ryan0713
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Compressing super-fluid Helium?
Hello,
I had an idea recently about compressing helium to unimaginably small sizes. Since resistance to compression is caused by individual atoms colliding
with the container, and super-fluid helium has almost no atomic movement, couldn't you compress the helium to incredibly small sizes? It's just a
random idea, but it may work.
-Ryan0713
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ryan0713
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How stupid of me, you can't compress a liquid. Sorry.
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watson.fawkes
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Actually, it's the
Pauli exclusion principle. All those 1s electrons don't want to be overlapping each other.
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Of course you can.
If you want to learn about superfluids, you should first learn about regular fluids and leave elementary school myths behind. 
Fluids are compressible. I think I've read somewhere that if water wasn't compressible, the sea level would be some 20 meters higher above the Mariana
trench.
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