We Know Simple Fluids Can Flow. Turns Out, Some Can Fracture

nycdweller349

Someone tell me the industries that are going to benefit the most from this in the short and long term and what I can expect to see in the next 30 years as a result of this discovery.

dd8601fn

This looks like silly putty behavior.

nelox

Turns out glass has been known to be a fluid and to fracture for quite some time. [edit: but glass is not a simple fluid.]

jzer0cool

This seems more of inertia, Newton's first law. "An object at rest stays at rest,...". What comes to mind say there is some threshold acceleration (e.g. or at extreme, accelerate to c within some short time, t), then essentially you have a body at rest and breaks at the weakest point. Interesting would be seeing this effect with varying viscosity.

immmmmm

> a project in collaboration with the oil and gas company Exxon Mobil I find it a bit dark that, at a time people, crops, forests and biomes are dying due to extreme heat caused by the fossil fuel industry’s reckless behaviour the last 50 years, the said fossil fuel industry funds research on exotic rheology.

brador

Should be called semi-rigid fluids. They have a structure, it’s just weak and breaks at weak points as you would expect.