Superfluid Helium (with Subtitles)

[LemonPieLoL]

geeks who want to be nerds.

[linkinmused29]

such a poetic translation xD

[rexnecis]

"it cries because it doesn't know what it is all for" lol

[Plaskiz]

wow, this not only was informative but very entertaining as well, faces and tears are the new scientific terms.

[Laurasaur1337]

Sometimes I cry because i don't know what it is all for too...

[123conundrum]

I feel sad.

[r0galik]

Why do people who don't have the competences always try to translate stuff?

[katiekawaii]

@r0galik Because everyone's efforts make the internet a better place.

And, just a note: it's generally not a good idea to criticize other people's language skills on the internet if yours aren't flawless themselves. It makes you an easy target for ridicule, and it makes the internet a less good place.

[r0galik]

@katiekawaii Reveal where I made a mistake.

[gatorphil]

When he says 'face' he means 'phase' as in the state of mater

[berndpfe]

Expansion cooling is first used commonly to get normally gaseous elements into liquids (condensation cooling).

After that the effectiveness of the so-called "coaxial cooling" (by steady "boiling" y of a liquid gas inside another chamber containing liquid gas to be cooled down).

Low-temperature Liquid gases then can be cooled magnetically down to extreme low temperatures extremely near to 0 Kelvin (-273,18 deg celsius).

[woodenclock2]

@berndpfe the cooling was not magnetic, all physical vacuum action

watch the entire original english version, this is poorly translated (comical at times)

[BboyNikRo69]

So , would it be possible , just theoretic , that the superfluid Helium would drip through our skin ?

[woodenclock2]

@BboyNikRo69 skin, maybe. a hand, no way. it needs continuous passages to flow through.

this is of course assuming that it would NOT instantly freeze everything on contact and merely flow around the frozen mass

[Mindbendersmith]

Very interesting! So the helium liquid gets close of absolute zero and undergoes a physical or chemical change which allows it's atoms to pass through very small spaces that exist within the matrix of the the glass? And this is because there is no friction between the helium atoms and the glass? Trying to think of some useful applications for this.

[jadenjak]

2:28

hang on, then how come the super fluid does not drip through the thin film? and rather takes the rute that it does...

[bjnono001]

@jadenjak There is no film here, all glass.

[amziadi]

Hey, just making sure coz I am really amazed: Is the helium climbing up the inner wall of the container and then slipping over the outer wall until it falls? Thanks.

[nbonaparte1]

@amziadi Yep.

[randomlaughingman]

the video is linked from here also, which is how i found it:

scientificamerican(dot)com/art­icle(dot)cfm?id=superfluid-can­-climb-walls

[tfennimore]

Can you imagine an Anglo-American science video saying the helium cries because it does not know what it is all for? Why do we feel the need to take poetry out of science? Then we set up (and reinforce) this idea that science is separate from art and culture. Such a divide makes me cry, because I don't know what it is all for...

[randomlaughingman]

did they (transaltor) not just mean 'cry' as in a descriptive translation.

i think it's obvious they meant that. cause that stalker-troll mentioned 'poetry' in relation to their non-understanding of science, as in they were putting poetry down. so usually when they do that, the next place i end up at has someone saying the complete opposite; which means it's part of the same liar-conspiracy of misrepresentation.

anyway, my point here is that it's not insightful to suggest that the matter......

[randomlaughingman]

....doesn't know what it is for! it's far more likely that consciousness at that level knows exactly what it is, and has never deviated from knowing precisely what is going on.

it's not likely to be melancholic, but a joyous and singing-resonation.

[McPrfctday]

I like how the Helium cries because it doesn't understand the miracle that is happening :) it's very poetic. Poland science ftw. home of the great Copernicus.

[Fearose]

if a superfluid was contained properly...it can serve as a lubercant and be use in a generator, such as one of teslas machines..maybe a subsatute for antigravity. or maybe it can be use in the beginings of a cyrogenic freezing state, where it permeaties ever cell in the human or animal body thus freezing evey cell without cellular expantion.

