Liquid flows uphill

[Jeenyus1983]

Just an exchange of energy...Kinda sad that this was an actual university study... looks more like a damn 1st grade science project relating to energy transfer or something...Good to see that research money going to good use...

[PlayT0E]

The water is not flowing uphill, it is being bounced uphill. The energy to overcome gravity is being put into the water by the bouncing.

[mamolian]

I must be incredibly dull.. what's surprising about this? ;p

[fuckthisshiat]

someone quick find a good use for a bong scenerio.

[matshroom]

its called cymatics

[mephis]

All I can hear in my mind was "fap fap fap fap"..

[linuxx0r]

i can throw water up a hill too

[Roemming]

haha :D

[dedefield]

this is like flipping an omelette in a frying pan: you tilt the pan forward and flick it. The egg flips and climbs upward.

[batukhan]

Remember, in X-Files, there was this black goo that moved around and took control of humans? This is ver. ALPHA 0.01 of that :D

[SiliconBong]

I think this is just the beta of that black stuff, it can't move of it's own volition, make it's own vibrations, yet. [And it doesn't look that scary, the black stuff trickling down the eyeballs of those boys that fell down into the underground cavern, in the film, was unsettling]

[britoca]

"science gravity amazing"???? What kind of crappy tagging is this? How about "fluid", "dynamics", "physics", or maybe even... "SCIENCE"???

Do a better job please, you're broadcasting science news, be more specific.

"amazing"... LOL

[101meh101]

omg lol, thats sick!

[AmosJLedge]

812649, when you say "hey even I could do this" did you ever THINK of doing it? The credit always goes to the person who has the idea first, doesn't it?

[AmosJLedge]

I quote hexachordal on this video: "um... waste of time? This could be used to great effect in many industries where transporting liquid uphill is a much needed thing, such as the oil industry." True but you haven't considered the amount of energy put into the system in order to make it work. Also you'd have to do it drop by drop...

[digitalbroadcaster]

Plenty of uses for this no doubt. But I'd use the old tried and tested Jack and Jill, a hill and a pale method.

I'm glad nobody has come up with those over-used two words about the energy used to do this!

Carbon Footprint.

[romanali1]

New Scientist is a credible scientific source for most people. For those of you who think this is fake - plz do some research on them. Second, why is it so hard to believe? If you had drops of water on your car windscreen, and had a fan blowing air upwards, the droplets would move up. It's not a huge stretch of the mind to think of this like a "slinky" toy effect, caused by the moving surface.

[codebreak71]

it looks like its done on a computer

[briach]

Very interesting.

[hughlooks]

Looked like a couple was having sex and the water droplet was all happy?! I guess? :(

[Guano2k6]

I bet hours of work was put into this

and what use is it

sod all

what waist of time

[hexachordal]

um... waste of time? This could be used to great effect in many industries where transporting liquid uphill is a much needed thing, such as the oil industry. This could be a very useful ecologically friendly way of doing that rather than using an archimedes screw. So yeah, think about it, mmkay?

[tonypata]

it would take more energy than it would be worth

[Tech1know]

Do you realise the amount of energy neded to move a surface bif enough to move such a large amout of oil, or anything, more than a simple pump. So yeah, think about it, mmkay?

[812469]

hey yh even i can do that...what bullshit

lolage

[richies12]

yummy boobies

[richies12]

wow thats amazing...

bobies, yummy

[hedaman353]

looks like bullshit to me

[bakayurei]

thats not flowing, that's being bounced up the slope. what a cop-out.

[spoiledduck]

Looks like Mercury to me maybe a magnet on the other end?

[PhoenixLander]

no, mercury is not magnetic (as indeed most metals that arent iron or nickel are not).

[xxtezzawezzaxx]

ryt!!! am not very bright u see!!! lol so can sum1 explain why it not real to me plz:) ty xx

[crayzeewhorse]

therealsnedz says it all!!

[TheRealSnedz]

This is bullshit & even if its real its not defying gravity, its climbing.

[nethe0]

No sound and black and white.

Can't you see that's not real.

[CHANNELOMD]

so new scientist is having an april fool because its in black and white and ther is no sound,are you for real?They explained why it happened ?

[TheRedLand]

idiot

[AbedeuS]

Its not breaking any scientific laws, the shaking of the surface gives the droplet the necessary kinetic energy to rotate and pull itself up the ruler, if you look closely, it sort of resembles a wheel in the way the force from shaking causes it to spin up.

[ferrariModenas]

never trust a scientist? I bet you trust a clergyman dummy!!

[jonesr999]

Tell the guy with the camera not to jerk off while he's filming.

[ericpid]

i'll never trust a scientist again...

[zomgomgomgz]

WHAT HAS SCIENCE DONE?

[UKBiker1000]

Yawn ...........

[ares213]

All I see is a computer simulation. I'd like to see the real thing please.

[maureenOWW]

This is the real thing you spanner, why do you think it's CGI?

[ares213]

Everything on the internet is CGI. EVERYTHING!

[CHANNELOMD]

Including you

[NShimaru]

zomg, gravity is a lie!?

[PolliFaxToaster]

the link is missing :(