Word: superfluidity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they were charting the changing pressures, the Nobel citation states, "it was Osheroff's vigilant eye that noticed small extra jumps in the curve." Those jumps, it turned out, represented the change of helium-3 into a superfluid, a liquid with no viscosity that can climb up and over the walls of its container and exhibits other bizarre quantum behavior ordinarily observed only in subatomic particles...
...discovery may turn out to have repercussions on a far grander scale. Subsequent experiments with superfluid helium-3 have lent support to the theory that the creation of hypothetical structures called cosmic strings a fraction of a second after the Big Bang led eventually to the formation of the galaxies...
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