It's Okay To Be Smart - 2018-04-03
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Am I the only one who did all of these things before( accidently/outta nowhere) and wondered why it happened.
Nah uh
No I am the one who do this and I am just a kid I have done this 342 million years ago! And this video is just realised 9 months ago 😼
Nope
You are not alone
nah i wish i made the historical disovery first tho
1:46 For the next experiment close one eye and look at something bright thats distant
Me: how about the sun?
Joe: NEVER LOOK AT THE SUN
Did you look directly at the sun later?
I look at the sun at a long time sometimes
@It's Okay To Be Smart i laughted so hard when i saw the never look at the sun part and the more you joe.
no Suni is not bright enough how about an asteroid that from earth is brighter than Suni. : )
@Red Salmon Not anymore there is a blanket
I love what you did with #3. You didn't just repeat what's in textbooks. You questioned it. You are a true scientist.
You're most welcome, my enigmatic friend.
or a flat earther
Me strong. Me bend light.
okay kevin
Narbadeshwar Singh ur granny a tranny
@altermate person I did... You didn't get the joke hidden deep beneath my reply.
Water stronger
@Mr. J_Krr_ its a joke
AND DO NOT LOOK AT A LASER EITHER.
Depends on power and wavelength, generally speaking it's a good idea though.
i keep looking at a laser because i am mesmerized of the little things that wiggles in it do you get what i mean
THE SUN IS A DEADLY LASER
Like if you get the reference!
@Sven van Crombrugge What wavelength would be safe to look at? Seems like saying don't do it at all is a good rule of thumb.
Sven van Crombrugge I figure that at the point where it’s safe to stare at directly, it’s not really a laser anymore 😆
Hats off to your creative content! We hope that we will get this good in future!
Cool video guys!
Awesome videos, i love your channel you will become big as It's okay to be smart!
It's Okay to Be Smart is the best channel..
wow so many likes
Lol no one realize the first maker of this was The Action Lab.
For some reason when I just looked at picture with butterfly I thought it would say “Stay Ridiculous”.
You can do that too!
What did the light bulb say to the switch?
"You turn me on."
Edit: ik lol sorry
If I’m the light switch, it’d say “you turn me off”
Jk my gf loves me lol
Your jokes are better than mine cuz everytime I make joke everybody thought that it was so funny that they forgot to laugh ._.
Knew that was cumming
That's the greatest thing I've read all day
I asked this in September in one of your videos. Probably just skipped over it.
Really?! I definitely did not see that. Glad you finally have an answer!
2:24 No, not a wizard yet. Four more years. :D
György Mohl :((
György Mohl You lucky son of a wizard, you got an acceptance letter didn't you? Still waiting on mine, it seems the post is backed up about 11 years...
Yes. They said, with my qualification and earlier studies i'll go straight in the place of the principal. Will get that fancy cloak and hat too.
Will arrange your letter when i'm there, sir!
I got one for my birthday this year! Oh wait..... I made that letter... :(
Did all this in my childhood 😊
Ohhhh... This whole time I thought my eyesight was bad. Now I know everybody does this.
This means everybody eyesight is bad (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞
lmao i have glasses
I think I can explain the last trick.
If you make a pinhole (for example with your fingers) and look through it against a plain bright background, you can see a weird pattern emerge. It has spots and smudges in it. This may be caused by imperfections on your cornea and in your lens and vitreous/ aqeous humour. I'm not sure what causes the pattern, but it looks organic so that's my best guess. So, when you look through a slit, you're basically seeing this image repeated in a line. This causes the spots and smudges to be stretched out along the slit, making "lines" appear. Idk this is just my first guessplanation based off of about 2 minutes of playing around.
EDIT: Ok, I'm almost certain this is the correct explanation, since after blinking the pattern changes. This means that the pattern is a shadow of imperfections on your cornea, exactly where the spot of light passes through. Also, I tried gradually reducing the slit to a pinhole and sure enough I saw a single image of the pattern emerge. When I let the pinhole expand back into a slit again, I saw the single image get repeated continuously into the line pattern.
TIL my cornea is perfect.
Explain why it forms on the camera screens
when looking at this text while through the smallest pinhole i could make with my finger, focusing on the pinhole itself instead of what's through the pinhole caused the text to shrink
CozmicK G
LOL. I just thought it was my eye lashes.
A camera could eliminate a lot of the conjecture posted in this thread.
"The More you Joe"
My new favourite gif.
Thank you so much. I’ve wondered all these thing since I was six!
