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Scientists Confirm Phenomenon Of Falling Beer Bubbles (Mark Shwartz, Mar 16, 2004, Stanford News)

A new experiment by chemists from Stanford University and the University of Edinburgh has finally proven what beer lovers have long suspected: When beer is poured into a glass, the bubbles sometimes go down instead of up.

"Bubbles are lighter than beer, so they're supposed to rise upward," said Richard N. Zare, the Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor in Natural Sciences at Stanford. "But countless drinkers have claimed that the bubbles actually go down the side of the glass. Could they be right, or would that defy the laws of physics?"

To ask the question is to reveal an inexplicable lack of experience at raisin racing.

Posted by Orrin Judd at March 16, 2004 8:51 AM