When I swim, if I just get out of the pool and dry off, it only takes me a minute to fully dry off.

If I take a poolside outdoor shower to get the chlorine off and then dry off, it takes considerably longer to dry off.

This confuses me - getting fully emersed in water should get make me more soaked… but the shower seems to get me more soaked…

I often think about this when taking a shower after swimming… the paradox of water

  • Sylver@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    My hypothesis: Getting out of the pool let’s the surface tension of the water pull most of it off of you as you exit the pool, while a shower coats you evenly in thousands of individual droplets that cannot connect with each other to become heavier