Ridiculous Magnets Colliding at 187,000FPS - The Slow Mo Guys
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Gav and Dan pull out the scariest things on shelf, and try not to destroy all the expensive equipment in the room with them. Don't mess with large Neodymium magnets. They will crush you.
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Ridiculously Powerful Magnets Colliding at 187,000FPS - The Slow Mo Guys
Hope nobody minds but I’m going to start uploading more frequently. We’ve been filming like crazy. I just need to keep up with the editing!
THANKS GAV AND DAN
I will always appreciate an educational slow motion video with you two handsome lads! 😊
That isn't something to mind! Love your content
Well, if you MUST upload more, I think we'll live, yes! 🙂
How DARE you
Dan's sly and subtle Prince Albert joke was fantastic
Are we sure that it was a joke?
@@vcprado We demand pics!
@@vlogerhood or slow mo videos!
From gavs reaction he enjoyed it as much as we did. Perfect delivery
I wonder how many viewers actually get that though...
Dan with the perfectly straight faced and subtle prince Albert joke was just perfect
love how gav's head snapped up in the background
Watching Gav buckle for a second in the background was amazing
It's not a joke though..
@@SineEyed oh what, you've seen it?
@@bekaz13 I mean... lots of people have probly. He did a video on it on his personal channel a long time ago..
This was stinking cool !!!
Hi there Scott 👋🏻 Good to see you in the community again!
Hey there Scooter
So shoot a magnet next?
When’s the slo mo 4 bore video coming?
I think it has been done before, but how about you get these guys back on your range and you guys test to see how many neodymium magnets it takes to bend a bullet and how many it takes for each caliber. Odds are is that it'll only take about 3 shots before a bullet hits a magnet, but it'd be cool. You know a .22 might whip around a single magnet block. A 9mm would whip around 2 of them. A .45 would just slam into 2 of them, 5.56mm would speed by. .338 Lapua would start spinning or something. It'd be a neat video and you'd need proper slow mo to see exactly how much effect the magnets had on the bullet's path.
That was so incredibly violent! I share Dan’s respect for huge magnets. I feel like they constantly want to smash my fingers off.
i feel bad for the magnets 😢
when is _that_ video coming?
They do. They just B that way. I Gauss we will just have to live with it.
im with destin they are out to get you lol
Even the small ones are dangerous. I have a few 15mm by 6 mm neodymium magnets and they are very difficult to get apart. Only way is to slide them side to side. I have had them stacked and put them on the front of my fridge. Then tell people to pull them straight off. Can be done, but not easy.
In order to dispose of the magnet shards, a propane torch works wonders to reduce or eliminate the magnetism.
> In physics and materials science, the Curie temperature (TC), or Curie point, is the temperature above which certain materials lose their permanent magnetic properties, which can (in most cases) be replaced by induced magnetism. The Curie temperature is named after Pierre Curie, who showed that magnetism was lost at a critical temperature.
When I first learned about that, where you can destroy a magnet with enough heat, I thought it was so cool. Not so permanent now, are you?
i think it's good magnetism is reduced with heat because molten metal that's also magnetic sounds terrifying
@@float32 Then why does the sun have massive magnetic fields?
@@andregon4366 convection, I'd assume. (edit: I wonder if a vortex of molten iron would produce a measurable magnetic field.)
No joke, the best friend energy is wholesome af, and their reunion video was one of the happiest things I’ve seen on KZhead.
The sheer amount kinetic energy that gets formed in that span of time to blast those two magnets to pieces is INSANE, like honestly that is terrifying
No. You swinging a hammer is going to have more kinetic energy involved. Those magnets are extremely brittle and werent going more than 15mph. Learn to actually do math and physics and stop trying to make dumb assumptions about things you dont understand.
@@thomgizziz You should perhaps do a experiment where you take two fingers and crush one with a sledgehammer and one twixt two of them magnet things and see if you can still talk all tough like.
@@thomgizziz They ARE very brittle, but like most brittle things, that just means they're sharp when they break. Bonus danger! BUT they're also very heavy, so there's the nice mass part (more than a hammer, and possibly even more than a sledge hammer when both weights are included honestly) of the equations. Speaking of BOTH magnets, they're both moving, you have to establish one still as your frame of reference, so I'm guessing 15 mph is a low ball. Also, Energy isn't about speed, it's about acceleration! Magnetic field strength drops off as a square of distance, so by the time they're millimeters apart, they're accelerating at much more than the midpoint speed would suggest. THUS while the kinetic energy in the lead up isn't super insane, at the point of contact, it is! So, no, even swinging a 3 lb sledge hammer couldn't compare to the point of impact from both magnets moving to each other, thom. Bush up on your conceptual physics because you can't do the math until you understand the basics.
