5 Things that Seem to Defy the Laws of Physics

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[@Exodus26.13Pi]

⭕ God told Moses on Mt. Sinai to use Pi 3.14 π as the cornerstone to build the Wilderness Tabernacle in 1440 BC. In 94 AD Josephus the historian wrongly described it as rectangular-shaped. Exodus 25-26-27 blueprints build a circular-shaped hendecagon outer courtyard. What is superior, the bible or confirmed secular/ecumenical history? 330 Exodus 26:8 eleven curtains each 30 cubits long 15 Exodus 26:12 one curtain is folded in half to 15 cubits long - 1 Exodus 26:13 curtain hang over/seams add to 1 cubit long = 314 3.14 = 314 circumference/100 diameter ≈ π ratio (100 cubit court per Exodus 27:9-18) ................. Is this discovery like the Dead Sea Scrolls or even Martin Luther's 95 Theses? How did we miss this for 1900 years and does it even matter anymore? Pi is 3 or 3.14... very small difference. .................. History of finding π: -(1900-1680 BC) Babylonian 3.125 for π -(1650 BC) Egyptians gave the approximate value of π 3.1605 -(1440 BC) Moses recorded Pi in the Exodus blueprints 3.141592653... Exodus 26:13 ≈ Pi -(500 BC) India's Aryabhata approximation was 62,832/20,000, or 3.141 -(429-501 BC) Zu Chongzhi a Chinese mathematician 3.1415926 - 3.1415927 -(250 BC) Archimedes from Syracuse showed between 3.1408 and 3.1429 ................. More than a thousand years removed Josephus did NOT know Exodus 26:13 approximated Pi. He was describing the Temple's structure and NOT, and NOT the Tabernacle from Exodus 25-26-27. See? Pi is coded in your DNA. Consider King Josiah & the Prophetess Huldah rediscovering the forgotten scriptures, right? Will Pharaoh let this go? Almost 3500 years ago "Exodus 26:13 ≈ Pi" was lost on Mt. Nebo when Moses died. How will religious and non-religious acknowledge this systemic seed-changing paradigm shift? We going back in time in real-time to change history to line up the Word as it should've been. Moses recorded Pi 1000 years before Archimedes from Syracuse's Pi. Everyone including myself rejects this text/arithmetic until studied personally. Please use consistent hermeneutics along with the scientific method for our non-religious friends. After confirmation please repent then rejoice. Please remember this is God's big tent. Exodus 26:13 ≈ Pi ⭕ כְּכֹ֗ל אֲשֶׁ֤ר אֲנִי֙

[@delphinazizumbo8674]

this AI host is strange and, yes, I can tell it's an AI by the HANDS

[@michaelhumphreys9302]

😅

[@delphinazizumbo8674]

@@michaelhumphreys9302 really. and sentence structure. it's true. isn't my insistent sincerity reassuring? /s

[@paradox7358]

The shear number of channels Simon has seems to defy the laws of physics.

[@Fullyloaded_00]

Good one my man

[@DrankenDune]

The shear number of times this thumbnail will get uploaded in one week

[@takeohtyme]

He does it by recording for 27 hours per day 7.13 days a week.

[@WayneBraack]

Because he's smart enough to set up a business model where he doesn't actually do any of the work. He just comes in and bees to showman he got so many other people working behind him he can produce a lot of things

[@DrDeuteron]

He has so many channels that one could say “the shear amount of channels” and be grammatically correct.

[@milk-it]

Forget coating sand with a chemical to make it hydrophobic, come to Western Australia and try gardening in any backyard. It's so hydrophobic here, we have to add wetting agents just to get it to keep the water!

[@BuzzinVideography]

Can confirm. There's some places in North America so arid that we have to agitate the ground to puddle up the water because the ground can't absorb it

[@dearthditch]

Which is why you can have flash floods in the driest of places

[@kevinbeazy]

That doesn’t change the point. Everywhere is special and everyone has the cutest dog and smartest kid

[@AlwayslookingNeverlookedfor]

Just maybe it doesn't want to get wet unlike yourself. Lol

[@jgharston]

@@kevinbeazy And all the children are above average.

