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  • And...this is why I have chosen to write a research paper about this topic. <3

  • Why doesn't it run through the glass? I don't understand what's so weird about it running through the plug; it could just be something with a really low density, like fabric. It's not though, because the helium wouldn't run through it when it wasn't in the superfluid state.

  • @alekojlime its running through the tube because of one of its properties that allows to to seep through holes that are an atom in diameter

  • thms up if ur waching cuz of vsauce

  • pretty cool :D

  • How can it stay inside that container??

  • How are they able to contain it in the experiment?

  • if you guys like this experiment, I urge you all to watch this fantastic documentary called "Absolute Zero"

    /watch?v=y2jSv8PDDwA&feature=s­h_e_se&list=SL

  • What happens to things when they reach near zero, as far as time dilation is concerned.

  • @bicnarok

    Don't think time dilation is concerned at all...

    The closer to absolute zero matter gets, the less the particles vibrate in it. Theoretically, absolute zero is reached when all movement ceases, which has never been achieved. But I don't think absolute zero conditions would affect time dilation in any way... correct me if I'm wrong >.>

  • I know Professor Robert Taylor.

    You jelly?

  • @tomovids No, I'm human.

  • • SandustanBrasov

    The subatomic particles, viz ethereal particles from atoms and molecules maintain themselves the them inertial and eternal motion, thus the absolute zero is a thermic point of which we can approach, but we can not reach.This is the natural situation of the matter seen and unseen.We can not stop the inertial and internal motion from chemical matter or from ethereal mater. If it stop this motion, then can exist not the gravity and the actual celestial motion with the her order.

  • • SandustanBrasov

    In the case of the superconductivity, the electrons it move not among atoms, but it move among atoms the thermic photons = the photons of the thermic radiations, which are eliminate from one body when it reduce the temperature towards zero degrees Kelvin. And in this state the motion of the electrons of conduction can ensure an uniform magnetic field in the conductor's round through which let circulate the electrical current= the particles of the electrical ether.

  • • SandustanBrasov

    Although is not possible to reach the absolute zero, the investigating men had approached this zone of low temperature, and they had seen that the matter it present with new state: of superconductivity, of superfluidity, the state Bose-Einstein condensate or Meissner effect. At the state of superfluidity the liquid respect not the equilibrium at horizontal line, and at the state of superconductivity the electrical resistance it diminish near at zero.

  • • SandustanBrasov

    Through the notion of temperature we understand how much is warm or is cold a body. And we ubderstand how of rapid oscillate the atoms or the moleculesat that one body. The absolute zero is only a theoretical notion which can not be obtained because the internal inertial motion, from matter, can not be stoped. This stoping of this motion mean the stoping the gravitational interaction which is identically - an impossible thing.

  • • SandustanBrasov

    The heat is produced by the fight between the inductive magnetic field with the induced magnetic field; fields to whose particles it collide and it combine as some electrical contrary radiations. Thus the source of heat had entered directly in the metallic piece fot heating and it transform continuously in the heat and the light of the metallic bar, to whose temperature arrive in few seconds at 1000 degrees Celsius. Thus it consume electrical ether and not electrons.

  • • SandustanBrasov

    Let's see how it produce thermic photons or heat in a industrial installation for heating metals. The installation it compose from rectifier,inverter and zone of load. Among them being disposed equipment of cooling, of command and control.The inverter transform power of continuous current in power of average frequency at 8000 Hz.The part named zone of load is formed from battery of condensers and from inductive coils and through the them interior pass bars of metal for heating

  • • SandustanBrasov

    About the light from the electrical bulb the spacial brothers say us: "We see how the electrical ether -named of you electricity- how flow on the electrical wire on him above and it drain through the bulb's filament as in a watering can and give the seen light of you. This electrical ether is gathered by the yours generators through the rotor's rotation which attract thise particles from space, it condense them and send them through the yours wires as let will lighten on you.

  • brain.exe crashed

  • Chuck Norris drink this every day

  • VSAUCE ARMY COMING THROUGH

  • I wonder if Sub Zero could hangle temperatures this low.

  • this looks so danger... and interesting @@

  • The best way to cool a beer.

  • @SquawkThroughs Beer begins to fall through glass.....

