Flame Extinguished by Gravity

[Jextxadore]

The balancing bit is more impressive than the flame dying.

[papapardal1]

good explanation ! idiot !!! back to school !!

[fairo]

to the most thumbed up comments...i think his trying to show that the fork and the spoon are suported by nothing but the tip of the burned stick............sigh and they got thumnbed up...more dumb people.

[thisiknowify]

:O My mom is on that cup! Holy shit

[Icopper]

how does the tootpick actually hold the fork and spoon before and after the flame?? that's impossible, unless you did some kind of illusion, because there is nothing that i see there that's able to do it...

[Ixions42]

"You win again thermodynamics!!!"

[WaffleFox96]

"Glass" is actualy concidered a semi-liquid, thus, causing it to be a great conductor, taking away the heat and dispersing it throught the "glass". It then causes it to absorb all the heat, leaving no heat to the toothpick. But what I don't understand, is how does it balance the glasses on one side when on the other has no weight!? Quite possibly a glitch in our universe...galaxy...world?

[SuperMike32]

@WaffleFox96 it would appear that there is no weight on the other side but what you think is "glasses" is actually a fork and spoon, it does not matter that there appears to be no weight, if you look at the center of gravity it is balanced on the tooth pick. there is a large mass where the fork and spoon meet, then it goes down (which acts a lever,IE. decreasing the mass needed to counter balance) and the ends of the fork and spoon are just enough to make the center of gravity the tooth pick.

[123syflox123]

whooptie freakin doo...

[xjaydecayx]

YOU ARE A WEIRD FUCKER

[pamraymiles]

YouTube comments are proof there will never be world peace. People will argue vehemently over ANYTHING!

[sLObZenOnMyNObzen]

Haha this kid almost got me with his trick but then i read the comments and realized. Still pretty cool and wonder woman ftw

[sickasso72]

I like this music. Who is it

[MrGehendra]

This is nonsense.

[Fucktard107]

duh... when a fire touches solid liquid it changed it's forme and even if there is still fuel for it, it would destroy the whole object, but only if the solid liquid has a y dimension thicker than the current fuel.

[michaljaros13]

as said previously (@L00NGB00W, @fatkasuvayu) gravity has nothing to do with the flames going out, the most important thing here is the glass that takes the heat and the fire has no more power to burn

@tuollaff: yeap thats the trick why the whole thing is not falling down

[tuollaff]

ok there was no glue or weight displacement going on here.

with the angle of the cutlery he makes the center of gravity the point where the match stick is connecting with the glass thus making the but of the match thats sticking out unnecessary. so when its gone it does not affect the balance of the spoons because the center of gravity is still more or less where the match is connecting with the glass

[tuollaff]

oops i said but in stead of bit

[goldmosaic]

the burnt carbon from the matchstick reacts well with the silica from the glass forming a adhesive bond between the two making it look like gravity has been stumped.

[tuollaff]

wrong.....

[Doversreturn]

that was nothing to do to gravity.

[fatkasuvayu]

nice vid, but i fail to see the connection between the flame going out and gravity

[champwagner]

lol you are all sad weak trick good for idiots

[OldSchoolSkill]

This old parlor trick is well understood.

Flame is not extinguished by gravity.

The small flame is extinguished by heat depletion.

Glass is a good thermal conductor. As the flame sits on the lip, heat is removed from the flame and it dies.

Fire needs 3 ingredients: Fuel, Oxygen, Heat.

This trick shows how glass is a thermal conductor, acting as a heat-sink which removes heat, thereby stopping combustion. The rest is just a balancing act demonstrating cantilevered center-of-gravity.

[Laxkorv]

Well a fire can burn without heat can it? So you fail! :)

[L00NGB00W]

Umm no Laxkorv. Fire creates and requires heat to propagate.

If your remove any element of the combustion pyramid; Fuel, Oxygen, or Heat, the flame will extinguish.

since the wooden match is pressed against the glass, it is being deprived of oxygen, and the glass is also cooling the wood down through conduction.

That is why it goes out.

[TempestReborne]

Man I sure am glad that carbon and oxygen combust every time they come into contact, regardless of ambient temperature!

[TempestReborne]

That was sarcasm folks! ridik876 is retarded!

[kingbane2]

sigh. yes flames produce heat but it has to use it's own heat to keep itself lit. when the flame reaches the lip of the glass the glass removes more heat then the flame can create. once the heat drops below the combustion point the flame dies. your equation there doesn't take enough account the heat lost to the heatsinking effect of the glass. the overall net effect would have been a negative energy total which extinguishes the flame.

[chattychar]

i think it might be because of the force of the fork and the spoon being both pulled down by gravity with the flame in between.

[LongcatRevolution]

Yeah, it couldn't possibly be because the glass was in the way of a steady supply of oxygen or something...

[UnderManiac]

Gravity has nothing to do with the extinguishing of the flame. Please explain your theory.

[veryfuck]

I know this phenomenon. The GRAVITY of the heavy fork and spoon in combination with the COLD FUSION that is taking place in the bright part, creates a MICRO WORM HOLE which gradually eats up the toothpick. Upon reaching the glass, TEMPORAL RESONANCE in the glass frees a megajoule of ZERO POINT ENERGY which counteracts the worm hole by means of ANTI GRAVITY. This negates the effect of the spoon and fork, and thus terminates the cold fusion. Easy!

