{"id":230048,"date":"2026-01-28T21:27:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/superfluids-are-supposed-to-flow-indefinitely-physicists-just-watched-one-stop-moving"},"modified":"2026-01-28T21:27:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:27:40","slug":"superfluids-are-supposed-to-flow-indefinitely-physicists-just-watched-one-stop-moving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/superfluids-are-supposed-to-flow-indefinitely-physicists-just-watched-one-stop-moving","title":{"rendered":"Superfluids are supposed to flow indefinitely. Physicists just watched one stop moving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/superfluids-are-supposed-to-flow-indefinitely-physicists-just-watched-one-stop-moving.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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 transitions from a seemingly ordinary gas into a so-called superfluid. Superfluids flow without losing any energy, among other quantum quirks, like an ability to climb out of containers.<\/p>\n<p>What happens when you cool a superfluid down even more? The answer to this question has eluded physicists since they first started asking it half a century ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 transitions from a seemingly ordinary gas into a so-called superfluid. Superfluids flow without losing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230048","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=230048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}