Neil deGrasse Tyson: Swami Levitation

[GridJumping]

Who else can belch into the microphone, make a fart joke and still sound this smart?

[redshadowsword]

Fart jokes......not just for kids!!!

[Rdburnzy]

Can an American help me out here... are the order of Newton's laws different in the states ? From my perspective in Ireland, Tyson just described the third law. ''If body A exerts a force on body B, then body B exerts an equal but opposite force on body A''

[oneeyednarn]

@Rdburnzy Yeah, I noticed that too. I think he probably just misspoke.

[AtomSmashr]

@Rdburnzy Second law: The acceleration a of a body is parallel and directly proportional to the net force F and inversely proportional to the mass m, i.e., F = ma.

May be his accent.

[technosasquatchfilms]

I wish you guys could just putt all the NDT clips into one video, thanks

[aSheeple]

this is what happens when you apply 130 IQ points to making a fart joke

[abokwu]

@aSheeple lol .  nice one

[redryan20000]

@aSheeple IQ is a sham...

[aSheeple]

@redryan20000 its not a sham, its just less relevant than some people suggest. besides, my comment was a joke. try to make the joke without invoking IQ, its just not as good.

[HDaviator]

@aSheeple

130 is actually rather low for Tyson. Probably closer to the full 200.

[alphapmu]

i love this guy, he is like a comical carl sagan

[tpstrat14]

"Should he be seriously addressing this phenomena?" The better question is whether he should be addressing it at all. One time I heard him explain what would happen to an object if it were dropped into a hole that went through the center of the earth. It was fascinating. Now, this is all we get....

[tpstrat14]

What a wasted mind. It makes me sad because Tyson is an absolutely brilliant man with the capacity to educate. Instead, he makes fart jokes...

[evilyig]

@tpstrat14 Lighten up, consider the forum he's addressing. In regard to "woo" such as the swamis who swindle people out of money everyday, we should treat it with mockery and as a farce. Should he be seriously addressing this phenomena? Those with a capacity to educate realize humor can be a valuable tool.

[lagerbaer]

@tpstrat14 Yeah, it's of course all he ever does. Get a life.

[IncrediblyStupidName]

i can eat beans and fart to levitate until i accidentally poop o_O

[7j8i9m]

MASS. QUANTITIES. OF BEANS.

[AgowTisro]

The best fart joke ever made.

[7j8i9m]

Many people are going to be unfamiliar with the original swami levitations- you might be able to find some of them on YouTube. Most of the famous swamis of the era actually bounced up and down while holding the Lotus position and swinging their legs, which is incredibly difficult but not in any way supernatural. The more modern ones are debunked on a number of "magic secrets exposed" programs.

[andrithio]

i farted when watching this video

[onofomi]

DAMN HE IS A ILLUMINATI STUPIFIER... he comes to stupify every one that thinks its really primitive to use jet propulsion.. OR YOU CAN REALIZE THAT GRAVITY IS A FORCE (hence it has a positive and negative charge) and it has polars kinda like the earth itself.. now how do you make two magnets repel each other??? WALLA flight without wind and air.. but teach that at school and you will be killed for treason

[Godlessfuture]

@onofomi "GRAVITY IS A FORCE (hence it has a positive and negative charge)" I find it rather ironic that you assume that because its a force, it has a positive and negative aspect, and also assume that it positive and negative aspects are somehow the same a electromagnetism. I also like how seem to forget that gravity is the only force without a force carrier particle. They don't teach that crap in schools because its pseudo-science.

[onofomi]

@Godlessfuture its not an assumption i mean for God's sake the world used to be flat.. why cant people just learn.. dude the book has to be wrong because we still don't know how to make a craft that does not need wind and air or blow here push there technology.. the universe: FINITE MADE UP OF LITTLE PIECES OF THE INFINITE meaning gravity is pulling and tugging on ATOMS.. it also requires your own thoughts to run this space craft because you freed it from the force so you must now apply a new 1

[Godlessfuture]

@onofomi what the hell are you talking about? Gravity doesn't have a force carrier particle because its just the result of space and time being warped. The science is wrong because we cant make a craft that does not need wind and air? What the hell kind of argument is that? You are a truly bizarre, senseless human being.

[acr08807]

@Godlessfuture How do you know that gravity has no force carrier particle?

[Godlessfuture]

@acr08807 First off, you began this by states some bizarre idea, and now you ask me how I know there ISN'T a carrier particle, as if not knowing if there is one or not gives you credibility. Second, even IF there is a force carrier particle for gravity, you will still have to find a way to prove the other forces are just like the electromagnetic force, where like sides repel, especially considering that its the only force like that!. You have a horrible understanding of the 4 forces of nature.

