On Sep 23, 2008, at 6:12 AM, Esa Ruoho wrote:
if you have two identical jars, one with water at 40c and one with water at 200c, if you place them in a fridge at a lower temperature than either, the one with the greater amount of temperature actually meets the fridge temperature quicker than the one closer to the fridge temperature.
This effect is not new. It was observed by Aristotle, Bacon, and Descartes. It is now called by some "The Mpemba Effect". This was discussed here in 2001. Here's my take on it:
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/Mpemba.pdf I assume the "200c" temperature above is a typo. Best regards, Horace Heffner http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
