Thank you for making this video! While in hindsight I can clearly see that I should have gone into more detail with the explanation, I have really enjoyed watching all the response videos. For the record I was not suggesting the lightbulb lights at ANY current value but at some small but significant current value. I tested my LED bulb rated for 12V and found it turns on dimly when I apply 2V. There may yet be a follow up video coming. So thank you for this commentary - I'll incorporate it into any further work I do on this topic.

@kelvinclovis6562

2 жыл бұрын

There he is

@DragonVisionGT

2 жыл бұрын

Alright I guess I'll look forward to the follow up video.

@saranshgautam6551

2 жыл бұрын

It's so nice to see civil and intellectual discussions between my favourite youtubers!!

@nonchip

2 жыл бұрын

isn't any current that turns the bulb on "significant"? ;) also i doubt that'll change the fact your wires aren't magic warp machines. as soon as your current is significant enough as to not have the lamp on all the time due to background noise, your EM coupling between the "half-loops" won't suffice, while the transmission along the loops will take its time.

@RichardBrightwell

2 жыл бұрын

You guys all do great work! Thanks Veritasium, ElectroBOOM, and EEVblog. I enjoy all y'alls videos.

Thanks for the shout-out, Mehdi! This was a thorough and nuanced response to Derek's video. It's important to remember that, while the energy _is_ transferred by the fields, the current is still in control. The lightbulb isn't going to do _anything_ if there isn't a current through it. During a recent live Q&A (for supporters only), I talked about Derek's question a little. My guess was that a real-life bulb wouldn't immediately turn on, but would slowly/gradually brighten over a few seconds. It sounds like you agree, which is validating.

@harikishore2514

2 жыл бұрын

Hey.... I love your videos.

@orangeman_2125

2 жыл бұрын

Cool

@monad_tcp

2 жыл бұрын

The funny thing is that with 10m of distance, you already have a super small current from the capacitance alone. The only correct answer, the lamp is already on, so its 0s , not matter if you close the switch or not. Oh the leak current, about about the leak current... That was my conclusion while I watched the video, baffled. Doesn't electric fields technically go to infinity ? even thou they decrease with the square of the distance ? All lamps are always on by veritassium definition.

@monad_tcp

2 жыл бұрын

Another thing that irritates is that it was never defined what is a "turned on lamp", one would presume it would emit enough lumens, but how much ? What are you ideas on this ?

@EwingTaiwan

2 жыл бұрын

Hay a wild crazy is here

It doesn't happen very often, but sometimes I am hit with a strong sense of "man, this guy really knows what he's talking about"', thanks Mehdi

@jpsienicki

7 ай бұрын

But he’s wrong.

@realdragon

6 ай бұрын

Sometimes it might seem like person knows what he's talking but they're bullshitting you. Not in this case, Mehdi is actually right but others might be wrong. Like Veritasium who seems like he knows what he's talking about but he's been straight up wrong few times

@cryhavocandletslipthedogso1873

6 ай бұрын

@@realdragon I heartily agree, but of course there is a difference between talking out of your ass and making an honest mistake. Considering Veritasium's sportsmanlike acknowledgement that his brevity sacrificed precision, he doesn't seem like a bullshitter to me - though I am not familiar with his content beyond this reply

@realdragon

6 ай бұрын

@@cryhavocandletslipthedogso1873 He might not be bullshitting on purpose but he has wide audience and that audience who doesn't know any better believes him. He also made video of why water running water bends when you put electrically charged object near it and he wasn't just mistaken, everything he said was straight up wrong and it's easy to prove too

@cryhavocandletslipthedogso1873

6 ай бұрын

@@realdragon Alright then, thanks for letting the world know

What made me laugh most is I instantly picked up on the fallacy of Derek's idea that the chain in the pipe was a poor analogy when I saw his video. I tried to imagine an engine that would work with such movement, but got bored trying to figure something out. The simplicity of a saw cutting through wood was like a smack across the face.

@elmervelazquez3549

3 ай бұрын

did you see the second video of veritasium?

Comprehensive and briliant. Derek deserved this :-P

@omniyambot9876

2 жыл бұрын

I love that you, electroboom, bigclive and other electrical channels have something to say about this. It's very interesting and I don't actually believe everything he said although I know I'm far naive. I loved electricity ever since I existed but I still have no complete understanding of it. Still, thank you electrical community! Kind of funny he predicted that it he would be called out but turned out he was called out because of the simple answer itself. I'm just waiting for Derek's reaction to this. He seem to be very sensational in his videos and inaccurate.

@HucaPuca

2 жыл бұрын

sadly we will never know anymore which video is actually right since youtube removed dislikes lol

@AxxLAfriku

2 жыл бұрын

SCHOOL! The answer is I don't go! Why go? I am famous. I am famous. I have more fans than fingers multiplied with toes multiplied with teeth multiplied with ears. I am famous. I am famous. SCHOOL? No, thanks. KZread FAME? Yes. Good day, dear eev

@adt007ad

2 жыл бұрын

Hi, can any of you please explain this in terms of high school physics? What we have learnt is that current travels through two methods - conduction and induction. What I understood from Derek's video was that he was claiming that the bulb would turn on simply by induction field from the battery. The conduction field as I understand travels through the entire length of wire before hitting the bulb. And the induction field would be too weak to turn on the bulb. Kindly elaborate on this. Also, I saw a video where the person said that if he places the switch near moon, as soon as he closes it, then by Derek's theory, it would turn on in 1/c seconds. So by turning the switch on and off, he could essentially send a Morse code message from a distance of c metres which Derek can receive in 1/c seconds, esentially violating that no information can be sent faster than c theory. It would be very kind if you could explain that as well.

@ingenfestbrems

2 жыл бұрын

@@AxxLAfriku fariday and other pioneers of Elektro wasn’t exactly brilliant at school

The Veritasium video feels analogous to saying "In a hydraulic system It's the pressure waves which transmit force, not the water molecules" which is technically true but you can't have water pressure without, you know, the water molecules. Granted a hydraulic system is far less complicated than an electrical one (there's no induction for one) but I still feel that is a fair comparison.

@Triszious

2 жыл бұрын

The most important difference being that water molecules*, unlike charges, can’t act on each other at a distance at relativistic speeds. I think it’s a fair comparison, and it poynts to a potential issue with Derek’s interpretation. He acts as if the EM-field is the be-all and end-all of electricity. When it’s the charges and their acceleration and velocity that defines the EM-field in the first place. * Water might not be the best example when I think about it, as it's a polar molecule.

@tomg0

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly. Nice analogy

@zyeborm

2 жыл бұрын

@@Triszious I mean the water molecules kinda do still have those electrical properties. Electrostatics mean when we think about the water molecules colliding they don't actually collide they bounce off each other's charges ;-) so you're more right if you wanted to get silly about it (like the veritasium video)

@estebon

2 жыл бұрын

Could you think of the size of the pipe with water running at a certain speed carrying some momentum as analogous to induction? The water hammer effect seems to be very similar to the flyback voltage spikes.

@TheAnzamin

2 жыл бұрын

It's the current that gets you, not the voltage 🤣😉

I've begun my journey into electrical engineering as a hobby thanks to creators like you. I began watching because you were purely entertaining, and now I'm accumulating tools and measuring current and actually sat down and measured hundreds of resistors the other day and was actually excited as I thought about how it all works. I'm slowly beginning to understand more and more about how electrons move and how various components can manipulate them into doing all kinds of cool stuff. This video helped me better understand that movement. Thanks for making such great videos!

@striderlotr4705

Жыл бұрын

You should study electrical engineering, too much fun.

@n.cooper9758

3 ай бұрын

@@striderlotr4705 hmmm I've heard the opposite lol

@Heyu7her3

2 ай бұрын

Uhhh... as a *_hobby_* ?? 😢

@mariconm

2 ай бұрын

read the Thomas Floyd book

Great video - one of the best ElectroBoom made so far - balancing his critical and humorous views with a nice technical information. A pleasure to watch, as always, even more informative and educative than most. Thank you!

I am truly amazed that how KZread science community holds arguments. Like a true gentleman, Mehdi.

@sasdagreat8052

2 жыл бұрын

If I had a coin for every time Mehdi argued with a science KZreadr...

@arn3107

2 жыл бұрын

yeah it's really nice

@Shinkajo

2 жыл бұрын

The science part of KZread is one of it's best parts. Most of KZread is is either cancer or garbage.

@mihirmutalikdesai

2 жыл бұрын

@@sasdagreat8052 You'd have atleast three

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

2 жыл бұрын

@@sasdagreat8052 If I had ten thousand Canadian coins for every time...

Finally an engineer that combines both the engineering and physic models without outright dismissing one or the other. A very insightful video that perfectly complements Derek’s video and add some much needed realism to it. If I could subscribe twice I would!

