When the Science Gets So Strange No-One Understands It

Here's science so strange probably no-one understands it and it came from Georgia so they probably don't understand it either.  (Science Daily:  'Spooky' sightings in crystal point to extremely rare quantum spin liquid)

Inside a new exotic crystal, physicist Martin Mourigal has observed strong indications of "spooky" action, and lots of it.  The results of his experiments, if corroborated over time, would mean that the type of crystal is a rare new material that can produce an observable quantum spin liquid.

- Science Daily

Ed:  keeping up so far?

Nope.  I'm not that well-versed in 'spooky action.'

Since writing that last sentence, I've read further regarding quantum entanglement and even Einstein said it's spooky.  That's when an electron here and another, possibly miles away, are 'intimately' associated so, yep, that's spooky, alright.

But here's a picture from the article which doesn't have much to do with it because anything incomprehensible is always helped by a pic, right?

A massive part of Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Spallation Neutron Source during its construction phase in earlier years. The hole in the center is where the target crystal for neutron scattering is placed.

Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Nice pic.  It doesn't help me understand anything but the colors are, um, nice.

Note:  the author of the paper probably had nothing to do with the pic and that was added by someone else for the presentation.

It's not at all my purpose to ridicule the article as I told you from the start I don't understand it but I do marvel at the strangeness of it and I love that.  If you're going to go out on the edge, go all the way out where nothing makes any kind of sense anymore.

Ed:  that's when you fall and get smashed into little bits on the rocks!

Yah, that's a hazard ... but it's a hell of a view, isn't it.