Ridiculous Magnets Colliding at 187,000FPS - The Slow Mo Guys 

Are we sure that it was a joke?

@@vcprado We demand pics!

@@vlogerhood or slow mo videos!

From gavs reaction he enjoyed it as much as we did. Perfect delivery

I wonder how many viewers actually get that though...

THANKS GAV AND DAN

I will always appreciate an educational slow motion video with you two handsome lads! 😊

That isn't something to mind! Love your content

Well, if you MUST upload more, I think we'll live, yes! 🙂

How DARE you

love how gav's head snapped up in the background

Watching Gav buckle for a second in the background was amazing

It's not a joke though..

@@SineEyed oh what, you've seen it?

@@bekaz13 I mean... lots of people have probly. He did a video on it on his personal channel a long time ago..

Hi there Scott 👋🏻 Good to see you in the community again!

Hey there Scooter

So shoot a magnet next?

When’s the slo mo 4 bore video coming?

I think it has been done before, but how about you get these guys back on your range and you guys test to see how many neodymium magnets it takes to bend a bullet and how many it takes for each caliber. Odds are is that it'll only take about 3 shots before a bullet hits a magnet, but it'd be cool. You know a .22 might whip around a single magnet block. A 9mm would whip around 2 of them. A .45 would just slam into 2 of them, 5.56mm would speed by. .338 Lapua would start spinning or something. It'd be a neat video and you'd need proper slow mo to see exactly how much effect the magnets had on the bullet's path.

i feel bad for the magnets 😢

when is _that_ video coming?

They do. They just B that way. I Gauss we will just have to live with it.

im with destin they are out to get you lol

Even the small ones are dangerous. I have a few 15mm by 6 mm neodymium magnets and they are very difficult to get apart. Only way is to slide them side to side. I have had them stacked and put them on the front of my fridge. Then tell people to pull them straight off. Can be done, but not easy.

> In physics and materials science, the Curie temperature (TC), or Curie point, is the temperature above which certain materials lose their permanent magnetic properties, which can (in most cases) be replaced by induced magnetism. The Curie temperature is named after Pierre Curie, who showed that magnetism was lost at a critical temperature.

When I first learned about that, where you can destroy a magnet with enough heat, I thought it was so cool. Not so permanent now, are you?

i think it's good magnetism is reduced with heat because molten metal that's also magnetic sounds terrifying

@@float32 Then why does the sun have massive magnetic fields?

@@andregon4366 convection, I'd assume. (edit: I wonder if a vortex of molten iron would produce a measurable magnetic field.)

That would honestly be pretty darn cool. Would water slow the magnets down enough to not get the same effect? Would it be more crazy impressive? We need to know.. FOR SCIENCE!

Certainly would slow them down a lot. I wonder if they would even shatter. Yes, do it. 😂

Water is incompressible.

@@Max_Jacoby It will compress if you pour it into a black hole. 😂

@@my3dviews You don't even need that, ocean water is 4% more dense at its greatest depth than at the surface.

I thank them sincerely for every minute, it's been worth it.

@@CL-we8tn Indeed

I watched the all-videos-playlist the other day. It's easily as fascinating as a slow mo video by itself. Because all they do are slow mo videos. It's so simple. But then it's so entertaining too. You could get rid of every TV show ever but Slow Mo Guys should be a constant of the universe like light speed. ^^ (But still no one-inch-punch-Vid... ;P)

Yabbut, that's only 2.739 frames a day. Big deal. (grin)

Yea, you can count the annual rings on their forehead. 🙃

Love your videos on neodymium magnets, yes sad to see them destroyed but awesome to see what happens when they're 'let free' like this.

I was thinking "I hope Brainiac75 sees this", this truly puts your warnings about the dangers of magnets into perspective!

I knew you'd be around.

so glad to see you here!

Is the metal hazardous once it's outside the nickel plating? Bad to breath the dust?

was wondering if anyone else caught that. lol

It cracked me up so hard 🤣🤣🤣

Hilarious!

Highly educating, as usual!

what's that?

Every time you forget and come back they have 30+ videos you haven’t seen before and it’s awesome every time

Am I the only one who heard that Transformers sound for the second one?

Yeah that made me smile.

Youch!

Yeah the micro shrapnel in that lab would be terrifying for sure!

Nooooo thanks. I just crushed a finger tip folding a metal table two months ago, you can keep all this stuff right away from me.

...ow.

When working with magnets, never forget: You Are The Meatball.

There was one big chunk (oddly enough, right above the two they highlighted) that you could see it initially spinning in two axes, and then it just sorta... slowed down and you could literally see it lose an axis of rotation but keep spinning in the other axis as it came back towards the larger mass.

All those lines of flux. Incredible really.

eddy currents turning the rotation energy into heat?

i bet they were magled up for a few moments as well

You now see the importance of it being removed😂

I already knew what it was but i didn't need to think about Dan having one but... well he put that thought in my head now.

It was Gav's reaction that made me have to look it up. I think I involuntarily grabbed them and winced.

Came straight to the comments after hearing price Albert

The way he looked up as if he didnt hear right😂

yeah i was just thinking that too, they've been going for a while now and each video is just always good.

og GOATS of YT

A hot wheels car? Or a plastic toy?

they kinda did that in the episode of one of the RU-vid shows they did

use a prince ruperts drop

Get the Maltesers back out

A vial of Nitroglycerin!🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞

No. You swinging a hammer is going to have more kinetic energy involved. Those magnets are extremely brittle and werent going more than 15mph. Learn to actually do math and physics and stop trying to make dumb assumptions about things you dont understand.

