Re:Physicists Create Time-Reversed Waves of Optical Light
by _underfl0w_ on Friday December 18, 2020 @01:50AM
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Not a physicist, but this might not work quite the same since light is both a particle and a wave, whereas sound is just a pressure wave on a given medium. Would happily be proven wrong though!
Seems like the cancelation happening in your scenario would likely be from a delay of half the period of the sound waves, effectively making them roughly "complementary" or "inverse". Can't say I'm familiar with the research, though.
On a sillier note, have you heard of the Speech Jammer? [0]
It's a device to disrupt a person's speech by playing it back to them with a delay of a few milliseconds. Hilarious results. Also easily reproducible at home if you're bored.
Seems like the cancelation happening in your scenario would likely be from a delay of half the period of the sound waves, effectively making them roughly "complementary" or "inverse". Can't say I'm familiar with the research, though.
On a sillier note, have you heard of the Speech Jammer? [0]
It's a device to disrupt a person's speech by playing it back to them with a delay of a few milliseconds. Hilarious results. Also easily reproducible at home if you're bored.
[0] https://phys.org/news/2012-09-speech-jammer-ig-nobel-winners...