Science Can’t Figure Out Why Some Liquids Flow

Scientists are still trying to understand why not all liquids flow in the same way. One recent study dove into the complexities of pusher fluids used for extracting oil and solved a decades-old mystery.
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Fluids are a necessary part of day to day life. After all, without water you couldn’t live, and without chocolate syrup, well, what would be the point? But have you ever noticed that not all liquids behave the same? In fact, some of them do some totally bewildering stuff under the right circumstances, and even after decades of research scientists are no closer to understanding why.
One question about strange fluids may have finally been answered thanks to some glass beads and laser beams. All liquids that we encounter in the real world can be boiled down to one of two kinds. They’re either Newtonian, or non-Newtonian.
Newtonian fluids are pretty easy to grasp. Well, not literally in some cases-a Newtonian fluid like water would squirt right out of your hand. A Newtonian fluid obeys Newton's Law of Viscosity which means its viscosity is constant. It doesn’t change when a force is applied to it.
Non-Newtonian fluids, on the other, less sticky hand, do change their viscosity…which can lead to some pretty zany shenanigans.
Still there are many more weird non-Newtonian behaviors scientists don’t have answers for. They may have just solved one riddle that’s stood for over 50 years.
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Non newtonian fluids?

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Ketchup seems to be a substitute when a preferred option isn't available. I put hot sauce on my burgers and vinegar on my fries. If those aren't available I default to ketchup. I think the only thing I will intentionally put ketchup on is a hot dog, but I don't really like them much to begin with.

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isn't this just like oobleck? Suspended starch increase viscosity under a sudden force.

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Interesting topic, but what's with the annoying music?

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Ketchup give the eggs a slightly salty/vinegar taste. It's quite pleasant.

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I love Ketchup on my Scrambled Eggs !! (or any kind of hot sauce)

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personally I like grape jelly on my scrambled eggs

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Ferrofluid is even bizarre

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Happy I quit ketchup years ago, so much sugar in it.

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I love ketchup on my scrambled eggs and have since I was a kid.

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Sounds interesting, David Ike and others have had such ideas. Nikola Tesla had similar ideas with his towers, more to dispurse energy, but all things are information. It's a wild idea. Facts will be nearly impossible to find, well maybe easier to find an ancient ruin in the jungles with lidar technology and maybe more ideas and information could be found. Fun thoughts to be had. How possible is another question.

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I can think of one reason this might not be true, because to build such a radio to contact other civilizations you would have to already be in contact with them to agree on building such a big structure Just to keep in touch If you did not know they were out there why go through all that effort for nothing..

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Ublek

[@DaellusKnights]

Ketchup on scrambled eggs is just WRONG... everyone KNOWS you're supposed to use barbecue sauce! 😁

[@xenos_n.]

Don't put ketchup on your eggs.

[@warriorfandude]

So, the big revelation here is the existence of Turbulent Flow? Thixotropy, Viscoelasticity, Colloids, none of that? I mean, imagine just ignoring that entire field of study on viscous fluid motion. Crazy. Couldn't be us.

[@Callummullans]

I don’t know much about all of this but the thought of energy travelling in uniform through a medium on the molecular level having macro effect is pretty crazy and pretty much proves string theory for me a layman

[@mikejettusa]

Background audio track is too loud, distracting and annoying. Maybe it's because I have add , ADHD but I personally think it's unnecessary

[@El_Makong]

I don't think I have ADD/ADHD, but I do found the background music is annoying/distracting

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@@El_Makong , I think it's just on this video. I don't think they have all been like that.

[@gregiles908]

Apple juice must be the quintessential Newtonian Fluid.

[@dhawthorne1634]

This has a bunch of misused terminology. All liquids are fluids but not all fluids are liquids. Gasses are fluids but it isn't until they are cooled or put under extreme pressure that their phase changes and they become a liquid. Ooblec, pusher fluids, ketchup and other non-Newtonian fluids are not liquids either, they are suspensions. This is a when molecule or particle can't dissolve into liquid but is suspended at or near neutral buoyancy within it.

[@DaellusKnights]

Does that include coffee? As a suspension, I mean. Serious question. Because I notice that many drinks separate if you leave them setting still over time, but coffee generally doesn't. 🤔

[@srgarathnor]

@@DaellusKnights coffee is that color, like tea, because of tannins, which are VERY tiny particles, and im assuming arent heavy enough to settle out

[@dhawthorne1634]

​@@DaellusKnights Coffee and Tea are infusions. The caffeine, along with various salts, acids and other polar/ionic molecules dissolve into the water. However, coffee grinders and filters aren't flawless. Some of the coffee is going to get ground finer than the rest and parts of the filter (particularly paper filters) are going to have some larger pores. This will allow some of the grounds through. They will stay as a suspension for a while, but eventually settle out. Herbal or flavored teas often have a lot of oils in them as well. These will stay as a suspension (emulsion when talking about fats and water in food and beverage). However, when cooled below the freezing point of the oil they will cause the beverage to cloud up. The only hot beverage that is predominately formed as a suspension is hot chocolate. Most instant brands are chocolate flavored solutions, but a true hot chocolate is going to be ground cacao suspended in dairy; which itself is a solution of sugars, proteins and micro nutrients dissolved in an emulsion of fat and water. The chemistry and physics of the food and drink is an astoundingly deep rabbit hole.

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@@dhawthorne1634 Thank you very much for the comprehensive answer. Indeed it seems that like most rabbit holes, the bottom is endless. 😳

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Well science can’t explain a lot of things

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Music gets annoyingly loud

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Urine? 🤔😏

[@gilian2587]

Newtonian fluid.

[@OliviaCynderAera]

I think when we think of fluids, we think of something that flows freely, but that's technically gas, not fluids. Fluids are more of a semi-gas/solid which is more elastically interacting, effectively limiting the ability for it to flow freely.

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Science doesn't understand most of what it claims to ... argh but follow the science lol

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This is the regular opinion of the boring the lazy and the mediocre.

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@@eddiepopcopter5902 history would prove it to be a fact, not opinion, maybe you should go study some history Eddie 😉

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Your talking about fluids and mixtures. Your talking about 2 different thing thinking they are going to act the same. There are uncountable differences between how things can be mixed.

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Liquids flow. Solids don't flow. What the problem?

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new properties can be discovered to facilitate future solutions like the filtration of groundwater

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It’s gravity. You’re welcome science!

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the jokes are so bad, please stop

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Chromatography

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Could we have the same without this irritating totally useless background muzak, please?👎

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lets just keep pumping nasty chemicals into the aquifer to study this

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