Beautifully explained- as the films taught us, all it took was confirmation of a constant in terms of ionization rate across all ectoplasmic entities for the guys to theorize streams of accelerated protons should be sufficient in attracting the negatively charged particles being fueled by psychokinetic energy; trapping the entity within the stream, polarizing it so as to prevent dispersion and to allow for rudimentary positioning to within the range of the portable laser containment field of the trap. Elementary, really.

@dbuc4671

Жыл бұрын

…..totally 🫠

2:55 I thoroughly geeked out when I saw this. You can see the particle beam attenuating as the beam moves farther and farther away from the point of emission! Way too cool

Dan Akroyd said that theoretically, it's possible to build a Proton Pack that works like it does in the films and the 2009 game but it would cost around $9,000,000,000.00 to do

@ImpetuouslyInsane

2 жыл бұрын

how long ago? Between inflation and sheer scientific research that price could have decreased. Not solid, but hey...

@superultimatexlrfire462

2 жыл бұрын

@@ImpetuouslyInsane Around 2008 or 2009 whenever the behind the scenes video was actually recorded

@cthulhu626

7 ай бұрын

Or three house mortgages

@SadisticMindz

6 ай бұрын

He must not know me then

@superultimatexlrfire462

6 ай бұрын

@@SadisticMindz No matter who does it, the shit would be expensive. And no, I doubt Dan knows some random on the internet.

Okay, now I want to see the Mythbusters build a proton pack and test crossing the streams.

@panie445

8 жыл бұрын

True me too

@kauske

8 жыл бұрын

+GuyWithAnAmazingHat That's one of the main functions of particle accelerators though. they smash particles into each other all the time. and while massive amounts of energy are released, it's only small numbers of particles colliding, so it takes place in a subatomic space. Long story short, we know exactly what happens when you fire to beams of particles at each other, and so far, it's not a blast that could obliterate a giant rampaging marshmallow man and banish an ancient sumerian god back into limbo.

@josephsvlogs6137

7 жыл бұрын

Well if they cross the stream it would reverse there atoms

@valkyrie4407

6 жыл бұрын

You would die its a acctual result of what theu show

@valkyrie4407

6 жыл бұрын

A proton isant supossed to be used with a accelerent

You make a great 5th Ghostbuster, Kyle

R.I.P. Harold Ramis/Egon :(

This guy is really, really good at explaining complicated science stuff. Like, the best I have seen on KZread. Absolutely loving this series.

So he called those huge magnet things Dees? So were the fasteners that held the bolts of it in place called DEES NUTS!!!!! Self-5 for outdated meme reference 😂

@TheProtronic

8 жыл бұрын

+aragonaut Damn, you beat me to it.

@nicholastosoni707

6 жыл бұрын

WROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG!

@cashtraprecords5469

3 жыл бұрын

Oh man 😂 😂 😂

You’re the bill nye of my adulthood, thanks for all your videos!

Learning new stuff never gets old.

wow. so a cyclotron is just a couple of D's.. nuts

@Salsero306r

8 жыл бұрын

+jeffrey hope Got Him!

@chrishale7480

8 жыл бұрын

He was saying something about going in the D, and I was thinking "Like a catheter?"

How about crossing the streams, Kyle? Would it be as catastrophic as Egon said it would and if so what are the chances of survival?

@Nerdist

8 жыл бұрын

+NewWaveMasquerade Ooooh, that's a good topic for a future episode. ;)

@NickHorvath

8 жыл бұрын

+NewWaveMasquerade crossing the streams would effectively be like the collision sites at a particle accelerator. There likely wouldn't be any noticeable explosions, however a fair amount of radiation would be generated in all directions from the point that they crossed. Instant death is unlikely but radiation sickness is a possibility. I certainly wouldn't want to stand nearby.

@Jdsteele96

8 жыл бұрын

You took the words from my mouth asking that question! All very cool

@crwydryny

8 жыл бұрын

+Nick Horvath if you want radiation sickness you woun't have to cross the streams you'd just have to fire the things. the backscatter from the particles colliding with the air would throw off enough radiation to kill you in a short time (well beyond lethal doses), you could get past this by using a laser to ionise the air first to help focus the beam.... but you'd still not want to fire it in close quarters

@animo358

8 жыл бұрын

+crwydryny then it might stand to reason that the proton stream is the "orange" one and a ionizing laser is the "Blue" lightning like stream, i mean if theres enough science to use actual words instead of making stuff up, it might be the excuse to, how the bonus features like to put it "Making it look pretty". I imagine given the way that that a cyclotron works this would end up curving and messing with the laser on a subatomic scale, giving it the crazed look it has when fired.

