Atomic Orbitals, Visualized Dynamically

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Visuals of quantum orbitals are always so static. What happens when an electron transitions? A current must flow to conserve the probability. What does that look like?!
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TIME CODES
00:00 Cold Open
00:31 Seeing Atoms is Hard
01:10 Atomic Structure
01:52 History of the Atom
02:24 What are Orbitals?
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04:35 Orbital Shapes
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06:20 Flow of Probability
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08:20 Featured Comments

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@theorfa1237 3 года назад

"Position is a pretty pointless property" Wow, that was subtle.

@gurulinggbiradar6982 3 года назад

@@JasminUwU electron is a point

@Andres186000 3 года назад

@@JasminUwU The position is not a point in quantum mechanics

@MrMineHeads. 3 года назад

It's also has alliteration

@michaelfrankel8082 3 года назад

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

@theorfa1237 3 года назад

@@MrBluelightzero Exactly my point. Ok, ok I'll let my self out :-)

@Dmittry 3 года назад

When your wife calls you and asks where are you at 2 AM. "Position is a pretty pointless property, honey"

@ScienceAsylum 3 года назад

😂

@ItsRubyGD 3 года назад

all that matters is your energy and momentum

@justdave9610 3 года назад

@@ItsRubyGD or her momentum when she finally sees you after hearing that answer 😂

@chstra45 3 года назад

Not gonna find comments like this on PBS science channel. Up your game PBS.

@michaelboulware1240 3 года назад

"We are entangled. Since you are worried that I was doing something wrong it automatically means I am not."

@evilotis01 3 года назад

"one angle draws a curve, and the other makes it a surface." ....and here's today's Science Asylum light bulb moment! you really are the best, Nick ❤️

@stapler942 3 года назад

Hey wait, this is just solids of rotation from first-year calculus all over again, isn't it? Only with complex numbers now.

@pyotrpig 3 года назад

@@stapler942 sometimes you need to hear it 20 times before it really hits you

@iveharzing 3 года назад

@@stapler942 And complex numbers are pretty much only used because dealing with sines and cosines is extremely annoying and tedious, and exponents are way easier.

@dand.n.m9396 3 года назад

that small pause before "to the timeline" was AWESOME

@alhassanali4829 3 года назад

AGREE!!

@fukpoeslaw3613 3 года назад

little pause or no little pause; the timeline is.... wfi..... again, wfi..... *AWESOME!!!* wfi = wait for it

@chococandy8009 3 года назад

That's What makes Nick sir unique.

@ronnyvbk 3 года назад

A pause filled with an anticipating grin ... priceless. And yes, I did proclame 'to the timeline!' in sync 😅

@MusicalRaichu 3 года назад

It felt like an editing error to me.

@modolief 3 года назад

2:55 "Position is a pretty much pointless property" -- wow, you said that with absolutely no smirk, well done.

@ScienceAsylum 3 года назад

Full disclosure: There's a smirk in the original footage about 2 seconds after that cut 😂.

@Lucky10279 3 года назад

How did I miss that joke?!

@ScienceAsylum 3 года назад

@@Lucky10279 It's a pun _AND_ an alliteration!

@PapaFlammy69 3 года назад

Great stuff Nick

@meowwwww6350 3 года назад

Papa flammy for life!!

@meowwwww6350 3 года назад

Papa flammy everywhere!! Papa flammy is upgrading to papa ray!!

@shubhodeepde3927 3 года назад

Papa!!!!

@gabor6259 3 года назад

I didn't know you watched this channel, papa. Good to see you here.

@pierfrancescopeperoni 3 года назад

@@gabor6259 He's everywhere. Like an electron.

@Fomites 2 года назад

I'm almost seventy. I studied chemistry at university at the introductory level for a medical degree and I have gradually realised how little I knew (and still know). Nick makes this accessible for those of us like myself who have minimal knowledge and who want a deeper understanding. Kudos to you Nick! We love you 🙂 (From Australia).

@SSMLivingPictures 9 месяцев назад

If that pic of you is recent youre looking good for 70. Nice work man

@prestonburton8504 5 месяцев назад

i live this world, like you do. I tell people, we grabbed a earth globe and where told 'behold, for this is what you live on' - for when i went to school there were no pictures of the earth from outer space. we had to believe.

