• Question: what are the weirdest thing you've seen in nature?

    Asked by nadia to Steven on 17 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Steven Thomson

      Steven Thomson answered on 17 Jun 2015:


      The weirdest thing I’ve ever seen is a substance called ‘superfluid helium’. When you cool helium gas down, it condenses into helium liquid. When you cool it down further, it turns into a quantum superfluid.

      Superfluids can crawl right up the inside of a cup and spill over the edges, or can pass right through seemingly solid objects. It’s incredibly strange stuff!

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