Magnetic Uranium - Periodic Table of Videos

[mtdeezy]

I'd love to see a video explaining how to read the types of diagrams used to show molecules like the one in this video.

[HRHooChicken]

and this is what we call a single malt whiskey

[Subparanon]

1:30 That cheeky bastard. No wonder he's so popular with the ladies. 

[maxjovine]

did he just say this only works below 2 degrees Kelvin??

[piszczello]

@maxjovine Yep.

[michalchik]

You can't use a radioactive compound for high density data storage. Think of a 10 terabyte disk about the best we have now. Assume 1 molecule per bit and 2 U per molecule. That is 160 trillion uranium atoms. U-238 has a half life of 4 billion years.Within 1 year there would be 10's of thousands of bits lost.

[Koroistro]

@michalchik yup , but they might find a more stable element instead Uranium. Actualy i think is just research purpose.

[michalchik]

@Koroistro I just hate it when scientists BS about applications. It is just cool that he has made a tiny magnet.

[Bromirez]

@michalchik They said they were going to use depleted uranium though.

[Bugatti15Veyron]

Do you guys think he just has a drawer full of those dog toys he uses to show the structures of things? lol

[cpnebelsky]

@Bugatti15Veyron In a few of the videos, he goes into a rather large box of dog toys to pick out one that looks like the molecule they're talking about in the video.

[AlphaKiloFive]

To all the haters of Dr. Martyn's desktop, hear me out:

"If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign ?"

[StarSpawn06]

1:07 "old fashioned ipods"

again I am reminded of how rapidly technology advances nowadays :o

[mobabur94]

what program is that?

[theblueisyou]

1:30 thats a weird lookin dildo

[akanippy]

We need this thing to work at room temperature before it will be any use

[K0lsyr4]

Its so blue that you think its black :D

[momojoe3]

What are these 1st and 2nd properties for the support of magnetization? I am very curious

[o0oo0ooo0oooo0ooooo0]

5:05 the screensaver goes from one desktop over to the other and continues there :D

[TheNelsonGonzalez]

'They're not black Dougal, just very very very very very very very very very very very very very very dark blue. Only priests have truly black socks.'

Kinda reminds me of this....stuff.

[Tmaker197812]

I did not know that it's possible now to synthesize such complex molecules: reminds me of metalloproteins - hemoglobin, hemocyanin, chlorophyll ...

[douro20]

The most striking thing about this molecule is its symmetry; it's nearly perfectly symmetrical around the toluene group in the middle. And this property could have something to do with its magnetism.

[urantivirus]

Do chemists believe in god? That was a good sixtysymbols video. :)

[samedelsten1]

FKIN MAGNETS HOW DO THEY WORK!?!

[trisnjok]

@samedelsten1 how the magnets work? wizardry and black magic, dude. how don't you know that? Its taught in grade one at the Hogwarts primary school.

[tyab87]

@TheLightningStalker ...please Please PLEASE know something about the subject before you post.

[shittart583]

why do all old scientists look like crazy mad scientists

[linkuei83]

@shittart583 not crazy, eccentric.

[Tmaker197812]

@shittart583 because all earth scientists are killer clowns from Mars )))

[PinutXXL]

5:34 sheldon, is that you?

[vmelkon]

This is sort of like the discovery of fluorochromothermoluminecsence­. It has no application but it is a curiosity. Also, that one still doesn't have an explanation to it.

[jaydominic]

Steve Liddle... the URANIUM MAN!!! :D

[AndromedaChao2]

0:15- someone could get his tognue tied, knotted and tangled should he try and say THAT compund's name really fast! LOL

[RagingBubuli]

Hey these scientist says it only works on extremely cold tempreture, Why not use them on deep space explorations?

[xXxMISTATRIGGAxXx]

the white haird guy is having a mini siezure... when does he stop gesturing?

[sbergman27]

@xXxMISTATRIGGAxXx Of course, he's accumulated more knowledge than you likely will in your lifetime. I would suggest that you apply yourself more effectively.

