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Superfluid Helium

Ths stuff virtually defies gravity and has zero viscosity.

posted by SensiBreeze
1/30/2008 8:20:31 PM

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relic180 : LVL 14: VP 2.3: said:

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343 days 22 hours ago...

That`s all of it? Just when I got curios , done.

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Barash : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

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343 days 22 hours ago...

POAST MOAR

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Flynn_2006 : LVL 42: VP 5: said:

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343 days 22 hours ago...

it`s from the PBS show "absolute zero." the entire series which consist of 2 episodes are posted on youtube. link below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BntI1S7Tx8

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Nny (Admin) : LVL 65: VP 5: said:

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343 days 22 hours ago...

Hrm... I need to look more into this.

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Sammersd : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

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343 days 20 hours ago...

WE can get within 2 degrees of absolute zero? i thought that was impossible.

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ThreadbareSaint : LVL 36: VP 4.4: said:

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343 days 20 hours ago...

They`re saying we can now get within about a billionth of absolute zero. I know who`s freezer I`m putting my Dulce de Leche in.

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7homas : LVL 2: VP 1.1: said:

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343 days 13 hours ago...

That is some crazy cool liquid.

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Hudelf : LVL 37: VP 4.5: said:

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343 days 13 hours ago...

We can actually get things BELOW absolute zero, just not AT it. For whatever reason. Maybe black holes are where God divided by absolute zero. (It`s a pun!)

EDIT: Oh yea, cool ass video too. And thanks for the link, Flynn, definitely checking that out.

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pyroporno : LVL 35: VP 4.3: said:

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343 days 13 hours ago...

not onl is it a super fluid
its basically a perpetual motion machine
in the sense that the frictionless fountain will never stop

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ronsonol : LVL 20: VP 2.9: said:

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343 days 13 hours ago...

Well absolute zero is simply a point on a graph, it`s only defined by extrapolation of a line.

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SenorNaco : LVL 37: VP 4.5: said:

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343 days 12 hours ago...

you can`t actually get something to absolute zero (or below it for that matter, hudelf). i`m not a scientist, but i remember a really good episode of bill nye where he was explaining how no cooling device on earth could ever produce that low of a temperature, because no matter what temperature the inside of the device could achieve it would still have to touch something else, and just the heat conducted from those adjacent sides alone would be enough to prevent temperature from ever reaching absolute zero.

and i`m pretty sure that`s not a pun.

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swong32 : LVL 3: VP 1.2: said:

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343 days 12 hours ago...

was the container designed to have tiny pores or is it just inherently like that?

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Bummer : LVL 33: VP 4.2: said:

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343 days 12 hours ago...

The narrator`s voice is super-cool.

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thunderoblivion : LVL 26: VP 3.5: said:

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343 days 12 hours ago...

absolute zero is _about_ -275 degrees. and the closest they came was roughly 270 or so.

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mces97 : LVL 1: VP 1: said:

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343 days 12 hours ago...

You can not get below absolute zero. At absolute zero there is no kinetic energy of the molecules. Nothing is moving. Once something stops moving, you can not make it stop moving anymore. Hope that clears everything up. Absolute zero is 0 on the kelvin scale and -273 on the
Celsius scale.

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