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440: No Such Thing As Death By 1000 Scallops

No Such Thing As A Fish

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Is It Possible for a System to Be Like This?

Pember discovered that it's possible, in general for a system to behave in this way. He was at school making ice cream when he saw another boy do the same thing and his tray had frozen into ice cream. His teacher told him 'you're an idiot' but pember carried on with research. The effect could be caused by more eddy currents in cold water which cause it to freeze faster than hot water. Pember: "If I made a mash of hre mathematics there would be no difference"

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