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5:40326K views · 12d ago · 5:40
The fact that photons are the particles of light is the least interesting thing about them. Here are 5 better facts. Nick Lucid - Host, Writer, Editor, Animator Emily Lucid - Producer, Captions SUPPORT THE SCIENCE ASYLUM
Topics: Are They Particles? · Photon Mass · Speed of Light · Momentum & Energy · Time Dimension
39:4359K views · 1mo ago · 39:43
Watch Joe Scott's "Oldest and Newest Places on Earth" A comprehensive look at dark matter and dark energy. Nick Lucid - Host, Writer, Editor, Animator Emily Lucid - Producer, Captions Eric Aspling - Researcher (Dark Matter)
Topics: Proof of Dark Matter · Nebula, Creator-Owned Streaming Service · What is Dark Matter? · What is Dark Energy?
▶️ Mentioned videos: Video on youtube.com · Video on youtube.com · Video on youtube.com
📄 Mentioned papers: arXiv 1811.06406 · arXiv 1703.00013 · arXiv 1603.03797 · arXiv 1303.1521
📰 Mentioned news: Article on forbes.com · Article on medium.com · Article on en.wikipedia.org
12:0529K views · 2mo ago · 12:05
Kirchhoff's rules, or Kirchhoff's circuit laws, are a powerful tool. Here's how you use them. Nick Lucid - Host, Writer, Editor, Animator Emily Lucid - Producer, Captions RECENT RELATED VIDEOS Kirchhoff's Current Law Kirchhoff's Voltage Law
Topics: Junctions · Electric Current Arrows · Junction Rule (Current Law) · Loops · Loop Rule (Voltage Law) · Solve System of Equations
▶️ Mentioned videos: Video on youtube.com · Video on youtube.com
5:2836K views · 2mo ago · 5:28
A structure we see quite often in electronics is called a junction and it's governed by Kirchhoff's Junction Rule. Nick Lucid - Host, Writer, Editor, Animator Emily Lucid - Producer, Captions RELATED VIDEOS Kirchhoff's Voltage Law
Topics: What is a Junction? · Counting Currents and Junctions · History · Electric Charge vs Electric Current · Charges in a Wire (Oversimplified)
▶️ Mentioned videos: Video on youtube.com
6:4143K views · 2mo ago · 6:41
One of the most important structures in electronics is something we call a loop and it's governed by Kirchhoff's Loop Rule. Nick Lucid - Host, Writer, Editor, Animator Emily Lucid - Producer, Captions SUPPORT THE SCIENCE ASYLUM
Topics: What is a Loop? · Why we need the Loop Rule · It's NOT Conservation of Energy · Faraday's Law for Circuits · Loop Rule Terms · Some Nuance
9:25144K views · 4mo ago · 9:25
Why is trigonometry based on right triangles? Where do sine, cosine, and tangent come from? Let's build trig from the ground up. Nick Lucid - Host, Writer, Editor, Animator Emily Lucid - Producer, Captions SUPPORT THE SCIENCE ASYLUM
Topics: Right Triangles · What Does Trigonometry Do? · Sine and Cosine (Definition) · Similar Triangles · Law of Sines · Special Angles
6:3142K views · 6mo ago · 6:31
Physics is always trying to treat the universe like a machine. Does that always work? What does that mean for the universe? Nick Lucid - Host, Writer, Editor, Animator Emily Lucid - Producer, Captions VIDEO ANNOTATIONS/CARDS
Topics: Geometry · Coordinate Systems · Mechanics · Anything Can Be A Dimension · Is Physics The Machinery? · Question for the Audience
▶️ Mentioned videos: Video on youtube.com · Video on youtube.com
6:0081K views · 8mo ago · 6:00
Everyone says the metric system is superior in every way, but I disagree. Imperial units win in normal life every single time. Nick Lucid - Host, Writer, Editor, Animator Emily Lucid - Producer, Captions VIDEO ANNOTATIONS/CARDS
Topics: Scientific Standards · US Standards · Modern Metric Standards · Are Imperial Units Cursed? · Metric Prefixes · Metric Base Units
▶️ Mentioned videos: Video on youtube.com
5:2668K views · 8mo ago · 5:26
If the light nanosecond is fundamental, elegant, and so close to the U.S. Foot; why haven't we switched to it? Nick Lucid - Host, Writer, Editor, Animator Emily Lucid - Producer, Captions RELATED YOUTUBE VIDEOS Be Smart talks about the Meter
Topics: Why do we need units? · Language is vibes · How we choose units · Ideal range for a number · Units should be familiar
