If you want to donate to Team Trees, you can do that at the link here: teamtrees.org/ (I've also linked this video to the campaign, so there should also be a donate button somewhere nearby.) FYI: No one in the Team Trees campaign thinks that planting all these trees is going to solve global warming. It’s not even going to have an impact on CO2 levels, at least not _right away._ These will just be saplings. They won’t do the work we want them to do for years and, even then, it’s not enough to solve the problem. As I said in the video, global warming is the greatest challenge humans have ever faced and this campaign is just one small piece of the solution. The ultimate _hope_ is that it will raise awareness in a way that motivates/inspires people to do more. The problem might be large, but it's not insurmountable if we acknowledge it exists and we work together. This is what I feel the campaign is really about.

@davewilson13

4 жыл бұрын

Your channel has gotten so good, hope all is well.

@Secret_Moon

4 жыл бұрын

As a biologist to a physicist, I would suggest you look more into how chlorophyll absorbs photon to "knock up" the electron. It actually involves quite crazy physics there. By the way, didn't know you're married to a biologist. I love how nerdy your family sounds. Send her my regards.

@thegenxgamerguy6562

4 жыл бұрын

Done. Thank you not only for the great video, but also for the opportunity to help with planting trees.

@donaldtrumpling2016

2 жыл бұрын

@@thegenxgamerguy6562 late but, the paper and wood industry by law needs to plant 2 trees every tree they take one down. So by a week they've already planted 40 million. Team trees was just a way for Mr.beast to grow his "I'm a nice guy" image by not doing anything tens of hundreds of people already do and without even getting any recognition

@rickoshay6554

2 жыл бұрын

If I donate a dollar to your tree project, will you tell me where it is so I can go hug it? And, by the way, don't plant my tree in California. The Yahoos out there will just let it burn. If you're going to do that, I'll spend my dollar on a taco. Then I'll find a nut and plant my own tree here in Texas where we'll take care of it.

A PHYSICIST marrying a BIOLOGIST? You guys have a great CHEMISTRY in between.

@ScienceAsylum

4 жыл бұрын

😂

@IkikaeruRaimei

4 жыл бұрын

Meanwhile, some IT guys still tries to have a simple hello from at least one girl in his life... But first, let's fix this server I think?

@ifrazali3052

4 жыл бұрын

Lol

@larryteslaspacexboringlawr739

4 жыл бұрын

i should have seen that arriving from a mile distant

@hermask815

4 жыл бұрын

Let's get physical.

Top notch science presenter with outstanding material well presented. Good thing you married a biologist. Physicists need all the help they can get to reproduce.

@MitzvosGolem1

4 жыл бұрын

Except Dr Richard Feynman...

@cuongdang3304

4 жыл бұрын

Ah... No, biology need physic help, we need physic to get even deeper on how things work, i mean dude, physic and math... They explain all

@erikawanner7355

4 жыл бұрын

William Morton LoL! Comment of the day!

@jaygorakhiya1316

4 жыл бұрын

@@cuongdang3304 actually mathematics forbids this that mathematics can explain all things there is an field in mathematics known as "logic theory".

@jamesbrowne1004

4 жыл бұрын

This is the simple biology. To quote one mathematical ecologist I know, "Ecology isn't rocket science, it is far more difficult." Think of the 3 body problem (only 3?), then think of how many microbes are interacting in your gut, how many algae cells are interacting in a pond, start throwing in interacting populations of larger organisms, and then interacting ecosystems. It's the edge of chaos all the way down. By coincidence, I was measuring Chlorophyll and other pigments this morning. 😊

RuBisCO really doesn't get enough credit for being the most important molecule on Earth

@KohuGaly

4 жыл бұрын

more important than RNA?

@ScienceAsylum

4 жыл бұрын

I’ve had many viewers disappointed I didn’t talk about the Calvin cycle more. Maybe it needs its own video?

@narfwhals7843

4 жыл бұрын

@@ScienceAsylum From what i see in the comments is more the need for a video on climate change - a physicists view?

@ScienceAsylum

4 жыл бұрын

​@@narfwhals7843 If someone is genuinely interesting in learning about it, I just recommend PBS Hot Mess because they do a much better job than I _ever_ could. (The "physicist view" wouldn't really work because it's a multi-discipline issue. It would have to be a multi-discipline collaboration.)

