Air Bending, Acoustic Levitation, Tractor Beam

Experiment before you comment: 1) Try to pick up the paper by blowing on it. 2) Attempt to vaccuum it up by sucking. 3) Use your voice by making the loud "OOOO" sound. 4) Notice that suction does not pick it up as far as your voice can. Why? 5) Try playing my video and holding your computer speaker up to the paper. What happens? A more scientific explanation: It's not sound but a secondary effect of sound (otherwise your computer speaker would lift things too). My mouth is acting like a Helmholtz resonator. The shape of the sound wave is such that the rise time is shorter than the fall time, like a standard "sawtooth wave" played backwards (well look at the waveform of this video using audacity) but it's not the sound wave that does the lifting. The shape of the resonator (in this case my mouth) acts to create a series of ring vortexes or solitons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soliton (smoke rings, except these ones are smokeless) like the coffee cannnon I made: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZJlTpXaXso . Ordinarily, speakers are designed to minimize this effect. Think about what would happen if you manufactured a set of speakers to maximize this. Well, for one, they wouldn't sound very good, and they would cause candles to blow out and things to fly off your shelves. There would inevitably be complaints, lawsuits and stuff.

Pseudoscience: For "the sky is the limit" (Tesla's words) lifting power, use electromagnetic instead of sound energy. It is not limited to the 14.7 lbs/sq. in. of the atmosphere. How? I don't know. Tesla hinted that it was by creating scalar (pressure, voltage) waves instead of the normal electromagnetic (radio) waves. Try replacing the toroid on your Tesla coil with a Helmholtz resonator and let me know how it goes. I hope you have insurance!

Technique:

Air Bending 101: tractor beam. To do this with your voice you must be able to generate a very LOUD resonant noise, similar to a wolf howl or 'OOOOOO' sound. If it doesn't work, try higher frequencies and more power!

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[Tiwaking]

This is brilliant! I am going to use this method to pick up chicks.

[themanyone]

@Tiwaking It works pretty good for that. :)

[nickyallenmusic]

My gf jus woke up to a view of me leaning over the table humming "ooooh" at a piece of paper on my nightstand. And I didnt even get the paper to lift up. wtf..

[themanyone]

@nickyallenmusic It takes skill to get it up.

[mcbublick]

im looking for a resonators and this is what i find. intersting! thanks for the video.

i have to make a resonator for acoustics class. anyone can give me a hint on a cheap matirial to make it from?

[themanyone]

@mcbublick Even cheaper, if you know the size you want, make with clay, plaster, or whatever is handy. You do not need to bake the clay, but at least let it dry for a couple days. Clay is cheaper than dirt if you know where to dig. :)

[TCDIL95]

haha you sound like a vacuum cleaner :P

[SuperJokerking]

what else can u suck 

[robosloth333]

Okay, so I remember seeing this video a few years back, and just became super interested with frequency and resonance and tried really hard to find this video again.

You mention a helmholtz resonator in your description; and you state that if you built speakers that maximized this phenomenon, you would be able to push things.

I know it's a bit of a request, but could you elaborate more on how you think someone could go about doing this?

[hintzofcolorconcepts]

I'm not going to ask how you found this out

[h34evr]

@hewojordan i was the first to levitate you mother when she got on top of me HA! im too funny

[nickyallenmusic]

@themanyone haha you said 'get it up' haha awesome. But got my girl on board wit this, n she actually helped me be able to lift it. I gave up, she tried it n lifted it, so I kept trying n finally got it. :)

[hewojordan]

American here. Ill be the first to levitate stones.