Vortex Ring Collision

[Teremei]

And thus, our solar system was born (on a larger scale)

[shotmeindaface]

too bad they filmed this with a potato...

[simonJoel]

It's shisha time!!

[kiwininja100]

camra shake = perfect lol

[Erectoralporicy]

.... I am now going to team up with a friend, so we can show off and perform the greatest party trick ever.

[Dim4ik2008]

great

[lexyw1988]

coooool!

[LazyBen612]

What the fuuuuuckk

[pwn3d4lif3]

I like how whomever has the camera shakes it when they hit, making it assume that shit just hit the roof.

[Skrzypczakov]

I see london eye at the end!!

[smqzbq]

what would be more awesome than Vortex Ring Collision???

HD Slow Motion Vortex Ring Collision !!!

[metroid23]

temporal fluctuations of awesome occur at 0:06. Please excuse the interference. 

[rmeyerson2]

This is amazing!

[david1991rules4life]

a life glitch?

[EazyE6793]

This would be a bad ass trick to do a hookah bar!

[ehypersonic]

wow..i gonna try to do a computer simulation about this :D

[thunderbelly92]

i dont get it

[squeege421]

Press 4 or 5 repeatedly.

[MPaans]

Why does the camera shake on impact?..

[helirious]

@MPaans I think it's an old video, taped on a vhs. looks like a small/short tracking issue

[MPaans]

@helirious I think you're right! LOL, I was so amazed by this video that I was like: "Wooooaahh! Even the camera shakes!!" ;D

[ehypersonic]

@MPaans i think that the camera men was so surprised about the result and accidentally move it

[superhornet59]

:O HOLY SHIT

[ecopowerfuture]

Explains so much! Amazing video 

[SuperCrab22]

Somewhere Sonic has a boner!

[TopGunMan]

It took my a while to stop saying "oh my god" out loud.

[jaxalude]

Pornography for physicists!

[PrettyPinkPwnies]

@jaxalude and stoners, trust me.

[RoseCrush]

@ MrTwiky ... That was... Unexpected... Are you stalking me now or was it just a coincidence lol

[RoseCrush]

@sweetsexc ...it's cool...

[MrTwiky]

@RoseCrush Lol Go home, fag. XD

[Beatelectrico]

Cool

[muarkatznii]

fake

[TheDegraderReturns]

@muarkatznii Prove that it is fake

[stoopidoooo]

@muarkatznii obvious troll is obvious

[sweetsexc]

so special about this video may someone please explain this to me

[heyshutupyou]

physics is so random and amazing

[DaleSparrow]

HOLY SHIT THAT IS AWESOME

[jef446]

did you manage to generate a simulation that describes this collision with any success?

[unambitious]

I like how the screen shakes on impact as if it was some cataclysmic explosion.

[stoopidoooo]

@unambitious i was gonna type that :(

[Tommyboiuk1992]

@unambitious i think its just the scientists messing with us....

[SenserAwe]

wow



[DanFrederiksen]

that was rather unexpected. quite amazing. some significant secrets must be underlying this.

[connect2reality]

I think that's how the universe was born. Except replace the rings with matter/anti-matter, and the people running the experiment with God. Yup.

[deluksic]

hey its soo cool they even shaked the camera so effect look better! did u see that?

[kintarben]

that was the single coolest thing ive ever seen

[opaz79]

great scott!

[richie7101]

wow so cool!

[mogleimike]

this is the coolest thing ive ever seen

[themadscientest]

ohhhh ahhhhhh

[Applesaws]

best crazy science video i've seen in a while

[assante1]

that was crazy

[centpushups]

thats going on my Christmas card

[iced327]

what are the rings made of? how were they propelled toward each other? i don't know enough spanish to understand the description :(

[wolfsledgend]

@iced327 these are vortex rings easy to make pretty much any container with a round hole in it that suddenly gets a large amount of pressure in it will create a vortex ring and the rings were made of air and coloured smoke :D

[kamikazov]

Whats the maths behind it? Is it a predictable pattern or chaotic?

[GamePreorders]

Pretty!

[tonio909]

wow!

[sstring91]

The impact was so great it shook the camera!

[fr3d420]

no, the impact generated a magnetic field that made the film warp.

[LazzeLazer]

I would like for 2 things:

A HD-clip and also a High speed HD-clip

This is really really nice!

[birinni23]

WOW

[xB4R7x]

Hi reddit. :)

[iLoveOrangutans]

that happened to my brain when I saw this video

[than217]

AND the antimatter, which isn't visible, will hold the galaxies for the most part together instead of shooting stars out in all directions like you're thinking of.

[recrof]

you mean dark matter?

[ascenddani]

hey, and now Andromeda and Milky Way are approaching a simmilar EVENT? WOW

[mavrick45]

"and now Andromeda and Milky Way are approaching a simmilar EVENT?"

Unlikely. The galaxies will merge into one super-galaxy, not explode outwards like what you see in this video.

[TenebrousLyke]

But you have to admit that that would be fucking rad on such a behemoth scale.

In relation to size, the galaxies aren't moving that fast, anyway, are they? If they were, we might expect similar results.

[qroxfire]

not really. but even thenit moved slow, since the mass of all the stars are soo large, the collision will still be.. crushing. something's gonna break.

[than217]

Neither galaxies are 'Ring Galaxies' nor will the collision of them be so precise. (hence why Andromeda is seen at an "almost" edge on view. Not to mention Andromeda will collide with the Triangulum galaxies first (it already has actually we just can't see the light from the collision yet) and after that both will be flinging apart all sorts of shit when they hit the Milky Way. And when that happens it will just be a clusterfuck of spiral galaxy shit going everywhere.

