High-precision isothermal measurements on strongly preannealed metallic glass reveal a decrease of the shear modulus to the metastable equilibrium value both in the glassy state far below the glass transition and in the supercooled liquid state near Tg. The results obtained point out the existence of a low-temperature limit for the supercooled liquid, which is known as the Kauzmann pseudocritical temperature [W. Kauzmann, Chem. Rev. 43, 219 (1948)]. This finding experimentally questions the existence of the “Kauzmann paradox,” which is widely discussed in the literature.

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