ivor and olive lewis on sat 12 feb 11
They are finding that many materials behave in a contradictory manner as
their temperature approaches Absolute Zero. Was it Helium that defies
gravity and crawls up the sides of the containers in which it is placed.
Superconductivity describes electricity which move effortlessly through som=
e
metals.
Even at higher temperatures some common material develop unusual properties=
.
In the Physical Met lab there was a low temperature refrigerator where we
stored bricks of Carbon dioxide. Moisture that entered the store chamber
would collect beneath the lid. Cleaning out was a bind but the solid water
would fracture into long thin needle like splinters. These could be bent
like lead wire.
So at 0.000001 deg Kelvin, give or take an order of magnitude, protons,
neutrons and electrons must no longer exist in the material state.
Sounds to me on re-reading the extract that this is a prediction based on
mathematical calculations and imaginary models.
All the best,
Ivor
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