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> a system is both organised like a solid but presents superfluid-like flow without viscosity This is hard for me to grasp. For example, if it bumps hard into
by pizza 2y ago
> a system is both organised like a solid but presents superfluid-like flow without viscosity
This is hard for me to grasp. For example, if it bumps hard into a hard solid surface, does it shear like, say, bent metal? Or is it itself 'hard' / rigid - if that is a reasonable descriptor for something at such small scales - itself, and - despite being able to flow, with no friction, smoothly - still remain 'locked in shape' at a structural level? My real question I guess is how does a collision work here?
- pmontra 2y agoOr does it go through the hard solid surface and emerge unscathed on the other side? Probably not or it will fall towards the center of Earth and bounce back and forth, at least until it loses its supersolidity, which I bet will happen pretty quickly.