http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00012DEF-46AA-1F04-BA6A80A8418
9EEDF&sc=I100322
http://tinyurl.com/o52nj
"What makes this approach so interesting is that the behavior of
condensed matter is collective. The details of individual molecules
hardly matter; the system's properties emerge from the act of
aggregation. When water freezes, the molecules do not change, but the
collective behavior does, and the laws that apply to liquids no longer
do. Under the right conditions, a fluid can turn into a superfluid,
governed by quantum mechanics even on macroscopic scales. Chapline,
along with physicists Evan Hohlfeld, Robert B. Laughlin and David I.
Santiago of Stanford University, has proposed that a similar process
happens at event horizons. The equations of relativity fail, and new
laws emerge. "If one thinks of spacetime as a superfluid, then it is
very natural that in fact something physical does happen at the event
horizon--that is, the classical event horizon is replaced by a quantum
phase transition," Chapline says. "
Don't those bubbles in the sky prove the point?
Terry
