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So here's an astonishing bit of physics. It's fairly recently discovered.
We've got two plastic tubes with lumps of metal in the bottom of them,
and little ball bearings;
and when you drop one of the ball bearings in, it performs a bit like that.
Nothing very exciting happens.
However this one here has got a layer of some exotic chemical they call,
well they call it an Atomic Trampoline.
You'll see why in a moment.
But it's a liquid metal, amorphous structure, with Nickel, Titanium, Zirconium, Beryllium
and Copper in it.
And unlike this one it doesn't convert the impact, the energy of the impact,
into heat energy which this one does, or hardly any of it, so that it throws the ball right
back up in the air.
And it bounces an incredible amount of times!
There it goes faster and faster.
Amazing, and quite a recent discovery, about 1993 I think.
They came out of the California Institute of Technology.
An Atomic Trampoline - what a suitable name for it. And what a performance. WOW.