[Karim074]

I hope evryone realises this is a joke, he's just using scientific words!

[bigyin109]

sounds like some crazy ass star trek shit to me

[L00NGB00W]

lol I dare you to strike a fusion powered match!

***KABOOOM****

He's actually firing a REVERSE POLARITY TACHYON BEAM at the rim of the glass!!! But I won't argue over semantics. =P

[mickycheese27]

this not fake but the science behind this is that if you balance something on it's balance point which is balancing on that thing's balance point then the weight turns equal due to gravity. BUT the flame was extinguished by the glass not by gravity.

[lejink]

so if u were to light that match n place it on the bottom of an upside down glass it would not burn?

[mickycheese27]

it would burn for a moment then it would extinguish because it would have used up all the oxygen inside the glass

[lejink]

i ment.. flip a glass upside down, then light the match n place it on the bottom of the glass. that way its on glass but not IN it so it will have oxygen

[TheAdarshSinha]

well the match would still be lit up as long as any part of the match (except the bottom) is not touching the glass because if a part of the glass touches the match (other than the bottom) then the glass would absorb all the heat and flame which would cause it not to burn.

[Hyshinara]

the fork and spoon pull that side of the pick DOWN and the burning part UP and since you can't burn the part or the pick that has already burned, the flame goes out due to lack of burnable material...

not this heat absorbing nonesense...

[L00NGB00W]

Yes lejink. If you place a lit match on a glass surface, it will go out.

Doesn't anyone play with fire anymore?

[bluesrunthegame]

The weight turns equal due to gravity? That statement is wrong on so many levels. Nothing is turning equal and, because of the match lever arm, torque is affecting the system, not merely weight. Also, there's no such thing as a balance point; by definition if an object isn't rotating then all of it's points are in equilibrium.

[mickycheese27]

In this balancing stunt, the center of gravity is directly below the spot where the toothpick rests on the rim of the glass. If you look closely at this balancing fork , you'll notice that the fork handles are positioned below the toothpick. This actually puts the center of gravity directly below the point where the toothpick is balanced. the strange thing is: the center of gravity, where the forks balance front and back, left and right, top and bottom is actually hanging in mid-air.

[boredman443]

Nice glass.

[enque01]

I know this phenomenon. The GRAVITY of the heavy fork and spoon in combination with the COLD FUSION that is taking place in the bright part, creates a MICRO WORM HOLE which gradually eats up the toothpick. Upon reaching the glass, TEMPORAL RESONANCE in the glass frees a megajoule of ZERO POINT ENERGY which counteracts the worm hole by means of ANTI GRAVITY. This negates the effect of the spoon and fork, and thus terminates the cold fusion. Easy!

[enque01]

.........or maybe the glass just absorbs the heat. =P

[esQo0020]

or maybe its glued?-.-' or fake? or smtn

[Snuse]

Thats right ;)

[Marshallnd]

...intruiging

[Parson2]

Respresents a great way to view gravity flowing over the object as a whole.

[rogerdellerba]

great concept. Really enjoyed the choice of music too.

[brefinburgs]

The music got me hyped up for nothing.

[GooeytheBlueBlob]

Haha gravity doesn't put it out. The glass absorbs the heat.

[DodgeD150guy]

everybody flag the video as something

[Davidicus400]

abuse of fire or explosives.

[gigioneumatica]

i just dont get it... what is amazing? the flame was extiguished by the border of the cup...

if there any other 'amazing' thing,beside the fact that the spoon and the fork are in balance, just tell me please

[simonsclass]

yeah I'm confused 2, what was so amazing?

[littleicyman]

Next time, extinguish your OWN flame with your OWN gravity.

[simonsclass]

lol!

[Orsbore]

Why do you steal other people's videos?

[MrsMollyMalloy]

jruckman stole this video from MillieD. He just edited it and changed the music, but everything else is identical. Yet he refused to give MillieD any credit.

Since this pathetic loser has no respect for intellectual ownership, I went over to Justin Ruckman's website and Flickr page and downloaded a whole bunch of photos and graphics. I'm sure he won't me using them as my own. There's some nice stuff there so you guys should feel free to take stuff!

[BuffaloWarrior7]

yeah this is just an edited copy of millieD 's video

[cssbeast]

counter balanced with the weight of the spoon handel and the fork handle

[MillieD]

So, you stole my video??? And? Please take this off your site please.

[MangoFuzz11]

i went on you channell to see the video and she has to same cup that you used,

and the background scene looks the same in the other video,

thats really weird.

[gradstudentxoxo]

MillieD

> So, you stole my video??? And? Please take

> this off your site please.

Millie, it's truly pathetic how desperate some people are for attention so they steal other people's work without giving any credit.

You should click on the FLAG feature (under the Views counter), and then choose INFRINGES ON MY RIGHTS, and then COPYRIGHT VIOLATION. Clearly asking this pathetic loser nicely didn't help.

S/he'll probably delete this message but you should get an alert in email.

[zombierobopirate]

the spoon blew it out

[geyserli]

How to keep the fork and spoon there?

[Djafar8]

?? uhh ??