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Long OPTX, AISP,& DFSC. I research & post about trends, companies/stocks, and science/tech videos with low views for entertainment. Not financial advice. DYODD

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Happy Fourth of July… A penny hides a tiny Lincoln statue inside the Memorial on its back, but he’s too small to have a face. So a focused ion beam gave him one: a real Lincoln portrait milled atom-by-atom in gallium, 18 hours of carving, on that same back side.

Happy Fourth of July… A penny hides a tiny Lincoln statue inside the Memorial on its back, but he’s too small to have a face. So a focused ion beam gave him one: a real Lincoln portrait milled atom-by-atom in gallium, 18 hours of carving, on that same back side.

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Unwrapping foil with a Van de Graaf generator, getting shocked in the ass by a Van de Graaf generator, only 2.2k views on YT how? lol

Unwrapping foil with a Van de Graaf generator, getting shocked in the ass by a Van de Graaf generator, only 2.2k views on YT how? lol

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Swimming upstream is amazing because it flips intuition on its head: instead of being carried by the flow, these tiny swimmers use vortices and pressure gradients in the current to move forward. Garuda Sanjivani shows how life doesn’t fight physics;it recruits it.

Swimming upstream is amazing because it flips intuition on its head: instead of being carried by the flow, these tiny swimmers use vortices and pressure gradients in the current to move forward. Garuda Sanjivani shows how life doesn’t fight physics;it recruits it.

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This looks like science fiction. A phased ultrasonic array creates moving pressure points in mid-air at speeds up to 9 m/s with full 360° freedom. LEDs track the acoustic focus, turning invisible sound into floating 3D images. Holograms made from physics, not screens.

This looks like science fiction. A phased ultrasonic array creates moving pressure points in mid-air at speeds up to 9 m/s with full 360° freedom. LEDs track the acoustic focus, turning invisible sound into floating 3D images. Holograms made from physics, not screens.

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Gets me everything, his reaction is priceless

Gets me everything, his reaction is priceless

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Möbius strip superconductor fast then slow then just right.

Möbius strip superconductor fast then slow then just right.

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A stellarator is wild: plasma hotter than the Sun holds its shape along twisted 3D magnetic fields, no current needed. It’s like turning Kanye into Keanu, chaos made calm.

A stellarator is wild: plasma hotter than the Sun holds its shape along twisted 3D magnetic fields, no current needed. It’s like turning Kanye into Keanu, chaos made calm.

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Demo of plasma stellarator filmed at CERN on an employee’s phone.

Demo of plasma stellarator filmed at CERN on an employee’s phone.

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I’ve always been fascinated by the Mercury beating heart. Liquid metal appears to come alive, converting electrical energy directly into motion with no gears or motors. Seeing physics behave this strangely makes Zero-point energy feel less crazy.

I’ve always been fascinated by the Mercury beating heart. Liquid metal appears to come alive, converting electrical energy directly into motion with no gears or motors. Seeing physics behave this strangely makes Zero-point energy feel less crazy.

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A stellarator is wild: plasma hotter than the Sun holds its shape along twisted 3D magnetic fields, no current needed. It’s like turning Kanye into Keanu, chaos made calm.

A stellarator is wild: plasma hotter than the Sun holds its shape along twisted 3D magnetic fields, no current needed. It’s like turning Kanye into Keanu, chaos made calm.

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Researchers at Max Planck created a space-time crystal of magnons at room temp, and filmed it. It repeats in space and time, pulsing forever with no energy input. Just nature, at “rest”. 4 years old

Researchers at Max Planck created a space-time crystal of magnons at room temp, and filmed it. It repeats in space and time, pulsing forever with no energy input. Just nature, at “rest”. 4 years old

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Bubble cavitation is wild because collapsing bubbles briefly create extreme heat, pressure, light, and microjets strong enough to erode metal turning “nothing” (a void in liquid) into a violent energy event. Empty space suddenly becomes explosive physics. Collapse = power.

Bubble cavitation is wild because collapsing bubbles briefly create extreme heat, pressure, light, and microjets strong enough to erode metal turning “nothing” (a void in liquid) into a violent energy event. Empty space suddenly becomes explosive physics. Collapse = power.

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I watched two beakers of pure water separate, yet remain connected by a suspended filament of liquid held in place by an unseen electric field. A reminder that matter is never truly fixed, just patterns of energy briefly held together by the conditions that allow them to exist.

I watched two beakers of pure water separate, yet remain connected by a suspended filament of liquid held in place by an unseen electric field. A reminder that matter is never truly fixed, just patterns of energy briefly held together by the conditions that allow them to exist.

