A Physics Prof Bet Me $10,000 I'm Wrong

I am here to sign a document betting $10,000 that my last video is in fact correct this is the video in question some people may have missed it but in this car there is no motor no batteries no energy source besides the wind itself and the counterintuitive claim is that this car can maintain speeds faster than the wind that's pushing it there is a physics professor at UCLA who got in touch to say that he thought that I was wrong that the explanation was wrong you know we went back and forth a little bit and eventually I said well how about we bet $10,000 I can prove it to you this vehicle really can go downwind faster than the wind and to my surprise he is taking me up on the BET look no no one is perfect uh but uh you have a much lower error rate than most uh people on YouTube in YouTube space now Professor Alex cenko wanted this wager and all related course to be public in fact he suggested we get a celebrity to witness the signing so I asked Neil degrass Tyson Bill Nye and Shan Caroll to be our Witnesses and they graciously agreed and and Alex I just want to say I agree with everything you said about veritasium that I'm generally I can watch it and not have to wonder is he going to mess up what how am I no he's brilliant brilliant I'm excited about this bet because if I am wrong then I want to know like the whole point of the channel is to get to the truth and that is I think why we're all here today and I think you know this is a great great chance to sort of see I'm going to summarize Alex's main points in this video but I'll put his full presentation here so let me first explain what I see in the video in the video the vehicle is operated in a Gusty wind initially you have the wind speed exceeding the car speed but then the wind speed is not constant the wind speed drops and the car moves by inertia with deceleration for a while so basically Alex thinks a gust pushes the car to a high speed and then when the wind dies the car is going faster than the ...