If the Chinese get the next secret superweapon, we are toast.
Um, this kind of interaction has been well known for quite a while. It is called superfluidity. Also had been previously observed in other substances cooled to near absolute zero. But academia is leftist, so they represent something we have known for decades as a “breakthrough” by communist China. Sigh.
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serve'em on your next pizza.
Didn’t Washington warn us about this:
Avoid foreign entanglements!
Don’t worry. The Red Chinese will enslave these new particles just like they have done to their own people.
"What neutron scattering revealedPhysicists from the University of Tennessee succeeded in replicating the original ytterbium crystal, and Mourigal examined it at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), where it was cooled down to a temperature of -273.09 degrees Celsius (0.06 degrees Kelvin).
The cooling slowed the natural motion of the atoms to a near stop, which allowed the researchers to observe the electron spins' dance around the Ytterbium (Yb) atoms in the YbMgGaO4 crystal. They used a powerful superconducting magnet to line the spins up in an orderly fashion to create a starting point for their observations.
"Then we removed the magnetic field, and let them go back to their special kind of wiggling," Mourigal said. His team carried out the observations at the ORNL Spallation Neutron Source, a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility. SNS has about the power and size of a particle supercollider, and allowed the scientists to watch the concert of electrons' spins by bombarding them with neutrons.
Normally, when one electron flips its spin, researchers would expect it to create a neat chain reaction, resulting in a wave going through the crystal. The wave of electron spins flipping in sequence might look something like fans at a football game standing and sitting back down to make a wave go around the stadium.
But something odd happened. "This jumbly kind of spin wave broke down into many other waves, because everything is collective, everything is entangled," Mourigal said. "It was a continuum of excitations, but breaking down across many electrons at once.
It was qualitatively similar to what was observed using the same technique on herbertsmithite."
My head is spinning and my neurons are entangled.
they say they see these things it but never produce any pictures... i'd love to see themAaaahhhhhhh.....
“Spin Liquid”
Whiskey.
“The room is spinning!”
“Don’t worry! It’s physics!”
Sounds like a Bose-Einstien condensate, which have been around for a while. With this spin liquid mention I thought of liquid helium three which forms wierd wirlpools as you get close to absolute zero.