What Sound Looks Like

[Volkblin]

That last bit was too awesome.

[sheller153]

@brokenbeforetime the stuff in the speaker is a mix of cornstarch and water. When the sound waves hit it they cause it it change from a liquid into a solid. It's called a  non newtonian fluid. So basically if you press your hand into it slowly it's a dense liquid, whereas if you punch it it would condense then crumble from the force of the impact.

[Polymeron]

If anyone had any doubt that cornstarch is disgusting... Well there you go.

[DivineNucleus]

--The corn starch is not showing the truth, it is reflecting the flawed logics of varrious minds of creation, the writhing mass like a million hell-bound fag/whores screaming against the wrong idea"NOOOO"as the roar of the coean--as the ideas of the minds of creation shift, the results showed in corn starch may shift--the plot to have these people eat popcorn at the movies, inviting corn starch to the body/spirit, the sound of the film, the proof of what is false, their behavior shifts to good--

[djmcswar]

thank you science for creating the things i see in nightmares in real life

[brokenbeforetime]

y it do that???

[quincychisam]

thumbs up

[bkg360]

...and thus man was born.

[Xero555000]

non-Newtonian fluid, sheer thickening

[FiringFed1]

play dubstep

[hellzone100]

it keeps the fluid steady ?.... :O ive figured out something else..... 

[BlackRedJoker]

BURN IT!!!

[hihihihi411]

now that everybody knows how to do this... it's the end of the world

[watcherofzideozeszz]

at the end it was obviously zombies

[super6plx]

00:06 - 00:14

science with Christopher Walken

[noah962]

oooooooooooo i like swirls

[LaEspriella]

well then is isnbt hard to believe that man was created out of mud by the word, or music, or vibration of God or creating force!!

[itsallamindgame]

the last example looked like the sun pics from one of the sun telescopes,hmmmm

[MegaTimmyc]

I have no idea what any of that means. But it was cool.

[psychonaut25]

Chuck Norris's soup

[jimcorrtube]

In the beginning was the word (sound)

[00basshead00]

its like demons or hell trying to break free . haha

[ELBOZZZZ]

what tha shit! 2:05 - end !!! looks like hell

suffering souls or somethin o. O

[tru7hmnb]

Creeped. The. Fuck. Out.

[gashbell111]

thumbs up if the last part looks weird

[mathscirocks]

why is it in monochrome?

[DeceptiveWolf]

How does this demonstrate what sound looks like?

[AlexKalicinski]

528hz plzzz

[JohnnEG7]

KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!

[juliafutrik4]

omg think ill not sleep tonight, monsters exists!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

greatings from brazil

[lo12la100]

SOUNDZ LOOX CREEPYZ

[NorTownBlue]

To diggabyte wat does this mean

[morten22pro]

as you can see its getting really fucked up

[remon001]

The substance you see,

I'ts maizena

[remon001]

@remon001 (mixed with water)

[tylerchase7]

PERFECTION OF HORROR FILMS!!!

[tylerchase7]

240p is bullshit! BULLSHIT I TELL YOU!

[rezen1983]

It looks like this is how simple cell organisms became complex ones.

[RobToddyTV]

What sound looks like:

Yes, it IS invisible... which means it doesn't look like anything because WE CAN'T SEE IT!!!

[jann6373]

2:43 They are DEAD!

[MRFRiTR]

awesome



[chromaticwaltz]

The end bit reminds me of a ton of zombies coming out of the ground, except they are perfectly white all over.

[AshLovesHash]

Maybe sound created us?

[WTFGiordan]

@Airborne80

.......blackholes

[BradMeekins]

13 people have never done drugs....ever.

[hibraisil]

@BradMeekins 11 of them are lying.

[atmatheprophet]

I think they opened up a hole into Hell.

[Airborne80]

Damn. There is something more important to this. Soething that I can sense but not quite describe. I mean.... the properties displayed in this video must pply to things on a larger scale,,,, such as the universe. Think of the variations of sound, vibrations, space, baby stars, solar syatems, our bodies, etc. Soooo much about us that we will never know.... in this lifetime anyway. Great video and thank you :)

[JSprayaEntertainment]

@Airborne80 lol watch esoteric agenda and Kymatica to fully under stand ,

[AshLovesHash]

@Airborne80 Yepppers on that one.