@McQuokka 3 года назад

The probability that I learn something every time I watch one of these videos is 100%. There aren't many channels here on the old YT that have that ability.

@beckydoesit9331 Год назад

Another great channel is Jerenism. THIS guy will blow your mind!

@maxnao3756 3 года назад

I loved the notion of "probability flow". It opens a lot of new ways of looking orbital deformation.

@christiancampbell466 3 года назад

I’m intrigued by probability flow, but I thought orbital transitions were instantaneous? I.e. the probability distribution switched discretely from that of the first orbital to that of the second without any intermediate distribution. Otherwise, it would seem to make sense to say that the election was described by fractional quantum numbers during the transition interval, and I would expect that multiple photons of intermediate energies might be emitted. Is the ‘flow’ visualisation intended to give a sense of the probability distribution of the superposition of the before and after states? Or does it model an actual dynamical process evolving over continuous time? Relatedly, on Thursday SciShow discussed tunnelling on the order of milliseconds. (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Is7_5nQOkeM.html )

@ScienceAsylum 3 года назад

@@christiancampbell466 You've got to put spaces between links and parentheses in YT comments: ( ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Is7_5nQOkeM.html ) otherwise YT thinks their part of the link... for some stupid reason I don't understand 🤦‍♂️

@JohnDlugosz 3 года назад

The way I learned it, The two orbitals are in superposition and the coefficients of each smoothly change, one rising and one falling. It never exists in a shape that is intermediate.

@JohnDlugosz 3 года назад

@@christiancampbell466 No, it's not instantaneous. But, it will always appear to be fully in one form or the other. The wave function evolves over time, but you never observe the superposition.

@JohnDlugosz 3 года назад

@@ScienceAsylum Parens are legal characters in URLs, so not stupid. You're supposed to use angle brackets to offset them, anyway. What I do find stupid about YT comments is that the markup for *bold* or _strong_ does not like being adjacent to punctuation. E.g. I want bold at the end of this *sentence*.

@madhuverma5998 3 года назад

I was solving Schrodinger's equation for hydrogen atom when the notification of this video pops up.... I realised that I was certainly missing physics while working on maths... *Thank you so much Nick for giving me right direction*..

@theastonishingworld7986 2 года назад

Jee Aspirant?

@madhuverma5998 2 года назад

@@theastonishingworld7986 pursuing msc in physics from iit Jodhpur.

@theastonishingworld7986 2 года назад

@@madhuverma5998 Hehe new it would have some IIT connection, good for you.

@ZetaFuzzMachine 3 года назад

I love you Nick! Your videos just keep getting better. AND it only helps that I've just started Quantum Mechanics and Statistical Mechanics at uni!! Keep em coming!

@georganatoly6646 3 года назад

The fact that probability is conserved like energy is like the weirdest/coolest weird/cool aspect of quantum mechanics. And understanding probability flow mathematically is probably key to understanding the detailed nature of how electrons mechanic at all, which again is really neat.

@aforementioned7177 Год назад

So fundamentally the entirety of reality is just probability?

@painlesskun3959 7 месяцев назад

@@aforementioned7177 That's correct but this probability is 100% because probability is conserved at all times.

@sshreddderr9409 4 месяца назад

its not like that. probability is an abstraction. in reality, the particles do exists as an electromagnetic fluid standing wave. trying to find a point in a moving volume of fluid is just misinterpreted as the probability to find the particle. if you try to measure its influence and pin it to a point smaller than its actual influenced volume, then of course it will be a probabilistic distribution. but its a huge falsehood to interpret these probabilities as physical things. its just an artifact of trying to make a uniform fluid disconnected, point like objects. its just a mechanical wave of a superfluid that is prephysical, meaning that matter is formed out of its nested standing waves, and their fields are the pressure differentials that influence each other. particles behave like waves because they are waves, not particles. treating them like particles is a macroscopic approximation. really the universe is just a gigantic superfluidic ocean, its waves are are called em waves or gravity waves depending on how they are caused, and matter is just a bunch of mechanical waves with specific wave lengths locked in a a perpetual standing wave. the whole universe with everything inside is a single object, a single fluid, and everything that exists inside it is just a giant compounding standing wave emitting and receiving billions of waves every second.

