Cymbal at 1000 frames per second

This youtube video was posted by Fluke, a company that makes and sells measuring instruments (I use my Fluke multimeter on a daily basis); in partnership with Propadata films.

Fluke and Propadata Films teamed up to explore the world of vibrations—the world of unseen movement—through high-speed videography. Employing the use of a Phantom HD Gold camera, we were able to film a variety of materials and activities at the astounding rate of 1,000 frames per second. What resulted is an amazing short film of movement in slow motion, highlighting the effects of vibration normally invisible to the naked eye.

Here's a bronze cymbal being struck by a drum stick, filmed at 1000 frames per second. What you thought was a solid object looks very liquid.

I've seen lots of high-speed photography, water drops, bullets through balloons, etc., but never anything that shows the fluidity of a solid metal before. Truly amazing!

Here's the Fluke website for more information on the project.

I just realized that I saw only a part of the original "Vibrations" video...here's the whole show. It's amazing!

Everything is liquid; electricity. Cymatics.

Pretty sweet vid

Very cool dude. Star for you.

Time is relative, yesterday a group of friends and I saw a car accident happen at an intersection. Having been in one myself, as I'm sure many people here have had the unfortunate experience as well, I thought of how quickly it was over. I then thought about how looooooong the accident I was in seemed to take. I know it was adrenaline dilating time so I could react, but never the less, it's still weird!

It's amazing what goes unseen in this world until the proper viewpoint is given.

Thanks again, I even forgot about my hangover for a minute and half, lol!

Originally posted by depth om
Everything is liquid; electricity. Cymatics.

Molecules. Liquid is just a less denser version of hard mater because the molecules are feather apart.

Every thing has a vibrational frequency. I wonder what force makes things vibrate and what makes that force.

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I think the universe is like a drum filled with liquid. something struck the drum and the reverberant waves and their refractions are the Things that "exist". nothing is permanently set, everything is just like waves in the ocean.

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Amazing! Thanks for posting. It does look absolutely liquid!

Amazing. It's nice to be reminded that what we perceive as a 'solid' is actually only 2% mass. It also reminds me of this experiment where you pour a liquid which is almost absolute zero (like -273 degrees) into a glass jar and because its so cold the liquid particles don't vibrate and create enough mass to be contained in the glass receiver jar.

Anyway, the end result is that the -273 degree liquid just passes straight through the glass without breaking, fracturing or anything visible to the glass it's amazing. I can't find any videos of this experiment however but I believe it was on some BBC science show around 5 years ago.

Originally posted by AnalyticalDreamer
Amazing. It's nice to be reminded that what we perceive as a 'solid' is actually only 2% mass. It also reminds me of this experiment where you pour a liquid which is almost absolute zero (like -273 degrees) into a glass jar and because its so cold the liquid particles don't vibrate and create enough mass to be contained in the glass receiver jar.

Anyway, the end result is that the -273 degree liquid just passes straight through the glass without breaking, fracturing or anything visible to the glass it's amazing. I can't find any videos of this experiment however but I believe it was on some BBC science show around 5 years ago.

edit on 10-7-2011 by AnalyticalDreamer because: It's 2% mass and 98% space.

What you are referring to is a state of matter that is referred to as a "Superfluid", it's pretty cool stuff. Think this is the clip you are looking for.

As we know 99% of an atom is empty space. It is a wonder why anything has a hard surface. Like the Alchemists, there must be a way to change the structure of the matter. Possibly with vibration...I don't know, I'm not an alchemist...however it is a fascinating subject. Like turning the water into wine....Jesus...the utimate alchemist!

if you like slow motion cinematography try these clips from the tv show time warp. it use to be on the discovery channel.
here's a clip



and the shows web page about 321 clips and full shows.
Time warp Videos

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Oh that one!

It's unfortunately not the one I'm referring to but indeed that is very similar visually what happens with the -273 degree liquid passing through glass.

It does emphasis the point about matter becoming less dense as liquid and passing through a solid however (yes I know glass is liquid but the lack of energy in the atoms at those -273 degree temperatures means the atoms just pass through seemingly more dense materials).

My basic point was temperature directly affects energy which in turn affects density. (I think, if a physicist can verify or correct me perhaps lol).

I'm not the best at explaining this stuff I hope it makes sense to you lol.

Very cool indeed!

Originally posted by AnalyticalDreamer
Amazing. It's nice to be reminded that what we perceive as a 'solid' is actually only 2% mass. It also reminds me of this experiment where you pour a liquid which is almost absolute zero (like -273 degrees) into a glass jar and because its so cold the liquid particles don't vibrate and create enough mass to be contained in the glass receiver jar.

Anyway, the end result is that the -273 degree liquid just passes straight through the glass without breaking, fracturing or anything visible to the glass it's amazing. I can't find any videos of this experiment however but I believe it was on some BBC science show around 5 years ago.

edit on 10-7-2011 by AnalyticalDreamer because: It's 2% mass and 98% space.

I found the video. Fast forward to the 7:30 mark.

I should mention this post of a drop of water filmed at high speed...seeing this video is what inspired me to post the cymbal vid.

A drop of water in super slo-mo

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Everything is waves....this just gives proof to the theory that sound can alter the physical.

It probably does turn into a mixed state of being for said time of vibrations existing.

this is awesome though.

Originally posted by depth om
Everything is liquid; electricity. Cymatics.

Appearently Space is just a sea of waves..Magnetic I think.

But yea I love learning stuff

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I saw the ocean within a drop of water!...Not sure who quoted that...Namaste!

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It gets really weird once you start learning that Microwaves are just nanometers away in thier wavelength from actual light. And with that whole superfluidity thing posted earlier, that (helium2?) once it gets so cold, it loses friction, and heat passes through it like a wave. Waves are pretty cool if you ask me.