Rice & Resonance
Seeing as it’s the holiday season, I thought that I’d keep in ethos of SciencePunk by linking a video that has absolutely nothing to do with Christmas. Expect a lot of Awesome Science Videos over the next few days as I’ll be too busy stuffing my face with turkey and chocolate to write proper articles. Should you click on the link below, you will be directed to fascinating footage of rice grains neatly arranging themselves into pretty patterns, purely under the influence of sound waves. This phenomenon is known as Chladni Patterns, and you can read more about them here.
In the next few days I may well post some more footage of resonance in action, including vibrations that make custard go crazy and sound waves used to levitate small animals. Awesome!
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