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When we splash water around, we miss out on all of the insane physics that govern liquids in mid-air.
But by using a high-speed camera, a special drip kit, and a glass of milk, YouTube's The Slow Mo Guys have managed to capture incredible moments of colored drops of liquid smacking together.
Shooting at 5,000 frames-per-second with a Phantom Flex high speed camera, the YouTubers filmed a Time Machine drip kit, which can precisely control the interval between the water drops — down to a thousandth of a second.
This allowed the men to catch stunning videos of water droplets, even capturing the very moment one collided in mid-air with another that rose from the back-jet of another droplet.
A back-jet (also known as a Worthington jet, or Rayleigh jet), occurs when a falling object cuts through the surface of a liquid.
The impact creates a momentary crater, seen below; in reaction, the surrounding water forces itself against the crater and shoots a jet of water into the air. (It's not too dissimilar from squeezing toothpaste out of a tube.)
To see more impacts, and the The Slow Mo Guys's intricate photography setup, watch their video below:
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