Steve S.,
You and I are the only two participants in that discussion to have presented
any empirical evidence. In the spirit of experimental collegiality, would
you try my experiment, and report back to me. Fill a basin with water Set
it to spinning in a concerted way. Be careful not to
Nick and all,
If the following comment has already been made (and disposed of),
please accept my apologies (the house was full of visitors for a
while and I stopped keeping up with my mail).
One thing that leaps to my eye in the description of the
empirical experiment made by Nick, and
: Saturday, July 02, 2011 12:16 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Cc: Steve Smith
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Household vortices, redux
Nick and all,
If the following comment has already been made (and disposed of), please
accept my apologies (the house was full of visitors
Are you asking why does a vortex form at all?
No.
Are you assuming that the
drain is rifled in some sense and that a vortex wouldn't form without the
rifling.
No, that hadn't occurred to me, and I don't think
(having done my share of household-level plumbing)
that drains are rifled in
