White Gloves of Destiny (feat. Physics Girl) - Objectivity 198

Dianna Cowern (Physics Girl) takes a 'lucky dip' into the card catalogue at The Royal Society... What will she find?! More links below ↓↓↓
Featuring Dianna Cowern from KZbin channel Physics Girl speaking with Brady.
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[@no_handle_required]

Keith has such an interesting job, then again, so does Brady.

[@Varksterable]

Anything, once it's labelled as a 'job' instantly becomes less interesting, in my experience. I love mathematics, and fiddling about with stuff on computers and any number of other things. But given a specific 'job' to do with them, it becomes a necessity, not a joy. What Keith and Brady have is a deep interest and passion for what they do. That it pays for them to keep doing it is, I'm fairly sure, a very useful by-product of what they want to do regardless. It you truly love what you do to make a living, then that isn't really 'work' or 'a job' IMO. Just fortune, luck, and hard work getting there. Both Brady and Keith seem to have got to that point. And I sincerely hope that's really the case, because they obviously deserve to be there.

[@N.I.R.A.T.I.A.S.]

"James Clark Maxwell wrote like your mum?" I think I have a new entry in Favourite Things Keith Has Said.

[@jasper265]

It's lovely to see Dianna's endless curiosity. Wishing her all the strength to overcome her current predicament!

[@Luna-es3bq]

Hey Brady, I would really love to see a tour of The Royal Sociaty. I don't quite get where everything is relative to each other. Like, is the vault under ground? Who knows?

[@Jaimeelduende96]

Wouldn't there be some kind of security issue with this?

[@neruneri]

​@@Jaimeelduende96 Not really. The thing about priceless and unique artifacts is that they're priceless and unique artifacts. They're literally priceless and unique. There's no point in stealing the stuff, because there's no one who would pay for it. The reason no one would pay for it is because it would be pretty obvious that crime took place if the items end up in your hands. There's no monetary value associated with these artifacts, because there's no market for it in todays day and age. The majority of the value of the artifacts are related to scholarly pursuits, and if you're a scholar you already have access to them with relative ease. That's not to say that the oddball collector wouldn't like to have his hands on some of the stuff they have, but it's the same thing as stealing the Mona Lisa - sure, you'd have the Mona Lisa, but then you have to explain why you have the Mona Lisa, and odds are that relevant authorities would not look kindly upon you. As a collector, if you have to hide your artifact or face losing everything including your freedom, why even have the artifact to begin with? When it comes to artifacts like these, the thieves would be commissioned by the buyer before doing the job, but honestly most thieves wouldn't take that kind of job anyway because it's too clunky and annoying even for a thief. Why bother stealing priceless documents that anyone can trace and you can't easily get rid off, when you can just steal jewelry and harvest the gems and precious metals from that and sell it to anyone? Less risk, bigger market.

[@Jaimeelduende96]

@@neruneri Those are great points that I didn't consider, thank you for your answer.

[@Vardagaladhiel]

Dianna’s reaction of exhausted triumph was exactly how I feel when I manage to decipher someone’s terrible handwriting (old or modern)! Those diagrams were definitely a great find!

[@-Kerstin]

Wow, she has some Keith powers

[@MrSnowmandeath]

She nailed that 16th century translation. Fucking awesome job. Good episode Brady!

[@gaprilis]

Me being an electrical engineer and my wife a crystallographer, Dianna's choice of Maxwell's review on a crystallographic paper is as bull's eye as it gets for us! I would really be interested to have read that review.

[@YPOC]

Wöhlerite sounds very much as if it's named after August Wöhler, who had a big influence on mechanical engineering. He developed a very important test for material fatigue and endurance over repeated stresses. The Wöhler curve is to this day a vital piece of information about each material's characteristics.

[@hodegetisch]

wikipedia sagt es ist nach einem Friedrich Wöhler bennant

[@YPOC]

@@hodegetisch Well, then Objectivity has a new topic to make a video on :D

[@cybercat1531]

You are absolutely correct. As someone who once had an interest in Geology I almost instantly recognized that Diana had found something good when it mentioned Wöhlerite

[@nikolaskonstantinidis9349]

I must admit, I don't know anything about August Wöhler :/ But i happen to know that Wöhlerite is named after his namesake Friedrich Wöhler, a deceased German chemist well-known for his pioneering work in the field of organic chemistry (he, for example, synthesized urea) and the production or discovery of pure aluminium in 1827. I came across him while researching for my Master's thesis. So, that's why I know a little bit about Friedrich Wöhler.

