Linked From BIBLE: Genesis Chapter 1 – Headline “A Quantum Leap”

Science has a long way to go to catch up with God:

• SUPERSOLIDS: In the beginning God created the earth (“matter”). Why does “matter” matter:
  
  We Finally Have a Working Supersolid. Here’s Why That Matters.
  • Scientists have come one step closer to bringing this exotic state of matter into our world.
  • From Popular Science ~Rahul Rao

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  • For the past several years, scientists have been creating supersolids at very tiny scales in the lab. Now, a group of physicists have made the most sophisticated supersolid yet: one that exists in two-dimensions. IQOQI Innsbruck/Harald Ritsch
    
    Imagine an intact diamond whose innards move with no friction, or a formed ice cube whose tightly-packed contents effortlessly flow. These might sound strange, or even impossible. But to physicists, they’re not too far removed from something they’ve recently created: a strange state of matter called a supersolid.
    
    For the past several years, scientists have been creating supersolids at very tiny scales in the lab. Now, a group of physicists have made the most sophisticated supersolid yet: one that exists in two-dimensions, like a sheet of paper. (in 2019, researchers began to create a basic, one-dimensional supersolid: essentially, a thin supersolid tube in a straight line.) They published their results in Nature in August of 2021.
    
    “It’s always been a sort of outstanding goal to bring (supersolids) into two dimensions,” says Matthew Norcia, a physicist at Innsbruck University in Austria, and lead author of the Nature paper.
    
    So what exactly is a supersolid? At its base, it contains properties of two different states of matter, one mundane and another quite esoteric.
    
    The first of those states is a solid, which is among the most mundane forms of matter. Chances are that you’re touching one at this very moment. Importantly, To physicists, a solid is interesting because the atoms inside are held in a rigid structure. It’s why you don’t, normally, see solid objects flowing like water.
    
    But the second is a state of matter you’ve probably seen somewhat less: a superfluid. A quirk of quantum mechanics, a superfluid is a substance that acts like a fluid with zero viscosity. Scientists have caught glimpses of superfluids by cooling helium to temperatures barely above absolute zero. They can, and will, effortlessly crawl up walls or slide across surfaces.
    
    A supersolid combines both a solid and a superfluid into one package: a solid that flows like a fluid with no friction, no resistance. If that sounds strange, it’s all perfectly natural. It’s simply a product of quantum mechanics, the peculiar sort of physics that governs the cosmos at the very smallest scales.
    
    “To picture a supersolid, consider an ice cube immersed in liquid water, with frictionless flow of the water through the cube,” wrote Bruno Labruthe-Tolra, a physicist at Sorbonne Paris North University in France who was not involved with the latest paper, in Nature News & Views that accompanied the new study.
    
    (Continued…Read more: https://getpocket.com/explore/item/we-finally-have-a-working-supersolid-here-s-why-that-matters?utm_source=pocket-newtab)
    
    Rahul Rao is a former intern and contributing science writer for Popular Science since early 2021. He covers physics, space, technology, and their intersections with each other and everything else.