The Magic of Science

[@benedictmarck5696]

You're not just a scientist but also a philosopher..and that's the best combo if there ever was one. I can see how much the working of the universe appeals to you and you put it ever so eloquently. I've never been a fan of someone so quick ( other than perhaps Michael from Vsauce). You both are assets to social media.

[@Fadin19]

True that sir!

[@shihyuinchew8494]

Scientists are almost necessarily philosophers in nature. The core of science--its pursuit of truth and exercise of logics--is philosophy. The same applies to mathematics and laws.

[@winnieclairefernandes12]

Benedict Marck Ikr?!

[@aurelia8028]

well most of the ancient greek "scientists" called themselves philosophors so i think you'd like them

[@ParaditeRs]

Consciousness is magical. The mere fact that we can contemplate what may or may not be magical, is in itself magical.

[@noahpoppy]

I rather think the opposite, that the unconscious "dreamworld" is magic

[@jraybozy]

"thats better than magic. Thats science" i love it.

[@zorkan111]

I find humor magical. How a particular set of words / messages / sounds can trigger such an intense physical and emotional reaction in people.

[@EdgarTheRaven]

zorkan111 check out Vsauce for video about what's funny. It's great. Even though it's explained very well he also humorously reflected on that quoting: 'analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog - few people are interested and the frog dies.'

[@shawniscoolerthanyou]

What a lovely home.

[@HeliRy]

As a helicopter pilot, I found the process of learning to fly one to be a rather magical experience. Here you have a vehicle with 3 main directional controls (4 if the throttle isn't governed automatically), and every input to just one of them requires an input to the other controls in unison to maintain stability. In the beginning of flight training, you concentrate on the most difficult part... the hover. And learning this is no walk in the park by any means. Because the helicopter is in a constant state of wanting to just slide off it's cushion of air, you have to fight to keep it in place. Think of it like learning to stand on a beach ball.... floating in a ocean. The reason it's so difficult to learn to hover a helicopter is that the changes in it's pitch, roll, yaw and height happen so quickly and yet so minimally that it is totally invisible to the inexperienced. But these changes are linear in scope so if let unattended, a small change accelerates into a large deflection and the trainee finally has something to perceive and react to. So what you get is a hover that looks like a pendulum swing, as under-reaction meets over-correction over and over again. And let me tell you.... it's infuriating. No matter how hard you try, how much you focus, the result is always the same. Then the magical part happens, and for most it takes place after about 3 to 5 hours of practice. Your brain literally rewires how it perceives balance and equilibrium, and it is the most indescribable sensation. Balance is no longer just a function of the inner ear's perception of the forces of gravity. It's almost as if your entire body becomes an array of semicircular canals, right down to your toes and finger tips. And it's only then, only when your brain can perceive these minute changes in balance from the tips of your toes to the top of your head.... that a perfect hover is achieved.

[@xbox7]

Woah I thought that computers helped you hover DAM hovering in a helicopter is harder than I thought

[@HeliRy]

More high-tech helis do have gyro stabilizing systems and/or autopilots in them that make hovering easier, even hands-free if need be. But most have nothing except your hands and feet to keep it right-side up ;)

[@Cyberlightning101]

Where did you learn to fly then?

[@HeliRy]

Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada :)

[@jatexsiron]

I think computers are amazing. Converting electricity into a controllable, moving image is beyond comprehendible

[@lukaskabaciauskas682]

A few weeks to grow strawberries and 5 foot tall sunflowers..? How much fertilizer did you use??

[@tetsuo3673]

+Lukas Kabaciauskas Soil is extremely fertile in some areas.

[@raedessam]

+Lukas Kabaciauskas maybe they have a pets[[

[@fmaz1952]

+Lukas Kabaciauskas a few weeks is vague. A few could be 45.

[@mksabourinable]

This quote also applies to wonder: "The creative adult is the child who survived." Too often is creativity and sense of wonder taught out of us, which is one of the world's great tragedies.

