8 Facts About Gravity You Probably Never Knew

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6) Liquid Helium

Weird Things About Gravity - Liquid Helium

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Liquid helium has zero viscosity, it’s basically the opposite of treacle. If you freeze helium hundreds of degrees below zero it becomes a liquid, but not just any old liquid, it becomes a liquid that completely ignores gravity. It can flow up hill and produce weird perpetual, never ending fountains.

The fountain in the video below is caused by a temperature gradient, the liquid helium just flows against gravity because it’ does not care at all, it does what it likes. No one tells a superfluid what to do:

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