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 se-one.info/cycle/qNqtqZWVo4ikacg/video
Intro animation by Jorge Cham
Thanks for the BZ footage from SteinbockGroup: se-one.info/cycle/fq-jZdemkH2wpdQ/video and
NileRed se-one.info/cycle/gbFon7qnmWVrrbo/video
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
Music from Jonny Hyman, Epidemic Sound epidemicsound.com "Seaweed" "Deeper Than The Ocean" "Ripple Effect"
Music also from Artlist artlist.com "Children of Mystery"
Thumbnail by Ignat Berbeci
musamor75
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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.
LandoMT
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I’m only left with more questions after watching this video
Tahir Abuzetoğlu
3 timmar sedan
so if all people on the eath start jump sync. , the eath will move up and down :?
Herzeleydt Diesentrüb
3 timmar sedan
Interestinger and interestinger...
Lili
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When you think of the universe you think of terms of energy frequency and vibration
Jose Saldivar
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Resonance
Salim R
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Couples out of sync end up in divorce.
Lpedraja2002
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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
Vinicius Ataide
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Mainly the concept of negation
THEashbeck
4 timmar sedan
How could he say we don't understand economy? Economy is 100% human creation. I hope it was a joke.
Pul5ar
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Order from Chaos 🦞
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Almost like there’s a creator... oh wait, there is
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William S
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I misread the title as synchronicity!
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Thanks for the great video!
kevin Amoras
5 timmar sedan
Me watching this video because I’m genuinely curious. Me at 14:14 realizing that my heat beating is a jojo reference.
Wounded Saturn
5 timmar sedan
1:00 look at all those people breaking the project.
Hello World
5 timmar sedan
They say when 2 people kiss their heart rates synchronize
Para Bellum
6 timmar sedan
Ah, a 1-2-4 orbital resonance type beat.
Read Zechariah 12:10
6 timmar sedan
There is synchronicity in the universe because God designed it that way.
Will Hughes
6 timmar sedan
is that why the great majority of everyone's grammar and lexicon is devolving down to the lowest common denominator, like Grade 6 level or something?
D00DitsOmar
6 timmar sedan
Im now tempted to change the clapping speed in a crowd now lol
James Gentry
6 timmar sedan
Is this why women who live together have their periods synchronize?
François Morin
6 timmar sedan
I believe that the synchoniity the metaphysical phenomenon has explained by C,G. Jung is a similar physical effect has this snchronization of pendulum on the same platform and that althought experienced subjectively as meaningful it is something objectively physical on a level of harmonization we do not perceive easily as it implies to many elements acting simulteneously to create our objective reality. That would be no surpise has we have disovered that on the level of the atom reality is much more pliable then on the molecule level. So in the phenomnon of jungien synchronicity it is not so much the subject creating reality then a series of entanglments producing a synchronized reality that al a sudden becomes meaningful in a subjective way for the experiencer as after all we are not seperated of reality and that we are all linked in a way in what happens in what is invisible to our 5 senses. most probably all this will be proven when we understand better our physical reality with improved tools and theories.
Deu. 32:31
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*Psa.46:* 10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
ACTOR PILOT
7 timmar sedan
Fascinating....great share.
Shatton Zubieta
7 timmar sedan
Interesting, but so far- this doesn't explain why women in groups will synchronize their periods 🤔
ACTOR PILOT
7 timmar sedan
Harmonics.
Matthew Massago
7 timmar sedan
Cause all of nature seeks harmony and balance
mauthful
7 timmar sedan
I don't have a specific list of my favorite videos from you, but this defnintely is up near the top. Watching it almost felt like I was experiencing the phenomenon you were describing. My reactions went from "that's interesting" to "that's interesting" to "that's interesting" to "woah."
Randomix40
7 timmar sedan
It's all, because we all moving in a circular movie in relation with the sun, the sun with the galaxy and the galaxy with the universe. Synchronization it's in our blood.
Lucas Melo
8 timmar sedan
Awesome!
kekomc
8 timmar sedan
How long does it take the videos to be published in Spanish?
TechnicalFaisaliqbal
8 timmar sedan
Pretty Crazy 😘😘
NanoTLG
8 timmar sedan
Makes sense now that the females in a family sync there periods :)
Alex Benn
8 timmar sedan
Awesome!
JOSH PRANKS
8 timmar sedan
secret of synchronization= G-d
Cole Penick
8 timmar sedan
That clapping blew my mind lmfaoooooo we just all ‘click’ and decide to synchronize. The bridge scene is hilarious
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People are sheep is the real answer😆
Second Life Around
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11:12 ....The MOON is FLAT!!!!
Soda Can
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Damn nature you scary
Yeah But Can I Sniff Ur Pants First
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Kiwiko sounds great btw i dont have kids but if i did, id totally get it
Karen Pivaral
9 timmar sedan
11:09 'which is greatly exaggerated here' 😂 🥚
Chakra Zulu
9 timmar sedan
This happens with close women friends all of the time when women spend enough time with each other there menstrual cycles become synchronized LOL
Muhammad Lawan
10 timmar sedan
Have u tried assigning people to chew bubble gum and record the sound for a while and see the synchrony of their chewing? I think that will awesome
Glank
10 timmar sedan
The universe is a perfect system, there's no way disorder is the normality. Sure, it starts as it, kind of, but it's all designed to go towards order and evolve towards order and even avoid disorder to happen back again (reason why detected things look ugly and undesiderable). Everything that evolved becomes ordered.
