[HN Gopher] Mathematicians Prove Melting Ice Stays Smooth
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       Mathematicians Prove Melting Ice Stays Smooth
        
       Author : adrian_mrd
       Score  : 32 points
       Date   : 2021-10-08 15:17 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.quantamagazine.org)
        
       | atty wrote:
       | I don't particularly like the title. The mathematicians showed
       | some intuitive properties of equations that are used to model ice
       | melting are correct. They did not prove anything about the actual
       | physical process of ice melting, which would be something done in
       | a physics or chemistry lab. This reminds me of when pop-sci
       | articles discuss new developments in string theory as fact, when
       | there has been no experimental evidence for the existence of
       | strings.
        
       | kdamica wrote:
       | Not as exciting as knowing that you can't comb a hairy ball:
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairy_ball_theorem
        
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