Can Humans Sense Magnetic Fields?

[@Eudomac99]

Do you just wander into research facilities at universities and go, "yoooooo, wassup, what've y'all got for me today"?

[@qwiglydee]

Most likely, it's research facilities call Veritassium (along with vsauce and smartereveryday, via secret mailing list) and like "hey, we have cool stuff to share".

[@SlimThrull]

@@qwiglydee I very much doubt it. But, that is WAY more entertaining than what really happens. So that's what I'm going to tell everyone.

[@qwiglydee]

@@SlimThrull well, at least that's how things go with other "youtube influencers" on sponsorship/merch basis :-)

[@gambleKap]

Maxim Vasiliev wishful thinking. they probably reach out when discovering new research or get a video idea

[@UsmanUrRehmanAhmed]

Probably a large part hidden from us viewers is the amount of research papers and articles these channels or their research teams dig into every day just to present us with 'high quality' esteemed content.

[@Nighthawkinlight]

I feel a disturbance in the force like a billion dads just cried out: "we've been telling people about the compass in our heads for years!"

[@NitroJonScience]

Hahahaha I can totally relate to my Dad ;)

[@cryingwater]

why you here? I better not find a magnet video in your channel next time or else...

[@5amiam813]

My dad can hear what song is on his station before he gets in the car in the morning.

[@Odood19]

​@@cryingwater "In todays episode, we will take a look at how I achieved telepathic abilities using only a few magnets, a power drill, and some homemade twine. Though this design is by no means optimized, I was able to achieve fairly good results; for instance, you're thinking about..."

[@cryingwater]

@@Odood19 oh no

[@veritasium]

So the most common question seems to be: how do we know the magnetic field isn't creating this result by interacting with the electrodes and wires in the cap? The truth is that *while the magnetic field is changing* there is induction in the cap and you can see this as an orange blob 10:12 - However after the field stops changing, there is no more induction and this is the time when the response is measured for decreases in alpha power.

[@federic2577]

i think the blue screen depends also with your strong site of the brain (if you are left or right handed) thats because your brain is blue screen CW and no in CCW...it could be :)

[@tiberiu_nicolae]

@Mike Oxlong dude... this is exactly how science works lol.

[@anullhandle]

@Mike Oxlong , why shouldn't it be funded?

[@jonathangiesbrecht5584]

They should definitely try this on blind people, because they maneuver around partly by memorizing their surroundings and maybe relating it to magnetic fields? Animals should be tested as well. 😅

[@marzipancutter8144]

I would be interested to hear how the control group would have reacted, where subjects undergo the same setup without actually recieving any electromagnetic stimulus.

[@joshm3342]

I once had a friend with an amazing sense of direction. When traveling by car to places neither of us had previously visited, she always gave the correct directions (while I was ready to puzzle over a map). Best navigator I ever had.

[@davosholdos1253]

Sun rises in the East, sets in the West, moss grows on the North side of tree. Most tree branches face South.

[@saqibmudabbar]

I love how they are crouching at the entrance explaining neuroscience. 😆

[@miguelrivas4649]

Hahahahahaha i really laughed hard there

[@darkdevil905]

Planes & Planes looks like the premise to half life 3

[@corywarshaw4100]

Crouching Tiger Hidden Neuroscience

[@JorgetePanete]

@@disconneck1363 it's* there's*

[@JorgetePanete]

@@disconneck1363 some* place

[@hendersonlamar]

"And you're sure that this isn't just to make people look stupid?" "No, no, no. That's just a bonus."

[@the_real_jar]

Lamar, you have a beautiful profile picture.

[@davemarx7856]

Beat me by 4 hours

[@ozakrw]

I believe the scientific term is: "Added benefit!"

[@sadakotube]

I hope that they can find an outlier. A human that can really sense magnetosphere and still have that ability retained from ancestors

[@frankschneider6156]

"You don't need a cap for that" would have been the proper answer.

[@dreska255]

"It's Joe's reclining chair, not used for this purpose but it's very relaxing."

[@DaneGilCabrales]

😂

[@vitruvianman7170]

Got it on council pick up day

[@JoeBissell]

can i have my chair back pls

[@turencmpressor4152]

@@adriantcullysover4640 so who polices the youtube police

[@abuslinky]

and a spectacularly ugly bit of kitsch. Possibly the ugliest chair I've ever seen.

[@BettyAlexandriaPride]

After my car accident, I sustained a traumatic brain injury. Now, whenever there's a significant change in the atmosphere, I can feel it without knowing a thing about it. I was in a partial day hospital program and all of us would get headaches and fall asleep during eclipses. I was so frustrated I kept missing planetary phenomena. I'm convinced that our brain being forced to rewire itself after trauma heightens our sensitivity and perception- for better or for worse. What's even crazier is that sometimes the changes can't be captured with our current level of technology, so some are suffering with so many symptoms without knowing the root cause. I hope that we're able to continue more to science and research to advance society in the future. Have a great day everyone. :)

[@edieboudreau9637]

Ditto

[@ericyo1742]

I've heard some people are very sensitive. there are those who can't live in cities and hold cellphones at all because even the slightest waves can give them headaches. I'm still wondering whether there is a special helmet for people like that to ward off waves that enter the brain?

[@Celastrous]

I love all of these consistent uploads, Derek

[@50off78]

Use his name to surprise people who don't know it and personally connect with the creator

[@Tsukiko.97]

The transition from 1:25 to 1:30 is simple but it makes me feel as if I am watching a high quality KZbin TV show, like a discovery channel for KZbin. God I love KZbin.

[@Celastrous]

@@50off78 I just wanted him to personally feel good about making his audience happy.

[@50off78]

@@Celastrous Oh ya I wasn't saying it was a bad thing if it came across that way I apologise

[@TheMuslimMan1337]

Unlike Vsauce :(

[@mr.feghouli403]

When you were sleeping in the car as a kid and you could feel that one turn that meant you were home

[@childofgod4614]

Yep!!!

[@gregknipe8772]

@@childofgod4614 not the guy he was hoping to get and answer from. you name emoji resembles a fresh dog turd.

[@raspberryjam]

I think what you pick up on there is the divot between the road and the driveway, and then the driveway's incline

[@andrewcoleofficial]

Remember they said it is impressed in the subconscious? That's why you only knew when you were trying to sleep, you had access to that ability because you were in a low brainwave

[@shamsports1644]

@@andrewcoleofficial some people on youtube are in a perpetual state of low brain wave.

[@MrBlitzpunk]

> super high tech instrument > Uses stool to hold the door closes Gotta love these guys

[@Jefferson-ly5qe]

You'd be amazed how much sticky tape physics labs go through

[@IMindiffernt]

At Caltech no less

[@Muonium1]

it's really not that high tech at all. eeg has been around for a century and Helmholtz coils another half century before that.

[@ZioStalin]

That's how science is done. Million dollar instrumentation, but no toilet paper in the restrooms because "budget"

[@Gryffon3]

There is nothing high tech about this study, anybody can easily make a magnetic field, all you need is metal coils rotating and current. And really this looks a bit too pseudo scientific for my taste : there are no numbers or averages to see if the effect better than random chance. And the worst part is they will say averages don't work as humans have different "potentials" (like their "gifted" individual). All I can see is that the data from Derek doesn't look better than random chance, and their other exemple was hand picked and not different from what you could get from someone randomly focusing their attention with even an average study group. Not convinced.

[@gordoncouger9648]

We may have lost the ability to sense magnetic fields from not navigating in ways that needed their use. Very few of us have ever needed that. If there are any Polynesian navigators that navigate the Pacific without instruments still alive it would be interesting to see how they did in the test.

[@bendingwarrior1]

I think we can gain skills like this one during one's lifetime. We as humans can accomplish incredible things that we have not been taught in school. The Monroe Institute is a place teaching people these skills and im sure there is more places like it. I would recommend Sean Ryan's interviews with remote viewers and to look into the Monroe Institute if you're interested. It's kind of mind blowing after you review the evidence.

[@billschlafly4107]

It's my understanding that Polynesians navigated by watching the ocean waves.

[@OfficialGOTCHA33]

It was by the stars wasn’t it?

[@Chaos_Nova]

@@billschlafly4107 were you there? so much of human knowledge has been lost to time we don't even know what we don't know abuout the ancient world. If anything, compared to our ancestors we may be more ignorant in terms of earthly connections.

[@enthurian100]

Seems unlikely, as evolutions takes places on the scale of hundreds of thousands of years, not mere centuries.

[@HarmonHeat]

Super high tech testing.... in a 1970's recliner. That's balance

[@MisterRorschach90]

perfectly balanced. as all things should be.

[@TWX1138]

I think that design is older than the 1970s. If you look at visible architecture in the video, the structure is clearly old, and this chair might simply have been present in the building. Alternately it may well be assembled without any fasteners, just tongue-and-groove with wood glue. That might be preferential for a magnetic field test.

