ABCs of Radiation 

Yup. I wish that I had better chemistry teachers in hs. I wish I was a better student in the classes, though.

Ditto. I taught science for a bit and I never had this calmness...granted, I taught 7th graders, so perhaps that was never going to keep me calm.

I loved :'eventually'

Also lots of concrete.

That cobalt 60 real close to his balls

@James Fox Lead won't go through skin, wash your hands before eating and you'll be fine. Reason lead paint is bad isn't because the flakes of paint touch your skin but because you could accidentally eat some. Lead is still used in roofing around pipes, larger mansions and other big buildings use it as the roofing material (instead of shingles and tar) because it's easy to work with and don't need much to cover a surface.

@James Fox I am me and know that lead (being the large element it is) is unable to be absorbed through skin. Only through eating, and technically breathing in lead particles, can it enter the body.

My favorite part is that he's using Mirror-writing so that we, the viewer, can see the proper orientation of the text.

He's like Homer, Homer Simpson.

And SOOOO damn sexy too

I find it funny how i was always bored on alchemy and physics and never payed attention but here i am years later watching this man . Turns out that most professors cant really make you interested in such subjects

@Dick Fageroni you must drive a taxi in the uk cause your talking on the wrong side of the road homie.

ME it’s a reflection of the original video. He right handed as you can see from The demonstration.

They flip the video left to right.

@@mrsnoop1820 look at his watch writing and at the demos

Flipping the video is one way, but if you want to learn to write backwards, the easiest way is to start writing with your non dominant hand, the way our brains are wired, it will be difficult not to write backwards. It will look like kindergarten writing at first. If you can master writing forwards with your non dominant hand, you have rewired your brain enough to write backwards with your dominant hand. So a few options.

The buttons on his jacket are on the wrong side. So is he writing backwards or is the video flipped?

Guess whos up at 0030 learning the ABCs of radiation lmao

5:17 AM here, plz halp

2:25

same here

There is always time for greater understanding.

If she hears you say that, she'll beta you up.

i guess she doesn't bake you cookies any more :(

I bet she hasn't made gamma cookies for You either :D

Now I know my ABCs Next time she won't be deceased

Try that with my gamma and alpha q up

I heard another version of this. It reads that you have 3 cube one emit alpha ray, one emit beta ray and one emit Gama ray. You can throw one away but you have to put one in your pocket and one on your hand the answer rather different it says you put the block with alpha ray on your hand because it can be stop by tour skin tissue, then you put the beta cube in your pocket because your clothes and your skin will at least absorb some of the beta ray and the Gama one would be thrown away because nothing can stop the radiation harming your body. However the author says if possible throw all three away.

Of course, the major source of radioactivity in your average cookie is probably potassium 40, which is a beta emitter...

@@user-ro9zf9kz1h Betas won't be stopped by your skin, and even if they were, that is not a good thing. You want radiation to be stopped _before_ reaching your body, or for it to go right _through_ your body. Stopping _in_ your body is what you try to avoid.

1. "Cookies are good for you" - Cookie monster (Premise) 2. "Radiation is bad for you" - Some professor (Premise) 3. Therefore, radioactive cookies are neutral (Conclusion) Secondly, if air can stop alpha rays, then surely liquids can aswell. So there is some truth that vodka protects you from radiation (especially if you eat alpha ray cookies). Man those Russians are smart.

@@Dimmez Not the science we deserved, but the science we needed.

Do you mean formerly or formally?

Viking Lord I meant I got my degree in nuclear physics long time ago.

And learned that the gamma cookie is the least destructive cookie to eat as well.

@@kabloosh699 not so fast, that’s assuming the half life and concentration of the radioactive material is the same.

@@commie281 I think logically speaking you shouldn't eat any cookie giving off large amounts of radiation regardless of what version it is.

@@kabloosh699 of course haha

@@commie281 wow you are almost as dense as Pu

Nice

I C what U did there; cute.

Arterial Blood Gas 😉

Or t8alpha, beta, gammas...

@@uploadJ ICURAQTπ2

Ya this threw me off too, I'm used to gamma sources being much higher energy.

Yup, me too, eat the gamma because we are the ugly bags of water to stop the radiation.

This got me too, first intuition would say sit on the Alpha, eat the Beta and throw out the Gamma. This of course depends on dosage volume. The problem with eating a decay product is that it will keep "cooking" you from the inside out, And any type of radiation is dangerous when inside your body when in high amounts of ionization. Typically the things emitting gamma are materials you really do not want to be eating at all. A lot of them will kill you from the toxicity of the metal rather than killing you from exposure.

The same energy portion threw me off too. Is it the cookies that all have the same energy, or the individual discrete emissions that have the same energy? How about the power? Is the energy in each of the three cookies being released at the same rate? I would also be nice to see a few more significant digits on those nine probabilities.

​@@BradleyLayton I think that he basically meant they are equally dangerous.