[Khamul]

Galaxies cannibalize other galaxies. This event shouldn't be extrapolated to such a cosmic scale because based on our current understandings and observations, this is not how galaxies interact.

[bounce360]

Which created a different sort of visually observed ring, which then turned into many smaller and probably more complex and innumerable vortexes. Truly Divine.

[bounce360]

Anyone else wonder how much of an ~Actual Energy it was that caused the video to blurb at the time of impact? Anyone else wonder how many other energies out here that scientific instruments can not prove to measure?

[souljaLOVE]

lol mee too i guess we were all bored

[fenrirthewolf1212]

jesus

[terrifried]

stumble from IL

[piemanno]

Me too

[ryandood]

i wanna see two people do this who are really good at blowing smoke rings

[zensuke2]

ME TOO!!

[cesar2tony]

STUMBLED UPON IT!! <3 stumble

[HC3]

Did someone film their PC screen instead of applying titles?

[DragonXero]

Probably a rip from VHS. The quality is the same from the titles to the actual video.

[pppaatttt]

stumble <3

[kababman3]

stumbled...cool!

[Jumpinjahosafa]

I stumbled on this so hard

[saintnickXIII]

stumbleeeee

[moshman313]

Stumble!

[TehNetherlands]

It looks just like the Shock Rifle combo in Unreal Tournament. :D

[viking665]

I stumbled her! YES FOR the international stumble upon day!

[matt123matt4]

me too

[QuikyDaSilva]

stumbled

[deraifu]

cool....stumble should have a holiday named after it...lol

[zeldahalomanhunt]

how the universe was formed?

[gunnut442]

stumbled cool i guess

[sacredgeometry]

wow now thats beautiful science

[CyanideXCloud]

Sci-five!

[peebatron10k]

SCIENCE!!!!!

[imsohasome]

awesine!

[moofyman]

yeah, i guess air would be to hard to make such perfect condition. this is fluid dynamics all the way.

[itsfakebytheway]

too*

[moofyman]

fuck you

[atratusnihil]

Nothing like a youtube comments thread off an interesting science video to illustrate the sad, sad state of education in the English speaking world.

I guess they don't teach fluid dynamics in high-school physics anymore.

[0xXEliXx0]

Nothing like insufferable condescension to illustrate the sad, sad state of those few elite with a high school education.

[atratusnihil]

If a high-school education is all it takes to be intellectually elite, my comment stands in spades.

[0xXEliXx0]

I was being sarcastic you patronizing dick

[larrythecowlover]

@trentiraffe, you are right that air is a gas and water is a liquid, but maestro was also correct when he said they are both fluids. Fluids and liquids are not defined as the same thing.

[Jiakasuma]

Awesome!

[anonymous6366]

thats awesome

[nodnodwinkwinkV]

so what you're really saying is to get two nuclear bombs, fire them directy at each other and detonate a split second before they impact.

then watch some seriously cool smaller mushroom clouds from the edges?

nice.

[doilyfilm]

you are dumb

[trentiraffe]

@maestro: air is actually gaseous. water is liquid. they may contain some of the same properties of motion of things moving through them but only one is a liquid

[zorplex]

Seeing as Maestro never said they were both liquids, he is completely correct. Air and water (i.e. gas and liquid) are both fluids and can be characterized with the exact same equations and parameters just with different constants.

[trentiraffe]

i stand corrected. i didn't see the operative "considered" thank you sir

[varisor]

@zorplex if you watch the clouds in a plane, it will look like foam over a huge amount of liquid :) fisic makes me understand the world where we live

[JeanHertzberg]

This is from a famous experiment, done with dye in water: T. T. Lim and T. B. Nickels, Instability and reconnection in the head-on collision of two vortex rings, Nature 357, no. 6375 (May 21, 1992): 225-227, doi:10.1038/357225a0.

[waperboy]

"... The speed with which they approach becomes increasingly small, and increase the size of its radio faster. The radio will continue to grow until they are both eddies decay. If both are perfectly symmetrical eddies, the velocity of the fluid parallel to the axis of symmetry in the mid-point between swirl and eddy is equal to zero. This line generated by all points where the velocity is zero, it becomes a solid boundary where the velocity through the wall is zero."

[888gakuma]

綺麗なもんですな

[hutube500]

thnx for upload.

[insidious66]

amazing how another ring of toruses appeared perpendicular to the plane!

[caligrapher]

COOL.

[sMoKeHaPPy420]

is this under water? or just simply in air? if it was air and smoke...that shit was badass!!!! it had a water flow to it, thats why i wonder if it was under water

[leapoffaith20]

Air and smoke filmed in slow-mo

[aslambilal]

It looks like water to me.

[maestro8008]

@smokehippy: air and water are both considered fluids, and will exhibit the behaviors and qualities thereof. The most notable difference is that water is much denser than air.

[ChosenSloth]

@maestro

So you're saying that the experiment could have been with either water or air. I get it.

Sadly, Jean kinda cleared things up. So this is dye in water... Not smoke. Shucks, it'd be pretty badass with smoke.

[bwalt822]

not fake, flows can interact in very unusual ways. Awesome

[holdmineplease]

Definitely fake.

[blindot]

Your education is.

[im4wur]

The elegance evident in natural law can be so beautiful. Thank you for the video!

[height198cm]

its as fake as your face..... wait that would make me say that this is fake scrach that last bit!

[PwnagePanda]

lol not fake.

[Igotocostarica]

so beautiful!!! <3 universe

[alchemikey]

beautiful...that must be how crop circles are made

[jigglesnap]

coool

[jaryH3]

Really nice

[barrel128]

incredible, very neutral conditions makes no deviations