{"id":6989,"date":"2013-04-20T21:27:52","date_gmt":"2013-04-21T04:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=6989"},"modified":"2013-04-20T21:27:52","modified_gmt":"2013-04-21T04:27:52","slug":"test-your-intuition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2013\/04\/20\/test-your-intuition\/","title":{"rendered":"Test your intuition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The name of this post was shamelessly stolen from Gil Kalai&#8217;s popular series <a href=\"https:\/\/gilkalai.wordpress.com\/category\/test-your-intuition\/\">Test Your Intuition<\/a>. But today&#8217;s post will be testing our <em>physics<\/em> intuition, rather than our mathematical intuition. Although this is a quantum blog, we&#8217;ll look at the behavior of a classical fluid.<br \/>\nThe question is: what happens when you soak a washcloth with water and then ring it out&#8230; <em>in zero gravity<\/em>?<br \/>\nThink about it for a few minutes before watching the result of the actual experiment below.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wringing out Water on the ISS - for Science!\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o8TssbmY-GM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The name of this post was shamelessly stolen from Gil Kalai&#8217;s popular series Test Your Intuition. But today&#8217;s post will be testing our physics intuition, rather than our mathematical intuition. Although this is a quantum blog, we&#8217;ll look at the behavior of a classical fluid. The question is: what happens when you soak a washcloth &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2013\/04\/20\/test-your-intuition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Test your intuition&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53,60,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-puzzle","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}