Henry Reich

Hello Everyone! We are back with a big MinutePhysics video, and it is all about DARK MATTER! You've probably heard about dark matter before: "the universe is mostly made of hidden dark matter", or "dark matter makes galaxies spin weirdly..." etc. But these statements don't really do much to explain

Hi Everyone, A bit like our last video, this is a fun look at something we are all familiar with - yet perhaps don't fully appreciate - and this time, it's windows. Every day we look through windows of all kinds of shapes and sizes, and every time our view is pretty much perfect (well, so long as th

Hi Everyone, This was a fun one. In our new video, we explore the string movement of musical instruments, and how their actual motion is different to what you expect... like completely different. It's strange because we are all taught at school about harmonics and how waves propagate on a fixed stri

Hi Everyone, We are back with a sequel. This video continues our tour of counter-intuitive weirdness of space navigation - straight from where we left off in the last video. This time we are looking at three more paradoxes that arise from both the direct "Hohmann" orbital transfer, and the surprisin

Hi Everyone, Here is the latest MinutePhysics video, this time about space navigation! Making this video was inspired partly by the recent Artemis II mission, and very much inspired by this amazing blog post by Avi: https://smorgasb.org/orbital-speed-paradox/You We had a lot of fun bringing Henry's

Hi Everyone, Here is the latest MinutePhysics video, all about the physics of Thorium reactors! You probably have heard about these things all over the internet. Thorium is a popular hypothetical alternative to classic Uranium nuclear reactors - but is it overhyped? Well, when you look at the physic

Here is the full conversation with Henry and Derek about Newcomb's paradox. Enjoy! You can see the new video here: https://youtu.be/8wDha-G35KA

Hi all, It's Josh here, from MinutePhysics. Here is the latest video Henry and I worked on - a response to Veritasium's video on Newcomb's paradox. When you first learn about this paradox, you will very likely believe there is obvious solution. But when you think about it more, all the fascinating d

This is a video I wish I could have seen a long time ago - turns out I (and I imagine many, many others) have been using the ISO setting on my camera incorrectly for years. Hope you enjoy this one as much as we enjoyed making it! Thank so much for your support, Henry https://youtu.be/ZWSvHBG7X0w (Yo

This one is based on a recent paper that suggests a solution to the Fermi Paradox i.e. why don't we ever hear from aliens when mathematically they should exist? You may have already seen this covered by other folks over on YouTube, but we wanted to go a little deeper into how quantum mechanics could

I think this is a fascinating topic involving revisionist history about the asteroids and how they stopped being considered planets - I certainly didn't know this until fairly recently! Thank so much for your support, Henry Why The Asteroids Are No Longer Planets (YouTube)

New video! This one's mostly a teaser for a big upcoming project about what really should count as a planet - but it was enough of a standalone idea that I decided to make it into its own video. Thanks as always for your support! And please update your address in the MinutePhysics patreon settings i

Thanks as always for your support! Henry The TROJAN Test (YouTube)

New video about the fascinating phenomenon of white/colorless rainbows, aka fogbows! Thanks as always for your support, Henry The Physics of Fogbows (YouTube)

A new video about the most common mistakes people make when illustrating the moon. A warning - once you see some of these, you can't unsee them! Thanks as always for your support, Henry The Most Common Moon Mistakes (YouTube)

A discussion with Josh, editor/producer/etc for MinutePhysics, about some extra math & physics that didn't make it into the main video. Thanks as always for your support!

Pretty much all modern wind turbines have three blades. But why? We've made a quick explainer on why three is the best choice. Thanks as always for your support! Why Do Wind Turbines Have Three Blades? (YouTube)

This video was inspired by my time trying working on the xkcd "What If?" video about draining the oceans and struggling to actually visualize ocean basins accurately. I put enough into the visuals there that never got used and figured the background details would make a good MinutePhysics video. Tha

This video script was sitting around my drafts folder for a long time, finally managed to get it out the door. This is one of the things that feels like it's not worth making if I'm not posting videos regularly, since if I haven't posted for a few months I often feel like I want the video to be more

It was super fun to make all the photography demos and examples for this video and see how nonlinear white balance really is. Thanks as always for your support! Henry White Balance is Broken (YouTube)

This video is only possible because of your support on patreon - it's about 10 times longer than a regular MinutePhysics video, and probably took about 10 times as long to make. I had a lot of fun, and our new MinutePhysics producer/editor Josh did a TON of amazing work on this video. I hope you enj

I'm posting a video tomorrow about the physics of harmony (it's the longest MinutePhysics video ever!), and decided to turn part of the video into a t-shirt because the image was so cool and I think it's the sort of thing both physics AND music nerds might like. It's available as either a black or o

