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Originally Posted by garrettej8
here's a neat FYI. when you snap a towel it's actually a sonic boom
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its actually still debatable apparently.
The only real experiment that was able to accurately prove this possible involved a professional with a bullwhip. It was proven that the bullwhip reach 1400f/s, the speed of sound being 1100f/s.
there was an experiment by some college kids:
http://www.hiviz.com/PROJECTS/towel/towel.htm
they "proved" that a towel does break the sound barrier... but they couldn't continuously recreate their findings... so their one success is fairly moot. I also read a response regarding the experiment that they changed to a wet cotten bed sheet to achieve the result and could not with a generic towel
Yes... I used google... ;)