{"id":198983,"date":"2024-11-09T04:59:38","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T10:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/physicists-stir-a-supersolid-for-first-time-proving-its-bizarre-dual-nature"},"modified":"2024-11-09T04:59:38","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T10:59:38","slug":"physicists-stir-a-supersolid-for-first-time-proving-its-bizarre-dual-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/physicists-stir-a-supersolid-for-first-time-proving-its-bizarre-dual-nature","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Stir a Supersolid For First Time, Proving Its Bizarre Dual Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-stir-a-supersolid-for-first-time-proving-its-bizarre-dual-nature2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists on Wednesday said that they have successfully stirred a strange matter called a \u201csupersolid\u201d \u2013 which is both rigid and fluid \u2013 for the first time, providing direct proof of the dual nature of this quantum oddity.<\/p>\n<p>In everyday life, there are four <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/states-of-matter\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">states of matter<\/a> \u2013 solid, liquid, gas, and the rarer plasma.<\/p>\n<p>But physicists have long been investigating what are known as \u201cexotic\u201d states of matter, which are created at incredibly high energy levels or temperatures so cold they approach absolute zero (&minus;273.15 degrees Celsius or-459.67 degrees Fahrenheit).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists on Wednesday said that they have successfully stirred a strange matter called a \u201csupersolid\u201d \u2013 which is both rigid and fluid \u2013 for the first time, providing direct proof of the dual nature of this quantum oddity. In everyday life, there are four states of matter \u2013 solid, liquid, gas, and the rarer plasma. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}