[@DeathFrankCore]

399

[@Survivaurbatchev]

The tech present here existed in the 1970's

[@bberllam]

@@TWX1138 exactly my train of thought. It is not easy finding a piece of furniture with out it changing the field

[@CIubDuck]

The 70's flower chair really tied this experiment together

[@TheGoupil19]

Dellluminati, did you listen to the dudes story?

[@fernando.ascensao]

Jesus that guy can roll man

[@wirelesmike73]

Where's the magnetic field, Libowski!?!?

[@sdfkjgh]

It's-a, it's down there in that gravity well, lemme just take another look.

[@isaachilburn5515]

The chair was purchased at the OSH hardware store in Pasadena. We then replaced all the ferromagnetic metal parts (screws, nuts, bolts, etc.) in the chair with nonmagnetic brass parts. I blame the floral pattern on the chair cushions on Joe. However, the chair is quite comfortable.

[@jean-pierrecampbell7880]

What if they check a blind person's reaction to the magnetic fields? Particularly someone born blind.

[@mikemondano3624]

They have brains, too, so, the same.

[@iisgray]

@@mikemondano3624 I think what JP is hypothesizing is: might it be stronger, which could be in line with other senses also being stronger for those born blind. Not "do they have it at all" but "to what degree is there a difference, if any" So, no, not necessarily the same.. though of course, if it's looked into, maybe it is.

[@mikemondano3624]

@@iisgray Senses are exactly the same in the blind (born or otherwise). The storied increased acuity is a myth. Those who can't see simply use their other senses more and become more discerning in their use with the practice that comes with that use.

[@iisgray]

Replace the second use of the word "stronger" with "more attuned." Happy? Coming from a pedant: you're obviously just being pedantic, his/her idea doesn't deserve the condescension you gave it, calm down, and try not to be a dick.

[@sirzebra]

@@mikemondano3624 Increased acuity is not a myth, it's been researched and shown to exist in various cases of sensory-disabled humans. You're not born with a better hearing because you're blind, but as you grow older, your hearing acuity gets much more develloped and much faster compared to a non-sensory impaired human. Having worked with blind and poly-disabled (blind+any other condiditon) i can tell you with certainty that they get to a fully develloped and very precise hearing about 3 times faster than any other kids, and keep developping it for much longer. Their sonic spatial awareness is beyond impressive compared to adults or normal kids, and they also easily measure the distances the sounds are coming from, are often talk about what sound has hit on its way to their ears. We ran a test once dropping random curtains along a long corridor at different moments, and play music at the far end of the corridor. all kids (aged 3->19) were tested one by one, and all of them could tell us if a curtain was present, how far it was down the corridor, with 80% accuracy. Remember, none of them could see. All adults present that day tried the test and none of us could really hear a difference, even one with perfect ear and trained as a musician. They explained to us they didnt really hear the curtains, but "felt" less reverberation coming from the adjacent windows along the corridor, and thus could deduce where the sound was dampened. More training = better acuity, you say it yourself, why do you say it's not real and then contradict yourself ? It would be very interesting to see this experiment done on them. We got blind kids going to normal Judo classes and we all had to admit that the vision has barely any role in balance and other vestibular/brain functions, they adapt to the lack of it naturally and never need visual points of references to "stand" or lean with balance. It's impressive to see in a fight, and some judo members tried to fight them blindfolded "for fairness and curiosity" with very mixed results. Most fell twice as easily while blindfolded, just because they didnt have time to adapt to the lacking sense. A full life of adaptation and mastery of different senses makes your brain wiring and function very different than someone else, even if the "hardware" is the same. lay off the attitude and admit it would be interesting, even only to prove that more discerning humans dont necesarily have a more powerfull "compass-response".

[@bigfoottoo2841]

I am a Amateur Radio operator. Years ago I was transmitting at around 4 Mhz with 1800 watts into my antenna. Whenever I keyed down, I felt a change in my mind very similar to getting up quickly or a moment of quick movement. It only happen that one time. I figured it was RF messing with the fluid in my inner ear.

[@ernestsmith3581]

It's radiation sickness (just like exposure to radium). The higher in frequency and the greater the field strength, the more intense. I first felt it when a tech on 10 m, but most intensely at a tower site where a cellular antenna was leaking RF. My eyes watered, and I got sick to my stomach - classic signs of radiation exposure - until I got out of and away from that building. I don't know of many people aware of it when it happens, but I'm one.

[@rogerpieces7503]

I'm not sure it's the same kind of perception showed in the video. I think your feeling is related to the power involved.

[@badgermcbadger1968]

Nah you just microwaved yourself lol

[@AustralLabs]

Interesting, this is similar to the "jogling" experience I had during a MNR exam on a very powerful machine.

[@nohandlebars35]

7:24 When your parents come check out the giant pillow and blanket fort you built

[@ecicce6749]

This perspective is so funny. I mean he is talking about brain alpha waves and stuff while on his knees looking through that metal thing from below like he is in some cage... Its so perfect hahaha. Imagine seeing only this scene without any context. 😂

[@hat_maker]

nohandlebars35 hahahahahhaha

[@Pinedal]

@@ecicce6749 No way to look dignified when you are on your knees, haha.

[@eac-ox2ly]

lmao

[@Sturzfaktor2]

@@Pinedal Unless you have such an elegant and stylish cap.

[@TangoCharlieWhiskey96]

It’s 3 years later, I’d really like a follow up to this to see if the research has produced anything significant.

[@juuldaddy]

Me too

[@yahiaaymen7876]

me too

[@JudgedMentalMusic]

It hasn’t

[@gytoser801]

@@JudgedMentalMusic rip

[@kibby3164]

I have been through many metal detectors that use a magnetic field and everytime I go through one I feel a "buzz" through my body. Its weird and haven't found anyone else who has experienced this

[@dank6617]

TL;DR: we got the hardware, we lost the firmware

[@steeljawX]

Yay, for Windows Vista. . . I mean 8. . . I mean 10. . . I mean Skynet.

[@Drestanto]

Nice comment

[@amalnarang652]

Well, it should be TL;DS S for see

[@KagoK]

hold up, gotta install the drivers for my magnets

[@waseemyousafzai1150]

Haha.

[@herbieowen3348]

I didnt really know what it was before now, but i personally have an incredibly potent sense of direction. In the past i have been in many situations, both on my own and with others, where i am "lost" yet i still have a distinct idea of "this way is back home" and it is always right.

[@Athaeus]

Their findings will be published in the next issue of Psychology, titled "Manipulation of intelligence: Getting academics excited to wear silly hats and sit in lounge chairs".

[@NathanY0ung]

I read it. It was a good read :)

[@MaxIzrin]

My grandmother could feel wires in walls, up until her forties, then she lost the ability. She can still tell where north is, no matter where she is.

[@hughmann1927]

WITCH!!!

[@MaxIzrin]

@@hughmann1927 Not at all. We checked, she weighs more than a duck.

[@wildbill7756]

@@MaxIzrin you are so wise in the ways of science

[@noname-bt9ky]

Black magic, let’s do the drowning test.

[@deankruse2891]

We know where north is because of the sun/stars.

[@JD3Gamer]

I love how janky their setup was for the experiment. Makes me feel a lot better about my own projects

[@unesco2433]

KingOfGames they have to be the economical because these researches are not guaranteed to succeed a 100% the first time. Hence why they would have to think about how they can make quick changes to improve the experiment and get the wanted result

[@S_Carol]

Most research work looks like this 🤣 for very nearly all the labs I've been in, the real work happens in areas and setups looking like this.

[@HarshRajAlwaysfree]

these are fairly average or even better in my opinion

[@armadillotoe]

Always remember the difference between science and fooling around, is writing everything down.

[@thatguyalex2835]

What are your own science projects KingOfGames? We'd like to hear about them as a KZbin community who are dedicated/devoted to the fields of science.

[@fuocogeneroso]

Thanks for showing this. This is hard to prove, but in the early 2000s with the old bar and flip cellphones I used to be able to sense when the phone was going to ring a half a second before it rang. It was a very strong and confident sensation. I became convinced it had to do with the pre-ring handshake the cellphone tower and the cellphone make. Back then stereos weren’t as well EM shielded and you could hear a ticking sound sometimes before the cellphone rang. But I would know even before that or This would also happen if there wasn’t an active speaker around. However, I stopped getting the sensation after newer phones in the late 2000s started to come out. So, I’m not sure what changed but perhaps it was some kind of subconscious sound related phenomenon after all with the stereos or some EM sensation I perceived, or I just got old haha. Anyways, I don’t have a way to prove this so purely anecdotal. Thanks for listening.

