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Jay Of The North
July 19, 2023 at 1:53 pm
“hydrogen the lightest element we know about” Wow! i have never thought about this before that there might be lighter things ….
Antonio Usai
July 19, 2023 at 3:09 pm
There aren’t with our knowledge of chemistry. Elements are defined by the number of protons in the nucleus. Hydrogen has only one. You can’t have less than one.
Jay Of The North
July 19, 2023 at 9:18 pm
@Antonio Usai I know what your saying but to sit here and say that without any wiggle room sounds like when people used to think the earth was flat
Jesse Trott
July 19, 2023 at 1:57 pm
this is a fantastic series
TheCacophony
July 19, 2023 at 1:58 pm
Thank you for showcasing women in STEM!
Relations Between Nations
July 19, 2023 at 2:05 pm
You guys should do the bond market sometime!
MacheteYeti17
July 19, 2023 at 2:09 pm
Phenomenal video
Yosef Mase
July 19, 2023 at 2:09 pm
I was out by level 1
Dee Ca.
July 19, 2023 at 3:56 pm
Same
sacgeekgirl
July 19, 2023 at 2:28 pm
My mind zoned out to Star Trek the second I heard deuterium
driver49
July 19, 2023 at 2:34 pm
Too bad she’s working on tokamak. Magnetic confinement has been best described as “wrapping jello in rubber bands.” GFLWT!
JT08
July 19, 2023 at 3:01 pm
I don’t think a child would understand level 1. The kid was lost and just nodding… then again I may be projecting what I was doing during the discussion 😀
Fabio Caetano Figueiredo
July 19, 2023 at 3:39 pm
Agree, she could have made it even simpler. Awesome video though!
Paul Sullivan
July 19, 2023 at 3:13 pm
These discussions were all amazing. Holy crap are there some smart people working on this stuff.
Mike Pollock
July 19, 2023 at 3:13 pm
You’re putting a black hole in a jar. A star is nothing but a black hole that has created elements on its surface turning it into a light bulb. The surface starts with neutrons and the beta minus decay reaction does the rest. The end is a solid object like our moon.
Fusion has no natural catalyst. When quarks get separated, like when lightning creates gamma rays or particle colliders create unbelievable energy, it is the density of space that is able to overcome the strong force and keep the quarks apart indefinitely as a black hole or in milliseconds at a particle collider. It is the field of space that is the true energy of the universe. It’s absolute zero, bends light, and gives different forms of electromagnetic radiation different speed limits. The true strong force is between quarks and the particles of space which is a static, extremely pressurized, absolute zero field of sterile electron neutrinos. Without the field, nothing would exist.
Antonio Usai
July 19, 2023 at 3:19 pm
You need to snort less sawdust.
MattNolanCustom
July 19, 2023 at 5:15 pm
For the fundamental truth self-determination of the cosmos, for dark is the suede that mows like a harvest
Mike Pollock
July 19, 2023 at 5:20 pm
@Antonio Usai You need to realize the universe can’t be created
Joshua Herrick
July 19, 2023 at 3:16 pm
Hey 👋
No one can give me an answer for this because it’s niche but,
Is a dual stage fusion possible
1}Helium=Hydrogen + Hydrogen
2}Helium=Hydrogen + Hydrogen
3}Helium+Helium= Beryllium
Is the energy released when doing 3} exponentially greater than just doing 1}
(I know it’s not this simple they don’t make helium when doing fusion)
My simplest question is would doing 3} (doubling the process of hydrogen fusion) be worth it?
Matt
July 19, 2023 at 5:13 pm
I think basically the amount of energy which you would need to perform Helium fusion is so insanely huge that it’s just not really possible on Earth, or at least will take so much energy to create the conditions we will never be able to reach breakeven where we get more energy out than we put in
Volker Dirr
July 19, 2023 at 3:31 pm
About 7:14 : Do you call magnetic “positive” and “negative” in Englisch? (Just wonder, because we call it different in German)
FilipGaming123
July 19, 2023 at 4:35 pm
Yes positive (pole) refers to the north pole, and negative (pole) refers to the south pole of the magnet
AwesomRetard
July 19, 2023 at 6:13 pm
how do we call it in german ?
Volker Dirr
July 19, 2023 at 6:23 pm
@AwesomRetard We use negative and positive only for the electric field. The magnetic field has north and south.
s3cr3tpassword
July 19, 2023 at 3:51 pm
I used to be a physicist, condensed matter specifically synthesis and characterization of materials, and now working in tech. When I first transitioned a lot of my peers thought when I said instrumentation they thought I played music.
