I love it when different fields of science begin to converge. The periodic table was predicted by chemistry and verified by physics. It's just like how Albert Michelson used rotating optical mirrors to predict that the speed of light should be 299,864 ± 51 kilometres per second, and James Clerk Maxwell used various equations of electromagnetism to show that an electromagnetic wave, if they exist, would travel at 298,000 km/s. Quite the coincidence.

Probably one of the most under-rated channels in all of KZfaq. Don't ever stop...

Looking forward to the Dr Seuss inspired book on quantum mechanics.

Very nicely done! Not so simplistic as to leave anyone wondering how the basics work; yet not so complicated that it makes everyone's head spin (intrinsically or not!). It makes clear that, in this area, there are always more layers of complexity, and this could serve as a jumping-off point to the next layer... I hope the author of that one comment you showed, claiming that all this is just made up as we go along, can now appreciate that, yes, there *are* actual rules of physics that can predict all the chemical properties, but that the calculations necessary to carry that out, are mind-bogglingly compicated! BTW, I see that the up/down-vote ratio is 1726/17 > 100. Way to go!! Fred

I love it that Mendeleev figured out the table and because QM didn't exist every said "great work, but why?" Now we know :)

Hey thanks for the mention! Also really liked the explanation about energy and orbitals. I was wondering about that and why the shells seem out of order.

this fella can explain everything holly shit i was impressed before but now im stunned :O

The idea of round periodic table is brilliant, never thought about that :)

That “Green Eggs and Ham”-inspired quote was epic. My hat, if I wore one, would be tipped to you.

Haha! Thanks for the bad chemistry joke! I know all the good ones Argon!

Omg....why do they teach the old bc in schools? What they taught us in chemistry class is absolutely wrong! I mean...they way they've explained how to comprehend the energy levels and most definitely the orbitals! Nothing about the letter grouping, nothing about orbital overlapping, nothing about quantum spin and max of 2 (even though I do remember the teacher saying electrons don't really _spin_ , but just forget about it right now...) They need to change the school programmes! Yeah, it will blow some brains out, but it is even more difficult to "unlearn" something... I think they need to start teaching the atom model by teaching quantum states and particle properties first, instead of going from the classical model and breaking it down into nucleus and then quarks... and most certainly everybody need to stop saying "everything is made of atoms"!

Regarding the question posed at the end of the video for the best way to represent the understanding visually: What about trying for a 3-D model? As noted in this great video from Science Asylum, the shell numbers and the orbital types are basically numeric and so could form 2 increasing axes (shell no.s 1, 2, 3, 4 etc; orb types: s (a), p (b), d (c), f (e), g (f), etc): it is the groupings that are awkward. Using the a, b, c letters for visual simplicity, the groupings look like this: 1 2a, 2b 3a, 3b 4a, 3c, 4b 5a, 4c, 5b 6a, 4d,5c,6b 7a,5d,6c, 7b 8a, 5e, 6d, 8b ... What about if we use some variation of a family tree? So here is my lunatic idea: 1 - Child 2a, 2b - Parent M/F 3a, 3b - GrandParents M/F 4a, 3c, 4b - Child + Parents 5a, 4c, 5b - Child + Grandparents Child Parent Male (M), Parent Female (F) Grandparent as Parent (M), Grandparent as Parent (F) Gt-Grandparent as Parent (M), Parent as Child, Gt-GrandParent as Parent (F) Gt-Gt GP as Parent (M), GrandParent as Child, Gt-Gt GP as Parent (F) GGG-GP as GrandParent (M), Gt-GP as Parent (M), Gt-GrandParent (M) as Child, GGG-GP as Gt-GrandParent (F) 4G-GP as GrandParent (M), GG-GP as Parent (M) , Gt-GrandParent (F) as Child, 4G-GP as GrandParent (F) 5G-GP as Gt-GrandParent (M), GGG-GP as GrandParent (M) , GG-GP as Parent (F), 4G-GP as Gt-GrandParent (F) What I like about this mad logic is that it does model the categories as: 1 Generation 1 - Child 1 of 2 Generations 2a, 2b - Parent M/F 3a, 3b - Grandparents M/F 2 of 3 Generations 4a, 3c, 4b - Child + Parents (M/F) 5a, 4c, 5b - Child + Grandparents (M/F) 3 of 4 Generations 6a, 4d,5c,6b - Parent/Child + Grandparents (M/F) 7a,5d,6c, 7b - Parent/Child + Grandparents (M/F) 8a, 5e, 6d, 8b - Grandparent/Parent + Great Grandparents (M/F) That is, if I have got my own naming consistent? 😜😀

Amazing channel. I must thank you, so very much, for producing content that allows me to grasp, albeit cursory, the complex and amazing.

I made a circular periodic table in Adobe illustrator that has each atom on the energy level ring in which the new electron rests (distinctly from the prior)

Hey! I was mentioned! I'm slightly more famous than the mailman. Thanks for the response, sir.

