CORRIE WHITE / SOLENT One of Corrie's spectacular splash shots, showing two droplets bouncing up from the water Credit: CORRIE WHITE / SOLENT One drop of milk dropping into another drop of milk.

Dr James Sprittles from the Mathematics Institute has created a new theory to explain exactly what happens -- in the tiny space between a drop of water and a surface -- to cause a splash.

In his lecture – later published as a book, The Splash of a Drop – Worthington went on to astonish his audience, demonstrating how a water-drop falling into a bowl of milk will rebound and ...