A change of state for physical matter marks a transitional behavior point as it absorbs or loses energy over time. Going from one state to another involves a sudden, discontinuous gain or release of energy. The process is entirely reversible.
Changes of state resemble moods.
Energy cycles into Halibut Point with sunlight, weather, and seasonal rhythms, all in response to solar relationships that especially affect the state of water in its variations as solid, liquid, and vapor.
In geologic time the mineral elements of Halibut Point, currently frozen into granite, have and will again liquidify when exposed to temperature extremes near the earth's core, and even sublimate directly into gases.
Icicles make theater of water's performance through the script of energy.
In the most remarkable change of state of all, organic life harnesses energy to convert primal substances into the tissues that define itself. The plant flourishes in its season of growth and retreats to its vital core in a change of state to survive hibernation.
Because of water's unusual property of expanding when it changes state in freezing, it is less dense as a solid than as a liquid. Ice floats on water.
Sometimes the elements compose into forms that produce a change of state in the observer, and a sense of beauty comes of their unity.
Beautiful. You always open up new ways of seeing and understanding. I am grateful.
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