Physicists generated sound waves that travel in one direction only (opens in new tab)

(sciencealert.com)

58 pointsmavci1y ago3 comments

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oh wow, this is like an RF Circulator - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circulator - which are wacky enough in themselves.

Terr_1y ago

> 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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-arc_valve

urbandw311er1y ago

I’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.

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