[badback22]

@Airborne80 Thats funny, I also had a similar feeling except I started thinking perpetual motion as the energy caused the irregular shapes to rise. Of course if the energy was simply transfered it is not perpetual motion. Not only that but this would have been discovered already, but maybe this is new. I have wondered about shapes in vibrating liquids so this is cool :)

[scaleofthought]

@1:56

this will soon become a heatless-flat-surface-lava lamp invention.

[fabinfvb]

dharma vid

[2Durr]

Can you vibrate a pussy so i can put my **** in to it :D

[378TPO]

Reminds me a lot of that scene from Ghostbusters 2 when Ray is down that hole! XD

[Ir0nF1st924]

holy crap what kind of equipment did u use?

[umagarandyorton619]

What the... holy shit! o_O

[jontycampbell]

You can also do this with a cup of tea or coffee in a styrofoam cum and drag it across a table - it will produce stationary waves called crispations.

.

[Curri3Saan]

DAMN PHYSICS, YOU INTERESTING!

[freedomfighter13103]

in the beginning it said fingers and holes... BAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

[MGdriver77]

made my skin crawl

[KANTAG1]

i like nachos !!!!!

[wefsaf33]

wtf??? thats sooo cooool!!

[ReligionRetard]

Im trippin!!

[TKcmcbTD]

Damn nature you scary!

[indemnis4]

MORE!

[indemnis4]

that was AWESOME!

[djdavejones]

that looked loud

[happygamestvfun1]

how do u make it move?

[neo529]

Thats what The Underworld looks like on the weekends

[darkmyth2]

was this filmed with a calculator?

[Nathriel]

I wonder how this could be related to cellular decay as a result of a virus or other non-native substance to the body, or a cancer

[skatty14]

Looks like a big zombie orgy or something?! :)

[unseen123strength]

...And the Blob was born.

[Antarath]

I love the end. Looks a like a bunch of people in a foam fight :D

[dragonswarmify]

i want one!



[6cody5]

unusual bacteria growth?????

[janvoslos]

uuh god? i found a bug

[dusteroo]

look at the hole

that's what she said

[DrShaym]

2:04, Akira.

[zaubertom]

Science, bitches - It works!

[dco0y]

Burn the witch :D

[Darkdead95]

Achievement unlocked:

Haxing the gravity

[basketBallboy235]

@Darkdead95 no trophy unlocked

[eevee54444]

well if thats what sound looks like it hurts my eyes XD

[SuperWario094]

1:30 looks like cell division

[Zee96969696]

this is just plain weirdness

[Nilguiri]

It's like the surface of the sun.

[ZeroFiftyFour]

What would happen if you try with 435MHz, the widow to human mind?

[nachoreplay]

2:37 ITS ALIVE!

[teddydc2]

i have no idea what he is talking about but looks like little mudd people

[onlyontuesdays99]

I can't help but see the similarities between this and and microscopic life forms.

[luver405]

That is amazing! :D So is it just cornstarch and water? I would LOVE to try this out! :D

[Netkiller3714]

You just inaddvertently explained how black holes work.

[pentium6xx]

idiots

[maribakumon]

its not what sound looks like its the vibraitons that make sound that are shown

[UberCookieboy]

I bet whoever thought of doing this was smoking something :D

[Sluggerisback247]

OMGWTFBBQ!

[illkickyouindahead]

ITS ALIVE MUAHAHAHAHAHAA

[DragonhawkV]

@illkickyouindahead *lightning and thunder  and evil music*

[PKarklouse]

OMG you spawned hell's minions! AAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!

[oahugrownKALIHI]

the last part was crazy as fuck!

[uhldaableableable]

very interesting. especially the " hole delocazization"...

Perhaps something similar was happened in the quantum vacuum By imposing the symmetry breaking and causing cosmic inflation. A breath ...

[cevacuverde]

Hmm!I see sounds o.O

[akaskyscraper]

i bet you some mathematician would have a fun time modeling this mathematically.

[kkkc100]

that your brain at shaked at 120 Hz :D

[gtapsyco]

2:16 ITS ALIVE!!!