@@thomgizziz You should perhaps do a experiment where you take two fingers and crush one with a sledgehammer and one twixt two of them magnet things and see if you can still talk all tough like.

@@thomgizziz They ARE very brittle, but like most brittle things, that just means they're sharp when they break. Bonus danger! BUT they're also very heavy, so there's the nice mass part (more than a hammer, and possibly even more than a sledge hammer when both weights are included honestly) of the equations. Speaking of BOTH magnets, they're both moving, you have to establish one still as your frame of reference, so I'm guessing 15 mph is a low ball. Also, Energy isn't about speed, it's about acceleration! Magnetic field strength drops off as a square of distance, so by the time they're millimeters apart, they're accelerating at much more than the midpoint speed would suggest. THUS while the kinetic energy in the lead up isn't super insane, at the point of contact, it is! So, no, even swinging a 3 lb sledge hammer couldn't compare to the point of impact from both magnets moving to each other, thom. Bush up on your conceptual physics because you can't do the math until you understand the basics.

I suspect that the water would slow them down enough that they wouldn't break, just stick together in an uninteresting way.

Water doesn't boil because you wham two pieces of metal together moderately hard.

@@aluisious they are referring to how, if an object moves fast enough in water, it creates a cavitation bubble (a vacuum) that gets very hot because the pressure is so low compared to the rest of the water that it pulls the water apart into steam to raise the pressure

@@aluisious doesn't it? only one way to find out

I was also thinking the water would slow them down and it wouldn't look as cool as it did here. But what about if they covered them in wet paint instead??

The Slo Mo Guys: I wonder what the world ending would look like at 187,000 fps.

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You must be new here

@@osskeet Why do you say that? I've been watching them for nine or ten years, and I think I became a proper fan around six or seven years ago.

@@daidarabotchi3891 I've been saying it for years - some day this stuff is going to be playing in The *_Louvre._* It's *_art._*

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But there is also more mass involved, so it might cancel out ;)

I don't think you need the word respectively here lol

​@@aryst0kratNah Gav's attractive forces are surely bigger than Dan's ones

​@@aryst0krat when you don't think, you often miss the point.

Go to the top!

The mirror would need to be really really close to be in focus. They need as much light as they can so they open the lens at max aperture = very shallow depth of field

With a protective layer on the mirror to prevent it from shattering

​@@petitblackriver two cameras?

​@@anonymouscommentor411 good idea, might have to be like bullet proof glass. I think the guys should have a containment room like in the comics.

Nice! I had not considered that, interesting take.

I was thinking more a Transformer, but it did bring to mind how electrons and atoms get messed about to me. So it helps to represent both a scale up and a scale down :)

Good thing feelings arent reality. You should really stop feeling instead of thinking because you are terrible at feeling anything that makes sense.

Yea I have some half this size and they scare me. These things?! Terrifying. They are SO strong its hard to believe.

@@MattH-wg7ou "its hard to believe" That's part of the problem; they don't look nearly as dangerous as they actually are. Strong magnets are no joke. You hold one in your hand and do one wrong move, they crush your hand. Now imagine what one of the magnets in an MRI machine can do.

There's a comment below of someone doing the same experiment as in the video. They picked up the "meatball" after the collision, and went looking for one of the shards. Suddenly, that shard went through the back of their hand and out the front. They wondered where the shard had gone, and only noticed when blood was pouring from their hand.

@@renerpho yep

@@renerpho oof, and the shards are scary sharp as well!

Luckily the moon is drifting away from all albeit slowly from our perspective

@@Divintyrious Like it’s in super slow mo? :trollface:

YEAH! THAT WOULD BE SOOOO COOL!!

Earth and Theia would be my vote.

@@Divintyrious that's really sad tho cause that means after a while total solar eclipses won't be possible anymore and that is by far the coolest natural event I've ever seen, like all the animals and insects go quite and you can feel the temperature drop as totality hits, I'm definitely making the trip to see the one in april

Funny you should mention Michael Bay, I was just thinking the fragmented magnets moving around in slowmo looked a lot like the transformations from the Bayformers movies

Just remember to skip past the Prince Albert bit, or don't and see how many of the kids react as your own experiment

It's not exponential, just a high order polynomial, acceleration is inverse square of remaining distance, minus speed times friction, minus air resistance, maybe a 4th or 6th order polynomial . Someone should do the differential equations and then check against the time-stamped raw clip .

omg yes

👀

What the actual heck

Doubt it. They said they were going 15 mph in air. They'd go slower in water. You're not getting cavitation out of that.

@@aluisious Would still probably look cool underwater though

That actually sounds very, very cool.

It is possible that that would create a new form of matter and be the end of the universe as we know it. 😂

While this would be cool to see, I dont think they would explode as the density of water and the liquid resistance to compression may just result in the magnets coming together and not breaking, or just chipping.

To be fair, it's a lot easier to get magnets to collide, and a lot less deadly if you're not in the middle

Completely different experiments

Destin and team's recent colliding bullets project was absurdly over-engineered.

Now, let's get Destin to use magnetic bullets! :D

​@@-danR​​​No, it wasn't. It was designed to be fire bullets at each other, safely and consistently. It did that, and in a fairly simple way in my opinion.

I think you mean blase.

@@promontorium Oh yeah, you big gunky!?! I mean, oh yes. You are correct. :)

@@promontorium yeah that didn't make a lot of sense

You get never mind?

Except, gravitational systems in space.

I loved how that piece instead of following a parabolic curve down instead followed a curve bending up towards the bigger remains of the magnets.