with regards to the prior question, i.e. how does water travel through glass?

i'm conducting an experiment, at the moment,
i'm not as lazy to state it's a "thought" experiment,
to do receive some whacky darwinistic behavioural "clues",
or, as such, a basis for ontology per se...
          i just filled a ceramic cup with water, and ice cubes...
i'm testing: glass vs. cermaics...
           and whether or not, a ceramic cup will
   allow a water-ring to form, while the ice-cubes melt...
                           it's a simple study...
                  i'm wondering how water can pass through glass...
and whether it can, also, pass via ceramics...
                             i call this a "thought" experiment...
because, if i find that ceramic material blocks a water circle,
and glass doesn't (half an hour, off the supermarket
for a few beers) -
                                 glass = crushed sand, didn't you know?
well... halt all the need for space exploration...
       something needs explaining... really...
  if i find there's not water-mark from the ice-cube melting
in water in a ceramic cup... and there's a water-ring with
ice-cubes melting in a glass-cup?  you're bound to make
a ****** expression, that suggests only one word: huh?