    FUUUUUUU-

  • Peed in a water bottle during this video

  • i wonder what would happen your hand if you dipped it in there..

  • @Halpin994 It's freeze, down to the bone, you would be able to pull your hand apart with no pain and ease.

  • @wowkidlrn2play Only in holywood mate. The liquid would boil off without even touching your hand for quite some time before doing what you said. Used to have an initiation test for new PhD students in the lab where we would drop a rubber bing into a dewar of N2(l). So long as they didnt take too long rummaging around for it, they could pull it out with ease. The only thing that risked burning their hand was the sub-zero bung, not the N2(l)

  • Can helium become a solid? if not is it the only element that can't become a solid?

  • @TuckerWooldridge its freezing point is below absolute zero and there for is impossible

  • @stress4567 But I think it can provided that you put huge amount of pressure onto that system. Even hydrogen can form solid. (i think its in jupiter)

  • never would hav thot any liquid could hav no viscosity. it blows my mind!

  • I dunno if this has been asked already or whatnot... but if the superfluid has 0 (zero) viscosity -- and it flows happily through the plug that held it... wtf was keeping it in?!

  • ˇatoms of helium act like one mindˇ (no indiviual atoms jumping around) ... so that means that waters is retarted :D

  • Look at his face as the video goes on, you can see him having a science-gasm :L

  • If it's impossible to reach absolute zero, how do we know what temperature it is?

  • @Meman136 It was calculated by William Thompson (Lord Kelvin)

  • @Meman136 Via a mathematical linear extrapolation. When all molecules cease movement. Based on the basic gas laws. The reason why we can't reach them is because, as with all gases, they become liquids at a certain point. There's a wikipedia article on absolute zero.

  • i sound normal because he is british

  • 1 drop of liquid helium and my thirst is already full

  • holy crap that's the most craziest thing i've ever seen!!!!!!!!

  • thumbs up if you looked quick and read Ben Stiller...

  • he asked "WHY CANT YOU GET TO ABSOLUTE ZERO"! answer the damn question!

  • We're made of weird stuff like this!

  • Bonus is that since the overall pressure differential is minimal, the walls can be made of cheaper thinner materials. Increased container weight can be an issue, but using a spongelike rigid solid fill in the pressure gradient layers also retains structural strength inexpensively when properly internally reinforced.

    For thermal gradient layers the same principal is in play, the more thermal isolation gradient layers, the easier it is to lower the innermost zone to near absolute zero cheaply.

  • Let's say you want 100% vacuum in a drum. Well, a full vacuum is hard to maintain and dangerous in case of container fracture. But if you have 3 GRADIENT LAYERS of vacuum, then it's a breeze. Outermost LAYER is where you are (at Sea Level = 101.325 kPa). 1st LAYER should be 1/2 that pressure = 50.675 kPa). 2nd LAYER should be 1/4 pressure = 25.338 kPa. 3rd LAYER should be 1/8 pressure = 12.669 kPa. Your innermost layer can then be evacuated to zero pressure. Minimal explosive implosion.

  • How to efficiently reduce pressures and temperatures you ask?

    Firstly LAYERS. Think of a winter coat trapping your body heat with lots of insulating fibers. Now think of a thermos limiting heat loss to a tiny amount of conductive thermal transfer (physical contact) and radiant thermal transfer (infrared energy wavelengths). Now LAYER your object-to-be-cooled in multiple containers with minimal physical contact with each container LAYER.

    The key is GRADUAL LAYER ENERGY CHANGES.

  • ...so ghosts CAN be real?? O.o

  • it runs through the plug, but not though the big glass container...so what is the plug made of?

  • we can unite all humans by freezing them! ice queen was right!

  • this guys is unbearably british

  • solid helium?

  • i wonder if you can make solid helium

  • Drink it.

  • @Aliousis it would run right through you :)

  • @glasspuff with zero viscosity it would be in every crack and crevice of your body.

  • @Aliousis nnnnoooooooooooooooooooooooooo­ooooo!!!!!!!!!!

  • That is amazing....

  • came here because of vsauce stayed beacause of his accent

  • OMG WE WATCHED THIS IS CLASS!

