On Nov 19, 2015, at 9:14 AM, Fred Lunnon <fred.lunnon@gmail.com> wrote:
The beverage being unobtainable in this part of the world, I am obliged to rely on a thought experiment. [Which may have the advantage of leaving a clearer head with which to report the results.]
As the liquid leaves the bottle, it is replaced by incoming air, which enters at regular intervals determined by the diameter of the neck: glug, glug, glug. Once inside, each glug forms a bubble of relatively large constant size. Rising clear of the liquid, the area of the bubble surface is eventually minimised by the action of surface tension: thish minimum ish easily sheen to comprishe planar (via shymmetry) shircular dishcs adhering to the wallsh ...
[Uuurp!] WFL
While this, so far, is the best theoretical proposal I’ve seen, I was counting on researchers in your part of the world to add perspective on the temperature dependence, in particular, the infinite T limit. -Veit