MinutePhysics

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MinutePhysics was created by Henry Reich in 2011. Reich attended Grinnell College, where he studied mathematics and physics. He then attended the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, where he earned his Master's degree in theoretical physics from the institute's Perimeter Scholars International program.{{cite web|last=Jozwiak|first=Miller|url=https://madison.com/daily-cardinal/minutephysics-creator-talks-free-will-with-uw-madison-students/article_f57f081e-b33e-11e4-a124-db2912c0c024.html|url-access=subscription|title= MinutePhysics creator talks free will with UW-Madison students |work=Wisconsin State Journal|date=February 12, 2015|accessdate=August 29, 2023|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230828051348/https://madison.com/daily-cardinal/minutephysics-creator-talks-free-will-with-uw-madison-students/article_f57f081e-b33e-11e4-a124-db2912c0c024.html#selection-3332.0-3332.3|archive-date=August 28, 2023}}

The video content on MinutePhysics deals with concepts in physics. Examples of videos Reich has uploaded onto the channel include one dealing with the concept of "touch" in regards to electromagnetism.{{cite web|last=Condliffe|first=Jamie|url=https://gizmodo.com/5962754/when-you-sit-down-does-your-ass-actually-touch-the-chair|title=When You Sit Down, Does Your Ass Actually Touch the Chair?|website=Gizmodo|date=November 22, 2012|accessdate=November 24, 2012}} Another deals with the concept of dark matter.{{cite web|last=Marder|first=Jenny|url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2013/01/new-space-telescope-to-map-dark-matter.html|title=New Space Telescope to Map Dark Matter|publisher=PBS|work=PBS NewsHour|date=January 28, 2013|accessdate=February 3, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130128211654/https://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2013/01/new-space-telescope-to-map-dark-matter.html|archive-date=January 28, 2013}} The most viewed MinutePhysics video, with more than 17 million views, discusses whether it is more suitable to walk or to run when trying to avoid rain.{{Cite web|last=Reich|first=Henry|date=December 20, 2012|title=Is it Better to Walk or Run in the Rain?|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MqYE2UuN24|access-date=November 12, 2021|via=YouTube}} Reich also has uploaded a series of three videos explaining the Higgs Boson.{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/05/higgs-boson-video-minutephysics_n_1652499.html|title=Higgs Boson Explained By MinutePhysics (VIDEO)|work=The Huffington Post|date=July 6, 2012|accessdate=September 9, 2012}}{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/11/higgs-boson-minutephysics-video_n_1665193.html|title=Higgs Boson, MinutePhysics: Mass, Higgs Field Explained In New (VIDEO)|work=The Huffington Post|date=July 15, 2012|accessdate=September 9, 2012}}{{cite web|last=Boyle|first=Alan|url=http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/07/05/12583436-the-higgs-boson-explained-in-just-a-bit-more-than-a-minute?lite|title=The Higgs boson explained in (just a bit more than) a minute|work=Cosmic Log|publisher=NBC News|date=July 5, 2012|accessdate=October 10, 2012|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130129234408/http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/07/05/12583436-the-higgs-boson-explained-in-just-a-bit-more-than-a-minute?lite|archive-date=January 29, 2013}} In March 2020, Reich produced a video that explained exponential projection of statistics as data is being collected, using the evolving record related to COVID-19 data.{{cite web|last=Smith|first=Charlie|url=https://www.straight.com/covid-19-pandemic/news/why-covid-considerate-are-likely-to-vote-for-bc-greens-in-next-provincial-election|title=Why the COVID Considerate are likely to vote for the B.C. Greens in the next provincial election|work=The Georgia Straight|date=August 27, 2022|accessdate=April 17, 2023}}

MinutePhysics has collaborated with Vsauce,{{cite magazine|last=Ceurstemont|first=Sandrine|url=https://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2012/08/one-minute-physics-how-to-travel-through-the-earth.html|title=One-MinutePhysics: How to travel through the Earth|magazine=New Scientist|date=August 31, 2012|accessdate=September 24, 2012|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130129231605/http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2012/08/one-minute-physics-how-to-travel-through-the-earth.html|archive-date=January 29, 2013}} as well as the director of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Neil Turok, and Destin Sandlin (Smarter Every Day).{{cite news|last=Major|first=Jason|url=http://www.universetoday.com/97745/minute-physics-real-world-telekinesis/|title=MinutePhysics: Real World Telekinesis|publisher=Universe Today|date=October 7, 2012|accessdate=October 10, 2012}} MinutePhysics also has made two videos that were narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson{{cite AV media|url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KYTJ8tBoZ8|title = A Brief History of Everything, feat. Neil deGrasse Tyson|date =July 20, 2015 |accessdate =August 29, 2023 |via = YouTube |publisher =MinutePhysics}}{{cite AV media|title=Does the Universe Have a Purpose? feat. Neil deGrasse Tyson|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pL5vzIMAhs|publisher=MinutePhysics|via=YouTube|accessdate=October 19, 2017|date=November 27, 2012}} and one video narrated by Tom Scott.{{cite AV media|url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjvIpI-1w84|title = Null Island: The Busiest Place That Doesn't Exist |date =July 7, 2016 |accessdate =May 6, 2023 |publisher=MinutePhysics|via = YouTube}} The channel also collaborated with physicist Sean M. Carroll in a five-part video series on time and entropy and with Grant Sanderson on a video about a lost lecture of physicist Richard Feynman, as well as a video about Bell's Theorem.{{cite AV media|url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdIjYBtnvZU|title = Feynman's Lost Lecture (ft. 3Blue1Brown) |date =July 20, 2018 |accessdate =May 6, 2023 |via = YouTube}}{{cite AV media|title=Bell's Theorem: The Quantum Venn Diagram Paradox|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcqZHYo7ONs|via=YouTube|language=en|date=September 13, 2017|access-date=April 13, 2020}} In 2015, Reich collaborated with Randall Munroe on a video titled "How To Go To Space", which was animated similarly to the style found in Munroe's webcomic xkcd.{{cite web|last=Plait|first=Phil|author-link=Phil Plait|url=https://slate.com/technology/2015/11/minute-physics-how-to-go-to-space.html|title=Minute Physics: How to Go to Space|work=Slate|date=November 11, 2015|accessdate=August 28, 2023}}

