Wild, Entertaining, Mind-Rocking Science Videos
- Rick Johnson
- Jan 30
- 2 min read
If you love science, but it sometimes feels like it's way over your head...here's some videos that fit 'big science' into our small brains with some fun thrown in.
You Are Made of Hourglasses That Fall From the Sky - A weirdly entertaining explanation of carbon dating, which is even wilder that you might think.
I Did the Double Slit Experiment at Home - Science tells us that both light and matter can behave both like particles and waves. Huh? What does that even mean? How is it possible? Who knew you could demonstrate this in your own home.
Is This What Quantum Mechanics Looks Like? - Heard of quantum mechanics but always wondered...What the heck are they talking about? This is an absolutely beautiful visualization.
The Backwards Brain Bicycle - How turning left, to go right, teaches us something pretty interesting about how we learn.
Carl Sagan, A Glorious Dawn, with Stephen Hawking, Symphony of Science - In this musical tribute, two of the most prominent scientists of the 20th & 21st Centuries unite to deliver an inspiring message, created from clips from videos made during their lives.
A Journey Inside a Black Hole - This is 18 minutes of everything you ever wondered about black holes: what they are and how they die, are they portals to other universes, what will happen if you fall into a black hole, and lots more!
The 16 Best VSauce Videos - This playlist from BuzzFeed isn't exactly the list I would have made of best VSauce videos, but that's OK--there's so many great ones. If you don't know VSauce, he's got some of the most entertaining and unusual science videos on the internet.