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Ever heard of the Deborah Number ? The name comes frome the bible :

"The mountains flowed before the Lord" in a song by prophetess Deborah recorded in the Bible (Judges 5:5)

It's actually used in rheology to describe if a materials acts more like a liquid or a solid. Even mountains acts like liquid at a big enough time scale :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_number



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