[Red Badger]

This could be huge for a great many industries, not only for the energy savings, which are substantial, but artists and inventors can now make glass shapes for many different uses and abstract forms...........................

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Very interesting! Thanks.

[doorgunner69]

Interesting. One of my fascinations as a kid was watching glass workers.

[Steely Tom]

If there is any interaction between this field effect and the ion exchange process for strengthening glass (”Gorilla Glass”) it could have significant implications for certain companies.

[G Larry]

“Applied Test Systems model 2605 pneumatic CREEP tester”

Could’a used one of those in 1992, 2008, and RIGHT NOW!

[jim_trent]

I took a glass blowing class once. I soon learned that glass that is red hot is only a few degrees hotter than clear glass. And the clear glass at that temperature looks just like cold glass — but it isn’t. Lost most of my fingerprints during that class. But they grew back.