[@bitemeat7509]

You're psychic, develop your skills

[@ManoelNunesOSan]

I have this too. Before it rings there's like a chill in the upper back of my head.

[@Guiboard]

Nice, I like your part about the stereos and the shielding. I had some cheap speakers that I would click or tick when an sms was coming (about 10 years ago). I fully believe in your story.

[@taaskeprins]

@@randomrandomizer That should be easy to test. The same thing is thinking of someone who rings afterwards. Explanation of latter case is that you only became aware of the thinking of that person, because he/she phoned. So probably you think of a lot of persons all the time. Same could be true for all the other "just in time precognitions".

[@nickmeyer238]

Did you have metal in your teeth? Fake teeth can pick up radio waves and act as an antenna. Spies have been caught because of this. Lol.

[@lydiadewberry7328]

My dad could tell what way he was facing inside a mine. His co-workers constantly tested him and he was always correct

[@egomaniac7230]

Sensing magnetic field has no proven correlation to internal compass of someone. This is how pseudoscience is made.

[@Antimateria97]

@@egomaniac7230 Thank you.

[@paideepak30]

My mom could always say which way is north. I tested her in India, in the US and in Switzerland. Always got it right.

[@CleopatraKing]

@@paideepak30 itsnot hard to know where north is.

[@ServantofBaal]

@@paideepak30 Anyone who knows the time of day can tell you where north is if they can feel the sun on their skin

[@mikeclark3045]

I don't know how many times I've read a white paper and wished I could have been there just to watch the experiment and hear what the folks in lab coats have to say about it apart from what makes it into the paper. This is the next best thing. Please make more!

[@megantorres13]

Okay. This is so amazing. My mom & husband (my husband especially) know their directions inherently. I’ve always thought it was so weird & unexplainable to me. We just had a conversation the other day about how amazing of a phenomenon it was & I just can’t believe it. We actually did an experiment where I had my husband close his eyes in a pitch dark bathroom, spin around a few times & then tell me what direction was which & he was correct. Anytime we go out of town, we can be in a TOTALLY foreign place in the middle of nowhere downtown & he’ll know exactly what direction is which. Anyway... you get the point. It’s just seriously unbelievable to me. I can’t even comprehend how incredible it is.

[@thecalendarninja]

I'm skeptical. I can do that too if you don't blindfold me. I doubt they can do that under strict controls. Nobody has ever proven successfully that they can do that.

[@javiercmh]

It makes sense!! I remember I did the same at school and I could always point North. However I can't do that anymore :(

[@JohnDoe-zl6qw]

I mean no disrespect with the following comment; merely counterpoint and corroboration. Those of us who *_do_* have the ability to inherently know direction can’t even comprehend what it would be like to *_not_* have the ability. It is as natural and as easy for us as breathing, seeing, or hearing. I've had it since...well...forever; even as a young child I had an unerring sense of direction that predated being educated on cardinal directions, map reading, and the use of a compass. I can't get lost or turned around; believe me, people have tried. I just assumed everyone had this ability. It's only as I grew into adulthood that I came to realize that not everyone has it. None of this is to be construed as claiming the existence of a sixth sensitivity to magnetic fields. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. It could be multi-sensorial relying on sight, sound, kinesthesia, orientation awareness, and perhaps even a magneto sensitivity; more research is required. Perhaps the mechanism is different for different people. In my case I largely attribute it to having near-photographic recall of the spaces through which I pass. Without conscious effort, I'm constantly aware of and updating a three-dimensional map of my surroundings in my head. Combined with an understanding of cardinal direction and environmental cues, I always know where I've come from and how to plot a route back to that starting point; even after hiking miles away without bothering to use a map or compass. Outside of needing to pinpoint a specific location within a few meters accuracy in a wilderness I've never visited before, I have no need of them. Regardless of the mechanics of _how_ the sense works, it _does_ work. I would consider the loss of that sense as devastating as losing my hearing; that's how intrinsic and essential I consider it.

[@jasong9502]

News flash, your husband looks at the sun, I use to pull the finger trick on girls and surprise them how long before the sun goes down lol

[@kashyap4245]

The experiments of Dr. Robin Baker of Manchester University suggest that humans are also sensitive to changes in Earth's magnetic field. Dr. Robin Baker first placed people inside a darkened room and asked them to locate North. Most of the time people got it right. But when Baker then fitted these same subjects with a little magnetic skullcap, they lost their ability to find North. This strongly suggests the presence of an internal compass or biological clock. Scientists have discovered Magnetic particles in Cerebellum.

[@anarchycoww9019]

Ive discovered recently that I must be quite sensitive to electromagnetic frequencies through my study of solar flares. I get this nervousness in my stomach and can somehow “feel” a change in my environment. My cat will normally come to me when this happens and start meowing. From this feeling I’d check my space weather app and find that a solar flare or cme would have impacted earth exactly around the time that I felt weird. I can’t explain it but this video certainly helps!

[@TiredMomma]

The recent one we had, which was during the night before the massive cell service outage, I could barely get any sleep that night. After I got my kids up, at times I kept saying I felt like a storm was on us. During the late night/early morn, I thought it was storming outside, because I had that feeling I only get when there's a bad storm with a lot of lightning going on, but our weather was clear, so I was getting confused. Had that solar flare been any closer, I probably would've headed to our basement. I get a feeling that I should be underground or try to hide underneath something.

[@S147]

If people have different sensitivity to magnetic fields, could this perhaps be one of the reasons some people have great sense of direction while others do not?

[@HES9]

Nah some people just have a higher spatial awareness.

[@Michelrs]

no, if you move around a city or a forest you don't need to know the magnetic field at all. it's just good awareness in general

[@mohdnazimrosli8535]

tell that to roronoa zorro from one piece franchise Hahaha

[@Tumbolisu]

This wouldn't explain why some people have a great sense of direction in virtual environments.

[@logancatron2239]

@Jake Watson thats not sociopathic behavior at all 😒

[@mbraun777]

Would be interesting to know if people with a really good sense of direction also have the ability to sense magnetic field changes.

[@martinlehtonen]

i was wondering the same

[@wranglerboi]

Good question. Since I seem to have a fairly intuitive sense of where I am (and rarely get lost), it would be wonderful to find out if that's why.

[@YUE3899]

That would be great to know. Until now I just though I had a very good photografic memory.

[@Irene-gq4jr]

@@wranglerboi Likewise, although I've always put my sense of direction down to being aware of and navigating by the position of the sun or moon/stars.

[@cf453]

@@wranglerboi I've read that direction sense is related to iron particles that build up in specific areas of the body, so spending a long time in the same geodetic orientation would make them always line up the same way. For 13 years as a kid, I always slept in the same position, facing the same way, and my direction sense was very good. Do you have a set sleeping direction?

[@joannot6706]

3:32 We will never know what she was about to say, damn you!

[@kartoffelwaffel]

probably something along the lines of "magnetic isolation chamber"

[@SomeoneCommenting]

He starts explaining it at 4:03 and see how she regrettably 'smiles' in the back like "Crap, that was supposed to be my line, you just stole the spotlight from me..."

[@1987joey1987]

@@SomeoneCommenting it was a little mean of Derek

[@SomeoneCommenting]

@@1987joey1987 He didn't do it on purpose, he was very excited about looking inside. But the other guy still keeps interrupting her every time that she is trying to talk.

[@1987joey1987]

@@SomeoneCommenting okey maybe not mean but not very sensitive

[@Italliving]

when i was in the Army and we did an orientation cross every few months and in the beginning nobody followed me until they found out i always was first and i always was running in a straight line without a compass, ever since they followed me, this internal direction guide for me works all the time even when they dropped me in an unknown place in pitch dark i still run in the right direction and i still have that ability , so good to see you are looking deeper in this for me this is a natural sense of awareness where I'm i don't need compass or gps to find my way home, never did and never will

[@maruftim]

"Who's chair is this?" "Joe's chair." *"Joe who?"*

[@wolfiewoo3371]

JOEMAMA!!! :D

[@imaok4721]

He's stuck in the 1965

[@AJ5]

Joe's dead, baby. Joe's dead.

[@raspberryjam]

ligma balls

[@LextechLighting]

Jo-lean

[@wingfootmcnova9130]

Despite the extremely low strength of the earth's magnetic field, humans having the ability to sense it isn't as crazy as many would have you believe. Consider our other senses. The air pressure around us is about 100 thousand pascals yet our ears during normal conversation volume are picking up 0.01 pascals of air pressure changes. The quietest sound we can hear is a 20 micropascals of change in air pressure which equates to 0.0000002 of one percent change in relative atmospheric pressure. So basically our seneses are hella sensitive and the tiny magnetic field of the earth could certainly be sensed by even a far less specialized group of human cells. Given the clear survival advantages of such an ability it wouldn't be surprising at all if humans inherited magnetic detection.

