A Liquid With No Elastic Memory Just Fractured Like Glass (quantamagazine.org)
The threshold turned out oddly sharp: push the liquid past 300 millimeters a second and it snaps clean instead of stretching thin; at 100, it just flows like any ordinary liquid. Lima first caught the crack years earlier, testing hydrocarbons in a project with the oil company Exxon Mobil.
On Hacker News, the pushback arrived fast: if any liquid flows, why wouldn't all of them crack this way under enough force?
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