{"id":240264,"date":"2026-07-04T03:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T08:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/physicists-create-an-exotic-new-form-of-matter-the-fermi-sea"},"modified":"2026-07-04T03:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T08:05:13","slug":"physicists-create-an-exotic-new-form-of-matter-the-fermi-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/physicists-create-an-exotic-new-form-of-matter-the-fermi-sea","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Create an Exotic New Form Of Matter: The \u2018Fermi Sea\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-create-an-exotic-new-form-of-matter-the-fermi-sea.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the lowest temperatures in the Universe, physics gets funky.<\/p>\n<p>When atoms are cooled to just above absolute zero (&minus;459.67 degrees Fahrenheit, or-273.15 degrees Celsius), they can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/superconductivity\">conduct electricity without resistance<\/a>, become <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/bose-einstein-condensate\">\u2019super-particle\u2019 clouds<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/there-s-no-speed-limit-in-a-superfluid-universe-now-we-know-why\">flow without friction<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/superfluid-can-climb-walls\/\">climb up the walls of their containers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Existence at the smallest, coldest scales is ruled by quantum statistics, which determine the behavior of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-standard-model\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">bosons<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-standard-model\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">fermions<\/a>: the two families of fundamental particles thought to comprise every thing in the Universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the lowest temperatures in the Universe, physics gets funky. When atoms are cooled to just above absolute zero (\u2212459.67 degrees Fahrenheit, or-273.15 degrees Celsius), they can conduct electricity without resistance, become \u2019super-particle\u2019 clouds, or flow without friction and climb up the walls of their containers. Existence at the smallest, coldest scales is ruled by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240264","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}