Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24993958-20151118083252/@comment-24891101-20151210042727

Phantom: It'll cause problems, but it's really hard to say what, because there's not situation where anything remotely similar can be studied. No one can say with any significant degree of accuracy what would happen; the best we have is guesses. As to the freezing thing, phase transitions are a thermodynamic, energetic thing, and simply preventing molecular motion is not going to do it, provided that momentum is refunded after. And anyway, for this example, trivially, you have a fluid which in order to change volume needs to reorganize into a lattice, which can't happen if nothing can move.