Eli5: why does shower curtain move

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I’ve always wondered why the shower curtain moves towards me when the shower head is wall mounted. But when the shower head is handheld and close to my body, the shower curtain doesn’t move towards me? Does this have something to do with the water molecules attracting something in the air or curtain material?

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The short answer is we don’t know for certain. But we have a lot of potentially good ideas, and you’re not the first person to ask

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shower-curtain_effect?wprov=sfla1

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