A 25-year-old experiment is turning everything we know about matter upside down, and may even have demonstrated an example of an entirely new state of matter. The universe is a string-net liquid

A 25-year-old experiment is turning everything we know about matter upside down, and may even have demonstrated an example of an entirely new state of matter. The US researchers have dubbed this new state "string-net liquid’, and even speculate that the entire universe could be made of it. Others may even have found a candidate for such a material: a dark green crystal called "herbertsmithite", found in the mountains of Chile in 1972…

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