When I was really little we once ate out at a nice restaurant for some special occasion. After we ate, the waiter bought over a glass of black coffee with cream floating on top. This blew my eight year old mind and even when my dad explained what density was I still couldn't quite believe it. It felt pretty much like voodoo science.
Anyway, long story short: This memory jumped into my mind the other day and one glass of black coffee, three teaspoons of sugar, and a small amount of single cream later:
Hahahaha! Floating cream. Unfortunately coffee sweetened that much (the sugar increases its density above that of the cream) is really disgusting, but still it is kind of fun to demonstrate little bits of science and it did get me thinking.
After a couple of conversations with Norris and Gemma I think I have invented a new geek-sport: "Extreme Liquid Stacking". The premise is pretty simple. Look around your house for some liquids. See how many of them you can stack up in a tall, thin container, without them mixing.
There isn't really any more to the game than that, but I do plan on giving it a try anyway. After a bit of planning with Gemma we're going to try to stack seven liquids.
Anyway, long story short: This memory jumped into my mind the other day and one glass of black coffee, three teaspoons of sugar, and a small amount of single cream later:
Hahahaha! Floating cream. Unfortunately coffee sweetened that much (the sugar increases its density above that of the cream) is really disgusting, but still it is kind of fun to demonstrate little bits of science and it did get me thinking.
After a couple of conversations with Norris and Gemma I think I have invented a new geek-sport: "Extreme Liquid Stacking". The premise is pretty simple. Look around your house for some liquids. See how many of them you can stack up in a tall, thin container, without them mixing.
There isn't really any more to the game than that, but I do plan on giving it a try anyway. After a bit of planning with Gemma we're going to try to stack seven liquids.
