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Quantum mechanism identified as a key to accelerating ocean temperatures (sciencedaily.com)
3 points by VoidSetAndMatch 576 days ago
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This makes no sense. Photon and oscilatins in water molecules have a very small relxation time, probably less than 1ns. There are a lot of tother molecules bouncing. In a hot wet environment it's just impossible to keep the energy isolated in a weird quantum effect for 1 day (and definetively not years). Perhaps it's possible in a almost 0K environment, low pressure or solid.

This effect may change the heat capacity of water, but it should be already included in the experimental coeficients. I think it's impossible to calculate the heat capacity of water theoreticaly, it has too many parts, and the hidrogen bounds makes everything more difficult, beyond impossible.

I even don't undestand how this can accelerate the increase of ocean temperature. If there is a new way to hide some of the energy, it would increase the heat capacity and reduce the temperature instead.