The Silent Memory of Glass

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[00:00:00]Tonight's mystery explores why glass behaves both like a solid and a liquid, aging slowly yet appearing unchanged.

[00:00:07]Materials scientist Dr. Amina Patel explains that atomic rearrangements continue at a glacial pace, preserving a memory of its formation.

[00:00:17]In interviews, researchers describe glass as a frozen river whose flow reshapes its face over eons.

[00:00:24]The episode poses questions. How do coatings and recycling reveal or erase this memory? And what does it mean for archaeology? Stay curious as we chase experiments and expert quotes and invite you to guess how many lifetimes a glass shard remembers.