[@ignitionfrn2223]

0:40 - Chapter 1 - 1 way bullet resistant glass 3:45 - Mid roll ads 5:10 - Chapter 2 - Hydrophobic sand 8:30 - Chapter 3 - The Emdrive 11:15 - Chapter 4 - Starlite 14:05 - Chapter 5 - Nitinol

[@NonEuclideanTacoCannon]

The one way glass is similar to cutting peppers. If you put a trimmed piece of a pepper down on a cutting board with the skin side up and try to cut it, it will deform and squish and only a very sharp knife will actually cut through the skin. If you put the same pepper down with the skin side down, the knife slices right through with little resistance. It's the same deal, a hard layer on one side and a soft layer on the other.

[@moogle68]

No, your example is not the same. The glass depends on the bullet traveling so fast that it deforms upon impact, causing it's surface area to increase, which is what stops it penetrating, whereas with your example the knife never changes, and simply struggles because the outer layer of the pepper is both hard _and_ flexible, making it difficult to actually apply enough pressure to the outer skin for the blade edge to do it's thing. This can easily be overcome by using a horizontal, downward slicing motion instead of "cutting" by pressing down perpendicularly to the surface that the pepper is on. Using a curved blade instead of a straight one makes this much easier as the curvature causes the effect as long as you hold the blade at even a slight angle. The pepper's skin does have the same combination of properties as the bullet proof glass in a way, so you are right in a way, but they use them differently to achieve different effects. A closer analogy involving bullets to the way the pepper's skin works would be bullet proof vests. Also, regarding cutting, the difficulty in cutting veggies with skin like peppers is why knife sharpening and making channels will often cut veggies to prove the sharpness of their blades, because a well sharpened blade should _not_ struggle at all when cutting something like peppers. I hand sharpen my knives as a hobby, so I can prove this firsthand. If your knife struggles, then it has been dulled, or more likely burled (bent sideways and the rolled over on itself) at the edge.

[@JacquesTheron-f3v]

Great video as usual, thx. If this is read by who ever is in charge of the background music, not so loud, chill, need to hear Simon 😂🎶

[@minners71]

Get rid of the background music!

[@kaynithdarkwater6194]

Agreed! Do not mind the music, but it is a bit loud.

[@cheekyb71]

It's a nightmare in my headphones!!!

[@HooKedOne]

yea the background music is pretty loud. after all these years they still suck at sound lol. I'm so glad i use the bring back the down vote button extension :P

[@o0Donuts0o]

The problem here is that it’s cello and pretty low in the spectrum hence having to be turned up and become obtrusive.

[@uni6988]

Correct video this time 😂

[@Fullyloaded_00]

He uni!

[@AnnaNicole.]

Knew this comment would be here somewhere. :)

[@mementomori29231]

​@@AnnaNicole.What happened before?

[@MrEnjoivolcom1]

@@mementomori29231 Same physics title, but wrong video, lol. Honest mix up for someone who records and uploads as many videos as Simon does!

[@carston101]

Ah so that's why it got delisted. I was excited for the video when I got the first notification but was very confused when I couldn't find the video lol

[@itstonberrytime]

Some bulletproof glass is constructed in 3 layers, but the high end stuff is usually at least 5 layers most of which are actually tempered glass with a special coating of adhesive that is strong like polycarbonate. The glass is actual glass though in most cases, because glass is the best at breaking the bullet apart while the polycarbonate backing deforms to catch the broken up round.

[@kevinbeazy]

Not anymore. 2 layers is fine now.

[@itstonberrytime]

@@kevinbeazy even with GCP (Glass-clad polycarbonate) you are only going to get a UL level of up to 3 with a 2 layer design. It can stop small calibers like .223 or 5.56 but a larger caliber rifle will punch right through a 2 layer GCP like paper. If you want level 4+ protection you'll need more than 2 layers, even with the thicker 2.5 inch layers. Can you make a stronger 2 layer design? Yes, but each layer is going to be so thick, it would be smarter and weigh less to just add more layers. I don't doubt it exists, but a 2 layer is never going to be more practical than 5

[@romulusnr]

Magic Sand used to be a kids toy in the late 70s. I had some.

