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/cau...

Figures from the report:
https://www-sk.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/cau...

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:
   • PMT1: Using a Photomultiplier to Dete...  

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