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The "Cheerios Effect" makes your muesli dance in the bowl. Just add milk!

Note : I kid you not, you dairy lovers, the Cheerio Effect is real and has been studied in detail. It involves physics: buoyancy, surface tension and the meniscus effect.

"Place a single Cheerio in a bowl of milk and its weight will cause the milk beneath it to dip slightly, forming a dent in the once smooth surface of the milk. A second Cheerio placed into the bowl will form its own dent on the surface of the milk, and if the two Cheerios drift close enough to each other, they will appear to 'fall into' one another, as if pulled together by an attractive force."

see Wikipedia Cheerios Effect - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheerios_effect

and The “Cheerios effect” American Journal of Physics 73, 817 (2005) - http://aapt.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1119/1.1898523

Muse On Muesli With Milk

My thoughts lie on hold, quenched by white milk poured,
    drowns muesli like seas surge foam washes rocks.
Raisins float, get plumped, then when engorged, sink
    like ticks, hungry for food, drop off when full.
The puffed wheat are funny to watch zoom by
    as some will not bump into each other,
    instead some weird force nudges them away,
    avoiding collisions in dairy sea.
Others group-up in rafts, in log-jam clumps.
Your oatmeal does the same briefly as well.
As I muse, white drops drip, plop from spoon poised.
Mind over muesli, muse on muesli lies.

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