• Question: if you ran fast enough, is it possible to walk on water

    Asked by ledw to Christina, Colin, Jess, Samaneh, Steve on 18 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Christina Pagel

      Christina Pagel answered on 18 Jun 2013:

      To walk on water you have to be able to generate enough push off the water to stop yourself sinking – and people have calculated that you’d have to be able to run at at least about 50 miles per hour to do that! which we can’t do…

      if you add cornflour to water though things get weird – if you stand still you sink like normal but if you run you can walk on the mixture!

      here’s a youtube clip! (starts at 1m 30 but before that is the explanation)

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