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New state of matter discovered? "like noodles in a soup"
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http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-03/ns-hrf031407....
There may be a different way of thinking about matter. New theory suggests electrons are not really elementary particles, but are formed at the ends of long "strings" of other, fundamental particles? Scientists have a model in which such strings are free to move "like noodles in a soup" and weave together into huge "string-nets". "Suddenly we realised, maybe the vacuum of our whole universe is a string-net liquid," says one. New experiments by other scientists may have proved them right.
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59 months, 4 weeks, 2 hours agoTags: matter, string-net, physics, research, mit
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