[majortom321]

what did i just watch

[AlexIsonSanders]

yeah that was hard to follow. cool though, i wonder what would happen if you speed it around a hollow cylinder some how.

[tHecOmMeNtErSrEtUrN]

they did not show the friction less fountain? that was a true beauty.

[subsNmus]

i dont understand it?

anyone care to explain?

[marlls1989]

now it's better. thanks for the translation!

[lcabosa]

obrigado , for translation :)

[shiggityx2]

Haha nice translation, very poetic.

[Talvegue]

this does not explain much how it works, but it's very cool seeing it anyway...

[enchantlee]

It  'cries'? T_T

[wilddey]

tasteless?

[argoneum]

Yes, this was taken from USA video and "embedded" into Polish science program called Sonda. Subtitles are just mere translation of comment possibly writen by Andrzej Kurek (who died in 1989). This is not my fail at all ;]

When I posted it, I couldn't find the source. Now it's on YouTube as well :]

[Erzgebirgsfritze]

I have written about superfluidity before a few minutes and i couldnt believe that there can be a substance without any friction. Thumbs up to this Video! =))

[tamriilin]

@sinwow33:

Partially correct; Bose-einstein condensates are being researched to be used in research on wave-particle duality, which leads to analogue-gravity research, which -is- used to study and model black holes.

[sinwow33]

Pretty cool stuff and nice video.

There is stuff even colder than this which behaves even stranger. Scientists in 1995 managed to make the first Bose-Einstein condensates which are billionths of a degree above absolute zero. At this temperature you get a new state of matter. They believe we can use these condensates to model black holes.

[kurod]

Handling liquids like those without cryo gloves. I'm surprised he still has his hand.

[chao129]

the translation is pretty good, but there are alot of idiomatic expressions that are hard to understand

[vmelkon]

Did it say boiling nitrogen at some point?

[sirnlawson]

he said crying helium, so I wouldn't put it past him.

[philsaspiezone]

In superfluid helium the helium atoms here obey Bose-Einstein Statistics rather than the usual Fermi-Dirac Statistics. The helium atoms undergo a bose condensation to the lowest energy state. Yes the helium atoms at the lambda point act as a boson

[jarofpuppyeyes]

What the hell- crying helium? This guy must have suffered from exposure on his other experiment- with LSD.

[fatmeteor]

I had no idea that Polish scientists are bad poets too.

[adamenti]

Yeah! Science Rules!

[amaterasu214]

Ehh... I think it's capillaries. But then, that's just my opinion on what he's saying rather than capilair.

[crocodile2006]

Thanks Borat for translating it for us

[alexvoz]

I think you mean "phase"...

and how can one translate a video if one does not know what language it is in?! How odd! This is not Greek people. This is Polish (as mentioned below).

[superhornet59]

geez.. its polish people :)

[Kirirath]

The language he speaks is not 'greek'.

[matsaw]

Now if the guy was making beer, I would be impressed!

[Oxa1]

i like it, he doesnt even wear gloves

[randomae]

im not going to figure out how to make all that money if it makes me spell as bad as you do.

[4nks]

Actually, he is saying it's 296, but these subtitles sucks :)

[whiteowlonfire]

Dont cry little heliums

[4nks]

Yea, this is stupid :P

[N73B60]

lol.

"it cries because it doesn't know what is it all for..." - gay subtitles.

[argoneum]

Translations are like women: acurate or beautiful. These are acurate, and I don't think it's gay at all ;]

[N73B60]

ok, the translation was perfect.

but what that guy said (in Polish?) was very gay.

my mistake :]

[woodenclock2]

@argoneum

not accurate, watch the original english version and all will become clear

[jonathepianist]

yeah i think is interestin... ahah man wtf is he talkin about! hahah

[stephen1219]

ok i got a 5 on both ap physics and chemistry and i still didnt get that

[n3wby001]

Then you are ... shall I say, well... stupid.

