Watching paint dry - Sixty Symbols

[stardude692001]

My mom constantly watches home remolding shows= paint drying. Why can't they be this interesting?

[oliviernovel]

So, he diluted paint in water... homeopaticaly making it stronger! Super paint, booya...

[akashashen]

@oliviernovel Homeopathy is supposed to work the otherway...those evaporated water molecules will eventually turn the Northern Atlantic into White Ice Nine. There is nothing we can do to save those at ground zero. To the friends and families of Nottingham researchers, students and staff, our thoughts are with you and your White Ice Nine loved ones.

When we come back, meet the new GM delicacy you can grow today! They're called: Triffids.

[vochitoken]

what is the graph at the lower right?

[Moronisaurus]

not trying to be insulting, but where is his accent/dialect from?

[jamesreilly100]

@Moronisaurus He's irish

[MrPizzaboy01]

now to see grass grow!

[KrutoyPostowoy]

Boredom is lack of information. If you look closely boredom always disappears.

[aluisious]

@KrutoyPostowoy Or put another way, a lack of interest. When I was a kid someone said "if you're bored, you're boring." It struck me as particularly truthy, and I never complain about being bored. Well, except when I was in the army.

[saklav86]

Sixtysymbols should make a channel that's all about seeing things in a microscope.. that'd be nice to see

[prashantaryans]

Is that the Leica Microscope you're using?

[Baboonaiih]

That felt like watching paint dry... EXTREME! WOO-HOO!

[CivicPrincess11]

oh come on!! speak up plzz

[K33p3r99]

It's definitely boring to watch paint dry but adding a microscope into the mix changes everything.

[1622matt]

his job is to watch paint dry lol

[porkypine1888]

wow looks like a coast line

[Jedi3231]

Times like these I wish I had a high end microscope in my room....

[SuperMrduncan]

I liked it , good facts. but your hand are in it to much and your camor person sucks...

[sarcleaeolist]

Is there anything microscopes can't make awesome? Well, anything that can actually physically fit under a microscope.

[DanieleGiorgino]

That was actually really cool.

[crcro18]

Wonderful and very impressive! What about the 'nanolane' brand we see on the software. Is it the name of this microscope?

[nmedard]

This was done with a new generation of microscope slides that enables the characterization of nanometric samples with a standard optical microscope. Nanolane is the company which provides these slides.

[DeadlyLegion]

Why doesn't professor Philip Moriarty have his own fan page on Facebook?! :D

[ThatGuyFromAustria]

Erm. Did I just watch paint dry for 5 minutes and enjoy every second of it? ;-)

[lukas3606]

I can imagine the conversation leading up to this; 'Oh my God John look look! She's so hot ' 'i'm sorry Tony, but i'd prefer to watch paint dry to be honest' lol

[reveaglestar]

It was interesting for the first two minutes, but then it got boring.

[risingstarrx]

i wanna work for sixty symbols- and im only 13. (:

[drhoratio]

Windows? Seriously?

[FizzlNet]

I want to see same thing for oil paints! My understanding is that the hardening process of oil is kinda reverse of acrylics. So that you are not removing solvent, but instead adding oxygen. Oil actually oxidizing.

Ooh, which makes me think. Could you actually speed up the oil drying process by adding a stream of pure oxygen?

[HLSDK]

Thanks a lot sixty symbols, I knew there was some magic behind the scenes of paint.

[tinytina789]

Wise up.

[MelleB90]

Most painters are absolutely ignorant to this dimension of their work.

Does it destroy the beauty of their work?

No, it adds to it in ways a human being (or a deity created by human beings) could never.

Science ftw

[sonicskilz]

At 4:10 it looks like part of the California coast between LA and SF.

[TeslaRifle]

So is the movement of the particles towards the edges a result of brownian motion up until they reach the edge?

[KillaKingStyle]

how about a video about water evaporate :)

[GaolisVideoLog]

@KillaKingStyle Actually your watching water evaporate idea sounds pretty cool.

[eseurg]

the sound was really low on this one, had to turn my speakers all the way up. Other than that, great as always.

[Wiley4Change]

I figured this video would be as boring as....well...watching paint dry. Was actually rather interesting..

[Zaun4242]

Another amazing video, Brady! Thank you :)

[TheClassyCoconut]

You should do a video on the expression " Water off a duck's back", I have a feeling the physics involved would be fascinating!

[20robo09]

This is pretty amazing, to be pair.

[Ottmar555]

What kind of microscope did you use?

[Skindoggiedog]

Great video.

p.s. Upgrade to Windows 7 :)

[josyula547]

@Pulsar89

Thank you!

Probably the same explanation can be accounted for this process.....

[Tekarien]

The beauty that comes from using science to observe paint dry reminds me of some comments by Feynman on the subject: watch?v=zSZNsIFID28

[mferrusca]

Honestly, who dislikes this? ¬¬ C'mon!