@michaeljorgensen790

3 жыл бұрын

Watching this video it made me realize that even the simplest life is pretty complicated....and it is hard to imagine the origin of life spontaneously beginning without being in an environment that already has stability and order. Tide pools and hydrothermal undersea vents seem unlikely candidates. No place seems stable enough for a long enough period of time. What popped into my mind was inside of a geode that already has a crystalline internal structure that an organic compound that would eventually become self replicating can use as a template to molecularly organize itself. A geode with a micro fracture that would let water seep in... if it was inside of a tide pool or next to a hydrothermal vent it could provide that stable environment that would produce the first self replicating archaea RNA strand. I just wanted to put that out there incase anyone wants to win a Nobel prize for it...just remember you heard it here first.

Chemists: "An ionized hydrogen atom" Me, an intellectual: "A proton"

@m33LLS

4 жыл бұрын

Ackchyually, if we talk about acidity a 'naked' proton is too high in potential energy too exist like that in water. It still forms a bond with the electron pair of oxygen in the water molecule to lower its potential energy, forming these H3O+ molecules.

@FlailingJunk

4 жыл бұрын

@@m33LLS What do rogue electrons do?

@Hagledesperado

4 жыл бұрын

@@FlailingJunk Zap.

@m33LLS

4 жыл бұрын

@@FlailingJunk Solvated electrons exist, but difficult to observe en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solvated_electron

@simonfalkner1682

4 жыл бұрын

@@FlailingJunk there is also almost never a free electron floating around. it usually is transported either through some Atom-Clusters (Like Iron-sulfur clusters) or in form of a reduced molecule (like FADH2, NADPH, QH2, ...) Many of those electron carrying molecules are also H+ carriers, as they combine the transfer of electrons and protons simultaneously. You can view it like that: The Energy in cell is transferred by ATP, the electrons (reducing equivalents) in form of reduced molecules

Awesome idea. Hopefully _____ Explained by a Physicist becomes a series!

@ChrisChoi123

4 жыл бұрын

wheres your video explaining photosynthesis using tensor calc and differential equations? i would pay to see that

@AndrewDotsonvideos

4 жыл бұрын

Chris Choi i think it’s left as an exercise in Jackson

@akshatsaxena1431

4 жыл бұрын

@@AndrewDotsonvideos oof

@shayanmoosavi9139

4 жыл бұрын

Hey. Great to see you here man :)

@rikthecuber

2 жыл бұрын

Wait, how did you escape papa flammy's basement?

I would watch a 10 hour presentation on photosynthesis, one electron at a time. But that's just me. :)

@AK-yy6yf

4 жыл бұрын

I second that 👌

@ScienceAsylum

4 жыл бұрын

I couldn't possibly animate that myself 😵

@DFPercush

4 жыл бұрын

@@ScienceAsylum Hmm, kinda reminds me of when I had to make a flip book animation of cell division in high school biology. Is that kind of quality acceptable? lol

@Adraria8

4 жыл бұрын

Someone should make an animation of a single electron in a water molecule’a journey through the photosynthesis chemical pathway

@Fish-ub3wn

4 жыл бұрын

If u can make that happen, a ot of crazies would be delighted including myself. Cheers! (fishmilk)

The depth in which its covered, the animation even for that deep level is unmatchable. That's why I subscribed this channel.

"Were you prepared for the complexity of that process?" After playing both Factorio and Spacechem, I'm still not a chemist by any stretch of the imagination. So you probably would have lost me had you gone deeper into all of those reactions. But for otherwise assembling complex production systems together at the level shown, I got you covered. See, had my biology teachers provided us games like Factorio, but centered around biological processes, I might have had a much greater interest in biology, perhaps even chemistry.

When science is fun it's easier to learn, you make science fun!

Man I just studied that lesson in school and you might have just explained it better in 10 min than my teacher did in 120min

@whoeveriam0iam14222

4 жыл бұрын

that's because Nerd Clone keeps interrupting him. you needed a Nerd Clone in your school

@WarrenGarabrandt

4 жыл бұрын

I'm sure you could have the teacher show this video in class. You might want to get permission from Nick just in case, but I think he would be thrilled for you to all watch it.

@obinator9065

4 жыл бұрын

@@WarrenGarabrandt Educational usage is excluded from copyright infringements.