@georganatoly6646 4 месяца назад

@@sshreddderr9409 it's an interesting point, but for me, idk, if we can't pierce beyond the veil of the abstraction, does it not then by definition become reality, at least as far as we could 'scientifically prove', Plato's cave allegory and all that -- meaning, we all have two choices; describe the shadow, or make something up, personally I find descriptions of the shadow more real than someone just making something up about where it came from, fun to think about either way though

@sshreddderr9409 4 месяца назад

@@georganatoly6646you would be right if the mainstream pushed abstraction was the best model we could come up with, but its not. If mainstream scientists would think of the universe as a fluid like people such as Tesla, Maxwell, Faraday etc., particularly a superfluid and tried to understand subatomic phenomena as actions of such , we would have antigravity, nuclear fusion and free energy going mainstream, and with it we could create any material at no cost, need no fuel, and we could have cheap space travel without all the typical issues and dangers.

@shayanmoosavi9139 3 года назад

Wow this video was extremely cool. You explained the probability current so good. We're studying "quantum mechanics I" this semester and I'm loving it so far. We have such a great professor. Yes, quantum mechanics is weird but it's also amazing.

@ScienceAsylum 3 года назад

That's great! Learning QM properly requires a great professor.

@MrLoerch 3 года назад

Probably the best visualization I've seen yet! Thank you.

@dumbjeeaspirant9588 Год назад

I have been a JEE Aspirant for the past 2 years but this visualisation opened a wide horizon of understanding

@anonymous20060 8 месяцев назад

Hello JEE aspirant.. I am an aspirant too... did u crack it? Please let me know..😊

@painlesskun3959 7 месяцев назад

@@anonymous20060 I am an aspirant too. I wish they cracked it. How are you studying right now tho?

@anonymous20060 7 месяцев назад

@@painlesskun3959 more or less good.

@Petrov3434 3 года назад

Loved it -- one of the best ever. Relaxed, very funny, informative, your "double" - good acting, in summary -- outstanding and thank you a lot

@stanimirivanov4052 3 года назад

Finally a new video by you! Thank you very much!

@ProfessorBeautiful 3 года назад

It will not surprise you that Nick's book (see video description) is utterly fantastic and thorough and deep with many detailed worked problems.

@justdave9610 3 года назад

You really help even smooth brain types like myself to understand these types of complicated subjects a little better. Thanks for what you do here Nick.

@Medal_of_Homer 3 года назад

Thanks a lot mate, I’ve been looking for this answer for many time and you just did it! Great man I appreciate

@anarchy8968 3 года назад

ah, i like how everything about the early comments are simply being early also, nice video! i don't know much about maths, as my knowledge is limited to high school lessons, but i want to understand the maths part of all these stuff. so thanks for explaining them in a way that doesn't require college level maths

@manishaashwinayyappan5253 3 года назад

Yes,great video nick.ur just awesome

@understandtheuniverse2199 2 года назад

Saitama

@seebe2084 3 года назад

Explained so easily even a tambourine can understand. If you taught, I would attend.

@kellyjackson7889 3 года назад

I'm a triangle and I got 'dinged'

@rarra 3 года назад

Nick is the best teacher. He especially picks very difficult to explain subjects and make them easy for us

@PSNanonimousplayer 3 года назад

he does teach

@SaveWesternCivilisation 3 года назад

We bagpipes are still struggling however...

@jakeybabes2192 Год назад

Your bite sized videos of madness are perfect for keeping me distracted and in routine of stretches. Threw my back out and am trying to keep in habit of doing them. Forget the pain and think of quantum probabilities!

@mastertantoo 3 года назад

Thanks for the uploads, I love how you manage to explain some really challenging concepts! Also, I love cake. Cake is never a lie!!

@adityasonawane686 3 года назад

Man!! This his content is too underrated !!!!! Ur the one who teaches in the simplest ways ! Love your content !!!

@hectorgrande3166 2 года назад

WHY CANT MY QUANTUM PROFESSOR TEACH LIKE YOU DO??!!! Awesome stuff, I've been stuck on fully conceptualizing spherical harmonics for hours, you're a lifesaver!

@andreyassa7638 2 года назад

Nick, you're simply the best. Your way of explaining complex matter is unbeatable! At least in my case ;-). Thanks for all the effort! It's really worth!!!