[@brittanyc3282]

I had a kit in the 90s called Squand 😊

[@danielstokoe6564]

1 way bulletproof glass sound cool but please god dont install it the wrong way round !

[@mattthemouse1]

“Are you sure you installed it right?” *bang!* “Do I have to answer that?”

[@ukraineme96]

I imagine it comes with a sticker overlay that is removed once installed. Can be similar to a claymore: “this side toward enemy”

[@user-nu8in3ey8c]

Starlite is an ablative coating, to block thermal heat. The basic recipe has been reverse engineered by chemists, some of which are on youtube: * Something that forms carbon (sugar for example) * Something that produces gas when heated (baking soda or borax also called sodium tetraborate) The heat causes the sugar to form into carbon which is hard to burn or oxidize, and the gas released from the second gas forming compound makes it into a foam which is non-conductive. What we get is a somewhat non conductive foam that gets thicker as more heat is applied upon it. Starlite may be more advanced, but it exists in a group of compounds called ablative coatings, and it is possible it was never bought because those existed before, and after, the man's invention. No one bought it because someone probably explained that it was not that special, or even it if was, it only had specific use cases To someone who has never seen an ablative coating, it looks amazing. To someone who knows what an ablative coating is, already knows the limitations of those materials, and why this product may not replace other similar coatings. Regardless the man's invention is impressive if it was non-toxic and could be applied that thinly.

[@billant2]

At 13:22 the company ThermaShield still appears to be around. A quick Google search for starlitethermashield shows that they have StarLite availalbe. heh

[@JamesSherrick]

Perfect timing, just got off work and boom, side projects video

[@Fullyloaded_00]

Sorry hey Jim*

[@Fullyloaded_00]

Hey Mr sherrick?

[@pseudotasuki]

One fun application of nitinol is electric muscles. The wire can easily be stretched, but whun electricity is rin through it, it heats up and contracts back to its original length. This is commonly used on small spacecraft to do things like deploy solar panels or instruments.

[@pirobot668beta]

Jim Henson muppet-labs used it a lot for eye-brows and other facial expression.

[@easaspace]

Is the background music way to high at times, or is it just me? Love your videos, but its hard to hear you speak sometimes over the music...

[@martanowicka3340]

It's terribly loud sometimes. He has some fixation recently about adding loud music in the background 😂😂😂

[@rgerber]

yes it is

[@BrickTsar]

Indeed

[@easaspace]

Good to hear it is not just me getting old and cranky. Hope he reads this and instructs his editors.

[@crearaine]

There's been a serious movement to start a referendum to force Simon to adopt sound level normalization. Sometimes he shouts in your ears, the second later it's unintelligible whisper. We've been dealing with this for year, hoping that one day lord will slap his ass into doing something about it.

[@thegrimreefer3185]

Starlite worked as advertised, but it also has a very short effective life. You can't just coat something in it and it's heat proof forever. Or even a year for that matter. It's effective life is only a few months at best. Still very impressive, but not as cool as it is generally touted. (no pun intended) It's been a few years since I read up on the EM drive, but I thought it didn't work in space. It's actually "pushing" off of the earths magnetic field.

[@HH-ru4bj]

I don't know the specifics of the emdrive, but there was another one that would use micro second pulses through a pile, that in theory exerts a force, but is too short to experience the counteractive recoil, essential like a rowboat. Last time I heard it had positive results, but the amount of thrust was just barely measurable. Still haven't heard if anyone tried to replicate it.

[@pr0xZen]

Nitinol does _not_ need to be formed at time of creating the "alloy". You can change its austenitic shape at/above roughly 500°C. Its melting point is over 1300°C so there's a solid margin to work with. 500°C is a temperature most people can reach with simple tools, so you don't have to stick with the sold-as shapes. Actually handling it at 500°C can be more challenging, so a common practice is to have it firmly fixed when in its martensite state at room temperature, in a way so that it can't move when you heat it up between reaching the austenite state (where it would "revert to its original shape"), and reaching 500°C(+). Just beware when working out a way to fix it in a shape, especially with thicker material - that since nitinol is an intermetallic superelastic compound, the amount of force by which it will attempt to revert to its "original shape" can be _very_ strong.

