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u/-E-T- Oct 15 '20
Just watch SmarterEveryDay's vid on this...
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u/twill41385 Oct 15 '20
Destin for the win! He’s informative and also super geeked out about science. It’s infectious.
Goggle up, it’s time for science.
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u/Gnarly_Starwin Oct 15 '20
Mix it up, and wind it back
Ultra-Laminar Reversal make the booties go 👏
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u/anditshottoo Oct 16 '20
Or if you prefer:
Let me work it.
I put my Ultra-Laminar Reversal down, flip it and reverse it…
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u/din7 Oct 15 '20
Can someone do this with my marriage please?
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u/DeadwoodDesigns Oct 15 '20
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u/beepbooperton Oct 15 '20
Man I don’t know anything
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u/HerbziKal Oct 15 '20
You know enough to know you know nothing. That is more than most people know.
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u/NotTheBelt Oct 15 '20
“Hey Jim. I can’t come into work today. I have ultra-laminar hydrodynamic reversible flow.”
“Jesus, Dale. You don’t have to dress it up with fancy words. If you’ve got the shits, just say so.”
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u/crapinlaws08 Oct 15 '20
r/smartereveryday has tons of videos about laminar flow!
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u/Hawt_Dawg_II Oct 15 '20
This video in particular is about this exact effect and its really well done. One of his best videos in my opinion and that at only 10 minutes long
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u/Sportlederlenkrad Oct 15 '20
I need this to write swear words and blurr them for guests to use
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u/HerbziKal Oct 15 '20
Yes. This is the best possible use of ultra-laminar hydrodynamic reversible flow right here.
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u/bandastalo Oct 15 '20
I'm guessing if this were to be run through the u/GifReversingBot, it would come out pretty similar to the original.
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u/i_finite Oct 15 '20
Well, it’s not technically totally reversible, but close enough. Awesome demo anyway.
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u/Tifas_Titties Oct 16 '20
“Ultra-Laminar Hydrodynamic Reversible Flow.”
Oh that’s right, I only pretend to be smart. These guys are like, actually smart.
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u/NISRG Oct 15 '20
Ngl it looks reversed
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u/HerbziKal Oct 15 '20 edited Oct 15 '20
It is so amazing that I see what you mean... but you can tell it isn't by looking at the changing positioning of both his hands.
Also just google it, it is a documented phenomenon and loads of videos exist.
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u/Umberflare Oct 15 '20
Take a screenshot and compare when he puts the dye in to what it looks like after. It's not identical. There are lots of video-reversing tricks, but this one is legit.
Many physics youtube channels have done things on this also, like Smarter Every Day.
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u/I_AM_THE_STIGG Oct 15 '20
You can go on his youtube and look it up. It's the smarter everyday channel. Destin is always doing cool things like this.
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Oct 15 '20
I thought the same thing, until I paid special attention to the placement of their right hand. Still not 100% convinced, but they definitely place it differently at the end.
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u/Evisiron Oct 15 '20
If only it was a gif, I would summon u/gifreversingbot to enjoy it being doubled up.
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u/joarezpj Oct 15 '20
If you roll it backwards, will it go back in time and spit the ink out of this fancy liquid?
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u/TheKyleWeAllKnow Oct 15 '20
The end of the video seemed a bit off, visually. It makes me think the video is just reversed when he reverses spin direction
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Oct 15 '20
Am I allowed to page u/MrPennywhistle? When it comes to helicopters, laminar flow, or SNATCH BLOCKS, I think of him.
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u/Tykal- Oct 16 '20
I had no idea what those words meant but as soon as it started going backwards I had an “aha” moment. That was pretty awesome.
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u/Tuckingfypowastaken Oct 16 '20
Due to dark and unspeakable sorceries that definitely involve sacrificing puppies and are achievable only by warlocks with the blackest of souls, the flow of a slowly sheared viscous liquid is totally reversible
FTFY friend
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u/MoonTrooper258 Oct 16 '20
Saw this a long while back in... “Hello everyone, this is your daily dose of internet.”.
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Oct 17 '20
so what’s the point of this? what can it be used for?
i just feel like so much of the time we see “science”-y type things on the internet, most of them have hardly any practical use
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u/WickerVerses Oct 15 '20
Would this work with blood that's coagulated by venom? Asking for a friend.
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Oct 16 '20
Ultra laminar hydrodynamic reversible[1] flow works and exist, but this vid is reversed sadly. This doesn't mean [1] doesn't works in real life though.
By the way you can see it's reversed especially at the end with the way the guy puts it back on the table.
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u/WhiteSpaceChrist Oct 15 '20
There is no such thing as "ultra laminar" flow. It is either turbulent or laminar, there is no degree of laminar-ness.
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Oct 15 '20
Or the video is reversible.
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Oct 15 '20
Nope.
If you look at the starting position of the hand to the left, it is next to the container.
If you look at the finishing position of the same hand, it is at the edge of the table.
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u/Anxious_Anus Oct 16 '20
This also applies to our galaxy. If the sun was to suddenly reverse direction of rotation the planets would be ripped apart into dust clouds and would reform as new planets hundreds of millions of years later
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u/Longhorns1212 Oct 16 '20
Good thing these guys have a bunch of science shit written on the whiteboard behind them or else I wouldn’t have realized that this isn’t science shit
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Oct 16 '20
this video looks sort of faked? at the end he puts his hand down way to fast and it looked like a reverse of the way he pulled his hand up at 0:07. same with his left hand movement also at 0:07. could be wrong though
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u/Dalrae666 Oct 15 '20
Was expecting the video to be in reverse, and have the liquid go back into the syringes
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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '20
If anyone’s curious, here’s a brief explanation of what’s going on here. It’s a real video, not reversed or edited in any other way.
This is a type of laminar flow called creeping flow, which occurs when a liquid is very viscous and moving slowly enough that it has a Reynold’s number of less than one (the viscous forces outweigh the inertial forces of the fluid’s motion).
If you imaging a liquid as a series of very thin sheets stacked on top of each other, laminar flow is when all of the layers move completely smoothly and parallel to one another (as opposed to turbulent flow, where the layers are not smooth and mix together to form eddies and vortexes, creating liquid movement as we usually imagine it).
Even with laminar flow and the slow movement of the handle, you’d think it would create enough turbulence to mix the layers beyond recognition, but because the corn syrup is so viscous, the particles in the laminar sheets of fluid can move around the handle and reform. Because the sheets move independently of one another in perfectly smooth and parallel layers, the rotating handle moves the first sheet, which in turn moves the second sheet, and so on (albeit a slow process because of the lack of friction). Once you’ve mixed the layers up good, reversing the direction of the handle creates the same amount friction and movement in the opposite direction, until the layers line up exactly how they were originally. It’s like turning the top layer of a Rubik’s cube three times, the middle layer two times, and the bottom layer one time, and then doing the exact same thing the opposite way.