MarisMondria
July 19, 2023 at 4:13 pm
i was confused 2 min into explaining to the 9 yo
maxim menage
July 19, 2023 at 4:14 pm
Lost me at level 1.
IGNOBLEVOIDPEEKER
July 19, 2023 at 4:35 pm
DO PHILOSOPHY! I am a Ph.D. student in Philosophy (at a top 25, for what it’s worth) and I would love to see my colleagues, peers, and aspiring philosophers talk about topics in ethics (obligation, promises, good/evil, action), metaphysics (causation, self, space-time, possible worlds), social-political philosophy (law, society, justice, prisons). It would, indeed, be a treat to see people’s intuitions on such complex topics!
Mumtaza Rizky Iswanda
July 19, 2023 at 4:52 pm
Would love to have more discussion about magnetic confinement vs inertial confinement in approaching fusion reaction
Tom S
July 19, 2023 at 5:15 pm
The child level was kinda confusing but the next levels got better. And of course in rhe end theres no more explanation and more a discussion
Markie P
July 19, 2023 at 5:29 pm
This is an amazing series. Please keep it up!
Klaus Gaming
July 19, 2023 at 6:02 pm
can’t wait to get my Power Armor and Plasma Rifle
Lexi Rubber
July 19, 2023 at 7:43 pm
That level one explainer was probably a little complicated for them
Kenji
July 19, 2023 at 9:06 pm
Cool. Now, can you do MIC experts talking about why america is killing millions globally in endless / fake / proxy wars? asking for a failed state nation without universal healthcare…
Ares Galamatis
July 19, 2023 at 9:23 pm
lvl 1&2 kids will be very confused by such “explanations”, but hopefully not deterred since they seem to follow what was being “explained” to them, in order to study by themselves, understand and contribute more than the “explainer” :/
André KZ
July 19, 2023 at 10:46 pm
😞😞😔 The money that could potentially save the planet as we know it is in the hand of venture capitalists 👍🏼
Origami Master
July 19, 2023 at 11:18 pm
The moment she said that ion and electron plasma are modeled as separate fluid flows and that the model needs to account for particle interactions ALONG with magnetic fields my jaw dropped. The amount of head banging you’d have to do to even TRY to model that yet alone simulate it. Geez these people are miracle workers.
Orazio Vescovi
July 20, 2023 at 6:01 pm
my thought is (correct me if I am wrong!): don’t moving charges create a magnetic field? I can’t even begin thinking about a turbolent magnetic field
They probably have to take that into account also…
Area51SleeperAgent
July 19, 2023 at 11:40 pm
Level 7 is her talking to herself
Elemental Bending Master
July 20, 2023 at 12:37 am
Oppenheimer is in the air
Brian Mosley
July 20, 2023 at 3:21 am
Beautiful, now explain gravity please.
myrelaion redux
July 20, 2023 at 3:35 am
I imagine there’s a level 6 and she’s talking to a US president saying nucular.
Imran
July 20, 2023 at 4:15 am
I like how they are all preparing you before you go to watch Oppenheimer😅
Andrea Sarmiento
July 20, 2023 at 4:28 am
Assuming of course that normal people level of intelligence can understand these difficult concepts
Kwasi SB
July 20, 2023 at 5:40 am
Wait so basically fusion produces huge or enormous amounts of energy enough to make electricity production wayyy better and more efficient, eventually cheaper, and to get that you’ll need the plasma state and you’ll have to be able to keep those energetic particles under control, so what in summary is the exact issue they’re facing . Is it about getting the particles under control or finding ways to get more energy plasma state or?? I didn’t quite get that.
Taylor Salva
July 20, 2023 at 8:16 am
I think it’s the confinement of the plasma, as in holding it in the device. As it stands they haven’t been able to hold the crazy hot plasma for more than a fraction of a second
Orazio Vescovi
July 20, 2023 at 6:08 pm
they have been able to hold it for quite long, up to 10 minutes (!) I believe, but we still lack the instrumentation able to withstand the heat produced: most of the existing thomawaks are lab instruments and not made to actually harvest the heat as they would in a real powerplant. They actually have to manually shut the reaction down not to melt the instruments.
Beyond that, the issue is harvesting the energy – it requires tremendous amount of energy to kickstart the reaction. there is a relatively small margin of net energy that we can harvest, but the net balance is currently negative
Tom Birney
July 20, 2023 at 5:49 am
Lost me at plasma…kid did better than me; but I can legally purchase wine and soothe my bruised ego! ; P
Adam White
July 20, 2023 at 5:55 am
The last guy looks a bit like Ryan Reynolds
Peach
July 20, 2023 at 5:58 am
Absolutely fascinating
Abajar, Cyril Philipp G.
July 20, 2023 at 10:43 am
I adore genius people. Great video!
