Understanding Water Flow and Pumps

We got the hose running into this one, overflowing it, into this one.

Okay.

Okay. So with this one overflowing into here,

as soon as this one gets

full enough,

I just have to siphon this one

and even that out. Now you can see that the water's going into

this one.

Yeah.

Now-

Just from the flow of the

hose, right?

Well, the hose is running into here, and that's what's creating that water.

This water's coming up from this basin.

This one

is going into this basin.

And then this one,

this one has to fill a little bit more.

But you can see we've got three going this way.

Yeah.

Gotta keep the water going into here.

And then I'm going to siphon this last one and

get a perpetual flow of water.

Uh, perpetual motion is not a thing, Ryan.

Oh, it filled

this one.

Motion stopped.

There's so much to keep a, keep track of here.

Oh, oh,

oh. There it is. There it is.

Check it out.

Now, we have

perpetual motion with water. See, this one's filling up this

one, which is then overflowing into this.

This one's filling up here, which is overflowing into this one.

This one is overflowing this one into here, and that's a continuous

cycle. Now, let me tell you why this is completely impossible.

Impossible, yes.

This is physically impossible. This is not a thing that can happen.

It's impossible.

Oh, but what about the siphon effect, Ryan?

No. So here's the thing about the siphon

effect. Here's a watering can.

This is a watering can. If I were to fill up this watering can all the

way-

All the way

... all the way to the top, do you think it can overflow from here?

No.

It can't overflow from here the way these are overflowing.

This is impossible. It's not a thing that can be done.

Now,

I'm getting this pretty full, and while this fills up,

I'm gonna explain. If this is higher than this,

then the water is gonna come out here.

Not there.

It's not gonna come out here. Even if you have pressure on it,

the most you could

maybe get is a drip, but even then, not likely.

Well, try to siphon that right now.

I can try to siphon it.

There's nothing. There's no... I'm just getting air from the inside of

the

watering can. Now,

as these continue, you're wondering if it's impossible,

then how are these still going?

Yes.

Well,

that's the part I'm gonna explain to you guys.

Wait, you're gonna tell us how you're doing

that?

I'm gonna tell you exactly how it's done, as this is getting water all over our

counters.

Now, look, this is getting ready to be... It's almost full.

Okay.

It is full up to here.

That's past the ridge.

That is past the ridge, and I'm gonna show you

that no matter how full

you get this,

it is not going to overflow out the spout of this.

This is higher.

Yes.

Now, there is siphoning. People do siphon gas.

But when people siphon gas, the end of the hose has to be

lower.

Now look,

the end of the hose would have to be lower

than the gas tank itself.

Yes.

Because if you look at this, I'm now overflowing this.

Yes.

This, if I continue to-

Making a giant mess

... if I continue to put water in here,

it is just gonna overflow out here.

But, but, but siphon.

I'm gonna siphon.

Nothing happened.

Nothing.

So then how is this working?

I'll give you a hint.

Okay.

Underneath these towels

is a whole bunch of cords.

Yes.

I'm gonna shut off the power to these cords.

It all stopped.

And it all stopped.

What's going on?

Inside every one of these watering cans is a pump.

Not just one pump. Every single one of these cans needs to

have

a pump in it. That's the only way it's possible.

If you just had one pump to pump this out here, well, we know

that filling up a watering can,

it wouldn't overflow. So this one's got a pump

that pumps it into this one.

This one's got a pump that pumps it into that one.

This one's got a pump that pumps it into that one.

Each one has a pump.

Here, reach into there.

Reach in there and see if you can feel it, and pull it out.

There is a pump.

There is a pump in there. Each one is a tiny

fountain pump, and, uh, it's not run on batteries.

The cords are ran out the bottom of this. This is a waterproof submersible pump.

It's hard to get out of there. Took us a while to get in there, actually.

Well, you built this.

And you can see the cords run out the bottom,

and they were hidden underneath the towels. It's, uh...

This isn't physics. This is impossible.

This is not a thing you can recreate at home, unless you're gonna buy four pumps,

four watering cans, and hide a bunch of cords.