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Motor Made From Liquid Film
KentuckyFC writes "Last year, a group of Iranian physicists made a puzzling discovery. They placed a thin film of water in a small cell and bathed it in two perpendicular electric fields. To their surprise this caused the water to rotate. They called their device a liquid film motor and posted on the web a cool set of movies showing the phenomenon. The puzzle is this: the electric fields are static, so what's driving the motor? Now another group of physicists has the answer: a complex interaction between the electric field, the cell container and the liquid causes water to move along the cell wall. Crucially, it moves in opposite directions on opposite sides of the cell and so sets up a circular flow. The phenomenon works only when friction and surface tension are significant forces so the effect is entirely scale dependent. That's probably why we haven't seen it before and also why it could have important implications for microfluidic devices such as lab-on-a-chip."
Nice to see at least something coming out of that region of the world nowadays that has no relation to terrorists or nukes.
Yeah. That region NEVER had anything good come out of it.
You are a fucking retard with absolutely no knowledge of history.
Do you just not understand there are religious people out there who do NOT believe in religion of freedom and thin you should die for not believing as they do?
As a former Jehovah's Witness, I know a thing or two about religious conservatives and fundamentalists. The average religious zealot will try to convert you, but only a fundamentalist would try to kill you because you reject their faith. These types of people have no place in modern society.
And you want to advocate a position of compromise... There isn't compromise with them. Look at Afghanistan. The taliban will only allow government if it includes forcing sharia law on people who for the most part are moderate Islamic people. They take this position to the detriment of their own people, hiding among them or kidnapping/killing those who would propose another way(true democracy).
And you still want to advocate meeting in the middle? Fuck the fundamentalists, and fuck you too.
You can't legislate goodness. Let each to his own destiny, by will of his freely made choices.