+Nerdist: Have you done a video explaining the science of Magneto's powers yet? That would so rad, and the best B-day gift EVER!! Love the videos, keep 'em coming!

@ethanwood7374

8 жыл бұрын

I believe they have

kyle, you one of my favorite you tubers. great charisma, natural entertainer and teacher. any KZread channel with you in it I'll subscribe instantly.

If the current actor for Thor gets too old, call Kyle.

@ChocoboKid216

8 жыл бұрын

I'm sure Marvel can get him into tip top Thor shape

@TheCanterlonian

8 жыл бұрын

...or just... like... edit him.

@lordraven6534

7 жыл бұрын

+ChocoboKid yeah, they look like they could be brothers!

@pupintheturdiii

7 жыл бұрын

Nikolas Powell Nah dumbass to much cgi moony

@antonydrossos5719

6 жыл бұрын

Naw; Kyle'd spent too much time explaining how his hammer actually works than actually using it

That particle was crazy for the D.

when Cyclops cries, does steam come out of his eyes?

The funniest part of all of this, the reason why some of the parts of the Proton Pack were named these things was for ease of communication between prop builders on internet forums. Yes, the pack part names were named as they were not because of scientific curiosity, but because prop builders in the fan community needed to identify the part being constructed and offer help. I was at the apex of such ID discussion and even helped in some part names. Became canon by Aykroyd because... well... he knida knew how this crap worked... Kinda hard to go against Aykroyd...

If I remember rightly, in the original ghost busters they also refer to the device as a "positron glider" which is the anti-electron of course. Again should "interfere" with ghosts if they are negatively charged, however I wonder if it's protons or positrons that they shoot.

.............just..........speachless. Mix of positive emotions

You know, I want an episode on how long you can be a ghostbuster without dying of cancer now.

I've never kept such a straight face while somone said "the D" so many times in my life

Tugging at the feels here :( Great episode nonetheless! Always looking forward to "Because Science"

Well, Ghostbusters cosplay is suddenly going to get even more competitive!!

In the words of Cisco: "That film is surprisingly accurate."

Of course ghosts are negatively charged! They are undead, and as we all know, undead creatures are linked to the negative energy plane. I knewreading RPG books would come in handy!

@harrietr.5073

2 жыл бұрын

Ghosts aren't Undead, they're dead. Or, afterdead specifically.

@kryl0b

2 жыл бұрын

@@harrietr.5073 Bah, nonsense! Ghosts, ghouls, poltergeists, vampires and zombies all fall under the “undead” creature type. I did not spend years learning the rules of Pathfinder for nothing, I’ll have you know.

@harrietr.5073

2 жыл бұрын

@@kryl0b Well, Undead as a term and creature come from D&D 1st editions Ed Greenword's writing and co-writings, such as the D&D 1st edition book, Lands Of Darkness, with Undead being able to be good or bad, but creating Undead is inherently evil, which has become flanderised to "Necromancy is inherently evil" by popular culture . It's a popular umbrella term, but I don't think it's sufficient for both Undead and the Afterliving. It's probably because Magically manipulating Life, Death, Afterlife and of course Undeath as Necromancy (unless it's biomass or flesh, since that's known as Flesh Warping in Pathfinder). But I like to specify the inbetween, like having technological machines being separate to Constructs. I just think it'd be better to clarify that ghosts aren't entities in a state of Undeath through unnatural means, usually by Necromantic Magic by using negative energies (in D&D), though it's probably a reason why the proton packs work on ghosts in Ghostbusters, assuming that ghosts are inherently negatively charged, though apparently the negative charge is mostly because of psychoactive energies instead of mystical/paramystical energies like with Necromancers. This is probably since the concept of Parapsychology has came up in the first movie, and likely is stemming from an interpretation of ghosts from a Parapsychological perspective since like xenophobic religion and science's reaction to Mesopotamia's minority Magic religion and Magic science and Magic repeating the abusive cycle by calling Psionics, Magicks, Parapsychology has a bad history of trying to explain everything supernatural via Parapsychological or psycho-acoustic phenomenon for lack of a better term. But not all umbrella terms have worked in the past, like with calling celestial bodies travellers, or as we know them, planets since astronomers and then astrophysicists realised things like stars were different to other planets, and thus called a sun, the sun and a moon, the moon after our sun 'n moon. And I think there's better terms for calling ghosts than Undead. If Fae and Elementals can be, without being called Outsiders, then can't ghosts be separated from Undead?

