How Does Fusion Produce Energy?

[@DrDeuteron]

it's confinement, not containment.

[@ButWhySci]

🤦🏻‍♂️Oops. Conceptually I understand why it wasn’t noticed. But that’s annoying.

[@DrDeuteron]

@@ButWhySci nuclear containment (vessel) is more common than nucleon confinement. Neural net picks highest weight. As a young researcher I gave a talk to ten ppl, and the Nobel laureate in the front, “ nice talk, but it’s nuclear , not nuke u lar “. This was before face palm emojis.

[@mastershooter64]

@@DrDeuteronLmao

[@ossiedunstan4419]

Yes this is what happens when uneducated youtubers post rubbish on KZbin. What exactly are the mechanisms holding atoms together and why does bringing them together create energy? = This statement shows me you have no understanding of fusion.

[@DrDeuteron]

@@ossiedunstan4419 for me, atoms and nuclei are completely different things.

[@aiex010]

Visualizing waves the way you showed us in the vid is super useful and will definitely try to visualize it this way for my students. I'm just a lowly Highschool teacher but I love to watch vids like this that go way beyond my expertise. Thank you!

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Damn, no matter how many videos I've seen previously on nuclear fusion, this video felt so new! I wish more content like this floods my feed!

[@tonalambiguity3345]

As someone with a masters in teaching, this guy is one of the best educators I’ve seen.

[@marsdriver2501]

yeah, it feels like everyone else is afraid to show more "boring and unimportant" details, but this channel manages to show these details in a fascinating way!

[@terryflopycow2231]

Man this video brought back 2 years of college physics instantly, feels so refreshing. No matter the view count, this free content will forever be underappreciated.

[@PasiFourmyle]

There's so many speakers and mathematicians, but to be able to show, pretty darn intuitively, the proposed interactions is so amazing! 👏 ❤ Thank you!

[@AndiAbrudan]

Ok, I never understood how quantum tunneling worked until your explanation. Your visualization is top-notch.

[@rumbecker5085]

The chance that hydrogen will quantum tunnel is 1 in 10^28 that like winning powerball 3 times in a row. Since the sun has more than 10^57 hydrogen atoms, quantum tunneling is very probably. On earth when we do fusion, we are talking in the order of 10^23 atoms

[@TBJ1118]

The way you explain things is just incredibly effective. You really developed a remarkable ability, and we all need more of you and your work. I've been a subscriber for years now, and you deserve so much more visibility. Thanks!

[@falco6]

Couldn't agree more as a person who just only scratched the surface by stumbling upon it just know. Loved the visualisations and explainations. Filled some understanding-gaps for me.

[@jimitbhatt4829]

Please keep making these videos. You have no idea what impact you have on generations of us watching this and passing the knowledge and the video along to our kids.

[@PoonamMauryaa]

true words were never spoken before

[@slamdunksam2872]

the most detailed, clear, well animated, in depth, video on fusion i have ever watched and somehow all the information has been fitted into 13 minutes!

[@wgoulding]

I just want to say, you put out absolutely amazing videos. It's only a matter of time until you are ranked amongst the foremost of scientific communicators on KZbin.

[@lorenzoplaserrano8734]

1000%

[@nigh7swimming]

This is the best explanation of fusion I've ever seen, and I've seen a few lectures about it over the years.

[@hollisoorebeek6963]

holy shit, this is the first time i've actually understood what quantum tunnelling is, actually having a visualization of the waves is GENIUS. this channel is amazing

[@pangeaproxima3681]

ok, ok...we hear ya.

[@codeofdestiny6820]

This is most detailed explanation I've ever seen, regarding a concept of quantum mechanics/nuclear physics. I have never seen a video that is not afraid to explain the actual physics, instead of explaining everything with handwavy analogies. Sure, I am confident that this is still really dumbed down version of the actual explanation, but it doesn't leave anything to be desired. It offers just enough information to satisfy all of the curiosity, without scaring you away with scary concepts rooted in really complicated mathematics. Wonderful job! Wonderful animations!

