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 …
Well the gap is increasing in time! Something is pulling beakers apart. Human hands presumably.
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Ah, sure. But relative to the time scales of electric/magnetic field changes, everything is so slowly changing here as to be "static". So to understand what happens, you only need to think about static electric fields.
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Ok that makes sense
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