[Nakharu]

Well, superfluidity is a quantum effect (bose-einstein condensate) ...

and quantum physics is very different from classic physics... so no cause to be ashamed. ;)

[Joasica]

There is a mistake! they say 296 not 269...I'm sure, I'm polish!

[MitchoK1989]

dont think it could be 296, absolute zero is -273...nothin gets colder than that

[Rasti87]

Maybe that's why it said -269 and not 296..

[Joasica]

well...You are right - 296 is imposible, buuut... stil the guy says that - so the subtitles are ok, and the man who is talking made a mistake

[mcgorgomagan]

Yeah I think he might have meant -269.

[beboppinhaley]

the subtitle is incorrect. It is -269.1 that helium-II AKA Superhelium.

if you like this, check out superglass (Helium-4), A superconductant, solid, flowing piece of matter, that only forms after Helium-II

[oakey567]

lol How high would your voice go if you swallowed that lol..

[n3wby001]

you will freeze to death before you can make a sound.

[oakey567]

well duh. lol. I know its just that helium in its gas form will make your voice go realy high if you swallow it...sooo if it was in liquid form...well see nerds just dont have humour lol

[ajnode]

ahahahahahhaa

[wiwbiz]

It seems going against Thermodynamics laws. Leaving the heat(lowering the temperature) without doing any work on...Indigestible

[argoneum]

It is not against Thermodynamics laws. The liquid boils constantly (as superfluid without bubbles), so it cools down. I'm not sure whether it boils in *any* temperature, or maybe pressure is decreased somehow. It's not mentioned on the movie.

[wiwbiz]

The liquid "is" boiling initially and then stops boiling cause it cooled down (reaching its stable 2nd phase). I didn't realized at that moment ,but I guess it is the "Gibb's Free Energy Principle" working here and not the 2nd law of thermodynamics which renders it from leaving energy from a cooler medium (Helium) to a relatively hotter(Nitrogen) medium without doing any work on it.

[ericgrau]

Nothing has gone against the laws of thermodynamics. Ever. Usually it's just mistaken people just barely starting to learn about it. Vaporization does make things colder, that's how refrigeration works. But a refrigerator must consume power to recompress the vapor to re-use it. Heat flows *spontaneously* only from hot to cold. If you consume power you can reverse it (1st law). Likewise *Overall* or total entropy always increases even though it might decrease for one part (2nd law).

[mrqaf]

so... youre saying its fake?

[snailbytw]

good!

[Draksane]

Quantum Hydrodynamics at work. Brilliant stuff

[kendokat3]

WOOT for noble gases!

[Jabulon88]

how poetic?

[mca0824]

"it cries, because it doesn't know what is it all for... " You would think someone who could produce this amazing liquid could come up with something better than that statement.

[JoeV3ctor]

You would think someone who knows English could read the description stating the translation is not a perfect one.

[msdnvp]

now why dont we learn this shit in school ? supressed information indeed !

[roxthebox88]

you do learn this in school, something called AP Physics

[MansonGoth]

Too bad im not smart enough to be in AP physics..normal Physics is ok for me though!!

[AzureDrag0n1]

I took AP Physics and never learned much about matter states in detail like Helium. This would be more in the realm of AP Chemistry.

[seanyboy8668]

Sometimes I cry helium tears too

[alixisabel]

Ha ha, so funny

[TheFerruccio]

They frictionlessly flow out of your eyes and float away?

[gigo6000]

wtf .. I don't get it :(

[jellocube27]

this is a very interesting video; thank you for uploading it

[REGIFISHY]

COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

[TheFerruccio]

It's very strange background music.

[marvhornet]

aye, 'face'.

[argoneum]

I know, it hurts :>

This were 80's, it's Poland, who would care? It was transmitted once and forgoten after... This is miracle that transmission tapes were not deleted at all.

[ryanhaart]

It's "phase", not "face".

[argoneum]

I just translated it, in Polish it was "face" (twarz), not "phase" (faza).

[popefelix]

It's a *metaphor*.

[0hk]

Queenlily June with a rose in her hair, moves to her prime with a languorous air.