@devluz

4 жыл бұрын

To be fair I suspect Nick put a lot of more effort into this video than 120 min ;)

@WarrenGarabrandt

4 жыл бұрын

@@devluz given the animations, script writing & editing, shooting, and editing the video, I would be surprised if it took less than a week to make start to finish.

Your presentation graphics, style and humor are off the scale, I remember photosynthesis being taught to my child in high school, what a glossed over in justice was done.

@dww527

4 жыл бұрын

It would be great to include the timescales that are involved in the 4 level of events as well, just the geek in me wanting to know.

This was BY FAR the best Team Trees video that I've seen so far.

7:56 Factorio intesifies

@therawmeatball6883

4 жыл бұрын

Totally!

@no_more_free_nicks

4 жыл бұрын

Bu ha ha ha, don't mention Crack-torio. It is dangerous, I have stuff to learn for an interview.

@WarrenGarabrandt

4 жыл бұрын

I actually got a strong urge to play that game again when he said "Deeper", and then it zoomed in to all the pieces moving around. I'm going to go play it now, actually. I think there is still enough time to get something done in that game before the live stream starts in 22 hours and 26 minutes.

@Adraria8

4 жыл бұрын

Someone should make a game in a similar style to factorio except you build a biochemical factory inside a cell

@WarrenGarabrandt

4 жыл бұрын

@@Adraria8 system requirements: collection of every supercomputer in the world combined for 0.0001x play speed.

I was not prepared! That photo system thing was pretty darn interesting, I wouldn't mind seeing that discussed in more detail.

The description was so good! Thank you for creating these ☺️

Loved this, more excursions into biology and ecology please! Nature is oh so complex and so many of us are ignorant about the basic truths that make life possible, but you bring such light and clarity with your explanations. Thank you, and thank you for being part of team trees

When you said "You know where we need to go", I immediately thought "To the Timeline!" XD

@ScienceAsylum

4 жыл бұрын

😂😂 Not a terrible guess given this channel.

@erikzalanszabo9838

3 жыл бұрын

We need to go... craaaaazy :D

I was not expecting this level of complexity, but your way of simplifying complex things made this very complex process become highly intuitive!

@4:20 is now my favorite Asylum Moment Ever.

7:22 CGP Grey cameo!

"Photosynthesis. Photosynthesis." -Spongebob 1999 The visualizations really help. I wouldn't have been able to go this deep with a textbook alone.

The best explanation of photosynthesis I've seen on KZread! These visuals help a lot in understanding the process. Wish it had a part two where it goes into even more details (like the cycle that makes sugar precursor) and maybe even point out inconsistencies in current theory of photosynthesis?

Yes! This is the detail I’ve been wanting to see in science videos. I would love to see more of these videos

Congratulations for marrying a biologist, they are wonderful people. I happen to be one myself so I can confirm.

Great video! Definitely something to pass on to my students. One of my favourite photosynthesis facts is that RuBisCO, one of the key elements in the Calvin cycle, is deeply inefficient (it actually binds about as well to oxygen as CO2, but that doesn't lead to sugars), so a lot of RuBisCO is stuck doing nothing (it may be the most common enzyme on earth because plants need so much of it), and plants have a massive array of adaptions just to try to keep oxygen concentrations low while photosynthesizing. That's definitely not helped by the fact that photosythesis produces oxygen...

@ScienceAsylum

4 жыл бұрын

Just goes to show how much random chance is involved in the development of something like this. Nature is all like "Well, this kind of works ok. We'll go with this!"

@ericjpedersen

4 жыл бұрын

@@ScienceAsylum yep. Evolution works on a basis of "that's good enough". I've seen a couple handwavy explanations that the oxygen inhibition is adaptive, but it makes more sense to me that Rubisco evolved when CO2 was really common and free oxygen didn't exist, so the o2 inhibition effects didn't matter. And it was too difficult to evolve a brand new solution, so plants are stuck with "good enough"

@cuongdang3304

4 жыл бұрын

@@ericjpedersen wow, that's actually something i've never thought about, i thought oxygen inhibition has some benefit too, now this is some serious stuff i want to discuss with my friend

@rickperez8044

4 жыл бұрын

What you talkin' 'bout, Willis? Terraforming? It's as if plants knew that animal life would need all that Oxygen -- and food -- in the future. Everything randomly worked to set the stage for that huge leap in evolution. "Good enough" for the plant was necessary for the development of animal life. How convenient that plants gather and store all that energy for us. I always thought it strange that plants seem to store so much more energy than actually needed to survive and reproduce. In the grand scheme of things, it's not inefficient at all. "Life will find a way." ― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

@TheRainHarvester

4 жыл бұрын

@@ericjpedersen , you might like a few "primordial particle system" videos I'm making. It's not based on real atoms yet, but I still got emergent behaviour from simple rules. I even got a beating heart and blood flow!

