Physicists Twist Water into Knots
Wednesday, March 6, 2013 - 11:30
in Physics & Chemistry
More than a century after the idea was first floated, physicists have finally figured out how to tie water in knots in the laboratory. The gnarly feat, described today in Nature Physics , paves the way for scientists to experimentally study twists and turns in a range of phenomena -- ionized gases like that of the Sun’s outer atmosphere, superconductive materials, liquid crystals and quantum fields that describe elementary particles. [More]