[JPIs4Ever]

Some japanese guy is goings to turn that video into some hentai tentical monster... Oh those crazy japanese people... :)

[M1SSeli]

funny my brother just tried this for our little cousin today. She says she didn't learn anything but it was fun.

[shoemakerleve9]

It's so real it looks fake!

[Capeau]

@ 00:22 ohno those are melting dwarves

[jkao1215]

why is the sornstarch silver??

[bradmann85]

lol looks like a bunch of people mud wrestling

[Robinla7]

You can't see sound. Or..uhhhh.maybe you can.

[statquo112]

whatsa faraday wave?

[mimekiller17]

no hats what VIBRATING WATER AND CORN STARCH LOOKS LIKE, sound has no look as you cant see sound

[PsycheOfAsylum]

this is so disgusting...

[MasterThief1324]

Does an object vibrating at 120Hz mean that the oscillator is oscillating the plate or whatever at 120 cycles per second? Is the standard interval of time of frequency (period) calculated in seconds?

[anbruce99]

actually freq=sound=mans ability to form the use of words. i dont know where god comes into this. but then again if you're religous ...god gives us an easy answer for everything instead of understanding the real answer

[floresgt3]

@anbruce99 You're getting god and personal god (religion) mixed up man. The "real answer" that makes 0 sense?

[dmgcat]

Like the surface of the sun. Standing waves must play a role there too? Sunspots formed the same way maybe radiation blasting a hole then the standing waves hold it open?

[dougie200194]

i hav a bag labelled cornflour in my cupboard, can i use tat for this experiment

[devilcry79]

no, it has to be "cornstarch". should find it in any grocery store.

[Aprilshowersss]

if you are in Europe then what you call cornflour is the same thing as cornstarch in the Americas. In the Americas cornflour is flour made from corn... kind of like super fine corn meal and that would not work for this.

[anbruce99]

what happens at higher frequencies???

[MBSPulse]

@ anbruce99 when i did this experiment at college i cant rember the freq but it started to form smaller fingers ontop of the bigger ones and in turn kinda maded a towere with more and more mini fingers sprotu out the next but yeh

[skater3050]

this looks like germs under a microscope

[duxutube]

something to do with non-linearity

[retsamroines]

What instrument was the person here using to vibrate the cornstarch?

[Supish16]

@retsamroines

subwoofer probably

[COROVICD]

this whole process is so similar to behavior of the Sun spots. Have anybody looked into that similarity?

[hipstarchild]

Play it some Beethoven and see what it does !

[topicsx]

have you ever heard of non newtonian fluids?

search for it ;)

[XxBertFacexX]

looks more like bacteria

[magicsilverback]

i'd just like to know the practical application of this

[SteveDeFacto]

Something similar to a lava lamp maybe?

[ishallkillall]

finger part is FTW!!!!!

[FatherWarhol]

It be demon magic

[COROVICD]

this looks very similar to the behavior of the sun's plasma and black spots! Interesting.

[zelikris]

Didn't Abraham open the sea so the Isrealites could pass across? This video shows a hole in a liquid which dosen't close. Perhaps this is the scientific explination to what Abraham did 2000 years ago??

[merden]

Hmm what's next? invitro fertilisation is proof that the Virgin Mary truely was a virgin?  This has ZERO relevance to the bible...

[candyberriche]

was it supposed to?

[DrPlotless]

Funny, I don't remember the dead sea being filled with corn starch...

[dood9080]

1) that was moses

2) your an ass you think he can fill the whole red sea with corn starch then shake it then fit thousand of poeple in that hole i think not

[pgmammo]

This is what is refered to as a newtonian fluid. it is dense enough to run across, yet if you stop, you will sink. You can slowly poke a hole with your finger. Or you can punch it, at which point it will become solid. Also, on a side note, Abraham almost killed his first born son, Moses parted the red sea. Lay off the Dan Brown for awhile.

[YOWHATTHEHELLUP71]

moses

[Laevi1337]

so, you think the ocean was made of corn starch 2000 years ago????

[jrussell772]

you forgot to ask, do we think moses had a way to create 120hz pulses with a constant frequency from the bottom of the ocean 2000 years ago????

[edtExodus]

He was a skillful singer, you know...

[zelikris]

Guys, I'm not saying this is the exact way Moses did it. I'm just proposing a possibility.

