Alpha Phoenix

2026-02-13 Tags: youtube-channels, youtube-videos

Alpha Phoenix is a consistently great science communicator on youtube, he builds really cool experiments. Two of my favorites are:

Measuring the speed of light in a super understandable way. There's something just really cool to me that it's even possible for somebody to do this, on earth, with reasonably accessible technology.

Super stunning timelapse videos of trying to grow perfectly aligned ice crystals. Normal ice has no consistent structure, but snow flakes have perfect hexagon based shapes - what happens if you grow ice from a single snow flake?

But his whole channel is great, definitely check his history of videos for anything that jumps out at you.