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The creepy fingers that grow from a vibrating cornstarch-water mix can be modeled as a chain of inverted vertical pendulums (DOI:10.1039/c4sm00265b) and are believed to be the fingers of Maxwell's Demon trying to push through into our universe.

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[–] tomcatt360@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago (4 children)
[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'll bring the pie. Pie's a good idea for most any occasion.

[–] Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Perfect, I love pie.

[–] Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

It works with double pendulums too

https://youtu.be/gnn21smGVrQ

[–] gigachad@feddit.de 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

That was surprisingly loud, I almost fell off the toilet

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

He falls off the toilet.

[–] tomcatt360@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

My bad, I chose the first example video I could find that was less than five minutes long. I previewed it, but without audio since I was at work.

[–] palitu@aussie.zone 1 points 6 months ago

Oh, wow! That's cool. Thanks