Super Heavy Elements - Periodic Table of Videos in Darmstadt

[cagurtay]

tze and thizs ^^

[SpikeZeek]

english in german accent sounds like a mad scienctist, darn you cartoons.

[iElite6809]

Es is fillt wist der lead.

I love German accents!

[Logopolist]

Is the island of stability a plausible condition? If so, what properties would those elements have?

[GertOgren]

to bad there isnt a riodejaneiroum professor ^^

[therealjordiano]

Polakoffium :) another awesome vid from periodic vids xD keep it up

[Zanco]

I will call my super super heavy element: Awesomium.

[OMGiTzCeeJay]

Lol the professor is left handed

[DannyFox06]

Cave Johnson... Throwing science at the wall to see what sticks.

[Dirtboy101]

I guess they're throwing science at the wall to see what sticks.

[Twostones00]

The amount of science that came together over time to make this happen is an amazing wonder.

[silentelysium]

I love his hat... He looks cute with it xD

[SantiPanti101]

why make these elements if they only last for a few seconds

[lukacarroll]

@SantiPanti101 to say we can, and did.

its like mountain climbing, whats the point of it?

acheivement.

[SantiPanti101]

@lukacarroll ok thanks for the explanation. Would be great if these elements were stable, but alas it will be a while until we develop the technology for it.

[ampabioscience]

@SantiPanti101

There probably are elements and isotopes that are both useful, and have a long half-life - we just have to keep working at it to figure them out. Also, isotopes of elements that don't last long may last longer than their parent.

[DieterMe]

That's the way it is to find these Elements.

[lcaul4]

i want that door!

[dragan421]

german accent, the top of the evolution!

[nilbud]

@dragan421 Now now remember what happened the last time.

[djteac]

@dragan421 say thanks to 99% of the English teachers in Germany. Because this is the way they actually teach us to speak English. Which is one of the things that always pissed me off at school. Especially with "the" spoken like "tze" or whatever. It's sad :(

[ConnorXV]

2:57 , I've never seen a German stripper so large on youtube!

[PeacefulParadox]

I would love to see what happens if someone got hit in the face with one of those ions.

[haynaku2007]

Philippines has the biggest reservoir of deuterium in the world, but unexploited. Can deuterium be used to generate electricity?

[ConnorXV]

@haynaku2007 Deuterium is a tricky one, at this time we cannot create sustained fusion that gives out more energy than is used to initiate first fusion between two Deuterium or Tritium atoms, so at this time the answer is NO, but say 20-50 years the answer may be YES.

[bastianfrom77]

1 Mircosecond timing resolution - i doubt that. I have worked with silicon-detectors and usually the timing is a factor 100 better (of the order of 10 nanosec). I thing the old guys just dont do the work anymore thats why they dont know the facts.

[de0509]

do these unstable things have a chance to be useful at all? who funded all this research.

[DeepAbsentia]

Professor rocks, man.

[NeigborhoodBoards]

lol wtf does he do at 4:20? did any1 else notice?

[jq747]

@NeigborhoodBoards I think he wiped a booger on the wall lol

[dclaver2]

@NeigborhoodBoards he touches the wall

[airlinerdude12]

15 million mph!!!!!!

wow

[marcelmarcin]

bravo

Marcel

[DerAnstifter]

You should come to Chile to make a special video on... copper. ¬¬

[AntiProtonBoy]

They also make good chocolate, too!

[lhtd]

quite exiting to be able to see one of those, even through youtube. Thanx :D

[rolling422]

love the language, he makes it easy to understand, great teacher. thanks , i will put you in my favs on my youtube, "rolling422"

[Defonthana]

what is this song...thats played in the video sometimes??

[adrastea99]

112-117 made in Russia

[youidiot89076]

I love his hat xD

[kitkitmeow24]

hi einstein lol

[masherlenys]

The Prof is charming!!! :)

[ricande]

What can we learn from this kind of experiments. It does not sound like the elements from 107 and up are very stable? Can they be used for something practical ?

[KoolKidKarl2k8]

10 people are copper ions ;)

[gabeuop79]

I have one of those machines in my front yard. Up on blocks.

[dreasim]

i LOVE this channel

[pyrosimple]

I don't understand, why do you need these new elements? They do not have any practical utilisation, and are very difficult to make, millions of dollars have been invested in those colliders!

[cortexedge]

@pyrosimple the same thing happens with the LHC... there have been invested billions of dollars for what?

[9hello123]

@cortexedge moron.

[Creepyseven]

@pyrosimple

we cant use them now but maybe we will be able to make use of them in the future.

also the aim of physics is not always to make use of the things you find out but to find out things about you enviroment which humans always wanted to understand.

