Worth understanding that when a cosmic ray legitimately hits a cloud chamber, it leaves a much more vivid trail. Pretty rare but it does happen. The trails seen in this video are almost certainly entirely from Earth-bound background radiation, leaving the weaker trails typical of beta particles.

He rules the fools.

@@k12rising Well, you seem to be one obnoxious individual.

@@k12rising fool

​@@k12rising boner

I think he is inferring to how we became humans in the first place.

Did you look at it at different angles? Just thinking.

Source of the particles might be a factor. The sun is spewing a lot of stuff at us constantly and it's a heck of a lot closer to us than another star.

@@JoshuaBrierton god, I'm so retarded. and like..... it really couldnt be ANY BIGGER huh. (well, no, actuallly it could be way bigger, but, still big enough.) see thats why i got you, to remind me just how dumb i am thank you (i think the sun looses around is it 5 million tons of matter mostly as particles...... PER SECOND?

@@rocklobster1976 you’re not dumb at all mate, when observing something that mechanistically may be complicated to understand, it’s easy to then think complicated when identifying the source of it without contemplating the simple bits. Goes to show how things still being discussed in the cutting edge of scientific discovery, are just happening around us all the time, makes you wonder what else there is that we have yet to discover

genin69 That's the liquor talking.

genin69 really

They aren't attracted to the alcohol. They're whizzing around all over the place. You can just see the trails they leave when they go through the alcohol.

It's pretty much the bouncing of the metal against the solid Co2 caused by the pockets of gas what causes that sound.

I think its rapid contraction of the metal......that sounded...

because atoms are mostly empty space, the particles are incredibly small and dont interact very strongly.

If you place it *right* next to the ring when it's operational, you'll probably see a thick cloud of lines, because the LHC emits lots of fun things when working. Same can be said for, say, a piece of uranium ore(which you can buy if you're in the US), or an ionisation-based smoke detector. The latter two will have to be placed inside the chamber though, because they mostly emit alphas.

The detectors of the LHC are huge and sophisticated versions of exactly this.

wheres the wonder in that?

Lol I knew you'd be here Dylan

Welcome class of 9K.

@@bmw325i_85 lmao

Alcohol evaporates at a reasonably low temperature to form the vapor needed to see the particle interactions

The dry ice is used to super cool the alcohol vapor. In this state the alcohol vapor is 'super critical', it is cooled past it's normal condensation temperature. The vapor only needs a little "push" of energy to condence. The push comes from the high energy particles which crash Into the alcohol vapor and ionize it in little streaks. The ionized alcohol molecules then attract other alcohol molecules around it and condense into streak of alcohol droplets.

sebastian ayala Thank you

Jesus was invented, possibly by a cosmic ray hitting a synapse in a Jewish elder

I'm not sure what you mean. The Muons are produced higher up in the atmosphere and then some of them come hurtling toward the ground at high speeds where their effects can be measured in cloud chambers like this. The only reason they can reach the ground before decaying is due to time dilation.

no-one detects things using relativity.

It does and there are. Mutation doesn't mean like x men where someone gets claws growing out of their arms randomly. Its not nessisarly that noticeable but just thinking of negative mutations, think of all of the genetic disorders out there. It's also important to mention that this isn't the only way genes mutate. Theres errors in cell copying etc.

@@SandManEXP I'm no expert, I've heard of genetic disorders but I've never heard of them suddenly developing. That's what I'm assuming it would be like. There're so many particles passing through us that I would assume developing genetic disorders would be common - like seasonal allergies, colds, etc.

@@sonpacho They can suddenly develop. Its random. Not very likely though. It would depend on what type of particle and it doesn't nessisarily mutate your genes every time it hits one. "When ionizing radiation interacts with a cell, several things can happen: The radiation could pass through the cell without damaging the DNA. The radiation could damage the cell’s DNA, but the DNA repairs itself. The radiation could prevent the DNA from replicating correctly. The radiation could damage the DNA so badly that the cell dies. This is called apoptosis. One dead cell is not a big problem. After all, millions of your cells die every day. But if too many cells die at once, the organism could also die." "as many as 5% of an astronaut's cells might be killed during such missions." "Recently reported estimates of the human genome-wide mutation rate. The human germline mutation rate is approximately 0.5×10−9 per basepair per year." ^This is the closest I got for rate of mutations.