[takeoUup115]

@xXxMISTATRIGGAxXx i think its parkasons , i know i did not spell that right , but yeah it makes me sad because hes a wonderful fellow

[Typho0n86]

damn you need to clean that computers desktop :P

[EndofDays213]

probably not with computers but with other things for sure

[fig8man]

i like how you use dog toys for your examples!

[soberek]

"Steve Liddle, the uranium man"... I'd love to meet the Iron Man, man of steel, super man, and kryptonite man.

[Gooberslot]

I'd love to have uranium in my hard drive.

[DazIOM1140]

I tried typing into Google just to see and it failed to give me anything at all.

[dzuari]

desktop icons!

[jaydominic]

@dzuari just can't get enough of them icons... they're like pokemon!  :D

[djscottdog1]

subed cos these vids are super interesting

[campbellstomato]

american hard drives use zeros and ones ;)

[g0dl1k30111]

@boswell255

Most likely accidental discovery, those who can indeed theoretically conjure up and then physically design are referred to as "Gods"

[g0dl1k30111]

The Al-Qaeda Hard Disk Drive

[MrAMColes]

I think hard drives will be completely replaced by soild state drives by the time this is nearly possible

[Prstvlkkrtek]

if people were able to get a similar compound with thorium, they could easily use it in computers since thorium is not known as the 'boogeyman' like uranium is.

[jacksawild]

mono-molecular knives?

[boswell255]

When chemists set out to invent/discover these molecules, what comes first? Do they work out what they need, and then design the molecule on paper, then set out to make it, or do they 'discover' it and put it to use?

[filippo333]

Prof, your should arrearage all your desktop icons to look like a periodic table :P

[taylort123]

I'd love Uranium in my computer

[dpostuk]

Monster Molecule ^^

[DrSaxxy]

The downside is if you have a HD crash all that's left of your house is a crater. lol jk

[Tal125R]

not uranium, Iranoium!

[KillahMate]

Happy to see I'm not the only one who was made very uncomfortable by the enormous amount of icons on that desktop :-)

[02daft]

Dickhead theres nothing amazing about you're discovery, what you should consider is that it's Uranium and it pollutes the planet, retard.

[GReaper]

@02daft

The only retard here, is the one who claims that uranium per definition pollutes.

[02daft]

@GReaper If it's used in a comercial product , it will pollute.period.

[MaxPFC]

@02daft The planet has millions of Kilos of Uranium beneath it's surface. It's completely natural thats why it's called an element. It's one of the elements that makes up our wourld and therefore is not "Bad"

[02daft]

@MaxPFC It becomes bad when used commercialy, it is enriched or dumped.

[mdma4life]

That is one bitchin molecule 0:15

[docatomics]

...seek the data storage "ark" device that was recently retrieved form below the cooling pool ~ below the Sphinx on the Upper Nile (Marty now has the authority & duty to demand access under common wealth laws)

=what you seek will be found in that artifact component

>arrangements will be made in preparation for said "request", act quickly friends, the day is stretching fast.

<best not to tell them eye sent you if not asked !

[Wabading]

1:34 = funny shaped dildo

[762gunr]

Professor, you have icon issues on your desktop.......just like me

[de0509]

what uranium isotopes are not radioactive?

[ImMichaelTaylor]

@de0509 Uranium 238 is only very weakly radioactive. It has a half life of about four billion years, so you can see its nuclei only decay very rarely. The stuff they use in smoke detectors is far more active.

[de0509]

@ImMichaelTaylor thanks, so is it that none of their isotopes are stable?

[ImMichaelTaylor]

@de0509 That's right. Even the most stable one is not perfectly stable.

[lexichronicle2]

0:40 check out how many icons the overlord has on his desktop :D

Tidy up Martyn!!!!!

[fairyheli2]

@lexichronicle2 he stores all of those files with a uranium hard drive

[EPICT0ASTER]

@lexichronicle2 it matches his real desktop!

[capodastaro]

Looks black but blue?

