High-speed footage could make a secular occasion really feel extra dramatic, which is why Hollywood makes use of it to boost sure scenes. But the expertise may reveal particulars that occur too shortly for the human eye to understand. As The Slow Mo Guys reveal, a wine glass shattering when blasted by sound waves is much extra advanced than simply an instantaneous explosion.

If you’ve ever moist a finger and ran it across the rim of a wine glass to make it vibrate and hum, you’re acquainted with the consequences of resonance. It’s uncertain you’ll be able to transfer your finger quick sufficient across the rim to trigger any critical injury, however on the proper frequency and amplitude, a sound wave from a close-by speaker (or somebody’s mouth) could make a wine glass vibrate with such depth that it’s pushed to its limits, triggering what seems to be a fancy chain response of cracks and splinters.

It’s an experiment you will discover carried out on YouTube 1000’s of instances, however what the Slow Mo Guys carry to the desk is experience in high-speed images and a few very costly gear. Using a Phantom TMX 7510 digital camera (these units typically price effectively north of $100,000) they have been capable of seize the second a violently vibrating wine glass structurally fails at an astonishing 187,500 frames per second.

The ensuing footage reveals the destruction at a pace that’s 7,500x slower than what the human eye can understand, and though the glass fully shatters in lower than a second, the tiny sliver of footage captured by the digital camera would take virtually two hours to look at in real-time. At that pace you’d see each little crack and splinter seem and slowly unfold throughout the glass, fracturing and spawning countless offshoots that finally trigger it to fully crumble. That’s a very long time to spend watching a glass shatter, but it surely’s two hours higher spent than watching Space Jam: A New Legacy.