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This might be a better link: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/physics-new-experiment-hot-water-freeze-faster-cold-mpemba-effect https://www.sciencenews.org/article/physics-new-experiment-h... Punchline seems to be that “hot” but out-of-equilibrium material cannot be summarized by a “temperature”, providing many paths towards freezing (on the landscape of microstates), some of which could (efficiently) circumvent the “low temp” state.