[@ReileyWilliams]

The fact that the brain named itself

[@tigergaj]

Reiley Williams which means it has to get to a point where is is smart enough to percieve itself.................................

[@ZoggFromBetelgeuse]

Derek's Law: "Any science experiment done by a sufficiently curious kid is indistinguishable from magic." ,)

[@AlexLococo]

It can be magical for a grown man too.

[@finnberuldsen4798]

We see that zogg takes his time on quality over quantity. WE ARE STILL WAITING!

[@JonahLanglieb]

I agree with *****, is everything okay over on the videomaking front? I actually have put a lot of thought into your adsense difficulties(have you gotten them fixed?), and what I thought you should do is make a second account and post the videos in both and in the 'doobleydoo' or in the beggining of the video tell the viewers to PLEASE watch the video on that channel. All the people wouldn't convert but then you'd get some money off your, obviously fervent, subscribers

[@bobjames1521]

What an elegant way to make a 1000000 subscriber video.

[@joshuakim4493]

squishy magnets... holy shit, what sorcery is that?!?! lol

[@katew9241]

+Joshua Kim I saw them and just went wtf how why? I pieced it together after a few seconds but still awesome.

[@joshuakim4493]

...it's squishy magnets... they are squishy!!! lol

[@hey7328]

+Joshua Kim small magnetic pieces imbedded inside i guess

[@RebeccaBlokzijl]

Sun that shines through the clouds, thats magic to me.

[@olivierastuces1118]

For me, something that approaches magic is the passion and interrest you are able to transmit to your viewers on subjects that do not seem to have any interrest. You do a very great job ! Thank you for the next generations of scientists you are participating to create.

[@jaidenboucher0]

I'm going to college next year and majoring in physics and I watch this whenever I need inspiration. This is literally one of my favourite videos

[@DamienZshadow]

My algebra teacher shared a fear of his about sleeping and how our brain somehow shuts off our consciousness and we always expect it to somehow turn on every morning. I turned his fear into something of a wonder of mine. Every day I wake up I am perplexed and amazed that I still exist simply because my perspective actually momentarily ceases to exist every single night. It really makes it feel like I'm being born again everyday.

[@ika.Sensei]

Light has always fascinated me, and paradoxically, the more I learn about it, the more magical it becomes and the more questions I have

[@spaceface105]

+Taylor Foulkrod Science is the art of answering questions, just to come up with more. This cycle never ends (not in your lifetime).

[@ika.Sensei]

I'd get bored if I ran out of questions

[@loxllollxol]

Friendship is magic.

[@Swifty_cheese]

thank you

[@niceshoot777]

Time is the most non understandable thing to me

[@BrillPappin]

Magic and Science are synonymous, it just depends on your perspective.

[@Falcrist]

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." ~ Arthur C. Clarke's "third law" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke's_three_laws

[@FaKuXXL]

I find the whole universe to be magic and fantastic even after understanding part of it

[@MrYoursoup]

The universe becomes more and more like magic the more you understand of it.

[@metzgerdewsky]

TheTurdBurglar don't you get all deep with me!

[@IMAFIRINMAHLAZAH]

i subscribed within the first 2 minutes of watching this guy...

[@TheGeneralJos]

That is the kind of passion I wish to see in anyone about anything. I live to hear the stories of others (and my own) unfold

[@mindstormmaster]

Gravity is magic. Magnetism is one thing, oriented atoms all wanting to align with each other. But mass just wanting to be close to other mass? That's magic.

[@Dsworn]

Honestly youtube videos just like yours are what got me my curiosity back. Thank you. That is all I wanted to say.

[@PontusWelin]

When you talked about magnets and how they are the magic of science, I got chills and teared up a little. Just the thought of the beauty and mystery of the world. And of how incredibly lucky we all are to be here on this beautiful place we call Earth. Thanks for the reminder! :)

[@donehued]

The ideas of the standard model, particle physics, and particle interaction tare magical, quite simply because it's amazing to learn about and understand.