[@kingswing00]

I use kinetic sand to cast small metal sculptures and belt buckle using pewter. It works great.

[@fredblonder7850]

Different formulations of Nitinol have different transition temperatures. Some forms can be triggered by human body temperature. I was once speaking with someone who works for a supplier of this alloy, who said that they sell a lot of it for use in . . . sex toys.

[@jfbeam]

And what he didn't mention... the effect mostly (entirely?) comes from titanium. Ti exhibits this behavior pure. (no alloy necessary.)

[@nicmainville9954]

To add on to the bullet proof glass: the pulverized glass dust is not something you want to breath in, it will do more than just make someone's day more difficult

[@EWolf-b9o]

Omg, I remember seeing the shielding foam on Tomorrow's World and seeing how paranoid he was about not getting ripped off. Such a shame that he didn't agree a sale price with someone that he could trust.

[@jewels11189]

I love, love, love your channels. They are all facts, no bias whatsoever. No propaganda AT ALL. LOVE IT. PLEASE KEEP MAKING THEM. Love from Oahu, HI

[@mwolkove]

I'm now super curious why car makers aren't using that paperclip stuff for cars. I'm guessing there are drawbacks besides cost, since we're making cheap paperclips from it, but it would be pretty cool if you could straighten a dented panel with hot water.

[@jpdemer5]

Much too expensive: it's far cheaper to replace a steel fender than it would cost to make it out of nitinol in the first place. Also, I don't think it behaves as you'd like when in thick sheets - all of the uses I've seen employ nitinol wire, sometimes woven into larger shapes.

[@thatonecoolchild]

​@@jpdemer5 Nitinol is available in blocks and sheets as well, and in my PhD research we used them quite a bit. It still functions the same. But you are right, it is SUPER expensive. Being part Titanium it is also very hard, which makes working it into shapes difficult.

[@danko6582]

EM drive is like a looney tunes character blowing on a ship's sails.

[@robsquared2]

Which mythbusters somehow got to work. The physics of why it worked still breaks my brain.

[@streetguru9350]

@@robsquared2 Mythbusters? The thrust it gave in one test was so minimal it was probably just the heat radiating off it giving the illusion of thrust. Especially given the power input it needs.

[@JarrodFrates]

​@@streetguru9350It wasn't just heat, and heat wouldn't give that much inertia. The experiment has been repeated numerous times by others. The air is transferring its inertia to the sail as it bounces off. That counteracts the force from the fan moving the air to begin with. But the air then bounces back, and under Newton's Third Law, it imparts a force on the sail. The result is that the boat gets a net increase in inertia, moving it in the direction of the fan's airflow.cIt is far less efficient than taking down the sail and pointing the fan backwards, but it does work. (There are other nuances surrounding interactions between the reflected air and the new air from the fan, as well as air not reflected straight back, but that gets beyond what works in a YT comment.)

[@kenbrown2808]

@@robsquared2it is simple thrust vectoring. the same principle as the thrust reversers on a commercial airplane. the fan draws in air from all directions and then through the mechanism of the sail, blows it towards the back of the boat, giving the boat a net forward thrust.

[@Hevach]

The results are really weird, though, because actually set up in ways that should produce no thrust (including removing the microwave emitter and replacing it with a big resistor) still produced the same thrust. Flipping it around but not rotating the test harness made it work backwards. Rotating the drive and test harness 90 degrees made it stop generating thrust at all. Two have been sent to space. One generated no detectable thrust and the other was recently abandoned without being properly tested due to power and communication issues with the cubesat bus it was mounted on. Rogue Space Systems called the mission a success but that seems to be mostly for investor relations purposes because literally no aspect of the satellite seems to have worked properly.

[@christiancook3118]

Currently machining and lasermarking Nitinol Guidewires in a medical manufacturing facility as i listen to this. It certainly is a unique material that we have had to make many accommodations for during our process. Weve made millions of them over the last year, and have many more to go.

[@Tigeristiger]

On the Starlite part, there are some formulas floating around that might be it. Cornstarch, sodium bicarbonate and Elmer's glue. 10:1:4 respectively.

