By popular demand, here is my full reaction to The Man who Tried to Fake an Element in one video

So in reality all nuclear physicists are gambling-addicts and all that science stuff ist just to cover up the fact? I KNEW IT!

The universe is wild, the fact that you can change 1 neutron to a proton and your element swaps from Carbon to Nitrogen, two elements that are so incredibly different in terms of their physical properties is crazy.

The chart he's using is the Karlsruhe nuclide chart. It's been around since the 50s and had a similar predecessor, the Segre chart. The Segre chart is where this fanciful ocean language like the "island of stability" originated and there are pictures from 1946 of Glenn Seaborg standing in front of a copy of it. If you'd like to play around with one, I believe Dr. Ed Simpson formerly of Australian National University has a 3D nuclide chart online.

I was in school when 118 was first "discovered". My chemistry teacher wanted us to make a presentation about it. I knew it as Ununoctium (also the first time I learned about the Latin naming convention). I had no idea the discovery at Berkeley was fake. It was I think 2016, I was in the middle of my PhD, when it was named Oganesson after Yuri Oganessian (ending in -on for noble gasses). This is the first time I hear why this was! It was Dubna that actually ended up discovering it and not Berkeley! Wow! I've finally fixed this misconception I've had for maybe 20 years.

Concerning the nuclide vs nucleide thing, it's probably based on one's native language. Bobby, who made the video, is Canadian. About a quarter of Canadians speak french. In french, you call it a "nucléide".

I'm so happy you found Bobby Broccoli's stuff, absolutely love his work

Scorigami is a fun concept in football of having a final score that has never happened before. There’s a huge graph depicting every score that has and has not happened, which looks a lot like the isotope chart.

My favorite part about this videos, having watched BobbyBroccolis video several times before watching this one is just how many times Tyler will say something, and then Bobby (Kevin) will bring that same thing up later in the video. I’m usually not a fan of reaction video, but I love educational reaction videos from real experts in the field of the video they’re watching. I learned a lot more because of this video, great insight. Thanks!

Hendrik Schon got canned at Bell Labs.  I too got canned there, not because I tried to fake research, but I had a boss who absolutely hated me.

It has to be so satisfying pausing to talk about a concept, and then have the video immediately confirm what you were just explaining. Love your stuff man

Nucléide is the french spelling, and you occasionally see it in English as well (without the accent aigu) in Canada (where BobbyBroccoli is from) although nuclide is definitely still much more common.

The customs officer name change thing is also very common, not just a Seaborg thing. Your last name even could have been changed from Volz or Voltz which are surnames in Germany or the French border region. Quick bit of geneology research says the Folse name originates from German immigrants to the US in the 1800s, recently got interested in geneology and this stuff is interesting being able to trace your name changes, sometimes doesn't even happen with immigration just with anyone who didn't know how to read/write getting new documents. It was just especially common with immigrants as they would have had a wide variety of different names from different places, and would have happened more commonly earlier in history when fewer people could read/write to correct them!

this story was so heartbreaking
Ninov went from being a really cool weirdo to a not very cool weirdo

I don't know if I can speak for a majority of your audience, however, I can certainly say more content of this nature would be highly welcomed. I watched the original version you put up of this doc in pieces and loved it. The way you can swiftly and naturally bring everything back to nuclear physics w/o making it unnecessarily technical and also fully elaborating the usefulness of many of these highly complex topics, is extremely educational and digestible. I have a special love for history as well as science, so I'm always looking for more "history of science" type documentaries and I believe you are highly equipped to deliver that material even in long form while still remaining engaging. Thank you for all the educational as well as entertaining content.

the thought has occured to me that, if we grant the existance of the multiverse in which every possible result to every probabilistic event occurs, there may be at least one universe where nothing ever radioactivly decays, because each atom just always rolls "does not decay" every possible time it could

You'll want to read the footnotes in the original video's pinned comment. In footnote 4, for instance, the chart is explained to have been plotted with a common method, where the height is the rank (1st shortest half life = 1, 2nd shortest = 2, and so on), then colored by percentile.

One thing to mention, that unlike discovery of the new element and subsequent committees thoroughly investigated Ninov's claim, no committee was ever formed to check if he really did visit all Italian restaurants in Germany and rate them and so on. I know there is no incentive to do that, but most of the Ninov's claim kind of reminds of the innocent claims you will make to your friends in a bar after a few. Of course I might be wrong - what is not confirmed is not necessarily disproven.

Bobby Broccoli's presentatations and documentaries are sublime. I love his work.

Absolutely average intelligence 54yo carpenter here. This subject matter is at least a full galaxy above and beyond my rather humble wheelhouse, but I found this story to be fascinating. I may even watch it again! I agree that the in-depth historical content is incredibly interesting, with the added benefit of enhancing my ability to cognitively appreciate the gravity of the situation. I actually feel a bit smarter for hanging in there! Thank you very much!

I love how they just keep adding more stuff to the same scene and just move the camera around. Its like looking back at all the interesting stuff you learned while watching the video