← PBS Space Time · Season 2022

How Many States Of Matter Are There?

S2022 · E20 · 27 Jul 2022 · 15 min

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Let’s talk about states of matter. You know your states of matter don’t you? We have solids, liquids and gasses, and plasmas, quark-gluon plasmas, nuclear matter, bose-einstein condensates, neutronium, time crystals, and sand. Come to think of it, maybe I don’t know my states of matter. Or what a state of matter even is. Let’s see if we can figure it out.