[@zaklembarra6137]

This video has got to be one of the greatest 1 million subscriber videos I've ever seen. Great job!

[@ehazgro10]

I work for an airline, and what never ceases to amaze me is watching these huge aircraft, carrying tons and tons of fuel, cargo, and passengers etc. land and take off. It never gets old. It's almost like magic to me!!

[@Listener113377]

please don't lower the quality of your videos. i've loved all your videos so far. all your videos have had some sort of deep meaning / message or question to it and i like it. Your videos have really made me start think.

[@foreseengust]

I remember my 5th grade teacher made us plant seeds in a cup. I was amazed by what grew from a tiny little radish seed, sparked my lifelong love for plants. We need more teachers like him...

[@JonasHopp]

Best 1 million subs video ever. Merci pour l'enthousiasme communiqué !

[@abduloraini6134]

I like how positive you are .. I wish I'm fascinated by these things as you are .. Good for you

[@BarakaAndrew]

Light is magic, Light photons.... reflection by objects to produce colors.. Thats magical

[@colonato]

I just found this channel, and man, you make me cry with this video. Thank you.

[@kawi99k1]

anatomy and physiology, respiration, circulation, growth, thought, digestion.. etc, etc, the list doesn't end

[@kawi99k1]

sight, smell, taste, feel, hearing

[@aessack9965]

Khari Laurent sex, drugs, and sausage rolls.....

[@PnlBtr]

Khari Laurent especially taste

[@SirOee]

Something I'm reminded of almost every week and never can get over is clouds. So massive, flying through the sky... I know how and why they work but looking at them, it's something different and it's beautiful! :)

[@NickErickson]

Gravity is like magic to me. Everything I learned in physics 1 and 2 and continue to learn in my engineering classes I'd like magic also. Crazy how science works!

[@NickErickson]

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[@PramitRoy]

Thanks to you Derek, you brought back my childhood memories of magic days. To me from my childhood lots and lots of things I see around were simply magic. A person riding on a bike and it does not fall off either direction.. what a wonder! I was absolutely blown away when I could glow a tiny bulb connecting to a battery with a wire... so many many wonders.. but yes, magnet was like my best friend during my childhood.. when I pulled away a needle tied to a thread from a magnet and see its almost like floating it was so amazing that I kept on thinking about possibilities with magnet for a long long time... at the age of probably 10, I attached a magnet on the blade of a toy helicopter and attached another magnet facing its opposite pole on the other blade and tried to see if the blades rotate.. then kept on thinking about why its not happening.. and that's how I learned Newton's law later I got interested in magnets and started pulling physics books to learn more, got to know about electric motors, a magnificent utilization of magnet and at that age my dream device. Very fortunately I got one tiny 6V motor to do some experiment, and continued to read on physics books at the same time, got to know about fleming's left hand rule. I had a dynamo tied to a cycle tire and heard it contains magnet too. I was wondering how could I utilize an electric motor to do something like a dynamo does.. and then I held the motor spindle to a running cycle tire by attaching a tiny bulb to the motor end points. I was 12 when I saw that after rotating the cycle tire at some point the bulb attached to the motor had shown some glow. It was an utter magic moment to me. Later when I read about Fleming's right hand rule as part of school syllabus I was so so happy that years back I visualized that rule by my own.. So thanks Derek, your this video reminded me of such happy and magical moments of childhood

[@Shiralkian]

There are many magic things in life, but the night sky has to be the best one. Light coming from so far away hitting you in the eye? And you could be watching a star which was long dead before you were born.

[@dan201194]

This is why your so successful and engage with your audience, your fascination for science shows in every video and makes us fascinated with you

At about 3:20, I thought I was tearing up. Turns out it was just the focus. Also, magnets are magic. Period.