My favourite part: No, Electron doesn't do anything like that.xD 3:50

OH MY GOD YOU ARE JUST A DREAM CHANNEL I WISH EVERYONE WILL SEE THIS CHANNEL PLEASE DONT STOP MAKING VIDEOS. I just find this channel I hope everyone finds you too

this channel is a real gem!

Another killer vid man. I know it's been explained away and it's old news, but I always wonder about the rigidity of quantum states in the midst of such uncertainty. I also wonder how the topology of the quantum world leads to processes in our world, such as emergence and self organisation.

Who else knew most, if not all of this, but still liked the video because the Science Asylum made it?

Amazing content Nick! Keep it up :D

Hey dude... your videos are amazing so dont stop making them at all! Mabye make videos that are longer and more in depth possibly making it even more technical? Perhaps make a 3-4min video touching the surface and another much longer video explaining it all in depth. (Only on the videos that require a lot of it like relativity etc) Just a suggestion, i want to see this channel grow

I always wondered if "spin" is just the fact that waves could co-exist because when one wave is a crest the other is a trough and vice-versa. This also works well with Hund's rule, electrons always enter an empty orbital before they pair up.

Recently found your channel... I’m addicted. Love these videos.

3:55 that lyric was epic 😁

My first visit to your channel. Simply wow!

Every element should have a classical alchemical symbol assigned to it (many of them classically do; antimony, tin, sulfur, etc.), and the whole thing should be arranged in a Fullmetal Alchemist-style geometric array, where each element's position let's you calculate it's atomic number and keeps rows and groups together. So, basically the circular arrangement you showed, but more badass-looking.🤘 The periodic chart that's useful for organic chemistry and creating homunculi. 👌 Or clones! :D

"Hey crazies, ready for some more quantum vidoes....?! Yeah...me neither" Best science video intro ever! :P

I like your clock very much the equation tells the number that's amazing

Can you do a video more on spin and what different spins mean for different particles, even if there is little to no recordable information on said spin numbers?

please do a video on the spin of the fermions and bosons . and also explain their spins that why fermion have 1/2,3/2... spin and bosons have 0,1, 2.

I will have to watch this video again and again, thanks!

Always with something to add to our knowledge.

Heyy , TheScienceAsylum you deserve much more subs, How did i not know about you before today 😆😎. You're AMAZING , i wanna chat with you somehow

Hi Nick, I haven't been around in a while. I'm lost .. I need to watch a lot more of your videos.

Keep them coming. I love QM.

I think the periodic table should be presented in something that would be shaped like a 4 dimensional rhombus that was elongated like it was in the accretion disk of a black hole. This would be much better than the rectangle, and more understandable.

thi channel needs to grow, and i hope it does exponentially. =)

Oh I remember this periodic table from school and it was so boooooring. Why was it not told like this..

They don´t orbit but have angular momentum so what is angular momentum?

3:03 That got me . "i was like "wait thats my name lol"

Could you do a video on emergence or self organisation?

I now want a periodic wheel of elements so bad . . .

A four year degree in chemistry, a graduate degree, teaching chemistry... and today I learned that the N also gives the number of types of orbitals in the shell.

6 months trying to understand that in school, 7 minutos to understand it completly with this video!

Thankyou it is very helpful

Please do a video on how the "shape" of the orbitals change, and how double bonds are usually associated with s and p orbitals. And discuss why d and f, and g (but we haven't seen that one yet, so maybe don't do g), don't react that much with bonding, eh but d has some involvement with reactive heavy atoms, but not as much as s and p which are usually 100% necessary with bonding, I know it may have to do with the heavier the atom, the more metallic and electron-givy they get, and bonds happen with non-metallic and sorta metallic elements. Edit: When I say "bond" I mean non-ionic bonds, since those are more an electromagnetic between two differently charged atoms, I'm talking about where the electrons get shares more equally and there is crazy orbital mixing or covailent-like bonds.

I love your videos!

Gee, that chart at 6:20 says 100 times more to me than the periodic "table" which is some kind of crazy all by itself.

I love this dude!

I just found your channel and I really like it. Especially the way you point out to things that seem kind of contradicting. ("Electrons don't obey the rules we are used to.") People that understand what you're talking about appreciate that. Please correct me if I am wrong but you didn't entirely answer the unclarity of borg972, did you? It is also unclear to me. Sometimes I read things like "those elements like to do that!" and I am always kind of scratching my head how one could conclude that. Maybe I can specify the question of borg972 a little bit: Statements like the one above ("those elements like to do that!"), are they concluded from empirical observations or from heavy numerical efforts including things like self consistent Hartree-Fock-method and then calculating transition probabilities?

I think we can reshape it into a stair pattern. Helium can move next to hydrogen, and the same thing applies to next row to cover the gap

This should go in the magazine section.

you are really the best .

Can't stop thinking about all the flat wrong shit we were taught in high school. (and, sadly, college)

Nice Dr suess reference

All this time I thought electrons orbited and span like planets... I can't believe my physics teacher lied to me

What physicist/scientist/chemist would you most like to meet? I think I would pick Feynman, even over Einstein.

