How Small Is It - 04 - Elementary Particles (1080p)

[@fnersch3367]

The is the best explanation of this stuff I have seen in 60 years of interest in physics & cosmology. Thanks.

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The internet isn't even 60 years old.....

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@@frauleinhohenzollern you totally miss the point.

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@@fnersch3367 I get the point. I was poking fun at how you said it.

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Same here. I never had any interest back then. But now... I think in my case it's ok. I mean, i probably wouldn't have understood it back then either. Now i have the focus to put my mind into it more. I started getting more certifications after my 30th, not in physics though.

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Thank you, Dr. Butler, for freely educating the interested layman. Amazing presentation and the music is not distracting.

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I cant stress how well done these episodes are. I thought I was a quite a well versed amateur, and yet the explanations reveal more than I knew before. Beautifully done sir.

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This is EXACTLY what I was looking for, a detailed account of HOW we know these things!

[@harry4516]

this is by far the best explanation I found in the web.

[@christinestill5002]

I hope you've checked out Mr. Butler's other series. I discovered "How Far Away is It" a number of years ago when it had only a few dozen viewers & I have hooked many friends long after we ceased studying science. He also hooked me on classical music. Love that he gives calculations & how they're used. He's a genius in my book.

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your series is truly informative, superbly detailed and astoundingly captivating thank you

[@AbubakerMahmoudshangab]

Dear David, I won't say this is one of the best channels for learning quantum mechanics for those who did not study it, Instead I would say this is the most beautiful channel that really makes it a child's play to learn about quantum mechanics and the universe. Thank you very much.

[@howfarawayisit]

You're welcome. And thank you for your kind comments.

[@sygarth]

Concise, to the point, no beaten-to-death history and nice musical background. Proper video-book. Well done Sir.

[@Orcimedes]

The shown photographs help enormously and give good insight of the subject matter, in addition to the excellent historical perspective they offer.

[@howfarawayisit]

I made some adjustments. Do you still like them?

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I love the fact I can be just the average person knowing this knowledge that took years , hundreds of them to get to this point. Beautiful. Well done video .

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Yea, that is the spirit. I thought same. Point is to try understand, no one even try to understand this knowledge.

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Fascinating. I wish this was my science class back in high school.

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I have been looking for such explanations since high school.. all those equations make sense now

[@vasimir3183]

EXACTLY!

[@kaje01]

Amazing video, I got so much out of this. I never knew how all of these particles were ever detected or measured before now. Bubble chambers are amazing. I can't believe we've been doing this for so long. It's amazing what they were able to do with such limited technology by today's standards.

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IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW I HAVE BEEN A SKEPTIC FOR SO LONG BECAUSE I DID NOT UNDERSTAND AND THIS WAS EXPLAINED SO CONCISELY AND ELOQUENTLY IM IN AWE

[@austin5060]

Man I’ve watched this video so many times, the cloud chamber images are mesmerizing

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the presentation of this video is so welcoming and comfy. pure wholesome knowledge. thank you Mr. Butler.

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Sir, you're the David Attenborough of all things space. I love how you can explain everything in a wonderfully calm layman's language.

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I'm pleased to say that I am thoroughly enjoying this series. Believe it or not, there are quite a number of things explained here that no one, in any book, video or TV program I've run across has EVER explained as concisely as sensibly as you do here. I will pay you that highest compliment: I am learning and understanding as never before! Thank you. 😎 Rikki Tikki.

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The best way you abstractly explain SM.

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Why would anyone, except tone-deaf, post-modern jackals, desire to watch a music-free version of this video, and series? Thank you Mr. Butler for your effort to bring joy to the scientific layman.

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[@DSC800]

My favorite is the neutrino too. I'd love to have a spoonful just to see what they taste like.

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Your knowledge and understanding is only surpassed by you ability to communicate the essence of the subject for people ( like me:) who can barely tie their shoe laces.

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Brilliant presentation for even those of us that are classically educated in physics, I appreciate the history of discovery!

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I was looking for a video on elementary particles and finally found this awesome video. Thanks David Butler, this is just so amazing and concepts so clearly explained!

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This is so good. Can't believe how much better and clearer this is compared to some of the "major" science documentaries around that drown in their own CGI. Thanks David👍

[@howfarawayisit]

You're very welcome. Thanks for the comment.

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Back 6 years later and still loving this channel from David ❤️

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Same here!

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Excellent video.

[@AnimeshPathak]

This is _by far_ the best series of particle physics videos I've seen. Even the detail-oriented "space time" series by PBS oversimplifies stuff sometimes. Good job sir, keep up the good work! Would be good to see a series on parallel database BTW. -A

[@pitthepig]

This video was amazing, and the pictures of the bubble chambers, the "finger prints of nature", where mesmerizing

[@RolandNSI]

They should have started with explaining what a bubble chamber is, and how were the particles detected, instead of " here's the list of particles, memorize it !" Damn university... Now a lot of things make sense !

