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[@ROBOTICGAMINGYT]

What this channel was and what it is now 😕

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I think it's pretty great!

[@Nick12199]

Facts

[@okayxdumberx]

​@@NoName-rg3np unpopular opinion. Sry

[@joualavedra1208]

Literally the same

[@ROBOTICGAMINGYT]

@@joualavedra1208 nope…videos aren’t regular anymore…no simple and actual life hacks anymore…no mini metal foundry fun anymore

[@trollingpatroll7196]

seeing how much fun you both had with this video and experiments is so nice, i wish i had friends i could do stuff like this with, it looks fun, and hearing you both talk and be exited and intrigued by spontaneous synchronisation was very nice and also made the video have a warm wholesome feel, great video, im now interested in spontaneous synchronisation now, its quite cool

[@russq7342]

bruh this aint even king of random any more this is just straight up 5 mintute crafts

[@AlphaWolfPlayz]

I really miss how this channel was just a year ago. Slowly just giving up

[@pumkin610]

Fair enough

[@TheKingofRandom]

Sorry you feel that way. We certainly are not giving up though. Hope you come back around soon!

[@bilalmalik5002]

@@TheKingofRandom Aww.. keep trying. I hope you land a nice audience again soon

[@dirtbikebandit7567]

Really sad what a great KZbin channel has gone too

[@CDXRK]

I was just thinking the same, kinda regret coming back n looking tbh

[@lotlshot1420]

Fr bro

[@saitamacraft5322]

Wait what has it gone too? If you mind informing me 🤔

[@robinnicole4466]

😭

[@tonyross101]

That's hilarious thats the first comment I saw

[@drgooslord7472]

This channel really had a down fall after the original guy left

[@matthewlytle7753]

He passed away in an accident, and the second guy left a few months ago I believe

[@NJBeemaster]

My favorite is when both my and the car ahead of me have our turn signals on and neither have the same tempo - within a minute (if only for a few seconds) we sync up perfectly. If we are there long enough, it will happen again!

[@TheKingofRandom]

YESSSS That is the best! I am not sure if that is spontaneous synchronization, it might be but I'm not sure. I tried to google it and see if someone could verify that it was but I couldn't find the info so I didn't want to provide false info/ be wrong. - Grace

[@timlogue9414]

Use empty cans full cans have liquid which acts as an opposite force Then don’t use a huge board use something smaller and thinner because it takes a whole lot more energy to move the board then say a board Half that size and empty cans with sloshing fluid

[@leonzantvoort6201]

A nice topic. I also used to swing, of course playfully, and therefore never noticed this effect. Nice combination of things. Where has that cyclist at 11:10 suddenly gone. Strange when you see someone just disappear.

[@dylanbarke7320]

Noticed that horrible frame jump as well lol

[@JessTheTrans87]

The Mythbusters already did this experiment with the metronomes, it's pretty neat.

[@RichardHopkinsLobosSolos]

Yep, and at one point they went very extreme with it. By extreme I mean as many as they could fit on a air hockey table.

[@JessTheTrans87]

@@RichardHopkinsLobosSolos Oh I know, I grew up watching it and I also have Discovery+ lol.

[@eirelavmai]

@@RichardHopkinsLobosSolos Hey richard... You have my Dads name. I am a Hopkins too!!!

[@Chemanic1]

I like how grace said she wants to go the playground and not that she wanted to test it on a bigger scale.

[@TheKingofRandom]

I mean... who doesn't love the playground?! 😂😂 - Grace

[@magicalmousers]

That's a neato fun experiment. I miss going on the playground swing too. Just epic no matter what

[@simcityman81]

Anybody else notice the guy on the bicycle disappear right before they sync’d? Connoting a video edit took place

[@jwb22002]

Interesting time I’ve noticed this every single day was with car turn signals, while waiting at a light the cars in front of me randomly sync up with each other for a couple seconds and I always noticed it but never noticed it was an entire theory

[@OEF_Vet_0331]

This is exactly what I was thinking about.

[@HyphenDude]

I would like to see the swing experiment again, but this time, remove the variable of sight and do it blindfolded to see how long it takes to synchronize.

[@charlescurrie7911]

Yeah subconsciously shifting your weight to match pace with the other is a real thing.

[@foster2784]

And hearing

[@HyphenDude]

@@foster2784 Excellent point.

