Way above my pay grade, Sound waves no longer transverse or perpendicular?

I flamed out!!

LOL @ebm 

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Anyone catch the comment about imaging? The hope is this unusual and difficult to attain property of sound might be used to improve things like ultrasound.

Ok, I read it and mostly theoretical at this point.  Note use of "under certain conditions", "he conceived of "meta-atoms", "synthetic  shear".  So the notion relies on these meta-atoms that have boundaries or discrete packets within the (air) medium.  "Hard" shells as it were.  There is only one sentence that says that this research had been observed.  Seems a bit under-emphasized.

So he's basically said that instead of a (example) swimming pool of water, it's filled with say a hundred thousand water-balloons.  These balloons can then transmit or pass a version of shear by virtue of their rubber, touching boundaries when excited by a normal longitudinal wave.  Problem is air (a liquid) is amorphous and always in motion/swirling and doesn't posess cells with "hard" boundaries.   Yes, compressional waves convert a portion of energy to shear at every boundary and vice versa but that's in a solid.  When liquid is encountered conversions cease.

Now maybe this model adapts to a "liquid" like our bodies which has cell boundaries while being mostly water?

Let's see the observational research.  This is theoretical for now to my reading.

Akgwhiz

Boundaries can be placed inside a container so they can be made to actively generate  shear thru discrete porous surfaces and then realigned to increase laminar flow through and around those same boundaries. I have applied some of these principles to my audio room for a couple years now. This paper partially explains the reason why my application works. Tom