[@rorrt]

When I saw this in my sub's feed I was soooo exited.. FInally! Two of my favourite youtubers on screen at the same time... Keith and Dianna!!!

[@qwertyTRiG]

Diane is clearly interested in everything. Wonderful! That's why her channel is such a delight.

[@j0nthegreat]

she is SO GOOD at reading that

[@j0nthegreat]

and also terrible jokes! lol

[@Knax4747]

The guy that wrote the paper, Miller, is the one responsible for the Miller indices notation, used widely in crystallography

[@Cadwaladr]

Maxwell's handwriting is better than my great great great grandpa's, who lived about the same time. I think Maxwell probably had a bit more education though.

[@simontay4851]

Yeah, just a _bit_

[@zeikjt]

0:43 I love that the card itself says "James Clerk Maxwell" haha C'mon Keith get someone to fix that typo :D

[@InfiniteWater_]

Amazing! 😊☺️

[@kguy152000]

Super delightful. I admittedly took a second to get her "handy" joke.

[@Epinardscaramel]

5:12 the footnotes are in French!

[@graphite2786]

A while back Keith mentioned that he had a fossil collection.... Can we see it???

[@Kae6502]

Three of my favorite KZbinrs! Was going to save this one for the weekend. Didn't make it. :)

[@triton62674]

A Brit, Australian and American walk into a bar...

[@FlyingSavannahs]

The American asks the Brit, "This is a nice pub. Whose is it?" The Brit answers, "It's the Maxwell House!"

[@Varksterable]

Brady, Keith, and Dianna all in a 'white gloves' objectivity post just minutes before I opened KZbin by accident. 😍 And it's a good one, too. Seems like there is nothing in the Archives that Brady can't make interesting. Nothing that Keith can't add information and insight (and dry wit) to. And now, nothing that PG can't be excited and enthusiastic about? I do hope the WGOD can be repeated by previous guests; it would be great to make arbitrary comparisons between multiple tries. (And yeah; Physics Girl and Objectivity seem like too great a team for only a few episodes.)

[@captianmorgan7627]

I had no problem reading the second paper. But then that's close to how my mom writes. I also liked it better than the first one. I'd have liked to read more.

[@Epinardscaramel]

Brady, could you do a France-themed episode for Bastille day? (July 14th)

[@webchimp]

Got anything big planned for episode 200?

[@innocentqwa4630]

Strange question: Is there a place where people can see digital versions of these texts and images? (I think they would be beautiful as decals over simple paintings)

[@heynando]

- What is he saying? - I don't know. There's no pictures. LOL

[@io4439]

Amazing that Francesco's paper would be read again in 2019

[@slikrx]

If, for some oddball reason, I got to wear the gloves of destiny, and then keep them, I'd save them in shadow box or something. It was great seeing Dianna here. And, as always, a great episode. This series has been my favorite on youtube since the first episode with the piece of wood (I think that was it? either went to space or from Newton's tree?) Anyhow, thanks for another great episode!

[@ScottTilYouDrop]

Love that jacket on Keith!

[@joelhaynie5056]

Kieth can rock the Purple Corduroy Velvety Jacket!

[@ScottTilYouDrop]

Love Maxwell pretty please can we have some more he deserves more screen time 😊❤❤

[@heyandy889]

Keith is Dianna's brother from another mother

[@johnathansaegal3156]

1868... 100 years before I was born, so there's a 365 to one odd that paper was written exactly a century prior to my birthday... these are things that I think about.

[@allancollins1937]

Use of the gloves reminds me of folks in the Middle Ages using Vergil's Aeneid to find out the future. The story goes that one closes his or her eyes, opens to a random page and points to a line of text. The future is found there!

[@XmarkedSpot]

Dianna is amazing. I suggest to watch her episode with Rodney Mullen discussing the physics of skateboarding.

[@FlyingSavannahs]

I got plenty of scars in San Diego in 1967 exploring that topic on the hill that we lived. The Z-boys hadn't even made it to F yet.

[@myates4652]

Maybe you have spoken of this before(maybe someone will point me in the right direction), but why are the classified papers called the classified papers. Is it because they are categorized, or is it because they were only available to authorized persons?

[@FlyingSavannahs]

It's the former. If the ceilings were higher, it could be the 'ladder' too!

[@chaiguy1337]

Yay cross-overs!

[@VAXHeadroom]

You could do a whole series of these videos randomly dipping into the archives - please?!? :)

[@ObjectivityVideos]

We have! Here's the playlist: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l6rdfJ-GfsiFgbc

[@sniffy6999999]

Brady must have an amazing phone book.