[@doubledarefan]

And put a wall in between the swings, to remove the possible influence of air currents caused by the swinging. Be sure the wall is independent of the swing set.

[@juliettaylorswift]

@@doubledarefan and adding wall removes need of blindfolds

[@PugCuber]

I’m quite fascinated by the concept of spontaneous synchronization. I’m a big fan of Steve Reich, who is a minimalist composer, who in his early years used a technique called Phasing. It’s when 2 people play the same thing starting in unison, and over time, one person gradually speeds up slightly until they’re one beat ahead, and the cycle repeats until the players are back in unison. It’s really really cool.

[@michaelsullivan3749]

equal and opposite reaction, that's so cool to see first hand.

[@whatweather]

This was pretty tight and a step in the right direction.

[@Richie016]

studying the contrast between relative bodies participating, in playing outdoors explains the energy, of the overall system in observation.

[@KW-qt6df]

Grace is so funny 🤣 🤣🤣🤣 thanks!!! for the video guys keep them coming!!!

[@marktegrotenhuis]

The clocks on the ship were actually suspended from a beam hanging on a single rope. This was to prevent the tilting of the ship caused by waves disrupting the swinging rhythm of the pendulems.

[@simonashtear2739]

"What causes bridges to collapse." Is this the same principle at work in Nikola Tesla's earthquake machine? There's a story I read in a Tesla biography of how he set his earthquake device on a bridge, and within a few hours, it started shaking as if it were about to collapse, until he removed it. And it was such a tiny, inconspicuous device. It was also responsible for bringing down a building. Of course, this could all be an exaggeration.

[@jakemakes]

dunno but now I want to build one

[@doubledarefan]

Sounds like something a kid would bring to school for show & tell.

[@jakemakes]

@Al Daniel Jumilla lol XD

[@spa5e]

This is the content im looking forrr!!😩

[@eirelavmai]

This was a really great one! I enjoyed graces over-explaining this time. Sometimes it can be too much but this was just the right amount. Very fascinating. Much better topic than what I've seen lately here. Nice progress.

[@TheKingofRandom]

Thank you!!! That means the world to me! Thank you for watching and for the positive support! I am learning and growing with each video we do!!! - Grace

[@eirelavmai]

@@TheKingofRandom you are so fun to watch and you show such a positive attitude towards learning. Keep up the great work! Excited to see what’s next!

[@M1lpil]

Hi :)

[@eirelavmai]

@@M1lpil hi :)

[@gregk1556]

Am I the only one who realized the edits of the swings?

[@rumingjiang9645]

what's with the hidden cut at 11:10??

[@duckydan7897]

Try adding some amplified sound frequencies to different areas and see if something different happens.

[@BenTvHowman]

This has always fascinated me

[@dem0nicempire881]

I love her personality and excitement

[@anthonyadverse4449]

Ok, so is it really synchronisation, or a temporary matching of oscillations over a length of time.... ?

[@Desnes7]

Exactly

[@UtopssAKAPJ]

spontaneous synchronization is so cool

[@liliusiiiudtohan8264]

i stopped watching because there was no more a certain red haired girl and a skinny man on TKOR

[@dylanprince4446]

Same dude

[@Digital-Dan]

The math is even more fun. Lagrangians or something, as I recall. I wish I could remember any of it.

[@Desnes7]

Also vibrations are frequencies, which have time intervals. Meaning all will "sync" at some point.

[@TheTubejunky]

Everything is energy which has a frequency. Quantum mechanics is the spear tip of this.

[@rockygoyal3598]

Anyone from veritasium channel, and felt like it's already in our knowledge and well explained with great examples in the video from veritasium

[@ivanveras1724]

I feel like this also applies to turn signals on a car

[@writingteams6641]

I think you should try freeze drying sugar, also I’ve never tried it

[@brianhite561]

This also happens with turn signals if people actually use them

[@TheKingofRandom]

We wanted to show that in the video but couldn't find enough people using them...👀

[@ryanpalumbo8772]

I saw a vehicle last month with a turn signal perfectly synchronized to mine over the span of 3 minutes or so. It was the first time in my life I'd seen that.

[@Pugjamin]

@@ryanpalumbo8772 why did you have your turn signal on for 3 minutes?

[@zhehui]

Huh I wanna know did you use empty cans? They didn't seem empty when you placed them.