@ScienceAsylum 2 года назад

Thanks! 🤓

@mahmouddeeb153 3 года назад

Usually, I disable Adblock Plus on your videos and watch those boring Ads. This all what I can do now to support you. You deserve more and more. I am grateful for you 🙏

@royh7911 3 года назад

I wish this video was a couple hours longer, im taking physical chemistry in university right now and this video definitely helped simplify such an abstract concept

@rayzorrayzor9000 3 года назад

Another great vid Nick , and I loved your comment around the 02.57 mark, I’ve always thought to myself that quantum mechanics would be so much easier if no one cared where the Electron was , you’ve come out and said my own thoughts lol 😂

@billcook7483 3 года назад

These videos are so good I feel obliged to watch all the ads as well to encourage your sponsors to keep assisting the asylum in making them..... Take note you sponsors this is not just enjoyable funstuff but also brilliantly educational, but details of your book(s) would be appreciated so I can buy them for my upcoming birthday...... Sure beats the heck out of socks and sweaters !

@bharath__100 10 месяцев назад

My God!! I never expected to have this much of understanding in this topic.... without visual info it's really hard to get those ideas around. Kudos to the physicists who came up with this at those times without computers to visualize...

@MenteDaniloSente 3 года назад

Such a great introduction to orbitals. Should be like this on the first semester in Colleges. Would be less boring and abstract

@Kevin-wo3kp 3 года назад

What an amazing playground of science Nick's brain must be. I can't begin to tell you how jealous I really am.

@wesshepard 3 года назад

I just watched this video again. This is a great video Nick.

@classica1fungus 3 года назад

One of the best explanations for atomic orbitals ive ever seen or heard and ive heard ALOT

@shubhodeepsarkar9762 3 года назад

I really appreciate your work.🙌🙌🙌

@guth5060 3 года назад

me too

@macronencer 3 года назад

"The people have no particles to measure!" "Then let them measure cake."

@SeekNKnow 3 года назад

Marie Currie Antoinette?

@macronencer 3 года назад

@@SeekNKnow Haha! Nice.

@jskratnyarlathotep8411 2 года назад

"If particles were made of cake I wouldn't be showing them to you" (c)

@woohooman-fl9vq 3 года назад

I love your videos; they're fun to watch. :)

@rc5989 3 года назад

I was impressed with the visualization of probability current. This might be the best visualization of a concept in QM that is well understood mathematically yet defies our intuition and conceptualization. Awesome!

@Mathieu_Matheow_Benoit 3 года назад

My "🤯" moment: Spherical Coordinates @4:05 Your explanation finally made a clear cut distinction between quantum spin and angular momentum vs the classical physics sense of those terms in my brain. IT FINALLY MAKE SENSE!

@evilotis01 3 года назад

yesssssssssss

@fukpoeslaw3613 3 года назад

imma gonna go to four o. five!!

@fukpoeslaw3613 3 года назад

one hour later. nah, still don't understand it... 😓

@mrboombastic_69420 Год назад

"Quantum mechanics is weird y'all" -Nick Lucid

@keithvanantwerp3198 3 года назад

Nice Nick! Probabilities [square of wave function] are deterministic, well said!

@kaushikdhandekar4799 3 года назад

Man you are awesome. I love your content very much. Short cool precise and attractive too.

@eduardoGentile720 3 года назад

This channel is a simple and less hardcore version of PBS spacetime in my opinion That's why I like it, it feels refreshing

@alanguile8945 3 года назад

SIMPLE!!!?

@eduardoGentile720 3 года назад

@@alanguile8945 did you ever watched PBS spacetime? This is a breeze compared to it

@Mathieu_Matheow_Benoit 3 года назад

@@eduardoGentile720 PBS is so hard to keep up with before they take for granted that their viewership has deep maths and physics background...like how can you understand orbital shapes without knowing about spherical coordinates?

@arirahikkala 3 года назад

I don't know about simpler, but this channel is certainly way better focused. PBS Spacetime is well produced, but I always get the feeling that I was taken on a journey where at the end I'd forgot where I started. Here, I always feel like my time was well spent learning just one new thing.

@XEinstein 3 года назад

I think science asylum is way better than PBS Space Time

@pedrogrimaldisemeghinimart759 2 года назад

Dude, this is one of the best videos youve ever done. Again, youre the best science channel on youtube, in a way that you always go DEEPER, but never lose the clarity of the explanation.

