Thursday, February 10, 2011

Glass Melts Near Absolute Zero

Awesome discovery of the week: Glass melts when it gets too cold "The wild card turned out to be quantum mechanics. Once the atoms of glass became still enough, they stopped acting like particles and instead acted like waves. The wave-like atoms now were able to flow, moving through spaces too small for particles to get through. This motion, and this ability to fit through small spaces, causes ultra-cold glass to melt into a liquid."

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