[@AudriusBalnaitis]

“Being a geek is all about being honest about what you enjoy and not being afraid to demonstrate that affection. It means never having to play it cool about how much you like something. It’s basically a license to proudly emote on a somewhat childish level rather than behave like a supposed adult. Being a geek is extremely liberating.” ― Simon Pegg

[@tigergaj]

Audrius Balnaitis nice quote I totally agree........

[@immort4730]

Gyroscopes are like magic to me, I still don't fully understand torque or net torque.

[@mdlagreca]

Agreed Jason! I already said that flight is my top magic, but I forgot how dumbfounded I was when I learned all about gyroscopes from Derek

[@juancabeza5809]

Magic for me is drinking different color stuff and always peeing transparent/yellowish!!!

[@pacerodi]

Right! Before long you`ll need a liver or a kidney transplant.

[@SassInYourClass]

Rain is still magic to me. Suddenly, water, in little droplets rather than a sea, falls from the sky.

[@Nemockzans]

in my opinion its not only the quality as you describe it but also the sheer force of your obvious fun and excitement about what yout do that makes out a big portion of the quality that defines your videos. You are awsome in what you do!

[@Krizefugl]

MAGNETS, HOW DO THEY WORK?! But yeah...on the topic: Leidenfrost looks magical to me. I know how it works but it's just amazing to watch and even listen to.

[@wmrustycox]

Your interests and thirst for knowledge at such a young age set you on a path to the sciences. In that, you are fortunate. For most, if not the majority of us, a vocational path at that age, heck even into adulthood is elusive. You are blessed.

[@emmasaunderson445]

I want to become a scientist but I don't know how. :( PS. Love the garden!!!

[@derek]

Thank you! Re: becoming a scientist, it's important to get a formal education of some sort - attend a good college/university, study science, and get involved in scientific research as early and as often as you can.

[@emmasaunderson445]

Awesome! I hope I can do that some day, that would be amazing! Thank you!

[@TheRealBoof]

Emma Saunderson And get connections with scientists who are currently working in their field. Get as many as you can as soon as you can.

[@joghurtmuller3715]

+Emma Saunderson U gotta chose a discipline as well. im a biologist. if i had to chose again id probably chose physics. also consider engineering, if u like to build stuff. very often im thinking aerospace engineering would have been an even better choice than physics, for me. The good thing with physics that it is related with all sciences. also take a look at chemistry. maybe some other ppl can make suggestions as well. when i was little i never realized that a scientist is a very generalized term that involves many different kind of disciplines. even as a biologist, there are many kind of branches, some of them focus on the micro level others on the macro. so what kind of scientist would u like to become?

[@whig3982]

+Joghurt Müller aerospace engineering also called "astrodynamics" these days,i think

[@mileszoltak3144]

All the different sounds... Sounds are magical.

[@miniwarrior7]

Unfortunately it wasn't till I was getting out of high school that everything clicked for me. I could not longer look at things on the surface. every little thing I have to think about and why do they work what makes this and that tick

[@miniwarrior7]

before it was oh that works like that because this person said so or" it just does"... since that moment I can't take "it just does " as a response for anything... I understand that makes some people mad but... FOR THE SCIENCE.

[@NormaJean07810]

The nostalgia when you looked at the garden just after you mentioned being excited to fly back to Sydney.

[@morn1415]

I find it ...magic that time is not absolute, that matter is mostly empty space. And that the matter I consist of is being completely replaced during my lifetime. That makes me question where I am anyway, and where my ideas come from. Basically one could say it´s the universe itself thinking. And the more you know, the more you are aware that you don´t know anything. Since the universe is simple and complex at the same time. Any final truth or something absolute would have been nice ...well, maybe it´s just not the way things work.

[@lumosstar1383]

If the world wasn't complex...what fun would it be to mess around with it?

