Detecting ANTIMATTER in food - DIY Gamma spectroscopy

[@khalidian]

Me: I want antimatter. Mom: We have antimatter at home. Mom finally makes sense.

[@justaguy0082]

Thanks for this comment cowboy skipper

[@shimmerite_ua]

Mother knows best

[@fawzanfawzi9993]

Well, this overused comment is actually good this time

[@karmanicisadumbass]

Yes

[@exoplanets]

Haha

[@tomwatts703]

1:51 so....hydrogen't?

[@KingHalbatorix]

Which is different from hydrodjent, a genre of underwater metal

[@lostbusproductions8459]

Yes’nt

[@cavemann_]

@@KingHalbatorix what the fuck

[@admiralmudkip9836]

@@lostbusproductions8459 yesn't

[@comicsansgreenkirby]

@@admiralmudkip9836 you're not being a weirdo for not calling out a totally not reversed word

[@ГуглГовно-м7н]

That sodium crystal you used still had a "Made in Soviet Union" label on it. Wow. I wonder how much old Soviet lab equipment is being sold around nowadays.

[@jasonsummit1885]

Quite a lot actually, the best vacuum tubes for tube amplifiers are ones that were made in the USSR.😁

[@Xnoob545]

I have ussr pliers

[@drenn.]

да!

[@maxistuff7294]

Zasto je gugl govno

[@datonecommieirongear2020]

@@jasonsummit1885 While the other countries dropped vacuum tubes kinda soon once replacement came. Russia kept going and got refined into their vaccum tubes

[@olfmombach260]

Photomultiplier tubes are so great! We calculated the physics behind them once in physics class and it really is mind blowing how straight forward they work.

[@kennethhicks2113]

You understand it well then : )

[@NewMessage]

I expect a homeopathic 'Antimatter Banana Ointment' any day now..

[@ikocheratcr]

but only if dissolved in an ocean of water

[@techman2553]

Great, now I'm hungry for banana ointment.

[@eidolor]

Kinky

[@MsTatakai]

green jelly and viscous banana ? that vicousy jelly is the ointment? might also bee to the skin? nyehehe (─‿‿─)

[@mattfleming86]

Now with .00000001% more antimatter! Call now supplies are limited.

[@GaussianBluff]

This is one of the few channels that genuinely impresses me every time. Sometimes youtube feels like "depth, breadth, intrigue(..ing...ness), pick two" and somehow you managed to work around that. I love it.

[@CraftingRedstone]

3:52 E^2 = (mc^2)^2 + (pc)^2 not pc^2

[@thethoughtemporium]

Woops! Good catch. My bad.

[@nikkothegoblin]

Proof that redstone engineers are the backbone of society

[@Awyang]

@@nikkothegoblin omg😂

[@nicoberrogorry]

And they say we never use Pythagorean theorem

[@SpaghettiEnterprises]

@@nicoberrogorry If a train left New York at 12:00 traveling 40 miles per hour...

[@dougsteel7414]

I went for a PET scan once, and asked the technician how it worked. He was talking about matter-antimatter annihilation as I slid into this huge machine.

[@person318]

I love how good you can explain what you're doing, if only you had taught me chemistry

[@minecraftify95]

its not just chemistry, it's quantum physics, nuclear physics, and atomic physics

[@SpectNorway]

​@@minecraftify95yeah I was about to say that

[@ienjoymeth]

@@minecraftify95still

[@olthdorimirth6055]

You're the best crazy we'll ever have.

[@exoplanets]

Haha

[@dickJohnsonpeter]

@@exoplanets the

[@LlLYEVE]

Our psycho is better than your psycho

[@danielaraynes]

No Michael reeves is

[@geoneo6013]

Dam straight

[@nathantron]

I eat antimatter for breakfast. Good to know I'm a badass.

[@tuesdaywithanh]

You already contain antimatter, you were always tough

[@Overkeyboarded]

uhhh.......... why

[@walker9192]

Lol

[@silver_3552]

I literally just gave an exam about basic nuclear and subnuclear physics... This didn't teach me anything and i'm happy about it ... I mean, the video was nice and i'm happy having seen this, it's just the feeling you get when your many hours of study show that you really have learned how things works

[@Thepiecat]

So hypothetically, can we have positronics? What are the implications on EM waves..?

[@bananek1208]

@@isma4509 Fatherboard?

[@crackedemerald4930]

Antimatter is really boring, it's just normal matter but racist.

[@switchamafuck78]

Yes, if there’s anti-protons, there will be anti-waves

[@gqh007]

@@switchamafuck78 but are there anti-antis?

