This man looks so excited and full of energy to share his knowledge. Just like a kid waiting to get home to tell his parents what he learnt at school

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If wholesomeness had a mass, I think Dr Shaw would definitely be one of the heaviest things in the universe ! Dude is so happy about his job and sharing his job, this is insane x)

you just called him extremely obese and wholesome

@pliers no, he said that if wholesomeness was measured with mass then he, having a lot of wholesomenss, would be the heaviest thing ever

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I just spent 15 minutes listening to someone talk about measurements and it was the most fun and exciting thing I've watched this week! Brilliant example of how to make a subject fun and engaging to a lay audience!

also it made me anxious af cause how tiny those things are...u sneeze and the weight of those can be multiplied XD

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@Pekonipilvi I guess you could say the sensitivity of the weights is not to be sneezed at :)

I hope Dr Shaw is reading all these heart warming comments about his enthusiasm in explaining his work at NIST and it strengthens his resolve and motivates him further.

Except when it measures the reasons why buildings collapse

@Mike Cummings I really doubt any civil engineering operates at this scale 🤣🤣

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09:02 when Derek says "I brought a special lens" and Dr. Shaw replies "Uuuuhh special lens!!!" exactly as a kid would do, was priceless! He works in THAT lab surrounded by million of dollars of ultra specialized tools and he gets real excitement for a camera lens. What a man! Loved every microframe of this video :)

I think it was very very tiny piece 😂😂.

That's a $1500 lens. Of course that's chump change compared to the price of some television prime lenses.

He'd be the best teacher, so clear and enthusiastic. So happy to answer questions. Fantastic!

One of the rare videos where Derek doesn't have to explain something on the side. He pretty much stood there and let Gordon do all the explaining. Fantastic man.

Gordon doesn't need to hear all this, he's a highly trained professional!

@pyropulse what do you mean by that?

@Thiago Laguna too young to get the reference?

@No im 21, dont really know what that means

@Thiago Laguna It's a reference to a game called Half Life (1998).

Mr. Shaw is one of my dad's closest friends. Him and his family are really as wholesome as portrayed in the video. Glad to see hes finally getting the recognition he deserves.

4.3 million views in the first 3 months. If he's ever feeling down, he can just come to this comment section to understand that what he does is greatly appreciated and that scores of people he's never met really like him on a fundamental level.

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I hope he has heard how much people love him in the comments here! I think that could cheer anyone up on a bad day

@Steve Urquell I'll forward the messages!

I love how passionate Gordon is in every word. He has that "Ain't it cool" energy all over him.

This really needs to become more prevalent in the channel. Whenever i see a person excited to work in field i had no idea existed, it makes me grounded and realise what we're on this planet for.

One of the best episodes ever, We need more Dr Shaw in our lives.

I love his enthusiasm, and the fact that everything was visualized. Amazing.

I hope Dr Shaw knows how much we all love his explanations and passion for his work

He is a natural teacher.

I very much enjoyed his enthusiasm!! I love seeing people passionate about their profession, especially when it coincides with my own interests

His brain and vibrance are just on a different level

Seeing him enjoy his work and be excited to share it with us is so wholesome, the huge smile on his face the whole time was great

He's fantastic! Get a little of a Penn Jillette vibe from him in his engagement and enthusiasm. Kind of guy who simply lights up talking about ideas. Would absolutely love to have a beer with him and I don't even like beer.

Gordon just set a new bar - and he's probably already measured it to insane precision!! You could feel right away the love and passion he has for his work, and let's not forget - the confidence as well! For me the confidence in his delivery and answers to Derek's questions really sold me on how much of a professional he is! Wish him and his team all the best in their work!

Gordon? Bar? Half life 3 confirmed!

I love seeing scientists talking about their subject with this much passion. Highly inspiring.

This man is so excited about his work, he's really trying to explain as good as he can. Love it

I love how passionate and excited Dr. Shaw was, explaining this. Honestly made this 10x more enjoyable.

i love how none of the comments are about how crazy it is to measure something that small and all about how great this guy is.

I love how passionate he is at explaining every detail, and how excited he is to answer the questions, must be so cool to work at something you actually love

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Stuck in a basement for months at a time... Someone to talk to !!! 🤣

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You saved me some typing effort. Loved his enthusiasm too!!!

