What Does An Atom REALLY Look Like?

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From orbital mechanics to quantum mechanics, this video explains why we must accept a world of particles based on probabilities, statistics, and chance. Electrons, protons, and neutrons don't behave the same way that planets and billiard balls do.
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Комментарии : 6 тыс.

@AydinTebyanian 3 года назад

The only channel where you come in with one question, and leave with 47 other questions and maybe 5 answers. love it

@Marc-mp6lf 3 года назад

That's science

@sumerianannunaki5957 3 года назад

As it should be, ha!

@tcpip4me 3 года назад

Especially 5 answers, to things you did not know you didn’t know

@ashroskell 3 года назад

I left with 42 questions . . . 42 Precisely . . . Maybe there’s something in that? 🤔 . . . 😉

@captainobvious1252 3 года назад

There’s more channels like that.

@kn4qzw367 5 лет назад

For a moment the little light bulb in my head came on. A minute later it burned out.

@johnreid5814 5 лет назад

Exactly

@designedsaharsh4339 4 года назад

All cuz of the resistance and inductance of the ridiculous falseness offered by the garbage we have been fed in schools.

@currencylad7125 4 года назад

Was it an incandescent or halogen light bulb?

@kn4qzw367 4 года назад

Currency Lad LED

@currencylad7125 4 года назад

KN4QZW: Ha, ha! Touché.

@neverarguewithan18wheeler10 3 года назад

Think about this: you're a bunch of atoms, watching an atom screen of atoms listening to a bunch of atoms tell you about atoms

@sumeunggai5665 3 года назад

None of which can actually be modeled or predicted as we are the existential result of probability wave functions. Blinking in an out of space at all times.

@davidprime6080 3 года назад

I'm eating an atom burger and atom fries while I watch

@medurseshuswaminathan8098 3 года назад

100% true. As a note we can infer a round plate rotating when the fan in full swing. The faster the movement of atoms Me and you are seen static and in a form as structure. May be the movement of atoms are waves as shown.. just fishing...

@tprnbs 3 года назад

"A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself." - Neils Bohr

@NoLongerNull 3 года назад

yes

@lisawyse1182 3 года назад

Oh my goodness! I am almost certain you were my Electricity and Magnetism professor in college. I want to let you know that you were the best professor I had in college. I am now a high school science teacher and I often look back on your teaching style for inspiration. I found your colored handouts, the way you broke down the notes into easy to follow examples, and demonstrations to make even the most difficult concepts easy to understand. You are 1 of the teachers in my life that really made a lasting difference. So thank you. I am happy to see you and your channel are doing so well.

@ScienceAsylum 3 года назад

Hi Lisa! Yes, I was your professor. I'm glad to hear you're doing well 🙂 Thanks for letting me know I had an impact. As a teacher, you usually don't get to see or hear from students after they leave your class, so you don't know if what you did made a difference.

@asutoshghanto3419 2 года назад

@@ScienceAsylum where do you teach?

@Red-Brick-Dream 2 года назад

omg this is so cool! Bless you, Nick, for inspiring students and teachers alike!

@poopinbabe8972 2 года назад

Omg

@dtmty Год назад

@@ScienceAsylum from other part (mexico) of the spaceship (earth), I wish to say would love have the posibility to be in their future recording video classes, would be fantastic to catch the sense to have a great teacher as master who persuits you for the good questions. wish to include in my roadtrip by US the stop at your recording channel, would be a happy volunteer

@4rchfi3nd_4ct1ve 5 лет назад

People get confused with one thing, we can't see atoms not because we don't have enough technology or understanding of what a atom is. Is just because "to see" has no meaning at all in the scale of atoms. Is just like trying to figure out what is portraited in a picture throwing cannon balls at it. But we are not limited to vision that is why mathematics is so important, we can "see" things mathematically infinitely times better than with our eyes. For exemple, most part of the computer/smartphone you are using to read this coment isn't possible to be made or make sense looking at it piece by piece, but we can make sense of it with mathematics. Quantum mechanics looks weird when we try to make sense of it with our senses, mathematically it is beatiful (I find it beatiful at least). Mathematics is our new eye, our senses that opens our mind to a much bigger and fuller world.

@ScienceAsylum 5 лет назад

Exactly this.

@wonhyeukjung3521 5 лет назад

I wish I could like this comment twice thank you for your brilliant input.

@reiniervanleeuwen9815 5 лет назад

Yeah sure this is correct.. But still, its a mystery. It can not be compared to a computer with ones and zero turning into images. Just because us building a computer, is using atoms in a way we can explain. Computers are actually very simple, so is everything we created from atoms. Yes, you do need the knowledge. But atoms we still can not explain, same goes for energy in atoms. What you are saying is just a psychological comparison. It does not explain anything. And also, we define maths, we did not create it.

