WHICH TANK FILLS FIRST? ft. Simone Giertz

gedankenexperiments like these need to have the setup properties exactly fixed to give the logical answer.
Reproducing a mental experiment in the real world is tricky, because real world has such annoyances like surface friction, density properties, internal viscosity, turbulence, and a lot of other second order effects. Also there is an anoying feature that harass real world, that is the ERROR associated to the measurements, and consequently the confidence of such measurements. We live in a statistical world, even in the macro level.