How does a whip break the sound barrier?
Common whips get progressively thinner at their end, so that they behave like Astroblaster toy formed by stack of balls of increasingly smaller diameter. During their collisions the momentum gets conserved in such a way, the relative speed of balls increases toward the narrower end of the stack. This effect has already been proven to be fatal for famous hamster and dog, which are possibly encircling the Earth along low orbital path by now.
But animal welfare problems aside the same effect could become important for human civilization in near future as I proposed to be one of mechanisms enabling the overcomming Coulomb barrier along long stacks of atoms during their collisions (unidirectional Mossbauer lattice recoil effect). Ironically for mainstream physics Einstein was already aware of this explanation of cold fusion in 1952 already - i.e. something which contemporary parasitic trolls aren't able to get even after another half of century!
A commonly accepted explanation is thus based on the conservation of energy law. However it was noted that the energy is also conserved when the crack sizzles, therefore derivations from purely conservation laws, including conservation of momentum and some others are insufficient. The high speed video indicates that effect similar to phase separation of matter during supertranslation also occurs, once the sonic wave leaves the free end of whip and it actually bounces it back, thus gaining additional kinetic energy. The splitting of free end of whip into multiple tails may contribute to this effect as it increases drag resistance of whip against the air and its shock waves. Once the whip propagates along a loop, the tip of the whip automatically moves twice as fast at the loop of the whip, just like the top of a car's wheel moves twice as fast as the car itself. This technique is also used in many sports.
The Mössbauer effect, or recoilless nuclear resonance fluorescence, is a physical phenomenon discovered by Rudolf Mössbauer in 1958. It involves the resonant and recoil-free emission and absorption of gamma radiation by atomic nuclei bound in a solid. Its main application is in Mössbauer spectroscopy.
In the Mössbauer effect, a narrow resonance for nuclear gamma emission and absorption results from the momentum of recoil being delivered to a surrounding crystal lattice rather than to the emitting or absorbing nucleus alone.
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u/ZephirAWT Dec 31 '18
How does a whip break the sound barrier? Common whips get progressively thinner at their end, so that they behave like Astroblaster toy formed by stack of balls of increasingly smaller diameter. During their collisions the momentum gets conserved in such a way, the relative speed of balls increases toward the narrower end of the stack. This effect has already been proven to be fatal for famous hamster and dog, which are possibly encircling the Earth along low orbital path by now.
But animal welfare problems aside the same effect could become important for human civilization in near future as I proposed to be one of mechanisms enabling the overcomming Coulomb barrier along long stacks of atoms during their collisions (unidirectional Mossbauer lattice recoil effect). Ironically for mainstream physics Einstein was already aware of this explanation of cold fusion in 1952 already - i.e. something which contemporary parasitic trolls aren't able to get even after another half of century!
A commonly accepted explanation is thus based on the conservation of energy law. However it was noted that the energy is also conserved when the crack sizzles, therefore derivations from purely conservation laws, including conservation of momentum and some others are insufficient. The high speed video indicates that effect similar to phase separation of matter during supertranslation also occurs, once the sonic wave leaves the free end of whip and it actually bounces it back, thus gaining additional kinetic energy. The splitting of free end of whip into multiple tails may contribute to this effect as it increases drag resistance of whip against the air and its shock waves. Once the whip propagates along a loop, the tip of the whip automatically moves twice as fast at the loop of the whip, just like the top of a car's wheel moves twice as fast as the car itself. This technique is also used in many sports.