@4rchfi3nd_4ct1ve 5 лет назад

@@reiniervanleeuwen9815 The standard model, quantum chrodynamics and eletrodynamics is impressively accurate modeling atoms and molecules (as far as computation power is enough for the complexity of the molecule) off course is not 100% accurate because that is proved to be impossible but every simple model of the eletronsphere of a atom made by computer using quantum mechanics is much more detailed and represents better the experiments results than if we could "see" it with an microscope.

@sarai9102 5 лет назад

Renato Cara daaammmnnnn... you have sent me down a rabbit hole. Lol. 😫 🧐 I’m not well versed in this at all but I understand intuitively... So what you’re suggesting is that we have only seen the RESULT of the atoms “form” and “behavior” AFTER whatever method they use to see it, not the actual form/ behavior? My mind is blown. I’m gonna go in a corner and lay in a fetal position and meditate on this now. 🤯🤭🤔😮😯

@jason-pacini 5 лет назад

This video explains the general concepts better than any of my teachers in my four year physics degree.

@raviverma8479 4 года назад

You learn these things in a 4 year physics degree???

@knightofcydonia1192 4 года назад

@@raviverma8479 -general concepts-

@AmandaSilva-ut1wm 4 года назад

I totally agree with you!

@knightofcydonia1192 4 года назад

Just realized my comment looks hostile, I was meaning its a lot more than general concepts if you ask me.

@derekl3108 4 года назад

I'm confused, the electron is probably here or there but it's still somewhere so why doesn't it loose energy?

@j4c3kp 3 года назад

Dude, you've explained basics of QM in less than 10 minutes. I didn't think it's possible. But on the other hand - in QM almost everything is possible, just unlikely.

@radioactivelight2189 2 года назад

In life everything is possible just getting more unlikely the further you go

@AnthonyShuker 2 года назад

@@radioactivelight2189 no, the longer time goes on, the likelier something is

@atomicnumber202 2 года назад

@@radioactivelight2189 what

@Yeetntx Год назад

yes even teleportation is created

@Yeetntx Год назад

so is crystals oscillating in time

@paulybeefs8588 2 года назад

I have watched literally hundreds of videos about physics and nature, and this video is the first to make me really understand atom structure on a deeper level. Thank you so much for the intuitive explanation!

@kjohn8917 5 лет назад

After this, I feel smarter and dumber at the same time...

@djw6430 5 лет назад

@Kevin John Superb comment.

@msaadkamran8067 5 лет назад

Sure it is Superb

@mrmo2546 5 лет назад

I just feel more dumber

@Armoterra 5 лет назад

Kevin John Shrodinger’s knowledge

@aljohnson3717 5 лет назад

The more in know the more I don’t know. Was it Socrates who proclaimed this?

@MrTej780 7 лет назад

I basically never comment, but this video deserves it. As a Masters student in Physics, I can say this video was very succinct, coherent and good at explaining some very difficult concepts without needing to dumb things down. A job well done, perhaps one of the best videos yet. Stay crazy

@bxyhxyh 7 лет назад

Oh that's why I couldn't fully understand it.

@MrTej780 7 лет назад

bxyhxyh pretty much

@Krish-jm6ve 7 лет назад

If we (matter) are at sub atomic level mainly a probability function Then there is a good probability that I watched this video. (Where am i). But you can't predict at what speed I am travelling at (how fast am I ) .... mind blown😳

@ScienceAsylum 7 лет назад

XKCD just did a comic about this: xkcd.com/1861/

@ScienceAsylum 7 лет назад

MrTej780: Thanks! Succinct without dumbing things down is always my goal. I'm tired of educators spouting BS explanations. Accuracy first... _then_ clarity.

@ultimategamer2669 3 года назад

"MAYBE it's a wave of probability." Ah, I see what you did there.

@harikumarpg5341 3 года назад

Dude I learned more from this 8 minute video than I did from 4 months of chemistry online classes.Keep up the good work man!..Really appreciate it.

@NPC-kv6ee 4 года назад

quantum physics is basically "well yes but actually no"

@ScienceAsylum 4 года назад

Pretty much, yeah.

@duprie37 3 года назад

If you look it could be "yes", or it could be "no", but when you're not peeking, mostly it's just "probably".

