Piezoelectricity - why hitting crystals makes electricity 

One of the many reasons I loved minecraft. Lil details.

when you flip a lightswitch its just a series of crystals being bopped by spinning gears, self powering itself and the lightbulb

@@chineseboxingstylekanye7147 lol no....thats not whats happening

@@wchurchill419 no duh,that's how it works

@@mmthegreat087 please go on, enlighten us.

Thats not his hand ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

@@Matiasss200 this could be read in a few ways

@@SniperSpy10 He meant the wiener. Deal with it lol

@@Chriva *Slow Clap*

haha

😂

Two quarts of what

You're a wizard harry

Mee tooo.

But… how?

Me too

Did you strike the top of the pyramid with a spring-loaded hammer?

Joe rogan or billy carson

now the question remains, is a voltage being produced by the impulse or impact from compressing/deforming and relaxing the crystal, or do you think a constant pressure would yield a constant voltage?

Where does the Cristal recharge it's charges from?

@@DANTHETUBEMAN from unicorn blood

@@GabrielCazorlaPersson1 - Are you familiar with the Earthtide theory as the mechanism for Earth's magnetic field? Imo it makes more sense than the core dynamo hypothesis. The gist is that 95% of the Earth's crust is quartz-based, and that tidal forces from the Moon produce a diurnal flexing on the Earth's heavily faulted crust, which generates a piezoelectric field - "magnetic field" is a misnomer. Anyway, it solves many of the mysteries associated with the field and provides predictive ability whereas the dynamo theory does not.

Thanks Steve

Wow just like all the guys we’ve had over to da White House ……

I have the literal 2nd reply to a 600 likes comment ,how? What a coincidence

@@yokohamamike1041 barbaque

@@yokohamamike1041 dh

@@opinionguy7615 Because this comment was posted 2 years after the initial video lol.

how much should i huff to make the voices stop

@@DeactivatedAlmonds asking the real questions here

Is it the same effect when you beak a piece of sugar in the dark it make sparks? (blue sparks that let me think it's electricity)

@@DeactivatedAlmonds stops drinkin druggzz , real science talked here

@evilpandakillabzomattkpcci4879 Username... _doesn't_ check out?

Interesting

and has three hands

@@schadenfreudebuddha here 2:58

I had to eat so much peanut butter for this video. No regrets.

@@SteveMould Peanut butter is the best. I like the natural kind. Except for when you first buy it and have to wear out your arm stirring it. That part sucks.

> and has three hands That one is not a finger.

You mean 'scientists' ..

exactly! Like 95% of all science youtubers are just wikipedia readers :D

He had me until he said chakras don't exists 🤣a bit ignorant for an intelligent man. But that's okay a little research will enlighten you.

@@jeffv2074 that’s because he’s talking about things that exist in real life and not how you feel. Nobody cares how you feel, it holds no bearing on reality. Your gods are fake, your chakras are fake, your demons are fake. It is a waste of all of everyone’s time to speak on the subject

@@jeffv2074 I won't say Chakras definitively don't exist, but you should at least respect it's not the same realm of hard science that this video covers - i.e. directly quantifiable materials physics. At best it's a "softer" or more holistic science closer to the realms of medicine or neurology/psychology. And even within that realm the notion of Chakras is not super well supported in any sort of large scale, peer reviewed, replicable study (that I know of). Which again, doesn't mean it's wrong necessarily, but it's entirely understandable why some people would have doubts about it. At the very least wouldn't be as condescending towards skeptics as you're being. You might be surprised to learn there's a lot of very intelligent people who don't believe in Chakras. Granted I also know plenty of intelligent people who *do* believe in chakras and various other spiritual/semi-spiritual concepts. But even among the latter group I've met, I don't think any ever claimed that there's convincing concrete research behind it at the moment.

basically

No way, The Karens were right?!

Magic is just unknown science

Protos and Zerg colony😊😊😊

​@@G-u-z-i-oonly Gwyneth Paltrow.

