📢 🤓 Ultra-niche book alert! 🤓 Not for everybody, but this is an absolutely *stunning* book: Stearns Morse's updated 2024 edition of Basalts and Phase Diagrams: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-97882-2 It is beautifully written (and often funny), comprehensive, wise and informative. This is the kind of thing you can only do using book format. If you work on igneous rocks, or in experimental petrology, read it! 🤩 🤩 🤩 #Geology #Igneous #IgneousPetrology #PhaseDiagrams #ExperimentalPetrology

Understanding phase diagrams for systems with complex forces, like the strong nuclear force, is a key puzzle in physics. These diagrams map how matter transitions between phases (e.g., plasma, liquid) under various temperatures and pressures. For the strong force, it includes phenomena such as quark-gluon plasma at high energies. Completing these phase diagrams would deepen our understanding of high-energy states, from neutron stars to early universe conditions. #PhaseDiagrams #StrongForce

Gave my #StrangeIce talk at the National Physical Lab yesterday afternoon. I was deeply satisfied by the gasp I got from the assembled scientists when I liquefied CO₂ to show that wet dry-ice-bergs sink. And another gasp when I released the pressure and the liquid vanished. #magic #phasediagrams