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How Game of Thrones' Wall Should Really Have Fallen | The Horn of Winter | Physics vs Film (and TV)

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Channel: Martin Archer · 2017 · Science & Technology

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Game of Thrones giant ice wall was always going to fall at some point, but what is the way that would make most sense from a Physics point of view? Turns out the answer was in the books all the time... the Horn of Winter! SPOILER FREE AFTER 01:01

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00:38 The problem with melting The Wall
01:08 The Horn of Winter and Resonances
01:58 How to break ice with resonances
02:38 What should the Horn of Winter sound like?
04:22 What would it look like?


Links for more information

The Wall, giant ice structures and pykrete
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVjgux8xdPk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtBAZ6I4ZIQ

Melting The Wall
https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/53660/can-the-wall-be-melted
http://www.refinery29.uk/2016/04/110438/game-of-thrones-wall-melting-theory
http://nerdist.com/game-of-thrones-dragons-melt-the-wall-because-science/

The Horn of Winter
http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Horn_of_Winter

Resonance method of ice destruction
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resonance_method_of_ice_destruction

Speed of sound in ice
http://www.classltd.com/sound_velocity_table.html

Acoustic Impedance
http://www.animations.physics.unsw.edu.au/jw/sound-impedance-intensity.htm
https://www.nde-ed.org/EducationResources/CommunityCollege/Ultrasonics/Physics/reflectiontransmission.htm
http://www.idea2ic.com/FUN_DOCUMENTS/Sound%20Velocity%20Impedance.pdf


Filmed at The London Wall
Music by Ross Bugden, Kevin MacLeod

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