If you take a Petri dish, castor oil and some ball bearings and put all in an electric field, you might happen to spot an interesting behavior: self-assembling wires who appear to be almost alive
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If you take a Petri dish, castor oil and some ball bearings and put all in an electric field, you might happen to spot an interesting behavior: self-assembling wires who appear to be almost alive
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Stanford Complexity Group]@Rainmaker1973
Okay, so can somebody please explain the science behind this? I'm guessing it has something to do with the electricity finding the path of least resistance, kinda like how lightning strikes where it strikes, or something. By how/why is it able to _make_ the path for itself, as appears to be happening here? -
If you take a Petri dish, castor oil and some ball bearings and put all in an electric field, you might happen to spot an interesting behavior: self-assembling wires who appear to be almost alive
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Stanford Complexity Group]@Rainmaker1973 Fascinating! They also break apart and re-arrange.
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If you take a Petri dish, castor oil and some ball bearings and put all in an electric field, you might happen to spot an interesting behavior: self-assembling wires who appear to be almost alive
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Stanford Complexity Group]@Rainmaker1973 "I have created Life!" - AI bullshitter
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If you take a Petri dish, castor oil and some ball bearings and put all in an electric field, you might happen to spot an interesting behavior: self-assembling wires who appear to be almost alive
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Stanford Complexity Group]@Rainmaker1973 If you've ever looked at live bacteria under a microscope, it looks a lot like this.
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@Rainmaker1973
Okay, so can somebody please explain the science behind this? I'm guessing it has something to do with the electricity finding the path of least resistance, kinda like how lightning strikes where it strikes, or something. By how/why is it able to _make_ the path for itself, as appears to be happening here?here is a more detailed video of the experiment - you need 20 000 volts for it to happen - it is likely that magnetic fields are attracting the balls, although the paths they take are still under investigation (unfortunately Professor Alfred Hübler passed away in 2018).
It *is* possible to try it at home if you can get a 20 kV supply and have the space and knowledge to do the experiment safely
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here is a more detailed video of the experiment - you need 20 000 volts for it to happen - it is likely that magnetic fields are attracting the balls, although the paths they take are still under investigation (unfortunately Professor Alfred Hübler passed away in 2018).
It *is* possible to try it at home if you can get a 20 kV supply and have the space and knowledge to do the experiment safely
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@vfrmedia @shadowdancer @Rainmaker1973
The overlap between complexity theory and chaos theory must be fascinating.
Eagerly awaiting more papers on these subjects!
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here is a more detailed video of the experiment - you need 20 000 volts for it to happen - it is likely that magnetic fields are attracting the balls, although the paths they take are still under investigation (unfortunately Professor Alfred Hübler passed away in 2018).
It *is* possible to try it at home if you can get a 20 kV supply and have the space and knowledge to do the experiment safely
- YouTube
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
(www.youtube.com)
@vfrmedia
Yeah I was thinking magnetism might be at play here to some extent, but it seems it's really not understood how / why the balls arrange themselves in the specific patterns they seem to be doing.
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If you take a Petri dish, castor oil and some ball bearings and put all in an electric field, you might happen to spot an interesting behavior: self-assembling wires who appear to be almost alive
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Stanford Complexity Group]yikes!!!!!
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@vfrmedia @shadowdancer @Rainmaker1973
The overlap between complexity theory and chaos theory must be fascinating.
Eagerly awaiting more papers on these subjects!
@Npars01 @vfrmedia @shadowdancer @Rainmaker1973 A several decades ago (so please take this with not just one grain of salt) I attended lecture about complexity theory and biology and the professor said something like "life is basically a dissipative structure suspended in the energy potential between the infalling sunshine and the outgoing heat radiation" so, in analogy, would these complex structures self-organize to dissipate the electrical potential over the dish?
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If you take a Petri dish, castor oil and some ball bearings and put all in an electric field, you might happen to spot an interesting behavior: self-assembling wires who appear to be almost alive
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