What particle would be best to insert to get this going ?

1:51 Hey, is that Deadpool breaking the 4th wall... AGAIN? 😁

@acac3529

3 ай бұрын

Oh that's funny lol i just noticed that

So did they shorten the length of the streams (which I never understood why they were wavy and not straight) by lowering the power output? And instead of wrapping around the ghosts shouldn't the stream of accelerated photons ripped them apart or perforated them?

A free-floating full-torso apparition!

Awesome vid, Kyle! As soon as I get done with my flux capacitor (deadline looming), I'm going to start working on a synchrotron. By the way, who's the sorry S.O.B. who has to clean the glass after it's been tagged by you?

My favourite episode ever!

Since next year there doing a Ghostbusters spin off to the original Ghostbusters in the 80's you should do an episode of the ghost trap and how it works and

I didn´t know there is another Hemsworth brother. :D

@cashtraprecords5469

3 жыл бұрын

😂 😂 😂

so, in Iron Man 2, when Tony makes an arc reactor/particle accelerator in his home, would that be a cyclotron, synchrotron, or something entirely different?

@KaosFireMaker

8 жыл бұрын

Fusion reactor, or weird paladium decay reactor.

Kyle, just for your remark at 1:13 I have a question for you at 1:25. Does that cyclotron have double Ds?

best series on the internet.

Where did you get the picture show at 4:06

R.I.P. Eagon.

love those references, lol

wouldn't a particle in a cyclotron gain more speed if it started on the outside of the circle, gaining centrifugal force as it moved toward teh middle and its radius was reduced?

How does this oscilating electric current work? It has to be synchronized to the particles position in the D. And every particle has to be in the same position as well.

What would the construct of the Ghost have to be made of for the proton pack to effectively work as the weapon of choice?

You're such a dork, Kyle. I love it.

1:26 NUTTZ!!!

3:10 No dude, it's the Backstreet Boys who do that. It's called the Backstreet Beast. I saw it on Celebrity Deathmatch.

wow science does kick ass!

how do you even get the particle in the first place?

@DevilMaster

5 жыл бұрын

The particles (protons in this case) start their existence as hydrogen molecules in a canister (and as you may know, a hydrogen atom is a proton with an electron around it). A flow of hydrogen gas is run through a device called duoplasmatron (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duoplasmatron ) which breaks it down into protons and electrons. A positive charge is used to repel the protons out of the duoplasmatron and into the accelerator (see www.lhc-closer.es/taking_a_closer_look_at_lhc/0.proton_source )

Best one take ever at 1:51

8-) Be still my geeking heart! This is AMAZING! Can you do a video explaining how ghosts might work? ^_^

According to the lore, PKE (Psychokinetic energy) is indeed negativity charged which is why a proton stream can immobilize ghosts to trap

what about the science for the Psychomagnotheric (mood) slime?

This was better then the new movie.

@jorgegomezespinosa8192

6 жыл бұрын

reniorjd Get a life

did you realize the cyclotron is in the Ghostbusters logo

@TankR

5 жыл бұрын

Im 33 years old...Ive watched Ghostbusters thousands of times....Im very into science....HOW AM I JUST NOW REALIZING THIS!!!! [brain explodes]

@acac3529

3 ай бұрын

Whoa what in the.... He's totally correct!!

so, if you fed the protons from a cyclotron into a synchrotron, how fast could you get the protons to go?

Hey @kyle hill. any advice for someone looking to get into the type of entertainment industry you are in? not the whole science stuff because i am not that smart as you are in science but other things like games,music,movies,etc.

I always wanted to know whether the stream "hurt" ghosts. Certainly in Ghostbusters 1 with Slimer and the cartoon series it appears to catch and "burn/hurt" them, if that's possible?

@shawnstrong25866

3 ай бұрын

i always wondered that too

@shawnstrong25866

3 ай бұрын

It appears to hurt Vigo when Venkman and Spengler shot him

I almost left after the joke in the beginning but good video.

