"And now i've put my wife's earring in there" - absolutely the most random thing to test, after a metal washer haha. This was really interesting James! I'm very familiar with electrostatic levitation, but never knew AC could levitate small particles in this manner. I may need to do some experiments myself!

This kind of system is called an electrodynamic balance (EDB), and we use this method of levitation in my research group quite regularly! I didn't expect to see this kind of thing on your channel, so it's really awesome to see it in a more layperson format!

These are the experiments I'm afraid to do myself but always wanted to observe what happens

I love how all of these experiments are re-creatable very easily

This is just so informative and cool. You are using so basic concepts to make such a cool setup, I loved it as an 9th grader its a bit a hard for me to understand sometimes but that's still awesome! Keep it up

This guy (and his team) is simply AMAZING!!! Great demonstration!!

I teach about Orbitrap and Ion trap systems in Mads Spectrometry and this is one of the coolest demonstration of how it works in the Ion Trap Mass spec system. When you turned the voltage up and down, it's just like how ions are selected during mass analysis. Thank you for this video!

Things i learned in this video, how to trapped charged particles, he can speak cambodian fluently, and this guys has enough pool of knowledge and the willingness to research to keep us interested in science for my future childrens in the next 10ish years.

Boom! I’m finally here early. Just wanted to say I love the channel. As a fellow lover of science it’s always been so refreshing to see a channel which makes science and scientific concepts so available to everyone.

This is actually insanely cool

I remember doing this experiment in college physics, with the goal of measuring the precise charge of a single electron. It was called the Millikan oil drop experiment. Instead of spores or oil we used some type of tiny plastic of foam beads, isolated them until there is one left, then slowly turn down the voltage until it begins to fall. Quantum mechanics was my all-time favorite course because no other course taught me more about how the universe works, and those labs were super fun.

Love your content, I love learning the topics you choose

I think my favorite part of this channel is how surprised he is with the results of some of the experiments. It’s like we are all learning together

I like the way how each video has a completely new experment

Yo te entiendo hablando ahora y tus videos son excepcionales, gracias 😃

Yes, ground that wire until it learns to conduct itself better. 😋

This is pretty cool! In chemistry class we learnt this is exactly how mass spectrometers work! they tune the voltage to select ions of the right q/m ratio

Cambodian. Duh, obviously, what did I expect. This channel finds ways to amaze me way beyond just cool physics experiments.

James: Gives wife earrings for Christmas shaped like an ion trap. Wife: "These aren't really for me, are they?"

Well, I must tell that I’ve been a channel viewer of yours for a long time! And I must tell I adore your videos! Keep going!

Bro I didn't even know these kinds of stuff existed ! This channel gives so much information .

"I speak English and Cambodian." You're full of surprises, James. And the experiment was great.

I saw the video on using sound frequencies to levitate and when he mentioned you could do it by switching and electrical field also I knew one of you KZfaqrs would do this. And I'm glad it was you because you don't cut corners or information.

Lol I love how in all your videos, when you show the results of your experiments, you still always say “Look at that!”, and I still always wonder where else exactly you think I’m gonna look?? 😄

What are the practical applications for this, and are there any fields that use this regularly?

This is a wonderful demonstration of an ion trap :)

The basics of mass spectrometry beautifully demonstrated!

"I only speak English *and Cambodian..."* He says that so casually, but it must have a very interesting story behind it

I think so this channel is very underrated

*2022 will be a great start.* Action Lab: 4:39

Yo man ,always waiting for ur video 🥰🥰🥰

How more badass can a person be ?? This man plays with matter of life just for fun 😭

Oh does he sound more energetic? Dude sounds happier than he used to

i was wondering why isn't he getting shocked yet, until i realised, "ohhh this is not that channel"😂😂😂😂

Can the particles remain suspended in a vacuum, or does air resistance play a role in keeping them in place?

When I hear you talking spanish, my heart beats faster ❤️

Something akin to this would make a really great kid’s science museum exhibit! This is an Ion Trap as you said, but can (concentrated) ion beams be made? It wouldn’t “do the thing” obviously, but now you have me dreaming of Spore Scale Mass Spectrometers or Particle Colliders lol

When you changed the "shape" of the particle-cloud it reminded me of a very crude first-gen hologram.

