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OtherWorld
Profile Blog Joined October 2013
France17333 Posts
December 23 2016 20:35 GMT
#11081
I may be talking out of my ass here, but if he doesn't want to be diagnosed even though he himself is pretty sure that he has diabetes, it's probably just that he doesn't want to have a healthier lifestyle ? (as in, if he's officially diagnosed, he knows he'll feel morally forced to live healthier)

Thus the question is not really if it's better to know or not to know, but more likely if it's better to live healthily and longer, or junkily and shorter
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GreenHorizons
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States24152 Posts
December 23 2016 22:12 GMT
#11082
Anyone else feel like they see more cracked iPhone screens than intact ones?
"People like to look at history and think 'If that was me back then, I would have...' We're living through history, and the truth is, whatever you are doing now is probably what you would have done then" "Scratch a Liberal..."
JimmiC
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
Canada22817 Posts
December 23 2016 22:22 GMT
#11083
--- Nuked ---
FiWiFaKi
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Canada9859 Posts
December 23 2016 22:37 GMT
#11084
Is toothpaste a liquid or solid?

Does it undergo a phase change?
In life, the journey is more satisfying than the destination. || .::Entrepreneurship::. Living a few years of your life like most people won't, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can't || Mechanical Engineering & Economics Major
ZigguratOfUr
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Iraq16955 Posts
December 24 2016 00:01 GMT
#11085
On December 24 2016 07:37 FiWiFaKi wrote:
Is toothpaste a liquid or solid?

Does it undergo a phase change?


If the TSA is asking the question it's a liquid. If a chemist is asking the question it's a colloidal gel.
imp42
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
398 Posts
December 24 2016 03:15 GMT
#11086
On December 24 2016 07:37 FiWiFaKi wrote:
Is toothpaste a liquid or solid?

Does it undergo a phase change?


It's obviously a liquid.
proof:
1) at the airports you're not allowed to bring more than 100ml of liquids with you per container.
2) if you have more than 100ml of toothpaste they will take it away.

q.e.d.
50 pts Copper League
ZigguratOfUr
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Iraq16955 Posts
December 24 2016 03:38 GMT
#11087
On December 24 2016 12:15 imp42 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 24 2016 07:37 FiWiFaKi wrote:
Is toothpaste a liquid or solid?

Does it undergo a phase change?


It's obviously a liquid.
proof:
1) at the airports you're not allowed to bring more than 100ml of liquids with you per container.
2) if you have more than 100ml of toothpaste they will take it away.

q.e.d.


That's a formal fallacy.

1. At airports you're not allowed to bring more than 100ml of liquids with you
2. If you bring an assault rifle to the airport they will take it away

Therefore assault rifles are a liquid.

Q.E.D
FiWiFaKi
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Canada9859 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-12-24 03:58:29
December 24 2016 03:58 GMT
#11088
See, in my opinion toothpaste is a solid.

The way I would define a liquid is:

As a shear stress approaching zero is applied on a substance, it will deform until the stress is removed.

Since if you don't define it that way, then every non-crystalline solid is a liquid, because they all shear and have viscosity eventually (Bingham plastic).
In life, the journey is more satisfying than the destination. || .::Entrepreneurship::. Living a few years of your life like most people won't, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can't || Mechanical Engineering & Economics Major
Thieving Magpie
Profile Blog Joined December 2012
United States6752 Posts
December 24 2016 06:14 GMT
#11089
On December 24 2016 12:38 ZigguratOfUr wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 24 2016 12:15 imp42 wrote:
On December 24 2016 07:37 FiWiFaKi wrote:
Is toothpaste a liquid or solid?

Does it undergo a phase change?


It's obviously a liquid.
proof:
1) at the airports you're not allowed to bring more than 100ml of liquids with you per container.
2) if you have more than 100ml of toothpaste they will take it away.

q.e.d.


That's a formal fallacy.

1. At airports you're not allowed to bring more than 100ml of liquids with you
2. If you bring an assault rifle to the airport they will take it away

Therefore assault rifles are a liquid.

