[HN Gopher] The Mpemba Effect
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The Mpemba Effect
Author : jhncls
Score : 7 points
Date : 2021-10-19 20:52 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| dTal wrote:
| It is disappointing - and suspicious - that despite being known
| for 70 years if not antiquity, and supposedly being easy enough
| for a schoolboy to discover and trivial for a university
| professor to immediately replicate, "the actual occurrence of the
| Mpemba effect is a matter of controversy".
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| Surely something so counterintuitive and yet so simple would have
| an extremely reliable and well-defined laboratory procedure to
| replicate by now. The fact that it does not is strongly
| suggestive of myth.
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