Great video! I like that level of (brilliantly explained & illustrated) granularity. Thanks!

I was sort of prepared for the complexity of photosynthesis. We have been talking about it and Cellular Respiration in my biology class. But I love the deeper explanations of things that seem simple. Keep up the good work!

Holy cow! Physics is my passion, but I gained such a deep appreciation for biology from this single video! Thank you so much for making this, and being a part of #TeamTrees!

@ScienceAsylum

4 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah, I have a deeper appreciation for what my wife does after making it.

“That’s what I thought” man I feel you deeply

Found this channel recently and this is one of my favs

These videos are exactly what I have been looking for. Thank you for that awesomely detailed explanation!

@ScienceAsylum

3 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome! 🤓

Well, you’ve gone farther than the high school level, let’s see ya going a bit farther. You put another black (green) box for the photon-electron step. That’s where I think the most interesting story lies. In my day that was about as far as things went. On a quantum mechanics’ level, how does that photon transfer energy to an electron? Chlorophyll somehow mediates this transfer but my Physics is not up to understanding the papers. Another video perhaps?

@GustavoOliveira-gp6nr

4 жыл бұрын

Me too! I would love to see a video about this part which involves quantum mechanics!

@animatedscience7832

4 жыл бұрын

this.

@DFPercush

4 жыл бұрын

Chlorophylls are very effective photoreceptors because they contain networks of alternating single and double bonds. Such compounds are called polyenes. They have very strong absorption bands in the visible region of the spectrum. .... www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK22535/

@MsSonali1980

4 жыл бұрын

Y E S ! :D

@prof_hu

4 жыл бұрын

I remember seeing a video describing the quantum physics effects involved. Unfortunately I cannot recall it.

Learned all the complexities while teaching my daughter about in her high school biology class. Back in the day we never learned it in this level of detail. Wish this video was available last year, would of made it so much easier for her to understand.

@aucklandnewzealand2023

8 ай бұрын

The purpose of science is not solely to provide a complete and definitive explanation of a phenomenon. It is often impossible to fully explain something, as there are always deeper layers that elude investigation. Instead, the primary goals of science are to offer predictions and to apply the effects discovered

So much for the understanding I got in high-school biology. I may need to watch this more than once!

I love your vids, I will be sharing this one with my FB groups. Thanks for the wonderful content.

Thank you for such an informative video.

I knew how this worked from studying biology at school, but this was an excellent presentation of a very complex system.

Excellent intro for this rather complicated process, thanks!

This is definitely the best channel on YT and this video is one of my top 3 It`d be awesome to see more of this deep-level analysis of biological processes on the channel

That was freaking cool! Loved it! The more I learn the more amazing it is! Thanks for taking the time creating this amazingly informative and entertaining video! Also thank your wife too! You both make a great team!

I was the kind of student always asking my biology teacher more details on the underlying mechanisms, so this one scratched a long-lasting itch! Very good idea, very well executed! I also like how this one had an "Inception" vibe to it! "-To the Timeli... I mean : Deeperrr!!" 2:44 Nice Sync on that Nerd-Clone interaction, unless you have a Twin-Brother!

Nice one Nick! Really enjoyed this.

Good job on photosynthesis. Im curious to research more now.

That "james (chemical)bond" glance before saying "deeper" is killing me...! As usual great video, entertaining, informative (and funny).

As a Botanist it's so satisfying to see a Physicist trying to figure out how photosynthesis works #teamtrees

@lawrencedoliveiro9104

2 жыл бұрын

It’s quite reasonable to argue that trees (and plants generally) really have no idea about photosynthesis. It’s only the cyanobacteria that figured that out. So what did this particular kingdom of eukaryotes do? They actually integrated cyanobacteria into their cell structures.

