One of the most exciting physics discoveries in recent years may not be a discovery after all. Reports of “supersolidity,” in which solid helium flows through itself without friction, may turn out be something far more ordinary: the everyday stiffening of a material.
This new conclusion comes from the same scientist who in 2004 first reported evidence for supersolidity.
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