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 ...
Color me skeptical.
My friends. If your son is serving on an aircraft carrier wouldn’t you want this weapon available?
Many many years ago, in a poem, I used the term “solid starlight”.
Had no thought of it being real; just poetic license.
How soon before Light Sabers are a real thing?!
It is interesting though - you can concentrate all of the nothing - zeros if you will - into a beam and cut steel.
When something has no mass how does it create energy?
Same way it gives us a sunburn, I guess.
I wonder if it will make my hair more solid?
I don’t understand all I know about this.
Sounds like complete and utter BUNK !
More like the Ghostbusters’ energy weapons crossing the streams…
One thing I do know for sure, is that I just like looking through my telescope at the Sun, Moon, and planets- quantum physics and all of that stuff is as far over my head as the edge of the universe is.
Glass is a very slow moving liquid too...
Indeed !
He said light has no mass. He didn’t say it has NO energy.
Light has energy.
I got 30 plus years glass panes that are still in their frames... So nope.
Apparently that myth has been busted.
“To finally put this idea to rest, Jing Zhao, Sindee Simon, and Gregory McKenna analyzed a 20 million-year-old chunk of preserved amber... The team observed that the amber relaxation times did not diverge — meaning that it couldn’t possibly be a kind of fluid.”
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