I learned that one in the Navy (worked on the support systems for the nuclear power plant, so we cared a lot about neutrons).

I would DEFINATELY throw away the neutron cookie!!! Neutrons are the worst!!!

@@igorgerlovin3185 Thank you for your reply. Definitely a wise choice. Since it had no charge it can go through a lot of tissue wreaking havoc along the way.

Magic

lol

He's obviously got a thin-air pen. They are very popular over here in the United Kingdom of England-Land ;-))

@@CS80undermybed Thats quite the username you got there xd

Most of the gamma rays will pass right through a human body, and where they do react, the damage will not be concentrated in a small region. Charged particles, on the other hand, deposit 90% of their energy in the last 10% of their travel, leaving concentrated damage. That is why particle beam radiation is the best kind of radiation treatment for cancerous tumors, and usually better against a tumor than chemotherapy, which typically attacks the entire body.

@@YodaWhat I'm simply talking about consistency in the basic logic he applied to his chart, nothing more.

@@Quantiad He oversimplified.

@YodaWhat - He obviously oversimplified. Again, I'm commenting on consistency, not accuracy.

Yes and no. It's more complicated than that. Remember, gamma rays penetrate your body completely, so you catch whatever the absorption rate of your body is, multiplied by the distance traveled by the radiation(simplified). If we keep it in this simplified form, the distance remains the same since the radiation will penetrate your whole body regardless and thus you catch the same radiation. Of course there is the inverse square law, so the further you are from the source of the radiation, the less rays will actually hit you simply by virtue of distance, but with oversimplified maths, the radiation would remain the same.

You absolutly thrue

He needs to start espousing flat-earth theories for at least half of each video to get people to actually watch this stuff.

Most people watch a show like HBO's Chernobyl and think, "yup. I knew radiation was bad." That's the extent to which most people care to investigate. It's called the Dunning-Kruger effect, and it has a lot of damaging consequences for society.

@@Chironex_Fleckeri I dont deny that Dunning-Kruger effect its real. In fact, that's the problem - possibility of being real, because if Dunning-Kruger effect is real, then Dunning-Kruger effect could be a Dunning-Kruger effect, meaning - If person A(pretty smart one) say about B person(the not so smart one) that he is "suffering" of Dunning-Kruger effect, then after a point, the person A could "get" Dunning-Kruger effect, thinking is to smart for simple people, thus his evaluations are not good because they are actually "infested" by Dunning-Kruger effect ;) This Dunning-Kruger effect is a double-edge sword.

Ok it’s still not enough but in 3 weeks it went from 400 to 65000. Not bad

I don't miss lectures from professors who are great researchers, but terrible teachers.

:D

It was very counter-intuitive.

Still a bit confusing but I think it's answered with the "same level of power" condition. Isn't gamma radiation more dangerous because it does more damage? Difference between being shot with a BB going 200fps which would sting locally but not penetrate, and a BB going 22,000fps which would penetrate through and through. That's why I guessed wrong and assumed it would be "safer" to eat the alpha.

Yes, you can see it by the hand his clock is and how he uses his hand out of the dark "illustrations" part, it's def flipped

Smurt

@@Paid2Win It is ingenious.

wouldn't that make the particles antimatter?

Yeah, gamma is pretty great.

... But why? This makes no sense.

Because he knows stuff and isn't a politician and he is good at explaining things so that maybe even politicians can understand (they usually lack education in the natural sciences).

If you like the minimization of the health risks to the world.... Propaganda to minimize..... For more money For more money more money more money more money

I like the uranium chip cookies, myself. Except when my roommate cesium, he'll seize 'em.

Just mix them with some naturally sourced organic breast milk and some essential oils and you have the elixir of life.

That is so strange you should joke of that, I practice anapanasati follow your breath meditation and I have not had the cold or flu since I started 6yrs ago, just thought I would tell you that.

Maybe even 1/8, because the remaining 1/4 going upward would be cut in half because of it going through you as if you were empty space.

Yes...which fact made me think less of this guy.

How the fuck did you guys get from "1/2 that hits you" to "Maybe even 1/8"? If 1/2 hits you, how can you say that half of 1/2(meaning 1/4) fails to hit anything? What happens with "1/2 hits you"? Half(1/2) is the same as a quarter(1/4) for you guys, or even less(1/8)?

