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Originally posted by Carrie@Feb 4 2004, 07:59 AM
How did they create a new form of matter?
They took a gas, supercooled it to nearly 0 Kelvin, and rearranged some electrons... but it's still a gas. Albeit a very *cold* gas, it's still gas, yes?
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Because there are more than just gases, solids, and liquids. This newly created one, the "fermionic condensate", has strange properties at the quantum level which make it not fit the definition of a "gas".
And of course, you can change the temperature of water and make it a gas. It's not still a liquid just because it once was.