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Superfluidity by Alfred Leitner

I came across this awesome youtube video by Alfred Leitner where he is showing some fascinating experiments involving supercooled liquid helium. Helium turns into a liquid when cooled to ultra-low temperatures (<-268 degrees C) but when it is cooled further to -270 degrees C it turns into what is called a superfluid. In this superfluid phase, it has zero viscosity and flows through extremely fine pores without any resistance. It climbs up glass walls and has zero entropy (perfect order) but what I find most fascinating is that heat travels like waves through this phase. It hits boundaries and gets reflected, just like sound or light do!

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  1. Drake Larson

    Oh so True. I saw it in 1971 ... and was nothing short of speechless ... about how it was 'badmouth' by grad students along with Richard Feynman, ... all this denigration prompted me to change my major physics to theoretical math 🙂

    Drakester

     

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