I always assumed they worked like normal lighters! It's amazing that they actually use this (kind of, but not really) high tech!

I always thought they had a battery and the click was from a terminal that initiated contact and sprung off as the gas ignited.

@@TheR971 just goes to show how many different ways one can make a single idea.

i thought it just metal + another metal or rock. didnt know its a crystal actually

I thought it worked like an electron(?) scraper or van de graff generator,

Bottled beer > canned

@@777anarchist I get the joke, but canned is cheap as sand compared to bottled

@@dvorak2676 Do not disregard the chakras ;)

Yes

@@koseq7 that isn't a truth in the lie, it's a coincidence.

Which, in narrative terms, is approximately the opposite of "I digress".

Quartz protec quartz attac but most importantly quartz piezoelectric

Which is funny, because “electric” is also from Greek - electros, meaning amber, since static electricity was first observed by rubbing silk and amber. So, it means “I compress amber”

@@evanc.1591 awesome

@Dr. M. H. dam

If you didn’t make a comment like this, I would have.

This is exactly what he said to make me wanna go to the comments lmao

Well the first Chakra is the root/earth chakra located at... *cough*... the "base of the spine". It would make sense to apply a healing crystal there

jessica lmfao

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-q9cTJef4gzE.html

"I don't know if you take it auraly", rather :)

All i know is that that crystal was shaped for purpose

or... well, it's the best thing to do with alternative medicine

You laugh as you think he was correct!

​@@bhogarsishyan5769 Fooling manipulable people is not funny, we are not laughing. The fact that people buy these is seriously concerning, as it is not "alternative medicine", it's just a placebo, and for a high price. Accepting the existance of things like chakras without any sort of evidence for them is very childish, same with other dogma. Scepticism is the thing that makes the scientific method the best way to obtain truth about our surroundings: constantly checking if you are wrong, not if you are right. Once you realize that "alternative medicine" (like crystal-healing and homeopathy, etc.) is not medicine, simply a psychology trick to take your money, you might actually start learning that the world is not so simple. It's also good to eradicate your biases, for that I'd recommend yourbias.is , for not commiting logical fallacies, I'd recommend yourlogicalfallacyis.com Self-education is only possible with a good knowledge of debate.

I need a new microphone. Where do I buy this?

Wait u get mic users on Overwatch ??

How the ancient lifted heavy stuf

IAC i9@@thedutchonequestioneveryth41287iu7u uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuoiiuu8

that might work aswell though and it has a similarity in usecases as it aswell is used in audio equipment.

I always assumed lighters just used a flint striker to make the spark that ignites them. I never considered that peizo electricity would be easier/cheaper/better than a basic friction striker.

@@jasonreed7522 the problem is, sparks from a flint aren't electric and can't go through metal

"it's not a great microphone, but IT IS a microphone" is also funny lol

@@exyon4741 hells yeah it is!

Comedy 🤣❤️

Bobcat Goldthwait also isn't a great speaker, but he is a speaker

Tell that to all the crappy boomboxes and garbage stereos of the 90's.

Captivating and inspiring an audience is a rare ability

These types of teachers are the only ones I really learned anything from, because I could relate to every day life, this stayed interested.

It's good to see that you don't try and impress your audience by speak too quickly like most RU-vidrs. Your teaching is very good because of this. You take the time to explain things in detail. It's about time a RU-vidr had the sense to know that an audience learns better when a teacher explains things at a slower rate than other RU-vidrs priding themselves at how quickly they can speak.

ur very lucky to have teacher like that

Herman Grove yeah because quartz is expensive

Piezoelectric pickups are usually used as contact mics just like in acoustic guitars.

For when you want that perfectly staticky sound.

@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 he was hitting it with a hammer, what do you expect

So you're saying it wasn't "crystal clear? LMAO

That is science

Tell that to the cop

@@ItsMe-fd4pe Science does not exist

@@PrinceJes you do not exist.