[@name7251]

Entropy is abolute,the end of all things,the universe is extreamly complex and that is absolute as well,you might say that empty space is not complex but its much more complex than nothingness but even than nothing is absolute over all since if there are multiple universes than they don't obey the same laws of physics our does which mean nothing is absolute but think about it,is that really bad?if everything was pre-written and absolute than we wouldn't have free will but only the illusion of free will,maybe its what we have now,we can't know but from what we learned about the universe so far,the most simple quantum particals don't follow any pattern,they are random,the way we see them affect what they are doing but it also means that we have free will and that is the only thing that is absolute...Other than entroopy its absolute in our universe.

[@purewaterruler]

The speed of light is absolute.

[@hoenigmarkus]

purewaterruler but only in our universe! it might be different in another multiverse! ;)

[@Mrmoocows99]

Markus Finn No. The reason things stay to geather is the protons and electrons send phontons to each other to know what near them so they will stay togeather. Thus you can have your spaceship or what have you can get to 99.9 Repeated precent the speed of light but any faster the protons from one atom and the electrons from another cant recive the photons thus the matter then just falls apart. You space ship is gone you are gone, well not gone but your atoms are no longer togeather =p. Vsauce has a video on it talking about a black hole.

[@Phoenix88.]

"Is better than magic, it's science!"

[@WtbgoldBlogspot]

Congratulations on 1 million subs! Keep changing the world.

[@gustavbay5575]

I still think it's magical how a whole lot of transistors on a small dye can process logical inputs and create the computers we use every day.

[@dropdeadandfly]

Did he take some ecstasy or something? For some of the video he is like Wow! plants! Wow! magnets! ... Good video though

[@blinkanddie3397]

You're so charismatic. I love watching your videos. And you just seem so busy doing stuff all the time. No matter what. I imagine you never sleep.

[@owydiu]

You are one of my favorite people in the world

[@gulamahmed4773]

Same here with the plants and DC motor when I accidentally connect a light with motor and spinned it by mistake when I was 11 year old . I thought that there is a hidden battery in the motor so I broke the motor with stone to find the battery , it was sad that I did not found any and then I started to collect and experiment with number of motors to find the same result. When I asked an adult they used to shun me out saying that I am still small to understand it.. yea that's the adults I grew up around with, from teachers to parents.

[@cadkls]

Mathematics is magic. The way that it is always right, and that you can solve anything with it, and that using basic mathematics you can change everything (wave-particle duality and the de Broglie relation)

[@bssbabu19]

Every new experience is magical for me... I love knowing new things and new thoughts. It just excites me... I loved the excitement with which you explained magic of science in this video...

[@Renanbmx123]

"Books are proof that humans can do magic" Carl Sagan :D

[@wlee55]

I'm a physician primarily because it is a profession where I can always be a scientist AND observe the magic of physiology and psychiatry. Every day I learn something new!

[@nikoskabbadias]

I too was amazed at everything. I too dreamed of becoming a scientist. Until I started reading physics and chemistry. That shit was no fun whatsoever.

[@solaaar3]

+Fevos Man xD

[@Evello37]

+Fevos Man A lot of science requires good teaching. Luckily my biology and chemistry teachers in high school got me passionate enough to pursue biochemistry in college and now I'm starting my PhD and loving it. Any sort of STEM subject can be ruined by dry teaching, though.

[@nal8503]

+Fevos Man Unfortunately you have to find the good stuff yourself. I'm extremely disappointed by what is called "Theoretical Physics" at university (the lectures, they're trash). The Experimental Physics lectures were fun, if the professor actually cared. Maths keeps winning me over though, just can't get away from that invisible yet perfectly clear universe of WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON

[@TheLuckySaGe]

Must be nice to have grown up in a rich privileged not insane family. Most people grow up in shit-holes. I'm just glad that you are not taking what you have for granted and trying to make the world a better place and giving back to those who may not have had the same opportunities as you. I wish more people who have grown up in stable families would give back. Thanks for being a great example.

[@MultiRationale]

Magic? Computers, Displays. How we can construct and freely manipulate these dynamic pictures...transistors, argh! A single motion of your mouse is already so many computations.

