Systemesolaire2.jpg (30000×1000) Superconducting sapphire wires are as cool as they sound. Our amazing planet: Top to bottom. The Mariana Trench Shown To Unsettling Scale. Photopic Sky Survey. New kind of light created in physics breakthrough. Physicists have created a new kind of light by chilling photons into a blob state.
Just like solids, liquids and gases, this recently discovered condition represents a state of matter. Called a Bose-Einstein condensate, it was created in 1995 with super-cold atoms of a gas, but scientists had thought it could not be done with photons, which are basic units of light. However, physicists Jan Klärs, Julian Schmitt, Frank Vewinger and Martin Weitz of the University of Bonn in Germany reported accomplishing it. They have dubbed the new particles "super photons. "