  • Jesus, colder then space man I'm not touching that, lol. How close is space to zero and what's the deffirents between the two

  • @xXIcyStealthXx

    close to zero? lol dude, thats below zero... like -270 ºc

  • @ZzRvXzZ Well, it's well below zero in Celsius and Fahrenheit, yes.

    When they're referring to zero in the video, they're not talking in units of Celsius or Fahrenheit anymore since it's too cold. They're using Kelvin, where the unit is more appropriate.

  • @xXIcyStealthXx Space doesn't have a temperature, it's a vacuum.

  • @iamthejuggler Yes it does, and no it's not.

  • @iamthejuggler Actually, temperature, simply stated, is the speed at which fundamental particles are moving or vibrating. Space isn't a perfect vacuum, though. Even in intergalactic space, there's a least one particle per square meter. So as long as there's a particle moving, there's temperature.

  • @justkatelyn Interesting. So if you did have a perfect vacuum, would it have a temperature. I had figured not but i'm getting less sure of the idea!

  • @iamthejuggler I don't think so, but don't quote me on that. I'm not a scientist :)

  • @justkatelyn

    Seeing as how temperature is the measurement of particle movements, if there are no particles, there is no temperature.

    Measuring an area with absolute 0 is absolutely impossible for us, however, seeing as how even if you were in a complete void with no particles, not even light, there is still the measuring instrument which contains particles which will bounce off of the main mass and therefore create a temperature.

  • @Joehtosis

    If I had to guess, the only areas in the universe which could possibly have a temperature of absolute zero would be the event horizons of black holes, and then that would only be temporary as the black hole decays or consumes, and this may be entirely false in the first place if it turns out gravitons are proven to exist.

  • Wow I need that stuff! :) Reading some comments...best way to see why you can never reach absolute zero kinetically.....if an object starts with X amount of heat, and you take half away, you have X/2 heat left. Do it again. (X/2)/2 = X/4. Again, X/8. Keep doing it...you might get X/1,000,000,000 which is very, very close to zero. But you can never take it all away, only part of it at a time.

  • And the featured video for today is: Dry ice farts when you cut it!

  • wat

  • He's putting liquid nitrogen in with a bare hand and a styrofoam cup?!

  • thats fucking awesome

  • Is that Bough from Johnny English??

  • But... Will it bend?

  • WRONG WRONG WRONG. The superfluid runs along the sides of the bucket and flows OUT not flows straight through it. Stupid British, get it right, BBC.

  • @MeteorMan05 no your wrong super fluids are flowing strait through the glass because there's tiny pores in the glass. since the fluid has zero viscosity it can move through the tiniest of holes. good day sir

  • @MeteorMan05 no your wrong super fluids are flowing strait through the glass because there's tiny pores in the glass. since the fluid has zero viscosity it can move through the tiniest of holes. good day sir

  • @MeteorMan05 you're wrong the zero viscosity of the fluid allows the liquid to flow through the tiniest of holes such as the pores in some types of glass.get your facts strait and good day sir

  • @MeteorMan05 you're wrong the zero viscosity of the fluid allows the liquid to flow through the tiniest of holes such as the pores in some types of glass.get your facts strait and good day sir

  • With the explaination at 0:36 you could also assume, that achilles never reaches the turtle

  • 0:59

    gotta love it when the physics PhDs make high school math errors (it's actually 8 zeros).

  • but does helium freeze?

  • @killerkoolaid101

    No, it does not have a solid state that can be reached.

  • would it go through your hand if it didn't heat up straight away?

  • make yourself 1 K and walk trough walls :P

  • Who find this vid. from vsauce :)

  • pouring liquid nitrogen without gloves... LIKE A BOSS

  • @PwnUrMommaAss lol liquid N2 is fine as long as you don't hold it in your hand etc ... it touching your surfaces tangentially doesn't do much since it has such a low thermal capacity.

  • HOLY... It's an anomaly!

  • what is happening when is going through

  • @nevaboyer would u walk? Would u stay solid? Would u be alive? Is it possible?

    Yes. I think.

  • The superfluid doesnt fall out of the container, it runs up the inside and then down the outside falling off the bottom

  • Okay, so how is the superfluid helium contained in the main container? =/

  • @Smonjirez it boils into gas before it gets out of the container

  • If i could get that cold, would i walk through people?

