I bought 1000 meters of wire to settle a physics debate [video]

Re:I bought 1000 meters of wire to settle a physics debate [... by randyrand on Friday December 17, 2021 @07:01PM (#29599864)

It’s not pedantic.

EMI “teleporting” outside of wires is a real world issue that engineers deal with constantly. FCC certification is almost entirely about this phenomenon.

It’s just told in a confusing controversial way.

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Re:I bought 1000 meters of wire to settle a physics debate [... by formerly_proven on Friday December 17, 2021 @07:09PM (#29599922)

I'm not an avid Veritasium viewer but from what I've seen this MO seems to be kinda his shtick.

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Re:I bought 1000 meters of wire to settle a physics debate [... by Jansen312 on Friday December 17, 2021 @08:10PM (#29600411)

Veritasium is the better teacher. The rest is just jumping on the bandwagon to grab viewerships. Think about it, back in your school days, you have an inspirational teacher that challenge or motivate you to pursue something. Rarely that teacher will spoonfed you with all information. I have many great teachers that explain well. But not a single one of them make it to the list of inspirational. I have 1-2 memorable teacher that really inspire me and they don't exactly explain things exceptionally clearly and all-in-one package. Veritasium is the kind of person that moves needles. Electroboom will be the inspired students to follow-up. The fact that he demo that wind car thing correctly and better than the specialist shows that he is the better teacher.

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Re:I bought 1000 meters of wire to settle a physics debate [... by blondin on Friday December 17, 2021 @09:49PM (#29601090)

sorry, veritasium is not / no longer the channel you think it is.

they are not out to teach first.

teaching became second at some point. making views became first and more important. it is totally understandable. (they talk about the team, paying people, etc.) i personally appreciate the honesty. the video they did around the subject should still be around.

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Re:I bought 1000 meters of wire to settle a physics debate [... by Ostrogodsky on Friday December 17, 2021 @11:18PM (#29601600)

This is the youtube generation. Entertainment, clicks and wow factor first (and money of course), facts a distant second.

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Re:I bought 1000 meters of wire to settle a physics debate [... by kzrdude on Saturday December 18, 2021 @05:37AM (#29603456)

They really managed to get a success this time: lots of views for this controversial video! But for me, it feels like a lot of credibility capital was spent. I was probably part of the core audience a few years ago.

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Re:I bought 1000 meters of wire to settle a physics debate [... by runarberg on Saturday December 18, 2021 @09:11PM (#29610722)

For me Veritasium lost all his credibility capital by the way he responded to Tom Nicholas’ video about YouTube sponsorships using Veritasium as a case study[1]. In stead of approaching the debate calmly (or better yet, simply ignoring it) he came to the comment section way too defensive, like a lot, basically calling Tom a lair and a bad actor.

Actually that is not quite true, Veritasium lost a bunch of his credibility capital when he made the sponsored content for the self driving cars. I never watched that video as I spotted it was basically and ad and was reluctant to watch his new stuff after that (though I did).

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM0aohBfUTc

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