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pblack476 t1_iyeyn2o wrote
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pblack476 t1_ixuecji wrote
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Reply to comment by GORShura in British Royal Navy ship sinks smugglers' boat carrying £24m of cocaine in Caribbean by skeggy101
There was never any coke, it was a hoax.
pblack476 t1_j6wgwhr wrote
Reply to Suppose I have a container of water with a ball floating on top of it. I put it outside overnight and the water freezes. Since the water's volume increases as it freezes, the ball is raised. Where does the increased gravitational potential energy come from? by schematicboy
I honestly haven't seen an answer here that addresses the real question:
How can you remove energy from a system (lowering it's temperature) and yet end up with more potential energy on the ball?
I don't have the answer but I realize that while the entire system will have less energy overall, some of the energy will get rearranged by the freezing process and the ball will end up with a bigger percentage of the total energy in the system after freezing. I just don't know exactly how it happens.