Bending Water

The words I started the project with were to lift and to bend. So I started thinking that to lift would be not as interesting as to bend, so I started thinking of what are things that I use every day that are not meant to be bent, and I came up with water! Water is something that I use everyday and don't even really think abt it. Its something that is liquid, fluid, and in a way uncontrollable. By saying uncontrollable I'm thinking that its something that isn't easily manipulated. So I started wondering what would be the hardest property of water to manipulate and I thought that manipulating the path of water without touching it would be an awesome idea. So I went to meet with an old science teacher I knew to ask if she had any interesting ideas for how I might do this and she gave me the experiment you see in my video. I started with a thin black comb and ran it through my hair for about a minute, during this minute the electrons move from my hair to the comb. I then turned my faucet on so that I had a very thin stream of water, next I took my comb and placed it near the water. As the comb approaches the water the protons from the water and the extra electrons from the comb are drawn towards each other, resulting in the bending of the water. As the combs moves the water responds and I am able to control the path of the water. I later also took some individual shots in addition to the video and edited them to highlight the water being bent. Overall I thought the idea of water bending was conflicting with the natural properties of water and am happy with how I was able to manipulate the water to bend.