TJ Fritts
July 20, 2023 at 12:01 pm
Fusion is only 20 years away. Neat thing? In 500 years, it’ll still only be 20 years away.
Adam Molnar
July 20, 2023 at 12:13 pm
That expert is a boss! So cool.
Vlogs_with_Amelya
July 20, 2023 at 1:15 pm
I was level 1😁
funz gummy
July 21, 2023 at 2:11 am
HEY AMELYAAAAAA 😂
Mann Khatri
July 20, 2023 at 2:09 pm
just say things in a cute way and hope the kid understands LOL.
Chris Haigis
July 20, 2023 at 3:13 pm
This professor and her team are trying to build Tony Stark’s arc reactor and are just calling it a tokamak. lol
Edward Khil
July 20, 2023 at 3:55 pm
The sad part of this is that wired mag wouldn’t have hired her if she had a different gender….
Gilson Mendonça
July 20, 2023 at 4:50 pm
How to make something in earth in same way it is build in Sun?
John Chessant
July 20, 2023 at 5:19 pm
So fascinating! I’m more of a math guy, but the description of turbulence and gyrokinetic theory sounds like it might give rise to some really interesting math problems. A great reminder of exactly why I picked physics for my second major back in school.
Josh Burns
July 20, 2023 at 6:41 pm
5:44 her inner Christopher Walken gets loose. hahahahaha
Thee Hamiltons
July 20, 2023 at 6:44 pm
Would love a follow on to cover recent net positive runs, records broken along with the impact of machine learning / neural nets on model optimizations and corresponding impact (performance gains, learnings)
elocrian
July 20, 2023 at 7:15 pm
Great video but there is a rough edit (missing dialogue) at 13:23. I assume she is talking about the helium nucleus… Awesome video, she really explained everything so clearly! Thanks!
Snap Holic
July 20, 2023 at 7:44 pm
Lameee explaining
Robert Walkley
July 20, 2023 at 9:54 pm
I love this 5 Levels of Difficulty series so much, it’s truly excellent, gj WIRED. A tip for people with any other topic, is that I’ve found ChatGPT be pretty good at explaining things to be in different levels of difficulty too. No where near as good, but can help.
Man United RED
July 20, 2023 at 9:57 pm
Navier stokes doesn’t act right with plasma fluids modeling
Jerry
July 21, 2023 at 4:49 am
Charged particles was tricky but turbulence..? No idea about that. Lost it totally at lvl 4.
Star in a jar it is! 😄
drone king
July 21, 2023 at 6:36 am
Past level one i got lost and I’m still lost😅
sun flower
July 21, 2023 at 8:12 am
I made it through the first and second level. Such an intelligent, well spoken person. I need more of these.
Subbrajoyti Saha
July 21, 2023 at 8:36 am
Amazing.
Utkarsh Sharma
July 21, 2023 at 12:18 pm
I am in love with the grad student 😍
Miss Madelyn❤❤
Thomas Jimenez
July 21, 2023 at 4:30 pm
Nice, Wired!
Santiago Hilarion
July 21, 2023 at 6:48 pm
Thanks.
Berkay Alan
July 21, 2023 at 7:53 pm
Amazing
Marcio Baroukel
July 21, 2023 at 7:56 pm
Cool but utterly useless and farfatched, specially when we have such a relatively good grasp of nuclear power either way. The West keeps pushing a ”GREEN” energy agenda while not making the necessary investments into nuclear power. Fission is ridicucolusly farfatched while we have nuclear plant technology readily available.
Home Wall
July 21, 2023 at 8:40 pm
She failed the lowest levels since that kid had no idea what she was talking about.
lilWahoo
July 22, 2023 at 11:42 am
You lost me at level 2
Paul Maurice
July 22, 2023 at 11:58 am
Its supposed to be Fission instead of fusion if they are focusing on Oppenheimer.
Jammes Clinton
July 22, 2023 at 4:31 pm
Dearest Dr. Your going to kill us all. There are 5 states of matter, not 4. A magnetic containment unit, needs 4 not 3.
Michael Lepinay
July 22, 2023 at 10:05 pm
I’m 38 and evidently have the brain of a 9 year old.
yixia
July 23, 2023 at 5:03 am
How do isotopes naturally occur
chapters,video
July 23, 2023 at 7:33 am
00:00 Introduction to nuclear fusion and its potential for clean energy
00:31 Explaining fusion to a young student and the basic concepts of atoms and forces
02:01 Using magnetic and electric forces to control fusion reactions
03:45 The fourth state of matter, plasma, and its role in fusion
05:05 The Tokamak device and its use in confining and controlling plasma
11:27 Resonance in deuterium tritium fusion reaction
12:01 Challenges in maintaining high temperatures for fusion
13:34 Energy production in fusion reaction
15:02 Interaction of alpha particles with the fuel
16:01 Importance of understanding turbulence in plasma
19:17 Gyrokinetic theory for modeling turbulence
21:23 Complexity and beauty of turbulence in plasma
23:28 Diversifying research and collaboration among stakeholders is crucial for optimal fusion power plants
Daniel Pierce
July 23, 2023 at 7:39 am
My goal is to build a Farnsworth Fusor some day.