The paperclip was the best one, I'd be interested to see a whole manner of shapes, pentagons, c shaped ,T shaped openings etc.

All fun and games till he makes the "making an atom splitter create giant explosions"

What is completely unclear here is where the ground is in relation to the washer. It has to have a large influence on the shape and intensity of the trapping field.

Реально красиво!👌

Excelente video, muchas gracias por aportar con conocimiento de forma visual, didáctica y entretenida. Saludos desde el sur del mundo.

Great brother Love from India

5:05 - the shape reminds me of what Ferro-Fluid does when you put it on a magnet.... with the spikey-ness... Makes sense though :)

Ahora hablo un poquito de español. ¿Quien me entiende hablando ahora? Yo te entiendo perfectamente. Enhorabuena!!! Greetings from a follower from Spain!! Nice accent by the way. And happy new year!!!!!

Damn. I was wondering. Could you make a video explaining the science behind these "3D" pictures that show different images depending on how you look at them. They were around for ages and they still blow my mind. I think there might be some interesting stuff in them.

Does your family have a genuine interest in all your ideas? If so, it must be wonderful!! :) Keep making awesome content regardless, because what you do is amazing! ❤

Again playing you with the laws of the universe James? 😏🤣 Very good and awesome video as always. It was so cool to see those laser particles thapped, "dancing" and forming some kind of pointed structure, like a submarine mine, with the high voltage frequency. And, by other part, you pronounce very well the Spanish saying short phrases like that of the the parents teachers. 😀👍

Sorry for the phonetics in advance but knyom sopbai nah ta nayuk niyay peeasaa kmai!!! Sadly, apart from ‘La-or nah!’ I cant express how awesome this video was!!! Youre and inspiration bong!

Nothing makes me happier than knowing that there is a chemical called "dragons breath"

Next video -telekinesis

Did you ask her, or did she find out like the rest of us that you were using her jewelry in scientific research.😂😂😂😂😂 You're my spirit animal.

didn't know how cool particles could be

Grounding one side of a NST is a terrible and dangerous idea as they are usally centre-grounded to the core. By grounding one end, the core may be sitting at 2.5 kV, risking breakdown to the primary. If this happens you will have a direct path from the mains to the output, with minimal current limiting

This is definitely how they trapped antimatter in Angels and Demons😂

The phrase “lost a needle in a haystack” has moved to a new level, it’s now “find an electron in air”.

That's absolutely bananas. Wow.

Very interesting! You can make a 3d display with particles of different colors.

Great video. It would be even better if you got accidentally mildly shocked a couple of times while setting it up, maybe when you were pointing at the washer at around 2m

What we've learned today: -James speaks Kambodian

We don't really "see electrons" we see the potential of atoms as it's being jolted by electrons. Electrons are actually invisible to us, not observable but measured as joules of force in various amplitudes. Jolting the atom changes its position creating heat, sound and a radiating electro magnetic wave. These waves are not electrons but changes in the orientation of the atoms. It's a magnetic channel that can potentially move electrons. You can think of it as "the signal". It diminishes over distance and there is a formula to calculate the magnitude of the jolts electro magnetic force like amps divided by the radius of the wire squared. Changes in EMF are what create the photon in your mind, voice on the telephone and 1's and 0's in binary computer code. It's nature's basic language, the code of the universe. It's what creatures evolve to understand at a deep physical level by growing appendages like eyes, ears and antennae. Conversely, in related videos there is some confusion on if a light bulb comes on instantly or if it travels at the speed of light. The answer is it is usually instant to the observer. It's like turning on the water when there is water already in the hose. You don't have to wait for the hose to fill up again before the water comes out. The power within the wire is normally already there. Covalent bonds have already created the magnetic channel of the wire. Atoms are neutral when electrons are bonded with their protons. When jolting atoms the electrons cannot be in the same place at the same time so they move through the entire wire as one, becoming what is know as free electrons and potentially create a skin effect. Free electrons propagate the EMF signal through the wire at a speed determinate on wire material, size, temp, ect. The EMF emanating from the wire travels at the speed of light as it is light, however the free electrons and power are already there in a neutral position. We know this because if you take the wire and wrap it in a coil around a magnet and move it you induce current with no battery. Moving the magnet changes the EMF and the orientation of the atoms within the wire, ionizing the wire and liberating electrons and energy to be pulled where it's needed in the magnetic channel. Just thinking out loud here but what would happen if we stretched a wire to coil around the earth into outer space so that the earth fly's through it. Like a huge tesla coil, providing wireless power to the entire earth. Or what about huge balloons filled with clouds so we could harness the lightning. The "string" could be a pipe to channel vapor to the cloud and electrons to earth. BTW, thanks for reading. I don't pretend to know everything. I have been wrong before. Feel free to correct me as I realize a lot of this is purely theoretical. 20 years of telecom has got most of this stuff down to brass tacks for me though. And how brilliant is this channel? The best, absolutely magic. I love these demo's.

