Not to charge in, but I've looked at ordinary window pane glass in very old buildings and you can actually see the rippling effect that occurred over time, showing the "flow" of the glass toward the lower edge of the pane. One presumes that the panes were relatively uniform when installed 120 years earlier. Sounds liquid to me.
Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hal Murray" <hmur...@megapathdsl.net> To: <time-nuts@febo.com> Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 12:23 Subject: [time-nuts] Lifetime of glass containers d...@uk-ar.co.uk said: > Or as someone else suggested, use a Glass container. So long as you > don't want it to last for many 100's of years, as Glass is not a > solid, it is a "super cooled fluid" and as such it flows like Ice over > time, just that it takes much much longer to do so! As best as I can tell, the glass-is-a-liquid story is bunk. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass#Behavior_of_antique_glass I was going to ask if anybody had tried to measure it. That seems like something a time-nut would know about. The astronomers have been running tests for years. Their mirrors don't seem to sag enough to notice, and they are very good at noticing tiny distortions. -- These are my opinions, not necessarily my employer's. I hate spam. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