[@WanderTheNomad]

@@gqh007 That's just

[@alexlandherr]

At 11:38, I would have named my detector “I decay in your general direction! Your mother was Protactinium and your father smells of Radon!”.

[@georgeb2160]

Alex Landherr is that from Monty Python?!? I just watched that movie last weekend!

[@julianl.109]

George B yes

[@jimleane7578]

@@georgeb2160 monty python at its satirical best. Hamster=whore, elderberry wine= drunk.

[@mommylefttogetmilk]

We are the knights who say URANIUM

[@esquire1229]

@@mommylefttogetmilk Nope..We are the Glowing Knights that say Ne! ;)

[@4n2earth22]

17:24 Next time: 1.) Wrap the T-Tape first layer around the cylinder circumferentially to cover the sides of the cylinder. 2.) Then, put one circumferential layer of double sided tape partway down over the top of the first layer. 3.) Add the layers to cover the end plane of the cylinder, the double sided tape will hold the ends of the radial end layer. 4.) Easy-Peasy.

[@kennethhicks2113]

Or buy larger sheet of teflon instead of plumbers tape ; )

[@risingSisyphus]

Sweet Jesus, Pooh! That's not honey!

[@Videohead-eq5cy]

That's weapons grade yellow cake Uranium 235!!

[@ericlotze7724]

@@Videohead-eq5cy Cody'slab has entered the chat

[@y33t23]

That's honain't!

[@notbill202]

That’s an antimatter-matter annihilation!

[@youretheai7586]

It's a honey bucket, Pooh!

[@xM0nsterFr3ak]

with every video you prove, that you are one of the best science channels on youtube!

[@iSuchtel]

There is a lack of positive comments here. Dude, just so you know it - thanks! I really love your videos and by now your projects are pretty much on the same level as Applied Science's. I mean the fact that you guys work together shows that. Keep it going, im binging your videos as soon as they come out no matter what.

[@markzockerzwerg8997]

β− decay of potassium-40 to calcium-40 also produces antimatter: electron antineutrinos But good luck detecting that.

[@jopr6496]

They tried, i think in Japan or China. It looks amazing

[@L00PdeL00P]

10:21 and that is the scientific terminology for wrapping bicron in tape

[@seattlepunkgaming3825]

Thank you for doing experiments like this. Mind blown.

[@NoraHyrule]

The begining of this video is just "I may be crazy but I'm not insane yet"

[@Mireaze]

I should have watched this before eating that banana

[@valterkaugust8511]

Rip

[@Quazex]

Bananas are great and nobody can change that for me, make homemade banana milk by just putting banana and milk in a blender, it's fuckin great.

[@daedreaming6267]

I am saying fuck it and making banana bread. In fact, here's a recipe:125 grams all purpose flour 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon baking soda 114 grams salted butter (softened) 101 grams white sugar 110 grams dark brown sugar 150 grams mashed bananas 2 large eggs 2 teaspoons vanilla 125 grams chopped walnuts Add all the shit together and bake for about an hour to 70 minutes, ovens vary.

[@brocksamson3282]

your body already contains radioactive potassium. It is one of the main sources of radiation you are inevitably exposed too. potassium is a vital nutrient for many cellular and neurologic functions.

[@valterkaugust8511]

@@brocksamson3282 rip

[@timh.6872]

A gamma ray camera would be really neat! Assigning the power spectrum to the color spectrum and then arranging the detections correctly would be tricky, but doable. It'd kinda be like an IR camera but way more extreme. I look forward to it!

[@helmuthschultes9243]

Amazing home physics, terrific that such work is feasible at reasonable cost for an individual

[@Jose-dz8zt]

This is why I love this channel & keep coming back because he actually explains everything he does in the video and it's actually educational unlike other channels. Plus the thought Emporium is always educating us with random things lol thanks love ur channel

[@planetfall5056]

11:00 "Hey do you have the cord for this thing? It needs a special cable called 'Safe High Voltage'". "Oh yeah don't worry, I got a cheap one from China"

[@1997CWR]

All of your content is so next level.

[@kylebowles9820]

Holy shit just when I thought you did something just too cool you do something even cooler

[@Fru1tpunch]

Every new video you post it gives me ideas for my science fair projects

[@andrewhamop6665]

Loved this video, would be kind of scary if you didn't know how small the amount of emitted antimatter was. Question, when are you gonna revisit NOAA and Meteor? I'm in the process of trying to capture and decode Meteor and am having some issues.

