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Veritasium’s Derek Muller answers the web’s most searched questions about himself. Where did the name ‘Veritasium’ come from? Is Veritasium a real element? Where does Derek live? Is he married? What was Veritasium’s first video? Derek answers all these questions and much more! Check out Derek’s channel: Veritasium Director: Katherine Wzorek Director of Photography: Matt…

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Veritasium’s Derek Muller answers the web’s most searched questions about himself. Where did the name ‘Veritasium’ come from? Is Veritasium a real element? Where does Derek live? Is he married? What was Veritasium’s first video? Derek answers all these questions and much more!

Check out Derek’s channel: Veritasium

Director: Katherine Wzorek
Director of Photography: Matt Krueger
Editor: Ron Douglas
Talent: Derek Muller

Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi
Associate Producer: Melissa Cho
Production Managers: Peter Brunette, Andressa Pelachi
Production Coordinator: Carol Wachockier

Audio: Mike Faner
Cam Op/Gaffer: Nate Cornett
Production Assistant: Ariel Labasan

Post Production Supervisor: Alexa Deutsch
Post Production Coordinator: Ian Bryant
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Assistant Editor: Billy Ward

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150 Comments

  1. Vegetita Gamerpro

    November 25, 2022 at 11:23 pm

    ¿”Latin” does not mean “español latinoamericano”?

  2. Tom Whateley

    November 25, 2022 at 11:24 pm

    Thankyou Derek and Wired, I love these videos 🙂

  3. MrDeltoric

    November 25, 2022 at 11:27 pm

    I still have his signed shade ball he was giving away. If you also have one, comment which number you got. I’ll start: 8406

  4. King Luthor

    November 25, 2022 at 11:28 pm

    He has this almost Steve Irwin-like vibe where his passion in Science is just infectious. Thanks for keeping my (and apparently more than 12 million others) science curiosity well fed and hope you’re staying safe and well!

  5. Aude Saint Joanis

    November 25, 2022 at 11:35 pm

    Derek: “I didn’t had anything to do so I decided to enroll in a PhD” 😂

  6. Jeronimo Tamayo Lopera

    November 25, 2022 at 11:52 pm

    WE DO LIVE FOREVER.

  7. AMTunLimited

    November 26, 2022 at 12:01 am

    Why yes Derek, you *are* on wikifeet, and with a very respectable 4.76

  8. Josh Lawton

    November 26, 2022 at 12:08 am

    Derek’s thesis is available to read at CiteSeer as a PDF:

  9. Parlor 311

    November 26, 2022 at 12:08 am

    I remember when this dude started out making stupid sh*t and then transitioned to making patronizing sh*t and now that he found his place in YouTube, he has become the sh*t, so fair f*cks to you Derek

  10. Justa Youtuber

    November 26, 2022 at 12:16 am

    Was this a “Muller Investigation”?

  11. Daniel Holmes

    November 26, 2022 at 12:21 am

    As an Australian that was pretty decent accent wise. It got worse when you tried harder 😜

  12. Pettingson

    November 26, 2022 at 12:28 am

    Props to Wired for keeping the last lines!

  13. Banana Farmer Sebo

    November 26, 2022 at 12:29 am

    This man and Vsauce educated us more than schools

  14. Delzoup

    November 26, 2022 at 12:31 am

    Veritasium, CGP Gray and GTLive have really taught me the most about the craft of making successful YouTube channels and videos.

  15. KoFL

    November 26, 2022 at 12:40 am

    I’ve always loved watching Veritasium’s content, super glad to be seeing him on WIRED. This video on my homepage really made my day

  16. Otto Gibbs

    November 26, 2022 at 12:58 am

    As an Aussie, the accent isn’t awful

  17. Chandni

    November 26, 2022 at 1:05 am

    When I saw this in my timeline, three words:
    Yes, yes, yes!

