do not use water.. they use viscous fluids such as oils
@@gabrielhowardMKE Hydraulic systems can be designed which use water and they are definitely still bonafide hydraulic systems.
@@gabrielhowardMKE the word "hydraulic" is a direct reference to, wait for it, . . . Water.
@@gabrielhowardMKE I've got a gate opener ram that runs on water... way cheaper to operate than oil
Well, electricity and water are very similar in terms of movement and functions. It's often helpful to visualize a circuit as if it is transporting water not electricity.
06:30 "There is no record of his death." Also characteristic of the Soviet Union :)
the particle accelerator guy is alive
The "Florida Man" of the USSR
Vladivostok man
Bruh...YAAAAAAAAASSSSS!
I feel like Business Blaze is leaking over... AND I LIKE IT.
I was going to post something similar but figured someone else already had :)
Hard pass.
He even said "your boy Simon"!
@@robertt9342 i bet you're real fun at parties...
@@Smegwulf hahaahhhaha
As a biomedical researcher, I think it's interesting how the human brain copes after suchs incidents. There is a famous patient called Phineas Gage who had an accident where a tamping iron shot skyward, ripped into his brain and exited through his skull. Although crucial parts of his brain were severely damaged, he remained conscious and went to a doctor the same day. He survived and his brain maintained all essential functions, but his character seemed to change and he became more aggressive over time (would love to make a video about that!). Still amazing how adaptive the brain is!
Life Lab Learner they did;) th-cam.com/video/aw0zbyQVCEc/w-d-xo.html
TIFO did a video on this exact guy.
I've read about Phineas Gage. For me it was really interesting and encouraging to read about, as I also have suffered a traumatic brain injury. Phineas DID survive, even with a horrific injury. I would even argue that he mostly thrived. Of course he was never the same person EVER again. Nobody is the same after a brain injury.
I had three concussions by the time I turned 9. No, I wasn't the same person afterwards. Also, all of them happened from random accidents. Just to be clear, I was an unlucky kid for a few years there. I mean when I was five years old, my dad was involved in an accident with a semi trailer. I hit my head during the accident. At seven, I was running in the house and I stepped on a sock and slipped. Yup, I totally smacked my head on the hardwood floor. Woke up a few hours later in the emergency room. Then, a few months before I turned 9, I had a biking accident. I hit the back of a semi trailer at the bottom of the hill it was parked at. This injury was definitely the big one for me. Not only was I off school for a few weeks to recuperate, but even when I did get back to school--I couldn't function. I felt like my brain was totally scrambled, and to be fair, it mostly was. It's taken me twenty years to relearn how my brain works, but I think I've mostly figured things out.
Did you hear about that french man who has only some 10% of a healthy persons brain volume? I read that he was not mentally handucapoed, just a bit slow, and he works as civil servant.
The brain truly is remarkable and can adapt. All of you researchers and other medical professionals these days are real badasses in my book. I am personally somewhat of a proof:
- I had a brain hemorrhage at birth.
- As a result of that brain hemorrhage I have a scar in the brain that is the cause of my photosensitive epilepsy.
- Due to hydrocephalus, and liquid slowly building inside my brain as a result, they had to put a shunt in my brain at the age of 13 through what they called "less important parts of the brain" which in turn naturally were destroyed. It also hospitalized me for a full month since the change in pressure that had built up during those 13 years was so great.
- I had been legally blind all my life but I had sight. Bad in my left and worse in my right. My right retina had a hole in it since birth.
- I lost my right retina later along the way. No idea when it happened. At that point that eye had already gotten much worse due to atrophy. So, not even light perception there these days.
- At 30 I had to go through cataract surgery to save my left eye. This was years after I had lost my right.
- At 36 I had a rupture in my left retina and had to get two surgeries to save my left eye again. Was off work for about 9 months.
As amazing as it might sound after that, it even does to me when I think back, with all that I've been able to get two batchelor's degrees in IT before the age of 30. And I've had a steady job for almost 10 years. Only after the latest happenings I've had to move to partial disability pension and work only half days. But even with all the above it has taken almost 40 years for the world to start to get the best of me.
I wish I was making all this up... I'm not.
10:07 He finally did it. All we need now is for Simon to print the scripts and stand up during filming.
"Minor Health effects"
Helluva way to define Minor....
minor as in minor brain surgery
it was just a minor case of very serious brain damage.
For some definitions of minor
Given that the expected result was death × 1000, it was relatively minor.