Q.E.D


Liquid_AssaultRifle
Hark, what baseball through yonder window breaks?
Cascade
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
Australia5405 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-12-24 09:48:33
December 24 2016 09:47 GMT
#11090
from wikipedia:

A liquid is a nearly incompressible fluid that conforms to the shape of its container but retains a (nearly) constant volume independent of pressure.


Which would make it a liquid. It is a pretty viscous liquid, but a liquid no doubt. You can't assign a shape to toothpaste, but it has a mostly constant volume. So airports are in agreement with wiki on that. That also fits with what they told us in undergrad physics iirc, but that'd be th eleast reliable information of the formal definition of liquid.

Regarding phase change, there are several ingredients in tooth paste, which have different melting and boiling points, so heating it up or cooling it down would probably make the toothpaste seperate the ingredients as they boil/freeze. If anyone wants more details, it seems like the main ingredient in toothpaste (apart from water) is hydrated silica, so exploring how that reacts to heat/cold would be a starting point.
Uldridge
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Belgium5194 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-12-24 12:03:48
December 24 2016 12:02 GMT
#11091
Either you wanted to type can instead of can't and you messed up, or you messed up, because toothpaste is definitely form-assignable. Also I personally haven't tried to compress tooth paste to see how it retains its volume so I wouldn't be able to tell. Anyone want to be the initiator on that? Maybe we can get one of those cheesy Youtube challenges out of it: The "press your toothpaste tube" challenge. Sounds oddly sexual for something that should plat all over one's face, oh nevermind..
Taxes are for Terrans
Acrofales
Profile Joined August 2010
Spain18387 Posts
December 24 2016 12:16 GMT
#11092
On December 24 2016 21:02 Uldridge wrote:
Either you wanted to type can instead of can't and you messed up, or you messed up, because toothpaste is definitely form-assignable. Also I personally haven't tried to compress tooth paste to see how it retains its volume so I wouldn't be able to tell. Anyone want to be the initiator on that? Maybe we can get one of those cheesy Youtube challenges out of it: The "press your toothpaste tube" challenge. Sounds oddly sexual for something that should plat all over one's face, oh nevermind..

Regarding the compression, are you trying to argue it's a gas?!

As for form, pretty sure that if you leave a pile of toothpaste out of its tube it will slowly spread out. You can't make little shapes and have them stay that way (unless you dry it out while shaping it). Sounds pretty liquid to me!
Simberto
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Germany11933 Posts
December 24 2016 12:23 GMT
#11093
I'd guess that toothpaste is a combination of liquids and solids, like mud for example. Toothpaste behaves kind of like mud.
imp42
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
398 Posts
December 24 2016 14:26 GMT
#11094
On December 24 2016 21:23 Simberto wrote:
I'd guess that toothpaste is a combination of liquids and solids, like mud for example. Toothpaste behaves kind of like mud.


That is totally inaccurate. Because toothpaste makes your teeth clean while mud makes your teeth dirty.
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Uldridge
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Belgium5194 Posts
December 24 2016 14:42 GMT
#11095
On December 24 2016 21:16 Acrofales wrote:
Regarding the compression, are you trying to argue it's a gas?!

As for form, pretty sure that if you leave a pile of toothpaste out of its tube it will slowly spread out. You can't make little shapes and have them stay that way (unless you dry it out while shaping it). Sounds pretty liquid to me!


Maybe I am trying to argue it's a gas! No, you know what, I'm part of a new movement now, called the "Phasers" where it's shown, through anecdotal and other kinds of "evidence" that what physicists have been trying to pass as dogma, has been lies all along. There is no thing as a "liquid"
Toothpaste is a GAS. Where is this so called liquid after you've brushed your teeth? It's all evaporated. The gas is stuck inside a barrier, which is broken open when grinded against a surface. The gas is supercooled and put inside this membrane, so it can't expand because of the small confinements. That's why tooth paste feels cool for a second when you start brushing your teeth! And then it all evaporates! Where are all the colours you saw in the beginning?!?! Liquids are a LIE, only solids and gases exist. WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!!

Taxes are for Terrans
imp42
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
398 Posts
December 24 2016 15:27 GMT
#11096
On December 24 2016 23:42 Uldridge wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 24 2016 21:16 Acrofales wrote:
Regarding the compression, are you trying to argue it's a gas?!

