Fun With SaltSeptember 26, 2008
Without getting religious (let's leave that to Palin, why don't we?), I have to say that if I were God (always a good route to go in one's thoughts) I'd love creating salt. I'd add it to everything, even the ocean and especially potatoes, and I'd have fun with it like this:
(Salt on a metal plate on top of a speaker. Dogs don't like the sound of this video.)
Well, I'll be jiggered. I think God *did* have a bit of fun there, doodling in the salt. I'm sure there's a wonderful scientific reason for this, but I don't want to hear it!
Incidentally, my cat ran out of the room in disgust a few seconds after I started this video.
Posted by: Susan | Friday, September 26, 2008 at 13:01
Sweet mercy, Erikas don't like the sound of that video either! The VIDEO part is awfully neat, though!
Posted by: Erika | Friday, September 26, 2008 at 14:13
The question is whether the tone got too high for you to hear at any point. I lost it right about at 1:58, just before they switched it off.
Posted by: Mel | Friday, September 26, 2008 at 15:25
So cool! But Nick the collie gave it a baleful woof. Woke him out of his afternoon nap.
Posted by: Christina | Friday, September 26, 2008 at 15:49
Fascinating! I'd love the hear the explanation.
Posted by: M-H | Friday, September 26, 2008 at 16:20
Cool!! It freaked out my guinea pigs too.
Posted by: LaurieM | Friday, September 26, 2008 at 18:20
My cat didn't seem to mind. my husband thought it was cool, though.
Posted by: ayla | Friday, September 26, 2008 at 18:37
I have no idea what it sounds like cuz I muted my computer (I'm at work), but that's amazing! how that salt goes towards these kaleidoscopic mandalas, complete with the 4 cardinal directions and everything. Funny how archetypes that cut across cultures are also parts of the laws o' physics. Although I guess that does make sense that it'd be that way.
Posted by: becky | Saturday, September 27, 2008 at 08:33
Weird!! I wonder if they went back down the scale, if the same patterns would appear in reverse (i.e. is there a specific pattern for each frequency?)? Also, I wonder if I did the same thing at home, if I would get the same patterns at the frequencies they used.
Ugh, sometimes being a science nerd is such a burden.
Also, it's not just dogs . . . my cat went nuts while I watched that!
Posted by: chris | Saturday, September 27, 2008 at 15:05
So cool! My dogs weren't reacting... until 1 minute in, and then they started cocking their heads. I love when they do that.
Posted by: Kate | Sunday, September 28, 2008 at 12:26
That is one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time! (And I'm an engineer =)
Posted by: Margit | Sunday, September 28, 2008 at 16:13
I have to say that I didn't much like the sound of that either! But the video was cool. I had a HS physics teacher that let us do cool experiments like that one. We didn't really learn much about the physics behind them but we loved doing all the cool stuff with water, sound, giant rubber bands, tiny cars, smoke, mirrors...and salt!
Posted by: Tish | Tuesday, September 30, 2008 at 15:36
That's so freak'n cool. You think that's how crop circles were made?
Posted by: Thanita | Wednesday, October 01, 2008 at 20:45