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Researchers at the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM), the University of Twente in the Netherlands and the University of Seville in Spain have explained the formation and behaviour of the very fast water jet that is formed when an object impacts on a water surface. They have observed precisely what happens using a super-fast camera and have made a computer simulation of the process.  Read more here

Have you ever given much thought as to what really happens when a rock hits the water? What happens is gone in an instant and hard to really see. But if you slow it down, it is something fascinating. The focus of this article is mainly on the jet of water that is shot upward at high speeds on impact.

What this implies I’m not entirely sure of. But this phenomenon regularly occurs in various facets of industries where this super fast jet stream of water might have use. If nothing else it is a mystery of nature of nature that has now been solved thanks to high speed cameras and researches in Spain.