Sound Wave Propulsion?

Can sound waves be used to create propulsion? Watch, and then decide.

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Entertainment

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• sound
• wave
• propulsion

[zoidberg295]

would be a bit noisy wouldent it, to make all that power

[technocreep]

there are ultralow/high frequencies that are outside our hearing threshhold, so we probably wouldnt notice that much

[gringomeyer]

If i were to try sound propulsion, do u think i need like expensive high tech stuff? I'm really interested in this topic.

[technocreep]

You might ask college professors, or a professional, about what inexpensive materials might be used for your experiments, and where to get them. @gringomeyer

[iHaevDyslexia]

Go take a chemistry class. First of all, waves in the ocean do not always spike up. With waves in the ocean if they overlap with the trough (bottom of the wave) at the crest (top of the wave) of the opposing wave it will make them level out, so even if sound waves did actually work in the way you describe, it would not give you any kind of thrust in your UFO. Second, Sound is a pressure wave! These waves will pass directly through each other, not spike and "boom".

[davidzhang23r0]

wouldn't work, sound can't push it back, unless the speaker is below the ship on the ground. then you could have just used magnets.

[TheUFOeffect]

@TheUFOeffect: I jsut remembered that would waves are longitudinal not transverse. they dont work like water waves. light waves are like water waves

[TheUFOeffect]

I guess you could try and place to speakers facing each other in the right phase with each other so they are constructive. adn they you would have to do calculations with the air its moving and the momentum of the craft your trying to move like you do with rocket science.

[themanyone]

@slymantec scalar waves do, but nobody except Tesla understood them and if I did I wouldn't admit it until I had a working prototype whizzing around and collecting space junk for my lunar junkyard.

[slymantec]

unfortunately sound waves do not travel in a vaccuum.

[djsufferthing]

Can you imagine one of these sitting on blocks in some rednecks yard blasting country western music? Gives me the shivers.

[OriginalK1lL3R]

ok think about it... The only reason your getting a spike in ONE direction perpendicular to the waves path, is due to the fact that the pressure of the water below, prevents the spike from pushing downward. In any other condition, the spike would be in BOTH directions and thus creating equal force in opposing directions, achieving a whole lot of nothing...

[sanin92]

sound propulsion is impractical because it takes a lot of energy and it will not work in outer space

[Archimedes555453525]

@technocreep you'd need very big speakers for that