Cited on HN 3 times, 2020–2026, never outright recommendedscore 0
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026
HN cites it as a concise rundown of why the Mpemba effect likely does not hold up.
Sciencium examines the Mpemba effect, the claim that hot water freezes faster than cold water. It walks through experiments and a published paper questioning the effect.
“walking through all the experiments that demonstrate the effect does not in fact exist.” (HN, 2022)
We all get the Mpemba effect is totally fake right? You all own freezers so you can test it for yourself, it was found by a child making icecream so it will be easy! And if you're the !first! to put it on Youtube that'd be cool. Sciencium talks about it here if you want an ok run down and how it's not real - [this video]
There was a video by Derek/Veritasium as few years ago explaining this and also walking through all the experiments that demonstrate the effect does not in fact exist. [this video]
Walks through experiments showing hot-freezes-faster effect doesn't exist
It's because you was wrong (or at least not correct). The Mpemba Effect wasn't scientifically proven, and can be explained away with error in measurement. [this video]
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