Yet another MYSTERY of God's Universe....what does He use this for?....
"There’s a new state of matter — and it’s weird. It’s made from light and is somewhere between a solid and a superfluid.
It can’t be stirred, rotated, or even pushed.
“If you have some water in a pipe and you start pushing it, it will flow a little faster,” says Marzena Szymańska at University College London. “Whereas this fluid is so rigid that even pushing it will not change its velocity.”
The new state is made from “liquid light”. This is a fluid consisting of light trapped in another material, where each photon is coupled with another particle. These particles, called polaritons, can flow and interact with one another in a way that photons alone cannot.
Because of the lack of friction, superfluids cannot be stirred or rotated. If you put a superfluid in a bucket and rotate the bucket, the fluid itself will remain stationary.... in certain situations, a fluid made of polaritons takes things one step further: not only can it not be rotated, its flow cannot be changed at all. They call this new phase of matter and light a rigid state.
"It’s not yet clear what this strange rigid light could be used for, but could one day find a use in optical communications", says David Snoke."
NewScientist
And though I ....understand all mysteries, and all knowledge;... and have not love, I am nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:2
"There’s a new state of matter — and it’s weird. It’s made from light and is somewhere between a solid and a superfluid.
It can’t be stirred, rotated, or even pushed.
“If you have some water in a pipe and you start pushing it, it will flow a little faster,” says Marzena Szymańska at University College London. “Whereas this fluid is so rigid that even pushing it will not change its velocity.”
The new state is made from “liquid light”. This is a fluid consisting of light trapped in another material, where each photon is coupled with another particle. These particles, called polaritons, can flow and interact with one another in a way that photons alone cannot.
Because of the lack of friction, superfluids cannot be stirred or rotated. If you put a superfluid in a bucket and rotate the bucket, the fluid itself will remain stationary.... in certain situations, a fluid made of polaritons takes things one step further: not only can it not be rotated, its flow cannot be changed at all. They call this new phase of matter and light a rigid state.
"It’s not yet clear what this strange rigid light could be used for, but could one day find a use in optical communications", says David Snoke."
NewScientist
And though I ....understand all mysteries, and all knowledge;... and have not love, I am nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:2