[@1224chrisng]

this is the most intuitive explanation I've seen. Love how the gluons (literal springs) break off to form pions

[@TheKalll]

I'm happy to have found a well made educational KZbin channel that I can't watch while doing something else, a channel that really challenges me to keep up and honestly gets me to smile like I made some sort of discovery understanding the underlying mechanisms of our universe, and inspires me to find such visualisations when teaching my students. you my man are the GOAT, keep up the great work and the awesome animation style!

[@iveharzing]

Very well made video! I feel like I'm finally starting to understand the Strong Force & Strong Nuclear Force. The fact that the mediating particles have a limited lifespan being the reason that the Force is so short range, is something that I hadn't realised before, but now it makes a lot of sense! I guess that's also why eventually (after Iron), the binding energy drops again, because the size of the nucleus becomes larger than the interaction length of the Strong Nuclear Force.

[@Supernoxus]

I know have I said this plenty of times before, but I continue to marvel at your ability to present me a topic I thought I understand reasonably well and then make me feel like I had no idea about anything. You explain it so well too. I am thankful for every one of your videos. I am hoping for your subscriber count to eventually reach a suitable number. Like 1-2 million would be nice.

[@ronjon7942]

Geez, I still don't know shit, but you've explained more fusions and quantum mechanics to this layman, in a digestible way, than I've ever been able to grasp in my 54 years. Thank you.

[@cameronwatson5501]

its crazy how you can make such in depth videos on quantum mechanics, while keeping it so engaging and easy to understand

[@marsdriver2501]

no matter the subject, you always show something new and exciting! love it!

[@usuck2521]

100% the best explanation out there

[@Elrond_Hubbard_1]

I consider myself a veteran of the KZbin science and physics content audience. I'm not an expert in any of this, I did complete a BSc fifteen years ago, and I didn't study physics but I've always maintained my fascination with it all. Your channel is just the perfect level of explanation for me, and you do such a great job of painting a picture of what is going on. Do you have a patreon or a donation link? Seriously, I'd swing you a few dollars a month for your content. I've watched nearly every one of your videos and your series on stellar core collapse I've watched 5 or 6 times.

[@dporangecounty]

Thank you for going into more depth than the typical scientific content provider. Subscribing now!

[@chloec.5205]

your ability to explain these concepts is incredible. i have a basic high-school level understanding yet i was able to follow along your entire video. thank you for making these explanations in-depth and accessible.

[@ImpossibleEvan]

Literally filled in every hole of knowledge I had about this IN ONLY 13 MINUTES

[@emperortgp2424]

Love your videos, the visuals are always clear and the topic is never dumbed down no matter how complex. Wish there were more STEM youtube channels like this one.

[@-Kerstin]

Really wasn't expecting an explanation this good when I clicked.

[@hipokemonfans]

This is the best description of quantum phenomena i think I've seen thusfar. It makes it soo much easier to visualize and it's clear to understand. Well done!

[@jayrose5333]

You need to keep making videos. Your videos I literally watch every single one.

[@juanrincon777]

These visuals are craaaazy. What a great video. Earned a new sub

[@KnowledgewithScience]

He has explained it perfectly!!! Dude that is sooo gooood Make more of such videos

[@supratimmitra9352]

Whoever you are, you are very good at what you do.

[@HYPERMUSH64]

What a phenomenal video that simply explained something I had never understood! How do you make such beautiful and useful graphics?

[@Tesseract9630]

This so much new information, none of which covered in other science channels. I always wanted to know the deeper mechanisms of the particle interactions. I am so great full you made this video

[@poor4d]

Thanks a lot . I am in 11th grade and i love your videos. This was the best explanation about strong nuclear force and strong force and yes fusion too. Your videos always generate more questions to me and also answers my previous ones.