"That's right, Dougal. You see, ordinary shops sell what look like black socks, but if you look closely, you'll see that they're very, very, very, very, very, very, very dark blue." - Father Ted.

[joocrazyman455]

@capodastaro hahahah so good

[Marius86HN]

1:31 Butt-Plug

[muhammaddh]

@ 1:32 .The prof. couldn't find a regular magnet so he brought his wife's ancient dildo! :D

[EA78751]

excellent research, and hooray for x-ray crystallography. I imagine that was not an easy sample to crystallize.

[anonysquirrel]

naught = zero

[computerfreaq17]

Anyone wondering why the professor has a cat or dog toy in his office?

[1lAllanl1]

Boooooooooooooooooriiiiiiiiiii­iing

[Waterboy109]

"it's so blue it looks black" how do they know that it is blue? how do they find this out?

[computerfreaq17]

@Waterboy109 With a colour sensing tool. I have one and they work pretty well!

[Ping500]

rox! Thumps up.

Is similarity of Mr. ScienceDude to Einsteins famous Image wanted?

[PortaleMedia]

Nice hair bro.

[TraxxasRustlerKing]

Firstly, great hair that guys has.

Secondly, to produce better videos you should use a tripod and background beat. Content is great though.

[UltraSaatana666]

That professor looks too stereotypical to be a real professor, I'm pretty sure he's just an actor.

[Nilpferdschaf]

Look at the computer screen in the background and you see why windows sucks. Anyway, HDDs are a very old technology and I think it's time for some innovations in that area.

[computerfreaq17]

@Nilpferdschaf Actually, I think that instead of using spinning discs, we should just use Solid States instead of discs. They don't crash, they don't have a disadvantage for moving heads (which adds up for waiting time for the head to seek the disk) they are quiet, they can take a force shock, and they consume little energy. They do have the disadvantage of being worn out like flash drives, but these are being refined and improved. I doubt in the future we'll use disks anymore... =D

[wispa2]

@Nilpferdschaf Well why dont you think of one then!

[lebac]

OMG! It's mad scientist from Robot Chicken!

[Patton662]

This might rival SSDs in the future, seems very unlikely though.

[desmo750f1]

@EmptyMellon and @chabi3000 He says "below 2 degrees absolute" not "2 degrees below absolute". So it's impractical but not impossible.

[Crankchicken]

Daumen hch wer von GAME STAR GEkommen ist

[Marius86HN]

@Crankchicken Auf Gamestar dachte ich, der Doktor ist ein Fake aus Command & Conquer ^^

[Crankchicken]

@Marius86HN xD

[Themayseffect]

i hope it can work for solid state drives. SATA(hard drives) are going to be obsolete in years to come!!

[nsawilla]

@Themayseffect

ever seen a 2TByte SSD?

who gives a fuck about faster hard disks? doesnt increase your system performance significantly and SSDs have a long way to go til they are affordable and big enough.

[jtipping29]

@nsawilla

have you ever used a computer with an SSD? They are significantly faster to use under day-to-day than a standard HDD. Computers with a small 'boot' SSD to run everything, with a traditional HDD for storing data, are not expensive and are practical. You don't know what you're talking about.

[HolyGfunnies]

@Themayseffect

most SSDs use SATA too u idiot. SSDs don't use magnetism so this will not work for SSDs u idiot.

[daffodilistic]

Congrats, you're on The Escapist!

[monobrowlord]

i still think quantum computers are the way forward... stuff the whole 'one molecule for a 1, another for 0' idea, have one fundamental particle (which is a heck of a lot smaller than any molecule) which can be both 1 and 0 at the same time.

good work though, i'm interested in both radioactivity and magnetism so i would love to be able to play about with the stuff but i think if its so easy to demagnetise by temperature my neodymium magnets would mess everything up rather quickly...

[d1353lp0w3r]

i wonder how many times that professor has been electrocuted

[Chikiwi123]

the professor's tie just looks like his desktop :D

[TheTruthNothinMore]

That guy has a hell of a sex toy there.