[NilsMcCloud]

@mferrusca Jocks and cheerleaders.

[twistedbass15]

Best i've seen in a while, this vid makes new scientist look like the muppet show :-/

[NiePatrzSieTutaj]

im going to paint my room this month ! :D its going to be GREEN : )

[josyula547]

But then Why are the particles aggregating only at the ends??

Is it because of some EM Forces between the polymers(Its a Sol actually) or just Surface tension...???

[Pulsar89]

@josyula547

It reminds me a lot about an article I read about the formation of coffee rings. Google "the physics of coffee rings".

[intemister]

I'll never look at paint the same way.

I'll look at it through a microscope.

[xsni]

I love sixty symbols! Thanks for another wonderful video!

[SteffeL2]

The paint we had at work was pretty funky too, UV curing paint, only drying when exposed to UV light thanks to photo initiators. This was pretty interesting too though (as usual) :)

[noxure]

I always found that a rather inaccurate expression anyway.

If you're watching paint dry, it means you just FINISHED the most boring and annoying job in the world and now you're enjoying a beer and a sense of accomplishment, knowing you reached THE milestone and you can start thinking about fun stuff like where to put the furniture.

It's not a negative situation of something that's boring, but more a moment of bliss in the middle of a stressful week.

[Lubiexful]

It would be very interesting to know what programs you use for all these experiments...

[Midtowner321]

This is quite fascinating, love your videos so much!

[Timei]

You can see he's enjoying what he's doing

[Mojosbigstick]

I'm off to touch up my gloss...and watch it!

[wolgreth]

what make is your microscope?

[Rotorzilla]

Are the paint particles being buffeted around by Brownian motion? The look like they are dancing around.

[karolis685]

How can they be sure that paint isn't organic?

[twisterfield651]

@karolis685

Technically speaking, everything is organic because everything derives from resources from our planet.

[hotdogmania]

@twisterfield651 organic means there's carbon in it.

[johnclavis]

Marvelous! Triumphant! Speaking of white paint, have you thought about doing a video about titanium dioxide? It's all around us, in white plastics, white enamels, white latex paint, etc... you could explain why titanium dioxide looks so white, and how common titanium is on the Earth... anyway, either way, your videos are essential viewing -- challenging and rewarding and filled with wonderfully dedicated scientists talking about what they love! Cheers!

[skiingfreestyle]

Cool but, this video its been watched at MY time 301 times and at the same time 433 people liked this and 2 disliked it. Weird...

[TechXMarine]

@skiingfreestyle Youtube tends to glitch, after a large amount of people watch a video in a short time span youtube gets stuck around 300, the views are still being counted just not displayed, after a few hours it fixes it self and the views are added

[skiingfreestyle]

@TechXMarine Thank you for the remark, good to know. It is a good thing a lot of people watch this videos.

[culwin]

@skiingfreestyle Every video on YouTube has had this glitch/feature since the beginning of time.

[Rpks0323]

Interesting!

[huyked]

Awesome microscope! What exact model and brand is that? It must cost an arm & a leg (couple of thousands?).

Did you say, "Pinning event"? @ 2:00

Also, it would have been nice to have the actual capture footage from the microscope as part of this presentation. Either case, thanks for the video. Neat!!!

[imslashjr]

This is interesting but not the greatest video which sixtysymbols has done. It was too jumpy and kept repeating its point. It looks too much like the kind I make. (insert smiley here) I think the makers of this video will become better with more experience.

[culwin]

@imslashjr More experience... *facepalm*

[sixtysymbols]

@imslashjr will keep trying!

though have uploaded about 1,000 science videos now... so I'm probably stuck with my bad habits (insert another smiley here)!

[imslashjr]

@sixtysymbols This video looked so different from the other videos you have done that I thought the person holding the camera and doing the editing were different than who had done the others. I didn't want my comments to discourage this person. Seeing that it was the same person I withdraw my comment about needing experience. Maybe this was hard to put onto a video because of the nature of it. (insert red face here)

[WillEyedOney]

I have a staircase to decorate. maybe the prof could

give me a hand. it'd be good for his research!

[wannabeuk]

You could try watching your nails grow instead of biting them

[truesemite]

BRADY pleaseeeeeeeeee ask the them about Tachyons (hypothetical particles) Its something interesting i'm sure the viewers would like it....and also i would really like to hear the docs opinion on it !!

[jeebersjumpincryst]

@truesemite I thumbed up yr suggestion too. I hope more do and I hope Brady includes it. We would all be hanging on every sweet word, thats for sure! +1 :)

[defect530]

nope, still very boring.

[w00td00t]

Man... I've been aspiring to be a neurologist for a very long time now, but the more sixty symbols videos I watch, the more I want to be a physicist.

