Magnetic Field Lines

Its just that Michael looks really old in his mid thirties, he will evolve into a Greek philosopher when he hits 50

I love that there's literally no context, its just *magnetic field lines*

“Mom! Michael’s playing with his beard shavings again.”

You know it's a beautiful day when the legend, Vsauce uploads.

I like how some of the filings do little swing-bys as if getting a gravity assist from a planet.

I stressed myself out wondering how they were going to clean that off the floor lol

This gave me chills. It is so amazing to see the field in real time instead of just an illustration

Vsauce: Realeses an awesome video
KRplus: You're not seeing this 😈

The music is absolutely beautiful. Can anybody please tell me the name of this incredible track?

Vsauce videos have the best background music

I wonder if there have ever been any experiments in micro-gravity or on the ISS with stuff like that, it'd be super cool to see

I've never heard music so beautiful and creepy at the same time.

Imagine if the Slo Mo guys did this shot with their phantom cameras

Michael... Please make 10 minutes long videos as you used to do. I really miss them

this is simultaneously peaceful and relaxing but also anxiety inducing because it looks like the filings are getting everywhere

This would be an interesting thing to do in space, so that gravity wasn't as much of an influence.
(In a sealed container so that it didn't pollute the surrounding habitat, of course.)

Amazing 🖤

Magnet: *I want a beard!*
Iron: *There you go!*

I wanna see this in VR from the center of the magnet. That sounds so soothing and satisfying

Its just brilliant. Studying Physics at times feels like getting a sneak peak backstage of the show called Nature! (That sounded a lot better in my head...:D) Thank you for this! The answers are all there, you just need to know 'how' to look for them! You've shown us just that! (I'm really feeling the lack of smileys here...) Great job Michael! :)

Need to know the music you used for this. Appropriately zen.

The most creative way to show magnetic field lines realistically

And that, my friends, is the reason why this is the best channel on the entire platform

Try dropping the magnet from somewhere high together with the magnetic thingy, and film it from afar, then in editing, pan the frame as to always have the falling magnet and magnetic thingy at the same spot in the frame. This way it could almost be done without gravity

Leave it to Vsauce to finally be the one to make a KRplus short that I like

Wow. I've seen these lines on a piece of paper but seeing it in the air like this is so much better. It's insane that you can see lines forming just like you see in the drawings, which is something you expect to be more representative rather than quite accurate.

Would love a dual magnet both horizontally and vertically to show the interaction of the magnetic fields!!

As an electrician, coming from learning about this in my course to actually seeing it in action it's interesting to watch. What a force magnetism is, with how it causes ferromagnetic materials to react to it and how we utilise it. Even to create the power I'm using right this moment to watch this short.

Nobody seems to talk about how the music is very syncing with the movement of the magnetic field!!!

What song/soundtrack is this?

You wouldn't want to add this to the box due to the mess (and inhalation problems), but Powder form of Fe2O3 (red iron oxide) will show the magnetic field even better due to the grain size/weight of the particles (it's more akin to very fine dust.) You could dust if from above the magnet and have a continues stream going.

This video gets me very sentimental. Thank you vsauce for entertaining us and educating us over the years.
You are appreciated

yall remember when vsauce uploaded frequently? man, those were the good days.

millions of years pass and the next short is a magnet falling into cast iron pellets

This would be so cool to see in zero gravity! It's already pretty neat

I just can't get over the embroidery of vsauces face on the canvas... perfect tympan to bounce ouff ! !

That music is the tonal equivalent of looking up to the nightsky and wondering whether we're alone in the universe.

*His About page:*
Our World is Amazing
Or is it?
**Vsauce Music intensifies*
Hey Vsauce, Michael here

That actually makes it easier to understand why they are lines instead of a gradient because they're all attracting each other and because their actual particles

Michael, this video is as beautiful as you are! Thank you!

Vsauce short?? I surprise to be sure, but a welcome one

I cant tell if the video compression is the problem or my old phone

You've seen magnetic field lines on 2D surfaces before, but this just takes things to a whole new dimension.

This was oddly beautiful

Me catching the people of my country using VPN and punishing them.