@@SandManEXP "Not very likely though." That's what I don't get. Just using the examples you listed and the amount of particles passing through us every second...it would seem more weird stuff would happen more frequently. The way my brain is understanding it is: we're basically walking on the bottom of the ocean without getting wet I understand he said it was only a 'theory.' So I'm not trying argue the point either way. Doesn't that also suggest if we [humans] went to a region of space with different concentration of particles we might unravel on a genetic level? The more I learn the more I'm convinced that NOTHING that actually wanted 'life' to succeed would've designed sh*t like this...lol!

​@@sonpacho "Doesn't that also suggest if we [humans] went to a region of space with different concentration of particles we might unravel on a genetic level?" ^ ^Yes, This is what happens to a person during a radiation leak in a nuclear power plant for example. They effectively melt as all their cells die, skin falls of etc and then their body kills itself. (Don't google images) This is also why people who are around a lot of radiation get cancer more often. Also sunbathers with skin cancer. UV radiation (from the sun or tanning beds) is the number 1 cause of skin cancer. Its a cell replication mutation. (Tumor) With the likelyhood of mutations in general its all up to chance, but the chances of a cell actually mutating after getting hit by a cosmic ray is clearly not that high. As well as this are a myriad of other things that can happen like I mentioned. I feel like we should be opperating under the assumption that nothing did design this seeing as we are talking about genetic mutations. A theory not supported by creationists. Btw "Theory" in science means "a fact as far as we know". There are no facts in science, only theorys. because it would imply you know everything. For example, gravity is a "theory".

"Frozen carbon dioxide", he says. Basically solid CO2.

you sir should read over those statement again, search online or read a book even on ACTUAL facts and then fix what you wrote. F-

Godness Punk How are you? this is one of my favourite subjects that I have read many books on both for and against the belief system of evolution. The latest one I read is called Genetic Entropy & the Mystery of the Genome by Dr J.C Sanford great book. Dr Sanford is a highly qualified geneticist and points out many issues with the theory of evolution in relation to genetics. Are you aware that science has never demonstrated a mutation that can increase information in a genome based on that fact alone evolution should be abandoned as a science. Also the next point which is very interesting is that a majority of mutations are neutral or negative. If in the highly unlikely chance a positive mutation ever occurs the neutral or negative mutations cancel it out in a process called genetic drift. Plus there are many other observational evidence which does not fit the belief system of evolution such as soft tissue being found on dinosaur bones supposedly millions of years old.

Soft tissue? That was explained already by the scientist who found the soft tissue (who happens to be a creationist as well). Iron acted as a preservative binding to the soft tissue and allowing it to retain its form indefinitely. They even replicated the process with ostrich cells, I believe, in which the cells soaked in iron were relatively unchanged after years at room temperature. A simple google search will net you dozens of articles describing "increasing information" through mutations, but it really comes down to what you mean by that term and how honest you are in what qualifies.

Evolution is used every day in pharmacological labs, and they make billions of dollars doing it. It's observed in the lab and in the wild. It's used successfully in labs finding ways to get viruses to make batteries and other useful things. 'Natural selection' means keeping the good mutations and throwing away the bad ones. You make our argument for us. It exists, it's a fact, denying it can't change that.

Nope

the video is 100% correct.

+Ashlia Bian Mutation is what causes variation. Natural selection, as name suggests, selects which mutations are more beneficial to the organism.

natural selection is waht keeps the positive mutations, whatever the source. Mutations can be caused by radiation or mutagenic chemicals from the environment or cosmic rays.

Interesting comment! Variation is present in populations, it is the difference between one Individual and another In the population of species. Natural selection may favor one type of variation over another depending on many environmental factors. Variation may arise from gamete mutation, changes in gene regulation, sexual selection, chromosomal reshuffling, exon shuffling, etc.... I think it is interesting that organisms can evolve without having to wait for random mutation to arise, it can happen through the other methods I listed.

Yes. Pretty frequently, your DNA is hit by some sort of ionizing radiation (some of which may be cosmic rays). When your DNA fails to repair itself after such a collision, it can result in a mutation. If that mutation causes the cells to rapidly replicate out of control, you have cancer. However, any individual collision is unlikely to cause cancer, and there really is no way to avoid exposure to some radiation since it is literally everywhere.

Joel Frankford. cheers

Joel Frankford No wonder I have heard that star light causes cancer :-D