@ScienceAsylum 2 года назад

Thanks! 🤓

@sherrysyed 7 месяцев назад

I love your channel, it makes things easy to understand for people without a background, tysm

@ScienceAsylum 6 месяцев назад

You're very welcome! 🤓

@alanrodriguez7988 3 года назад

Great explanation of the quantum behavior of the atomic orbitals👌. New subscriber!!

@PianoMastR64 3 года назад

"position is a pretty pointless property" I just want everyone else to appreciate the cleverness of this pun

@NondescriptMammal 2 года назад

Yes it was an excellent pun... But I was a bit disappointed, I was hoping for some explanation about how the electrons travel around the nucleus. I am a lay person with only basic understanding of physics, and I grew up at a time when we all learned the Bohr model (even though quantum physics was already well established), and so have always had the planetary system image in my mind... So I came to this video hoping to get some idea of how the electron behaves through time. Does it just randomly appear at any of the locations in the probability cloud, magically blipping from one location to another? Or does it travel in some random path between these points?

@renatao6330 2 года назад

@@NondescriptMammal goog question.

@SaebaRyo21 3 года назад

One of the best Science dudes on RU-vid. And rarest amongst all because the depth of explanation and visualization he presented along with pretty clones and humours is really an ultimate amalgamation of a science mentor!

@kanjanathevik5234 2 года назад

You are making me think that we must learn everything like a child. Ask, reason it, think, play with it, enjoy it. Worth watching your wonderful channel

@parthkothari7868 3 года назад

You sir , made the whole mess of my brain clear about the orbital. I had consulted my seniors about this and my friends and they similarly said the same thing but u couldn't visualise it. You did it good!

@punditgi 3 года назад

Fantastic explanation. This guy is a genius! Plus, I love the Timeline! Reminds me of the Wayback Machine of Professor Peabody from the Rocky and Bullwinkle show. To the Timeline, y'all! 😃❤

@krabbediem 2 года назад

This was a triumph. I'm making a note here: "Huge success". It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.

@daniellewilson8527 2 года назад

Aperture Science, we do what we must because we can

@danielpas368 2 года назад

@@daniellewilson8527 For the good of all of us except the ones who are dead

@daniellewilson8527 2 года назад

@@danielpas368 but there’s no use crying over every mistake

@shelley-anneharrisberg7409 3 года назад

The best and clearest explanation of so many things I have been grappling with in studying QM...I love me some probability cake - with a bit of cream on the side! :)

@utkarshshrivastava4382 3 года назад

Good Job man.. Really awesome way of explanation, making getting complex stuff easier for beginners. ..

@evilotis01 3 года назад

it's fkn incredible that we basically worked all this out over the course of 100 years.

@Lucky10279 3 года назад

I love that you're getting more into the math in your videos. I've said it before but I'll say it again -- understanding the maths everything start to make so much more sense in physics, especially QM. It's so different from our every day experience that the math is the only way to really get an intuition for what's going on.

@loulouparis_ 4 месяца назад

This is by far my favorite video about atomic orbitals! Thank you so much for the explanation! I wish I’d found this in the beginning of my studies

@ScienceAsylum 4 месяца назад

Glad it was helpful! 🤓

@ShauriePvs 3 года назад

Yayyy! This is what I needed. Please continue videos like this, bursting basic classical myths about atom

@Jakubanakin 3 года назад

Those are not spheres in the electrone microscope image! Those are HEXAGONS! Hexagons are bestagons after all...

@alphalunamare 3 года назад

I saw that comment on another thread .... something about Parabola and Hexagons lol :-)

@foldr431 3 года назад

A hexagon is just a low-poly circle

@Jakubanakin 3 года назад

@@foldr431 Hexagons stacked next to each other fill a plane completely. Circles have no such power, and in their imperfection they leave holes.

@alphalunamare 3 года назад

@@foldr431 a circle is an infinite one :-)

@peplegal8253 3 года назад

Thumbs UP for the "Cake is a Lie" reference (Portal is still a great game for nowadays standard).

