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MICHAEL STEVENS: When you sit in a chair, like I'm sitting in this chair right now,
but actually my butt is hovering above the chair by this just tiny tiny little amount
because the electrons of my butt, well my pants, I am wearing pants, and the chair repel
each other.
They don't ever touch, they don't come into contact at all and it's that repulsion that
makes things feel solid.
It allows us to touch things and feel their texture.
It's not us actually touching the sub-atomic material of the object.
And then I think to myself, well, if I can't—like even a kiss—when I kiss someone, my matter
has not touched their matter in the way that we think it does.
It's actually just being repelled and we feel that repulsion and that's what we feel as
them, but then I thought, well maybe I can touch someone if I'm radioactive and like
a piece of some radiation from me can ionize…
no, that's not good enough.
It's going to have to go into the nucleus of one of their atoms.
MICHAEL: Turns out that we don't really have that kind of radiation.
The kind of radiation that could get into a nucleus.
So the person closet you could get to someone is through chemical reactions.
Because in that case at least you're sort of—your atoms are sharing electrons.
So you could be eat someone.
Cannibalism is a great way to get close or you're family.
So you developed inside your mother and and you came from your parents DNA and that's
closer than you will ever really be able to get to anyone else at a chemical level.
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So when I meet somebody who I've never met before, I say yeah my name is Michael, um,
and then it gets problematic because if I say, oh I make videos for the web, that sounds
like… what kind of videos?
For the lady who's never watched it, I say it's a channels here I y'know bench press
lots of weights and I help children and old ladies, but to someone to that may actually
check if I was telling the truth, I would just use the description I've used on the
channel.
So VSauce is the best of the internet and hyper-curiosity about the world.
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And lately we've been answering just totally silly questions but taking them very seriously.
How much weight do you lost every time you fart?
You must lose some weight, right?
Like, gas has mass and we pull in an audience that's looking at those silly questions and
is like, wait, yeah what color is a mirror and in that curiosity they come in and accidentally
learning a lot about digestion, gases, optics, all those kinds of things.
MICHAEL: A topic for an episode usually comes from a conversation I've had with a friend.
BILL NYE: I've got a question for you.
Why did the chicken cross the road?
MICHAEL: Brilliant question.
Let's find out why!
MICHAEL: And it's usually around a misconception.
If they mention something that makes me go, oh, wow, I actually didn't know that.
I didn't know that it was simple or that complicated, this thing that I thought I already knew.
That's usually where these episodes come from.
We experience mirrors every day, but what color are they?
Well that kinda like shocks what's boring in me and usually for you.
Y'know, I fart all the time but I've never thought about how much it weighs.
I just up and down all the time, actually I don't I'm not that active, but I look really
athletic.
But, what if every person on Earth jumped, would it affect Earth?
When I first read that question, I had no idea how to answer it and so that tells me
this is a good question to investigate.
MICHAEL: One, two, three!
MICHAEL: I think that often people feel like they know you better than they even would
know someone who's way more famous, but from the movies.
In the videos that they watch you in, you're speaking to them.
MICHAEL: And we all fart.
Everyday!
MICHAEL: I mean, what is subscribing?
It's almost psychologically a thanks for making what you do.
I want to be on your team, I want people to know I'm on your team and friends with you
and it's something much more personal.
It's about friendship.
MICHAEL: And as always, MICHAEL & BILL: Thanks for watching!
MICHAEL: Stick around because there will be more videos of me right here on THNKR.
In fact the whole channel has some pretty cool stuff, the ideas and thinking that are
changing the world so be sure to subscribe.