{"id":6771,"date":"2010-10-13T05:11:13","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T10:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=6771"},"modified":"2010-10-13T05:11:13","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T10:11:13","slug":"physics-going-down-the-drain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6771","title":{"rendered":"Physics Going Down the Drain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/blog\/arxiv\/25876\/\">White Holes And Kitchen Sinks<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Turn on your kitchen tap and the steady stream of water will spread out into a thin circular disc when it hits the sink. This disc has an unusual property: it is surrounded by a circular &#8220;lip&#8221;, where the height of the water changes suddenly.<\/p>\n<p>This so-called hydraulic jump has puzzled physicists for at least a hundred years (John Strutt, otherwise known as Lord Rayleigh, published the first mathematical description of the phenomenon in 1914). These kinds of hydrodynamic problems are notoriously difficult to tackle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White Holes And Kitchen Sinks Turn on your kitchen tap and the steady stream of water will spread out into a thin circular disc when it hits the sink. This disc has an unusual property: it is surrounded by a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6771\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy-science","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}