Makes you wonder what they consider medium/major
what i learned from this is: turn off your toaster before you stick your head in a particle accelerator. I honestly love Simon’s life lessons
I love that ever since you started business blaze this channel is slowly evolving to be like it. Much more fun learning experience
Scientists are just adults that never lost their childlike curiosity
Thank god they don't! Unless they practice vivisection... in which case that's a little chilling!
Simon didn't say (I don't know why), that there were two security systems (a door-locking system and alert signal at the door into an inner accelerator room), which had to prevent situations like this, but they both didn't work. So this scientist wasn't a crazy one at all
Simon, your Business Blaze is showing! I love it keep it up
Across all of his channels, Simon is the only thing getting me through quarantine
😂😂 He's slowing morphing into his Business Blaze personality and I'm loving it❤
This was great i laughed with you every time. But still i learned not to stick my head in a particle accelerator. This one was so awesome. Thank you for showing that you learn sometimes with us.
Simons book: How to turn "You Die" into a 15 minute video..... I love it
with the surprise ending of "but not yet".
I'm an electrical engineer, and Simon definitely misread a lot of the calculations. For example, the charge on an electron is 1.6 x10 ^( -19) C (note the '-' char; it's a very very...very small number), not 1.6 x10 ^19 C, which is a very very...very big number.
Next week on Today I Found Out: Simon discovers what a "vest" is
604116 Tan France would say it's definitely not a top though, that's a vest jacket. The UK is more specific about their common clothing item names, apparently.
beat me to it! maybe he'll start calling his shirts and pants, too scared to let other people see your skin.....lol
They are Torso-shorts...
Simon looks at a down blanket, a parka, a sweat suit, and a vest..... picks up the vest. "THIS IS A BODY WARMER!!!!"
yeah, this is not a vest in the UK
I've had floaters for 40 years and bright flashes when I have a migraine. A bit hard to tell when I should worry about them.
So much Business Blaze in my Today I Found Out AND I LOVE IT
EDIT: The badabumbumtssh was for me and no one can convince me otherwise
Needs more script slapping though
When thinking about how how electricity seems to move instantaneously despite being so slow, if you think of a wire as being a hose you would hook up to the tap,
Imagine that that hose has water in it at all times.
When you turn the tap on, it isn't the new water molecules that are watering your plants, they are the ones that were pre-existing in the hose, and then displaced due to new pressure being placed on it.
"Always turn off your toaster before sticking your head in a particle accelerator." - Simon Whistler 2020
😂😂😂 I wish I could get a tee shirt with this on it...
He didn't do it intentionally. Earlier in the day the accelerator was used for a different experiment and the room he was in allow beams to bounce around when the accelerator isn't being used in high energy experiments. There was supposed to be a lock on the door and a light bulb that is lit when the beam is in use. He told the techs working in the control room that he would be there in 5 minutes but arrived early. He said when he got to the room he sensed something wasn't right since the lock was missing but went in anyway since the light was off. The light burned out earlier. As he bent over to read the instruments, as he had done plenty of times before, he saw the light that was described in the video. He didn't report it right away. He finished his work and went home. The next day he went to the doctor and reported it since the left side of his face was swollen.
5 seconds before ..
“Hold my vodka”
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i absolutely love the extra commentary in this one. You're a pretty damn witty guy!
Russian + particle accelerator = "I gots to know..."
It's fascinating to watch Simon go from "Serious Work Voice" to "Simon's Real Voice". :)
Simon is gleefully cheeky about this and it’s hilarious.
Sweet!!! It’s awesome when Simon gives us on this channel, one of the “rimshots” he usually uses on his, quite interesting and awesome Business Blaze channel. Thanks Simon. Take care and stay safe. Peace!
"if I'm going to stick a knife in my toaster to get the bread out, I turn the toaster off. If I'm gonna stick my head in a particle accelerator, I'm gonna do the same thing." You're going to turn your toaster off before you stick your head in the particle accelerator? I'm not sure that's how an accelerator works...
A toaster accelerates particles, too.
I love when Simon doesn’t care and just starts commenting on the video himself 😂😂😂 I love this channel!!!
I’m LOVING that Business Blaze is leaking into the other channels- keep it up, Simon!!
OMG I am loving this new version of 'Today I Found Out'.
Then you will love Business Blaze! The real Simon Whistler revealed!
I'm glad you're still doing these vids. Thanks. You're a friend to people who get told "you're too smart for your own good" or "I bet you're really good at trivia" or "why are you asking that question? go away."
And once again Simon isn't wearing pants😉
You can see them when he stands up to try on the Mack Weldon garment.