@Jeremy McLeroy come on man😂... I think he goes home every evening and have weekends off

This dude was so excited that he was able to show off his hard work. good for him! His passion is infectious.

I absolutely love listening to people talk about things they are truly passionate about! You can tell this guy loves what he does for a living and enjoys explaining and telling others about it!

I like how he talked about using new measurement allowing for scientific discovery that leads to better measurement. When you work with machining or woodworking (relatively old and well known things that regular people can interact with), you know that step one of making something flat is to have something flat. We've bassically spent thousands of years developing and refining the tools that allow us to precicely construct the world around us, and that's fascinating.

This man has entered a new level of nerd, He is extremely excited, extremely knowledgeable and extremely helpful in interoperating a whole lot of science into something anyone can understand. You'd be very surprised how hard it is to explain how things work easily when things are very complicated. Some of the smartest people in the world have a difficult time simplifying explanations.

Man this guy is the best! I'm happy he got camera time and his way of explaining and making all this understandable is amazing

I could listen to a morning seminar from this man for hours and not be the slightest bit bored. His passion and knowledge are contagious and admirable!

Agree! I was a little sad when I heard the Veritasium music so I knew the video was almost finished.

Bro I think I’m in love

Both the NIST engineer in this video and Derek were great! 😁

@gotanygrapes831 😂😂😂😂

Gordon doesn't need to hear all this, he's a highly trained professional!

Dr Shaw, thank you so much for getting me into the physics rabbit hole on YouTube when I have the covid!

I love this guy's energy, his excitement is infectious!

Love when people are passionate like this. Glad to have someone like this in charge of the important stuff because you can tell they really care about their work and how important it can be

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I really love how happy he is to share knowledge about what he loves. That alone makes this video a thousand times better than it would be already!

You can tell this man is very passionate about what he does. It was a joy to listen to him.

I love when you interview people who are truly passionate about their work. This guy is excited about small forces, and it's super wholesome :)

I wanted to crack a joke but this man doesn't deserve it.

i am the 1000th like 😃

@Archit Bishnoi Wow. The biggest achievement in your life.

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when I was a kid, a guy from my church worked at NIST and he took us on a tour there and showed us their atomic clock and server rooms. it's only more than a decade later with all these NIST videos that I'm starting to realize how awesome of an opportunity that was

I hope one day I can explain my line of work with the same passion as Dr. Shaw. Great video!

His guy has cracked the code to happiness. Ur awesome man, explaining things with such energy and simplicity.

It’s fascinating to find out about something few people know about and it’s about science presented in most interesting way possible. I love your videos!

El nivel de pasión por compartir el conocimiento de Dr. Gordon Shaw es inspiradora

This guy is so passionate about his work and it's very inspiring. This is an awesome video! Thank you for this!

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Man, we have a basic metrology in school as a subject, and, I kinda understand that this is about a holy fkin big precision, but like, we are on a high school and our teacher let us write 15 times a test until all got grade 1 ( not a single mistake in a hundreds of micrometers...) or he ordered us to measure reliability of the Mitutoyo caliper with Johanson's measures, and even though the result was, "unexpected" 100% accuracy of like 30 measurements, we still had to do it with all the procedure. Are the metrology-people only one that much stubborn? 😆

@KEX CZ in a way it is very clean way of science. It's a way to make sure all variables are taken care of. The next level would be to also have other students do the same test at another location/time and know if the results are the same. this are not only metrology-people but also other physics based super nerds. (I can't find another name more fitting)

@sirBrouwer I know, its just that we all felt like its too extreme 😅. Sure, In a national or international science lab, it makes sense, but like for us, students learning the basics, I think that few examples are enough, not to say that we plan just 3 of 28 to continue an university studies, from which I think none will choose metrology as their final branch 😅.

@KEX CZ o for your level yes it is a bit much. on the other hand you would have a advantage on others if you would like to do anything with science.

What an amazing explainer Dr. Shaw is. I love how he got excited when Derek mentioned he brought a special lense!

One thing I love is seeing videos like this of interviewing phds who have spent their entire life being possibly the only person interested in one hyper specific field. They always seem so excited to share their work.

It's awesome seeing how passionate Derek is about this! Great video😊

Dr shaw is the kind of science teacher that would make the class/subject far more fun and interesting with just his passion and energy

Most of it went over my head, but it was a joy to see how passionate this guy is for his job. I envy that.

