Reattaching broken glasses without reheating involves understanding atomic behavior and molecular bonding. When glass breaks, the atoms rearrange rather than break apart, creating challenges in realigning them due to air gaps and imperfect alignment. Reheating glass creates new molecular bonds rather than restoring original connections, complicating the reattachment process. The concept of instructing atoms to reattach is impractical, as atomic behavior is governed by natural laws rather than conscious direction.
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Not true. They break pretty easily in acceleratorsBlue Scallop said:atoms don't break
One problem is the layer of air that you have in the gap. The atoms/molecules don't quite match up. Another is that you are not going to get perfect alignment when you try to put two pieces back together. When you reheat and melt the pieces back together, you are NOT reattaching the original connections, you are making the molecular bonds plastic and getting a whole new set of connections when the glass goes back to a solid state... so when glasses break.. the atoms are only rearrange.. so how do you attach broken glasses without reheating them (which I guess makes the atoms bond).. can't you just instruct the atoms in the edge of the broken glasses to reattach? What would it take to do that?
Blue Scallop said:can't you just instruct the atoms