What has this world gone too...

[phoenix_ca]

have you ever had a chem teacher tell you that glass is a super-cooled liquid? there full of it if they have. this was believed until about twenty years ago, so maybe they learned it that way, but its not true.

I had that in grade 9, but in grades 11 and 12, my chem teacher was young and thus a recent graduate. She called bs on a lot of nonsense like that (including sometimes the Catholic faith of the school she was teaching in, which was refreshing).

[Ziff]

have you ever had a chem teacher tell you that glass is a super-cooled liquid? there full of it if they have. this was believed until about twenty years ago, so maybe they learned it that way, but its not true.

This is kind of understandable, minus the super-cooled part. Glass is a special sort of case, because its an amorphous solid. But the whole 'the glass panes are thicker on the bottom glass is a super-cooled liquid' is total BS. The reason the glass panes are thicker on the bottom is because the people who installed them 100+ years ago were smart. They put the heavy thick side on the bottom, because hey, it holds up better that way. Lmao.

[swiftgates24]

Ehem...

Need I say more? (actually I do since there's a 10 character minimum rule)

Let me refine what I said. In space we were going deeper into TIMEZONES and how we ORBIT around the SUN(only one sun).

Also I love how this turned out I love the Off-Topic section

Edited October 6, 2012 by swiftgates24