This man is so passionate and dedicated to his work. You can see his excitement when he gets the chance to explain and share his knowledge. Gotta love and respect it.

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True. You can tell he's been living his dream job.

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@TantalumPolytope Yknow… now I wonder if someone got into my account bc I don’t remember watching this video all- that or I was half asleep doing something dumb with my sisters 😅

Dr. Shaw is amazing! Love seeing content like this from people like him who are so enthusiastic about their subject! All the best to this man!

I love how every expert in your videos are so passionate in their fields

You can tell he's really passionate about his job, live the energy. Nice video veritasium

I love how enthousiastic scientists can always talk about their work. It's so interesting!

Amazing video. So cool to see a guy who is so excited about his job. Nicely interviewed and video quality with all special lenses was super good! Thank you @Veritasium !

This was one of my favourite episodes because of Dr Shaw, it's one thing explaining a science, it's another to do it with passion and truly enjoy educating people on a subject.

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He's got the passion for sure!

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Learning from people that are this enthusiastic about what they do makes it actually fun to learn new things.

Dr. Shaw reminds me of my mechanical engineering teacher. He looks so enthusiastic talking about his wonderful job and it really shows he loves what he does. Couldn't be happier for the man, Big up for him !

This is wild. I've heard of machining down to microns, and I regularly deal with tolerances below half a thousandth of an inch (0.0005) but this is next level precision.

This guy seems to lover his job and be an absolute boss at it. Pleasure to watch, just radiating enthusiasm.

So much passion and hardwork in creating a scietific content like this, deserves respect. Keep shining Veritasium.

It's just amazing how passionate Dr. Gordon is about his field.

Turns out, you do need a PHD to push a crystal into a laser.

agreed

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I love seeing people who just truly love their jobs and what they do. He has so much energy and seems excited to answer every question. Actually inspiring to see

I love love love hearing people speak on work they're passionate about, especially very smart people doing good science. Gosh, what an absolute delight this man is, he reminds me of Adam Savage a bit in mannerisms and the way he speaks. Thank you for sharing him with us, Derek.

_"World's Roundest Object!"_ is still my favourite Veritasium video -- I can't begin to say how many times I've watched it -- so it's always nice to see a reference back to it.

Really enjoyed the guest commentary this episode. A clear and excited voice, excellent language skills, just really excellent all around. He was fun to watch.

Great to see how passionate this man is about his work, really kept my attention and interest!

I could watch an entire series with this man. He's so passionate, engaging and welcoming. I hope he reads all of the wonderful comments on this video and sees how much people appreciate the work he does and how he communicates it with us all. Thanks Dr. Shaw!

I legit came to the comments this blue moon to say exactly this. This guy kicks ass

by watching this video, I can't even imagine how difficult and challending work it is to produce calibrating devices. Thank you Derek for this amazing tube.

It's interesting to contemplate what has to go into every single component of a device that measures something like this. When you're balancing something on a wheel, the precision in the wheel, and the precision in the bearings, etc. have to be on a level that boggles the mind.

Derek you are one of, if not the best, science communicator on Earth. Well done on another excellent video.

I loved his energy and excitement. Seems like he really loves his job and really enjoys it. So enthusiastic.

Precision measurement has always blown my mind. Usually physics documentaries just casually mention an amazing measurement related to a broader topic and never explain how it’s accomplished or how the process/tools work.

This was equal parts wonderful and mind-boggling. Dr. Shaw obviously enjoys a true passion for his craft. Truly inspiring stuff.

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Most people probably take for granted how simple it is for us to weigh things, so I’m really glad to see this featured. It’s so important, and without people like Dr. Shaw nothing we weigh would be consistent. It’s awesome to see how passionate he is about what he does, and he clearly takes great pride in it. Great video all around!

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this dude is a gravity wizard. watching this cheered me up in a way I cant describe. thanks for the video love yall

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I can listen Dr. Shaw explaining things for hours, he's such an awesome dude!

Derek. I love your videos. One of the most researched and we'll structured videos on YouTube. Thanks for sharing knowledge 🤌🏻

I really liked this man and his willingness to share. I wish I could have a chat with this guy and witness the edge tech

NIST is such an incredible institution, it's hard to overstate how important of a role they play in our world. Massive respect to everyone who works there, and thank you Derek for featuring them in your videos and educating more people about what they do.

... and just about a mile away is NCAR, another wonderful facility in Boulder CO.

