MYSTERIOUS "ACTION AT A DISTANCE" BETWEEN LIQUIDS MAY BE COMMONPLACE (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Thursday, November 27, 2014, 11:26

Back in 2010, researchers found that superfluid helium reservoirs stored in separate containers could behave collectively. Now, a new theoretical model reveals that the phenomenon of mysterious "action at a distance" between fluid reservoirs is much more common than previously thought.

The original discovery, made by a team from the University at Buffalo and the State University of New York, utilized an array of tens of millions of hollows for liquid helium on a silicon plate. Each small reservoir was a cube with an edge of two microns, and the centres of adjacent reservoirs were six microns apart. The prepared plate was covered with another full silicon plate. This was done so as to leave a very narrow gap - 32 nanometres - above the reservoirs.

The size of the gap was thousands of times smaller than both the size of the reservoirs themselves and the distance between adjacent reservoirs. This tiny conduit made any significant flow virtually impossible. It was thus expected that after pouring in liquid helium it would "do its own thing" in each reservoir, regardless of what was happening in adjacent reservoirs.

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