[CannaPlant]

German Engineering in da house, ja! :)

[FlashFizz]

Do you suppose that the collision of neutron stars may produce a lot of isotopes on the "island(s) of stability"?

[bedmasmath]

no idea if mentioned but its darmstadt germany, tium is the element. stupid but useful info for others that wanna possibly visit/find out

[frohman101]

Please hold a lecture at Frankfurt's University.

[Snowboarder54688]

wow i love this, its so entertaining

[Slic3R1]

awesome accent

[lexichronicle2]

:D I love the way it starts by panning back from his head

[me835]

love the opening! just the professors iconic hair!

[homousios]

using a snowball thrown at a tree, helped clarify the concept for me thanks

[genericmember1]

The professor's so egocentric. He dreams about himself when he's asleep, and he thinks about himself when he's resting.

[DeltaPhi79]

9 people missed the like button.

[Dimitri0809]

Super atoms or clusters of atoms bonded together.

There is also another theory I'd like to propose, an enlargement of an atom would be interesting.

[JuanLeTwnz]

Talking about german accents, that door guy already had a pretty neat one, but the element creator...just wow!

[Scrap5000]

I love how excited he is!

[bianchinGSI]

I'm actually working there ! Cool !

[AstralDragoon]

Wow, being shown all this advanced equipment firsthand? Talk about an honor!

[RAMSEY1987]

I do not know anything about science. I am sure that is important, and i dont mean to be disrespectful but what does this mean in terms of actual real world applications, or is this research for the sake of research and if so that's fine no problem with that.

[doktorfuture]

One off-shoot of this type of research has medical uses. When people get things like bone-scans they are injected with radio-active isotopes that are man-made. Also, these materials may have other useful properties, and one has to first create the elements in order to test them. Many of these elements can't be mined as they have short half-lifes and don't appear on our planet in significant concentrations.

[RAMSEY1987]

@doktorfuture that has shone some light on the subject

[GenuinePhil]

amazing stuff

[Butandiolmonoacrylat]

Hey Prof. Poliakoff, there are a few germans with bad english speech, but the most could speak englich very well ;)

[djteac]

@Butandiolmonoacrylat ne ne ne, das üben wir aber nochmal ;)

[icedbannanas]

i love the professor, such a dude!

[getzkazer]

Ze beam hits ze target...epic english but great video

[somerandomutewb]

That's his accent, not his vocabulary.

[diogenden]

Nice) the hair is back. omg I can't even tell how much I missed it XD The professor just pwned as always ) Nice vid

[LacedShit]

these guy's have awesome job :D

[RunningAfterAntelope]

Back in 2000, when I was still a middle school student, I had a project in which we had to make a report on any element of our choosing. I picked Ununoctium and Ununhexium (118 and 116). Two scientists at Berkeley had just reported "discovering" them months earlier. Even though I was 12, I read their journal articles, and even interviewed Victor Ninov, one of the two PIs. I remember how uncomfortable he sounded.

Turns out, he falsified the data; the α particles were never really detected.

[KyuubiNaruto1337XD]

they both were reported again in 2006 and ununoctium was proven to be created but ununhexium is still under report.

[RunningAfterAntelope]

I think you're mistaken about the status of 116's discovery. There is no way to synthesize 118 without creating 116, too, in the decay chain. And not only has 116 been confirmed as 118's by-product, but independently the synthesis of 116 has been achieved by the bombardment of Ca + Cm... and in two different isotopes, 296Uuh and 293Uuh.

Please correct me if I misunderstood you, or you have some information I don't.

[KyuubiNaruto1337XD]

I ment Ununseptium

[MentulamHabeo]

nice German accent!

[TheKrazykool809]

what of the 6 elements are stable??

[Gingerninja16]

@TheKrazykool809 None of them, they last for a few fractions of a second. There is a theory that at some point they will reach a so called 'island of stability', where the atoms are so heavy they are able to stay together. So far this hasn't been reached, and these elements simply fall apart a split second after they are created.

[jdragon1012]

well what many dont know is that the united states government has been experimenting in deep underground military bases(DUMB"S) and everything down there is highly classified but sometimes there is a leak in information and we have found out that the government has made elements up to 140. element 140 is called corbomite. insanly heavy and its 100% stable. if you dont believe me i totally understand, you need to watch "phil shnider the alien agenda" you will learn some really cool things

[Elke82]

@TheKrazykool809

Non. Some of theire Isotopes can exist for about 11 min. But most of then 2 ms.

[jokubelis]

none of these.