[acr08807]

@Godlessfuture First, since all I did was ask a question, I hardly see how you can accuse me of stating a bizarre idea. Second, my PhD in physics gives me some credibility, I should hope. Third, why do I have to prove that other forces are repellant? Of the three known forces, electro-weak has repellant modes forward in time and the other two, so far as we know, do not. And once again, I ask you, how do you know that there is no carrier particle for gravity?

[Godlessfuture]

@acr08807 First off, I apologies, I hadn't noticed that onodmi didn't ask that question, so I thought that you were him, continuing where he left off . Second off, I don't. All that I was getting out was that this guys bizarre idea that anti gravity was possible because if it weren't we would not be able to build a non exhaust propelled space craft was ridiculous based on what he stated in support of it.

[acr08807]

@Godlessfuture Ah, now I see. I think onofomi is mentally ill, so you might want to cut him some slack on his "scientific" views.  Anyway, it's an interesting open question whether there is a gauge boson that carries the gravitational force. I tend to favor the view that there isn't, and that gravity is a very different animal from the other forces, but that's just intuition, not knowledge.

[Godlessfuture]

@acr08807 He's not mentally ill, just a victim of jumping to conclusions. I agree with you on gravity (intuition wise). Although I do kinda hope there is one, as it opens up many intriguing possibilities.

[onofomi]

@Godlessfuture coming from the guy whos name is Godlessfuture as if you yourself realizing YOU dont have a God is not enough you have to go strip people of all their hope too.. look man am a 9 and you a 4 go look at the consciousness scale.. OH WE CANT MAKE ONE HUH? thank God am not one of yall cause then i would be one of the people that was as non imaginative as you.. ok then we must go separate ways since am senseless... if i am senseless like you say then there is no point in talking to me

[Godlessfuture]

@onofomi As if not having a god strips you of hope. It just changes your prospective. Also, there is a point talking to you, because I'm trying to get you to interpret science correctly. If you can't do that, what good is imagination? You couldn't do anything with it. Look, I'm sorry I offended you, but your trying to present ideas (IDEAS!!!) as arguments, as if the thought of a possibility alone constitutes an argument. It doesn't work that way. As soon as you fix that, a whole new world opens.

[onofomi]

@Godlessfuture oh now his telling me to open my mind as if his got a testing lab to look for a "carrier particle" as if he made up the word .. dude all things are possible through technology OR IMAGINATION YOU IDIOT your right and so am i

[Godlessfuture]

@onofomi Look up force carrier particle. It's not hard to find. All things are NOT possible through technology or imagination. The laws of the natural world prohibit certain things. Gran it, I grant you that science changes and some things become possible that weren't before, however the inability to understand the current thinking allows you to go no where because it serves as the basis for the understanding the universe. You have to take it in account first before you move on and change things

[Saavykaas]

@onofomi Is someone really making the argument that just because they can imagine something, that makes it possible?

If this were so it would be a political revolution, and that's just one of the less obvious events that would occur.

[onofomi]

@Saavykaas yes i am making that argument ... LMAO how ironic, BECAUSE THATS EXACTLY HOW THEY TAKE OVER ... first they imagine that its possible then they follow their plans UNFLINCHINGLY.

[ScipioAfricanusI]

Although Tyson is FANTASTIC! I do disagree with a comment he made. 'We do not want to convert anyone.' He says that religious diversity is to be celebrated. No. The cults that drink poision because the world is ending and the spaceship is going to take believers away. Religious xenophobes that curse homosexuals and blow up gynocologists. This should not be tolerated. To be a Humanist should entail fighting for that perspective to win.

[burakmorali]

"Ever action has an equal and opposite reaction."

THIRD law of motion, not second... Dr. Tyson, you disappoint me.

Sincerely, a physics undergraduate student.

[TheMmm03]

@burakmorali Well, all of newton's laws derive each other and point to the law of change in momentum - so Tyson is not really too wrong... but of course I agree with you in that he'd have been more accurate to instead say third law of motion in this case! :)

[zerobeat18]

Belief in crap like this seems to work like this: Somebody comes up with a really convincing illusion, maybe for purely entertaining purposes. Then that illusion morphs into being touted as "paranormal" or "real magic" or "spiritualism" or something like that because somebody figures out that they can profit from it more that way. It may not be money, but control or status that they're after.

[Torkulguy]

Even the scientific elite make fart jokes.

[sondano]

Why does he mention methane of all things? It's actually among the least likely component of the average fart.

[OhMyGoddlessGamer]

@sondano because methane is combustable lol der

[CupofPhenol]

@sondano lighten up

[bluefirekey]

@ softan he said dark energy, not mater. and not to digress to far from topic but do we know anything more about dark energy other than a theoratical repulsive force? i know thats all ive heard about it. so in response to gespilk...i dont think even tyson could give you a definitive answer on that one

[FeelOfFriction]

Nice dodge of a joke.

