the physics of pokémon evolution 

Great childhood book

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Truly the best part. The kind of joke only somebody who knows what they are talking about can make.

The dry humour is what got me hooked. Quiet, understated - I bet Angela's really fun in one of those unwieldy conversations (the ones where you all infodump about *all* your current interests). :)

While it mostly misrepresents the diet of the caterpillar, it does cover the main point well, caterpillars (and other larvae) are eating machines.

I enjoy commenting on people talking about people watching people enjoying things more than they enjoy things.

When you come across something like that that feels genuine it can feel pretty good!

Anhedonia + strong empathy = you can only enjoy other people enjoying things

@@FunBotan indeed. (non-romantic) compersion for the win, though, in such a case. 😐

Reminds me of the concept of Mudita. I like it!

You don't get to be good friends with a Munchlax unless you have been feeding him. Food = Happiness

Sounds like magic to me…

Love the combee movie

"These are WINTER BOOTS!" *it's super effective!*

The perfect comment doesn't exi...

Pokélife finds a way.

​@@Kycilak This comment was already made 25 years ago before RU-vid's parents even met.

The truth about Pokemon that mainstream media doesn't want you to know

Don't forget the history of string theory (while playing a video game), silicon-based life, and fluoride!

And alkaline water. With lemon.

​@@trickvroplaying binding of Isaac while explaining string theory was seriously cool though that takes serious skill

​@@The_Real_QuantumShe actually won without barely losing her train of thought.

Space Elevator!

That's exactly what I thought! I'm sort of reminded of the people who went to a conspiracy podcast to intentionally spread a made-up story about Bigfoot in space so that they could covertly give accurate mini-science lessons on biology. The conspiracy host still believes in her conspiracies even after the hoax was revealed, but she knows the difference between a race and a species now 😂

or the snorlax doesnt increase his weight imediatelly after evolving

Hmm…. Perhaps they are silicon-based organisms. Silt, clay, or other mineral-based dirt would have a bunch of it.

obviously the gradual growth is what is intended to be understood except for metamorphoses, mass accumulation of obviously non-carbon lifeforms, and other exceptions (beldum and such), but there's also a weird thing with the principles of evolution in the weird setting details in the early versions of the story pokemons were just really special magical animals alongside real animals, except they have extreme body adaptations and when weakened they shrivel down to minuscule size it was the explanation for pokeballs, but also evolution was understood to be a similar phenomenon so uh, pokemons are mostly air and only absorb minuscule amounts of mass to change visually I guess? funnily it's a similar handwave explanation to titans in attack on titan, with both not explaining how they would still have mass at all for their visible size with later generations all living life is pokemons with back and forths on whether that includes humans or not, so return to case 0 I guess

​@@RedstoNeman0titan's mass is explained in the manga btw

I think the Pokémon universe is just filled with more ambient energy than ours is, and this extra ambient energy somehow doesn't affect natural physical processes and fry everyone from within, but can be tapped into by Pokémon for rapid matter creation, and sometimes by humans for the crazy technology found in the games.

"Pocket dimensions are also my explanation for why Pokemon can be stored in Pokeballs" I'm pretty sure that's basically cannon. Though, "dimension" may or may not just mean "it's bigger on the inside" rather than "there's an entire mini-universe completely separate from our own"

The energy is represented by levels in the game that’s why evolving require levels.

​@@LibertyMonkwell pokeball don't get more weight when a Pokémon is inside, also they grow and shrink for uses. Looks like a 4th dimension thing to me.

In the games the pokemon actually just get shrunk down by the pokeball. The anime changed peoples perspective on what actually happens

The official explanation in current lore (unless there's something I've missed or forgotten, it's been a while) is that Pokémon do in fact shrink to enter the ball. Also, the Pokémon themselves are made (at least in part) of something called infinity energy (ORAS, Delta Episode). The first theory I can think of regarding all this is that somehow a Pokémon controls this energy to exert a force downward that we interpret as weight. Maybe Pokémon are more like Gems in Steven Universe (floating rock controlling EM fields to visually and tactically appear as different shapes). idk lol

Prof. Rowan move aside

Now I may be just a simple country PokeProf...

There's some great-great-great grand-ancestor in Great Britain choking up and saying "Yes you are, great-great-great grand-descendant. You're a real coal miner!"

It always amuses me when people say "why cant you just suspend your disbelief and have fun?" Like bruh, this is fun.

​@@chrstfer2452I think a lot of it comes from the cinema sins/nostalgia critic angle of taking things like "pokemon evolution doesn't make sense" as actual criticism. But then people misapply it to people just having fun lol

@@vulixirus yeah but ive definitely known people who would say something like that when i point out that liquid metal isnt flesh in terminator 2, or how an air cannister doesnt blow up like that during Jaws. But also, who knows how far the recursive irony goes, maybe that *was* their humor. At some point it just becomes pingpong.

@@chrstfer2452 Let's do the physics on Antman after he goes "subatomic" :p There's so much fun there! The quantum tunneling, the sheer size and energy of literally any particle that he and his wife would interact with, including photons and what it would do to them, their states while nothing interacts with them. If they can see anything besides a giant flash of their brains vapourizing when a photon hits them, what particle or wavelength of light would their eyes then be registering? And how many do you need to fit through their pupils to get high enough resolution to get a recognizable picture? And how dense are they? Do they still have their original mass? Because that could be a problem if you're smaller than an electron :p Very intimate if they ever run into each other :p But slightly problematic nonetheless :p At least that solves the problem of what particles they consist of, because no other black hole ever worried about such things :p

shadowboxing innit

That was pretty much the cards after the credits

Is it like banks, where the mass for evolution and reconstitution comes from other pokemon in pokeballs

@@sealionroaris there a crash if everyone want to draw their pokémon at the same time?

