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Can you melt eggs? Quora’s AI says “yes,” and Google is sharing the result (arstechnica.com)
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[–] snaggen@programming.dev 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Well, I agree. But what I mean is that when people ask physics questions, it is often implicitly understood to mean under current conditions. You rarely hear normal people or kids (who I find asks most of the physics question) include anything about frictionless vacuums in the question. (For reference: https://xkcd.com/669/ ). So, for the egg question, regular people would most likely consider the answer to be "No, except under very special circumstances". But, I agree with you that if a simple Yes/No answer is expected, it have to be Yes.

[–] Zeoic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Wouldn't that be true for everything then? 3,400C is pretty special circumstances in my book, yet we say tungsten melts.

[–] snaggen@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Yes, you have a point. However adding heat is often implicit when talking about melting stuff. However, if it requires 3400C, then the answer would probably include a comment about that.

[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

I don't think adding heat is a special circumstance like adding pressure is. It's very easy to add heat to something. Adding pressure means building a sealed environment to enclose it's, and some specialized equipment to increase the pressure.

Adding heat requires that you burn something. That's it.