[@miinyoo]

That was magnificently well illustrated. For a visual person like me, I can see the equations in the animations even if abstractly, I don't really understand them on a purely mathematical basis. Using 3 dimensions in them is very helpful to breed an intuitive insight however, reality on this level is 4 dimensional so even though we're only considering ~2% of c, there is still a small effect of time and length(distance) relativistic effects. How to illustrate that specifically, I think you did without explicitly saying it but through implication that the probabilities are so unreasonably small yet with so many particles and such density, those effects emerge and have an on our human scale a significant impact. Like you know, existing at all.

[@bamfoer]

i never comment but this video single handedly helped me understand questions my teachers couldn't answer

[@lucak4013]

i love this video. perhaps another title would give it more attention, cuz many people just think of fusion of a deuterium and a tritium nucleus to form a helium nucleus with the release of a neutron. But this is way more interesting. Your videos are incredible

[@PlexiumGames]

YESS! Love these videos never stop dude!

[@timothysleeper5441]

Once again, astounding video!

[@friguspersona]

I never knew fusion could be even more fascinating

[@leonardgibney2997]

My brain's too old for this. I'll just take your word for this.

[@lemonke8132]

best science channel on youtube

[@Work-g9t]

By seeing your explanation i understand the whole concept and able to get good flow in my studies ❤

[@customfreak567]

Shame the algorithm didn’t pick this video up :( love the hard work

[@mastershooter64]

Woahhh lets goooo another 'But Why?' videoooo!!

[@romansanders]

Absolutely fantastic video!

[@kimbring2727]

I tried to find how two protons are combined together. However, I could not find the the good explanation about it. Finally, I understand that pion is reason of that force from this video 😮😮 Nice lecture.

[@tekjess_]

I wish I could help you make more videos of such quality. This is so good.

[@marvintalesman6306]

You are the best BEST teacher !

[@usm1le]

its incredible that this even exists and that we figured this out

[@fleetwingpone966]

i was NOT expecting it to go as deep as quantum mechanics, i have been pleasantly surprised :3

[@Paraselene_Tao]

It's my first time watching or trying to deal with how the strong force works, and it's pretty wild. I am surprised that it works like this, and I want to know how we researched all of this and how we know with high certainty that these are the mechanisms.

[@Odysseus81]

Probably the best video out there. Thank you

[@ImpossibleEvan]

I have watched this about 6 times as it explains sosny different things

[@RenBR]

Awesome video...please, keep up the amazing work 🤩

[@Mr.Loewenzahn]

Wow this video was amazing. Please do more of this. This is next level content

[@_34_Lies]

Best video I've watched so far...

[@cleanerben9636]

Thank you the visuals really help with the explanation.

[@bonecanoe86]

The fusion power plant in SimCity 2000 gave me the impression that fusion power was the future and inevitable.

[@Canucklug]

I think you get it in 2050, we might be faster

[@Brucebod]

You are my _FAV!_ Thank you for your content. :)

[@bobchelsy163]

best education channel

[@SwiFTDBL]

Imagine humans could live in peace- we could dedicate all the defense funding, military budgets, war budgets, etc, toward researching a realistic way to harness fusion power. If it ever became possible it would be near infinite energy with basically no waste (not like fission). Unfortunately I don’t think humans will ever stop fighting each other 😢

[@michealrobert3318]

Agreed, humans are too emotional

[@borja556]

i dont really speak english properly, and i usually dont understand most of what i listen in english, but your tone, words or speed, i dont know. Make me easy to understand you without problems, even without substitles.

[@ryanbalestrery2988]

I'm going to need to replay this 100 times and read as many articles to understand what I just saw. Well here goes...

[@veganninja5886]

same

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You are very good at what you do. Also I really like your silly animations ❤🎉

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The king returns 👑

[@Parcian-]

We need this in schools and universities

[@LauAM80]

I love your videos so much. The animations coupled with clear explanations are so satisfying, and your music is so beautiful. May I ask you the name or reference of the music ?

