water is one weird substance, exhibiting more than 80 unusual properties, by one count, including some that scientists still struggle to understand. For example, water can exist in all three states of matter (solid, liquid,gas) at the same time.

Who wrote this? What utter nonsense. Most substances will have a triple-point at the right temperature and pressure. See for example http://en.wikiped...e_points

Water's unique ability to switch between the structured and unstructured states is the basis for all life, according to Gerald Pollack -- an emerging leader in the field of cell biology. Water is special due to its *ELECTRICAL* properties -- namely, the strength of its dipole. This is why proteins exist: To turn the structure of water on and off, like a transistor, based upon a wide range of stimuli. See "Cells, Gels and the Engines of Life".

The transition from solid to liquid to gas is an alteration of the inherent order of water (from ordered to chaotic). Water's dipolar force can, in other words, be disrupted by random thermal forces. But, this is a conceptual explanation; the details are clearly more detailed and complicated.

Water is quickly becoming a controversial subject. This means that wikipedia is irrelevant to the discussion, as wikipedia only portrays one side of all controversies -- the conventional side.

So now you're trying to argue that the triple points of common chemicals are controversial? You know less about chemistry than you do physics, and you don't know much physics.

If you can't accurately perform the logic functions of an English sentence, you shouldn't be criticizing others, Barakn.

Semantics aside barakn's point is that a triple point is not unique to water, and neither is surface tension.

But, when they lowered the temperature to about 54 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, the liquid water started to conduct heat even better in the simulation.
Can liquid water exist at this temperature? I thought water froze at about 0C regardless of pressure.

About the triple point of water : i think the author meant water exhibits a triple point at reasonably attainable conditions in nature while for most of other substances one would require laboratory conditions.

My theory is this that the water on Neptune is just this type of water. And the thought to be big storm is in fact a PANGAEA state just like a supercontinent or rock that existed here on earth, during the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras about 250 million years ago, before the component continents were separated into their current configuration.

Todd J. Tocco