I wish Shangri-La was a real place... then I could excel at both.

[AccountTredecim]

Some people argue that science takes out the wonder and beauty of the world. I think it adds wonder and beauty; even to things as boring as paint drying. And I love scientists for thinking the same enlightened way. Thank you for this video.

[sixtysymbols]

@AccountTredecim thank you for watching and commenting!

[HoneyPatchworks]

@AccountTredecim I COMPLETELY agree. Richard Dawkins has said that "science is the poetry of reality," which I find very true.

[UnchainTheNight1]

@AccountTredecim The more you know, the more you can imagine.

[Selageth]

@AccountTredecim

Exactly. I think there was even a Q&A session on sixty symbols about that question. To me, knowing how nature works (be it physics, biology, chemistry, astronomy or mathematics) does not lessen the beauty of the universe. Instead, I am even more awed by the look of a beautiful rainbow, knowing how the different colors come to be or why there's a secondary rainbow.

Big thanks to Brady and everyone else responsible for sixtysymbols, PTOV and the other channels. Great work!

[miikaeal]

@AccountTredecim I totally agree. Its like seeing the wonders of this world through yet another looking glass. First you see paint dry with your normal eyes and then you add a microscope into the mix and BAM, its like going a 'trip', if you know what i mean. Hell, i don't even know what i mean, cause I'v enever done drug, but i bet for nerd...it might be something like this XD :D

[bitpeg]

@miikaeal

Speaking as a nerd who actually has done drugs, I can assure you they are two entirely different things.

[TheEthug]

@AccountTredecim Nice comment man, well said i like how you think.

[crusiatusblack]

Amazing video!

[pljehyun]

almost fascinating

[Mr88kies]

@MrKhody Clearly you don't understand what's happening in the video. Its incredibly interesting and everyone is so lucky to have it explained by a great teacher. These videos have made me so interested in physics that i've decided to take it to A-level instead of French! Thanks professor Moriarty!

[SplitSniper7]

Haha wow, it's kinda funny how SixySymbols is the only channel I know that can make something like watching paint dry interesting. Lol thanks Brady and congrats on making something I thought was impossible possible!

[Dirtboy101]

Now lets see grass growing. lol.

[blade9z]

@Dirtboy101 If you mean grass as cannibus then it is not boring :D

[imantisocial]

@Dirtboy101 yes, need more videos like this

[mferrusca]

@Dirtboy101 Now, that´s an idea. :)

[xxxrrrxxxrrr]

@Dirtboy101 Here, you're welcome watch?v=VZdi4fj-hWc

[KaiqueSumatso]

@Dirtboy101 lol

[dylanlawless1]

Can i have the slide/painting? Could get it framed

[MrKhody]

This is so sad..

[ChiefDen4]

This is exactly why science is awesome - beauty can be found in the strangest of places.

[neurel111]

true colors? I was not aware there were such colors... it's all just wavelengths and the em-source dictates what they are.

[Serostern]

EVRYTHING is interesting if you zoom out, zoom in, speed it up or slow it down.

[sixtysymbols]

@Serostern you may well be right!

[sidthemyth]

@sixtysymbols everything is interesting anyway, we got used to this dimention; that s why lots dont see creation... being without excuse

thx for the video

[denisfilming]

@Serostern Except for golf

[Serostern]

@denisfilming Au contraire, a zoomed in slow motion shot of the club hitting the ball is pretty damn awesome =)

[dreasim]

really is fascinating to watch

[dreasim]

lol i forgot...physicists tend to dislike chem...chemists tend to dislike physics maths.

[JimPrower]

I wanna see pearlcoats, metalflakes, and other stuff! :3

[VonLeachim]

moar please :)

[JuanLeTwnz]

Sorry for being nit-picky, but at 3:29 he says that there's nothing organic in there.

But...isn't the paint used for this demonstration composed of an organic polymer?

That aside, great and entertaining video as always!

[IcEye89]

@JuanLeTwnz I think he means organic in the meaning of alive, not in the chemical meaning

[csarnaes]

@JuanLeTwnz he means organic as in the sense of something living

[0x8x0]

@JuanLeTwnz Organic as in living being.

[wesmatron]

Amazing. It looks alive. Why do all those particles move to the surface? Is it the solvent evaporating?

[Stickalas]

Why am I doing an engineering degree? :(

[Tehtog]

@Stickalas It was probably an engineer who made/designed the paint.

[mangoismycat]

who had the great idea to point a microscope at paint drying?

[CelticReject]

What a great microscope!!! How much does it cost?

[flabazoid]

when i saw the video i was like cool. my mom now thinks i'm weird.

[NilsMcCloud]

A video on Quantum Tunneling please ;). Amazing stuff.

