September 8, 2003

Light My Fire

For a friend's birthday, I baked a small cake and topped it with 25 small candles (which, frustratingly, came in packages of 24). Once they were all lit, we noticed that the flames of the outer candles were clearly slanted inwards, as if they were somehow attracted to the focus of heat towards the center of the cake.

Any thermodynamicists out there who can explain why? Anyone have any creative guesses?

Posted September 8, 2003 1:03 PM
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http://www.ias.ac.in/resonance/May2001/pdf/May2001p79-82.pdf

quoting to the last paragraph
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Posted by: Professor de. Yucs at September 8, 2003 2:15 PM
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