[@PrithviSinghhtk97]

I i find magic in how related two things can be , how accuratly every thing happened , every single collision , every reaction , every single breakbown has led me to this moment and how we all share the same reality !!

[@LunarMaira]

The fact that we're all literally made up of star stuff... That's magic to me.

[@thinkbeforeuspeak85]

Or the fact a massive object hit the earth when it was forming and we happen to be born on a fairly cool planet with 90% h2O in a Goldilocks position from the sun?

[@LuxiusDK]

na thinkBeforeuspeak So ... now it's a fact? Not just speculation? Can't wait to see the footage.

[@thinkbeforeuspeak85]

Things we don't experience will always be speculation untill they find hard proof. But this theory is widely accepted since the moon seems to be made up of the same stuff as earth. I won't go in to detail, but there's several indications this is indeed what happened.

[@thinkbeforeuspeak85]

I was thinking evolution is also a similar wonder... We only know of 1% of the species that existed.. Imagine the 99% other beings we don't know of. Or how evolution and natural selection work, together! Or the fact we only understand 4.6%(atoms) of the universe? Scientist call 24% Cold Dark Matter and 71.4% Dark Energy which are other names for 'we don't know exactly' so we call it "Dark".We're only starting to understand the 4.6% and are learning about that percentage every day(think Cern particle collider) Another fact is that we're only discovering planets the last few years, and we've found a 1000+ exoplanets in a short time span. All this leads to me thinking we live in a very special age where our technological advancements are starting to pay off.. I could go on for hours, just learn and enjoy :)

[@cadkls]

Its called mathematics, mathematics can't be tampered with, camera footage can, there is no reason why you should naïvely state that the only real evidence is camera footage. Its dumb and ignorant.

[@gangadharr3524]

I can see a child's curiosity in you when you play with those magnets...

[@haiggoh]

Dude I love the lens you are using. The bokeh is just beautiful? I'm wondering weather you are additionally using blur filters in post or if this look is achieved by the lens you are using

[@TheJCG9]

How energy became structure and matter. That seems magical.

[@MovieCompoundBoat]

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” - Albert Einstein

[@RamsesArmentaTheRamses]

- Bob Marley

[@Phaneendra94]

Yes, when I was a child,I was pretty much interested and fascinated about the magic that science does but as I grew up I could say that school killed my curiosity, they insisted me on 'what to think' rather than 'how to think'. Well, Derek! you've helped me regain my curiosity in science, thanks for that :)

[@ElegantEnsue]

Those squishy magnets are magic!! where can i get some?!

[@achievementunlocked1511]

Here ya go www.inventables.com/technologies/soft-gel-magnet

[@klemmichard8916]

The "plus" of your channel is that it is didactic and pedagogic, and that you have a child soul, always in wonder, always marvelling about new and old, you're a teacher, a good one, and that's why I love your videos. Thank you

[@mrboredj]

I think seeds are the single most amazing thing in the universe. Besides the universe itself. Been trying to think of something better, but just can't. Squishy magnets are pretty damn awesome though.

[@derek]

Squishy magnets FTW!

[@wick9427]

+2veritasium HELL YEAH!

[@nal8503]

+Dustan Jones What if particles actually turned out to be seeds for atoms? Atoms seeds for molecules? etc.

[@cossmmynn665]

The thing that this video is the only video on youtube that made me shed a tear. That's magic. Thank you and keep up the good work! :)

[@clairesun1549]

To me, all of this is magic. Everything. Life boggles my mind, human genius-ness is absolutely amazing to me even though I realise that we know basically nothing. Computers. Personalities. Language. A freaking light bulb. The machines that manufactured that lightbulb. Happiness. Emotions are a mystery to me. Why do the things that make us happy make us happy? Why do we so want to shy on the brink of death, and why do we find pleasure in doing so? The fact that there are 300 billion stars in just our galaxy and there have only been about 107 billion people alive. Eyes. The fact the colour doesn't exist. The fact the sound doesn't exist (in the way that we know it). The fact that we don't know if anything is real. Real. Wtf is "real". Quantum mechanics just makes my head explode. Quantum mechanics really feels like magic to me. It make so much sense yet it doesn't make any sense at all. Existential "crisis" over for today.

