Slow-mo mousetrap reactor

[ROCKNintendoYO]

floorballs XD

[mazack00]

we did a grid of more than 1200 mousetraps for a science fair project when we were kids.

[AshleyMcGowan1]

you should replace them with golf balls and have a fish tank so when the chain reaction starts it smashes everything. a bit like a nail bomb but with golfballs

[shnazzyone]

WHAT!?!?! Are we sure that can be trusted to be an accurate portrayal of a nuclear reaction. I dunno.

[pooflo123]

"Causality, my love" -The Merovingian

[GreatGungHolio]

Now do it with real mice!

[burrderr]

nuclear fallout. for kids.

[Razzfazz87]

"This video was brought to you by: Nuclear Power Companies! Because we fear that we will be out of business soon!"

[ReasonSharp]

And that's the way uranium crumbles!

[ryanx84]

When will New Scientist move above 360p - Who's posting these videos? Fire them!

[vkorinfsky]

This vid represents fission reaction.

Mouse traps = heavy nuclei

White balls= neutrons

[TheSanityInspector]

That's remarkable.

[akbarblanchet]

@TheSanityInspector

HAHAHAHAHAH!

[toulouse666]

Nice, ow I don't have to feel bad about making extremely insensitive jokes about Japanese people being crushed and drowned and slightly irradiated!

[bivilcivil]

cool

[Davemanz]

Do people do anything but complain in the comments for these videos? I thought this was great. It's a really helpful model for understanding nuclear reactions.

[nakanoballer]

How do you set up something like that without them going off in the process?!

[jimmybilbo]

@nakanoballer This comment is is perfect... you can't even imagine mouse traps going off properly, much less the atoms of a nuclear power plant. I guess this video works perfect for you.

[skel8tor]

luv the guy in the background cringing and pulling his hair

[coolman9999uk]

You know this is probably also how cancer spreads. I'm not talking about the balls, I'm talking about lazy scientists who are faffing about with mouse traps when they should be working on a cure!!!!

[basslinet]

@coolman9999uk

To understand something, you need to model it,

Not every scientist in the world should be consumed with a cure to cancer,

Without an understanding of nuclear physics,

a cancer patient wouldn't even know they had cancer till they died anyway...

So I don't really know what your complaining about :)

[SEThatered]

@coolman9999uk

What are you talking about??? Not all scientists are working to cure cancer, in fact, most of them are not qualified to do that. Same as asking an astronomy professor about cell division (he'll just give you that O_O look).

World just doesn't revolve around cancer.

[jimmybilbo]

@SEThatered Yes, if we all focused on cancer 100%, we'd all die soon after from starvation.

[bloodaid]

@coolman9999uk yep youre kind of right. people should indeed try to cure cancer instead of doing other stuff. not complaining on youtube is one thing that the cancer-cure-research could benefit from if you wouldve take your time to actually become a scientist. where is your part of the research?

[thepeff]

I half expected the narrator to say, "This technology could someday be used to capture mice for biofuel" or something like that.

[cuteputta]

900 videos  nice

[elixeroflife]

Finally! the cure for cancer! no maybe all these dipshits will shut the fuck up about it!

[warcrap]

can it cure cancer?

[ccaptorchen]

@warcrap yes

[sukablianah2]

I would eat them if they were food

[TheTheman45]

waste of time

[darkwolve16]

those should all react when a mouse falls on one

[1RadicalOne]

Unfortunately, this makes nuclear energy appear far more out-of-control than it truly is. Which only serves to aid the idiots who think that going within a hundred kilometers of a nuclear plant is akin to EATING highly enriched uranium.

PS

This reminds me of one scene from a movie my daughter likes, involving a thousand mousetraps in one room, and two rather unlucky individuals caught inside.

[1RadicalOne]

That was it, yes.

[IrradicableOne]

The music made me nostalgia. <3 Metroid Prime.

[snowgyre]

I mourn the bruised fingers that suffered during set up.

[makmegs]

mate, i could have made this 10 years ago when i was in primary school..

[HeroicFrog]

taxes.... this is where ALL ends up... Universities....

[HiJaayD]

damn so slow.

[BuggttiVeyronW16]

Use cheese next time.

[aztecsword12]

they should have done this Cadbury Creme Eggs.

:D

[liquidus2172]

to be precise, the trap must contain TWO small balls instead of one.

