Beer Levitation - Sixty Symbols

[lekoman]

SCIENCE!

[canecky]

is it save to MOVE in such high magnetic field? wouldn't induced electricity zap you?

[themeherchaitanya]

what happens to fire in that condotion?

[madjimms]

So is air di-magnetic?

[CandelaCenter]

@madjimms

Air is made of many elements and particles. Each has their own properties. Moisture (H^2o) in the air is dia-magnetic .

[madjimms]

@CandelaCenter Hmm, so liquid oxygen would be fairly reactive (magnetically)?

[CandelaCenter]

@madjimms

Liquid O2 is Paramagnetic. The poles line up and become magnetic,,

[cxzdsaewqasdzxc]

So, would this be a functional although inconvenient way of preventing your opened fizzy drink going flat?

[CertifiedBad4ss]

1. Why not just smack one of those over clocked magnets in the bottom of our cars and get those flying cars we are all dreaming about.

2. I want that guys job, drinking weightless beer on the job.

[commetsmasher]

@CertifiedBad4ss lol, yeah, i'm sure he does that on a regular basis. He probably just drinks floating beer all day. Science? pfftt fuck that, this guy will be too busy with levitating beverages to concern himself with useless things like actually working.

[GamerAzoonux]

At 1:40 ish you say that you can't feel the force generated by diamagnetism. This is not what most people experience. Touch, is in fact electromagnetic repellant forces, such as you explain, we just don't see it being repelled by an "invisible field".

[ISN1P3DI]

Haha, great experiment, very well explained.

this is clearly one of those "i wonder what would happen if" moments, some drunk physicist who just happened to have a gigantic magnet lying around and was messing about just levitating random objects, got to beer and then found a use for his findings :P

[tacoyum6]

Why didn't they use this as the 'X' in Sixty Symbols?

[artloevik]

haha, was raging abit thinking "what a waste of beer", but he had that covered all along

[ot44eto]

How many watts electrical energy is needed to float one average person in air?

[dunnobutwayne]

if i drink alot of beer i feel like i am spinning and levitating too!

[crazyliclay]

i'll bet it was Germans that tried to brew beer in space

[Caige]

next stage is hover kittens

[ModernGameChangers]

@Caige Funny thing is there has already been an experiment that won Andre Konstantin Geim an Ig Nobel Prize for levitating a frog with a large magnet. So the thing is making a hover kitten isnt impossible just very hard to do. There are videos of the frog levitating, and the frog is alive and was still alive afterward.

[VoltOptConstruct]

Thank you for giving villans new ways to destroy the earth.

[RaminHAL9001]

Of course we must remember never to drink or eat anything produced in or use in an experimental laboratory. It is only safe to consume things which have been manufactured in properly engineered production environments that have been verified by appropriate regulatory committees to generate safe products.

[morutysweetness]

@RaminHAL9001 what absolute rubbish. Yes, you should not eat or drink anything produced in the average experimental laboratory (especially not in schools). However, it is not unsafe to eat food produced at home from home-grown foods, etc.

[luca0526]

This is how Albert Einstein drank beer

[matoro1989]

Now I want to be a physicist.

[danielbluesmoke]

Can you reverse those magnets? Can you make them attract instead of repel things? This would be a great way to simulate gravity on spacecrafts in space! And more important, is it safe to be in a magnetic field that powerful?

[Adrenalinism]

@danielblues

[zurechtweiser]

@danielbluesmoke are going to a spacecraft or why do you care?

[kivipaeae]

that's the best explanation ever. boss comes in, sees open beer bottles on the table and starts shouting "have you been drinking beer here?" "no no, we're just trying to levitate it."

not a whole lot of places where you could get a way with that :D

[tekproxy]

If you wish

to drink some beer

You must first

Create a giant electromagnet

[20051470]

This video should be titled: "Drinking Beer Like A Boss - Sixty Symbols"

Views would skyrocket. Now that's scientific divulgation right there.

[RolingStone10]

if u could get a big enough magnet, could it possibly propel a person off the ground?

[OOZ662]

@RolingStone10 If you payed attention to the video, you'd know the answer is "yes." We're made mostly of water, which is what that magnet is levitating.

[limpin1993]

OMG I see the feynman lectures at 4:55!

[Kestko]

have you ppl ever crystallized anything in the magnet?

[bone656]

diomagnetism is gravity?

[wookidoo]

@bone656 No.

[eggroll9000]

Obviously even if you don't burp the gas will still be in your body... It'll just come out the other end.

[OOZ662]

@eggroll9000 The problem is that it doesn't come out by itself at all. If the natural body processes weren't running, it'd stay in there until the person exploded. Since the digestion process is comparatively extremely slow compared to bubbles just floating up and getting burped out, drinking a can of soda in space can make you uncomfortable all day.