[carlocoxxxnutten]

can't focus due to his tremor and his unconscious attempts at hiding it

[TheCLion]

that prof looks like he survived the black mesa incident

[SunRunStudios]

lol that professor looks so cliched

[TheStargalaxi]

crazy einstein ;)

[EmptyMellon]

2 Degrees BELOW absolute zero...that sums it all up...keep on thinking.

[chabi3000]

@EmptyMellon fahrenheit or celcius degrees ?

[EmptyMellon]

@chabi3000 It's ABSOLUTE ZERO, that means there is nothing (thermodynamically) thermally lower ("colder") then that; and the world's scientific community measures it in (zero Kelvin) 0 K ( −273.15°C or −459.67°F). Absolute Zero is, "absolute". That is like askinng, if you're a dead christian or muslim. When you are dead you are DEAD.  So 2°C BELOW absolute zero is only theoretical, at the moment, hence "in the future". Hope this helps.

[chabi3000]

@EmptyMellon yup . Thanks bro .

[fluxu5]

Good idea, unfortunately i think that there will never be a hard drive with such an uranium molecule. First question of crouse would be the cooling, and second would be how to find the other hard drive components, which still work at near to absolute zero-conditions. This is the major problem in CERN, the whole particle acceleration only works at absolute zero-conditions. It would be a trillions of euro project to make such a hard drive work.

[KFCMmuc]

The Professor's Hairdo looks like that 'monster' molecule... :-D

[elpsychodiablo]

No Uranium at my home sry :D

[schlitzohr18]

The professor wears the same tie as the monitor in the background

[525047]

Only the professor can randomly pull out a dog toy and still maintain credibility.

[Alfalfa2210]

Ethylenediaminetetraactic acid, you have been replaced =D

[RectumPilum]

My new album is definetly going to be called

bis(bis(N-trimethylisilylimino­diphenylphosphorano) methanide uranium iodo) toluenediide

[Bilbo940]

What was the other property?

[Coredeath]

these videos are truly some of the most interesting on youtube! Thank you, keep them coming!

[MasterOvCreation]

Lab Partner: Yo, Paul! How old is your external hard drive?!? This thing's got to weigh 45 pounds.

Paul: Naw dude, that there is a depleted-uranium drive capable of storing 500,000 terabytes with a 5 horse power motor. It's the way of the future man!!

Awesome video and "super-cool" concept!!

[stossan]

5:34 That sounds sooo... funny? :D

[taltigolt]

GREAT SCOTT!

[taltigolt]

i absolutely love that hair i get back to the future vibes

[archaedemos]

neat!

[pcdsgh]

I'd buy that! (when it'll be cheap xD)

hard disks are sealed, so there's little chance of that compound escaping. And I assume it also has to be non-radioactive uranium for it to be usable for extended periods of time.

I think there are far more dangerous compounds in the electronics around us

correct me if I'm wrong

[ninjaswordtothehead]

@pcdsgh I completely agree. The stuff in the batteries in our cell phones, mp3 players, etc. are far more dangerous in my understanding. I look at this having a similar principle as common table salt; the two elements involved, sodium and chlorine, are both very dangerous on their own, yet combined they are safe. Just because the material used can be dangerous, that does not mean it is dangerous. Good point.

[aleksandersandstrom]

Dildo of doom @1:30

[Hydralisk731]

@Hydralisk731 not that it poses a problem to any potential uranium containing disks in the future. It just needs to be constructed with some redundancies.

[Hydralisk731]

@Jimbo8086 I believe that we are talking about two different things, my post has nothing to do with the radiation that the decay causes.The problem that arises when using a radioactive element for molecule magnets in a hard drive and having a single molecule represent a bit (Chantarelles original point) is that if the radioactive element in that molecule decays that bit is lost. If a non-radioactive element were to be used, then the disk would not suffer from this specific kind of data loss.

[jarjarbinks77]

Uranium is pretty rare right so it seems that would make for expensive hard drives, besides solid state drives are the way to go.

