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Mind-Bending Light Bending

Can light bend around corners? Dr. Michio Kaku, a professor of theoretical physics, answers the internet’s questions about physics. Still haven’t subscribed to WIRED on YouTube? ►► Listen to the Get WIRED podcast ►► Want more WIRED? Get the magazine ►► Follow WIRED: Instagram ►► Twitter ►► Facebook ►► Tik Tok ►► Also, check out…

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  1. Henrietta Stewart

    October 9, 2023 at 3:46 pm

    Sehr lehrreich und fesselnd!🌺

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    October 9, 2023 at 3:46 pm

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  3. G U

    October 9, 2023 at 3:53 pm

    Is this bending also what is meant by refraction of light? Like Dr. M mentioned -glass, water, etc

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    October 9, 2023 at 3:55 pm

    😐

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    October 9, 2023 at 3:57 pm

    Much more likeable than Neil deGrasse Tyson

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    • HalfDayHero

      October 11, 2023 at 7:51 pm

      Who isn’t?

    • HalfDayHero

      October 11, 2023 at 7:52 pm

      ​@krwblue Nah he deserves it. Guy is so irritatingly smug.

  6. Jordan Kohler

    October 9, 2023 at 4:08 pm

    Light isn’t straight confirmed.

    • Perxivul Draws

      October 9, 2023 at 9:25 pm

      I mean have you seen light passing through a prism? A rainbow appears. Light is definitely not straight.

    • Manoj Konar

      October 10, 2023 at 5:53 am

      ​@Perxivul Draws so that’s why a rainbow is their symbol!!!! 😮

    • Ritam Dutta

      October 10, 2023 at 8:00 am

      ​@Manoj Konaryour IQ is over 200😮😮

    • Obama Runtz

      October 10, 2023 at 1:08 pm

      @Perxivul Draws FELLAS

    • Dom LaBeau

      October 16, 2023 at 9:23 pm

      Light is woke!!!

  7. descendantofdarkness

    October 9, 2023 at 4:08 pm

    where will it find corners?

  8. Doubleup

    October 9, 2023 at 4:08 pm

    Very interesting!

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    October 9, 2023 at 4:17 pm

    One of Earth’s greatest minds

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  11. Arrowsun

    October 9, 2023 at 5:53 pm

    This is how you answer questions.

  12. D. A. R. C. I.

    October 9, 2023 at 6:22 pm

    Thats essentially how i built a superhero with the power to control light, essentially an illusionist on steroids. Take it a step further and suddenly hes a jedi knight

  13. Zsombor Burany

    October 9, 2023 at 8:12 pm

    Light never slows down. It only appears to slow because it is constructive in any mediun.

  14. mpye

    October 9, 2023 at 8:32 pm

    What makes the speed of light increase again to normal after light get through a medium?

  15. A K

    October 9, 2023 at 11:00 pm

    Cloaking technology concepts.

  16. Handsome Samson

    October 10, 2023 at 12:43 am

    Light can also take unexpected turns, if you punch tiny holes into a solid surface. It’s actually much more crazy how that can bend light than you think.

    Light can bend at angles that seem absolutely crazy by doing this on a mirrored surface 📐 0.0001° to 360°

  17. ExtremeDegree

    October 10, 2023 at 12:45 am

    All I need to say is a black hole, if you look at a picture of one(or an illustration of one) you can see light bending around it

    • Mad Emily

      October 10, 2023 at 5:09 am

      Gravity on steroids…

    • lone wolf

      October 17, 2023 at 12:10 am

      That ring is the event horizon … The last point light can escape. Seen only when a black hole is devouring another star or planet … It’s ripping apart and spiralling inwards. The poles are highly magnetic as well, but it’s the event horizon that emits magnetic waves … Not the black hole itself

  18. Cassie Vining

    October 10, 2023 at 1:20 am

    The ability to use glass to bend light completely around it and camouflage something inside, is this theoretical or have experiments been conducted?

  19. Mayukh Awasthi

    October 10, 2023 at 2:59 am

    The kid just wanted to know the answer to his homework.

  20. its private

    October 10, 2023 at 4:18 am

    “Yes, but also no”

  21. WAESU NOX

    October 10, 2023 at 4:45 am

    How can gravity bend light if you can’t prove it outside of an argument that at base is just a definition of mass?

    • Νικόλας Πούλος

      October 10, 2023 at 9:06 am

      Because you can observe it by doing experiments

  22. T. Le

    October 10, 2023 at 6:09 am

    He lost me at “invisible” 😵

  23. Thatserbiandude

    October 10, 2023 at 12:56 pm

    Like a black hole

  24. J O

    October 11, 2023 at 12:36 am

    Yes, it’s called fiber optics

  25. Annie Yue

    October 11, 2023 at 6:31 pm

    Interesting! I am confused!

  26. David Slay

    October 13, 2023 at 2:45 pm

    Wait…so if you can bend light and it slows down and you eventually slow it down to actually see it moving slowly enough?

  27. Hellmo

    October 17, 2023 at 1:31 am

    NOOOO, THAT IS AWESOME

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