Class is in!

The Sisters fixate on the darndest things.  Last week it was killer underground volcanoes and this week it’s glass.  And water.  It fascinates the Sisters no end that glass is liquid.  Except it’s not.  No one looking at or touching glass thinks it’s liquid.  It’s hard and does not fall into a puddle in the window frame.  However, after centuries, the glass at the bottom of the window is fatter than the glass at the top of the window.  Ed insists this is correct having worked on 200+-year-old homes.

The Sisters:  Did you measure it or eye-ball it?

Ed: I’m not having this discussion with the two of you.  The last time we discussed scientific facts I was afraid to go to sleep that night thinking you’d found a way to obtain activated plutonium.  (Dear FBI – we have not.)

The Sisters:  Fine.  We have questions about water but we’re not going to ask you, Ed!  We’re going to ask Amy’s husband.  (That’ll teach him . . . )

It turns out that Amy’s husband doesn’t take our calls anymore.  We got this text: Just talked to Ed.  No opinion on water or liquid glass for that matter.

Here’s what we really want to know:  Forgetting evaporation – If you put water in a glass and wait 500 years are you left with a pool of water?  Or a really short squaty glass with water in it?  We need to know.