Rotating curved spacetime signatures from a giant quantum vortex

[NWRatCon]

Is quantized a state of matter?

Beats the hell out of me. But,,, what I found so compelling was thinking about how states depend so much on what is going on inside of the materials and how they interact. It didn't surprise me that science keeps pushing the boundaries. Someone hypothesizes it should work this way, and someone else designs a way to test it. (I always thought that my sons would grow up to be competing physicists - one in theoretical physics and one in experimental. As it turned out, neither pursued that. One is a programmer, the other a graphic designer.)

I read voraciously about plasma creation, then Bose-Einstein condensates, and now even more elaborate states. But, I can't follow the math, so remain an outside observer. Of course, we all know what Schroediger had to say about that.

 

[EnigmaO01]

This kind of thing makes me wish I spoke mathematics, the true language of reality.

But then I see this and wonder how many decades of study it'd take to get there....

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Doesn't look too bad if you know what all the symbols stand for.

 

[EnigmaO01]

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the lab...

Scientists created a black hole in lab to test a theory, then it started glowing extremely bright (Good)​

The article title is deceptive. They didn't "create" a black hole. They simulated one on a computer.

 

[EnigmaO01]

Here's a good question for people: How many known states of matter are there?

Three? liquid, frozen, and gaseous?

 

[NWRatCon]

Three? liquid, frozen, and gaseous?

At least four that naturally exist and have been observed (+plasma), that we know of, and more that are scientifically posited, and even more that have been artificially created (e.g, Bose-Einstein particles). I think I posted earlier 22 have been "identified". Some are just a puzzle. What do you call a solid that behaves like a liquid? Or, vice versa - like Jello? Physics is fascinating, and quantum physics mesmerizing.