@Andrzej_Kowalski

Жыл бұрын

​​​​@@lawrencedoliveiro9104what do you mean by that? When we say: "a photosynthesis" first we think - plants. And it doesn't mean that they are the only organisms able to do that. We rather want to mark their importance (not only in producing oxygen but in many different aspects as well). And in the light of the evolution - plants are just more complex :) and of course (also in the light of evolution, the theory of endosymbiosis) they can do that thanks to chloroplasts which probably come from bacterias. But we could say exactly the same about animals (but in this case we focus on mitochondria). Plants are (in general, trees for example) much more taller and they just dominated our planet. They can develop the transport tissues and they are just much more complex than any bacteria (in the light of performing photosynthesis as well - for example because of many types of this process - C3, C4, CAM etc. )

@TheFightingSheep

Жыл бұрын

As a logician, one thing about this theory makes no sense at all. CO2 is currently at around 450ppm in the atmosphere, less than 0.005% concentration, which is practically zero. Now compare to humans who breath oxygen at 20% (250,000 times higher concentration!!!), with our lungs, having the surface area of a football field!!! And yet we still need to breath in and out all the time to get enough oxygen. Plants don't even have lungs to cycle the air, nor blood circulation to carry it around. Can plants absorb any significant amount of CO2 to make any difference? Obviously not!!! The mainstream photosynthesis theory looks quite absurd, doesn't it? Because it is, and whoever made that shit up is laughing at you! So since the scientific community is a paid for, freak show, what else have they lied to you about? Scary ah? Well, I salute your bravery for reading this far, but don't stop here, you live in a faked reality, and you will need much more courage to make it out into the light! Fear not my child, God is with every earnest and sincere truth seeker, His Holy Spirit will guide each one in the most noble quest for the truth, amen! "Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life." - John 8:12

I just hoped this video would come along one day. And every deeper brought a broader smile on my face. Thanks Nick and Em!

@ScienceAsylum

4 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome 😊

What's really cool is that diagrams/explanations of systems like this are mimicked in computer science. With circuits and programs we often design it to work like black boxes on upper levels where we're only concerned with what the program/function does and not how it does it. Then when you delve into the black box (going down in abstraction) you can design how the function does it's thing. Circuits in digital logic for instance can have several layers of abstraction from complex circuits down to logic gates, then transistors, and finally what atoms and electrons are doing inside the hardware.

@ScienceAsylum

2 жыл бұрын

Yep! Levels of abstraction are so important when trying to understand things that are this complex.

2019: Planting 20 million trees 2020: Picking 20 million trash in the ocean

@bern047

4 жыл бұрын

Starting with you

@XtreeM_FaiL

4 жыл бұрын

2021 Timber prices dive.

@pogan1983

4 жыл бұрын

The ocean is a true producer of O2 surplus and we omit its topic so much... in favour of forests. There's a world's litter bin so called world ocean and who brings the topic up? Just you, just me, so... nobody real.

@ScienceAsylum

4 жыл бұрын

@@pogan1983 We're not talking about O2. We're talking about CO2 kzread.info/dash/bejne/foCurZWih6Ssl6w.html

@gabor6259

4 жыл бұрын

2021: Picking 20 million pieces of space debris.

Looking forward to you explaining quantum biology: light-sensitive molecules existing in two different states at the same time :)

I enjoy seeing your concise scientific videos, specifically your narration and the outro line..... It is my favorite ❤️

Thank You ... Love this stuff ...and yes you well prepared us for the complexity. I've always wondered about he the greater details of this process ... and You are the perfect person to present this info.

As a biochemistry student I have to say this video gets the idea in a fantastic way, very easy to understand. As always, great video.

"Seriously: they call it an electron-bus!" :-D hilarious - thanks again for this vid:)

Thanks. I had totally forgotten the steps of Photosynthesis. This brought some memories and nostalgia.

This was awesome. Well done, dude.

Wasn't able to follow you, because I was lmao. In the Cologne Main Train Station. They we're looking kinda like I'm crazy. Had to watch again! You're a genius in telling facts with a dose of pure fun.

I love the explanation and the illustrations. It would be very interesting to make another video about the quantum process involved in photosynthesis (quantum coherence in the chromophores)

Great video, Man -- very effective, very entertaining. A complete success in conveying so much memorable understanding in 10 minutes. You're a great teacher!