XD! i just saw "up next: could the matrix be powered by..." and i just filled in "...windows XP" and when I read what it actually said i burst out laughing XD

Answer this: why does gokus hair/ just a sayin turn yellow when they go super sayin and any other level above it also?

i live near the fermi lab particle accelerator :P

It's not coincidence that a cyclotron drawing looks similar to the circle with the slash through it over the ghost on the cover

Are the Ds held in place with bolts or nuts?

@johnarken1810

7 жыл бұрын

They're held in place with... DEEZ NUTS !!!!

Hey Kyle u should do a video about how we could create a tachyon matrix so we could have super speed like the flash

Dan Aykroyd while coming up with the protonbacks: "you know, I'm something scientist myself 😏"

It's pretty much a cern 666 gun that catch all the weird stuff that comes out of the cern portal.

Can you please go over the half life Gluon gun and Tau cannon? That would certainly earn my subscription! Ever since I watched someone play Black Mesa recently, I can't get them out of my head. Or... maybe I should make my own mediocre video about them... But yours would be better for everyone

Have you addressed the function of the Neutrino Wands yet?

No sex puns were intended in this video

Now I'm curious. What exactly is accelerating particles useful for? Also, hypothetically, how do ghosts manifest and how would this capture them?

@LetMeExplainThat

8 жыл бұрын

I won't comment about the ghost part but regarding particle acceleration, the idea is simply see what happens when we speed up particles and make them collide. Usually they break up into even smaller particles ( for example protons and neutrons are actually made from quarks) this helps us to understand how matter is what it is Hope that helps

@magnum567134

8 жыл бұрын

+Mohammed Aswad Didn't know subatomic particles could be broken down even further. That's interesting🤔. Thanks!

Was I the only one giggling when he was talking about the "D" XD

I'm curious.. if you mixed a Tokamak and a Synchrotron together, with a large enough energy input, could you get a plasma beam to shoot out? If so, about how hot would it be on Earth or in space? :)

I expect more of you! You forgot to put the apostrophe before the s.

I just realized that the star killer base from the new Star Wars movie works almost exactly like a partical excellerator

7 months ago i started watching this but didn't finish it and youtube still wants me to finish. Alright youtube you win this time.

What would happen if you crossed the streams?

@SkyrimHod

8 жыл бұрын

+Victor Perez I'd assume if the streams are just fast moving protons, they'd simply curve away from each other. Or if they were moving too fast to have time to do that and they did actually end up colliding, at worst, you'd get the equivalent of a small hydrogen bomb exploding, This would be bad. But not quite as bad as they made it sound, at least for anyone not in the immediate area.

1:14 get it XD (hint the end of the movie)

it is possible to catch a ghost in a vacuum cleaner if you rigged it up with magnet's or something because ghost have a unusable magnetic force? and adding what ever disrupt the ghost can contain the ghost

What about crossing the streams?

+Nerdist I have been wondering a couple of things,one how dose Tony Starks arc reactor work and is it possible to acuitaly work as a unlimited power source. 2.what are the odds of the world turning steampunk

@KaosFireMaker

8 жыл бұрын

Given that steam punk is ultimately about the aestetic and such. convince enough people to express it and you are golden, or mayhaps brass as the case may be. on the topic of the large arc reactor, it seems to be a fusion reactor which is on the horizon

If the ghost busters are carrying a particle accelerator on their back could they cause a black whole and destroy a lot of stuff

You have switched synchrotron and cyclotron. The one with the "D" shaped electrodes and the particles going in a spiral trajectory is the CYNCRHOtron. So named because the period of rotation must be synchronous with the alternating electric field. It's the older of the two. With the cyclotron, the particles travel in a roughly circular path and the period is no longer constant, forcing the use of a variable frequency for the accelerating electric fields. A synchrotron can output a nearly constant beam of accelerated particles, but at a relatively low energy level. A cyclotron must go through a somewhat lengthy acceleration phase to get a particles pulse. You have to reset it before you can get another pulse. The particles can have a much larger energy level, often upward of several billion or trillions times more energy per particles. There are also the linear accelerator. Think of a souped up electron canon from a CRT monitor... Plus : Capable of delivering a constant particles beam. Minus : Low upper energy capability relative to the dimension.

