Here is a video of shampoo acting weird.

This is the Kaye effect: the piling and streamering of liquids that sheer under stress (like shampoo, hand soap, stuff like that). We normally don’t see it because, apparently, the little piles and streamers happen in fewer than 300 milliseconds.

Kaye originally described the phenomenon as, “pfft I don’t know what the hell is going on*” in 1963, but since then I guess scientists have decided to spend a bit more time checking out shampoo with a high speed camera.

So yeah. Pretty cool.

*exact quote, totally

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