[ViperRob42]

Never thought I'd hear Neil deGrasse Tyson say "Your anal sphincter has to be really tight"... lol

[xxSilverPhinxx]

Considering the same amount of gas in both examples, it would probably be more efficient to fart onto a flame while hanging upside down with your butt facing upwards towards a hot air balloon than to lift a person into the sitting down levitative position.

But all the gas needed would probably burst the person first, since the compression of air only goes so far.

Yeah, I get it's a joke, but...

[gespilk]

So does it mean that anti-gravity does not exist. We know gravity pulls. Perhaps there is another force that pushes...dark energy? Could we use it to levitate.

[softan]

@gespilk If this theoretical matter existed it would have properties similar to regular matter in that it pulls things towards it. It wouldn't push things away. No dark matter can't make indian guys levitate.

[FlyingSpahghettiMan]

Don't make fun of my flying capabilities. 

[eglenn3]

Probably the best fart joke i've heard in a while.

[charlesvan13]

That's why you hear about this in India.

Their food produces a lot of ass gas.

[luvdomus]

Peole who believe swamis can "levitate" have only seen still photos. When filmed in motion, you can easily tell that they are hopping up in the air while someone snaps a still picture of them at the apex of their jump-- then they create the illusion by suggesting the word "levitate." Hoax. Fraud.

[Extr0pian]

LMFAO! Wow... he's so sexy.

[RmanDC]

Tsk tsk tsk. So unfortunate to see a coherent scientist to be sooo affrontive towards a phenomena that is overlooked by the corpuscular science and the "establishment".

In the heat of cold war, for a some time, both USSR and USA were researching new propulsion systems alternative to jet-propulsion. An anti-gravity of some sort. As far as technological experiments, with great difficulty, the mass of an object was successfuly reduced by ~5%.

[zerobeat18]

@RmanDC You're confusing two things. That science might be investigating some sort of anti-gravity isn't in dispute. That they might have had limited success of ~5% mass reduction is also plausible. But that swamis have achieved, say, 95% reduction and can truly levitate is a lie, especially since not one of them have agreed to be tested. I can do the "feet a few inches above the ground" levitation illusion. Freaks out kids and many adults. First time I saw it I live I freaked out too.

[RmanDC]

@zerobeat18

That was about all I could say with 400 characters.

5% was a mechanical achievement. Other sources claim that soldiers subject to deep hypnotic trance would lose 20 to 30% of their weight. The scientist that was telling this said, they abandoned the techno-mechanical approach because it was an obvious dead end. As this was going on in the 1980es, in 1991 the paycheck stopped coming and all research was stopped and abandoned.

Likely, in the US it's going on just fine.

[mmeasy123]

@RmanDC I'd absolutely LOVE for you to provide some evidence to support this claim: "Other sources claim that soldiers subject to deep hypnotic trance would lose 20 to 30% of their weight." For you to insult Dr. Tyson and believe in these fraudulent swamis lets everyone know just who they are dealing with.

[RmanDC]

@mmeasy123

The techniques are not available to public of course, as it was a military RnD.

Only question is how much evidence would be sufficient for you. If you would trust claims, made by scientists that work for the (russian) state to this day. And if you're fluent in russian, as a lot of the material is in video.

Never the less, Im surprised that its so difficult for people to accept the idea of levitation by means of brainpower when telekinesis is a proven phenomena.

[mmeasy123]

@RmanDC Telekenesis is a PROVEN phenomena? You don't understand why it's so hard for people to believe that natural laws can be suspended? If this was possible, why isn't there an abundance of evidence? I can't tell if you are trolling or not. It would defy the laws of physics to decrease the weight of an object without any physical manipulation.

[RmanDC]

@mmeasy123

Trolling? Me?

See,.. that's why I can not sustain a dialog with a zealot.

"No! Im not gona look at your reasonings, because youre trying to prove something that contradicts this n that law"

Levitation aside, if you do not, for whatever reason, realize that a human mind can alter the state of its own host, alter thoughts of other minds, and exert force on physical objects with nothing but power of thought - then theres nothing I'll be able to prove to you.

So good luck and have fun.

[mmeasy123]

@RmanDC I asked you two times now and you haven't provided even the slightest bit of evidence.

[RmanDC]

@mmeasy123

Not very easy to find the info on the matter that I am familiar with in english.

w-w-w keelynet com /greb/greb htm

[RmanDC]

@zerobeat18

Further more... WHY do no believers always want a show? If I could do something magical, and some egg head with bullet proof glasses, holding his "laws of physics" bible told me "This is Impossible because it's against the LAW" "Show me!".

I'd say, no way, Im not a clown. Why try fly over his head? So that some scientific zealot could claim that I had magnets in my pockets?