[damianpaz]

AHA! So you're trying to take me into physics by performing cool experiments with my favorite beverage? That's just... SMART! :)

[ninjadude989]

How many people can say they've drank levitating beer?

[Zappyguy111]

Paramagnetism?

[stereoarchitect]

magnetic keg stand

[mathimatikakias]

NOW... LeviBeer. The "No Fizz - No Burp Beer". Serve chilled.

Enjoy Responsibly...

[dumbzebra]

Wait, it is still subject to gravity is it? The foam will still go up, not like in space, won't it?

[ianlutz]

this is total bs.........just like TV it is not real and very juvinel.........who let this guy next to all of this expensive equipment?

[SonOfNye]

@ianlutz I'm going to go out on a limb and say it was the University of Nottingham where he works as a physics Professor.

[Nadritch]

@ianlutz Watch one video where they're just having fun, ignore every other video, ignore the accessible side of Sixty Symbols, rage about trivial things, call others juvenile.

Winner.

Do you imagine that all scientists wear long lab coats and constantly look pensive whilst carefully adding things to series of test tubes?

[KaslarProductions]

"I told you truth mom, I need the beer for a science experiment" =D

[Theelepeltjel]

@CommonRaven Earth's gravitational field isn't weak in low orbit. Astronauts don't feel weightless because they're in space, but because their speed is high enough for them to orbit around the planet instead of falling towards it (they fall "around" it, instead).

The only thing that matters is the resulting force, which is zero in both cases (in their respective inherent non-inertial frames), hence the levitating. The difference is the origin of the (pseudo)force that cancels gravity out.

[SuperTechieJ]

Somebody has to ask...

What brand of beer is that?  Is it available in the states?

[Enix2012]

What happens if you freeze the beer while its floating? Does it freeze from the outside in or inside out?

[togo002]

3 people drank the beer.

[UninstallingWindows]

interesting test.

shouldnt the bubbles still go up, since the magnet levitates beer, not the gas bubbles in the beer?

[physicsbugga]

You had me at beer

[Maxstate]

he moves away from the mic to beer in **

[Chirigami]

Ooooh, that "ticking" sound the ultra powerful magnet's making reminds me of the machine that made my MRI scan... Of course that's not just a coincidence, magnetism is what we're talking about after all... I guess both machines work in a similar way.

[lesorciercalifornien]

fucking diamagnets, how do they work?

[archbob1]

Does a magnet this strong interfere with the earth's magnetic field? It seems like it would somehow.

[archbob1]

Does a magnet this strong interfere with the earth's magnetic field? It seems like it would somehow.

[Tossphate]

This guy in our lab had seriously bad taste in music, but he kept playing his tapes despite our protests. This was the days of casette tapes mind, which obviously are magnetic. After one particularly gruelling morning one of the girls grabbed his tapes and ran down to the NMR room and rubbed them against the 400MHz magnet with a huge cheesy grin. Problem solved :D

[zurechtweiser]

@Tossphate which music(interpret/song title) did he listen to?

[Tossphate]

@zurechtweiser Some bloody awful obscure heavy metal shit

[runnybabbit12]

doing shot out of a giant magnetic trap

for science

[kamakazechris]

I remember when I was doing some work experience at an MRI lab,

The high powered magnets are hilarious, some of the workers there would constantly ruin their credit/debit cards.

On one occasion my supervisor had a dull moment and locked herself in the unit, because to get in or out you needed a swipe card. Made me laugh.

[leehorst]

THIS SCIENTIST HAS A SERIOUS HARD ON FOR MAGNETISM

[mahkind]

@ 7:48 its a bit like Schrödinger's cat then, the fizzyness.

[AlexKalicinski]

Is there a way to use sound frequencies to effect the shape of the drop?

[pgomespwr95]

he was wearing a ring when he injected the beer! xD

[ElveeKaye]

BEER! For SCIENCE!

[flguy2]

try it with coke and mentos

[PARTYORWHAT]

i love beer

[ConnorXV]

Nucleation is the reformation of gas from solution, clouds are formed by condensation of vapour up in the atmosphere.

[ConnorXV]

Still fizzy!

[opiumgland]

Nucleation can happen without a container. This is how clouds form in air.

[geeupson]

@opiumgland i thought that was condensation? might be wrong

[Dirtboy101]

Lol, bar tricks for nerds. :P

[Ashitakaandsan]

dope

[Woshmistro]

So if done in the right way could these magnetisms be used to create artificial gravity?

[noxure]

@Woshmistro No, not as in star trek anyway. You would need magnetic fields that are at least 1.000.000 times over what is considered safe. People will get cancer, DNA fragmentation and various other health issues. Even then you have all the practical problems with electronic equipment and metal objects.