Ok, I'm aware of the fact that this is corn starch. My point is, it's a liquid. So if sound waves can do that to corn starch, why wouldn't there be any different types of sound waves that have similar effects of water?

I'm not posting this to offend anyone, so please don't take it the wrong way

[PNEMStudios]

Why not? Because cornstarch isn't actually liquid as you said. The mix of water and cornstarch is a type of non-newtonian fluid. These fluids act in a different way than liquids like water. If you do this to water, it will shake but there's no way Moses moved the Red Sea with this, if he moved the sea at all of course. You can´t really know he did, can you?

[zelikris]

Oh ok. I didn't know cornstarch was a totally different kind of fluid.

You're right, we can't really know if Moses did that. In fact, we don't even know if he ever existed. Nothing in the past can be conclusively proven unless you were there to witness it yourself; but even then it's still not 100%. That is why everything in history is subject to faith and belief.

[ChesterRuiz]

Boo!

...moses...

[Daelmyth]

Actually its not a liquid. The water is.  The cornstarch is a powdered solid suspended in the liquid. The vibrations of the sound waves create movement in the particles. Check out "The Art of Sound" over on the side. they take sand on a huge speaker and go through different frequencies creating different symetrical geometric forms per each frequency amp up. Its really cool.

[mecca777]

looks like wormholes lol

[Hymanroth67]

what does it mean though?

[mistery2010]

2:16 looks like an alien or something

[haddib]

its THE BLOB!!!

[DanielPhysiker]

"Caotic normal modes" ?? lol

[Chapa7ld]

black hole explanation?

[Pirate454]

its that slime shit off ghostbusters!

[onionofdeath]

ITS ALIIIIVVVEEE

[ihatemo]

how do you set that up?

[ActionReplayPerson]

0:49 looks like bacteria multiplying

[TheNightWriter101]

@superscatboy FYI sound does look like something, it looks like what we hear, since our ears are our way of analysing and interpreting sound in the same way our eyes interpret light.

[superscatboy]

@TheNightWriter101 You seem to be under the impression that the senses are interchangeable.

If you mean to say that sound has a _form_ then you are right - but the form is not visual (unless you are lucky enough to have synaesthesia).

By your bizarre reasoning, I should be able taste the Eiffel Tower by looking at a photo of it!

[TheMorningshadows]

@superscatboy You're way too litteral. He's just showing us what sound would look like IF we could see it. Now, any half-brained moron could tell that no one can see sound, Einstein, but he's just giving us an example. Moron.

[superscatboy]

@TheMorningshadows Yes, I'm being literal, but for good reason. This video _literally_ states that this is what sound looks like. TheNightWriter101 _literally_ said that sound _does_ look like something. Both are false statements. However, TheNightWriter101 was almost right, he just doesn't possess the vocabulary to express his thoughts properly. Are you really complaining at me for correcting a fallacy? Perhaps you'd prefer if I jump on the "sound looks like something" bandwagon?

[piquanting]

@superscatboy I think this is an excellent video. We need more videos visualizing scientific phenomena on Youtube like this.

[acr8tiv]

@superscatboy had you titled it many people would not have seen this.

[LordFendleberry]

@superscatboy Ever see an oscilloscope? Sound travels in waves, and waves have a visual form. That's like saying heat doesn't look like anything. Technically that's true, but you can visualize it with thermal imaging. Besides, "What Sound Looks Like" is a way catchier title than "What Water and Corn Starch Look Like When the Pan They Are In Is Vibrated at Varying Frequencies." So, you're just an asshole.

[superscatboy]

@LordFendleberry Yes, I've seen oscilloscopes, VUMs, spectrographs.... but none of these undermine my argument. All these are _representations_ of sound, made by humans so that humans can "visualise" the sound to better understand it. However, sound still doesn't look like anything. These are representations, nothing more - just as a painting of a horse is not itself a horse, a visual representation of a sound is not a sound itself. Please, think hard about that before responding.

[jeffgooloolie]

@superscatboy Do you see the noise pattern on the surface... thats what sound looks like

[ThievingSeven]

@superscatboy You are a very ignorant person.

[changwenz]

@superscatboy indeed.

[doompie1]

dude u better be careful it could eat YOU!!!

suggestion, get a better vide