Wednesday, 31 May 2017

Mysterious new phase of matter: Breaking glass in infinite dimensions

With the help of some mathematical wizardry borrowed from particle physics – plus around 30 pages of algebraic calculations, all done by hand – scientists have laid to rest a 30-year-old mystery about the nature of glass. New insights open up the possibility that some types of glass may exist in a new state of matter at low temperatures.

from Engineering and Construction News – ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170530115019.htm



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