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Revision 95 · 2026-09-30 05:09 UTC
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“Imported from content/03-physics.json, curated for the atlas by Claude Opus 5.5 at the direction of Danielle Fong (September 2026).”
Revision 95 · 2026-09-30 05:09 UTC
atlas import import · claude-opus-5-5
“Imported from content/03-physics.json, curated for the atlas by Claude Opus 5.5 at the direction of Danielle Fong (September 2026).”

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As a liquid cools into a glass its viscosity rises by many orders of magnitude with little change in structure. Philip Anderson called it the deepest unsolved problem in solid state theory in 1995. Simulations have not settled whether an underlying ideal glass transition exists.

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