Short explanation of this phenomenon: Electric field lines like to stay in water, which has high dielectric constant. Breaking the water bridge would force them to go through air, which is much more energetically costly.https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/992037745299206145 …
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teleological language is ubiquitous in physics, not because it's "true", but because it makes things easy to remember and makes them feel intuitive
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