You asked what shape should the periodic table be? That's a great question -- Could it be in a pyramid (maybe it doesn't have to be 2D)? I don't know... that's an interesting question, I don't have a physics or chemistry background, but I love these videos as they breakdown the knowledge for folks like us -- thanks so much, keep 'em coming!

Very useful video, thank you :)

can you recommend me a good quantum mechanics book? i finished physics graduation a few years ago and need practice! great video!

very good explanation :)

“just like anything real, it's complex". Mathematician: What the f**k?

Great video! But I still have one important and itchy question. Why do atoms seem to be the most stable with filled p-orbitals?!? Isn't that the main driving force in chemistry and the formation of molecules?

Fermi smiles like Jonathan Price. 4:34

once again great vid - did you go to Harrison high school? cant help but to guess based on 2:14 ? PS: I want more vids added to the quantum mechanics playlist :) Perhaps a quantum biology vid? So many questions on QM so whatever you know how to explain with great analogies and killer animations lighted up by humor; I'll be sure to watch

Rectangular easier to see. But circular is easier to understand the concept.

Glenn seaborg is responsible for discovering so many new elements late 1940s that a new row became necessary but Mendeleev discovered the periodic table of elements in his dream 1869.

Wasn’t there a spiraling table long ago that also predicted then still unknown elements (and particles)?

What are the wave functions of all the other elements?

Watching this video I remember that we learned some of these things in chemistry, some in physics, some in biology and also math. But it seems someone forgot to tell me to merge this knowledge together. Thanks for video. I need to watch it few times so it would stick to my poor brain

The worst homework someone can get in chemistry or qm is "make a triangular model of the periodic table, from scratch"

My gosh, I only think you gone and done it, thx bro. Orbitals in under 7 minutes, take some internalising for self of course. Oh, yeah, almost forgot, but yes what about the shape, why the shape ? I bet its to do with that Fourier business and waves isn't it ? And another thing. I don't get that whole energy level / orbital number mismatch business, OK fill up least energy first, but how do we know a higher orbital has lower energies sometimes than a lower orbital number ?

periodic table could maybe be in the shape of a platonic Planck Leangth, represented in a Euclidean Space paradigm.

How determine an elements properties to confirm in which row of the periodic table it belongs to?

I wanna know how come different elements have different properties when all that they are is just protonts and electrons? What's so special about positive charges and negative charges ? Or is there more than just that?

Usually I see the f-block separated from the rest unlike the depiction of the periodic table in this video.

I'm ... going ... to comment ... periodically ... too. Man, that was an awful pun you through in, but it had me laughing!

I thought the Periodic table was able an elements chemical properties which seems like the "shape" of the electron shells would be important since those determine bonds and bonds aren't they like pretty much what causes chemical reactions?

The periodic table fits perfectly into the Fibonacci Series Spiral.

Break each topic of this video in a single video would be better!!

amazing explanatioon.which is your latest video

lovely video :)

Oh Sir it made my head spin

It looks like whatever I read In our high schools textbooks , they are nothing in front of this I 'm still not clear about those Energy states . Why are they present there ? What if they weren't present there?? And why atom has to bee to this way ,Only?? What is Spin??? If anyone can please explain me These questions, I'ill be glad😁😁.

I like Dr Sues

I like your version of the periodic table, so could you provide a link to a downloadable higher resolution image of it? I haven't been able to find it on my own, so thanks. Your videos really are crazy excellent!

How did people way way way back when, before modern technology, know about atoms, molecules, electrons... etc and how they are structured??

Take that, Ben

Not religious but philosophical. However, 'anu' अणु literally means particle (smallest ~microscopic) that are building blocks of matter. It was postulated that all the matter we see is composed of अणु

I organized the thing by number and by the most amount of elements in the color/category I have yet to do it alphabetically

Can you make a video on what would happen if we arrange the elements of periodic table for real .......like cube of hydrogen over cube of lithium and so on for every group

1:33 "since two properties of a prticle are definite at the same timre, the can be measured at the same time" me: " i thought quantum mechanics didnt allow that"

I'm a student and I have a question. Why do electrons even rotate around nucleus of an atom? I want to clear than I'm not asking about why electrons doesn't fall into nucleus? Please answer to this question as soon as possible Thank You

I should also point out that the Platonic model, while based more in religion and philosophy than science, was quite elegant and poetic compared to our jumbly-looking periodic table. Just four elements; associated with cardinal directions, seasons, bodily fluids and what-have-you. (There's a fifth one, but we're too mortal and corrupt to ever touch it. Also it's the medium that light travels through.)

Do particles actually exist? How do we determine the position of a particle from measurement?

What’s the difference between energy and momentum?

everybody thinks positive negative electricity is one and the same thing it's not, the difference is they're two different polarities, thank me somebody got it right. It takes a Psychic and My Friend ! Don't forget to push or pull

If things like Photons and Electrons are Wave Packets, does this mean that these particles occupy the entire universe, so that every electron is actually just a bump in a electron field that fills the universe ?

They should be hexagons. Because they're the best-agons!