Take a moment to realize that these guys have been entertaining us for over a decade.
I thank them sincerely for every minute, it's been worth it.
@@CL-we8tn Indeed
I watched the all-videos-playlist the other day. It's easily as fascinating as a slow mo video by itself. Because all they do are slow mo videos. It's so simple. But then it's so entertaining too. You could get rid of every TV show ever but Slow Mo Guys should be a constant of the universe like light speed. ^^ (But still no one-inch-punch-Vid... ;P)
Yabbut, that's only 2.739 frames a day. Big deal. (grin)
Yea, you can count the annual rings on their forehead. 🙃
You guys should do this again, but under water! I'd love to see the compressed water exit all these cracks.
That would honestly be pretty darn cool. Would water slow the magnets down enough to not get the same effect? Would it be more crazy impressive? We need to know.. FOR SCIENCE!
Certainly would slow them down a lot. I wonder if they would even shatter. Yes, do it. 😂
Water is incompressible.
@@Max_Jacoby It will compress if you pour it into a black hole. 😂
@@my3dviews You don't even need that, ocean water is 4% more dense at its greatest depth than at the surface.
"I've removed my watch, my belt, my Prince Albert and my wallet" I coughed up a lung from the burst of laughter mid-sentence.
5:12 I love this interaction. "There were sparks though" really got me lol.
When Dan said "There were sparks though" my heart completely melted
Yeah that made me smile.
Gav relating the magnets meeting to when he first saw Dan after the pandemic was so freakin’ adorable “there definitely were sparks”
i bet they were magled up for a few moments as well
So cool to see! I'd also be interested in seeing magnets like these collide underwater, just to see if it'd turn out any differently or if there would be some neat shockwaves
I really appreciate that you guys have chill energy for your videos. even when it's crazy stuff, you're always pretty chill and not like, yelling at us and trying to hype us up.
Two incredible views - the view of the truly frightening power that those magnets have as they self-destruct and the view in the shadows of Gav trying to keep it together when Dan said that he had removed his Prince Albert 😂🤣
was wondering if anyone else caught that. lol
It cracked me up so hard 🤣🤣🤣
Hilarious!
Highly educating, as usual!
what's that?
I love that this channel doesn’t spend 50% of the video just hyping up what they’re doing, just straight to business!
If I’m not mistaken, as pieces break off of larger magnets they form their own magnetic field which is what causes them to get all mixed up as they smash back together. Each piece is trying to find a spot of opposite polarity to stick to, and because there’s so many pieces there’s many different magnetic fields in play of different strengths depending on their size. Super interesting to see it in slow motion though. I might have to do this with some magnets myself to make some little desk art pieces because they’re super interesting looking once they smash together. Very neat stuff!😊
There was one big chunk (oddly enough, right above the two they highlighted) that you could see it initially spinning in two axes, and then it just sorta... slowed down and you could literally see it lose an axis of rotation but keep spinning in the other axis as it came back towards the larger mass.
All those lines of flux. Incredible really.
It’s really cool how pieces that break off, have a change of polarity and spin around before being sucked back in to the clump.
Am I the only one who heard that Transformers sound for the second one?
What's even cooler is how the large shards were spinning rapidly and then instantly stopped rotation because of the magnetism
I hope these guys never stop doing what they do, they are so pure.
Gotta always appreciate dan and gav letting us visualize our childhood playtimes. I remember having so kuch fun playing with tiny magnets and seeing this at this scale is awesome
I always forget these guys exist and then I rediscover them again and they bring such a smile to my face. Repeat cycle.
Something really unreal about how these slow motion shots looked. None of the shards act like you’d expect from other explosions. Love it!
1:01 Dan giving us a little TMI 🤭
7:41 watching that piece detach and reattach is oddly satisfying.
Prince Albert removal before holding those neodymium magnets in that spot was a sound plan right there 👍🏻 The slow mo on that would have been something else entirely 😳
While it is sad to see perfectly working magnets getting destroyed, it was so worth it :D The sparks are likely tiny, pyrophoric pieces of the NdFeB material - igniting automatically with the oxygen in the air. Great video!
Love your videos on neodymium magnets, yes sad to see them destroyed but awesome to see what happens when they're 'let free' like this.
I was thinking "I hope Brainiac75 sees this", this truly puts your warnings about the dangers of magnets into perspective!
I knew you'd be around.
so glad to see you here!
Is the metal hazardous once it's outside the nickel plating? Bad to breath the dust?
Dan clearing the magnet into a box with a 2 by 4 like it was a deadly spider. Hilarious.