@ivanroman8914 3 года назад

it's actually wave worse

@paultonge6513 3 года назад

Probably

@cinamontoast2555 3 года назад

No=yes=no and so on

@devinmccloud 6 лет назад

You are incredible at describing everything. It's a very rare quality in a teacher. You can tell you understand the material and are passionate about what you do. Many minds will be unlocked because of you. Well done sir!

@kt420ish 3 года назад

I recently started getting into quantum mechanics. And this video really tied a lot of loose strings together for me. Love your channel! If I'm going to waste time on my phone, I'm going to waste it gaining knowledge.

@ralphjasperjose6176 9 месяцев назад

looks like you have discovered the loose string theory

@leechjim8023 8 месяцев назад

What's the average length and width of each string (in STATIONARY TIME)!😮😂😂😂

@kt420ish 8 месяцев назад

@leechjim8023 no comment 😂😂😂

@TheSkullConfernece 4 года назад

Electron orbitals are a very good representation of what an atom "looks like". The orbitals of oxygen (which is shaped like a tetrahedron) explain why the molecules of water always have the hydrogen atoms bonded to it at 120° angles which explains why ice expands as it cools and creates those snowflake patterns we all love.

@zarifzaman8959 Год назад

It's 104.5° not 120°

@ahmedace4911 Год назад

Wait, it could explain all that ?! Reference pleeeaase !!!!

@qbslug 7 лет назад

this channel deserves way more subscribers. you do a great job of always explaining away common misconceptions

@ScienceAsylum 7 лет назад

Thanks!

@johndifrancisco3642 6 лет назад

qbslug, You are right. I'm in. I actually understood some of it! And it was fun.

@Nebuch 7 лет назад

This video is the most explanatory video about atoms and basic quantum mechanics. Thanks.

@hansdampf4057 6 лет назад

Yes, I do. agree!

@saffetsinanoglu2631 6 лет назад

Vay Nebuch! 10. sezon ne zaman? Dört gözle bekliyoruz :D

@zravena-1309 6 лет назад

Ooo nebuk

@sethsammyrosevlogs9307 6 лет назад

Nebuch I know I wanted to see what A atom looked like

@patrickmcleod111 6 лет назад

Nebuch Unfortunately, my ADD precludes me from grasping his explanations in a thorough way. After watching it, I'm still confused!

@obakeng1140 4 года назад

The Science Asylum: Leave your questions in the comment section Me: What does an atom really look like?

@hijeffhere 4 года назад

You must ask first how do you see things before you you ask that question.

@obakeng1140 4 года назад

@Time Bandit So helpful! At least now I got an image

@mr.evasion 3 года назад

Also A ball park (fuzzy electrons) With a grain of rice in the middle (nucleus)

@jskratnyarlathotep8411 3 года назад

it does not =)

@jskratnyarlathotep8411 3 года назад

@Time Bandit but the electrons in atoms are not moving at all, they would be emitting photons otherwise

@MegaDeath458 4 года назад

"That's right! We're talking about quantum mechanics" Me: *Oh no, oh not this*

@rn6045 6 лет назад

I have a PhD in watching RU-vid videos and trust me. This is the best video I've seen on Quantum Mechanics.

@thegoatleo 6 лет назад

Haha 😀

@MaxPower-tx8ci 6 лет назад

@naomicristinemaduro5975 6 лет назад

lol

@princegoro180 5 лет назад

W A 😂

@cgaccount3669 5 лет назад

I remember in high school chemistry class we studied orbitals and aside from thinking it was weird I never really thought much about it. My teachers were nice but had no enthusiasm and like many teachers never took 2 seconds to really explain or try to make it interesting. It was just facts and rules. Kids today are so lucky to have access to excellent RU-vid videos and internet information. Math and science can be fun if you have even the slightest curiosity

@tonisoja1561 5 лет назад

I still remember when i, for first time, found out that all those simple movement equations we had back in school (something like y=ax+b+c etc) actually have infinite number of ever smaller members that you actually have to consider when dealing with higher speeds etc. Yet somehow, they failed to even MENTION in, im not asking for anything in depth, mere remark, that in reality things are significantly more complicated.

@jstudios6427 5 лет назад

As a person in school I respect that statement so much

@hektor6766 5 лет назад

Those electrons just aren't friendly neighbors. They're too much alike.

@MsSonali1980 5 лет назад

In 1996 our teacher still used the Bohr's model for atoms -_- school system in Germany was/is - let's call it - heterogenous

@MsSonali1980 5 лет назад

@Rusty If they had and were that clever they wouldn't be teachers. Can't speak for everyone who studied for teaching but for the majority it is true (I had during my mathematics and later environmental sciences bachelors study enough contact with future teachers).