[@Submersed24]

There was also a guy who got stabbed in the neck and didn't realize until he got home tho

[@Trip_mania]

The ear senses a differential pressure. It can be sensed whatever the atmospheric pressure is. It is totally unrelated. It is not like the ear was sensing the absolute pressure and could sense tiny variations in that pressure. It just doesn't sense the atmospheric pressure at all, because it is designed so that the pressures are balanced in both sides. It senses only changes. Just like measuring a curent through a capacitor will measure only the AC component of the current and not the DC part. This has nothing to do with sensitivity.

[@sakuseihuoshen]

@@Submersed24 Well there's also something in our bodies that suppresses our ability to feel pain for a few hours

[@omnirhythm]

@@Submersed24 I love this bloody one-liner riposte :D

[@Yabois_]

Except magnetic fields arent sensed my our ears. Also cuz one sense is sensitive doesnt mean others are. Its all just relative tho, 0.0000002 percent of change in the atmosphere might be a LOT compared to what other species can hear, and just cuz the number is really low doesnt mean that its value is, relative to other

[@39peevedturtles19]

what business do bacteria have being magnetically active.

[@WraithlingRavenchild]

Input is input, what one does with it shapes one. You should look into Himbas of Namibian. They see colors we don't because of the words they use to describe them.

[@Antimateria97]

There is a particular specie which has a magnetic-sensitive protein used in order to track down food. Live in extreme conditions (Extremophilous) where the nutrients are poor and they can locate their resources by binding it to a paramagnetic molecule, later used to reach the food back

[@madkirk7431]

@@WraithlingRavenchild hmm, yes, the floor is made out of floor.

[@wesleydamen2018]

@@WraithlingRavenchild they dont see diffrent colours because they descibe them diffrent colour and perception of colour is a very interesting thing like yellow for me could be very diffrent from yellow for you but its still yellow because light works the same our perception doesnt you see something as red for example because the surface takes in all light (white light is all colours) except red light because it bounces off to you . There are colours you cant see normally ,like stygian blue or self-luminous red these are only seeable under certain circumstances

[@bryn494]

@@WraithlingRavenchild Gurkhas have a reputation for seeing in the dark. Could this be a similar phenomena as they live at high altitudes and so their photoreceptors may have evolved slightly differently?

[@angelhelp]

My father had what I always felt was a nearly infallible sense of direction, meaning that he could accurately identify north despite being indoors and following a convoluted path through subway tunnels, buildings, caves, etc. As one of five siblings with the same father, I am the only one who did not inherit this ability; I had a different mother and my four siblings all shared the same mother. Her sense of direction wasn’t as acute as our father’s; my own mother’s sense of direction was as nonexistent as my own. One of my brothers is fond of telling folks that I can’t even find my way out of a doctor’s office after having been seen at an appointment. I poke fun at myself saying that I grabbed the “music chips” but forgot to grab any “direction chips”, so that part remains a gaping hole/socket. All of us have some music abilities but I was the one who inherited perfect pitch from my paternal grandmother. Obviously there’s no connection between musical ability and the sense of direction, but I find it interesting to note the extremes. Not having been raised with my siblings, I don’t know how well any but one sibling can identify direction, and suffice it to say that that sibling seems as infallible as my father was. I have always wondered if it had something to do with them both being able to sense the magnetic fields…

[@sigmamale4147]

Real

[@nilebrixton8436]

also have perfect pitch but poor sense of directions. would love to put people like us in this magnetic sense of direction experiment!

[@richardswaby6339]

I find it interesting that yesterday I was watching videos on perfect pitch and now today I have watched a video on magnetic sensing and you have both in your family. My magnetic sensing is so bad that I can just about find my way out of a room with only one door and I am totally baffled as to how someone can identify a note as 'A'. Moreover I don't get images in my brain when reading books and I can't remember jokes or lyrics to songs. Am I even alive?

[@nilebrixton8436]

@@richardswaby6339 you made this coherent comment therefore I see you as very alive

[@mollyhoffman7313]

You are not alone. That is the important thing. Not everybody has superhuman abilities--I know I sure don't. It's foolish to compare yourself to others for being "better" than you just because they can do things like sense magnetic fields or pitch. You are still a 100% valid human being. And kudos on being brave enough to confess that you don't have this ability--many people who watch a video like this but don't see themselves experiencing this would be too afraid to admit it to anyone, much less in a KZbin comment on that very video. You are enough. YOU ARE ENOUGH. 😊😇 💖💝♥💞💕💘

[@anikdey2100]

That's how things go wrong in Hollywood movies and Derek turns into magneto 🤣

[@Lambda_Ovine]

"He used to be a regular man, but a tragic accident that was supposed to test the influence of a magnetic field on the human brain changed his life for ever. Now, he can harness the power of the Earth's magnetic field with his mind. He became... Magnet-man!" *music starts playing*

[@SyeedAli]

A freak power surge, and the other experiment is turned on simultaneously.

[@TheCimbrianBull]

@@Lambda_Ovine ROFL! 🤣 😂 😅

[@Jamato-sUn]

@@SyeedAli now that is some fan fiction!

[@nejx8711]

0:25 "I'll keep my head perfectly straight, facing forward" *literally immediately afterwards* Looks to the right

[@ashwins-k2429]

He was explaining to us what the method for the experiment was... it wasn't the actual test

[@HoutarouOrekiOsu]

Not like the person you're responding to didn't know that..

[@Ad-Hoc43]

@@ashwins-k2429 Great,now some idiot is gonna "woosh" you

[@harryxiro]

I'll means "I will". That's future tense for when the experiment happens, and it hadn't had happened yet when he turned his head to the right.

[@TumpaTalapatra]

Yap

[@--Voltz--]

man that pooping dog had a stream going boy LOL

[@manictiger]

It's a metaphor for EA Games.

[@munendersingh5631]

Ea

[@efoxxok7478]

Not everyone has lost this ability. Since I was very small I had this feel for direction that was quite strong. I have been through several “experiments to test this. Among these tests I have been blindfolded on an airplane for an hour while turns of varying times, banks, and coordination then while still blindfolded asked to point in a specific direction. When I was in my teens I could find north within a few degrees every time. Now I’m in my 60’s and it’s a bit weaker with my sense of direction down to about 15-20 degrees. Twice in my life I have lost this unexpectedly and felt almost motion sick from it. I often have deteriorated senses when I’m sick or under the influence of something, and over the years it has gotten weaker, but I still do reasonably well.

[@samykamkar]

Awesome video! I'd be curious to see the reading of the EEG without any human attached to understand how the EM field affects the readings in the first place -- specifically if those long cables attached to each electrode produce current from the EM field via Faraday's law. Can't tell if there are twisted pairs with grounds or not to prevent pickup. Very interesting!

[@kaiwagner9375]

I think along the lines 518ff in the paper, you may find additional info about that

[@luckysingh-lh4hf]

@@kaiwagner9375 and @Samy Kamkar are u guys working on EEG?

[@prakharmishra3000]

Found Samy again :D

[@stefangodfrey1301]

@@prakharmishra3000. Ggsvzd nah ta

[@markokriegel5787]

Its described in the methods section that the induced current in the wirering was accounted: In Active runs, an electromagnetic induction artifact occurred as a 10- 20 microvolt fluctuation in the EEG signal during the 100 ms magnetic field rotation (line 133f). U can also have a look at chapter 4 and 7 of the extended methods if interested, where details about induction (prevention) are discussed :)

[@ebisuhotel]

Love how the whole team kneels before lord Veritasium 7:23 as the professor talks about alpha wave.

[@koin799]

A project that can enchance humans forever One of the project materials: Joe's chair lol

[@ELbabotas1]

And The Stool

[@themuug8600]

Hol horse

[@DD-dx6uo]

I work at a TMS clinic. We use electromagnetic brain stimulation with the goal of treating mental illness. The machine (Brainsway 102 and 104) triggers involuntary muscle contractions that are sometimes painful or violent and can even trigger seizures. We supply mouthguards and pillows. I don't understand the science of how / if it works. But electromagnetism is clearly affecting the body. It's not like sight or smell but you can feel it. People usually play with their phones during treatment to pass time. I'm constantly picking up phones that go flying across the room during stimulation bursts. They're not startled. Specific muscles twitch at the same freq as the stim bursts - 1-20hz at various intervals.

[@martinoplaya7805]

hey, props for sound. every take had perfect studio mix and master!

[@embracethemystery]

THANK YOU for just starting the content and no bs intro, title cards yada yada. Much appreciated!!!!

[@TheSefirosu200x]

I normally don't mind that stuff, but it's kinda cool that Veritasium videos lack it. Gives them a neat "In Media Res" feel when you first start one up.