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The single malt homemade acoustic tractor beam, showing some inverted levitation. It’s not air pushing up, it’s trapped in the vibrating frequency

The single malt homemade acoustic tractor beam, showing some inverted levitation. It’s not air pushing up, it’s trapped in the vibrating frequency

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In the Russian science festival demo (likely the 2014 All-Russian Festival of Science), transducers created standing sound waves that trapped a rock in a pressure node, making it float stably midair by balancing acoustic radiation pressure against gravity.

In the Russian science festival demo (likely the 2014 All-Russian Festival of Science), transducers created standing sound waves that trapped a rock in a pressure node, making it float stably midair by balancing acoustic radiation pressure against gravity.

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Kármán Vortex Street is a repeating pattern of swirling vortices that form when a fluid flows past a blunt object, such as a cylinder or a building.

Kármán Vortex Street is a repeating pattern of swirling vortices that form when a fluid flows past a blunt object, such as a cylinder or a building.

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Your eyes swear this shape is real… but physics says it shouldn’t exist. This impossible ring plays with perspective, angles, and depth, forcing your brain to invent what can’t survive in 3D.

Your eyes swear this shape is real… but physics says it shouldn’t exist. This impossible ring plays with perspective, angles, and depth, forcing your brain to invent what can’t survive in 3D.

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Aug 2025 , Scientists found pressure can disorder ice’s crystal lattice into a glassy, self-lubricating layer. Amazing because ice stays slippery without melting, under pressure, ice breaks its own rules.

Aug 2025 , Scientists found pressure can disorder ice’s crystal lattice into a glassy, self-lubricating layer. Amazing because ice stays slippery without melting, under pressure, ice breaks its own rules.

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As above, so below: Japan’s high-speed AFM filmed proteins walking in real time, wobbling, pausing, correcting. Amazing because we’re finally watching life’s nanomachines at work, mirroring us step for step.

As above, so below: Japan’s high-speed AFM filmed proteins walking in real time, wobbling, pausing, correcting. Amazing because we’re finally watching life’s nanomachines at work, mirroring us step for step.

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A reminder of a demo at MIT of magnetically compressing plasma on 12/6/17…I have no proof the late Nuno Loureiro had any involvement in this video just that he working on magnetic reconnection,turbulence and its role in fusion, at MIT from 2016-2025, he received tenure in 2017.

A reminder of a demo at MIT of magnetically compressing plasma on 12/6/17…I have no proof the late Nuno Loureiro had any involvement in this video just that he working on magnetic reconnection,turbulence and its role in fusion, at MIT from 2016-2025, he received tenure in 2017.

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A dead trout placed in a vortex wake swims upstream without muscle movement, and it won the 2024 IG Nobel Physics Prize. The fish’s flexible body resonates with swirling water patterns, passively extracting energy. Live trout use the same trick, reducing muscle effort by ~50%.

A dead trout placed in a vortex wake swims upstream without muscle movement, and it won the 2024 IG Nobel Physics Prize. The fish’s flexible body resonates with swirling water patterns, passively extracting energy. Live trout use the same trick, reducing muscle effort by ~50%.

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Your watching semiconductor surgery

Your watching semiconductor surgery

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This is another 13 year old video showing a weapon most people don’t know we have called, Active Denial System, It shoots 95-GHz millimeter waves that heat the top layer of skin. Effect: Feels like instant burning → people run away.

This is another 13 year old video showing a weapon most people don’t know we have called, Active Denial System, It shoots 95-GHz millimeter waves that heat the top layer of skin. Effect: Feels like instant burning → people run away.

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A rotating ball casts a shadow that perfectly matches a mass on a spring, revealing how circular motion and simple harmonic motion are linked. A visual proof of sine-wave physics in action.

A rotating ball casts a shadow that perfectly matches a mass on a spring, revealing how circular motion and simple harmonic motion are linked. A visual proof of sine-wave physics in action.

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I forget how many miss that when a propeller spins fast,it creates extreme low pressure on the blade’s back that water vaporizes. The collapsing bubbles create micro-jets at 100+ m/s. The bubbles are mini explosions. Reminder that there’s a lot beneath the surface.

I forget how many miss that when a propeller spins fast,it creates extreme low pressure on the blade’s back that water vaporizes. The collapsing bubbles create micro-jets at 100+ m/s. The bubbles are mini explosions. Reminder that there’s a lot beneath the surface.

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People don’t realize the Air Force Research Laboratory is weaponizing cavitation. QUICKSINK does not hit the ship directly it detonates a 2,000 lb bomb in the water beside/under a ship, creating a massive bubble void; the water’s return force can break the ship in half.

People don’t realize the Air Force Research Laboratory is weaponizing cavitation. QUICKSINK does not hit the ship directly it detonates a 2,000 lb bomb in the water beside/under a ship, creating a massive bubble void; the water’s return force can break the ship in half.

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Gravity drowns out the quiet forces. Remove weight and buoyancy vanishes. Invert the geometry,the anti-bubble,and surface tension becomes a cage of air. Confine a plasma and the same instability leaks its heat. Change what dominates, and the invisible runs the show.