@patrickjoshuamanzo5420 4 года назад

i love how you fill your videos with humor. you are the first to make me laugh while watching science.

@frroossst4267 2 года назад

I periodically come back to these to have my mind blown and everytime I understand and enjoy these a bit more

@tfannon 5 лет назад

I’m a CS professional who has just recently gotten into physics. I’ve read books about Einstein, Dirac, Feynman, etc but this video was the first I watched which allowed me to get an idea of how all of these ‘breakthroughs ‘ furthered our understanding. Thank you so much for this.

@ScienceAsylum 5 лет назад

You're very welcome :-)

@dru4670 3 года назад

CS and physics. Perfect combination for taking over the world.

@hatoftricks7132 6 лет назад

When years of education is rekt by an 8 minute video

@marjohngmoggy5281 5 лет назад

My years of education (as a physicist) has just wrecked this video.

@emettroll6911 5 лет назад

You had 99 likes, I was the 100th XD But seriously, I can relate =3

@josephhollandpontes1030 5 лет назад

8 minute old!

@nyakwarObat 5 лет назад

Yeah we know so much about the moon, Jupiter, Plato etc and apparently even have equipments to see them but we have never seen an atom, considering we carry them and use them every day. Really exposes the dysfunctional human levels, miseducation galore

@sixchiensblancs 5 лет назад

@@nyakwarObat You, and I, can't see atoms because... light. It's complicated... 😂😂😂😉

@Quitt_Chan 2 года назад

Your description was a lot better than any of the visual models. The visuals never changed from simply having a bunch of electrons circling it. While this is true, like you said the electrons can only have a certain charge at any time and nothing in between. They sink in orbit and go out, but it is instantaneous. Weird stuff.

@flindersmj 3 года назад

As a long-time "type 1" diabetic, I frequently suffer extreme "sugar lows", sometimes down into the 40's. After eating sugar and as I start to come out of these sugar lows, just for a few seconds (20 or so), I can "see" what looks like an atom in my field of vision. Its not really there, but I can see it hoovering before my eyes; or rather, hoovering inside of my eyes. The image has a core with several oscillating layers flying around the core. These layers are just like the energy levels depicted in this youtube video. The oscillation seems to pulse very rapidly as generated light flashes between spectrums of lighter to darker; the leading edge of the pulse being the brightest. Its so bright that it's hard to focus on it without wondering if I might damage my eye just by looking at it. After a few seconds the image fades into the surrounding ambient light. This phenomenon is the coolest thing you could ever imagine.

@petezzzz 5 лет назад

Q: What does an atom REALLY look like? A: Yes.

@johnathanwoods1223 5 лет назад

Lol!

5 лет назад

Actually no.

@orlock20 5 лет назад

There have been pictures of atoms for awhile. They look like smokey spheres.

@leejordan001 4 года назад

No.

@laurencebetteridge8633 4 года назад

@@orlock20 I saw one too, isn't it just the emitted energy turning into light though. Not like how you would see an object by having light bounce off its surface in different angles, intensities and colours from its absorption.

@curtbarnes4294 5 лет назад

this is what we hoped the internet would become--education for the masses (!) for free!* thanks. *with Patreon supporters

@dr.georgeburden3721 3 года назад

Wow, you explain this so clearly in 8 minutes (more or less). Well done!

@druebio851 Год назад

This guy simultaneously stares into my soul while also teaching everything I need to know in 8 minutes plus

@aspieatheist6040 6 лет назад

"If you say you understand quantum mechanics, then you don't understand quantum mechanics". -Richard Feynman

@guitygro1138 5 лет назад

Joseph Bailey Quantum mechanics is like trying to explain that the sun revolves around the earth or that the earth is flat and not a sphere. Every time there’s a problem with a theory, a new theory is invented to explain away the flaws of the previous one.

@dougharmon7462 5 лет назад

I been studying Quantum mechanics for 14 years now and I still don't understand it. that's why I'm watching this video.. lol.. I'm hoping someone can get it through my thick skull... this was a great video I must say..

@A_Box 5 лет назад

It's not that every bit of quantum mechanics is hard to understand, what is hard to explain everything in the theory. For example: electrons are allowed to only have certain energy values is easy, explaining what the Hamiltonian is and why it is an operator in Hilbert space is much more difficult.

@ShauryaSingh-ts2oc 5 лет назад

And if I say I do not understand quantum mechanics?

@lukascerdenia8156 5 лет назад

@@ShauryaSingh-ts2oc then perhaps you understand quantum mechanics! lol!

