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Phase Change (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 10 hours ago by not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/xkcd@lemmy.world
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[-] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 11 points 8 hours ago
[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 8 hours ago
[-] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 hours ago
[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 8 hours ago

What's even cooler is that the Wikipedia URL actually supports unencoded slashes

[-] kabi@lemm.ee 2 points 5 hours ago

I was wondering what was happening there!

[-] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 hours ago

I noticed that! Never seen that before either.

[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 hours ago

It’s not just crystals. Even amorphous solids, like glass, can be extremely kiki.

[-] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

amorphous is a bouba word for kiki materials

[-] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 hours ago

Water above 273 K with a certain amount of pressure becomes kiki again.

[-] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 hours ago

Where’s that area on this phase diagram?

[-] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 hours ago
[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 hours ago

I like to do a quick bouba/kiki experiment with people when they ask me what having synesthesia is like

Demonstrates nicely the "I didn't know why, I just know that it is" feeling

[-] cybervseas@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago

Some rain feels very kiki to me.

[-] moonlight@fedia.io 7 points 8 hours ago

True, but if you look at it close up, it's bouba. Very small bouba moving fast does kinda turn into kiki at larger scales.

[-] cybervseas@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

We need a grand unified theory for describing the physics where matter goes from bouba- to kiki-scale.

this post was submitted on 18 Dec 2024
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