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MIT Physicists Create New Form of Matter
Ninwa writes "According to the MIT news office the folks in their labs have really outdone themselves this time, they've
created a new form of matter. The post states, 'They have become the first to create a new type of matter, a gas of atoms that shows high-temperature superfluidity.' It has been said that this could solve the mysteries in superconductivity."
Lots of weird shit happens when you approach absolute zero.
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
That's just the Vogons posting notice of the interstellar space highway to be built through here next millennium.
Foolish MIT scientists; they've mis-interpreted the posting. Superconductivity has been proven impossible by the science planet #$(*&^#@$^%.
"It may sound strange to call superfluidity at 50 nanokelvin high-temperature superfluidity, but what matters is the temperature normalized by the density of the particles," Ketterle said. "We have now achieved by far the highest temperature ever."
I was quite disappointed... I expected something new that I could actually use... oh well.
--Mike--
I'm pretty sure I can put it to much better use than MIT.
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See the picture at top right on the article and check out these nerds. Okay the first 3 or your every day run of the mill science nerds and then you get to the guy on the right, Andre Schirotzek. Isn't this guy a little attractive and built to be a scientist at MIT? No scientist that looks like that and creates a new form of matter can get away without becomming a superhero/villian through some bizarre mixup in an experiment.
a grain of salt?
"We need a fourth law of Robotics: Stop Fingering My Wife"
It may be new, but I'll bet the Supreme Court will let it be siezed under emminent domain.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
I mean, it's not shorts and t-shirts weather, but it's not too shabby for New England...
---GEC
I'm but the humble pupil, seeking to snatch the scratchbuilt pebble from the master's fully articulated hand
He should be promoted to Untracold Molecules for this breakthrough.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
|| If you start a superfluid rotating and it flows without friction, will it ever stop?
Yes, it will stop... taxes diminish it by roughly 8.5%, depending on locality.
My favorite: Degenerate matter, though I thought it was mostly found in hot-sheet motels.
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
In order to achieve 50 nanokelvin, you have to use "laser and evaporative cooling techniques". The article failed to explain how that worked, so here it goes...
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Darn, and I was hoping it would be someone standing next to a giant laser on a tripod, holding a bellows to cool a tray of liquid nitrogen icecubes
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that's matter
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It's hard to tell how many since it becomes harder to tell when one announcement is just a dupe of another.
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
By their definition, with $100 in my bank account, I am a millionaire.
News for Nerds. Stuff about matter.
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>>know.
Can you add me to that list as well please?
It would be nice though, if all problems in science were perfect spheres, homogeneous, hard, and always engaged in perfectly elastic collisions? Oh, and frictionless?
How about Fart? For Fermions At Reduced Temperature, of course.
3 things about computers: they're alive, they're self-aware, and they hate your guts.
Wouldn't have minded some 50 nano kelvin air here today, it got up to about 310K in MN this afternoon - even the mosquitoes thought it was too hot.
Superconducting supercritial superfluids? Bah! I want "hyper", I want "diemsional" and I want it made into a film with Sandra Bullock. Make it happen!
this is when you get a bunch of them in a small place and they start arguing about 'Rules of acqusition'...oh wait, I thought you said Ferangi.
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