Comments on: Physikshow! Boom! Zap!

Physikshow! Boom! Zap!

loquacious — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:30:00 -0800

Liquid Nitrogen bomb! A ship floating on invisible hexaflourid gas! Smoking can kill you and weld metal! Nuclear Chain reaction... with balls! Detonating gas in a can!! Water flowing uphill! 100,000,000 volts and a Faraday cage! And more from Physikshow at University of Bonn.

By: nathancaswell

nathancaswell — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:39:50 -0800

Science! Too cool for school! Really, this is great, thanks.

By: CitrusFreak12

CitrusFreak12 — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:47:15 -0800

I saw the ship one on BoingBoing, and these others are great! It's Science.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:53:03 -0800

Man, why's Boing Boing always bitin' my styles? Whack ass sucka MCs gonna taste the depth and meaning of street knowledge, y'know what I'm saying? science. I'm talking about SCIENCE!

By: IronLizard

IronLizard — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:55:25 -0800

Sweet.

By: Baby_Balrog

Baby_Balrog — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:57:31 -0800

Let me assure you there is a biblical explanation for all of this.

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:59:11 -0800

That boat thing is nuts!

By: exlotuseater

exlotuseater — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:01:37 -0800

the mousetrap model for chain reaction is cool.

By: ktrey

ktrey — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:13:00 -0800

more youtube goodness: World Champion Freehand Circle Drawer.

By: elpapacito

elpapacito — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:14:02 -0800

science. I'm talking about SCIENCE! TITS ! Science is , like, cryptonite to the wigger and creationists. Keep it real, TITS!

By: nj_subgenius

nj_subgenius — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:16:53 -0800

Du reizvolle Deutsche!

By: languagehat

languagehat — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:22:18 -0800

Fabulous! One quibble: in the Faraday cage one, the labeling says "Faraday Cage Protects from 100,000,000V" but the audio clearly says "hundert tausent Volts" (i.e. 100,000V). Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?

By: chrismear

chrismear — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:23:14 -0800

From the YouTube comments on World Champion Freehand Circle Drawer: That's one of the most ignorant things I've ever heard. Iraq didn't cause 9-11. Saddam had nothing do do with it. He didn't even have any WMDs. How? How did they possibly get onto that?

By: dibblda

dibblda — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:25:30 -0800

Liquid Oxygen and a blow torch within a few feet of each other, sweet!

By: loquacious

loquacious — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:25:37 -0800

Because Bush's improbably large and strong illogicity-field redefined our definition of a circle as well as the value of Pi? *shrug*

By: loquacious

loquacious — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:29:31 -0800

Liquid Oxygen and a blow torch within a few feet of each other, sweet! Yeah, I saw that part and I just about sneezed a biscuit. I really don't think they needed a 10L graduated cylinder of LOX to soak a single cigarette in, much less having the damn thing on a table filled with combustibles and a very large and hot ignition source. Well, granted with pure oxygen nearly everything is combustible, but still.

By: chrismear

chrismear — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:33:33 -0800

I always preferred physics lectures over chemistry lectures because the physics demonstrations -- when there were any -- were simple calm affairs, whereas the chemistry people felt obliged to bloody MAKE THINGS EXPLODE all the time to keep people's attention. I hate danger and loud noises (I'm a real man's man, you can tell). But now the Germans go and do this. Where can I be safe anymore?

By: dubious

dubious — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:39:01 -0800

Outstanding! Just have to brush up on my german...

By: musicinmybrain

musicinmybrain — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:44:38 -0800

Some of these are absolutely amazing. Thanks!

By: LordSludge

LordSludge — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 18:24:40 -0800

π = 3

By: GuyZero

GuyZero — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 18:37:48 -0800

Man, why's Boing Boing always bitin' my styles? Whack ass sucka MCs gonna taste the depth and meaning of street knowledge, y'know what I'm saying? Dropping science indeed.

By: GuyZero

GuyZero — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 18:41:07 -0800

Also, how'd they do that with the water? Are those wires electrified?

By: bob sarabia

bob sarabia — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 18:49:14 -0800

Those videos are pretty nice. But I prefer experiments that go wrong and end in a fiery explosion of flying glass. "That shouldn't have happened."

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 18:58:22 -0800

GuyZero, from the description on YouTube: Seemingly, we invert the gravitational law by making liquid flow uphill at the Physikshow of the University of Bonn! The clue is that the liquid is a salt (coppersulfate) and the duct has a magnetic field applied to it, and a current flowing from its one side to the other. Both the current and the magnetic field are orthogonal to each other and to the direction of movement of the liquid!

By: cubby

cubby — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 19:32:13 -0800

these are fantastic, but somehow it just ain't a demonstration without Mr. Wizard

By: CitrusFreak12

CitrusFreak12 — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 20:49:39 -0800

Question: What is that music in the background? It sounds so familiar. I'm not sure if its in all of them, but I know it's in the cigarette/liquid oxygen one. Bob Sarabia: That guy is so lucky. And without any sort of eye protection? Carol never wore her safety goggles. Now she doesn't need them.

By: subaruwrx

subaruwrx — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 22:31:58 -0800

youtube is down. Anyone got a mirror?

By: edd

edd — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 06:26:30 -0800

Reminds me of this video I came across recently - make a thermic lance out of spaghetti.

By: schoolgirl report

schoolgirl report — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:39:32 -0800

CitrusFreak12, I believe it's the Terminator soundtrack.

By: billb

billb — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 17:36:47 -0800

Some youtube URLs for misc. physics is here: Playlist: weird physics Particularly impressive is the camcorder lofted to 85,000 feet using an 8ft weather balloon. Black daytime sky. Looks just like photos shot in low Earth orbit.