How Trees Bend the Laws of Physics 

He might have got that wrong too.

Newton feared apples were related to a wave. Peace.

Exactly. How can the tree trunk get an apple worth of mass up there in the first place

Looool

He knew not to question those above him. But if they fall below him, he can ask whatever he likes and control their salary.

The lorax

mr beast???

I love trees. They give us reasons for writing poetry, and they give us oxygen when we don't destroy all of them.

The perfect quamphf.

Yeah he has 5 vid on it

9*

@@irfanbhuiyan620 says 8 years bro

@@irfanbhuiyan620 You're a month and a half early

so you are bad because you are more than 8 years old? good thing we dont erase all knowledge every 8 years, because bacteria would have higher IQ's

@@infected4kill he is ahead of his time

Does this mean trees can cool a city

@@warrickburt7459 Yes, obviously! Hence why urban greening is so important. Just look up the 'urban heat island effect', a large part is caused by concrete and other materials that fail to get rid of heat easily, but another by the lack of open space and green. Trees cool just about anything in their close vicinity (both through evaporative cooling and shade creation). They're nature's free air conditioning..

I didn't even notice it was 10 years old, wow!

I only noticed its age when I saw the double person effect.

yeah maybe october 31 2012

Torb 1 Trick nice date

I’m glad because somehow I’d missed this video and it’s fascinating!

I actually seached for the videos myself, lol. RU-vid definitely doesn't recommend old videos anymore

​@@aurelia8028it did recommend to me

I suggest you watch his video on how do trees grow so tall.

There are errors here. Later I'll tell what they are.

​@@ittaiklein8541 when?

... so trees sweat?

​@@robspiessthey transpire

d​amn right they actually do@@robspiess

@@robspiess Yes! There is a tree near my house where you can feel the sweat on really hot days.

And when multiple trees do the sweating thing, reverse rain can be seen and causes a cloud to form

Wait this is actually kinda true though, there’s no tree taller than this Edit: Oops didn’t realize this comment is 2 years old, sorry my bad

It's okay

We already got an update. This information is outdated.

Is this a Minecraft reference?

​@@Walter_Hartwell_White_Senior yes

i immediately flew in to the comment section when that came up. was not disappointed.

My wife is going to hear about this!

Supper such??? That doesnt sound right

Can Somebody explain this meme?

I came here just to comment this lmao

Are you talking about the one with the shade balls? I had an uncanny feeling I'd seen it before.

@@Fangornmmc This video! This video is nearly 7 years old having been published on Oct 30, 2012, yet here it is showing up in people's feeds today, June 3, 2019.

@@benjamind7290 Oh right, I didn't notice that at all haha. I'm still having an uncanny feeling about the shade balls though. I think I must've seen some other video about it before then... it gave me a strong case of deja vu.

Benjamin Damm literally just saw it for the fifth time since it was published

Agree

thanks for the extra info! It makes sense, dead wood burns so easily, but living trees don't randomly catch on fire. I've also heard that leaves are white on infra red film - since they're optimized to reflect heat.

Tree sweat

thanks for completing the explanation that should have been in the video

The reason leaves are green is cuz of chlorophyll no?

@@fpgamer4566 tree leaves containing chloroplasts don't absorb the green light but reflect it, and that's probably because radiation often emits green light. At least that's what I gather from the main comment

Seeing Hank on Veritassium video made my day

Right, Hank.

If there is a vacuum inside of leafs you would hear a big giant pop every time you snapped one in half this is just ridiculous nonsense

@@MASTERSAIS And that's what made the "...right?" so perfect :D There's so much "ridiculous nonsense" that ends up being true! His reaction was perfect. He pointed out the ridiculousness followed by a humble acknowledgement that he is human and nature does what it will regardless of whether we can make sense of it :)

@@MASTERSAIS I can't answer that, but I assure you, this guy does his research. If you want to try to disprove it, go ahead, but if you have no evidence, I believe him :D

Can confirm, currently 2:30 and just learned it's not capilary action.

@@Marksman123771 reading this at 2:30.

Ikr

I'm surprised noone is mentioning how the transport of water into the tree roots takes with it some dissolved minerals. Sure the tree has active ion pumps for that, but the automatic flow of dissolved salts together with the evaporation is not insignificant!

