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Our humble science sausage
First put a sausage in your microwave. Remove the turning plate or at least disengage it from the dog clutch( the three triangles it locks into). So it wont turn.
Microwave!
Should only take a few seconds until it begins to bubble. Don't over heat!
Measure!
Measure from the beginning of the first bubble to the end of the second. This is why it's important not to over heat you want to identify where the sausage is heated by microwaves NOT simply by being next to hot sausage.
Mines 12.5cm from start of first left bubble to end of right bubble.
Find your microwaves frequency
Most will have it on the back of the device. Mine is 2.45GHz (almost all of them will be about this value)
Now it's simply maths. 2.45GHz is 2.45x10^9Hz.
12.5cm is 0.125m.
Speed = frequency x wavelength
2.45x10^9 * 0.125 = 306 250 000m/s
The speed of light is 299 792 458 m/s You just calculated the speed of light to within 2.11% with a sausage at home.
Landcaster
demut
That one doesn’t loop so well.
DaveTheBarbarian
"Hot Sausage" would be a good band name
ChocksAway
+1 for humble science sausage
Dinkhole
If I wanted to see a sausage fest, I would have gone over to 4chan.
nextlevel
Alright you got your beams and struts, you want your 3/8 inch beams here, you knock a false hole in the ceiling, you run AC power you run co
roonic86
To be fair. With the speed of light, 2.11% is fairly fucking far away from the actual speed of light.
wizardboy24
I've had an 800% error in a chemistry class before--and my error values are usually at like 60%, so 2.11% is SUPER ACCURATE.
bluemofia
Measuring c with something not designed to do so at a 2.11% error is really good though. It's like measuring your height with a barometer.
bluemofia
(And yes, I know a dozen or so different ways to do that too)
kungfuman
Neat!
cyno01
Science oven!
Duendes
demut
How I picture some of those “SCIENCE FTW!” dorks on here.
Slaan
This is sausage to me
JoeFoe11
~reads and immediately deletes identical post~
andfRa
Nice little experiment, but you are doing it wrong. You need to measure the distance between the centres of the bubbles and multiply by 2.
andfRa
Or you can measure from start of first bubble to the start of the second bubble and multiply by 2.
ultranewt
Could you do this with a banana instead? Or would it just turn into green goo?
chickenwingking
EL PSY CONGROOOOOOOO
itisp
It's all because of that metal Oopa
zanstar
I think we've all measured our sausages in the name of science before...
Gigzzif
I don't know what to do with this information...
FuzzyX
Calculate the speed of light in a hotdog obviously.
BlueberryJohnson
HOT DOG! that's awesome
Abso
Is there a reason why this works? Why the bubbles appear where they do?
RikiSorsanVeli
Microwaves form standing waves inside the chamber, heating is periodic - easier to test with chocolate disk/bar.
Icantbebothered
Yes. The speed of sausage. I understand completely.
akhos
Let me guess, /r/shittyscience?
andfRa
I'm not completely sure what the principle is yet, but it does seem reasonable. Microwaves are 1mm - 1mm wavelength.
NeverUseful
r/mildlyinteresting actually
tobidurr
thats actually quite intelligent.
PeeonTrotsky
It's actually junk science. Speed of light is a constant independent from the frequency of the waves.
NotLazyJustDontCare
Yes, but the wavelength (which you measured) depends on the frequency and knowing both lets you estimate speed of light. c=L*f
tobidurr
we seem to have a bright one over here. the amplitude of the wave has maxima and minima in one wavelength. at the maxima more energy is 1/2
tobidurr
transmitted to the sausage, therefore more bubbles. by this you have an very easy, not very precise way of determing the wavelength.
nym23
This is sausage to me...
TriptychAngel
This is a hot dog. Not a sausage
dowieczora
its fun of course, but its invalid proof, its not good to show it to your kids
wizardboy24
Explain why it's invalid?
halfcafsociopath
The excitation is on an atomic level and the waves come from multiple directions. The bubble sizes are not caused by the wavelength.
andfRa
The wave comes from one direction and gets reflected, resulting in a standing wave.
dowieczora
he is not finding the speed of light, he just shows that freq of the microwave is correct. there is only one speed of light.
letsbebadguys
I did this in a physics lab with chocolate. You measure the distance between melted spots. Then eat it. Omnomscience.
labrat
+1for omnomscience
HiMyNameIsSimonAndItsBeen0DaysSinceILastImgured
Me too, got top marks for that assignment, and it was a major one. (The chocolate thing was only a small part)
PeeonTrotsky
Are you a brilliant troll or just a terrible scientist?
StinkFist893
SCIENCE BITCH!
Dandemanw
Is that a... Wait no a.. Whaaaa???
Acornlad
Your calculations are wrong. You used the equation for the speed of light in vacuum. Sorry brah.
RabidKow
Can we make "within a sausage" a new imgur unit of measure?
WhatDoYouDoWithDeadChemistsBariumAmirite
Only if it's a measurement of velocity!
ExpectedDickbuttGotDickbutt
that's a new measure of accuracy! the estimated weight of the cargo was 1642 pounds, within a sausage
partiallyhalfnotcrazy
I support this new unit of measurement
TempestChaserZ
Seconded. Let the voting begin. You know the drill; all in favor: Upvote. All Against: Downvote.
Kasoni
This is however inaccurate because you would be measuring 2 waves peaks not one.... That many other issues....
bluemofia
You'd want 2 wave peaks because the two peaks coincide with 1 wavelength. Peak to peak, or trough to trough is the easiest way to measure it
reductive
Aren't the peaks in the middle of the bubbles? So we should measure from the front of one bubble to the front of the other.
