What is happening to the tiny particles when something changes from a solid to a liquid?
Particle Dance Party
What is happening to the tiny particles when something changes from a solid to a liquid?
Picture an ice cube melting in your warm hand. It looks calm — just water pooling in your palm. But zoom in close, way past what your eyes can see, and there's a tiny party happening that no one invited you to. Let's crash it.
Everything around you is built from particles — unimaginably tiny pieces, far too small to see. In a solid, these particles are packed together like a crowd standing shoulder to shoulder, each one locked into its own spot.
