MIT physicists create new form of matter
Friday, June 24, 2005

MIT News Office: "CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- MIT scientists have brought a supercool end to a heated race among physicists: They have become the first to create a new type of matter, a gas of atoms that shows high-temperature superfluidity."

"In superfluids, as well as in superconductors, particles move in lockstep. They form one big quantum-mechanical wave," explained Ketterle. "Such a movement allows superconductors to carry electrical currents without resistance."

For those who know not of superfluidity:

Answers.com: Superfluidity is a phase of matter characterised by the complete absence of viscosity. Thus superfluids, placed in a closed loop, can flow endlessly without friction.

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