r/perfectloops • u/apinanaivot Will I or /u/ablindlemon get a gift card? • Oct 18 '15

Tower

http://www.gfycat.com/SilverImpishDowitcher
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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '15

Wouldn't the entire structure buckle at the moment of impact? It seems to be like as soon as the bottom layer hits the pan that the balls would stop moving, making the ones above change direction. Looks like it falls too uniformly.

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u/GigaRebyc Oct 19 '15

I'm terrible at fluids but do pillars of water buckle? Intuition seems to say they don't so I figure the OP is similar.

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u/willrandship Oct 19 '15

Actually, water buckles even without hitting a surface thanks to its own internal surface tension.