Timeline for Examples of when the professional scientists or mathematicians were wrong, but the nonprofessionals were right
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| Jul 12, 2020 at 14:55 | comment | added | ZeroTheHero | @RodrigodeAzevedo. you get less ice due to evaporation but the effect is real, i.e. the hot water does freeze faster. | |
| Jul 12, 2020 at 11:10 | comment | added | Rodrigo de Azevedo | Wasn't the Mpemba effect debunked? Wasn't evaporation the key? | |
| S Jan 25, 2019 at 13:38 | history | suggested | CommunityBot | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added some context which helps make the last part of this quote clear
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| Jan 21, 2019 at 2:45 | history | edited | ZeroTheHero | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added 591 characters in body
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| Jan 21, 2019 at 2:43 | comment | added | ZeroTheHero | @pipe I basically quote from the article but the wiki page is also good: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpemba_effect | |
| Jan 21, 2019 at 2:39 | comment | added | pipe | Do you have another source for this, because the article you link to does not agree with your statement you make. Apparently this was a well known but unexplained observation that a lot of very famous physicists had observed. | |
| Jan 21, 2019 at 0:09 | history | answered | ZeroTheHero | CC BY-SA 4.0 |