7 Man-Made Substances that Laugh in the Face of Physics
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The ferrofluid demo gave me the heebie-jeebies.
The non-Newtonian fluid was pretty wicked! Actually, all of those things were awesome, and I'd only heard of maybe half of them before.
You know I have never been one to think that if we just educate people they will automatically give up silly or fanatical beliefs, people are going to believe what they want, but sometimes when I see how amazing the world of science is and how it is as interesting as any fiction you could come up with I think everyone should be required to experience it.
And not to go off on a tangent here, but those ferrofluid structures look exactly like the kind of things creationsist would say you know are designed if you came across them.
And not to go off on a tangent here, but those ferrofluid structures look exactly like the kind of things creationsist would say you know are designed if you came across them.
Didn't Mythbusters test using non-newtonian fluid to stop a bullet? I'm pretty sure it didn't work. It would seem that the practical application they listed is busted.
One neat thing they forgot was shape memory metal. A metal that is "programmed", so even if you bend it in all kinds of shape, you stick it in warm water and it automatically goes back to it's original shape.
It's been around for a few years (that I know of) and I don't know why it's not in more use. Make car bumpers out of it, with he appropriate color die, and when you get a fender bener, just poor hot water on it until it pops back into shape without any dents of paint chipping.
Cellphone cases that don't chip or dent when dropped, and who knows what else.
It's been around for a few years (that I know of) and I don't know why it's not in more use. Make car bumpers out of it, with he appropriate color die, and when you get a fender bener, just poor hot water on it until it pops back into shape without any dents of paint chipping.
Cellphone cases that don't chip or dent when dropped, and who knows what else.
It looked to me like the metallic shape-changing table in the X-Men movies; you know, the one they used to recreate cites for tactical purposes.
Where's the Wonderflonium?
That would be kickass.
Science comes out with lots of really cool stuff that doesn't seem imaginable. Then you find programs that predict the future that shows unimaginable things and you think their stupid. A few years down the line, they've been incorporated somehow into something you own. Of course, considering the market for things, it'll probably be in an iPod.
There's an app for that.
Custard is a non-Newtonian liquid.
Rii
Rear Admiral
I love those Cracked articles, even if they do contain more than a little hyperbole. 
One of my favourites: 6 Real Islands Way More Terrifying Than The One on 'Lost'
One of my favourites: 6 Real Islands Way More Terrifying Than The One on 'Lost'
Well, I'm sold.
How about couplings for aerospace hydraulic systems? Two tubes with plain ends butted together. One tube briefly pulled out of line while the coupling is slid all the way onto one tube. After realigning the tubes the coupling is slid into place so that the coupling is centered over the joint. Better work fast because when the coupling reaches room temperature the memory metal coupling will automatically clamp down hard enough to hold 3000 PSI!
The problems are that the couplings have to be delivered and stored in liquid nitrogen until a few moments before use. The tube ends also need to be chilled with the liquid nitrogen to keep the coupling from warming to room temperature too quickly.
No, I've no financial interest in the products. I have seen them used and prepared tubes for technicians using the products and watched their installation. http://www.aerofit.com/sma/fr-cryofit.htm
I'm always amazed at the stuff thats in laboratories around the world which means that in 10-20 years we'll use them in everyday life.
Just imagine those things in near future TV shows can actually happen and who knows what tech we'll use when our grandchildren are in our age.
Just imagine those things in near future TV shows can actually happen and who knows what tech we'll use when our grandchildren are in our age.
JewelsNeeJulian, threads without any OP participation are typically closed. Your link alone does not really qualify as "participation," and it should have included some amount of commentary.
Plecostomus
Commodore
Cost for one, and it's "magic"able ability to remember degrades with use and the particular range of alloys that can do this are rather limited in application.
Been around for about 30 years or so, wasn't until the 1990s that research really took off on it.
Wow. Some guys dumped a bunch of corn-starch into a pool of water and ran across it. And somehow it's a marvel laughing at science.
That article, while neat in places, was written like shit.
That article, while neat in places, was written like shit.
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