Laser Microscope Made With a Drop of Water

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@Adelnoor_ 3 жыл бұрын

"I thought a spider was crawling across the floor right there, but it's just spores in my water" is surely a sentence i did not think i'll ever hear

@Andrew90046zero 3 жыл бұрын

This could be the start of a "The Action Lab, but out of context" video. You never knooow.

@ateyaba7253 3 жыл бұрын

@@Andrew90046zero I checked out your channel but sadly no such compilation I am quite dissapointed 😒

@Andrew90046zero 3 жыл бұрын

@@ateyaba7253 well I was hoping somone else would do that xP It's free real estate

@NoraTheCreator117 Жыл бұрын

r/brandnewsentence

@pbp6741 3 жыл бұрын

Hands down the coolest new home experiment I’ve seen in years. Thank you.

@Anshul93798 3 жыл бұрын

@Ur Friend reported for sexually explicit material, spam, child abuse, harassing me lol 😂

@cameronhuff5170 3 жыл бұрын

@@Anshul93798 lol what did he/she say? I would really love to know.

@Anshul93798 3 жыл бұрын

@@cameronhuff5170 Spreading their Religious thing under scientific channel. It doesn't even makes sense.

@Eetami90 3 жыл бұрын

@@Anshul93798 wtf are you on?

@theheavy5412 3 жыл бұрын

What did @no say

@Tom5TomEntertainment 3 жыл бұрын

I'm surprised they never do this in school

@WolfRAMt44 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah

@yaboiavery5986 3 жыл бұрын

@@Flashisgreatfr hey kid, learn how to market yourself better

@thanhavictus 3 жыл бұрын

People just never knew. It took modern min-maxing of kits and ideas to get this far

@StrawHatRain 3 жыл бұрын

Powerful lasers like the one used in the video are ridiculously dangerous. But if the experiment still works with a regular laser then yeah this would be great to do in school

@ΣιγμαΠενισ 3 жыл бұрын

@@StrawHatRain no I need to see styropyro make a drop of water evaporate using a laser

@CesaR-nq5qq 3 жыл бұрын

These type of channels should be supported and promoted instead of those useless TikTok video channels.

@mr.stealyourspaghetti8004 3 жыл бұрын

@Alxbrtr 3 жыл бұрын

And make science out of School.

@sawc.ma.bals. 3 жыл бұрын

Fr and those stupid yt shorts reaction channels that just steal content and stare at them from a corner of the screen with no feedback

@Favmir 3 жыл бұрын

@@sawc.ma.bals. Literally tiktok trash transfers

@ceciliapares2804 3 жыл бұрын

Oh my!! I so agree!👍💕

@xavy_ 3 жыл бұрын

A little something to add to this: this might work better in a vertical setup rather than the horizontal setup used here by having the drop of water on a clean glass slide or petri dish rather than having it hang off of something and having the laser shining from below or above. This will reduce some of the irregular distortion due to the shape of hanging drop. Also, magnification factor could be varied in a controlled manner by having varying degree of hydrophobicity on the surface of glass and the shape of glass.

@terratec1001 3 жыл бұрын

I think the droplet has to be spherical for this experiment to work. On a slide the drop would spread out and be flat.

@westonding8953 3 жыл бұрын

The light would have to go through the Petri dish. That might distort it more.

@10163me 3 жыл бұрын

I think his laser needs a lot of space to disperse that far, hanging this vertically might require a large vertical space for this to work

@rudraxx 3 жыл бұрын

@@terratec1001 yeah but if you have a coat of hydrophobic material on that glass then the droplet will be nearly spherical

@_Just_Another_Guy 3 жыл бұрын

What you're describing is essentially a microscope.

@shaheertashfeen4414 3 жыл бұрын

Just casually waiting for the video on a desktop nuclear reactor.

@lua9502 3 жыл бұрын

@redxpen thats crazy

@h-Films 3 жыл бұрын

@@Flashisgreatfr stop

@user-221i 3 жыл бұрын

You should tell that to diy perks

@godcomplex1929 3 жыл бұрын

This man gives me the answers I was wondering forever for free, meanwhile School gives me sth I don't need irl and still charges money enough to buy a mansion

@oliverpunter7140 3 жыл бұрын

@@Flashisgreatfr didn't know bots could be classed as kids...

