4 is the worst possible answer there is.
You either accept a simple model (fitting the audience/context) or your being pedantic about it, then the answer is anything >=5, but definitely not 4.
Four states of matter are observable in everyday life: solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. Many other states are known such as Bose–Einstein condensates and neutron-degenerate matter but these only occur in extreme situations such as ultra cold or ultra dense matter.
Yup!
Like, water alone has like, five different phases IIRC.
Or was that helium?
you might by confusing “solid phases” for states of matter.
If we draw a phase diagram you’ll see shit like ice, ice 2: the cooler ice, ice 9: radical edition or whatever but they’re all solid phases. The they just have different structures.
Sort of like lamp black and graphite are both forms of carbon but not really because that’s got to do with distinct bonding. A better example, if you know your steels, is martensite vs autensite.
Yeah, that could be.
Still, what about glass or thermoplasts, that have a fluid transition between solid and liquid?
I disagree. In physics, you choose the simplest model that works for a particular purpose. If it is enough to assume that there are three phases, then that’s the simplest model that works, and therefore the “correct” one to use. A model that has four phases is, then, bloated.
You’re probably the kind of person who complains that they don’t teach complex numbers when first introducing square roots in school.
Not really no. It’s a meme. Although, now that you mention it …
To learn to count to 10, we first have to understand quaternions.
The fundamentals of math takes like 700 pages before it gets to 1+1=2
Depends into how much detail you go.
My prof. at uni. did a nice summary in two and a half pages.
Yeah, time to stop coddling those kindergarteners!
We already have Calculus and Stochastics, so please no.
pretty sure theres more than 4.
I wouldn’t even try to defend OP, but I once heard someone say that if you have more than four apples, then it is also definitely true that you have four apples.
What if there’s a worm in one of them?
Like, you think you habe more than four apples.
Then you find out that most of them have worms.
In the end, you are left with two apples.
So now, it is not true that you have four apples.
It’s technically correct, like saying at least 4 people died from covid.
More specifically: “4 people died from covid” is also true
