Confirming the link between disorder and metastability in granular physics
Thursday, May 19, 2016 - 06:51
in Physics & Chemistry
There is an important difference between knowing something and being able to prove something. Even in science, there are ideas that everyone shares, but which no one can prove. The link between disorder and metastability in a granular material was one of such ideas, until three researchers devised an experiment to measure the relationship between the two phenomena.