Talk:Supersolid

message: I have removed the copyvio tag due to the discussions below.  Best, UnitedStatesian (talk) 20:55, 13 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyright query

message: Cummon, this is just about verbatim ripped from n/s. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.9.60.238 (talk • contribs) 06:00, 20 October 2005
:Here is the original edit which added the bulk of the current text - an anonymous contribution. I'm going to google a bit for the source. Hairy Dude 01:39, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Nuts, all Google hits are derived from this article. It still looks like a copyvio to me. Adding  here. Hairy Dude 01:49, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

text: Also, just noticed  'Nature story on a supersolid experiment' is a dead link. RevZoe (talk) 06:14, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright violation 

message: So when the helium was cooled below a certain point some of its mass disappeared. Is there any connection between this phenomenon and the phenomenon of 'effective mass'? just-emery (talk) 19:27, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Effective mass 

message: there is something called an 'inverted metal' that has properties that sound very similar to this.  Does anyone know anything about this? just-emery (talk) 19:35, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inverted metal 

message: What is the last line of the article really saying? Somebody figured it out? Any sources?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.233.13.147 (talk) 19:01, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  What? 

message: Whatever happened to the torsion experiments, where it seemed that super-cooled HE4 seemed to lose mass..... Just curious...?
YAH... GOOD Question.... Nobody seems to want to talk about that one !
[Please note: The above was an unsigned comment left on the article page. I moved it here since that was an inappropriate place for an editorial comment. Joshua Davis (talk) 18:23, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Torsion experiments? 

message: A supersolid is a hypotetical spatially ordered material with superfluid properties. Superfluidity is a special quantum state of matter in which a substance flows with zero viscosity.
Because it was not observed ... 195.113.87.138 (talk) 13:24, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hypotetical? 

message: There is a sentence sequence that has a strange way of saying what it's saying, and I thought it might mean to say the opposite. In the section on experiments, fourth paragraph
:  Furthermore, most samples of helium-4 contain a small amount of helium-3. When some of this helium-4 is removed, ....
My interpretation of the first of the two sentences is the helium-3 is unwanted, like a contaminant, and the desired status is that the sample contain only helium-4. So when it says in the second sentence "some of this helium-4 is removed" it is unexpected, because in my interpretation the helium-3 is the unwanted isotope, and the experimenter would want to increase the amount of helium-4 or decrease the amount of helium-3. One obvious edit is that I'm correct in my tentative understanding and that it should read "When some of this helium-3 is removed," and the other possibility is to reword so that the reader is not primed to expect that the helium-3 is an unwanted contaminant. Perhaps a wording that suggests that the helium-3 is unexpected but interesting. Cardiffman (talk) 18:00, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  This helium or that helium 

message: This article does not provide a very clear description of what a Supersolid actually is for someone not familiar with physics. In the Superfluid article, there is a clear description regarding the fluid's properties, complete with illustrations. This article has no such description, only saying "A supersolid is a spatially ordered material with superfluid properties." before diving into the background on Superfluidity and being extremely confusing as to how to relates to the subject of Supersolids. Biglulu (talk) 02:33, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. The article talks far more about superfluids than it does supersolids, and it took several re-reads to get the general gist - "A crystal with superfluid flowing within the solid lattice structure." And I'm not entirely sure if that's completely accurate. --King Starscream (talk) 14:41, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unclear 

message: * Phys. Rev. Lett. Vol.101, 8 August 2008
* (1969). "Destruction of Superflow in Unsaturated 4He Films and the Prediction of a New Crystalline Phase of 4He with Bose–Einstein Condensation", Physics Letters, Vol. 30, No. 5, November 3, 1969, pp. 300–301 Jack Sarfatti
* Youtube lecture on Supersolids
86.191.67.197 (talk) 20:16, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I've also tentatively added in a brief recent news item. 86.191.67.197 (talk) 20:21, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moved from External links