Gallium Vortex

In this video I show you how I made a Gallium Vortex using a mason jar lid, a nail and liquid gallium.

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[HobbyHalloween]

So this is what is happening in the world around us all the time, yet we can't see it... What this experiment has done is make the invisible become visible and more understandable. You know... you can study electronics and physics, and hear about the right-hand rule, Lorenz, etc. but when you _actually_ see it in action is when it becomes real. Thank you for a beautiful demonstration on the Action Lab!

[sWooSH_wHooSH]

This guy is having so much fun in quarantine and we are here watching this vidio and looking through comments

[FusionSource]

That is so cool, such a beautiful experiment, thank you for sharing this.

[tonytor]

I did this using mercury in a closed vacuum toroid, containing nanoparticles of iron barium and cobalt.using coils around the quartz toroid, as you increase the voltage the mixture will spin homogeneously. Then it will lift and center in the middle if the toroid..You can accelerate it much faster since there is no friction against the walls. Eventually the mixture will turn into a plasma. Accelerating it even faster you will get a corona effect. Placing a secondary coil around the toroid, electricity will be produced!
Nice demo for a college physics class. Now, I understand that if the toroid is mounted on a base, and suspended by a mechanical fish scale ( to avoid any possibility the magnetic field is interfering with an electronic scale) as acceleration increases after the corona effect, a white glow will appear. At that time you can see a decrease of weight of about 5% ! This was demonstrated at the department of physics at U of Alabama in the 1990’s, but they were initially using rotating discs under a non metallic 100 gram weight weight sitting on a non-metallic platform . First it was thought the 3-5% decrease in weight was caused by wind coming from the Warner drill. The experiment was reproduced with the entire apparatus in a high vacuum glass chamber; with the discs paining outside the scale on the vacuum chamber. This was published in a peer reviewed journal. It was concluded that the spinning discs mounted on a rotating shaft were somehow “interfering” with gravity.
3 months later the scientist accepted a position at
Laurence Livermore Lab; no more publications since then….
I just don’t remember the proportions of each element and why Co & Ba were chosen to be mixed with nanoparticles of Fe….
Would love to hear your thoughts on this experiment.
Sergio MD, MS 480-299-9984 (Arizona)

[معراج-لب]

I love how straight to the point this video is

[egafx]

for some reason this channel is not showing in my home page despite lately it almost always shows old videos that I've watched. I thought you were not releasing videos anymore. Now I need to spend all night to watch all your latest videos.

[christophersterpka]

This is amazing, I've always wanted to do this! Some other fun experiments to try: (1) make a loop de loop by using a cup or container with a lid and see if a small amount of gallium has enough momentum to complete the loop. (2) Take a clear plastic container and put flat electrodes on the top and bottom of the container, then use a AC current source and see if you can get a blob of gallium to bounce between the electrodes or (with fine tuning) get it to levitate!

[duanecjohnson]

Hi;
Would you try to test generating current by swirling the gallium around.
Thanks!

[azhakabad]

Your Experiments are so satisfying and I love them!

[ayushrajarya]

Very cool way to teach these concepts wish someone had shown me this 6 years ago when I was studying all this it would have been very fascinating.

[hughaskew]

THIS is the kind of learning that I watch your videos to see.

[gregg]

The thing I love about this channel is that almost all of these titles seem super clickbaity and that none of them are true and yet he always actually does it

[shashuhr]

I love this channel, you teach me so many new things every time! keep up the good work

[sabr]

I just love that you come up with experiments you want to do and decide to share it with us.
Thank you. ❤️

[kellark]

I always enjoy watching your demonstrations. You explain things in language the average person can understand.
Your like a real life Professor Proton!

[quahntasy]

*Wish this Mark Rober type guy was everyones' science teacher.*
Instead we get uninterested people who keep using slides whole semester to teach a course.

[illygah]

I think you are special. there are many youtube science teachers. you understand it. my understanding comes from your understanding... understanding is so much different than knowing.

[xion]

Hello sir! I really love your videos, and it would mean the world for me if you made a video explaining quantum field theory (quantum fluctuations, etc.). I have been a a fan of your channel and quantum mechanics for a long time, and to see those two things together would mean the world for me!

[bradleyfitzik]

I learn more cool science from this channel than I did in any middle school, high school or college level class. Keep up the good work ☆

[yoitsamruth]

This guy is the underrated Mark Rober..