Re: Glass does not flow

[Jim Green <JMGreen@SISNA.COM>]

Here is someone who is learning physics from "Earth&Sky! Wow!

Anyone who thinks that glass doesn't flow is welcome to visit my 130 yr old
house and look out the windows.

In materials science common glass is clearly thought to be a fluid.  It has
no long range crystalline structure and clearly flows.

Jim Green

At 01:52 PM 8/21/99 -0500, you wrote:
> For those of you that think that glass flows under its own weight you
> might find this URL a good place to start.
> (www.earthsky.com/1997/esmi971014.html) Then go to the links.
> Do not feel too bad about holding this common belief.  One can even find
> it in Feynman's Lecture Series
>
> David Anderson
> DFA@fnal.gov

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