Ice is not an eternally solid material, right? It is, there's always slight movements. And this is true for most materials on a long enough time scale,. A lot of things flow, even things that we think of as solid. So why would frozen water or packed ice move at all? I mean, why?"
What makes ice slippery? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly uncover the complex physics of ice and cool facts we’re still learning about it with physicist and author, Laurie Winkless.
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