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You're familiar with the states of matter we encounter daily – such as solid, liquid, and gas – but in more exotic and extreme conditions, new states can appear, and scientists from the US and China just found one.

They're calling it the chiral bose-liquid state, and as with every new arrangement of particles we discover, it can tell us more about the fabric and the mechanisms of the Universe around us – and in particular, at the super-small quantum scale.

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[–] Ryan213@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So... Noisy liquid. Got it

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Ryan213@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

NOISY LIQUID!

[–] Bird_On_Biff@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I read the article, but one thing I don't get: if this were done on a larger scale what would this state of matter look like to us? Like how similar to a liquid would it be?

[–] itsAsin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

chiral bose-liquid state

i am aware of arguments against abiogenesis that insist on a "creator" because a biochemical soup cannot independently select in favor of chirality. and yet, biology is clearly selected in favor of the Levo-handed amino acids.

it is interesting to see in the published drawing above that electrons in this state form a chiral vortex similar to the bio-skeletal aromatic ring. in this way, this newly discovered quantum structure can contribute to our understanding of abiogenesis.

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