This Liquid Can Pass Through (Almost) Anything

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Chapters:
0:00 The "Impossible" Liquid
1:59 The Race to Absolute Zero
6:33 Why Helium Seemed Impossible to Liquefy
15:04 The First Liquid Helium Ever Made
19:08 Can you make solid helium?
21:42 What is superconductivity?
28:41 Zero Viscosity and Superfluidity
36:15 What are Bose-Einstein condensates?
43:20 How Kapitsa Saved Landau From Prison
46:20 The Superfluid Fountain Powered by Light
47:46 Landau's Theory of Phonons
58:32 Why Helium (Almost) Never Freezes
1:01:58 The takeaway

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A big thank you to Prof. Dirk van Delft for his guidance and expertise on Onnes’ life and work. If you want to read more about it you can find the free PDF of his book “Freezing Physics” here: https://ve42.co/Freezing_physics
A massive thank you to Prof. Martin Zwierlein for his enthusiasm and helping us get the specifics of superfluidity and BECs right.
As well as a huge thank you to everyone who helped us understand the physics, the story, and provided valuable feedback on different parts of this video: Prof. Kostas Gavroglu, Dr. Philippe Lebrun, Prof. David Kaiser, Dr. John G Weisend II, Prof. Ad Maas, and Prof Robert Taylor.
Then two more special thank-you’s:
The first is to Rijksmuseum Boerhaave, for showing us around the archives and Onnes’ original equipment. You can check them out here: https://www.rijksmuseumboerhaave.nl/
And the second, of course, is to everyone at the Gravity Laboratory and Nottingham University who recreated all the experiments for us. Your efforts made this video possible. Dr. Chris Goodwin, thank you for your unrelenting support in helping us get the physics of superfluidity right. You can check out the gravity laboratory here: ve42.co/GravityLaboratory

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References: https://ve42.co/SuperfluidsReferences

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