Adria Murteira
July 23, 2023 at 9:06 am
At first I was just hearing the video, but when the expert appeared, my instinct said, this man sounds like Spanish, so I watched the video and saw his name x)
We have a very characterstic accent.
By the way, I loved the way how you explained this, I understood everything you said. A pitty I didn’t have this kind of teachers back in highschool, otherwise my study path would have been so different.
Tech Tips USA
July 23, 2023 at 7:59 pm
The power of the sun… in the palm of my hand
Chertoff
July 23, 2023 at 9:27 pm
Nowadays every time I see a woman professor or scientist I immediately think I wonder if she’s actually smart or if the university just hired her to fit their DEI quota. How sad is that?
Kai Perdaens
July 24, 2023 at 5:42 am
Is there a fifth state of matter too like a the type of fluid you get when you cool a gas down so much that it turns to a liquid?
Joe Lancaster
July 24, 2023 at 7:30 am
That’s just liquid
Kai Perdaens
July 24, 2023 at 7:36 am
@Joe Lancaster ok
Whiteberry
July 24, 2023 at 4:45 pm
Currently it takes more energy than it gives us with current technology. It’s always 30 years away lol been this way since the 1950s… Possibly will never be viable.
Brain Jar
July 25, 2023 at 1:56 am
Thunderfoot says fusion is a pipedream. I hope he’s wrong.
Chirantan Sarkar
July 25, 2023 at 3:23 am
give all the findings of Einstein’s brain to an A.I language then explain E=mc² to that
Mechid میچید
July 25, 2023 at 10:21 am
Amelya was lucky to sit with Professor Anne. She will make a good scientist in the future.
Mark Ingoldsby
July 25, 2023 at 12:45 pm
I love that the 9 year old is totally rocking the popped collar.
Vlogs_with_Amelya
July 30, 2023 at 3:19 pm
Thanks! I like my style 😊
RKcuddles
July 25, 2023 at 1:25 pm
Oh yay. I have done the lvl1-2 of this explanation before and it’s fascinating to observe what questions kids ask.
Paradox
July 25, 2023 at 4:39 pm
For level 1 I would just say I am trying to on a small scale replicate the process that causes our sun to give out light and heat in a laboratory on earth.
KINGD
July 26, 2023 at 2:45 am
That ‘Teenager’ looks 30 years old
Marianna Noel McCallum
July 26, 2023 at 1:11 pm
I’m 15! I get told I look older a lot though.
KINGD
July 27, 2023 at 12:19 am
@Marianna Noel McCallum I dont think so you are 15. I think you are 30
Gappia
July 27, 2023 at 3:36 pm
@KINGD 30 is a stretch, I think she looks like a college student at best
Marianna Noel McCallum
July 28, 2023 at 10:27 am
@KINGD well i’m definitely 15😂 but believe what you want
Marianna Noel McCallum
July 28, 2023 at 10:27 am
@Gappia i’m actually a sophomore in high school:)
KINGD
July 28, 2023 at 2:36 pm
@Marianna Noel McCallum Age fraud alert. Lol
Gappia
July 28, 2023 at 3:19 pm
@Marianna Noel McCallum don’t listen to KingD, they’re just some sad soul on the internet, you definitely look your age! Great interview and all the best with the rest of high school!
KINGD
July 26, 2023 at 2:46 am
Lost it after the level 1
jai hind
July 26, 2023 at 5:20 am
She is defntly a bad teacher
jai hind
July 26, 2023 at 5:34 am
She is a bad teacher but here is level 1
Fusion is joining atoms . Like Goku and vegeta joins to make Gogeta and sometimes Vegito
Level 2 Joining atoms is not easy ,You need to create extreme conditions. More the atomic number the more energy is req to do fusion. So we choose Hydrogen .
Level 3 We need the isotopes of hydrogen,We accelerate them and make them hit each other. Same charges repel so nucleauses of two iso dont want to join as same charges repel. As electrons also repel.
Level 4 Electron problem is solved using plasma where heat is so much that electron flow freely .
But nucleus still dont want to join ,there we req high pressure.