@@ryutenmen The space between the atoms that make up the matter of your body tissue is quite large. Example: If the nucleus of a single atom was at the pitchers mound on a baseball diamond, then enlarged to the size of an orange, the first ring of electrons to circle it would be in the bleachers. So its easy for one orange to pass another orange in that scale and not collide. So, by the time a gamma particle passes all the way through the trillions of atoms of your body, it only has a 50-50 chance of ever hitting a single atom of your body. So that makes only 1/2 of the gamma passing through you harmful. Meanwhile, only 1/2 of the total gamma particles being emitted, are even passing in your direction, the other 1/2 is going down thru the chair and passing into the floor. Therefore, 1/2 of 1/2 is 1/4. I think the post about 1/8 is incorrect, but the whole concept is overly generalized anyway, just for sake of illustration. Cheers

Yep

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There's a comment like this on a lot of his videos, but almost certainly he is writing normally, and the footage is simply flipped in post, the easy way to do it. Further evidence: He appears to be writing with his left hand. Only about 10% of people are left handed. In the videos of his class demonstrations (ways to block radiation) he appears to be right hand dominant. You can also see his watch and wedding ring (both typically worn left) switch as well. Unless you were being sarcastic? lol

No, but we can give him jets...

Why? Facebook does, so it's only fair YT lacks a love button, since FB lacks a dislike button. :D

Yeah, I hadn't seen them in my feed before about a week ago and now all of a sudden they are all over it. I'm guessing that some bigger channel promoted this channel and that started a feedback loop of increased exposure. The more people that watch a video/channel the more it gets recommended to people who watched videos similar to the people who have already watched it. If the content is good and people watch the entire video, a sleeper channel can take off in a short amount of time.

And now it is 60 000. I guess he reached critical mass ;-)

@@siggyincr7447 Or the Prof sacrificed an innocent to the algorithm...maybe

This is why the ignorant shouldn't comment on science and just listen to fucking experts

@@originalketchup7498 Eating a cookie that emits gamma radiation isn't smart. The particles that don't get through will definitely cause damage. Don't swallow arguments from authority, they're unscientific in nature. Evidence and facts are all that matters, titles and honors mean nothing in comparison. If a scientist can't make a strong case without resorting to arguments from authority, that's a lazy scientist who doesn't master the subject. The great Isaac Newton got proven wrong by a clockmaker (John Harrison), when his clock was used to measure longitude with sufficient accuracy, something that Newton didn't believe was possible. "I have told you oftener than once that [longitude] is not to be found by clock-work alone. Nothing but astronomy is sufficient for this purpose". These aren't the words of a scientist, these are the words of an inflated ego that refuses to even consider the possibility of precision clocks. Why? Idk, maybe Newton couldn't bear the thought that a carpenter turned clockmaker could be a better engineer than he was 🤣. Due to Newton's opposition, Harrison was denied a hefty cash price, as reward for having solved the longitude problem. It was only after Newton's death that Harrison was finally granted the price. Scientists like Newton are cool when they follow the evidence, but when their egos get in the way, it's better to just ignore them. Newton forgot the Royal Society's motto "Nullius in verba" (take nobody's word for it).

@John Pacheco Throwing out the gamma is definitely better than eating it, but it's even better to remain at a safe distance. If high energy radiation were safe, radiologists wouldn't be required to operate x-ray machines from a separate room and astronauts wouldn't have to worry about their dose.

​@@Goreuncle Dose is what is makes it lethal. Radiologists do scans every day, so this is their occupational hazard.

This is a common misconception, since gamma is the hardest to stop, except the neutron. Alfa is far worse when ingested and this is the risk. Look for the biological impact. I have seen some estimates of how much worse it is, but can't find it now. Some unstable isotopes are similar in the chemical structure to other stable elements and end up built into the tissue, where they dump the whole radiation for a long time. Alfa particles are heavy and they hit molecules hard.

Yes. Or ⅓ or whatever. Doesn't change the order but you are correct.

I think he forgot. The values he has allows for two equally correct answers

Yes but then you have to eat one of the other two

So you’re only interested in stopping alpha and beta particles...

@@gdgtrekker he'd have to put on something more than three layers of space suits made of lead to even begin to stop high energy gamma radiation.

Actually look at which hand h's writing with. Unless he's left handed he is writing left to right. I think it's just reversed in post production.

Dumb arse. You are wrong I guess you are 20ish if that

@phục êwê It seems that you are dyslexic ;)

The image is flipped horizontally, like a selfie camera.

The video is mirrored ))

@@Nikowalker007 ha! Physics!!!!

Or the entire film could have been flipped in post production.

Camera facing a mirror

They're totally real. Probably. Maybe. Probably not.

so was mine. i wasn't considering the steep increase from beta to gamma however...

Me too. See you in HELL.

My answer: throw A, B and G. Wear full aluminum-plated lead armour.

@@y.z.6517 Aluminum plate is unnecessary with the lead being there...lead does all the job.

@@skidancin That's right, but I don't want to be lead poisoned. Actually, Stainless steel 304 is safer than aluminum.

video is flipped in post production

Mind=Blown

@@facepalm7345 wrong

@@TheDarkToes right

TheDarkToes His wedding ring is on the ‘right’ hand, as is his watch. Check the video segments where he uses the Geiger counter - ring and watch on left.

🤣🤣🤣

You're right - it isn't that funny.

Why is that amazing?