Nick Lucid
Nick Lucid is the physicist, educator and creator behind The Science Asylum, making videos that unpack physics and math with humor and animation.
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Known for
- The REAL source of Gravity might SURPRISE you...2020 · Host and explainer
YouTube - I proved 1,300,000 Earths WON’T fit in the Sun.2021 · Creator
YouTube - Advanced Theoretical Physics: A Historical Perspective2019 paperback edition · Author
Lulu - What is Sound? (Flame Challenge 2016)2016 Flame Challenge · Winning video
Vimeo - Can You Make An Equation 90s Themed?2025 · Equilibrium FX animation challenge
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Overview
- Known as
- The Science Asylum
- Work
- Physics educator, video creator and author
- Education
- MS in physics, Eastern Michigan University
- Early videos
- Explaining buoyancy on YouTube in July 2013
- Recognition
- 2016 Flame Challenge video winner
Mini bio
How it started.
Nick brought a physics teaching background to online video. He holds an MS in physics from Eastern Michigan University and was teaching college physics when he won the Flame Challenge. His early Science Asylum uploads include “Why Do Things Float?”, published on July 26, 2013.
Finding his audience.
In 2016, his explanation of sound won the Flame Challenge’s video category, judged by children. Another lasting audience favorite is his 2020 video about gravity and time curvature. When he revisited it in June 2026, he described the original as his most-viewed video.
Inside the Asylum.
The channel’s name reflects its welcoming idea: a refuge for people excited about science and math. Nick’s recent video credits list him as host, writer, editor and animator, with Emily Lucid producing and providing captions. His subjects range from photons and relativity to circuits and trigonometry.
Beyond the main channel.
Nick also wrote Advanced Theoretical Physics: A Historical Perspective. In February 2025, he announced Equilibrium FX with Em: she gives him a prompt, and he creates an animation that meets it. One early challenge asked him to give an equation a 1990s theme.
Creditschronological, newest first
Video
- 2026Photons Are Weirder Than You ThinkHost, writer, editor and animator
- 2025Can You Make An Equation 90s Themed?Animator and on-camera creator, Equilibrium FX
- 2016What is Sound? (Flame Challenge 2016)Creator; Flame Challenge video winner
- 2013Why Do Things Float?Presenter, The Science Asylum
Awards
Quotes
The best way to teach kids is to find your inner child.Nick Lucid, Stony Brook University’s Flame Challenge announcement
Advice to scientists following his 2016 video-category win.
Trivia
- His official site defines “asylum” as a haven, refuge or sanctuary for enthusiasm about science and math.
- He shares Python projects on GitHub, including sphere-packing code and a simulation that shifts the solar system from a Sun-centered to an Earth-centered view.
- The 2019 paperback edition of his physics book runs to 529 pages.
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