h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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Ugi

Yay!

Nice one MichaelHe2

Congrads.


Dancer

Perhaps you should simply skip the paragraph on the "Two Fluid Model" and concentrate on the weird behaviour of the liquid

Hmm, what is the difference between liquid and fluid? Is everything fluid that can flow (gases and liquids)? It seems as you have a made a very good point here! (And I am doubtlessly outed as a non native speaker ).

Your ref 4) went in my article on "cooling techniques" being published very soon.

Your ref 3): Heat travels in HeII by the speed of sound which is quite high (not remembering the exact value I would say 240m/s or so) compared to normal heat conduction.

Your ref 2): You are right, mentioning desities is not necessary at this point and might confuse the reader

Your ref 1): Only Bosons can make BEC, Fermions can't, but they simulate somewhat by building cooper pairs. Superfluidity is based on BEC of 10% of the atoms....

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MichaelHe2

I added a footnote on the Kelvin scale.

MichaelHe2

Hi ppl,

I'm subediting this one, and I wonder if anyone can think of a good way to render HeII (he-ii)in a way that it doesn't look like Hell (that hot place they send nasty ppl to) which I find distracting. Its been suggested that I use He-II, is this an acceptable? What do you think?

Konrad

Well, I can think of a couple bu I don't know which is approperiate:

HeII
He2
He-II

or, amybe leave it as HeII and just use a footnote on the first accurance that says it's not the sulpharic agonising place but a way to write He2.


Dancer

you could just write Helium-II or Helium-Two instead of abreviating