Wednesday, October 18, 2006
The little Joys of a Physicist
As some of you may know, I have studied physics at the University of Applied Sciences in Weingarten. So I am always interested in interesting phenomena in nature or the technical world. Today, when I decided I had to wash my dishes, I let the water fill up the kitchen sink and went away. The sink was full of dirty dishes. When I came back into the kitchen, I saw something really funny. Because of the geometry of the dishes in the sink, and the way the water poured in and flowed out of the sink, the foam produced from the dish liquid formed a nice mushroom-like shape, turning in circles and not moving away. A nice stationary state stabilized. I have taken a photograph of this phenomenon :-) permalink