📖 Mentioned book: Book on Amazon
▶️ Mentioned videos: Video on youtube.com
6:3944K views · 9mo ago · 6:39
No matter what device you're watching this on, you're getting the same 16 million colors everyone got in the early 90s. What's up with that? Nick Lucid - Host, Writer, Editor, Animator Emily Lucid - Producer, Captions VIDEO ANNOTATIONS/CARDS
Topics: Color Pixels · Human Color Vision · RGB Color Space · Screens vs Vision · Bits and Bytes · Moderns Screens
▶️ Mentioned videos: Video on youtube.com · Video on youtube.com · Video on youtube.com
📰 Mentioned news: Article on en.wikipedia.org
8:0563K views · 10mo ago · 8:05
White dwarf stars are so cool! Did you know they're made without a supernova? This is just 1 of 7 facts about white dwarfs explained in this video. Watch to learn more. Nick Lucid - Host, Writer, Editor, Animator Emily Lucid - Producer
Topics: Supernovas · Low-Mass White Dwarfs · Hydrogen and Helium Envelopes · Smooth (Like Shark Skin) · Wait, What Color Are They? · Core Temperature
▶️ Mentioned videos: Video on youtube.com · Video on youtube.com · Video on youtube.com · Video on youtube.com
11:0274K views · 1y ago · 11:02
Distant galaxies are not only receding from us, they're accelerating away from us. Dark energy plays a role in that, but not in the way you think. Nick Lucid - Host, Writer, Editor, Animator Em Lucid - Producer VIDEO ANNOTATIONS/CARDS
Topics: What is Dark Energy? · Expansion Explained · Hubble Parameter · How Dark Energy Works · Doubling Rates · What Dark Energy Actually Does
▶️ Mentioned videos: Video on youtube.com · Video on youtube.com · Video on youtube.com
8:2256K views · 1y ago · 8:22
Science history is littered with really cool ideas that turned to be wrong. Kepler's Mysterium Cosmographicum is one of my favorite examples. Watch this video on Nebula Nick Lucid - Host, Writer, Editor, Animator Em Lucid - Producer Alexis Dahl - Content Consultant
Topics: Johannes Kepler · Geocentrism · Platonic Solids · Mysterium Cosmographicum · Tycho Brahe · Kepler Learns He's Incorrect
▶️ Mentioned videos: Video on youtube.com · Video on youtube.com · Video on youtube.com
7:44109K views · 1y ago · 7:44
Guest: Hot Take
In Newton's time, gravity was a force. Then Einstein came and said it wasn't. Who's correct? What is a force, exactly? Nick Lucid - Host, Writer, Editor, Animator Em Lucid - Producer Alexis Dahl - Content Consultant VIDEO ANNOTATIONS/CARDS
Topics: Newton's Laws · Inertial vs Non-Inertial · What is a Force? · Albert Einstein and David Hilbert · General Relativity · Is Gravity a Force?
📖 Mentioned book: Book on Amazon
▶️ Mentioned videos: Video on youtube.com
10:19299K views · 1y ago · 10:19
All computers throughout history have always functioned because of one simple device: a switch. NEW CHANNEL Nick Lucid - Host, Writer, Editor, Animator Em Lucid - Producer Alexis Dahl - Content Consultant SUPPORT THE SCIENCE ASYLUM
Topics: Switches · Binary Numbers · Binary Addition · Vacuum Tubes · Truth Table: Addition · Carry-Over Check
▶️ Mentioned videos: Video on youtube.com
📰 Mentioned news: Article on en.wikipedia.org
6:44304K views · 1y ago · 6:44
The Schrodinger's cat experiment is the source of many arguments in quantum mechanics, mostly because that was the whole point of it. NEW CHANNEL Nick Lucid - Host, Writer, Editor, Animator Em Lucid - Producer VIDEO ANNOTATIONS/CARDS
Topics: Schrodinger's Cat History · Scale vs Isolation · What is a Quantum Observation? · Human Intuitions Don't Work · Why is Quantum Mechanics hard? · Featured Comments
▶️ Mentioned videos: Video on youtube.com · Video on youtube.com · Video on youtube.com
📄 Mentioned papers: Paper on link.springer.com
📰 Mentioned news: Article on quantamagazine.org
8:14208K views · 1y ago · 8:14
Spacetime is the idea that the universe is 4-dimensional, but what exactly is a dimension? Let's get figure it out by making a better spacetime diagram. NEW CHANNEL Nick Lucid - Host, Writer, Editor, Animator Em Lucid - Producer
Topics: Modern Relativity · What is a Dimension? · Drawing 4 Dimensions · Spacetime Diagram · Minkowski vs Einstein · Spacetime Events
