“Fingers snapping is a really high, fast motion and extreme case, which allows us to peer into the limits of these finger pads,” says Bhamla. If you still haven’t figured out how to snap, ...

It all happens in a snap. New high-speed video exposes the blink-and-you’ll-miss-it physics behind snapping your fingers. The footage reveals the extreme speed at which the gesture occurs, and ...

Snap Finger Comic (IMAGE) Georgia Institute of Technology. Caption. This comic depicts the Bhamla Lab research in an exciting and engaging way - all pointing back to curiosity-driven science ...

The finger snap is a three-phase, predominantly 1-D motion exhibiting high speeds and accelerations. (a) A piece of pottery from 320–310 BCE depicting Pan, the Greek god of the wild, ...

A finger snap has a latch-like mechanism in which potential energy is loaded up—by squeezing the middle finger and thumb together—and then quickly freed when the latch releases, ...

The finger snap isn't exactly surprising--it's been pretty thoroughly teased in the promotional material for the last three months and it's one of the most iconic comics moments of all time.