Been doing this since I was a kid. You forgot the most useful aspect of using your fingers to bend light, eyeglasses. You know how when you step down the aperture of a camera lens, it brings more of an image into focus? You can do the same thing with your fingers. If your eyeglasses aren't within reach, and you need to sharpen your vision, you can hold two fingers close to your eye and look between them, as you bring the fingers close together, just before they touch, you are blocking most of the light that is arriving off axis, IE the "blur" leaving a narrow, and SHARP slit of light that you can then easily read text sharply with. It also works with just one finger, if you look out past the edge of it, objects near the edge will become sharper.
I read the title as “Can you bend finger with your light?”
"Speaking of......." I'm surprised Techquickie hasn't copyrighted that line yet.
"Look at something across the room. Preferably with a straight edge"
me withought glasses help it looks like a blub
If u bring two index fingers together it makes a sausage
1:38 did anyone else think about the hero “13” from my hero academia? Also, yeah, I get it. You could ask 13 joe. XD
Ps. Was your name joe? I don’t remember, I’m bad with names. XP
Most people in comment section: thank you, you answered my childhood question
Me: i never thought about that
2:23 "You're basically a Wizard now. Bending Light... AND bending Dark."
I KNEW IT!
#UnfortunatelyNot
0:56 i used to do this as a kid, and it felt like magic, i'm glad someone actully talked about it.. Finally YAY
I thought that I'm the only one who does those, all of them xD
Șerban Andrei that guy is right inside my mind
Me to
2:22 “You’re basically a wizard” YOU’RE A WIZARD JOE
I would do this in class and be amazed but I never knew I was bending light itself. Such a genius
the last on definitely have something to do with the eye. for if i move my eyed with my other hand the lines more correspondingly. second making the slit smaller and holding it right in front of your eye gives of an image of for example your eyelashes,
Try this use a bright light like a lamp. hold finger as close you can your eye without touching. make the slit as small as you can see the levels of detail change. move your eyelid with your other hand voila. or slight touching your eye on your eyelid as well there is two things here.
8:25
Mode Linus Tech Tips Activated
This is so cool. I was just doing my physics homework when this video was posted. The chapter I was reading was about light.
2:23 yay!!!
I can finally go to Hogwarts!!!
2:10 I realized I knew how to do that before watching this video.
"dont look at the sun" *puts a picture of the sun onscreen *
Lol'd at "The More You Joe"
Really great episode.
1:51 onwards till the more you joe thing i laughed
as I see it, one line between your fingers is caused by the edges of the penumbra overlapping but because it is out of focus, it makes multiple, slightly off center, images on your retina so you see the line caused by the overlapping of the edges of the penumbra multiple times. (copyright Scott Jeffrey Powers)
"the more you Joe" made my day
1:58 Somebody, make a meme out of this please
I was doing this in my childhood ahhh good day's (lol)
2:38 FINGER GAP SHAMING, DISGUSTING
I used to try this when I was little, looking between my fingers helped me to see better.
So cool hear you talk about it, great video 💕
Back when I was a kid I asked this questions to my physics teacher. He said I was imagining things.
Now, I finally know.
1:51 The More You Joe 😂🤣😂
bro!
this shadow blister effect has boggled my mind for almost 8 years...
love your nerd jokes! :D
edit: damn .. that was awesome! love how fascinating so simple stuff can be.. thanks for the reminder!
The more you Joe----
Hmhm i Just laughed for 20 minutes only
i remember when i was very young sitting in a car, i stared dead at the sun for the longest time, i was trying to focus on the center.
that moment when you realize that you're a nerd when you laugh at science jokes
It's Okay To Be Smart - 2018-04-03
The best wizards are scientists.
Try these for yourself and tell me what you see! Think you can explain the last trick? I'm interested to hear what you think…
Capricorn1998 - 2018-05-04
Things I know of that can bend light (change in refractive index) : temperature differentials, pressure differentials, differentials in field density (gauss), velocity of the light source. Electromagnetic retardation should not be overlooked.
Ian Draws - 2018-05-12
It's Okay To Be Smart 💡
PRdeSO - 2018-06-06
Joe you're a really cool teacher.
Daniel Beaird - 2018-09-09
I think the last trick is because you've smushed different layers of shadows into a tight area making them more noticeable than if it were just a big shadow in the open but you can see this by observing the outside of a shadow it will later itself from darkest to the center and lighter towards the outside of the shadow
gyozakeynsianism - 2018-10-10
The worst scientists are wizards, though.