▶️ Mentioned videos: Video on youtube.com · Video on youtube.com
📄 Mentioned papers: German PAYWALLED)
9:49170K views · 1y ago · 9:49
E=mc2 is probably the most famous equation ever, and it's repeatedly misunderstood. It's not even the whole equation! Nick Lucid - Host, Writer, Editor, Animator Em Lucid - Producer VIDEO ANNOTATIONS/CARDS Stern-Gerlach Experiment
Topics: What is "Mass"? · Einstein Version · Rest Energy · E=mc2 True Meaning · Minkowski Version · Careful with the Language
▶️ Mentioned videos: Video on youtube.com · Video on youtube.com · Video on youtube.com
9:1259K views · 1y ago · 9:12
The Stern-Gerlach experiment was the first detection of quantum spin, except we didn't know it for 4 years. At the time, we didn't even know quantum spin was a thing. Nick Lucid - Host, Writer, Editor, Animator Em Lucid - Producer
Topics: Angular Momentum · Stern-Gerlach Experiment · Experiment Results · Schrodinger Breaks Everything · Quantum Spin · Supporter Shoutout
▶️ Mentioned videos: Video on youtube.com · Video on youtube.com · Video on youtube.com
9:14115K views · 2y ago · 9:14
Quantum spinors are abstract mathematical entities, so people often seek analogies to make more sense of them. Here are the best two analogies I've been able to find. Nick Lucid - Host, Writer, Editor, Animator Em Lucid - Producer
Topics: Quantum Fields · Spinors · Gear Analogy · Dirac Belt Trick · It's About Connections · Fermions vs Bosons
▶️ Mentioned videos: Video on youtube.com · Video on youtube.com · Video on youtube.com · Video on youtube.com
📄 Mentioned papers: arXiv 1001.1778 · Paper on link.springer.com · Paper on link.springer.com · Paper on link.springer.com
9:41550K views · 2y ago · 9:41
White dwarfs are made of degenerate matter, so compact there isn't room for atoms to exist. And, believe it or not, we discovered that using a model from a completely different context. Nick Lucid - Host, Writer, Editor, Animator Em Lucid - Producer
Topics: Enrico Fermi · Fermi Gases · 3rd Law of Thermodynamics · Quantum Mechanics · Fermi-Dirac Statistics · White Dwarfs
▶️ Mentioned videos: Video on youtube.com · Video on youtube.com
📄 Mentioned papers: German) · English) · Paper on arxiv.org · Paper on academic.oup.com
11:34446K views · 2y ago · 11:34
Sirius is the brightest star in the sky and visible from most of the planet. We've been staring at it for 1000s of years, but the more we learn about it, the weirder it gets. Nick Lucid - Host, Writer, Editor, Animator Em Lucid - Producer
Topics: Friedrich Bessel postulates Sirius B · Declination and Right Ascension · Alvan Clark discovers Sirius B · The Hunt for More Data · HR Diagrams · Stefan-Boltzmann Law
▶️ Mentioned videos: Video on youtube.com
📄 Mentioned papers: arXiv 1703.10625
13:57108K views · 2y ago · 13:57
Believe it not, Einstein originally thought the universe was static. It would take Alexander Friedmann to correct him. Here are the Friedmann equations, explained simply. Bonus Video (Nebula Exclusive) Nick Lucid - Host, Writer, Editor, Animator Em Lucid - Producer
Topics: Brief History of Cosmology · Friedmann Equations · Possible Futures of a Universe · Changes in the Scale Factor · Matter, Dark Matter, and Light · Dark Energy
📖 Mentioned books: Book 1 on Amazon · Book 2 on Amazon · Book 3 on Amazon
▶️ Mentioned videos: Video on youtube.com
📄 Mentioned papers: doi:10.1023/A:1026751225741 · arXiv 1804.06768
13:57133K views · 2y ago · 13:57
The big bang is the model that describes the birth and evolution of the universe. But where did the term come from? What does it actually mean? Nick Lucid - Host, Writer, Editor, Animator Em Lucid - Producer VIDEO ANNOTATIONS/CARDS
Topics: Getting a Baseline · "Big Bang" Coined · Big Bang was NOT an Explosion · Expansion Analogies · The Primeval Atom · Where did the Big Bang happen?
📖 Mentioned books: Book 1 on Amazon · Book 2 on Amazon · Book 3 on Amazon
▶️ Mentioned videos: Video on youtube.com · Video on youtube.com
📄 Mentioned papers: Paper on arxiv.org · Paper on nature.com
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