  • @nevaboyer nice idea =D

  • You know what's funny? I was making the exact same face Miller was doing (open jaw and everything) while looking at the super fluid standing still like that. Then when Profesor Taylor talked to him and sort of startled him I was startled too. XD

    This is just awesome stuff.

  • Thats "cool" :D :D Get it? cause it's cold? Never mind...

  • Mind blowing...where i hear that? :D

  • Thank you SO much BBC for posting this video. I had been having trouble sleeping, but two minutes into this and I was out like a light

  • I love science.

  • It's minecraft water.

  • dam nature u scary!

  • i wonder can you turn helium into a solid i mean if it takes -269 celcius to even turn it into a liquid

  • @ichbinned2 Supposedly, you have to add immense pressure to the liquid helium in order to solidify it because even if you could get it to absolute 0 it will remain a liquid.

  • Friend:So you mean I can drink helium instead of inhaling it!?

    Me:Yeah, but you'll die.

    Friend:Oh... *Sad face*

  • What if you tried to drink this stuff?

  • I reach 0k all the time. All I have to do is disappoint my wife and she will look at me and give me the deep freeze and I'll be at 0k 

  • @moofushu

    boo

  • so getting to absolute zero is asymtopic?

  • I wonder what would happen if you were to try and hold that stuff

    aside from your hand freezing off could you feel it moving through you?

  • bough from johnny english.

  • Seems like a great show. Don't see many good science programs lately, it's hard to teach the concepts and the wonder.

  • Lol "We're made out of this weird stuff."

  • 13 people are mad because they couldn't play with superfluid

  • so, if someone smashed the vial holding the liquid helium against a wall, it would seep through the wall before evaporating?

  • Humans can't reach 0k, but this temperature can be found in space, where there is no light, I believe.

  • 2:48 wrong one

  • The part in which the helium pours out of the tube is misleading. One can clearly see the bottom of the tube has some brown substance, which is probably a clay with very small pores. Helium only leaks out because such pores are there. If the container was a perfectly sealed glass ampole, I do believe the helium would not simply go through the glass as if it were a ghost, and would remain contained.

  • VSAUCE

  • @DrSuperWIN you mean vagina sauce XD

  • can i uh drink liquid helium

  • @RoboticBaby: Sure can. but you can only do it once.

  • Shots! Shots! Shots! Shots!

  • Ok, simple explanation of why you can't reach absolute zero. The air around the molecules "warms" them up.

  • @99akol992 That is not an explanation at all...

  • What if you drank liquid helium?

    

  • @99akol992 It'd leak through your jaws. You could never get drunk with that stuff...

  • @damianpaz

    apart from that you would suffer some serious brain freeze ;D

  • @Mastertim2006 No shit! That quantum shit is useless. ;)

  • @99akol992 That would be impossible, as it would boil immediately upon getting anywhere near your mouth..then if you could it was just give you severe frost bite.

  • now drink it!

  • how do you get solid helium then?

  • @luboisfat you don't...

  • well wasnt that interesting.

  • But will it blend? That is the question.

  • @TheToror4 Even BlendTec can't touch that shit, it'd shatter.

  • he looks like kevin spacey

  • scientists think apsolute zero is in dark naebulas....

    and at apsolute zero wuld u freeze helium by that point??

  • i smell Hazelnuts O_O... dont ask

  • does this mean thing can teleport like 5 feet below itself if we did it to a human

  • @LebronJamesfan1111 Don't think a frozen human body would have viscosity..

  • I think i watched this in science class

  • its bough from johnny english

  • glass is just a very very hard liquid

  • 3:18 refraction index of zero?

  • isnt that guy from prime evil ?

  • lol. it's mindblowing. this is a job for vsauce

  • gimme some of that to cool my macbook

  • I've seen this in my chem class already :)!!

  • than why dosent the helium seep through the glass tube its being held in?

  • @Instensity101 :D I was thinking the same thing. That glass has to be super dense I guess.

  • @elendiel

    I heard glass is actually a liquid!

  • im 14 forgive me but. superfluid passed through that solid? as in like THROUGH IT?! LITERALLY? or did the fluid rise up from the container down to the butt of the container?

  • freaky. liquid conquers solid!

    liquid:1 solid:0

  • because superfluid sounds 10x more impressive

  • No @pompeyjim12

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