Thursday, 20 June 2013

Brief tremor in earth's gravitational field

Look at the first three pictures of this week's Celebrity Bust-up Couple.

In the first picture, the surface of the wine on each glass is level, as you would expect.

In the second picture, the very localised tremor manifests itself in and around Charles' glass and the surface is at an angle:


By the time the third picture was taken, the tremor has passed and the surfaces are both level again.

7 comments:

View from the Solent said...

Evidence of a passing graviton?

Bayard said...

I suppose he'd kicked the table and the wine in both glasses was slopping, but the two glasses were not in time with each other and the photographer caught it just as the surface of the wine in Nigella's glass was passing through level.

Anonymous said...

VFTS, is there such a thing as gravitons?

I thought that was just a fairy story and that the old explanation about distortions in space-time continuum, i.e. time passes more slowly where there is more mass, was more or less accepted.

But you're the expert, not me.

Mark Wadsworth said...

B, I'll have to experiment with that, but I'd assume that if two similar sized glasses with similar amounts of liquid in them are on the same table which is kicked, they would both slosh about pretty much in parallel.

Bayard said...

I have the answer: after just anybody could get a platinum credit card, the seriously wealthy started taking out credit cards made of rarer, denser material than platinum and this process has been going on for so long that really big rollers have credit cards made from material mined from dwarf stars. The mass of Charles Saatchi's credit card is so great that it is locally warping the gravitational field, causing the wine to tilt. It is also pulling up the tablecloth where it is unrestrained by clips.

Mark Wadsworth said...

B, yes, that is the most likely explanation, thanks.

(What a pity that he's clearly holding a £5 note in that hand, not a credit card)

Bayard said...

Oh, yes, so it is. B*gger, this is where my theory falls to the ground.