5 Things that Seem to Defy the Laws of Physics

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The shear number of channels Simon has seems to defy the laws of physics.

Forget coating sand with a chemical to make it hydrophobic, come to Western Australia and try gardening in any backyard. It's so hydrophobic here, we have to add wetting agents just to get it to keep the water!

Is the background music way to high at times, or is it just me? Love your videos, but its hard to hear you speak sometimes over the music...

Great video as usual, thx. If this is read by who ever is in charge of the background music, not so loud, chill, need to hear Simon 😂🎶

The one way glass is similar to cutting peppers. If you put a trimmed piece of a pepper down on a cutting board with the skin side up and try to cut it, it will deform and squish and only a very sharp knife will actually cut through the skin. If you put the same pepper down with the skin side down, the knife slices right through with little resistance. It's the same deal, a hard layer on one side and a soft layer on the other.

Correct video this time 😂

1 way bulletproof glass sound cool but please god dont install it the wrong way round !

Magic Sand used to be a kids toy in the late 70s. I had some.

Some bulletproof glass is constructed in 3 layers, but the high end stuff is usually at least 5 layers most of which are actually tempered glass with a special coating of adhesive that is strong like polycarbonate. The glass is actual glass though in most cases, because glass is the best at breaking the bullet apart while the polycarbonate backing deforms to catch the broken up round.

0:40 - Chapter 1 - 1 way bullet resistant glass 3:45 - Mid roll ads 5:10 - Chapter 2 - Hydrophobic sand 8:30 - Chapter 3 - The Emdrive 11:15 - Chapter 4 - Starlite 14:05 - Chapter 5 - Nitinol

The Audio mix is so stinkin bad in this video that I couldn't get through it, background music is intrusive in its volume.

The Starlight story reminds me of another process that was lost, cement that would harden underwater was in use by the Roman Empire, after it fell the process was lost until rediscovered by the Germans just prior to 1940. I'm surprised nobody found the original samples after the man passed, or investigated what purchases he made for his lab for clues.

EM drive is like a looney tunes character blowing on a ship's sails.

Omg, I remember seeing the shielding foam on Tomorrow's World and seeing how paranoid he was about not getting ripped off. Such a shame that he didn't agree a sale price with someone that he could trust.

We live in such strange times, it seems every day is 1 April.

Starlite is an ablative coating, to block thermal heat. The basic recipe has been reverse engineered by chemists, some of which are on youtube: * Something that forms carbon (sugar for example) * Something that produces gas when heated (baking soda or borax also called sodium tetraborate) The heat causes the sugar to form into carbon which is hard to burn or oxidize, and the gas released from the second gas forming compound makes it into a foam which is non-conductive. What we get is a somewhat non conductive foam that gets thicker as more heat is applied upon it. Starlite may be more advanced, but it exists in a group of compounds called ablative coatings, and it is possible it was never bought because those existed before, and after, the man's invention. No one bought it because someone probably explained that it was not that special, or even it if was, it only had specific use cases To someone who has never seen an ablative coating, it looks amazing. To someone who knows what an ablative coating is, already knows the limitations of those materials, and why this product may not replace other similar coatings. Regardless the man's invention is impressive if it was non-toxic and could be applied that thinly.

Perfect timing, just got off work and boom, side projects video

To add on to the bullet proof glass: the pulverized glass dust is not something you want to breath in, it will do more than just make someone's day more difficult

Starlite worked as advertised, but it also has a very short effective life. You can't just coat something in it and it's heat proof forever. Or even a year for that matter. It's effective life is only a few months at best. Still very impressive, but not as cool as it is generally touted. (no pun intended) It's been a few years since I read up on the EM drive, but I thought it didn't work in space. It's actually "pushing" off of the earths magnetic field.