"short circuit through my finger". Electroboom would be proud 😂

@lewipacheco9407

3 жыл бұрын

haha

@Games_and_Music

3 жыл бұрын

indeed :) ElectroBOOM also made one of those electric ion wands

@JjMn1000

3 жыл бұрын

hehe

@Jared7873

3 жыл бұрын

Electroboom's name must be written in Deathnote's journal.

@thezbychu3224

3 жыл бұрын

yes Electro BooM. 🤣🤣🤣

The maze was a good test of dexterity. You beat me to it - I was in the process of filming a rendition of this myself. Didn’t think other people had heard of the idea too, it’s pretty legit!

@KatzRool

3 жыл бұрын

@@Spartans_-wq8ns epic reddit

@rhouser1280

3 жыл бұрын

You showed a similar demonstration with high voltage & oil that was really cool!

@Twitchi

3 жыл бұрын

youtube was literally recommending the research video to anyone that ever watched a science video.. (just went and double-checked kzread.info/dash/bejne/gpl8udOracfgY8Y.html 2.5 million views, not exactly niche)

@bela5307

3 жыл бұрын

5th

@TheDiXiBoY

3 жыл бұрын

@@Twitchi +1

Lightning works the same way. If you watch a lightning strike in slow motion, it creates a bunch of feelers through the air until it makes a connection with the ground. I think the slowmo guys had a video on it.

@krishnar754

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah the slowmo guys has done an episode on it.. It's absolutely cool to watch the lightning ⚡⚡😁. Btw nice comparison analogy 🔥👍

@_ninthRing_

3 жыл бұрын

The first 'feeler' travels from the ground up to the cloud, then the cloud uses this pathway of charged air particles to throw down the plasma stream of visible lightning. This is analogous to the arcing (tiny plasma discharges) once the ball bearings complete a circuit in the petri dish.

@BuckeyeStormsProductions

3 жыл бұрын

I was about to say the same. I took a photo of lightning recently where you could actually still see feelers coming up from objects, and the main bolt coming down through the final, "connection." Looking at all the feelers, you could see potential other strike locations. It is cool to get a lightning shot to begin with, but to get one with additional feelers (essentially failed lightning bolts) is extra cool!

@malicknjie1839

3 жыл бұрын

I was waiting for him to say this

@davidfairchild8566

3 жыл бұрын

@@malicknjie1839 I was too.

How does this man find these cool ideas for his videos every weeks?

@vaishnav4real

3 жыл бұрын

A similar video came up by another KZreadr sometime ago. But his experiment is awesome

@oofusmcdoofus

3 жыл бұрын

@@vaishnav4real yeah i saw it too

@aashitAgrawal

3 жыл бұрын

@@vaishnav4real hey can you tell that KZreadr's name

@AyushKumar-uq7xz

3 жыл бұрын

@@vaishnav4real it is also inspired from "Hacker Om"

@jaytate7899

3 жыл бұрын

Stealing

I'm 42 and still have an unquenchable thirst for learning. I always enjoy what you have to offer.

@rufusapplebee1428

3 жыл бұрын

Live Forever and Prosper, Joshua Gibson.

@joshuagibson2520

3 жыл бұрын

@@rufusapplebee1428 you as well my friend.

@yeahokay1472

3 жыл бұрын

0 seconds ag

@memor22

3 жыл бұрын

Is always good t learn no matter how old you are! Also im like 13 so yeah

@rufusapplebee1428

3 жыл бұрын

@@memor22 Live Forever and Prosper, The three llamas.

Lol it's smarter than ya think. It said "forget this maze I'm hopping over these walls" 😂

@vaibhavbv3409

3 жыл бұрын

he should have covered the top of walls too.

@lunareux8197

3 жыл бұрын

xD

@the_eminent_Joshua_E_Hrouda

3 жыл бұрын

Too much oil

@Kromiball

3 жыл бұрын

@@the_eminent_Joshua_E_Hrouda 🇺🇲

@Fightre_Flighte

2 жыл бұрын

Path of least resistance or something...

I like how the balls have a celebration when they make a connection. 🥳

@pulsegamingbird3764

3 жыл бұрын

woo lightning fireworks. And at that last one where it was like "eeh close enough" and shot lightning at it... or it shot lightning at the orbs. I aint going back to see which is positive and negative.

@aadenboy

2 жыл бұрын

🎊🎉

5:16 Since those balls do need a little help to make it to the other end, I can hide from them in a maze. I feel safe again :)

@sarojandongol1482

3 жыл бұрын

They'll just jump onto the top of the maze walls lmao You're not safe at all.

