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[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Veritasium kinda obviously dumbs things down and sensationalizes stuff somewhat, compared to actual scientific content creators. But the peak of this was when he popped up with a video about how “electricity works differently than everyone thought”, with the two long wires doing induction or whatever, and then every physics and electrics youtuber had a reply video explaining how Veritasium was wrong with his theory.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

and then every physics and electrics youtuber had a reply video explaining how Veritasium was wrong with his theory.

Veritasium's first video was making the claim that a thr setup with wires stretching in either direction for a mile would have the lightbulb turn on faster than electrons or even light could travel through the wires. This is because the electric field extends out of the wire in all directions, not through the wire, and inducts through the other end of the wire without travelling all of the distance.

Then a bunch of other Youtubers made response videos saying he was wrong.

Then Veritasium made a second video where they actually did the experiment and proved themselves right.

You don't know what you're talking about. Shut up.

[–] jonman364@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, sounds exactly like science to me. Here's my claim, here's how I came to that conclusion, now show me how I messed up.

I don't think most people realize that most science YouTubers are expert communicators, not necessarily experts in any particular science field.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

No, Veritasium did the experiment and proved Veritasium right

[–] jonman364@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

I was agreeing with you. He made a new claim, showed his work, and asked, indirectly by posting the first video, to have experts in the field prove it wrong, or right.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 days ago

But the peak of this was when he popped up with a video about how “electricity works differently than everyone thought”, with the two long wires doing induction or whatever, and then every physics and electrics youtuber had a reply video explaining how Veritasium was wrong with his theory.

fun fact: i study physics and one of our profs actually referred to exactly this video as a nice visualization of what we were doing in class. they said that the video's right, actually, but there's lot of dumb people on the internet who don't get that and who nonsensically shit on stuff.