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Bizarre Properties of Glass Allow Creation of "Metallic Glass"
VindictivePantz writes to mention that scientists have discovered some bizarre properties of glass and are already applying that knowledge to create what is being called "metallic glass." "The breakthrough involved solving the decades-old problem of just what glass is. It has been known that that despite its solid appearance, glass and gels are actually in a 'jammed' state of matter — somewhere between liquid and solid — that moves very slowly. Like cars in a traffic jam, atoms in a glass are in something like suspended animation, unable to reach their destination because the route is blocked by their neighbors. So even though glass is a hard substance, it never quite becomes a proper solid, according to chemists and materials scientists."
This may already be taught in Native American schools, but us white folk like to "discover" things that the Indians already know about.
LoL @ "many moons"...
The stupidity of slashdot appears to be increasing at a geometric rate.
You may be very competent at being a materials engineer, but you are not a physicist. You making the assertion that glass is solid (or liquid for that matter) is like a comic book artist making claims about cosmology.