@legohexman2858

3 жыл бұрын

@@sarojandongol1482 ok

@davidgumazon

3 жыл бұрын

BALLS OF STEEL

@thalassaer4137

3 жыл бұрын

@@legohexman2858 oK

@sawc.ma.bals.

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidgumazon lmao

"Unfortunately that means short circuiting through my finger" Proceeds to self electrocute for the vid

@cheeseboy8241

2 жыл бұрын

that's the trademark of this channel

Isn't it amazing when the fundamentals of physics, chemistry, and biology all coalesce so neatly?

@danielmaylett1710

3 жыл бұрын

This is just physics

@milesromanus7041

3 жыл бұрын

Every science domain is just a side of physics

@whickervision742

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, it's wonderful.

@Thanos-hp1mw

3 жыл бұрын

@@milesromanus7041 physics is just a domain of mathematics

@falcofurious

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, quite aMAZEing

I don't know for how long I've been following this channel, but you seem to have gotten a lot of practice speaking and presenting this stuff; everything seems more professional than when you started, and it's a lot more interesting to watch! I'm glad you stuck to KZread, because you're doing great work!!

I love this channel. Makes learning so interesting you don’t even realize he’s teaching you about physics. Can’t stop binge watching these videos. He has such an amazing conceptual grasp of physics and clearly has a gift for teaching.

Absolutely satisfying !!! The way the balls assemble and when they make a series , that electric current through them makes it look really satisfying.

"They're little balls of steel" Brain:Giggles Me:

@dan_loup

3 жыл бұрын

How else you would make little duke nukens?

@lenorairons8035

2 жыл бұрын

Popopopopopop

@misslofijedi

2 жыл бұрын

I’m glad I’m not the only one

I love how he gets amazed at his own experiments, because it’s different to know and understand something than to actually see it. It’s important to keep that sense of wonder.

Your videos are always so fun to watch. Its a plus that they are informational as well. Thank you for your time.

Just a few days after I saw the original research you published this, great job, you are the man!

@AyushKumar-uq7xz

3 жыл бұрын

First experiment is copied from the channel " Hacker Om"

@samgod

3 жыл бұрын

@@BloodAsp these are discoveries, not inventions. Einstein didn't create the the mass-energy equation, he discovered it. James isn't claiming credit for discovering the science he presents. Since when do science teachers credit the creators of their demonstrations and lessons?

@HandledToaster2

3 жыл бұрын

@@samgod can I make a video on one of Einstein's experiments and not even hint that it wasn't I who came up with it?

@HandledToaster2

3 жыл бұрын

@@samgod if you came with with an awesome, brand new science experiment, can I make a video doing the exact same experiment without credits to you, while making some money in the process?

@samgod

3 жыл бұрын

@@HandledToaster2 since there's no implication that you created the experiment, sure.

5:20 - would've worked a lot better if the liquid medium had not been spilling all over the place. As soon as it overtopped the 'walls' of the maze the maze ceased to exist. Make the walls MUCH higher so the oil cannot overtop them even through capillary action and you'll see the balls follow essentially one route - since the electrical charge has to follow the same route to 'charge' areas that are not in a direct line between electrodes.

That was fun to watch, thanks for all you do and of course for making these videos!

I would not have believed it if i hadn't seen it with my own eyes. Amazing.

0:23 that’s what I called myself after surviving that soccer injury when I was 12

@clydemacmascarenhas2013

3 жыл бұрын

Bruh

Please make a video on e-dimensionality and the effects it would have on our understanding of physics.

@Helvi898

3 жыл бұрын

Nob,i dont wana to see this video

I like how simple yet full of knowledge your videos are.

@Idk-do1ui

3 жыл бұрын

@@BloodAsp By that logic he also copied NASA and my science textbook

I love how your channel covers physics we all see in life but in a way that we understand what’s going on

It reminds me of vines growing up the side of a tree in high speed motion. They are moving and searching their way up the tree like the balls.

This reminds me of an extra credit project I made in high school. I had made a maze where the solution would be shown when a Tesla coil was turned on. The way it worked was the entire maze was covered with iron filings that had small nails buried underneath like the dots on a Pac-Man board.

This is actually really cool. I haven’t watched many action lab videos lately, but this is good

Your experiment is getting cooler and cooler man... Keep it up!!!

A little smoke would have been cool to show the ionic wind. So cool!

Something else that looks a lot like this, microbial life and on a massive scale, plant life.. I wonder why =p It is amazing the things you show to the world and give us the knowledge and ideas of how things work in the world. Keep up the great work!!

