Superfluids are supposed to flow indefinitely. Physicists just watched one stop moving - Phys.org
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Superfluids are supposed to flow indefinitely. Physicists just watched one stop moving - Phys.org

Source:Phys.Org
Author:Ellen Neff

Ordinary matter, when cooled, transitions from a gas into a liquid. Cool it further still, and it freezes into a solid. Quantum matter, however, can behave very differently. In the early 20th century, researchers discovered that when helium is cooled, it tran…