Physicists Discover the Most Complex Forms of Ice Yet

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• mwigdahl 1 hour ago
  I was surprised to see no reference to ice-9 from Kurt Vonnegut's _Cat's Cradle_...
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  • gilleain 40 minutes ago
    Well, the image titled 'The Shapes of Water' has 4 examples - 'Ice Ih', 'Ice VIII', 'Ice XV', and ... 'Ice IX' :)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phases_of_ice#Known_phases - in this table, apparently discovered in 1968
  • Matterless 1 hour ago
    Right?! Anyway for anyone who hasn't read it, go pick up a copy. Cat's Cradle is not too long, and it's funny and engaging and altogether worthwhile. And you'll always think of ice/9 when you see an article like this one.
  • goodmythical 32 minutes ago
    Just a good idea to keep it all in the lab. Wouldn't want to accidentally end all life.

    Imagine we do all this worrying about nukes and climate change and germ warfare and we end up accidentally solidifying room temperature water.
• xeonmc 35 minutes ago
  Can this potentially be leveraged to create qubits?
• arm32 1 hour ago
  The most complex form of ice is when my wife is angry with me.