4:29 Why do trees transport so much water if they only use 5% of what they transport? The leaves have to have openings to let CO2 in, which also allows water to escape by evaporation, and leaves have to remain moist to transport nutrients and sugars, so the price they pay for survival is to transpire huge amounts of water they never use. "To make sugars, plants must absorb CO2 from the atmosphere through small pores in their leaves called stomata. However, when stomata open, water is lost to the atmosphere at a prolific rate relative to the small amount of CO2 absorbed; across plant species an average of 400 water molecules are lost for each CO2 molecule gained. The balance between transpiration and photosynthesis forms an essential compromise in the existence of plants; stomata must remain open to build sugars but risk dehydration in the process...The amount of water lost via transpiration can be incredibly high; a single irrigated corn plant growing in Kansas can use 200 L of water during a typical summer, while some large rainforest trees can use nearly 1200 L of water in a single day!" www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/water-uptake-and-transport-in-vascular-plants-103016037

Would you say there is a beneficial solvent effect from water doing this? As water is run from roots to leaves it will carry vital nutrients and other molecules the roots have collected and the leaves need. When the water leaves via transpiration it won't take the cargo. So it's a great solvent elevator of sorts.

I would think that nature tends to be efficient, and there would have to be very good reason to waste 95% of the water taken in by the roots. Yes, this water would transport solutes, but probably an excess of them that would accumulates in cells and cell walls, using up valuable energy dealing with the excess. ("Excess calcium ions can be accumulated as calcium oxalate crystals in the obliterated phloem or in vacuoles, e.g., in leaf cells - academic.oup.com/treephys/article/30/9/1140/1637967) And yes, evaporation would cool the plant, but plants are homeothermic and I don't know if they would be any healthier if cooler. So, I'm no expert, but I think that the main reason plants transpire such an excess of water relative to their needs is to maintain hydration despite the large holes needed to access carbon dioxide which is in very low concentrations in the atmosphere, not to transport adequate solutes or to cool the plant.

I don't even care if this theory is false and get debunked, somehow. I'd never see trees the same again.

Sounds like an engineering problem lol

Yes They have BRAAAAIIINNNNZZZZ

Still technically bending the laws of physics, just not braking them xD But yes Cleverly using physics.

What about deciduous trees that lose all their leaves??

Trees succc

So clearly trees were designed by an intelligent creator. To marvel at the design and not acknowledge the designer is folly.

Then crashed

I wish the Cubic Chunks mod were included in vanilla Minecraft.

@@jarblewarble preformance is a real concern... though - height limit is no longer capped at 256 - It can be changed now. not sure if there is a limit at how high that customizable range can be though

@@TekExplorer well cubic chunks makes the Hight limit form -infinity to infinity, and makes chunks 16x16x16 instead of 16x256x16, it also allows chunks to on top of each other, also, just for some context of how it would load, lets say you have a render distance of 16, horizontally it would load 16 chunks in every direction, loading the full 65536 blocks in that chunk, but with cubic chunks it also loads 16 chunks vertically, loading only 4096 blocks per chunk, so with cubic chunks you load 131072 blocks on spawn, and in vanilla minecraft you load 2097152 blocks on spawn, and because of this cubic chunks makes the game run better AND makes the build height infinite.

@@TekExplorer coooolllllll :DDDDDDDD

There is a word for that, business ;)

@@cypress1337 how about networking

@@marcuschiu8615 Yeah, that.

Na robba incredibbile

Yeah, trees are very social

And the universe is vaslty more complex than humans. Goes to show how much we think we know.

+Kieran Le Cam a video like this but about dark matter. Maybe in hundred years so we won't see it. That fact kills me.

Dotoctovo We have to learn to let go of what we can't know. Besides, it may take less than 100 years to figure it out. :)

@@KieranLeCam "the universe is vaslty more complex than humans" depends on how you look at it. The human brain can be considered the most complex object currently known in the universe.

@@oldm9228 True. But is the universe not the brain + the rest of the universe? What I meant was despite how we consider things to be complex, the fact we know so little about what's out there goes to show our idea of what is complex may simply be utterly wrong.

The algorithm in effect. I've ended up here again, along with those giving you a thumbs up.

S U P E R Z U C C

Mackenzie Coombe It sure is amazing how it was designed, what are the chances?-Impossible it’s literally an arrow in the ground pointing to a creator

@@maxbrinker9333 Not really. It's many arrows pointing out many small things that come together in a big way. You start with a small plant that works with the same basic mechanisms but operates within reasonable margins for error. Then you let the small plants compete for sunlight, and over millions of year, one of the plants will find one change that allows it to grow just a bit higher than the other ones. This plant will get more light, reproduce, and pass on the change. At the end you have a finely tuned mechanical masterpiece that reliably uses capillary action to bring water straight up for 100 m. A creator would have used compartments.