You know, these guys still have the same energy of two guys in they’re backyard doing these experiments. It’s honestly amazing the things they caught on film
That “Prince Albert” joke was perfectly delivered. 😂
5:14 That might be the cutest thing Gav's ever said to Dan on this show.
Had a friend who was experimenting with those exact same magnets. Had a controlled collision, turning into a 'magnet meatball' as he called it. Picked up the remains in a hand and went looking for shards he saw flying. Picked up a shard with another hand and BANG, the shard went THROUGH the back of the hand holding the meatball. The shard had small and pointy, like an arrowhead. Nicked a tendon and gouged one of his metacarpals. It was so fast and sharp, he only felt a tug, then wondered where the shard had gone, and then why blood was pouring from his hand. It also severed one of the veins on the back of the hand holding the meatball.
Youch!
Yeah the micro shrapnel in that lab would be terrifying for sure!
Nooooo thanks. I just crushed a finger tip folding a metal table two months ago, you can keep all this stuff right away from me.
...ow.
When working with magnets, never forget: You Are The Meatball.
What we really needed was the same shot attempted with each of the magnetic conglomerates... I'd love to see them streak together and rearrange themselves as they merge.
I love how over the years you made this more about the process of discovering the slowmo footage, instead of just showing it. You two are naturally funny and it really makes for a good show, thanks:)
Gav and Dan have consistently been making one of the best channels on youtube
yeah i was just thinking that too, they've been going for a while now and each video is just always good.
og GOATS of YT
Had me looking up what a "Prince Albert" is. Wish I didn't.
You now see the importance of it being removed😂
I already knew what it was but i didn't need to think about Dan having one but... well he put that thought in my head now.
It was Gav's reaction that made me have to look it up. I think I involuntarily grabbed them and winced.
Came straight to the comments after hearing price Albert
The way he looked up as if he didnt hear right😂
Definitely one of my favourites! Love all the sparks, the colours, the unusual movement that you would not get with non-magnetic objects, the dark background, and the really cool sci-fi-esque shape you get afterwards!
This is sweet. The way the little bits move outward & some come back to the center really reflects how things move in space, I think. Magnetism and gravity are more similar than I originally thought! Super cool
Would be interesting to see this with objects in the middle to see how much damage it would do due to the forces of attraction.
A hot wheels car? Or a plastic toy?
they kinda did that in the episode of one of the KZhead shows they did
use a prince ruperts drop
Get the Maltesers back out
A vial of Nitroglycerin!🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞
I still don't think there is a channel better than this on KZhead. The Joy, enthousiasm, friendship, science, visuals and even sound is just unmatched.
Incredibly cool! More exploration with these needed
8:00 INSANE, this literally feels like watching planetary objects being formed. Really makes you think about the universe at scale and how gravity attracts objects into a ball of mass.
Nice! I had not considered that, interesting take.
I was thinking more a Transformer, but it did bring to mind how electrons and atoms get messed about to me. So it helps to represent both a scale up and a scale down :)
Good thing feelings arent reality. You should really stop feeling instead of thinking because you are terrible at feeling anything that makes sense.
An idea for these magnets: What if you did that but underwater, like the water would probably boil and it would look cool in slowmotion. (this is just a theory, no facts)
I suspect that the water would slow them down enough that they wouldn't break, just stick together in an uninteresting way.
Water doesn't boil because you wham two pieces of metal together moderately hard.
@@aluisious they are referring to how, if an object moves fast enough in water, it creates a cavitation bubble (a vacuum) that gets very hot because the pressure is so low compared to the rest of the water that it pulls the water apart into steam to raise the pressure
@@aluisious doesn't it? only one way to find out
I was also thinking the water would slow them down and it wouldn't look as cool as it did here. But what about if they covered them in wet paint instead??
Love Gav's reaction when Dan mentions removing his Prince Albert. Anyway, store it by encasing them in a 3x3ft cube of epoxy.
The attractive force between these magnets is increasing by orders of magnitude as they approach, and that really shines through in this. So cool.
If you guys ever try this again I'd love it if you put a reflective surface behind it so you could see both sides at once. This really seems like one of those experiments best viewed from all sides.
Go to the top!
The mirror would need to be really really close to be in focus. They need as much light as they can so they open the lens at max aperture = very shallow depth of field
With a protective layer on the mirror to prevent it from shattering
@@petitblackriver two cameras?
@@anonymouscommentor411 good idea, might have to be like bullet proof glass. I think the guys should have a containment room like in the comics.
Magnet channels: DONT LET THEM COLLIDE EVER, THE WORLD WILL END The Slo Mo Guys: you say something?
