The Secret of Synchronization
How does order spontaneously arise out of chaos? This video is sponsored by Kiwico - go to www.kiwico.com/Veritasium50 for 50% off your first month of any crate.
An enormous thanks to Prof. Steven Strogatz - this video would not have been possible without him. Much of the script-writing was inspired and informed by his wonderful book Sync, and his 2004 TED talk. He is a giant in this field, and has literally written the book on chaos, complexity, and synchronization. It was hard to find a paper in this field that Steven (or one of his students) didn't contribute to. His Podcast "The Joy of X" is wonderful - please listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts www.quantamagazine.org/tag/the-joy-of-x
Nicky Case's Amazing Firefly Interactive - ncase.me/fireflies
Great Kuramoto Model Interactive - www.complexity-explorables.org/explorables/ride-my-kuramotocycle
References:
Strogatz, S. H. (2012). Sync: How order emerges from chaos in the universe, nature, and daily life. Hachette UK. - ve42.co/Sync
Strogatz, S. H. (2000). From Kuramoto to Crawford: exploring the onset of synchronization in populations of coupled oscillators. Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 143(1-4), 1-20. - ve42.co/Strogatz2000
Goldsztein, G. H., Nadeau, A. N., & Strogatz, S. H. (2021). Synchronization of clocks and metronomes: A perturbation analysis based on multiple timescales. Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, 31(2), 023109. - ve42.co/Goldsztein
The Broughton Suspension Bridge and the Resonance Disaster - ve42.co/Broughton
Bennett, M., Schatz, M. F., Rockwood, H., & Wiesenfeld, K. (2002). Huygens's clocks. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 458(2019), 563-579. - ve42.co/Bennett2002
Pantaleone, J. (2002). Synchronization of metronomes. American Journal of Physics, 70(10), 992-1000. - ve42.co/Pantaleone2002
Kuramoto, Y. (1975). Self-entrainment of a population of coupled non-linear oscillators. In International symposium on mathematical problems in theoretical physics (pp. 420-422). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. -- ve42.co/Kuramoto1975
Great video by Minute Earth about Tidal Locking and the Moon - ve42.co/MinuteEarth
Strogatz, S. H., Abrams, D. M., McRobie, A., Eckhardt, B., & Ott, E. (2005). Crowd synchrony on the Millennium Bridge. Nature, 438(7064), 43-44. - ve42.co/Strogatz2005
Zhabotinsky, A. M. (2007). Belousov-zhabotinsky reaction. Scholarpedia, 2(9), 1435. - ve42.co/Zhabotinsky2007
Flavio H Fenton et al. (2008) Cardiac arrhythmia. Scholarpedia, 3(7):1665. - ve42.co/Cardiac
Cherry, E. M., & Fenton, F. H. (2008). Visualization of spiral and scroll waves in simulated and experimental cardiac tissue. New Journal of Physics, 10(12), 125016. - ve42.co/Cherry2008
Tyson, J. J. (1994). What everyone should know about the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction. In Frontiers in mathematical biology (pp. 569-587). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. - ve42.co/Tyson1994
Winfree, A. T. (2001). The geometry of biological time (Vol. 12). Springer Science & Business Media. - ve42.co/Winfree2001
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Written by Derek Muller and Petr Lebedev
Animation by Fabio Albertelli and Jakub Misiek
GFX and 3D animation by Jonny Hyman
Filmed by Derek Muller and Raquel Nuno
Edited by Derek Muller
Additional video supplied by Getty Images
Thumbnail by Ignat Berbeci
More footage from NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio
100 metronome video from noprojects.info/camera/video/1NuwqpebpIKhZJ0
Intro animation by Jorge Cham
Thanks for the BZ footage from SteinbockGroup: noprojects.info/camera/video/qrCmZtmskXetoKk and
NileRed noprojects.info/camera/video/rbJroLytml9oqI8
Animation of waves in the heart from The Virtual Heart/ EM Cherry/ FH Fenton - ve42.co/Cardiac and ve42.co/Cherry2008
Chemical materials and protocol provided by Mike Morris and the UCI Chemistry Outreach Program www.chem.uci.edu/~jsnowick/outreach/UCI_Outreach/index.html
Thanks to Alie Ward for title/thumbnail consultation
Thanks to Dr Juliette Becker and Dr James O'Donoghue for the planetary science help
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Great video! But entropy or the second ‘law’ of thermodynamics is at best a theory and a closer study of nature proofs the opposite
I can be the only one that has notice this with car indicators, they synchronize for a few flashes then repeat over again.
14:41 ventricular arrhythmias ventricular fibrillation in particular. Wow that was pretty synchronized.
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Your pendulum animations don’t follow the laws of physics. 😂
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That's doesn't explain anything ...
the synchornised clap in audience is (most time, or always) on purpose, audience voluntarly recognizes when certain volume of the claps becomes (even a bit) synchronized, so they all "tune in". I've been many times part of it, well, I grew up with it. It comes at the end of the concert and it just feels nicer (when aplause last quite a while) to be synchronized than to be random noise. It is sort of message " we all agree this was truly great, so we aplaud to you in sync"
"We have to go back three-hundred and-" No you don't! Why do video essayist keep saying this?
This is why "chaos" is such a misleading word to use for the behavior of non-linear dynamic systems.
It happens to everyone.. two people keep waking into each other 😂
The way this man keeps pumping out quality content is astonishing.
we know that you dont build a bridge with synchro frequency at 2Hz, but we didnt know that you dont build one with 1 Hz? So they knew synchronicity could be a problem, but didnt expect people walking slower.
