Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihnet.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!ihnet!eklhad From: eklhad@ihnet.UUCP (K. A. Dahlke) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Liquid Helium on the Space Shuttle Message-ID: <256@ihnet.UUCP> Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 11:10:57 EDT Article-I.D.: ihnet.256 Posted: Mon Jul 15 11:10:57 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Jul-85 06:03:36 EDT Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 12 A recent article in the newspaper (watered down for the general public of course) described a liquid helium experiment on the next shuttle flight. The experiment involves testing some quantum mechanical properties of superfluids in 0 gravity. Does anyone know what the experiment is *really* about? Who designed it, how does it work, what is it testing ... Just curious. Thanks. -- Three of the most brilliant concepts are very counterintuitive: evolution, capitalism, and relativity. Despite our intuitions and biases, the evidence supports all three. Karl Dahlke ihnp4!ihnet!eklhad