Imagine how much effort he put in to clean all of that up😂

The melody is soothing & relaxing 😌

This is simply charming, calming and mind blowing!

Reminds me of Metallica's Death Magnetic album art.

Someone show this to the Corridor Crew, they could probably do something cool inspired by this

This is so fucking cool. The music and everything, so serene and perfect.

Drawings of the Earth's magnetic field and gravitational forces... Good job!

Ahh, that means my physics book diagram is not wrong.

Ferrofluid is a great tool to show magnetic field lines easily manipulated

it's all fun and games until the iron fillings get everywhere

Wow, like metal rain. Imagine having metal rain and you hang magnets outside to take your kids to the window to look at the magnetic fields appearing.

Ayeennnnnn ayeeeeen 🎶🎶
magnetic field lines.
That was calming.

this is oddly the best thing i have seen on the internet all year

This soothed my panic attack, thanks Michael.

This is so oddly satisfying, the odd satisfaction itself is oddly satisfying.

would love to see this in zero-g

That description is pure gold.

Love the crying slide guitars

I almost fell asleep to this, please make an hour long version haha

Why is this interesting, satisfying, relaxing, and terrifying at the same time

For those who don't want iron particles all over their room trying to recreate this, put iron filings in a viscous liquid like syrup or honey and place strong magnets around the container of the syrup/honey. Make sure the container is a non magnetic material and a bad conductor of electricity like plastic.

Ahh. So relaxing. The music the video. Everything

This was beautiful, from the video, to the science and the music

I wish this video was longer. It's awesome.

Even in a world of science there is still so much beauty to be found in the unknown. This is fascinating.

And as always, thanks for creating!

There was something very soothing there, Michael. Thank you for it. I've loved VSauce since I discovered it way back in 2014/15. Cheers.

Must needed video: Light behind black hole

This is one of the coolest illustrations of magnetic field lined i have ever seen

Thank you. This is very soothing.

This feels like a video they would play on a TV at an electronics store

this channel has really come a long way

Yay.. cool to see..
I was making magnetic art twenty years ago... large bass speaker magnets are great to use

I watch all our videos. Please make more in-depth videos of about 30-40 minutes like it was in Mind Field and marathons ... ✨✨

As a 9th grader who had to study electromagnetism recently and draw the field lines of the magnets in various scenarios, I am so incredibly happy to see them so clewrly in effect.

thank you for that Michael. you are in my very heart. yes.

Not sure why but i feel this is the most beautiful and calming thing i have ever seen or came across

I can’t tell if this is the best quality camera, since it captured every little bits of iron, or the worst because everything looks glitchy

This is so beautiful that I felt like crying

Also try this:
Put a bar magnet on a piece of blank paper.
Place a magnetic compass around one of the poles.
Draw a dot where the needle marks South and a small triangle where it marks North.
Slide the compass over until the triangle is touching the new South needle. Draw another small triangle where the needle points North.
Connect the dots/triangles.
Repeating this process over and over, you map out the electric field lines on the paper.

Cool stuff learned about bipoles in E&M. Great class

It's cool to watch it sideways, makes you more aware of gravity since we're so used to things falling downwards

Thank you. I always wanted to play with magnetic field lines like that

the song name is Floating by mark johns

I LOVE the choice of music,much love

waiting patiently for uploads as usual ^_^

Cool. For an instant one of the fragments seemed to slingshot around the magnet. I can imagine spending the entire afternoon trying to make a smaller magnet or a piece of metal orbit the bigger magnet. I wonder how many variations (dampening the EF) I could try before I get bored of it. Making a full revolution around the magnet would be the goal of course.

Now invert the magnet so it pushes everything away mid air

This should be in an oddly satisfying video

Anyway I can get a 10 hour loop of this that transitions smoothly? Very relaxing to watch and listen!

the music made it a thousand times better

Please do more videos I don’t care what it is you make my life have peace

That's hella cool. Too bad video compression ruins some of the resolution

Wow they are actually how we first imagined them. Brilliant!

This also shows about planets and gravity. If you look some of that dust gets pulled by the magnets but they are moving to fast so they get shot out away from the magnets