[@astropgn]

To be honest, it would be a great thing to be able to read the comments these giant scientists did while reviewing someone else's papers. I would love to have all Maxwell's or Feynman's comments on other papers. Imagine that?

[@_Clemens]

At 0:41 he touches the cards without gloves.

[@1996Pinocchio]

Annoyes me in every single video.

[@IDoNotLikeHandlesOnYT]

Did you miss Keith touching the actual over-a-century-old papers with bare hands? Sometimes that's actually considered better than with any kind of gloves, depending on the type of artefact.

[@luiskp7173]

Ian Oliver Totally, nowadays is widely accepted that handling old books with white gloves does more damage that bare hands.

[@aurelia8028]

Aha! So Maxwell made a parker square in the field of crystallography "by having a go at it" xD

[@astrophysics3181]

My two favorite things. Hell ya. :P

[@philwesom8784]

that pun tho...

[@MrBibibip]

do they have papers from isaac newton?

[@illuminati.official]

Dianna's such a physicist, going down into the archives and asking Keith how everything works.

[@LeoStaley]

No, she's a closet engineer.

[@aiqueibao3eeGai9ahki]

That second handwriting is honestly not too far of from my own. Then again, quite some people have complained about it, over the years.

[@KipIngram]

Hey, you can't go wrong with Maxwell.

[@Elmacheto]

Physics Girl, best Girl! But Brady is fine too :D

[@KarlFarbman]

Documentivity

[@forgetfulfunctor2986]

KIETH NEEDS HIS OWN NETFLIX SPECIAL

[@culwin]

I can read that writing pretty well. But only because it's better than mine.

[@klausolekristiansen2960]

Maxwell. That is top drawer!

[@robnorris4770]

Clerk or Clark?

[@kliop00023]

0:46 petty sure it shows Clerk, and they pronounce it that way.

[@LeoStaley]

@@kliop00023 and at 1:03 they spell it how they pronounce it.

[@1996Pinocchio]

Clerk

[@kliop00023]

@@LeoStaley i think mainly is the British accent :P

[@LeoStaley]

His name is James *Clerk* Maxwell. Not Clark.

[@likebot.]

The British pronuciation of the name and the title "clerk" is "clark". Edit: actually, we North Americans hear "clock" when they pronounce it properly.

[@kliop00023]

0:46 petty sure it shows Clerk, and they pronounce it that way.

[@LeoStaley]

@@kliop00023 a few seconds later, they spell it Clark in the video.

[@LeoStaley]

@@kliop00023 1:03

[@1996Pinocchio]

@@LeoStaley That's probably a typo

[@pressurechangerecord]

No controversy then hey?

[@Czeckie]

I want to be at least 1% as cheerful as diana is

[@perfumedmanatee6235]

Brady! Stop bringing every interesting thing down! Be excited!

[@arunodaydey3383]

Try diffrent captions...catchy ones.....coz the content is pretty cool...but the captions dont do justice to it

[@1996Pinocchio]

Happy π-day, everyone

[@ViniOnTheRocks]

Brady, Brady, Brady!

[@PalimpsestProd]

4:30 this is an astonishing display of generations being affected by technology. That hand writing is not difficult to read, I'm 51 and read it with reasonable speed Keith is better at it, the under 30s in this vid have what my schools would have called a severe impairment in reading cursive. I'd point out that I am an early adopter type, built my 1st computer in 1984 (16th birthday) and have been using word processors ever since. Where's the cutoff for impairment, 7 like everything else?

[@MiguelAPerez]

I’m a simple person: I see Diana, I upvote. 🙂

[@eekpie]

Terry A Davis is watching from above

[@y0uthinasia]

Ligma?? Noice.

[@GameDr04]

I would 100% wear that shirt.

[@EtzEchad]

She really put her finger on it with that last pun.

[@alwysrite]

once again one person uses ogloves and then others using plain old fingers to turn the pages. Does not make sense to me..ditch the gloves !

[@Rangifulla]

Who's farting @ 00:18

[@social3ngin33rin]

Physics girl

[@sam08g16]

She's so cute

[@trespire]

Fancy physics girl randomly pick an early paper on crystallography, with pictures and all. I'm sure she cheated by taking a peek.

[@ChandrasegaranNarasimhan]

I would suggest that english be adopted as international language standard. If a person is not bi-lingual, each nation employ a translator. Why? Why? We are in 21st century and Google can do that for you. So my suggestion is of no use.

[@cihangirozyurt6076]

Boring AF! :D