[@ShaneClough]

I'm the head of a radiochemistry lab in Australia where we have 9 HPGe Gamma spectrometers. When I went for the job interview there a while back, the at the time lead physicist went over the different counting systems and showed me one of the typical gamma spectrums. I was amazed to see a 511 keV peak so clearly, as it is in effect, indirectly measuring the existence of antimatter. Even with no samples in the detectors we always see a clear 511 keV peaks in the background due to single photon escape events from the surrounding castle material. Even thought I see them every day, the idea behind what we're actually measuring is still so cool to me.

[@prithviquantum3777]

yo this video was quite amazing im glad i joined the channel we really need fund these kinds of people instead of mindless crap on the internet

[@calebkrebs3358]

Just the few 10 seconds in the beginning was enough to make me like the video.

[@erdem--]

6:13 AvE's safety sticker. OMG

[@jafinch78]

Awesome seeing more of the spectroscopy work with not overly detailed physics math. Very clearly simply explained. Surprised you didn't do a more frugal cost effective detailed build of the... well... I guess two basic devices from scratch. Lots of great projects for sure though keeps you busy thinking. Thanks for sharing!

[@rayethridge9971]

Excellent presentation as always! Just as a FYI, the "Bicron" is really generically called a plastic scintillator. Bicron, now part of Saint Gobain was a crystal manufacturer who had plastic scintillators as part of their line, but plastic scintillators (e.g. NE-xxx where NE stood for Nuclear Enterprises) were common before Bicron came into existence.

[@nathan92238]

Wow amazing timing on this short, I just did this experiment *last monday* for my radiation detection lab and got to see the the 511 peak off of Cobalt 60 pair production!

[@Fellcracker]

for some reason antiup and antidown made me laugh so hard i almost pissed my pants

[@codylawrence2176]

I heard it all and it felt like an hour of content,my brain is buzzing and it put me in a state of meditation and almost sleep.

[@jansenart0]

Couldn't you make a water-tight, self-contained setup and toss the device and its connected source into the deep end of a pool to get a better reading?

[@dannypipewrench533]

If I am not mistaken, 13.8 feet of water should block most forms of radiation including gamma rays, so if we can talk the city pool into letting us do it, we should be able to have a pretty well shield set up. Now, just to water seal the instruments...

[@aqdrobert]

Kirk: I need warp speed now, Mister Scott! Scotty: I'm giving her all I got, Captain. We're almost out of bananas.

[@PhaseFabrication]

do a video on supersymmetry, how many variations of these fundamental particles are there, i heard of selectrons, spositrons, sleptons, etc etc

[@crackedemerald4930]

These names are getting ridiculous

[@abhilasha9608]

So they really getting slept on?

[@Prefesuersheen]

@@abhilasha9608 lol

[@fernandoflores206]

You're hella communicator... this is frickin awesome explanation, just like one of my college professors!!!!

[@wilurbean]

Is that the Steve sesselmann from Australia that's got a fusion reactor in his garage

[@wolfmangosan539]

Love your amazing brain man 😎 Also killer video again of course .I feel your channel is under rated. 👍🏻👍🏾

[@TheLusus]

Hmm, i spy a little sticker from the one and only "Uncle Bumblef*ck" on your interwebbsmaschine! 👍🤜💪

[@benaguilar1787]

I work in a lab designing and building ion mobility spectrometers. That wire that you used to connect SHV to BNC has a special name in our lab - a universally dangerous wire. Because the SHV connector is rated for much higher voltages than BNC, so you can easily hook the wire up to a power supply for beyond the BNC's rating, and get yourself into trouble. Gave me a chuckle to see you using one.

[@staberas]

everyone : OH ANTIMATTER! me: that pink gamma ray spectrometer looks like an onahole

[@YuvrajSingh-hr9rh]

Ah, i see you are a man of culture as well!

[@csweezey18]

Get out.

[@staberas]

@@csweezey18 from hell ? :D

[@NOCTUMSEMPRA]

This channel is fucking awesome. This is like the 5th video I watch. Tremendous experiments and pedagogical level.

[@dhawthorne1634]

Holy Shit! Those are AvE stickers on your laptop! How have I not noticed this before?

[@CaseyConnor]

Hey Thought Emporium -- just for the record, electrical tape is way less opaque than you may think (at least less so than I thought.) Glad there were additional layers on your detectors! Awesome video, as always!

[@NautilusCL]

Yes, for example put a layer of electric tape on top of a led and you will see that its translucent. Years ago i built a pinhole "lens" for my Canon DSLR and had to use a cooper strip to block the light

[@REDxzak]

i love the AvE stickers

[@davidbergmann8948]

What does A.v.E. stand for? 🍄🍄

[@SkitzyFritz]

@@davidbergmann8948 he's a KZbinr

[@WanderTheNomad]

@@davidbergmann8948 Reddit suggests it means either "Arduino vs Evil" or "Arduino vs Everything". But that was just from a quick google search.

