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Psychotic_EGG t1_j5smwcm wrote

Reply to comment by thereisafrx in If I had two cups of water, one normal size and one as big as a swimming pool and stirred them both with proportionally sized spoons, would the larger pool of water keep spiraling longer than the smaller? by r3volc

I mean, if they knew the answer to your question, they probably wouldn't have asked theirs.

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thereisafrx t1_j5v6882 wrote

Not necessarily.

Lots of people have rolled stones down hills, or pushed something down the stairs, etc.

As such, a lot more people have a more intuitive concept of how solid mass interacts with the surrounding environment, but fluids are a different beast entirely so it wouldn't be something a lot of folks would have common experience with.

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