@@maxbrinker9333 // Amen; to God be the Glory [Romans 1 v20]

@@eljanrimsa5843 // Who initiated the *arrows* existence, then dictated its ability and function? Where did the *first small plant* even come from? Who designed the *basic mechanisms* you speak of? Who set the boundaries, of *reasonable margins for error* to function? Who created the sun Eljan; Who *allows* its placement to literally be set the perfect distance away so that "all" that has life can be sustained as they *reliably* use *sunlight* and *reproduce to pass on the change* which is seen in the *"finely tuned mechanical masterpieces"* all around us; Who, chance? *Not really.* Oh, lets not forget the *"theory"* of evolution: "...and over millions of year, one of the plants will find one change that allows it to..." If you're not afraid to watch here are some college profs, and their students defending evolution [please don't move the goal post acknowledging what the actual definition of evolution is/was: one species evolving into a completely different species]; all else is adaptation. *Evolution vs. God:* ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-U0u3-2CGOMQ.html *The Truth About Darwin/The Eyewitness Account of Creation:* www.gty.org/library/sermons-library/80-431 *Battle For The beginning:* www.gty.org/library/topical-series-library/255/the-battle-for-the-beginning [series] *The Theology of Creation:* www.gty.org/library/sermons-library/90-359 Over the years people have discovered literally millions of everyday fossils, but why doesn't anyone ever find the *"intermediate fossils"* that would prove evolution; why is that? If evolution is true, then there should've literally been millions of intermediate fossils already found by now b/c of the 14 known specie groups identified. When speaking on the "Imperfections in Geological Records" even Darwin complained in his own book, "Origin of Species" where he said quote: there is a "COMPLETE LACK of fossil intermediates in ALL geological records." This is what I'm speaking to, so it begs the question; why are there SO MANY *other* fossils found *everywhere* of all the oldest "known" extinct species, yet there are "ZERO" showing the transition between any of the 14 know species? It takes more faith to believe in mans "theory" of evolution than this: In the beginning GOD. Genesis 1 v1 *Truth is a stubborn thing.* *The Gospel of Jesus Christ:* www.gty.org/library/sermons-library/81-96 - www.gty.org/library/sermons-library/47-39/

Grace Owino is Hank Green related to Laci Green?

Your wish came true my friend hank is a celebrity now

@Hubert Jasieniecki Not being Christopher Columbus is one of the traits I most admire in people

We idolize actors and pop stars, people who take us out of our reality rather than leading us deeper into it

maybe, it would be fun to watch...

They explode sometimes when lightning hits them because all that water expands into water vapor and steam.

ask the Etruscans Euclayptus Trees explode when it has contact with fire,that’s how it spreads it’s seeds

@@haroldinho9930 Thanks for the kick a$$ fact...amazing!

@@asktheetruscans9857 i reckon most things explode if you hit them with a lighning bolt

タメル that sounded weird...

@@whannabi "sup bb. you can't believe how hard I can suck." - Ents meetings the hobbits, probably.

I will make trees blow me now

Imotep: Nice but kids this days are just playing expand more on the explanation, site a scientific journal and show hi-tech stuff to back real equations if possible, without mathematics the beauty of your claims is hallow. Why back in my days we had a vacuum not just for measuring columns in Egyptian temples but transporting huge blocks of stones up the pyramid. Check out how the pyramid where build theories. Science needs to be taken seriously otherwise when people just play we have a health care industry out of control because people are just going to use drugs and even stimpacks to assassinate NPC instead of doing the real quest and have fun in the process. Oh where is the humanity. Merry Christmas Syria thankfully Santa is no longer dropping Yuletide bombs over there.

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This joke *sucks*

"I will never look at trees the same way again". Indeed.

And I'll work even harder so trees wouldn't ran out of carbon dioxide

Me who still didn’t understand the whole negative pressure thing😬😬

Minecraft jokes 😂

But 1 meter is 1 mc block. So he's not doing no wrong. But them trees that go over 256meters.... them bastards

@@edencastillo4417 NO.. YOU HAVE FOUND MY SECRET. DON'T BAN ME FROM YOUR CHRISTIAN MINECRAFT SERVER. I WON'T SAY F-R-E-A-K OR H-E-C-K AGAIN. AND I WON'T USE MODE I PROMISE

@@edencastillo4417 IQ 256

@@jasonk. Oh really?

Same here. I watched it, wrote a comment, then RU-vid reminded me I had commented 7 years ago!

I know right? Me too

I can tell you don't like trees

Because you couldn't sleep?

