Posted on 04/28/2016 6:22:09 AM PDT by Hostage
You already know that water can have three states of matter: solid, liquid and gas. But scientists at the Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) have discovered that when it's put under extreme pressure in small spaces, the life-giving liquid can exhibit a strange fourth state known as tunneling.
The water under question was found in super-small six-sided channels in the mineral beryl, which forms the basis for the gems aquamarine and emerald. The channels measure only about five atoms across and function basically as cages that can each trap one water molecule. What the researchers found was that in this incredibly tight space, the water molecule exhibited a characteristic usually only seen at the much smaller quantum level, called tunneling.
Basically, quantum tunneling means that a particle, or in this case a molecule, can overcome a barrier and be on both sides of it at once – or anywhere between. Think of rolling a ball down one side of a hill and up another. The second hill is the barrier and the ball would only have enough energy to climb it to the height from which it was originally dropped. If the second hill was taller, the ball wouldn't be able to roll over it. That's classical physics. Quantum physics and the concept of tunneling means the ball could jump to the other side of the hill with ease or even be found inside the hill – or on both sides of the hill at once.
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Would that all could discover it.
And its alkaline equivalent, hydrogen hydroxide.
The fact that ice is less dense than water is an extremely important chemical aberration. Asimov wrote an essay about that.
ICE-9!
I really don’t know? I remember it as a story published back in the 90’s. Early on when GPS was phasing out Loran C.
Trump: MAKE WATER GREAT AGAIN!
According to Quantum physics, two places at the same time acording to the politics of scince Quantom is necessary to get grants.
According to physics, molecules are not made of balls, but protons, electrons and neutrons that are held together by electrostatic force but are mostly space. What they have discovered is that with enough force you can push one atom through anothers open space which makes a hell of a lot more sense, but does not get grants.
Oops, politics, sorry...
..in other words,
We, or, us scientists are way smarter than you gov’t folks and we will gradually clue you in to what we know for a fee.
At the same time, the clues/results we “may” cough cough, deliver, will require additional fees/grants to us if you want it formatted in a way that is understandable.
How can you be in two places at once when you’re not anywhere at all?
i never take water for granite... some rock formations yes... but never water... unless it is frozen...
From artesian wells near Olympia.
It's the water, Coors.
I don't know what I'm thinking.
Just levirite there!
How would a satellite be able to observe the movement of underground water?
It makes scotch better too.
Yes, but it’s not an “object”, it’s a wave. A true particle could not behave in this manner, so the water molecule (and the components it is composed of) are just waves, with two opposite states superimposed on each other.
“Tunneling” is not a state of matter, it’s an action. These types of articles are always cringeworthy.
Steven Wright: “I bought some powdered water but I don’t know what to add”
They used some sort of short lived radioactive isotope dye. Now that I have been sifting thru old brain cells long enough on the topic, the water marked popped up in the Amazon basin from the great lakes aquifer in an hour.
Ummm, maybe the 5th state. Those in the boiler biz often refer to superheated steam in supercritical units to be in a state all it’s own.....
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