I would wager you have more of an idea of what a state of matter is than biologists do of what a species is. Humans like to put things into neat boxes but nature is under no deal obligation to cooperate.
yeah i have a bachelor’s in chemistry and I remember a professor earnestly saying the phrase “metallic phase nitrogen” and I think I went home and stared at the ceiling for an hour
I’m a career physicist, and I honestly have no idea what a state of matter is anymore.
I would wager you have more of an idea of what a state of matter is than biologists do of what a species is. Humans like to put things into neat boxes but nature is under no deal obligation to cooperate.
An abstraction used for grouping kinds of things together for the purposes of making thinking about them a lot faster.
Interacting fields of non-causality?
Simple, “solid state” means “no moving parts”, like a vacuum tube, for example.
You’d be surprised.
Well I know the liquid phase is what happened after I ate at that filthy pizza place. Yikes.
Could there be a spherical object inside that tube? Just for familiarities sake
Are gas atoms spherical?
Only if it’s a cow
Can I offer you a nice smectic B3 liquid crystal in this trying time?
You may not.
yeah i have a bachelor’s in chemistry and I remember a professor earnestly saying the phrase “metallic phase nitrogen” and I think I went home and stared at the ceiling for an hour
Loads of pressure? Even Quarks get metallic with more pressure.
Yeah apparently there’s metallic nitrogen in the Earth’s core