On the night of the switch back from Daylight Savings Time, America is filled with high-minded thoughts such as, "I fuckin' hate this changing the time twice a year and what kind of dumb ass shit for brains came up with ..."
About that time some wise guy with a severely-limited social life will likely offer, "Benjamin Franklin started it."
While offered in a cheery way, such people are often murdered ... but no-one laments. We fuckin' hate changing the time too.
Fortunately, there are people who think higher-minded thoughts than I entertain. You aren't one of them since you hate changing the time too but they're out there and they're doing this:
The findings, published in the Nov. 4 issue of Science, provide the first clear demonstration of the Kibble-Zurek mechanism for a quantum phase transition in both space and time. Prof. Cheng Chin and his team of UChicago physicists observed the transition in gaseous cesium atoms at temperatures near absolute zero.
- Science Daily
Here's a graphic to make it more clear.
Ed: that helped a lot. Truly.
The findings of the experiment can be applied to many systems -- such as liquid crystals, superfluid helium or even cell membranes -- that go through similar continuous phase transitions. "All of them should share the same space-time scaling symmetry that we saw here," said Logan Clark, a UChicago doctoral student in physics and first author of the paper.
About that time some wise guy with a severely-limited social life will likely offer, "Benjamin Franklin started it."
While offered in a cheery way, such people are often murdered ... but no-one laments. We fuckin' hate changing the time too.
Fortunately, there are people who think higher-minded thoughts than I entertain. You aren't one of them since you hate changing the time too but they're out there and they're doing this:
The findings, published in the Nov. 4 issue of Science, provide the first clear demonstration of the Kibble-Zurek mechanism for a quantum phase transition in both space and time. Prof. Cheng Chin and his team of UChicago physicists observed the transition in gaseous cesium atoms at temperatures near absolute zero.
- Science Daily
Here's a graphic to make it more clear.
An optical lattice lines up gaseous cesium atoms. As the lattice is shaken, the atoms are driven across a ferromagnetic phase transition.
Credit: Logan W. Clark, Lei Feng and Cheng Chin
- Science Daily
Ed: that helped a lot. Truly.
Perhaps this will do it then since the science is related to studying snowflakes.
"What we learn from testing KZM in our system is not about the origin of the universe," Chin said. "Rather it is about how complex structure is developed through a transition. These are two different but related questions. You can ask: 'Where does snow come from?' or 'Why do snowflakes have a beautiful crystal structure?' Our investigation is more into the second question."
The findings of the experiment can be applied to many systems -- such as liquid crystals, superfluid helium or even cell membranes -- that go through similar continuous phase transitions. "All of them should share the same space-time scaling symmetry that we saw here," said Logan Clark, a UChicago doctoral student in physics and first author of the paper.
- Science Daily
Ed: is there any actual purpose to this article besides shoveling science which probably none of us will understand?
The latter is exactly the reason for doing it since there are many professing advanced scientific knowledge, particularly on social networks, but they do often do it for self-aggrandizing or otherwise self-serving reasons (e.g. anti-vaxx sentiment, etc).
Ed: you push high end science all the time, you barking hypocrite!
In fact, I do but I do not push that science as if I did it myself and it's never distorted. No flies on me. Ha!
The only thing I know about phase transitions is ice melts and that's generally all I need to know but it's fascinating to see once in a while what happens with people who really do know the science and where will they go with it.
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