You absolutely do, and I would be devastated if you lost your luxurious lion's mane! Sadly it's too late for me... Loving the channel, Keeps up the good work sir.
A little fun fact about this episode, something most musician know a little bit about, is the faces made while playing an instrument are completely involuntary!
During my hippy guitar playing time, during my post middle school-freshman years, my friends would tell me that I make the funniest faces while I played my guitar, when I was deeply focused. During that time, I felt the best. Truly the highlight of my younger days. It's in the best memories data bank in the old noggin. P.S. I had really long hair, but not a ponytail; that was my older brother! 😆🤣
Guitar physics correction: You aren’t creating a node when you place your finger there. There are always nodes along the string’s length, but the fundamental is much louder and it’s the only one we usually perceive. Placing your finger lightly over various points along the string blocks the fundamental and other wavelengths while allowing one of the nodes to continue vibrating relatively undisturbed. The sound of all those different overtone notes together combine into the sound we normally hear when we pluck a string. Read up on the harmonic or overtone series for more. It gets super interesting! Especially when you find out about how blurry the line between rhythm and pitch/polyrhythm and harmony actually gets. Source: Have long hair. Am dead guitar TH-camr.
I studied acoustics, and you're completely right. You always have the fundamental with its harmonics all playing simultaneously, which can be visualized in a FFT. With that technique he is choosing the harmonic he wants to highlight, and every harmonic has a different character to it.
no, not Office Hours. A brand new series called String Theory. It could be like his twitch gaming series where he jams as he talks about related science stuff that appears in what he's playing (his jams could be informal cover performances or perhaps they're presentations done during practice sessions as he works on a proper performance video), or it could be some practical-science demonstration stuff that uses music or music-making phenomena. Another option could be similar to Neil and Chuck's StarTalk format where Kyle invites an expert with musical interest to talk about something sciency interspersed with little performances. Kyle could even play gameshow host like Tom Scott where various sci-coms have to compete/perform in some way...like, I dunno, sing a song about Bernoulli's Principle or compose an arrangement using science experiments as your musical instruments.
Hello, RF engineer here. I have a pretty HUGE point of contention. In your equation at 9:10, you (and i guess the folks who wrote that paper) completely dropped the relative dielectric of the medium the wave is traveling. The real equation is Lambda = C / (Sqrt(er) * f). As you say, water is a pretty strong dielectric due to its H bonding. Naïve google search puts the er of water at 78. Google is also pretty good at preserving units, try searching: (speed of light / ( sqrt(78) * 315 MHz))/2 to meters. So whatever is acting as the antenna in your body, is some multiple of that length. The wavelength you have at 9:10 is for a wave traveling in air. Caveat, to all that. That assumes the wave (more precisely the E and H fields) are 100% contained in the body. If whatever mechanism is creating the antenna allows the fields to exist in both the body and air simultaneously, the effective dielectric will be somewhat less than 78 but still pretty large in comparison to common dielectric materials used for antenna design. All that being said, love your work, always leaning something new, subbed long ago.
im in the same boat... tried to learn guitar on my own, but lacked the persistence to train on a regular basis to get more than a couple of chords out of it. can whistle a tune though so im fine
Two possibilities: It was his gf's guitar. Or He does play guitar, it is part of his secret evil identity. We can clearly see he does (maybe not pro, but he does).
And here I thought "what a flex, to buy a nice guitar just FOR SCIENCE" and I was hoping he might take lessons. Not much else to do during the pandemic.
@6:56 Kyle starts moving his hands at the exact frame rate of the video to make it look like he isn't even playing at all! Absolutely an amazing person! Love the videos!
Genuinely impressed with the guitar skills! I've been using this for years, I just assumed a portion of the waves where bouncing off my skull back to the car, rather than being sent out into the open air.
I have a sneaky suspicion that this whole episode was made just so you could show off your excellent riff's and hair, it was a 2 for 1. well played sir, well played
Mechanic here, I’ve use this trick to find cars around the dealership easier for a few years now, at 1st I thought it was bs but it really helps, also used it at Disneyland/ Six flags packing lots.
"Surprised that he can actually play, but he's not great." Then the song you made gets stuck in my head and I catch myself mentally jamming to it all day.
Kyle: Does a Keeps add Me: Why would he? Even without Keeps, Kyle's hair should outlast the half-life of plutonium. Then me again: Oh right most of other men's hairs will recede in recognition of their superior.
I once had an old Toshiba satellite with a shitty Wi-Fi card that would _only_ work in my room if it was sitting on my right leg in a _very_ particular way. Good to know this is a thing and I'm not some electro-magnetic freak lol
@@2012TH-camWasBetter Yes, it was shitty, but that isn't an explanation. If it were standard glitchiness as shitty hardware tends to produce, it would not have behaved the same way every day for an entire year. It's not like I was pushing it back into place with my leg, I had opened the case several times and KNOW the card was secure because _I_ was the one who had fastened it. Also, in the case of this model, the wifi card mounted* horizontally, so pressing on it with my leg wouldn't affect the connection whatsoever. The only reasonable explanation in that something was amplifying the singal, and circumstantially, that something would have to be my leg. It didn't work at all if it wasn't in that particular spot; I'd have to go to a completely different room if I got sick of holding it that way (which I did often, as it was heavy). If you have a better explanation, feel free to profer it, but simply saying it doesn't work that way isn't sufficient to change my mind. Wi-fi uses radio waves, and I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that I can amplify radio signals as I've tested the shit out of it over the course of my life, particularly in my "listening to the radio on an alarm clock" period. I also know beyond a shadow of a doubt that I specifically _interfere_ with Bluetooth frequencies, but that's only relevant in regards to the fact that my bio-mass interacts with all sorts of shit.
