{"id":9831,"date":"2019-04-14T23:00:43","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T06:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9831"},"modified":"2019-05-18T23:06:03","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T06:06:03","slug":"liquid-solid-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/04\/14\/liquid-solid-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Liquid Solid Found"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>from National Geographic<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Confirmed: New phase of matter is solid and liquid at the same time<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The mind-bending material would be like a sponge made of water that&#8217;s leaking water.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>BY&nbsp;<strong>ADAM MANN<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"292\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k3SJuozgbfU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SOLID, LIQUID, GAS&nbsp;\u2026 and something else? While most of us learn about just three states of matter in elementary school, physicists have discovered several exotic varieties that can exist under extreme temperature and pressure conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, a team has used a type of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/science\/2019\/02\/what-trump-american-artificial-intelligence-initiative-ai-does-doesnt-mean\/\">artificial intelligence<\/a>&nbsp;to confirm the existence of a bizarre&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/cgi\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.1900985116\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">new state of matter<\/a>, one in which potassium atoms exhibit properties of both a solid and a liquid at the same time. If you were somehow able to pull out a chunk of such material, it would probably look like a solid block leaking molten potassium that eventually all dissolved away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt would be like holding a sponge filled with water that starts dripping out, except the sponge is also made of water,\u201d says study coauthor&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ph.ed.ac.uk\/people\/andreas-hermann\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Andreas Hermann<\/a>, a condensed matter physicist at the University of Edinburgh whose team describes the work this week in the&nbsp;<em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Science<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/science\/2019\/04\/new-phase-matter-confirmed-solid-and-liquid-same-time-potassium-physics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"click to continue reading at Nat Geo (opens in a new tab)\">click to continue reading at Nat Geo<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from National Geographic Confirmed: New phase of matter is solid and liquid at the same time The mind-bending material would be like a sponge made of water that&#8217;s leaking water. BY&nbsp;ADAM MANN SOLID, LIQUID, GAS&nbsp;\u2026 and something else? While most of us learn about just three states of matter in elementary school, physicists have discovered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}