https://phys.org/news/2019-07-scientists-quantum-mechanics.html This is related to the quantum Zeno Effect, and so much cutting edge physics its not funny. Along with another scientist inventing the thermal diode, or Maxwell's Demon, we now have Frozen Heat that doesn't spread around and dissipate. Electromagnetism has proven to be proportional to temperature, and it is obvious they are about to rewrite the laws of physics entirely around thermodynamics. They are talking about dimension squeezing, with an example today being graphene, which is pseudo two dimensional. Graphene is now finding acceptance as a substitute for thermal compounds used on processor coolers, but this research is taking that idea to the next level with what is called "metamaterials". While we normally think of quantum mechanics as only applying to the ubber tiny realm of quanta, a micron sized polystyrene bead was suspended above a heat bath by optical tweezers and used to demonstrate how time can appear to flow backwards on macroscopic scales. Both sound and heat as we know them are not well understood, but have their quantized equivalents. Heat can be said to express particle-wave duality in that it manifests as both kinetic energy and radiant energy.
There's too many big words in all that for me to follow so I'm going to share an experiment that we did in science class and umm I still use it today and when I even tell folks they don't believe me, but it's real. So, heat and cold. I chose the simplest science experiment for like year 10. What freeze first, cold water or boiling water. I decided to go with boiling water, thinking there'd be some sort of catch to the question. My reasoning was I thought the boiling water would freeze first as the steam coming off the water would form a layer and freeze, trapping the water and making it cold. Lol. Iong story short, I fill a ice tray with cold refrigerated water and one with boiling water. Hours later they were both frozen. I had to check on them and it seemed that though the water was boiling, it just cooled down to the same rate as the cold water before the cold water could actually freeze. So they freeze at the same rate. I of course published my research into a nice portfolio and got an for filling ice cube trays.
Hot water freezes faster and there are at least seven different type of ice that can be created, including ice that doesn't melt at room temperature. Without pressure, both water and ice are meaningless. Matter and energy can be thought of as transforming into one another as kinetic energy and radiant energy, particles and waves, and the fact that water usually freezes at a certain temperature and pressure expresses the symmetry or balance between its kinetic and radiant energy. The mass of the water itself can be thought of as frozen heat and energy, however, we can more accurately measure the flow of energy and not how frozen it might be. In other words, even ice can be thought of as energy moving in slow motion as if a song has a long drawn out bridge or something. However, that is only observable locally, with the overall motion of everything in the universe ultimately dictating how fast anything can move and how hot it gets. There are both lower and upper limits which quantum mechanics describe from the lower limit of around 10^-33 to roughly 80% of the speed of light.
