Thu. 12/17 – Snowflake Toast & The Sound of a Perfect Fluid
Cool Stuff Daily
Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff
4.6 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2020
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:28.7 | welcome to the cotkey ride home for for Thursday, December 17th, 2020. |
| 0:40.9 | I'm Jackson Bird. |
| 0:42.5 | Physicists have measured sound diffusion in a perfect fluid for the first time ever, |
| 0:48.3 | and created a surprisingly popular SoundCloud track. |
| 0:52.5 | A bunch of new works are entering the public domain in just a few weeks. |
| 0:57.7 | And the Kellogg brothers are best remembered for inventing corn flakes. |
| 1:02.7 | But in their time, they were also known for a number of other odd foods. |
| 1:07.0 | A look at their B-side, including Snowflake Toast and the world's first patented meat substitute. |
| 1:14.9 | Here are some of the cool things from the news today. |
| 1:21.2 | Researchers at MIT have captured the sound of a perfect fluid. |
| 1:32.0 | Didn't know fluids had sounds or could be perfect? Me either. |
| 1:38.7 | In physics, a perfect fluid or perfect flow is one which, quoting MIT News, flows with the smallest amount of friction or viscosity allowed by the laws of quantum mechanics. |
| 1:44.8 | Such perfectly fluid behavior is rare in nature, but is thought to occur in the cores of neutron stars |
| 1:50.5 | and in the soupy plasma of the early universe, end quote. |
| 1:55.4 | In a paper published earlier this month in the journal Science, the MIT physicists explain |
| 1:59.9 | how they measured sound diffusion in a perfect fluid, the MIT physicists explain how they measured sound |
| 2:01.5 | diffusion in a perfect fluid for the first time ever. Doing so required two steps, creating |
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