On vibrating eyeballs, ghosts, and the strange science of infrasound

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  • čas přidán 27. 09. 2012
  • Mike Goldsmith, popular science author and former head of acoustics at the UK's National Physical Laboratory, talks about one of the weirdest areas of sound science. ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/97...
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Komentáře • 9

  • @PTCello
    @PTCello Před 8 lety +18

    Interesting, but isn't it a given that sounds too low to hear can still be felt, and thus have a physical effect?

  • @MatiasKorpela
    @MatiasKorpela Před 9 lety +10

    Infrasond: low frequency sound below human hearing spectrum, you can barely hear it.

  • @MasonSchmidgall
    @MasonSchmidgall Před 8 lety +18

    Anybody else think he played infrasound throughout the video?

  • @johnlira3316
    @johnlira3316 Před rokem

    Thx for the info

  • @PTCello
    @PTCello Před 8 lety +1

    What is the difference between "infrasound" and "subsonic"?
    Isn't "subsonic" just beneath the audible range ?

    • @AMRninja7
      @AMRninja7 Před 8 lety +7

      Subsonic refers to the speed sounds travels. In the air, sound travels around 340.29 m/s. Speeds below that (traveling in the same medium) are subsonic. Speeds above are called supersonic. Aircraft that are capable of supersonic travel have a top speed often measured in mach, which takes in to account both pressure and the medium being traveled in. Mach 1 is right around the speed of sound. Hypersonic speeds are around 5-10 mach, and 10-25 mach for high hypersonic, and re-entry speeds (such as a space shuttle returning to Earth) can reach higher than 25 mach, or about 8,500 m/s. That varies based on medium and pressure, but is generally in there.

    • @AMRninja7
      @AMRninja7 Před 8 lety +5

      Infra sound is obviously beneath the audible range. A human can hear relatively low frequencies compared to some animals. Dolphins have a massive range of 75 hertz to 150,000 Hz, while humans hear from about 20-20,000 Hz. An adult male typically speaks from 85-180 Hz, while adult females speak around 165-255 Hz.

  • @TheGentleUncle
    @TheGentleUncle Před 9 lety +7

    Oh, this voice is almost infrasonic! Just a joke.

    • @AlphaSanDesu
      @AlphaSanDesu Před 9 lety +5

      Agreed, I can't hear him, but I can feel him... No homo