Level 5 – Fusion produces many new atoms ,Also the Iron which is most stable and thats when fusion dies. Fusion needs very high energy to rels energy. So its not stable .
Level 6 No one gonaa understand mathematics
Johan Lindeberg
July 26, 2023 at 6:10 am
A transcript for your convenience:
MIT Professor Explains Nuclear Fusion in 5 Levels of Difficulty | WIRED
My name is Anne White. I’m a professor of nuclear science and engineering
at MIT. And I’ve been challenged today to explain nuclear fusion in five
levels of increasing difficulty.
Fusion is so exciting because it is extraordinarily beautiful physics,
which underpins some of the most basic processes in our universe. Nuclear
processes has a tremendously valuable application for humankind, a
virtually limitless, clean, safe, carbon-free form of energy.
Johan Lindeberg
July 26, 2023 at 6:19 am
24:12
Conclusion:
– Fusion energy research is an extraordinarily exciting field that is pushing the frontiers of
what we can do experimentally as well as what we can do computationally. Fusion might
be closer than we think and tremendous advances are being made every day.
bananacrunch
July 26, 2023 at 7:13 am
I love these videos, but some are better than others. This one is top tier.
It helps that at the end of the video, I have so much hope for the future of energy. <3
Mandeep Singh
July 26, 2023 at 8:12 am
Relative to other videos this was actually more leveled with the grades of students and explanations as others were exponential, by college student I use to feel bad man I cannot understand these
Marianna Noel McCallum
July 26, 2023 at 1:04 pm
That’s me in level 2!! So much fun to film❤️
Robby D Durham
July 30, 2023 at 2:35 pm
At first I thought you meant that level 2 is where you dropped out in understanding, now I think you meant, that was actually you being filmed. Nice to see you.
Rohan Manian
July 26, 2023 at 1:34 pm
This series has been highly knowledgeable.looking forward to more of it.
Christian
July 26, 2023 at 8:25 pm
All I heard was watch out for commercialized Fusion reactors in the next decade…
Mark
July 29, 2023 at 3:16 am
yep… keep watching out… but sit comfortably… for the next century…
John H
July 27, 2023 at 8:01 am
“All the pieces of the puzzle are here” sounds good, but is it true? For example tritium breeding is a massive problem requiring tonnes of lithium isotopically enriched to increase the Lithium 6 percentage – and there is no viable process to do this easily. If it can be done, the costs will be astronomical.
H
July 27, 2023 at 1:11 pm
I’m 564lbs fat mentally ill American with 56 guns and smoke cannabis. According to statistical trends the average American will be like me by 2043
Jesus Terriquez
July 27, 2023 at 2:43 pm
Idk man she just tossed the atomic structure at a nine year old. I know 29 year olds that don’t know what “proton” means.
VeryBadRussian
July 28, 2023 at 1:05 am
Theory will only take you so far.
Bimarsha Poudel
July 28, 2023 at 7:47 am
Level 6: Teller
Sanjay Biswas
July 28, 2023 at 4:53 pm
Between LEvel 3 and Level 4. I know the Lawson Criteria, coulomb repulsion etc, quantum tunneling etc.
darrell H
July 28, 2023 at 8:32 pm
so . its got nothing to do with Quantum tunnelling then.
Mark
July 29, 2023 at 3:17 am
Nuclear fusion scientists are well known for they over optimistic, wild claims, systematically proved wrong by reality. But the real issue is the misleading claim that fusion will be commercially there in the next ten-twenty years. It will be there, IF it will ever be there, in the next century..
テネット
July 30, 2023 at 2:15 am
Level7: Edward
Blueart h
July 30, 2023 at 11:36 am
Don’t know why but somehow understood everything in the video
victor oliveira
July 30, 2023 at 1:03 pm
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Robby D Durham
July 30, 2023 at 2:26 pm
I started dropping out at Grad level, even before. But the last level, expert, did they really do any explaining on the topic?
Clever Ghost Chili
July 30, 2023 at 10:39 pm
How about “What is a woman?” In 5 levels of difficulty?
Louie Uy
July 31, 2023 at 1:21 am
So level 5 is politics and funding. Got it
Janoy Cresva
July 31, 2023 at 1:53 am
Truly remarkable how smart she is that she made something simple enough for a child to understand.
Kutis Pwet
July 31, 2023 at 6:01 am
I love watching learning videos like this that would take me a thousand years to fully comprehend
R K
July 31, 2023 at 10:18 pm
I’ve watched this many times and still cannot create a Nuclear Fusion B*mb. Back to Gordon Ramsay’s Pad Thai.
