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Non-Newtonian Fluid on a Speaker Cone [video] (youtube.com)
47 points by Dysiode on June 28, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 7 comments


Or just do this at home(we did at work). No need to ruin a speaker.

1) Mix cornstarch with water in shallow plastic bowl. 2) Hold the bowl firmly against an office-grade subwoofer 3) Turn bass+volume to max 4) Start experimenting with music (or noise generators of different frequencies)

We had about 10 minutes of similar effects before the headache hit.


At first, I thought it was some kind of ferrofluid — those tend to behave rather similarly — but this is just corn starch, which behaves strangely when agitated like that.


This is way better than the Big Bang Theory episode that did that. Dunno why, but theirs sucked compared to this.


Preious submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1327656

Also, non-Newtonian fluids have been mentioned several times:

http://searchyc.com/non-newtonian+fluid


Spontaneous generation!


Does anyone have a link to a Newtonian Fluid for comparison?





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