Google tapped Reich for their 2017 "Be Internet Awesome" campaign, a video series aimed at creating a safer Internet space for children.{{cite web|last=Weiss|first=Geoff|url=https://www.tubefilter.com/2017/06/06/google-john-green-whats-inside-minutephysics-be-internet-awesome/|title=Google Taps John Green, 'What's Inside?', MinutePhysics For Kids' Internet Safety Campaign|work=Tubefilter|date=June 6, 2017|accessdate=August 29, 2023}}

In October 2011, Reich, along with his father Peter and brother Alex, started MinuteEarth.{{Cite web|date=January 8, 2018|title=SciShow and MinuteEarth Changing the Way Science is Communicated|url=https://earthzine.org/scishow-and-minuteearth-changing-the-way-science-is-communicated-2|access-date=April 4, 2025|website=IEEE Earthzine}} The channel features a similar style to MinutePhysics videos, with a focus on the Earth sciences, medicine, and general health.{{cite web|last=Reich|first=Henry|url=https://www.youtube.com/user/minuteearth|title=MinuteEarth|via=YouTube|accessdate=March 31, 2013}} MinuteEarth's team has since expanded to additional members.{{Cite web|title=About MinuteEarth|url=https://www.minuteearth.com/about|access-date=April 4, 2025|website=MinuteEarth}}

In March 2022, MinuteFood was launched by MinuteEarth staffers Kate Yoshida and Arcadi Garcia. Its videos focus on food science.{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZWTYI05ZVQ |title=Welcome to MinuteFood |date=March 10, 2022|accessdate=May 6, 2023|via=YouTube}}

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Neptune Studios is the parent company of Reich's channels.{{cite web|url=https://www.hsfoundation.org/news-stories/science-explained-watch-minutephysics-video-neutrinos/|title=Science Explained: Watch MinutePhysics' Video on Neutrinos|publisher=Heising-Simons Foundation|date=June 16, 2017|accessdate=August 29, 2023}} MinutePhysics videos can be viewed through YouTube EDU. Videos from the channel published prior to April 2016 are also made available to download as a podcast.{{cite web|title=Podcasts – MinutePhysics by ScienceAlert|url=https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/minutephysics/id515562086|access-date=18 April 2013|publisher=iTunes}}

Some videos of Reich's receive the sponsorship of organizations. For example, a 2017 MinutePhysics video describing the characteristics of neutrino oscillation was sponsored by the Heising-Simons Foundation.

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.{{cite web|last=Hale|first=James|url=https://www.tubefilter.com/2019/06/10/standard-nebula-youtube-streaming-service/|title=Creators Can't Always Take Risks With Their Content. That's Why YouTuber Community Standard Built Nebula — A Platform For Its Creators To Experiment.|work=Tubefilter|date=June 10, 2019|accessdate=June 24, 2020}}

Reich's channels have amassed a considerable following online. By 2015, the National Center for Science Education (NCSE) described MinutePhysics and MinuteEarth as "definitely well known and well received" among an audience of science communicators.

His 2014 "Evolution vs Natural Selection" video on the MinutePhysics channel received criticism from the NCSE. Writing for the NCSE, Stephanie Keep expressed issue with the video's content, stating "not all evolution occurs by natural selection. To think it does lends itself to a hyper-adaptive view of life."{{cite web|last=Keep|first=Stephanie|url=https://ncse.ngo/say-what-theory-terrible-minutephysics-video|title=Say What? The Theory of the Terrible MinutePhysics Video|publisher=National Center for Science Education|date=December 2, 2015|accessdate=August 29, 2023}}

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• {{cite web|last=Reich|first=Henry|title=Making Minute Physics|url=http://www.sixtysymbols.com/videos/minute_physics.htm|work=Sixty Symbols|publisher=Brady Haran for the University of Nottingham}}

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