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Volume 15: Number 3: Article 5
Unexplained Temporal Coincidence of Crystallization
T. B. Costain & David Davies, 135 Aspen, Dollard Des Ormeaux, Quebec,
Canada, H9A 2N9
In a simple class cooling curve experiment in 1950, 15 spatially separated
containers of supercooled sodium sulfate solution were observed to spontaneously
crystallize in three sets of unexplained temporal coincidences. The
students had been instructed to induce crystallizations 10 minutes before
they had to depart, if spontaneous crystallizations had not occurred
by this time. No student actually induced a crystallization. Fortuitously,
the students had prior commitments to depart at three differnent times.
There was a one-to-one correspondence between the pre-arranged student
departure times and the times of the spontaneous crystallizations.
Keywords: nonlocal crystallizations, coincidences, supercooled sodium
sulfate solution, future interconnections, metastability
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