@@shayanmoosavi9139 F

Did you know that Gemstones radiate frequencies that match the frequencies of our body? Lookup Gemstones and Chakras.

@@easygrows2699 💀💀

​@@easygrows2699I don't think stones make heartbeat sounds

I dont think it is true but it may be possible I guess we use the resonation of quartz to keep time so what's to say other stones done resonate in some way.​@@easygrows2699

lol so true

What's wrong with the audio. Nothing

Brandon Anthony its just very static

Electroboom: *interesting*

Nah they're from people who thought the quartz crystal was a suppository

I disliked. The quartz was obviously a paid actor. FAKE

Or... maybe... because he uses a fake thumbnail and doesnt shows anything happening with that large crystal...?

@@leocurious9919 Is that why you disliked the video?

Guessing crystal is a hooker.

I see what you did there!

HAHAHA good memes mate xD

chakras => gears? lmao

Literally chacras translates to circles

In Sanskrit/Hindi, the origin of the word, _chakra_ literally translates to rings/circles.

The only way to squeeze a diamond is get a black hole 🕳 lol

He means as much as you like.... but it won't emit a current.

Send me a diamond, I'll do it 😉

@@dat2ra yes we all understand that, they're attempting to make a joke *facepalm*

Your supposed to use an iron pick axe

Agreed...

Like the old tech all around the world with the churches and temples 🛕 that they hide truth from us

Inb4 the great pyramids were giant piezoelectric crystals

@@codpug You're lying to yourself and you're lying to the world when you say these things. Nobody is trying to hide history, what would anyone have to gain from that?

@@haywoodjablomi9393 trust your govt l,take your shot slave .

Great, another creator I gotta sub to because they make good content *sigh* my crowded dashboard, woe is me. 😉

I remember an old interview with guitarist and multi-instrumentalist David Lindley, talking about having used earthquake sensors, little piezoelectric discs, as guitar pickups.

What is this? Something to record the guitar from inside?

@@Enrique-peralta , since piezoelectric crystal's produce voltage when vibrated, you can stick them inside the body of an acoustic guitar and they will pick up the vibrations of the wood, which is somewhat analogous to the vibrations of the strings. The trick to getting a good sound, of course, would be placement of the piezo pickup, or pickups (plural), and whether you blend it with some kind of internal or external microphone or even a magnetic pickup that senses the string vibration directly. At least one company makes piezo type pickups that go underneath the bridge saddle and have six individual piezo crystals for the contact points of the six strings. I don't know what the favorite pick up systems are now, but back in the 80s and 90s Sunrise and Fishman, and to a lesser extent Barcus-Barry, were the ones that people were mostly using. I believe at least one of these systems had an internal microphone as well as the piezo pickup.

I thought they worked by em induction, oh i guess multiple types.

Some people believe the pyramids in Egypt were power plants. They say the outside was an insulator, and the inside was a conductor, and when the ground water would rise and fall, energy was generated. That may be a reason it was such a huge accomplishment. Idk about the crystal pyramids, but I'll check it out.

an arm

I never studied the physical/earth sciences in school..did more in biological but wish I had studied both This is fascinating

🤣

Take it aura-ly with a cup of chi...

As The wise professor Farnsworth once said "it's a suppository"

Okay, yeah, that's funny... 😂 😂 😂 😂.

Up de butt

Crystal radio?

@@Slay_No_More Oh yea; you can find an article about them on wikipedia. Basically you take a coil of wire, a capacitor, a crystal detector, and earphones to make a simple radio. Moving the contact to different spots on the coil lets you receive different radio frequencies. Some companies sell little science project kits of them

Same with drive-through speakers.

Adam Plavinskis Ik I’m really upset 😢😢😢😢

that's the comment i was looking for

But he poured his speaker into his microphone and his microphone into his speaker.

He's done a lot more than just a viral video...