Kasoni
I thought it was from start to start, not 2 complete...
MoonyWormtailPadfootProngs
Mine is 1.21 gigawatts
incongruency
That's heavy, doc.
th3navigator
3laws
But what is its frequency?
MoonyWormtailPadfootProngs
Uhh... Beef Wellington?
3laws
Oh, that's really hot.
MyMesobook
Banana for scale. Guitar for temperature. Hot dog for speed of light. Got it.
TezcaOrange
Cherry for contrast.
misteremjay
By the end of 2014, it will be customary to end an album wearing a Guitar, fur coat, monocle, while holding a cat and banana for scale.
thetain
Careful with that guitar for temp. reference, it's an antique and might break if handled improperly.
Spaztronaut
Jose for height?
candycoatedraindrops
He's five-foot-juan inches
WoodlurkerMimic
I think he's a secondary scale item, best used for buffalo.
HeadPuntingBatmanRollerCoaster
don't forget elephants for depth
watts
Cop pulls you over: "Do you have any idea of how many hotdogs were you going?"
freecreeperhugs
Good spy, Wattson!
MyMesobook
Standing on the shoulders of giant Moonkeys.
msivvs
1337!
Bombideer
Hot dog for speed. Now we're on to something here... Internet's units of measurement....
Baz135
So can we use sausage-year for astronomical distances?
greggsfunkyballoftitsfromouterspace
yes
WoodlurkerMimic
sausage-microwave-years
bmaximus
when does this shirt come out?
AmalieTheDane
Where did the guitar-one come from?
sharK11
From it being tOo cold to pool outside.
ButDoesItFloat
Now I'm curious as to where Banana for scale came from....
SirNotAham
God i feel like I've been on imgur for so that when people are asking this and i know the answer
StevieRayVaughan
A guitar hovering over a frozen pool
terminaljunkie
It's not the original post but here's the pic: http://imgur.com/niX2SXR
AmalieTheDane
aaahhh! yes, now I remember.
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AmalieTheDane
Thank you good citizen!
JackJackAttack
Important history right there.
SAScaptainprice
life complete.
OobedoobScoobyDoobyBenubi
if you have to ask then you're never gonna learn
AmalieTheDane
Well if I'm not asking, how will I learn?
scruffynerdherder
Well considering that was a question, I don't think you ever will.
themadster11
pretty sure the post said sausage.
JoeIsLoveJoeIsLife
JEsus just go invent something already you are a fucking scientist
correcthorsebatteryperson
You can do the same thing with a quesadilla...the cheese melts in two concentric circles
MorphotheDragon
grimoirine
engineers invent, scientists discover
JoeIsLoveJoeIsLife
Shhhhhhhh
whotookvimnvigor
i could almost hear the emotion in your comment
thetain
And a European from the use of "maths."
SpicedNipples
It said maths in the description
ian9outof10
The correct use
FlackJacketSnackCracker
Also the Tesco microwave.
Sherl0ck
All other countries use the Metric System - it's more scientific..
downrightamazed
Instructions unclear, penis currently traveling at lightspeed.
TheWolf277
LOL how can people think so funny things to write?
nascarguy
I HAVEN'T LAUGED THIS HARD SINCE I WAS A LITTLE GIRL THANK YOU GOOD SIR
feor1300
lucky you, I'm sure someone microwaved theirs and now has little bubbles on it.
LowerSiouxSav
Win
CptTightPants
"An average penis of length 13cm traveling at 99% the speed of light will contract down to a length of only 1.8cm"
OceanlabTech
You, I like you.
Kataang
I laughed for an uncomfortably long time at this comment and now my tummy hurts. Blaming you.
downrightamazed
That is a blame I am comfortable accepting. :-)
BaDumTss
In theory, it's mass is infinite. Alert the media.
LiterallyWorseThanHitler
If it is travelling at c, its mass has to actually be 0. Nothing with m>0 can travel at c.
downrightamazed
That explains my pants.
DirtyA
although the mass is infinite, the size remains constant.
DirtyA
well technically the size remains constant, the space around it however, expands, and thus your penis has contracted to an infinitesimally
DirtyA
small size, sucks dude.
DirtyA
in actuality, its mass is infinite.
BaDumTss
Haha thanks, I didn't even notice that. I usually do, but hey.
DirtyA
:P
bluemofia
Why speed of light sex is a very bad idea: http://johnmm.bol.ucla.edu/sexualphysics/procreation.htm
DirtyA
incinerate them." 3/3
DirtyA
this reminds me of when I proposed a car powered by high intensity lights (as a joke) that would emit lights so powerful that it would
tokomak
There's a whole webpage just for this? The internet really does have everything!
eastcoastninja
Hilarious, but I can't help but wonder... why, why does this exist?
bluemofia
Because physicists like mind games.
DirtyA
heavy, just impossible to accelerate or decelerate.
DirtyA
the blackhole part is inaccurate, although it will attain infinite mass, its gravitational pull will not increase, so it won't be very
bluemofia
No, it's accurate, as you are piling together infinite energy, the energy density warps space into a black hole.
DirtyA
as an object accelerates, its gravitational pull remains constant, if it gained energy through a conversion of energy to mass, then it
bluemofia
Then it has the energy in the form of kinetic energy, which still contributes to the energy density.
DirtyA
would collapse into a black hole upon reaching sufficient mass.
DirtyA
push the car forward (while also fighting gravity), and one guy asked if it would blind people so I said "no of course not, it would 2/3