Some glass is telephoto…
Plexiglass would be the black sheep of the family.
I imagine the OP is glassy-eyed by all these responses. At least that glassy stuff is alive. Probably, once the hangover wears off in a few more hours.
Whatever form the glass-critters take they’d be lousy liars; too transparent.
The first clue would be cute Swarovski crystal figurines getting up and moving. Which might be adorable, or terrifying, or both.
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Look at your hand.
It’s made of …molecules !
Soooo… What if, like, the color that I call, like, green, isn’t, like… the color that, like, you see that, you know, like, you call… green? … Aaannnnd, so, okay, so, like, if glass was, like, green, and also, like, alive, would it, like, see green, or just, you know, like, be green?
In all seriousness… You know tardigrades and how they’re nearly indestructible?
The reason is that they can turn themselves into glass. Or something.
What this question reminded me of was a factoid (incorrectly remembered) that medieval window panes are thicker at the bottom than at the top. The conclusion was therefore that, over the centuries, the panes of glass were oozing toward the bottom, under the force of gravity.
I found a Scientific American article which addresses this (as it turns out) mistaken causal attribution to gravity. I won’t try to explain the business about crystal structures and supercooled liquids – someone will get into me for b*ggering up the physics of it. So I am outing myself as a scientific illiterate and will just say what I thought was the case, isn’t the case. The article explains the true state of affairs.
Even if glass were constantly moving, at a speed too slow for human perception, that would be a stretch to call it alive. A stone step can be worn down over centuries by people walking on it. Salts can transpire through slabs of stone or masonry, and form salt crystals on the surface of those things. But that doesn’t make them alive.
Is this a category problem? Things that are unarguably alive (like bones in a living creature) are subject to gradual and continuous change. But just because something is subject to change doesnt make it alive.
I recently learned of a thread about that!
“They call 'em fingers but I never seem them fing.”