You are doing a great job on this channel. Keep going!

The animations were rad!You were talking about consulting AwkwardM for the bio-related content.Things fell nicely in place!I cannot donate now but will do my part!😁

I'll be honest, I had to pause this video a couple of times to look up things on google (I am a reeeally lay person), but this was a great, I understood it all. Thank you, Nick and awkward M :)

I would like to see part 2 of this video with more details. I relay like this one, and I subscribed to the channel.

I love how you simplify things

Bruh...I thought trees were cool, they are damn near geniuses lol!!

What this means is that every living entity is a essentially a variably-sentient, electron-powered nano-factory. Those factories use our electrons to power the machines that scavenge elements from the aether to build us into existence. Fascinating. Probably why skin-to-skin contact is such an incredible feeling. You're exchanging electrons everywhere you touch. You're altering each other's magnetic field. EDIT: Thank you so much for this video. You've managed to demystify some complex science.

@davidschmale3359

4 жыл бұрын

j b it also shows why you should drink high pH water (I drink alkaline 8.8) so you will have an abundant supply of electrons, it should make sense now that drinking lotsa low pH fluids like coke or Pepsi (pH 1.8) is not healthy in the long run because your supply of electrons is reduced...

This was fantastic, really. Exactly how i enjoy learning things, Strangely i still had more questions but this gave me more info then anyone else thus far, well done.

I am a biologist married to a biologist and all my sympathy is yours! And the explaining of photosynthesis is superb!

fun fact Nick, my undergrad degree(s) was biochemistry and physics. I just chose to pursue a phd in physics :)

@shayanmoosavi9139

4 жыл бұрын

@Marcos Filho LOL that's the third time I'm seeing this exact comment😂😂🤣🤣🤣

@ScienceAsylum

4 жыл бұрын

@@shayanmoosavi9139 He's a spammer. I blocked him.

@shayanmoosavi9139

4 жыл бұрын

@@ScienceAsylum it was obvious😂😂 I love to poke them.

Kicked in $20. Y'all do the same. And yes, as someone that's followed the whole photosynthesis chain, this is a good overview. To get the a closer picture, write 20+ Fischer projections of same. Oy. And I thought quantum mechanics was hard. Sheesh!

Thank you very much...excellent summarizing and superb computer graphics!

Love your videos! Great work. ❤️

4:22 I love that face! It makes ne laugh every time! 🤣

Maaaaan I love going deeper especially in biology ! Bring ur woman in next videos we neeed her too. Thanks for the great work

playing this video in my biology class would have been a godsend

I think this is so well presented. Thanks once again for stretching my old brain, giving it a good old work out.

As a non bio grad student, that explanation was on point! Might just go get a degree in bio..... *Looks at organic chemistry text book* uhh nevermind, I'll stick to computers.

Then enters a vegan and devours this elaborate marvel.

@marcushendriksen8415

4 жыл бұрын

Support plant rights!

@yokhojota6792

4 жыл бұрын

Hum, i think meat machines devour a lot more

@shayanmoosavi9139

4 жыл бұрын

#PlantsHaveRights #NoToPlantEating

@shayanmoosavi9139

4 жыл бұрын

@@Akto be fair to vegans? I respect vegetarians because they do it in moderation but vegans are just ridiculous. Not even drinking milk or eating eggs or even wearing fur? That's above ridiculous. The nutritions in meat are also essential for the body and plants don't have all of them. You'll do more harm than good by refusing to eat meat. The harming and killing animals argument that they have is just an excuse. They also kill plants by eating them and kill billions of microorganisms simply by breathing and walking.

