By Vurdlak on September 30, 2006, with 204 Comments
Sammy Salter submitted this cool photo. It represents a glass of milk that somehow managed to beat all those world known scientists trying to break the forces of gravity! Sammy even provided a video clip that proves the authenticity, and shows that no Photshop editing occurred! The solution to this optical illusion in fact is quite simple. Can you solve it? Try it! Be sure to open this article to see all three photos! If you have a spare minute, be sure to check dozen of more interesting video optical illusions inside the “Videos Category“. Enjoy!
(33 votes)
GLUE?
i think, the milk is spoilt… that´s the reason, why the door in the background is open :)
the milk is spoilt… that´s the reason, why the door in the background is open ;)
It’s a glass of glue or silicon
Maybe the milk has gone off and is completely solidified…
It’s not even milk..if it were milk and if it where frozen it would have another consistency…it probably is glue…plus he/she shakes it to fast to know it if it is anything other than glue…but it is defenitely not milk…milk moves alot when shaken and this is defenitly not milk!!!
I think its glue. In the video, you can see it move around a little, but it’s much more viscous than milk. Cool illusion though.
I think that the milk isnt real!
Condensed Milk
i thought that at first but i think that it is gelatinus material… jello to be simple
My guess is it is Elmers White Glue. I couldn’t see the video though.
Ummm… it’s not a liquid.
it don’t look like milk to me! more like paint!
it’s spoiled milk, or it’s mixed with glue.
The milk is moving (as shown in the third picture) but 1stly it is thick milk, maybe yoghurt or cream? Also, the milk is moving, but because the thick milk is sticking to the side of the glass it looks like the line of milk is straight arond the glass. a clever illusion, and if that is not correct, then please tell me how!
Ugh. When milk goes off it gets a thick layer of sticky smelly goo over the top that causes it to behave just like the milk in this picture. I hope that’s not how Sammy did it.
is it spoiled
is it actually solid?
you want that anti-gravity-milk too? just fill a glass of milk and wait …um…let’s say two weeks :D
I think there is very little milk there, most of the white is solid and only on the top there is milk.
Milk or Yoghourt ?
well he only tilted the glass a little and the milk did tilt as well. i think it’s cause of the “remnants” of the milk on the glass that hasn’t flowed down yet. I’D LIKE TO SEE HIM TURN IT UPSIDE DOWN.
has it gone off and turned solid?
It reminds me of some gel candles I have. I’m thinking the milk is nearly frozen or mixed with gelatine to make it solidify. There’s a bit of movement which makes me think it’s not completely solidified.
i dont have a clue.. it looks like glue to me..
where is the answer?
its PVA Glue isnt it
It seem yogurt
It seems frozen
It seems yogurt
Yogurt?
The bottom photo showes the “milk” being pulled to the lower side of the glass.
is the table skew?
Its yoghurt =)
I’d have to say it’s either frozen, refrigerated, or just off.
it’s possible that a really fast shutter camera was usewd to take the pic as it was leaned b4 the liquid moved which also explains the “jiggly”surface on the last pic
computer wont let me see the video, so i may be wrong, but i think that the table/ camera are tilted, and the milk is really straight…..maybe the video shows differently?
listen it’s OBVIOUS because I’ve seen this jillions of times!!! The table is tilted and the glass is straight!!! no glue!!!
the milk is very old and thats the reason why the door in the background is open…
the milk is very old and thats the reason why the door in the background is open…
its painted on the glass
Its yogurt, milk turns into yogurt like this when you leave it outside and add yeast…
Trust me , we make yogurt to eat everyday like this
I think it’s mixed with gellatin to make it thick. Also, all the people who think its frozen milk, you’re two things, dumb and wrong. When milk is frozen the fats in it clump togther and make it look yelloe, the stuff in the glass isn’t yellow, duh.
It’s something that dries to form a solid; and it just dries pretty fast.
glue would probably work.. preferably a super-fast drying one.
its condensed milk or milk mixxed with gellatin
It IS milk. i know. i did it.
He is around the earth, near the moon
i go to school with sammy, and like he says “It IS milk. i know. i did it.”
You could, of course, just use a clingfilm (seran wrap or whatever it is you Americans call it). Pop it on, heat it up to mould it. Job done. Liquid’s movement is then limited.
