Have you heard the story about the crystallization of glycerin?

For 150 years after the discovery of glycerin, people cooled it, warmed it, and did all sorts of things to it... But whatever they did, it never crystallized.

However, one day in 1920...

Some glycerin that was en route to England by ship was discovered to have crystallized during the trip. Naturally, scientists worldwide wanted to research this new, crystallized form of glycerin, and began asking for samples of the seed. A seed is, of course, a sample of the original crystallized substance. With a seed crystal, further crystallization of glycerin would be a simple matter. However...

Something very strange happened.

Not only did the glycerin encouraged by seed crystals begin to crystallize, nearby samples did as well.

It didn't end there.

After that day, all glycerin in the world began to crystallize naturally when cooled to less than 64 degrees. Before that day, no matter how glycerin was cooled, it refused to crystallize. But once the crystallization had begun...

It was almost like... How do I put it...

It was almost like all the glycerin in the world was communicating.

Communicating in some way that we can't sense...

- Akane Kurashiki