Clearly, when you press 'B' to cancel the evolution, you're just canceling the Thorium download from the 10th string theory dimension.

@@sealionroar fractional reserve metamorphosis

Even though we're talking about economics don't google pokemon inflation

And it was indeed a great gift as it took time, and it was something we surely wouldn't get ourselves.

this is a good gift according to the inequality used in her video as the dollar worth to us of this vid is higher than the dollar worth of her effort in making it :)

Easily best line.

​@@cancermcaids7688Lego prices have been around ten cents a piece since the nineties. They are, in fact, the opposite of gouging.

Hi, I am an entomologist and your son is entirely correct and bless his little heart. To be clear, some caterpillars do also make a cocoon first. But a cocoon is just that - something you make, not something you turn into. It's like a silk bed for the chrysalis to lie inside of.

Technically correct is the best kind of correct

Shallow and pedantic

The kid’s going to be alright

That child in on the right track

Didn’t she mean OoT?

​@@LettersAndNumbers300there was a GB cart for it as well. She was specifically talking about playing GB games on her n64

@@bigmike- oooooh yeah!

​@@bigmike-no there wasn't, there was a really good Zelda on Game Boy, but it wasn't LTTP. My guess, I think she meant Ocarina.

She posted her source for caterpillar knowledge. Take it up with the original authors. :p (yes, I know the book does not talk about the goo thing)

Hi, I'm an invertebrate biologist. As of your comment I am now on high alert. Please let me know when I can turn this flashing red light off.

I'd love to find a video on how metamorphosizing butterflies and moths evovled. I heard about that scandal involving Lynn Margulis, where she allegedly, and I'm going off memory here so be skeptical of me, used her influence to get a paper published that shouldn't have, because the paper was suggesting that caterpillars and butterflies were once two separate lineages that engaged in a macroscopic endosymbiosis into one single species that metamorphizes from the one species to the other in its single lifetimes. And I thought, "Wow, that is really a stain on Margulis's legacy, imagine giving credit to a theory as crazy as caterpillars and butterflies once being separate species." And then I thought, "Wait, what _does_ the evolutionary history of the butterfly look like? Did caterpillars used to metamorphosize into like a... half-caterpillar half-butterfly stage? Maybe that theory _was_ right." Then I took a step back and thought about how different so many larvae stages were from their corresponding adult stages, and it only seems exceptional with butterflies because they're so exotic looking. I think?

@@coreyander286 I don't know the paper or the story and can't tell you whether Margulis was involved, but I can tell you for sure that the hypothesis is bunk. There are no documented cases of two animal species merging into one in such a way; if there were, we would be able to tell, because this chimaera creature would contain DNA with two separate evolutionary lineages. Metamorphosis isn't unique to butterflies and moths; they belong to a larger clade of insects, called the endopterygotes, that all develop through larval->pupal->adult stages. Beetles, wasps and flies are all endopterygotes, for example. Across this clade, there's pretty wide variation in how different the larval, pupal and adult stages are from one another. Moths and butterflies are on the extreme end, whereas many beetles, for example, have a pretty similar basic body shape in all three stages. (And there's a strong pattern where the more different the adult stage is from the larval stage, the longer the pupal stage is, as there's more remodeling of the body that needs to be done for adulthood.) So when you imagine the evolution of insect metamorphosis, you can imagine that the original endopterygotes would've been closer to the beetle end of the spectrum, and for some groups (like butterflies), the larval and adult stages gradually became more and more different over time, as they became increasingly ecologically specialized in divergent ways (e.g. larvae eating leaves; adults eating nectar). And yes, you're right, nature is full of other animal groups whose larval forms look hugely different from the adults, but they get much less publicity. :)

the problem with this is that the stats increase rates just jump upon evolution. Also, the level the pokémon learn moves at changes, and you can postpone evolution to get access to some moves earlier (or even at all), pointing to a discrete change. There are also levels, which work as a "maturation" marker (and are not tied to age). That's besides the fact that evolution as a (mostly) sharp thing is depicted in all media. Also, stone and trade evolution would still be left unexplained, so you'd have to have at least two mechanisms, even though they'd work the same way in when it comes to all of these stuff. So, all in all, I think evolution is really supposed to be a sharp thing. And, like, pokémon can be transformed into whatever it is and sucked into pokéballs, which can even be made out of berries, so it's not like this kind of stuff is all that "out there" in the pokémon world.

@@user-sl6gn1ss8p Irrelevant, those are game mechanics

There are, in fact, instances of first-stage pokemon that have grown old, the most famous example being that old treeko that shows up in the anime.

There's also a rehabilitation center for all the blind people who got to "see" one evolution too many.

No you just squish them really hard.

What if we apply simulation theory to the poke universe. Their world is inside a simulation, so Pokémon being converted into data and stored inside a ball can make sense.

So they're not actual physical monsters, they're digital? Digital monsters? Digimon for short.

they were always imagined to be shrunken, and in Legends Arceus, it's mentioned that they get small.

What took you so long?

Hands video when

Or "Duuuuuude..."

That explains the “1 MeV per proton” gaff

Merry Christmas

I think The Pokemon Company handles Pokemon merchandising apart from Nintendo.

Pokemon as an IP is managed by 3 different companies, so it could be a Pokemon Company thing.

Maybe but only if they shat a very big turd of lead just as they finish evolving.

Hydrogen Bomber Guy

I love how even science channels are like "I'll cite my sources so Harris Bomber doesn't get me"

I can't believe my physics youtube and my bread youtube are colliding like this.

What's the half sphere radius?