  18. Sarah Abramova

    November 26, 2022 at 1:12 am

    Ok cool

  19. Connor Cockx

    November 26, 2022 at 1:12 am

    This is awesome. I love my boy Derek. He is my dad

  20. Lucio

    November 26, 2022 at 1:12 am

    OMG I’m actually usually enticed by the 1st (correct) title but he usually publishes videos at times I’m not free to watch them. So I end up watching the video with the changed click-bitey title. I feel Like I skew his statistic XD

  21. AmbushKush420

    November 26, 2022 at 1:13 am

    his aussie accent is actually pretty good, maybe a lil kiwi but so weird seeing him slip into it like that.

  22. Gendo

    November 26, 2022 at 1:14 am

    If you write it correctly you could technically fit all are seintifick nolag in one sentence but it would not be plesent to read or wright

  23. Dmitr Sseleznev

    November 26, 2022 at 1:21 am

    I love your content incredibly. A lot of times i disagree, which is even better. Go derek

  24. CompletelyAnonymous

    November 26, 2022 at 1:27 am

    I don’t believe that he believes he’s only average intelligence but works really hard. It’s a good message to send, and that’s why it’s something smart people say

  25. John

    November 26, 2022 at 6:23 pm

    aussie accent is…. ok, better than average, not bad at all.

  26. Washington maina

    November 26, 2022 at 6:51 pm

    Just finished watching his expert in 10000hrs video I loved it

  27. EGI MESSITO

    November 26, 2022 at 6:59 pm

    Derek has an incredible ability to recall extremely complex information to his mind – so super intelligent and modest

  28. Recordings

    November 26, 2022 at 7:11 pm

    Finally a real celebrity!

  29. Ise River

    November 26, 2022 at 7:24 pm

    ‘how much do I make, it’s really hard to tell’
    Look at your months bank balance, and tell us how much you have because of that months youtube video.
    If you don’t want to say (I notice a lot of you high earners on patreon quickly hid how much money you make (for example last time I checked cgp greys patreon a few years ago, he earned $44k a month. Ridiculous.)) then just day you don’t want to say.

  30. Kamogelo Maponya

    November 26, 2022 at 7:36 pm

    Knew there was some of South African in him, that surname 😂

  31. The Moon's Evil Sister

    November 26, 2022 at 7:54 pm

    whenever anyone asks you how smart you are, say average

  32. A. M.

    November 26, 2022 at 8:40 pm

    0:59 I am glad. The less people that read/buy those pathetic books the better.

  33. Robbie A

    November 26, 2022 at 8:42 pm

    He comes off as kinda shifty even if he doesn’t mean to . Guess i have that kind of bias.

  34. CorporealCasimir

    November 26, 2022 at 8:49 pm

    Weirdly, I don’t find out V explained electricity counterintuitive at all.

    In fact, as a STEM person with degrees with very good scores, electricity and the way it is explained in most textbooks actually caused me confusion.

    That video made me realise how electricity actually works, and that the textbooks aren’t wrong per se, but the way they interpret the data and simplify it with moving electrons etc is just not reality but a simplification.

  35. Blast Radius

    November 26, 2022 at 8:51 pm

    The internet is a place?

  36. Dekim Yay

    November 26, 2022 at 9:04 pm

    He literally did his Phd on making videos on science lol. No wonder he’s always spot on and beats everyone to the punch! 🙏

  37. Alexander Abrashev

    November 26, 2022 at 9:24 pm

    Derek’s wife is indeed gorgeous. She was on Startalk once. So hot

  38. Vatsek

    November 26, 2022 at 9:48 pm

    Do Veritasium’s balls shine at night after his visit to Chernobyl?
    Sure.

  39. Jaco

    November 26, 2022 at 9:58 pm

    I owe all my interest in physics to derek, this man is a legend

  40. Sameera Gamage

    November 26, 2022 at 10:16 pm

    I knew this guy through Vsauce

  41. Old Big Tom

    November 26, 2022 at 10:23 pm

    Knowing that my favorite science teacher has my name, MULLER, omg. 😍

  42. C Mel

    November 26, 2022 at 10:39 pm

    As a complete science nerd, I LOVE his channel, and smarter every day, mark rober, physics girl and many others. His electricity series was the best discussion collaboration on youtube, really went down a rabbit hole

  43. Jvns14

    November 26, 2022 at 10:46 pm

    So what you are trying to say is, that you are a doctor of youtube. Doctor. Muller. YouTuber physicist.

