The invisible motion of still objects - Ran Tivony

Many of the inanimate objects around you probably seem perfectly still. But look deep into the atomic structure of any of them, and you’ll see a world in constant flux — with stretching, contracting, springing, jittering, drifting atoms everywhere. Ran Tivony describes how and why molecular movement occurs and investigates if it might ever stop.

Lesson by Ran Tivony, animation by Zedem Media.

[azr]

Whoa! My body is constantly moving. Another great excuse for not going to the gym!

[XenogeneGray]

Awesome lesson - as a science teacher I really appreciate this type of great work :)

[anaghadusane]

The animated molecules are so cute and it just cleared my concepts 😀😀

[zyro]

Wow. Amazing explanation. Degree of freedom, greenhouse effect, microwave, motion at absolute 0. Learned a lot. Thanks

[bakewithela]

Thank you TED Ed. This is one of the best.

[yuranival]

Cool! Keep these videos coming! They're pretty interesting and simply put.

[_next]

I wish they would re-release this and remove the ending where death is certain for us all eventually. "Long after we're gone"

[ChetanSharma-mckr]

This video reminded me the concepts, I was taught in thermodynamics, and rotational and vibrational spectroscopy in quantum mechanics.

[physioweng]

He likes to move it move it, she likes to move it move it, we like move move it, we like to MOVE IT!

[아야어여-jw]

It is so useful information. I appreciate your effort to explain the molecular motion

[theatifaks]

Kudos to the animation team. Brilliant stuff.

[robertma]

Who knew molecules could be so cute >.< I love when one of them is dancing to the boom box towards the end.

[truetwinflameandspirituala]

Perfect video that answered all my questions and then some. Thank you!

[Lixgrib]

Excellent video! Except that the last statement is incorrect about -273C. As predicted by Bose & Einstein, and demonstrated since 1995, we end up with a new state of matter once you hit -273 and remove all the motion. That is the BEC state of matter, or a Bose-Einstein Condensate. Molecules are no longer distinguishable at that temperature.

[scroopynoopers]

I was pondering this the other day and now this video gets uploaded, thank you!

[EugeneParallax]

One can argue, that movement is what defines the matter/energy as a whole, and the Universe is but a contrast between energy, that always moves, and space, that never does.

[GianlucaAiello]

Thinking about infinite give me chills every time.

[Youtubescroller]

This is very helpful for our 1st year thermodynamics chapter

[djayjp]

A lot of people mistakenly believe that infrared radiation= heat. While it often results in heat, or is a good indicator of such, it is not itself heat. This should help clear it up!

[kvlpnd]

Amazing.... I learned this in 12th std chemistry but whoaaa... it just seems so simple now....