Science YouTuber Steve Mould is becoming well-known for making physics videos with specially-constructed cross-section demonstrations, i.e. 2D hydrodynamic mechanisms. And so when his online audience began sending him @bergmanjoe’s digital simulation of liquid filling a maze, he decided to build it to see what would really happen.
“I actually made four mazes in total,” Mould explains, “a simpler one and a more complex one, and I also made large versions of those two mazes.”
Can water solve a maze? Is a simple maze easier or more difficult for water than a complex maze? And what difference does it make to construct larger mazes?
Make a few predictions, and then watch the video. A sponsored message for a non-profit begins at the end of the experiment, around 7m4s.
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