[@johnbennett1465]

The fact that they don't lock in a single pattern says that they are not truly synchronized. They are going at slightly different speeds and are messing with each other to cause partial temporary syncing. The best thing to change to get full synchronization is use a much lighter board.

[@baleylavarta2573]

Oh to the minutiae of kinetic energy. And the parasitic abilities of potential energy. I think both the domino effect and butterfly effect apply here.

[@ChrisReise]

You're not mentioning the variable with the metronomes. The fact that they all might NOT be set at the EXACT same number of BPMs. You could have 1 at 110bpm another at 110.1, then 110.15 etc. Plus you wouldn't be able to get an accurate reading on the swings either. Just the simple fact of holding onto the chain during the swing so you don't fall off, CAUSES a BIT of acceleration.

[@digitalnorp890]

Bro graces energy is on another level

[@TheKingofRandom]

Hehe, Thank you! - Grace

[@johnnytee911]

Shoulda swinged in opposite directions. Would you sync up then?

[@ureviltattooartist]

When I was younger and I was on the swings, we used to say if you synced with some one you would have to get married and usually you would get “married” to some one you didn’t like.

[@skyender8353]

Imagine your just at the part and you see two adults just swinging on the swings trying to Synchronize. I love this kind if experiment though!

[@Gagglewarrior]

Like honestly your beautiful Grace

[@user234ization]

so this is why my cammed car has 2 difrent tones in iddle

[@justinweatherford8129]

You should have had someone named William doing the swing experiment with you. If you had then you could have called it a William Penn dulum. Lol

[@shareeve7597]

*TÚ PRRESSTO!* 🤌🏼 3:21 keep replaying at that~

[@vstrange4757]

you should make a sword from bb's

[@baleylavarta2573]

Did you just state or by comparison say that a swing set is nature?!!! 😂

[@cesspool1676]

This is like the 6th video I've seen on this topic.

[@dxk2393]

I would like to see testing different slingshot ammunition but test weird things like nails

[@TheKingofRandom]

This sounds scary 😂

[@EroticWatermelon]

This MythBusters episode was the absolute best one!!

[@skylarburke7019]

As a kid I used to watch the cars ahead of my moms car in the turning lane waiting for the blinkers to all synch up. 60% of the time I would catch it and it was always satisfying

[@eroraf8637]

You mean I’m NOT the only weirdo who does that?!

[@skylarburke7019]

@@eroraf8637 nope! Weirdos unite!!

[@Digital-Dan]

Co Ink Ee Dink. There are no conceivable coupling forces between them. If blink frequencies are near-equal but not exactly, then any pair will temporarily appear to synchronize. Once in a while even multiples will be close, but they will inevitably drift apart again. True synch does not occur.

[@AlyssaNguyen]

@@Digital-Dan I'm glad *somebody* realized that.

[@skylarburke7019]

@@Digital-Dan I guess my question is: is true sync considered equilibrium?

[@sgud6444]

Can you dry things in a vacuum

[@M1lpil]

When I'm at school at P.E. I get on the swing and sometimes I'll be in sync with someone on the opposite swing set. HOW!!!

[@hanswerner2946]

I recognized that the breathing of my wife and me in bed when we try to sleep is synchronized

[@fasfan]

I wonder if the mass of the board is a factor. There's a lot of inertia in that board.

[@TheTubejunky]

This is also true for playing the lottery. (Numbers are reoccurring units) If you play the same number over and over and over again sooner or later you will win BUT it may take lifetimes for that to happen!

[@prasanthkumar2142]

Swing experiment setup needs to be modified

[@LawpickingLocksmith]

My sister used to say: At any given time, a million people start to pee at the same time. Spontaneous synchronization?

[@WY_Circus_Freak]

now break this down in regards to a flying trapeze act.

[@MattSimmonsSysAdmin]

Very fun science video. Thanks!

[@dannydanny9875]

Wax on, Wax off.

[@reneetaylor9288]

Having 5 teenage sisters at the same time 6 of us in all synchronized so after a year we were all on our period the same week of the month.

[@eirelavmai]

Wholly cow!! Your poor poor parents. lol.. I couldn't even imagine that. I grew up with brothers and they had a hard time with just my mom and I being the only females in the house. Glad you made it out alive.🍀

[@RhysAndDerek]

FUN! This was absolutely crazy

[@randyerickson2154]

One of us. One of us. One of us.