[Moriarty2112]

@NilsMcCloud Hi there. We've done a video on tunnelling (and its potential application in touch screen technology) - search the Sixty Symbols channel for "Touch Screens and Quantum Tunnelling".

The "Nano" Sixty Symbols video also touches on tunnelling.

All the best,

Philip (speaking in video)

[NilsMcCloud]

@Moriarty2112 Thanks for the notice, Professor.

And whilst I have the opportunity, allow me to say I admire the stuff you guys do at Nottingham University and the contributions to these videos. I'm a physics & astronomy student at the university of Ghent in Belgium, so all of this stuff fascinates me a great deal. :)

- Nils

[Moriarty2112]

@NilsMcCloud Hi, Nils. Thanks for the kind words about Sixty Symbols - delighted that you're enjoying the videos. All the very best with your Physics & Astronomy course.

Philip

[WarMasterX6]

If only our eyes had microscopic zoom and focus XD

[NoqturnePL]

Now all we need is a sequel: "Watching grass grow"

Great video as always :)

[noface1100]

new expression "as awesome as watching paint dry (on a microscopic level of course)"

[sixtysymbols]

@noface1100 ha ha

[DeltaPhi79]

So.... This means that "as boring as watching paint dry" is not longer a way to describe something that you don't like? :D

[steffenml]

Sixty Symbols - the only channel in the world who makes watching paint dry interesting. Bravo.

[DoctorBottle]

Looks kind of like a coastline near the end.

[JoesephKatana]

@DoctorBottle In a way it is :]

[HiltownJoe]

Great video.

It would be further improved if the image of the microscope was directly cut into the video instead of filmed from a monitor.

[sixtysymbols]

@HiltownJoe I kind of like the video to feel a bit like you're in the room with us.... not "here is the version straight from the machine"... that's a bit glossy and perfect!

But I know what you mean and may have used it on a different day! :)

cheers for watching and suggesting...

[ThrashMetalForces]

@sixtysymbols I agree with you, I like it the way it is now.

[zaraka2]

More videos on whatever subject please!

[magreggins]

Who says scientists can't find beauty?

[dmlandrum]

Professor Moriarty should have his own TV show.

[elyssian]

@dmlandrum Agree, he is amazing :)

[dmlandrum]

@elyssian Or he could join up with Nerdstock and do a monologue on how business has no business influencing science. :) But yes, a TV show, too.

[jamiehasnomercy]

Umm this kinda process kinda reminds me of how the magma behaves within our planet!

[V3rtyX]

I can't believe I'm watching paint dry and I enjoy it

[DeFliegendeHollander]

who are the two who do not like this ?

[marshallhwa]

thanks



[LynxChan]

Only you could make paint drying interesting :-)

[bigdaveoncampus]

hmm almost looks like an Animal cell (or another eukaryote cell) in a Concentrated salt solution when the membrane pulls in...wierd

[AkaiTsukiShimitsu]

@bigdaveoncampus Hey, I was thinking the same thing =o

[bigdaveoncampus]

@AkaiTsukiShimitsu spooky lol

[FHomeBrew]

And then people say science take out the magic of the real world. Give anyone a choice between watching this through the microscope he had, or without one and you'll know what they'll pick.

[FHomeBrew]

In the end, almost no one really has a good idea of what they're actually looking at. Only a few scientists have seen stuff like this. And a few youtubers.

[YourBrainOnReligion]

What about watching grass grow?? :)

[AkaiTsukiShimitsu]

@YourBrainOnReligion yah, Grass!! @-@

[SonOfNye]

@YourBrainOnReligion Time lapse.

[ndewhurst12]

Excellent video. Thank you Brady!

[MrTechGuy1995]

Hey Brady, I am currently researching, and planning to construct something similar to an electron microscope. How much money and time is involved with it's construction?

[sixtysymbols]

@MrTechGuy1995 I don't know... I can't even make IKEA shelves properly! :)

[Serostern]

@sixtysymbols Mate, Not even the guys at LHC could assemble an IKEA shelf proplerly =P

[noxure]

@Serostern That's because they would try to rotate the screws with magnets instead of using a screwdriver.

[Serostern]

@noxure Rotating a screw bit with a magnet?

Who's ever heard of such a thing?! *Cough DRILL Cough*

[noxure]

@Serostern Tesla's ideas are splendid, but they are utterly impractical, - T.Edison.

[KemaTheAtheist]

Well, I'll never use the phrase, "fun as watching paint dry" in the same way again.

[crazyhollowichigo]

the only channel that will get people excited about paint drying...

[puretroubleman]

amazing concept! 

[heyandy889]

Alright, another visit from Prof. Moriarty! :-D Glad to see him again.

[johncrwarner]

I was surprised the words Brownian motion didn't cross anyone's lips

[eggroll9000]

@johncrwarner That might be because the Brownian motion takes place at an even smaller scale (the particles aren't molecules)