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For the first time, physicists have achieved 'liquid light' at room temperature, making this strange form of matter more accessible than ever.
This matter is both a superfluid, which has zero friction and viscosity, and a kind of Bose-Einstein condensate - sometimes described as the fifth state of matter - and it allows light to actually flow around objects and corners.
Regular light behaves like a wave, and sometimes like a particle, always travelling in a straight line. That's why your eyes can't see around corners or objects. But under extreme conditions, light can also act like a liquid, and actually flow around objects.
SOURCES:
Content - http://www.sciencealert.com/fifth-state-of-matter-liquid-light
Source - https://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nphys4147.html
PDF - https://www.nature.com/articles/nphys4147.epdf
HandoB4Javert
Liquid Light is the Fifth State? Mind bending, waves back.
M2THE49
Neat!
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TurboSqu1d
So what you're telling me is that the movie spectral is now plausible?
TheDeanofLean
Wtf?
iamheretosharestuff
The force has awaken
gen1lwb
mercmech
If they keep at it, they're going to cause a fault in this simulation.
encephalasaurus
Stevetheuncomfortable
O.o
Pineappleinthedesert
mlxd
I do like me some BEC-related goodness.
HalloIamherenow
Might be a dumb question but are there any possible practical applications of having liquid light?
NeonSonata
So what you're saying is, incoming Predator cloaking technology?
thefuckwouldiwantacaravanthatsgotnofuckinwheels
Do you want invisibility cloaks, because that's how you get invisibility cloaks
UnicornCock
bulbasaauur
"But can you fuck it?"
GenericNammme
Why does it seem as if we actually know nothing about the world around us
Sheadog369
Because these headlines are grossly oversimplified, to the point of being incorrect.
TurnedOff
Because we don't! Remember what people called the golden age? Where they thought there was nothing new to learn? Look at us now. Same thing.
shhep
Uh... we don't think we know everything. We're in the opposite of the golden age.
ezezap
Show me a video, then I will try to understand It
SillyZombie
So... what do you do with touchable light.... LIGHTSABERS??????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IndubitablyGullible
Make It into a car.
jetflight
"liquid light" sounds like something you see while tripping on acid...
Ireallyhopethisnamewillfitohmygoditdid
I didn't understand anything of this, but uh, neat?
railgap
Excuse me, a Bose-Einstein condensate at room temp? I'll wait for the other confirming experiments too.
tashlan
Can't wait to find out how this causes cancer/global warming.
Eagle699
Remember then they discovered a particle smaller than light? Oh wait, that was just a loose wire. But they still got millions in grants.
wackywoohoopizzaman
So, instead of behaving like a wave, it's behaving like a different wave
markokralji
Now make solid light so we can have lucio
Porecomesis
I love keeping up with technology news. Gives me good sci-fi material.
DriftingSteps
i'll try to post as often as i can.
Porecomesis
Don't worry too much; I'm following sciencealert on tumblr now. But you should post these anyway.
davebeastly
Science Fiction needs to turn it up a notch. Most of the stuff from these books and movies is just becoming regular fiction.
Porecomesis
Tattoos that give superpowers. https://the-future-now.tumblr.com/post/161775388392/these-electronic-tattoos-are-fully-interactive
Treefish
It's cool and all but how is this useful, realistically?
VirginAmericaInFlightSeatToSeatChatSystem
The atom, petroleum, electricity, DNA, Quantum Theory, Genetics, complex numbers, radio waves, General Relativity, Heliocentric Solar System
Treefish
Fair enough, thanks for responding!
VirginAmericaInFlightSeatToSeatChatSystem
Things that shape our world weren't always considered particularly useful at their time.
CantSleepInUnderwear
And contribute nothing useful.
VirginAmericaInFlightSeatToSeatChatSystem
What doesn't? Those inventions? I massively beg to differ.
CaptainMiffles
are you trying to tell me that electricity and radio technology are useless inventions...
CantSleepInUnderwear
Then there are flat earthers. Who basically peddle nonsense.
Solkanarmy
ah, but now, if the earth were flat, all the light would fall off the edge!
CantSleepInUnderwear
No, I think they believe we are in a dome at its edge, so we would drown in light. Or something.
ArchQuantum
I'll wait until a third party has replicated the experiment
Renza0
but look at all the people who documented how they achieved cold fusion, but inexplicably couldn't replicate it.
conbuzzi
if you are not doing the same experiments, its the second party you are waiting for.
HanskaBanske
Unless he's waiting for a second and a third party, which would be quite sensible.
KingZullu
I'm on a toilet I can be the turd party.
IShouldBeStudyingRightNowInsteadOfBrowsingImgur
I've vote for that third party
BavarianGuy
We stopped voting for parties involved with third instances of things, especially Reichs.
IDONTUSEMINDCONTROLANYMORE
You're going to wait for the repost? Lol
bigbrothersbinary
Which might be a long time considering no one wants to pay the fact checking scientists anymore. People want gratification, not good process
theconstermonster
people who actually make stuff like to make sure it works
feeltheice
Who what? Nations across the globe will fact check this. It's to big of an advancement not to.
oyoyoyyyyy
Sadly true
Elonth
BUT ITS MY GROUND BREAKING SCIENCE ADVANCEMENT AND I WANT IT NOW!
AJMansfield
CALL J. G. WENTWORTH! 877-CASH-NOW!
shauntaco
I have an annuity but I need cash now.
TheMaker51
CALL J.G. WENTWORTH
mystichead
877CASH NOOOOOOOW
TurnedOff
Does this mean something like a cloak of invisibility would theoretically be possible or did I understand that wrong?
SheaBriar
It allows light to flow around objects, not to pass through them. If you wore a cloak of this stuff you would look like a dark shadow.
CaptainMiffles
couldn't you use a refraction+internal reflection "magic" coating to output light at the same angle it hit the opposite side of an object?
dutubv
.... check your facts
SheaBriar
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