英国每日电邮报道,自亚里士多德时代起,热水为什么比冷水结冰更快这个现象一直让世界上最聪明的科学家们困惑不已。一组物理学家小组声称已经解开了这一世纪难题。这个现象名为姆潘巴现象,它是指水与大多数其他液体不相同,它从热的状态变成固体要比从室温状态下变成固体的时间更短。科学家就此现象的发生提出了十几种理论,但没有一种能够合理地解释这种奇怪的物理特性。 The Daily Mail in the UK reports that the phenomenon of hot water freezing faster than cold water has been perplexed by the brightest scientists in the world since the Aristotelian era. A team of physicists claim that they have solved this century’s problem. This phenomenon, called the Mumba phenomenon, refers to the fact that water, unlike most other liquids, changes from a hot state to a solid state more rapidly than a solid state from room temperature. A dozen theories have been proposed by scientists for the occurrence of this phenomenon, but none of them can reasonably explain this weird physical feature.