As for form, pretty sure that if you leave a pile of toothpaste out of its tube it will slowly spread out. You can't make little shapes and have them stay that way (unless you dry it out while shaping it). Sounds pretty liquid to me!


Maybe I am trying to argue it's a gas! No, you know what, I'm part of a new movement now, called the "Phasers" where it's shown, through anecdotal and other kinds of "evidence" that what physicists have been trying to pass as dogma, has been lies all along. There is no thing as a "liquid"
Toothpaste is a GAS. Where is this so called liquid after you've brushed your teeth? It's all evaporated. The gas is stuck inside a barrier, which is broken open when grinded against a surface. The gas is supercooled and put inside this membrane, so it can't expand because of the small confinements. That's why tooth paste feels cool for a second when you start brushing your teeth! And then it all evaporates! Where are all the colours you saw in the beginning?!?! Liquids are a LIE, only solids and gases exist. WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!!

You might be on to something here.

Did you know "toothpaste" is an anagram of "pathos TOTE"?
TOTE is an acronym for "Tropical Ozone Transport Experiment"
Ozone is a gas!

I am also very intrigued by the "Experiment" part.
50 pts Copper League
SoSexy
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Italy3725 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-12-24 16:08:07
December 24 2016 16:04 GMT
#11097
Yesterday I met a girl and told her 'hey, let's take a drink'
and she said 'I cant, I'm on antibiotics until March 12th'

Am I safe to copulate with her?
Dating thread on TL LUL
Gamerhcp
Profile Joined May 2015
734 Posts
December 24 2016 19:38 GMT
#11098
Of course..
Hello
xM(Z
Profile Joined November 2006
Romania5299 Posts
December 24 2016 20:42 GMT
#11099
you dudes need to read things like this A thermodynamic unification of jamming
Fragile materials 1 ranging from sand to fire-retardant to toothpaste are able to exhibit both solid and fluid-like properties across the jamming transition. Unlike ordinary fusion, systems of grains, foams and colloids jam and cease to flow under conditions that still remain unknown. Here we quantify jamming via a thermodynamic approach by accounting for the structural aging and the shear-induced compressibility 2 of dry sand. Specifically, the jamming threshold is defined using a non-thermal temperature 3 that measures the ‘fluffiness’ of a granular mixture. The thermodynamic model, casted in terms of pressure, temperature and free-volume, also successfully predicts the entropic data of five molecular glasses.
Notably, the predicted configurational entropy avoids the Kauzmann paradox 4 entirely. Without any free parameters, the proposed equation-of-state also governs the mechanism of shear-banding and the associated features of shear-softening and
thickness-invariance 5 .

or https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5024619/

it's basically all about jamming; if you jam really hard you transcend limits and bounds and such.
And my fury stands ready. I bring all your plans to nought. My bleak heart beats steady. 'Tis you whom I have sought.
Acrofales
Profile Joined August 2010
Spain18387 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-12-24 21:51:15
December 24 2016 21:49 GMT
#11100
On December 25 2016 05:42 xM(Z wrote:
you dudes need to read things like this A thermodynamic unification of jamming
Show nested quote +
Fragile materials 1 ranging from sand to fire-retardant to toothpaste are able to exhibit both solid and fluid-like properties across the jamming transition. Unlike ordinary fusion, systems of grains, foams and colloids jam and cease to flow under conditions that still remain unknown. Here we quantify jamming via a thermodynamic approach by accounting for the structural aging and the shear-induced compressibility 2 of dry sand. Specifically, the jamming threshold is defined using a non-thermal temperature 3 that measures the ‘fluffiness’ of a granular mixture. The thermodynamic model, casted in terms of pressure, temperature and free-volume, also successfully predicts the entropic data of five molecular glasses.
Notably, the predicted configurational entropy avoids the Kauzmann paradox 4 entirely. Without any free parameters, the proposed equation-of-state also governs the mechanism of shear-banding and the associated features of shear-softening and
thickness-invariance 5 .

or https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5024619/

it's basically all about jamming; if you jam really hard you transcend limits and bounds and such.

Bob Marley was talking about toothpaste all along!

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