  44. LWJCarroll

    November 26, 2022 at 11:19 pm

    1147….mmmmm cant think outside the square, due to physics being based on maths, numbers, understandably……his creativity has limits….? Imo. Laurie. Kiwi….

  45. Alan Dario Aguilar Badillo

    November 27, 2022 at 12:11 am

    That electricy video was very controversial.

  46. Google This is Weird

    November 27, 2022 at 12:28 am

    He comes across as a loser

  47. Hari Swaminathan

    November 27, 2022 at 12:45 am

    Such an inspiration! People like him make YouTube interesting.

  48. Parker James

    November 27, 2022 at 12:53 am

    Haven’t read Harry Potter? Cancelled.

  49. Issa David

    November 27, 2022 at 1:17 am

    I like this YouTube run their on. Getting YouTube personalities. Keep it up. Get AustinEvans next!!

  50. Sonicgott

    November 27, 2022 at 5:07 pm

    Derek is almost as old as I am, but he’s WAAAAAY ahead of me in education. I’m in awe of his achievements. Such an inspiration!

    • Robert Thallium

      November 27, 2022 at 6:18 pm

      You are allowed to take LSD and stop being a weird furry enthusiast.

  51. EJ Batchelder

    November 27, 2022 at 5:33 pm

    World’s fastest YouTube click 🙋‍♂️

  52. Jenkins Roy

    November 27, 2022 at 5:36 pm

    I love your content man. big fan.

  53. Aurobindo Ghosh

    November 27, 2022 at 5:41 pm

    yes you just tell what you have been handed down to you in your videos

  54. Anastasia Tiara

    November 27, 2022 at 5:56 pm

    derek legitly could be an actor with that speed of changing accents

  55. Johnny Shelton

    November 27, 2022 at 5:58 pm

    Veritasium is a g

  56. Robert Thallium

    November 27, 2022 at 6:10 pm

    Does Veritasium? 🤔🤔🤔🤔

  57. Mohayminul Islam Asif

    November 27, 2022 at 6:21 pm

    What about the PHD link ?

  58. Dyearnek

    November 27, 2022 at 6:32 pm

    Yay another me!!!!!!!!

    • Dyearnek

      November 27, 2022 at 6:32 pm

      My name is Derek

  59. Łukasz Kucharski

    November 27, 2022 at 6:32 pm

    I wonder if 05:50 was intentional impression of Nick Lucid. Haha, sounded exactly like him.

  60. Rodrigo Maroja

    November 27, 2022 at 6:48 pm

    Loved this interview! Derek, do you think about doing more long format videos or documentaries?

    • Veritasium

      November 27, 2022 at 8:32 pm

      Sure! I’m open to that

  61. Oleksandr

    November 27, 2022 at 7:13 pm

    Wired support when

  62. Roberto

    November 27, 2022 at 7:15 pm

    Veritasium is in my opinion the best channel on YouTube. Keep up making videos Derek!

  63. vanessa obrain

    November 27, 2022 at 7:19 pm

    I’m new to stock market /Crypto and would like to invest but I’ve go no idea on how to make good profits. Pls what’s the best approach you’d recommend?

  64. vrgtics warehouse

    November 27, 2022 at 7:49 pm

    so you done it with derek, now michael steven but i hope he have some time to interview.. Or is it?

  65. TorQueMoD

    November 27, 2022 at 8:31 pm

    13.1 million subs now. That’s a lot of growth in 2 days 😛

  66. Jerry

    November 27, 2022 at 8:49 pm

    Never knew Derek had roots in South Africa.

  67. First Last

    November 27, 2022 at 8:58 pm

    wow thanks wired, for this completely stupid video.

