Ben Miller experiments with superfluid helium - Horizon: What is One Degree? - BBC Two 

ImGonnaShout2000 is this a pun? Im not sure

it is most likely the coolest thing you could ever actually see ;)

now i see what you did there

Really?

ba dum tsss*

bet you're regretting that comment in 2024; wait till you see 2034 you won't believe it!

@@TheLuminousOne I believe in the validity of that comment now more than ever

things is, we aren't made of stuff like this, like someone else already said, this is just a weird helium isotope

@@andreatavaglione6459 It's the regular helium isotope you find in balloons and what not. The weird helium isotope requires much lower temperatures to become superfluid.

@Flat Earth Florida lol

It's probablly He4

everything breaks down to metaphysics when the locus floats to the furthest fringe. edit, for the inevitable contrarians who imagine they know absolutely everything: what i mean is that reality, as we know it, is made through a concert of interacting principles, all perpetually unfolding and interacting with one another. What affects the motion and direction of this concert (at its root) is in the realm of metaphysics.

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Ha! I didn't notice that before but you are absolutely right. Good eye!

he really was just off in his own little world wasnt he. what an innocent moment to catch on film, you could see his inner child there for a second, completely enthralled in the moment.

Literally? It is absolutely not literal magic. You choose words poorly and that aside, make a terrible point. Magic is made entirely in the minds of people. This is the universe. *This* is literally science, but some may call it magic because they do not understand nature in that sense. Be assured that for any want that the common man could dream of, we definitely do understand this phenomenon that you refer to as Magic. I know this will sound negative, but honestly calling something Magic, or Aliens, or God, or whatever is lazy and unimaginative. Ask any physicist worth their salt why this works and why they think it is cool, and you will see that you are really talking backwards here to anyone that has studied these physics. Of course we only ever have best theories on why anything is or works the way they do, until the next experimentally proven theory comes along that explains nature as best as possible. But, we do not know nothing, we know enough to exploit, employ, or demonstrate these phenomenon well enough to make insanely accurate predictions that are proven correct. Think about this: This video is novel because it displays a purely quantum mechanical phenomenon. Same as magnetism, lasers, all these sorts of crazy things that feel like magic. Because they are not laws we can generally ever see. They are the laws of the particles and subatomic particles only. If we were electrons this would see ordinary and mundane from that perspective. When macroscopic beings like you and I see these demonstrations, it is strange and weird because these are a previously invisible alternate set of rules the universe is following. But we also get to see this due to an increased understanding of this undefeated model that we use it to predict and test with. This means you can count on these models too when it brings you things like GPS, Internet, Computers, Displays, Batteries, Optics, and almost countless parts of your everyday life. If you want to think it's Magic that's up to you, but it is 100% definitely not literally magic. Magic is trickery on display to the unknowing. Science cuts through all that as part of it's axioms.

@@owlredshift Wow, never seen someone get so absolutely triggered because another commenter decided to describe something as "magic". Dont get me wrong, I'm a cynic and dont believe in magic, but its true that technology that is sufficiently advanced enough could be considered basically magic to a layman. Not really something you should pull your hairs out and destroy your keyboard for. Maybe wait 5 minutes after writing a comment before posting it so you can really think about if you really should post shit like that cus you're making yourself look like a very bitter person who isn't fun to be around.

@@owlredshiftget a life

​Was that really necessary? of course he knows its science but its still amazing, magical, i didnt even read ur whole thing koz its a waste of time ​@@owlredshift

@@owlredshift Have sex incel

thats cold

Oh shit, wanna key her car together?

Hehe

Doubt anything will happen. Leidenfrost effect will prevent the liquid from touching your skin. But if a drop somehow gets through the skin, it would most likely blow a chunk off since the expansion ratio of liquid helium is over 700 times, and since it's super fluid, there wont be an entry hole for the gas to escape from.

Already taught me something new. Thank you! :D

Just the tip!

XDDDDD

Its probably a good job that its a sealed container, humanity or rather male humans have a tendency to try and stick our penises into everything. Only a matter of time before someone sticks their dick in superfluid too!

Religious nutjobs.

GummyBoar okay that make no absolute sense and just so you don't be me to it so does religion, dumb wannabes and kids who don't understand this dislike it not religious people this has absolutely nothing to do with religious. EDIT

j.c man I'm guessing English isn't your first language. Religion is the cancer of humanity, manipulating children into believing fairy tales.

GummyBoar nope English is my first I'm just way to lazy to care about grammar.

GummyBoar no humans are cancer to earth even us atheist are fucken a holes we are just a bunch of hypocrites going off at each other. If there was a god/ alien race beyond our knowledge they'd be laughing their asses off just looking at us.

And sell the blueprints to the military for billions.

+Michael Edlin he does that, because the spectators and the oher person have to understand what he is saying

Martijn klop why heisenberg? everything i found about superfluids and superconductors doesn't have anything to do with heisenberg. At least he is mentioned nowhere.

I think it is a breaking bad reference/joke

Probably not.

It's not a Joke. Heisenberg is relevant because if you actually could get to 0K you could potentially know the exact position of all the atoms in the substance in space since they wouldn't be vibrating at all anymore. If you know the exact position in space of a particle then Heisenberg uncertainty states that you could know nothing at all about its momentum, and if you cannot know anything about its momentum it could conceivably be traveling at the speed of light - an impossibility for particles with nonzero rest mass because it takes an infinite amount of energy to accelerate massive particles to the speed of light and the amount of energy in the universe is finite.

it's not necessarily quantum tunneling but it is indeed a quantum effect

THAT WHAT IM SAYING

Exactly! Idk if they are even claiming whether its going around the pluor straight through it. ‘He’ is monatomic and smaller than diatomic H2, does that mean it can literally pass through the gaps of other solids?

Well, now how to explain?? Okay see imagine water in plastic bag. It doesn't fall throw it because the molecules of plastic bag do not have gaps bigger enough to let the water go through. For water to go throw that it will need a bigger enough hole that can let water molecule flow with force bigger than surface tension of water. So if you the cotton cloth now with big enough holes it will fall throw that. Same happens here. At tem. Bigger than 2k the helium-4 has surface tension enough to hold helium together but weirdly below that it behaves as if it does not have viscosity and it falls through tat porous plug. But doesn’t go through glass because it doesn't not have holes big enough.

Bruh moment

Enzymes normally require some hydrophobic and phyllic interactions in order to get to their shape. So possibly you can keep an anhydrous form of it. But it won't function anyway. If a prion has water, the crystals of ice formed will puncture it. So no.

A tardigrade could possibly survive. They have survived temperatures close to absolute zero in man-made conditions.

+Kate Postlethwaite sadly I don't think so. They did get exposed to the vacuum of space. But it's not technically cold since its essentially a vacuum there is nothing to take the heat away besides the ir radiation given off. Then for the reasons I said previously it would not survive.

It's passing through the stopper.

yes you did

@@lucess169 Oh Really ? And what might that be ? I see nothing amazing about this demonstration . There are properties of superfluid helium that are unusual , but sadly, this video shows none of them .