Think he dismissed it as being caused by the same effect because the keyfobs work due to their operating frequency and the whole body matching that and working as a resonating cavity thing. Wifi runs at much higher frequencies, 99% of the time either 2.4ghz or 5ghz so has much smaller waves of 12cm and 6cm. Besides that 2.4ghz is also readily absorbed by water and so would not get reflected around your skull and amplified in the same manner for that reason as well.
Playing on the “nodes” you mentioned is called “harmonics” in guitar terms and if you Pluck two neighboring harmonic notes on a guitar that is slightly out of tune, the disruptive effect the two notes have in each other is greatly increased and you can hear it very clearly. This therefore becomes a very good way to tune the guitar if you know one of the strings IS in perfect tune, you play one of the harmonics on that string and then the harmonic on the “off” string. The disruptive effect is VERY obvious,, you can hear it clear as day in the vibrato, it sounds like two entirely different vibrations smacking into each other. You then tune the off string until you can hear the disruption change from clashing with itself into a smooth blending of the tones. It’s a cool effect, you don’t simply hear the two notes start to sound the same, you hear the two vibrations meld to be perfectly in sync.
9:53 You weren't just "a lot" better at guitar than I thought, you floored me man! I hate you(in a loving way), you look amazing and you have so many skills. You're my idol, Kyle. Keep living your best life.
Kyle: you, a Human person, are mostly meat. Me: yes, I am Human. I am not a a secret shapeshifting reptillian alien from the second moon of jupiter. come here to spy on the filthy ape creatures.
I was getting angry at the fact you had such a nice Ibanez and “didn’t know how to play.” But then you hit me with that groovy riff and made up for it.
When I was younger I did something similar, but instead it was using a cheap little handheld radio. In my room, which was in the basement, I couldn't get any signal but once I placed it against myself I was able to actually get a station (I believe it was an AM station). And I can't remember for sure, but I think I had best results putting it against my head. I knew I had to be acting as an antenna of some kind, but I just wasn't sure how. This video has now explained a long time mystery of my life!
I learned about this few years ago from a testing "life hacks" TV Show. I've done this a few times to not only unlock my car, but also to open the garage door as well with my grandparents old door clicker. Head full of jelly 😆...
As a cellist, I’d like to point out some other neat things you can do with those resonance points. While pressing on them and playing does give you those nice overtones like you showed, you can also get other notes to play. By placing your finger on the point but not pressing it down, you can get the harmonic to play instead of what you’d normally get by pressing on it. Not sure if it works on guitars, but you should definitely check out these harmonics and how they work.
Nah a pinch harmonic is where you actually fret the string but use a different pick technique to create a more present harmonic sound. Lightly touching the strings when you pick but not fully fretting in the right spots creates a natural harmonic, which is what kyle was doing and is exactly the same concept as on cello. Its a much more gentle sound than pinch harmonics
Well, you just gave an introduction to how we get ultrasound imaging for medical uses (Even MRI sort of uses the water dielectric propieties to align H+ atoms using strong magnetic fields), You can talk hours enjoying how amazing is our capacity to find creative uses to this sort of things. Amazing! Greetings from Ecuador, South America!
I know we all appreciate Kyle's guitar skills, but can we appreciate how effective he was at *seeming* like he didn't know how to play, then gradually fading into actual shredding?
3:19 top gear was the reason i knew of this “hack” it was probably near 15 years ago at this point but i still remember Clarkson opening his mouth then cheering in delight when it worked. I think i was the only person to mention it when you made your poll too but im glad you knew of it
@Kyle Hill This both explains and reminds me of when I was a kid, my brothers and I would open our mouths/tilt our heads and/or bodies in the car and get either get better or worse radio signal when we were listening to FM music. It sounds like the same concept and pretty cool to have it explained... BECAUSE SCIENCE!... Oh... Hmm... wait a minute... Wrong channel... Or is it?
This video makes me feel a little less crazy. In high school, there was a local student ran radio station that I liked to listen to while cleaning the house, but it didn't come in very well. However, I found that if I stood in one spot in my living room, the signal was crystal clear. Any other place in the room, and I would get static interference. I could only assume at the time that my body was somehow enhancing the signal to the radio. Probably not the same phenomena that's happening in the video, but I was still reminded and reassured a bit. Edit: did some math, and actually it might be the same thing, just weird that it was that one spot. The broadcast frequency was 88.1 MHz, which would give it a wavelength of 3.4m or about 11' 2". I was about 5' 6-8" at the time.
