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Non-Newtonian Fluids Rock Out As Stars Of Jack White's New Music Video


The Huffington Post  | by  William Goodman Email RSS Follow   Posted: 04/12/2014 7:15 pm EDT Updated: 04/12/2014 9:59 pm EDT Print Article






http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRbnAxrS3EM#t=23


The popular new music video for musician Jack White's song "High Ball Stepper" is more than just fantastically awesome. It's science.

The video opens with the image of a blue gloppy liquid covering up a speaker and vibrating to a rhythmic beat. The trippy visual actually highlights the physics of non-Newtonian fluids. Such fluids -- like ketchup or blood or yogurt, for instance -- have different flow properties than Newtonian fluids, such as water or milk.

Why is that? Non-Newtonian fluids have properties of both liquids and solids. Just see for yourself in the video above.

And after you're finished watching and learning about non-Newtonian physics, you get the opportunity to switch gears to some sand on a Chladni plate, whereby you can watch and learn more about the historical experiment that served "as the basis for the scientific understanding of sound." Rock on.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/12/non-newtonian-liquids-jack-white-science-highball-stepper_n_5135156.html?utm_hp_ref=science

Sky,

A fantastically awesome demonstration of "sound effects".

What happens inside our body as we hear sounds?
A bit harder to document, though I imagine some
agency somewhere has explored it in depth.

The 60's come to mind, and the CIA inroads
into the music industry.