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Is 'Perpetual Motion' Possible with Superfluids?

PBS Space Time

Season 2023Episode 14Aired 2023-05-24
Is 'Perpetual Motion' Possible with Superfluids?

Is 'Perpetual Motion' Possible with Superfluids?

The weird rules of quantum mechanics lead to all sorts of bizarre phenomena on tiny scales— particles teleporting through walls or being in multiple places at once or simultaneously existing and not. Shame all this magical behavior doesn’t happen on scales large enough for us to see. Except that there is a way for us to see large-scale quantum weirdness, and that’s Bose-Einstein Condensates & Superfluids.