@controversialcoffe5709

2 жыл бұрын

Use another acc

@biologicallyawptimized

2 жыл бұрын

@Idiosarchy I think the video is still complementary because it's a thought experiment designed to emphasize a specific mechanism of electricity at the exclusion of all others. Maybe he could have been more thorough with his hypothetical situation, but I don't think it's fair to say it's wrong or misleading. If it was meant to be purely realistic he wouldn't have said the wires have zero resistance or that the lightbulb would turn on at any amount of current. I guess he did sensationalize it with his choice of words, but it's KZread, of course he did. Is this channel any different in that regard?

@tylerdurden3722

2 жыл бұрын

@Idiosarchy The basic concept is not wrong. It really will take only 1/c seconds for a change in current to start happening through the light bulb. Derek's thought experiment has some flaws (he could have been more detailed and specific). Just like Medhi's thought experiment has some flaws (which he points out). No thought experiment is perfect, but it doesn't need to be in order to communicate the basic concept. The basic concept is 100% correct.

@Oscar-jg9gg

2 жыл бұрын

You do realize that Physics has branches and that those branches also have branches? Physics is like the tree with, for example, the branch Circuit Analysis. You can also split your Classical Mechanics into Statics and Dynamics. You can split your Fluid Mechanics into say Fluid Dynamics. Don’t even get me started with Metaphysics. Good times, haha 😂.

@biologicallyawptimized

2 жыл бұрын

@Idiosarchy the argument obviously has flaws, I never denied that. My point is that he hilights a physical phenomenon that we can understand even if the thought experiment is imperfect. At this point we are just splitting hairs even though I think we both understand the point and intent of the message. I'd like to point out that Schrodinger's cat also probably would not actually work in real life but emphasizes the strangeness of quantum mechanics in a way that is digestible to the lay person. The point is to isolate variables, not to turn sci-fi into reality

This is a perfect example of the value and importance of readily accessible rebuttals to all content online. Rebuttals add value to the discussion and people are better off when they get critical responses from other people who add nuance and further context to issues. We need 'The Socratic Web'...

I always love it when you make response videos. I always down I'm gonna get a more detailed commentary of information! Love it!

This was the exact reaction I got from my father who is an electrical engineer. The point of the video was really just to show that energy doesn't just flow like water in a pipe, but the question posed in the beginning really was quite a misleading

@iteratortv

2 жыл бұрын

Funny thing is - you can transfer same "energy" in a pipe as a fast cold water flow OR with a signlificantly slower flow of hot water. And the slow but hot water will actually radiate the energy similarly to a magnetic field

@MartinME3

2 жыл бұрын

Misleading to say the least. I really really like how medy brought in an even more interesting and crazier answer with leakage current. This video was awesome. I am also in EE. and i was also very very triggered by Derek. I agree with Medy!!

@vonnikon

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed. As an educational video, Derek did a really bad job. Actually causing more confusion and misunderstanding. Giving people the impression that ALL electric energy flows straight through the air. When in fact the vast majority of the energy flows inside the wire, or very close to the wire. Only a tiny fraction of the energy flows through the air any meaningful distance from the wire.

@blinded6502

2 жыл бұрын

Viewing EM fields from the perspective of energy carried is just straight-up confusing to people, who don't understand where the concept of energy even comes from And these people are the vast majority

@NefariousDestiny

2 жыл бұрын

"Energy", the physics term, and energy as it's commonly defined are two separate concepts. "Energy" in physics lacks physicality. You can't point to energy, and it is reference dependent. That's the whole issue with Derek's question. "Energy" doesn't exist, it's a description of emergent properties within a system.

Thought to mention, even the 1 second round trip delay is not fully accurate as the LC circuit imposes its own propagation delay on top of light speed. Like I said the current flattens out traveling through the network and that slows down voltage step transitions, as you also see in the simulations at the end of video. Sorry, too much technical details!!

@ancientdew210

2 жыл бұрын

hello boom man

@iamawsome0123

2 жыл бұрын

Is there any way to actually measure how much current would actually transmit over 1/c s to the bulb. Im just curious.

@sangeetramaya

2 жыл бұрын

Electroboom come to goa and plz gave me multimeter plz

@johnyang799

2 жыл бұрын

Have you seen this video? kzread.info/dash/bejne/fqSTxJqggdPeh5s.html

@thef1club

2 жыл бұрын

This kind of debates are far better than the boring online classes. Thanks Mehdi. ⚡💯

Thanks. A. Million! At 13:05 into the video I suddenly fully understood coaxial cable impedance! You know; 75 or 50 ohms normally. Just great! 😁

As a complete layman and after seeing Veritasium's second video I think I finally understood the issue. You both came to the same conclusion, except that Mehdi clarified how the details of this thought experiment were important. Derek's description of electric fields is true but it is presented as if the fully complete circuit is inconsequential. It is important that the completed circuit wires guide the electric field in order to have a light bulb fully light up, which takes a year for a lightyear-long wire. The "disconnected" parallel wires which are 1 meter apart will cause an "immediate" (1/C sec) voltage increase in the light bulb when it is connected to power, because a small amount of energy is transmitted across the 1 meter gap. However, whether the light actually turns on from this depends on the required voltage (e.g. an LED requires less than an incandescent bulb) which in the case of an LED will only dimly light up and you have to wait for the energy to be transmitted across the complete circuit before it fully lights up. Therefore, no laws of physics were broken because none of the energy was transmitted faster than the speed of light, so our conventional abstraction of how electricity "flows" still illustrates the important parts of how electricity behaves, even if it's not a complete picture. The impression I got from the first Veritasium video was that this model is completely flawed. Did I get all that right?

@trevorhall2832

2 жыл бұрын

Nice 👍

@BillAnt

Жыл бұрын

So in Derek's experiment the distance between the lines was set at 1 meter. What would happen is the entire 300k kilometers of wire was laid out in a perfect circle. Hmmm....

@nikkiofthevalley

Жыл бұрын

@@BillAnt It would take the circle's diameter/c to get that first small bit of current, then it would take the circle's circumference/c to get the full voltage.

@josephstratti52

Жыл бұрын

That sounds sound!

@theinterruptedlife1783

Жыл бұрын

Thats exactly what I understood and I think Mehdi also shows the same concept in his follow up video

With regards to the “lies” point, I’m reminded of something my engineering professors at university would sometimes say. All models of the world and its behaviour are wrong, but some of them are still useful.

@heronimousbrapson863

2 жыл бұрын

Perhaps, in many cases, "incomplete" may be more accurate than "wrong".

@xponen

2 жыл бұрын

A model are accurate to a certain scale, then at another scale a different model will explain things better. eg: the Newtonian gravity is accurate at low gravity condition but not at high-gravity, while Einstein spacetime curvature is accurate at high-gravity condition. A model is functional at specific scale & conditions and it is against our common sense to even call the Newtonian gravity "wrong" just because there exist a different explanation like spacetime curvature.

@faithnfire4769

2 жыл бұрын

ie. Almost all but the most detailed fluid dynamics relations. Several of the are true, but exist in simplifications that cannot exist irl. or they are simplifications that intentionally get something wrong, because the question is impossible to solve otherwise. Still the best solution we have, wherever dimensional analysis and models aren't feasible.

@l4nd3r

2 жыл бұрын

I took it as "lies" we tell children so we could help explain better a concept without needing for the kid to do a psychics/engineering course so they can grasp at it.

@alejandroaguirre3809

2 жыл бұрын

I'm an Electronics proffesor in a Mexican university and I agree, since I myself have used this quote. Though, in Spanish...

Dude, that whiteboard action was impressive, well done!

@pistonsjem

2 жыл бұрын

new editing skill acquired

@MrHichammohsen1

2 жыл бұрын

Lmao came here for this

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I didn't realize he had magical whiteboard powers that can edit a whiteboard without touching it!

Thank you for your analysis. I find your argument compelling. Conceptually modeling the power line as a transmission line of linked inductors and capacitors is genius! Well done! I guess I can now cancel my order for 1 light-year of 16 gauge copper wire from Amazon. They were estimating 16,000 years to fulfill the order anyway!

loved watching this , so glad I found it. Great video, knowledgeable, and entertaining. Great job!

I have to say this: Derek video did not convince me at all. No matter what everybody else was saying. Your video cleared everything and comprehensively. For this kind of problem it is not possible to disregard transmission lines theory or not defining the voltage threshold at which the lamp would turn on. Well done!

