In the world of photography there is a fairly well known video blogger known as the ‘angry photographer’. He is, to say the least, a bit out there. In addition to his opinionated rants on camera equipment he is a self-confessed genius who has invented magnetism. Now of course he hasn’t but one of his idiosyncrasies is to talk in hyperbolic and complex language about the subject in order to convince you he’s smarter than you are. But, given that I am myself not smart enough to disprove his theories (though I am smart enough to seriously doubt them), I wondered if anyone else here can shed light on what exactly (or even vaguely) he’s saying in this video:

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He looks like my brother-in-law who is a prize idiot.

He looks like my brother-in-law who is a prize idiot.

What? There are prizes?

Where do I sign up?

He’s rambling incoherently. Packing as many flashy sounding words in as he can to try and show off, it seems – possibly to himself.

A physics / science version of Russell Brand.

Prof Cox has a word for these people. He should be in Trump’s team coming out with stuff like that.

High quality bolloxology there – delivered after his fifth bong of the day from the sounds of it.

I take it he’s an excellent photographer? Because I can’t see many people enduring that cabbagery just to see his work, unless it’s outstanding.

You’d have thought such a good photographer would have at least made use of a tripod.

I take it he’s an excellent photographer?

Actually the rumour is that he’s not. He’s quite a character to say the least. Extremely opinionated and he likes to validate his opinions by positioning them as ‘cold hard facts’. He probably has around something like $100,000 dollars worth of camera equipment, achieved mostly by having at least two copies of everything he owns.

No one is really sure about him…..

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dude’s nuts

LOL.

Utter bollocks. Possibly stoned, as has been diagnosed above.

absolute total ball cocks to the point where I can confidently say he is pulling your chain and or ill.

Shut up and take my money!!!

But, given that I am myself not smart enough to disprove his theories…..

Neither is anyone else by the look of things 😆

Still waiting for him to explain objects need magnets to appear solid lol

Star Trek had a good term for it, Technobabble. 🙂 usual had something to do with phase 😉

He’s like a camp version of Colonel Kurtz.

Did he say that magnetism defined volume?

He doesn’t really have any theories. He’s just waffling without saying anything specific.

Real science isn’t like this. It’s based on equations, laws, formula and derivations. Even when Dr Cox is explaining it on telly, he says ‘Einstein showed us this, Newton showed us that’ – that’s a way of citing their equations and theories.

He’s prolific though.

Stopped after 20 seconds because he’s a nut job. Watch some real science in action,maybe the latest episode of ‘sky at night’ then compare and contrast with that balloonatic above.

Deary, deary me. 🙄
There’s only one part of that incomprehensible load of bollocks that made any kind of sense, and that was the bit about light being bent by magnetism, which is true, it’s how cathode ray tubes work.
The rest is a classic case of “if you can’t blind ’em with science, baffle ’em with bullshit’. And my bullshit ‘o’ meter was reading fifteen on a scale of ten!
It’s people like him who get others believing in stuff like chemtrails and HAARP, and all that crap.

it’s how cathode ray tubes work.

I think cathode ray tubes are actually beams of electrons being bent by magnetic fields and then converted to light

There’s only one part of that incomprehensible load of bollocks that made any kind of sense, and that was the bit about light being bent by magnetism, which is true, it’s how cathode ray tubes work.

Can you bent light with magnets?

CRT’s are beams of electrons bent by electric fields.

Basic A Level physics innit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetism

oooo, you’ve come to play

CRT’s are beams of electrons bent by electric fields.

I was always led to believe that a strong magnetic field could bend light, but I’m happy to stand corrected on this, photons carry no charge, and so can’t be directly affected by magnetic or electromagnetic fields.

Basic A Level physics innit.

Could be, I dunno, I only got as far as CSE physics, I’m not some smartass university type.

I know that gravity can bend light, because Matthew McConaghy told me.

I know that gravity can bend light, because Matthew McConaghy told me.

did he play Einstein ?

Has he just got a liquid which is magnetic, sandwiched between two layers of glass?

And the refractive index of the liquid changes depending on the local magnetic field, which in turn gives you different levels of refraction (reflection?), and hence the funky patterns?

Kind of neat, but nothing to do with what he’s talking about.

More plausible explanation:

I know that gravity can bend light, because Matthew McConaghy told me.

I think technically gravity bends space/time not light; light still travels in a straight line through the curved space/time hence it looks like it’s being bent. This was how I understood it but I am probably wrong.

Very good, extra kudos if you didn’t use google first

I think is is confusing the theory of “time and relative dimensions in space”

Did he say that magnetism defined volume

I understand you can define volume by how it reacts to magnetism. (permeability)

but I suspect that’s not what he’s talking about!

He’s talking utter rubbish. It’s a Trumpian version of physics.

Very good, extra kudos if you didn’t use google first

Sorry to disappoint, I had to google it to even figure out what he was taking pictures of.

He kept saying coherence which seemed ironic to me.

Very good, extra kudos if you didn’t use google first

Assuming you meant my knowing about gravity bending space/time, yes, I did know that already. I’ve read a lot of popular science books so I get the basic principles of these concepts but that’s as far as it goes.

It has nothing to do with gravity.

Remember when you messed around with iron filings and a magnet in primary school?

Well it’s like that, only instead of using iron filings, he’s using a liquid with something like iron filings in it. That lets him play around with reflection and refraction to make some pretty patterns.

But the stuff he was talking was total cobblers.