An Engineering Fairy Tale: Cascade Failure at the Super Kamiokande

I decided to make a shorter 'shallow dive' video over my Christmas break. Many of you asked for more detail on the Super Kamiokande accident when I mentioned it in a recent video. So here it is! Video credit for footage of the detector: Kamioka Observatory, ICRR (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research), The University of Tokyo. Sources used: Initial report on the failure: https://www-sk.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/cause-committee/1st/report-nov22e.pdf Figures from the report: https://www-sk.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/cause-committee/index-e.html Super Kamiokande website. There is a lot of extra detail on how the detector works: https://www-sk.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/sk/ More info on photomultipliers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V8VCFkAd0A All 3D animations produced by me using Blender...which is why they aren't particularly good. 00:00 Acknowledgements 00:33 Intro 02:17 Particle Physics (ramblings of a lunatic) 03:48 Neutrino Detection 07:06 Photomultipliers 11:17 The Incident: As it happened 13:32 What in Earth Happened? 17:49 Fairytale Ending