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How fast would you have to travel to be able to run on water?
Nick Canning
Coleraine, County Londonderry, UK
If I could hit a flat surface of water above a very deep trench at supersonic velocity, such that the impulse of my step was delivered in a time faster than the relaxation time of the water molecules, then the water surface would behave more like that of a solid than a liquid and I would bounce off it.
Unfortunately, humans can’t attain such power or reaction speeds. So, unless we use flippers with a large area to displace our…
