Why can we walk on custard?

Why can we walk on custard? - As once famously demonstrated on a UK television show (video), you can walk over a swimming pool filled with custard. Two US physicists have now explained why. Reference: S R Waitukaitis and H M Jaeger, Nature, 2012, 487, 205 (10.1038/nature11187).

Bibliography

Posted on July 13, 2012 by . This entry was posted in Slinn Pickings and tagged . Bookmark the permalink.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published.

You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>