Cavitation bubbles are stunning. (rim-shot)
Wait, you didn't get the joke?
But, see the mantis (murder) shrimp moves its...um...pedipalps, I think...so fast that they create cavitation bubbles which end up stunning its prey before the killing strike.
Didn't you watch PhysicaGirl's previous video about all that?
You should check it out.
I love that much of the video here is about fact checking a viral video - because the science we get from many of those videos is a whole bunch of bunk.
The science in this video mostly isn't about the bottle at all but rather about cavitation, a fascinating phenomenon that has all sorts of ramifications - like with corrosion, for example, or biology.
I love the slow-mo video of the bottle smacks - even down to the shockwave and soniluminescence.
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