How to Turn Sound Into Light: Sonoluminescence
Another awesome thing the Mantis Shrimp does... The BEST Sonoluminescence reference: http://doc.utwente.nl/42577/1/single-bubble_sonoluminescence.pdf Links to other "Unknown Science Questions"...
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The pistol and mantis shrimps are both crustaceans that snap their claws and perform magic. Well,at least a sound and light show: the jet of water squeezed out from between their clawstravels at such speeds that it cavitates - the liquid water under negative pressure is literallypulled apart into bubbles of water vapor. When the bubbles collapse in on themselves,they give off a loud "snap," and amazingly, a small flash of light. The shrimp use thesonic shock wave to stun or kill prey, but physicists are far more interested in theflash of light, because we still don't exactly know why it happens.Collapsing bubbles can also be created in a laboratory simply by using sound - sincesound, as we know, is basically just molecules repeatedly pushing...
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The pistol and mantis shrimps are both crustaceans that snap their claws and perform magic. Well,at least a sound and light show: the jet of water squeezed out from between their clawstravels at such speeds that it cavitates - the liquid water under negative pressure is literallypulled apart into bubbles of water vapor. When the bubbles collapse in on themselves,they give off a loud "snap," and amazingly, a small flash of light. The shrimp use thesonic shock wave to stun or kill prey, but physicists are far more interested in theflash of light, because we still don't exactly know why it happens.Collapsing bubbles can also be created in a laboratory simply by using sound - sincesound, as we know, is basically just molecules repeatedly pushing...
