Compressed Again

Compressed 02

I combined everyday soap bubbles with exotic ferrofluid liquid to create an eerie tale, using macro lenses and time lapse techniques. Black ferrofluid and dye race through bubble structures, drawn through by the invisible forces of capillary action and magnetism.

I Didn't Know Rainbows Were So Controversial

They’re so very polarizing…

Polarized rainbow, what does this mean???

Rainbows are created when sunlight reflects inside water droplets, bouncing back to you. When the light enters the droplet and also when it leaves, it bends a little bit as well (like how a spoon looks bent in a glass of water). Different colors bend by different amounts, so the sunlight colors get spread out, forming an arc in the sky.
The light forming the rainbow gets polarized when it reflects off the back of the raindrop. The amount of polarization is pretty strong, as the video shows. When I hold the glasses horizontally the light gets through, but as soon as I rotate the glasses, the rainbow disappears entirely! Almost all the polarized light is blocked, and the rainbow vanishes.
But wait, there’s more!

This is the same effect that makes it easier to see through heavy rain or fog with polarized sunglasses.

Oh Buoyancy!

Via Zapperz

A man who obviously has a “girth” larger than the inner radius of a floating inner tube, appears to have gone through it unscathed, both for him and the inner tube.

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The inner diameter of the tube is around a meter (I’m guessing this guy is bigger than a 40-in waist). If the tube part is 10 cm across, that’s about 8L of volume being submerged, displacing 8L of water, exerting ~80N of buoyancy force, or more than 17 pounds. Another way to look at it is if you filled the tube with water it would weigh that much. Is it reasonable that the man’s “spare tire” would hold that up? In addition to the malleability of flab, water is a pretty decent lubricant.

Not Affiliated with Möbius Strip

MÖBIUS

Twenty-one large triangles animated by Melbourne, throughout Federation Square. MÖBIUS is a sculpture that can be configured into many cyclical patterns and behave as though it is eating itself, whilst sinking into the ground. The result is an optical illusion and a time-lapse of people interacting with the sculpture and moving through Melbourne’s landmark location throughout the day.

A Water Bridge in Air

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ArXiv pdf

[T]he floating water bridge remains stable without breaking for big aspect ratios and unbent by gravity due to the effect of the induced polarization forces at the interface, generating normal stresses that counteract not only capillary forces but also gravity.