This video was so much fun to make. Also, an update: this is the first video with the new producer/editor that we hired recently, and I am delighted to say that Josh has been doing an amazing job! Thanks as always for your support, Henry The Magnetic Shadow Effect (YouTube)

This video was illustrated by the team at MinuteEarth who had some fun with Star Trek-inspired visuals. And I had WAY too much fun pretending to be a computer. Thanks as always for your support! Henry Fact-Checking Antimatter in Sci-Fi (YouTube)

Hi there, I'm going to be sending all active paid patrons something in the mail as a thank you in the next week or two, so please make sure your mailing address in your account settings or for MinutePhysics in particular - info on how to do that here! And if you're not an active or paid patron and c

I wanted to share the word that I have an open position for a producer for MinutePhysics. I’m looking for someone with a math/physics-ish background and experience writing & video editing. Ideally US-based... but the world is a big place. Application Link: minutephysics.com/jobs Thanks! [FT] MinuteP

Thanks as always for your support! Henry The Teleprompter Paradox (YouTube)

Steve first showed me this "paradox" a few years ago, and when he finally made a video about it, I was delighted to make a few small MinutePhysics sections for him. This is the kind of thing that patreon support facilitates, so thank you! The first MinutePhysics portion starts around here (15 minute

It's December, and I'm signing drawings and getting them in the final stages of being prepped for shipping! We've also added an embossed MinutePhysics logo to each drawing and the official "number" of the video so that you know where it came from (see photos below). Here's a numbered list of my vide

A new video, inspired by me trying to plot something and being unable to. And there's one week left to get an original MinutePhysics drawing! Support me here on Patreon at the Special Relativity level or above and I'll send you one. Thanks as always for your support, Henry ps I realized after upload

I want to say a huge thank you to everyone who's now supporting me here on Patreon. It's especially delightful and poignant to read the many messages and comments with stories about what MinutePhysics means to you, in so many different ways. Your continued support is going to facilitate my future vi

Welcome to so many new patrons, thank you so much for your support! This is a video I had a lot of fun making. Henry The Periodic Table in a 2D World (YouTube)

I mentioned this yesterday in a post to Patreon supporters, but here's the video about my drawing giveaway (and a look at all the drawings, too!) I'd love to send you a drawing. Henry I'm giving away 14 years of drawings (YouTube)

Hi, this is Henry. I’m going to make a special announcement tomorrow, and I wanted to let you know early: I’m giving away all of the original drawings from my videos to Patreon supporters! Tomorrow I’ll release an announcement video to the wider world, but I wanted to give you the first chance to ge

Thought you might be interested to see these rough sketches from a video I'm working on. The periodic table is not understood as well as I thought! Henry

The moon's orbit is weirder than you think. Thanks as always for your support! Henry The Moon's Orbit is WEIRD (YouTube)

Thanks as always for your support! Henry Does Pressure Keep the Deep Ocean From Freezing? (YouTube)

Thanks as always for your support! Henry The Color Temperature Paradox (YouTube)

Thanks as always for your support! I Ranked ALL the Eclipses in the Solar System (YouTube)

If you're close enough, go try to see the American eclipse on April 8! Thanks as always for your support. Henry Why Do Eclipses Travel WEST to EAST? (YouTube)

Thanks as always for your support! Why Aren't There Eclipses Every Month? (YouTube)

Thanks as always for your support! The LAST Eclipse in History (YouTube)

A lot of people took pictures of the recent solar eclipse in North America and got photos where there’s a ghostly image of the eclipse floating in the sky nowhere near where the sun is. Thanks as always for your support, and look out for two more videos in the next two weeks! Explaining Those GHOSTL

New MinutePhysics video! Thanks as always for your support. Henry The Bizarre Physics of Electric Guitars (YouTube)

Thanks as always for your support, Henry maxresdefault.jpg (YouTube)

A video about a secret pattern hidden inside Penrose Tilings. Thanks as always for your support! Henry maxresdefault.jpg (YouTube)

Thanks as always for your support! Henry The Ice/Water Paradox (YouTube)

This is the third time I've had the pleasure of collaborating with XKCD to promote one of their books - I hope you enjoy the video and definitely check out the new book "What If? 2" Thanks as always for your support, Henry What If Pluto Was Plutonium? (with XKCD!) (YouTube)

This video required an incredibly ridiculous amount of visual effects... enabled by your support! Thanks, Henry Passing A Portal Through Itself (YouTube)

A beautiful guest video by Robert Krulwich and Nate Milton. Robert & Nate made a few videos like this and weren't sure where to release them - I offered to share one on MinutePhysics and happily they said yes! Burning the Dead for Power (ft. Robert Krulwich) (YouTube)