[@cookieDaXapper]

BRAVO!!!!....been looking for Starlite for 2 decades, it could have started a new scientific and societal revolution,....WOW now lost to time. PEACE dear Sir, and God bless.

[@EK14MeV]

We live in such strange times, it seems every day is 1 April.

[@Fullyloaded_00]

It's not bro

[@animalbird9436]

We are changing the name to.April usa day😊

[@Matt.Thompson.1976]

Low brow comment of the day award. Congratulations.@@Fullyloaded_00

[@DuckAllMighty]

Now the funny thing is, that this is not an Aprils fool video. There truly does exist one way bulletproof glass, nitinol and hydrophobic sand. And the EM drive have really been constructed, but as he said in the video, it's sadly doesn't work, bc if it did, we could theoretically get infinite acceleration without breaking the third law of thermodynamics and the theory of relativity, which states that the closer you get to light speed, the more mass and energy you need, meaning at lightspeed, you would need infinite mass and energy. But with the EM drive, it doesn't accelerate by creating thrust, meaning we could achieve infinite speed, which of course would be far greater than the speed of light. It would have been awesome if it actually worked, then getting around the Universe would suddenly become possible with the tech we have right now. Damn you Newton for inventing thermodynamics and Newton for inventing relativity, that the Universe suddenly had to follow.

[@minxythemerciless]

You missed out on the satellite orientation system that can rotate satellites in any direction with zero mass leaving the satellite in thruster gas. They use reaction wheels driven by solar panels and assuming the bearings are good enough can last forever. I have a theory they could also be used in pairs for lateral translation as well as rotation

[@kevinbeazy]

Thats been proven false

[@SeeingBackward]

9:37 MythBusters ended up demonstrating that, in practice, one can "blow their own sail" if the shape of the sail redirects the flow of air at least somewhat backward. The idealized "closed system" of Newton's equations generally doesn't actually exist in the universe, and so there tends to be something in the environment to 'push' on obliquely by internal movement within the closed system. An example that most of us are familiar with is swinging on a swing from a dead stop without using the ground. Even just bipedal walking makes use of the Earth's gravity to rotate the body forward around the planted foot to then be able to use the planted foot to push backward (avoiding the slowness of the falling process is why foot-racers start low to the ground, often in a 3- or 4-point stance). So it will be interesting to see if this actually does produce forward thrust when not connected to a testing rig which could be misinterpreting an angular thrust that might result in only circular motion when untethered.

[@Yobehtmada]

I think one of the best uses for Starlite would be as a material for the pusher plate for a Nuclear Pulse Propulsion spaceship.

[@phishhead96]

Turn up the music i can still hear you

[@TorquilBletchleySmythe]

The Emdrive can be easily disproven by placing two opposing large magnets inside a car in a vaccuum, then watching it fail to go anywhere, despite the electromagnetic interaction between the two very powerful repulsion elements.

[@wingerding]

Happy to hear no laws were truly broken in the filming of this video.

[@carliecole2563]

Im so giddy to hear the term "Magic Sand!"⏳❤️😂

[@GoTakeADrive]

The Audio mix is so stinkin bad in this video that I couldn't get through it, background music is intrusive in its volume.

[@warrenjohnknight.9831]

The 10 years I drove armoured truck's, definitely didn't want to be involved in a shooting, haha .mind you other weapons were more likely as I walked from the truck .

[@Allegheny500]

The Starlight story reminds me of another process that was lost, cement that would harden underwater was in use by the Roman Empire, after it fell the process was lost until rediscovered by the Germans just prior to 1940. I'm surprised nobody found the original samples after the man passed, or investigated what purchases he made for his lab for clues.

[@oliviervancantfort5327]

Normal cement hardens under water. The standardised testing protocol for cement requires to let it harden in a constant temperature bath for 28 days.

[@nufosmatic]

9:26 - Reactionless Thruster - see Larry Niven

[@anarchist_rationale]

Great video, some jaw-dropping stuff!

