Posted on 07/03/2026 2:55:46 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Summary: Researchers have shown that ultracold atoms can be driven into a strange new quantum state called a fractional Fermi sea, where particles organize themselves in unexpected ways. The discovery points to a new phase of matter that goes beyond established quantum theories and could expand the possibilities of quantum simulation...
The newly created state displays several unusual characteristics. Mathematical correlations between particles reveal pronounced ripples, known as Friedel oscillations, along with distinctive decay behavior across all levels of repulsive interactions.
Perhaps most importantly, the state exhibits properties that differ from those expected for Tomonaga-Luttinger liquids, which have long served as the standard description of one-dimensional quantum matter.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencedaily.com ...
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> Modern physics is such a clown show. <
I’ve got a master’s degree in Physics. And I sure agree with that.
I get that sometimes pure research has unexpected practical applications.
But modern physics has gone way beyond that. Now, it’s something like:
The Q particle is made up of two dipsy particles plus one doodle particle. We suspect that the doodle particle can be broken down further. We’ll need another $2 million to confirm that.
Really ...
Do you remember when we met
That’s the day I knew you were my pet
I wanna tell you how much I love you
Come with me, my love
To the sea, the sea of love
I want to tell you just how much I love you
Of course, since it’s fractional, gotta skip every other character.
"Before I came here, I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture, I am still confused. But on a higher level." - Enrico Fermi
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I hear people say something happened in the 1970’s that threw everyone off the scent.
Do you have any theories on that? what happened? If anything?
> I hear people say something happened in the 1970’s that threw everyone off the scent. <
You might be referring to String Theory, a proposed theory that would connect Schrödinger’s Quantum Mechanics with Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity. String Theory was very popular in the 1970’s. It is still a big deal today.
String Theory was once so popular that if you did not buy into it, you couldn’t obtain a physics position at a major university. You had to be a believer.
I never had much interest in String Theory for two reasons. One, my goal was never a university position. And two, I’m a lab kind of guy. There is no hard experimental evidence for String Theory. None. And one school of thought is that there can never be such evidence.
I found that to be odd, to say the least. But maybe I just don’t have the right mind for theoretical work.
What amazes me is that there are organisms clinging to a relative dust mote in a a tiny solar system in a part of an ordinary galaxy among billions of galaxies. And some of these organism have figured out so much of the nature of the entire universe with, admittedly, far more yet to discover.
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You might be referring to String Theory, a proposed theory that would connect Schrödinger’s Quantum Mechanics with Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity. String Theory was very popular in the 1970’s. It is still a big deal today.
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Yeah. String Theory. It appears that the string theory age is coming to an end. But I don’t hear any clear replacement—assuming that advance is possible or that a pardigmn shift is needed. Only that AI has eaten coding and its in the process of eating math and not too far behind will be physics and the other sciences. That order at the supper table is necessary because recursive self-improving coding enables the ai to rapidly improve to where it can solve unsolved problems. new math then gives the tools that enable new physics and so on. Is this view in accord with your view of the present state of math/physics or do you see something else?
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