[@celiapearls7910]

He usually makes his own music

[@pinkyblueAPefc]

It makes me feel better knowing my revision for my physics exams is going well because I can understand what’s going on in this video

[@mikewillis4362]

I love the music with the visuals.

[@Parapresdokian]

Oh man, oh man, oh man... I'm gonna study Nuclear Physics for my undergrad this fall. And I expect to do the same for the rest of my life. Dunno why, Mr. But Why, this video is kindling a fire inside me.

[@peacekeeper9687]

The level of explanation is just hats off and also the graphics 🥹🙏🙏❤

[@my_lawn_needs_you_not]

Once again amazing work, Sir.

[@Meican_Spy]

2:48 but how is the anti blue quark and the blue quark Pion work? And what charges does the gluon that was emited by the anti blue quark have? anti blue and anti blue?

[@jollyroger2730]

Awesome video! Thank you!

[@cart0443]

Great thing I was awake to see a post notification lol

[@CraftyF0X]

This is it! These are the important fundamentals, if you know this you pretty much understand fusion !

[@blacklight683]

something:(*doesn't add up*) quantum mechanics:nuh uh, you work👍

[@edenasharpie]

this is the 3 blue 1 brown of physics, thank the gods!!

[@yetti423]

just paint a number 11 on the rectors dials and turn it up to that. good channel. must admit it does hurt my head a bit!

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I love this channel, more Maths plz

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I love waking up to this at 2 am

[@moseschellakannu7548]

SUPERB EXPLANATION

[@JuliusUnique]

great video! nice animations! thanks for this! 👍

[@braydenvantell6047]

10:36 so it basically makes up for energy in the form of “mass” (as in amount of events happening) which makes sense because mass and energy are related like space and time?

[@solapowsj25]

One view is that a shell with radius 3 would have surface area of interaction equality to the volume of a sphere with radius 3, as also cones and hemisphere and the circle in this energy transfer sequence. However, when two spheres unite, the surface area of the second sphere is less; the excess is released at 'c' from each atom.

[@TechSY730]

4:18 Suggestion: it probably would have been good to explicitly mention that the up and down quarks (and quarks in general) have electric charge too. That way way it would be much more obvious why swapping quark types could change the charge of the nucleon for those who didn't already know. Or why pions can themselves also have charge.

[@Thrna_1]

I actually find that assigned triadic colors to three quarks is very helpful and engaging, especially for those of us learners who are easily distracted. And their collective charge combines to make white? Very fascinating, even though I know they are abstract terms to help novices understand with ease.

[@Thrna_1]

so seamless to see the blue-yellow pair, then the red-cyan pair as balanced pion messons, so seeing which colors are paired adds a visual element to understand whether a baryon/mession is balanced or not, truly helps!

[@josefhermann8101]

I love your channel

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Great channel! Very informative

[@chillinJohnny]

such a great channel

[@Liamg1999]

you should release the summary at the end as a short so you can get more views

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Every singer has unique voice and that makes every singer special ❤

[@arserna92]

This is so cool and understandable to someone like me that doesn’t have a college education

[@FutureAIDev2015]

How does the gluon "know" which quark to collide with? Is it analogous to how opposing electric charges attract?

[@lorenzoplaserrano8734]

This was amazing. thank you so much

[@parthvarasani495]

Awesome 🎉

[@grexjr1420]

One question: when you say “charges” for those quarks, is it electrical charges? And if so, what is the third charge? If it’s not positive, negative, or neutral? Or is it something separate from electrical charge that can be three-way? Like some property other than electromagnetism? Amazing video by the way! I love watching them all :)

[@emperortgp2424]

the latter, it's a separate quantity that can have three-way interactions

[@codyexzonk]

It is something separate. Electrically charged particles participate in electromagnetic interaction. Color charged particles participate in color interactions. It is as "abstract" as electric charge is.