I finally figured out why I love this channel. He makes you really look like YOU are doing the experiment yourself. Even he knew before hand what's going to happen he seems to figure out stuff along the way (I think he actually do), and then put it on the video. Well done sir! Well done!
This "experiment" reminds me of the "Moon has its own cold light" Muslim experiment where heat loss from a thermometer is not understood by some Muslim apologists/missionariesto be accelerated by open sky.
@@letsomethingshine I had challenged a few on the internet. They have definitely special intellectual needs. They seem to use circular logic a lot, are quoting their book as a scientific evidence, etc. Ridicules beyond belief!
James Randi used styrofoam peanuts to detect air flow by people claiming they have psychic energy, and he debunked them all. I'd wager it's a pretty effective method.
@@LickMyMusketBallsYankee Yes, he famously caught the "telekinetic" James Hydrick blowing on things like books to turn the pages hands free using the packing peanut method.
Hi! I built such a wheel around 2002 after seeing an interview with György Egely on a Hungarian TV show. A disc cut from a sheet of paper has proven to be much more effective than plastics and metals. We experimented with it a lot with colleagues. Some of us have learned to turn back, stop, start with a motionless hand. I just had to focus. For someone the smaller wheel, for someone the bigger wheel worked better. We had a yoga master on the team, he could do the best tricks with it. But it never worked if we covered it with a glass. Whether it’s the heat moving it or something else, we learned to control the movement, and that was the real reason for our amazement :-D .
I can control the temperature of my hand (to a degree - haha) by thinking about it. It's fun to hold a thermometer (or use an infrared thermometer) and change the reading by thinking. There's nothing odd or unusual about that ability - it's simple biofeedback (relaxed is warm, stressed is cold). That might have been what you were doing without realizing it!
Clutchyfinger yes stupid people waste their great knowledge and wisdom by creating this kind of stupid things to make money instead to work with engeneering that was useful to people
@@TopLob well there are some precise pieces involved so it's not THAT cheap but definitely less than $3 to produce. Making it frictionless is not a simple process.
@@ThePrufessa It is NOT 'frictionless', but has low enough friction to spin when a gentle breeze is present. Fools and their money are often parted...by smarter people.
@@perihelion7798 omfg dude I know it's not "frictionless" nothing is frictionless. All I said was I think it costs about $3 to produce. Not sure why you're telling me about fools and their money because my comment had nothing to do with that.
When you have the jar over top and it moves with left-hand nearby it's because you have a slight opening near the bottom of the jaw where that spout is facing your left-hand.
@@skyffi6475 that makes sense with normal chi flow following normal heat patterns. I'd like to see a thermal imaging of one of those people who can actively control their chi though, sounds pretty cool if it shows up
Also, with the beaker, the wheel moved a bit when you used your left hand because the spout was on the left side - it would be cool to see that confirmed by turning the beaker 180° and placing your right hand beside it🌬
It's all laughs and fun until you realise people actually believe in telekinesis bc they don't understand what's going on and have no interest to find it out.
Great video. I think higher speed breathing or airflow is also more likely to create localized channels of flow surrounded by high turbulence, so mostly just turbulence reaches the wheel (no torque). A slow/steady breath is more likely to create wake patterns (like a boat through water), so a more laminar flow, or a sustained wave pattern hits the device, imparting torque. The Action Lab should revisit these experiments with a Schlieren Optics approach to reveal the actual shape of the wavefronts hitting the wheel.
I like the way you think. I've been a subscriber for several years and I really enjoy your channel I think it's very educational and you're personality made it enjoyable to watch. I would consider myself scientifically minded and I really enjoy the learning process but I also do not like to discredit spirituality and quite honestly think that there is probably some sort of bridge between science and spirituality that we just have not quite worked out yet.
I'm pretty sure it's 'static' electricity doing this. The reason it stops moving after the initial placement of his hands is because the charges have equalized. This is not air currents.
I wish you put a heated or cooled curved object next to it , so you could mimic what you were able to do with your hands. That would have helped to prove your hypothesis. I hope you can find a way to do more experiments with this thing. Thumbs Up
The wonderful thing about this experiment is that the friction and energy to start/stop rotation is so low that many possible factors need to be considered. All observations under various scenarios indicate that it was primarily controlled by air flow. That does not rule out other factor such static charge from also having an influence and the plastic fins probably have very high resistance so the induced static charge would last a while. As to why the right hand seems to have the greatest effect, he moved it faster and directly into position (possibly right handed) maximizing tangential flow. Also when analyzing a problem and staring at the wheel very carefully we often turn our heads to maximize our vision. In so doing we may affect which direction exhalation goes. My guess is that the experimenter breaths harder to right than left unless he is staring at something on the left. Depending on face geometry, there may be a slight a slight lack of symmetry favoring right predominant breathing. I've noticed in a mirror if I center my eyes to identical height my head is slightly tilted, for instance. Asymmetry is in body form is a fact of life, just ask Quasimodo.
