YouTuber Wins Crazy $10k Bet with Professor by 'Breaking' the Laws of Physics
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YouTuber Wins Crazy $10k Bet with Professor by 'Breaking' the Laws of Physics
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Re: YouTuber Wins Crazy $10k Bet with Professor by 'Breaking' the Laws of Physics
#2Scientists are like a lot of academics, in my humble opinion, they are susceptible to ego and the certainty of their knowledge. Entire careers are built around their ability to be right, and sometimes it can be hard to admit when they are wrong.
Re: YouTuber Wins Crazy $10k Bet with Professor by 'Breaking' the Laws of Physics
#3Derek Muller is a bit of a celebrity at my faculty. He is a fellow Queens University "Engineering Physics" alumni, a degree most people have never heard of. Thanks for putting us on the map, Derek!
Re: YouTuber Wins Crazy $10k Bet with Professor by 'Breaking' the Laws of Physics
#4The YouTuber is Derek Muller, his channel is Veritasium (https://youtube.com/c/veritasium), I really like his content and I would recommend it to anyone!
Re: YouTuber Wins Crazy $10k Bet with Professor by 'Breaking' the Laws of Physics
#5Just shows how these professors don't know as much as they think they do. Many act like they are so smart and above everyone else. Good to see one go down like this
Re: YouTuber Wins Crazy $10k Bet with Professor by 'Breaking' the Laws of Physics
#6If wind speeds a vehicle to some speed, and the vehicle has inertia, and the wind slows down somewhat, how is it surprising that the vehicle would go faster in the wind?
Or, does this vehicle, after acceleration has completed, purport to continuously travel faster than the wind at an indefinite steady state?
Re: YouTuber Wins Crazy $10k Bet with Professor by 'Breaking' the Laws of Physics
#7If wind speeds a vehicle to some speed, and the vehicle has inertia, and the wind slows down somewhat, how is it surprising that the vehicle would go faster in the wind? Or, does this vehicle, after acceleration has completed, purport to continuously travel faster than the wind at an indefinite steady state?
> Or, does this vehicle, after acceleration has completed, purport to continuously travel faster than the wind at an indefinite steady state?
That would break the laws of physics wouldn't it? Which is exactly why the professor took the bait.
Re: YouTuber Wins Crazy $10k Bet with Professor by 'Breaking' the Laws of Physics
#8If wind speeds a vehicle to some speed, and the vehicle has inertia, and the wind slows down somewhat, how is it surprising that the vehicle would go faster in the wind? Or, does this vehicle, after acceleration has completed, purport to continuously travel faster than the wind at an indefinite steady state?
> Or, does this vehicle, after acceleration has completed, purport to continuously travel faster than the wind at an indefinite steady state? That would break the laws of physics wouldn't it? Which is exactly why the professor took the bait.
But then it seems obvious that it could temporarily go faster than the wind due to inertia?
Re: YouTuber Wins Crazy $10k Bet with Professor by 'Breaking' the Laws of Physics
#9I don't understand why there's confusion. It's not a sail on the thing, it's a turbine. Isn't this just gear ratios? The car goes as fast as whatever power the turbine makes can be delivered through a set a gears (or chains/sprockets...same thing).
Re: YouTuber Wins Crazy $10k Bet with Professor by 'Breaking' the Laws of Physics
#10If wind speeds a vehicle to some speed, and the vehicle has inertia, and the wind slows down somewhat, how is it surprising that the vehicle would go faster in the wind? Or, does this vehicle, after acceleration has completed, purport to continuously travel faster than the wind at an indefinite steady state?
> Or, does this vehicle, after acceleration has completed, purport to continuously travel faster than the wind at an indefinite steady state?
Yes. The vehicle can go faster than the wind in steady state condition. Depending on efficiencies 'any' velocity is possible. It creates thrust by leveraging the different speeds of two media (air and ground). Also works as a boat with two propellers.