Watch Craig’s Video: https://youtu.be/ipSDwRIBQ9U
Watch the Making Of: https://youtu.be/YxAyxC-uJy4 (Click “Show More” for references)
Jake (me) steps into the film “Back to the Future” to find out if you could survive the massive pressure wave generated by a giant guitar amp, time travel paradoxes, and the electricity from a lightning bolt travelling through your body…all while desperately trying to get back to the future!
Very special thanks to Lightning on Demand for letting us use their incredible Tesla coil: http://Lod.org
0:00 Introduction
1:32 Massive Sound Waves
4:11 Cars and Time Travel
6:49 Rules of Time Travel
10:35 The Bootstrap Paradox
13:23 Lightning In A Body
17:40 Breaking A Causal Loop
19:05 Wrap Up
ADDITIONAL LEARNING
● Amp, air pressure damage
1) https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docket/archive/pdfs/niosh-125/125-explosionsandrefugechambers.pdf
2) https://www.fema.gov/media-library-data/20130726-1455-20490-7465/fema426_ch4.pdf
3) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5442866/
4) http://www.animations.physics.unsw.edu.au/jw/dB.htm
5) https://makezine.com/2012/10/05/gigantic-speaker-back-to-the-future-style/
6) https://recordingology.com/in-the-studio/guitars/
● Lightning and lightning damage
1) http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.464.7980&rep=rep1&type=pdf
2) http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2016/ph240/corti2/
3) https://www.nasa.gov/connect/chat/lightning_chat.html
● Power of gigawatts
1) https://www.wired.com/2013/09/how-do-you-get-1-21-gigawatts-for-your-time-machine/
2) https://www.energy.gov/eere/articles/how-much-power-1-gigawatt
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