@illfightforfreedom2954 3 жыл бұрын

@@Flashisgreatfr haha I never thought about it. Thank you for the fun fact🙂

@CJ-mr8dn 3 жыл бұрын

@@Flashisgreatfr reported for spam

@clown134 3 жыл бұрын

school teaches u how to think not what to think. or well, ideally

@KokoJeuru 3 жыл бұрын

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@mjames7674 3 жыл бұрын

This channel is continuously impressive. New science experiments every day!

@d-channel5841 3 жыл бұрын

"Mom i want a microscope" "we have a microscope at home" microscope at home:

@mostly_mental 3 жыл бұрын

It's really cool to see this, since holography is what I do professionally. We make a microscope that uses exactly this principle, just engineered to be more consistent. It turns out those bullseye patterns (called holograms) are determined by the size and composition of the particles. If you throw enough computing power at the problem, you can back out those parameters and learn a lot about what's in your sample. It's been useful for pharmaceutical formulation (where protein aggregates are a big problem), semiconductor polishing slurries (where agglomerates lead to damaged electronics), and a whole range of other industries.

@VideoSage 3 жыл бұрын

I've seen this happen on droplets of sweat on my eye lashes! Always figured it was probably a visual hallucination, or brain misinterpretation, but now given how accurate it is to this, I suspect it was the sunlight causing magnification of whatever was in the sweat.

@dfhdf4214 3 жыл бұрын

the reason this works is because lasers are different than normal light/sunlight so i have to doubt your theory

@PoisonBannana 3 жыл бұрын

What you're experiencing is just light refraction, the angle your eye sees sometimes happens to be the right ratio for the magnification to come out clear. Light diffraction being the key evidence, but to you it's essentially using the droplet of sweat as a prism that happens to magnify depending on the angle you view it. Especially being that the round profile of a droplet greatly gives to the needed ratio that is crucial for refraction to even occur, which happens with most magnifying glasses/lenses. the more round it is, and again, depending on the angle your eye is to the droplet, will determine exactly the magnification and clarity you will see. honestly, just shining a light through the bottom of drinking glasses you might see some "shadow puppets" on the ceiling if you can angle it correctly. I would do this all the time, never really understood it till i was much older.

@Metal_Master_YT 3 жыл бұрын

yes, exactly, I did the same thing, with just my eye and a clear marble. it was definitely magnifying, because I was able to see microscopic air bubbles in the glass marble, as well as specs of dust and even small, things, I don't know what they were, but they looked like organisms of some kind.

@_Just_Another_Guy 3 жыл бұрын

Naked eye cannot see microorganisms at all. What you saw were probably "eye floaters" floating around and passing across your retina inside your eyeballs.

@angeloiturriaga1327 3 жыл бұрын

Holy shit this the same thing i did after i took a bath

@selfimprovementsimplified9370 3 жыл бұрын

Me: “Oooo” The algae: “I M B L I N D E D B Y T H E L I G H T S”

@lurji 3 жыл бұрын

cringe format

@bleachboi1921 3 жыл бұрын

@@lurji no u

@gabor6259 3 жыл бұрын

Though I can't sleep until I feel your hand's electrons electrically repel my hand's electrons.

@allytie736 3 жыл бұрын

* Blinded by the lights Reference *

@maskboy2743 3 жыл бұрын

@@allytie736 I've been tryna call

@necaton 3 жыл бұрын

its scary how water can be so dirty under an microscope. i think i quit drinking water.

@HelyoG 3 жыл бұрын

Who said those bacterias are bad to you??

@leep3261 3 жыл бұрын

uh no

@Nerthexx 3 жыл бұрын

Free protein

@xiumeihuang8331 3 жыл бұрын

Mmmmm

@xiumeihuang8331 3 жыл бұрын

Tasty

@unknownhuman9416 3 жыл бұрын

Finally some experiment I have done in my childhood. My pen laser had a detachable ring on which i could pour a drop of water and i would always check every water source with my laser 😂

@maskboy2743 3 жыл бұрын

my friend had a laser and he did this exact same thing but we used cheap setup lmao, and when i first got a laseri played with it but then i thought of this experiment so i trieddoing it and i put the drop on the surface of the lens and now the laser's dead, i'm so dumb 😭😓

@unknownhuman9416 3 жыл бұрын

@@maskboy2743 Even though i had a cheap chinese laser it was still water resistant 😂

@maskboy2743 3 жыл бұрын

@@unknownhuman9416 ;-;

@deepdownthelane 3 жыл бұрын

If I had discovered this channel back when I was in school, I'd have been pursuing a doctorate in science by now. Sad I gave up on science midlife.

