How To Levitate | The Edge of Science

Is levitation possible? YouTube Originals and BBC Studios bring you The Edge of Science, a scientific dive into the outer reaches of our understanding. Follow host and science enthusiast, Rick Edwards as he taps into the scientific community of YouTube to help him fulfill a lifetime's ambition - to levitate himself. Physics girl (Dianna Cowern) and science inventor, Colin Furze, join Rick and together, they will experiment their way into getting Rick off the ground, by physics alone. Can they do it?

0:00 Intro
1:17 The Colin Furze Shed
3:20 Physics Girl
5:51 Sonic Levitation
9:35 Getting To Grips With Gravity
13:50 Scaling Up
17:39 Magnetic Levitation
21:39 Superconductors
25:33 Hoverboarding!

[albinpetschauer]

I love how there all like good job rick you did it but in reality he did literally nothing while his smart friends actually did it

[KaiCalimatinus]

Real proud of the BBC for doing a great Collab with fantastic creators and educators like this

[Killspec]

I like how he just took that guys world record for himself.

[TheRealColtMaster]

Rick hops in a Tesla.. "Congrats Rick, you created an electric car!"

[noahluppe]

We see Colin is a professional by looking at his safety tie

[MattJasa]

4:00 I've always wanted to try this experiment. Watching the results on video aren't always the same as seeing it in person, I feel like this is one of those you need to be in person.

[vicsystems]

The most sincere video abt anti gravity

[TheOnlySolipsist]

Everything levitates on a scale small enough. Touching is actually an illusion.

[sandramorales]

Physics girl! Congrats for this collaboration, so good!

[dwightestrella]

If these were a series id love to watch these guys everyday...

[BaTBaiLeyS]

14:38 Seems like there's a shortage of royalty free music, sry Vsauce.

[williamphelps]

I had a great and educational time watching these folks collaborate. More, please!

[BrianKScott]

Why did I see an ad for this? Not that I'm complaining.

[ColinLeyUK]

I remember as a child about 8, I used to close my eyes whilst standing in a room one my own before bed and imagine I could levitate, when I opened my eyes a few seconds late I was in another part of the room facing a different direction. I could never explain if this really happened, I just believed it did to this day 50 years on.

[thecutetimo]

I like that my man ColinFurze got to be in a BBC video.

[charlesallen]

I did this with my guitar, salt, a marshal stack (4 12 inch speakers) and a hollow box. I found that particular notes resonated with the box in different ways, but not every note would create a clear picture.
Even more strangely was that arpeggios seemed to have the greatest effect on the shape of the salt patterns.

[ragnkja]

Microgravity is sort of ruled out by the "no moving parts" criterion, since you're moving quite a bit in order to stay in orbit (or even on a parabolic flight).

[rickedwards]

No idea if this is the done thing, but thanks very much to everyone who is watching and commenting! Was a real privilege for me to work with all these great science creators on YT.

Also, if you're into science (which I'm assuming you are), you might like the podcast I do with Dr Michael Brooks, all about the big science questions raised in popular culture. It's called Science(ish) and available everywhere.

[siddharthkothari]

Diana and Colin in one video! It's a superb mix of profiles, an inventor who makes the craziest of things without engineering background and the physics girl! Absolutely loved the explanation.

[famfungamepassion]

Congratulations on the success of this project. You guys should sell it and make it available for everyone. Or even continue the project as a company of your own. We are all looking forward to levitate.