For for years I've been pulling that joke I grab a guitar after saying I wish I could play guitar and then just start shredding. it touched my heart to see Kyle Hill do the exact same thing
Real talk: A handsome Nerd-Thor with amazing hair is pretty much the best spokesman for a male hair product possible. Whoever your marketing team is, Keeps, you nailed it.
As much as I love the production value that Kyle has built this channel up to have, if there's one thing I miss from the old days, it's Kyle's drawings - they were awesome! I wonder if we'll ever get "classic" themed episode one day 🤔
I still have a question: you said the human body works because have 2x the lengh of the wave plus the water inside. The jug has the water but lack the lengh. Why it works?
Hello Kyle, thanks for a fun video! And yes, I went out into the parking lot with my key fob afterward, with mixed results. I used the car alarm button. The side of the head (temple) worked better than under the chin. However, the improvement was minimal, a gain of about 10 feet of head over hand. Blame it on an old car, old fob, low battery, but it did work. And now I have a headache...
This is super fascinating, as I've often wondered if we (as individuals) are like wavelengths of energy that our particular bodies pick up on, as if one were a "meat antenna". Or, if all life is the same wavelength and that individuality comes from what divergent experiences we all end up having. Though I don't like what the latter theory implies.
That sounds weirdly similar to the idea of a living spirit that is bound to a meat body, but in a very confused way since, if you think about it, wavelengths of energy don't just stop in random bodies of matter and hang around in it until that vessel just stops functioning and no sooner, as well as the point that energy itself doesn't equal intelligence. "Intelligence" itself isn't even defined to begin with, since barring spirits/religion (ie: intelligence comes from the spirit being that is temporarily bound to a meat body for a limited experience on Earth for the purpose of education and the Big Test), literally no explanation has actually managed to be shown as "true" (And there is no "close to proven", because you would have to know the answer as a fact to judge if it is close or not), though a number of theories have been shown to be increasingly unlikely or straight up wrong. Also weird since that would imply there is a freaky "intelligence energy wave" that propagates through the universe yet apparently only works on humans, has only unique, never-repeating waveforms, and is apparently impossible to detect, analyze, or generate (which would make artificial intelligence the easiest thing ever).
Would a sphere of water with a diameter of the resonance frequency be the best. Also does the orientation of the bottle matter? If so what way is best?
Yeah Kyle! That shred was awesome! As you can see by my lack of ponytail, I can't play the guitar but ... I do sing, any chance you'd do a video on the science of vocal chords! Maybe even include a fun segment on say... Black Canary's powers (Justice League).?
Haha, Kyle being American is really showing this episode (nothing wrong with that). I live in a Swedish city. I can literally walk, ride a bicykle, or use cheap public transport to get wherever I need to go (even between cities), as the city and surrounding areas and municipalities are made to accomodate bicykles and pedestrians over cars. In my adult life (so the past 18 years) I've needed a car 5 times. Three of them was because I moved from one city to another, one for moving a couch and once to quickly get to and back from a little town halfway across the country in the same day. I literally cannot justify the cost of owning a car, thus I just rent or borrow one if I need one. In the USA, it is my understanding that you basically need a car in most of the country. But here, you do just fine without one as long as you live in a city and don't need to wrangle children. 😄
Ryan Gosling comments on this phenomenon in La La Land (a film I adore), and I’m so mad I never thought to do a video about it myself. Great work and keep shredding that guitar!
Funny fact: If you do it in Rio de Janeiro, it doesn't work, that's because when you leave your car unlocked in Rio de Janeiro, when you try to lock it from a distance, the car will be gone. 👍
I showed this episode to my wife who rolled her eyes hard because I did this almost 9 years ago at our old apartment. She thought I was crazy but I was able to prove it worked. Still, now that it's scientifically proven, she hates that I was right. 🤣
When you played that harmonic (node) in one shot I thought to myself, hmmm... He did that pretty easily. Then the bass loop starts up and I thought you were going to start faking the playing. But then, watching your fingers I realized, whoa wait a minute... He's actually playing that shit! And he's rocking it out GOOD! You sir, never fail to impress. And you're damn right. You were much better than I was expecting. Great video man. Thanks for sharing. 🤟
I do believe Kyle swallowed a BS article about a comet taking out 'Sodom' written by some biblical archaeology loons and did a livestream about it that he clearly regrets.
As a musician who loves science and has been watching Kyle for years (and also how's a ponytail 😎), this is my new favorite video of his lmao. It used to be the elephant's foot, but that jam was just,, chefs kiss
I knew you could play when you hit that sweet bell note at the beginning...not easy to hit those. I know because I really do suck at music. All kinds. I can't even hum right. -It's a gift.
*Thanks for watching!* Try this at home if you want to. (And let's just admit I do the best Keeps ads alright.)
_PLEASE DON'T _*_EVER_*_ LOSE YOUR HAIR OR YOUR LOVE OF SCIENCE YOU BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL MAN!!!_
I will definitely be trying this
You absolutely do, and I would be devastated if you lost your luxurious lion's mane! Sadly it's too late for me... Loving the channel, Keeps up the good work sir.
