This Supersolid Flows FOREVER Without Friction

A supersolid isn’t what it may sound like. Essentially, its atoms are arranged in a rigid crystalline structure, like a regular solid – but they can also flow with zero viscosity, like a superfluid.

That sounds like a paradox, but scientists have thought it to be theoretically possible since the 1960s – and in 2017 it was finally experimentally confirmed.

Several teams of researchers have made supersolids using another state of matter called a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC).

These are made up of a low-density gas cloud of atoms cooled down to almost absolute zero, and at that point, they exhibit strange quantum quirks that aren’t normally seen on such a large scale. All the atoms in the BEC exist at every point within the cloud at the same time, in a phenomenon called delocalization.

In previous experiments, supersolids were only made one-dimensional, so that the atoms could only flow in one direction. Now, researchers have given them a whole new dimension to play in, like upgrading them from moving along a string to moving around a piece of paper.

This BEC was made of dysprosium atoms, and magnetic interactions between the atoms caused them to arrange themselves into droplets, which themselves lined up in a grid.

The team says that this breakthrough could allow physicists to study a whole new range of quantum weirdness that a one-dimensional supersolid cannot.

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This Supersolid Flows FOREVER Without Friction

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[bartman]

And now we have a new flavor of tooth paste. Thank you Physicists

[Chiofire]

This is really interesting. Im really curious what this could be used for in the future.

[jorriffhdhtrsegg]

Surely flowing and solidity are a contradiction, unless talking about bitumen/pitch and waiting for decades

[HolyG-sus]

I think it's better of u make shorts and then make a long video as a follow up for explanation

[captainsensiblejr.]

Really good job done one editing and illustrating this meme.

[worldaccumelites]

this will be used to help keep the portal open...

[supreme_intelligence]

yeah this used to proof how big bang works
working your way up
nice

[King_reretard]

I know yall think this is fake but its honestly real.... just look it up... its crazy

[thomastom]

Dark matter ? Could any of theses states
Be part of it in any way possible
Any thorys??

[toxicity]

You present your videos well, definitely subbed💪🏾

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[r.e.m]

In some dimensions, these types of solids are the medium in which reality is based.

[saswatsarangi]

Why are they not calling it super fluid

[TheRoyalBavarian]

This is what happens in your underwear when you drink fizzies

[Letsreadthebible]

So liquid metal huh? I got a great idea, make a terminator out of it....

[johngililland]

How do you make a 2D anything? It can't exist in a 3D world.