🤔🤔👍😂😂😂

Laughing so hard right now

Butt plug

Love this....and funny how he shows the world how narrow minded he is.

@@dstruthers2950 bruh chakras are not real

@@doomguy1167 more real than all the video games you choose to waste your time with. Just saying

Logan Strong Hi I’m an elementary audio guy here, what does a Piezo pick do?

@@natheniel it's a pickup for acoustic instruments, like cello or acoustic guitar. Idk exactly how it works, but by the name I'm guessing it's the piezoelectric effect.

As the vibrations travel through the crystalline structure theres compression and expansion happening, producing an electric voltage. Well, something along those lines anyways.

@@natheniel Also known as contact microphones, they are used to pick up only the sound from the instrument/object they placed in contact with, not picking up surrounding air vibrations like an ordinary microphone, isolating the sound.

The sound waves (aka compression waves) in the instrument's body make its way to the piezo pick-up and consequently compress it, in turn generating an electric signal which is then sent to an amplifier. Piezo pick-ups work better when they have direct contact with a hard surfaces as you might've guessed from this video.

You're one to critique. What have you presented?

@@ZechMadox Not a critique, it's a compliment on his two demonstrations of speaker and microphone ^^

Do you do MRI-compatible neurorobotics? My buddy Greg Cole did his master's thesis designing a piezo actuated brain surgery robot that had less than 1% MRI signal interference. They're loud as anything

@slayo 66 I believe those use a different approach, with magnetic fields, but I am not sure exactly how. And that's why if you use nylon strings on an electric guitar you won't get any sound.

@slayo 66 Electric guitar pickups have weak magnets surrounded by coils. (Or maybe just 1 coil.) When the steel strings vibrate, the magnetic field varies with them. The coils produce electricity in response to the variations in exactly the same way as the coils in a car alternator or power station generator, but obviously at a much weaker level.

100% i often remove the extra safety spring or try use a rly old lighter it annoys me i have to consider safety! Theres no kids getting it how about teaching parenting rather than making laws about safety lighters that then inconvenience me for a kid who dont exists safety! I hate the after 2000s world so much lol!

It's not a great content, but it is a content.

Just finished a 4 year electrician apprenticeship. I was today years old when I learned how the piezoelectric components I've been working with actually function.

@@vincentcrowely6772 im starting my apprenticeship next month any advice or experiences you can share much appreciated.

no

I've been saying this for years

Self-education is everything

Top!!!

Always at leat three different pies for the pie zoo electric effect!

I wish I could give that comment a thousand more likes

From "PISO"....who invented the susej pizza.

Underrated 😂

Don't tell the European Commission or we will be using piezoelectric nails in 2022.

Step 3: Store the electricity Step 3.5: Use the stored electricity to an electric hammer that uses only a tiny bit of electricity to hammer the crystals (Impossible?) Step 4: Unlimited Electricity

@@jdf7149 use water wheel to raise hammer from river.

There is no such thing like free or infinite energy,especially with pezio electric because voltage is very low

@@BallisticDamage ah I see, thanks for clearing that up

I use garbage sir😋😙😎😏

alex redelman My ship runs on concentrated dark matter. Two parts Plutonic Quarks, one part Cesium, and a bottle of water. Wubba lubba dub dub!

@@TKO593 LOL that wasn't concentrated dark matter. It was a fake recipe to blow those aliens up😂😂😂

shayan moosavi Yeah. Cesium should of been a dead giveaway, but tell that to Samsung and hover board manufactures.

our scientists make *really* nice phones

Another Applied Science fan? :D

_but, but.. but isnt every action, muscle or thought already just a result of electrical impulse(s)?_

*electricity intensifies*

@@mfThump that's with the side effect of gray hair

Your brain can be considered as an electrical powerhouse, given its amount of connections, wiring and power consumption. Well, in fact, no, not a powerhouse; but rather something electrical, big, and complex. And stress surely increases brain activity.