@stathisbikos6563

2 жыл бұрын

I was very distraught when I saw it first. After multiple viewings and seeing a lot or reactions to it, when I finally figured he was simply taking about the original capacitive transmission between the lines I felt better, but I was still not feeling great about it. EEVblog's video helped a lot. And now Mehdi's video explained it succinctly. I feel it wasn't derek's proudest moment. He made a lot of simplifications in order to make it sound shocking and counter intuitive. I think he could have done a better job with it.

@neutronenstern.

2 жыл бұрын

yes his vid is really good..And now i will burn your brain: Actually if you are sawing wood,the energy isnt transmitted directly by the saw itselve (not as you would see it macroscopically),but also by electromagnezic waves. Why you ask? Because the saws material is made of atoms not even touching each other, but having a certain distance. So the force cant even be transmitted by them, as you might think. The force is transmitted by the electric attraction of the protons to the electrons, plus the repulsion of two protons plus the repulsion of two electrons. So also the energy is transmitted by electric fields. Also due to little inner movements theres also a very very very tiny magnetic field+electric field created (similar to that in a crystal inside a lighter, bur way weaker) which also propegates outside of the saw,and this will also bring the energy to the wood. I hope your head isnt smoking right now.

@geminischweiz

2 жыл бұрын

i thought im the only one. thanks

@ReyMysterioX

2 жыл бұрын

Totally agree with you. This and the suggestive way the video was presented by Derek really doesn't do the whole topic justice. It's a complicated topic and disregarding everything that has been taught as »lies« is just exaggerated. Also, Derek never actually said why it was supposed to be 1 / c and that the 1 in the numerator comes from the distance of 1 meter of the lamp and battery. It was really posed as a trick question because the actual background of 1 / c was never fully explained. In just the plain words as said by Derek, the units of 1 / c wouldn't add up, because it would be seconds per meter. Only if you bring in the 1 meter of distance, it starts to make sense again in the context of Derek's video.

@hlavaatch

2 жыл бұрын

The Veritasium's video was intentionally ambigous to spark reactions (free marketing) and views. Moving on

I just realized, these videos are the equivalent of scientists/mathematicians dueling during the olden times. Back then they used letters to communicate with each other, trying to question/disprove the other's claims, or battle it out in a good old duel. Now we are seeing it happen but 21st century style!

@geomorillo

2 жыл бұрын

yeah lets prepare some popcorn

@shis10

2 жыл бұрын

Great inventions ahead.

@mtraven23

2 жыл бұрын

great insight! ps. I'v been calling them "nerd feuds" & I love them.

@chrisbanbury

2 жыл бұрын

This is more like scientists versus engineers 🤪

@falconeagle3655

2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately none here are career scientist. They are KZreadrs

Electroboom, I'm a retired electrical engineer. I love your video. I wanted to say, importantly, the word is impedance NOT impotence!!! Yours is the third of three videos I've watched on this. First was Veritasiums, then Dave at EEVblog, then yours. Dave said that we engineers think about things differently. That we have tools to analyze things and validly track physics and the rules of science. You fellows have collectively reminded me of much of the complexity we were trained to understand and analyze and calculate. I've much forgotten what I was trained and educated to deal with. I've been so browbeaten by the mindless politics and public chaos of people and the media news etc. I've forgotten the promises of my youth and education. KZread, multimedia and Internet is a terrible way to waste a capable mind. You've helped to retrieve my past capabilities. Thank you. Amind is a terrible thing to waste, and you've given me a wake-up call.

@graybonesau

Күн бұрын

He's saying 'impedance', not 'impotence'. He's just placing the stress on a different syllable. 'ihm-peed-ANCE' instead of 'ihm-PEED-ance'

This actually reminds me of the days when I was twisting my head around RF circuits :D All of this is known and I really appreciate you pointing out the workable models to think about this.

Well done. His conflicting statements drove me nuts as well.

@ErickeGallardo

2 жыл бұрын

Derek suddenly unites Electrical and 3d Printing worlds on youtube eh.

@FootLettuce

2 жыл бұрын

The biggest mistake in that video is him saying schools LIED to us. If schools teach something that seems wrong, that's because it is oversimplified for us as young students to understand. That is not LYING. Derek is an educator and his role is to clear up the misconceptions. Leave the lies to conspiracy theorists.

@whothis8933

2 жыл бұрын

without you my 3dprinter would still drive me nuts

@94flow93

2 жыл бұрын

yooo it’s chuck hiii

@xdavid00

2 жыл бұрын

@@FootLettuce I saw a Kurzgesagt video earlier that used the word "lied" in the exact same sense (that oversimplification is lying), and I thought that was unnecessarily clickbaity for the same reasons.

I am the Abbott you mentioned in your video. I did the initial simulations and built a scale model for verification. I loved your explanation and gained a lot more insight from the clear way you explained it. I think Derek did a great job of getting people thinking about all this, and I'm delighted you are the one who actually took the time to verify my result as I didn't think anyone looked at it! Thanks again, I just subscribed to your channel.

@schetnikov

2 жыл бұрын

So good reaction:))

@johndaniels972

2 жыл бұрын

What took you so long? Go subscribe to Applied Science if you haven't already.

@fireboltthegod

2 жыл бұрын

Great analysis Dr. Abbott

@abhisheksamal1970

2 жыл бұрын

Poynting theorem states that closed surface integral of E×H = rate of decrese of energy stored by electric field and magnetic field in the volume of closed surface minus the ohmic losses Ohmic losses depends on the conductivity so simply I can say that power flowing out if any closed surface integral of E×H Now in above case (DC)since magnetic field set up by DC current is constant so as the electric field. So there is no there is no propagation of E and H outside the wire... It is just a set up of E and H. The stored energy due to electric and magnetic field outside the wire is not changing with time Sooooo..... Poynting theorem only depends upon conductivity. Since the conductivity of the medium outside the wire is zero ,,so it will not propagate outside the wire.... Derek is only looking at E × H in this video actually E× H is not propagating in case of DC According to him he can transmit energy wirelessly at 0 hz. Moreover he is right that current flow and energy flow are not in the same direction..... In case of AC you can transmit t using the above concept but then again you need some waveguide for the energy flow.

@rsa4510

2 жыл бұрын

@@Stevie-J I really like TechIngredients and This Old Tony. Hope you like them!

This is one of the best videos I have watched in a very long time. As an engineer, I think, this is exactly "how" and "what" we need to teach upcoming engineers. Very well done. You have a subscriber. Thank you and keep it up.

@heberildo

8 ай бұрын

isnt that unrealistic? this guy probably has a phd... and he is barely learning this after thinking about it for days😅

I remember an experiment I did during my masters thesis. I was attempting to make a lidar based on Time of Flight and had acquired a chip (which I don't know the name of right now) that could measure time extremely precisely (we're talking down to sub 100 ps). I had a microcontroller generating a start and a stop pulse (at some frequency I don't remember, but it was on the order of magnitude of 1Hz), then I measured the difference between the propagation time of the signals. I don't remember exactly what the input into the timer IC looked like, but I assume it's some sort of MOSFET gate. Anyway, I tried with different lengths of wire and could indeed measure the lengths with the propagation time (cool!). I also happened to have a 100m roll of wire I just bought, so I tried connecting it to see if they really did provide me with the correct length. I was very surprised when the propagation time was way less than what would be expected from that 100m wire. My thoughts was that either I found a waay to send information faster than light and should clearly be awarded with a Nobel Prize... or that there was some other effect I didn't fully understand. Most likely this was some combination of infuctance and capacitance in the wire (since it was basically a coil). We could also change the propagation time by moving our hands closer to the wire coil. So yeah, Veritasium is right that currents don't flow ONLY in wires, but the matter is more complex. Thanks for the good explanation, Mehdi!

@SDX2000

2 жыл бұрын

> currents don't flow ONLY in wires Currents *do* only flow in wires. It's the "voltages" that can span matter / space, and induce currents in other parts of the circuit.

@elsnowman123

2 жыл бұрын

If it’s not too much trouble, what chip did you use? I was wanting to make a TOF lidar range finder but I couldn’t find any MCUs with fast enough timers

@bransonwalter5588

2 жыл бұрын

That's because many people fail to fundamentally understand their electricity and magnetism classes. Induced current is just as important (and dangerous to screw up) as the direct path current. There is a reason if you take electricity and magnetism, signal analysis, and signal transmission, you will hate the designs from most engineers.

@bransonwalter5588

2 жыл бұрын

@@SDX2000 it is the EMF. To quote my college electronics teacher, "in relation to what" is the most important aspect to voltages. Voltage is a massive simplification of the complex effect of EMF.

@SDX2000

2 жыл бұрын

@@bransonwalter5588 EMF is also a voltage. There is no need to special case it for a discussion on induced current.

