Hola Bob et al!
About the extinguishing fire with sound....they didn't go into a lot of
details, especially what was causing the fire to quench.
Maybe some kind of oxygen displacement at one or more frequencies,
though that would most certainly be a novel idea though not impossible.
That you could tune to oxygen atoms (well molecules as they don't exist
freely as isolated atoms like that in the real world)...and cause them
to vibrate away from a heat source with the right frequency, but I'll
bet its something much more 'prosaic.'
Bob Paddock wrote:
On Sunday 23 October 2005 09:27 am, you wrote:
advisors, has obtained an encouraging sign: sound can repeatedly
extinguish small flames in the 1-g environment of their lab.
The real question there is did they limit the air intake? In space
your oxygen supply is limited. The fire will be rapidly consuming
the oxygen, probably making a lot of big sounds in itself...
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