The Nature of Glass Remains Anything but Clear

NY Times ^ | July 29, 2008 | KENNETH CHANG

[big bad easter bunny]

Should be ready at quarter past infinity.

[SuziQ]

Bump for Monday reading.

[TxGrandMom]

I loved those “slow glass” sci-fi stories.

Glass fascinates me. Molten glass especially.

I occasionally play with glass in the kiln & furnace. :)

[SunkenCiv]

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[null and void]

You guys need to find the old science fiction stories about “slow glass”.

The Light of Other Days? Classic!

[Bernard Marx]

You guys need to find the old science fiction stories about “slow glass”. That was great SF! I read and loved every yarn in the series. It had S.F.'s defining "sense of wonder" that more recent stuff lacks.

[pyrless]

“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.

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evolutionists = environmentalists?

[Fresh Wind]

Maybe the glass was thicker at the bottom by design, rather than slow flow, or by chance.

[Eepsy]

http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/classics/classics_archive/shaw/shaw1.html

Gotta love the internet :)

[bert]

.....they know everything......

See, that’s where you display your gross ignorance. The admission of not knowing is the path to enlightenment. The insistance on certainty derived from blind faith is not a trait of scientists.

[ThanhPhero]

Panes of glass in 17th centry New England houses are thicker at the bottom than at the top.

[dalereed]

It's a liquid!

I took some 3’x4’ glass window pains out of a building that we remodeled that were about 60 years old and miked them and every one of them was thicker at the bottom than at the top.

It definatly is liquid silica.

[Tenniel2]

Or maybe the glaziers, while assembling their windows, took their uneven slabs and oriented them thick-end-down, for strength and/or aesthetics.

[dalereed]

“Or maybe the glaziers, while assembling their windows, took their uneven slabs and oriented them thick-end-down, for strength and/or aesthetics.”

If that isn’t sarcasm you’re stupid and need to be locked away!

[Soliton]

Or maybe the glaziers, while assembling their windows, took their uneven slabs and oriented them thick-end-down, for strength and/or aesthetics.

No, the flow rate has been measured

[Impy]

Some people think glass is a slow-moving liquid?

[Bernard Marx]

Thanks for that. I’ll bookmark it.

[lepton]

“Many people tell me this is very contentious. I disagree violently with them.”

LOL!

[VOA]

bump

[PetroniusMaximus]

“See, that’s where you display your gross ignorance.”

Look! It’s a childishly arrogant poster calling another poster “gross[ly] ignotant”. What are you going to hit me with next... “nanny, nanny boo boo”?

“The insistance on certainty derived from blind faith is not a trait of scientists.”

Tell that to the Global Warming crowd. The Evolutionists are just the same - dogmatically locked onto an idea and willing to punish all who fail to bow the knee.