Do you wear a wig
Wait, so you trying to say our heads are quite literally resonant cavities? hmmm... That's not nice.
Let’s be honest, the whole point of this video was just for Kyle to flex his shredding skills!
I was suspicious the moment I heard a perfect harmonic getting plucked.
@@1TakoyakiStore Haha yep, just anyone can't play harmonics and know which frets to hit the perfect ones on.
lmao right?!
@@89ludeawakening1 I hope I'm not getting wooshed, but it's super easy to do. I suck at guitar but I know where to play the harmonics
@@89ludeawakening1 what? My unborn baby knows where the harmonics are and how to pluck them
A little fun fact about this episode, something most musician know a little bit about, is the faces made while playing an instrument are completely involuntary!
*laughs in percussionist*
As a drummer when you get that good beat your face gets real weird
During my hippy guitar playing time, during my post middle school-freshman years, my friends would tell me that I make the funniest faces while I played my guitar, when I was deeply focused. During that time, I felt the best. Truly the highlight of my younger days. It's in the best memories data bank in the old noggin.
P.S. I had really long hair, but not a ponytail; that was my older brother! 😆🤣
@@A-A-Ron95 yet another Hemsworth smh
@@PieBoy4242 yea we make faces, grunts, moans, yells, EVERYTHING. you'd have some porn audio if you just put a lav mic on a live drummer
Kyle just wanted to show off his guitar skills.
Looked fake to me, like a french mime.
I see no problem with this.
And it rocks
AxxL was he actually paying or not? I didn't got it.
And they kinda good ngl. Looked pretty legit. Also who is this axxl guy. Almost smirked at a video… not really my vibe
"Every guy with a pony tail knows how to rock."
(starts reflecting on all of my old friends and acquintances)
Fuck, that's true.
Fuck I gotta learn how to play
i have a pony tail. perhaps i should pick up a guitar and see what happens
*has small ponytail*
🤔
*Is good at baby guitar (Ukulele)*
Guitar physics correction: You aren’t creating a node when you place your finger there. There are always nodes along the string’s length, but the fundamental is much louder and it’s the only one we usually perceive. Placing your finger lightly over various points along the string blocks the fundamental and other wavelengths while allowing one of the nodes to continue vibrating relatively undisturbed. The sound of all those different overtone notes together combine into the sound we normally hear when we pluck a string. Read up on the harmonic or overtone series for more. It gets super interesting! Especially when you find out about how blurry the line between rhythm and pitch/polyrhythm and harmony actually gets. Source: Have long hair. Am dead guitar TH-camr.
Antinode
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I studied acoustics, and you're completely right. You always have the fundamental with its harmonics all playing simultaneously, which can be visualized in a FFT. With that technique he is choosing the harmonic he wants to highlight, and every harmonic has a different character to it.
no one asked ya tho🤗
@@tcejay724 As if someone asked you, 😂
*Kyle actually plays guitar well *
*Me:* "Not gonna lie, you had us in the first half."
Kyle: "You are mostly meat"
Me: "Nuh-uh, I'm mostly water--"
Kyle: "And that meat is mostly water"
Me: "........... as you were, science man"
As a guy who at times rocks a ponytail, yea we all know how to rock.
You guys should have a ponytail guitar battle
I had a pony tail for years, cut it off. Can still rock.
longhair reporting for rockin'
Well, that explains why my military haircut self can't play for beans.
Can confirm
Kyle: "Hello Doc"
Doctor: "Hi Kyle"
Kyle: "Y- You too!"
*Communication 100*
That's a three-way handshake right there
komunikashon
Ok, now I want Kyle’s latest science album featuring his new single, “Meat Antenna”!!
Same here.
I've got a meat antenna.
@@garrysekelli6776 🍻
Send it to light speed 100722…and push go✈️
I'll take 5
"Get out of my shot" Yells the man at the fly, now stuck in his whiskey.
I was listening while working and stopped just to go back and find out what the offender had done. The exasperation made me laugh.
Yeah we definitely need an Office Hours now that's just an hour of Kyle jamming.
This but unironically.
no, not Office Hours. A brand new series called String Theory. It could be like his twitch gaming series where he jams as he talks about related science stuff that appears in what he's playing (his jams could be informal cover performances or perhaps they're presentations done during practice sessions as he works on a proper performance video), or it could be some practical-science demonstration stuff that uses music or music-making phenomena.
Another option could be similar to Neil and Chuck's StarTalk format where Kyle invites an expert with musical interest to talk about something sciency interspersed with little performances. Kyle could even play gameshow host like Tom Scott where various sci-coms have to compete/perform in some way...like, I dunno, sing a song about Bernoulli's Principle or compose an arrangement using science experiments as your musical instruments.
do you think he'll play Oasis?
@@takeachance5881 I was not being ironic.