Hey Action Lab! I loved this video but I do want you to review about the 'Quantum Entanglement' as I think you are one of the best man that can easily make someone easily understand about anything and also with your practical experiments. Its a great thing if you would think from my side. So I would recommend you to make a video on this topic not only because I am curious but also its a great thing that everyone who loves science or even an ordinary man should know about. Please like my comment so that The Action Lab can see my comment and can make a video for this.......
it‘s funny how he talks through every possible detail in his experiments. it‘s like he writes all the questions or ifs and buts he thinks he‘ll get in the comments and shuts all of our mouths😂😂😂 i love it
You could achieve the same affect that the eggy wheel does with like a square 4 inch by 4 paper folded diagonally twice tbh and on a sharp pencil tip if any one of the viewers watching the video were gonna buy it.
"So I barely exhaled on it and it turned it better than just blowing out of my mouth fast as I could." Ahh... If only other people had this guy's wisdom.
Honestly I was expecting The Action Lab will release a video relating to Grant Thompson's incident. I subscribed to The Action Lab & The King of Random because of their interesting experiments. Way back to my memories with vacuum chamber stuffs... Sad... R.I.P Grant Thompson
I’m not particularly bright, but even I knew exactly what the mechanisms were that made this item work as soon as you showed the directions in which half-circled position was the key.
I really hope you're a professor or something because these videos are great they get me thinking, also have some ideas that might affect the experimentation process on this. Hypothesis stays the same but would like to test other methods and see if that hypothesis evolves, regardless thank you!
Run a comb through your hair then hold the comb near the wheel. Electrons from a static difference in potential are efficiently lost at the points of objects. Your finger tips are the points.
If you happen to still have this around, I wonder if you can put it in a closed off glass or plastic box and try to move it by shining a laser on either side of it? The laser might be enough to heat up the air on one side of it to get it to spin, and the box would make it so that you could test it from a distance and be sure that the air currents in the room have very little effect on it.
It seems like the wheel is also affected by static electricity as well since it moves in the vacuum jar, but only when he moves his hand next to it, not while his hand is stationary next to it.
@@mrmkl9839 Yeah, they call me a professional survivalist- So I know these kind of things. One time, someone said to me that they were "never going to drink ever again." As a professional, I felt I had to do something. So, I told them that if they did that, they'd eventually feel thirsty. Anyways... I hope you enjoy your Eggs. c:
The reason it was moving so much with the small beaker was because you had your hand on the side with the spout. It provided an opening for more air to move through relative to the complete seal with that cup or the vacuum jar.
Don't feel bad about debunking spirituality - you do it neutrally and with respect. Spirituality is about our inner soul experience about reality, our subjectivity, our perception of truth, colours, beauty and love. Superstition holds back spirituality from advancing to a higher and more positive place to enhance the world. Debunking superstitions actually BENEFITS Spirituality - and I enjoy your videos. Cheers buddy
I appreciate the efforts, but I wasn`t convinced by the explanation. First of all, a machine like this should be sensitive enough if we supposed to move it with our " energy" whatever that means. So, it is absolutely normal that the airflow would move it too. That`s why I didn`t understand why you only checked the wheel`s movement for a few seconds and then made the conclusion that its only the air flow that moves it. It would be much better to leave the hand there for 2-5 minutes, allow the air flow to stop after your initial hand movement, so that we can see what happens with the wheel after that. Second, there was no explanation about why there is a difference between the 2 hands. If it was only airflow, it should be a similar speed, if you move them similarly. Thirdly, as you only checked it for a few seconds, we only saw the initial movements, which I agree might be due to the airflow, but therefore it was in a particular direction...you could try to turn the wheel in the opposite direction? That would show if this is purely the air flow or something else. Btw, I tried the more expensive version of this many years ago, which is a bit more robust, I borrowed it from someone, and it was interesting to see that I wasn`t able to move it every day. So again, that would question, whether it was only the airflow. So, I think, this needs more experimenting in order to make a solid case. But good start regardless, thanks!
your hand is a constant source of heat, so it would create a continious flow for whatever period of time, the diff between hands is probably due to natural assymetry of the body which everyone has, the reason you might not be able to move it every day depends on your current vascular condition which depends on your mood actually - the same reason why your body feels warm and sensitive after you wake up from the bed, and feels cold when you are nervous or scared or concentrated and your vessels and cappilaries shrink.
You should have placed a blocking screen for your breath so that it doesn't affect the air-flow around the device. Also, you tried to explain the airflow from your hand's temperature indicating the flow direction from you to the hand ... but the same cold air would have been pulled from the other side. My guess is that the trick is in your thumb's slanted surface - it creates a directional flow of the raising hot air. Your right-hand thumb may be creating a different shape as we're all either right or left-handed, which affects the position of our thumb - hence the difference in speed between your two hands. It's also possible that fingers generate different amount of heat than the palm of your hand causing a directional flow - but then, the fake hand wouldn't have created the flow so I'll stick to the thumb's angle ;) You can test this theory by flipping the fake hand upside-down (as in - place it on the right side of the wheel with the thumb down) - see what happens :) Inside of a jar, you can heat the air inside, but ... you can't create as much direction (only via heating it from your touch in different points at different heights - I'm just guessing), hence the movement inside of the jar was so much less effective.