[@embracethemystery]

@@TheSefirosu200x I just find intros and title graphics to be irrelevant and not needed for KZbin. The title and description are always right there below the video. It's like, "Hey guys, welcome to ______ show, I'm ______". Yeah, we know, get on with it.

[@magl33to]

The way professor Shimojo spoke was really interesting to me. He had a very strong grasp of English language while retaining an equally strong Japanese accent. Usually by the time a non-native speaker has attained that level of skill in English, they've also adopted much more of a English-speaking regional accent. Not a criticism, just an observation that was interesting to me.

[@spicyd2]

Not really but ok

[@nickc3657]

It interested me too. It’s common that people who learn a language as an adult can’t erase their “accent” fully. They can make conscious efforts, but maybe just like some people are bad at math, some people are bad at accents.

[@MrWizardjr9]

i dont really have much of an accent in day to day conversation but when im nervous i have an accent

[@coffee115]

Hint: we do that because it grabs attention.

[@electronresonator8882]

for me it's a common thing, I knew so many people who grew up to adulthood with tribe language, still retain their accents even after they they speak fluently in national language for so many years

[@tomaszprzetacznik7802]

This is actually something new to me, and very interesting. I have always thought that as species we lost natural ability to interact with magnetic fields.

[@danielthecake8617]

It's less gone, but more like our appendix. Useless, tiny, and just needs to go away.

[@williammoroz769]

I would like to see this study over different age groups. We know the mind changes with age and with age we lose certain abilities. Is this something that we can hone in on as child and then forget about as an adult due to basic technology like a compass and maps. Very Interesting. Thanks for another great video.

[@canonaler]

What if it's something that can be sharpened...

[@AlejandroMarin.design]

There you go, an interesting research question (or intentionality) based on this video 👍

[@rjgarnett]

Speak for yourself. My brain works better now I'm older. It's had a lot of new software upgrades over the years, it's packed full of useful information and it has the internet. That's how I do my upgrades these days, no floppy disks or thumb drives for this little black duck.

[@thedarkdragon1437]

it is highly probable this is the case. if you look at the age cohorts of two previous studies it does not support this but does indicate it.

[@indegruv]

"we know..." no ya don't

[@KergarinAerospace]

So... Did the brain react to the magnetic field, or does it just affect the sensors? Was there a calibration and test of the sensors in the field without a brain between them?

[@mrkitty777]

Yeah

[@janeymers7154]

Yeah was thinking about that too. The electrodes should react to a rotating magnetic field. He linked the paper, im sure its explained in it. Edit: yup they did, just ctrl+f "induction" or "current loop"

[@KergarinAerospace]

So let's hope someone with more time reads it and tells us :)

[@KergarinAerospace]

@@janeymers7154 ok thanks! so I said nothing ;)

[@Paskaloth]

for sure, It's one of the questions I had watching the video. That and the brain is a blood filled meat computer, it doesn't seem that shocking, that at least on a physical level the brain has a reaction to sitting you in a small box and running strong magnetic fields right next to your head. The brain reacted, cool alright but did he "sense" it? He didn't seem to. Fair enough if this is answered in the paper but I clicked on the video for the answer to the question it posed and maybe I just missed it.

[@HanBurritoz]

"And I will keep my head perfectly still, facing forward" *Turns head

[@thebnbaldwin]

As a radio operator, I found this video while researching the affects of our weakening magnetic fields as the poles reverse. I have always wondered how the mountain men could discover new routes and retrace them. I had suspected that perhaps they had exceptional internal compasses. This study suggests that it may be true. It also shows that this phenomenon may be the reason that as I travelled the U.S. for years, there were some cities that I had absolutely no sense of direction in, and others were not a problem. Very interesting!

[@KuroHebi]

"And then we just do this with a stool.". Their budget must have been slightly limited.

[@koibubbles3302]

Why pay for some super advanced tech when you can just close with a stool for free

[@KuroHebi]

@@koibubbles3302 okay, but a stool?

[@koibubbles3302]

@@KuroHebi it’s whatever they had around, if it works, it works

[@bryn494]

They had to get a larger stool, the Beagle stool didn't work too well... ba-dum... :}

[@KuroHebi]

@@koibubbles3302 I guess. Whatever works, works.

[@goat6354]

If you wan't to find your way home, always bring a pooping dog with you as compass. Like seriously, its genius.

[@Aladato]

And lots of treats to "refuel" it.

[@era7928]

just see the sun movement, duh!

[@fridaycaliforniaa236]

My dog is called "compass" so it's ok for me ^^

[@vez3834]

@Kyaru Momochi Where am I going to get one of those? Don't be silly!

[@ECHOSIDE56301]

I'll be sure to inform the adoption agency that this is my most important criteria when selecting a companion.

[@GabyHache]

“And we just do this with a stool” 😂😂😂😂

[@julepalmero3382]

i feel like im watching a Half Life 2 "cutscene" before the action starts lol

[@nihabkhan9184]

We're the only species that knows of Magnetic Fields We're also one that can't feel them... Are you laughing now Nature?

[@jollyjokress3852]

@@nihabkhan9184 Maybe Intelligence comes with shortcomings in other departments? But I rather feel like our stupid institutions cripple a lot within us.

[@TheAdwatson]

@@nihabkhan9184 When I worked as a lab technician in a UK college in the early 1970s, I found an old Air Ministry chart of the electromagnetic spectrum. There was an intriguing label at around 8 GHz, if I remember correctly, that said, "Human brain detects EM radiation". I would love to see this chart again

[@Toon444]

Lol it's so cute seeing the scientists crouching down to speak into the camera because the entrance is so low, it's so silly I love it!

[@e_wa.n5036]

as an apprentice my first job attatchment was rewiring motors. One such motor, a 500kW monster, was for spinning massive turbines on mining operations which weve recently redone, which had a start up current spike of an excess of 150 amps, to 100 amps and voltages ranging from 7000V to 5000V at maximum speed. Testing occured over 2hour time intervals as per company standard and the whole time of testing i honest to god was sure i knew exactly where and in which direction that motor was relative to my position in the workshop, which was around 50X40 m across. It was as if my nerves were lightly firing around it. Off coarse nobody believed me and said its the inexperience, heck i didnt even believe myself until seeing this video. Im not saying i actually felt it, but now im really wondering at ifs...

[@pndrsb]

My dog walks in a circle when she poops. She once made a scale model of Stonehenge(aligned with the autumnal equinox)

[@paulperez3013]

I see the moon when I look at stonehenge, particular the side view

[@ELbabotas1]

Proof aliens weren't needed, only druidoggos

[@earlgray3925]

Bahahahaha

[@justing1810]

Mine too!

[@rubenverheij4770]

. Stonehenge made with help of a dog. Funny thought. 🤭 No high civilization. No aliens. No! Just some local dog ow- ners.😃 .

[@camerongraves8149]

Could growing up in the northern/southern hemisphere affect whether the brain reacts to CW/CCW magnetic field changes?

[@Dragrath1]

Ohh good question it would be interesting to check and certainly seems like a decent as part of future research question given you could get results from comparative studies the control would be the hard part....

[@iisgray]

@@Dragrath1 Not all studies require a control

[@marschma]

@@iisgray Especially with studies that some people will try to use as support for their esoteric believes like electrosensitivty, its important to have a control group. Its always good to have a control group to be sure that you dont artificially create wanted results. Its not a study if you tell people "Do you feel the magnetic field i created" and people say "yes". Especially if people WANT to feel that. Bunch of studies with people claiming to be electrosensitve have been debunked through control groups

[@iisgray]

@@marschma Sure, I'm not saying control groups are dumb or something, but it's a fact that not all studies require them, in fact, not all studies can possibly support them. Like.. y'know, does left handedness vs right handedness effect which direction of magnetic change someone notices? Like, it's impossible to have a control for that. Does eating a certain food make someone healthier? The "control" would be not feeding someone, and that's unethical. My statement was, "Not all studies require a control" nothing more, nothing less.

[@sofieselene]

The hypothesis of the paper was that the sensitivity would reverse in the southern hemisphere (the theory was that the brain rejected and ignored fields that it knew couldn't align with the Earth's magnetic field), but the experiment was ran in the northern hemisphere and they weren't able to test it in their experiment.

[@begotubeful]

It would have been interesting to test sherpas, sailors and suchlike to see if their ability to detect the fields is better than for normal people. In theory it should be. Nice video thankyou so much for bringing the latest knowledge!!

[@VanerTheogus]

I would be especially curious about the Polynesians here

[@GrandHighGamer]

I wonder how the brain scan would compare to a bird, or another animal that we know does have a strong sense of magnetism. Also whether you'd see a response difference with a farmer from a poor rural area over a citydweller, when it comes to the 'too much magnetic stimulus' hypothesis. Or even, accordingly, a difference with younger kids over older adults.