[blabby102]

@liquidus2172 This is the analogy used when I was in high school.

[blabby102]

@liquidus2172 Yes, this is the analogy used when I was in high school.

[1019drummer]

My thought process in the morning before coffee.

[Madmonkeythegreat]

I love this analogy!

[callmesora]

i want to see this done on a larger scale... say..... in a football stadium =D

[ataraxic89]

Its more like an A-bomb than a reactor, which slows the reaction with Neutron absorbing materials. Thumbs up so people can be less stupid!

[Godzilla614]

collage boredom at its finest.

[SiliconBong]

Music was quite fitting, Godzilla614. [ I can imagine an old art teacher of mine, happily stoned out of his tree, watching this video a hundred times in succession;every time pointing out something new and amazing . . . ]

[PlutonGB]

actually, 1 trap should release 3 more balls (neutrons)

[Bobajobimus]

Chain Reaction in action.

[jadenjak]

that must of been agony to set up

no wonder they wanted to show more than once

[superrockerMan]

I've seen this before on Beakman's World

[CallMeMrNameless]

Didn't Jackass already do this?

[SugarFreeMentosGum]

Oh my god, this was from Halifax? Awesome! I live there. :]

[sourav777]

please give me back my 1 min and 25 seconds....

[gosucoaching]

Don't want to be a mousetrap+ball scientist for sure! :/

[sourav777]

@gosucoaching I dont get it, are you actually from gosucoacihng? And why cant I see your channel? :O:O

I didnt even know the coaches even had a youtube channel :D:D

[gosucoaching]

@sourav777 I'm just dummy. :D

[Omerov1986]

IS THIS WHAT THE FUCKING NHS BUDGET CUTS ARE TO BE SPENT ON? SHIT LIEK THIS?

[kevinscales]

@Omerov1986 Yeah, all £7.20 of it.

[zassounotsukushi]

I like how this model includes the effects of depletion. Almost as good as ORIGEN-ARP.

[Crixe]

In principle what they are showing is correct if you lay out enough of them eventually it will stop but it gives you an idea of the power a single atom can create.

[Charlymaumushi]

It's beautiful!

[alwayzAngry]

touchdown 0:24

[Dudekahedron]

I think we should use mousetraps to power our future

[delerium2k]

I built a mousetrap car in gr10 shop class... I think it went about 25metres

[Munnchbunnch]

Only a Chuck Norris type of mouse would of survived that onslaught of traps lol.

[jinkis4]

woulde be more fun if the balls were Mice...

[Perktube1]

Now pour in sewater and see if it cools down..

[jimmybilbo]

@Perktube1 That's a pretty dumb comment and demonstrates tremendous ignorance about how nuclear-based power-plants operate.

[Perktube1]

@jimmybilbo Your sense of humor is below critical mass.

[jeebersjumpincryst]

@Perktube1 but at least its not totally depleted...

[Perktube1]

@jeebersjumpincryst perhaps, you can say that if you know him/her.

[barakuda1111]

I think it needs more mousetraps.

[IKNOWITSADUMBCOMMENT]

uhhh! now i get it!

[littlestworkshop]

balls

[vincent7520]

music sucks

[Enlight3nd]

So Cheese is the problem!

[Perktube1]

@Enlight3nd Haha! The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

[jawayetti]

New Scientist is once again on the forefront of scientific videos. ;-)

[madjimms]

Didn't they do this in a movie but on a MUCH larger scale?

[SlashDotDash121]

They should have used mushrooms, not cheese....

[shalkana]

Can I Haz Cheez ? 

[dharkbizkit]

cool system! dilivers energie for what.. um 10 secs? oh excuse me, its an analogy? then choose something better then mousetraps that use springs that only work 1 time before they have to be reset manualy!

[z3253304]

nice porn music, also st marys must suck

[FrankaDith]

Now imagine all that is super toxic and can never be cleaned .

[Shketri]

indeed...

[universalmoor]

When the ball of truth is dropped i hope it sets off the same chain reaction in people who have been TRAPPED!> yes pun intended!

[kickit246]

Damn, I didn't know that neutrons looked so much like wiffle balls or w/e. I should probably go and retake all my chemistry classes, who knows what else I missed.

[Mavuriku]

I feel like I'm at a 5th grade science fair...



[Yonn13]

I was hoping for a real mouse...

[patienceking]

I am enraged by the stark retardedness of whoever composited the obstructive text bar onto this footage.

