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Re: [ATM] HCF ripple
> If you make a "candle" shaped
>piece of pitch and let it stand, it will gradually flow down into a lump,
Sure, but the point was the flat statement that "HCF doesn't flow ".
And regarding gradual flow of pitch and its conforming to the surface
this is still mystified in my opinion. For example the "candle" example
is all wrong if used as proof of concept because of different time
scales used in this example and in actual polishing.
I have box of shattered pitch pieces . Those have usual sharp edges
(like shattered glass), and due to long storage time (years) all should
flow into a "lumps" and certainly not retain original shapes which they
indeed happily do.
I am speaking about W&B tampered pitch.
Being impatient as I am, perhaps I did not wait long enough.
What is unique with pitch is its steep hardness versus temperature curve.
Bees wax is different in this respect and yet HCF flows (!). Please be
careful with words, lot of ATMs are listening.
>A bee's wax candle will retain its shape under the same condition.
It certainly will not, and besides the price of the bees wax this is why
usual candles are not made of bees wax but of stearine
(which also flows, by the way).
In fact "Panta rei" said Heraclitus (All flows).
Vladimir.
PS
Interstingly enough there is Yahoo group "Heraclitus-Panta rei"
They discuss Panta Rei, the philosophy of Heraclitus (536-470 bc),
who argued that everything is in constant motion, continually
changing and interacting. Much of the philosophies of the
sophists, in ancient Greece, can be traced back to Panta Rei.
I wander if Heraclitus was ATM.
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