[@romulusnr]

7:54 how many takes did "viscoelasticity" take in that cut? :D

[@changowowowoezzy9617]

I was imagining the one way glass being like a bunch of one way doors overlapping

[@LordDustinDeWynd]

Greetings and Salutations from Temple, Texas, USA!

[@danidavis7912]

I used to sell so-called "bullet-proof" glass. The product is called Lexan and has been used everywhere and was invented in 1953, well before 1982. And the bullet-proof qualities depend on a multitude of factors, not the least of which are the thickness of the Lexan and the caliber being used to fire at it. This stuff is used everywhere. I sold it primarily to manufacturing facilities that had areas where parts and pieces had the potential of splintering, exploding, flying apart, etc and injuring production workers nearby. It works and is effective - for its intended application.

[@jpdemer5]

Lexan is just a trademark for polycarbonate.

[@danidavis7912]

@@jpdemer5 I know what it is. I sold it for 30 years. And there are at least a dozen different types of Lexan. The stuff I sold was indeed called, bulletproof glass.

[@jpdemer5]

@@danidavis7912 Just need to rearrange the quotation marks: so-called bullet-proof "glass". 😉

[@kevinbeazy]

@@jpdemer5not exactly

[@paulmartin2348]

@@danidavis7912 I call the pages in my Bible bulletproof. They have never stopped a single bullet but I still call them that.

[@Yupppi]

Veritasium and some other science experiment channel tested something like Starlite and it was extremely cool, you could stand behind a thin wall shot by a flamethrower for good time and be all good.

[@waynewilliamson4212]

interesting, I thought the mdrive basically relied on moving particles at near the speed of light in one direction and then collecting them back to reuse at a much slower speed. the gain was the differential in time of the particles....

[@daduzadude1547]

Glad it’s the correct video this time! But oh man, the background music… turn it down please so we can hear Simons glorious voice 😅

[@aaronrocs]

How about those dousing rods they use to locate utilities

[@YTANDY100]

nighthawkeinlight made a "star light" type substance that looked the same as star light as seen on tv when burned :-)

[@christianavance9124]

The must mundane use no one would realize the usefulness for with the last tech in the video is circular knitting needles. Chiaogoo cords are nearly indestructible with the ability to just steam them back into the right shape after an aggressive project.

[@mrhassell]

Polycarbonate and Glass-Clad Polycarbonate: Are virtually unbreakable, even when riddled with bullets. They maintain strength and integrity, making them excellent security doors and windows.

[@paulmartin2348]

That just depends on the bullets.

[@LostCylon]

Why not make Nitinol body panels for cars? Get a minor (or major) dent? No worries, simply hose it off with hot water at a car wash, and buy a can of the correct paint, or have it repainted (I realise some paints are painted in layers/special paints not readily available to the public).

[@thatonecoolchild]

It is way too expensive for large thick chunks like that, and very hard to work into shape, since it likes to spring back into position. Steel is much easier to bend and fold into all the shapes you need.

[@worldsstrongestblacksmith]

I wonder if nitinol would work for car body panels

[@thedevensafe]

Love the video - chill on the music though please. Here for Simon lol

[@rgerber]

yeah it was slightly irritating

[@TheMaddoxfam]

I love how the lines between each of Simon’s channels continues to blur

[@romulusnr]

Anakin doesn't like sand because he grew up on a desert planet. He knows all about sand.

[@DrDeuteron]

Thx for explaining the shape remembering alloy….that one seems to defy the law of physics…though….I still think it does. Just less so.

[@arcuscotangens]

Fun fact: there is nothing that defies the laws of physics.

[@kevin9218]

And if there is, that just means we got the laws wrong.

[@kewlideas7687]

Are you kidding me there definitely is we can’t even understand a black hole how do describe that

[@arcuscotangens]

@@kewlideas7687 lol

[@kewlideas7687]

@@arcuscotangens we as humans made up the “laws of physics” not the universe we are constantly learning how things work and evolving and to think we have hit the end point is just ver ignorant of the reality we live in

[@paulmartin2348]

Not true. Human stupidity defies all laws including those of physics.

[@Zoca1o]

Background music too loud!

[@angelitabecerra]

Yay! The right video this time *settles in to learn* 🍿

[@moffjerjerrod1579]

One way bullet proof glass! On the next Demolition Ranch!!