[melbourneopera]

By the way, I am really cautious about the stability of the new element... If the stability after the iron is starts decay when the element goes heavier, it will be so unstable to keep the new element live more than 10 sec!!! If somebody have any ideas, please reply it there!!

[LeniInChains]

Come to Germany again! Darmstadt is sooo close to my city. Wish I could meet you, haha. I'm studying biochemistry soon!

[periodicvideos]

@LeniInChains: There are plenty more videos to come from our time in Darmstadt!!!!

[LeniInChains]

Thanks for your answer! I feel honoured :)

[MSSUROX]

I'm having a lot of trouble getting this thing to load. I've not been able to watch the entire video yet. Any suggestions?

[dolzaolcom]

@MSSUROX

I keeps stopping at 2:13 for me.

[GnosticFryingpan]

Keep refreshing your browser MSSUROX.

Shut it (browser) down and start again if necessary. The video works.

[ganymede36]

I paused it and dragged the cursor from 2:13 to 2:14. It started loading again (red load bar began moving). I had no problems after that.

[cheesedude9909]

awesome!

[DrAllan1]

Fantastic! I was wondering how they detected the elements, it looks like a grown up version of my mass spectrometers photomultiplier

[hackertc]

This looks like very old technology :(

[Paxmax]

Beware if the door comes unhinged!

SLAM!

Awesome stuff Per-i-vid !

[Nguli34689]

I want to invent a new element myself. The problem is that it'w too damn expensive. Perhaps I can transform gold into lead. JUST KIDDING!!

[Stillahills]

Great video.

I didn't know teachers could actually make snow balls and throw them with accuracy.

I thought that was a sport for jocks.

8D

[ElveeKaye]

Very interesting video! You look good in the furry hat. :o]

[chucky3011]

wixhausen

by Darmstadt

[archaedemos]

Awesome Awesome!

[Hewpie]

Is there any way of determining some of the basic chemical properties of these incredibly short lived isotopes in these experiments? Or is it entirely theoretical?

[periodicvideos]

@Hewpie: A small amount of chemistry can be done on the ones which last long enough (a matter of seconds!). We have more to come from Darmstadt in the coming weeks and will be discussing this briefly.

[DSBrekus]

4:25 nice job title! :P

[LokkenJester]

You guys are amazing, one of the best channels in YT.

[nckcanna]

the video will not go past 1:18 for me:(wtf

[Necrowitch]

wow, if radio waves can move matter then that gives validity to what all those health extremists are saying about emf fields being bad for the health., or at least it is already proven it's bad.. but this explains more of how it possibly is doing the damage it does to the body.

[princessmanner1]

I love actually getting to see the inner workings of the apparatus!

[Itslvle]

Precisely.

Sadly there are still a lot of people who whine about spending money to do science, claiming it could be put to much better use. For those people it's always good to have in mind a few concrete examples of important inventions that followed from seemingly nonpractical branches of study.

All that aside, even if it would be certain that no practical applications could come from something, I still say that in most cases the knowledge that will come from it is in itself worth it.

[doverlin]

@Itslvle

Good points. Since we can not know ahead of time what practical applications might be derived from research, it is sufficient to know that some will and that we should keep exploring.

Like you, I believe beauty lies in knowing a thing. Sometimes I wish I could travel to the future to see what mankind has accomplished.

[P00P0STER0US]

Enjoyable! I hope you get to travel to more places to see people and the science they love.

[Hewpie]

Do you think they'll find any stable elements beyond 112?

[DSBrekus]

on wikipedia look at "island of stability" interesting stuff ^_^

[Hewpie]

Interesting - looks like the main problem is finding feasible quantities of the right elements to combine. And then you have to detect them. So it gets more and more difficult as the elements get heavier.

I wonder if the Darmstadt accelerator will find many more...

[TheReasonWhyGuy]

Was ununoctium discovered in this machine O.o

[TheReasonWhyGuy]

@TheReasonWhyGuy nevermind :O

[ignilc]

australians are experts at building cellars with 70 ton doors.

[ignilc]

i was talking about josef fritzl

[T0mNZ]

Josef Fritzl is from Austria not Australia, You mean Austrians, but it still isn't funny

[Beefdoctor]

Quantum Mechanics has never been "pointless" if it wasn't for exploiting certain properties in the way light behaves you wouldn't have CD players, DVD players, these are to name but a few.

[culwin]

You should have mentioned the strippers at 2:54 in the video description. I bet you would get a lot more views.

[lejink]

so so so cool

[imanerd36]

I want a fro like his! Yeah for Chem BTW!

[angelxsid]

Go to the LHC purlease!