@@matthewlofton8465 I approve of your pun
Hello, RF engineer here. I have a pretty HUGE point of contention. In your equation at 9:10, you (and i guess the folks who wrote that paper) completely dropped the relative dielectric of the medium the wave is traveling. The real equation is Lambda = C / (Sqrt(er) * f). As you say, water is a pretty strong dielectric due to its H bonding. Naïve google search puts the er of water at 78. Google is also pretty good at preserving units, try searching: (speed of light / ( sqrt(78) * 315 MHz))/2 to meters. So whatever is acting as the antenna in your body, is some multiple of that length. The wavelength you have at 9:10 is for a wave traveling in air.
Caveat, to all that. That assumes the wave (more precisely the E and H fields) are 100% contained in the body. If whatever mechanism is creating the antenna allows the fields to exist in both the body and air simultaneously, the effective dielectric will be somewhat less than 78 but still pretty large in comparison to common dielectric materials used for antenna design. All that being said, love your work, always leaning something new, subbed long ago.
Wouldn’t this effect be frequency dependent? Maybe for water and air the coefficient is not that different at radio range
"Hello doctor"
"Hello Kyle"
"You too"
I can feel the pain that came afterwards and the thousand of hours spend thinking about it.
Come on, Kyle. You could've used the "Every guy with a ponytail knows how to rock" line with the Keeps ad. It would've *resonated* well.
good one lol
Kyle is by far the best ad I'd watch any ad he would be in
Kyle: "I'm... not good at guitar"
**singsongy voice** Aw, muffin...
**Kyle shreds**
You lie.. lol
he lied so he can impress aria with his smooth rocking skills
Kyle that was a really cool take on blues riffs when you went into that nasty chromatic thing going down the neck. Boss shit.
Kyle: " Every guy with a ponytail knows how to rock. "
Me, a guy with a ponytail who doesn't know how to play an instrument. " Yeah...sure. "
No need to be modest you ponytailed musical god
@@jonnysinclair2186 I literally don't know how to play any musical instrument dude. 😆
You have failed us :'(
im in the same boat...
tried to learn guitar on my own, but lacked the persistence to train on a regular basis to get more than a couple of chords out of it.
can whistle a tune though so im fine
Don't sell yourself short. You can play bass...
Trust me.
I was wondering why someone who “didn’t know how to play” had such a nice looking and well kept guitar
I was going to ask the same thing...
That is ADHD in action. I also have a lot of nice things that i dont know how to use.
@@bendooley550 stop revealing our secrets
Two possibilities:
It was his gf's guitar. Or
He does play guitar, it is part of his secret evil identity. We can clearly see he does (maybe not pro, but he does).
And here I thought "what a flex, to buy a nice guitar just FOR SCIENCE" and I was hoping he might take lessons. Not much else to do during the pandemic.
@6:56 Kyle starts moving his hands at the exact frame rate of the video to make it look like he isn't even playing at all! Absolutely an amazing person! Love the videos!
I can't tell if you're joking but I hope you are
The pause between "best car show" and "in the world" was at least 5 minutes too short. Still a perfect 5/7 video tho
Haha HAMMOND
Underrated comment!
Heh
And on that bombshell, it’s back to the studio
"I have a pony tail I probably know how to play guitar" has very similar vibes to the old South Park "Token, you're black. Just play the bass."
Genuinely impressed with the guitar skills!
I've been using this for years, I just assumed a portion of the waves where bouncing off my skull back to the car, rather than being sent out into the open air.
I have a sneaky suspicion that this whole episode was made just so you could show off your excellent riff's and hair, it was a 2 for 1. well played sir, well played
hell yeah, kyle hill rocking that guitar just hits the spot of cool science
@1:55 "If I try to lock it, I cannot unlock my car" Words to live by, truly inspirational.
Am I the only one here that NEEDS a Kyle Hill Music Channel now?
Nah you aren't alone
Reminds me of the joy finding out that Jeph Jaques (Questionable Content web comic artist) actually played for real. And had recorded albums.
Like just for the " ... wow, I really hope he doesn't start playing Oasis ..."
Mechanic here, I’ve use this trick to find cars around the dealership easier for a few years now, at 1st I thought it was bs but it really helps, also used it at Disneyland/ Six flags packing lots.
"Surprised that he can actually play, but he's not great."
Then the song you made gets stuck in my head and I catch myself mentally jamming to it all day.
Kyle: Does a Keeps add
Me: Why would he? Even without Keeps, Kyle's hair should outlast the half-life of plutonium.
Then me again: Oh right most of other men's hairs will recede in recognition of their superior.
im 24. im literally balding as we speak
@@pvic6959 youre lucky, have a friend that started balding at like 19/20ish although he looked like Kyle at 13yo...
@@JiggyT :'( rip
"Hello Kyle"
"You too"
Kyle just gets me, even in the ad breaks.
I once had an old Toshiba satellite with a shitty Wi-Fi card that would _only_ work in my room if it was sitting on my right leg in a _very_ particular way. Good to know this is a thing and I'm not some electro-magnetic freak lol
Lmao i had a tv antenna that was like that sometimes. During storms i had to raise my arm (i was short then)
I had that exact same computer and wifi card and issue
Just a shitty wifi card. Wifi has much lower range than radio transmission key fobs. This trick wont work with data or wifi sadly.
