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- Zoshchenko, on 12/06/2007, -3/+15Does it bounce?
- slayernine, on 12/06/2007, -0/+10I wonder how many Edmontonians like us frequent Digg, and here I thought it was comprised of 87% Californians and democrats :P
- abenton, on 12/06/2007, -2/+12Here's an idea for you then, RTFA.
- otheruser, on 12/06/2007, -1/+11Yea, and unfortunately, it exists at around absolute zero, so you'll probably never see it (outside a handful of labs that can reach near-0K temps).
- pendrachken, on 12/06/2007, -1/+10Interesting physics experiment, but dug for the simple HTML layout of the page.... I miss plain HTML pages, they load fast and can convey the information you want just as well as the new junk thats used for anything and everything.
- gregdigg, on 12/06/2007, -4/+13Hi, i am gforce4, i tell people what i'm thinking, i talk like a robot.
- abenton, on 12/06/2007, -0/+8DOES NOT COMPUTE
- AndruC, on 12/06/2007, -5/+13Does it blend?
- nekochan, on 12/06/2007, -0/+8nope. Bose-Einstein condensates are pretty much giant atoms. this stuff is like gummi helium.
- WolfDV, on 12/06/2007, -4/+11Another big discovery from the home town...
Go U of A!
Go Edmonton!
Go Oilers!
.. mass digg down commencing in 5 .. 4 .. 3 .. - adam84a, on 12/06/2007, -1/+7and calls Ron Paul
- ell0bo, on 12/06/2007, -2/+7I've been explaining this theory to girls for a while now...
- missingnoh4x, on 12/06/2007, -0/+5This new one, Bose-Einstein Condensate, solid, liquid, gas, plasma. That's 6 states, 5 if you don't count this one. The ones you won't see are Bose-Einstein and plasma.
- kevinmotel, on 12/06/2007, -3/+8kevin rose installs ubuntu onto his iphone!
- Ramble, on 12/06/2007, -0/+4And the two other states of matter you'll likely never see either.
- Jugalator, on 12/06/2007, -0/+4The Bose-Einstein condensate is also a fairly recent discovery, but not what this article is about.
- bejitunksu, on 12/07/2007, -0/+4I'm pretty sure you see plasma every time you wake up and the sun is in the sky :)
- abenton, on 12/06/2007, -1/+4Yea, just come up with the way to have a 0K system in all cars on earth, and it could very well be easy!
- GiggleStick, on 12/06/2007, -1/+4You know what would be really cool? Figure out how to hook up that Alice chat bot thing to digg and let it loose. Have it respond to individual comments based on their content. The only real problem I see is that I think it requires correct spelling to be able to parse your responses, which is virtually impossible to find here.
- purelithium, on 12/06/2007, -0/+3Another master of the obvious....
- pardonmedoug, on 12/06/2007, -0/+3boo
- Orbitrix, on 12/06/2007, -0/+3he's being dugg down because he's stating the obvious, talking like a robot, and clearly showing his first language probably wasn't English...
- RedHerringHack, on 12/06/2007, -4/+7IPHONE
- SleepingOrange, on 12/06/2007, -2/+5I love hearing about scientific advances made in Canada... seeing as I am canadian and all. It's always exciting to hear about international co-operative research.
- sremick, on 12/06/2007, -0/+3Blame Canada!
Just kidding! I love you guys, living on the border and all. And your girls are hot. - RedHerringHack, on 12/06/2007, -0/+3MASTER
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OBVIOUS - Ramble, on 12/06/2007, -0/+2Condensates are liquids which exhibit quantum effects on a macro scale. I think this stuff just does some odd stuff solid matter doesn't usually do.
- lex10, on 12/06/2007, -1/+3Ohhhhh, "temperature dependence of the shear modulus seems to track the period change seen in torsional oscillator" *****! That was it all along! Hew Maw! We got us some sue-per saw-lid-ditty!