[hobbitsarecool]

wouldn't that be better for sixty symbols? LHC isn't really chemistry.

[AlmightScoop]

Dude. This isn't the LHC.

[hobbitsarecool]

I know. I was replying to someone who asked periodicvideos to go to the LHC.

[insAneTunA]

Great tour :-))

[tonyz3t]

this is just another machine for the germans to create a bomb much stronger than an atomic bomb LOL

[pepsibookcat]

:) *blissful sigh* So happy.

[jnrolf]

Wonderful!

[IIIIFile13IIII]

you gonna make a trip to Lawrence Berkeley Labs?

[taofledermaus]

The door is a foot thick, but it seems to have a one inch gap under it.

[Itslvle]

They probably compensate that by using massive lead shoes.

[Retsam19]

@taofledermaus

Aye, radiation travels in straight lines. So leaving little gap at the bottom of a thick door would be ok. Scattering wouldn't be enough to allow the rays to escape. They will absorbed by the lead door.

[darkmagician998]

isn't it only Gamma that travels in waves. which still wouldn't be enough to get under the door however still....

[Retsam19]

@darkmagician998

No x-rays are waves too. They are part of the electromagnetic spectrum, just longer wavelength.

Also particles such as electrons have wave like properties.

[dc100GHz]

Next Stop ..... LHC

[mrfamous333]

Mad Scientists! Yay!

[theguycalledchris]

I say this to all the people that question the purpose of trying to discover new elements with half-lives of microseconds-- When asked why he climbed Mount Everest, Sir Edward Hilary replied: 'Because it was there.'

[qwAirGear]

@theguycalledchris: When people ask about the purpose of trying to do some new thing in science, I tend to bring up that quantum mechanics was "pointless" for a long time, but if we hadn't done it then, we wouldn't be able to use it now like we do in more than a few engineering areas.

[Itslvle]

The transistor is a pretty good example of quantum mechanics I think. Nothing like the basis of all modern electronics to show that you can never tell where the next big practical advantage can come from.

Electricity itself is another good example. Initially it's practicality was just some party tricks like giving people small shocks or moving the legs of a dead frog.

Yeah, why should anyone waste time studying something like that...

[thehellsyeah123]

wow that accelerator must be quite an expensive piece of equipment

[insanic1]

Woot go germans

[TheLensmith]

Superb and worth the wait. I always wanted to see what was in the tube and the detector. !!!!!!!!Excellent.

[ArnestyInternational]

amazing what we can do... mindblowing

[ThatGuyFromAustria]

A SEVENTY TON DOOR! Wowie! Just imagine the power of the engines that have to move a doort heavier than a fully loaded heavy truck!

[IIXXIIXX]

@ThatGuyFromAustria i want that door as my front door

[Hewpie]

If it's very precisely made with efficient bearings the power probably isn't that much.

The Falkirk Wheel, which weighs 600 tons uses the power needed to boil a few kettles, so my guess that it's about a kettle's worth to move a 70 ton door. But I might be wrong - I expect Ludwig will know.

[Draxis32]

Amazing!

They added 6 elements to the periodic table!

Hope to see more investments in research as I get older.

[windowlicker1]

very cool

[nokomarie1963]

You go! What a wonderful privilige.

[commanderkruge]

Ooooh - the first detector is in the Deutsches Museum in Bonn - damn, I got to check it out, after all I live here in Bonn! :D

[TimTrimT]

yay!!!! awesome!!!

[gruelin1]

Always amazing stuff from Professor Martyn and company.

[theleftorium]

Love the German accent ;D

[rymeryme]

LINACS :)

[Rigo0Jancsi]

Ei guude, die Heiner mal wieder!

[l2804l]

I'm from Germany (Essen - European capital of culture 2010^^)

Very nice video

[cmxcmx]

Nice video, and I want that hat at 0:50 !

[faylinameir]

stupid error, I was all excited to watch this and I won't let me :(

[TeoTheAwesome]

Very enlightening! The professor is a genius!

[douro20]

While that big LINAC is in operation no one can be in the tunnels because the hard X-rays produced can kill you in seconds.

[superdau]

Noo! Zey showed ze great german secret! Now everyone can make heavy elements.

(btw. I'm from Austria ;-) )

[CHEMSTRY87]

I am a chemistry student, seeing this video I'm excited not a little! I wondered, but these new uses six elements that might have?

Thank you for your

[jjkul1]

i was at school today when i spotted a brochure from university of Nottingham. I'm pretty sure that if i go there i would want to meet the professor.

It is just nice how you see something in real life that is connected to another part of the world through the internet ie: these videos.

I live in thee middle east by the way.