[zerobeat18]

@RmanDC That's the 2nd most lame argument against showing proof, that the holder of such claims won't degrade him/herself by having to prove it at all, that faith should be enough. The most lame argument is that being in the presence of the skeptical mind will actually prevent (by telekinesis?) the paranormal act from happening in the first place. So they only "prove" their claims in the presence of people who are either believers or are in collusion with the hoax.

[RmanDC]

@zerobeat18 Not arguing against showing proof. But when some PhD stand-up wanabe rolls in full of status an says "I know you lie because of such and such law, Now prove to ME that... etc."

There's just no respect.

Any person with extraordinary abilities can pick up a book and study the geometry and physics for himself. But.

Almost none of the ordinary folk would ever go to the lengths of actually coming close to familiar, with the knowledge that is considered "pseudo" by the... *establishment*.

[slavetotheblues]

technicaly what he's saying is not levitation but who cares. As fun as he is to listen to he's also quite arrogant. Not say that i believe in levitation but just because i don't understand it or haven't experienced it doesn't mean it's not possible.

[zerobeat18]

@slavetotheblues What you attribute to "arrogance" is simply the notion of being 100% correct. It's a very simple (but cool) trick that these swamis are using to give the illusion of levitation. It was debunked looooong ago, but obviously there are still lots of people on Earth who either haven't been in on the secret or literally believe that they're levitating.

[clickswitchh]

what an asshole ... swami levitation is real ... seen it with my own eyes ... blew my mind

[pklukepk]

@clickswitchh I saw Siegfried and Roy fly a tiger around a room with my own eyes. - Was that real too?

[clickswitchh]

Damn ... respect ... that shits fucked up

[mofokitten]

what you´re saying is "i was fooled by this and won´t let go of my trust in my perception of reality". do a youtube search, and you´ll find a video showing exactly how the swami levitation performers do it. it´s just a simple trick that messes with your head ;)

[luarionte]

@clickswitchh

Have you ever heard of illusionism.....

I guess not!

[andypdq]

The fitting of an afterburner would dramatically increase thrust per unit volume of methane.

[SGde3a]

The guys that are holding canes while levitating actually have a seat attached to the cane via a rod down the sleeve

[nuke97]

Besides a can of beans those swami people "Levitate" by hoping up from that sitting position........but I guess point taken cause they are not levitating they just simply give that split secound illusion while in mid air hop in sitting position.

[RocketSpecialist]

I almost died laughing at this video!! Dr. Tyson FTW!!! :D

[gibadoo]

i love N.dG.T.

[maylo9998]

LOL!

[Schutzstaffel23]

''...it's a levitated can of beans...'' lmao

[alwerks1]

When it comes to Science/Comedy, I will without question put Dr. Tyson first on the list. Many Special Thanks to: AmazingMeetingVideos! I hereby Sub and Rate you to the fullest extent of my abilities...

[slugger681]

wow the amount of methane you would need to produce and hold in to levitate through the recoil of flatulence would be extraordinary!

[Zetenderhoof]

Houston, we have ignition! LOL

[Kytescall]

Epic win.

[sur392]

gl ill be at your grave ! :)

[carmead]

I like how an amazingly intelligent professor is making a fart joke.

[enVsk]

you totally killed it before i watched it

[TheAlivePixel]

I'm going to try that with 400 cans of soda. Cya.

[RuleNr34]

WE HAVE LIFTOFF!!!

[CutieBabe25]

ROFL

[StraightGodless]

lol it is possible!

[IdleGod]

Is there a full version of this somewhere?

[windyshrimp]

Tyson is interesting, "if you don't agree you can fuck off."

[j3rdog]

LOL..I get it

[Roxinos]

Richard Dawkins said that in response to deGrasse Tyson and was quoting someone else. Though, I suppose you know that.

[supahsekzy]

@windyshrimp Haha, that's something that Dawkins would say on a Monday, Wednesday, or a Friday

[DogBoots77]

@windyshrimp Tyson is interesting, and anyone who says otherwise is a nazi.

[cptmuska]

@windyshrimp love dawkins

[Clausfarre]

Brilliant....!

[stuffisgd]

lol

[Josh111485]

I'm on my 4th can of beans...I don't feel so good.

[PlayT0E]

Let us know how the levitation goes.

(don't try this at home kids, there are some things you cannot blame on the dog)

[vibrohm]

lol

[BadgerRavenmoon]

I seem to recall James Randi demonstrating how it is an illusion.

[bignastydragon]

he forgot about them leaping into the air just before the picture was taken. at the peak of ascension the "levitator" can then cross their legs and assume a calm looking pose. at this point the picture is taken with a good camera, and then the "levitator" just has to unfold their legs to land gently or else they end up with a sore butt.