Also, an object on the ground will then be a lot heavier then when you hold it above your head, so it doesn't really have any benefit above weightlessness anyway.

[temporaldisplacement]

No cola or beer in space!

[dondude69]

@temporaldisplacement I guess I'll be staying here then!

[volcanoman1991]

ϗ ...

[L00NGB00W]

I wonder if a magnetic bed or chair would be comfortable?

[ma356289]

Homer simpson definitly will "HHHHHHHHHHHmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Beeer rrrrrrrrrrrrr"

[GLeNss]

haha awesome

This guy is a maverick :P

[pepsibookcat]

SQUEEEE!!! Feynman's red notebooks on the table!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Roshkin]

What happens if you were to stick your finger in the magnet? Would it be repelled? Is it possible to levitate a human with diamagnetism? Could this be a good way to simulate artificial gravity on spacecrafts?

[mikecuzins]

because people have a very low x value, the amount of energy required to maintain a magnet great enough to simulate gravity would be immense, not to mention the damage it would cause to lose metal objects.

[mjmichu]

Actually it is possible to levitate a human with a beer, I've seen that on Saturday, the guy was just floating on the surface of the earth. Btw. grate vid, THANKS

[Vestboymyst23]

@Roshkin Studies were done on this and I believe the field, if it were to simulate our gravity, would be too strong to survive in

[Roshkin]

@ Vestboymyst23 That's interesting. How so? Any links or things to google because youtube doesn't allow links?

[kefsound]

@Roshkin we cannot generate such strong magnetic fields.

[subh1]

@Roshkin They have done it on frogs. I don't see why it can't be done on humans. But magnetic levitation is a lot different from the weightlessness in microgravity once you get down to the molecular scale. Besides, the long-term effect (due to ionization and radio emission of molecules of the body) of strong magnetic fields on human body may be harmful.

[Roshkin]

@subh1 Thanks so much for replying. All good points. People have brought up the point though that the amount of energy required would be too much more than practical. And you brought up the potentially toxic effects that could result, which makes perfect sense as to why no one (that I know of) has attempted it.

[KrutoyPostowoy]

@Roshkin Yes. Yes. No.

[Thetarget1]

@Roshkin

It would probably be a bad idea to have a hugely strong magnetic field on your spaceship, as it would wreak havoc with all electronic systems.

[Roshkin]

@Thetarget1 Not if shielded properly. (I don't know what that would mean though.)

[Human4D]

This video was great, really enjoyed watching it.

[Cusk0]

Reminded me of the Young Einstein movie.

[sixtysymbols]

@Cusk0: We couldn't get access to a Tasmanian Beer Atom!

[Cusk0]

You guys don't get James Boag beer over there?! :O Its the best beer we make here in Australia, its advanced a little beyond splinting atoms with a chisel for fizz.

[sixtysymbols]

@Cusk0: Boags and Cascade can be tracked down with hard work, as can my favorite hometown brew, Cooper's Pale or Sparkling Ale!

[HomeDistiller]

@sixtysymbols coopers would be just as good as boags if not better :P

[engelteir]

@sixtysymbols coopers pale? haha Adelaide so small you can never escape meeting people from here.

[MichaelKingsfordGray]

@sixtysymbols

Coopers' Pale Ale is made from pure Beer Atoms!

[Hellothere212121]

@Cusk0 - Everyone knows the only REAL beer is made in Canada!

[p6a9u1l42]

@Hellothere212121 you must mean Germany since canada has weak shit because everyone there are pussys

[Hellothere212121]

@p6a9u1l42 - You're thinking of our obnoxious cousins to the South, who's pisswater is often confused with our excellent brews.

[p6a9u1l42]

@Hellothere212121 haha if u mean america im american and couldn't agree more im ashamed to say that our beer is watery piss sam adams isnt bad though

[markuscc]

@p6a9u1l42 A 5 year old Canadian child could out drink any american without much effort. All Canadians are good at 2 things, playing hockey and drinking beer. Americans are good at invading other peoples countries and killing lots of little brown people, and being the most universally hated country in the world.

[2camjohn]

@markuscc Not much for 5 year olds to do in Canada except drink eh?

[markuscc]

@2camjohn Drink and play hockey. Maybe make some igloos to spice things up.

[danielculp]

what was the name of the beer?

[ray123ification]

light ale

[sirlaughatyourface]

what's the greatest mass you've ever levitated?

joe

[FaintSnow]

This is great!

It's so interesting to see while it doesn't really have any scientific value.

