Joseph Demarest

Projects / Science

What-if physics

Short videos about absurd physics questions, answered with real simulations instead of generated footage.

Status
First episode in progress
Year
2026
Built with
Python, REBOUND, Blender, Kokoro TTS
Source
Private
Moon as a rubble pile Earth Roche limit
Episode one: the Moon as a rubble pile, falling apart on the way down.

These are what-if videos where the physics is real. The first episode, still in progress, asks what would happen if the Moon fell to Earth. The Moon is modelled as a rubble pile in the REBOUND N-body code and simulated as it breaks up, then rendered in Blender with NASA imagery and narrated by a speech model running locally.

No generative video is involved. Every number on screen or in the narration comes from a solver, which is the point.