90 ft. Vertical Spike Wave in Slow Mo
Why Physics Stack Exchange recommends it
Physics Stack Exchange users link it as a vivid real-world example of wave focusing and the vertical water spike when asking about wave convergence and how such shapes form.
Recommended by 0 people across 0 different months, 2019 to 2023.
What it is
The Slow Mo Guys, Gav and Dan, visit the Edinburgh ocean wave simulator and film a focused wave that produces a 90 ft vertical spike of water, shot in 4K slow motion. It is an entertainment-style video with a lot of playful stunts, ending with Dan getting hit by the spike.
Cited in 1 Wikipedia article, including FloWave Ocean Energy Research Facility.
What people said
Cites Secret · 2019-06 · Physics Stack Exchange · on “What happens in theory if we focus gravitational waves into a point?”
[this video] Basically inspired by this video and its comparison with wormholes. While many other questions on the site have already covered the weak strength of gravitational waves and hence hinting the experimental feasibility, what will happen in theory when there are gravitational waves of sufficient energy to converge to a point. Do we end up with a black hole similar to how a kugleblitz works or we don't know because at the focal point, the strength of gravity will be so strong that it is no longer obeying the weak field limit and hence require a quantum gravity description? The only thing I am certain without doing some pretty computationally intensive numerical modelling is that since gra
Cites Narasimham · 2019-11 · Physics Stack Exchange · on “Vertical spike like water drop”
Slow motion guys created this Energy Spike [this video] ( at 1 min 53 sec ) that looks like a massive water drop or like a negative vortex in the Edinburgh Hydraulics laboratory. [LINK] Using momentum of radial inward energy and equation of continuity/energy is it possible to formulate and calculate to solve for this instantaneous shape?
Cites Chemomechanics · 2023-09 · Physics Stack Exchange · on “Is it possible to make large waves from perfectly timed single drops of water?”
Related: Wave tank spike [this video] from small, slight movements. But water drop dispensing is more dissipative and somewhat more random.