MinutePhysics is an educational

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channel created by Henry Reich in 2011. The channel's videos use whiteboard animation to explain

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-related topics. Early videos on the channel were approximately one minute long. , the channel has over 5 million subscribers. Videos from MinutePhysics have been featured on ''

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''. MinutePhysics is a channel that can be viewed through ''YouTube EDU''. Videos from the channel published prior to April 2016 are also made available to download as a podcast.

Videos

The most popular MinutePhysics video, with more than 17 million views, discusses whether it is more suitable to walk or to run when trying to avoid

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. Reich also has uploaded a series of three videos explaining the

Higgs Boson The Higgs boson, sometimes called the Higgs particle, is an elementary particle in the Standard Model of particle physics produced by the quantum excitation of the Higgs field, one of the fields in particle physics theory. In the St ...

. In March 2020, Reich produced a video that explained exponential projection of statistics as data is being collected, using the evolving record related to

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data.

Collaborations

MinutePhysics has collaborated with

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, as well as the director of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Neil Turok, and Destin Sandlin of

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. MinutePhysics also has made two videos that were narrated by

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and one video narrated by Tom Scott. The channel also collaborated with physicist Sean M. Carroll in a five-part video series on

time Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, t ...

and

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and with Grant Sanderson on a video about a lost lecture of physicist

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, as well as a video about Bell's Theorem.

Other channels

In October 2011, Reich started a second channel, MinuteEarth. The channel features a similar style to his MinutePhysics videos, with a focus on the physical properties and phenomena that make up and occur on

Earth Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. While large volumes of water can be found throughout the Solar System, only Earth sustains liquid surface water. About 71% of Earth's surf ...

. In March 2022, MinuteFood was launched.

Standard and Nebula

MinutePhysics was one of the original founders of the Standard creator community along with Dave Wiskus, CGP Grey, Philipp Dettmer and many other creators. Through Standard, MinutePhysics has released most of his content on Standard's Nebula streaming service, mostly the same videos he posts on Youtube but ad and sponsorship free, but he also releases some Nebula Originals only on the platform, including two exclusive Nebula Originals ''MinuteBody'' and ''The Illegal Alien''.

References

External links

* {{cite web, last=Reich, first=Henry, title=Making Minute Physics, url=http://www.sixtysymbols.com/videos/minute_physics.htm, work=Sixty Symbols, publisher=

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for the

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