Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Superfluid helium on prime time TV

Unfortunately, The Big Bang Theory TV show features little physics these days. It is often just like "Friends" except some of the characters happen to work at Caltech. However, a recent episode, "The Troll Manisfestation" centred on superfluid helium and also mentions co-authorship, the arXiv, and physics blogs. There is some commentary on the physics in the episode by string theorist, Lubos Motl.

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