Exotic, fifth state of matter created on the space station

Thu, 18 Jun 2020 03:55:03 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://www.livescience.com/fifth-state-of-matter-created-space-station.html>

'Scientists have generated an exotic form of matter in the unique
microgravity environment aboard the International Space Station and are
using it to explore the quantum world, a new study finds.

There are four states of matter common in everyday life — gases,
liquids, solids, and plasmas. However, there is also a fifth state of
matter — Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs), which scientists first
created in the lab 25 years ago. When a group of atoms is cooled to near
absolute zero, the atoms begin to clump together, behaving as if they
were one big "super-atom."'

Via 999.

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