JPA_Fasty
August 1, 2023 at 9:04 pm
Question for anyone that knows, since the plasma inside the tokomak is confined magnetically, what boundary condition do you use at the edge of the plasma field? Is it no slip or free surface or something else?
Nicole Diaz
August 1, 2023 at 10:54 pm
Oh let’s talk about what’s gonna happen if the room temp superconductors ends up being real this time
Shoeib Shargo
August 2, 2023 at 12:45 am
Neither did 5 year old understood what she said nor did I.
I see progress in me.
Shoeib Shargo
August 2, 2023 at 12:48 am
Rather explain how the Grad student looked like a teen and the Teen looked like a Grad student.
jeylful
August 2, 2023 at 10:54 am
Thank you Wired for bringing these complex but important subjects to everyone in different levels. Fabulous job!
Sidérobscur
August 2, 2023 at 10:26 pm
Could you invite a language scientist next ? That would be awesome
Jacy Bloom
August 2, 2023 at 11:18 pm
Not a very good explanation for a 9 year old. Didn’t have a baseline of what the child knew and had to circle around multiple times. How about you start with the concept of an atom instead of talking about a star in a jar? Stick with teaching university students.
Old Pain
August 3, 2023 at 7:11 pm
That was actually effective. Much better sense of where we are.
Alberto Z
August 3, 2023 at 11:41 pm
Horrible idea. So boring to be on yt
Sajad
August 4, 2023 at 2:01 am
she is a great teacher
José M. Sánchez
August 4, 2023 at 9:06 am
Checked for inclusivity, congrats!!
Oliver Marks
August 4, 2023 at 1:15 pm
I love this series! She’s a great educator! 😊
Spartacus 4297
August 5, 2023 at 4:05 am
Ok… Well I didn’t expect to understand and have knowledge of every level I knew I had a good grasp but I didn’t think my understanding was quite as strong as it is. It really helped me put my understanding of the field in perspective, I still have some things to learn about but not as much as I expected.
Mars_vzx
August 5, 2023 at 5:52 am
Great video. Irrelevant comment but anyone else find it weird and kinda gross to have a 9 year old with those nails?
Vlogs_with_Amelya
August 7, 2023 at 9:22 am
They are children’s press on nails.
MiniJeffrey
August 5, 2023 at 9:00 am
To be honest the child explanation went a bit all over the place.
08uncle80
August 6, 2023 at 1:52 am
Thank you, we need cheap energy I swear.
Coleman Roberts
August 6, 2023 at 2:55 am
thus is why we need quantum computers !
RishabThakur -**-
August 6, 2023 at 4:25 am
I am 21 years old but I cant even understand Child Level😭
Ef Rem
August 7, 2023 at 8:54 am
I love this seriee
551223
August 8, 2023 at 8:15 am
The editing on the child segment was so terrible
xTheReapersSpawn
August 8, 2023 at 1:12 pm
Why would they put a jar on a car?
Kevin Peralta
August 9, 2023 at 5:13 am
I think the difficulty levels should’ve been reversed. It was harder to explain to the child 😂
Jane Choy
August 9, 2023 at 3:24 pm
Star in a Jar! That needs to be on a t shirt! I can understand *that*
Roberto Rizzo
August 9, 2023 at 5:54 pm
She is awesome!! Very “easy” to understand
Alexander Loeb
August 9, 2023 at 10:10 pm
14:20 Isn’t flame kind of a plasma? 🤔
Fabri Na
August 10, 2023 at 12:23 am
but.. but.. tony stark did it in a cave! he created the fusion in there 😢
Klecker Klotz
August 10, 2023 at 5:51 am
It’s funny to see that scientific knowledge transfer only happens up to level 4. At level 5 scientists only talk about funding.
Nana Yaw
August 10, 2023 at 10:31 am
ok we’re gonna need more expert to kid explanations and it’s for kids obviously not for me I’m an expert so there
Phong Doan
August 10, 2023 at 10:39 am
I have a question, ma’am.
What if I had a nuclear factory, which fuses deuterium and tritium to make energy, and then I used these energy to feed the factory alone, wouldn’t it be, an infinitive engine?
Sam Asfaa
August 10, 2023 at 5:41 pm
Level 10 : Albert Einstein
Jason Widjaja
August 10, 2023 at 11:01 pm
college student so hot
Agnus Ribeiro
August 11, 2023 at 7:04 am
Didn’t know that Camila Cabello was also a phd candidate.
Melvin Hawkins
August 11, 2023 at 7:33 pm
This series has been highly knowledgeable.looking forward to more of it.. I love this series! She’s a great educator! .
Charles Gibson
August 11, 2023 at 10:01 pm
It sounds like turbulence is a measurement of entropy.
