Nuclear Engineer Reacts to The Man Who Tried to Fake an Element by Bobby Broccoli FULL Version

[tfolsenuclear]

By popular demand, here is my full reaction to The Man who Tried to Fake an Element in one video

[xavier]

I'm so happy you found Bobby Broccoli's stuff, absolutely love his work

[Yezpahr]

I've binged that entire channel. It's high quality production.
Good to see it getting reviewed by somebody in the field. Strapping in for 2 hours of corrections.

[Merennulli]

The chart he's using is the Karlsruhe nuclide chart. It's been around since the 50s and had a similar predecessor, the Segre chart. The Segre chart is where this fanciful ocean language like the "island of stability" originated and there are pictures from 1946 of Glenn Seaborg standing in front of a copy of it. If you'd like to play around with one, I believe Dr. Ed Simpson formerly of Australian National University has a 3D nuclide chart online.

[lennycampagna]

I don't know if I can speak for a majority of your audience, however, I can certainly say more content of this nature would be highly welcomed. I watched the original version you put up of this doc in pieces and loved it. The way you can swiftly and naturally bring everything back to nuclear physics w/o making it unnecessarily technical and also fully elaborating the usefulness of many of these highly complex topics, is extremely educational and digestible. I have a special love for history as well as science, so I'm always looking for more "history of science" type documentaries and I believe you are highly equipped to deliver that material even in long form while still remaining engaging. Thank you for all the educational as well as entertaining content.

[Sundablakr]

The universe is wild, the fact that you can change 1 neutron to a proton and your element swaps from Carbon to Nitrogen, two elements that are so incredibly different in terms of their physical properties is crazy.

[SpitFirTornado]

Nucléide is the french spelling, and you occasionally see it in English as well (without the accent aigu) in Canada (where BobbyBroccoli is from) although nuclide is definitely still much more common.

The customs officer name change thing is also very common, not just a Seaborg thing. Your last name even could have been changed from Volz or Voltz which are surnames in Germany or the French border region. Quick bit of geneology research says the Folse name originates from German immigrants to the US in the 1800s, recently got interested in geneology and this stuff is interesting being able to trace your name changes, sometimes doesn't even happen with immigration just with anyone who didn't know how to read/write getting new documents. It was just especially common with immigrants as they would have had a wide variety of different names from different places, and would have happened more commonly earlier in history when fewer people could read/write to correct them!

[nanananenanu]

So in reality all nuclear physicists are gambling-addicts and all that science stuff ist just to cover up the fact? I KNEW IT!

[jesuizanmich]

I was in school when 118 was first "discovered". My chemistry teacher wanted us to make a presentation about it. I knew it as Ununoctium (also the first time I learned about the Latin naming convention). I had no idea the discovery at Berkeley was fake. It was I think 2016, I was in the middle of my PhD, when it was named Oganesson after Yuri Oganessian (ending in -on for noble gasses). This is the first time I hear why this was! It was Dubna that actually ended up discovering it and not Berkeley! Wow! I've finally fixed this misconception I've had for maybe 20 years.

[osiis]

Bobby Broccoli's presentatations and documentaries are sublime. I love his work.

[stevesmith]

I'd love to see you react to more of Bobby Broccoli videos, even if they are less about nuclear physics and just another niche in the science world. I think you share great insights, and would love to see your perspectives on some of those other series.

[NotSomeJustinWithoutAMoustache]

Can you imagine if the guy in immigration didn't mess up? We'd have Sjöbergium! That sounds a million times cooler than Seaborgium imo. Damn, that guy really messed up.

[finalone]

This was a great and very interesting history lesson, I'm glad the video covered so much of the backstory instead of focusing just on the faking an element part.

[Deutritium]

I have been binge watching your videos nonstop for the last few days now. It’s like when you find a new favorite show on Netflix and you just can’t walk away from it. Thank you for your time and content and for shedding light on all thing’s nuclear! People need to stop worrying and learn to love the bom… err I mean power! 😅

[PinkCircleO]

I thought it interesting that Marie Curie’s older daughter died from radiation poisoning as well. And her younger daughter Eve died at 102 lol.

[hernerweisenberg]

53:29 lots of element ofcourse have different names in different countries/languages. Like Oxygen (O) is called Sauerstoff in german, Hydrogen (H) is Wasserstoff and Potassium (K) is called Kalium, Sodium (Na) is Natrium and so on or Iron (Fe) named after the latin Ferrum, just to name a few examples :)

[kisaragi-hiu]

You'll want to read the footnotes in the original video's pinned comment. In footnote 4, for instance, the chart is explained to have been plotted with a common method, where the height is the rank (1st shortest half life = 1, 2nd shortest = 2, and so on), then colored by percentile.

[novasolarius]

Concerning the nuclide vs nucleide thing, it's probably based on one's native language. Bobby, who made the video, is Canadian. About a quarter of Canadians speak french. In french, you call it a "nucléide".

[Babihrse]

The way ive learned neutrons is theyre like a piece of iron when all you have is north pole part of magnets. One north pole magnet will repel another north pole magnet. What they really want is to stick to a south pole magnet. However in the absence of south pole magnets a piece of iron is considered neutral this piece of iron is happy to stick to both north pole facing magnets and both of the magnets can forget their animosity towards each other as long as there is a small piece of neutral polarity sandwiched between. Like two lads they don't want their pen15s touching however if there's a buffer of a woman between them both it's suddenly ok if their pen15s touch.

[robertcasey]

Hendrik Schon got canned at Bell Labs. I too got canned there, not because I tried to fake research, but I had a boss who absolutely hated me.