@scienceisall2632

3 жыл бұрын

Slime molds

Looks so lifelike, and i also like that once they've found an anchor, like the copper tape on the side of the plate, it will stick to that, while chasing his finger, the electrostatic keeps it at place, which makes sense, but it looks so alive.

The behavior, especially with the maze, remind me of a documentary I saw on slime mold. Great presentation. Thank you!

I would LOVE to see something similar done with ferrofluid!

So I watched this being done on another channel, they discourage people from doing this at home due to the high voltage. Then on your channel, you encouraged it!

@megatronyeets

3 жыл бұрын

Hmmm I'm gonna do it

@-_IT_-

3 жыл бұрын

@@megatronyeets You should totally record it!!

@megatronyeets

3 жыл бұрын

@@-_IT_- Lol, i just need the materials. If I remember and end up with them I will (my previous comment was some stupid joke I don't even remember making it XD)

I love the way the copper lining looked when he was moving the red electrode above the ball bearings towards the end. It was really mesmerizing! 🙂

This is a very cool demonstration of the "feelers" finaly "solving" the maze! So lot's of cred to your channel! What's also amazing is that there are living fungus in nature that actually can solve mazes to find food. And even more amazing is that they retract all the feelers that didn't find food to save the energy wasted if they didn't. I've seen a video of this on a TV program "Brille" on a Norwegian channel, but unfortunately I cannot find it on YT. I'm sure the equivalent is out there somewhere!

Man your an awesome science youtuber 🔥🔥🔥

5:18 I know this meme is old but still That’s what she said

@oskimac

3 жыл бұрын

Best comment. The balls need a little help. But eventually got there. Jajajajaj you make me choke

@AdiPearStudios

3 жыл бұрын

@@oskimac thx

@AdiPearStudios

3 жыл бұрын

@@oskimac thx

@cheeseboy8241

2 жыл бұрын

@@oskimac that's what she said

@oskimac

2 жыл бұрын

@@cheeseboy8241 fuck. that joke gets me everytime

This is really cool. I wonder if sealing the maze so the steel balls can't climb above it would improve the effect.

This man always makes unique experiments. That's awesome

What voltage and amperage were you using for you're power supply? I think a professor of mine would love to try this out!

I think your gel overlapped the maze, so the path of least resistance was reduced and I guess that magnetism played a part :) I'm not sure but it is fascinating :)

This has really got me thinking, and I would award as many likes as possible in this dimension.

This was so cool This is probably one of the best phenomena I have ever seen

📡📺 With love from 🇧🇼 Botswana ❤️

This Dude's kid mind is still kicking!!! And here I try something different, gets my ass whooped.

@vripscript

3 жыл бұрын

@@BloodAsp You just rips off other peoples comments, and purposefully does not give them credit. I have confronted you on this before, and you are is notorious for it. You just copied the comment from your mum in 2015 called "Destructuring-Who Cares" (search it up!). This dude is nothing better to do then copying other peoples comments without giving them mountain dew.

@Inertia888

3 жыл бұрын

@@BloodAsp I will assume that he is only trying to spread the knowledge and get younger folks inspired to doing their own experimentation and research. It would be good if he gave credit, if he is in fact not doing so, but I think that his intentions are good. He is not aiming to steal anyone's Nobel Prize or anything, he just wants other people to enjoy and find passion in science, as he has. It is not entirely a bad thing.

@crashbeamng201

3 жыл бұрын

@@BloodAsp every video you will ever see on the internet has a similar video. what if you had never seen that other video? you would have just learned something new. and sometimes there will be a similar video but it might not explain WHY what's happening is happening. this channel always explains what is happening and it's always easy to understand.

@SyahidanIbnMokhtar

3 жыл бұрын

@@crashbeamng201 there is a video roughly 6 years ago with the same experiment from stanford complexity group, the concept is the same, but the presentation were not, and have many variables and thorough on explanation in this video than that video from 6 years ago. His (heyou) criticism were invalid tho since this has been released to public and encourage experimental studies among all science enthusiasts to learn and better the research on the matter. The video from 6 years ago are titled self-assembling wires.

@serraramayfield9230

3 жыл бұрын

@@SyahidanIbnMokhtar So this guy's full of shit, then

Its crazy how organic this looks!

This is the best analog of lightning that I've ever seen.

Things like this are so cool! Its amazing how you can move non-living objects through the power of physics and static electricity

@kunjupulla

3 жыл бұрын

But he didn't use static electricity here

@kunjupulla

3 жыл бұрын

@sudip saha I am pretty sure that conductors cannot have static electricity.

