Physicists generated sound waves that travel in one direction only
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Re: Physicists generated sound waves that travel in one direction only
#2oh wow, this is like an RF Circulator - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circulator - which are wacky enough in themselves.
Re: Physicists generated sound waves that travel in one direction only
#3oh wow, this is like an RF Circulator - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circulator - which are wacky enough in themselves.
> three- or four-port device that only allows a microwave or radio-frequency (RF) signal to exit through the port directly after the one it entered
Perhaps only superficially related (IANAElectricalEngineer) but that makes me think of multi-phase mercury arc-rectifiers.
Re: Physicists generated sound waves that travel in one direction only
#4I’d love to understand, in a real world test, if the modified sounds waves would then bounce off nearby walls and end up echoing back anyway, thus nullifying any utility of the discovery.