The World's 'Coolest' LEGO Set (Literally)

Our LEGO insulator paper: www.nature.com/articles/s4159...
A world leading team of ultra-low temperature physicists at Lancaster University decided to place a LEGO figure and four LEGO blocks inside their record-breaking dilution refrigerator.
This machine - specially made at the University - is the most effective refrigerator in the world, capable of reaching 1.6 millidegrees above absolute zero (minus 273.15 Centigrade), which is about 200,000 times colder than room temperature and 2,000 times colder than deep space.
This research was lead by Low Temperature Physicist Dr. Dmitry Zmeev:
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More information:
www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/the-...
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CONTENTS:
00:00 - Introduction
00:58 - Lancaster
01:41 - The Dilution Refrigerator
02:23 - The Kelvin Temperature Scale
03:10 - The Coldest Fridge
03:59 - Loading the Fridge
05:38 - Operating the Fridge
06:55 - Warming and Opening the Fridge
07:36 - The Results
09:24 - Credits
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TRANSLATORS:
Chinese (Traditional) - Hsin Hui Chang
Russian - Dmitry Zmeev
Dutch - Ruben Leenders
Spanish - Marta San Juan Mucientes
Italian - Leonardo Forcieri
Polish - Veronica Letka
Hindi (Phonetic) - Saba Khan
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Some more (perhaps less scientific...) LEGO tests:
DO NOT TRY AT HOME!
LEGO on fire: • LEGO Toys On FIRE
LEGO crushed: • Video
LEGO in acetone: • Video

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5:05 What was that sound!!! Ahh yay!!

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The inner child jumping for joy!

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Lego and Physics? I'm in!

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Dude, well produced! The seconds of animation made me jump for joy and reminisce on the old days.

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Proving once again LEGO is top quality.

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I can see why this film won awards. Its great!

[@tridentanimation2981]

That was quite an informative video.

[@starwarsstudio100]

That was pretty interesting, pretty unique as well. Well done!

[@etherdog]

I just listened to your interview on the podcast "Physics World Stories" and I have to echo Andrew by saying, "this is really cool!"

[@SmartK8]

*Skynet watches the terminator movies* *Skynet watches this video* Makes T-1000 out of Lego.

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Have any history buffs noticed George Picket

[@OscarOliu]

I've stepped on many a lego, can confirm they withstand a lot of weight.

[@ee-je7ok]

Wowza we get to meet the man himself

[@nuclearreactor395]

Awesome vid! You now hold the world record for coldest LEGO figure and brick!

[@miabua73]

Casual link to a nature paper. That is brickin' cool. Well done to all involved.

[@neils123]

Read the paper yesterday, and while the math is a bit beyond me, you did a great job explaining your findings and I found it fascinating. Has anyone sent this to the LEGO company yet?

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Wow you went far out for this video!

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Damn this was really good

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Way to go combining both of your (and my) interests like this! I loved this video

[@finnrehal6985]

Came here from Physics World, was not disappointed, at least a 10/10 video (but most likely higher).

[@Chevyman3030]

Man i didn't know that lego can with stand -459.6628°F did lego use some kind of alien tech when making them? Because this has colored me impressed

[@DougCuthbertson]

Brilliant! Well done! That was both fun and informative.

[@jz4163]

I've done this before. I filled up a gas station roof from a toy with water and put a minifigure in it. I then put it in the freezer

[@computersunlimited6481]

Great video!! Thank you for sharing it.

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I’m still trying to figure out how that minifig didn’t explode, or shrink, or expand or something ! This was really well done ! Keep up the good work !

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@Maxx Kroes I guess thats true

[@cjkm4190]

Thanks! This video is awesome.

[@vincepale]

It would be interesting to hear if / how the structure of the LEGO bricks changed with exposure to such cold temps.

[@koaasst]

3:57 your endowment at work lol

[@juliusb.hindert5921]

Thanks for the Video

[@TheO11251]

poor fellow Lego, after all you've done to him, he pooped up at 7:33

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Hope you’ll come back this summer/autumn with a lego animation

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Awesome video

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I just dropped my phone on the floor and this started to play

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How does this not have that low of views

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Thats awsome

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very nice video👍!

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Yay your back!!

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This was good

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It's great!

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Hey can u make a lego police chase part 4? I love the police chase videos!

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🥶

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Nice video

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We have all been tricked by the title. In a good way.

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This is great, but when, may I ask, will you get back to full length animated videos?

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Remember Rob's bad day.

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I'm a long time subscriber!

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My dad thought this video was very informative! (And I did 2)

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sooooo coooool ))

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Cool

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Holy shit 😵

[@mrmoc7616]

Can you make more behind the scenes videos

[@anderssvard3336]

I came here trying to figure out what happen with the plastic in Lego if freezing it for two weeks in -18 degrees celsius. Need to kill of carpet bugs that had established an 80-larva base in an open box of lego that had collected dust (which they love since dust inside a home is 80-90% dead human skin cells). The idea is to freeze the 4 square decimeter lego box for two weeks in -18 degrees C and kill the bugs off and prevent their plans of world domination. I guess I got the answer and -18 will not damage the plastic at all. Or? ^^

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New upload?!?!

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Wait. This is even new at all!

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You're the best

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Nice

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i want the new lego movie now

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are you gonna make more pirate videos

[@SueBobChicVid]

I thought the Kelvin scale had something to do with StarTrek.

[@mahsidivad]

Has anyone tried to observe light under these conditions? Since light exhibits properties of both waves and particles, I would posit a la Walter Bishop that any particle characteristics of light would experience behavioral changes at these low temperatures and these changes might be observable.

[@Harry_Kavanagh]

it took almost 8 minutes to get to the actual point lol

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WOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

[@slendrick]

0 K is unattainable

[@BlackMonkey2k3]

Where were you??

[@-kenny-1806]

Imagine not going to LRGS

[@unblooded]

Still not as cold as my ex's heart

[@angst.]

So what you’re saying is that we could make spaceships out of Lego?

[@HappyDude1]

Was it not more easy to drop it some liquid nitrogen ? Wich is also very cold 😃

[@DimaZmeev]

We did! 2:46. Liquid nitrogen is much warmer than what we've achieved though.

[@HappyDude1]

@@DimaZmeev ow yes i missed it how much can this fridge achieve in celcius :) and how much is liquid nitrogen actually ? and i wonder this machine uses Liquid nitrogen ? but what does it actually do to get even colder ?

[@DimaZmeev]

@@HappyDude1 Absolute scale of temperature (kelvins) makes a lot more sense when talking about low temperatures. Liquid nitrogen is 77 K, while the fridge was at 0.004 K.

[@DimaZmeev]

@@HappyDude1 it's difficult to describe the operation of the dilution refrigerator in a couple of sentences or in a short video.

[@brakoon]

I have tried it

[@Yeahimman32]

Can I have that Lego?

[@petterlarsson7257]

Absolute zero yay

[@TeacherFlash]

This is the moment we lose to Chinese...

[@BernyjackStone]

but the new lego movie where is it

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I uploaded new videos that with the quarantine you have time

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Roses are red Violets are blue I have 1 like But why is it blue?

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0:47 "Actually, you can get a thousand times colder than outer space here on Earth. And for that, we need to go somewhere very special." *Cuts to Lego figure standing in front of a Russian flag*

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But ... no

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100th comment

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First

[@HenrYCl4sher]

Fake the temperature can only get -250 degrees

[@danielfield2570]

What are you talking about, I work with the ULT group as part of my masters and regularly exceed that temperature thrice a week.