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AK-Dave
28th September 2007, 05:28 PM
From slashdot.org:
http://www.physorg.com/news110191847.html

When exposed to a high-voltage electric field, water in two beakers climbs out of the beakers and crosses empty space to meet, forming the water bridge. The liquid bridge, hovering in space, appears to the human eye to defy gravity.
-David
phildonnia
28th September 2007, 05:36 PM
"However, the nature of this structure, governed by hydrogen bonds, is currently unknown..."

Science can't explain...
robinson
29th September 2007, 01:46 PM
Amazing. Who knows what will be discovered next? Water. What a fascinating substance.
blobru
29th September 2007, 02:43 PM
Cool --
this bit struck me:

Upon investigating the phenomenon, the scientists found that water was being transported from one beaker to another, usually from the anode beaker to the cathode beaker. [my italics]


Strange that it wouldn't always flow one way (with the electron 'flow')?

You can almost hear the woos now: "Water has free will?" :idea: "Water is spirit!!!" :wide-eyed "Water is God." :hypnotize (could be Thales was right after all) :drinkspit:
TX50
29th September 2007, 03:34 PM
Strange that it wouldn't always flow one way (with the electron 'flow')?



Perhaps it does. That article is rather sloppily written in places.
Elind
29th September 2007, 04:08 PM
The movie "The abyss". That's how the aliens did it! ;)
Henners
29th September 2007, 05:19 PM
The movie "The abyss". That's how the aliens did it! ;)


I'm a newbie around here.


However, I am, frankly, ashamed to see all you folks using "woo" without its perfectly good prefix.

Beedle-i-beedle-i-bee (bung, bung, etc)

It just takes all the magic out.

(weeps)
OnlyTellsTruths
29th September 2007, 09:01 PM
Why do I find it hard to believe that no one else exposed water in two beakers to a high-voltage dc electric field in the last 100 years or so?
Henners
30th September 2007, 03:54 AM
Why do I find it hard to believe that no one else exposed water in two beakers to a high-voltage dc electric field in the last 100 years or so?

Maybe they were too busy firing oven-ready chickens out of litter bins and putting whole eggs in microwave ovens.

Just a guess...
robinson
30th September 2007, 04:35 AM
I wonder what happens if it is salt water....
OnlyTellsTruths
30th September 2007, 08:29 AM
Free energy that transports itself?
robinson
30th September 2007, 12:27 PM
A burning bridge of water? :D
robinson
30th September 2007, 12:35 PM
I've been thinking about how this might have been discovered. For those wondering why anyone would set up two beakers of water, separated from each other, but with an anode in one, and a cathode in the other, this is a common experiment in electrolysis. A salt bridge is used to connect the two beakers. (an inverted, U shaped glass tube filled with jelly containing an electrolyte).
http://www.coloradocollege.edu/dept/ev/courses/EV112/EChemCell.html