What really bugs me is that Derek calls other models "Lies".. i think that violates a very important principle of science, that all models that are supported by experiment are equally correct. It's like calling one of the many theories of quantum mechanics "lies".. it's just a different way of thinking about the same phenomenon

@nitehawk86

2 жыл бұрын

And Kurgesat just did a video about the "lies" they tell yesterday. Its much too strong of a word for something like this.

@Thisisahandle701

2 жыл бұрын

I like that Derek made a video that fed the KZread educational video ecosystem with conversation points and content for interesting videos

@nope110

2 жыл бұрын

100% agreed, veritasium really annoys me hes become the epitome of pop science when he used to make pretty good videos. I know hes just playing to the algorithm but i feel like his style makes you loose so much nuance.

@sledzeppelin

2 жыл бұрын

@@Thisisahandle701 No. Derek does not get credit for making a bullshit video that happened to lead to good discussions when other more responsible and knowledgeable people had to correct and clean up his mess.

@vanerek

2 жыл бұрын

Well, he's been taking lots of notes from Mr Beast's notebook for the last couple of years, so obviously feeding the algorithm first and the conversation second was in the cards

I just love how Mehdi explains everything in such an intuitive and visual way. Mehdi doesn't showboat to look smart, you can tell he's smart by how he brings you up to his level.

@igo5543

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly. When one truly and deeply understand a subject, they can explain it to anyone.

@pegasBaO23

2 жыл бұрын

He reminds me of my favorite physics teacher from school

@baboonaiih

2 жыл бұрын

Derek is also actually smart. I wouldn't say he "showboats to look smart" he just presents the information in an engaging way for general audiences. He doesn't need to look smart because he IS smart. Both creators can be good and smart, even when critiquing eachother. Especially when it comes to science.

@pegasBaO23

2 жыл бұрын

@@baboonaiih he smartness is irrelevant when he is trying to explain something to his audience, but he fails to do so

@igo5543

2 жыл бұрын

@@baboonaiih The way Derek fails to explain this matter to the general audience, being undeniably more cryptic than it should be (as shown by the electroboom explanation), gives me the impression that Veritassium didn't fully understand what he was trying to teach us. It would also explain why he was making deceptive, exaggerated, even fallacious claims in his video. There is also another explanation: he didn't care enough about trying to create a good, informative video as he previously always did, but instead distorted the facts to create a click-bait, by making an extraordinary and extremely counterintuitive claim. He has somewhat done it in the past: kzread.info/dash/bejne/dYFkw9Ghcsm7hMY.html

I really loved this video. And I love more seeing EEs challenging each other, because guys we are learning a lot from your videos.

Hi there, really appreciate this content. One question here is: what if we had a shielded cable?

Since youtube removed dislike count, the like/dislike ratio so far is 98.8% if anyone cares

@nicolaimanev

2 жыл бұрын

Let's use this ^^ comment's like button as the dislike button.

@sufiyanadam

2 жыл бұрын

I care. And keep us updated about it.

@85NP85

2 жыл бұрын

Can add 'Return KZread Dislike' extension to chrome for now. There needs to be a petition.

@nickstanley5064

2 жыл бұрын

@@85NP85 , assuming that KZread actually gives a shit(which they clearly don't).

@dkexpat2755

2 жыл бұрын

Not all heroes wear capes!

I'm not smart enough for any of these videos.

@ElectroBOOM

2 жыл бұрын

Hey you're putting an electric vehicle together, how bad can you be?!

@emmanuelnicholas7998

2 жыл бұрын

Now what is the conclusion of this discussion? Who is correct?

@okkomp

2 жыл бұрын

But you do comment on all of them

@justincosby2258

2 жыл бұрын

Dont feel bad man. I try my best to be but Im not either. Lol

@melwinmj

2 жыл бұрын

Jerry - "I'm not smart enough for any of these videos." *continues making an electric HMMWV before hummer ev comes out..

This has got to be my most favorite and oldest channel I've watched on YT, and you just keep getting better.

This video from Veritasium made me discover this channel. I'll always be grateful to Derek for that and his content in general!

I must say... well done! Very concise considering the topic. More than anything else, I am proud and excited that this level of technical discussion is happening with millions of people tuning in to watch.

@yepo

2 жыл бұрын

This is the modern-day equivalent of scientists and philosophers debating on stage with the public watching. We also have popcorn emoji now 🍿. Great times we live in.

@KarsonNow

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed, it make KZread more valuable. THX for that guys. P.S.: In Germany it is an kind of meme or insult when you have an discussion and someone say "have you learn this on KZread university?"... For sure - on KZread it lot of crap to see but for my understanding there is lot more of thoroughly elaborated articles that are scientifically proven. It drives me crazy that people are unable to tell what is bullshit and what is true... Common sense and some general knowledge and, on top of that, some research are usually sufficient to check the difference.

@cristianoo2

2 жыл бұрын

Always a good content, good explanations and an incredible didactic power. Well done. I'm a fan

@fettmaneiii4439

2 жыл бұрын

go figure! a superior video from someone who doesn't hide behind the name "truth"

@jrod1235

2 жыл бұрын

Love your videos, Jeremy!

Micrchip developer here: thank you very much for this video. Whilst to most of the people discussing this, the 300.000km wire with a Lamp is a hypothetical - we microchip developers deal with "lamps" that turn on and off in fractions of nanoseconds; a speed at which centimeters are like 300.000km to a lamp - and at which the reflections and slew rates described in your video are a well-known and always considered reality.

@nyquillusdillwad9119

2 жыл бұрын

Good point!

@rustycherkas8229

2 жыл бұрын

Average Joe: "So, how long is a nanosecond?" Physicist: "Oh, about a foot..." 😀

@DrNo007

2 жыл бұрын

@Shimmy Shai It's a mix of maths, experience and simulation. There are a number of KZread videos on the topic. For example: kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZoqI1s1_ZcngfbA.html

@ishworshrestha3559

2 жыл бұрын

Ol

@jimbronson687

2 жыл бұрын

Norbert is correct.

I work at a high voltage company. A good explanation of inrush this is. We still don't have long 100km 380kV AC cables, because the initial voltage is too high when the cable is switched on what would create a fault in the insulation of the cable, or in the the installation.

1) I love the creative and thoughtful response explanation to the Veritasium video. I was thoroughly intrigued when I initially watched it since it took my thinking out of the box. I'm sure it's hard for Derek to make videos that captivate his audience and still afford him to make a good living just talking about science without boring the masses. 2) Both videos make me wish my engineering degree had landed me a job that was more technical than modifying paperwork and instructions for a manufacturing company. I don't get to do science anymore and am actually discouraged from "turning investigations into an experiment" :( 3) I forgot how awesome @electroboom videos are! I first stumbled across your videos when making a coil gun in Physics class. My favorite is still your electric guitar.

@MrAlziepen

2 жыл бұрын

I don't have a science degree yet I feel like Derick's videos are too condescending to his audience, and wish he and other science youtube personalities would drop this notion that they need to oversimplify topics in order to be palatable to a wider audience, yet when people call them out on being too overly simplistic, he gets overly pedantic in defending himself.

@hackerulroman

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrAlziepen I agree with the latter half of your comment, but the oversimplification is definitely part of the success. The simpler the explanations, the wider the audience (younger people, people that don’t pay full attention to videos) - even if that means going beyond what would be needed for the average person. Alienizing a small part of the community that calls out this behavior is not as big of a deal as losing out on extra viewers. This also depends on the type of audience one carves and wants, of course.

@internalizedhappyness9774

Жыл бұрын

Just cause you simplify it doesn’t mean people understand it!

I love that this almost makes a perfect 3 part series with the original video and Kurzgesagt's video about "lies". Such perfect timing.

@izzaazzurri

2 жыл бұрын

Ooohh, that's why i feel a bit familiar. because i just watch that video too 🤣

@ivankonishi7979

2 жыл бұрын

This comment has blown my mind a little bit, thanks

@Geniusinventor

2 жыл бұрын

it's 8:00 am here and it's the perfect video to see in the morning 🌄

These guys are the real reason that still KZread got some value and the amount of knowledge they bring out here is simply immense and I hope many people are getting benefited by these kind of videos and a huge kudos to such content creaters love you all.

@ThanhHoQuangCSE

2 жыл бұрын

Yes.

Thank you so much for this video! I watched Veritasium's video and was left feeling that everything I had learned about electricity was wrong and I was never going to understand how it really worked. After watching your video I have come to the conclusion that electricity is more complicated than I first thought but I should probably go back to thinking of it practically as electrons flowing through a continuous circuit as this has at least so far stopped me getting electrocuted and you are a special kind of genius to be able to not only understand all of this but also explain it in a way that is so entertaining and doesn't make me feel like an idiot.