They did a stand-up job for Building 7 in New York City

Amazing knowledge held in this man’s mind, I’m glad he’s so keen to share it with such enthusiasm!

I love the passion this guy has for his work. Great video

I love it when science YouTubers find people who are deeply enthusiastic about their work, it makes the videos so fun and interesting to watch.

As a fellow scientist it's cool to see these enthousiastic passionate researchers all over the world doing their small part for the advancement of science and humankind as a whole. Keep up the good work there!

"I have measured the force of a laser beam hitting something" is maybe one of the most rare achievements one can get. I never thought that this would be possible. Absolutely amazing.

Yea, groundbreaking experiment for every Star Wars fan! 🤣

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And he also has to remember that, using the massmeter outside the sealed enclosure, that the IR radiation from his hand moving into view without the blocking glass there will also make it read incorrectly. Never mind actual breathing.

someone suggested to use mems pressure sensor to measure laser strength. If you just need qualitative measurements, it is surprisingly "easy". The amazing thing here is that it is an actual traceable measurement.

@Michael Frey What's important about the "traceable" part there? What does that mean in this context?

All those people like Dr. Shaw are like hidden giants making sure all everyday things like market, banks farms, mines..... society as a whole, works in a most fair way possible. And also thanks to You Derek, bringing all those people into light , 🤠 off and a humble bow 🙇

Dr Gordon explanation and passion is off the roof, im loving it.

I love this man, and i'm so happy for him because you can just see how much he loves his job.

I love this guy so much he has an energy that I love I can’t explain it he gets me excited to learn about something that I would not care about otherwise

I love how Veritasium finds people that are passionate and knowledgeable in their fields. You can just tell that Gordon loves what he does and is interested in sharing it with the world.

Veritasium does some very careful fine measurements to determine how passionate the people he films are.

It's a wonderful thing when you meat someone who won't stop talking about how much they love what they do.

I hope this Dr watches this video and gets to see how everyone loves him, genuine excitement in a subject just makes other people engage and enjoy it so much more which is amazing.

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I'd love to know more about the isolation techniques used to prevent interference when measuring at the femtogram scale.It's hard to imagine that a person just being in the same room of that device wouldn't cause interference of some kind.

Wow. How amazing is that? Gordon is so enthusiastic and full of joy to share his work and knowledge. His work and research is so valuable for our modern societies. IMHO guys like Gordon are our true hidden heroes of our times. Chapeau.

This guy's passion is so contagious. I wanna get a beer with him and just let him spew knowledge. :)

This man is AWESOME. The way he is so excited to share, his analogies, and explanations are filled with passion. Truly a cool guy and I’m glad someone like him got to have the spotlight and share his knowledge and fascinations

It makes sense that the man in charge of standard measurements is like a "standard engineer". Seriously he's like an amalgamation of so many engineers I have met in my career.

I loved this guy. He made me feel what he does is utterly important. Congrats dude, you rule!

It is, metrology is big part of engineering, like most important part of it.

I still find it so surreal and cool that something weightless can project a force at all.

I can see how he loves to explain this technology! Nice content

Highly enjoy these random labs and experiments that hardly anyone covers. Millions of view just so the amount of curious people! Keep up the hard work!

Well done to Derek for just silently letting him explain everything. Something which too few people are willing/able to do

I mean it depends on who you're talking to. Destin from SmarterEveryDay is fantastic at engaging his guests so they can elaborate on the topic, clarify stuff that maybe isn't so clear or simplify so the average viewer can be engaged. But in this case Derek can just let Rich go because he's very passionate and an excellent communicator.

I'd love to see a video showing the chronology of it. It's so mind boggling humans are able to measure things so accurately.

Love this man! Was entertaining while being educated the whole time

You don’t often meet people, let alone scientists, who are this happy. As someone who works with doctoral scientists every day, Dr Shaw is a great example of picking a felid of study that makes you happy

This is very interesting. I couldn’t help but thinking what would happen if they accidentally dropped that smallest little one, it would be lost forever unless they saw exactly where it fell and got lucky lol

I absolutely love when people are passionate and knowledgeable at their work.

I saw Cody's lab measure a lasers force with some really primitive equipment. It kind of worked but was not easy because of air currents.

I love how obviously enthusiastic this guy is about what most people would consider to be a completely esoteric science, little knowing how critically it effects absolutely everything in their lives.