Nickkkkkkk
August 12, 2023 at 12:41 am
Props for trusting a kid to not pop a balloon by your ears
4,7-dimethyl -2-heptene
August 12, 2023 at 4:07 am
In fact the concept introduced in level 1 was the hardest to understand
Jingxue Jiang
August 12, 2023 at 4:07 am
In fact the concept introduced in level 1 was the hardest to understand
Anas BS
August 12, 2023 at 9:59 am
Ok I understand upto level 3 100%, level 4 where I’m getting kinda confused a little.
ctrlz
August 12, 2023 at 1:34 pm
5 minutes through the video and i was incredibly impressed with the child engagement with the professor. how she can come up with question and also explaining about her understanding towards science is plausible. and the professor is such a brilliant educator i wish she taught me in university
SleapyCell
August 13, 2023 at 1:14 am
❤❤
sakit
August 13, 2023 at 3:43 am
you should add super easy explanation and I would lovely to be interviewed
Patrick D
August 13, 2023 at 3:52 am
Fusion power, just 30 years away — for the last ~70 years.
Still, I remain hopeful.
Patrick D
August 13, 2023 at 4:17 am
The jump in comprehension between the undergrad and the grad student was remarkable.
Usually in this series, the undergrad is a science major, but I am deeply skeptical the undergrad in this video took freshman physics.
Chris Hahn
August 13, 2023 at 10:29 pm
is there any way we can see the unedited conversations and interactions? I know that its edited for video size and expediency sake, however I am far more interested in the actually full dialogue back and forth. or if nothing else the transcript?
AureliusFeynman
August 14, 2023 at 12:00 pm
That little girl is so sweet and bright, she has intelligent eyes and an inquisitive mind 🥰 I hope she keeps her love for Science all her life and become whichever kind of scientist she wants!
Maritza Vazquez-Trejo
August 15, 2023 at 5:36 am
I love how the level 5 involves talking about budgets and $ limitations and how we want to commercialize fussion lol
Lucas Luan Braga
August 15, 2023 at 6:13 am
I’m waiting for: “Professor explains Heidegger on 5 levels of difficulty”
Cole Ozaeta
August 15, 2023 at 3:56 pm
I’ve been waiting on ITER for 5 years. Hopefully just 2 to go like planned.
TheShachattack13
August 16, 2023 at 1:58 am
She’s gonna lose at least 80% of college educated adults at level 1
Onkel Pappkov
August 16, 2023 at 11:58 am
I don’t mean the following statement as an insult; it’s just a curious observation: I’m amazed at how knowledgeable and smart she seems while also sounding (to me) as if she wasn’t.
It’s the combination of the dialect with certain inflections (e.g. making a statement sound like a question by raising the pitch at the end of the phrase), filler words (so, actually) and lack of narrative structure in explanatory sentences (ice cream comes in many flavors, so there’s strawberry, what we call this is a freezer so that means there’s only cold food in there).
She certainly knows her stuff and she starts sounding intelligent when she talks faster and doesn’t break things down. I found that curious. It was as if she didn’t know how to scale down and was struggling too hard to be understood by laymen to a point where she ironically became hard to understand while the undergrad was very clear and logical, which felt like a sharp juxtaposition to me.
Fascinating topic, good video, like the content, like the people.
sitting turtle duck
August 16, 2023 at 8:44 pm
ok weirdo
AS
August 29, 2023 at 1:05 pm
@sitting turtle duck You weirdo forgot to read his first line. Don’t even try to dare bring Twitter type Freedom of speech on other social medias. Stay inside there only.
nagtasticDragon1
August 16, 2023 at 2:20 pm
Sounds like.. Mythology
Zero Ronin
August 17, 2023 at 5:30 am
whats really interesting is… we still use steam to generate electricity
Tom Sawyer
August 17, 2023 at 9:58 pm
G Y R O M A N C Y 👹
asaf zilberberg
August 18, 2023 at 6:36 am
Wonderful
TheVampB
August 18, 2023 at 12:32 pm
The most humbling aspect of this video is the 9-year-old having better conversation skills than I do…
nagtasticDragon1
August 18, 2023 at 1:36 pm
Not really great communication.
Freya
August 19, 2023 at 1:33 am
Made me feel like I was in the wrong school
Uchiha Itachi
August 19, 2023 at 4:14 am
Why was child smarter than the teen
AS
August 29, 2023 at 1:00 pm
Teen was more excited and Child was much more laid back.
nlavers
August 20, 2023 at 7:14 pm
She’s watched a lot of documentary like all of us, but you get an MIT thing. We’re smarter
Ing. Vivas
August 22, 2023 at 12:15 am
Can we get one explaining quantum mechanics and/or quantum electrodynamics? 👐
CH-19-015- D.Srikiran
August 22, 2023 at 10:07 am
that’s still a complicated way of explaining nuclear fusion to a 9 year old.
