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Subject: Re: Re: H-less liquids
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Date: Mon, 27-Oct-86 17:56:48 EST
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In article <752@riccb.UUCP> jmc@riccb.UUCP (Jeff McQuinn ) writes:
>I read somewhere a long time ago that measurements taken on very old cathedral
>windows proves that the glass in them actually flows.  The windows are many
>centuries old and are now several inches thicker on the bottom then on the
>top.  I've often wished I could visit a medevial church just to see this
>phenomenon.

My old physics prof wrote this off as being a result of the unsophisticated
glassworking methods of the time.  (On the other hand, this was the same guy
who delivered the classic "Baby in a Box" lecture on entropy in a closed
system.)

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