[@NihongGenesis]

My job has the 1 way bulletproof glass. Only reason I know this is because they put it backwards during installation, and had to redo it.

[@GlassDeviant]

Seem to, and yet could not have been developed without a deep understanding of the laws of physics.

[@DrDavelope]

Paper clip at the end of this video is the most awesome. Just don’t press F1

[@TheKrispyfort]

Semi-permeable ballistic filter 😂 AKA the first item, the one way bullet resistant glass.

[@Nymaz]

The EM (not M) drive was disproven a couple of years back by the Institute of Aerospace Engineering in Dresden, Germany. An experimental apparatus that eliminated thermal interaction with the surrounding area was designed and testing was done on multiple devices from 2015-2021. And the device consistently failed to produce any thrust. So it appears that all the false positives were a result of thermal distortion of the chamber interacting with the environment, something that would not be available in space.

[@VulpisFoxfire]

I may be thinking of a different drive system, but didn't someone attempt to sent up a small satellite into orbit to test this? (Though if I remember, the launch had a mishap, causing said experiment to fail to be deployed)

[@Nymaz]

@@VulpisFoxfire Yes, that was a different one. It's called the "IVO drive" and we don't know much about how it's supposed to operate because unlike EMDrive which was released to the public the owners of IVO have played tight to the chest. As best as I can tell from rumors it's supposed to accelerate "virtual particles" caused by vacuum fluctuations, while EMDrive was supposed to work by getting asymmetrical thrust by bouncing microwaves around a cavity (turned out to be experimental error). As you note there was a failure of testing as they supposedly lost communication soon after deploy.

[@MosheMaserati]

Nitinol car body panels. PLEASE!

[@jaewok5G]

"explain how positive results _could_ be real" is an epic phrase. also, i have a sample of nitinol coated with starlight and i can't get it hot enough to change back so it looks just like a twisted piece of wire, but don't be fooled, it's totally legit!

[@treyhughes3283]

You have to turn that music way down

[@DanyBolton]

The music is too loud

[@MAMMASAYSYO]

I know this isn’t why you make them and I love your content but I put your videos on to fall asleep to.

[@StephenMcGregor1986]

Now keep this video up Simon

[@freddiekay]

Because I love Simon and all his 69 YT-channels I have to agree with the comments about audio levels. Just as constructive feedback. Levels are a bit out of order on this particular video. I’m an audio engineer and the people are right on this one. Much love, thanks for the never-ending stream of free content.

[@lowstringc]

Also an audio engineer, and I agree. My suspicion is that his editors are video editors without much audio background. There have been leveling and compression problems across all of his channels from the start. Still love everything he does, but don’t think he’s ever understood the need for an audio pro (his podcasts are almost unlistenable due to the dynamic range)

[@robsquared2]

The EM drive has already been debunked, so unfortunately it won't be used for anything. For those curious it was an effect of electricity moving air. It didn't work in a vacuum, which is kind of important for a space ship.

[@FLPhotoCatcher]

So they say.

[@thatfuzzypotato1877]

I was looking for a comment like this. I recalled it being debunked but couldn't recall why. I admittedly know next to nothing about the drive: would there be any feasability in getting it to work for say, ships at sea? Instead of hundreds of thousands of gallons of diesel? Or would the constant ocean spray, waves, humidy, and salt turn it into instant "oh hell no"

[@robsquared2]

@@thatfuzzypotato1877it's a fair question, unfortunately the level of thrust was equal to that of a hair falling on a piece of paper, so indeed it wouldn't be enough for anything where friction of even air is involved.

[@thatfuzzypotato1877]

@@robsquared2 I appreciate the answer thank you

[@paulmartin2348]

@@robsquared2 There is no thrust. Not even the weight of an atom.

[@carwashadamcooper1538]

The M drive is exactly like putting a fan on a sailboat.

[@Delekhan]

Heresy has three s's for a quarter second. Bah, hah, hah! Nice one Sideprojects... Thanks for the great vid.

