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The creepy fingers that grow from a vibrating cornstarch-water mix can be modeled as a chain of inverted vertical pendulums (DOI:10.1039/c4sm00265b) and are believed to be the fingers of Maxwell's Demon trying to push through into our universe.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (10 children)

Inverted pendulum becomes stable when vibrated?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

That was surprisingly loud, I almost fell off the toilet

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

He falls off the toilet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

My bad, I chose the first example video I could find that was less than five minutes long. I previewed it, but without audio since I was at work.

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