Timeline for Why water wont leak out in this case? (Picture provided)
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| Oct 16, 2013 at 10:47 | comment | added | 4 Leave Cover | @anna This is 'River Safari' from Singapore :) | |
| Oct 16, 2013 at 10:46 | comment | added | 4 Leave Cover | @User58220 Do you have any illustration for your theory? I would love to see one. | |
| Oct 16, 2013 at 10:04 | comment | added | Tobias Kienzler | Nice question, I like your mentioning sorcery - there's the famous saying "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." and it's nice to see that even nowadays this doesn't need to involve quantum theory or relativity :) | |
| Oct 16, 2013 at 7:07 | comment | added | anna v | Do you have a link for this video? It is possible that it is photoshopped since I tried to find such an aquarium on the net and none came out. | |
| Oct 16, 2013 at 6:49 | comment | added | DJohnM | I would definitely want a good reliable vacuum pump (or two, or three) attached to the air space at the top of the sealed tank. Air dissolving in the water at the access hatch would leave solution at the top where the pressure is lower, gradually draining the tank on to the floor... | |
| Oct 16, 2013 at 4:06 | history | edited | Ali |
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| Oct 16, 2013 at 2:29 | comment | added | 4 Leave Cover | @DmitryBrant Any maintenance job would require the staff to remove the top cover right? Or they could just seal the inlet first? Anyway thanks to your answer finally I get it. | |
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| Oct 16, 2013 at 2:24 | comment | added | Dmitry Brant | Refer to this parlor trick for a similar effect: physicscentral.com/experiment/physicsathome/magicwaterglass.cfm | |
| Oct 16, 2013 at 2:21 | comment | added | Dmitry Brant | Atmospheric pressure presses down on the water floating outside the inlet (there's a reason it's shaped that way). If water were to flow out of the tank, it would leave behind a vacuum. Therefore, it doesn't leave the tank. | |
| Oct 16, 2013 at 2:16 | answer | added | akhmeteli | timeline score: 10 | |
| Oct 16, 2013 at 2:13 | comment | added | 4 Leave Cover | But still the water will leak out from the hand entrance there right? | |
| Oct 16, 2013 at 2:10 | comment | added | Dmitry Brant | The tank is sealed at the top. | |
| Oct 16, 2013 at 2:08 | history | asked | 4 Leave Cover | CC BY-SA 3.0 |