@nasha710 2 года назад

Too shame that greedy Gabe destroyed great studio

@valerioboldreghini4239 3 года назад

4:07 Mr. Piccolo clone! 😁 Awesome video as usual, greetings from Scotland

@Samien 3 года назад

Excellent as always ❤️

@alhassanali4829 3 года назад

"Events ate probabilistic, probabilities are deterministic" -Nick Lucid

@panno675 3 года назад

I' ve already read that quote in a book of some Physicist, gotta be Schrodinger or Feynman, so Nick trolled us ahahahah

@Saitama62181 3 года назад

The cake is in a superposition of "a lie" and "not a lie".

@ThatCrazyKid0007 3 года назад

lien't

@ant_six 3 года назад

It is a portal reference

@SeekNKnow 3 года назад

Until I open the box and eat it.

@the0ne4nd0nlyz1nk 2 года назад

your videos are great - a perfect combination of information and entertainment

@kin0cho 2 года назад

Precise and engaging!

@OrbitalLizardStudios 3 года назад

In my high school chemistry class, they always taught it that protons and neutrons are little balls stuck together and the electrons are also even smaller balls that orbit around the nucleus. I just wish they had at least mentioned all the weird quantum stuff even if just as a side note.

@ScienceAsylum 3 года назад

I'm surprised they didn't mention orbitals at the end of the class. It usually comes up _eventually,_ though they don't go into much detail.

@erikhasler 3 года назад

Portal references are an automatic upvote from me. You EARNED this, Science Man.

@ScatrickFlorence 2 года назад

This was great! Thank you!

@chrismcgarry3160 3 года назад

3:08 That Panic Clone! Caught me off-guard XD I kinda had the same reaction too! 4:42 & 7:49 "Radial Coords" & "Probability Current" : That's just so beautiful!

@mikeleet.3700 3 года назад

"But there's no sense crying Over every mistake You just keep on trying Till you run out of cake" - GLaDOS 🤣 Nice Video👍😅

@mihailazar2487 3 года назад

I can't believe people are still keeping that meme alive

@luckybarrel7829 3 года назад

Honestly, I wish this is how physics was taught in school. The intuition is completely missing.

@FranktheDachshund 2 года назад

You had me at cake and blew my mind at 4:40, in two years each of undergraduate chemistry, math, and physics courses, I never caught that as being how those orbital diagrams are plotted.

@Nikhilbt-sq5hf 3 года назад

The way you connect with people is amazing

@chamidumadumal7130 3 года назад

"Nick Lucid is weird y'all!" -Quantum mechanics

@ScienceAsylum 3 года назад

Also true.

@Mehdi_Hammar 3 года назад

Nice video, thanks! just a question: We know that the energy is quantized so it has definite values, then does this probability "transition" have a changing value of energy? or does it keep the initial value of energy during the transition and will change the initial value of energy only when it reaches it's final state?

@ScienceAsylum 3 года назад

Energy only has definitely values when the electron is in an energy state. During the transition, the electron is in a superposition of energy states, so it doesn't have a definite energy.

@Mehdi_Hammar 3 года назад

I got it! thanks :)

@2azy_creative 3 года назад

One of the best science educator on RU-vid ❤️😀🤘🏼

@anthonynwachukwu1995 Год назад

"I mean with such a simple image there could be cake in there" Literally LOL

@narfwhals7843 3 года назад

Gravity? Fluid dynamics! Quantum mechanics? Fluid dynamics! Cake? FLUID DYNAMICS! -Nick Lucid.

@ScienceAsylum 3 года назад

😂😂😂😂 It's such a useful analogy!!

@narfwhals7843 3 года назад

@@ScienceAsylum Oh for sure! Electromagnetic fields? Fluid dynamics! Heat dispersion? Fluid dynamics! The flow of water? ...It's complicated.

@PestOnYT 3 года назад

1:09 The cake is a lie! - Great reference to Portal 2 :) and later Myst! - Guess that's why I like your videos so much. Thanks

@MasterHigure 3 года назад

Portal 1, dude. Get with it! ;)

@travcollier 3 года назад

And his outro plug was for "can an AI be alive"... It is a layer cake ;)

@frozenkingfrozenking6989 2 года назад

Ur a good explainer and its looks to me your tearing ur hair apart to really understand things deeply so then u can explain them so respectable for me always learning from you smt physics smt hard work of grasping

@Oliisawesome 3 года назад

Thank you! This makes a lot more sense now!

@buckrogers5331 3 года назад

Haha, Science Asylum feeling the heat from Sabine Hossenfelder.