@skyz3ra 3 жыл бұрын

Same for most ppl. School's just there to destroy curiosity/creativity and introduce conformity.

@generichomosapien4666 3 жыл бұрын

hopefully the school system is fixed by the time I reach college

@westonding8953 3 жыл бұрын

@@skyz3ra I don’t think that is true. I have never observed that. I don’t think it destroys creativity or curiosity but it sets you into realistic ways to fulfill them. But I will say this, if every student fully cooperated the system would be able to invest so much more for all of them to develop their creativities or satiate their curiosities.

@edithbrands6116 3 жыл бұрын

@@skyz3ra I don't think it's "just there to" etc. but the effect is much the same.

@doctorpanigrahi9975 3 жыл бұрын

You did the right thing Deepak .

@akhileshhalkarni8192 3 жыл бұрын

This is the same shit that I can see when I look up at the sky. I thought I was god gifted that I could see microscopic things with my naked eye, but turns out its a fookin eye condition.

@thanhavictus 3 жыл бұрын

It's not an eye condition, everyone sees highly magnified particles in their maculars

@user-wr2uy9pj4m 3 жыл бұрын

Same, but then it turned out just to be eye floaties

@astrophysics3369 3 жыл бұрын

Those particles which every one can see are wbc

@romi9485 3 жыл бұрын

@Ur Friend please go practice coitus with yourself

@radarmusen 3 жыл бұрын

It just need some psychedelic music, when it’s projected on the wall.

@juanpablozapata7448 3 жыл бұрын

I love how he always comes up with great science ideas to share with all of us :D

@Mike_Toreno 3 жыл бұрын

I won't be surprised if he will make a video to see sub-atomic particles with naked eyes.

@Donald_Trump_2024 3 жыл бұрын

Its actually possible believe it or not, you can put single atoms in a high-energy state until they start giving off a lot of light

@thucanhvuthi5018 3 жыл бұрын

@@Donald_Trump_2024 damn you're smart

@Donald_Trump_2024 3 жыл бұрын

@@thucanhvuthi5018 no, im not smart, its not really that unknown of a fact

@masaratech 3 жыл бұрын

@@Donald_Trump_2024 yes you are smart, move on

@Donald_Trump_2024 3 жыл бұрын

@@masaratech no u

@AlexGarcia-mr5ks 2 жыл бұрын

I am so happy you put this video up I have been doing this for years with the tears in my eyes as I squint and let light through.

@420frankp 3 жыл бұрын

Action lab and Cody's lab on the same day. To whom do I owe thy honor. 😎

@phizicks 3 жыл бұрын

2:21 wow that second one you can clearly see rings around it, like as if it's double slit style wave effect

@jouhannaudjeanfrancois891 3 жыл бұрын

this is just the most simple and awesome experience, and yes, teachers around the world, take notes please.

@thehyperscientist1961 3 жыл бұрын

I guess this works somewhat like the first "microscope" created by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. Where the lens he used was a tiny glass sphere. Amazing! Is it possible to get an effect like using different light filters on a microscope by using different coloured lasers?

@markylon 3 жыл бұрын

@edweinb 3 жыл бұрын

Wish you had tried a drop of swamp water. Should be some interesting activity visible.

@marks9444 3 жыл бұрын

I was not prepared for how mind blowing this was going to be.

@alexeytsybyshev9459 3 жыл бұрын

3:33 Oh no, he's going to give some spit facts too!

@1minutelibrary278 3 жыл бұрын

can we turn our room into club if we have that laser?

@supergamer1 3 жыл бұрын

Technically yes if you make the laser point up into a ball that reflects the light from the laser in all directions

@olarmariusalex 3 жыл бұрын

Wow!!! Best experiemnt I've ever see till now! Thanks!

@markylon 3 жыл бұрын

you need to get out more.

@mayur1993 Жыл бұрын

Your channel has been a revelation. You are doing a great job. Thank you very much for so many interesting science videos.

@zeekjones1 3 жыл бұрын

If lasers weren't so power hungry, I'd combine three to get a white beam, then use this as a night light.

@williamfraser 3 жыл бұрын

I just had to go give this a try and good fantastic results. You can even magnify something like a strand of hair held in front of the droplet.

@onradioactivewaves 3 жыл бұрын

This is cool. When I got my first laser pointer many years ago, I used it to examine the surface of countless many objects. Hours and hours of fun.

