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Cat, Is It Really a Liquid?
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  • rheology
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Are cats solid or liquid?

This is an unsolved mystery that has plagued mankind for centuries.

When you put cats in any container, they will fit perfectly. There can be a box of cats, a bowl of cats, or even a cup of cats. Fardin, a French scholar, once proved that cats are mysterious substances with solid-liquid duality through the Deborah number in rheology, and won the 2017 Ig Nobel Prize in Physics. [1]

References
  1. “On the Rheology of Cats,” Marc-Antoine Fardin, Rheology Bulletin, vol. 83, 2, July 2014, pp. 16–17 and 30.
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