The Slo Mo Guys: I wonder what the world ending would look like at 187,000 fps.
hoLd mY pHantoM
That false knee walk bit was so well executed
love the wide shot. the shape of the entire debris field shows a beautiful interplay of magnetism gravity acceleration. Super cool.
The attractive forces of those magnets are nothing compared to the attractive forces of Gav and Dan respectively! :P
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But there is also more mass involved, so it might cancel out ;)
I don't think you need the word respectively here lol
@@aryst0kratNah Gav's attractive forces are surely bigger than Dan's ones
@@aryst0krat when you don't think, you often miss the point.
Hands down one of the best Slow Mo Guys videos. Instant classic. Also one of the most astounding bits of footage on the internet, surely! I know people say it a lot, but this is one of those channels that never loses form. They just keep getting better!
You must be new here
@@osskeet Why do you say that? I've been watching them for nine or ten years, and I think I became a proper fan around six or seven years ago.
@@daidarabotchi3891 I've been saying it for years - some day this stuff is going to be playing in The *_Louvre._* It's *_art._*
As a magnet lover, this was bittersweet viewing. I would love to see a visualization of the fields during this collision!
One of the best videos you guys ever shot! Just awesome!
At 7:22, you can see two chunks at the top spin multiple times while remaining within the magnetic range of the larger chunks. That was oddly graceful, like watching a whale spin or something. The chaos that happens with the impacts of the magnets is just so incredibly satisfying. To think that a short Michael Bay action scene happened within milliseconds.
Funny you should mention Michael Bay, I was just thinking the fragmented magnets moving around in slowmo looked a lot like the transformations from the Bayformers movies
5:17 Wholesome friendship.
kinda gives you some insight of what large clumps of material in space would look like when their colliding together to form new planets. its very interesting to see this
I absolutely love both of these men my life would not ever be the same or good if I could not watch their amazing footage and fantastic personalities everyday
Possibly the first explosion I have ever seen, where the pieces move away from each other and then back again. It really is quite spectacular. Despite the force throwing the pieces apart, the magnetic force is constantly trying to pull them together. Unique bit of footage, well done.
After this video I can now I appreciate the power of super strong magnets. Always heard in videos dealing with them to be careful and all, but this really put into context to why and just how strong they are.
Yea I have some half this size and they scare me. These things?! Terrifying. They are SO strong its hard to believe.
@@MattH-wg7ou "its hard to believe" That's part of the problem; they don't look nearly as dangerous as they actually are. Strong magnets are no joke. You hold one in your hand and do one wrong move, they crush your hand. Now imagine what one of the magnets in an MRI machine can do.
There's a comment below of someone doing the same experiment as in the video. They picked up the "meatball" after the collision, and went looking for one of the shards. Suddenly, that shard went through the back of their hand and out the front. They wondered where the shard had gone, and only noticed when blood was pouring from their hand.
@@renerpho yep
@@renerpho oof, and the shards are scary sharp as well!
Perfect illustration of how our planet was formed. This is very mesmerising. Hard not to watch over and over again!
The music played during the slowmo replay just gets you into the scene
A slow mo guys video is like a hug from a family member you haven't seen in a hot minute
I'd love to see this with spherical Magnets. One painted to look like earth and another smaller one like the moon 👍🏻
Luckily the moon is drifting away from all albeit slowly from our perspective
@@Divintyrious Like it’s in super slow mo? :trollface:
YEAH! THAT WOULD BE SOOOO COOL!!
Earth and Theia would be my vote.
@@Divintyrious that's really sad tho cause that means after a while total solar eclipses won't be possible anymore and that is by far the coolest natural event I've ever seen, like all the animals and insects go quite and you can feel the temperature drop as totality hits, I'm definitely making the trip to see the one in april
"They constantly uuuurrggghhh" is the best description I have ever heard about magnetism.
Love seeing the fragments rearrange themselves until all the forces involved come to a new equilibrium.
I laughed at the disclaimer and then realized you guys are doing a very important service of providing all the satisfaction of "I wonder what would happen if we did this thing---" and capturing it in slow motion so we the public can scratch that itch without putting ourselves in danger
Destin spent years, careful planning, and the help of experts devising a safe way to shoot bullets at each other. Dan uses a piece of wood, a marker and 10 minutes to do the same with magnets.
To be fair, it's a lot easier to get magnets to collide, and a lot less deadly if you're not in the middle
Completely different experiments
Destin and team's recent colliding bullets project was absurdly over-engineered.
Now, let's get Destin to use magnetic bullets! :D
@@-danRNo, it wasn't. It was designed to be fire bullets at each other, safely and consistently. It did that, and in a fairly simple way in my opinion.