Being an electrician, a wind turbine technician, a grid operator and a transmission operator, being certified in all sorts of electrical backgrounds, its amazing how many water analogies work for electricity
Simon's wife; when you're done laughing at your own joke's with a camera in the basement. Can you get me some frozen vegetables out of the freezer?
Yes, I imagine Simon does all of his videos in his basement, with Danny chained to a room with a typewriter..*write the fucking script, Danny!*
Hey, I am from Protvino! My father says he knew this dude. The whole story doesn't seem plausible though, because the beam needs very high vacuum, otherwise the protons would just collide with the atoms in the air. And as far as I know, they don't run separate bursts of protons, rather a constant beam for a period of time.
1:55 You would turn off the toaster?
That was my thought too 😀
Yeah. In the UK our sockets have switches.
@@1701spacecadet holy crap, really?! Wtf USA!?!
From what I've read he notified the operators he'd be entering the room to ensure it was off. They forgot. Also, coincidently, the red light bulb used to warn of operation was burned out and unchanged by maintainence. Since the beam itself is invisible, he could not see it running.
The worst kind of luck
Love how 'Business Blaze Simon' is leaking through to other channels! 😂
Really liked how happy you seemed in this video and how you really enjoyed telling the information!
Well let's see... Depending on the size of the accelerator... A large one, when operating, would result in an instant death (or near instant at least)...
**Edit** Honestly, that dumb moment when you remember proton treatments for brain tumors (kills the cells with a focused beam)... Which has become a common treatment...
Turns out not, so much. At least with the sample-size of one. :-)
Kinda... I would guess that the beam he was exposed to in a pulse mode (otherwise it would have cut across his head) and collimated fairly tightly (or a larger area would have been damaged). However, the cells in his head within the beam, were probably dead by the time he pulled his head out. I would guess one closer effects of what happened to him is getting shot in the head, or stabbing a piece of rebar through his head.
I've worked with several large sources and around the target material the radiation spreads out (1/r^2) and can generate a lethal dose over a large area, meters, almost instantly.
It was not in a vacuum so it was a tiny accelerator. Probably an electron beam. I think you are right about the pulse unless he stopped moving with his head in the beam so it worked on one area for more time.
@@MaxBrix it was a 70GeV proton beam, so by no means tiny. U70 is actually one of the most powerful particle accelerators in the world (it was the most powerful one ever built at the time of construction) - LHC is the only one that has its power measured in TeV and there are only a handful of GeV accelerators in the world.
except that proton treatment uses beams 1000 times less energetic than the one this scientist got hit with(70-250MeV vs 70GeV, which is 70 000 MeV) and 100 000 times less energetic than the LHC(7TeV, which is 7000 GeV, which is 7 000 000 MeV), so it's not really a fair comparison.
Simon, as always, very interesting. Your delivery definitely makes it, as well as the self-deprecating humor and WTF reactions.
The real question is how good would I look if I wore Mack Weldon AND stuck my head in a particle accelerator?
good.
@@TodayIFoundOut Really glad you didn't get your legal team involved with this reply.
I love that you are less business and more fun doing your videos. Makes them more enjoyable to watch! So I'm learning and being entertained! Bravo!
You must be the most well-informed person on the Earth, if you can remember any of it...
This has to be the most casual I have seen Simon in one of his videos. He was so relaxed I was wondering if he hadn’t had a couple drinks to loosen up just before recording.
10:12 WRONG CHANNEL SIMON! BRIAN ISN’T COUNTING THESE!
I really like that last analogy, it shows that the 'drift' velocity of water in my shower is faster then the drift velocity of the electron in the light in that same bathroom.
Heck I had two classes in electronics and I never heard of drift velocity until last year. We are talking 50 years since the first class.
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"Oi, Is that your vodka shot over there inside the accelerator?"
"Let me take a loooooooooooooooo"
Vest, Simon. You were looking for the word "vest."
I can totally relate, however. I constantly have common words that I *know* I know suddenly drop out of my head, like, more times a day than I can count. This is super frustrating as I can't seem to move past it until I remember the word, usually hours later, when I will seemingly, out of nowhere, shout something like "Fuck, KETTLE!!!"
A trick I like to use to locate a forgotten word within my brain is to slowly go through the alphabet. Most of the time, when I get to the letter the word starts with, the word I was looking for pops back into my head.
See also: proton therapy
where we do this intentionally to fight cancer.
Was it just me or did you feel like you was watching business blaze? Love it!
Q: What happens when you stick your head into a particle accelerator?
A: YES
"He's in big trouble (tries to contain his laughter)" SIMON HAHAHA I LOVE THIS MODE
"Just a flesh wound!"