[@lakree2449]

the intro tho XD

[@TheKingofRandom]

We still hear the metronomes...🙉

[@jdawson016]

Welcome to the hidden impact of quantum mechanics...

[@UnforgivenTrucker]

La Croix....liquid static with a hint of fruit peeling.

[@Chris173972]

These 2 are now swingers. 😆

[@ruthstimetodraw8008]

I love Physics and Science!

[@SuperPaul2006]

Grace needs cookies in her life.

[@echoseanty3680]

I think the plank is heavy that it contricts synchronization? I dunno hahahha I'm not that genius.

[@kingmichealthefirstofroman2278]

This channel ain’t what it has been

[@shinymud7]

I didnt here you explain the cans and board. Why not on the table?

[@jessi8156]

Because it picks up resonance easier than the table would

[@papertowels6136]

Idk if you guys have tried this but can you freeze dry a regular Cheeto and see if that’s how Cheeto puffs are made this random thought came to me

[@CrazyGamerDude17]

I’m pretty sure Cheeto puffs are just made with another ingredient that gives it the fluff it hass

[@adithyasai3473]

Part 2

[@dataplatter]

The swing example is false. You would need the center of mass to be the same distance from the fulcrum, which is hard to do with two different people, in fact, changing the center of mass by moving your torso and legs is how you swing. These differences overwhelm the small amount of force, or just transferred across the beam.

[@swagmasteryolo6259]

Bruh who are these people?

[@CrazyGamerDude17]

What do you mean who are those people? They run the channel

[@swagmasteryolo6259]

@@CrazyGamerDude17 they ain't the original people who ran the channel

[@jst1man]

She didn't say anything, but when the balls on the right side were going, the balls on the left side were synced and I don't think she noticed.

[@WTKB82]

Is that the girl from smosh

[@Gagglewarrior]

You look amazing Grace

[@pumkin610]

How sweet the sound

[@Gagglewarrior]

@@pumkin610 what

[@pumkin610]

I was quoting the song amazing grace

[@darkstarfirestudios4500]

@BearyBoi19 that saved a wretch like me

[@pumkin610]

@@darkstarfirestudios4500 😄 someone gets it

[@Rafale0744]

Fun experiments, but this is far from being misunderstood : it’s a phenomenon that’s part of the modal analysis (vibration mechanics) and is being used in many different fields in order to limit unwanted resonance frequencies for exemple.

[@skylarburke7019]

Like to brevet bridges from breaking?

[@Rafale0744]

@@skylarburke7019 Well, you don’t usually patent bridges because it’s not like you need to develop new technologies to prevent vibrations, usually the go-to technique is to make the sensitive part stronger/ more rigid. But yes, the modal analysis can be pretty important to prevent bridges from breaking.

[@jonathanmordekovich9258]

Why is there a cut at 11:10 ?

[@jessi8156]

Because the time in between wasn't relevant for the video

[@Mr_pumpkin_]

Because this whole video is a lie and they had to edit it to make it real

[@user-qd3gg2es2i]

@@Mr_pumpkin_ it's not

[@carynpinkston1939]

Cool!

[@greedawake]

Grace you can see the same thing on turn signals in a turning lane if it's a long red light

[@bK2pa]

What happened to this channel

[@KNIGHT-RIDER-DODGE-CHALLENGER]

How to make real gold quarter?????

[@KNIGHT-RIDER-DODGE-CHALLENGER]

Do you show me how to make real gold quarter

[@luca-mariokulczynski9159]

how the mighty have fallen

[@braytonewell]

I am actually an epileptic myself, and epilepsy is really not a fun disorder to have.

[@lohithreddy6629]

So cool

[@ok4todd]

Meteorologists are so smart! Good job, Grace. You’re finding your groove. 😁

[@TheKingofRandom]

Awww thank you so much! - Grace

[@uberubermensch]

Fireflies do it on purpose...

[@JonathonBall]

"basically" ugh

[@brianscott3021]

Y’all are over thinking this

[@MrGhoulie]

Is it just me or is grace having an allergic reaction at the park

[@TheKingofRandom]

Yes, yes I was hahah - Grace

[@MzLeOBaBy24]

Put candles and metal and plastic and paper and rubber in acid

[@MzLeOBaBy24]

Put cookies and flowers and bugs in acid

[@MzLeOBaBy24]

Cookies, fruit candy, cotton candy, bananas put in until it almost expires vaccum seal and freeze dry