Why does water with no gravity acting upon it form a sphere?

[rcgldr]

surface tension

So what happens to a blob of water hovering in the space station if someone inserts a drop of liquid soap into that blob of water (soap normally reduces surface tension of water)?

glass - liquid - solid

Glass undergoes a smooth transition between solid and liquid (amorphous solid), I don't know if pressure can change this behavior. On the other extreme, at atmospheric pressure, carbon dioxide transitions from solid to vapor (sublimation).

 

[jmatejka]

The simple answer is: Sphere is the lowest energy state.

 

[Count Iblis]

Would the hallmarks of a phase transition be kinetically observable for something like pitch, though? For example, could you cool or heat it, observe a phase transition, and thus settle the matter of its classification at 25°C?

If it is solid at some temperature T and there would in principle be an observable difference between the solid at temperature T and a hypothetical supercooled liquid at temperature T, then you could detect the difference without actually creating that supercooled liquid. This is because the properties of the supercooled liquid at T are analytical continuations of the properties in the liquid phase above the melting temperature and these will then differ from the measured properties of the solid around temperature T.

 

[hileri cruze]

hi dear

your question is very simple

Each molecule pulls on each molecule of the next instant, that is pretty close and then stop firing. But it can also describe a solid. Attract the iron atoms surrounding the atom, but not a rod of iron, with a ball. The properties of internal tension is not sufficient to explain the reason for the formation of a liquid in a bottle and a sound not.The loses potential energy and converts it into heat. The area is the minimum of potential energy of molecules.

http://www.alternativeenergyresearch.net/homemade-wind-turbine/

 

[Phrak]

hi dear

your question is very simple

Each molecule pulls on each molecule of the next instant, that is pretty close and then stop firing. But it can also describe a solid. Attract the iron atoms surrounding the atom, but not a rod of iron, with a ball. The properties of internal tension is not sufficient to explain the reason for the formation of a liquid in a bottle and a sound not.The loses potential energy and converts it into heat. The area is the minimum of potential energy of molecules.

http://www.alternativeenergyresearch.net/homemade-wind-turbine/

Yeah, but the global context, to which we suffer within this forum, is physics.