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It would help if people read the fecking thread....
Umm, User? Perhaps you could take your own advice: from the SA article you linked to:
Like liquids, these disorganized solids can flow, albeit very slowly. Over long periods of time, the molecules making up the glass shift themselves to settle into a more stable, crystallike formation, explains Ediger. The closer the glass is to its glass-transition temperature, the more it shifts; the further away from that changeover point, the slower its molecules move and the more solid it seems.
Which is correct. The viscosity (a measure of how easily it flows) of glass decreases exponentially with temperature. Which means it flows visibly at about 800 C but very, very slowly at room temperature. Its viscosity at room temperature is something like 16 orders of magnitude greater than water, so in practice you're not going to observe it even over timescales of hundreds of years. But it does still flow.
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