[@pimpampet7053]

Hee, the RangeRover pope mobile @0:46

[@Oomzilla]

Errr, e=mc2? Explaining movement of Mercury around the sun, directly in conflict with Newtonian gravitational theory. Within our solat system, is all.😊😊😊

[@wjb40]

ARGH! 9:06 messed up... used FUEL when meant propellant. Was perfect right until then.

[@deejayRavien]

What prevents the bullets from deflecting? Seems that once past the glass it's very likely to veer off in an unknown direction creating hazards for innocent bystanders.

[@thejerrodlockbox]

i literally wait for your content across 4 different pages.

[@Fullyloaded_00]

Hey jerrod

[@Fullyloaded_00]

Jed?

[@calebbean1384]

That's about 25% of his content is the funny part

[@JohnRandomness105]

9:10 Electromagnetism, and special relativity in general, doesn't obey Newton's third law. 13:40 Why wasn't starlite patented? A month later: I unwittingly began a comment, almost word-for-word identical to the start of this comment, before I saw it. But I was going to add this: The classic example is light (an electromagnetic wave) exerting a force on a charged particle. The charged particle exerts no counterforce on anything.

[@mr.potato9449]

He would of had to give them the formula for starlite if he had patented it so everyone would know how to make it.

[@JohnRandomness105]

@@mr.potato9449 Yes, the formula would have to be revealed. In most places, if he filed everywhere that he could, he would have the right to legally exclude others from making it or importing it. But there are places where one could make imitations, and there are also lawless persons.

[@paulmartin2348]

If he released the formula for Starlite then it would be almost instantly known that it was worthless. Only way to remain a celebrity was to hide it so that no one knew it was all a big scam.

[@aguynamednathan]

I'll tell ya what defies the laws of physics. The amount of videos Simon manages to upload!

[@mobilephil244]

It was absolutely right to check out the EM Drive theory / claims. Science progresses by many kinds of practical experimentation. If nobody ever tried anything that the "..accepted wisdom.." said wouldn't work then we'd still be swinging around in trees.

[@f-empire-8]

Does anybody know if one of Wards family members owns the Thermo company? That would be awesome.

[@y.dylanhusband8664]

I wonder if there’s a way to slow down the eruption of a nuke lol that would make enough thrust per weight

[@anttirl]

Waaaait. Starlite's method of functions isn't really a mystery (though the actual composition is). Similar stuff can be easily made with ingreadients found in your home. You need Flour, corn starch, sugar and baking powder. Also, the reason why it works is well-known already. When heated to extremes the concoction forms a carbon foam structure that behaves quite like aerogel dissipating the heat very effectively.

[@Zaro2008]

11:14 it's sad that such a valuable invention was lost because of greed 😞

[@sethbrooks8889]

There we go

[@davecinzanobiancolister.2358]

Background music is too high for me 🤷‍♂️

[@shteevuk]

Is the extra S that appears in Heresy at 9:12 some kind of in joke that I don't get or an AI artifact

[@jgharston]

"He took the secret to his grave". DIG UP HIS GRAVE!!!!! 😁

[@ScentlessSun]

The debate around the EM drive has absolutely not been put to rest. The primary team working on it has it producing enough thrust right now to counteract 1G. That’s right. According to them, they have it levitating. These are NASA scientists and aerospace experts, not quacks. Let’s all withhold judgement on this for a while. There could be some new physics we don’t understand. Perhaps a 5th fundamental force that interacts with electromagnetism or a relationship between gravity and EM we weren’t aware of. They are planning on taking this device up into space to see how it behaves.

[@denniscavilla3904]

Simon must be an AI with this pace and variety

[@xDragonHybridx]

Somehow I picture Simon's children looking exactly like him, bald head, beard and all

[@o0Donuts0o]

Microwave Resonant Cavity Thruster. I’m naming my junk that. Now I’m sad… 😢

[@animeandwieardness6132]

Amazing technology!!!

[@jessco8950]

Funny how out of all the uses for nitol the most common/useful one is to reuse paper clips lol

[@emixmim]

Background music is extremely distracting. What’s going on?

[@onebritishboi9892]

Ayy finally the right video 😎

[@cicichambers3887]

I'd bet the Starlight recipe is in the sole of his shoes. In his casket