Not a clue what this could be! Any ideas?

Question

My wife was giving my 2 year old daughter a bath when she (my daughter) first got scared by something in the water. My wife (who has a B.A. in science and is a RN) was trying to reassure her that it was simply light reflection until she looked closer at it. They were 5 spiralling vortexs in the water. There was no bath soap or bubbles. When my wife put her hands in the water to disrupt the vortexs, they moved away from her but never stopped spinning and lasted for at least 30 sec. My brother-inlaw came in to see them and he too did not know what it was. My daughter was so scared she cried to get out of the bath.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

aliens in bath water?

i don't think so.

it was probably just in our minds.

Answer 2

Dude, all it was just natural science. that happens when things splash down into water.  30 sec sounds about right for them to last.  I used to like making them when I was a little boy in baths.

Answer 3

Thats physicalmovementof water from high pressure taps. Its gone in 30 secs because the force that created it dissipated.

Answer 4

They are technically called Self-organizing Dynamical Systems, familiarly called Gizmos, and supposed to be associated with a large spatial breakdown in Heisenberg uncertainty. Unlike ball lightning, to which they are vaguely similar, water Gizmos have never been known to hurt anyone.

Would it also be the case that you hear music coming from unshielded wires, maybe in the garage? Or are the water pipes made of a nickel alloy? And what could the Argon concentration be in your neighbourhood?

But these are all conjectures, of course.