In regards to the last bonus fact, it's important to clarify that what we call electricity is actually a few different components and the electrons moving within the wire is only one of them. Many people have been taught that electricity is electrons moving through a wire but if it were just electrons being consumed by your light bulb, you'd have to replace the wires running through your house after a while since they have a finite amount of electrons in them but obviously no one has to do that. You can actually test this right now since if it were electrons moving up through your wire and into your light bulb, the wire would become positively charged and therefore magnetic but if you place a magnet on a wire you'll see that it is in fact magnetically neutral. What most people think of as electricity (that being what actually moves along the wire and gets consumed by an electronic device) is another component called electric charge and that part actually moves quite fast and is why your light bulb turns on immediately when you flick the switch.
Just wait until someone starts talking about "hole flow" rather than electron flow
Ah yes, p-doped semiconductors. Super helpful in creating diodes and transistors.
@@howardbaxter2514 And from which you can get a Wiley Diodee
@@kennethbrown1919 I like dealing with normal Diodees not Wiley ones 😂
Simon, I cracked up and rolled throughout the whole video. You were in rare form today. Thanks for sharing!
What would happen if somebody took every medical test that exists?
Death due to blood loss.
I'm loving how casual these are now... Simon's having natural reactions to the script... making whatever odd comments and opinions he has on the subject matter as he goes along... he's not trying too hard to be professional and it makes the video feel fresher.
Yeah, that's also why Business Blaze is his best channel.
10:12
Where the legends at?
For real... I was like is this a Business Blaze vid. I had to check.
I love how much more relaxed these videos have become!
Breaking character to laugh or comment is much less amusing when it's done every 20 seconds.
I love seeing you amused at your own script and topics. Feels more conversational and natural 👍
This Simon doesn’t seem like the normal Simon to me, Devine must’ve actually murdered and used his body to make this video 🤔
Watch Business Blaze.
@@mwindanji6714 business blaze is best blaze
@@lukassappenfield7162 I was looking for the rim shot count in the comments here lol. How easily we get conditioned :: sigh ::
I'm glad to see you having more fun and laughing in the videos. Serious information is always great but this is a nice change
SMASH THAT DISLIKE BUTTON...
I'm loving this new style you have, I have been binge watching business blaze and it is fantastic!
Another very simple analogy for the electrical current in a wire is a garden hose filled with large marbles. We're talking touching each other filled... no empty space. Push a marble into one end and another marble will pop out the other. You're screwed if you want it to light up a bulb, however. Enjoy your work quite a lot, Cheers!
Sounds like a death sentence...
You'd think so, wouldn't you? -Daven
@Sunamer Z technically, everything is a delayed death sentence
@CR Edgey.
How many channels do you have , my dude?! I love all of your videos, and you're a great narrator. I just see you everywhere on TH-cam.
Simon Whistler, that "body warming" thingy that you are wearing is called a vest.
Maybe where you come from. Not in the UK.
@@TodayIFoundOut They've got to have vests in the UK. What do you call them then? Sleeveless cardigans? Chesties? Discount shirts?
@@michaelfoye1135 a body warmer?
That bit of business blaze popping up on this video already makes it better.
Simon!!! As far as I'm concerned you now own the TH-camz. The Mack Weldon thing was priceless.
Simon is my all time favorite TH-cam presenter, especially when they let him be himself and/or ad lib. He makes me smile.
I really like the "new" Simon. Keep letting your personality and humor shine, man.
I really like that you are making jokes and breaking the stale character. For the longer videos it really helps my attention lol
I really like that you have started to loosen up and joke about stuff in these vids!
_I'm 9weeks recovering right now from my second fully detached retina. My surgery (at Duke Eye Center) on the 1st detached retina in 2015, was 5 days after it completely detached. My vision returned 100% in left eye, with just a slight power differential. My latest retinal detachment (right eye) was also a full detachment and my surgery was 7 days after it detached. All seems to be heading towards 100% recovery of vision._
I think Simon is cracking under the pressure of quarantine lol 😂
You don't push electrons through a wire. You pull them, or more accurately, you attract them. You present a lack of electrons to the wire with an electron source at the other end (typically both are from the same power source). The lack of electrons is positively charged and causes extra electrons in the outer shells of the atoms of the conducting material to rush to fill the gap leaving a gap behind. The gap left behind is filled by electrons farther along the wire. So effectively, you have a stream of gaps traveling in the opposite direction of the stream of electrons. This stream of gaps moves along far more quickly than the electrons in total. That's in direct current. Alternating current has the electron/gap movement go back and forth instead of in one direction, kind of like in a shaker. This makes it a lot more efficient to travel long distances.