Scientists created a bizarre matter that acts like a solid and liquid simultaneously
Researchers have successfully engineered supersolids, an exotic state of matter that possesses the rigid crystalline structure of a solid while flowing without friction like a paradoxical liquid.
Physicists achieved a breakthrough in 2019 by creating supersolids using ultracold dipolar atoms cooled to near absolute zero. In this bizarre state, atoms arrange themselves into a repeating pattern like a crystal but simultaneously behave as a superfluid. This allows the matter to flow through itself without losing any energy.
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