[@VoltarineDeCleyre]

This is excellent. One of the many ways Nova and other "science" programs mess up is to project the quantum world into the scale of our Newtonian world, with people splitting in half, popping around space. In other worlds, other presentations (with larger budgets) emphasize the "weirdness" of the quantum world, while you just explain the developing understanding of it. All while respecting your audience. It is much appreciated. I know these are the "first" editions of what will be an ongoing project. For the How Far Away Is It series, you let aesthetics of the grand take center stage: it framed and informed your discussion. But for the very small, it gets more difficult to do that, in part because visible light itself can't be used. I wonder if there is a way to bring in more beauty, or challenge what beauty is, with the very small. Although, many of those cloud chamber squiggles could give Cy Twombly a run for his money: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q6mZm6pjm5mcpLM.

[@howfarawayisit]

Thank you. I appreciate the comment. I attempt do exactly as you say, and I'm glad to hear that I'm meeting with some success.

[@howfarawayisit]

xamarmm Thank you for this and all your other comments.

[@MarionMakarewicz]

David. I can’t thank you enough. I remember in third grade we had a student teacher come in once a week and teach science. I remember vividly the bubble chamber and the word particles. I made a water molecule out of toothpicks and candy Dots. I re,member seeing the illustration of a train load of coal and the equivalent energy in uranium. I didn’t do science as a career but if I had these videos available in high school I know what I would have studied. But your astronomy videos make it hard because that is another career path.

[@jhyland87]

Love the background.

[@Quazi-moto]

I have a question or three. Let me start by saying I am basically 100% ignorant of the subject of particle acceleration. How in the world do the supercolliders work? What particle(s) are being slung around those giant tubes to slam into each other? This one may sound really dumb, but how do they "load" a specific particle into the collider to be shot? How do they fire them at a speed that is so close to the speed of light? And how in the world do they get things so tiny to hit head on so precisely as to reveal the elementary particles? Man. I sure do wish I were smarter. I feel I'm smarter than the average bear (isn't really saying much), but am miles and miles behind what it would take to work on these subjects for a living. Hats off to the big brains of the world.

[@howfarawayisit]

+quazzie1 The next segment on the Higgs Boson goes into this in detail.

[@Quazi-moto]

David Butler Good to know. Can't wait!

[@howfarawayisit]

quazzie1 Here's the link kzbin.info/www/bejne/rnjCiqd3iN9qnbs

[@Quazi-moto]

Very cool! And many thanks for the notification, good sir. I'll have to watch it later as I'm sick as a dog and can't concentrate on such heavy subjects at the moment. Am looking forward to learning, though!

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This was very well presented indeed. I liked the straightforward explanations and the helpful animations that made this complex subject a lot easier to understand. Thanks, subscribed.

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[@americalost5100]

This is a really a phenomonelly well done straight forward presentation. Nice historical approach capable of being understood by the interested layman without over simplification or sacrificing scientific accuracy. I liked especially how particles are read or identifyed in cloud or bubble chamber -- not something laymen-oriented shows like this often cover. After finishing this series, I'm definitely checking out the how Far Away Is It series.

[@derfunkhaus]

The tiny size of the neutrino is mind blowing. He says that it is 140,000 trillion times smaller than a human hair. So if you scale up a neutrino to, say, 1 mm, then a human hair would scale up to just a little under 87 billion miles. That's about 935 times the distance from the earth to sun.

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the breadman I think they said if you scale up a Planck unit to the size of a grain of sand 1mm diameter, a grain of sand would be the size of the observable universe scale up as well. In another word a grain of sand is about 1/2 the distance between the observable universe and a Planck unit (size)

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The thing I want to know is HOW they measure particles that small,

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I would love to see an explanation of what happens when a hydrogen atom loses an electron and become a free proton. What does this transition look like? It would also be wonderful be able to see the moment a free neutron decays into a proton, electron and electron neutrino and how that might look in three dimensional space. This must be something that can be modeled in 3d? I find your videos absolutely fascinating.

[@howfarawayisit]

When a hydrogen atom splits into an electron and a proton in a cloud chamber, we see the signature of the negatively charged electron and the signature of the heavier positively charged proton springing from the point of separation. That would be two spirals in opposite directions.

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Marvelous series which took a lot of hard work. I got the Radium to Polonium decay cycle, but always thought that the half-life of Radium was about 1500-years rather than five days? I own some old radium-dial time pieces, and although they no longer glow because the zinc oxide has long since deteriorated, the Radium 226 lume is as ionizing as the day it was applied.

[@howfarawayisit]

+mnpd3 Good point. They used Radium E. It is now known to be an isotope of Bismuth (210) and not Radium at all. Your watch will continue to glow for a long time.

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Returned, yet again, to Dr Butler's wonderfully engaging channel designed for laymen. And super music, too! Beethoven's pastoral symphony amongst others.

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Literally the first three minutes should be blowing everyone’s mind. The fact that neutrinos are passing through...well everything, all the time...should be amazing to everyone, from the God Tier Physicist to the young child

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So your mind is blown by the fact that visible light is passing trough the atmosphere and a good amount of clear water? It is blown by the fact that seismic waves can pass trough the entire planet multiple times?

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@@schmetterling4477 yeah man that shit is cool as hell. Don’t let your sense of excitement die- it’s much more fun to be excited about this stuff :)

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