Note: Volume on, that head smack is so satisfying. This is a video of a man convinced the laws of physics don’t apply to him attempting to stand against the wall of a centrifugal Gravitron. Admittedly, he does a fairly decent job, and I know exactly what I’m going to
Note: Video is not for the easily motion sick. This is a first person POV video from a projectile launched by SpinLaunch, an upstart company that aims (for the heavens!) to shoot small satellites and other space-bound equipment into the atmosphere using a giant centrifuge (aka suborbital mass accelerator). The
These are several videos (and there’s plenty more where that came from) from driving simulation game BeamNG.drive, which utilizes “soft body” (read: unrealistic) physics. In these particular clips, cars are pitted against a giant bulge (not unlike mine) in the middle of the road to see how they respond. Honestly,
This is a video of Slow Mo Guys Gav and Dan shooting a Newton’s Cradle desktop physics toy and filming the action in ultra slow motion. The resulting footage may surprise you, especially if you expected to see anything but a Newton’s Cradle getting shot in ultra-slow motion. No bikini
This is a computer simulation of a pallet of wood being dropped on a car to visually compare the effect of gravity on different planets in our solar system. Is it accurate? Hell if I know. It was fun to watch though. And if it is accurate, I actually learned
Because rocket science isn’t for everyone, this is a video of a man attempting to take a photo from a plane by opening a small window for a clearer view and getting the camera sucked out of his hands into the wild blue yonder. I don’t know, next time maybe
These are two TikTok videos of Texas A&M University physics and astronomy professor Dr. Tatiana Erukhimova demonstrating inertia (the property of an object to resist change in its motion) with two experiments: one involving pounding a knife through a skewered potato with a rubber mallet, and another dropping an egg
This is a video from WIRED of astrophysicist Paul M. Sutter answering questions asked on Twitter. Questions like what is dark matter, how many exoplanets are there, what’s it like a black hole, and what is a parallel universe? Unfortunately, he did not answer any of the love and relationship