[@clairesun1549]

so i just cringed hard

[@markconsidine123]

Until today I thought basically I was the only one who thought things like birds flying, plants photosynthesising and everything in the universe were all amazing. I would always be explaining things to my family and be baffled that they weren't in awe like I was... Turns out I'm just a young scientist. It's pretty cool to realise other people see the extraordinary in the ordinary and know that I'm not just weird! Thanks Veritasium, you're giving me the courage to do what I'm passionate about!

[@dancingdoungnut]

I feel like most kids in the U.S. lose that curiosity at a younger age

[@DoomRater]

I've heard some interesting hypotheses from people who have more education on the topic than I do. Steven Dutch, PhD in Geology, has found the human race at large to actually be conservative. And this makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint. If you change too much when change isn't needed, you risk messing yourself over entirely. However that is precisely how anyone is going to get better. It's one of those humanly counter-intuitive things to actually try new things every now and then despite the discomfort in doing so.

[@uttersqueeze]

Could you do a video on raindrops? Specifically on whether or not there is an impact pattern that repeats, or perhaps it is purely random. I always stare at the rain hitting the ground. To me it looks as though there is a pattern, but it could just be me seeking a pattern. Thanks!

[@jaidenboucher0]

I love this, I've never thought of that

[@JC-je3jc]

Derek, you sir are my spirit animal. The infinitely astounding reality behind the simplest of things is truly something to behold, and people usually look at my funny for acting like it.

[@DJDeadhor5]

Music is magic to me.

[@Rahulrocks1994]

The fact that in one form everything appears to be dust and then you put your intellect in it and it become something such as machines and computers really seems like a magic to me.

[@adriena0]

Life. I did and still do consider life a kind of magic, or a science we can't yet understand (but aren't they one and the same?). How, from the quantum level, from subatomic particles, to atoms, to elements, to millions and millions of cells, to the interaction within and of these cells, to entire systems with delegated functions within the chassis of the body, to *the* body, how does it work? *Why* does it work? Life, or the quality of being alive, is defined by itself! Or even by it's inverse, death. Being alive is defined as "not dead", and therefore the definition of life is just as elusive as the intuitive understanding of it is (at least for me), Sentience is even more perplexing. And time. Time may take the cake here. The propagation of time, at least as we are able to perceive it, seems rather straight forward (no pun intended), but why must time move in only one direction, or do *we* only move in one direction along a time spectrum, while time itself is infinite and flexible. If so, then why? Does time have a terminus? I suppose my question is to some degree addressed by Einstein's Theory of Relativity and the space/time consortium, but I honestly don't have a deep enough understanding of either to quell my thoughts (guess what I'll be researching tonight :). Fire is interesting, too. Reproduction, the creation of life, is something I still can't fully wrap my mind around. As for the ridge between quantum mechanics and classical physics, I leave the diatribes to the physicists, because I refuse to contribute dialectical discourse on a matter which is (to some degree) incomprehensible, not for a lack of knowledge, but because of a surplus of it. And many, many more things. Like sound, and light, and language, and the intrinsic connection between living things, and love, and pleasure, and understanding, and subconscious extrapolation, and conscious extrapolation, and morality, and humor, and dreams, and self-revelation, and I believe, though Google+ has no character limit I know of, that if I continue to write my comment it will become so long it may cause the server to crash. Therefore, I depart. Keep loving science, and finding the 'magic' within it. -Adriena

[@janicedenique3819]

My fiance and I love to watch your videos. Always so delightfully enlightening. I don't always comment on your videos, but you should know that we appreciate that you take the time to bring up the deepest questions that we forget to ask, and take us along for the process of answering them. Thanks so much for all the enriching content and a fresh perspective that is truly scientific.