@@2012TH-camWasBetter Yes, it was shitty, but that isn't an explanation. If it were standard glitchiness as shitty hardware tends to produce, it would not have behaved the same way every day for an entire year. It's not like I was pushing it back into place with my leg, I had opened the case several times and KNOW the card was secure because _I_ was the one who had fastened it. Also, in the case of this model, the wifi card mounted* horizontally, so pressing on it with my leg wouldn't affect the connection whatsoever. The only reasonable explanation in that something was amplifying the singal, and circumstantially, that something would have to be my leg. It didn't work at all if it wasn't in that particular spot; I'd have to go to a completely different room if I got sick of holding it that way (which I did often, as it was heavy).
If you have a better explanation, feel free to profer it, but simply saying it doesn't work that way isn't sufficient to change my mind. Wi-fi uses radio waves, and I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that I can amplify radio signals as I've tested the shit out of it over the course of my life, particularly in my "listening to the radio on an alarm clock" period. I also know beyond a shadow of a doubt that I specifically _interfere_ with Bluetooth frequencies, but that's only relevant in regards to the fact that my bio-mass interacts with all sorts of shit.
Think he dismissed it as being caused by the same effect because the keyfobs work due to their operating frequency and the whole body matching that and working as a resonating cavity thing. Wifi runs at much higher frequencies, 99% of the time either 2.4ghz or 5ghz so has much smaller waves of 12cm and 6cm. Besides that 2.4ghz is also readily absorbed by water and so would not get reflected around your skull and amplified in the same manner for that reason as well.
Playing on the “nodes” you mentioned is called “harmonics” in guitar terms and if you Pluck two neighboring harmonic notes on a guitar that is slightly out of tune, the disruptive effect the two notes have in each other is greatly increased and you can hear it very clearly. This therefore becomes a very good way to tune the guitar if you know one of the strings IS in perfect tune, you play one of the harmonics on that string and then the harmonic on the “off” string. The disruptive effect is VERY obvious,, you can hear it clear as day in the vibrato, it sounds like two entirely different vibrations smacking into each other. You then tune the off string until you can hear the disruption change from clashing with itself into a smooth blending of the tones.
It’s a cool effect, you don’t simply hear the two notes start to sound the same, you hear the two vibrations meld to be perfectly in sync.
The prelude to battling Kyle Olympus Mons is a Scott Pilgrim-style Rock battle.
9:53 You weren't just "a lot" better at guitar than I thought, you floored me man! I hate you(in a loving way), you look amazing and you have so many skills.
You're my idol, Kyle. Keep living your best life.
The TH-cam guy with the best hair makes an ad for keeps... golden!
And he did the advert well too.
I watched the whole thing
locks
Kyle: you, a Human person, are mostly meat.
Me: yes, I am Human. I am not a a secret shapeshifting reptillian alien from the second moon of jupiter. come here to spy on the filthy ape creatures.
Jokes on you reptiles are mostly meat
I was getting angry at the fact you had such a nice Ibanez and “didn’t know how to play.” But then you hit me with that groovy riff and made up for it.
Yeah I was think that was a really nice guitar for someone that doesn't know how to play haha
When I was younger I did something similar, but instead it was using a cheap little handheld radio. In my room, which was in the basement, I couldn't get any signal but once I placed it against myself I was able to actually get a station (I believe it was an AM station). And I can't remember for sure, but I think I had best results putting it against my head. I knew I had to be acting as an antenna of some kind, but I just wasn't sure how. This video has now explained a long time mystery of my life!
I learned about this few years ago from a testing "life hacks" TV Show. I've done this a few times to not only unlock my car, but also to open the garage door as well with my grandparents old door clicker. Head full of jelly 😆...
Nobody:
Car: excuse me just passing by
Kyle: GeT oUT oF my SsHhhAAAT
Ok, srsly; was that "get out of my shot!" thing planned? I used to do videography and I feel that.
Kyle: I wish I know how to play guitar :(
Also Kyle: *subtlety flexes with an epic guitar solo
As a cellist, I’d like to point out some other neat things you can do with those resonance points. While pressing on them and playing does give you those nice overtones like you showed, you can also get other notes to play. By placing your finger on the point but not pressing it down, you can get the harmonic to play instead of what you’d normally get by pressing on it. Not sure if it works on guitars, but you should definitely check out these harmonics and how they work.
Pretty sure he was doing just that, sounded like pitch harmonics to me
Always loved doing those with my violin
@@DarkWolfseternalfire Ah, you’re right. He just called it something different.
He pinched at the 12th fret (length/2) to create what musicians call pinch harmonic
Nah a pinch harmonic is where you actually fret the string but use a different pick technique to create a more present harmonic sound. Lightly touching the strings when you pick but not fully fretting in the right spots creates a natural harmonic, which is what kyle was doing and is exactly the same concept as on cello. Its a much more gentle sound than pinch harmonics
When Kyle perfectly demonstrated those natural string harmonics, everyone who's ever tried them knew the "I don't know guitar" thing was a ruse :-D
Natural harmonics are the easiest harmonics to play on a guitar though...
