No conspiracy here, just a pretty cool phenomenon.
See how it looks like the little drop is almost climbing back up, gobbling up the water so to speak.
What you are seeing, is not the behaviour of normal water dripping from a tap, not even in slow motion.
However, when you introduce some Polymers to the water, well, then this is what happens.
This is how it works:
The viscoelasticity of the polymer chains creates a force that opposes the thinning effects caused by surface tension. So, instead of thinning to
the point of breaking into droplets, a drop is able to climb back up the jet until it reaches a critical mass where it reverses direction, accelerates
downward due to gravity and eventually breaks off the jet. Then the whole process begins again with a new terminal drop.
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I think it looks pretty cool, and just looking at this seem to calm me. lol
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