[gwydiot]

what's the "Me" stand for in the formula? if it's a methyl group, they spelled it out CH3 on the bottom.

[Hydralisk731]

@Jimbo8086 U238 is a radioactive isotope. Your point was?

[vileguile4]

-2K .. unless it's a speek-o, or some result of a calculation, would it mean that you would need an energy equal to 2 degress to get it to 0k?

[johnjaksic61]

@vileguile4

Unless I am very wrong--the molecule must be - 271 degrees centigrade to be effective magnetically---energetically speaking--it's synthesis should be rather involved (difficult)

[zombieX111222333]

bis(bis(N-trimethylsilyliminod­iphenylphosphorano) methanide uranium iodo) toluenediide thats a lot of science in one word.

[BuickDoc]

This comment does not go to this video. I was watching a youtube video by airboyd about WW II aircraft. The film mentioned that the American Aircraft Industry had found a new way to bend metal pipe (I presume steel). The process involved melting a non-specified metal in boiling water and filling the pipe with the molten metal, and cool it. Then the bend would not crimp the pipe, but maintain the ID. Then dip the pipe in hot water and pour the metal out. I presume they were speaking of Gallium.

[Envergure]

Someone should invent modular dog toys for chemists.

[rageagainstthebath]

I love how The Prof With The Hair always brings in his "teaching aides" in this unexpected manner. I always stare and listen to what he says, and BAM! Here he goes with rattles and stuff. ;)

[inulalala]

Has he a dog? or why does the professor have so many dog-toys?

[chpdm]

@inulalala It's pretty sad if you can't understand why he uses dog toys. Have you ever looked at them?

[inulalala]

@chpdm xD I do understand why he uses them and its very funny that you can explain scientifical things with them, but i wonder where he got the idea from...

[deanbrickland]

turn on subtitles. fucked up

[jguy584]

Does negative 2k even make sense? Isn't that like asking what's bluer than blue?

[genieieiop]

I love the way the professor demonstrates things with dog toys. :D

[Pygar2]

Looks like uranium with antlers...

[Castle3179]

Thats a long name. Wwwwwwwwwwwwooooooooooooowwww!

like if you agree.

[localfuckingized]

so many icons on that desktop....

[Hydralisk731]

That sure is a lot of icons!

@GoldenChantarelle since all isotopes of uranium is subject to radioactive decay, finding a non-radioactive one might prove difficult.

[Borrisbeaner]

what a coincidence, that was my great grandmothers name

[Hunnter2k3]

That's a pretty nice looking molecule.

[kingzing12]

wow long name

[srbomachina]

the professor has unused icons on his desktop!

[MrJaganmangat1989]

@srbomachina bcoz of top rated comments like this,i just click on watch on YouTube icon instead of watching the video where it was embedded.Dammit lol.hahaha......at first site of the professor i thought of Albert Einstein.Nice hairs professor,may be you can get girls around you.

[Dorfjunge]

@srbomachina

and his Tie looks like his desktop too! xD

[SunRunStudios]

@srbomachina where i can't see it?

[kingtakan]

@srbomachina "If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, Of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?" Einstein

[ulkord]

@srbomachina unused icons?

[wallis34]

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[wallis34]

physorg.com/news/2011-04-break­through-holy-grail-storage.htm­l

[fPARAQ]

If anything, and if they even succeed in making these harddrives work, i'd think server storage for companies and such would improve and increase quite a lot.

[yusukeshinyama]

I like how the professor Poliakov emphasizes the importance of scientific papers that make people think.

[GoldenChantarelle]

If it happens to be a radioactive isotope of U then after some time it will fall apart and your data would get corrupted. I think that is a problem, so unless you can be sure you ONLY use U²³⁸, how can you make sure your data won't be corrupted?

That is, if the idea is as i understand it to store 1 bit of data per molecule. As I understood it, that is the point of using single molecule magnets for data storage, maybe I misunderstood it though. Maybe you use several molecules per bit instead?

[Films4You]

Isn't this also the name of a Welsh town LOL