WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists said on Wednesday they had created a new form of matter and predicted it could help lead to the next generation of superconductors for use in electricity generation, more efficient trains and countless other applications.

 

The new matter form is called a fermionic condensate and it is the sixth known form of matter -- after gases, solids, liquids, plasma and a Bose-Einstein condensate, created only in 1995. Yahoo news report

And.. does it have uses? No!

Did you bother reading the actual news report? Dont make grand stataments about something you obviosuly have nowher near the ability to understand.

It itself has no use, it can be developed to.

And.. does it have uses? No!

 

In what way are you anywhere near qualified to assume (and its only an assumption, unless you're willing to explain the precise intacacies of this exact discovery) that this form of matter has no uses? Based on a sinlge news report (and a yahoo one I might add) you've claimed its pointless. Elaborate or at least explain you're rejection of what looks like an important breakthrough.

A more detailed link:

 

http://www.physicstoday.org/vol-56/iss-10/pdf/vol52no10p17-18.pdf

"Jin stressed her team worked with a supercooled gas, which provides little opportunity for everyday application."

There we go. It has no practical use UNTIL they develop it further.

I was talking about their specific gas, not this new matter as a whole.

I'd consider research into one of the biggest breakthroughs in the field to be a pretty good practical use.

if only as a stepping stone to furter advancemet and understanding of other things, it`s goto have SOME use

it`s a bit like super conductors, there more or less useless out the lab (although my Dr. has made significant progress in this feild). one day they`ll be in every household as sure as TV and radio sets and computers are now

well, is this actually related to the 'states' of matter? If yes, then what is the fifth one?

of not, what are the other five?

Gas, Liquid, Solid, Plasma, Bose-Einstein Condensate.

Cool. In response to first few posts, Plasma didn't have any use 20-25 years ago!!!

 

So now there are six? Do we have any knowledge that there are more? If so, how many?

If there were more, there'd be more than just six. That's why there are only six. That's all we know about.

sorry i couldn't reply earlier...forgot about it!!! what on earth is Bose-Einstein Condensate???

Bose-Einstein condensates form from matter that has been cooled to near absolute zero.

 

(APP 2002)

so, it is just matter at absolute zero?

No one has ever cooled matter to absolute zero.

 

"In a Bose-Einstein condensate, a cloud of atoms is cooled to temperatures a few billionths of a degree above absolute zero, at which point the quantum mechanical waves of the atoms can merge. The result is a coherent cloud of atoms that acts like a single macroscopic particle but obeys the microscopic laws of quantum physics."

 

http://www.esi-topics.com/bose/

just out of curiousity, could that matarial be made to Lase?

Sounds like it would pack quite a punch if it could be vented properly

 

Yes it could, but then it would be heated up, and nobody wants that.

wat is plasma anyway ?

well, it is when you heat something to EXTREMELY HIGH temperatures that the atoms' nuclei and their electrons separate. Its like a soup! 99% of the universe is made up of it (amazingly) becasuse stars are made up of it.

An electrically neutral, highly ionized gas composed of ions, electrons, and neutral particles.

 

(APP 2002)

what more... it has A LOT of energy (this causes the electrons to part from the nucleus!)

could have uses in the future.........

i think it does already ummm... i think it is used in fluorecent light