@bransonwalter5588

2 жыл бұрын

There is practical and there is theoretical electrics. Practical is more than fine because a massive amount of assumptions can keep you safe. That being said, you don't violate the rules in those cases. Theoretical electrics tells you that static is not random and everything is calculated and nothing is too small.

Thanks electroboom you are the man 😁 I feel much better about the world having listened to your commentary and noticed veritasium response. You guys are pretty cool, thanks.

Being an electronics engineer myself, seeing Veritasium's video left me with some thoughts of "hmmm, I don't know if that's that..." Thank you for showing things were in fact the way I thought they were.

@acommonman7950

2 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't say "in fact"

@TheDaspiffy

2 жыл бұрын

Me too!

@AdelaeR

2 жыл бұрын

@@acommonman7950 I'll trust the thorough explanation of an expert over the simple doubt of a common man.

@acommonman7950

2 жыл бұрын

@@AdelaeR Trust Veritasium.

@JyullianoRocha

2 жыл бұрын

Same here!

Oh my god I was going to leave a comment and then you showed the two giant loops and I HAD to. I ran this experiment last weekend with 1km of wire and a ~20ns rise time “switch” and tried a bunch of variations including the two big loops - spoiler alert - the two loops makes the effect completely vanish within my ability to measure (without changing load resistance). I’m hoping to edit that all up ASAP but I had a question - in your analysis and in the great eevblog video, you both use the classic transmission line model with inductors and capacitors, and state that the coupling between the wires is predominantly capacitive, but in this case where you are only actively applying a current in one wire, should we be worrying about inductive coupling between the wires? Like a straight-line transformer? Like the capacitive effect, it would die out as soon as the current hit steady state and the magnetic fields weren’t changing, but I haven’t yet run the numbers to know if it’s super tiny relative to the capacitive coupling. I thought your analysis was fantastic, and now that I’ve done it for real I can confirm the traces you drew were extremely realistic. I’d add that on a wire that long in the real world, “any current” is basically all the time - especially in the wind… adding to your “always on” conclusion. There was enough noise that the scope was actually super hard to trigger… Thanks!

@jagadishk4513

2 жыл бұрын

Waiting for your video too

@flyingchic3n

2 жыл бұрын

Looking forward to seeing your analysis too!

@samdevsung

2 жыл бұрын

would just be waiting to see results of your experiment

@electronicswithemrys

2 жыл бұрын

I don't think the inductive coupling will be significant with 1m of separation, but it would be interesting to look into.

@3zuli

2 жыл бұрын

"I bought a kilometer of wire to settle a physics debate!"

This makes so much more sense than the Veritasium video! I actually had the same thought about the circle wire path.

Not mentioning how well you are educating but you are so entertaining I voluntarily watched the sponsored parts of this video as well.

This is why I love the science/tech sphere on KZread. Love the interactions between channels and furthering of critical thought. Great video

@baboonaiih

2 жыл бұрын

This should be most people's reaction but for some reason the commenters here turn it into a hate filled rage boner battle.

@joeboxter3635

2 жыл бұрын

@@baboonaiih people who truly understand know the sheer stupidity of Vertasium and many of his videos. So they comment accordingly. People who have passing interest can be spectators, be satisfied with Vertasium stupidity, and make comments like yours. Let me give you an analogy. Suppose a KZreadr made a video that a tire rolls down hill because the earth magnetic field pulls on the steel radials and not gravity. Would you be as kind to them, when you *know* the truth: gravity. Now imagine 6 million people going along with the KZreadr's stupidity, do you simply say oh well, it's all opinion and just a bonner battle. If you do, go stand in line for the stupid bus. It's getting full and you want to be sure you get on it.

@lovell8983

2 жыл бұрын

@@joeboxter3635 so you think harass someone who made a wrong thing but sincerely sorry for it and will fix it in the future is cool lol? If you think you haven't done anything wrong in your life then you must have done nothing lol because people only not made mistakes when they did nothing. P.S: also your analogy is shit

@giantslug6969

2 жыл бұрын

@@baboonaiih And that's why we've been tricked by left vs right politics for so long

@joeboxter3635

2 жыл бұрын

@@lovell8983 He has never admitted he made a mistake. In fact, he has doubled down. So don't even go there. And this is not the first such video. He is laughing all the way to the bank having made $30000 and counting on this video alone. Why does he have to do anything but take down video, if he admits he was wrong. And of course people said he was wrong around the 1 Million mark. He has made additional $25000 leaving it up, that's why. It's not harassment. It's speaking the truth. So just take the stupid bus. Let people know from "go" Vertasium is wrong say so. Just like EEblog, Electroboom, and handful of others who are calling Derk on his foolishness. The fact that you don't follow the analogy just says that you belong on the stupid bus, BTW. It's an example just like Derek's, where gullable people would fall prey for a fictional answer. And indeed there are many flat-earthers who have fallen for the magnetic explanation.

Now that the follow up video is here, I am amazed that how much Mr. ElectroBOOM understands the concept clearly. He casually explaned the time response poynting vectors on pen and paper Aand it was exactly what we got in ANSYS simulations in Derek video

I love it when someone makes a video/hypothesis about science and people, scientist, engineers from all over the world try to replicate the idea to try to prove/disprove this idea. It's the same concept used in academia but making it accessble to the world. +1 to youtube.

I love the pun in science where a mathematical vector points in the direction of energy flow was pointed out by the scientist John Poynting and for which we credit him and call it the Poynting vector.

@martinkuffer5643

2 жыл бұрын

You may also like: symmetries in manifolds, the Killing vector en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_vector_field

@WaffleAbuser

2 жыл бұрын

Not as funny, but there’s also the Shockley equation for diodes

@Cypeq

2 жыл бұрын

well guy had a poynt to make \(Oo)/

@magicalpencil

2 жыл бұрын

he was the first to orient his finger in the direction of something of interest, before that people just waved their fists and shouted

@Pronobozo

2 жыл бұрын

@@WaffleAbuser People usually take it the wrong way though.

7:34 blew my mind, the transmission line analogy blew my mind even more. Now I feel disqualified holding an electrical degree. When I watched Veritasium's video it made me more confused; while your video actually gave a very detailed picture of what Veritasium is trying to describe, props to you ElectroBoom :)

@embeddor2230

2 жыл бұрын

The transmission line analogy is only valid though if the two lines are close to each other in order for the cross capacity to exist at a reasonable value.

@wbeaty

2 жыл бұрын

@@embeddor2230 No, only valid if the space between the two wires is far smaller than the length of the wires. Which it is. 2-wire lines are COUNTERINTUITIVE. Also, we're NOT allowed to ignore the inductance per unit length. That creates the magnetic part of the EM fields. For example, transmission-line calculator says that 1mm wires spaced one meter apart have a line-impedance of 911 ohms. Or bring those wires only 1cm apart, giving Zo of 360 ohms. So, going from one meter gap to 1/100 meter only changes the characteristic impedance by less than three! (Or, go from 1M to 10M spacing, and the Zo goes from 911 ohms to 1190 ohms, only a 30% increase with TEN METER SPACING. If Veritasium used an LED, then it would immediately light, even if the space between wires was 10M rather than 1M.)

@lukiepoole9254

2 жыл бұрын

Imaginary electrons LOL. Funny dystopian pseudoscientist "electroboom".

@wbeaty

2 жыл бұрын

​@@embeddor2230 > The transmission line analogy is only valid though if the two lines are close to each other So you appear to be saying this? ...if two long wires are one meter apart, they don't form a capacitor anymore. The gap is too large! Also this: if a big wire loop is made 1M in diameter, it stops being an inductor. The wires are too far apart from each other! If that's not what you're saying, then your claim appears to be an unsupported newbie misconception. As wire-gap increases, and if the wire diameter remains the same, the Zo line impedance doesn't increase as inverse-square or inverse-cube! These lines are closely coupled (very long, where the 1M gap is almost insignificant. That's why we can apply transmission-line physics.) Transmission lines are COUNTERINTUITIVE, and if we aren't RF engineers with some EM fields/waves classwork under our belts, we're going to be trapped in newbie physics-misconceptions. For example, how does the Zo line impedance increase, as we separate the wires? Start at 1cm, using Dereck's cables (which appear to be roughly 5mm diameter.) Gap size M | Zo in ohms 0.01 - - - - - - 158 0.02 - - - - - - 247 0.05 - - - - - - 359 0.1 - - - - - - 442 0.2 - - - - - - 525 0.5 - - - - - - 635 1.0 - - - - - - 718 That's from the online calculator at Clemson TL_calculator... cecas.clemson.edu/cvel/emc/calculators/TL_Calculator/index.html To bad Veritasium didn't have his wires be 10M apart! With 5mm cables, the Zo is only 1K. Then use a 220VDC battery, and light up a bulb, where the billion-foot lines are only putting 2K ohms in series with the light bulb. .

