Another New State of Matter

llamalicious writes: "And you thought a Nobel Prize for the discovery of Bose-Einstein Condensates was nifty, SciAm's reporting that scientists are taking this new discovery one step further, and have once more proven that we don't really know anything about quantum physics. This new state is being called a patterned fluid, which could supposedly move the field of quantum computing ahead."

Comments

Re:That really cool

[jnana]

The author of that quote is uncertain, but there's a 99.999% chance that it was Richard Feynman--in this universe, at least.

Re:State of Matter?

[lines]

If you plot temperature (degrees C, for example) vs heat added (Joules, calories, etc), you'll see that during phase changes, the temperature stays constant until all of the matter has changed to the new phase. For example, during the change from solid to liquid, all the heat goes to the phase change (the heat of fusion) and not to changes in temperature. I Am Not A Chemist/Physicist, but to me this constitutes a good starting point to the definition of phase changes and states of matter.

hobbes