@XEinstein 3 года назад

They missed an opportunity for a great co-op, didn't they?

@arnesaknussemm2427 3 года назад

Lol yes I was just watching Sabine’s take on this very topic and thought I wonder how Nick would explain this and then , as if by magic, this video dropped . What’s the probability of that?

@deepstariaenigmatica2601 3 года назад

her free will take was pretty poo

@bemascu7087 3 года назад

1:52 I love this face! 🤣🤣🤣

@johnconnell8436 3 года назад

That was an awesome explanation!

@tims.440 3 года назад

Aw. I was hoping to see a bunch of visual demonstrations of various orbitals. (Here’s what oxygen “looks” like! Here’s plutonium! Etc). It was still an informative video and I learned something new about probability flow. Thanks Nick!

@Mr._White. 2 года назад

1:09 I'm crying.... :D

@ViciousViscount 3 года назад

You'll never truly comprehend or appreciate physics if you shun math. Make friends with it.

@fukpoeslaw3613 3 года назад

yeah yeah yeah, I know, I know... I'm so lax......

@localverse 3 года назад

If math wants friends it must learn to be friendly

@midnightstorm4290 3 года назад

@@localverse ikr why does it always have to be so mean...

@lennarthoekveen9339 2 года назад

Yeah! *GET ON BOARD!* I WILL NICK!!! THANKS 🔥🔥🔥🔥

@JD-jl4yy 3 года назад

i'm Glad you made this video, I was trying to wrap my head around what orbitals actually are.

@TheKwiatek 3 года назад

0:48 there should be Scanning Tunneling Microscope or Atomic Force Microscope

@ScienceAsylum 3 года назад

I corrected this in the pinned comment. Thank you.

@TheAmbientMage 3 года назад

"We generally don't look because we want the position to be uncertain" I'm guessing that's an exploitation of the uncertainty principle and the use of the Fourier transform that converts a highly delocalized position into a localized momentum. With maximum uncertainty in position you get minimum uncertainty in momentum which is the more practically useful metric.

@ChiDraconis 3 года назад

*Correct*

@ScienceAsylum 3 года назад

Yes, but the uncertainty principle isn't just about position with momentum. There's a general version that lets you relate any property with any other property. The cool thing is that some of them result in a zero, which means they share states (like energy and orbital angular momentum).

@Lucky10279 3 года назад

@@ScienceAsylum What do you mean by "share states"? That there's no uncertainty and so we can measure them both at once?

@ScienceAsylum 3 года назад

@@Lucky10279 I mean that the stationary states for one property are actually the same states for the other property.

@Lucky10279 3 года назад

@@ScienceAsylum But how can that be when they have different units?

@klystron4853 3 года назад

Best video i have ever seen on orbitals and quantum

@mattneal3082 2 года назад

3:08 - Made me laugh out loud! Gosh your videos are so informative, and the humor is much appreciated.

@ScienceAsylum 2 года назад

Glad you enjoy it! 😆

@SimonClarkstone 3 года назад

The spherical harmonics also occur at the opposite end of scale: analysing the temperature fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background.

@ulti-mantis 3 года назад

Isn't that (at least suspected to be) because the CMB reflects the state of the universe when the whole observable universe was at a size that puts it in the quantum scale, and so prone to quantum effects?

@SimonClarkstone 3 года назад

@@ulti-mantis Not as far as I know. The CMB that we can observe is roughly a sphere cross-section of the early universe, and spherical harmonics are a way to analyse anything that varies over the surface of a sphere. Electron orbitals are generated by the spherically-symmetric field of the nucleus, which is presumably why they match up to spherical harmonics too.

@MrKrtek00 3 года назад

Because they are a good basis for 3D series expansions and everyone like to confuse elements expansion with physical entities.

@saraeva 3 года назад

"The cake is fake, and the pi is a lie." - Some weird dude

@ant_six 3 года назад

The cake is a lie is a portal reference

@saraeva 3 года назад

@@ant_six I know.. just wanted add to it.

@donaldaxel 2 года назад

Thanks a lot! Now you could elaborate on the beginning at 02:00 explaining how the elements were detected (gold as the first, then maybe copper, iron, maybe more metals, then the basic gases). Remember Lavoisier and from there is is a weirdly fantastic journey, with the denial that Avogadro had guessed right stopping research until late 1850-ies.