  68. Adam Stonestreet

    November 27, 2022 at 9:45 pm

    Wheres the South African accent

  69. Sergio David Silva Gutierrez

    November 27, 2022 at 9:53 pm

    Derek is a legend! We owe him not only being one of the first youtubers online, so he basically founded the occupation, but also he did it by conveying complex physics in an educational way!

  70. Diego Fernandez

    November 27, 2022 at 10:31 pm

    World’s roundest object is my first Veritasium video and I got stuck with the channel over the years. Excellent content.

  71. Blackbird

    November 27, 2022 at 10:31 pm

    Wait, this snake oil salesman again.

  72. Kevin Jonathan

    November 27, 2022 at 11:24 pm

    Love you and your contents derek 💅💅

  73. bikee4

    November 28, 2022 at 12:47 am

    The Mother of “My” children?” telling…

  74. Elliott R

    November 28, 2022 at 12:51 am

    Thanks Veritasium and WIRED for the entertainment over the years

  75. Cooper Thomas

    November 28, 2022 at 12:12 pm

    Yesterday I was watching CNN NEWS, Binance CEO was talking about how investors and traders can make millions. And he recommended an expert called Tyler Winklevoss please can someone tell me more about his trading services?

  76. milk grapes

    November 28, 2022 at 12:31 pm

    I can’t believe this wasn’t done sooner

  77. dwindlebunny

    November 28, 2022 at 1:03 pm

    As an Australian I appreciate your accent. I just appreciate the way you say ‘Australia’. Please correct people when they say ’emu’ wrong.

  78. Carlo Saarenas

    November 28, 2022 at 1:20 pm

    Just followed you on Twitter 😂😂

  79. Bijoy Chandra Roy

    November 28, 2022 at 1:25 pm

    Someone better name an new found element Veritasiun

  80. Alex Tilson

    November 28, 2022 at 1:51 pm

    “Go spell veritasium up in the search bar”

    This is such a poetically hilarious way to shill

  81. drossoo

    November 28, 2022 at 2:18 pm

    I’m new to stock market /Crypto and would like to invest but I’ve go no idea on how to make good profits. Pls what’s the best approach you’d recommend?

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  82. Parth Jain

    November 28, 2022 at 2:20 pm

    How has he never read harry potter.

  83. Erik Žiak

    November 28, 2022 at 2:23 pm

    Does Derek read the comments section?

  84. Glow in the dark

    November 28, 2022 at 2:41 pm

    I never thought I’d see him here.

  85. PopeLando

    November 28, 2022 at 3:20 pm

    Your last name is Muller?? 🤯

  86. Kenna Rajora

    November 28, 2022 at 3:24 pm

    1:39 he should just identify as belonging to the ‘paramount nations of the once united dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and territories collectively known as the former British Empire’.

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    November 28, 2022 at 3:54 pm

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  88. Manchu Ratt

    November 28, 2022 at 4:32 pm

    6:34 Yes, let’s do a PhD while getting ready for film school.

  89. Mariano Bonora

    November 28, 2022 at 4:36 pm

    Derek is the best

  90. Dana K

    November 28, 2022 at 4:42 pm

    I love the video on electricity.

  91. Danielle Richard

    November 28, 2022 at 5:12 pm

    wow he literally has a phd in making science videos

  92. mattslaboratory

    November 28, 2022 at 6:34 pm

    I think his intelligence is a little above average. Of course, that assumes I’m smart enough to tell.

  93. Munkhbileg N

    November 28, 2022 at 7:46 pm

    one of the channel that i truly appreciate, don’t stop pls

  94. Charli Espinoza

    November 28, 2022 at 8:09 pm

    Thanks to CGP Grey and Brady Haran, I always think of him as “Pretty Derek”.

  95. Kenz Bla

    November 28, 2022 at 8:32 pm

    We want Blackpink

  96. zeroomens

    November 28, 2022 at 9:10 pm

    I wish it was people like Derek the ones to be super famous and super influential. He dedicates his time to make people less ignorant while such a big chunk of our civilization CRAVES the other way around. We prefer to give power to morons instead of chasing knowledge and lauding the people who share it with us.