@shayanmoosavi9139

4 жыл бұрын

@@Akto you're confusing vegans with vegetarians. Vegetarians use it in moderation and usually do it for short-term (for example because of health issues or diets). They also do it for long term but they use milk or eggs. They just don't eat meat. And as I said before I respect them because it's their personal choice. Vegans however aren't like that. They don't use anything that is *even remotely* related to animals. They refuse to drink milk and eat eggs. They don't use any animal products either. It's a pointless and ridiculous ideology. I'll answer your points now : 1- you said it yourself that pills are needed. Why do you want to deprive infants of the nutrients that milk and animal products can provide naturally? Just because animals have rights? Doesn't infants have rights as well? Isn't it child abuse if you deprive them of natural things and use chemical pills to help them survive? Do you think that conducting experiments on animals is cruel? Is it any better if we do it on humans? Will you volunteer yourself if you think so? Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that we should treat animals badly. I love animals and treat them nicely but giving them more than they deserve is ridiculous. Again, I'm not not saying that we are better than them but we also have the right to live and use the resources that we have. We shouldn't endanger our own species' survival just because other species have the right to live. It's how nature works after all. Nothing personal. Vegans should realize that and stop living in fantasy world. 2- I already answered it above before I answered your points. 3- nice strawman. I didn't say that at all. What I was trying to say is that vegans should realize the irony of their actions if the only reason that they have is animals have rights and we shouldn't kill them. And last of all. Have you ever encountered them? Did they ever tell you that you should be ashamed of yourself for eating meat and you're so cruel to them? Have they insulted you for wearing fur? WHO DO THEY THINK THEY ARE? some chosen people who think that they are superior to others and have the right to tell other people how to live just because of their ridiculous ideology?

I nearly squeeeeed out of my seat when I saw you made a video on photosynthesis. More of this please! After years of learning physics I decided to try out learning biology. What I very quickly discovered was that understanding biology required I better understand physics. I had to apply a lot of the physics I learned about (Entropy, Thermodynamics, electron energy, etc) in a new way to understand the biology. And I am LOVING it. So I would very much welcome more videos like this. ATP Synthase and the electron transport chain would be a great next topic :P

Thank you for giving me more information than I needed to know on the details of how photosynthesis works

Yep and the best part is this all came about naturally due to emergence, simple rules and systems coming together to form vast complexity, the universe is an interesting place.

@jennamillsap8220

4 жыл бұрын

Presupposition much?

@WokeandProud

4 жыл бұрын

@@jennamillsap8220 Nope supported purly by empirical scientific evidence, look up emergence.

@rejectevolution152

2 жыл бұрын

LOOOOOOL.

@WokeandProud

2 жыл бұрын

@@rejectevolution152 An astounding argument you sure showed me (not). 😑😑

@rejectevolution152

2 жыл бұрын

@@WokeandProud Can a codebase exist without intelligence creating it?

Biochemistry is amazing.

Awesome! Thanks, I understand more about my garden now :)

I still don't understand why this channel isn't more popular.

If I remember correctly I heard by a conference (by jim al-khalili) the entanglement is part of photosynthesis. Can you explain how? Keep up the great work!

@PMA65537

4 жыл бұрын

like this kzread.info/dash/bejne/qaubs7iTmtiXirA.html

@lorenzobarbano8022

4 жыл бұрын

@@PMA65537 exactly that!

@XEinstein

4 жыл бұрын

Well as far as I understand theoretical physics, nowadays the idea is that entanglement is actually the underlying mechanism of spacetime. Apparently entanglement is what actually creates space and time! So I guess entanglement is everywhere.

THIS IS SO AMAZING!! I would have loved Bio better if you have made this series earlier. Our education system have rigged Bio so much that we are taught to memorise Latin names, instead of appreciating processes and understanding things like this. Make this a series please Nick!

@williamnathanael412

4 жыл бұрын

Some topics I would suggest: Central Dogma, Glucolysis and Krebs Cycle, Evolution

This is a great video with some humour and lots of classy presentation. Thank you.

I was not expecting it to be that complex. Nor was I expecting a cameo by CGP Grey. Kudos for getting both into one video.

Let anyone dig into biology/biochemistry and check if they still think that mathematics/physics/any other part of science is "so complex" in comparison 😂 And to be honest, this video just started to scrape the surface of the surface, because photosynthesis is just one of MANY processes in JUST A PART of all living creatures 👌 Great video for noble cause! But we still could go *deeper*

@ScienceAsylum

4 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah! I showed a lot in this video and _still_ abstracted away a lot of information. There's enough info to fill up a two hour video.

@AK-yy6yf

4 жыл бұрын

@The Science Asylum I love biology, it's complexity and relative ease of research (no need for multi-billion particle accelerators, spacecrafts, enormous super computers and so on) By the way, I wonder if it's possible (and if someone will ever attempt to do it in the future) to create some interactive flow-chart, for instance, of all molecular/chemical processes that happen in human body, all it's systems, at any given time (for example a healthy statistical individual at rest, to make things a little simpler), how they are interconnected, in what order they happen, on which principles so on and so forth. It would be great tool to learn all the beauty of biological workings. Oh boy, that would be a hell of a challenge!

