MIT Physicists Create New Form of Matter

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MIT Physicists Create New Form of Matter

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday June 23, 2005 @10:51AM from the fluid-gases dept.

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."

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Short synopsis for the lazy by winkydink · 2005-06-23 10:54 · Score: 4, Funny

Lots of weird shit happens when you approach absolute zero.

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1. Re:Short synopsis for the lazy by Associate · 2005-06-23 16:39 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Shame on me for responding to a troll, but in science, glasses are only empty when they're in a vacuum.
  
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Vogon message by MMHere · 2005-06-23 10:55 · Score: 3, Funny

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 #$(*&^#@$^%.
Check out the guy on the right by DongleFondle · 2005-06-23 11:00 · Score: 5, Funny

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.
1. Re:Check out the guy on the right by Humorously_Inept · 2005-06-23 11:04 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  He's the HVAC tech that got them to 50nK. Brrr.
  
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50 NanoKelvin = Very High-Temperature! by MS-06FZ · 2005-06-23 11:05 · Score: 3, Funny

I mean, it's not shorts and t-shirts weather, but it's not too shabby for New England...

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Give him a promotion by Nom+du+Keyboard · 2005-06-23 11:07 · Score: 4, Funny

Dan Kleppner, director of the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms
He should be promoted to Untracold Molecules for this breakthrough.

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Stuff by servognome · 2005-06-23 11:20 · Score: 4, Funny

that's matter

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Slashdot: by Klowner · 2005-06-23 11:44 · Score: 5, Funny

News for Nerds. Stuff about matter.
Re:Does it have a name? by pallmall1 · 2005-06-23 13:43 · Score: 3, Funny

How about Fart? For Fermions At Reduced Temperature, of course.

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Re:In Solviet Russia by rossdee · 2005-06-23 14:54 · Score: 3, Funny

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.
Super by AuntMatilda · 2005-06-23 19:34 · Score: 3, Funny

Superconducting supercritial superfluids? Bah! I want "hyper", I want "diemsional" and I want it made into a film with Sandra Bullock. Make it happen!