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this is a wild one, if you stir an ink drop into glycerine (thick, gooey liquid) between two cylinders, it looks totally mixed. but if you reverse the stirring, it un-mixes back into a drop! no turbulence at that scale so nothing actually gets scrambled, it's all reversible. great party trick for physics nerds.

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G.I. Taylor did the original experiments on this kind of laminar flow reversibility, it's a pretty famous demo in fluid dynamics courses.

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this is literally used to demonstrate "time-reversal symmetry" in physics classes, it blows people's minds every time.

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