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Your captors are bubbling air into a water glass from a hose. You are miniaturized and asked if you wish to be placed in a small bubble or a large bubble. All the bubbles appear to be less than 3 millimeters in radius. Your goal is to reach the surface of the water along the straightest possible path. What bubble do you choose?
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Choose a very small bubble. Very small bubbles (with radii less than 0.7 millimeters) are spherical and rise to the surface in a straight line. Bubbles between 0.7 millimeters and 3 millimeters in radius are spherical but either spiral or zigzag upward.Hide Answer Show Answer
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Just out of curiosity, do you know of a web site I can go to, to verify this information?
not in the slightist
Okee Dokee. I'll take it on faith that this teaser is correct, then.
Absolute quackery! Small bubbles go where outside forces direct them. They DO NO ALWAYS GO STRAIGHT UP! The size of the bubble means nothing.
Has it occurred to anyone that we are arguing over which bubble would be better to float in?
Lmao.
lol paranoid: not in the slightest... lol
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