Well, you just gave an introduction to how we get ultrasound imaging for medical uses (Even MRI sort of uses the water dielectric propieties to align H+ atoms using strong magnetic fields), You can talk hours enjoying how amazing is our capacity to find creative uses to this sort of things. Amazing! Greetings from Ecuador, South America!
I don't believe that was really Kyle playing. Post-production magic.
Ya know, i think you might be right
I know we all appreciate Kyle's guitar skills, but can we appreciate how effective he was at *seeming* like he didn't know how to play, then gradually fading into actual shredding?
The second he perfectly shaped a g chord, palm muted it to make it sound bad, then played harmonics I knew it was all a bit.
@@PhaythGaming the harmonics was a dead giveaway. Lol
@@89ludeawakening1 exactly.
@@89ludeawakening1 them shits annoying as fuck to play.
@@PhaythGaming Haha most definitely they are, especially in the middle of a riff and you need to hit one.
legit got me, was feeling all smug, being able to play some guitar, then you busted out mad licks & brought me strait back down to earth.
I knew he could play as soon as he busted out those perfect harmonics
I’m assuming this is also why a radio gets a better signal when you’re standing near it?🤔
For me it goes static
As I grow my hair for the first time I'm also learning guitar. That's explains why I'm getting better not the hours of practice! Thanks Kyle! SCIENCE!
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top gear was the reason i knew of this “hack” it was probably near 15 years ago at this point but i still remember Clarkson opening his mouth then cheering in delight when it worked. I think i was the only person to mention it when you made your poll too but im glad you knew of it
I knew there was a 100% chance that Kyle was trolling us about his guitar skills.
@Kyle Hill This both explains and reminds me of when I was a kid, my brothers and I would open our mouths/tilt our heads and/or bodies in the car and get either get better or worse radio signal when we were listening to FM music. It sounds like the same concept and pretty cool to have it explained... BECAUSE SCIENCE!... Oh... Hmm... wait a minute... Wrong channel... Or is it?
So, Kyle made a video about his guitar skills, thats a pleasant surprise
This video makes me feel a little less crazy. In high school, there was a local student ran radio station that I liked to listen to while cleaning the house, but it didn't come in very well. However, I found that if I stood in one spot in my living room, the signal was crystal clear. Any other place in the room, and I would get static interference. I could only assume at the time that my body was somehow enhancing the signal to the radio. Probably not the same phenomena that's happening in the video, but I was still reminded and reassured a bit.
Edit: did some math, and actually it might be the same thing, just weird that it was that one spot. The broadcast frequency was 88.1 MHz, which would give it a wavelength of 3.4m or about 11' 2". I was about 5' 6-8" at the time.
Unlock my car? My brain doesn't even know where the keys are!
For for years I've been pulling that joke I grab a guitar after saying I wish I could play guitar and then just start shredding. it touched my heart to see Kyle Hill do the exact same thing
Omg...you're Mythbusting. I'm gonna fucking cry.
CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS REAL!
This is so awesome!
Real talk: A handsome Nerd-Thor with amazing hair is pretty much the best spokesman for a male hair product possible. Whoever your marketing team is, Keeps, you nailed it.
He had me in the first half with his feigning of hopelessness at guitar, ngl
Aria: "You can't play Guitar"
Kyle: "My name is Kyle and I have a pony tail, I have a natural predisposition to playing guitar"
I can't wait when my brain can actually make money to afford a car!
I want to hear more of that jam that was shred. It's stuck in my head now. Especially that last riff right at the end. That was sick 🤘
Do my eyes deceive me? An actual new video instead of just a ton of meme spam community posts? A miracle! ;)
Also, that's some pretty sick shredding!
As much as I love the production value that Kyle has built this channel up to have, if there's one thing I miss from the old days, it's Kyle's drawings - they were awesome!
I wonder if we'll ever get "classic" themed episode one day 🤔
Kyle needs a band now, named Office Hours. First album could be "Sounds from the Facility."
I still have a question: you said the human body works because have 2x the lengh of the wave plus the water inside. The jug has the water but lack the lengh. Why it works?
I am so glad this channel exists.
Improving our brains to then unlock them. Nice.
I truly appreciate how Kyle found a way to make playing a guitar look painful
This was just a wonderful video from beginning to end. The sponsor bit was even excellent. Thanks Kyle.
Hello Kyle, thanks for a fun video! And yes, I went out into the parking lot with my key fob afterward, with mixed results. I used the car alarm button. The side of the head (temple) worked better than under the chin. However, the improvement was minimal, a gain of about 10 feet of head over hand. Blame it on an old car, old fob, low battery, but it did work. And now I have a headache...
This is super fascinating, as I've often wondered if we (as individuals) are like wavelengths of energy that our particular bodies pick up on, as if one were a "meat antenna". Or, if all life is the same wavelength and that individuality comes from what divergent experiences we all end up having. Though I don't like what the latter theory implies.
That sounds weirdly similar to the idea of a living spirit that is bound to a meat body, but in a very confused way since, if you think about it, wavelengths of energy don't just stop in random bodies of matter and hang around in it until that vessel just stops functioning and no sooner, as well as the point that energy itself doesn't equal intelligence.
