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Water above 273 K with a certain amount of pressure becomes kiki again.

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Where’s that area on this phase diagram?

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There:

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Some rain feels very kiki to me.

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True, but if you look at it close up, it’s bouba. Very small bouba moving fast does kinda turn into kiki at larger scales.

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We need a grand unified theory for describing the physics where matter goes from bouba- to kiki-scale.

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I’m so lost!

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Woah, that’s really cool!

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What’s even cooler is that the Wikipedia URL actually supports unencoded slashes

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It’s not just crystals. Even amorphous solids, like glass, can be extremely kiki.

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amorphous is a bouba word for kiki materials

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I like to do a quick bouba/kiki experiment with people when they ask me what having synesthesia is like

Demonstrates nicely the “I didn’t know why, I just know that it is” feeling

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