Ben Miller experiments with superfluid helium - Horizon: What is One Degree? - BBC Two

More about this programme: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00xhz90
As part of his quest to understand what one degree of temeprature really is, Ben Miller visits Oxford's Clarendon Laboratory. Here scientists produce temperatures just a few degrees above absolute zero. Ben Miller explores the bizarre effects of these temperatures on helium.

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[Aliousis]

Drink it.

[glasspuff]

@Aliousis it would run right through you :)

[nonickworks]

pretty cool :D

[Kevooi]

@bicnarok

Don't think time dilation is concerned at all...

The closer to absolute zero matter gets, the less the particles vibrate in it. Theoretically, absolute zero is reached when all movement ceases, which has never been achieved. But I don't think absolute zero conditions would affect time dilation in any way... correct me if I'm wrong >.>

[maxshuty]

How can it stay inside that container??

[detached]

How are they able to contain it in the experiment?

[randomhajile11]

@glasspuff with zero viscosity it would be in every crack and crevice of your body.

[spykar87]

if you guys like this experiment, I urge you all to watch this fantastic documentary called "Absolute Zero"

/watch?v=y2jSv8PDDwA&feature=s­h_e_se&list=SL

[bicnarok]

What happens to things when they reach near zero, as far as time dilation is concerned.

[thesnailpoop]

@tomovids No, I'm human.

[tomovids]

I know Professor Robert Taylor.

You jelly?

[sandustanBrasov]

• SandustanBrasov

The subatomic particles, viz ethereal particles from atoms and molecules maintain themselves the them inertial and eternal motion, thus the absolute zero is a thermic point of which we can approach, but we can not reach.This is the natural situation of the matter seen and unseen.We can not stop the inertial and internal motion from chemical matter or from ethereal mater. If it stop this motion, then can exist not the gravity and the actual celestial motion with the her order.