Field guide No. 1229

A water droplet hangs in the air above a shallow puddle while a crown-shaped splash already rises from the surface below it. The puddle has started without it.

The splash before impact

Cause arrives late.

A water droplet hangs in the air above a shallow puddle while a crown-shaped splash already rises from the surface below it. The puddle has started without it.

Field noteThe crown rises before the drop lands. Effects ahead of causes are bad physics, not a bad picture.

Specimen
No. 1229
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Physics
Where it doesn’t exist
Shallow puddles, where drops arrive first
Nearest existing relative
a raindrop hitting a puddle.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Surreal

Also possible, also breaking physics