  97. Eric

    November 28, 2022 at 10:48 pm

    Veritasium is one of the best channels on YouTube, full stop. Educational, informative, and fun. All the necessary ingredients for great content.

  98. Charles Eggebrecht

    November 28, 2022 at 11:39 pm

    This man said he got his PhD in making educational videos and it shows. Love them all.

  99. Mahir Balayev

    November 29, 2022 at 2:30 am

    I can’t be agree with you on one/two direction measures of light speed. If you want to know what is exact speed of light in one direction you can do it with help of Dopler effect by frequency shift. And it will be same for both situations for red and blue shift 😉

  100. crystalsau

    November 29, 2022 at 2:33 am

    Finding out that I go to the same university that Derek did for his undergrad is the highlight of my day

  101. Randall Ward

    November 29, 2022 at 2:48 am

    This SHOULD be the most searched question:

  102. Isaiah Hubert

    November 29, 2022 at 3:53 am

    Lol to him being average intelligence.

  103. Time To Think

    November 29, 2022 at 4:08 am

    Super stoked his fave video was his confirmation bias video!!
    I completely agree – to the point where it would be on my list of top 10 videos every person should be required to watch at some point.
    It even inspired me to make my own video on the subject: “How to avoid being wrong”

  104. Faster Days

    November 29, 2022 at 5:10 am

    and he’s also a very handsome mofo.

  105. Kishlay Kisu

    November 29, 2022 at 5:16 am

    He doesn’t look 40

  106. Funny Football ⚽️⚽️

    November 29, 2022 at 5:19 am

    We Need Kurgezagt creator on this channel now .
    I repeat
    We need Kurgezagt creator on this channel now.
    Or we riot .

  107. Bon Sheedy

    November 29, 2022 at 7:51 am

    Lol, I asked a friend of mine (researcher, PhD in Physics) about the electricity thing, and he said, yeah, well it’s not true… It’s debated.

  108. Henry J.

    November 29, 2022 at 8:29 am

    Where’s the link to the thesis?

  109. Nathan Beveridge

    November 29, 2022 at 10:29 am

    7:10 funnily enough I think it was a video about the effectiveness of educational videos which was how I discovered the veritasium channel. We were using it while teaching undergraduate education students about technology 🙂

  110. Krytyk15

    November 29, 2022 at 10:30 am

    Hey woudn’t it be like possible to check speed of light in 1 direction by trying to accelerate a particle in that direction and checking if it’s getting closer to the both ways speed of light, or a variant of it? In your speed of light video you said that it could be 1/2c in 1 direction and 2c in other direction so the speed limit of matter should be maxxed out accordingly? If that is the case then getting to 1/2c in the “slow direction” scenario should require infinitley more energy than in “fast direction”.

  111. Timothy McSwain

    November 29, 2022 at 10:39 am

    1:10 “Final Cut Pro X” is pronounced “Final Cut Pro Ten.” You know, because it came after Final Cut Pro 9. (I’m not typing this on my Mac… but I think they just call it Final Cut Pro now anyway?)

    • Veritasium

      November 29, 2022 at 10:49 am

      Actually, it came after Final Cut Pro 7.

  112. Navajo Ninja

    November 29, 2022 at 1:12 pm

    Hope my grandkids read about You one day as, ‘The Man That Changed Electricity’ 👍👍

  113. Fallen7Pie

    November 29, 2022 at 2:53 pm

    Why don’t you address the whole shilling for Bill Gates or Elon Musk controversies Derek?

