{"id":13884,"date":"2013-07-17T03:00:50","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T08:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=13884"},"modified":"2013-07-17T03:00:50","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T08:00:50","slug":"sounds-like-slow-motion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/13884","title":{"rendered":"Sounds Like Slow Motion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/view\/generic\/id\/351634\/description\/Sound_waves_put_levitation_on_the_move\">Sound waves put levitation on the move<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Scientists have known for years how to use sound waves to hoist particles in the air, a process known as acoustic levitation. But moving the lifted bits around was more challenging. The sound waves tend to trap a levitated object in a fixed pocket of space.<\/p>\n<p>The new technique moves the pockets around by deforming a field of sound waves, letting researchers transport trapped objects several centimeters<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s a cool slow-motion video of a small blob of sodium and a drop of water being moved together and reacting when they touch. Presumably much easier to film when you know where the low-speed collision is going to take place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sound waves put levitation on the move Scientists have known for years how to use sound waves to hoist particles in the air, a process known as acoustic levitation. But moving the lifted bits around was more challenging. The sound &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/13884\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}