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"A question Professer Hawking was asked..."

Just thought it would be interesting to see possible answers. I'll post the correct one fairly soon.

"You have just made a kettle of boiling water to make a cup of tea. You want the tea to cool down to drinking temerature as quick as possible. Do you put the milk in before or after the tea?

The most important thing is reasoning.

Yus, Stephen got it right away.


Hint:

It is not to do with with convection currents.


The correct answer, beautifully phrased:


Emitime wrote:
> Tea first.
>
> If you put the milk in (which I presume would be cold?), then that
> starts to warm up due to the air temperature, which means it won't
> cool the tea down as much.
>
> Where as if you put the tea in first, that'd already have started
> cooling down from the air temperature, and the milk will still be at
> it's coldest temperature as you put it in.
>
> This all of course depends on the temperature surrounding the cup.

J-42 wrote:
> Seriously though, who has there tea at boiling temperature? 100
> Degrees is too hot, baby.

Drinking temperature is about 70 degress though.

These posts are giving me jism spasms.

Yeah, everyone knows you jism in it after.

pauliewalnuts wrote:
> People who put the milk in first are freaks

Nope...people who jism in it first are freaks

People who put the milk in first are freaks

RastaBillySkank wrote:
> I'd say milk after water because THAT'S HOW YOU MAKE TEA.

Some people don't have milk.

If i had an accurate temperature probe i would actually measure the difference between both methods just to be a pedantic bas, the difference between the two is bound to be negligable.

RastaBillySkank wrote:
> I'd say milk after water because THAT'S HOW YOU MAKE TEA.

Well said, freakin scientists...

I'd say milk after water because THAT'S HOW YOU MAKE TEA.

Hedfix wrote:
> She says that to all of us. :D

Lol, classic. :D