{"id":2787,"date":"2008-07-29T09:14:51","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T09:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/07\/29\/the-new-york-times-on-glass\/"},"modified":"2008-07-29T09:14:51","modified_gmt":"2008-07-29T09:14:51","slug":"the-new-york-times-on-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/07\/29\/the-new-york-times-on-glass\/","title":{"rendered":"The New York Times on Glass"},"content":{"rendered":"

I tagged this for del.icio.us, but on reflection, it deserves better than to be buried in a links dump. It’s so rare that the New York Times<\/cite> notices physics that doesn’t cost billions of dollars, that Kenneth Chang’s article on glass<\/a> deserves its own post.<\/p>\n

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Peter G. Wolynes, a professor of chemistry at the University of California, San Diego, thinks he essentially solved the glass problem two decades ago based on ideas of what glass would look like if cooled infinitely slowly. “I think we have a very good constructive theory of that these days,” Dr. Wolynes said. “Many people tell me this is very contentious. I disagree violently with them.”<\/p>\n

Others, like Juan P. Garrahan, professor of physics at the University of Nottingham in England, and David Chandler, professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, have taken a different approach and are as certain that they are on the right track. <\/p>\n

“It surprises most people that we still don’t understand this,” said David R. Reichman, a professor of chemistry at Columbia, who takes yet another approach to the glass problem. “We don’t understand why glass should be a solid and how it forms.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It’s not my area, but the article at least appears to give a good overview of the problem, and the range of possible solutions. The guy in the office next to mine studies glass transitions, so maybe I’ll ask him what he thinks of the science.<\/p>\n

And, hey, it’s non-collider physics in the Mainstream Media. Woo-hoo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I tagged this for del.icio.us, but on reflection, it deserves better than to be buried in a links dump. It’s so rare that the New York Times notices physics that doesn’t cost billions of dollars, that Kenneth Chang’s article on glass deserves its own post. Peter G. Wolynes, a professor of chemistry at the University… Continue reading The New York Times on Glass<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}