Hey, try to explain eletron lens, and gravity lens, how should it's images look like? I saw news about capturing the spinning of black holes with gravity lens, that's amazing!
The reason it “turned” under the beaker with your left hand is the spout was on that side and didn’t form a tight seal with the table. Air was able to seep in.
This is kind of late to the party but if you take a strip of printer paper. Place it on a soft surface and prick it all over with a random pattern. Make it into a cylinder and place a match or a tooth pick across the top diameter. Balance this on another needle in a cork mounted vertically. when you cup your hands round this cylinder or place it in front of a window it will rotate.. As you say air movement.
Yeah whoever came up with this, my hat is off to him or her!!! It had to be someone that deals with aerodynamics. Maybe someone from an airplane company. Lol This is pretty cool.
Its pretty easy to debunk. What is happening is the wind is curving with the way your hand is. Since the wheel is at a very low friction state... the air is able to move the wheel. With the beaker test, the reason it worked with the left hand and not the right is because of the gap in between the plastic from the spout and the table. And he later on said it in the video -_-... you might think the comment is fake now but you have to take my word that I was commenting as the video went on.
Well it possibly could help with some thing like meditation where breathing is VERY important, if you can consistently turn the wheel without it wobbling and stalling then you know your breathing is calm enough
Its not air pressure, its static electricity. I do the same thing with just a straw, and the wheel is made of plastic which is very receptive to static electricity that is on your skin give it a slight charge. Of course when I do it I always rub my forearms together to make sure there is enough charge to move the plastic straw.
Gloves straight from the freezer and an infrared bulb or gun came to mind as experiments to test the radiant heat hypothesis. Great video, I love it when you seem genuinely mystified: "What is going on here?"
@Timo Van der Geer I never said it was real. I just said that there are stranger things in Fiction that you, I and even scientists don't know yet. Meaning, keep an open mind. Not a Closed Mind is all.
Guessing before the end of the video, I'm assuming it has something to do with possibly static electricity in our bodies or heat conduction. Also your left hand has a metal ring so I'd guess that could be it as well.
This would most likely cause attraction or repulsion, which wouldn’t not lead to consistent torque. It would be tough to consistently spin one direction or another.
Let me guess before watching. It's caused by convection currents in the air around your hand. Even if it's in a jar, when you touch the jar, heat from your hand conducts through the glass container's wall, heats up the air inside the jar causing it to rise up. Colder air flows towards that area, thus turning the wheel.
you dont have to buy it... I did it when i was small - you get a cardboard/paper, make a cylinder. Get cross on the top, get a pin and get it thru the cross on top of the cylinder. Then simply get a wine glass, flip it upside down and place the cylinder with the pin in the middle on that wine glass. Scary thing was, that you can place both hands there and choose the direction with your mind. Try it.
Today's fact: Magpies are considered one of the most intelligent animals in the world, and the only non-mammal species able to recognize itself in a mirror test.
Corvids are my favorite family! Each member is incredibly smart. They recognize faces from generation to generation without seeing their face when young as well. Check out the Harvard study on crows.
I'm pretty sure there are some fish which pass the mirror test too (below), so I'm quite sure that corvids are no the only non mammal to recognise themselves in a mirror, (or at least the mirror test is not as reliable indicator of self awareness as many think). Source: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000021 Nat geo easier to read source: www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/09/fish-cleaner-wrasse-self-aware-mirror-test-intelligence-news/
You could've made a cheaper one. Stick a needle through a big eraser, fold a small square of aluminum foil along the diagonals to make a small pyramid, balance it on the needle.
If you hold an object it becomes an extension of you. Like how a sword master would say to think of it as an extension of yourself. Your energy is actually wrapping around it.
My guess is the brownian motion of atoms and molecules in the air and the shape of your hand near causes the tiniest amount of airflow JUST RIGHT to turn it in that specific direction. Sorta like brownian motion in water.
What you're playing with there is called a static motor. The motion comes from ions jumping onto and off of the plastic fingers. Try testing it with things that carry a static charge, like a comb.
I love how you have a great ability to understand (as a true scientist does), that there might be things we don’t understand yet, but “let’s find out!” So much of the science world today seems filled with egos trying to prove they are right or political motivations giving shady interpretations instead of just saying, “what if we find out the truth?” I’m glad you don’t want to totally discredit elements of spiritually right off hand, but look for reasonable explanations too. Everything science researches was a mystery once! Lol True telekinesis would be moving it with the intention of the mind not just chi energy moving it, so it was pretty clear right off the bat this wouldn’t be a true test of telekinesis. It would of course be fascinating to prove such a thing real, but I think things like this little invention would be made much better use of in figuring out how make it a tool to create alternate energy (probably never could due to the frictionless nature of it.) It would be neat to take such a design and make wind farms more efficient maybe. This was a really great video! Thanks!
