Why water is one of the weirdest things in the universe

[Retro]

This 3 minute video explains exactly why.

There's a lot of things about our universe that are strange when one thinks about it, such as the cosmic speed limit of light, time dilation and black holes to name just a few.

Why water is one of the weirdest things in the universe - BBC Ideas

Turns out water is really weird! Watch this fab three-minute BBC animation to find out just how strange it is.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Crims]

This is right up my alley! Water is a scientific curiosity, and I've studied it intensely. I have a lot about why water is so important, def going to return to this post. I think the most interesting part of it is how similar it is scientifically with spacetime, behaviourally.

 

[Retro]

I'd be interested to read about it.

 

[Crims]

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I mean, when it freezes, it becomes bigger, which infers a stored energy that no one has any way to quantify.
IMHO it works microscopically within itself, rather than macroscopic.
Some scientists consider it as 2 liquids. I personally think of 4-5, acts like 6 or so but 3-4 at the regular point, where it sort of completes a lot of interactions recessively. On a quantum level, H2o leads to bonds which don't make a lot of sense.

 

[Retro]

I think it's interesting how water is weird enough that its physics still isn't fully understood even in these modern times. That's quite something for a chemical that's been studied as intensively as water.

 

[Crims]

A large part of it is that, like spacetime, a lot of things that relate to water and basics require the assumption that our knowledge of water is correct. A lot of scientists regard water as not as important! Like it's not something recently discovered to be everywhere in the universe.

Ice Ih - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

^One of the believed 19 phases of ice that exist.

 

[Crims]

A new form of amorphous water was discovered. The recent form is low kinetic energy and ice, so slime like.

 

[Retro]

Sounds fascinating, please post a link!

 

[Arizona]

Scientists created a weird new type of ice that is almost exactly as dense as water

Researchers have created a never-before-seen form of ice with a disorganized structure and a density almost exactly that of liquid water.

www.livescience.com

"The researchers expected that the ball mill would just break the ice crystals into smaller ice crystals. But that's not what happened. Instead, the tumbling steel balls sheared and compressed the ice crystals, shoving them into a new state of disorganization. The result? Medium-density amorphous ice."

"The new form of ice forms at 77 kelvins, or minus 321 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 196 degrees Celsius)."

 

[Retro]

That's a bit chilly then.

 

[Crims]

That's a bit chilly then.

The synopsis doesn't say it but it's the water common in space. Apparently it's everywhere, so this is the most common form of water everywhere.