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🚨🇮🇹SCIENTISTS TURN LIGHT INTO A SUPERSOLID—QUANTUM PHYSICS JUST GOT EVEN WEIRDER For the first time ever, scientists have frozen light into a supersolid—a state of matter that’s both solid and a frictionless superfluid at the same time. Physicists Gianfrate and Nigro pulled off this quantum magic trick using a laser and a custom-designed semiconductor instead of the usual ultracold atoms. By firing light into an aluminum gallium arsenide crystal, they created exotic light-matter hybrid particles that suddenly arranged themselves into a repeating solid-like pattern—while still flowing like a superfluid. Unlike traditional supersolids, which require temperatures near absolute zero (-273°C), this new light-based version forms under more practical conditions, making it easier to study and potentially useful for real-world applications. If light can be both solid and superfluid, what other impossible things can we make it do? Source: Times Now