"Intelligence" itself isn't even defined to begin with, since barring spirits/religion (ie: intelligence comes from the spirit being that is temporarily bound to a meat body for a limited experience on Earth for the purpose of education and the Big Test), literally no explanation has actually managed to be shown as "true" (And there is no "close to proven", because you would have to know the answer as a fact to judge if it is close or not), though a number of theories have been shown to be increasingly unlikely or straight up wrong.
Also weird since that would imply there is a freaky "intelligence energy wave" that propagates through the universe yet apparently only works on humans, has only unique, never-repeating waveforms, and is apparently impossible to detect, analyze, or generate (which would make artificial intelligence the easiest thing ever).
Start a band and call it the Meat Antennas! Kudos on the playing! Fun video and very helpful lifehack as well!
Would a sphere of water with a diameter of the resonance frequency be the best. Also does the orientation of the bottle matter? If so what way is best?
That's the great thing about this phenomenon. You can test those things out yourself. Go. Be a scientist!
The orientation of the key fob could be what matters.
Congratulations on 1M subs, Kyle!
Imagine in the future you think about your car subconsciously and accidentally just unlock it for strangers to steal.
same
Imagine not watching the video :p
@@YounesLayachi I watched it, but that thought didn't let me go anyway.
@@serijas737 of course , supervillain Kyle has been controlling your thoughts using the car keys
@@YounesLayachi :Sweats:
Yeah Kyle! That shred was awesome! As you can see by my lack of ponytail, I can't play the guitar but ... I do sing, any chance you'd do a video on the science of vocal chords! Maybe even include a fun segment on say... Black Canary's powers (Justice League).?
Secret guitar solo flex in the middle of an educational science video...... shock and awe ladies and gents
Haha, Kyle being American is really showing this episode (nothing wrong with that).
I live in a Swedish city. I can literally walk, ride a bicykle, or use cheap public transport to get wherever I need to go (even between cities), as the city and surrounding areas and municipalities are made to accomodate bicykles and pedestrians over cars.
In my adult life (so the past 18 years) I've needed a car 5 times. Three of them was because I moved from one city to another, one for moving a couch and once to quickly get to and back from a little town halfway across the country in the same day.
I literally cannot justify the cost of owning a car, thus I just rent or borrow one if I need one.
In the USA, it is my understanding that you basically need a car in most of the country. But here, you do just fine without one as long as you live in a city and don't need to wrangle children. 😄
No I'm not afraid of loosing my hair. I got my moms hair genes. Her dad died with a full head. And my dad was already bald at my age.
Yeah, I think male pattern baldness is usually passed down through the mother. Maternal Uncles are usually best indicators of whether you will go bald
Ryan Gosling comments on this phenomenon in La La Land (a film I adore), and I’m so mad I never thought to do a video about it myself. Great work and keep shredding that guitar!
"oh, that's a beautiful guitar, it's a shame he can't actually-
OH MY GOODNESS"
This video has changed my life for the better.
Thank you, Saint Kyle.
Hey, I remember this question from the survey a while ago, glad to see it finally became a video, always wanted to know if it was just a myth.
Knew it wasn't a myth, I'd tried it myself after seeing it on Top Gear.
However, I had zero idea why it worked
What kind of scientific black magic forkery is this?! It's beautiful!
Funny fact: If you do it in Rio de Janeiro, it doesn't work, that's because when you leave your car unlocked in Rio de Janeiro, when you try to lock it from a distance, the car will be gone. 👍
Congrats on the 1M milestone!!!
As a guy with a ponytail, can confirm we all play guitar
I used to have a ponytail, but I dont play the guitar. So I removed the ponytail.
"You can try _this_ at home"
THE FUCKING EUPHORIA
I showed this episode to my wife who rolled her eyes hard because I did this almost 9 years ago at our old apartment. She thought I was crazy but I was able to prove it worked.
Still, now that it's scientifically proven, she hates that I was right. 🤣
I just sent this video to an ex girlfriend who thought the same thing.
When you played that harmonic (node) in one shot I thought to myself, hmmm... He did that pretty easily. Then the bass loop starts up and I thought you were going to start faking the playing. But then, watching your fingers I realized, whoa wait a minute... He's actually playing that shit! And he's rocking it out GOOD! You sir, never fail to impress. And you're damn right. You were much better than I was expecting. Great video man. Thanks for sharing. 🤟
What happened to last weeks office hours? I missed it live, and now it's unavailable.
I do believe Kyle swallowed a BS article about a comet taking out 'Sodom' written by some biblical archaeology loons and did a livestream about it that he clearly regrets.
As a musician who loves science and has been watching Kyle for years (and also how's a ponytail 😎), this is my new favorite video of his lmao. It used to be the elephant's foot, but that jam was just,, chefs kiss
Wait, I have been growing out my hair and frequently wear it in a ponytail. _Do I have powers I don't know about?_
I knew you could play when you hit that sweet bell note at the beginning...not easy to hit those.
I know because I really do suck at music. All kinds. I can't even hum right.
-It's a gift.