You’re familiar with the states of matter we encounter daily – such as solid, liquid, and gas – but in more exotic and extreme conditions, new states can appear, and scientists from the US and China just found one.

They’re calling it the chiral bose-liquid state, and as with every new arrangement of particles we discover, it can tell us more about the fabric and the mechanisms of the Universe around us – and in particular, at the super-small quantum scale.

  • @Bird_On_Biff
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    41 year ago

    I read the article, but one thing I don’t get: if this were done on a larger scale what would this state of matter look like to us? Like how similar to a liquid would it be?

    • PM_me_your_vagina_thanks
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      11 year ago

      It would look like two materials placed together, this is only talking about the flow of electrons - something you won’t be able to see at any scale.