Timeline for If I had a 1cm iron sphere that I could vibrate at an rate, how fast would it have to be vibrating before it could not perceived by sense of touch?
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| May 9, 2014 at 12:06 | vote | accept | Andy | ||
| May 7, 2014 at 5:53 | answer | added | Reid | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 6, 2014 at 18:50 | comment | added | DumpsterDoofus | There's no way that the sphere would pass through your hand (it's still a solid object, even if it's vibrating). However, it's certainly plausible that beyond a certain vibration frequency, the body's tactile senses would fail to pick up the vibration. | |
| May 6, 2014 at 18:30 | comment | added | anna v | Vibrations are energy, after a certain frequency the ball would melt and your fingers too. | |
| May 6, 2014 at 17:21 | review | Close votes | |||
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| May 6, 2014 at 16:53 | comment | added | mikhailcazi | If it was vibrating between your fingers that fast, you'd probably feel that it was touching both your fingers at once. It'd be moving so fast that your sense of touch wouldn't be able to catch up. | |
| May 6, 2014 at 16:48 | comment | added | John Rennie | No. Your finger is prevented from passing through the iron sphere by the exchange force, and vibrating the sphere does not affect this force. | |
| May 6, 2014 at 16:07 | comment | added | Andy | Well, I did say any rate of vibration. It's theoretical of course, but if it was vibrating at 100,000 times a second, or 10 million, there's probably a point where the solid cannot be perceived by touch anymore... correct? | |
| May 6, 2014 at 15:37 | comment | added | anna v | No. You must have a completely wrong idea of what a vibrating solid is. | |
| May 6, 2014 at 15:30 | history | asked | Andy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |