I love water! Maybe it's because I spend a lot of time in dry places. I love deserts, but they make water seem even more delightful. I'm cooking Thanksgiving dinner today - a day late, because some friends couldn't come yesterday - and it's raining. That makes me happy.
I love the complex and lively things that water does - even when it looks like it's standing still. In a cup of water, there are about
10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
water molecules. At any moment, one in 555 million of these is broken in two parts. Here is the complete story of what happens when a water molecule breaks up:
http://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2013/11/29/water/
See the dodecahedron that forms when 20 water molecules surround a lone proton!
Puzzle: if you go and read that blog article, you may notice that one sentence is secretly a joke. Which one?
I love the complex and lively things that water does - even when it looks like it's standing still. In a cup of water, there are about
10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
water molecules. At any moment, one in 555 million of these is broken in two parts. Here is the complete story of what happens when a water molecule breaks up:
http://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2013/11/29/water/
See the dodecahedron that forms when 20 water molecules surround a lone proton!
Puzzle: if you go and read that blog article, you may notice that one sentence is secretly a joke. Which one?
