[HN Gopher] Physicists see electron whirlpools for the first time ___________________________________________________________________ Physicists see electron whirlpools for the first time Author : rntn Score : 62 points Date : 2022-07-10 10:23 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (news.mit.edu) (TXT) w3m dump (news.mit.edu) | IceyEC wrote: | Observed. See. But no picture? | teawrecks wrote: | "See" does not imply "with eyeballs" | Koshkin wrote: | The linked page has one. It is beautiful. What else do you | want? | dspillett wrote: | The best you would get is a diagram. In physics "observed" does | not necessarily mean, in fact usually does not mean, seen in | the sense of looking at the effect visually. | devmor wrote: | Observed via a sensor. Such as a microphone can observe a beep, | or an accelerometer can observe a bump. | peterburkimsher wrote: | Recently, I was mindblown to read about electron viscosity. | | A colleague was asking about fluid dynamics, relating to air | flowing through a tube with a cylinder in the middle. The | equations looked very similar to those used for coaxial cables, | and someone else had commented that the physics models are in | fact quite similar. | | I can't find the StackExchange link right now, but here's another | article about electron viscosity, "negative resistance, electron | whirlpools and superballistic flow." | | https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/graphene-reveals-... | [deleted] | klyrs wrote: | https://www.weizmann.ac.il/condmat/superc/sites/condmat.supe... | TeeMassive wrote: | MIT news releases are getting more and more ridiculous. | amelius wrote: | Shouldn't the repelling nature of electrons make this completely | different from regular fluid flow? ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-07-11 23:00 UTC)