Punching Water So Hard LIGHT Comes Out - Sonoluminescence

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Published 2019-09-05
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Sonoluminescence is probably one of the coolest phenomena you'll come across and involves conditions that over a fraction of a millisecond swing from -269C degrees to upwards of 10000C. By trapping a bubble with ultrasound you can force it to expand and then suddenly contract and in the moment of peak compression out comes a flash of light. In this video we explore how you can easily recreate this effect with very minimal hardware, and some of the other times this effects shows up, like when a mantis shrimp punches things.

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More resources

I'm going to supply these primarily as a list of DOI numbers. While I can't for legal reasons suggest you use a website, which shall remain unnamed, to get access to these papers, you could do that. Or just google them. You do you.

10.1098/rsta.1999.0325 
10.1515/zpch-1934-0137
10.1016/j.ultsonch.2016.06.013
10.1143/JJAP.49.07HE01
10.1016/j.ultsonch.2016.06.013

Massive review paper with tons of resources: asa.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1121/1.4929687

Bubble footage from UCLA Putterman labs. They do awesome work, check out their research: acoustics-research.physics.ucla.edu/sonoluminescen…

Mantis shrimp/pistol shrimp footage from BBC Earth Unplugged:
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All Comments (21)
  • @TheFrogKermitt
    5 years of messing with something to get it right. thats some dedication.
  • @sstrick500
    "After 5 years of grueling research, I present to you: A tiny bubble that glows!" (Roaring applause)
  • @EdgarFroes
    "Extremely easy and very difficult" experiment. I was expecting a cat in a box.
  • @OceanWarzGTFO
    The title almost sounds like a good comeback like "I'ma punch the water in you so damn hard you'll start shitting light rays"
  • @seb_gibbs
    Bringing difficult science out to the open. The internet needs more videos like this.
  • @shivek1987
    There is a sonar counterpart to this study called lumisonics done by me. Yes, you can produce sound from light
  • You’ve used the word damn in an educational video and mentioned This Old Tony, you have earned my like button
  • @MrThatguyuknow
    6:09 The Mt. Stupid analogy is by far the best depiction of the hobbyist struggle I've ever heard. So many hours spent trying to even learn what you need to ask in technobabble so obscure it's like you're digging up some thousand year old lost language just to ask one question.
  • @gufostanco220
    1970:"cars will fly in 50 years" 2020:"I passed several hours in the dark staring at flask filled with water"
  • @Darkhound11
    Dude. It took you 5 years to figure that out. Now the internet will know exactly how to do it instantly. Well done. 😝👍🏻 we need more people like you.
  • @oscarbright8218
    I know you probably won't read this but I've been planning on attempting sonoluminescence for months and was just about to start buying the equipment when I see this video, so looks like you saved me a few years of research. LOVE your channel dude, nothing else like it
  • A small hint: I was playing with ultrasound several years ago, when researching on how bats navigate. By accident, I had generated WAY to much ultrasound volume, which I did not hear, but deafened me temporarily above 400 Hz, and a hearing reduction above 4000 Hz which persisted quite a long time (into months) afterwards. So be careful with sound you can´t hear ;-) Regards PS. They tried to use this process for nuclear fusion! Btw I LOVED the Mount Stupid quote, it´s the reason I always corroborate as much source material as possible... And Gun Ho! Usually you find that a lot has simply been Copy-pasted, among other things. And by the way: don´t use an iron core for a 4 millihenry coil, that thing´s lossy as hell, Just find a ferrite rod from an old AM radio. Also feed the output from the amplifier to a tap on the coil, so the transducer and coil form a parallel circuit, be careful, because than you´ll get the nasty side-effect I had after a while lol.
  • You’re the man! Thanks for the tips. Here’s one for you. Water burns at 14.56MHz at 300W. I read that from a very smart man who figured out that the great pyramids produce a 15Mhz pulse signal from the pulsing of water entering the chambers.
  • @nobrakes7247
    If you freeze a bottle of water Then remove it from the freezer in a completely dark room with a temp about 33 centigrade The ice will crack producing a flash of light
  • 4:20 "These angry little basterds have the most devastating punch in the entire animal kingdom ... this little rainbowie bugger can literally punch things so hard light comes out." There .. there you got me.
  • @L00PdeL00P
    I think people are failing to realize how crazy cool this is
  • I'm a dummy, never even heard of a "Millihenry", but it was still very interesting to learn about these amazing sea creatures and then seeing sonoluminescence in action. It was absolutely fascinating! Soon after I was googling all these subjects to learn more, and that is the difference between a boring, overly technical video and one that is very well done. Thankyou!
  • @Fibonochos
    man, you guys are my favorite sci-fi-made-real channels because you make things that aren't even in scifi real with stuff that feel like it is straight out Asimov !