@jazzytimes2373

2 жыл бұрын

veritasium is a fool as he not taking impedance values into the equation..light takes a second to reach the moon.current flow will be slower due to the resistance of the wire at power up.

I liked Darek's video but it is important to understand that reality is often not the ideal. Honestly it was a good video and it helped me understand a concept I struggled with in school. Also I like this video as well as reminds us of all the factors involved.

I wished I had all these great videos while going to engineering school. Getting an electrical engineering degree would have been much easier and even more fun!

As someone who took one course of electrical engineering in college, I also thought the Veritasium video felt like a trick question and left me kinda confused. This video made it clear what was actually happening.

@wallieshere

2 жыл бұрын

yeah.. maybe theoretical physics mixed in with real world application.

I watched Veritasium's video when it came out, and knew I had only to wait for your excellent response. Is this (friendly) rivalry going to end with you both teaming up to create a real ~300,000km long circuit?

@ElectroBOOM

2 жыл бұрын

NNNNOOOO! :)

@robertaries2974

2 жыл бұрын

@@ElectroBOOM free energy?

@marekholub8668

2 жыл бұрын

@@ElectroBOOM As electrical engineering student, I really hated how people fanatically believed that his explanation is 100% right and who disagrees is just stupid.

@TheSucread

2 жыл бұрын

You just need a couple of meter of a cable triggered source and fast scope. The delays in the signal will be clearly distinguishable.

@henrysalayne

2 жыл бұрын

@@ElectroBOOM Don't you have like 150,000 km of ball-chain already laying around from your last controversy? :D

Truly enjoyed the details! Well addressed. Thanks!

Nice clarifying vid ! I was just thinking, sometimes we say we're looking at the past when watching the stars, because of the time needed for their light to reach us. In that case, we could say the lamp is looking at the past when watching the end of the transmission line. So when we close the switch, the lamp is still seeing the end of the line as unaffected for a little while ; thus she's not getting the full power of a closed circuit. I hope it makes sense

Oh well done, this is by a LONG way the best presentation of this I've seen so far. I've been pulling my hair out for weeks. I've been utterly astonished at the uniformity in misunderstanding that has existed on this topic since Derek's video. Even scientists with a PhD have overlooked the basic things you pointed out with such clarity in your video. I'm so pleased there is now a video by someone who knows what they are talking about that is as comprehensive as this. There's a few other topics you could have covered, such as the Poynting vector and superconductors, how the potential energy in the vicinity of the bulb (carried there by the wires) is transformed into light and heat energy in the bulb and the Poynting vector corresponds precisely to this in the vicinity of the bulb, how radiative energy is distinguished from potential energy in the electromagnetic field, how ohmic heating works and how the Poynting vector points into the wire (at the surface) when the wire is not superconducting, how the speed of transmission is related to the dielectric constant and so on. But you covered the most important topics for understanding Derek's original video, which I consider to be quite misleading.

@blinded6502

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, PhD doesn't mean that people keep knowledge they've gained close to their heart

@fabianvandermijde4066

2 жыл бұрын

@@blinded6502 doesent Mehdi also have a PhD?

@juzoli

2 жыл бұрын

@@blinded6502 Those people with PhD are not wrong, but they jump right into the Poynting vectors and deep physics, ignoring the big picture. They have pre-existing knowledge about these things, they already know the good explanation, and that’s what they agree with, not what is in the video. They don’t understand how confusing it is for someone with “only” high school level knowledge, especially when that high school was a decade ago.

That explanation is pure gold. Should be listed as recommended literature in all universities with electricity related faculties.

This really fixes the misleading aspect of Veritasium's video. I left that video knowing there was something wrong with how he presented the notion that the power only crosses the three meters. Now it all makes perfect sense.

Veritasium made it explicitly clear in earlier videos that they optimise their content for the KZread algorithm and to maximise viewer numbers, and prioritises this above the desire to provide content that educates. The Veritasium video was carefully calculated to be click-bait and cause maximum outrage and confusion in order to boost viewer numbers. By this metric, Derek's video was a highly successful money maker. This profit was however achieved at the expense of annoying everyone who already understands transmission-line theory, and insulting engineering teachers by calling them liars.

@T3hJimmer

2 жыл бұрын

Bingo. Veritasium used to be good, now it's click bait trash.

@NefariousDestiny

2 жыл бұрын

Echoing this. Veritasium changed from education to clickbait several years ago now.

@Theraot

2 жыл бұрын

I remind you all that it was his thesis that tricking people into the wrong answer would lead to better learning. So he went asking people on the streets and shows the wrong answers on the video, to then show the explanation. Baiting and triggering question always were in him.

@nsfeliz7825

2 жыл бұрын

AGREEEED. YOU NAILED IT. SO TRUE.

@purplewine7362

2 жыл бұрын

Lmfao this was not even close to what he said in his video on clickbait 🤡

I am an electronic engineer and Dereks video made me question my education. I think of that as a good outcome. And I immediately wrote he was wrong. I am so glad Boom made this.

@styrishrodrigues

2 жыл бұрын

I Indian?

@MrHBSoftware

2 жыл бұрын

same happened to me, but i am salf taught on electricity and electronics...i got so lost on his video that i wrote comments to disagree with it...for me the light only turns on when enough current flows to make it glow, he never referred to the wires as big antennas or a capacitor and he never mentioned leakage current, he also never mentioned background fields and he never mentioned how irrelevant all of that is on a frickin DC 12 lightbulb circuit, if he explicitly mentioned that, then i would understand the subject instead of wasting all my brain cells to find ways to disagree with him

I would have loved to have a teacher like this guy genuine love for his field.

i love it when he started the simulator. i have no idea how to interpret or any background to the topic. but his answer is pointed to the question. kind of like a research paper.

Kurz did a very good video on the "lies" of science communication's required simplifications of complex topics. But the way Veratasium said that we were taught "lies". Annoyed me a lot especially when he hyper simplified his example down and ignored so many potential losses or other important variables in his explanation. Which as you have shown in this video is a "lie", ie simplifcation of a topic. He took issue with a "lie" then explained why he thought it was a "lie" by "lying" about it? Why is it not as clear if not clearer to explain that its a nessecary simplification for base level understanding of electricity? Rather than to give the impression that people are being taught falsehoods. Potentially damaging peoples trust in the education they have been given on other topics.

@sledzeppelin

2 жыл бұрын

Amen. His video leaves people with two false impressions: Wires are irrelevant Science lies to you

@heat1235

2 жыл бұрын

Kurz calling simplifications for lies is really handing a big point over to the weirder side of the "do your own research"-group.

@iteratortv

2 жыл бұрын

Well, he did the exact opposite to what Kurz is trying to do - he took a pretty simple and quite valid model and complicated it with what he presented as "fields and vectors magic"

@tacct1kk715

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah exactly quite disappointing to say the least

@kingkarlito

2 жыл бұрын

This is especially gross considering the massive amount of science denialism going on today with climate change and covid. These people know better than to label these models lies.

If I had a professor like you in college, I would have been an electrical engineer and not a mechanical engineer. It's so facinating and amazing and you do such a great job of explaining it!

@rg500delta

2 жыл бұрын

It really makes all the difference, doesn't it?

@johnchestnut5340

2 жыл бұрын

You are an electrical engineer and don't know it. There's a LOT of overlap. Many of the equations and concepts are the same. Enjoy!

Superb... As usual.. 👍👍 Keenly looking forward to seeing more.. 😊

Just now noticed that when you were going through the choices, the light was doing them. How did you accomplish this? Curious how complicated or simplified it was

While watching Derek's video i thought about my transmission line class in college. I remembered very little of it but his explanation just didn't seem right. ElectroBoom brought it all back in a rush of educational bliss! My mind is now at peace.

The thing I learned in uni is that "energy" is literally anything that _can_ do something. A ball on top of a desk has energy, potential gravitational energy. So yes, the EM field carries energy. But a moving electron creates EM fields that carries energy. So, in a way, electrons (moving ones) are carrying energy. It's a useful abstraction! Derek's video also rubbed me the wrong way, especially how the light turns on at _any_ energy level. I figured that in that case, the distance from the switch to the light bulb would be significant, since it should carry _some_ energy, or something like that. I think the general premise of his video is good, but the dissmissal of abstractions and trick question did a disservice to it, in my opinion. Loved this one tho!

@vi23a

2 жыл бұрын

ahahaha astolfo funny words

@flatbob123

2 жыл бұрын

His video also bothered me because his answer would be the same (1/c) if you had an open circuit at both ends of lines. It all boils down him being technically correct but pretty wrong in practice. It also doesn't help that he's basically clickbaiting and fooling a large audience into thinking they were taught wrong their whole lives.