[@davidbergmann8948]

@@WanderTheNomad thank you so much! 🍄

[@ericgulseth74]

@@davidbergmann8948 Ask Uncle Bumbelf**k. His vjeos are pretty snazzy. Kinda like a poor man's This Old Tony...

[@Deqster]

Aaaaand as always, interesting and deep video on this subject ...ANTIMATTER.

[@jefferylubinski528]

Using the double slit experiment for a thought experiment. Could we use electrons to switch quantum charges?

[@SuperRedstoneman]

What do you mean ? What experiment would you like to do ? I don't think the double slit experiment has anything to do with particle's quantum properties like charge or spin.

[@jefferylubinski528]

Just the analysis of scattering. Not sure if compton scattering is applicable here. But lets say we find the super symmetry of an electron can we then use bosons to alter its charge by changing its mass orbital or what its orbiting what ever its axis is. To somehow swap charges. Way out of my skill but im thinking if we can somehow change the charge to positive we could make heavier anti elements maybe.. Or a battery that was charged with negative and positive electron positrons.. Again im just having a thought experiment

[@damanifesto]

As a former Nuclear Pharmacist, IMHO this video is fantastic. Great job!

[@battlebadger8630]

Day 1 of slapping bananas against a wall until it explodes

[@battlebadger8630]

@@raved5387 after 2 years of slapping bananas against walls id say the results were inconclusive...

[@Adore_04]

"Fear not, I'm not crazier than i was before" is the best assuring phrase😂

[@crackedemerald4930]

*obligatory Anti-protons should be called negatrons comment*

[@dr.rubbertoe7318]

I really like this channel, so many awesome topics.

[@Deqster]

@The Thought Emporium: Hello! I wanted to make a suggestion for investigation, given the current CV crisis, and ask that you take a look at sterilization of surfaces with UV light. There are a lot of grossly inaccurate marketing campaigns on amazon and ebay advertising UV bulbs. Among the ridiculous claims, for example, are bulbs with a specified wavelength of "UV Light", that UV in the above ~200 nm band produces microbe-killing ozone (sources I find say it doesn't), and in some particularly bad cases that black-light spectrum bulbs are "germicidal". Can you take a dive into this topic?

[@unkown9081]

agreed. it should be investigated

[@leocurious9919]

"(sources I find say it doesn't)" You have sourcves that say that UV is not capable of breaking the Bond in O2, thus letting O3 be formed? Please let me see that. O2 is photolyzed by light of 241 nm (or lower), since it has a bond energy of 498 kJ/mol. Any quartz UV-Lamp will do that and you will smell that.

[@tonyd6853]

most exciting video on this ever. excellent delivery

[@y33t23]

Everybody is asking what antimatter is, but nobody is asking how antimatter is

[@TheJackOfFools]

I'll do you one better: *why* antimatter is!

[@photonicpizza1466]

Man, I sure am not tired of this joke after seeing it for the hundredth time

[@Lethaltail]

That "Horrible diagram" sticker on the laptop is perfection.

[@Lethaltail]

@Deborah Ajao I do mean optical illusion. I was confusing the sticker with another drawing that had a bunch of intentional flaws that you would progressively notice the more you stared at it

[@ericgulseth74]

I see Sally the Safety Goat made an unnanounced inspection and made you install your safety placards...

[@justinfernandez1156]

Actually, her name was Prudence

[@ericgulseth74]

@@justinfernandez1156 Good catch. Sorry Uncle Bumblefack...

[@Neptunium]

great video my friend! glad i`ve covered it in deeper details earlier ! keep it up!

[@kubeek]

4:16 kilo is a lower case k

[@photonicpizza1466]

@@solchapeau6343 Not really a matter of personal agreement, it's a well defined standard.

[@morganhulstrom8552]

You are a mad scientist and people think I am lying when I refrence videos.

[@floofball8905]

But what if we make an atom with the use of protons, neutrons, and electrons, AND their anti-counterparts, all in the same atom?

[@quantum_chezburger2279]

A n n i h i l a t i o n

[@raiden5181]

an explosion that will be around 20 millions bigger than earth (random number but I think its pretty close)

[@stefanraul2070]

Always entertaining and educative! Keep it up!

