{"id":110431,"date":"2016-01-28T13:04:12","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T11:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=110431"},"modified":"2016-01-28T13:04:12","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T11:04:12","slug":"watch-physicist-takes-underwater-bullet-for-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/110431\/watch-physicist-takes-underwater-bullet-for-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Physicist takes underwater bullet for science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daredevil physicist Andreas Wahl has put his own body on the line in the name of science.<\/p>\n<p>The scientist stood chest high in a swimming pool facing several feet away from a gun &#8211; also positioned underwater &#8211; aimed at his midsection.<\/p>\n<p>The aim of the experiment is to show that it is harder to create movement in water than in air, because water molecules are closer together than air molecules.<\/p>\n<p>The bullet struggles to make centimeters through the water once the gun is fired, because water is 800 times denser than air.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tzm_yyl13yo\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In a previous experiment, Wahl wanted to show that things rotate faster when they approach a central point.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5ZnKIPfIhAQ\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More videos on BusinessTech<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/110069\/watch-motorist-pulled-over-for-disappearing-number-plates-in-sa\/\">Watch: Motorist pulled over for \u2018disappearing\u2019 number plates in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/109625\/watch-sa-police-man-shot-at-close-range\/\">Watch: SA police officer shot at close range<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daredevil physicist Andreas Wahl has put his own body on the line in the name of science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":91330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11065,26],"class_list":["post-110431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-andreas-wahl","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110431"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110459,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110431\/revisions\/110459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}