图12. 冰水混合态和水的沸腾为摄氏温标提供了两个参考点
水影响了物理学的概念框架,反过来对水的理解又提出了对物理学的挑战。虽然人们凭借抽象思维建立起的物理学将人类的触角深入到核子的内部,但是对于水的独特性质,我们用于理解物质性质的那部分物理知识却是那么地苍白无力。
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结束语
就单一物质而言,再也没有比水对我们来说更重要、更有意义的了;而就复杂性与奇异性而言,恐怕水也是其它物质难以望其项背的。在所有的物质当中,可以说水是被研究的最多但却理解最少的。水给我们以无限的可能、无限的惊奇和无限的灵感,它也为我们提供了无限的难题。对水的理解每前进一步,我们对这个世界和我们自身的理解都会加深一层,这算是水和水科学最迷人的地方吧。
最后,来一句虚弱无力的呼吁:“支持水科学的研究吧,它关乎生命的根本!”
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注:本文初稿曾刊登于《物理》杂志2016年第11期,此文是作者的最新修订版。