[@SuperMinepod]

Easter egg is the subscriber total changing when reloading the youtube channel page! 1,000,000 Subscribers!

[@sharjil63]

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooope!!!

[@davidjentjens9239]

tks captain obvious

[@Willem96]

Thank you for making all your videos, I think it's awesome to learn some science beside my school and you make that possible. I realy enjoy your videos and i hope you keep uploading interesting stuff. Thanks again from the Netherlands!

[@vanessagrw]

how we can talk to ourselves in our brain XD

[@mrrcjunk1]

One thing that I still think is a miracle is how music can effect you both emotionally and in some cases physically

[@NorikoUsaken]

I find Ozone magic. The fact that the very fundamental properties of matter allow an unstable element that blocks harmful sunrays to be continuously created by the energy IN sunrays!! and FROM the element all living creatures use to breathe, which is also a component of water, and which is greatly present in a planet with the perfect size and distance to sun for life... wow, that's magic. It's magic that the very laws of physics make life in this universe possible.

[@bansmoth]

that's why I think that if something/someone would create life, it would be by the power of probabillity. Imagine someone with the power to re-create the whole world. that one thing would do that because that world was bad in it's own way. So my theory is that whatever made this world, if it was on purpose from something, that thing is god. If it was not on purpose, god is nonexistent. Because god could be dead for what we know, it's like a science project someone would do and die in the process. If they could create bigbang, they would think that if they knew that the world would expand infinitely, they wouldh ave 100% chance of life being made which also makes aliens 100% likely in another place without having the same technology, hell maybe they evolved to survive in space for what we know they could even be just plants, but in their mind they're observing objects millions of lightyears ahead like us while they aren't since they are just plants and are not even close. In that theory do you think that there could be something quicker or something far beyond our grasp that can see us but we cant see them? That would create power and ability for exploit like we exploit plants back at them. Since we are in a world where we control things but in the plants case, they have no idea like us when it comes to what we know about the universe so far. The worst part is that I don't believe we will survive until then because of higher population aka higher disease spreading, co2 emmissions which rises 2 ppm per year and on top of that the third WW is threatening of breaking out because putin wants the sovjetunoin back which he started with Ukraine. This means that they will maybe use atomic weapons which will kill us all if used since fire one - fire all... but its not the rocket and the boom that kills the whole species, but the massive radiation that will occur later. That is the worst :(

[@tigergaj]

P3ndu1uM according to the bible God didn't have a purpose for creating everything. All we know is that we don't know................. BTW: knowing what you know is very important

[@muddyfox50]

I love you:-) This magic is why I love every day I spend as a gardener.

[@UltraJerky]

Fuckin magnets, how do they work?!

[@SuperMilkytea]

Corn starch was the most magical thing as a child and still is for me to this day.

[@godofminecraft423]

i subd both your chanles

[@tigergaj]

God of Minecraft CONGRAGULATIONS

[@arisverikokkos8572]

It seems like magic the way we forget to live and explore, stay in the same routine and watch life going ahead with us staying behind forgeting to live and finally when are old enough to have some time to think we get overcome with regrets.... i dont want to be that kind of person i want to live i was thinking about it about a month now and u just enstronged my thoughts! Thanks!

[@docopoper]

There's an Easter egg somewhere in there? Aww, telling me is just evil. xD I'm not rewatching a seven minute video.

[@derek]

And no one has found it yet!

[@docopoper]

2veritasium Now you've got me looking all over the video and turning it up to 1080p to see the tabs you have open in that one scene. But I really have no idea what I'm looking for. I wonder if it's something I can not understand as an easter egg or if you basically wrote Easter egg somewhere (which I often do, because Easter eggs are fun).

[@SebastienFrancal]

2veritasium Mousy has already 40 views

[@victorialazareva]

2veritasium Is the egg that white thing on the floor near the pink bucket at 7:00?

[@johnbeatty647]

Was it "where does all that mass come from?" at 1:57