@kunjupulla

3 жыл бұрын

@sudip saha That is induced charge, not static charge.

@kunjupulla

3 жыл бұрын

@sudip saha What does Faraday cage has to do with present situation?

@kunjupulla

3 жыл бұрын

@sudip saha nope. It is caused by friction or something that has contact.

Him: "I'm gonna pour these right on the center" also Him: **pours a little on the side**

You should build a basic electrostatic speaker array! It uses the same concept, but with a taut sheet of mylar coated in graphite powder or some similar material. The don't move a LOT of air, but because the "diaphragm" is so light, it generates a full, wide range of frequencies! Some of the best (possibly THE best) speakers I've ever heard were SoundLab electrostats!

I love this dude! Such a refreshing passion for experimentation

Wondering if ionized tracking like this can be used to "reconnect" and repair damaged nerve cells and pathways.👍

@vixshire3672

2 жыл бұрын

The way I see it is if you hook this up with a ton of balls and the stuff it’ll almost as a power diverter letting you choose what’s being charged just by swapping the negative

@official-obama

2 жыл бұрын

The damaged pathways could probably be done by hebbian learning

@official-obama

2 жыл бұрын

And you might be able to revert cells back into stem cells and replace the nerve with it and give it the right conditions to turn into a nerve cell. Then reconnect it by hebbian learning again.

Balls: *Goes overtop the maze walls to get to the exit* Me: Hey wait, that's illegal!

Man, the greatest channel ever. I watched all your videos since for 2 years and more. I will see how long I can go :)

@brick8125

3 жыл бұрын

I am also 13 so ya. People my age think this is boring.

Dude, I love your channel. Great stuff man!

"Solve the maze"... It just attracts in a straight line to the other side and does not work with areas where it must go away from the other side.

@official-obama

2 жыл бұрын

Electricity solves the maze quickly, and finds the shortest path. The metal balls organize themselves to minimize the electricity wasted by going through castor oil instead of metal

@chimpsterman9393

2 жыл бұрын

@@official-obama True but they need an absurd amount of help in the video.

He saw the original self-assembling wire video that was recommend by youtube He directly tried experiements

@somniato7759

3 жыл бұрын

It's called Teslaphoresis I think

@cyberflixt

3 жыл бұрын

@@somniato7759 kzread.info/dash/bejne/gpl8udOracfgY8Y.html Here's the original, no fancy name Just a KZread recommendation resulting into a 2.6M view spike

Wow! Absolute amazing experiment

This is an interesting demonstration of the sort of mechanisms that might have lead to simple life developing

At first you showed lightning in really slow motion. The cans experiment shows how a classic, dial phone rings.

@u1zha

3 жыл бұрын

Not sure if a phone has high voltage in it. Isn't an electromechanical buzzer what you were thinking of? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzzer

@SamSeama

3 жыл бұрын

@@u1zha I remember opening one up and seeing a hammer between two bells. Seeing the cans made me think of them.

@maramauu

3 жыл бұрын

No, it's not the same thing: There are 2 relè (Electric switch) Mutually toggling off/on, they give current-- to 2 e-magnets that attract the hammer

@SamSeama

3 жыл бұрын

@@maramauu Thanks 😊

Is the behaviour more pronounced with finer particles like iron filings?

You're my current favorite science guy and channel always fun and informative

absolutely fascinating

0:50 what are the clicking sounds? The sounds of the balls slamming together? Or the sound of electric sparks/arc between the balls when they are attracted to each other?

@DaemonsAdvocate

3 жыл бұрын

It's the high voltage. The electricity is forcing itself between the positive and negative through a hard to conduct material

@official-obama

2 жыл бұрын

How would it slam together if it was in castor oil

"Little tiny balls of steel" Something you would say after beating the game of Mario

@Andrew90046zero

3 жыл бұрын

duke nukem approved?

The oil letting the current jump over the walls was an issue with the maze. But higher walls would fix that (or a less viscous medium for the current). But, too, the balls seemed impeded by the viscosity of the caster oil; you may need a vibrating table to help add to the overall enthalpy. Yet a very cool demo, easily relatable to nearly any dendritic branching, from roots to rivers to neurons. I'd love to see it move the other way, too, from around the exterior to the center.

This is awesome thanks!