1:27 he called them what DEEZ NUTS HAH GOT EEEEEMMMM

Through the videos best sounding in this one you sometimes sound like Kermit The Fog haha

ok I need to know how to make the desktop particle accelerator

Okay so I've been watching a lot of your videos lately ( and they're awesome because science ) and I suddenly wondered whether you can write backwards or you write normally then the video is flipped in editing when you're writing something. You could also be ambidextrous. But that's why I'm asking since I'll never know for sure until I ask.

@_chibi_chan_

8 жыл бұрын

I don't mean to be rude, but to be ambidextrous means you can use both of your hands equally, neither is dominant. It doesn't really have anything to do with writing backwards. Other than that I'm curious too.

I actually didn’t know you could build a particle accelerator that small. Now the trick would just be curving the beam through a flexible hose and shooting it from a gun... also figuring out how not to get radiation poisoning in the process...

It may have been called a proton pack but in the movie they said it was positrons, I believe. Positrons are basically the opposite of electrons ... However I am wondering how does it store that energy?

@davidfreeman6005

7 жыл бұрын

yup positron collider was its name and the gun part was nutron wand with nuon trap to catch them in so im thinking all different tech from each other which tells me to catch a ghost is more than one science.

You know what's the scariest thing about the proton packs? Venkman calls it a "positron collider", when he's taunting Slimer. Granted, he may have just been spouting gibberish that he didn't really understand himself, but a positron is a antimatter electron. O_O

*DEJA VU! I HAVE WATCHED THIS CHANNEL BEFORE!*

Cyclotron totally looks like Deadpool's logo.

Because Science... Heroes in a half shell! Anyone else heard that? ^^"

Sweetness!

Some theories actually say that through time space energy can travel. Quantum leap and such. The energy stamps we leave behind can travel through time. Of course this is assuming a lot. Also it would not happen from one instance but from repeated instances. So ghost are really just electromagnetic anomalies in space time. Just a theory. Theories are not considered science in all reality but just an idea.

Someone needs to kickstarter this.

at 2:38 of the video it sorta looks like the deadpool logo

well if ghosts are made of energy (don't tell me there is no such thing as ghosts I am speaking hypothetically and plus I watch too much Ghost Adventures), you just need something to disrupts that energy and pulls that energy into said ghost trap

@badegg4909

8 жыл бұрын

+Tallacus From my limited understanding of the paranormal, I was under the impression that ghosts themselves were not energy, but needed energy to physically manifest. working with some nonsense entropy condenser to make the room colder and run their interactions on thermal energy. But that sounds like nonsense so Dunno boss.

@cameronchung9405

8 жыл бұрын

It's simple , pour water on it

@badegg4909

8 жыл бұрын

Cameron Chung could be where the Iron disrupts them idea comes from.

A character in a novel I once read theorized that ghosts and spirits could actually be sentient beings made from microscopic particles, a sort of entity with a nucleus that's directing the particles that makes up its body. If spirits do exist--and I believe in them--and they did exist in this form, maybe they could be made of negatively charged particles.

@BramKaandorp

8 жыл бұрын

+Rami Ungar But where would they come from?

@grandthanatos

8 жыл бұрын

Human brains run on electric impulses, which is a type of energy. Energy cannot die or be created, so where does the energy go when you die? Perhaps it takes another form, a more ethereal one.

@BramKaandorp

8 жыл бұрын

+Rami Ungar But really, when someone dies, the energy is still there, but it isn't used by the body anymore, including the brain. The energy will slowly dissipate, and go back into the environment, in the form of heat, among others. The brain causes consciousness, something science is scrutinising to figure out how it works. It might seem like it is inscrutable, but that doesn't make it magic. As of yet, no supernatural explanations have been shown to be better than, or even on par with, naturalistic explanations.

@grandthanatos

8 жыл бұрын

Perhaps that energy dissipates into a ghost as well. You never know. There are still many mysteries the universe has yet to reveal to us.

@BramKaandorp

8 жыл бұрын

Rami Ungar Yes, there are many mysteries to uncover. However, there first has to be an evidential indication that there is a mystery. No such indication is present for ghosts, or even for a soul in the body.

Original ghostbusters' proton packs are Cyclotrons. Ghostbusters 2016 proton packs are synchrotrons.

heeeey we did cyclotrons in physics a few days ago