  114. Hassan Ayub

    November 29, 2022 at 3:40 pm

    If his intelligence is average, there is no hope for us

  115. Aryan Nepal

    November 29, 2022 at 4:15 pm

    I like his video too much

  116. fatehyabali

    November 29, 2022 at 4:16 pm

    Ffb

  117. Eric Penrose

    November 29, 2022 at 5:31 pm

    Veritasium has some of the most honest science videos out there. He is saying the best of what he believes is true and, most importantly, he says what he says he is saying. He doesn’t make it sound like he is giving an authoritative expert opinion when he is not an authoritative expert on something. He does his honest best to convey the amount of scientific confidence that matches current scientific consensus, and if his personal belief/analysis is counter to that he makes it clear that it is conveyed as his opinion. Its not about being always right. Its not about saying phrases that are all technically true, but trying to convey something else when you put them all together. It not about the fools errand of extracting all of your own bias. Its about the constant effort to be as honest as possible, which he does better than anyone else I’ve seen, on YouTube or anywhere.

    • Veritasium

      December 1, 2022 at 6:16 am

      This is one of the nicest comments I’ve read – thank you!

    • Eric Penrose

      December 1, 2022 at 4:36 pm

      @Veritasium I’m glad my comment managed to reach you. You’ve made an honest channel thrive on a corner of the internet that is addicted to clickbait and sensationalism, and that is amazing and hope inspiring. Thank YOU!

  118. Jono moffat

    November 29, 2022 at 8:47 pm

    Ah, That’s a terrible accent.

  119. Distortion

    November 29, 2022 at 10:39 pm

    Derek picked up some serious Californian accent.

  120. Logit Fau2

    November 29, 2022 at 10:54 pm

    Why hasnt Derek never read Harry Potter?

  121. TheSftv

    November 30, 2022 at 12:27 am

    I would go to the ways of saying a normal Feynman in the ways he tries to teach. Im truly humbled to be a part of his yourney. I’ve learned alot!

  122. Red Inverse

    November 30, 2022 at 1:42 am

    8:12 i could do better, just take the entirety of wikipedia and make it one huge run-on sentence by removing punctuation. boom, solved

  123. Yuri M

    November 30, 2022 at 2:00 am

    Genius probably

  124. Sushrut Jangid

    November 30, 2022 at 3:44 am

    Kya cool Banda hain yaar!!

  125. Jake Jelsone

    November 30, 2022 at 3:49 am

    Hilarious that he rates himself as average intelligence. Classic example of dunning-Kruger.

  126. ItsPolygon

    November 30, 2022 at 5:35 am

    As an Aussie, the Australian accent was pretty accurate

  127. Nicholas J. Johnson

    November 30, 2022 at 8:36 am

    It’s a good Aussie accent

  128. Aidan Davick

    November 30, 2022 at 9:16 am

    You know he really is smart because he thinks he’s about average lolol

  129. James G

    November 30, 2022 at 10:04 am

    You’re definitely smarter than avg. avg IQ is one hundred lol.

  130. mel

    November 30, 2022 at 10:58 am

    god he’s always been so hot

  131. xilefx

    November 30, 2022 at 12:18 pm

    Explaining complex stuff in an easy way; finding analogies, the core of the issue and what’s interesting about that I think he’s to humble regarding his intelligence.

  132. Michael Aigner

    November 30, 2022 at 2:19 pm

    After reading the question how much money he makes he became nervous which led to him tearing the paper xD

  133. Eve.

    November 30, 2022 at 4:02 pm

    Oh wait, I just subscribed to him a week ago. Nice!

  134. Ricky

    December 1, 2022 at 4:29 am

    Legend

  135. Erich Gonzalez

    December 1, 2022 at 6:45 am

    He finally talked about the Harry Potter thing!!!! I’ve been wondering for so long!

  136. Andrew Boldi

    December 1, 2022 at 8:57 am

    “I haven’t actually read Harry Potter” 0:59 💀💀

  137. e

    December 1, 2022 at 3:06 pm

    7:29 “It’s just such a weird thing to see 96 million black balls spread across a lake”

  138. XxYannis

    December 1, 2022 at 8:59 pm

    If Derek is ‘average’ smart I’m an imbecile xD

  139. Mike Pettengill

    December 2, 2022 at 12:41 am

    His Youtube channel is really great if you haven’t seen it you should check it out. He has done so many science questions just do a search with something that you are wondering about and add Veritasium at the end of it and you should see a couple of videos around the subject that would be of interest to you.

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