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The Nature of Glass Remains Anything but Clear
NY Times ^
| July 29, 2008
| KENNETH CHANG
Posted on 08/03/2008 6:56:52 PM PDT by neverdem
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posted on
08/03/2008 6:56:52 PM PDT
by
neverdem
To: neverdem; blam; SunkenCiv
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posted on
08/03/2008 6:58:54 PM PDT
by
Jet Jaguar
(Obama: The presumptuous democratic nominee)
To: All
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posted on
08/03/2008 7:00:30 PM PDT
by
neverdem
(I'm praying for a Divine Intervention.)
To: neverdem
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posted on
08/03/2008 7:06:29 PM PDT
by
ChildOfThe60s
(If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
To: neverdem
They can tell you what the temperature will be, 25 years from now.
They can tell you all about how the eye and ear evolved.
But glass? Well, they're not really sure about that one. No consensus yet.
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posted on
08/03/2008 7:25:45 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Et si omnes ego non)
To: neverdem
...if cooled infinitely slowly When does one detect a drop in temperature, at the end of infinity?
To: neverdem
NYT: “It is well known that panes of stained glass in old European churches are thicker at the bottom because glass is a slow-moving liquid that flows downward over centuries. Well known, but wrong.”
Hmmm. The NY Times writer (or typist) does not cite it but the article is eerily similar to this:
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/Glass/glass.html
...which is copyrighted, dated 1996, and starts out: “It is sometimes said that glass in very old churches is thicker at the bottom than at the top because glass is a liquid, and so over several centuries it has flowed towards the bottom. This is not true.”
To: neverdem
The New York Times: Outrageous liberal bias, insipid PC drivel, plus the occasional excellent science article.
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posted on
08/03/2008 7:37:54 PM PDT
by
TChad
To: ClearCase_guy
“But glass? Well, they’re not really sure about that one. No consensus yet.”
They ought to put some evolutionists on it - they know everything.
To: Jet Jaguar
You guys need to find the old science fiction stories about “slow glass”.
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posted on
08/03/2008 7:48:07 PM PDT
by
nomorelurker
(keep flogging them till morale improves)
To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
So you are saying that Baez invented a time machine, traveled to 2008 and plagiarized the New York Times? Whoa nellie!
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posted on
08/03/2008 7:54:48 PM PDT
by
bvw
To: neverdem
"...the arrangement of atoms and molecules in glass is indistinguishable from that of a liquid.."
I thought that glass had more short range order than liquid.
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posted on
08/03/2008 8:07:50 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Huma for co-president! (it ain't over 'til it's over))
To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
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posted on
08/03/2008 8:22:59 PM PDT
by
neverdem
(I'm praying for a Divine Intervention.)
To: nomorelurker
I remember that one; read it in the early ‘70’s.
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posted on
08/03/2008 8:33:56 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(Without the second, the rest are just politicians' BS.)
To: neverdem
Thanks for the post.
David Chandler, mentioned in the article, is scary-smart.
Rumor has it that when he was at Penn, a gag greeting card was circulated with a drawing of a smug-looking dragon on the front, with the obligatory puff of smoke.
The caption on the inside read, "Ha! Ha! I'm David Chandler, and you're not."
Cheers!
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posted on
08/03/2008 8:46:38 PM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: Soliton; Myrddin; Right Wing Professor; Robert A. Cook, PE; Wonder Warthog; lepton; ...
Like, *PING*, dudes.
Cheers!
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posted on
08/03/2008 8:48:36 PM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
Excellent article.
(Sound of grey_whiskers purring)
Cheers!
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posted on
08/03/2008 8:50:43 PM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: grey_whiskers
Super cooled liquid. Studied it in college in the 70’s. Old lead glass windows are thicker on the bottom because glass flows, just VERY slowly.
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posted on
08/03/2008 8:56:30 PM PDT
by
Soliton
(> 100)
To: neverdem
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posted on
08/03/2008 9:04:39 PM PDT
by
Inyo-Mono
(If you don't want people to get your goat, don't tell them where it's tied.)
To: Soliton
Please read the prior posts in this thread. :-)
Cheers!
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posted on
08/03/2008 9:08:33 PM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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