POV: you're early for once

@yeppiidev

3 жыл бұрын

Yez

@rainityyy

3 жыл бұрын

Stfu

@firstnamelastname4383

3 жыл бұрын

U made me jus notice 👀

@leostupar5338

3 жыл бұрын

Yup

@LazySpaceRaptor

3 жыл бұрын

Video: 9 minutes ago Comment: 11 minutes ago

So, they *can't* solve a maze. They cheated in two ways. First, they were jumping over the walls like crazy. They bypassed the first bend completely by just throwing some balls over the wall and connecting over that. Second, obviously, you helped them. :P

@iamdave84

3 жыл бұрын

I'd have liked to see a line of castor oil with the balls scattered throughout self assemble into a line from one electrode to the other

@iamdave84

3 жыл бұрын

A straight maze if you will

That's incredible! Thank you 🌄🌿

Your videos keep getting more interesting and better and better and better and better

Claim your “here before a million views” ticket here

5:38: "it reached the end." No, it actually did not, even with your help.

It's crazy how organic it looks

This channel is the proof of applying the simple laws of physics, chemistry, general science etc... to get a very interesting result. Science is the Best!!!!

Hey Action Lab, what would happen if you took the world most powerful flashlight, attached a thin rod to it and then attached an IR Flock Sheet to the end of the rod to block the light? (I'm hoping it makes a real life lightsaber!) Like this comment so he reads this, please!

this really challenged my understanding of how electricity flows. thank you

This one is so cool, I though you where going to use one of those maze solving fungi, but this is much cooler

His best video so far. Loved this

Awesome. Love your channel 👍🏻

This was very cool. Thanks.

If the maze walls were higher, so that the oil didn't pass over the tops, which provides a shorter path between the electrical contacts, it might work better. With the oil passing directly over the maze walls, the bearings are attracted directly to the contact, "as the crow flies," so to speak. I'd love to see a repeat of the experiment in a maze with higher walls.

This seems like a good visual for how lightening works

Once you master it and have more accurate control of the beads, I think it can produce some really nice artwork. The metal beads give a really nice texture. You should give it a shot, I would love to see what you make.

Thank you for providing this next crucial step in the advent of our self-replicating robot overlords.

Your parties have got to be crazy! "Wanna see something cool" has a totally different meaning when you say it compared to most other people! You don't know what you're going to see but you know it's going to be cool!! Cops come, not to tell you to stop but to watch!! You've got such a great channel, your videos are never boring! I'm alway looking forward to seeing your next one! Thank you!!!

The behavior of the ball bears here is, at least visually, strikingly similar to slime molds. Very cool.

This is basically slow-mo lightning⚡ really cool!

Hmm. That looks fun. Good choice of mediums. I tried a similar demonstration with cooking oil and the iron extracted from a breakfast cereal(leftover from a kiddie experiment)

Every now and then you actually do a good video

@Showtime5285

3 жыл бұрын

Yes always a good video

This guy shows the most crazy science ever!!

Great video!! Just curious, in the can and foil setup, would the foil just repeatedly bounce off a single can (i.e. when the other can is far apart and doesn't really affect the foil)?

New method to become another type of stepper motor! With direct current, voltage control speed, step signal feedback, constant torque in various speed, emf defect, and maybe so on... It’s strange, your video is the second time of this action I’ve seen, but got this idea here...

Watching those "feelers" made me wonder if brain formation (neurons) are informed/aided by a similar process.

@Paul-ou1rx

3 жыл бұрын

Cool idea.

@Alpha13Wolf

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, yes it is. Synapses, the connections between neurons, grows out until it connects with another. Then during the second during teen and young adult life-stages, these connections get pruned; breaking the ones that don’t do anything or are harmful in some way. This helps form the folding shape and appearance of the brain.

This is how AI could build its own robot bodies. Probably one of the more terrifying videos I've seen

Excellent.

I've seen several videos of this effect & I'd be fascinated to see it done with different Sizes (50mm ball bearings would be entertaining) Shapes (rods, cubes, spheroids, etc.) Materials (graphene, superconductors, etc.) For the ball bearings, Also, trying different insulating fluids with varying viscosities, differently shaped containers (a sphere with an electrode at the center would be really interesting) & different voltages. What kind of effect would pulses or waves of energy have on the growth of the particulate branches? Is there any way to make it more efficient..? How about filling the container with liquid nitrogen & using superconductor spheres? (Also, putting a cover on your maze would prevent the balls climbing over the sides. You may also want to try a maze made of a nonconducting material, as some plastics retain a surface charge at high voltages.) A safety switch that shuts off the system once a short circuit is achieved is probably a good idea - that arcing doesn't look good... Do you think this effect could be used to make a dynamic switch which restructures itself under different conditions?

Nice Work 👍

I love the renegade balls just ignoring the maze and legging it over the walls. Great video mate