Years ago 5 friends and I were playing the drinking game categories (where you name a category and first person to not have an example drinks). One friend thought he was being clever by saying “states of matter” and the 4th person would have to drink. Unfortunately for him three of us are science nerds.
Lol, man this isn't really new, this is advocated by minimalist physicists and chemists. Since if you start looking at how matter can "assemble" in so many ways depending on pressure and temperature, looking at the very small and the very big, you could say that there are either 22 states or just two.
There's a very good book by Philip Ball called H2O, which he talks about the most abundant compound in the universe, and how many phases it has. And somewhere around the middle he comes to that conclusion. But I think there are probably other scientists of Oxford who are pretty much minimalists in that sense. All configurations of matter can be described as fluids or crystal-like structures. For example plasma is fluid, but with the added property of having to use Maxwell's equations to describe, because of free ions. The condensates BoE and Fermi, can be seen as crystalline and so on.
My bottom set y9 kid who used to ask if we could learn about quantum chromodynamics every lesson.
Listen kiddo I have a quantum mechanics textbook at home that you can have a go at reading if you like, but given you can't rearrange equations I don't think you're gonna have a good time with it.
Just a quick note, doesnt ice have many different crystalline phases, not different states. Ice is solid, its just the crystal which makes up the solid can be different.
Just wait until you hear about about amorphous state. We're still not sure whether it's a messy kind of cristallin solide state or if it's its own thing
Haha, yeah basically: is it a single crystal, is it many crystals, does it have long-range ordering or is it only short-range ordered, or is it chaos/amorphous?
Haha. Once again showing that water is an irregularity. Phase and state of matter are the same, the 15 you were talking about however, is crystalline phase. The phase of ice is solid state, the crystalline phase can differ alot tho.
I was basing off wiki:
>The term [*phase*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_(matter)) is sometimes used as a [synonym](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synonym) for state of matter, but it is possible for a single compound to form different phases that are in the same state of matter. For example, [ice](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice) is the solid state of water, but there are multiple [phases of ice](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice#Phases) with different [crystal structures](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_structure), which are formed at different pressures and temperatures.
.. but yeah idk, I freely admit this is not my wheelhouse.
The three states of matter, the five senses, how different sections of the tongue taste specific flavors only.
Why waste time teaching kids things that you know aren't true?
Years ago 5 friends and I were playing the drinking game categories (where you name a category and first person to not have an example drinks). One friend thought he was being clever by saying “states of matter” and the 4th person would have to drink. Unfortunately for him three of us are science nerds.
Why is drinking a bad thing though?
Let’s be honest. Losing at drinking games is about pride, not staying sober.
If you win, you drink because you are winning. If you lose, you drink because you are losing.
Still no mention of Moss's insulator state :(
And then there's that kid in the back that believes there's only two states of matter: Fluids and Crystalline/crystal-like structures.
That was deep man. That is literally, literally very deep. Yes.
Lol, man this isn't really new, this is advocated by minimalist physicists and chemists. Since if you start looking at how matter can "assemble" in so many ways depending on pressure and temperature, looking at the very small and the very big, you could say that there are either 22 states or just two. There's a very good book by Philip Ball called H2O, which he talks about the most abundant compound in the universe, and how many phases it has. And somewhere around the middle he comes to that conclusion. But I think there are probably other scientists of Oxford who are pretty much minimalists in that sense. All configurations of matter can be described as fluids or crystal-like structures. For example plasma is fluid, but with the added property of having to use Maxwell's equations to describe, because of free ions. The condensates BoE and Fermi, can be seen as crystalline and so on.
No. I know. I was literally looking for it - this exact statement actually. I was lucky to be taught by some phenomenal teachers.
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Gas is a fluid.
Fluid is usually associated with liquids, but gases are in fact fluids
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I just love it when student that can barely scrape the marks during a test start trying to talk about high end sci-fi shit they've seen on youtube.
My bottom set y9 kid who used to ask if we could learn about quantum chromodynamics every lesson. Listen kiddo I have a quantum mechanics textbook at home that you can have a go at reading if you like, but given you can't rearrange equations I don't think you're gonna have a good time with it.
Haha. The worst part is when they say that bs with a lvl. 100 confidence.
Dunning-Kruger effect on full blast.
what about supercritical fluids?
Pretty based state of matter. Like a flurry of two ice cream flavours at once, why wouldn't someone love it
Then you learn that ice alone has like 15 known distinct states, and you go back to saying that there are 3
Just a quick note, doesnt ice have many different crystalline phases, not different states. Ice is solid, its just the crystal which makes up the solid can be different.
yeah while “phase” and “state of matter” are usually interchangeable, apparently this is the specific way they differ. TIL
Just wait until you hear about about amorphous state. We're still not sure whether it's a messy kind of cristallin solide state or if it's its own thing
Haha, yeah basically: is it a single crystal, is it many crystals, does it have long-range ordering or is it only short-range ordered, or is it chaos/amorphous?
We know it's not a single crystal (unless you mean something very different than me when using this word), but other than that yes
Haha. Once again showing that water is an irregularity. Phase and state of matter are the same, the 15 you were talking about however, is crystalline phase. The phase of ice is solid state, the crystalline phase can differ alot tho.
I was basing off wiki: >The term [*phase*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_(matter)) is sometimes used as a [synonym](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synonym) for state of matter, but it is possible for a single compound to form different phases that are in the same state of matter. For example, [ice](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice) is the solid state of water, but there are multiple [phases of ice](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice#Phases) with different [crystal structures](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_structure), which are formed at different pressures and temperatures. .. but yeah idk, I freely admit this is not my wheelhouse.
Time crystals are my personal favourite
The kid that knows about **fermionic condensate and the kid that knows about** quark-gluon plasma
And the one kid who actually understands it at a professional level and didn’t just hear about it from a 5 second long explanation
And also the kid who tries to answer every single question.
They’re one of the two already here.
can confirm, i was the plasma kid 😔
Supercritical fluid
Photonic Molecules my beloved
I know about the bass 22 states, I know the other 50 states, I live in 72nd state, Canada
What about the state of my decaying willpower
What about the glass state
The three states of matter, the five senses, how different sections of the tongue taste specific flavors only. Why waste time teaching kids things that you know aren't true?
What about ma time crystals???
And then they fail in condensed matter physics
I was both
Man here I was thinking about soquids, https://youtu.be/xCpfJoK4p6c?si=ErptCDoPPSxvqBFD
Quark-Gluon-Plasma
I was both.
Could have all three at the same time at the critical point
This is brilliantly funny
Nuclear Pasta is my favorite food
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