Unexpected data from the Large Hadron Collider suggest a new type of matter
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Re: Unexpected data from the Large Hadron Collider suggest a new type of matter
#2Here's the pre-print: http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/1210.5482
Re: Unexpected data from the Large Hadron Collider suggest a new type of matter
#3Please post the URL of the original article: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/lead-proton-collisions-at...
Re: Unexpected data from the Large Hadron Collider suggest a new type of matter
#4So this color-glass condensate is a very-high-energy type of matter. It goes on the list with:
Solid
Liquid
Gas
Plasma
Glass
Crystal
Superfluid
Supersolid
Superglass
DarkRe: Unexpected data from the Large Hadron Collider suggest a new type of matter
#5So this color-glass condensate is a very-high-energy type of matter. It goes on the list with: Solid Liquid Gas Plasma Glass Crystal Superfluid Supersolid Superglass Dark
Dark matter is still a hypothesis.
Re: Unexpected data from the Large Hadron Collider suggest a new type of matter
#6So this color-glass condensate is a very-high-energy type of matter. It goes on the list with: Solid Liquid Gas Plasma Glass Crystal Superfluid Supersolid Superglass Dark
At some point it becomes silly to keep adding 'phases of matter'. And if you want to be exhaustive, don't forget the other oddball types: the high-density states like neutronium, the high-energy states like quark-gluon plasma, etc.
Re: Unexpected data from the Large Hadron Collider suggest a new type of matter
#7So this color-glass condensate is a very-high-energy type of matter. It goes on the list with: Solid Liquid Gas Plasma Glass Crystal Superfluid Supersolid Superglass Dark
At some point it becomes silly to keep adding 'phases of matter'. And if you want to be exhaustive, don't forget the other oddball types: the high-density states like neutronium, the high-energy states like quark-gluon plasma, etc.
You've got a good point, and there's lots of exotic types and in-betweens on Wikipedia which I didn't list. My list was to point out that we've named more than the 3 classical states of matter.
Re: Unexpected data from the Large Hadron Collider suggest a new type of matter
#8So this color-glass condensate is a very-high-energy type of matter. It goes on the list with: Solid Liquid Gas Plasma Glass Crystal Superfluid Supersolid Superglass Dark
Coincidentally that's also next year's Pokemon game title list
Re: Unexpected data from the Large Hadron Collider suggest a new type of matter
#9So this color-glass condensate is a very-high-energy type of matter. It goes on the list with: Solid Liquid Gas Plasma Glass Crystal Superfluid Supersolid Superglass Dark
Since when is glass (I assume we mean soda-lime glass) a separate phase of matter?
My impression was that it was a solid, and that the myth that it's a highly viscous liquid was based off of incorrect analysis of stained glass windows, etc. that were more likely explained by imperfections in the production process.
Re: Unexpected data from the Large Hadron Collider suggest a new type of matter
#10So this color-glass condensate is a very-high-energy type of matter. It goes on the list with: Solid Liquid Gas Plasma Glass Crystal Superfluid Supersolid Superglass Dark
Since when is glass (I assume we mean soda-lime glass) a separate phase of matter? My impression was that it was a solid, and that the myth that it's a highly viscous liquid was based off of incorrect analysis of stained glass windows, etc. that were more likely explained by imperfections in the production process.
"Phases" are poorly defined. They exist wherever there's a statistical mechanics reason to define them, and they make sense only within the limits of the approximations on which they are based. Glass is "solid" to a mechanical engineer (in most regimes), but it's not a crystal and doesn't behave like one to a solid state physicist. Likewise "plasma" is a great tool to describe a fluorescent light bulb or lightning bolt, but not so much a white dwarf. Even stuff you think you understand, like "liquid and gas are clearly different" turns out to be wrong (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercritical_fluid).