> AHA! Now we get to the heart of the matter.

Yay! It tickles me enormously to see how precisely you grasped my most salient point. Either I wrote something right for a change... or the Quixotes might tend to think alike :-)


> > Are you kidding? "Solve the World" equations, situations, and parameters are absolutely FASCINATING. :-)
>
> No argument there. If I had more time for research, I could write a lengthy reserch paper (albeit a very boring one) on this system of water and ice melting in a beaker.
>

Gee, I never tackled Travholt's basic question on inside-out freezing, either....

Wolf "will fix that" spirit