@ScienceAsylum

4 жыл бұрын

That would be cool. Unfortunately, I don't know how to do that.

YES, BIOLOGY AND PHYSICS, YES, YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS. You know, how it can be better

i am watching every video you have uploaded. thanks for the amazing content. hardly my attention gets captivated as you do casually. =)

Congrats to #TeamTrees on reaching their goal!!! Awesome!

As a physicist, you must be jealous of biology naming things reasonably, according to what those things do. What if chloroplasts were named charmplasts? That would be pretty funny I think

@ScienceAsylum

Жыл бұрын

Biology is _much_ better at naming things. You just need to learn the root words, prefixes, and suffixes. Once you know those, the combo words make sense.

"It's always my fault". Proof is he a married man. I speak from 36 years of experience. The most important words for a married man: 'Yes, dear'.

@tomkerruish2982

4 жыл бұрын

True story: when my then-fiancée (now wife of 25 years) and I were interviewing for a wedding photographer, one said that it's three "yes, Dear"s to one "I understand". If you say the same thing every time, it might seem like you're not listening.

There should be a part two of this.

Every video I see from you, always answers a question bothering me since years...a question I don't dare to ask because I always thought that it was maybe silly....thanks for giving us the answers and making my day, juhu....so happy

we should put more CO2 in the air so we have better plant growth

@mairisberzins8677

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly my thoughts. I mean wouldn't it be obvious that the more CO2 there is the faster plants will grow? Meaning plants limit the amount of CO2 in the air right? Too much and they will consume it too fast no?

@DFPercush

4 жыл бұрын

@@mairisberzins8677 Faster, yes, but not "too fast." They basically adjust their growth rate based on the supply. Because they use passive transpiration, they don't actively "pull" co2 out of the atmosphere, not like us animals going out and hunting food... they just absorb whatever floats by. So they can't really crash the c02 levels to zero. There will just be less, and smaller, plant life if there's not enough of it.

@mairisberzins8677

4 жыл бұрын

@@DFPercush No, no. What i meant was that higher CO2 concentration leads to faster growth. And if thats the case more CO2 will be transformed into organic matter. Therefore reduce the amount of CO2 in the air. THis would then create an equilibrium between the amount of CO2 release and that consumed by plants.

@mairisberzins8677

4 жыл бұрын

@@DFPercush Kind of like ammonia synthesis. The more N2 and H2 you put in the reactor the faster they will make NH3. And if you somehow get rid of that NH3 even more will be formed. Analogy to this would be CO2 instead of being released back in the air as a part of "breathing' by plants but instead stored as biomass in a solid state.

@silverish9081

4 жыл бұрын

Technically yes, but not on the planetary scale as there is another problem. CO2 is a greenhouse gas and hence higher concentration of it in the atmosphere leads to hotter temperatures. RuBisCo, the enzyme plants use to capture CO2 is less efficient at higher temperatures. And, this drop in efficiency is faster than increase in efficiency of photosynthesis from increased CO2 concentration. Simply speaking, increase in CO2 levels are not enough to even compensate for efficiency drop due to hotter temperature. This is why it is good to pump CO2 into a greenhouse with externally controlled temperature system, but not in the atmosphere.

Isn’t there some quantum weirdness going on too?

@MusicalRaichu

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah I remember watching a documentary that said that electrons find their way around the cell kind of by spreading everywhere and acting like what sounded like a quantum computer. Nick, I'd love it if you could make a video on that.

@thenasadude6878

4 жыл бұрын

Photosynthesis starts with transferring the photon energy to raise the power state of electrons. Then some tricks are needed to ferry the high powered electrons without them releasing the stored energy. So yes, quantum weirdness is involved

@shayanmoosavi9139

4 жыл бұрын

Of course. Always :)

@shayanmoosavi9139

4 жыл бұрын

@@MusicalRaichu I think it was presented by jim khalili :)

I just had my biochem exam which focused a lot on photosynthesis, and this is a really great summary!

Oh, that ended quicker than I expected. I want more. But that was an excellent explainer.