Love this one. I've been magnet fishing lately and wondered how much destruction these would cause if improperly handled. I keep each one in it's own padded hard-case and I still worry about losing a finger one day.
That slow down as the magnetic fields interact is amazing
Im a science teacher, i think this could be a really cool real world video to use to demonstrate how planets form from chunks of rock. Or even how the Moon is supposed to have been formed. Awesome video!
Just remember to skip past the Prince Albert bit, or don't and see how many of the kids react as your own experiment
10 years ago I lost a good chunk of finger flesh to neodymium magnets slamming together like this. Learned a lesson the hard way about these powerful magnets. It was still there when I finally pried them apart a couple of years after the incident.
You guys are dangerous individuals....Thank you
This was stinking cool !!!. Dan's sly and subtle Prince Albert joke was fantastic.
“Yea I removed My watch, my belt, my Prince Albert and my wallet” 😂😭
The metal knee implant was frankly genius.
The descriptive wording they use is god tier ... Wobbles and chipping chippages
Do this more please! I was to see more shots of this! It's so mesmerizing!
I still cant get over, just how fast these cameras can catch something in motion! I'm always amazed at the accomplishment
Since Gav described the destroyed magnets as a paperweight, that gave me an interesting idea: How much paper could one of the magnets _rip through_ before connecting with the other? It would be interesting to see one of the magnets just *crash* through a huge stack of paper in slow motion in an attempt to try and stick to the other one.
omg yes
This is amazing to see slowed down. Seen plenty of magnets rip each other apart. If you ever go back to magnets and slow down their process of destroying things, maybe put a copper block in between them to see if it cancels out the pull? I know copper interacts with magnets in a really interesting way so it might be nifty to look at
Fire...and magnets, my biggest fears as an researcher and engineer. A great video.
These are often so good that I sometimes get laissez-faire about what I am witnessing, but this was one of the great ones, for me. Well done, lads.
I think you mean blase.
@@promontorium Oh yeah, you big gunky!?! I mean, oh yes. You are correct. :)
@@promontorium yeah that didn't make a lot of sense
You get never mind?
I love the carpet you guys must have purloined from a family fun center that closed in 1996.
I love how he felt the need to inform us that he wears a prince albert piercing
Love these two blokes so much. They are easily one of the greatest youtube channels of all time. They are one of the OGs who have been making videos for a long time. So glad they are still friends and making videos together. They are so wholesome, I will always watch Dan and Gav❤
Very, very, cool. More magnet stuff please.
Having watched that one piece hit the wood and recombine with the main cluster, I would’ve loved to see what happened if the entire collision was encased in some walls and we could watch most of the pieces come back together.
I loved how that piece instead of following a parabolic curve down instead followed a curve bending up towards the bigger remains of the magnets.
Would be interesting to see if this causes cavitation if done underwater. Not sure how you'd set up something like that but hey, you're the ones in lab coats so I'm sure you could figure it out 😉
Doubt it. They said they were going 15 mph in air. They'd go slower in water. You're not getting cavitation out of that.
@@aluisious Would still probably look cool underwater though
That actually sounds very, very cool.
It is possible that that would create a new form of matter and be the end of the universe as we know it. 😂
While this would be cool to see, I dont think they would explode as the density of water and the liquid resistance to compression may just result in the magnets coming together and not breaking, or just chipping.
I LOVE how the magnets pick up speed exponentially as they get close to each other. At first it looks like they're barely moving but the force of attraction is so strong by the end that they are flying into this massive collision!
It's not exponential, just a high order polynomial, acceleration is inverse square of remaining distance, minus speed times friction, minus air resistance, maybe a 4th or 6th order polynomial . Someone should do the differential equations and then check against the time-stamped raw clip .
What a great visual. They reminded me of a transfer once they break.
Gav's quick stand to attention and then double over form laughter after Dan's TMI :P comment absolutely sent me. Rewound it several times.
Slow motion, with anything, never gets old.
So cool to see one of the fundamental forces in action, as well as just how much energy is stored in the magnetic field.
I usually can't wait for the end of science/tech videos. With you guys, however, it's quite enjoyable!
Seeing those shards and pieces getting sucked back in after the explosion is just so magical. There’s nothing alike anywhere in nature and it’s pure magic
Except, gravitational systems in space.
At 0:58 i never expected the room they were in to be so big. I thought those shelfs behind them were way closer. 😂
I now have a new phenomenon to add to my lexicon when discussing magnets: "smashing attractiveness."
taking a sip of my tea at 5:37 i almost spit it out when gav looked under the table