The Cheerios Effect
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[MUSIC]The breakfast table’s probably the last place you'd expect to find cool physics, butthere is some awesome science happening right here, and you’ve probably seen lots of timeswithout even realizing it.Ever notice how cereal tends to stick together in the middle of the bowl?Or it clumps to the edges.That makes it easy to eat, but why does it happen?We see this same clumpage with other objects too: paper clips, thumb tacks, even bubblesin a beverage will snap together.Maybe you’ve noticed this, but scientists didn’t fully understand what was going onuntil 2005, when a pair of mathematicians decided to hit the lab, it hthe kitchen, andhit the books.What they found is cool.I’m super cereal.Check this out.Breakfast cereal is less dense than water (and milk...
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[MUSIC]The breakfast table’s probably the last place you'd expect to find cool physics, butthere is some awesome science happening right here, and you’ve probably seen lots of timeswithout even realizing it.Ever notice how cereal tends to stick together in the middle of the bowl?Or it clumps to the edges.That makes it easy to eat, but why does it happen?We see this same clumpage with other objects too: paper clips, thumb tacks, even bubblesin a beverage will snap together.Maybe you’ve noticed this, but scientists didn’t fully understand what was going onuntil 2005, when a pair of mathematicians decided to hit the lab, it hthe kitchen, andhit the books.What they found is cool.I’m super cereal.Check this out.Breakfast cereal is less dense than water (and milk...
