cm0002@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoScientists Confirm the Incredible Existence of ‘Second Sound’www.popularmechanics.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up140arrow-down15
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minus-squarefrongt@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·7 months agotl;dr: heat energy moves in waves
minus-squareCannonFodder@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·7 months ago… in a superfluid (ie in some substances at very close to absolute zero)
minus-squareSuccessful_Try543@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-27 months agoIt’s not investigated yet, if this mechanism is also present in other, non-exotic, media. At least this would qualify some inertia and thus, finite propagation velocity of heat conduction.
tl;dr: heat energy moves in waves
… in a superfluid (ie in some substances at very close to absolute zero)
It’s not investigated yet, if this mechanism is also present in other, non-exotic, media. At least this would qualify some inertia and thus, finite propagation velocity of heat conduction.