Is The 5-Second Rule True?

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Watch me lift a car (and then drop it) with phone books! http://bit.ly/Tx6cd2 Vsauce video on "touch" and why bananas are radioactive: http://bit.ly/YfocQL Vsauce on THNKR (4-part interview with me!): http://bit.ly/Twsah2 http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce http://www.facebook.com/vsaucegaming All music by http://www.youtube.com/JakeChudnow 5-second rule facts: http://www.snopes.com/food/tainted/dropped.asp http://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/everyday-myths/five-second-rule.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-second_rule Applied Microbiology: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1111/j.1365-2672.2006.03171.x/asset/j.1365-2672.2006.03171.x.pdf?v=1&t=h9zjxcsg&s=ae4a166c50e80507642181594ab22a12dd7c7831 Jillian Clarke: http://www.howard.edu/newsroom/releases/2004/041001clarke.htm Mythbusters: http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/videos/five-second-rule-minimyth.htm minutephysics on "touch": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BksyMWSygnc Electrons as waves: http://www.rhythmodynamics.com/Gabriel_LaFreniere/matter.htm Adhesion: http://www.coatingspromag.com/articles/the-bonds-that-bind.aspx http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adhesive_surface_forces http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mechanical_explanation_of_intermolecular_interactions http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=cuyaHsui1ZUC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Intermolecular Forces: http://www.chemguide.co.uk/atoms/bonding/vdw.html http://ww2.chemistry.gatech.edu/~lw26/structure/molecular_interactions/mol_int.html http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/chemical/waal.html#c1 Molecule speed (interactive): http://aspire.cosmic-ray.org/labs/gas_particles/ Molecular Dynamics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_dynamics#Short-range_interaction_algorithms Phone book friction: http://www.de-monstrare.nl/pdf/Phonebook%20friction.pdf Orders of Magnitude: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(numbers)#1030 Germ facts: http://etiquette.about.com/od/Smartphones/a/Cell-Phones-Are-Personal-Items.htm http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/18/bank-card-fecal-bacteria-contaminated-germs_n_1971609.html http://www.geeksugar.com/Computer-Mouse-Keyboard-Each-Have-Over-700-Germs-Per-Square-Inch-3023797 Oatmeal Cell Phone Germs QUIZ: http://theoatmeal.com/quiz/phone_germs/go The best way to clean your computer screen: http://www.yahelite.org/lol/screenclean.swf Produced by: http://www.youtube.com/funnycatvideos Directed by: http://www.youtube.com/user/jackhoward Cinematography: https://twitter.com/luffwoto