#3144: Phase Changes
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Phase change in theory
As you can see, When water is cooled to below 0°C, it changes from a liquid to a solid.
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Phase change in preactice
When water freeses, it sometimes sends out long weird spikes.
Physics tell us the water is "trying to give us a present."
(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)
Title text:People looking for the gaps in our understanding where the meaning of consciousness or free will might hide often turn to quantum uncertainty or infinite cosmologies, as if we don't have breathtakingly complex emergent phenomena right there in our freezers.