With fast heating, sheets of gold can shoot past the theoretical maximum temperature a solid can have before it melts – ...

This is the so-called entropy catastrophe. This critical temperature, where a superheated solid and a liquid have the same entropy, is around three times the melting temperature. Gold has a melting ...

So forget about being a good loser. Work on the comeback: That’s my advice. Doomed as we may be to entropy, we humans also ...