Gravity drowns out the quiet forces. Remove weight and buoyancy vanishes. Invert the geometry,the anti-bubble,and surface tension becomes a cage of air. Confine a plasma and the same instability leaks its heat. Change what dominates, and the invisible runs the show.

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Propeller vortices are invisible corkscrews of air shed by spinning blades. They carry energy, cause noise and drag, and shape how efficiently a drone flies. Every prop is really making tiny, organized tornadoes.

Propeller vortices are invisible corkscrews of air shed by spinning blades. They carry energy, cause noise and drag, and shape how efficiently a drone flies. Every prop is really making tiny, organized tornadoes.

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A drone flying with no battery tether sounds impossible until you see it. GuRu wirelessly transmitted power through the air to directly run an untethered drone from 30 feet away and has kept one flying for 96 hours straight. Power beaming is moving out of science fiction fast.

A drone flying with no battery tether sounds impossible until you see it. GuRu wirelessly transmitted power through the air to directly run an untethered drone from 30 feet away and has kept one flying for 96 hours straight. Power beaming is moving out of science fiction fast.

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Racing plasmoids controlled by a tiny neodymium magnet. The magnet reshapes the local magnetic field, the plasmoid locks to it, and suddenly a chaotic, self-organizing plasma behaves like it’s on rails. Only 563 views on YT

Racing plasmoids controlled by a tiny neodymium magnet. The magnet reshapes the local magnetic field, the plasmoid locks to it, and suddenly a chaotic, self-organizing plasma behaves like it’s on rails. Only 563 views on YT

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Made up of nine individual simple planes linked wing-to-wing into an 18-foot span “unbreakable wing” that flexes like a bird or wave in flight.

Made up of nine individual simple planes linked wing-to-wing into an 18-foot span “unbreakable wing” that flexes like a bird or wave in flight.

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A laser can ride a falling stream of water. Shine it through a hole in a milk-clouded soda bottle and the beam stays trapped by total internal reflection, the same physics as fiber optics, just liquid and gravity doing the guiding.

A laser can ride a falling stream of water. Shine it through a hole in a milk-clouded soda bottle and the beam stays trapped by total internal reflection, the same physics as fiber optics, just liquid and gravity doing the guiding.

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Watching Galinstan react in a copper ion acid solution felt strangely philosophical. I couldn’t believe how the liquid metal suddenly spread and moved almost like it was alive, as if matter itself only needs the right conditions to reveal hidden behavior.

Watching Galinstan react in a copper ion acid solution felt strangely philosophical. I couldn’t believe how the liquid metal suddenly spread and moved almost like it was alive, as if matter itself only needs the right conditions to reveal hidden behavior.

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4th state of matter plasma. In space plasma can form crystalline structures free from Earth’s crushing gravity, spinning into vortices that even resemble DNA. Mind-blowing…this video never gets old in case you’ve missed it before

4th state of matter plasma. In space plasma can form crystalline structures free from Earth’s crushing gravity, spinning into vortices that even resemble DNA. Mind-blowing…this video never gets old in case you’ve missed it before

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Dude put a speaker in a lake playing the Schumann resonance. The fish like it

Dude put a speaker in a lake playing the Schumann resonance. The fish like it

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Pretty awesome mini Tesla coil demonstration, bottle cap to syringe

Pretty awesome mini Tesla coil demonstration, bottle cap to syringe

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The Galton board + Pascal’s Triangle shows how randomness leads to order. It’s a physical glimpse into probability, entropy, and the foundations of statistical mechanics,core to how physics understands everything from gas particles to quantum states.

The Galton board + Pascal’s Triangle shows how randomness leads to order. It’s a physical glimpse into probability, entropy, and the foundations of statistical mechanics,core to how physics understands everything from gas particles to quantum states.

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A living mandala under the microscope, Trichodina, a single-celled parasite on fish. Its disc spins with perfect symmetry and cilia, a sacred geometry of motion and balance where even a parasite mirrors the universe’s hidden order.

A living mandala under the microscope, Trichodina, a single-celled parasite on fish. Its disc spins with perfect symmetry and cilia, a sacred geometry of motion and balance where even a parasite mirrors the universe’s hidden order.

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The unbreakable wing, flex 9 flight, I love this video, these guys are great Everything is a wave

The unbreakable wing, flex 9 flight, I love this video, these guys are great Everything is a wave

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Still my most shocking video. Vibrate soapy water at the right frequency under an LED ring, and chaos snaps into frozen complexity. It’s so counter-intuitive it breaks your intuition. Bubble cymatics has that effect on you.

Still my most shocking video. Vibrate soapy water at the right frequency under an LED ring, and chaos snaps into frozen complexity. It’s so counter-intuitive it breaks your intuition. Bubble cymatics has that effect on you.

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