Water — the most mysterious and the most important to sustain life on the planet stuff. It has no smell, no color, however, the existence of any life in the form in which we know it without water simply be reduced to zero. One of the unique characteristics of water is its ability to preserve the underwater life thanks to the interesting anomaly in which the ice covers a mass of water, not allowing it to fully freeze. According to ordinary physical laws, everything should be done exactly the opposite and substance, who is a long time in solid form, should be at the bottom, not on the surface. So why is water violates basic laws of physics?
Perhaps life on the planet appeared due to natural anomalies
Why does ice not sink?
It is believed that the unique ability of the ice to go under water due to the appearance of a special crystal lattice, which is often enriched with tiny air bubbles. Ice, gradually spreading from the shores of the reservoir to its center, protects all the inhabitants from the severe cold, keeping a positive temperature under the icy dome.
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Theoretically, even the largest body of water, can freeze until the day subject to certain natural and temperature conditions. In ordinary time, even a small pond with a maximum depth of about three meters is not able to freeze to the bottom because if the water reaches the critical point at +4 degrees Celsius, the pond/lake/river and other similar bodies of water intensive process of moving layers of different temperature. The coldest water layers are gradually lifted up, while a warm start to fall down. With a decrease in the average temperature on the surface of the reservoir and gradually forms ice, which stops the movement of layers of water of different temperatures and gives the ice globe from freezing completely.
Can living organisms survive in the ice?
Despite the fact that for the human body a long stay in conditions of low temperatures is fraught with death, some amphibians are not afraid of even very long frosts. So, frogs and newts have the unique ability to versati directly into ice without any consequences for your health. Conventional edible frogs in the cold season fall into hibernation and yourself will be used only with the first rays of the warm sun. This natural superpower amphibians received as a result of a long evolution that gave their body a natural antifreeze. The presence of antifreeze in the frog’s body helps to prevent the formation of tiny ice crystals, which are the main cause of death of living cells.
Some frogs can hibernate directly in the ice
Can freeze the ocean?
As mentioned above, in compliance with current climatic conditions, even the most shallow pond is not completely frozen. However, let’s try to imagine that as a result of a natural disaster on Earth froze to the bottom of all the oceans. Could it happen in reality?
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It is known that the freezing temperature of salt water depends on its level of salinity. So, with an average content of sea salt in water, normal temperature at which the ocean begins to be covered with a thin crust of ice, approximately be -2…-4 degrees Celsius. Despite the fact that our planet throughout the ages have experienced many large and small glacial periods, the oceans of our planet has never frozen to the bottom. Warm ocean currents even in the coldest years of the Earth helped to maintain the sea water in a liquid state. In other words, the possibility that one day the oceans will completely freeze up, reduced to absolute zero.
By the way, did you know that Pluto has its subglacial ocean of liquid water? If we are such a distant object could keep its water resources in the liquid state, then the planet in this regard have nothing to worry about. In any case, let’s try to dream in our Telegram chat that could happen with humanity if the oceans of our planet somehow still completely frozen.