[@jamesbrown9306]

Gradius why do you have to be poor to live in rural areas?

[@phodon129]

@@jamesbrown9306 You don't have to, but a poor rural area would have the minimal amount of electric and electronic devices, even compared to a poor urban area, making it a more suitable example of one of the extremes.

[@tec738cafdikfac2]

Awesome video! I'd be curious to see the reading of the EEG without any human attached to understand how the EM field affects the readings in the first place -- specifically if those long cables attached to each electrode produce current from the EM field via Faraday's law. Can't tell if there are twisted pairs with grounds or not to prevent pickup. Very interesting!

[@woofiewill]

There is a device called North Sense in the body modification community which is implanted into your chest. I think the idea is that this device outputs a small vibration whenever you are facing north, and you wear it for some months before removing it. After removing it, your body has becoming attuned to identifying when you face north and people retain this ability indefinitely. Would be really fascinating to look into things of this nature and determine the amount of truth in that claim!

[@soheil527]

post us some links to check it out

[@keisi1574]

@@soheil527 He never could find the links...and eventually got lost.

[@julepalmero3382]

Do you just wander into research facilities at universities and go, "yoooooo, wassup, what've y'all got for me today"?

[@FectacularSpail]

There was also an experiment several years ago where a group of people wore these devices for a few weeks, I think it was a belt(?), with little buzzers on it, and it would faintly buzz in whichever direction was pointed north. So they had this constant indicator of which way they were facing, which they internalized, and developed this better sense of direction, but then they all got super disoriented once the experiment ended and they took off the devices. lol

[@DayDreamingDude]

@@FectacularSpail you might think of the FeelSpace belt. It was a project at the University of Osnabrück and is now a startup I think. They did some experiments on whether it is possible to learn where North is and also to use it as a navigation device.

[@SlyPearTree]

Does a higher sensitivity to clockwise or counterclockwise field rotation has any correlation to being left or right handed?

[@JsoProductionChannel]

whould be very interresting if so

[@getledinyourhead]

That would be interesting. Perhaps it's a way to get a binary signal, like a way to count the turns one took to get to where you are on a winding path. This would make returning the way you came easier, for example.

[@mikemondano3624]

That would be "East-" or "West-" handed, thank you.

[@rashidisw]

or perhaps have something to do with tendency of one's decision, when someone need to turn left or right when they encounter a branching path.

[@quirenciatala437]

No

[@13amplifiers]

I was an NMR spectroscopist for 30 years and worked beside and sometimes under magnets with field strengths that you wouldn't believe. I can't say that I ever had any feeling that I was entering a magnetic field, however. I must not be very sensitive. Cool study, BTW. :)

[@wolfhound113]

A powerful MRI machine generates a 1.5 tesla field (although there are now 3 tesla machines). By comparison, the Earth's magnetic field is a puny 32 microtesla at the planet's surface, on the equator. What effect would a medical MRI machine have on, say, a pigeon?

[@hersheytate8304]

If the pigeon happened to have braces or eat some BBs it would be cruel and ugly.

[@Rhannmah]

I'm surprised by this result, mainly because my premise was exactly that: a MRI machine generates a field at least half a million times stronger than Earth, and no one's reporting anything about that. Seems to me that the effect would be stronger under a stronger field. That said, I think they should test what happens when the field is stronger. Does the brain react more to it or does it not matter?

[@MarcelinoDeseo]

Imagine a pigeon flying on a hospital when a MRI was activated. I wonder if the machine will disorient the bird 😊

[@bcubed72]

How could a pigeon have braces?! They don't have any teeth!

[@mduckernz]

@@Rhannmah Yes, an MRI has a very powerful field but it is not used in the way they are here at all, they fluctuate the field very quickly to induce response in hydrogen atoms. Also the field cannot be finely oriented like this room is designed to do

[@nolestrono]

A friend of mine can always tell which direction is north, to the point where we can close his eyes, spin him around for a while and then ask him which direction is north, and he gets it right straight away. It was one of those things where you know it's real but it's just so strange you still question it. Good to know he's actually just hypersensitive to magnetic fields and isn't a wizard.

[@BULLTRONHERO]

If he can do it with his eyes closed, that would be impressive. If he gets it after opening his eyes, then not so much. I have known several people who can easily do the same at all times, simply because they have long practiced the habit of orienting themselves at all times; it is very easy to do once it's ingrained in your register of passive mental sub-processes.

[@nolestrono]

BULLTRONHERO Well yeah like I said we covered his eyes and spun him around and he still got it. It’s really weird.

[@Not.Your.Business]

I loved the end disclaimer for the quacks, but I strongly believe they'll just ignore it...

[@isaacvongurtberg7341]

@Roman Hauksson-Neill 😂

[@benjaminchance3311]

i absolutely will ignore it, for the sake of being a jackass pseudoscientist!!

[@sophiacristina]

Not defending quacks, but, the study don't says those can/can't happen, just that the study is not about this and the results are not focused on those standards, so, a quack can still maintain their belief.

[@Choucheeeenn]

Yeah but when you see that kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZoPRomSEpa2Xo9k (the whole episode worth it, I have just selected the "fart" bit), you also understand that people are not necessarily 100% responsible for their weird beliefs...

[@zsanterre]

I mean a good scientist wouldn't ignore anything. For one, the watts involved in this facility. For two, the difference between an electric current generating a magnetic field, and an electromagnetic wave like radar -> gamma rays, These waves also produce Magnetic fields. That's not pseudo science, my friend. It's awesome science. It's the reason why we could both watch this video in the 1st place

[@goldenbuglab]

나는 북반구인 한국에 살고 있습니다. 내가 남아메리카에 여행을 갔을 때, 한 도시에서 몇 일 묵어서 길이 익숙해진 뒤에 방향에 집중하지 않고 원하는 곳으로 가려고 시도하면, 이상하게도 가려던 곳과 반대방향으로 가곤 했습니다. 이런 경향은 2 달 반이 될 때까지 지속됐습니다. 3 달이 돼서 집에 돌아올 때는 그냥 무의식적으로 걸어도 원하는 곳에 잘 도착하게 됐죠. 그래서 나중에 원인이 뭘까 고심하다가 자기장 때문이구나 생각했습니다. 영상을 보니, 여행했던 경험이 떠오르면서 흥미가 느껴지네요.

[@yeshey5443]

We're the only species that knows of Magnetic Fields We're also one that can't feel them... Are you laughing now Nature?

[@sunilkumar-bc5dz]

You my friend have an awesome thinking

[@yeshey5443]

@@sunilkumar-bc5dz Thank you good sir, you sure sound like an awesome pal.

[@lyxar777]

To be fair, it depends on the definition of "knowledge": Animals that use it practically obviously "realize" the effect... if they didn't notice anything, they couldn't use it, after all. But if you mean a conceptual understanding of where that effect comes from, and why it exists (in other words: "science"), then yeah: we're the only ones "knowing" about it. But the same goes for anything else. See, science ruins everything - even poetry :-)

[@Reissumies]

I can feel the difference between N and S poles of a small neodymium magnet.

[@satisfied_chimp]

because we are awesome

[@Gazulolima]

that pooping dog make me put down my beagle. thanx

[@unlokia]

Gazulo Marquez 😂

[@the_real_jar]

At least the beagle didn’t poop too

[@GerikDT]

You killed your dog because you saw a different one poop? What a monster.

[@manoi8]

and im still eating with my breakfast when it comes out

[@jSyndeoMusic]

I think he meant he was holding the dog, and then set him down.

[@cryingwater]

I don't know why but seeing so many lofty scientists crouching just looks so funny

[@MrTruehoustonian]

That's funny that's all I noticed and still sounding professional

[@myspacetimesaucegoog5632]

No need to think of scientists as lofty. They're merely folks who are xtra curious about something and love to examine and learn more to try and understand the thing. To do that they get educated, and my use strange terms and words, but they use that as a tool for their exploration not so as they can feel superior to any other folks. They're as happy as anyone to do odd things to get the exploration or experiment done.😉

[@cryingwater]

@@myspacetimesaucegoog5632 Normally scientists instinctively look down on the general public because of their high "knowledge"

[@brettito]

@@cryingwater Everyone is as scientist if you simply ask, "Why?"

[@AyVaZzZ4o0]

@@cryingwater Thats a pretty presumptuous assumption in fact most scientists are humble because they feel stupid since there is so many unanswered questions about the world they can't figure out for the life of them !

[@LindysEpiphany]

After being a tour guide for 7 years at the Oregon Vortex I will guarantee that we are indeed sensitive to electromagnetic fields. The Vortex has a shifting magnetic field that can cause compasses to spin or bob, or work perfectly fine, you just don't know which it will be. The Flux in energy is felt differently day to day but also changes the degree of the visual optical illusions witnessed. Sometimes the height changes appear minimal while other times they appear extreme. As with most everything not everybody is affected equally. Each individual is just that individual in their sensitivities and reactions.