@Fred_Costa

2 жыл бұрын

One of my best physics teachers in uni used to tell us that energy is just a "conversion currency" between different phenomena, once again, a useful abstraction.

@dan1RR

2 жыл бұрын

I don't know if I'm being naive here. But I think the point of Derek's video was to show that energy is carried by fields, The trick question and the exaggeration are means of engagement. And I think this because of his videos on clickbait and viral videos. what is good: it creates a chain of videos that respond to his, and leads his viewers to these videos. Since the alghorith tends to couple videos of simmilar topics and audiencies what is bad: He could have achieved the notion he wanted. That energy doensn't goes through wires (wich we done well), and after that, actually ground his clains, remove te hyperboles, and explain that distance hardly relates with power. The problem with his aproach in my opinion is (if this was his aproach): his original claim, that we were taught to us is wrong, what he ultimatelly did, is also wrong, but in the reverse direction. The naive defence that I kinda have is that his intent is to create more videos about, and simultaneously raise awareness to the subject and other creators, but how could someone judge the sucess of this (if is really his intent) and wouldn't it fu** his credibility if after the video you don't know if he was tolding the truth or running some kind of community awareness experiment?

@minoxs

2 жыл бұрын

@@dan1RR I make your words mine, couldn't have put it any better. One thing I'd like to add is about the "you were taught wrong" approach. While it is true to some extent to say that and brings in views, I'm much more fond of kurzgesagt's approach. Which is to say "you were taught wrong, err, sort of". The "lies" we're taught are just simplifications and abstractions of a messy reality, so that we can slowly build up our notion of the universe. Derek just says "you were taught wrong" and doesn't elaborate any further. It's almost paradoxical, he is diving deeper into a subject while also staying at a shallow level. Which is why I believe it was a disservice to himself. I hope my point makes sense ;w;

That was just the next level sharing of knowledge. I love it.

This is actually quite a common phenomenon. Many popular wide-topic blogs (sci-pop included) seem at first really comprehensive, until they hit one's specific field of knowledge, at which point one realizes they are superficial, inacurate and often misleading concerning even essential details.

Thank you for setting the record straight. Derek's was indeed a trick question based on language. "Turned on" is a concept that we associate to the circuit being at operating current. He should have said "receiving any energy from the battery". Which also the rocks did, by the way.

@joefuentes2977

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly even worse he drew up the problem to SEEM like it's asking about DC steady state but OOPS it's a transmission line problem! If it was really asking about the transient state any person correctly modeling the problem would draw the appropriate distributed model of the transmission line. Unfortunately oops he forgot to draw the LC network! That would be a great way to get fired for incompetence in the real world but like you said he did this all intentionally for attention.

@BjornMoren

2 жыл бұрын

Yes this was not very impressive by Derek. Either he doesn't actually understand what happens, or he deliberately fools the audience. In any case, most people will not be any wiser from his video.

@DeathBringer769

2 жыл бұрын

He seems to like to do a lot of this type of trick with his video titles or main questions raised in the videos themselves. He seems to enjoy being like "See? Nearly everyone is wrong about this thing!" due to some trick of phrasing/language.

@AdelaeR

2 жыл бұрын

@@DeathBringer769 True. Typical media sensationalism, actually.

@DS-pk4eh

2 жыл бұрын

@@AdelaeR Known as "Clickbait" Bread and butter of the KZread (well any media) titles.

Omg I had that question in my mind for a long time. Thank you guys for making science more amazing.

This is exactly right. Thank you for presenting a good engineering analysis. This is so much better than the original. At t=0, the long lines are simply sucking in energy like resistors at R=z0.

@bransonwalter5588

2 жыл бұрын

It isn't. EMF causes a displacement current that can act as soon as an electron can reach the location you are detecting the current. While this value is very very very low compared to the full current on a super conductor after full propagation, it is a valid path of EMF flow. He gave it away horribly when he said "any current at all". If he said full current, it would be Electroboom is falling into the engineering trap of direct simplification without fundamentally understanding the full reasons for those simplifications. He knows enough to be dangerous but not enough to truly know the extreme conditionals which bite you hard.

Thanks for this brilliant explanation. I like how you point out the "transmission line" property of the setup. As an RF engineer I tip my hat :-)

@pyrokinetikrlz

2 жыл бұрын

Another RF engineer here. Some thoughts that I want to shared wit you: The large peak Electroboom saw in his LTSpice simulation at t=0 is due to the capacitance of the TX line (as he mentioned), which is a short-circuit for the high-frequency content of the voltage step created when closing the switch. I think that in reality high frequencies are radiated from the battery wires to the lamp wires (a.k.a. a spark TX ) and a small amount of energy is picked by the lamp. That energy arrives 1/c seconds after switch is closed. It is just not enough to turn on the lamp, but I think that pulse (or transient) is what Veritasium was addressing as "lamp on"

@johnyang799

2 жыл бұрын

I took a rf course and I'm glad it lays out a very important foundation for me to understand pcb level transmission line stuff and of course questions like this.

@Ducktility

2 жыл бұрын

Enjoy your small victory engineers; Physicists rule!

@Noubers

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ducktility Your comment is how to tell someone is still in school and isn't yet a physicist with an engineering job. Seriously though most physicists I know still consider RF black magic. It is one thing to know the fundamentals on a base physical level, its another to make it happen.

@Ducktility

2 жыл бұрын

@@Noubers You don't really understand fundamental research, do you? I'll give you a small example: Theoretical physics: Hypothesize electrons Applied physics: Discover and demonstrate electroluminescence Engineering: Improve LED efficiency and make it useful to the world.

The demonstration that the LED turns on without closing the loop for a high frequency signal was brilliant! Amazing video, as always!

@bartosik321

2 жыл бұрын

i still cannot wrap my mind around how exactly is that possible. Can someone explain in different words whats happening there? Or explain it like im 5 or something

@maxspencerkarinen6463

2 жыл бұрын

@@bartosik321 AC current is wack and doesn't need a wire to connect it to ground, it'll find other ways to reach ground through the air

@Sumguy21

2 жыл бұрын

that was some black magic ive never seen before

@abhisheksamal1970

2 жыл бұрын

Poynting theorem states that closed surface integral of E×H = rate of decrese of energy stored by electric field and magnetic field in the volume of closed surface minus the ohmic losses Ohmic losses depends on the conductivity so simply I can say that power flowing out if any closed surface integral of E×H Now in above case (DC)since magnetic field set up by DC current is constant so as the electric field. So there is no there is no propagation of E and H outside the wire... It is just a set up of E and H. The stored energy due to electric and magnetic field outside the wire is not changing with time Sooooo..... Poynting theorem only depends upon conductivity. Since the conductivity of the medium outside the wire is zero ,,so it will not propagate outside the wire.... Derek is only looking at E × H in this video actually E× H is not propagating in case of DC According to him he can transmit energy wirelessly at 0 hz. Moreover he is right that current flow and energy flow are not in the same direction..... In case of AC you can transmit t using the above concept but then again you need some waveguide for the energy flow.

@LiraLab

2 жыл бұрын

Basically, there is a parasitic capacitance between the separate loops. So, the higher the frequency, the lower the parasitic impedance and the signal passes through the air (dielectric) and reaches the other wires.

Bravo! Thank you so much for the context and entertainment!

Very technical explanations. I watched that video about magnetic current and I was wondering if there was a decent agreement or disagreement. I guess the main importance is creating circuits that work and do the job they were designed to do, regardless of the explanations.

This is great. I am also in EE and I agree with everything said here. Derek’s. video is a bit incomplete which is rare for him. He did deserve this.

@asj3419

2 жыл бұрын

He talked about demonstrating this with an experiment, so I wonder if he was being intentionally vague in order to make a follow-up that explains things more thoroughly.

@Elrog3

2 жыл бұрын

I don't think it is rare for him.

@Harambe8

2 жыл бұрын

@@Elrog3 any other vids?

@boxcar9407

2 жыл бұрын

@@Elrog3 damn really nailed him... maybe???

@Elrog3

2 жыл бұрын

​@@Harambe8 A month ago he did a question in a community post and a video about a string hanging from a helicopter. It was an inadequately defined question. I remember there were some about cosmology or particle physics that didn't sit well from years ago. Its not always the basis of the whole video, but it does seem about every other video (that I watch) he will say something questionable.

I just friggin love the fact that the past months I discovered a ton of new engineering channels I hadn’t known about when they dispute Derek’s video lol. Which made this video long awaited for me, I just love to see your explanation.

