Kaye Effect: Jumping Liquids.

• Terry Ortiz
  April 10th, 2007 at 9:51 pm

  Umm…”think stream of viscous fluid?”

  Fascinating. Amazing how high-speed cameras put phenomena down to our speed so we can observe it. I wonder how many small processes go unnoticed because they’re outside of our reach in being too small, too fast, too large, etc…

• Alex
  April 10th, 2007 at 11:56 pm

  thin. thin stream of viscous fluid. Thanks Terry Ortiz, I’ve corrected the post.

• Akiro
  April 11th, 2007 at 9:01 am

  Simply outstanding, I think I might go buy some extra shampoo now.

• Ali
  April 11th, 2007 at 5:56 pm

  I tried this in the shower with my girlfriends shampoo for over 10 minutes…when she walked in and saw what I was doing she wasn’t amused with it and I was promptly robbed of my “Kaye Experimenting with Shampoo in the Shower” moment.

• Patricio Arias
  April 13th, 2007 at 10:35 pm

  Hi there, i´m trying over and over again… but i don´t get the results… can anyone tell me what kind of surface do we need to try this?

  Some kind of “moving-surface”?

• Erica May
  May 4th, 2007 at 11:11 pm

  It’s really the height that is critical…after watching the video we notice that the height that they were using was about 20 cm. It’s also important to have a steady stream. We were able to get the Kaye effect at the kitchen table on a dirty plate, and then slanting one plate we were able to create the continuous one. Hope that helps…Long live Kaye Effect!

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