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Quantum Mechanics on the Silver Screen: Science of Watchmen

By Michelle on Wednesday, September 16, 2009

I drive my kids crazy when I critique dramas based on their science content. Listen to the science consultant for Watchmen (Physicist James Kakalio of University of Minnesota) talk about the quantum mechanical underpinnings of Dr. Manhattan's powers.

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    Have you ever heard the term "hexagonal water"??? I was wondering your thoughts on this!

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  2. Cathy SanderOctober 21, 2009 at 5:22 AM

    Yes...except that it only exists when water is cooled below freezing point. At room temperatures, the molecules move so rapidly that if they ever got together to form such a thing...then it would disappear within fermoseconds!
    [See the paper
    Ultrafast memory loss and energy redistribution in the hydrogen bond network of liquid H2O
    in the journal Nature.]

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