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Post by Stella on May 28, 2024 17:36:40 GMT
Maybe you played a game of skimming stones across water as a child. You know? You're standing on the shore of a lake or a large body of water and you throw flat stones across the surface of the water so that the stone 'skips' or bounces off the surface of the water several times.
If you were lucky you could get the stone to skip several times before disappearing into the water with a splash.
If you paid enough attention you will have noticed that each time the stone 'bounced off' the surface of the lake it created a point of impact. From each point of impact, where the stone hit the water, ripples would form from that point and flow outwards in ever increasing circles across the lake.
This would be until the stone lost its momentum and dropped into the water with a splash. The ripples would subside and the water would return to its former calm smooth state...read more
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