Posted on 03/06/2025 2:34:45 PM PST by Libloather
In a remarkable development, researchers have successfully turned light into a supersolid for the first time, paving the way for new insights into the unusual quantum states of matter.
This achievement marks a significant milestone in the field of condensed matter physics.
Dimitrios Trypogeorgos from Italy’s National Research Council (CNR) reportedly said, “We actually made light into a solid. That’s pretty awesome.”
This feat builds on earlier work by fellow CNR scientist Danielle Sanvitto, who demonstrated over a decade ago that light could behave like a fluid.
However, Trypogeorgos, Sanvitto, and their team have taken it further by creating what they call a quantum “supersolid.”
Light goes quantum Supersolids are unique materials with zero viscosity and a structure resembling conventional crystals, like those found in table salt.
Unlike typical materials, which behave according to familiar laws of physics, supersolids exist mainly in the quantum realm, NewScientist reported.
(Excerpt) Read more at interestingengineering.com ...
Photons are very weird little guys.
Bkmk
Plasma conduits?
And the rain in Spain falls 'mainly' on the plain... But that's the problem. We don't exist in the quantum realm... The scientist do, but we don't.
Your CPU’s do, even the ones on your phones. And you interact with them - lots of them, on the internet. That’s a lot of Quantum you’re dealing with.
Give me a light.
No, not a Bud Light! Give me a can of liquid light.
Tomorrow’s headline. “Without Any Evidence, Trump Makes Unscientific, Debunked Claim That light Can Be turned Into A Solid THat Flows Like Water.”
I want a hammer out of this. it couldn’t weigh much, after all it’s made of light.
New twilight zone episode.
Welcome to a strange land. look around. Explore, But just wait until dark.
I once read a long piece on quantum physics. I was left wondering if I was supposed to believe that weird stuff. For example, electrons are supposed to be capable of being in two places at the same time. And when they catch you looking at them, they change form or stand still or something like that.
And your organized thought pttern exists . . . where?
I wonder where this "significant step" stands vis-à-vis string theory, Higgs boson etc..? Or perhaps it's just an early April 1st thingy.
I’m intrigued and super skeptical too.
Is that just before they morph into laser weapons capable of slicing telephone poles in half?
This sounds somewhat unsettling to me. Possible basis for an end-of-the-world movie.
wow
begs the question...just how light is it?
Bump
somebody be smokin’ some good sh*t...
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