Thanks to http://www.squarespace.com/minutephysics for sponsoring this video; you can use offer code MINUTEPHYSICS at checkout for 10% off your first purchase. Link to Patreon Supporters: http://www.minutephysics.com/supporters/ This video is about what would happen if we built a giant ring around earth – what would happen to the ring, that is. Would if fall? Collapse? Start spinning? REFERENCES: Why Isn’t It Faster to Fly West? Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gNkgj9h2oM Physics Girl Quarter Shrinking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2TDXKfBaMQ Symmetry Breaking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetry_breaking ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xSPlQUejd8

Link to keep watching over on Vsauce's channel RIGHT HERE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYf6av21x5c What if there were a tunnel through the middle of the earth and you jumped in? Also, explore a map of the big bang! http://www.bigbangregistry.com MinutePhysics is on Google+ - http://bit.ly/qzEwc6 And facebook - http://facebook.com/minutephysics And twitter - @minutephysics ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN-FfJKgis8

There's a March for Science happening all over the world: http://marchforscience.com This is a video about how science is both inherently political and apolitical. And how hopefully we won't end up in nuclear war... REFERENCES: Language acquisition and age of arrival: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2813069/ https://www.utdallas.edu/~assmann/hcs6367/marinova_todd_marshall_snow00.pdf ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k-JK-QgAgg

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