@ScottMaday 3 жыл бұрын

Not sure if anyone remembers, but an old youtuber who had a series called "Do Try This at Home" showed this experiment a long time ago. Glad to see it's being shown again!

@felicityadj5886 3 жыл бұрын

this is the the only science channel i need

@aerolab4944 3 жыл бұрын

truly awesome and easy home experiment.....really amazing for a schooler...

@TSMAG1981 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Action Lab! I’m just fellow fan loving your videos! Your videos always supports me to keep on doing science. Thank you so much for keeping up those great videos! I’ll be here always supporting you. Thank you!

@eeprom34 3 жыл бұрын

Great experiment Thanks!

@Poqkakashi 3 жыл бұрын

Should try this with the acoustic levitation machine that levitates small water droplets could inject different liquids.

@mokouf3 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks to this video, I can say that I see bacteria floating with bare eyes.

@jbirdmax 3 жыл бұрын

You don’t have to go through all that trouble. Just turn the lights off in your bathroom and bounce your LASER off the toilet water and look up.

@Asifkhan-yn3ty 3 жыл бұрын

Bacteria : Hey see pal...How handsome i am...!

@akashs6302 3 жыл бұрын

Keep doing things like this bro... Constant support from a fan...

@prathameshjugati7726 3 жыл бұрын

I had Done This 2years ago in 8th grade, A very wonderful experiment!!!

@GhostCallparanormal 3 жыл бұрын

Do I really want to see what’s in my water? Nope because I drink to much of it daily 😂

@markylon 3 жыл бұрын

too much not to much. Did all that water dilute your English?

@AeroGraphica 3 жыл бұрын

You need to further develop this idea with different drop materials ! Want to see more :)

@Idk-ks4ch 3 жыл бұрын

I've done this experiment in my high school. And all appreciated me😀

@soufiane5369 3 жыл бұрын

This video got recommended to me by KZfaq like a million times

@ThePorcelainMoth 3 жыл бұрын

I swear I learn more on this channel in 6 minutes than at least a week in school

@fiftyfat 3 жыл бұрын

Man I have a scientific session with kids tomorrow about the unseeable world and you just handed me a really cool and easy demonstration ! Thanks !

@aritrachakraborty5232 3 жыл бұрын

Hey! Great experiment. Why not have a curved (concave) screen instead of a instead of a wall, which could keep most things in perspective...

@markylon 3 жыл бұрын

yeah cause everyone has a concave wall in their house dur

@aritrachakraborty5232 3 жыл бұрын

@@markylon amazing justification 👍🏽

@dalbianco 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing this, I tried it out and it worked!

@JohnFleshman 2 жыл бұрын

I have every thing to do this experiment. Cool af man.

@sukhoy 3 жыл бұрын

Not only is a cheap microscope, it also comes with a badass proyector.

@user-wr2uy9pj4m 3 жыл бұрын

Now I wanna try it! Good thing it doesn't require anything crazy

@joshiki1827 3 жыл бұрын

Hey!! that laser guy from the football match between england and denmark might be watching ur video for a more intense beam.

@TheRainHarvester 3 жыл бұрын

What happened at the football match? I was wondering how many mW his blue laser was. Might be dangerous.

@joshiki1827 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheRainHarvester during the euro cup semi-final match between England and denmark, a laser beam was pointed out by an audience in the eyes of denmark's goalkeeper while there was a penalty kick. England team was later fined.

@ramztrl 3 жыл бұрын

Science has never been fun since 1999... Thank you man

@harleyspeedthrust4013 3 жыл бұрын

This is awesome! When I recognized those diffraction patterns as the same ones I've seen with interferometers... I s*** brix

@nealsonf 3 жыл бұрын

Great Job! Thank you!

@DUFFYSaraxian 3 жыл бұрын

The pipette is more suspect. Very cool! Thank you.

@DANGJOS 3 жыл бұрын

Wow this is really freaking cool dude! I happen to actually be doing research with lasers this summer, so that makes it even better! Those rings of light and dark around the cells might be Airy's disks. Not sure though

@djohnsto2 3 жыл бұрын

Cool! I wonder if you could incorporate a saturated clear orbee instead of the water drop, to magnify other objects or surfaces. Thanks!

@jasonbrown467 17 күн бұрын

i have had that laser for about 11 years, its no joke. your video just prompted me to rig up this fun little experiment again. i wore the eye protection and my eyes are kinda effed a little bit lol. i also went through a full set of that weird half of a 18650 battery in about 25 minutes

@KLondike5 3 жыл бұрын

Bio screen saver is soothing. Maybe I'll do this on my garage door tonight.

