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 …
What do you call the field evolution function if not dynamics? The del(f(x(gap),y(gap))/del(gap) thing? A wave?
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Not entirely sure what you mean by this. It's fair to call things like refraction "dynamic", since they involve time-varying electric and magnetic fields. But the "water bridge" arises only from static electric fields, with no time variation.
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Well the gap is increasing in time! Something is pulling beakers apart. Human hands presumably.
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