New state of matter discovered

[Lexew1899]

In addition to solid, liquid, gas, and plasma, a 5th state of matter has officially been observed as distinct. Liquid glass.

http://www.sci-news.com/physics/liquid-glass-09222.html

[captainfearnot]

This is super cool, but technically liquid glass would not be a fifth natural state of matter. It would be more like a seventh natural sub-state in addition to the six already recognized.

Under solids we have amorphous solids, crystalline solids, plastic crystals, and quasi-crystals. Under liquids we have liquid crystals and non-Newtonian fluids. Glass has long been considered an amorphous solid (or sometimes a liquid crystal) but this research suggests that neither properly accounts for its unique properties, warranting a new sub-state on its own.

Of course, if we're counting all the non-natural states, then we're up to like thirty now.

[Lexew1899]

This is super cool, but technically liquid glass would not be a fifth natural state of matter. It would be more like a seventh natural sub-state in addition to the six already recognized.

Under solids we have amorphous solids, crystalline solids, plastic crystals, and quasi-crystals. Under liquids we have liquid crystals and non-Newtonian fluids. Glass has long been considered an amorphous solid (or sometimes a liquid crystal) but this research suggests that neither properly accounts for its unique properties, warranting a new sub-state on its own.

Of course, if we're counting all the non-natural states, then we're up to like thirty now.

Another strange thing in the news yesterday is that scientists think “dark matter” might not even exist anymore, and are trying to figure out way to adjust gravity equations to understand why the universe is moving contrary to the way they think it should be.

I was reading a few articles that were from several years ago trying to knock the electric universe theory, saying that it discounted the possibility of dark matter and relied instead on highways of energy pulling and tugging on each other like magnets.
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/m ... h-n1252995

[Lexew1899]

It was just a couple years ago that they said dark matter was d-star hexaquarks also, based on experiments at the Large Hadron Collider.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.univer ... ticle/amp/

[Serragon]

This is super cool, but technically liquid glass would not be a fifth natural state of matter. It would be more like a seventh natural sub-state in addition to the six already recognized.

Under solids we have amorphous solids, crystalline solids, plastic crystals, and quasi-crystals. Under liquids we have liquid crystals and non-Newtonian fluids. Glass has long been considered an amorphous solid (or sometimes a liquid crystal) but this research suggests that neither properly accounts for its unique properties, warranting a new sub-state on its own.

Of course, if we're counting all the non-natural states, then we're up to like thirty now.

Another strange thing in the news yesterday is that scientists think “dark matter” might not even exist anymore, and are trying to figure out way to adjust gravity equations to understand why the universe is moving contrary to the way they think it should be.

I was reading a few articles that were from several years ago trying to knock the electric universe theory, saying that it discounted the possibility of dark matter and relied instead on highways of energy pulling and tugging on each other like magnets.
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/m ... h-n1252995

Many facets of the electric universe theory will over time be confirmed and accepted as part of the prevailing understanding of the universe. However, they will be called something different and treated as something newly discovered by socially acceptable scientists. No credit will be given to those wackjobs who believe in electric universe theory.

[Lexew1899]

Probably. Just watch the first few minutes of Thunderbolts of the Gods, and you can see the signs of it are pretty clear.

The biggest problem is so many people are brainwashed into believing science has everything figured out already, they aren’t capable of doubting anything.

[captainfearnot]

The biggest problem is so many people are brainwashed into believing science has everything figured out already, they aren’t capable of doubting anything.

I agree, it seems to be very difficult to get people to understand that science does not make truth claims. All it does is gather evidence.

For example, the pile of evidence that supports a round earth happens to be much bigger than the pile of evidence that supports a flat earth. But that is not a truth claim. There is nothing stopping the flat earth pile from growing and even surpassing the round earth pile in size. Science doesn't tell us what the piles of evidence might look like in the future, only what they consist of today.