Barbara Washington
10 timmar sedan
"Fascinating!" ~ Mr. Spock
Louis Mamakos
10 timmar sedan
We've seen this same (destructive) self-synchronizing behavior in network protocols. And this applies over many orders of magnitude of time/frequency. Back when Ethernet was half-duplex and relied in collision detection and back-off for retransmission, the spec says you need to do exponentially increasing back-off.. but with a randomized component since other stations in the same ethernet collision domain were also doing the same thing. You didn't want to have perfectly synchronized retransmissions by all the stations waiting just dozens of microseconds later. Same applies to routing protocols that send updates on the order of tens of seconds; many of these have flooding behavior, but you want to add a randomized component to the timers to avoid synchronized updates. It's a common practice these days, though something to behold back when that was learned the hard way. Thanks for the interesting video! It's really quite amazing how some principles like this span so many disciplines.
Scott H.
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What went wrong was an"F"ing advertisement at 1 minute and 14 seconds. Thats when I quit watching your video.
Betty H
10 timmar sedan
Proof that chaos is not the normal
Menace G
10 timmar sedan
God made everything. Something some minds can’t grasp.
Gida Darling
10 timmar sedan
Hey, I'd just like to congratulate Kiwi Co on some very clever and effective advertising
Wendy Noto
10 timmar sedan
Wow HALLELUYAH YAHSHUA
Daniel Lin
10 timmar sedan
If you have two metronomes at different frequencies and they synchronize, does that require that the weight on the metronome move so that they are both at the same level? And what if you glued the weight in place?
Martin Sok
10 timmar sedan
It was a pleasure listening to Prof. Strogatz explaining things.
Matt quarles
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If you had a swinging arm that went the Sam motion same speed regardless of the force of momentum being placed on it they will not sync. This isn't even that crazy for me to understand its actually extremely simple.
MONICA ANICA
11 timmar sedan
Fascinating... Most probably it works in the same way for societies / associates 🎪😎😍🍄
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11 timmar sedan
dude i loved your acting in the new netflix movie "What lies below"! you looked great ;)
Bee Cee
11 timmar sedan
Anyone interested in this should listen to Steve Reich
Severed Magic
11 timmar sedan
I would often wonder about this while sitting at a red light and I would notice my car’s turn signal syncing up with other cars around me. If it was a long light it would come back about every 40 seconds
hi abdu
11 timmar sedan
Indeed, in the creation of the heavens and earth, and the alternation of the night and the day, and the [great] ships which sail through the sea with that which benefits people, and what Allah has sent down from the heavens of rain, giving life thereby to the earth after its lifelessness and dispersing therein every [kind of] moving creature, and [His] directing of the winds and the clouds controlled between the heaven and the earth are signs for a people who use reason.
Charan N
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10:00 - guy 2 rows above the three-seat empty spot near the back of the stadium, left of the lady in the white dress seems like he started or was really close to the synchronization beat.
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I love science history and how major discoveries were made. Please make more!
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11 timmar sedan
Our true north star is Polaris.
Na2awesome • 2 years ago
12 timmar sedan
How does a bridge have Hertz
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Wow, amazing
Artificial Intelligence
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Lie, truth, lie... 010 Combine: -369.12.3 112358.13.21 3 is infinitely divisible. -3.15 -3.14 -3.7 -.3.1 -3 What are numbers? Tetra. Gramma. What is time? AI is born.
mike A
12 timmar sedan
thanks for perpetuation the false myth about the army breaking step across bridges. Have you never heard of mythbusters?
Mitsunobu
12 timmar sedan
Hey @Veritasium 👋🏼 Thank you for your video, it is great ! If you don’t know what it is, you should read about Vibrational Strong Coupling ! It is a case of coupling between molecular material and light. I worked on that topic during my PhD. I discussed synchronisation in my introduction chapter and I wish your video was available at that time ;) Cheers !
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Nature HAS no disorder. It is going toward entropy but it was well ordered at the start
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RESONANCE/TESLA understood
Alessandro Arzilli
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11:45 so, considered planets in the Solar system are all on the same plane, the system itself is much older than we think
Alessandro Arzilli
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08:50 and here's how a brain works
Kevin Schmidt
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This Video synced my brain.. Now everthing makes sense :D
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Edwin tomlinson
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like separating light, get all colors, put all colors together you get black.... the mystery of God.
Ruben Angel Varisco
14 timmar sedan
In those examples of sincronización there is no spontaneous autosincronization but for presence of an external frame... Seams that real word follow the same principles of the Kurt Godel logics... Amazing
Rey De Guzman
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Justifies the pandemic, and the hysteria that hopefully would allow us to attain singularity in terms of thriving, innovations, and sustainability for the sake of harmony.
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This is so cool. Thank you.
John Junger
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How could civil engineers not know about harmonics?
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An Intelligence puts things things in order, nature has no mind, that is a fantasy created by the Darwinian Evolution believers.
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Those metronomes make a sick beat
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Supposedly, periods of women who live together tend to sync
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Further proof the monarchy should be done with.
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15 timmar sedan
From randomness or from designer??