(Newswire.net — January 29, 2016) —Andreas Wahl, a physicist from Norway, wanted to see what really happens when a bullet is fired underwater.
He conducted this crazy and completely bizarre experiment entirely alone, deciding to use, well you guessed it, himself as the test subject.
Wahl set up a gun underwater and attached a string to it so that he could pull the trigger himself.
“Shot incoming. Three, two, one,” said the physicist in the YouTube video, while pulling the rope tied to the trigger of the rifle. A slow motion camera positioned next to the gun captured the whole event in detail.
The footage shows how courageous the physicist felt at that moment but he also showed relief that the bullet sank.
The gun and the rifle, in principle, work and sound the same underwater as on dry land. But not the bullet.
Regardless of the fact that modern gunpowder is less sensitive to moisture and that bullets are of better quality, grain fired underwater quickly falls to the bottom of the pool regardless of the fact that it has the same starting power as when shot in dry conditions.
The reason is simple – the density of water is 800 times greater than air. After only two meters flying through the water, the grain simply falls to the bottom of the pool.
This unusual experiment proved successful and as a result, the young physicist from Norway showed that it’s harder to make a move in water than in air because the water molecules are closer to each other than air molecules.
This is not the first dangerous experiment to be conducted by Andreas Wahl.
In the past, he has gone through fire right after getting out of cold water and has hung and fallen from a huge height only sticking to thin rope. The brave scientist did all this madness in the name of science and to prove certain laws of physics.