Isn't that pretty? It looks like glass. Its not a steady state: the tower builds up, then the weight gets too much for it, and it semi-collapses down, then builds again. The tower is about 1 inch high (metric? pah!), the fall of the whole stream from the strainer about 1-2 feet, and the build-shrink cycle about 1-3 seconds, though it changes as the honey stream slowly thins out. Its not caused by motion at the top of the stream, which is steady, as is the whole stream until just above where it curves off.
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I've seen the flip-flops you describe when the column is wide flowing over a lip. I hadn't spotted the bubble behaviour or the irridescence effect - I'll have to watch more carefully next time. Perhaps it depends on the type of honey.
Had you been Richard Feynmann you'd have developed a theory for how these shapes are created and used it to explain high temperature superconductivity or something :-)
Hmmm, yes, I also have an extensive archive of photos of water ripples over sand on the beach, but that hasn't lead anywhere either, although that could just be relevant to atmospheric dynamics.
Feynmann should have kept bees, it would have fitted his eccentric image (beekepping eccentric? What am I saying...). Now where is that photo of Snelgrove wearing a beard of bees?
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