[@yorkerold]

Thanks for providing the link to the paper.

[@Icewind007]

@Ungregistered User No, there is no intuitive basis to determine something like that.

[@xCorvus7x]

@Daedalus But that is the problem. Without sources, you can't tell whether it is an accurate presentation.

[@xCorvus7x]

@Daedalus Ok, Ungregistered User overstated that a bit.

[@xCorvus7x]

@Daedalus Yeah, individual papers can be wrong as well.

[@veritasium]

no prob!

[@dansoys5712]

They need to find a generational sailor/fisherman from greece or italy. I'm sure they haven't lost this ability, since they've utilized it for their entire life and it had been passed down.

[@iwatchwithnoads7480]

I know the type. But a huge part of how they navigate is the direction of the sun, moon and some stars, as well as directions of the wind

[@williamh.gatesiii8183]

Portugal or Pacific Island folk.

[@bruzote]

They don't use magnetic fields. They use the smell of nonna's home cooking.

[@il_vero_saspacifico6141]

@@bruzote as a italian, i can confirm

[@MrCmon113]

You really suck at being "sure" about things.

[@harpyproductions6771]

what is the evolutionary advantage of pooping aligned with the magnetic field of earth?

[@rigen97]

I suspect it was just something akin to force of habit for them--like, given no other stimuli they'd tend to align with the magnetic field anyway, something that doesn't give them any advantages nor disadvantages to mating habit so it's neither amplified nor removed from the gene pool. Or maybe there's something in their body that works better when aligned idk.

[@rotnmold7861]

Make sure all ur coils align towards the North star

[@dave5194]

@cfm marko oh wow. If that gets proven to be true, that would be an incredible 🤣

[@ashb8036]

Does this behaviour still present the same n the souther hemisphere?

[@Cotonetefilmmaker]

sometimes behaviours show up without an evolutionary reason for it. If it doesn't hurt the chances of survival, it stays around.

[@tinymonster9762]

My lecturer in electronic principles (1990ish) worked in military radar before going into teaching. He told us that one day during maintenance he pulled out a transmitter shelf in the radar room unfortunately whilst the magnetron was pulsing. He said the first inkling of trouble was the fluorescent strip lights in the room lighting up. An open waveguide was pointing at his face. He said as he turned his face away the RF field felt like cobwebs being pulled off his skin.

[@bryn494]

That may have been an 'interpretation' once he became aware of the RF field when the lights flickered. The matter raises interesting conundrums :)

[@nickwoo2]

The alternative medicine people are going to run with this despite the ending caution.

[@NautyEskimo]

nickwoo2 my thoughts exactly They have already claimed such sensitivity to a bigger level then what as shown here

[@marschma]

Uuuuh excuse me its called "Magnetic impaired" not esoteric, thank you. also "left handed" is one of my trigger words, its "east handed".

[@isaacvongurtberg7341]

@@marschma why east handed? You are not the first one to say that, but I don't get it

[@Arenuphis]

@@isaacvongurtberg7341 It's a reference to the thing in this vid about some languages using cardinal directions(west, east, north, south) instead of perspective based(left, right, forward, backward)

[@isaacvongurtberg7341]

@@Arenuphis yeah ok. I thought it was less simple. Thx

[@dismiggo]

I love how low-budget this study looks :D In most facilities everything looks so professional, and in this one they literally taped together an Aluminium box and taped a box to the ceiling xD

[@aleksandersuur9475]

Yeah, it's weird that they couldn't get a proper shielded cage to use, these things are not a rarity in universities. Maybe they want a lot of equipment time, maybe their research is viewed as low priority or maybe they just pissed off the wrong guy somehow.

[@daftheck1439]

i was just thinking the same and it makes them looks like a MARVEL's scientific group or something like this, i find them badass for some Reasons^^

[@eddielong96]

I can't speak for other fields, schools or especially so anything outside of academia, but this to me looks pretty run-of-the-mill science lab in academia. I've been in ecology, biogeochemistry, nanophysics and microbiology labs and a lot of them have this kind of aesthetic lol. Getting funding to make things pretty is kinda hard.

[@Volodimar]

Your perception of scientific experiments may be perverted by Hollywood.

[@sarasmr4278]

And there's equipment in there from another experiment. And they're using what they already had in the lab. I love it :)

[@RBRT02]

6:30 this woman is the one doing the voices on every train station

[@carlgrove8793]

One of the findings that seems very relevant is that dowsers have proven to be incredibly good at detecting very small magnetic fields. It may be that (in view of the Russian research and Reddish's work) that they are actually detecting torsion, which has a magnetic component.

[@mahmed1985]

Dear Veritasium, This was a very interesting experiment! What I would like to see is the researchers carry out this test in some isolated villages, which have not come in contact with modern technology. The point is to explore if those people, who have not had their "internal magnetic compass" affected by the use of mobiles / headphones / fridges etc., are more sensitive to changes in the fields or not. This would be important to know, that if they have larger or smaller variations than regular people, then it can be said whether technology actually does affects our natural / forgotten magnetic perception. Of course I understand the logistic challenges of first finding these people, who have had no contact with any electromagnetic technology, bringing an MRI machine to site and creating these lab conditions in the field (Let alone convincing anyone to put on a funny cap with wires on them!). But still it would be interesting to know. Thanks for your amazing videos!

[@pilotavery]

Cell phones wouldn't affect it, only magnetic fields would affect it. Probably more to do with the fact that modern humans never learn to associate directions the same way, and don't depend on direction. Modern humans rely on cues like landmarks and signs. Prefrontal cortex navigation baby!!!!

[@zzasdfwas]

There really aren't a lot of isolated villages left in the world. I think there's the Sentinelese, but I don't think they would let themselves be subjects of some weird experiments. Of course, after such experiments, they wouldn't really be isolated anymore.

[@tanmaymeel4859]

I believe it's not about the use of modern technology. I believe we all have it, but do we notice it? If we did, did we emphasise on it?

[@cjayroughgarden1520]

pretty curious if it's exposure to emf's that would change the ability to do this or pollution and chemical exposures...

[@Orholam5]

I would say any modern technology produces negligible magnetic fields, so not sure what difference, if any, would be observed

[@AbhinavKulshreshtha]

I had a friend in school, who could tell time without clock to a accuracy of a minute. Tell direction without compass to accuracy of about 2 degree, even tell weather temperature accurately upto few degree.

[@rogueanuerz]

wtf who's your friend

[@jeremybrouillard]

He was the first with a smartphone in your school :P

[@JM-vz6ok]

I have one too but I don't really consider my phone a friend.

[@jamesbrown9306]

I can relate to the time thing, but only during the day. And before you ask, no not by looking at the sun. But tbh I think it’s something I’ve learned from working outside

[@iloveamerica1966]

I bet we put your friend in a sensory deprivation box for even just 1 hour and he won't be able to do it anymore.

[@BuckarooBallinger]

It would be quite curious to know if right or left handed ness contribute to CCW & CW sensitivity.

[@anoukdevries8144]

Sounds compelling, but most likely it doesn't.

[@lawrencetchen]

The universe is right-handed in a colloquial sense, in that it has a preferential chirality but in the context of humans that distinction is rather arbitrary

[@melgibson6331]

I think it could as the embreo developes and things like a full moon and distance from sun and its activity enfluence a developing embreo .This tiny influece maybe a small part of the eventual personality of human along with genetics diet and environment.

[@LeeXiaoMei]

When I was mentally ill, cognitively impaired and dissociated from reality, I would go on about flow fields that I could feel around me. My body was not functioning right, I had lost peristalsis, but I figured out using flow fields to help me recover toilet patterns and sleep patterns. I can’t explain this and I wish I had a means of showing anyone what I was talking about, but maybe this was it.

[@ElementalMaker]

1:05 I thought I had LA Beast playing in another tab.

[@joelmcc88]

Part of me wanted him to run on set and throw up

[@mohamad6533]

Haaave a good day! :D

[@jrollrules22]

You have no idea how happy I am you commented this, when I heard it I was like I can’t be the only one here who recognizes this

[@GhostSamaritan]

So that's where I recognized it from!

[@superniger4822]

Lol so that’s why I’ve heard that song before 🤣🤣

[@livesimplyandhumbly]

By creating my own magnetic field, I am able to text other people. I am now working on becoming a human HotSpot.

[@EndingTimes0]

Can you live in my closet?

[@Mystickrage]

@@EndingTimes0 how can he be in your closet if he hasnt left his

[@troygrant5418]

Closet hider,🤔

[@jamesdriscoll9405]

This has been done: kzbin.info/www/bejne/m6uyiICYZsujaKc

[@Americansikkunt]

AirScholar By taking psychedelics, I can sense people's magnetic fields.

