Posted on 01/03/2008 10:17:54 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Beamish and Day are the only researchers in Canada conducting experimental research in this area of fundamental physics.
At very low temperatures, helium gas turns into a liquid. Put under extreme pressure the liquid turns into a solid. Physicists have been manipulating solid helium so they can study its unusual behaviour.
In 2004, a research team at Penn State university in the United States, led by Dr. Moses Chan, electrified the physics world when it announced that it may have discovered an entirely new state of matter - supersolidity. The team made the discovery by cooling solid helium to an extremely low temperature and oscillating the material at different speeds. They found that the particles behaved in a way not seen before, which suggested it might show the "perpetual flow" seen in superfluids like liquid helium.
Day and Dr. Beamish have taken this research a different direction. In an experiment not done before, they cooled the solid helium and manipulated the material another way - by shearing it elastically. In doing so, they found that the solid behaved in an entirely new and unexpected way - it became much stiffer at the lowest temperatures.
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The team made the discovery by cooling solid helium to an extremely low temperature and oscillating the material at different speeds. They found that the particles behaved in a way not seen before, which suggested it might show the "perpetual flow" seen in superfluids like liquid helium.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=matter
Probable Discovery of a New, Supersolid, Phase of Matter
Penn State Univ | 14 jan 2004 | pressrelease
Posted on 01/14/2004 3:29:21 PM EST by AdmSmith
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1057945/posts
Oh, not THIS guy...
thanks for the ping, bmflr
Well, that *is* where the future is being made today...
This guy needed the supersolidity breakthrough a bit earlier (one of the funniest youtubes evah!):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9DoJAnB9Nk
:’)
“No, Beaker. No!”
Is this a microrealm example of the force causing the macrorealm to accelerate expansion?
Is this a microrealm example of the force causing the macrorealm to accelerate expansion?
Hmm, affecting my laptop too!
ping
ping
ping
Danged slow computer.
I called Heisenberg, but he wasn’t certain.
He and his friend Schroedinger are not cat lovers. Can’t trust them. Call deBroglie or Everett
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