@scptime1188 5 лет назад

Quantum mechanics: *idea* Also quantum mechanics: well yes, but actually no

@hektor6766 5 лет назад

Probably.

@kamranbashir4842 4 года назад

Also quantum mechanics: *saying No while nodding Yes*

@Mr.Nichan 4 года назад

It's in a superposition of states where it says yes and ones where it says no.

@scptime1188 4 года назад

@@Mr.Nichan Lmao missed that one 😂

@kaisoonjoe5514 4 года назад

Let me get this straight: An atom is both existent and nonexistent, at the same time??? Preposterous!!!

@soupbonep 2 года назад

Great explanation of collapsing wave function. I've heard this term millions of times watching videos and listening to Brian Greene, yet never has it been described. THANKS!

@kugaththeplaguefather6332 2 года назад

When you realize everything you have learned in RU-vid is a simplification and SERIOUS physics requires intense and complex mathematics.

@ScienceAsylum 2 года назад

Yup.

@philosophilia3563 6 лет назад

The many times I wished youtube was around (or even internet!!!) when I went on junior high or high school... This is _the perfect example_ why I'm still a little jealous on children today who have the opportunity to learn difficult subjects with such clarity, than getting schooled by bad teachers, and back then - also horrible books compared. THANK YOU.

@ScienceAsylum 6 лет назад

You're welcome! :-)

@philosophilia3563 6 лет назад

Keep up the _very good_ work TSA :)

@velialpyavuz3411 6 лет назад

I am a Chemical Engineer from a top Collage and my 12 year old daughter knocks me off in Chemistry - and i feel proud 💕

@rogeronslow1498 6 лет назад

Philosophilia Don't you know, a good education is wasted on the young.

@gothicfan51 6 лет назад

A lot of younger viewers don't watch this.

@13thxenos 7 лет назад

This was a great explanation! I had quantum computing last year and it started by describing quantum theories, and a whole semester couldn't do what you did in less than 10 minutes.

@ScienceAsylum 7 лет назад

Glad I could help :-)

@MB-xr7xx 6 лет назад

That's university education for you. Nuggets of useful information in a four year cloud of useless nothingness.

@michaelmcdoesntexist1459 2 года назад

I found this channel yesterday. You suckerpunched my mind so hard now I need to keep watching.

@ScienceAsylum 2 года назад

I'm glad you found the channel then 🤓

@thegirlsquad2500 3 года назад

With confidence, this is so far the best short physics material explaining atom.

@cecool4 7 лет назад

Very nice video, wish these things were explained as nicely in highschool!

@dew02300 6 лет назад

CrY of FuN This video also explains very well why I was a history major in college.

@charliesvids 5 лет назад

Me: cool, I wonder what it looks like. *watches video* Me again: What

@Ali_Kareem180 4 года назад

You watching what does an atom looks like You again after watching : what does an atom looks like

@greenben3744 4 года назад

What he was describing is that we need to move on from the Bohr model to the Orbital one. There the electrons get smeared into shapes of probability’s; taking on shapes we can better understand. The s, d, p and f orbitals have these weird ball and hoop shapes which can interact and hybridize together to make atomic bonds. The Orbitals are the representation of the energy level an electron can assume. Because of their spin, only two electrons can exist in one place, forcing more electrons to take up space further and further out from the core, looking, when simplified, like the Bohr model. Wikipedia has a good explanation plus pretty pictures if you want to know more.

@quahntasy 4 года назад

*This video was very coherent and good at explaining very difficult concept without dumbing down too much. One of the best videos.*

@edjohnson2192 2 года назад

I just saw this older video. I like the head blowing up into flames at the end. Love your channel. It's the best. Keep it up.

@TerryB751 6 лет назад

Great video. I'm 64 and remember taking physics back in the mid '70s in the university and it probably would have helped with this type of overview before getting into the grittier details.

@quovadis7119 5 лет назад

Terry B S o my kid came and said 'Dad, I'm battling with science.' So I said "Ask me anything". So she said 'How do waves and particles work?" So I said "Not how the people asking you that question, figure". It was the most honest answer I could give. 😎

@ahnufakifurrashid2855 5 лет назад

My mind hurts

@reineh3477 5 лет назад

Be lucky you still have one, even if it hurts. Mine exploded

@TheADHDNerd 4 года назад

"What does an atom look like?" "We don't know. But here's a lot of science." Lol

@alcoll1038 4 года назад

You're missing the point of the video. The point is that it can only be understood through quantum mechanics.

@Mark-Wilson 3 года назад

missed the point idiot

@Rationalific 3 года назад

Well-presented! I liked the history, and you made it (relatively) easy to understand!