Behold the Manifold, the Concept that Changed How Mathematicians View Space

In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation ...
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Physicists Turn Light Into A One-Dimensional Gas With Incredibly Strange Properties

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...
New Scientist

Strange 'one-dimensional gas' created by trapping atoms in a tiny tube

Krypton atoms can be forced into a “traffic jam” within a carbon nanotube, unable to pass each other, allowing scientists to more easily observe how they interact. Researchers hope this ...
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Physicists create one-dimensional gas out of light, achieving bizarre quantum state

What just happened? Physicists have managed to turn light particles into what they describe as an "exotic state of matter" – a one-dimensional gas. They did this by confining the photons in a tiny ...