[@cursedcat6467]

Imagine we discover intelligent life but they’re made of antimatter 💀

[@ruixff498]

Kaboom

[@generallyobnoxious2722]

Or worse yet, we are the antimatter.

[@fenrisulfr3558]

I missed so much this channel

[@demonickiller6315]

Imagine colonising a planet in the far future, the crew is just about to touch down and BOOM annihilation. (atmosphereless of course)

[@wtfdestroyerbob8913]

Damn i love your Videos. They are way to underrated

[@Nyarmith]

I feel your titles might repel your indended audience.

[@Palladiumavoid]

?

[@IndigoGollum]

How so?

[@eigengrau7698]

i came from your 2016 videos about breaking down the plastics... so curious about it

[@ThySirBlue]

“This Contains AniTwitter” I need to go outside

[@TOASTEngineer]

No don't

[@krzysztofbandyk168]

*Please don't*

[@emperortbw402]

#StayTheFochHome

[@daedreaming6267]

But that's how you'll catch the Rona.

[@x86_architecture10]

2:34 Fun fact. Bananas contain very tiny traces of K40 (Potassium 40).

[@Scrogan]

Shouldn’t that be “E^2 = (mc^2)^2 + (pc)^2”?

[@negan2714]

Found your channel from recommended I'm lost through most of this but its interesting.

[@scorpii2650]

Imagine eating a banana and your whole body turns inside out and explode with the power of a negative mass.

[@sudochmodx3752]

antimatter has mass though EDIT: negative mass would be exotic matter

[@henryD9363]

Excellent! Talking about potassium decay, about 0.9% of our atmosphere, argon 40, comes from decay of the significantly large amount of potassium in Earth’s crust.

[@sofia.eris.bauhaus]

when you're told not to be so negative: K

[@Litepaw]

Damn it sucks how legitimately polluted the world is.. That graph from the Atlantic salmon has such a massive peak for Cs-137 and it really bums me out.. probably because of chernobyl and decades of nuclear tests

[@camerondrew9402]

Spoiler: Everything around us and in us is in fact anti-matter. The fancy hydrogen they made was matter.

[@samshuijzen]

Thorium-the thing things decay into- ok, thanks for helping me to understand what thorium is.

[@eolgrillo]

It's a radioactive metal, there's a thing called Google (unless you have Mozilla Firefox) that'll tell you what it is.

[@SelectLOL]

First :)

[@davidbergmann8948]

Haha

[@SelectLOL]

@@davidbergmann8948 Nice

[@captainmeowmeow2405]

no shut the fuck up

[@SelectLOL]

@@captainmeowmeow2405 Bruhloon whats wrong

[@teaneggs]

This is basically how PET scans work but with different tracers like fluorine-18

[@markosunka1469]

My guy I love your videos I feel embraced for doing two majors and being attracted to multiple fields So in a way, your videos give me reassurance

[@miklov]

Very interesting stuff! Glad you are sharing =D

[@da54177]

Loving the AvE stickers on your laptop!

[@Tastywall1]

i love how the title looks like a clickbait but you just start talking science shit that i actually understand!

[@XenonG]

He who controls the Bananas/Spinach controls the universe!

[@marlor4637]

I have no idea what this man said, but I loved it

[@callummartin5481]

Nice to see im not the only one with the Ave std contractors sticker on my laptop! perfect place for it

[@jcwdenton]

Clip loaded with knowledge, sweet as always.

[@mylow89]

any1 else confused to why he put a pic of old Toronto (before it doubled in size cause the world moved in). still gave is thumbs up for the nostalgia.

[@swabianscience]

I've got a gamma spectrometer myself and was thrilled when I saw the nice "annihilation peak" at 511keV for thorium, but you should be careful: For uranium and potassium, the peak is much smaller. Of course, they both put out less energetic gamma rays than thorium, but it was suspicious to me. Turns out, thallium-208, the element that causes the giant high energy peak with a 99% chance, also puts out a peak at 510.77keV with a 22.6% chance. Considering the 583-Peak is clearly seen right next to it at 84.5% chance for Tl-208, it is reasonable to assume that most of the peak is actually from this gamma line and not an annihilation peak, although part of it probably is. So take that peak with a huge grain of salt!

[@oliverkeller2342]

zockertypxl good catch! I’ve got a similar suspicion about the low energy thorium peak in the previous video about the bracelet EDS spectrum

[@thatoneguyinthecomments2633]

Damn thats impressive as fuck, been in training to be a radcon tec and this is honestly insane to do at home for just shits a giggles. This channel is honestly at the cutting edge of citizen science, keep up the awesome work. 👍

[@1.4142]

looking forward to the next video!