By Ethan A. Huff, contributing writer to Natural News
How far does aerosol matter from an airplane passenger’s sneeze realistically travel throughout the cabin? This was the subject of a recent simulation constructed by researchers from the Pennsylvania-based engineering firm ANSYS, which found that virtually all passengers are exposed to the particles, and especially those to the left and right of the person who sneezed.
A time-lapse video showing bursts of multicolored dots plotted on a grayscale model of passengers sitting on a plane reveals that sneeze particles spread to all areas of the cabin rather quickly. To the left and to the right of the sneezer, particles can first be seen spreading upwards, wafting towards the wings and immediately moving backwards once they hit the walls to passengers seated in the next row.
Just a few seconds later, the particles are seen converging and then dispersing more widely in all directions, almost as if they are tiny bouncy balls hitting the walls and changing course erratically as they would if they were thrown randomly in an enclosed room. By the end of the video, it is clear that the sneeze particles have reached every nook and cranny of the plane.
