Scientists create ‘quantum ball lightning’ in the lab in breakthrough that could pave the way for stable fusion reactors…
In the new research, led by scientists at Amherst College and Aalto University, the team created a three-dimensional skyrmion in an extremely cold quantum gas.
The three-dimensional particle consists of knots made from the spin fields of a Bose-Einstein condensate – or, atoms cooled to a point just above absolute zero.
According to the researchers, this bizarre tangle may share some of the characteristics of ball lightning.
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