Average rating: | Rated 2 of 5. |
Level of importance: | Rated 1 of 5. |
Level of validity: | Rated 1 of 5. |
Level of completeness: | Rated 1 of 5. |
Level of comprehensibility: | Rated 4 of 5. |
Competing interests: | None |
This article titled "Mpemba Effect- the Effect of Time" attempts to explain the Mpemba effect - i.e., why a hot liquid freezes sooner than a cold liquid. The problem chosen for study is important since liquids continue to be an enigmatic phase among the condensed phases.
However, the article lacks scientific rigour. The introduction is very descriptive, with a style suitable for a popular article. So are the constant jumps between astrophysics, relativity and condensed matter physics. The available scientific literture on the subject has not been established. The reason for attributing the observation of Mpemba effect in glass beads and water to the very definition of time is an overstretch. An Occam's razor approach would suggest that the phenomenon may be explained through weak intermolecular interactions which are know to cause many an anamolous effect in condensed phases.
Moreover, the derivation in this paper has three flawed assumptions - (a) gravity has a role to play in Mpemba effect and (b) energy density of electomagnetic fields depends only on the electrical component and (c) relativisitic effects are important for formation of condensed phases.
Also, equating ether with energy is unfounded.