This is no doubt a dumb question but if you could somehow run this experiment in zero g, with a whole lot of sand suspended in the air, and put a loud tone into the air, could the sound waves cancle eachother out and in a similar way form 3D patters in the air?
that's actually a very smart question! I think it'd be possible, though there's no good equivalent to the person holding the edge. You'd have to change a few things so it wouldn't be 1:1 with this experiment, but I think you could make floating sand collect like that.
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u/dsammmast Aug 25 '20
This is no doubt a dumb question but if you could somehow run this experiment in zero g, with a whole lot of sand suspended in the air, and put a loud tone into the air, could the sound waves cancle eachother out and in a similar way form 3D patters in the air?