Man you are the reason I'm starting to like science

This is truly incredible. I think you could use it as a quantum computer as the ions are in a entangled super position. I wonder how fast the ions are moving.

You are a genius

"This is extremely high voltage and I need to be careful with this..." 'ElectroBOOM' has entered the chat...

I had recently heard about this kinda thing and it does look awesome lol

Amazing! As a lab assistant, I work with a Mass Spectrometer with a linear Ion Trap, so it's a kinda known principle to me. But to actualy see this is quite fascinating! Keep on these cool projects, I would love to see more, maybe with a expanation how it is used in cience/industry

*sick* demo!...as always, much thanks.

This guy deserves more subscription and respect . I can see scintific phenomenon with logic whic i can remember easily ,right? It is better to see his videos rather than scrolling on fb for useless shits

Tries to bind a particle... accidentally summons a demon.

Who knew The Action Lab guy would someday invent anti-gravity technology? I mean, I had a hunch, but…

Yo te entiendo, eres el mejor canal de KZfaq

This channel is the only thing I live for lol

¡Te entendí perfectamente James! saludos desde México. 🇲🇽 Love your channel.

loved it, very interesting and love the Babel, l would love to learn Spanish and French hope the earring gets back uncharged lol

Now we need to do this for larger objects.

some of the best amateur science (and footage) I have ever seen!

"it's negatively charged - see how the particles jump off it" Me: not at 480p i don't! 😀

This guy must be the most brilliant scientist in youtube. He shines in both theoretical and practical side of science. I am glad i subscribed for him.

Awesome stuff. I'm not brave or smart enough to try this. Thank you for doing this

So the particles of lycopodium powder are not rod shaped. They are oscillating at 60 Hz making them look rod shaped. At first I thought it was odd that the spores would be shaped like cones or rods (because that's what I thought I was seeing), but when James showed the slow motion footage it clicked and made sense.

This was very interesting! I was wondering what would happen with 3d shapes like a cubes etc.

That ear ring was so important

Excellent idea...carefully sourcing your experiment supplies...to get the write-off...and then later repurposing them. "Honey, I got you a little something just because I totes think you're not half bad." "Ooh...earrings. Nice. Thank you. What...uh. What is all this powder on them? You know what...forget I asked." "Yeah. Since I still have a couple more experiments to do, I thought I'd wait to fully clean them up then." 😏

Damn at 4:40 it glows better then my pc lmao

This is the content that I watch while eating :)

Cool that they form what looks like little strings.

Excellent

That’s not like a podium at all! 🤣🤣🤣

Very cool way to demonstrate this.

Fred after shaggy and scooby accidentally capture the monster through wacky shenanigans: 3:24

Por supuesto se te entiende en inglés, pero en español es aún más interesante.

I liked the old music where the bass line hits right as the spooky action starts

I wonder what sort of practical applications this could be used for? Its so interesting. Like I'm thinking holograms somehow? :D

“Honey, I’m missing an earring…”

Another excellent demo.

Thats amazing! Its like how magnethosphere traps charged particles from the sun.

Your Spanish isn’t too bad mate! Props to you 👏🏼

yo entiendo, and it makes me feel great to know that I'm not the only one who sounds like that when I speak spanish XD