Glass in the liquids tab

  • robogeek537
    29th Mar 2013 Member 0 Permalink

    I think that the glass element should go into the liquids tab, because technically, glass is actually a really slow moving liquid. please contemplate. ALSO--- think about how old glass panes are thinner at the top than at the bottom. 

    If anything, i think that this property of glass should make it into TPT for everyone to see.

  • belugawhale
    29th Mar 2013 Member 0 Permalink

    Making glass slowly flow will break a lot of saves.

  • snail
    29th Mar 2013 Member 0 Permalink

    @robogeek537 (View Post)

     No. Glass is a solid because it doesn't move in TPT, right?

  • Michael238
    29th Mar 2013 Member 0 Permalink

    @robogeek537 (View Post)

     That difference in thickness is NOT because it has flowed over time. It occurs because very old glass panes were hand-made. In modern times, we have machines that create glass panes perfectly, and these do not change shape over time.

  • jacob1
    29th Mar 2013 Developer 0 Permalink
    I found this: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/Glass/glass.html so no, glasses are not liquids (as in something like water. It's structure is just weird), that is only a myth. Also, in tpt they are definitely not liquid at all. So no, we won't move it into a tab it doesn't belong in, it just makes no sense
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