I'm here at 2:37 am

You had the combination of tiredness and curiosity. I find that curiosity tends to take over in those situations.

Trees are tall by definition. If it ain't tall, it ain't a tree.

3:10

Me : 4:46

@@soberhippie By wich definition? Wikipedia? What is with bonsai trees?

Jonathan Lange Fair point. However, bonsai trees are meant to look as if they are full-sized trees. Again, if you plant a bonsai in open soil and stop trimming it, it will grow into its natural shape

I already knew trees had to release moisture, that's how we get clouds on hot days.

What did it use to be

@@deathbeast2439 "The most amazing thing about trees" and the thumbnail was a picture looking straight up through a circle of ~8 trees on a sunny day, no text or anything, just the photo

@@AndyChamberlainMusic Ok, I can see why you miss it then

@@AndyChamberlainMusic When I see "amazing" in a title, I think it's bad click bait, because it's an overused word on youtube. "Amazing" videos never are. But this video was very well done, and to be honest it was amazing. I like the new title better though. I especially enjoyed the on camera hypotheses'.

I was wondering why this had a clickbaity title. He didn't use to have clickbaity titles.

yeah it was a theory to explain the 'Ascent Of Sap'

These Irish scientists were later beaten up for being too smart for Dublin.

...and all that mechanism, know-how, capability, resilience and miracle is in the 1 inch seed dropped on the forest floor.

@@koborkutya7338 makes ya wonder, doesn't it?

"The example of those who take allies other than Allah is like that of the spider who takes a home. And indeed, the weakest of homes is the home of the spider, if they only knew." (Quran 29:41) This is the tafsir point of view. Scientific research showed lately that it is the female spider who builds the home not the male, and in the Verse of the Quran the female conjugation of the verb to take/to make (a dwelling/a home) in Arabic ( اتَّخَذَتْ). After that the female spider search for a male to fertilse her then she kills and eats the male. Therefore some scholars say this is the reason why this home is weak. Its weakness isn't a material weakness because the material of the web is one of the strongest in nature. A synthetic copy of it is known as Kevlar. But the weakness mentioned here is the lack of peace, mercy and love which makes a good and strong home according to the Verse 21 in Surat Ar-Rum (Surah 30).

@@astgfrallah771 Get that trash out of here. Muhammad was an illiterate pedophile.

@@astgfrallah771 big leap on tbe spider thing also no one converted from a youtube comment

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My rhyme of the day: Trees are amazing. We littered breathe the air they are creating.

I think trees suck. I'll see myself out, thanks.

Imotep: Nice but kids this days are just playing expand more on the explanation, site a scientific journal and show hi-tech stuff to back real equations if possible, without mathematics the beauty of your claims is hallow. Why back in my days we had a vacuum not just for measuring columns in Egyptian temples but transporting huge blocks of stones up the pyramid. Check out how the pyramid where build theories. Science needs to be taken seriously otherwise when people just play we have a health care industry out of control because people are just going to use drugs and even stimpacks to assassinate NPC instead of doing the real quest and have fun in the process. Oh where is the humanity. Merry Christmas Syria thankfully Santa is no longer dropping Yuletide bombs over there.

He has revealed his face before i.imgur.com/qg5bmEN.jpg

Yes, it was annoying. Headphone user.

some cheap point shoot camera didn't probably have program to separate them or just a stupid codec

Yup.... made me check my earbuds..

lmfao same. 😂😂😂😂

At least you want to learn.

Michael Dougfir lol yep! I want to learn from the internet because its much easier to understand, but school is confusing

i know right?

***** lol

David S. *Is it really?*

David S. I guess I'll use the ellipses then. ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

David S. I don't know how to edit a comment so I'll just leave it.

+Connor Norng Hover over your comment and to the right there will be a circle with a triangle in it, then click on that and it shows an edit option! :)

+Connor Norng It's as if trees are nature's water purifiers

Kevin in Paradise ඩ්

Ya me too

Well trees that are usually chopped down are already dead and don't have water in them. Cutting a living tree will cause it to bleed sap. Why doesn't it boil I have no clue.

@@danielchoi4490 wait why do u think trees that are getting cut down are usually dead i would think almost all trees still live before they are cut down

Maby its because its so thin that the water wouldnt flow out of it because there is no air coming through the pores so the water cant run down the canals because that would create a vaccum on the top end of the pores.

I was wondering the same thing

xkcd needs to do a comic where a satellite is placed on top of a tree. they cut the top of the tree and the satellite is launched into orbit