[@MidnightSt]

i actually have surprisingly strong awareness of cardinal directions at most times... not by sensing magnetic field, it's more like a gyroscope with known starting position and some background process in my brain that tracks the changes. so yes, it has the same shotcomings as actual gyro, shifts over time.

[@drbadzer]

Yes you’re using your vestibular system to do that (from your inner ears). Some humans are very good at that, that’s why this study makes you sit down and not move to make sure any results aren’t coming from your inner ears.

[@dirkbastardrelief]

@@drbadzer Hey Nasser what’s up!

[@claytonhoskinson2000]

I’m good at keeping track of my rotation too

[@MidnightSt]

@@drbadzer i'm not sure about that, i'm talking about slow turns like the ones you take when walking around the city. also, i need my eyes open, i haven't really tested my orientation-keeping with eyes closed. it really is more like a background process in my brain, as what would you get if you spent years training imagining yourself move on a map, while moving in reality. (which kind of is what I did). but yeah, much more testing would be required on me to determine what plays how large a part in it.

[@tbouchard2789]

Magnetoreception MUST exist in people; I for one, am EXTREMELY sensitive to Solar storms and dynamic geomagnetic indices. Sometimes, I get smacked with a sudden, sorta headache-like feeling, then I know to check online. Sure enough, like every time before, weather sites like NOAAs solar forecast, are posting sun flare-ups for THAT day (these phenomenon are unrelated to tropospheric conditions, they exclusively affect Earths magneto).

[@codymarshall3602]

I noticed thru hiking the Appalachian trail that I got a stronger sense of direction. Love your videos.

[@Trevktaves]

If he developes super powers, It is definently because of that chair

[@tylerc5311]

Next video: Can humans *really* go blind by looking at the Sun? Derrick stares at the Sun for 24 hours to find out!

[@Rajat-Sharma1]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤪🤪🤪🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😎

[@fauzulazim2993]

The joke is not about Derrick stares at the sun. The joke is when u said "24 hours"

[@adolfodef]

@@fauzulazim2993 Derek goes into DEEP SPACE for this experiment! =P

[@danilooliveira6580]

@@fauzulazim2993 I mean... you can do that, it just takes a bit of logistic or a trip to one of the poles

[@burnttoast111]

@@adolfodef As long as he goes at night, his vision will be safe.

[@gadswez]

7:02 "and you're sure this isn't just to make people look stupid?" "Oh, no, no, no" *Inside her head: Ha. Ha. Should I laugh now?*

[@BULLTRONHERO]

*Under her breath: Yeah, we spent all this time and money to play practical jokes on people, especially brilliant KZbinrs like yourself. Congratulations, you caught us.* Though I generally have a good opinion of the guy, that was definitely not his greatest moment.

[@Loxpas-Doc]

Never mentioned this to anyone, but we had a student in our engineering class in uni that could read random thoughts. he would hypnotize himself and then talk about the thoughts he was receiving. he was always correct with somebody in the class! we speculated that the person being decoded was the one sending out the strongest thoughts through maybe electromagnetic waves, since our brains work with electrons. strange! we never talked about it afterwards.

[@AnchuaProjects]

I love how half of the takes in this video is people crouching and talking to the camera in weird angles. Hahahaha XD

[@zachb99]

If the hypothesis of being surrounded my artificial electromagnetic waves weaken our internal compass, I wonder if testing on people that have little to no technology use and then people with over use with technology that have electromagnetic waves would show a difference. Honestly feel that over time our need for long distance travel with no outside help has slowly diminished so our internal compass has weakened but I bet there are people with genetics that have it stronger.

[@axelaguirre5014]

but we have had theso types of tech just for 200-300 years, we should have ancient writings talking about this, but we don´t

[@JapanShopBrazil]

​​@@axelaguirre5014 they got burned n others hidden. because the had guys don't want independent smart humans, becuz they can't leech off the money or enslave.

[@onebylandtwoifbysearunifby5475]

@@axelaguirre5014 They discussed some of those writings in the video. Plus, many ancient cultures didn't write much down. And what they did write was usually not day to day stories of washing laundry. If it was common, it probably wasn't a big enough deal to carve it in stone.

[@MrCmon113]

@@onebylandtwoifbysearunifby5475 The most ancient texts we have are about day-to-day stuff like shopping lists. And no one ever mentioned any sort of capability to sense compass directions before compasses were invented. They mentioned recognizing landmarks and the positions of celestial objects.

[@onebylandtwoifbysearunifby5475]

@@MrCmon113 Yes i agree, but what does this mean? How would you describe the ability to act like a compass without the word compass? And why would you write about such ability? Did they write about smelling and touching and sensing heat? So why would we expect volumes of writing about magnetoreception? Leaving off the fact that ancient writing doesn't exist, and the best we have is some cave art, and also most early cultural histories were oral and continue to be.... We should probably look at the cultures who navigate directions without compass. There are some that describe precise compass headings, like "North by NorthWest" to get to fishing spots. They navigate everywhere this way.They have compasses in their heads it seems. They have also been studied by Westerners, there are videos floating around one of the internets. Since evolution exists (and it does), and numerous biological systems use magnetoreception (and they do),-- we should not be surprised to find latent or dormant abilities in our own biology. Even night vision is on its way out in humans (thanks to light pollution). We may be in a transition with several abilities. Biology picks and chooses, it doesn't keep all the stuff you aren't using.

[@sukhoranjanshome4527]

Magnetic field of light be like Am I a joke to you ?

[@georgeelsham]

That's just an opinion-based comment. Some people like the name, some don't. Same with your name... What defines a good name then? I would love to know.

[@TheSHJGaming]

@Jake Watson You have a terrible attitude. Did your parents abuse you?

[@user-kl1on3nw7y]

@Jake Watson I like his name

[@user-kl1on3nw7y]

@Jake Watson atleast he doesn't have some plane, boring old white name !! 😂

[@davidlugarov9685]

What is a parasite like you doing in a Veritasium video, go back to the hole you crawled out of.

[@OmarnSamisDad]

Seeing this reminded me of something I heard in the past couple years (maybe on one of your videos) about people such as Hawaiians and other island cultures and how they have a better sense of direction than most people who come from big continents.

[@MastaGambit]

It reminds me of when my dad tried to tell me about men vs women having more of an innate cardinal directional sense, and I told him that I honestly could not tell him which direction we were facing upon driving out of our driveway, and he was legit stunned by that. I was like a pre-teen or teen back then. But I don't think it could be caused by magnetic fields in our technology, because we've still had plenty of metal technology in our societes for over 100 years, and our parents and grandparents still have/had great directional sense. I think Shin's first theory is more logical, that the usefulness of our modern technology just makes it so that we don't have to exercise that part of our brains as often, usually not at all. It's like muscle atrophy: the less you use it, the weaker it becomes.

[@arielperez797]

so imagine relying on calculators, gps and google for quick answers. How much our brains will atrophy in the long run. We are relying more and more on technology that we might suffer in the long run.

[@LuciaFiero]

10.000 years ago, nature probably selected for an ability to well detect and analyse magnetic fields, but once humans settled into villages that they mostly never left their for their entire lives selection for it became less imperative. And today, either you have inherited this ability or you haven't.

[@janeymers7154]

Even then remembering landmarks and rotating the perspective on the way back with good spatial awareness is easier. Maybe its just a relic from our animal past. 10.000 years ago is 10.000 years after the first human settlement btw

[@fuju3695]

2009

[@bancodrut]

Interesting theory on the haritage of the ability! As I see it is more likely the ability/sensitivity to go dorment rather than just dissappear. Also because otherwise the experiment wouldn't be possible to make if people would have just lost it. There is also the part of the unconscious vs conscious level of our magnetic field sense, we might have lost the latter.. That's a possibility!

[@melgibson6331]

What if biblical text is loosly based on fact? Carbon dating is completely inaccurate and fossiles can form in a week. Newly formed Cave stalagtites, have been measured in feet ,created in less than a 50 year period. If we had the ability to do this its gone because of the modern environment, like bee colonies workers flying away but never returning or queen bees doing the same....sodium fluoride is a neroutoxin that is used in rat poison and the usa's drinking water. Might be why the new test group of students showed opposite results compared to a group that probably didnt ingest the iq lowering fluoride.

[@Bunny-qi6oe]

4:24 This team is laterally straight outta Paprika

[@racookster]

I thought the same thing! GFETE! (That's "Grinning From Ear To Ear.")

[@johnblount6341]

After moving from the northern hemisphere to the southern hemisphere my sense of north and south, east and west,, was completely reversed. Even after living here for years this still affects me.

[@GamePlague]

Maybe you take subtle cues from the shape of the earth. North is still north no matter where you are so it can't be a magnetic field issue.