@michaeloloyede8670

2 жыл бұрын

bro pls share some of those channels quickly

@DrOtto-sx7cp

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaeloloyede8670 😆

@needadoseofdumbvaccine88

Жыл бұрын

@@michaeloloyede8670 The Big Misconception About Electricity - Is Veritasium Right - RSD Academy EEVblog 1439 - Analysing Veritasium's Electricity Misconceptions Video Is Veritasium Wrong About Electricity? - Dr Ben Miles That's some videos on this matter.

Great explanation, I learned a new thing about AC behaviour with the oscilloscope. Instant subscribe!

Really love this video, you're addressing all the concerns I had about the Veritasium video. I think we can also think about it like this: in the question, we can model it as a wireless power transmission.. over 1 meter.. using DC energy (!). I don't think you have to be an electronics expert or do any modelling to just intuitively understand that this would never work for any reasonable definition of 'turning a lamp on'.

@xander395

2 жыл бұрын

What are your thoughts after the 29 Apr Veritasium video? I am not an EE, so I honestly don't know... but it looks like V went in and showed why... Is he still wrong?

@johanronnblom5439

2 жыл бұрын

@@xander395 I think there is more wireless transmission than I expected. But still, the vast majority, about 80% of the voltage, does not appear until it has propagated around the circuit, which I guess means that Veritasium was about 80% wrong? There also seems to be the catch that there is a ramp-up of the wireless transmission so that not even those 20% are actually induced at 1m/c. My overall verdict is that the question was misleading. If it had been about when the lamp *started* to turn on, I think the original answer would have been accurate. I know the original video said we should assume the lamp turned on as soon as it got power, but at least I interpreted that to just mean that there was no delay for eg heating the lamp filament, not that we should consider 'on' as getting even a small fraction of the power.

When designing high frequency circuit boards, you have to often match the length of the tracks carrying particularly high frequency signals. In many cases, these tracks are bunched up like a winding river. The veritasium video suggests that this would mean that the signal only respected the shortest distance possible, but instead we find that the signal pays much more attention to the total length of the track.

@Shinkajo

2 жыл бұрын

Did you come up with that while microdosing?

@Soupy_loopy

2 жыл бұрын

Truth.

@YoutubeHandlesSuckBalls

2 жыл бұрын

@@Shinkajo I assume you mean, while designing circuit boards for a doser that uses a microcontroller. In which case, yes.

@tsm688

2 жыл бұрын

Your trace is not millions of times longer than the signal involved. Ver's hypothetical example was, which is part of why it's so misleading.

"It's the field that carries the energy, not the electrons" is the 2022 version of "It's the current that kills, not the voltage".

Honestly I came here first before watching the video in question because I knew I would be entertained and get a better answer. Also love the fact you collaborate and promote others in your videos - love, love, love it!

Your enthusiasm about your chosen topic is admirable. :)

I watched Veritasium's video first, and, while confused, I learned the interesting idea of energy flowing around the wire. After watching yours (despite getting a bit lost in the second half) I understand better how it actually works

@bremset

2 жыл бұрын

6:45 "...a hundred times weaker". Can you explain how that works, as you can't quantify weakness? Or do you mean one hundredth as strong?

@diggoran

2 жыл бұрын

@@bremset I think that’s the commonly agreed understanding of that phrase. When the adjective describes getting closer to 0 of some value, the multiplication uses the inverse value. Becoming weaker is trending in the direction of 0 strength, so 100 times weaker means 100 times closer to 0 strength, or a multiplication by 1/100. This is language dependent, because you have to already agree that weakness isn’t quantifiable alone, but only by reference to some amount of strength. 0 weakness doesn’t fit into reality as well as 0 strength does. Just like how infinite strength is unrealistic but infinite weakness is realistic. You can argue against these assumptions scientifically, but to understand the phrase “100 times weaker” as it is commonly used, you have to start by agreeing with them.

@bremset

2 жыл бұрын

@johnnytheprick i dont know. I tried to post in the main thread. But now you've replied to weirdo yourself 😅

The editing is on another level, amazing to see how the channel is developing over time

I am thoroughly enjoying these back and forth videos.

Wow! Thanks for a great video! I had forgotten a lot of this since I got out of the military (former avionics tech). Meaningless side note: don't use a hacksaw to cut wood. : )

@jDm-cq9ol

2 жыл бұрын

Avionics Millington TN.?

@nommadd5758

2 жыл бұрын

@@jDm-cq9ol : Yep, N.A.S. Memphis. Remember: "The best sea duty is Tennessee duty." Lol!

@jDm-cq9ol

2 жыл бұрын

@@nommadd5758 NATTC Millington 1982-1983. Millington was the ugliest /most boring place I've ever been . Now I know why Elvis took drugs.

@nommadd5758

2 жыл бұрын

@@jDm-cq9ol : 🤣 ROFL! I was there '87 - '88. The base was shut down many years ago. Last I heard, north side is a civilian airport and south side (barracks) is low income housing. Thanks for the laugh shipmate!

@jDm-cq9ol

2 жыл бұрын

@@nommadd5758 The best memories were ZZ TOP Mid South Coliseum. Seeing Chicago Play at the Mud Island Amphitheatre,and Bears Tatoo Den on Highway 51. RIP Bear. 73's.

Saying electrons are not carrying energy is like saying it's the current that kills not the voltage.

@ElectroBOOM

2 жыл бұрын

Heh, in fact in that case since electrons don't carry energy, current doesn't kill at all!

@anlumo1

2 жыл бұрын

@@ElectroBOOM At least that would explain why you're still alive!

@juzoli

2 жыл бұрын

It is an abstract concept anyway, and the answer depends on how we define “carrying energy”. In reality it is a continuous interaction wave between electrons, propagated by the fields between them. So saying that electrons carry the energy is perfectly fine, if we are describing it at a higher level of abstraction.

@SKyrim190

2 жыл бұрын

"It is not the water that carries the energy into a turbine. It is the fluid velocity field!"

@TrueThanny

2 жыл бұрын

It _is_ the current. Consider a cosmic "ray" that's actually a particle. You get hit by those all the time, and the energy of the particle is ridiculously high. But you don't die. Now take a hammer and swing it at your head with an absurdly lower amount of energy per particle, and you may very well die. Same principle as a high voltage and low current due to supply, rather than resistance. It's trivial to zap yourself harmlessly with over a million volts, with a big enough Van de Graaff generator. It's also trivial to kill yourself with just 120 volts from a wall outlet.

The analogy with the wood and the saw is great. I thought of something like this, but that one pretty much nails it.

@sirrathersplendid4825

2 жыл бұрын

I SAW what you did there!

@ujjwal2473

2 жыл бұрын

@@sirrathersplendid4825 damn you dirty mind :P

@acommonman7950

2 жыл бұрын

It's misleading.

@n0nenone

2 жыл бұрын

@@sirrathersplendid4825 damn you guys are SHARP

@sirrathersplendid4825

2 жыл бұрын

@@n0nenone WOODn’t you know it? I can appreciate your SERRATED humour.

Small correction for the formula at 12:51. That's only valid for DC. To get the gereral impedance you sum an infinite series to get that z = sqrt(L/C - omega^2 * L^2/4) + i * omega * L / 2, with omega the angular frequency and i = sqrt(-1).

Well done. I think you clarify what Veritasium messed up. You give a proper model for the problem.

Mehdi, as an electrical engineer I wholeheartedly thank you, you are pretty much the only goddamn person on the internet who seems to ACTUALLY know about what he's talking about when talking about electricity. I really don't understand why other extremely reputable channels couldn't take this same approach, and I mostly don't understand why electrical-related matters have to ALWAYS be -at least to some extents- mystified and spectacularized as if they were some sort of great big mystery. Electricity is """fairly""" simple, and it would be much much much more simple if people stopped picturing it at some sort of goddamn magical force. Never stop educating the masses Mehdi, NEVER STOP! You really are the only one in the field.

@jemert96

2 жыл бұрын

As an electrical engineer, that veritaserium video was kind of infuriating

@Mullheimer

2 жыл бұрын

@@jemert96 I do not agree. Although you (as experts) may not agree with the information, it taught me about poynting vector, which was interesting. Then it got me watching this electroboom video, learning even more on the subject! Although Veritasium should have had a disclaimer at the end saying other effects apply. But really, I'm a chemistry teacher (also physics sometimes) and any lesson I teach is incorrect. There is always another effect that makes the story nog very correct. When I started teaching I was always nuanced. With experience I found that simple is better. If the vids were correct I wouldn't have watched it, so simple is king here.

Thank you for making this video. Derric's video didn't sit well with me, and luckily there were many in his comments' section that pointed out this very issue, but it's nice to have your detailed explanation to really iron out the caveats.

Have to say this was more helpful than Derek's while also recognising it needed his video to jump off of. The discussion is really great thank you! I did find Derek's line about "they lied to you" quite unhelpful .. a quite peculiar frame of reference to use.