AS
August 29, 2023 at 1:02 pm
True, They should not even be bringing children in these videos anymore.
Rafael Augusto Mattos Ferreira
August 25, 2023 at 5:07 pm
Level Child is already HARD for me huauhauha… Really sad…
jmulk77
August 25, 2023 at 10:12 pm
But can you change a flat tire on a bicycle?
Tony Ratliff
August 26, 2023 at 8:55 pm
Do you guys know why you got the results that you did when you followed the advice of someone I would go ask them they might know a better way to do it
Jerry Nkumu
August 27, 2023 at 11:47 am
Harry Potter definitely needn’t learn about any more magic! With her fine self
Jimmy De La Cruz
August 28, 2023 at 2:46 am
I loved the level 1 girl’s question; she asked if they keep the invisible matter in one place to not forget where it is at all times, which is true.
Mickey
August 30, 2023 at 3:51 am
Like Einstein said, if you can’t explain it to a child, you don’t know it enough.
Lalita Sharma
August 30, 2023 at 6:31 am
Please bring chemist too please
DerPlasma
August 31, 2023 at 12:27 pm
Ahhh, I was so hoping for her to turn on that mini tokamak^^
Adan Trujillo
September 5, 2023 at 5:29 am
I love these series! I would love to see an episode with someone that has a PHd in Philosophy!
gdr11
September 5, 2023 at 12:49 pm
Get elon musk involved.. he seems to have the force of personality to push the needle in whatever he turns his attention to
Lily
September 6, 2023 at 10:44 pm
0:57: 🌟 Nuclear fusion is a clean and limitless form of energy that involves bringing particles together to release energy.
4:03: 🔬 Plasma is the fourth state of matter, and it can be controlled using magnetic fields.
7:17: ⚛ The tokamak is a device used to confine and control a super hot plasma in order to harness fusion energy.
10:51: 🔥 Fusion requires high temperatures and densities to make particles collide and fuse, producing energy that can be converted into electricity.
15:01: 🔬 Fusion energy sources, which are predominantly fully ionized plasmas, have a lot of mystery around them due to the complexity of turbulence and magnetic fields.
18:06: 🌪 Turbulence in plasma physics is a complex and visually beautiful phenomenon that affects the performance of fusion reactors.
22:09: ⚛ Fusion energy research is accelerating with the involvement of private companies and advancements in other fields, bringing us closer to achieving fusion electricity on the grids.
Recap by Tammy AI
Ray Jasmantas
September 9, 2023 at 10:04 am
Fusion is what should first be considered to turn the turbines at a utility company, before its logic is used to actually create electricity.
Ray Jasmantas
September 9, 2023 at 10:05 am
Using uranium is ruining the uranium.
L M
September 13, 2023 at 1:40 am
Level 7: Einstein
tetepeb
September 18, 2023 at 12:31 am
I wonder how much Elon Musk´s 44 billions that he paid for Twitter would have pushed Nuclear Fusion forward?
Or is it that amount chump-change in that world?
Grondo
September 18, 2023 at 8:03 am
Why doesn’t the whole tokamak melt when there is plasma with a temperature over 100 mil °C in it?
liu追
September 25, 2023 at 5:22 am
how cool!
Ahmad Qasim
September 25, 2023 at 8:05 am
Bro this nine year olds got more knowledge than me as a GCSE student 💀
claudia privitelli
September 25, 2023 at 7:05 pm
its reassuring that the more advanced the explanation the more it makes sense to me lol, i was listening to the kids one like ????
Sakar Kolachhapati
September 27, 2023 at 5:17 am
Some one said you people will cross any limits in order to rotate a turbine through digging the earth not by renewables
NLspartan117
October 6, 2023 at 1:28 pm
6:18 “Oh that’s so cool” – Yeah, but I was talking
Colin McGuire
October 7, 2023 at 11:35 am
H+H equill to He and energy
Shakti singh Rajput
October 8, 2023 at 3:29 am
No need of heat to create fusion. We’re acting foolishly.
weight loss expert
October 9, 2023 at 5:01 am
Best video
Kevin Makins, Regular Pastor
October 9, 2023 at 1:02 pm
22:00 Oh yes, private companies and venture capitalists have been so good for the world 🫠
G
October 11, 2023 at 1:19 pm
Nuclear fission and fusion are redundant. Why? Limited Fuel Supply: Fission relies on finite resources such as uranium and plutonium, which are not renewable. There are concerns about the availability of these fuels in the long run. Especially for the cities.