[ppzrjah]

@FaintSnow: Ta for your interest! Although the beer was just for fun, studies of bubble nucleation in liquids are really valuable. Think about decompression sickness in astronauts, for one example. Watch this space... ;-)

-Richard

[V3GAS4CE]

I wonder how long it would stay fizzy for? The beer isn't fizzing because it's touching nothing, is this like it being back in the pressurised bottle?

V3

[ppzrjah]

@V3. Interesting idea. Maybe I'll try some time and let you know! -Richard

[Films4You]

I see lots of Students Levitating on Saturday Nights and they are full of Beer LOL :)

[melbn]

check if its still fizzy lol

[ironchimera]

This is an awesome video! I like this type of science it is pretty cool!

[sisudo21]

Wold bacteria still multiply if elevated?

[ppzrjah]

Good question. We're trying to find out the answer right at the moment! -Richard

[wheetman]

your life's work. to be dim.

[Bobmonkeylicks]

Thanks, I didn't realize how dim I was getting recently. Peace.

[madisonlb40]

this guy doesnt know how to pour a beer. good vid though

[ppzrjah]

@madisonlb40. Ah, but you DO pour it this way if you want to get lots of bubbles to show on camera ! :-)

-Richard

[djoptical]

I was just thinking the same thing... he's got so much foam in the cup

[misterflip20]

theres a video where they suspend a certain amount of water in anti gravity.

they put an effervescent tablet in the sphere of suspended water and it bubbled up.

i dont know if that is related to what he wanted to test...but it seems that it is related in one way or another.

[zeffii]

i'll drink to that! bottoms up

[MaitreKill]

I was wondering about the strawberry being "almost" only water, if all the elements in the fruit were to react differently to the magnetic field wouldn't it be possible eventually over time to have them separated, like in a chromatography?

[ppzrjah]

There are some additional magnetic forces that we have to consider. However, in this case, the difference between the forces on the water and the forces on the other components of the strawberry are not strong enough to separate them. Thanks for your Q. -Richard

[elmofir]

when growing an organism in the magnetic chamber, wouldnt the repulsiveness of the bacteria affect the outcome of how it grows as well? as compared to a weightless enviro?

[FatoDrunkoAndoStupid]

Yes, the repulsive bacteria would be destroyed for being so darn repulsive.

[elmofir]

ahhh the sound of a dewar

[JebusGeist]

Doesn't this still suffer from one of the same limitations that buoyancy has when used as an analog for free fall conditions?

Like when the berry was being levitated in this video, if someone has stuck their finger in and pushed it down closer to the magnet it would have bobbed back up to the point of equilibrium between the repulsive force and gravity right?

Still a heck of a lot better than buoyancy is tho. The range of materials it's suitable to use on should be much larger.

[ppzrjah]

@Jebus. Good Q. The diamagnetic force acts throughout the liquid, not just at its surface. Think of it this way: in orbit, the force of Earth's gravity still acts on the astronauts. Why then do they feel weightless? Because the centrifugal force acting on them (due to their rapid flight around the planet) balances the gravitational force exactly, so that they feel no NET force. Here we use magnetic force to balance the force of gravity, rather than centrifugal force. -Richard / guy in video

[AverageJoe8686]

I'd do shots. :P

[panchoxpanchox]

i hope you are doing fine after drinking that lol

[ELuhn]

He does have a tendency to stick to the brass rails when he goes to a pub. ;o>

[GrandTheftAuto4Films]

Cool vid

[pczaban]

Previously I watched periodic table of videos because i didn't know that there are some about physics too. That's really great. Thanks

[iwan0t0smith]

It could be silver or gold or another material that isn't affected by magnets (if they exist)

[ppzrjah]

It's titanium, very weakly paramagnetic I think (attracted to magnetic field) - too weak for me to feel any force on it. -Richard

[TehSmeely]

An alarming amount of tape on that expencive, classy bit of machinery =P

[cookiecamp]

i wonder if peope could make a magnet that shoots all of the iron out of your body

lol

if finla destination films corperation nick this idea im sueing

[tall1992]

thats actually xmen's idea

[squirrelflight]

Good choice in beer! :-)

[ppzrjah]

@squirrelflight. Extra pale ale, Nottingham Brewery.

[dhwanitchem]

exellent!!

[Jiraya12345]

Mmmmm...magnetized beer...

[Xraller]

cool - I want one of those magnets

[MagikGir]

dont we all, buddy, dont we all...

[gayglue]

With this, could it be possible for artificial gravity? Or a chamber where one could be levitated?

[sixtysymbols]

These films are made at The University of Nottingham

[grnlfe01]

science is fun. Where do they get such cool toys. lol

[hla27b]

Oh the best toys are those that you make yourself. Look at the CERN for example. They have the coolest toy ever and they made it themselves.

Oh no! I acc