Negative Temperature: Atoms Beyond Absolute Zero May Be A New Form Of Matter | New Scientist

Negative temperature: Atoms beyond absolute zero may be a new form of matter | New Scientist

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Atoms at temperatures beyond absolute zero may be a new form of matter

Physicists have coaxed a cloud of atoms into having a temperature beyond absolute zero and placed them in a geometric structure that could p

??? Wouldn't beyond absolute zero be impossible??? And why does the first paragraph talk about that being uber hot?

Y'know, for being large eerie lights in the skies, auroras sure seem as elusive as a needle in a haystack somehow

Y o u h a v e d I s c o v e r e d y o u r s p I r I t g u I d e

so last night i was struggling with a difficult section in a game, and when i woke up this morning i got it on my first try. this reminded me of a documentary i saw as a kid about how mice have maze-exploration brain activity in their dreams after a maze task, and have better performance after, so dreaming is maybe "practice" of daily activities.

anyway, i mention this because i noticed myself conceiving of this sleep-skill-benefit as a "mouse ability", and feeling gratitude towards Mouse (the abstract spirit of mice) for granting me this boon. this is the gator's aid all over again

the city where we live doesn't allow public barbecues so my brother fucking welded a grill to a handcart and now hosts "chill and grill sessions" where he sends all his friends his live location so they can hunt him down on their bikes with sausages in their backpacks while he carts it around evading the police like some sort of barbecue vigilante, grilling on the run. i have never been prouder of him

You're telling me that the Vikings were more civilized than the English? Huh.

Average introvert be like:

Mood

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