@IVAN_ENT 3 жыл бұрын

I feel like I have seen this with drops of water on my glasses in the sun

@Dvpainter 3 жыл бұрын

You can see this in your eyes with the right kind of light blob

@lonw618 3 жыл бұрын

I haven’t even watched this vid but I can just tell it gonna be good

@kerzwhile 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely incredible!!

@orion6able Жыл бұрын

Oh hey I used to do this all the time as a kid, the key to better images is to use a lens that forces the light into a bright condensed circle, and that will be your viewing area. If you use cells from a cheek swap the results will be absolutely amazing! Also paramecium look cool!

@user-qd9go1ii1k 3 жыл бұрын

Cool that was helpful when other people they think the water is really processed and really clean

@peterbrown172 3 жыл бұрын

That’s what the floaters in my eyes look like!

@EdzCreationz 3 жыл бұрын

Same lol

@adityatanwar2852 3 жыл бұрын

Can this be done with blood too??? And if yes then can you please make a video

@Draconiangem 3 жыл бұрын

If your blood is transparent...

@ceciliapares2804 3 жыл бұрын

I love these experiments 🤓💕👍👍

@2FortMerchantMan 3 жыл бұрын

Jokes on you, my glasses do this already sometimes!

@capy9846 3 жыл бұрын

What?

@rishimohan7768 3 жыл бұрын

You mean floaters? They aren't bacterias, microscopic but they are just protein particles lol

@zack5454 3 жыл бұрын

This is one of the coolest things ive ever seen

@804_Rider 3 жыл бұрын

You are simply fantastic, thanks for sharing!

@rajneeshifollower811 2 жыл бұрын

And in Australia suddenly a spore start crawl onto your hand then boom you are dead by those pesky spiders. 🤣🤣🤣

@patrickanderson5927 3 жыл бұрын

This one is amazing!!

@neveraskedforahandle 3 жыл бұрын

THAT WAS AWESOME

@sekritengineeringprojekt2101 3 жыл бұрын

If you get some incredibly thin wire in a loop you may be able to electrically modulate the drop size and if you strobe the laser you could maybe be able to make an electrically focused device.

@dotdankory 3 жыл бұрын

Oh that's why I see random stuff in my eye when I look into the sky

@bengardener8928 3 жыл бұрын

you should try it with droplets of plant juices and test it with plants that have infections like blight.

@olivervojtechb.4354 3 жыл бұрын

It almost sounded like one of the last sentences before death: I thought spider was crawling there but was just something in the water... Interesting idea with the laser, great video!

@ashton2283 3 жыл бұрын

ive seen the same thing at my tears too! but instead,i shine my eye at a ceiling light and it looks a bit messed up because of my eyebrows but i can see it at the edges of the viewed light source. teachnically im using the cells inside my eye as a projection pad but it still looks as cool

@DanShrigley 3 жыл бұрын

This was awesome!

@Co.partner 3 жыл бұрын

A live aquatic life wallpaper

@hieuphan4456 3 жыл бұрын

2:50: "Look how cool that is" Me: *trypophobia intensifies*

@yummychip3480 3 жыл бұрын

Really cool video. It would be cool if you looked at other substances too and see how they compare. Like orange juice, milk, even blood might be cool to check out. Keep up the awesome videos!

@taiyabkamaal681 3 жыл бұрын

Truly wonderful!

@glych002 3 жыл бұрын

When I was a kid in the 80’s I did this with a spoon and sun light. I would hold the round part of the spoon in the light and hold it close to my eye, it would show me all the things on my eye magnified.

@amirsafari7140 3 жыл бұрын

I think thats how we see microscopic things in our vision when we stare at sky

@Dr.RiccoMastermind 2 жыл бұрын

These were likely no spores in your filtered water, just particles

@infamousjax 3 жыл бұрын

quality content brother... you always blow my mind lol

@syedragibali3050 3 жыл бұрын

This is a great method

@Adam-nv9zo 3 жыл бұрын

THAT WAS SO COOL!!!

@HarshJain-it2bg 3 жыл бұрын

You seem more cool.

@thetruthexperiment 3 жыл бұрын

Okay! That was pretty cool.

@yuvallahav 3 жыл бұрын

I know liquid glass is a material also used in some pottery, usually in liquid terracotta before you pour it into moulds, does anyone know what is the commercial name for this material?