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People looking for the gaps in our understanding where the meaning of consciousness or free will might hide often turn to quantum uncertainty or infinite cosmologies, as if we don’t have breathtakingly complex emergent phenomena right there in our freezers.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3144/
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Me: you’ve been in the freezer for hours now, please freeze Supercooled water: how bout nah
Reality: when water is cooled below 0 °C, it freezes… sometimes
Also, even if it does nucleate, it only freezes if enough heat is removed from it to allow for the phase change to occur.
It reaches out
113 times a second
Fuck that, ice comes in over 25 different structural types or phases, the most recently discovered was this year. We still don’t know jack shit about jack shit:
We recently figured out why ice is slippery. Normies make it seem like all that’s left to learn is at the fringes, but it’s not. Our gaps in knowledge are everywhere. Even you can be an explorer!
I assumed it was because of a thin water layer that makes you essentially hydroplane when you step on it, am I even close?
Edit: Yes, but also no.
Great, who’s going to go tell Richard Feynman?
More akin to marbles on a floor or a table shuffleboard setup!
untypo’d url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phases_of_ice#Known_phases
No, it’s angry you didn’t give it a little jacket, now it’s very cold and angy, so it’s trying to stab you.