If you look at the video, the distortion around the top centimeter of so of the glass seems more than a video atrefact.
It’s GLUE! I’m so smart!
It has been left out to sit for a certain amount of time to get it to the right consistency.
haha wtf??? its youghurt or sumthin don to the milk cos u can see where it has been on da side of da glass in da 3rd pic…?? can u jus tell us alredy plz :P its kewl neway lol
The liquid is milk.
The house is on a hill and is not build vertical. The same with the table.
Maybe there’s a small bit of glass or plastic or cling film covering the liquid so it doesn’t fall out.
Due to the reflection on top, and the shade near the top of the cup in the pictures (I couldn’t get the video to work:-( ) there is a thick piece of plastic that goes down about an inch into the cup, the cup is painted white and was always from being bought, there really is not much milk at all, but an elabrite set of mirrors on the inside, causing there to be a projection of it sloshing around slightly in the video (or so I understand) so it jiggles, but not enough to either hit the mirrors or the plastic, therefore, the illusion, hologramic projection.
i think its just the angle of the camera and the table and everything else is just not at a flat surface!
its probably not milk.
but once, wen we were in Florida, my brother had a bottle of water and quickly turned it upside down, and then upright agen. he might hav just quickly turned it over and then upright. i dunno. but i couldnt get the video to work either so maybe thats y i dont no wat is causing it.
cleverly done anyway!!
its ooblek you mix corn starch (or somthing like that) with water and when there is heat it liquifys but if there isnt it is more of a gelitin or glue
if you can even get through all those posts about it being glue? and pudding, or yogurt, and curdled milk??
im sorry idk what kind of pudding or curdled milk YOU’VE been eating, but it doesnt look like that.
obviously as one Michael said “mixture is very thick. My guess is that a gelatin was used to thicken the milk.”
its milky-gelatin
it has to be. no other explanation comes close to the jiggle that it showed at the end when he turned it upright.
thanks!!
he lives on a hill
I agree with night_hawk
They’res like some sorta thin plastic sheet on top uv it.
spoiled milk
you guys are dumb it’s a big white marshmellow.
Im taking the mick. A hologram thing with miorrors? What?!
I believe it’s what’s called a “non-newtonian fluid”. It’s equal parts of water and ordinary corn starch from your kitchen.
Here’s a link to a you tube video showing non-newtonian fluid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuzn8wh8Fys
Could this be what it is?
their is a nickle under the glass of milk
Is it just really old milk that went hard?
Hehe I think you all thinking of it wrong its milk…BUT theres a very thin piece of glass just on top the milk making it look like jelly
Its fat and grease i do this all the time when i make bacon
i think its frozen. definetly.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but it’s definitely milk… Seems Sammy is very lazy. Looks to me like he poured a full glass of milk and let it sit. And sit. And sit. The fact that it jiggles in the video shows that it is gelled, but not quite solid yet. After years of cleaning up after lazy kids, I knew what this was right away.
He’s spinning the glass, if this is real milk. Spinning/rolling the base, the lip of it not moving, so at an angle centripital (sp =/) force keeps it ‘flat’
easy;
the house is tipped, not the glass.
The surface on which they’re taking the video/photo is tilting, so relative to the true ground, the milk isn’t.
maybe he added glue.
no, there’s no mixture added to it, nor a gel, glue, or whatever. it’s an illusion, that photo was taken inside a tilted house. thats it, thats the explaination. in your perception, your brain recognizes it as a normal house.but its tilted at 25 degrees from the horizontal. its illusion is very strong as well. why dont you try one, build your own tilted house.
It’s not a tilted house, LOOK OUTSIDE! I bet it’s not milk either.
Its obvious Yoghurt.
Check out the third picture and its really clear.
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Anna
There’s a trick you can do with a glass of water that ends up acting the same way (I think), and I doubt milk has too much of a different density for it not to work- you make a small hole in the cup (with the liquid still in it), and then cover it up with your thumb. The pressure is supposed to make the fluid stay in place while you swing the glass around.
It’s Corn Starch mixed with water!! Really cool try it at home!!
a little water mixed with alot of cornstarch
Its so damn cool
was junk it added?
did something like this when i took biology