BZ in a petri dish was so cool looking
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I've always thought this was the explanation for Carl Jung's Synchronicities, the 'Acausal connecting phenomenon'. Self fulfilling prophecies and psychomotor effects show how the mind can bleed into physical reality. On larger scales perhaps even spookier 'coincidences' can occur. I don't want people to think that 'Magic is real' by any means. But perhaps its just the tiniest bit realer than we think.
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i learned in psychology that westerns are more analytical (focuses on a part than the whole) and easterns are holistical (focuses on the whole than parts) maybe a study using both principle could help?
This reminds me of something corny I read along time ago. I read an article that heart beats synchronization between people that are "in love."
Very fascinating, I'm glad to click on this.
Absolutely amazing video I learned so much from this and yet wasn't bored, I was fully immersed in this video and understood it easily 👏👏👏
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There is a bridge that crosses the river in Inverness, Scotland, U.K that has this situation of wobbling. I just thought it was because it was just a crap f**ken bridge they made!
Amazing video, great visuals and everything. Good job
I understand how two pendulums lock exactly out of phase to keep equilibrium. But why will more than two sync IN phase? Can someone explain, please?
The bridge one like sinking ship when water get to the hole and and make one side heavy than other its make the water from other side gi to to the same side and make it more heavy and and then sinking like Titanic
Such a great explanation. The effort that you put to make the contents is noteworthy. you are an inspiration for me to study and explore more.
Fascinating! 12:00 BZ reaction (Boris Belousov, Anatol Zhabotinsky) 14:00 Heart oscillations 15:15 Wobbly Millennium bridge
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Chaos is just a term we use for order that is so complex we can’t predict it’s actions or see far enough ahead to understand it’s patterns
I am curious that, can i slower my fast beating heart when i am panicked with an external device which matches the normal heart beat?
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Still wondering why this topic in school would be so god damn boring and yet here, I happily watched through the full 21 minutes of information.
This is the kind of video I wish school would show you instead of 'how mosquitoes transmit Malaria', for example.
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jesus how boring............
Watch the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse video ..."Gallopin' Gertie" It's impressively eerie how the wind can set up the similar harmonics in a suspension bridge . . . and destroy it in spectacular fashion. Really surprised it wasnt shown (maybe copyright jibberish)
Don't touch my metronome or I'll ...
I have always, just for fun, been clapping out of synch. It feel like superpower when you break the order of the crowd.
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Everything that takes a pathway of least resistance ado mimicks eachother !!
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this explain that we are all in fact affected by one another
What about signal light on cars all waiting to turning left? The turn signals will all synchronize and then not as they wait to turn left.
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The worst thing is when you step in synchronisation with music beats.
I was curious about the transfer of energy between one metronome and the other.
Where's the STRONG EVIDENCE not CGI please 🤔 l tuned in for *evidence* 😡 CLICK BAIT
jesus how boring............
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So how do in individual freestanding metronomes synchronize?
Not so self assembled as much as a man plugging a box into a wall and manipulating his tiny balls in a Petri dish with electricity. Now... if you just put them together and they start forming without any manipulation... that is self assembly.
Crystallization of time. That's powerful
I asked myself why planets are not tidally locked but moons are. Here is the answer I googled while watching this: It only takes way more time and at some point all planets will be tidally locked and some exoplanets we found are in fact already tidally locked.
The Kybalion explains this as The principal of Rhythm and the principal of vibration. Also theres the Tesla quote “if you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration”
Can that be applicable at any degree to emotional responses?
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Biofilms may work on similar principles.
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Wow now I see why all Democrats are who they are
I wish i would've paid more attention in school... Or i should say, i wish school would've been as interesting and engaging as this...i would've paid more attention.
What do you say when you're only one of millions of viewers, and also only one of thousands of commentators? I say that this highly informative, and extremely amusing video is one of the best I've watched for a very long while. If we can lean something new each time we live a new experience, then life is worth living. A man lifespan only allows us to scratch the surface. Thank you for sharing this.
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Back in the 80s, My friends and I went to a concert at a very old venue in Boston, MA called the Orpheum. We were in the balcony, and it was sold out and very crowded. As Depeche Mode played their electronic music and people were bouncing in the balcony, the balcony started to shake, and as the bouncing and dancing continued, the structure became more violent. It wasnt until Orpheum officials came onto the balcony and tried to persuade us to stop dancing, did it stop. I was panicking and honestly thought the whole thing was going to collapse... Being high on pot at the time seemed to amplify my anxiety.
I’m only left with more questions after watching this video
so if all people on the eath start jump sync. , the eath will move up and down :?
Interestinger and interestinger...
When you think of the universe you think of terms of energy frequency and vibration
Resonance
Couples out of sync end up in divorce.
The educational content on this channel is just mesmerizing! Thank you so much for creating this. I've learned so much and I'm interested in these kinds of topics even more.
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Woah the scientist got dangerously close to hegel/Marx concepts by the end of the video lol
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Mainly the concept of negation
How could he say we don't understand economy? Economy is 100% human creation. I hope it was a joke.
Order from Chaos 🦞
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Almost like there’s a creator... oh wait, there is
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I misread the title as synchronicity!
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Thanks for the great video!
Me watching this video because I’m genuinely curious. Me at 14:14 realizing that my heat beating is a jojo reference.
1:00 look at all those people breaking the project.
They say when 2 people kiss their heart rates synchronize
Ah, a 1-2-4 orbital resonance type beat.
There is synchronicity in the universe because God designed it that way.