[nisse91]

wow.. this may help treat cancer..

[GGmod]

@nisse91 what u dont believe in magic ?

[SAsgarters]

@nisse91 Actually, it may.

[nisse91]

@SAsgarters thanks for confirming my theory..

[SAsgarters]

@nisse91 I haven't used it to cure cancer just quite yet.

[nisse91]

@SAsgarters keep me posted.

[ccaptorchen]

@nisse91 this was an analogy to show of chain reaction radiation, which can cause cancer. so a better understanding of it may lead to someone finding a cure.. so yes.. it may help treat cancer.. what have you done lately to help cancer research?

[nisse91]

@ccaptorchen well.. i use tobacco so i may get cancer and they can study me.. what have you done?

[ccaptorchen]

@nisse91 I've watch youtube videos about science and NOT bitch about weather or not it can cure cancer before reading the description link.. thus scientist who ARE trying to find a cure for lung cancer for your smoking habits don't have to take time off their busy research to explain it to me.

[skadogg22]

Is this really a good analogy?

[XTwina]

@skadogg22 youp it is, every trap is a atom, every ping pong ball is a neutron, one trap emits an "neutron" that triggers the next one.

[thefoxdude]

@XTwina is it possible that the atom's run out of neutrons, like no balls on the mouse trap?

[tristbjorn]

@thefoxdude That is what happens when nuclear fuel gets used up - the atoms lose neutrons and changes into another material, which can't emit neutrons.

[XTwina]

@thefoxdude yes, in reality they actually broken into two atoms, for example U235 is broken into Ba139 and Kr95. You see, there is one neutron missing, thats the one, that flies away. Its bonding energy is released and thats, what makes A power plants run and Atomic bombs explode so extremely powerful.

[thefoxdude]

@XTwina is it also possible to get rid of those other atoms? so u end up with Ba1 and kr1? and end up with blowing up the whole milkyway?

[XTwina]

@thefoxdude No, the products of the fission are relatively stable and will take some very long time to fall apart (atomic waste problem). Some day they will fall apart to a stable form that is no longer radioactive.

[thefoxdude]

@XTwina why is it possible that things get mutated by the (gamma?) nucleair ray, does it gets stuck in your DNA?, so your children wil have 3 eyes? ps: you sound smart ; )

[XTwina]

@thefoxdude Thanks, only hobby :D, have a look at my channel !

The Partices dont get stuck, but they can crack chemical bonds between other atoms, so they demage areas in the DNA. When the cell is dividing the mistake will be multiplyed and lead to cancer, if you are extremely unlucky and the particular cell is a reproductive cell the child can have mutations.

Search for "nottinghamscience" youtube channel, they recently have made a good explenation video to that topic.

[thefoxdude]

@XTwina aaahh thanks for the tip!

[CallMeMrNameless]

@XTwina

Chain reaction is the keyword.

What we see here is comparable to what happens in a critical-mass nuclear explosion.

[Silhouette93]

@XTwina

Except every atom doesn't release one neutron. It releases about four-ish, most of which are absorbed by control rods.

[thegreatMSG]

@XTwina

But according to my text book.. one trap should emits 3 neutrons right?

[XTwina]

@thegreatMSG as far as i know and wiki says its one (U235-Kr95-Ba139=1) aditional to the one that triggers the chain reaction. So there is one going in and two going out.

[hcortens]

@skadogg22 pwnd.

[molesniper666]

@skadogg22 This is a fairly common model actually. You can change the parameters by changing how far apart each mouse trap is or limit the size of the box.

[PragmaticLiving]

@skadogg22 oh let 'em play :D

[MrValzen]

@skadogg22

Yes

[Mik3River4]

@skadogg22 Why dont you show the viewers a better analogy with a video and all.

It's easy to criticize but its hard to contribute, ain't it?

[Kargoneth]

@Kargoneth

That should read "A small number of capture events"

[lucasmontec]

@skadogg22 Yes.The most famous one.

[TheChemlife]

@skadogg22 this particular model isn't. the traps are supposed to have 2 ping pong balls as this more accurately represents what happens in nuclear fission. on neutron goes in, 2 come out. the two that come out can then go on to trigger more and more. so yes if done properly is a good analogy

[coollikeyodais]

@skadogg22 not if your a mouse

[TheYou0Tuber]

@skadogg22 I think its okay. :)