- Quaoar, on 12/07/2007, -0/+2It is a new state of matter if the known phase behavior of He has never recognized this physical characteristic, and if the researchers can show that there is a fundamental transition, i.e., disconnection, between normal solid state He and this "new" solid state, including all of the usual latent phase transition energies.
- slayernine, on 12/06/2007, -0/+2Or perhaps in anticipation of being dugg they changed the page to HTML to reduce server strain? However you failed to notice that the page ends in PHP and not HTML.
- nekochan, on 12/06/2007, -0/+2hold on, let me try to work this out. light is matter, but moving at the speed of light. but light is matter. so it's moving at the speed of matter? what's the speed of matter?
- missingnoh4x, on 12/06/2007, -0/+2Because I lost brain cells.
- h3lx, on 12/07/2007, -0/+2Supercooled condensed highly concentrated matter behaving unexpectedly how? More information on how this differs would have been helpful.
/how does this contribute to the understanding of the universe and can it be applied to any existing 'previously not understood' structures? How does it affect local gravity? How much external temperature influence is needed to cool a super condensed gas to negate the effects of friction-charged heat when it starts to become a supersolid... there is simply not enough relevant information in this quip to maintain a dialog. - inactive, on 12/06/2007, -0/+2FTA: they found that the solid behaved in an entirely new and unexpected way – it became much stiffer at the lowest temperatures.
UM, don't most things get stiffer at lower temperatures? Why is this not being published in Science or Nature? Usually when a small website that no one has ever heard of publishes about a "major breakthrough" it turns out to be pseudoscience, and I'm not convinced that this isn't... - ficktj, on 12/06/2007, -4/+6this is very interesting but I would not go so far as to say this is a new state of matter. They have no real proof it sounds like of that statement. What they do have is some very unusual characteristics of a material.
- Ramble, on 12/06/2007, -0/+2Solid helium would be denser than gaseous helium, and more importantly, air.
- knetworx, on 12/07/2007, -0/+1Hey guys! Get it? 'Matter'? No, seriously! Get it?
Pun--; - hugoguzman, on 12/10/2007, -0/+1I suppose that we will uncover many other facts that will shake the foundations of current human belief. I just dugg an an interview with an oxford professor that is confident of just this phenomenon in the area of quantum computing.
- eggo, on 12/09/2007, -0/+1I know I'm ruining your joke, but here goes;
The shear modulus is a property of all matter which relates to how much internal friction a given material has. In normal solids, the atoms are pretty much locked in place in what is known as a crystal lattice. Basically, this material (supersolid helium) has an unusual property of allowing those atoms to move freely through the lattice without friction while still maintaining the overall lattice structure.
The torsional oscillator is a device used to measure this effect, more information can be found about it here:
http://physics.kenyon.edu/EarlyApparatus/Mechanics ...
(disclaimer: IANAPhysicist, please correct me if I'm wrong) - rarson, on 12/07/2007, -0/+1Hence the term "state" was used and not "phase." I'm well aware of phases.
- hugoguzman, on 12/10/2007, -0/+1here's the aforementioned story if you're interested: http://digg.com/general_sciences/A_brain_jarring_i ...
- nekochan, on 12/06/2007, -2/+3solidified helium silly putty?
- angryredplanet, on 12/08/2007, -0/+1...bury
- Ramble, on 12/06/2007, -0/+1Don't suppose there's evidence for your claim?
- inactive, on 12/06/2007, -0/+1It's like a Bose-Einstein condensate, except solid instead of liquid.
- missingnoh4x, on 12/06/2007, -1/+2He also modded the hardware to convert the iPhone into a taser, and uses it to play HD-DVDs with the AACS key while voting for Ron Paul and...
- xerexes1, on 12/07/2007, -0/+1You must have missed the part where the article says that the findings will be published in Nature on Dec. 6.
- insertAliasHere, on 12/06/2007, -1/+2I think that I died a little inside reading your pun...
- KingGorilla, on 12/06/2007, -0/+1Why do you hate science
- URnotheonly1, on 12/06/2007, -0/+1So you can have dark matter but not light matter? Na.
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